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How you doing, Booker? How
you doing? Boys? Really? All

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right? All right? Look King's
lady again. I don't know what to

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do with this kid. I'm so
sick of the ship plas. Once you

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finish, the finish is gonna be
uh kill pile Grivey get up on the

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ropes, and that Corownie is gonna
get the win. Whatever works for me,

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I'll tell you, King, Okay, expe to see Alice came and

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talk to him. I forget what
I just told you. Remember I tell

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you I take care of you.
Yeah, all right, tonight you night,

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tonight? All right? Works for
me. Bro the Lapsed Fan presents

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Under the Cinemat. Yeah, I
love to talk film. I have come

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here to chew bubble gum and kick
ass. They break go. You're going

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nowhere under the Cinemat, Get up, get I pick up guns. Bad

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things happen to people I don't like. We have a movie to make.

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Can we all pull together? Here? We make movies. We book long

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term here at under the Cinemat,
and payoffs often require waiting months and sometimes

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years. We've traveled far and wide, and so many films have yet to

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be dissected. And it's TLFX.
It's ten years and we've reached a pinnacle

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on one champion's journey, and only
one question remains and jackets for you.

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Are you ready to rumble under the
cinemat? Oh? My god, are

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you serious? I am serious?
That is not the next movie. That

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is the next movie. Oh fucking
hell. We've been chronicling, mister Arquette.

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Uh sim bone saw, No spider
Man, that's spider Man. Okay,

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Okay, now this is this is
the one with every w C well

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bone saws in it, I guess, you know, and you know,

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Macho Man's in the movie. There
are so many fucking wrestlers in this movie.

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Have you seen this? I've you've
got to seen this. I did

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see it. Yes, oh man, you know, I'll tell you from

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what I've learned and from what I
know about it. This film much like

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and we've we've talked about so many
different things regarding w CW, and they're

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and they're like they're licensing, you
know, and from when this was pitched

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and and approved, and then it's
like WCW is still hot, you know,

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in ninety eight, ninety nine,
and then when it's released, WCW,

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like the credit cards and the fucking
cologne? Have you worn that yet?

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I have? Did you really?
I tried it? Did you?

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How does it smell? This is
all right, it's fine. It sounds

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like nitro? What are you?
What do you? Lowly? That's right?

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What are your memories of? Ready
to Run? I just I watched

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it very passively, you know,
because I was like, what is this?

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Is this like something I'm obliged to
watch a wrestling fan. Yes,

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yeah, that was kind of my
question, and it is. It kind

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of is as a wrestling fan,
you are obliged to suffer through this.

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I did the exact same thing.
I remember. I remember when it when

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it was coming out, I remember
seeing trailers for it. I remember not

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wanting to see it because outside of
Scream, I've never been a huge fan

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of David Arquette as an actor.
I mean, some things I've enjoyed him

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in, but I was not.
I did not like this at all,

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and I haven't watched it since,
Like I probably watched an HBO a bunch

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of times, you know, just
kind of in the background, and I

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rewatched it and it is not good. Oh it is. No one's ever

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said there's anything redeeming that's kind of
what I mean. There's nothing about this

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movie. I like, No holds
bar but you also isn't good. There's

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like four or five things that echo
from that movie. Sure, you know,

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things that were so camp be that
they're at least memorable, and everybody

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who saw the movie has that touchstone
reffort. This movie has nothing of like

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that. No, No, there's
no like a line that people who suffered

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through Ready to Rumble would say to
each other to have a moment or to

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commiserate. It's just it's just a
well law, I mean, it makes

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it makes people. It makes wrestling
fans look like what everyone thinks wrestling fans

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are, imagine morons. One of
the biggest wrestling companies in the country to

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be party to that too, you
know what I mean, to help make

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that a reality, a movie that
portrays their own customers that way. You

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know, as we'll get into it, it just had less to do with

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that with actual thinking than it had
to do with exposure. It's all about

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exposure. Cool, Yeah, right, So the uh, I will try

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to go back and figure out,
you know, when when did this come

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about. It's not because because Bischoff
changes his story depending on what platform he's

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using as a communicative device, and
so there's just kind of a lot of

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So the earliest discussion that I in
terms of an actual publication that I suffer

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a WCW feature film mentioned December twenty
eighth, nineteen ninety eight in The Observer.

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Meltzer mentions that some execs from Paramount
had appeared backstage during the December fourteenth,

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nineteen ninety eight Night episode in an
attempt to sign quote intent to negotiate

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deals regarding a potential movie. Intent
to negotiate. That's protecting your rights.

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We're not listening, and I would
listen. I just want to say we're

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not completely you know, we're not
going forward with this just yet, but

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we do intend to potentially negotiate with
your talent right become negotiating. Don't pretend

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that we didn't announce our intentions ahead
of time. But if we don't negotiate,

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we're putting out here right now intention
negotiate. That's the deal we're signing

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right now, not that we're going
to negotiate, not that we're going to

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go through with it, but we
intend to. Okay, I intend to

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not enjoy this movie. Well,
Paramount didn't pan out, but the Hollywood

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Reporter dropped a story headlined, oh
God, suddenly wrestling picks have a hold

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on Hollywood. I knew there was
a pun coming pile drive. Oh this

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is dated December thirtieth, so two
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Four years ago, Hollywood rediscovered the
Western. Last year disaster movies were

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the rage. Four years ago was
ninety four. They rediscovered what the fuck

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was in ninety I guess was that
Tombstone that came ountain. I don't remember

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there being a big Western craze,
unforgiven that was ninety two, But that

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didn't like start it again. Like
what wrestling movies having a hold on Hollywood

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in ninety eight? YEA, well
that's for sure. Last year disaster movies

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were the rage. And this year
world War two movies two movies, by

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the way, like two World War
two movies came out, are all over

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the screen actually doesn't ready to reumbele
qualify as a disaster. I think it

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does. I think it does.
Next year moviegoers might be grappling with wrestling.

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Strange as it sounds, Hollywood execs. Execs are turning. I love

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I just I fucking love that does
any other like in your experience, they

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just call them execs. All right? Fine, yes, I guess maybe

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adding Hollywood in front is really the
annoying part Hollywood execs, Like, who

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the fuck is that? Like?
You know how many do you know how

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many people in Hollywood have the fucking
title executive in front of them? Are

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you kidding me? Idiots? Vice
president right food vending, right executive vice

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president of toilet cleaning. Not only
did I not have that job title,

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I didn't want that job title exactly
right. Hollywood execs are turning to wrestlers

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for a whole host of projects.
Mandally Pictures is exploring development of a wrestling

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film. Yeah, twentieth Century Fox, do you know that Codan headed up

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the Spanish division or a Lay Pictures. It's funny because you know they call

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it man delay, But nobody laid
down for many wrestlers for Hull Cocain,

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at least no man was laid down
for no Man. And of course the

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Chinese expansion Mandarin, that's true,
that's true. Twentieth Century Fox has an

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idea for which it is about to
hire a writer. That's a well written

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sentence outlaw Productions has tapped Stephen Brill, screenwriter of the Mighty Ducks franchise,

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to script a wrestling movie, and
Barry Blaustein is directing Beyond the Mat,

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a documentary about professional wrestling, for
Imagine Entertainment. The turnaround comes at an

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unusual time, given that seemingly similar
boxing movies, a Hollywood staple that has

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spawned classics from Body and Soul to
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Bull are out cold. Come on, boxing movies are out cold. Come

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on, I mean, seriously,
Jesus Christ. But as so often,

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there are sound economic reasons why Hollywood
thinks wrestling is in the Popularity of the

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sport is at an all time high. Last television season six of the top

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seven primetime original series on cable,
We're professional wrestling programs. The matches draw

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thirty five million, mostly young male
viewers each week. That's the same target

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they don't, I mean, I
guess if you add up everything thing you

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know, like, that's the same
target audience that delighted in seeing Paul the

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Giant White interact with Adam Sandler and
the water Boy, helping helping propel the

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film to its one hundred and forty
six million gross. Nobody went to see

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it for the fucking giant Okay,
say no, I mean he's in it

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for what like two seconds? Like, I don't know, man, it's

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it's amazing. Is that coming to
you under the cinemath the water boy?

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Of course? Of course Big Show's
in it, so it gets it's on

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the list. Though wrestling has been
around for decades decades, wrestling has been

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around for decades. Barry Bloom,
whose company reps professional wrestling, professional whose

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company reps professional champion, not professional
wrestler but professional champion, Bill Goldberg and

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others. World Championship Wrestling pinpoints to
its resurgence to the time when quote wrestling

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came out of the closet as a
staged event. Oh you mean like a

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fucking decade and a half, right, if not forty years, say like

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a century ago, you motherfucking clown. Instead of spending energy trying to figure

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out if it's real or fake,
people accepted it as a legitimate form of

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entertainment and became more injury with a
decidedly open caller, and became more interested

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in the execution. They were finally
able to get deeply involved in the characters

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and storylines and found themselves and meshed
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Huh you like that? As I
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said Bloomstead, and the bloom set
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phone. The wrestling momentum reached a
crescendo when two cable shows went head to

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head turn our own WCW's Monday Nitro
on T and T and versus World Whistlingentertainments

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Raw is War on USA. A
ratings war began as both wrestling organizations aim

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to outdo each other by featuring more
outrageous characters, storylines and pyrotechnic production values.

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That's what they were missing. That's
what the adjective describing production values is.

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Pyrotechnic. Pyrotechnic production values. Right. The result, triple wwees and

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WCWS can bin an audience and shrank
that of ABC's Monday Night Football. Did

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it ever fucking shrink money night foot? There was no chance that. I

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mean, I guess maybe again combined
you know when, But I can't even

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imagine that just because Monday Football's ratings
went down the same season that wrestling's ratings

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went up, does not mean that
it's no no people watching wrestling that otherwise

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would have watched football. Right,
We've learned that there's there's I mean,

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certainly when football starts it takes a
hunk out of the wrestling audience, but

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the wrestling audience is never going to
have a visible impact on on the foot.

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Rightly, it's it's low because it
would have been low no matter what.

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Right game, it's probably allows you, right, it was probably allows

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you game or not or not a
marketable game. You know, we're dom

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I can't. I got it out
of my Bishoff is. It's such a

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the Bischoff thing is such a fine
you know, it's so takes a long

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time, you you know, and
and since we stopped t and h I

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can't. I haven't been immersed.
I'm close to. It's not it's not

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about how he said, because he
didn't sell it much. He's just his

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refrains and things he can't help but
repeat without realizing he's repeating them. Because

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that's the thing about these guys all
get in these podcasts, man, Like

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when you hear him talk for like
two hundred hours, like you realize these

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guys have a bag of tricks.
And absolutely there's like, you know,

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ten to eleven things that they say
with different variations. Are you ready?

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Are you ready for this fucking shit? Are you ready for him? Here

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we go? You know, we're
we're a dominating factor on television and Hollywood

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is finally recognizing wrestling as a form
of entertainment, not fake sports. It's

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a direct quote, direct fucking quote. By the way he says fake sports.

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He says it, and there are
opportunities in there, and that there

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are opportunities here. Today. Not
a day goes by that I don't get

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two or three phone calls from Hollywood
producers or receive two to three scripts.

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Are playing to call the return calls
exactly, They're all return calls. And

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you ask for scripts, you dumbass. Warner Brothers based Outlaw Productions, produced

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sexalizing videotape and Three to Tango is
working with Bischoff on a wrestling comedy and

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has typed Brill to write it.
You know what, with our deal at

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Warner Brothers on the WW having a
time Warner affiliation, we're in a unique

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position to create a great wrestling movie. Outlaw President of Production Scott Strauss said,

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but Outlaw Productions isn't the only company
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You know, we're talking to Mandally
Pictures, Peter Gouber on two feet yours

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that we're planning on doing. Peter, of course, I'm sure he did.

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Fucking Peter Goober. You know,
listen, listen, We've we've we've

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had our fair share of Peter Goober. We don't need more of that ship.

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John Peters and Peter Gouber can go
fuck themselves. They're there, They're

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fucking there. Their their toxicity level
is is unprecedented. Lunch with them,

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beer with them, I called Peter
Goober. I have a beer with them.

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You know, got a Cody Wyoming
beer too long, Michael. You

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know, Yeah, we went out
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the morning, out hunting that fresh
air, walking down the fresh air,

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you know, just walking. You
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up through the forest, you know, through the trees. You know,

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we got ourselves a couple of couple
of deer. You know, we got

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home, got back to the house. We came back to the house.

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You know, we just started cutting
it up. You know, had dinner

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that night. It was great drink, sat on the deck, had some

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had some red wine, smoked cigars
and our fire pit going right next to

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Mount Freeman. Did Peter gouber on
two features were employment, you know,

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not straight to video b movies,
but large scale, substantial films with substantial

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budgets. Bishovs already working closely with
Jason Hervey and David Salzburg the principles of

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mandal a sports video production closely with
Jason Hervey since the REGA administer. He's

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working closely with Jason, but it
is Jason working closely with him that would

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be the question. To create original
home video programming for WCW. The five

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month old company is also developing a
wrestling action feature for TNT starring w CW

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star Sting gotta find that one.
The WWE has elicited the help of the

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William Morris Agency to represent it as
William Morris endeavor endeavor. Yes, thank

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you. See it's planted this American
war. Our mission is to expand and

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diversify the WWE business and to move
it into features, TV movies, mini

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series, animated series and comic books, said Mark it Gain, Senior VP

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and head of television syndication packaging at
WMA feature film Wise, there are three

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major scripts that we're looking at right
now. An impendent producer, Michael don't

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call me David Meltzer is prepping Crunch
the Wrestling Movie for early for production in

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early nineteen ninety nine. No,
that never came out. Written by Thomas

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Chapman and David O'Malley, who will
direct, who will also direct. Crunch

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stars Extreme Championship Wrestling's Rob van dam
as a laid off auto factory worker who

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becomes an unexpected here when he defeats
a hated wrestling villain w CW's Raven in

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a bar brawl and the two become
rivals. Now listen, I wish to

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fucking god that had been made.
Yeah, that sounds intriguing that that would

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be. That would be, That's
like fucking It's like Roadhouse with Rob Van

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Damen Raven. For Fox's sake,
we went through the whole Roadhouse under the

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cinemat And forgive me if we mentioned
it. There's another one coming out.

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Yes there is, Yep, there
is, God, there is there is.

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There was a sequel as well.
I don't know if I mentioned that,

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but because it didn't really matter,
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with a Jake Gillenhall I think is
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cast of the sci fi adventure Universal
Soldier Too, playing an indestructible soldier and

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adversary to Jean Claude Van Dam's Devereux
character from the original nineteen ninety two Columbia

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movie. H casting casting a wrestler
power to or a project manager, Bloom

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said, it's the same mentality is
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to be in your film, right, right, because wrestling is a hit

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TV show. But as so often
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Hollywood. Competing films on the same
subject often cancel each other out at the

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box office, and few television stars
have gone on to deliver a significant movie

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audience. Witness Jerry Springer, whose
TV audience is precisely that which many wrestling

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movie producers wish to capture. His
feature Ringmaster, has taken in only eight

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point five million for artists and entertainment, though the picture would cost only about

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three million, so that's not too
bad. Still, most wrestling movies in

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the works are trying to expand their
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wrestlers in unusual ways. Our aim
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it in a different environment. It
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idea taking a wrestler and pairing him
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creating a buddy comedy for example.
Very simple. If that works, wrestling

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may become the next Hollywood gold mine
until it's proved. Otherwise, Showbiz will

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continue to chase after it, and
wrestling's at a popularity surgeon. Hollywood chases

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the popular, says Craig Baumgarden,
a producer and universal soldier. Too.

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This is the greatest me too town
in the world. So if wrestling stays

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hot, Hollywood will keep it going
after it. You damn right it second,

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damn right, it's the greatest me
too town in the world. He

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just fucking say that. He did? He did? I mean, how

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does that happen? You know?
I was gonna cut that last sentence because

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I was like, we didn't get
to talk to this, but then no,

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but then I saw it, like
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and I was like, oh shit, I can't not say that, Like

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absolutely, you know, I was
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it's like Jesus, the greatest me
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Jesus, dude, you have this
is fucking nineteen ninety eight. You have

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no fucking idea, man, No
idea, no fucking idea. So Bischoff

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further describe the development of the movie
on his podcast There eighty three eighty three

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weeks and here he is with Conrad. The idea of doing the movie and

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all of the pre production, the
conception of it and so forth was something

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that I initiated, probably in the
summer of ninety nine, maybe the spring

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of ninety nine, is when I
had a meeting with a gentleman by the

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name of Leonardo Debonaventura, who has
since you know, going on to become

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one of the top by that's Lorenzo
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keep going producers in Hollywood. To
this day, he's kind of a big

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deal at Warner Films. But his
career Leonardo at that point, he was

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new in his career and I don't
honestly remember if they approached me or if

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I approach them. I'm pretty certain
they approached me when I say they.

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I mean, Warner no approached me
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keep in mind, you know,
in the summer of ninety nine, there

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was still a lot of residual high
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Hollywood in general. The mainstream media
in general wasn't paying as close attention

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to the weekly ratings and the competition
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So from a perception perspective, we're
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was it fucking talking about with the
ratings? Like people were all about the

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ratings in the late nineties, right, I mean, I guess what he's

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trying to say is people didn't appreciate
that they were the hottest thing on television

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in Hollywood, Like Hollywood didn't care
that they were on cable. All right,

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Well, I guess, all right, anyway, in the mainstream media

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who weren't paying close attention, we're
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it had become in ninety six,
ninety seven, and ninety eight. There's

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a kind of a delayed I guess
effect when it comes to perception. So

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they reached out, and of course
this was a time when you know,

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Time Order had a stake in Turner
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One of my goals, you know, before I left WCW in September of

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ninety nine, when I say left
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played. As we discussed last week, one of my goals was to kind

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of broaden the brand of WCW and
extended into other forms of media and entertainment.

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That was a goal of mine before
Time Warner i'll say acquired Turner Broadcasting

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or maybe is more appropriate, but
even prior to that time, in ninety

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six and ninety seven, one of
my goals was to explore not a goal,

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but I was exploring animation as I
was exploring other forms of television.

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If you know, anybody wants to
do their research. I was able to

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get guys like Randy Savage and others
into some pretty high profile television scripted television

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opportunities. I myself took part in
a show called Rless on HBO, did

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some stuff with Jeff Foxworthy. So
there was there was an effort on my

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part, on WCW's part, supported
by Turner Broadcasting, to not only try

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to grow the wc W brand within
the world of professional wrestling and within the

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world of our genre, if you
will, but also to leverage our characters

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and leverage our success in other forms
of entertainment, much like WWE has done

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successfully over the last decade or more
so. That was, you know,

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the idea for Ready to Rumble started. I'm gonna I'm gonna call it late

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spring of ninety nine. Worked on
it throughout the summer with the writers who

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I just can't remember their names any
longer. But I had had several meetings

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in LA and I wasn't directly involved
with the script. I was more of

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a consulting producer, I think would
be the best way to say it.

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But that whole process started in like
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nine. And then of course I
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Yes, he took meetings in La. Oh, yeah, it took.

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It took meetings in LA and I
didn't want to per se, but I

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just felt it was right for business. Consulting producer, consulting producer. I'm

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sure he loves that fucking title.
I'm sure it's loved. To consultingly produce

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a bunch of things. This was
pre Zoom it's pre zoom. That's in

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how hard he would consultingly produce this, Oh god, he'd be he would

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have he would have like four zoom
calls going to the same time the control

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center. Yeah you know, I'm
really yeah, you know, And let

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me just take a moment to talk
about what we see. Where are we

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going with this? Yeah, that's
a great question, Eric, that is

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what I've been wondering ever since this
call started. Read my mind. Oh

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god. So also, the first
of all, I mean, even for

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even though I know he's talking about
things that are we're talking about twenty years

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ago, I don't care. You
know, damn well, you cannot just

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fucking sign on to a movie in
the spring of ninety nine and have it

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be shooting in the fall. It
does not happen because it's waving. It's

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not enough time. Come on,
not on talking any time. Warner synergies

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here. And also he in his
book he says it completely different. In

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his book, he says, quote, here we go, we'll turn to

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controversy creates cash right now in the
summer of nineteen ninety eight, that makes

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more sense or thereabouts. Well,
the article you just read it from ninety

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eight yeah, and they're talking about
the movie. Then, Yeah, he

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just messed up the year. He
does that all the time. He's just

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a fucking idiot. But to me, those kinds of mistakes they're not acceptable.

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Like, you can't make that kind
of mistake. I mean, you

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also can't make a mistake of fucking
Colin Lorenzo Debonaventura, Leonardo Debonaventura. Fucking

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idiots? Was it Raphael or Donald
Tell? I mean, listen, a

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guy who wants to fucking make waves
in entertainment as a producer, a production

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entity. Bischoff Moron, Well,
I've heard him. I've heard him Butcher

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the name even worse. I remember
one time he called him Leonardo Bona Jesse

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Ventura. I heard him call him. Actually he called him Leonard died Boning

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Ventura. The Leonard died doing what
he loved. Uh, controversy creates cash.

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In the summer of nineteen ninety eight
or thereabouts, or they're abouts,

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they gotta put that in there.
I can't just say summer of ninety eight.

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Well, you know, you can't. You have to be unsure.

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You're so busy. Yeah, there's
probably you know, Look, I'm so

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cynical about these books like in nineties. Probably a reason, yeah, like

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he expects to be there's probably a
reason that he doesn't want to be more

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prescriptive than that. He puts that
word in there in case people question it,

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and it's like, I don't know, there's probably for some reason.

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You got to think of it as
the summer not the fall. Yeah,

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I know. I was approached by
Jeffrey Silver and Robert new Meyer from Outlaw

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Productions, which had a deal with
Warner Brothers to do a movie. Because

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of the synergy within Time Warner and
the popularity of WCW at the time.

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Bobby and jeff suggested we come up
with an idea for a wrestling themed film.

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We met over a period of a
couple of months and discussed some ideas.

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They had some ideas, and I
had some ideas, and for a

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couple of months we just bounced them
back and forth. WCW's concern was that

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the movie was fun and funny but
didn't necessarily make fun of our business.

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So they didn't want it to make
fun of the business, or they felt

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that it should make more fun of
it. It should be fun and funny,

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but not make fun of the business. Okay, well fail it's funny

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because they actually got the first two
they got it all wrong, right,

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they got it all backwards. It's
not fun or funny and it totally makes

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fun of the business. And it
really does. It does. And by

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the way, there's no way that
Eric at this particular point in WCW's history

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wasn't spending ninety five percent of his
energy. I'm trying to get this movie,

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of course, or a movie exactly
close to WWSS. Totally. I

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mean, what does he say in
the uh I mean in that article he

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talks about I mean they even mentioned
like there's a ton of shit that he's

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trying to do. Yeah, totally. It always makes it seem like they're

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coming to him. I know,
no, no, I mean I remember

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if I came to them or yeah, you can't and maybe and you know,

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listen, maybe per se he didn't
like seek these guys out from a

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law productions. But you know,
someone at at fucking Turner, you know,

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got a call from someone at Warner
or you know, like dude it,

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you know, like or he can
put a call and like please get

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me somebody make a movie. All
right, all right, let' see what

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we can do. All these guys
want to do and want us to meet

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with them. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, let meet you meet with them.

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Yeah, you know, in those
elevator conversations and those moments he has

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to rub elbows with the higher ups. Listen, I have no doubt that

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he asked for this, but at
the same time didn't actually formally hunting.

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Yeah, exactly, exactly, tried
to make others, make sure others had

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the idea. Yeah, when the
time came, and it was really good

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at that, that's why, totally, that's really how Eric became the real

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boss of WCWS. He unlike all
these other wrestling clowns that they interviewed for

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the job. When he got it
ninety three, he knew how to relate

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to the C suite, turner broadcasting. He knew how to play the game

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of like, set circumstances up so
if anything succeeds, you can take credit

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for it. If anything fails,
you know, it's really your problem.

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Yep, yep. In Hollywood,
poking fun of the audience is a very

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easy thing to do. While that
may be very funny to people outside the

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industry, fans and those inside the
industry don't find it that entertaining. My

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role was not so much to come
up with a great idea for a movie.

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My role was to help them find
ways to have fun with the content

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without making fun of wrestling fans and
wrestling in general. We collaborated for a

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few months and came up with a
really interesting idea. Yeah, okay.

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So in addition, you know that
again kind of solidifying everything is being in

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that era, that summer of ninety
eight. You know, remember the we've

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talked about the Entertainment Weekly issue,
that the famous one with Goldberg and Hogan

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and Austin on the cover. So
they mentioned in the article itself that WSW

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had a film in the works with
Warner Brothers. And so you know,

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again, I know what you're saying. I know that you're saying that he

405
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:30.039
just made an error in the timelines. But nonetheless, a film is not

406
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:34.119
in the works in nineteen ninety nine
if it has not yet been pitched and

407
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:39.480
or sold. So Eric, get
your fucking dates right, pal. So

408
00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:44.839
you know the story, There's a
Jimmy King, he's the champ, and

409
00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:49.000
the promoter screws him out of the
title, and then we get the two

410
00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:52.119
fans who try to help him come
back, and Jimmy King, Oliver Platt,

411
00:32:52.279 --> 00:33:00.039
Oliver Platt plays like gentlemen. Oh
yes, Oliver Platt. So Jimmy

412
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:07.559
King like Jerry the King. Hmm, I would think like Larry King.

413
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:10.319
I didn't know, not Larry King, Don King. Sorry, yeah,

414
00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:15.759
uh well, nonetheless, there has
been a lot of you know, connection

415
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:20.920
there is it is he Jerry the
King. But here's what uh, here's

416
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:22.839
what he had to say. This
is Lawler on his uh Dinner with the

417
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:30.160
King podcast talking about if it is
based on him? Was Jimmy King the

418
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:36.319
main character and ready to rumble a
parody of Jerry the King? Lawler?

419
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:39.279
Have anybody has anybody told you that
at all? Or do you know firsthand

420
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:44.640
if that's the case. I do
not know firsthand if that's the case or

421
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:47.720
not. I've I've had a lot
of people ask me that I really don't

422
00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:53.240
know the answer to that. I
felt at the time that, you know,

423
00:33:53.279 --> 00:34:00.519
I personally felt that it was I
don't not a maybe a takeoff,

424
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:02.480
because I don't think I don't think
they I don't think they did it as

425
00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:05.920
a you know, I mean,
he was he was the main character.

426
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.639
He was the lead guy and everything, So it wasn't something that they would

427
00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:14.159
be doing to try to, you
know, be disparaging towards me about And

428
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:20.599
also at the time of the movie, I wasn't I wasn't like considered a

429
00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:24.199
main you know, a main top
guy with with WWE that that they would

430
00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:28.119
say, oh, let's do this
and be it, have it be a

431
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:30.679
takeoff on Hulk Hogan or having it
be a takeoff on Stone Cold or anybody

432
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:35.199
like that. So I don't know, and I actually I had forgotten this.

433
00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:38.400
I actually got the interview on the
phone one time. I don't even

434
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:43.599
know why how this came about,
but I had a phone interview with David

435
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:50.519
Arquette on some show or something that
WW lined up this interview with David Arquette

436
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:54.039
and we we did, I think, discuss that a little bit. And

437
00:34:54.280 --> 00:35:00.400
I don't even remember. I don't
think that it was that it was supposed

438
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:06.239
to be aimed at me or anything
that that way. At least David Arkeette

439
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:08.159
didn't remember it that way. That's
good, that's good. I always wonder

440
00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:13.199
that. But myself, but then
I thought, why why would they pick

441
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:19.519
yeah, yeah, exactly, pick
you. I didn't get it. I

442
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:23.880
did not get my hands on that
other interview sadly, so I couldn't confirm

443
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:28.199
the conversation that he had, but
you know, I guess we'll leave it

444
00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:34.079
at that, though a lot of
people still think that it's uh based on

445
00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:36.920
Jerry Lawler. That's what I haven't
heard before. That's interesting. And he

446
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.599
is he is you know, he's
got this southern accent too, you know,

447
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:44.840
so it's it's possible. I mean, such a stupid name too,

448
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:46.840
like Jimmy King, like it's fuck
it. Also the fact that he wears

449
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:49.400
I mean, listen, I get
it. You know, you get Oliver

450
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.320
Platte. You know, he's not
the fucking most in shape gentleman in the

451
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:57.639
world, so you know he's not
gonna want to wear He's not you know,

452
00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:02.639
he's not as uh uh, you
know, as confident per se as

453
00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:07.760
as Dusty Rhodes would be, you
know, wearing no fucking shirt. But

454
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:16.760
I mean he wears like full on, like medieval clothing. It's so ridiculous.

455
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:21.239
I would never I think of him
as like a night Yeah, he

456
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:23.159
just for the King's knights, I
mean, like all the like. It's

457
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:25.480
probably one of the things that I
can't stand the most about the movie is

458
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:30.679
that they didn't actually have a wrestler
play wrestler, Like you needed to get

459
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.400
an actor. You've already got your
two, your two Hollywood guys, you

460
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:37.360
know, to kind of save to
bring in, uh, the crowd.

461
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:42.199
You know, David Arquette will talk
about he was hot after at that point,

462
00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:45.239
hot is it? You know,
that's that's kind of yeah, you're

463
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:46.800
nailing it. Like that's kind of
what I was saying, like, is

464
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:51.239
this actually a movie that wrestling fans
need to see? Like in terms of

465
00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:55.840
like it doesn't really the movie's about
wrestling, and it's tangentially related to WCW,

466
00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.440
but it's not like the premier movie
of a wrestler. It's not like

467
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:04.559
someone trying their hand at being an
actor. Because if it was, you

468
00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:07.400
know, if if Goldberg was the
main star of this film, we're staying

469
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:09.960
with anybody. I'm sure a lot
more wrestling fans would have talked about it,

470
00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:12.719
checked it out, and formed an
opinion on it. But it was

471
00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:15.320
like, whatver this is just this
is like a movie that has some guys

472
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.639
in the background that really is about
David Arquette. Yeah, yeah, And

473
00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:22.519
I mean, you know they do
get I mean, DDP gets a lot

474
00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:24.760
of screen time, but he's pretty
good. Actually, all things considered,

475
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:30.119
he's pretty good. And I I'm
like, why didn't they just make it

476
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:32.639
about him? Like, why don't
they make about DDP? I would like

477
00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:37.440
to see the guy, you know, DDP in a lead role. Sure,

478
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:38.960
if it's about a wrestler, like
I could see I think he wore

479
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:42.840
it kind of thing that he could
do well, or he could, you

480
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:46.599
know, he could at least do
you know he could be like, uh,

481
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:51.519
you know, the old manager guy, you know, like the thing

482
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:52.840
that they fucking do in this movie, you know, these days, he

483
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.119
could do like the Martin Landau part
in this fucking movie. They don't forget

484
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:01.679
Martin Landau's in this fucking movie.
Academy Award winner Martin Landau, all right,

485
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.960
who plays basically a Stu Hart type
character. Okay, like Martin hard

486
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:14.079
Landau, yeah right, and then
the other you know, what about the

487
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:20.719
what about the uh you know,
older world champion gets screwed out of the

488
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:28.280
by the promoter in a shoot montreal
ish you know, melt Meltzer. Meltzer

489
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:35.519
seemed to think so, but and
in doing so, drove mister Bischoff completely

490
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:38.519
off the rails. Eric Bischoff was
the star on the in the movie as

491
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:45.119
something of a Vince McMahon character in
a terribly scripted story, was reading Meltzer

492
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:47.400
based on what happened to Brett Hart. Nothing is further from the truth.

493
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:54.639
Nothing, And if Dave Meltzer was
even pretending to be a journalist or precluding

494
00:38:55.199 --> 00:39:00.360
to have a modicum of credibility,
it would have been very easy for him

495
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:06.440
to find out what that movie script
was about. He was too fucking lazy

496
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:09.880
to pick up the phone and do
the work, so instead he went with

497
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.679
the narrative that Eric Bishop, because
he wanted to be a Hollywood guy,

498
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:19.119
has got a Warner Brothers to do
a movie script about what happened to Brett

499
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:27.639
Hart, profoundly telling about Dave Meltzer's
credibility. Not only then, but now

500
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.719
we'll just let it goat that.
Here. Now we get through a freaked

501
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:36.480
episode without having to get into this
ship. And I leaned into it.

502
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:38.159
I did. It's my fault.
It's my bad. I could have I

503
00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:42.320
could have leaned out of this.
We could have gotten by this so easily.

504
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:47.320
But but it just still it drives
me crazy how people so many people

505
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:53.920
believe the horseship that these people write
because they have their own little personal you

506
00:39:53.960 --> 00:40:00.480
know, for their own insecurities.
They've got their own agendas, and they

507
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:02.239
you know, they have a platform
and they put this stupid shit out there,

508
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:07.760
and unfortunately people read it and they
believe it. But you did lean

509
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:15.960
into it yourself. And I'm sorry, you're gonna tell me that wasn't fucking

510
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:22.199
Bret scenario. It's completely breat scenario. There's almost like there's almost like a

511
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:27.000
game you can play where like the
more vehemently something yeah, oh yeah,

512
00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:29.800
more grain of truth it is.
He's trying to extinguish, you know,

513
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:35.000
he's trying to like stamp it out
periphery he can find fault with. Well,

514
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:36.920
you know, you know, there
was a thing that happened. You

515
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:38.320
know, he's talking to the fucking
producer. There wasn't thing that happened,

516
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:45.440
you know up in New York.
What happened in New York? Well,

517
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:47.880
actually it was in Montreal. Well
we're talking about New York. That what

518
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:52.360
do you mean? Well, you
know, wwe Well why didn't you say

519
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:55.960
w Well it's New York, Eric, I don't know what the fuck you're

520
00:40:55.960 --> 00:41:02.440
talking about. That's pretty funny.
Actually, just call it New York and

521
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:06.599
confuse the shit other people that would, you know, only say new York

522
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:09.480
if they meant New York, citing
that's what the normal person says. Well,

523
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:13.480
what's interesting is that I could be
wrong. I don't know the episode

524
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:17.519
of the eighty three week show,
but presumably he's reading a contemporaneous observer.

525
00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:21.280
He's reading an observer from ninety eight, ninety nine when the movie had come

526
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:23.400
out. No, it was,
it was in the midst of it.

527
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:27.559
I found I did find it.
I didn't use it because he quoted it,

528
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:30.320
but it was. It was back. Yeah, it was like during

529
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:34.159
the when they were in regular communication, back when Meltzer would have him on

530
00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:37.519
Observer Live all the time, and
back on the IATA Show. And when

531
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:39.679
I say he tweeted this week that
he actually helped Bishoff prep for an off

532
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:45.400
the record appearance in ninety eight attendance
and ratings figures. And now that's like,

533
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:50.440
and he's accusing Dave of having this
leg it's hard on to make a

534
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:52.480
case against him and frame him.
Is desperately trying to get in Hollywood.

535
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.760
But it's like that one. No
one said that about Eric bish I mean,

536
00:41:57.079 --> 00:41:59.320
I'm sure people in the business said
that about Eric at the time,

537
00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:04.880
but that hasn't been his reputation until
recently. That's like, right, unless

538
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:07.039
I'm wrong, I could be wrong, but maybe people were saying that about

539
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.559
him back then because it was evident
that that's probably what was happening. But

540
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.760
I don't know, it's weird to
put that in Dave's you know, Dave's

541
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:19.679
mind as his enemies way way back
then. I don't even think, you

542
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:21.719
know, I didn't take that away
from the article that it was like this

543
00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:27.599
Bischoff like you know, trying to
you know, make it in Hollywood.

544
00:42:27.599 --> 00:42:30.000
It was just like, you know, they're obviously you know, it's it's

545
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.840
just like it's just a bad script
about you know, you know, ripped

546
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:38.480
out of the Brett Hart saying he's
My thesis is he's spending a lot more

547
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:42.000
time trying to figure out if this
could be something than he is trying to

548
00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:44.320
make the wrestling show watchable. Right. He does know how to fix that,

549
00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:45.880
right, And if you're on the
wrestling side of things and are watching

550
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:51.360
everything precipitously decline year over year,
you would kind of appreciate the brain power

551
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:53.880
to go towards experimenting with things that
might turn the wrestling show around, right,

552
00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:58.280
instead of latching your efforts onto something
that even per Bishof's own sort of

553
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:01.679
admission, there was hanging slinging to
the fumes, unwittingly of when the promotion

554
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:05.360
was hot, not realizing that by
the time they got these initiatives and these

555
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.280
synergies in motion, the company was
already you know, ice cold, yep,

556
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:16.840
yep. So uh. There was
someone else though, who apparently was

557
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:24.320
also part of the developmental process,
and that is Chris Kanyon. Kanyon was

558
00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:29.800
there and at the time, he
was on his way to Los Angeles to

559
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:35.639
work with NBC on the Jesse Ventura
story. Right, so we turned to

560
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:39.760
wrestling reality. Not long after I
arrived in California, I got a call

561
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:44.079
on my cell phone. Hey,
buddy, this is Eric. Hi,

562
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:49.960
Eric, I have another task for
you. Oh boy, HBO has a

563
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.840
show called Arless. I'm sure he
fucking loved Arles. I'm sure Bischoff fucking

564
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:58.920
ate Arles up. It's about a
sports agent and they're doing an episode in

565
00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:00.880
wrestling. I mean to meet with
them and listen to what they have to

566
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:06.360
say. Uh, Okay. He
gave me a name and an address,

567
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:08.559
which I wrote down. Just wait
for a call from them. Sure,

568
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.639
okay, thanks. I hung up
the phone, and I was already feeling

569
00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:16.400
a little panicked. I had to
meet with one wrestler about the Jesse movie,

570
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:20.000
but then I had to meet with
these other people about the TV show.

571
00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:22.840
Okay, I figured I could do
all this. Then my phone rang

572
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:27.159
again. Hi, buddy, it's
Eric again. Oh God, Hi,

573
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.119
Yeah, I need you to take
care of one more thing for me while

574
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:35.119
you're out there. What's that?
I was to the point of freaking out.

575
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:37.800
I want you to meet with some
Warner Brothers executives. Okay, they're

576
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.559
thinking about do you want me to
wear a leather jacket a chance? To

577
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:46.480
Jesus, they're thinking about doing a
wrestling movie, and I just want you

578
00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:52.039
to, uh to talk with them
feel them out. Well okay, great,

579
00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:55.280
Thanks, and he hung up.
So, you know, skip ahead

580
00:44:55.280 --> 00:45:00.360
here because he meet it's all about
the mill. Phone rings again. Hello,

581
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:05.960
brother, brother? What do you
do in Hollywood? Dude? Are

582
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:12.760
you making deals with me? Brother? He immediately he has, you know,

583
00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:16.000
he basically has Bischoff's phone like hooked
up to where he can tell who

584
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.840
he's calling. He hasn't tapped,
you know, he has fucking Eric Bischoff's

585
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:23.559
phone tapped. Yo, Chris kenyons
and hey hey ken yizzl. Brother,

586
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:27.800
what's going on? Hey? Who
you busy? Brother? You brother?

587
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:30.559
You out in? You out in
a movie? Lizzle? Brother? Can

588
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:32.920
you talk, dude? I mean
it seems like you've been talking quite a

589
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:36.119
bit, brother, Brother, you're
talking to Bischoff. Dude, you're talking

590
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:38.639
with easy Brother. What what did
uh? What did you guys talk about?

591
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:44.199
Dude? Uh? Uh uh uh? Well how can he he?

592
00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:49.760
Brother? You call me terry?
Dude. You and I are just you

593
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.800
know, you're like we're on the
same path. Brother, Okay, start

594
00:45:52.920 --> 00:46:00.639
kissing? Is gonna put him in
a movie? That? Oh wow,

595
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:02.039
that's really great for you, dude. I'm excited. I hope that that

596
00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:08.000
sounds like you're really swimming with a
big shot wide. Don't say anything about

597
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:12.599
I mean, so do you?
So you're out there and you're out there

598
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.519
in La La land? Brother?
So what's uh? You know, what's

599
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:21.480
the what's the scuttle butt? Dude? What's the skizzle? Brother? I

600
00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:29.039
don't even know what I was trying
to say with schizle. Actually that's his

601
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:36.840
scuttle, But what's your skizzle?
At least he talks like a normal human

602
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:42.039
beings. That's one thing you can't
take away from the Hulkster. Well,

603
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.679
uh, Terry, I just got
here. I just flew in and I've

604
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:51.679
already got three assignments from from Eric
story. Brother? Do you all right?

605
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:52.199
Dude? I'm taking that to you? So what do you know?

606
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:54.559
Where you you know? What what
are you doing? Brother? What are

607
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:59.039
the three things that you're doing for
Eric? Brother? Well, I'm I'm

608
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:10.480
I'm helping out with the Eventura movie. Brother, it's a well, well,

609
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:14.000
I'm helping out with the with the
Jesse vent Tura movie. Brother.

610
00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:20.119
What what you're saying that that the
body's got a movie? Brother? What's

611
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:24.519
going on? Dude? Well yeah, yeah, he's you know, he

612
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:28.400
came the governor and everything, so
the governor, Well, brother, I'm

613
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:31.440
gonna become president. Dude? Why
making a movie about me? Are you

614
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:35.159
gonna go for the world title?
Dude? Did you already talk about that?

615
00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:36.840
I mean? Did? Did?
Did? Did you know? Did?

616
00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:38.159
Is he talking about world title stuff? Brother? With you? Or

617
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:40.119
he's just saying, you know,
hey, you know Kenyon Brother, We're

618
00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:44.960
gonna give you that big push,
do you know to take wild? You

619
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:46.360
know, I just want to you
know, brother, I'm like, you

620
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:49.840
know, if that's the case,
you know I can help with that,

621
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.360
brother. You know, I can
kind of get on you know and kind

622
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:53.960
of like, you know, guide
you to that to that next level.

623
00:47:54.000 --> 00:48:01.960
Dude, if you know what I'm
talking about? Uh what he just got

624
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:07.239
three three assignments that completely rocked this
world. He's you know, he's we

625
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:09.079
as we know, Kenyon had a
lot of issues with anxiety, and so

626
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:14.320
he is a tail spin and then
whole calls and starts asking these cryptic questions

627
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:17.159
about whether he's getting put from the
world title. I mean, what's the

628
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:21.840
big product out there? Exactly?
What's big thing? Brother? Well?

629
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.079
I get you know, Eric,
I guess the Warner is doing a movie

630
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:29.559
about wrestling and and and oh he
has you out for that. Brother.

631
00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:32.119
Oh dude, I know all about
that. That's the Hull Cogan movie.

632
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:37.000
Brother. Okay, why aren't you
out here? Then? Well, do

633
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:38.360
you know what, brother, I
don't like to be in charge. I

634
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:40.840
like to kind of like take a
back you know, to get on the

635
00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:44.719
back burner. Those things do kind
of like stay back kind of like observe

636
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:47.000
from from a far brother. So
what I want you to do for me?

637
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:50.039
Dude? I want you when you
go in to that meeting. Brother,

638
00:48:50.119 --> 00:49:01.199
you have a tape recorder? Dude. Uh no, I'll tell you

639
00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:05.119
what. Why don't you get one? Brother? Are you gonna pay me

640
00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:07.000
back? Well, dude, I'm
telling this is for you. Brother.

641
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:12.679
I'm doing this for you. They're
cheap at radio. Why don't you go

642
00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:15.719
to radio shizz act? Brother?
I'll tell you they got him real cheap

643
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:17.840
there, dude. And I'll tell
you what. So you record the conversation,

644
00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:22.559
all right, you take care of
that conversizzle, dude, and you

645
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:23.719
just kind of like let it,
you know, and you give me that

646
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:28.559
taper of it because I'm supposed to
actually be a part of that. Eric

647
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:35.320
didn't mention that tape. Eric didn't
mention anything about you. Well, I

648
00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:37.800
knowed you because it's kind of like
you know, my oldly talk about it

649
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:39.760
right now, so you know,
you know, we're trying to kind of

650
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:43.559
like dial me back in dude right
now, brother, so that we can

651
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:45.800
kind of, you know, do
kind of a big thing with this,

652
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:52.039
with this, with this w CW
movie, we're talking like we're talking like

653
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:57.920
why glide Brother? And in conclusion, Monday at Nitro, at the meeting

654
00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:02.079
is on a Saturday, Terry gets
the tape FedEx overnight Monday at Nitro.

655
00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:07.239
He's sitting in his private dressing room
with you know those those mirrors that have

656
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.920
the big lamps on both sides,
and the two TV monitors behind him.

657
00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:15.280
You can watch their elbows on his
knees, hands folded in the Hollywood gear.

658
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.199
Yo, easy, come on in, brother, how you doing?

659
00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:22.400
Hey, take a seat, dude. Bischoff sits down. What's up?

660
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:27.559
Terry? And Hogan reaches his index
finger, extends it moves at a snail's

661
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.519
pace, and then it presses play
on a boom box, and the tape

662
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:34.920
of Chris Kenyon having this meeting is
playing, and Hogan's just looking Eric in

663
00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:42.000
the eye while the audio plays.
What's the dizzle? Brother? You don't

664
00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:46.480
think I got eyes in the ear? Dude? You're to catch me not

665
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:52.599
prepared for a Canyon Puss. We're
talking. Not only are you pushing Canyon

666
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:59.199
Brother to world title status number two? You know what? Ever? Confirmed

667
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:02.760
that he yes, six ways from
Sunday that was the case number two,

668
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:07.280
Dude, you know you have him
going to Hollywood. Brother, I'm Hollywood

669
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:10.960
Hulk Hogan. I heard, dude
that you wanted him to go over to

670
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:14.880
Hollywood. If you take the two
out of that sentence, we've got a

671
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:17.199
problem. Brother. You had him
go to you over to Hollywood, brother,

672
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:21.039
But if you take out that too, you want him to go over

673
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:25.039
Hollywood. Brother. What's the dizzl? Dude? That's and that's not contractually

674
00:51:25.119 --> 00:51:28.760
kosher. Brother. You know,
if you look at my contract, brother,

675
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:32.960
I know that you have We're talking
complete creative control. Dude. So

676
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:37.400
I didn't approve Canyon going over,
Hulk Hogan. What do you have to

677
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:44.800
say for yourself's gonna book? Like
k is gonnak. I also heard.

678
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:46.800
I also heard that you want him
to just basically give me a clothes line

679
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:51.280
and roll me up from behind,
brother, for a three count like basically

680
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:53.840
a two second match. What's the
dizzl? Brother, that's a portrayal of

681
00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:57.719
our friendship. I mean, dude, you know I also heard you know,

682
00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:00.199
are you gonna you're gonna have him
hit me over the head with a

683
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:02.559
chair to You're gonna have him steal
the belt and put Canyon on the belt.

684
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:07.239
Brother, you know, you know, legally speaking, you know,

685
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.760
I don't want to get legal on
you. Dude. We're talking about,

686
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:15.199
you know, some breach of my
contract. Brother, you're breaching my contract.

687
00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:30.280
Uh oh, I's just to begin
because it's all it's like, because

688
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:36.199
it's all faulty premise and fake like
in imagining. But he does have a

689
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:37.840
tape of Canyon in this meeting.
How did he get that? You know

690
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:42.960
what I mean, like a kid
just totally dismissed this. There's there are

691
00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.679
some things I need to keep him
on the hook here on the line to

692
00:52:45.679 --> 00:53:00.320
get an answer for No. You
know, here's the thing, brother,

693
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:06.639
I don't I don't trust you until
you come clean with this shit exactly because

694
00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:08.880
he's like he's like the algorithm at
Facebook. He's like, you know,

695
00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:15.159
just because you haven't said it yet, Like I know enough about how chess

696
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.360
pieces move that this is eventually where
you're going to end up. Like if

697
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:21.840
you haven't thought about putting Canyon over
me yet for the world title, I

698
00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:23.880
can tell by your actions and moves
that that's where you're going to end up.

699
00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:28.519
So I'm just I'm just you know, jumping ahead, dude. If

700
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:30.480
the algorithm knows like, yeah,
you wouldn't buy this product today, but

701
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:35.079
you're taking the kind of actions that
tell them that in two years you will

702
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:37.639
buy this product. Indeed. So
I'm like, and so what is the

703
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:43.320
plan? Brother? You know what
product are you going with? You're going

704
00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:50.440
with the new Jersey Canyon Dude,
We're going with Hollywoodhulk Hogan, Cania Brother.

705
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:52.760
I mean, are you talking?
We're talking? Are we talking Canyon

706
00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:58.800
Mania dude? Kenyania? Brother?
Who better than Canyon Mania? Dude?

707
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:02.000
What's going on? Brother? A
grand I'm a grand Canyon dude? Are

708
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:09.199
we talking about Grand Slam Champion Canada? Brother? Yo? Do I've trusted

709
00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:15.320
you? And I'm you don't gang
to go to these meetings? And it

710
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:23.079
is a complete betrayal of the relationships. I love He's I love how Hogan's

711
00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:30.800
the fourth call in ten minutes.
Yo, Chris kiseled. What's going on?

712
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:38.719
Dude? Yeah, it's so fun, so self dealing, so self

713
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:46.559
served that I've never gotten a call
from Hault Cogan ever before ever. Alright,

714
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:50.840
we could leave that there. I
just thought that was highly necessary totally

715
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:53.079
and also too, I love the
idea that that Hogan's like, you know,

716
00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:57.159
it's basically the Salem Witch trials,
like you have to confess your sins

717
00:54:57.360 --> 00:55:07.039
in order to get out of this
exactly until he's tfking to let you out

718
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:08.760
of this room, until he thinks
you're leveling with him. He's not going

719
00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:12.519
to think you're leveling with him until
you accept his premise. It's right,

720
00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:19.559
exactly, Oh, Terry Brother,
all right to the book, as we

721
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:22.199
get out of the Ring, and
I passed. This is the so he

722
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:24.679
works with Mills Allen and the Jesse
Ventura guys, and he says, as

723
00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:27.920
we get out of the Ring.
I passed my recommendation along to the movie

724
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:31.159
representatives. I got another phone call. I was late for my meeting with

725
00:55:31.199 --> 00:55:35.400
the people from Rles. I'm sorry, I told him on the phone.

726
00:55:35.400 --> 00:55:38.480
I was actually out here working on
a movie we rescheduled for the following day.

727
00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:40.920
I was already a Hollywood big shot, but I didn't feel like it

728
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:45.880
at all. I felt unorganized,
slightly afraid, nervous, and unprepared.

729
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:49.840
I wanted to go home. I
checked into my hotel, a nice place

730
00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:52.960
near the beach and water, and
I took a cap full of renutrient before

731
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:57.559
going to bed. I needed to
pass out The next day, I felt

732
00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:00.480
refreshed and a little better. I
have the address for the set of ur

733
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:02.480
lists. When when I arrived,
my wrestler actor was waiting for me.

734
00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:07.320
However, there was no script,
no one to tell me what the show

735
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:08.760
was about, and I had no
idea what I was supposed to do.

736
00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:14.000
Uh, you know, I think
you're supposed to teach me some moves.

737
00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:17.719
My wrestler actor said, okay.
For two hours I worked with him and

738
00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:22.039
we developed a few simple moves for
him to use in what I learned would

739
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:24.119
be a small part of the show. After the session, I felt good

740
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:28.199
about what would be what we'd done. Then the phone rang. It was

741
00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:30.840
Eric, Why aren't you at Warner
Brothers, He asked, I am.

742
00:56:31.039 --> 00:56:35.199
I just did the I just got
done showing this kid how to do his

743
00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:40.639
moves for Arlest. No. Arliss
is HBO, not Warner Brothers. My

744
00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:45.400
head was swimming, I had.
I had to then reschedule with Warner Brothers

745
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:47.599
for the next day. I still
had no idea why why I was meeting

746
00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:53.440
with him, this poor guy.
You have to understand, Kenyon nine of

747
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:58.360
life is taking meetings right exactly what
you know this is? This is the

748
00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:00.960
business. We take meetings. We
don't know. We don't give them.

749
00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:06.559
We don't have them. We take
them. We have very flat bread,

750
00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:10.519
right, catered. We have listen, we have bagels. All right,

751
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:15.119
we have bagels and all these things, all these carbs. But nobody eats

752
00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:22.039
them when it goes my diet,
he says sart. No, no,

753
00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:25.119
no, you don't actually eat them. You just watch them. They're just

754
00:57:25.199 --> 00:57:30.360
there. You had to have yogurt
before you came in, all right,

755
00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:37.760
all right, okay, the ways
of Hollywood, I know, wander and

756
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:43.000
by this mission too, you know, like this four fucking guy. Uh.

757
00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:45.000
I also didn't know when I was
supposed to leave for Toronto. I

758
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:49.159
think they had nitro in Toronto.
Plus I was still on Eastern time,

759
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:52.000
and my head felt foggy. I
went back to the hotel, took a

760
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:55.559
shot of reneutrient and fell down on
the bed. The next day at Warner

761
00:57:55.639 --> 00:58:00.599
Brothers, I realized we were there
to brainstorm ideas about a new movie,

762
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:05.880
one that would be released in two
thousand as Ready to Rumble, a wrestling

763
00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:09.440
comedy about two fans who want to
restore credibility to their fallen hero. At

764
00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:15.320
first, though, there was only
a rough idea and one request. We

765
00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:19.639
really want John Goodman to star's lead
role. One suit told me, can

766
00:58:19.639 --> 00:58:23.159
you imagine John Goodman? Oh?
I didn't know if John Goodman fit as

767
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:27.239
a down on his luck former wrestler, but I guess it could work.

768
00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:32.079
But I still didn't know what to
say. Yes, definitely, I said,

769
00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:37.000
I think we in the company,
I think I think we in the

770
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:39.440
company would be thrilled to work with
you on this. I shook hands with

771
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:43.599
a lot of people and feeling more
out of place than ever made my getaway.

772
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:47.320
Can you imagine? Like, but
they're throwing this idea at you.

773
00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:51.400
He doesn't know what he's supposed to
say or what he's supposed to listen to.

774
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:54.239
I love this idea. We will
be happy to work with you.

775
00:58:55.719 --> 00:58:59.039
I was hyper, and I felt
like I was ready to jump out of

776
00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:00.679
my skin. Later on, I
learned Oliver Platt was chosen to play the

777
00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:04.960
lead character in the movie. I
had no say in the matter. Apparently

778
00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:10.519
I wasn't as important as everyone thought. So they brought in, as mentioned

779
00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:15.239
in the article there before, Stephen
Brill to be the to write the script

780
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:22.159
and his they said, there he
did mighty duck he did all the Mighty

781
00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:25.000
Duck movies. Actually he wrote all
the Mighty Duck movies, and he wrote

782
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:29.679
and directed Adam Sandler and a bunch
of stuff including Little Nikki and Mister Deed's

783
00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:35.840
And not surprisingly, you know,
he's done a lot of podcast and YouTube

784
00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:39.079
interviews and stuff he has never asked
about, nor does he offer any information

785
00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:47.559
about. Ready to Rumble, nozab
Bryce. And you know we're casting The

786
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:52.719
Sport of Kings a movie about the
sport of Kings rather and you know you

787
00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:58.119
got to bring in some talent.
The list is massive. You get announcers

788
00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:05.400
Michael Buffer, Ingene Oakland, Tony
Shavanni, Mike Today. There are nitro

789
01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:12.599
girls, chay Fire, spice Storm, how were they fucking X men here?

790
01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:16.880
I know or or or or the
the the elements that make Captain planet

791
01:00:17.480 --> 01:00:24.360
right and Tigris. You got gorgeous
George and a very brief She's one of

792
01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:29.679
those, isn't she? Is she
Tigris or from Charmel? Her name?

793
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:30.800
I thought her name was Charmel is
a Nitro girl, but you're right,

794
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:36.920
it wasn't. I don't think so. Booker t future wife, of course,

795
01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:38.880
And it's funny he doesn't mention the
fucking movie in his book at all.

796
01:00:39.599 --> 01:00:43.239
It's very interesting who mentioned the movie
and who didn't mention the movie in

797
01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:50.320
their books. Yeah, you know, oh yeah whatever. And then you

798
01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:54.239
got the talent, which include Goldberg, Storm, She's Storm Okay, I

799
01:00:54.239 --> 01:01:01.280
said Storm, so Goldberg, Diamond, Dallas, Page, Sting, Booker,

800
01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:07.719
t Macho Man, Randy Savage,
Bam Bam Bigelow, Sid Vicious,

801
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:16.559
Couventude Guerrera, Kurt Hennig, The
Disco Inferno, Billy Kidman, Conan Perry,

802
01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:28.679
Saturn, Prince Iya, Kea Van
Hammer, Shane Helms, and John

803
01:01:28.760 --> 01:01:36.000
Cena what yeah, are you serious? John Sena makes a very very brief,

804
01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:38.360
uncredited cameo. I had no idea. Yeah, and there's a there's

805
01:01:38.360 --> 01:01:43.199
a scene I'll point him out.
I mean he's in his uh his uh

806
01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:45.280
uh you know, what do you
call prototype face. You know, he's

807
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:49.239
got his blonde hair and stuff.
But there's a scene where they go to

808
01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:52.639
the gym to meet up with Goldberg
and he's right behind him. He's right

809
01:01:52.679 --> 01:02:00.760
behind Goldberg for like a split second. And uh, obviously Kenyon is involved

810
01:02:01.159 --> 01:02:07.039
from a stunt perspective. And Ray
Mysterio, who we will hear from a

811
01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:13.320
little bit later. And you know, while there are a million things that

812
01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:19.199
qualify this movie for under the ciniment, we're here really because we have been

813
01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:24.000
on the journey with one man,
and that is David Arkt. And when

814
01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:29.760
we last left mister Arquette, he
was getting married to Courtney Cox, wrapping

815
01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:36.719
up filming on Scream three. And
here this is the Hollywood Reporter from July

816
01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:40.320
twenty sixth, nineteen ninety nine.
David Arquette and Rose McGowan are tackling an

817
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:46.000
untitled wrestling picture for Warner Brothers,
Outlaw Productions and World Championship Wrestling, now

818
01:02:46.039 --> 01:02:50.880
shooting Miramax's Scream three. Arquette will
star in the film about two guys who

819
01:02:50.920 --> 01:02:53.559
are wrestling fanatics. When their hero, the current pro wrestling champ, is

820
01:02:53.599 --> 01:02:59.280
banished from the league, they embark
on a quest to resurrect him. McGowan

821
01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:05.960
will play a will portray a saucy
cheerleader a quote nitro girl in the comedy

822
01:03:06.239 --> 01:03:12.079
in which several w CW wrestlers will
appear. Outlaws Robert Neumeyer and Jeffrey Silva

823
01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:17.000
will produce. WW President Eric Bischoff
is handling executive producing duties. Oh you

824
01:03:17.039 --> 01:03:22.360
know, he fucking loved that ship. I want to be an executive producer.

825
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:27.760
Oh God, does he ever?
Please? Please? I want to

826
01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:35.079
be an executive producer on the film. He says, please, please,

827
01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:37.719
for God's sake, I need this. He knows it. He knows w

828
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:45.239
CW circling the drain. I need
this please. And here's something that I

829
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:51.480
found interesting too. So oh,
also to the the kind of overseeing executive

830
01:03:51.760 --> 01:04:00.199
of at Warner Brothers is a guy
named Basil Iwonic dazl Iwonic. He the

831
01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:06.039
overseer. Now I found this.
There was so there was a talent roster

832
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:14.159
that was stated WW twent roster dated
August twenty seventh, nineteen ninety nine.

833
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:23.760
Okay, And on it it lists
the wrestlers like who are either available or

834
01:04:23.800 --> 01:04:28.599
can be part of the movie,
their fee, whether or not they've confirmed,

835
01:04:28.880 --> 01:04:31.880
and notes. Do you want me
to go through the list here for

836
01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:44.559
you? Sure? Sure? Buff
Bagwell yeah, his fee FOI he will

837
01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:47.559
not be paid. He's not paid
for being in this movie in the MOVIEEP

838
01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:59.760
confirmed Bam bam, bigelow FOI confirmed, Rick Flair under fee, dash under

839
01:04:59.800 --> 01:05:12.800
con firmed dash notes on extended leave
Goldberg his Fee Premium. Yeah, that's

840
01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:18.840
that. Perry Blue Magic, Scott
Hall question Mark confirmed, blank notes,

841
01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:36.920
Berry Bloom Client, Brett Hart Fee
question Mark confirmed, blank notes one hundred

842
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:42.400
thousand dollars or less as alternative to
Goldberg or part of rescue posse to be

843
01:05:42.519 --> 01:05:53.880
scripted, Wow, Kurt Hennig question
Mark, Hulk Hogan Premium confirmed, blank

844
01:05:54.440 --> 01:06:05.760
notes, no cameo possibility, Horace
Hogan question Mark and blanks, Disco Inferno

845
01:06:08.079 --> 01:06:19.760
FOI confirmed, Chris Canyon FOI confirmed, Kidman question Mark, Conan FOI confirmed,

846
01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:30.039
Lex Luger question Mark, Meng FOI
confirmed. Not currently in script Ray

847
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:44.400
Mysterio Junior confirmed to be scripted.
Kevin Nash Fee blank confirmed, blank notes

848
01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:55.199
no longer required. Wow. You
know what I I I will say I

849
01:06:55.239 --> 01:06:57.480
put in a cameo re question.
He's not getting back to me though.

850
01:06:59.159 --> 01:07:01.079
I Actually I was curious. You
know, there's not much out there,

851
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:04.400
like why was I'm thinking about thinking
to myself. You know, it's just

852
01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:09.320
like if you look at it,
it's just like the Invasion Angle. It's

853
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:13.880
all these other guys, you know, like where's Hogan, Hall and Nash?

854
01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:16.519
Right, why aren't they in the
movie? Like why isn't Hulk Cogan

855
01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:20.000
all over this movie because he knew
it was going to be a fucking disaster.

856
01:07:20.159 --> 01:07:38.360
Probably Sonny Oo for Sunny Beach confirmed, Diamond Dallas Page Premium Yeah confirmed.

857
01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:43.559
One hundred k or less as Nash
as quote unquote Nash. So,

858
01:07:43.639 --> 01:07:47.719
I think this was going to be
Nash's role if Nash did the movie.

859
01:07:47.880 --> 01:07:53.000
But now Ddp's playing the role.
That's fascinating. Yeah, And then the

860
01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:57.039
idea is gold Like, that's why
Brett Hart. Brett Hart was going to

861
01:07:57.119 --> 01:08:08.079
be an alt if Goldberg didn't do
the movie something Psychosis confirmed. Raven blank

862
01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:20.279
blank notes no longer with WCW WOW
Saturn confirmed. Randy Savage question mark no

863
01:08:20.760 --> 01:08:28.920
in notes opening scene only seven eleven
with slim gym Rick Steiner Broler, Rick

864
01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:41.920
Steiner blank blank not available. Scott
Steiner confirmed. Sting Premium confirmed lives pronounce

865
01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:49.640
that again. Sting c h T
I n G Sing Premium confirmed lives in

866
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:57.000
LA tn T movie through ten fifteen. Possible shooting date earlier. Sid Vicious

867
01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:08.199
confirm possible altern alternate to Nash if
DDP plays Goldberg. My god, it's

868
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:12.279
not like they're interchangeable or anything like
DDP or Brett Hart could play the Goldberg

869
01:09:12.319 --> 01:09:19.119
part Vincent question mark blink blank,
Yep. He wasn't with them by then?

870
01:09:19.239 --> 01:09:24.520
Was he doesn't say it wasn't.
Oh yeah, no he was.

871
01:09:24.760 --> 01:09:28.119
Yeah, he wasn't he in the
West Texas Rednecks. Oh yeah, yeah

872
01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:35.720
he was. He was Gene Oakland
question mark blank confirmed notes Berry Bloom client

873
01:09:36.039 --> 01:09:44.039
Diana Myers will Approach Okerland. Contract
with WW expires ten thirty nine days count

874
01:09:44.079 --> 01:09:46.920
against WSW contract days. What was
it, dynam Myers piece say it again,

875
01:09:47.079 --> 01:09:51.520
Diana Myers from WW will Approach Oakland. She was like the lead council.

876
01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:56.920
She was the one that was sending
those those letters to Hogan in two

877
01:09:56.920 --> 01:10:00.600
thousand and one, WW was folding
up. You didn't appear your getting paid

878
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:08.600
at at the Greed show and stuff
and uh so days count against WCW contract

879
01:10:08.680 --> 01:10:15.279
days at twenty two one hundred dollars
per day. Uh. Tony Shavanni for

880
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:26.600
confirmed, Mike Janey for confirmed uh
and then Nitro girls all please inquire Kimberly

881
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:39.359
Page for confirmed coordinating with other girls, and then Charles Robinson for confirmed excellent

882
01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:45.359
so fucking crazy. These are all
exhibits in the Sonny owner racial discrimination.

883
01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:49.760
Oh are they really? They came
very cool. I found them. I

884
01:10:49.760 --> 01:10:53.479
found them online. Somebody didn't know
the person. That's why we have all

885
01:10:53.479 --> 01:10:57.199
that payroll information by WW and that's
why we had Hogan's contract first. Love

886
01:10:57.239 --> 01:11:00.399
it. I love it. Thank
you, thank you, son thank you

887
01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:05.720
Sonyono. Absolutely the best thing you
ever did in the business. So uh

888
01:11:05.239 --> 01:11:13.399
uhh yeah, seriously, it's a
so obviously, so it's a weird,

889
01:11:14.159 --> 01:11:17.239
you know, a situation when it
comes to David Arquette, because obviously we're

890
01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:20.399
going to talk about it, but
we know what happens during the promotion of

891
01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:24.640
the movie, and that's what all
I want to everyone ever talks about only

892
01:11:24.680 --> 01:11:30.960
people like whenever they talk about Ready
to Rumble, they just talk about the

893
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:35.960
the w CW television stuff. It's
not like no one discusses, you know,

894
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:40.399
what happened during the making of the
film. You know what, why

895
01:11:40.399 --> 01:11:44.960
did our ket do the film?
Yeah, so I decided to ask him,

896
01:11:47.560 --> 01:11:55.960
what's your faith? Scary Ravenous?
You're not scared? Are you?

897
01:11:57.039 --> 01:12:00.079
Uh? Hey, how are you? JP? David arcat Here, thank

898
01:12:00.079 --> 01:12:05.800
you so much for being a fan
of the Scream movies and Ravenous but you

899
01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:08.960
have some I'm not a fan of
Rabinists, but I put that in there

900
01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:13.359
as a funny joke to myself.
Ravens. He hate Braveness too. I

901
01:12:13.359 --> 01:12:16.279
hate Ravenus and Ravenists. But anyway, here we go questions about Ready to

902
01:12:16.359 --> 01:12:23.960
Rumble. I love that film.
I loved wrestling as a kid, and

903
01:12:24.119 --> 01:12:26.920
when I read the script, it
was shortly after Scream, and once you

904
01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:30.960
have a successful film in Hollywood,
it's kind of easy to You get offered

905
01:12:30.119 --> 01:12:33.640
things so you don't have to audition, and so this was one of those.

906
01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:36.520
So I started reading and I got
to the part with Macho Man Randy

907
01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:39.920
Savage. I was like, is
Macho Man Randy Savage going to be in

908
01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:42.560
this? And they said yes,
and I was like, I'll do it.

909
01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:45.399
And then I don't think I had
even finished the script, but uh,

910
01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:50.039
I was. I love the script. I've been friends with Scott con

911
01:12:50.159 --> 01:12:56.239
for years, so that was cool. In the scene with Oliver Platt,

912
01:12:57.880 --> 01:13:04.880
Oliver Platt accidentally hit Macho Man punched, not too hard, but he's got

913
01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:08.560
all freaked out about it. It's
in the outtakes. We'll see it at

914
01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:11.359
the end of the movie. Freaked
out. Yeah, yeah, well all

915
01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:15.640
are Platt did because he decks.
He actually decks savage. It's fucking hilarious

916
01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:17.680
when you I mean, I think
they use the actual you know, they

917
01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:20.359
use that that because they always use
when they were an accident happens, they

918
01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:25.000
always use it. But it's funny
to see Oliver Platt react because at the

919
01:13:25.079 --> 01:13:28.720
end credits they show all these bloopers
and stuff and it's really funny. But

920
01:13:28.880 --> 01:13:33.439
you know, here we go.
That's I remember talking about man and he

921
01:13:33.560 --> 01:13:38.039
was like, oh, I was
like, I couldn't believe you really talked

922
01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:40.720
like that. It's like, where
do you live? I live down in

923
01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:45.319
Tampa. Oh my god, because
it's so best. But it was amazing,

924
01:13:45.399 --> 01:13:51.359
regular Saint Holmes him living down in
Tampa. They're kind of doing things,

925
01:13:51.439 --> 01:13:56.119
getting it done down in Tampa,
running the gym, you know,

926
01:13:56.239 --> 01:13:59.079
and here we are shooting a movie. W W. I like it.

927
01:13:59.159 --> 01:14:00.479
I like it, I dig it. I like where we're going with it.

928
01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:05.960
David, that's just that on his
face is funny because it is.

929
01:14:06.239 --> 01:14:11.920
It is the fact that he said
damp. He's laughing it. Sorry,

930
01:14:12.079 --> 01:14:15.520
mister savagery of oh, you know, I'm living down in Tampa. Tampa

931
01:14:15.640 --> 01:14:19.680
Florida. Love it Love. Imagine
how long it took to talk Savage off

932
01:14:19.720 --> 01:14:24.239
the ledge in his paranoia that someone
put all of her plat up to it.

933
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:32.479
Mm hmmm. I'm gonna stay calm. I'm gonna stay calm right now.

934
01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:35.560
I just want to get something off
my right. You know what.

935
01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:39.840
Nobody leave the room, Nobody get
off set. Right now. We're locking

936
01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:43.800
it down, locking it down,
one, two, three, Oliver Platt,

937
01:14:43.840 --> 01:14:45.079
I'm looking at you right in the
eye. I hear you, I

938
01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:48.319
see you. I don't know what
happened. I don't want to know what

939
01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:53.199
happened. I don't All I know
is that I get something coming across my

940
01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:56.239
face and it came from your body. But we're gonna leave it at that,

941
01:14:56.399 --> 01:14:59.000
all right. You know what,
I got no disrespect for you.

942
01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:05.319
What. I want to know what
I'm asking who put him up to it?

943
01:15:05.720 --> 01:15:11.960
Hmm. I want to know who
it was here that put him up

944
01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:16.119
to it, because I don't think
that mister, uh, mister Oliver Plant

945
01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:19.640
would have uh, would be able
to do that kind of thing on his

946
01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:23.800
own. I think he's a professional, and I'm a professional. We're all

947
01:15:23.840 --> 01:15:28.000
professionals here. We all know exactly
what we're doing, what's going on.

948
01:15:28.399 --> 01:15:32.520
But I don't know what's going on
behind the scenes. I don't know who

949
01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:36.720
it is. Uh. I told
mister Oliver Plant that he could punch me

950
01:15:36.840 --> 01:15:43.479
right in the face and get a
WII with it. Come up, now,

951
01:15:43.640 --> 01:15:49.079
legenda? Does this serve? I
want to know exactly who's agenda of

952
01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:54.720
this service? I am the matio
main, Randy Savage. I come from

953
01:15:54.840 --> 01:16:01.319
Tampa. In case you were wondering, I live out in Florida. I

954
01:16:01.520 --> 01:16:06.920
understand how things go, how things
kind of progress. Now I'm in the

955
01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:13.560
shark tank right now when there's little
agendas here creeping invisibly over. This one

956
01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:15.920
came to a head, and we're
gonna find out who's behind it. I

957
01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:20.920
look around and I look, and
I see agenda's agenda's agendas. I see

958
01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:26.399
the guy holding the microphone. I
asked myself, what's his agenda? I

959
01:16:26.479 --> 01:16:30.239
see the camera guy. I say, what the fuck is his agenda?

960
01:16:30.399 --> 01:16:34.119
Who's trying to get a slim gym
from the macho man. I look at

961
01:16:34.159 --> 01:16:39.319
gorgeous George, I say, what
the fuck is her agenda? David Arquette,

962
01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:43.479
I don't know you from my mom. Who the fuck are you.

963
01:16:44.079 --> 01:16:47.840
What are you doing? Where are
we? What is your agenda? I

964
01:16:47.880 --> 01:16:51.680
don't know, I don't care.
All I know is that I got an

965
01:16:51.680 --> 01:16:59.199
agenda in the face. Then I
want to know why it happened. And

966
01:16:59.239 --> 01:17:06.359
I will not take accident as an
excuse. Who did it? Who fucking

967
01:17:06.439 --> 01:17:14.520
did it? How break you?
And I will wrap your arms out of

968
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:23.560
their sockets to get an answer,
Randy, Lady, huh, I got

969
01:17:23.600 --> 01:17:28.960
a call Randy to come to set, said there was a problem. What

970
01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:36.000
are you doing here now, you
suspect lady. I'm gonna listen. I

971
01:17:36.039 --> 01:17:40.479
don't mean any disrespect, all right. I want to know exactly who called

972
01:17:40.520 --> 01:17:44.760
you. I want to know one
other thing, all right? What's your

973
01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:51.079
agenda here? Randy? I have
no agenda except to help you. You're

974
01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:59.840
my brother. We we played together
as children, we played together as a

975
01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:03.199
else. You've come down to Ecuador
and you've sat on my bed and we've

976
01:18:03.239 --> 01:18:14.760
watched TV from the ceiling. We
enjoy our time together. Like that's something

977
01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:17.479
you have to remind him of,
Like he's in Alzheimer's patient, Like he

978
01:18:17.520 --> 01:18:26.560
doesn't remember. You've come down to
Ecuador and we've laid in bed together watching

979
01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:39.239
television from the ceiling, and in
conclusion, we've enjoyed our time together.

980
01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:56.600
I don't remember any of that anyway. Thank you for that. Thank You're

981
01:18:56.680 --> 01:18:59.039
back to our kids, Gammia,
we're still in the middle of that ship.

982
01:18:59.479 --> 01:19:05.319
That's and Chris Kanyon. They both
have such incredible senses of humor.

983
01:19:08.199 --> 01:19:12.520
Shane Elms is just hilarious. The
guy is just so funny. And one

984
01:19:12.520 --> 01:19:16.520
of my big regrets is I didn't
do that move with Macho Man. I

985
01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:19.840
Uh, Shane did that one.
I did a lot of my own stunts

986
01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:24.479
in the but Shane did that because
it was a proper wrestling move. I

987
01:19:24.560 --> 01:19:27.600
was with him and I was like, uh, I had tried it before.

988
01:19:27.640 --> 01:19:30.520
But I was like, no,
but I do regret it because I

989
01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:33.920
would have essentially wrestled with Macho Man. I don't know what I was thinking.

990
01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:41.079
But miss Chris Kanyon. He was
just such a great guy. He

991
01:19:41.159 --> 01:19:45.840
was so knowledgeable, so ready to
help any like wrestlers in general, just

992
01:19:45.199 --> 01:19:50.960
with moves and with ideas and with
He loved constructing the stories. You know,

993
01:19:51.119 --> 01:19:59.319
he would explain, you know,
just the I don't know the truth

994
01:19:59.399 --> 01:20:03.159
behind the wrestling. There you go
when people say wrestling's sake, But there's

995
01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:09.199
like so much truth you need to
know to wrestle properly and to pull the

996
01:20:09.239 --> 01:20:14.760
moves off. And he was just
so generous. You missed the guy,

997
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:21.880
and it's just really an incredible experience
doing that move. We ate like Korean

998
01:20:21.960 --> 01:20:28.199
barbecue almost every day because Los Angeles
has a big Korean population and a really

999
01:20:28.239 --> 01:20:32.479
amazing area Koreatown, where they have
incredible food, and Korean barbecue is just

1000
01:20:32.520 --> 01:20:38.960
amazing. But Oliver Platt and all
of us got just super into it.

1001
01:20:39.079 --> 01:20:44.720
Oliver would order it for all We
all pitch it, but he was he

1002
01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:49.479
was always going to order from the
place because he knew all big bests.

1003
01:20:49.840 --> 01:20:54.840
All right, I hope you are
doing great, JP. Thank you for

1004
01:20:54.880 --> 01:21:02.079
your time. Sorry, I'm grateful
for everything. He said. I have

1005
01:21:02.079 --> 01:21:05.880
a hard time believing that Oliver Platt
like Korean barbecue. Oh I think.

1006
01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:13.960
I mean, listen, it's food. I think all of her plot likes.

1007
01:21:13.720 --> 01:21:16.239
It's it's strange credulity that this guy
would run point on the lunch order.

1008
01:21:16.359 --> 01:21:18.720
All right, what are we getting
for lunch? Guys? It's like,

1009
01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:24.000
yeah, can we listen, can
we order lunch before we start for

1010
01:21:24.039 --> 01:21:28.880
the day. He needs it.
He's one of those. He watches the

1011
01:21:28.920 --> 01:21:35.039
door dash through the he he knows
listen, he watches through the blinds Oliver

1012
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:38.920
plot, like he's peeking through like
he's a fucking spy, you know,

1013
01:21:39.760 --> 01:21:42.720
like using his middle finger and his
index finger to open up the blinds,

1014
01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:47.640
all right, And he's watching and
he knows the exact step that the delivery

1015
01:21:47.680 --> 01:21:54.039
person gets to in order for him
to time it perfectly so that he can

1016
01:21:54.079 --> 01:21:57.159
get to the door without it being
wrung. Yes, rarely is he is.

1017
01:21:57.159 --> 01:22:02.520
He caught never never misses, never
misses. And we're talking full feast.

1018
01:22:02.800 --> 01:22:09.279
Oh yeah, three hundred dollars.
Absolutely absolutely. I had Korean barbecue

1019
01:22:09.319 --> 01:22:13.800
once in Koreatown and it was magnificent, was it? Yes? Oh god,

1020
01:22:13.800 --> 01:22:15.800
it was so good. I mean
it's like, you know, what

1021
01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:19.680
they do is too at least this
restaurant is. It's kind of like half

1022
01:22:19.720 --> 01:22:21.960
the fun though, So I'm like
he's talking about Korean barbecue, I'm like,

1023
01:22:23.880 --> 01:22:27.159
that's great, it does good,
but like takeout, like because part

1024
01:22:27.199 --> 01:22:32.439
of the fun is that you have
this you have basically a round. It's

1025
01:22:32.479 --> 01:22:35.800
it's it's like a it's like a
grill, it's like a it's a heat.

1026
01:22:36.119 --> 01:22:41.119
Have you done before. Yes,
I've been to a restaurant that was

1027
01:22:41.159 --> 01:22:45.119
like Asian everything including that, not
really, but I know exactly. And

1028
01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:47.000
they get like this kind of like
almost you know, like a hot pot,

1029
01:22:47.039 --> 01:22:50.439
like a haibachi. It's like everything
cookie show. Yeah, well yeah,

1030
01:22:50.600 --> 01:22:53.880
right right right, but it's like
it's just a unique thing because it's

1031
01:22:53.880 --> 01:22:58.640
this round mountain in the center of
your table and you just throw this very

1032
01:22:58.800 --> 01:23:03.640
very thin slide. Actually had the
meat in Japan, now that I think

1033
01:23:03.640 --> 01:23:06.119
about it, Okay, yeah,
I was like, you could have been

1034
01:23:06.159 --> 01:23:09.840
Korean barbecue in Japan, but that's
exactly what it was, because you put

1035
01:23:09.840 --> 01:23:14.399
the little thin strips over this latticed
kind of grill. Well, we didn't

1036
01:23:14.399 --> 01:23:16.000
have that. We had this again. We had this kind of this metal

1037
01:23:16.039 --> 01:23:18.760
ball wow, you know, and
so it was like it was more like

1038
01:23:18.760 --> 01:23:24.399
a griddle than an actual like like
a grill type thing, and it just

1039
01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:27.199
like you just kind of layered your
meat on there and kind of like switching

1040
01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:31.600
around. It was so fucking good. It was so good. White rice

1041
01:23:31.760 --> 01:23:35.680
bang bang, little scallion yep,
oh forget it, saucage yep, yep,

1042
01:23:35.960 --> 01:23:44.439
yep, motherfucker. So yeah,
so he did do. He didn't

1043
01:23:44.439 --> 01:23:46.840
do the suplex and the savage fight, as we'll see, but he did

1044
01:23:46.880 --> 01:23:53.319
do some of his stunts, and
uh Canyon trained him. And we're gonna

1045
01:23:53.319 --> 01:23:57.319
turn back to Canyon's book here to
talk about that and get some insight on

1046
01:23:57.359 --> 01:23:59.840
that. And then the Canyon also
got some fun out of how fully you

1047
01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:02.279
are Are you with Kenyon's book?
Fairly? Yeah? Really? Okay?

1048
01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:05.079
All right? No, no,
no, no, no, no.

1049
01:24:05.119 --> 01:24:08.319
I know, I know there are
other people who aren't, but I wasn't

1050
01:24:08.479 --> 01:24:11.640
curious. I was I wasn't sure
how familiar are with his It's such a

1051
01:24:11.640 --> 01:24:13.600
great book. I mean, I
haven't read the whole thing, but all

1052
01:24:13.600 --> 01:24:16.600
the things that I've gathered from it, it's just it's so it's excellent.

1053
01:24:16.760 --> 01:24:23.399
It's such a great agreed it's it's
I enjoy his personality in it because I

1054
01:24:23.399 --> 01:24:29.520
thought he was such a idiot as
a wrestler. But he's got some very

1055
01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:34.079
good I don't know, he's got
some good insight. Uh So wrestling Reality,

1056
01:24:34.359 --> 01:24:38.079
David Arquette wanted to do some of
the wrestling himself, so we trained

1057
01:24:38.119 --> 01:24:41.720
him too. We used tons of
wrestlers, so I acted as a liaison

1058
01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:45.119
between the film and w CW.
On the second day I was there,

1059
01:24:45.119 --> 01:24:47.560
I got a call from the star. I heard that you got they got

1060
01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:50.039
a ring, and you mind if
we go down and there and I try

1061
01:24:50.039 --> 01:24:53.960
it out. It was like he
was a movie star version of me.

1062
01:24:54.239 --> 01:24:57.800
We went down to our ring.
Arquette was happy just to be on the

1063
01:24:57.880 --> 01:25:00.479
ropes. He was smiling and you
could tell that he loved it. He

1064
01:25:00.479 --> 01:25:02.720
was an absolute fan. After a
few hours of showing him the basics,

1065
01:25:02.720 --> 01:25:05.880
we walked out of the gym together. Him meant, do you have any

1066
01:25:06.239 --> 01:25:10.039
Do you have any plans me?
I said, dude, I'm in Hollywood

1067
01:25:10.039 --> 01:25:13.079
and I don't know anybody. I
have no plans. Why don't you come

1068
01:25:13.119 --> 01:25:15.920
with me to a party with me
and my wife tonight? He asked.

1069
01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:18.600
We just wrapped this movie. I've
been working on a Scream three. You

1070
01:25:18.640 --> 01:25:23.640
want me to come to the Scream
three rap party? He nodded, okay,

1071
01:25:24.479 --> 01:25:27.199
Look, come over to mine in
Courtney's place and you can follow us.

1072
01:25:27.239 --> 01:25:30.119
Okay. After one day of working
Hollywood, I was already getting invited

1073
01:25:30.159 --> 01:25:33.119
to my first big party. On
my way over to the Arquet's house,

1074
01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:36.680
I thought about David. He was
funny but also Nutty at the same time.

1075
01:25:38.079 --> 01:25:40.560
Other than wrestling, I wasn't sure
what we had in common or what

1076
01:25:40.560 --> 01:25:43.640
we could talk about. Then I
met his wife, Courtney Cox Arquette,

1077
01:25:43.720 --> 01:25:46.479
and she was so wonderful. Courtney
got her break when she was featured in

1078
01:25:46.520 --> 01:25:50.279
the music video for Bruce Springsteen's Dancing
in the Dark, then landed a recurring

1079
01:25:50.359 --> 01:25:55.840
role on the show Family Ties.
He doesn't mention Masters of the fucking Universe.

1080
01:25:55.920 --> 01:26:00.199
Hello, Jesus Christ. That's it. That's why I know, and

1081
01:26:00.239 --> 01:26:04.640
cogs from from like to me.
She did nothing in between Masters of the

1082
01:26:04.720 --> 01:26:15.279
Universe with Dolph Lundgren and Friends.
I guess he's Ventura as well. Did

1083
01:26:15.279 --> 01:26:17.359
I lose you? No, he's
a Ventura. He's an ast Ventura.

1084
01:26:17.840 --> 01:26:23.920
She is, Yeah, not David
Friends too, wasn't he. Yeah?

1085
01:26:23.960 --> 01:26:28.439
He did some guest spots on Friends, of course. Courtney was. Yeah,

1086
01:26:28.479 --> 01:26:30.039
she was. She played with the
love interest there, the love interest.

1087
01:26:30.119 --> 01:26:34.399
Yeah, I'm thinking of I think
I think of a part two?

1088
01:26:34.439 --> 01:26:39.079
Is she in part two? I
don't think so, I get the that's

1089
01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:43.840
the problem now. She was the
she worked with the dolphins there, that's

1090
01:26:43.920 --> 01:26:47.600
right. Of course. She later
went on to Superstar. I'm on Friends

1091
01:26:47.640 --> 01:26:51.319
but she is the most normal,
friendly person. Some people, especially famous

1092
01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:55.640
people, are intimidating. Not her. Courtney draws you in and makes you

1093
01:26:55.680 --> 01:26:59.640
feel comfortable. She and David make
a very genuine couple. Even years later,

1094
01:26:59.640 --> 01:27:02.079
I would still receive Christmas cards from
them. So what did I think

1095
01:27:02.119 --> 01:27:05.600
of my first real, big Hollywood
party? It was lame as fuck.

1096
01:27:06.399 --> 01:27:10.479
It was just held to some producer's
house, which was not even very big,

1097
01:27:10.840 --> 01:27:14.239
and I didn't even recognize many,
very many folks. Not too long

1098
01:27:14.279 --> 01:27:17.159
after we got there, I felt
awkward. I'm just gonna walk around and

1099
01:27:17.279 --> 01:27:20.760
see what's going on, I told
Courtney. I came across a lineup which

1100
01:27:20.800 --> 01:27:25.199
I thought was a line to go
to the bathroom. Wrong, people were

1101
01:27:25.239 --> 01:27:30.640
waiting to doh yep. I watched
a couple of people stagger out. I

1102
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:34.680
knew it wasn't my scene. Eventually, I told the Arquettes I was tired,

1103
01:27:35.079 --> 01:27:42.479
I needed to go, And that's
it. That's his story. I

1104
01:27:42.520 --> 01:27:45.840
love that, And we got more
later on when during the actual production of

1105
01:27:45.880 --> 01:27:51.479
the movie, So here we have
an actor going into the world of wrestling.

1106
01:27:53.479 --> 01:28:00.880
In an LA Times interview, Arquette
shared which wrestlers he should have been

1107
01:28:00.920 --> 01:28:09.199
in Hollywood quote. Oh man,
everyone, oh Man, The Nasty Boys.

1108
01:28:10.039 --> 01:28:15.319
Those two guys's characters in films would
be incredible. Booker t DDP should

1109
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:18.439
do more acting. Stone Cole,
Steve Austin, and Rick Flair are just

1110
01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:21.600
like duh. Kurt Angle should have
a whole acting career. No, no,

1111
01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:26.279
no, no, thank you.
We've seen him, We've seen him

1112
01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:31.399
in enough. He should be the
next Leslie Nielsen. I can see that.

1113
01:28:31.760 --> 01:28:35.960
I'd love to see Brett Hart play
a Ray Donovan type character. All

1114
01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:40.560
these guys would be incredible actors.
They understand the subtleties of what a close

1115
01:28:40.640 --> 01:28:45.640
up can bring. I don't think
wrestlers understand subtleties at all. What what

1116
01:28:45.720 --> 01:28:50.199
does that mean? I know I
don't understand. I didn't need to do

1117
01:28:50.239 --> 01:28:57.560
I I don't know what the fuck
he's talking about. So I had to

1118
01:28:57.560 --> 01:29:02.680
make a tough choice here, sure, because you know, it's obviously an

1119
01:29:02.680 --> 01:29:06.720
important episode, and to keep it
focused, I decided to not talk about

1120
01:29:06.720 --> 01:29:12.039
any other actors or the director.
It was hard. I was ready to

1121
01:29:12.039 --> 01:29:15.039
do a whole fucking thing on Joe
Pantleiano, all right, because I love

1122
01:29:15.119 --> 01:29:20.159
him and I'm sure we'll find him
down the line. And then Joe penaltyano

1123
01:29:20.279 --> 01:29:25.079
is is they an actor Joey pants? Oh, I'm sorry. The director

1124
01:29:25.239 --> 01:29:29.840
is nobody. Really he's that's what
I thought he's he's I forget what he

1125
01:29:29.880 --> 01:29:32.920
did. He did a couple of
things, but just you know, there's

1126
01:29:32.920 --> 01:29:38.960
not much to him. He's not
like an interesting person. And it just

1127
01:29:39.039 --> 01:29:43.640
wasn't worth It wasn't really worth it
to go on. What's his name here?

1128
01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:48.640
Oh, Brian Robbins, Brian Robbins. He did, Yeah, I

1129
01:29:48.680 --> 01:29:59.199
mean like a bunch of bigger,
fatter liar like he did. Is that

1130
01:29:59.279 --> 01:30:06.239
about duel the Joe. He was
a producer and Bigger Federalize, The Perfect

1131
01:30:06.319 --> 01:30:12.720
Score, The Nightmare Room, Hardball. Now, he did Varsity Blues.

1132
01:30:12.720 --> 01:30:15.119
I guess people like that movie.
I've never seen it. I didn't really

1133
01:30:15.119 --> 01:30:18.680
care. I think Varsity Blues is
probably the only movie, only big movie.

1134
01:30:18.680 --> 01:30:20.479
I guess. He did The Shaggy
Dog. I think this one with

1135
01:30:20.479 --> 01:30:27.359
Tim Allen. But he did a
Meet Dave with with but yeah, like

1136
01:30:27.439 --> 01:30:30.039
I don't know, there was just
nothing. Really, he didn't. I

1137
01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:32.600
didn't want to go into him.
So I apologize, but not at all.

1138
01:30:32.880 --> 01:30:38.319
I do want to say one thing
about Joey Pants because Joey Pants is

1139
01:30:38.359 --> 01:30:40.760
brought in. I was like,
I was reading, I was skimming through

1140
01:30:40.760 --> 01:30:43.640
his biography, and I was like, Oh, if I do this guy,

1141
01:30:44.279 --> 01:30:46.840
We're going to be here till Tuesday, all right. Like it's it's

1142
01:30:46.880 --> 01:30:51.680
crazy what his story is like.
But he's the guy they bring into play

1143
01:30:51.880 --> 01:30:56.960
the promoter. But he wasn't supposed
to be the promoter in the movie.

1144
01:30:57.359 --> 01:31:00.680
Do you know who was supposed to
be the promoter? I don't Eric Bischoff.

1145
01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:08.159
Eric Bischoff was supposed to play himself
as the evil promoter, as he

1146
01:31:08.199 --> 01:31:14.520
shares here with Conrad. We've heard
that the character that quote unquote Joey Pants

1147
01:31:14.560 --> 01:31:19.279
played was loosely based on you,
and they even have him wear some some

1148
01:31:19.359 --> 01:31:24.399
garb like you might see people sporting
in Wyoming. Talk to me a little

1149
01:31:24.399 --> 01:31:29.680
bit about the movie and how that
all came to be. Yeah, before

1150
01:31:29.720 --> 01:31:41.920
I get into that Joe pantalone,
I think that was the Joe Pentliano association

1151
01:31:42.039 --> 01:31:45.359
of his name. I was originally
supposed to play myself in that movie,

1152
01:31:46.520 --> 01:31:51.520
and and and then of course I
was let go in in September. By

1153
01:31:51.560 --> 01:31:59.800
that point, Warner Films had committed
to the project and it continued its development

1154
01:32:00.079 --> 01:32:03.720
without me, and obviously I was
no longer going to play the role that

1155
01:32:03.920 --> 01:32:10.079
Joey Pants played and play myself in
the movie. And ultimately, you know,

1156
01:32:10.359 --> 01:32:13.520
Joey came in, and you know, there were some high profile actors

1157
01:32:13.560 --> 01:32:17.600
at the time, Oliver Platt,
who was probably at the apex of his

1158
01:32:17.720 --> 01:32:23.880
career at that point. It was
a pretty hot commodity. He had signed

1159
01:32:23.920 --> 01:32:27.000
on to do the movie, as
well as a few others. But I

1160
01:32:27.039 --> 01:32:31.319
was reading about it on the sidelines
in September. That's that's how it kind

1161
01:32:31.319 --> 01:32:36.079
of all came about. So imagine
I wish he had been in it.

1162
01:32:36.399 --> 01:32:40.479
Honestly, it would have been so
that would have been interesting to see him

1163
01:32:40.760 --> 01:32:44.000
do this. Oh, I would
have loved that. Yeah, it would

1164
01:32:44.039 --> 01:32:46.680
added a whole bit of credibility.
People wild talk about it forever he was

1165
01:32:46.880 --> 01:32:49.880
it. Yeah, because as much
as I love Joey Pants, and I

1166
01:32:49.920 --> 01:32:55.800
do he's such a great actor,
he just does not you know, he's

1167
01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:59.319
not a wrestling fan, and you
can tell, and you can tell he's

1168
01:32:59.359 --> 01:33:01.039
not also a guy who doesn't work
in the business, so you can tell

1169
01:33:01.079 --> 01:33:08.840
he doesn't really you know, it's
not really his thing. There yep.

1170
01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:16.600
Yeah, so we're going to go
to it here. Principal photography began September

1171
01:33:16.640 --> 01:33:20.359
twenty eighth, nineteen ninety nine,
and continued through December ninth, nineteen ninety

1172
01:33:20.439 --> 01:33:28.520
nine. The film was primarily shot
in LA with some stuff filmed in Manhattan.

1173
01:33:28.560 --> 01:33:31.079
And if you listen to the directors
or not the director's commentary, the

1174
01:33:31.439 --> 01:33:38.880
actor's commentary between David Arquette and Scott
Kahn and a guy who plays the fucking

1175
01:33:39.319 --> 01:33:43.159
seven to eleven owner at the beginning
of the movie, you would realize that

1176
01:33:43.279 --> 01:33:46.399
none of them knew what part was
real New York and what part was LA

1177
01:33:46.520 --> 01:33:53.000
as New York. It's maybe the
worst commentary track I've ever heard. Wow.

1178
01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:55.720
There's a couple things that I found
from it that I thought were interesting,

1179
01:33:56.159 --> 01:33:59.279
but for the most part, it
is just I mean, it's just

1180
01:33:59.359 --> 01:34:02.640
David Rqutt and Scott con just busting
balls the whole time. Not that I

1181
01:34:02.640 --> 01:34:05.439
think that that's bad. I think
sometimes those gonna be great listens. I

1182
01:34:05.880 --> 01:34:12.920
enjoy. I used to enjoy listening
to the The The Ocean eleven's commentary track

1183
01:34:13.000 --> 01:34:15.600
with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and
Andy Garcia. That was That's a lot

1184
01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:19.920
of fun. That's a really good
commentary track. But this, no,

1185
01:34:20.199 --> 01:34:27.000
this was bad. This was very
very bad. So to get you know,

1186
01:34:27.079 --> 01:34:30.640
the talent obviously needed to be available
for the movie, so there was

1187
01:34:30.680 --> 01:34:33.279
a There was supposed to be a
tour, a WCW tour in Germany that

1188
01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:40.399
was scheduled, but they canceled because
so many wrestlers would be filming in mid

1189
01:34:40.439 --> 01:34:50.000
October and including including scenes at the
Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. They filmed

1190
01:34:50.119 --> 01:34:56.399
all the wrestling scenes at the Olympic
Auditorium in La Yep, ye know that,

1191
01:34:56.760 --> 01:35:00.359
and it made the La Times.
This is dated October thirty first,

1192
01:35:00.399 --> 01:35:04.640
nineteen ninety nine, in a city
where most movie shoots are elite, off

1193
01:35:04.680 --> 01:35:10.840
limits affairs overseen by uniformed cop uniformed
cops, this one was a regular free

1194
01:35:10.840 --> 01:35:15.359
for all, featuring those big muscled
kings of publicity, the harry chested he

1195
01:35:15.520 --> 01:35:21.119
man in black leotards from the World
Championship Wrestling Organization. I don't know,

1196
01:35:23.159 --> 01:35:27.840
they're such a small I can count
on one hand how many wrestlers have a

1197
01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:31.039
hairy chest, right, I know, it's like actually not a common feature

1198
01:35:31.079 --> 01:35:34.479
at all, but yet by the
nineties. Yeah, and like four thousand

1199
01:35:34.560 --> 01:35:39.920
other wild eyed wrestling fans. Oh
no, and like four thousand other wild

1200
01:35:39.960 --> 01:35:45.000
eyed wrestling fans turned unpaid extras,
unpaid who filled the Grand Olympic Auditorium in

1201
01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:54.399
downtown Los Angeles Saturday. Steve Shapiro
was in Headlock Heaven Headlock Heaven, wearing

1202
01:35:54.399 --> 01:36:00.600
a shiny a king's crown with phony
plastic jewels. You right now, you

1203
01:36:00.600 --> 01:36:04.199
make sure you put the word fucking
phony. You put phony in every other

1204
01:36:04.319 --> 01:36:10.720
fucking word. These fucking idiots are
gonna come into my town and they're gonna

1205
01:36:10.720 --> 01:36:14.640
film a fucking movie. They're making
fun of the great business of Los Angeles.

1206
01:36:16.760 --> 01:36:20.800
You fucking nail these pricks. Yeah. I don't want nail these motherfuckers.

1207
01:36:20.840 --> 01:36:24.279
I don't want me able to come
back to LA. I will fuck

1208
01:36:24.359 --> 01:36:29.159
them so hard. I will destroy
those motherfuckers, and I'll destroy you if

1209
01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:33.079
you don't do what I fucking say
say. This movie is bullshit. This

1210
01:36:33.159 --> 01:36:39.640
movie shouldn't exist. This movie is
against the law. You write that shit,

1211
01:36:40.199 --> 01:36:43.079
or I'll fucking kill you. That
ain't again, that ain't against the

1212
01:36:43.159 --> 01:36:50.239
law. Fucking prick. The phony
pass provided by event promoters. Shapiro joined

1213
01:36:50.239 --> 01:36:57.600
fellow wrestling fanatics in a staged screech, hoot and hollering session. I'll say

1214
01:36:57.640 --> 01:37:02.920
that one again, a staged screech, coot and hollering session again during the

1215
01:37:02.960 --> 01:37:09.199
shooting. During the shooting of a
movie based on their favorite sport, producers

1216
01:37:09.239 --> 01:37:12.560
for the film Ready to Rumble couldn't
have been happier. Although they could have

1217
01:37:12.560 --> 01:37:15.279
shot scenes for the movie in Toronto
or Las Vegas, where the fight sequence

1218
01:37:15.319 --> 01:37:20.119
film Saturday supposedly takes place. They
said, La fans captured the multi ethnic

1219
01:37:20.279 --> 01:37:29.399
roots of the sports fandom. Quote
on most shoots the actress we attracted just

1220
01:37:29.479 --> 01:37:32.199
average folks, not ready made fans, said Jeffrey Silver, a producer for

1221
01:37:32.239 --> 01:37:35.880
Outlaw Productions. But these people are
just crazy. You know, when the

1222
01:37:35.880 --> 01:37:39.960
wrestlers take a bump, they knew
exactly when to cheer. They don't need

1223
01:37:40.000 --> 01:37:45.920
any coaching. Fans like Shapiro didn't
need much enticing either. The twenty six

1224
01:37:45.039 --> 01:37:53.319
year old works the graveyard shift at
a unokel must be a unicow gas station

1225
01:37:53.399 --> 01:37:58.039
in the San Fernando Valley, but
is real reason for living body slams,

1226
01:37:58.239 --> 01:38:03.520
spine numbing throwdowns and those high flying
pile driver maneuvers that can turn a mat

1227
01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:13.960
opponent's mind to mushaby. Please give
me a high flying pile driver maneuver.

1228
01:38:14.039 --> 01:38:18.199
Please, Shapiro doesn't even work.
They didn't even know. Shapiro calls himself

1229
01:38:18.199 --> 01:38:24.640
professional wrestling's most rabid fan. He
travels the country looking for more outrageous wrestling

1230
01:38:24.760 --> 01:38:28.920
rumbles at home with his satellite dish
and pay per view TV menu. There

1231
01:38:28.960 --> 01:38:33.800
isn't one finger stabbing wrestling event he
misses. I just love professional wrestling,

1232
01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:40.159
he said. I know people must
think there's something wrong with me. Oh

1233
01:38:40.239 --> 01:38:45.439
my god. Honestly, I can't
get enough of this stuff. On Saturday,

1234
01:38:45.479 --> 01:38:51.039
the fans came offering offering homage to
their heroes. Despite free parking and

1235
01:38:51.079 --> 01:38:57.079
pizza and giveaways that included a new
pickup, wrestling gift packs and computers loaded

1236
01:38:57.079 --> 01:39:01.439
with wrestling games software. The faithful
who outside the arena early Saturday didn't come

1237
01:39:01.479 --> 01:39:05.479
for any door prizes. They came
to scream their brains out for mostly large

1238
01:39:05.520 --> 01:39:13.960
men with long hair and stage names
such as Inferno, no Disco, Inferno,

1239
01:39:14.039 --> 01:39:18.399
just Inferno, Sid that sounds like
one of the characters on a exposed

1240
01:39:19.760 --> 01:39:25.840
exactly, Sid Vicious, and Bam
Bam Bigelow. To attract fans, organizers

1241
01:39:25.880 --> 01:39:30.199
spread the word on various wrestling related
sites on the Internet. They placed ads

1242
01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:34.840
in wrestling magazines and made announcements at
other professional professional wrestling events. But you

1243
01:39:34.920 --> 01:39:40.319
know what, we probably didn't have
to give away one prize to attract these

1244
01:39:40.359 --> 01:39:45.560
people, said promotions direct to Tina
director Tina Kerr. And we could have

1245
01:39:45.680 --> 01:39:47.479
charged these people to get in here, and we still would have had a

1246
01:39:47.520 --> 01:39:53.520
line that stretched twice around the block. We could have charged them. We're

1247
01:39:53.520 --> 01:39:58.319
sure they're not going to pay them
famous last words, we could have charge

1248
01:39:58.359 --> 01:40:02.920
them with murder. Yeah, charge
them with what? Yeah, exactly,

1249
01:40:03.039 --> 01:40:08.319
charging with what? Tina. The
fan turnout Saturday was described by organizers as

1250
01:40:08.520 --> 01:40:14.640
quote a lot of little boys and
men who are still little boys. Sounds

1251
01:40:14.640 --> 01:40:19.199
like to me. Wrestling fans can
be described as a lot of little boys

1252
01:40:19.560 --> 01:40:26.079
and men who are still little boys, with prizes offered for raunchist costume,

1253
01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:30.800
raunchiest costume. The crowd. That's
right, raunchiest costume. This is two

1254
01:40:30.840 --> 01:40:35.039
thousand, after all. The crowd
resembled a Halloween nightmare come one day early,

1255
01:40:35.159 --> 01:40:40.319
or perhaps a segment of quote let's
make a deal film that the world's

1256
01:40:40.319 --> 01:40:44.520
biggest monster truck show. There were
men with shaved heads, women with exposed

1257
01:40:44.560 --> 01:40:50.079
bellies, and the occasional legitimate mask. What's an illegitimate mask? I don't

1258
01:40:50.079 --> 01:40:53.159
get what that means. I don't
know if that means at all. One

1259
01:40:53.239 --> 01:40:57.479
fan, Anthony Dalton of Ontario,
I imagine Ontario, California, not Canada,

1260
01:40:57.760 --> 01:41:03.680
tried to explain the attraction of a
sport in which most moves are choreographed.

1261
01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:06.359
Why do you have to explain the
traction in the in this piece,

1262
01:41:06.439 --> 01:41:12.680
this piece with that absolutely is it
absolutely is? This is why are people

1263
01:41:12.680 --> 01:41:15.560
here? Why are people, you
know, donating their free time to go

1264
01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:20.119
to this fucking bullshit? This is
store bullshit. It's choreographed, it's it's

1265
01:41:20.159 --> 01:41:25.359
function. It's a dance, all
right, It's modern dance, is what

1266
01:41:25.399 --> 01:41:32.680
this ship is. It's choreographed bullshit. These people are assholes and they're frauds,

1267
01:41:33.960 --> 01:41:40.319
and there they don't deserve to be
alive. Right. He started talking

1268
01:41:40.359 --> 01:41:44.239
about pro wrestlers as role models,
but each time he began a sentence,

1269
01:41:44.279 --> 01:41:46.680
he'd see one of his Matt Idols, Diamond Dallas Page and the screamed,

1270
01:41:46.760 --> 01:41:53.960
Dallas Dallas, woooo her eyes glued
to the ring. Laura Segura had another

1271
01:41:54.000 --> 01:42:04.560
reason for coming those bodies. She
said that I already came twice fuck holding

1272
01:42:04.600 --> 01:42:09.840
up a banner celebrating her two favorite
wrestlers, Sting and a man and a

1273
01:42:09.960 --> 01:42:16.720
character who bills himself as big sexy. Right, they don't say Kevin Nash,

1274
01:42:16.920 --> 01:42:21.119
just big sexy. Now, this
is entertainment. Just to come out

1275
01:42:21.119 --> 01:42:27.279
here and see this guy sweat And
did I mention those bodies? Oh my

1276
01:42:27.439 --> 01:42:30.039
god? Oh but before you go
away, mister reporter, this is entertainment.

1277
01:42:30.079 --> 01:42:32.760
But I just wanted to add one
more thing. The hazards are real.

1278
01:42:36.279 --> 01:42:40.199
Not all fans known Rick for twenty
five years. What's your point?

1279
01:42:44.720 --> 01:42:48.279
Not all the fans cheered themselves horse. Some were present as favors to wives,

1280
01:42:48.439 --> 01:43:02.479
husbands, or boyfriends. One some
were present as favors to wives,

1281
01:43:03.199 --> 01:43:13.119
husbands, or boyfriends. One twenty
something man said his girlfriend made him do

1282
01:43:13.199 --> 01:43:17.199
it, even though she refused to
accompany him to the shooting of a kiss

1283
01:43:17.279 --> 01:43:26.640
video, wincing in distaste. Some
called the wrestling scene the Cirque de solet

1284
01:43:26.960 --> 01:43:38.600
for the blue collar class. Okay, oh my god, a screaming circle

1285
01:43:38.840 --> 01:43:43.359
for the blue collar class. I
love it. Oh wait, here we

1286
01:43:43.399 --> 01:43:45.920
go, we can you gotta print
up shirts like that? I know seriously

1287
01:43:46.039 --> 01:43:50.840
that it just says that there's no
design. So just yes words, just

1288
01:43:50.880 --> 01:43:55.399
a way for the blue collar class. Uh. Some people call the wrestling

1289
01:43:55.399 --> 01:44:00.800
scene a screaming cry for help.
I'll say, no shit, Perhaps professional

1290
01:44:00.840 --> 01:44:06.520
therapy, yeah, said thirty year
old James Murr of Montebello, the soap

1291
01:44:06.520 --> 01:44:10.920
opera for men. You know,
you get the same backstab and and outrageous

1292
01:44:10.920 --> 01:44:14.159
storylines, and it's naughty and subversive. Let me tell you you're not gonna

1293
01:44:14.159 --> 01:44:20.960
see this stuff on the Lifetime channel, all right. Yeah. Producers for

1294
01:44:21.079 --> 01:44:27.960
Ready to Rumble acknowledge the sports pedestrian
appeal. The film involves two loser buddies

1295
01:44:28.479 --> 01:44:36.479
who empty septic tanks for a living
and happen to be huge wrestling fans.

1296
01:44:38.079 --> 01:44:42.039
Oh well, you know, yeah, as long as we're as long as

1297
01:44:42.039 --> 01:44:44.119
it's a fiction, you know,
that's all that matters. They spend all

1298
01:44:44.199 --> 01:44:46.800
day meganture things are empty of ship, and then they run full steam to

1299
01:44:46.960 --> 01:44:50.600
play some highest content. They gotta
full of shit. They gotta put the

1300
01:44:50.600 --> 01:44:55.640
ship someplace, I guess, so, man. The pair travel cross country

1301
01:44:55.680 --> 01:45:00.359
to return to glory, a felled
wrestling idol they believe has been raw his

1302
01:45:00.439 --> 01:45:05.119
rightful crown. Uh. You know, wrestling maybe considered a lower rung on

1303
01:45:05.159 --> 01:45:10.920
the artistic letter, but it's also
the widest rung silver, the producer said.

1304
01:45:10.960 --> 01:45:14.840
People live for this stuff. They
live for their sport. Like six

1305
01:45:14.880 --> 01:45:17.760
year old Brendan from Palmdale, who
spotted his hero, a wrestler known as

1306
01:45:17.920 --> 01:45:29.199
Goldberg, back near the makeup van. Quote. Hey Goldie, what hey?

1307
01:45:29.279 --> 01:45:36.880
Goldie calls him Goldie? Hey,
Goldie calls him Goldie, he yelled,

1308
01:45:36.880 --> 01:45:42.159
extending a paper to be autographed.
Hey, little man, cood Goldberg

1309
01:45:42.239 --> 01:45:46.560
bending his head down to near knee
level to face the boy, memento in

1310
01:45:46.640 --> 01:45:50.920
hand. The boy washed his hero
walk away and admitted that he didn't know

1311
01:45:51.000 --> 01:45:56.840
the name of any of the wrestler's
moves inside the ring, but I'll bet

1312
01:45:56.840 --> 01:46:00.319
they hurt, he said, wide
eyed. Oh give me surprise, young

1313
01:46:00.399 --> 01:46:02.199
man. You might feel an impact, but I don't know about it.

1314
01:46:06.000 --> 01:46:19.159
So fucking so ud, Oh god, pe so glad that's written me too?

1315
01:46:20.520 --> 01:46:26.399
Oh god? So what's the name
of the movie Ready to Rumble?

1316
01:46:26.840 --> 01:46:31.239
Who says that phrase? Michael Buffer, who owns that phrase Michael Buffer.

1317
01:46:31.399 --> 01:46:35.239
So w CW had to pay Michael
Buffer not only to be in the film,

1318
01:46:35.680 --> 01:46:40.039
but to use the name Ready to
Rumble, how much, doubtly negotiating

1319
01:46:40.039 --> 01:46:43.239
through his brother. You have seen
announcer Bruce Buffer, who probably did quite

1320
01:46:43.279 --> 01:46:46.199
a bit of litigious moves back then
to protect the Ready to Rumble ip.

1321
01:46:47.279 --> 01:46:51.279
How much you think he got one
hundred and forty five thousand dollars? Oh

1322
01:46:51.359 --> 01:46:57.600
man, you are way off.
Five hundred thousand dollars fucking kidding me?

1323
01:46:58.319 --> 01:47:03.600
Are you serious? I'm dead serious. Five hundred thousand dollars to be in

1324
01:47:03.640 --> 01:47:09.279
the movie and to pay for the
rights to use the fucking name. I'm

1325
01:47:09.359 --> 01:47:15.079
sure I would estimate that four hundred
and eighty five thousand of that came from

1326
01:47:15.159 --> 01:47:18.439
using the name Ready to Rumble.
That hard to just call it something else.

1327
01:47:18.560 --> 01:47:26.319
Honestly, we'll pay. No,
it's fine. Listen, listen.

1328
01:47:26.359 --> 01:47:30.720
Wrestling is a hot that's a synergy. Wrestling is a hot thing right now,

1329
01:47:30.880 --> 01:47:32.560
all right, listen, it's gonna
be easy money, all right,

1330
01:47:32.960 --> 01:47:38.399
five hundred k We're gonna shit that
after opening day, after the premiere,

1331
01:47:38.399 --> 01:47:41.359
all right, then, don't even
fucking worry about this. Is this ship

1332
01:47:42.000 --> 01:47:44.159
is in the bag. Give him
his five hundred k. Who fucking cares,

1333
01:47:44.159 --> 01:47:45.640
you know what, Give him five
hundred k, Give him a glass

1334
01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:48.640
of my piss and tell him to
sip on it. Right. In a

1335
01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:55.119
related note, Yeah, so,
I I you know, he doesn't talk

1336
01:47:55.119 --> 01:47:57.399
about ready to rumble, at least
not in any place that I could find.

1337
01:47:57.439 --> 01:48:00.800
But I was curious. I did
see that he did talk about the

1338
01:48:00.840 --> 01:48:04.399
origin of the phrase. Did you
know have you have you ever heard him

1339
01:48:04.399 --> 01:48:08.199
talk about that? You're familiar with
that? Now? Yeah, this is

1340
01:48:08.239 --> 01:48:13.119
a he did Courtside Club and interview
with them I found on YouTube. He

1341
01:48:13.159 --> 01:48:15.720
didn't, you know, not about
the movie, but he did talk about

1342
01:48:15.760 --> 01:48:20.640
his I believe you can call it
intellectual property. Where did the catchphrase let's

1343
01:48:20.640 --> 01:48:24.800
get right? That is your phrase? Yeah? I mean, I don't

1344
01:48:24.800 --> 01:48:27.520
even know if I can say it
without getting well, you can't. And

1345
01:48:27.840 --> 01:48:33.079
you know, I'm just so.
What what happened was back in the eighty

1346
01:48:33.119 --> 01:48:39.079
two, eighty three, eighty four
when I started the ring announcers were in

1347
01:48:39.199 --> 01:48:42.079
They were all like sort of like
pals with the commissioners. You had a

1348
01:48:42.079 --> 01:48:45.640
guy in California, you had a
guy in New York, and they were

1349
01:48:45.680 --> 01:48:49.800
all part of the local commission,
so they would introduce the entire boxing commission

1350
01:48:50.920 --> 01:48:55.800
this, you know, for the
state. Now, just imagine going to

1351
01:48:55.960 --> 01:48:59.880
an NFL game and before the game, somebody introduces the entire front office of

1352
01:48:59.920 --> 01:49:02.960
the the NFL. You know,
you just killed the crowd. So in

1353
01:49:03.039 --> 01:49:08.960
boxing, we're in that electronic era
where the fighters come with the music and

1354
01:49:09.039 --> 01:49:12.479
it's exciting and it's the main event
and everybody in the fans are that's who

1355
01:49:12.479 --> 01:49:18.439
good they've been waiting for. And
then the ring announcer introduces this ballot sanctioned

1356
01:49:18.479 --> 01:49:23.880
by the New Jersey State Athletic Control
Board, Boxing Commissioner, chairman, four

1357
01:49:23.920 --> 01:49:28.760
board members. Oh my god,
I mean you're just three doctors, four

1358
01:49:28.840 --> 01:49:33.560
doctors and timekeeper, three judges.
You see where I'm going. You've wiped

1359
01:49:33.600 --> 01:49:40.159
out all that atmosphere. So I
want this is between the walkout and them

1360
01:49:40.399 --> 01:49:45.720
fighters come into the ring, the
music stops and ring that was if you

1361
01:49:45.800 --> 01:49:51.640
just killed. So I wanted that
that that feeling you get at the Indy

1362
01:49:51.680 --> 01:49:57.640
five hundred when that little old lady
that actually I did the opening introduction for

1363
01:49:57.640 --> 01:50:01.720
the Indy five hundred once and then
for that line, gentlemen start your engines,

1364
01:50:01.760 --> 01:50:04.720
where everybody that's that's the line,
that's the moment, but they have

1365
01:50:06.479 --> 01:50:10.600
at that time, it was like, oh, I guess she's probably my

1366
01:50:10.640 --> 01:50:13.720
age. You know. A little
old lady came out and she actually had

1367
01:50:13.720 --> 01:50:16.039
a written down gentlemen, start your
engines and gentlemen, start your engines.

1368
01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:18.520
But still everybody went crazy because it's
what they want to hear. It means

1369
01:50:18.560 --> 01:50:23.760
the race is going to start.
So I wanted gentlemen to start your engines,

1370
01:50:23.840 --> 01:50:28.079
that that type of catchphrase, and
I tried. And now ladies and

1371
01:50:28.079 --> 01:50:32.520
gentlemen, fasten your seat belts in
nothing's happening. Man, your battlestate' I

1372
01:50:32.600 --> 01:50:39.920
wasn't gonna work. And the greatest
of all times, the greatest of all

1373
01:50:40.000 --> 01:50:45.039
times, Muhammad Ali. And you
can see this on YouTube and everything where

1374
01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:48.680
before the fight or way in and
he would just say, I'm so pretty,

1375
01:50:48.720 --> 01:50:51.840
I'm running up and down mounts,
I'm chopping wood. Let's get you

1376
01:50:51.880 --> 01:50:56.560
know, I'm ready to rumble.
Rumble, young man, rumble. So

1377
01:50:56.680 --> 01:51:00.239
I started saying, let's get ready
to rumble. And it wasn't anything like

1378
01:51:00.279 --> 01:51:03.279
you hear today. It was,
you know, I would say, let's

1379
01:51:03.279 --> 01:51:09.000
get ready to rumble ten rounds of
boxing, and I just because I wasn't

1380
01:51:09.039 --> 01:51:11.960
actually I wasn't trying to bring attention
to myself, but I was trying to

1381
01:51:11.960 --> 01:51:15.479
do something to let people know where
we're going to. It's the main event.

1382
01:51:15.399 --> 01:51:19.760
And I stayed with it. And
I think that was a smarmp And

1383
01:51:19.840 --> 01:51:25.800
you trademarked that, Yes, who
advised you to do that? Or was

1384
01:51:25.840 --> 01:51:29.319
that just you being like listen,
I made this phrase and none of y'all

1385
01:51:29.359 --> 01:51:31.920
are taking it that. That's the
way I felt about it when it was

1386
01:51:31.920 --> 01:51:39.439
because it started a car dealers let's
get ready to rumble knock out deals and

1387
01:51:39.479 --> 01:51:41.560
you know, like I don't thinking, wait a minute, they're you know,

1388
01:51:41.600 --> 01:51:45.319
they're using my phrase. And it
became popular and fans are enjoying.

1389
01:51:45.920 --> 01:51:54.880
So I started contacting attorneys that consider
themselves to be you know, IP intellectual

1390
01:51:54.880 --> 01:51:58.520
property attorneys. Took four or five
before I found one that knew what he

1391
01:51:58.600 --> 01:52:01.199
was doing and got a trademark.
It's a pretty smart business decision, I

1392
01:52:01.239 --> 01:52:05.000
would say, Yeah, I think
so that's a good story. Yeah,

1393
01:52:05.439 --> 01:52:10.079
yeah, it's not all young man. Rumble is a very famous line from

1394
01:52:10.079 --> 01:52:17.000
Ali. Oh yeah totally, But
I think so, Uh, yeah,

1395
01:52:17.039 --> 01:52:19.600
I was like that, that was
interesting. I like to know when he

1396
01:52:20.079 --> 01:52:31.119
came up with that ship. So
the the UH associated press shot video behind

1397
01:52:31.159 --> 01:52:35.439
the scenes. They filmed them behind
the scenes footage. Would you like to

1398
01:52:35.479 --> 01:52:47.479
watch it? Sure? All right, it's me gets ready here? Do

1399
01:52:47.520 --> 01:52:50.840
you have my screen? Yes?
Yes, I do? All right,

1400
01:52:50.920 --> 01:53:03.960
here we go. This is all
ap footage. Marty, Is that martyay

1401
01:53:05.680 --> 01:53:30.319
d Platt ed ed that kind of
cool? Yep, that's not Marty.

1402
01:53:33.319 --> 01:53:38.319
It's kind of funny. Is this? I play as a character playing who

1403
01:53:38.399 --> 01:53:43.960
is a extremely at the time of
the movie, extremely popular wrestler, but

1404
01:53:44.000 --> 01:53:46.640
who's seen better days and who has
been kind of abusing his status, so

1405
01:53:46.760 --> 01:53:51.279
to speak. And the night that
these that these two I'm gonna pause,

1406
01:53:51.319 --> 01:53:54.720
I should say. So what they
were doing. There's a scene in the

1407
01:53:54.720 --> 01:53:58.039
movie and if you if you watch
it along unless you'll see it where Oliver

1408
01:53:58.159 --> 01:54:00.720
Platt has d DP from behind and
he's kind of like he's choking him and

1409
01:54:00.720 --> 01:54:04.960
swinging around. And what they did
was they put the two of them on

1410
01:54:05.399 --> 01:54:11.079
a kind of like a like a
like a flatbed dolly type thing, a

1411
01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:16.720
big flatbed dolly, and just they
had guys pushing it in circles, and

1412
01:54:16.760 --> 01:54:23.600
so you create that that. You
know, it looks like they're running around,

1413
01:54:23.640 --> 01:54:28.680
but you know, obviously they're moving
a lot smoother than they actually would

1414
01:54:28.720 --> 01:54:33.479
be. So but back to Oliver
Platt. Two gallant young fans show up

1415
01:54:33.520 --> 01:54:39.800
to watch me wrestle as an idea
of being taken down, and none of

1416
01:54:39.840 --> 01:54:42.239
us know it. I don't know
it, They don't know I don't even

1417
01:54:42.279 --> 01:54:47.720
know them. But it happens in
a particularly it's ugly and decisive fashion.

1418
01:54:48.880 --> 01:54:53.199
Catch your face up, all of
that, and they're watching. Now we're

1419
01:54:53.239 --> 01:54:56.800
watching the scene. This is the
scene, them doing it. They're covering

1420
01:54:57.000 --> 01:55:01.760
the ap cameras are filming the monitors. There's a director there. Yeah,

1421
01:55:01.840 --> 01:55:05.680
cut it all right, cut it
out, borrow, I think that's the

1422
01:55:05.720 --> 01:55:13.760
director. It's athletics theater, you
know, it's like athletic soap opera,

1423
01:55:14.239 --> 01:55:16.920
and people are are addicted to the
storylines and the characters, just like you

1424
01:55:16.960 --> 01:55:21.039
would any sort of serial live programming, except this is big guys who beat

1425
01:55:21.079 --> 01:55:27.439
the hell out of each other.
So it's it's sort of addicting. Oh,

1426
01:55:27.479 --> 01:55:33.119
there's sort of addicted. Yea athletics
theater. That one on purpose.

1427
01:55:38.319 --> 01:55:42.520
He's a lower jacket. Great standard
with Kenyon, who's one of the probably

1428
01:55:42.520 --> 01:55:45.199
the greatest John Lenny's glasses wrestler's out
there today. But all of them did

1429
01:55:45.199 --> 01:55:48.279
a lot of stuff and uh,
you know it's way out of his uh

1430
01:55:48.479 --> 01:55:57.239
reperence walk and he did good.
You can't because he's joey pants. Robin,

1431
01:55:58.119 --> 01:56:04.079
I have the conversation anything rather walk
away? Okay, coup of walk.

1432
01:56:04.960 --> 01:56:10.239
I'm gonna say that. That's the
script supervisors. So she's covering continuity

1433
01:56:10.319 --> 01:56:14.159
the course of the day. It's
just amazing. And they walk up,

1434
01:56:14.319 --> 01:56:15.439
you know, they get in the
morning, you're going to make up trailer

1435
01:56:15.439 --> 01:56:18.119
with them, and they're just like
to get in a chair. It's like

1436
01:56:18.319 --> 01:56:24.239
very painful. And the smell of
Ben Gay. It's like, I love

1437
01:56:24.279 --> 01:56:28.039
the smell of Ben Gay in the
morning. But this is like this movie

1438
01:56:28.119 --> 01:56:30.399
is kind of like Dumb and Dumber
makes the w c W. Really,

1439
01:56:31.159 --> 01:57:02.680
I think it's really smart. Came
how about you, but it's not such

1440
01:57:06.600 --> 01:57:15.680
you give me what you aren't you
can't. We went and watched the Vegas

1441
01:57:15.279 --> 01:57:21.680
James con Son for We went and
it's just like Monday night and keep him

1442
01:57:21.680 --> 01:57:27.039
in the loop, I believe,
you know the hardest part about it the

1443
01:57:27.319 --> 01:57:30.079
movie like this is make look at
his Look how fucking long his head is.

1444
01:57:30.079 --> 01:57:32.239
His head is so fucking like we're
not necessary. It's like it's so

1445
01:57:32.399 --> 01:57:38.399
oval shaped. It's bizarre. You
know, I'm actually there's realism behind it.

1446
01:57:38.880 --> 01:57:45.479
Okay, sure there is your energy, you need it. You can't

1447
01:57:46.359 --> 01:57:54.039
so bad when you see it from
this perspective. She took a bunch of

1448
01:57:54.039 --> 01:58:02.000
people taking off, like just joking
around. That's really good. Yeah,

1449
01:58:02.039 --> 01:58:06.039
okay, that's fun. That's a
fun I mean, I feel bad for

1450
01:58:06.079 --> 01:58:10.000
the I feel bad for the ap
guys who had to fucking go film this

1451
01:58:10.119 --> 01:58:16.560
ship. I pretend it was news
Jesus Christ. But you don't like that

1452
01:58:16.720 --> 01:58:21.000
guy? What's that? Yeah?
Seriously, exactly what is he doing?

1453
01:58:21.199 --> 01:58:26.840
Imagine the fucking steak and cheese he
had for the fuck? Yeah, he

1454
01:58:26.880 --> 01:58:29.119
probably you know what he did.
What he did was this that night,

1455
01:58:29.479 --> 01:58:31.119
he took some of that Korean barbecue
and he made like a Korean steak and

1456
01:58:31.199 --> 01:58:36.560
cheese at home stop off at Ralph
to get a to get some bread and

1457
01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:41.520
cheese and stuff, and you know, or maybe maybe a maybe a Vaughan's

1458
01:58:41.640 --> 01:58:46.319
or whatever grocery store. Yeah,
Ralph, Ralph, Vaughns, and Albertsons

1459
01:58:46.319 --> 01:58:50.279
are the pedestrian Albertsons. Yeah,
yeah, Ralph's, Ralph's, Vaughan's and

1460
01:58:50.359 --> 01:58:57.800
Albertsons. And then you've got I
don't remember the fancy ones but anyway,

1461
01:59:00.119 --> 01:59:04.520
And on the DVD there's a there's
oh god, this is this. You

1462
01:59:04.560 --> 01:59:11.000
know, I'm sorry to make you
suffer through this. This is bad,

1463
01:59:11.600 --> 01:59:17.359
but we got to watch it.
It's uh. They they filmed a this

1464
01:59:17.479 --> 01:59:24.000
is a special feature on the arquette
on the on the DVD with our cat

1465
01:59:24.319 --> 01:59:30.560
and Scott Cohn and uh, I
mean it's special all right, And I'll

1466
01:59:30.600 --> 01:59:36.000
just say that I'm gonna share my
screen again. Do you have the screen?

1467
01:59:44.840 --> 01:59:48.479
Yeah? Yeah, that's all good. That's good. What did you

1468
01:59:48.479 --> 01:59:54.760
just say to Sean on you and
whatever? You're writing a book and your

1469
01:59:54.800 --> 01:59:58.840
cop? What do you mean you
are now? Really? What do you

1470
01:59:58.880 --> 02:00:02.039
just say to what? I know
it's about me? What did he say?

1471
02:00:02.359 --> 02:00:08.199
What are you talking about? What
do you say your words coming out

1472
02:00:08.239 --> 02:00:12.399
of your mouth? Wait? I
just I just I want to know why

1473
02:00:12.439 --> 02:00:15.720
it is. You have to know
why you were in red brother, because

1474
02:00:15.760 --> 02:00:17.359
I think you were talking about me. But what difference does it make it's

1475
02:00:17.399 --> 02:00:20.600
something that about No, no,
no, I'm not saying I was talking

1476
02:00:20.640 --> 02:00:23.720
about you. I'm saying that if
I said something to him, it's on

1477
02:00:23.840 --> 02:00:28.399
your business. What are you worried
about? You know, I don't know

1478
02:00:28.439 --> 02:00:32.520
if I can work with him anymore. Really. Oh, it's a fight's

1479
02:00:32.520 --> 02:00:38.880
breaking out. He's got a sleeperholding
Scott Con. You're going to that's right?

1480
02:00:39.439 --> 02:00:43.279
Scott CON's laughing because you know it's
so stupid. It's such a loose

1481
02:00:43.319 --> 02:00:46.319
sleeper. They take their microphones offs, like your fight. It's like,

1482
02:00:46.439 --> 02:01:00.479
what the fuck is this? Wa
you go way to talk that? Who

1483
02:01:00.479 --> 02:01:03.560
do they look at this ship?
This is standard attempt. They decided to

1484
02:01:03.560 --> 02:01:19.119
put this in the fucking features heard
the marine? Now are such idiots?

1485
02:01:19.119 --> 02:01:25.239
Flex go over for it? Wow
he did nice David, nice job.

1486
02:01:25.279 --> 02:01:38.520
That's a good one. O cat
off the rose. No cell, he

1487
02:01:38.560 --> 02:01:44.039
doesn't know how to wear the rose. Scott sucks hitting the ropes. Huh

1488
02:01:44.279 --> 02:01:54.720
power slam, nice power slam.
Who's selling it all to the next spot?

1489
02:01:56.239 --> 02:02:15.359
Oh a big clothesline, Scott Scott, Oh so awesome. I don't

1490
02:02:15.399 --> 02:02:19.760
know what that was, Scott Con. Folks, Scott Con taking bumps about

1491
02:02:19.800 --> 02:02:23.239
that kid. I mean, now
I know he's James Conn's son. Yeah,

1492
02:02:23.279 --> 02:02:25.600
oh yeah, he's He's been in
a bunch of stuff. He's in

1493
02:02:25.640 --> 02:02:30.640
the Oceans movies and uh, he
was on Entourage as well for a while.

1494
02:02:31.039 --> 02:02:34.079
He's James con son. Is he
also way behind on a bunch of

1495
02:02:34.119 --> 02:02:44.239
stuff. I'm gonna have I'm gonna
have dinner memory. Hey, he's got

1496
02:02:44.239 --> 02:02:47.159
a lot to go over. Don't
come. Don't tell my kid what to

1497
02:02:47.239 --> 02:02:56.479
do. James Cott this bullshit like
Manhattan job five in the morning till nine

1498
02:02:56.600 --> 02:03:04.520
thirty at night. He's gonna have
to wait. It is gonna actually so

1499
02:03:05.319 --> 02:03:10.840
uh yeah. They also and in
other features in the in the in the

1500
02:03:11.079 --> 02:03:16.000
the the DVD. They you know, they get the book. Obviously tons

1501
02:03:16.000 --> 02:03:19.359
of wrestlers shared the books and stuff. But oh this is Tony to SHIMANEI

1502
02:03:19.359 --> 02:03:24.800
first. Actually Tony Shamani also shared
about that they did a He and Conrad

1503
02:03:24.840 --> 02:03:30.720
did a watch along from what Happened
When, and Tony talks about the waiting

1504
02:03:31.079 --> 02:03:35.760
that occurs during filming and then a
funny story that occurred with the with the

1505
02:03:35.800 --> 02:03:45.800
director. Here there it is working
on movie is a long, laborious type,

1506
02:03:45.880 --> 02:03:50.840
boring type piece of ship, and
we all had our own ice trailers.

1507
02:03:51.039 --> 02:03:54.760
I had a little trailer to stay
into. Okay, I would stay

1508
02:03:54.800 --> 02:03:58.800
there. I would get there like
we'd get their crew call was like four

1509
02:03:58.840 --> 02:04:00.279
in the morning. We'd get there
five of the morning. I would literally

1510
02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:09.680
stay some nights till six pm and
do nothing, nothing all day. So

1511
02:04:10.600 --> 02:04:15.800
I wrote in the WCW magazine about
how, okay, Hollywood could be cool,

1512
02:04:15.960 --> 02:04:19.319
but you know, doing a movie
can be a very boring pain in

1513
02:04:19.319 --> 02:04:23.760
the ass. And I wrote a
tongue in cheek, you know, I

1514
02:04:23.800 --> 02:04:29.199
said, after day two, I
wanted to carve a bar soap into a

1515
02:04:29.319 --> 02:04:32.720
gun to escape. I remember one
time my cell phone had died and I

1516
02:04:32.760 --> 02:04:36.560
asked one of the pas. I
said, I know there's a payphone across

1517
02:04:36.600 --> 02:04:40.199
the way. I had to call
the office and I said, I want

1518
02:04:40.239 --> 02:04:42.640
to go over and go to a
payphone. And she says, we can't

1519
02:04:42.680 --> 02:04:45.199
let you off the lot. As
long as you're here with us. You

1520
02:04:45.239 --> 02:04:48.199
have to stay on this lot.
If you need to barrow somebody's cell phone,

1521
02:04:48.239 --> 02:04:53.640
we'll get And I'm thinking I'm being
kept. I'm in prison. I

1522
02:04:53.640 --> 02:04:56.439
can't get out of this place,
and I need to make a call.

1523
02:04:56.520 --> 02:05:00.399
So I wrote a very funny on
WCW magazin, and Brian Robbins, who

1524
02:05:00.800 --> 02:05:05.000
was the director, came to me
in the after movie after premiere party and

1525
02:05:05.039 --> 02:05:10.520
he confronted me. He said,
I saw that that article that you wrote,

1526
02:05:10.720 --> 02:05:14.960
and I'm very upset about it.
I said, what he said some

1527
02:05:15.039 --> 02:05:17.119
very uncanne things about us. I
said, Brian, it was tongue in

1528
02:05:17.199 --> 02:05:19.520
cheek. I was being funny.
He said, well, I didn't like

1529
02:05:19.600 --> 02:05:24.079
it. And he said, and
if if I were you, I'd worry

1530
02:05:24.079 --> 02:05:28.279
more about my business, which is
going down the shitter, then I would

1531
02:05:28.279 --> 02:05:30.800
be worrying about what we do in
the movies. He said. He just

1532
02:05:30.840 --> 02:05:33.319
looked out yep, and as he
turned away, and I said, well,

1533
02:05:33.920 --> 02:05:39.079
fuck you, is what I said. And so and I never did

1534
02:05:39.319 --> 02:05:44.720
like Varsity Blues anyway, which was
another movie that he did, so fuck

1535
02:05:44.800 --> 02:05:48.319
him. So that's the words we
had because he was upset because I wrote

1536
02:05:48.359 --> 02:05:53.760
a tongue in cheek article about the
movie business in w CW magazine which nobody

1537
02:05:53.800 --> 02:05:57.960
read. Anyway, here's what I
like when he said your business is going

1538
02:05:58.000 --> 02:06:00.439
down the shitter. Well, he
made a movie here that never turned a

1539
02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:03.199
prophet right and I think he's a
producer. I don't even think he directs

1540
02:06:03.199 --> 02:06:08.119
anymore. So if he's listening right
now, do you want to let him

1541
02:06:08.119 --> 02:06:11.119
know how you feel? Yeah?
I think I already did. One more

1542
02:06:11.119 --> 02:06:16.000
time, just one for the road. Yeah, Brian, fuck you,

1543
02:06:16.359 --> 02:06:21.079
God, blessed to man's the way
for us all. Oh my god,

1544
02:06:23.359 --> 02:06:26.920
he's so great? Is Brian Robbins
or Brian Levine? Why do you have

1545
02:06:26.960 --> 02:06:30.760
two names? Dude? And are
you the CEO of Paramount or Nickelodeon?

1546
02:06:30.000 --> 02:06:32.760
Who fucking knows? Man? Heavy
hitter? Now? He is heavy?

1547
02:06:32.760 --> 02:06:39.800
I mean you know, yes,
yeah, yeah, he's just a I

1548
02:06:39.800 --> 02:06:42.760
mean, god, damn it,
Like, what a fucking douchebag? Like

1549
02:06:43.399 --> 02:06:48.000
that's the Oh my god. I
mean, how against you when you can't

1550
02:06:48.000 --> 02:06:51.800
handle something like that. I think
you're so insecure that that's exactly like,

1551
02:06:51.920 --> 02:06:56.920
come on, man, you have
like all these ambitions and like, you

1552
02:06:56.920 --> 02:07:00.319
know, you have these grand visions, and so any perceived slight you know

1553
02:07:00.399 --> 02:07:04.520
you can possibly interpret, is getting
in the way of your path to glory.

1554
02:07:04.920 --> 02:07:08.880
You know, there are people who
if they said that, yes,

1555
02:07:08.920 --> 02:07:13.079
I understand that it would offend them
and hurt hurt you. But Tony Shavani

1556
02:07:14.359 --> 02:07:20.600
like he's in. He's in like
five minutes of the movie, and like,

1557
02:07:20.640 --> 02:07:24.520
what the fuck is your problem,
dude, Like, calm the fuck

1558
02:07:24.600 --> 02:07:30.399
Down's awesome, so awesome. Oh
and then he uh, here's another one

1559
02:07:30.399 --> 02:07:36.359
that he talks about, the big
stunt at the end where ddp DP is

1560
02:07:36.399 --> 02:07:42.880
slammed through the three tier cage.
He slammed through the three tier cage and

1561
02:07:43.079 --> 02:07:47.520
he doesn't die. I want to
remind you, but here he's talking about

1562
02:07:47.880 --> 02:07:53.760
filming met stunt the bump that Diamond
Dallas tip Page takes through the cages.

1563
02:07:55.039 --> 02:07:58.439
Will that be some ship? Yeah. I watched him do this many times

1564
02:07:58.439 --> 02:08:01.159
too many takes with the stunt man, and they had a different stuntman do

1565
02:08:01.239 --> 02:08:05.279
these bumps, And it was a
stunt man that was hooked onto a cable

1566
02:08:05.680 --> 02:08:09.000
and he actually went bam bam.
Band threw him and they shot it from

1567
02:08:09.000 --> 02:08:11.359
different angles and did it many times. I thought you were starting that there

1568
02:08:11.399 --> 02:08:13.720
was actually a guy who took the
bomp for real. I was like,

1569
02:08:13.760 --> 02:08:18.119
that's the most ridiculous thing. No, he was on a cable. So

1570
02:08:18.159 --> 02:08:20.640
here comes the bump we're talking about. It's the big body slam right from

1571
02:08:20.720 --> 02:08:24.800
Jimmy King, which of course is
Kenyon. And here's DDP and who's DDP

1572
02:08:24.960 --> 02:08:28.960
stunt man? Do you recall?
No, I don't know who it was

1573
02:08:28.000 --> 02:08:31.319
here. Yeah, I don't know. I never I didn't find that out.

1574
02:08:31.359 --> 02:08:35.479
But yeah, so I don't think
that was said before. Kenyon is

1575
02:08:35.600 --> 02:08:39.720
Oliver Plat stunt double stunt double.
Yeah, so I mean, I mean

1576
02:08:39.840 --> 02:08:43.439
he said, you know, the
stunt guy's on a cable and so with

1577
02:08:43.640 --> 02:08:48.479
w stew I understand it's right.
You know, all wrestling's best stuff was

1578
02:08:48.520 --> 02:09:01.000
on cable. The uh so.
Uh so these are the special features that

1579
02:09:01.039 --> 02:09:05.239
are also on the DVD. Bam
Bam, Bigelow and DDP taped interviews that

1580
02:09:05.319 --> 02:09:11.880
were featured as bonus features. So
this is here's Bam BAM's interview. Well,

1581
02:09:11.880 --> 02:09:13.079
everybody know it that. You know, you get a stump man in

1582
02:09:13.119 --> 02:09:16.920
our case us being professional wrestlers,
but we're in fact our own stump man.

1583
02:09:18.520 --> 02:09:22.159
So it's pretty hard to double what
we do best. We do day

1584
02:09:22.199 --> 02:09:24.680
in, day out, two hundred
and thirty days a year. Well,

1585
02:09:24.720 --> 02:09:28.079
as a professional wrestler, I'm just
so used to landing flat on my back

1586
02:09:28.199 --> 02:09:31.199
or trying to land on a flat
part of my body. So it's just

1587
02:09:31.279 --> 02:09:35.920
second nature. You could do it
time in, time out. Everybody may

1588
02:09:35.960 --> 02:09:37.920
say, well, wrestling is all
a fake, but we don't. We

1589
02:09:39.079 --> 02:09:41.239
just do it. We don't rehearse
it at all. When we wrestle what

1590
02:09:41.319 --> 02:09:43.680
you see on TV. We just
going to ring and do it. But

1591
02:09:45.039 --> 02:09:48.000
the acting is new to us.
So you know, we can do the

1592
02:09:48.039 --> 02:09:50.760
stunts, but we got to learn
to do the act. We got some

1593
02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:54.079
lines. You know, I've acted
before. I've been to sag you in

1594
02:09:54.159 --> 02:09:58.760
thirteen years. But it's difficult with
the stopping and the going and the momentum

1595
02:09:58.880 --> 02:10:03.199
because we're used to moments them and
when used to creating controlling, you know,

1596
02:10:03.439 --> 02:10:07.840
so it's controlled by a microphone.
It's long hours you're hanging out.

1597
02:10:07.960 --> 02:10:13.520
You know it's caught next you know
Guy's scene. It's just it's it's fatigued

1598
02:10:13.640 --> 02:10:16.840
just for hanging. But you know
what, we fly around the world as

1599
02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:20.279
wrestlers. We wrestle two hundred and
thirty two hundred and seventy five. Ye

1600
02:10:20.800 --> 02:10:24.960
so if I wasn't sitting in this
arena, I'd be on an airpane flying

1601
02:10:24.960 --> 02:10:28.439
to some town god knows where,
instead of going home to Asbury park where

1602
02:10:28.439 --> 02:10:35.760
the Beast belongs. What why does
he take two hundred and thirty days?

1603
02:10:35.800 --> 02:10:37.399
Well, he went from two hundre
three days and then he jumped into two

1604
02:10:37.479 --> 02:10:41.439
hundred and seventy five days. It's
a random I thought it was three hundred

1605
02:10:41.479 --> 02:10:43.720
days a year. Anyway, Yeah, I know it's the usually say.

1606
02:10:43.479 --> 02:10:48.920
I mean, you have to tell
us exactly what's in your contract. Also,

1607
02:10:48.039 --> 02:10:50.600
also, I don't think WW had
any momentum at this point. But

1608
02:10:50.680 --> 02:10:54.439
anyway, he's talking, we need
momentum, we need momentum. I don't

1609
02:10:54.479 --> 02:11:00.119
know you do. Here's and here's
ddp's interview. What I like about it

1610
02:11:00.199 --> 02:11:03.399
is I got to do got to
do scenes with Joey Pans and Olive the

1611
02:11:03.439 --> 02:11:07.119
Platt, and both of those are
two of my favorite character actors. And

1612
02:11:07.199 --> 02:11:11.159
I'm not sucking up because I don't. I called the way it is.

1613
02:11:11.199 --> 02:11:13.800
And if I heard that I had
opportunity to work with those two guys.

1614
02:11:13.479 --> 02:11:18.279
I saw Oliver and Now in Las
Vegas, and I thought he was just

1615
02:11:18.319 --> 02:11:22.239
a fan backstage watching, you know, and I thought, wow, man,

1616
02:11:22.279 --> 02:11:24.239
what's up? And I love your
work? And he goes, hey,

1617
02:11:24.279 --> 02:11:26.960
I'm gonna be doing this movie where
you are because they were talking to

1618
02:11:26.000 --> 02:11:28.560
me about it right there and I
went, oh, okay, and I'm

1619
02:11:28.560 --> 02:11:31.920
digging that. And then when I
heard that Joey was going to be the

1620
02:11:33.560 --> 02:11:37.039
evil promoter that I was in and
uh, this just to be able to

1621
02:11:37.079 --> 02:11:41.960
work with them and backstage the stuff
that we do, like it was funny

1622
02:11:41.960 --> 02:11:45.920
because, uh, David Brian Robbins, the director, he's so cool.

1623
02:11:45.920 --> 02:11:48.880
He's he's like, he's like like
one of the boys because he's a he's

1624
02:11:48.920 --> 02:11:52.039
an actor and you know, being
a director to he can he knows what

1625
02:11:52.039 --> 02:11:56.720
we're trying to do backstage, he
knows I live this. So I actually

1626
02:11:56.720 --> 02:11:58.039
punched up a couple of scenes and
what do you think about that? I

1627
02:11:58.039 --> 02:12:01.239
didn't know it was club punched up
at the time. You know. I

1628
02:12:01.279 --> 02:12:03.239
said, what if we did this, this and that? And I wrote

1629
02:12:03.279 --> 02:12:05.800
some stuff up. Yes, I
like that. What if we didn't like

1630
02:12:05.800 --> 02:12:07.880
this? I said, that would
work really good. So all of a

1631
02:12:07.920 --> 02:12:11.800
sudden you got to see backstage things
happened that weren't going to be there before,

1632
02:12:13.119 --> 02:12:18.079
and he made them work really well. Look at that DDP making waves.

1633
02:12:18.439 --> 02:12:26.079
Oh yeah, you know, fucking
moving and shaking WCW as they would

1634
02:12:26.079 --> 02:12:31.800
definitely do during the heyday of the
Hogan of the Hogan Films, they aired

1635
02:12:31.800 --> 02:12:37.239
footage of the wrestlers on set,
and one time, one specific time,

1636
02:12:39.640 --> 02:12:46.479
they did a they had Goldberg on
set. Mike and I interviewed Goldberg on

1637
02:12:46.520 --> 02:12:52.840
set cutting a promo on The Outsiders. However, there's one major production glitch

1638
02:12:52.880 --> 02:12:56.520
that occurred. It's visual. So
we're going to watch this one as well.

1639
02:12:58.439 --> 02:13:09.880
Me share. Do you have my
screen? Yes? All right,

1640
02:13:09.880 --> 02:13:52.159
here we go. What does it
say? Genius? It says from the

1641
02:13:52.199 --> 02:13:56.279
wrestling movie from the set of the
Wrestling movie of the movie, the ww

1642
02:13:56.359 --> 02:14:03.279
film Slam as if the movie called
Slam Slam, which even by then they

1643
02:14:03.359 --> 02:14:05.800
knew it was ready run. Mean, it'd been it had been written about

1644
02:14:05.880 --> 02:14:13.399
as ready to rumble. There's that
corporate synergy they were talking about. Yep,

1645
02:14:15.279 --> 02:14:18.840
I mean yeah, it's so so
fucking weird anyway. So yeah,

1646
02:14:18.840 --> 02:14:22.479
so it says literally says slam on
the on the thing. Uh So,

1647
02:14:22.640 --> 02:14:30.920
let's turn back to Chris Kenyon's tome
Wrestling Reality here. He's gonna set up

1648
02:14:31.640 --> 02:14:41.560
kind of some frustration about it all
because he wasn't he wasn't supposed to be

1649
02:14:41.720 --> 02:14:43.960
on set at first. It was
just supposed to be that one meeting that

1650
02:14:45.000 --> 02:14:48.800
we covered earlier. So we're gonna
have a little bit of backstory here before

1651
02:14:50.199 --> 02:14:54.560
we lead into what happened. After
a series of events, Page Bam Bam,

1652
02:14:54.600 --> 02:14:56.960
Bigelow and I were matched up as
tag partners to form the Jersey Treead,

1653
02:14:58.199 --> 02:15:01.680
and at the nineteen ninety nine Great
American As in Baltimore, we defeated

1654
02:15:01.720 --> 02:15:05.600
Ben Wah and Saturn for the WCW
Tag Team title. Finally I was a

1655
02:15:05.680 --> 02:15:07.760
champion. I had a belt.
It was like no other feeling I can

1656
02:15:07.920 --> 02:15:11.279
I can describe. All I can
say is it was another dream that came

1657
02:15:11.359 --> 02:15:16.760
true. Things were going so well. They even made a rule that allowed

1658
02:15:16.800 --> 02:15:22.920
either of the two of us to
defend the title. It's not I mean,

1659
02:15:22.960 --> 02:15:26.079
I guess for the if there's uninitiated
watching this, the freebird rule is

1660
02:15:26.079 --> 02:15:31.840
something new and different. But yeah, not right. I was right up

1661
02:15:31.880 --> 02:15:35.119
there with Bigelow, who was a
former headliner at WrestleMania, and Page,

1662
02:15:35.279 --> 02:15:39.479
who was a former US heavyweight title
holder, And finally I could be in

1663
02:15:39.560 --> 02:15:46.159
main event title matches. That is
my love. That is until my phone

1664
02:15:46.239 --> 02:15:52.600
rang. It was Bischoff, you
gotta go out to La they're making a

1665
02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:54.600
movie called Ready to Rumble, and
I need you there to supervise. Oh

1666
02:15:54.720 --> 02:15:58.760
no, not again. No,
I was honest, I don't want to

1667
02:15:58.000 --> 02:16:01.760
Eric. There was silence on the
other end of the line. I wasn't

1668
02:16:01.800 --> 02:16:07.920
asking you, I was telling you, he said. I sighed. Thankfully.

1669
02:16:07.920 --> 02:16:09.520
We worked it out so I could
still work the Monday Nitro shows.

1670
02:16:09.960 --> 02:16:13.399
So I went off to LA and
worked Tuesday through Saturday, but was off

1671
02:16:13.439 --> 02:16:18.600
Sunday and Monday so I could participate
in the shows. It was a rough

1672
02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:22.000
schedule. I knew that I needed
someone to go with me to keep me

1673
02:16:22.079 --> 02:16:26.479
sane. Shane Helms and I hit
it off ever since he moved in with

1674
02:16:26.520 --> 02:16:28.720
me. Young and good looking,
with a square jaw and long hair like

1675
02:16:28.760 --> 02:16:33.959
mine. I suppose I was always
attracted to him, but I also knew

1676
02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:37.120
Shane was straight. He had a
girlfriend back home in North Carolina, and

1677
02:16:37.200 --> 02:16:39.079
even though I told him we could
be out there a few months, he

1678
02:16:39.159 --> 02:16:43.360
was quick to commit. I went
out to LA first to learn about what

1679
02:16:43.440 --> 02:16:46.639
had to be done, and then
I said I would send for Shane.

1680
02:16:46.360 --> 02:16:52.479
And I'm going to break it up
here and play a clip from Shane Helm's

1681
02:16:52.559 --> 02:17:00.520
RF shoot interview because he was Shane
Helms was David Arquet stunt double in the

1682
02:17:00.520 --> 02:17:03.680
film. Oh well, so here
he is talking about the experience that was

1683
02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:05.399
supposed to be out there for like
three weeks and it ended up being three

1684
02:17:05.440 --> 02:17:09.040
months. You know, I went
just out there to help Canyon and coordinate

1685
02:17:09.079 --> 02:17:13.040
the wrestling scenes. You know in
the movie they want everything laid out,

1686
02:17:13.079 --> 02:17:16.079
move from move from moved from camera
angle. So uh, we were going

1687
02:17:16.120 --> 02:17:18.159
to help just come up with the
spots that the wrestlers did. And uh,

1688
02:17:18.200 --> 02:17:20.159
the stunt guys, you know,
the stunt guy who did it,

1689
02:17:20.200 --> 02:17:24.479
he was the guy who he was
Arnold Arnold Swarzenegger stunt double for a long

1690
02:17:24.520 --> 02:17:26.639
time he did True Lies and like
Terminator two. So this is you know,

1691
02:17:28.040 --> 02:17:31.639
really big wig in Hollywood. And
he realized pretty soon that he's not

1692
02:17:31.639 --> 02:17:33.360
gonna be able to teach the stunt
me in and wrestle, right. You

1693
02:17:33.399 --> 02:17:37.079
know in the first there was that
believer. I just teach him how to

1694
02:17:37.159 --> 02:17:39.000
fall, and you know, but
they'll be okay. And like when the

1695
02:17:39.040 --> 02:17:41.840
stunt man got there and they got
on paths and we're just like, we

1696
02:17:41.879 --> 02:17:45.760
ain't got on no paths. We'll
just fucking go do it. Hmm,

1697
02:17:46.120 --> 02:17:50.040
so that's how you know what Canyon
was gonna be out of a plaid stunt

1698
02:17:50.079 --> 02:17:52.639
up no matter what. But then
that's when they end up casting me as

1699
02:17:52.680 --> 02:17:54.520
David our Kaids. And it was
fun. You know. I had a

1700
02:17:54.559 --> 02:17:56.879
lot of good times, a lot
of crazy, crazy parties, and the

1701
02:17:56.920 --> 02:18:01.959
Hollywood scene is just pretty especially a
movie scene. Can't get pretty natty.

1702
02:18:01.479 --> 02:18:07.000
H back to the book. As
I left for LA I felt a lot

1703
02:18:07.000 --> 02:18:09.239
better about this project. I knew
I'd done this before, and this time

1704
02:18:09.280 --> 02:18:13.159
it was a Warner Brothers movie and
I wouldn't be in charge of much.

1705
02:18:13.559 --> 02:18:16.040
The movie was big, with David
Arquette, Oliver Platt, Rose McGowan,

1706
02:18:16.040 --> 02:18:20.319
and Scott con The director also did
Varsity Blues and that movie did pretty well.

1707
02:18:24.200 --> 02:18:28.520
Yeah, I just knew it wasn't
going to be bullshit. For the

1708
02:18:28.520 --> 02:18:33.159
most part, I was right.
The whole scene was much more laid back.

1709
02:18:33.239 --> 02:18:35.760
The executive producers were very hands on, very friendly. Though the day

1710
02:18:35.799 --> 02:18:39.639
to day guy was a bit of
a ballbuster. All of the crew,

1711
02:18:39.719 --> 02:18:43.920
from hair to sets to costumes were
nothing but professional. This was when I

1712
02:18:43.959 --> 02:18:48.399
was introduced to the Internet movie database. Pretty Much everybody had a great resume.

1713
02:18:48.920 --> 02:18:50.520
My first day out there, I
went to the set of The Flintstones

1714
02:18:50.520 --> 02:18:54.079
in Viva Rock, Vegas to meet
with my stunt coordinator. I was told

1715
02:18:54.159 --> 02:18:56.520
this was the biggest deal of all
because I was going to be working with

1716
02:18:56.600 --> 02:19:00.920
him every day. Thank god.
He was one of the nicest guys on

1717
02:19:00.959 --> 02:19:03.239
the planet. His name was Joel
Kramer, and I could not believe the

1718
02:19:03.280 --> 02:19:07.079
movies he'd done True Lies, Terminator
two, among others. Holy shit,

1719
02:19:07.200 --> 02:19:11.440
I thought, I'm working with one
of the best stunt guys ever. They

1720
02:19:11.440 --> 02:19:13.879
put me up in a nice apartment, and I knew I was going to

1721
02:19:13.920 --> 02:19:16.760
have fun working with Kramer. I
met with the stunt performer and we worked

1722
02:19:16.799 --> 02:19:20.319
out our wrestling scenes. But we
had to keep reminding ourselves this was a

1723
02:19:20.360 --> 02:19:24.559
comedy. It had to be visually
appealing and funny. With Shane in La

1724
02:19:24.680 --> 02:19:28.440
we had fun and it was very
low stress for me, especially compared to

1725
02:19:28.479 --> 02:19:37.399
my last movie experience. Then Randy
Savage went crazy again. Out of nowhere,

1726
02:19:37.559 --> 02:19:41.639
Savage called us, but of course
I thought it was Luther again.

1727
02:19:41.200 --> 02:19:45.879
Luther is but so I didn't take
it seriously. When I realized it was

1728
02:19:45.920 --> 02:19:50.399
the real Savage, I was filled
with fear. M. I understand you

1729
02:19:50.399 --> 02:19:54.760
got a ring set up out there. Yeah, is there any way that

1730
02:19:54.799 --> 02:20:00.360
they can get into it? When
tomorrow, he explained, and he had

1731
02:20:00.360 --> 02:20:03.559
a match with former basketball star Dennis
Rodman in Sturgis, and of course he

1732
02:20:03.639 --> 02:20:07.680
wanted to practice. What could I
do? I said yes, and Randy

1733
02:20:09.319 --> 02:20:13.479
I said, yeah, brother,
Are we cool with the whole Good Morning

1734
02:20:13.520 --> 02:20:16.479
America thing? Oh? Yeah,
brother, I got your message. We're

1735
02:20:16.639 --> 02:20:22.120
cool. Why were you so mad? I asked. It was right in

1736
02:20:22.120 --> 02:20:28.159
the middle of my Slimjym deal,
one million dollar deal. Brother. They

1737
02:20:28.159 --> 02:20:31.360
were trying to phase me out.
They thought I was washed up. The

1738
02:20:31.399 --> 02:20:35.840
slim Gym guys watched Good Morning America
and saw you someone in my own company

1739
02:20:37.079 --> 02:20:41.440
calling me a hasbin. Oh god, man, I'm so sorry, I

1740
02:20:41.479 --> 02:20:45.760
said, I can see how that
would look bad. Yeah, so Will.

1741
02:20:45.799 --> 02:20:50.159
I was ready to kill you,
brother, but I ended up getting

1742
02:20:50.200 --> 02:20:54.239
the deal anyway, Otherwise you would
have gotten a million dollar ass beaten.

1743
02:21:00.159 --> 02:21:07.399
I was really well read. Shane
was feeling a little down about being apart

1744
02:21:07.399 --> 02:21:09.920
from a girlfriend of eight years.
His favorite wrestler of all time was Savage,

1745
02:21:11.040 --> 02:21:13.879
so I thought meeting him would be
a good pick me up. We

1746
02:21:13.920 --> 02:21:16.879
got to the ring, and of
course Randy was there and he already had

1747
02:21:16.879 --> 02:21:20.840
the entire thing planned out. He
knew Rodman was a bit nuts, so

1748
02:21:20.920 --> 02:21:24.719
when Rodman showed up and was completely
clueless, it surprised no one. Later

1749
02:21:24.760 --> 02:21:28.360
on, I would also train Jay
Leno, who, in my opinion,

1750
02:21:28.639 --> 02:21:31.079
took the whole thing way too seriously, but at least he was easier to

1751
02:21:31.120 --> 02:21:35.120
work with than Rodman. While there, while there were so many similarities between

1752
02:21:35.120 --> 02:21:39.079
actors and wrestlers, we performed they
perform. They took days to tape a

1753
02:21:39.079 --> 02:21:45.280
minute of footage, while we made
us a show every night live. He

1754
02:21:45.319 --> 02:21:48.440
started wearing on me because we were
doing so much. On Monday, I

1755
02:21:48.440 --> 02:21:50.520
spent all day at Nitro that I
would fly back to la for the movie's

1756
02:21:50.600 --> 02:21:54.360
work week. In the summer of
ninetety nine, I was getting burned out.

1757
02:21:54.399 --> 02:21:56.120
I'd had enough. I was a
tag team champion, but I actually

1758
02:21:56.120 --> 02:22:00.239
wanted someone to take it away from
me because I was getting worn down and

1759
02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.680
didn't want to come back to defend
it. I loved wrestling and stunt directing,

1760
02:22:03.719 --> 02:22:07.280
but they were working against each other. After one grueling day and sturgis,

1761
02:22:07.319 --> 02:22:09.760
I finally got to my hotel room
At three am, the phone rang.

1762
02:22:11.040 --> 02:22:16.399
It was Savage, Yeah, can
you come over and helped me go

1763
02:22:16.479 --> 02:22:20.959
through this match one more time.
I couldn't believe it. It was the

1764
02:22:20.040 --> 02:22:24.159
voice I did not want to hear. I walked into Savages room and Rodman

1765
02:22:24.239 --> 02:22:26.399
was there on the bed. When
he saw me, he just rolled his

1766
02:22:26.440 --> 02:22:28.319
eyes. I couldn't think of how
many times they must have done this.

1767
02:22:28.360 --> 02:22:33.879
For three more hours we practiced.
Each time he rehearsed the fight choreography.

1768
02:22:33.920 --> 02:22:37.000
We would beg to be finished,
but Savage wanted to make sure he had

1769
02:22:37.040 --> 02:22:41.879
every less detailed down. Finally he
let us go. After all the practice,

1770
02:22:43.079 --> 02:22:46.879
Rodman and Savage's rode Wild match went
well, but at my own match

1771
02:22:46.920 --> 02:22:48.680
that night, the belts were taken
away from us. While I should have

1772
02:22:48.680 --> 02:22:52.799
been disappointed, I was relieved they
didn't have to do Monday nightro shows anymore,

1773
02:22:52.000 --> 02:22:56.120
and it helped me then I could
focus on the movie. Warner Brothers

1774
02:22:56.120 --> 02:22:58.600
did not skimp on taking care of
me. One of my hotels was like

1775
02:22:58.639 --> 02:23:01.959
an apartment close to it Jim.
I never realized Jim could be a place

1776
02:23:03.000 --> 02:23:05.200
to hook up with a guy until
I was staying in La working on the

1777
02:23:05.239 --> 02:23:09.440
movie. One day I was working
out when I noticed a guy checking me

1778
02:23:09.479 --> 02:23:11.120
out. I'd been on TV for
a while, though, so it wasn't

1779
02:23:11.159 --> 02:23:15.520
out of the ordinary for some people
to come up and ask for autographs.

1780
02:23:15.760 --> 02:23:18.479
He was Hispanic and pretty good looking, and he stayed close to me no

1781
02:23:18.520 --> 02:23:22.600
matter what machine I was on.
I felt bad for him that he was

1782
02:23:22.600 --> 02:23:24.239
too shy to come up to me
and asked for an autograph. I wanted.

1783
02:23:24.520 --> 02:23:28.200
I wanted. I wanted to make
it easier for him. You know

1784
02:23:28.239 --> 02:23:31.879
what, dude, do you want
an autograph? I asked. He looked

1785
02:23:31.920 --> 02:23:33.959
at me like I was nuts,
so I just walked away, but he

1786
02:23:33.040 --> 02:23:35.799
kept looking. I went to the
locker room to get my bag, and

1787
02:23:35.840 --> 02:23:39.840
then it occurred to me he might
be gay. He followed me in and

1788
02:23:39.840 --> 02:23:41.399
stood there with me. I went
out to the lobby of the hotel,

1789
02:23:41.680 --> 02:23:46.319
and I watched as he followed,
still staring at me. He intentionally dropped

1790
02:23:46.319 --> 02:23:48.200
the piece of paper, looked down
at it, looked at me, and

1791
02:23:48.239 --> 02:23:52.600
walked away. I walked over and
had only said Miguel with his phone number,

1792
02:23:52.680 --> 02:23:56.479
so I called. It was obvious
that he was gay and he wanted

1793
02:23:56.520 --> 02:23:58.360
me, so I told him to
meet me in my room. In twenty

1794
02:23:58.440 --> 02:24:01.000
minutes. When I got up to
my room, I got a phone call

1795
02:24:01.040 --> 02:24:05.079
from Page wanted to know if I
wanted to go to the movies. Hey,

1796
02:24:05.399 --> 02:24:11.319
Canyon, This poor guy, he
gets phone calls like everything interrupts his

1797
02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:16.719
fucking life. Yes, you know, comedy Canyon. I didn't have enough

1798
02:24:16.719 --> 02:24:20.159
time, so I told him I
was going to get room service and stay

1799
02:24:20.200 --> 02:24:22.920
in. Unfortunately, the whole note
dropping, picking me up, and coming

1800
02:24:24.000 --> 02:24:28.319
up to the room was four times
longer than the for play. Minutes later,

1801
02:24:28.520 --> 02:24:33.120
Miguel was finished and he was putting
his clothes back on. I called

1802
02:24:33.159 --> 02:24:35.399
Page back. Yeah, man,
it turns out I can make a movie

1803
02:24:35.399 --> 02:24:43.719
after all, Bucking Canyon. The
movie I saw with Page was what do

1804
02:24:43.760 --> 02:24:50.040
you think the two of them watched? Oh jeez, think about this.

1805
02:24:50.360 --> 02:24:54.760
It's October of ninety nine. Okay, scream no, no, that would

1806
02:24:54.760 --> 02:24:58.879
have been good, but no,
it's October of ninety nine. They're wrestlers.

1807
02:24:58.000 --> 02:25:03.639
There's a movie coming out that is
currently doing festival and Oscar screening.

1808
02:25:03.920 --> 02:25:09.200
Well, Hunting Beyond the Mat.
Oh my god. They went to see

1809
02:25:09.200 --> 02:25:11.559
Beyond the Mat. Yeah, the
story of professional wrestlers and how the sport

1810
02:25:11.719 --> 02:25:16.440
is and how the sport is real, and it really revitalized me. Of

1811
02:25:16.479 --> 02:25:20.079
all the times I thought I was
burned out, that movie made me realize

1812
02:25:20.079 --> 02:25:24.079
how lucky I was to be in
wrestling. I don't know about that bell

1813
02:25:24.520 --> 02:25:28.760
they tried to take away. Yeah, they tried to explain what wrestling is.

1814
02:25:28.840 --> 02:25:31.040
It's comedy, it's drama, and
so much more. But in the

1815
02:25:31.159 --> 02:25:35.440
end, all they can say is
it's just wrestling. There's nothing like it,

1816
02:25:35.719 --> 02:25:39.680
and the people in this unique business
there's nothing like them either. There

1817
02:25:39.719 --> 02:25:41.520
was one wrestler who always hit on
me. Somehow he knew I was gay.

1818
02:25:41.920 --> 02:25:45.559
The closest I ever came to fooling
around with another wrestler was while I

1819
02:25:45.600 --> 02:25:48.799
was working on Ready to Rumble.
While we were staying in the same hotel

1820
02:25:48.799 --> 02:25:50.639
in LA. He called me into
his room and invited me down to the

1821
02:25:50.639 --> 02:25:54.680
hot tub. I already thought the
guy might be gay, but this made

1822
02:25:54.719 --> 02:25:58.600
it seem all the more likely.
I went down and got in. Unfortunately,

1823
02:25:58.600 --> 02:26:01.879
the hot tub was beneath all the
windows at the hotel. I figured

1824
02:26:01.879 --> 02:26:05.319
nothing was going to happen. The
other wrestler showed up with his ice bucket

1825
02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:07.719
and some beers, and to erase
any doubt, He also brought a gay

1826
02:26:07.760 --> 02:26:13.079
porn magazine he got in the Do
you want to read with me? He

1827
02:26:13.159 --> 02:26:18.239
got in a hot tub and asked
if I wanted a beer. Do you

1828
02:26:18.360 --> 02:26:24.600
like magazines? He asked, They're
all right? What a like this guy

1829
02:26:24.680 --> 02:26:28.639
lives? Then his foot felt my
leg. A lot of things were going

1830
02:26:28.680 --> 02:26:31.479
through my head. Just being in
the hot tub was probably too much for

1831
02:26:31.520 --> 02:26:33.920
me, let alone looking at this
mag I need to go back to my

1832
02:26:35.040 --> 02:26:37.159
room, I said, do you
want to come back to mine? He

1833
02:26:37.200 --> 02:26:39.639
said. I thought about it.
No other wrestler had ever hit on me

1834
02:26:39.719 --> 02:26:43.120
before, but I couldn't risk getting
found out. I'm sorry, but no,

1835
02:26:43.479 --> 02:26:46.600
I said, no. Thanks.
On the movie set, they celebrate

1836
02:26:46.639 --> 02:26:50.040
everyone's last day. They made a
pretty big deal when it was my rap

1837
02:26:50.120 --> 02:26:52.840
day, presenting me with one of
the world title belts that was used as

1838
02:26:52.840 --> 02:26:56.879
a prop well, the only world
title he'd ever get. At the wrap

1839
02:26:56.920 --> 02:27:00.600
party, I was drinking, which
was not good for me. For some

1840
02:27:00.680 --> 02:27:03.239
reason, I was angry, and
I took that anger out on Shane.

1841
02:27:03.639 --> 02:27:05.239
At the time, he was schmoozing
with other people rather than talking to me,

1842
02:27:05.280 --> 02:27:09.799
and it pissed me off. I
decided to confront him bad idea I

1843
02:27:09.959 --> 02:27:13.559
hired you, I screamed, you
don't appreciate what I did for you.

1844
02:27:13.600 --> 02:27:18.920
What did your fucking problem? But
even as I yelled he yelled at him,

1845
02:27:18.920 --> 02:27:20.479
part of me said, what the
fuck am I doing? Shane,

1846
02:27:20.479 --> 02:27:24.120
who had no idea what had gotten
into me, protested, why are you

1847
02:27:24.239 --> 02:27:28.000
doing that? I can't do his
fucking n accent, he asked. I

1848
02:27:28.040 --> 02:27:30.840
had no answer. I walked out
on my own wrap party and passed out

1849
02:27:31.040 --> 02:27:33.200
the next day. I felt horrible. I was apologetic, but Shane was

1850
02:27:33.200 --> 02:27:37.799
more confused than hurt. I knew
I think he knew I was a bit

1851
02:27:37.879 --> 02:27:43.520
unhinged. I think I knew it
too. Wow, And that's how he

1852
02:27:43.600 --> 02:27:46.639
leaves it. It's tremendous. And
then yeah, one other wrestler writes about

1853
02:27:46.680 --> 02:27:52.559
it in his book Ray Mysterio Behind
the Mask. Oh do you know this

1854
02:27:52.600 --> 02:27:56.040
book at all? I do.
I'm sure you do. You know them

1855
02:27:56.079 --> 02:28:01.559
all except what the weird ones that
people give us for Christmas gifts? So

1856
02:28:01.680 --> 02:28:03.680
yeah, he talks about it for
a couple of pages. But here we

1857
02:28:03.719 --> 02:28:07.479
go. It was somewhere around here
during nineteen ninety nine that I get involved

1858
02:28:07.479 --> 02:28:09.719
in making a movie. It was
called Ready to Rumble and so far it's

1859
02:28:09.760 --> 02:28:13.440
the only movie I've acted in,
though I'd love to do more. I

1860
02:28:13.440 --> 02:28:18.040
guess hint, hint there, Yeah, what was the one? Well you

1861
02:28:18.079 --> 02:28:20.159
did Ready to Rumble? And I
want to do more. I want to

1862
02:28:20.200 --> 02:28:22.040
do more movies. But what did
he do? It was? Uh,

1863
02:28:22.079 --> 02:28:26.360
do you do it? Oh?
He's not in that though. That's not

1864
02:28:26.479 --> 02:28:28.079
ray Masterio. That's another guy's ray
Maisterio. I think I don't think it's

1865
02:28:28.079 --> 02:28:31.600
actually ray Masterio Junior. I think
it's some other clown as ray you know,

1866
02:28:31.639 --> 02:28:35.719
like the ray Masterio that I saw
do that bunch a show, you

1867
02:28:35.760 --> 02:28:39.719
know, like anyone with a mask
that looks like a rat. I don't

1868
02:28:39.719 --> 02:28:41.440
know. Maybe it is him,
I don't know. I don't think it

1869
02:28:41.479 --> 02:28:43.440
is, though, I don't think
it's a real ray Masterio. Uh.

1870
02:28:43.559 --> 02:28:46.639
The movie stars David Arquette and centers
around a wrestler who is screwed out of

1871
02:28:46.639 --> 02:28:50.479
his title, screwed out of his
title by an evil promotion owner and fellow

1872
02:28:50.520 --> 02:28:54.040
wrestlers. A pair of wrestling fans
take up his cause and help him to

1873
02:28:54.040 --> 02:28:58.840
get his title back. Arquette plays
one of the fans. Oliver Platt is

1874
02:28:58.879 --> 02:29:01.520
the wrestler The company in the movie
is loosely based on WCW and features a

1875
02:29:01.559 --> 02:29:05.399
lot of the guys from our shows. The studio that came out with the

1876
02:29:05.399 --> 02:29:09.959
movie was Warner Brothers Pictures. They
were part of Time Warner WCW's owner at

1877
02:29:09.959 --> 02:29:13.000
the time. WCW range for a
bunch of us to have parts in the

1878
02:29:13.040 --> 02:29:15.559
movie. I didn't know what my
role was until I got to the set

1879
02:29:15.559 --> 02:29:18.840
in La I ended up in a
tag team match with Billy Kidman against Houven

1880
02:29:18.879 --> 02:29:22.639
Tude and Prince Iakia. They just
kind of gave us a rundown. Do

1881
02:29:22.799 --> 02:29:26.200
a two or three minute match.
We'll shoot it and then edit it down

1882
02:29:26.200 --> 02:29:28.280
for the movie. Then they told
us to go for it. It wasn't

1883
02:29:28.319 --> 02:29:31.879
until the director saw the stuff we
were doing that he figured out what he

1884
02:29:31.959 --> 02:29:35.440
wanted to use and began concentrating on
it. One of the things he liked

1885
02:29:35.520 --> 02:29:41.360
was my pop up Frankensteiner. Prince
Aakia was sitting on the top turn buckle.

1886
02:29:41.600 --> 02:29:43.639
Billy Kidman launched me over and I
landed in Iaka and gave him the

1887
02:29:43.639 --> 02:29:48.920
Frankensteiner. I did it three or
four times, nailing it each time,

1888
02:29:50.120 --> 02:29:54.559
including the very last cut. The
director yelled cut was exactly what I thought

1889
02:29:54.600 --> 02:30:00.479
when I came down that last time. Prince didn't let me go. It

1890
02:30:00.559 --> 02:30:05.559
was a slight mistake with big consequences. I landed on my knee and my

1891
02:30:05.639 --> 02:30:11.600
knee rotated inward. It gave way
and a surge of pain. Oh familiar

1892
02:30:11.639 --> 02:30:16.520
pain, too familiar. Yes,
you trash your ACL a couple of times,

1893
02:30:16.520 --> 02:30:18.959
and you know exactly what's wrong.
You see, you just went under

1894
02:30:18.959 --> 02:30:22.040
the knife again. For us,
I believe it. The noise that came

1895
02:30:22.079 --> 02:30:28.520
with it, it was exactly the
same as the first time. That's so

1896
02:30:28.600 --> 02:30:39.479
sad, a ripping sound, o
o sound, but took the life off

1897
02:30:39.479 --> 02:30:46.559
of me, or at least out
of my knee. Luckily, the take

1898
02:30:46.680 --> 02:30:50.559
was a good one. I couldn't
have done another. A doctor examined my

1899
02:30:50.600 --> 02:30:54.719
knee in LA. For some reason, the MRI didn't detect the problem and

1900
02:30:54.760 --> 02:30:58.399
they had to stick this needle and
to find out what exactly was going on.

1901
02:30:58.680 --> 02:31:01.920
Not that he's used to that.
It looked like it was three feet

1902
02:31:01.040 --> 02:31:05.440
long, and it looked like it
was several feet wide once they started moving

1903
02:31:05.479 --> 02:31:11.319
it around, or it felt like
it was a with a felt like it

1904
02:31:11.360 --> 02:31:15.399
was several feet wide. Once they
started moving it around with a barbed hook.

1905
02:31:16.440 --> 02:31:22.239
I actually just got a chill down
my spine when you said that.

1906
02:31:22.319 --> 02:31:26.000
Lapsed funk memory. I know,
why are you guys doing that? Did

1907
02:31:26.079 --> 02:31:28.639
you find it? Oh? We
weren't looking for nothing. We're just having

1908
02:31:28.680 --> 02:31:31.719
fun. We're just picking with a
stick with a needle with a hook on

1909
02:31:31.799 --> 02:31:35.799
it. Yep. I thought wrestlers
wormss feel pain, right? Huh how

1910
02:31:35.840 --> 02:31:41.040
about that for pain? You dumb
fuck loser. Why are you doing this

1911
02:31:41.079 --> 02:31:45.000
to me? I don't care why
I'm doing this to you, but I'm

1912
02:31:45.040 --> 02:31:50.440
gonna keep on doing it because it's
funny for me. I'm exaggerating about the

1913
02:31:50.479 --> 02:31:58.159
size and the hook, but not
in the pain. Exaggerating the size of

1914
02:31:58.159 --> 02:32:05.879
the hook. That's what aw those
lifts in his shoes. It's true.

1915
02:32:07.040 --> 02:32:09.639
If it was, it was part
of a camera system to look inside,

1916
02:32:09.639 --> 02:32:11.600
and they had to move it around. I swear I've never felt such pain

1917
02:32:11.639 --> 02:32:16.319
in my life. Finally they were
done. Not He actually writes that in

1918
02:32:18.760 --> 02:32:22.280
finally they were done? Not Remember
when was a thing? I mean,

1919
02:32:22.319 --> 02:32:24.959
it certainly wasn't a thing in twenty
eleven when this book came out, all

1920
02:32:26.040 --> 02:32:28.799
right, Like it was like nineteen
ninety four. It is not a thing.

1921
02:32:28.879 --> 02:32:33.440
It was not a thing. They'd
been going in the wrong direction.

1922
02:32:35.000 --> 02:32:39.079
We got to pull it out and
do it in the other direction. Do

1923
02:32:39.159 --> 02:32:41.360
what you have to, I told
them, gritty my teeth the test confirmed

1924
02:32:41.399 --> 02:32:45.120
on my body had already told me. I torn my knee again. Once

1925
02:32:45.200 --> 02:32:50.200
more. I headed for doctor Andrews. Didn't you give me a lifetime guarantee

1926
02:32:50.239 --> 02:32:52.600
on this knee? I joked.
I think he may have offered to throw

1927
02:32:52.639 --> 02:32:56.760
in an extra tendon for free.
Fortunately he was able to repair do the

1928
02:32:56.760 --> 02:33:05.639
repair off our throw scoposcopically. Arthroscopically
Is that right? Yeah? No,

1929
02:33:05.719 --> 02:33:07.040
knee surgery is minor, but compared
to the other two, this was a

1930
02:33:07.040 --> 02:33:11.719
breeze. Rehab was a little easier
this time. Practice makes perfect, I

1931
02:33:11.719 --> 02:33:13.680
guess. Except for the injury,
the experience on Ready to Rumble was a

1932
02:33:13.680 --> 02:33:16.399
lot of fun. Before I got
hurt, I'd done a little bit of

1933
02:33:16.399 --> 02:33:18.680
work in some of the scenes,
but the best part was just being on

1934
02:33:18.760 --> 02:33:24.040
the set, soaking up the Hollywood
atmosphere. It was definitely exciting. The

1935
02:33:24.120 --> 02:33:26.520
role was small, but at least
I had the chance to say I'd been

1936
02:33:26.520 --> 02:33:30.479
in a movie. Being on standby, you realize how much time Hollywood actors

1937
02:33:30.520 --> 02:33:33.040
spend making a movie. A lot
of it is just waiting around. Sometimes

1938
02:33:33.040 --> 02:33:37.920
would spend twelve hours a day just
waiting to film for twenty five or thirty

1939
02:33:37.959 --> 02:33:41.559
minutes, and then maybe thirty seconds
of that actually makes it into the movie.

1940
02:33:41.639 --> 02:33:43.559
A lot of people making the same
point I've noticed, I know.

1941
02:33:43.840 --> 02:33:48.079
I mean, also, you know, you're not actually shooting for twenty five

1942
02:33:48.120 --> 02:33:52.159
minutes, you know, like you're
only you know, you shoot for a

1943
02:33:52.200 --> 02:33:54.399
set couple of seconds, you know, like probably a minute or so at

1944
02:33:54.440 --> 02:33:56.000
tops, and then you get to
wait to reset, and then you shoot

1945
02:33:56.000 --> 02:34:00.559
it again for a minute. Like
it's not like you're but anyway, there's

1946
02:34:00.600 --> 02:34:03.040
downtime in wrestling, but nothing like
that. You need an enormous amount of

1947
02:34:03.120 --> 02:34:07.040
patience in the movies. Not one
of my favorite qualities though, like I

1948
02:34:07.079 --> 02:34:11.600
said, not one of my favorite
qualities though, like I said, I'd

1949
02:34:11.639 --> 02:34:18.040
like to give it a try again. And remember when you talked to DTVP,

1950
02:34:18.239 --> 02:34:20.520
he's, you know, punching up
scenes and stuff. He's like he's

1951
02:34:20.520 --> 02:34:28.079
getting into it. Well, he
had he actually wanted to change the finish.

1952
02:34:28.200 --> 02:34:35.440
He had an idea for the ending
that would actually be a little more

1953
02:34:35.879 --> 02:34:43.600
true to life. This is his
you shoot interview. Ready to Rumble was

1954
02:34:43.799 --> 02:34:50.319
awesome because I'll be forty two forever, you know, in awesome shape doing

1955
02:34:50.360 --> 02:34:54.000
crazy stuff, and you know,
people can just pick that up in the

1956
02:34:54.000 --> 02:34:56.360
middle and you get pulled in because
it's just funny. You know. I

1957
02:34:56.399 --> 02:34:58.920
had a whole different end of the
movie too, and I pitched the warmer

1958
02:35:00.040 --> 02:35:03.040
others and everything, and I think
the wrestling community really would have wrapped around

1959
02:35:03.040 --> 02:35:07.159
to the ending. And how I
wanted to do it was when I get

1960
02:35:07.200 --> 02:35:11.000
carried through the doors, right,
and then Jimmy goes through all his stuff

1961
02:35:11.000 --> 02:35:16.559
and then Jimmy comes walking back and
that's now the credits are just starting to

1962
02:35:16.639 --> 02:35:18.799
roll as you're watching Jimmy as he's
talking, guys, I'll see you at

1963
02:35:18.840 --> 02:35:22.159
the barn. Can walk it in
and you see me and I'm standing there

1964
02:35:22.799 --> 02:35:24.959
and he walks up to me,
and you're like, these fuckers are gonna

1965
02:35:24.959 --> 02:35:28.159
go out at the get and then
we do what we do, We hug

1966
02:35:28.200 --> 02:35:31.000
each other. Oh dude, good
wow man. I thought I was gonna

1967
02:35:31.040 --> 02:35:35.040
kill me when he dropped me through
the blah blah blah blah. And with

1968
02:35:35.280 --> 02:35:39.440
that, my scene of the movie
was Now you see Arquette and Con going,

1969
02:35:39.000 --> 02:35:45.440
no, they're friends, you know, and we noticed somewhere like h

1970
02:35:45.440 --> 02:35:48.040
shit. So we walk up to
him, Arket on one side, Con

1971
02:35:48.079 --> 02:35:52.600
on the other. We go,
boys, welcome to the business. Let's

1972
02:35:52.600 --> 02:35:56.840
go have a drink. And that's
how it ends. Like it would have

1973
02:35:56.840 --> 02:35:58.719
been real, you know, then
it would have put all the little bullshit

1974
02:36:00.120 --> 02:36:03.399
all aside. You know. I
like that a lot. Yeah, I

1975
02:36:03.440 --> 02:36:05.360
do too. I mean, you
have to rewrite the entire movie, but

1976
02:36:05.479 --> 02:36:11.760
yeah, I mean, like you
the whole movie. Then the whole movie

1977
02:36:11.840 --> 02:36:16.959
then is dependent on like when you
think about it, if if it is,

1978
02:36:16.159 --> 02:36:20.719
if it is a work, how
are you can't guarantee that fans are

1979
02:36:20.719 --> 02:36:24.879
going to try to rejuvenate this guy, right right? You know, you

1980
02:36:24.879 --> 02:36:30.680
have to redo the entire movie otherwise
just you know, it's really circumstantial.

1981
02:36:31.840 --> 02:36:35.719
So it wraps and the movie is
put together, and it's time to promote

1982
02:36:35.760 --> 02:36:41.959
the film, and oh my god, they built a ridiculously stupid website.

1983
02:36:43.200 --> 02:36:48.520
You can view the main page on
archive dot org. But Russell Crap did

1984
02:36:48.559 --> 02:36:52.479
a hole like they inducted it into
their thing and go take a look at

1985
02:36:52.479 --> 02:36:56.399
it. It's I mean it's not
worth it. It's like it's so stupid,

1986
02:36:56.959 --> 02:37:01.120
it's so goofy, but it's fun, it's fun to go through it.

1987
02:37:01.000 --> 02:37:03.440
It was like not something that I
could really do easily. Yeah here

1988
02:37:03.799 --> 02:37:09.799
yeah, uh and the book right
right, and it's the writers, you

1989
02:37:09.840 --> 02:37:13.040
know, and I think it's so
stupid. Uh. And then of course

1990
02:37:13.079 --> 02:37:20.079
the talent does the press junket wrestlers
and actors. Here's Oliver Platt with I

1991
02:37:20.120 --> 02:37:22.079
don't know what he worked for,
but this guy, the only I could

1992
02:37:22.079 --> 02:37:26.280
get him on YouTube is Diehard Derek. Do you know that name at all?

1993
02:37:26.959 --> 02:37:30.559
Oh? Good? Uh? This
is Oliver Platt doing an interview with

1994
02:37:30.639 --> 02:37:35.920
him. This is this is where, this is where you see. You

1995
02:37:35.920 --> 02:37:39.079
know that Oliver Platt obviously has become
a fan now of wrestling having worked with

1996
02:37:39.120 --> 02:37:43.360
them, right, Oliver Tonan,
but I'm hearing that you're not even a

1997
02:37:43.360 --> 02:37:46.120
big wrestling fan. How do you
end up as Jimmy King and ready to

1998
02:37:46.159 --> 02:37:50.479
rumble? First of all, I
became a big wrestling fan, okay,

1999
02:37:50.319 --> 02:37:54.440
Uh, you know, making the
movie and reading the script brought me into

2000
02:37:54.479 --> 02:37:58.639
wrestling. I mean, the reason
I wasn't a big wrestling fan is because

2001
02:37:58.719 --> 02:38:01.360
I wasn't in on the secret.
You know, I used to flip by

2002
02:38:01.440 --> 02:38:03.719
flip by wrestling, and I go
all those poor guys, they think it's

2003
02:38:03.760 --> 02:38:07.040
real and R and the f of
course they didn't think it was real,

2004
02:38:07.040 --> 02:38:11.920
and that's why they're having so much
fun and uh. But I became a

2005
02:38:11.000 --> 02:38:16.600
huge wrestling fan working on this movie
and gained a tremendous amount of of respect

2006
02:38:16.639 --> 02:38:20.040
for the tradition and the history,
uh of wrestling as well. So all

2007
02:38:20.120 --> 02:38:22.600
that's you know, the craft and
the discipline of it too. Now you're

2008
02:38:22.639 --> 02:38:26.879
also playing a veteran wrestler, a
guy who's maybe washed up but has been

2009
02:38:26.360 --> 02:38:28.959
What kind of research you do for
that? I mean, this really happens

2010
02:38:28.959 --> 02:38:31.280
in this industry. Oh yeah,
pro wrestling. I mean guys like Jake

2011
02:38:31.319 --> 02:38:35.079
the Snake Roberts. Where there's some
of the older guys that you watched and

2012
02:38:35.120 --> 02:38:37.760
maybe their career didn't take off.
They're not living in a lot of luxury

2013
02:38:37.159 --> 02:38:39.200
like you know, hung out with
a lot of wrestlers. Talk to them

2014
02:38:39.239 --> 02:38:43.680
a lot about you know, about
their lives and about what they knew about

2015
02:38:43.719 --> 02:38:46.120
you know, a lot of the
famous stories. Watched a couple of interesting

2016
02:38:46.399 --> 02:38:50.280
documentaries. You know, we used
to watch a lot of old wrestling tapes.

2017
02:38:50.879 --> 02:38:58.440
Uh there's uh you know, well
real well known documentary about uh Brett

2018
02:38:58.440 --> 02:39:05.680
Hart, Yeah and his uh hm
his uh situation with with us Ncricmahan that

2019
02:39:07.399 --> 02:39:11.159
uh I A and and and you
know, this stuff is all really fascinating

2020
02:39:11.200 --> 02:39:16.479
stuff and there's a tremendous wealth of
information out there, and it's a lot,

2021
02:39:16.680 --> 02:39:20.239
frankly, a lot easier to research
now that the cat is out of

2022
02:39:20.239 --> 02:39:22.120
the bag. You know, it
would have been harder a few years ago.

2023
02:39:22.200 --> 02:39:24.639
I think, now, how was
it for you stepping into the ring

2024
02:39:24.680 --> 02:39:26.000
as a wrestler, The bumps had
to take, the training you had to

2025
02:39:26.040 --> 02:39:28.079
go through. I mean, is
there and you find respect for these guys

2026
02:39:28.079 --> 02:39:31.639
that they say wrestling's fake, absolutely
huge, you know. And that's the

2027
02:39:31.680 --> 02:39:33.879
whole thing, you know. I'm
sure you've heard it's like fix not fake,

2028
02:39:33.920 --> 02:39:35.799
you know, but I don't like
to hear fake and it's not fake.

2029
02:39:37.719 --> 02:39:39.360
I mean that to me is where
a lot of my respect for just

2030
02:39:39.399 --> 02:39:45.639
their their their physical courage and skill
and you know, grace and athleticism comes

2031
02:39:45.639 --> 02:39:48.719
from, you know, the the
fact that you don't hear every Tuesday morning

2032
02:39:48.760 --> 02:39:52.280
that somebody got paralyzed The Night Before
is a testament to all that stuff.

2033
02:39:52.360 --> 02:39:56.920
You know. These guys are phenomenal
athletes and performers, you know. And

2034
02:39:58.280 --> 02:40:01.360
what does Oliver take away from this
film? I mean, how much of

2035
02:40:01.440 --> 02:40:03.760
Jimmy King is still in you?
And you still cut a good promo for

2036
02:40:03.840 --> 02:40:09.079
us? Jimmy King? Who you
work for the w CW. Well,

2037
02:40:09.120 --> 02:40:11.760
no, I worked for that.
I'm been in the business nine years.

2038
02:40:11.520 --> 02:40:13.879
I know all their little gimmicks and
shapes. Yeah, you know, I

2039
02:40:15.040 --> 02:40:18.600
I think that this movie is is
does right by wrestling, you know,

2040
02:40:22.040 --> 02:40:24.799
And at the same time, it's
not really it's not a movie about wrestling.

2041
02:40:24.799 --> 02:40:28.840
It's about a movie about three guys. You know. It takes place

2042
02:40:28.879 --> 02:40:30.639
in the world of wrestling, right, you know what I mean it's about

2043
02:40:30.639 --> 02:40:33.559
it's about It's about three losers really
and how they they kind of going around

2044
02:40:33.559 --> 02:40:37.479
this journey where they all feel at
a little better about themselves at the end

2045
02:40:37.479 --> 02:40:39.479
of it. Now now I'm hearing, I don't tell anybody. It's just

2046
02:40:39.520 --> 02:40:43.760
between you meet the millions of people
watching that you really put an ass whipping

2047
02:40:43.760 --> 02:40:46.239
on DDP during the whole training.
That's why he's not wrestling now, That's

2048
02:40:46.239 --> 02:40:50.000
why he's missed a lot of shows
on TV. I mean, agreeing with

2049
02:40:50.079 --> 02:40:52.040
DP, I wasn't gonna talk about
it, but all I'm going to tell

2050
02:40:52.040 --> 02:40:54.760
you is that it wasn't pretty understand. I mean, you know, it's

2051
02:40:54.840 --> 02:41:00.239
like because it's not much of a
likable guy in my face, it's like

2052
02:41:00.239 --> 02:41:03.200
working know what's what's Scott con and
David Arkeet. I mean, if you

2053
02:41:03.239 --> 02:41:05.000
know wrestling and you hung out with
these guys, you know what marks are

2054
02:41:05.200 --> 02:41:09.719
These guys are obviously huge marks.
Are wrestling with the marks of the century.

2055
02:41:09.840 --> 02:41:13.879
You know. I think that's a
key to the charm of the movie.

2056
02:41:13.920 --> 02:41:16.440
You know, it's the fact that
these guys refuse to believe that it's

2057
02:41:16.479 --> 02:41:22.559
not vague. Is that great sea
where we're David not uh and and uh.

2058
02:41:24.159 --> 02:41:28.559
That was a blast. They're they're
great, great and really talented kids,

2059
02:41:28.639 --> 02:41:31.799
you know. And and they turned
me on all the time. They

2060
02:41:31.840 --> 02:41:35.079
all gave me energy and you know, made me be better and and I

2061
02:41:35.120 --> 02:41:39.200
had a really good time with them. So what what's what's this whole thing?

2062
02:41:39.239 --> 02:41:41.399
Now? Are you into wrestling?
I'm going to follow wrestling. I'm

2063
02:41:41.399 --> 02:41:43.719
gonna start hanging out with the boys
more often, get back into the ring,

2064
02:41:43.760 --> 02:41:46.440
maybe a pay per view small kids, man, I tell you is

2065
02:41:46.479 --> 02:41:50.239
that I use like, you know, my kids know that they don't go

2066
02:41:50.280 --> 02:41:52.520
to bed. It's going to be
super lex time, you know what I'm

2067
02:41:52.559 --> 02:42:00.559
saying. Thoughts, I love it. I love that he game around on

2068
02:42:00.600 --> 02:42:03.079
the business. I mean, I
don't think he did, but I don't

2069
02:42:03.079 --> 02:42:05.559
get a couple of things he said
in there. I mean, listen,

2070
02:42:05.600 --> 02:42:09.319
I think what he did was this, and I think this is what happens

2071
02:42:09.360 --> 02:42:15.000
to more people is that they they
they don't become fans of the business.

2072
02:42:15.399 --> 02:42:18.879
They become fans of the guys they
worked with. They become fans of the

2073
02:42:18.879 --> 02:42:22.200
wrestlers. Because I don't think I
don't think Oliver Platt went on to watch

2074
02:42:22.239 --> 02:42:24.040
fucking wrestling week to week and became
a fan of the business. Yeah,

2075
02:42:24.479 --> 02:42:28.159
you know, probably probably not the
same thing with Mickey Rook. I don't

2076
02:42:28.159 --> 02:42:31.200
think Mickey Rourke fucking became a fan
of the business. I think he just

2077
02:42:31.520 --> 02:42:37.559
learned that it's not all you know, it's not all fucking mattresses and pillows.

2078
02:42:37.079 --> 02:42:39.479
Let's the thing about pro wrestlers is
they really know how to be charming

2079
02:42:39.520 --> 02:42:43.920
in small doses, especially around people
that totally see as a springboard to another

2080
02:42:43.959 --> 02:42:50.680
potential career. Absolutely yep. And
do they You know, that small taste

2081
02:42:50.719 --> 02:42:56.479
you get leaves out the deep unpleasantries
and cynicisms exactly, you know, on

2082
02:42:56.600 --> 02:43:00.719
the road, and also just the
the you know, they had the rattle,

2083
02:43:01.040 --> 02:43:03.639
you know, as the snake doesn't
come out. I had the ball

2084
02:43:03.680 --> 02:43:07.000
as well. That's right, brother, I'm not playing to hide the ball

2085
02:43:07.040 --> 02:43:11.280
anymore, dude. Brother Goldberg also
did an interview with this guy on the

2086
02:43:11.319 --> 02:43:16.159
press junket, and he actually didn't
I guess he almost didn't do the film,

2087
02:43:16.959 --> 02:43:20.200
so he claims. At the beginning, I didn't even want to be

2088
02:43:20.239 --> 02:43:30.000
involved. I was under the misconception
that that I would be stereotyped again playing

2089
02:43:30.040 --> 02:43:33.399
a wrestler, obviously, which is
what I'm playing in here. But then

2090
02:43:33.440 --> 02:43:39.319
again, I didn't take any consideration
who'd be surrounding me. So the positive

2091
02:43:39.479 --> 02:43:43.000
far outweigh the negative, was no
question about it. So I won't put

2092
02:43:43.000 --> 02:43:48.959
my name likeness on anything that's going
to be a bomb, or even I

2093
02:43:50.079 --> 02:43:52.360
consider to be a bomb, or
even to be in bad taste in any

2094
02:43:52.399 --> 02:43:58.319
way, shape or form. I
don't do comedy when it pertains to my

2095
02:43:58.440 --> 02:44:05.399
character. And I don't do distasteful
things. That's to take care of the

2096
02:44:05.399 --> 02:44:11.079
comedy part. Also, you don't
put on a you don't put someone on

2097
02:44:11.120 --> 02:44:13.639
a thing that's gonna bomb. Your
name on a thing that's gonna bomb.

2098
02:44:13.680 --> 02:44:16.440
What what do you call this?
Pal? How do you know beforehand?

2099
02:44:16.440 --> 02:44:20.760
Any of it's And then he was
asked, this was funny, He asked

2100
02:44:20.760 --> 02:44:24.520
what He was asked what it was
like to play a wrestler. Well,

2101
02:44:24.680 --> 02:44:26.879
let let's just cut a promo here, so to speak. I mean,

2102
02:44:26.959 --> 02:44:30.920
let's make this more of a wrestling
considering the fact it's a film. Okay,

2103
02:44:31.280 --> 02:44:33.760
but you're playing a wrestler in this
movie. Now you are a wrestler.

2104
02:44:33.799 --> 02:44:37.280
But what's like playing a wrestler?
Acting as a wrestler. It's easy

2105
02:44:37.280 --> 02:44:41.760
because all you gotta do is be
me. They only asked me to do

2106
02:44:41.639 --> 02:44:45.040
at w CW. They asked me
to go out there and be me.

2107
02:44:45.840 --> 02:44:48.159
In this movie, they asked me
to go out there and be me.

2108
02:44:48.280 --> 02:44:54.760
So in a sense, it's fairly
easy. Although the the setting is quite

2109
02:44:54.799 --> 02:44:58.079
different and the end result is quite
different. They're just asking me to go

2110
02:44:58.079 --> 02:45:00.719
out and be me. That's easy. I go to do his look at

2111
02:45:00.760 --> 02:45:03.760
Dallas and listen to him talk for
about thirty minutes. I get irritated enough

2112
02:45:03.760 --> 02:45:09.000
to want to kill somebody, and
there you go. Yep, yeah,

2113
02:45:09.879 --> 02:45:15.639
you know Goldberg. Colberg is so
fucking annoying, especially in that era.

2114
02:45:15.840 --> 02:45:18.760
Oh he's well so gotten too,
because you know, he knows he got

2115
02:45:18.760 --> 02:45:22.079
out Fox at Star K ninety eight
and it's it's fucking with his head.

2116
02:45:22.920 --> 02:45:24.680
He he. It was just such
a funk. I mean, he still

2117
02:45:24.760 --> 02:45:30.159
is. He's such a fucking prick. He just know. He's such a

2118
02:45:30.399 --> 02:45:33.680
bitch. I haven't. I don't
like him at all. I can't stand

2119
02:45:33.760 --> 02:45:41.840
him. But speaking of DVP,
though, he sting and David Arquette made

2120
02:45:41.879 --> 02:45:46.120
an appearance on the Do you remember
this the Roseanne Show? I don't remember

2121
02:45:46.120 --> 02:45:50.440
the Roseanne. Do you remember Roseanne
show? Like Roseanne bar Roseanne Arnold,

2122
02:45:50.520 --> 02:45:54.760
Roseanne whatever the fuck her name is
had a talk show. I think after

2123
02:45:54.799 --> 02:46:01.399
the success of of Rosie. You
know, she had a daytime alike.

2124
02:46:01.840 --> 02:46:05.159
She had a daytime talk show,
but that was treated like a primetime talk

2125
02:46:05.200 --> 02:46:09.959
show, you know, like Ellen
two for that matter. So they did

2126
02:46:09.000 --> 02:46:18.000
a typical interview to hype the film. Then things got bizarre. Would you

2127
02:46:18.120 --> 02:46:24.559
like to know more. I would. I'm going to share my screen with

2128
02:46:24.600 --> 02:46:35.319
you because this is truly interesting and
fascinating. Do you have my screen?

2129
02:46:35.760 --> 02:46:41.440
Yes, ladies, ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, you're about to

2130
02:46:41.440 --> 02:46:43.559
witness witness and once in a lifetime
of event of and then for the first

2131
02:46:43.600 --> 02:46:48.319
time on national television, devilment two
of the world's tabs. Opponents want to

2132
02:46:48.319 --> 02:46:56.399
go ahead to head ahead for the
Rose Ange Championship. Bolt please please welcome

2133
02:46:56.399 --> 02:47:00.600
the star already read and around morrow
straight from a commune in Virginia up possibly

2134
02:47:00.600 --> 02:47:13.760
a cult David our cut cat got
cat dot. Well, all right,

2135
02:47:15.680 --> 02:47:18.280
what you don't know now, ladies
and gentlemen, gentlemen, make way way

2136
02:47:18.360 --> 02:47:22.200
for the domestic goddess god Is Queen
asked as to Cleopatra, roll into one

2137
02:47:22.280 --> 02:47:28.280
one please love the one on the
flake from Salt Lake leg like Queen Rosane,

2138
02:47:31.799 --> 02:47:39.440
what is happening? Get ready?
You didn't let it the wing by

2139
02:47:39.520 --> 02:47:46.600
d d P. Yeah, I
got his hand underneath their kid. That's

2140
02:47:48.239 --> 02:47:54.120
first rule. Are you ready ready? Are you ready? Ready? Ready?

2141
02:47:54.479 --> 02:48:01.479
Oh? God? Let the game
speaking cat versus Rose hand Yep,

2142
02:48:03.639 --> 02:48:07.840
he bumps. She didn't do anything, he bumps. Look, she pushed

2143
02:48:07.879 --> 02:48:20.559
him. Don't always any fun at
all? Here the thanks the worse thing

2144
02:48:22.399 --> 02:48:26.399
for the worst thing. He kicked
out. He kicked out David ar cat

2145
02:48:26.520 --> 02:48:35.959
kicked out. Sting is in the
ring. He's got no face paint on

2146
02:48:37.079 --> 02:48:41.200
him. He's got a cane he
gave David arc had a cane and he's

2147
02:48:41.280 --> 02:48:48.200
hitting the rose head with a cane
and now he's walking like an old man.

2148
02:48:50.799 --> 02:48:56.600
Haro. Sting told him the hitter
win. Then god, I thought

2149
02:48:56.639 --> 02:49:09.239
that was the guy that Halloween ascot. Its o hokyist David, I mean

2150
02:49:09.360 --> 02:49:16.399
d d P is spanking Roseanne.
Our kid is on the second rope.

2151
02:49:16.799 --> 02:49:24.719
He misses a shot. Get up
again, here's on. He goes up

2152
02:49:24.760 --> 02:49:28.440
to Thys. Push me on my
eyes, wa me overhead with this thing?

2153
02:49:28.280 --> 02:49:39.200
Who instances walk brace. I don't
like that woman Sting in the corner,

2154
02:49:41.600 --> 02:49:58.559
splashing like what the fuck is going
on? And another splash. She's

2155
02:49:58.639 --> 02:50:03.879
like barely touches him. It's awful, and he gets on. She's riding

2156
02:50:03.000 --> 02:50:13.879
him on his back. He's down. Wait a minute, he's on his

2157
02:50:13.000 --> 02:50:18.520
stomach and stakes, how did you
end up doing a job? Oh my

2158
02:50:18.639 --> 02:50:33.840
god, Page whoa and guessed,
okay, now that's fun. There was

2159
02:50:33.920 --> 02:50:39.239
no dialogue. It was just like
DDP go to whole time. I mean,

2160
02:50:39.840 --> 02:50:45.040
is that not the most fucking it
really is? Like, what the

2161
02:50:45.159 --> 02:50:50.280
fuck? What was the idea?
Well, they were promoting again, they

2162
02:50:50.319 --> 02:50:52.840
did an interview beforehand, like he
normally do. But then what was the

2163
02:50:52.959 --> 02:50:56.799
Rosie show going for? That's my
question. I have no I I guess

2164
02:50:56.840 --> 02:51:07.680
to have Roseanne getting the fucking ring. So this movie did exactly what it

2165
02:51:07.799 --> 02:51:13.920
set out to not do, just
make complete yockery of wrestling fans. Yep,

2166
02:51:13.440 --> 02:51:16.799
leave you with no other conclusion to
draw than the most exact fans are

2167
02:51:16.799 --> 02:51:28.479
missing a chromosome exactly and they are
so oh this was funny. So according

2168
02:51:28.600 --> 02:51:35.000
to uh To uh To, the
to Meltzer and the Observer, so you

2169
02:51:35.079 --> 02:51:39.680
know at you know, at the
end of shows, you know, specifically

2170
02:51:39.280 --> 02:51:45.719
shows that lead into the the the
eleven o'clock news or like the news coming

2171
02:51:45.799 --> 02:51:48.879
up news to ten or whatever on
cable change change, so they have like

2172
02:51:48.040 --> 02:51:52.280
a little hook to get the whoever's
watching that show to come watch the news

2173
02:51:52.360 --> 02:51:58.399
afterwards. So there was at the
end of an episode of w w E

2174
02:51:58.520 --> 02:52:03.920
SmackDown, there was a hook on
UPN for the news, the local news

2175
02:52:03.959 --> 02:52:09.360
in New York to keep the fans
watching, and the anchors. The hook

2176
02:52:09.520 --> 02:52:13.040
was they were talking about Ready to
Rumble, and allegedly, according to Dave,

2177
02:52:13.239 --> 02:52:18.520
they said the following quote, Hey, WW fans, there's a new

2178
02:52:18.600 --> 02:52:26.639
movie out with some of the WWE's
biggest stars. Okay, not mentioning w

2179
02:52:26.760 --> 02:52:31.879
CW one time. I used to
happen to them way too long, I'm

2180
02:52:31.920 --> 02:52:35.360
sure. I'm sure, especially then, Yeah, especially then, like all

2181
02:52:35.360 --> 02:52:39.079
wrestling was WWE at that point.
Uh, And then you know that was

2182
02:52:39.079 --> 02:52:43.319
about it. Nothing else was done
to promote the film at all anywhere else?

2183
02:52:46.280 --> 02:52:50.680
Oh sorry, wait, didn't didn't
David Arquette do something on WW television?

2184
02:52:50.760 --> 02:52:56.200
Didn't that happen? Oh? Yeah? Oh here you know what I

2185
02:52:56.520 --> 02:53:01.399
happen to get this thing from you. This is Vince Russo on k Fabe

2186
02:53:01.479 --> 02:53:05.159
Commentaries, sharing talking about all the
classic characters. All I know, seriously,

2187
02:53:05.239 --> 02:53:09.879
everybody's on this one, talking about
the origins of the David Arquette,

2188
02:53:11.200 --> 02:53:15.600
like bringing him on to TV.
The first time David Arkette's name comes up

2189
02:53:15.799 --> 02:53:20.360
is when what do you mean the
first time? The first time his name

2190
02:53:20.399 --> 02:53:26.200
comes up as someone to bring in
it was probably And again, thirteen years

2191
02:53:26.200 --> 02:53:31.840
ago is a long time if I
had to, you know, it doesn't

2192
02:53:31.879 --> 02:53:35.479
matter how long it is anymore with
these guys. It could be you know,

2193
02:53:35.719 --> 02:53:39.399
one year ago is a long time. Absolutely all. That's all.

2194
02:53:39.559 --> 02:53:43.559
This that is the that right there. You know, remember how we were,

2195
02:53:43.879 --> 02:53:48.879
Remember how during Beyond the Matt Blaustein
said, you know, the way

2196
02:53:50.000 --> 02:53:56.879
to know that a that a wrestler
is is bullshitting you is is to they

2197
02:53:56.959 --> 02:54:01.440
say they call you brother, like
Jake kept calling him brother, and so

2198
02:54:01.600 --> 02:54:05.079
he was like, you know,
same thing here, I'd say, whenever

2199
02:54:05.200 --> 02:54:07.360
they talk about how wow, you
know it's been you know, it's a

2200
02:54:07.440 --> 02:54:11.639
long time since I you know,
they know exactly what happened. They remember

2201
02:54:11.760 --> 02:54:15.399
every fucking detail of it all,
but they don't want to say it because

2202
02:54:15.440 --> 02:54:18.680
it makes them look bad. That's
what I believe. Yeah, well,

2203
02:54:18.760 --> 02:54:24.479
yeah, it introduces there's nothing really
flattering that they can say. It doesn't

2204
02:54:24.520 --> 02:54:28.319
actively make them look bad, but
there's no there's no it's scenario. It

2205
02:54:28.399 --> 02:54:30.760
might make them actually look bad,
but they don't want to. So they're

2206
02:54:30.760 --> 02:54:35.040
gonna they're gonna pull pull that in
and and and fine, tune their story,

2207
02:54:35.120 --> 02:54:37.200
and then someone does go in on
specifics, right, and then all

2208
02:54:37.200 --> 02:54:41.840
of a sudden they remember it all
right here, you know, he's continuing

2209
02:54:41.879 --> 02:54:50.319
here, think back that far.
I would say the first time it was

2210
02:54:50.520 --> 02:54:56.079
probably brought to my attention was probably
by Page, and it was probably Page

2211
02:54:56.159 --> 02:55:01.040
telling me David Orcat loves a business. He's a big fan of the business.

2212
02:55:01.200 --> 02:55:05.040
You know, we should do something
with him type of thing. And

2213
02:55:05.159 --> 02:55:09.879
I mean that was really kind of
long before anything took place, but he

2214
02:55:11.440 --> 02:55:16.959
was probably the first one to come
to me with the name. Okay,

2215
02:55:16.479 --> 02:55:24.200
all right, got it. So
Arquet makes his first appearance on ww television

2216
02:55:24.360 --> 02:55:28.719
on April twelfth, two thousand,
episode of Thunder Ah was it now?

2217
02:55:28.959 --> 02:55:39.440
It was thunder Now. Interestingly enough, this all this stuff happened after the

2218
02:55:39.520 --> 02:55:43.079
movie came out. Do you know
that, Yes, I do. Okay,

2219
02:55:43.239 --> 02:55:46.280
yeah, yes, I remember.
It was sort of like it was

2220
02:55:46.319 --> 02:55:50.000
already after the first weekend. It
was already was bad. His name was

2221
02:55:50.040 --> 02:55:54.520
already associated with failure reviews VI this
movie. Yeah. Yeah, So they're

2222
02:55:54.559 --> 02:55:56.159
trying to make it more depressing.
They're trying to make it a little more

2223
02:55:56.319 --> 02:56:00.399
right, They're trying to make it
they're trying to kind of, you know,

2224
02:56:00.879 --> 02:56:05.479
get people to go see the movie. So he's you know, he's

2225
02:56:05.760 --> 02:56:11.479
he Shavanni announces him, sees shows
him, you know at ringside, and

2226
02:56:11.680 --> 02:56:16.719
then at the end Arquette goes and
makes us say for DDP as Jared's beating

2227
02:56:16.799 --> 02:56:28.159
him down. And then Arquette took
a serious beating Jared from behind him.

2228
02:56:28.280 --> 02:56:31.319
Cook. This does not get the
page to the matches over. You think

2229
02:56:31.360 --> 02:56:37.159
they're done the scripture chart because he's
further turn hardy like David r ke David

2230
02:56:37.280 --> 02:56:41.120
ar Kett, David Arkett has come
into the audience. Is David our Kett

2231
02:56:41.319 --> 02:56:43.479
gets sent over the top by Jeff
Jared hit Jared, give it up.

2232
02:56:43.600 --> 02:56:48.639
It's a sick bump too. Yeah, he takes it hard. It's like

2233
02:56:48.760 --> 02:56:52.920
he go, he soars over that
over the top rope and it looks fantastic.

2234
02:56:54.319 --> 02:56:58.280
Our Cats, Jared is making this
one personal. Our Kt just couldn't

2235
02:56:58.319 --> 02:57:03.000
take it out. Oh my god, jerks dropped in chests directly across the

2236
02:57:03.120 --> 02:57:07.959
steel safer will I hate to see
this happen? Right? Did like Mark

2237
02:57:09.000 --> 02:57:11.799
Keet, but he never stop permut, he never so jumped in the ring,

2238
02:57:11.840 --> 02:57:15.799
but he strint chip with DDP has
just been too close. It's all

2239
02:57:15.799 --> 02:57:18.319
about emotion and intensity. He just
couldn't help itself. Oh you know,

2240
02:57:18.440 --> 02:57:22.000
it couldn't be type of the stroke, but David, I'll get in the

2241
02:57:22.079 --> 02:57:26.159
stroke gets down, d d pay
is down, get ddy pick of pete.

2242
02:57:28.319 --> 02:57:31.079
Do you recall this at all?
I sure do you do? Yeah?

2243
02:57:31.079 --> 02:57:35.200
Yeah, I was actually surprised to
learn. You know, I guess

2244
02:57:35.200 --> 02:57:39.680
they were trying to build up Thunder
still even though it was Yeah, because

2245
02:57:39.719 --> 02:57:45.719
like everything happened on Thunder, he
wins the title. Yeah, because that

2246
02:57:45.840 --> 02:57:50.600
was the the bishof Russo relaunch was
right. It was right around this time,

2247
02:57:50.399 --> 02:57:54.719
tenth or something, yep, And
there was, yeah, a concerted

2248
02:57:54.760 --> 02:57:58.600
effort that they wrote Thunder just as
hard as they wrote Nitro Wow in the

2249
02:57:58.680 --> 02:58:05.159
beginning three Yeah, yeah, well
and it includes this. So the following

2250
02:58:05.280 --> 02:58:13.479
Nitro, Uh, there's a there's
a promo segment between DDP and and Jared

2251
02:58:13.520 --> 02:58:18.559
and Bischoff. Jared Bishoff were in
cahoots and they beat up DDP and our

2252
02:58:18.600 --> 02:58:26.680
Kett again saves DDP and Uh.
Bischoff afterwards is furious and cuts this promo

2253
02:58:28.799 --> 02:58:41.280
against our cat our Catt. Let's
just make that clear. I think I

2254
02:58:41.360 --> 02:58:43.600
might need to keep that one.
Yeah, that that is actually money.

2255
02:58:46.040 --> 02:58:50.079
All during all the intrigue with you
know Hogan and the f U N B.

2256
02:58:50.239 --> 02:58:54.239
Hogan and all the build up.
Yeah yeah, yeah, oh yeah

2257
02:58:54.440 --> 02:58:58.559
yeah yeah Hogan, Hogan makes an
appearance at some point in this whole thing.

2258
02:59:01.120 --> 02:59:07.559
Damn it our cat as mister Courtney
Cox, you did that to me.

2259
02:59:07.520 --> 02:59:13.559
You come to my house and embarrassed
me in front of my pants.

2260
02:59:13.360 --> 02:59:16.600
Who the hell do you think you
are? You want to get in the

2261
02:59:16.680 --> 02:59:24.120
raging, You'll get in the way
with me me all right, all right,

2262
02:59:24.200 --> 02:59:28.120
here, it's a deal. I'm
gonna what eight hundred take your blood?

2263
02:59:30.600 --> 02:59:33.399
H Yeah, here's accepting pay something
else. Let's make it a little

2264
02:59:33.479 --> 02:59:41.639
interesting if I'm pin you in the
ring here tonight. DP get to shut

2265
02:59:41.719 --> 02:59:50.399
it ju dead for the title Boa
in the Day You want it, I

2266
02:59:50.559 --> 02:59:54.879
says, they playing had to stop
you want you got it? I'm gonna

2267
02:59:56.000 --> 03:00:05.040
tear your pat rear him out of
there. Thoughts, riveting television, wonderful

2268
03:00:05.120 --> 03:00:09.280
work all around. What do you
remember? What do you remember about?

2269
03:00:09.280 --> 03:00:13.079
But I just remember it being so
desperate, such an attempt to take whatever

2270
03:00:13.200 --> 03:00:18.200
sliver of celebrity they could afford to
force on the television in a bid to

2271
03:00:18.520 --> 03:00:22.760
generate some kind of buzz about WCW. Yeah. I mean Russo talks endlessly

2272
03:00:22.799 --> 03:00:26.760
about how there was one little item
in the USA Today about how David arkitts,

2273
03:00:26.760 --> 03:00:31.479
Oh my god, everybody, everybody
and their fucking mom talks about the

2274
03:00:31.600 --> 03:00:39.200
USA Today thing. So many people
rational because people are so desperately grasping for

2275
03:00:39.360 --> 03:00:50.200
justification through this. It's awful.
So our cat beats uh bishoff cage matches

2276
03:00:50.239 --> 03:00:54.399
on DDP wins the title from Jarrett
and then the rematch is set up.

2277
03:00:54.799 --> 03:00:58.520
That was like two thousand w w
W oh god, it was a hot

2278
03:00:58.600 --> 03:01:03.239
potato on Nobel Everyone History of the
Best. I think we calculated it one

2279
03:01:03.319 --> 03:01:05.959
time. I think we calculated one
time. It was like in like twenty

2280
03:01:05.040 --> 03:01:09.520
times something like that. It changed
hands. It had like Kevin Nash winning

2281
03:01:09.559 --> 03:01:13.680
the title in a tag team match
on Thunder. Well you get David Arquette

2282
03:01:13.680 --> 03:01:16.520
winning in a tag team match.
Say nothing of David Arquette. So yeah,

2283
03:01:16.639 --> 03:01:24.120
the so DDP wins it and the
rematch is set up for Thunder title

2284
03:01:24.680 --> 03:01:30.600
given to whoever makes the pinfall.
And it was the thunder was in Syracuse

2285
03:01:31.040 --> 03:01:33.799
made me think, you know what
the first thing is? They said it

2286
03:01:33.879 --> 03:01:37.959
was in Syracuse, and I'm like, why does shit happen in Syracuse?

2287
03:01:39.600 --> 03:01:43.280
Sean Michaels gets beaten up by two
hundred and fifty Marines, and then now

2288
03:01:43.520 --> 03:01:46.639
this shit happens in Syracuse, Like, what the fuck's going on with wrestling

2289
03:01:46.719 --> 03:01:52.799
in Syracuse? Listen? I know
this story has been told frontward, backwards,

2290
03:01:52.879 --> 03:02:00.559
sideways, it's appropriate upside down during
intercourse, but I don't I don't

2291
03:02:00.600 --> 03:02:03.799
know. Please fill in any blanks
that you may have about this too as

2292
03:02:03.840 --> 03:02:09.840
well, if if something something strikes
you, But I didn't know the whole

2293
03:02:09.879 --> 03:02:13.159
story, and I just really didn't
know some of the behind the scenes stuff

2294
03:02:13.239 --> 03:02:18.399
as well that was going on.
So uh, according to the Nitro book

2295
03:02:18.600 --> 03:02:26.200
and the following clip, I'm gonna
play it, Yeah, I guess Tony

2296
03:02:26.280 --> 03:02:35.680
Shavanni takes ownership of it in a
way, but it definitely seems like Russo

2297
03:02:35.799 --> 03:02:39.360
threw him a fucking fastball right down
the middle, if you ask me.

2298
03:02:39.479 --> 03:02:46.559
But this is from from what happens
when a lot of people blame you for

2299
03:02:46.799 --> 03:02:50.079
David Arquette winning the world title.
Oh I knew that would come to I

2300
03:02:50.159 --> 03:02:52.959
knew that would come up in this
fucking thing eventually. Yeah. Well,

2301
03:02:54.040 --> 03:02:56.520
I mean, do you want to
defend that shit? Yeah, I'll defend

2302
03:02:56.600 --> 03:02:58.479
it. Uh, I will defend
it. To say that, when the

2303
03:02:58.520 --> 03:03:01.959
meeting was and I've talked to Vince
Russo about this as we're seeing the cage

2304
03:03:03.000 --> 03:03:07.559
being lowered here now, I talked
to Vince Russo on his podcast or YouTube

2305
03:03:07.639 --> 03:03:13.479
channel whatever. He remembers me saying
at the end of the meeting, did

2306
03:03:13.559 --> 03:03:16.799
you ever think about having David Arqutt
going over? But here's how I remember.

2307
03:03:16.840 --> 03:03:20.719
At the meeting adjourned and I'm sitting
there and Vince looks at me and

2308
03:03:20.920 --> 03:03:24.559
Vince says, is there something you
needed to tell me? I said,

2309
03:03:24.680 --> 03:03:28.799
no, not at all. He
said, you don't like the finish?

2310
03:03:28.879 --> 03:03:31.040
I said, no, you do
what you want, buddy, because you

2311
03:03:31.120 --> 03:03:35.959
know I was an ass kiss sure, And he said, are you thinking

2312
03:03:37.040 --> 03:03:43.399
maybe our quette should go over?
And I'm said would it hurt? Would

2313
03:03:43.440 --> 03:03:48.879
people expect it? And he said
that's the hell of an idea? And

2314
03:03:50.159 --> 03:03:54.360
that's how it. So. I
was very much in the discussion. It

2315
03:03:54.520 --> 03:03:58.920
was his call, and he asked
me what I thought and I thought it

2316
03:03:58.920 --> 03:04:01.399
would not be a bad idea.
Yeah, I know a lot of people

2317
03:04:01.440 --> 03:04:05.399
were pissed off saying, oh it
did Grendi denigrated the world title. It

2318
03:04:05.479 --> 03:04:09.040
didn't make funck all. We were
on the USA Today the next day,

2319
03:04:09.639 --> 03:04:13.920
Courtney Cox and Kurt Russell were on
our show the very next week. We

2320
03:04:13.040 --> 03:04:20.520
got the rub we never got and
he dropped the belt back. No,

2321
03:04:20.719 --> 03:04:24.719
there was no rub. There was
no rub. It's you know, I'm

2322
03:04:24.799 --> 03:04:26.079
not going to begrudge people for trying. He just not doesn't have to be

2323
03:04:26.120 --> 03:04:28.879
the world champion, right, agree, you could do anything with the guy.

2324
03:04:28.959 --> 03:04:31.399
You know, Mike Tyson didn't have
to come on Run nineteen ninety eight

2325
03:04:31.639 --> 03:04:35.040
and win the world title. To
me on Sports Center for a week.

2326
03:04:35.079 --> 03:04:37.920
You just had to do an angle
one to the top wrestlers, right David,

2327
03:04:37.959 --> 03:04:39.360
Our kids out there taking incredible bumps. You think, have him take

2328
03:04:39.399 --> 03:04:43.040
a wild bump. That'll get you
just as much publicity. You I mean,

2329
03:04:43.520 --> 03:04:46.520
for God's sakes, you got you
got fucking uh newspapers all over the

2330
03:04:46.559 --> 03:04:50.799
place with that goddamn Jay Leno photo
with the arm boxs me. You know,

2331
03:04:50.879 --> 03:04:52.319
Yeah, it's not like they didn't
even know how to do it.

2332
03:04:52.799 --> 03:04:56.840
I think that's the desperation. It's
not bringing in our cat, it's thinking

2333
03:04:56.879 --> 03:05:00.559
that that's not an it's thinking that, you know, no one people care

2334
03:05:00.639 --> 03:05:03.600
so little about WCW that if you
bring David Urqette, nobody's going to care.

2335
03:05:03.639 --> 03:05:05.399
We have to have that extra oomph
of the actually won a pro wrestling

2336
03:05:05.399 --> 03:05:11.399
world title, which all that does
is add the most unflattering tone to every

2337
03:05:11.520 --> 03:05:13.639
article you could possibly generate. Yes, that you could ever imagine. Yes,

2338
03:05:13.719 --> 03:05:18.399
I mean, you just you know, it's an unforced error and everybody

2339
03:05:18.520 --> 03:05:22.440
knows it. I mean, but
it was just you know, no no

2340
03:05:22.479 --> 03:05:28.200
one, no one had any idea
what would give WCW a heartbeat. Again,

2341
03:05:28.360 --> 03:05:31.079
by that point in two thousand,
nobody, I mean, or at

2342
03:05:31.120 --> 03:05:33.680
least nobody I've heard of. It's
only nobody was working there. No,

2343
03:05:33.040 --> 03:05:35.959
not at all. I mean like
that's russo too. Like you know,

2344
03:05:35.280 --> 03:05:37.760
oh, we had a meeting and
everybody said book or team for bash at

2345
03:05:37.760 --> 03:05:41.840
the beach. Remember that, yep, get somehow Bischoff knows nothing about it.

2346
03:05:41.040 --> 03:05:46.600
Well here his vote's important. Yeah, Well again, nobody in wrestling

2347
03:05:48.040 --> 03:05:50.280
was at the meeting. If they
didn't, if it didn't make them look

2348
03:05:50.280 --> 03:05:54.319
good. I think that's a Russo
mo for sure is to you know,

2349
03:05:54.600 --> 03:05:56.520
this is going to be a tough
call. This is gonna be a decision

2350
03:05:56.520 --> 03:06:00.239
that might come back to bite me. Let me try to find some way,

2351
03:06:00.920 --> 03:06:03.159
yep, to say that you know
it was consensus, or that I

2352
03:06:03.200 --> 03:06:07.000
can point to one or two other
people. Well, you also have to

2353
03:06:07.079 --> 03:06:11.280
disagree with if you disagree with,
that's right. Here's uh this is This

2354
03:06:11.440 --> 03:06:16.600
is from the Nitro book. Immediately
Russo reformed the meeting running the idea passed

2355
03:06:16.680 --> 03:06:22.239
quote ten to fifteen people he claims
is there. It is, including Bishoff

2356
03:06:22.319 --> 03:06:26.680
himself. According to Russo, his
any proposal met zero resistance, meaning that

2357
03:06:26.799 --> 03:06:31.360
in a swerve no one could see
coming, David Harquette would become world heavyweight

2358
03:06:31.440 --> 03:06:37.760
champion. We were going to do
the predictable thing, Russo told Russell Line

2359
03:06:37.799 --> 03:06:43.120
a week later. We were gonna
do the tag match and Jarrett was gonna

2360
03:06:43.200 --> 03:06:48.120
get the title back. I said, wait a minute, Eric, the

2361
03:06:48.360 --> 03:06:54.440
whole idea of putting the belt on
page was to be unpredictable. Now we're

2362
03:06:54.479 --> 03:07:00.040
gonna turn around tonight and do exactly
what everyone thinks we're gonna do, and

2363
03:07:00.120 --> 03:07:03.719
that's put the belt Back on Jarrett, I said, we can't do that.

2364
03:07:03.920 --> 03:07:07.799
We're we're predictable again. So at
the building we came up with the

2365
03:07:07.879 --> 03:07:11.639
David Arquette scenario. I went over
to Jeff and said, Jeff, sit

2366
03:07:11.719 --> 03:07:16.159
down, I gotta lay something on
you. You know. Jeff laughed because

2367
03:07:16.200 --> 03:07:20.159
he knows it. He knows me, he knows how I write television,

2368
03:07:20.200 --> 03:07:26.680
and he trust me because he knows
I was successful before. So Jeff really

2369
03:07:26.760 --> 03:07:31.079
didn't have a problem with it,
right, And well, let's see,

2370
03:07:31.159 --> 03:07:35.959
Jeff, this is Jarrett talking on
his podcast. He said those things before

2371
03:07:35.040 --> 03:07:39.040
Jeff had a podcast. Yeah,
right when you first got to the building

2372
03:07:39.120 --> 03:07:43.079
that night in Rochester, I'm sorry, in Syracuse, on the twenty fifth

2373
03:07:43.120 --> 03:07:48.440
of April, did you think you
were winning the belt back? Did not

2374
03:07:48.680 --> 03:07:52.360
know? I know, because literally, especially between Nitro and Thunder, so

2375
03:07:52.520 --> 03:07:58.719
many different moving parts and things were
changing, and you know, it's it's

2376
03:07:58.920 --> 03:08:03.440
it's you know, going into Nitro, it's all kinds of different moving parts

2377
03:08:03.479 --> 03:08:07.239
and different ideas minus the talent for
the most part. Then all of a

2378
03:08:07.280 --> 03:08:13.000
sudden, you have Nitro and you've
got twenty thirty wrestlers throwing their ideas against

2379
03:08:13.000 --> 03:08:16.520
the wall. And trying to get
involved and then the fatigue of the road

2380
03:08:16.639 --> 03:08:20.000
or whatever you want to call it. So no, I didn't have a

2381
03:08:20.200 --> 03:08:24.760
clue. But as I'm hearing the
top of your commentary right then, you're

2382
03:08:24.799 --> 03:08:28.040
talking about WCW was hoping to get
publicity. You know, I think back

2383
03:08:28.120 --> 03:08:31.440
to those nineties and even early you
know, I mean late eighties when you

2384
03:08:31.559 --> 03:08:37.040
add Russell Mania and Liberachi and Ali
and Special Timekeeper and that kind of stuff

2385
03:08:37.079 --> 03:08:41.159
to get attractions. Who's going to
sing America the Beautiful? And then get

2386
03:08:41.200 --> 03:08:45.600
into the nineties and you know,
we different things Leslie Nils and at Summer

2387
03:08:45.639 --> 03:08:50.120
Slam or whatever it may be,
and then Tyson does the big angle.

2388
03:08:50.319 --> 03:08:54.799
At this stage of the game,
I mean we mentioned Ben Stiller and this

2389
03:08:54.959 --> 03:08:58.440
and that, but at this stage
of the game, the pop culture of

2390
03:08:58.520 --> 03:09:05.920
professional wrestling to to sort of hang
their hat on, hey, we're gonna

2391
03:09:05.920 --> 03:09:09.879
make our kid champion. Wasn't the
same thing going to be accomplished. I

2392
03:09:09.959 --> 03:09:13.040
mean, look, there's two different
ways to look at it, a million

2393
03:09:13.040 --> 03:09:16.280
different ways to look at it.
But mercy, mercy, mercy, what

2394
03:09:16.440 --> 03:09:20.879
a mess he's got that sewn?
Michael Sindromer, Oh yeah, he just

2395
03:09:20.959 --> 03:09:24.760
opens his mouth and he's gonna say
a lot. Yeah, but he's gonna

2396
03:09:24.799 --> 03:09:28.479
say he's never gonna quite say exactly
what he means. Yeah yeah, and

2397
03:09:28.600 --> 03:09:31.840
he's not gonna say anything that actually
has a point to it. Yeah.

2398
03:09:31.879 --> 03:09:35.799
Well yeah, I think he intends
to. And then he finds himself qualifying

2399
03:09:35.799 --> 03:09:39.399
everything he says and softening it so
much and making it so generic so it's

2400
03:09:39.440 --> 03:09:43.200
to not come off as too snippy
that he just ends up like, you

2401
03:09:43.280 --> 03:09:48.000
know, almost like with four reverse
sentences syntaxes awfully, he says the point

2402
03:09:48.040 --> 03:09:52.079
at the end of the sentence instead
of the right right friends, that whole

2403
03:09:52.639 --> 03:09:56.120
stream of consciousness with mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy. What a mess?

2404
03:09:56.360 --> 03:10:00.879
Where are we? How many fucking
podcasts Conrad have now? Jesus Christ,

2405
03:10:00.959 --> 03:10:01.680
oh man, I don't even know. How does he have time to

2406
03:10:01.719 --> 03:10:09.959
do all that shit? Jesus fucking
I know? So uh uh, David

2407
03:10:09.040 --> 03:10:11.840
Arken needs to be told. Who's
the guy to tell him? Do you

2408
03:10:11.920 --> 03:10:15.159
know who that is? I'm sure
that he was going to win the title,

2409
03:10:15.280 --> 03:10:20.280
yes, Gavani, No, it
was Diamond Dallas Page. And when

2410
03:10:20.319 --> 03:10:24.879
they told me, yeah, we're
going to put the strap on, well,

2411
03:10:26.360 --> 03:10:28.879
Arquette today. I was like,
kid, that's funny. No,

2412
03:10:30.040 --> 03:10:33.079
no, we're serious, Like,
dude, come on, you can't do

2413
03:10:33.280 --> 03:10:39.639
that. And the bottom line is, obviously they're the bookers, and it

2414
03:10:39.760 --> 03:10:43.920
wasn't Eric's idea. It was Russo's
idea. I think almost positive he has

2415
03:10:43.959 --> 03:10:48.040
said it it is, and Bischoff
didn't want it. You know, he

2416
03:10:48.159 --> 03:10:52.680
just got back in. It's him, and you know they're working together at

2417
03:10:52.719 --> 03:10:54.399
that time, so I guess he
didn't really want to have the heat,

2418
03:10:54.440 --> 03:10:56.399
so he figured, what the hell, you'll see what happens with it.

2419
03:10:58.559 --> 03:11:01.200
I go and tell David. He's
like, he starts laughing. I go,

2420
03:11:01.319 --> 03:11:05.959
no, dude, I'm serious.
He goes, now he's a fan,

2421
03:11:07.159 --> 03:11:11.079
and he's like, no, no, dude, we can't do that.

2422
03:11:11.760 --> 03:11:13.719
And I go, well, they're
doing it. I've already had this

2423
03:11:13.920 --> 03:11:18.159
argument with him, So they're doing
it. So let me ask you.

2424
03:11:18.239 --> 03:11:22.479
If you were in his spot and
they said we're going to put the world

2425
03:11:22.600 --> 03:11:28.319
title on you, we all know
you wouldn't do it, right uncle.

2426
03:11:28.520 --> 03:11:31.120
There's not one of those fans that
bitch about that. If they were in

2427
03:11:31.200 --> 03:11:37.719
that spot, we wouldn't be going, you know, not one of them.

2428
03:11:37.479 --> 03:11:43.000
So I get it that it pisses
you off. It didn't piss off

2429
03:11:43.040 --> 03:11:46.319
anybody more than me because I had
to be in that match, you know.

2430
03:11:46.799 --> 03:11:50.959
But you got to do what you're
fucking told, just like you do

2431
03:11:50.120 --> 03:11:54.440
in your job. It's a job
for us, so it is what it

2432
03:11:54.600 --> 03:12:03.120
is. You make the best from
his you shoot interview by the way commentaries.

2433
03:12:03.920 --> 03:12:07.920
But there was something that DDP left
out actually that was actually a little

2434
03:12:07.920 --> 03:12:13.000
bit of a turning point. Arquet
filled in the holes with Chris van Vliet

2435
03:12:13.159 --> 03:12:18.799
van Vliet as I call him.
I don't know how you get Vleet out

2436
03:12:18.840 --> 03:12:22.520
of that. Sorry. One of
the things is I was walking around backstage

2437
03:12:22.559 --> 03:12:28.120
with one of these little like kids
wrestling belts. Yeah, I was having

2438
03:12:28.159 --> 03:12:33.600
all the guys sign it because I
am a fan. And then Vince Russo

2439
03:12:33.680 --> 03:12:37.120
saw that. I think that's maybe
where the little germ of the idea came

2440
03:12:37.120 --> 03:12:39.959
from. He's like, oh,
he's a fan, He's really a fan.

2441
03:12:39.680 --> 03:12:45.360
Yeah, and then yeah, so
I don't know this was so when

2442
03:12:45.479 --> 03:12:48.639
Vince Brusso and I guess Eric Bishoff
as well, come up to you and

2443
03:12:48.719 --> 03:12:52.079
say, all right, David,
here's the plan. You're going to win

2444
03:12:52.200 --> 03:12:56.559
the world title. How does that
conversation go. It was actually DDP.

2445
03:12:56.600 --> 03:13:01.920
He came. I said, so
what's the plan for and he's like,

2446
03:13:03.120 --> 03:13:07.600
you're gonna be the chap shut up? Well really, what are we doing?

2447
03:13:07.959 --> 03:13:09.959
And then he's like no, seriously. I was like, what you

2448
03:13:11.040 --> 03:13:15.879
can't do that? You know this
that's crazy, and I he explained to

2449
03:13:15.920 --> 03:13:18.479
me it's like, well listen,
you don't. I don't recall him saying

2450
03:13:18.520 --> 03:13:22.040
you don't have to do it,
but I think he may have, as

2451
03:13:22.120 --> 03:13:26.079
he said like, if you don't
do it, then it's all over,

2452
03:13:26.159 --> 03:13:31.280
it's ready to rumbles over the promotion
of it's over. You won't be coming

2453
03:13:31.360 --> 03:13:33.760
with us. But if you do
it, then you stay to the pay

2454
03:13:33.799 --> 03:13:37.120
per view. And I think this
is a combination of him explaining it and

2455
03:13:37.639 --> 03:13:43.399
Vince Russo and he's like you and
I was like, I get to like

2456
03:13:43.639 --> 03:13:46.840
stay with you, like do this
whole thing till the pay per view,

2457
03:13:46.360 --> 03:13:50.200
because that was only supposed to be
on a one or two. Like the

2458
03:13:50.879 --> 03:13:54.159
first thing I did got a pop. So then the second time they brought

2459
03:13:54.200 --> 03:13:56.879
me back and that might have been
the time that they I don't know,

2460
03:13:58.719 --> 03:14:01.040
but they said I could stay till
the pay per viewed. I was like,

2461
03:14:01.159 --> 03:14:03.639
and I get to travel with you
guys and be like part of a

2462
03:14:03.879 --> 03:14:07.879
group. I was like, this
is like a dream come true for wrestling

2463
03:14:07.000 --> 03:14:11.520
fan. And I always thought it
was like this kind of like parallel with

2464
03:14:11.639 --> 03:14:15.319
the movie, like because I always
kind of felt like that guy in the

2465
03:14:15.440 --> 03:14:18.159
movie, you know what I mean, Like he was a little young,

2466
03:14:18.399 --> 03:14:24.920
like behaved a little younger than I
did. We were very similar in a

2467
03:14:24.000 --> 03:14:31.280
weird way of like loving wrestling.
So then uh yeah, So then that

2468
03:14:31.479 --> 03:14:37.159
was the kind of the clincher that
I could tour with them for two weeks

2469
03:14:37.200 --> 03:14:39.879
and go all across America and my
schedule was free, and I was,

2470
03:14:41.280 --> 03:14:45.319
you know it was. And the
next thing I know, I'm on a

2471
03:14:45.399 --> 03:14:50.920
plane with Haul Cogan and I'm sitting
He's telling you stories and Sting pops his

2472
03:14:50.000 --> 03:14:54.200
head between the two seats. It's
like, what are you reading? And

2473
03:14:54.319 --> 03:15:00.360
I was like, what am I
reader? You know, he was just

2474
03:15:01.239 --> 03:15:03.479
joking with me. It was like, really one of the highlights of my

2475
03:15:03.559 --> 03:15:07.559
life. That's nice, nice still
relining. Yeah, absolutely, but do

2476
03:15:07.639 --> 03:15:11.559
you see do you see the other
the problem? Do you see what they

2477
03:15:11.600 --> 03:15:16.879
did? So he explained it here, this is this is where it became

2478
03:15:18.159 --> 03:15:22.440
and and so he he it's found
it in print on a Den of Gang

2479
03:15:22.760 --> 03:15:26.840
Den of Geek interview that he did. They explained about the publicity, and

2480
03:15:26.920 --> 03:15:28.799
that would be good for the film, this is him. It wouldn't the

2481
03:15:28.879 --> 03:15:33.239
title, it'd be good for the
film, and that if I didn't do

2482
03:15:33.360 --> 03:15:37.440
it, that would be it.
There would be no more promotion for Ready

2483
03:15:37.520 --> 03:15:39.479
to Rumble. I wouldn't go on
the show anymore. I'd be no part

2484
03:15:39.520 --> 03:15:45.959
of it. This is so fucking
ass. This is that ass backwards mentality

2485
03:15:46.040 --> 03:15:48.959
in those dying years. If you
don't become world champion, we don't promote

2486
03:15:50.000 --> 03:15:54.760
our own film, right, If
you don't become world title world champion to

2487
03:15:54.920 --> 03:15:58.920
our detriment, well it we'll also
cost ourselves at the box office. What

2488
03:15:58.079 --> 03:16:05.079
the fuck? What is what?
What the fuck? Imagine threatening someone with

2489
03:16:05.120 --> 03:16:09.959
the world title? Seriously, Like
that's the stage we're at, you know

2490
03:16:09.239 --> 03:16:13.360
where you gotta threaten people with the
world title because it's a heat magnet.

2491
03:16:13.719 --> 03:16:20.000
Oh my god, not not really, not if you fucking had had Jarrett

2492
03:16:20.120 --> 03:16:30.040
DDP and David Arquette as champion in
like two seconds within a week. Awful,

2493
03:16:30.600 --> 03:16:33.280
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, what
a mess you said it? You

2494
03:16:33.360 --> 03:16:37.600
said it double j's remember the smartest
thing I've ever heard you say? Pal

2495
03:16:39.600 --> 03:16:48.760
uh okay. So the match happens, The match happens, and we know

2496
03:16:48.840 --> 03:16:54.760
what happens. But here we go, buddy, ditch down date Mike,

2497
03:16:56.479 --> 03:17:03.000
you're come, David oct what's left
of them? Dragging himself out? I'll

2498
03:17:03.040 --> 03:17:07.120
tell you d DP right now.
I know what he's thinking. How about

2499
03:17:07.200 --> 03:17:09.840
jervis about push ups? But he's
got his wife in his mind full time?

2500
03:17:11.000 --> 03:17:18.760
That time Kimberly gets kissed by kiddy's
head who kick start to pick the

2501
03:17:18.920 --> 03:17:22.399
head? Scared through the hair,
Tad Nor tas catch him. Count Kimberly

2502
03:17:22.520 --> 03:17:26.520
went down in the heat. There's
no referee, Guys, there's a kid.

2503
03:17:26.559 --> 03:17:30.079
There's a referee. He's over towards
our getting on to do it.

2504
03:17:30.200 --> 03:17:37.959
What what did did? David are
captain? What's here? They can't want

2505
03:17:39.000 --> 03:17:45.000
the Keegan get want the wrong tick
out? He get at the wrong tile?

2506
03:17:46.559 --> 03:17:50.239
Did Day can't come with the title? Can I even say that they

2507
03:17:50.319 --> 03:17:56.200
aren't catch him? He got him
out? David on getting them David aren't

2508
03:17:56.239 --> 03:18:03.000
kidding. I'm gonna play it be
go. I don't believe it day and

2509
03:18:03.120 --> 03:18:07.680
again in the world. Can get
my life by a straight hand, That's

2510
03:18:09.280 --> 03:18:15.879
what would say. King Jay went
over forty Bay great with my hands.

2511
03:18:16.040 --> 03:18:22.120
I can't believe that. What a
soccer, What a jocker, that's lay

2512
03:18:22.200 --> 03:18:28.360
the he couldn't walk, can't bet
if the god he's got the sack.

2513
03:18:30.319 --> 03:18:41.000
David gus got the dog felt what
people don't believe in that? What's gonna

2514
03:18:41.040 --> 03:18:48.120
happen Monday? What they would have
been for the Triple Games? Light up?

2515
03:18:50.840 --> 03:18:56.680
David get Jos turned to the arena. He's convergently and David aren't cat.

2516
03:19:05.239 --> 03:19:18.159
You don't mind an something's go fish
on? Hey get black mine fountain

2517
03:19:18.559 --> 03:19:22.719
camerly a minchman like Vicky Jay,
take you ry rescue come in or thy

2518
03:19:22.799 --> 03:19:33.360
fee the art cat now entertainment his
cream. That's not the worst thing yourself,

2519
03:19:33.200 --> 03:19:41.799
yourself, I don't believe that.
What more, what Holly water Way

2520
03:19:41.879 --> 03:19:48.559
on to do? What they can
do well? I have to say I

2521
03:19:48.639 --> 03:19:52.200
give Tony a lot of credit.
That is that is a pretty masterful call

2522
03:19:52.280 --> 03:19:54.399
of a completely a board of ideas. It is a hell of a cell

2523
03:19:54.520 --> 03:19:58.840
job. You can't you can't take
anything away from him from Tony Shavanni.

2524
03:19:58.479 --> 03:20:05.319
Yeah. But man, man,
oh man, it was. It was

2525
03:20:05.479 --> 03:20:11.200
so when you saw that, what
did you feel taped thunder? I feel

2526
03:20:11.239 --> 03:20:15.239
like, yeah, I knew before
I watched it. Well, okay,

2527
03:20:15.360 --> 03:20:18.399
when you first heard about it,
what did you think to yourself? I

2528
03:20:18.719 --> 03:20:24.479
thought that, you know, I
mean, it's they don't have any ideas.

2529
03:20:24.319 --> 03:20:28.040
They don't have Usually, even when
w W was in its absolute creative

2530
03:20:28.079 --> 03:20:31.319
dol drooms, you could look around
and say, well, you know,

2531
03:20:31.159 --> 03:20:35.719
these big guys are hurt. You
know, they seem to have a little

2532
03:20:35.799 --> 03:20:37.319
sign of life with this angle if
they just put it to the forefront,

2533
03:20:37.920 --> 03:20:41.959
Like the nWo two thousand was a
great example in late nineteen ninety. Like,

2534
03:20:41.000 --> 03:20:45.840
it wasn't a wonderful angle, but
it was something that they could do

2535
03:20:46.159 --> 03:20:50.680
that suddenly made the product seem like
there would be a new driving force of

2536
03:20:50.799 --> 03:20:52.159
television every week. And when you
make a move like that, it really

2537
03:20:52.239 --> 03:20:54.840
just tells you that they really are
flying by the seat of their pants.

2538
03:20:54.879 --> 03:20:58.920
There is there is no design under
the surface, There is no you know,

2539
03:21:00.159 --> 03:21:03.360
big moment to come that they're building
towards that the pieces just have to

2540
03:21:03.440 --> 03:21:05.600
line up appropriately. Because they had
so much talent, that's A big part

2541
03:21:05.639 --> 03:21:11.040
of what sunk WCW is they amassed
these massive contracts and signed them with these

2542
03:21:11.120 --> 03:21:15.719
huge you know, out years,
and of course the out years came when

2543
03:21:15.879 --> 03:21:20.399
the revenue plummeted, so they were
paying Goldberg the most they ever paid them

2544
03:21:20.559 --> 03:21:22.600
when they were making the least they
had ever made since he came into the

2545
03:21:22.680 --> 03:21:26.559
organization. Hmm. Everyone's contracts were
upside down like that. The nineteen ninety

2546
03:21:26.600 --> 03:21:33.319
nine two thousand salaries were obscene compared
to how precipitously attendance had fallen in revenue.

2547
03:21:35.280 --> 03:21:37.879
So, I don't know, that's
that's what it said to me.

2548
03:21:37.959 --> 03:21:39.559
It said that, yeah, they're
really just, you know, every two

2549
03:21:39.639 --> 03:21:43.399
to three weeks just trying something else. You know. Yeah, there's nothing

2550
03:21:43.440 --> 03:21:46.719
on there. There's no grand or
plan like you know, the New Blood

2551
03:21:46.719 --> 03:21:50.239
Millionaires Club. It didn't really go
anywhere, but it was a it was

2552
03:21:50.239 --> 03:21:54.280
a structure. It was something that
you could latch onto, kind of like

2553
03:21:54.319 --> 03:21:58.120
an orienting principle for WCW Wrestling TV
shows. This is just like, Okay,

2554
03:21:58.399 --> 03:22:05.120
next week, maybe it'll be fucking
you know Chuck Berry that wins the

2555
03:22:05.159 --> 03:22:11.959
world title. I don't know.
Ah, And it's in one thing,

2556
03:22:11.159 --> 03:22:13.399
And we talked a lot about this
when we did Bash at the Beach two

2557
03:22:13.399 --> 03:22:16.159
thousand shows, because we spent a
lot of time looking at nitros and thunders

2558
03:22:18.079 --> 03:22:20.719
and a thing that I think really
was a lost all hope moment, although

2559
03:22:20.760 --> 03:22:26.040
it was pretty much done for WCW, but a true compromise of any semblance

2560
03:22:26.079 --> 03:22:30.319
of something that people could look to
WCW and say that's what WCW is versus

2561
03:22:30.360 --> 03:22:33.360
what WBF is. Which if there's
nothing you can point to and say that

2562
03:22:33.520 --> 03:22:35.200
about ww BOWT, you might as
well not turn the lights on in the

2563
03:22:35.239 --> 03:22:39.559
morning. You have to be able
to say one, two, three things

2564
03:22:39.600 --> 03:22:43.040
that ww is that WWF isn't.
And as soon as Russo got there,

2565
03:22:43.040 --> 03:22:46.159
it became what WWF was so quickly, and WWF actually started to resemble more

2566
03:22:46.159 --> 03:22:50.040
what WCW was bringing in high work
rate, guys like you've been MOI on

2567
03:22:50.120 --> 03:22:54.000
Malenco Guerrero and so many others in
spotlighting work rate and the way Rock carried

2568
03:22:54.040 --> 03:22:58.600
the world title and defended against everybody
Jericho in the Triple H program in the

2569
03:22:58.680 --> 03:23:03.639
spring of two thousand. Anyway,
when Tony Sivanni's a sports entertainment it's over.

2570
03:23:05.520 --> 03:23:09.440
Yeah, Oh yes, absolutely,
WW cannot be calling itself sports entertainment

2571
03:23:09.479 --> 03:23:16.799
on television. That's the most pathetic, like like Munchausen syndrome. Stockholm syndrome

2572
03:23:16.920 --> 03:23:20.440
is what I'm looking for. Yep. You know we've been so thoroughly owned

2573
03:23:20.959 --> 03:23:28.040
and so so thoroughly big brothered that
we're using their language. Yep, that's

2574
03:23:28.079 --> 03:23:31.840
how gotten too and how defeated and
how owned we are. Sad stage of

2575
03:23:31.840 --> 03:23:37.600
affairs. Oh, totally. Obviously
everyone in their mom has a response to

2576
03:23:37.719 --> 03:23:41.680
this. The Nitro book gave a
whole I mean it must be like four

2577
03:23:41.719 --> 03:23:52.760
pages of responses. Meltzer said called
it offensive, sort of offensive. Brett

2578
03:23:52.760 --> 03:23:56.760
Hart called it a joke. He
says, I think that anyone who really

2579
03:23:56.799 --> 03:23:58.600
had a passion for this business or
the profession sees it as a joke.

2580
03:24:00.639 --> 03:24:03.840
It's an insult to everybody whoever really
busted their ass wrestling. I guess that's

2581
03:24:03.879 --> 03:24:07.040
the way wrestling is now. Vince
McMahon was to be World Champion two for

2582
03:24:07.040 --> 03:24:09.399
at least a couple of weeks or
a couple of minutes. I think that

2583
03:24:09.479 --> 03:24:11.600
if people find mean to be entertainment, that's fine, but I wish they

2584
03:24:11.600 --> 03:24:18.399
would quit calling it professional wrestling yep. And I think that was one last

2585
03:24:18.719 --> 03:24:20.520
Russo flurry too. I think it
was like one of the last things he

2586
03:24:20.559 --> 03:24:24.319
did at WWF was put the belt
on Vince for that. Yeah. Yeah,

2587
03:24:24.360 --> 03:24:28.440
that was in September of ninety nine. Yes, and such as you

2588
03:24:28.440 --> 03:24:31.440
could say the ar Kid thing was
a you know for a bag something from

2589
03:24:31.440 --> 03:24:33.920
the same bag of tricks. It
was like, yeah, totally put the

2590
03:24:33.920 --> 03:24:37.319
world title on someone who's a non
wrestler degenerate that holy shit shock. He

2591
03:24:37.440 --> 03:24:41.879
in fact did it on SmackDown the
Thursday show like Thunder was the secondary show

2592
03:24:41.040 --> 03:24:45.520
yep. And immediately you know,
do an angle to where he doesn't hold

2593
03:24:45.520 --> 03:24:46.920
the belt for two days, for
more than two days, so that people

2594
03:24:46.920 --> 03:24:50.280
can't pitch it the best to much
about it. I mean in ninety nine

2595
03:24:50.360 --> 03:24:54.200
was the year too that the the
w Championship changed the most I think ever.

2596
03:24:54.319 --> 03:24:56.559
Yeah, of course with him at
the Helm that changed, like I

2597
03:24:56.600 --> 03:24:58.680
think it changed like thirteen fourteen times. That was one of his things,

2598
03:25:00.120 --> 03:25:01.239
you know, he would he would
talk down the value of the belt so

2599
03:25:01.319 --> 03:25:05.360
that people wouldn't criticize this booking so
much. You would, you know,

2600
03:25:05.479 --> 03:25:09.120
call them props and tin cans whatether
fuck you'd call them. But at the

2601
03:25:09.159 --> 03:25:13.040
same time, he had to use
the equity in those championships to create his

2602
03:25:13.079 --> 03:25:18.000
stupid ass predictable moments. Right,
if the belts don't mean anything, why

2603
03:25:18.159 --> 03:25:22.399
do you deserve a pat on the
back for booking a shocking title change?

2604
03:25:22.680 --> 03:25:24.000
Who should give a fuck who holds
the belt at all? It's like,

2605
03:25:24.600 --> 03:25:28.760
you know, you come in and
you strip mine anything that meant anything before

2606
03:25:28.799 --> 03:25:33.280
you got there to create your shock
moments, and by the time it's over,

2607
03:25:33.239 --> 03:25:37.920
you've like thoroughly reduced the value of
all the assets you had to work

2608
03:25:37.959 --> 03:25:39.280
with in the first place. You
don't enhance the value of any of the

2609
03:25:39.360 --> 03:25:45.079
assets, You just sort of throw
them into your cauldron of shock TV bullshit

2610
03:25:45.239 --> 03:25:48.040
that whose time had come and gone. And you know, we've talked about

2611
03:25:48.040 --> 03:25:54.879
it before, but wrestling doesn't always
need to be unpredictable. It doesn't work.

2612
03:25:54.959 --> 03:25:56.760
It has to be predictable sometimes.
I mean, sometimes it's great to

2613
03:25:56.760 --> 03:26:01.360
be unpredictable. Sometimes it needs to
be predictable. It needs to be predictable

2614
03:26:01.360 --> 03:26:05.319
in ninety percent of the time.
I mean, it just has to be.

2615
03:26:05.360 --> 03:26:07.799
I mean, you have to get
people, have to have confidence that

2616
03:26:07.840 --> 03:26:11.600
when they buy a ticket or a
pay per view or turn it tune into

2617
03:26:11.639 --> 03:26:15.639
a show, that they're going to
get pretty much what they came to see,

2618
03:26:16.079 --> 03:26:20.799
like versus you know, it's that's
the only reason to like wrestling over

2619
03:26:20.879 --> 03:26:22.360
other sports, is that you well, yes and no, but I mean,

2620
03:26:22.479 --> 03:26:26.159
like, you know, you don't
always need to see the guy you

2621
03:26:26.200 --> 03:26:28.239
want to win the title win the
title, you know, but you you

2622
03:26:28.360 --> 03:26:33.639
have to you have to have some
scintilla of hope that even if he didn't

2623
03:26:33.639 --> 03:26:35.559
win tonight, he's going to eventually
win. Because if he's never going to

2624
03:26:35.600 --> 03:26:39.559
eventually win, then you stop caring
about that guy, and that defeats the

2625
03:26:39.600 --> 03:26:46.159
whole purpose. You have to find
that delicate way of you know, that

2626
03:26:46.280 --> 03:26:48.760
delicate way of keeping someone alive even
if you don't even if they fail.

2627
03:26:50.159 --> 03:26:52.639
Yeah, and uh, we'll see
what happens with somebody on that front.

2628
03:26:52.680 --> 03:26:56.879
But it's hard, you know,
like if you know, you don't get

2629
03:26:56.920 --> 03:26:58.319
a title run, if you don't
have people going for the belt and losing,

2630
03:27:01.479 --> 03:27:03.200
well, yeah, but you believe
you have challenges for the belt.

2631
03:27:03.799 --> 03:27:07.680
But you have to believe that they're
a contender. That's what sells them.

2632
03:27:07.920 --> 03:27:11.879
Yeah, you can do little things
that send signals to the audience that actually,

2633
03:27:11.959 --> 03:27:13.520
maybe this guy will win the belt. Absolutely, yeah, you have

2634
03:27:13.639 --> 03:27:16.559
to do that. You do have
to create you have to create doubt.

2635
03:27:18.159 --> 03:27:20.120
You have to create reasonable doubt in
the mind of the fan as the outcome

2636
03:27:20.120 --> 03:27:24.000
will be of your biggest matches.
You do have to do that. But

2637
03:27:24.079 --> 03:27:28.920
I think you can't. You can't
operate from the principle of what does everybody

2638
03:27:28.920 --> 03:27:31.719
expect, Let's do the exact doctor
for no other reason that I agree,

2639
03:27:31.879 --> 03:27:43.840
I agree, I agree. Jared
kind of defended it in an interview on

2640
03:27:43.040 --> 03:27:46.959
one Wrestling dot Com. He said
he compared it to Andy Kaufman in Memphis,

2641
03:27:48.280 --> 03:27:52.239
which that's it's probably before you have
another breakup with Russo. And I'm

2642
03:27:52.280 --> 03:27:54.959
like, I don't know, man, I think I think uh, I

2643
03:27:56.040 --> 03:28:01.719
think Coffin was different because the Coffin
of the world title never pined. Jerry

2644
03:28:01.760 --> 03:28:05.799
Lawler also Kaufman is a much better
performer than David Arquette. Well, there's

2645
03:28:05.840 --> 03:28:11.360
that too. David Arkett just fumbled
and bumbled his way, right, I

2646
03:28:11.399 --> 03:28:13.000
mean, the only thing he did, like the only right you know,

2647
03:28:13.360 --> 03:28:16.799
that was thing too, you know, the way David ar Keet shouldn't be

2648
03:28:16.799 --> 03:28:20.760
involved in wrestling. No, no, And and you know what, someday

2649
03:28:20.959 --> 03:28:24.280
we'll get onto that too on his
return. Yeah, you know, and

2650
03:28:24.399 --> 03:28:30.360
documentary certainly qualifies. I think for
Jarrett it wasn't the worst thing because his

2651
03:28:30.479 --> 03:28:37.079
title reign was so unheralded, Yeah, and then so little that it actually,

2652
03:28:37.280 --> 03:28:39.399
you know, it brought a little
bit of attention to his to his

2653
03:28:39.520 --> 03:28:46.000
title program. Sure, sure,
DVP called it the stupidest thing ever.

2654
03:28:46.360 --> 03:28:54.319
Uh. Kevin Sullivan offered this,
He said, David Arkette winning the world

2655
03:28:54.360 --> 03:28:58.360
title. Boy, Scott Hall never
won the title. Scott Hall never won

2656
03:28:58.360 --> 03:29:01.200
the world ever weight championship. But
David Arkett, can you tell me what's

2657
03:29:01.239 --> 03:29:05.079
wrong? Yeah, Scott can't stop
doing drugs. He would have won the

2658
03:29:05.120 --> 03:29:11.639
belt eventually, I know, I
don't know, maybe not. And uh

2659
03:29:13.280 --> 03:29:16.840
what else here? Oh uh.
Flair also commented on his on his book.

2660
03:29:18.319 --> 03:29:20.760
But what was more interesting is that
within the commentary of it in his

2661
03:29:20.879 --> 03:29:26.159
book, he also there's a there's
an insert with Bobby Heenan who wrote this

2662
03:29:26.600 --> 03:29:28.799
quote. When I found out they
were putting the championship the belt on David

2663
03:29:28.879 --> 03:29:33.440
Arketta replied, is ja Ja Gabor
sick? This week? That's the way

2664
03:29:33.479 --> 03:29:35.920
it was in WCW. This is
a company that had Buff Bagwell tag team

2665
03:29:35.959 --> 03:29:39.239
with his mother. It was like
he hawed down there. They might as

2666
03:29:39.280 --> 03:29:43.239
well have had Buck Owens picking out
his guitar while wrestlers jumped out of the

2667
03:29:43.319 --> 03:29:56.559
corn. So Flair wrights that this
was so here here, you know,

2668
03:29:56.680 --> 03:29:58.520
you know obviously he he all the
money, you know, this, all

2669
03:29:58.559 --> 03:30:05.959
the money he earned from w CW, he donated to Owenhart's family. Brian

2670
03:30:07.040 --> 03:30:13.280
Pillman and Bobby Duncan Junior, and
David Arkette did so this is what Flair

2671
03:30:13.319 --> 03:30:16.799
writes in his book. So how
do I feel about David Arkett's champion as

2672
03:30:16.840 --> 03:30:20.879
a champion, Well, he had
a hell of a lot more character than

2673
03:30:20.920 --> 03:30:24.280
some other guys who'd warn the championship
belt. Yep, amen. But the

2674
03:30:24.959 --> 03:30:28.079
you know USA Today cover, that's
it, man, That's all they needed,

2675
03:30:28.399 --> 03:30:31.840
you know, fuck it. It
wasn't in the cover. It was

2676
03:30:31.959 --> 03:30:35.399
a blurb on the cover of the
sports sector of the section. And it

2677
03:30:35.479 --> 03:30:37.399
wasn't even a thing like it was
at sure with a caption. It was.

2678
03:30:37.600 --> 03:30:41.520
It was a picture with a caption
and a you know, see what

2679
03:30:41.600 --> 03:30:46.200
happens on nitro so stupid, you
know, that's all I was, just

2680
03:30:46.319 --> 03:30:52.280
like, the only reason that anyone
acts like that was something important is because

2681
03:30:52.840 --> 03:30:54.840
they need to have something to grasp
to, the signal that it actually,

2682
03:30:56.280 --> 03:30:58.959
you know, did what they pretended
it was going to do, bring new

2683
03:31:00.040 --> 03:31:03.639
eyeballs to ww were creating it was
but no one gave a fuck that he

2684
03:31:03.719 --> 03:31:07.440
was the world champion. Like,
it didn't draw anybody in who was like,

2685
03:31:07.559 --> 03:31:09.959
hmm, I'd love to see those
nitro ratings. It was like,

2686
03:31:09.360 --> 03:31:11.159
right, no one was like,
Wow, what the fuck is this?

2687
03:31:11.399 --> 03:31:16.200
No one, zero people, zero
people. It went down to the ratings.

2688
03:31:16.239 --> 03:31:20.120
The ratings went down, of course
they did. The week afterwards,

2689
03:31:20.159 --> 03:31:24.360
they went down. They they they
yeah, it was bad as I was

2690
03:31:24.399 --> 03:31:28.239
watching. You know, I've been
watching wrestling enough years and closely enough and

2691
03:31:28.319 --> 03:31:31.040
been attuned to the ratings long enough
that I'll remember even if I remember the

2692
03:31:31.120 --> 03:31:33.879
number, I'll remember all that kind
of worked, you know, because I

2693
03:31:33.959 --> 03:31:37.799
remember it was different. After they
did that. It felt like more,

2694
03:31:37.920 --> 03:31:41.200
you know, it felt like more
people were writing positively about the viewership trends.

2695
03:31:41.239 --> 03:31:43.319
It felt like people were buzzing about
it that weren't before. I remember

2696
03:31:43.360 --> 03:31:46.600
that about Mike Tyson specifically, it
feels like people are talking about it when

2697
03:31:46.600 --> 03:31:50.520
I don't have to force it out
of people, or it comes up unsolicited

2698
03:31:50.600 --> 03:31:56.559
on the television screen. Didn't happen. They didn't become close to achieving what

2699
03:31:56.959 --> 03:32:03.280
they told themselves. It was new
me. But did it accomplish what Russo

2700
03:32:03.360 --> 03:32:09.079
wanted? That's the question? You
know what he wants is something for this

2701
03:32:09.200 --> 03:32:11.760
week? You know what? Sean, Well, that's right, and Sean

2702
03:32:11.799 --> 03:32:16.520
Oliver got to the bottom of that. Wait, where the fuck is it

2703
03:32:18.200 --> 03:32:22.600
here? Did it accomplish what you
want? It accomplished exactly what I wanted?

2704
03:32:22.719 --> 03:32:26.840
And again I told the story fifty
thousand million times. Okay, we

2705
03:32:28.239 --> 03:32:31.120
have we David. Let me interrupt
you that that you did it. Let

2706
03:32:31.159 --> 03:32:33.200
me ask you a better question.
Yeah, because I did ask you a

2707
03:32:33.280 --> 03:32:37.520
question that's been asked million times.
You're on the cover USA today. Thank

2708
03:32:37.559 --> 03:32:43.479
you all the newspapers. You transcend
wrestling, which is that very well,

2709
03:32:43.559 --> 03:32:46.799
not so not transcended it? I
write then and there, I think I

2710
03:32:46.920 --> 03:32:52.799
killed the business forever. That's who
you talked to. Wrestling transcends its own

2711
03:32:54.479 --> 03:32:58.200
borders and grabs the national attention.
The very elusive thing that wrestling always tries

2712
03:32:58.239 --> 03:33:03.079
to do time time again and Marl
Larnsdale or whatever you do. It is

2713
03:33:03.239 --> 03:33:07.879
there a fear and a legitimate criticism
that what's next week? Not at all

2714
03:33:09.399 --> 03:33:15.159
that that that's all confidence, that's
all confidence. My whole philosophy when I

2715
03:33:15.319 --> 03:33:20.559
was booking was I didn't care what
we did, because the next week we

2716
03:33:20.879 --> 03:33:24.360
would top it. I was never
afraid of every any angle. I never

2717
03:33:24.559 --> 03:33:30.639
held back because I had enough confidence
in myself that next week we will top

2718
03:33:30.760 --> 03:33:35.280
this and the show will be better. Are you surprised by the criticism that

2719
03:33:35.479 --> 03:33:39.159
this guest? Yeah, because I
was surprised of how many people actually believe

2720
03:33:39.239 --> 03:33:45.200
that wrestling was real. Yes,
that's surprised the crap animation that there were

2721
03:33:45.399 --> 03:33:52.639
that many imbeciles walking this planet.
Yes, do veterans and the people now

2722
03:33:52.879 --> 03:33:56.120
that are extremely critical of this,
the old Guard. Do they say anything

2723
03:33:56.159 --> 03:34:01.520
to you at the time that absolutely
not even outside the company, like you

2724
03:34:01.600 --> 03:34:07.680
get any phone calls from a Bruno
or No, absolutely not Bruno calling him

2725
03:34:09.959 --> 03:34:16.079
there Italian break. I mean,
listen, you know, here's the thing

2726
03:34:16.200 --> 03:34:20.760
though, like like he's he's so
full of ship about the whole, the

2727
03:34:20.840 --> 03:34:24.000
whole, you know, all they
think wrestling is you know that that's a

2728
03:34:24.079 --> 03:34:28.520
crutch. I start saying that because
in the corner because like it's it's doesn't

2729
03:34:28.600 --> 03:34:35.399
matter. Like the same thing about
about writing scripted television regular television shows.

2730
03:34:35.920 --> 03:34:39.799
It's not real, but you still
have to believe in it. You have

2731
03:34:39.959 --> 03:34:43.280
to be able to suspend your disbelief
for that for those for that hour of

2732
03:34:43.399 --> 03:34:48.000
television and for wrestling for the two, three, four, whatever the fuck

2733
03:34:48.079 --> 03:34:54.319
hours it is. And with that
comes doesn't mean anything. You're a market

2734
03:34:54.079 --> 03:34:58.399
means something that's like, means something
that's like, that's like saying this.

2735
03:34:58.799 --> 03:35:03.280
You you know these characters, they
don't mean anything on this television show.

2736
03:35:03.600 --> 03:35:05.280
You know Tony Soprano, He's just
a fucking fictional guy. He doesn't fucking

2737
03:35:05.360 --> 03:35:11.040
matter. Yet. The only reason
David Arquette winning the title is is a

2738
03:35:11.079 --> 03:35:13.280
shock thing it's going to get us
USA today is because the title means something

2739
03:35:13.479 --> 03:35:16.959
right. Right, That's the reason
you did it, because the title means

2740
03:35:18.000 --> 03:35:20.760
something. Because apparently just putting him
on the television show wouldn't have gotten you

2741
03:35:20.760 --> 03:35:26.000
in USA today. I know I
had to do that because the title means

2742
03:35:26.040 --> 03:35:30.479
something that's right, Because you don't
have to think wrestling is real to want

2743
03:35:30.520 --> 03:35:33.479
the championship to be held by people
who are really good at pro wrestling,

2744
03:35:33.600 --> 03:35:41.000
and right the fuck man, come
on, So our Kat's champion. By

2745
03:35:41.040 --> 03:35:48.799
the way, the following Nitro after
him winning the belt two point four to

2746
03:35:48.840 --> 03:35:52.559
six rating against Raw seven point four
to oh is exactly what I'm talking about.

2747
03:35:52.600 --> 03:35:56.559
That's what my first reaction was when
I saw this that like I knew

2748
03:35:56.600 --> 03:35:58.959
there was that kind of a gap
presenting itself in two thousand. Yeah,

2749
03:36:00.639 --> 03:36:03.239
and this was a symptom of that. This was like a an indication of

2750
03:36:03.440 --> 03:36:09.879
the state of of play between the
two companies. So so if your KPI

2751
03:36:11.159 --> 03:36:13.920
is to get something in USA today, that's fine, but it's not what

2752
03:36:15.760 --> 03:36:18.639
people want to watch w c W
every week. What about an r I

2753
03:36:18.879 --> 03:36:20.959
so fun off but r I we
need an r I too, Yeah,

2754
03:36:22.000 --> 03:36:24.760
that would be really nice, but
that comes way later. But I don't

2755
03:36:24.840 --> 03:36:28.680
return on it. I believe in, I believe my well, I'm looking

2756
03:36:28.799 --> 03:36:43.639
right now. I'm looking for a
return on investigations. Oh shitt that goddamn

2757
03:36:43.719 --> 03:36:46.520
right, he is looking for return
on investigations. And he'll get him.

2758
03:36:46.639 --> 03:36:50.520
You'll get him, You'll get him, all right. David Arcat's champion and

2759
03:36:50.680 --> 03:36:52.239
he like he says, he hits
the road with the boys. And do

2760
03:36:52.319 --> 03:36:56.639
you remember this? A lot of
people don't remember. This happened the following

2761
03:36:56.840 --> 03:36:58.879
like or during the week. You
know, he's off, you know,

2762
03:37:00.079 --> 03:37:01.680
gon know, he's making another movie
at the same time while doing the wrestling

2763
03:37:01.719 --> 03:37:07.239
stuff. And it's a movie that
stars he his wife, Courtney Cox,

2764
03:37:07.760 --> 03:37:13.920
and Kurt Russell. And it was
three thousand Miles to Graceland, the Stupid

2765
03:37:15.120 --> 03:37:20.559
Heist movie. And they filmed vignettes
featuring David Arquette and Courtney Cox, and

2766
03:37:20.639 --> 03:37:26.799
then a cameo by Kurt Russell David
Cohn. You can get hurt, you

2767
03:37:26.799 --> 03:37:31.120
can get killed. This is ridiculous. Donald. I just wished this belt

2768
03:37:31.280 --> 03:37:33.920
fit a little Yeah, I bet
you do. You know why it doesn't.

2769
03:37:33.079 --> 03:37:37.799
You're not a wrestler, no,
baby, Is that any way to

2770
03:37:37.879 --> 03:37:46.120
talk to the heavyweight champion of the
world. Oh? Good God, I

2771
03:37:46.200 --> 03:37:48.399
think we should talk about this.
I mean, yes, I'm glad you're

2772
03:37:48.440 --> 03:37:50.520
born to Birmingham. I'm glad you
see my parents. But Baby, I

2773
03:37:50.600 --> 03:37:54.120
think this is dangerous. This is
there's nothing to worry about. I'm the

2774
03:37:54.319 --> 03:37:58.760
WCW champion. Baby, I'm telling
you Eric Bischoff, Jeff Jared I need

2775
03:37:58.840 --> 03:38:01.559
it meets them a lesson. But
you've got nothing to worry about because Chris

2776
03:38:01.680 --> 03:38:05.959
Kenyon is gonna be there, Diamondallas
Page, They're gonna watch my back.

2777
03:38:05.440 --> 03:38:09.399
How do you know they're gonna watch
you? Hey, Courtney, we got

2778
03:38:09.520 --> 03:38:11.239
to do our nude love scene right
now? How you doing, David curse?

2779
03:38:11.559 --> 03:38:16.719
Did you know that David was the
WCW World Champion, World heavyweight champ?

2780
03:38:16.799 --> 03:38:31.120
Baby, right head, David,
you're not a wrestler. I think

2781
03:38:31.200 --> 03:38:37.319
the was on a wrestling show.
I think the highlight is is Kurt Russell

2782
03:38:37.360 --> 03:38:39.239
saying, hey, Courtney, we
gotta go do our nude our nude love

2783
03:38:39.319 --> 03:38:48.479
scene writing for David. I can't. That's so fucking great. I mean,

2784
03:38:48.520 --> 03:38:52.559
he laughs, She says he's a
world heavyweight champion. He said,

2785
03:38:52.600 --> 03:38:54.280
yeah, world weight champion, and
he fucking laughs. Kurt Russell laughs at

2786
03:38:54.360 --> 03:39:01.360
David Arcat on television. Is that
like this is entertainment night or a fucking

2787
03:39:01.479 --> 03:39:05.239
joke. It's stupid. That's why
they're laughing because it's a joke. And

2788
03:39:05.360 --> 03:39:07.879
if wrestling is a joke, nobody
is earning their money. That's right,

2789
03:39:09.000 --> 03:39:16.479
somebody is failing miserably and at their
jump. So uh uh. Ourquet makes

2790
03:39:16.639 --> 03:39:20.000
his first official appearance at a w
W show with DVP and Canyon and I've

2791
03:39:20.000 --> 03:39:24.680
got a couple of clips for you
here. They're kind of done into like

2792
03:39:24.719 --> 03:39:31.680
a you know, one one thing, one clip, one bite, multiple

2793
03:39:31.680 --> 03:39:35.040
clips in it. Welcome to Day
number five and the unbelievable title reign Up

2794
03:39:35.159 --> 03:39:41.120
New World Camp. Good Day,
I mean, seriously, welcome to day

2795
03:39:41.200 --> 03:39:48.040
number five. Jesus, Poor Tony. You know it's like you wanna you

2796
03:39:48.120 --> 03:39:50.319
want to hate him for this,
but at the same time you got to

2797
03:39:50.399 --> 03:39:56.760
respect him for having to do this
and doing it with Gusto man totally Gusta,

2798
03:39:56.879 --> 03:40:03.159
do you really want me to do
this? I kids his awe And

2799
03:40:03.200 --> 03:40:07.799
there's nothing where you can ask of
the guy get a car, but catch

2800
03:40:07.200 --> 03:40:13.639
Tony Schiovanni, Scott hunching, Mike
Madden looking live outside of the Bromide Jefferson

2801
03:40:13.719 --> 03:40:16.239
kind of sand the world tap is
down and wake ut hold ups already,

2802
03:40:22.239 --> 03:40:30.799
you have to stand up. Wait
a minute, and coming out of the

2803
03:40:30.959 --> 03:40:39.239
church ers Hawk, Oh that's the
touch charge. What the no, he's

2804
03:40:39.280 --> 03:40:43.639
well he's fighting with with with Mike. What are you coming home? What

2805
03:40:43.719 --> 03:40:48.520
are you doing? Why is Ogan
here? That was Nitro? I'm trying

2806
03:40:48.520 --> 03:40:50.760
to just play on this, brother, you know, I'm just trying to,

2807
03:40:50.799 --> 03:40:52.440
like, you know, dude,
I'm trying to like kind of like,

2808
03:40:52.920 --> 03:40:54.520
you know, see the forest for
the trees. Dude. If you

2809
03:40:54.559 --> 03:41:00.239
know what I'm saying, that's screeching
car, the noise in his drive way

2810
03:41:00.280 --> 03:41:05.159
when he's can't won the title.
That's that's the noise, brother taking off?

2811
03:41:05.639 --> 03:41:09.360
What do you mean Art? Who's
no one? What is this going

2812
03:41:09.399 --> 03:41:13.079
on? Brother? David rocat dude, way concerned? Whoa whoa? Whoa?

2813
03:41:15.879 --> 03:41:20.600
Did he pin Hulk Hogan? I
don't know, Darry, were you

2814
03:41:20.520 --> 03:41:22.959
well? Brother? That's the problem, dude. Was I there? Dude?

2815
03:41:24.479 --> 03:41:26.479
Did someone pin Hulk Hogan? How
is David arcuat champion? Dude?

2816
03:41:26.639 --> 03:41:37.079
And I wasn't there? Brother?
What that's anything? Continue with? That's

2817
03:41:37.120 --> 03:41:41.200
worst ship? Yeah, that's got
my gossom. Hey, Jon's got it,

2818
03:41:41.319 --> 03:41:45.639
pay the world, trap just got
the belt. Let's break it down

2819
03:41:45.760 --> 03:41:54.959
backstage and Beringham holding it awesome page
one more time in Austin security trying to

2820
03:41:54.000 --> 03:41:58.319
pull him upon as best they can't, but they can't can't hold him.

2821
03:42:01.840 --> 03:42:05.719
Rob you gotta realize as well as
we do that this past Wednesday out thunder

2822
03:42:05.879 --> 03:42:11.479
was a great moment. It's sports
entertainment. When he won the double world

2823
03:42:11.600 --> 03:42:13.319
title. Page got killed and we're
going to the next day you page.

2824
03:42:13.479 --> 03:42:16.799
This has all been a big food. It's been a whole lot of fun.

2825
03:42:16.159 --> 03:42:20.399
But I don't deserve to be the
world heavyweight champion. No kidding.

2826
03:42:20.680 --> 03:42:22.079
Let's got big, kiddy, this
is page. Come on, we can

2827
03:42:22.159 --> 03:42:24.879
keep it back, bro, Let's
go. Come on, said, I

2828
03:42:24.920 --> 03:42:28.079
got a movie to show and I
can't get killed. Man, little cold,

2829
03:42:28.120 --> 03:42:41.920
big going on by the world tendon. All right, Hey, Berbieham,

2830
03:42:41.200 --> 03:42:50.239
Alabama, the home town of my
life. Who fucking cares. I

2831
03:42:50.399 --> 03:42:54.200
can't tell you how much of a
dream come true this is for me to

2832
03:42:54.319 --> 03:43:00.959
have this belt. In the past
seven days have just been amazing. But

2833
03:43:01.120 --> 03:43:05.559
what's been best is the way the
fans have treated me. You really being

2834
03:43:05.639 --> 03:43:13.399
incredible. Well, listen, I
understand that I'm an entertainer, not a

2835
03:43:13.520 --> 03:43:20.200
sports entertainer. And after my God, he said, I'm an entertainer,

2836
03:43:20.360 --> 03:43:30.239
not a sports entertainer. Okay,
okay. Talking with Dallas Opinion tonight,

2837
03:43:31.440 --> 03:43:37.040
I'm gonna relinquish the belt. And
give up the title. I don't deserve

2838
03:43:37.120 --> 03:43:41.159
it. How about that these guys
deserve it. Maybe Booker T deserves it.

2839
03:43:43.920 --> 03:43:46.920
Yeah, the fans are here,
okay, but I don't deserve it.

2840
03:43:48.239 --> 03:43:54.879
Now I'm gonna relinquish this belt.
So I'm gonna put it up for

2841
03:43:56.040 --> 03:44:03.239
grabs to DVP and Jeff Cherry in
the three K That that slambery. That's

2842
03:44:03.280 --> 03:44:07.559
a good call, run out of
Rumbo. Yeah, good move. Go

2843
03:44:07.680 --> 03:44:11.959
back your sugar, mammy. I'm
relinquishing the title tonight. A cowardly thing.

2844
03:44:11.040 --> 03:44:16.159
It's the right thing to do,
slam Marie. I got that right

2845
03:44:16.840 --> 03:44:20.600
by the way. So as I
was doing my research here and I was

2846
03:44:20.600 --> 03:44:26.040
looking to observers and stuff, this
just happened to be near some David Arqutte

2847
03:44:26.040 --> 03:44:31.760
stuff. This is from March twenty
eighth, two thousand. It's totally off

2848
03:44:31.799 --> 03:44:33.840
topic, but it's it's Hogan,
so it's always worth it. Yeah,

2849
03:44:35.760 --> 03:44:39.760
Dave writes, do you want to
know how silly mind control is? WCW

2850
03:44:41.000 --> 03:44:45.399
ran a contest involving Flare and Hogan. I'm actually not sure what the contest

2851
03:44:45.559 --> 03:44:50.280
was for. Anyway, we got
numerous reports from people who said, when

2852
03:44:50.319 --> 03:44:56.559
you vote for flair. Yeah,
goes have Hogan right. The vote total

2853
03:44:56.639 --> 03:45:07.200
for Hogan automatically increases by five.
How does he know about that? Dude?

2854
03:45:07.399 --> 03:45:11.120
Brother? Who's talking to who?
Dude? Right? Brother? I've

2855
03:45:11.120 --> 03:45:13.719
been reading the Observer and I'm telling
you, dude, he knows way too

2856
03:45:13.799 --> 03:45:18.120
much about my brother. He knows
where I am right now. I don't

2857
03:45:18.120 --> 03:45:31.000
even know where I am right now, dude, I don't know the best

2858
03:45:31.079 --> 03:45:35.600
thing when he suddenly realizes that the
person right in front of him might be

2859
03:45:35.719 --> 03:45:45.520
the cause of all of his concerns, what I just want to I just

2860
03:45:45.600 --> 03:45:48.159
want to get something out ill,
you know, Just sure, Terry,

2861
03:45:48.200 --> 03:45:52.280
go ahead. I know, I
see you right in front of me right

2862
03:45:52.280 --> 03:45:54.239
now, brother, I can see
that, dude. You and I are

2863
03:45:54.360 --> 03:45:58.399
right now in front of each other. Are you behind me right now?

2864
03:45:58.520 --> 03:46:05.280
Dude? I see you. I
see you're in front of me. But

2865
03:46:05.440 --> 03:46:09.879
that's not my question. My question
is are you behind me right now?

2866
03:46:11.120 --> 03:46:16.399
I just don't even know where to
start. I don't know how to begin

2867
03:46:16.479 --> 03:46:26.159
to answer your question. So slam
Marie triple Decker Cage ready to rumble,

2868
03:46:26.280 --> 03:46:39.879
same fucking thing. And what was
So there's a moment where so, first

2869
03:46:39.879 --> 03:46:46.360
of all, the big swerve is
that our quette turns on DDP and that

2870
03:46:46.799 --> 03:46:52.840
wops his waffles his head with the
guitar and stuff, and Jarrett regains the

2871
03:46:52.920 --> 03:46:58.280
championship. Now, after the match, I guess there's a big brawl and

2872
03:46:58.719 --> 03:47:03.799
Mike Awesome comes out, Me fights
with Canyon, and I guess Awesome throws

2873
03:47:05.000 --> 03:47:15.440
Canyon off the second cage. We're
a fucking what is wrong with him?

2874
03:47:16.000 --> 03:47:22.319
What is wrong with fucking Vince Russo
remark stop thinking it's real? So anyway,

2875
03:47:22.920 --> 03:47:26.319
so I can tell you all right, well the following night, this

2876
03:47:26.520 --> 03:47:39.000
is uh David Arqatt's heel promo.
Yeah, I mean, like, can

2877
03:47:39.120 --> 03:47:50.760
you be any more of a fucking
goofball? Like you fucking seriously? Like

2878
03:47:50.920 --> 03:48:05.479
that's dad? Is he all right? Sorry? Page? I really am

2879
03:48:05.680 --> 03:48:13.879
sorry, Kenyon, Oh damn sorry, But you should know better than to

2880
03:48:13.079 --> 03:48:24.079
trust someone from Ally. Why you
know, when I was on the set

2881
03:48:24.159 --> 03:48:37.159
of Ready to Rumble with Page and
he said, jes you get hurt,

2882
03:48:37.280 --> 03:48:43.440
but guess what you got hurt?
Page? I don't think he said as

2883
03:48:43.440 --> 03:48:50.840
best one thing to say to you. How was the heavyway jadit of the

2884
03:48:50.159 --> 03:49:01.360
world? Thanks to my buddy and
Bishop that king. He man, what

2885
03:49:01.559 --> 03:49:05.920
an actor put that in your corn
pipe? And it's something what an actor

2886
03:49:05.959 --> 03:49:11.840
almost Gable liking his delivery, and
a wonderful wife too, almost Gable like

2887
03:49:11.879 --> 03:49:15.920
in his delivery. That's that's funny
fucking line. There not a doubt,

2888
03:49:16.799 --> 03:49:20.559
so you might didn't, you know, I don't understand how this didn't draw

2889
03:49:20.760 --> 03:49:28.120
money. I mean, sold me, sold me a new pair of my

2890
03:49:28.280 --> 03:49:35.079
new bag of shower curtains. Sucks
so bad, so bad, it sucks.

2891
03:49:35.440 --> 03:49:46.479
It's so bad you go first,
seriously, I'd be thrilled to fucking

2892
03:49:46.879 --> 03:49:58.280
shut up, you motherfucker, you
dumb bitch idiot. Anyway, No,

2893
03:49:58.479 --> 03:50:01.120
no, he was. And listen, I get to say, you know,

2894
03:50:01.680 --> 03:50:07.239
there are so the it's it's not
all the time I get, I

2895
03:50:07.360 --> 03:50:09.200
get a cameo back when I'm actually
like you know what I've I feel like

2896
03:50:09.280 --> 03:50:13.440
I'm almost relating with this guy.
And he's very relatable in his cameos and

2897
03:50:13.440 --> 03:50:16.520
stuff. He seems like a very
nice guy. You know. But you

2898
03:50:16.600 --> 03:50:20.360
know, and we'll talk about this
at a later date. It this whole

2899
03:50:20.399 --> 03:50:26.280
thing fucked up his career. Yeah, this whole thing fucked him hard.

2900
03:50:26.319 --> 03:50:31.239
He was at the he was he
was the guy amazing and he just he

2901
03:50:31.520 --> 03:50:37.360
killed it. I mean, listen, wrestling does that. So anyway,

2902
03:50:37.479 --> 03:50:41.159
this thing ends, DVP comes out, give him the Diamond Cutter, and

2903
03:50:41.120 --> 03:50:48.319
I don't think he's on TV until
new Blood Rising, where as we know

2904
03:50:48.520 --> 03:50:54.200
he interferes in the Judy bagwell in
a four left match. So I've said,

2905
03:50:54.639 --> 03:50:58.159
instead of new Blood Rising, I'll
tell you what new blood boiling?

2906
03:50:58.479 --> 03:51:03.600
New Blood pressure rising? Right exactly. More recently, this is twenty eighteen.

2907
03:51:03.639 --> 03:51:11.239
I believe David Arquette was a guest
on Steve Austin's show and he kind

2908
03:51:11.239 --> 03:51:16.760
of reflected back on the title when
with you know, he he understands more

2909
03:51:18.120 --> 03:51:20.719
and stuff, and I mean again
it's like, dude, it's not your

2910
03:51:20.799 --> 03:51:24.319
decision, like you didn't choose to
do this, it's somebody else decided to

2911
03:51:24.399 --> 03:51:30.639
do it. But anyway, this
is him just whatever. I finally like

2912
03:51:31.000 --> 03:51:33.639
figured out why people got so mad
about me. And then it's like this

2913
03:51:33.840 --> 03:51:39.799
heritage and this history and this you
know, this this art form that it

2914
03:51:39.000 --> 03:51:45.360
was disrespecting by by doing it the
way it went down, But just learning

2915
03:51:45.399 --> 03:51:48.639
about it all I can see.
But then it just makes me even matter

2916
03:51:48.680 --> 03:51:52.879
about Hollywood not taking it seriously or
like, you know, I guess they

2917
03:51:52.239 --> 03:51:56.479
have to take it seriously when you
know WWE sells the rights to row or

2918
03:52:00.600 --> 03:52:03.239
yeah, hey, man, when
you won the wsw WAL Heavyweight Championship,

2919
03:52:03.319 --> 03:52:07.840
that was in the year two thousand, correct his twenty eighteen. Now,

2920
03:52:07.399 --> 03:52:11.799
social media was non existence back then. If it had been, I would

2921
03:52:11.879 --> 03:52:16.479
imagine you would have caught a shit
poll of grief from the hardcore wrestling fans,

2922
03:52:16.680 --> 03:52:20.239
because I mean, I think you
caught it. Still do it eighteen

2923
03:52:20.319 --> 03:52:22.239
years ago, I still do it. I mean I get it in some

2924
03:52:22.440 --> 03:52:26.319
guy today. I'm literally like that's
part of the reason I came back.

2925
03:52:26.520 --> 03:52:31.639
Some literally like the low bar,
Like that's the worst decision. Baba Dudley

2926
03:52:31.799 --> 03:52:37.200
wrote when I hop did I hob
they turned like the International House of Pancakes,

2927
03:52:37.239 --> 03:52:41.000
International House of Burgers, And he
said, that's the worst idea than

2928
03:52:41.079 --> 03:52:48.360
making Davy dark Like God, But
you know what, man, if you're

2929
03:52:48.360 --> 03:52:50.360
going to be and well, I'm
thinking the same thing as true with the

2930
03:52:50.479 --> 03:52:54.479
acting as in pro wrestling or show
business in general or life in general.

2931
03:52:54.559 --> 03:53:01.440
Dude, you got to have thick
skin. Yeah that you do absolutely.

2932
03:53:03.120 --> 03:53:07.559
So Yeah, that's now before we
talk about the release of the film.

2933
03:53:07.799 --> 03:53:15.680
I actually was trying to see if
Vince McMahon ever made public like remarks about

2934
03:53:15.680 --> 03:53:16.639
the film. I couldn't find anything. I don't know, have you ever

2935
03:53:16.680 --> 03:53:20.600
heard anything him talking about it?
I mean, I'm sure he had somebody

2936
03:53:20.680 --> 03:53:24.440
watch it. Yeah, mainly because
not necessarily because of like the movie per

2937
03:53:24.479 --> 03:53:28.559
se, but the fact that W
CW beat him to the punch when it

2938
03:53:28.600 --> 03:53:31.120
came to making a major motion picture
during that later you know, during that

2939
03:53:31.239 --> 03:53:37.040
nineties boom period, Like, you
know, that was the time We've always

2940
03:53:37.040 --> 03:53:39.000
said, like that was the time
for these guys to be in movies.

2941
03:53:39.040 --> 03:53:43.239
I know, like the schedule is
brutal. But I said, you know,

2942
03:53:43.399 --> 03:53:46.440
but then I thought to myself too, like you know, you know

2943
03:53:46.520 --> 03:53:50.000
what would he tried to kill that
movie, you know, to make sure

2944
03:53:50.079 --> 03:53:58.680
his movie came out first. So
I got a little dirty and I I'm

2945
03:53:58.719 --> 03:54:03.920
gonna on you something that we're going
to read together. I chat GPT did

2946
03:54:05.520 --> 03:54:16.920
alright answer? And UH decided to
see This is a vinsick man's phone conversation

2947
03:54:16.360 --> 03:54:22.520
with the executive behind Ready to Rumble, Basil, the Wanic that we mentioned

2948
03:54:22.680 --> 03:54:26.479
at the top of the show.
So you be Basil do you get the

2949
03:54:26.479 --> 03:54:31.040
script? I send it in the
in your email email. Yeah, it's

2950
03:54:31.040 --> 03:54:37.319
a word document and we'll do it
the way we did it, the the

2951
03:54:37.440 --> 03:54:41.920
the original one that we did for
the Christmas thing, where we'll read the

2952
03:54:41.920 --> 03:54:45.639
script and then we'll read what I
told it to do. I think it'll

2953
03:54:45.680 --> 03:54:48.879
be more revealing that way. All
right, Okay, So I'm Basil.

2954
03:54:48.959 --> 03:54:52.040
You're Basil or Basil. I don't
know what we're gonna I guess we'll call

2955
03:54:52.079 --> 03:54:56.040
him Basil. Uh, all right, I'll read the interior Basil in one's

2956
03:54:56.120 --> 03:55:01.360
office day, Basil, I wanic
produce Warner about this picture. Since at

2957
03:55:01.399 --> 03:55:03.479
his desk going through some paperwork,
his phone's ring. His phone rings,

2958
03:55:03.760 --> 03:55:07.840
and he picks it up. Oh, Basil, I want speaking Basil.

2959
03:55:07.959 --> 03:55:09.319
Basil Simsic. Man, how the
hell are you, pal? Hey,

2960
03:55:09.399 --> 03:55:11.399
Vin's good to hear from you.
I'm doing well. Thanks. What can

2961
03:55:11.440 --> 03:55:13.879
I do for you? Oh?
You know, just keeping the wheels turning

2962
03:55:13.920 --> 03:55:18.559
at WWE. But listen, I
wanted to talk to you about something.

2963
03:55:18.000 --> 03:55:20.680
Sure, Vince, what's on your
mind? Well, it's in this movie.

2964
03:55:20.879 --> 03:55:24.479
You guys are making ready to rumble. I've been hearing things and I'm

2965
03:55:24.559 --> 03:55:28.799
concerned Oh, what have you heard? Well, I've heard it's about wrestlers

2966
03:55:28.879 --> 03:55:35.600
from my competition. WW Then I
can't help but feel that Ted Turner is

2967
03:55:35.000 --> 03:55:39.319
up to something. You're trying to
take me down. It's just a comedy

2968
03:55:39.319 --> 03:55:43.079
about wrestling fans. I don't think
there's any conspiracy here, just good entertainment.

2969
03:55:43.040 --> 03:55:46.559
You know you can't trust Turner.
I know he's behind this. You

2970
03:55:46.840 --> 03:55:50.040
should drop that movie, Vince.
We can't just drop a project like that.

2971
03:55:50.120 --> 03:55:52.520
It's a significant investment. Well,
let me tell you something about those

2972
03:55:52.559 --> 03:55:56.120
wrestlers you've got. You know they're
trouble. You know, Bischoff Turner two.

2973
03:55:56.399 --> 03:56:00.719
You're playing with fire pal and so
we've done our research professionals and the

2974
03:56:00.760 --> 03:56:03.840
fans love them. Basil, you're
being naive. They'll ruin your movie and

2975
03:56:03.959 --> 03:56:07.559
you'll be left with nothing. Hence, I find that hard to believe.

2976
03:56:07.639 --> 03:56:13.559
We've worked with these wrestlers before and
they've been nothing but professional. You're making

2977
03:56:13.600 --> 03:56:16.799
a big mistake. This movie was
my idea first, and you stole it.

2978
03:56:16.719 --> 03:56:20.719
Vince. We've been developing this project
for years. We have the documentation

2979
03:56:20.879 --> 03:56:24.879
to prove it. You know,
I'm issuing a civilian ceased assistant. You

2980
03:56:24.040 --> 03:56:28.319
drop the movie, Basil. Vince, We're not backing down. We believe

2981
03:56:28.360 --> 03:56:31.959
in this project. You leave me
no choice. I'll sue Warner Brothers,

2982
03:56:33.239 --> 03:56:39.879
Turner and you on what grounds,
Vince for using fake athletes playing characters.

2983
03:56:39.440 --> 03:56:46.440
It's against the law, Vince's not
a valid reason. Wrestlers have been in

2984
03:56:46.479 --> 03:56:50.559
movies for years, and besides,
wrestling is script and entertainment. We're not

2985
03:56:50.600 --> 03:56:52.600
claiming it's real. I don't care. I'll sue you all. This is

2986
03:56:52.639 --> 03:56:58.079
my empire. Then this is absurd. We won't be bullied. You'll regret

2987
03:56:58.159 --> 03:57:03.520
this, Basil, you and your
movie making cronies. Phone slams down.

2988
03:57:03.799 --> 03:57:09.959
It was bizarre. Seconds later,
the door bursts open and a life sized

2989
03:57:09.040 --> 03:57:16.559
wrestling action figure comes crashing into the
room. What The action figure growls menacingly,

2990
03:57:16.079 --> 03:57:28.200
then unexpectedly sprouts facing secnd of flowers, Basil. So you can read

2991
03:57:28.239 --> 03:57:33.000
the read the description. So this
is what this is what I wrote birth

2992
03:57:33.159 --> 03:57:37.360
that Yes, write a script where
Vince McMahon calls up Basil and Wanek at

2993
03:57:37.479 --> 03:57:41.920
Warner Brothers Pictures. The conversation starts
off with pleasantries before Vince starts asking questions

2994
03:57:41.959 --> 03:57:46.040
about the upcoming movie. Ready to
rumble featuring wrestlers on Vince McMahon's competition World

2995
03:57:46.120 --> 03:57:50.520
Championship Wrestling. Vince is paranoid that
Ted Turner is coming to get him.

2996
03:57:50.760 --> 03:57:54.440
Vince tries to convince Basil that the
film should be dropped, but Basil is

2997
03:57:54.479 --> 03:57:58.799
not convinced. Vince then starts telling
lies about the wrestlers Eric Bischoff and Ted

2998
03:57:58.840 --> 03:58:01.760
Turner in an attempt to get the
movie dropped. Basically debunks the lies.

2999
03:58:03.239 --> 03:58:13.559
He just start telling lies. Next
his next, his next gear. Vince

3000
03:58:13.680 --> 03:58:16.360
insists that the movie was his idea
first and that Warner Brothers stole it from

3001
03:58:16.440 --> 03:58:22.000
him. Vince issues a civilian season. It's a word of that awesome.

3002
03:58:22.200 --> 03:58:26.719
I didn't make it up. Basil
provides evidence that Vince's lie, and that's

3003
03:58:26.760 --> 03:58:30.600
what's great about it. Vince makes
it up too. It's not a real

3004
03:58:30.719 --> 03:58:35.559
thing. Basil provides evidence that Vince
is lying. Vincedent threatens to sue Warner

3005
03:58:35.639 --> 03:58:41.360
Brothers Basil i wanek. Basil asks
on what ground Vincil sue. Vince comes

3006
03:58:41.440 --> 03:58:46.840
up with an outlandish and nonsensical reason
to sue, having to do with fake

3007
03:58:46.399 --> 03:58:50.520
fleets. So I want you to
know so, so I didn't write,

3008
03:58:50.760 --> 03:58:56.799
I didn't say fake athletes playing characters, that's right, that's chant gpt see

3009
03:58:58.600 --> 03:59:05.399
Vincent Basil can say it's against the
law. I'm stunned. Here here's the

3010
03:59:05.440 --> 03:59:09.079
best. The best part is the
end though. Finally Vince swears at Basils,

3011
03:59:09.120 --> 03:59:13.040
screams and hangs up. A few
seconds go by, and then Basils

3012
03:59:13.239 --> 03:59:20.200
met with a terrifying surprise bursting through
his door. The surprise devours Basils.

3013
03:59:20.239 --> 03:59:22.600
So you didn't tell them to make
it an action figure? That that I

3014
03:59:22.719 --> 03:59:26.760
did not. That is so fucking
creepy that they came up with that in

3015
03:59:26.799 --> 03:59:35.280
their own You're looking at your action
figure collection and I got nothing. No,

3016
03:59:35.399 --> 03:59:39.319
that's so bizarre. What lurks in
the heart of chat exactly? That?

3017
03:59:39.760 --> 03:59:48.280
I was deeply disturbed, deeply disturbed. So yeah. So the film

3018
03:59:48.360 --> 03:59:54.159
had its premiere on April fifth in
Los Angeles. They aired an edited package

3019
03:59:54.520 --> 04:00:01.399
on on Nitro and I guess they
they shot at w how do you angle?

3020
04:00:01.920 --> 04:00:07.680
During the premiere? Tony comments on
it during what Happens when Here you

3021
04:00:07.719 --> 04:00:09.959
Go? And at the premiere that
you were talking about, they held a

3022
04:00:11.040 --> 04:00:16.559
quick little five minute match with Vampiro
in the wall. Right, I don't

3023
04:00:16.559 --> 04:00:22.600
remember that. I remember at the
premiere. I remember Jeff Jared coming out

3024
04:00:22.600 --> 04:00:26.200
with a guitar and bashing David our
Kett over the head with it. Oh

3025
04:00:26.280 --> 04:00:30.799
well, there you go. There
could have been a match at that time.

3026
04:00:31.879 --> 04:00:37.280
But I remember that we had we
had Jeff Jared's guitars in one of

3027
04:00:37.319 --> 04:00:41.399
the agents or one of the Hollywood
writers producer's office, and I had to

3028
04:00:41.600 --> 04:00:46.120
I don't know why, I ran
down with Jennie Engele to this producer's office

3029
04:00:46.159 --> 04:00:54.040
to get the guitars for Jeff Jared
to use. Fucking Wacky Ready to Ramble

3030
04:00:54.120 --> 04:01:00.920
opened wide April seven, two thousand, at number six. The opening weekend

3031
04:01:00.959 --> 04:01:05.920
gross was just over five million dollars, averaging just over two thousand dollars per

3032
04:01:05.000 --> 04:01:13.840
theater. Two weeks later, the
movie had plummeted to number eighteen. That's

3033
04:01:13.920 --> 04:01:20.600
correct, grossing nine hundred and ninety
four thousand, averaging five hundred and ninety

3034
04:01:20.680 --> 04:01:28.000
four dollars per screen. Overall movie
gross twelve point five million against a twenty

3035
04:01:28.399 --> 04:01:37.200
four million dollar budget, a pretty
clear cut disaster. Bischoff in his book

3036
04:01:37.040 --> 04:01:43.879
blames it on the fact that because
he was ousted from WCW, that that's

3037
04:01:43.920 --> 04:01:48.600
why it was an Eric Bischoff project, so you know they were like fuck

3038
04:01:48.639 --> 04:01:50.280
that. You know, I'm not
going to give it. You know,

3039
04:01:50.280 --> 04:02:00.520
they're not going I'm not going to
promote that. And yeah, now nothing

3040
04:02:00.559 --> 04:02:03.120
really much in there as well,
although he just said this thing about Vinnicman,

3041
04:02:03.399 --> 04:02:05.079
but you look at the way they's
kissing. He's just fucking like eats

3042
04:02:05.159 --> 04:02:09.440
vincic Man's asshole. Fucking is when
you look at the way vintric Man puts

3043
04:02:09.440 --> 04:02:13.520
together a great infrastructure and management team
win WW is involved with a movie,

3044
04:02:13.680 --> 04:02:16.239
you see how it should be done. That's because Vince understands the power of

3045
04:02:16.360 --> 04:02:22.079
the brand and the media platform.
Oh how can reach out to the audience

3046
04:02:22.120 --> 04:02:26.159
and help motivate them to see movies? Speaking of things by chat GPTO.

3047
04:02:26.200 --> 04:02:30.760
Yeah right, seriously, I will
note this because I imagine you're curious.

3048
04:02:31.520 --> 04:02:39.239
How did the movie do? The
weekend after Arquet's title Win, the gross

3049
04:02:39.559 --> 04:02:45.000
went down seventy two percent from the
prior week So making it was going to

3050
04:02:45.079 --> 04:02:48.319
it was going to go down eighty
percent because we did the Yeah, okay,

3051
04:02:48.440 --> 04:02:56.559
thanks Nash. They made two hundred
and seventy two thousand dollars eight hundred

3052
04:02:56.559 --> 04:03:01.319
and sixty two soon as every two
thousand, eight hundred and sixty two dollars.

3053
04:03:01.399 --> 04:03:07.479
Curiously, though, after the pay
per view Slamburrie, it got a

3054
04:03:07.559 --> 04:03:11.440
bump, went up nineteen percent.
Still was like nothing, but this is

3055
04:03:11.479 --> 04:03:16.120
Slamburry compared to April, compared to
April of last year or April the No,

3056
04:03:16.319 --> 04:03:20.959
this is the April. This is
the Slambury. So after the show,

3057
04:03:20.360 --> 04:03:24.959
after the slam maerree, so he
loses the belt on May seventh,

3058
04:03:24.079 --> 04:03:28.559
right the weekend of May twelve,
fourteenth, the movie got a bump,

3059
04:03:28.639 --> 04:03:31.959
so like the of the week of
the pay per view, it made ninety

3060
04:03:31.959 --> 04:03:35.920
seven thousand dollars. The weekend after
the pay per view it made one hundred

3061
04:03:35.920 --> 04:03:41.239
and sixteen thousand dollars, right up
nineteen point three percent. It's awesome,

3062
04:03:41.440 --> 04:03:48.040
just dismal, and was out.
It was out by after after seven weeks.

3063
04:03:48.280 --> 04:03:52.559
Seventh week w ranked number forty eight. It was on two hundred and

3064
04:03:52.639 --> 04:03:58.200
nineteen screens and average two hundred and
sixty dollars per screen. Awesome, yep,

3065
04:03:58.520 --> 04:04:01.280
that's the reality of it all.
So as if we need to know,

3066
04:04:01.440 --> 04:04:05.280
compared to a successful movie, which
would do which would do millions and

3067
04:04:05.360 --> 04:04:11.959
millions of dollars? How much per
screen? Oh god, you could do

3068
04:04:13.559 --> 04:04:20.120
hundreds of thousands per screen easily?
Thank you, yeah, easily. So

3069
04:04:20.399 --> 04:04:22.600
how is it received? Do we
need to even know this? Do we

3070
04:04:22.639 --> 04:04:28.520
even need to think? New York
Times said, Ready to Rumble is a

3071
04:04:28.639 --> 04:04:33.799
courageous, devastating expose of the brutality, misogyny, and homophobia that pervade the

3072
04:04:33.879 --> 04:04:37.360
so called sport professional wrestling. The
films. The film goes to shocking lengths

3073
04:04:37.399 --> 04:04:43.040
to show how this wildly popular form
of entertainment transforms its young males into uncouth,

3074
04:04:43.120 --> 04:04:46.280
slack jawed dolts who think that punching
women in the face is an acceptable

3075
04:04:46.680 --> 04:04:52.719
mode of foreplay and who are entirely
unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. The

3076
04:04:52.799 --> 04:04:58.239
movie also explores with candor this insensitivity, the undercurrent of sa sado masochistic homo

3077
04:04:58.319 --> 04:05:03.920
eroticism that has made wrestling a big
money attraction for the whole family. Just

3078
04:05:03.040 --> 04:05:07.000
kidding, Actually, Brian Robbins,
Ready to Rumble is not a satire of

3079
04:05:07.040 --> 04:05:11.319
the idiocy of professional wrestling, but
a long, self satisfied wallow in it.

3080
04:05:11.399 --> 04:05:16.200
Merely It's not a movie this critic
has been waiting sometimes to see not

3081
04:05:16.280 --> 04:05:18.200
at all. You may say I'm
missing the point. Everyone knows for wrestling

3082
04:05:18.280 --> 04:05:20.680
is fake. Everyone knows it's stupid, and that's part of the fun.

3083
04:05:22.079 --> 04:05:26.159
Well be it for me to stand
against the atrophy of human intelligence. But

3084
04:05:26.319 --> 04:05:28.879
Ready to Rumble is not much fun
at all. As the credits roll,

3085
04:05:28.959 --> 04:05:33.399
Ready to Rumble runs the now obligatory
blooper reel within, which is indistinguishable from

3086
04:05:33.440 --> 04:05:39.079
what has come before and leaves the
disturbing impression that mister Arquette may not have

3087
04:05:39.159 --> 04:05:43.799
been acting at all. The Austin
Chronicle right wrote, I'm sorry I laughed.

3088
04:05:45.120 --> 04:05:48.440
I know the whole country has spent
the past week trashing this wrestling comedy's

3089
04:05:48.719 --> 04:05:52.479
asinine plot, premise and performances.
And I agree with the naysayers one hundred

3090
04:05:52.479 --> 04:05:58.079
percent, as long as they notice
that there's a one occupying those two big

3091
04:05:58.200 --> 04:06:01.360
zeros. But I laughed for the
whole one hundred minutes. But enough to

3092
04:06:01.440 --> 04:06:07.079
know that discounting the movies cruden,
uncouth humor wholesale would be dishonest. Call

3093
04:06:07.159 --> 04:06:11.840
me jaded, but maybe there's something
pleasurable about a comedy that has no pretensions

3094
04:06:11.840 --> 04:06:16.760
about where it's coming from. And
Roger Reebert had something to say on at

3095
04:06:16.799 --> 04:06:20.440
the movies. This is after the
death of siskel So. He had special

3096
04:06:20.520 --> 04:06:26.559
guest host Mikaela Perera. Here and
Here we Go. David Arketta and Scott

3097
04:06:26.639 --> 04:06:31.360
Kahn are a road company version of
Dumb and Dumber and Ready to Rumble,

3098
04:06:31.399 --> 04:06:35.079
a comedy where they play wrestling fanatics. It's said, how ready to Rumble?

3099
04:06:35.159 --> 04:06:37.399
This is the opportunity to be a
smart comedy about pro wrestling, and

3100
04:06:37.479 --> 04:06:41.879
settles instead for a machine made laugh
and a predictable comeback plot. And Oliver

3101
04:06:43.000 --> 04:06:45.920
Platt, who was a good actor, is in the shade here compared to

3102
04:06:46.000 --> 04:06:50.040
the real wrestlers, who are much
more vivid and flamboyant than he allows himself

3103
04:06:50.120 --> 04:06:52.879
to be. He literally doesn't seem
to belong in the same ring with Diamond

3104
04:06:52.959 --> 04:06:58.120
Dallas. David Arketta and Scott Cohn
have some funny moments, especially one where

3105
04:06:58.159 --> 04:07:03.159
they eat lunch sitting next to their
dripping sanitary truck, but the comedy never

3106
04:07:03.360 --> 04:07:07.799
really reaches takeoff velocity. The comedy
completely missed me. In fact, I

3107
04:07:07.840 --> 04:07:11.680
thought it was too silly, a
little too much, no pun intended potty

3108
04:07:11.760 --> 04:07:16.479
humor. I think Scotty Kahn and
David Arquette are both luney and quite funny,

3109
04:07:16.520 --> 04:07:20.200
and we've seen a lot from con
recently with the Boiler Room, et

3110
04:07:20.280 --> 04:07:24.239
cetera. But it just didn't hit
me. I'm not a wrestling fan,

3111
04:07:24.280 --> 04:07:26.479
although I admit I've seen a couple
of smackdowns on the ww app and I

3112
04:07:26.600 --> 04:07:33.079
did like the ability to poke fun
at the world of wrestling. Wrestling is

3113
04:07:33.159 --> 04:07:37.040
not I mean the way, well, the way they create these characters and

3114
04:07:37.159 --> 04:07:43.760
write these scenarios and the set shows
and do these suns and special effects barb

3115
04:07:43.840 --> 04:07:46.760
wire and flame. Millions of people
can't be wrong. I understand what you're

3116
04:07:46.799 --> 04:07:50.479
saying, be treated. I think
in a smart comedy, a guy like

3117
04:07:50.639 --> 04:07:54.680
Robert Altman or somebody like David o'
russell or Spike Jones could make this movie.

3118
04:07:56.000 --> 04:07:58.559
But I'm afraid Ready to Rumble is
not the movie I'm thinking. I

3119
04:07:58.639 --> 04:08:03.680
agree with you. I agree with
you. I'd love to see fucking Robert

3120
04:08:03.719 --> 04:08:05.879
Altman. I would have loved to
have seen him do a fucking wrestling movie.

3121
04:08:05.920 --> 04:08:11.799
That would have been unreal. And
finally, uh, in the commentary

3122
04:08:11.879 --> 04:08:15.479
track, this is the one thing
I found that was worthwhile. Arquette was

3123
04:08:15.600 --> 04:08:20.399
asked by Scott by Scott Cohn if
he would ever get in the ring again.

3124
04:08:20.959 --> 04:08:22.159
Oh, are you gonna fight again? I don't know if I'll go

3125
04:08:22.280 --> 04:08:26.719
back. I'd like to, but
I'm pretty sure people are say of that.

3126
04:08:28.120 --> 04:08:31.239
I we'll see, We'll see what
happens. Uh. Are you ready

3127
04:08:31.280 --> 04:08:35.520
to rumble? I'm ready to rumble. Oh my god, what a fucking

3128
04:08:35.600 --> 04:08:50.000
nightmare? And roll the projector three
two one play Warner Brothers, Yeah,

3129
04:08:50.120 --> 04:08:56.479
for sure, Warner Brothers joined Cinema. It's weird to have no music with

3130
04:08:56.559 --> 04:09:01.559
a production company. H I thought
that was imagine for a second there,

3131
04:09:01.559 --> 04:09:05.840
I was like, imagine, come
on, but no, it's bell Air.

3132
04:09:05.840 --> 04:09:09.239
I couldn't imagine. I couldn't imagine. I imagine, imagine entertain Sid's

3133
04:09:09.280 --> 04:09:15.399
face it opens up. Listen.
It sounds like the end of of a

3134
04:09:15.639 --> 04:09:20.520
of a Colosseum video from ninety five, the bloody pictures of Baron von Rashki

3135
04:09:20.639 --> 04:09:24.799
and Bobby Heena and the A W
A. He's turning even w W pictures.

3136
04:09:24.840 --> 04:09:28.239
I don't know, it's all pictures. We can stay his fucking weird

3137
04:09:28.399 --> 04:09:37.920
face in the background. There Valent
Time Slamboury, the Professional Wrestlers, Universal

3138
04:09:37.239 --> 04:09:43.760
pastex Calhoun save to assume that professional
wrestlers are recognized as the queen Bruno,

3139
04:09:43.920 --> 04:09:50.360
Bruno and Fez. I don't think
so, Andre I can running through all

3140
04:09:50.360 --> 04:09:56.319
these great sheikh's face destroyer mil muscatis
my mom? Is my mom? Look

3141
04:09:56.360 --> 04:10:01.799
at that? Our heroes of history, that's right, superior athletes, superior

3142
04:10:01.879 --> 04:10:09.040
man, the French Angel Luise today
and here we go now Lusk shopping stop

3143
04:10:09.200 --> 04:10:15.600
not associated with stopping shop. Of
course, Jimmy King is the greatest wrestler

3144
04:10:15.680 --> 04:10:18.799
of all time. So here's like, like, that's part of the problem,

3145
04:10:18.879 --> 04:10:22.000
is that how am I supposed to
believe that that Jimmy King, that

3146
04:10:22.079 --> 04:10:26.280
fucking Oliver Platt is the greatest wrestler
of all time? I know it makes

3147
04:10:26.559 --> 04:10:31.319
no fucking sense. Ah, the
Newfangled WW magazine with Kevin Neck at the

3148
04:10:31.360 --> 04:10:37.000
helm, I will any put you
somewhere to look at the skuys of Scott

3149
04:10:37.079 --> 04:10:39.159
cons Neck. This is the other
guy, by the way, This is

3150
04:10:39.200 --> 04:10:41.799
the guy, the third guy on
the commentary track, Like, I don't

3151
04:10:41.799 --> 04:10:46.000
know why, but I guess he's
a friend of David R. Katzer.

3152
04:10:46.200 --> 04:10:52.440
He's just tossing ship with these poor
kids. He said it. Wrestling is

3153
04:10:52.520 --> 04:10:56.719
for our words. Yeah, this
is the nineties still yeah two thousand,

3154
04:10:58.559 --> 04:11:01.399
I mean it is still the nineties. Really when it was filmed, it

3155
04:11:01.479 --> 04:11:07.319
was still the nineties. Listen,
Jimmy King, the People's Champion. Scott

3156
04:11:07.360 --> 04:11:13.440
conn is lecturing to these kids about
how this wrestler King is the the Bee's

3157
04:11:13.479 --> 04:11:20.399
knees. I don't know about Dog
Skipper, but don't worry. Scott con

3158
04:11:20.479 --> 04:11:24.319
also not a wrestling fan, by
the way, I don't know if I

3159
04:11:24.399 --> 04:11:28.799
said that before, not a wrestling
fan. Well, David, our kids

3160
04:11:28.799 --> 04:11:39.680
looking at a magazine slipping slurpy,
which yes, this is what Hollywood thinks

3161
04:11:39.680 --> 04:11:46.239
are wrestling fan. Yep, I
don't know. What do you want?

3162
04:11:46.520 --> 04:11:52.239
Purple sugar slush King, That'll be
a dollar? Like, what the fuck

3163
04:11:52.360 --> 04:11:58.040
is going on? Are they making
like a stylized showdown over this purple slushy?

3164
04:11:58.319 --> 04:12:09.120
Look at savage picture in the back
cards on the cosmic boob because that's

3165
04:12:09.159 --> 04:12:18.879
what people that's what we call people
squirrel nuts. Oh, I see they're

3166
04:12:18.920 --> 04:12:22.600
cutting promos under Yeah, yeah,
but it's a it's a dream as we'll

3167
04:12:22.600 --> 04:12:28.120
see, because Goss is so pathetic, it's so stupid. Such a wrestling

3168
04:12:28.159 --> 04:12:31.200
has run through the filter that Shane
Shanehill is doing the supplex. I'm the

3169
04:12:31.239 --> 04:12:35.639
guy. She's a huge high vertical
in the middle of this aisle, and

3170
04:12:35.760 --> 04:12:39.000
there's macho. Here we go.
I'm gonna take you down. Look how

3171
04:12:39.159 --> 04:12:46.000
unsteroid to do that? Look how
normal he looks? Right O Savage whipping

3172
04:12:46.040 --> 04:12:50.600
writes down the pike. It here
comes Oliver Platt. There's the that's the

3173
04:12:50.680 --> 04:12:58.879
punch. That's the punch right there. Yeah, I mean, what the

3174
04:13:00.079 --> 04:13:05.079
fuck clothes? That was a real
bomb. He bumped, He did the

3175
04:13:05.120 --> 04:13:11.799
bump. What is he? Martin
Jeanetti puts his head through the glass.

3176
04:13:15.280 --> 04:13:20.600
See the drop kick by Riquette,
body slammed by Platte. I'm ready,

3177
04:13:20.639 --> 04:13:26.639
savage, double axe handle. There's
the night tro girls for no reason,

3178
04:13:26.680 --> 04:13:33.719
including Booker T's future wife and uh
Shay who Kevin Nash. I think it's

3179
04:13:33.799 --> 04:13:39.000
generally accepted cheated on his wife with
no ship. Huh pounded the ship out

3180
04:13:39.040 --> 04:13:43.239
of her. That's right, absolutely
accurate from every angle. That's right,

3181
04:13:45.079 --> 04:13:48.360
and one should bend over right.
I ain't gonna fucking do it. What

3182
04:13:48.520 --> 04:14:01.840
about what is he doing? He
touches his ass. Yeah, why does

3183
04:14:01.879 --> 04:14:07.840
it look like you have your finger
in your butt. God, because he

3184
04:14:07.920 --> 04:14:09.799
does. He has his finger in
his But this is he's wrestling fans obviously

3185
04:14:11.959 --> 04:14:20.000
so bad, I mean and honestly, And here's the thing too, really,

3186
04:14:20.399 --> 04:14:24.600
what it is this is how something
wrong w c W sees its fans.

3187
04:14:28.600 --> 04:14:33.280
He smells the finger and he's making
it seem like he's it's like that

3188
04:14:33.440 --> 04:14:41.879
joking type of joking. Uh uh
mall rats. You know where he sticks

3189
04:14:41.920 --> 04:14:48.040
his hand like his you know,
he fucking he he uh you know,

3190
04:14:48.120 --> 04:14:50.639
puts his hand down his ass and
he shakes Michael Rooker's hand with it.

3191
04:14:50.719 --> 04:14:56.559
Do you remember that not really movie? Too? Well? I wish I

3192
04:14:56.680 --> 04:15:03.399
was watching it right now. Yeah, it's way better than that. Cops

3193
04:15:03.399 --> 04:15:07.760
are here, cops are here,
Keep your hands where I can see them.

3194
04:15:15.840 --> 04:15:24.959
Got stuff on you? What that's
my nuts? He said? Wouldn't

3195
04:15:24.000 --> 04:15:28.000
you rather be on the other side
of this search you want me to grab

3196
04:15:28.040 --> 04:15:39.079
your nuts? Whoa that the homotic? Some Yes, I mean, it's

3197
04:15:39.159 --> 04:15:46.959
so like dad. It's his dad. It's his dad. Well, look

3198
04:15:46.000 --> 04:15:52.559
what he's done for. It's his
dad who just grabbed his best friend's balls.

3199
04:15:54.280 --> 04:16:00.079
Okay, but even worse fund wrestling
in the Sun's pocket wrestling. He

3200
04:16:00.200 --> 04:16:03.479
says to his face, he says, it's not fake, it's real.

3201
04:16:03.799 --> 04:16:11.920
Oh my god, totally losing mental
patiently, he says that the Shoff and

3202
04:16:11.000 --> 04:16:15.559
Hervey right here, the shop and
Hervey, Oh totally damn you know,

3203
04:16:15.760 --> 04:16:26.040
damn Well, I don't see the
point wrestling. He says, wrestling is

3204
04:16:26.040 --> 04:16:33.239
a game for little boys. Yes, he's such a condescending He's like,

3205
04:16:33.399 --> 04:16:36.360
that's that's, that's it. And
if you didn't know we were in the

3206
04:16:36.440 --> 04:16:59.000
nineties, here's the soundtrack Nick nit
Man fucking jam bands of the Job of

3207
04:16:59.079 --> 04:17:03.799
the nineteen nineties. It's right job. I know, dude, you have

3208
04:17:03.959 --> 04:17:11.559
a job I want to do.
It's like like Jimmy King says, you

3209
04:17:11.639 --> 04:17:15.000
know, you know what a hul
Cogan also said, say your prayers,

3210
04:17:15.079 --> 04:17:17.639
take your vitamins. Yeah, if
that's where you want to go, you

3211
04:17:17.719 --> 04:17:22.120
know. And uh. And he
was a steroid user and abuser. He

3212
04:17:22.200 --> 04:17:30.280
has used steroids, but he's not
currently an abuser of steroids. Another go

3213
04:17:30.360 --> 04:17:33.559
to the country fair and they're beat
up four trucks take you know, as

3214
04:17:33.639 --> 04:17:36.520
goofy as they look. They don't
look like poor and dirty, these two.

3215
04:17:37.120 --> 04:17:42.600
It's a bad fit. Yeah,
talking about a pay per view.

3216
04:17:42.680 --> 04:17:45.719
Well, how the show they're coming
to. It looks like Mark Merrill for

3217
04:17:45.719 --> 04:17:51.920
a second. They're they're talking about
a D d P versus King and it's

3218
04:17:52.000 --> 04:17:56.559
not a pay per view, Like
what the fuck? And they're laughing at

3219
04:17:56.600 --> 04:18:03.440
them for being wrestling fans, as
they should all done. This is how

3220
04:18:03.479 --> 04:18:11.040
wrestling fans are in the daytime,
right, they clean up ship fucking cleaning

3221
04:18:11.120 --> 04:18:18.719
up porta potties? Like, what
the fuck? Don't do it? What

3222
04:18:19.360 --> 04:18:22.239
don't what mean? You know what? Don't do what? Yeah, I'm

3223
04:18:22.239 --> 04:18:26.559
gonna see friends. Don't do it
to friends. Okay, if you do

3224
04:18:26.680 --> 04:18:30.840
it, Jimmy King will get hurt
tonight. Don't do it. Don't do

3225
04:18:30.959 --> 04:18:36.920
it. Oh he's got fingers crossed
mind his back, so you know.

3226
04:18:37.840 --> 04:18:41.079
Also, like you know, what
I love to is the movies like this

3227
04:18:41.159 --> 04:18:48.559
where they fucking must see and they're
taking a ship rid because because the people

3228
04:18:48.639 --> 04:18:51.120
doing a fucking porta potty, right
right, you bring a paper, bring

3229
04:18:51.200 --> 04:18:59.879
the paper in the porter potty.
This movie sucks at this. He's gonna

3230
04:19:00.399 --> 04:19:11.680
so he's blowing you know if he
was sorry, So he hooked up a

3231
04:19:11.719 --> 04:19:25.440
gimmick that blue air into the commode. Yeah, obody comes out scary.

3232
04:19:26.719 --> 04:19:34.440
I can help super super the fucking
ground, Like what real people do?

3233
04:19:34.920 --> 04:19:37.360
Yeah, you can? People don't
want to be superlexed. You didn't know

3234
04:19:37.440 --> 04:19:48.079
that? God help? You wants
Brittany's taco? Oh my god, wants

3235
04:19:48.120 --> 04:20:03.479
Britney's taco? What do you guys
want? Cheeseburger? And like, God

3236
04:20:03.600 --> 04:20:07.479
damn it. Can't you be a
normal person? Like what the fuck?

3237
04:20:10.000 --> 04:20:17.000
This guy was? This guy,
David Arquette was one of the hot like

3238
04:20:17.520 --> 04:20:22.879
actors of the of the nineties,
Like he had this whole thing like I,

3239
04:20:23.200 --> 04:20:26.719
you know, I It's just it's
just such a weird I just don't

3240
04:20:26.799 --> 04:20:33.120
get it, you know, Yeah, I don't me neither. The like

3241
04:20:33.399 --> 04:20:40.040
seriously, the only time I've ever
really liked to missing the screen movies Diamond

3242
04:20:40.079 --> 04:20:44.920
Dallas, Oh yeah, you talk
about if Kim is going to put a

3243
04:20:45.000 --> 04:20:49.399
hurting on Diamond Dallas page in the
drive through with oh yeah every day and

3244
04:20:53.000 --> 04:21:00.120
Monday, Yes, yes, yes, yes, I agree with her that

3245
04:21:00.159 --> 04:21:04.399
he has nitro tickets. This girl, the Girl, the Brunette. Do

3246
04:21:04.440 --> 04:21:11.200
you remember the commercials where the wife
comes down and and he's on the phone

3247
04:21:11.239 --> 04:21:15.760
and but it's with State Farm and
she thinks he's cheating on her with somebody

3248
04:21:15.799 --> 04:21:19.040
else. Do you remember that commercial? It's like it's a recent one,

3249
04:21:19.079 --> 04:21:22.840
it's more recent, and it's the
guy that he says, you know,

3250
04:21:22.760 --> 04:21:29.719
what are you wearing? Jake from
State Farm Khakis And anyway, that's her.

3251
04:21:30.120 --> 04:21:32.079
She's funny. I like her.
Actually, she's a good actor.

3252
04:21:32.479 --> 04:21:36.799
She's very funny. She's got a
crazy voice, kind of high pitched.

3253
04:21:36.840 --> 04:21:42.440
Boys they're eating. The ship is
dripping, it really is. It's dripping

3254
04:21:44.159 --> 04:21:52.639
like gravy out of the fucking tanker. Yeah, w k D S.

3255
04:21:52.719 --> 04:21:59.079
Isn't his bracelet? What would king
do? I as said all the time,

3256
04:21:59.159 --> 04:22:03.280
what would Jerry the King do?
And I do the opposite Incrusso style?

3257
04:22:03.479 --> 04:22:07.959
Yeah, so stupid David Arquette looks
with his face foward, little bits

3258
04:22:07.959 --> 04:22:19.040
of food on his fucking face.
And now we got the soundtrack to American

3259
04:22:19.040 --> 04:22:32.520
Beauty playing. Yeah, the old
lady from a wedding singer. Oh my

3260
04:22:32.680 --> 04:22:47.280
god, she's like, you just
clear out sewer pumps? Is that what

3261
04:22:47.360 --> 04:22:52.559
they do? They clear out?
So jesus, he just walked. Can't

3262
04:22:52.559 --> 04:22:56.360
get all his cop dad buddies pulled
guns on? Did he notice that they

3263
04:22:56.360 --> 04:22:59.479
were there? Like? And he
walked in like he walked right by them

3264
04:23:00.239 --> 04:23:08.319
one just doing a job. I
don't know what the is going on here.

3265
04:23:11.399 --> 04:23:15.000
David Arkett loves this movie. By
the way, don't forget Oh yeah

3266
04:23:15.040 --> 04:23:25.840
I heard him. You think it's
a great movie. Left, look at

3267
04:23:25.879 --> 04:23:30.319
the mysterio taking off side, step
off the road, the way, no

3268
04:23:30.520 --> 04:23:33.399
mask, tiltortle takes over. Hovie, I spump, We're gonna Prince Akia

3269
04:23:33.959 --> 04:23:37.360
full house. They shot this at
a w W. This is Olympic,

3270
04:23:37.440 --> 04:23:41.440
right, this Olympic yep, the
big set in we sat up there before

3271
04:23:45.040 --> 04:23:52.440
there. Okay, if you only
have one left, is still your left

3272
04:23:52.559 --> 04:23:56.879
nut? Yeah? If you only
have one nut left, is it still

3273
04:23:56.920 --> 04:24:00.159
your left question? There, that's
a good question. The said, uh

3274
04:24:00.040 --> 04:24:03.280
philosophical. You know. Here we
go. There's the spot. This is

3275
04:24:03.360 --> 04:24:11.719
the spot that I guarantee you it's
this one too that killed raised me.

3276
04:24:11.799 --> 04:24:15.920
Wow. Yeah. Billy Kidman launches
Ray into a hurricane, run off the

3277
04:24:15.959 --> 04:24:22.120
top rope on hoovy, And then
we got the Nitro girls and Rose McGowan

3278
04:24:22.159 --> 04:24:26.719
as a nitro girl who's not a
nitro girl, but she's got to play

3279
04:24:26.760 --> 04:24:32.639
one on TV. It's a it's
it's there is a weird part of me

3280
04:24:32.719 --> 04:24:37.280
because I'm so familiar with the screen
movies, like their brother and sister in

3281
04:24:37.319 --> 04:24:41.639
the first Scream movie and then they
hook up in this movie. It's weird.

3282
04:24:41.559 --> 04:24:52.280
How you doing? Booker, Booker
t DDP and Goldberg promoter? What's

3283
04:24:52.319 --> 04:25:03.159
the finish? Goldbrook says the pile
driver. I'll tell the King that was

3284
04:25:03.280 --> 04:25:08.079
come here for a second booking booking
talent. What I just told you?

3285
04:25:11.600 --> 04:25:19.920
Yeah, tonight like wearing the fucking
spectacles and ship. He's pretty good.

3286
04:25:19.959 --> 04:25:26.399
He's that bad? Yeah, that
was good? Is all right? So

3287
04:25:26.479 --> 04:25:30.760
they have just ring a dancer even
know they paid Michael buff for half a

3288
04:25:30.840 --> 04:25:33.840
million dollars. Yeah, yeah,
they have them for one fucking scene.

3289
04:25:37.079 --> 04:25:45.639
Do you need need d DoD d
do with that crappy w c W logo,

3290
04:25:47.760 --> 04:25:52.000
the worst, the dirt worst.
Look at her, Look at her,

3291
04:25:52.159 --> 04:25:53.520
Look at the old woman. She's
got a wig on, She's got

3292
04:25:53.600 --> 04:25:56.920
like Dominatrix, closes on like Jesus
Christ. What is going on here?

3293
04:26:00.680 --> 04:26:06.319
Bammers sid in the Ring? Yeah, Carl's Robinson of the Ring ninety five.

3294
04:26:06.840 --> 04:26:12.200
Seriously, behold the King who looks
nothing like a wrestler at all.

3295
04:26:15.879 --> 04:26:19.520
Look at him. He looks krible
I mean, like, what the fuck

3296
04:26:22.000 --> 04:26:25.840
you know that may be the World
Championship that Jeff Jared ended up walking out

3297
04:26:25.840 --> 04:26:27.559
of Bash at the Beach two thousand
with, or pardon me, the Hulk

3298
04:26:27.600 --> 04:26:32.399
Hogan ended up walking out of Bash
at the Beach two thousand with thinking it

3299
04:26:32.440 --> 04:26:36.000
was the original Big Gold when in
fact Jeff Jarrett hung on to it.

3300
04:26:36.719 --> 04:26:40.280
But they did make a couple of
these for the movie, and so those

3301
04:26:40.319 --> 04:26:44.680
would have been in circulation for that
exact reason at this exact point in time.

3302
04:26:45.239 --> 04:26:51.920
Yeah, just it completely ruins the
movie that they present Oliver Platt as

3303
04:26:51.959 --> 04:26:55.399
the top wrestler. I mean,
I don't know if it completely ruins the

3304
04:26:55.440 --> 04:26:57.520
movie. I think it was ruined
before, But I get your point,

3305
04:26:59.719 --> 04:27:03.600
you know, to the other talking
about how this promoter is Eric Bischoff,

3306
04:27:03.840 --> 04:27:07.559
Yeah, did you notice there wrestling
at the Cheyenne War Memorial. Yes,

3307
04:27:07.959 --> 04:27:11.440
yes they do. And also like
supposedly he's dressed like Wyoming clothes that that

3308
04:27:11.760 --> 04:27:26.360
uh Joe joey Pants is wearing.
He's gonna all over Platte look weird o.

3309
04:27:29.079 --> 04:27:33.479
What he's gonna take d v pen
in his dungeon and making his medieval

3310
04:27:33.559 --> 04:27:37.840
puppet dog bitch puppy dog bitch.
Yes, RD Hennig and Conan in the

3311
04:27:37.920 --> 04:27:47.600
ring as well, mister perfect there
do you see Kurt Henning did? Yes,

3312
04:27:48.040 --> 04:27:51.040
nothing like it, Like shut up, David Arkad. He's so annoying

3313
04:27:51.559 --> 04:27:53.600
all he's done this whole movies make
noises. Yeah, he screams, and

3314
04:27:56.079 --> 04:28:03.040
uh Joey Pants aka ty to Sinclair's
that's right. Tony Schwani and my today

3315
04:28:03.040 --> 04:28:08.120
at ringside button us like why green
guys, what are you guys doing?

3316
04:28:10.399 --> 04:28:15.760
Ww logo is death everywhere I see
it. I get depressed, Like why

3317
04:28:15.879 --> 04:28:25.440
is that? Brother? Forgot Who's
who's your what? Platt and Pants mouthing

3318
04:28:25.479 --> 04:28:30.559
off to each other about who created
who, which I discovered fourteen years ago.

3319
04:28:33.399 --> 04:28:41.680
I just wanted to have this final
moment together. Oh, brother foreboding

3320
04:28:44.520 --> 04:28:51.440
Platte looks like a fucking mora,
he does. What's the deal? How

3321
04:28:51.520 --> 04:28:55.840
much clothing is he wearing? Like
no, exactly because it up so much

3322
04:28:55.840 --> 04:28:57.600
because he's so that's Canyon, by
the way, that's canyon right there.

3323
04:28:59.600 --> 04:29:06.000
Yes, yes, they're calling spots. So Colin hammerlocks, Diamond, Dallas

3324
04:29:06.079 --> 04:29:10.319
Page locking it up here with Jimmy
King. Listen, he's gonna make the

3325
04:29:10.399 --> 04:29:15.559
call. Good sound effects. He
says, somebody said, give me tackle,

3326
04:29:15.639 --> 04:29:22.600
give me a tackle. Oh god, off the ropes. No I

3327
04:29:22.639 --> 04:29:26.799
can see Kenyon yet. Yeah.
Like he's like a completely different body size,

3328
04:29:26.879 --> 04:29:33.120
body shape than Oliver Platte. Big
swinging neck breaker by Jimmy King,

3329
04:29:33.200 --> 04:29:40.840
hook of the leg and outside Charles
Robinson down for two. You do your

3330
04:29:40.959 --> 04:29:45.760
job, I'll do mine, tells
the ref of Jimmy King. Pendance in

3331
04:29:45.799 --> 04:29:48.680
the audience. Oh my god,
he's looks, say the promoter, you

3332
04:29:48.760 --> 04:29:52.079
know what time it is. Jimmy
King calls for a hiptos, but Diamon

3333
04:29:52.159 --> 04:30:00.319
Dallas Page slugs him in the face
with a forearm. Something he right here,

3334
04:30:00.000 --> 04:30:07.280
the double cross is underway. Oof, Jimmy King crushed in the corner

3335
04:30:07.319 --> 04:30:15.239
with a lariat. Self high five
on that one? Why, he says,

3336
04:30:17.360 --> 04:30:26.319
bosses orders, fat Boyton rights my
page? What beside him? King

3337
04:30:26.399 --> 04:30:37.360
comes back with the right Now they're
doing the only in the movie wrestling punches.

3338
04:30:41.079 --> 04:30:48.879
He's gonna launch Platte, catapults Canyon
to the floor. Who better?

3339
04:30:49.600 --> 04:30:56.719
Who better than Canyon? Okay,
yeah, I get a bang, I

3340
04:30:56.799 --> 04:31:03.680
get it. Thanks, Thanks.
Maybe if Matches had this much going on

3341
04:31:03.799 --> 04:31:07.799
on, Nitro they wouldn't have been
out of business. Maybe maybe they didn't

3342
04:31:07.799 --> 04:31:18.360
movie punches instead of it's gonna go
for the crown, broke king, right

3343
04:31:18.440 --> 04:31:19.639
and we'll write to the gut.
I also, you know, tell me

3344
04:31:21.000 --> 04:31:25.399
what I don't always understand too,
is how wrestlers, like even even you

3345
04:31:25.520 --> 04:31:29.559
know, like Hogan in uh in, no holds barred, Like, why

3346
04:31:29.600 --> 04:31:33.719
do they always have the stupidest finishing
moves? I know, it's like hard.

3347
04:31:33.360 --> 04:31:37.239
You know, Oliver Platt has a
double axe handle as this fucking finishing

3348
04:31:37.319 --> 04:31:41.799
move, like, come on right, Hogan with a double acci here they

3349
04:31:41.840 --> 04:31:45.840
come open. No, no,
no d Q I guess, And that's

3350
04:31:45.840 --> 04:31:51.680
been a sny van hammer you see
van Hammer Hammer's there. Yeah, I'm

3351
04:31:51.719 --> 04:31:56.040
making my life miserable. Jesus Sid
jumps on power bottoms sometimes right to hal

3352
04:31:56.360 --> 04:32:03.120
Jesus fucking Canyon sells like a pro
big alot from the shoulders and with diamond

3353
04:32:03.159 --> 04:32:07.879
cutter a bit of tread dual offense. There goes Charles Robinson bumping, bumping

3354
04:32:07.920 --> 04:32:11.600
for the business ronically, the third
man in the head Canyon, the one

3355
04:32:11.680 --> 04:32:15.959
taking the move. Yeah, right, that is funny. Here come the

3356
04:32:15.079 --> 04:32:22.920
King's Men, Saturn, Saturn and
turn Hennigan Conan. They play heroic music

3357
04:32:23.079 --> 04:32:33.000
and turn on well yeah, Sinclair
must have got to them, must have

3358
04:32:33.040 --> 04:32:37.239
got to them. They have proclaims
in the audience. What's wrong with you?

3359
04:32:37.399 --> 04:32:41.760
He screams like an imbecile. Do
you know who that is with the

3360
04:32:41.959 --> 04:32:45.360
pink trunks and the white necklace around
his neck? Pink top? No?

3361
04:32:45.840 --> 04:32:56.799
Who oh? Is that ic connt
from hitting the ring? It's a form

3362
04:32:56.879 --> 04:33:00.959
that's a future world heavyweight champion.
They're preventing from the ring. It's not

3363
04:33:02.040 --> 04:33:07.759
even a pay per view. That's
what he said, A four post massacre.

3364
04:33:08.240 --> 04:33:11.799
It's a pretty cool idea. I
don't see that in wrestling. Yeah,

3365
04:33:12.560 --> 04:33:18.319
take off, it's the wrestler shot, you know, yeah underneath right

3366
04:33:18.240 --> 04:33:22.080
man, look at look at Bam
and Big go for his trademark head But

3367
04:33:22.279 --> 04:33:26.799
good for him. They all land
with four consecut uh simultaneous top rope headbots.

3368
04:33:26.799 --> 04:33:33.680
I like that movie. They should
do that ring the damn Bell Ring.

3369
04:33:33.720 --> 04:33:37.840
The promoter loads Charles Anderson back in
his cowboy hat. It looks like

3370
04:33:37.919 --> 04:33:45.919
a fool for a three good means
with the announcement of our winner. That

3371
04:33:45.040 --> 04:33:51.319
was for the hardware too, Baby
GP just took the world title off Jimmy

3372
04:33:51.400 --> 04:33:56.200
King on Nitro, but it's not
inspired by Brett Hart at all. How

3373
04:33:59.400 --> 04:34:02.840
themoter has the mic? I mean, I love that he has long like

3374
04:34:03.599 --> 04:34:07.240
he looks nothing like uh uh uh
Eric Bischoff at all. Like it's so

3375
04:34:07.400 --> 04:34:11.360
funny anybody I've ever seen in my
life. I've never seen a promoter like

3376
04:34:11.439 --> 04:34:15.400
this at all. Let's see a
woman, you know, fucking cowboy hat

3377
04:34:15.479 --> 04:34:26.040
and ship hoving tude. No,
what he looks like this mmoto looks like

3378
04:34:26.080 --> 04:34:30.360
Sean Michaels. He definitely Sean Michaels
actually, because see Sean Michael's wearing this,

3379
04:34:30.720 --> 04:34:36.560
Yes, hovering over Jimmie the promoter, Titus and Clair talking ship.

3380
04:34:36.880 --> 04:34:42.439
Why not you're through throw down with
you? Not exactly Brando on the water

3381
04:34:42.560 --> 04:34:48.880
Front here is not at all.
I mean, this casting decision for Platt

3382
04:34:49.240 --> 04:34:52.279
has got to be the worst I've
ever seen in a movie of any type.

3383
04:34:52.400 --> 04:34:56.040
Yep, I mean, and I
and I love Oliver Platt, but

3384
04:34:56.119 --> 04:35:03.520
this is just not un unforgivable.
Whoever cast him in this role should never

3385
04:35:03.560 --> 04:35:07.159
work in Hollywood again. Well,
I think a lot of these guys didn't

3386
04:35:07.159 --> 04:35:15.000
work in Hollywood again, so they
can't admit that they're you know, they

3387
04:35:15.040 --> 04:35:21.040
can't admit that their men. They
can't. Yeah, they can't cry about

3388
04:35:21.080 --> 04:35:23.560
things like this. After all,
wrestling fans drive home from the event crying

3389
04:35:25.759 --> 04:35:32.959
it's their favorite lost. The one
time I think I cried going home from

3390
04:35:33.000 --> 04:35:36.200
a wrestling match was when we couldn't
get a ride from Wakefield. Yeah,

3391
04:35:36.479 --> 04:35:41.759
yeah, I was on the verge. And they also aggravated. They tip

3392
04:35:41.799 --> 04:35:45.840
over their ship truck in the highway, Like, what is wrong with them?

3393
04:35:48.959 --> 04:35:53.360
Yeah? That still hasn't really been
explained. I mean, the problem

3394
04:35:53.360 --> 04:36:00.520
is they're supposed to be the normal
ones. Would it be great if if

3395
04:36:00.759 --> 04:36:03.919
the truck just blew up right now
and the rest of the movie would just

3396
04:36:03.000 --> 04:36:17.959
be a shot of the fire,
you know, kind of shit? I

3397
04:36:18.000 --> 04:36:22.400
mean, they wish this was dumb
and dummer. I know there's no deeming

3398
04:36:22.479 --> 04:36:26.080
qualities in the banter between these two
whatsoever. They haven't said a single thing

3399
04:36:26.159 --> 04:36:34.080
that approaches funny. They don't have
any particular chemistry either, but they've been

3400
04:36:34.080 --> 04:36:38.560
friends for years. Doesn't that count
for something too clean cut to be playing

3401
04:36:38.560 --> 04:36:44.720
in these roles? I know?
Oh, brother, I actually think you

3402
04:36:44.759 --> 04:36:48.720
could do quite a bit with a
movie about two like fat, disgusting wrestling

3403
04:36:48.759 --> 04:37:00.599
fans like two towns. Yeah right, exactly, Oh my god, more

3404
04:37:00.680 --> 04:37:04.720
ship so it can splat out of
the truck and land on people. And

3405
04:37:06.000 --> 04:37:18.400
ironically it's a toilet paper delivery truck. What are the odds? Oh god,

3406
04:37:18.520 --> 04:37:21.400
it's ironic that this is so chocolate
Block with Vince mcman humor, and

3407
04:37:21.400 --> 04:37:26.720
it's a w W. I I
know ship everywhere. Well, so I

3408
04:37:26.759 --> 04:37:33.360
did write the script actually under the
name Stephen Brill in a relation to Kurt

3409
04:37:33.400 --> 04:37:42.080
Fuller's character in No Holds Bark.
I guess I'll just have to hitchhike.

3410
04:37:47.159 --> 04:37:56.520
I can't. Everything's changed over.
Yeah, the title what you heard?

3411
04:37:56.560 --> 04:38:02.479
What I heard? What Sinclair said, kicked Jimmy, it's King out of

3412
04:38:02.520 --> 04:38:12.799
the w Stippis It's over Jimmy debt
okay, Sean for a reason, what

3413
04:38:14.080 --> 04:38:19.560
what could possibly be the reason for
this? A right? Imagine getting a

3414
04:38:19.599 --> 04:38:26.880
script that says you two are pro
wrestling fans. Yeah, and you're kind

3415
04:38:26.919 --> 04:38:30.680
of slow, and you get so
upset that your favorite loses the world title

3416
04:38:32.119 --> 04:38:37.119
that you will also you think it's
real, God exactly. You're also you

3417
04:38:37.240 --> 04:38:42.360
know, you're you're twenty five,
thirty year old men and you think wrestling

3418
04:38:42.479 --> 04:38:49.240
is real. Yeah, the people
that Vince Russo was railing against for getting

3419
04:38:49.279 --> 04:38:52.279
mad at or having the belt.
It's these two characters in this film,

3420
04:38:52.439 --> 04:39:00.720
right, And we got one choice, David are get to say there's a

3421
04:39:00.759 --> 04:39:03.680
big part of Jimmy King inside of
me? Yes, he did. I

3422
04:39:03.759 --> 04:39:07.400
believe it's his cock right, right? What piece would that be? David,

3423
04:39:11.560 --> 04:39:18.880
mister scream Look at this. I
mean you said it. This is

3424
04:39:18.959 --> 04:39:22.919
a clear diversion for him. You
know, this is a an inflection point

3425
04:39:22.959 --> 04:39:30.040
in his career. Yes, so
they're forming a pasre like an infection point.

3426
04:39:30.159 --> 04:39:33.680
They're gonna they're gonna find Jimmy King, and they're gonna they're gonna have

3427
04:39:33.840 --> 04:39:37.560
him, I guess, get his
job. I mean, the idea is

3428
04:39:37.560 --> 04:39:42.119
that they're gonna have him get revenge
against Diamond Dallas Page, which is the

3429
04:39:42.360 --> 04:39:51.919
whole thing is so weird, Like
you know, he's he's we've already established

3430
04:39:51.919 --> 04:39:56.040
that wrestling is fake, right because
we're talking about for the finish, the

3431
04:39:56.159 --> 04:40:02.400
Collin spots. Yet they want to
bring him in to the show after he's

3432
04:40:02.439 --> 04:40:06.080
lost his job. And but but
to be fair, he was double crossed

3433
04:40:06.119 --> 04:40:11.720
and shoot so well, he established
wrestling fake. We also established that that

3434
04:40:11.759 --> 04:40:15.799
wasn't supposed to also, but he
also got fired for real and walk back

3435
04:40:15.840 --> 04:40:18.799
in and now he's just gonna,
like, you know, they're gonna get

3436
04:40:18.880 --> 04:40:29.959
him to basically trespass onto his former
company's property. Is this a Kenosha kickers

3437
04:40:30.000 --> 04:40:37.680
back here? What seriously? Kenosha
pitch hiking? Here? They a white

3438
04:40:37.799 --> 04:40:51.400
van? Right? Oh? Something? Now the nuns singing? Break it

3439
04:40:51.520 --> 04:40:56.040
down, mama, So it's supposed
to be funny that the nuns are singing?

3440
04:40:56.119 --> 04:41:00.240
I take it, yes, that
they're singing. Who is this?

3441
04:41:00.560 --> 04:41:06.159
Uh? Is it? Is it
Van Handlin? I don't know, yes,

3442
04:41:06.240 --> 04:41:21.639
I think so? Right in with
the Devil? Yeah, what's wrong?

3443
04:41:26.200 --> 04:41:30.159
And there it is. I'm pretty
sure David ur Kid's entrance music in

3444
04:41:30.319 --> 04:41:33.520
w W they dubbed it over and
the clip you were playing is we're not

3445
04:41:33.599 --> 04:41:37.040
gonna take it? Yeah? Yeah, there's a version from the movie that

3446
04:41:37.159 --> 04:41:41.560
he that they use. Yeah,
you're right. Oh there's a version from

3447
04:41:41.560 --> 04:41:45.799
the movie. Yeah. Someone band
died a cover for it for the movie

3448
04:41:47.080 --> 04:41:52.880
and that's the version he used,
a serious question. So this got dropped

3449
04:41:52.880 --> 04:41:56.880
off at a look at the surge
can back there? I know right,

3450
04:41:57.119 --> 04:42:03.319
I was a w W sponsor.
How many times are you farting? So

3451
04:42:03.479 --> 04:42:08.319
one of the nuns was a farting
was farting up a storm. Hilarious farting

3452
04:42:08.400 --> 04:42:11.479
nuns. Isn't this funny? You're
able to go one to introduce the flying

3453
04:42:11.560 --> 04:42:18.040
nuns. There we go, and
now we got we got from American pie.

3454
04:42:18.119 --> 04:42:22.119
It's uh oh yeah, yeah,
it's uh Sherman, it's playing an

3455
04:42:22.200 --> 04:42:30.759
arcade game about Jimmy King. Jimmy
King, don't move. Yeah, it's

3456
04:42:30.840 --> 04:42:33.599
great graphics. I mean, Jesus
Christ. That has got to be the

3457
04:42:33.799 --> 04:42:42.360
fucking ship worst graphics I've ever seen. Like w W attitude was better than

3458
04:42:42.400 --> 04:42:48.840
that. This kid playing the video
games as his dad tells me the puking

3459
04:42:48.919 --> 04:42:57.639
is for pussies, asking the kid
where Jimmy. Listen to this, I

3460
04:42:57.680 --> 04:43:03.040
could probably find it. Yeah,
listen this. I can find anyone on

3461
04:43:03.119 --> 04:43:07.799
the net. Oh my god,
I can find slick at the mack.

3462
04:43:08.200 --> 04:43:18.279
Look at the fucking mack sac faces
he's having. I feel attacked, Yeah,

3463
04:43:18.919 --> 04:43:27.240
yeah, I feel violated. Right, this kid can find anything on

3464
04:43:27.319 --> 04:43:37.159
the net. Planet with those fires. Oh my god, hey, you're

3465
04:43:37.200 --> 04:43:44.360
in this is as lives in Atlanta. They just found his address, Broler

3466
04:43:47.360 --> 04:43:52.439
and see it's funny because Scott kind
of sitting in Britney spears with a disc

3467
04:43:52.599 --> 04:44:06.680
man. It's a fucking movie so
much. What are they doing? What's

3468
04:44:06.720 --> 04:44:11.759
wrong? It's so good, it's
so you know, it reflects the time

3469
04:44:11.840 --> 04:44:18.759
period. It's a you know,
so awful. So they found his house.

3470
04:44:22.439 --> 04:44:27.319
Well it's the one Sherman gave them. Jimmy King. Jimmy King's wife

3471
04:44:27.319 --> 04:44:38.040
answers the queen. She's crutching her
pussy. We're looking for the king two

3472
04:44:38.159 --> 04:44:42.439
years. She said, he hasn't
been home in two years. Well,

3473
04:44:42.560 --> 04:44:49.319
now we're getting a little closer realistic
wrestling. You want to see her pussy.

3474
04:44:51.520 --> 04:45:00.240
Her pussy has crabs on it.
Yeah, associates are yeah, they're

3475
04:45:00.240 --> 04:45:03.799
all yeah, it's a wrestler.
All right. Tell me who his associates

3476
04:45:03.799 --> 04:45:07.520
are, and she says they're all
scumbag. He's a whore. She's a

3477
04:45:07.520 --> 04:45:11.040
whore. Other women in his life
are horrors. Great, thank you,

3478
04:45:14.759 --> 04:45:18.599
kill support, child support, elbody. Yeah, this is getting better.

3479
04:45:22.799 --> 04:45:33.400
I don't know about better, but
it's getting more accurate. Yeah, of

3480
04:45:33.520 --> 04:45:36.200
course this is the sun and he's
got a ass cracks hanging out there.

3481
04:45:37.720 --> 04:45:45.520
Is that Sullivan just no, Ship's
movies full of Evad Selivans. Yeah,

3482
04:45:45.520 --> 04:45:48.880
so that's that's supposed to be Jimmy
Kingsteck's son. Yeah, oh asking if

3483
04:45:48.959 --> 04:45:55.959
they're bounty hunters, what is this
a David Schultz inspired thing? Like David

3484
04:45:56.000 --> 04:46:03.479
Schultz, he'll pay for my braces? Oh my god. Yeah, this

3485
04:46:03.599 --> 04:46:10.279
is the wrestler's family to illegitimate two
wives for bankruptcy three times. A tacker

3486
04:46:10.400 --> 04:46:14.119
kid knows everything, man, Yeah, I mean and again it makes sense.

3487
04:46:14.159 --> 04:46:15.240
This is you know, wrestlers on
how to use their how to spend

3488
04:46:15.240 --> 04:46:22.880
their sucking money or save their money, and they won a t T on

3489
04:46:22.959 --> 04:46:29.479
that payphone. Here's the irony.
That is actually David Arquette's father. That's

3490
04:46:29.520 --> 04:46:41.479
Lewis Rcatt. Yeah, well jim
so this is Jimmy King's parents and he

3491
04:46:41.599 --> 04:46:44.759
was never very bright. And that's
the woman. Do you remember in uh,

3492
04:46:45.520 --> 04:46:51.439
do you remember in Gremlin's two Microwave
with Marge the community, remember that

3493
04:46:51.560 --> 04:46:56.159
segment where they're doing the cooking show
and yeah, that's the that's her.

3494
04:46:56.240 --> 04:47:06.040
That's that's Marge. We saw them
last week. You borrowed their motor home

3495
04:47:06.720 --> 04:47:18.119
like ship other kids pulling Jimmy King's
speeding tickets and you can find you can

3496
04:47:18.200 --> 04:47:23.319
find anything on the net. Amazing. Dad calls him a pussyacking on the

3497
04:47:23.319 --> 04:47:29.759
phone is for pussies. I think
everything you do is for pussies, apparently.

3498
04:47:30.119 --> 04:47:33.479
I mean, I think wrestlers do
anything all that they do for pussy.

3499
04:47:33.840 --> 04:47:47.520
I know word pussy too, like
the the the the names for you

3500
04:47:47.599 --> 04:47:51.959
know, male and female, anatomy, the slang terms. They're so bizarre

3501
04:47:52.119 --> 04:47:56.080
sometimes, Yeah, where did they
come from? I know, like snatch,

3502
04:47:56.799 --> 04:48:07.279
pussy, cunt cock, that's funny. They just find the great Jimmy

3503
04:48:07.360 --> 04:48:12.400
King sleeping in the trailer home dressed
like a woman. Another plot A rouge,

3504
04:48:12.479 --> 04:48:22.119
he says, Another plot A rouge. Okay, jim Yeah, nine

3505
04:48:22.159 --> 04:48:32.000
Things is awesome. Powers Steve Williams. It's us Who's he doesn't know you

3506
04:48:32.279 --> 04:48:41.159
like he knows you're right? Two
marks knocking on your trailer window. Pharmacy,

3507
04:48:42.040 --> 04:48:47.119
pharmacy, Why would pharmacy want to
deliver to him? It's us,

3508
04:48:47.360 --> 04:48:49.959
man like, he doesn't know,
he didn't You have not been in person

3509
04:48:51.040 --> 04:48:55.639
with him. I would be horrified
if I was Jimmy King right now,

3510
04:48:55.680 --> 04:49:07.720
look at look at him, at
David. He right through your blinds on

3511
04:49:07.840 --> 04:49:18.599
a quest to restore his throne.
The two kids are Tony Khan trying to

3512
04:49:18.639 --> 04:49:22.119
get see him punkd oh, you
know it, you know it, Tony

3513
04:49:22.200 --> 04:49:26.439
kh even now like calling him every
fucking day, leaving messages on his on

3514
04:49:26.560 --> 04:49:30.880
his fucking phone. Please, what
can I do? What can I do

3515
04:49:30.400 --> 04:49:36.279
to have you quit and come back
to work for me? Oliver Platt wants

3516
04:49:36.319 --> 04:49:42.799
some money for what too, to
talk with them, just like just like

3517
04:49:42.880 --> 04:49:47.560
wrestlers do. They're really getting close
to the sun here. I mean,

3518
04:49:47.599 --> 04:49:49.400
that's about heart should have done the
movie. I know. That's about as

3519
04:49:49.479 --> 04:49:56.919
much as we had to pay for
knobs. Yeah, the price for whatever

3520
04:49:56.959 --> 04:49:59.279
we had in our hand, we're
forty bucks. Same with them, they

3521
04:49:59.279 --> 04:50:03.599
had to do thirty bucks. It's
a conspiracy. We know this is so

3522
04:50:03.680 --> 04:50:07.400
the kids are telling the king that
it's a conspiracy. You know, you

3523
04:50:07.479 --> 04:50:10.680
call them kids, they're not.
They're grown adults, they have jobs.

3524
04:50:11.680 --> 04:50:18.439
You know. It's really it's it's
really an atrocious situation. I made that

3525
04:50:18.560 --> 04:50:21.200
damn league, and he knows it. I put the damn budget a damn

3526
04:50:22.639 --> 04:50:29.040
so with hist's like everybody, these
kids like they are being portrayed here.

3527
04:50:29.240 --> 04:50:32.200
Yeah, the full grown men.
It's like everyone works at the mall,

3528
04:50:32.560 --> 04:50:42.360
you know, right right, just
trying mm hmm. That's the best acting

3529
04:50:42.400 --> 04:50:49.400
your kids done all night. Yep. Let Oliver Platt waxing poetic on his

3530
04:50:49.520 --> 04:50:56.799
wife leaving him and at the end
of his wrestling career, and he's lying.

3531
04:50:56.000 --> 04:51:02.759
He said his parents died and and
she says that you left her.

3532
04:51:03.919 --> 04:51:08.240
I remember detective work going on here. And your son's not in a wheelchair.

3533
04:51:11.479 --> 04:51:15.799
Your parents aren't dead anymore either,
aren't dead anymore. That means well,

3534
04:51:15.840 --> 04:51:18.919
he said they were dead, and
he's trying to he's lying to them

3535
04:51:18.919 --> 04:51:23.639
to make him feel big, to
get you know exactly. Wait if I

3536
04:51:23.759 --> 04:51:26.639
get up? Wait wait wait,
can we just kicking him out? Now?

3537
04:51:27.279 --> 04:51:30.360
We can go on a beer run? Right? We can for you

3538
04:51:32.959 --> 04:51:37.759
for going to hear run for him? Beer beer here, we beer,

3539
04:51:37.400 --> 04:51:45.759
give him two six get on the
money. What immediately accuses him trying to

3540
04:51:45.759 --> 04:51:51.040
skip out the money? Brother?
This guy's a pro wrestler, all right,

3541
04:51:51.080 --> 04:51:57.360
and you and I will rule you
if I'm a wrestling fan. In

3542
04:51:57.360 --> 04:52:00.959
two thousand and I bought a ticket
to watch this movie. I'm forty five

3543
04:52:00.040 --> 04:52:04.639
minutes in. Do I have any
idea why this is being marketed to me,

3544
04:52:07.520 --> 04:52:12.680
But it really should be marketed towards
people who hate wrestling pretty much anyway,

3545
04:52:14.080 --> 04:52:18.439
And you don't understand people who watch
wrestling. That's that's that's who this

3546
04:52:18.599 --> 04:52:22.080
is catered to, because like this
is what they believe everyone is. I

3547
04:52:22.119 --> 04:52:29.159
mean, there are certainly quite a
few who are like this. But my

3548
04:52:29.319 --> 04:52:37.560
hope is a you two gentlemen figure
out. Okay, King trying to convince

3549
04:52:37.599 --> 04:52:40.599
them that he is not the fellow
they go to see in his fucking bathrobe

3550
04:52:41.520 --> 04:52:45.279
gown. Shut the door on your
way out. I know what's going on

3551
04:52:45.439 --> 04:52:48.560
here. It's going on here,
Jimmy King, Why are you dressed like

3552
04:52:48.639 --> 04:52:56.159
the angel and ghost? It's a
wonderful life character. It's so cheers Sinclair,

3553
04:52:56.360 --> 04:53:00.520
So what you're the King? You
can beat anyone. No, it's

3554
04:53:00.560 --> 04:53:07.240
it's a it's fake. Yeah.
Oh god, you know it's just a

3555
04:53:07.319 --> 04:53:11.759
show. No, it's just a
show. Right, it's like dancing.

3556
04:53:11.880 --> 04:53:18.919
He says, it's a circus show
with dancing. Oh my god, this

3557
04:53:18.040 --> 04:53:29.200
is fucking too much. And this
clown a clown, this is this is

3558
04:53:29.479 --> 04:53:33.799
like keep in mind, this is
w C W okay, this movie.

3559
04:53:33.400 --> 04:53:41.680
Oh yeah, fake creation stupid,
the king saying I'm not a hasbend of

3560
04:53:41.720 --> 04:53:47.119
it never was. It's unrestling.
You lose your title, you lose your

3561
04:53:47.200 --> 04:53:51.439
job, and you tailor and you
drink. That's right, man, it's

3562
04:53:51.560 --> 04:53:59.200
right. Push away anybody that tries
to help. Just kick these boys out

3563
04:53:59.240 --> 04:54:03.479
of his trailer. You know what, I don't get work from ourquet.

3564
04:54:03.959 --> 04:54:07.319
How can you? How can you
be phony? If we believe in you?

3565
04:54:08.080 --> 04:54:11.959
God, this is so embarrassing,
this is so cringe. I need

3566
04:54:12.040 --> 04:54:19.880
you to rise above this and take
some clear down. That's what we're talking

3567
04:54:19.919 --> 04:54:23.200
about. I'm sure you're gonna go
have a real fight in this guy.

3568
04:54:26.000 --> 04:54:30.560
Oh please, You fought with the
broken back before your parade. You hopped

3569
04:54:30.560 --> 04:54:37.200
out of that wheelchair and what canyon
in Memphis? Sting broke six bones in

3570
04:54:37.240 --> 04:54:38.759
your neck with a bat? What
did you do? In two weeks you

3571
04:54:38.840 --> 04:54:41.119
came back broke your neck with a
bat, and what did you do?

3572
04:54:42.799 --> 04:54:51.400
Come on, man, this is
nothing. They drag him off the couch.

3573
04:54:51.439 --> 04:54:56.439
They're gonna do what it takes.
It's an in what or what?

3574
04:54:57.639 --> 04:55:04.520
We yep? Now he's I mean
this is assault. Actually, this is

3575
04:55:04.560 --> 04:55:11.279
a monkey flips. This is assault. These two guys, right, I

3576
04:55:11.360 --> 04:55:15.919
mean in a weird way. You
know, they are trespassing Crown Us.

3577
04:55:15.959 --> 04:55:26.560
They want to get axe handled,
and he obliges, and he get the

3578
04:55:26.639 --> 04:55:32.799
funk out, Like what the fuck
is happening? He's pouring yourine on out

3579
04:55:32.880 --> 04:55:37.720
beer on their faces to wake them
up. Hands off, snaky, g's

3580
04:55:37.759 --> 04:55:42.799
what taking you up on your offer
to get one good swing at Tyler Sinclair?

3581
04:55:42.840 --> 04:55:47.159
All right, so he's taking the
boys up on their offer. I

3582
04:55:47.200 --> 04:56:03.680
know, keep calling the boys.
Can't name impathy, name with the enemy,

3583
04:56:07.360 --> 04:56:11.479
got a mad. I don't know
what to call this genre of this

3584
04:56:11.639 --> 04:56:15.919
kind of voice. But it was
the jam band, right, it was

3585
04:56:15.000 --> 04:56:19.520
the jam band era. It's called
I don't know, I think so everyone

3586
04:56:19.639 --> 04:56:23.959
was always like nineties rock is what
it is due. Oh god, the

3587
04:56:25.080 --> 04:56:29.200
New York Arena. They couldn't get
they couldn't get MSG. No ship.

3588
04:56:30.639 --> 04:56:37.319
They couldn't get MSG anyway at all
ever, not even just uh yeah,

3589
04:56:37.840 --> 04:56:41.479
look at look at fucking me and
Jane. So here we go the ship.

3590
04:56:41.840 --> 04:56:48.080
Now they now they have trespassed and
gone way gets out of a limo.

3591
04:56:48.159 --> 04:56:52.919
Okay, so this this is completely
against the law. What they're doing.

3592
04:56:55.000 --> 04:56:59.319
I would imagine get arrested. They're
smuggling Jimmy King out of the building

3593
04:56:59.360 --> 04:57:03.560
inside of a poor a body.
Was his hair spray, you know,

3594
04:57:03.639 --> 04:57:19.479
they smuggled in and the hairspraaking.
Oh my goodness, all right is the

3595
04:57:19.560 --> 04:57:25.400
night for girls dressing room? Chay
is walking around with just Bronz panties.

3596
04:57:25.880 --> 04:57:30.240
Bron panties. Yeah, it's like
another one. Which one is that?

3597
04:57:30.319 --> 04:57:47.599
I'm not sure it's fire. It's
so ridiculous. Excuse me, boys,

3598
04:57:48.040 --> 04:57:55.360
There she is Rose McGowan. We're
checking out the pipes that go through the

3599
04:57:55.400 --> 04:57:59.439
walls, checking out the pipes that
go through the walls, and say that

3600
04:57:59.520 --> 04:58:06.439
again, door closed in their face. I mean, like what already noticed

3601
04:58:06.439 --> 04:58:15.000
them? Does the nitrous nitro goal? That girl of them all, it's

3602
04:58:15.040 --> 04:58:18.599
g d P with the world title
strapped on his waist and promoter Titus Sinclair

3603
04:58:18.680 --> 04:58:25.159
by his side. I recognize this
guy, the p A guy there the

3604
04:58:26.840 --> 04:58:30.080
the headset on. Recognized that guy
behind him too, that's a wrestler.

3605
04:58:30.439 --> 04:58:37.919
Yeah, probably. Look he's got
fucking braids. He's got braids? Does

3606
04:58:37.159 --> 04:58:45.319
does Joey pants? He does?
And tell them it's right, they are

3607
04:58:45.439 --> 04:58:52.680
morons. Titus Sinclair said, he
these two fans love who I tell them

3608
04:58:52.759 --> 04:58:55.799
to love well. He means overall, not just these two guys. I

3609
04:58:55.880 --> 04:59:04.759
see. It's like Patrick Stewart actually
the guy with the headset hy, what

3610
04:59:04.840 --> 04:59:12.040
do you jim shoot a promo?
The page Jimmy into the arena. They're

3611
04:59:12.040 --> 04:59:15.400
actually talking about Jimmy King like they
just fucking buried him on TV the week

3612
04:59:15.439 --> 04:59:30.040
before. Angle alert. Oh and
with that, Jimmy King burst out of

3613
04:59:30.080 --> 04:59:33.919
the commode and swings it page and
the crowd goes crazy and he's assaulting these

3614
04:59:33.000 --> 04:59:37.959
men. That's one I haven't seen
before. The baby face burst out of

3615
04:59:38.040 --> 04:59:44.919
a out of a commode. Yeah, where do you get the fucking t

3616
04:59:45.040 --> 04:59:52.720
DP has the toilet scene around his
neck, thrown around pillar to post shot

3617
04:59:52.840 --> 04:59:56.919
that shot we saw. This is
the way that shot happens. Foreign object,

3618
04:59:56.959 --> 05:00:06.479
He screams. See here he's thrown
into a porta potty. A shithouse

3619
05:00:06.560 --> 05:00:11.200
bitch. Oliver called him a shithouse
bitch. Oh look at you look at

3620
05:00:11.240 --> 05:00:15.360
This is completely assault sleek double teeming
by Scott con I like the way he

3621
05:00:15.439 --> 05:00:19.840
slid into the fucking triangle. That's
pretty sweet idea. Again, this is

3622
05:00:21.000 --> 05:00:26.560
all like you know of and Hammer
just through Scott Con and then kid eats

3623
05:00:26.599 --> 05:00:36.400
glass got to see a bamband Jack
Nicholson overhe there in the blue Yeah,

3624
05:00:37.360 --> 05:00:41.040
page emerges with toilet pepper hanging out
of this and then he gets crowned.

3625
05:00:44.639 --> 05:00:47.439
Jimmy King comes off the top of
the commode with a double ax handle your

3626
05:00:47.880 --> 05:00:51.000
fans telling them to count the cover. Two. Three, Jimmy King is

3627
05:00:51.080 --> 05:00:56.240
pinned. Three. Why are you
taking orders from a clown that doesn't fucking

3628
05:00:56.840 --> 05:01:04.439
work for you? A wonderful question, promoter asked the mica. We're told

3629
05:01:06.959 --> 05:01:18.720
we can just go in forerno looktributing
so much at him any time, guys,

3630
05:01:18.119 --> 05:01:25.200
it's one, I mean, it's
not real. Guys screaming for a

3631
05:01:25.279 --> 05:01:30.040
match. They made the same mistake
in Iron Claw, Yes you know,

3632
05:01:30.159 --> 05:01:33.400
showing us that it's fake, and
then showed the participants agonizing over getting title

3633
05:01:33.439 --> 05:01:44.400
shots not a not capturing opportunities.
Ye, one million dollars, you forfeit

3634
05:01:44.520 --> 05:01:49.599
your crown and never be able to
wrestle again. If all of our plaid

3635
05:01:49.680 --> 05:01:53.520
loses, you can never wrestle again
to New York, although they're in New

3636
05:01:53.599 --> 05:02:00.959
York ironically so well disc going Farno
being sad because he's standing there in the

3637
05:02:02.000 --> 05:02:03.439
background. Yeah, yeah, they
they could all they're all they're all gonna

3638
05:02:03.439 --> 05:02:08.319
be in sad. Yeah, I
mean they all had I mean, you

3639
05:02:08.400 --> 05:02:11.720
know, I don't know. I
think they all had bigger parts. Probably

3640
05:02:11.759 --> 05:02:17.439
get cut. Oh Jesus Christ,
there were ten seconds in this movie someone's

3641
05:02:17.439 --> 05:02:26.880
fucking screwing no partying with the homeless
under the overpass pretty much. Of course,

3642
05:02:26.000 --> 05:02:34.360
Rose mcgowand has the hots for David
our cat. Say, Gordy Gory

3643
05:02:34.560 --> 05:02:44.159
Bogs, stupid Gordy Bogs. I
mean nothing against you know, Rose McGowan,

3644
05:02:44.240 --> 05:02:52.479
but she's she's not a natral girl. Yeah, I mainly because she's

3645
05:02:52.560 --> 05:03:02.319
like, she's way too gothy.
You know this one or no, not

3646
05:03:02.439 --> 05:03:07.919
that one either. It's this one. Yeah, ass up? Our cat

3647
05:03:08.040 --> 05:03:15.639
shirt looks like the one they made
Froze name tag on it, masculinely.

3648
05:03:17.279 --> 05:03:25.880
I really like the cultural impact and
post structuralist residence of Ready to Rumble Hold

3649
05:03:25.919 --> 05:03:32.799
On. There's a moment here that
is that is just tremendous. Bizarre Cody

3650
05:03:32.840 --> 05:03:37.479
Wyoming, do you hear that?
Oh this is fucking other from I'm from

3651
05:03:37.560 --> 05:03:49.439
Lost Wyoming one day. That's another
thing, like look at this ship that

3652
05:03:49.599 --> 05:03:57.159
charmel shutting it up. Like you
kind of portray wrestling fans, but instead

3653
05:03:57.159 --> 05:04:00.560
of portraying them from part of the
country with the actual they have their own

3654
05:04:00.639 --> 05:04:06.759
kind of character. They pick wrestling
fans from Wyoming. I have no characteristics

3655
05:04:06.799 --> 05:04:12.560
whatsoever? Do people think I'm sexy? Asks drunk Gene? Oh that's a

3656
05:04:12.639 --> 05:04:17.200
tree. We get to see drunk
mean Jene. It's probably a shoot.

3657
05:04:18.799 --> 05:04:23.720
It is kind of jarring. See
these wrestling personalities still in their wrestling personalities,

3658
05:04:23.759 --> 05:04:27.959
but on film quality they look kind
of like more shadowy, more like

3659
05:04:30.080 --> 05:04:41.319
so I used to seeing them on
wrestling television. You know why is Jimmy

3660
05:04:41.439 --> 05:04:52.720
running through the those manholes slide?
They don't fall down into the hole like

3661
05:04:52.799 --> 05:04:53.919
that. You don't know what you're
talking about. You don't know what you're

3662
05:04:53.959 --> 05:05:02.159
talking about. Where to find them? We're in the business. Found him

3663
05:05:02.159 --> 05:05:04.919
in drainage tunnel fourteen. He didn't
want to leave. We'll take care of

3664
05:05:06.000 --> 05:05:10.119
me. Stey found Jimmy King in
a drainage tunnel. Yeah, where else

3665
05:05:10.119 --> 05:05:15.880
would you find him? You cannot
run away. You got a major fight,

3666
05:05:15.959 --> 05:05:19.560
you got major responsibility. I got
news for you. I suck a

3667
05:05:19.639 --> 05:05:22.439
punch page last night it never happened
again. It was a flip. How

3668
05:05:22.479 --> 05:05:29.520
can you say that we got you
this bar didn't we? Huh huh?

3669
05:05:29.799 --> 05:05:33.560
You a trainer, trainer. I
don't need a trainer. I need a

3670
05:05:33.639 --> 05:05:37.360
same path baby, or a new
identity for Jimmy King doesn't need a trainer,

3671
05:05:37.520 --> 05:05:41.119
he needs a new identity from the
FBI, or like you said,

3672
05:05:41.159 --> 05:05:44.959
a safe house. Jimmy King does
not back down, do you get it?

3673
05:05:45.680 --> 05:05:51.319
I't care to kill me in my
life. So I'm dead and buried

3674
05:05:51.360 --> 05:05:56.040
in the ground and mid bug so
so D people to DD people want to

3675
05:05:56.080 --> 05:06:00.959
commit murder. Apparently that's what we're
at here, because that's our mission.

3676
05:06:03.360 --> 05:06:08.159
I'm serious. All of our plat
looks like kJ styles right here. D

3677
05:06:08.240 --> 05:06:11.880
d P is the only one that
wants to commit murder right now. Tell

3678
05:06:11.880 --> 05:06:19.919
you that Jimmy King is the best
wrestler. Oh my god, this is

3679
05:06:21.040 --> 05:06:33.599
so painful. He's really fat.
That ass pulled that ass Jimmy was he

3680
05:06:33.720 --> 05:06:38.479
lapsed fan? Why did they just
break out in the song again. They're

3681
05:06:38.520 --> 05:06:47.639
trying to show their support for him. They're taking him to the dungeon screaming.

3682
05:06:47.720 --> 05:06:51.639
Can hear the streams? Somebody watched
wrestling with shadows. Yeah they did.

3683
05:06:51.840 --> 05:06:56.919
Don't forget fucking uh. Oliver Platt
said he watched it, sure did.

3684
05:06:57.560 --> 05:07:03.040
I think they turned him for advice
on the on the story. Maybe

3685
05:07:03.599 --> 05:07:06.279
he could have said, you know, I watched this thing and there was

3686
05:07:06.319 --> 05:07:10.200
this element that you know where they're
you know where where Petart's father. There

3687
05:07:10.240 --> 05:07:18.880
were screams coming from. Now let
me tell you, like watch the result

3688
05:07:18.959 --> 05:07:25.000
here as a mystery door, it
comes open there he is like Martin Landau,

3689
05:07:25.200 --> 05:07:34.639
seriously like you'd think he's the fucking
want to wrestle. Oh shit,

3690
05:07:36.799 --> 05:07:42.400
Salvandi want to wrestle? You fucking
got him? Is Billy Robbins. I

3691
05:07:42.400 --> 05:07:48.439
would say he's catching him all right? Tap out son? So this is

3692
05:07:48.560 --> 05:07:53.119
funny you call him huh. I
see you. You're big, you're tough,

3693
05:07:53.200 --> 05:07:57.119
but you don't know littly Ship about
real wrestling. Always worried what about

3694
05:07:57.200 --> 05:08:02.680
TV time and telling all deadly Ship
about real wrestling. Were you gonna mention

3695
05:08:02.840 --> 05:08:07.840
TV time? Because guys are always
that's the thing people don't. People are

3696
05:08:07.959 --> 05:08:15.479
always asking for TV time. We're
got all the injured students, Oh that

3697
05:08:15.639 --> 05:08:22.799
they're injured. I say, what
is this perverse as display? Martin land

3698
05:08:23.040 --> 05:08:33.119
Bank apartment fucking flaps the fucking kid. What the fuck is Martin Landau doing

3699
05:08:33.319 --> 05:08:38.919
in this movie? Academy Award winning
in Woody Allen Movies, A legend,

3700
05:08:44.279 --> 05:08:48.759
pretty amazing. I mean, obviously, you know, give anyone the fucking

3701
05:08:49.040 --> 05:08:57.240
right amount of money. Listen,
listen. So Plak gets in the ring

3702
05:08:57.360 --> 05:09:03.360
with Landown. He's throwing platter around. Yeah, that's healing the legs,

3703
05:09:04.040 --> 05:09:11.240
kicks him, fucking leveled him,
sal be. He takes a massive like

3704
05:09:11.319 --> 05:09:17.840
a fucking Scott Hall WrestleMania bump.
Was gonna kill me. They think Oliver

3705
05:09:17.919 --> 05:09:22.400
Platt just killed him. No,
man, a little flick. No,

3706
05:09:22.720 --> 05:09:30.119
he kicked him in the face.
So brother, you're right, and he

3707
05:09:30.200 --> 05:09:36.919
comes alive. Kicked the balls.
Oh, Kenyon folded head over heels on

3708
05:09:37.000 --> 05:09:44.799
that though, see if it was
okay? Scrap. I taught him a

3709
05:09:44.840 --> 05:09:52.439
lesson about playing possum. Did you
have to squash the possum's nuts? I

3710
05:09:52.560 --> 05:09:57.119
can't well. Back at the branch, David Kat comes to Rose mcgallon's front

3711
05:09:57.159 --> 05:10:02.799
door. Sorry, I didn't know
you spooks Spanish? Yeah, I took

3712
05:10:02.840 --> 05:10:06.680
it in high school A bunch of
times, a bunch of times, a

3713
05:10:07.840 --> 05:10:11.520
lot of flourish to that question.
There she shook her head for like twenty

3714
05:10:11.599 --> 05:10:15.799
five seconds before she said, are
you flooring? Yeah, fling, and

3715
05:10:15.840 --> 05:10:18.319
then he said, no, I'm
fine, I'm feeling fine. He's a

3716
05:10:18.479 --> 05:10:22.560
He said, I missed that.
You brought her a bunch of bananas.

3717
05:10:22.599 --> 05:10:27.439
That's romantic. The flower guy was
closed, Come on it, wow,

3718
05:10:27.880 --> 05:10:32.240
candles and so this way lose me. This wrestling fan would never score.

3719
05:10:32.959 --> 05:10:37.919
No, well, you'll see there's
a reason why he scores. I mean

3720
05:10:38.000 --> 05:10:45.560
also, I mean, are you
he woud So? How's training going?

3721
05:10:45.880 --> 05:10:49.720
Pretty good? How's training going?
A coach? He's starting to listen?

3722
05:10:49.840 --> 05:10:59.599
So thanks for looking up a coach? Really? Do I know you heard

3723
05:10:59.680 --> 05:11:04.000
him? No? No, I
don't think I know him. He's old

3724
05:11:04.040 --> 05:11:10.360
school, he's a real tro kind
of been training alongside himself. Okay,

3725
05:11:11.520 --> 05:11:18.080
what you know this isn't what this
isn't engaging breveting dinner table conversation here between

3726
05:11:18.119 --> 05:11:22.520
the Gowan and he's not ready to
have It's chops, you know, it's

3727
05:11:22.639 --> 05:11:26.680
Chinese food, chop sticks. He's
using chopples, Chinese noodles, but he's

3728
05:11:26.720 --> 05:11:29.560
using chopsticks. He doesn't know how
to use chopsticks. He's a fucking idiot.

3729
05:11:32.560 --> 05:11:37.880
Take watched this. I got some
moves for you, I'm sure.

3730
05:11:40.639 --> 05:11:45.279
And then he just rest moves to
her throw look at her. She's like

3731
05:11:45.479 --> 05:11:52.639
that that wasn't he likes that?
She once more? Where that came from?

3732
05:11:53.360 --> 05:12:00.439
Why don't we wrestle here? I
love to wrestle here here. Yeah,

3733
05:12:00.119 --> 05:12:03.439
things because he is like, he's
Jeff Town. That's the thing.

3734
05:12:03.599 --> 05:12:15.599
He is Jeff. She straddles him, brother gold On. Dude, Rose

3735
05:12:15.639 --> 05:12:18.200
McGown is now going to any other
secret weapons. Guess what those are?

3736
05:12:19.400 --> 05:12:25.400
Yes, they are in the face. You had a run across the face,

3737
05:12:25.560 --> 05:12:30.799
sucking the left cross there pretending to
wrestle. A postcard from the Statue

3738
05:12:30.799 --> 05:12:37.119
of Liberty arrived at David Arquette's dad's
house. Oh, such a fucking prick

3739
05:12:38.080 --> 05:12:42.919
who just seems to have lostuitiful house
officer. I met this really really sweet

3740
05:12:44.000 --> 05:12:48.119
girl. I'm not a virgin anymore. I'm not a virgin anymore. So

3741
05:12:48.200 --> 05:12:55.000
again, just you know, a
a incredibly wonderful examination of wrestling fans.

3742
05:13:00.000 --> 05:13:03.759
What's the New York magn He's not
a very good uh shot? There?

3743
05:13:03.919 --> 05:13:10.799
This guy Gordon. I don't think
he needs an I mean when he was

3744
05:13:10.840 --> 05:13:15.479
shooting this. David Arqa was twenty
eight years old. It wow, so

3745
05:13:15.959 --> 05:13:18.680
it's safe to assume that he was
a twenty eight year old. He's playing

3746
05:13:18.680 --> 05:13:25.240
a twenty eight year old. Oh, Wilberg, you see John Cena in

3747
05:13:25.319 --> 05:13:30.319
a second John Cena. Wait,
he'll be in the left hand left of

3748
05:13:30.360 --> 05:13:33.080
the frame. Okay, there he
is, and wait till Goldberg comes around

3749
05:13:33.119 --> 05:13:38.959
here. Wait wait, oh,
big Bill, Big Bill? What are

3750
05:13:40.000 --> 05:13:41.279
you doing? Baby? I didn't
know you're in town. You're looking jack,

3751
05:13:41.520 --> 05:13:45.159
you're looking good. What's going on? Why are you here? What's

3752
05:13:45.159 --> 05:13:51.840
the turf? He's doing? Letterman's
doing Letterman? Yeah, bullshit, it

3753
05:13:51.919 --> 05:13:53.599
reains to be seen. Now he
did, he did Letterman. I remember

3754
05:13:53.639 --> 05:13:57.840
that is extremely leno. Actually,
he's going to make an example out of

3755
05:13:57.880 --> 05:14:04.400
you basic. That's where he challenged
stone Cold. Remember that machine right there.

3756
05:14:04.439 --> 05:14:07.520
We're gonna look at the prototype.
That's fucking free. Now. I

3757
05:14:07.680 --> 05:14:14.840
had no idea being John Cena go
on to become John Cena. Remember that

3758
05:14:15.080 --> 05:14:17.799
that time you were in the room
with Bill Goldberg and word to you right

3759
05:14:18.119 --> 05:14:22.040
right exactly, and thought you were
fucking punk. Said you said, you

3760
05:14:22.080 --> 05:14:23.720
said, I'm trying to be arrested. You know, I'm training to be

3761
05:14:23.720 --> 05:14:29.159
a wrestler too, and he was
like, fuck you, dude. I

3762
05:14:29.200 --> 05:14:30.840
thought Oliver Platt was a champion.
He comes in here and just gets the

3763
05:14:32.279 --> 05:14:36.159
acts like one of the fans,
just getting tossed around and intimidated exactly because

3764
05:14:36.159 --> 05:14:41.319
he's not a wrestler. He's a
goofball. No, you didn't he let

3765
05:14:41.400 --> 05:14:49.759
me down? I know, King, but the making King's case to Goldberg,

3766
05:14:52.599 --> 05:14:56.119
whatever's happened in the past, the
past, but ultimately he's your friend,

3767
05:14:56.639 --> 05:14:57.759
right is he? And you can't
turn your back on a friend.

3768
05:15:00.080 --> 05:15:04.279
You can't. Jimmy King is Goldberg's
friend. I guess work alone, That's

3769
05:15:04.360 --> 05:15:11.799
right, brother master. As I
walked these roads are none I may call

3770
05:15:11.919 --> 05:15:22.759
on when I'm watching Kung Fu.
Aparently is uh Martin Landau. Oh jesus,

3771
05:15:22.840 --> 05:15:38.560
this fucking scene mm hmm Goldberger,
No, it's pretty Saturn have broken

3772
05:15:38.599 --> 05:15:45.479
and entered and Sal's gone. I
didn't allow him to go. Where the

3773
05:15:45.560 --> 05:15:49.639
fun did he go? Sid doesn't
talk about the fucking you know. Sid

3774
05:15:49.680 --> 05:15:52.520
doesn't talk about it that much the
movie. I mean, he says,

3775
05:15:52.599 --> 05:15:56.360
fine, and she hadn't like he
had no problems. I think everyone talks

3776
05:15:56.360 --> 05:16:08.799
about the waiting. No, that's
a doll, idiot the hell, says

3777
05:16:08.840 --> 05:16:12.200
Saldandin you want to wrestle, and
takes both Sit and Saturn off their feet

3778
05:16:12.279 --> 05:16:18.680
with heel trips, just like Shawn
Michael's eliminated both Vader and Yes because a

3779
05:16:18.799 --> 05:16:22.840
nice hip toss by on Saturdays the
disarmor. I'm your daddy, bitch,

3780
05:16:22.919 --> 05:16:30.200
he says to Saturn. He wants
you to stay away from kid. You'll

3781
05:16:30.279 --> 05:16:37.000
tell your boss off train whoever?
I want both and the army of Saturn.

3782
05:16:37.040 --> 05:16:41.279
Sid creeps up behind smashes a wooden
chair across and Martin Lando takes the

3783
05:16:41.319 --> 05:16:48.439
goofy bump with the eyes like you
should have had fucking tweitty birds had no

3784
05:16:48.599 --> 05:16:55.200
lines. Oh well, he's not
obligated to memorize them. Have to stay

3785
05:16:55.240 --> 05:16:59.520
here for a while. Tough news
that does. Have to stay here for

3786
05:16:59.520 --> 05:17:03.159
a while. Don't have any questions. Can we see him? I'm gonna

3787
05:17:03.159 --> 05:17:14.799
get him a butter finger, little
girls room. Yeah? Can I have

3788
05:17:14.840 --> 05:17:22.799
a butterfinger too? It's yeah,
promoter, he answering the phone at the

3789
05:17:22.840 --> 05:17:27.680
desk. Oh is she look at
that? She is? She's on the

3790
05:17:27.720 --> 05:17:33.599
payphone, That is to say Rose
McGowan calling up Sinclair, can he sees

3791
05:17:33.639 --> 05:17:41.599
it? I love you, I
love you, Harvey Weinstein on the other

3792
05:17:41.680 --> 05:17:45.200
end of the phone, Come on, come on, not Rose McGowan,

3793
05:17:45.319 --> 05:17:51.840
Come on, you know, I
know, tell that the saturn vicious over

3794
05:17:51.959 --> 05:18:00.959
here. Maron fucking crying. So
how does the National inquisitory girls? She's

3795
05:18:02.000 --> 05:18:03.200
the headmine of a girl. She's
the fuing middle dancer, Like, what

3796
05:18:03.319 --> 05:18:08.040
the fuck? Prostate is the size
of a melon? Landau, repped head

3797
05:18:08.080 --> 05:18:14.799
to toe in hospital bed, says, so he's scrapping tappy Hookah, it's

3798
05:18:14.919 --> 05:18:21.880
prostates the size of a Melonie says, that's what he said. Oliver Platt

3799
05:18:21.919 --> 05:18:25.360
paying him a visit. I mean, I will say, Oliver Platt at

3800
05:18:25.439 --> 05:18:30.200
least has the fucking dome of a
of a wrestler. It's huge. I

3801
05:18:30.279 --> 05:18:33.720
think he means weaknesses, No,
I mean strength. No one ever expects

3802
05:18:33.799 --> 05:18:40.400
you to attack the strongest part of
the foot up the middle. That's where

3803
05:18:40.439 --> 05:18:45.599
the action is in life. You
think Stu gave this talk to Brett,

3804
05:18:45.680 --> 05:18:55.880
something like this, you gotta do
you gotta take him, Yeah, you

3805
05:18:56.000 --> 05:19:03.479
gotta just push him, push him
into balls and and just talk about,

3806
05:19:03.360 --> 05:19:07.959
well, look a butterfinger. Can
we do anything? For you. Get

3807
05:19:08.040 --> 05:19:14.319
out of town. This place is
no good for a wrestler. In fact,

3808
05:19:14.360 --> 05:19:18.479
the basics no place we can do
that. This place is no good

3809
05:19:18.560 --> 05:19:23.880
for the restless the fun does that
even mean? No explanation at all?

3810
05:19:25.680 --> 05:19:27.159
Forgot? It's they took a plot
line that has nothing to do for wrestling

3811
05:19:27.200 --> 05:19:30.240
and just sprinkled wrestling on top of
it. What it takes from here on

3812
05:19:30.319 --> 05:19:37.360
out to get the job done?
I am too. We're going to get

3813
05:19:37.360 --> 05:19:41.159
you that belt back. It's the
pledge from the boys to get a were

3814
05:19:41.159 --> 05:19:44.000
going to get him the belt.
They're going to get it back. It's

3815
05:19:44.040 --> 05:19:47.200
not he's got a wist. What
did sal just say? Well, it's

3816
05:19:47.200 --> 05:19:57.040
about what's in here. He hit
him in the butter finger he broke he

3817
05:19:57.119 --> 05:20:06.520
stole the butterfinger from from sal Bandini. Sorry yet to make a call Rose.

3818
05:20:07.240 --> 05:20:12.840
It's more than I can say for
the two of us. Wow,

3819
05:20:14.599 --> 05:20:18.200
what's going on? Guard? We're
going back to basics to find our heart?

3820
05:20:18.959 --> 05:20:26.799
What can I come? No,
you don't have a going to find

3821
05:20:26.840 --> 05:20:30.240
our hearts? And you can't come
because you don't have one cute kid rock

3822
05:20:33.919 --> 05:20:42.040
nothing without other animals. How boys
twin towers see that. I didn't.

3823
05:20:44.000 --> 05:20:56.360
I've never seen this before, making
the town apparently, who's driving exactly?

3824
05:20:56.479 --> 05:20:59.799
I think it's all over platt Okay, yeah, all right, that's the

3825
05:21:00.759 --> 05:21:03.680
he's kind of leaning on the wheel. I know you don't want to talk

3826
05:21:03.720 --> 05:21:06.240
about your right, I don't want
to talk about it, but I just

3827
05:21:06.400 --> 05:21:12.520
mind your own business, all right, dumb bitch, kan't. Where are

3828
05:21:12.560 --> 05:21:18.080
we going? King? There's something
I gotta do. It's taking a detour.

3829
05:21:18.159 --> 05:21:21.400
Something he's gotta do in the off
run. I don't make things,

3830
05:21:22.159 --> 05:21:29.959
make things right. I love Eugenia
King. It gets kicked in the nuts.

3831
05:21:30.919 --> 05:21:34.159
I mean, how many times does
he need to get kicking the ball?

3832
05:21:34.319 --> 05:21:41.240
Dignities? I mean, that's that's
accurate for wrestlers, to the dignity

3833
05:21:41.159 --> 05:21:45.080
to most wrestlers, if they went
back to their acts, would suffer this

3834
05:21:45.159 --> 05:21:56.200
faith mhm hm Okay, now we're
back to the American beauty music broken de

3835
05:21:56.439 --> 05:21:59.639
Dean Dean, Dean, Dean,
Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean Dean,

3836
05:22:00.200 --> 05:22:02.680
you think this way that would have
been accurate? Actually, because that

3837
05:22:02.799 --> 05:22:14.560
that that whole Thomas Newman's style became
so popular, that quirky marimba sounding ship

3838
05:22:15.200 --> 05:22:26.080
became became so popular after American Beauty. Yeah that is colonel no, sergeant

3839
05:22:26.119 --> 05:22:33.119
Pittman's outfit. No, seriously,
look ranky, I came say sorry too

3840
05:22:33.279 --> 05:22:41.439
late, apologized to hisself, his
son taking it back by his face.

3841
05:22:41.159 --> 05:22:48.360
How you doing, Eugenia, Eugenia, please, Eugenia, I'm sorry that

3842
05:22:51.200 --> 05:22:55.279
when I should have been taking carry
all those years. Really, I'm really

3843
05:22:55.360 --> 05:23:03.479
sorry. Dean fast bastard. Sorry, what are you gonna do about it?

3844
05:23:03.159 --> 05:23:07.919
That motivational speech for my wife?
Stop coming here saying your storry?

3845
05:23:07.959 --> 05:23:12.240
What are you gonna do about it? Platt got that bell back? Million

3846
05:23:12.279 --> 05:23:15.720
dollars, pay off all my dbts. Hey, how about that? The

3847
05:23:15.759 --> 05:23:19.319
suggestion that the world title comes with
the most riches, Well, a million

3848
05:23:19.360 --> 05:23:26.880
dollars is up for grabs to see
get that goodnis, I just gotta son

3849
05:23:26.959 --> 05:23:33.479
of good Dennis. Where are we
training now? Or we're just driving to

3850
05:23:33.560 --> 05:23:44.759
Vegas? Yeah? Ting me oh
go to Wyoming? Yeah, of course

3851
05:23:44.799 --> 05:23:56.599
we are going home. No place
like home. That's where to god.

3852
05:23:56.639 --> 05:24:00.720
That fucking nitro shirt on him is
ridiculous. It is it's so forced.

3853
05:24:03.720 --> 05:24:10.880
Oh brother, please care, almost
smashing into David Arqatta it's his dad.

3854
05:24:11.040 --> 05:24:15.599
Yeah, approach the vehicle. What
do you sound like RoboCop? No clue

3855
05:24:15.639 --> 05:24:23.119
what this guy's deal is supposed to
be. He's very anti wrestling, you

3856
05:24:23.240 --> 05:24:27.439
know, he's the ultimate parent right
there? What do you do? Just

3857
05:24:27.520 --> 05:24:34.599
like that? David Harcutt's gone in
a cop car? What do you do

3858
05:24:34.720 --> 05:24:41.439
you watch Monday? Nitro? No
skimpy outfits. No touching other men.

3859
05:24:41.200 --> 05:24:44.759
See again, no touching other men. There's a lot of that. There's

3860
05:24:44.799 --> 05:24:48.720
a lot of homophobia in this yet
looks son. Just because it's your dream

3861
05:24:48.880 --> 05:24:52.599
doesn't make it right or noble or
whatever that's right, just like being a

3862
05:24:52.680 --> 05:24:59.439
homosexual name Joe Stalin, Michael Bolton. What's the point? It's the director's

3863
05:24:59.479 --> 05:25:03.360
name again, Robbins, Yeah,
Brian, Brian Robins. I think I'm

3864
05:25:03.400 --> 05:25:15.520
now a fan. Such an idiot
working by lamplight Pat Patterson style is David

3865
05:25:15.599 --> 05:25:18.599
Arquette now back under the thumb and
watchful eye of his dad doesn't stop uh

3866
05:25:21.040 --> 05:25:26.439
his buddies from showing up in his
bedroom windows. Come on Cat's walls covered

3867
05:25:26.479 --> 05:25:33.639
in wrestling posters. As you can
see, we need your baby. Jimmy

3868
05:25:33.720 --> 05:25:37.159
King wants Ourt to be his corner
man. I don't know if I can

3869
05:25:37.240 --> 05:25:41.200
do this without you. He doesn't
know if he can do it with a

3870
05:25:41.279 --> 05:25:42.720
him, What is he gonna do? He does know how to wrestle,

3871
05:25:42.759 --> 05:25:51.720
he does know how to train you. Let's be gone. I see a

3872
05:25:51.759 --> 05:25:53.959
lead a poster there. I think, yeah, I think you're right,

3873
05:25:56.000 --> 05:26:03.799
cop exam. He's given up Duncan
box, right? Is Duncan big and

3874
05:26:03.880 --> 05:26:10.599
wyoming? What's his dream? I
don't understand what is it like to hang

3875
05:26:10.680 --> 05:26:17.479
around? What is your right?
Time? For me? To get rid

3876
05:26:17.479 --> 05:26:22.400
of all this that's fronting his boyhood
hereldish things, to get rid of all

3877
05:26:22.400 --> 05:26:25.159
my childish things, telling me to
grow up. We are thirty years old,

3878
05:26:25.200 --> 05:26:29.639
you're dumb. Fuck. The film, in many ways, is a

3879
05:26:29.680 --> 05:26:33.040
commentary on the agonizing reality of aging. You know, yes, very our

3880
05:26:33.119 --> 05:26:37.840
modern condition. How we part that's
true, I mean brink. It's of

3881
05:26:37.880 --> 05:26:41.479
boyhood and you know, coming of
age and the idea that you know,

3882
05:26:41.720 --> 05:26:48.520
we we you know we we transcend
our our our, our childhood into a

3883
05:26:48.479 --> 05:26:56.959
uh a formal adult uh transgression.
And what is it that we you know,

3884
05:26:56.080 --> 05:27:00.880
what is lost in that in that
change and what is gained? And

3885
05:27:02.759 --> 05:27:07.599
what is what is real? Yeah? I suppose that's what it comes down

3886
05:27:07.639 --> 05:27:12.319
to. We're now in the barn. I think Fern's coming. Here's David

3887
05:27:12.400 --> 05:27:21.400
Arquet's w w entrance. I'm not
gonna take it anymore. Fucking text him

3888
05:27:21.439 --> 05:27:26.759
with a fucking elbow. Look,
they're they're wrestling on mattresses like I used

3889
05:27:26.799 --> 05:27:38.040
to Oh they are, we are? What is this? Well, they're

3890
05:27:38.159 --> 05:27:44.560
supposed to be. These are guys
who are auditioning to be his like crew.

3891
05:27:45.840 --> 05:27:48.520
If you started something at this that
point in the film, you would

3892
05:27:48.520 --> 05:27:51.439
swear this is a film about a
guy who's never wrestled a day in his

3893
05:27:51.520 --> 05:27:55.799
life. Yes, to learn,
Listen to this, Listen to this,

3894
05:27:56.439 --> 05:28:04.200
Listen to this. Auditions for Oklahoma? Okay, Dawkins, who's left?

3895
05:28:04.400 --> 05:28:15.000
First? Fireman Fred? What's wrong? And I'm doing a whole job right

3896
05:28:15.959 --> 05:28:23.479
Next? This is the trure?
What is this supposed to be? These

3897
05:28:23.520 --> 05:28:26.680
are his cronies? Is uh?
Is that Matt Hardy in the back?

3898
05:28:26.680 --> 05:28:32.520
Then? Yeah? I know,
hello Darling. Uh, I'm afraid we

3899
05:28:32.599 --> 05:28:37.840
really need to take people who can
help us in Vegas. H My friends

3900
05:28:38.479 --> 05:28:42.319
they she's got lost, no clothes
on, and they call her pretty kitty,

3901
05:28:42.400 --> 05:28:47.799
and I don't understand what she's doing
here. Well, idea that she's

3902
05:28:47.880 --> 05:28:52.639
a distraction. I guess for the
man because they'll see her her, you

3903
05:28:52.720 --> 05:28:57.279
know, long time picturesque physique looking
at his jogging. But did that work?

3904
05:29:00.959 --> 05:29:04.200
I wish going, yeah, I
wish Gord who was coming, I

3905
05:29:04.560 --> 05:29:15.560
wish he wasn't. I'm glad he's
Exportatorium seriously, and you know, like,

3906
05:29:15.639 --> 05:29:21.119
what the fuck is this ship?
It's a It's like they's just such

3907
05:29:21.119 --> 05:29:25.200
a fucking awful movie. I can't
even begin. Now here's the question,

3908
05:29:25.639 --> 05:29:33.360
does it? What is it?
What's worse this? Or almighty thor almighty

3909
05:29:33.840 --> 05:29:40.279
wow? All right? Why is
Oliver flat dress like headliner from the sixties?

3910
05:29:40.959 --> 05:29:42.840
Because he pretty much is. So
why is there a marching band here?

3911
05:29:45.759 --> 05:29:53.439
Mh excuse me? The other the
other drive through girl? You can

3912
05:29:53.520 --> 05:29:57.959
stop thinking about how Scott con approaches. I think I should have been a

3913
05:29:59.040 --> 05:30:04.880
lot nicer back. Scott Conn's biggest
role minim in boiler Room before this or

3914
05:30:06.279 --> 05:30:12.680
or The Oceans movies, the greatest
let me see here gift for you too.

3915
05:30:14.759 --> 05:30:19.880
M yeah, her tits, her
tits or tits or tits or tits

3916
05:30:19.959 --> 05:30:25.680
or tits And I guess always always
in varsity blues too. So this guy

3917
05:30:25.880 --> 05:30:30.360
fucking directed him in that and uh
gone to sixty seconds. That's another one.

3918
05:30:30.360 --> 05:30:34.080
I guess. I don't think it's
a big movie, but oh,

3919
05:30:34.159 --> 05:30:38.560
he's in a lot of these guys
fucking movies. Jesus Christ, I really

3920
05:30:38.599 --> 05:30:41.319
wish I could go with you.
Scar pulls up David or Kid here to

3921
05:30:41.319 --> 05:30:45.400
see him off. Sorry, chem
King, I really wish I could go

3922
05:30:45.479 --> 05:30:49.040
with you, but I can't.
Of course, his dad still brings him

3923
05:30:49.040 --> 05:30:56.720
to the fucking right rally. He's
headed to Vegas to compete and the herb

3924
05:30:56.720 --> 05:31:07.840
Abrams u w F black Jack brawl. He's touching a man. I told

3925
05:31:07.880 --> 05:31:11.360
him never touch a man pretty much
what they're mine for there. I don't

3926
05:31:11.880 --> 05:31:17.680
fucking listen. I can grab balls
because I'm a cop, but I don't

3927
05:31:17.720 --> 05:31:26.599
knock anybody else touching men. That's
homo sexual. Homer. Here goes the

3928
05:31:26.720 --> 05:31:34.240
van Yep making the towns. That
definitely is a sportatory. I'm look at

3929
05:31:34.240 --> 05:31:37.680
their fucking cheering, like, what
the fuck is? What the fuck is

3930
05:31:37.759 --> 05:31:45.520
this movie? She's got to go. She's wearing an n w O.

3931
05:31:45.680 --> 05:31:48.959
Fucking look at this they're wearing.
Look at that they're fucking in the w

3932
05:31:48.240 --> 05:32:03.799
w n w O. Yeah,
Scott totally naked the fuck you know what

3933
05:32:03.919 --> 05:32:07.560
this is? This is like some
of those Christmas movies we've watched where it's

3934
05:32:07.639 --> 05:32:12.360
like, you know, California Sunshine. They just they make a movie that

3935
05:32:12.439 --> 05:32:15.439
has nothing to do with Christmas,
but they put Christmas decorations in the ground

3936
05:32:15.479 --> 05:32:19.119
of the Yeah here, this is
nothing to w W. But they put

3937
05:32:19.240 --> 05:32:29.840
its logo everywhere right right, and
they say the name Vegas Nitro Girl Dancer

3938
05:32:29.959 --> 05:32:37.040
Team here, where as we got
on the head nitro Girl now sex sex

3939
05:32:37.319 --> 05:32:41.439
sexy sounds like the fucking wolf Pack
theme. There's this thing. Could Sting

3940
05:32:42.200 --> 05:32:51.040
very carefully, defensively listening silently.
He's a future like It's like he's he's

3941
05:32:51.959 --> 05:32:57.279
he's telling him like, this is
what It's so weird. If you're gonna

3942
05:32:57.279 --> 05:33:00.959
have any future in this in my
company, you're not gonna allowed dream King

3943
05:33:00.040 --> 05:33:08.720
to watch. They're ready for you
as you get the fuck out. Look,

3944
05:33:08.799 --> 05:33:12.000
I don't know what the fuck this
is, but they got the They

3945
05:33:12.080 --> 05:33:15.319
got some fake ship going on here. I guess it's what you guys do,

3946
05:33:15.479 --> 05:33:19.000
but they're ready for you. I'm
pretty sure that the promoter just told

3947
05:33:19.040 --> 05:33:22.840
Stang, I will kill you if
you funk this up. Yes, kill

3948
05:33:22.919 --> 05:33:30.840
you was the word? Yes,
yeah, what a medieval manner. Waiter

3949
05:33:30.799 --> 05:33:38.599
with the fucking theaterre along here,
Jesus Christ, thank you fucking Pimma,

3950
05:33:40.319 --> 05:33:45.720
Emma, are you ready? Are
you ready? Idiot is a little baby.

3951
05:33:45.840 --> 05:33:51.200
I know he does. He's totally
been champion for decades, like Hulk

3952
05:33:51.200 --> 05:33:59.919
Hogan type, how long is here? Why did you drag me this fake

3953
05:34:00.119 --> 05:34:04.639
ship? My goddamn piece of ship? Son? This show is called One

3954
05:34:04.720 --> 05:34:14.439
Man's Suicide? Can wind us a
promoter take the center of the ring and

3955
05:34:14.560 --> 05:34:19.560
scream tonight, one million dollars is
on the line here and one man's life

3956
05:34:21.200 --> 05:34:37.919
is on the line. Hikes.
Here it comes the triple Cage. There,

3957
05:34:37.959 --> 05:34:45.479
it comes the big structure, the
cage of death, not seen since

3958
05:34:45.560 --> 05:34:52.479
what was it the eighty eight Starkape, a great American Well, I mean,

3959
05:34:52.599 --> 05:35:02.000
Mike, it depends, like you
know it was. It was a

3960
05:35:02.279 --> 05:35:07.639
great American bash eighty eight. And
but the rules are different, Like the

3961
05:35:07.799 --> 05:35:11.200
idea is that you climbed up the
cage to get down to the six to

3962
05:35:11.319 --> 05:35:19.880
climb down. There's Michael Buffer.
Yes, you're saying this isn't a climb

3963
05:35:19.959 --> 05:35:22.919
down model. No, you climb
It's like Basically it's a ladder match.

3964
05:35:25.200 --> 05:35:26.599
He climb out of the cage and
you can get down the pay per view

3965
05:35:26.639 --> 05:35:33.040
too, right, And didn't they
use this for war games in two thousand

3966
05:35:33.040 --> 05:35:37.040
and two? You sure did art
of war games? Maybe? Yes,

3967
05:35:41.639 --> 05:35:55.639
watch out for the Pyro. There's
some booker t Pyro Scott. But it's

3968
05:35:55.680 --> 05:35:59.560
clothes aren't burning, though, I
said, watch out totally not worse for

3969
05:35:59.680 --> 05:36:06.479
wear here his fucking cronies. Somebody
saw that there's always pyrot wrestling events and

3970
05:36:06.479 --> 05:36:08.279
thought would it be funny if you
actually got jam on fire? Yeah?

3971
05:36:08.439 --> 05:36:23.680
You just like the Undertaker kind of
pages were entry heard now? Just too

3972
05:36:23.799 --> 05:36:30.119
beat up to make a trip?
DDP hits the square circle, the triple

3973
05:36:30.240 --> 05:36:37.040
pages in ways and ready the Challenger
and champ gun are ready. Are We're

3974
05:36:37.200 --> 05:36:45.119
ready? I called buff forgetting this
moment with a vertical lifting pin, and

3975
05:36:45.639 --> 05:36:55.560
the millions watching it home around the
world, we are. They are ready

3976
05:36:55.599 --> 05:37:07.799
to rumble. Michael Buffer, there's
your five hundred grand right there. It

3977
05:37:07.919 --> 05:37:15.599
stretched that land and there's the opening
k locked and on the side on the

3978
05:37:15.720 --> 05:37:27.319
calls page versus mc king skits in
the right hand across and another by King

3979
05:37:27.400 --> 05:37:33.720
and a third puts down to below. He's going for it. Oh you're

3980
05:37:33.759 --> 05:37:41.279
an obvious then wow, there's Canon
doing that? And Bumpy does and stands

3981
05:37:41.360 --> 05:37:48.279
up straight poof in the fence.
Where is King just over the top?

3982
05:37:48.680 --> 05:37:52.639
How How would having Gordy here improved
the situation? I don't understand through.

3983
05:37:56.159 --> 05:38:00.240
How doesn't it work? It's got
conscious through like I feel he full of

3984
05:38:00.240 --> 05:38:03.400
powder? He lit his face.
Wouldn't bother it all? I'm an upside

3985
05:38:03.400 --> 05:38:07.720
down to the pussy, he said. Why doesn't it work? Well?

3986
05:38:07.720 --> 05:38:10.799
Because you know, talcum powder in
the face doesn't really blind you like you

3987
05:38:10.880 --> 05:38:18.560
see. They're making fun of wrestling. Movie Drop kicks Oliver King off the

3988
05:38:18.639 --> 05:38:21.720
ladder. He's using the clan the
next let Oliver King. This sounds like

3989
05:38:21.959 --> 05:38:25.720
somebody else Oliver King. Yeah,
tell the boat. Who's the guy in

3990
05:38:25.799 --> 05:38:33.880
the fucking crown? Who is that? Oh? Yeah, crack horse,

3991
05:38:33.919 --> 05:38:37.840
she says, of course. The
team thinks it's irresistible that they're tab their

3992
05:38:37.880 --> 05:38:42.599
typical left Here we go, kissed
wad. They're boping up the cage with

3993
05:38:42.720 --> 05:38:47.319
bolt cutters. Biggeloads sat up.
He doing Wait a minute, he's gonna

3994
05:38:47.319 --> 05:38:52.240
do that? Al He's like he's
doing Ryn here, ye's got the ladder

3995
05:38:52.279 --> 05:38:59.479
as a necklace and he's turn it
all around taking guys out. Oh it's

3996
05:38:59.520 --> 05:39:03.400
a son. His son is one
of the mass men. Did you stop?

3997
05:39:03.680 --> 05:39:08.680
What's going on? It? He
just stopped. Son, Wow,

3998
05:39:10.919 --> 05:39:18.799
you're doing clothes lines his own Wow. Get it on the boots. Here

3999
05:39:18.840 --> 05:39:29.159
we go the boots again for Toty
Svanni. I'll say, oh, what

4000
05:39:29.279 --> 05:39:36.040
have we got? Reinforcements are here? So this was booked or is this

4001
05:39:36.159 --> 05:39:42.599
saw a shoot? This don't understand
right, disco infer Billy Kidman Goldberg and

4002
05:39:42.639 --> 05:39:59.279
Booker t H. David, I
can't screaming again, Dad. It breaks

4003
05:39:59.279 --> 05:40:08.240
through the cage while with his cop
motorcycle and Spear Spear a sidekick there over

4004
05:40:08.479 --> 05:40:15.520
jack Hammer on sad center ring Saturn, just taking the punishment that they're all

4005
05:40:15.560 --> 05:40:19.279
watching with the the dad. Oh
that wasn't the dad. Then it was

4006
05:40:19.319 --> 05:40:22.439
out of the motorcycle. Who was
David Arquette. Oh, I'm sorry I

4007
05:40:22.560 --> 05:40:30.560
missed that all up. Another dad
realizes it. There is son of a

4008
05:40:30.680 --> 05:40:41.560
bitch, get that belt data Kitts
like, now his dad's getting into it,

4009
05:40:42.520 --> 05:40:47.599
spears. So many people in the
room pretend not to care. And

4010
05:40:47.720 --> 05:40:55.240
then yeah, within twenty minutes in
Cherry Olber gives our cat pops on the

4011
05:40:55.279 --> 05:41:03.319
spear. Page gets free from the
cuffs thanks to us Flaire. How wild

4012
05:41:03.479 --> 05:41:07.200
is it to build a new carriage
for a wrestling movie? I know,

4013
05:41:07.759 --> 05:41:17.080
how unnecessary? I mean, at
least they used it. I wonder what

4014
05:41:17.119 --> 05:41:18.880
the logistics were of the transfer.
Did they leave it at a warehouse and

4015
05:41:18.919 --> 05:41:22.319
the w w ST picked it up? I could never forgive you for what

4016
05:41:22.439 --> 05:41:26.880
you did. So you're a mean, mean lady, Sasha, shut up.

4017
05:41:29.599 --> 05:41:34.479
Oh you're fucking waffled with took a
ladder in the face. It's not

4018
05:41:34.520 --> 05:41:41.159
a ladder match. A cage match
on the second floor is a trash can.

4019
05:41:42.319 --> 05:41:45.880
Obviously obviously their weapons, because it's
like, what are the fucking lethal

4020
05:41:45.959 --> 05:41:52.159
lockdown? You know what? Pretty
much there were weapons in the eighty eight

4021
05:41:52.200 --> 05:41:59.000
Great American bashtrible page to there,
I don't remember each other. Jesus,

4022
05:42:03.240 --> 05:42:10.279
wrap the full odd noose around Oliver
Platt's neck. He hung at it.

4023
05:42:11.200 --> 05:42:15.119
He's trying to use this awkward little
ladder to climb to the third level and

4024
05:42:15.159 --> 05:42:17.880
he's up. I hate those lads. They hate those ladders because you're like,

4025
05:42:18.000 --> 05:42:19.599
you know, just because of the
way back and forth right, and

4026
05:42:19.720 --> 05:42:22.319
you also like end up kind of
like on your back a little bit,

4027
05:42:25.959 --> 05:42:30.840
staying watching from the rafters where we're
like. He does like he's one to

4028
05:42:30.919 --> 05:42:36.880
do, covering over page and wing
and then he tosses about the page just

4029
05:42:36.959 --> 05:42:47.080
like Canyonloe, except into a collapsible
ramp. Way right, He's gonna round

4030
05:42:47.119 --> 05:42:53.520
the belt. I'm staying from the
rafters. He plays music like with a

4031
05:42:53.599 --> 05:43:03.520
full orchestra. What are you doing, freaking Jimmy King? Can you believe

4032
05:43:03.560 --> 05:43:07.479
this? This is a wait a
moment for the stinger, Jimmy King,

4033
05:43:10.119 --> 05:43:12.880
the Claire Stewie King's all right,
Jimmy King's all right by me. King.

4034
05:43:14.799 --> 05:43:18.400
We're men, we're not afraid to
say that we love other men.

4035
05:43:18.520 --> 05:43:22.599
What is going on here? The
homophobia is so like it's just bizarre.

4036
05:43:26.479 --> 05:43:32.479
It's even it's this where they're their
way up the side of the the top.

4037
05:43:33.319 --> 05:43:37.560
It's you know, did you know
that it's okay for a grown man

4038
05:43:37.599 --> 05:43:41.720
to say they love another grown man? Glad? I need to see this

4039
05:43:41.799 --> 05:43:47.439
movie clarify it very tip top.
Here we go Jimmy King and Page and

4040
05:43:47.479 --> 05:43:57.279
they're locking up pages. Got color
Coldberg is concerned. Who the hell are

4041
05:43:57.319 --> 05:44:10.959
you fighting for? May oh need
to the need of the gut, big

4042
05:44:11.119 --> 05:44:18.880
right hand. Another one, low
blow by Jimmy King, low blow by

4043
05:44:18.919 --> 05:44:26.279
that babyface. I guess it's the
adure therapisode stood in the one. There

4044
05:44:26.319 --> 05:44:32.599
we go another thing here too.
Like you know, it's always a weird,

4045
05:44:32.959 --> 05:44:36.840
very basic move that does the most
damage. We get a body slam

4046
05:44:37.040 --> 05:44:56.040
and through the cage of cage.
I mean he should be dead down,

4047
05:44:56.639 --> 05:45:08.319
he should be dead mhm, standing
tall. But the title still from this

4048
05:45:08.520 --> 05:45:30.599
whole fucking bizarre King Garb has reclaimed
the World Heavyweight Championship Colpor Colpor going insane.

4049
05:45:32.040 --> 05:45:37.759
Yeah, the biggest draw in the
business. Jimmy King Aaron Lay,

4050
05:45:38.319 --> 05:45:41.360
I don't about you, but when
I hear it words Jimmy King, I

4051
05:45:41.400 --> 05:45:48.080
think pro wrestling superstar. That's a
disasting start huh. I think I hear

4052
05:45:48.159 --> 05:45:57.880
Jimmy King, I think old ladies
in leathern a planet Rather he sucks in

4053
05:45:59.000 --> 05:46:11.799
Claire. What what the fuck made
wrestling? Says Joey Fans. I made

4054
05:46:11.880 --> 05:46:18.479
wrestling, and again the fans who
are not employed by w W assault the

4055
05:46:18.639 --> 05:46:22.080
owner, oh the promoter. We
make wrestling, not you. That's right.

4056
05:46:22.200 --> 05:46:26.680
The fans, fans in the stands, and they beat the ship out

4057
05:46:26.720 --> 05:46:33.080
of the poor guy. And then
I guess see crowdsurfs. There's a guy

4058
05:46:33.080 --> 05:46:36.439
who wanted a sting mask, who
looks horrifying. Oh, it's just a

4059
05:46:37.200 --> 05:46:41.560
fans. Fans are beating him up. Fans are beating up the promoter.

4060
05:46:44.799 --> 05:46:49.080
It's tiger respect then ye on the
stereo thing other Really, from what I

4061
05:46:49.240 --> 05:46:57.240
understand, he could eat her outstanding
up right, I believe so Gen Okland

4062
05:46:57.319 --> 05:47:02.759
with Jimmy King. Excuse me,
excuse me, Jimmy looks like we need

4063
05:47:02.799 --> 05:47:07.360
a tag team partner. What do
you say? Why is it appreciated he's

4064
05:47:07.360 --> 05:47:12.400
a world champion, but they already
got me a tag team partner out here

4065
05:47:12.520 --> 05:47:18.159
somewhere? Where is it said?
He has an attack team partner out here

4066
05:47:18.279 --> 05:47:22.040
somewhere? And it is right there. You have an ar cat an attack

4067
05:47:22.119 --> 05:47:27.720
team partner, A Guardy bog a
k the law, the law Gordy,

4068
05:47:27.840 --> 05:47:38.560
the law bogs in the Dad's proud
sean sugar dadded book or t of course

4069
05:47:38.560 --> 05:47:41.799
I get to see a word the
whole fan thank you will either no,

4070
05:47:47.959 --> 05:47:53.919
Oh my god, Hans raise try
it's right they've got Jimmy King back of

4071
05:47:53.959 --> 05:47:57.040
the winning track. Wrestling fans can
do it, but the fans don't know

4072
05:47:57.119 --> 05:48:07.720
that it's real. Wrestling fans have
been tripped again. Page with the bloody

4073
05:48:07.759 --> 05:48:11.560
Fore one more to look back at
the looking piste off in the corner Royal

4074
05:48:11.680 --> 05:48:18.639
Bash the cover of w c W
magazine. This is back to the scene

4075
05:48:18.680 --> 05:48:27.119
where they're talking to the kids at
the gas station and crashing through the glass

4076
05:48:27.159 --> 05:48:30.799
window. Is some guy Goldberg and
tights, isn't it? Well the guy.

4077
05:48:32.479 --> 05:48:34.279
It's the guy, you know,
the the owner who gave him a

4078
05:48:34.360 --> 05:48:40.959
hard time at the beginning of the
movie Goldberg. Goldberg is fucking yeah,

4079
05:48:41.080 --> 05:48:47.840
right, like this is how he
goes to a fucking convenience store. I'm

4080
05:48:47.880 --> 05:48:56.919
your bitch and you're my daddy.
That is what he said. There's Cha

4081
05:48:57.119 --> 05:49:03.279
from Nature Girls coming to pick somebody
up. He's banging, She's banging,

4082
05:49:03.319 --> 05:49:11.520
Sean. Now I guess it's com
all pilot Ge Katy, Katy King King

4083
05:49:11.680 --> 05:49:22.319
King King Katy. Oh my god, Martin getting that giving some live It's

4084
05:49:22.360 --> 05:49:26.479
the strangest move I've ever seen in
my life. So bad, so fucking

4085
05:49:26.599 --> 05:49:32.000
bizarre. Yeah yeah, now I
remember, well we have credit. Here

4086
05:49:32.040 --> 05:49:36.799
we go, you'll see the punch. There's a lot of glare coming off

4087
05:49:36.840 --> 05:49:40.400
of that dome of yours and bread, there's a lot of glare coming off

4088
05:49:40.439 --> 05:49:42.599
of that dome of yours. Ber
face, I know, it smells like

4089
05:49:42.680 --> 05:49:47.599
you poured it right from your foot. It sounds like you poured it right

4090
05:49:47.680 --> 05:49:55.840
from your right. What's got the
lines? Get me the line? Here

4091
05:49:55.880 --> 05:50:02.560
we go, Here we go.
A yeah, he ship. That's awesome.

4092
05:50:03.040 --> 05:50:07.400
Alright, it's over. Yeah,
all right, that's it. We

4093
05:50:07.639 --> 05:50:11.279
we were ready to rumble. Yeah
I don't think I was, and I'm

4094
05:50:11.360 --> 05:50:15.639
ready to not rumble anymore. Uh. We got some exciting stuff coming up,

4095
05:50:15.959 --> 05:50:18.520
That's all I want to say.
And we will see you next time

4096
05:50:18.560 --> 05:50:29.279
at the movies. Come on.
Yeah. This is a production of the

4097
05:50:29.400 --> 05:50:33.799
Laps Entertainment Group. It's content is
intended for private use only. Who's your

4098
05:50:33.919 --> 05:50:33.599
daddy, bitch,