Post by Mizer on Oct 14, 2012 22:17:57 GMT -5
The camera fades in to show a man with slicked back black hair sitting on a couch in front of a poster with the UWC logo in front of it. A man off camera spoke.
"Like to welcome everyone to the first episode of the UWC shoot interview section, Off The Ropes. On our first episode today we have former AWF and MWL superstar, Kevin Faerkaine, better known as Freaky. And he's going to be our first interview on this new segment."
"Not sure if that's an insult or an honor." He had a quick laugh along with the man off camera.
"So what we're gonna do is just run down a list of subjects and names and you just give us any experiences or stories you have about them."
"Alright."
"First up is, Yugo Ryan and how you became friends."
"Ahhh, Yugo. He's an okay guy," He had another quick laugh. "No actually Yugo is...probably the best friend I've ever had. I never was able to really make friends in school, and Yugo was...this is, hehe, this is gonna sound so corny but he was almost like this kindred spirit. Young guy trying to catch his break, bouncing from indy show to indy show maybe making 100 dollars a show. I didn't have it that bad, I had a pretty stable position at the Circuit but I'd seen enough guys come and go through to know what Yugo was going through. I met him under very interesting circumstances, and I'll get to those in a little while, but I honestly don't think our friendship would have taken off like it has if we had met any other way. I mean now, now if Yugo's going through Jersey with MWL he's more than willing to crash at my place, and there's been times I'm going through Nebraska and Yugo will call me up like 'Hey if you need a place to stay for the night, swing on by.' As for how I actually met Yugo. Yugo was in Jersey and he had gotten a show at the Circuit, me and him were actually in a group of six competitors that would make up...my dad called them water matches. He'd always say if you have a glass of liquid that is like three-quarters of the way full, you'd pour water in it to fill it all the way up, and that was what our matches were, we were there to fill out the card. My dad sat the six of us in the back room on a bench and went 'Okay from left to right, sound off 1 2 1 2. Go.' So we sounded off. I was sitting beside Yugo, I was a 1 he was a 2. My dad goes 'Okay 1's look to your right, 2's look to your left. That's who you're facing tonight.' How these water matches actually went, my dad left that up to us. In hindsight I think my dad regrets letting 19-20 year olds book their own matches but what's done is done, anyway. So me and Yugo are sitting there in the back, talking about how this match was gonna go, and I'm the first to admit I'm not really that good a wrestler. I mean I'm not terrible but I'm no William Regal or Arn Anderson. I like to play the matches in a way that I'm good at, I'm a power player. Yugo at the time was still trying to find that niche where he fit in. He was tall and stout enough to play a striking game, but he was also light enough to do some flying, so in his early matches you'd really see him doing a little bit of everything. The match starts and I remember what ended up happening was Yugo's idea, but what was going to happen was Yugo throws me out of the ring and then he goes up high and dives off with a cross-body as I'm standing up, and of course I'm supposed to catch. I can't remember if it was my fault of if it was his fault, it was probably both of our faults, but when he jumps off the turnbuckle I catch him kind of awkwardly and it becomes more of a flapjack than a catch. So we both go down to the concrete the back of my head bounces off the concrete and I'm seeing every star in the galaxy, Yugo faceplants on the concrete and I remember hearing this really sickening sound as he does, looking over at him, and just seeing red. Blood is just gushing out of his nose, out of his mouth, I'm surprised he didn't lose his front teeth. So the refs run down, they do the X sign over their head and we're both put on stretchers. We're in the hospital, I got a concussion, Yugo's got a concussion AND a broken nose, we're even in the same hospital room. My dad is in the room with us and we suddenly start trying to dig our way out of the hole we're sure we've dug ourselves. I'm saying things like 'I'm sorry I should have been better at catching him' Yugo's apologizing saying he should have gauged the jump better. My dad goes 'What are you apologizing for? I'm proud of you boys, you've taken your first bad bumps. And trust me when I say it won't be the last!' So that was a big WHEW moment for us, you know, we let our hearts slow down, we stop sweating like pigs. And from then it just kinda became like 'Hey, I'm Kevin.' 'I'm Ryan.' And it just kind of blossomed from there. I think we became good friends because were able to look back at that scene and laugh about it. We didn't hold it against each other, we didn't secretly blame the other, we just kinda look back at the video and laugh about it."
"The relationship with your father, Jake Faerkaine."
"Nobody had more of an impact on me getting into his business than my dad. He was certainly not the typical dad, some circles would probably say he was a terrible father. But if you looked at the situation he was working with. My mom didn't work until I was...I had to be about 13 before she found her a job. So my dad was having to keep up the entire family by himself. That included car payments, house payments, insurance, all kinds of things. And running your own wrestling promotion sounds like it's good money, but NJWC was not really a well known place outside of Jersey. So we weren't raking in the big money like everyone seems to think we were when I say that my dad owned a wrestling promotion. But you know no kid for whatever reason wanted to be friends with me at school. But every kid was jealous of me because my dad was on TV every week, NJWC had a spot on public access TV every Thursday. I remember watching my first episode of NJWC and just know that this was what I wanted to do. I watched my dad defend the heavyweight championship and at 4 years old I knew I wanted to be a wrestler. And the show didn't come on till 9 o'clock at night, and my mom put me to bed at 8:30 and I can remember begging her, literally getting down on my hands and knees on Thursday nights to let me stay up and watch my dad on TV. So if there was one word I could use to describe how I felt about my dad, it would have to be admiration. I love the old bastard to death, I respect him more than anyone else in the world. But above all else I admire him, not just for doing all the things he did in the ring, but also for somehow finding a way to carry our family on his back by himself."
"The difference between working with AWF and MWL."
Freaky rubbed the stubble on his chin, being in thought for a few moments before answering the question. "The experiences were...very similar but very different all at the same time. I remember getting the call from then AWF owner John Burell, John Crescent, that he was starting up this new fed and he wanted me to be a part of it. And of course I took the offer, you know I had left Jersey, I was bouncing around the indy shows wrestling in a high school gym in Chicago one week then the next week I'd be at a recreation center in Minnesota. So when Atlanta gave me the call about AWF, it seemed like a really good deal so I took it. It wasn't until after I got there that I found out Yugo was there and he had brought over some friends from MWL and this was the first time I started hearing about all the stuff that had been going on in MWL. I mean I'd heard of MWL before, I knew Yugo was in it and that he'd become a top guy, I just never bothered to keep track of it. But...on the day of the first AWF show, Crescent sits us all down and says that he's going to try and make AWF stand up above all the other feds in the world, you know, typical optimistic new fed owner. And the first time a few of us really questioned if he knew what he was doing was when he decided to make Osiris the inaugural AWF champion. I know the Malicious Boys, JC and Mikey, questioned it. Yugo really questioned it. Now I'm not coming down on Osiris for this, it wasn't his choice to make. I'm not actually a friend of Osiris, I can't remember a time when he was ever part of our...our groups that would do stuff like go out and eat at like Huddle House or Taco Bell after the shows, but if nothing else the guy has image. You know he's a big dude, strong as 20 oxen, and now he's a big name, he's refined his technique. But in AWF he was sort of untested. He wasn't a rookie but this would be the first time he'd been given a run with a major title belt. And when you have that title, especially when you're one of the...I'll say the less established guys, your actions reflect on the fed owner just as much as they do you because this fed owner stuck his neck out for you and gave you a chance to see what you you can do as a top champion. Most of the guys questioned it because you had guys like Yugo and JC Malicious, guys that were established world champions in other places, were recognized names, so why make this relatively unknown big guy a champion? Simply the answer is because Crescent," Freaky made a motion like he was rolling dice. "Crescent really loved to roll the dice and take risks. And it's debatable if it worked with making Osiris champion as the gates opened. I've heard some fans think that Osiris was an excellent world champion, then I've heard the other side that Osiris ruined AWF for them from day one. I don't think he did too bad, but what definitely DIDN'T work was some of the other things that Crescent pulled. He was really bad for making promises and then not keeping them, changing his mind at the last second, sometimes flat out lying to some of the guys. The first time he did this was the 2 out of 3 ladder match between JC Malicious and Osiris. What was originally going to happen was in the third match as JC and Osiris are duking it out one the ladder, Mikey runs down, pulls Osiris off the ladder, and holds him down while JC gets the belt. Crescent ended up changing his mind two hours before the start of the show and the outcome was changed to Osiris winning with Mikey never making an appearance. That would be the first of many times Crescent would change his mind just hours before the start of a show and for Vince McMahon, it may work, but it really didn't work for Crescent. And people really started getting tired of it, rightfully so, and guys were going and begging to the Board to get rid of Crescent, they couldn't work with him. Well Crescent I guess saw the writing on the wall and decided he'd step down and we got Frank Dubaine. First thing Frank does when he walks in is he calls everyone together again, he looks at the paper that Crescent had left behind with all his plans, proceeds to rip it up into confetti and let it fall around everyone. And I would be lying if I said that Frank was the easiest guy to work for. He's got no problem in telling you to sit down and shut the fuck up if you want a paycheck. But Frank was definitely an improvement from Crescent, mainly because Frank himself had been a wrestler. He knew the business better than Crescent, you knew how to interact with the guys better the Crescent, it still amazes me to this day that Frank wasn't in charge from the get go. And while he does run a tight ship, Frank himself as a person is a good guy. I can remember one night, me and...who else was it? I think it was me, Yugo...uh, CK was there, Riley Taylor was there, and...I THINK Osiris was there. I think, don't quote me on that one. But we're leaving the arena and Frank's standing out in the parking lot and he's on his phone. As we get up to him he hangs up and notices us and he says 'Well what are you boys doing?' Well Yugo, ever being the mouthpiece of our group says 'We're hitting up Huddle House' and Osiris I think just said he was going back to the hotel. Frank goes 'Well I was supposed to have dinner with my wife but she had an emergency and cancelled on me. So I have a free evening. Say why don't we all go out for a steak dinner? My treat.' And that is an offer you do not say no to. So on that night. Fours wrestlers and their boss went out for a steak dinner. That was an...interesting night to say the least."
Freaky took a drink of water from a bottle he had sitting off camera, cleared his throat and settled back onto the couch. "Now for MWL. It was certainly a different atmosphere. 'Cause I just went from AWF, a place where I'm sitting high in the ranks, to a place where I'm essentially bottom of the barrel again, at least that's what it felt like. You know Yugo's a top guy, kind of a like a locker room leader and seeing how much he's respected in his home turf of MWL, suddenly felt very small next to him even though we'd been friends for years. And Michael Jamborgh, first thing he does is he takes me into his office and basically says 'I don't care who you're friends with or what you've done in other places, you have to earn opportunities here' and Yugo basically said the same thing to me later 'I know you're an amazing competitor but I'm not gonna pull strings for you, you're gonna have to earn your spot here.' And I expected that, no big deal. Now the first thing you wanna do when going into a new place is make a good first impression with your new locker room mates. In MWL...I did not make a good one. I walk into the locker room, first then I do is stumble over my own feet and fall flat on the ground. I hear just about everyone in the locker room just having a great big laugh off it. For two weeks after, two weeks, Jim Norris would make it look like he was tripping over his own feet whenever he saw me. And I'm just mortified, I'm like 'Great I've been here 10 minutes and I've already made an ass out of myself.' I think even Jambrough made fun of me for a bit after he heard it. And I don't have any kind of uplifting story about how you know someone came and helped me up, saying like 'Oh don't let them bother you.' No Yugo was laughing right along with them. In MWL the way you get people people to stop laughing at you over something stupid, is if you can cause someone else to do something stupid in return. And what I did was...ah shit now who was it? Was it Rozman? It-it was either Rozman or McIntyre, SOMEBODY had brought an apple to the arena this day as a snack I guess. I can't believe I can't remember who I did this to, but anyway, they lay the apple out like they're gonna eat it and it's wrapped up in this white towel. And for whatever reason they lay the apple down on the bench and go off and leave it. And me, being the immature 10 year old that I am, I go back into the showers because the soap that the arena had provided us was a nice candy apple red. I switch the apple and the soap and wrap the soap up back into the towel. So I got the apple and I'm kinda thinking to myself 'Huh, I hope he doesn't actually look at what he's about to eat.' And nobody, and I mean NOBODY, in the locker room will give you warning when you're about to be ribbed unless it's something REALLY bad and apparently switching out a block of soap for an apple isn't bad because nobody said anything when this guy walked back in. He picks up what he thinks is the apple, sure enough doesn't give it a second look, bites down, gets a mouthful of soap. And everybody just busts out laughing. This poor guy is cussing, he's spitting soap up, he's downing water by the bottle full. He's like "WHO THE FUCK DID THAT?!" I'm sitting there throwing his apple up in the air and catching it like I'm some kinda big bad villain or whatever. He goes"What the fuck?! What are you, 10 years old?!" Freaky's laughing at his own story at this point. "God I just wish I could remember who that was, I feel like I'm only telling half the story otherwise. Uhhh...but, but yeah...MWL. They're for the most part great guys, one or two of them I'd do anything for. They're a bunch of great guys."
"Alright well I'm sorry to say that is all the time we have for today. Freaky, thank you so much for coming in here and speaking with us."
"Was my pleasure."
"Make sure you tune in for the next session of Off The Ropes, I'll have a new guest. Who will it be? Well you never know who'll be coming Off The Ropes."
The camera fades out.
"Like to welcome everyone to the first episode of the UWC shoot interview section, Off The Ropes. On our first episode today we have former AWF and MWL superstar, Kevin Faerkaine, better known as Freaky. And he's going to be our first interview on this new segment."
"Not sure if that's an insult or an honor." He had a quick laugh along with the man off camera.
"So what we're gonna do is just run down a list of subjects and names and you just give us any experiences or stories you have about them."
"Alright."
"First up is, Yugo Ryan and how you became friends."
"Ahhh, Yugo. He's an okay guy," He had another quick laugh. "No actually Yugo is...probably the best friend I've ever had. I never was able to really make friends in school, and Yugo was...this is, hehe, this is gonna sound so corny but he was almost like this kindred spirit. Young guy trying to catch his break, bouncing from indy show to indy show maybe making 100 dollars a show. I didn't have it that bad, I had a pretty stable position at the Circuit but I'd seen enough guys come and go through to know what Yugo was going through. I met him under very interesting circumstances, and I'll get to those in a little while, but I honestly don't think our friendship would have taken off like it has if we had met any other way. I mean now, now if Yugo's going through Jersey with MWL he's more than willing to crash at my place, and there's been times I'm going through Nebraska and Yugo will call me up like 'Hey if you need a place to stay for the night, swing on by.' As for how I actually met Yugo. Yugo was in Jersey and he had gotten a show at the Circuit, me and him were actually in a group of six competitors that would make up...my dad called them water matches. He'd always say if you have a glass of liquid that is like three-quarters of the way full, you'd pour water in it to fill it all the way up, and that was what our matches were, we were there to fill out the card. My dad sat the six of us in the back room on a bench and went 'Okay from left to right, sound off 1 2 1 2. Go.' So we sounded off. I was sitting beside Yugo, I was a 1 he was a 2. My dad goes 'Okay 1's look to your right, 2's look to your left. That's who you're facing tonight.' How these water matches actually went, my dad left that up to us. In hindsight I think my dad regrets letting 19-20 year olds book their own matches but what's done is done, anyway. So me and Yugo are sitting there in the back, talking about how this match was gonna go, and I'm the first to admit I'm not really that good a wrestler. I mean I'm not terrible but I'm no William Regal or Arn Anderson. I like to play the matches in a way that I'm good at, I'm a power player. Yugo at the time was still trying to find that niche where he fit in. He was tall and stout enough to play a striking game, but he was also light enough to do some flying, so in his early matches you'd really see him doing a little bit of everything. The match starts and I remember what ended up happening was Yugo's idea, but what was going to happen was Yugo throws me out of the ring and then he goes up high and dives off with a cross-body as I'm standing up, and of course I'm supposed to catch. I can't remember if it was my fault of if it was his fault, it was probably both of our faults, but when he jumps off the turnbuckle I catch him kind of awkwardly and it becomes more of a flapjack than a catch. So we both go down to the concrete the back of my head bounces off the concrete and I'm seeing every star in the galaxy, Yugo faceplants on the concrete and I remember hearing this really sickening sound as he does, looking over at him, and just seeing red. Blood is just gushing out of his nose, out of his mouth, I'm surprised he didn't lose his front teeth. So the refs run down, they do the X sign over their head and we're both put on stretchers. We're in the hospital, I got a concussion, Yugo's got a concussion AND a broken nose, we're even in the same hospital room. My dad is in the room with us and we suddenly start trying to dig our way out of the hole we're sure we've dug ourselves. I'm saying things like 'I'm sorry I should have been better at catching him' Yugo's apologizing saying he should have gauged the jump better. My dad goes 'What are you apologizing for? I'm proud of you boys, you've taken your first bad bumps. And trust me when I say it won't be the last!' So that was a big WHEW moment for us, you know, we let our hearts slow down, we stop sweating like pigs. And from then it just kinda became like 'Hey, I'm Kevin.' 'I'm Ryan.' And it just kind of blossomed from there. I think we became good friends because were able to look back at that scene and laugh about it. We didn't hold it against each other, we didn't secretly blame the other, we just kinda look back at the video and laugh about it."
"The relationship with your father, Jake Faerkaine."
"Nobody had more of an impact on me getting into his business than my dad. He was certainly not the typical dad, some circles would probably say he was a terrible father. But if you looked at the situation he was working with. My mom didn't work until I was...I had to be about 13 before she found her a job. So my dad was having to keep up the entire family by himself. That included car payments, house payments, insurance, all kinds of things. And running your own wrestling promotion sounds like it's good money, but NJWC was not really a well known place outside of Jersey. So we weren't raking in the big money like everyone seems to think we were when I say that my dad owned a wrestling promotion. But you know no kid for whatever reason wanted to be friends with me at school. But every kid was jealous of me because my dad was on TV every week, NJWC had a spot on public access TV every Thursday. I remember watching my first episode of NJWC and just know that this was what I wanted to do. I watched my dad defend the heavyweight championship and at 4 years old I knew I wanted to be a wrestler. And the show didn't come on till 9 o'clock at night, and my mom put me to bed at 8:30 and I can remember begging her, literally getting down on my hands and knees on Thursday nights to let me stay up and watch my dad on TV. So if there was one word I could use to describe how I felt about my dad, it would have to be admiration. I love the old bastard to death, I respect him more than anyone else in the world. But above all else I admire him, not just for doing all the things he did in the ring, but also for somehow finding a way to carry our family on his back by himself."
"The difference between working with AWF and MWL."
Freaky rubbed the stubble on his chin, being in thought for a few moments before answering the question. "The experiences were...very similar but very different all at the same time. I remember getting the call from then AWF owner John Burell, John Crescent, that he was starting up this new fed and he wanted me to be a part of it. And of course I took the offer, you know I had left Jersey, I was bouncing around the indy shows wrestling in a high school gym in Chicago one week then the next week I'd be at a recreation center in Minnesota. So when Atlanta gave me the call about AWF, it seemed like a really good deal so I took it. It wasn't until after I got there that I found out Yugo was there and he had brought over some friends from MWL and this was the first time I started hearing about all the stuff that had been going on in MWL. I mean I'd heard of MWL before, I knew Yugo was in it and that he'd become a top guy, I just never bothered to keep track of it. But...on the day of the first AWF show, Crescent sits us all down and says that he's going to try and make AWF stand up above all the other feds in the world, you know, typical optimistic new fed owner. And the first time a few of us really questioned if he knew what he was doing was when he decided to make Osiris the inaugural AWF champion. I know the Malicious Boys, JC and Mikey, questioned it. Yugo really questioned it. Now I'm not coming down on Osiris for this, it wasn't his choice to make. I'm not actually a friend of Osiris, I can't remember a time when he was ever part of our...our groups that would do stuff like go out and eat at like Huddle House or Taco Bell after the shows, but if nothing else the guy has image. You know he's a big dude, strong as 20 oxen, and now he's a big name, he's refined his technique. But in AWF he was sort of untested. He wasn't a rookie but this would be the first time he'd been given a run with a major title belt. And when you have that title, especially when you're one of the...I'll say the less established guys, your actions reflect on the fed owner just as much as they do you because this fed owner stuck his neck out for you and gave you a chance to see what you you can do as a top champion. Most of the guys questioned it because you had guys like Yugo and JC Malicious, guys that were established world champions in other places, were recognized names, so why make this relatively unknown big guy a champion? Simply the answer is because Crescent," Freaky made a motion like he was rolling dice. "Crescent really loved to roll the dice and take risks. And it's debatable if it worked with making Osiris champion as the gates opened. I've heard some fans think that Osiris was an excellent world champion, then I've heard the other side that Osiris ruined AWF for them from day one. I don't think he did too bad, but what definitely DIDN'T work was some of the other things that Crescent pulled. He was really bad for making promises and then not keeping them, changing his mind at the last second, sometimes flat out lying to some of the guys. The first time he did this was the 2 out of 3 ladder match between JC Malicious and Osiris. What was originally going to happen was in the third match as JC and Osiris are duking it out one the ladder, Mikey runs down, pulls Osiris off the ladder, and holds him down while JC gets the belt. Crescent ended up changing his mind two hours before the start of the show and the outcome was changed to Osiris winning with Mikey never making an appearance. That would be the first of many times Crescent would change his mind just hours before the start of a show and for Vince McMahon, it may work, but it really didn't work for Crescent. And people really started getting tired of it, rightfully so, and guys were going and begging to the Board to get rid of Crescent, they couldn't work with him. Well Crescent I guess saw the writing on the wall and decided he'd step down and we got Frank Dubaine. First thing Frank does when he walks in is he calls everyone together again, he looks at the paper that Crescent had left behind with all his plans, proceeds to rip it up into confetti and let it fall around everyone. And I would be lying if I said that Frank was the easiest guy to work for. He's got no problem in telling you to sit down and shut the fuck up if you want a paycheck. But Frank was definitely an improvement from Crescent, mainly because Frank himself had been a wrestler. He knew the business better than Crescent, you knew how to interact with the guys better the Crescent, it still amazes me to this day that Frank wasn't in charge from the get go. And while he does run a tight ship, Frank himself as a person is a good guy. I can remember one night, me and...who else was it? I think it was me, Yugo...uh, CK was there, Riley Taylor was there, and...I THINK Osiris was there. I think, don't quote me on that one. But we're leaving the arena and Frank's standing out in the parking lot and he's on his phone. As we get up to him he hangs up and notices us and he says 'Well what are you boys doing?' Well Yugo, ever being the mouthpiece of our group says 'We're hitting up Huddle House' and Osiris I think just said he was going back to the hotel. Frank goes 'Well I was supposed to have dinner with my wife but she had an emergency and cancelled on me. So I have a free evening. Say why don't we all go out for a steak dinner? My treat.' And that is an offer you do not say no to. So on that night. Fours wrestlers and their boss went out for a steak dinner. That was an...interesting night to say the least."
Freaky took a drink of water from a bottle he had sitting off camera, cleared his throat and settled back onto the couch. "Now for MWL. It was certainly a different atmosphere. 'Cause I just went from AWF, a place where I'm sitting high in the ranks, to a place where I'm essentially bottom of the barrel again, at least that's what it felt like. You know Yugo's a top guy, kind of a like a locker room leader and seeing how much he's respected in his home turf of MWL, suddenly felt very small next to him even though we'd been friends for years. And Michael Jamborgh, first thing he does is he takes me into his office and basically says 'I don't care who you're friends with or what you've done in other places, you have to earn opportunities here' and Yugo basically said the same thing to me later 'I know you're an amazing competitor but I'm not gonna pull strings for you, you're gonna have to earn your spot here.' And I expected that, no big deal. Now the first thing you wanna do when going into a new place is make a good first impression with your new locker room mates. In MWL...I did not make a good one. I walk into the locker room, first then I do is stumble over my own feet and fall flat on the ground. I hear just about everyone in the locker room just having a great big laugh off it. For two weeks after, two weeks, Jim Norris would make it look like he was tripping over his own feet whenever he saw me. And I'm just mortified, I'm like 'Great I've been here 10 minutes and I've already made an ass out of myself.' I think even Jambrough made fun of me for a bit after he heard it. And I don't have any kind of uplifting story about how you know someone came and helped me up, saying like 'Oh don't let them bother you.' No Yugo was laughing right along with them. In MWL the way you get people people to stop laughing at you over something stupid, is if you can cause someone else to do something stupid in return. And what I did was...ah shit now who was it? Was it Rozman? It-it was either Rozman or McIntyre, SOMEBODY had brought an apple to the arena this day as a snack I guess. I can't believe I can't remember who I did this to, but anyway, they lay the apple out like they're gonna eat it and it's wrapped up in this white towel. And for whatever reason they lay the apple down on the bench and go off and leave it. And me, being the immature 10 year old that I am, I go back into the showers because the soap that the arena had provided us was a nice candy apple red. I switch the apple and the soap and wrap the soap up back into the towel. So I got the apple and I'm kinda thinking to myself 'Huh, I hope he doesn't actually look at what he's about to eat.' And nobody, and I mean NOBODY, in the locker room will give you warning when you're about to be ribbed unless it's something REALLY bad and apparently switching out a block of soap for an apple isn't bad because nobody said anything when this guy walked back in. He picks up what he thinks is the apple, sure enough doesn't give it a second look, bites down, gets a mouthful of soap. And everybody just busts out laughing. This poor guy is cussing, he's spitting soap up, he's downing water by the bottle full. He's like "WHO THE FUCK DID THAT?!" I'm sitting there throwing his apple up in the air and catching it like I'm some kinda big bad villain or whatever. He goes"What the fuck?! What are you, 10 years old?!" Freaky's laughing at his own story at this point. "God I just wish I could remember who that was, I feel like I'm only telling half the story otherwise. Uhhh...but, but yeah...MWL. They're for the most part great guys, one or two of them I'd do anything for. They're a bunch of great guys."
"Alright well I'm sorry to say that is all the time we have for today. Freaky, thank you so much for coming in here and speaking with us."
"Was my pleasure."
"Make sure you tune in for the next session of Off The Ropes, I'll have a new guest. Who will it be? Well you never know who'll be coming Off The Ropes."
The camera fades out.