Take all your anger and your pain
And write it down, down, down
Take these words and make them heard -
Hate out loud, loud, loud..
- SWEAR ON YOUR LIFE
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FADEIN...
The jukebox at TC's Pub. It's currently playing "Hate Out Loud" by Swear On Your Life, featuring the beautiful, talented, and wildly afro'd MilitiA on vocals.
Fitting.
And... go.)
"When you take into account the internet connection that this machine has, there's probably twenty to thirty thousand tracks you could listen to at any time. Limitless choice equates limitless possibility."
"The possibilities are endless for me, here in the Empire, and the possibilities are running straight through Miami and into a man who calls himself Copycat."
Are you going to tape my promo and read it back to me?
I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe I'm the first person to make that horrible joke.
"From what I can tell, you've got a god complex."
It's the only thing I can figure, I ordered transcripts of your past interviews.
Well, Aaron Jones' interviews where he was speaking on your behalf.
I'm confused.
"And in all of the transcripts, you're referred to in the capital. Things that He said. Things that He did."
I don't have much use for religion, Catman, so I hope I'm wrong.
"But some of the things He did kind of... disturb me. If Aaron Jones is an accurate representation of things that Copycat says and does, then Copycat's megalomania involves a complete readjustment of the sport of professional wrestling to one that he finds... palatable."
Wow, we agree on something.
"Now, I'm the first to admit that professional wrestling is my religion. The golden age for me was the era where Ed Lewis, and Lou Thesz, and Ad Santell ruled the mat. Today, with its sex and drugs and Crash TV for the commercially deficient generation is, on the whole, something of a disappointment to me. Today, the greatest World Champion of the past four years was a plumber who vacated the belt with a note written with excrement."
By the numbers, you can't argue with the Undefeated Joe. No disrespect intended to any of the other fine champions who have ruled one company or another in that time period.
"But I see hope where most see plumbers, and Emo Queens, and Hallucination Nations. I see
wrestlers who have taken the initiative to bring this sport out of the Twiglet zone and back into the realm of athleticism."
"For that matter.... what does
kidnapping your opponent's child have to do with professional wrestling? I know what He'll say - the ends justify the means and since you got the nod, that's what matters."
I disagree.
"I suppose that's where the main difference is between us."
"With twenty to thirty thousand different options, this is the match that the matchmakers made."
"What's the odds?"
FADE