Post by Steve Catt on Jun 21, 2007 17:58:55 GMT -5
:::The scene opens with Hank Brown sitting on a comfortable-looking (and probably expensive) chair in a dimly-lit room. He shifts and begins to speak.:::
Hank Brown: Hello, WCF fans, this is Hank Brown coming to you from…well, one of the conditions on which I got this interview is that I can’t actually say. I am here with Steve Carr, who has promised that he will finally reveal the motivations for all of his actions from several months ago up to just recently when he turned his back on Team NCW.
:::The camera zooms out to reveal Steve Carr sitting next to Hank in a similar chair.:::
Steve Carr: Glad you could make it, Hank, and I’m sorry for all the secrecy, but, you know, after what happened last time…
Hank: I understand. Now, I think we should probably start at the beginning.
Steve: Well, to really start at the beginning, we have to go back to when I took over ownership of NCW from Logan, but I’m going to leave that for our next session. I have two more of these planned over the next couple of days. For now, I’m going to go back to the beginning of my involvement with Team NCW, which I assume is what you were actually asking about.
Hank: Well, it’s your interview. Really, anything you can tell us to shed some light on all of this would be helpful.
Steve: Yes, I think it would be. Helpful to you, helpful to the fans. Helpful to me. Even helpful to Outcast! I feel like I owe him an explanation, you know. Or at least I did, before his hired goons attacked me the last time I tried to explain myself.
Hank: Hired goons?
Steve: That’s all I think of them as at this point. I mean, to be honest I can’t really tell you what their motivations are, deep down. It just makes me feel better to not think of them as the guys that used to be my friends.
Hank: I have to say, you seem more hurt by this than I would have thought. This isn’t the cold, calculating Steve Carr we’ve seen for the last few years.
:::Steve laughs softly.:::
Steve: Well, I am hurt. Hurt and pissed off. You know, it is like you said; I have been very inhumane the past few years. Winning has always been everything, but then one day I just got frustrated and went over the edge. And then that didn’t work, and I got more frustrated and I just quit. Then I came back to run this place, and I quit that too. In what Outcast was doing, with Team NCW, it seemed to me that it was like, well, you know, I thought to myself, “Finally, someone is thinking the same way I am.” I thought, we could…I thought, here’s someone I can have as my ally, and we can really change this place like I wanted to before.
Hank: And that’s when Merc came in.
Steve: Yes, and that’s another thing I’d like to get to another time.
Hank: Where is he, anyway?
Steve: He’s at home resting after the beating he took a couple weeks ago. He’s lucky he didn’t take any permanent damage, let alone winning the match. I can’t believe we pulled that one off.
Hank: Will we see him in your corner at Explosion?
Steve: No, he’s staying home. I mean, I’m sure he’s healthy now. I probably made it sound worse than it is. But his job is done now. This isn’t what I brought him on for. This is my fight now.
Hank: Right before you attacked Team NCW, you made it sound like it was Merc that changed your mind about all that.
Steve: That is absolutely the case. You know, I wish I could say that I had this planned all along, that I tricked Team NCW and all the fans and I was just waiting for that right moment. I wish I could say this was all planned, but it wasn’t. It was just getting to be more and more of a bad situation and when they started beating on Davey Boone after Outcast won the match, that was just the last straw.
Hank: You say you weren’t planning it all along, yet you did make that a Loser Leaves Town match.
Steve: Right, like I said, it had been getting bad for a while at that point and, you know, I’m kind of glad, actually, that Outcast did what he did. He gave me a reason. He gave me a reason for me to turn his back on him, which when I made that match I was thinking about doing anyway. But he gave me that reason that I needed.
:::A pause. Steve breathes deeply, thinking.:::
Hank: What was happening that was causing this situation to become bad for you? What changed?
Steve: Well, you know…everything Merc said when he first showed up was true. I felt – and this is how I felt when I took over as owner for that brief period – I felt that WCF had lost its way. I still feel that way, actually. I would look at it, when I was here in the locker room, when I was watching on TV, when I was owner, I would look at it and it would depress me. It would make me physically ill, just looking at how Seth just lets it go to crap. It wasn’t like that in the beginning. This used to be a decent place to work. Some people are O.K. with it now, and that’s something again that I’m going to go into tomorrow, about the differences I have with the people who like the way WCF has become. It just makes me sick. It’s just, you know, not all the time, but every so often we see something that’s just senseless violence and smut. I’m not trying to be a censor here, I just think we could work towards something better. And there’s corruption, blatant cheating, it’s just all so ridiculous, and lowers our sport, and you know I can’t say that sort of thing never went on when I owned NCW. But – and it pains me to say this – Seth is better at this than I am. That should be obvious to everyone, because WCF is still here, and NCW is not.
Hank: But you wanted to bring NCW back.
:::Steve sighs.:::
Steve: And here we come to the problems I had with Outcast. I don’t live in the past. The past is for cowards. I saw what Outcast was doing and I wanted to be on board with changing this place, with taking it all down and putting it back up, but…you know, you can slap the NCW name on it, that doesn’t make it NCW. NCW is dead, NCW is gone. It’s been something like four, five years, I don’t know, I don’t even remember. I tried to bring it back a bit more recently than that, tried to do this cross-promotional thing with WCF, but it never even got off the ground. I just thought, you know, that whatever crazy ideas Outcast has that I would put up with it, to make the changes I needed to make. I just looked past it and that was stupid of me, because Outcast, as much as I love the guy, he’s just nuts. I mean he’s not Jack of Blades nuts, but he’s gotten pretty out there.
Hank: And you needed Merc to make you see this.
Steve: Well, look, we know, the thing about Merc is, he’s not a professional wrestler. He’s fresh eyes. He’s looking at this thing as an adventure and, you know, I never expected him to be in a match. The deal I made with Seth is he didn’t get put in matches, and I didn’t expect Creeping Death and XIII. I thought that was just a one shot deal. So he gets put in a World Title match, excuse me, it was non-title but against the World Champion. And he held his own. I mean, I think if I hadn’t been there at the end he would’ve gotten his teeth handed to him afterwards, but, he loved it anyway. He absolutely loved it.
Hank: That was his first time wrestling?
Steve: Well, no, he has an amateur background, quite extensive actually. He trained under the same guy I did, that was the old man we saw a while back, Shihan…I mean, Tim. That’s where I knew him from. But, man, it is a completely different experience, out there with the lights and the crowd, fighting against the best in the world. And Merc made me remember things like honor and sportsmanship; he took that B.S. Team NCW rhetoric and he made it real for me. We were hypocrites, fighting for something in a way that was contrary to the ideals we were fighting for. That beatdown on Davey Boone is the exact sort of thing that I wanted to change about this place, that I still want to change, but we were going about it the wrong way. You know, you can work for change on the outside, while working with the system.
Hank: Did you talk to Outcast at all about this?
Steve: No, and I know he wouldn’t go for it. I wouldn’t have either before Merc showed me these things. You know, I thought that I was too old and that I had tried and failed too many times to be this idealistic ever again. But now, I want people to look at what I’m doing now, and years from now people will say, he did the right thing, and I hope that will inspire a new generation to do the same. We all have a choice, and we can do the right thing, or we can act like a spoiled teenager like Outcast. And now we have to show the disclaimer.
Hank: What?
Steve: Don’t worry about it, I’ll edit it in before it goes on the air. Right…now.
:::The scene cuts to black and words start scrolling up the screen. They read as follows.:::
DISCLAIMER: Steve Carr does not actually think the person he just referred to is a teenager. This person is obviously not a teenager. Steve Carr is aware of how old this person is. Steve Carr does not forget people’s ages or birthdays for that matter. The word “teenager” was used in this interview/promo as a figure of speech to describe this person’s behavior. Steve Carr might use some other figures of speech that some will misunderstand or find offensive. Get used to it. Steve Carr is surprisingly well-read and enjoys using different literary and public speaking techniques.
:::The screen cuts back to the interview.:::
Hank: Alright, so, what are we going to talk about tomorrow?
Steve: Tomorrow we will go a little further into the past and I will…
:::He sighs.:::
Steve :…apologize.
Hank: Wow, well, thank you for your time.
Steve: Thank you, and see you tomorrow.
:::Fade out.:::
Hank Brown: Hello, WCF fans, this is Hank Brown coming to you from…well, one of the conditions on which I got this interview is that I can’t actually say. I am here with Steve Carr, who has promised that he will finally reveal the motivations for all of his actions from several months ago up to just recently when he turned his back on Team NCW.
:::The camera zooms out to reveal Steve Carr sitting next to Hank in a similar chair.:::
Steve Carr: Glad you could make it, Hank, and I’m sorry for all the secrecy, but, you know, after what happened last time…
Hank: I understand. Now, I think we should probably start at the beginning.
Steve: Well, to really start at the beginning, we have to go back to when I took over ownership of NCW from Logan, but I’m going to leave that for our next session. I have two more of these planned over the next couple of days. For now, I’m going to go back to the beginning of my involvement with Team NCW, which I assume is what you were actually asking about.
Hank: Well, it’s your interview. Really, anything you can tell us to shed some light on all of this would be helpful.
Steve: Yes, I think it would be. Helpful to you, helpful to the fans. Helpful to me. Even helpful to Outcast! I feel like I owe him an explanation, you know. Or at least I did, before his hired goons attacked me the last time I tried to explain myself.
Hank: Hired goons?
Steve: That’s all I think of them as at this point. I mean, to be honest I can’t really tell you what their motivations are, deep down. It just makes me feel better to not think of them as the guys that used to be my friends.
Hank: I have to say, you seem more hurt by this than I would have thought. This isn’t the cold, calculating Steve Carr we’ve seen for the last few years.
:::Steve laughs softly.:::
Steve: Well, I am hurt. Hurt and pissed off. You know, it is like you said; I have been very inhumane the past few years. Winning has always been everything, but then one day I just got frustrated and went over the edge. And then that didn’t work, and I got more frustrated and I just quit. Then I came back to run this place, and I quit that too. In what Outcast was doing, with Team NCW, it seemed to me that it was like, well, you know, I thought to myself, “Finally, someone is thinking the same way I am.” I thought, we could…I thought, here’s someone I can have as my ally, and we can really change this place like I wanted to before.
Hank: And that’s when Merc came in.
Steve: Yes, and that’s another thing I’d like to get to another time.
Hank: Where is he, anyway?
Steve: He’s at home resting after the beating he took a couple weeks ago. He’s lucky he didn’t take any permanent damage, let alone winning the match. I can’t believe we pulled that one off.
Hank: Will we see him in your corner at Explosion?
Steve: No, he’s staying home. I mean, I’m sure he’s healthy now. I probably made it sound worse than it is. But his job is done now. This isn’t what I brought him on for. This is my fight now.
Hank: Right before you attacked Team NCW, you made it sound like it was Merc that changed your mind about all that.
Steve: That is absolutely the case. You know, I wish I could say that I had this planned all along, that I tricked Team NCW and all the fans and I was just waiting for that right moment. I wish I could say this was all planned, but it wasn’t. It was just getting to be more and more of a bad situation and when they started beating on Davey Boone after Outcast won the match, that was just the last straw.
Hank: You say you weren’t planning it all along, yet you did make that a Loser Leaves Town match.
Steve: Right, like I said, it had been getting bad for a while at that point and, you know, I’m kind of glad, actually, that Outcast did what he did. He gave me a reason. He gave me a reason for me to turn his back on him, which when I made that match I was thinking about doing anyway. But he gave me that reason that I needed.
:::A pause. Steve breathes deeply, thinking.:::
Hank: What was happening that was causing this situation to become bad for you? What changed?
Steve: Well, you know…everything Merc said when he first showed up was true. I felt – and this is how I felt when I took over as owner for that brief period – I felt that WCF had lost its way. I still feel that way, actually. I would look at it, when I was here in the locker room, when I was watching on TV, when I was owner, I would look at it and it would depress me. It would make me physically ill, just looking at how Seth just lets it go to crap. It wasn’t like that in the beginning. This used to be a decent place to work. Some people are O.K. with it now, and that’s something again that I’m going to go into tomorrow, about the differences I have with the people who like the way WCF has become. It just makes me sick. It’s just, you know, not all the time, but every so often we see something that’s just senseless violence and smut. I’m not trying to be a censor here, I just think we could work towards something better. And there’s corruption, blatant cheating, it’s just all so ridiculous, and lowers our sport, and you know I can’t say that sort of thing never went on when I owned NCW. But – and it pains me to say this – Seth is better at this than I am. That should be obvious to everyone, because WCF is still here, and NCW is not.
Hank: But you wanted to bring NCW back.
:::Steve sighs.:::
Steve: And here we come to the problems I had with Outcast. I don’t live in the past. The past is for cowards. I saw what Outcast was doing and I wanted to be on board with changing this place, with taking it all down and putting it back up, but…you know, you can slap the NCW name on it, that doesn’t make it NCW. NCW is dead, NCW is gone. It’s been something like four, five years, I don’t know, I don’t even remember. I tried to bring it back a bit more recently than that, tried to do this cross-promotional thing with WCF, but it never even got off the ground. I just thought, you know, that whatever crazy ideas Outcast has that I would put up with it, to make the changes I needed to make. I just looked past it and that was stupid of me, because Outcast, as much as I love the guy, he’s just nuts. I mean he’s not Jack of Blades nuts, but he’s gotten pretty out there.
Hank: And you needed Merc to make you see this.
Steve: Well, look, we know, the thing about Merc is, he’s not a professional wrestler. He’s fresh eyes. He’s looking at this thing as an adventure and, you know, I never expected him to be in a match. The deal I made with Seth is he didn’t get put in matches, and I didn’t expect Creeping Death and XIII. I thought that was just a one shot deal. So he gets put in a World Title match, excuse me, it was non-title but against the World Champion. And he held his own. I mean, I think if I hadn’t been there at the end he would’ve gotten his teeth handed to him afterwards, but, he loved it anyway. He absolutely loved it.
Hank: That was his first time wrestling?
Steve: Well, no, he has an amateur background, quite extensive actually. He trained under the same guy I did, that was the old man we saw a while back, Shihan…I mean, Tim. That’s where I knew him from. But, man, it is a completely different experience, out there with the lights and the crowd, fighting against the best in the world. And Merc made me remember things like honor and sportsmanship; he took that B.S. Team NCW rhetoric and he made it real for me. We were hypocrites, fighting for something in a way that was contrary to the ideals we were fighting for. That beatdown on Davey Boone is the exact sort of thing that I wanted to change about this place, that I still want to change, but we were going about it the wrong way. You know, you can work for change on the outside, while working with the system.
Hank: Did you talk to Outcast at all about this?
Steve: No, and I know he wouldn’t go for it. I wouldn’t have either before Merc showed me these things. You know, I thought that I was too old and that I had tried and failed too many times to be this idealistic ever again. But now, I want people to look at what I’m doing now, and years from now people will say, he did the right thing, and I hope that will inspire a new generation to do the same. We all have a choice, and we can do the right thing, or we can act like a spoiled teenager like Outcast. And now we have to show the disclaimer.
Hank: What?
Steve: Don’t worry about it, I’ll edit it in before it goes on the air. Right…now.
:::The scene cuts to black and words start scrolling up the screen. They read as follows.:::
DISCLAIMER: Steve Carr does not actually think the person he just referred to is a teenager. This person is obviously not a teenager. Steve Carr is aware of how old this person is. Steve Carr does not forget people’s ages or birthdays for that matter. The word “teenager” was used in this interview/promo as a figure of speech to describe this person’s behavior. Steve Carr might use some other figures of speech that some will misunderstand or find offensive. Get used to it. Steve Carr is surprisingly well-read and enjoys using different literary and public speaking techniques.
:::The screen cuts back to the interview.:::
Hank: Alright, so, what are we going to talk about tomorrow?
Steve: Tomorrow we will go a little further into the past and I will…
:::He sighs.:::
Steve :…apologize.
Hank: Wow, well, thank you for your time.
Steve: Thank you, and see you tomorrow.
:::Fade out.:::
