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WWE Smackdown 5/15/26 Review | LIMPING THROUGH ANOTHER SHOW, Gunther Going To Italy! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: You know, one of these weeks, you're gonna tune into
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  Speaker 1: this stream and you're gonna be sitting in the lobby
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna say, waiting for solom Monster sounds off
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  Speaker 1: and there's gonna be no Solom Monster, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be sitting here for an hour agoing what happened to him.
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  Speaker 1: I hope he's okay. I hope he didn't suffer some
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  Speaker 1: sort of medical emergency. And what will happen is I'll
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  Speaker 1: come on here probably ninety minutes late and have to
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  Speaker 1: apologize for dozing off during the show. It's gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: one of these weeks. But tonight is not that night.
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  Speaker 1: You know why, because I'm actually pretty amped up right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all amped up. And it has absolutely nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with SmackDown. It has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 1: show that you saw tonight on USA Network or Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, depending on where you are. It actually has
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  Speaker 1: everything to do with the movie I saw before SmackDown,
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  Speaker 1: which coincidentally was much better than SmackDown was tonight. I
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: went to go see Obsession. Now, I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: about this movie up until about a week ago. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know it existed, and I saw a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people talking about it online, a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of real, you know, excitement around this movie. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even watch a full trailer. I had a very
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  Speaker 1: very vague understanding of what it was. I knew it
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  Speaker 1: was a horror movie. I said, that's good enough for me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go see Obsession. And you know what, I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: I did no spoilers here, but I will say it
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  Speaker 1: is the best movie I have seen in the theater
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  Speaker 1: so far this year. It is. It is the best
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  Speaker 1: movie I've seen all year. Very much enjoyed it. I
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  Speaker 1: will say it's a fucked up movie. It is, it is,
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  Speaker 1: it will it will fuck with your head. I can't
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  Speaker 1: say it was necessarily what I was expecting, but again,
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  Speaker 1: I went into it pretty pretty cold because I just
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  Speaker 1: feel like these days they give away too much in
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  Speaker 1: the trailers anyway, so I try to avoid all that
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  Speaker 1: as much as possible. But if you are thinking about it,
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  Speaker 1: or if you are a fan of that genre, I
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  Speaker 1: would highly, highly encourage you to go see it. It
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  Speaker 1: just came out well technically yesterday, but it just came
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  Speaker 1: out tonight. I hope it does well. It's funny you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have this movie called Passenger that's coming out next week,
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  Speaker 1: another horror movie, and then two weeks from tonight, the Backrooms,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm very excited about because I followed all of
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  Speaker 1: the Caine Pixels videos on YouTube years ago, and now
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  Speaker 1: Cain is directing a full fledged Backrooms movie with the
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  Speaker 1: backing of a twenty four major movie studio, and that's
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  Speaker 1: coming out in two weeks. So this is a hell
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  Speaker 1: of a month, I will say for the horror genre.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of horror SmackDown, I guess we have to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this show. Not good, not good, very boring, but
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  Speaker 1: not without its moments. So for example, we had a
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  Speaker 1: main event tonight that Pitt Gunther against Royce Keys, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought the two of them went out there and
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  Speaker 1: had a solid ass main event. It's like Stone Cold
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  Speaker 1: has two solid ass cats on the Broken Skull ranch.
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  Speaker 1: We got a solid ass main event tonight, first time
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  Speaker 1: that Royce Keys has been in the SmackDown main event
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  Speaker 1: since he debuted on the main roster. And when the
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  Speaker 1: match was over, we found out that Gunther is going
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  Speaker 1: to Italy because this was to find out who would
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  Speaker 1: be challenging Cody Roads for the WWE Championship at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the month at Clash in Italy. Because Gunther
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  Speaker 1: has been playing games over the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: He had a contract assigned with his name on it.
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  Speaker 1: He kept playing games. As Nick all this said, he
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  Speaker 1: overplayed his hand and so now he was forced to
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  Speaker 1: fight somebody else for the right to become number one
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  Speaker 1: contender for the title. So he had to go through
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  Speaker 1: Royce Keys and he did. And so now we know
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  Speaker 1: one of the main events for Clash in Italy that
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  Speaker 1: is now official. To ask you all the question, and
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  Speaker 1: I admit that in the grand scheme of things, considering
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  Speaker 1: all the problems that this show has, this is a
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  Speaker 1: minor issue, but it still bugs me. And I heard
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  Speaker 1: Joe Tessitour say this when the show was over. Cody
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  Speaker 1: Rhodes was the last one standing. He came out, he
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  Speaker 1: gave gun through a crossroads and so Cody was the
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  Speaker 1: parting shot on SmackDown tonight. And I have to listen
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  Speaker 1: to Joe testatur as the announcers every week say the
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  Speaker 1: undisputed w w WEE Champion. Cody Rhoads is the undisputed champion.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me ask you a question. At a time
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  Speaker 1: when we have two world championships on the men's side,
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  Speaker 1: and at a time where Roman Reigns is the World
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  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Champion and arguably is the number one champion in
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  Speaker 1: the company now. It certainly has felt that way since WrestleMania,
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  Speaker 1: and it will likely be that way going into Clash
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  Speaker 1: in Italy, where he is going to be wrestling Jacob Fatu.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: I'm sure. So how is it that we are still
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  Speaker 1: calling Cody Roa it's the undisputed WWE Champion? What exactly
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  Speaker 1: makes him an undisputed champion? See? I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: they care enough to realize that they have continued to
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  Speaker 1: call this man undisputed long after it made sense to
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: do so, long after he beat Roman Reigns, right, who
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: had those two titles? And so sure, the man who
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  Speaker 1: beat Roman Reigns of WrestleMania is the undisputed champion. But
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: we have a World Heavyweight Champion on Monday who happens
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  Speaker 1: to be the biggest star in the company outside of Cody,
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  Speaker 1: and we have the WWE champion on Friday, And why
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  Speaker 1: are we still calling him the undisputed champion. It's it's
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: so stupid. Just stop. There's nothing undisputed about it. It's
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  Speaker 1: very much disputed. Now we actually have somebody on Raw
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  Speaker 1: who arguably is the top champion in the company. Just
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: bugs me. I don't know why we're still calling him undisputed.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes's bag. This was another bright spot on the show.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't seen him since before WrestleMania. He was back
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  Speaker 1: on the show tonight wrestling Ricky Saints, and they also
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: had what I thought was a solid match, so that
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  Speaker 1: was good, and we had Trick Williams. He had a
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  Speaker 1: nice homecoming for himself here in the opening segment of
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  Speaker 1: the show. The rest of these three hours or some
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: of the most boring television that I have had to
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  Speaker 1: sit through this entire year. And this show continues to
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  Speaker 1: limp along. It's gonna limp right into the summer the
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  Speaker 1: way that it has, with no end in sight. The
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  Speaker 1: best we can hope for is an hour less of
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  Speaker 1: this at some point next month, because we still don't
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  Speaker 1: know the exact week that smacked Down is reverting back
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  Speaker 1: to two hours last year, it happened on the fourth
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  Speaker 1: of July. I've read reports that suggest it might happen
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  Speaker 1: sooner than that. We probably have another month at least
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  Speaker 1: of this. It can't come soon enough, and that's not
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: going to make the show better, But at least it's
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  Speaker 1: an hour less that we are subjected to every single
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: week because the shows don't get any better. You find
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: those bright spots, right Royce Keys in the main event,
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: good for him. Hopefully we get to see a more
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  Speaker 1: sustained push for him. Ricky Saints, you know, still not
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: getting much of a reaction when he comes out, but
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  Speaker 1: he's still new to the roster. He's out there wrestling
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes. Those are the types of matches I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see more of here on these shows. But again,
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: outside of that stuff, what else is going on right
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  Speaker 1: now on this show that you can honestly tell me
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  Speaker 1: is exciting to you, is compelling to you, is keeping
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  Speaker 1: you tuned in every week where it's like, man, I
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see this guy, or I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to see this story play out, or I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to see this group, I can't wait to see the
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: MFTs next week, I can't wait to see Jade and
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: the Batties next week. Like what is it about this show? Honestly, truthfully,
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  Speaker 1: outside of like those one or two things that I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that truly keeps you coming back for more. There's nothing,
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing, There's absolutely nothing. I'm convinced that the Rock
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: couldn't get Cody Sol so he stole Smackdowns because this
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  Speaker 1: show has no soul. It's just limping along. That is
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  Speaker 1: the state of SmackDown. And so it continues. This is
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  Speaker 1: your Friday Night SmackDown review. It is May fifteenth. We're
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  Speaker 1: already midway through twenty twenty six. I am the solemn Monster. Hey, James,
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  Speaker 1: you better be referring to me. He says Solo is
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  Speaker 1: awesome because if I hear, if I find out you're
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: talking about Solo, so I'm gonna kick you out. There
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  Speaker 1: ain't nothing about Solo so at the moment or anything
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  Speaker 1: he's doing on the show that is awesome. Solo is
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: a very funny guy. There is potentially awesome stuff that
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  Speaker 1: could be done with him, but I'm not seeing any
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  Speaker 1: of it on the television show. So I hope you're
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  Speaker 1: referring to me. Oh Man talking about SmackDown is it's
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  Speaker 1: almost as bad as watching the SmackDown. But I try
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  Speaker 1: to make it entertaining for you guys, So we'll try
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  Speaker 1: to do the same tonight. Do me a favor. Hit
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• 9:14
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  Speaker 1: Already had a bunch of them that have come in,
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  Speaker 1: popping up on your screen and I will be reading
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  Speaker 1: them a little bit later on here in the stream.
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  Speaker 1: But we got a wheel to spin. I think me
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  Speaker 1: spinning this wheel might be more exciting than most of
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  Speaker 1: what happened on SmackDown tonight, probably a good seventy five
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  Speaker 1: percent of the show. I would wager we'll spend some more.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try to make it worth your while. This might
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  Speaker 1: be the most exciting moment of the night for you.
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  Speaker 1: Four hundred, so that is the goal. We are currently
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  Speaker 1: If we passed four hundred, we will do be the
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  Speaker 1: Booker a little bit later on. Let's get into this
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: SmackDown show because it kicked off and actually was not
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  Speaker 1: a bad opening because it kicked off with the homecoming
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  Speaker 1: for the United States Champion Trick Williams. Trick Williams beat
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: Sammy Zain at Backlash last weekend. He's still the United
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  Speaker 1: States Champion and so he has roots here in South Carolina.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: He came out along with Lil YACHTI got a big
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  Speaker 1: reaction and the University of South Carolina game Cock's mascot.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: I guess that's a game cock. I guess is that
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  Speaker 1: what the mascot was. The mascot was a cock. So
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: the cock came out with Lil YACHTI and Trick Williams,
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: and Williams said he was proud to represent w. J.
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  Speaker 1: Keenan High School and the University of South Carolina growing up.
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  Speaker 1: He put over his favorite chicken and waffles restaurant. Do
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: you realize I did not have chicken and waffles, I
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: want to say until two thousand and sixteen. It was
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: actually at a sound off meetup that we did at
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: the KBH Beer Hall not too far from the Barclay Center,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't it might have been before summer Slim.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember what event it was tied into, but
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  Speaker 1: we did a big meetup and they were actually serving
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  Speaker 1: chicken and waffles at KBH, and I'm like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: try this. Oh, I didn't realize what I had been
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  Speaker 1: missing out. And now the problem is, of course, if
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I did chicken and waffles all the time, I'd be
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: five hundred pounds. I'd have to expand the window here.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: I would be so big I wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 1: fit in this little window on screen. But uh man,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: it was. It was very good. So anyway, he uh yeah, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it took me. It took me a while. What can
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  Speaker 1: I say, twenty sixteen first time, I mean, I had
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  Speaker 1: had chicken and I had had waffles. I just I
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  Speaker 1: never thought to combine the two. The thought never occurred
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: to me. So he put over his favorite place. He
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: pointed at his parents in the front row. Miss and
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: Kit Wilson interrupted the celebration, and he was mocking the mascot.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: He was mocking all the gingerbread stuff from the week before.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: He said, this is wwe not sesame street. Kit Wilson
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  Speaker 1: joined in with some slam poetry. He read a poem
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: about how trick wouldn't last a day on the streets
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: where he came from Lil Yacht. He said, you know,
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: can I try? So he fired back with some poetry
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  Speaker 1: of his own. He mentioned missus tiny balls in there somewhere.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: I can't believe this is still a thing, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: the tiny balls things has lived on. So Ms got upset.
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  Speaker 1: He called for a referee and he said he was
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: gonna whoop that Trick in front of his mama. So
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Trick cleared the ring of all the heels and look,
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: this was cool because he came out there, he got
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: a hero's welcome right coming back home, and especially when
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  Speaker 1: they panned out, they showed a shot of the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is just going crazy for this guy. So it
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  Speaker 1: made him look like a superstar, and no Trick comes
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  Speaker 1: out there every week and looks like a superstar. He
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: get the superstar entrance, but more so than usual. He
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: came off as a big deal here in this opening segment.
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  Speaker 1: But after a break, we had Trick Williams again to
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: the Miz. Late in the match, Miz hit the skull
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  Speaker 1: crushing finale. Trick kicked out, so Mis went to go
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: grab a kendo stick. Lil Yachty stole it away from him.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Yachty blasted Kit Wilson with it. Instead, and in the ring,
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  Speaker 1: Williams finished off Miz with the trick shot knee for
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  Speaker 1: the wind. A very basic match, but the crowd didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: They were hot for Trick Williams. They were there to
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  Speaker 1: see Trick. They got what they wanted, So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: That's why there were more people than usual here into
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  Speaker 1: this mismatch. It was because of Trick Williams. Now backstage,
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  Speaker 1: I see Carmelo Hayes, and I am amazed because I
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  Speaker 1: had forgotten that he was even part of the show.
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  Speaker 1: But I was pleasantly surprised to see him back here.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't mentioned in the preview. They don't give you
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot in the previews anymore like they used to.
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  Speaker 1: But there he is, and he was being interviewed about
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  Speaker 1: his match against Ricky Saints later tonight. I should say
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  Speaker 1: it may have been added to the preview very very late,
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  Speaker 1: but when I put the preview together for this stream,
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  Speaker 1: we had three things announced, and Carmelo Hayes was not
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  Speaker 1: one of them. But he was talking about how he
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: wants his United States Championship back. So Ricky Saints interrupts
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  Speaker 1: and he says, it's a new world since Hayes won
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: on Vacation. Mello says he sees Ricky for what he is.
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  Speaker 1: This place has a way of humbling people like you
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  Speaker 1: and me. Ricky doesn't need advice from him, though, And
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: as Ricky walked off, Hayes said that it was like
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: looking into a dirty mirror. I don't know what was
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: going on here. Mello was like speed talking through this promo.
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  Speaker 1: It was as if there was a countdown clock off
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  Speaker 1: camera that we couldn't see. That was like counting him down.
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  Speaker 1: He was trying to get all of his shit in
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: before time expired. I don't know why he was speeding
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  Speaker 1: through this. I don't know what was going on with that.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: That was a little weird. Elsewhere, Nick all this had
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: a pleasant little chat with Ray Phoenix, talking about him
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  Speaker 1: doing big things in Triple A. Yeah, may as well.
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  Speaker 1: They're not doing big things with him here on SmackDown.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Nick is so pleasantly surprised. You would think,
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  Speaker 1: as the general manager of this show, he would do
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  Speaker 1: more with Ray Phoenix on SmackDown, but evidently he doesn't
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: see fit to do so. So after he left, Sammy's
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: ain't entered the picture, and he said he needed to
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: do things the right way, and basically all this was like, well,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: if you want a US title match, you're going to
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: have to earn it. Sammy was not very happy about this,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: but as all this pointed out, he had already had
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: his rematch. This is the way it has to be.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, you know what, He's right. You
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: just head back to back championship matches and you fucking lost.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: You go to the back of the line. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: It's over. Feud's done. Sammy apparently wanted preferential treatment, so
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: all this says, Look, you're clearly dealing with stuff. So
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: here's my advice. Why don't you go and deal with
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: that and then you can come back, because right now
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I'm getting this sense of entitlement from you. And Sammy
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: is pitching where a Phoenix comes back in trying to
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: calm him down, and Phoenix says, I don't even recognize
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you anymore. Paige and Bribella, the women's tag team champions,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: were being interviewed in the back about their upcoming match
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: when Nia Jackson Lash Legend walked up to them said
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: that they were going to take the tag team titles back,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: and at that moment we hear bre Moode in the arena,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: bre Mode was activated and Bribella said, we got some
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: business to go ten two and the champions headed out
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  Speaker 1: to the ring because it was Paige and Bribella taking
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: on Julia and Keana James and what was a non
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: title match. Brie late in the match went into Bri mode.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: You know, she stands there, brebound and she screams and
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: everyone's like yay, and then she hit the Brian Danielson
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  Speaker 1: kicks with the Daniel Brian kicks, which Wade Barrett on
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: commentary said must have come after she saw the mizz
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the show. Good call there, Wade. Nice try.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: So we got a bellabuster on James, Julia tagged in,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: then she hit Brie with a lungblower, then a Northern
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Lights bomb. Page broke up the pin. Keana then accidentally
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: sent a charging Page into Julia and the two of
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: them had a very ugly spill out of the ring
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: that ended with Julia coming straight down on top of
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: her head on the floor outside. Meanwhile, Page finished things
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: off with a rampage DDT to Keana in the ring.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Not great. This was not great. Page is still finding
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: her footing in the ring because she hadn't wrestled in
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: quite some time until recently. And Brie Bella, I mean,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Brie is just there playing, playing the hits, and she
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: didn't have a whole lot of them to begin with.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: So this is kind of where we are right now.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: But the slow moving split continues between Julia and Keana James.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: They were shown in the back after this they were arguing.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: You would have to imagine, I mean, they don't have
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: to do anything, but I would I would like to
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: think that if they were going to do something with Julia,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: whether it was the actual split with Keana or a
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: match of some kind. I can't even imagine, though, as
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I sit here right now, what kind of match would
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Julia even have on that show, because you know, we're
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: going to get five matches? Where the hell she doesn't
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: fit into any of this? Now? Where is SmackDown on
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the Friday before? Now? I know the raw after is
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: in Turin? Is the smell before Clashing Italy in Italy?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Because if it is, then that's probably where they get
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: her on the show. But right now, I just can't
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: imagine her being on the actual pl I mean, what
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the hell would she even be doing on that show?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Doesn't even make any sense. But they were in the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: background arguing loudly as Tiffany Stratton, the new United States Champion,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: was being interviewed in the back, and then she was
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: interrupted by the returning Chelsea Green. This is after her
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: heart procedure that she had recently, so it's good to
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: see her back. Chelsea again tried to team up with Tiffany.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Tiffany didn't want to have anything to do with pairing
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: up with her, and I'm like, I don't know why,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: we're basically rerunning the whole like Charlotte Flair Alexa Bliss's angle,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: where they were kind of reluctant partners at first. Remember
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: at first Charlotte was not interested in being tag team
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: partners with her. That's essentially what we're seeing here. Chelsea
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: wants to partner up, Tiffany doesn't want to have anything
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to do with partnering up with her. I'm not really
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: sure why we're we're running this back, but look, the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: reality is Chelsea's on her own. Piper Niven just had
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: neck surgery, Alba Fire was fired. Chelsea's all by herself,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and you know what would make more sense to me.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Why not have an on screen pairing of Chelsea Green
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and Matt Cardona. Why not they can support each other. Right,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying transition her into a valet and that's it,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: but like, I feel like that could be fun and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it actually could help Cardona more than it would Chelsea.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Chel You could plug Chelsea anywhere on the show. She's
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: gonna excel. But I feel like it would actually be
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: of some help to Matt Cardona if they got something
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: going on screen with the two of them. But again,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think Cardona is the priority for them. I
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: don't think they give a shit. But I would rather
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: see that than this. Now, back to the ring. Out
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: next is the.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Undisputed, very much disputed champion, The WWE champion, Cody Wrotees
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: comes down to the ring, but.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Before he gets into the ring, he goes over by
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the announced area. He grabs an office chair and he
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: throws it into the ring. He grabs another office chair
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: from the timekeeper's area and he throws that into the ring.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: He goes under the ring. He pulls out a table.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Now see, I don't remember now was it a slim
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: gym table? That's usually we're all the slim gym table
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I see now, I don't remember if the Slimjym logo
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: is on the table. Now, I'm very pissed at myself.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I wasn't paying attention to that. But he went under
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the ring. He pulled out a table, put that in
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the ring. He was getting everything all set up nice
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and neat for a contract signing, and I'm just watching this.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, TKO is even laying off the backstage staff.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: So now the talent, Cody the champion, has to rearrange
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: all the furniture in the ring now. Because they didn't
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: have the usual p people to come out and do it,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: they were asked to take a seventy five percent pay
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: cut by TKO and they said goodbye. Cody says he
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: has all the ingredients here for a contract signing, including
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: a contract for Gunther to come to SmackDown and challenge
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: him for the WWE Championship in Italy. Okay, So it
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: was not a slim gym table. I thought that was
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the case. That might have been the biggest surprise in
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the most amazing part of the entire show. They pulled
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: a table out from under the ring and there were
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: no slim Gym logos on it. This is what I
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: call progress. This is good, although slim Gym may not
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: be very happy about that. He has a breach of contract.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Could be a breach of contract that could put the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: whole relationship now in peril. Gunther comes out only out
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: onto the stage in the aisleway. He doesn't get in
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the ring, but he comes out and he goes. You know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: last week talked to about how much time and effort
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: went into the deal that was made with him and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Nick alldis just for Cody to ruin the entire thing,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the roster transfer of the best wrestler in WWE, and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: still Cody made it all about himself. Typical American, but
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: he shouldn't be surprised. Cody just can't handle not being
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the center of attention, not this time though. He says,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: this is his deal, it's his title match, and that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: will be his title soon, So Golden Boy, just be professional.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And Gunher wants him to ask nicely, don't forget to
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: say please, and Cody says Gunther is the one making
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: this weird by not signing like a professional. Contract is
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: right here if Gunher needs a pleased and sure, please
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: sign it, so gunh is guaranteed then to get his
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: ass kicked in Italy. Gunther said, Gunther could feel that
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Cody didn't mean that. I don't think you meant that. Please,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: so instead, please mister Gunther. Out comes Royce Keys. It
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: comes out on stage and he gets right up in
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Gunther's face and he's got a mic and he says, well,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: if you're not going to sign that contract, I will
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: get it. Will will hobbs. Anyway, he comes down to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the ring and he gets inside and Cody's like, okay,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: he's flipping the pages. He goes sign right here, and
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: he's ready, got the pen in hand and he's ready
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to sign that contract. And so now Gunther runs down
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to the ring and he stops him from signing the contract,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: takes the pen away from him, and so Keys takes
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the pen back and he goes to sign again, and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: again Gunther takes the pen away from him. We have
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: like a battle for the pen here. So Nick all
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: this comes out and he says, this should have been
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: very simple. This contract here should have had Gunther's signature
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: on it, but it's not there now right, he overplayed
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: his hand and so now the title match is up
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: for grabs tonight in our main event. It will be
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Gunther one on one with Royce Key, and the winner
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: will go on to challenge Cody Roads for the championship
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: at Clash in Italy, and Gunther storms out of the ring,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Cody tells Keys, I'm proud of you. We're friends, but
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: he reminds him in case you didn't already, hear him
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: say it's sixteen other times over the last two weeks.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: His new catchphrase, if it's not already on a T shirt,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: it will be very soon. It probably already is on
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a T shirt. But he tells him, I'm easy to find,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: hard to beat. It sounds like some cheesy like two
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: thousand and six WWE Studios film that he would have
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: been the star of Hard to Beat, starring Cody Rhodes.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: It would have made like one point five million dollars
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and then straight to DVD. But he wants you to know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: not hard to find, but he's hard to beat. Very good.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I like this setup for the main event here. It
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: puts Roy's Keys in a prime position on the show,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: his first main event since coming SmackDown. It's a fresh
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: match that we haven't seen before. It's two big guys
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: getting in the ring and beating each other up, gun
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: through against Roy's key. So I like that, you know what.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I also like that because it means no Solo, Socoa
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: or MFTs or any of the bloodlined lore. We kept
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it out of the main event this week. We had
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: two people that had nothing to do with any of
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that in the main event. That was refreshing. That was nice.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: So I like that. Speaking of which, we go backstage.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: The Condemned. The Condemned wasn't a bad movie. The Marine
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: five still marining? Yes? How many? How many Marine movies
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: were there? Because I know Mis was in a few
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: of them, right, was he? Jake Cage was that his name?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Mis was in at least two of them. I know
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: that I'm not hard to find, I'm hard to beat.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Shut the fuck up. So we go backstage. Soakoa is
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: there with his MFTs and they're while they're they're talking
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: amongst each other around the television set, and Solo says
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: that the tag team titles can wait. He asks if
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Tomatanga understands the assignment for tonight, our truth is not
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: clear to wrestle now. Originally they had announced a tag
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: team match. It was gonna be Damian Priesse and our
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Truth I think against the MFTs. And then we found
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: out that our Truth was not medically cleared, which I
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: believe is a legitimate thing, and so it changed to
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a singles match. I don't I mean, I suppose the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: whole thing could be an angle, but originally it was
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: supposed to be a tag team match. So he said,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Tomatanga there for tonight needs to take out Damian Priest
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: one on one solo and Talatanga. They had out to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: go find Royce keys because You're like, I'm gonna go
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: find keys, So they leave. Tomatonga is still standing there,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: which of course means that in the shadows here he
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: comes Shinsky, Knackhem and old Pinske walks in to chat
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: with Tomatanga. He doesn't really have a whole lot to
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: say before he gets attacked by Talatanga, who says, I
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: warned you to stay away from him, and he picks
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: him up and he choke slams him through a table
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and that was the end of that. After a break,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: nick All, this is going at it verbally with Gunther
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: in the back, who's a madman over what just happened.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: It's my title match and all this again, he reiterates that, look,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: you overplayed your hand. Now you're gonna have to earn it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes one on one with No No No, that
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: was earlier in the show. Carmelo Hayes did not go
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: one on one with with Bribella, but thank you Venom Kaitetsu.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I think though, I think Mellow would be able to
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: find a way to make that match watchable though, But
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I will say if I had to sit here and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: watch Carmelo Hayes sel for Bribella doing the yes kicks,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I would quit. That was it. That would be it
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: for me. I would stop watching wrestling. My heart couldn't
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: take that. But yeah, Carmelo Hayes against Ricky Saints, It's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: about time he got Mellow back on TV. It was
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: good to see him back now. Late in the match,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Hayes attempted at first forty eight Saints blocked it and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: he hit him with this high angle driver that looked
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: like he just spiked him right down on his head. Thankfully,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: at the last minute he did tuck his head so
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: it was safe. But like upon impact, I think even
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the announcers reacted in such a way, like, oh my god,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it looked bad when he first did, and I'm sure
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: that's something that some of them probably said something to
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: him about after, I would imagine. So then the match
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: was interrupted and this was wild. He got Hayes I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: think like a chinlock or reverse chinlock, whatever it was.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And they interrupt this match with a preview for the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: new Brendan Fraser movie Pressure, which I just saw a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: preview of it actually before before the movie Obsession tonight.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: It's about the seventy two hours leading up to D Day.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: If you were wondering what the movie is about, because
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: we heard audio, but there was no video. So I'm
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: looking at Ricky Sayin's and Carmelo Hayes in the ring
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: in a rest hold, and I'm hearing a fucking movie preview.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I'm listening to someone talking about fucking D Day and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: these two men around the mat in the ring. There's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: no video. I just hear audio. I have no idea
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: what this was about. I have no idea what the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: purpose of this was other than just a piss me
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: off in the middle of this match. Here, so Saints
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: hit Hayes with a boot to the face, followed by
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a rebound back suplex for a two count. Saints was
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: very frustrated, so he went for his revolution DDT. Hayes
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: was able to counter that turned it into the first
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: forty eight, only for a close near fall. So Mellow
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: was struggling as he got back up to the top
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: rope and he missed nothing but net. Saints followed with
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the revolution DDT. Hayes, though, was able to kick out
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: at the last second, so Saints he went for Roe Chambeau.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He couldn't get it, so he shoved Hayes into the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: corner shoulder first and then he took him down. He
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: tried to get the pin using the foot on the ropes.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Charles Robinson, though at the last second he spotted him
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and he stopped the count. Saints was arguing with the referee.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Hay snuck up and rolled them up and he counted one.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: He counted two, and then Hayes gave him a taste
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of his own medicine, and this time the referee did
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: not see it. He put his feet on the ropes
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and he got the rope assisted pin to defeat Ricky Saints. Uh.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: These are the kinds matches that I would like to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: see more of on this show. I want to see
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: more Carmelo Hayes in general, but him against the newcomer
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: like Ricky Saints. This is what I mean. This is
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a fresh match, right, This is this is what the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: future of SmackDown should look like in the months to come,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: as they call up these new faces and you get
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: them in there with guys who can actually go out
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: there and have a quality match on the show. And
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: so I thought this was this was solid. There's a
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: rock solid match here, Saints. I will say Ricky Saints
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: is now one for three since being called up to
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the main roster. He lost to Cody Rhodes, he beat
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Matt Cardona, and here he lost to Carmelo Hayes. So
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: that's going to have to change at some point, right, Nothing,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: nothing too alarming yet, but that can't keep up for
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: much longer. But good for Carmelo Hayes, you know, he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: comes back with a win. My hope, my hope here
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: is that they establish him again as a contender in
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the US time picture very soon, or I should say
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: re established, because they had done a pretty good job
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: of letting him go out there and establish himself on
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the show, and then he just vanished. So I feel
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: like now it's almost like you're not that you're starting
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: from scratch, but now you kind of got to start
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: from the beginning and get him to a point where,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: all right, you get him in a program with Trick
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Williams or or whatever they have in mind for I'm
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: not even sure what else he would be doing. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: then Ilia dragonov is another one where he doesn't have
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: to be wrestling for the US title right now. But
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: let's get him back on TV as well. Let's get
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: him back in the mix. I'm watching this show every
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: single week, as you know, right, I do these reviews
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: every week. I watch Raw, I watch SmackDown. We talk
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: about the main shows. You can't talk about what's going
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: on with the WWE product and not follow what's happening
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: on Raw and SMACKDWN. This is what the people who
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: always come at me with these dumbass comments don't understand. Well,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: if you don't like SmackDown, why do you stop watching SmackDown? Okay, sure,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I'll just stop doing the podcast. How about that? This
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: is why I do. We watch the shows. You get
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: good shows, you get bad shows. Unfortunately for all of
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: us who watch these fucking shows. The Friday night show
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: has been worse than the Monday night show, and it's
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: been bad more often than good. It doesn't mean that
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: they don't have the ability to reverse that at some point.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: That's what we're all hoping for, so that one day
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I'll be able to come on here and say, holy shit,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: we got a really good episode of SmackDown tonight, or wow,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that was the best SmackDown all year. And you keep
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: hoping every week that goes by, this is gonna be
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the week. This is going to be the week. I'm
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: still waiting, right, but at some point you hope it's
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: gonna come. But Ron SmackDown are the two key shows
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: of the week. You got to keep up with what's
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: going on if you want to know what's going on
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: with the key stories on the show. Yeah, that's just
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the reality of it. And Carmelo Hayes and ili You
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: dragon of were two of the best parts of SmackDown
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: from months from months. This show is demonstrably worse without
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: them on the show. So we got Hayes back, Now,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: let's get Dragonov back in the mix. Unless he's dealing
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: with an injury that we're not aware of. To my knowledge,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I've heard nothing about him being hurt. Let's get him
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: back on the show, Let's get him reestablished, and then
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: at some point in the not too distant future, I
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: hope maybe we could even get him in there with Gunther.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Which is one of the parts about Gunther being on
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: SmackDown that I love is that it puts him in
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Ilia Dragonov on the same brand. But this show is
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: demonstrably worse since they've been banished from SmackDown. When was
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the last good or great SmackDown? Don't ask me. I
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: have no idea. I have no idea. This is the
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: show has been shit for much of twenty twenty six.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: In the back the Not Medically Cleared, Our Truth is
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: all smiles and he finds Royce Keys and he thanks
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: him for last week, and he invites Keys to join
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: the Judgment Day and Key says, uh, I'll think about it.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: So Damien pre shows up as Keys walks off, and
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Truth says he invited Keys to join Judgment Day two
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: thousand with them. Hm. Yeah, there was a period of
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: time where all you would need to do is just
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: add two thousand to the end of something, and it's
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: supposed to make it sound cool nWo two thousand Judgment
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Day two that DX two thousand, just add two thousand
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: to the end of it, add two thousand to the
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: ed of it. Or in certain names, if you replace
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the eye with a Y. I guess that's also supposed
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: to be cool. China with a Y. What was the
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: other one? There was one inn Wcwall, So it was
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: one of the females. It was I think it was
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: one of the females in w CW. It was a
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: very similar thing. Replace the eye with a Y and
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be cool, or put a Z at
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the end of it instead of an S. The Dudley Boys,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the Hardy Boys. Doesn't that sound cool? Oh Man? Anyway,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Priest doesn't trust Roy's keys yet. You know, he's been
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: hanging around and Solo so Co is around, and he
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: just doesn't trust this guy. So he warns Truth to
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: be careful. Priest told Truth, look, you can't be at
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: ringsides tonight because you're not medically cleared. He said, whatever
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: happens is going to happen, but at least I know
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: that you'll be back here and you'll be safe. Oh Asia, Yes,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Asia is Asia or Medesia Madesia was one of Scott
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Steiner's freaks, I believe right as he called them. Yeah,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to change, I'm gonna change the name of the podcast
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to Slabonster Sounds with a Z off. It's gonna be
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: so much cooler. Hey, lost dil Before I go on,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I should thank lost dill Man. Lost Dell just came
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: in with a fifty dollars gunhar bomb. And you know
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: what for fifty dollars gunhar bomb. We're not gonna wait.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: We're gonna read what he has to say right now.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Twenty minutes behind. But if I hear Joe Hendry's entrance
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: music still hasn't been played for the live TV audience,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to lose it. Thank you for watching so
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I don't have to and acknowledge your tribal chief. Yeah,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Joe Hendry has just been randomly appearing. Joe Henry doesn't
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: even get an entrance on TV. His entrance in song
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: is basically the whole gimmick. It's kind of weird. He
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: did say though, that he just recorded an entire album
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: of songs through WWE that will be released this summer.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: So as long as deaf Rebel had nothing to do
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: with the actual you know, writing and producing of the music.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Then I have semi high hopes for this. Apparently he's
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: got a whole album. Who was this person, by the way,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: who just came out? Apparently I saw something on social media.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Somebody came out today or yesterday with three albums at once?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: What is this nonsense that I was reading about three
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: albums at once? Who was that? Who does that? But
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Dan Housen is in the back and he's again in
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: his evil science lab with the cloning machine behind him,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: and he said, now for something even bigger and better,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and he wheeled in a stretcher with a man under
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: a tarp like a dead body, I guess, and typed
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: away on his big computer and he hit the enter
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: key and sparks flew. And so he's trying to revive somewhat.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: He should try to revive this dead show. Maybe it
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: was SmackDown on to the tarp. Good luck with that.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Speaking of dead Damian Priest against Tomatonga, it was Drake.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: See I thought it was somebody else. So why would
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Drake release three albums at once? What is the point
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: of that? What is the purpose of releasing three albums
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: at once? How many songs is that? It's that like
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: thirty songs. It's got to be a joke, it's got
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: to be a rib I don't think that's true. I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: think it's all bullshit. And anyway, Damian Priest against Tomatonga.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: So after a break there was a priest shoulder tackle
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: outside that sent tom of flying over the announced desk.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Priest rolled Toma back inside. He had it up top
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and Toma ran towards him and Priest slipped and crouched
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: himself on the top turn buckle before he even got there,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: which did not look fun. Forty five songs. Oh, he's
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: getting out of his record deal. Forty five songs. The
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: question is are any of them good? But anyway, I
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: ended up working out okay for Damian Priest in the end.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Let's fast forward to the end of this, shall we
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: The straps came down the south of Heaven hit and
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Damien Priest won the end. So Priest was slow to
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: get to his feet but he got hit kind of
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: not really they really they did these guys dirty with
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: this camera angle because it was clear the boot didn't connect.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: But Tala Tonga mowed him down with a big boot
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: and he was joined in the ring by Solo. Sokoa
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Tala then picked up Priest and shoved him towards Solo,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: who dropped him with a Samoan spike, riveting stuff. I
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: don't care about this. As you can tell, I don't
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: care about this. I don't care about the tag team titles.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: They have killed tag team wrestling in this company. So
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: fuck these people. I don't care about their tag titles
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: on Raw, I don't care about their tag titles on SmackDown.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: There is no division, There is no purpose or reason
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: behind any of this. I don't care to see the
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: MFTs continue to go after the tag team titles. The
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: MFTs are barely even the thing anymore. They went from
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: five to three. It needs to go from three to
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: zero and let these guys go do something else. So
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying get rid of them. I'm just saying
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: enough of this, enough of this. I watched Damian Priest
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: out there, and it's sad. Like it is sad. The
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: fall off is sad. In the react, people are apathetic
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: towards him when he is out there. They don't care,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: they don't care. Library silent for the vast majority of
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: this match, nobody cares, but this is like this stuff
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: when I see this and the MFTs after the tag
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: team titles and priests and truth, like this is consistently
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the worst part of the show every week. Like this
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: is the part of the show that like, if I could,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I would just hit the fast forward button. And I
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: never would have said that before about Damian Priest. I
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: have nothing against Damian Priest. I would say sad. It's
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: sad to see where he was and where he is
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: now and how did we get here? You know, I
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: know he missed a good chunk of time last year.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: He had a bad back and they were trying to
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: look out for him and they were like, you're going
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: to take time, like they forced him to take time
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: off and so that hurt him a little bit not
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: being around as much. But that's no excuse. This is
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: a guy who at one point was I would say,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: a pretty major character on the television show on Mondays.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: But ever since he got moved to Fridays, man, it's
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: like it's two totally different people. It's like it's not
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: even the same guy. Now we go to the back,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Samy's ain't is sitting there complaining and venting to somebody
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: who we can't see, and then the camera pans over
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and it is depressed Johnny Gargano, who was still laying
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: their comatose, eyes wide open, catatonic, and Sammy is talking
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: about how, man, you know, wrestling, wrestling used to be
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: grea at wrestling. Hey, he was shooting here. Wrestling used
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: to be great. What happened to wrestling? I asked myself
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: that question every fucking week when I watch this show.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: What happened? What happened? I mean, look, I love the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Vault channel on YouTube. Okay, I'm subscribed and it's got
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: like four million subscribers. I'm not the only one, but
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: it's it's unavoidable, like when new videos get posted and
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: shit pops up, because it's like a it's a mix
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: of different stuff. I say, the Vault, it's not just
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: like eighty stuff. It's stuff from the twenty tens and
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the two thousand's and the nineties and the eighties, and
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: like there'll be some SmackDown stuff that pops up, so
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: even that I like, it'll pop up and I'm like, man,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: what happened? How did we go from that to this?
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: How is this even the same company? How is this
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the same product. How is this a lot of the
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: same people, you know, bry Pritchard and Hayes and lovec.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I mean it's I know Vince isn't there, But my god, Like,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: what the hell happened here? I ask myself that question
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: every week. Me and Sammy, we we share a lot
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: in common here. We probably have a conversation about this.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Candice Leray comes over and she says, this isn't helping Johnny.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: She wants she wants a better husband. She doesn't want
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: a husband that's just gonna lay around like this, and
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: she walks off, and Sammy says, Johnny doesn't need to
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: listen to the noise. Remember who he is. You can't
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: let anybody take that away from you. What is the
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: point of this? Johnny Gargano has been laying comatose on
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: a cart for it has to be six months, months months?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: What what is the point of this? Like? Is this
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: still supposed to be funny? I mean there are some
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: people who probably didn't find it funny to begin with.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: It was at least somewhat amusing. It ain't amusing anymore. Like,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: what are we doing here? What are we doing? I
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: get it, okay, I understand, the man lost his tag
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: team partner and then they fired the MotorCity machine guns,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: so now he's all by himself. If there was going
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: to be some sort of payoff to this with the
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: machine guns, right, that went out the window. I get it,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: But like, is he literally gonna lay there until his
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: contract runs Is that the idea that he's just gonna
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: lay there every week until his contract runs out and
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: then he'll even go to AW. It is very enticing
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the thought of a tag team division that has the
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Young Bucks, FTR Cope and Christian, the MotorCity machine Guns.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: If they sign the New Day, if they sign Champion Gargath,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: they already have Champa Champion Gargano. That's not even all
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: of them. But can you imagine, Now that's one hell
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: of a tag team division. And I'm not one of
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: these people like everybody should go to AW, but I mean,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: my come on, like, if he becomes if he becomes available,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: it's just it's it's just such a no brainer. It's
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: just like a fucking gimme. It's a layup? Is that
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the goal here? Let's just let's just kill time until
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: his contract is up. I don't know, I really I don't.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: I don't, you know, there's no reason that Johnny Gargano
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: should not be contributing to the mid card on this
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: show in some way. Are they in fact building to
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: something with him and Sammy? Are they gonna be partners?
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Are they gonna are they gonna wrestle? Because look, when
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: the moment comes if we assume that the moment will
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: come where Johnny all of a sudden he responds, right,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: he sits up, and it'll get a pop and that'll
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: be it, right, that'll be it. If we even get that,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not even convinced that we're going to get that.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: But like, where is there an end goal to this?
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Do they have an idea in mind? And if they do,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: can we please fast forward this because we've already had
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: six months of this. Were Jade and her baddies on
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: the way to the ring for a promo. Jade says
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: that she's taking the title back in Italy and then
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: she starts rambling on and on, and I'm like, I
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: just wrote my notes. This is tough to watch. I mean,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: she was out there at one point, actually two different points.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I think she was out there asking people basically for heat,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: like she was saying she wanted heat from the crowd.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: She wasn't getting a whole lot of it. She got
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit of it, she wasn't getting as much,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I think as she wanted to. Charlotte Flair interrupts, followed
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: by Alexa Bliss because they're going to be taking on
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Meat and Befab tonight, and they both have microphones and
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: they are talking on their way down to the ring,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: and Charlotte says that no one wants to hear Jade talk,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and Bliss says that this is Flair Country. Last week,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Jade finally pissed Charlotte off, so let's play, and Jade
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: calls them the backup dancers because Ria Ripley is the
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: main show. Bliss says that Jade's backup dancers can't even
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: make Jade look good, so Jade calls for a referee
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and she warns that I'm getting bored of the two
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: of you. Yeah, I was pretty bored by this myself.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: This was bad. This is a bad segment. After a break,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: we also got a reminderr that Blake Monroe is coming soon.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Supposedly she could make her debut on the show as
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: early as next week, so if it's not next week,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: very likely by the week after she but she is,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: she is coming. She is coming. Charlotte Flair and Alexa
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Bliss against Meechin and BFAB. If Charlotte was not on
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: offense in this match, and then outside of the one
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: moment where Alexa was teasing the sister Abigail DDT, nobody cared. Nobody,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: like nobody in this crowd could be bothered to care
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: about anything else that was going on in this match,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and Jade was at ringside. She just sat out there
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: and observed Flare at one point counter to roll up
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: into a pretty bad figure for Bliss, blind tagged in,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: BFAB ended up falling to the sister Abigail DDT. But
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: then Jade yanks Alexa out of the ring and the
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: referee throws the match out, So we got a cheap
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: dq finish here. Charlotte, she took care of Meechin and
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: b Fab. The crowd was chanting for Rhea, who wasn't
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: even there, and Jade ended up staring down and Charlotte
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: to close out the segment. And then we found out
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: a little later on that just added to Saturday night's
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: main event, not tomorrow, but a week from tomorrow, Rhea Ripley,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss will take on Jade Cargill,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Meechen and BFAB, so that is now official for that show. Meanwhile,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: in the back, Fatal Influence is watching all of this
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: on TV. Kathy Kelly shows up to talk to them,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: and Fallon Henley says that we're at the top of
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: the food chain, and Laney Reid is talking about how
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: there's so much better than the other teams, and jac
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Jaane is talking about loyalty and we're gonna get all
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: the gold and pretty basic promo here. Then in the back,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Royce Keys is getting ready for his main event and
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Solo's Socoa, yet again, is here to annoy this man.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Solo says he can help Keys become the champion. They
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: can run smack Down together and he would hate to
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: see what happened to Nakamora happened to Royce Keys. That
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: line pissed off Keys. He says, I got this, and
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Solo says, okay, but Jacob Fatu said the same thing true,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: And now Jacob Fatu is actually on Raw, killing Roman
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Reigns and challenging for the world heavyweight Championship. Meanwhile, Solo
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Sokoa on this show has lost half his crew and
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: he spends most of his time backstage, So maybe pipe
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: down a little bit. Maybe this is not the best
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: person to be making an offer to Royce Keys. I
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: don't think Solo Soko is the best messenger here. I
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: don't know why Royce Keys would even be giving this
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: man the time of day. Now, they announced an unbelievable
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: match for SmackDown next week. I mean, I am, I am.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: I'm very depressed that I will not be here next
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: week to see this match live. I may I may
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: have to talk to somebody this week just to have
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: a shoulder to cry on, because I'm very disappointed that
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: I won't be here to see it. Next week on SmackDown.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: It will be Shinski Nakamora one on one with Taalatonga.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: There it is. I mean, has there been a bigger
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: match all year on SmackDown. I don't know about you, guys.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I'm bummed I ain't gonna be here to see that
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: barn Burner next week. But that's the one match that's
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: been confirmed for SmackDown next week. I'm sure you will
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: all enjoy Shinsk and Taalatanga. Next week, enjoy the main
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: event Gunther one on one with Royce Keys. This was
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: only Keys's fourth match on SmackDown and he is already
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: in the main event. We got a test of strength
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: here to kick things off between these two big. Keys
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: was not backing down. A little bit later on, he
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: got gun Through up for the British Bulldog power Slam
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Running Power Slam. Gunher ended up leaving the ring and
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I guess he wanted to get a breather. Keys was like,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think so, so he followed him outside. He
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: hurled Gunther over the announced desk. A little later on,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Keys was thrown out of the ring by Gunther. Gunther
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: attempted a big boot from the apron. Keys though caught
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: him and he picked him up, and he slammed him
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: two or three times. Then was three times on top
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: of the announced desk, so back inside. Gunther climbed to
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: the top, but got sent back down with a superplex
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: by Keys for a near fall. Gunh there caught him
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: by surprise though in a sleeper hold, and he brought
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: him down solo Socoa. All of a sudden magically appears
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: at ringside. He's there to root on Royce Keys. He's
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: cheering him on, come on, well, come on well. And
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Solo's appearance causes a little bit of a distraction here
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: for Gunther. So Keys was able to escape the sleeper
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: hold dropped him with a clothesline, but again he found
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: himself in the sleeper Again. Keys managed to free himself
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: and he pounced him. But he pounced Gunther backwards into
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the referee. Down goes the ref. So we got a
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: ref bump here. It is see everyone in this chat
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: is blown away by how big of a match that
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: is for next week. Like I'm just like, of all
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: the things that they could announce a week out to
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: get people really excited for smackdowns, that's the one thing
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: they announced. She's incredible, incredible to me. So the ref
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: is down. Solo Sekela goes under the ring. He retrieves
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: a chair, slides it into the ring right at the
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: feet of Royce Keys. He wants him to use the chair,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: go ahead, blast him with it, hit him with it,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: and Keys picks up the chair. He's got a big
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: smile on his face and he decides I don't need it,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: and he chucks the chair right at Solo's head and
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Solo goes down, but Gunther is already up and Royce
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Keys has no idea and so unfortunately for him, this
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: distraction proved to be his downfall. As soon as he
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: turned around, he got clotheslined and then Gunther power bombed
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: him with the stack and he got the pin to
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: punch his ticket to Italy, and so we all knew
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: where this was going. This only confirmed Gunther. Cody rhoads,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: that is one of your mainument I can't even say
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: the main event, one of your main events. If guntherro
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: is winning the championship, then it should be the main
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: event at Clash in Italy. Cody Roads against Gunther, so
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Gunher after the match, he goes right up to the camera,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: the camera guy in the corner, and he like really
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: up close, and he grabs the camera and he's speaking
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: into the camera. He's yelling into the camera at Cody.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes comes up from behind though, and he puts
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: him in position for a Crossroads and he drops gun
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: through with Crossroads, and that is how the show went
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: off the air. I will say this, I thought the
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: match was solid for the most part. I mean it
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: dragged a little bit there, but I enjoyed the main
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: event for the most part. It was good to see
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Royce Keys in a prime position, and not just a
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: prime position. I mean he was in what three, three
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: or four I guess four technically, right, four segments on
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: this show. He came out to initially try to sign
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: the contract right, which led to the main event being made.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: He was approached by Our Truth in the Back, and
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: then later on he was approached by Solo Sokoa, and
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: then he was in the main event. And so when
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: it comes to these shows, like that's more important than
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: anything that would have happened in the main event on it.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you would have beaten gun through, that
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: would have been pretty big. But like it's the amount
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: of time they're dedicating to you, and so for him,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: that's a good sign. And hopefully we'll get to see
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: more of that, and hopefully he'll get more and more over.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: I just remember, like Carmelo Hayes when he first got
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: called up to smack them right the number one draft pick,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: and then they proceeded to do practically nothing with him,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: and he just sort of meandered around on the show
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: for like a year doing nothing but eventually, when they
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: let him go out there and just work, what do
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: you know, the guy got himself over. So it's not
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: like some of these guys now that aren't getting big reactions.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say Royce keys is getting big reactions. Ricky
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Saints not getting a lot of reactions yet over time, right,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: it all depends on the booking here. That's why I say, like,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Ricky Saints can't keep losing. He's one for three, but
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: he just debuted. Right for now, it's okay, but this
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: can't continue on for much longer. The guy's got to win.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Royce keys Man just keep putting him in positions like
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: this where he can be featured. He's rubbing shoulders with
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Gun Three's rubbing shoulders with Cody Rhodes, right, that's the
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: sort of thing that they should be doing with him.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll see more of that now. The downside
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: of this is that it means he's about to be
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: sucked into the mft's vortex and he's gonna be working
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: with Solo, Soco and the MFTs.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: The good news is he didn't join them, so at
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: least we know he's not joining with them, But him
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: being involved with them or feuding with them. That sounds
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: pretty fucking awful to me. But I guess it's something
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: for him to do, and so let's let's see where
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: it goes. Let's see where it goes. This SmackDown was
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: much like all the other ones. I can cherry pick
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: a couple of things, two, three things maybe on a
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: three hour show that I genuinely enjoyed, and the rest
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: of it was just filler. The rest of it was
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: very boring, very dull. It's it's just it's awful. It's
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: just awful. There's just nothing. There's nothing with this show.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: There's no life with this show. It's it's just a
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: very boring watch. I look at some of the people
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: they have on this roster. I'm like, how it takes
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: a special talent to take some of the talent that
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: they have and actually create an environment where I just
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: don't care about them. I don't care about most of
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: the people on this show, and it shouldn't be that way.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: I keep hoping they'll come out of this rut. I'll
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: tune in one week and it'll just be like, Wow,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: this show has a different feel to it. This is
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: kind of nice. Then I keep waiting, and I keep
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: hoping and hoping and hoping, and I get nothing. I
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: get nothing. Going to two hours will help because it'll
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: be one hour or less of this, but it's not
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: gonna make the show better. They have to do that.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Only they have the power to do that. All we
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: can do is hope. That's all we can do. Death's side,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: one of Obafemi's open challenge opponents needs to be shamous
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: and they should go for twenty minutes, hopefully during a
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: commercial free hour. Yeah. I just don't know what his
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: injury status is, but that would be awesome. That's what
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping for. What a great surprise that would be
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: if we heard his og music. The problem is that
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: they're gonna hit his shitty, generic ass Irish music that
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: def Rebel did, and no one's even gonna like what
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: is that? Right until he actually walks out. Then he'll
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: get a pop. It's too bad that his music sucks. Now,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: they don't seem to really give a shit. They're aware
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: of the problem, They're aware of the fact that many
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: of their own talents don't like their entrance music, and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: they don't give a shit. Alexandra thoughts on Mustafa said
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: making a comeback in TNA. I didn't watch the show
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: because f that noise, but I saw the clips online
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: and it said he is still around. Yeah, I don't
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: know what that's about. I mean, guy, how old he's
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: gonna be? What sixty is shit? At this point one
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: half of the Gangsters. I don't know what he's doing there.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that's about. Dry Chicken says I'm
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: gonna need a cold ice bath after seeing Chelsea Green,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton, and Kathy Kelly. Calm down, Dry Chicken, take
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: a cold shower. He's sixty two, sixty two years old?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: But why did he suddenly pop up in TNA though?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: What was the reason for it? It's just so random.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Broley Keana turns on Julia on SmackDown Italy on June fifth. Okay,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: so SmackDown is in Italy on June fifth, so that's
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: where that's where it's gonna happen. Then, yeah, she's not
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: I was gonna said, like, she's not gonna be on
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: the pl at this point. What match would she even
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: be in? Doesn't make any sense. If they have TV
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: in Italy, they could do it there. It was a
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: cameo in a Battle Royal. All right, So basically Tommy
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Dreamer got one of his old ECW buddies a payday
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: in a Battle Royal. Dry Chicken, Oh, Jackson Junior. Maybe
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: has motivated Triple As to do better with the show. No, no,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: he hasn't. It's the same old shit fast Eddie solo.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: At this point, divorce has to be on the table
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: for Johnny Gargano. I think divorce needs to be on
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: the table for him and WWE so he can get
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: his career back. That's what I think. This guy's showing
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: up the television, flying, flying across the country every week
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: to land a fucking crate. I don't under I mean, look,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: I'm glad he kept his job, but like again, to
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: go back to those releases a few weeks ago and
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: what makes sense and what doesn't make sense. Explain to
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: me how someone like a Kyrie Saying, who is in
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: the middle of a pretty key storyline on the television show,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: is released from her contract, but Johnny Gargana, who has
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: no discernible story whatsoever and is paid to show up
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: every week to lay on a crate, he's still there. Again,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I would love to know what goes into making these
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: decisions that are made, because they don't seem to make
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense to me death side. If
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: they insist on keeping CM Punk on Raw, then he
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: should have a program with La Knight. It's not like
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: they're doing anything with him. Yes, they're babyfaces, but when
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: has that ever stopped them? Sure, I still think he
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: should end up on SmackDown. But if he stays on Raw,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: I mean that's fine, he says. After all, Punk was
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: feuding with Seth when he was a babyface until Seth
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: turned a heel. No, you could definitely do it. Chris
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: barr Is with a nine ninety nine. He's dropping bars
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: here tonight. Tonight could have been worse. It really could have.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: I've been watching you for about two years solo, first
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: time i've super chatted. I do love your show. Well,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: I love to hear that. Thank you, thank you, Chris. Oh,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: it could always be worse. It doesn't mean that it's good,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: but it could always be worse, which is kind of
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: scary when you think about it. We got Scatman seventy nine.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the dollar ninety nine. John Sterneker with
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: a four ninety nine SmackDown was an okay show, saying
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: it loosely. Have you heard of Jericho's fan video strange
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: Kentucky people? What what does that mean? His fan strange
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Kentucky people. I don't know. I don't know what that is.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: Zach Black with a ten dollars super chat. It's been
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: a while, man. I'm glad to be back on a
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: schedule that enables me to catch your show live again.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: I would have to recommend Mortal Kombat too, and also
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: Hokum for completely different reasons. That's another horror movie. I
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: think that came out this month or is coming out
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: this month, and I don't know too much about that one,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: but let me know if that's something that's worth seeing
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: or if you think it's something I would enjoy. I'm
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: actually thinking about Passenger, but I don't know when I
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: would see it. I got House of Glory next Friday,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: and we got the back rooms of the week after
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: so many movies coming out, some quality horror films, Wallace
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: has just saw Obsessed Yesterday day. Highly disturbing. It is
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: very disturbing. It's unnerving. It's like it's one of those
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: movies where you watch it and I mean there's definitely
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: some some jump scare moments in there, but you watch
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: it and you're just kind of like on edge the
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: entire time, like you're stressed out the entire time. It's
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a wild movie. But I would highly
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: recommend it if you're into if you're into horror, I
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: would highly recommend it. Uh Wallace says Little People's Court
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: in nine was better than this shit. Yeah, it was
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Devin from NJ I House of Glory had a mascot.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: Would it be a hog? Well, I guess it would
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: have to be, wouldn't it. It only makes sense it
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: would be my hug venom Ktetsu twenty five dollars twenty
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: five dollars pre mode. Will you be checking in on
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: or watching the MVP fights tomorrow? Haven't had Netflix in
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: years myself, but decided nine bucks isn't bad to watch
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Rousey and Coronto alone. I also have a crush on
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Ronda Happy Friday. Yeah, I'm gonna be checking out at
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: least their fight. I know the show starts at nine,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: and I think they're going to the cage at eleven,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: so I am planning on tuning in at least for that. Also,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: don't forget Godzilla minus zero in November. Have you seen
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: the trailer yet? Yeah, with the New York at the end, right, yeah,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: I saw the trailer. Yeah, I saw minus minus one, Right, yeah,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: I saw minus one. So I'll have to see this one,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Godzilla in New York, bass Bears. I tell you what,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: I was very sad though to hear that Masters of
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: the Universe is coming out in a few weeks, big
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: three weeks June fifth, I believe, is when the movie
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: comes out, and I was planning I am planning on
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: checking it out, but I was I was sorry to
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: see the early projections and tracking for the movie is
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: like a twenty five million dollar opening weekend, which on
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: a budget of two hundred million dollars is not good.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: I hope it does well. It's not tracking well, but
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: there's still time. There's still time to change things around.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Bass Barras says a dream match that no one talks
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: about is Eddie versus HBK. Plenty of people have talked
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: about it. Everyone incorrectly says that was the plan for
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania twenty two. Was never actually planned for WrestleMania twenty two,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: but I hear people mentioned that match quite often actually
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: lost Dill with the nine ninety nine. Hendri has been
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: officially on TV for three weeks, no entrance music and
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: be the booker round two hopefully, he says, well, we
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: are one away from the bonus goal, so I would
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: say there's a fairly good chance that that will happen here.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: But let's go through the rest of these. Arabian Night
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: two thousand, Arabian Night, he said, you know what, Arabian Night.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: We didn't even know it. Arabian Night is the trendsetter here.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: He's got two thousand in his name. What's cooler than
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Arabian Night. Arabian Night two thousand, says, is Ilia still employed?
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: This company doesn't deserve his talents. He's a wrestling focused
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: star and a company that doesn't prioritize in ring. He
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: should go to aw Yes, he is still employed, and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: I hope that they will get him back on TV
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: very soon. And I will simply counter that by saying,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Gunther is also a wrestling focused star and he's in
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: a pretty good spot. So even in a company that
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: does not prioritize in ring in the way that maybe
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: other companies do, it is not correct to say that
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: a wrestling focused performer cannot get over at a high level.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: They just have to want to push that person and
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: put their muscle behind them. They've done it with gun Through,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: there's no reason they can't do it with someone like Ilia.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not even saying he has to be in like
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: the Gunther spot, but like, get him on the show
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: and let's get him in the mix. He brings an
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: intensity that the show lacks. If anything, he's probably over intense.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: But that's what makes him unique, right, He's not just
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: a really good wrestler again, he just brings this intensity
• 1:12:02
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• 1:12:05
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  Speaker 1: has maybe two or three feuds a year in this company.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: What do they say, Brolly, You gotta you gotta let him,
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  Speaker 1: cook for a couple of years. Uh huh. I don't
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: know why I sell my macho man. Rep. Morgan says,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: I laugh every time I hear Breeze theme. I always
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: think of that time you forced yourself to listen to
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: it on repeat while you got your medical skill. Yes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: believe me. I I remember it very well in the
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: uh whatever it was, the MRI machine, the MRI tube.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: Don't move, you can't move, but we'll play what music
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: do you want to listen? To? Play it off my
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: Spotify playlist from my phone. We could do whatever you want.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: They play it over the speaker, but you can't move.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: There's like wrestling songs randomized in some playlist and fucking
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: remode comes on and like you just picture like a
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: single tear drop coming down my face, like something out
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: of a horror movie. What do they call that stuff?
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: It's it's there's a condition. They actually had a movie.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: I think Jessica Albo was the star, and I forget
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: the name of it. But it's a real condition. It's
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: very scary where your body is basically paralyzed but you're awake,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: but you can't move. That's what that reminded me of. EJ. Slimp.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Twenty years ago today, Terry Funk told Mick Foley on
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: Raw that WW the w W E sucks. I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that that he was saying all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: horror about Foley and his kids and his family and
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  Speaker 1: that promo. But it was when he told him the
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  Speaker 1: double yea double yue sucks. That was too far and
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  Speaker 1: that's when Foley hit him. I remember that that was
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  Speaker 1: heading into One night Stand. Right. Six truer words he
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  Speaker 1: says have never been spoken more relevant today. Funk was
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  Speaker 1: a genius. Well, it's funny you mentioned that there was
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  Speaker 1: actually a sign in the crowd on SmackDown tonight that
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: said Terry Funk is a god. Sleep paralysis. Yes, that's
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: a real thing, that's a real condition. Okay, the movie
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  Speaker 1: was called Awake. Yeah, that is That is one movie
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  Speaker 1: I did not see. Alexander. Hopefully Julia gets a match
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  Speaker 1: at Clash in Italy. She won't lost. Dill. I understand
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  Speaker 1: it made good TV. But if Gunther signs the contract,
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  Speaker 1: what does all this do for the main events? Lol,
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  Speaker 1: be the booker. It's a very good question. Had Gunther
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  Speaker 1: actually signed the contract, what would our main event have been?
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  Speaker 1: Probably something with Solo Soca Solo Soca again. Shinsky Nakimora
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  Speaker 1: would have been our main event tonight. And yes, we
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  Speaker 1: hit the bonus goal. Let him know, Leo. All I
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  Speaker 1: want is Keana on her own preferably as a baby
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  Speaker 1: face on a singles run winning matches. Is that too
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  Speaker 1: much to ask with this administration, Yes, it is. I
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  Speaker 1: do think that they have plans to elevate her. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know it was a baby face, though I still
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  Speaker 1: feel like Julia, if anything, would be the baby face
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  Speaker 1: when they split, and Keanu would be the heel. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, though I don't know. I still I do
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  Speaker 1: feel that way, though I feel like Julia would be
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  Speaker 1: the babyface, Keana would still be the heel. Los Dey'll
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  Speaker 1: give me a reason to renew my membership, Solo be
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  Speaker 1: the booker new content is what I mean? You want more?
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  Speaker 1: He wants more. He wants more. I should do another
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  Speaker 1: RSPW re one. Maybe we'll set that as another super
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  Speaker 1: check goal soon. I just need time to sift through
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  Speaker 1: all of the links that I still have for the
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  Speaker 1: next batch of posts. E J Slimp, My mount rushmore
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  Speaker 1: of funniest wrestling personalities, Heenan Santino, Our Truth, Eddie Honorable Mention, Yoshihiko.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like the list? I mean, it's it's okay,
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  Speaker 1: of course is on there Santino. I can see Santino,
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  Speaker 1: But where's Kurt Angle. How do you not have Kurt
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  Speaker 1: Angle on that list? You gotta have Kurt Angle. Also
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: buy or sell Sena versus Dooring or Tana Hashi versus
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  Speaker 1: Sylvan Granier two legends who retired last year versus random
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: guys that I love for no reason. I mean, I mean,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: he gives a shit about Sylvan Granier. But it's Tana Hashi,
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  Speaker 1: so you know he can make that into something good.
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  Speaker 1: Probably Sena Enduring. Yeah, I'll go Sena Dooring. I guess
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  Speaker 1: Bass Bears They Live is so good. Remember the fight scene.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best fight scene in movie history. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I remember it. Roddy Piper and Keith David out in
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  Speaker 1: the alley. It is a classic. It has become a
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  Speaker 1: cult classic over the years. It wasn't at the time,
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  Speaker 1: but as the years have gone by, it's become a
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  Speaker 1: cult classic. Let's see what else we have here before
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  Speaker 1: we get to our be the booker. Here, we got
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  Speaker 1: Combat Theater, Krano or Rousey Tomorrow. And do you like Mma?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not like a mega fan or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: And I've kind of fallen out of it because it's
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  Speaker 1: not as exciting as it used to be. But I
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: mean I'm a fan of it. Karana or Rowsy Rowsy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going Rowsy for the win. I know Rowsy hasn't
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  Speaker 1: fought in ten years, but I mean Gina hasn't fought
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  Speaker 1: in seventeen years. So plus, I feel like if that
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  Speaker 1: fight had happened when both of them were in their prime,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been a Rondo win then too. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with Ronda. She's been more active more
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  Speaker 1: recently than Gina has. Justin says Harry the Hog for
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  Speaker 1: h Harry the Hog, all right, I'll talk to I'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to Brian, and we'll see what we can do.
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  Speaker 1: Harry the Hog is the official hog mascot. How about
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: the gingerbread Man. We bring him back to life and
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  Speaker 1: we have the gingerbread Man is the official hog mascot.
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  Speaker 1: James again, that one hundred dollars bomb, brother, I thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much for that. Very kind to you. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: we see a red bomb pop up, that means a lot,
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  Speaker 1: Justin says Fitt, says around two, be the booker who
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  Speaker 1: the heck can save SmackDown. At this point it is
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  Speaker 1: getting egregious. I don't know that it's anybody from this
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  Speaker 1: current administration, So I don't have a good answer for you.
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  Speaker 1: Broley says, main roster drags people down. I know it's
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: Dave's ratings, but Viquerre has had two four star matches
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  Speaker 1: in the main roster nine in NXT. Julia has zero
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  Speaker 1: on the main roster. She had ten in NXT. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I said that a long time ago, Stephanie and Julia
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  Speaker 1: were like two different people in NXT compared to the
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  Speaker 1: way they've looked on the main roster so far. Link Master,
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  Speaker 1: how did you not die laughing during the MRI laughing
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  Speaker 1: you mean crying. I didn't find any of that humorous.
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  Speaker 1: I know you did, I know all of you did,
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  Speaker 1: but at the time I wouldn't. I wouldn't exactly say
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  Speaker 1: that I was dying of laughter, was dying on the inside. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we got West Coast James Hollywood Herrera fifty nine months
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  Speaker 1: of channel membership. There are prison sentences that aren't that long,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: but he's been a channel member for almost sixty months,
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  Speaker 1: says f SmackDown. Take me back to hog show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we finally got to meet for the first time in
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles at the last show a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: I had the time of my life watching good wrestling
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  Speaker 1: and drinking Red Bull vodka. It's the way it goes, brother,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: That's the way it should be, says that was a
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: good Friday night. They had a bar on one side.
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  Speaker 1: I think they had a Did they have a bar
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  Speaker 1: on the other side. I think there's two bars there
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  Speaker 1: inside the Globe Theater. Yeah, we'll be back there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure we'll be back there in a few months. Venom
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  Speaker 1: Catetsu Don Frye or Ken Shamrock, Ken Shamrock mays de great.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that, he's only one month less than Jamess
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight months of membership. I'm going to a con tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be meeting Mick Foley. Is there any specific question
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  Speaker 1: you would like me to ask him? No, nothing, off
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  Speaker 1: the top of my head. He penned a very nice pend,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: a very nice tribute to Barry Blaustein, who passed away
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  Speaker 1: this week. He was the one who produced the Beyond
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  Speaker 1: the Matt documentary back, which is It's either that or
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: Wrestling with Shadows, the best wrestling documentary ever made. And
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: the two of them were very good friends. And I'll
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: talk more about Barry a little bit. I'm not gonna
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: spend too much time on him, but I'll mention him
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  Speaker 1: on the SoundOff this weekend. Very very close with Eddie Murphy.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of the writers, the key writers on
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of his famous skits and sketches in the
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: early days of Saturday Night Live. I think he wrote
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: Coming to America and then the sequel, And there was
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: another Eddie Murphy movie he worked, Oh Boomerang. He worked
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  Speaker 1: on that movie as well. So not like a big
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood guy, but he was also a big, big wrestling
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  Speaker 1: fan and fully Folly had seen him not that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: He actually went out and visited him and they got
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: to hang out because he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's
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  Speaker 1: many years ago. But then he got hit with this
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  Speaker 1: this pancreatic cancer diagnosis like a month ago, and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's just that, that's a killer. So he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: send a letter to Barry, and then I think Barry's
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  Speaker 1: daughter was like, well, if you're going to send it,
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  Speaker 1: you should send it, send it now because he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of time left. And so I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he overnighted the letter or whatever he did,
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  Speaker 1: but he wrote a whole letter to him and he
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  Speaker 1: sent it to him, and I think the letter got
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  Speaker 1: to his home on the day that he died, so
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  Speaker 1: he never got to see the letter. But he has
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  Speaker 1: a very nice piece. As far as what to ask him,
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  Speaker 1: I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure if you ask him about AW he's not
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  Speaker 1: going to give you a straight answer. He's been in
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: the news this week. Maybe ask him, here's a question.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Here's a question in light of this this AW stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Ask him when his Legends deal is up with WWE,
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  Speaker 1: because the belief is that it was up in June,
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  Speaker 1: which if that's the case, he wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 1: show up at double or nothing. But maybe it's already up.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's already up, and that's why people are talking
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: about the possibility of him being on that pay per view.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe just ask him, Hey, when's your Legends deal up?
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  Speaker 1: He may not give you a straight answer, but it's
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  Speaker 1: worth asking the question. Yeah, pancreatic cancer, it's called the
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  Speaker 1: it's the number one. I think it's the number one
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  Speaker 1: deadly is cancer because by the time you know you
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  Speaker 1: have it, it's too late. I guess just where it
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  Speaker 1: is in the body, It just tends to be very hidden.
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  Speaker 1: And so when if you already have symptoms of it,
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  Speaker 1: like that's it, it's too late. You would have to
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  Speaker 1: catch it almost by accident, which some people do and
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  Speaker 1: they're very, very lucky. But it's a very very I think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the mortality rate on that is.
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  Speaker 1: It might be something like ten percent. It's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not good. And if you're already sick with something else,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he was probably seventy what was he
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  Speaker 1: seventy one seventy two, which is not that old, but still,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're older, you already have some other illness
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  Speaker 1: you're dealing with, and you know, poor guy probably didn't
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  Speaker 1: stand the chance. But we did hit not only the
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  Speaker 1: like skull tonight we smash that, but we hit the
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  Speaker 1: bonus goal. And so on that note, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stop blabbering on here and let's go ahead. Let's be
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  Speaker 1: the hooker, ladies or gentlemen. It is now time to
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: be the booker. Yeah, you gotta get your checkups, get
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  Speaker 1: your annual physical, your colonoscopy, all that stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: what's crazy is that when James Vanderbiet passed away a
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  Speaker 1: few months ago. I don't know. That really scared me
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, man, I should probably get a colonoscopy,
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  Speaker 1: and most insurance companies will not cover it until you're
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  Speaker 1: forty five. You have to be a certain age, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. So I'm like, but this is
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  Speaker 1: the question that a lot of people will face. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: if I just wait, if I wait a year, two years,
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  Speaker 1: three years, then I'll qualify and then I won't have
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: to pay for it. But it's like, well, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: then it may be too late. So like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to you got to weigh the pros and
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  Speaker 1: cons of it, because it's all about money, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and these tests, these tests are very expensive. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a real issue in any event. Just do our
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: tag team match here the Steiner brothers. Look at this,
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  Speaker 1: Rick and Scott. Look at those belts back when tag
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  Speaker 1: team gold meant something. Look at those titles right there,
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  Speaker 1: the former WWF Tag Team Champion, Tag Team Champions defending
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: those titles. Wow, look at this? Look at this? How's
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: that for a match? Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi against
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: Rick and Scott Steiner. How's that for a dream tag
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  Speaker 1: team match? You know that word gets thrown around a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Dream match. This is a dream match. That's a dream match. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: we have a pretty cool match coming up at ho
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  Speaker 1: Genix Friday. I'll tell you about it in a second.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a hell of a match right here.
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  Speaker 1: This this can main event the entire show. This could
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  Speaker 1: be our main event. That's how good of a match
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  Speaker 1: that is. We got a few more to book, including
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  Speaker 1: a women's match.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Did somebody say Ronda Rousey a little while ago? Look
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: who just popped up on screen. She's actually wrestling twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours before she fights Gina Carano. How very nice
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  Speaker 1: of her, Ronda Rousey stepping back into the wrestling ring
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  Speaker 1: right before on the on the eve of her big
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  Speaker 1: fight to take on Athena the Ring of Honor, Women's
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  Speaker 1: Forever Champion, the Infinity Champion. How long has she been
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: championed for? Now? Five thousand days? Ronda Rousey and Athena. Well, well,
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  Speaker 1: well we're on a roll, man, We're killing it so far.
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  Speaker 1: We can't mess this up. Oh did somebody say Ken
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  Speaker 1: Shamrock a little while ago? I do believe what was it?
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  Speaker 2: You?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: Venom Kotetsu? Somebody said Don fryar Ken Shamrock. I said,
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  Speaker 1: Ken Shamrock, and just like that, Look at that, he
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  Speaker 1: pops up, he appears. Ronda heard her name and she appeared.
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  Speaker 1: Ken Shamrock heard his name or heard his name, and
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  Speaker 1: there he is. It's funny how that works. I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 1: This thing, man, this thing has something, has a mind
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  Speaker 1: of its own. Actually, you know what, holy shit? I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I know he looks very Mike Tyson looks like he
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: just watched an episode of smack Down here in this image.
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  Speaker 1: But how's that for a fucking main event? Ken Shamrock
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: against Mike Tyson, Iron Mike Tyson and Ken Shamrock, both
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: men in their prime. Who wins? Who wins that fight? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: What a round we just had Ken Shamrock against Mike Tyson,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: Ronda Rousey against Athena and the Steiner Brothers against Kenny
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: Omega and Coda Ibushi. Is that not the strongest card
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: we've had in a very long time. We have a
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: chance to top it because we got a bonus round
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: now that we got to get to. We could actually
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: top what we just did. Is that even a wrestling
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: MATCHI now, that's just a fight. There's no there's no
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: wrestling rules, there's no boxing gloves. It's just a fucking
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: fight between those two guys. Tell me that doesn't look
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: like Mike Tyson just finished three hours of SmackDown. Oh boy,
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: oh boy. We are booking a Tony Khan dream match.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: Tony Khan's a dream match, yes, indeed. All right, so
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a dream match per Tony Khan
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: in a book, A tag team match. Tony is dreaming
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: about Edge and Randy Orton as a tag team. I
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: have to specify he's dreaming about them as a tag team.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know what else he's dreaming about, nor do
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: I want to know. Oh wow, Edge and Randy Orton
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: against Hollywood Hulk, Hogan and the Worm. Dennis Rodman. Man,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: look at these big matches that we're booking here. We're
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: gonna sell a lot of tickets. We're gonna sell a
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  Speaker 1: boatload of tickets. This is great. He has half of
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: that team. Well, Dennis Rodman has made a couple of
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: appearances in aw That is true. All right. Our women's
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  Speaker 1: match is going to be loser leaves town. So the
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: loser of this next match is gone from the territory.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: That's the rule. There's a lot riding on this match.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: This is a career ending match, and it's going to
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: include Jamie Hater. She looked very different back then. Jamie
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: Hayter against Stephanie Vicaire. We're just rolling on here. We're
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: on the verge of ending this week with back to
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: back sweeps. Can we do it? Can we pull it off?
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: Is it possible? Can we make it a reality? What
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: a match that would be though, by the way, Jamie
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Hayter and Stephanie Vicaire. Oh, we're going inside Big Blue. Everybody,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: the Big Blue Steel Cage, my favorite cage. Loved the
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: Big Blue Cage. I grew up on the Big Blue Cage.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, this is a cage match. Participant number one
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: Kevin Owens, who was greatly missed on these Friday night shows.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: Holy shit, do we miss Kevin Owens or what? Boy?
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: We could use him right about now. Kevin Owens inside
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: Big Blue against the American Nightmare Cody Rose. We're resuming
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: this feud, aren't we. We already saw this a couple
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: of times. We're running it back. He's got unfinished business
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: with this man. He got killed in a ladder match
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: last time, and now he wants his revenge on Cody
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: inside Big Blue, and we got ourselves a double sweep.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: That's what I like to see. That's what I like
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: to see. That's why, that's what I want to give
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: back to you guys, only this time. If you're going
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: to run the match, then he's got to win the
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: WWE Championship, like that's it. You can't have Cody go
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: in there and just beat him. And EJ looks like
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: EJ is going to get the last word here with
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  Speaker 1: the four ninety nine. Is the story true that Cody
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: Ibushi high five Vince McMahon and had no idea who
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  Speaker 1: he was? If so, I love him even more. He's
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  Speaker 1: the weirdest human who has ever lived. That story is
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent true. I don't remember what event or
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: what pay per view he was I think backstage for,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I think he high fived him and had
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  Speaker 1: had no idea who he was. I'm sure Vince probably
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  Speaker 1: also had no idea who he was. He is a
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  Speaker 1: very very weird human being, but that's what makes him
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  Speaker 1: so special. He's also absolutely out of his mind. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who's crazier, Coda Ibushi or Darby Allen. Can
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: you imagine that tag team cruiser Oh yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it was the Cruiserweight That's right. I keep forgetting
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  Speaker 1: that they had a Boushie in for the Cruiserweight Classic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but why would Vince have been there? Though maybe Vince
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  Speaker 1: was there for some of those because they did all
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  Speaker 1: that at full sale. Yeah, I just what a what
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful image that is Boushie all happy like, Hey,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: old White, I don't know who you are, but Hi
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: high five turned out to be the owner of the company. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned that we have announced a very a very
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  Speaker 1: it's the word I'm looking for here, very exciting match
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: for House of Glories return to New York City next Friday,
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  Speaker 1: which is why there will be no SmackDown review next Friday.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm devastated, but for one week I will
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  Speaker 1: not be here. I will be on the call for
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  Speaker 1: HHOG at the NYC Arena, and we have it's our
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  Speaker 1: guest for the night, the raining defending ae WTNT champion
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Knight, who is coming in for a special one
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  Speaker 1: on one bout with Amazing Red. That is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to call and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun to watch, and I encourage you all to
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  Speaker 1: do so. If you can't be there live, we'll be
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: streaming on Trailer TV Plus. So we have that match
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: Shatzi is going to be an action against Lean Across
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: one half of the aw Women's Tag team champions. The
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: Hog Tag Team champions, Matt and Jeff Hardy are back.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be on the show as well Zillafa two. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't announced all the matches. Yeah, that'll come together this week.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that Kevin Knight Amazing Red match alone is
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: going to be worth the price of admissions. So it's
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun. I know that the
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: I think all the seats are gone unless we add
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: a fifth row. I should find out if we're adding
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: a fifth row, but all four rows of seats are
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: sold out. Stage seating is sold out, just general admission
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: right now, so you can be there. But again, you
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: could also stream it live on Triller if you wish.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: But that's next Friday, so that's where I'll be. So
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: the way things are shaping up, we have a brand
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  Speaker 1: new podcast on Sunday. That'll be episode nine to sixty
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  Speaker 1: three of the sound Off. And I guess if I
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: have if I have any top line thoughts about the
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: Ronda Genus stuff tomorrow night, I'll just talk about it
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: at the top of the sounduff on Sunday. I can't
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: imagine spending too much time on it, but that's where
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: if I have thoughts, that's where you'll be able to
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: find my thoughts. Monday we have the Raw post show.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: Tuesday will be a brand new installment of The Uncrowned
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: Wrestling Show, and then Tuesday night Titans is back in
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  Speaker 1: its normal slot. We had a rare Thursday show last night,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: so we'll have two shows on Tuesday. Wednesday is the
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: Dynamite post show. That will be the final Dynamite before
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: Double or Nothing, and then after that, the next time
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: I'm live with you after Wednesday will be Sunday for
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: Double or Nothing, which I am planning on being live for.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: I will not be here for SmackDown and probably will
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: not be here for Saturday Night's Made Events. So that
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: is the way things are shaping up for the upcoming week.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys for hanging out with me on Friday
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: and making this show a little more tolerable because SmackDown
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: really does suck right now, unfortunately. And then yeah, Sunday
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  Speaker 1: sound Off. I'll be working on my notes tomorrow, getting
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  Speaker 1: everything together, and then back with you live on Monday.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: That's what I got for you, so again, be well,
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: stay safe, Thank you for all of the support, James
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  Speaker 1: and everybody, all of you guys. You guys are awesome
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see you back here real soon for more
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: Sound Off two thousand. Until then, take care, guys,