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Sound Off 967 - Vince McMahon's Return JUST GOT MORE LIKELY, CM Punk Rumors And More! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: It's business time, baby.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to solo monster sounds off. I love you, mama,
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  Speaker 2: monster dude, I want your soul. Woman. You got grown
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  Speaker 2: ass wrestlers in the back going on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: Come over here? Is that Pet Patterson? You have legs?
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  Speaker 2: Weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I was ninety nine percent positive it was just chessed up.
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  Speaker 2: Now. I have been begging him for a job on
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  Speaker 2: every every platform I can, and I would have know
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: the region. Why you won't part? Uh? What a weekend
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  Speaker 2: here in New York City. The Knicks won their first
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  Speaker 2: NBA championship since nineteen seventy three, albeit on the road
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  Speaker 2: in San Antonio. But it was madness all over the
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  Speaker 2: city last night, not to mention the World Cup game
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  Speaker 2: over at MetLife Stadium between Brazil and Morocco. And then
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  Speaker 2: today is the Puerto Rican Day Parade. I hear Damian
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  Speaker 2: Priest this is a to be making an appearance. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's I don't want to say he's been there
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  Speaker 2: every year, but I know he's made appearances during the
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  Speaker 2: parade before. So if you are attending, maybe you'll see him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting a little case of the fomo. I'm feeling
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  Speaker 2: left out here. I actually heard that it's actually quite fun.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could attend, but we have other business
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  Speaker 2: to tend to here. Seriously, though, congrats to all the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks fans out there. I am very happy for you.
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  Speaker 2: I know all about long suffering in New York franchises.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe somebody wants to pay the two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty bucks to Dan Housen to have him record a
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  Speaker 2: cameo uncursing the Mets. But honestly, I don't think even
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  Speaker 2: Dan Housen is powerful enough to reverse that curse. Some
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  Speaker 2: things are just beyond his scope, you know. Brian Alvarez
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  Speaker 2: is saying that the Dan Housen Knicks stuff is currently
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  Speaker 2: being put together by TKO and WWE cameras are going
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  Speaker 2: to be at the parade. I believe they're having a
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  Speaker 2: parade on Thursday for the Knicks, and so they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have cameras there. They're probably gonna put together in Nixon
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  Speaker 2: dan Hausen documentary for YouTube, and he says at least
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  Speaker 2: one New York Nick is confirmed for Saturday Night's Made
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  Speaker 2: event next month, and they're trying to get several more.
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  Speaker 1: Also, the coach trying to get him there.
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  Speaker 2: WWE has already launched if you didn't see, because they've
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  Speaker 2: been plugging it on their social media Nixon Danhausen Championship
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  Speaker 2: merch on WWE Shop and Dan Housen is also going
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  Speaker 2: to be on ESPN either today or Monday, it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: So they're trying to capitalize on this, and you know what,
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  Speaker 2: good for them. That's what they need to do. This
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  Speaker 2: is the way to do it. You know, when he
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  Speaker 2: shows up at MSG next month, I'm expecting a stone
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  Speaker 2: cold level.
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  Speaker 1: Reaction for Dan Housen.
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  Speaker 2: And you know NXT has its deadline show coming up
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  Speaker 2: in San Antonio in December. Maybe they can get him
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  Speaker 2: on there too. He'll get mega heat. This is episode
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  Speaker 2: nine sixty seven of The solomn Monster Sounds Off for Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: June fourteenth, twenty twenty six. I am the solom Monster.
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  Speaker 2: Who else would it be? You know, it was twenty
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  Speaker 2: years ago this week, June seventeenth, two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 2: to be exact, I attended my first Ring of Honors
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  Speaker 2: show live, which happened to be their final show that
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  Speaker 2: they ever did, at the Grand Ballroom at the New
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: Yorker Hotel. The New Yorker Hotel literally is around the
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  Speaker 2: corner to where they moved, which was the Manhattan Center.
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  Speaker 2: They went to the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: That's where WWE used to host Monday Night Raw in
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: the early days. Those first episodes in nineteen ninety three
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  Speaker 2: of Monday Night Raw were in the Manhattan Center, all
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  Speaker 2: the way up on what I believe is the eighth
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  Speaker 2: floor in the Grand Ballroom. And then eventually with Ring
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  Speaker 2: of Honor, they graduated to the Hammerstein Ballroom, which is
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  Speaker 2: in the same building, but right downstairs on the main
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  Speaker 2: level when you first enter, and so the New Yorker
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  Speaker 2: Hotel literally right around the corner. This was my first show.
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  Speaker 2: I had never been to a Ring of Honor show before.
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  Speaker 2: I had seen some Ring of Honor stuff. I had
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  Speaker 2: heard a lot of good things about being there. They're
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  Speaker 2: doing these shows in New York City. It's like, how
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  Speaker 2: could I not go? So my brother and I we
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  Speaker 2: got tickets and we went and I had a blast,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember I remember a lot about this show.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the first match on that show, So the
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  Speaker 2: first ROH match alive I ever saw. I had Jay
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: and Mark Brisco taking on Jason Blade. Now I had
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: to look his name up because I couldn't remember who
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  Speaker 2: he was. But Jason Blade teamed up with Sterling James Keenan,
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  Speaker 2: who's a little busy these days, calling Monday Night Raw
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: next to Michael Cole and calling Triple A. Prince Nana
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  Speaker 2: was there. He was managing Jimmy Rave at the time,
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: and Jimmy Rave was just a great heel and the
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  Speaker 2: Grand Ballroom had this giant chandelier over the ring, and
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: the gimmick with Jimmy on all these shows was then
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  Speaker 2: or back then, was that people would throw toilet paper
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  Speaker 2: at him, and so I imagine hotel management was not
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  Speaker 2: too happy about all that toilet paper getting wrapped around
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  Speaker 2: the chandelier. We actually knocked pieces of it down in
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  Speaker 2: the ring. But it's a damn shame that Jimmy went
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  Speaker 2: out the way he did. At the end of his life,
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  Speaker 2: he had gotten an infection in his arm. First he
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  Speaker 2: had to have his arm amputated, and then I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how many months later it was. It was only
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  Speaker 2: months later he got MRSA and he needed both of
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  Speaker 2: his legs amputated, so all he had left was his
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  Speaker 2: right arm, and then he died I think two months later.
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  Speaker 2: So It's very sad how his life came to an end.
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  Speaker 2: But for a period of time there, Jimmy Rave was
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  Speaker 2: one of the more I would say accomplished entertaining heels
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  Speaker 2: on the independent wrestling scene. And I know he had
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  Speaker 2: a run also in TNA. I don't think that lasted
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  Speaker 2: too long. But then we had this match on this
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  Speaker 2: show here bj Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs, and they hit
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  Speaker 2: the scariest finish that I have ever seen live Even
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  Speaker 2: to this day, any live event that I've ever been to,
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  Speaker 2: this has to be up.
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  Speaker 1: There as the scariest finish.
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  Speaker 2: And you have Whitmer on the top rope power bombing
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  Speaker 2: him an avalanche power bomb from the ring into the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: He power bombs Jimmy Jacobs over the barricade into the crowd,
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  Speaker 2: and they had a bunch of planted fans there. But that,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that doesn't make it any less scary, Like
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  Speaker 2: in the moment as you're watching it, an inch or
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  Speaker 2: two this way or that way, and that could have
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  Speaker 2: ended up catastrophically bad, right, But that's sort of the
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  Speaker 2: story of pro wrestling, right. An incher two can make
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  Speaker 2: the difference between making the highlight reels or winding up
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  Speaker 2: in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. But
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  Speaker 2: that was a wild I don't remember anything else about
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  Speaker 2: the match except that finish.
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  Speaker 1: You know who else was.
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  Speaker 2: In action on that show, The current general manager of
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night Raw, Adam Pierce. He was wrestling Claudio Castignoli.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool to see the two of them still doing
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  Speaker 2: their thing on TV in twenty twenty six, and they
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  Speaker 2: had an excellent three way in the main event with
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  Speaker 2: Brian Danielson, who was the world champion at the time,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think his title was on the line
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  Speaker 2: in the mat. I don't believe it was a title match.
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  Speaker 2: It couldn't be because Ken one. But it was Danielson,
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  Speaker 2: Kenta and Samoa Joe. How's that for a three way
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  Speaker 2: main event? Brian Danielson, Samoa Joe and Kenta. I will
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  Speaker 2: never forget Danielson doing a dive out into the crowd
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  Speaker 2: onto like a flip dive out onto Joe and Kenta.
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  Speaker 2: It was right in front of me. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: couple of great photos. I can post them up on
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  Speaker 2: my ex account on Wednesday since that's the anniversary. But
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  Speaker 2: Kenta got his title match a few months later at
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  Speaker 2: Glory by Honor five Night two, which I was also
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  Speaker 2: there for one of the greatest main events I've ever
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  Speaker 2: seen live, and we even got a Bruno Sam Martino
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  Speaker 2: appearance that night. He came to the ring to cut
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  Speaker 2: a promo with the entire If it wasn't the entire roster,
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  Speaker 2: it was most of the roster surrounding the ring outside
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  Speaker 2: just watching and listening and hanging on to every word
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  Speaker 2: that this man was saying. I'm glad I was there
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  Speaker 2: to see it, and Bruno's out there he's saying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to take up too much of your
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  Speaker 2: time because I know you've got a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: matches coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Like as if anybody wanted to see.
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  Speaker 2: Rushed out of the ring, you know, like if you
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  Speaker 2: leave the Manhattan Center and literally walked to the corner,
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: Madison Square Garden is right there, I guess, right across
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  Speaker 2: the street, the place that Bruno sold out more than
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  Speaker 2: any other pro wrestler in history. I mean, he could
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  Speaker 2: have spoken for thirty minutes if he wanted to. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anybody would have complained. But yeah, I got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great memories from those early roh dys
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  Speaker 2: again when I started going two thousand and six, two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, you know, Homicides,
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  Speaker 2: title Win, and I mean, I can go on and
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  Speaker 2: on about it, but it just it hit me that
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  Speaker 2: this week was the anniversary, the twenty year anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: that first show that I went to. So I just
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  Speaker 2: had to talk about it. I had to say something
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  Speaker 2: about it. Maybe some of you were even at some
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  Speaker 2: of those shows, so you know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Just the energy and the vibe back then. It's not
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  Speaker 2: the same now, but man, back then it was something special.
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  Speaker 2: My thanks to everybody who dropped a PayPal don't know
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  Speaker 2: this week. I appreciate it. If you'd like to do so.
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  Speaker 2: The Solomons are at email dot com is the place
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  Speaker 2: to go. You'll see the LINC. It's right there for
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  Speaker 2: you at the top of the page.
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  Speaker 1: Ten dollars or more. We'll get you nickname.
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  Speaker 2: In a shout out, I want to say thank you
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  Speaker 2: to the Portland pop star Paul Hamilton, Paul, thank you
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  Speaker 2: very much, Big b Bryant, Bessera, the Diamond, Dallas Dance Machine,
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  Speaker 2: Harrison's Soap Velvet Revolver, Robert Murray Q the Destroyer for Life,
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: Brother Big Time Boris Veinman, Raj must see Makwana killshot
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  Speaker 2: Keith Hart and the Chicago Slayer Willie Aiker. Am I
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  Speaker 2: going to see you guys this Friday? Am I going
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: to see you and Mama iikerd on Friday?
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: I hope so?
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: Because House of Glory presents Inferno this Friday Logan Square
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Auditorium in Chicago, and for the first time ever, Bang
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: Bang Ricky Sosa and his Hog debut. He steps into
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  Speaker 2: the ring with the amazing red that is going to
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  Speaker 2: be fucking unbelievable. Nick Nevith was just announced with the
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: show the man who will be challenging to be possibly
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: the next TNA World Heavyweight Champion at Slammiversary in just
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: a few weeks. And with all the rumors swirling about
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: Mike Santana and his contract possibly coming up next month
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: in TNA, if he is leaving, they're gonna have to
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: get that belt off of him. Very very possible that
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: Nemuth could be walking out of Slammiversary as the new champion.
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: But first he's making his Hog return and he's going
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: to be stepping into the ring to take on Charles
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  Speaker 2: Mason for the HOG World Championship. Maybe maybe he wants
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: to go for some double gold. Mustafa Ali, speaking of TNA,
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be putting his TNA International Championship on
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  Speaker 2: the line against rich Swan Shatzi putting her HOG Women's
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  Speaker 2: title on the line against Steph Delander, and we had
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of other matches planned as well. Limited tickets,
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  Speaker 2: very limited tickets still available Hog Wrestling dot Net. I
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  Speaker 2: will see you guys, some of you anyway in Chicago,
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: and if you can't be there, live Triller TV is
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  Speaker 2: where you can stream the event. Vince McMahon's legal peril,
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  Speaker 2: let's start there, at least in a public setting, is
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  Speaker 2: now down to one. That would be the ring Boy's lawsuit,
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  Speaker 2: which has him as one of the one of the
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  Speaker 2: many defendants, and that one is likely to end up
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  Speaker 2: the way that all the other ones have or will.
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  Speaker 2: Last week back up a little bit, here came the
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  Speaker 2: news of the WWE shareholder lawsuit trial being canceled. It
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  Speaker 2: was start scheduled to start last Monday, June eighth, and
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: just a few days before it was pulled from the
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  Speaker 2: calendar and canceled because the two sides were and I
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  Speaker 2: believe they still are in the process of reaching a
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  Speaker 2: settlement agreement in principle. I don't know if a formal
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: settlement has been approved or reached yet, but if not,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like we're well on our way to that.
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  Speaker 2: So not a done deal just yet, and we're still
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  Speaker 2: waiting to find out about what that's going to look like,
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  Speaker 2: how much money the shareholders will actually get out of it.
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  Speaker 2: They were seeking as much as nine hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: million dollars or so in damages plus interest accrude after
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  Speaker 2: alleging that the fix was in with the WWE sale
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  Speaker 2: to Endeavor three years ago, and that McMahon steered the
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  Speaker 2: outcome to his pal, his boy Ari Emmanuel, with the
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  Speaker 2: idea that he would be able to maintain some level
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  Speaker 2: of power in WWE.
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  Speaker 1: And he would have.
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  Speaker 2: He absolutely would have were it not for the Janelle
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  Speaker 2: Grant sex trafficking lawsuit that dropped like an atomic bomb
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  Speaker 2: in January of twenty twenty four, and it started really
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  Speaker 2: with the Wall Street Journal story in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: I have some news on that here in a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but the Wall Street Journal story and news of all
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  Speaker 2: the non disclosure agreements with various women and performers over
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  Speaker 2: the years, including one seven and a half million dollar
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  Speaker 2: NDA with a female talent whose name has never been revealed.
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  Speaker 2: But these things, they don't happen, not in these numbers,
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  Speaker 2: unless this man is doing something that he should not
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  Speaker 2: be doing. And there are still people making excuses for
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  Speaker 2: this toxic sludge of a human being. Says a lot
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  Speaker 2: about them. But it was that story that led to
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  Speaker 2: him initially stepping aside until he decided to force his
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  Speaker 2: way back in. Then this lawsuit dropped, and it was
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  Speaker 2: the Janelle Grant suit, and it was very disturbing. Right,
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  Speaker 2: they had a relationship. He got her a job in
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  Speaker 2: the company that she wasn't qualified for. She worked her
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  Speaker 2: way up the ranks in short order, and according to her,
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  Speaker 2: he basically used her as his personal sex toy and
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  Speaker 2: pimped her out to John Laurnidis, who cheated on his
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  Speaker 2: then wife who was being treated for a brain tumor.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: These are the men who held positions of power in
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  Speaker 2: WWE at that time. You know, we can complain about
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: how SOULSS the product feels these days, and high ticket
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: prices and bad booking and bad creative and boring television
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  Speaker 2: that's a far cry from sexual misconduct and some of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that was going on behind the scenes at
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  Speaker 2: that time for years, Laura and IDAs didn't even deny it.
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  Speaker 2: He just tried to pass himself off as a victim,
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  Speaker 2: the fucking troll that he is. And Vince stopped paying her.
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  Speaker 2: He was supposed to pay her a certain amount of money.
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  Speaker 2: He stopped paying what he had promised per the NDA
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  Speaker 2: that was signed, and that's what led to her filing
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  Speaker 2: suit and doesn't make her claims any less true, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I mean, the fact that she filed the
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit because he stopped paying doesn't make them any less
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  Speaker 2: true or false or anything. Those are two completely independent things.
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  Speaker 2: And it was always going to be an uphill climb
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  Speaker 2: for this woman to beat the big, bad billion dollar
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  Speaker 2: chairman in court who has a hell of a lot
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  Speaker 2: more money to burn than she does. But she wanted
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: to see this go to trial. That's what she kept saying.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: She wanted to go to trial. She doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: go into private arbitration. That's what Vince was arguing for
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  Speaker 2: per the terms of the three million dollar NDA that
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  Speaker 2: was signed. Her position was that the NDA was signed
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  Speaker 2: under duress, and it should be invalidated so that this
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  Speaker 2: could go to trial and everything could be out in
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  Speaker 2: the open and in the public forum. Right, this is
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: not a criminal case. So even if it was a
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  Speaker 2: criminal case, Vince has friends in very high places. Okay,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: birds of a feather flock together. This was never going
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  Speaker 2: to go anywhere anyway. But this is a civil case.
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  Speaker 2: So the worst that could have happened to him and
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: could still happen to him, is that he would be
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  Speaker 2: on the hook for a lot of money. Then he
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  Speaker 2: would have to pay her. She wanted a trial, He
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  Speaker 2: argued for arbitration, and the judge in the case was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to have made a decision this month about which
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: one it would be. That was going to be the
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  Speaker 2: single most important decision in this trial. What does the
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  Speaker 2: judge decide, does she have a valid argument to invalidate
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  Speaker 2: the NDA and we go to trial, or does this
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  Speaker 2: go to private arbitration and nobody ever hears about this
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  Speaker 2: ever again? On Thursday, that all changed. Post Wrestling reported
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  Speaker 2: that the plaintiff and the defendant, so Janelle Grant, Vince
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  Speaker 2: McMahon and WWE, filed a joint motion in the US
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  Speaker 2: District Court for the District of Connecticut requesting to continue
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  Speaker 2: their litigation in private arbitration, which is a big one
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  Speaker 2: pint eighty from what Janelle Grant had been asking the
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  Speaker 2: court for, and on Friday, Judge Sarah F. Russell granted
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  Speaker 2: the party's joint motion. The judge is now requiring them
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  Speaker 2: to file a joint status report by July tenth, and
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  Speaker 2: if they have not reached an agreement by that date,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: they will have a hearing in August. And Brandon Thurston
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  Speaker 2: says he interprets the word agreement here as referring to
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  Speaker 2: the conditions of moving into arbitration, not necessarily reaching a
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  Speaker 2: settlement of the entire thing. The one paragraph filing states
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  Speaker 2: that the parties are in active discussions regarding a potential
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  Speaker 2: agreement to arbitrate the dispute in confidential arbitration, which would
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  Speaker 2: render the defendant's motion to compel arbitration moot. Filing does
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  Speaker 2: not explain a reason for Grant's change in position regarding
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  Speaker 2: her willingness to take her dispute into a private forum.
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  Speaker 2: An attorney for Grant did not immediately respond to her
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  Speaker 2: request for comment. The parties had been scheduled to attend
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: a hearing on June sixteenth, that's this Tuesday, to argue
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the issue as well as whether Grant would be allowed
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: to obtain evidence from the defendants in support of her
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: litigation of the arbitration question. So this is not a settlement,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: not yet anyway. This just means that they are taking
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: this very likely into a private setting with an arbitrator,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and they are not going to go through a public
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: trial and all the drama that comes with that. It
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: all started when Vince reneged from what he had promised
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: to pay her. He paid out one million of the
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: three million dollars that her NDA stipulated. If he had
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: done that, if he would have just continued to pay
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: what he was supposed to pay, we wouldn't even be
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: talking about this right now. Once he stopped payment, she
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: sued him, and she claimed that she had no intention
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: of settling, and that this resignation from WWE, that this
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: is a so called resignation, which turned out to not
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: really be all that genuine. But then he came back
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: and then he sort of resigned again. But his resignation
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: from WWE was not enough for her. She wanted justice.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: What changed all of a sudden, We don't know. I
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: don't know what her financial arrangement is with her lawyers,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: but from what I remember reading, the firm that represents
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: her typically takes these kinds of cases on a contingent
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: fee basis, meaning they only get paid if they win
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the case or if they reach a settlement, then they
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: take a percentage of those funds. If she were to
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: lose this case, she could walk away with nothing. And
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: even if she doesn't have legal fees to pay off,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: and she very well might, she may be broke at
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: this point for all we know, But I imagine that her
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: lawyers would probably not be too thrilled about that if
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: she lost and walked away with nothing. So for Vincent WWE,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: a trial would prove to be very embarrassing, right, That's
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the reason he fought so hard against it. It's disappointing.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: It's disappointing because again, where there's rot to be found,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I think it should be exposed for all the world
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: to see, right in as public a setting as possible.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: And if there are people who deserve to be dragged,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: then they should be dragged. She's had a change of heart,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: that's her decision, right. It is what it is, but
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: it is disappointing that she has suddenly had a one
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: to eighty on this whole thing. What's concerning is that
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: if this thing is that much closer to being wrapped up,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: that makes it more likely that we see Vince McMahon
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: back in WWE at some point. Remember, Ari Emmanuel had
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: no issue with Vince McMahon being there, even after all
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal stuff came out in twenty twenty two.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Right, this was a.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Big Wall Street Journal bombshell story and then there were
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: subsequent stories. Right, his reputation was already tarnished. Didn't stop
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Ari from having an issue with Vince want he wanted
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: him there. It was contingent. The deal, according to Ari
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Emmanuel on CNBC, was contingent on Vince being a part
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of it. Now, maybe he was playing three DCHSS and
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: really did not want him there, but he had to
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: ten that he did to get him to sell the
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: company to him. Right, We're gonna find out because the
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: entire reason they got rid of him in the first
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: place or asked him to step down was because of
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: this lawsuit. And if this lawsuit suddenly goes away, that
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: means the one real obstacle to his return goes away
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: and I put nothing past these people. Right, Bruce is
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: still there. I always liked what Ronda Rousey said, Right,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: so long as Bruce Pritchard is there, Vince mcmahas an
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: end because Bruce is basically Vince's avatar. Right, once this
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: all comes to an end, anything is possible. I'm not
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: saying he's going to be back in charge of Creative.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying anything is possible. And that is a
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: scary thought. Even scarier that there are people out there,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: fans and ex talents alike, who want him to come back,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: who think that he's the only one who can make
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the product great again. Yes, the eighty year old octagenarian
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: sex pest is the only man who can RESTOREWE to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: its former glory, it's past creative glory. If you honestly
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: believe that, then WWE is doomed. If you think he
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: is the only savior for this company, they're doomed. Teddy
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Long did an interview with TMZ's Inside the Ring podcast
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: this week, and he talked about the state of wrestling today.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I want to read you just the portion of what
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Teddy had to say here, even though it will make
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: you dumber for having heard it. But I'll read this anyway.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: He said, a lot of talent is out there now.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Some guys are doing great, some guys are not. And
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: it's based on the creative people, the people that are
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: in charge of what you do out on that TV.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: That's how your career is based. You can go out
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: there and do something one night and it will kill you.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: That's kill your whole career. And they know how to
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: do that to people. A lot of guys that are
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: in charge don't do it because you can do the job.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: They'll mess with you because they got the power. They
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: know they can. So it's changing a little bit now.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: But I think what we gotta do. We got to
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: get Vince back so we can do this thing right
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and get the fans back on board.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: And on the possibility of Vince returning to wrestling, he
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: said this, I don't think the chapter has ever closed
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: with him. Like I said, I don't know what happened
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: or any of that stuff, but in my knowing him,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: wrestling was his life. He loved this, This was his life.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I had a chance to ride on the plane with
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: him one night, and as soon as we took off.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: He talked about wrestling until we landed, and so he
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: loves this. This is his life. I watched him at
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: his eightieth birthday party during the rehearsal. They had a
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: band and some singers there acchoire, and they were rehearsing
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: before they got ready to go. I saw him and
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: he had his head set on and Kevin Dunn was there.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Kevin has always been his right hand man. He's looking
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: at Kevin and saying, Kevin, get him over there. You
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. He's doing his thing. He's at home.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I looked at him, and I'm like, this is him,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: this is what he does. You know, I can understand
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: being transactional like this person always treated me well. So
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: therefore they're okay. In my book, they're willing to overlook
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: certain things because of that. His argument being though I
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: don't know what happened or any of that stuff is
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: not a valid argument.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Right, ignorance is not a valid argument.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Just because Vince McMahon did right by Teddy Long does
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: not mean that it's okay for him to be back
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: at a position of power over other people. But this
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: is who we're dealing with here now. He also said
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: in this interview with TMZ. This again, Teddy Long says,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I went to Vince's birthday. After the birthday party, Vince
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: gave me this bust of his head.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I have that. We could go see it right now
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: because I have it in the room over there.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: No, he didn't give them out to everyone, but I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: not the only one that got one. I would consider
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: that as my prized possession. Vince McMahon giving a bust
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: of his head to someone is that person's most cherished
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: possession in the world. Sounds like that's not the only
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: thing that Teddy's been busting when it comes to Vince McMahon.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: But then you have JBL who never met a boot
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that he didn't enjoy licking.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The same guy who said.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: ESPN should be giving WWE a letter grades in their reviews,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: even if they don't actually believe they deserve them. So
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: he chimed in on his podcast, or technically it's not
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: even his podcast, it's Bruce Pritchard's podcast, but he chimed
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: in the other day. I saw this. He was responding
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: to news of the shareholder's lawsuit heading towards a settlement.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: He said, I don't know what the settlement was My
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: dad used to always tell me a bad settlement is
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: better than a good lawsuit any day of the week.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: And sometimes, you know, I've been around Vince a long time.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Vince just gets out of things.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Does he now do?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Tell us more? John, He said, sometimes it's not worth
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the trouble. These lawsuits fishing. Sometimes there's some merit behind them.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know the veracity of any of the claims.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know the merit of the lawsuit itself. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: want you to remember him saying that, Okay, I don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: know the merit of the lawsuit itself, but getting out
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of this is a really good thing for TKO. Ron
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: talking about Ron Simmons and I used to joke that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: we would sue the company for a billion dollars and
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: settle for one hundred thousand just to pay off a house.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: That's essentially what these lawyers are doing. They're saying, this
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: company is worth so much money, let's file a lawsuit,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: tie them up in court, and see if we can
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: get lucky with a settlement. That's all these jackasses are doing.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: There are so many lawyers who tie things up in
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the corporate world that certainly appears to be what this is.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I just don't see any merit to it whatsoever. I
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: hope these guys didn't get any money, because this is
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: such bullshit. I've seen Vince over the years pay people
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: off when he felt there was no cause whatsoever, just
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to get rid of them. I'm not talking about anything serious,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: maybe a dispute over a bill or something, just a nuisance.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: It's a nuisance fee.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: So to rea.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: And by the way, in the abstract what he is
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: saying is not untrue, right. There are a lot of
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: shyster lawyers out there who will do that sort of thing.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: But I would like to recap very quickly for you
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: that in this one quote, he goes from trying to pretend,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: pretend being the keyword, to be unbiased by admitting, well,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't know about the veracity of the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: claims or the merits of the lawsuit itself. I just
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: don't know, to a minute later saying that he sees
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: no merit in it whatsoever and calling it all bullshit. Yeah,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: like I get some of the wrestlers from that era
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: having brain damage all the chair shots to the head
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: they took right over a period of many years. It's understandable.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: You could throw him in there too, But what's Teddy's excuse.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: What don't they understand about that this man became a
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: liability to his own company, to where in when they
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: had acquired the company TKO Endeavor, they had to put
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: fine print in their SEC documents talking about what a
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: liability Vince McMahon was to this company. All these people
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: who pray for the return of Vince McMahon, it's like
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: they forgot all the years of slop that he spoon
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: fed us that or they're stuck at a time warp
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: and they still think it's the attitude ere This man
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: is eighty years old. His best days were behind him
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: ten years ago. We do not need Vince McMahon back.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: If TKO ever wanted to replace Paul Levek, or if
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: you think his creative vision is too boring and safe,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you, but bringing back the old
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: man that is not the answer. But I do think
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: it's inevitable that he is going to pop back up
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: at some point in some capacity. This paves the way
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: for that. It just feels like it's only matter of
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: time once he gets this settled once and for all.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: The ringboy suit, the past, bad press, None of that's
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: going to matter to TKO. The only thing that could
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: hold them back from doing stuff with Vince mcmanagan would
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: be if the sponsors spoke up, if the sponsors started
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: to pull out, if the backlash, let's say, on social media,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: was so fierce, you know that they tag sponsors and
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: do all these things. That's the only thing that they
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: would care about. That's the only thing that would matter
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: to TKO. If there was some sort of sponsor backlash,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: and once this disappears from the public eye or it
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: gets settled, I doubt very seriously that.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Any of them are gonna care.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Interestingly, on her Instagram page that she opened a few
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: months ago, Janelle Grant posted a screenshot from a transcript
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of a deposition. There was deposition testimony given by Michelle McKenna,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: who was a former member of the WWE Board of Directors,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: where McKenna stated that she believes that Nick Cohn was
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the person who leaked those anonymous emails to the Wall
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Street Journal, which is what put the whole series of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: events in motion that ultimately led to the Endeavor purchase
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: in the formation of TKO. Now that is just one
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: person's opinion, but that she would say that under oath
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in a deposition, there must have been something about him
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that would make her think that there was at least
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the decent possibility that it was him. But we may
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: never know for.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Sure who leaked those emails on the coach and bro
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Show over on Jonathan Coachman's YouTube channel, Vince Russo let
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: it slip the other day that Conan has undergone a
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: double leg amputation. Now, it was first reported back in
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: March that Conan was in the hospital due to complications
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: from I want to say diabetes and had one of
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: his legs amputated, but evidently he had the other one
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: amputated as well, which is terrible. He spoke with Conan
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: the other day, Russo said, but he said he was
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: very weak. He was going through some grueling rehab. Russo
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: said that in their conversation, Conan revealed that WWE has
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: paid every cent of his medical bills, and good on
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: them for doing so. You know, we're probably talking about
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: medical bills in the millions of dollars at this point,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: not thousands, you know, for something like that, a double amputation,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: and for him being in the hospital for months on end,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: not even counting medications. You know, when people have some
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: catastrophic accident or they get sick and they need to
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: be treated, it's always a worry like how much is
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: this going to cost me? Because even with insurance like
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: it could end up bankrupting you. So like now, instead
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: of worrying about getting better, you're sick and you're stressed
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: about like how am I going to pay for this? Right,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: and stress kills. It's bad enough to be sick and
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: in the hospital and probably stressful enough, but you add
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: more stress on top of that. Stress is a killer.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Bad enough to go through something like that to begin with,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have to also worry about how or if
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: you're going to be able to pay for all of it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: So if WWE is stepping in to help him out
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: on that, I think that's nice to hear he's not
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: completely divorced from them, of course. I mean, Conan does
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: work for Triple A, which WWE acquired last year, so
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: he does work for them, but it's not as if
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: he suffered an accident on the job, right or in
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: the ring. They're not exactly obligated to do that, but
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: best wishes to Conan. I don't know what kind of
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: influence he has there anymore, creatively with Triple A, Undertaker
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: seems to be getting all the credit and all the love,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: although I do think people need to start putting some
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: respect on Jeremy Borash's name as well. Conan's had health
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: issues for years. He had a kidney transplant many years ago.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: He needed another one. I don't know if he ever
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: got it, but I know as of a few years
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: ago it was reported that he would need another one.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: So this is just another and a very long line
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: of issues that he's had. Cmpunk has been missing from
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: WWE television since the Raw after WrestleMania, after he lost
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the World Heavyweight Championship in that Great Night two main
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: event against Roman Reigns, and then after Mania he told us,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not going to sit around sulking over it.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go on vacation, right, he was
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: going to stay ready. Evidently that meant off television because
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: we have not seen him since outside of those gym
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: photos with him looking all yoked. There was also there
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: was video too. There's like a little video clip as well.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of people have been talking about CM Punk
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: speculating about him on you know, social media. He's on
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: steroids because of you know, a few low resolution photos
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: that made him look bigger than he really is. Oh,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: he must be on the gas now, he's a body guy. Right.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Then this week a Rando account on x posted what
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: they claimed was a scoop, saying Punk may have been
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: playing politics behind the scenes with the WrestleMania main event
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: and didn't get his way, and now he's upset about it,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: which has led to some heat backstage between him and
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: WWE and the powers that be. But wait, he may
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: have also been asked by t to take a pay cut,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: and he's pissed off enough over it that he may
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: have threatened legal action or even asked for his release,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: which is why he's been off TV. But then they also,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: in the same breath a caution that there's been some
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: cold water thrown on this, namely the part about him
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: asking for his release. See, I think the whole thing
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: is unbelievable to begin with, just because they're talking about
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: him threatening legal action and all this stuff when we
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: know full well Cempunk. You know, he would have just
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: walked over to Triple H or Nick con He would
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: have started throwing fists, would he would have lost his
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: cool because that's what he does. So this report is
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: already unbelievable. You know, I would like to sit here
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: and tell you that I'm shocked by how much traction
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: this nonsense got on social media and how many people
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: have taken it and ran with it as if it
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: has any legitimacy to it whatsoever, which it doesn't. It's
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: all bullshit, made up, bogus grade a factory bullshit. And
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I guess because they're hasn't been a lot of real
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: hard news this week outside the Vince McMahon stuff. People
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: are bored, and so they saw fit to create their
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: own news cycle. Fightful Select was forced to look into
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: this nonsense, and they report that nobody in WWE among
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: the dozens that Fightful spoke with, have heard that Punk
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: wanted out of his contract, and no talent that we
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: heard from believed he was asked to take a pay cut.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: One source we spoke to says that he has a
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: story coming up soon, with new merch being produced and
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: dates planned for the summer and so. On Thursday, Wressell
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Votes Radio reported that one source has told them signs
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: point to Punk being back on TV on or before
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the July sixth episode of Raw, which just so happens
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: to be taking place in Chicago. Now, this comes with
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: a report from Dave Meltzer that Punk is expected to
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: end up on the SmackDown roster upon his return, which
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: is something that I've been saying since after WrestleMania that
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: he needs to be on SmackDown.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: So that would be a welcome change.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: And even if Raw is in Chicago, it's not like
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: as a Raw guy, right, we haven't seen him appear
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: on SmackDown before when they're in Chicago. He did so
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: the night that aj Lee made her return to the company,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: so that doesn't mean anything. SmackDown is where Cmpunk should be.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: That show could use all the help that it can get.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: And if they get back Randy Orton and Drew McIntyre
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: soon or even just one of them, and Sammy Zane
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: finally has an interesting story for himself after months of stagnation,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Gunther just got moved over to SmackDown. Rhear Ripley moved
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: over there after she won the women's title. Finn Balor
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: just was traded over there, you know. With the influx
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: of newer faces on the show, and the show moving
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: back to two hours in a couple of weeks, they
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: have a real chance to push the reset button on
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: that Putridge show and make it watchable again. If Fightful
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: also had a report that said some people within AW
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: have long believed that bridges between Punk and the company
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: could eventually be rebuilt, even if he never actually wrestles
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: there again. The report noted that Punk may not repair
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: his relationships with everyone in AAW, but asked whether he
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: had completely burned bridges with the promotion, and the response
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: was never say never. And then on Friday, Jack Perry
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: posted an image on his ig story of an album
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: cover from the album Ape Got Fire by front end
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Loader showing a creature torching a bridge. You know what
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Jungle Boy doesn't seem to realize is that if in
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: some bizarro world, Cmpunk ever wanted to go back to
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: AAW and Tony Khan found out about it, he would
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: take him back in a heartbeat. If Jack went to
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Tony and said, hey, it's either him or me, right,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Jack would be gone so fast, even at Max's speed
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: in the Jurassic Express Busts, Lucasaurus would not be able
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to catch up to him. Okay, that's how fast he
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: would be gone. But this is all much ado about nothing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: The fact that this was even in the news this
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: week shows you how slow of a news week it was.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Punk disappearing from TV was always
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: part of the plan or if it happened because creative
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: changed suddenly, which I mean clearly it did with Gunther
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: right being shifted over, even though it looked like he
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: was going after the world title, and then all of
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: a sudden he's on SmackDown attacking Cody Rhodes. I think
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: the Randy Orton injury necessitated that it's not the worst
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: idea to give Punk a little bit of time off,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: given that he's forty seven years old and he's been
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: injured multiple times. Okay, they've been very fortunate that he's
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: been able to stay healthy recently. Giving him a couple
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: of months off to recharge the batteries is a wise move,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: and then bring him back in time for Summer Slam.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: You know, a feud between Punk and Cody is what
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I want to see. Maybe it's too soon for Summer Slam.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's too soon, But whether it happens
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: there or not, it's something that needs to be done.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Cody has stagnated. A feud with Punk is just what
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: he needs. And he did tell Cody back in April
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: you never know when a title opportunity might fall out
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: of the sky.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: And my first thought was, you know, money in.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: The bank, but doesn't have to be money in the bank,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: right An opportunity can fall out of the sky in
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: a multitude of different ways. In fact, there's a tournament
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: happening right now where the winner gets to choose the
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: champion that they want a challenge at SummerSlam. And you
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: might be asking yourself, Solo Monster, Cempunk is not even
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: in the King of the Ring. What are you talking about.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: We'll get to the King of the Ring here in
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: a second, where there's a will, there's a way. Don't
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: count that at as a possibility. But let's talk about
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Ron smack down here and some of the key stuff
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: from this week I mentioned Cody Rhads. Cody Rhads and Gunther,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: as you know, are going to be having their rematch
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: very soon, in fact next week this coming Friday, for
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: the WWE Championship because.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Gunther got fucked over at Clash in Italy.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: The referee didn't do his job well and so because
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: of that, not only does Gunter get a rematch, but
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: he was given the chance to pick.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: The stipulation for said rematch. We found out what that
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: would be.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: This past Friday, Cody Roads will challenge Gunther for the
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: WWE title commercial free, with Sammy Zain the Last Real
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Good Guy as the special guest referee. Now, this is
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: eight days before Night of Champions and we know the
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: WWE title is going to be on the line at
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Night of Champions because it has to be because Roman
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Reigns is not flying to Riot and Cody is front
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: and center on the event poster, so he's going to
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: be defending his championship there. The only question is against who.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: He's not losing the title to gun Thro on. I
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: just cannot see him losing the title to gun Through
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: on Friday. Sammy's Ain being in there. They want you
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: to believe because the issues of late, the heat that
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Cody and Sammy have had, they were in the ring
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: together on Friday, the most compelling segment, by the way,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: on the entire show. Sammy slapped him immediately started apologizing,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it. Forgive me. I'm sorry,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And then Cody slapped him right back.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: And then Sammy went and grabbed the chair. He was
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: about to bring the chair into the ring, but he
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: thought better of it. He dropped it and he left.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Right. There's heat between these two, so.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: They want you to think, uh oh, right, Cody's belt
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: is in grave jeopardy. Now it's Sammy's ain't in there
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: as the referee. I don't know how the finish is
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: gonna go. I think it's gonna go in such a
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: way though where we it's kind of left very ambiguous
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: who the better man is. We're not gonna get a
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: clear cut, straight winner. I don't believe on Friday. I
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: do think that all roads likely lead to a triple
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: threat at Night of Champions with Cody, Sammy, and Gunther.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And I think that would be a good main event
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: for that show.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: That would be a match I would genuinely be looking
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: forward to because I'm into the Cody and Sammy stuff.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: It's kind of weird, like Gunther is almost an afterthought
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: in all this. They just have not been doing anything
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: interesting with him lately. But the Cody and Sammy stuff
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: to me, that's been the most interesting stuff that's been
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: going on on SmackDown to the point where and I
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: would not have said this a few months ago. In fact,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: when he wrestled and lost to Drew McIntyre at the
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Royal Rumble in riodam me to me, that was as
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: low as he's been since, even like pre bloodline, just
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: nothing interesting about him, completely, just vanilla bland character with
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: no real sense of direction. The idea of him being
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: a world heavyweight champion at that moment, not interested, couldn't
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: see it. Here we are now six months later, and
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the script has flipped, and I feel very differently about
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Sammy and that if they wanted to put the title
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: on Sammy at Night of champions, if they wanted to
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: put the title on Sammy, it's SummerSlam. I'm on board
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: with the idea of WWE belting up Sammy's ain right
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: and again for a brief period of time. He's not
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: gonna have the championship for very long. I think it
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: would be a short run. But even a short run,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I'm on board if that's where this is heading. I'm
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: okay with that. I'm actually more okay with that at
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: this point than I would be just putting the belt
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: on Gunther. At least Sammy has an interesting story arc
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: going on.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: He's a heel kind of but not totally right.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: He's got his rider die fans, and he's making a
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: lot of very valid points frankly in these promos about Cody,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: not unlike his buddy Kevin Owens when he was feuding
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: with Cody, he was making a lot of very valid
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: points too, even though he was the heel in that feud.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Ria Ripley, she's the WWE Women's Champion on SmackDown. She
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: is out with a knee injury that she suffered in Italy.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: It is currently being evaluated. They set a timeline for
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: her return is going to depend upon how she responds
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: to treatment. So the last time we saw her in
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: the ring was against Jade Cargill at Clash in Italy.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: They had what I thought was a better match even
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: than the one they had at WrestleMania. Riha retained after that.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: She worked two trios matches with Charlotte Flair and Tiffany
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Stratton against Fatal Influence on their European tour. I don't
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: know how much Rhea did in those matches, but that's
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: the last time technically that she's been in the ring.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: But it sounds like the injury may have happened, maybe
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: not on the tour, but maybe it happened at Clash
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: in Italy. But in any event, hopefully it is not
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: too serious that it would take her out of SummerSlam
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: or force them to have to strip her of the championship.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Obviously that would suck. It would take a major name
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: off the table for that pay per view. I'm sure
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: that's the last thing they want, but that's where things
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: stand right now. I guess it could go either way.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: It's fifty to fifty as far as her ne goes
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: now false finish. HQ was reporting this week that J. C.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Jane is being considered internally as a potential candidate to
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: challenge Rya for the championship at SummerSlam, and I'm okay
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: with that. I mean, that's not a marquee match. Jac
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: is still very new to the main roster, but jac
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: is a star on the rise in that division. I
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: would have no issue with that being the match. There
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: are bigger matches that they could do for that show
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: that I would like to see. But if it was
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: to be rear Ripley against j C. Jane. I think
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: that would be fine if that was the SmackDown title match.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: I mentioned Jade Cargill. Jade Cargill did not have a
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: good night on Friday. She was part of a four
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: way Queen of the Ring with Charlotte Flair, Soul Ruka,
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: and Lyra Valkyria, and we got our first taste of
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: the eventual singles match between Charlotte and Jade, and God
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: bless them. I hope that by the time we get
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: to SummerSlam or whenever that match actually happens, they go
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: out there and they can have a great match. This
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: was anything but on Friday, I'm just I'm watching it.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I mean I could point to specific moments and things
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: that happen. I'll just kind of distill it down to this.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I was watching them to see how they work together,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: and it was very clear to me. And this is
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: a noticeable thing and a lot of Jade matches, but
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, it was just more noticeable here. I
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: didn't notice it as much in the match with Rhea
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, very very tented, very very deliberate,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: almost waiting for Charlotte. It looked like to guide her
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: into what they were supposed to do next, and it
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: just You're watching this match and it looks like it
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: looks like they're going through the motions of a playfight.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Right when you watch a wrestling match, you don't want
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: to be actively thinking like, okay, I could see like
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: the little thought bubble popping out of their head. What
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: are we doing next?
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: You know what's the next spot?
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: And that was the vibe I was getting from these two,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: very slow and very boring and very bad, very bad.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I hope that they can clean that up by the
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: next time they're in the ring together, because that's a
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: big match. That's still a big marquee mash, the first
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: ever singles match with Jade and Charlotte, Right, you could
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: do that at Summer Slam, but I hope it's a
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: hell of a lot better than whatever the hell that was.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: On Friday, Wressell Votes Radio is reporting that a match
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: between Jade and Charlotte has been penciled in for SummerSlam.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: So where do things stand with the Queen of the Ring?
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair was the lone SmackDown talent to pick up
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: a win in either tournament this year. That is pathetic.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: That is pathetic, But Charlotte Flair moving on was the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: right outcome. She will now wrestle Live Morgan on SmackDown
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: this Friday. In the semi finals. EO Sky is going
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to be rest Raquel Rodriguez. I imagine that would be taking
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: place tomorrow night on RAW. I don't think they've said when,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: but let's say it happens tomorrow. So what are we
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: looking at? We could be.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Looking at Live against Raquel, an all judgment day final,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: which I would rather not see. We could be looking
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: at EO against Live, which I would be fine with.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: EO against Charlotte would be even better. I'm thinking Stephanie
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Vequier returns this week to cost Live and then they
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: go off to fight for the Women's title at Night
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: of Champions. Charlotte meanwhile and EO they battle it out
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: in the finals. We end up with Queen EO. That's
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: where I'm thinking this is headed. In the King of
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: the Ring. The SmackDown sweep was completed on Friday. The
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: SmackDown burial was completed on Friday. Even more impressive than
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: the Knicks sweeping the seventy six ers in the Caves
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: right out of the playoffs this year was the SmackDown
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: sweep that we saw completed on Friday. Opah, fam he
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: is gonna get Dominic Mysterio on Raw Tomorrow night. On
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: the other side of the bracket, we got our first
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: real upset on Monday, where it looked like Seth Rollins
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: was a shoe in to not only go to the
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: semi finals, but to go all the way to the finals.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: He got bounced in the opening round against Javan Evans,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Ricky Saints and Tallatanga thanks to bron Breaker and the Vision,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: and Javon Evans ends up the beneficiary. He is moving
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: on to the next round.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: I actually like that.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe I should have seen it coming after Breaker failed
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: to win his match the week before, but I was
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: still expecting Seth to advance, so when he didn't, I
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: was surprised. So the only thing left to decide was
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: who would Javon Evans be facing in the next round
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: out of jay Usso, La Knight, Royce, Keys and Finn Balor.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Keys and Balor were SmackDown's last hope. That hope was
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: extinguished when they had the yeat Man Pin La Night
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: and so jay Usso was moving on.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Not that it was gonna happen anyway.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: But if any La Night fans were holding out hope
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: for an eventual world title run, you gotta give it up.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: It's not happening. You gotta let that go. He's on
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: the wrong side of forty and they don't see him
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: as world title material. That's just the way it is
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: and that's not going to change. But they went with
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: the least appealing of all the available options. Jay Uso
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: against Javon Evans is of no interest to me. Jay
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Uso against Obafemi in the finals is of no interest
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: to me. Jay Uso winning the Crown is of no
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: interest to me. Jay Uso challenging Cody Rhoades for the
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: WWE title at SummerSlam is of no interest to me.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Jay Uso challenging Roman Reigns for the title at SummerSlam
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: is of even less interest to me based on the
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: last match they had at SummerSlam. Jay Uso winning another
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: world title is of no interest to me. Yet, this
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: is where we are right now, and we could very
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: well be looking at King Yeat because if brock Lesner
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: doesn't show up on Wrong Tomorrow Night, he is almost
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: certainly showing up in Riod to screw Oba out of
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: a win, and if it's against jay Uso, then that
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: means Jay wins. Now, as I see it, that's the
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: only way jay Uso gets to the crown. It would
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: have to work that path I just laid out. That's
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: exactly how it would have to go down. If it
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: goes down that way, then Jay wins. How awful would
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: that be for Oba Femi to go to the finals
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: and lose to jay Uso? Right, that would be just terrible. Now,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: I'm keeping hope alive that we could end up with
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: a last minute replacement in the tournament. I went over
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: this idea last week. I brought it up, the idea
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: being that you get a last minute replacement if Javon
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: or Dom or even Oba were to get taken out. Right,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: who's to say that brack Lesner doesn't show up tomorrow
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: to take out Oba before the match with dom even happens.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Dominic mentioned that in an email. Yeah, Dominic, mysterio. I'm
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: talking about Dominic from Connecticut who sent an email in
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Brock returns.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Let's just lay this out.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Brock returns tomorrow night right, a surprise ambush. Maybe he
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: breaks Oba's arm with a kmora lock. Right. So now, oh,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: but he wants to go, he can't go. Medical will
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: not clear him, and so Dom is of course he's
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: over the moon. He thinks he's going to the finals,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: and Adam Pierce says, you still need to earn your
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: spot in the finals. I'm going to find a replacement
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: next week on Roy You're going to face that person.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: That person ends up being oh, I don't know, cm Punk,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: who beats jay Uso then in the finals chooses Cody
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: to challenge, which would explain the jump from raw to
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: smack Down if they do move Punk over to smack
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: then and we get Cody against Punk at Summer Slim.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: That's so what I mentioned before, Like you might look
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: at Cody and Punk and say how they going to
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: get there? There's not enough time. No, there is time.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: There is if you wanted to do it at Summer Slim,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: that's how you do it. And I love that idea, right,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: That's the sort of thing I was getting at when
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I talked about getting a replacement in there last week.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Whether it's Orton MacIntyre, Punk, there's a few different people
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: that could be slotted in there who are Mia, right, now,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: but you have to imagine they're going to have a
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: role at SummerSlam. They could still salvage this thing and
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: give us something unpredictable, give us something fun, but like
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: a good unpredictable, not unpredictable for the sake of being unpredictable,
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: but unpredictable in a good way. There's still time. And
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: with that idea, let's say you went with the broken
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: arm angle. It puts Oba on ice just long enough
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: to kill time before the big Summer Slam finale with
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: brock Lesner, where now Oba has a real reason to
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: want to kill this guy. He cost him a World
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Championship match and he broke his arm. I like it.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: The thing is WWE does not know how to book tournaments.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: They generally do a very poor job of it when
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: it comes to the main roster. The Cruiserweight Classic, the
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: May Young Classic, the United Kingdom Tournament many years ago,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: those were all great. When it comes to the main
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: roster stuff, they don't know how to do it. They
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: just don't know how to do it. This would at
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: least salvage this thing and make things a lot more
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: interesting heading into SummerSlam.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: We have more legal news.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: The Department of Justices Antitrust Division has given the greenlight
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: for Paramount sky Dance to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery for
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: one hundred eleven billion dollars. This comes from Politico. The decision,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: announced on Friday, paved the way for Paramount to combine
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: with the entertainment and media company behind a vast film
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: and television studio, CNN and the HBO Max streaming service,
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: which would be combined with Paramount Plus to create a
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: new offering boasting about two hundred million subscribers. The deal,
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: which would upend the Hollywood ecosystem by combining two historic
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: rival studios, is opposed by many in the entertainment industry,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: who feared it could lead to mass layoffs, among other concerns.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: After an extensive review, DOJ officials determined the transaction did
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: not pose a threat to competition and declined to challenge it,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: said the people who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: The department approved the merger without requiring any divestitures, behavioral remedies,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: or concessions, according to one person. In a statement, the
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Antitrust Division said its eight month review determined based on
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: the evidence received in its investigation that the transaction is
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers,
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: of course not, and could ultimately increase it by creating
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: a stronger competitor across streaming, television and film. The Department
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: said investigators reviewed more than two million documents, conducted hours
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: of depositions, and worked alongside state attorneys general before reaching
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: their decision. Now where this is relevant to Pro Wrestling,
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: which is again just a very minor part of the
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: impact that this will have. WBD is the media partner
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: of all Elite Wrestling, Dynamite, and Collision. They err on
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: TBS and TNA HE respectively, aw programs and pay per
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: views they stream on HBO Max. So this is a
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: deal that will affect their future, no doubt about it.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: At the end of their current deal, everything is up
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: in the air as to whether or not their new
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: bosses are going to want to keep Pro Wrestling on
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: its properties, and if so, if they would be willing
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: to pay Tony Kan at least what he is currently
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: making on their existing deal, if not more, because you
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: would have to think that Tony is going to want
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: an increase on their next deal.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: He's not going to want it to be flat.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: But this is also a company that's going to have
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: an awful lot of debt to pay off. Are they
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: going to be willing even if you ignore it, ignore
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: any relationship that they have with TKO through UFC and
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Paramount Plus and all that, are they going to be
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: willing to go all in on the Sikos and dole
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: out six or seven hundred million dollars. Wrestling is still
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: cheaper than a lot of other sports properties, right and
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: it is year round. You can't ignore that, no offseason,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: so that makes it very attractive. But we're not going
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: to know the answer to that question for a while yet.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: That's if the deal even goes through. It probably will.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: But I bring this up because even though the DOJ
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: approved it, they gave it its rubber stamp of approval,
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: and we all knew they would. We knew this thing
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: was going to sail right through. That was never really
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: in doubt. They still have the issue of the California
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: State Attorney General, this guy Rob Banta. He says that
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: the deal remains under investigation and he could potentially be
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: joined by other state attorneys general in trying to block
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: the deal. And if you don't think that they can
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: do it. It was only a couple of months ago here
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: in New York that the state Attorney General, Letitia James,
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: and seven other state attorneys general were able to get
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: a court order halting another big media merger between Nextstar
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: and Tegna. They filed a lawsuit in March to block
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: the merger. They got a preliminary injunction preventing them merger
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: from going through until the lawsuit is litigated. So at
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: the very least they could block this and they could
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: stall it out for a while. And if they do that,
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: and frankly, even if they don't, I mean, there's still
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: the international hurdles that this thing has to go through
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: with the EU and whatever. I mean, this isn't just
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: a domestic deal. This has implications all over the globe.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: But where it gets interesting is if this deal doesn't
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: close by the end of September, because they have had
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: this very aggressive timeline where it's like, we think this
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: deal could be done by the end of September, Like
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: that's a very ambitious timeline. If it doesn't get if
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: it doesn't get done by the end of September, Paramount
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: has to pay an extra six hundred and twenty seven
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: million dollars for every three months after that, every quarter
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: that the deal does not close, it's what they call
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: a ticking fee. It's tucked away in this deal.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: I know these people have some deep pockets and they
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: got some Saudi money in there and all that. But
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: the longer this drags on, it becomes a real question
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: as to whether it even makes financial sense to do
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: the deal anymore. I mean, it did make financial sense before.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: I mean again, you're talking about a company that has debt.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Now they're gonna have debt on top of debt. None
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: of this makes any sense. I mean, you understand why
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: they want all of these properties, but financially, I'm saying
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: it doesn't make any sense. It's gonna make even less
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: sense though, for every month that ticks by that this
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: deal does not get done. And this comes from a
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: post wrestling story on Wednesday. AW is now accusing Ryan
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Nemeth of misrepresenting and misleading conduct, and they are seeking
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: to move the arbitration process in Nemeth's lawsuit to the
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: state of Florida. I'm gonna read you from the story here.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Despite an agreement to move to arbitration. Last year, AW
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: and Ryan Nemeth remain at odds with the promotion, petitioning
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: the court to compel Nemath to arbitrate under the terms
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: of his previous contract or. AAW performer filed a complaint
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: in February of twenty twenty five against AW, Tony Kahan
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: and Phil Brooks CMPUNK in the Superior Court of California,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: alleging assault, professional retaliation, and being blacklisted from the industry.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: He also accused AEW of breach of contract, breach of
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. In April,
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Nemath voluntarily dismissed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court,
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: agreeing to take the matter to private arbitration. Therefore, AAW
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: dismissed its own petition in the US District Court of Florida,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: where it was seeking to compel Nemuth to private arbitration
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: per the language of his AAW contract, where matters would
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: be adjudicated one year later. AAW says that Nemath has
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: misrepresented and misled them through his conduct. The wrestling company
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: filed a petition on June fifth in the U S
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: District Court in the Middle District of Florida to compel
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: Nemath to arbitrate the dispute at a jam's administrative office
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: nearest to Duval County, Florida, and be adjudicated under Florida law.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: JAMS is a private company designed to help resolve disputes
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: and arbitrate. It is the company that AW has designated
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: in its contractual language to settle any disputes. It has
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: twenty nine locations worldwide. It is based in Irvine, California.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: After agreeing to move to arbitration, AW says that Nemath
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: filed a demand for arbitration with a jam's office in
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Orange County, California, and added an assortment of unsupported claims
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: under California Labor Code. AW states that the California Labor
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Code does not apply here because Nemoth was not an
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: employee and he was classified as an independent contractor. AW
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: attempted to move the claim to Florida last November, but
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: on December two, JAMS declined. JAMS presented both sides with
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: a list of ten potential arbitrators, with six located in California,
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: three in Florida, and one in New York. The sides
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: have the option to strike two of the options and
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: rank the remaining ones in terms of AW argued that
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: the number of California arbitrators favored NEMETS as opposed to
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: the number of options in Florida, and that arbitrating in
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: California is in violation of the express terms of the agreement.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: AW seeks to have the terms of nemetz contract deemed
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: valid and enforceable and to have Nemeth arbitrate his claims
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: that the JAMS administrative offices nearest to Duval County accordingly
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: the arbitration would fall under Florida law. It also wants
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: to prevent NEMETH from prosecuting and arbitration and violation of
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: the agreement, and is seeking reasonable attorneys fees and costs
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: incurred in this proceeding in any other such relief to
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: which the petitioners may be entitled. And in a separate
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: filing on Tuesday of this past week, AW and Tony
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Khan are seeking to seal confidential information related to the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: three independent contractor agreements that NEMETS signed from twenty twenty
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: one to twenty twenty three. They argue that the agreements
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: contain sensitive, confidential and proprietary information belonging to the petitioners, including,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: but not limited to, information related to its business practices,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: internal economic structures, compensation agreements, and intellectual property. This is
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: the same Ryan nemeth who tweeted about CM Punk without
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: naming him, but it was very clear who he was
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: tweeting about the night that Punk returned on Collision. This
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: was months after brawl Out and Punk came back. Remember
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: he got in the ring and he cut that promo
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: and he made that counterfeit Bucks comment. He tweeted that
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: Punk was literally the softest man alive, which he later
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: claimed he tweeted as a heel. See he was in character.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: He's also full of shit. He knew exactly what he
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: was doing when he made that comment. It was almost
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: like he was trying to will a match with Punk
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: into existence. He was trying to start like a social
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: media angle on his own, to try to angle for
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: a match with Punk, which was never gonna happen because
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Tony kahm barely even used Ryan Nemmoth at the time.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: The last thing he was going to be doing was
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: working with a star like Cmpunk, not that Punk would
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: have allowed it anyway. I mean, he would have just
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: banned him from collision like he was doing everybody else.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: But this is what led to Punk angrily confronting him backstage.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: He was ready to throw down, right, This was like
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: two weeks after they had just brought him back and
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: the guy's ready to throw hands. But at the time
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: I defended Punk in this regard. One of the things
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: that Nemath alleges is that he was ordered to antagonize
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: CM Punk, who did not need a lot of antagonizing
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: back then. I mean, the dude had a hair trigger
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: in that company. If that's true, and there was a
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: person or there were people behind the scenes in AW
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: that were using Ryan Nemmoth as sort of a vehicle
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: to poke the bear and get Punk to lash out
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: so that maybe then they could turn around and fire him.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Those people should have been fired. We never found out
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: who those people were. Again, if he's telling the truth here,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: we never did find out who those people were. But
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: if that happened, those people should have been fired, right.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: We can all use our imagination about who those people
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: probably would have been, So there was never any chance
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: of that happening. But still that was a serious allegation
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: that he made. I don't know if Nemth is gonna
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: get anything out of this case, and he was hardly
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: a major player there. But as I said at the time,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: there are no innocent parties in this story, not Ryan Nemeth,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: not CM, Punk, not Tony Kahan, not anybody else. I
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: don't think there was a single person, frankly, who came
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: out of this whole fiasco, everybody who got roped into it,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: who really came out of it looking like, Hey, you
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: know what, this person got a raw deal here. This
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: person is the only one who looks good out of
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: this whole thing. Nobody looked good. Everybody looked terrible. Nemath,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: by the way, took another veiled shot at Punk a
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: few weeks ago on X after those photos surfaced that
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Punk looking jacked at the gym. He said, I love
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: that straight edge guys, or like, nothing is ever going
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: in my body ever except peds, which I will be
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: putting in my body actually very often now that I
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: do steroids. But of course that does not break my
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: sacred vow. I am more disciplined than you.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Gee.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: I wonder who he could be talking about there. I
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: can't wait for Punk to show up on WWE television
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: looking exactly the same size that he was the last
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: time we saw him, which is exactly what I expect,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: Just so we could be done with this whole Punk
• 1:04:35
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• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Dark Side of the Ring season seven, which kicks off
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: on Vice TV with a double episode on Tuesday, July seventh.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: I don't have Vice TV, but I will. I will
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: find some way to watch these and resume the reviews
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: that I've done for every season so far. The schedule
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: is as follows. July seventh, Jeff Jarrett Parts one to two,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: and then July fourteenth is gonna be Jeff Jarrett Part three.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: So what these are It's not just Jeff Jarrett, it's
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: TNA and Jeff Jarrett. They've created a three parter. First
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: two parts are gonna air on Night one, and then
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: every week thereafter there'll be a new episode. Part three
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: will be on the fourteenth of July July, I believe
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: July twenty. First I want to say is Samoa Joe
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: against Necro Butcher. They're gonna have their own episode. They
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: had this one nine minute match on the Indies many
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: years ago, and they're gonna devote an entire forty five
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: minute episode to this. July twenty eighth, Big Boss Men,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: August fourth, Renegade, Rick Wilson, August eleventh, Paul Orndorf, August eighteenth,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: Missy Hyatt, and August fifteenth, Zach Gowan. I think of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: all of the ones here, the ones that I'm probably
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: looking forward to the most in terms of my level
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: of interest would be Big Boss Men, because I don't
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: know what's particularly dark other than the fact that he
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: passed away very young. I kind of see that maybe
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: as being similar to the John Tenta episode, So I'm
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: looking forward to that one and the Renegade one. The
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: Renegade one is that is the dark side of the
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: ring story.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: The schedule it says July fourteenth for the Samoa Joe
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: Nekro Butcher one as well. That has to be a typo, though,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking because I'm pretty sure the only week where
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: they're doing a double episode is week one, and then
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: week three is the fourteenth. That's the part three episode.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: But this says July fourteenth for Samoa, Joe and Necro.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Butcher is well, I have to check on that. I'm
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: guessing it's a typo and it's the twenty first, but
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe they're skipping July twenty first for
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: some reason. And even more legal news. You know, I
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: may need to get my law degree to keep up
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: with all of this. This is a fall to a
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: story I first brought to you on SoundOff nine fifty seven.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: The head of a New York City preschool was arrested
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: several weeks ago for embezzling nearly three million dollars in
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: tuition and blowing through thousands of dollars on WWE tickets,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: among other things. We now have an update from the
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: New York Post. The former head of a German immersion
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: preschool in Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to bilking nearly three
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: million dollars in tuition payments and blowing almost all of
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: it on luxury vacations and WWE tickets. Muriel Mizak, forty three,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: pocketed roughly two point eight million dollars in tuition payments
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: from the kinderhouse in Park Slope Parkslope, Brooklyn. According to
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Eastern District of New York, Mizak, who pleaded guilty to
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: wire fraud, embezzled the tuition by transferring payments from unassuming
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: parents into her personal accounts. She started the scheme in
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: January twenty twenty two, just two years after she was
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: promoted to director. The disgraced educator burned through the loot,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: spending more than six hundred thousand dollars on food and entertainment,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: another three hundred and fifty thousand dollars on tickets to
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: WWE Matt Well, I mean that kind of tracks given
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: these TKO prices three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: what is that three shows that she went to attend.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: She also wasted several hundreds of thousands more on luxury goods,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: food deliveries, and ride sharing services. A law enforcement source
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: previously told The Post that Mizak splurged on a VIP
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: package to Monday Night Raw and met the pros with
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: her three children. Misak's coworkers eventually raised questions about her
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: high flying lifestyle, which would be impossible to maintain on
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: her forty thousand dollars annual salary. Yeah, apparently, this dopey
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: moron here was also posting about all of her exploits
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: and trips on social media, which kind of tipped some
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: people off. The director, who has dual citizenship in Switzerland,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: claimed that she was the heir to a wealthy Swiss
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: family in an attempt to explain away her eyebrow raising expenses.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: According to a lawsuit that the school filed against her
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: in December. When Misak's ploy was eventually uncovered in October
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: of last year, the school's principal had to use her
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: personal savings to cover payroll and operational costs. Miszak faces
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: up to six and a half years behind bars on
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: top of paying two point eight million dollars in restitution.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: She could also be deported when she completes her sentence.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: She originally pleaded not guilty to wire fraud, money laundering,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: and engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property in
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: late March. You know, taking out the trash. You'll love
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: to see it. She should be deported. Let her serve
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: her sentence and then kick her ass out. It's bad
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: enough to steal from a daycare, but to spend it
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: on WWE tickets, especially for this product. I mean, yeah,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: twenty five thirty years ago, I could see it, but
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: I mean this product. Are you fucking kidding me? The
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: thing that still gets me is the one hundred and
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars she spent on food delivery services. Like again,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: that's a lot of door dash. She must have had
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: their ruby Gold VIP status. Let's get to your mailbag questions.
• 1:11:19
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• 1:11:21
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• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: you write in binder from Milwaukee Today, we talk a
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: lot about tribalism with WWE fans against AW fans. Sometimes
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: it seems a bit over the top with what fans
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: think of one brand over the other. How does this
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: compare to how fans felt about WWE and WCW during
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: the Monday Night War era.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a couple of.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Questions in the mail bag about tribalism this week, and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: there was also an interview that Chavo Guerrero gave I
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: think with Gabby af He was on that show.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: I pulled a quote from it. I just thought it
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: was timely given.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: I got a couple of questions about it, But this
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: is what Chavo said about tribalism among wrestling fans.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: He said, I don't.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: Understand that why people do that. I get that you
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: have people like who like WWE Moore. They may like
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: AW Moore whatever, but wrestling's wrestling. I don't like when
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: the fans criticize somebody else just because they don't like
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: the brand. If it's a damn good match, I don't
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: care if it was on TNA or New Japan or
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: Triple A, I don't care if it's an indie show.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: If it's a good match, it's a damn good match.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: And he's right to me, he's not wrong about that.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: I think it's I think it is very it's kind
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: of it's weird. It's just it's it's just weird and
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: sad and pathetic when people will shit on somebody because oh, well,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: they're in aw or you know they went to the FED, right.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: I hear that a lot. They went to the FED.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: You know they're done, and they talk about it in
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: these terms and it just makes them It just makes
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: them sound very unintelligent. Frankly, as far as the tribalism
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: is concerned, oh my god, I mean you talk about
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: the Monday Night War. Let me tell you something, if
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: social media existed back then in the way that it
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: does now, the tribalism would have been as bad, if
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: not worse. So I don't think it's just a product
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: of oh well, it's worse today.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't have been so bad. No no, no, no, no, no,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: no no no.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you that if social media existed and you
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: had like RSPW and message board forums. But I mean,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: if we were connected in the way that we're connected today,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: the tribalism be every bit as bad, if not worse.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: It was. It was very much the same way back then,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: even just amongst some of my friends, where you were
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: either WWF or you were WCW. So that's just a
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: small sample size, I can imagine it was like that
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: with a lot of other people. Maybe you had friends
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: who were the same way. They watched RAW, they didn't
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: watch they watched Nitro, they didn't watch RAW. They like WWF,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: they hated WCW, or vice versa, whatever the case may be.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: I was always a WWF guy. But I didn't hate WCW.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: I would tune in because, frankly, there were plenty of
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: episodes of Nitro that were a hell of a lot
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: more exciting than what I was seeing on Monday night
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: raw and flipping back and forth was part of the fun.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: So I didn't hate WCW in the way that some
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: fans would have hated WCW back then. But you definitely
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: had people who picked a team and they were loyal
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: to one team over the other, and that meant that
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: everybody else on the other side, you know, was the enemy,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: and it was shit, and it was you know this
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: and that. So I just think the tribalism was there.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: It was always kind of bubbling under the surface. It
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: just wasn't out in the open and the way that
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: it is today because everybody now has a voice in
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: a way that they didn't back then. Everybody has a
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: phone in their pocket that they can pull out at
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: any given moment, and they can tweet, they can post
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: whatever they want to at a moment's notice. There's breaking news,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: there's a jump, somebody went from this promotion to the other,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: you know, whatever the case may be. And everybody has
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: to chime in on it immediately, you know, like as
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: soon as it happens, So it would have been very
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: different and.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Not in a good way. Put it that way.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: Kevin from Washington, d C. How do you feel about
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: Bubba Ray's idea for Oba Femi at Summer Slam. Oba
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: goes on to win the King of the Ring and
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: then wrestles Lesner on Night one of SummerSlam, then Roman
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: on night two, and he wins both nights and he
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: wins the championship. I wouldn't I wouldn't hate it. I
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: mean Oba, I think Oba is that guy. I mean,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: my god, you heard the reaction he got on television
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: on Monday's fucking unbelievable. So I wouldn't hate it. But
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: then what's the plan if Oba doesn't beat Bronc on
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: night one? Like if you just think about it in
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: terms of ca Fae, right, is the idea that it
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: would be a number one contenders match? So Brock wins,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: He then challenges Roman on night two, because if not,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: then the idea doesn't work, right, You're leaving Roman reigns
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: potentially without a challenger heading into the second biggest show
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: of the year, and Also, I feel like that there's
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: a chance that could backfire. I feel like that there
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: are people who are really supportive of OBA. But being
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, you know it's Brock's hometown, is home state,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: you don't really know what the reaction is going to be.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: It's probably going to be positive. Are there going to
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: be more people who want Brock to win because they
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: want to see him get the title match on Night two?
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: So I don't know that I would do that, but
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: I still think it's more likely Seth, Rollins and bron
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Breakers next match ends up being kind of a de
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: facto Number one contenders match, and Rollins wins, and he
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: still gets Roman at Summerslim. He's out of the King
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: of the Ring, but that does not mean that we're
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: not going to get Roman and Seth. I think there's
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: still a very likely possibility we will Adrian from Dallas.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: I really hope Chad Gable gets it's an opportunity for
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: the Intercontinental title at SummerSlam, but to me, it would
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: make more sense for him to go after the US
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: title given his Olympian background. I get that Gable is
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: on Raw, but there's time for a trade or something
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: like it. What are your thoughts. I don't think it's necessary.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, just because it's the United States Championship. It's like,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: you know, who gives a shit. Trick Williams has the
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: belt right now. Putting Gable on there to challenge him
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: for it, to me, doesn't make any sense. Trick's got
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: his own thing going on right now with Carmelo Hayes
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: and Ricky Saints, and you're giving those guys the shaft.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: They have nothing to fight for.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: If you suddenly move Gable over to SmackDown, it's forced
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: and it fucks over a bunch of people. I don't
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: like that. So having him on raw go after the
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: IC title, I.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Think that's the way to go. I think he's in
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: the right place. Carlos from New York.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: Do you think aw would benefit from putting on a
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: Women's Continental Classic? What stops it from not working other
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: other than injuries? The timing You would almost have to
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: you would have to do it at a completely different
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: point in the year. You can't run two of them
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: at the same time the way that they do them.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: It would just you would have no time for anything
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: else on the TV shows. So it's like, Okay, when
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: do you do it. When is the best time in
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: the year to do it. Do you do it in
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: the spring? Do you do it in the summer, because
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: you got the owen Hard tournaments right and sometimes the
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: owen it might start in May. Sometimes it might start
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: in June, but the Continental Classic is in December, so
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: you don't want to go right from that into the
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: Women's let's say in January or February.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: That the timing of it is really going to work.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying they can't do it at some point.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: I just think the timing would be the biggest issue
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: that they would have to figure out. Marcus from Wittenberg, Germany.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: If John Moxley ever decides to go back to WWE,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: what name would he use? Will they keep John Moxley
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: or would they go back to Dean Ambrose. Because of
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: the legacy of the character in regards to the Shield,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: I think that they should keep John Moxley. It's like
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: bringing back Zach Ryder and letting him go by Matt Cardona.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: I think at this point he's more established, now more
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: well established as John Moxley, and I think you bring
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: him in as Moxley right, people would know he was
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: part of the Shield as Dean Ambrose, but you don't
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: have to call him Dean Ambrose. I mean people are
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: going to know anyway. Dan from Allentown, Pennsylvania. When I
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: heard that Ludwig Kaiser was bailed out of jail by Gunther,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: first thing I thought was this is going to end
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: up being used at an angle somehow. So how about this.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: After Americano Kaiser wins the Triple A Mega title, Gunther
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: shows up in Triple A and threatens to take the
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: title and the mask off of him and mentions the
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: fact that he was the one to bail him out
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: when he was in trouble, but Americano never showed any gratitude.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: I would have Gunther win the title, but just before
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: he's able to rip off the mask, the other Americanos
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: run in for the save. Gunther holds the time for
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: a few months while Americano Kaiser licks his wounds and heals.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: His bruised ego.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: Eventually, though, makes a triumphant return and regains the belt
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: from Gunther. So, first of all, no, I would not
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: do that. The idea though, that if Kaiser is going
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: to stay down there for the long term and play
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: out the Elgrande Americano stuff, and he's going to basically
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: be the star baby face in Triple A for I
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: do want, say years to come, but for the foreseeable future.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: Like I'm not opposed to Gunther at some point making
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: a voyage down to Triple A. Oh my god, m
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: you know, the Undertaker would love to book Gunther. I mean,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: that's his guy, that's his boy. And so maybe Gunh
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: takes a uh not a sabbatical, he takes an excursion
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: down to Triple A for a little bit and we
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: get some matches with him and Kaiser under the mask.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: I think that could be fun.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: But Gunther is too big of a piece, He's too
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: important a piece to the main roster to just send
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: him down to Triple A to work for the Mega
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: titler who cares, you know what I mean. Like again,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not opposed to him making an appearance at some
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: point a wrestling Kaiser, but this is this is not
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: the way to go about doing it. It would be
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: beneath him. Yeah, there's no reason for the main roster
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: to lose him for something like this, not for an
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: extended period of time, Like you're talking about putting the
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: belt on him and letting him run with it for
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: a few months, and I'm not sold on that Nick
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: from New Jersey. For a long time, I've had this
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: observation about the final competitors and the royal Rumbles from
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: the mid two thousands to the early twenty tens. Back
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: then there were two world titles as well. I noticed
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: in most of those rumbles, the final or sometimes even
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: the last two stars eliminated also competed in world title
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: matches that year's WrestleMania. In two thousand and five, John
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: Cena oh six, both Randy Orton and Triple H. In
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, Shawn Michaels in two thousand and eight,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: Triple H in two thousand and nine, Triple H again
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: in twenty ten both Batista and John, and then in
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: twenty twelve Chris Jericho. I always assumed on why this
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: was done was because if there was a botch and
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: the booked winner was accidentally eliminated, the booked runner up
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: would be getting a world title shot of WrestleMania anyway,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: So no harm, no foul has almost happened during the
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: infamous two thousand and five Rumble finish. Do you know
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: if there has been any behind the scenes confirmation on
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: if this was the actual logic behind these rumble finishes
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: or was this just a massive coincidence. For nearly a decade,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: there's been no confirmation of this. I've never heard anybody,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: not Bruce Pritchard or anybody talk about that. Mean, it
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: could be a good question for someone to post to
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: him on his podcast, although I know at some point
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: was it eights. I think it was late two thousands
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: is when he left the company, so he was gone
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: for several years, but like five to eight I think
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: he was still there. I mean, there may have been
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: some logic to it. I just think it probably had
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: more to do with the fact that, you know, they
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: wanted it to come down to some big names, and
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: those big names were likely to be involved in title
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: matches anyway, at WrestleMania, when you have two championships. It
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: was probably just a coincidence that it worked out that way.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think it was done where it's like, Okay,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: if this guy accidentally gets eliminated, at least we got
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: you know, if Shamus accidentally gets eliminated in twenty twelve,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: well at least Jericho's in there. Like, I don't know
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: that that was the thought process behind it. It may
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: have just been a coincidence, but no, I don't think
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: it's ever been addressed publicly. It's not anything I've even
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: ever thought about, to be honest with you, until you
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: just brought it up. Uh, mister Rod from Alexander City, Alabama.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: I recently watched the latest MLW anthology on the Extreme Horsemen.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: Do you remember this group, and if so, do you
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: have any more insight on the short lived faction. I
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: never heard of him before, so I got your question
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: and I had to look them up. Apparently it was
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: a takeoff on the OG four Horsemen. Duh. I mean,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: obviously the name Horseman is in there, but this group
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: you're talking about, the Extreme Horsemen, they appeared first and
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: Dusty Rhodes had a promotion for a while called Turnbuckle
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: Championship Wrestling TCW, so apparently they appeared there first, and
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: then later on they appeared in MLW with Just Incredible,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: Simon Diamond, Steve Corino, C. W. Anderson, and Barry Windham
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: and they were managed by JJ Dillon. And I guess
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: the Extreme Horseman name comes from a lot of those guys.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: Being involved in the old ECW, so that was the
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: first I had heard of them. I had never been
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: made familiar with them before. They were obviously a very
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: short lived group. They didn't last very long, and frankly,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: any revival of the horseman is going to end up
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: being short lived. That's why there should never again be
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: a four Horsemen. There should never again be an nWo.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna work. It's already been done. You're not
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: going to be able to do it better than the
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: og versions, so there's no point in doing it. Like,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: the worst thing they could have done was put the
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: word horsemen in there. They could have called them anything else.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: They could have called them horse shit. It still would
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: have been better than horsemen, because you're already drawing comparisons
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: to something that is far superior.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: Would do that. Nicholas from Long Island, New York. I
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: can't believe it's been fifteen years since the pro wrestling
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: world lost the great sweet and Sour Larry Sweetey. To me,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: he is the greatest what if in pro wrestling history,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: and I loved his work and ring of honor in Shikara.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: Do you know the reason why WWE did not sign
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: him in two thousand and six. I remember he appeared
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: on Raw as a parody of Nick Hogan when Randy
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: Orton was feuding with Hogan, but nothing ever came from it. Yes,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: that was the Orton Knows Best skit that they did. God,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: I had forgotten about that. I missed that, dude. I
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: always said, and a lot of other people have said
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: this too. This is not like I'm the only one
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: who has said this, but it's true. Larry Sweeney he
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: was the closest thing to a modern day Bobby heenan
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: like that guy. He should have made so much money
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: in the business. As far as why WWE didn't sign him,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: I just think he came along at the wrong time,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: you know, when he was getting popular on the indies,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: more so as a manager than an in I mean,
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: he wrestled, but he more so he was popular as
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: a manager than an inn ring talent, I would say,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: although he did both. But at that time, WWE was
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: phasing out the role of manager. Vince mcmaho Oh, it's
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: an old school thing. He didn't want managers anymore. Maybe
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: you'd have one or two, but like the art of
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: the wrestling manager it was a lost art. He was
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: being phased out. They don't have a lot of managers
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: in WWE today either, right, But it is better now
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: that it was fifteen twenty years ago, especially in AAW.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: You look at AW right now. My god, he would
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: thrive in AAW. I mean, look at Don Kallis. He's
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: all over these shows, right. That could be Larry Sweeney today.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: I think he came along ten years too soon, that's
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: what I think. Yeah, he didn't interview that year in six.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: I don't remember if it was I don't even know
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: if high spots was a thing back then. High spots
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: or are video and maybe it was something else. But
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: he said that he had not been contacted. Somebody asked him,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: have you been contacted by WWE or TNA, and he
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: said no, No, neither company had contacted him. He had
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: that one, like you said, that one appearance on raws
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: like an extra, but they just weren't interested. And that's
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: a damn shame because again that's a guy who should
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: have gone on to have a lot of fame and
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: fortune in the business and unfortunately didn't work out that way.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: Kennedy from Orlando, Florida, Buy rent or sell on these
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: three cm Punk dream matches, CM Punk against Brett Hart,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: Cmpunk against Randy Savage or cmpunk against Ricky Steamboat. I
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: gotta go punkin Savage. I gotta buy on punkin Savage.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: I'm going to rent on punkin Brett and then punkin Steamboat.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: You get you get no bad matches in this, but
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: I have to rank them in that order. Punk and
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: I have that in common, by the way, Like if
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: you ask me who's your favorite wrestler of all time,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: it's Brett Hart. But it's a tough It's a tough
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: one because macho Man is right there. Like to me,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: it's Brett and Savage. Those are the two.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: And for Punk, clearly.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: Brett and Savage were his two favorites as well, so
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: we have that in common.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: John from Staten Island, New York.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: I'm watching the King of the Ring ninety three final
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: with Brett Hard and Bam Bam Bigelow on the Vault channel,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: which is one of my favorite matches, and it made
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: me wonder, what's your favorite King of the Ring final
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: and what's your favorite wrestling tournament final? A man of
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: wrestling culture I see is John. I watched it the
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: same day they uploaded that match as well. They just
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: uploaded that the other day to the Vault Brett Hard
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: against Bam Bam Bigelow. You know what, I would say,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: that's still my favorite just because of the story they
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: told that entire night, that entire pay per view with
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: Brett through the first round the semis into the finals.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: He's all beat up, the fingers are all taped up.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: Bam Bam got to buy into the final round, so
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: he was fresh and well rested, and he was the
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: favorite going into it. And kudos to Jim Ross, Bobby Heenan,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: and Randy Savage. I know Jim Ross has said he
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: never liked working with Randy Savage on commentary because he
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: was just I mean, look, Savage was not a great commentator.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: There was something about his commentary that I enjoyed. I
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: cannot sit here and tell you that he was a
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: great commentator, and I'm sure working with him maybe wasn't
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: so so easy. So I know, JayR I never really
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: liked working with him, But like I thought that they
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: made a great announced trio that night, and I thought
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: they really helped drive home that story that they were
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: trying to convey As a match, I cannot say that
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: it's as good as Randy Orton against Gunther two years
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: ago in Saudi, Like, even with the botched pinfall in
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: their match that we all thought was leading somewhere and
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: then of course it led to nothing. That objectively, I
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: think just has to be the best wrestling match of
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: all of the King of the Ring Finals is Randy
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: Orton against Gunther. My personal favorite is still Bred against Bambam,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: but the better match is Randy Orton against Gunther. And
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: I got to give a shout out to one more here.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: I got to give a shout out to Baron Corbin
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: against Chad Gable in the finals on Raw in twenty nineteen.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: There's not a whole lot on Raw to praise from
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, but those two always had good chemistry in
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: the ring together. That was one of the better King
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: of the Ring finals they've ever done.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: It really was, And they got time too.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: That was like a fifteen to twenty minute match, you know,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: the chaos theory to Corbin, that was a thing of beauty,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: the tilt to whirl into the end of days. I
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: had been waiting for them to recreate that finish since
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: the finals of the first Dusty Roads Tag Team Classic
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: in NXT, and they did. That's how the match ended.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: You could see then how good Gable was very frustrating
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: that it took another seven years for them to realize
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: it enough to hopefully give them a real push now.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: But as far as a wrestling tournament final, I mean, look,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: there have been a lot of great tournaments over the years,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: classic ones, the Super j Cup in nineteen ninety four.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed the Cruiserweight Classic that WWE did a
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: decade ago. There's all of those great G one Climax tournaments.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: For me, I know, I gushed about it on the
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: sound off at the time that twenty sixteen G one
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: final actually the forget the final, the twenty sixteen G
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: one Climax is the greatest tournament that I've ever seen.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: That's the one that had omega Ocada three. And I
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: flip flop between calling this their best match or the
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: hour long match, which I think was their second match,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: calling that their best match. At the time, though, I
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: thought this was better than all of their previous matches,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: and one of the big reasons for it was the
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: length of the match. They had to get this done
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: in under thirty minutes. They had a time limit, so
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: they didn't have a lot of dead time that you
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: would expect early like in a big Ocada match where
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: he takes his sweet time. And I just thought that
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: that third match was fantastic. I think it was like
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: twenty four minutes or something. And that wasn't even the final.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: The final had Omega against Nito, which was just outstanding.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: I would put that match against any other tournament final
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: that I have ever seen in any promotion. And I
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: think the one that comes the closest, and this is
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: where it's tough to pick one, is the finals of
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: the men's owen Hart Tournament in aw last year with
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: will Ospray and Hangman Adam Page.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: Just unbelievable stuff.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: Like there's a reason they closed that pay per view
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: with that match, even though there was no title on
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: the line. They went too far on the near falls.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: That's the one thing I did not like about that match.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: Too many near falls. That's a big epidemic in wrestling
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: these days. But just a fucking awesome match. I mean,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: you really you can't go wrong with either one of
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: those in my opinion, as the best, you know, Osprey
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: Hangman from last year or the Omega Nito one from
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. But good question, So keep emailing me to
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: Solo Monster at gmail dot com.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: Love hearing from you, guys.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: Now, I wanted to save this for the end here
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: real quick, I've been on a movie kick lately. I've
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: been to the I've already been to the movies this
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: year in person more than I have in at least
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: fifteen years. And there's a bunch of other great movies
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: coming out this year that I'm looking forward to. I
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: saw this week on Friday, actually before Smackdan, I went
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: to go see Disclosure Day. Everybody was saying, this is
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: Spielberg's best in twenty years, Right, big Steven Spielberg, blockbuster movie,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: big summer flick. It's got aliens, right, what's not to like?
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: So I went to go see Disclosure Day. Disclosure Day
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: was more of a disappointing day for me because I
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: went into this that I really, I really wanted to
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: love this movie and I barely ended up liking it.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: And I'm just, I just I'm watching this movie and
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: then it's over and I'm sitting there and I'm like,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: you know, I saw two indie films last month, back
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: to back that had a combined budget of like barely
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: ten million dollars, both of which were a lot more
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: interesting and a lot more compelling to me. And this
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: movie here costs more than ten times that. Think about that,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: the budget for this movie to create this movie, not
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: even including the marketing, because then it's up to like
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty million.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: But the budget for this movie here was more than
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: the combined budget for Obsession and back Rooms. That's one
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: of the problems with Hollywood.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: You got all these big.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: Budget blockbusters, and some of them were great, some of
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: them were great, and then you watch a lot of
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: them though, and it's like, man, I don't think they
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: needed to spend this much money on this. I just
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: saw a movie the other day that was made for
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: a hell of a lot less and was a hell
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: of a lot better and didn't have all these big
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: name stars in it and everything. And that's a Hollywood
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: problem these days. But my issue with it is like
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: this movie, it spends so much time getting to the
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: act of disclosure, but when it's over, I'm like, this
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: is basically just your sort of run of the mill
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: enemy of the State. Remember Enemy of the State with
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: Gene Hackman and Will Smith. Your typical Enemy of the
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: State type government thriller where you have one character that's
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: escaping or running away and trying to hide somewhere, and
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: then you do the same thing with the next character,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: and you do it like three, four, five different times
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: over the course of the movie, and it's just not
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: that interesting. So like all of these like if you
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: saw any of the trailers, you basically saw the entire movie. Like,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: there really is not much else to it. I will
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: say this, I'm not gonna give away any like spoilers
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: for things that happened, but I guess this is kind
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: of a spoiler for something that's in the movie. There
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: is a there is a wrestling scene in the movie.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: So imagine, to my surprise, i had not heard about
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: this in advance, and I'm watching this movie and I'm like,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, there's a fucking wrestling scene
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: in this movie. I can't get away from this shit.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: Then there's like and that was cool, but like then
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: there's another uh. And by the way, there's a couple
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: of aw guys in that match. I won't say who,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: but like there's another scene in the movie they have
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: like this like CGI looking fox. It's just so obvious
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: that it's CGI. It's like I to the point where
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: I was laughing. I was kind of like giggling to
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: myself like this, really you could find like a real fox.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: This this looks fucking dumb. But yeah, like it was
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: over and I'm like, man, that's it. I'll tell you
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: what my other issue with the movie was. And this
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: isn't necessarily the fault of like the movie itself.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe in a way it kind of is.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: But it's kind of a victim of where we are
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: today in the world where everything is AI in terms
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: of like the videos that you see. You'll see clips
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: on TikTok or ig and stuff like that, and it
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: could be hard to discern what's real and what's not.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: Like there are videos that will pop up on my
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: feed and I genuinely like sometimes it's obvious and then
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: other times it's like I don't know if this is real.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: This is the age that we live in now to
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: where you can put a video up of almost anything,
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: and I feel like nothing would shock people anymore because
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: all they would do is be like, oh, that's gotta
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: be AI. Right, even if it's real, they would probably
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: look at it and go, oh, that's AI. So like
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: when they build to the big disclosure at the end
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: of the movie and all this, like you know, confidential
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: footage that's being released and all this other stuff that's
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: kind of the gist of it. I'm like, it didn't
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: hit the way that it probably would have hit twenty
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: years ago or even even ten years years ago, because
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: now it's like this big revelation that's.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: Going to change the world.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know what, if something like this
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: were to happen today, I feel like half the world
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: just wouldn't even believe it. They would just chalk it
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: up to being some fake, phony AI video. So it's
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: like I'm sitting there going, what's the big deal? You
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, It's just that's just the product
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: of the way the world is now. Unfortunately, so I
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: don't know this just it didn't work. It didn't work.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: And if this is supposedly Spielberg's best in twenty years,
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: it's like a return to form for the great Steven Spielberg, right,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: and he is I mean, look at look at his
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: body of work. My God, you know, get Jaws in
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: Jurassic Park and Shindler's List and on and on, and
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: if this is a return to form for Steven Spielberg,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: then I'm sorry to say the magic is gone et
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: this is not anyway. I think I gave it a
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: star rating on my letterbox to count. You can follow
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: me on letterbox at the solemn there is my handle
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: on there. I'm seeing Toy Story this week. I'm very
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: much looking forward to this. Actually, I've never seen a
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  Speaker 2: bad Toy Story movie. Now, you could say, oh, they
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  Speaker 2: should have stopped after the second one or the third one. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of felt the same way. And then I
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  Speaker 2: saw the fourth one and I said, fuck, this is
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  Speaker 2: a great movie. So it's like, hey, as long as
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  Speaker 2: they have a great concept for these movies, you know,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, keep making Toy Story. It's not like they're
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  Speaker 2: coming out every year with a new Toy Story. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's been how long has it been seven eight
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  Speaker 2: years since the last one? I know, for like at
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  Speaker 2: one point there was a gap of like over a
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  Speaker 2: decade between the two of the Toy Story movies. Like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: as long as they can come up with a really cool,
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  Speaker 2: fun concept or idea for it. It's not like the
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  Speaker 2: characters have to age necessarily, although I think they probably.
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  Speaker 2: I think they aged Woody in this one, and I
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: saw some still shot of Woody with a bald spot.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm looking forward to this and then after that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's anything after that for a while.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think I have any movies on my watch
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  Speaker 2: list until the end of Oak Street, the JJ Abrams
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  Speaker 2: movie in August.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they have these trailers out for The Odyssey,
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  Speaker 2: this big epic movie that's coming out next month on
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: the seventeenth. I don't know. I'm kind of in between
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  Speaker 2: on that. I don't know if I should see it
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: or not. I know they both have Ann Hathaway in it.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: Ann Hathaway is in The Odyssey, and then Anne Hathaway
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: is one of the stars in the end of Oak Street.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: Hollywood just recycles the same actors over and over again.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: Have you ever noticed that? Anyway, I'm gonna be back
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  Speaker 2: with you next Sunday. That will be for episode nine
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: sixty eight of the sound Off. We will have our
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  Speaker 2: own disclosure of all the new wrestling news of the
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  Speaker 2: week next week. This week just be aware. We have
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  Speaker 2: the Raw post show on YouTube. Monday night. Tuesday a
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: brand new episode drops of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show. Can
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: find that on the Ariel Hellwanie Show feed wherever you
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: get your podcast from, and then Tuesday night a brand
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: new episode of Tuesday Night Titans over on JD's channel.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: I am very happy that the Knicks wrapped up this
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: championship last night because otherwise Game six would have been back.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: It would have been back at the Garden, which would
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: have been cool, but it would have been on Tuesday night,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: which would have been death. So thankfully we avoid that.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: Wednesday night is the Dynamite Post show on YouTube. There
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: will be no SmackDown post show this week. I will
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: be in Chicago for a House of Glory and there
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: is a big WWE title match happening on Friday, so
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: I will save my thoughts on SmackDown for the sound
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  Speaker 2: off next week.
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  Speaker 1: That's how we'll we'll do that. So until then, be well.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: Stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of your week,
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: Stay cool wherever you are. Had to turn the AC
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: off to record this show, and it's eighty five degrees outside,
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  Speaker 2: so I am sweat and bullets right now I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get out of here. I will see you back
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: here for nine to sixty eight next Sunday. Until then,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: take care, guys. The solo monster sounds off actually, and
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: they threw him a bone a few weeks ago. They
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: were in his home Kun for you get a really
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: good match in Spain. It's like I said at the time,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: I said, it's like the old toy that they take
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: off the shelf and they kind of, you know, they
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: blow the dust off fucking toy. Story five is coming
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: out next week. It's like opening the toy chest. Oh, okay,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: who do we got in here? A we have Axiom
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 2: in here. We haven't used Axiom in a while. I
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: forgot I even had him in there. And you pull
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: him out of the toy chest and he's kind of
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: dented and he's all fucked up and stuff. But like
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: you play with him for a little bit and then
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: you throw him back in there, you close the lid,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: and you don't think.
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  Speaker 1: Of him again for another nine months. That's Axiom.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: There's so many people that you can use that analogy
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: for on this show. But that's the case with Axiom,
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: and that's the case of Ray Phoenix. The solom Monster
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