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Thank You for Being Here: Wrestling Reflections, John Cena’s Farewell & Closing the Year Together · My Third Place Pod

• 0:00
  We're officially in the aftermath of Christmas dinner.
• 0:02
  Those plates are stacked, the leftovers are either about to
• 0:05
  become elite meals or questionable science experiment,
• 0:08
  and the durations are still up because no one has the emotional
• 0:10
  energy to deal with them yet. I know I don't.
• 0:14
  Now we're staring down New Year's Eve, which is days left
• 0:16
  in the year and one week until the birthday of this podcast.
• 0:21
  That strange stretch where everything feels reflective, a
• 0:23
  little chaotic, and somehow slower all at once.
• 0:27
  This is the in between where time feels fake, your sleep
• 0:31
  schedule is optional, and every streaming app is aggressively
• 0:33
  asking you sure you don't want to finish one more time thing
• 0:37
  before the year ends? You sure you don't want to
• 0:43
  finish that up? Like, I got to talk.
• 0:46
  We got to talk about Netflix situation right now because it's
• 0:49
  pissing me off. Oh, Oh yeah.
• 0:53
  And honestly, that's exactly the energy of tonight's episode.
• 0:57
  We're not rushing the year out the door.
• 0:59
  We're sitting with it for one more spin of the tape.
• 1:02
  Tonight is about checking in like humans, not algorithms
• 1:06
  talking about this thing that stuck, the stuff that surprises,
• 1:09
  and the stories that kept U.S. company while the year quietly
• 1:11
  unfolded. Synchronous episode.
• 1:13
  Like standing in the living room late at night, lights still on
• 1:16
  TV, humming during the calendar. Calendar is about to flip, but
• 1:20
  giving yourself one more minute before it does be kind rewind,
• 1:25
  let it play and if you're new around here, welcome in every
• 1:29
  week we pull up a chair and I close to the corner of the
• 1:31
  Internet and dive into the things we love and the things
• 1:33
  that shaped us. We breakdown movies and TV shows
• 1:36
  from cupboard rewatchers to brand new chaos.
• 1:38
  We crack open Pokémon halls like it's 1999 again.
• 1:41
  Flipped your comic books hot off new comic book day and jump into
• 1:43
  Marvel rival talk builds lore and goes why was that so hard?
• 1:47
  Matches we had wrestling, music, fandom and everyday stories that
• 1:51
  make life weird and wonderful. It's part review show, part
• 1:55
  fandom hangout, part diary of everyday adventures, all wrapped
• 1:59
  in a ribbon of pure nineties 2000 nostalgia.
• 2:02
  Somebody just invited me to Co host.
• 2:04
  No, thank you. We're kind of busy here.
• 2:08
  We're kind of busy here doing the podcasting.
• 2:10
  Think of Friday night at Blockbuster Fresh Pokémon Pack
• 2:13
  and being told to grab a jacket even though you're already
• 2:15
  wearing two. Well then, so whether you're
• 2:18
  listening live, catching this on a walk or letting it play while
• 2:22
  life happens, welcome to the M3P vibe where community,
• 2:24
  creativity, memories collide every single week.
• 2:26
  And for day one, you know, with the deal.
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  So let's get into what we're hanging out with tonight here.
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  What's on the table? Pod decks.
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  Oh, it's going to be the three of us.
• 2:34
  We have a lot to say. It's the end of the year check
• 2:39
  in and it should feel human, not clinical.
• 2:43
  Maybe I'll put in some marble rivals.
• 2:45
  I got to tell you something about this, Greg, because
• 2:47
  Deadpool is all over the place. A different world returning to
• 2:52
  Netflix comfort TV never failed. I've been dying to talk about
• 2:57
  this. Looking back at wrestling.
• 2:59
  Shocking plot twist. He'll turns, fate turns, and
• 3:02
  Cena's farewell toward. Sorry guys.
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  Avengers doomsday trailer reaction.
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  Big swings, big questions, immediate oversinking and a be
• 3:12
  kind of rewind moment not to recap the year, just to remember
• 3:15
  how it felt. Joining me tonight a little.
• 3:22
  You're not seeing double, but you are kind of seeing triple.
• 3:25
  Joining me tonight, bundled and pulled out the energy and armed
• 3:28
  with peppermint bark like it's pre workout.
• 3:32
  We have two guests on this episode on the final episode of
• 3:36
  the year. The final, the last one finish
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  we have straight from wrestling nostalgia herself menace and
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  from the flagship show, we have Greg, the leftover legend.
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  They're in the studio to help you navigate the chaos.
• 3:56
  Quick housekeeping before we hit play.
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  Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, blue sky, TikTok and YouTube for
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  live Cleveland bonus chaos rate this show so the acronym knows
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  that we're not just talking to ourselves like it's aim in 2002.
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  If you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment we can read.
• 4:09
  We greet them, but we can read. All right.
• 4:12
  The year's almost done the tape. Dopeworm.
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  Let's rewind and get into it. How are you both doing tonight?
• 4:19
  Pretty. Doing.
• 4:24
  Good. How are you?
• 4:27
  Doing great. So I don't think I told you,
• 4:34
  Greg, but I have a new medication for the diabetes is
• 4:41
  Monjaro still, but it's now a 10 milligram instead of a 7.5.
• 4:46
  So I took it last Saturday and last Saturday.
• 4:50
  What happened is that you ended up not having Wi-Fi.
• 4:54
  I took it last Saturday in the morning.
• 4:56
  The entire day I was nauseous. I was fine towards.
• 5:00
  I was fine for. A little bit.
• 5:02
  Once they came out, you're like, OK, now we're going to do the
• 5:05
  podcast. And for some reason I just felt
• 5:07
  like sick. I am so it lasted it lasted
• 5:12
  forever. It it felt like it lasted
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  forever. So I got some sleep.
• 5:21
  I woke up, did some part of the podcast, got some sleep, woke
• 5:25
  up. You told me that your Wi-Fi was
• 5:28
  out. That's fine.
• 5:29
  We can do tomorrow. I was sick.
• 5:32
  I don't know why I said tomorrow, the next day on
• 5:34
  Sunday, but I was like, all right, we'll do it next week.
• 5:36
  Don't worry about it. All right.
• 5:37
  So as soon as you said that, immediately went to the bathroom
• 5:42
  and started. Like.
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  Yeah, my throat was out. My throat was gone.
• 5:48
  Dude, we wouldn't be talking. We wouldn't be doing the podcast
• 5:52
  anyways. The new medications is.
• 5:57
  They told me, the doctor told me you're going to get nauseous,
• 6:00
  you're going to feel miserable if he does, at least for a
• 6:04
  month. This whole thing is going to be
• 6:05
  for a month because I already got the the other the other set
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  for the next. Month.
• 6:10
  But if it does, and if you want to go take it down to Seven
• 6:12
  Point Flanagan, you can't. It's like, let me just look into
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  it, see what's going on. I saw the side effects for the
• 6:20
  first time ever, brother, I bought Tums.
• 6:25
  I feel old, I feel old. I bought some anti stuff that'll
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  help you and I'm just like oh it's horrible.
• 6:40
  The next thing I was just like feeling bad.
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  Did your doctor not give you like anti nausea medicine?
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  No, no, because she didn't know that it was going to happen.
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  Oh, OK. Yeah so I bought some anti
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  nausea medicine. Now I'm fine, but that night,
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  like I went back to sleep and didn't wake up to like around
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  12. Went live, screamed for a little
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  bit and I was like, and everybody kept saying that I
• 7:09
  look like that. I was like, dude, you need to go
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  back to sleep. You need to go.
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  You need to go lay down. I'm just like, what are you
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  talking about? I'm fine.
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  No, my eyes were puffy, my freaking glands were swollen.
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  Everything was bad. So I'm glad your your Wi-Fi went
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  out because I would have been, I wouldn't have been able to
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  freaking record. And the other we didn't even
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  make it at night. She was sleeping.
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  Right. So that's the night where I'm
• 7:42
  just like, what the hell do I do?
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  I'm like, what the fuck? It's like, damn.
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  So that's happened this week. I'm feeling better.
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  That's good, bro. I felt better throughout the
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  middle of the week. I'm taking that other shot
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  tomorrow, so hopefully, but like since I'm taking the shot
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  regularly now, hopefully it'll be better.
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  You know, it'll feel. Better.
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  So, so yeah, that happened this past week and I'm feeling better
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  now. All right, from that, let's do
• 8:16
  projects. We like to get things off with a
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  little flight breaker from our Pod X, our sacred stack of
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  random questions Chaos prompt. And why would anyone ask this?
• 8:24
  Conversation starters. It's our version of passing
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  those in class or flipping through a Tiger Beat quiz while
• 8:29
  waiting for your hot cocoa pop tart to cool down.
• 8:31
  But now we level it up because this isn't just our warm up
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  anymore, it's yours too. Welcome to the Pod X Question of
• 8:36
  the Week mash up where we pull a question card, toss into the
• 8:39
  digital snowstorm of Instagram, TikTok thread, Blue Sky,
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  YouTube, and Spotify, and let the entire Entropy community
• 8:45
  cook. You're taking your memories,
• 8:46
  your unhinged opinions. We read them, react to them,
• 8:49
  celebrate them, and officially wonder why we gave you this much
• 8:51
  power. But that's the fun.
• 8:53
  It's a giant group chat where we accidentally overshare and then
• 8:56
  just keep going like nothing ever happened.
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  So buckle up. Our answer suggest the
• 9:00
  beginning. Yours are what makes this
• 9:02
  segment legendary. This is from 2 weeks ago.
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  We asked what's something you learned about your sub 25 that
• 9:08
  surprised you. We have more answers in that
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  category. Bethany from G70 says family
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  will be there like even when your kids in the ICU they only
• 9:18
  want want. It's Tina the shadow which says
• 9:22
  it's OK to be let people go if you're unhappy with them.
• 9:24
  It's OK to hurt. It's OK to start over again to
• 9:26
  better yourself, even if you need to remove people.
• 9:28
  You love. What's something I learned from
• 9:33
  about myself in 2025 that surprised me?
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  I'm going to say that I'm a workaholic.
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  Like I'm kind of surprised, kind of not.
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  But same time I like things my way.
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  And it's why, like I don't let people in.
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  Or if I do, then I let throw them out and kick them out.
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  Yeah. Which is pretty much that that
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  right there all right this from 2 weeks ago.
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  We're gonna do we We haven't even like talked about this, but
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  yeah, it's gonna there's so many people that answered so we I
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  cannot let what's something that brings you comfort even in low
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  energy days menace starting with you.
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  Listening to music and coloring kind of just Yep, even though
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  I'm not like coloring in a physical book, I'm coloring on
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  an app. It's still relaxing.
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  So it's just something that you could do when you when I want to
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  chill. Correct.
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  Find me comfort, play music 'cause I listen to it all day at
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  work. Recently I've been watching a
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  lot of documentary stuff so that they bring me comfort.
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  They, we, we watched a lot of documentaries this year.
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  We have, yeah. Of course, just making content,
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  you know what I'm saying? So that's what brings me
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  comfort, yeah. OK on low energy days streaming,
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  I love streaming even in low energy days like alright, I like
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  give me some you know high energy like we'll do that gaming
• 11:30
  Marvel rivals, of course opening packs that I love doing that.
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  Everybody knows that what else sleeping it off to hear.
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  There's just like so much better and listening to music, of
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  course, but sleeping it off and just like because you you need.
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  That Oh yeah. Here are the answers from other
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  people, Tina says. Watching old movies like
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  Hitchcock or lately, old Christmas movies, Summer says.
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  Drinking tea and staring at the sky.
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  La Vida Loca says dancing it out.
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  Movement is everything to me. If I stop moving, it's over.
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  Look, that's a good. Yeah, that's a good one.
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  Like I I know I've been moving too.
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  Still a little redhead says when I come home to rest my sleepy
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  head and hear voice on my phone talking to familiar chat.
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  That's us. She she she's listening to us.
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  She didn't. She falls asleep.
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  Oh yeah, this says on my low energy days I like to play video
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  games or color with the with the kiddo and watch movies.
• 12:31
  She always makes me feel better. Talking to my favorite people
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  throughout the day always helps. Then ending my night hanging out
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  with my favorite people. Nap always naps.
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  Dangerous. Dana says connecting with nature
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  by getting lost in it or bringing binging a horror
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  series. For some reason both bring me
• 12:48
  peace, Jessa says comfort foods in a good movie.
• 12:52
  Auntie Cole says coloring, jigsaw puzzles, crochet, TikTok
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  tearing, ring gaming or crochet or just low vibrational
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  existence. Next question was something your
• 13:07
  past self wouldn't believe about your life today.
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  I'm doing this that I'm talking on a podcast.
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  Usually it's about wrestling, but yeah, just being a podcaster
• 13:25
  so. There you go.
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  Love that, Greg. The same like my old self will
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  say ain't no ain't no way you'll be a Co host or podcast doing
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  this. Ain't no way like.
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  Ain't no way. Same with me.
• 13:49
  Like there's we what? You're, you're in a radio show.
• 13:53
  Right. Is that a radio show talking
• 13:56
  about wrestling out of No way. Yeah.
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  Is that that's what we're doing there.
• 14:02
  We're like, go back in time and tell yourself like, like what
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  you like, dude, do it. You love wrestling.
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  Don't let anybody tease you about it.
• 14:13
  Like what you like. And if you know, learn some
• 14:16
  stuff, learn all this stuff and like when you're like 3540 years
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  old, you're going to be a walking encyclopedia.
• 14:26
  So go for it. There you go.
• 14:30
  Like have a say. Leah says that I'm doing dancing
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  videos on TikTok because I was super shy until I met y'all.
• 14:42
  Wow. That's real time.
• 14:47
  I love it. She is like, like we, we, we did
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  this to her. You tend to do that.
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  You tend to do that to people though.
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  We influenced it. It's like, I'm not an
• 14:59
  influencer, but I'll influence you just dancing with me.
• 15:01
  Like like why do you have to dance when you're when you're
• 15:05
  fucking drunk? Why not just do it sober?
• 15:10
  Yeah, just have fun with it, you know?
• 15:12
  Yeah, like, I love it. Yeah, there's that saying, you
• 15:15
  know, dance like nobody's watching.
• 15:18
  Dance like nobody's watching. Exactly.
• 15:20
  There's Lauren. Hello, Lauren.
• 15:22
  Welcome in. Glad you're here.
• 15:23
  Hi, Lauren. Sam.
• 15:29
  Haniel says that I'm single, relatively happy and make it on
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  my own that one girl Missy loves as I got to the worst year of my
• 15:37
  life in 2010. DBA Free Spirit says that I
• 15:40
  would be flying solo a first time full time college student
• 15:44
  in my 50s. I'm so peaceful.
• 15:45
  I'm glad I didn't write myself off.
• 15:47
  In your 50s. In your 50s, congratulations,
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  that is. Amazing.
• 15:54
  Awesome. Let's go 44 we could do it I
• 15:59
  could do it so poison karma says witchcraft is real and we are a
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  witch and capable of doing wonderful things.
• 16:06
  OK Savage peace 2008 says that I become everything I wanted to
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  be. I was fucking it was fucking
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  hard, but she would jump for Joey also got to tell you guys
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  about this whole section right here.
• 16:21
  Mommy's little monster don't get married.
• 16:25
  I know it's the cliche saying, but you're you're thin you
• 16:28
  weighed 129 lbs. We did it.
• 16:31
  Haniel says that I'm single relatively happy to make it on
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  my own. Jane, my super shy passed off
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  Wouldn't I believe that I would ever do videos for millions of
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  billions to watch on TT pass up and I believe that someone would
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  think I'm cute and beautiful aw. Thanks.
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  Hey. Aw, that's so cute, Lucky, Danny
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  says. I took it back.
• 16:56
  I took it back. Hallelujah.
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  Hallelujah. Amen.
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  Amen. Telling.
• 17:01
  You that we have no idea what. They're saying, but at the same
• 17:03
  time, good on you, brother, good on you.
• 17:06
  Yeah Everlast says that one day she will be alone the woods with
• 17:10
  a bunch of critters and be completely fine with that OK
• 17:15
  Bethany J7 says take care of you only you'll show up for you at
• 17:19
  the hospital even when you're showing up for another person
• 17:25
  not ready for tomorrow be Sunday.
• 17:26
  Exactly Jesse says having two beautiful daughters dragon beat.
• 17:30
  I'm actually still alive question mark Tina says tell
• 17:34
  myself I'm a lot stronger and cable than I realized Corey be
• 17:37
  good that I was right about Brooklyn Barbie 13 life is
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  phenomenal 100 prayers heart emoji Demon Hunter because I've
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  made it through everything I've been through including dying
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  multiple times almost all by myself with no one else to be
• 17:57
  around Vanessa going that guy was there all along and I don't
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  have to hide from him anymore because scared of love because
• 18:05
  he loves me unconditionally. My past my past self would be in
• 18:10
  complete disbelief at every aspect of my life now so
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  choosing 1 is almost impossible. My life is so far beyond
• 18:15
  anything my past self ever imagined and not in a good way.
• 18:18
  Kay Johnson with the freaking paragraph.
• 18:23
  She would just be shocked and proud that I'm still here and
• 18:26
  still have a heart of gold. I say to her that even after
• 18:29
  everything you've been through, give yourself some grace.
• 18:31
  You were never meant to deal with all that you did and still
• 18:34
  do. But you'll be OK.
• 18:36
  You'll grow into something you would feel safe with and so
• 18:39
  proud of. Keep that heart kiddo.
• 18:41
  And I think our greatest achievement, if it's our only
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  one we would be fine with, we would never let anyone hurt you
• 18:46
  again, even it meant our life. I'm the adult you would come to
• 18:49
  and that's all I needed. She needed that, she needed that
• 18:58
  next who is no longer with us. She deleted.
• 19:01
  She deleted Julia TikTok. What came true is that I'm a
• 19:05
  better mother than I had. My kids are safe, they aren't
• 19:08
  scared of me and we have love and laughter in our home.
• 19:10
  I became the kind of mother I wanted to be, the kind of mother
• 19:12
  who protects her kids and takes some kids who need to be
• 19:14
  protected. Sunny Daisy says.
• 19:19
  I don't know, depends how young this past self is.
• 19:24
  Just answer the question so. Just exactly Jessie having two
• 19:28
  beautiful daughters. The universe loves us oh so
• 19:30
  much. Tell us something, Red says.
• 19:34
  If my younger self see me today, she was thinking I'm the
• 19:36
  coolest. We had to go through a lot and
• 19:37
  I'm still here. You're freaking coolest, Bruce
• 19:42
  Alexander says literally nothing.
• 19:43
  Does this mess, does this mess make actual sense?
• 19:46
  I don't see how it could. There's no Dang way.
• 19:49
  So half of these people that answered, I have no idea who
• 19:52
  they. Are.
• 19:53
  We're not neutrals and I don't know how they showed up.
• 19:58
  They showed up though, and. I love that they like my the
• 20:03
  that question was on their FYP. They showed up and came in and
• 20:07
  they typed in like all. Right, that's what's helpful.
• 20:09
  Here you go, dude. Yeah.
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  You're. Going to put on the podcast, I'm
• 20:14
  there and you know, some of them gave us some answers, the
• 20:19
  paragraph the other ones gave us like that.
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  I was right. All right, I'm glad you are.
• 20:29
  I'm glad you're right. Hey, Lauren, how you doing?
• 20:35
  Welcome in glad you're here. What's something about your past
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  life with what's something your past self unbelievably life
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  today. Geez Louise.
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  All right, what happened? Mindset.
• 20:52
  Our expectation are officially leaving in 2025 and that's the
• 20:56
  last one menace. I'm being more positive, you
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  know, Don't let negative thinking get me down.
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  That's what I want to do. Same positive thoughts always go
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  dancing off dance. Who cares?
• 21:19
  Whoever's watching it, who cares?
• 21:22
  Do whatever you like to do. Make fun, make fun of yourself.
• 21:25
  Have fun with yourself, with everybody, Greg.
• 21:35
  I would say start to try to stay possible.
• 21:38
  I know that's not going to fly because that's not.
• 21:42
  We'll get to it. It's.
• 21:45
  Not of my nature, but I'm gonna try to be more forgiving.
• 21:49
  Just let the pet. I'm gonna try to let the past be
• 21:51
  the past and just keep pressing forward.
• 21:56
  OK, that's a good goal. Let's book.
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  On only Jane answered hope to get myself out of the bad age
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  mental health barrel viral roller coaster and try to take
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  more care of me and focus on myself as you should all right
• 22:15
  those were the projects questions we finally did it.
• 22:18
  We finally got up to date. I can't wait to talk to ask more
• 22:22
  questions for next week in the new year.
• 22:26
  And is one that you asked Menace, What is one song?
• 22:34
  What's the one song that shaped your life?
• 22:36
  Oh yeah, yeah. Like I can't even think of one
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  song. Right.
• 22:46
  Because there's songs that make me think certain things and I
• 22:52
  don't want to listen to them anymore, you know, so, but I, I
• 22:59
  don't want to talk about that right now, so.
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  OK, OK, OK. OK.
• 23:02
  We don't have to. We don't have to.
• 23:04
  Sorry. OK, Greg.
• 23:08
  Will sign to shave my life. Yes, Sir.
• 23:13
  I will say I can't bang the top but it's a queen sound.
• 23:28
  We'll do it for next week. It's fine.
• 23:31
  It's on tip next week. I had a title.
• 23:35
  OK, we'll catch up to next week. We got it.
• 23:42
  Marvel rivals, dude. So I think I told you that right
• 23:46
  in Deadpool has shown up on our he's he's he's up for next
• 23:52
  season, but he's shown up on our on.
• 23:54
  Our team. On our target, our stuff like
• 23:58
  but he's locked. Basically you're back, OK,
• 24:03
  you're back. But he showed up and then the
• 24:09
  first time they made-up a tank, he's in the tank area.
• 24:14
  Then last week he showed up being a duelist area in the TPS
• 24:20
  area the and then this week, this past Friday on the new
• 24:26
  update, he showed up you being a strategy area.
• 24:31
  So he's still locked. You're not allowed to play him
• 24:35
  yet, but he's trolling everybody.
• 24:39
  A Deadpool like he probably they're doing the same thing
• 24:41
  they did when Deadpool showed up on Fortnite when he was trolling
• 24:48
  everybody over there too, like breaking the 4th wall and.
• 24:52
  Everything. They're doing the same thing
• 24:56
  here with him where he's just like trolling you and telling
• 24:59
  you, I'm going to be this, I'm going to be that, I'm going to
• 25:01
  be this. I know you'll hate it, but no,
• 25:03
  that's not. I'm going to do whatever I want
• 25:06
  to be. They they got a Christmas tree
• 25:10
  out in the middle of Times Square.
• 25:13
  They're also going to be the ball.
• 25:16
  Drop by December 31st, by midnight.
• 25:22
  Mayor Wilson Fisk is hosting it. On the game, so that's.
• 25:26
  Going to be fun on the game. It's going to be a live event,
• 25:32
  just like Fortnite. Basically.
• 25:34
  Jay Jayden building welcome. Into Jayden Lower.
• 25:39
  It's going to be a live event, just like Fortnite and how
• 25:41
  Fortnite used to. Dozen.
• 25:45
  They had the trailers up for the teaser trailers for Doomsday,
• 25:49
  and it's just playing it over and over and over again, which
• 25:55
  you guys saw, right? Yes, that what?
• 25:59
  You guys think of it? I'm excited to see how he works
• 26:06
  and then I just want to see how the movie, how they explain
• 26:10
  everything. I've looked at a couple things
• 26:13
  online. What?
• 26:15
  Was that? I want to see a full trailer.
• 26:16
  I don't even give shit. But no Captain America on this
• 26:18
  shit. I don't see what I won't see.
• 26:21
  What's gonna be in the damn move, right?
• 26:25
  Same, like they teased us. Everybody's all saying like the
• 26:31
  why? So what's the whole point of end
• 26:33
  game If you like, you just basically killed off Iron Man.
• 26:36
  You took away Thor, you took away what's his face?
• 26:40
  Captain America. He went back to the past.
• 26:44
  And I'm thinking like, you know, when that one time when John
• 26:47
  Cena came back and told Roman that he's back because he
• 26:51
  couldn't, Roman couldn't get the job done.
• 26:54
  That's how it feels like the every every movie since End Game
• 27:01
  hasn't sold tickets that well. So they need Chris Evans, they
• 27:06
  need RDJ, they need everybody else again to come back and sell
• 27:10
  those tickets. Yeah.
• 27:13
  And it feels just like that, too.
• 27:15
  Yeah. So, yeah, I'm excited for that.
• 27:19
  All right. A different world Guy Hardison
• 27:23
  Summer Bell returning for sequel.
• 27:27
  Jane says hey to Greg and Menace.
• 27:30
  I'm pretty sure it's the voices I'm hearing.
• 27:31
  Yes, they are. Yes.
• 27:34
  Josh Coach, how you doing, Spider Man?
• 27:40
  Just doing some editing on jumping to loosen, Spider Man
• 27:42
  said. He says that was the only good
• 27:44
  one, Just Spider Man. Yeah, Far From Home or whatever
• 27:48
  it is. But that's not their third
• 27:50
  movie. It was the only good one.
• 27:51
  OK Jasmine, Guy, Carteem, Harrison, Craig, Summer and
• 27:59
  Daryl and Bell were prized the original series roles for a
• 28:01
  different World Series sequel series.
• 28:06
  Debbie Allen returns to direct and executive producer with
• 28:08
  Felicia Pride on board as showrunner and executive
• 28:10
  producer. New cast member joined the
• 28:12
  original stars with more legacy characters appearing
• 28:14
  appearances. Teeth for long time fans.
• 28:17
  Thank you for the heart me miss you too.
• 28:21
  Deadline Hollywood is reporting exclusively that Jasmine Guy,
• 28:24
  Kadeem, Hardison, Crease, Summer and Daryl and Bell will return
• 28:27
  for the new series and recurring roles.
• 28:28
  Malaya Jill Moon Hell's Kitchen stars as Deborah the free
• 28:32
  spirited 1 tension yet Rubella's youngster child of Harrison and
• 28:34
  guys of herself characters Dwayne Wayne and witty Gilbert.
• 28:38
  The series follows Deborah as she enters her freshman year at
• 28:41
  the HBCU album Matter and finds a shadow of her parents
• 28:44
  difficult to escape. She sets out to build her own
• 28:47
  legacy while having the time of her life alongside the whole new
• 28:49
  generation of Hillman's best and brightest.
• 28:51
  Summer will reprise her role as Freddie Brooks, with Belle
• 28:54
  returning as Ronaldus Johnson. Throughout the season, fans will
• 29:03
  have the chance to reunite with these OG characters, see how
• 29:06
  their lives have evolved into a different world.
• 29:08
  As as the story unfolds there will be more cast surprises for
• 29:12
  long time fans. We can't wait for lovers of the
• 29:15
  show to experience a new chapter as real continuation of legacy
• 29:18
  shows and we're excited to welcome new audiences to
• 29:20
  Hellman. Joining Moon are Lija Kai,
• 29:24
  everybody hates Chris as Rasheeda Kimbunkum, OK, one of
• 29:28
  us as lying as Kojo Cornell Young, 4 doing life as Shaquille
• 29:32
  Jordan, Aaron Hall, the idea of you as a mirror and newcomer
• 29:35
  Kennedy Reese as Hazel. Original series director and
• 29:39
  producer. David Allies returning executive
• 29:40
  producer and will direct 3 episodes including the series
• 29:42
  opener. Original series writer Reggie
• 29:45
  Rock bythewood, Get on the bus Swagger and Gina Prince by with
• 29:48
  the Woman King Love and basketball return executive
• 29:51
  producer alongside Mandy Summers, That 90s Show, Pradeep
• 29:56
  Pittsburgh and Tom Werner O'Connor Roseanne a different
• 29:59
  world. So yeah, those those guys coming
• 30:04
  back. It doesn't say when, but.
• 30:07
  I hope it comes true. I hope it happens.
• 30:11
  I'm so there. I'm excited for it.
• 30:13
  I'm excited for. It OK, so we're going to do the
• 30:21
  wrestling year review. OK, why not?
• 30:25
  We started a year with Monday Night Raw on Netflix.
• 30:29
  Did it exceed your expectations, fall short, or land exactly
• 30:32
  where you thought it would? You know, I think it, it was OK.
• 30:41
  You know, I, I think some of the storylines are like kind of
• 30:47
  iffy. But the one good thing is I got
• 30:51
  to see Roman Reigns on Monday. I had to wait till Friday.
• 30:56
  So that was good. And the fact that he keeps
• 30:59
  coming on Monday Night Raw, I'm like, OK, I guess he's on Raw
• 31:03
  now, by the way. That's OK.
• 31:08
  And I think it's gotten better. You know, I think it's starting
• 31:13
  to exceed my expectations. But I've always thought that Raw
• 31:18
  was a little too long. And the fact that they're going
• 31:22
  to make because it's three hours and now they're going to make
• 31:26
  Smackdown 3 hours, I don't know about that on starting Friday,
• 31:35
  next Friday. So the new year, we're going to
• 31:37
  get 3 hours of Smackdown. Yep.
• 31:41
  So we'll see. People already complain about 3
• 31:43
  hours of straw so. Yeah.
• 31:48
  Greg. So this is a whole review of 25
• 31:52
  or just from Monday night before 2025?
• 32:05
  You know what I mean? Of course, the big mood in
• 32:08
  Netflix, you know what I'm saying?
• 32:13
  Really. What not.
• 32:15
  It really wasn't what I expected to be though.
• 32:17
  You know, I thought I was going to be more gritty, you know what
• 32:21
  I'm saying? You know, like, it's like that.
• 32:23
  It's like watching on USA, you know what I'm saying?
• 32:26
  And with the ads, you know, and. Yeah, but it was some it was
• 32:33
  some key moments in 25. I mean, Roman seeing Roman every
• 32:40
  so often, the rise and foul of J USO.
• 32:46
  I came by. This is rise and foul, which is
• 32:49
  a shame. All boy punk.
• 32:56
  Oh yeah, our boy punk. Man yeah, our boy punk and.
• 33:03
  Air boy, not mine, There's. Our boy I know.
• 33:06
  Yeah, you too. We know, we know.
• 33:09
  Hold on. What happened?
• 33:16
  What's happening? Hold on.
• 33:19
  John Cena's, you know, saying the he'll turn and turning back
• 33:25
  to baby face and that's all you know.
• 33:30
  And just thinking, man, we did it in a time where he ain't
• 33:37
  around, though. He ain't going to be around.
• 33:42
  It still hasn't hit me. Yet you know.
• 33:44
  You know, it still hasn't hit me yet, but I know it's there.
• 33:47
  It's coming out and it. Was like, I don't see him
• 33:49
  anymore. It's like OK.
• 33:51
  I look at it like this, We, we was fortunate enough to see, we
• 34:00
  saw his beginning and we got to see his end.
• 34:05
  I can't say that with all my other heroes.
• 34:08
  Like I didn't get to see Steve Austin's beginning.
• 34:12
  I just saw his, his rise. Hell, we didn't get a real
• 34:19
  retirement match though when we at that WrestleMania.
• 34:23
  When was that? Was that 1917, 19 what?
• 34:29
  1919, you know, and oh, man, hell.
• 34:38
  But it was a hell. It was a out right here, you
• 34:42
  know? I'm saying I, I ain't gonna shit
• 34:44
  on it and I ain't gonna critique Paul.
• 34:47
  I love Leveque, you know, But I'll tell you this though, he.
• 34:56
  Well, do you have this? Here goes.
• 34:58
  They better do. They better come up with
• 34:59
  something though, 'cause it is. Get bad man like man.
• 35:02
  Yeah. Let me ask you this one.
• 35:06
  Let me ask you. Let me ask you our opinion on
• 35:08
  this, this whole John Cena thing.
• 35:11
  Do y'all think it was his decision?
• 35:13
  Decision to tap out? Yeah.
• 35:17
  Do you think it was his decision?
• 35:20
  Man. I think it was.
• 35:25
  It was but same time like on your last match and in front of
• 35:35
  kids. And.
• 35:39
  You know, yeah, the action happens.
• 35:51
  And everybody else coming in like you OK, I'm like, shut up.
• 35:56
  He. Got OK.
• 35:58
  What do you want me to say about it?
• 36:00
  That sucks. I'm I.
• 36:01
  Think it was or not either it was or not it was the worst
• 36:05
  decision ever you could have just like gave us some hope I.
• 36:11
  Think it'd have been better if you would have got pinned, you
• 36:14
  know, But I looking at it, I'm like the way he did it, it was
• 36:20
  just like a you know, like there was no it to me.
• 36:25
  It was like when Gunther Pio tapped out to Jay at Royal
• 36:30
  Rumble. Excuse me, You know, it was just
• 36:35
  to like he didn't even have him like really like tied in.
• 36:41
  No, you know, so I don't think that it it the sleeper didn't
• 36:48
  look like it was fully on. And then he was just like, Oh
• 36:53
  yeah, tap. That's it.
• 36:57
  Yeah, I, I just didn't if I, you know, of course I wanted him to
• 37:03
  go out on top, but you know, he didn't.
• 37:07
  The fact that, you know, Gunther said I'm going to make him tap,
• 37:13
  you know, that's fine. You know, he's he could he's
• 37:18
  trash shocking. So you know, he's going to say
• 37:20
  what he's I was going to do. The fact that it just looked so
• 37:28
  nonchalant, you know, he didn't struggle.
• 37:31
  It was just a you know, and he smiled about it.
• 37:35
  You know, what was that about? OK.
• 37:37
  I got it. I I'm gonna give you a company.
• 37:39
  Go ahead. I'm gonna give you a comparison
• 37:40
  about this man, OK? Star Wars Episode 4, nobody want
• 37:48
  to smile before Vader killed them.
• 37:53
  That was his way of letting everybody know.
• 37:56
  It's going to be all right, It's going to be OK.
• 38:00
  It's going to go out. We got hope.
• 38:02
  It's still hope. So that's the way I looked.
• 38:05
  Yeah. That's the way I looked at it,
• 38:07
  you know, so. But, you know, I mean, it was,
• 38:16
  if it was his decision, I, you know, I accepted, you know, I'm
• 38:22
  saying he wanted to go out on his channels, you know, but man,
• 38:31
  damn, it's crazy though, that whole aftermath for everything.
• 38:38
  OK, so the whole tournament includes the returns of and Zack
• 38:42
  Ryder. If it wasn't going to be
• 38:44
  Gunther, who did you want to see in the finals?
• 38:50
  I you know what? I actually liked the LA night.
• 38:54
  That should that. Yeah, that it would be.
• 38:56
  That should have been the final. You know, I thought that would
• 39:01
  that was a good match. I know they fought before and he
• 39:05
  was, you know, like I want somebody I've never and give
• 39:09
  somebody I've never fought a chance.
• 39:11
  Yeah, the fact that they made it Gunther kind of was like, man, I
• 39:15
  didn't like it. But in the end, you know, I was
• 39:20
  like, that was a good, it was a good match.
• 39:24
  It was a good match. I wish it ended differently.
• 39:27
  And if even if John Cena lost, I would have rather the tap out
• 39:35
  be, to me, more believable. You know, if you're gonna tap
• 39:39
  out, make it believable, not just.
• 39:43
  Oh, OK, I'm done. Even if he would have just
• 39:46
  passed that. Maybe he could have been tired,
• 39:48
  but, you know, pass out, yeah. It would be past that.
• 39:51
  It would have been no head. It would be no shit.
• 39:54
  You know, if we just passed by past that, there would have been
• 39:56
  it. It would have been no Flack or
• 39:58
  nothing. But you know, brother, this.
• 40:02
  Yeah. What's your What's your take,
• 40:06
  Eva? I rather him got a pen, not LA
• 40:13
  Knight either. OK.
• 40:15
  And. Maybe another heel?
• 40:19
  But not. LA Knight, not LA Knight.
• 40:22
  Gunther is maybe freaking solo. That would've been good.
• 40:28
  OK. I would believe that because he
• 40:30
  fought solo before and he. Got.
• 40:33
  Destroyed and for Solo to lose. Like what?
• 40:40
  Yeah. He was supposed to lose against
• 40:44
  Penta, but Penta got injured like.
• 40:46
  No, Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I wasn't thinking of
• 40:52
  Gunther. And it's like you're shoving
• 40:55
  this guy down our throat. And at the end of that, dad, at
• 40:58
  the end, it was like another fucking Roman Reigns where he
• 41:00
  shoved him on down our throats and when he started becoming a
• 41:03
  face. Yeah, I remember.
• 41:06
  Oh me, I remember that. Where that very end of Michael
• 41:13
  Cole saying tonight, wrestling has beaten.
• 41:17
  Sports container, OH. My goodness.
• 41:21
  And then the Winera guy right there, that's locks here.
• 41:25
  Yeah, 'cause he really ain't no sports entertainer though, you
• 41:27
  know, I'm saying he really like the old throwbacks to like to
• 41:31
  the 50s and shit. So yeah.
• 41:34
  So yeah, that's very, it's a true statement though.
• 41:37
  It's really tough. Great.
• 41:43
  OK yeah, CM Punk finally got his WrestleMania main event, but it
• 41:48
  came at a price. Was it worth the fall out?
• 41:52
  Did you see Seth Rollins heel turn coming or did that moment
• 41:54
  actually catch you off guard? Do you think that turn helped
• 41:58
  the story or complicated now? Was it worth it now?
• 42:04
  No, I don't think it's worth it now because but I I liked the
• 42:11
  storyline, you know, him turning because he's a really good heel.
• 42:16
  I wish that he would have been more careful so that he because
• 42:22
  this could have been, you know, gone all the way till next year.
• 42:29
  It was a really good storyline. I didn't see Paul turning on CM
• 42:36
  Punk and Roman, but it's smart. It was, I mean, it was to see
• 42:44
  the vision start up. I thought it was super.
• 42:49
  It was super good. Not what I expected, but it was
• 42:54
  exceeding my expectations, you know, because now you've got two
• 43:01
  guys, you know, in Bronson Reed and Braun Breaker that now are
• 43:06
  getting the push. I felt that they need them
• 43:13
  turning on Seth. I was like, I could see that
• 43:15
  because you could just see at least Braun Breaker turning on
• 43:20
  him because you could just see as he's talking, he's like, you
• 43:24
  know, whatever, you know, he's not agreeing with what Seth had
• 43:28
  to say. But I saw it coming.
• 43:33
  As soon as he turned around, I was like, oh, there it goes, you
• 43:37
  know? But I will say this version of
• 43:43
  the vision minus Logan Paul is awesome.
• 43:49
  I think it's awesome. Yeah, why?
• 43:51
  Why do we even log in, Paul? Was it because?
• 43:55
  And I don't even think he's going to be staying that long.
• 44:00
  And yeah, and with Austin, I don't know if Austin Theory is
• 44:05
  going to stay too, but I think if they just keep it, as, you
• 44:10
  know, Bronson Reed and Ron Breaker and Paul Heyman, that
• 44:15
  works. That works.
• 44:19
  All right, CM Punk also brought back his wife, AJ Lee.
• 44:23
  What was your reaction to seeing her back on the programming?
• 44:26
  Greg Menace, man, what what was like?
• 44:32
  What was your reaction to seeing meeting this person for the
• 44:35
  first time? You know, I, I wanted to see how
• 44:38
  she would perform. I am kind of disappointed that
• 44:42
  she hasn't really been on, you know, to, to build up
• 44:49
  storylines, right. You know, I think the whole, the
• 44:57
  whole thing with her and Becky, I'm like, I don't understand why
• 45:01
  Becky is so afraid of her, you know?
• 45:05
  And so I'm like, I talked to you too.
• 45:08
  I'm like, you know what? What's the deal?
• 45:10
  What's the deal with Becky and her in her face every time she's
• 45:16
  leaves something like she's afraid of it?
• 45:19
  Yeah, yeah. But I, I want to see more of AJ
• 45:23
  Lee. I figured when, you know, she
• 45:25
  signed her contract that it was going to be, we would see her
• 45:30
  more so I could have, you know, a better opinion of her and
• 45:35
  also, you know, a better understanding on how she
• 45:39
  wrestles. I haven't really seen that, you
• 45:43
  know, but we'll see. The jury's still out.
• 45:48
  Yeah, for someone who's seen her before, correct?
• 45:49
  What do you think? I was, I was excited and I'm
• 45:52
  saying I, I like got her, she'll come back.
• 45:55
  But then I like, Nah, she come back.
• 45:57
  Then I heard the music and I was just glued to the TV 'cause I, I
• 46:03
  remember I was watching when she was turning it up when she was
• 46:07
  the diva champion and, and she didn't pull no punches with them
• 46:12
  promos. You know, I'm saying and, and
• 46:16
  I'm and, and I'm glad she's back in this new locker room, though,
• 46:24
  without, without the nonsense, you know what I'm saying?
• 46:28
  And no Diva stuff, yeah. And and McMahon's not there and
• 46:32
  and you know, and. Like a safe.
• 46:37
  It's a safe, yeah, safe place. For her and with her mental
• 46:40
  health too, no. And, you know, people really
• 46:48
  don't think about that now though, you know what I'm
• 46:50
  saying? You know, I've heard so many
• 46:53
  wrestlers, I mean, who we look up to say it's a much better
• 46:57
  locker room compared to 10 to 15 years ago, You know, you know,
• 47:06
  and, and I just, I just help and pray that I'm pretty sure she,
• 47:11
  she going to get her training in and I'm pretty full again.
• 47:16
  We're gonna see some dream matches along the way.
• 47:18
  I know, I know he will. I know.
• 47:21
  I mean, if Nikki Bella can do. It yeah, come back and all that
• 47:24
  well. I am so tired of Nikki already.
• 47:29
  I am so tired of her. I I'm like, you know what?
• 47:35
  I get it that you're alleging and you are one of the ones that
• 47:42
  did this for that's what she says, you know?
• 47:45
  But it's like take your L and move on.
• 47:52
  Yeah, yeah. You know.
• 47:57
  Did the 2020 Hall of Fame count? Was it 2020 that they got their
• 48:03
  rings? I.
• 48:05
  Remember that? Yeah.
• 48:05
  Was it the 2020 Hall of Fame? Did that really count?
• 48:09
  Was it like 20? 20 Yeah, they could.
• 48:10
  Do we still do some get me? We were.
• 48:14
  We're in a tough spot, you. Know oh, that's a tough time for
• 48:18
  wrestling, boy, I tell you that hey.
• 48:21
  That's when I came in, when you came in.
• 48:28
  You came in at the bad time that right now, it's like the time to
• 48:32
  be a wrestling fan. But OK, welcome back to this.
• 48:41
  Which premium live event was your favorite this year?
• 48:48
  You know, I'm going to say WrestleMania was my favorite.
• 48:54
  I have not been impressed really by ESPN.
• 48:59
  Oh, God, you know, And I don't know, just to me at some of
• 49:05
  these matches that they're doing aren't making sense.
• 49:10
  And I understand that we're supposed to have a PLE every
• 49:14
  month, but adding in once, you know, it makes it too soon.
• 49:21
  You know, like Russell, was it Russell Palooza?
• 49:28
  Who came? Up.
• 49:29
  It was terrible. Came up Dixie.
• 49:31
  The name alone is terrible. I mean, I don't remember where
• 49:36
  they said they got it. From The CW had it.
• 49:38
  The app is sipped. Oh, is that what it was?
• 49:41
  ACW had it too. Reza Pelusin.
• 49:43
  OK, remember. That and then the haps itself is
• 49:48
  terrible. Besides Saudi Arabia, I think
• 49:52
  Perth and France were my favorite.
• 49:57
  Yeah, they were loud and unhinged.
• 50:01
  Yeah, you know what? They did have good, they had
• 50:04
  good energy at both of those. Even the Monday Night Raw after
• 50:10
  was still, you know, still crazy.
• 50:13
  So they hijacked. The shoes, Yeah, Who absolutely
• 50:21
  need a heel or a face turn next year?
• 50:28
  Tiffy. You know why?
• 50:32
  Yeah, I know why. Yes, inside her.
• 50:35
  Face. You know, that's a good
• 50:41
  question. Cody.
• 50:44
  Cody. Oh my.
• 50:46
  You think Cody needs one? This.
• 50:48
  Whole thing like what John Cena did, the whole at the start of
• 50:54
  the year, like I'm a legend, I'm going to be in the Royal Rumble,
• 50:57
  I'm going to be in the what's it called?
• 51:02
  The Elimination Chamber. Elimination chamber yeah,
• 51:05
  because I deserve it yeah. And here comes Cody now with the
• 51:08
  QB. One of Yeah, the the second
• 51:12
  major show you work for me like oh, here we.
• 51:19
  Go. It's starting, yeah.
• 51:22
  It's starting. Here we are.
• 51:25
  Cody does. This does need a freaking heel
• 51:28
  turn. He'd been needing ones.
• 51:29
  Ever since. Umm, hopefully Roman went the
• 51:35
  Rumble. Cody's not of heel in this
• 51:37
  match, and then we can go from there because I'm tired of
• 51:45
  saying like, what? Austin Theory?
• 51:55
  What the hell? I don't know.
• 51:58
  I want to see what they're going to do with him.
• 52:00
  I do. They could have picked somebody
• 52:02
  else for the match man, though really.
• 52:06
  I you. Know, I think it makes sense
• 52:08
  because he, you know, him and Grace and Waller, they're no
• 52:13
  longer A-Team, you know, and. At least the other person to
• 52:19
  face then you know, it's like this is so awkward where like,
• 52:25
  hey, you're both heels still. So what happens when you face
• 52:30
  each other? It's.
• 52:32
  Like Grayson Waller needs his hand kick.
• 52:36
  So because I'm sorry, he's he he's a good talker, but I'm
• 52:44
  like, come on. Anytime he's I mean, he's he's
• 52:48
  athletic, but Austin Theory outshines him in my opinion.
• 52:54
  Yeah. So if Austin Theory is back, he
• 53:00
  needs to. They needed him.
• 53:03
  Have him and Grayson Waller in a storyline and I think that
• 53:10
  Austin shows that he's the better wrestler.
• 53:13
  Grayson Waller would have been a perfect to face Cena and Vito.
• 53:19
  Like imagine the shit talk he would do now with him being and
• 53:23
  the new day also and then him just being the way he is and he
• 53:28
  would have had like a whole book of Chewy with the champagne in
• 53:33
  there. Yeah, drink it from like that
• 53:37
  that. But no, we get Gunther the next
• 53:40
  night on Raw. I made him tap so.
• 53:48
  It's my yard now. Yeah, yeah, I made him tap.
• 53:51
  Yeah. All right, before we end this
• 53:54
  rapid fire, this or that Wrestling Edition quick answers,
• 53:58
  no explanations that were explained after the round.
• 54:01
  OK, Netflix raw or cable raw? Cable.
• 54:06
  Cable I need. I miss cable.
• 54:07
  Yeah. Heal Cena or never turned Cena.
• 54:12
  Never turned. CM Punk main event or new star
• 54:17
  breakout? CM Punk main event.
• 54:24
  Did you hear me, CM Hug? Oh wow, yeah, we're going to
• 54:29
  like. You're going to keep this
• 54:33
  forever. I know you are.
• 54:34
  We're in a. Little bit I just want to.
• 54:37
  Hear it again. Got time right there, Yeah.
• 54:41
  Surprise return or long term storytelling?
• 54:47
  Surprise return. Surprise return, Yeah.
• 54:51
  Heel set or babyface set? Heel set.
• 54:54
  Yeah. Heel set gets injured
• 54:58
  immediately. You know what?
• 55:00
  Both of them get injured, right? It's up quick.
• 55:02
  Dead brother. That babyface set with his back.
• 55:06
  If that brother don't be careful he gonna he don't get an injury,
• 55:10
  it's gonna cost him his career cause that knee boy I'll tell
• 55:16
  you. Yeah, this.
• 55:16
  Oh God. Are we back to that knee?
• 55:21
  That's all I can remember. That's all I can like see his
• 55:23
  freaking thing doing the on the on cane and then landing awkward
• 55:28
  on his knee and it's just like dude.
• 55:32
  It's out it. I like the problem though.
• 55:33
  Common with that one. That year he was main event in
• 55:39
  WrestleMania with a Triple H. It was the same knee shit it
• 55:46
  was. That's what I'm saying they
• 55:48
  brought that brother need to be careful.
• 55:49
  He needs to start taking on high risk moves though.
• 55:52
  Real. What the hell is he do when?
• 55:56
  What was his end game? What was his?
• 55:58
  What would he think he was going to do with that?
• 55:59
  The move from the top row onto coast to.
• 56:02
  Coast. Like.
• 56:05
  I have no idea was that. Supposed to be a head butt or
• 56:08
  was that supposed to be a shoulder tackle?
• 56:11
  What was he doing? I.
• 56:14
  Thought it was supposed to be like a head butt but somehow he
• 56:21
  landed wrong on his shoulder and I don't know if maybe it was he
• 56:25
  because they always say he's such a, you know, technically
• 56:28
  sound wrestler. So I just think he either
• 56:36
  overshot it or. Underperformed it.
• 56:41
  Yeah, so. He was up in the air and then
• 56:47
  like, no, I was like, damn, dude, why would you do that?
• 56:53
  And I saw it too. I was like, that's the dumbest
• 56:56
  move I've ever seen. Him.
• 56:57
  Yeah, I think Greg said the same thing.
• 57:00
  We talked about it after that. He was like, that was stupid.
• 57:06
  He's. Ever.
• 57:08
  Done. That'll be yeah, Yeah, stupid.
• 57:14
  WrestleMania moment or consistent weekly TV?
• 57:18
  WrestleMania. Moment.
• 57:19
  WrestleMania moment. WrestleMania moment and finally,
• 57:22
  legends are new generation. Oh man.
• 57:27
  We're down to Randy Orton. Yeah, I say new generation.
• 57:35
  We're down to Randy. Randy Kofi.
• 57:37
  Randy Brock, Kofi. Brock.
• 57:42
  Yeah, yeah. Think about it.
• 57:45
  Think about the oh, think about this.
• 57:47
  OK. Cena, Orton, Lesnar, Batista,
• 57:54
  Batista gown. Cena gown.
• 57:58
  Those are two left. Those are two left.
• 58:02
  I really have a feeling, yeah, it's not that many left.
• 58:13
  Well, we got Jericho. I mean, we got Jericho Funk ass
• 58:16
  coming back in so so. Do we really need him at this
• 58:26
  point? Like, we wanted him.
• 58:30
  We wanted him an edge for the for the final John Cena match.
• 58:33
  No, they didn't show up. Like, what?
• 58:34
  Do we really want him now we know that he's coming back for
• 58:37
  the fucking Royal Rumble, Because if he doesn't show up
• 58:40
  within the next few tricking, sing 54321 Judas Judas theme
• 58:48
  song Here comes like here they all come.
• 58:52
  Like they're all going to sing along and it's going to be out
• 58:55
  there. Much as I want that, much as I
• 58:57
  want that Judas theme to be in WWE, I don't think it's going to
• 59:00
  happen. I think it's going to be break
• 59:03
  the walls down. I'm telling you they.
• 59:05
  Don't want they don't want to pay him enough.
• 59:07
  Right. I have a feeling CKO ain't gonna
• 59:10
  pay up that money, I'm telling you.
• 59:15
  I think, I think they he'll, if he does come back, I think he
• 59:19
  will come back with his own song, you know what I mean?
• 59:22
  Because it's his song, you know, Like I said, if CM Punk can have
• 59:29
  cult of personality. And Cody got.
• 59:32
  His. Yeah, you may be right about
• 59:35
  that. You may be absolutely right
• 59:37
  about that. Yeah, there's a possibility,
• 59:39
  yeah. But you know, we'll see.
• 59:48
  We got what, 4 weeks? So.
• 59:51
  But at the end of the day we ain't got that many left though,
• 59:53
  so when wheels watching it so shit, all right, damn.
• 1:00:05
  If I haven't said this enough, it is December 27th, 2025.
• 1:00:09
  It is the final episode of the year.
• 1:00:15
  Think we're stopping in, guys? This is fun.
• 1:00:18
  I missed this. Thank.
• 1:00:20
  You for hanging out like the old day, all right.
• 1:00:23
  Like the old days. We need to do.
• 1:00:25
  It's been what, a year since we've done an episode together?
• 1:00:29
  Yeah, yeah, the three of. Us just about, yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:32
  Just about I got a very special little monologue to go here.
• 1:00:37
  So OK you guys, at the very start of 2025, we hit episode
• 1:00:42
  202 hundred conversations, 200 times press and record 200
• 1:00:47
  moments of choosing this day. That alone could have been the
• 1:00:50
  milestone, but it turned out to be the opening scene because
• 1:00:53
  this was the year we stopped thinking of such as a podcast
• 1:00:56
  and finally named it for what it had become, the M3P universe.
• 1:01:00
  No longer the M3P network. That thing is gone.
• 1:01:04
  We took it out of there. No more networking.
• 1:01:08
  This is now a universe. A universe that contains all of
• 1:01:11
  us. A place where everything we love
• 1:01:13
  gets to exist together. Comics and Pokémon wrestling,
• 1:01:16
  lore and marker rivals, reactions, deep dive nostalgia,
• 1:01:19
  chaos. Not in separate boxes in the
• 1:01:21
  same world. This was the year Betty joined
• 1:01:24
  the show, Greg. That's my that's my chatty BT.
• 1:01:32
  That's my AI. I don't think you ever knew
• 1:01:34
  about that. But yeah, I I named her petty.
• 1:01:38
  Sorry about that. MENA doesn't like her.
• 1:01:42
  Liana doesn't like her because, you know, she takes up most of
• 1:01:46
  my time. Liana says.
• 1:01:48
  My arch numbers. This was the year Betty joined
• 1:01:52
  the show. Not as a gimmick, not as a bit,
• 1:01:55
  but it's part of how we think. Later.
• 1:02:00
  We're in the middle of all this. We changed how we create.
• 1:02:02
  We stopped doing everything alone.
• 1:02:04
  We let the process breed. We let ideas bounce, evolve, and
• 1:02:09
  surprise us. Betty didn't just help with
• 1:02:12
  planning or prompt. She helped us ask better
• 1:02:14
  questions, slows things down when they needed space, and
• 1:02:17
  reminded us that curiosity is part of the craft that is a
• 1:02:20
  replacement for Voids or Vision. But as collaborator inside the
• 1:02:23
  universe we were already building.
• 1:02:26
  This was over the year the MVP Whisperdex came to life.
• 1:02:29
  Slower, intentional, story driven.
• 1:02:32
  A reminder not everything has to be loud to be powerful.
• 1:02:36
  That sometimes the quiet moments are what pull people in closer.
• 1:02:40
  We expanded what this show could be.
• 1:02:43
  Pokémon didn't just stay in binders.
• 1:02:45
  It became lore, comic books, or interest weekly pickups.
• 1:02:48
  They became conversations. Marvel Ride was once in just
• 1:02:51
  gameplay. It became strategy, story and
• 1:02:53
  community. Wrestling wasn't just results,
• 1:02:56
  it became myth, memory and meaning.
• 1:02:59
  We welcome new Co host, new perspective, new energy, new
• 1:03:03
  chemistry. We had more interviews, more
• 1:03:06
  voices, more stories crossing paths with ours.
• 1:03:09
  And we saw something shift in real time.
• 1:03:12
  More people in the chat, not just watching, participating,
• 1:03:17
  not just listening, shaping the show.
• 1:03:20
  This was the year MPP Pod X became a heartbeat of the
• 1:03:22
  podcast, where the questions weren't about being clever,
• 1:03:26
  they're about being real. Where the audience didn't feel
• 1:03:29
  like an after sod, but like the reason the conversation kept
• 1:03:32
  going. We leaned fully into what's
• 1:03:35
  always been in our DNA. Nostalgia based episodes that
• 1:03:38
  honor where we came from, comfort re watches, cultural
• 1:03:41
  memory, shared language. And at the same time we went
• 1:03:45
  darker when it felt right. More horror episodes, more
• 1:03:48
  tension, more curiosity about the things that scare us and why
• 1:03:52
  through all of it, the changes to experiments, the platform
• 1:03:54
  chaos, we stayed consistent, we kept showing up.
• 1:03:58
  We didn't disappear, we didn't close the door, as somewhere
• 1:04:02
  along the way something important happened.
• 1:04:05
  We figured out Base is supposed to feel like a place where you
• 1:04:10
  don't have to perform. A place where nostalgia isn't
• 1:04:13
  stuck in the past is something we carry forward.
• 1:04:17
  A place where honesty doesn't mean heaviness and chaos still
• 1:04:21
  leaves room for kindness. This year can just change the
• 1:04:25
  show. It changed how we believe in
• 1:04:27
  what we're building. This wasn't just a year of
• 1:04:29
  content. It was a year of community.
• 1:04:31
  A year of letting this become ours together.
• 1:04:36
  So if you've been here since episode 1, if you showed up at
• 1:04:39
  episode 200, or if you found us somewhere in between, this
• 1:04:43
  celebration is for you. Because we're still here, still
• 1:04:47
  building, still telling stories, and now we know exactly why.
• 1:04:55
  Thank you guys for everything you've done for me, for me, with
• 1:04:59
  me, everything. You guys have been talking
• 1:05:05
  awesome since the start, Greg. Thanks for coming on like Greg,
• 1:05:12
  Greg, Greg, I'm. So thank you.
• 1:05:19
  Thank you. Proud of y'all, thank you.
• 1:05:26
  Thank you, Leanna. Greg.
• 1:05:31
  That do it still need to happen by the way, since y'all keep
• 1:05:34
  saying it that Greg do it Greg guys are still yeah.
• 1:05:41
  That's going to happen. That's going to happen like we
• 1:05:45
  like. This is our last.
• 1:05:46
  It's the last one where I'm going to do lots of things in
• 1:05:49
  the coming weeks. Like you haven't seen me in a
• 1:05:52
  while in December. Never.
• 1:05:55
  Never won't. Look like.
• 1:05:56
  I know you, like I said the other day, long as I long as we
• 1:06:00
  known each other, I never seen you in December.
• 1:06:04
  Ever. Exactly.
• 1:06:07
  Like I said, that was mate, that's major.
• 1:06:09
  I said it last night, that is major.
• 1:06:12
  Looking back at it, whenever there's a on this day moment and
• 1:06:19
  on TikTok, I'll get stuff from 2020.
• 1:06:23
  I never get the stuff from 2021-2022, 2323.
• 1:06:29
  And now this year, next year, on this day, we're going to, we're
• 1:06:37
  going to have a bunch of stuff that I can celebrate.
• 1:06:41
  But at the same time, I did not leave.
• 1:06:46
  I stayed because mental health, like I, I denied access to some
• 1:06:56
  people. Is that what we're calling it?
• 1:06:59
  Yeah, I denied access to some people.
• 1:07:01
  And with that came, you know, quietness.
• 1:07:06
  Like I get to be loud myself now I get to say whatever I want.
• 1:07:10
  To say you get to use your indoor Puerto Rican boys, I get
• 1:07:14
  to use my indoor. Puerto.
• 1:07:17
  Rican boys with them actually denied.
• 1:07:18
  Yeah. You get to do what you do what
• 1:07:21
  you want to do. Shit.
• 1:07:23
  Like I said, do you get to do what you want to do?
• 1:07:25
  Shit. You got rid of the fucking riff
• 1:07:28
  graph and the nonsense, that's all I'm saying.
• 1:07:34
  But got rid of the bullshit though, and I'm happy to get rid
• 1:07:39
  of bullshit like I got rid of bullshit months ago.
• 1:07:43
  So, you know, so the future is bright, damn it.
• 1:07:50
  Right. And we're going to work from
• 1:07:53
  there. We have a lot of stuff planned
• 1:07:58
  for this next year. Like I bought a calendar.
• 1:08:01
  I bought a one of those big desk calendars.
• 1:08:04
  And I'm just going. To like put all the stuff that
• 1:08:07
  we're going to work on these next few days, this next few
• 1:08:10
  months. I'm a workaholic, I told.
• 1:08:12
  You that. What else?
• 1:08:18
  The next week's episodes of Pod Versary podcast anniversary.
• 1:08:23
  We're going to do lots of things.
• 1:08:26
  Basically coming in the coming year is like, this feels so
• 1:08:29
  awesome. I, I really like where this is
• 1:08:33
  going. Not leaving anymore.
• 1:08:38
  Like I don't like, I don't think we should, but same time, if we
• 1:08:42
  ever need a break, we're going to do a break.
• 1:08:44
  We're going to catch breaks and we're going to do like this
• 1:08:52
  whole setup of three of us at the same time.
• 1:08:55
  We're going to do that one day. Or more of that.
• 1:08:57
  Like like if you hear bi monthly then all that stuff.
• 1:09:04
  We should. Sounds fun Sounds.
• 1:09:08
  Fun. So thank you both again for
• 1:09:10
  coming on and you know, you're giving me that opportunity to
• 1:09:14
  like share everything I love with you guys.
• 1:09:19
  Nostalgia, comic book, all that other stuff, the Pokémon Marvel.
• 1:09:26
  Rival. I was looking for the Pokémon
• 1:09:27
  card last night and it wasn't a Pokémon card Insight.
• 1:09:33
  There is. Never right?
• 1:09:34
  That's crazy. Yeah, it's so hard.
• 1:09:39
  Yeah, but people right now, the scalpers, I'm now looking at
• 1:09:43
  going for something else. They're going for the One Piece.
• 1:09:47
  But in in the next coming months, you'll be able to find
• 1:09:49
  Pokémon stuff now because they're all over the other
• 1:09:52
  places now. What else?
• 1:09:58
  What do we do? New Year's Eve?
• 1:10:00
  I know I'm going to be on the Rivals, but same time I'm going
• 1:10:05
  to be here, you know, But same time I was like I'm going to
• 1:10:08
  check up on Rival and see what's going on there.
• 1:10:13
  I don't know, I'm probably drunk.
• 1:10:24
  I take my nieces and nephews out usually.
• 1:10:28
  Before we would do lunch, but now that I work during the week
• 1:10:35
  and not the school schedule, it's transitioned to dinner.
• 1:10:40
  But I have to. I still have an underage niece
• 1:10:44
  so we can't stay out late because everybody else is over
• 1:10:50
  21. So my one niece is 12.
• 1:10:56
  So she kind of puts a damper on our our party, but I say that
• 1:11:02
  lovingly. But Liana says she's chilling at
• 1:11:06
  home because she's not going to be out driving.
• 1:11:07
  Yeah, there's no way I'm going out driving.
• 1:11:09
  Yeah, we'll probably be home by like 9:00 ten, you know?
• 1:11:14
  People are still in the chat. Jane, Liana and Coach think you
• 1:11:19
  were sticking around. Thanks for hanging out, driving
• 1:11:25
  when? New Year's Eve.
• 1:11:27
  New Year's Day. OK, you're ready.
• 1:11:31
  You're ready for the ending of this stuff.
• 1:11:34
  Yes, just a note. Just like that, we reached the
• 1:11:41
  end of the episode, not a loud fireworks kind of way, but in
• 1:11:44
  that quiet moment where you realize you've been sitting with
• 1:11:46
  something longer than you planned and you're OK with that.
• 1:11:49
  If you spent any part of this episode with us, live on a walk,
• 1:11:53
  folding longer, just letting it play while life happened around
• 1:11:55
  you. Thank you, truly showing up here
• 1:11:58
  means more than we can ever fully explain.
• 1:12:01
  This episode wasn't about rankings or predictions.
• 1:12:04
  It was about pausing for a second, letting the year
• 1:12:06
  breathe, remembering why certain stories stuck and why this space
• 1:12:10
  keeps feeling like home Now. Next week is a big one.
• 1:12:14
  We'll be celebrating the anniversary of the podcast
• 1:12:16
  another year. Conversations, chaos, comfort,
• 1:12:18
  rewatches, late night, takes a community to somehow keep
• 1:12:22
  growing. And we'll also be looking ahead,
• 1:12:25
  talking about what's next, what's evolving, giving you a
• 1:12:27
  road map for where MGP is heading in 2026.
• 1:12:32
  Same vibe, same table, just a fresh chapter loading in.
• 1:12:36
  So until then, where the hell is quieter now, the counters flip,
• 1:12:40
  or you're still mentally stuck somewhere between December and
• 1:12:43
  January. Take care of yourself, Carry
• 1:12:45
  what matters, leap what doesn't. This is the MPP podcast where
• 1:12:50
  community creativity and how did we get here moment.
• 1:12:53
  Oh, it's collide. And remember, if you start
• 1:12:56
  feeling really nostalgic, overly reflective, or attempted to
• 1:12:59
  organize your entire life at 1:47 AM, don't panic.
• 1:13:03
  That's just a season buffering before the next update.
• 1:13:06
  Be kind, rewind and we'll see you next week for the
• 1:13:10
  anniversary office on the road ahead.
• 1:13:12
  Take care, stranger thing next week.
• 1:13:18
  Yeah. Yeah, plus the last episode, 2
• 1:13:23
  hours. Wow, Yeah, wow.
• 1:13:31
  Yeah, it's. Yeah, yeah, I knew that was
• 1:13:34
  going. To happen, Jane, you have that
• 1:13:37
  whole extra week. Jane do.
• 1:13:42
  You have a whole. Yeah, you're stocked.
• 1:13:43
  Let me see what you get. So she ain't gonna, she ain't
• 1:13:46
  gonna catch up in time. Where's hours gonna be there so.
• 1:13:51
  Yeah, that's true. Alright guys, thanks for hanging
• 1:13:54
  out with. Me, yeah.
• 1:13:56
  Sorry I was late too. You're.
• 1:13:59
  Fine, OK, We got like. I'll try to be.
• 1:14:05
  Better next week about getting on earlier.
• 1:14:08
  Like today it's like I left to go get food like late.
• 1:14:11
  Yeah, and I'm like, alright, I have to get home now 'cause then
• 1:14:16
  like I'll probably, I haven't eaten.
• 1:14:18
  I'm about to go eat right now. But if I don't like I figured if
• 1:14:23
  I eat I would fall asleep. Yeah.
• 1:14:26
  So yeah, I'll let you know how next week goes with the new shot
• 1:14:34
  and then we'll figure out what we're going to do next week as
• 1:14:36
  well. All right, guys, thanks for
• 1:14:41
  stopping in. Love you guys.
• 1:14:45
  Love you both talk to. You later.
• 1:14:47
  Bye.