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  Welcome to Washington. This is Lord trakula and welcome
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  to the extra cooler show. No teeth.
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  Beefaroni on a boat man. That's the problem right there.
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  The extra cooler show. Welcome to a royal episode of
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  the extra cooler show. My name is Nick otherwise known
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  as extra cooler and this week I'm joined by the whole Survivor
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  Series team. I've got mr.
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  Work great, Matt and Jimmy Polo. I should have given you the Hop.
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  God intro. I apologize.
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  No friends. Only foes this week
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  appropriately. We don't have 30 of us but
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  instead we've got all four. So here we are.
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  As I alluded to, we are going to be covering a Royal Rumble match
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  because it's Rumble season. The 2023 Royal Rumble is right
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  around the corner. And come on, man.
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  Whether you are into wrestling or not, really paying any
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  attention, you always come back for the Royal Rumble time of the
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  year, and we're going to get back to that a little later in
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  the episode. I have a feeling, we might tell
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  some stories. So this week actually, before I
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  forget, don't forget to follow us.
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  Us on Instagram at extra cooler and over on Twitter at extra
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  So be sure to hop in there and when you guys get a chance, so
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  this week's homework, I've been pushing for this one kind of get
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  us out of our comfort zone. If you will, we are covering the
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  2008 Royal Rumble which takes place in New York City at
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  Madison Square Garden. I About you guys, I kind of
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  forced the three of you into this Rumble.
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  We were all undecided and I just I love this Royal Rumble.
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  It's one of my favorites. It's stacked top to bottom.
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  There's there's certainly some fomo anytime that you watch a
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  Madison Square Garden Show and this one is no different.
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  This one had me sitting here like damn, I wish I was paying
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  attention in 2008 and I actually got into the building for it
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  because it was a fun card for sure.
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  We'd watch this one live but but that's probably the last time
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  I've watched it, I think. So, I'd forgotten is that MSG
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  and soon as you see live from New York City at MSG, you're
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  pretty happy turning anything on, you know.
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  Yeah. The, the, the intro to the card
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  starts off with, you know, all a bunch of the guys in the match,
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  their entering a Subway and just brawling in the subway.
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  This is the first, I think it's the first WWE pay-per-view in
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  high definition, which is pretty cool.
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  I remember, like, when the network Came out and like, you
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  know, going back and watching stuff and being like, Oh man,
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  high-definition stuff is pretty crisp.
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  You know, especially in comparison.
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  When you know you initially go watch like all those like early
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  90s, the old school and still like, it doesn't have the
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  widescreen. It's right or 609, whatever it
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  is black bars X Aria. So so here we are.
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  We've got the 2008 Royal Rumble. We're going to kind of jump
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  right into the actual Rumble Match itself.
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  We're going to skip over everything else on the card
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  because like I said it is completely stacked.
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  But before we dive into the 2008, Royal Rumble.
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  Let's do an early. Actually, I'm all over the
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  place. I apologize.
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  Matt. Do you have any housekeeping
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  this week? Thanks for keeping the house.
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  Keeping alive here but no, we actually had a pretty clean
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  episode, so no follow-ups. Nothing to clean up if you wheel
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  but yeah, nothing this week, I'm sure somebody will help me this
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  week of, like, I screwed something up.
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  Fix it. We did such a good job.
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  Cleaning up Rob, Bartlett. Last week, we all man for real
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  classic. A lot of scrubbing.
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  Yeah, if you haven't done it, go back and listen to our 30th
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  Anniversary episode of the first Monday Night Raw.
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  It's some of our finest work. If I do say so we had a lot of
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  fun breaking down all the craziness that happens including
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  as Jim said, Rob Bartlett and Damian Demento.
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  Yeah, and Mike Tyson calling from jail.
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  Hey Michael calls tonight. Who knows?
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  So what? All right before we get started
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  with this Rumble Match. What's in everybody's cooler?
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  I'm gonna go first because I've got a special one that my
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  brother-in-law gave to me. It is heady topper and then he
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  takes a trip up to Vermont, visit sister and was sure enough
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  to give me Hedy topper and it's delicious.
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  It's I know it's one of his favorite you'll You have a beer
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  meal and I'm like eternally jealous of it every time you he
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  brings it down for you but the Alchemists I actually went there
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  for my birthday in 2018. Like that was our, that was our
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  trip. Like let's go The Alchemist.
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  Let's do it. So yeah, it's a trick but it was
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  a cool experience for sure. It's one of the best.
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  It's like the it's a classic like on untappd.
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  That gets a five-star for me. Oh yeah.
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  It's the originator of the whole.
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  Any IPA. The northeastern IPA style is
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  like that. Big hazy hoppy Northeastern IPA
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  is really born out of out of the Alchemists.
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  So heady Toppers the original and to me, still tops tops that
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  there can be. But cheers Nick.
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  I'll cheat you with my True disappointing fashion.
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  I've got some high-quality H2O. You can just call me Bobby
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  Boucher for the rest of the episode, but much like much.
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  Like the sun this evening, I had a stomach battle within the last
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  24 to 48 hours. So I'm taking it light tonight,
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  but cheers can so hot mamas is Mama.
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  She's sorry, I've got a weird night.
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  You've got water. Their tune Bobby.
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  I've got wine here. Never I never truly one on this
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  show so you don't Martin Woods, I don't know.
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  What is it? A red.
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  I assume it is a red yet, see something?
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  I don't know. I'm not even gonna get into in a
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  little red or the white before we hit record is just Jim and I
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  had hang in and I saw him taking sips out of a glass.
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  I was like, alright, cool. I wonder what Mitch makes drink.
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  He's made himself, it's pretty dark in color.
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  It's a little Little small on the screen.
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  I was like, all right, lo and behold it must with a glass of
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  water out of the Jimmy Polo comfort zone.
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  That's for sure. I think church over here, you
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  know, like what do you got? I have a Budweiser and I only
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  ball Jesus things. Just keep getting weirder and
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  weirder. My want to stop this episode
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  episode 4. We get started.
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  Kirsten. I seriously though I have a
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  Sudden cricket spilner from 10 Ben's beer which is from Hyde
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  Park Vermont. I was in the mood for a Pilsner
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  so I took a trip down to the Beer distributor and I got this
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  this bad boy, it's 5.5% and it's really smooth.
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  It's really good. I liked it because 5.5.
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  Yeah, I liked it because the can Arts got like a moon trees and
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  lightning bolts and it's nice. I dig it.
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  It's right up my alley. You're a big pill?
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  Surg. I know I am.
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  I feel like, I feel like it's, it's either pilsner or
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  Oktoberfest in the my keyboard. Oktoberfest only, like, around
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  that time of the year. Yeah.
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  That but everything else feels like pilsners pilsners.
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  The one Mikey pilsner we've been a good name if he didn't really,
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  I like it. All right, so let's sorry, let's
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  get down to business, Royal Rumble, 2008, Madison Square
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  Garden, New York City before the match.
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  It kicks off. We get a classic recap in the
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  statistics of the past. Participants every year that I
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  have the opportunity to go back and watch an old Rumble.
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  I love this. I love when they recap it.
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  I love when they started this you know it it's just cool.
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  It pays homage to all the matches before it and even this
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  year in 2023, I look forward to it and it pays off at least to
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  the warlord in this one. Yes.
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  Lee. I love I love that.
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  They do this. I don't know if it's the like
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  back of the baseball card stat nerd in me or if it's just like
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  it, it's just so fitting for the Royal Rumble to go through the
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  stats. And, I mean, it birth star
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  Rumble, Jeopardy. I mean, yes, it's hard for us to
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  do anything else. It feels like it was so fitting
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  with all of the stats and numbers and geeky shit that you
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  can get lost in, in the in the Royal Rumble.
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  And, you know, going back to the intro you were talking about
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  the, the subway and the fighting in the Way the poster for this
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  is just as good, it feels like this, birthed, the subway Mania
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  guys, like I feel like that is really yes, led the way for them
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  there, which they could quite remember, just talk to them.
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  Yeah, I think I have a path for that one.
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  So maybe I'll go shopping taste or a little bit later, we'll get
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  into that later. So this match the Rumble Match
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  itself starts at the one hour and forty six minute Mark for
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  anybody interested and it kicks off.
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  We've got Justin Roberts in the middle of our ring and on All
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  right, here we go. I think everybody knows where
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  we're I'm going with this and he says, we're going to get to the
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  most famous ring announcer of all time and I'm not how we
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  link. I yeah.
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  I'm like wait that's not the think and it's my least favorite
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  announcer Michael Buffer and I don't know man, especially the
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  rumble of all things. The rumble you need, Howard
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  Finkel I need to hear and let us know, found out.
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  Find out who drew number one. One, there is nothing better
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  than that but here we have buffer breaking down The rules
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  for the Royal Rumble with which Jesus Christ.
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  If you don't know, the rules to the rumble at this point in
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  time. What are you doing watching
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  this? He's like a robot.
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  I do like it. I do, I do.
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  I do like the rules. Don't get me wrong.
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  It's like, it's a classic, you know, necessity you deserve.
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  This was 2008. You guys have not paying any
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  attention to wrestling whatsoever.
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  You've got the built-in baked in Opportunity to gamble on this
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  thing as well and you're sitting in a room with potentially
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  people that have no effing. Clue what's going on right
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  wrestling and I think the rules are necessary.
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  This guy's backe, I bashed. Yeah, yourselves off.
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  It's my, let me put my beer down and listen to Michael Buffer,
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  explain the rules. The Royal Rumble.
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  Everybody can talk about crazy. You should probably drink more
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  during this. I'm not put your beard house.
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  I have a question that you guys think that Michael Buffer is on
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  cameo, He has to be and if we get him to you know let's get
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  ready for her to know today. I just called much.
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  Do you think he is? I bet I'm getting like 250.
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  Yeah, we can stay over. 250. Yeah.
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  And it's probably not even Michael Buffer, it's probably
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  his brother. What's the bug man?
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  Chad buffer, I'm searching right now.
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  You can, you can book a personalized video for a Michael
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  Buffer who looks pretty good. Goodness in this picture.
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  He's a robot. As Jim said, Robot, buffer,
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  bought 5,000. Take a.
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  Take a guess. What?
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  What are you? Yes, is I bet you he my 400?
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  Yeah, I'm gonna say like Fiat. It's going to be higher.
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  No, is it cheap? God God I just shook my head.
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  No can do. Jim's at 6:50.
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  Mike mix it for hundred two fifty.
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  One dollar, I shook my head because whatever predictions are
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  going on, Nick is always seeming to be like right on the news.
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  It 400. It's 375. 375 for your
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  personalized. Michael Buffer.
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  Like, come on, I wouldn't I wouldn't hate all the way down
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  to five. I was going to say I wouldn't
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  pay $3.75 but anyway, I do but I don't know, I don't know what
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  message means, but it says message three dollars.
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  So I text you. You can text you.
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  Was that student me just like most boys.
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  What's the point? What's the point?
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  Nope, it's a freaking 33.8 and 378.
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  Now for that Cameo anywho anyway, getting down to the
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  Royal Rumble Match itself. I think I love this Royal Rumble
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  because of the storytelling that it does and it's the only Rumble
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  that I know that tells a story from Um, the previous year,
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  right? So 2007, Royal Rumble ends with
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  Undertaker, winning eliminating, Shawn Michaels and the 2008
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  Royal Rumble begins with Undertaker.
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  And number one, and Shawn Michaels at number two and it's
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  perfectly laid out, right? So this is what WWE does better
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  than anyone. Undertaker's music stops, he
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  takes off the jacket. They give a crowd a good like 30
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  seconds, chant his name and then all of a sudden you hear Shawn.
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  Music hit, but you're gonna hit us with the, with the oh, Sean.
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  I really really expect. I've already given you a Finkel
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  in person so I don't but yeah, buffers introduction here.
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  He just says now, introducing number to The Heartbreak Kid.
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  Yeah, doesn't even say Shawn Michaels, right?
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  Doesn't know his name if I would have called him Michael Shawn or
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  something. So, to me, it's just Excellent
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  storytelling. And, you know, these to go back
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  and forth, trying to eliminate each other and then at number 3,
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  well, it's just with just one second on that.
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  It's great because it's, you know, like he said it's a call
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  back to the previous one, but also this is leading up to
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  WrestleMania 24. So we're still a year away from
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  like, yes, sir, the Wrestlemania matches.
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  So this is like, if you this is like kind of like, it's like
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  fault leading into that, right? Really long, you know, I don't
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  know if they had the idea from the beginning, but still it's
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  really cool to look back. Back on it all these years later
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  and say, yes, like as it's what if piece, it's what the two of
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  them, especially at this point in their career, like the latter
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  half. I've always done.
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  Great is long-term storytelling. Look at Michaels and Jericho
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  story like, which is something I would love to dive into.
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  You know, I know Matt had always talked about like, wanting to
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  watch that whole thing breakdown.
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  But we could go off into a long tangent about Jericho and Shawn
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  Michaels. Yeah, I mean the first thing I
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  did when the WWE Network came out was I watched every single
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  Royal Rumble in sequence. So, starting in 88, going all
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  the way up to the current day, but the one thing I've always
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  wanted to do is go revisit and it's not necessarily A revisit
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  for me, because I didn't live through watching the Jericho
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  and, and Shawn Michaels storyline, but it's just
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  perfect, it's really perfect. When it comes all down to it.
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  And up, I've seen the big pay-per-view matches, but I To
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  just go in a very turnbuckle Tavern shot a Nostalgia style
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  like picking up every single episode along the way and
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  watching it all. I wish I wish there was a way
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  that they could put like Feud playlist.
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  Yes, like yes, it all WWE Network should certainly had
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  more opportunity for that now with it being on peacock.
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  But I don't know, maybe Vince sells the company and we can, ya
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  know what they need? They need a librarian to
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  organize. If they do, they do need a
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  librarian. They then, let's let's get.
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  Let's get Jimmy. To move back home.
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  He can work in Stamford and he can be there, like, the curator
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  of WWE content. And this week, you have
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  Skinner's funnest marches of them.
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  I would love to have you move home, but I don't know if that's
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  getting things going to work out, but don't put that on your
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  resume cover letter ready. So, number three Santino comes
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  out. He kind of cools the crowd,
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  cools everything off. And, you know, he Flexes in the
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  middle of the Ring, HP, kale and Sweet Chin.
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  Music tosses Santino and back and forth.
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  Like, in the beginning of this, we have a lot of back and forth
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  with Taker and Shawn, which is, is perfect.
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  If you ask me. Number four, we've got Great.
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  Khali comes out, makes Undertaker.
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  First of all Undertaker in this Royal Rumble.
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  It looks like he's in the best shape of his career.
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  If you ask me, guy is like is ripped.
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  He's looks super lean. But Colleen makes Undertaker
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  look physically small like He is gigantic this.
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  This ugly sumbitch. He, he's out there and like this
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  is definitely. I don't know how far into his
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  tenure with WWE. This is, I'm Cameo also, you
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  can't wrestle, you can't wrestle.
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  Chance come from the crowd and pour all over this guy, dude.
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  But the Madison Square Garden crowd does not mess around
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  during this rubble. And this is when like, I mean,
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  the pops in the beginning with Undertaker's, Jean Michaels were
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  great and but here, the you can't wrestle is unavoidable.
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  Like you just have to hear it. It's yes, it's incredible.
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  To listen to this crowd. Go off and it continues
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  throughout the entire night, but raising their rabbit.
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  Yeah, rabbit is the word and this is Ark babies.
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  Totally part of that New York, lore, that Madison Square
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  Garden, feel and Vibe. And if you've ever been in the
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  garden, it feels like the sound just Cycles through the
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  building. It like goes through the outside
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  and through the crowd through that round round roof.
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  And Right back down on you again.
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  And it's just loud in there and it's amazing and seeing the
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  colors of like that, that teal green, and the purple from the
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  sea like hits the Nostalgia button for me, being in that
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  place for as many times as we all have.
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  It's truly incredible. But what am I up?
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  Seeing that ceiling in the like the accepted this shot when
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  they're guys are coming down the aisle and the camera kind of
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  like looks up, you know. Yep.
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  So yeah. It's beautiful iconic.
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  Classic iconic. How about Coach calling Kali?
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  A favorite to win the rumble, coach coach, how, how many
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  people are on the call during this.
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  So I was gonna get there. There's the strangest thing
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  about this match is and I never realized it until I sat down and
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  did my homework for it, right? So you've got, you've got a raw
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  brand, Smackdown brand and ECW brand and they have all six
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  commentary, guys. All three commentary teams on
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  the call. Right?
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  So for going well, yes, I can't believe that for all you've got
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  Jim Ross and Jerry The King Lawler Smackdown.
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  You got Michael Cole and coach and an ECW.
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  You've got Taz and Joey Styles. It's it's wild.
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  Again, I've watched this Rumble number of times and I guess I
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  just never really paid attention to the commentary team and it's
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  a lot when there's that many guys calling the match, too
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  much. It's insane.
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  Like, we have hard enough time not talking over each other and
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  it's for like the about that cynics.
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  Could try agent. I think I noticed that we're at
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  one point I'm listening and I'm like Wait where did Jr?
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  Go like in a while since he said anything.
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  Um, and then Joey Styles Pops in on a nowhere yet.
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  What are you yelling Styles? Like the most 90s looking guy
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  ever man. Oh yeah, definitely still looks
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  the same so how he gets dumped right away, right?
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  Yes, okay, so Santino lasts like under a minute and then you've
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  got collie who goes about a minute him and Undertaker.
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  Go to kind of like choke slam each other and then Undertaker
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  eliminates him rather fast. Those rubber wrestling toys you
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  had, when you were a kid. Those are the ljn's right?
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  Yes. Correctly member to member the
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  Andre, the Giant one that you have.
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  Yes. And on there where your the
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  underwear one this Great. Khali.
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  Not look like that guy. You put them in the microwave
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  for like 90 seconds. Is bodies bodies.
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  I know what's happening. Yeah.
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  What watching him. Try to like get up off the
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  ground after his eliminated is painful.
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  Yeah. So I love a good Royal Rumble
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  beginning how it's like everything's kind of fast paced
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  right? Like first guy gets eliminated,
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  second guy gets limited and then they kind of slow things down
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  with numbers, five, six and seven.
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  You got Hardcore, Holly comes out John Morrison at number six
• 21:01
  and then Tommy dreamer who they, you know, are claiming as the
• 21:04
  local boy, which they kind of is Young fans.
• 21:07
  Found they do they do, it's you know, it's the cute popped in
• 21:12
  the beginning of Royal Rumble. Then thankfully we it's Mick
• 21:17
  Foley. A local.
• 21:18
  Do you call Mick Foley a HomeTown boy in Madison Square
• 21:21
  Garden? They do.
• 21:22
  Do you do me? Well because he has history at
• 21:26
  Madison Square Garden, okay? But the Tommy Dreamer thing to
• 21:29
  me, this way, he just Tommy can just Tommy Dreamer doesn't have
• 21:33
  like he doesn't have history at Madison Square Garden, like Mick
• 21:37
  Foley, like Mick. Foley's got the story of Jimmy
• 21:39
  Snuka. He's got the mash until the
• 21:42
  dreamer. Has the same thing grew up in
• 21:43
  Yonkers baby. Yeah.
• 21:44
  But What else did he wrestle for?
• 21:48
  I don't know who wrestled in the Elks Lodge.
• 21:50
  I don't know about. Yeah, probably stop defending
• 21:52
  Tommy Dreamer and his like Karate pants and the Yonkers.
• 21:56
  I'm still wrestling an impact, he's offending, 914, I remember
• 22:01
  four of us have that phone number.
• 22:03
  You're right, you're right. Number eight.
• 22:05
  We've got Batista comes out. Cleans house goes face-to-face
• 22:08
  with the Undertaker, right? Before eliminating Tommy
• 22:11
  Dreamer, and dreamers dream of Of main Eventing WrestleMania is
• 22:17
  over. That was messed up, man.
• 22:20
  Sorry, we've got some, some interesting gimmicks on tap.
• 22:24
  Number nine, we've got Hornswoggle.
• 22:26
  Who is playing the role of mr. McMahon's, illegitimate son.
• 22:30
  I love it. I absolutely love it how he
• 22:32
  climbs, right under the ring immediately, like, idiot.
• 22:36
  You know, it's gonna happen and it's amazing.
• 22:39
  Why is he always had received looking He looks like under the
• 22:44
  ring. Is that why?
• 22:46
  He's like, you know, like it? Yeah, no, no, you know, that?
• 22:50
  You know, he's like, oh remember when you were like kid in
• 22:53
  Halloween and like Pride before our time, even I remember my
• 22:56
  parents, like, lighting the end of a cork to a wine bottle and
• 23:01
  like, you'd like draw black on your face.
• 23:02
  That's likewise, Hornswoggle. Always look like his gear is
• 23:05
  always clean and like a little Leprechaun but then he's got
• 23:09
  dirt on his face like that. So yeah, exactly like Dirty
• 23:13
  white. Want to know more about my
• 23:15
  bottles. Flaming course you never did
• 23:16
  work. Try it.
• 23:17
  Jim Jim. You got a cork there?
• 23:20
  I do drink the red one. I've got a court, he get it.
• 23:23
  Go get the loans. Let's that slows down.
• 23:25
  So you like like hornswoggled about 30 seconds, I'm gonna ask
• 23:34
  my mom about this tomorrow. I'm gonna call her and say, mom
• 23:38
  is this a thing and she's gonna buy me.
• 23:40
  Apologize to my wife tomorrow for Jimmy's face is burned.
• 23:44
  What happened? No, she's gonna wake up morning,
• 23:48
  Jim. Why do you look like
• 23:49
  Hornswoggle? That's what she says.
• 23:54
  Hey mama cooler. I need you to call Matt and tell
• 23:57
  him what we did with these quarks again.
• 24:01
  All right. Anyway, talking about bizarre,
• 24:03
  gimmicks. Number 10 we've got Chuck
• 24:05
  Palumbo who is not the same wrestler that I remember
• 24:08
  watching. In 2003 from billion check he
• 24:11
  looks like he Wants to be on Sons of Anarchy and this gimmick
• 24:15
  is painful. I was that.
• 24:16
  Is that what you thought more like a Sons of Anarchy thing?
• 24:19
  I was thinking he looks like the guy who gets like the balls at
• 24:21
  the bowling alley, you know, stuck in the back there.
• 24:25
  Reynolds number 11. Yeah, I brought the Budweiser in
• 24:36
  a bowling ball. We're going off the rails.
• 24:38
  Number 11, Jamie Noble. He's Palumbo's archenemy.
• 24:42
  And this is what people, what I cared about in 2008.
• 24:47
  Michelle McCool is yet somehow involved.
• 24:50
  Thank God. Alright, so here's where things
• 24:53
  really get interesting in this Rumble and this Rumble I'd be
• 24:58
  curious like weight and size because it's got to be the
• 25:01
  biggest Rumble, right? Like size-wise, we're going to
• 25:05
  get something important like that.
• 25:07
  There's a lot of big men that we've already figured out about
• 25:10
  the numbers. It has to be double of all.
• 25:13
  Ya think about already? We've got Batista, Carly and
• 25:16
  Undertaker. Those are three big dudes. 96
• 25:19
  had Yoko Vader and the squat team.
• 25:23
  All right, all right. I smell some housekeeping for
• 25:27
  next week, but every, yeah, be the one, you get your
• 25:31
  calculator. Number 12, we've got long-haired
• 25:36
  CM, Punk gets a huge pop. He's an eye on the ECW roster at
• 25:41
  the time gets tough. Surround just before, thankfully
• 25:44
  eliminating Chuck Palumbo, which might be the most underrated
• 25:48
  things CM Punk has ever done in his career.
• 25:51
  Number 13, we've got Cody Rhodes and his first Royal Rumble
• 25:56
  appearance. He's also the tag team champion
• 25:59
  at the time with Bob Holly, what?
• 26:03
  What? Yeah, I like I had no running
• 26:05
  election. Yeah.
• 26:06
  They talk about one of the tips. Yeah.
• 26:08
  Want to tell you other tag champs for like Miz and
• 26:10
  Morrison. Yes.
• 26:12
  Yes, correct. Yes.
• 26:14
  So, I don't know. It's cool that Cody here is, you
• 26:17
  know, we're covering his very first Rumble and I betcha, he
• 26:21
  shows up in extra credit a little bit late.
• 26:23
  Same thing, it's just so glad that they're date.
• 26:26
  They teamed him with Bob. Holly like the booking in 2008
• 26:30
  is really strange for the midcard.
• 26:32
  I saw an interview of him recently.
• 26:35
  I don't know where maybe I was on, like Chris Van belay that
• 26:39
  guy. Is that how you pronounce Holly?
• 26:42
  No, Cody. Okay, And you talked about
• 26:45
  teaming with Bob Holly? No, he talking about this this
• 26:48
  first Rumble appearance here. Oh really, you know, he's
• 26:52
  interaction with Undertaker. He goes up to Undertaker.
• 26:55
  Undertaker goes he's got he's going to get chokeslammed, but
• 26:59
  take her Whispers to him dropkick.
• 27:00
  Me interesting. He drop kicks him.
• 27:04
  And, you know, he does get some yeah pants in and it's like, he
• 27:08
  should be remembered. Yeah, yeah.
• 27:10
  That is pretty cool. You always hear stories about
• 27:12
  Undertaker being super giving. Oh yes, it seems like one of
• 27:16
  those opportunities. That's really cool.
• 27:18
  Number 14. So we're about to jack up the
• 27:21
  size here, we've got to Maga. This is a guy like we speak
• 27:25
  about this often. You know, this is an era where
• 27:27
  none of us were following wrestling closely umaga's.
• 27:30
  A guy that you know, had a big run and I don't really know
• 27:35
  anything about this guy like, you know, I never I didn't watch
• 27:38
  anything. He had that manager.
• 27:40
  Guy, Armando, Estrada something. Before Nick, the hopped on
• 27:45
  tonight, we were talking about Umaga, we're like, oh magari
• 27:48
  like replied the Wikipedia page up, right with the right?
• 27:52
  I know and he is he's a badass, right?
• 27:54
  Like he's crazy, you know. It said he died at 36.
• 27:58
  I think we read, he's up, he's a threat, he's definitely a
• 28:02
  throwback monster. Yeah, monsters, best way to
• 28:04
  describe them. Like, they build them that way
• 28:06
  too, and they seem today, he's answering They seem to be moving
• 28:11
  solo Sequoia down that path to he's doing the Simone Spike now.
• 28:15
  And I'd like feel like this could really open up more.
• 28:19
  And they're certainly paying homage to, to Maga and all this.
• 28:23
  They're, they're not bashful about it either.
• 28:25
  Because they talk about them consistently now, but if feels
• 28:27
  like he's, he's really getting some love now and there's some,
• 28:31
  like brutal matches. I feel like with Cena back in
• 28:34
  the day. Yes.
• 28:34
  Is that it's worth? Going back and watch it with who
• 28:37
  Maga but certainly sts-1. From the turnbuckle or ropes
• 28:41
  like right. Right.
• 28:42
  Yeah. I quit certainly one of the guys
• 28:46
  from the period that is like our dark time.
• 28:49
  Is somebody that's worth going back and watching but our yeah,
• 28:51
  number 15 was not going, no not worth going back.
• 28:55
  And why did Vince employ? This guy like you already have
• 28:59
  great colleague on your roster. We already have this hideous
• 29:02
  man. Now you got Snitsky Jesus
• 29:05
  Christ. This guy is ugly.
• 29:08
  Like why? Did Vince want to employ these
• 29:11
  big lugs with zero personality? Like I know he had some like
• 29:15
  sketchy gimmicks during this era in what it like through a baby
• 29:19
  Millions like over 65. So alright higher.
• 29:23
  Yeah, yeah, but he's disgusting Yogi.
• 29:25
  Grocery Snitsky, he like reminds me of that kid in like, eighth
• 29:30
  grade that comes school at like, has like the pimples peeling off
• 29:33
  his face like it's disgusting. I don't know.
• 29:37
  I can't look at his face without feeling nauseated.
• 29:39
  Dated anything? I hope he's not listening.
• 29:42
  Yeah. Yeah, if you're free to light in
• 29:45
  my district, number 16 saw like a real.
• 29:50
  He's like, you know, what a woodchuck to show up.
• 29:57
  He's going to commission you to draw him.
• 30:00
  Squashing, you like a bug? Yes, number 16, we've got 1/2 of
• 30:06
  as Mike said the Tag Team Champions on another show.
• 30:10
  Bedazzled Capri. Ms. He comes out and he's
• 30:13
  looking like, a male version of Jojo siwa.
• 30:16
  He's got like these pants that go down to his ankles, they've
• 30:20
  got studs all over them, like awful, you're just roasting
• 30:23
  everybody out. Sorry, I got a problem with
• 30:26
  2008, they're like Genco Style with jean shorts, but bedazzled.
• 30:33
  There's boots to like down to his knees wear his boots.
• 30:37
  Throw stick pads her there. It's a bizarre.
• 30:39
  Has our look and you know what makes it worse is our you know
• 30:44
  makes it worse. No.
• 30:45
  I very much appreciate them is right now.
• 30:50
  He definitely wore a fedora with this gimmick and their, you're
• 30:53
  right, nothing worse than a fedora in my opinion with a
• 30:56
  feather. I think like, listen Jim, pulls
• 31:01
  off. Very many hats.
• 31:02
  I'll be the first sale wherefore, though, they are not
• 31:04
  fedoras. I will preface that.
• 31:06
  He made me over the summer. Try one on.
• 31:08
  I cannot pull that hat off your hat.
• 31:15
  Smoking guns Vibes. You know, I thoroughly Read the
• 31:20
  captain's hat. I'm Jim.
• 31:21
  That's, that's my favorite at the gym.
• 31:24
  So at this point, Jimmy, Undertaker, Undertaker.
• 31:29
  Goes to throw Umaga over and the spot is botched.
• 31:33
  You notice this, did anybody pick up on this Undertaker?
• 31:36
  Goes to throw him. I'll go over and Umaga just like
• 31:38
  lays on top of the top rope for what feels like good 30 seconds,
• 31:43
  Undertaker comes back work, somebody doesn't eliminate them
• 31:46
  at this point. Everybody feels like it's like
• 31:48
  boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, we're up to number 17,
• 31:51
  believe it or not and Shelton Benjamin comes in hot right,
• 31:55
  takes out Miss Morrison, boom! 18 seconds, the guy last Sweet
• 32:00
  Chin Music from Shawn Michaels, and they're out of there.
• 32:03
  I love this spot though. It's like, yeah, not see it
• 32:06
  coming because he comes in like he said, so hot, and then bang.
• 32:09
  It's you guys, great. He leaps from the mat directly
• 32:12
  to the top rope takes out, Miz and Morrison.
• 32:15
  I don't even remember why they're on the top.
• 32:17
  They do like the coconut. Together thing and drop some
• 32:21
  there but immediately and and the announcers are putting him
• 32:24
  over huge about yeah gold standard and how he's the next
• 32:28
  big thing and blabbity blah, blah blah.
• 32:29
  And then Shawn Michaels, hit some with some Sweet Chin Music
• 32:32
  and he loved it P wonder if to you before or after their
• 32:35
  Infamous Ross. I'm going to say it after.
• 32:39
  That would be my guess more housekeeping.
• 32:41
  Anybody writing that down? More has gotten.
• 32:44
  All right, so does. All right, so everybody, we
• 32:49
  Talked about it earlier like you always come back for the rumble
• 32:53
  at this point, right? Like even if you're not watching
• 32:56
  wrestling. So 2008, we're not watching
• 32:58
  wrestling but we're making a point to watch the Royal Rumble,
• 33:02
  whether we try and get 10 people together.
• 33:04
  We pick some numbers out of a hat, we throw some money into
• 33:07
  the pot and we each get usually we walk away with three numbers.
• 33:11
  So know where you're going with this 80.
• 33:13
  That's your money back. Yeah yeah, so so we play by the
• 33:17
  rules winner gets let's say Is a hundred dollars in the pot.
• 33:21
  Winner gets $90 and the worst entrant gets their money back,
• 33:25
  right? And then usually by the engine's
• 33:28
  going to build thick like, yeah, Terry, you're right.
• 33:30
  Yeah. Right.
• 33:31
  So I think most people play by these rules.
• 33:33
  So Jim would you like to take it from here until the remainder of
• 33:38
  the story? Yeah, sure.
• 33:40
  So yes, you know we all pick what three numbers out of a hat.
• 33:43
  We probably had 10 people, right?
• 33:45
  So one of my numbers is 30 I'm like it's one.
• 33:49
  Only I think didn't Undertaker with your previous year.
• 33:52
  Yeah, it's like no way. It happens two years around.
• 33:54
  So that's where I'm thinking like no chance in hell.
• 33:57
  They're doing it back-to-back especially 30, the last one so I
• 34:00
  get find some sucker. This case, our friend Pat, he's
• 34:04
  got 18, sound like a real sexy number to me.
• 34:07
  So is this pre Rumble? Was this pre Rumble?
• 34:09
  It's pre rup like before it started before you're probably
• 34:11
  under harder something. So I trade it to him and I'm
• 34:15
  like yeah you idiot. That's that's right.
• 34:19
  I was so. Cocky about it like you dumb
• 34:21
  bastard, already and those are really just to give it a 30 even
• 34:27
  more, you know. So, and then what happens.
• 34:30
  So what about the music cued up? Super number 18, we've got
• 34:39
  Superfly Jimmy, Snuka them. Come Leo's hanging out Slinkys,
• 34:47
  he comes out in a velour Tarzan, go.
• 34:49
  Dear. He looks like a Staten Island
• 34:51
  grandmother. And I'm talking about just his
• 34:55
  face, he looks like he's escaped like a New York, City homeless
• 34:59
  shelter and stumbled into the match.
• 35:01
  Like, I don't know what is going on with super flies face at this
• 35:04
  point in 2008. Baseball glove, I cannot wrap my
• 35:08
  mind around it, hairs all frizzy.
• 35:10
  He's take a guess, how old he is at this Royal Rumble in 2008 31
• 35:15
  time. What?
• 35:16
  Third He looks and moves like he's ancient.
• 35:22
  Yes, he looks like you're moving 556.
• 35:26
  He's 65, he's 65 years old, so it's appropriate but I guess I
• 35:30
  always thought like like look dude, looks like he should be
• 35:34
  like 85 years old based on the as Jim said.
• 35:37
  The Slinkys it's not he looks very confused but it's cool.
• 35:41
  You know he comes in hey he had butts all the big names goes
• 35:45
  toe-to-toe with the Undertaker and in my opinion this is the
• 35:48
  biggest This in this Royal Rumble.
• 35:51
  They don't even call back to WrestleMania 7, you know, I
• 35:55
  don't know. It's Undertaker's first Mania
• 35:57
  and maybe it was like, in the middle of the pack.
• 35:59
  I, in my head. I'm like, how do you not call
• 36:01
  back to that at all the way? It was one of us.
• 36:03
  We definitely would have easily. So then, you know, I don't think
• 36:08
  anybody really knows where we're going with this number 19, we've
• 36:12
  got Roddy Piper and the coin the term Slinkys.
• 36:17
  Yeah, yeah, this is true. And he comes out and he's
• 36:22
  looking the same. He looks like the same version
• 36:25
  of Roddy Piper from Always Sunny in Philadelphia that episode.
• 36:30
  He strips down to bike shorts and I'm like, okay, Piper please
• 36:33
  leave the shirt on, please leave the shirt on sure.
• 36:35
  Enough the shirt comes off and he's got like a keg out there
• 36:39
  for his belly of. He looks like a barrel.
• 36:42
  He's like, yes Barrel, the crowd, he has going insane for
• 36:48
  them. Yes, absolutely insane.
• 36:49
  Shane, when Piper comes out, he can do they show a shot of
• 36:53
  Snookers? Two Chinooks.
• 36:54
  He's got like a loaded cocky Duty.
• 37:02
  So at this moment, the Royal Rumble stalls out everyone.
• 37:05
  Let's these two Hall of Famers have their moment.
• 37:08
  I don't know if anybody picked up on it, I looked in the corner
• 37:10
  and you could see, steal Uncle basement.
• 37:13
  CM Punk is in the corner, just dying laughing.
• 37:16
  Looking at the two of them, but It's cold.
• 37:20
  It's great. And the crowd is eating it up
• 37:24
  and I appreciate that the whole, the whole ring stops.
• 37:28
  Like, I truly appreciate that. That's that.
• 37:31
  All the focus is there. It's really, it's really
• 37:33
  awesome. And then appropriately.
• 37:36
  Number 20, Kane's pyro hits, and his music hits.
• 37:40
  He comes out. We know where this is going,
• 37:42
  thankfully, like we've all had enough of the claim by /.
• 37:45
  Let's get these tools guys. Out of the ring.
• 37:48
  He eliminates them before delivering signature uppercuts
• 37:52
  and chokeslams left and right. So we've got the final, ten
• 37:57
  guys, there's still bunch in the ring.
• 37:59
  Hornswoggle still hiding underneath that ring at this
• 38:02
  point, getting some more grease on his face though.
• 38:04
  There is some number 21, Carlito comes out spits.
• 38:10
  The apple right in Cody's face. I don't have anything to say
• 38:13
  about Carlito. Does anybody else came back?
• 38:17
  Our last year? Like he did.
• 38:19
  Around more. Yeah, you know, sorry guitar on
• 38:24
  in the background and we're I'm right.
• 38:26
  I'm watching and we're at the Kane entrance where I'm
• 38:29
  watching. I have a major problem that
• 38:31
  know, like production assistant or anything came down into the
• 38:36
  aisle way and took swaddles hat from Iowa.
• 38:41
  It's their sitting there. There's actually a few moments
• 38:44
  like that, right? Yeah.
• 38:45
  Yes. A couple of things and then the,
• 38:49
  the entranceway at Madison Square, Garden.
• 38:50
  Everyone knows it's short. It doesn't have the space in the
• 38:54
  arena. The you cut out too many seats
• 38:56
  to give you like the true raw. You know major production that
• 39:01
  they usually get Colley had to duck under the entranceway.
• 39:04
  Yeah. Right.
• 39:05
  But there were positives and negatives to it and this to me
• 39:09
  it's always within shot of the hard Cam and it makes things so
• 39:14
  difficult and it makes you cut away from it in a production
• 39:17
  standpoint. It makes you like watching the
• 39:20
  The guys that have been eliminated like kind of humbled
• 39:24
  like just hunched over and going into the back.
• 39:26
  There's other guys that are like waving to the crowd is like
• 39:29
  saluting the crowd on the way back, it's a really awkward
• 39:32
  piece but like going back to like Batista when it comes in at
• 39:35
  number eight. He's got this epic monstrous
• 39:38
  music that, you know, you probably about six seconds of
• 39:41
  because he's hit the ring immediately.
• 39:44
  Yeah. And there is so much like really
• 39:46
  weird things that come with the short entranceway.
• 39:50
  And unfortunately, the Hornswoggle hat is are 20
• 39:54
  entrance or whatever it is is just bothering me as I have it
• 39:57
  on in the back. Like only that sorry to read it
• 39:59
  though. You know?
• 39:59
  Cause it has its own unique. Yeah.
• 40:00
  We're everything that we do E's does nowadays.
• 40:03
  It's the same thing everywhere that, you know.
• 40:05
  Like there's no like oh it's just gonna be a little different
• 40:07
  because we're here kind of reminds me of like 92 Rumble in
• 40:11
  that way. We're like some of the guys, you
• 40:13
  see some of the guys exiting as some is like one of the guys
• 40:17
  come other guys comes down DiBiase.
• 40:19
  That's leaving as Flares coming down.
• 40:21
  Yeah, that classic shot of DiBiase walking by Flair Flair
• 40:25
  walking by DiBiase, which everyone look at it.
• 40:28
  It's it's this is actually regarded as one of the faster
• 40:33
  like quicker Royal Rumbles and that's got to be why it's like
• 40:36
  that obviously the shorts that Grant between pics to write in
• 40:40
  it. It feels like it's shorter than
• 40:42
  90 seconds at the title immediately.
• 40:44
  It made me want to take a stopwatch out and there's I did
• 40:46
  a few times, I guarantee you summer, I did it.
• 40:50
  There were A few times I did because I was very curious.
• 40:52
  I was like this feels so fast admit it.
• 40:55
  I like the that's always the great debate because the ramp
• 40:57
  time. Yeah, right is.
• 40:59
  But is it that's always my question, is it, 90 seconds
• 41:02
  before, from the time? They hit the ring or the time,
• 41:05
  the music. Like, because there's probably
• 41:06
  inconsistencies back and forth, no doubt.
• 41:09
  But anyway, number 22, we've got Mick Foley.
• 41:12
  There's a huge pop for the the Long Island native the hometown
• 41:16
  boy and town. Huh?
• 41:18
  Head to I got I have to too. Things that I want to ask, did
• 41:22
  you know, he was on the roster at this point, right?
• 41:24
  They said him and Hornswoggle had a match on Smackdown to get
• 41:29
  into the Rumble Match. I was i-i've watched this Rumble
• 41:32
  many times and I always thought he was like a, you know, a
• 41:35
  HomeTown guy that just like dreamer, they put him in this
• 41:38
  match for that. Random one off too, right?
• 41:41
  But it's not. So my next question is as good
• 41:44
  as, As Good As the piper snuck a moment was, would it have been a
• 41:50
  been Better moment if it was Snuka and then Mick Foley came
• 41:53
  out or vice versa because of you know, Foley's fandom in Madison
• 41:59
  Square Garden. I don't know.
• 42:01
  That's interesting, Piper's Pit coconut.
• 42:06
  Yeah, it works it with the snooker.
• 42:08
  Yes, I am too and and let's just roll down Mick.
• 42:13
  Foley's gear here. Does anybody anybody else?
• 42:17
  See how bizarre he is going to make sure?
• 42:20
  Characters. Yeah, he's like trying to get a
• 42:22
  little bit of everybody in there.
• 42:24
  He's got his later in the year. So he was like, when he was
• 42:27
  wrestling as Mick Foley. If he always looked kind of like
• 42:29
  this or am I wrong? Another know, you're totally
• 42:31
  right. Yeah, he's got a, he's got his
• 42:34
  classic sweatpants on is like, white dad's sneakers.
• 42:38
  It looks like he's got his wanted Dead Cactus Jack classic
• 42:43
  shirt on underneath, but then he has another like leopard print
• 42:47
  button down. Yeah, yup.
• 42:49
  And then he Has his classic red and black like Buffalo plaid
• 42:53
  shirt vest over the top of it. It's all so bizarre, and it's so
• 42:58
  many layers going on there. It just felt so unless I'm
• 43:01
  personally hated this look I hate you know, Bruce like come
• 43:04
  on man. Uh yeah a little I mean the guy
• 43:07
  where's Santa shirts still like every day year round currently
• 43:12
  but Sophie know. So anyway, moving on to number
• 43:15
  23, we talked about a guy that that we missed in Umaga that Go
• 43:20
  be cool to go back. And watch number 23, Kennedy.
• 43:23
  I have zero desire to ever go back and watch a Kennedy match.
• 43:26
  This guy does nothing for me, did nothing for me.
• 43:30
  Anything I've seen like, no, thank you pass.
• 43:33
  I wrote in my notes. Big Pop, is he this over?
• 43:37
  Like he know, I think this probably is lazy thing.
• 43:40
  That's new. I get the feeling kind.
• 43:42
  Yeah, you know, the crowd and the crowd, not sorry.
• 43:45
  That the crowd the announcers reference, how him and Sean have
• 43:49
  something going. Going like on the side during
• 43:52
  this time so that's I I don't know.
• 43:55
  I couldn't figure it out because I agree.
• 43:56
  I thought the same thing about the pop.
• 43:58
  I think you was Eddie's last match.
• 44:01
  Interesting, very interesting. All right.
• 44:05
  So number 24, I was going to say the commentators are now
• 44:09
  starting to talk about how HBK and Undertaker still in there
• 44:13
  and they have eclipsed the 30-minute Mark impressive for
• 44:17
  two old dudes, it's old head number 24.
• 44:22
  Like I said, man, got to be the biggest Rumble.
• 44:24
  This is my bet for the biggest Rumble.
• 44:26
  We've Got Big Daddy V, you don't even see him coming out because
• 44:30
  at his school about Slinkys hanging out.
• 44:33
  He's got what you got the Abdullah.
• 44:34
  The Butcher body. Yes, but like 200, Once more I
• 44:38
  feel like, yeah, probably so we don't even see him come out.
• 44:41
  You, you literally see him like for a split second because at
• 44:45
  this point take her eliminates Snitsky and then you got
• 44:49
  Michaels Sweet Chin Music to eliminate taker after 32 minutes
• 44:54
  and 33 seconds and then Kennedy eliminates Shawn Michaels, three
• 44:59
  seconds later and maybe that's why I don't like Kennedy but
• 45:05
  just it made me wonder like, Was this meant to happen during an
• 45:09
  entrance. Did they like jump the gun?
• 45:12
  But then I always enjoy that with a rumble when it happens.
• 45:16
  Kind of abruptly during the middle of an entrance.
• 45:18
  And you're like, whoo. Wait, what just happened?
• 45:20
  Did that guy really? Just did those two big guys who
• 45:22
  have been there over a half-hour.
• 45:23
  Really just get eliminated during Big Daddy V's, entrance
• 45:27
  Big Daddy V, oh man. Yeah, it's a good point, it's
• 45:31
  always interesting when they have to like go back and like
• 45:33
  show you what happened in the pure chaos of the rumble.
• 45:36
  It's always a like And fuzzy feeling when you're like I like
• 45:39
  it, figure out what's going on and your eyes are running all
• 45:42
  over the place you're like and now you're watching it back you
• 45:45
  can like hit that rewind said second button like what did I
• 45:48
  miss? What did I miss?
• 45:49
  So Taker and Snitsky go at it at the end on the Spanish announce
• 45:53
  table, where take her lands a leg drop and breaks the table or
• 45:57
  barely breaks the table. It was weird.
• 45:59
  Just the tabletop broke. Yes.
• 46:02
  The part of the name. Rip off all the time.
• 46:04
  Right, right, right. This is The time period where
• 46:09
  the table is, I guess they're still kind of that way, but they
• 46:12
  were just like four pieces. Like the yes, three sides.
• 46:15
  And then the top and just the top was what fell through?
• 46:18
  It was it was a weird, kind of Undertaker, sitting at the top.
• 46:22
  Like I shouldn't be here right now, I love.
• 46:24
  Can he just stumbles off into the back?
• 46:27
  So number 25 man, another big man Mark Henry, I only won that.
• 46:34
  Bet this is, I think you're right this, right?
• 46:36
  Because you're Driving this home and you're going to make me do
• 46:39
  all this work. I'm gonna have to go out and
• 46:41
  sell sheets for lab replaces the weight class and everything.
• 46:45
  Yeah, so are here we go. 1991 ways.
• 46:49
  Yeah, or to this there's like 40 rumbles.
• 46:52
  I'm not doing that. No way.
• 46:54
  Did I get a simple Google zq? I think you could probably get a
• 46:58
  good Excel spreadsheet going where it says like you know the
• 47:00
  ones with the math, it does like yes cells.
• 47:03
  Oh yeah, I get this one and 96. If you just put the wrestler in
• 47:06
  with their standard weight, You know, just now you can now yeah.
• 47:09
  All right. Hoppy our tastes.
• 47:11
  Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry.
• 47:13
  Not going to show at this point, right?
• 47:15
  We've got 25 guys have come out hard Hornswoggle, sneaks out
• 47:19
  from under the ring and he's he's because help Mark Henry
• 47:23
  who's eliminate at this point. Somebody help me out please
• 47:26
  pulls. He comes out from underneath the
• 47:28
  ring and The Miz is less in Peril, right?
• 47:31
  He's he's over the top, he's got his hands on the, on the apron,
• 47:35
  on the outside, and Hornswoggle comes out.
• 47:38
  Wasn't by the wrist and essentially pulls them down and
• 47:40
  ankles immediately right back underneath the ring again and
• 47:43
  disappear. Yep.
• 47:45
  Then we get numbers 2600. Chavo like this.
• 47:50
  Another guy I couldn't stand and I have no.
• 47:52
  These are watching w champion. Yes.
• 47:54
  Yeah. Him and CM Punk have a few
• 47:56
  during this correct, correct? Yeah, they go at it immediately
• 47:59
  as Chavo gets into the ring. Yep.
• 48:02
  Morrison gets eliminated after spending almost a half hour in
• 48:05
  the ring which is crazy. Like this guy.
• 48:07
  Guy has a ton of talent they reference him being like next,
• 48:11
  Shawn Michaels. At one point.
• 48:13
  How was he around here in his mid-20s or so?
• 48:16
  Gotta be has to be, I would be late. 20s would be my guess.
• 48:21
  So then at this point after Morrison's, eliminated
• 48:24
  Hornswoggle appears again to try and assist and eliminate Mark
• 48:28
  Henry, who's leaning over the top rope instead, Mark Henry
• 48:31
  pulls him up into the ring and he gets cornered by Henry Big
• 48:34
  Daddy V and Chavo number 20. Seven jumps, the gun Finley
• 48:39
  comes out before his clock goes off and is dq'd for using his
• 48:43
  Chalet lie, to protect Hornswoggle, which is an order
• 48:46
  direct from Vince McMahon. So number 27, entrant does not
• 48:52
  happen, right? He's disqualified.
• 48:55
  I don't even know if he climbed over the top rope or not.
• 48:57
  Know they disqualified, they announced it.
• 49:01
  That the announcers say that Finley has been disqualified for
• 49:04
  coming out, too early, but Hornswoggle technically, It's oh
• 49:09
  yeah, they say it's directly from this object any type of
• 49:12
  order. Right?
• 49:12
  Right. Yeah, right.
• 49:14
  But beyond that, technically, Hornswoggle was never eliminated
• 49:19
  because he just, like, rolls out of the ring and then Finley and
• 49:22
  him walk hand-in-hand. Yes, the back to the back at
• 49:25
  first, I thought they were holding hands.
• 49:27
  He's holding his wrist because I had to like, stop it for a
• 49:29
  second. I was like, are they holding
• 49:30
  hands on the way back? Like, is he treating him like a
• 49:33
  small child, because I got a problem with that.
• 49:36
  Anyway, number A could you this is probably the most Anti
• 49:40
  climatic number 28. Entrant into a Royal Rumble.
• 49:44
  Elijah Burke. Oh man, I have no recollection
• 49:48
  of this. Dude, the Mikey were crazy.
• 49:50
  Nobody's are like, you know, his claim to fame the, the meme of
• 49:55
  the gift that my key work rate showed us before.
• 49:57
  I had. No, no.
• 49:59
  So his claim to fame. Mike said this about Eddie's
• 50:02
  last match but Elijah Burke's claims to fame is that he is
• 50:05
  Chris benoit's, last opponent Before benoit's de, that's all I
• 50:10
  got on. Elijah Burke?
• 50:13
  Yeah, he's garbage job and travel eliminates punk in a very
• 50:18
  anti climatic way, especially for a feud, which is supposed to
• 50:22
  be between like the what number 3 title in the company the ECW
• 50:26
  title. And, you know, now we're really,
• 50:31
  really cutting down because we've got two more entrants at
• 50:34
  this point. Omega is throat chopping.
• 50:38
  Who rolls out of the ring? We just has a weird spot.
• 50:41
  So okay, so I'm glad you said that because at first, I thought
• 50:46
  why is Bautista roll out of the ring but it makes perfect sense
• 50:49
  for what we're about to see. Right, we get number 29 and it's
• 50:54
  Triple H. Triple H is now the new
• 50:57
  favorite, he comes in. He eliminates Cody, and Big
• 51:00
  Daddy V immediately instantly. And at that moment, I'm like,
• 51:05
  that's why Batista is out of the ring because they can't have a
• 51:08
  showdown Batista can't be in the ring to let him clear out those
• 51:11
  guys. That's just it.
• 51:15
  That's my this was this was the like when I said that you have
• 51:18
  that rewind 10 SEC but 10 second button.
• 51:21
  This is when I used it. So like yes you see Batista on
• 51:24
  the outside that the announcers all six of them feel really
• 51:28
  confused about why he's there. They're like questioning whether
• 51:31
  or not he was eliminated or rolled out underneath and then I
• 51:35
  like went back and I hit the ten second before but And I watched
• 51:38
  it again and it looks like all right, he's got an interaction
• 51:40
  with Umaga. Maybe he got thrown a potato and
• 51:44
  like he. Yeah, he had to like Escape for
• 51:46
  a second to catch his breath and like he just rolled out and then
• 51:50
  you come back after that and they showed the replay where
• 51:53
  Batista actually takes a Samoan Spike to the throat, still rolls
• 51:57
  out to the ring. But like I was in that moment of
• 51:59
  like, oh shit, I'm getting worked here.
• 52:01
  Like, I gotta, I gotta speed. This is something some real go
• 52:03
  down. It was definitely one of those
• 52:06
  moments, but it makes total sense.
• 52:07
  With Triple H coming in doing the Triple H thing really gets a
• 52:11
  kiss if I mean, oh yeah. I mean Madison Square Garden
• 52:14
  2002's. Triple H has the history with
• 52:17
  Mick Foley, which they go into next.
• 52:19
  And like they talked about the history at the Garden and and
• 52:22
  Triple H and fully going at it and it it's an interesting
• 52:27
  elimination here to Triple H essentially pushes Foley into
• 52:32
  the ropes. Elijah Burke is like collateral
• 52:35
  damage here as yourself Foley. And Burke are eliminated.
• 52:39
  So right before, right before that, a lot.
• 52:41
  If you. So talking about the 10 second
• 52:44
  button, I went back because right before that spot, Elijah
• 52:48
  Burke is just like Chillin by the Rope on the bottom of your
• 52:51
  screen like waiting for that spot to happen and instead I
• 52:55
  think he realizes like I'm on the wrong rope so he hops over
• 52:58
  to the other side and that's when him and Mick Foley get
• 53:01
  eliminated by Triple H and that clears the way for number 30,
• 53:05
  right? So Big Daddy V has been
• 53:07
  Eliminated quite a while ago and Vince has got to be like
• 53:11
  seething in the back because Big Daddy V is lingering in the
• 53:15
  aisle. Like this fat bastard is taking
• 53:18
  so long to get into the back. And then while Vince has like,
• 53:22
  probably the big like, this is probably my biggest surprises in
• 53:29
  WWE history. Right?
• 53:30
  Like, what we're about to see and we get a pedigree to Umaga
• 53:35
  and then number 30 hits and It again, WWE does it perfectly
• 53:40
  right? But buzzer goes off but there's
• 53:43
  like the perfect amount of pause in silence and then seen as
• 53:47
  music hits and it's the hugest pop that probably in my opinion
• 53:52
  has ever been at a Royal Rumble. I, I was not watching wrestling.
• 53:56
  I've never been known to be a seen a guy, but I still get
• 53:58
  chills every time I watch that and I crank the volume up just
• 54:02
  for the pop fair, not that I spiked my beer when this
• 54:06
  happened. Yes, because you you did not
• 54:11
  come with $90 this. Yeah, any time he comes down in
• 54:15
  this Rumble real tree. So again everybody anybody
• 54:19
  that's listening knows the biggest Pop I should have said
• 54:22
  it but the biggest pop at the Royal Rumble happens because
• 54:25
  just six months earlier. See, no Torres Peck and came
• 54:30
  back in record time. Like nobody should come back
• 54:33
  hurt on October 1st. Yeah.
• 54:35
  Less than six months. That's, that's wild.
• 54:37
  That is a Wild come back, huh? Right.
• 54:41
  That is it it's insane. Think about what Cody Rhodes is
• 54:44
  going through right now. Like that's they're talking
• 54:47
  about nine months for him, is a good thing.
• 54:49
  Yeah, Cena Cena is a like just, oh yeah, yes.
• 54:54
  They said, best case scenario best-case was six months for
• 54:57
  Holly. Yeah, crazy.
• 54:59
  And he's in half that, it's Unique pop to it.
• 55:02
  Sounds different because there's yes sighs.
• 55:04
  I'm telling you, man, there's something, there's something
• 55:06
  about the garden. That just cultivates this sound
• 55:09
  and it just They still do him like sorry.
• 55:12
  Yes. No.
• 55:13
  You're right, they still do when he's failing aaa's to go.
• 55:16
  Boo. And he hits.
• 55:17
  Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah.
• 55:18
  So there's there's a dude in the crowd right on the guardrail.
• 55:22
  He's got an RKO shirt like hoodie on.
• 55:25
  He has a replica Title and he is living and breathing with this
• 55:29
  battle with the, yeah, booze of like the punch for punch.
• 55:32
  And yeah, boo, ya Boo. And he is cheering for Triple H.
• 55:37
  It is. Oh, unreal to watch that dude.
• 55:39
  It's so the Easy part is, is like, I just love the, the,
• 55:42
  like, head down. You don't see his face right off
• 55:44
  the bat, right? He's got the hands.
• 55:46
  Let's great. Hands down as bottom.
• 55:49
  Looks like a jackass. If you ask me, but, you know, I
• 55:51
  can appreciate he swaggered. Yeah, it's very chickenheads.
• 55:56
  It's incredible. Yeah, but there's still like a
• 55:59
  good like 10 minutes of this Royal Rumble to get to.
• 56:02
  Right? There's still a lot more guys.
• 56:03
  It's not just Cena and Triple H Triple H though and him kind of
• 56:07
  have like their moment, Triple H he's like yelling at him.
• 56:10
  Like You Stole My Moment essentially Tina.
• 56:14
  Come expression because perfect Cena comes in thankfully,
• 56:19
  eliminates Carlito, Chavo and Mark Henry, like, boom, boom,
• 56:23
  boom, instantly Cena. And Triple H have a face off in
• 56:26
  the middle of the Ring. Batista refreshed.
• 56:29
  I don't know. Where comes back into the fold
• 56:31
  and and Spears Umaga thankfully eliminates Kennedy.
• 56:36
  And here, we're down to what we got.
• 56:39
  Who mom? Batista Triple H, Cena kind and
• 56:43
  Kane. Is the fifth man in there.
• 56:45
  So Kane, looks like he's about to choke slam, Batista and
• 56:49
  Triple H and the to decide to team up and eliminate Kane.
• 56:53
  Thankfully like a guy that I even in 2008, didn't want to see
• 56:57
  in my Royal Rumble. He didn't work here, like he
• 56:59
  said, he did, he did animate the Legends, I apologize.
• 57:04
  I during the sequence of the spirit, Umaga the T-cell
• 57:08
  eliminates Kennedy and then Umaga.
• 57:10
  So So now after canes out, were down to the final three of
• 57:13
  Batista Triple H and Cena. Which that is, that is big-time
• 57:19
  man to finish a rumble rumbles and and to me this is cool
• 57:22
  because they take a moment to kind of switch things up right
• 57:26
  before. This rumbles are always known
• 57:28
  for their final four. Like, who are the final four
• 57:30
  guys? There's so many rumbles.
• 57:31
  We go back and forth and tell you who the final four guys are.
• 57:36
  But here you got the three of them and cool moment but then
• 57:39
  it's followed up by like Our super corny moment of the three
• 57:44
  of them looking at each other and Batista.
• 57:46
  It was a dawn that. Yeah the double.
• 57:48
  It's like they're playing a video game at this point Batista
• 57:51
  gives the double thumbs down. Cena with the you can't see me
• 57:54
  Triple H hesitates and gives the crotch chop to both of them but
• 57:58
  it is what it is. I popped for it.
• 58:01
  I'm not gonna lie. What?
• 58:02
  Yeah, what happened? I strike on the N64.
• 58:05
  Yeah, give me cross chop. Give it to me, give it to you.
• 58:12
  So the teesta the Batista's sequence in which he's
• 58:16
  eliminated, next he goes, he goes for a powerbomb on Cena
• 58:20
  Cena, reverses it and as Batista pops up Triple H pops up and
• 58:25
  clotheslines him over the top rope it's pretty quick, it's
• 58:27
  very smooth the way it went down.
• 58:29
  Oh yeah. Well done at this point the
• 58:32
  crowds behind Triple H is down to Triple H and Cena.
• 58:37
  As you guys spoke about the booze and the, the yes, Is back
• 58:41
  and forth. Crowd is very conflicted on Cena
• 58:44
  at times and then you get a good, like, five minutes between
• 58:48
  the two of them like wrestling in the ring, which is to me,
• 58:51
  it's appropriate because there the businesses top powerhouses
• 58:56
  that in 2008, and, you know, they, they try each other's
• 59:01
  finishes like five times each but fail, and finally Cena
• 59:05
  delivers, an attitude adjustment over the top rope and wins the
• 59:08
  2008, Royal Rumble and And, here we go, man.
• 59:13
  And we get more Michael Buffer, more Michael Buffer.
• 59:16
  It Cena celebrates, he points to his injured Peck and points to
• 59:20
  the Wrestlemania side simultaneously.
• 59:23
  As we go off the air with a flurry of Pyro.
• 59:27
  I am ready. Triple H is in the aisle way as
• 59:30
  like this is all going on like the scorned.
• 59:33
  Like just the the scorned runner-ups just standing there
• 59:37
  and waiting and watching the the winner actually celebrate in the
• 59:41
  ring. It was a it was a nice little
• 59:43
  touch. I dig is.
• 59:43
  So do you the main event at this WrestleMania?
• 59:46
  Was Triple H but Orton and Cena and Cena losses.
• 59:51
  Like he's one of the few to Lose to Win a Royal Rumble and then
• 59:55
  lose the main events when 27% right, right?
• 59:59
  Or it's a yeah this time. Yeah.
• 1:00:02
  It wasn't the main event though. They were third to last and they
• 1:00:06
  had the, The Edge, The Edge match was the was the main
• 1:00:10
  event, that's Undertaker. Regardless regardless.
• 1:00:13
  Yes, it was a Randy Orton Triple Threat with radio Orton, Triple
• 1:00:17
  H, and John Cena, so on this card, right?
• 1:00:22
  So this is crazy. This Royal Rumble to me in my
• 1:00:24
  opinion is is absolutely solutely stacked.
• 1:00:28
  There's so many people in it but then you go and you look at the
• 1:00:32
  rest of the card which we don't need to talk about.
• 1:00:34
  But the rest of the card has Ric Flair MVP Bradshaw Jericho Edge,
• 1:00:41
  Rey Mysterio, Randy Orton, and Jeff Hardy also that act, right?
• 1:00:47
  Can you imagine those guys or even half of those guys in this
• 1:00:51
  Royal Rumble like wild. And I know that that's the
• 1:00:55
  problem with having three Brands.
• 1:00:57
  Especially because you've got these guys who need to defend
• 1:01:00
  their titles, but but you throw Bradshaw, because Bradshaw and
• 1:01:06
  Jericho is not for a title, that's just a grudge match,
• 1:01:09
  right? Like, you throw those two guys
• 1:01:12
  in this match and, you know, pull out Snitsky and Great.
• 1:01:16
  Khali and wow, and the thrusters, certainly, somebody
• 1:01:21
  jacked up here, not in 2008. So you, you said, Jeff Hardy
• 1:01:26
  This is the Mike adamle, a botch of mania of all botches when he
• 1:01:31
  says Jeff Harvey and then they've they've scrubbed it.
• 1:01:36
  It is not in this so when you're, when you're watching,
• 1:01:39
  they actually have scrubbed it and taken the flub, the bhature
• 1:01:42
  Mania section out. That is, that is Vince McMahon
• 1:01:46
  micromanaging. At its finest like these.
• 1:01:49
  So we'll celebrate it on lists, right?
• 1:01:51
  Yeah, so I know Matt loves his stats there.
• 1:01:54
  Well, I got up Bautista. The most time in the rumble
• 1:01:58
  right with 37 minutes, 46 seconds and then the other, the
• 1:02:02
  only other stat that I have is, there are 18 participants in
• 1:02:07
  this Rommel? Did I steal this that 18?
• 1:02:09
  Participants in this Royal Rumble out of 30 who have zero
• 1:02:13
  eliminations. That was pretty interesting.
• 1:02:16
  So I was gonna I was going to comment that it felt like it was
• 1:02:21
  a really long time with Cena in the ring.
• 1:02:23
  He enters at 2 hours 35. Five minutes and five seconds,
• 1:02:28
  and the pay-per-view ends at 2 hours, 46 minutes and 54 seconds
• 1:02:32
  soap, a shade under three hours is shifts kiss.
• 1:02:36
  He always spends 11 minutes and 49 seconds in total but then at
• 1:02:40
  the end they they comment that Cena broke the record for
• 1:02:44
  spending the least amount of time in the Rumble Match before
• 1:02:47
  winning. It beating Brock Lesnar's eight
• 1:02:50
  minutes and 59 seconds. So it was a 31 second
• 1:02:53
  differences what they announced but I guess it was the Gaga.
• 1:02:56
  Afterwards and all that. But it was, it was definitely a
• 1:03:00
  short run, but it felt like it was forever because it was
• 1:03:04
  immediate fast-paced. Soon as Cena came out, it was
• 1:03:07
  elimination, elimination elimination, and then it felt
• 1:03:10
  like it slow down. They had the standoff between
• 1:03:13
  the three and then an extended standoff between, Triple H and
• 1:03:16
  John Cena. It was a, it was an interesting
• 1:03:20
  end that made it feel like everything.
• 1:03:22
  Slowed down and time Stood Still between these two behemoths in
• 1:03:25
  the middle of the river. Ring.
• 1:03:28
  Love it. So cans in the cooler I'll let
• 1:03:31
  you guys go first this time because I feel like I always hop
• 1:03:34
  in first. So who wants to die note.
• 1:03:36
  I'll start, you know, what Meltzer gave it?
• 1:03:38
  What do you? Give it 4 .25?
• 1:03:40
  Which is tied for first with, like, seven other rumbles last
• 1:03:44
  seven other rumbles. Like, gee, thanks Meltzer, I'm
• 1:03:47
  gonna probably come in low here. I think I, I don't find this
• 1:03:52
  might be hot. Take, I don't find a lot of
• 1:03:53
  rumbles, totally rewatchable, like I like seeing that guys,
• 1:03:57
  come down and all that stuff. Fun for like the wrestling
• 1:03:59
  itself tends to be boring. I think so like there's a few
• 1:04:04
  rumbles I really love with 92 in particular.
• 1:04:06
  This one I'm going to say I'm gonna give it three and a half.
• 1:04:10
  I know what you mean. Like I would 10 seconds to like
• 1:04:12
  the next pick comes down. Yeah.
• 1:04:15
  Okay, let me see it. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:18
  Not that. I did that for homework.
• 1:04:19
  But right. Right.
• 1:04:21
  Yeah. There was a document viewpoints,
• 1:04:23
  but it has to be classic guys do.
• 1:04:25
  So it's hard to run old guys. And you get the Cody Rhodes has
• 1:04:29
  CM Punk. So it's, it's, it's cool with
• 1:04:32
  the guys, for sure. Mike.
• 1:04:34
  What about you Keynes in the cooler I'm going to go with my
• 1:04:38
  original thought which is four cans in the cooler.
• 1:04:42
  I thought for and I'm going to stick with for, you know, it's a
• 1:04:46
  great Rumble. It's probably top five for me
• 1:04:50
  and, you know, it's got a couple of Scrubs guys.
• 1:04:54
  Scrub, you guys in there. Like Snitsky who's $30 on Cameo,
• 1:04:58
  by the way? No.
• 1:05:01
  Are you serious? I just looked it up.
• 1:05:04
  You gotta get him. Well, hello Snitsky came to
• 1:05:08
  listen to this episode. There you go.
• 1:05:11
  So yeah. All right.
• 1:05:12
  There was a it's you know, it's ra watchable but you know it's
• 1:05:17
  yeah I wouldn't say five stars that's like reserved for 92 for
• 1:05:20
  me. Yes.
• 1:05:21
  Oh man. Have a you know man I have found
• 1:05:25
  myself in a really tough tough situation here because Jim sold
• 1:05:29
  me on his three and a half, I was getting ready to give it a
• 1:05:33
  three. And a half, but I didn't
• 1:05:36
  necessarily agree with all of all of Jim's points here but I
• 1:05:39
  don't think I can go to a 4. So I'm going to 3.75 as much as
• 1:05:44
  I hate doing it. Oh my God, he's drinking.
• 1:05:49
  He's drinking water and giving it what order fight, it's
• 1:05:53
  rewatchable. Absolutely.
• 1:05:55
  I get lost in the sauce with any Rumble to me, you can put any of
• 1:05:59
  them on and I will sit there and watch and be be locked in on it,
• 1:06:03
  even. Six year, old loves were all
• 1:06:05
  rumbles and, like, just well, watch the entire thing.
• 1:06:08
  I'm there the best. Absolutely.
• 1:06:11
  So here is really entertaining though and looking back and what
• 1:06:16
  in listening to everybody's commentary on.
• 1:06:18
  It made me enjoy it even more but still can't go to that. 4375
• 1:06:23
  off to eunuch. All right, the I was getting sad
• 1:06:26
  that yeah, like the comment people just having a
• 1:06:28
  conversation about it makes me like him or so.
• 1:06:32
  So I was gonna give it a For as well.
• 1:06:35
  And I think I like this Rumble because the first time I really
• 1:06:41
  watched it, it was with, like, fresh eyes.
• 1:06:44
  When the network first came out and everything was fresh, every
• 1:06:49
  entrant. Like, I wasn't following, I
• 1:06:51
  didn't I didn't, I don't even think.
• 1:06:53
  I, I knew Cena won or remembered seeing a winning it.
• 1:06:57
  Like that's how out of touch with wrestling in 2008.
• 1:07:00
  I was that wouldn't in network first came out and I watched it
• 1:07:03
  back. Back that pop got me so I don't
• 1:07:07
  know man. I like it.
• 1:07:08
  It's it's not my favorite Rumble of all time.
• 1:07:12
  It's with an interesting era of wrestlers if you ask me.
• 1:07:16
  Yeah. But it's cool to see like, you
• 1:07:19
  know, Cody's first Rumble and all the other guys, you know,
• 1:07:23
  it's interesting that you say like you didn't remember that.
• 1:07:26
  See, no one like when you were first watching it back with the
• 1:07:29
  network. Like, even even watching my
• 1:07:31
  homework here, It's booked so well that you think at the end
• 1:07:36
  like the final sequence with all the reversals of the finishers
• 1:07:40
  and things like that, you feel like Triple H has a legit chance
• 1:07:44
  to win it even though, you know, the outcome like right easily,
• 1:07:48
  you know the history but for whatever reason, your, I mean,
• 1:07:51
  personally, I was like, 12 in the action and you're thinking,
• 1:07:55
  oh shit. Like Triple H could pull this
• 1:07:56
  off and you're like, no asshole. You know what happened?
• 1:07:59
  Yeah, and one other thing that like, I didn't squeeze in when
• 1:08:03
  we Were talking about the entrance for John Cena because
• 1:08:07
  of the Madison Square Garden. Short ramp.
• 1:08:11
  There's literally like rope, stanchions, that yes.
• 1:08:14
  Movie theater, right? And you see one guy in
• 1:08:17
  particular in his Eli Manning jersey and his friggin
• 1:08:20
  turtleneck, like, literally pushing the kid out of the way
• 1:08:24
  pushing his way through the stanchions and like, just to
• 1:08:27
  touch John Cena's shoulder as he's walking in like your
• 1:08:31
  course, not only that, but managers, No no no no.
• 1:08:35
  Yeah but no, it was like it made the it made the entranceway feel
• 1:08:40
  even smaller because it was literally just a rope there.
• 1:08:44
  Like I'm surprised it didn't fly off.
• 1:08:46
  I can't believe face. Yeah.
• 1:08:47
  I can't believe they didn't have a security Garden from rope.
• 1:08:50
  Right. Exactly.
• 1:08:51
  And it was, it was really cool. It added to the levity of the
• 1:08:55
  moment Jr.'s commentary during it is
• 1:08:58
  tremendous. It like how it's a moment to
• 1:09:02
  talk about my We'll call like it.
• 1:09:05
  Truly is one of those WWE moments and everything about it
• 1:09:10
  was perfect. Hell yeah, I love it.
• 1:09:13
  Thanks for watching. I hope we've inspired you guys
• 1:09:16
  to if you don't go back and watch this one, go back and
• 1:09:18
  watch another Royal Rumble before this Sunday's Royal
• 1:09:21
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• 1:09:23
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• 1:10:38
  been battling with some own personal loss at this time but
• 1:10:42
  just wanted to take a second and, you know, Share the news of
• 1:10:49
  the passing of Jay Briscoe from the Briscoe Brothers, and
• 1:10:53
  passing in a car accident, on Tuesday evening.
• 1:10:58
  It seems like Jay really impacted a lot of people in the,
• 1:11:04
  in the wrestling Community. True, true chat tragedy here in
• 1:11:09
  hearing that, his family is impacted Beyond just him is
• 1:11:14
  extremely sad. and, It seems so canned and it seems.
• 1:11:22
  So just stereotypical to say it but I'm going to say it anyway
• 1:11:27
  because it's truly impacted me but just reach out to somebody
• 1:11:33
  and tell them that you love them because it's crazy.
• 1:11:38
  It does think of you know, blink of an eye it's sad that like we
• 1:11:42
  have to. This is the second time we've
• 1:11:44
  had to do this on this podcast like yeah I did it when we first
• 1:11:47
  started with You know, passingly of Brodie Lee.
• 1:11:50
  And this it's very sad all that and like this one is just it's
• 1:11:56
  very similar like all the tweets and the messages and everybody
• 1:11:59
  posting things like 38 years old.
• 1:12:02
  Guys. Younger than all four of us.
• 1:12:04
  It's heartbreaking. Yeah, gut-wrenching for sure.
• 1:12:10
  Seeing it last night, you know, impacted me, I'm sure you can
• 1:12:14
  hear it in my voice but it certainly is a Tragedy
• 1:12:19
  nonetheless and you know again it sounds stereotypical but
• 1:12:25
  truly just reach out and say hi to somebody.
• 1:12:27
  You normally don't and I'm going to try my best to get through
• 1:12:32
  honorable mention let's head in and let's get to honorable
• 1:12:36
  mention from this past week. I feel like recently in the
• 1:12:41
  wrestling world, it's been like story overload, right?
• 1:12:43
  You're trying to just Whittle this down to a top three and it
• 1:12:48
  makes it really difficult. But I'm going to Fast Forward
• 1:12:51
  Thinking about stories. This week that did not make the
• 1:12:53
  cut thankfully. We were recording last Tuesday
• 1:12:55
  as the Saudi Arabia sell garbage news.
• 1:12:58
  Came out and It made me think of the Aaron judge situation when
• 1:13:03
  it was announced that he was, he was signing with the San
• 1:13:06
  Francisco Giants. And this garbage of, you know,
• 1:13:10
  microwave reporting got to be the first one to say it, trick
• 1:13:14
  to the entire wrestling Community last Tuesday.
• 1:13:18
  Another one, Bray Wyatt in that Saga.
• 1:13:21
  That's going on. I've officially reached the
• 1:13:22
  point where I have stopped trying to fantasy book and I'm
• 1:13:26
  just here for the ride. It's interesting to watch.
• 1:13:30
  It all unfold. What's going to happen in this
• 1:13:32
  match. You've got it happening at the
• 1:13:35
  Mountain. Dew pitch-black match, we've got
• 1:13:37
  Alexa Bliss on Monday, night's having Uncle howdy show up.
• 1:13:41
  It's to the point where it's so unpredictable that I have
• 1:13:45
  stopped fantasy booking and I feel like that's something
• 1:13:48
  that's a foreign feeling with wrestling in general.
• 1:13:52
  So I'm viewing it as a really big positive and I'm just along
• 1:13:57
  for the ride. Now, I've got a true Mike Bell
• 1:13:59
  caster View on this. The last point of honorable
• 1:14:04
  mention in the true story here, the raw 30 is next week they've
• 1:14:08
  built up a really awesome card from a wrestling standpoint.
• 1:14:11
  But the one that triggered me the most watching Raw this past
• 1:14:14
  week is, they have announced the bloodline acknowledgement.
• 1:14:17
  Ceremony will take place next week.
• 1:14:19
  We're all generations of the bloodline will be present.
• 1:14:24
  Do we see the rock on Raw 30? No.
• 1:14:30
  Do you see my graphic that was put out like this?
• 1:14:33
  The graphic was super corny. Like, it's like Shawn Michaels.
• 1:14:37
  The Road Dogg Ric Flair Jerry. Lawler, walk to get to Tonka.
• 1:14:42
  Don't forget to Taka. He'll be there.
• 1:14:43
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:14:44
  Like and then you're gonna slip The Rock in there.
• 1:14:46
  I don't know if you think, I don't think this is a slip man.
• 1:14:50
  Like I think that this could It truly could bring us down the
• 1:14:56
  path to rock and Roman it really could.
• 1:14:59
  And I've been talking about, you know, I made my way too early.
• 1:15:03
  Royal Rumble pick of Solace akoa winning and that being the way
• 1:15:06
  that we bring the rock into it. But right now this is set up
• 1:15:10
  perfectly to, you know, in a we just talked about Batista are
• 1:15:14
  doing his thumbs down thing. This could be exactly that The
• 1:15:17
  Rock coming in, giving his thumbs up to Roman Reigns and
• 1:15:19
  then giving them the big ol thumbs down.
• 1:15:21
  Where what arena did you say? It's in?
• 1:15:23
  Where is it sin? Philadelphia next week
• 1:15:25
  Philadelphia. So a raucous crowd, The Rock has
• 1:15:29
  done The Rock has history. Yeah, The Rock has history in
• 1:15:35
  this building with Roman. This is the building that he
• 1:15:38
  that Roman won the Royal Rumble, the rock came out got shit on
• 1:15:42
  essentially. So I didn't think of that until
• 1:15:45
  right now. So Jim's like I'm gonna turn it.
• 1:15:48
  I'm gonna tune into Monday Night Raw.
• 1:15:49
  For the first time we met was Philly, not Pittsburgh.
• 1:15:52
  Now this was Philly. So if they put this in the main
• 1:15:55
  event they're either working the shit out of us or there's a
• 1:15:58
  legit chance because if they put it in the main event like this
• 1:16:01
  ends the show, I'm going to be sitting here at the edge of my
• 1:16:06
  seat. Like holy shit.
• 1:16:07
  Look like without without digging into it too much.
• 1:16:11
  Like they could I was thinking about this, if they're gonna do
• 1:16:13
  a surprise rock, this is how you do it because you're not going
• 1:16:16
  to do surprise rock at the rumble.
• 1:16:19
  Like there's no chance you're going to do that.
• 1:16:21
  You're going to, you're going to want everybody to know.
• 1:16:22
  The rock is going. Be at the rumble You're Gonna
• 1:16:24
  Want. Everybody knows rock is going to
• 1:16:26
  be at WrestleMania. So if you can do a surprise
• 1:16:28
  Rock, you're going to do it at Monday Night Raw.
• 1:16:31
  I still don't see. It actually happen.
• 1:16:33
  I don't see any of it actually happening.
• 1:16:35
  I don't see Rock Roman happening but I would I'd be interested to
• 1:16:40
  see it and I'm here for it, if it does, but I'll believe it
• 1:16:43
  when I see it type thing. All right, so fine, it's true.
• 1:16:46
  I'm trained yet. Choo-Choo we all know how this
• 1:16:51
  goes. I'm hopping but there's always
• 1:16:53
  this. Let's head to Story number
• 1:16:56
  three, because there's a little bit here that I can tie in.
• 1:16:58
  So, Cody Rhodes in the all of the vignettes that they've been
• 1:17:02
  playing over the last few weeks, officially announces, that he
• 1:17:04
  will return at the Royal Rumble originally wrote down.
• 1:17:09
  Does this take away from the return at the rumble pop, but I
• 1:17:12
  don't necessarily think it does. I think that he's going to show
• 1:17:15
  up, he's going to get a major pop regardless.
• 1:17:17
  He tweeted just the number three, which makes you speculate
• 1:17:21
  of like this could be an awesome bike.
• 1:17:23
  Hit Cody's music at not, like, get the countdown, hit it at
• 1:17:27
  three. It's the first one in there
• 1:17:28
  crowds fired up. I, it's San Antonio Texas that
• 1:17:32
  which is what it is, but if they announce Cody returning, does
• 1:17:38
  that mean they have something even larger for us in store?
• 1:17:41
  So, I don't know. I feel like the Royal Rumble you
• 1:17:43
  go again here. Yeah, I feel like the Royal
• 1:17:47
  Rumble and Triple H has got his like opportunity now to build
• 1:17:51
  his Mania. And this is where it all.
• 1:17:53
  Starts. So my expectations for the Royal
• 1:17:55
  Rumble or Sky High because of that because of what Royal
• 1:17:59
  Rumble? Hollywood?
• 1:18:00
  All of those things? I just my expectations are
• 1:18:03
  through the roof. I'm sure.
• 1:18:04
  I'll be let down but I'm really hoping that I'm not.
• 1:18:08
  It's Cody thing is interesting. Like I at first the initial
• 1:18:12
  reaction is why do they always have to do it like this?
• 1:18:15
  But then I like I said to you guys, he had like one of the
• 1:18:19
  biggest returns to the like not from an injury like a Debut at
• 1:18:25
  WrestleMania and it was kind of like a oh shit.
• 1:18:27
  This actually happened moment so they can't do that within like
• 1:18:32
  the like and within that same timeframe, essentially the 12
• 1:18:36
  point as well, right within that 12 month period.
• 1:18:39
  So that's why, in my opinion, they couldn't just bring them
• 1:18:42
  back as a surprise entrant. Makes total sense.
• 1:18:45
  Let's head off to a ew4 story. Number two, Adam hangman, page,
• 1:18:50
  defeats Jon. Moxley clean last week from The
• 1:18:53
  Kia. The Kia arena in l.a. man.
• 1:18:57
  Rent Dynamite looked awesome. Last week, this was only the
• 1:19:02
  second time that Jon Moxley has been beaten clean.
• 1:19:06
  In the history of aw, three and a half years and the only other
• 1:19:09
  time was CM Punk at all out 2022.
• 1:19:13
  Like this makes you feel like something major is happening for
• 1:19:17
  hangman page here and I just don't know what it is.
• 1:19:20
  I again here for the ride for This one, it's there are many,
• 1:19:25
  many paths that they can go. There may be an attempt and even
• 1:19:29
  in Story. Number one, will talk about it.
• 1:19:30
  As you guys are listening to this.
• 1:19:32
  We may already know what's next for hangman, but for me, it just
• 1:19:37
  the levity of this. One cannot be lost and defeating
• 1:19:40
  Moxley pretty clean in the center of the ring is, is a big
• 1:19:44
  accomplishment and is a big old notch in that dudes belt.
• 1:19:48
  Let's head to Story. Number one, Who's ready for
• 1:19:52
  story. Time with Adam Cole baby?
• 1:19:55
  We had a huge return at The Forum here with Adam Cole.
• 1:19:59
  Tony Shivani is in the ring. Takes no pleasure in introducing
• 1:20:03
  our next guest and oh my god did the building blow up when Adam
• 1:20:08
  calls music hits. He gives us a classic amazing.
• 1:20:14
  Adam Cole / promo here talking about his health getting
• 1:20:18
  legitimately emotional more than once during Dang it.
• 1:20:21
  Tries to give you the classic good-news-bad-news swerve.
• 1:20:25
  It's bad news for the aew locker room because Adam Cole is Back
• 1:20:28
  Bay Bay, regardless of how cheesy that was the promo itself
• 1:20:34
  was incredible. It feels like a massive deal,
• 1:20:38
  the debuting or like returning in, l.a. feels massive.
• 1:20:44
  Apparently, I read that. The only people that knew about
• 1:20:48
  the debut and that it on the run sheet, it was Listed as TBD the
• 1:20:53
  only people that knew were Tony Kahn and Brubaker, which wow, is
• 1:20:57
  really impressive. If you're just rushing him into
• 1:21:00
  the building, just to hit his music and head out.
• 1:21:03
  So, super, super impressive. I'm always impressed by the
• 1:21:07
  ability to actually keep a surprise.
• 1:21:10
  I think everyone was looking at Mercedes Monet being the the big
• 1:21:15
  reveal here, expecting her to be in LA.
• 1:21:18
  And I think that Adam Cole's, Alors return, distracted us from
• 1:21:24
  that. So I think it was cooler.
• 1:21:27
  Yeah, I mean there's a lot better than her come.
• 1:21:31
  I dig it. I dig it for sure but it it is.
• 1:21:35
  It's enabling us to turn a blind eye to Mercedes, not being there
• 1:21:40
  to them. Not telling the full story of,
• 1:21:42
  you know, a surprise, a surprise mystery mystery partner, there
• 1:21:48
  was storyline of brick. Giving her two tickets for the
• 1:21:52
  front row that was never paid off.
• 1:21:54
  Like there's all these things that just are getting swept
• 1:21:57
  under the rug because Adam Cole is Back Bay Bay but regardless
• 1:22:01
  it feels like a massive deal. Really interested to see what's
• 1:22:05
  next for him. Again, we could already know
• 1:22:07
  what's happening with with Adam Cole but he made pretty
• 1:22:10
  straightforward plans that he expects to be the top top of the
• 1:22:15
  mountain at aw. And I just can't see it being
• 1:22:17
  fast forwarded to their because I'm expecting Max.
• 1:22:20
  You two have a nice lengthy title run here but that'll be it
• 1:22:24
  for extra credit this week. Nick take us home baby.
• 1:22:29
  Oh man if you paid close attention to last week's episode
• 1:22:34
  where we covered the first Monday Night Raw, you would have
• 1:22:37
  also realized that January 24th is none other than Marty
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