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Sold...to the Highest Bidder · The 3Ts: Tables, Tailgates, and Toploaders

• WEBVTT 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:14.060 What's up, friends? Welcome into another episode 00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:17.140 of Tables, Tailgates, and Top Loaders. So happy 00:00:17.140 --> 00:00:20.379 to have you aboard for this episode of the 00:00:20.379 --> 00:00:23.019 3Ts. I am your host, TB. Thank you all very much 00:00:23.019 --> 00:00:25.359 for stopping in and checking out the show. We 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:28.280 have so much to get to. Don't want to waste much 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:30.699 time. I know we have a game to review, but Wrestling 00:00:30.699 --> 00:00:34.020 Marks, how are you feeling? You are up first 00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:37.299 because first we need to discuss the huge announcement 00:00:37.299 --> 00:00:40.119 made last Friday. If you have not seen this, 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:43.439 Triple H, with an entourage of WWE superstars 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:47.219 standing behind him including Undertaker, Shawn 00:00:47.219 --> 00:00:51.560 Michaels, Liv Morgan, Stephanie... Vakir, Charlotte 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:54.579 Flair, Bianca Belair, Seth Rollins, and Logan 00:00:54.579 --> 00:00:57.640 Paul. Triple H in all his glory made the announcement 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:02.859 that in 2027, WrestleMania 43 will be held in 00:01:02.859 --> 00:01:06.159 Saudi freaking Arabia. That's right. If you've 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.040 listened to some of my previous episodes, you 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:10.819 know how I love talking about the Saudi shows. 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.590 Well, get ready, folks, because this is. the 00:01:14.590 --> 00:01:17.969 granddaddy of them all. Now it's heading to Saudi 00:01:17.969 --> 00:01:20.969 freaking Arabia. So Triple H introduces his quote 00:01:20.969 --> 00:01:26.269 unquote friend, his excellency, Turkey Al -Ashaik. 00:01:26.390 --> 00:01:28.969 I believe I'm pronouncing that right. I don't 00:01:28.969 --> 00:01:30.930 know. Something to that effect. He then goes 00:01:30.930 --> 00:01:34.340 on to announce the news. And if you are not sure 00:01:34.340 --> 00:01:36.819 how to feel about this, all you need to do is 00:01:36.819 --> 00:01:39.459 watch this press conference. It's about 20 minutes 00:01:39.459 --> 00:01:42.019 long. Look at the faces of the wrestlers that 00:01:42.019 --> 00:01:44.719 are actually standing behind him on the stage. 00:01:44.900 --> 00:01:47.140 In the camera shot, mind you, as he's talking 00:01:47.140 --> 00:01:50.180 about how awesome this deal is, look at the faces 00:01:50.180 --> 00:01:54.319 of the wrestlers. It was unbelievable. And if 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:57.780 you were on social media, you were seeing snapshots 00:01:57.780 --> 00:02:02.599 of close -ups of these superstars. It looked 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:05.079 pretty bad. Charlotte, I thought she wanted to 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.299 kill him or at least put him in the figure four 00:02:07.299 --> 00:02:11.780 leg lock. Seth Rollins, who was wearing his ridiculous 00:02:11.780 --> 00:02:14.919 Seth Rollins sunglasses, he's looking straight 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:17.939 ahead the whole time. He is never smiling. He 00:02:17.939 --> 00:02:20.219 never turns his head. He's never paying attention 00:02:20.219 --> 00:02:23.219 to anything. It's like he's staring himself off 00:02:23.219 --> 00:02:25.680 into space, wishing he were somewhere else. It's 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.219 absolutely crazy. Shawn Michaels, he looks like 00:02:28.219 --> 00:02:30.599 he's asleep. He's got his standard cowboy hat 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:33.050 on. And he looks like he's straight up, does 00:02:33.050 --> 00:02:36.090 not care and wants to be anywhere else but where 00:02:36.090 --> 00:02:38.310 they are right then and there. Liv, Liv is the 00:02:38.310 --> 00:02:41.250 only one on stage who actually smiles. And I 00:02:41.250 --> 00:02:42.909 figure, well, that's because she's always smiling. 00:02:43.009 --> 00:02:45.909 So even Logan Paul, you could tell he's got this 00:02:45.909 --> 00:02:47.969 look on his face like, what the hell is going 00:02:47.969 --> 00:02:51.909 on? It was kind of a disaster. So this was live 00:02:51.909 --> 00:02:54.449 streamed. And the comments as this presentation 00:02:54.449 --> 00:02:58.330 is taking place. were not so nice so you hear 00:02:58.330 --> 00:03:00.569 the comments sell out over and over again and 00:03:00.569 --> 00:03:02.949 that's probably one of the kindest things that 00:03:02.949 --> 00:03:05.750 was said but this comment was echoed over and 00:03:05.750 --> 00:03:07.810 over and over again through the entire stream 00:03:07.810 --> 00:03:12.310 people were very very unhappy at the time of 00:03:12.310 --> 00:03:14.830 when i when i last looked there were probably 00:03:14.830 --> 00:03:18.969 32 000 thumbs down of the videos Which is a lot. 00:03:19.009 --> 00:03:22.189 That's a lot of people. People were and are still 00:03:22.189 --> 00:03:25.490 very ticked off about this. So they do this god 00:03:25.490 --> 00:03:27.849 awful press conference. And they're trying to 00:03:27.849 --> 00:03:30.810 hype up how awesome this is. And they're claiming 00:03:30.810 --> 00:03:33.430 that it's going to drive up American tourism. 00:03:34.139 --> 00:03:37.699 Oh, yeah? You think having WrestleMania in Saudi 00:03:37.699 --> 00:03:40.919 Arabia is going to drive up American tourism? 00:03:41.060 --> 00:03:43.979 Tell me. I want to know how this is going to 00:03:43.979 --> 00:03:47.699 go down. Tell me who the hell is going to go 00:03:47.699 --> 00:03:51.080 to this. Now, historically. A lot of American 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.939 fans, a lot of Canadian fans, a lot of European 00:03:53.939 --> 00:03:57.960 fans make the trek every year. They save up their 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.259 hard -earned dollars, and they put together a 00:04:00.259 --> 00:04:03.379 wrestling plan, a wrestling vacation, and it's 00:04:03.379 --> 00:04:06.360 usually designed around WrestleMania. I want 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.139 to know who in America, tell me who. Who is going 00:04:10.139 --> 00:04:13.560 about planning a family vacation to Saudi Arabia 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.740 and how are you actually going about doing this? 00:04:16.819 --> 00:04:19.060 I would love to know the logistics, what the 00:04:19.060 --> 00:04:21.819 preparation is to ensure not only you get over 00:04:21.819 --> 00:04:24.879 there, but that you get back to the States safely. 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.120 I would love to know how this is getting put 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.220 together. Don't talk to me about how this, the 00:04:30.220 --> 00:04:33.079 goal is to drive American tourism to Saudi Arabia. 00:04:33.139 --> 00:04:35.399 I actually heard that and I'm like. What are 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:37.459 you talking about? I can't think of a single 00:04:37.459 --> 00:04:40.079 person that is going to want to travel to Saudi 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:43.139 freaking Arabia to watch WrestleMania. Ain't 00:04:43.139 --> 00:04:45.699 no way in hell that's ever going to happen. So 00:04:45.699 --> 00:04:48.019 they do this press conference. And then later 00:04:48.019 --> 00:04:51.839 on, the rumors of what the payout was start to 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:54.819 sneak out, right? And so you're hearing rumors 00:04:54.819 --> 00:04:58.000 that for WrestleMania alone, mind you, this is 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.120 WrestleMania 43, just over, what, a year and 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.259 a half from now? April, end of March, beginning 00:05:04.259 --> 00:05:07.639 of April in 2027, the cost that we're hearing, 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:13.139 $250 million. The Saudis paid to host WrestleMania 00:05:13.139 --> 00:05:16.480 43, 250. How we all feel about that? I can't 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:18.779 even do a, if money were no object, because that's 00:05:18.779 --> 00:05:21.540 just ridiculous. I mean, we're not even in the 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:25.899 same galaxy, $250 million. And then, then the 00:05:25.899 --> 00:05:28.779 number 100 million came out and that is the number 00:05:28.779 --> 00:05:31.660 that was floated. As to what they paid for the 00:05:31.660 --> 00:05:34.439 Royal Rumble, which is happening, oh yeah, in 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:37.600 January, January of 2026. I talked about this 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:41.779 in another episode a while back, how I must have 00:05:41.779 --> 00:05:43.860 slipped my mind or I must have missed it. And 00:05:43.860 --> 00:05:46.800 they kind of slid it into a presentation or a 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:48.819 PLE, pay -per -view, whatever the hell they're 00:05:48.819 --> 00:05:51.889 called. About how the next Royal Rumble was in 00:05:51.889 --> 00:05:54.689 Saudi. And I lost my freaking mind. So imagine 00:05:54.689 --> 00:05:56.850 what I'm thinking when I see this presentation. 00:05:57.129 --> 00:05:59.610 This huge announcement that WWE makes. Now there 00:05:59.610 --> 00:06:02.069 were rumors that this is what in fact it was 00:06:02.069 --> 00:06:06.769 going to be. And yep. They just destroyed everyone's 00:06:06.769 --> 00:06:09.449 Friday. And their weekend. Obviously it didn't 00:06:09.449 --> 00:06:11.850 wreck my weekend. But you know what I'm saying. 00:06:11.970 --> 00:06:15.170 They made this announcement. And all the rumors 00:06:15.170 --> 00:06:18.790 were true. And now 250. for WrestleMania and 00:06:18.790 --> 00:06:23.189 100 for Royal Rumble. So $350 million. Saudi 00:06:23.189 --> 00:06:27.490 Arabia has paid the WWE to host probably their 00:06:27.490 --> 00:06:29.509 two biggest events. Oh, it's so frustrating. 00:06:29.689 --> 00:06:31.610 And this is going to be the first time WrestleMania 00:06:31.610 --> 00:06:34.430 will be held outside of North America. If you 00:06:34.430 --> 00:06:37.250 remember, WrestleMania has been in Toronto twice 00:06:37.250 --> 00:06:40.230 before. You had WrestleMania 6. And this is what 00:06:40.230 --> 00:06:42.310 really put me on the map as a wrestling fan. 00:06:42.449 --> 00:06:44.550 Back when I was a kid, we had Ultimate Warrior 00:06:44.550 --> 00:06:46.389 versus Hulk Hogan. It's one of my favorites of 00:06:46.389 --> 00:06:48.709 all time. That was in Toronto. And then it also 00:06:48.709 --> 00:06:51.790 went to Toronto for WrestleMania 18. We just 00:06:51.790 --> 00:06:54.050 talked about this match during the Hulk Hogan 00:06:54.050 --> 00:06:57.129 episode. WrestleMania 18, it wasn't a main event, 00:06:57.230 --> 00:06:58.910 but it might as well should have been because 00:06:58.910 --> 00:07:02.290 The Rock versus Hulk Hogan in Sky Dome. And that 00:07:02.290 --> 00:07:04.870 match was awesome. There have been a lot of rumors 00:07:04.870 --> 00:07:07.209 over the last few years that WrestleMania could 00:07:07.209 --> 00:07:09.449 be moved outside of the U .S. And it was always 00:07:09.449 --> 00:07:12.230 thought based on the fan bases that maybe U .K., 00:07:12.230 --> 00:07:14.970 somewhere in England, maybe London. It's done 00:07:14.970 --> 00:07:17.829 historically very well over there. So they were 00:07:17.829 --> 00:07:20.730 thinking the rumor mill, obviously, that London 00:07:20.730 --> 00:07:23.569 was a huge possibility. Paris, they just had 00:07:23.569 --> 00:07:26.589 a hugely successful pay -per -view right there 00:07:26.589 --> 00:07:29.089 with Clash in Paris. And they have good fans. 00:07:29.290 --> 00:07:32.069 They have really good fans. Historically, WWE 00:07:32.069 --> 00:07:34.899 does really well over there. But no, they jumped 00:07:34.899 --> 00:07:38.079 over all these European cities. They went right 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.720 into a much bigger pile of money. All I can think 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:44.079 about is I'm trying to put the notes for this 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.100 show together is the old Uncle Scrooge McDuck 00:07:47.100 --> 00:07:50.550 picture where he's diving off the... the diving 00:07:50.550 --> 00:07:53.970 board into his silo of coins and there's coins 00:07:53.970 --> 00:07:55.949 flying everywhere. That's all I can think about 00:07:55.949 --> 00:07:59.769 is what have we done? Have we sold our soul to 00:07:59.769 --> 00:08:02.449 the devil, if you will? I mean, I want to say 00:08:02.449 --> 00:08:04.829 that I couldn't believe it, but I could believe 00:08:04.829 --> 00:08:07.490 it. It just made me kind of very upset, very, 00:08:07.589 --> 00:08:11.319 very sad. If I'm being completely honest, the 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:14.120 writing has kind of been on the wall since TKO 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:16.879 has taken over and bought out the WWE, since 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:19.560 they entered into this business relationship, 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:21.959 if you will. I mean, you all know how I feel 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:23.959 about certain things that are happening in the 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:25.759 wrestling world with the advertisements. I mean, 00:08:25.779 --> 00:08:28.689 before this. There was no advertising everywhere. 00:08:28.970 --> 00:08:32.009 There was no prime drink display at ringside. 00:08:32.029 --> 00:08:34.809 There were no turnbuckle ads. There were no fireball 00:08:34.809 --> 00:08:37.629 whiskey ladders. And there sure as hell have 00:08:37.629 --> 00:08:40.570 never been any Slim Jim table spots. And now 00:08:40.570 --> 00:08:43.710 TKO takes over. All the advertising is everywhere. 00:08:43.889 --> 00:08:47.289 And lo and behold, slowly but surely, we're selling 00:08:47.289 --> 00:08:49.990 off one pay -per -view after another to the highest 00:08:49.990 --> 00:08:52.879 freaking bidder. And, you know... It's pretty 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.779 sad. If I'm being completely honest, it's pretty, 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:58.879 pretty sad. Now, I know Saudi Arabia has been 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.279 heavily involved in other international sports 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.700 organizations, other sports leagues. This is 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:06.860 not lost on me. So please don't misunderstand 00:09:06.860 --> 00:09:10.220 me. I'm not naive to the fact that Saudi has 00:09:10.220 --> 00:09:14.259 become a huge influence in global sports. I get 00:09:14.259 --> 00:09:17.009 that. They have spent. billions upon billions 00:09:17.009 --> 00:09:20.789 to grab parts of soccer boxing tennis the whole 00:09:20.789 --> 00:09:24.009 live golf get was was ridiculous that caused 00:09:24.009 --> 00:09:27.549 a huge fiasco with the pga and now it seems like 00:09:27.549 --> 00:09:29.269 they're all getting along and it's just what 00:09:29.269 --> 00:09:31.870 what are we doing and i know i'm i'm getting 00:09:31.870 --> 00:09:36.070 into f1 so i'm not naive to think that that f1 00:09:36.070 --> 00:09:38.429 isn't huge over there they have a uh a track 00:09:38.429 --> 00:09:41.799 in saudi arabia but But this people, this is 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:44.360 WrestleMania. This is the largest event on the 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:47.679 entire WWE calendar. If you want to keep having 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.240 super showdowns, if you want to keep having crown 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.059 jewel once in a while, you want to send them, 00:09:53.059 --> 00:09:55.480 you know, money in the bank or maybe a survivor 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.220 series or something like that. I was super ticked 00:09:58.220 --> 00:10:00.519 off when I heard it was Royal Rumble. And I kind 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.240 of got over that because a while back they did 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.779 the super Royal Rumble or whatever the hell they 00:10:05.779 --> 00:10:07.899 called it, the world's largest Royal Rumble. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.029 And they had, I don't know, 800 people. in their 00:10:10.029 --> 00:10:12.450 stupid saudi royal rumble that royal rumble was 00:10:12.450 --> 00:10:15.629 terrible by the way but you want to give them 00:10:15.629 --> 00:10:18.590 some of these and maybe one or two shows a year 00:10:18.590 --> 00:10:22.570 they have what whatever and and historically 00:10:22.570 --> 00:10:25.490 the saudis have paid 50 million dollars for one 00:10:25.490 --> 00:10:27.870 of these shows 50 so you think well that that 00:10:27.870 --> 00:10:29.990 seems like a hell of a lot of money well no we're 00:10:29.990 --> 00:10:31.970 gonna double it for rumble and then we're gonna 00:10:31.970 --> 00:10:35.210 holy crap knock this out of the park and pay 00:10:35.210 --> 00:10:39.009 you 250 for wrestlemania but my point is We have 00:10:39.009 --> 00:10:42.629 gone too far. WrestleMania? WrestleMania? I mean, 00:10:42.649 --> 00:10:45.149 this is like taking our Super Bowl for football. 00:10:45.629 --> 00:10:48.549 Let's say my team, the Bills, you know, we're 00:10:48.549 --> 00:10:50.629 on the three T's here. Let's say the Bills play 00:10:50.629 --> 00:10:54.669 Detroit. In the Super Bowl. So you have two fan 00:10:54.669 --> 00:10:58.029 bases, two rabid fan bases that are like going 00:10:58.029 --> 00:11:00.230 crazy. Oh my gosh, our teams are finally in the 00:11:00.230 --> 00:11:03.370 Super Bowl. One of these franchises has a chance 00:11:03.370 --> 00:11:05.850 to actually put one on the board. And we move 00:11:05.850 --> 00:11:08.950 it. Roger Goodell sells the game to Saudi Arabia. 00:11:09.350 --> 00:11:12.809 Can you imagine Bill's Lions in Saudi Arabia? 00:11:12.990 --> 00:11:15.309 Oh my God. What the hell do you think the fan 00:11:15.309 --> 00:11:18.659 base in America would do to that? But it's okay 00:11:18.659 --> 00:11:21.360 because it's wrestling. And I'm just like, oh, 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.000 this is not okay. And I'm already hearing the 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.860 counter argument. Well, this is how the Saudis 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:29.179 are going to get these mega dream matches we've 00:11:29.179 --> 00:11:32.059 always wanted. And I'm like, what matches? You 00:11:32.059 --> 00:11:34.220 know, they did this before with the crown jewel 00:11:34.220 --> 00:11:36.639 and the super showdowns where they paid ungodly 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:39.059 amounts of money to have Goldberg and Undertaker. 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.419 Oh, do we remember how that match played out? 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.919 If you don't, please go back at my podcast featuring 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.559 one of my favorites of all time, Bill. goldberg 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:50.000 and listen to how those terrible matches went 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:53.360 down they paid ungodly amounts of money for freaking 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:55.940 bill goldberg and those matches were terrible 00:11:55.940 --> 00:11:59.240 so tell me tell me what matches we want to see 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:01.399 because the saudis are just going to open their 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:04.460 pocketbooks open their wallets and drop 20 25 00:12:04.460 --> 00:12:07.259 million at these retired wrestlers that we are 00:12:07.259 --> 00:12:09.820 clamoring to come back who who do we want tell 00:12:09.820 --> 00:12:12.200 me what dream matches are we possibly missing 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:16.539 unless unless they can Pull a magic rabbit out 00:12:16.539 --> 00:12:19.620 of their ass. There's like AEW isn't merging 00:12:19.620 --> 00:12:22.759 with the WWE for one magical night in Saudi Arabia. 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:24.940 There's no matches I want to see. I don't want 00:12:24.940 --> 00:12:26.779 to see Undertaker come back. I don't want to 00:12:26.779 --> 00:12:29.759 see Shawn Michaels come back. Everyone's clamoring 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.919 for Stone Cold. I want to watch Stone Cold on 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:36.019 his farm with his badass cats, as he calls them, 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:38.320 and doing cool stuff and fixing up the farm. 00:12:38.419 --> 00:12:40.980 I don't want to see him get paid $25 million 00:12:40.980 --> 00:12:43.759 and then go over to Saudi Arabia to wrestle some 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.159 jobber for seven minutes, drop a couple stunners, 00:12:47.179 --> 00:12:49.279 and drink beer for five minutes. Are you kidding 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:53.840 me? We got to stop with this nonsense. nostalgia 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.580 act and i'm i love the nostalgia act but i i 00:12:56.580 --> 00:12:59.059 like watching nostalgia acts as they happen like 00:12:59.059 --> 00:13:03.200 back in the 90s i don't don't give me 60 65 year 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.879 old washed up wrestlers and tell me that this 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:08.220 is going to be a dream match no freaking thank 00:13:08.220 --> 00:13:11.299 you i mean unless you're gonna somehow pull hogan 00:13:11.299 --> 00:13:14.000 versus andre back from the dead and put this 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:17.120 match on at wrestlemania 43 i'm not interested 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.779 i am not interested oh the whole thing is super 00:13:20.779 --> 00:13:24.009 super frustrating so I don't know where you all 00:13:24.009 --> 00:13:27.389 stand. And that's not even getting into the way 00:13:27.389 --> 00:13:29.570 women's rights are treated over there and all 00:13:29.570 --> 00:13:32.549 kinds of stuff. Our women's wrestlers are some 00:13:32.549 --> 00:13:35.480 of the best on the planet. It's super frustrating 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:37.919 to hear these press conferences and the way they're 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:39.720 talking about this great relationship between 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.120 the WWE and the Saudis. Yeah, well, it's just 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.360 because now you literally have money falling 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:46.519 out of your pockets. That's the only reason you 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:48.419 have these great relationships. So don't talk 00:13:48.419 --> 00:13:51.360 to me about how much you care about furthering 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.220 social justice and injustices and writing the 00:13:55.220 --> 00:13:57.620 wrongs of their society. That's not our business 00:13:57.620 --> 00:14:00.299 to do. And I don't want to get involved with 00:14:00.299 --> 00:14:03.440 any of that nonsense. We have such a lot of talent. 00:14:03.529 --> 00:14:07.250 females and it's frankly if I were them and maybe 00:14:07.250 --> 00:14:10.250 maybe I'm completely wrong but it's kind of insulting 00:14:10.250 --> 00:14:14.460 to continue to send people over there knowing 00:14:14.460 --> 00:14:17.200 some of the nonsense that that country is dealing 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.620 with. I had to start with that because the whole 00:14:20.620 --> 00:14:23.539 press conference drove me absolutely crazy. I 00:14:23.539 --> 00:14:26.019 can't believe we're doing it. I just absolutely 00:14:26.019 --> 00:14:28.659 cannot freaking believe it. But let's move on. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.320 Let's move on. Let's dive into SmackDown Friday 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:34.120 night, the long awaited return of Brock Lesnar 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:38.000 and his promo. He kicked off the show. He came 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.259 down and I was like, oh, we're going to finally 00:14:40.259 --> 00:14:42.100 hear from Brock Lesnar. No, he doesn't even get 00:14:42.100 --> 00:14:45.419 a word. out before he's interrupted by R -Truth 00:14:45.419 --> 00:14:49.360 aka Ron Cena and you know normally I'm all about 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.159 R -Truth doing the comedic act and back and forth 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.039 and it would have been good this was not funny 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:58.179 this was not funny Brock Lesnar pretended like 00:14:58.179 --> 00:15:00.919 he had no idea who R -Truth was and they went 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:03.279 back and forth for five minutes saying the same 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.740 lines. It was stupid until finally Lesnar hits 00:15:06.740 --> 00:15:09.519 him with the F5 and in the process splits his 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:12.000 pants wide open in the back and everyone got 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.340 a huge kick out of it. Well, that was legitimately 00:15:14.340 --> 00:15:17.100 the best part of the whole segment. It was a 00:15:17.100 --> 00:15:19.950 waste of time. There was no Cena to be seen. 00:15:20.090 --> 00:15:22.629 Obviously, Cena's going to use this as fuel to 00:15:22.629 --> 00:15:26.409 come back next Saturday at WrestlePalooza and 00:15:26.409 --> 00:15:31.529 try to get revenge for his buddy, Ron Cena. And 00:15:31.529 --> 00:15:35.789 I was just like, what are we doing? This is terrible. 00:15:35.970 --> 00:15:38.809 This is terrible. I want to hear why Brock Lesnar's 00:15:38.809 --> 00:15:41.850 back, why he actually wants to fight John Cena. 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:44.960 Give me some story here. Obviously, I know the 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.039 history between them. I know their matches. I 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.659 know what's there. One of my favorites was when 00:15:49.659 --> 00:15:52.919 he absolutely beat the hell out of Cena at SummerSlam. 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.860 That match, holy cow, that match was crazy because 00:15:55.860 --> 00:15:58.240 you never saw that coming. You never saw a beatdown 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.399 of Cena like that before, and that match was 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:02.960 legit. Here, why is he back? What are we doing? 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:05.419 I would love to know before they get in the ring 00:16:05.419 --> 00:16:08.279 on Saturday. So what else happened? Champion 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:11.559 Tiffany Stratton had a match versus Jade Cargill. 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.399 They definitely cranked the tempo up on this 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.440 one a bit, but I got to tell you, again, I try 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:20.139 not to be critical of Jade. I've tried to give 00:16:20.139 --> 00:16:23.159 her some time to work some of the stuff out, 00:16:23.259 --> 00:16:27.090 but I feel like she's operating. in molasses 00:16:27.090 --> 00:16:30.330 or something i just feel like she's a step behind 00:16:30.330 --> 00:16:33.509 a step off a step ahead of the other of whoever 00:16:33.509 --> 00:16:35.669 her partner is in the ring there's just always 00:16:35.669 --> 00:16:39.049 like a delay it's like i'm watching something 00:16:39.049 --> 00:16:42.669 on a a bad signal because i feel like she's always 00:16:42.669 --> 00:16:45.870 a step behind nothing seems fluid nothing seems 00:16:45.870 --> 00:16:48.779 in sync with her with her partner whoever she's 00:16:48.779 --> 00:16:51.580 going against and i think stratton was out there 00:16:51.580 --> 00:16:54.960 working her ass off and i just felt like stratton 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:57.080 would do a cool move and then jade would kind 00:16:57.080 --> 00:16:59.480 of do this hitch thing and it'd be like a little 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:02.659 hesitant and i'm like this this is not smooth 00:17:02.659 --> 00:17:05.140 it doesn't look nothing looks natural with her 00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:06.740 and i think that's my biggest problem nothing 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:09.960 looks natural so I got to tell you, folks, I'm 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.480 kind of checked out on the whole Cargill experiment 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:15.440 and the whole Stratton deal too. I don't know. 00:17:15.579 --> 00:17:18.420 I don't know. I told you a couple weeks ago that 00:17:18.420 --> 00:17:20.359 I really want to see Stratton turn into a heel. 00:17:20.500 --> 00:17:22.660 I think she'd be really great at that. But in 00:17:22.660 --> 00:17:25.900 this match, she climbs to the top of the turnbuckle. 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:28.779 Jade is on the floor on the outside. Stratton 00:17:28.779 --> 00:17:30.359 climbs to the top of the turnbuckle and then 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.940 goes for a moonsault. I don't know whether... 00:17:33.130 --> 00:17:35.250 jade was supposed to catch her or what the case 00:17:35.250 --> 00:17:37.450 may be but she literally lands the moonsault 00:17:37.450 --> 00:17:40.029 on her feet and immediately falls backwards and 00:17:40.029 --> 00:17:43.109 smashes the crap out of the back of her head 00:17:43.109 --> 00:17:45.759 i'm like Oh my God, that was one of the nastiest 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.140 hits to the back of the head I've ever seen. 00:17:48.420 --> 00:17:50.819 No one was there to catch her. Nothing to break 00:17:50.819 --> 00:17:52.660 her fall. She landed on her feet, falls straight 00:17:52.660 --> 00:17:54.740 back and smashes the back of her head on the 00:17:54.740 --> 00:17:57.039 ground. It looked freaking nasty. I really hope 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.880 she's okay. That was whack. I mean, holy cow. 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.579 The match goes on. Jade does some, I mean, there's 00:18:04.579 --> 00:18:07.019 the ending. I don't know what they're doing. 00:18:07.860 --> 00:18:10.119 Stratton is on the outside barricade, kind of 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:13.019 just hanging there. She's woozy. Here comes Jade 00:18:13.019 --> 00:18:15.599 trying to do this. You know, you've seen this 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:17.420 spot a thousand times, right? With Roman Reigns 00:18:17.420 --> 00:18:20.460 or Braun Breaker or, you know, used to be Braun 00:18:20.460 --> 00:18:22.660 Strowman, the spear through the barricade. Well, 00:18:22.700 --> 00:18:25.720 here comes Jade to do this spear and she like 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.299 hesitates and then she kind of, oh, it's terrible. 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:30.519 It's terrible. And they go through the barricade 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.119 and they kind of just fall there. And then the 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:34.259 ref calls the match off, calls the match off. 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.619 And I'm like, what just happened? This makes. 00:18:37.099 --> 00:18:39.740 No sense at all. And then everyone's favorite 00:18:39.740 --> 00:18:43.799 heel, Nia Jax comes out and starts, it turns 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:46.119 into a schmaz and she's beating them both up. 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:50.299 And I'm like, oh God, here we go again. Not Tiffany 00:18:50.299 --> 00:18:54.019 versus Nia for the billionth time. No freaking 00:18:54.019 --> 00:18:56.559 thank you. And side note, how are we feeling 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.160 about Tiffany as the women's champ? Because I'm 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.220 starting to get the feeling that this belt really 00:19:03.220 --> 00:19:05.920 isn't that big of a deal. In fact, if you ask 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:09.200 me, The Intercontinental title that Becky Lynch 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:14.619 is wearing or had stolen by AJ, I think that's 00:19:14.619 --> 00:19:16.220 the bigger belt right now. It's getting way more 00:19:16.220 --> 00:19:18.380 time, way more attention. The matches are better. 00:19:18.700 --> 00:19:21.579 She's elevating her opponents. And I just think 00:19:21.579 --> 00:19:23.900 that that's a much more important belt right 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:26.720 now than any of the feuds Tiffany's had. And 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.240 that sucks because she's the women's champ. But 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:33.279 until Io hopefully gets the belt back and I'm 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:35.990 not. Really looking forward to her beating Stephanie 00:19:35.990 --> 00:19:38.650 Vakir on Saturday. And we'll get into my match 00:19:38.650 --> 00:19:40.650 predictions here in a minute. But I love Io Sky. 00:19:40.789 --> 00:19:43.210 I think she is one of the best wrestlers on the 00:19:43.210 --> 00:19:45.490 planet. Male, female, doesn't matter. I think 00:19:45.490 --> 00:19:47.369 she's one of the best. And I just think that 00:19:47.369 --> 00:19:49.809 they're rushing this match with Vakir. Obviously, 00:19:49.809 --> 00:19:51.589 I'll just give you my prediction right now. I 00:19:51.589 --> 00:19:54.470 think Io wins that match. There's no way Stephanie's 00:19:54.470 --> 00:19:57.349 ready to have... the other women's championship 00:19:57.349 --> 00:20:00.369 belt there's just not and so it'll be nice to 00:20:00.369 --> 00:20:02.509 have one of the main women's belts back on eo's 00:20:02.509 --> 00:20:05.690 waist but tiffany i don't know i don't know it's 00:20:05.690 --> 00:20:08.009 just it's not it's not doing anything for me 00:20:08.009 --> 00:20:11.210 what else sammy zane versus ray phoenix was your 00:20:11.210 --> 00:20:13.329 high work rate match of the night it looked like 00:20:13.329 --> 00:20:15.549 the u .s open challenge they're going to try 00:20:15.549 --> 00:20:18.140 to keep this going for a while I'm hoping that 00:20:18.140 --> 00:20:21.460 Carmelo Hayes can get some momentum. I know what 00:20:21.460 --> 00:20:23.799 he's doing with The Miz. I kind of like it, but 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.259 I want to see him elevated. We got to put him 00:20:26.259 --> 00:20:29.980 in some sort of title picture. And I think Carmelo 00:20:29.980 --> 00:20:33.720 versus Sammy would be sick. So I want to see 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:35.900 that. I want to see Carmelo get some wins, get 00:20:35.900 --> 00:20:39.680 some dubs, get some gold, because I think he 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:42.640 is the future of the company. I would love to 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:46.700 see him. Get some more run. Get some gold and 00:20:46.700 --> 00:20:48.859 see what he can do. Not sure if they're going 00:20:48.859 --> 00:20:52.299 to do that, but we shall see. Overall, the show, 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.000 the SmackDown show, I thought it was fine. It's 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:58.200 fine. It's whatever. But today, I want to try 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:01.579 to debut a brand new segment I came up with called 00:21:01.579 --> 00:21:05.170 You Got the Book. I've been watching WWE for 00:21:05.170 --> 00:21:07.730 decades now. Obviously, I've talked about watching 00:21:07.730 --> 00:21:09.990 the Unreal show on Netflix, the documentary, 00:21:10.210 --> 00:21:12.450 the behind the curtain thing. I think I'm absolutely 00:21:12.450 --> 00:21:15.809 capable of writing a wrestling show, right? A 00:21:15.809 --> 00:21:19.369 booking angle or two. Yeah. So, I mean, why don't 00:21:19.369 --> 00:21:22.670 we see what we can come up with? Because, yeah, 00:21:22.730 --> 00:21:25.069 why not? Because some of these angles and stories 00:21:25.069 --> 00:21:26.910 I'm watching, I'm like, oh, I could do better 00:21:26.910 --> 00:21:29.450 than that. So, let's start with the J and the 00:21:29.450 --> 00:21:32.650 Jimmy saga, right? We saw this play out on Monday 00:21:32.650 --> 00:21:36.400 night. jay la night a lot night some of them 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:39.160 some of you are calling him a lot night versus 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:41.579 jay they kind of got into some backyard or back 00:21:41.579 --> 00:21:44.319 backstage shenanigans and then then the night 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:48.500 ends with jay spearing a lot night and jimmy's 00:21:48.500 --> 00:21:50.160 standing there looking at him like what the hell 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:52.819 did you just do and so you get these seats planted 00:21:52.819 --> 00:21:56.160 obviously jimmy referred to jay as you know you're 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:59.329 acting like roman used to and from the old OG 00:21:59.329 --> 00:22:02.170 Bloodline angle there. And yeah, that would be 00:22:02.170 --> 00:22:04.829 cool. The title reign for Jay didn't work for 00:22:04.829 --> 00:22:07.470 me. I've said this a couple times now. It fell 00:22:07.470 --> 00:22:11.349 flat. I'm not sure he is your singles guy that 00:22:11.349 --> 00:22:13.670 you can just throw the title on, the main card 00:22:13.670 --> 00:22:15.829 title on, and that he can carry the company. 00:22:16.049 --> 00:22:19.150 I'm not sure of it. But this is the angle I want 00:22:19.150 --> 00:22:22.970 to run. So next Sunday, the Usos are reuniting 00:22:22.970 --> 00:22:25.849 to team up against... the Braun and Braun twins, 00:22:26.049 --> 00:22:29.329 Bronson Reed and Braun Breaker. So here's how 00:22:29.329 --> 00:22:31.750 this goes down. You can't have the Braun and 00:22:31.750 --> 00:22:34.650 Braun twins lose. They're getting the upper hand. 00:22:34.789 --> 00:22:37.150 Who knows? Somebody else comes out to interfere. 00:22:37.289 --> 00:22:40.150 Maybe Paul Heyman gets involved somehow. Then 00:22:40.150 --> 00:22:42.809 the Usos start to get beat down. So LA Knight, 00:22:42.930 --> 00:22:46.000 they just kind of made up with Jay. He's still 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:48.200 working with Jimmy. He comes down to make the 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:50.740 save, and he helps him out. All of a sudden, 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:53.759 you see a hooded figure come in through the crowd 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:56.240 as the Braun and Braun twins are running backstage 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:58.900 after the LA Knight clears the ring. You see 00:22:58.900 --> 00:23:02.000 a hooded figure slide in, and he throws LA Knight 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.920 in a chokehold, and he literally is strangling 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.569 the... la night out he knocks him out cold la 00:23:08.569 --> 00:23:10.849 night passes out in the middle of the ring jimmy 00:23:10.849 --> 00:23:12.890 gets up from the beat down that he just suffered 00:23:12.890 --> 00:23:16.369 from braun and braun jay gets up too and jimmy's 00:23:16.369 --> 00:23:18.329 like what what is happening what is happening 00:23:18.329 --> 00:23:21.970 and then all of a sudden jay acts like he's going 00:23:21.970 --> 00:23:25.410 to save la night and instead you see him give 00:23:25.410 --> 00:23:28.950 a nice swift super kick to his brother he knocks 00:23:28.950 --> 00:23:31.779 jimmy out over the ring LA Knights in the ring, 00:23:31.940 --> 00:23:33.980 unconscious in the middle. The hooded figure 00:23:33.980 --> 00:23:36.440 stands up, unzips the hood, unzips the mask, 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:40.079 and it's none other than Gunther. Because I want 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:43.220 to see, after all their battles together, these 00:23:43.220 --> 00:23:47.279 two guys, Gunther and Jay Uso, combine, form 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:49.859 a team. They now have mutual respect for each 00:23:49.859 --> 00:23:52.839 other, and Gunther is ready to help Jay become 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:57.039 this ruthless heel. I want to see this. And you 00:23:57.039 --> 00:23:59.119 have built in feuds right then and there. You 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:01.500 can run LA Knight versus Jey Uso. You can run 00:24:01.500 --> 00:24:04.079 Jimmy versus Gunther. You can do LA versus Gunther. 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:07.119 Oh, man. Awesome. I want to see Jey be a total 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:11.059 badass bad guy. And who else to help him? Who 00:24:11.059 --> 00:24:14.359 else to push him to the evil side and to be like 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:18.049 this? Just push him over the edge is like. A 00:24:18.049 --> 00:24:22.470 maniacal heel that just is out to crush people. 00:24:22.589 --> 00:24:25.170 I love Gunther. I want to see him come back and 00:24:25.170 --> 00:24:27.210 team him up with somebody completely different, 00:24:27.250 --> 00:24:29.789 completely unexpected. I would love to see Gunther 00:24:29.789 --> 00:24:33.029 and Jay wreak havoc on people and have Jay be 00:24:33.029 --> 00:24:36.470 a total bad guy, badass. Anyway, you all can 00:24:36.470 --> 00:24:39.269 tell me what you think. Who knows? We shall see 00:24:39.269 --> 00:24:42.329 what happens. But in less than one week, folks, 00:24:42.430 --> 00:24:45.990 we will have the very first... P -L -E to debut 00:24:45.990 --> 00:24:49.490 on the ESPN app. I have no idea how this is going 00:24:49.490 --> 00:24:52.170 to work, but it's Russell Palooza coming at you 00:24:52.170 --> 00:24:54.910 September 20th. Five o 'clock, I think it's a 00:24:54.910 --> 00:24:57.789 pre -show from Indianapolis, Indiana. Seven o 00:24:57.789 --> 00:25:00.289 'clock looks like the official start time. These 00:25:00.289 --> 00:25:02.269 matches look pretty, pretty good. I'm actually 00:25:02.269 --> 00:25:04.690 really looking forward to these matches. We've 00:25:04.690 --> 00:25:06.589 already talked about it. John Cena versus Brock 00:25:06.589 --> 00:25:09.650 Lesnar. I don't really know how this match is 00:25:09.650 --> 00:25:11.450 going to go. This could be bad news for Cena 00:25:11.450 --> 00:25:14.460 because I don't know. If it makes sense for Cena 00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:17.339 to win this match. But I can't. Can anyone see 00:25:17.339 --> 00:25:20.819 Lesnar coming back to lose? So maybe there's 00:25:20.819 --> 00:25:23.339 a Schmaz. Maybe I don't know. Maybe this is a 00:25:23.339 --> 00:25:26.920 DQ. I really have no idea who's going to win 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:28.940 this match. I'm looking forward to it. But if 00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:30.960 I had to pick, I'm going to go with Lesnar. The 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:33.380 next, we just had this match added on SmackDown. 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:35.740 We had Cody Rhodes versus Drew McIntyre. This 00:25:35.740 --> 00:25:38.460 is another weird one. Because I feel like Drew 00:25:38.460 --> 00:25:41.480 is feuding with Randy. And then Cody comes back 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:44.400 and just interjects. and puts himself into it. 00:25:44.420 --> 00:25:47.259 And I'm just like, what is happening? This feud 00:25:47.259 --> 00:25:49.359 is kind of all over the place. Cody Rhodes, I 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.359 know y 'all love Cody Rhodes and his music's 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.380 awesome. But when he gets in the ring and I just... 00:25:56.859 --> 00:25:59.759 I don't know. So there's no way he's going to 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:02.319 lose the belt to Drew McIntyre on WrestlePalooza. 00:26:02.339 --> 00:26:05.279 It's not happening. So Cotero's going to win. 00:26:05.500 --> 00:26:07.960 The match I'm looking forward to, well, one of 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:09.880 the two matches I'm looking forward to the most. 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:11.960 The first one we already talked about it, Io 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:13.859 Sky versus Stephanie Vakir for the Women's World 00:26:13.859 --> 00:26:16.660 Championship. I think Io is going to win. She's 00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:18.519 one of my favorites. I think these two are going 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:20.799 to put on a heck of a match. That's going to 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:24.140 be a great match. The Usos versus Bronson Reed 00:26:24.140 --> 00:26:26.559 and Braun Breaker. Hey, if they take my advice 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:29.480 and they finish this, this is going to be a schmoz 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:31.759 and Gunther is going to come back and unite with 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:33.420 Jay. But that's probably not going to happen. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:38.160 If I'm writing it like the WWE writers, I probably 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:41.000 will have the Usos go over and then something 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:43.160 will happen at the end. Who knows? I'm not really 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:45.640 sure which way this is going to go, but that's 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:48.519 how I would book it. I love the idea of Jay versus 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:51.920 Jay and Gunther moving forward. And then the 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:53.759 match I'm looking forward to the most, CM Punk 00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:56.160 and AJ Lee versus Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch. 00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:59.579 These four are going to crush it. I love what 00:26:59.579 --> 00:27:02.039 each and every one of these four is bringing 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:04.660 to the table. It's fresh. It's new. I don't care 00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:06.640 what you say about couples wrestling. This is 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:08.359 a match I want to see. It's going to be the most 00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:10.059 fun. I hope it's the last match of the night. 00:27:10.259 --> 00:27:13.160 Becky's awesome. Seth's awesome. CM Punk's awesome. 00:27:13.259 --> 00:27:16.380 And super happy to see AJ back. It's going to 00:27:16.380 --> 00:27:19.940 be great. If I have to pick, I'm clearly going 00:27:19.940 --> 00:27:22.940 to pick the return of AJ Lee. She will probably 00:27:22.940 --> 00:27:26.299 pin Becky to win the match. And then they'll 00:27:26.299 --> 00:27:28.259 kind of split up and do their separate thing. 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:31.000 AJ versus Becky for the title. Punk versus Seth 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:33.680 for the title. And your story will continue. 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:36.039 But I really hope they keep these couples together 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:39.859 because the Becky and Seth thing is magic. Great, 00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:42.759 great stuff. Can't freaking say enough about 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:45.819 how much I love it. Anyway. That will wrap up 00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:48.559 the tables portion of the program. Bills Mafia, 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:52.220 you are up. How the heck are we feeling after 00:27:52.220 --> 00:27:57.440 a week to win over the New Jersey Jets? If you 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:00.960 listen to my game two preview, you know that 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.980 my stress meter was turned up to a five. Well, 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.190 by what? 12 minutes into this game, I could have 00:28:07.190 --> 00:28:10.509 turned the stress meter off, and the Bills practically 00:28:10.509 --> 00:28:14.650 ran away with this one. It was not even as close 00:28:14.650 --> 00:28:17.569 as the 32 -10 score would have you believe. It 00:28:17.569 --> 00:28:20.829 was crazy because we had Ed Oliver out. Johnson 00:28:20.829 --> 00:28:23.069 was out. We had some big -name defensive players, 00:28:23.230 --> 00:28:25.349 and they weren't missed at all. Jets get the 00:28:25.349 --> 00:28:27.869 ball to start. We defer, kick to the Jets. It 00:28:27.869 --> 00:28:29.809 was an awesome three and out. Milato makes a 00:28:29.809 --> 00:28:31.829 great play on second down right up the middle. 00:28:32.130 --> 00:28:34.900 Milato looked. awesome in this game now we'll 00:28:34.900 --> 00:28:36.720 have to see what happened because apparently 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:39.880 he got hurt and hopefully we get some updates 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:43.380 on that very quickly but man they that defense 00:28:43.380 --> 00:28:45.619 came out with a chip on their shoulder and they 00:28:45.619 --> 00:28:47.920 looked awesome we get the ball we go down the 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:50.400 field we score a tutty we're quickly up seven 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:52.519 nothing then we get the ball back next thing 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:55.000 you know it's 10 -0 and before you know it halftime 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:58.279 20 -0 I mean if I have to nitpick because the 00:28:58.279 --> 00:29:00.559 defense came to play If I have to nitpick, I 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:02.700 understand what they're doing. Obviously, this 00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:05.099 was the perfect scenario leading into the short 00:29:05.099 --> 00:29:07.819 week. We play the Dolphins on Thursday night. 00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:09.980 So this couldn't have played out any better. 00:29:10.140 --> 00:29:13.160 But when the game is 10 -0, I would have liked 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:15.799 to see them. Put the pedal to the metal. I've 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:18.000 talked about it before. You got to go for 40. 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.119 I know he had 30 without even trying. And I know 00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:22.759 Josh got to sit the bench in the fourth quarter 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:24.900 after his nose was probably broken. And we'll 00:29:24.900 --> 00:29:27.079 talk about that in a minute. But there were some 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.359 very conservative play calls by our boy, Joe 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.519 Brady. Very conservative. I get it when you're 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.319 up 20, 23, 27, whatever the hell number they 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:40.049 were at one point. And I get it that... James 00:29:40.049 --> 00:29:42.250 Cook had an awesome game, but there were plays 00:29:42.250 --> 00:29:44.289 that they left on the field and I wish they would 00:29:44.289 --> 00:29:46.849 have taken some shots. I just, you know, it's 00:29:46.849 --> 00:29:48.869 like I said, you got the Lamborghini in the garage. 00:29:48.950 --> 00:29:50.589 Why don't you freaking take it for a test drive? 00:29:50.710 --> 00:29:52.910 But I understand I'm trying to reserve judgment 00:29:52.910 --> 00:29:55.509 until we actually need to drive the car fast. 00:29:55.690 --> 00:29:58.789 But yeah, clearly the game script dictated that 00:29:58.789 --> 00:30:00.930 we're just going to keep handing it to Cook and 00:30:00.930 --> 00:30:03.589 that's what we did. And he crushed everybody. 00:30:03.890 --> 00:30:05.869 I mean, the offensive line looked great. Cook 00:30:05.869 --> 00:30:07.970 looked great. He was very patient. He hit the 00:30:07.970 --> 00:30:11.269 zone reads. Effectively, it was really, really 00:30:11.269 --> 00:30:15.630 no contest. So Joey Bosa, Joey Bosa was unbelievable. 00:30:16.069 --> 00:30:18.490 So two games in to the Joey Bosa experiment. 00:30:18.670 --> 00:30:21.950 Yeah, let's go. Great signing. It could be the 00:30:21.950 --> 00:30:24.210 signing of the offseason. He comes out with the 00:30:24.210 --> 00:30:26.569 punch out and causes a huge turnover. He got 00:30:26.569 --> 00:30:29.450 a sack. It was great. I think if he can stay 00:30:29.450 --> 00:30:31.990 healthy and he can play well, he is going to 00:30:31.990 --> 00:30:34.650 be huge for us come playoffs. This is what we 00:30:34.650 --> 00:30:37.009 need. We need him to be healthy for the playoffs. 00:30:37.549 --> 00:30:40.309 Keon was solid. I know his numbers didn't reflect 00:30:40.309 --> 00:30:42.869 it. But the OPI, the offensive pass interference, 00:30:43.049 --> 00:30:48.029 was weak, in my opinion, weak. The one play that 00:30:48.029 --> 00:30:51.150 I keep going back to, and this takes me back 00:30:51.150 --> 00:30:52.970 to the Joe Brady call, we had a third and four, 00:30:53.109 --> 00:30:55.950 a third and four, and we run the ball. And Shakir 00:30:55.950 --> 00:30:59.029 had his first catch with 11 minutes and 30 seconds 00:30:59.029 --> 00:31:00.789 to go in the third quarter. And I'm like, what 00:31:00.789 --> 00:31:04.450 the heck? This was the Shakir game. You're going 00:31:04.450 --> 00:31:07.390 to have Sauce Gardner on Keon, which is what 00:31:07.390 --> 00:31:09.809 I called. I knew that was going to happen. Shakir 00:31:09.809 --> 00:31:13.250 should have been fed the ball seven to nine times 00:31:13.250 --> 00:31:15.390 in this game, and he gets his first catch with 00:31:15.390 --> 00:31:17.829 11 minutes in the third quarter. I'm like, oh, 00:31:17.910 --> 00:31:19.750 God. Yeah, but the third and four, and we hand 00:31:19.750 --> 00:31:22.309 it off, and we run with nine minutes and 30 seconds 00:31:22.309 --> 00:31:24.210 left, and we settle for a field goal, and I'm 00:31:24.210 --> 00:31:27.269 like, Joe, that was weak. Don't do that. Don't 00:31:27.269 --> 00:31:29.410 do that. The linebackers, like I said, Terrell 00:31:29.410 --> 00:31:32.680 Bernard. Milano, they clearly heard my criticism 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:37.099 of them last week, and they came to play. The 00:31:37.099 --> 00:31:39.279 safeties, the cornerbacks, Christian Benford 00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:42.660 made an awesome stop. I love that camera angle 00:31:42.660 --> 00:31:44.799 showing you the pylon, showing you the first 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:46.960 down marker, and how he comes flying out of nowhere 00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:50.539 to stop the receiver's forward momentum or running 00:31:50.539 --> 00:31:52.700 back. I can't remember which, but he makes the 00:31:52.700 --> 00:31:55.609 stop to force. fourth down. It was awesome. Just 00:31:55.609 --> 00:31:58.609 a perfect, perfect play. The Jets couldn't do 00:31:58.609 --> 00:32:00.509 anything. And it's funny. It's funny because 00:32:00.509 --> 00:32:03.450 Aaron Glenn throws this temper tantrum last week, 00:32:03.450 --> 00:32:07.069 right? He kicks the kick returner off the team, 00:32:07.210 --> 00:32:09.970 Xavier Gibson. He kicks him off the team. He's 00:32:09.970 --> 00:32:12.250 like, this is not acceptable. The standard is 00:32:12.250 --> 00:32:15.089 not being met. And then what he does, he goes 00:32:15.089 --> 00:32:17.750 out and lays this stink fest of a game. Well, 00:32:17.789 --> 00:32:20.339 I'm wondering, well, he... Going by his own standards, 00:32:20.619 --> 00:32:23.140 Aaron Glenn should be firing himself because 00:32:23.140 --> 00:32:27.160 he played like he was scared and he had never 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:28.799 been on a football field before. That's how he 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:30.839 coached. That's how he coached. Not played. Excuse 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:33.279 me. He coached this game like he was absolutely 00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:36.259 petrified of the Bills. And it was kind of pathetic. 00:32:36.500 --> 00:32:39.019 It was kind of pathetic. Yeah, the defense, they 00:32:39.019 --> 00:32:41.720 heard. They heard all the complaints. They heard 00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:44.480 all the national stories about how, oh, this 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.619 team's not going to do anything if their defense 00:32:47.619 --> 00:32:50.900 is trash. And apparently, Sean McDermott and 00:32:50.900 --> 00:32:53.720 his willingness to make practice hurt this week 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:56.079 really paid off because these guys came out flying. 00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:59.359 They made tackles. They were disciplined. It 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.779 was awesome. It was awesome to see Trey White 00:33:01.779 --> 00:33:04.200 came back, had a good game. Now, the thing is, 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.119 we got to stay healthy because I know there's 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:09.750 a lot of injuries. We shall see what happens 00:33:09.750 --> 00:33:12.289 with Milano, but there was no over pursuing last 00:33:12.289 --> 00:33:15.630 week. Joey Bosa looked terrible getting tricked 00:33:15.630 --> 00:33:18.730 by Lamar and over -pursuing his angles and not 00:33:18.730 --> 00:33:20.509 staying in his run lanes and assignments and 00:33:20.509 --> 00:33:22.950 whatnot. And Milano and Bernard looked terrible 00:33:22.950 --> 00:33:24.890 because they weren't even paying attention. That 00:33:24.890 --> 00:33:27.549 was all gone. All gone. So we shall see. I hope 00:33:27.549 --> 00:33:30.170 the defense looks this good. Obviously, if Dorian 00:33:30.170 --> 00:33:32.109 Williams has to play Thursday, I think we should 00:33:32.109 --> 00:33:35.589 still be okay because I love his aggressiveness. 00:33:35.970 --> 00:33:38.990 I think he just needs a little more time, a little 00:33:38.990 --> 00:33:41.250 more play under his belt, and I think he could 00:33:41.250 --> 00:33:43.920 be solid as a backup. Yeah, all in all, I mean, 00:33:43.940 --> 00:33:46.380 could you really ask for a better week two matchup? 00:33:46.380 --> 00:33:48.380 Like I said, I was a little, having watched the 00:33:48.380 --> 00:33:51.039 Steelers game, now maybe the Steelers were overrated 00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:53.799 because that game was really close. That was 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:56.119 a really competitive, close game. The Steelers 00:33:56.119 --> 00:33:59.779 were probably overrated and the Jets just were 00:33:59.779 --> 00:34:01.920 able to do a heck of a lot more things. And then 00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:03.460 they play this Buffalo team and it was like, 00:34:03.579 --> 00:34:06.099 oh, I guess last week was a total joke. So we 00:34:06.099 --> 00:34:09.119 shall see how they do against the Dolphins. I 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:11.960 will try to get my week. three game preview up 00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:15.239 Wednesday before that game hits us on Thursday. 00:34:15.300 --> 00:34:17.380 It's a short week, folks. We got a lot to do, 00:34:17.460 --> 00:34:20.539 a lot to do. The only other thing I want to talk 00:34:20.539 --> 00:34:22.639 about from the game, Tony Romo. I used to love 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.460 listening to Tony Romo on commentary as a color 00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:27.960 commentator. He is almost unbearable. He's almost 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.099 to the point now where he's switched with Chris 00:34:30.099 --> 00:34:33.619 Collinsworth, where everyone hates Chris Collinsworth. 00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:36.719 But now it's become so, like Chris Collinsworth 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:39.599 is so bad that now it's almost become comical. 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:42.820 And he's like your grandpa who has dementia. 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:44.960 And now you're just like listening to him to 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:47.480 see what kind of stupid stuff he says. Tony Romo 00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:49.909 is on the opposite end. It's getting unbearable 00:34:49.909 --> 00:34:52.329 to listen to Tony Romo. I'm like, oh my God, 00:34:52.369 --> 00:34:57.150 this guy. I want to have the TV on closed captioning 00:34:57.150 --> 00:34:59.730 because I can't stand to listen to him anymore. 00:35:00.130 --> 00:35:02.489 Jim Nance is doing his thing. The whole Josh 00:35:02.489 --> 00:35:05.070 Allen injury, by the way, he gets nailed in the 00:35:05.070 --> 00:35:08.670 face by Clemens and he's gushing blood and he's 00:35:08.670 --> 00:35:11.809 running off field. Well, Nance and Romo are acting 00:35:11.809 --> 00:35:15.030 like Josh Allen is dying on the field. And I'm 00:35:15.030 --> 00:35:17.289 just like, can we take a break? Can we take a 00:35:17.289 --> 00:35:20.599 breath here? This is a little too much. Clearly 00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:22.420 something happened. He got hit in the face. He's 00:35:22.420 --> 00:35:26.019 bleeding. He's going to be okay. Holy cow. And 00:35:26.019 --> 00:35:29.139 then Trubisky comes in and slings it right at 00:35:29.139 --> 00:35:32.239 Sauce Gardner and gets the first down. That was 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:35.500 awesome. He has no time to prep, no time to warm 00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:38.519 up. He comes in and fires a nice, what was it, 00:35:38.579 --> 00:35:41.239 third and 11? And he fires a strike and he picks 00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:44.239 up 30 yards in the first down with little to 00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:47.139 no prep time. Amazing. That was awesome. Way 00:35:47.139 --> 00:35:49.599 to go, Mitch. You earned a star of the game for 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.340 that one. Yeah, but all in all, easy win. Happy 00:35:53.340 --> 00:35:55.679 to see that we did well. Let's see what the injury 00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:58.400 report looks like today and tomorrow and move 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:02.239 forward from there. Card enthusiasts, you are 00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:06.079 up next. How are we feeling? Now, last week, 00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:08.639 I did a deep dive into some of Topps' recent... 00:36:08.889 --> 00:36:11.230 releases and we talked about the absolutely insane 00:36:11.230 --> 00:36:14.010 prices of some of these products well i have 00:36:14.010 --> 00:36:17.250 another absolute doozy for you because tops chrome 00:36:17.250 --> 00:36:20.510 sapphire baseball came out this week it hit the 00:36:20.510 --> 00:36:23.590 stands at a low low price of anyone want to take 00:36:23.590 --> 00:36:27.730 a guess how about 900 a box and you may be thinking 00:36:27.730 --> 00:36:31.449 oh we might maybe we get like 150 200 cards of 00:36:31.449 --> 00:36:36.050 awesome goodness here no you get 32 cards 32 00:36:37.050 --> 00:36:41.869 cards one auto per box that is 30 a card folks 00:36:41.869 --> 00:36:45.730 30 a card so me i have to do my research i gotta 00:36:45.730 --> 00:36:48.730 try to know hey is this a good value because 00:36:48.730 --> 00:36:52.230 maybe 900 maybe i'm uh maybe i'm overthinking 00:36:52.230 --> 00:36:54.889 this maybe 900 is a great value maybe i should 00:36:54.889 --> 00:36:57.929 check out some of the reps the breaks and see 00:36:57.929 --> 00:37:00.989 what what i'm missing out on so i checked out 00:37:00.989 --> 00:37:05.130 the old uh youtube and and dove in and Took a 00:37:05.130 --> 00:37:07.789 look at some of these break videos. So let's 00:37:07.789 --> 00:37:11.710 do this. These are the top five cards that were 00:37:11.710 --> 00:37:16.190 pulled on a $900 box break of Topps Chrome Sapphire. 00:37:16.269 --> 00:37:19.389 So here we go. You tell me if this is worth $900. 00:37:19.429 --> 00:37:22.750 So this is one box, 32 cards. Here are your top 00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:25.690 five cards that are not base cards. You have 00:37:25.690 --> 00:37:30.110 a Gavin Lux to 50. Anyone Gavin Lux to 50? No? 00:37:30.460 --> 00:37:32.960 Nobody likes that one? How about Ian Happ to 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:36.840 50? Now, I do know Ian Happ is okay. He's an 00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:39.860 okay player, but Ian Happ to 50? Anyone want 00:37:39.860 --> 00:37:43.820 to go for that one? The next. In the top five 00:37:43.820 --> 00:37:46.639 was a James Wood rookie base card. Now, I will 00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:49.260 tell you, James Wood, awesome player for the 00:37:49.260 --> 00:37:51.219 Nats, having a great rookie year, but this is 00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:53.420 his base card. It's not even numbered, and it's 00:37:53.420 --> 00:37:55.539 not even autographed. So there you go. The next 00:37:55.539 --> 00:37:58.800 one, Jeff McNeil to 25. Anyone, the Flying Squirrel 00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.139 Mets and Mets fans, how much do you want to pay 00:38:01.139 --> 00:38:05.019 for a Jeff McNeil card to 25? No? Okay. But here 00:38:05.019 --> 00:38:08.139 is the hit of the box that you paid $900 for. 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:11.929 Your autograph. Ready for this? Daniel Schneeman 00:38:11.929 --> 00:38:15.869 to 199. So you have Gavin Lux, Ian Happ, James 00:38:15.869 --> 00:38:18.909 Wood, Jeff McNeil, and Daniel Schneeman for 900 00:38:18.909 --> 00:38:21.530 bucks. Are you kidding me? Well, maybe that was 00:38:21.530 --> 00:38:23.909 a rough box. So maybe we should look at a second 00:38:23.909 --> 00:38:27.809 box. So I dove onto another video and this time 00:38:27.809 --> 00:38:30.610 I'm actually watching Breakers and they're commentating 00:38:30.610 --> 00:38:34.570 as they're opening this box for someone who paid 00:38:34.570 --> 00:38:37.670 an ungodly amount of money for this. So the box 00:38:37.670 --> 00:38:40.309 starts out, the first pack, They get a Machado, 00:38:40.349 --> 00:38:43.630 Manny Machado orange card out of 25. Hey, that's 00:38:43.630 --> 00:38:45.730 a good start. Machado's a good player. That's 00:38:45.730 --> 00:38:47.929 a cool card. Not saying it's worth 30 bucks, 00:38:48.050 --> 00:38:51.409 but hey, Machado orange to 25. Great. The next, 00:38:51.429 --> 00:38:54.469 they pull a redemption card. Now, here's where 00:38:54.469 --> 00:38:58.030 things get crazy because you're like, oh, a redemption 00:38:58.030 --> 00:39:00.909 card. This is going to be great. It's a Matt 00:39:00.909 --> 00:39:04.909 Shaw orange refractor auto. Matt Shaw, anyone? 00:39:05.070 --> 00:39:07.699 Anyone want to? Dive into Matt Shaw. How much 00:39:07.699 --> 00:39:09.340 do you want to pay for a Matt Shaw autograph? 00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:13.739 Yeah, he came up at the end of last season. He 00:39:13.739 --> 00:39:16.579 was terrible. And this season, he's kind of had 00:39:16.579 --> 00:39:19.119 his ups and downs. He's all right. But is he 00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:21.159 the future of the Cubs organization? I don't 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.780 know. He might get traded. But that's the big 00:39:23.780 --> 00:39:26.599 hit in the box. And so the third card that they 00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:30.760 went crazy over, a Bradley. blaylock rookie card 00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:33.960 this was black to 10 can anyone even tell me 00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:38.079 what team bradley blaylock plays for well if 00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:40.699 you didn't guess the colorado rockies you must 00:39:40.699 --> 00:39:45.139 not be a very in -tuned baseball fan i consider 00:39:45.139 --> 00:39:47.460 myself a big fan and i had no idea who the hell 00:39:47.460 --> 00:39:51.079 bradley blaylock was but they went so overboard 00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:54.139 on this the one guy's like oh this is a good 00:39:54.139 --> 00:39:56.659 box and i'm like What the hell are you talking 00:39:56.659 --> 00:40:00.099 about? $900 for these cards. And then to end, 00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:02.800 they get a Colton Couser. Now I love Colton Couser 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:07.039 on the Orioles. A gold Colton Couser to 50. So 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.699 there you go. Another 900. Well, that's round 00:40:09.699 --> 00:40:12.880 two. Let's do one more box. Like for the purposes 00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:15.780 of, you know, I like to do research. I like to 00:40:15.780 --> 00:40:19.619 see maybe these two boxes were fluky. So let's 00:40:19.619 --> 00:40:22.510 look at a third box. I couldn't even get five 00:40:22.510 --> 00:40:25.250 cards out of this box. They had a Kumar Rocker 00:40:25.250 --> 00:40:28.449 gold card to 50. Okay, fine, whatever. Their 00:40:28.449 --> 00:40:32.489 auto in this box was a Michael McGreevy to 99. 00:40:32.650 --> 00:40:35.570 Anyone know who the hell that is? Nope, I didn't 00:40:35.570 --> 00:40:39.269 think so. The best card in all the videos I watched. 00:40:39.329 --> 00:40:41.510 Now, this was a good card, but it wasn't an auto. 00:40:41.590 --> 00:40:46.289 It was a Paul Skeens gold cup card to 25. Are 00:40:46.289 --> 00:40:49.130 you telling me that this Paul Skeens non -autoed? 00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:53.460 sapphire tops chrome sapphire card is worth 900 00:40:53.460 --> 00:40:56.219 bucks what the heck are we paying for people 00:40:56.219 --> 00:41:00.119 it's insane it's insane now having said that 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.920 i am not going to be buying this product that's 00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:05.639 that's absolutely crazy In previous episodes, 00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:07.880 we have talked about Topps Chrome Baseball. I 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:10.400 talked about how the checklist was terrible and 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:11.980 the prices were through the roof. Well, good 00:41:11.980 --> 00:41:14.219 news, good news for all of you waiting to jump 00:41:14.219 --> 00:41:16.900 on board the Topps Chrome Baseball. The prices 00:41:16.900 --> 00:41:19.579 have come down. The hobby box has dropped from 00:41:19.579 --> 00:41:22.659 300 to 210. Now we're getting closer. We're getting 00:41:22.659 --> 00:41:25.730 closer. Do I? Still think that's overpriced? 00:41:25.769 --> 00:41:30.530 Yeah. But you drop that down to $150, $175. Okay, 00:41:30.570 --> 00:41:32.230 now we're talking. At least for the checklist 00:41:32.230 --> 00:41:33.889 and the hits that you're going to get out of 00:41:33.889 --> 00:41:37.190 Topps Chrome for the 2025 season. Yeah, those 00:41:37.190 --> 00:41:40.889 prices and those boxes, those were terrible. 00:41:41.150 --> 00:41:44.269 Every store I go in, I see Topps Chrome Baseball. 00:41:44.349 --> 00:41:47.130 It is sitting there and sitting there and sitting 00:41:47.130 --> 00:41:48.710 there. At some point, Topps is going to have 00:41:48.710 --> 00:41:50.190 to buy back all this product and they're going 00:41:50.190 --> 00:41:53.340 to realize, well, we screwed this one up. big 00:41:53.340 --> 00:41:57.099 time because no one is touching this. Every video 00:41:57.099 --> 00:42:00.179 I've seen, every article I read, every post, 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:02.940 every Reddit thread says Topps Chrome Baseball 00:42:02.940 --> 00:42:06.639 is absolute garbage this year. So now you're 00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:09.309 starting to see the prices. drop what else is 00:42:09.309 --> 00:42:11.630 happening panini downrose football is scheduled 00:42:11.630 --> 00:42:15.250 to be released tomorrow this is a 400 card base 00:42:15.250 --> 00:42:18.829 set you have 300 cards of that base set are vets 00:42:18.829 --> 00:42:21.789 and legends and another 100 rated rookies you 00:42:21.789 --> 00:42:26.030 get 180 cards in a hobby box right now that hobby 00:42:26.030 --> 00:42:28.969 box now panini doesn't here here we go again 00:42:28.969 --> 00:42:32.889 with these with these uh card sites guys these 00:42:32.889 --> 00:42:35.250 these companies these card sites are terrible 00:42:36.650 --> 00:42:38.309 how much anything is ever going to cost until 00:42:38.309 --> 00:42:41.090 it's actually live and the sale is starting. 00:42:41.170 --> 00:42:44.010 It drives me crazy, but secondary markets, I 00:42:44.010 --> 00:42:46.570 know blowout cards had this listed for $4 .99. 00:42:46.670 --> 00:42:49.630 So I'm expecting Panini tomorrow when it releases 00:42:49.630 --> 00:42:51.710 at noon or one o 'clock or whenever it releases, 00:42:51.909 --> 00:42:54.769 it's probably going to come in right around $500. 00:42:55.150 --> 00:42:58.269 You are guaranteed one auto, one memorabilia 00:42:58.269 --> 00:43:01.369 card per hobby box. You're guaranteed 18 rated 00:43:01.369 --> 00:43:04.349 rookies and 12 parallels. Now I do like some 00:43:04.349 --> 00:43:06.750 of these cards. I love, I know you can laugh 00:43:06.750 --> 00:43:08.829 at me if you want, but I love the bomb squad 00:43:08.829 --> 00:43:11.449 parallels, the inserts, the bomb squad inserts. 00:43:11.610 --> 00:43:14.250 Those are cool. I really like those cards. And 00:43:14.250 --> 00:43:16.329 of course, this is the product where you will 00:43:16.329 --> 00:43:19.769 find the downtowns that everyone seems to covet 00:43:19.769 --> 00:43:23.300 and chase. And these are your big hits. I would 00:43:23.300 --> 00:43:25.619 love to get a box of this, but for 500 bucks, 00:43:25.860 --> 00:43:27.840 yeah, I don't know. I have been buying a lot 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.099 of singles lately. I've been having a lot of 00:43:30.099 --> 00:43:33.619 fun trying to work on my Keon Coleman PC collection. 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:37.360 Actually, and I didn't think I would ever like 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:40.460 these cards, but Topps came out with their Midnight 00:43:40.460 --> 00:43:43.840 Football release probably a month or two ago, 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:46.880 and I have been trying to pick up numbered Keon 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:50.440 Coleman inserts. One is the Midnight Night Ball. 00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:53.780 card the backdrop is awesome i know these are 00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:56.400 unlicensed and there's nothing there's no logos 00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:58.840 or anything on there but i love the artwork of 00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:01.840 this he's like running out of the woods and there's 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.079 mountains and a moon in the background i love 00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:06.679 the look of this card and then i also was able 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:11.500 to pick up a graded sgc 10 uh 2024 tops midnight 00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:14.559 moonfall card also of keon coleman and these 00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:17.519 are both rookies and i think i paid like 10 bucks 00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:20.500 for this thing it's like yeah sure i will absolutely 00:44:20.500 --> 00:44:22.599 take those cards you know i'm trying to find 00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:24.820 stuff that doesn't completely break the bank 00:44:24.820 --> 00:44:27.460 when i collect i want to collect cars that just 00:44:27.460 --> 00:44:30.340 look cool i don't really have too much concern 00:44:30.340 --> 00:44:33.219 with well how much is this car worth or you know 00:44:33.219 --> 00:44:35.139 what's the long -term investment the reason i 00:44:35.139 --> 00:44:38.019 got back into collecting was to get stuff i like 00:44:38.019 --> 00:44:40.579 to get stuff i think looks cool and to get stuff 00:44:40.579 --> 00:44:42.780 that i'm going to want to look at in a year or 00:44:42.780 --> 00:44:44.940 two down the line and i have certain players 00:44:44.940 --> 00:44:47.610 i like i'm really trying to fill out my bills 00:44:47.610 --> 00:44:51.670 card collection and Keon is a good place to start. 00:44:51.789 --> 00:44:55.510 What else? Let's finish the show with my if money 00:44:55.510 --> 00:44:58.349 were no object by other week because I missed 00:44:58.349 --> 00:45:02.170 it last week and I don't have the 350. million 00:45:02.170 --> 00:45:04.530 required to buy wrestlemania and royal rumble 00:45:04.530 --> 00:45:07.670 so we're gonna dive into purchasing something 00:45:07.670 --> 00:45:10.190 in the card world this is what i found i went 00:45:10.190 --> 00:45:12.809 on the ebay machine and uh i'm trying to get 00:45:12.809 --> 00:45:14.989 some josh allen cards in my collection so here 00:45:14.989 --> 00:45:19.449 you go folks a 2018 donruss optic honors card 00:45:19.449 --> 00:45:22.909 this is a josh allen psa 10 this is a rookie 00:45:22.909 --> 00:45:26.989 it's a gold vinyl this is a one of one psa 10 00:45:26.989 --> 00:45:30.610 gem mint any Any guesses on how much we're going 00:45:30.610 --> 00:45:32.909 to drop on this card? Because if money were no 00:45:32.909 --> 00:45:35.789 object, this puppy's coming into our collection. 00:45:36.090 --> 00:45:41.110 It is for the low, low price of $150 ,000 or 00:45:41.110 --> 00:45:43.230 best offer. So what do you think? What should 00:45:43.230 --> 00:45:46.269 we offer? Should we offer $149 ,000? I mean, 00:45:46.349 --> 00:45:52.429 $150 ,000. $150 ,000. Yeah. I love J17, but I 00:45:52.429 --> 00:45:56.250 don't think I can drop. 150k on this awesome 00:45:56.250 --> 00:45:58.570 card it does look cool it does look cool i would 00:45:58.570 --> 00:46:00.489 love to add it to the collection but the only 00:46:00.489 --> 00:46:03.730 way i'm doing this is if money were truly no 00:46:03.730 --> 00:46:05.929 object well there you have it folks that is going 00:46:05.929 --> 00:46:08.650 to be the show for today i really appreciate 00:46:08.650 --> 00:46:12.119 you all stopping in to check out the three Ts. 00:46:12.179 --> 00:46:14.420 If you have enjoyed this episode or any other 00:46:14.420 --> 00:46:16.880 episode of the podcast, do me a favor, share 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:18.420 it with someone you know, whether they are a 00:46:18.420 --> 00:46:21.280 fellow mafia member, a avid card collector, or 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:23.840 someone who loves professional wrestling. Help 00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:25.880 me out. 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