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Episode 130 - Surviving War Games 2023 · My Third Place Pod

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Welcome back, Fatherless Behavior Squad From Under the
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Apron welcomes you to another awesome episode courtesy of your
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host, Me Evo. What a lovely weekend in
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wrestling we just had, huh? Like, for real?
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What did you not? Were you not entertained?
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When I tell you guys that I practically screamed in the
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comfort of my own home, that neighbors came to the door to
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check on me if everything was OK.
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I'm going to repeat that every chance I get because neighbors
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did come over to my door and I screamed.
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I screamed so loud. I said Oh my God, Oh my God,
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Yaz. Best night ever.
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Best night of my entire life ever.
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All right, let's let's not get too carried away with that one.
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But you know what else happened this week, guys?
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Do you know what else happened this week?
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Spotify wrapped. Happened this week.
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For those that don't know Spotify Wrapped is a viral
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marketing campaign by Spotify, of course, released annually
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since 2016. Every early December or by the
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end of November, the campaign allows Spotify users to view a
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compilation of data about their activity on the platform over
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the past year and invites them to share it on their social
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media. They have one for your music,
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and it shows what artists or songs you've listened to the
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most. They also have one for podcasts.
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So that's basically analytics. And you know what I love about
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numbers? You know I love numbers.
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So let's take it to from the top, because we all love when I
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reveal the numbers. And it's only time I get a
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tingling sensation in my veins. Right here, guys, right there.
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And it's winter. Depression is coming along.
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You know, why not share with y'all something that's going to
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make me happy? Numbers.
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That's that's what's going to make me happy.
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So first, let's start off with the hours I put into this
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podcast, according to rap like, because I couldn't log in.
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I don't know. I don't know how to, like, count
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hours, I guess from January 1st to now.
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But according to rap, this year I logged in about 2.5 K minutes
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of episodes. 2500 minutes of episodes, 2500 minutes.
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Are you doing the math? Do you want me to do the math
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for you? The math, this math thing?
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Right now, that's 42 hours of content.
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That's 42 hours of me rambling along.
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I said that earlier when I posted this.
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I said thank you for listening to me ramble on for 2.5000
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minutes of episodes. I'm sorry, 2500 minutes of
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episodes, 2.5 K minutes of episodes. 42 hours of me just
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rambling along, telling you what to what I like to watch, what I
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like to do. Telling you about my diabetes.
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Telling you about my the back cracking that I had.
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Telling you about the shows, Telling you about the shows.
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I like to watch, all that stuff. It's basically a whole work week
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for some. So I went to work.
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A whole week of work. And what did I get back?
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I got back this right here. I got back hours of content.
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I got back with a paycheck. This is my paycheck.
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This is me fucking putting in work and me coming out with
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this. I love this.
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So let me take this opportunity to say that if you've been
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listening since day one since the start of January all the way
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through now, I appreciate your support.
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I appreciate y'all listening to 2.5000 minutes of me talking
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about the things that I love. From the patrons to the
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supporters to the podcasters and the streamers I met along the
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way. Y'all know who you are.
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Speaking of the new people I met along the way, it was this year
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in the middle of March that I decided to live stream the
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podcast and get a new group of supporters.
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Did I get a new group of supporters?
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Did I fare? How the How did I fare?
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Thank you Grandfather clock, How did I fare?
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85% of new listeners were discovered from this point
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onward. That's how I fared. 10% of those
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listeners started from the March episode of WrestleMania 39.
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Predictions. That's how I fared. 10% of those
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listeners started in March. My podcast was shared all over
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the world this year being listened to by 5 new countries,
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Switzerland, South Africa, Venezuela, United Arab Emirates
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and Sweden, with 73% being shared with direct link to the
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podcast. Yes, and I stated earlier all
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over the socials, well, mostly Twitter threads and Instagram.
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My most shared episode was episode 100 Backdrops and back
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lots. And it was a review.
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It was a re watch and review of the first episode, the first
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season of Heels on the Stars network.
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You know that one show where I like geeked out because a
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certain wrestler from Chicago was in it?
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Yeah, that show. The podcast was streamed 107%
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more this year than it was last year, and it had so much to do
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with where I streamed it on. I even went back and started
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doing past episodes so that people would get a teaser as to
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what I talk about. And people been telling me since
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then that they've listened. Those people, I do appreciate.
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Y'all for sticking around, for coming on, for being a freaking
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guest. I one of them was a guest on
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this podcast on this year around March, around April.
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What was his name? His name was Josh.
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I forgot his screen name, but his name was Josh.
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We got to meet him, we got to hang out with him, we got to
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know about him. And ever since then, more people
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have come along, shown me their support, telling me how they
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feel about wrestling, what they feel about wrestling.
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I even met a person who's related to a wrestler.
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We will get on that later. I still want to get on that
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later there. There'll be time to talk about
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that later, I hope. I presume wrapped Spotify
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wrapped even broke it down for me, he it said I'm a top ten
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podcast for 66 fans. A top five for 50 fans and the
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number one podcast for 31 fans who listened 10 times more than
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my other listeners. And you better believe.
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You better fucking believe I am the number one in that 31.
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I am my biggest fan. I truly am.
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I also shared this earlier on the socials, Twitter threads,
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and Instagram. Again, again, I share everything
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on the Socials. Whatever happens here, I share
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it on socials. Episode 90, the tape
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distribution era is the top episode of the year.
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You all made it the top episode of the year.
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I am going to post this episode again and have you all listen to
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it because it was one of my favorite things to do with one
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of my best friends. From fucking high school, from
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fucking high school, from fucking 20 years ago.
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Come on, one of my favorite episodes was with a guy from
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high school that I fucking went to high school with.
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And that was 20 years ago. It was streamed 84% more than
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your average episode. Come on guys, I sent it out to
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my Co host for that episode. His name is Shenrod.
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He's on Twitch. Check him out.
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He's on the threads. He's on Twitter, he's on
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Instagram. He's all over the place as well.
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I shared it. I tagged him and everywhere.
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I bet he hates it because he's like shit, why am I being
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tagged? Of course he loved it.
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I don't care if he didn't love it or too bad buddy.
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I appreciate you though. And he answered all of them.
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It just goes to show you and it just goes to, you know, it just
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means we're going to do another episode together, I promise you
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that. Believe that.
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On top of all that, with the way the podcast is going, the
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downloads, the downloads, my goodness, they've doubled since
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last year. I am happy to report that I am
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at 3000. I'm sorry, no, that's not even
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it. 8325 downloads and the only way from here is up.
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I can't go anywhere else. I can't.
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I I have to keep going, a wise man once told me a few nights
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ago. Actually, not once.
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A wise man told me a few nights ago.
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Don't let others eat from your steak that you've been cooking,
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because it is your steak. You know how to prepare it, you
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know how to season it and you know how to cook it.
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He's right. He's absolutely right.
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And I said this at the start of the year because of the live
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streams that were introduced on this particular app that I was
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using, that it was time to adapt.
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Well, it's been 11 months later. I think it's time to adapt more
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before we start the show and talk about the weekend after
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Survivor Series went off the air and during the whole press
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conference, which you will also hear some of it on here.
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I noticed the people asking the questions at the press
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conference were bloggers and people with podcast podcasters.
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I noticed a lot about that. I noticed that they asked, they
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let they chose those people. Well, soon as I saw that I said
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I blog. I have a podcast.
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Why not? Why not?
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I've said this before. I need to say that on the
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podcast for it to come true. I want to manifest my goals for
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this podcast. I want to manifest what I want
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to do from now on. I want to manifest my future.
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I'm calling out. I'm calling the shots.
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I'm calling out. Maybe next.
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No, not next year. I'm in a few years once this
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podcast decides to like, interview those fucking awesome
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ass wrestlers. A wrestler at least.
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I'll be at Wrestle Mania at the press conference.
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I want to manifest that I want to manifest a premium live event
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where I am at a press conference and I get to raise my hand at
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Triple H gets to look over me because he doesn't know who the
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fuck I am yet. I'll probably be next to Alex
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Lahas or that House of Wrestling guy.
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I'll be like this the entire time and he'll just skim over me
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and I'll be fine with that. At least he saw me.
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At least we made eye contact. But I want to manifest that.
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I want to say that I want to be there at the big event, at the
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big dance and be able to say I was there.
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He looked at me, but he didn't ask me to ask the question.
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But I still wanted to ask the question.
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I still had a question. So let's manifest that at least
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in a few years, Premium live event.
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Go big or grow home. WrestleMania, you better believe
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I'm calling this shot. You better believe I'll be
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there. Hi everyone.
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war games happened over weekend Saturday, November 25th, 2033 at
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the Allstate Arena, Chicago, IL. I know what you're about to say.
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Did you go? No, I didn't go.
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But no, that's not even the question that you're about to
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ask Evo. You are a week late.
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Hey, I wanted to wait for the wrap party so I can include it
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on here. But if you all heard the
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predictions episode between Menace and myself, then you all
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know what we were hyped up for. Either the Women's War Games
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match or the 5th member of the Men's War Games match.
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We were hyped. I didn't expect what ended up
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happening. I wasn't expecting to scream at
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the top of my lungs by the end of the night and have my
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neighbor come over to ask if I was OK.
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Not at all. No, I'm not going to keep
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bringing that up. Because sure, why not?
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It happened. I screamed.
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Neighbor came over. Yes.
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What's going on? Are you OK?
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No. Watching wrestling.
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Oh my goodness. OK, bye.
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Thank you for coming over, though.
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I'm like the kid. I'm like the guy who cried wolf.
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Next time I actually scream and shit.
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They're not going to come over. They're going to thank them
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fucking watching wrestling or that something happened and I
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just, like, did all that. No, people are just going to,
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like, assume some shit happening with me in the fucking TV.
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They're just going to be like, Nah, he's a wrestling fan.
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What's tonight? Tonight's wrestling.
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Yeah, he's a wrestling fan. Don't ignore it.
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Next few days I'm going to be on an episode of a true crime
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podcast and they're going to be like, So what happened?
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And their neighbors will be like, he's a big wrestling fan.
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We saw he was just yelling at the top of his lungs because of
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the wrestling. But no, he was really murdered.
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He was really yelling out for help.
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And you guys didn't help him because you all assumed he was
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watching wrestling. That getting too dark in this.
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Oh, goodness. All right.
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No, I'm kidding. That's not what's really gonna
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happen. It's fine.
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It's fine. All right, Let's just get move
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on. Let's move on.
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Let's move on. Because yeah.
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Survivor Series war games, first match of the Night.
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I hope you all loved it. Bianca Bellaire, Charlotte Flair
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Schatze and Becky Lynch defeated Bailey, Oscar IO Sky and Kyrie
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Sane with Dakota Kai hanging out with them in the war Games match
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33 minutes and 35 seconds. We did find out last week about
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Becky Lynch, right? I did say that.
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What we didn't find out was the men's war games match.
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Who was going to be the 5th member?
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So let's move along. Let me tell you what happens in
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the match. During the match, Lynch and
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Bailey started the match. Early on, Bailey tossed Lynch in
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her cage. Lynch applied to disarm her, but
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Kai interfered Kai's outside, heading Lynch with a Candlestick
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through the cage. Shotsey threw a trash can in the
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ring. When she came in, Bel Air
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whipped Sky and Bailey with her braids.
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Sky put the trash can on her head and dove onto everyone from
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the top of the cage. Eel Sky is amazing when she does
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that and another high spot. Flair did a moonsault from the
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top of the cage onto everyone. They just wanted to do their
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high spots. There were some near falls for
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both teams. Oscar missed a missed on shot
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see allowing Bel Air to blast Oscar with a fire extinguisher.
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Flair attempted a spear on Sane, but Bailey shoved her out of the
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way and took the spear instead. The Faces then performed their
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signature moves on Bailey, with Lynch finishing her off by
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delivering A manhandle slam from the second rope through a table
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and pinned her to win. Little great start for the show.
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Like fucking. I'm just going to put in the the
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audio clip because this this needs to happen.
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Well boys, we got ourselves a good old fashioned headbanger.
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I'm going to say that Bailey was the MVP for this match.
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She just kept fucking. She saved the match.
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She saved the entire match throughout the entire night.
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If one of them was getting pinned, she'd get in there and
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jump in on them and helped him out.
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If she even took that spear for Sane, for Kyrie sane.
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And what can you say? Like damn.
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And then if on Thursday it happens, like that's probably
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going to be the whole situation right there, that argument that
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hey, let's get rid of one person you've, you know, you took the
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pin, but at the same time they like, hold up, hold up, hold up.
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I took the pin but I like saved all your asses and I kept trying
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to keep the match open but you all couldn't help me and blah
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blah so. Either Bailey turns face because
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of that, or they actually kick her out and she's still face
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like that could happen at least, right?
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High spots of the match, of course is eel Sky with the trash
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can because she's crazy. She hey might as well do the
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same spot she did last year, right?
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Flair with the moonsault from top to cage, of course.
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That was amazing, Shotsy. Why does she look like Angelica
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from the Rugrats? The fucking Angelica's toy from
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the Rugrats? What was her name?
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Somebody tell me her name. I keep thinking Samantha or
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something like that. Bailey, of course.
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Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair with that fucking hug at the end
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of the match. And then we get their, their
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after the match, their and then we get to the press conference
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and after the match and all that stuff.
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And they they love it. They're they're dating, they're
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courting each other. That's what they basically said.
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So here's a little clip from that.
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Hi I am Isa with Lucia Libre Mine.
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Congratulations on an amazing match.
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Match of the night, in my opinion.
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I'll take it now. You guys have such history, you
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guys. Former besties.
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Then some things went down. But you work well together
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tonight. So how about a acting title
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ring? I mean, I would love to see it,
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I mean. You know, we're just courting
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each other again. Let's, you know, that's a great
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way to get there. We'll get there.
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Maybe. Maybe we're dating again.
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We're seeing how it's working out.
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Yeah. Hi, Becky.
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Hi, Charlotte. I'm Krista B 1/2 of those
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wrestling girls. And this is a full circle
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moment, because Becky, last year I asked you when Bianca where we
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had Survivor Series in Brooklyn. About the history that you have
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made and what's next. So the question is now, now that
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we see Becky and Charlotte back together, what history do you
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think that you guys can make together?
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I think that's a good point. We have made a lot of history
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individually, but I think the most history that we've made has
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been together and probably the best history that we've made.
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Oh, that was really just in here.
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Come on now. I just think we bring out the
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best in each other. And tonight when we hugged at
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the same time, you could feel that electricity.
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Like, I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for her, and
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she wouldn't be where she was if it wasn't for me.
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So I think that just never goes away.
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LAJSE Scoops, Charlotte, you were the only person on your
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team to have this be your very first war games match.
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How was the process of preparing for this grueling stipulation
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and what are some of your takeaways from this experience?
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Well, gosh, how did how do we beat the match from last year?
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Like how do we top every year and knowing that last year was
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so good and the year before the NXT one, But I think for me it
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was just more. You know, the history with war
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games, with my dad and Dusty and wanting to be a part of that and
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continuing the tradition. And, you know, being with Bianca
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and Schatzi and having this moment with Becky, Like for me
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it was more, you know, making amends or, you know, we kind of
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left in a bad spot and then coming together tonight and how
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can we move forward with everything.
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It was awesome. I had to get my Moonsault in.
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I was like, I have to go off the cage.
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Hi, Alex Lahas from Queen of the Ring and Church of Joshi.
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I wanted to get into the women's division because you have a good
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eye for Joshi wrestling obviously with EO Sky as WWE
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Women's Champion, also being a Grand Slam champion in Japan,
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there are rumors that a big talent Julia from Japan, you
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have interest in her. I was wondering if you can give
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us a little bit more detail about that.
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The funny thing is like. I didn't even know it was a term
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Joshi thing. Like I didn't even know that was
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a term until like a couple years ago where I was like, what is
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that anyways? I see that all the time.
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To me, it's just like what we do, right?
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And they're talent athletes that that work globally and whether
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we're pulling athletes out of nil out of colleges and training
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them from the ground up, or whether we're seeing somebody
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that we think is an amazing performer.
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That's working their way up someplace else.
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They're they're still amazing in ring talent, and I want to work
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with the best talent. I want to work with the best
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talent. That's open to not just saying,
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hey, this is what I do and that's what I do, right?
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I want them to be open to doing more.
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I want all our town to be open to doing more and to push the
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envelope of of what they believe and what they can do and and the
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stories that they can tell. So to me it's, you know,
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sometimes I see we look in a specific place.
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I don't look at a specific place that the the globe is where I
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look and and where we look and where our recruiters look and
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where our team looks. And if if somebody's talented
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and we think that they can hang on the biggest stage in the
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world, we want them to come here and see if they believe in
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themselves as much as we do. In a backstage segment, Roz
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Otis, Akira Tozawa and Maxine Dupree of Alka Alpha Academy at
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the Women's Tag Team Championships, Chelsea Green and
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Piping Living were shown eating ruffles on a couch watching the
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event smackdowns. Pretty deadly.
26:39
Alvin Prince and Kit Wilson showed up and argued with Otis
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on whether they were potato chips or crisp potato chips or
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crisp. Obviously we call them potato
26:50
chips out there in the British in the in the proper English
26:56
form, they called them crisp. So they were arguing on that and
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then they throw away the the potato chips.
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So when I don't know who did it, Kit Wilson, the one that looks
27:09
like Owen Wilson. He went down to pick up the
27:11
stuff and lo and behold, we see the return of Archer.
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He's been out with an injury since November of 2022.
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He's been out for a year. He popped up from behind the
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couch instead of the argument, stating there were ruffles and
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they called for everyone to get along, which ended with Tozawa
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doing the ruffle shuffle dance. Oh, you nasty with that ruffle
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shuffle dance. Of course, during the press
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conference, Triple H had a lot to say about R Truth's return to
27:52
the company. Lot of things to talk about in
27:56
the show. Let's talk about the big return.
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R Truth back, right. R Truth is back, baby.
28:06
Yeah. Eating chips.
28:09
Just going to town. R Truth is the man.
28:13
Yeah, and you know, I I never saw it coming.
28:18
You know what I mean? And how we were able to keep
28:20
that quiet mind blowing. But our truth is back.
28:24
I expect that to be headlines everywhere for all of you.
28:31
OK, OK, OK Next match, Gunta defeated the miss for the
28:36
Internal Championship via submission.
28:38
The match lasted 2012 minutes and 20 seconds.
28:42
Man, did you really think the miss was going to do was going
28:45
to like, no, this was bad. Gunter's like destroyed miss.
28:57
Gunther defended the eight account championship.
28:59
The miss. The miss counted A powerbomb and
29:01
did some kicks to Gunther's torso.
29:05
He hit a school crushing finale for A2 count, then Gunther to
29:08
the top, rope splash on the missus back and then performed
29:10
the Boston Crab with knee for the submission when it felt like
29:16
the walls of Jericho. The the old one, the fucking old
29:23
one, the walls. Is that what they call it?
29:27
The walls? The walls of Jericho?
29:30
Is that what he called it? I forgot what it was called, but
29:33
the way Jericho used to do it back in the day.
29:37
I also love the fact that they mentioned his name too.
29:40
And being one of the greatest intercontinental champions of
29:43
all time. And but, you know, and they did.
29:49
The walls of Jericho. Huh?
29:51
All right, WrestleMania is coming right around the corner.
29:56
So it's a rumble, perhaps. Hall of Fame ballot for Jericho?
30:03
Maybe. Who knows?
30:05
The match was pretty OK. I mean, it's short.
30:13
I wasn't expecting the miss to go like longer, but at the same
30:16
time, it's against Gunther. So, like, protect Gunther, make
30:23
him feel stronger, make him make him look strong, basically
30:26
right? Gunther, good to see you Chris
30:28
Family from Insight. There wasn't a lot of respect
30:31
that you had for Miss leading into this match.
30:34
What's your respect level for him now after the great match
30:37
that you had here tonight? Yeah, I mean everything aside, I
30:42
think I can be very satisfied with today because I've been in
30:46
the ring with a two time Grand Slam champion, somebody that is
30:49
around forever here. I think he's a guaranteed Hall
30:54
of Famer down the line. It was a challenge for me
30:58
because I mentioned it before. I'm not the typical, the not the
31:04
typical superstar that is made out of the classic WE mold.
31:08
So I wanted to have the challenge.
31:12
I told him last week's like, I don't think he belongs in the
31:14
ring and in the sport and I think he proved today that he
31:17
does, just not with me. That's what I think.
31:24
Reggie Edwards, Indy Sports Daily Gunther, you defeated one
31:27
of the greatest Intercontinental champions of all time.
31:30
But how much did it bother you? That people are consistently
31:34
referring to him as one of the greatest intercontinental
31:37
champions of all time, when you were the longest reigning
31:39
intercontinental champion of all time.
31:43
I mean, I guess after tonight there shouldn't be any questions
31:46
about it anymore, but I was. On the other hand, I'm 0 fussed
31:49
by that. I don't compare myself to
31:51
others. I'm here to build my legacy, to
31:54
do it my way, and I compare myself with myself.
31:59
That's my biggest concern. Kyle Collison knockouts and
32:03
three counts and body slam.net. My question for you is we also
32:07
cover MMA and combat sports. You have one of the best runs of
32:09
all time as Intercontinental champion.
32:11
You know, we see a lot of people talking about being champ champs
32:13
in the world, MMA. Is that something that you would
32:16
like to see yourself do as a Intercontinental champion and go
32:19
for, whether that's Roman Reigns or Seth Rollins with the world
32:22
Heavyweight championship next? Not directly, no.
32:27
I think the Royal Rumble is around the corner.
32:29
If it should be the case that I'm in the Royal Rumble, I think
32:32
I'm one of the favorites and there's always a possibility
32:37
it's not on my mind too much. I have to say they are doing
32:40
their thing and I'm really focused on doing my thing, and
32:43
that's what matters to me right now.
32:45
Do we believe I belong there? Yeah, definitely.
32:47
I have no doubts about it, but it's still not nothing I'm very
32:53
focused on right now. After that match came, I'm
33:02
sorry, but I'm just going to say it.
33:03
I had to go to the fucking bathroom.
33:07
I had to go. I had to go to the bathroom.
33:10
I couldn't stand here. I I know I shouldn't have, but I
33:15
did because I was. I wasn't feeling good, but like,
33:19
I ended up watching it again anyways.
33:22
But the first one was just like, no, the second reaction was just
33:25
like, oh OK Santos Escobar defeated Dragon Lee by pinfall 7
33:31
minutes and 40 seconds. I lost 8 minutes in the
33:33
bathroom. I mean, I I wasn't planning next
33:37
time. Never mind Escobar was quick on
33:41
the offense at first. Escobar stuck Lee's leg between
33:44
the ring post and stepped on it, but Lee fought him off.
33:48
Escobar here to hurt Corona Lee ending with a phantom driver and
33:50
Penn Lee for the win. Escobar wins.
33:57
If this is a rumor, I hope they freaking do it.
34:00
Santos Escobar with he could have Los Otarios Angel Garza and
34:08
Humberto Carrillo. The Cousins coming back from the
34:13
to the main roster, maybe they could hang out with Escobar and
34:24
then do an entire new fraction of legado en fantasma Like I I I
34:30
go for that and then have like the new legado en fantasma
34:33
against the LW either with Ray or Carlito as the new leader.
34:40
Gruel del Toro and Joaquin Wilde.
34:44
So that's probably what's been what the rumor mills going on,
34:48
what's going to happen next? So we're just going to have to
34:51
wait and see for that one. Up next, Rhea Ripley defeated
34:57
Zoe Stark via pinfall for the Women's World Championship.
35:00
Again, another short match, 9 minutes and 15 seconds.
35:09
It was a brawl between the two before the match started.
35:11
After the match began, Stark hit Ripley with a dropkick.
35:14
Stark battling Ripley was met with kicks.
35:17
Ripley kind of the Z 360, before delivering A headbutt and a hit,
35:20
a riptide to retain the title. So Zoe Stark is a face.
35:26
She was out there slapping kids hands and cheering, getting
35:31
cheered for her and I thought she was a heel.
35:34
Unless, hey, Rio Ripley is a bigger heel here.
35:37
We want we need you to be a face this week and the next week you
35:42
can do whatever the fuck you want.
35:47
I guess. I love the way Rio Ripley.
35:49
Whatever Rio Ripley was wearing fucking amazing.
35:54
She looked fucking hot. She looked amazing in it.
36:00
Yeah. I mean, I can't say anything
36:02
else about this match. I so you had 2730 minutes in
36:13
between for the IT was like a 2-3 hour show and these matches
36:20
were short so it was OK because we needed the big match to be
36:27
longer. Movies and feelings.
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39:05
All right, the main event Cody Rhodes, Seth Brick and Rollins,
39:09
J USO, Zami Zayn and the 5th member Randy Orton, because he
39:14
was announced on Monday Night Raw and we've all missed it.
39:17
I know. Here it is.
39:21
They defeated the Judgment Day, Damien Priest, Finn Balor, Dirty
39:23
Dominic Mysterio and JD McDonough with Drew McIntyre as
39:28
well in the War games match. Match lasted 34 minutes and 50
39:34
seconds. Boys, we got ourselves a good
39:37
old fashioned headbanger throughout the night.
39:39
Prior and at the start of the main event, Oregon had not shown
39:42
up so everybody was worried. His team was worried.
39:49
The 1st 2:00 to enter the cage were Rollins and Balor.
39:52
Of course this match, this match always.
39:56
Whenever Rollins and Balor are in a match against each other,
39:59
it goes hard. Rollins gained the upper hand
40:02
before McDonough entered to turn the tide in his team's favor.
40:07
Jay USO entered next. He evens things up.
40:10
McIntyre was set to enter next, but Priest stopped him before
40:14
entering the match himself told him to go with the plan.
40:20
Priest grabbed the metal right baton and hit USO and Rollins
40:23
multiple times. Zane came out, grabbed the table
40:25
and attacked Priest before tearing a pipe from the cage and
40:28
using it to attack the Judgment day.
40:30
Mysterio found himself a number for the rest of the Judgment
40:33
Day, and McIntyre recovered. Priest and McIntyre performed
40:37
simultaneous choke slams on roads, lanes, and Rollins before
40:41
driving Rollins through the table with the rated edge as the
40:44
clock counted down for the final team for ordering to appear
40:48
instead. Rhea Ripley made an entrance
40:52
with Priest's Money in the Bank contract and the referee in tow
40:57
before the contract could be officially cashed in.
41:00
However you heard it, you heard it.
41:05
I hear voices in my head. That's what came out.
41:09
I hear voices in my head. I hear fucking voices in my
41:14
head. Orton showed up at the last
41:17
second evening. Diaz, with his team performing
41:20
stereo rope, aided DDTS through Judgment Day and McIntyre, just
41:26
as Orton was poised to use to hit Priest with an RKO, turned
41:32
his attention to USO and we all thought something was going on.
41:36
We got fucking worried for a minute there bud.
41:40
Holy shit Oh my God. He turned his attention to USO,
41:48
who along with the bloodline was responsible for his 18 months
41:51
absence. Remember that?
41:53
They lost RK bro. Lost the belt to the USOS.
41:59
Orton taunted USO, telling him he had not forgotten what he had
42:02
done before. USO intercepted an attacking
42:06
priest with a superkick followed by an RKO on Mysterio from
42:11
Orton. McDonough was chased to the top
42:14
of the cage by Zane and Rollins, and they threw McDonald down to
42:17
Orton, who caught him with an RKO.
42:21
Rhodes then hit Priest with a crossroads before pinning him
42:26
for their victory. He Here are your winners, Team
42:31
RKL. I'm just going to call it Team
42:32
RKL or Team Legacy Adrenaline in myself, Crossroads, Cody Rhodes,
42:43
Jay USO. That's Rick and Rollins.
42:46
Sami Zayn and Randy Orton. One they're celebrating in their
42:49
fucking ring. You see the you see the the
43:01
you think it's over. It's not over.
43:06
It's never over. It's like a Marvel movie now
43:09
it's you don't get up and leave. You don't get up and walk away
43:13
to go home after the movie is over.
43:17
No, you sit there and you wait for the actual show to go black.
43:23
Because if you do leave, you end up being like Forbes on Twitter,
43:30
who decided to go to leave to turn it off and said no.
43:34
He wasn't there. No, I didn't see him.
43:39
But if you were there and you saw it and you saw it just like
43:42
me, you saw it. You heard it, You felt it.
43:47
Because it's there. You, you feel you feel it.
43:53
This is what wrestling's all about.
43:54
It makes you feel it, makes you understand it.
43:59
Fucking. I love wrestling.
44:01
I fell in love with wrestling when I was a kid.
44:04
I'll always love wrestling. It's the only thing I'll ever
44:06
love in my life. Wrestling because cult A fucking
44:15
personality hits the speakers and the entire crowd just lose
44:22
it. The entire crowd goes unhinged.
44:25
Everything goes unhinged. I got up from my chair and
44:31
fucking yelled and I'm going to say it as much as possible.
44:35
I yelled enough for my next door neighbor.
44:42
Come out, I'm going to say it again.
44:44
I don't give a fuck to come out. Asked me if I was OK and I just
44:48
said yeah, I'm good, I'm fine. Thank you for asking though.
44:52
As you were. Keep doing as you were.
44:54
As you were. CM Punk has CM Punk.
45:01
CM Punk, who was fired from Elite wrestling nearly three
45:05
months ago, made his return, his surprise return.
45:09
Because I wasn't expecting him. I was expecting fucking Randy
45:12
Orton. We were on it.
45:14
We were just like, oh shit. One return.
45:16
One night. Yeah, one return.
45:18
No, we got two returns. Oh shit, that's.
45:21
They can't do three returns, can they?
45:25
Fucking our truth, Randy Orton. They couldn't, they couldn't
45:30
pull this off. No way.
45:33
Look in my eyes. What do you see?
45:38
Occult of Personality. See, they can't take this moment
45:44
from me because it's not copyright.
45:46
I'm singing it. He returned for the first time
45:52
since 2014. Royal Rumble.
45:54
Of course, it's counting his time as one's dirty backstage.
45:57
From 2019 to 2020, he wasn't even there.
46:00
He wasn't even there at all. He was just there.
46:03
But he wasn't even there. But let me tell you the things
46:10
that happened after. Oh, he came out.
46:14
He looked at the crowd. He did the whole thing.
46:16
He did the whole look at my clock with my watch, get on my
46:21
knees, say it's clovering time. Yes, he looks fucking younger.
46:26
He looks better than he did on. AW, he's no longer working with
46:30
kids anymore. I'm sorry I had to say that.
46:33
I said it. And then you see clips.
46:39
That is true. You see clips, you see clips
46:43
from every different angle inside the arena.
46:47
And this is what I love the best because I didn't want to do it
46:50
on Sunday. I didn't want to do this podcast
46:52
on Sunday. I didn't want to do this podcast
46:53
on Monday. I didn't want to do this.
46:55
Today's Tuesday. No, today's not Tuesday.
46:58
I didn't want to. I wanted to be ready.
47:00
I wanted to find everything. I wanted to be like here, here's
47:03
everything. I just found out about this.
47:05
That's what I do. That's how I do things.
47:11
Then you see clips, Seth Rollins fucking going out, getting out
47:19
of the ring trying to flipping him.
47:24
CM Punk, CM Punk flipping CM Punk off telling him come here
47:29
you fucking hypocrite. Yeah, fuck it.
47:31
Faggot all this shit because he doesn't like him.
47:34
They don't like each other, they don't like each other.
47:37
You see Randy Orton doing the click on the check his watch
47:42
clovering time. And then you see CM Punk doing
47:45
the the Randy Orton pose. The asshole pose that he does is
47:50
like, yes, because they were doing each other's poses,
47:55
basically. You also see another clip.
47:58
Mommy Mommy's in the building. No, mommy's in there, obviously,
48:02
but you see a clip of Mommy Ria Ripley and everybody's already
48:08
up. Everybody's like, looking out
48:10
into the fucking the pathway and like, you see Jay USO, just it's
48:20
still in the middle of the it's still in the ring with Dominic
48:23
and they're just staring at each other, like, what the fuck?
48:25
This guy's back, What the hell? But Dominic was, like leaning
48:30
down towards Ray Ripley, who was, like, pissed off as well.
48:35
She's like, Oh my God, this guy is so fucking annoying.
48:37
She does her sing with her clock too.
48:39
It's like stopping Diamond. Shut up.
48:42
Get out of here. So he did that.
48:47
People were upset. They have a right though, right?
48:50
Sure, why not? The best part about that night,
48:56
though? It's all the reactions that we
48:59
got to see on TikTok, all the reactions that we got to see on
49:03
Twitter, all the reactions that we got to see that night because
49:11
they weren't expecting this man to come out at all, at all.
49:18
Emily May with Sports Gear Wrestling.
49:21
We all want to know We just saw it happen.
49:23
CM Punk made his return to WWE here at Survivor Series.
49:29
How did that all happen? And what's next for CM Punk?
49:37
So this is one of those things. Is that me?
49:43
Excuse me? Is this still working?
49:48
Yeah, this was one of those sort of lightning in a bottle moments
49:55
that came together very quickly, But we are incredibly excited
50:00
about it. You know, it's been a long time
50:04
and in some ways been a long time coming.
50:10
You know you can say this about CM Punk.
50:14
Love him, hate him. Positive, negative, whatever you
50:16
want to say. People talk about him all the
50:20
time. He is a a magnet for that and
50:23
he's a conversation starter and it's tough to look past that.
50:29
And for me, if if our fans want it, if the WWE Universe is
50:39
excited to have it, then let's go.
50:43
And we'll figure out the rest of it from there.
50:46
This came together super quick, which I'm sure is why it stayed
50:52
very tight. You know, there's a lot of
50:54
speculation at that point. It was nothing but speculation.
50:57
For most of the time it was speculation.
50:58
It didn't really start to come to fruition until everybody
51:00
stopped thinking it was going to happen and then all of a sudden
51:03
it was happening. But extremely excited, you know?
51:13
A lot of time has gone by almost 10 years, right?
51:15
And if you are the same person you were ten years ago, 10 years
51:21
later, you've messed up. Everybody grows, everybody
51:26
changes. And I'm a different person, he's
51:31
a different person. This is a different company.
51:37
And we're all we're all on a, on a on the same even starting
51:41
ground. So what's next for CM Punk?
51:47
That'll be interesting, won't it?
51:48
Yeah, I'm. I'm.
51:50
I'm interested to see that myself.
51:52
I know whatever it is, it'll be talked about, it'll be exciting,
51:57
and it'll be a thrill ride for the WW universe, no matter, no
52:00
matter what it is. And I'm thrilled, we're all
52:03
thrilled to have him back here and to have him back.
52:09
You know, cliched to say, but I'm back home in WWE.
52:11
It's where he belongs. Hi, Cody.
52:16
Hi, Alex Lahas. I didn't see you for a second.
52:18
Sorry. It's.
52:19
OK. Alex Lahas from Queen of the
52:21
Ring. I wanted to know your thoughts
52:24
about tonight in War Games. How did you feel walking into it
52:28
and sharing the ring with your teammates, but especially with
52:32
Randy Orton? Oh man.
52:39
At the end of the match, Randy said to me thanks for the phone
52:43
call, did a little. He said thanks for the phone
52:45
call and I wanted to tell him like sorry always.
52:52
I wanted to tell him thanks for my career.
52:55
You know, I keep thinking this is going to end right and.
53:03
And I I couldn't have got to where I got had I not been
53:06
around Randy. Randy's so many wild and chaotic
53:09
and you hear all these funny stories about him and all this
53:12
nonsense, But as a performer or professional wrestler, WWE
53:16
Superstar, what an outstanding mentor he was to me.
53:19
Truly. I'll never forget standing in
53:22
the ring at the Royal Rumble when he won, pointing at the The
53:25
Star WrestleMania sign and just thinking like I want to be like
53:29
him. And that's just nice since I'm
53:34
going to get about I, I I was really touched and I think a lot
53:39
of emotions tonight because my father-in-law, he's he's in the
53:44
hospital and Michael Cole shouted him out on on commentary
53:50
and I really appreciate that Otis has been the biggest fan.
53:53
We love Otis and I want him to get better and all those things.
53:56
So I was thinking about that. I was thinking about Randy and
53:58
then of course. Cage opens up and I walk out and
54:01
I for the first time in the day, everyone else is thinking for
54:04
the first time in the day, I think like, oh this is my dad's
54:07
match. So charmed life you guys have
54:11
given me. I'm.
54:12
I'm very lucky. Thank you guys.
54:19
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55:21
Then we move on to Monday Night Raw, which was commercial free
55:25
for the first hour. We you know what we're here for,
55:31
right? We were here for the for the CM
55:35
Punk stuff. We weren't here.
55:39
We were here at the CCM Punk, but instead they put them at the
55:43
last at the end. Instead we saw the return of
55:47
Randy Orton as he was saying that he hadn't finished business
55:50
with the bloodline interrupted by mommy.
55:57
Son of a bitch. Hold on, sorry.
56:01
We saw the return of Randy Orton and as he was saying that he had
56:04
unfinished business with the bloodline, but he was
56:06
interrupted by mommy Ria Ripley, he came down to the ring to tell
56:13
Orton that the Judgment Day runs the WWE.
56:17
Orton told her that since she likes calling herself mommy,
56:20
then he is daddy and he is back. He gets attacked by Dom and
56:26
Jamie McDonough, but Orton comes back to fend them off and
56:28
another RKO on JD, who's wearing a neck brace after the injury at
56:33
War Games. I'm not going to get through the
56:38
whole show. It was a very good show.
56:40
I figured the commercial free was because of CM Punk, but no.
56:49
Instead we had tagged in turmoil.
56:51
Which star? Which then that commercial free
56:58
ended up being 50 minutes. OK, what?
57:05
OK, they lied. Instead we get to tag team
57:08
turmoil, right? I already said that the reading
57:13
of DIY, that's already happened. I haven't talked about wrestling
57:17
in a while. Johnny Gargano, Tommaso Champa
57:20
against Alpha Academy and it ended up with DIY eliminating
57:25
the Alpha Academy. After that, DIY eliminated into
57:30
sure. And then the Creed brothers came
57:34
out and they eliminated DIY and then they limited the New Day
57:40
and then they limited Imperium. I'm not going to go through it.
57:42
I told you just who they fought. So three teams the Creed
57:53
brothers eliminated, The Creed brothers will now get a shot to
57:57
WE tag team champions against the Judgment Day.
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Next match was a meet slapping meet match.
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Biggie would be so proud of this one.
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Ivar versus Bronson Reed, which ended up in a double count out
58:13
because they were outside and through the crowd and they were
58:17
doing lots of stuff there. NIA Jackson fears Zoe Stark, who
58:21
was slapping hands with the fans during her entrance, and again,
58:27
wasn't she supposed to be a heel?
58:31
We we get some funny interaction between our truth and Judgment
58:33
Day, who says he wants to be their 5th member, and the
58:37
Judgment Day reminds him that War Games was a few days ago.
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It's not the fact that our truth has an age a bit.
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It's the fact that our Truth is forgetting stuff.
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He's old. Hey, I still look like I'm
58:53
fucking 20, but what? He comes out during the Royal
58:58
Rumble and thinks his money in the bank match.
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He comes out to tell Brock Lesnar that he's going to throw
59:06
Paul Heyman out of the ring for the Royal Rumble.
59:08
He comes out and does ridiculous stuff.
59:14
And then our truth, our truth is not getting old.
59:20
He's just getting senile. He doesn't remember anything at
59:23
all. He's like Internet Explorer.
59:26
Is that what that is? Next thing you know, Archer is
59:30
going to be like, where's John Cena at, bro?
59:37
Seth Rollins reveals to Drew McIntyre to Jay Uso's next in
59:40
line for the championship title, which Drew hits a head butt on
59:43
Seth, and Drew opens a wound on his forehead.
59:47
He opens himself up, Jake comes out to help Seth, and as he
59:50
grabs the WWE World Championship title, he stares at it and dance
59:53
it over to Seth. Did he do this when he fought
59:56
Roman Reigns at 2020, Looks at the belt, then gives it to Seth
1:00:03
to Romans. Like, yeah, here, here, OK does
1:00:07
the same thing to Jay, to Seth Rollins.
1:00:10
It's like we remember this stuff because we were there.
1:00:17
Next match, Randy Orton defeated Dominic Mysterio.
1:00:19
Who cares? It's the final segment of the
1:00:22
night that we're here for, right?
1:00:25
We are anticipating the final segment of the night.
1:00:28
That's what we all came here to see.
1:00:31
CM Punk walks out, but not before we see a bunch of
1:00:34
reaction videos from TikTok fans to which I recognized a few
1:00:40
because they're content creators over there.
1:00:43
I saw Weezy. I'm gonna say her name.
1:00:45
I don't care. I saw Weezy.
1:00:49
That's the only one I fucking know.
1:00:51
That's the only person who I like, saw.
1:00:56
I recognized. It's like I didn't recognize
1:00:58
anybody else. But it's like, hey, I know that
1:01:00
person. I've liked their videos before.
1:01:05
I've followed them before. Yeah.
1:01:10
The year that I'm not involved on Tiktok is same damn year.
1:01:14
The WE decides, let's put these guys on the screen.
1:01:19
Told you I'm taking my shots. I'm swinging for the fences, I'm
1:01:24
swinging for the moon. I'm taking my shots.
1:01:30
So here's a 6 minute audio of CM Punk's return speech.
1:01:34
And yes, we waited a whole 3 hours, 50 minutes of commercial
1:01:41
free, only for the night to end for CM Punk's return for CM Punk
1:01:47
to come out, grab a microphone, and for six minutes say that
1:01:52
he's home and he's here to make money, not friends.
1:01:56
So here's that little clip. Looks like hell froze over.
1:02:12
And when I mean hell froze over, I mean, this is me.
1:02:17
Standing in a WWE ring on Monday Night Raw with a live microphone
1:02:24
in my hand. I don't mean the fact that
1:02:29
apparently a Blackhawks fan is universally loved inside the
1:02:32
Predators barn, OK? I'm sorry I had to.
1:02:39
You guys understand that I got to be me, right?
1:02:44
And lately. I've been feeling a little bit
1:02:47
more like myself ever since Saturday, which was a career
1:02:51
highlight for me. I've been trying to come up with
1:02:53
the words and the language to explain to all of you exactly
1:02:57
how I feel. And I've come to two words, and
1:03:03
I'm afraid to say I'm honestly, and it's not because they're not
1:03:06
true. It's because I'm a little bit
1:03:09
scared of how true they actually are.
1:03:14
And it's a little bit corny and it's a little bit cheesy, and
1:03:16
it's not going to sound like CM Punk.
1:03:19
But I've changed. And Once Upon a time, an
1:03:23
American dream taught me that as long as you speak from the
1:03:27
heart, you cannot go wrong. Because it is the truth.
1:03:31
And this is the truth. I'm home.
1:03:57
I've come back to this familiar place and I didn't know how I
1:04:01
was going to react and I didn't know how it was going to go.
1:04:03
But it has made me feel like my old self, because this is where
1:04:07
I belong, This is home, and I've been gone for 10 years and over
1:04:14
10 years you people never forgot me, even when maybe I wanted to
1:04:20
forget me. And that's powerful.
1:04:24
You are all powerful. A bunch of continents, countless
1:04:32
countries, arenas all over the world.
1:04:35
The people watching at home, the people in the building never
1:04:38
stopped chanting my name. The voiceless.
1:04:51
I found their voice and I couldn't be more proud of you.
1:04:54
And I heard you. And that's why I'm back.
1:04:57
Because I love you guys, I love you guys, I love you guys.
1:05:04
And I've missed you guys and I've missed all of this.
1:05:06
And I wish I could say I never had to leave.
1:05:10
But Once Upon a time, a wise man told me for me to get everything
1:05:16
I need out of this place, I'd have to leave and come back.
1:05:22
Hate to say the wise man was right, but that's why I'm back
1:05:27
to get everything I need out of this place.
1:05:30
I'm back for you because you are home.
1:05:39
Saturday night was an amazing moment.
1:05:41
Monday night is an amazing moment.
1:05:44
Try to have the words to explain to you how it feels.
1:05:47
But in front of and behind the camera, it's been nothing but
1:05:50
love. It's been nothing but hugs.
1:05:52
It feels like a family reunion. Everybody back there is happy to
1:05:56
see me. And it's all smiles.
1:05:58
A few people kissed me on the mouth.
1:06:00
It's welcome back, Welcome home. We've missed you.
1:06:03
We're happy to see you. By the way, how's AJ?
1:06:06
And ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to tell you AJ is fabulous.
1:06:10
Sends her regards. Everybody has welcomed me back
1:06:17
with open arms. Well, almost everybody.
1:06:30
Some people are afraid. They're afraid of the truth.
1:06:35
They're afraid of what they don't understand.
1:06:37
But I understand everything I've ever wanted has always been
1:06:41
here. The competition here, week in
1:06:43
and week out, competes to be the best in the world.
1:06:46
But the best in the world has not been here for almost 10
1:06:49
years. I understand being afraid.
1:06:59
They're afraid that I just set the bar to an unattainable
1:07:02
level. They're afraid that the brass
1:07:04
ring is in my back pocket and they can't grab it.
1:07:06
They're afraid that the most dangerous and controversial
1:07:10
feared man in this industry just walked through the front door
1:07:14
and there's nothing that they can do about it.
1:07:20
Some people are afraid that tomorrow morning, when they wake
1:07:22
up, they're going to have to come to terms with the fact that
1:07:24
their best efforts at being the best in the world, in this ring,
1:07:30
on this microphone, even at commentary, isn't just false,
1:07:38
but it's a lie. Because the best in the world is
1:07:43
back. And the best in the world is
1:07:44
standing in the middle of the ring live and in living color in
1:07:48
Nashville, TN on a Monday night and.
1:07:51
His name is. I'm not here to make friends.
1:08:09
I'm here to make money. Evidently people are going to
1:08:18
have problem with punk and I said this last time, I'm so glad
1:08:22
none of these people were around the Attitude Era because they
1:08:25
would get clowned. They would definitely get
1:08:27
roasted. None of them would have been
1:08:30
able to handle the fact that Ravishing Rick Rude showed up on
1:08:33
both the Raw End of Cellular 9 Nitro on the same night, or the
1:08:37
many times Jeff Jarrett jumped from WWE to WWE to N.W.A to WWE
1:08:42
to WCW. Again, slap nuts.
1:08:46
They wouldn't be able to handle all that.
1:08:49
What else can we mention? A longer Blaze?
1:08:53
Dropping the belt in the garbage?
1:08:55
Shit. OK, what else?
1:09:01
The Radicals? Perry Saturn?
1:09:05
Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero.
1:09:10
Moving to RAW. What else can we mention?
1:09:14
Oh yes, of course we're going to mention this.
1:09:17
Bret Hart screwjob. Wow, people with a weapon all
1:09:25
over that one. That's another story that would
1:09:27
have given heart, people heart attacks.
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