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How Good Was WWE This Week? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #749 – 6/20/24 · THE STILL REAL TO US SHOW – Real Guy Radio

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  It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition of the Still a Real
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  Doest Show, episode number seven nine for June twenty, twenty twenty four.
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  Even though we're recording this on June twenty second, twenty twenty four. I
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  am one half the show. I am Jeff Peck, joined every single week
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  from my co host Solon Wily, doctor Trey Franklin, Doctor Trey. I
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  now join you as a father of my friend. Yeah. I think back
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  last week's episode and we kind of talked about alf air with everything going on,
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  that it was going to be the last show you did before Father's Day
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  and you actually becoming a father. So I know I'm not the first to
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  say this, but congratulations, thank you, thank you my friend. Yeah,
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  it has been a world win couple of days, and we actually started
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  talking about it pre show here and I was like, you know what,
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  let me let me just kind of say this for the podcast here and just
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  talk it out. So my son was born on Thursday at three twenty four
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  pm, six pounds twelve ounces, twenty inches long. His name is Luke
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  James Peck. He is doing great. Everything is great with my son.
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  Obviously, we could not have recorded the show on Thursday. Given everything that
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  was going on, there was going to be a potential little glimmer of recording
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  the podcast on Thursday night. Potentially was thinking Friday, but unfortunately my wife
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  had some complications from the C section surgery and I could sit here and I
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  could say everything is fine. Now she is on the road recovery. She
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  is doing well. It was obviously a very scary situation for us as a
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  as a family, but I'm obviously happy to say that she is doing well.
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  I'm able to sit here and do the podcast for an hour, have
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  a little bit of window I'm recording that. We're recording this on Saturday morning.
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  Hopefully goes right up rather quickly when we sent it over to our good
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  friend Bauer, who always posted up at real Guy radio dot com. But
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  yeah, that is that is the latest. That's why there was a little
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  bit of delay. Energy level is lower than normal just given everything going on.
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  It's been a wild wave of a roller coaster of emotions, not a
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  lot of sleep so far. And this is actually coming from a guy who
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  has not had an overnight with his son yet. Just given the circumstances of
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  what's going on, and just trying to focus on getting my wife back up
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  to road recovery what she is, and just trying to piece meal everything else
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  in life because you know nowadays doctor Trey or what I'm going to be learning
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  now going forward. More importantly, it is very difficult to get off the
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  roller coaster of life in general, whether it comes to work, hobbies,
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  podcasts like this. It's like, holy crap, I have a bunch of
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  stuff that I need to get done. And I spent the night sleeping at
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  the hospital on Thursday night into Friday, and the first time I got home
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  was about Friday night at like ten ten pm Eastern, and I spent that
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  time getting caught up on a lot of stuff that we left here when we
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  went to go deliver my son at the hospital and watched the SmackDown. Have
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  not watched Rampage from Friday night yet, but I did get a chance to
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  watch mac Down while I was filling the blanks. Went to bed super late
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  because there was so much stuff that was to be done. But I figured
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  this is like, you know, the way to get used to intermittent sleep
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  for the time being. So happy to be here, happy to make this
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  announcement, and I will be looking for obvious advice from doctor Trey Franklin,
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  the two time Father. But I'm happy to join the stable of wrestling,
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  stable of fathers. I guess what is it? The f WO? What
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  are we doing? F degeneration? F what is the father? Horseman?
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  How does this? What is this table called? Noah? I've always led
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  to like Father the Father world order because it's you know, it's a different
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  world to be and when you jump into it. I can't believe that you
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  didn't look at the Dodgers and the nurses Thursday and said, look, I
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  have a podcas I have to do. Can we pump the brakes a little
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  bit so I can get this thing done? I mean, we got priorities
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  here. I know my wife's getting ready to have the C section everything else,
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  Guys, I have a podcast I have to do. We have to
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  prioritize this. So I'm a little I'm a little bummed out. Jeff.
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  I thought you do it from the hospital. I mean, I've always been
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  the one to do it from do the show from like weird locations, So
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  I thought this was your chance to kind of jump into that world. Yeah,
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  yeah, you know that would have been a really fun and interesting way
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  to record the podcast. Do it that way. It was It's funny that
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  you mentioned this, because going into the week just out like I'm wired sometimes
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  and I know this. We were in the window. It was June twentieth
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  to June twenty eighth they predicted my son would be delivered, so obviously June
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  twentieth he landed on Earth and walk away we go. But I really debated
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  going in this week, and doctor Trey and I always text with one another,
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  like, Hey, how's your schedule this week? How's it's working out.
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  We've been on this swing lately of doing the show on Thursday afternoon.
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  It gives us an opportunity to basically watch all of wrestling. It's the one
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  day a week where there is no wrestling, unless you know, we randomly
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  cover Impact wrestling or excuse me, t and A wrestling because I know they
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  are on Thursdays now. And I debated. I was like, I wonder
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  if I should do the show on Wednesday. I had off from work for
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  the federal holiday, and I was like, you know what, she isn't
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  showing any signs of labor. I think I could probably squeeze one out here
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  on Thursday, and I figured by the next time we recorded, probably my
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  son would be bored at that point, and boy, oh boy, was
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  I wrong. It was I went to bed, what was it now?
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  Wednesday night? I was usually I could get so I watched Dynamite typically late,
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  as it's like, once it starts going, I'll get in the DVR.
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  I don't know. I guess I'm getting impatient with waiting for commercials nowadays,
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  and they don't have many of them on Dynamite. So I think I
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  got through the first hour on DVR late Wednesday night and it was about eleven
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  o'clock and I was like, man, I am dead tired. I should
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  just go to sleep. And I usually try to power through, and I
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  didn't, and thank god I didn't, because I woke to about one thirty
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  in the morning on Thursday and my bedroom was lit up like a Christmas tree.
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  Lights were on, doors were open, my wife's in the bathroom,
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  and I'm like, what the hell is going on? And I rush up.
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  And earlier in the week my wife had we actually went to the hospital
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  on Tuesday because she had thought that potentially her water broke and it did not
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  break, and it was like you're still you know, this could be three
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  weeks so from now, it could be two days from now, it could
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  be three weeks from now. Typical doctor speak, which has been a theme
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  this entire time, doctor speak, And anybody who has experienced a doctor knows
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  what I'm talking about. Doctor Trey with his foot, It's like, so
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  is my foot going to be okay? Uh? It may it may be,
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  you know, there's always the chance of It's like, you know,
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  can you just give me some sort of positive reinforcement? But I digress.
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  So one thirday morning, I get up and there she is, and she's
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  like, my water broke. Pretty sure, my water broke. I'm like,
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  okay, so what do we do next? Because everybody I've talked to
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  doctor Trey and maybe you can attest to this as well, has said when
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  the water breaks, it's not like this drop down immediate oh you know,
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  stuff that you see in the movies television shows, like oh shit, we
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  got to get to the hospital right away. Like I did immediately think that.
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  But thankfully she jumped in and she was like, when this happens,
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  I'm supposed to call the hospital, speak to the on site doctor and get
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  some advice from there, but it's always like the water breaks, we got
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  a rush, you know, is that what you experienced in the past.
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  Yeah, I like now with my first with Carmen, my oldest, my
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  ex wife, water never broke like we it's and if you remember me telling
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  you this, like the first child, like you'll start the woman with especially
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  if you have a date set in mind, like if you have a date
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  set with the doctor's offs, like, hey, then we're going to deliver
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  the baby on this date. Usually about a week to ten days before they
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  start having like the Brax and Hicks contractions, and you know, it's kind
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  of like the body's prepping itself because the body sets like a deadline in their
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  head, like, hey, the baby's coming on this date. Let's go
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  ahead and make sure every thing's working properly to you know, to do everything.
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  So when my first kid was born, she had Brax and Hicks contractions
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  a couple of times before the actual due date, but her water never broke
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  until the day of the delivery, like the day of that we were scheduled
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  to go in. And actually I think Sammy was the same way like her,
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  Like Megan's water didn't break until we got to the hospital, so I
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  never had that we weird you know, oh, oh crap, we have
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  to go now kind of feeling come over me because we'd had the brax and
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  Hicks issues, but we'd never had the water break until we were already at
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  the hospital. Yeah, that's it, you know, it's funny. I
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  was. I always was like telling everybody because everybody would give me the advice
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  like, oh crap, you know, no, I'm good. We probably
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  won't won't rush out there. I won't have like this freak out moment of
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  Okay, well your water's broke, we don't have to immediately leave, blah
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  blah blah. And it was a complete opposite of that. I was like,
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  all right, so should I be getting ready? And again she calmed
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  me down, called the doctor. Funny enough, the doctor, you leave
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  a message, and the doctor called her back, but my wife had her
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  phone on do not disturb, so we were like in panic mode and it
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  was like, oh shit, and she left the voicemail. I think my
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  wife tried picking it up while the voicemail was being left on her iPhone and
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  they had hung up the phone at that point, and it was like,
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  how crap. So then she's going to go through this entire thing again and
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  leave a message, and then of course the doctor doesn't get back to us
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  until forty minutes later. Now, so this is like two am, and
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  she said that she was delivering a baby. The doctor and she said,
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  you know, you could labor at home for a little bit, watch your
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  contractions, and once it gets elect the five to seven minute range, come
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  on down the hospital. So my wife started having contractions. We were timing
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  them. They started at twenty minutes, let's say, in like the two
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  am hour, By the three am hour it was at eleven minutes, and
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  by the four am hour it was about eight minutes. So I was like,
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  we got to leave. And we got a dog, so I'm calling
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  my mom who lives nearby to drop my dog off. And we left for
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  the hospital at five am, got there about five point thirty and started the
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  process of labor. So went through all that my life. My wife tried
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  to give a natural birth. Everything was going really, really smoothly, and
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  the thought was that you know, we could have a baby out before noon
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  time. At that point, she was pushing and it just got to the
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  point where the doctor said, I think she went was in labor for about
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  two and a half to three and a half hours, and doctor was like,
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  listen, I think thing we have to do with sea section. So
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  we did not go in there with the sea section. So went through that
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  and I was in the room with my wife while they were doing that,
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  which is did your ex wife wife did they do? Did they do see
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  sections? Doctor Trey? No? No, everything was natural. Yeah,
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  now natural the sense of always something that my favorite thing about the first my
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  oldest being bored was my wife did not want to have an epidural and refused
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  it. God bless her. Yeah, I'm literally like, you're in pain,
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  you need this. And then they kept giving a little drug cocktail to
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  kind of loosen things up and relax her. And then right like after like
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  the fifth hour that she was in there, she was kind of groggy,
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  and they went there like, you know, miss Dent, you know you're
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  you're at you know, six centimeters eight cent or something like that, and
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  they're like, this is your last chance for an epidurl. If you want
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  ween, we can do it. If not, there's no turning back.
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  If she goes, and I went that was her saying yes, give her
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  the girl. So my wife debated that. So, my wife had a
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  back surgery when she was younger and was worried about all the the area,
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  like literally the area that they'll hit it is where she had her back surgery.
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  So it was concerned about that. Talked to the doctor and she eventually
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  gave in when we were in the trioge portion of the pregnancy phase and like
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  as it started coming on, she said to me at one point, I'm
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  so happy I did this. So she was relieved that she did that.
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  So did the c section. Which is anybody that's listening to this podcast,
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  if your wife went through the C section. That is one of the oddest
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  things I have ever been a part of because they are calling out loud body
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  parts, internal organs that they are moving around and then like putting back and
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  I even being in fire and EMSs and I've seen some stuff avoided completely seeing
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  anything that was going on. Like the way that they brought me in doctor
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  Trey. Her front was facing me. It wasn't like I was immediately walking
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  in and I was gonna go sit behind her. It was facing me.
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  And thankfully I didn't look. I did not want to look, had my
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  head down and then sat down with her and tried to keep her calm.
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  And it's a tough situation. I mean, it's a very exciting situation,
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  but it's a very tough situation because you don't she did not go in there
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  thinking she was gonna have surgery. I mean, she did not mentally prepare
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  herself for having surgery. My sister in law went into it and was having
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  a C section, so she at least could mentally prepare for that. And
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  anybody who's had a surgery in their life, whether big or small. And
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  I'm sure you feel this way too, doctor Trey, is you know when
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  you mentally, at least you can mentally prepare yourself for the situation. My
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  wife did not get an opportunity to. And even though like a very joyus
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  occasion, she was shaking, which is something that happens typically during the sea
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  section process, and I could tell she was nervous. She was she was
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  very very strong and a warrior, and I could just tell she was nervous.
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  And our son came out, spent some time with him, and then
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  after about an hour or so after she had some complications that got, you
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  know, pretty serious. But thankfully all the doctors and stuff, you know,
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  got her stable, and it's just a blessing that that she's okay,
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  and you know, we dealt with some stuff over night Thursday into Friday,
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  and then you know, by Friday, I knew by Thursday night she was
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  going to be okay and stable, and then as she progressed forward, everything
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  improved wholeheartedly. And she was actually an ICU for this entire process and in
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  debated, but she, you know, quickly came to by Friday morning and
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  was by Friday night I could leave my wife. She was okay. Pain
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  scale one to ten given the painkillers, was at a three, and she
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  just wanted to sleep. Was very comfortable with me going home to get caught
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  up on some stuff. And here we are on Saturday. So we have
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  a big family. My mother in law, my sister in law are down
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  there there helping my wife as we speak, as I try to get some
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  stuff together for my personal life, my work life, my podcast, to
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  get everything up and going here so that I am you know, we're not
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  going to be home intermittently every couple of day. Das like as I sit
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  here right now recording this, my dog is to the left of me,
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  asleep on the floor. She made her first appearance on SRTU last week after
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  Doctor Trey said, man, I've never heard your dog bark before, and
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  then she did. But very happy. My wife is on the road recovery.
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  My son is doing great. It has been a world win forty eight
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  hours. And it's probably the oddest segue that I will ever get into start
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  to recap in reviewing Clash at the Castle. But here we are, Doctor
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  Trey, and I'm thankful to be able to get this podcast in here and
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  be able to take a little bit of an hour break and talk some professional
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  wrestling for the week because it was a great week and I'm happy to be
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  here and doing my first show as a father. I forgot to ask you
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  this beforehand, So when Sammy Franklin was coming out, I had a little
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  playlist prepared because I had got through this and I forgot to bring this up
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  to you of theme music to play upon his entrance into the world. Now
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  mind you. I started off with Paul Cogan's I'm a Real American and immediately
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  the wife maybe turn it off, And then as it got a little closer
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  in his head started to come out, I started playing Rick Flair's theme song,
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  and it was immediately told by several people in the room to turn it
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  off. And then the last one was Macho Man's theme song. So I
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  forgot to ask, did you think about that at all? Like I gotta
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  turn this up a little bit? Or was it just like I gotta be
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  very very straight and narrow and focus on my wife and the baby and can't
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  do anything kind of silly and goofy. It was when we were doing the
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  I was like super super focused on the first you know, the labor pushing
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  part and just trying to keep her comfortable. We had put on music at
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  some point and felt like the most objective, non objective one would be like
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  just putting it on country music, something calming to keep her calm, which
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  was an idea. I had never thought about doing a wrestling theme song at
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  all, and when I got to obviously the C section portion, it was
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  a little bit more serious than that and all that stuff. But I did
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  not think of that, and I wish I I wish I did, because
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  I don't know, I don't know which one. Maybe the Final Boss,
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  the New Final Boss theme song I would have gone with, maybe DX like
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  break it down, I will say for child number two, may I said,
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  just whatever all time favorites American males. Ooh, American males. American
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  males. I think it was a bower that cringed the first time? You
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  really like was it? Like I remember you guys did it like a theme
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  song show one time on one of the podcasts you guys did in the Wheelhouse.
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  Yeah, it might be the Wheelhouse, but is either you or I
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  mean it was either a Bauer or cause that just like heard that song.
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  It was just like no, no, that's awful, and then it just
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  became a running joke for a while. But yeah, like that's always I've
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  been a if. Unfortunately for me, I guess there's no more uh fatherhood
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  events in my life. Uh all all that that that that little playground has
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  been shut down, so it's closed permanently out of business. So I don't
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  I won't get that option. Uh maybe when I become a grandfather at some
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  point I can talk one of the kids into doing it. So uh,
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  I have to live VI carefully through you when it comes to you know,
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  oncoming shopbick. But my thing was like, well, he's making an entrance
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  into the world and there's no better way to make an entrance there with theme
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  music. Yeah, I like, I think Goldberg Themes song will be pretty
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  good. Maybe do a little bit of Sparkler's Bitch may set off like a
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  smoke alarm, let's uk the baby's headbutting things on the way out. True.
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  True, I wish I wish I had thought about that a little bit
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  more now that you mentioned. Yeah, it's such a I don't know,
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  frazzling situation as a man, because it's like, I'm very low key,
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  uh not very like like because it's like the training I've always had as a
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  fire you know, working in for as a first responder is not to be
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  like, don't go too high, but don't go too low. Always take
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  it pretty constant. And I've always been trained that way and not have tunnel
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  vision. And I got like extreme tunnel vision. And when this was all
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  going on, it's completely different when it's your own family members. Oh yeah,
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  absolutely. And then the other thing I forgot to mention was, and
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  I feel bad that I didn't, is because you almost walked into it by
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  don't look down there when the baby's coming. And this is where any listen
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  to the show like that hasn't had a kid yet. The doctors and the
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  nurses will always kind of say, hey, do you want to see the
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  baby coming. I will tell you, y'all don't do it. Because you
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  heard them saying body parts that you know, in talking about like that,
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  that's kind of jarring. But to actually see it is kind of Yeah.
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  It takes you a little while to get that image out of your head.
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  Like I still I didn't see Sammy come into the world, Like I perfectly
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  stayed just out of it. Like. And the other thing was they had
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  a weird spotlight over her to see what they were doing. And that's also
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  why I thought of the entrance stuff and like, well, he's got a
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  spotlight, might as well set that up there. But I always something like
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  when my daughter was born, it looked like a koala bear bursting out of
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  a strawberry cheesecake. See, that's a very interesting analogy, doctory I've never
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  heard that one before. Kawala bear going through a strawberry cheesecake. It was
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  like a great hit. And then there's you know, all the other stuff
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  going on down there, and I'm like that is just kind of yeah.
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  It took a while for me to, you know, feel comfortable with my
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  wife, to like go back into the normal husband and wife routine, because
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  that was the image I kept playing in my head down there, and I'm
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  like, yeah, I just don't want to. I literally told my first
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  wife, like, I will never ask you for a second kid just because
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  of what you went through. If you want another kid, you have to
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  ask for it. Yeah. No, I mean that's definitely gone through my
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  mind. We're obviously not going to have that conversation yet, but yeah,
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  I mean everything that they go through, I mean, once you experience,
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  it's like a comple I mean, you obviously love and respect your wife,
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  but when they go through that, it's like, holy crap, like this
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  is you're my hero type stuff. Afterwards, I did not look at any
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  point. We've talked about the C section side, but when she was pushing,
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  I had they had me up by her shoulders and like helping hold her
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  neck and any every time she was pushing, I would just look, you
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  know, more towards like the back of her head, like my face.
• 23:33
  Her face is going forward, mine is going the opposite way, looking at
• 23:37
  the wall. I did not want to look at any point, and I
• 23:41
  did not know that they were going to utilize me as much as they did
• 23:44
  during the labor process. I was like, I did not know this.
• 23:48
  You want me to hold this foot? Okay, you want me to do
• 23:51
  this, hold this pillow? Okay, did not know this? And where
• 23:55
  is my pay for this? You know how am I getting paid to do
• 23:57
  this? So yeah, it was it was an experience and looking forward to
• 24:04
  watching wrestling with my son soon enough. He when he was born, the
• 24:10
  Yankees were playing, and they were playing on a day that they lost seventeen
• 24:14
  to five to the Baltimore Orioles. That was not a good start for my
• 24:18
  Yankee fandom. And as I currently record this, they are zero and two
• 24:22
  since my son has been born. So my son has not seen a Yankee
• 24:26
  win and he may be bad luck. They may never win a game again,
• 24:30
  which I don't know what I'm going to do in that situation. But
• 24:36
  since he has been alive, Jacob Fatu has joined WWE. Yeah, it's
• 24:44
  been it's been wild. He has not seen the why at six or sick
• 24:48
  yet six six. I don't know what they're doing yet with that name,
• 24:52
  but yeah, everything is has been good. It's been a joyous occasion and
• 24:59
  I'm just happy everybody okay. That's even before all this other stuff. That
• 25:03
  was obviously my biggest concern, which I did not share with my wife,
• 25:07
  is I just wanted everybody to be okay afterwards. I mean, that is
• 25:11
  that's a scary part and one of the things that I did forget. So
• 25:14
  one of the reasons why they did the c section is an umbilical cord was
• 25:18
  wrapped around my son's neck and obviously, when you hear that, you're like,
• 25:21
  holy crap, this is crazy. It's part around his body. And
• 25:26
  come to find out, I mean that happens about a third of kids nowadays
• 25:30
  when they're born. So I mean, doctors are very casual in telling you
• 25:33
  this type stuff, but when you hear that, it's very scary. So
• 25:37
  again, I'm just so thankful and blessed that everybody's okay, very thankful and
• 25:44
  blessed to be here recording the podcast today as well and being able to talk
• 25:48
  wrestling for everybody with everybody for about an hour. And again, yeah,
• 25:52
  I'm happy to be part of the New Dad order. I saw that shirt
• 25:55
  up on WWE shop dot com. May have to buy that, and yeah,
• 26:00
  I guess let's let's get into it. Doctor Trey. It's probably the
• 26:03
  weird again, the weirdest segue I've ever had in the history of this show,
• 26:06
  going from like, hey, I'm a dad, this is what's been
• 26:07
  going on to uh, let's talk about Clash of the Castle. Well,
• 26:11
  I mean there are a lot of second generation wrestlers in WWE, So there
• 26:15
  you go. That's its fatherhood and we just have Father's Day, so it
• 26:19
  all it all kind of ties together. Yep. The throne is now the
• 26:23
  torch can be passed at some point. At some point Young Sammy Franklin and
• 26:27
  Luke pak will be sitting here doing the still Reelta show after Doctor treye I
• 26:32
  retire, And as you could hear, you know, I've been battling allergies
• 26:34
  still, so that's always been fun. So forgive me for I always try
• 26:38
  to turn my mic off but when I'm taking a swig of water, coffee
• 26:41
  and whatever. But I'm not gonna do that today. Okay, guys,
• 26:45
  I'm just gonna forget it, Like I have a little drink right now out
• 26:49
  of my eddie and power through here. So let's get into it. Clash
• 26:55
  of the Castle recap review this past that day from the Ovo Hydro in Glasgow,
• 26:59
  Scotland. First match here Cody Roads Defeast AJ Styles and an equit match
• 27:03
  retaining the nentisited of WE Championship. We both had. Cody Rhodes love the
• 27:06
  entring psychology and storytelling this match, love seeing blood being used during a WWE
• 27:11
  match again as well to nitpick a little bit, I just feel felt like
• 27:15
  there were some spots that could have grabbed more of an emotional investment from wrestling
• 27:18
  fans while watching this one, whether it be Mama Roads teasing, throwing in
• 27:22
  the towel, or a little bit more of a violent finish that caused AJ
• 27:26
  Styles to say I quit rather than being afraid of getting hit with steel tips
• 27:30
  steel steps. I also didn't love Cody Rhodes passing out during an I quit
• 27:33
  match, because there was a case I think he could have lost because of
• 27:38
  that. I know, Stone Cold c lost a completely different match for US
• 27:42
  many thirteen loses to Brett Hard his submission match, and he never gave up.
• 27:48
  He never said I quit, he just passed out, and I was
• 27:52
  like, this is kind of reminded me of wrestlming A thirteen match and did
• 27:55
  not love that but Cody Rhods retains Doctor Trey. Your thoughts. Yeah,
• 28:00
  the match itself I thought was really good, Like I, like you said,
• 28:03
  the psychology, the storytelling. I love, you know, the temptation
• 28:10
  of somebody else throwing in the towel that's not in the wrestling business quote unquote,
• 28:15
  even though I mean, dear gosh, she's married to Dusty and she's
• 28:18
  the father the mother of Cody, so she's in the business. But you
• 28:22
  know, but yeah, like for me, the I hated the finish of
• 28:26
  this one because we see the steel steps get used all the time around matches.
• 28:33
  All the time, guys are getting hit and AJ's been hit with steel
• 28:36
  steps probably a hundred times in his career, and for in that moment to
• 28:42
  go, you know what, this one I'm not really feeling, so let
• 28:45
  me just go and say I quit. Just I didn't like the inning.
• 28:48
  I did love the fact that in I quit match there's blood. It gives
• 28:53
  it a more realistic feel. I mean, your god, this is the
• 28:56
  Steel Real Twist podcast. So yeah, anything that gives us that that line
• 29:00
  we enjoy. But just for a guy like AJ to say I quit in
• 29:07
  that sentence, I don't think maybe it's a different Maybe it's a different take
• 29:10
  on his character. They're going in a different direction going forward, but just
• 29:12
  for a guy like AJ that we've seen go through so much stuff over his
• 29:17
  career, in that moment to say I quit, I didn't really like.
• 29:19
  But overall, outside of that, outside the finish, a really solid equip
• 29:23
  match. Yeah. You got to wonder now everything that we know from SmackDown
• 29:27
  on Friday night that if they went with the violent direction based on his next
• 29:30
  few which is going to be solo Socoa, the belief is that match will
• 29:34
  be taking place at Money in the Bank. Obviously, Jacob Fattou, which
• 29:37
  we'll talk about here, getting involved, joining the Bloodline, He's got to
• 29:41
  force Cody Roach to get a little bit more violent, and the AJ style
• 29:45
  stuff. I think everybody's under the belief that him say and I Quit is
• 29:48
  going to lead him to return to TNA Wrestling at some point. It was
• 29:51
  chanted during the kickoff show on Friday in Glasgow that aired on Peacock ahead of
• 29:57
  the pay per view he will be taking He will be going to Pro Wrestling
• 30:02
  Noah on July thirteenth for in Japan there wrestling match. So where AJ styles
• 30:08
  goes from here will be intriguing as well. Next match is Alpha Fire and
• 30:15
  Ela Dawn defeating Bianca bel Air and Jade Cargill and Shannon Basler and Zoe Stark
• 30:18
  in a triple threat tag team match to win the WA Women's Tag Team Championship.
• 30:22
  Doctor Trey and I both at Bianca and Jade getting the win. Shocking,
• 30:25
  surprising result, probably the most shocking result I have seen this year.
• 30:29
  I wonder if this was done to get the surprising home country pop or if
• 30:32
  we would see some cracks between Bianca and Jade, it would not shock me.
• 30:36
  A Fire and Dawn's title reign is short lived. It's nice to see
• 30:37
  the women's tag team division get a decent amount of TV time and focus lately,
• 30:41
  so hopefully that continues. Bianca lost her money the Bank qualifying match the
• 30:48
  same way they basically lost the tag team titles at Glasgow last weekend, so
• 30:53
  I wonder if the match on next Friday with Jade in the qualifying He's going
• 30:59
  to be a similar result, which may lead to some sort of deterioration between
• 31:03
  Bianca and Jade's partnership, which I thought was gonna last a lot longer.
• 31:06
  Maybe carry us in in twenty twenty five rather than potentially something that may be
• 31:08
  a lot sooner, say SummerSlam time, which I could see happening at this
• 31:14
  point. Nonetheless, very happy for Alba Fire and Islad Dawn. Alba Fire
• 31:18
  went through a completely horrific personal tragedy with her mom passed away after getting hit
• 31:23
  by a car believe in Orlando, Florida last month, so I'm sure it
• 31:29
  was just a relief to get that moment and then the crowd had a great
• 31:32
  reaction to it. Nonetheless, we have new women Tag team Champions, Doctor
• 31:36
  Try. Yeah, I think if you had told me that before the show,
• 31:40
  that you know we have new tag team champions. I don't even think
• 31:42
  I would have picked Alba and Isla, Like I love their characters and I
• 31:48
  love the little pairing, like I've liked it ever since they got paired up
• 31:52
  in NXT after their feud. But you know, I might have picked Shana
• 31:56
  and Zoe because Shannon was coming off that you know, NXT Underground loss recently,
• 32:00
  so I was like, well, if they're gonna put the belts on
• 32:01
  somebod else, it might be Shane to kind of boost her back up a
• 32:04
  little bit so surprised. But if you remember last week, I literally kept
• 32:07
  saying, somebody from Scotland has to win one of these title matches. You
• 32:10
  have to have at least one, and this was actually the one that I
• 32:15
  didn't think would change at all. So really surprising the result, but I
• 32:20
  was. I was happy the women got a good amount of time. The
• 32:22
  match itself was kind of iffy at times, but you know, overall,
• 32:27
  good result. But yeah, I'm with you. I'm kind of surprised they
• 32:30
  went this route so quickly with Bianca and Jade losing the belts, because I
• 32:35
  kind of felt like this might be something that you could leave and build up
• 32:37
  to and help really establish another tag team being you know, a strong adversary
• 32:45
  for them. So surprise the results, good time, but match yourself was
• 32:50
  a little bit off in moments. Next match, Sammy's Aye defeating Chad Gable
• 32:54
  to retain the w WI Interncoundal Old Championship. We both hat Chad Gable.
• 32:59
  This feels like table center. This is what I wroach this Field wrote.
• 33:01
  This is a feels like a table center match for something bigger as Chad Gable's
• 33:05
  Alpha Academy implosion and otis breaking free looms forward, which we saw play out
• 33:08
  on Monday. It didn't feel like they could hold Gable back from winning a
• 33:12
  singles title anymore. But the Chad can't win the Big One storyline seems to
• 33:15
  be gaining momentum for the eventual and hopeful conclusion, and as Gable deserves to
• 33:20
  win the Intercontinental Championship. He didn't mention on Raw that he's entering running the
• 33:23
  Bank aiming for the world title. He was involved in a qualifying match.
• 33:28
  He was removed from a qualifying match because of a big angle that we will
• 33:30
  talk about later on in the show, and then I saw this morning he
• 33:34
  has been added back to the qualifying match on Monday's Raw. Nonetheless, Doctor
• 33:37
  Tray Samy's Ain retains the Intercontinental Championship. Yeah, this was another surprising result.
• 33:44
  Yeah, you can't say anything bad about sammy's Ay and Chad Gable wrestling
• 33:49
  each other because there are two of the best intering performers and in sellers of
• 33:54
  our generation probably and probably two of the most underrated interring performers of our generation.
• 34:00
  But yeah, I don't like it's weird. On one hand, you
• 34:04
  want Sammy to win because he's the babyface and the crowds into it. The
• 34:07
  flip side is though, like for a guy like Chad Gable you and I
• 34:10
  admire so much, you're like, come on, the guy deserves a win
• 34:14
  here. Uh, but yeah, it's setting up bigger stuff. I mean,
• 34:16
  we saw, like you saw playing on Raw with the with the you
• 34:21
  know, Alpha Academy implosion, the stuff, you know, towards the end
• 34:23
  of the show, like it feels like he's on a different trajectory. But
• 34:29
  usually if you're going on a big upward trajectory, usually grab the icy title
• 34:32
  on the way to that. So I don't know where the Chad Gable stuff
• 34:37
  is going. But anytime we get get more Gable on TV, I'm a
• 34:40
  fan of it. So it kind of sucks for him because I think the
• 34:45
  glass the Scotland crowd really did even though they're cheering for Sammy, I think
• 34:50
  almost everybody wanted Gable to get a win, just because we all kind of
• 34:53
  felt like he deserved it and then also what he could do with it.
• 34:58
  But once again, you got Sammy's saying still on top, and that's arguably
• 35:00
  one of our top three performers of the SRTU era. So I can't really
• 35:06
  argue the result on that one. Yeah, and this loss may be something
• 35:08
  bigger for Chad Gable, and in the short term it appears that way with
• 35:14
  everything that he's currently involved with creatively, as it looks like the Alpha Academy
• 35:19
  implosion has happened and they will no longer be aligned with him. Next match
• 35:23
  is Bailey defeating Piper Niven to retain the WAE Women's Championship. We both had
• 35:28
  Bailey winning this one. I want to see Piper Niven given more opportunities like
• 35:32
  this in the future. I love that she got this opportunity, and I
• 35:37
  just let's get away from even the hometown stuff. I thought Bailey did a
• 35:39
  great job helping put Piper over and Niven show that she belonged in the spot
• 35:44
  again. You know, I just hope this wasn't growing Piper Niven a bone
• 35:46
  because she was the hometown girl again. I think she should be pushed more
• 35:51
  outside of this. Bailey's title run as a babyface hasn't connected with me like
• 35:54
  I hoped it would, which is a bit surprising. She's she's kind of
• 35:58
  been stale, which tells you that she is really really good as a heel.
• 36:02
  The last couple of years in this incarnation, and if they're going to
• 36:06
  make her a babyface, which I think Doctor Trey is alluded to in a
• 36:08
  lot of the responses since she turned, they really need to consider getting her
• 36:13
  to that hugger character, which she may not want to do at this point
• 36:16
  in her career either, because that was one of the most over babyfaces I've
• 36:21
  ever seen in professional wrestling in the last entire time we've been recording this podcast.
• 36:24
  But I just feel like this current title run, this babyface has not
• 36:29
  connected well with at least me as a viewer. Doctor Try, Yeah,
• 36:31
  I would. I watched this match. The first thing I thought was I
• 36:36
  really liked this match, and a little bit, like you said with the
• 36:37
  first match, it was a little bit of the storytelling, a little bit
• 36:39
  of them kind of leaning into this was the omp favorite Bailey that kind of
• 36:45
  play I don't say a tweener, but she could kind of play at the
• 36:47
  graph because the crowd felt like they were really wanted Piper to win, so
• 36:51
  she could kind of play into her previous character. But it's similar to the
• 36:55
  feedback I get on about Cody Roadse on Top is it's a little stale and
• 37:00
  a lot is because they just haven't developed that next big challenger for it kind
• 37:05
  of feels like they're going through, you know, opponent of the month.
• 37:08
  There's not a lot of depth in the storytelling to kind of help build up
• 37:13
  the baby face, Like she really hasn't felt like she's had an obstacle to
• 37:16
  overcome since winning the title at WrestleMania and damage Control going to Raw. So
• 37:22
  I think there's still the process. I think, you know, the Naya
• 37:23
  Tiffany alliance will be the thing that really makes her breaks Bailey's run here,
• 37:29
  But yeah, I feel like she feels like the same character, just instead
• 37:35
  of getting onto the crowd, she's encouraging the crowd. Like nothing really about
• 37:39
  the Bailey character is different from her run as a heel to a face other
• 37:44
  than just playing to the crowds. More so, she needs an adversary that
• 37:50
  gives her an obstacle that she feels like are that looks like she may not
• 37:52
  be able to overcome to really cement this run. And I see I think
• 37:57
  you can see the seeds being planted, you know, with the Nigha stuff,
• 38:00
  with the Tiffany stuff heading towards Summerslap. Yeah, I think the execution
• 38:07
  on turning her baby face now, it's very easy to say after the fact,
• 38:10
  just wasn't great. I mean, she was such a despised he oh,
• 38:14
  really really good heel well light heal, and the damage control stuff was
• 38:17
  really good in the separation from damage control. While there were points where it
• 38:22
  was like it took a little bit of time and there was some definitely some
• 38:25
  room that was breathing, I think the points of execution it didn't help make
• 38:34
  her sympathetic when the turn eventually happened, like when Sammy Zane eventually left the
• 38:38
  Bloodline or Jay Huso finally left the Bloodline. I wish they did a couple
• 38:44
  more pages out of that book down granted both those guys more Sammy than Jay.
• 38:47
  When the turns was happening, Sammy was completely over the crowd. Jay
• 38:52
  wasn't yet. I think everybody saw the potential, but I would have liked
• 38:55
  to see that play out more than the way that they executed it. And
• 39:00
  I agree with you completely. I think the Niya Jacks, Tiffany Stratton stuff
• 39:05
  is going to lead to hopefully making Bailey a little bit more of a sympathetic
• 39:08
  babyface right now. And I think that will help hopefully help move things along.
• 39:17
  My only concern is, which I think is a very real possibility come
• 39:22
  Summer Slam, if Bailey is still champion, there's no cash in and obviously
• 39:24
  Nia gets her title shot. Is Nya winning the title. So we'll have
• 39:30
  to say again, it's so strange to say this. If you told me
• 39:34
  this seven years ago, I woult to believe you. But Bailey's run as
• 39:36
  a babyface has been very stale and it just doesn't seem like it's connecting well
• 39:39
  with the audience. And this was someone who was kind of fifty to fifty
• 39:43
  with Piper in Glasgow. They still loved her. They were still singing the
• 39:45
  songs that they typically do every time they go over to the European areas.
• 39:51
  Is the Bailey song that was first sung at that NXT London takeover several years
• 39:58
  ago. So Bailey retains over the hometown girl Piper Knifven, who I just
• 40:04
  loved how sincere and happy she was that her hometown crowd loved her back.
• 40:09
  I really really love that and I've always enjoyed watching Piper Niven wrestle. Finally,
• 40:14
  the main event here, Damian Priest defeats Drew McIntyre to retain the World
• 40:16
  Have a Weight Championship. We both had Drew McIntyre getting the win. I
• 40:20
  love the hype intention between both guys going the week going into this match.
• 40:24
  I wish they capitalized that on that a little bit more over the last month
• 40:29
  going to this match, as it felt like both guys actually don't like one
• 40:32
  another, and that is cool and that's what you want to see. As
• 40:36
  for the match itself, I don't know what Drew McIntyre has to do to
• 40:38
  get his moment in the sun at some point. So many times he was
• 40:42
  booked to lose, and despite being upset with that, I'm always left to
• 40:45
  be more intrigued with his character. The top of the Raw brand card is
• 40:49
  very hard to predict right now, and that makes the main event picture for
• 40:51
  the Red Brand really fun as a fan, and it has a big fight
• 40:54
  feel to it as well. We saw on Monday's Raw Drew quit. He
• 41:00
  appeared on Friday SmackDown in a very cool camera angle where he bloodied up Sampunk
• 41:05
  who was on SmackDown. So two guys on Raw showing up on SmackDown in
• 41:08
  his hometown, Crown of Chicago, laid out Sam Punk and obviously the belief
• 41:13
  it is here. This is probably going to keep him off television until he's
• 41:15
  fully cleared, which I think the hope is for SummerSlam. I think he's
• 41:19
  due to get clear here, maybe in the next six weeks. I think
• 41:22
  Meltzer may have had a report out there that it's possible he may not be
• 41:25
  ready for Summer Slam, which would push it out a little bit more.
• 41:30
  But this was a fun match, fun build going into the week. Really
• 41:36
  enjoyed it that the leg getting caught spot was extremely gnarly and thank god Damian
• 41:43
  Priestino get hurt, lose a leg, nothing of any substance or damage to
• 41:49
  him. And I don't know what Drew has to do Doctor Trey to win
• 41:54
  the Big One, but it makes his character more intriguing. I know it
• 41:59
  upsets. I know the fans in Glasgow were upset, and rightfully so.
• 42:02
  But boyle boy, do I want to see more of Drew mccatyre every time
• 42:06
  he loses one of these matches. Yeah? Watching the match, especially like
• 42:09
  the match itself, like you get two athletic big men going at it.
• 42:13
  To me, that's the epitome of professional wrestling. It's just two guys that
• 42:17
  look like badasses just beating the hell out of each other. I love that
• 42:20
  stuff. It had for this to be. One of my notes was like
• 42:24
  for this to be the the B Heavyweight Championship. It had a big fight
• 42:30
  feel and like, you're right, like the way these guys have blurred the
• 42:32
  lines of like you wonder if they really dislike each other or they're just doing
• 42:37
  a good job of presenting it that way. Like it was really well done.
• 42:42
  And the matchesself, but I thought was really good. The Lake spot,
• 42:44
  oh my god, I freaked out. I was like, cause momentarily,
• 42:47
  like you saw the ref and Drew macizar book go crap, what do
• 42:51
  we do? And they played it off really well. But as soon as
• 42:57
  punk Rant came out, I went, oh my god, this is what
• 43:00
  would happen if John Cena had beat Rob Van Damit at one Night's stand,
• 43:05
  Like I literally thought we might have a riot crow just go nuts. But
• 43:09
  yeah, it's it's a weird situation where it's like you're absolutely right. Every
• 43:13
  time Drew loses in these spots, you get more intrigued about what he's going
• 43:16
  to do next, which is one of those things where it's like, well,
• 43:19
  crap, maybe he doesn't need the title, Maybe he doesn't need the
• 43:22
  win because he gets more over every time. It's like every time he has
• 43:28
  this weird obstacle, like he's he has more obstacles to overcome than most of
• 43:30
  the baby faces and he's kind of the heel. So it's a really interesting
• 43:35
  dynamic they're playing out here because you get a guy that's it's it's a little
• 43:39
  bit of Breton Sean where in certain areas Drew's loved and Punk is hated,
• 43:45
  and then you flip, you go to another area and it's completely flipped.
• 43:49
  So, uh, we may you mentioned Brett and and soh call from ustlbody
• 43:52
  at thirteen. This is reminded me of Breton Shan when they'd be in the
• 43:55
  States and Brett's hated and they go to Canada and Brett's loved. So it
• 43:59
  kind of feels like that with Drew and Punk. So but overall, like
• 44:04
  really good match, decent finish, like it kind of did come out of
• 44:07
  It was a little bit surprising, like I honestly did not expect to see
• 44:12
  see a Punk in Scotland up until about a day before when Drew was making
• 44:15
  the comments about don't come here because this country will kill you. But yeah,
• 44:20
  it was just a really solid main event to close out Clashing the Castle
• 44:24
  with a somewhat disappointing result with Drew not getting to win. Yeah. I
• 44:29
  knew he was there punk because there was a couple social media posts that got
• 44:31
  leaked to him being like out and about in Glasgow, which was you know,
• 44:37
  it's like it's a bummer, like he had to figure he was going
• 44:38
  to potentially appear. I know the referee spot. I love that they did
• 44:43
  a camrangle far back so you just see somebody run into the ring and then
• 44:46
  when he slides in the back of it, which which was really well done.
• 44:50
  I knew right away it was punk, and I'm hearing that there are
• 44:52
  people out there that were really surprised when they moved the camera, like the
• 44:55
  reaction from the live crowd. I would have thought everybody knew it was punk
• 44:59
  as well. But when they shift the camera angle because it's such a big
• 45:01
  arena, and then they show his face and stopping it too, and the
• 45:06
  reaction was really well done. You know, I thought that was a really
• 45:09
  nice surprise. Maybe people were like really super hyper focused at the count and
• 45:15
  thinking he was gonna win, which was which was cool. Yeah, everything
• 45:20
  was just played out really really well and was just a, you know,
• 45:23
  a very nice finish the show. It was funny because the crowd was chanting
• 45:28
  for CM Punk, Like all night long, they were chanting for CM Punk,
• 45:30
  which I found very funny because it's literally like the hometown boy, but
• 45:36
  Punk is so loved that they still want to cheer for him, and there
• 45:39
  was still a decent reaction. But then I saw the post show like farewell
• 45:44
  from Samantha Irvin and she got booed, which people were upset about. But
• 45:46
  it's like, what do you expect that crowd to do? I love Drew's
• 45:52
  postmatch reaction like that. It was it's it felt legitimate. He was cursing,
• 45:57
  they were bleeping him out, they were covering his mouth so that you
• 45:59
  didn't know he was saying fuck. It looked it looked really really and authentic,
• 46:04
  and I just thought it was a really nice finish. So all in
• 46:07
  all, it was a fun show. Doctor Trey and I went both two
• 46:08
  and three on the PAP Perview prediction record for this one. I'm sitting at
• 46:14
  sixty eight and sixteen. Doctor Trey is at sitting at sixty three and twenty
• 46:17
  one event rating and match the night. I gave it a three point seven
• 46:22
  out of five. I didn't love the show. I it actually expected more
• 46:27
  from Glasgow and I thought the crowd compared to like the France crowd was not
• 46:32
  as good. So hopefully that doesn't lose any Glasgow listeners that tune in here.
• 46:37
  I thought the show was okay. I thought it was a fun show
• 46:39
  on a Saturday, but it didn't make me go man. I could watch
• 46:43
  that show again. And my match of the night was Cody Rose and aj
• 46:45
  Styles. I thought that was the best match. I don't feel like any
• 46:49
  matches particularly stood out very well, but I thought this was was my favorite
• 46:54
  match from the show. Doctor Trey. Yeah, I was slightly high point
• 47:00
  eight. I I gave it my match and I was samely in Chad,
• 47:02
  just because I'm like I can watch these guys wrestle and never be disappointed,
• 47:07
  and it was kind of a better finish to the match than the other two
• 47:10
  men's matches. My only this goes a couple of things though, Like for
• 47:14
  me, it goes back to what you and I have talked about before with
• 47:17
  the booking of the pay per views, like only having five matches, I
• 47:21
  kind of wish there was at least a one or two more, uh,
• 47:23
  to kind of give a little bit more meat on the bone when when we
• 47:27
  do really small shows, it does kind of feel like a b pay per
• 47:30
  view. But that was my take My big takeaway was just like, yeah,
• 47:34
  it was a solid show. But outside of Punk as a referee,
• 47:38
  which never really gets explained is how he's licensed to be a referee. But
• 47:43
  outside of Punk as the ref I'm like, Okay, I don't really think
• 47:45
  anything's going to like really stand out to me, you know, three,
• 47:50
  four or five years from now. So again, I gave it a three
• 47:52
  point seven match that I was coached road JJ styles and again, doctor Trey,
• 47:55
  you're rating the match that I was three point eight, so slightly higher.
• 48:00
  And then match of the night was what again I went with Sammy and
• 48:02
  Chad, Sammy Zain and Chad Gable. So there you go. Feel free
• 48:07
  to chime in at s RTU podcast on x and hit us up on Facebook,
• 48:13
  Facebook dot com. Slashes to a Real Test show. Let's get into
• 48:15
  some of the other big happenings that happened this past week, Doctor Trey.
• 48:19
  Obviously, the big one on Monday's Raw was finally the execution of the Wyatt.
• 48:22
  I don't think we have I don't know the pronunciation of the of the
• 48:27
  name yet. Is it the Wyatt six, that's what they calling it,
• 48:30
  but they're spelling it six with a six at the end. It's it's six.
• 48:35
  It's like S I C K S because that saw on the T shirt.
• 48:37
  Okay, so it's the S is like a like like the number six.
• 48:43
  Yeah, it's there. They they do a weird formation with it,
• 48:45
  but it's still six, like pluralizing sick illness. Oh. I didn't realize
• 48:52
  that that the It was like a weird way to spell the S. I
• 48:54
  don't have to take a look at that. So all right, yeah,
• 49:00
  so the execution finally happened. I'm trying to find the shirt right now on
• 49:04
  shop, which is great for you know, while we do that. Oh
• 49:07
  I see that? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
• 49:09
  All right, So it's the Wyat six finally arrived. Closing out Monday
• 49:14
  Night Raw, we see Nicky Cross as Sister Abigail, Eric Rowan as the
• 49:22
  Rambling Rabbit, the Dexter Loomis as Mercy the Buzzard, Joe Gacy as Huscus
• 49:30
  the Pig, and then obviously the return of Uncle Howdy. The reaction for
• 49:35
  Uncle Howdy was great. I'm sure they made Bo Dallas, who is under
• 49:38
  Uncle Howdy, feel phenomenal. And obviously this is the first time in like
• 49:44
  professional wrest in history that we're seeing a legacy carry forward with a legit passing
• 49:52
  of someone. I know there were some angles in the past that were tasteless
• 49:57
  in my opinion, when Eddie Garrell had passed away, like putting a low
• 50:00
  rider in the back of the SmackDown set and blowing it up I think,
• 50:04
  like weeks after he died and all that crap. I was not a big
• 50:07
  fan of that, and I know they brought that up during the Ray angle
• 50:09
  and how Eddie was in hell and all that shit. Did not enjoy that.
• 50:15
  This, however, made me happy and smile and know that Bray Wyatt's
• 50:21
  influence is still on and professional wrestling and his story can continue forward by these
• 50:27
  five individuals and his brother, which was just really awesome. The angle itself
• 50:32
  was great. Maybe I don't know if they're ever going to have a name
• 50:36
  to it, but like this raw massacre. It was funny because a lot
• 50:39
  of people were joking online that everybody was murdered based on the really graphic bloodstains
• 50:45
  that they did, and they said, like Chad Gable got shot in the
• 50:47
  head, it looked like and blood being splattered up against the wall. It
• 50:52
  was something that we've never seen in w before. It was very horror esque,
• 50:58
  which I'm sure made Bray Wyatt smile from up above. And yeah,
• 51:02
  the execution of the angle was very memorable, Doctor Trey. The crowd loved
• 51:07
  it. I loved it at home. It was cinema and I know,
• 51:12
  Vince, you would always use the line that we make movies, and I
• 51:15
  never really felt like those words were really true for most of the time under
• 51:19
  Vince's creative rain. This was a time that when it was over and I
• 51:22
  watched it, and I was like, man, that felt like a movie.
• 51:24
  They made a movie. We'll talk about the wrestling impact of it in
• 51:29
  just a moment. But the execution of the angle, Doctor Trey, your
• 51:32
  thoughts, my friend. For something that was so hyped and something we were
• 51:39
  all kind of looking forward to to see how they executed, this is one
• 51:43
  of those few instances in the wrestling where I thought they the execution met the
• 51:49
  expectation, Like I was expecting something, you know, really cool, something
• 51:54
  outside the box, something that would kind of make you go, holy cow,
• 51:58
  what did I just see here? And they nailed it, like they
• 52:01
  like from everything from you know, sister Abigail's entrance, the with the door
• 52:08
  and the whole thing, you know, kind of a throwback homage or whatever
• 52:10
  you want to do with that. So the smoke being all throughout the backstage
• 52:15
  area like that was really well done. The lighting was good, the camera
• 52:20
  angles were well done. It's I don't know about you, but it feels
• 52:24
  like even with the camera direction, it's it's so different from the Kevin Dunn
• 52:28
  era now that it's fresh and different, and this is one of those instances
• 52:31
  where you're like, wow, this is really too well done. You know,
• 52:34
  the body's laying everywhere was cool. Now once again, like I don't
• 52:37
  know if they're gonna make this like a dream sequence, because like, I'm
• 52:40
  pretty sure I saw Braun Stroman laid out backstage, but then I see Braun
• 52:44
  commenting that, no, that was I don't know what he's talking about.
• 52:45
  Like it was like a weird like, I don't know if it's if it's
• 52:49
  a dream sequence, a nightmare sequence or what. But he said he was
• 52:52
  like still chasing the judgment day right, Yeah, Like, I don't know
• 52:54
  what you're talking about. I was still out chasing the judgment down of the
• 52:57
  building. I'm like, no, I'm pretty sure I saw you laid out.
• 52:59
  You're kind of stand out, you're a giant. It's just the and
• 53:05
  then the camerang is where you're leading into each different character, Like it's almost
• 53:08
  like it's kind of like doing a promo, you know, shoot for these
• 53:15
  characters live, like where it's leading into this giant guy with a sledgehammer in
• 53:19
  a rabbit mask, and then here the buzzer, like all these things.
• 53:22
  The way they weaved it in was really really well done. And the shot
• 53:27
  that they did of Uncle Howdy coming out, I love that shot because you
• 53:34
  feel like you're right there with Bot Dallas and not only presenting this character,
• 53:38
  presenting this new faction, but then feeling the love from the crowd. Like
• 53:44
  I loved that shot. It was really it was beautiful a lot of ways,
• 53:46
  and seeing all the fireflies laid out as he walked out just fantastic camera
• 53:52
  works to set all this up. Like you're absolutely right, like this was
• 53:54
  the most cinematic thing they have done since the cinematic era of the pandemic time,
• 54:00
  but just something so different in out of the Box is something we haven't
• 54:04
  seen done. Like, I loved it. It met all my expectations.
• 54:08
  A couple of things there if you go back and watch it. Thank god
• 54:12
  this didn't happen. But I'm pretty sure Bo Dallas almost tripped going by as
• 54:16
  he was walking towards Joe Gacy that or he didn't know like the I think
• 54:20
  there's like a ramp that he didn't realize. Go back and watch that.
• 54:22
  There's like something where he kind of missteps a little bit. I'm like,
• 54:25
  holy crap. Would you imagine if he tripped or kind of got like sideways
• 54:30
  a little bit like during this angle? That would have been horrific. There's
• 54:36
  a couple of points there, what was it Chad Gable in the background later
• 54:40
  to come to find out the was it the rambling rabbit puppet was behind him.
• 54:46
  There was one with Huskus as well, right, you mentioned I don't
• 54:51
  remember who was in who was the cam wrangle, but Huskus you had mentioned
• 54:53
  was in the background, right, Yeah, And I'd have to go back
• 54:57
  and look because I think there's the little characters to kind of lead into stuff.
• 55:02
  And I thought somebod else, I don't know if you saw this,
• 55:04
  somebody else said that they thought they thought they saw Gunther feed one of the
• 55:07
  ones laid out backstay. Yeah. I wanted to address that because you mentioned
• 55:09
  the bronze stroman thing. The last thing I'll mention real quick here with like
• 55:13
  the behind the scenes shot. I guess there was one on SmackDown last night
• 55:15
  with Cody Rhodes in the backstage area. The logo of like the circle and
• 55:22
  then it's like a like a like a cross with like a smiley face that's
• 55:24
  been airing. It almost looks like a gender. I guess it's the wyaed
• 55:30
  six logo. Now. It was on a door in the background, which
• 55:34
  is funny that they did that and then there was no execution. There's been
• 55:37
  stuff on the Pat McAfee show that they they were taking over the feed and
• 55:39
  then Adam Pierce's Twitter feed has been a while like taking over. When he
• 55:45
  was announcing that Chad Gables back in the match on Mondays for Mondays were on
• 55:50
  today on Saturday, and I think there's been a couple of times his social
• 55:53
  media account has been hacked. What have you? So you mentioned this dream
• 55:59
  sequence stuff, so people thought that they saw bron Stroman. There was like
• 56:02
  this list of victims during that angle, and it was like all these different
• 56:07
  faces and it was like Bruce Britchard, Triple Ah Gunther, Carmelo Hayes,
• 56:12
  Bronz Stroman, and there was a extra or if it was legit Gunther,
• 56:20
  that did look like Gunther laid out just as a pan from I think it
• 56:23
  was Ramblin Rabbit, Eric Rowan, and it looked like Carmelo Hayes as well,
• 56:29
  an extra who had some corn rows, and it looked like the same
• 56:31
  exact way that Carmelo Hayes wears his hair. So to that point, if
• 56:37
  if this is a dream sequence where it eventually leads to those people getting laid
• 56:40
  out, Bravo, I love it. But if it is just something where
• 56:45
  wrestling fans are like being sluice online and thinking me, those are those people,
• 56:50
  then ww needs to learn from the situation and do extras that do not
• 56:54
  look anything like any of the wrestlers. Because I believe that this is just
• 57:00
  extras that happen and look like those wrestlers right now, because the only one
• 57:04
  that was the legit wrestler in there was Chad Gable, But I think Chad
• 57:07
  Gable being there led to more people being like, holy crap, I think
• 57:12
  that's Gunther. So they need to definitely address that situation, whether it be
• 57:17
  a little bit more poignant that this is a potential dream sequence foreshadowing, which
• 57:22
  is they've done and it is fantastic, But if it's just them having extras
• 57:28
  that look like wrestlers, then the restless on the roster, then they cannot
• 57:31
  have that because you can't have fans thinking this because this reminds me of the
• 57:35
  Alexa Bliss situation a couple weeks ago. I think Seamus was going to the
• 57:37
  backstage area and people were sure that he walked by Alexa Bliss, and I
• 57:43
  watched it multiple times today and I'm I'm pretty sure it's her as well,
• 57:46
  or it's someone who looks really like her. Even when you like slow it
• 57:51
  down, You're like, man, that looks like Alexa Blix Bliss, But
• 57:53
  I can see that it's potentially not Alexa Bliss. So I feel like they
• 57:58
  need to clean that up a little bit and and kind of give the viewer
• 58:02
  a little bit of a better foreshadowing conclusion to this entire thing, rather than
• 58:07
  us making up our own social media theories, which is honestly something WWE may
• 58:10
  want us to do anyway. Yeah, So one of the things I was
• 58:14
  thinking about as you were mentioning the different people that whether it was Carmelo Hayes
• 58:19
  or an extra or somebody else, everybody that was kind of mentioned there is
• 58:23
  factored into money in the bank. So the internet sleuth in me is looking
• 58:28
  at going, well, we saw Carmelo Hayes in a qualifier on SmackDown and
• 58:30
  he was one of the people that was potentially laid out. Gable's been in
• 58:34
  and out this match, you know, ron Stroman Gunther, you know,
• 58:38
  maybe not in a match yet, but it should be announced. Maybe this
• 58:43
  leads to something big of money in the bank as well. And wouldn't it
• 58:46
  be weird to have Uncle Howdy or one of those guys with the money in
• 58:49
  the bank briefcase and the fact that they can be so secretive and mystical and
• 58:54
  whatever you want to call it, that would make a really interesting cashion If
• 58:59
  Uncle Howdy money in the bank, and then the lights go out at some
• 59:01
  point during a heavyweight title match and come back on and that's his cashion.
• 59:07
  So uh, that's just fantasy fantasy fan like really fantasy bookings something. But
• 59:13
  it was weird that the people they showed there were ones some of the ones
• 59:15
  that were involved in the money that make qualifying matches. Yeah, yeah,
• 59:19
  it's that would be an interesting tie in. So the way that they do
• 59:22
  this, I don't want to jump to any conclusions yet, because you know,
• 59:27
  I'm like, it's again, it goes to one. If it's storyline,
• 59:31
  awesome, love it. But if it's like, holy crap, these
• 59:36
  extras really look like Carmelo Hayes gun through, then we need to change it
• 59:38
  up a little bit. So really fun execution of the angle. And then
• 59:43
  obviously the second part in this doctor training. I think everybody is kind of
• 59:45
  talking about this because I loved the Fiend bray Wyatt, but as an in
• 59:52
  ring performer and not the actual in ring skills of bray White by any means
• 59:57
  whatsoever, but as an in ring performer, the Fiend bray Wyatt was hard
• 1:00:02
  at times to love because he destroyed everybody was so menacing and violent that it
• 1:00:09
  really felt like nobody could or should ever be able to beat him, and
• 1:00:15
  he was so dominant. Whenever you do these supernatural type characters, whether it
• 1:00:21
  be the Fiend bray Wyatt or the Undertaker, it's hard to do flaws where
• 1:00:25
  it's hard to believe that these people could actually lose. And I had read
• 1:00:30
  going into the angle being executed that they were going to try to shy away
• 1:00:35
  from that and shy away from him having these supernatural powers per se, all
• 1:00:45
  of the characters that make like however they're doing these costumes was going to give
• 1:00:47
  them the opportunity to really wrestle and not be hindered by wrestling, because if
• 1:00:52
  you actually go back to that Immortal documentary on Peacock of bray Wyatt, bray
• 1:00:57
  Wyatt mentions that he had a really tough time wrestling with the burned Fiend,
• 1:01:04
  and that's what actually creatively changed the whole moment at Wrestlmania thirty eight where or
• 1:01:10
  was the thirty thirty seven excuse me, where his he transformed back to the
• 1:01:15
  Fiend bray Wyatt from after being burned leading into the angle with Randy Orton.
• 1:01:19
  So it does seem like there's some apprehension right now on Okay, this angle
• 1:01:24
  was really good, creative, entertaining and fun, but how can this translate
• 1:01:29
  to professional wrestling? And as much as I love the angle and thought it
• 1:01:32
  was perfect executed amazingly a very memorable moment in w w EE raw wrestling history,
• 1:01:38
  there is a part of me that's like, Okay, how is this
• 1:01:40
  going to play out now? From the you know, squared circle perspective?
• 1:01:45
  Yeah, one of the things I thought about it too, because one of
• 1:01:47
  the things it was really hard to book the Fiend because he's basically, you
• 1:01:54
  know, you're Michael Myers, you're Freddy Krueger, he's your you know,
• 1:01:59
  horror icon. But the crowd is cheering for, Like, the crowd loved
• 1:02:01
  it so much, it was hard to make him make it a heel type
• 1:02:06
  character. So it's hard to book monsters when the crowd loves them. It's
• 1:02:12
  just one of those things like good you know, I've said the show.
• 1:02:15
  Dear God knows how many times good guys need obstacles to overcome. You need
• 1:02:19
  a reason to cheer for the guy that you're you're following, and they have
• 1:02:23
  to have things that seem insurmountable at times, and the Fiend nothing seems insurmountable.
• 1:02:31
  Typically, when you book monsters as heels, the monsters are dominant,
• 1:02:35
  but they make one mistake. They slip on the banana peel. They make
• 1:02:37
  that air in judgment and then the good guy can capitalize and get the wind.
• 1:02:43
  So when it came to this group, when they're laying it out,
• 1:02:45
  I was like, yeah, I really don't want them to go the supernatural
• 1:02:47
  oute like turn the lights on off. Cool, that's fine that I mean,
• 1:02:51
  you can have an inside guy in the you know, in the backstage,
• 1:02:54
  killing the power, so to speak. I kind of hope his group
• 1:02:58
  comes off as a cult and they're followers of Bray or their followers or the
• 1:03:04
  Fiend, because that you can do a cult and they're not supernatural, which
• 1:03:07
  gives them, you know, a human element than that they can be defeated
• 1:03:12
  at times, but then you have the group swarming and it seems insurmountable.
• 1:03:15
  So I'm with you. I kind of hope they kind of stay away from
• 1:03:22
  the supernatural undertaker Caine Bray Wyatt type stuff and make it more of a humanized
• 1:03:28
  cult. That's one of the things I loved about listen to fully Ray this
• 1:03:30
  week was that, you know, somebody was asking him, like, who
• 1:03:32
  the sixth person is in the Wyat sixth and he said, it's Bray.
• 1:03:37
  Bray is in the lantern or whatever. But that's them following Bray and Bray
• 1:03:43
  is the leader of this whole group, and he's the sixth member even though
• 1:03:46
  he's not physically here with us. And I love that mindset of basically these
• 1:03:52
  people coming together to follow the mentality what the Bray Wyatt character was, and
• 1:03:59
  they're more of a human cult than supernatural characters. Yeah, it's going to
• 1:04:04
  be intriguing to see how this continues forward here over the next couple of weeks.
• 1:04:11
  I'm really looking forward to Monday's Raw and seeing this play out. So
• 1:04:15
  the Wyat six have arrived and I'm excited. I'm really really excited for it.
• 1:04:20
  And then finally, the last thing I want to talk about here in
• 1:04:23
  regards the big moments, and then we'll talk about one last thing to wrap
• 1:04:26
  up the show. Jacoba two finally joins a bood Line on last night's edition
• 1:04:30
  of SmackDown Doctor Trey. I don't know much about Jacoba two. I do
• 1:04:35
  not watch MLW, but it seems that a lot of the hardcorees that are
• 1:04:39
  out there do watch MLW are very excited for him to get this opportunity to
• 1:04:43
  be on a bigger scale of WE and get this opportunity because he could be
• 1:04:47
  a menace, is hard hitting, his physical as violent, so there's a
• 1:04:50
  lot of people that have seen his work that are very excited. I did
• 1:04:54
  read going into this that there was concern from the creative team reportedly that he
• 1:04:59
  is so believable in his role that they think that he may be able to
• 1:05:01
  surpass Solo Solo Sokoa, who they're trying to push forward here obviously in a
• 1:05:08
  main event perspective. Moving along, what do you know about Jacobatuo if anything,
• 1:05:13
  Doctor Trey and this has been the long rumor. I think this was
• 1:05:15
  pre wrestle MANI even that the feeling was is that he had signed with w
• 1:05:19
  W. William was going to be joining the bloodline at some point. Yeah,
• 1:05:23
  he was Actually to me, I thought he would come in before Tomatonga
• 1:05:27
  because he's he's freakish, like, he's so athletic, like he's umaga with
• 1:05:34
  the ability to do moon salts, like he is one of the most believable
• 1:05:39
  characters of just being like a wild crazy if you go back, like I
• 1:05:44
  don't know if how old you were when like the Samoan Swat Team or the
• 1:05:47
  head Shrinkers were around, but as a kid, those guys actually freaked me
• 1:05:53
  out, Like they were so believable in those roles that it blurred that line.
• 1:05:58
  I'm much older, and he blurs the line for me, Like there
• 1:06:00
  are times I'm like, this dude seems like he's out of control, but
• 1:06:03
  he's he's that believable. Like if you're looking for a big, bad Samoan
• 1:06:09
  enforcer, that's your guy. And some of the stuff he can do in
• 1:06:12
  the ring is incredible for a guy his size. I mean the guys like
• 1:06:16
  three hundred pounds three hundred and twenty pounds and can fly around the ring at
• 1:06:21
  times. Like That's why I said, Like the best comparison I've had to
• 1:06:25
  and we've used it with Solo is he's a bigger Solo, except that he
• 1:06:30
  seems more unhinged than what Solo was when he came up to the main roster,
• 1:06:33
  Like the Solo he saw on NXT was different than we saw Solo in
• 1:06:38
  the Bloodlined, which is different from the Solo E See now he's Jacob Fatu
• 1:06:42
  is legit. So I'm really excited to see this incarnation because there was the
• 1:06:46
  rumors that he may side whenever we do the Roman Rock Bloodline civil War,
• 1:06:51
  that he might side with the Roman site. Well you're not seeing that now,
• 1:06:55
  So it makes it interesting to see who they bring up to maybe pair
• 1:07:00
  with Roman and the USO's for that murmured match down the road. But right
• 1:07:04
  now, I mean when you put the grills of Destiny, Jacob Fatu and
• 1:07:09
  Solo Soakoa together like it's it's gonna be interesting to see how how well this
• 1:07:13
  all plays out. By the way, the Paul Hayman Them Puck stuff Us
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  SmackDown was so well done that I'm like, Paul looks like he's scared for
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  his life, and I love it, like he is just terrified everything going
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  on. It's a completely it's a complete departure from anything he's ever done,
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  and it's once again just on the depth of the character of Paul Hayman.
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  But we did get a Paul Hayman, see I'm punk hug out of this
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  whole thing as well. I did love how the announcers put over Jacob Fatu,
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  like he's the one that the family members don't want to be around.
• 1:07:43
  And again, I love character development, and you just point out some great
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  stuff with Paul Hayman on On Friday SmackDown, which will bring up here momentarily
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  as well. But if you go back at that closing segment, there's a
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  couple of things I did, like Solo Soka like kind of directing Jacob Fatou,
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  like you could hear him saying Jake, Jake, like go do some
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  stuff on the on the top of the turnbuckle to get his attention. And
• 1:08:09
  then the close of SmackDown. So there's two parts here. The one part
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  that I thought was funny is Jacob Fatwu did not hold the one for long,
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  and you could see Solo say to him, like put the one back
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  up. But look at Tongaloa from behind, Like Tamatunga has a really cool
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  reaction where he doesn't really change character, but Tongaloa is like apprehensive, like
• 1:08:30
  holy crap, he's with us now, and then puts his finger up like
• 1:08:32
  I don't know if I'm even okay with this, And it feeds into what
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  Corey Graves said, like this is the one that the family members don't want
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  anything to do with because they're afraid of him or whatever. So I thought
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  that was really well done. So yeah, I'm excited. I don't know
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  much about Jacobatoo, but I've heard so many great things about him and I'm
• 1:08:51
  excited to see the latest member of the Bloodline take place here. With that
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  said, I just want to say, like, how good. This is
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  the last thing I want to talk about. How good was WWE this week?
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  You had the Wyat six drew in Punk. That segment on SmackDown was
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  great. Paul Hayman Cempunk Bloodline that Doctor Trey talked about. I love the
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  character developments of Paul Hayman and he's like take me with you, like he's
• 1:09:18
  afraid and then Solo Sokoa everything lost in all this saying I talked to the
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  tribal chief he's not coming back, and Paul Hayman being devastated, which also
• 1:09:29
  makes me think Doctor Tray that maybe the Roman return is coming sooner than we
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  think, maybe as early as SummerSlam, or maybe they prolonged a little bit
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  more. It's definitely gonna be something like I would feel at a Big Four
• 1:09:41
  pay per view whether it be SummerSlam, survivor Series Royal Rommel, But I
• 1:09:45
  think the fans want to see Roman now and the iron is very hot.
• 1:09:49
  Would not surprise me if we go Cody versus Solo at SummerSlam, Cody retains
• 1:09:56
  and you close out that show with the turn of the Tribal Chief. I
• 1:10:00
  mean that crowd is going to lose their ship. They are excited to see
• 1:10:03
  Roman reigns back, which is incredible, incredible stuff the creatives doing right now.
• 1:10:09
  Otis finally snapping on Gable, Joe Hendry and Frankie Kazarian of TNA joining
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  NX or appearing on NX T Joe Hendry's segment is the most viewed and liked
• 1:10:21
  YouTube or TikTok so maybe both since WrestleMania, which is Wild seth Rawlins Return
• 1:10:29
  and now is a match with Damian Priest Money in the Bank. And I
• 1:10:31
  also want to say AW was very good as well. I love the Swerve
• 1:10:34
  Osprey face to face segment on Wednesday's dynam My MJF and Rouche was very fun
• 1:10:39
  as well. Great week for professional rat saying, but overall, no disrespect
• 1:10:44
  to AW. I mean, how good was w W This week Doctor Try.
• 1:10:47
  They were, they were. It was weird, like the the pl
• 1:10:51
  E was the letdown of the last seven days as we re record the show,
• 1:10:56
  and it was still a solid you know p l E. But raw
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  was so fantastic. I mean, Seth Rollins channeled his inner godfather with that
• 1:11:02
  outfit. Like I kept wait for the come down to you know, pimp
• 1:11:06
  and easy type stuff. But you're you're seeing the stuff with you know,
• 1:11:13
  that was a Babyface Damian Priest promo out there with with with Seth Rawlins,
• 1:11:17
  I'm like, oh, we did that? Does that tie into more so
• 1:11:20
  with the eventual split of the judgment day and then of course you like you
• 1:11:23
  mentioned the YA six and then SmackDown with Salt like the stuff even the stuff
• 1:11:27
  with like Logan Paul and Santos Escobar in La nine, like that was well
• 1:11:30
  done and that that's like the throwaway feud in all of this, you know,
• 1:11:33
  and that's gonna be those things and and I see, I don't know,
• 1:11:36
  did you did Joe Henry stuff like I've I've seen Joe Hendry And just
• 1:11:43
  for somebody tell me that that's the most viewed WWE video since WrestleMania Just shows,
• 1:11:48
  you like, what kind of pull the guys. His theme song was
• 1:11:50
  on the charts in England for Crying Out Loud, Like they're playing it on
• 1:11:56
  terrestrial radio as a song like it's crazy. See how well that song's over.
• 1:12:00
  So maybe the most over song since Glorious And that's how catchy that thing
• 1:12:06
  is. I saw people say that they didn't know who Joe Henry was,
• 1:12:10
  but they can't get the theme song out of their heads since they watched NXT
• 1:12:13
  this week. So just a crazy, crazy week. The Frankie Gazeria thing
• 1:12:17
  like lost in Shoffle. I am so happy for Franki Kazerian to get a
• 1:12:23
  match, be involved in a match on WW television. I mean, you
• 1:12:27
  think about how long this guy's been wrestling, and he's been on TV as
• 1:12:30
  enhancement talent, but to actually be in a match after almost twenty years in
• 1:12:34
  the business in NXC like, I was so happy for him as well,
• 1:12:38
  and we still even then didn't get the weird aw thing with Kazan Kazarian lexis
• 1:12:44
  kid like we thrown that into the mix from the previous AC when Cody was
• 1:12:46
  there, that would be good too, so but just tremendous week of w
• 1:12:50
  W programming. So always lost in the Kazarian shuffle is that he was a
• 1:12:55
  WWE wrestler at one point. Do you remember that? Not in the sense
• 1:13:00
  of like I can remember his name in WWE, like I know he's been
• 1:13:03
  used at enhancement time. I remember I had seen him on Sunday Night eight
• 1:13:06
  a lot back in the late nineties early two thousands, but like, never
• 1:13:11
  in a featured role. He signed with the company back in five, was
• 1:13:16
  on Velocity for a little bit, and then left the company in August,
• 1:13:21
  so it was very, very short lived, and he was like working like
• 1:13:26
  cruiseweight matches at that point, so I don't think he ever made it to
• 1:13:30
  a raw on SmackDown, but it was working like Velocity on the like the
• 1:13:32
  SmackDown brand, and then went back to TNA. It just wasn't working out
• 1:13:34
  for him. So it was a really fun and wild week. I was
• 1:13:40
  not I'm not privy enough to know much about Joe Hendry as well, but
• 1:13:43
  I can't get the theme song out of my head. I know he's very
• 1:13:45
  over with the fan bases out there, and you could just tell he's got
• 1:13:48
  a lot of chrisma and is a captivating character. So that was I'm sure
• 1:13:53
  a very fun moment for him as well. So great week of programming on
• 1:13:57
  we I also don't want to shy away from saying that I thought aw did
• 1:14:00
  a really good job as well. So this has been an action packed episode
• 1:14:04
  of s RTU. I think it's time to wrap up this week's edition of
• 1:14:09
  the show and head down to the hospital, go see my wife and son,
• 1:14:13
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• 1:14:15
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• 1:14:39
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• 1:14:55
  I'm going to make an appearance there on crutches because this is the last
• 1:14:59
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• 1:15:11
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• 1:15:14
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• 1:15:39
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