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some credence to what he said, but every single time he does some easy is on 20 content. He

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had a thing we were talking about with Mercedes. Hey, is she gonna move the needle? I was talking

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about Paul Heyman tweeting at us and kind of go over that. Cause I thought some things

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he said in there was really, really impactful. And then I get a text message from E few hours

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ago, Tony kind, Anthony, Jermaine kind, he's Jermaine now has done it again. Anthony, Anthony

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decided to put Twitter X, however you want to call it in a tizzy. And we are going to

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talk this out because this is hilarious stuff that just went down on the X on the Twitter.

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If you're not on there, you need to probably get on there. And then if you are not on there,

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if you're on there, follow us, that's FNW. Uh, Rhodesian East side. Hello. How are you

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guys? Episode 99. Hello. One from a hundred closer to a honey. A hundog. What is special

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and beautiful before we get to these incredible tweets going on with y'all? We get a watch

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the lions this weekend. Let's go. Come on now. Sunday night. You have M one. The state

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is hot right now. It looks like WWE and triple H unlike Tony con. Let's get into it. Matt

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P let's get into it. All right. So let's start with the first tweet. Okay. This is the first

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tweet that we saw. I think this is the first one. So, uh, you guys know, or maybe you don't

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know hook cut a promo on collision. 32nd promo promo was pretty good. And he basically said

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that like, Hey, he wants to come after Samoa Joe. I guess there was evidently there were

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conversations around what has hooked done to get a title shot. Why is he getting the

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title shot, et cetera, et cetera, out of nowhere. Anthony tweeted a double standard.

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And he added hook and said 28 and one career record on winning streaks called out the champ

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and logical challenge sparks on the line outrage. Gender has literally lost every single match

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he's in for the past year. Throwing my guy gender under the bus. You don't hinder, especially

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from another company. We don't do that now. Immediately gets title shot. Where is the

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rage? He finishes that tweet with hashtag AW dynamite tomorrow on TBS. That's a hashtag.

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That's a long ass hashtag. No, he does. It's just a hashtag. Okay. So that was the first

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tweet. So that was what he sent us. And I was like, all right, well, I know what we

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starting with gets better.

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Roggiery tweets out talking about Seth and gender. These guys do have history. Seth Rollins

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defeated gender Hall in the tournament finals to become the first NXT champion. The USA

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network Twitter account. If you guys don't know, they may be on one. Somebody knew was

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running. I think they got you. I think they got you over there. You were somebody is running

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that account. And their response to Rogers tweet was what was the cage match rating?

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Now, if you don't know about cage match, Tony kind of a couple of weeks ago said before

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the ROH pay-per-view that basically he looks, he knows they're doing things right with the

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continental classic tournament because the cage match ratings, all of those matches are

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like through the roof, super high ratings. Now, if you guys don't know, this is a site

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that basically rates wrestling matches. I have never heard anybody who I've known in

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my entire existence on this earth. And I know a lot of people who are wrestling fans have

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never once talked about cage match. So we don't know if there's 12 people who are voting

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on cage match. If there's 200 people voting on cage match, if it is 20,000 people voting

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on cage match, whatever that number is, this is the minority of fans that is voting on

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match quality and TV shows that Tony Khan is looking around, booking his show around.

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Hey, you know, the messed up thing is that tweet out, I had to fight what cage match

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is he talking about? I don't remember seeing any good cage matches. You thought he was

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on both? Oh, no, that is a website. That is a website. And I don't have a problem with

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it. When he first said that a couple of weeks ago, of course, Twitter went crazy with it.

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I'm okay with every Booker has to have some sort of way of dictating their show. Right.

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So okay, Tony's is cage matched. Maybe Vince's was attendance, whatever. Who knows? Right.

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But okay, cool. That's what you want to do. So that was what the USA Network tweeted.

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Tony Khan, Anthony Jermaine Khan was not having that. Anthony Jermaine said to the USA Network,

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he quotes, he said a moral victory for USA is one win more than their world title challenger

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Jinder Mahal as in the past 364 days. He double down dot dot dot because it's been literally

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a full year since he won a match. You really put a W in our place getting Jinder Mahal

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in a big match on your TV show. Do it more often. Y'all remember the coach? WB. Black

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Coach? Yes. Yeah. The coach. Jonathan Coachman. Jonathan Coachman enters the chat. Oh God.

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Jonathan Coachman quotes tweets, Anthony Jermaine and coach says, we also used to get a muse

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at fans who counted wins like wrestlers earned them. Hell, if Vince won it, I could have

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been world champion, but the storyline didn't support it. It's about the story clearly,

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not wins in a predetermined space. Thought a boss would understand that. Shrug shoulders

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emoji. Was it a black shoulder guy? Of course. Okay. Mikey enters the chat. Don't know who

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Mikey is, but shout out to Mikey. Whatever. Mikey says, Tony forgets that he literally

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gave Abaddon a title shot after being off AEW TV for over a year. Dot dot dot dot. The

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same exact situation as Jinder. I don't have a problem with that. I mean, I have a problem

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with that because that wasn't Tony's thing. I'm gonna let you keep cooking, but should

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I insert my comment here now? Absolutely. We're here now. That one's not a little, that's

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not one. Cause his argument or his case is it's a double standard. Y'all saying that

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hook doesn't deserve a title shot, but you have gender over there and not deserving one

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either, but no one's in outrage about it. I don't think that is truly fair with that

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person just said, but I'll let them cook. Go ahead. For Tony to be guilty of doing that.

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Is why he shouldn't be tweeting that. Right? Cause Abaddon hasn't been on dynamite or collision

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in 55 years. And so for her to all of a sudden being a few in a championship match is definitely

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like, what are you talking about right now? So I don't think he has a lot of, I don't

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think he has a lot of backing in what's going on. Yeah. I think it's very similar, but they're

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a little different, but I think it's more similar than different. Okay. Yeah, absolutely.

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that's what I'm saying. Like I get what I'm saying. I don't think, I don't know the big

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backlash there was to Julian Abaddon. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know

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what the, and I didn't necessarily hear the backlash. There might've been a small, because

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like it depends on what, it might be so Tony might listen to certain sites, right? Like

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Paul Heyman obviously listened to the TFW pod. You know, let's go. He gets his key.

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So he listens to us, right? So who knows who Tony listened to? It might've been Joe Smoe's

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podcast and they missed something and it triggered them. So he had to get on the X. You know,

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and matter of fact, why does, why won't X just go back to where no one calls it X? It's

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I said a few days ago, I said, I wonder if he does eventually go back. And that's like

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a whole like rebranding, right? Like we're back and then bring the bird back and get

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everybody in a tizzy. What a time waster. But I think, I don't, I didn't see one person

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react negatively to Hook's promo for Hook asking for a title shot. I didn't, I personally

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didn't see that. It must have been a very small sample size that he heard and needed

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to react to it, but nothing, you know, if you haven't heard, cause you're online a little

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bit more than me. So definitely if you hadn't heard anything, I hadn't heard anything. It

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had to be a very small percentage of fans that mentioned something. But I'll tell you

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what, play your hater of the year. Eric Bischoff enters the chat. Here we go. Easy E quote

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tweets Mikey and says, Hey, and he asks Tony Khan, is this true or is it a bot? Okay. And

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that is to the response of what he did with Abaddon. Anthony Germain ain't, he ain't having

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it. He says no. And he asked Eric Bischoff, not true at all. Abaddon returned to AEW plus

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then went on a four way match. I'm sorry. He said then they, then they won a four way

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match on TAT against other great wrestlers to earn a title shot, which is completely

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different than someone going a full year, losing every match they're in, then getting

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a title shot without a single win. After he got done cooking them there, he just responded

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right up under his own tweet and said, reading would be your friend, Eric. So I'll kind of

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stop there because it kept going. This entire episode could be about these tweets. Wrestlers

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started tweeting. Eric Bischoff of course didn't let it go. I don't think Tony Khan

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kind of let it go there, but that's kind of the crutch of the Tuesday X Twitter meltdown.

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Hey, what did, what did Jinder say? Oh man, Jinder, Jinder gave it up. So now see this,

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see this is the problem. See the problem is when the lieutenants started just doing stuff,

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what happened? Soldiers, casualties of war. Jinder, we ain't seen Jinder in months before

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he held his own with the rock last week, had a really nice segment with Seth on Monday

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night raw. Didn't know he had an ex account. Didn't even know what Jinder said. Jinder

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said, who the fuck is Hook? Watch Monday night raw on USA network Monday, 8 p.m. Eastern.

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Exclamation point, estimation point. One more, exclamation point.

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Okay. Can I, that's like the dumbest question here. I felt like as a in-ring talent, Jinder

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has been off of TV just in general for over a year. Last time I saw him, he was on NXT.

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Remember he was, he was managing. Yup. Right. But I didn't know he was wrestling. Just real

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quick too. And then Taz, he enters the chat. Okay. Taz quote tweets Jinder and all he says

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is Hook. You gotta get the brand right. All capital letters. You gotta get the brand right

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Jinder. Exclamation point. Come on now. Okay. Disrespectful. So Jinder had it just capital

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H O O K where Taz is like capital H capital O. Totally messed it up. He's like get it

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right. Get it damn right. All right. So let's, let's unpack this. Eshaan, you can take it

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first. Then Radizia, you can go and then I'll kind of just bounce off of, cause I got, I

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got a lot of thoughts of course with this, but what you thinking? So I want to play into

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it before I say, I say something else. We'll wrap up with that. But let's, let's play into

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it. Hook, right? 28 and one, whatever it is. Yeah. Okay. So we're going by the record.

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Who has hook beaten? Has he beaten any of the AEW top stars to deserve a title match?

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I don't think so. A lot of it. No, a lot of it. And a lot of those matches were on the

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rampage, right? A show that less than half their audience watches, right? Against guys

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who are on the bottom end of the card, right? So this was like boxing or something of that

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nature. These are the guys that should be even ranked that high. So how truly is a guy

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who's been beating unranked talent deserving of their most prestigious championship? So

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is this, but at the end of the day, it's wrestling. You can make it work. Right. I didn't necessarily

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care right now with gender coming back out of nowhere. Now at the same time, I replied

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to Tony and I said, I'm like, you know why? Here's the thing, Tony. I don't think people

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care enough about gender. Mahal wrestling set problems to be enraged about it. Like

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I saw the segment and I kept going. Okay. Moved on to the next one. Sure. We might have

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an interesting match. It's wrestling. These guys can book people into any angle, into

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any situation that they want. This is a wrestling fantasy. It's wrestling. It's fiction in a

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ring. They can make things happen however they want to make it happen. And all they

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have to do is create the proper story, right? So make us be invested in seeing that match.

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It's the same reason why we have Hook running around with the FTW championship, right? It's

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not even a real, satious title and he's defending this championship on his television program.

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I mean, they can create any kind of story or history that they want. I don't really

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get where he's coming from. I got to, if I want to play into this, I think, I think I'm

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thinking Tony is being smart. He's creating controversy and controversy as Eric Bichard

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always said equals cash. He's creating some buzz for his show because if he's not, he

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got to be one of the biggest marks in the business to come up with the shit that he

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says cage match ratings. We're talking about win-loss records. We're talking about fake

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fighting and he's getting hot and bobbing about him. Like this man, if he's really believes

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this, he is losing his ever loving mind.

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I love how you like position that to me. Like, what was that about?

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He threw it to the counter buzzer and just threw it right to you.

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Take it, take this out. It means I just might do something with it.

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Okay. So for starters, I thought I was going to come on here and just talk about, is this

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double standard fair or foul? So I'll start there. I will start that the double standard

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is absolutely for him to say that is absolutely fair. I said it when you was first breaking

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down the back and forth. I do think that tribalism is always at its best when we have something

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like this. People are going to say, Hey, gender gets a match, but it's, but we give H the luxury.

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We give them the, Hey, he can do it because he hasn't failed us right now. Tony condor

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or Anthony Drain does it. And now it's a problem. So I do feel like there is some issues and

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double standards there. That's a hard period. I'm in it there. The next thing though is

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now we need to think about why are we calling it a double standard. And to the points that

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you just said, like, if you look at hook, yes, he has 28 and one that is a very good

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record. But who did you beat? He ain't beat nobody. So we're in the same position anyway.

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So instead of just taking things so seriously and being so like offended by stuff and defensive,

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take a step back and realize why are people hating on this? Or maybe it's probably your

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creative. Maybe it's something else. Maybe it's your booking. That's probably why people

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are bringing up the double standards. Um, but with all that being said, I think this

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is great. I think this is getting the people riled up. I think more people are going to

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watch dynamite. I'm a watch dynamite for sure. Um, and then of course I'm going to watch

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whenever when is, I didn't see this part, I guess of raw. When is gender supposed to

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be going after that Monday, but the championship, I don't give a gosh thing about that match.

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But you know, I am very interested in seeing hook and Samoa Joe. I don't, it doesn't matter

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to me if I feel like, and that's the, that's the difference. I'm invested in those characters,

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right? I want to see Joe defend. And this is, this will be hooks biggest test yet. We

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haven't seen him in the ring with any of the top guys. This is the first time. And I think

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their styles are an indefinitely mess. I think it's going to be a great match. That's gender

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boy. Look, let me tell you something. Gender hasn't done enough in two weeks. They make

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me care. He got his ass with by rock. So hold on a second. See, see, see E I knew you was

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going to go there. We were at the first smack down together after gender won the world heavyweight

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championship. I love gender. I don't remember. I love gender hard cam. They shot, they shot

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right to me at one point. I was cheering for gender. You can't hinder gender. Gender's

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put the time in gender had a title run. That was eight years ago, man. I remember going

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to a house show and it's still cage match with AJ styles and gender mahal where AJ was

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legit showing him how to work the main event style in WWE. You can't hinder gender. Gender

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just put the rock over a week ago. 171 million views later. And you telling me gender does

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not deserve a title shot. You know what I was doing eight years ago, two weeks before

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the Royal rumble, I was on the corner with my Draco slinking up hot things. Okay. See,

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you don't talk about things. Let me finish talking about gender. Yeah. Definitely suspension

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of disbelief, right? Draco. Listen, listen. Um, gender. First off, this dude is when he

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came back after was a three LB. I don't even know the name of their group. When was it?

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What was the car? Three LB. You brought it up. Three LB. You gotta figure it out. Cheetah

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girls. What is it called? Whatever they would call it. Three LB. Three LB. Three of them.

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So listen, MLB. Yo Dawkins was part of the group back then too. I remember that. Anyway,

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you know, we should start doing, we should start doing whenever y'all say something frivolous

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like that, right? You're in a pillory box. You can't talk for like a minute. You gotta

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get up and then you gotta get back in like you would in a hockey game. I might as well

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see myself out. I might as well see myself out. I'm gonna go eat dinner. How about that?

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Anyways, point is we all know genders. They're just a placement. We know that they're trying

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to cook up whatever they're going to cook up with Seth or who they're going to throw

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for him. At this point, does Seth have an opponent at the Rumble?

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T-Man, look, you looking, y'all looking. Look, no, we need to stick on these tweets. Let's

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have fun with these tweets first. And then we can break all this. I don't care about

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none of that. I just want to tell Anthony Jermaine Khan thank you because he brought

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that energy to X and Twitter. Going up on a Tuesday. A random Tuesday when nobody was

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talking about nothing. This man came out nowhere. He wanted to smoke. Bravo to you. I do think

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it is absolutely hilarious that even his wrestlers on his crew are on separate sides of this.

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You got Dustin Rhodes out there tweeting like, hey guys, look, we all just love doing this

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for you guys. We probably need to chill out on the tribalism. And you got Dax getting

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on Twitter talking about some pro wrestlers back.

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What's Cash doing? What's going on? Come on. Cash low now. Cash low now.

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Hey, Cash with me with Draco. We both. We know what Cash is doing. We both at it, man.

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So the tweets. People who are getting up in arms about the tweets. This is pro wrestling,

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man. All of this is up for grabs and to have fun with. If you're not having fun with it,

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if you're not laughing about this, you're taking yourself way too serious. You're taking

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these promotions way too serious. Ain't nobody getting hurt. Ain't nobody talking about fighting

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nobody. We are talking about tweets. You know, we talking about practice. We talking about

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tweets. We talking about tweets. We ain't talking about real life violence. We talking

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about tweets. One company does some little sly. Another, man, this is what it's about.

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Hell on Nitro. They were giving out results on the show and even that's fair game. Hey,

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you can't afford to have your shows run live too bad. It is all a part of the fun of being

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fans and being in this world of pro wrestling. I am completely all good with that. Bring

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more of that. Now, if I was talking like, and that's real, but if I was more on a, a

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serious side of it, I would say, Tony, how about worrying about making sure your, your

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main event storylines come across as good as they should, opposed to worrying about

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Junior Mahal and his title match on a random Monday night raw. That's what I would say

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to that. But in terms of the tweets, man, let's, let's keep rocking it. I hope, Hey,

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hey, you know, it seems like it seemed like Tony Khan is just as invested in WWE as we

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are. He's watching the show. He knows the storylines. He knows how long this band's

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been, how many he knows to the day of his last match. That's how big of a fan he is.

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And you know what? That's, that's what he mad about y'all. He's sitting there. He watching

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this good WWE TV. He know what's cooking. And he like, you know what? I can't do this

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shit on Wednesdays. I damn sure ain't doing on Friday and people ain't trying to watch

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no Saturday either.

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So what'd he say? I'm going to do it on a Tuesday. Guess what? Now I'm stressed out,

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but look, I get it. Right. Cause side note, no real reality. Right. Sometimes there's

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a pressure to perform. I felt that at one of my jobs, like I just felt like I was doing

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great, but I had this pressure to perform. And sometimes you can be like your, your,

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your heart is critic, right? Look where Tony Khan is right now. Right. He knows as many

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as he, you're about to be in rumble season. We got many to come back. Oh my gosh. The

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rock is back.

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Yep. I get like, I quit. Don't forget about seeing punk. Don't forget about the person

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that you had to fire, which legit he had to go, but it's like one, two, and three on the

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latest merchandise seller. Side note. Okay. I had to get rid of pump, but Jack fricking

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Perry, we need to send his ass back on TV since where is he at?

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Cause he's a devil devil. He's a devil devil. Like we saw the devil already. They going

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to add another layer to the storyline. And like he's the mastermind.

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I know we're going to talk about raw, but when we start talking about Satan, I'm like

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Lucifer, all those names. Stop. I don't want to hear anything about anybody who's evil.

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Like for real.

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I think punk was trying to tell you that he was the devil in the original story.

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Oh my God. Stop. Stop. No, no, no, no, no, no.

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Hey, he's so mad at Jack Perry for making him fired. See punk that may have been on

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TV in months. So he got this pressure. He knows that right now he can't compete. He's

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trying to start a war right there. He can't win. He can't. This is a giant and he is hot.

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Just four years ago, this man was the Booker of the century. Everyone was anointing this

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man with the king. The king, the crown was so big and barely fit on that man's Afro.

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Now Jermaine got that for, oh my God. Yeah. And now we are critiquing him left and right.

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Matt comes on this podcast. They can have a five star match for the entire show and

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Matt's going to come over. He going to crap on it. I wouldn't grab a match. Hey, he can

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count on Rhodesia because Rhodesia going to love it. But Matt comes on here week after

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week and tells, say that I'm the hater, but disrespects the show and that man every week.

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Never disrespect. It is always constructive criticism. If people listen, when people listen

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to this show, they know. We agree that it's disrespect. I'll text him. He text me back.

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He text me back a piece of crap and he threw it to Rhodesia. Right. No, no, no, no. Hey,

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he's just a planet character. He know I don't mean it. Tony know I love him. He knows I

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love him. I'm just a planet character. But look, he has a lot of pressure on him right

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now. Yeah. No, seriously. No, you're right. He does. And I don't know if he's cracking,

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but what I will say is those antics worked when they were in the public perception beating

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the dog crap out of WWE. That worked. We wanted that. I don't remember him doing this, being

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this aggressive then. He did. Remember when he made the comments about Nick Khan being

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a kind man. That was when he just started the impact. Was it impact or in JPW partnership?

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Whichever one. He was cutting those promos every single week. He was out there talking

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about Vince McMahon and the sexual allegations. Yeah. Right. So he's done it. It's just now

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you and I'm sure he's probably looking back like he's not putting on bad shows on purpose.

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We know that. We know he cares so much about his product in professional wrestling. So

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I'm sure he's looking at like I'm putting together the best product that I can. We're

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getting crapped on for it. We're given the best matches. We're arguably given the best

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pay-per-views. But then this guy, aka General Hall comes out of nowhere, gets a title match.

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Nobody says anything, but I have a guy that we're trying to promote and push as a great

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young talent and I'm getting lambasted for it. Well, yeah, you're getting lambasted for

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it because, and I don't think the gender Seth match makes sense. I don't. I don't like this

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for the championship. It's a placeholder. A week before Royal Rumble. I don't like that.

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We don't care. Right. And that's what it is. It's like, okay, we don't care. You just turned

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a match that was probably going to be 11 minutes of a solid match to now must watch for your

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competition. Because I know now I'm more excited to see Seth and Jinder after this. It's a

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backfire. I don't think it's as bad as the mankind thing that when Eric Bischoff gave

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away the results and everyone turned on. I don't think it's that bad. But so what I was

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going to say is that maybe Tony is just trying to create that controversy to get some buzz

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going for AW. Get some extra eyes on that match on Dynamite because he does a great

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job of tying it back into, hey, watch on Wednesday. I just don't think the people that are out

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there for him to grab care enough about AW. Ding, ding, ding. And that's on the WWE train.

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And they're not getting off to see what you're doing right now. Well, it's more so to, you've

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already galvanized your troops. You're not getting more troops. Right? Your segment of

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troops is your troops. So if you do this, you're not bringing more troops on. All this

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does is now alienates even more fans that may have given your product a shot. It's like,

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oh, this guy is back on his stuff again. I'm good. Maybe on the initial tweet though, if

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I was a pro wrestling fan and because remember we talked about this before, Tony has this

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history of playing the victim. So if I'm a pro wrestling fan and I like to watch pro

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wrestling and I see this tweet that this company, this guy is being the victim being, I don't

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say bullied, but the woe is him. Maybe I would endear him and watch his show. But you're right.

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I believe you got your AEW fans. You got them. You probably got them super tight and you're

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probably not going to lose them. But I think that's probably was an initial approach. They're

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going back and forth afterwards. I think that was just to create a buzz.

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So to wrap up this tweet conversation, all I have to say is thank you, Anthony Jermaine.

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We appreciate you for that. We love you for that. If you want violence anytime, just pick

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up that Twitter app. That Twitter app was probably calling him boy and he was like,

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I just, I need it. I want it. I got to have it. He picked that thing up. He went to town

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on it. I appreciate it. Thank you Tony for giving us content. Right? It's great content.

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We love you for that. I talked about the player hater of the year, Eric Bischoff. Anybody

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who's followed Eric Bischoff the last couple of years, anytime AEW does some, he craps

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all over. They can't do nothing right. I'm not saying that. He has given them props in

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the past, but he made a comment earlier this week surrounding Mercedes. Do you have the

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actual quote in front of you? Let me see if I can find it. He made a comment. Basically

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it was to the suggestion of Mercedes is not going to move the needle coming into AEW.

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And then he finished the quote off with AEW's quickly becoming TNA. I didn't like that,

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but let me see when I can find the official one, but giving your guys quick thoughts about

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him saying that while I try to find the actual quote.

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Is there more to that? Cause that's what I saw really quickly, but I don't know. Sometimes

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I keep like click bait. I think that's what it's called. Did he mean, or did he have facts

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behind that? Or is it just him sounding like a hater? Because if it was just him sounding

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like a hater, my original thoughts is like, don't do that. Like don't put that negative

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energy on, I'm going to say on that woman. Like just don't do that. Like if she's going

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to debut in AEW, this should be a great thing. She should be welcomed. She should be praised.

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She should be held to a high standard.

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Now remember, you maybe you don't know these quotes are coming from his podcast, which

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is strictly business. So he talks a lot about the business of pro wrestling. It is not about

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just giving people flowers and talking about great storylines. It's typically about the

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business. So the quote is this when it was asked, uh, what Mercedes Monet might do for

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AEW business, he said nothing. I mean, how many times have we seen big names come from

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WWE to AEW and people speculating about how it's going to impact the business and what's

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going to happen and nothing happens. It doesn't matter who you bring in there. I made the

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comment and I'm going to make it again. AEW is quickly becoming TNA.

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I don't have a problem with him saying that then I don't have a problem with it. I just

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thought that it would came from more of a space of him just hating like, oh, she ate.

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She's a nobody. Who cares if she gets over there?

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He won't come that way.

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So I don't have a problem with that.

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I agree. 1000%. Man. And I almost feel like TNA was a little different. I just don't know

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TNA had the push that AEW has. But TNA had a lot of big names, you know, the main event

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mafia. I don't think you're familiar with the Rhodesia, but they had Kevin Nash, Scott

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Hall, Sting, Booker T, Kurt Angle was in that group.

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Steiner?

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Yeah, Scott was in there. I mean, it was a huge group and it didn't do anything for them.

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They got Jeff Hardy fresh off of Jeff Hardy's hot run. He was having WWF at the time. This

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is after he had a hot view with CM Punk. I can't think of the year, Matt. But at this

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point in time, Jeff Hardy was to me as a fan, was transitioned to being one of the top faces

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in the business at that point in time. He left with the TNA almost immediately and didn't

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do anything for that company. I think the same would be said for Mercedes if she were

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to go to AEW. I just don't think that they have the proper creative in place to take

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advantage of her. We've already seen Edge. We've seen Edge and it could be the power

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of WWE. Maybe the name Adam Copeland doesn't reside with fans like Edge does, but he should

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have been a bigger factor in that company. He hasn't done anything for the numbers and

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he's almost like another guy on that show. You look at Saraya, another big name came

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and she's just another character. Now, I think that Mercedes will be a little bit bigger,

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but I just think the overall division itself isn't as strong as it needs to be to capitalize

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on her. If she were to be something tremendous for that company, they kind of have to book

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her like a Hulk Hogan back in the day to where she is the division. People are tuning in,

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not necessarily to see who she's wrestling, but to see her. I want to see Mercedes. It

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doesn't matter who she's in the ring with. I'm coming to see Mercedes. I just don't think

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they have the proper creative in place to take advantage of her. I think you might get

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a small buzz, but I don't think you're going to get any of the WWE or NXT crowd that doesn't

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watch too much because she's there.

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So I do think, I mean, I said it a few pods ago where remember I said, I don't even know

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if Roman would move the needle significantly if he went to AEW. So I'm not going to backtrack

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that. What I will say is she's absolutely going to do something for AEW business. No,

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they're not going to all of a sudden start beating WWE ratings or in attendance, but

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no, you're going to see a lift with Mercedes being there. You're going to see a lift in

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match quality. You're going to see a lift in merch sales. You are going to see a lift

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in attendance. Now, is it going to take them from 3000 seaters to 7000 seaters? No, probably

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not. But you will see a lift. I just think him saying, she's not going to do anything

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for the business is a little disingenuous.

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So you think that she's a bigger name than Edge?

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Absolutely. Yes. 100%.

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That's a disrespect to Edge and his choice of career.

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Just pull up any of the numbers. Any numbers you want to pull up. Merch sales, like just

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anything, ratings or views on social media. She's her, man. She has a fan base that is

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rabid, that is ridiculous. She moved the needle for NJPW. Now once again, they didn't go from

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running.

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Can I ask a question though? Is it the same fan base is already watching the product that's

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going to buy into her anyway? Because you got to think about it. If they're going to

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move the needle, it's not going to be the 900,000 that already watched the program.

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It's not going to be the 20,000 people that show up for those arenas. It's going to be

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people from WWE side, the casuals, the people who watch every now and then. Those are the

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people who are going to tune over to AW to increase those draws. Do you think that she's

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a big enough name to draw WWE fans and casual fans back to the program? That's what CM Punk

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did for them.

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Some, some, not a significant percent, but I do think some. And it's good too. The latest

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word is people in the know are still saying, of course we don't know anything until the

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ink dries on the contract, but she's going to AEW and they're going to make a big deal

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out of her debut. There were some thoughts that she was going to show up tonight if you

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listen to us on Wednesday for dynamite, they're in Daly's place. And I'm like, man, don't

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have that woman come out in front of 2000 people. I forgot what Daly's place is maxes 3000,

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but it looks like from the word is we're going to know it's coming. They're going to make

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a big deal out of it. And that's what it needs to be. That's what it should be. So hopefully

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we find out sooner rather than later, or pretty easy. We'll say Sasha Banks is going to be

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number 30 in the room.

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Number 30, the Rory rumble. We'll see her.

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I hope she's bringing a writer with her.

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I do that. Before we get to who she's, she's, she's, she's not to bank. She will need one.

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She'll be fine.

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Oh, I want to bring up the Paul Heyman. Shout out to Heyman. Somebody had put a tweet up

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over the weekend surrounding just Heyman has managed Brock Lesnar, CM Punk, Roman Reigns,

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just like the star power. And then I had tweeted that you can argue that he's gotten better

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and better with each person he's had a legit real artist at what he does each time he goes

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out there. Salute. And he responded, quote tweeted. And what he said here, I just kind

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of want to talk about this really quick. One, you guys know we big up Heyman a ton on this

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show. I had just said, I think on last episode, he's top two. Uh, to me, he's my goat for

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sure when it comes to managing and working the mic, I can see somebody else saying somebody

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else. I get it. But he's at least top two, hopefully on everybody's list. Um, and he

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never wastes a moment to either teach. He's always going to sell. He's that that's just

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who he is. He has the wrestling business. So he always is going to sell what he's got

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going on. Even the last line in, in this tweet was that's not a way to own property on the

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island of relevancy, right? He's always going to sell what he's doing, but he always gives

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nuggets to listen to this response. He said, you damn right. I get better with each and

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every single performance. If I'm not better tomorrow than I am today and better two days

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from now than I am tomorrow, then I'm resting on my laurels. And there's way too many people

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out there who are comfortable doing that. And that's when he finishes with, that's not

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a way to own property. So he's gonna give us a little gimmick right at the end, but

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he gave a really big nugget there. And the reason why I respected that response so much

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is he's talking to some people in that tweet. Of course we don't have to speculate who he's

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talking to. We would never know. But for him to say, of course I got to make sure I'm better

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every single time I go out there. He is stamped. Not that I would ever think he would go out

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there and just lay an egg on purpose, but you got a lot of equity, Paul Heyman. So for

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you to know every single time I go out there, I got to be better because there's way too

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many people in this business that rest on what they're doing. I just thought that that

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was an incredible response. What's your guys' thoughts on what he said there?

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Super deep. And to piggyback off of what you said, I remember when Kayla, last day of the

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bump and Pauly showed up and even what he said to her, you could tell that there was

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some conviction in his voice. Like I know your work ethic, Kayla. You're going to do

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well in no matter what you do. So that's just one thing about him. He is going to always

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perform to the highest level. Like you said, he's at a point where he's been doing this

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with 30 plus years. You could cash it in if you want to, and you still wouldn't be judged

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for cashing it in, but he doesn't.

437
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Yeah. Enough said.

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All right. Raw. Radija, what was some of the major, I mean, I guess we can, if you want

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to finish the conversation around gender and Seth, you asked that Seth have a, we're a

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rumble pony yet. If you want to start there, you start wherever you want to.

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I just got a couple of notes from Raw. I'm going to save the best for last. One, what,

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Becky had a really great promo. Like I couldn't even hate on her promo. She brought things

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full circle. She talked about, you know, that either now she's either stronger since the

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last time her and Naya had that thing or Naya's weaker. I mean, like that was really, really

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well written. Kofi got his ass really handed to.

446
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Hold on a second. Hold on. Hold on. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Slow down.

447
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I'm just running it down.

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Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. This stick with the

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Becky one for a second. That, that is babyface one-on-one promo. Puts your opponent over,

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put yourself over, acknowledge you lost, but it's not done yet. I walked, I was like, yo,

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and we know Becky's great. I think probably the biggest thing that I walked away with

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last night from the women, man, that match with her and Rhea at WrestleMania is going

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to feed family's boy. It's time. And we knew it was coming. I have said that that's my

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match for Mania, for Rhea for the longest time. And it's getting close. And that build,

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I think is going to be ridiculous. I think that match is going to be ridiculous. I think

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that's a match that you could argue if it wasn't for just the top shelf matches that's

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going to be on Mania. Like, Oh, I could see that being a main event one year for WrestleMania.

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It won't this year, but she, this is going to be fun. This is going to be a lot, a lot

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of fun. But yeah, I want to just kind of stop there and just highlight it. Just how fantastic

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that promo was. You think she's taking the belt at Mania? I think it's about time. It's

461
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time. Yeah. I mean, Rhea's had it for a year. Yeah. She's kind of bulletproof at this point.

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How about you? I didn't like the promo. Wow. What didn't you like about it? Generic. Oh,

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wow. He's like, he's like, as a woman giving it. That's why I'm like, God dang. Let's go

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to the news. We had a deal. We weren't doing that anymore. We're not doing that anymore.

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So talk us through what you didn't like. You said it was generic. What was generic about

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it? It's exactly what you said. It was a classic baby face promo and it was long. See, and

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most of the Becky ones is classic baby face. I can't stand them. I think they're just too

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cheesy. No, I thought this one was great. I thought she had the perfect tone and how

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she was giving it. And maybe it's also different because she was behind like backstage and

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maybe not like in the ring. I've kind of gotten more. I've noticed kind of my feelings toward

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people like again, Shinsuke, all his, all his stuff in the back or his animated things

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are incredible. Maybe not so much in the ring. Maybe that's why I felt that way about, about

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Becky. But I thought that was, I thought that was that she hit it out the park for me. She

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cut that in half and it made the same point. So re rebook it. Uh, she lost the Nia this

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match. If you look at the storylines and where they promoted was five years in the making,

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they finally have a one-on-one match. She loses. So you got the rumble in two weeks.

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What would you have wanted to hear from her in that promo? A non-gen, a non-genery baby

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face promo that went on for 10 minutes. It wasn't 10 minutes, not even close, but like

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give me, give me something of what you would want to hear from her after losing against

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Nia Jax. So I'm, I don't, I don't write promos for telling if I, if I did, I'd be doing it

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for Tony Khan right now. Um, it's just her pro. Maybe not just was just very generic.

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It is very generic. I mean, it was, you know, I didn't think it was a fan. It was fine.

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It was a fine promo. This is one of those things to where, um, you know, I guess, you

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know, I guess maybe, I don't know what, what you guys saw in it, but it wasn't, it wasn't,

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when I think of a fantastic promo, I think of a promo like, uh, who's somebody like an

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MJF might cut or like a CM punk might cut on a, on a great day. Um, you know, a Roman

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Reigns type of a promo that wasn't that to me, that was just a basic baby face promo.

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So then, okay. So you, you teed it up. Let's go to CM punk and Drew's promo. Cause you

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walk away. You're like, I don't know who I'm supposed to be cheering for. I'm just cheering

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for everybody. I guess I love everybody in this world. Double standard time. Yes. Yes.

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Yes. Okay. A W would have cut in the beginning. Hell they used to talk in the beginning. Every

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time they had the pyro going off at the beginning of their shows and I used to be like, shut

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the F up. Drew stopped the whole intro. They commentators talking, Drew stopped the whole

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thing, told him to shut this down. He got to talk. And I am a double standard here.

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I, the moment that happened, I was like, hell yeah, Drew, Drew freaking cook punk. Let's

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just get straight to the point. Drew cooked them. Now I listened back again today cause

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I think maybe I'm not truly true in my punk being my number one wrestler of all time.

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So, so, so I had to go back to listen cause last night about that. You mean that's not

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true? I don't know. I don't know. I would have never guessed it. I think I'm trying to

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believe it in something that's not there, but I'm like last night drew it's it like punk

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for no scrape them off the ground and take them back. I went back and listened to it.

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Punk comebacks was very, really good. So overall that whole interaction between the two of

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them really, really good, but drew freaking cooked them. I think it must be said that

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it was one zero drew in that interaction. Love it. You know, one thing I noticed, I

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00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:11,040
know like I drew did a great job was promo. See, I thought that was more level of fantastic.

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That's why I had, that's why I brought it up. That's, you know, those, that's what I'd

507
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look for, you know? Um, but you know, I noticed about drew me, he's a big ass man. He's a

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giant. That's a, you know, manly man, man. I mean, you know, and I was, uh, I was watching

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with my wife and actually she, for some reason sat and was actually watching the show for

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a, because it's true. It's true. It's true. It's fine. Okay. No, well she was, she was

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listening to the Becky's promo too. Um, but I'm like, wow, you're actually watching wrestling,

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you know, you're not running this baby. Yeah. And we gotta get her on the show. They got

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the chip. What's got him too? Um, but I was telling, I was like, look how big drew is.

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She's like, well maybe no punk is just small. I'm like, punk is not a small man. Spunk is

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a legit six foot, six foot one. I'm like, you know, he does a B he's making him look

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small because of how thick and big he is. I'm like, he just doesn't carry himself like

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a man that size. Right. Drew cares. So like a small guy, that's one thing I noticed, but

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he did great. Um, with his promo, I actually agree with Rhodesia. I think he cooked CM

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pump. I just don't think that the CM punk that came back to AW is, is the same punk

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that left seven years ago. He's just not the same guy on the light. You mean WWE? No, I'm

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AW. I don't think he was as good in AW as he was in the past. I think it's continued

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to WWE. I haven't, he hasn't cut a, I mean, I guess he has such a high, you know, work

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like standard, you know, like, and he just hasn't come anywhere close to that since he's

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00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:53,200
been back and drew just gave it to him and gave it to him and gave it to him. But at

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the end of the day, I feel like he's just setting up for another loss. Cause I guess

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this, this dude is getting jobbed out of this company. I feel like we are coming close to

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this man be out of the company and showing up, you know, with a being Owen 25 and getting

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a title shot on AWTV next year. That's what I feel like. Matt, before you go, you know

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what they should do. They should get back and be two LW gender and Drew. Oh no. Let's

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00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:29,240
go mute up. Redisha hit that mute button. Cause I think 60 seconds, 60 seconds. Uh,

531
00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:38,400
you guys were probably higher on that segment than I was. Um, I thought it was okay, but

532
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:46,360
it felt like to me, those were two separate pomos from Drew and they put it into one.

533
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So like, he starts to show by saying like, I need to, I need to quit. I need to get out

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of here. And then punk comes out, they do their thing. And then he immediately pops

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00:48:53,580 --> 00:48:59,400
back into I'm winning the rumble. And it was kind of just like, huh? It w it felt disjointed.

536
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It felt like, Hey, we got it. We need to get to point from point a to point D tonight.

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So let's, let's get there. And I was like, damn, that's, that's a little bit of a miss.

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I thought the barbs were good between back and forth, you know, like some of the insider

539
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:18,360
stuff about, you know, uh, complaining backstage and you know, okay, cool. That's cool. You're

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00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:24,360
going to get a little bit of that with punk just because he's new back into WWE. But I

541
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:30,320
was conscious. I was like, all right, okay. It's cool. Now I'll tell you what. Elimination

542
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:35,240
chamber is setting up to be once again, another can't miss PLE. Think about what they set

543
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up last night. We're getting punk and drew at elimination chamber. We're getting Naya

544
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:54,680
jacks and Rhea Ripley in her home country in elimination chamber. And I get, you can't

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main event that with that, especially if it's rock and Roman, we still got to figure out

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00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:02,520
how this plays out. Cody again today, just based to his eyes on the prize, everything's

547
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:07,140
going to work out. Okay. So if we just still hold out that it's going to be rocking Cody

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and mania or I'm sorry, Cody and Roman at mania. And we got to assume there's gonna

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be some type of rock and Roman at elimination chamber. Then that's main eventing. Absolutely.

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It would just be super cool to see Rhea main event, a stadium show in her own country with

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the type of year she had, but we're getting those two matches and I'm here for both of

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them. I think drew and punk's going to be great. And to your point, Drew's losing that

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00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:35,080
too, but that's fine though. Like I'm good with that. But yeah, yeah. For me, it just

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00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:40,840
felt disjointed. It felt like, Hey, we need to get here two weeks before rumble. This

555
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:48,760
is a great story. We can tell with eliminate chamber drew, go out there and tell your story.

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If we're done with punk and my 60 seconds is over. So we're done with punk. How did

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y'all feel about the main event? Now I watched it. I broke it up a few times with Shinsuke

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and Cody and I felt like almost it was again, just a there match. There was really no emotions

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to it being a street fight that I think is called. What are y'all thoughts on that? For

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00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:20,760
and for it main eventing the show. Oh, I have my readers on it. Cause I'm finishing the

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story. That's what I'm getting ready. I'm getting ready to finish. It was, it was, it

562
00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:31,040
was great. That was a pretty good analogy. That's a pretty good analogy. Shout out to

563
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:35,920
you. I like that one. I got my readers on. We finished in the story. I thought he's on

564
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what he was reading his own book and it's time to go to bed. Kind of, I didn't, I didn't

565
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:44,320
understand it, but okay. See? Yeah. I like it. So, but I mean, that's not a fair question

566
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:49,680
to eat anything. Cody's in, he's locked into what you as he should like us. It's time to

567
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:58,840
finish the story. I'm good with that. The match was what it was and Nakamura's presentation

568
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:04,240
has been fantastic. I love his graphics. I love the video packages. I love the anime

569
00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:10,000
style stuff. Bell to bell, Nakamura is not the same person he was a long time ago. No,

570
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:18,840
he's not. And that's fine. But it's time to move on from him in that semi main, main event.

571
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:24,600
He went from Seth to Cody and the first Seth match I wasn't a fan of. I thought they did

572
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:29,440
a really good job with the extreme rules or whatever they had.

573
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,920
The miss, the winning with the miss, right?

574
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:40,440
Yeah. And I've enjoyed the Cody Nakamura story, but it's just so hard when you know like Cody's

575
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:44,320
got to come out of this looking strong because it's rumble time and it's a WrestleMania time.

576
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,440
So like for me, the match, the match was what it was. I like, I liked the finish. I thought

577
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:52,880
the finish was really cool. But yeah, I mean to East Point, all right, we're through that.

578
00:52:52,880 --> 00:53:01,160
Okay now it is go time now. You got two weeks Cody to galvanize your fan base to win that

579
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,760
rumble and then we heading to Philly.

580
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,120
Oh, we're ready.

581
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:10,880
So is that a double standard? Because we kind of just said, okay, well we know that again,

582
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:15,440
that was a placeholder, but if we would have saw that on the AW, wouldn't we be a little

583
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:20,480
bit more upset or is it because the presentation of Nakamura having his anime video packages

584
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,600
and all of that being tied in?

585
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:27,280
Well, you got to think, we're talking about championships, right? We're talking about

586
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,960
who's deserving of a championship with no ranking system. This is just a grudge match.

587
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,240
No, I'm just talking about just in general, double standards in general. I'm just saying

588
00:53:34,240 --> 00:53:39,400
if that was, if that was main event on AEW Dynamite, wouldn't people probably be upset?

589
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,520
Like we already know that Shinsuke is not going to win at all.

590
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:51,560
No, because AEW is about the match quality. So nobody would say that. I'm sure if you

591
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:55,640
pull the majority of people, they probably thought the main event was good. It was a

592
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:56,640
fine main event.

593
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:57,640
Yeah, it was fine.

594
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:05,440
Yeah. I'm just not, I like everything they've done with Nakamura, but I'm just kind of over

595
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,960
what he is now in the ring.

596
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:12,520
Because I think when I would say something's fine, I think like, so we're super fans and

597
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:18,800
you know, five star matches and all that other great stuff. I just think the vast majority

598
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:25,320
of people just need, they just need to be able to feel something and to be entertained.

599
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:31,680
You know, it doesn't matter if it had like a match of the year candidate match or those

600
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:37,200
cage matches that Tony talks about. I don't think the vast majority of the wrestling audience

601
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:41,620
needs that to say something was good or not. I just don't.

602
00:54:41,620 --> 00:54:46,280
So you know, Cody and Shinsuke, they do their matches. You know, they're fine. I think it

603
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:52,360
counts the job. I think, you know, there are people who still engage into Cody after the

604
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:58,760
match. Answer's yes. Did Shinsuke, you know, leave out, you know, still looking kind of

605
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,640
fierce. I think he, on the next feud he's in, I don't know if it's going to be as high

606
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:06,840
caliber. I think he'll still be there. I think it did its job and it served its purpose.

607
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:11,360
That's why I say it's fine. You know, I don't think they're losing any traction by what

608
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:17,680
that match. Now, if we, if this was a WrestleMania main event type of match, then maybe we might

609
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,040
have a different conversation or something at SummerSlam.

610
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:28,080
And we had that. Think about how many years, I mean, we can go to twice in a generation.

611
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:34,640
Rock, Cena 2. Like if you look at like those three or four manias right around that time,

612
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,840
every single match that was on mania, you'd be like, oh, I know who's winning this. Months

613
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,760
out. Oh, I know who's winning this. I would say every, every mania. It's always kind of

614
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:48,720
decided. I think what I want to say, maybe Triple Wasted this years ago, you know, what's

615
00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:53,200
wrong with knowing the ending of a story, right? Because you go to a movie, you know

616
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,560
Batman's going to win at the end. You know, you know, Spider-Man is going to win at the

617
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:02,920
end. Well, you actually didn't know if you saw Spider-Man across the multiverse. Right.

618
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:07,120
You know, maybe not that movie, but vast majority of the movies, you know, the outcome of the

619
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:12,400
movie, you know, Thanos was going to snap though. We know that. But you still go to

620
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,680
the show. Yeah. We didn't know that, but you still go in and you, you enjoyed that the

621
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:19,120
actual movie, right? Because of the story. And that's why the story is so important.

622
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:24,320
Yep. That's why the story is so important. Absolutely. Matt, I know you wanted us to

623
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:34,880
talk about on raw. Who did we feel was an MVP? And it could only be, only be the PR of the judgment

624
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:41,600
day. Our truth live, laugh and love. That is what the judgment day always says. Like

625
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,280
we talk about Polly and I'm not trying to put our truth on a Polly level, but we're

626
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:53,200
talking about when you, when you, you hit more than you missed, man, our truth. I think you

627
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,920
said it before, protect this man at all costs. I think you all cause how can he still be

628
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:05,280
this funny this many years later? I saw an incredible tweet and I apologize if you're a

629
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:14,720
listener and you said it, I don't remember who said it. It, the tweet said our truth with judgment

630
00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:22,480
day is Sammy Zane with the bloodline. And I was like 1000%. That's what it is. But not

631
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:27,360
in like in a recycle of a story. Like what we talked about on other, just brings the levity,

632
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:37,040
brings the comedic time in. Yes. It's what we needed, but didn't know we wanted. Yeah.

633
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:42,480
Like right. I didn't know I was going to be in the same, he's ain't in the bloodline as much as I was

634
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:47,920
when we had that. I didn't know that I would care so much about our true in 2024.

635
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:56,160
As I do now, but man, like the, the, the video package, when he was a baby, he opens, I was

636
00:57:56,160 --> 00:58:02,400
looking at the doctor and said, I'm going to be in the judgment day. And he said, you know what

637
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:07,600
I love about it makes it so funny. He says this stuff with such a straight face. I love, he's

638
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:15,840
serious. I love straight face humor, man. It is just phenomenal, man. And Tom, Tom and Nick

639
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:22,160
Mysterio, he was cracking up that whole time on the video package. He couldn't hold it together.

640
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:30,240
Hey, as my wife says, Diego Mysterio. What? That might be borderline racist.

641
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:32,960
There's nothing borderline about that one.

642
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:39,760
He out here calling little people to M word last show. Not she calling. Hey, that can't,

643
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:46,160
I'm just saying what Kevin has said. I didn't say it. Oh my God. Hey, you gotta call people out.

644
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:52,320
Oh, I don't, I didn't have truth as the MVP of raw. I have Ria as the MVP of raw. Same,

645
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:58,880
same stable, same group. That reaction she got when she came out there to address,

646
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,920
who was it? Uh, Naya Jax, right? And I'm sitting there and I'm like,

647
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:11,680
she is a 100% heel on this television show. Outside of her looks and her being cool,

648
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:17,120
there was no redeeming qualities about Ria Ripley. She cheats all the time. She talks down to

649
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:23,840
everybody and it's like, she is over like that. I'm, I'm, I'm so happy for her, but they need to,

650
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:30,960
it's going to be interesting to see if they turn her anytime soon because her and priest still got

651
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:37,280
some, they, but they got some issues between each other. And you saw it again in that backstage

652
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:42,480
segment on raw. Um, she's, I, like I said, I got her going against Naya, elimination chamber

653
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:47,280
in her hometown. So I mean, of course you can always just flip it and she's maybe,

654
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:51,120
maybe it's one of those like she's a star, right? So she's going to get a superstar reaction no

655
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:56,960
matter what. And then the whole Becky thing happens. But, uh, yeah, she, that, that reaction,

656
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:02,880
I mean, shout out to that crowd. They were all one Portland. There is some trash cities. When it

657
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:07,920
comes to crowd reactions, Portland was not one on raw. They, they, they came with it. They gave it

658
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:12,960
up. So good job to them. And I thought, and I thought I was about the kiss for you too,

659
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:17,360
before she walked off. She should have, she was getting close, but maybe, maybe we're not

660
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:23,280
there in the story yet. And Naya has been cooking too since she's been back. Uh, two quick things

661
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:28,880
we didn't talk about on smack down from a Sunday's pod. I want to get to, and one is just a statement

662
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:35,440
for me. And then I do want to talk about carrying crosses new group. He's got some thoughts. I got

663
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:38,880
some thoughts, but I think we're on a completely different side of the spectrum. And I think

664
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:45,440
Rodriguez is also on one of the other sides. Um, Mia Yim is missing something. I said that a long

665
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:53,840
time ago and it is not talent. She's very talented, but she's missing something.

666
01:00:53,840 --> 01:01:04,080
And I can just leave it there. I think she got burned too. When she joined, um,

667
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:10,560
the OC and AJ, I think because she was already kind of to me a little bit, just missing a little

668
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:14,480
bit of something, but that could have been changed with booking. And then when she got down with

669
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:18,880
them and then AJ ended up getting hurt. I just think that the whole, then they got super cold

670
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:24,480
and I just think that's what happened there. I think she has the potential. She got a great look.

671
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:30,000
She can rest. So I mean, sometimes I see her, she has some missed spots, but again, that's wrestling

672
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:35,520
any given night, but yeah. And I, and I hate to be critical on her, but she's absolutely missing

673
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:42,400
something. I don't care about you guys follow the new day, like outside of wrestling, like their

674
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:54,000
podcast or see YouTube stuff. So when you listen to their dynamic with each other, um, outside of

675
01:01:54,000 --> 01:02:01,920
the ring on the podcast or on YouTube or Xavier's channel, how you think they will act is about how

676
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:08,400
they act. It's about new day. Yes. Yeah. So yeah. Who's day you talking about the new day, right?

677
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:14,000
Just, just correct. Okay. Got it. New day right now. I said, if you guys familiar with them outside

678
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:19,520
of the rest of the stuff, the way you would think they as a new day, what act is about how they act

679
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:30,640
like big E is very goofy, jovial, Kofi is very goofy, jovial. Uh, Xavier is very quick with it.

680
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:38,560
Right. The only, the best wrestlers and the best characters are extensions of themselves.

681
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:45,360
I follow Mia Yim outside of wrestling. I listen to, or I'm sorry, watch some of her YouTube stuff

682
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:53,760
from some of her gaming things. And that Mia Yim is a little different than, um, the baddie,

683
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:58,480
head baddie in charge that she did at NXT or the character that she's doing now. Right.

684
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:03,760
She would be better served to find her voice in her character and do something that's closer to

685
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:09,360
who she is. And that way it'll come across better on television. That's what she's missing. She's

686
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:14,320
right now trying to play a character that's, you know, that she, that's probably unlike her.

687
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:21,280
I haven't seen any resemblance of the character she tries to play in wrestling right outside of it.

688
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:31,600
The only wrestler that I know of that can successfully be somebody different in the ring

689
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:37,280
is Adam Cole. The Adam Cole, you know, we, we mainly know him as the heel, the obnoxious, cocky,

690
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:47,040
arrogant heel. He's not that in real life that I've seen. He's a really nice, like with the,

691
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:54,320
the Adam Cole face that we saw, that's closer to Adam Cole than the Adam Cole that we know.

692
01:03:54,960 --> 01:04:00,160
Right. He's one of the few wrestlers that can kind of be somebody that he's not. And that's

693
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:07,840
why I think Mia Yim is right now. It's so funny you say that because yes, but no around like,

694
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:13,200
personalities. I was telling Redizia, um, this was a couple months ago. We were

695
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:18,320
at a warrior show, indie show, and we were in a locker room. And I remember

696
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:24,240
guys just, you know, doing their thing, right? Some guys are playing cards, whatever's,

697
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:29,360
whatever's happening is happening. I remember just looking at it and I said, it's so funny

698
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:34,240
and I'm happy for them that they're able to play what they're not, like their alter ego.

699
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:41,520
Right. Like you hear a lot of bigger people who are completely gentle giants.

700
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:48,560
But whatever that may look like, if it's through wrestling or if they are an actor or

701
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:55,680
whatever it is, they put on a completely different facade for that. And sometimes I think it's,

702
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:59,440
you know, kind of that protection when you're younger, you know, if you're being talked

703
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:05,920
about, or if you're a geek because you like, you know, art or a musician and you don't look

704
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:11,760
like the hot musician art at the time, but you have genius in you, you create an alter ego.

705
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,320
Albeit a rapper or singer, whatever the case may be. Now we're talking about, of course, pro

706
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:22,640
wrestling. Um, so I think, I think it's one or the other. I think it is, Hey, tap into your alter

707
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:28,560
ego that you've created maybe 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 10 years ago. And you are that person

708
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:33,040
when you're on, when that light comes on, it is action and you're ready to rock and roll, or it is

709
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:39,200
it is action and you're ready to rock and roll, or it is, Hey, beat you and just turn it up to 11.

710
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:46,560
And she has to figure that out because she's too talented, in my opinion, for her not to be bigger

711
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:50,480
than what she was. She tweeted out Friday before that match. I think Bianca said it to her. She

712
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:56,560
said Bianca had told her, uh, go out there and show who we know you've always been. Wow.

713
01:05:56,560 --> 01:06:02,080
And I'm like, yes. And I can't say that she did that in the match. Match was, match was good. It

714
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:06,080
was a good match, but I just remember watching her like, man, she's, she's, there's something

715
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:12,880
missing with her and I want, I want her to find it. I think, I think she's good. Somebody else I

716
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:20,000
think is good. Ian, I'm gonna throw it to you. Karrion Cross. My guy, I got a new group. Paul

717
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:27,040
Ellering, Authors of Pain is back. Scarlett goes from blind to brunette looking incredible.

718
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:35,200
Sent, he a text said, man, we forgot to talk about Karrion's new group. And I think he said

719
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:39,360
something to the fact that I don't give damn bottom or it ain't gonna matter or something to

720
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:46,240
that effect, sir, floor is yours. Why are you hating on Karrion Cross? Paul Ellering, Authors of Pain

721
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:49,520
and Scarlett. And you haven't even gave him a chance yet, sir.

722
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:56,320
I know you said we forgot about the group. I said, yeah, because they suck. Damn, look at that.

723
01:06:56,320 --> 01:07:02,480
That's what he said. That's what he said. They suck. They haven't done nothing yet.

724
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:12,160
Exactly. So Karrion Cross and Scarlett came out, you know, Scarlett has a new dude.

725
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:15,600
Beautiful woman. It doesn't matter what color she, she calls her hair. She's just, she's just

726
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:20,320
beautiful. Karrion Cross came out on TV missing the same thing he'd been missing.

727
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:30,560
AOP came out. They're just big heavy dudes. Right. Doing the same finisher that wasn't that

728
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:36,640
oppressive a couple of years ago. Hey, Paul Ellering, you know, God bless him, man. But the

729
01:07:36,180 --> 01:07:47,040
No, man. He had that shit on. He had on the suit with the glove. Come on, man. What, what the

730
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:54,880
Hall of Fame rings? Come on, man. Yeah. Look, 85 years old. So, you know, I don't know what we're

731
01:07:54,880 --> 01:08:02,880
doing. I don't know what we're doing. You know, I would have loved for him to debut as the devil

732
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:09,280
guys like that's Adam. Oh my God. Adam Cole. That would be nice. AOP and Karrion because they need

733
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:13,680
a leader. They need somebody who's with some charisma in that group that can talk on the

734
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:18,720
microphone to carry that faction. I don't know who that is. I didn't see that person appear

735
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:25,680
on Smackdown. And then they had the nerve to have this new heel. They looked like heels to me.

736
01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:29,840
All right. And they came out there and they debuted and they wiped out another heel faction

737
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:36,400
that's just getting started. Right. Right. And my man Dawkins and Tez and Bobby. And what happened

738
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:44,160
my girl Brandi? What happened to Brandi? She was in the backstage segment. She's on deck.

739
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:48,960
This is what she did. Okay. I missed her. Sure was. Where's she been at? Hopefully she's

740
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:53,200
good. I was like, maybe she's going to come out. She's going to counter Scarlett. Right. And I know

741
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:57,120
she's been putting in some work down there in the dungeon too. So maybe she's going to have some new

742
01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:01,680
things for your boy. And I hope she do. But I'm like, what are we doing with Bobby? I thought

743
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:06,240
these guys were heels. Right. And they was kind of cutting a heel-ish program. And then you got-

744
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:13,040
Bobby's Bobby. And then they sent out these big old non-charismatic guys to rough them up.

745
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:21,280
They are the authors of pain. They are not authors of charisma. They are authors of pain.

746
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:25,680
They aren't supposed to come out, be menacing, destroy you, leave you where you standing.

747
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:30,400
That's what they're supposed to be. You got to give it some time. First off, this will succeed

748
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:35,920
because one, we know Karrion Kross is an H guy. And two, you've had AOP for some time and you

749
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:40,400
debuted him. So it has to be some good plans and it works for them. Has to be. I am so for this.

750
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I think there's a reason why them guys been signed for the past year and we ain't seen them.

751
01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:50,560
For this moment now. There's been a reason why Karrion Kross has been with the company for five

752
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:59,360
years now. But you got to be careful because he was under Vince for a while. No, he's been with

753
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:03,440
Tripp's. And he was under Vince when he first debuted. Remember that was the whole reason why

754
01:10:03,440 --> 01:10:08,880
I hated what he was done. He had the Faroukha side helmet. You don't know about Faroukha side.

755
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:14,000
We're racing that. He debuted with the blue helmet on. He got fired. He got fired and he brought him

756
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:19,040
back. We're starting from that point. Yep. So then you just got to give it time. Got to give it.

757
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:24,720
First off, he was doing something with AJ who was cold. I forgot who else he was going against,

758
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:30,160
but some of his opponents just wasn't there. I am so ready for this. This is I think going to be,

759
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:37,200
they haven't said their name yet, have they? No, no. You have Paul Ellering who's going to be able

760
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:42,720
to talk for them. You got Karrion Kross and Scarlett, which is beautiful. And you got the

761
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:52,640
authors of not charisma, but authors of pain. Let's go. AOC. AOC. I love how you guys are.

762
01:10:52,640 --> 01:11:00,720
I love how you guys are just so hopeful. You know what's funny though? I love it. This is amazing.

763
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:07,200
And I want to blow light. Okay. But he's sitting on this new stable and he probably should be

764
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:10,720
sitting on Mia Yim too because she's been there just about as long and she don't have it either.

765
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:14,640
We're not going to do that. But he just sat there and just blowing smoke up her butt because he

766
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:20,880
likes her outside of the wrestling ring. I'm not doing that. Because I can argue that Karrion Kross

767
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:27,120
and Scarlett has shown more charisma in the last year than Mia Yim has in her entire WWE run.

768
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:32,080
I can argue that. We don't have to argue it, but I can't argue that. I am hoping this works.

769
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:38,240
I am hoping this works. How are you going to go backwards to tear down our sister,

770
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:45,600
to build up this charisma's list, Jabber Crew at the dispense of Bobby in the process?

771
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:46,720
Jabber Crew. They haven't had a match yet.

772
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:47,680
Jabber Crew.

773
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:55,040
Jabber Crew. I do hope it works. I'm excited for it. I am thinking though,

774
01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:59,520
by some chances it doesn't work. We may be in trouble.

775
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:07,440
So they need a leader. Look, they need a leader. Who can join it? Who can join that group

776
01:12:08,480 --> 01:12:13,680
to give them a leader? Karrion Kross can't carry. He couldn't carry it, but he couldn't carry himself.

777
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:19,680
Who can they add? Somebody got to add somebody because most factions are usually four.

778
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:24,320
I know they got managers and ballets on the side, but who's the cool four man?

779
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:29,760
You know who's the cool four man. You know who would be great. You know who would be incredible.

780
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:38,800
Hill Randy Orton. He crossed my mind when I thought about it, but I'm like, damn,

781
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:45,840
I mean, we got to get to, I'm assuming we're going to get to mania with a face Randy.

782
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:49,680
I think so too, yeah. Like, right? That's why I just squat.

783
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:56,480
Or maybe not. Maybe. I mean, because we're going to, we're going to, this is a whole long

784
01:12:56,480 --> 01:13:01,600
conversation that I want to have maybe in the next couple of episodes because we do need to talk

785
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:06,560
about where does LA Knight go from here after the rumble? We know he's not winning the rumble, but

786
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:13,840
is it a Randy Orton path? Is it the Logan Paul path for mania? Like, what does that look like?

787
01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:18,240
Because if it's LA Knight, then there's a chance you turn Orton. I just don't think you need to

788
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:23,120
turn Orton Hill right now. I think you keep him as a face, but I mean, I would love Drew too. I

789
01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:29,680
think Drew's a good one, but Orton with two big heavies like that, three heavies with cross.

790
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:38,400
That's, that could be cooking. That could be cooking. What else? That was all I had.

791
01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:41,840
We talked about SmackDown. I just wanted to bring up those two things. We didn't get a chance to

792
01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:50,720
talk at last episode. All right then. Do not forget, ladies and gentlemen, Sunday is our 100th

793
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episode. So we are super excited. We talked about it on the last episode, but not many new podcasts

794
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:04,960
make it out of like their first few weeks. And because of you, we do this for you guys. We don't

795
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:10,160
sit here and talk to ourselves and listen back just for ourselves. It's this, the camaraderie

796
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:15,760
with you guys. It is the connection that we have with our listeners. We appreciate you guys. I

797
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:20,720
always say it more than you guys know. So thank you guys for continuing to get the word out about

798
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:25,920
the podcast, letting your friends know, letting your families know you guys listening. It means

799
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:31,120
the world to us. So we got that on Sunday. And then who knows what we'll talk about on Wednesday.

800
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:36,000
I'm sure Anthony will go hard again on some tweets. Maybe that can be an entire Wednesday

801
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:41,600
episode. And then that next week we are doing the watch along of Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels,

802
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:49,680
Iron Man match. And then we are doing our top 20 superstars of all time. So I will of course remind

803
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:55,360
you guys again, probably next week, feel free to send your top 20 list in, feel free of course to

804
01:14:55,360 --> 01:15:01,840
do the watch along with us. Should be interesting to see if that holds up or not. All right. And

805
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:09,600
then we are going to be doing our live post show for Royal Rumble on that Saturday night, was it

806
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:17,040
27th? I think it is 27th or 28th, whatever it is. We are doing a live post show. So we will be on

807
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:25,680
YouTube. We will be on X. We'll try to get Facebook going. That's your territory, but I don't know.

808
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:32,560
We'll be on Facebook. Yeah. Only OB will be on Facebook anyway. Sorry, y'all. Maybe we'll be on Facebook then. Here we go.

809
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We have an awesome January, end of January. I'm so excited. We'll have some surprises on that

810
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:44,080
Royal Rumble show too. So I am definitely looking forward to it. So there you go. And that is it.

811
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I am done. We are done. We will see you guys on Sunday on our 100th episode. Talk to you then. Peace.