Speaker 1: Now your maybe it's introducing the hosts Wrestling with Freddy,
Speaker 1: Jeff Disjune. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a brand new
Speaker 1: episode of Wrestling with Freddie now Wrestling with Friends, and
Speaker 1: here is your wrestling news of the week. Wrestle Mania
Speaker 1: thirty nine at so far has become the highest grossing
Speaker 1: show for w w WE ever at eighteen million dollars. Secondly,
Speaker 1: w w WE will continue to do other shows overseas,
Speaker 1: this time in London's very own oh To Arena by
Speaker 1: having w w e's money in the bank there. And
Speaker 1: finally and clear, the largest news of the day, of
Speaker 1: the week, of the month of the decade, Vincent Kennedy
Speaker 1: McMahon has come back to w w E as majority
Speaker 1: owner to peruse a possible sale of the business. According
Speaker 1: to The Wall Street Journal, this has been your wrestling
Speaker 1: news update. Good evening and at night there it is.
Speaker 1: Good night. You hit it perfect. I got it right
Speaker 1: just for you, because it's a new year, New year,
Speaker 1: New Freddie, and my resolution is get it right. I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. Hey, it's good to see you, buddy.
Speaker 1: I hope everyone had a good New Year's even New
Speaker 1: Year's Day. In Christmas. We did. We win. Uh, we
Speaker 1: could talk a little New Year's before we get into
Speaker 1: men slamming men and women slamming women and intergender matches
Speaker 1: that I don't like. I went to Hawaii for the holidays,
Speaker 1: Land of the Rock, that's right, Dwayne the Rock Johnson,
Speaker 1: you got you got to feel like what it's like
Speaker 1: to be in the bloodline by zip line, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. I stayed with the Samoan family. They took
Speaker 1: me in and I got some sick tattoos the old
Speaker 1: way or they just think they hammer a little like
Speaker 1: needle into my arm. They did my whole arm, wrist
Speaker 1: to shoulder. We ate POI. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever had boy, it's it's pretty good. But once you
Speaker 1: have it more than one way, you pretty much had it.
Speaker 1: We had it a lot. Did you get the Samoan tattooed?
Speaker 1: Does it say I'm in the bloodline? Respect to Sammy Zane?
Speaker 1: What is your tattoo say? They wrote it in Samoan,
Speaker 1: so hopefully they told me the truth. But it reads
Speaker 1: young warrior, So they thought I was young. They thought
Speaker 1: I was young. Well compared to the earth, you're young. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, compared to King Kama, compared to
Speaker 1: the volcanoes of Earth, you know, I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: do anything. We stayed in a super nice hotel, uh,
Speaker 1: spoiled ourselves, rotten ate like eight like Royalty. We have
Speaker 1: two friends that live out there already, and so we
Speaker 1: went to visit them as well. I had Christmas with
Speaker 1: them and UH and New Year's with them, so it
Speaker 1: was great. How was your holiday, sir? Holidays weren't that
Speaker 1: great because Southwest canceled the flights, so I didn't get
Speaker 1: to go anywhere, stuck at home by myself. But New
Speaker 1: Year's was great because I got to go to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: So I don't mean to laugh. It was terrible, I
Speaker 1: said at the I said, at the airport in Burbank
Speaker 1: from like ten am to UH to midnight, just for
Speaker 1: them to cancel the flight. And I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna go home out. So that happened.
Speaker 1: But New Year's New Year's was awesome. I had a
Speaker 1: bunch of shows in Cleveland and we we uh, we
Speaker 1: had we had really fun time in Cleveland was awesome.
Speaker 1: Cleveland rocks man, Yeah, it was fun. Jeff you made
Speaker 1: a prediction in like our second or third episode, and
Speaker 1: everyone thought I was joking, And everyone thought you were joking.
Speaker 1: And it was the biggest news in wrestling, not your opinion,
Speaker 1: but the news itself, which was Vince McMahon was forced out.
Speaker 1: And Jeff, tell the people what you said. I said
Speaker 1: the h that he's coming back. There's just no chance
Speaker 1: that he can stay not in wrestling. And not only
Speaker 1: did it happen, it's happened pretty fast. Well, he did
Speaker 1: not take that much time off. And I said he
Speaker 1: was gonna come back in the Royal Rumble, which I'm
Speaker 1: still hoping for. That no chance, and he just starts
Speaker 1: running on. He wins. If he's like the third the
Speaker 1: number comes out, hits, the ring blows out both the
Speaker 1: squads again, it still goes over. Um, yeah, you called this.
Speaker 1: I honestly thought he might just stay away and say,
Speaker 1: let me just live the rest of my life. But
Speaker 1: other people have said it before. He's gonna die and
Speaker 1: Gorilla and he's and the show is gonna go on,
Speaker 1: and uh, that may be what happens. Some people are
Speaker 1: a little afraid he's gonna come back to creative. Um.
Speaker 1: Other people are saying that's not gonna happen. He's just
Speaker 1: there for the sale. What do you think, Brosky, I
Speaker 1: don't you know Vince McMahon personally. Do you think he's
Speaker 1: capable of not getting his little fingers on the Creative?
Speaker 1: I I can't see a world where he where he doesn't.
Speaker 1: Neither can I? Yeah, it's just zero chance that like
Speaker 1: and also like, how how does chance? How piste off?
Speaker 1: Must everyone be that he's back, like like in the
Speaker 1: locker room and all that, like it's all back. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he has his crew that they can take care
Speaker 1: of themselves, and he trusts them with their own creative
Speaker 1: for the most part. So I'm sure there's a small
Speaker 1: handful of people that are, you know, welcome him, welcoming
Speaker 1: him back with open arms. But I would say the
Speaker 1: vast majority of talent there's probably freaked out at worst
Speaker 1: and nervous at best, right because if he does come
Speaker 1: back to Creative, that means storylines are going to die
Speaker 1: that day. And pretty much everyone I think who has
Speaker 1: been rehired since they were released under under Hunter's uh
Speaker 1: current reign right now, as as as the boss, I
Speaker 1: think those people are probably going through it. The most.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're going through a ton of emotions. He
Speaker 1: hated me before let me go, He's gonna hate me
Speaker 1: now he's gonna let me you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: People who had storylines are probably nervous. They're gonna go
Speaker 1: away from People came back just because, h yeah they did.
Speaker 1: They feel like I feel like, well, I came back
Speaker 1: because Triple ages in charge. And now it's been two
Speaker 1: months and and or however long it's been. Uh, it
Speaker 1: better have been a little bit longer. If if it
Speaker 1: was only two months, it feels like just two months.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were just talking about it. We're just
Speaker 1: going out. Can you believe Vice is gone? This is crazy,
Speaker 1: like as longer than two months. But it's just it's
Speaker 1: humorous that that's how short it's been. Yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm surprised, but I really am surprised.
Speaker 1: I won't be surprised if he goes back and starts
Speaker 1: running Creative and we're not. We're not a rumor podcast.
Speaker 1: That's just not what we do here. You know. We
Speaker 1: just tell our opinions and celebrate wrestling of all kinds.
Speaker 1: We're not good at it, but there's a. There's a
Speaker 1: rumor that our producers has sent over via text, but
Speaker 1: Nick con allegedly has a deal with Vince McMahon to
Speaker 1: sell w w E. I would say, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: pretty much the story of the Wall Street Journal was insinuating.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: stays in the world of rumors. I mean they're somewhat reputable.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know all the other fake stories
Speaker 1: and real stories because I don't read it well. When
Speaker 1: the article says alleged in the headline, I've got to
Speaker 1: say category. I mean, I feel like he only comes
Speaker 1: back for one of two reasons, to either sell it
Speaker 1: or to take over and run it. And I don't
Speaker 1: think he can feasibly take over and run it, So
Speaker 1: I think it has to be he's coming in, he's
Speaker 1: gonna sell the company, and wherever the pieces fall, the
Speaker 1: pieces fall. But it's gonna it's gonna end with him.
Speaker 1: Can Triple h afford to buy wrestling? What if he
Speaker 1: buys wrestling? No, no way, Man, It's gonna sell for
Speaker 1: at least in my billion, at least two billion dollars.
Speaker 1: I hope Elon Musk buys it, and he makes all
Speaker 1: the wrestlers you know, electric. You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what Ellen does really, I don't know. Maybe he'll make
Speaker 1: them all. He's gonna make it. He's gonna make an
Speaker 1: make them digital. I don't. I don't know how there
Speaker 1: is solar powered. Yeah, it'll be an f t I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know smart stuff. Listen if elon mus but
Speaker 1: the wrestlers are powered by the wind. It'll be cool,
Speaker 1: you know, it'll be a better version. I'm sure. Let's
Speaker 1: talk some real wrestling, more fantasy promotor bookie someone and
Speaker 1: I raw opened and the Bloodline came out like in
Speaker 1: uh raw Is War back in the day and just
Speaker 1: thrashed everything and took over. Where are you bastards? There's
Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it? We run this le
Speaker 1: suck it and they're doing their you know, tough guy thing,
Speaker 1: and all hell's broken loose. Kevin Owen's good. Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: comes out and he's there to to talk to everybody
Speaker 1: and and and but mainly Sammy because that's who his
Speaker 1: problems with him. You can see that he cares about
Speaker 1: him and Sammy and and the Bloodline are like f
Speaker 1: you Kevin Owens, and he's like, wellf me, no, f you,
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna go and fight. And then Adam
Speaker 1: Pierce comes down and he's like, nobody's hafing anybody, and
Speaker 1: he's trying to keep it cool. And security comes in,
Speaker 1: but security has got nothing for Solo Sakoa. He just
Speaker 1: handles all of the security and the rest of the
Speaker 1: bloodline doesn't even have to do anything. By the way,
Speaker 1: you have to all these arenas. You need to employ
Speaker 1: more credible security staffs, ones that formulate strategy. Let's all
Speaker 1: go in at the same time. I think if we might,
Speaker 1: if we go in one at a time, he's going
Speaker 1: to have a major advantage, Like you have to have
Speaker 1: one dude on the team that thinks like that if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a security company for one of these arenas,
Speaker 1: because these guys did not have that individual and they
Speaker 1: got taxed. And so Kevin Owens is like, well, security
Speaker 1: can't protect the people in this arena from the madness,
Speaker 1: then I'm going to protect him. So if you again,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter that Adam doesn't want anybody f
Speaker 1: and anybody he goes in, he fights, he's getting beat down.
Speaker 1: Then all the wrestlers come out. They're like, yeah, security
Speaker 1: can't do nothing. We're all coming out now. You know,
Speaker 1: the wrestlers all came in the ring at the same time.
Speaker 1: They didn't do that one at a time. Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: Security entrance bs. They got in and they started whipping. Asked,
Speaker 1: now the Bloodlines trying to run away and get away.
Speaker 1: Adam Pierce, who tried to throw them out of the
Speaker 1: arena earlier, now he doesn't want to matter. He says, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: You're not going anywhere. You wanted to f everybody. Well,
Speaker 1: now everybody's gonna f you, and I'm setting up a
Speaker 1: bunch of f and matches tonight. And that's right. And
Speaker 1: so that set up the show for Monday and Arrow.
Speaker 1: It was a chaotic segment, but they brought it in
Speaker 1: nice and it felt it felt okay to me. I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna hate it because when like they
Speaker 1: did it with the Nexus back in the day, it's uh.
Speaker 1: And when they did it with the Shield, I guess
Speaker 1: it was No, that was cool with the shield. I'm
Speaker 1: just crapping on it, um. But yeah, this I thought
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. And I dug the segment. Man, how
Speaker 1: do you feel about all that f and around. Well,
Speaker 1: I will say the security thing one one thing. It
Speaker 1: must feel weird to be a real security guard at
Speaker 1: one of these stadiums, because you know, you're looking at
Speaker 1: him going, hey, aren't you gonna help, Like it seems
Speaker 1: like there's a melee here like this good and he's
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, we're just real security. We
Speaker 1: just kind of watch you guys. So there's like that
Speaker 1: must be a weird separation of fake security and real
Speaker 1: security trying to make sense of everything. Ums like eyeballing
Speaker 1: each other from across. It feels real. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's fake enough. Um, I could be real. I
Speaker 1: could I could get in there. I do think that. Um,
Speaker 1: whenever they do these kind of like takeover things, it's
Speaker 1: always confusing from my brain because it's like I don't
Speaker 1: really see Raw and SmackDown as two separate shows. I
Speaker 1: just see him as like w W you know. To me,
Speaker 1: it's just this is just the Monday show and this one.
Speaker 1: So when they're like we're coming for you, Smacked and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this feels like civil war or so it
Speaker 1: feels like strange, like friendly fire is happening. We used
Speaker 1: to say that in the production meeting all the time,
Speaker 1: like every young I wasn't I was young ish then,
Speaker 1: but like all the young rides in the production meeting
Speaker 1: two vents, like in front of they go nobody, we
Speaker 1: don't look at it like it's all wrestling. We don't
Speaker 1: like I'd be like, yeah, second that, and all the
Speaker 1: old guys would be like it's like like it's not,
Speaker 1: it's it's each one's a brand on two weeks old,
Speaker 1: and you have to fight for your brand, whether it's
Speaker 1: really or blue. And I'm like, nobody does that except you. Also,
Speaker 1: they're like we shuffle up raw and SmackDown so often.
Speaker 1: We shuffle up those wrestlers so often. Yeah, they're attacking
Speaker 1: guys that they used to be like tag partners with
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago. Like they're like you
Speaker 1: know now they're all of a sudden enemies for some reason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your team ran, I'll punch you right in the face
Speaker 1: and it would be like a um. They'll be like
Speaker 1: we're coming and we're coming to destroy this thing, and
Speaker 1: they're like it's just like when um W c W
Speaker 1: was invaded by w W with the with the wolf
Speaker 1: Pack and Huld Coogan. It's like it's totally different because
Speaker 1: this is the same stock, the same brand, the same whatever. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like if Scott Hall invaded Kevin Nash.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it was like. You know, its like
Speaker 1: it went no together. Did they have a fight we
Speaker 1: didn't know about because I haven't confused. Like, but that
Speaker 1: being said, because they do this kind of thing so often,
Speaker 1: like over the last like twenty years, I do like
Speaker 1: it. It It feels classic, it feels cool. The fact that
Speaker 1: they just opened the show and is already chaos happening
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. Um So I did like I
Speaker 1: did like the opening was fun and I'm like, um also,
Speaker 1: am I crazy? But I've never seen or I am
Speaker 1: not very familiar with Adam Pierce. How long has he
Speaker 1: been in that position? He's been in the gym position
Speaker 1: for a while. He uhould be a wrestler. Um but
Speaker 1: then like like me, got older, um man, he's good
Speaker 1: on the mic man. He had like one little flub
Speaker 1: that he corrected. How many how many times has he
Speaker 1: been on camera on camera? Bunch dude for over an
Speaker 1: over a I was I couldn't make it about him.
Speaker 1: They kept saying his name, and then when they cut
Speaker 1: to him, like, oh, I know him, but like they
Speaker 1: kept when they were saying his name, was like, who
Speaker 1: the hell Adam Pierce. I was thinking it was another wrestler.
Speaker 1: He plays it pretty normal and subtle, not real character.
Speaker 1: He's like one of the few guys that's like not
Speaker 1: a wrestler who on the mic comes off like they're
Speaker 1: just doing their normal thing. I actually I like him
Speaker 1: out there, and I think he does a good job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one little club. I thought he saved it and made
Speaker 1: sure that the line was clear. He even repeated it.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's a good save. Respect. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I like Adam. He's doing a good job with that.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be there a long time. We had
Speaker 1: a championship match between Bianca and Alexa. I told my
Speaker 1: daughter before the match, Alexa will lose, and she'll lose
Speaker 1: because she'll turn to the dark side and become crazy.
Speaker 1: And Charlotte goes, what that that's stupid, and then that's
Speaker 1: trusted the lesson and trusting dad. But I I'll let's
Speaker 1: skip that match. I want to go right to a
Speaker 1: match that I think you actually loved, which was a
Speaker 1: lie versus solo, and I think it was like a
Speaker 1: Memphis music instrument street fight match, and these guys beat
Speaker 1: each other and beat each other up with guitars. He
Speaker 1: smashed him and oh, let's see that drum set right there.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, by home, smash your face and that
Speaker 1: f and drum set. You want to see that piano
Speaker 1: right there. I'm gonna do this, the spinning samoan drop
Speaker 1: bah blah blah. I'm smash you right on that f
Speaker 1: and piano. They hit each other with us, so you
Speaker 1: see this symbol bam right on your f and head.
Speaker 1: And they went back and forth with every instrument. So
Speaker 1: this truck driver get name hard. He gets in the
Speaker 1: ring calling big hard. That's what That's what me and
Speaker 1: the boys call it. And uh, he grabs a guitar
Speaker 1: like the hockey talk man before him, and he spams
Speaker 1: smashes that guitar right on solo. Soko is back and
Speaker 1: so just knows. So it's like f your chair shot.
Speaker 1: He saw little musician, bitch, here's some art, go back
Speaker 1: to school. Yeah, it just stares at him. And this
Speaker 1: dude isn't out of He's not in shape enough to
Speaker 1: get down quickly and get out of the ring. He
Speaker 1: has to like slowly not stumble and fall to get
Speaker 1: out of the ring, and he didn't want to look
Speaker 1: like a punk, so he's trying to like laugh it up.
Speaker 1: But then like you can see Solo like looking at him, like, dude,
Speaker 1: if you don't get out of this ring, is gonna
Speaker 1: get real. And then he's like, okay, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: collapse and rolled out of the ring. What And then
Speaker 1: he ends the match by choke slamming him on or
Speaker 1: someone spiking him onto the stupid piano. Ye, he choked
Speaker 1: slammed him out of the ring onto a piano that
Speaker 1: seemed like a real piano to It wasn't like a
Speaker 1: fake piano. They did right. It wasn't even gimmick. Just
Speaker 1: the legs were so he gets and then the legs
Speaker 1: fall out and then he just hits super hard. I
Speaker 1: don't know who came up with this match, but I
Speaker 1: imagine it was one of these underpaid, underappreciated writers for
Speaker 1: w B, Like, Hey, guitar centers having a sale, let's
Speaker 1: just go buy all these instruments. That's what I didn't
Speaker 1: get about that country guy coming in the ring. The
Speaker 1: spot made no sense that he comes in, No one cheers,
Speaker 1: Everyone's going, who's that? And then he hits him with
Speaker 1: the guitar and nobody cared. Even the restlers go, why
Speaker 1: why did you hit me with this? Nobody didn't. He
Speaker 1: just looks at him and the guy's like, you know,
Speaker 1: just this one guy hitting another guy with a guitar.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Joe, who is this guy? Looks like my
Speaker 1: male man? Bro, Like, who the hell is going on?
Speaker 1: He didn't sell it or anything. I was amazing. Still
Speaker 1: no security over the wall, Still no security. There's still
Speaker 1: no security there for this going on. Really teaching these
Speaker 1: guys you can just get in there and break a
Speaker 1: break an instrument over a wrestler if you'd like. Bro,
Speaker 1: I hated this match so much that I loved it.
Speaker 1: It's actually my best of the week for being so
Speaker 1: freaking horrible. I there were so we're actually cool. Like
Speaker 1: when he smashed him in the drums. That was stupid,
Speaker 1: but it made me laugh, but like the symbols great.
Speaker 1: When he tried to jump off the top rope Elias
Speaker 1: with the broken guitar and he's gonna like hit him
Speaker 1: with the just the neck of it. Is it called
Speaker 1: the neck, I don't know. Instruments, no neck of the guitar,
Speaker 1: the goose, whatever it is. He he swings it down
Speaker 1: and then wock. It's a thumb right to his throat
Speaker 1: and he just done those. But so there are parts
Speaker 1: that I dug. But this was what's that guy got
Speaker 1: in the ring? I'm like, what? Who? Who is this guy? Like?
Speaker 1: He looks like a substitute Jim Teacher? What is going
Speaker 1: on right now? So we don't need to get into
Speaker 1: the matches too much on this. And I know we've
Speaker 1: side quested and and talked a lot of smack, but
Speaker 1: the main event was well, no, let's here. There's one
Speaker 1: match that we should talk about, Austin Theory versus Seth Rawlins,
Speaker 1: which should be my best of the week. Uh, Sadly
Speaker 1: it is not because something awful is and uh, these guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just feel like Seth Rollins
Speaker 1: is like Brian Danielson, right, it doesn't matter who he
Speaker 1: wrestles of the time, he makes them look amazing and
Speaker 1: he makes himself look amazing. At the same time. They
Speaker 1: set this match up a little with him in a
Speaker 1: backstage segment and that energy that he has that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that works better in the middle of a ring with
Speaker 1: people all around you than it does backstage. So I
Speaker 1: wasn't even that hyped to see the match, Like, oh man,
Speaker 1: that's they should have let him out. So I know
Speaker 1: they're trying to keep time short, give people time for matches,
Speaker 1: but just either have him piste off that he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the belt right now, or just lose that and
Speaker 1: let theory try to get over backstage. Right So then
Speaker 1: they get out there and the match starts and it
Speaker 1: felt like they wrestled for thirty minutes. Bro like it
Speaker 1: was crazy. It was crazy, and I loved it. I
Speaker 1: loved the false finishes, I love the back and fourth
Speaker 1: of it. I loved every single thing about this match.
Speaker 1: It's like I said, it should be my match or
Speaker 1: my best of the week, but the Music City Disaster
Speaker 1: is my is my favorite of this week. Let's go
Speaker 1: to a E W Dynamite Sir Ricky freaking starts versus
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho. Dude, Seattle, your homestead. I'm just gonna say this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you take over because it's your hometown.
Speaker 1: This crowd was so freaking height and so good and
Speaker 1: so strong all night long. I love this match. The
Speaker 1: crowd was a big part of it because the guy
Speaker 1: started working off of them, and my guy, Ricky Starks
Speaker 1: gotta win. He took a beating afterwards, but he gotta win.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the match, and just tell me about
Speaker 1: Seattle a little bit, dude, because this crowd was awesome.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how Seattle gets the reputation of being
Speaker 1: the the loudest audience or the loudest I don't know
Speaker 1: how a group of people could have such a reputation,
Speaker 1: but it is a Seattle thing. They used to say,
Speaker 1: like the Kingdom was the loudest stadium in baseball, and
Speaker 1: then they said that's probably because it's in a dome
Speaker 1: and so all the all the sound is trapped in there.
Speaker 1: But it turns out it isn't. It turns out it's
Speaker 1: just loud Pacific Northwest people. Because we built the it
Speaker 1: was Seahawks Stadium, then it was lumen Field, quest Field, this, this, this.
Speaker 1: The stadiums had a millionaires, but it's for the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and it's open air, and we're known as the loudest crowd.
Speaker 1: I think we have the record for the loudest decibels
Speaker 1: all this different stuff. Also, they called the twelfth Man
Speaker 1: because we're so loud that we affect the football games.
Speaker 1: And in um One of the longest booings in wrestling
Speaker 1: history was in Seattle because Elias came out and made
Speaker 1: a bunch of Seattle Super Sonics jokes about us losing
Speaker 1: the basketball team, and the crowd crowd bowed Alias so
Speaker 1: long that it was like a record. There was a
Speaker 1: they couldn't it was so loud and I'm not and
Speaker 1: Alias really milked and he was smiling like he loved it,
Speaker 1: and it it was if you look it up on YouTube,
Speaker 1: must have been eating it up. I can't wait to watch.
Speaker 1: It's pretty sweet. And it's also like so hometown pride,
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, yes, just blew the heck out of
Speaker 1: this guy. But they were in it all night last.
Speaker 1: They bowed um m JF a lot like like he
Speaker 1: got like they really give him the business. So they
Speaker 1: were a huge part of this match as well. I
Speaker 1: love this match. I love Chris Jericho. I'm learning to
Speaker 1: love Ricky Starks. I'm I'm a new Ricky Starks guy
Speaker 1: because of this podcast and You and You and Big Album.
Speaker 1: Basically convincing me to him too. Yeah, he just got
Speaker 1: hip to him this year. But what I'm confused about
Speaker 1: is not confused. I'm surprised about is that he beat Jericho.
Speaker 1: The match was good, the match was fun and the
Speaker 1: and like you said, it was very hype. He pinned
Speaker 1: him clean. He pinned Jericho and that dude that came
Speaker 1: out with the chair leader with the burn up face.
Speaker 1: He let that kid get a win on get a
Speaker 1: win over on him like two or three weeks ago. Man,
Speaker 1: Jericho is down to let you shine if he believes
Speaker 1: in you. He just can't. He can't get everyone at once, right,
Speaker 1: So he tries to get the like the mid card
Speaker 1: guys over by joining the Jericho Appreciation Society. And then
Speaker 1: the guys that he goes against are the guys he
Speaker 1: thinks could be a top guy or have potential to
Speaker 1: be a top guy. Let's see what he's got, let's
Speaker 1: build him up, and I'm willing to lose. So when
Speaker 1: you see him do it to someone who's coming in
Speaker 1: on their first match, like a R No, not it
Speaker 1: wasn't a r It was action and Ratti or something
Speaker 1: like that. And then you see him do it to
Speaker 1: someone like Ricky who's in his thirties. He looks like
Speaker 1: he's in his twenties, but Ricky's older in his thirties,
Speaker 1: and you're just like, dude, you'll put anyone over so
Speaker 1: long as you believe in it. Doesn't matter what anyone
Speaker 1: else thinks. If you believe in him, you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's give this guy shot, Let's see what happens. And
Speaker 1: he does it all the time. I don't think it
Speaker 1: gets talked about enough. And it's a business of selfishness.
Speaker 1: So it sounds corny to say it's a selfless thing
Speaker 1: for him to do, Like it's almost cringe e in
Speaker 1: the wrestling world, but it's that's what it is. Man Like,
Speaker 1: at this age in his career, he should be doing that,
Speaker 1: but I don't think a lot of people would. And
Speaker 1: that's why I believe it's commendable. Yeah, he's awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: a big, big fan of the way he treats wrestling,
Speaker 1: in the way he respects wrestling, in the way he
Speaker 1: like handles himself and his career. He's he's he's awesome. Also,
Speaker 1: I'll be on his boat cruise week the week in February.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be at the Jericho Jericho Cruise. If you
Speaker 1: guys are listening to this podcast and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: on that cruise, come say what's up to me. I'll
Speaker 1: be doing comedy two nights on that boat and then
Speaker 1: hanging with all you guys. Um hanging with you all
Speaker 1: guys when I'm not doing stand up I'm on the boat.
Speaker 1: Are you going to get in the ring? I hope
Speaker 1: so if they let me, if they give me any
Speaker 1: any if he even like suggested for a second, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna do it. I know Jericho. What I
Speaker 1: text Jericho, tell him T say, my boy, Jeff Die
Speaker 1: is gonna be on that you should come to the
Speaker 1: cruise with us. I can't go on freaking cruise or
Speaker 1: be trapped on a boat. Hell to know you want
Speaker 1: to find out my worst phobia? No, hell no. If
Speaker 1: I don't know everybody on the boat, I'm not getting
Speaker 1: on the boat because then I'm what if I don't
Speaker 1: like someone and then I'm stuck with them and there's
Speaker 1: no way out we have to fight. I would get
Speaker 1: in so many pins. It is interesting in the ring end.
Speaker 1: To be stuck on on the boat is fascinating because
Speaker 1: it's like you're like, it's like it'd be like living
Speaker 1: with your fans for a week, like just together. I
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I'm look. I
Speaker 1: love my family. I would die for my children. I
Speaker 1: would lie in court under oath as a god fearing man.
Speaker 1: I would break that oath. I would lie and tell
Speaker 1: him no, my my wife was with me. She did
Speaker 1: not kill that person. I have no issue doing it.
Speaker 1: But dude, I need alone time, like and that's and
Speaker 1: that means the majority of the day is leave Freddy
Speaker 1: the f alone. If you need something, I'm there for you.
Speaker 1: But if you're just gonna text me, like, hey, the
Speaker 1: middle of the burrito was hot, but the outsides were cold.
Speaker 1: What do you think that. It's like, I'm gonna jump
Speaker 1: out of window on the first text, on the first text.
Speaker 1: And Sarah learned that early back in the day when
Speaker 1: we had these things called rims, and they were like
Speaker 1: text pagers that you could send messages to each other
Speaker 1: in the nineties, but you could send like full novels.
Speaker 1: So every girl who got it, that's all their main
Speaker 1: got were the novels where it's like the guy once
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, okay, seven thirty sushi. It's like it's
Speaker 1: all one word answers. And then my wife would send
Speaker 1: one and I wrote her one time I said, I
Speaker 1: didn't read any of this, and any others that are
Speaker 1: this long, I will not read either. And I sent
Speaker 1: it and it lets you know when they were read,
Speaker 1: and so it would pop up and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's got the check. Next I think it's a check
Speaker 1: or had the letter R and nothing. For like two hours,
Speaker 1: she was she was dealing with your dealing with it.
Speaker 1: She's going on, this is the guy was like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: did I just mess this up? Do I hate him?
Speaker 1: Do I love him? At least he was honest. But
Speaker 1: that was kind of a dick move, like she had
Speaker 1: to go through all those emotions and it took her
Speaker 1: two hours before she wrote back, I hear you, and
Speaker 1: that was it. I was like, there you go. You
Speaker 1: set a boundary. You set a boundary. That's that. That's good. Anyways, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would have been together one years, man, not like
Speaker 1: with the cruise. Um, but I'm gonna love the cruise.
Speaker 1: You will. And you do well with with people, you
Speaker 1: do well with strangers. You have to go on the
Speaker 1: road and talk to strangers. I don't think you like
Speaker 1: Darby Allen versus Samoa Joe, so if you don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it, we won't because I don't. You're
Speaker 1: not a Samoa joke guy, and I don't think you
Speaker 1: even like those matches that much. But there were gimmicks
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of ladders, So if you want to,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, and I'm happy to discuss. Otherwise, I'm
Speaker 1: just not I don't know if I have much to
Speaker 1: contribute to it. But you can talk to the people
Speaker 1: about it. They might want to hear you talk about
Speaker 1: I just don't have much to contribute. I thought it
Speaker 1: was awesome. I thought the story was great because Darby
Speaker 1: is a Seattle guy, and he won that title in
Speaker 1: his hometown. Usually in w w E, that's a guaranteed
Speaker 1: loss on your on your record, not that they use
Speaker 1: records in w w E. But Darby has gone through
Speaker 1: a strange evolution. When he first broke in, he was
Speaker 1: this question mark, right, he was this He was like
Speaker 1: the Riddler, but not like the corny Riddler, like a
Speaker 1: sexy riddler, right, Like a guy who's terrorizing Gotham has
Speaker 1: good reasons, but doesn't look like any of the people
Speaker 1: that have ever played the Riddler. He looks like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a sexy dude, right, And then from there it
Speaker 1: got to just vanilla ice cream man, where there was
Speaker 1: just nothing there for him. They gave him sting fast.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating that it works. I didn't think it would work.
Speaker 1: It works much better now than when they started, because
Speaker 1: he started doing this like is he this tortured soul
Speaker 1: or is he a skateboarder cruising down the street like
Speaker 1: goth style but still cool. He's got a good life.
Speaker 1: He's skating. How bad can it be? And it didn't
Speaker 1: quite match. And then he slowly, very slowly started to
Speaker 1: let like the tortured haunted part go, like the was
Speaker 1: the vampire Twilight, like the emo guy, Like he's letting
Speaker 1: that go, and he's being a bit more himself, Like
Speaker 1: I follow a w on Instagram and I'll see a
Speaker 1: lot of the promos they cut to like get you
Speaker 1: hyped for the matches, And he's speaking much more naturally now.
Speaker 1: He seems more confident while doing that. Um, and I
Speaker 1: was I'm starting to feel him more. I've I haven't
Speaker 1: always been complimentary about him. His his wrestling is amazing.
Speaker 1: I think he should take three months off a year
Speaker 1: um in a row to let his freaking body heal.
Speaker 1: But I was never like, oh my god, dude, I'm
Speaker 1: a dad, like to see those falls. Man, It's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: like my son will get on the trampoline. I'm like,
Speaker 1: be careful, son to turn into a helicopter. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm starting to like him more. And I just
Speaker 1: thought it was a nice story. And if this is
Speaker 1: the direction they're going to continue to go and he
Speaker 1: continues to grow, then I think he really can be
Speaker 1: one of those pillars of the company that I used
Speaker 1: to think he could be. And then I was like, nah,
Speaker 1: that's wrong about that. It's all on m JF shoulders
Speaker 1: pretty much. And now I'm starting to see, like why
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega is important, why Darby is important. I'm not
Speaker 1: a hangman page guy, but I get why he's important.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, I thought it was a nice match
Speaker 1: with a nice story, and Joe did the right job,
Speaker 1: and I thought all was right with the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I I like Darby Allen one thing you can
Speaker 1: that maybe not everyone knows. He's brutal, on the outside
Speaker 1: of his body. But he's like a super super like
Speaker 1: clean eating, doesn't drink, doesn't do d He's like sober,
Speaker 1: straight edge guy. So I just I love him. I
Speaker 1: think he's great, and I thought it was awesome that
Speaker 1: they even gave him the confetti in Seattle confetti. That's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I really liked it, man, and I haven't
Speaker 1: been I like that. I'm coming back around to him.
Speaker 1: I like him. I just if I was his promoter
Speaker 1: or his boss, I would tell him, you know, once
Speaker 1: a year, a big guys coming in and we're not
Speaker 1: gonna know if you're dead or alive, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: take three months off, You're gonna go to a beach.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rench you a house, go enjoy it. Take
Speaker 1: your girl, take a good guy, take three girls, like
Speaker 1: whatever you whatever you need to do to chill out.
Speaker 1: I'm sending a massage therapist out there, like did you're
Speaker 1: ask well? And when you come back, you kill everybody.
Speaker 1: You're a better owner than Vince. That's the nicest thing
Speaker 1: I've ever heard. I want the guy to wrestle for
Speaker 1: twenty years. Man. That everybody's built like Jeff Hardy and
Speaker 1: has like pipe cleaners for body parts, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. The rest of us are human being.
Speaker 1: That spine tattoo that Darby Ellen has is so cool,
Speaker 1: like it looks so sick. I bet would never do it.
Speaker 1: I bet Brock Westners he's that and goes I should
Speaker 1: have on that. I shouldn't have got this wienery looking
Speaker 1: sword on my chest. That's a that was a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Darby's lines are cleaner. Man. Here's another side quest. I'm
Speaker 1: going to Vancouver, Canada to meet with this tattoo artist
Speaker 1: that I've wanted to work on my one tattoo. This
Speaker 1: is a real tattoo story, not the stupid smone. I've
Speaker 1: wanted to fix something on it and kind of complete
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And we lost touch after Scooby Doo too,
Speaker 1: because that was the one there, and he reached out
Speaker 1: on social media. He's like a famous tattoo artist. I
Speaker 1: love his work and I'm gonna flapp to Vancouver for
Speaker 1: no reason other than finish the tattoo a couple of months.
Speaker 1: Bro Wait, where is your tattoos on my left shoulder
Speaker 1: down to my a little bit of my elbow. I
Speaker 1: was born in the Year of the dragon, So it's
Speaker 1: a dragon, and I was born on the eighth, so
Speaker 1: it's in the shape of an eight. Nice I didn't know,
Speaker 1: sort of like an abstract got a badass, like a
Speaker 1: secret badass? Well, you know, everyone had one in the
Speaker 1: motorcycle gang. I used to ride there you go sing,
Speaker 1: you're a little late. We used to We used to
Speaker 1: run drugs over the border back of the nineties. Man,
Speaker 1: we're hardcore. Yea, they're not. They're I've never even done those.
Speaker 1: They didn't make you prioritize the tattoo for They were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: just whenever you can get around to it, even when
Speaker 1: you're not in the gang. Twenty years later, you'll be fine,
Speaker 1: you know, And just get it eventually, promise, And it's
Speaker 1: whatever tattoo you want, it doesn't have to match ours.
Speaker 1: Ready to do your thing. So Friday Night SmackDown, there's
Speaker 1: not a ton to talk about. The opening segment was
Speaker 1: pretty sweet. Roman reigns for the first time, lost his ship,
Speaker 1: and Sammy Zane, who is the heart and the heart
Speaker 1: and soul of not just the Bloodline, but of all
Speaker 1: professional wrestling, is there just trying to be his emotional
Speaker 1: support dog, which is what which is what he is
Speaker 1: to everyone, to all of us. Really, I take him
Speaker 1: on planes with me all the time. He came with
Speaker 1: me to Hawaii, sat for free, everything's good and right
Speaker 1: with the world. And Roman it starts and to feel
Speaker 1: some pressure he might be losing his title soon, and
Speaker 1: he gets piste and he gives him the side I
Speaker 1: right like the you son, I'm gonna kill you, and
Speaker 1: he says, do you want to beat me? And sam
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a mic, he can't even defend himself verbally,
Speaker 1: but you see the lips go on, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to beat you. Do
Speaker 1: you want to beat me? No? No, no no, no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be It's not what you want. Why
Speaker 1: are you trying to be? Like? And he just goes
Speaker 1: in on him. He doesn't drop any f because he's
Speaker 1: a pro. Right. He goes in on him and we
Speaker 1: see major tension for the first time, which is pretty
Speaker 1: freaking cool. And then you see this kind of lead
Speaker 1: into Kevin Owens coming out and saying he whoa, whoa Wait, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you're not mad at You're not mad at Sammy, who
Speaker 1: gets mad at their emotional support dog son of a bitch,
Speaker 1: That's what he says to him, and he says, you're
Speaker 1: mad at me, and Romans is right, like, yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: I'm mad at you. And he's like, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: you're mad at me. And he goes, if you're so mad,
Speaker 1: why don't you give me a match at the Royal
Speaker 1: Rumble and Roman Reigns is like fine, he's had it.
Speaker 1: He just hates this guy. He legit says like, I
Speaker 1: just want to be done with you. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see you, I don't want to hear you. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's some shoot stuff in there because he got palmed
Speaker 1: in the ear by Kevin Owens at War Games, so
Speaker 1: maybe there's like some real stuff in there. Trying to
Speaker 1: make it extra spicy. It's like I'm doing you can
Speaker 1: have your match, And even Paul Hayman's like, oh hard
Speaker 1: my tramp Chief. These are these are the expressions they're emoting.
Speaker 1: They didn't all get this sweet dialogue that I'm cutting right,
Speaker 1: And Kevin Owens gets what he wants and he leaves,
Speaker 1: which leads us to the end of the show, and uh,
Speaker 1: Sammy's been trying to talk to the Chief man and
Speaker 1: the Chief's not not having it all show two hours.
Speaker 1: He finally brings him in and Sammy's trying to apologize.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even know what to apologize for, but he knows,
Speaker 1: he knows he's upset his chief, and so he's just
Speaker 1: trying to make it right. And he finishes and Roman says,
Speaker 1: I own accept your apology, and sam he's like, oh
Speaker 1: show ship man, I just I don't even know what
Speaker 1: I did wrong yet. What's going on again? This is there?
Speaker 1: These are his emotions and then Roman Ran says stop.
Speaker 1: Roman says, I owe you an apology. And this was
Speaker 1: a very sweet soap opera moment. And then he switched.
Speaker 1: But he switches it on him. You think he's being nice.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm feeling this pressure. I shouldn't be going
Speaker 1: in on you, but I'm gonna give you a chance
Speaker 1: to redeem yourself and make it up to me, even
Speaker 1: though I owe you an apology. You're gonna wrestle Kevin
Speaker 1: Owen's next week before the Royal Rumble, and like they
Speaker 1: said in Karate Kid, I want him out of commission.
Speaker 1: And the kids like, but since I can beat this guy,
Speaker 1: and he just looks at him. He goes, I don't
Speaker 1: want him beaten out of commission. That's what Paul Hayman
Speaker 1: says to him. He was summoning his his inner Chrease.
Speaker 1: John Chrease was that character's name from Karate Kid some
Speaker 1: some mom and uh. And that's set up what's hopefully
Speaker 1: gonna be a huge Friday Night SmackDown this week. Sammy
Speaker 1: Zane in the main event against Kevin Freaking Owens. I
Speaker 1: didn't say freaking, that's not gimmick infringement. And the two
Speaker 1: best friends are going to fight. What to the death,
Speaker 1: we don't know, but definitely to the pain. I hope
Speaker 1: to the death. That'd be more interesting to watch. They're
Speaker 1: best friends, no kidding. And a bunch of other stuff
Speaker 1: happened on the show too, but but it wasn't to me.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a great Friday Night SmackDown, but we got
Speaker 1: time to talk one match if there was something that
Speaker 1: you like that tickled your wrestling fancy. Ricochet looked amazing
Speaker 1: as always, but he also made Top Dollar look terrible.
Speaker 1: Top Dollar looks so sluggish, and and it was it
Speaker 1: was interesting to watch, um, but that was my worst
Speaker 1: of the week. That's all I was bringing it up.
Speaker 1: I will say this. Yes, it's also Ricochet's job to
Speaker 1: make his opponent look great too. However, Top Dollars, the
Speaker 1: same guy who tried to go over the top rope
Speaker 1: clipped it and flipped pus his own nast like he's
Speaker 1: not the best worker. So maybe that's as good as
Speaker 1: Ricochet can make Top Dollar look because Top Dollars not
Speaker 1: at the level that he needs to be in yet.
Speaker 1: But yes, very average dollar, it was not very able
Speaker 1: to look clean. That's only that I'm bringing it up
Speaker 1: because Ricochet looks great when he jumps off that top rope,
Speaker 1: like it is amazing how high he gets, Like Ricochet
Speaker 1: is just finished. It looked like he got higher than normal.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because the guy he's landed on was
Speaker 1: so much bigger than he was, But it looked like
Speaker 1: he went twenty feet in the air and landed perfect
Speaker 1: like he always did. Also, Charlotte Flair doesn't look like
Speaker 1: herself anymore. She she looks I will barely recognize her.
Speaker 1: Maybe you haven't seen her in along. It has been
Speaker 1: a while, it's been eight months. Um, we didn't even
Speaker 1: talk about that. We're both on vacation when it happened. Uh,
Speaker 1: And some people are mad that Charlotte is champ again.
Speaker 1: Why do you really want that title around Ronda roused
Speaker 1: these ways? Or when Raquel Rodriguez comes in, do you
Speaker 1: want her to get it off someone that's legit, that
Speaker 1: the company respects, so that it means more, or she's
Speaker 1: just gonna win it off a part timer like no,
Speaker 1: put it on Charlotte and then let Charlotte and Raquel
Speaker 1: go to WrestleMania and it'll be an awesome match, and
Speaker 1: Raquel can be the good guy by that point because
Speaker 1: everyone will start booing Charlotte the only cheer about a month,
Speaker 1: and then they all turned to booze on her every
Speaker 1: single title run um and then everybody's happy and and
Speaker 1: then and everybody wins. You don't want Ronda still with
Speaker 1: the title, I promise. So I like the Charlotte's champ
Speaker 1: and I like Charlotte. I think Charlotte is she's the
Speaker 1: whole girl. She's like the whole code of women's wrestling.
Speaker 1: And in my she done, she's awesome, and she's a beast,
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm happy she's champing and she got that
Speaker 1: figure eight. Sonya Deville took it like a champ to
Speaker 1: sold that pain. I don't know if you notice this,
Speaker 1: but you know, she's supposed to be babyface right like
Speaker 1: Charlotte right now, and she's snatched the belt from the
Speaker 1: female referee like the way the way like a heel
Speaker 1: would famously, you know, like she she snatched the belt
Speaker 1: like give me that, and then you can see her realized, like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: shouldn't it that. She goes, oh, sorry, sorry, she apologized
Speaker 1: to now I know, yeah, she goes she put on
Speaker 1: this super like fake smile and went thank you. And
Speaker 1: I was like, why that was weird? I missed. I
Speaker 1: must have not been looking at the moment she snatched
Speaker 1: the belt and missed that. So that's why she did.
Speaker 1: And I have a theory that that's the Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: that's ingrained in her. Like it's like this like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get heat backstage for for doing that. Vince
Speaker 1: is gonna go, you're not our heel. You don't snatch
Speaker 1: the belt from the referee, and so like I think
Speaker 1: that was her trying to overcorrect like, oh, well, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm so you know, she like she realized, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get in trouble for this. I was wondering why
Speaker 1: that was so big because that's not normally her m O.
Speaker 1: I was like, that was weird, But alright, moving on,
Speaker 1: were you going to be this weekend? This weekend, I'm
Speaker 1: in Des Moines, Iowa at the Funny Bone Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1: Very exciting. Have you played there before? I played their
Speaker 1: bunch and Iowa was great. It's cold, but it's it's
Speaker 1: the Iowa people are awesome. I love the people of Iowa.
Speaker 1: Is that the right term? Did you play there? Or
Speaker 1: is that that's the right term? Yeah, did you play there?
Speaker 1: You know what you stand up or royalty? You're in
Speaker 1: the comedy family. Well, Mr Jeff, that was wrestling this week.
Speaker 1: We have a whole another week to discuss next week.
Speaker 1: And you're the best. Love you, buddy, Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: and thank all you guys for listening to the friend duration.
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