Speaker 1: So bicyclists crashed on my street yesterday. Oh you said,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, And I wasn't that sad. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of them. There's a lot of them on the street,
Speaker 1: and they drive pretty wild. They run all the stop signs.
Speaker 1: They'll take up the whole road. And I see, I
Speaker 1: drive an old car, so I drive slow and I'm good.
Speaker 2: To the cyclists even though they're annoying.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, guys, stay safe out there, and I
Speaker 1: don't honk a them readying well, most of my neighbors
Speaker 1: are pretty pissed off and hate all these Land's armstrongs
Speaker 1: on their swins, like they just want to kill them.
Speaker 3: Now you're mad even introducing ghosts. I'm wrestling win Freddy
Speaker 3: Chef died and for ready friends tunor.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to a great wrestling day. Of course,
Speaker 1: every day is a great wrestling day if you're a
Speaker 1: wrestling fan, because you can listen to this show any
Speaker 1: day you want, and with me as always as my
Speaker 1: fantastic co host, mister jeff I, how are you saying?
Speaker 2: Feeling good? Brother? How you feeling?
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm a little tired today. I got kids
Speaker 1: and dogs and not a lot of sleep over the weekend.
Speaker 1: We record these on Mondays. You guys listen whenever you listen,
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of wrestling stuff, and we'll get
Speaker 1: into the news first, and we're gonna do it right now.
Speaker 1: This is something that Triple h is wanted for a
Speaker 1: very long time. He wanted it or mentioned it when
Speaker 1: I was there, so at least that long. So two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven I think was the first time I
Speaker 1: heard him say RAW would be better if it was
Speaker 1: two hours. And it will be two hours from now
Speaker 1: until they at least go to Netflix, and then we'll
Speaker 1: see if they're under time restraints or not. I know
Speaker 1: I don't watch a lot of TV, but I know
Speaker 1: a lot of their episodes aren't the same amount of minutes.
Speaker 1: Some of them aren't even close to the same amount
Speaker 1: of minutes. So we might I'm speculating here, we might
Speaker 1: be in a situation where RAB will be at least
Speaker 1: two hours every Monday come January on Netflix. But there
Speaker 1: might be some episodes that are jam packed full of
Speaker 1: a lot more and maybe it goes all the way
Speaker 1: up to three or two hours and twenty one minutes
Speaker 1: or two hours on thirty seven minutes. Maybe they won't
Speaker 1: be under the same kind of time restraints schedule wise
Speaker 1: in that regard, which could be kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Jeff, what do you think about that idea? I'm fine
Speaker 4: with whatever if. I mean, I always have an opinion.
Speaker 4: But the truth is whether they make wrestling one hour
Speaker 4: or twelve hours, we're.
Speaker 2: Gonna watch it. So I'm happy.
Speaker 1: Well, Aw's TV deal has a bit more clarity, and
Speaker 1: this is good news for cord cutters like myself, people
Speaker 1: who are are hosed because we have things like YouTube
Speaker 1: TV that won't give me the East Coast live feeds.
Speaker 1: Some bs By the way, I can't even like cheat
Speaker 1: the zip code. It knows, it knows when you're lying, Jeff.
Speaker 1: But it's going to be streaming on Max at the
Speaker 1: exact same time.
Speaker 2: And you know what I do have.
Speaker 1: I have Max so I'll be able to watch wrestling
Speaker 1: live once again come January instead of having to wait
Speaker 1: three hours and avoid talking to all my wrestling friends.
Speaker 1: So I don't know anything that's about to happen, and
Speaker 1: I can't wait for it. Are you excited to get
Speaker 1: to watch wrestling at five pm instead of having to
Speaker 1: wait till eight pm?
Speaker 2: Since we're West Coasters. This is also consistent with what
Speaker 2: I talk about.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't matter if they put it at nine am
Speaker 4: or five pm, because I don't watch any wrestling live anyways,
Speaker 4: so I'm always cramming it late at night when I
Speaker 4: get back from the comedy clubs. I haven't watched live
Speaker 4: wrestling since I was in junior high.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, dude.
Speaker 1: See, I love it when it's on a five PM
Speaker 1: because my dinner eats my family. My dinner eats family early. No,
Speaker 1: my family eats dinner early. I do most of the
Speaker 1: cooking in this house, and so I usually am cooking
Speaker 1: and prepping stuff while professional wrestling's on, and I'm so
Speaker 1: accustomed to it. And we eventually cut the cord and
Speaker 1: made this changeover, and it's been so weird not getting
Speaker 1: to have my wrestling on. So now I have to
Speaker 1: wait a day and I'll do it the next day,
Speaker 1: like when I'm cooking, but I have to wait a
Speaker 1: whole day. I have to stay off social media. I
Speaker 1: follow lot of wrestling stuff, which I guess I could
Speaker 1: just not do that, but it's not fun to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The good thing about following all this wrestling stuff is
Speaker 4: it keeps you in the loop. That's very exciting. You
Speaker 4: get to see wrestling all the time, but then if
Speaker 4: you don't watch it live, you're gonna see a lot
Speaker 4: of spoilers. The only ones that bother me is when
Speaker 4: a wrestler comes back. I don't mind knowing who won
Speaker 4: or lost because I'm like, I'll still see the match.
Speaker 4: It's not really a spoiler for me who won or lost.
Speaker 4: But when someone comes back and I get like all
Speaker 4: these texts like you guys, gosh, dang it. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: get so mad about that. But other than that, I
Speaker 4: don't It's fun. You want to follow all the things
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: And our last bit of business, please keep an eye
Speaker 1: on our socials on Instagram and wherever else we are.
Speaker 1: You guys can do our Q and A, which is
Speaker 1: Questions and answers Jeff for those who don't know what
Speaker 1: Q and A means, and you guys can ask the
Speaker 1: questions and we give the answers. That's how this works.
Speaker 1: We do it once a season that you guys can
Speaker 1: get your questions read if they're good enough, maybe even
Speaker 1: if they're sucky.
Speaker 2: We'll pick a couple of sucky ones just to have fun.
Speaker 1: All right, dude, are you ready to talk about wrestling
Speaker 1: or do you want to talk about more nonsense.
Speaker 4: I'd like to talk about wrestling or nonsense.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll just love talking. We'll talk nonsense.
Speaker 1: So bicyclists crashed on my street yesterday. Oh you said,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, And I wasn't that sad. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of them. There's a lot of them on the street,
Speaker 1: and they drive pretty wild. They run all the stop signs.
Speaker 1: They'll take up the whole road. And I see, I
Speaker 1: drive an old car, so I drive slow and I'm
Speaker 1: good to the cyclists, even though they're annoying. I'm like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: stay safe out there, and I don't honk.
Speaker 2: At them or anything.
Speaker 1: Well, most of my neighbors are pretty pissed off and
Speaker 1: hate all these land's armstrongs on their swins, like they
Speaker 1: just want to kill them. And I'll hear horns go by.
Speaker 1: You might even hear them on our Well you won't
Speaker 1: because our producer is such a straight up sound gangster.
Speaker 1: You don't hear anything but our voices. But I'll hear
Speaker 1: like horns, hog honk and people yelling, ah, your motherfucker,
Speaker 1: I'll kill you. It's not a good healthy relationship. Well,
Speaker 1: one of them wrecked and it was not just outside
Speaker 1: my house, but I live in like a canyon, so
Speaker 1: it echoes. So I was up here playing some Red
Speaker 1: Dead Redemption too while the kids were at school, just
Speaker 1: you know, hunting, looking for all the birds in the game,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And I just hear, oh, fuh plan,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Yo, that was a car that
Speaker 1: for sure hit that guy like it was. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just a crash, like a car fucking hit a bicyclist.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm looking out the window.
Speaker 1: I can't see him. I can just hear the guy screaming.
Speaker 1: I go outside. I'm trying to be a good Samaritan.
Speaker 1: I go outside. I'm not that sad that he's down,
Speaker 1: because again, you just.
Speaker 4: Kind of want to see it. You want you want
Speaker 4: to get over it. But I helped the guy out
Speaker 4: if if he needs help, I help the guy out.
Speaker 4: So I get outside, there's already someone out there. They're
Speaker 4: calling the cops because his phone doesn't doesn't have reception,
Speaker 4: and are the ambulance whoever they call. But the cops
Speaker 4: got there first, and that's when I found out. It
Speaker 4: was in fact a car and they just took off.
Speaker 2: Bro just just.
Speaker 1: Straight up and run and just piece this dude out.
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I'm telling you man, there, I say,
Speaker 1: my neighbors. It's not like I know them, but the
Speaker 1: people who live in my neighborhood are crazy. They drive
Speaker 1: down this street at like fifty five miles an hour.
Speaker 1: I drive much slower. I drive seventy six to eighty z.
Speaker 1: If you guys are curious, it does not go fast.
Speaker 1: It looks super fast, and in the seventies it could
Speaker 1: go fast. Yeah, if I put a frigging Corvette engine
Speaker 1: in there. But I'd just take it to.
Speaker 4: The for those without dosing you and letting people know
Speaker 4: where you live. You live on dead Man's Curve. Your
Speaker 4: the street to go to your house is literally the
Speaker 4: longest no shoulder, Like there's it's not a great bicycling road.
Speaker 2: No, it's not even walking.
Speaker 4: It'd be a perfect bicycling road if there weren't allowed
Speaker 4: to be cars on it, and it'd be a perfect
Speaker 4: driving road if they weren't allowed to be bikes on it.
Speaker 4: But like, it's a super long road and if you're
Speaker 4: trying to get home to work from work or something
Speaker 4: like that, Like, it's not a road you want to
Speaker 4: drive slow down. It takes forever to get up there,
Speaker 4: to get to like anyone who lives on that street.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: They want to like.
Speaker 1: And they want to you know, do all that, and
Speaker 1: then they see the bikes and they're like, motherfuckers. Those
Speaker 1: cyclists are like, dude, please don't kill us. But then
Speaker 1: there's some that ride like three or four wide, and
Speaker 1: you know, it pisses people of their signs. And it
Speaker 1: kissed me a single file right in single It piss
Speaker 1: me off for sure.
Speaker 2: Dude. I've got my car.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much horse power it has, but
Speaker 4: how much it's got more horsepower than a bicyclist? What
Speaker 4: is a bicycle? That's zero horse power? It's being powered
Speaker 4: by a peanut butter sandwich. Like, get off the road.
Speaker 4: You're not a car. You don't have the horse power
Speaker 4: to be on this road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you know it's powered by peanut butter sandwiches.
Speaker 1: That would can said, yeah, your.
Speaker 4: Car, that's not that shouldn't they're not equal. A car
Speaker 4: and a bike shouldn't be on the same place. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk wrestling, the men and women that
Speaker 1: are also powered by peanut butter sandwiches professional wrestlers. All right,
Speaker 1: So for the picks, we're just gonna put this out
Speaker 1: there right now. All in all, Jeff and I didn't
Speaker 1: do horribly, but we could have done better, and for
Speaker 1: that we're sorry. But we did go three for five.
Speaker 1: We were right on different matches. But if you pay
Speaker 1: attention or a producer, as most of you do, if
Speaker 1: you're smart, you do, and if you're dumb, you don't.
Speaker 1: Our producer went five for five, five for five and
Speaker 1: even sort of picked the Dwayne the Rock Johnson things.
Speaker 1: So did my buddy Mac. By the way, he knew,
Speaker 1: he knew Dwayne was coming. He thought he was going
Speaker 1: to interfere in the match. Though five for five hangs out.
Speaker 4: Our producer hangs out with Dave Meltzer and all these guys,
Speaker 4: and they know what's in the script. So I'm not
Speaker 4: given our producer any credit. He didn't guess this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the slander, the absolute slander that has
Speaker 1: just come out.
Speaker 2: Loves it, Alex.
Speaker 1: I will be your witness in court, although I did
Speaker 1: say once that I would lie for Jeff in court,
Speaker 1: so maybe I would lie. Maybe you don't want me to, right.
Speaker 1: It's Alex also is Freddy? Are you willing to do that?
Speaker 2: Have you seen? Have you been with Alex at all times?
Speaker 1: That's true? He could also be Batman, all right. The
Speaker 1: match opened with Hell in a Cell And I got
Speaker 1: this match wrong. And I promise you this, everybody, I
Speaker 1: will never get to see him punk match wrong again,
Speaker 1: because I figured it out. He may lose a battle,
Speaker 1: but he's never going to lose the war, not so
Speaker 1: long as there's blood and through his veins. So he
Speaker 1: gave up one. Once he gives up the one, the
Speaker 1: other two are gonna be his no matter what. He
Speaker 1: did it with Max, he did it with Drew, He's
Speaker 1: done it with pretty much everybody. The one time that
Speaker 1: I think it's not gonna happen again is when it
Speaker 1: does happen with Seth. But every other war he's gonna
Speaker 1: be Seth Rollins. That is every other war he's gonna be,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna win. He's gonna lose one match and
Speaker 1: he's gonna win two. And that's just the way it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. And I'm never gonna get it wrong again.
Speaker 1: And when he does Seth, I'm gonna get that right too,
Speaker 1: you mark my words. But Jeff, I think you got
Speaker 1: it right because you picked cm pup and I'm the
Speaker 1: one that looks.
Speaker 2: About this match. Though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to fine, I got to finish right.
Speaker 4: The finish was fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: I just you know.
Speaker 4: But here's the thing. Did you like all the blood?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Normally I don't, okay, cause I get kind of like
Speaker 1: I'm a dad now and it's like I'm old, and
Speaker 1: so I'm like, why do they have to bleed? You know,
Speaker 1: you can just have a great artistic match instead. And
Speaker 1: I'm normally that guy, but in this case and in
Speaker 1: this regard, I was like, yo, like they hate each
Speaker 1: other so much, like there has.
Speaker 2: To be blood.
Speaker 1: Like he made it too personal. He started talking about
Speaker 1: the dude's wife and his dog and the bracelet them,
Speaker 1: you know, the match about a bracelet we joke, haha.
Speaker 1: But they made you care about something that wasn't a
Speaker 1: title match. So they succeeded huge in that regard. And
Speaker 1: so when the blood came, it was sort of organic
Speaker 1: in the story because Sampunk said in his promo like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you bleed and you're gonna beg me
Speaker 1: for mercy to stop. And they so watching the match
Speaker 1: and watching promises be fulfilled, or most of the promises
Speaker 1: being fulfilled. It was organic and it wasn't just you know, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a blade, cut yourself, or you know, here's a
Speaker 1: you know, here's a chair that I'm gonna split you
Speaker 1: open with.
Speaker 2: It was no, dude, you need to be split open.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a lot of blood on
Speaker 1: Drew's head, but I thought it was a necessary thing,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really really cool. Dude, this
Speaker 1: match was awesome and they freaking opened the show with it,
Speaker 1: which is so hardcore.
Speaker 4: It was fun to watch it, very very good. I
Speaker 4: also felt a little I When I was young, I
Speaker 4: wanted the most blood you could get. But now as
Speaker 4: I'm getting older, I don't know if I enjoy it
Speaker 4: as much. Yeah, and it's just like it just doesn't.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I think I had such a
Speaker 4: When I was younger, I had such a bloodlust because
Speaker 4: I thought that meant it was real, Whereas now and
Speaker 4: I know that it isn't real. It's just actually another
Speaker 4: thing they do. So now it doesn't do as.
Speaker 2: Much for me.
Speaker 1: I'd say, here's a weird question that just popped in
Speaker 1: my head. Is Drew McIntyre underrated?
Speaker 2: I think so? You do think he is?
Speaker 1: Right since the pandemic, I think he may be the
Speaker 1: most underrated wrestler on the WWE roster. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's ever gotten the props he deserved for being a
Speaker 1: COVID champion, which in hindsight is a much trickier and
Speaker 1: more complicated thing than I think anyone realized at the time.
Speaker 1: To win in front of nobody is freaking horrible. I
Speaker 1: almost cursed. I was really trying to say that F
Speaker 1: word there, and I just my brain would not let
Speaker 1: me do it. Yeah, man, Like, I don't mean underrated
Speaker 1: as far as his skills, because I think everybody's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that dude fool can wrestle, but everything he kind of
Speaker 1: represented as a champion during COVID and his ability to
Speaker 1: turn that character into this like selfish heel that is
Speaker 1: willing to permanently injure someone like he turned into such
Speaker 1: an asshole. And he's been so good on the mic,
Speaker 1: better than he's ever been. And he's always been all right.
Speaker 1: When he first started, he was green, obviously, but I
Speaker 1: mean in this incantation of his character. I just feel
Speaker 1: like we don't talk.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe we talk about him enough.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we do, man, but I don't
Speaker 1: hear other people talking about him as much as us.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's what it is. He Drew McIntyre's kind
Speaker 1: of the shit bro.
Speaker 4: I think he deserves more. I think that's a fair assessment.
Speaker 4: He's he's very, very good. But we spend more time
Speaker 4: yammering about dudes in the bloodline than we do about
Speaker 4: Drew McIntyre. So you know, who would you rather have
Speaker 4: for for your federation? Would you rather have Solo Sequoia
Speaker 4: or would you rather have.
Speaker 2: That you miss his name up everything?
Speaker 4: Well, Solo Sola, would you rather or would you Drew
Speaker 4: McIntyre Drew, But we spend more time talking about him.
Speaker 1: Solo's new and fresh. I think maybe that's why we do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm we're going to have a weekly Drew mac entire segment, Jeff,
Speaker 1: So I'd like you to give hus flowers Drewish every
Speaker 1: single every single week. It's the Drewish segment. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm done throwing flowers that you drew. But you're awesome, man,
Speaker 1: and that match was awesome and I thought you should
Speaker 1: have won. Anyway, the WWE Women's Championship match between Naya
Speaker 1: Jacks and Bailey, and this is a hell of a
Speaker 1: match match.
Speaker 2: He was beating.
Speaker 1: Bailey's asked the first five minutes of this like just
Speaker 1: getting slammed and smashed everywhere. This one, your boy got correct.
Speaker 1: I picked Nya. You know our producer, well you know
Speaker 1: what he picked because he was perfect, and Jeff got
Speaker 1: a little emotional.
Speaker 2: Jeff got a little to Bailey. Did you like the match? No,
Speaker 2: not really, I think Bailey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Bailey doesn't do much for me either,
Speaker 4: but Bailey, I at.
Speaker 5: Least it's not a very positive review of this match.
Speaker 5: I appreciate your honesty. We don't have to agree on
Speaker 5: every match.
Speaker 1: I actually liked the match. I didn't think it the
Speaker 1: attempted cash in. I thought that should have been saved
Speaker 1: for the very very end, and maybe Nia would have
Speaker 1: been more beat up or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess it worked. I guess I liked the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just I'm just trying to find something wrong.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed it. Man, all right, well you got
Speaker 2: it wrong.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha ha ha, And I got it right,
Speaker 1: so hardy horror again. I mean, our producer perfect, all.
Speaker 2: Right, hanging out with Meltzer, you know, it's all he does.
Speaker 1: Live Morgan title defense against Rhea Ripley with claustrophobic Dominic
Speaker 1: mysterio in a shark cage. Let me tell you something
Speaker 1: about Dominic mysterio that you guys might not know. Maybe
Speaker 1: I haven't said it before, but he's a victim, all right,
Speaker 1: He's a victim. And Ria Ripley's not this this angel
Speaker 1: that you think she is. She knew about his fear
Speaker 1: of tight spaces, she knew about his claustrophobia. And what
Speaker 1: was the first thing she did when she could get
Speaker 1: a championship match. She's gonna put him in a closed,
Speaker 1: tight space and lock him in there. Is that a
Speaker 1: nice thing to do?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Whatever happened to forgive and forget. I thought that's what
Speaker 1: babyfaces did. I thought that that's what nice people do.
Speaker 1: They move on, They don't hold crazy grudges and lock
Speaker 1: people in. Once again, once again, proving then maybe Dominic's
Speaker 1: not such a piece of crap. Maybe he's a sweetheart
Speaker 1: who's being take advantage of by by by crafty women.
Speaker 1: You guys ever been taken advantage of by a crafty woman?
Speaker 1: And Daily Daily, my friend, sure have a lot of
Speaker 1: crafty women in LA. So I believe that that's why
Speaker 1: you gotta get out of LA and date you know,
Speaker 1: some normal people, Jeff, Just normal people, that's all. I
Speaker 1: got the one normal actress there is, and nobody.
Speaker 2: Else gets to have her.
Speaker 1: So thanks forging them all, Freddy, All right, this was
Speaker 1: another right answer for your boy, Freddie. I thought that
Speaker 1: Dominic would escape. I have something directly to do with
Speaker 1: the finish. I almost even called the finish. I did
Speaker 1: not know that Roquel Rodriguez was gonna run in that
Speaker 1: she made a backdoor deal with Live Morgan and Dominic,
Speaker 1: that she's like, yo, I got your back, and when
Speaker 1: shit goes down, I'm gonna go down with it. And
Speaker 1: it looked like the ref kind of saw and then
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, do your thing, girl, which is weird.
Speaker 1: Another I'll ref snitch. I'll refsnitch all you refs straight
Speaker 1: up when you miss three counts. There was a miss
Speaker 1: three count too, by the way, but I know that
Speaker 1: was unsmacked down. But anyway, Raquel Rodriguez came in and
Speaker 1: this was weird. The crowd didn't really vibe with it,
Speaker 1: and I think it's tough to do pay per view
Speaker 1: angles like that with someone who we've seen before but
Speaker 1: hasn't had the opportunity to get all the way over yet,
Speaker 1: like it worked with Solo at the Clash at the
Speaker 1: Castle because no one had ever seen him before it
Speaker 1: was brand new. But we've seen Raquel and we like Raquel,
Speaker 1: but she hasn't been on television long enough for her
Speaker 1: to be over with everybody and everyone to know who
Speaker 1: she is. So when she came in and like did
Speaker 1: her business on Ria, the crowd was kind of like
Speaker 1: huh instead of yah or instead of yeah, you dirty
Speaker 1: son of a bitch, Like they didn't. They didn't go
Speaker 1: after in either in either direction, which sucks because we're
Speaker 1: actually fair. We like Raquel. We've talked about her on
Speaker 1: this podcast before. We both like her a lot because
Speaker 1: she's big and strong and doesn't look like, you know,
Speaker 1: a skinny barbie doll that every actress and professional wrestler
Speaker 1: and pop star on Earth looks like like. She looks
Speaker 1: like a big, strong woman that can fetes and deserves
Speaker 1: to have a title around her waist because like, who's
Speaker 1: going to beat someone that big Rhea Ripley could but anyway,
Speaker 1: But anyway, it was just weird, and I felt like
Speaker 1: a moment like that would be better better served on
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw on TV, so that you can get
Speaker 1: her in front of people's eyeballs, build her up, and
Speaker 1: then when you want to have some surprise turn at
Speaker 1: a pay per view, it works a little bit better.
Speaker 2: But it didn't. It didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't seem to play to me. Jeff, I know
Speaker 1: you like her, but did it? Did you like this?
Speaker 2: No, there's a lot of things that happen. I like
Speaker 2: that you just said that. I agree with all of it.
Speaker 4: But the thing with like Raquel didn't get a big pop,
Speaker 4: which I think started playing in her mind like why
Speaker 4: isn't this going better? Like I feel like even she's thinking,
Speaker 4: why aren't they doing it? Two, it's hard to get
Speaker 4: that big pop when you're turning on easily the most
Speaker 4: famous female wrestler, the most over female wrestler off the
Speaker 4: last few years. So like, also, they're probably not gonna
Speaker 4: pop because you're like, who's doing this?
Speaker 2: Terria?
Speaker 4: Like we all love Rihea Ripley, So I think that
Speaker 4: was also a part of it, like, wait, we liked
Speaker 4: that that she's beating up Dom. We like this spot
Speaker 4: and now person that we kind of think that is
Speaker 4: that Riquel. We can't tell. It was like it was
Speaker 4: just kind of all like, kind of murky, and then
Speaker 4: she did that power bomb move which I don't know
Speaker 4: the name of it, but even that was a little clunky,
Speaker 4: like she was like struggling to get like they were
Speaker 4: like trying to time it together.
Speaker 1: It looked like, yes, I know what you mean, I
Speaker 1: know what you mean.
Speaker 2: I saw that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh, I actually liked that move a lot,
Speaker 4: but it felt like a little she was trying to
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 1: My daughter said, what are they? What are they doing?
Speaker 1: Like it even took her out of Yeah, she was like,
Speaker 1: what I remember that now?
Speaker 4: Yet it looked like they were cooperating for which which
Speaker 4: that takes you out of the wrestling story. But love Raquel.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that this will be a big spot for her.
Speaker 4: Is this that she's going to be with Live.
Speaker 2: Morgan and Dom and them?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Is that how you get that? All right?
Speaker 4: That's cool, they're growing, they're growing in numbers. But also
Speaker 4: I think that would be a good big woman versus
Speaker 4: big woman match.
Speaker 1: Ria Ripley, and you like it when when the big
Speaker 1: stres go out each other.
Speaker 4: I love meat, so I'm excited about it. I also
Speaker 4: wanted to compliment them on the spot of dominic mysterial
Speaker 4: falling from the cage.
Speaker 2: I was trying.
Speaker 4: I watched it over and over trying to figure out
Speaker 4: how they did that. He's going to break his ankle
Speaker 4: off the way he fell, but I guess that the
Speaker 4: thing is around his waist and it just looks like
Speaker 4: it's around his foot.
Speaker 2: But they made it look so convincing. It was very
Speaker 2: very good.
Speaker 1: Way to wreck How they did it for me? Man,
Speaker 1: I don't came.
Speaker 2: They do all this stuff. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch that stuff. I don't know the magic
Speaker 1: trick gets done. You probably wreckall David Blaine's tricks too.
Speaker 1: How throw the card through the window? Bro, go ahead,
Speaker 1: wreck it for every I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Here's how to magic card.
Speaker 4: And David he's a witch, so that's how it's all dirty.
Speaker 2: Witch. It's a witch, yo.
Speaker 1: They made me, or Vince made me, or tried to
Speaker 1: make me direct this segment on a Friday Night SmackDown
Speaker 1: when it was on the UPN or the CW whatever
Speaker 1: it was. It shared a time a show called Mysteries
Speaker 1: of the Magicians or something like that, and this mass
Speaker 1: magician would expose tricks, other people's tricks. His name was
Speaker 1: val Valentine. He got exposed, so I'll say his name.
Speaker 1: And Vince was like, yeah, you're gonna shoot this segment.
Speaker 1: And I was like, man, fuck that, Like I don't
Speaker 1: want to know how the tricks are done. And that
Speaker 1: guy's a dick, like he's exposing magic, he's not doing magic.
Speaker 1: He's like, well, you have to overstay. He's like, no,
Speaker 1: you have to do it. I was like fine, and
Speaker 1: I told another writer. I was like, yeah, you have
Speaker 1: to do this segment. I'm gonna just oversee you let
Speaker 1: me know what it's done. I didn't even look at
Speaker 1: the shit. When it was finished, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks great. Man put that on TV, so if
Speaker 1: it sucked, it was my fault. Guys. Sorry, anyway, a
Speaker 1: random two thousand and nine smack done that somebody's still
Speaker 1: pissed off about.
Speaker 4: Sorry, guys, I'm sure there's someone out there that's pissed off.
Speaker 1: But the easiest match of the night to predict Jeff,
Speaker 1: everybody got this right. If you got it wrong, I
Speaker 1: feel bad for you guys if you got this wrong.
Speaker 1: It's just such a scrib But it was Damian Priest
Speaker 1: versus Finn Balor, the sexiest irishman you've ever known. These
Speaker 1: guys are total studs. Both of them are so friggin' awesome.
Speaker 1: Both of them deserve to wear gold. Both of them
Speaker 1: have worn gold. I hope both of them get to
Speaker 1: wear gold again. I will watch these fools fight a
Speaker 1: few more times. But it seemed like it was Damian
Speaker 1: Priest being finished with the judgment day. It had a
Speaker 1: very final kind of thing to it.
Speaker 2: But you never know.
Speaker 1: They could come back and he could cause more trouble
Speaker 1: and they could fight again. Because the match was great.
Speaker 1: I don't do for matches. I just know that I
Speaker 1: really liked it, and I liked the story. I loved
Speaker 1: Damien Priest. I thought him losing the title was premature,
Speaker 1: and then when I saw the story that they had
Speaker 1: for him, I was like.
Speaker 2: No, they got it right.
Speaker 1: Gunther should have the belt and Damian Priest is not
Speaker 1: lost a step and everything was awesome, and I really
Speaker 1: applaud their storytelling with this not just the wrestlers, but
Speaker 1: their creative team as well. Man shout them out and
Speaker 1: when they do good stuff. But I love the match.
Speaker 1: I know you did too. You love these guys and
Speaker 1: this is your style.
Speaker 2: I loved everything they did. It was fun. It feels
Speaker 2: like a pack of wolves turning on a guy. Those wolves.
Speaker 4: It gave me a flashbacks to when the when the
Speaker 4: whole two five Live locker room jumped Enzo Amore in
Speaker 4: the ring.
Speaker 2: They all took turns doing that thing.
Speaker 4: They genuinely liked that, Oh for sure. It gave me
Speaker 4: like a little flashback to that.
Speaker 2: But it was great. I think there was a story
Speaker 2: that was well told.
Speaker 4: It was awesome. I'm excited to see what what they're
Speaker 4: gonna do with Damian Priests. That's what That's what I'm
Speaker 4: more curious about. It's like, dude, it's a star, he's
Speaker 4: a he's he's one of these guys. So I'm excited
Speaker 4: to see what they're going.
Speaker 2: To do with them.
Speaker 4: Give him his flowers.
Speaker 1: A quick transition, Jeff, how did you like the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four Crown Jewel Championship where the WWE champions, the
Speaker 1: Universal and the Heavyweight are going to beef it out
Speaker 1: for the beefiest of all belts. I'll tell you this
Speaker 1: before you answered, Sarah. My wife thought it looked pretty cool. Really,
Speaker 1: and I'll let that influence you if it does. But
Speaker 1: I think it was good.
Speaker 4: I'm into it, these crown jewel things. I thought it
Speaker 4: was something I would be able to only have to
Speaker 4: deal with once and then it's over.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have to ever do this.
Speaker 4: But it's really become a part of the WWE zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: I didn't dig it, and Sarah's like, why don't you think.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, it just looks cartoonish.
Speaker 2: Interesting. I think cartoon was too Probably why I like it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, my child, Yeah, I mean, I know. I love belts.
Speaker 4: There's just so many good belts. Like wrestling is so
Speaker 4: good about making somebody's.
Speaker 1: Always rule for another championship.
Speaker 4: It feels it also feels like a belt they would
Speaker 4: make on remember that old Nintenna sixty four game WrestleMania
Speaker 4: two thousand.
Speaker 2: The Green, It's got the green and the I.
Speaker 4: Don't know, it just feels kind of like something from
Speaker 4: that I don't know, feels cartoony, he feels old, and
Speaker 4: I love cartooning and I love.
Speaker 1: Old all right, dude, Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes versus
Speaker 1: Jacob Fatu and Solo, as Jeffy would say, Sequoya because
Speaker 1: he's as big as a tree. Tough dudes, tough dudes,
Speaker 1: big story. Jacob Fatu is such a beast man. They
Speaker 1: call him a werewolf. I don't think he looks like
Speaker 1: a were wolf. I just think he looks like a stud.
Speaker 1: It is a good name, it is, but man, like
Speaker 1: his just his face is sick, his body's not. He's
Speaker 1: not like jacked or shredded if you haven't seen him,
Speaker 1: but his body just looks like a big, badass guy
Speaker 1: that could kick your ass. He just totally believable, and
Speaker 1: he beat asses in this match. They didn't come out
Speaker 1: with it, but still, man, it was.
Speaker 2: That dude.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna be a heavyweight champion,
Speaker 1: like a world champion. He'd have to be able to
Speaker 1: talk on the mic. But they gotta do something with
Speaker 1: Jacob Fatu in this whole bloodline thing, like maybe one
Speaker 1: day he's the head of the bloodline. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he can ever talk. I didn't know if Solo
Speaker 1: would be able to and he can, so you never
Speaker 1: know with guys. But I thought he kind of stole
Speaker 1: the match fatu and in every moment, and he was
Speaker 1: in a lot of that freaking match.
Speaker 2: What did you think?
Speaker 4: I agree, he's very explosive, which is what I think
Speaker 4: people connect to like in wrestling. Obviously you want the story,
Speaker 4: obviously you want things to like play nicely, but sturing
Speaker 4: guys like they hit a movie.
Speaker 2: Like that just felt like different.
Speaker 4: And I feel like he's got a very explosive kind
Speaker 4: of thing. Maybe it's because he's young, or maybe it's
Speaker 4: because of adrenaline, maybe it's I don't know what it is,
Speaker 4: but he has this extra kind of thing that is
Speaker 4: that's great, it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: This was the only match I was wrong on that.
Speaker 1: I got pissed off about that. I was pissed that
Speaker 1: you guys got right.
Speaker 2: I got. I was like, what the I have so
Speaker 2: many reasons why they should win reason number one, reason
Speaker 2: number two, the rock, reason number three.
Speaker 1: But like I had all these like justifications, and then
Speaker 1: I'm watching, I'm just like, well, they don't care about
Speaker 1: my justifications.
Speaker 2: That's just wrong.
Speaker 4: Well, and I got you almost went back on your pick.
Speaker 4: I did you almost you almost reversed it. I convinced
Speaker 4: myself with my bullshit. That's all that happened.
Speaker 2: The rock, the Rock came back again. Smoll. That's my
Speaker 2: rock impression, all right, very good. It's also my Dumbledore impression.
Speaker 2: You just do it with a British accent.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into a listener review from Braves Fan
Speaker 1: O seven. Braves Fan O seven, I'm a Dodgers fan,
Speaker 1: so so we sort of have beef. But I'm not
Speaker 1: like a beefy guy, so we can be cool if
Speaker 1: you want. Here we go.
Speaker 2: More w W stories.
Speaker 1: Hey, Freddie, I love the podcast, but I would like
Speaker 1: you once or twice that you go back to stories
Speaker 1: like when you worked at WWE, like you did in
Speaker 1: season one.
Speaker 2: I will definitely try more.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes Jeff says something that reminds me of
Speaker 1: a story and then I communicate that.
Speaker 2: But I will try to do more of that.
Speaker 1: So it's really Jeff's fault for not saying things that
Speaker 1: are reminding me of my time when I worked there.
Speaker 1: So if you could send those complaints to Jeff's personal
Speaker 1: social media stuff like his Twitter or Instagram, We're both
Speaker 1: to make sure he sees this, then that helps me out,
Speaker 1: which helps out the show, and Jeff's very sorry for
Speaker 1: failing past part.
Speaker 2: How long did you work at w B Freddy?
Speaker 1: I worked there almost a year the first time, and
Speaker 1: then like six months the second time.
Speaker 2: All right, so I only have so many stories, but
Speaker 2: there's my.
Speaker 4: Stories, So we couldn't You can't just tell like everything
Speaker 4: that some of the stuff is, you know, personal or private.
Speaker 2: They can't. They can't do you must have told a
Speaker 2: bunch already.
Speaker 1: Here I'll tell the private ones, so one time, I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding. Yeah, everybody's stay tuned for ends sanctioned Thursday,
Speaker 1: where we get into the private stories. No, we're also
Speaker 1: going to talk to a w and if you know,
Speaker 1: stories pop in my head, I'll try to throw those
Speaker 1: out there. Once again, it's Jeff's fault. And on behalf
Speaker 1: of Jeff, I'm Freddie Prinz Junior, and this is Wrestling
Speaker 1: with Friends.
Speaker 2: We love you.
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