Speaker 1: He had that great Scottish axe. I prayed to Gold
Speaker 1: I would do it, and I did. And what I
Speaker 1: see happening, there's no way Drew McIntyre's winning the Royal
Speaker 1: Rumble not to see them Punk's in it, and I
Speaker 1: won't bet agains see them Punk ever again. Now you're mad?
Speaker 1: Even introducing Nosts are Wrestling Win Freddy, Jeff Died and
Speaker 1: Freddy Friends Junior. What's up? Everybody? Welcome to a brand
Speaker 1: new episode of Wrestling with Friends, originally known as Wrestling
Speaker 1: with Freddy. Back when I was lonely and had no friends,
Speaker 1: no wrestling friends, and I had to do this podcast
Speaker 1: all by myself. But now and forever I get to
Speaker 1: have my podcast partner, mister Jeff did. How are you, sir?
Speaker 1: It's good to see you feeling good. How you feeling, Freddy?
Speaker 1: I'm good man. All the anxiety that I had last
Speaker 1: week is finally like subsiding and going away, and it
Speaker 1: looks like my house is gonna make it. So I'm
Speaker 1: happy to that. My kids and they've had a good week.
Speaker 1: You know. We've been down here in southern southern California,
Speaker 1: like halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles and I've
Speaker 1: been taking my son k one go kart racing. Shout
Speaker 1: out to k one you guys are awesome. My son
Speaker 1: set another track record there. He's a sick little race
Speaker 1: cards right, that's what he wants to do is race
Speaker 1: open wheels when he grows up. He makes me write this.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, he makes me watch this show on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what it's called, but like, there's this
Speaker 1: dude named Lewis Hamilton who's like an open wheels F
Speaker 1: one racer, and we watched this show that was like
Speaker 1: about him and some other drivers too. But my son
Speaker 1: is like, that's Lewis Hamilton and he has some of
Speaker 1: the quickest reaction time in the world that I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: dude's sick. Whatever, man, my.
Speaker 2: Son's got good taste because Lewis Hamilton's not only an
Speaker 2: amazing race car driver, but he's a cool guy. And
Speaker 2: he dated Nicole Scherzinger, so respect.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is, but I know Louis
Speaker 1: Hamilton is and he's a lead pussycat doll. Small show.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I think she was on my sitcom back in the day.
Speaker 1: My character had like a dirty and all the Pussycat
Speaker 1: dolls were in the dream and they came and did
Speaker 1: like a cameo for the show. Well right out, Lewis Hamilton,
Speaker 1: shout out to you, dude. But anyway, yeah, so we've
Speaker 1: been doing that. We did a miniature golf. My son
Speaker 1: hit two hole in ones. I got one, Haara got one,
Speaker 1: and my daughter Charlotte all got holding ones, but he
Speaker 1: had the most. He kept reminding us, and those are
Speaker 1: like the first couple of days where they were laughing
Speaker 1: again and smiling and giving each other shit and just
Speaker 1: doing normal brother sister stuff instead of worrying, which is
Speaker 1: it sucks to watch your kids stress out and feel
Speaker 1: like there's not too much you can do about it.
Speaker 1: But go karting helps for all those people that need help.
Speaker 1: If your kid's going through something, take that little shit
Speaker 1: go karting, and all of a sudden, all their fears
Speaker 1: go away, and all that anxiety goes away because they're
Speaker 1: going thirty miles an hour in an electric go garden,
Speaker 1: drifting around turns like a stud. We made the most
Speaker 1: of it. Are much more fortunate than other people who
Speaker 1: lost everything that we know. But I'm glad that this
Speaker 1: is finally coming to an end and people can start
Speaker 1: getting back on getting back on the road. You know
Speaker 1: what doesn't stop, though, is motherfucking professional wrestling. Jeff's and
Speaker 1: you know I'm telling the truth when I cuss. If
Speaker 1: I'm not cussing, I'm probably telling you a FID. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk some pro wrestling today. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys tuning in. There's not going to be a Thursday show.
Speaker 1: I only have so much time that I can bust
Speaker 1: these out on, so I'll try to make this one
Speaker 1: as long as we can. Penta if that's okay with you, sir,
Speaker 1: because all Right's sick. So Chad Gable demanded a match
Speaker 1: against a great luchador last week. He said, Adam Pierce,
Speaker 1: I want to match against a great luchador. That's what
Speaker 1: he said. And Adam Pierce said, Oh, I think I
Speaker 1: have someone for you that you may not know. We
Speaker 1: all knew. It was the as Michael Cole said, the
Speaker 1: worst kept secret in professional wrestling. I love that day.
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, it's cool that he kind of
Speaker 1: breaks the wall a little bit. That he wasn't allowed
Speaker 1: to do that back in the day, and there were
Speaker 1: a lot of Latinos in the crowd, and a lot
Speaker 1: of wrestling fans in the crowd that knew about his work,
Speaker 1: And you sneaky little fuckers are watching aew because you
Speaker 1: knew his set on mean though, and everybody did it,
Speaker 1: So I don't want to see all that. Do't that, Hey,
Speaker 1: we hate you, we hate you, No, we hate you more.
Speaker 1: You guys like each other. You just don't want to
Speaker 1: admit it. So anyway, pentomate his debut, and Chad Gable,
Speaker 1: who is a legit Olympic athlete is able to sell
Speaker 1: and make people look frigging fantastic, took the craziest move,
Speaker 1: or took the craziest sell off of They called it
Speaker 1: a Mexican Destroyer, and it looked like he bounced off
Speaker 1: his head like two feet in the air, which if
Speaker 1: you watch in slow motion, he's real safe with it
Speaker 1: and his head doesn't even touch, which is insane because
Speaker 1: it looked so brutal. But he bounced up in the
Speaker 1: air off his head. He did a head bounce and
Speaker 1: landed and I literally went holy shit, and the crowd
Speaker 1: then started going holy shit. I didn't even I didn't
Speaker 1: even mean to do it. And then at the end
Speaker 1: of the match, Penta wins the match. Good guy won
Speaker 1: the match. He cut this very emotional promo and thanking
Speaker 1: the ww fans and his family and the people who
Speaker 1: supported him, and then he went full Shinsky Nakamura and
Speaker 1: I love this, and he just started speaking in his
Speaker 1: native tongue in Spanish. There's tons of Latinos Spanish speakers
Speaker 1: that have Netflix, and he just spoke to them for
Speaker 1: like a minute straight, and I thought it was so
Speaker 1: cool they allowed him to do that. I think it's
Speaker 1: so cool they allow Shinseki to do that or shinsk.
Speaker 1: Sorry for adding the extra syllable, but I really like
Speaker 1: how global WWE is and how they're going to have
Speaker 1: a Dutch person on there one day speaking some crazy Dutch.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all have ever heard Dutch, but
Speaker 1: that's the freakiest language I've ever heard, and I bet
Speaker 1: they do that one day. But I thought it was
Speaker 1: so cool. And his look. I know Jeff loves his look,
Speaker 1: but his look is so unique and there's nobody out
Speaker 1: there that talks the way he talks or walks the
Speaker 1: way he walks. He's got that cool stretch that he
Speaker 1: does when he comes out, Like everything about it him
Speaker 1: is unique and it feels special, and I really hope
Speaker 1: and I believe that WW is gonna book him a
Speaker 1: lot better than AEW did. But he's your favorite, Jeff,
Speaker 1: and I've taken up all the time, so please no.
Speaker 2: I love his look. I think he's all the things
Speaker 2: I like. He's kind of got a Halloween horror vibe
Speaker 2: to him. He's a lucho, which I love, the flippy
Speaker 2: all that, I love all that, I love the mask.
Speaker 1: He's literally everything I like about a wrestler.
Speaker 2: This match really showed that Chad Gate how valuable Chad
Speaker 2: Gable is.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: It was a beautiful match, like absolutely like Chad Gable.
Speaker 2: I mean there was a little rust in moments, but
Speaker 2: Chad Gable sold everything. It was absolutely perfect. And I
Speaker 2: know you covered it already already, but when he gave
Speaker 2: that speech, it was in Spanish, but it was basically
Speaker 2: a beautiful homage to the American dream. You know, he's like, dude,
Speaker 2: it was a Mexican like just a Mexican boy who
Speaker 2: had dreams of doing this thing. And you could see
Speaker 2: his family watching him, like and recording. His daughter had
Speaker 2: like a tear in her eye and they're like I
Speaker 2: think his whole family was there, but one of his
Speaker 2: daughters was like recording it on his phone and she's cheering.
Speaker 1: I was just like, this is beautiful, Like he's arrived.
Speaker 2: He made it like it's not the WB's any bigger
Speaker 2: than AEW, but this moment was huge.
Speaker 1: I couldn't be happy. I think everything is great.
Speaker 2: I just hope we keep pushing with it, we keep
Speaker 2: running with it, and we don't have to lose this.
Speaker 2: I think what could be the next Ray Masterial, the
Speaker 2: greatest luchador of all time.
Speaker 1: It shows you that they're definitely looking for him, like
Speaker 1: with the opportunity they gave Dragon Lee, the opportunity they
Speaker 1: gave Santos. You know they blew that well. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: one didn't work so well. But they're definitely trying to
Speaker 1: find like because Ray can't wrestle forever, even though it
Speaker 1: looks like he can. But they gotta find him, and
Speaker 1: I really hope they do. Man, the pentag just came
Speaker 1: off so freaking cool and smooth, and he was hey
Speaker 1: had style like I love his walk, man, where he
Speaker 1: puts like his and out and he has like one
Speaker 1: foot in front of the other and he's like striking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so courish it. Yeah, I liked it a lot.
Speaker 1: So he was awesome. Now, most of you probably prefer
Speaker 1: cm punk to Penta, so we'll talk to some cmpunk too.
Speaker 1: He came out and he now has as well declared
Speaker 1: for the Royal Rumbles. So we got John Cena up
Speaker 1: in there. We got we got cm punk up in there,
Speaker 1: and he came out. He was talking. He does he
Speaker 1: does real talk, probably better than anybody as far as
Speaker 1: like connective tissue between him and the audience. But seth
Speaker 1: Rawlins came out and interrupted him, and Sampunk sold big
Speaker 1: on that. He's like, ah, sign up a bitch. Why
Speaker 1: he probably didn't cuts, he's straight edge. Sampunk or seth
Speaker 1: Rollins came out and he had a legit black eye dude,
Speaker 1: and he showed it off. He took the sunglasses off
Speaker 1: and it looked like a fighter at the end of
Speaker 1: a fight when they take their sunglasses off in the
Speaker 1: in the post fight interviews and things like that, and
Speaker 1: that shit makes it just gets me going because I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: look how tough he is, Look how badass that looks.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like fake makeup. He legit had one,
Speaker 1: and then he announces himself for the Royal Rumble, and
Speaker 1: then Drew McIntyre comes out and says, screw both, you bitches.
Speaker 1: I'm the freaking man and I'm gonna be in the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble too. Now. The only reason I'm bringing the
Speaker 1: segment up, it wasn't like a world moving segment, was
Speaker 1: because of the story that they can now tell in
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. Because if you remember everybody last year,
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre was the one that injured cmpunk in the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. He tore his tricep when he put him
Speaker 1: in that future shock DDT holder. Maybe it was a pedigree.
Speaker 1: It's the setups the same way. But he jacked up
Speaker 1: cm punk and put him on the shelf, and he
Speaker 1: was glad that he did it. He had that great
Speaker 1: Scottish axe. I prayed to gold I would do it,
Speaker 1: and I did, And uh what I see happening. There's
Speaker 1: no way Drew McIntyre's winning the Royal Rumble, not if
Speaker 1: cm Punk's in it. And I won't bet against Sampunk
Speaker 1: ever again. But now you get a cool story where
Speaker 1: I think cm punk might try to do the same
Speaker 1: move to Drew and that'll like get him in the
Speaker 1: future shock DDT or the Pedigrew whatever is gonna be
Speaker 1: and smash him and then throw him out of the ring.
Speaker 1: So keep your eyes open for the story that those
Speaker 1: two dudes will get to tell, because I think that'll
Speaker 1: be one of the coolest ones in the Rumble, which
Speaker 1: is still a long ways a way, I know, but
Speaker 1: I just get excited because Royal Rumble's my favorite pay
Speaker 1: per view in the world. Is it yours favorite too?
Speaker 1: It's the best, Dude, I love a gimmick. It's the
Speaker 1: most gimmicky pay per view you can have. It's fun.
Speaker 1: They tell so many stories in that match, and they
Speaker 1: give so many people an opportunity to get over, and
Speaker 1: so many people do, like everyone from brock Lessner to
Speaker 1: Kofi Kingston where he just never touches the floor, Like
Speaker 1: every single time, it was always like, oh he landed
Speaker 1: on this guy's fucking head and he danced through the
Speaker 1: audience and they crowdsurfed him back into the ring. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, he's still in the match, and then he
Speaker 1: gets thrown out by brock Lesendar later. But like, everybody
Speaker 1: gets a chance to shine, and I've always loved that show,
Speaker 1: so I'm super excited for it. Then we get a
Speaker 1: little yeet down because Gunther lays down his challenge and
Speaker 1: he demands respect for his world title. We all respect you, Gunther.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're demanding it. Like you, everybody
Speaker 1: loves you. Even the people that hate you respect you,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to demand it. You could just say, hey, thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks guys, thanks bros, thanks for the respect. And then
Speaker 1: here comes Jayu. So he's one of my favorites. I
Speaker 1: remember I was on that podcast that Bully Ray does
Speaker 1: and he was asking me who I thought like the
Speaker 1: biggest star war was going to be, and I even
Speaker 1: said jay Us. And this was back when he was,
Speaker 1: like I think, still in the Bloodline and everybody kind
Speaker 1: of was like, oh wait, I wasn't expecting that. And look,
Speaker 1: this dude's promos and his entrances still are getting huge
Speaker 1: pops and huge results and everybody loves him. And now
Speaker 1: Jimmy we can get into SmackDown later, but Jimmy is
Speaker 1: now having that similar vibe now that he's healthy, and
Speaker 1: his promo from backstage I thought was even better than
Speaker 1: Jay's entrance because he got everybody so hyped up. But
Speaker 1: both those guys are doing great fucking work. Great crowd work.
Speaker 1: That's a comedian term and means something different in wrestling,
Speaker 1: but they're great with the crowd. The interaction that he literally,
Speaker 1: here's how smart Jayus is and then I'll move on.
Speaker 1: He literally got rid of the what chant and just
Speaker 1: replaced it with yeat and he uses it and he
Speaker 1: works moment to moment and sentence to sentence, and instead
Speaker 1: of yelling what, they're into him and they're yelling yeat,
Speaker 1: and it gives the audience their opportunity to be a
Speaker 1: part of the show, which they really want. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't in this case destroy the wrestler's ability to get over.
Speaker 1: In fact, it actually helped the wrestler get over, and
Speaker 1: I think that's the first time anyone's ever been able
Speaker 1: to do that. So I just want to put a
Speaker 1: little shine on him and show just how smart he is.
Speaker 1: Whether it was intentional or not. I think it was
Speaker 1: intentional because he waits for it now and they give
Speaker 1: it to him. But he's he's mastered the what and
Speaker 1: he is now the What's owner. He's though he's the
Speaker 1: What's daddy, and the what has no power over him anymore.
Speaker 1: But I think that's the only wrestler besides Stone Cold
Speaker 1: that can claim that. Anyway, what else?
Speaker 2: The yeat is good. You know what's not good? The
Speaker 2: no yeat that didn't work good.
Speaker 1: No yeat did not play yet it was not. The
Speaker 1: second I heard it, I rolled my eyes. I was
Speaker 1: god damn it. But yeat works. We like yeat. Yat
Speaker 1: is good, we like the Yeah, you're right, No yeat
Speaker 1: was bad. That was Hey, look man, they're not all
Speaker 1: going to be golden eggs. So anyway, Gunther and j
Speaker 1: are going to fight. That'll be a good fight. Damian
Speaker 1: Priest and Finn Balor had a crazy ass street fight.
Speaker 1: The Judgment Day has fallen apart. Finn Baalor doesn't respect
Speaker 1: Live Live, doesn't respect Dominic. Everybody's treating Dominic like a
Speaker 1: piece of shit. He even brought flowers for Live and
Speaker 1: She's like, no, I'm not mad. I did that girl
Speaker 1: thing that you know you girls do. No, I'm not mad.
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to communicate and get even angrier
Speaker 1: on the inside, and then I'm gonna get pissed at
Speaker 1: you for something dumb later on. But it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with what we're actually pissed off about.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: Girls shouldn't do that back in the day, dude, guys remember,
Speaker 1: like girls would always I guess girls still do it.
Speaker 1: Girls fight emotionally and dudes would just fight physically. And
Speaker 1: then you would see, like a year later, the girls
Speaker 1: would never be friends with someone they talked about, but
Speaker 1: the dudes who fought would be like best bros. Like
Speaker 1: girls got to just punch each other in the face.
Speaker 1: It's way easier. We got to get back to those days,
Speaker 1: Jeff simp much simpler. All right, let's move on WWE
Speaker 1: Friday Night Smack Sound. Here we go Raymisterio in San
Speaker 1: Diego and the crowd goes frigging bananas. Ray goes out there,
Speaker 1: cuts his promo. He gets an extra two points on
Speaker 1: the promo because he's in his hometown. He's more comfortable,
Speaker 1: more confident. The crowd loves everything he says. And Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens comes out. Kevin Owens, who basically has like the
Speaker 1: best line in wrestling every single week, no matter what,
Speaker 1: like and it's never anything that was written for him.
Speaker 1: It's always something that he just comes up with. But
Speaker 1: he came out and he's so He's so good at
Speaker 1: being a justified heel. He always has what he feels
Speaker 1: is a legitimate reason to feel the way he feels,
Speaker 1: and those feelings are dictating his actions, and those actions
Speaker 1: are just because of the feelings behind him. And he
Speaker 1: goes out there and he says, Ray, I respect you,
Speaker 1: and the crowd's like, wait, we're supposed to hate you, Kevin,
Speaker 1: and he's like, just hold on, let me finish. You'll
Speaker 1: hate me, don't worry, and they don't hate him. They
Speaker 1: like what he's saying. They're agreeing with him. I respect you,
Speaker 1: and I would love to have a match with you
Speaker 1: as the WWE champion with my beautiful winged Eagle belt
Speaker 1: that everybody loves. Hard to get mad at the guy
Speaker 1: when everybody agrees with that belt being the coolest belt.
Speaker 1: Kevin comes out and the crowd's even starting to get
Speaker 1: behind him, and then he starts going on his delusional
Speaker 1: tangent about he's the champion and one day it would
Speaker 1: be an honor for him to have his dream match
Speaker 1: against Raymistereo's the champion, Ray Ray F's up, you guys,
Speaker 1: and he goes, my man, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know this, but I'm not trying to hurt feelings here.
Speaker 1: He even says, all due respect, you're you're not the champ.
Speaker 1: Cody's Cody's the champ. And the energy in this segment
Speaker 1: is kind of low right here, and you're wondering how
Speaker 1: this is gonna work, and it's all on Kevin to
Speaker 1: kind of bring the energy back in this and he's like, wait,
Speaker 1: what did you say? What is and he just like
Speaker 1: goes crazy and loses it and he just floods the
Speaker 1: segment with energy and the whole crowd gets behind it,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna have some beef and he's gonna
Speaker 1: hit him with the belt. He misses Ray Ray gets
Speaker 1: him in the position for the six one nine, one
Speaker 1: of Jeff's favorite finishers, and Kevin rolls out, he grabs
Speaker 1: his belt and he cuts what the best line in
Speaker 1: wrestling of the week. You have to watch it. I
Speaker 1: won't say it, and he backs out of there, and
Speaker 1: then Ray and him get a match for later that night,
Speaker 1: which is going to be the main event, and Kevin
Speaker 1: gets his dream match against raymys stereo. I love Kevin Owens.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he gets as much love on
Speaker 1: other shows as he does on this, but I'm sure
Speaker 1: he has. Like he's you, I don't pay attention to
Speaker 1: the internet as much as you do, and our producer does.
Speaker 1: But correct me if I'm wrong. Kevin Owens is universally loved, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: but underrated in my opinion. Okay, so it's it's not
Speaker 1: just me.
Speaker 2: Real wrestling fans give him all his flowers, but I
Speaker 2: feel like this like the second layer, like whatever that
Speaker 2: second layer or third layer or fourth layer of wrestling fans.
Speaker 2: They all just want to see the big shiny starle
Speaker 2: Cody Rhodes this, see him punk that. I feel like
Speaker 2: Kevin is almost forgot a lot of times. Oh, I see,
Speaker 2: that's how I feel about it. I feel like he's underrated.
Speaker 1: Nah, he's the man, dude. If people aren't hip to Kevin,
Speaker 1: you got to start watching his promos on YouTube or
Speaker 1: whatever whatever format you do it because there's such next level.
Speaker 1: Even before he was in WWE, they were pretty damn good.
Speaker 1: He's much more refined now because he has a lot
Speaker 1: more experience. Yeah, well, and he asked you, but your
Speaker 1: your performances on stage are much more refined than when
Speaker 1: you started. My acting's more refined the way I started.
Speaker 1: You know, he's just smarter with with how he does things.
Speaker 1: But yes, in the corporation, he has to exist under
Speaker 1: these sort of corporate rules, but he does it really
Speaker 1: well and he gets close to the lines sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: he plays it super safe man, but he still is
Speaker 1: always gonna let you into the business a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why the hardcore fans love him
Speaker 1: so much, because he'll do that shit Eddie Murphy used
Speaker 1: to do in movies where he kind of like look
Speaker 1: in the camera for one second and be like, is
Speaker 1: this happening right now? Yeah, Okay, I think it is.
Speaker 1: He's very similar with his vibe without looking into the camera.
Speaker 2: MJF, Paul Hayman, Kevin Steen, all the best mic work
Speaker 2: guys like sorry, Kevin Owens. If you will go to
Speaker 2: YouTube watch some of his old promos.
Speaker 1: God, they're hilarious. Yeah, and danger. He's more refined.
Speaker 2: He's also more censored because he's on TV, he's on Netflix,
Speaker 2: he's on USA. But when you get to watch him,
Speaker 2: just beat, just go rogue because it's just some indie
Speaker 2: thing and he can like it's insane how funny he is.
Speaker 1: And it's all improv and it's just it's just a
Speaker 1: free flowing state. It's like listening to a freestyle rapper,
Speaker 1: like just kind of hear a beat and go off.
Speaker 1: And it's not something they planned. They just kind of
Speaker 1: had a direction they wanted to go.
Speaker 2: He's talking about sucking Dix and he goes and these
Speaker 2: boys don't do that because they're good boys. But I know,
Speaker 2: I'm a piece of shit, and I like him because
Speaker 2: he's a piece of shit. N Like, he's just like
Speaker 2: it's I knew.
Speaker 1: You were going to bring up this promo at the
Speaker 1: moment I mentioned Kevin Owens. By the way, it's everybody
Speaker 1: a time, it's everybody's favorite Kevin Due. I sold sixty
Speaker 1: shirts tonight, but I should have sold a hundred. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Blames the crowd for his lack of sales.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Also, and also he takes like a little moment he goes,
Speaker 2: I sold sixty shirts tonight. That's pretty good. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty good, but I should have sold
Speaker 2: one hundred. Like it's just as the greatest is so good.
Speaker 1: How are you liking WWE on on Netflix? By the way,
Speaker 1: I was supposed to ask you that earlier, but I
Speaker 1: forgot I think it's great.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know how you could do
Speaker 2: better than the best, you know, so like sometimes it
Speaker 2: feels like you got Rass SmackDown, Ross smacked on Ross Bide.
Speaker 1: And then this amazing pay per view.
Speaker 2: Well, if they're pulling out all the stops for these
Speaker 2: raws and smackdowns, it's gonna be hard to like they're
Speaker 2: they're definitely elevating their game, but they're putting themselves in
Speaker 2: an interesting position because these raws feel like pay per
Speaker 2: view level of effort, and so I'm happy about it.
Speaker 2: All wrestling fans should be happy about. It's been really,
Speaker 2: really good. It'll be interesting to see how it sustains. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that will be interesting. I think Royal Rumble will sustain
Speaker 2: just fine because it is such a gimmick driven pay
Speaker 2: per view and they don't do things like that on
Speaker 2: a weekly basis where you have this.
Speaker 1: One epic match with forty well it used to be thirty,
Speaker 1: but with forty professional wrestlers all going for you know,
Speaker 1: one kind of thing. So that should hold up. But
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's if with the other ones that
Speaker 1: aren't like hell in a cell the ones that are,
Speaker 1: you know, heavily gimmicked. I wonder if that'll affect it,
Speaker 1: if it'll just feel like a Monday night raw. That's
Speaker 1: an interesting speculation, sir. Yeah, but it's good.
Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have that they're just giving
Speaker 2: us such great wrestling that I'm worried if it's gonna
Speaker 2: that's a great We're in a good place.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say about a Dubs bro.
Speaker 1: I mean, the matches are really cool, but there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of stories going on right now outside of
Speaker 1: MJF and Jeff Jarrett.
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about that promo. You know, I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's called a promo with those two going
Speaker 2: back and forth promos, you.
Speaker 1: Know, arguing what I think, it's really hard to hang
Speaker 1: with MJF if you're not ready to go with MJF.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's so good on the mic that
Speaker 1: even though he's selling your stuff, if you're not real
Speaker 1: sharp with it, it's just he's gonna look like he's
Speaker 1: going a million miles an hour, and you're gonna look
Speaker 1: like your car doesn't go that fast. So it was
Speaker 1: I thought it was tough. Jeff Jarrett had moments where
Speaker 1: he slung him with a couple but it like took
Speaker 1: it took longer for him to cut MJF than it
Speaker 1: takes MJF to cut him. And so to me, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it was supposed to be like that,
Speaker 1: and maybe MJF was supposed to win that argument, but
Speaker 1: to me, it's just it's really hard to compete with him.
Speaker 1: Like cmpunk can do it, Adam Cole did it, you know,
Speaker 1: will Osprey did it. He's had guys that could go
Speaker 1: back and forth with him, but not everyone is at that,
Speaker 1: and that's okay, and not everyone has to be a
Speaker 1: ten on the microphone. But it's just tough when he's
Speaker 1: cutting you to pieces and your cuts aren't as deep.
Speaker 1: So so that's what I would say about that without
Speaker 1: I don't want to like dump on it. What are
Speaker 1: the rules of wrestling?
Speaker 2: As a writer, as a guy who's been in the business.
Speaker 2: When MJF was delivering his insults and opinions and digs,
Speaker 2: which I love that he called him slap nuts made
Speaker 2: me so slap nuts. He didn't make a meal of it,
Speaker 2: he just popped it in there, which I thought was great.
Speaker 2: What are the rules because Double j just started laughing.
Speaker 2: He kept just laughing. Well, like MJFF was doing his
Speaker 2: thing kind of like this is stupid. It was very
Speaker 2: dismissive kind of laughing. But is there some sort of
Speaker 2: rule for the babyface to how he's supposed to listen
Speaker 2: to the insults?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean the heel is supposed to sell the
Speaker 1: insults and the baby face should let him bounce off.
Speaker 1: So in that regard, I think Jeff Jared's in the right,
Speaker 1: Like he's he's trying to allow these bullets to bounce
Speaker 1: off whatever armor he's built up over the years, which
Speaker 1: we would imagine would be pretty thick because he's been
Speaker 1: in the game longer than just about anybody. And MJF
Speaker 1: you would see him sell big when Jeff Jared would
Speaker 1: talk about his mom and his dad and that's it,
Speaker 1: he's like, oh my god, could you So I thought
Speaker 1: in that regard, they they did their jobs. I just
Speaker 1: think it's tough, you know, like you'll see movies with like,
Speaker 1: you know, really special actors and oh, here's a better
Speaker 1: way to do it, like and I know you did.
Speaker 1: Last summer, I had the least experience of all four
Speaker 1: of us, and so there were scenes that I watch
Speaker 1: in retrospect and like studying it and seeing where I
Speaker 1: could improve, where I'm like, man, you can tell they're
Speaker 1: all better than me. And I hated that. So I
Speaker 1: worked really hard at my craft so that I could
Speaker 1: catch up. And I think sometimes if you're not as
Speaker 1: strong as the other person on the mic, it doesn't
Speaker 1: always come off as a shine, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: They just come off as that much better than you.
Speaker 1: And that's a risk that you have to take as
Speaker 1: an artist. And sometimes it works out, and sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: it looks a little like, okay, this, he's not as
Speaker 1: good as so, and so I don't want to like
Speaker 1: throw on the actors under the bus, so I'll just
Speaker 1: throw myself under the bus. But that's how I felt,
Speaker 1: and I know what you did. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: they've all been doing this since they were kids, and
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for three and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: How am I going to pull this off? And there
Speaker 1: are scenes where I just didn't, and so I busted
Speaker 1: my ass to make sure that didn't happen again. And
Speaker 1: it's you know, it took a long It's been a
Speaker 1: lifetime work to improve and constantly try and get better.
Speaker 2: It felt like that for me too, And I actually
Speaker 2: liked all the little insults, not just because they were funny,
Speaker 2: but I feel like they're pretty accurate. He's like, that's what,
Speaker 2: that's the last face you see before a wrestling company dies.
Speaker 1: That was a great line, by the way, great line.
Speaker 2: Like I said, he did the slab nuts thing, which
Speaker 2: I appreciated.
Speaker 1: I love that he went after his wife. I thought
Speaker 1: that was all great.
Speaker 2: And then the owen Hart moment felt like the big
Speaker 2: crescendo of like the insult of all insults, and then
Speaker 2: like it felt kind of real. I know it wasn't
Speaker 2: I know that he wouldn't have been able to do
Speaker 2: it without getting the approval of Double j.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. And Joss is the best on the mic.
Speaker 1: Like it's just he's just really, really sick, and his
Speaker 1: brain is built to talk shit in professional wrestling. He
Speaker 1: was not meant to be a fucking finance manager. He
Speaker 1: wasn't built for construction, although he's a buff dude. He
Speaker 1: was built to be a professional wrestler. And he found
Speaker 1: his colleague and all of you need to find your
Speaker 1: calling too. All right, I'm done preaching I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys for listening no Thursday show. As we said, I'm
Speaker 1: very very sorry. I hope you enjoyed this episode, and
Speaker 1: I hope that I'm back in my house, yes, podcasting
Speaker 1: and watching wrestling in a normal fashion, in a gentlemanly
Speaker 1: fashion instead of this ragamuffin fashion that I've been having
Speaker 1: to do it now. So I apologize for that, but
Speaker 1: I should be back home soon. They won't let us
Speaker 1: up up my street yet, and that's the National Guards,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna fuck with them. H and you
Speaker 1: shouldn't either. On behalf, Oh, Jeff, tell the people where
Speaker 1: you're going to be this weekend before we say goodbye.
Speaker 2: I will be in the Baltimore area in Timonium at
Speaker 2: a comedy club called Magoobi's, which is silly name, but
Speaker 2: it's a cool place. I'm very excited. Sacramento was great
Speaker 2: this weekend. Thank you for everyone to coming out. We
Speaker 2: sold out the shows and had show which was great,
Speaker 2: very very cool. Norcal's awesome. I've never spent much time
Speaker 2: in Sacramento was really really great.
Speaker 1: Yes, so Magooby's.
Speaker 2: Baltimore area, Tumonium, Maryland this weekend and Jeff dot Com
Speaker 2: for all all the other appearances. When I'm coming to
Speaker 2: your town.
Speaker 1: That's Jeff I. I'm Freddie Prince Junior. Thanks for listening,
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