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Speaker 1: We've been having special guests. We've had wrestlers, we've had friends,

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Speaker 2: God love Brother Love, like you gotta love him, but

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Speaker 4: That was that entire quote. Match was was amazing, just amazing.

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Speaker 1: But the thing that you kind of get excited for is, Okay,

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Speaker 4: Yeah we did. I don't even know if that's a match.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And it was just kind of baffled by it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, you kind of go back to

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Speaker 4: Even though Vince is still he still knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: set back and Todd Gil came back. They had the

435
00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,199
Speaker 1: one nine hundred number and all this other stuff, and

436
00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:14,880
Speaker 1: it's it.

437
00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,399
Speaker 2: Makes you think what things.

438
00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:20,119
Speaker 1: Imagine that set in an arena and not a small

439
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:20,680
Speaker 1: space like.

440
00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:25,360
Speaker 4: They had, I mean in your house. I remember back

441
00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,800
Speaker 4: in ninety six was in Philly and that was before

442
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,320
Speaker 4: they built the Wells Fargo Center, and it was just

443
00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,160
Speaker 4: the spectrum. It was like a small, smaller arena and

444
00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 4: they had that That's what That's what it was. It

445
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,600
Speaker 4: was just this small arena that had a and in

446
00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,760
Speaker 4: your house set. I would be ecstatic if they brought

447
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:44,960
Speaker 4: that back and brought it to like Capital One Arena

448
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,000
Speaker 4: here in DC. I would love it. I think it

449
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,679
Speaker 4: would be great. Plus you get more seats out of it.

450
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 4: So now I'll tell you if they got a social

451
00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,760
Speaker 4: distance once they start doing live events again, if they

452
00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,120
Speaker 4: really have to spread people out in seats, they might

453
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,760
Speaker 4: have to shrink down their sets. They're not going to

454
00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,119
Speaker 4: be able to, you know, bring those giant sets in

455
00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,080
Speaker 4: because you're missing out on people sitting there.

456
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,680
Speaker 2: And that that's you know, that's the crazy thing is WE.

457
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:06,959
Speaker 1: I was talking to a friend of mine and it's

458
00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,639
Speaker 1: you know a lot of these sports kind of have

459
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,080
Speaker 1: WWE to think about being kind of back in the

460
00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,879
Speaker 1: swing of things, because if it wasn't for WWE, you

461
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,399
Speaker 1: know and Vince and all them saying here's eighteen and

462
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,639
Speaker 1: a half million dollars or whatever it was, let's be

463
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 1: an essential business.

464
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,880
Speaker 2: We'll do this. I mean, they got the ball rolling

465
00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:23,680
Speaker 2: for sports.

466
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,920
Speaker 4: They did, but you know the fact that it was Florida,

467
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 4: I think and now with all the with all the

468
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 4: COVID cases coming out of the Performance center, I think

469
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,920
Speaker 4: it's it was a good idea that they kept going,

470
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,080
Speaker 4: but I think I think they would have been better

471
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,199
Speaker 4: off if they shut down. I mean would have really

472
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 4: killed them to shut down for two months, like do

473
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,200
Speaker 4: mami a shut down and then let's come back when

474
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 4: you kind of come.

475
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,720
Speaker 2: Backcause you can come back stronger.

476
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,439
Speaker 4: And I understand why they did what they did, but

477
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,919
Speaker 4: you're WWE and you've been around for one hundred years,

478
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 4: Like you could easily take those two months and still

479
00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 4: advance storylines with people from home, you know, even just

480
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 4: cutting promos and then running stuff every week. They could

481
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 4: have done that for the last three months. I don't

482
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,520
Speaker 4: know why they had to have live matches after WRESTLEDINGA.

483
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,160
Speaker 4: It would have been easier just to shut it down

484
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 4: after me.

485
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 1: The thing is like they've got all this stuff on

486
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 1: the network that they could easily just show for people

487
00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,080
Speaker 1: like you know, like Fox Sports one was showing WrestleMania.

488
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 4: Three, right and the Rum and all those yes, and you.

489
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 1: Can easily do that, like for the people that don't

490
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 1: have access to the network, and you know, people that

491
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 1: are just casual fans watching on TV. You could show

492
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 1: like you could create a thing and have you know,

493
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: Renee or Michael Cole or somebody voice like a top

494
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 1: ten right Stone Cold matches and you just show those

495
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: on TV, and people will still watch them because they

496
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 1: remember that was when I became a wrestling fan, not

497
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 1: what just happened.

498
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,400
Speaker 4: Where and while they're showing it in your between your

499
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 4: you know, your commercial breaks, say look here's what's been

500
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,359
Speaker 4: going on, or or show aj styles talking about something

501
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 4: that happened and advanced the storyline. It just didn't make

502
00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,280
Speaker 4: sense to me why they continued wrestling, because I said,

503
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 4: I remember specifically saying the Jones one day, like dude,

504
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 4: somebody is gonna get it and they're gonna and it's

505
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 4: gonna affect the entire wrestling community because now it's gonna

506
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 4: be a problem. And and now here we are, but

507
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,919
Speaker 4: they're not. I don't know why they're not stopping, but

508
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 4: here we are.

509
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,720
Speaker 2: So we talked about that as.

510
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,439
Speaker 1: Well, and it's like, why why continue, Like you're in

511
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: a very small arena, like a very small thing. Of course,

512
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: you can't control it, like you could do the testing

513
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 1: every day, you can do all this, but the small

514
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: vicinity that they're in. And then of course, you know,

515
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: you see ae W and they start bringing the wrestlers

516
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 1: on and it's not social distancing, so they get backlash

517
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:44,680
Speaker 1: for that and then w t B is like, well,

518
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring fans back, but we're gonna put up plexiglass,

519
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 1: which made no.

520
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 4: Sense to be I still don't understand that. I really

521
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 4: don't what did that pretend. I'm sorry every every time

522
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 4: I have to I have to interrupt you. I'm sorry.

523
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 4: Every time I put on raw for like the last month,

524
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 4: and I see the plexiglass. The only thing that I

525
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 4: see is the goddamn reflection of the Titan trot on it.

526
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 4: That's all. I'm not even seeing the people there. I

527
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 4: like the sound of the people. I like hearing people cheer,

528
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 4: or I'll rephrase that, I don't like hearing people forced

529
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 4: cheered because your boss told you have to cheer and

530
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 4: move for this person. But I still like hearing the

531
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 4: cheers and the booze, because it's just better than just silence,

532
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 4: you know, and holding up your bed. When Stone Call

533
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,680
Speaker 4: came out on that one episode and there was nobody there,

534
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 4: it was awkward. It was very offous, and it was

535
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,360
Speaker 4: back in the beginning. Yeah, and that was the first

536
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 4: Monday night rawl though after you know, they shut everything down,

537
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,920
Speaker 4: so in fairness, it was the you know, the beginning,

538
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 4: but it was still really awkward and it went on

539
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 4: way too long. It's a little bit better and I've

540
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 4: gotten used to it now, but I don't understand the

541
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:47,159
Speaker 4: plex plexiglass because aren't these aren't these superstars hanging out

542
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 4: backstage anyway, aren't they already congregating?

543
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: They're already there, Let them be up on the And

544
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 1: this is the thing, is like the one thing we've

545
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 1: noticed that AW has done right when it comes to

546
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: them is they're like, you know what, just go out

547
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 1: there and have fun.

548
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 2: You had like MJF and Shawn's beers gambling.

549
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: Right, You've got Big Swool, who is gonna be probably

550
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 1: the next big thing for AW out there, just talking

551
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,439
Speaker 1: mad shit to every person that comes out there. And

552
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: then it's like you have WWE guys and it's like, well,

553
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 1: all the roster you have to be here, and you

554
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: have to wear this wrestler shirt because we don't want

555
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: people to know that you're a wrestler or a performance

556
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: in or thing.

557
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 2: And it's like, how are you gonna there's nobody out.

558
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 1: Here that's a casual wrestling fan that's like seven six

559
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: and three hundred pounds, Like, there's no way that's.

560
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 4: I said, I said to Jones when that did Jeff

561
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 4: Hardy segment with the car crash and they were all

562
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 4: inspecting the car and they're all coming out and they're putt

563
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 4: moving everybody aside. I said, I shit, you not. I'll

564
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 4: show you. I'll show you the screenshot of the text

565
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 4: I said. I said, Wow, it's amazing how all of

566
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 4: these EMTs and people helping out in these FBI and

567
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 4: the police look just like wrestlers. It's so weird.

568
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: Like you know, when you watch it on live TV,

569
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: you don't think anything of it.

570
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 2: But when there's.

571
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 1: Nobody around right right when it's a big arena, you're like,

572
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: they use the local wrestling people like come in and help.

573
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 4: And in the local arena, it could maybe maybe maybe

574
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 4: it's the local emptis. Maybe they were like, Okay, we

575
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 4: need some empts, but we need some big guys. Yes,

576
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 4: So maybe that's what it was. But man, I it's

577
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I'm enjoying watching it. It's just been

578
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 4: really hard for me to watch it. And it's hard

579
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 4: for me to sit there for three hours watching Raw

580
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 4: because it's just there's no there's no vibe, and I

581
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 4: cannot just watch something that there's no crowd to like.

582
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 4: It's really hard for me, and I don't know how

583
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it with regular sports coming up soon,

584
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 4: because that's what that's what makes it better for me.

585
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, going back to like backlash talking

586
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: about arena noises and whatnot, like watching the Edge and

587
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: Randy Orton. We're not gonna call it the greatest match ever,

588
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, because it was a

589
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: good match, but it's not up there. I mean, Steamboat

590
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: and Flair probably will go down as one of the

591
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: greatest matches ever.

592
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 2: But anyways, it.

593
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 4: Was the greatest Okay wrestling match ever.

594
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: Yes, So you know, I thought it was really cool

595
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: that they did the the Howard Finkel intros, but the

596
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: weird thing was was they piped in the noise and

597
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: that you still got it and all that other stuff. Yeah,

598
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, this is very weird, especially when

599
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 1: there's like twelve people standing around watching it and then

600
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: you have this weird crowd noises and it's like I'm

601
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: watching MBA, like WWE twenty twenty and I'm playing in

602
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: an Xbox.

603
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is what I'm doing right now.

604
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 4: It's it's really hard to when you're gonna have these

605
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 4: big spectacles the way they're doing it, it's hard to

606
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 4: even get in that mind frame that it's a big spectacle.

607
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 4: You know. We we had we do WrestleMania parties at

608
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 4: the office for the last three years. I think we've

609
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 4: done it. We have one of those you know, sound

610
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 4: stages downstairs where the performance studios, and you know, we'll

611
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 4: invite listeners over up and we'll do a we'll do

612
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 4: a big party, we'll get the pizza and you know whatever,

613
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 4: and we have it on our big screens and we

614
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 4: have like seven screens on there, so we're all watching

615
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 4: the sounds coming through and it's like this spectacle. It's

616
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 4: like excitement, and even when we're watching like the non

617
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 4: media pay per views, there's still that spectacle. And it

618
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 4: was missing something. And to call it the greatest wrestling

619
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 4: match ever and to do all that kind of stuff

620
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 4: on top of that with no crowd and no fanfare

621
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 4: and no like excitement and no pyro, and it's just

622
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 4: it just didn't. It just didn't click for me. And

623
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 4: I just watched it like this is cool, but it's not,

624
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 4: you know, Undertaker WrestleMania cool. It's not you know, stone

625
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 4: cold returning cool with a sold out arena, and I'm wondering,

626
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 4: and I'm really wondering, man, I'm wondering if it will

627
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 4: affect the product once it starts chugging along again. Not

628
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 4: the opposite work is there's a lot of people that think, well,

629
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 4: it's bad now, and it's okay, let them be bad

630
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 4: now because well there's no crowd. But is there going

631
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 4: to be a crowd when they go back? Is it

632
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 4: going to be crazy? Is it gonna be what it was?

633
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 4: And it's hard for me to watch these events now

634
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 4: without what it's supposed to be.

635
00:27:59,000 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 2: Hey, it's battle.

636
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 1: So a buddy of mine was talking to me about

637
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: how he was trying to do something nice for his

638
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: lady and well he ended up going to the hospital

639
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: because he nicked his family jewels. And I told him, man,

640
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: you gotta get with Manscape. Yeah, Manscape. They redesigned the

641
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: electric trimmer. The Manscape engineering team spent eighteen months perfecting

642
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: the greatest ball haired trimmer ever created. And guess what

643
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: they just released the new and improved lawnmower three point zero.

644
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: Get this thing.

645
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: Third generation trimmer features cutting edge ceramic blade to reduce

646
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 1: manscaping accidents. Thinks the manscaped Advanced skin Safe technology.

647
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: It's very premium.

648
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: And when I mean premium, the battery lasts up to

649
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, so you could take a longer shape.

650
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 2: That's the best part about it.

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Speaker 2: You talk about can it be bad?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: Can it?

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Speaker 4: You know?

670
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Speaker 2: Whatever?

671
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Speaker 1: And Now, now's the time that you bring in the

672
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Speaker 1: people who you're trying to push, you know, the up

673
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Speaker 1: and coming guys. You give them the spotlight and be

674
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Speaker 1: like's here's the deal. You got fifteen minutes, go out

675
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Speaker 1: there and have a match. Just go have fun. I mean,

676
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Speaker 1: you look at Shana Basler, who dominated at NXT, she

677
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: gets called up squash Match or WrestleMania and then hasn't

678
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Speaker 1: really been seen.

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Speaker 4: Much since then, right, So like what was the point?

680
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I get that it was a

681
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: great match, it was a good thing. And maybe it's

682
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: maybe they're waiting for Ronda Rowsey and they Vince loves putting,

683
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: you know, two people from the same sports and a

684
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Speaker 1: wrestling match storyline. So I mean, maybe we might see

685
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Speaker 1: Shana and Ronda, or maybe we might see the Four

686
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: Horsewomen four Horsewomen get together and it's Ronda's crewe versus

687
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: Charlotte's crew, and Charlotte will be back for you know,

688
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: after she's or done with her surgery and whatnot. And

689
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: maybe we get that at at Survivor Series or something.

690
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: But it's it seems like right now with especially with

691
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: Hayman getting you know, told hey Man, you're just gonna

692
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: be an on screen guy, no more creative, and it's

693
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Speaker 1: it's Bruce Pritchard. And you know Bruce Pritchard's he's got

694
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: a great mind. But you know, at the end of

695
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Speaker 1: the day, Vince is the final say so uh.

696
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Speaker 4: I would hope that Pritchard. His podcast is tremendous. I

697
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 4: love listening to it, and I hope that he uses

698
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 4: that that knowledge and knows that it's almost I know,

699
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 4: I'm going off on three different subjects here.

700
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: This is a great thing about this podcast as we

701
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: can go wherever we want with it.

702
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 4: So see, I love the fact Pritcher's podcast is great.

703
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 4: Number one, I love listening to it. And the other

704
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 4: side of that is I don't want them to play

705
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 4: to the Marx Who. And this is something that I've

706
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 4: talked about a lot with a lot of wrestling fans,

707
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 4: and I talk about with Jones all the time, is

708
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 4: WWE has gone from let's give what let's give the

709
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 4: fans what they want in the mainstream, to let's give

710
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 4: the fans what they want to the marks instead. And

711
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 4: I have a very hard time enjoying that when they

712
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 4: do that, and I hope Pritchard doesn't do that Emond

713
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 4: knew what the fans wanted, whether they were marks or

714
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 4: they weren't, And I think Haymond knew exactly what to

715
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 4: do and how to emote the crowd from that, how

716
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 4: to get them to say, this is exactly what we

717
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,959
Speaker 4: wanted and thank you for putting that on TV. Whereas

718
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 4: I think Pritchard is more of a Vince guy and

719
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 4: will kind of, well, you know, do what Vince wants

720
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 4: because Vince thinks it's the right thing to do. No

721
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 4: matter what, until vinces not breathing, it's always gonna be

722
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 4: Vince regardless. And I just think Hayman had a better

723
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 4: way of manipulating Vince and I don't think Pritchard can

724
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 4: do that. But again, his podcast is so good and

725
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 4: I would hope that he takes the knowledge that he

726
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 4: does from that to know that there's fans that still

727
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 4: like wrestling because of what we liked in the eighties

728
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 4: and nineties. They've completely changed their their outlook on how

729
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 4: they do things with regards to end ring performances. It's

730
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,959
Speaker 4: just not it's just there's it's too real And I

731
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 4: know we made that joke earlier. It's still real to me,

732
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 4: but it feels like it's too real now, Like I

733
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 4: feel like they're not making it, you know, scripted enough,

734
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 4: and maybe that's maybe that's the old school on me.

735
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know.

736
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: The thing that you know now you mentioned that it's

737
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: like they're starting to add more of the realness in

738
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: the storyline, Like we all you know, the show has

739
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: a group chat that we do and it was like

740
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: the night that they did the whole you know, car

741
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: crash outside and it was liquor and alcohol involved, and

742
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: Jeff like that's like it's a little too close to

743
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: home for do that, and like I get that Jeff

744
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: had to sign off for it, but it's like ww

745
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: is like Okay, what is somebody doing. They're battling addition,

746
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: Let's throw that addiction in the storyline.

747
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 4: Like we had having sex with kid evers, Let's.

748
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: Do that, like we had we had a not too

749
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: long ago, we had road Warrior Animal on the show

750
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: and he was talking about how back in the day

751
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: when Hawk was doing like when he was on drugs

752
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: and he was an act and all of this stuff,

753
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: Like Vince came to him and was like, Okay, here's

754
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: the deal. We're gonna use ubie and then rehab and

755
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. We're gonna use this as far the

756
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: storyline and you're gonna go out like you're drunk and

757
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: this and this, and you know, Hawk was like, no,

758
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: my kids watch this, like I'm not gonna go out

759
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: there and put even though they know what's going on.

760
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put this on so kids can come

761
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Speaker 1: to school the next day and be like, your dad's

762
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: a drunk.

763
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Speaker 4: Can't have that, can't do it.

764
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Speaker 2: So I was just I was just like you.

765
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Speaker 1: And that was the big controversy because it was like

766
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: why would they do this to Jeff, Like they know

767
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: that the guy has been in and out of rehab

768
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: and then they do this and then of course you

769
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: know they're not going to make Jeff be that person,

770
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Speaker 1: but it's like you see him inebriated and blah blah

771
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and it's like it's a little too

772
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Speaker 1: close for home for some people, especially with going on

773
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Speaker 1: right now in this pandemic.

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Speaker 4: I think with Jeff Hardy, like you said, he has

775
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 4: to sign off on it, I don't think he's gonna

776
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 4: He's that kind of guy. He's that kind of wrestler

777
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 4: that's been around long enough that he doesn't need you know,

778
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 4: he can do that stuff. And and Vince isn't just

779
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 4: gonna tell him to do it and lose his job

780
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 4: because he chose not to do it. But you know

781
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,919
Speaker 4: some of these wrestlers, hey, look if something happens and look,

782
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 4: we don't want to see any you know, racism. We

783
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 4: don't want to see any sexual abuse or harassment or

784
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 4: anything like that. Like if they ever brought that back

785
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 4: in the storylines, I think that would just be silly

786
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 4: for them to do. I think the alcohol thing is

787
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 4: silly too, but it's not you know, it's bad, but

788
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 4: it's not bad. And so if Jeff is like, hey, yeah,

789
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 4: let's do it, listen. I enjoyed that segment when when

790
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 4: he quote crashed the car. I enjoyed that segment. It

791
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 4: was weird, but I enjoyed it. So if they can

792
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 4: keep my attention for fifteen minutes doing something like that,

793
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 4: then I say, keep going, keep doing it.

794
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's been good watching this whole play out

795
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: with him and Shamous, and.

796
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 2: But it's like, what happens after the storyline? What do

797
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 2: you do with both of them?

798
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: Especially when You've done stuff to make sure that Jeff

799
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: stays around, especially with Matt leaving, and you see how

800
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: well he's doing an AD and then it's like, what

801
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: about Seamus because you look around and since I guess

802
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 1: you know has in the wrestling community since Black Wednesday

803
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: happened and everybody got released and Furtload and whatnot, it's

804
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: like every time somebody sees that WW has let somebody

805
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: go up, they're going to AW up, They're going here, up,

806
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: They're going here. And of course, you know, Tony Kahm

807
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: was like, we're not just gonna sign everybody that gets

808
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: released from WWE, because they know how that went when

809
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: WCW was around, and Tony is a big, big WCW guy,

810
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: and of course Arn's there, and you know they've been

811
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: grabbing people that have been released, but they're also utilizing

812
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: these big names in the indies that WW doesn't utilize.

813
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 4: But it's funny that you said that because I was

814
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 4: I was gonna say something about who they signed, because

815
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 4: I saw that Galles and Anderson are going to go

816
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 4: to Impact. Yes, and that's cool that they're going to Impact.

817
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 4: I said one day, it might have been to Jones.

818
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 4: It might have been to the other guy I was

819
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 4: telling me about earlier, Kevin, I said, if one of

820
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 4: those other organizations could sign a major name, like like,

821
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody's at that whole Kogan stage now, Like,

822
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 4: there's nobody that's like that. So for one of them

823
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 4: to sign another superstar, it would have to be pretty huge.

824
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 4: Matt Hardy is huge, but he's not huge, you know,

825
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 4: signing Galles and Anderson's cool, But that's not going to

826
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 4: get me to watch Impact because you know, the former

827
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 4: you know club is now on Impact. Like that means

828
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 4: nothing to me. And this is something that I've been wondering.

829
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 4: Is there somebody that AW or Impact could sign that

830
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 4: would get you to go? Because I don't watch either

831
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 4: of them. I'm gonna be honest, I don't watch them.

832
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 4: I read the results, but I don't watch them. And

833
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 4: one of the reasons is I don't really like any

834
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 4: of the people in the in their organizations. Jericho cool,

835
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 4: that's about. That's about. That's where it ends for AW.

836
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 4: So is there anybody that could be signed by these

837
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 4: other organizations that would be like, that's a major signing.

838
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 4: Now I'm going to watch it. And then again, it's

839
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 4: different now than it was in nineteen ninety five, so

840
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 4: I know, you know, the contracts are different, and the

841
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 4: Internet's different and all those other things. But could we

842
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 4: ever see what we saw back then when WCW was

843
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 4: grabbing Hogan grabbing Savage, grabbing Perfect and all these other guys.

844
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: Right, and you know, and like AW and Impact. I

845
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: think the thing that we've talked about in our little

846
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: group chats is like, you know, with WWE releasing all

847
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: these people, the NBS and you know, Aw's and the

848
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: Impacts and the Ring of Honors, they're all gonna flourish

849
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: because they're gonna start snagging people up once the ninety

850
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: days are up. And it's you know, it's one of

851
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: those things you sit there, it's like, okay, we we've

852
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: discussed who would be good where, who would be good here?

853
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 1: And it's like you look at Impact and you know

854
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: there's talks of Heath Slater going there, and then you've

855
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: got you know, like you said, the.

856
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 4: Wow, Heath Slater and Impact. Yeah, let me set my DVR.

857
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: Now there's talks of like AC three going back to Impact,

858
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: which I think that him going back to Impact is going.

859
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 2: To be good for him because he was a star

860
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,919
Speaker 2: there and you know.

861
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 4: But he never be but he never was a star.

862
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 4: He's been WW twice and he still wasn't a star.

863
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 4: He's not a name. And that's that's what I'm saying.

864
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 4: Like any of these guys that these that the marks love,

865
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 4: that's cool, that'll get you a few hundred thousand viewers maybe,

866
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 4: but they're like if John Cena signed with a w

867
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 4: even in a non wrestling role, that would be a

868
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 4: major coup in this in this industry. But nothing like

869
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 4: that's ever gonna happen.

870
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: And it's not like, you know, no offense. I love

871
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 1: russef to death, like he's great, but it's like, you know.

872
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 4: He's still not that. He's not that level either.

873
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not even close thing for Zach Ryder.

874
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: Everybody loves him and he's a great guy and you know,

875
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: a great person, but it's like, is he gonna get

876
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: the big pop that you know a SNA would get

877
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: if he showed up at AW Like you know, everybody

878
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: freaked out, including myself because I was a big FTR fan,

879
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: Like I was a big Revival fan, Like I thought

880
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: they got screwed in WWE, and they didn't get utilized.

881
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: So seeing them show up at AW I thought that

882
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: was pretty cool because you know, they do a lot

883
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: of tag team wrestling, and it's it's good for them,

884
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: but it's like, what what would this look like if

885
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: there was a crowd, if there was an audience for

886
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: these moments.

887
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 4: Now, like like if there was a crowd, now, yeah,

888
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,240
Speaker 4: depends I think it depends on the crowd that you're getting.

889
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 4: I think it depends on the city you're in, which

890
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 4: which I would say for anything. Really, I say that

891
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 4: for most things with wrestling, you know, you can't you

892
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 4: can't do you know, some kind of return of a

893
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 4: certain wrestler in you know, Sheboygan, it's you know, it's

894
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 4: got to be in a major city in Miami or Philadelphia, Boston,

895
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 4: New York, whatever, It's got to be that type of city.

896
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 4: I don't think I'll tell you what I think NXT.

897
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 4: If there was no NXT, I think maybe things would

898
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 4: be a little bit different. But NXT is that is

899
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 4: that is that like thorn in AW and Impact side,

900
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 4: that WW is putting there on purpose so that people

901
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 4: don't become these stars and don't go there or it's

902
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,240
Speaker 4: a way for WW to say, you know what, Zach Ryder,

903
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 4: you're you're great, We're gonna put or just like Finn Balor,

904
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 4: you're great and you get you're way over with the crowd,

905
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 4: but let's keep you an NXT so you can keep

906
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 4: your job because if we let you go, we know

907
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 4: one of these other guys will take you and that

908
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 4: might change. That could be a game changer. I'm not

909
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 4: saying he's at that level, but that could be a

910
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 4: game changer at one point. So as far as crowds go, though, yeah,

911
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 4: I don't think I don't think it would. It would.

912
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 4: It would have to be a major, major signing. It

913
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 4: would have to be.

914
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: And I've seen online a couple of wrestling organizations they've

915
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: been actually getting away with in certain areas. They've been

916
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: doing the crowd, but they've been doing it outside and

917
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: they've been doing it safely. And I know here in Nashville,

918
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 1: I think we're in phase three, but everybody's not wearing

919
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: a mask, so it's kind of backtracking everything else. And

920
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, I think that we'll start seeing once kind

921
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 1: of this pandemic's done. I think you're going to see

922
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: a lot more outdoor wrestling events, more than indoor wrestling events.

923
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 4: Uh maybe, all right, let's get let's get WWE back

924
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 4: at Shaye Stadium. Listen, if they're going to do outdoor events,

925
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 4: I'm cool with that. And as a matter of fact,

926
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 4: if they want to do it, start it before it

927
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 4: starts getting cool out because your major cities that would

928
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 4: want that aren't going to be able to do it outside.

929
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 4: I mean, I know you're throwing Mania in March or

930
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 4: April early April in New Jersey, you know, a couple

931
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 4: of years ago. But you know, people here in the

932
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 4: mid Atlantic, you know, it gets it gets pretty chilly

933
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 4: after September. And if that's when things are going to

934
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 4: start getting somewhat back to normal, they're gonna have to

935
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 4: start doing that quickly. Because I don't know what it's

936
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 4: like for you in Nashville, but it definitely does not

937
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 4: stay warm here past you know, maybe October.

938
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of tapers off a little bit after October. Yeah,

939
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: and then usually in November December we have those crazy

940
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: days where it's like seventy five and then the next.

941
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Speaker 2: Day it's ten degrees and six months snow.

942
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: Tennessee weather is just extremely weird, So it's.

943
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 4: I would like to see more outdoor WW events, mainly WWE,

944
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 4: because I think it would work for them. I don't

945
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 4: think Impact in AW could do outdoors. What I would

946
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 4: really love to see is is something like Mania back

947
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 4: in the day many and nine when it was at Caesar's.

948
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 4: That'd be pretty cool to do something like that, Like, hey,

949
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 4: let's set up like they can set up rings anywhere.

950
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so it doesn't have to be like, it

951
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be at like an outdoor stadium. They

952
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 4: literally could do it outside in Florida. There's I don't

953
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 4: know if they want to do it in Florida, but

954
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 4: you know, you know what I mean, Like they literally

955
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 4: could sit stuffup outside and have a crowd. I just

956
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 4: I just don't I don't know how they move forward

957
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 4: with this. I don't know how they move forward with crowds,

958
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 4: because if concerts aren't gonna have crowds and sports aren't

959
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 4: gonna have crowds, then how do you like, is this

960
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 4: just going to turn into basically a sitcom or or

961
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 4: like like, well, Seinfeld had an audience, but you know

962
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 4: certain syncoms don't have audiences. They just record their shows

963
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 4: and that's it is. This is this what it's turning into.

964
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 4: Are we never going to see an audience from another

965
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 4: six to twelve months.

966
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: You know. The one organization that did really good at

967
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: that and it sucks that they're not doing anything right

968
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: now is the NWA. Like they went back old school

969
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 1: when this research with Billy Corgan. They had a studio audience,

970
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 1: there was a select number of people that got into it.

971
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: They taped a lot of stuff, and then you know,

972
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 1: they put up they had.

973
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 2: Week's worth of stuff.

974
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 1: But now, granted you saw the same people every episode

975
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: in the same spot, which kind of was like, but

976
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: you could easily rotate it in and out, just like.

977
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 2: A roller coasterrette.

978
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess that could work. I guess you could.

979
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 4: I just I just I get really I get really

980
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 4: sad when I think, Wow, wrestling may never be the

981
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 4: way it was ever again. Like, we lived through the

982
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 4: best parts of wrestling, and some of those best parts

983
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 4: are pretty shitty, but we lived through them, and and

984
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 4: now we may not. We may not have that again.

985
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 4: It's weird to think about.

986
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's extremely weird and very weird.

987
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: It sucks that that's going on, But maybe maybe twenty

988
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: twenty one we can get back to things and hopefully,

989
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: fingers crossed, we can go back to live events.

990
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 4: I want to come up with like a phrase for

991
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, like hey, lots of fun in twenty

992
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 4: one or something.

993
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 2: Yes, but I think somebody, I think somebody did do it.

994
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: A weird phrase though, kind of going it's like casket

995
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: or masket or masket or casket.

996
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:44,959
Speaker 2: I don't know it was weird.

997
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 4: I think tis get a tasket, a flower making basket.

998
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 2: Something along those lines. I don't know.

999
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: It's it's it's has to do with the mask, and

1000
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: I've seen everybody sharing the same tweet.

1001
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 2: It's just very weird.

1002
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, where where where can people find you?

1003
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 2: Let's let's plug those socials.

1004
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 4: Oh let's play. Yeah, let's plug those socials. Instagram, Twitter. Here,

1005
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 4: I'll pretend like I'm doing a break on the air.

1006
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 4: You cant follow me on socials if you want to

1007
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 4: talk at josh m m as in Mary, it's not

1008
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 4: my name but Mary josh m Radio, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

1009
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 4: I have Snapchat. I never use it. I don't do

1010
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 4: forty year old men use Snapchat because I don't even know.

1011
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 4: I just have it just so nobody took my name.

1012
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 2: I'm thirty one and I barely use Snapchat.

1013
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 4: So yeah, my daughter is TikTok, but I won't touch that,

1014
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 4: so I stay away from TikTok.

1015
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 2: TikTok is pretty fun, though. I just I just sit

1016
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 2: there and watch videos.

1017
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: I think I've maybe posted like five videos, and they've

1018
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: all been at the radio station in the most part

1019
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 1: because it's like, Hey, the new thing's TikTok, so everybody's

1020
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: got to create a TikTok account.

1021
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 4: There was a social media thing that came out I

1022
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 4: want to say, like two or three years ago. I

1023
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 4: can't remember what it was called off top of my head,

1024
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 4: but our social digit our digital manager at the time,

1025
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 4: she was like, oh, yeah, you gotta gotta get this

1026
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 4: because it's gonna be the next big thing, gonna be

1027
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 4: the next big thing. And I still it was so big.

1028
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 4: I don't remember what it was called. And I'll get

1029
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 4: on at on it and we never did anything about it. Listen, Facebook, Twitter,

1030
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 4: Instagram at Josh M Radio. That's my that's my handle,

1031
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 4: and you can if anybody wants. Do people email, I

1032
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 4: don't even know if they do them.

1033
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1034
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: It more like dms but yeah, throw out the email.

1035
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 4: All right, Josh at DC one on one dot com.

1036
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 2: There it is, Josh, dude, thank you so much for Battle.

1037
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 4: I appreciate it, man. I've been looking forward to this

1038
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 4: for a couple of weeks, and I even gave you

1039
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 4: a plug last week. On one of my breaks, I

1040
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 4: was doing a liner for all the podcasts and I

1041
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 4: saw it on there. It was like battles Wrestling podcast.

1042
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, I said he might have me

1043
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 4: on there one day. I love my wrestling. It was

1044
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 4: kind of cool. I don't remember when I said it,

1045
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 4: but I did it.

1046
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll have to do this again.

1047
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: We'll have to get Jones involved and we'll just do

1048
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: like a big three way dance wrestling, a three.

1049
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 4: Way with Jones. All Right, I'm in. Where do I

1050
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 4: sign up? Where do I sign up for that? I'm in.

1051
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 5: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

1052
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 5: Make sure you give it five stars and a nice review.

1053
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 5: To stay up to date with the show, follow them

1054
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Speaker 5: at Battleground Podcast on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: So