Speaker 1: Now your made even introducing the hosts wrestling when already
Speaker 1: Jeff died soon. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to
Speaker 1: another episode of Wrestling with Freddy, which we now call
Speaker 1: Wrestling with Friends. Mr Jeff Die is my awesome co host.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get right into the show right away. How
Speaker 1: are you, sir? How is your weekend? How is like?
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good. Just got back from Sacramento with a
Speaker 1: group of my guy comedy friends, and uh, we had
Speaker 1: great shows in Sacramento. Very you like Sacramento. Um, I've
Speaker 1: never been there, nor will I ever be there in
Speaker 1: my life, but I'm sure it's a wonderful town filled
Speaker 1: with great farmers. And I'm sure Chris Webber loved playing
Speaker 1: basketball up there. That's That's about all the things I
Speaker 1: knew about Sacramento. A lot of Chris Webber references, Bloody
Speaker 1: Divak references. But Sacramento is pretty cool, man. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a crumming town, and then this weekend they
Speaker 1: put us in a differ an area by the stadium
Speaker 1: and it was it was amazing. We had a really
Speaker 1: good time. How is the food? The food was food
Speaker 1: was dynamite. The drinks were good, the people were nice.
Speaker 1: The comedy club laughs unlimited strong recommend um. Next week's Vegas.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to Vegas this week. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: want to come with us, Freddie, You're You're always invited.
Speaker 1: So here's the side quest. My mom lives in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas and she has been to every single Raiders home
Speaker 1: game since they moved there. She's she's the reason I
Speaker 1: like the Raiders. And last year she was in a
Speaker 1: wheelchair for a little while with some back and hip issues.
Speaker 1: This year, she's completely healthy and has still continued to
Speaker 1: go to every Raiders game in her wheelchair because they
Speaker 1: treat her like queen when they think as they should.
Speaker 1: I love that she loves your mom even even likes football.
Speaker 1: That's such a cool mom. She only likes violence. She
Speaker 1: likes football, She likes boxing, she likes wrestling. When I
Speaker 1: when I used to compete as a young kid, she would, uh,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say this, but she doesn't listen to the show,
Speaker 1: so it won't matter. But she used to feel like
Speaker 1: a seven eleven cup with white wine and would be
Speaker 1: completely hammered an hour in and would just scream the
Speaker 1: most obscene stuff and whoever I was wrestling or kickboxing
Speaker 1: or whatever like karate tournament I was in, and she
Speaker 1: got thrown out of so many tournaments for foul language
Speaker 1: and screaming m effort at other people's parents. She sounds rad.
Speaker 1: I gotta get her out to my shows. She's gotta
Speaker 1: come this weekend, she would, Uh, you know what. I
Speaker 1: don't think my mom has been to a comedy club
Speaker 1: since my father passed away. For those of you don't know,
Speaker 1: my father was the ship. He was an awesome stand
Speaker 1: up comedian in the seventies. Cats like Jerry Seinfeld and
Speaker 1: Richard Pryor said he would have been the best. Um,
Speaker 1: so suck at all you guys that have dads that
Speaker 1: are comics, because they're not as good as mine was. Um,
Speaker 1: But I don't think she's been to a comedy club
Speaker 1: ever since he passed away. That would actually, I wonder
Speaker 1: if she'd even be able to like cope with that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, asked her if she's interested,
Speaker 1: If she's interested in if she if she just tests
Speaker 1: the waters, I'd love to have her out. That'd be awesome.
Speaker 1: I'll make sure she goes in her wheelchair and you
Speaker 1: can call her out on it. I wouldn't do that,
Speaker 1: but we'll send you some picks. I'll be like sending
Speaker 1: drinks to your mom, being like, Man Freddy's mom are
Speaker 1: having a good time in Vegas and she'll take those drinks.
Speaker 1: You don't mess her out. So let's get into it. Man.
Speaker 1: We had a Monday Night raw and the show started
Speaker 1: kind of weird but kind of cool. They caught Bobby
Speaker 1: Lashly in mid promo, it felt like and apparently Bobby
Speaker 1: Lashly is more powerful than Roman Reins because he beat
Speaker 1: the living hell out of listener and threw them all
Speaker 1: over the place and smashed them up. And I know
Speaker 1: they're building up for for the Crown Jewel event when
Speaker 1: they go to uh to Saudi Arabia I think is
Speaker 1: where they play that. But they made Bobby. They made
Speaker 1: Bobby look good man, instead of getting punked out. He
Speaker 1: I've never really see people beat the crap out of
Speaker 1: out of but yeah, man, Bobby look good. What do
Speaker 1: you think of the start of the show. I like
Speaker 1: that they started like this. There was no waiting around.
Speaker 1: I was just kind of like I was so whenever
Speaker 1: I sit down to watch this, if I watch it
Speaker 1: live or or afterwards recorded on my TV. I'll like
Speaker 1: get like drinks, you know, like get like, you know,
Speaker 1: my bowl of cereal or whatever. I'm whatever to watch.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I was literally hurrying to the
Speaker 1: kitchen on ah, They're already started, already doing stuff like
Speaker 1: it was just it was so fast and so quick,
Speaker 1: but I was exciting. I was like, oh, we're getting
Speaker 1: right into it with the big boys. So I was
Speaker 1: I was a cool start, and I was good to
Speaker 1: see brock um and I love that he's doing the
Speaker 1: Cowboy had. I just I love it was I was
Speaker 1: very very into it. Yeah. Man, people I think have
Speaker 1: wanted to watch these guys fight and and have gotten
Speaker 1: to see a little bit. But I always wanted these
Speaker 1: guys to fight in their prime, and it never really
Speaker 1: like matched up like schedule wise, like Bobby wasn't in
Speaker 1: the w w E or brock was in the UFC.
Speaker 1: I would have loved to see him fighting the in
Speaker 1: mixed martial arts because they both have some experience in
Speaker 1: that as well. But it actually is probably the only
Speaker 1: match that I'm hyped for on the entire Crown Jewel card.
Speaker 1: I think you touched on a little bit, but these
Speaker 1: are two guys who it's very believable. This is a
Speaker 1: very like, Oh, these are two dudes who would actually
Speaker 1: fight each other and be know what they're doing. You
Speaker 1: know these aren't and they by nature. And there are
Speaker 1: guys you know would kick your ass in real life too,
Speaker 1: where there's a lot of pro wrestlers these days where
Speaker 1: you're like, man, I whoop on that guy, But these
Speaker 1: two guys are like, no, I would be dead in
Speaker 1: ten seconds. Seth Rollins, I've been loving him lately. I
Speaker 1: like him more with a belt around his waist. I
Speaker 1: always like his promos outside the crazy laugh. But he's
Speaker 1: not toned it down. But he's just seems in a
Speaker 1: better place. Maybe it's just his wardrobe. I'm liking more.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but Uh Mustafa Ali came out. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's over, but he certainly gets loved from
Speaker 1: like the hardcore fans. And he came out and had
Speaker 1: a nice moment with Uh with Seth Rawlins and and
Speaker 1: basically said, I'm your problem now. I was promised to
Speaker 1: match and and him and Seth got into a little
Speaker 1: bit and Seth ended up looking great. Ali looked as
Speaker 1: as good as Ali can look. Well, I'm shocked that
Speaker 1: you're telling me that you like the way Seth Rawlins
Speaker 1: has been dressing lately, because he wore a like a
Speaker 1: doily kind of like you know that Seinfeld shirt, the
Speaker 1: Lacey's shirt, the Pirate shirt. He wore a red Pirate shirt.
Speaker 1: He wore sunglasses that were terrible and zebra your red
Speaker 1: suede shoes, so the outfit was crazy. But Seth kills
Speaker 1: and I've always loved Ali always because he used to
Speaker 1: do like a Mortal Kombat kind of thing where he
Speaker 1: would come out wearing like the Mortal Kombat gear. UM,
Speaker 1: And I always thought he was such an underrated wrestler
Speaker 1: because he can high fly, you can do all this stuff.
Speaker 1: So I'm jacked up about this, um little few, probably
Speaker 1: more than most, but but I like um, I like
Speaker 1: him a lot. Did I just not know that he
Speaker 1: was good on the mic? Or has he gotten better
Speaker 1: on the mic? I've never seen him on the mic,
Speaker 1: if I'm honest, Like I remember just watching him in
Speaker 1: like two or five live and doing all these I
Speaker 1: would always saw his matches, but I never saw him
Speaker 1: really talk ever. Yeah, I guess he's never really ever
Speaker 1: been given an opportunity, so maybe, but I was I
Speaker 1: was really pleasantly surprised he he handled himself well. It
Speaker 1: was he didn't seem overmatched on the microphone was set
Speaker 1: at all. And Seth is better than probably of the roster,
Speaker 1: probably professional wrestlers as far as cats on the mic
Speaker 1: So I I really enjoyed the segment. Man, I thought
Speaker 1: it was cool. I guess the WW has done with
Speaker 1: Bailey already lost to everybody. Uh, the entire damage Control
Speaker 1: situation is a tag team championship on two girls that
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna get over. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they were like, all right, we gave you
Speaker 1: the little Bailey storyline and now you have to put
Speaker 1: other people over, or if they just said, yeah, we
Speaker 1: weren't really feeling what you were doing, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break and help you figure things out. But
Speaker 1: they haven't been making her look good the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, so I don't I don't know what happened there,
Speaker 1: but I guess I guess they're done with there. That
Speaker 1: might be my worst of the week is what's going on?
Speaker 1: Is what's going on with her right now? They keep
Speaker 1: doing the kind of the same thing over and over.
Speaker 1: What they do they come on It's like it's been
Speaker 1: months of this. It's kind of getting a little much. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean for me, whenever I see something now working,
Speaker 1: I just want to kill it right, like blow it up.
Speaker 1: It's wrestling. That's been wrestling ZMO from the dawn of time.
Speaker 1: It's a very fool the Wood television show. It's not
Speaker 1: like watching Law and Order where you can just fire
Speaker 1: someone two episodes in, like you can you can make moves.
Speaker 1: You can make moves in wrestling. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're trying to do with this, uh, not to jump
Speaker 1: to SmackDown, but I'm gonna jump to SmackDown. They even
Speaker 1: had a tag match with Raquel Gonzalez, Shotzi black Heart,
Speaker 1: Dakota Kai And and Eo Sky And I honestly think
Speaker 1: the only woman out of those four that that is
Speaker 1: gonna get over singles wise is Shots. I love shots
Speaker 1: black Heart. Um, I don't know what you're gonna do
Speaker 1: with the rest of those girls, except you know they
Speaker 1: can be good hands and help get people over, but
Speaker 1: as champions, it's just not it's just not playing and
Speaker 1: you all everybody knows. I love Eo I love EO.
Speaker 1: When she talks smack to that racist piece of shit,
Speaker 1: I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I love this chick.
Speaker 1: But they don't really know how to sell Japanese wrestlers
Speaker 1: in the w w E. Since to Jerry the Japanese
Speaker 1: buzz Saw, they have not known how to sell a
Speaker 1: Japanese wrestle. So so yeah, it was what it was.
Speaker 1: AJ and Dominic had a match. This was sort of
Speaker 1: the least I've liked Judgment Day, so I'd rather blow
Speaker 1: through that unless you want to touch my worst of
Speaker 1: the week. I just saw just say that was my
Speaker 1: worst of the week. I don't like that Dominic beat
Speaker 1: AJ styles. I think that that is insane. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was weird. I think there was probably someone else that
Speaker 1: could have got him over besides that, but whatever. Let's
Speaker 1: get to something that I thought was cool which didn't
Speaker 1: make my best of the week. But the miss finally
Speaker 1: got one off on Dexter Loomis. He faked a knee
Speaker 1: injury like a little bit, which was beautiful. The whole
Speaker 1: episode gets exposed by Johnny Gargano and suddenly his knees fine.
Speaker 1: He has a match against Mr Loomis, and instead of
Speaker 1: having the match, he just bashed him with a chair
Speaker 1: and then they they had the camera a little too low,
Speaker 1: so you saw a lot of the shots and they
Speaker 1: didn't look real when Loomis was on the ground. Uh
Speaker 1: so they should just please pan up just to touch.
Speaker 1: But other than that, he then finished him off with
Speaker 1: his finisher, the skull crushing finale, and legit crushed the
Speaker 1: man's skull on the chair that was on the ground,
Speaker 1: and it was good to see Miss get a little
Speaker 1: something back. This stuff always usually comes off goofy to me,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, they've done an okay job with it.
Speaker 1: And and maybe it's because Miss sells it so well
Speaker 1: and doesn't mind getting like humiliated and and and ridiculed.
Speaker 1: He seems to really sort of thrive in those types
Speaker 1: of scenarios, which is why they usually put him in
Speaker 1: the celebrity matches at big pay per views so he
Speaker 1: can get the celebrity over. But I I've kind of
Speaker 1: enjoyed this. I've had some good laughs with it, and
Speaker 1: Miss finally got one on him, so when they have
Speaker 1: a match it'll actually means something. Did you care about
Speaker 1: this at all or or was it just hard whatever?
Speaker 1: Actually like Loomas and I'm growing mrs growing on me,
Speaker 1: but watching him do those terrible chair shots was pretty
Speaker 1: hard to not roll my eyes in. It looked like
Speaker 1: he was doing them in slow motion. They missed by
Speaker 1: a wide margin, a very wide margin. I'm glad his guy,
Speaker 1: but for sure they could have helped him out with
Speaker 1: the camera. They could have helped him out a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like here, like you, I'm gonna assume most wrestling
Speaker 1: fans known if they don't like you hit the chair
Speaker 1: on the floor closely to where the where he's laying
Speaker 1: or where the guy is, you know, sits hitting the
Speaker 1: canvas or the or the solid floor or whatever, um
Speaker 1: over and over, so it makes the sound and you
Speaker 1: get the effect. But he was doing it so slow
Speaker 1: and he was missing by like that much, like a
Speaker 1: like half a foot a couple of times even more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I was just going all boy, but I
Speaker 1: do like, I thought it was awesome and cool and
Speaker 1: also Miss looked good. He looks strong like like and
Speaker 1: he was wearing the shirt like. I don't know, something
Speaker 1: looks different on Miss. I don't know if it's maybe
Speaker 1: what I don't know what. I don't know what, but
Speaker 1: he looks strong. It looks good. The return of Alias
Speaker 1: Ezekiel has been ostracized from wrestling probably forever. The beard
Speaker 1: has grown back. Alias is back, and there was a
Speaker 1: cool segment. It was very old school, like nineties type
Speaker 1: segment where Riddle comes out, turns into a match with
Speaker 1: with Seth Rollins, Ali comes out, Alias interferes ale goes
Speaker 1: to beat up set At the end, you had kind
Speaker 1: of multiple stories bleeding into one match, which was a
Speaker 1: very nineties way of doing things in the good way.
Speaker 1: I I crap on the nineties a lot, but I
Speaker 1: thought this. I thought they told all these stories well,
Speaker 1: and I thought everybody got a nice moment. It was
Speaker 1: Matt Riddle versus Seth Rollins for the United States Championship.
Speaker 1: After Riddle came out with some bongo drums before Elias
Speaker 1: could sing his song, and instead of being a jerk,
Speaker 1: he's like, na, bro, I just want to have a
Speaker 1: duo with you, bro. And it's because very kind of
Speaker 1: goofy and cool in his way. But I thought everybody
Speaker 1: got over in this in this segment. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't hate it. Yeah, I'm I'm we're on the exact
Speaker 1: same page. I thought it was hilarious. Also, Matt Riddle
Speaker 1: is getting he gets away with such terrible acting, but
Speaker 1: it's it works for whatever reason, it works in this way.
Speaker 1: Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. It's so hard with that
Speaker 1: like goofy stuff or like when Keana would do this
Speaker 1: the surfer stuff and point break like it's still got
Speaker 1: and it works. I don't know why, but it always does.
Speaker 1: It's like, um, this is kind of a deep cut.
Speaker 1: I don't know how old our listeners are. But like
Speaker 1: American Gladiators, there was an American glader named Malibu, and
Speaker 1: like he would always be like he always be, like
Speaker 1: I was spent the weekend with some babes and some bears.
Speaker 1: Now I'm here to put American gladiators And you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's the perfect It's the exact Malibu.
Speaker 1: We're gonna side quest. We're gonna see how many of
Speaker 1: the original American gladiators we can name. You started with Malibu,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you with Gemini, former NFL linebacker for
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Now you love gem He was my
Speaker 1: favorite as a kid, but Nitro I trow that's right. Okay,
Speaker 1: now it's back on me. I'm gonna say, Lacey, Well,
Speaker 1: I not only got to meet this woman, but I
Speaker 1: arm wrestleder as a as an adult. I wasn't a kid,
Speaker 1: but when I was like twenty nine, I arm wrestled
Speaker 1: her and one Zapp, you beat Zapp. I beat Zapp.
Speaker 1: But I mean she's like, she's a nice lady. Now
Speaker 1: she's not like a bodybuilder anymore. She's not American Gladiator.
Speaker 1: I beat her. John Ritter made this movie back in
Speaker 1: the day crap. I can't remember the name. It was
Speaker 1: not strange Luck, it was he played like this womanizing
Speaker 1: kind of you're never gonna get me to settle down.
Speaker 1: I'm an alcoholic and I'll sleep with whoever I want.
Speaker 1: And he's at a bar and I was in puberty.
Speaker 1: I was like twelve years old and it was on
Speaker 1: HBO late at night, and he meets this woman in
Speaker 1: a bar, this bodybuilder woman, and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's Zapp from American Gladiators. And he's drunk.
Speaker 1: She's ready to take him home. She does, and she
Speaker 1: takes off all her clothes and she's like in this
Speaker 1: bodybuilding bikini and she's like, are you ready to get this?
Speaker 1: And at twelve years old, I was like, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I am ready. And my mom walked in the room
Speaker 1: and was like, why are you watching it? Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was like, it's the it's the guy. For some
Speaker 1: I was like trying to play it off, but I
Speaker 1: thought she was so hot. Man. Let's move on to
Speaker 1: a w and I want to hit first of all.
Speaker 1: John Moxley and Adam Hangman Page, who we discussed last week,
Speaker 1: had a match and Hangman Page got a legit concussion.
Speaker 1: I've heard he's okay, but I just wanna I just
Speaker 1: want to send my best wishes to him and hope
Speaker 1: that everything's good with the man's brain and that he
Speaker 1: heals up, that they give him the right of my
Speaker 1: time to heal up. That's not anything to screw around with.
Speaker 1: Football takes it pretty seriously. I hope that wrestling takes
Speaker 1: it pretty seriously to um head. Injured brain injuries are
Speaker 1: nothing to screw around with. So take your time, dude, relax,
Speaker 1: heal up. They got a lot of wrestlers, they're the
Speaker 1: fans seem to really like you. They're not going to
Speaker 1: forget about you. So all my best wishes to you man,
Speaker 1: get get well soon. Um that said, I would like
Speaker 1: to move to the best of the week, which was
Speaker 1: William Regal in the ring with Tony Shiovanni and m
Speaker 1: JF comes out before they can even get started. And
Speaker 1: this dude, I've put him, I said, him and Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens are like the top two guys. No, man, it's
Speaker 1: m JF and then everybody else's is after that. The
Speaker 1: stories this kid is telling at twenty six years old,
Speaker 1: he might be twenty seven by now, are unbelievable. I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's so good. Everything is based in reality.
Speaker 1: And for those of you who don't know the story
Speaker 1: and don't watch wrestling, but listen to the show. For
Speaker 1: some weird reason, this guy tried out for w w
Speaker 1: E in there like minor league system called n x
Speaker 1: T and was rejected and he always wanted to be
Speaker 1: a wrestler since he was a kid. Yes, this dude
Speaker 1: with evidence of he went on Rosie O'Donnell and said
Speaker 1: I want to be a pro wrestler when he was
Speaker 1: like a little little boy. So he we have evidence
Speaker 1: that he's said he always he's always wanted to be
Speaker 1: a pro wrestling. He's not a heal or baby face.
Speaker 1: He's He's Maxwell Jacob Friedman, and he is completely unique
Speaker 1: to everyone else in this business right now, and nobody
Speaker 1: can touch him. Watch what this kid does it Literally,
Speaker 1: I heard Jim Cornette say it was like a super
Speaker 1: villain origin story, and I thought that was a really
Speaker 1: solid take on it. Like you saw how this motivated
Speaker 1: him at such a level. And this kid brings so
Speaker 1: much real emotion to every single promo he does, but
Speaker 1: this week it was so personal and touching, and the
Speaker 1: crowd can't help but but cheer for him, and when
Speaker 1: he needs them to hate him, he's able to get
Speaker 1: them to hate him as well. But he talks about
Speaker 1: going from rejected to being the best thing in this business,
Speaker 1: and real just ain't having it. He's legit, like, look,
Speaker 1: if that's the worst thing you've ever had to endure,
Speaker 1: you ain't endued a goddamn thing yet and just wasn't
Speaker 1: calling him sunshine to which I love, bro. It was
Speaker 1: the best of the week by far, Like nothing even
Speaker 1: came close to this. I don't know how they're gonna
Speaker 1: end this story. But he has a match with the
Speaker 1: a e W World Champion John Moxley, who I like
Speaker 1: to refer to as the werewolf Jack Nicholson's werewolf from
Speaker 1: the movie Wolf, because that's what he reminds me of
Speaker 1: every time he cuts the promo, and the way he
Speaker 1: wrestles is just like a beast in there. So I'm
Speaker 1: certain m JF beats John Moxley at the pay per view,
Speaker 1: but I am in love with this young man. This
Speaker 1: dude is awesome. I will blow smoke up his ass
Speaker 1: every single week on this podcast. I loved watching this.
Speaker 1: Everything felt a hundred percent real, like you're watching a
Speaker 1: scripted drama with top shelf actors executing at the highest level.
Speaker 1: I dare you to disagree with me, Jeff No, I
Speaker 1: just all I agree wholeheartedly. I don't even I didn't
Speaker 1: even know why they got Regal in the in the
Speaker 1: ring with him. It's like that, like you just said,
Speaker 1: they're not they're not going to wrestle each other. And
Speaker 1: this story was just so good MGF saying like, when
Speaker 1: I got that email, I wanted to kill myself, and
Speaker 1: then him being and then him being like and now
Speaker 1: on the top of the business, and you got fired
Speaker 1: from the business. That didn't let me in and you
Speaker 1: came in like a flea ridden rat. Like. There was
Speaker 1: just so many moments in it that were so good,
Speaker 1: and the way regals kind of like staring at him
Speaker 1: like kind of like maniacally like listening to him tell
Speaker 1: the story and you fall for or at least when
Speaker 1: I must job just going yeah, dude, I I can
Speaker 1: identify with this being rejected for things and that working
Speaker 1: so hard to be in like a business. But then
Speaker 1: when when William Riego goes all you do endure was
Speaker 1: like a was it was an email that I was,
Speaker 1: like an email that I sent when I was like
Speaker 1: I went to Carnival at sixteen years old and got
Speaker 1: beat up by grown men, and like you're gonna cry
Speaker 1: to me about an email. It was like both of
Speaker 1: those arguments are so good and yeah, and for him
Speaker 1: to keep calling him sunshine, like, oh, I'm sorry you
Speaker 1: had to deal with an email, Sunshine, and you still
Speaker 1: got a lot of work to do in a lot
Speaker 1: of moments you want to be the devil. There was
Speaker 1: just so many great things in it that it was
Speaker 1: easily the best of the week. It's the thing that's
Speaker 1: trending on YouTube basically, like as like the moment of
Speaker 1: the week, so we'd be foolish to not call that
Speaker 1: the best of the week. I love him JF. I
Speaker 1: think he's incredible. He's the Juan sold of wrestling right
Speaker 1: now because he's just so good but just so young.
Speaker 1: Every time they say his age, I cringe a little,
Speaker 1: like jeebers, he's this over and this good and this
Speaker 1: awesome at that age, Like that's that's insane. When I
Speaker 1: look back at my career at twenty six years old,
Speaker 1: compared to what this dude is at, like I was
Speaker 1: shit right and I wasn't. I didn't even have a
Speaker 1: career yet. I was the top dog at twenty six,
Speaker 1: Like I was getting every like script first before anyone else.
Speaker 1: I was getting higher paychecks than anybody else from my generation,
Speaker 1: and I was nowhere near the level that this dude
Speaker 1: is at right now. Something also that I found very
Speaker 1: beautiful about this story is sort of the hatred of
Speaker 1: this older generation towards millennials, and the hate is real.
Speaker 1: To all you young people out there, that hate is real.
Speaker 1: I love you, guys. I'm forty six, I'm kind in
Speaker 1: the middle. I get both sides, but not to go
Speaker 1: off on a weird non wrestling tangent here. I just
Speaker 1: want you to know they hate you're receiving from these
Speaker 1: older people is real. They don't feel that you're having
Speaker 1: to work as hard as they did coming up. They
Speaker 1: hate the fact that you can make millions of dollars
Speaker 1: on YouTube and Twitch and TikTok and not have a
Speaker 1: boss telling you that your ship and not good enough
Speaker 1: at this, while at the same time not realizing that
Speaker 1: they never had to deal with social media and the
Speaker 1: pressures of hundreds of thousands and millions of fans telling
Speaker 1: you that your ship and not good enough and kill
Speaker 1: yourself and you suck and you shouldn't play video games
Speaker 1: or you shouldn't do this. They hate you, and they
Speaker 1: put zero effort into understanding the ship that y'all have
Speaker 1: to go through. And I'll be honest with you, the
Speaker 1: things you all have to go through with social media
Speaker 1: and all this stuff and failing in front of millions
Speaker 1: of people and a willingness to fail is ten times
Speaker 1: harder than one single boss telling you that you weren't
Speaker 1: good enough that week. They hate that you can make
Speaker 1: millions of dollars and pretty soon billions of dollars. They
Speaker 1: hate the twenty in year olds have their own jets
Speaker 1: and fly around. You can go on Instagram and watch
Speaker 1: any one of these old guys that that pretend like
Speaker 1: they have it all worked out talk about you straight
Speaker 1: up from a forty six year old. I love y'all.
Speaker 1: You guys have to deal with real problems out there,
Speaker 1: and this story reminded me of that. It was just
Speaker 1: like the the disrespect from Regal calling him sunshine. That's
Speaker 1: the worst you had to deal with. No, it's not
Speaker 1: every failure this kid makes is on social media. People
Speaker 1: want to talk trash to him all the time. He
Speaker 1: has to. He's talked about being Jewish in the business
Speaker 1: and the anti Semitism that he's had to deal with,
Speaker 1: and it's more public now than ever. All this kind
Speaker 1: of hatred and stuff with social media, and you see
Speaker 1: all these people on, you know, pressing a heart button
Speaker 1: on something that's just repulsive and disgusting. So I have
Speaker 1: love for y'all. I respect the grind that they don't
Speaker 1: think you have to do. It's just a different grind.
Speaker 1: It's you don't have to start in the mail room anymore.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do that. If you're talented, you
Speaker 1: can go right to the top by nothing more than
Speaker 1: word of mouth. And I'm not talking about the people
Speaker 1: that are like, if I get a hundred followers, I'll
Speaker 1: put on a banana suit. Like that's not that's not
Speaker 1: the grind alright, that's you selling your soul for for followers.
Speaker 1: But the actual talented streamers and the talented YouTubers out
Speaker 1: there that are putting in the work and effort and
Speaker 1: making sure they're getting content up there every single week
Speaker 1: and having to endure all the madness and nonsense that
Speaker 1: comes with that. I got love for you, I got
Speaker 1: respect for you, and I genuinely understand it. SmackDown was
Speaker 1: fired this week, bro, I loved it. I look, by
Speaker 1: the way, starting these Friday night Smackdowns with a Shamus
Speaker 1: match is like they've done it a couple of times now.
Speaker 1: It's the smartest thing in the world. I love this match.
Speaker 1: It was Shamus versus Solo Sokoa, and he had his
Speaker 1: boys out there, Bridge Holland and uh Butch. Shout out
Speaker 1: to me because I got both those guys names, right.
Speaker 1: I love everything about this match. The show started huge.
Speaker 1: I know you had to love this match. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was fun. It was really exciting. It was a good
Speaker 1: way to start it. Also, like you said, like the
Speaker 1: aiming for the shoulders like a video game boss. You
Speaker 1: know that you know the weak part you gotta target. Hey,
Speaker 1: you just kept going right for it, which is good.
Speaker 1: I loved it. Um, both shows, like I said, lebra
Speaker 1: and SmackDown started so like, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: hope that they keep doing this instead of a slow build.
Speaker 1: It's like just the action of of a great match
Speaker 1: to start off. It's very fun. Yeah, it just looked
Speaker 1: like a brutal fight of like two guys in a
Speaker 1: bar that hate each other and say, let's step outside
Speaker 1: and kick the hell out of each other. I love
Speaker 1: So it's not the Sammy's Aane show. This is the
Speaker 1: bray Wyatt show. SmackDown is the bray Wyatt show. That's
Speaker 1: complete disrespect, complete and total disrespect all not only to wrestling,
Speaker 1: but to Canadians all over the world and to any
Speaker 1: man with a beard. He's got a beard too, But
Speaker 1: Sammy's beard is superior to brace. There's no way you
Speaker 1: could argue that, I well, the best beard in the
Speaker 1: business right now. Two best beards are Braun Roman and
Speaker 1: then Sammy's is right after that Bray's probably not even
Speaker 1: a top ten beard in the whole on the whole roster.
Speaker 1: It's October, alright, it's Halloween time. There's no better Halloween
Speaker 1: wrestler than bray White. It's all the October love. Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the segment because they did it. They
Speaker 1: mixed it up a little. They gave him like a
Speaker 1: soundtrack behind a backstage promo instead of an in ring promo.
Speaker 1: What did you think about it? I loved it, and
Speaker 1: I just I I maybe this is because I support
Speaker 1: everything bray White does every time, all the time, like
Speaker 1: the biggest mark in the world. But he's just it
Speaker 1: was great. I don't know like why they did it
Speaker 1: with the music behind it, but it seemed to work
Speaker 1: and him saying like I've always needed you, We've needed
Speaker 1: each other. Like it seems like he's doing this very
Speaker 1: like complex character, which I feel like is lost in
Speaker 1: wrestling a lot of times. It's there's always more to it,
Speaker 1: there's always something going on. He's he's setting up for this.
Speaker 1: It feels very chest like with it's yeah, that's your
Speaker 1: slow burn is his promos. They started the match huge
Speaker 1: and then he gives you the slow burn because you're
Speaker 1: always kind of asking what's next, who's he referring to
Speaker 1: what's going on? As long as I don't play it
Speaker 1: out too long. I don't know who they're going to
Speaker 1: give him to wrestle. I have no idea. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't see how you get him in a storyline with
Speaker 1: Roman right now, But I thought he did a great job.
Speaker 1: By the way, we asked you guys to find us
Speaker 1: somebody who is a better actor. You guys shouted out
Speaker 1: to me a lot on social media, but I didn't
Speaker 1: think any of them were superior to the character work,
Speaker 1: which is what we were specifically like people, said Batista
Speaker 1: regarding today's work in movies now, But that really was
Speaker 1: outside the parameters of the question. Batista kind of played
Speaker 1: himself his whole career in or a version of himself
Speaker 1: his whole career in wrestling, where his braids has so
Speaker 1: many different levels. Man, let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the rebuilding of Live Morgan. I did not like the
Speaker 1: way they were booking her. They're trying to turn and
Speaker 1: Live Morgan into this like weird sort of pain loving
Speaker 1: mass a chist where she's she's enjoying the pain, and
Speaker 1: I think they planted the seed in the match she
Speaker 1: lost with Rowsy because she kind of had that same smile.
Speaker 1: But her and uh, Sonya Deville, who I like, She's
Speaker 1: she's good on the mic and she's she's good in
Speaker 1: the ville. The second day that I saw that she
Speaker 1: had a match more Sonya Deville. I'm a big Deville fan.
Speaker 1: I think so too, man I Actually I met her
Speaker 1: a couple of times in real life and she was
Speaker 1: super cool and and very much like the same kind
Speaker 1: of person you see, like she gets her own personality
Speaker 1: out when she talks on the mic. But I will
Speaker 1: say this live Morgan is all in on this and
Speaker 1: her commitment to this new version of her character was
Speaker 1: and I respect that. I like the way the match ended.
Speaker 1: I liked her reaction to even though she got hurt
Speaker 1: too on the On this she's suplexed Sonja off I
Speaker 1: think the middle rope and Sonya was on the top
Speaker 1: rope onto a bunch of chairs after they both got
Speaker 1: counted out of the match, and she like enjoyed the pain.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the to the final segment, alright, Logan Paul,
Speaker 1: everybody's favorite and least favorite YouTuber is gonna wrestle Roman
Speaker 1: reigns at a ground jeweler. I think you'd say that.
Speaker 1: Do you ever think you'd say that? So I'm and
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch the match, even though I like, look,
Speaker 1: he's done well, but this is not good booking. This
Speaker 1: is just promotional booking to get YouTube vans to watch
Speaker 1: pro wrestling. I don't know why they're trying to sell
Speaker 1: this outside of you know, we want eyeballs. And the
Speaker 1: stocks been going up since they've been doing this, even
Speaker 1: though I sold all my stock already. But uh but
Speaker 1: I I just didn't. I didn't buy it man at all.
Speaker 1: I like the Sammy's aim part. I like the j
Speaker 1: Us part, but I think they should have left Logan there,
Speaker 1: you know, jacked up and beat down, and then maybe
Speaker 1: give him a moment against Sammy Um on the next show,
Speaker 1: because Ammy can can take els and still look great,
Speaker 1: whereas when you do that to Jay, it just makes
Speaker 1: him look bad. And Jay shouldn't look bad, man, Jay's
Speaker 1: should look gangster as hell and street as hell and
Speaker 1: tough as nails. And I just I hated it. There
Speaker 1: was there was nothing good about it, and I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody got over um in the segment at all.
Speaker 1: But what did you think. I wasn't sold on it
Speaker 1: before any of this. I like, I think most wrestling
Speaker 1: fans are going, all right, we're gonna treat this like
Speaker 1: it's one of these pay per views that isn't part
Speaker 1: of the real wrestling thing, you know. They're treating like
Speaker 1: a glorified house show that will be like, oh, this
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do with the storyline or any of
Speaker 1: that stuff, is at least how I'm treating it. So
Speaker 1: although Logan Paul has surprised me before, I have been
Speaker 1: very anti Logan Paul, and then after each one, I go, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan. So unless they can try to do
Speaker 1: some magic miracle that makes me care about this match,
Speaker 1: like when it happens, um, you know, maybe they'll surprise
Speaker 1: me because I don't air at all about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh, I don't know, man. I know they're going
Speaker 1: after young people and they don't want to do the
Speaker 1: children's stuff. They're trying to keep it so that it's
Speaker 1: still kind of PG thirteen ish, even Irish at times.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's kind of like when the Marvel Universe
Speaker 1: would do those Alternative Universe comics. That were just like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what if Spider Man was Thor And you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't. Why can't you just be Spider Man?
Speaker 1: So I never that's what they should call the alternative
Speaker 1: paper views. Yeah, Bizarro WrestleMania or something. You know, it's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very I'm not in on it. It's very publicity oriented,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. And that's the weekend wrestling.
Speaker 1: I know you've told people you're gonna be in Vegas,
Speaker 1: but what club you're gonna play in Vegas this weekend?
Speaker 1: I'm playing the laugh Factor at the Tropicana. Comes see
Speaker 1: me Thursday through Sunday. I want to talk wrestling. I
Speaker 1: had a nice thing happened. A fan of of our
Speaker 1: podcast and a fan of my other podcast came to
Speaker 1: my shows in Dania Beach, Florida, and they brought wrestling cards.
Speaker 1: We opened wrestling cards and broke bread. They gave me
Speaker 1: some wrestling pins which were pretty cool. Um, one of
Speaker 1: Vader and one of r VD kicking stone Cold with
Speaker 1: the chair. Um. Just cool, cool guys. It's nice to
Speaker 1: meet guys who liked the show and our fans of
Speaker 1: years and they came to my comedy, so hopefully more
Speaker 1: people will do that this weekend in Vegas. Fans of ours, sir,
Speaker 1: fans of our, Fans of ours, thank you for being
Speaker 1: the greatest co host in the world. Thank all you
Speaker 1: guys for being the greatest listeners in the world. Love
Speaker 1: you too. And remember what I said, all you millennials
Speaker 1: and the generation after millennials. These mother truckers hate you,
Speaker 1: so watch your back, keep doing your thing, respect your
Speaker 1: own grind. You don't have to have a boss, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. We love you, guys, and
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