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Speaker 2: Everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Wrestling with Friends.
Speaker 2: Not a lot happened in the world of wrestling this week,
Speaker 2: but you're still gonna get two episodes because we'll break
Speaker 2: it down for you on today's app and then the
Speaker 2: Thursday episode we will do our predictions for Le Royal Rumblai.
Speaker 2: My favorite pay per view of all of them, with
Speaker 2: me as always is Jeff di on location in New
Speaker 2: York City. How are you sure? What the hell are
Speaker 2: you doing out there? Feeling good?
Speaker 3: I'm here doing comedy shows and I was just in Baltimore,
Speaker 3: which was great technically tumonium, and then I've got a
Speaker 3: gig in Miami, so just taking the two days and
Speaker 3: doing shows in New York City while I'm in.
Speaker 2: So at least you get to warm up at the
Speaker 2: end of your trip, because you're probably freezing your little
Speaker 2: nuts off, aren't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Baltimore's called New York is freezing. I don't know
Speaker 3: what Miami's like. In January, we'll see and then I
Speaker 3: go to Portland with it. It's gorgeous. That's how it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well I hope well good, and then Portland will be
Speaker 3: cold again.
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Speaker 2: the damn show. The penta Era continues. His entrance. I
Speaker 2: think it was different. Do they add fire to it? Like?
Speaker 2: Was the entrance even better than it was last week?
Speaker 2: It looked better to me. I thought it was. He's
Speaker 2: got more style than anybody in WWE, like just his walk,
Speaker 2: his presence, his I'm gonna sell. Yeah, you're doing the
Speaker 2: walk right now in your car, Eddie Guerrero. Bro. It's
Speaker 2: so cool. He has like an aura like that sound
Speaker 2: like Charlie Murphy. You know his aura. I can see it.
Speaker 2: You can literally like feel it on him. Man Like,
Speaker 2: there's just something special about him. And I really think
Speaker 2: that the WWE universe is like big time behind him.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I didn't know if they were even
Speaker 2: gonna know his like call signs and like his chance
Speaker 2: because a lot of wrestling is very tribalistic, right and
Speaker 2: kind of like our country now, and it's like you
Speaker 2: can only like this or this, and it's like, man,
Speaker 2: I kind of like both. So I really didn't know.
Speaker 2: And that first one, I think it sounded like a
Speaker 2: good seventy percent of the audience knew his set on Mielough.
Speaker 2: But now everybody does, and it's been two freaking weeks
Speaker 2: and he looked great. The match wasn't as good as
Speaker 2: the Chad Gable match with he wrestled against Pete Dunn
Speaker 2: don't call him, don't call him Butch, but it was
Speaker 2: still a cool ass match and I just I can't
Speaker 2: say enough good things about him. I love what WW
Speaker 2: is doing right now with all their sort of international
Speaker 2: wrestlers from Shinseki speaking in Japanese to Pentas speaking in Spanish.
Speaker 2: But I really love this dude and it looks like
Speaker 2: he's gonna be the one. And I it's wild that
Speaker 2: AEW slept on him like this, and he was always
Speaker 2: a guy that was losing matches instead of a guy
Speaker 2: that was gonna get, you know, shot to the moon
Speaker 2: mid card status and then see if that works, and
Speaker 2: then if it works mid card, bring him up to
Speaker 2: the top. But WW is doing a great job with him,
Speaker 2: and I've and I've talked enough and I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: it to you. No, I agree with everything you said.
Speaker 3: I mean, how long are these residing companies gonna sleep
Speaker 3: on Luca's You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: Like, we love the high flying, we love the stuff.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 3: And I want to say this as delicately because I
Speaker 3: love Raymonsteriro Junior. But I feel like the passing of
Speaker 3: the torch was long overdue. I feel like we still
Speaker 3: get Raymisteriro all the time in matches, we get thanks.
Speaker 3: I love Raymonsteriro, no disrespect. I just think you know
Speaker 3: he's getting up there in age there's got to be
Speaker 3: another guy, and Dominic Masterial who is a rock star
Speaker 3: isn't really a Luca though, he's not like a high
Speaker 3: flying flipper Luca. And so the fact that WWE is
Speaker 3: making the face of the new like Lucha Era Penta,
Speaker 3: I couldn't be happier. He looks cool, he's got the presence,
Speaker 3: he has that it factor. He's got, like the little moves,
Speaker 3: the music, that the catch phrase or what is that
Speaker 3: it's not a catchphrase, whatever, that catch little thing that
Speaker 3: we all get to do with. Everything he does is awesome,
Speaker 3: and good on wrestling for embracing it, and good on
Speaker 3: wb for noticing it and pushing it to the forefront.
Speaker 2: I love Ray, So it's like it's weird. It's hard
Speaker 2: to hear anyone say it's time to pass the torch,
Speaker 2: right because he's the greatest luciator that ever wrestled. But
Speaker 2: he is like fifty something years old. And they have
Speaker 2: for sure tried with other wrestlers. They've given other wrestlers
Speaker 2: opportunities to see how to see how it goes, to
Speaker 2: see if they can be the next Ray, and they
Speaker 2: haven't felt, for whatever reason, that they found that guy yet.
Speaker 2: But man, they seem to they seem to believe in Penta.
Speaker 2: They really seem to believe in Penta. And I guess
Speaker 2: you I guess you're right. Man. It's it's weird for
Speaker 2: me to say that. Ray was one of the first
Speaker 2: dudes that I wrote for when I worked at WWE,
Speaker 2: because Vince basically was like, you're you're a Mexican. You
Speaker 2: speak Spanish to him? Speak Spanish to Ray, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, he speaks English, right, Like what do we do?
Speaker 2: What are we doing here? But uh, but yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I think I think you're right. I think you're right.
Speaker 3: And it's also it's not like raymis here has got
Speaker 3: to go anywhere, no, no, but he does putting someone over.
Speaker 3: How many times have we had John Cena put people over?
Speaker 3: People had to put John Cena over. That's how wrestling works.
Speaker 3: So for for it's good that Rays. I don't want
Speaker 3: Rado retire. I just want I just want. I think that,
Speaker 3: like we should have a thousand Loochs, bring back you know, uh,
Speaker 3: bring back all all of our Philip. I want to
Speaker 3: see Laparka, bring back Laparka.
Speaker 2: You love Laparty, He's your favorite. Do you have a
Speaker 2: Penta mask yet No, I would love one.
Speaker 3: But when people wear the Penta mask, it doesn't look
Speaker 3: as cool as when Penta does it because he has
Speaker 3: a fa to and I have context.
Speaker 2: Now he looks, so the whole look is awesome. You
Speaker 2: mentioned dominic U and it instantly made me think of
Speaker 2: dominic mysterio versus Penta and how they would get there
Speaker 2: one day, because I would love to watch that. Dominic's
Speaker 2: so freaking awesome too. Man, I don't know. I give
Speaker 2: him enough love. It's all I do is give him love.
Speaker 2: But I'm giving him more. And Sam Punk was on
Speaker 2: the show and he did his interview in the crowd
Speaker 2: this week and he free flowed it. It definitely wasn't scripted.
Speaker 2: I ain't did okay with it. It wasn't his best promo,
Speaker 2: it wasn't his worst promo. But he is in the
Speaker 2: Royal Rumble and talked about winning the Royal Rumble. We'll
Speaker 2: get into our predictions on who we think will win
Speaker 2: the Rumble, but I will say this because I've said
Speaker 2: it before, I'm not betting against Sam Punk ever again.
Speaker 2: Like I just maybe in the Royal Romo match, it'll
Speaker 2: be different because there's thirty forty dudes. I don't know
Speaker 2: how many they are doing this year. I hope it's
Speaker 2: just the thirty, but yeah, man, it's if he's in
Speaker 2: a match, I guess he wins, which is so weird.
Speaker 2: Party on Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre and I don't
Speaker 2: want to talk about the match so much. I mean,
Speaker 2: we can, but the thing I want to focus on
Speaker 2: is how they're continuing to tell stories and develop long
Speaker 2: term stories, and they do it with matches, and I
Speaker 2: wish AW would do this a little more. They've done
Speaker 2: it a few times, but I wish they'd do it
Speaker 2: a little more. Seth Rollins and Drew mctire they have
Speaker 2: this big old fight in the ring, screw you, no,
Speaker 2: screw you, and they're beating each other up. And yes,
Speaker 2: I sound like Michael Winslow from Police Academy when I
Speaker 2: do sound effects. But they had this match and some
Speaker 2: Shenanigan's gone after the match, and Drew McIntyre's like, yo,
Speaker 2: I'm pissed off that I lost. I'm going to attack
Speaker 2: you and uh, and he gets he gets help from Seth,
Speaker 2: gets help from Sammy's Ain't and Sammy's aint comes out
Speaker 2: and he could have just saved Seth and that would
Speaker 2: have been it. And in aw a lot of times
Speaker 2: that's how it would end. And that's cool. But they
Speaker 2: need to create story constantly in WWE because they don't
Speaker 2: get days off like we do. We're gonna take some
Speaker 2: time off in between or in between our seasons, but
Speaker 2: ww takes no days off. And so they have Drew
Speaker 2: get out of the way as Sammy's about to kick
Speaker 2: him in the face, and Sammy accidentally kicks Seth in
Speaker 2: the face. Seth's a hot head. He doesn't take kindly
Speaker 2: to this stuff. So it gives them an opportunity to
Speaker 2: have some story and have some reasons to fight, just
Speaker 2: a reason to fight, not for a big pay per
Speaker 2: view match or anything like that. It could just be
Speaker 2: on a Monday Night Raw. It could just be the
Speaker 2: two of them fucking with each other in the Royal
Speaker 2: Rumble because Seth's like, nah, hell no, I'm knocking you
Speaker 2: out because you kick me in the face. But it's
Speaker 2: those little things that they do, and they're getting really
Speaker 2: really good at it that give them opportunities to tell
Speaker 2: more stories within their three hour shows, their two hour shows,
Speaker 2: and their one hour shows. I'm not watching NXT, but
Speaker 2: I heard it's gotten a lot better than when I
Speaker 2: used to back, so maybe I'll give it another shot.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I just wanted to point on that because
Speaker 2: we've constantly talked about their long term storytelling, but we
Speaker 2: don't often talk about their short term storytelling because that's
Speaker 2: more an aew thing. And I just really liked the
Speaker 2: way they did this, and I'll stop rambling. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 3: I actually wish wrestling would evolve with these sort of things.
Speaker 3: I wish wrestling was so we always talk about the storytelling, right,
Speaker 3: That's what's the most important I think we should have.
Speaker 3: If we haven't moved past it, we should move past
Speaker 3: Sammy Zay kicking a guy kicking Seth Rawlins in the face,
Speaker 3: and then Seth being like you kicked me, Like that's
Speaker 3: too basic of a misunderstanding, Like you could easily clear
Speaker 3: that up. I was trying to help you, dude, I
Speaker 3: sidenly kicked you because he moved, Like it's so easy
Speaker 3: to like explain, why don't we have a more evolved
Speaker 3: way of showing a distrust between two guys. It seems
Speaker 3: too basic that you would just be like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: was trying.
Speaker 2: To help you. That's fair, but I think he'll say
Speaker 2: that and said we'll check that. Yeah, I hear you. However,
Speaker 2: and look, it's art, so you're right. It's it's not
Speaker 2: a scientific fact that their storytelling is good. We both
Speaker 2: have opinions on it. But I just think you need
Speaker 2: some of those short term storytelling devices to fill in
Speaker 2: a lot of these episodes. It's not going to be
Speaker 2: this big, epic bloodline story. It's just a short, quick
Speaker 2: thing that gives them a reason to hate each other
Speaker 2: in the Royal Rumble, or gives us a match on
Speaker 2: Monday Night Raw. And everything you said is correct, and
Speaker 2: I agree with everything you said, but I still feel
Speaker 2: there's room for it from my side and what I
Speaker 2: need from wrestling. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes
Speaker 2: total sense. All right, Well, I'm glad we're making sense.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about Let's talk about WWE. Smack Sounds. Smack
Speaker 2: Sounds Sound is a wonderful show. However, this, uh, this
Speaker 2: episode was not that great. Kevin Owens is great, I
Speaker 2: know that much. Jimmy Usso is pretty awesome. He came
Speaker 2: out there and Kevin Owens is talking all kinds of
Speaker 2: shit to Matthew McConaughey, which was really fucking cool of
Speaker 2: Kevin Owens so much, and he gets in there, aint
Speaker 2: Jimmy USO interrupts him and Kevin's like, what what what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? You know I saw him to say,
Speaker 2: and Jimmy us just goes, you talk too damn much
Speaker 2: and puts one on him. Man, And it was The
Speaker 2: show opened real cool like that, but uh it didn't.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, it felt like we're getting ready
Speaker 2: for the Royal Rumble. We don't want to risk any injuries.
Speaker 2: Let's give some guys a night off. Let's get some
Speaker 2: fresh blood in there. There was good stuff that we'll
Speaker 2: talk about, but all in all, that was kind of
Speaker 2: the highlight. One of the other cool things was Damian
Speaker 2: Priest is a part of smack sound. I almost said SmackDown,
Speaker 2: but this they spell it with an s um. You
Speaker 2: and I agree that the Judgment Day stuff was getting
Speaker 2: kind of old and we were wanting to see it
Speaker 2: evolve like the bloodline organically. Well I think they agree
Speaker 2: because not only did they kind of end that, they
Speaker 2: straight took him to a whole nother show, which is
Speaker 2: cool that they have that draft window or transfer portal,
Speaker 2: whatever they call it. They're trying to be like college football.
Speaker 2: So they brought Damien Priestcott him as far from the
Speaker 2: Judgment day as possible, and now he can kind of
Speaker 2: not restart his career, but restart a story, find a
Speaker 2: news story. And they're going to establish him to the
Speaker 2: audience first because they believe that not necessarily everyone who
Speaker 2: watches Raw watches SmackDown, which I always disagreed with, but
Speaker 2: they said they had numbers to prove it, so what
Speaker 2: the hell do I know? So he gets re debuted
Speaker 2: against Carmelo, who can really really work in there and
Speaker 2: really really go, and they have him lose a lot,
Speaker 2: but for some reason, I don't think it damages him.
Speaker 2: He's just he looks like he could in every match
Speaker 2: at some point in the match. He's really really good.
Speaker 2: He's from NXT and I should have known that, but
Speaker 2: I don't watch it because I'm an asshole. So Damian
Speaker 2: Priest is now on SmackDown. He gets an established victory.
Speaker 2: I don't know where you send him first, maybe after
Speaker 2: Shinseka Nakamura because they could have a pretty crazy match
Speaker 2: for the US title. But eventually he's got to go
Speaker 2: after Cody and him and Cody had a little like, ey,
Speaker 2: I do it, yeah, pretty good? I doing yeah, pretty good? Welcome, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, peace and then they sort of walked off
Speaker 2: and did there I'm a badass lion and so are
Speaker 2: you thing. But yeah, so those were kind of the
Speaker 2: big highlights. But is there any crap that you want
Speaker 2: to talk about that happened on smack Shone.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm just excited to see Damian Priest reinvents himself.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see what that's going to look like.
Speaker 3: I would like to see him in some different ring gear.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think they that's a good idea biggest star ever.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited to see I don't know, just see
Speaker 3: what they do with him over there.
Speaker 2: So that's that's what I'm most most excited about. Dude,
Speaker 2: he should get some new gear, some smack sound gear.
Speaker 2: That would be cool. Yeah, dude, Damian Priest, he has
Speaker 2: a cool story. I don't want to get into it
Speaker 2: because I like other people to tell their story, but
Speaker 2: you guys should check it out on YouTube or something
Speaker 2: and hear him speak about it. Pretty cool. The life
Speaker 2: changes that he went through to get to where he
Speaker 2: is now. It's just something to be respected and you
Speaker 2: guys should check it out. Google him all right. A
Speaker 2: dubs this week they got into it. Will Ospray and
Speaker 2: Kenny Omega got on the mic and it was like,
Speaker 2: if you're ranking it one to ten, it was like
Speaker 2: a seven, you know, like a good seven Ospray's I
Speaker 2: still don't know how ww slept on Ospray. He's just perfect,
Speaker 2: Like he can talk, he looks good, he can move,
Speaker 2: he can sell, he can work, like he could do everything.
Speaker 2: And I don't know. I know there's like mixed feelings
Speaker 2: on Kenny Omega. And I wasn't hip to Kenny Omega
Speaker 2: for any of this, so I he's new to me
Speaker 2: still because he's been hurt for a while. I think
Speaker 2: he's cool. He's pretty good on the mic, and he's
Speaker 2: in good shape. He can wrestle and uh, and he
Speaker 2: believes in selling too. I like, I like dudes itself.
Speaker 2: I like dudes that make you look good. That that's
Speaker 2: so important, and the ones that do it are selfless,
Speaker 2: and those are the ones that do the best business
Speaker 2: I feel. So anyway, they both got beef with the
Speaker 2: don Kallis family and Donna's quickly becoming one of my
Speaker 2: favorite managers. He just gets better and better every week.
Speaker 2: Dude scarred his own head for for his art, which
Speaker 2: is so hardcore, and he just sort of lives it. Man.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he's pulling it off.
Speaker 3: You know, on the Jeredo cruise with Jericho, Cruz jobbed
Speaker 3: for like so many matches he didn't did. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: was like he he had all these kind of different things.
Speaker 2: He would just come out and lose in a match.
Speaker 2: I thought it was hilarious. That's really fun. Dude wasn't
Speaker 2: even managing, just being a jobber. He has been growing
Speaker 2: on me for a long time, man, and he's he's
Speaker 2: really really good. Dude. I can't believe he sliced his
Speaker 2: head open. That's so hardcore. But anyway, they got beef, Jeff,
Speaker 2: they got they got man beef. And it's not it's
Speaker 2: not the gross kind of man beef. It's the violent
Speaker 2: kind of man beef. And yeah, man, they made the
Speaker 2: match quickly, which I still wish they would pull these
Speaker 2: things or or make these stories longer. But I guess
Speaker 2: they're selling tickets for a pay per view, so I
Speaker 2: should probably shut up. About that. But they both climbed
Speaker 2: up this giant pillar and basically challenged to Keshia and
Speaker 2: I think it was Kyle Fletcher to a tag match
Speaker 2: in Australia. I'm excited for this pay per view coming up.
Speaker 2: And and then at the end of the promo, he
Speaker 2: gets the line of the week. By the way, Kevin
Speaker 2: Owens doesn't get the line of the week. It's Kevin,
Speaker 2: It's Kenny Omega from on top. And he goes and
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna get off this this this whatever scaffolding
Speaker 2: because I'm afraid of hides. Yeah, they climbed back down.
Speaker 2: I was like, yo, man, he kind of broke the
Speaker 2: fourth wall there and a cool ways. I thought that
Speaker 2: was funny. I wanted to mention that I would rather
Speaker 2: see these dudes wrestle each other than see them in
Speaker 2: a tag match. But I'm hyped to see the match
Speaker 2: just the same. How did you how'd you feel about
Speaker 2: a doves overall? We'll get into more of it as
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 3: Uh, nothing notable really on my end. I like, in
Speaker 3: my opinion, I watched it, I go, oh, it's good.
Speaker 3: It felt very much like was watching a house show
Speaker 3: or something, which I guess is kind of the vibe
Speaker 3: of AWS sometimes, but it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes that is the vibe, and sometimes it's good
Speaker 2: and sometimes it's not good. It it kind of depends
Speaker 2: on the stories they have going on. Well, then I'll
Speaker 2: hit you with some other stuff, because there was some
Speaker 2: stuff that I liked. One Bobby Lashley looked great and
Speaker 2: Shelton Benjamin looked great, and they dominated a match that
Speaker 2: they should have dominated, and it was awesome for private
Speaker 2: part to allow them to be that dominant in the match.
Speaker 2: Usually the AW matches feel like fifty to fifty unless
Speaker 2: it's a squash match, like everybody gets all their moves in,
Speaker 2: everybody gets to kick out of the of the finisher,
Speaker 2: you know, and it's it feels very fair. And even
Speaker 2: it's like fifty one forty nine, this match was not that.
Speaker 2: This was not a squash, but it was dominance and
Speaker 2: Bobby looked like Bobby Lashley should look. And now they're
Speaker 2: the tag team champions. The hurt Cindy could have gold,
Speaker 2: which legitimizes them. Eventually they'll get they'll drop those titles
Speaker 2: and Bobby will move on once there's room towards the
Speaker 2: World Championship. I'm sure, that's the title. He's going to
Speaker 2: go for first, and Shelton can do great things in
Speaker 2: like the Continental Classic and go after the International title
Speaker 2: and things like that. But they look good, so I
Speaker 2: was happy about that. My man MVP was on commentary,
Speaker 2: always killing it out there. And the one match that
Speaker 2: I did want to hit on because this was like
Speaker 2: the one bright spot and kind of a boring week
Speaker 2: of wrestling, was Jamie fucking Hater versus Julia Hart. And
Speaker 2: this was like a revenge match for Jamie Hayter because
Speaker 2: she had lost once she got the mooda mist in
Speaker 2: the face. Oh MyH she goes down, she gets paid one, two, three,
Speaker 2: no mooda miss this time? What's up? You're by yourself?
Speaker 2: Julia Hart and she took the big ass hilaria from
Speaker 2: Jamie Hayter. But it's really good to have Julia Hart
Speaker 2: back from injury, really good to have Jamie Hayter back
Speaker 2: from injury. Really awesome to see women's wrestling and to
Speaker 2: see a good entertaining match. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: hell's happened with Britt Baker, but whatever story she had
Speaker 2: is now gone. Maybe she's hurt again. I've known, Maybe
Speaker 2: she's got beef. I have no idea, but uh, their
Speaker 2: division has been lacking, Like there hasn't been a lot
Speaker 2: of matches to see. There hasn't been a lot of
Speaker 2: opponents to be built up for Mariah May. There haven't
Speaker 2: been a lot of opponents to be built up for
Speaker 2: that people really were into for for Mercedes Money. So
Speaker 2: it's been is been tough man, And this was like
Speaker 2: a nice kind of refreshing moment. And maybe, look, maybe
Speaker 2: it was so everything else was so boring that this
Speaker 2: just stood out because it wasn't. But to me, it
Speaker 2: felt like a really good match. They worked super clean,
Speaker 2: a lot of the moves looked real, a lot of
Speaker 2: them probably were, and Jamie Hayter got the win and
Speaker 2: then cut a really cool promo at the end. It
Speaker 2: was like, look, you're bitch, but you're a tough bitch
Speaker 2: and if you want to fight again, fuck yeah, and
Speaker 2: she she said it better than that. But and then
Speaker 2: she walked out of the ring, and I thought it
Speaker 2: was really quiet. Even texted you guys, I was like, yo, man,
Speaker 2: check this match out. I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 2: Did you get to see that match or not?
Speaker 3: I thought, yeah, I liked Julie Harder or that's your name, right,
Speaker 3: Juliard Julia Crazy hard Yeah, I like her. My problem
Speaker 3: is I'm not connecting with a lot of the mic
Speaker 3: quirk or a lot of that kind of stuff with
Speaker 3: h with what they're doing.
Speaker 2: But uh I I don't know it. They're not all
Speaker 2: going to win a category.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be sitting here and be a hater,
Speaker 3: So I'm like trying to not say what.
Speaker 2: I'm Yeah, don't be a hater on Jamie Hayter bro
Speaker 2: It's like hits you with that Larry a lot. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty critical of a lot of this. You are criticae.
Speaker 2: I know your look. I don't think there's I don't
Speaker 2: think there's anything wrong with your criticism. I think you're
Speaker 2: always fair. I think maybe some of our listeners get
Speaker 2: upset because there is a lot of tribalism and that's
Speaker 2: my guy or that's my girl. You're talking shit on
Speaker 2: my guy and I've believed in him forever. He's entertained
Speaker 2: me for years, and she's entertained me for years, and
Speaker 2: now you don't like him and you're saying shit and
Speaker 2: you have a voice, and I don't, So I get
Speaker 2: where that comes from. But I think you've always been fair.
Speaker 2: I disagree with a lot of what you say because
Speaker 2: I give more latitude to him. I think, yeah, you're
Speaker 2: very nice to the wrestlers. I'm very hard on the wrestlers. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 2: I'll put it to you this way. If I say
Speaker 2: a promos a seven, that's probably most people's five. Like,
Speaker 2: I'm giving a couple extra points of latitude because they
Speaker 2: don't all take acting classes. They're not all you know, actors.
Speaker 2: Some of them just wrestle and that's okay. And should
Speaker 2: they have a manager, Yeah, but should they get a
Speaker 2: chance to learn and develop that and maybe something cool happens, Right,
Speaker 2: Like when Jalen Rose was originally on ESPN doing commentary
Speaker 2: and stuff and all that, he sucked, and over the
Speaker 2: course of a year, you watched him get better from
Speaker 2: week to week to week to where the point where
Speaker 2: he became one of their best voices on that friggin network. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And if he didn't get those opportunities to fail and
Speaker 2: f up, he probably would have never gotten better. He
Speaker 2: ended up doing like a podcast TV show with this guy,
Speaker 2: and it just he really was able to be himself
Speaker 2: and it just kind of helped him develop his skills,
Speaker 2: and that can happen with wrestlers too. We've seen it
Speaker 2: happen with wrestlers. We've seen, you know, We've seen Solo
Speaker 2: Sokoa go from no speaking to cutting full on promos
Speaker 2: to going back to not speaking anymore. Now he's pissed
Speaker 2: at the audience. He's like, fuck you guys, I'm going
Speaker 2: out there. So I try to give more latitude with that.
Speaker 2: I also worked there, and I know how hard the
Speaker 2: conditions are. It's not an environment that's conducive to success
Speaker 2: outside of the wrestling part.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just takes me out of the story as
Speaker 3: all like like, and Kenny Omega is probably one of
Speaker 3: my favorite wrestlers in the last ten years. I'm a
Speaker 3: big Kenny Omega guy like him, and his last when
Speaker 3: he came out gave like it did a bunch of.
Speaker 2: Did big spot. It was terrible and.
Speaker 3: I was literally going it made me like while I
Speaker 3: was listening to it, I'm rethinking how I feel about
Speaker 3: Kenny Omega, was like, this is dog shit.
Speaker 2: So I am at least consistent.
Speaker 3: I just want I want the stories to be good
Speaker 3: and I want the mic work to be good, and
Speaker 3: I want the wrestling to be gimmicky.
Speaker 2: So you see, I hear you saying this, and I
Speaker 2: don't even get mad. It makes me wish I worked there.
Speaker 2: It makes me wish like that I could help help out,
Speaker 2: Like I know, I one thing I was really good at.
Speaker 2: I couldn't like book matches very well. That's a technique
Speaker 2: that takes years to develop, and I wasn't there long enough.
Speaker 2: But I could write some motherfucking dialogue. And I would
Speaker 2: just write all the lines that no one would ever
Speaker 2: let me say in a movie because I always had
Speaker 2: to play the sweet boy, so I didn't get to
Speaker 2: like talk tough. I always had to take the tough
Speaker 2: talk right, yeah, And so I would just write all that.
Speaker 2: And I did really well for a lot of wrestlers,
Speaker 2: and I screwed up with some, but I got good
Speaker 2: and I got good quick. And when I hear people
Speaker 2: criticize the acting part and the writing and things like that,
Speaker 2: I'm always like, man, I could have written that dude
Speaker 2: to promo. I could have written that guy something sick
Speaker 2: that he would that he would have, you know, chewed
Speaker 2: up and spit out in a good way. So I
Speaker 2: hear you, dude, I want the stories to be good too.
Speaker 2: I get I get pissed off if I get taken
Speaker 2: out of it, and that's when my latitude mode kicks
Speaker 2: in and goes, ah, not give him a break, give
Speaker 2: him a break. But you're not wrong, You're not wrong,
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Speaker 2: We're gonna give you our Royal Rumble predictions. So for
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