Speaker 1: We are back in Las Vegas, our home away from home,
Speaker 1: celebrating our second annual WrestleMania weekend as Pod meets World,
Speaker 1: but this year without one writer or strong.
Speaker 2: Now we're doing it right, doing it right.
Speaker 3: He swears he was excited to come, but then he
Speaker 3: ended up teaching a class back in La the day
Speaker 3: of our interviews, despite supposedly having the day blocked on
Speaker 3: our calendar since January a weekend.
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was the weekend. It was a Thursday,
Speaker 2: kind of How did I know about this months ago?
Speaker 3: Saying no, it's sad that when we tell talked about it,
Speaker 3: we just told him the dates of the actual WrestleMania event,
Speaker 3: which he has a Saturday and Sunday. So not wrong, okay,
Speaker 3: And so he had Friday markdown for travel. No, you
Speaker 3: if you had a calendar invite, I had one. You
Speaker 3: don't even know what a calendar is.
Speaker 4: On your phone.
Speaker 2: My phone literally kept saying, don't forget you're driving to
Speaker 2: Vegas this weekend. Don't forget you pick up the car.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh god, yeah, so yeah, riders, that's not accurate.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just myself and Will this time around, and
Speaker 3: we are going to be interviewing some of the most
Speaker 3: popular superstars in the WWE universe. We are just hours
Speaker 3: away from the two biggest nights in sports entertainment. That
Speaker 3: is not hyperbole.
Speaker 2: No, it's huge. It is.
Speaker 4: It's huge, the biggest sporting event of the year.
Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 4: I mean we got in last night.
Speaker 3: Will I'm going to assume, since you didn't magically invent
Speaker 3: a class you had to teach today, that you are
Speaker 3: excited to be here.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to be here. I Las Vegas is
Speaker 2: now become our whole away from home, it really is.
Speaker 2: That's that's off putting.
Speaker 4: It's off putting for you, right, Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2: A huge Las Vegas fan, and driving in and knowing
Speaker 2: where to go freaked me out. You're like, all right
Speaker 2: where It's like, I gotta take a left on Las
Speaker 2: Vegas ball? Oh my god? How do I know that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, did you gamble at all? And you had
Speaker 4: in last night?
Speaker 2: Now I don't gamble. I don't really drink anymore, so
Speaker 2: it's kind of like, what's.
Speaker 4: What is the point in Vegas? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like big, lavish shows, so it's kind
Speaker 2: of like what I I got. I went downstairs. I
Speaker 2: had eight hundred and seventy five dollars salad.
Speaker 4: Oh, which is great in Las Vegas. Love how expensive
Speaker 4: it is?
Speaker 2: Again, it's awful. And then I watched Survivor.
Speaker 3: Oh, because you're doing they were doing a Survivor Popa're.
Speaker 2: Zooming in for that. So I guess he didn't have
Speaker 2: class that time.
Speaker 3: Nope, nopere carving out an hour, very sketchy the whole.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I also have not gambled, which what I no? I listen,
Speaker 3: this is how you know I'm actually legitimately tired. I
Speaker 3: worked all day yesterday. I got up at five am,
Speaker 3: worked in Newport Beach all day, and then my flight
Speaker 3: landed in Vegas late, like close to ten pm. I
Speaker 3: walked off the plane, walked into the hotel and just
Speaker 3: put my eyemask on and went to sleep.
Speaker 2: Well, you're also doing all that on fourteen calories, so true. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm amazed you're awake.
Speaker 3: Honestly, yesterday I ate one time I had a salad
Speaker 3: from Goop Kitchen, which I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 3: heard of Goop kitchen?
Speaker 2: Is that? This is that the Gina Ball lady.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, right, sure is. And so I had a
Speaker 4: vagina all salad.
Speaker 2: Nice, and that's worth eight hundred bucks. Now you're now
Speaker 2: you're speaking my language, beast. I feel like I'm getting
Speaker 2: my money's worth. Well.
Speaker 3: Like I mentioned, we're here for WrestleMania forty two. My
Speaker 3: kids and I are very much looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: You too can watch it on ESPN and the US
Speaker 3: Netflix internationally.
Speaker 4: Will do you want to hear some of the card?
Speaker 2: Heck?
Speaker 4: Yes, okay.
Speaker 3: We have on Saturday a fatal four way tag team
Speaker 3: match for the women's tag title.
Speaker 4: I don't know who's gonna die, but some are going
Speaker 4: to say is literally or three leave? Correct?
Speaker 2: I'm watching?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: We have Nia Jackson Lash Legend versus Charlotte Flair and
Speaker 3: Alexa Bliss, Oh your favorite? You love Alexa List and
Speaker 3: I get along very versus Bailey and Lyra val Kira
Speaker 3: versus the Bella Twins.
Speaker 4: That sounds fatal, it does.
Speaker 2: Well. Here's the thing. Here's how I know how popular
Speaker 2: these people are. I've heard of most of them. Right,
Speaker 2: exactly seriously means something because it's like not really understanding wrestling,
Speaker 2: just learning the sport, right, actually knowing these people they're
Speaker 2: out of the wrestling lexicon, like they're in the zeitgeist
Speaker 2: of the world. They truly are. I know most of
Speaker 2: those people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: You're gonna hit know most of the people we're interviewing, too,
Speaker 3: which makes me very it's kind of cool. So for
Speaker 3: the Women's Intercontinental Championship, it's a j Lee versus Becky
Speaker 3: Lynch the man.
Speaker 4: She goes by the man?
Speaker 2: Do you have favorites?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Are you trying not to talk about who your favorites?
Speaker 2: And all these people are like who you want to win?
Speaker 4: Are you not trying to talk about it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Are hoping they're going to lose?
Speaker 4: Well? No, not. I don't hope anybody loses. I just
Speaker 4: want the best match.
Speaker 3: But there are people I'm interviewing that I'm going to
Speaker 3: have a very hard time.
Speaker 4: Keeping my cool around.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: I am a massive, massive fan of some of the
Speaker 3: names we're interviewing today.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And the undisputed Women's title is on the line when
Speaker 3: champion Stephanie Vakirir and pod meets world champion Live Morgan
Speaker 3: face off in a very tense battle.
Speaker 4: Did you see what happened to Live's head last week?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Last week Live in Roxanne were backstage and they were
Speaker 3: facing off in a tense word battle. Somebody walked up
Speaker 3: behind Live bumped into her and they smashed foreheads so hard.
Speaker 3: The next day, Live posted a picture on Instagram. She
Speaker 3: has somewhere between a golf ball size and a tennis
Speaker 3: ball size.
Speaker 4: Not I mean, just.
Speaker 2: So this wasn't was the bump supposed to happen?
Speaker 4: Was supposed to happen, And they actually.
Speaker 3: Take a look at this, Oh can you believe that?
Speaker 2: Oh that's horrifying.
Speaker 3: We will post it on our Podmeats World Stories for
Speaker 3: anybody who wants to take a look at what we're
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 2: Oh is she going to be able to wrestle?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 2: They were on.
Speaker 3: A massive like concussion for a call. Yeah, but I
Speaker 3: think by now a full week later, they are good
Speaker 3: to go. They've gotten the thumbs up.
Speaker 2: They will But do we know who bumped into who?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, just slam just based.
Speaker 4: A headbutt, just a head bud between the two.
Speaker 3: Bikes and the very controversial main event for Night one
Speaker 3: is champion Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orton with our friend
Speaker 3: adjacent ESPN personality Pat McAfee well, your friend in his corner. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he doesn't know where you are. He does, he didn't
Speaker 3: know who you were.
Speaker 4: He just didn't know who you were that time.
Speaker 5: It was so funny to see he me like a
Speaker 5: heartfelt apologize. He because he does love you. He was
Speaker 5: like that was oh my gosh, I feel awful.
Speaker 4: I am so sorry.
Speaker 2: So he like looked into the cameras like, dude, I
Speaker 2: just I want to apologize. It's fine. Yeah, unrecognized. They
Speaker 2: don't recognize me half the time.
Speaker 4: For those of you who are just you know, didn't
Speaker 4: not unaware.
Speaker 3: Last year we went to the premiere of WWE RAW
Speaker 3: on Netflix and uh yeah they Pat McAfee mentioned that
Speaker 3: I was there, didn't know it was mister Wilfordell seat
Speaker 3: four C right next to me. So and from night
Speaker 3: one we are going to be talking to Charlotte Flair
Speaker 3: and a J Lee unbelievable. Night two Sunday we have
Speaker 3: Obafemi versus brock lesnar New versus Old Guard.
Speaker 2: I watch you used to watch Brock not only wrestle
Speaker 2: but in the UFC, Like I watched him from his days.
Speaker 4: He's a small man, you know.
Speaker 2: Well. One of the funniest things I heard was one
Speaker 2: of the commentators might have been Rogan. I forget who
Speaker 2: who said it doesn't matter what generation you put listener in.
Speaker 2: They're like, if he was in the fifteen hundreds, he
Speaker 2: would have been on a horse of the battle act. Yes,
Speaker 2: he's just that guy. Yeah, so yeah, watching him fight,
Speaker 2: actually fight was borderline scary because you kind of put
Speaker 2: yourself in the octagon where it's like, you get this
Speaker 2: guy charging you.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I know, uh huh not for me.
Speaker 3: Brock has been untouchable for years, but the rookie Obafemi
Speaker 3: is a monster and could threaten that reputation. So it's
Speaker 3: gonna that's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Uh. When I've been out in the world and people
Speaker 3: obviously know I'm a wrestling fan, that's the That's the match.
Speaker 4: Everyone talks to me. Really Yeah, everyone's been like, what
Speaker 4: do you think?
Speaker 2: And that's night too.
Speaker 4: That's the that's night too.
Speaker 2: Is Why was the first one, the Ricky Orton fight?
Speaker 2: Why is that controversial?
Speaker 3: Uh So, Pat McAfee is the one who made that controversial. Basically,
Speaker 3: if you want to know the behind the scenes tea,
Speaker 3: it seems as though are Immanuel an agent who kind
Speaker 3: of is somebody who has you know, puppet Master strings
Speaker 3: behind the scenes, represents Pat McAfee, and he has somehow
Speaker 3: shoehorned Pat McAfee into a match. He's not just the commentator.
Speaker 3: He's now in the corner of Randy Orton and people
Speaker 3: do not like it. And and one of the things
Speaker 3: that made me love wrestling and makes me love wrestling
Speaker 3: is the fact that the fans are very influential and
Speaker 3: when they don't like something, they have no problem telling you.
Speaker 3: And there has been a massive uprising about Pat McAfee
Speaker 3: being in this match.
Speaker 4: So in a bad way there, like get him the
Speaker 4: f out of there.
Speaker 3: So it's very interesting for us who you know, friendship
Speaker 3: adjacent with the Pat McAfee. So back to Sunday night,
Speaker 3: there's a ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship Penta. This
Speaker 3: is Penta, We're big Penta fans. This isn't the actual Okay,
Speaker 3: a ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship Penta versus Javon
Speaker 3: Evans versus Dragon Lee versus j D McDonough versus Russ
Speaker 3: versus Ray Mysterio that is, and they're all.
Speaker 2: They have to try to climb the ladder right correct,
Speaker 2: and usually the ladder falls, somebody use it to bludge
Speaker 2: in somebody else.
Speaker 3: The ladder will definitely follow. The ladder will be used
Speaker 3: as a weapon. There will probably be other things brought
Speaker 3: out from under the ring. I would imagine there will
Speaker 3: be some chairs. Who knows what else is be happening here.
Speaker 3: Another very exciting championship match, The women's champion, Jade Cargill
Speaker 3: will face Riha Ripley.
Speaker 4: This is.
Speaker 2: We do do we know? Did we meet her?
Speaker 4: No? I that's one of the people I am a
Speaker 4: massive fan of.
Speaker 2: Are we interviewing saw Ria.
Speaker 4: Ripley last year?
Speaker 3: She is stunningly gorgeous, dark dark hair, I know, covered
Speaker 3: in tattoos, could easily hoist you over her.
Speaker 4: Head and slam you down. I know I'm not going
Speaker 4: to stop her.
Speaker 2: There Are we interviewing her?
Speaker 4: We sure are.
Speaker 2: That's how I know her name.
Speaker 3: I read it on the thing that said okay, that's out,
Speaker 3: prep okay, okay uh.
Speaker 4: And the main event, let's not forget the main event.
Speaker 3: WWE champ Cmpunk, who's right here. You've already commented that
Speaker 3: you don't think this looks like Cmpunk's skin tone.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I didn't remember cmpunk being black.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's true, a valid point.
Speaker 3: Okay, So cm Punk is going head to head with
Speaker 3: Roman Reigns over here also known as OTC.
Speaker 2: Now Rains is the Rock's cousin. That's right, and he's
Speaker 2: the one who's now kind of the leader of the tribe. Correct,
Speaker 2: acknowledge me, acknowledge me from the tribe. He was supposed
Speaker 2: to be a good guy, but then people did not
Speaker 2: like him at all.
Speaker 4: Get a big heel turn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he came back and now people dig him.
Speaker 2: And at the Netflix thing, we saw the Rock got
Speaker 2: into the ring and kind of like officially passed the
Speaker 2: torch and did all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: My shit, you really do know your ship.
Speaker 3: And now that he's passed the torch, and boy is
Speaker 3: there an ego?
Speaker 2: Oh really well, I mean look at him, even in
Speaker 2: doll form, he's gorgeous. So what do you know?
Speaker 4: It is true, he's so good looking. It's hard.
Speaker 2: I had that body for a day, I'd be the
Speaker 2: most egotistical human ever.
Speaker 3: You'd be insufferable with that body. It'd be the best,
Speaker 3: it'd be amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there would not be small enough speedos to wear
Speaker 2: to just show the rest of the body.
Speaker 3: Just really just short shorts, you know, just like no
Speaker 3: covering too much of that body.
Speaker 4: So at night two from Night too, we are sitting
Speaker 4: in Night.
Speaker 3: There's two nights okay, we will be sitting down with
Speaker 3: rear Ripley and Champion CM Punk. Plus you never know
Speaker 3: what surprises WrestleMania weekend holds, and we have our own
Speaker 3: surprise as well, on a mission to exterminate the wwe
Speaker 3: of toxic masculinity. He's also had some issues with our
Speaker 3: good pal Danausen recently.
Speaker 4: We will also be chatting with Kit Wilson. You are toxic.
Speaker 4: I just want you to know.
Speaker 3: That it is a packed weekend filled with some big
Speaker 3: names for podmeats World.
Speaker 4: What do you think writers teaching right now?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's he's on our three of why
Speaker 2: Platoon Wasn't as good as Full Metal Jacket or if
Speaker 2: you look at the second.
Speaker 3: I want to I want to imagine him like still
Speaker 3: talking about the Civil War, a Lafini, you know, in
Speaker 3: a college clad.
Speaker 2: He's got the thing, do you see. I always see
Speaker 2: him with a half an eaten apple for some reason,
Speaker 2: of course, and he's sitting on the edge of his
Speaker 2: desk with his feet up as a cool guy.
Speaker 3: And he's got he's got the elbow elbows pulled up
Speaker 3: exactly and he's just taking a bite occasionally going like
Speaker 3: walk me through, Citizen Kane, acords through.
Speaker 2: All the kid's names are weird now it's never like
Speaker 2: by Kayden. So, yeah, exactly, Hudson, tell me about what
Speaker 2: you think that kind of thing. Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 2: see a rider doing.
Speaker 4: I know, I as you.
Speaker 2: What I see rider doing is still a sleep laughing
Speaker 2: that we thought he had class today.
Speaker 3: He'd he's like, ah, sleeping in, sleeping in. Well, well,
Speaker 3: we are returning home to watch the big event from
Speaker 3: the comfort of our couches, so we only have twenty
Speaker 3: four hours away. Is there anything in Las Vegas that
Speaker 3: you are looking forward to doing? I know Vegas isn't
Speaker 3: exactly your town, but on this trip, is there anything
Speaker 3: you're looking forward to?
Speaker 2: At noon today, I have a one hundred minute massage,
Speaker 2: do you I absolutely do, and it's going to be
Speaker 2: the best hundred minutes of the last several months of
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm so excited for you. Did we get
Speaker 4: reservations to jim Conna?
Speaker 2: We did. So We're also going to jim Conna tonight,
Speaker 2: which is my Sue and I fly to London just
Speaker 2: for this restaurant.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know we had that reservation. And now
Speaker 3: I'm so stoked. Remember I only ate once yesterday.
Speaker 4: I'm starving. I never even ate dinner.
Speaker 3: I had a hard time falling asleep lass night because
Speaker 3: my stomach was growling.
Speaker 4: Literally, I was like, oh, I didn't eat.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk.
Speaker 4: We're gonna anyway.
Speaker 2: The Poppa Dums. It's the butter chicken. You're just gonna
Speaker 2: want to live in the chicken.
Speaker 4: I want to live in Trader Joe's Frozen butter.
Speaker 2: Chicken, which it was just recalled for having gravel and glass.
Speaker 2: And really every time something from Trader Joe's and it's
Speaker 2: always the weirdest thing that's there, it's like it's got
Speaker 2: ground tires in it. They had to bring it back.
Speaker 4: I've never heard that coffee you're making that.
Speaker 2: I'm not here. It was the some of the big
Speaker 2: goods had gravel in it, so that was brought und.
Speaker 2: There was ground glass, and so it's yeah, I love
Speaker 2: Trader Joe's.
Speaker 4: Very tarnish.
Speaker 2: Trader Joe's it's amazing me too. There's stuff in it
Speaker 2: that's and it's always weird, stuff like broken hypodermic needles.
Speaker 2: It's never like listeria. It's always like yeah bottles.
Speaker 4: Okay, So all right.
Speaker 3: Well, we will be releasing podcasts live from Las Vegas
Speaker 3: throughout the weekend getting you ready for WrestleMania forty two.
Speaker 3: Stay tuned to our feed for all of the content,
Speaker 3: and remember to watch all of the action this weekend
Speaker 3: on ESPN or Netflix internationally. What are your go to
Speaker 3: snacks when watching something like an all day event from home?
Speaker 2: It depends where I am in my eating journey. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: if I'm trying to be healthier, I love a good
Speaker 2: popcorn and there's not a ton of calories, so you
Speaker 2: can sit there and just munch some corn. If I've
Speaker 2: kind of thrown caution into the wind, Homemade nachos, potato
Speaker 2: skins delicious.
Speaker 4: Why haven't I ever thought to make potato skins at home?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but you should. And the greatest thing
Speaker 2: in the world is so take baby bells, you know,
Speaker 2: this wonderful cheese egg egg wash, and then panco spray
Speaker 2: it a little bit in the deep fire and you're
Speaker 2: making homemade light mazzarella sticks.
Speaker 4: There will You've just changed my life for the best.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you get the baby bell, you roll them
Speaker 3: in an eggwash, then you roll them in the panco
Speaker 3: crubs and you put them in their fry.
Speaker 2: I think it's flour too, flower egg wash? No flour,
Speaker 2: egg wash, panko in the air fire spray it with
Speaker 2: a little cooking spray, and then in for a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes and they come out and you get the
Speaker 2: cheese poll and everything. It's magic.
Speaker 4: When are you going to have us over for smash burgers?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to do that as well.
Speaker 4: I know you because we still haven't had your fried rice.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, there's a lot that when you're getting a new car,
Speaker 3: so you're going to pick me up after you take
Speaker 3: you once a month.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not eating once a month. I mean at
Speaker 4: least once a day.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I want I want to eat more.
Speaker 2: I take your driving the new car too, Okay, great,
Speaker 2: it'll be nice. I get it next week.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for you. Do you want to I
Speaker 3: don't think our listeners know about that.
Speaker 2: No, we talked about it. We talked about the last thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's my first car in six years.
Speaker 4: I know, that's right, first car. I was very happy,
Speaker 4: very exciting. I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 3: You deserve it because you you you like to treat Susan.
Speaker 2: I do's my favorite thing to buy. I don't ever
Speaker 2: buy anything.
Speaker 4: Much, and you don't, you really don't.
Speaker 3: You You actually like growl when you have to buy something.
Speaker 4: You're like, oh, a.
Speaker 2: Shirt for an event. I hate it, I know, But
Speaker 2: I love buying stuff for her.
Speaker 4: That's like I really do. You're always like I want
Speaker 4: to get to a purse, get to a piece of jewelry.
Speaker 2: I do. I love that. It makes me happy to
Speaker 2: make her happy. And that's why she was the one
Speaker 2: who was really like you. She gets, I know.
Speaker 3: And it is true that cars do bring you a
Speaker 3: lot of joy, which is it is a hard thing
Speaker 3: to like regularly splur John, you know exactly.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get another car. Yeah what car am I
Speaker 2: getting this weekend?
Speaker 4: So I'm glad you did it.
Speaker 2: It's been six years. I'm very excited, and it's coming
Speaker 2: from Florida and it's on the truck right now.
Speaker 3: So I'm will you allow us to post a picture
Speaker 3: of your baby on the pod meets.
Speaker 4: We'll see Yeah, okay, yeah, I see she's comfortable with it. Y. Yeah.
Speaker 4: She may be the type to not like fame.
Speaker 2: She might not. She might want to be left alone,
Speaker 2: left She's German, so you never know.
Speaker 4: She needs a German name.
Speaker 2: She does get it Olga pop into hop into Olga.
Speaker 2: She comes all come with.
Speaker 4: Thank you all for listening to this episode of Pod
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