Speaker 1: Now your main events. Introducing the hosts Wrestling with Freddy,
Speaker 1: Jeff Did Freddy, Prince tun Yeah, what's up everybody? Welcome
Speaker 1: back to another episode of Wrestling with Freddy, or as
Speaker 1: we like to call it, Wrestling with Friends. We got
Speaker 1: a great show for you today. I had a very
Speaker 1: strange deep dive wrestling weekend that we'll get into, a
Speaker 1: super funny story that happened to me that made me
Speaker 1: almost throw up or laugh. I chose laughter, and a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of wrestling with me, as always is my
Speaker 1: awesome co host, Jeff Buddy. We want to thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much for the support. Please continue to give
Speaker 1: us reviews. Those five star reviews are awesome. Makes my
Speaker 1: boss is very happy. I want to start to show
Speaker 1: with something sad, but it ends funny, all right, I
Speaker 1: promise it ends funny. Buddy of mine from childhood took
Speaker 1: his own life last week, and it just numbed me,
Speaker 1: like I was just I didn't feel good or bad
Speaker 1: or anything right for a good couple of days, and uh,
Speaker 1: it really really messed me up. And then this morning,
Speaker 1: and I've been talking, you know about how I wish
Speaker 1: and dudes, you're by the way, you're not burdening your friends.
Speaker 1: Man like, oh no, he's got enough on his back.
Speaker 1: No dog that that space on my back is reserved
Speaker 1: for you. Whether you have problems or not. That space
Speaker 1: is reserved for you, and no one else gets to
Speaker 1: have that space. Just in case you're feeling screwed up
Speaker 1: and you gotta say something. So just know that you're
Speaker 1: never a burden to your homies. They they guys don't
Speaker 1: freaking talk enough. But I promise you, man, You're real
Speaker 1: friends have space. They may say, some real ship that
Speaker 1: sucks to hear sometimes, but there is room. You are
Speaker 1: not a burden. Call your friends and you can reach
Speaker 1: the suicide and Crisis lifeline simply by dialing nine eight
Speaker 1: domestically here in the United States. That said, I had
Speaker 1: this huge sort of release of emotion this morning. I
Speaker 1: decided to go surf and so uh, I tossed the
Speaker 1: surfboard on the top of the old school for not
Speaker 1: old school is just a beat or like two thousand
Speaker 1: eleven four runner um it's black. So if you see
Speaker 1: me out there, say what. And I drove down to
Speaker 1: the to the beach just to catch a couple of ways.
Speaker 1: I just surf on a long board. Now I can't
Speaker 1: surf on the on those six footers. I break my
Speaker 1: ankles and my neck. Uh. So I have a big
Speaker 1: old nine footer and I go out there and I'm
Speaker 1: surfing and having a good time, and I'm I'm walking
Speaker 1: back and there's a guy with his surfboard laying against
Speaker 1: my car and he's like long hair, wet suits halfway
Speaker 1: down and he's like probably I don't know, twenty seven.
Speaker 1: He looks young. And I go, hey, bro, that's my car.
Speaker 1: And he turns around and he goes, dude, I think
Speaker 1: I know what my car looks like. Man, And I
Speaker 1: started laughing because his voice is so awesome. He sounds
Speaker 1: like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, right, And so I go,
Speaker 1: my man, I promise you that's my car. He goes, dude,
Speaker 1: it's my car. And I go, try to open your door.
Speaker 1: And he goes to open the door and nothing happens, right,
Speaker 1: And I pull out my key while he's doing that,
Speaker 1: and I unlock it and I go, now try it
Speaker 1: and he opens the door and he still kind of
Speaker 1: comes at me like what did you Like he's gonna
Speaker 1: accuse me of like stealing his keys. But as he
Speaker 1: does it, he looks like twenty ft down and there
Speaker 1: is an identical two thousand eleven beat or unwashed for
Speaker 1: runner that looks exactly like mine. And he turns back
Speaker 1: to me and he goes and he's super excited. He
Speaker 1: has this huge smile. He goes, Bro, we have the
Speaker 1: exact same car. And I dropped dead on the ground.
Speaker 1: I was either gonna puke or laugh, and my mind
Speaker 1: chose laughter. And uh, it was an amazing morning. So
Speaker 1: I feel very motivated and excited to be here today
Speaker 1: to you, Jeff, my good friends man, I'm good. I
Speaker 1: love that story because he wasn't like embarrassed or he
Speaker 1: wasn't like, oh my bad man. He was like, whoa
Speaker 1: same car? Bro? It was so like old school Keanu Reeves,
Speaker 1: like what. I just loved him. So, by the way,
Speaker 1: his name is Eric. He's super cool and I just
Speaker 1: followed him on Instagram so we can go surfing again.
Speaker 1: Nice dude, just shout out to Eric. You don't know
Speaker 1: how much of my Johnny I didn't tell you. I'm
Speaker 1: going to call you Johnny Utah in my context of
Speaker 1: the trade numbers. You don't know what you did for me.
Speaker 1: This morning. But you really took like a huge weight
Speaker 1: off my shoulders. So may the May Poseidon love you,
Speaker 1: Eric Slash, Johnny Utah. Wrestling numbers are in and wrestling
Speaker 1: is good. I was just telling our producer that wrestling
Speaker 1: might be the best it's been since the Monday Night Wars.
Speaker 1: This has been so exciting to have two great companies
Speaker 1: and you don't know what's gonna happen. There's also back
Speaker 1: room gossip, but there's you know, everyone's jumping ships, some
Speaker 1: people coming every I think it's very exciting times for
Speaker 1: wrestling him. I think it's getting pretty darn close to that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's there yet. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to Monday Night Raw and my newest most favorite mask
Speaker 1: wearing superhero Edge. I love the mask I still made.
Speaker 1: I wish you would have come out with another mask
Speaker 1: on and that's his new gimmick. But he did not.
Speaker 1: He came out handsome as ever and hot and angry,
Speaker 1: and he wanted revenge. He wanted accountability, he wanted answers,
Speaker 1: and instead of getting him from Dom, he gets ready
Speaker 1: to come out and raise like, dude, please hold on, dope,
Speaker 1: Pita hell out of my son, you're six six, bro,
Speaker 1: you look like a Viking. He's twelve. Please don't hurt him.
Speaker 1: Yeah he is. He is the chest of a kindergarten bro.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there. I'm like, they're making dom Main interesting
Speaker 1: without forcing him to talk and put it on himself.
Speaker 1: So dom comes out with Ria and I saw another
Speaker 1: one of those like memes out there where they do
Speaker 1: the match imagery, and it was very Eddy and China
Speaker 1: the way Ria was with Dominic, and there was kind
Speaker 1: of like but reverse roles because Ri is just this
Speaker 1: force of nature. Man. I really think they just booked
Speaker 1: her beautifully and she's really stepping up, and it builds
Speaker 1: two I love Damien Priest. It builds eventually to a
Speaker 1: match that they have, but screw the match. I just
Speaker 1: love the way they're working to make Dominic interesting. So
Speaker 1: I love what they've done with it. I went from
Speaker 1: completely criticizing Dominic to now going okay, okay, all right
Speaker 1: each week and then they're kudos to Triple H and
Speaker 1: the Gang of b for that. I'm very, very I'm
Speaker 1: into it. Would you love to see a Dominic versus
Speaker 1: Ray Mystereo match like that classic Dad versus Son kind
Speaker 1: of it's gonna happen. It has to happen. It has
Speaker 1: to and I think that's why they're protecting his voice
Speaker 1: so he can watch all these people that are good
Speaker 1: talkers on the mic and learn from them and get
Speaker 1: more comfortable and confident because it's clearly working, like the
Speaker 1: crowd's feeling it so and when you have confidence, it's
Speaker 1: much easier to learn, and you learn much more quickly.
Speaker 1: So all these little things, man, they have kept him silent,
Speaker 1: which is so smart and so beautiful, because even if
Speaker 1: he does have talent, we wouldn't know because he hasn't
Speaker 1: had the confidence to show it yet. He's just young
Speaker 1: and inexperienced, and he shy. You know. They gotta pull
Speaker 1: something out to see if it's there. And I really
Speaker 1: just I was so wrong on this. I think our
Speaker 1: first episode, I said they should just blow this up
Speaker 1: and get rid of get rid of it, because without edge,
Speaker 1: it's gonna suck. And I'm super dumb and they're super smart,
Speaker 1: and I I can't wait to see if they can
Speaker 1: make this work. Even if they fail, they still have
Speaker 1: done a great job building this up. At a certain point,
Speaker 1: it's on the talent, and I think that triple h
Speaker 1: and whoever else is on the creative team right now
Speaker 1: are putting him in a position where if he can't
Speaker 1: succeed in that then it's just not It's not meant
Speaker 1: to be at that level. I don't think you're dumb
Speaker 1: at all. I think that it wasn't interesting and now
Speaker 1: they're making it interesting. That's all. I think that that's
Speaker 1: all it was. And it wasn't interesting when you said
Speaker 1: it wasn't, and now it's getting interesting and we're commenting
Speaker 1: on it. That's all. I don't want to talk long
Speaker 1: about this, but there was one really funny part the
Speaker 1: return of bron Stroman. Oh god, you do you know?
Speaker 1: That's my dream come true. The fact that he's back.
Speaker 1: It makes me so happy. So he came in and
Speaker 1: destroyed the entire tag team division. Um, which will take
Speaker 1: now quite a few weeks for people to take it
Speaker 1: seriously again. That's okay, um, but welcome back Braun. I
Speaker 1: got love for the big man. He's super. I love
Speaker 1: how fast he runs around the ring. It looks like
Speaker 1: a bowl from the Bugs Bunny card, it's awesome. The
Speaker 1: one that like Bugs slaps him in the cheeks and
Speaker 1: then Bugs takes one of the ass and goes flying out.
Speaker 1: That's what he looks like to me when he runs.
Speaker 1: He kind of botched one of those he did. He
Speaker 1: tripped and fell and then got back up and went
Speaker 1: after it again. But he got back up. He didn't
Speaker 1: tied us on Neil himself and going through the ring
Speaker 1: one most used games. So anyway, the only part of
Speaker 1: this segment we're talking about other than Braun's back is
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston. It's like the winner of
Speaker 1: the match, whoever it was, becomes the number one contender.
Speaker 1: It was like a gimmick horseshit match that was gonna suck.
Speaker 1: They knew it was gonna suck because they knew Braun
Speaker 1: was gonna come and kill everybody. And it ends up
Speaker 1: being KOFY and Xavier in the ring together against one another,
Speaker 1: and so they square up like they're gonna fight, and
Speaker 1: the Xavier just lays down and KOFE dives for the
Speaker 1: one to three. But before it gets to three, everyone's like,
Speaker 1: oh ship, they'll jump in the ring and ripped copiap.
Speaker 1: That made me pop loud. I love that they didn't
Speaker 1: even break the road dog rule because they waited and
Speaker 1: circled around. Oh, and uh, we're gonna go to it
Speaker 1: a little early today still of the week. Yeah, Austin
Speaker 1: theory came out. I stopped counting the amount of times
Speaker 1: he sold his hurt jaw from Tyson Fury at twenty two.
Speaker 1: That's when I stopped counting. Yeah, I saw at least
Speaker 1: another twenty cells. It's it's got the real live Morgan
Speaker 1: feeling like my arm, my arm. It's like, we get
Speaker 1: it your jawn. This is my conspiracy theory. Right here?
Speaker 1: Are they ribbing him? Do you think Hunterson? Because this
Speaker 1: was Vince's guy, And I still vow that Vince ribbed
Speaker 1: carrying cross and gave him the Gladiator gimmick because Triple
Speaker 1: H his favorite movie is Gladiator, and that was Triple
Speaker 1: H is guy. And everyone can see how much that's
Speaker 1: Triple HS guy if they watched Friday Night SmackDown. I
Speaker 1: think this is Vince's guy, and Hunters now gonna just
Speaker 1: like whack on this guy. I honestly think he sold
Speaker 1: it like forty times throughout the show Man. It was crazy, like,
Speaker 1: I know Tyson Furies the man, but but bro threes
Speaker 1: enough A rib is like, I'm not trying to screw
Speaker 1: you over. I'm just trying to go gotta you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's just a rib at a high level.
Speaker 1: It's like a you know, billionaires play ribs at a
Speaker 1: higher level. Tip of the hat, Dude, I sold or
Speaker 1: I didn't sell it, but had this actor he booked
Speaker 1: a movie in like Bulgaria or some ship. And we
Speaker 1: didn't always get along, and I would pull branks on
Speaker 1: him and zup with his house on the market, but
Speaker 1: his home who his home answering machine. This is back
Speaker 1: in the day's cell phones were like big and he
Speaker 1: got back home, I got a phone call and he's
Speaker 1: cussing me out. Of course, he goes, they didn't even
Speaker 1: work as good as you think because my answer machine
Speaker 1: ran out of tape so people couldn't even and he
Speaker 1: had co waiting, and I'll I hear him going, god damn.
Speaker 1: He just slap the phone because he knew it was
Speaker 1: another call. So yeah, sell your friends houses, guys, that's
Speaker 1: a good that's a good prank to pull. So anyway,
Speaker 1: KO theory, Kevin Owen's comes out and he is breaking
Speaker 1: the fourth wall. He's doing everything except Eddie Murphy like
Speaker 1: looking into the camera like what's that not? He comes out,
Speaker 1: challenges everything Theory says and then hit something this like
Speaker 1: two weeks in a row where he's like that, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna waste time. In a few seconds, a referee
Speaker 1: is gonna here he comes now, and we're just gonna fight.
Speaker 1: And I think he's probably the only guy right now
Speaker 1: they can pull that off because he has that credibility
Speaker 1: of that kind of attitude for so many years. But
Speaker 1: they had a match to steal a phrase from from Shamus,
Speaker 1: they had a banger. Uh. They fought for what felt
Speaker 1: was like forty five minutes. It's like eighteen commercial breaks,
Speaker 1: and Theory can freaking work man. But they're making Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens out to be a killer of all killers. I
Speaker 1: would love to see carry and Cross with one title,
Speaker 1: Kevin Owen's with the other title, and let's see who's
Speaker 1: good enough to out talk and outwork one of those guys.
Speaker 1: I think both those those gentlemen could have wonderful championship stories.
Speaker 1: What say you? I love Kevin Owens. I'm still not
Speaker 1: sold on Austin Theory. I think he I think he could,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's a star, But I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a superstar and I don't think he's like
Speaker 1: an A list guy. Um, he's learning, he's learning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that we're just not there yet. And
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens, Kevin Owens is the man. Dude like Kevin Owens,
Speaker 1: Bronstrom and those are my guys. He did some episodes
Speaker 1: of ww Rivals and if it was a rivalry, he
Speaker 1: didn't like. He's straight up ship on it. I love
Speaker 1: that on the show. No one's had the balls to
Speaker 1: do that. Everyone else's company line, company line. And he
Speaker 1: said at the top of the show to the producer, goes, hey,
Speaker 1: if I thought that this sucked, can I say that?
Speaker 1: And the producer kind of like ghosted up and got scared.
Speaker 1: And I love Kevin Oens. I was like, dude, say it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he goes, He goes okay, and uh, the producer looked
Speaker 1: at me, Ben Houser, he's the man, and I go, bro,
Speaker 1: if it's too much, just edited out, like it's all good.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna just totally dump on it. But when
Speaker 1: it was things that he felt strongly about, he gave
Speaker 1: his honest no ww E corporate line. But he was
Speaker 1: just like, yo, I thought this rivalry between Stone Cold,
Speaker 1: Steve Austin and Bret Hart. Spoiler, we're doing that one
Speaker 1: that should have started here. It should have this guy
Speaker 1: should have won here, Like he straight up challenged the
Speaker 1: booking of it, and I'm like, this is great and
Speaker 1: j B l who is uber knowledgeable, but the company
Speaker 1: man started defending the position of the booking and it
Speaker 1: was so cool watching the level because there was respect
Speaker 1: between the two men. But they had a respectful debate
Speaker 1: back and forth. First time that's happened on an episode,
Speaker 1: and we got him for five episodes and he and
Speaker 1: that's how he was everyone. He should have been on
Speaker 1: it from Jump Street. That's my best of the week.
Speaker 1: Most people that know about wrestling and know about you
Speaker 1: know that you, uh, you worked for w t B
Speaker 1: and four events and you were in those rooms. If
Speaker 1: new listeners didn't know that Freddie worked at w w
Speaker 1: E and worked right by the sides of all these guys,
Speaker 1: I imagine those conversations happened when they are writing storylines, right,
Speaker 1: like when you're sitting there, like someone say we should
Speaker 1: do this, and someone else to say we should do this?
Speaker 1: Or is it not like that? Usually it's like six
Speaker 1: people all saying we should do something different. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that that's kind of a cool inside peak of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have done it this way, and someone else going, well,
Speaker 1: here's why events did it, and here's why we said
Speaker 1: it this way. Here's why. So that's pretty like inside baseball.
Speaker 1: Pretty cool. It was awesome to get to be in
Speaker 1: there while they were not arguing, but and it wasn't heated,
Speaker 1: but they both believed in their opinions strongly, and to
Speaker 1: be like hearing it and knowing that some of that
Speaker 1: might even be edited out, I was just like, wow, man, like,
Speaker 1: that's this is I didn't say ship for like five
Speaker 1: minutes straight. I just let him go back and forth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just let let it rip. We get to the
Speaker 1: featured match of the evening, and if you're not into wrestling,
Speaker 1: but you listen to the podcast anyway, you will enjoy this.
Speaker 1: H It was a steel cage match. They they were
Speaker 1: throwing promos to it all night. You love all kinds
Speaker 1: of gimmicks, You must love a cage match. Love a
Speaker 1: cage match, always have. Guess who I was rooting for, Freddie,
Speaker 1: You know me pretty well. Guess who I was rooting
Speaker 1: for I know who you should have been rooting for,
Speaker 1: which was the Myths, But you were rooting for the
Speaker 1: same person my daughter was rooting for, which is Bobby
Speaker 1: Lashly Almighty. A lot of times in these matches, the
Speaker 1: bad guys will attack the good guy before it starts
Speaker 1: because there's no rules, and then they throw them in
Speaker 1: the cage and then they get the advantage and beat
Speaker 1: them up. Now, the only way to win this is
Speaker 1: to pin your opponent one to three, but that's bowring.
Speaker 1: The other way is to open the door to the
Speaker 1: cage because your opponents so beat down that you have
Speaker 1: time to walk out and exit and escape the cage.
Speaker 1: Escape running away not a very you know, manly thing
Speaker 1: to do, but many a he'll have one this way,
Speaker 1: and a couple of baby faces too. And the third way,
Speaker 1: and really the only way, the most superior and coolest way,
Speaker 1: the way Eric the Surfer would do the ring. The
Speaker 1: ring exit is to climb to the top of the cage,
Speaker 1: over the top and climb down to the other side,
Speaker 1: landing on your two feet. Boom. You're the winner. The
Speaker 1: losers laid out in the middle of the ring, or
Speaker 1: even better, halfway up looking at you and defeat and
Speaker 1: despair like ah, I could have had him, And then
Speaker 1: they just let go because the adrenaline is gone, and
Speaker 1: they just collapse in the middle of the ring while
Speaker 1: you have victory. MS is gonna win the match. He
Speaker 1: climbs to the top of the cage slowly sally, Oh,
Speaker 1: everything hurts in my body. There's just two more feet.
Speaker 1: I'm at the top. It's Bobby's still down. He's hurt.
Speaker 1: I can finally get over. And then from out of
Speaker 1: the bottom of the ring like on a like a
Speaker 1: mechanic sliding out from under a car, Dexter Loomis slides
Speaker 1: out and is just creepily staring into the eyes of
Speaker 1: a now horrified miss, and it's way goofy, and it's
Speaker 1: and maybe and I'm not saying it in a good
Speaker 1: or bad way because I'm still trying to decide how
Speaker 1: I feel. So anyway, MS falls, Bobby wins. Dexter Loomis
Speaker 1: goes into the ring and he puts the miss in
Speaker 1: a choke hold and puts him to sleep. And while
Speaker 1: he's putting him to sleep, he's patting his he's stroking
Speaker 1: his hair the way a cat lady strokes her cat,
Speaker 1: and it might be my worst of the week, but
Speaker 1: it was almost my best of the week at the
Speaker 1: exact same time. Did you watch this match? What did
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah? I loved it. Uh. I like any
Speaker 1: time I can get that finish that I was that
Speaker 1: I'm hoping for as far as like, I'm so easy
Speaker 1: to please. If the guy that comes out and going,
Speaker 1: I hope he crushes him, and he did, so I was.
Speaker 1: I was excited. Plus, like you said, still cage. You
Speaker 1: can't go wrong. Even when it was old school, even
Speaker 1: when it was like the blue remember the old blue,
Speaker 1: Love the Blue. I missed so much easier to climb to.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously you're not going to climb chain Link,
Speaker 1: but you could do more moves off of the blue cage.
Speaker 1: I like the color of it. I like everything. They
Speaker 1: can't do as many moves. And depending on what show
Speaker 1: it's on. When it's like chain Link, like it's tough
Speaker 1: to be able to do any like the high flying
Speaker 1: stuff or jump back or any of the kind of
Speaker 1: any of those things. Some of those crazy fools still
Speaker 1: do it on it's not as clean. We're gonna move
Speaker 1: on to dynamite. If you listen. Last week, everybody hates everybody,
Speaker 1: and now everyone is suspended, apparently very confusing, the tag Teams, Champs,
Speaker 1: the Trios Champs, Kenny omega Um, one of the producers,
Speaker 1: a CM punk who's injured for eight months anyway. I
Speaker 1: think he might have known that, and that's why he
Speaker 1: went off in that press groom because he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: out of here anyway, I got eight months recoveries, so
Speaker 1: I'm cutting throats. I don't know, but everyone's fired. Thank god,
Speaker 1: m JF is back to save the company. If he's
Speaker 1: able to hold any kind of number for his segments,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see guys that are suspended right now get
Speaker 1: straight fired because he's gonna go yo. I don't need
Speaker 1: this drama. I got this kid, and he came out.
Speaker 1: They loved him, and when he left they were laughing
Speaker 1: and booing him. His button on his shirt even got
Speaker 1: stuck when he got angry trying to get it off,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't even put it past him if that
Speaker 1: was a work and it wasn't even really stuck, like
Speaker 1: he just is. He's that freaking smart. And I bet
Speaker 1: he saw it happen in an old wrestling video because
Speaker 1: he's a tape head big time, and I bet he
Speaker 1: was like, that's hysterical, I'm gonna steal that and use it.
Speaker 1: I bet it wasn't even on accident. He's just that
Speaker 1: frigging good. And we're not gonna get into much. But
Speaker 1: there is no world champion. There's a tournament and Brian
Speaker 1: Danielson is in this tournament, and I think Brian Danielson
Speaker 1: is gonna win this tournament, and I think that gives
Speaker 1: us m JF versus Brian Danielson, which will be a
Speaker 1: story that every single wrestling fan in the world wants
Speaker 1: to watch, will watch, and will be rewarded because Brian
Speaker 1: Danielson ain't about all that backstage bs. Brian Danielson's about wrestling,
Speaker 1: and m JF is not about all that backstage drama.
Speaker 1: MJFS about stories and reasons why we are going to wrestle.
Speaker 1: And if you put the two of those dudes in
Speaker 1: a ring together, you could run their story for the
Speaker 1: next two years. And when all those other people come
Speaker 1: back from their suspensions and they see this story started
Speaker 1: happening and there's no backstage drama, that's when a general
Speaker 1: manager who is Tony Cohn, although he should assign someone.
Speaker 1: That's when a general manager or a boss can say,
Speaker 1: look at our numbers, look what we're doing, and you're
Speaker 1: not here. So you get one chance to play ball
Speaker 1: and do business. And if that's not good enough, I'm
Speaker 1: rich enough. Here's the rest of your contract. Boom, take
Speaker 1: a walk piece. And I know you love him too.
Speaker 1: You're a hell too. Even though you're a nice guy here,
Speaker 1: you're a healer. I I literally, when it comes to
Speaker 1: a w there's nobody better than MJF. And also, I
Speaker 1: know it's not a match. I know it's not a match,
Speaker 1: but this was my best of the week. I've watched
Speaker 1: it three times. It's so so clean, so smart. He
Speaker 1: comes out, he hugs Taz and flips off the other
Speaker 1: two guys. He does the whole like um buffalo thing,
Speaker 1: and then he apologizes for the things he said last
Speaker 1: time and all this years done and just completely flips it.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite things in stand up comedy is
Speaker 1: in the old school guys. None of the new guys
Speaker 1: do it. I try to do it, but in the
Speaker 1: old school, like, uh, what's Sam Kennison? You know these
Speaker 1: guys they would they would they'll do Uh. An opinion
Speaker 1: about a subject right, they'll go like, they'll do like
Speaker 1: they'll be like a pro anti smoking Let's say it's
Speaker 1: a joke about smoking cigarettes, They'll do like ten anti
Speaker 1: smoking cigarette jokes, and then a few seconds later go,
Speaker 1: I'm lying, and then just completely do like ten positive
Speaker 1: smoking jokes. And he also like, I think, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe just John Moxley is also that good. But John Moxley,
Speaker 1: he legit looked upset. He looked piste off for sure,
Speaker 1: and also him Jeff referencing w W E referencing Cody
Speaker 1: Rhodes uh talking about the win, his contracts up and
Speaker 1: about how he only wants to win the championship for
Speaker 1: a bidding War of two thousand twenty four. It's like
Speaker 1: it was just so smart, so clean, so well done.
Speaker 1: Loved the shirt that I just I think everything he
Speaker 1: does is brilliant and I'm so happy he's back. I
Speaker 1: love the Moses line. I cannot talk enough about this guy.
Speaker 1: It just sounds like I'm blowing smoke and and I
Speaker 1: guess I am, but there's smoke signals to the rest
Speaker 1: of the world. Would just say, yo, even if you
Speaker 1: don't like wrestling, watch this guy. It's like watching a
Speaker 1: stand up comic that has their following right, so it's
Speaker 1: their crowd that knows the jokes, knows the energy, and
Speaker 1: he has them eating out of the palm of his hand.
Speaker 1: It's wild and he's so I think he's like crazy
Speaker 1: young and this is rare generational talent and it makes
Speaker 1: for just good TV because he's genuinely funny. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: to watch him just crap on people in a great way.
Speaker 1: The wait Piper used to the thing about MJFF is
Speaker 1: like I've always heard people say, like I'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I hate them, miss and they're like, then he's doing
Speaker 1: his job because he made you hate him. And I
Speaker 1: always have said there's two types of like hating a wrestler.
Speaker 1: You you want to change the channel, you just don't
Speaker 1: want to watch him? Is not good. If I don't
Speaker 1: like the rest of so much that I want to
Speaker 1: change the channel, that's not him doing his job. I'm
Speaker 1: changing the channel. But this is a guy who I
Speaker 1: hate because he's being a perfect heal. He's so good
Speaker 1: even when their fans going to m JF m JF
Speaker 1: and he goes, he goes, shut up, shut up. I
Speaker 1: only get so much time Jesus Christ like he becomes
Speaker 1: kind of irritable and annoying, where you like, we were
Speaker 1: rooting for you, jerk like it's the perfect he's the
Speaker 1: perfect healing. So we talked last week about young Daniel
Speaker 1: Garcia and now he's been growing on you and how
Speaker 1: I didn't like this story and then I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a chance. Well, now I really
Speaker 1: liked this story. Chris Jericho made him go out there
Speaker 1: and face Wheeler. You to the pure ring of honor
Speaker 1: champion by himself with no help from the Jericho Appreciation Society.
Speaker 1: It was like a They're saying, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: have your back, you disrespected the family, and go do
Speaker 1: it yourself. At the end of it, they got right
Speaker 1: back into that story and Brian Danielson comes out and
Speaker 1: poor Wheeler, you did just as like he lost the match,
Speaker 1: he lost his title. He's in the quarter and Brian
Speaker 1: Brian dance and pays him no mind, bro, and he
Speaker 1: puts the title Wheeler's title around Ryan's waist and then
Speaker 1: shakes his hand and raises his arm as you are
Speaker 1: the champion, and and Wheeler doesn't get any love because
Speaker 1: before Brian can pay any mind to him. Chris Jericho,
Speaker 1: the dad who sent young Ryan Garcia out there to
Speaker 1: fight by himself, comes out, but he comes out too
Speaker 1: late because Brian's already congratulated and told him this, told
Speaker 1: him that. And the look on Jericho's face. I know,
Speaker 1: not everybody loves Jericho. I think when he gets someone over,
Speaker 1: he really really really gets him over. And the look
Speaker 1: on his face, without a single line of dialogue, was
Speaker 1: just beautiful. That's how they went off the air. Well.
Speaker 1: It was also great to see or hear Jericho on
Speaker 1: the mic at the broadcast. He was so fun. He
Speaker 1: kind of does like this heightened Jericho character when he's
Speaker 1: on when he's on the broadcast, and it's fun to
Speaker 1: just I'm getting flashbacks to when he did that move
Speaker 1: to me, like he like he had like and that's
Speaker 1: a terrible impression, but it was just so um. I like,
Speaker 1: I think everything Jericho does his gold So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: tight tight chest Jericho is when he's always here and
Speaker 1: he's like and he makes it all about him, right Jericho,
Speaker 1: And then baby faced Jericho has got more air in
Speaker 1: the chest. That's gonna take us to Friday. The end
Speaker 1: of the week Friday Night SmackDown, and Jeff, there's only
Speaker 1: one wrestler of any true importance on Friday's episode of
Speaker 1: Friday Night SmackDown, and that man is Sammy Zane, the
Speaker 1: realist member of the Bloodline. He's even starting to look simoan,
Speaker 1: this man he is. They featured him so wonderfully throughout
Speaker 1: this two hour episode. He and I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be funny anymore. He was the glue that
Speaker 1: held the entire episode together. From that, from his I'm
Speaker 1: going back into character now, from his noble deeds in
Speaker 1: the ring and saving saving Solo, the brand new member
Speaker 1: of the Bloodline, saving him from what would have been
Speaker 1: a debilitating chair shot and taking it himself. Two. Then
Speaker 1: what's this motivational speaker backstage helping keep the peace even
Speaker 1: though there's aggressive usso's. I say aggressive usos because I
Speaker 1: always forget which one's mad at it. But he's keeping
Speaker 1: the piece there and even in the match, is distracting, saving,
Speaker 1: assisting in every way possible, until, of course, my man
Speaker 1: carrying cross came in front the back choked out. Uh,
Speaker 1: my man drew, which is a disqualification. That's illegal carrying cross.
Speaker 1: She can't do that, and it was weird that it
Speaker 1: was black and white. I think they're gonna stay committed
Speaker 1: to it, but I wish they wouldn't let me hear
Speaker 1: from your lips how much this man has earned your
Speaker 1: respect in the last few weeks. Give it to him, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I do like that he's in the bloodline, I think,
Speaker 1: but it makes me laugh every time. It's very very funny.
Speaker 1: Doesn't look right, but it's always hilarious, and he's doing
Speaker 1: such a good job with it. He did take the bullet,
Speaker 1: as they said on the broadcast, which was awesome. And
Speaker 1: I love that the bloodline is even growing. Makes me
Speaker 1: very happy. It's very cool to see. So I loved it.
Speaker 1: Love Sammy's a and I'm on board. You're seeing it
Speaker 1: in the Beard though the Samoan part in Sammy's a
Speaker 1: much more now, right, I don't know, he doesn't think so,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, for debut in a brand new segment
Speaker 1: coming up right now. You don't even have to wait,
Speaker 1: and it's called The Federation Speaks. We encouraged you to
Speaker 1: call in, leave us a voicemail and if they were good,
Speaker 1: then we would put him on the air. Well we
Speaker 1: gotta couple. We're gonna see how it goes, and if
Speaker 1: you guys step it up, maybe next time we'll get
Speaker 1: even more In what say Federation? Hey, Freddy and Jeff
Speaker 1: Mike here with a thought about cm punk and immedia scrum.
Speaker 1: If it's not a poorly booked work shoot and is
Speaker 1: indeed real, does the possibility not exist that Mr straight
Speaker 1: Edge was a little high in his own googlash of
Speaker 1: brain chemicals from the crowd in his hometown and a
Speaker 1: little extra amped. And I don't know, I think maybe
Speaker 1: I got something there. Thanks guys, great podcast. What do
Speaker 1: you think? That's quite quite an allegation. He was wondering
Speaker 1: if maybe he was a little too hyped up on
Speaker 1: his own, on his own philosophies, so to speak, and
Speaker 1: a little egotistical, and that's why he went off. What
Speaker 1: say you? Here's what I think about the whole scrum.
Speaker 1: And for people that don't know see him, I guess
Speaker 1: most people probably know. But c mpunk just started uh
Speaker 1: airing the dirty laundry of the locker room instead of
Speaker 1: sticking to store line and sticking to what's going on
Speaker 1: in a w wrestling that we see on camera. I
Speaker 1: used to my My first opinion was, like, what a
Speaker 1: jerk Seampunk is. Being such a baby and airing all
Speaker 1: this stuff is inappropriate. Also, let the locker room be
Speaker 1: the locker room, and let the wrestling be the wrestling.
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna merge those, make sure it's storyline.
Speaker 1: It's not just a thing. It screws everything up, was
Speaker 1: my initial opinion. I like that someone named it the
Speaker 1: gripe bomb, too, which is hilarious. I kind of now
Speaker 1: I'm sighting a little bit more in the middle, leaning
Speaker 1: towards CM punk, of like someone had to break up
Speaker 1: the clickiness of the young Bucks and Hangman all these
Speaker 1: guys back there. According to a lot of people, it's
Speaker 1: very high school ish, very clicky with the e v
Speaker 1: p s and stuff, and so if anyone was gonna
Speaker 1: make the complaint, it would have to be someone as
Speaker 1: high up as CM punk. I don't know much about
Speaker 1: the locker room or how these things work, but I
Speaker 1: think that sum Punk might have might be the hero
Speaker 1: the locker room wanted. I have a slightly different take
Speaker 1: on it. I mean, here's how I equate it. My
Speaker 1: wife and I both have external businesses that we run
Speaker 1: beyond like acting and things like that. And I know
Speaker 1: her partners and her found a very difficult time working
Speaker 1: with the younger generation. With millennials, right, they just didn't
Speaker 1: understand the way their brains worked. And I remember everything
Speaker 1: was like, you know, they don't they have it, They
Speaker 1: want everything too easy, they don't want they want less
Speaker 1: hours and more money, and da da da da da.
Speaker 1: And I still, for whatever reason, had a very clear
Speaker 1: image in my head of the older generation bitching about
Speaker 1: my generation when I was younger. And so my philosophy
Speaker 1: has always been like this is just how it's always
Speaker 1: been right. And if you listen to what Cmpun said
Speaker 1: in the beginning, he said, I can't wait to work
Speaker 1: with this next generation, this young talent out here, and
Speaker 1: get of them the spotlight they need. Now he went
Speaker 1: in there, I think with that intention in mind. But
Speaker 1: when you see how different that other generation thinks, and
Speaker 1: what kind of stories they want to tell in the ring,
Speaker 1: and how different it is than what you want to do,
Speaker 1: and when your body won't allow you to tell the
Speaker 1: stories that they told when you were in your prime,
Speaker 1: and you start getting hurt all the time trying to
Speaker 1: prove a philosophy, it's hard for that younger generation to
Speaker 1: buy into your philosophy even more. They're like, he's talking
Speaker 1: about us working and gonna get hurt. He's hurt every
Speaker 1: match he's in. I also just quit real quick. Thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know necessarily that that see him punk doesn't
Speaker 1: connect with this younger generation. I think that he just
Speaker 1: doesn't like clicky stuff because you know, you see shampunk
Speaker 1: doing stuff with Dan Housing, and he you know, that's
Speaker 1: a very new kind of thing. A guy like a
Speaker 1: Dan Housing or an Orange Cassidy, these kind of things
Speaker 1: are not classic wrestling things that he I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it started well. I just think it wore
Speaker 1: on him to the point where he's like, yo, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm hurt anyway. I know I'm hurt. I know it's bad.
Speaker 1: I got hurt in this match which he did. It's
Speaker 1: now confirmed me at that triceps injury that he has
Speaker 1: eight months of surgery. And I think he just said
Speaker 1: sometimes I get old and cranky two on forty six,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you just say fuck it all right. Hit
Speaker 1: us with the next one man, Great question, Mike. I
Speaker 1: already loved this segment. Hey guys, Richie here, always enjoy
Speaker 1: listening to your takes every Wednesday. My favorite part of
Speaker 1: Monday Night Row is the presentation of Bobby Lashly. I
Speaker 1: think he's been silently positioned as the cornerstone of that brand,
Speaker 1: elevating the United States Championship with great matches, including them
Speaker 1: one this past Monday with the Mizen, that steel cage match,
Speaker 1: and they're just building and building and building him as
Speaker 1: this force. I think he has the possibility of being
Speaker 1: a challenger to Roman Reins and that on disputed Championship
Speaker 1: picture and the few. What do you guys think? Sorry,
Speaker 1: I had to go EASTI morales. You can't be named
Speaker 1: Ritchie and not here that all the time. Sorry, Ritchie.
Speaker 1: So listen. If they are kind of doing a sneak
Speaker 1: push on Bobby Lashly, I wouldn't be mad at it.
Speaker 1: I will say this if you're it's not a conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: but if your theory is true, he's certainly positioned in
Speaker 1: a way where they could do that because I don't
Speaker 1: see him losing that title anytime soon. I believe he
Speaker 1: does give it a lot more credibility. The younger generation
Speaker 1: likes him. He's my twelve almost thirteen year old daughter's
Speaker 1: favorite wrestler, so I get it. I love him too.
Speaker 1: If he does get a push, you'll know it because
Speaker 1: they'll put him back with M v P. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they are secretly pushing Bobby. I'd be happy
Speaker 1: if they did. I really love Bobby Lashly. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be a silly thing to say, but I feel
Speaker 1: like if you make Bobby Lashly the champ again, right,
Speaker 1: he's just missing some sort of it. I know that.
Speaker 1: I think that that because we don't how to label something,
Speaker 1: we call it like an it factor. There is something
Speaker 1: about Bobby Lashley that just isn't it. And I feel
Speaker 1: like if you make him the chance, people are gonna
Speaker 1: be upset, and there'll be a small amount of people
Speaker 1: like me and Freddie's daughter that like it. Because I
Speaker 1: just love Bobby lash I love the way he looks,
Speaker 1: I love how you know, he just seems capable of anything.
Speaker 1: I would love to see a Stroman Lashly kind of
Speaker 1: back and forth, because they're both big boys, you know,
Speaker 1: like that kind of they'll cancel each other out so
Speaker 1: you can do other things with the other. With all
Speaker 1: the titles and Belta steffor, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: don't know if I like him as the champ, but
Speaker 1: I love him. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be anywhere this weekend? Tell the people
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be all month. I'm in Texas at
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