Speaker 1: Now your made events. Introducing the hosts wrestling went pretty
Speaker 1: Jeff handing a party, Prince Junya. Aloha, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: this episode, at least for half of our team is
Speaker 1: coming from Hawaii. That's right. We're bringing the show to
Speaker 1: you at least half of it from the beautiful island
Speaker 1: in Hawaii. I won't tell you which one, but all
Speaker 1: that you guys need to know is I'm here and
Speaker 1: Jeff stuck in smoggy l A. How are you? Mr? Jeff?
Speaker 1: I so unfair to me and all the listeners right
Speaker 1: that you're gonna say, hey, Aloha, like we get to
Speaker 1: be in paradise and uh and we're not. We're not there. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you know me a von Eric and the Rock, you know,
Speaker 1: just hanging in Hawaii. We had dinner last night. No
Speaker 1: we didn't, but that would have been a great dinner.
Speaker 1: That would have been a dinner. Is wrestling big in Hawaii?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, dude, you know how many Samoans and
Speaker 1: Polynesian people live out here and it's like a viable
Speaker 1: a ton. But I just was wondering. I was wondering
Speaker 1: if if it's like pop like people watch it every
Speaker 1: week and it's the same, same five, same wrestling group.
Speaker 1: I've been watching wrestling out here. I have. It doesn't
Speaker 1: come out till after all the results are out, so
Speaker 1: it will actually come out at five PM here, which
Speaker 1: is so much earlier that I already kind of know
Speaker 1: everything that's happened. But it's still fun to watch. But
Speaker 1: they definitely have tons of wrestling fans out here. Two
Speaker 1: fans of our podcast. I already got shouted out here
Speaker 1: at the hotel by a couple of different guys, are like,
Speaker 1: love your podcast, man, lots of aloha love. I love
Speaker 1: it out here. It's the best. And I love our
Speaker 1: podcast so much Jeff that I didn't even take a
Speaker 1: week off. This was a big week. I'm gonna drop
Speaker 1: a little secret on the podcast this week, but we're
Speaker 1: not at that part of the show yet, so our
Speaker 1: budgets low and I couldn't send you to all these
Speaker 1: shows like we did. Summer Summersion was good enough for me.
Speaker 1: I was happy. This is the beginning of the Triple
Speaker 1: H era. It was Monday Night Raw, which I think
Speaker 1: very soon will be a two hour not a three
Speaker 1: hour show based off a lot of things Kevin Nash
Speaker 1: has said and some things that Triple H said on
Speaker 1: Stone Colds podcast as well. He's probably said it elsewhere.
Speaker 1: The show opened and we got big time baby face
Speaker 1: bags and she came to the ring in a freaking
Speaker 1: shoulder sling. I actually had to wear one of those
Speaker 1: for when I separated my shoulder. They're not fun. But
Speaker 1: she separated her shoulder and in the match at the
Speaker 1: Summer Slam, as the great bread Hart would say, and
Speaker 1: wrestled another twenty minutes after that. By the way, two
Speaker 1: women getting hurt this week. Jamie Hayter broke her nose
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, I'll wrestle another ten minutes with a
Speaker 1: broken nose, No big deal. But Becky Lynch came out
Speaker 1: there cut a pretty solid baby kind of a a
Speaker 1: badass baby face promo or was it just cut like
Speaker 1: a like a tough chick baby face promo. Got a
Speaker 1: lot of love, right, Yeah. I still think when she
Speaker 1: comes back, she's going to come back as a heel
Speaker 1: and be a total hurt to everybody. But Bianca came
Speaker 1: out said she's the man, said everything she did proved it,
Speaker 1: and these women showed each other a lot of respect.
Speaker 1: How did you like it? I liked it? I I
Speaker 1: think that Becky. I don't know what she could do
Speaker 1: to lose her goodwill. It's it's insane. I've never seen well,
Speaker 1: I guess I have seen it in wrestling, but never
Speaker 1: in the women's the women's wrestling. She'd have to start
Speaker 1: punting babies or something, right, and they would still be like, yo,
Speaker 1: those babies asked for it. That's what those babies get.
Speaker 1: Long lived Becky babies. I think it's great. She's awesome.
Speaker 1: I like I like that they came and kind of
Speaker 1: put her over. It was a perfect way to write
Speaker 1: her out because I'm sure we're not going to see
Speaker 1: her for a bit now, right, Well, yeah, she got
Speaker 1: attacked by the new wrestling stable that Vince reportedly rejected,
Speaker 1: which is Bailey EO or EO Sky I now no
Speaker 1: longer Eo Sharai and Dakota Cot and their name is
Speaker 1: still rhyme and they haven't changed it three times yet,
Speaker 1: so the has begun. Someone's name stayed the same two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. All night, the women had commercial
Speaker 1: breaks in their matches. All night. The women were getting
Speaker 1: what was that fifteen minutes minimum on their matches. This
Speaker 1: was really cool to see this was something that a
Speaker 1: lot of people were trying to get done when I
Speaker 1: worked there back in the day, Stephen Hunter included, and
Speaker 1: there was never any chance of that happening period. I
Speaker 1: mean they would just pull women's matches off the pay
Speaker 1: per view straight up. I said this a while ago
Speaker 1: in season one. I like where wrestling is going. I
Speaker 1: know these changes are going to be small. I know
Speaker 1: Vince is still the main shareholder. But Hunter did his thing.
Speaker 1: Hunter did his thing, and women's wrestling was really cool
Speaker 1: on Monday night and end on a W two. I
Speaker 1: hate women's wrestling, so I was a little disappointed. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding, No, I love it. I was saying that
Speaker 1: earlier to our producer, our man man. It's like he's like,
Speaker 1: finally some wrestling, some more girls wrestling, and then you're
Speaker 1: you're always talking about girls wrestling. Triple H teams love girls.
Speaker 1: It's been impressive, good storytelling. Back in the day, Like
Speaker 1: you know, the sensational Sherry's were far and few between,
Speaker 1: Like she could work as as well as a man,
Speaker 1: but she had to lead every dance because they just
Speaker 1: weren't as many you know, scary Sherry's out there. I
Speaker 1: really like where the ladies are going. I hope it
Speaker 1: keeps going. You know, WW doesn't pay attention to ratings
Speaker 1: is as much as a lot of the other wrestling
Speaker 1: sites out their report because it's a part of USA,
Speaker 1: and advertisers are simply buying advertising stock in USA. They
Speaker 1: don't have any say as to where they're their commercials
Speaker 1: go anymore. It's not like the old days, like when
Speaker 1: you do commercials for the Olympics. Sure everybody wants the
Speaker 1: hundred meter dash, right that's where they want their commercial,
Speaker 1: but you don't get to pick that anymore. It might
Speaker 1: be something that streamed on their online, it might be
Speaker 1: on their MSNBC, maybe it makes the big channel, or
Speaker 1: maybe you paid the higher fee and you get it everywhere.
Speaker 1: But that's more how advertising works now, and that's much
Speaker 1: more of the reason why the Nielsen rating system isn't
Speaker 1: as as respected as it was in the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1: That's just some like cool inside stuff for you dorks
Speaker 1: out there. We can talk Miss a J and and
Speaker 1: Mustafe if you want. I thought miss did a pretty
Speaker 1: cool thing with the pulling the boot up on the
Speaker 1: rope and a J looking like yo, man, are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Right now, Like I love aj Styles, is
Speaker 1: good to see him back. I've always liked that guy
Speaker 1: a lot. Always Mortal Kombast stuff. I like everything, all
Speaker 1: the stuff, all the choices he makes in my big
Speaker 1: Mustafa Ali guy. Okay, well let's let's jump into that thing,
Speaker 1: because I was going to skim right by it. But
Speaker 1: this was a dude that, like, asked for his release.
Speaker 1: This was a dude that asked for his release. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing because he had no story whatsoever, and it didn't
Speaker 1: seem like he was getting to wrestle. And if the
Speaker 1: dude's dream is to be a professional wrestler, then that sucks.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Triple H believes in him. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're just trying to get him some
Speaker 1: work and then maybe he still wants out. But you
Speaker 1: like Mustafa, you like all the Mortal kot See. I
Speaker 1: was a street fighter guy. I didn't mess with the
Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat. Well. I I like both for sure. When
Speaker 1: you're a kid, that's all. There was no brand loyalty
Speaker 1: when I was like, dude, I sucked at Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 1: I didn't know any of the stupid finishers street Fighter too.
Speaker 1: I knew everybody's moves, and I played even with zen
Speaker 1: Giff and could do his twisting pile driver. That's how
Speaker 1: sick I was at that game. Zeniff did have some
Speaker 1: cool wrestling moves. Yeah, dude, but I've never I'm not
Speaker 1: even joking. I've never won a single Mortal Kombat match
Speaker 1: against computer or anyone in my life and tech, and
Speaker 1: I'm even worse. It is funny on Mortal Kombat when
Speaker 1: you get like the old game books, Like you'd get
Speaker 1: like a Nintendo Power or whatever the book was, to
Speaker 1: learn all the finishing moves, and he'd be like, all right,
Speaker 1: to do his more, to do his fatality, Just go
Speaker 1: right up to him, hit back forward, back down, back forward,
Speaker 1: hold our punch, high punch, low punch, low kick, firward,
Speaker 1: back forward, back forward, back block, high punch, Like how
Speaker 1: am I gonna You've got ten seconds to do all that?
Speaker 1: And like I'm like looking to the thing, and then
Speaker 1: I'd actually end up punching the guy and he would
Speaker 1: just fall down. You're like, that wasn't the fatality Accidentally
Speaker 1: hit accidentally hit him. It's so hard listen, Mustafa loses
Speaker 1: this match, but he did lose a kind of a
Speaker 1: fabulous way like finished to that was actually really cool.
Speaker 1: But it's J Stiles let him he should lose. It's
Speaker 1: a j to JJ is the minute, and that's gonna
Speaker 1: lead us to a number one contenders match between him
Speaker 1: and a group of wrestlers that will get to a minute.
Speaker 1: But a guy that I really love and I know
Speaker 1: you love to is Montez. For I thought based off
Speaker 1: the way he behaved at SummerSlam, and I think if
Speaker 1: if Vince had his way that Monday Night Raw, he
Speaker 1: would have turned that quickly. And I feel like they've
Speaker 1: slowed that down a little, but not a ton. They
Speaker 1: then dunkins, we're gonna rochamb or I call it rochambo,
Speaker 1: but it's rock paper scissors. Anyone else out there that
Speaker 1: says rochambo show us some love on social media, but anyway,
Speaker 1: they rock paper scissord and before there was even a
Speaker 1: result for it just bounces out. It takes off to
Speaker 1: go get his match and his time to shine on
Speaker 1: the spotlight seth Rollins has been losing a lot lately.
Speaker 1: He has been putting men over in the most special
Speaker 1: and wonderful way, but he's been losing a lot. He
Speaker 1: got a little moment at Summer Slam, which was nice
Speaker 1: where he got a little beat down on on riddle.
Speaker 1: He needs to go on a bit of a run, right,
Speaker 1: and he gets this man with the hot montes Ford.
Speaker 1: Any match montest Ford does is going to have a
Speaker 1: frog splash. Whether he hits it or whether it's a fail,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing to watch. It's a very dangerous
Speaker 1: thing to watch. And this one was amazing and Rollins
Speaker 1: wasn't having it. And he gets the wind and he
Speaker 1: cuts a promo about where he's moving on to next
Speaker 1: and he's talking about Roman Reigns, a guy whose number
Speaker 1: he's had for a while. This was a great finish
Speaker 1: and I love seeing Rollins get a win. What I'm
Speaker 1: hoping is he goes on a windstreak and then as
Speaker 1: that character gains confidence, he can kind of shed that
Speaker 1: snake skin and and move into whatever kind of seth
Speaker 1: Rawlins he wants to be. I hope montes Ford asked
Speaker 1: Logan Paul, if he can use his finishing move, that's
Speaker 1: what I hope better, you better shut your mouth. He
Speaker 1: went to Logan said can I use your frog splash?
Speaker 1: Will you be offended? That's what I hope you so much.
Speaker 1: Right now, I do want to briefly mention the next
Speaker 1: women's match, which was Alexa Bliss versus Oscar again. They
Speaker 1: got a commercial break, they got a ton of time,
Speaker 1: there was no finish. It was like old school. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say, uh, what's your favorite? I tried
Speaker 1: to delete it from my mind. What's your favorite? Time
Speaker 1: period called the Attitude Era. It was very Attitude era
Speaker 1: where there's like multiple matches that didn't get a finish right,
Speaker 1: and the crowd didn't care because they were seeing action
Speaker 1: and they were seeing people fight and there was still
Speaker 1: a story being told. I got a few questions for you.
Speaker 1: Hit me. So one, what do you think makes WW
Speaker 1: not able to put over or sell the Japanese wrestlers
Speaker 1: as well as as they should mean because she's can
Speaker 1: knocking more. Everyone was like, when he gets here, he'll
Speaker 1: be the biggest thing. They're like when Oscar arrives, and
Speaker 1: it's like, for whatever reason, it doesn't doesn't pop the
Speaker 1: way it should. So I have an honest answer, But
Speaker 1: I feel like when Dirt Cheats pull it from our podcast,
Speaker 1: it's gonna come off like brutal and rup So the
Speaker 1: funny answer was, Oh, it's just super racist. But if
Speaker 1: I if I say that, then they're like Freddie says,
Speaker 1: w W E is super racist and giant black or
Speaker 1: white letters exactly, that's the Yeah. So it's just a
Speaker 1: cultural ignorance man Vince always felt, and this is public.
Speaker 1: If English isn't their first language, the American fan is
Speaker 1: always going to look at them as a hell and
Speaker 1: if they're a baby face, they're gonna look at it that.
Speaker 1: He wanted them to be like funny and goofy, and
Speaker 1: I think that's why there was a lot of like
Speaker 1: goofy Mr moto bs when it came to Japanese wrestlers
Speaker 1: over here. I was also asking you with you you're
Speaker 1: saying wrestling that's gonna get shorter. There's there's there's a
Speaker 1: people that are saying triple h might go back to
Speaker 1: the two hour. There's talks of that. Well, when you
Speaker 1: got so many wrestlers, you know that aren't even being
Speaker 1: used and as it seems like the life of a
Speaker 1: wrestler is just always like how am I going to
Speaker 1: get on how's my story gonna go over? How can
Speaker 1: I get on camera more? How can I get more ringtime,
Speaker 1: how can I So it's like, if they're gonna make
Speaker 1: it shorter and you still have all these wrestlers who
Speaker 1: aren't even being And also that's why the Aditude Air
Speaker 1: was the best, not because of all the violence or
Speaker 1: that the stuff. I think the Attitude Air was the
Speaker 1: best because every match you were like, that's Undertaker, the
Speaker 1: rock stoncle We're the hugest, most famous wrestlers all during
Speaker 1: the same time. It wasn't just one guy like feeding
Speaker 1: the whole feeding the whole um locker room to Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns and just letting them beat everybody. And it's a
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns thing. No, there there was, there was There
Speaker 1: was a lot of stars and each match all that's
Speaker 1: all Bret Hart is. You know, it's like it's the
Speaker 1: Canadians versus d X versus. So it felt like everybody
Speaker 1: was big. So how does wrestling do that? Now? If
Speaker 1: they're gonna get shorter and you want girls to now
Speaker 1: get pushed more and more stages, then you've got all
Speaker 1: these other guys who aren't being utilized. I mean, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you? How do you do it?
Speaker 1: This is a that's a great point, Jeff, I am
Speaker 1: not the biggest fan of the Attitude era as far
Speaker 1: as the stories win, but the matches are still the
Speaker 1: greatest matches that I've ever seen. But they did. Even
Speaker 1: the mid card wrestlers were beloved, and they all had
Speaker 1: a purpose, and they it wasn't just a singular goal.
Speaker 1: They had, you know, sort of story driven goals, regardless
Speaker 1: of how insane the story may have been. And with
Speaker 1: a two hour show, you do limit that. So how
Speaker 1: do you get those wrestlers over, Well, they have their
Speaker 1: partnership with Peacock. Hunter was the one who started the
Speaker 1: Cruiserweight Classic when they when they brought in all those
Speaker 1: those the the guys under two pounds to come in
Speaker 1: and work. The May Young Classic was his. You very
Speaker 1: well could let's just say they cut it to two hours.
Speaker 1: You could create a whole another hour long show, a
Speaker 1: whole another two hour show. You could have on all
Speaker 1: women's show, if they signed back all the talent that
Speaker 1: they lost over the last old during the pandemic, however
Speaker 1: long it's been, you could have. I don't know if
Speaker 1: a Cruiserweight division would pull a number, but you could
Speaker 1: put another show on. That's another two hour show. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's with that partnership with Peacock, and when they had
Speaker 1: their own network, you know, the only limit was budget, right,
Speaker 1: can we afford to do this? Can we afford to
Speaker 1: do that? Peacock is still growing, but I think it's
Speaker 1: one of the ones that's going to stay and stick
Speaker 1: around because Universal NBC. Universal is such a powerful entity
Speaker 1: as far as entertainment goes. So who knows, man. I mean,
Speaker 1: they already have their own sort of dedicated section in
Speaker 1: within the Peacock service, and they could add more shows.
Speaker 1: It just wouldn't be something you'd see on the USA network, right,
Speaker 1: because USA doesn't have that kind of money. They if
Speaker 1: they could afford to license more w W product, they would.
Speaker 1: It gets a higher rating than pretty much everything else
Speaker 1: they put on television, so they certainly do. And that's
Speaker 1: another story I want to debunk. USA has no say
Speaker 1: as to if raw has the title or not. And
Speaker 1: I know this for a fact because my friend is
Speaker 1: an executive there and I know how their licensing deal works.
Speaker 1: They could say, hey, could you please give us this?
Speaker 1: Could you please give us that? But Vince said no,
Speaker 1: way more often than he said yes. And they had
Speaker 1: a partnership that lasted forever. Um and it's still ongoing.
Speaker 1: So there's a big difference when a company owns your
Speaker 1: show as to when a company is licensing your show.
Speaker 1: They can say, hey, you know, please keep John Cena
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Raw. And I remember one night on
Speaker 1: the draft, just to mess with him, Vince and this
Speaker 1: was just for his own amusement, said we're going to
Speaker 1: draft him to SmackDown and then at the end of
Speaker 1: the show will draft him back to Raw. I'll drive
Speaker 1: him crazy over there. And we're sitting in there like, yo,
Speaker 1: this guy's just playing with network executives. Like actors don't
Speaker 1: get to do that, right. I was so jealous. So
Speaker 1: it's not the powerhouse that people think it is. USA
Speaker 1: is very grateful for the partnership and so is w
Speaker 1: w E. But USA needs Monday Night Raw. They need
Speaker 1: that show. They need miss and Missus because I love
Speaker 1: Psych Raw. It was a more successful show for USA
Speaker 1: as far as money made then Psych. They're paying for
Speaker 1: every episode. It's like they have a licensing deal with
Speaker 1: with Monday and Night Raw. So trust me, they they
Speaker 1: take what they get. They're not mr could we have
Speaker 1: some more. Like they're very they're grateful and they make suggestions,
Speaker 1: but it's it's not an equal partnership by any by
Speaker 1: any stretch. And shout out to the Saturday free kind
Speaker 1: of pay per view vibe that it was Battle of
Speaker 1: the Belts. It was just on a Saturday on TNT.
Speaker 1: You don't have to pay money, and you got to
Speaker 1: see a ton of all championship matches. Battle of the Belts.
Speaker 1: I'm still getting hip and educated to a e W,
Speaker 1: but this was such a nice refreshing like Saturday. Just
Speaker 1: a little special treat. Freddy. Here you go, Freddy, your
Speaker 1: your kids don't want to hang out with you right now.
Speaker 1: They're having a blast in Hawaii. Sit here and watch
Speaker 1: this match. And I'm watching this like, this is so
Speaker 1: much fun. And I know it's not everybody's thing. I
Speaker 1: love cloud EO. I gotta get used to saying cloud
Speaker 1: EO because Cesarrow has been the name in my head
Speaker 1: for so long. But this, it is great and I'm
Speaker 1: sure Triple H knows it. W W. E completely fumbled
Speaker 1: the ball with this guy, over and over and over.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he could talk on the mic. Dude,
Speaker 1: I didn't know he could talk on the mic. I
Speaker 1: watched the promos that they did on social media, where
Speaker 1: like on their a w Instagram page, which is still
Speaker 1: the best wrestling Instagram page there is like whoever it
Speaker 1: runs their social needs a raise. But he's just talking
Speaker 1: to camera about what this match means to him and
Speaker 1: how what this title means to him, and I'm like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this guy can talk, Like why didn't he ever speak like?
Speaker 1: It was? They totally dropped the ball with this guy,
Speaker 1: And I don't think they dropped the ball that often
Speaker 1: when they let people go. But I love this match
Speaker 1: and I'm a huge Cloudeo fan, and I don't care
Speaker 1: if he's heel faced or this hybrid version, but I
Speaker 1: freaking love this dude, and I can't believe they dropped
Speaker 1: the ball. I did you see this match? You're working
Speaker 1: weekends because you're a stand up comics, so you probably
Speaker 1: didn't see this, right. No, he got sent to you.
Speaker 1: I have a wrestling text with a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: and guys sent to me. And the reason anything cesesarycause
Speaker 1: gets sent to me because I've been I've been championing
Speaker 1: him forever. Let's stay with the a w bottom. I'm
Speaker 1: speaking a battle of the belts. We got a thunder
Speaker 1: rosa and a Jamie Hayder match. The first time I
Speaker 1: saw Jamie Hayder Thunderstorm. Yeah, you like thunderstorring, don't you.
Speaker 1: I just can't wait for Tony to turn he know
Speaker 1: it's just screw her over completely. So the story for
Speaker 1: this match is Britt Baker. She lost the title to
Speaker 1: this Mexican superstar named thunder Rosa, and then here comes
Speaker 1: your girl, Tony Storm, and she comes out to walk
Speaker 1: her to the ring that she's gonna have her back
Speaker 1: in this match. It's not a tag match, and then
Speaker 1: Jamie Hayder and Dr Britt Baker come out and they
Speaker 1: have a bay her match, man like. It goes back
Speaker 1: and forth, Baker's involved a couple of times, and then
Speaker 1: Tony stops her, so they get kind of there. It's
Speaker 1: not a tag match, but they get some fighting outside
Speaker 1: the ring and beat each other's asses a little bit.
Speaker 1: And then there's a moment in the match and I
Speaker 1: believe what I heard was off a brain buster. Per
Speaker 1: knee came down and hit Hater in the nose, and
Speaker 1: then they still had ten minutes left of a match,
Speaker 1: so Home Girl wrestled with a broken nose. We got
Speaker 1: Becky with the shoulder hater with the nose. Shout out
Speaker 1: to both you girls. I love tough chicks. My wife
Speaker 1: was a tough chick on buff of the Vampire Slayer
Speaker 1: and kicked a bunch of ass too, So there, this
Speaker 1: match was really cool. And here's why. Regardless of what
Speaker 1: you think of the style of wrestling or anything, all
Speaker 1: four people involved in this match had somewhere to go
Speaker 1: when it was over. And you can always do the
Speaker 1: easy thing, which is Britt goes right after thunder Rosa
Speaker 1: again and beats thunder Rosa, and you put the belt
Speaker 1: back on Britt because she can talk on the mic
Speaker 1: and she can wrestle, and then at the end of
Speaker 1: that match, when Tony helps Thunder up, you turn Tony
Speaker 1: on Thunder and she takes her out, and then you
Speaker 1: can take whatever baby face you want after Britt and
Speaker 1: let Britt hold the belt for a long time until
Speaker 1: you find someone else you know worthy of holding it,
Speaker 1: or you let Thunder win that match against Dr Brett
Speaker 1: Baker and you have Tony turn on her then and
Speaker 1: you have a heal Tony go after thunder Rosa. Whichever
Speaker 1: whichever way you would, you would book it and then
Speaker 1: hate her with the broken nose. Unfortunately is the one
Speaker 1: that doesn't get as much of a story, but she's
Speaker 1: still the one that's kind of coming up and and
Speaker 1: and getting this shine from from the others that are
Speaker 1: more over within that company. But I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot to Jamie. I haven't heard her on the mic
Speaker 1: much because Brits so good. They really let her do
Speaker 1: the talking kind of like uh, Ricky Starks and Hobbs. Uh. Man,
Speaker 1: Ricky got beat down again. Man, I was hoping he
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a little bit of something off,
Speaker 1: but man, Hobbs just put it on them. So they're
Speaker 1: definitely pushing Hobbs through the moon. And I hope they
Speaker 1: stick with Ricky too. But shout out to Battle of
Speaker 1: the Belts, shout out to Saturday Wrestling. I love it.
Speaker 1: I think it's great. Unless it's Wrestlemanian it's two days long.
Speaker 1: I don't need that. But this was awesome and I
Speaker 1: loved the whole show. Did you get to see any
Speaker 1: of the other matches or I love that you're in
Speaker 1: a wrestling text chain and you guys send each other video. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we also we sent so many, like like so
Speaker 1: many of those extreme matches like any effect things like that,
Speaker 1: any viral stuff. It's pretty nice. I don't really have
Speaker 1: to watch a lot. They just said. They all gets
Speaker 1: brought into my my reality. But that that being said,
Speaker 1: they definitely sent me the Dumpster match. I don't love
Speaker 1: any of the kind of stuff like that. But what
Speaker 1: do you think about the Jericho match. I think everyone
Speaker 1: knew that Jericho had to win, so it's a harder
Speaker 1: story to tell. I like, Wheeler, you do a lot.
Speaker 1: I liked the finish a lot, but again, like the
Speaker 1: build up to it, I didn't even believe because you
Speaker 1: know Jericho has to win that match. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: do anything to to put a spike in the black
Speaker 1: Pool Combat Club, Like, you're not gonna do anything to
Speaker 1: screw with that right now because those guys are hot
Speaker 1: and Daniel Bryant just got healthy again. So you can't
Speaker 1: have Wheeler go up against uh Moxley, even though Moxley
Speaker 1: had that promo. He's like, I don't care who it is.
Speaker 1: It could be this guy, that guy. When I'm in that,
Speaker 1: like he's got that that promo, But you're not sell
Speaker 1: at least you're not selling me on that because I
Speaker 1: know who has to win that match, So I wasn't
Speaker 1: super excited that said. I love a good Lion Tamer finish.
Speaker 1: I love seeing that old school I just, you know,
Speaker 1: forty six, so like the Edge Brood Entrance, I pop
Speaker 1: bigger than most people. I'm like the Brood, So the
Speaker 1: Lion Tamer, I'm like, I saw the Lion I remember
Speaker 1: when I was you know, there is no Brood without
Speaker 1: Kane Grill, and I agree. I do love the Lion Tamer.
Speaker 1: I love the it's you know, modified walls of Jericho.
Speaker 1: I I like, yeah, And I think he's gonna go
Speaker 1: old school Japanese Jericho when he has the Moxley match
Speaker 1: and do all his old school Japanese skill sets for
Speaker 1: when he was over there doing his thing. That seems
Speaker 1: to be where they're leaning, and those guys love that
Speaker 1: Japanese strong style. Let's actually beat the crap out of
Speaker 1: each other. So I've talked about it. That's so hardcore, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know it. They go, you know what, my
Speaker 1: style of wrestling is just real fighting. That's my style.
Speaker 1: So no, it's supposed to be an art form where
Speaker 1: you're able to do these kind of and they go, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but my style is I just
Speaker 1: I just really hate you and really kick you. It's
Speaker 1: so hardcore. I'm gonna confess something actually kind of like it.
Speaker 1: Like I always think, like if I was an opponent,
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, you're gonna fight Nakamura and I go,
Speaker 1: we go try to set up our magico. How do
Speaker 1: you want to do this? He's like, I'm gonna really
Speaker 1: punch and kick you, and you go, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that sounds terrible, goes no, No, it's my style. My
Speaker 1: style is like you know, like in the nineties when
Speaker 1: guys would let a punch go, then the Farruke and
Speaker 1: Bradshaw would come up and beat him up for seven minutes.
Speaker 1: You know, they live like they would actually get jumped
Speaker 1: in the ring by the Dudley Boys or something. And
Speaker 1: now it's like it's just a style, you know. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. I love that. All right, I want to
Speaker 1: close the show with something really cool and bitter sweet.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I'm ready? We got Friday Night SmackDown.
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns is in the ring. He's talking about how
Speaker 1: much he hates brock Lesner, but the respect is there.
Speaker 1: You could tell and here comes Drew mock entire the
Speaker 1: Scottish mind of old men with the hottie chest, and
Speaker 1: he comes out. I love him too. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: the sword duty, so I think they'll get rid of
Speaker 1: that soon enough was a Vince thing. I talked about
Speaker 1: this in season one, but I worked with Drew a
Speaker 1: lot when I was first there, back in the day
Speaker 1: and when he first came up, and the only note
Speaker 1: he would get all the time was lose the accent.
Speaker 1: Lose No one can understand you lose the accent is
Speaker 1: Vince thing, isn't it. I wasn't gonna say it was Vince,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's that's who said it. So I'm maybe
Speaker 1: I'm oversharing. But when I was with Becky, like, she's like,
Speaker 1: the whole reason I never got success earlier, or it's
Speaker 1: not that she didn't have success, well, the whole reason
Speaker 1: she wasn't more pushed early is because Vince would be
Speaker 1: in guerrilla going. I can't understand what she's saying. What
Speaker 1: is she saying? It's like everyone's like, dude, is not
Speaker 1: that thick of an accent? Everyone else knows what she's saying,
Speaker 1: Like everyone else understands her and Vince is like, why
Speaker 1: isn't she speaking English? Like that? She's speaking English, dude,
Speaker 1: Like everybody knows what she's saying. Drew comes out and
Speaker 1: lets Roman know that it's going down. They're going to
Speaker 1: the UK. He's taken everything, and out of nowhere comes
Speaker 1: Carrying Cross formerly known as Hiller Cross. He comes out
Speaker 1: and he levels Drew levels him, and he's dressed the
Speaker 1: way he needs to be dressed, which is in his leathers,
Speaker 1: looking like a badass. Bordeaux puts Roman reigns on the clock.
Speaker 1: She puts the hour glass down and flips it over
Speaker 1: and the sand starts going through and the crowd that
Speaker 1: remembers him from n x T is like yeah, and
Speaker 1: the crowd that doesn't it's like, yo, who is this
Speaker 1: badass guy? So I announced on the first season of
Speaker 1: this and with Ariel Hwani, that I was starting a
Speaker 1: wrestling federation, which I still end when I'm working hard
Speaker 1: at it, and my champion and I had spoken with
Speaker 1: him a lot was going to be Killer Cross, and
Speaker 1: he was my guy. I was building the whole thing
Speaker 1: around him. We had kind of worked on the story.
Speaker 1: We had talked about philosophy, talked about his character his
Speaker 1: wife's character, with the caveat of hey, you can't hold
Speaker 1: your career up to make my thing go right, So
Speaker 1: I said, if you get other offers like and you
Speaker 1: need to make a living, go make a living. Man.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, I think it was, or no, it's actually Thursday.
Speaker 1: Was the day before SmackDown, I get a text that says, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I need some advice. Let's chat, and so I already know.
Speaker 1: I already know, and I almost wrote him the day before,
Speaker 1: Hey with vince Gon, you're going to get a call
Speaker 1: from Hunter. I literally wrote this text and I said,
Speaker 1: he's going to offer you the moon and if you
Speaker 1: say no, you're out of your mind, so don't trip.
Speaker 1: And then I deleted the whole text and instead I
Speaker 1: just sent him a picture from this uh storyboard guy
Speaker 1: that's doing part of the show for me, so that
Speaker 1: I can, you know, pitch it properly. I just sent
Speaker 1: him a picture of some of the storyboard stuff instead,
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to like freaking out. So then
Speaker 1: the very next day I get this text from can
Speaker 1: we talk? I need some advice. We start chatting and
Speaker 1: he says, I talked to Hunter. They made an offer
Speaker 1: and it's real, and I think I believe him when
Speaker 1: he's telling me what's going to happen. And Uh, you
Speaker 1: and I need to talk. I said, yeah, brother, I
Speaker 1: said I and I told him what I just told you.
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, I wrote you a text yesterday
Speaker 1: that I deleted because I knew this was going to happen.
Speaker 1: And once Vince left the company and so we talked
Speaker 1: about it. I said, look, you'd be crazy to chase
Speaker 1: my dream in place of yours. Your dream was never
Speaker 1: to be I don't want to say the name of
Speaker 1: my federation, but your dream was never to be the
Speaker 1: you know, the Freddie p champion. It was to be
Speaker 1: the w w E champ. I said. I couldn't hold
Speaker 1: you up from that. I said what I said, if
Speaker 1: I was in my twenties, maybe I would because I'd
Speaker 1: be jealous and angry. I said, but I want to
Speaker 1: see you succeed at the highest at the highest level,
Speaker 1: and my federation is not going to be at the
Speaker 1: highest level. That's w w E. Forever we're talking, he goes,
Speaker 1: that's funny, that's the same thing my mom said. That said, dude,
Speaker 1: always listened to your mother, Always listen to your mother,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know how fast this was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: We hang always say goodbye to take care, tell Lisa said,
Speaker 1: or tell Scarlett I said, what's up? And we hang up.
Speaker 1: And then the next day, I'm watching this segment with
Speaker 1: Roman Reins and Drew, and all of a sudden, my
Speaker 1: champion runs out and just kills Drew and put them
Speaker 1: on the clock. And I remember being like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: putting a rocket ship on this man, which is what
Speaker 1: they should have done the first damn time. And even
Speaker 1: though it's bitter sweet, like the dad in me it
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, hell yeah, kid, go make those bones right,
Speaker 1: And the artist in me is like, wow, man, like
Speaker 1: look at him, Like that's a champion right there, and
Speaker 1: he could have been yours. But I just have to,
Speaker 1: you know, recircumnavigate the river and and I'll find there's
Speaker 1: a ton of great wrestlers out there, and I'll find
Speaker 1: the one that I click with and can build around.
Speaker 1: But this was something that was kind of a special
Speaker 1: moment in my life, and like a real honest one
Speaker 1: that I just wanted to share with everyone else who's
Speaker 1: like a total dork about wrestling like we are, and
Speaker 1: if you could have your own federation, you totally would.
Speaker 1: It also proves you right. It also that you got
Speaker 1: the guy. Yeah, like you had the guy that you
Speaker 1: knew that this guy was special and talented, which is
Speaker 1: which is cool. But you gotta do two things now.
Speaker 1: Now you've got to send me an email that says, hey, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I know what's gonna happen. I know Netflix is gonna
Speaker 1: give you a huge special. I know all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and then delete the email, just delete it, don't send
Speaker 1: it to And then the other thing you gotta do
Speaker 1: is we gotta start getting to work on finding you
Speaker 1: a new champ, buddy. Yes, Bro, I'm gonna actually write
Speaker 1: emails that I delete to all my friends, yeah, saying
Speaker 1: I just I know something greats about that You're about
Speaker 1: to be Batman. They hate Pattison and they love you, bro.
Speaker 1: And then now I'm not gonna send I'm not gonna send.
Speaker 1: Next day in the news, boo Pattison, he was hanging
Speaker 1: out with Ezra Miller. Honey, I'm sure that Buffy the
Speaker 1: Vampire Slayer is gonna do seven hundred million dollars in.
Speaker 1: Let me delete that, Let me delete that, Let me
Speaker 1: just delete that. No worries, no wors So yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it was like in the you know, back in the day,
Speaker 1: I would never share something like that ever, ever, And
Speaker 1: for whatever reason now that I'm just old and don't
Speaker 1: care anymore, I just thought it would be nice for
Speaker 1: people like as everyone listening to us as a big
Speaker 1: dorky fan just like you and me. So so yeah,
Speaker 1: so I just wanted to share that, right, they want
Speaker 1: inside scoop like that, they're here for that sweet scoop.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I already have a couple other plans
Speaker 1: in mind, put out some feelers and reached out to
Speaker 1: a couple of cats that I'll tell you about off
Speaker 1: the air, and then I'm sure Hunter will resign them
Speaker 1: as well or signed them. So, Jeff, it's about that time.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you pick your best or worst moment
Speaker 1: of the wrestling week and share it with the people,
Speaker 1: and then I'll do the same. So it's time for
Speaker 1: that segment. Do we have a jingle for it or
Speaker 1: any thing? Moment of the week Moments of Moment Amendo?
Speaker 1: This amendo in honor of me being the co host
Speaker 1: slash sidekick to the Great Pretty Friends. To stay on
Speaker 1: brand and to stay in my gimmick. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: the dumpster match. Everyone knows the dumpster match was the best.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows that we're changing the name of the segment
Speaker 1: to the a whole segment of the week, or you
Speaker 1: just think of whatever is gonna aggravate me the most. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say dumpster matches where we should move the future.
Speaker 1: Honorable mention is the women, because I felt like eight
Speaker 1: different women all have an opportunity for awesome story. My
Speaker 1: favorite and least favorite moment of the week was that
Speaker 1: Carrying Cross reintroduction. Man. I thought it was such an
Speaker 1: old school, almost w c W way to bring someone
Speaker 1: in without all the packages, without all the video segments,
Speaker 1: without all the gimmicks and pageantry, and it was much
Speaker 1: less sports entertainment and it was much more professional wrestling,
Speaker 1: and I just thought it was so cool. It's like
Speaker 1: it makes you say, yo, who is that? If you
Speaker 1: don't know, and then you have to be an active
Speaker 1: seeker of knowledge. You go online, you go on the
Speaker 1: dirt sheets, you find out who this dude is, and
Speaker 1: then you can kind of see this guy's indie work
Speaker 1: and just how good he is and how great of
Speaker 1: a valet Scarlet is with him, like the two of
Speaker 1: them together beautiful and wonderful. And the fact that they
Speaker 1: separated him the first time was insane to me, but
Speaker 1: I loved it. I didn't hate it, but a part
Speaker 1: of me was just like, man, that would have been nice.
Speaker 1: There's been more wrestling on air this week since forever,
Speaker 1: like as far as not just wrestling content, like right,
Speaker 1: the shows are just as long, but in ring wrestling,
Speaker 1: the matches were longer. There there was more. There was
Speaker 1: less of the out of ring sports entertainment stuff and
Speaker 1: more just wrestling. And I don't know fans for our
Speaker 1: hate that more. I know that like the hard nerdy
Speaker 1: ones will love it more, but guys like me, I go, oh,
Speaker 1: this is interesting. This is a lot of wrestling and
Speaker 1: not as much story. That's the stat of the show
Speaker 1: right there. Stat of the show the most in ring wrestling.
Speaker 1: I'll just throw a date out there since all right,
Speaker 1: you guys, this has been a really fun episode. We
Speaker 1: take no weeks off here at Wrestling with the Homies.
Speaker 1: I changed the name of the show each week. I
Speaker 1: apologize and I appreciate you guys listening in. Follow the
Speaker 1: show's Instagram or Twitter accounts, which is ww Freddie Pod
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Wrestling with Freddie on Instagram. That was
Speaker 1: our show for this week. I appreciate all you guys
Speaker 1: listening in Jeff, you've got any parting words for the people.
Speaker 1: Just keep loving wrestling even when it's bad, Love it
Speaker 1: when it's good, love it. I love wrestling. I love
Speaker 1: it when it's bad, I love it when it's great,
Speaker 1: and I love when it's in a dumpster. That's the
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