WEBVTT - The Triple H Era is Here to Stay 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:08.520 Now your made events. Introducing the hosts wrestling went pretty 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:16.560 Jeff handing a party, Prince Junya. Aloha, ladies and gentlemen, 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.119 this episode, at least for half of our team is 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.520 coming from Hawaii. That's right. We're bringing the show to 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.160 you at least half of it from the beautiful island 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.160 in Hawaii. I won't tell you which one, but all 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.720 that you guys need to know is I'm here and 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.280 Jeff stuck in smoggy l A. How are you? Mr? Jeff? 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.279 I so unfair to me and all the listeners right 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.640 that you're gonna say, hey, Aloha, like we get to 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.839 be in paradise and uh and we're not. We're not there. Yeah, man, 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.080 you know me a von Eric and the Rock, you know, 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.960 just hanging in Hawaii. We had dinner last night. No 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.520 we didn't, but that would have been a great dinner. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.080 That would have been a dinner. Is wrestling big in Hawaii? 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.800 Oh my god, dude, you know how many Samoans and 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.080 Polynesian people live out here and it's like a viable 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.000 a ton. But I just was wondering. I was wondering 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.080 if if it's like pop like people watch it every 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.240 week and it's the same, same five, same wrestling group. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.160 I've been watching wrestling out here. I have. It doesn't 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.600 come out till after all the results are out, so 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.880 it will actually come out at five PM here, which 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.880 is so much earlier that I already kind of know 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.320 everything that's happened. But it's still fun to watch. But 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.319 they definitely have tons of wrestling fans out here. Two 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.720 fans of our podcast. I already got shouted out here 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.800 at the hotel by a couple of different guys, are like, 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.200 love your podcast, man, lots of aloha love. I love 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.760 it out here. It's the best. And I love our 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.200 podcast so much Jeff that I didn't even take a 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.280 week off. This was a big week. I'm gonna drop 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.880 a little secret on the podcast this week, but we're 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.840 not at that part of the show yet, so our 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.960 budgets low and I couldn't send you to all these 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.080 shows like we did. Summer Summersion was good enough for me. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.480 I was happy. This is the beginning of the Triple 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.079 H era. It was Monday Night Raw, which I think 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.120 very soon will be a two hour not a three 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.399 hour show based off a lot of things Kevin Nash 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.000 has said and some things that Triple H said on 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.920 Stone Colds podcast as well. He's probably said it elsewhere. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:24.680 The show opened and we got big time baby face 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.400 bags and she came to the ring in a freaking 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.919 shoulder sling. I actually had to wear one of those 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.799 for when I separated my shoulder. They're not fun. But 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.079 she separated her shoulder and in the match at the 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.120 Summer Slam, as the great bread Hart would say, and 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.880 wrestled another twenty minutes after that. By the way, two 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.760 women getting hurt this week. Jamie Hayter broke her nose 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.799 and said, yeah, I'll wrestle another ten minutes with a 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.400 broken nose, No big deal. But Becky Lynch came out 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.359 there cut a pretty solid baby kind of a a 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.400 badass baby face promo or was it just cut like 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.400 a like a tough chick baby face promo. Got a 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.400 lot of love, right, Yeah. I still think when she 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.399 comes back, she's going to come back as a heel 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.560 and be a total hurt to everybody. But Bianca came 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.919 out said she's the man, said everything she did proved it, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.880 and these women showed each other a lot of respect. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.919 How did you like it? I liked it? I I 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.679 think that Becky. I don't know what she could do 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.320 to lose her goodwill. It's it's insane. I've never seen well, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.520 I guess I have seen it in wrestling, but never 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.360 in the women's the women's wrestling. She'd have to start 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.520 punting babies or something, right, and they would still be like, yo, 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.480 those babies asked for it. That's what those babies get. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:44.040 Long lived Becky babies. I think it's great. She's awesome. 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:45.720 I like I like that they came and kind of 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.119 put her over. It was a perfect way to write 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:48.960 her out because I'm sure we're not going to see 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.280 her for a bit now, right, Well, yeah, she got 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:56.400 attacked by the new wrestling stable that Vince reportedly rejected, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.880 which is Bailey EO or EO Sky I now no 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.000 longer Eo Sharai and Dakota Cot and their name is 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.840 still rhyme and they haven't changed it three times yet, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:13.720 so the has begun. Someone's name stayed the same two 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.760 weeks in a row. All night, the women had commercial 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.719 breaks in their matches. All night. The women were getting 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.280 what was that fifteen minutes minimum on their matches. This 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:31.520 was really cool to see this was something that a 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.720 lot of people were trying to get done when I 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.560 worked there back in the day, Stephen Hunter included, and 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.480 there was never any chance of that happening period. I 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.040 mean they would just pull women's matches off the pay 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.320 per view straight up. I said this a while ago 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.120 in season one. I like where wrestling is going. I 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.240 know these changes are going to be small. I know 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.920 Vince is still the main shareholder. But Hunter did his thing. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.800 Hunter did his thing, and women's wrestling was really cool 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.840 on Monday night and end on a W two. I 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.920 hate women's wrestling, so I was a little disappointed. I'm 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.480 just kidding, No, I love it. I was saying that 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.120 earlier to our producer, our man man. It's like he's like, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.080 finally some wrestling, some more girls wrestling, and then you're 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.800 you're always talking about girls wrestling. Triple H teams love girls. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.160 It's been impressive, good storytelling. Back in the day, Like 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.760 you know, the sensational Sherry's were far and few between, 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.560 Like she could work as as well as a man, 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.160 but she had to lead every dance because they just 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.880 weren't as many you know, scary Sherry's out there. I 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.040 really like where the ladies are going. I hope it 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:41.719 keeps going. You know, WW doesn't pay attention to ratings 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:46.039 is as much as a lot of the other wrestling 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.960 sites out their report because it's a part of USA, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:54.320 and advertisers are simply buying advertising stock in USA. They 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.560 don't have any say as to where they're their commercials 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.880 go anymore. It's not like the old days, like when 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.120 you do commercials for the Olympics. Sure everybody wants the 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.000 hundred meter dash, right that's where they want their commercial, 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.880 but you don't get to pick that anymore. It might 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.040 be something that streamed on their online, it might be 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.920 on their MSNBC, maybe it makes the big channel, or 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.560 maybe you paid the higher fee and you get it everywhere. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.560 But that's more how advertising works now, and that's much 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.560 more of the reason why the Nielsen rating system isn't 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.400 as as respected as it was in the eighties and nineties. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.239 That's just some like cool inside stuff for you dorks 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.080 out there. We can talk Miss a J and and 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.880 Mustafe if you want. I thought miss did a pretty 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.240 cool thing with the pulling the boot up on the 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.520 rope and a J looking like yo, man, are you 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.440 kidding me? Right now, Like I love aj Styles, is 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.280 good to see him back. I've always liked that guy 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.880 a lot. Always Mortal Kombast stuff. I like everything, all 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:51.560 the stuff, all the choices he makes in my big 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.440 Mustafa Ali guy. Okay, well let's let's jump into that thing, 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.440 because I was going to skim right by it. But 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.360 this was a dude that, like, asked for his release. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.000 This was a dude that asked for his release. I'm 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.880 guessing because he had no story whatsoever, and it didn't 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.040 seem like he was getting to wrestle. And if the 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.760 dude's dream is to be a professional wrestler, then that sucks. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.240 I don't know if Triple H believes in him. I 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.600 don't know if they're just trying to get him some 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.880 work and then maybe he still wants out. But you 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.040 like Mustafa, you like all the Mortal kot See. I 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:21.720 was a street fighter guy. I didn't mess with the 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.880 Mortal Kombat. Well. I I like both for sure. When 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.480 you're a kid, that's all. There was no brand loyalty 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.000 when I was like, dude, I sucked at Mortal Kombat. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.280 I didn't know any of the stupid finishers street Fighter too. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.040 I knew everybody's moves, and I played even with zen 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.720 Giff and could do his twisting pile driver. That's how 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.000 sick I was at that game. Zeniff did have some 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.000 cool wrestling moves. Yeah, dude, but I've never I'm not 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.160 even joking. I've never won a single Mortal Kombat match 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.560 against computer or anyone in my life and tech, and 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.200 I'm even worse. It is funny on Mortal Kombat when 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.320 you get like the old game books, Like you'd get 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.400 like a Nintendo Power or whatever the book was, to 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.680 learn all the finishing moves, and he'd be like, all right, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.320 to do his more, to do his fatality, Just go 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.440 right up to him, hit back forward, back down, back forward, 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:12.280 hold our punch, high punch, low punch, low kick, firward, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.800 back forward, back forward, back block, high punch, Like how 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.560 am I gonna You've got ten seconds to do all that? 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.640 And like I'm like looking to the thing, and then 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.560 I'd actually end up punching the guy and he would 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.160 just fall down. You're like, that wasn't the fatality Accidentally 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:44.040 hit accidentally hit him. It's so hard listen, Mustafa loses 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.160 this match, but he did lose a kind of a 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.680 fabulous way like finished to that was actually really cool. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.280 But it's J Stiles let him he should lose. It's 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.920 a j to JJ is the minute, and that's gonna 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.000 lead us to a number one contenders match between him 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.280 and a group of wrestlers that will get to a minute. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.120 But a guy that I really love and I know 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.840 you love to is Montez. For I thought based off 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.560 the way he behaved at SummerSlam, and I think if 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.199 if Vince had his way that Monday Night Raw, he 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.080 would have turned that quickly. And I feel like they've 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.120 slowed that down a little, but not a ton. They 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.880 then dunkins, we're gonna rochamb or I call it rochambo, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.319 but it's rock paper scissors. Anyone else out there that 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.560 says rochambo show us some love on social media, but anyway, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.280 they rock paper scissord and before there was even a 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.800 result for it just bounces out. It takes off to 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.760 go get his match and his time to shine on 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:42.640 the spotlight seth Rollins has been losing a lot lately. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.800 He has been putting men over in the most special 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.559 and wonderful way, but he's been losing a lot. He 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.080 got a little moment at Summer Slam, which was nice 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.000 where he got a little beat down on on riddle. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.800 He needs to go on a bit of a run, right, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.160 and he gets this man with the hot montes Ford. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.679 Any match montest Ford does is going to have a 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.560 frog splash. Whether he hits it or whether it's a fail, 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.120 it's a beautiful thing to watch. It's a very dangerous 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.760 thing to watch. And this one was amazing and Rollins 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.599 wasn't having it. And he gets the wind and he 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.600 cuts a promo about where he's moving on to next 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.080 and he's talking about Roman Reigns, a guy whose number 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.720 he's had for a while. This was a great finish 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.120 and I love seeing Rollins get a win. What I'm 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.520 hoping is he goes on a windstreak and then as 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.280 that character gains confidence, he can kind of shed that 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.440 snake skin and and move into whatever kind of seth 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.080 Rawlins he wants to be. I hope montes Ford asked 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.959 Logan Paul, if he can use his finishing move, that's 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.280 what I hope better, you better shut your mouth. He 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.319 went to Logan said can I use your frog splash? 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.480 Will you be offended? That's what I hope you so much. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.719 Right now, I do want to briefly mention the next 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:00.320 women's match, which was Alexa Bliss versus Oscar again. They 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.800 got a commercial break, they got a ton of time, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.079 there was no finish. It was like old school. I 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.960 don't want to say, uh, what's your favorite? I tried 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.800 to delete it from my mind. What's your favorite? Time 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.080 period called the Attitude Era. It was very Attitude era 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.120 where there's like multiple matches that didn't get a finish right, 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.520 and the crowd didn't care because they were seeing action 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.920 and they were seeing people fight and there was still 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.599 a story being told. I got a few questions for you. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.240 Hit me. So one, what do you think makes WW 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.160 not able to put over or sell the Japanese wrestlers 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.800 as well as as they should mean because she's can 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.240 knocking more. Everyone was like, when he gets here, he'll 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.559 be the biggest thing. They're like when Oscar arrives, and 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:47.000 it's like, for whatever reason, it doesn't doesn't pop the 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.920 way it should. So I have an honest answer, But 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.880 I feel like when Dirt Cheats pull it from our podcast, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.839 it's gonna come off like brutal and rup So the 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.679 funny answer was, Oh, it's just super racist. But if 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.800 I if I say that, then they're like Freddie says, 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.160 w W E is super racist and giant black or 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.439 white letters exactly, that's the Yeah. So it's just a 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.120 cultural ignorance man Vince always felt, and this is public. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.319 If English isn't their first language, the American fan is 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.800 always going to look at them as a hell and 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.280 if they're a baby face, they're gonna look at it that. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.599 He wanted them to be like funny and goofy, and 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.559 I think that's why there was a lot of like 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.600 goofy Mr moto bs when it came to Japanese wrestlers 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.120 over here. I was also asking you with you you're 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.120 saying wrestling that's gonna get shorter. There's there's there's a 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.400 people that are saying triple h might go back to 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.000 the two hour. There's talks of that. Well, when you 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.120 got so many wrestlers, you know that aren't even being 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.160 used and as it seems like the life of a 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:49.880 wrestler is just always like how am I going to 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.040 get on how's my story gonna go over? How can 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.160 I get on camera more? How can I get more ringtime, 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.840 how can I So it's like, if they're gonna make 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.000 it shorter and you still have all these wrestlers who 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.400 aren't even being And also that's why the Aditude Air 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.679 was the best, not because of all the violence or 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.559 that the stuff. I think the Attitude Air was the 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:10.280 best because every match you were like, that's Undertaker, the 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.200 rock stoncle We're the hugest, most famous wrestlers all during 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.600 the same time. It wasn't just one guy like feeding 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.360 the whole feeding the whole um locker room to Roman 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.559 Reigns and just letting them beat everybody. And it's a 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.040 Roman Reigns thing. No, there there was, there was There 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.680 was a lot of stars and each match all that's 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.640 all Bret Hart is. You know, it's like it's the 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:36.719 Canadians versus d X versus. So it felt like everybody 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.520 was big. So how does wrestling do that? Now? If 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.640 they're gonna get shorter and you want girls to now 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.080 get pushed more and more stages, then you've got all 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.440 these other guys who aren't being utilized. I mean, how 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:48.920 do you how do you? How do you do it? 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.360 This is a that's a great point, Jeff, I am 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.960 not the biggest fan of the Attitude era as far 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.880 as the stories win, but the matches are still the 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.800 greatest matches that I've ever seen. But they did. Even 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:06.760 the mid card wrestlers were beloved, and they all had 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.320 a purpose, and they it wasn't just a singular goal. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.920 They had, you know, sort of story driven goals, regardless 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.000 of how insane the story may have been. And with 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.200 a two hour show, you do limit that. So how 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.400 do you get those wrestlers over, Well, they have their 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.120 partnership with Peacock. Hunter was the one who started the 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.600 Cruiserweight Classic when they when they brought in all those 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.080 those the the guys under two pounds to come in 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:37.560 and work. The May Young Classic was his. You very 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.160 well could let's just say they cut it to two hours. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.360 You could create a whole another hour long show, a 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.120 whole another two hour show. You could have on all 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.600 women's show, if they signed back all the talent that 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.480 they lost over the last old during the pandemic, however 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.160 long it's been, you could have. I don't know if 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.520 a Cruiserweight division would pull a number, but you could 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.200 put another show on. That's another two hour show. I mean, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.760 there's with that partnership with Peacock, and when they had 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.240 their own network, you know, the only limit was budget, right, 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.880 can we afford to do this? Can we afford to 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.560 do that? Peacock is still growing, but I think it's 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.760 one of the ones that's going to stay and stick 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.840 around because Universal NBC. Universal is such a powerful entity 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.160 as far as entertainment goes. So who knows, man. I mean, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.360 they already have their own sort of dedicated section in 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.680 within the Peacock service, and they could add more shows. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.400 It just wouldn't be something you'd see on the USA network, right, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.040 because USA doesn't have that kind of money. They if 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.920 they could afford to license more w W product, they would. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.320 It gets a higher rating than pretty much everything else 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.760 they put on television, so they certainly do. And that's 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.480 another story I want to debunk. USA has no say 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.160 as to if raw has the title or not. And 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:51.960 I know this for a fact because my friend is 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.040 an executive there and I know how their licensing deal works. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.400 They could say, hey, could you please give us this? 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.800 Could you please give us that? But Vince said no, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.320 way more often than he said yes. And they had 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.280 a partnership that lasted forever. Um and it's still ongoing. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.280 So there's a big difference when a company owns your 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.280 show as to when a company is licensing your show. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.960 They can say, hey, you know, please keep John Cena 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.520 on Monday Night Raw. And I remember one night on 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.400 the draft, just to mess with him, Vince and this 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.400 was just for his own amusement, said we're going to 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.800 draft him to SmackDown and then at the end of 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.600 the show will draft him back to Raw. I'll drive 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.160 him crazy over there. And we're sitting in there like, yo, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.520 this guy's just playing with network executives. Like actors don't 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.080 get to do that, right. I was so jealous. So 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.880 it's not the powerhouse that people think it is. USA 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.760 is very grateful for the partnership and so is w 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.720 w E. But USA needs Monday Night Raw. They need 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.000 that show. They need miss and Missus because I love 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.440 Psych Raw. It was a more successful show for USA 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.080 as far as money made then Psych. They're paying for 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.960 every episode. It's like they have a licensing deal with 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:06.040 with Monday and Night Raw. So trust me, they they 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.680 take what they get. They're not mr could we have 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.440 some more. Like they're very they're grateful and they make suggestions, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.760 but it's it's not an equal partnership by any by 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.240 any stretch. And shout out to the Saturday free kind 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.920 of pay per view vibe that it was Battle of 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.960 the Belts. It was just on a Saturday on TNT. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.720 You don't have to pay money, and you got to 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.879 see a ton of all championship matches. Battle of the Belts. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.560 I'm still getting hip and educated to a e W, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.399 but this was such a nice refreshing like Saturday. Just 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.400 a little special treat. Freddy. Here you go, Freddy, your 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.760 your kids don't want to hang out with you right now. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.400 They're having a blast in Hawaii. Sit here and watch 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.000 this match. And I'm watching this like, this is so 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.960 much fun. And I know it's not everybody's thing. I 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.520 love cloud EO. I gotta get used to saying cloud 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.520 EO because Cesarrow has been the name in my head 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.280 for so long. But this, it is great and I'm 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:05.880 sure Triple H knows it. W W. E completely fumbled 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.680 the ball with this guy, over and over and over. 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.080 I didn't know he could talk on the mic. Dude, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.159 I didn't know he could talk on the mic. I 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.400 watched the promos that they did on social media, where 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.280 like on their a w Instagram page, which is still 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.080 the best wrestling Instagram page there is like whoever it 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.679 runs their social needs a raise. But he's just talking 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.359 to camera about what this match means to him and 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.119 how what this title means to him, and I'm like, Yo, 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.480 this guy can talk, Like why didn't he ever speak like? 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.480 It was? They totally dropped the ball with this guy, 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.159 And I don't think they dropped the ball that often 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.840 when they let people go. But I love this match 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.840 and I'm a huge Cloudeo fan, and I don't care 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.240 if he's heel faced or this hybrid version, but I 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.200 freaking love this dude, and I can't believe they dropped 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.520 the ball. I did you see this match? You're working 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.440 weekends because you're a stand up comics, so you probably 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.040 didn't see this, right. No, he got sent to you. 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.040 I have a wrestling text with a bunch of guys 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.760 and guys sent to me. And the reason anything cesesarycause 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.680 gets sent to me because I've been I've been championing 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:27.000 him forever. Let's stay with the a w bottom. I'm 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.240 speaking a battle of the belts. We got a thunder 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.600 rosa and a Jamie Hayder match. The first time I 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:36.280 saw Jamie Hayder Thunderstorm. Yeah, you like thunderstorring, don't you. 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.480 I just can't wait for Tony to turn he know 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.520 it's just screw her over completely. So the story for 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.879 this match is Britt Baker. She lost the title to 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.000 this Mexican superstar named thunder Rosa, and then here comes 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.520 your girl, Tony Storm, and she comes out to walk 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.040 her to the ring that she's gonna have her back 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.120 in this match. It's not a tag match, and then 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.159 Jamie Hayder and Dr Britt Baker come out and they 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.560 have a bay her match, man like. It goes back 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.520 and forth, Baker's involved a couple of times, and then 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.240 Tony stops her, so they get kind of there. It's 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.400 not a tag match, but they get some fighting outside 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.520 the ring and beat each other's asses a little bit. 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.320 And then there's a moment in the match and I 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.359 believe what I heard was off a brain buster. Per 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.159 knee came down and hit Hater in the nose, and 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.440 then they still had ten minutes left of a match, 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.600 so Home Girl wrestled with a broken nose. We got 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.160 Becky with the shoulder hater with the nose. Shout out 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.160 to both you girls. I love tough chicks. My wife 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.639 was a tough chick on buff of the Vampire Slayer 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:36.520 and kicked a bunch of ass too, So there, this 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:40.600 match was really cool. And here's why. Regardless of what 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.880 you think of the style of wrestling or anything, all 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.200 four people involved in this match had somewhere to go 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:52.119 when it was over. And you can always do the 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.440 easy thing, which is Britt goes right after thunder Rosa 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:01.320 again and beats thunder Rosa, and you put the belt 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.560 back on Britt because she can talk on the mic 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:05.680 and she can wrestle, and then at the end of 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.800