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Speaker 4: didn't think we were doing a new episode for Thursday,
Speaker 4: but we are.
Speaker 3: We are on Tuesday. I just pushed it to next week.
Speaker 1: Think you know, we were gonna have a remundy, but
Speaker 1: we decide it to do and do something new.
Speaker 3: So it is Thursday. Welcome in everyone to a brand
Speaker 3: new episode of izal Here. How are you feeling today?
Speaker 2: I'm loving it? You know how I know it's a
Speaker 2: new episode.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: New theme music? Yeah, I love this music.
Speaker 3: Well technically we use this music on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we didn't put it over.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, what do you think about our new song?
Speaker 3: Kind of edgy, greedy.
Speaker 2: I don't even want to fade it out like it.
Speaker 3: I like it a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the old one, but out with the
Speaker 1: old and with the new, new year.
Speaker 3: Knew us. Let's go, Let's go.
Speaker 2: It's like a good pair of underwear.
Speaker 3: Good pair of underwear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure everybody watched me last night on
Speaker 1: US Signed by Superstars, and I hit I hit it
Speaker 1: out of the park last night.
Speaker 2: I did well, you did rebounded.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you for everyone who tuned in. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully, well, we'll do an other one at
Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty five. But what do we
Speaker 1: have on the agenda for today, because there's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we've definitely you know, again, we took
Speaker 2: a little break, but we popped in a couple of times,
Speaker 2: and we talked a lot about WWE, But we haven't
Speaker 2: really talked about AW at all the last couple of months,
Speaker 2: So I don't know if that's really good, But I
Speaker 2: figure maybe we'll kind of shoot the old shizzle on
Speaker 2: what's been going on with AW. So these anytime we've
Speaker 2: talked about them, it's only been about the Costco guys,
Speaker 2: and I can't necessarily say that that's very good because
Speaker 2: they suck. So it's you know, we haven't talked about
Speaker 2: the actual company.
Speaker 1: I disagree with that. I think they're way over I
Speaker 1: think you're jealous. I think if you had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to do what they're doing, you would jump at it.
Speaker 3: But that's just me.
Speaker 1: People have mixed opinions about the Costco guys. I myself
Speaker 1: am a big fan of the Rizzler. There's there's no
Speaker 1: one on this earth in the world of professional wrestling
Speaker 1: that's cuter than the Little Riz.
Speaker 3: I love them, But I digress.
Speaker 2: Yes about that. Let me tell you how much this
Speaker 2: shit is following me now, these Costco idiots. I have
Speaker 2: people telling me all the time now how much they
Speaker 2: love them, And you know, I got to get over it.
Speaker 2: Somebody who listened to our show said, how you finally
Speaker 2: put me in my place as it relates to these douchebags.
Speaker 3: But I put you in your place. Yes, very good,
Speaker 3: as you should be.
Speaker 1: It's my show, damn it. I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: These look but Okay, in State of aw we've only
Speaker 2: talked about the Costco guys. But how come one of
Speaker 2: the things that I have to talk about is the
Speaker 2: fact that the friggin Costco guys are coming back to AW.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I had said. The success of that
Speaker 1: last pay per view, was it all out all in.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what it was called. They were
Speaker 1: so over in the state of New Jersey, right, because
Speaker 1: that's where they're from. And we discussed, like, you know,
Speaker 1: are they going to be a trend everywhere else or
Speaker 1: is it going to fizzle out?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Where is this other show going to be broadcast from?
Speaker 1: Where are they live from?
Speaker 2: This one? Yeah, Revolution twenty twenty five. I don't let
Speaker 2: me see if it says it here. It's not New Jersey,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: That right, right? Is it on the East Coaster?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I will find out, Okay, anyway, it'll be nice to
Speaker 1: see if they get the same reaction at this show
Speaker 1: depending on where it's located, you know, where it's broadcasting from.
Speaker 3: So I think they will. I think they're pretty over. Now.
Speaker 3: Who is he wrestling on this one? Because it's not QT.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been said yet.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Okay, well, I'd like to watch that match. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed the other one a lot, and you got to
Speaker 1: give a qu Marshall credit. He bumped his ass off
Speaker 1: for that guy, so they I think the the grouping
Speaker 1: made it entertaining. So let's see who he works with
Speaker 1: this time, and if so, will this guy, get him over,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it's March ninth in California, LA.
Speaker 1: Very interesting. Okay, So are they over on the West coast?
Speaker 2: That could be a that could be a very good
Speaker 2: question because LA is not a New Jersey that's for them.
Speaker 1: Sure, sure, so we'll see what happens. But lots of
Speaker 1: different things going on with AW right now. You had
Speaker 1: mentioned to me that one of their shows got canceled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they no longer AW Rampage.
Speaker 1: So what night was that? Was that a Wednesday show
Speaker 1: or was the Dynamite Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Dynamite is the Marquee show. Dynamite is the Wednesday show?
Speaker 2: That one is definitely not going anywhere. That's gonna be
Speaker 2: your AW Monday Night Raw. That's going to be you know,
Speaker 2: you're nitro, that's going to be a mainstay.
Speaker 3: So was this the Saturday show?
Speaker 2: This was the let me see Wednesday? Yeah, they ended
Speaker 2: on the twenty seventh, So this was the was it
Speaker 2: the Saturday or the Friday? Say I get confused with
Speaker 2: these two. The twenty seven was the Friday show.
Speaker 1: Friday show? Yep, So they still have Wednesdays and Saturdays
Speaker 1: that they're.
Speaker 2: On yep, so they also have the Saturday show as well.
Speaker 3: Was the cancelation due to poor ratings or was it
Speaker 3: budget cost.
Speaker 2: So that one. You know, I'm unsure on that, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the ratings probably had a really big
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 3: So okay, so we can check and see why it
Speaker 3: was canceled.
Speaker 2: During the twenty twenty During the December twenty second, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four tapings, Tony Cown announced that's the twenty seventh episode,
Speaker 2: which was the New Year's Smash Special, would be the
Speaker 2: final episode of Rampage for the foreseeable future, as the
Speaker 2: program was not included in aw's media rights deal with
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers Discovery that takes effect on January first, So
Speaker 2: they're using the it's not coming over with the rest
Speaker 2: of the package as the scapegoat. But these the show
Speaker 2: did nothing in the ratings after them Punk debuted, This
Speaker 2: show was barely the show was barely getting watched for
Speaker 2: like a commercial would on a primetime show on network TV.
Speaker 2: So wasn't these these were horrid for Punk?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like an extra show?
Speaker 2: No, that was the Saturday show.
Speaker 3: That was Saturday.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, but the Saturday show is doing better rating
Speaker 1: wise than the Friday show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, slightly.
Speaker 3: Friday nights are not a good night for wrestling.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: We were on Friday nights and we did not draw
Speaker 3: and we had a good show. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Friday is a propitnight for our wrestling program.
Speaker 2: But you know, you put your ratings up against their ratings,
Speaker 2: you guys, uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how are they drawing on a Friday?
Speaker 2: They do really well, do they?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Back in the day, we didn't draw well on Friday nights,
Speaker 1: but like our Tuesday show did great, Our syndicated show
Speaker 1: did great.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's such a weird dynamic wrestling, you know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And and plus had to head competition kind of hurts
Speaker 1: you too. I think you have to pick and choose
Speaker 1: your spots.
Speaker 3: So do they really need a third show?
Speaker 1: Probably not no, But their roster is so large, yes,
Speaker 1: so you know when you have when you do have
Speaker 1: a third show, unless you're pushing the same talent over
Speaker 1: and over again, it kind of like helps get some
Speaker 1: of the lesser known workers.
Speaker 3: Some TV time. So in that aspect, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: But if the ratings were horrible, then it's it's just
Speaker 1: a waste of money, right, But.
Speaker 2: It's really like their fourth show because they also have
Speaker 2: a Ring of Honor. So so where does that AC
Speaker 2: that's online?
Speaker 3: Well that doesn't roll. Yeah, I'm talking about that.
Speaker 2: But it's still it's like it's another spot for them
Speaker 2: to ye have their their roster spread. But you know,
Speaker 2: the technically had four shows in production, and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure Lee some people may be relieved that that
Speaker 2: show is gone, but you know, maybe some of the
Speaker 2: enhancement guys that were getting booked on there might not
Speaker 2: be happy about it too, because the little spot for
Speaker 2: guys to get a little bit of work when they
Speaker 2: use them there.
Speaker 1: Well, I I read something industry interesting about ae W
Speaker 1: the nature boy.
Speaker 3: Rick Flair was supposed to make a cameo and got
Speaker 3: pulled and was replaced by the Rock and Roll Express.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I thought that was weird too. When I
Speaker 2: saw the Rock and Roll Express. Yeah, when they I
Speaker 2: heard it was them popping up, I was like, it's
Speaker 2: very interesting group to promote on the level they're promoting them,
Speaker 2: But I did not know it was Flair. Interesting.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be Rick Flair, and I wonder
Speaker 1: why they pulled him. And then I see all over
Speaker 1: social media Rick Flair wants another match, and even Conrad Thompson,
Speaker 1: who's his son in law, put like this gift up
Speaker 1: of a man shaking his head.
Speaker 3: No, Everybody's like no, no, no. I think it's more
Speaker 3: so just for health reasons, you know, because when did
Speaker 3: he do his last match? At least two years ago
Speaker 3: if not?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and he was barely breathing towards the end
Speaker 1: of that match, like and you know, now he's two
Speaker 1: three years older and he wants one more match.
Speaker 3: Is he going to gig all over the place and
Speaker 3: pass out?
Speaker 2: Like? What is the probably like the last time he
Speaker 2: remember he blacked out.
Speaker 1: Why why do you want to put your body through
Speaker 1: that again just to draw money.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Flair is very well off at this point.
Speaker 2: He uh, well. While we were on our break, he
Speaker 2: had a very public fight with former Ring of Honor
Speaker 2: owner Carrie Silkin over a twenty year feud over money.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure he still does very well with his
Speaker 2: his deals.
Speaker 3: But he owed them money.
Speaker 2: He owed carry Silkin forty grand I believe it was,
Speaker 2: And then Flair claimed that it's not that he owed
Speaker 2: them forty grand. It's that they cost him millions, So
Speaker 2: it was a stupid fight.
Speaker 1: Was it because he took a deposit and didn't show
Speaker 1: up or something?
Speaker 2: Oh but Flair's claim is that, well, they cost him
Speaker 2: millions of dollars, so ignore the forty grand. If he
Speaker 2: lose millions because he could have done other business. I
Speaker 2: guess I don't know. This is because of that. You know,
Speaker 2: it's so stupid, it's so old. It's so old. It's
Speaker 2: a twenty plus year old argument that they're having and.
Speaker 3: Coming to fruition in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kids are commenting on it that weren't alive. They're
Speaker 2: commenting on in social media. You know, their take on
Speaker 2: the matter.
Speaker 1: It's a come on, Well yeah, I don't know. Do
Speaker 1: fans really want to see Rick Flair wrestle.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I think it's cool that he pops up places because
Speaker 1: he's Rick Flair and he's he's still will always be over.
Speaker 3: I mean, really, all he has to do is stand there.
Speaker 1: In WU and he's over. He doesn't even have to
Speaker 1: bump or talk. It just hasn't let out a big WU,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, man, he's the man, that's Rick Flair.
Speaker 3: Why does he have to wrestle?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you tell me.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you because I don't know.
Speaker 2: Is that the you know, you've been in the in
Speaker 2: the back thousands of times. Some of the guys that's
Speaker 2: in their blood right, they just can't let it go.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is it that addiction that they got to get that adulation?
Speaker 2: They have to be involved in the business? Like what
Speaker 2: what is it?
Speaker 3: It comes to a point where you have to listen
Speaker 3: to your body. Yeah, And you know, like he's he's
Speaker 3: goin of being close to eighty years old.
Speaker 2: Isn't he He's I think he's seventy four.
Speaker 3: I want to say, oh, well, I mean he's getting there.
Speaker 2: That's close to eighty. That's close enough to eighteen.
Speaker 3: I mean it's getting there. So why on earth are
Speaker 3: you going to five?
Speaker 1: He's seventy five years old and God bless them, you know,
Speaker 1: still looks good for his age, still moving around.
Speaker 3: But why put your body through that if you don't
Speaker 3: have to. I just don't understand it.
Speaker 1: I talked to some of the guys that I worked with,
Speaker 1: and they're ready to like just hang it up, and
Speaker 1: they're like sixty they're not seventy five, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, he could just be do you know.
Speaker 2: Like I gotta say, Hulk Hogan has done it the
Speaker 2: right way as it relates to like protecting the Hulk
Speaker 2: Hogan character right in the Hulk Hogan legacy. He hasn't
Speaker 2: come out of retirement, you know, one hundred times he
Speaker 2: I think he has last match in maybe twenty eleven
Speaker 2: or twenty twelve or something like that. But you know,
Speaker 2: he gives the right rubs to certain guys. He'll come out,
Speaker 2: do an interview and he'll put a guy over and
Speaker 2: that's it. He's not involved in storylines. He's not out
Speaker 2: there trying to have another match. Like Hulk Hogan does
Speaker 2: it right, and he gets so much shit because of
Speaker 2: his past indiscretions that he's not used nearly as much
Speaker 2: as he probably could have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would like to see Ric Flair come out
Speaker 1: as a manager, a mouthpiece some somewhere where he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to get physical, because at this point it's just
Speaker 1: like elder abuse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand getting younger talent beating up on
Speaker 1: an old man.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. I don't think it's it's
Speaker 3: sells I.
Speaker 1: Personally, as a fan, I don't want to say it.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like he still has a lot
Speaker 1: to give to the business. He could be a good
Speaker 1: backstage agent if he wanted to be, and if he
Speaker 1: needs to be on camera, he could be used in
Speaker 1: a million different ways.
Speaker 3: But there's no last match. Don't do it. I don't
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: You did it already, yeah, and it was bad.
Speaker 1: Well again, I mean, you know, some people liked it,
Speaker 1: some people hated it, but his health is what's most important.
Speaker 1: And I just feel like, you know, you want to
Speaker 1: be on camera, that's fine, but find something to do
Speaker 1: that protects you.
Speaker 3: And don't put.
Speaker 1: Yourself out there just to be humiliated, because ain't nobody
Speaker 1: got time for that.
Speaker 2: No, No, I think that.
Speaker 3: Would be.
Speaker 5: The oh oh, I I'm literally I'm wondering what you're saying.
Speaker 2: So that would be the same.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is to say, what segment of this week
Speaker 1: or broadcast?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, wait for I thought you were gonna
Speaker 2: drop me on some like poignant queens.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you a subtle hit. I'm going
Speaker 1: like this push the button. You're looking at me like
Speaker 1: I'm insane. We're gonna work on a gang, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get it together. But yeah, that is to say what
Speaker 1: segment in my opinion of this week, So.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean because again we did this two
Speaker 2: years ago. We watched the match. It's not good. It's
Speaker 2: just it's like, you know when you see it, pass
Speaker 2: out a pull of his own blood, and he's like,
Speaker 2: he's a great he's still great at selling at seventy
Speaker 2: two years old. It's like, no, he's passed out in
Speaker 2: a pool of his own blood.
Speaker 3: That's not called selling. That's called dying.
Speaker 2: Sorry, called blood transfusion. Backstage. Yeah, that's called you clear,
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And he doesn't need to do it. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: to reinvent himself or reawaken his career. He's Rick Flair.
Speaker 1: No one else on this planet is Rick Flair but
Speaker 1: Rick Flair. Okay, so he does not need to resurrect
Speaker 1: his career. He's fine, just do other.
Speaker 3: Stuff, but don't don't have a match. It's just my opinion.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. You think he saw the
Speaker 2: footage of Dori Funk doing the death match from over
Speaker 2: the Summer and he was.
Speaker 3: Like, shit, I'm gonna one up him.
Speaker 2: I gotta do that, because remember when that happened, we
Speaker 2: didn't really talk about it on the air, but that
Speaker 2: was that was a scary, scary proposition.
Speaker 1: Well now, listen, I didn't see it, but everything I
Speaker 1: read about that match said that they protected him one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. So he must be a hell of a
Speaker 1: worker if he fooled you, because every single person said
Speaker 1: that he was one hundred percent protected.
Speaker 3: Again, I didn't see it, so I don't know. I
Speaker 3: don't know what the match is.
Speaker 2: Putting him on the plane and sending him to Japan
Speaker 2: and making him go through that that's the death match part.
Speaker 3: Well again, why do these old timers need to do
Speaker 3: this stuff? They don't.
Speaker 1: I'd rather remember Flair for what he brought to the
Speaker 1: table in his prime, you know. And then and then
Speaker 1: you see something like what he did two years ago,
Speaker 1: and it kind of like, I don't want to say,
Speaker 1: tarnishes it, but it makes you look at him and
Speaker 1: feel bad for him, right because then you say, oh
Speaker 1: my god, he used to be so good. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was in his prime, and now he's just an
Speaker 1: older man trying to live like a young man in
Speaker 1: the ring, and he just doesn't have it anymore.
Speaker 3: So what's the point? You know? They say you're only
Speaker 3: as good as your last match, and.
Speaker 1: If your last match is shit, I mean really like,
Speaker 1: I want to remember you being cool and the legend
Speaker 1: that you are.
Speaker 3: Mister Flair.
Speaker 2: Well, I was never a Flair fan, so that last
Speaker 2: match was just how I remembered him before.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, on that note, do we have anything coming up?
Speaker 3: We don't have anything coming up.
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