Speaker 1: You know, embarrassing news too, Like I'm on stage in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: had like a sold out Tuesday show, and so I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: and everyone should come to the Phillies game tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 1: throwing the first pitch and then some people yeah, So
Speaker 1: I look like the biggest liar about the whole thing.
Speaker 2: It was so humiliating, and it happened to be two
Speaker 2: cities in a row in two weeks, and.
Speaker 3: Now you're made even introducing the hosts are wrestling with Freddy,
Speaker 3: Jef Died and for ready price tune.
Speaker 4: What's up? Everybody? Welcome back to a brand new episode
Speaker 4: of Wrestling with Friends and It's Friends because our friend
Speaker 4: is back, mister Jeff didye Welcome back? Sir? How are
Speaker 4: you today? Feeling good? Baby? How are you feeling? I
Speaker 4: have two questions for you. One, have you thrown out
Speaker 4: any more pitches since the last time you were on
Speaker 4: the show? Interesting thing that happened.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to have thrown for the Blue Jays
Speaker 1: and the Phillies like in.
Speaker 4: The last week.
Speaker 1: Turns out the guy who books my first pitches is
Speaker 1: just a terrible guy with a gambling problem who lied
Speaker 1: to me about booking all this stuff, so I pay him.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like a wrestling storyline. This guy, this guy,
Speaker 1: he goes, I got you here, I got and then
Speaker 1: I fly to the place and then they go, we
Speaker 1: have no record of you at all, and I know
Speaker 1: what you mean. And then I reach out to this
Speaker 1: guy and he's like, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1: So he stole money from me and screwed me and
Speaker 1: lied to me, and now he's looking me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's real. That's look. I don't mean I'm not
Speaker 4: trying to get on the guy's fun. It's kind of
Speaker 4: a good hustle man. Like that's like, Yo, we don't
Speaker 4: know Jeff Di. We have no record the guys, we
Speaker 4: have no idea.
Speaker 1: And then I call him and he goes, well, I
Speaker 1: did everything by phone, so I can't show you the emails, which,
Speaker 1: like in twenty twenty four, like who's who's doing things
Speaker 1: purely by fun? I just got hustled hard.
Speaker 4: Money sooks balls. I'm so sorry, dude, that's you know, embarrassing,
Speaker 4: just too.
Speaker 1: Like I'm on stage in Philadelphia, had like a sold
Speaker 1: out Tuesday show, so I'm like, hey, and everyone should
Speaker 1: come to the Phillies game. Tomorrow, I'm throwing the first pitch,
Speaker 1: and then some people yeah, so I looked like the
Speaker 1: biggest liar about the whole thing. It was so humiliating,
Speaker 1: and it happened to be two cities in a row
Speaker 1: in two weeks.
Speaker 4: No, I come see me tomorrow throughout them and then
Speaker 4: then they.
Speaker 1: Oh, and there was I don't know, there wasn't There
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot, but there was like one girl who
Speaker 1: like DM like a picture of her at the Phillies game,
Speaker 1: and she had like put it in her story.
Speaker 4: Like where are you at?
Speaker 1: Jeff did like tickets just because I said that I
Speaker 1: was gonna throw a first pitch and fill it. It's
Speaker 1: all good. You know, people do stupid stuff, and I
Speaker 1: got suckered.
Speaker 4: I've been suckered before. I've also not been let in
Speaker 4: places before that I thought I had it in at
Speaker 4: so I know I haven't been hustled like that. But
Speaker 4: both those things have happened to me. Said, really, so
Speaker 4: I feel for you. I don't mean to laugh at
Speaker 4: your pain, and I just laugh and when I relate,
Speaker 4: when I relate, we gotta laugh at our pain. That's
Speaker 4: how this works. Well, I was in a lot of pain.
Speaker 4: After the Bash of Berlin, because I lost people a
Speaker 4: lot of money. Jeff, it was bound to happen. Everybody
Speaker 4: has a bad week. Sometimes I think I needed you
Speaker 4: here to help balance my brain out a little bit.
Speaker 4: But I got a lot wrong. And I even heard
Speaker 4: about it on social media a little bit.
Speaker 1: Some people chirp back, like, hey, we thought you knew this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so listen, guys. The segment is not over. The
Speaker 4: segment will never be over. But I do apologize. I'm
Speaker 4: not always going to be perfect, and maybe I should
Speaker 4: rate my confidence. I still feel like I would have
Speaker 4: been confident in those picks. In retrospect, it was so
Speaker 4: obvious where I was wrong. So I'm hoping I learned
Speaker 4: from my mistakes. But I will say this, I've had
Speaker 4: one bad week out of all the weeks that we've
Speaker 4: made predictions. It just happened to be a brutal one.
Speaker 4: So yeah, let's get it. For wrestling, it was good.
Speaker 1: It was a good and the Alex our producer, we're
Speaker 1: just talking about how good of a week of wrestling
Speaker 1: it was. There's some great, I mean really really great stuff,
Speaker 1: So forget your predictions. There was a great wrestling week. No,
Speaker 1: it was good wrestling week. It was good pl E,
Speaker 1: it was good pay per views. It was good all
Speaker 1: the way around, from Bash of Berlin all the way
Speaker 1: to All Out and everything in between. We record these
Speaker 1: on Mondays, So I'm looking forward to Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 1: It's getting ready to make the move to Netflix. Friday
Speaker 1: Night Smackdowns making the move this coming Friday to the
Speaker 1: USA network.
Speaker 4: They need their wrestling. It gets higher ratings than anything
Speaker 4: else they have on their network. Good question about yeah
Speaker 4: for sure. Okay, so what do you think is gonna
Speaker 4: happen when when they when they go to Netflix.
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll use that to be edgier or
Speaker 1: do you think they'll stick to like a PG thing.
Speaker 1: Do you think we're going to notice any change? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are they going to keep it for you know, teams
Speaker 1: to like like what like what do you how do
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna figure that out?
Speaker 4: I think they'll try to serve two masters. I think
Speaker 4: they'll maintain storylines that are more youth related in the
Speaker 4: first hour to hour and a half, although they don't
Speaker 4: consistently do that now they used to. And then give
Speaker 4: you a little bit more of what the Attitude era
Speaker 4: gave us in the final hour of the show. I
Speaker 4: still don't think they're gonna be doing blood like AW,
Speaker 4: but nobody does. But I think the storylines might be
Speaker 4: a little bit more grown up. I don't think he'll
Speaker 4: be getting storylines like Tiffany Stratton and Nia Jacks like
Speaker 4: that storyline right now. I think they'll be more mature.
Speaker 4: I think they'll give the women more of a motive
Speaker 4: than you know, a twelve year old girl's motive of like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, you said this, Oh my God, you
Speaker 4: said that. I think they'll be they'll they'll take it
Speaker 4: a bit more seriously over there. I hope they do.
Speaker 4: That's that's the hope. As you can tell. I'm not
Speaker 4: a fan of that story, but I just I think
Speaker 4: both girls are better than what they're getting. That's all.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so yeah, I think they'll do a little
Speaker 4: bit more of it, a little more adult stuff. But
Speaker 4: they still are a publicly traded company, and Aw's clearly
Speaker 4: not as we saw in All Out. While we'll get
Speaker 4: into that, let's stick with WW for now. Berlin was
Speaker 4: an arena, not a stadium. It was much smaller than
Speaker 4: I thought. The crowd was crazy hype for it. It reminded
Speaker 4: me of a London show when they would do like
Speaker 4: a Monday Night raw in London once a year, once
Speaker 4: every couple of years, but a really great pay per view.
Speaker 4: All in all, we'll go over the wins and losses.
Speaker 4: I know that Berlin happened in the past, so we'll
Speaker 4: go through it a little bit quickly. Maria and Damian
Speaker 4: Priest took on Live Morgan the Champ put some respect
Speaker 4: on it, and Dominic. Don't call him dirty, dom that's
Speaker 4: mean and disrespect. He's misunderstood. He's a Latin lover. His
Speaker 4: name is Dominic Mysterio, and he's not only a legend,
Speaker 4: a living legend, but he's a good guy. He's misunderstood, Jeff,
Speaker 4: and I know you hate him, and you're supposed to
Speaker 4: hate him, But through all this pain and humiliation that
Speaker 4: he's gone through, I've learned to feel for the kid.
Speaker 4: I've learned to understand where his anger comes from. I
Speaker 4: don't agree with the Jeff. I don't agree with it,
Speaker 4: but I understand it. And I think the rest of
Speaker 4: y'all need to have a little more patience and understanding
Speaker 4: and let the man complete a sentence just one time.
Speaker 1: He's a punk. That's what this dirty dom is. He's
Speaker 1: just a dirty punk. He needs a haircut, he needs
Speaker 1: a clean shave, and he needs to rethink what he's doing.
Speaker 1: All these actions are going to come to roost.
Speaker 4: You'll see, all right, haircut and mustache, I'm with you
Speaker 4: on but rethink this other stuff. He had a girlfriend
Speaker 4: in Ria Ripley, and then had two girlfriends, and now
Speaker 4: as a girlfriend that's a champ. So he's making solid decisions, Jeff.
Speaker 4: Those decisions. Actually, I can't argue with those. See we
Speaker 4: like dominic nor decisions. The end of the match had
Speaker 4: a pin that was talked about so much that now
Speaker 4: every female wrestler in professional wrestling is doing the pretzel
Speaker 4: pin that real repleet but on LIT and now everybody's
Speaker 4: talking about the finish of every women's match in the
Speaker 4: history of wrestling. I think it's hysterical. I think it's awesome.
Speaker 4: I like when people are just honest about what they
Speaker 4: see and why they like it. Like I don't like
Speaker 4: when people when girls get mad at guys for seeing
Speaker 4: a movie because the chick's hot, And I don't like
Speaker 4: when guys get mad at girls when they go to
Speaker 4: a movie just because the guys are hot, like, let
Speaker 4: people enjoy hot makes say there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4: That's how babies get made, y'all. Yeah, that's the circle
Speaker 4: of life. Here's another one where I was wrong, Jeff,
Speaker 4: you're gonna that's the theme of today's show. CM Punk
Speaker 4: versus Drew MacIntyre in a leather strap match for the
Speaker 4: bracelet that everyone covets, the Larry Bracelet. Was it, Larry?
Speaker 4: What does it say on it? Yeah, Larry, Larry, Larry CJ.
Speaker 4: You can tell how much I care about the bracelet?
Speaker 1: AJ?
Speaker 4: What is it? AJ says Lady she's badass? Former guests,
Speaker 4: He's in one guest of the show, AJ. So they
Speaker 4: had I picked this wrong. I don't know why I
Speaker 4: did it because I was just recency biased. And he
Speaker 4: beat Carrying Cross in a strap match, so I was like,
Speaker 4: maybe they're gonna say that that that this is his
Speaker 4: kind of a match, but it's not. At CM Punk's
Speaker 4: frigging match. And he beat that ass, and he took
Speaker 4: the bracelet back only to get beat down on Monday,
Speaker 4: and I raw, it's not over. He said, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: fight Gunther because I'm about business. I'm back to business,
Speaker 4: CM punk, I'm not personal CM punk anymore. And Drew
Speaker 4: McIntyre ran out and said, yes you are, you son
Speaker 4: of a bitch. Waba, that's what it sounded like. And
Speaker 4: he ripped a bracelet off and he snapped it and
Speaker 4: he made him eat the beads. You want it so bad,
Speaker 4: you're gonna eat it. You're gonna eat the beads and
Speaker 4: you'll have to get your stomach pumped in a hospital
Speaker 4: because beads are bad for you. So this match is so,
Speaker 4: this rivalry is not over, which means somebody else is
Speaker 4: planning for Gunther. I'm assuming we're gonna find that out tonight.
Speaker 4: We record these on Mondays. Jeff, what did you think
Speaker 4: of this match? And or well, what did you think
Speaker 4: of this story? It's not over yet? But more importantly, clu,
Speaker 4: do you want to see goother wrestle next? Or are
Speaker 4: you like me and completely clueless? I am definitely clueless
Speaker 4: for sure, I don't. I don't have any leads for anybody,
Speaker 4: but I love it. I love this story.
Speaker 1: The eating the beats, you know, it feels like a
Speaker 1: real PG, very children's version of the Dan Housen. You
Speaker 1: know that Dan Houser must be watching this going on,
Speaker 1: big deal, I make him eat teeth. You're gonna come
Speaker 1: at them with shiny, glossy little beads that'll pass right.
Speaker 4: Through their systems and pool for the wind.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, come on, this is nothing beats. Plus, I
Speaker 1: don't understand that's one of the little flaws. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: can't look over about this whole bracelet thing. Is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: just make another bracelet like grown ups. But it's also like,
Speaker 1: and you've said, Jeff, it's more than that. It's what
Speaker 1: it symbolized, right, But in my mind, like when it breaks,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, big deal, what is that gonna
Speaker 1: cost you thirty five more cents to make another one?
Speaker 4: I've lost wedding rings in the ocean and stressed out
Speaker 4: less exactly.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm going let him have the bracelet. I'm
Speaker 1: a grown man. I'd be like, listen to my wife
Speaker 1: is beautiful and great and I love her and my dog.
Speaker 1: It doesn't change anything with my relationship with my dog,
Speaker 1: who's passed.
Speaker 4: You know, he just gets home and the dog looks
Speaker 4: at him like you, son of a bitch. I don't
Speaker 4: see a bracelet around your wrist love us anymore?
Speaker 1: She's making him sleep on the couch. What happened in there?
Speaker 1: You know, get the bracelet back. I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen because it's not gonna be Sammy's a
Speaker 1: I know they're giving him to him again, but this
Speaker 1: is a cool story to help a stat I think
Speaker 1: Gunther's gonna be champed for like Evil John Cena amounts
Speaker 1: of time. Yeah, do you think they're just gonna have
Speaker 1: him fight again Randy Orton? Like, do you think it
Speaker 1: keeps going?
Speaker 4: Or I don't think I think they'll get Randy someone else.
Speaker 4: Sammy's next, He's made that clear. But he's not gonna
Speaker 4: beat him for this title as well, not this early
Speaker 4: that Gunther's gonna have it for a while. So who
Speaker 4: the frig is next? Is it? Do we just have
Speaker 4: paper challengers so to speak, that push the story along
Speaker 4: until Yeah, but he's not gonna beat him until Seth
Speaker 4: Rollins comes back. I feel like no one beats him
Speaker 4: until Seth comes back. That's Samus real jacked. He's gonna
Speaker 4: get another push. He got the Ireland versus you know,
Speaker 4: but they beef during the Austria Germany. But they had
Speaker 4: beef during the IC Championship and Gunther beat him. I
Speaker 4: remember that match, so I don't do I think if
Speaker 4: Seamus does get a push, it's not a push to
Speaker 4: win it, the same way that Sammy wants not a
Speaker 4: push to win it. You can take that to the
Speaker 4: bank on the next pay per view or premium live
Speaker 4: event when we make picks, I'm picking Gunther versus the
Speaker 4: field until Seth Rollins comes back. But yeah, man, I
Speaker 4: don't I don't know who's next, and I wonder how
Speaker 4: they're gonna keep it excited. Well, Sammy'szan's pretty money on
Speaker 4: the mic, so they'll keep it exciting. Never mind, I'm
Speaker 4: overthinking it.
Speaker 5: All right, dude, this is We're gonna love it. You know,
Speaker 5: there's the ship man. This match is awesome.
Speaker 4: That's the closest to an ae W match that you
Speaker 4: get is goon Through with the amount of chops that
Speaker 4: he puts on on her brother's chest.
Speaker 1: Like, I've not always been an anti chop guy.
Speaker 4: I'm so chop, You're so yeah.
Speaker 1: I Like, I'll talk about it actually later in the
Speaker 1: episode about my philosophy on those kind of things, and
Speaker 1: chops fits into that philosophy.
Speaker 4: But what I will say about goon through.
Speaker 1: He might be the only wrestler that's getting better looking
Speaker 1: and more in shape. I feel like every month he's
Speaker 1: a little tremor, a little stronger.
Speaker 4: A little bit he looks. I agree, Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Speaking of pretty cool, Friday Night SmackDown, l A Knight
Speaker 4: came out in this black and brown leather vest. That's
Speaker 4: the coolest vest in professional wrestling. I don't care what
Speaker 4: you bring any other vest that it eats. Eats Dil
Speaker 4: Brown's vest for breakfast and it's like wear's stone colds.
Speaker 4: I'm still hung. That's what La Knight's best says. It's
Speaker 4: cooler and then then then what's this? Then raisor Ramote,
Speaker 4: then Scott Hall's, Oh it's cooler than that. I'm telling you, dude.
Speaker 4: It had the superhero collar, it was undone, It had
Speaker 4: the brown straps on the black leather, and then on
Speaker 4: the back just painted l A. Come on, dude, that's
Speaker 4: the siket and I'm old school. I don't like anything
Speaker 4: new school. Nothing doing right now. Oh, it's the hottest
Speaker 4: vest in wrestling. It's brand news. So you got to
Speaker 4: see it. From from this.
Speaker 1: Week's they sold vests for l A nine two. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's in the he's in the vest.
Speaker 4: We're not Jack, though. You can't sell a vest to
Speaker 4: guys gonna weary. If I had big ass python guns,
Speaker 4: I'd wear vests every day with no shirt. I'd wear
Speaker 4: two auditions. Bro.
Speaker 1: I wear sleeveless shirts at the gym sometimes, but I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 4: A vest would be wild.
Speaker 1: With just the vest going to the treadmill.
Speaker 4: But if you're Jack, dude, who's gonna say something?
Speaker 1: You know, I might do this just to see, like,
Speaker 1: just to get the picture to send to you.
Speaker 4: Boys. Please do it. Please anyway, look for the best.
Speaker 4: I can't you look for the best. I handle this part.
Speaker 4: We had the former tag team champions Jake Cargill and
Speaker 4: Bionca bell Air versus the Unholy Union of Violaton and
Speaker 4: Alba Fire, the Scots the Scottish Lasses. This was the
Speaker 4: most predictable match of the night. This one I actually
Speaker 4: got right, Jeff. It was a fantastic call by me
Speaker 4: and me alone, even though everyone else called it to
Speaker 4: Jade Cargill and Bianca bell Air, two in most in
Speaker 4: shape women in professional wrestling are on the same team.
Speaker 4: They're their own twin towers. Their own towers of power,
Speaker 4: their own terror twins, they're their own everything. They're badass,
Speaker 4: and I can't wait for Jade Cargill to turn on
Speaker 4: her ass and have it be badass on badass, total
Speaker 4: crime and just kick the shit out of each other.
Speaker 4: Got to WrestleMania or wherever this takes place. I think
Speaker 4: they'll stick together until Jade sort of learns the ropes
Speaker 4: and can handle a long, storytelling one on one tight match. Remember,
Speaker 4: she's still so young in the game, so this is
Speaker 4: all learning for her. And once they feel she's learned,
Speaker 4: you're going to see a wedge in them in their
Speaker 4: tag team, and then you're gonna see him break up
Speaker 4: and they're going to have an awesome match and I
Speaker 4: can't wait to see it. Joe, did you have enough
Speaker 4: time with that speech to see the vest and how
Speaker 4: hot it was?
Speaker 1: The vest is strong. Yeah, the vest is making me
Speaker 1: wreathe listen to this. I did go through like a
Speaker 1: vest over my clothes face, like wear like a shirt
Speaker 1: with a vest.
Speaker 4: Like the dudes on Friends, like the Cast of Friends,
Speaker 4: like Han Solo, Okay, more leathery.
Speaker 1: You know, he'd wear like a long white shirt and
Speaker 1: then at and people would go, what's it the vest?
Speaker 1: And but it was like the suit kind, you know,
Speaker 1: like like a suit vest. I was going to try
Speaker 1: and like make it my thing. But I think that
Speaker 1: these might be the move.
Speaker 4: So God, his vest is hot. Man, it's got that
Speaker 4: hot collar, the high collar, it's got the straps over
Speaker 4: the shoulders.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, wait, so to go back to that
Speaker 1: tag match. Yeah, I think they're just such stars. But
Speaker 1: this was so predictable, like the like do you I feel?
Speaker 1: Like do you think and the rest of their lives
Speaker 1: being like, you know, we were the tag champs, and
Speaker 1: people are gonna be like, bull crappy, are the tag champs?
Speaker 1: And then they'll look back and be like, oh, they
Speaker 1: were tag champs for what a month or two?
Speaker 4: Like it's they try this out with tag teams all
Speaker 4: the time, though there's so many tag teams that have
Speaker 4: short title runs. If they don't get the right kind
Speaker 4: of heat, if they don't get the right kind of love,
Speaker 4: you know, they might break up. The Unholy Union Isle
Speaker 4: Dawn seems to be the more charismatic of the two
Speaker 4: in the group, so that maybe she gets the singles
Speaker 4: push like you never know how it's gonna go. But
Speaker 4: I've seen tag team dudes and Tag team chicks both
Speaker 4: get like the quick title run just to see what
Speaker 4: they got, Like they did it with Zach Ryder and
Speaker 4: Kurt Hawkins. They tried it with them to see, you know,
Speaker 4: if there was any magic there and if that didn't
Speaker 4: work out, then they just they lose to the Cologne Brothers.
Speaker 4: They see which one of the Colognes Carlito or Primo,
Speaker 4: see which one of them has if they don't want
Speaker 4: the boom, they lose it to Biscuits and Gravy, which
Speaker 4: was Festus and Terry Gordy's son. I can't remember Terry
Speaker 4: Gordy Sun's name, and they had, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So it it go. It makes the rounds like that.
Speaker 4: That's kind of what the tag team division is in
Speaker 4: WW well, because.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that long ago we were like really campaigning
Speaker 1: just for a women's tag titles, like, oh, it'd be
Speaker 1: great if the women had a tag division, and now
Speaker 1: we have it, and I guess I forgot that that's
Speaker 1: kind of a thing they do with championships just in general.
Speaker 1: But like it seemed it seems strange to have it
Speaker 1: on them for.
Speaker 4: Me and remember the WWE rule a tag match is
Speaker 4: the most expensive match you can have because you have
Speaker 4: to pay four people for one match. So they don't
Speaker 4: like having to do that. That's why they never heard that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was the old philosophy when we first pitched a
Speaker 4: tag division, like a show just for tag teams, and
Speaker 4: Vince just like shit it out the room because he's like,
Speaker 4: that's the most expensive goddamn show I've ever heard of.
Speaker 4: And we're like, what, you don't pay these guys? Shit,
Speaker 4: what are you talking? What are you talking? He's pretty cheap.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but no, they weren't having it. So they
Speaker 4: don't take the tag team division as seriously as aew
Speaker 4: AW doesn't at all times take it seriously either, but
Speaker 4: they take it a little bit more seriously. All Right, sir,
Speaker 4: we give Goonther lots of love. We're gonna give him more.
Speaker 4: Randy Orton Gunther the sequel, the first one with such
Speaker 4: controversy with the shoulder up, but no controversy this time. Sir,
Speaker 4: Gunther's the man. I called this as well. It got
Speaker 4: this one. I see, I didn't get everything wrong, but
Speaker 4: this was an easy match to pick as well. I
Speaker 4: think everybody knew that Randy was going to establish Gunther
Speaker 4: as the man for this generation. Randy's not a greedy guy.
Speaker 4: He's a super generous wrestler. He knows his age and
Speaker 4: his place and his experience in the business and what
Speaker 4: his job was in this which is why I picked Gunther.
Speaker 4: But he won and their matches are awesome. And I
Speaker 4: know you don't like the chops, but the Gunther chop
Speaker 4: is a mighty chop, sir. And it's a mighty chop indeed,
Speaker 4: and you have to like it when you see Gunther
Speaker 4: do it. I don't like it. I never like it.
Speaker 4: I never have liked it.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things, you know when they when
Speaker 1: they did this this strap match, you know, where they're
Speaker 1: just hitting the hell out of each other and the chops.
Speaker 4: And the stretch.
Speaker 1: It's like, I I ask myself, what what is it
Speaker 1: I do and don't like with these things?
Speaker 4: And it's like when.
Speaker 1: It's a chair shot like that one that Swerve got
Speaker 1: this week, Like when it's a you know, some sort
Speaker 1: of fun weapon, you know, like a clearly plastic bat
Speaker 1: that looks like a black wooden bat with from sting,
Speaker 1: or like you know, I like I like all those
Speaker 1: things for whatever reason, when it feels like a brutal
Speaker 1: blood drawede weapon, yeah, But when it's a slappy kind
Speaker 1: of like thing for whatever reason, like a chop or
Speaker 1: some sort of stingy kind of belt, then I go,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I don't like it.
Speaker 4: I die.
Speaker 1: But that's the separation that is in my heart about it.
Speaker 4: So I know I won't change your mind, but let
Speaker 4: me try to change your mind. You know that the
Speaker 4: stingy stuff hurts way more than the other, Yeah, you
Speaker 4: know that, right, Like the sledgehammer. Triple h has never
Speaker 4: hit anyone with a sledgehammer. He always goes to the
Speaker 4: gut and it's always his hand that just daintily touches
Speaker 4: your skin because he doesn't hurt anybody out there.
Speaker 1: But the stingy stuff, like it hurts and it leaves marks.
Speaker 1: It's gross, Like like you know how many Daniel Bryan
Speaker 1: Forever is gonna have a weird chest because of his
Speaker 1: commitment to like these chops, you know, And it's just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I feel like I'm way more.
Speaker 4: In Vincent Van Goh had a weird ear, but he
Speaker 4: was dedicated to his art. Bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but like, like I just think, like
Speaker 1: I'd rather watch a pretty pedestrian wrestling move, like a
Speaker 1: like a souplex or a sidewalk slam or some sort
Speaker 1: of press, you know, then I would a chop from
Speaker 1: a hand.
Speaker 4: Is that why I love AW so much because it's
Speaker 4: chop City? Probably? Yeah, Because every match has a lot
Speaker 4: of chop. Every match has at least like twenty five chops.
Speaker 4: We should do a over under for Chops and AW
Speaker 4: matches per episode. I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna set
Speaker 4: up I'm a count him out. I'm gonna count them
Speaker 4: out on Wednesday's Dynamite when this show comes out that night.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna count every single chop and that's going to
Speaker 4: establish the over under for the following episodes. And each
Speaker 4: week we'll do the over under on Chops. I might
Speaker 4: need help, I might need help with the counter. I
Speaker 4: might not be able to get it right every week,
Speaker 4: but I'll get it right at least once, and we'll
Speaker 4: have a baseline for chops because WW is going to
Speaker 4: be like under twenty under twenty for sure, but AW,
Speaker 4: like there's twenty a match, and it's very strange that
Speaker 4: they are so committed to these chops the Japanese style. Man,
Speaker 4: it's more of a challenge. It's like, let's see who's tougher.
Speaker 4: I'm tougher. No, I'm tougher. No, I'm tougher No me.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: So the crowd gets really into it too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm part of that. The undisputed WWE Championship the
Speaker 4: most important match of the premium live events. So you
Speaker 4: know I'm not gonna forget to go over this match,
Speaker 4: Jeff and move on to our other shit. No, that's saved.
Speaker 4: Thursday show, it was Cody Rhodes versus his bro Kevin Owens,
Speaker 4: and I was wondering how they were gonna make this
Speaker 4: match work, because it's weird when both guys like each
Speaker 4: other to care a lot, like you can respect the
Speaker 4: match right, Like, oh man, the moves they did were
Speaker 4: so great. The choreography and timing was so precise. The
Speaker 4: strikes looked so great. It was like watching a movie.
Speaker 4: But if you don't have a reason why, that's as
Speaker 4: far as it goes. Respect. People want to know why.
Speaker 4: Like grown ups love professional wrestling so much, it's the
Speaker 4: same reason grown ups love soap operas. We want a
Speaker 4: reason why. We just want to see a reason why,
Speaker 4: because in a fight scene, you know why, John McClain
Speaker 4: is fighting his wife's in the Nakatomy tower and there's
Speaker 4: terrorists that took over, even though they're terrorist to really
Speaker 4: just common thieves trying to steal money. But he has
Speaker 4: a reason why. And so their reason why was you
Speaker 4: deserve it? And Kevin Owens says, no, I don't. Now.
Speaker 4: The first rule in improv is you cannot reject a premise.
Speaker 4: So if I say, Jeff, what's it like being a
Speaker 4: race car driver? If you then hit me with I'm
Speaker 4: not a race car driver? Yeah, Like you can't just
Speaker 4: end the whole thing. So I was very curious how
Speaker 4: they were going to pull this off. But Kevin Owens,
Speaker 4: and I'm not the one saying this, I've heard Sam
Speaker 4: Roberts say this. He's the only one that watches the product,
Speaker 4: and his character is the only one who watches the product.
Speaker 4: That's why he cuts promos off, That's why he ends
Speaker 4: interviews early because everybody knows what's gonna happen. We're just
Speaker 4: gonna find anyway. So's I already went backstate, Like he
Speaker 4: breaks that fourth wall, like Ferris Bueller did. It's kind
Speaker 4: of one of the reasons why we love him. But
Speaker 4: he needed to be a bad guy in order to
Speaker 4: make this match means something, and we saw seeds of it,
Speaker 4: but a lack of ability to commit all the way,
Speaker 4: which made me think that maybe Kevin Owens is about
Speaker 4: to become a bad guy again, which got me really,
Speaker 4: really really excited, because I love Ko, but I hate
Speaker 4: the good guys. I really only I root for the bat.
Speaker 4: I root for the killers in horror movies like Root.
Speaker 4: I rooted for Iron Sheet versus hul Covid, Like I
Speaker 4: thought it was cool what he could do with those bats.
Speaker 4: I was like, man, I can't nobody do those bad
Speaker 4: like I just and he would always cheat and get
Speaker 4: away with it, and the laughs couldn't do anything to him.
Speaker 4: Like those guys are awesome. I love those guys.
Speaker 1: So it's called Jason, It's not called victim number four.
Speaker 4: The stars of the movie. I love Freddy Krueger, so
Speaker 4: I hated when they got him. Anyway, there's a moment
Speaker 4: in the match where Cody's knee gets hurt and the
Speaker 4: announcers were putting this over big time. Through the whole match,
Speaker 4: so you knew it was going to play a factor.
Speaker 4: I think they mentioned it like three or four different
Speaker 4: times during the Cody's he got hurt on the tour
Speaker 4: and his ne goes out and he falls to the ground,
Speaker 4: and here comes Kevin oleans, Oh no, I can't do it.
Speaker 4: I can't freaking do it. He's my friend. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna attack say I want him at one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: I want him at his best. Damn it, son of
Speaker 4: a bitch, And you see him struggle with it. They
Speaker 4: go outside the ring and once again, ah, God, can't
Speaker 4: do a turnamot, I'm gonna beat you up. We're straight up,
Speaker 4: but I'm not gonna attack your leg. And of course
Speaker 4: that's the fatal mistake is Wade Barrett said, this match
Speaker 4: Sho had already been over. You should already won, but
Speaker 4: you didn't commit. And I know I'm talking a lot
Speaker 4: about this and not much about the match itself or
Speaker 4: or what it meant, because I feel the match itself
Speaker 4: wasn't even about a championship. Everybody knew Cody was gonna win.
Speaker 4: The match was to plant a seed, which all their
Speaker 4: stories are now seeds, long term stories of Kevin Owen's
Speaker 4: turning heel and becoming a bad guy. And if you
Speaker 4: also noticed on Friday Night SmackDown, he did not run
Speaker 4: out and help Cody when the bloodline went out there,
Speaker 4: that was the street with Beefab and beef AB's looking
Speaker 4: right by the way. She's the best valet in the
Speaker 4: game right now. Man. She comes out there and just
Speaker 4: the ultimate high Like Prince Nana is the best on
Speaker 4: the mail side, but he's more a manager. She's more
Speaker 4: a valet. Yeah, but she can get hyped and when
Speaker 4: she's when she yells no, like when her guys are losing,
Speaker 4: you can hear her louder than the freaking crowd. Dude,
Speaker 4: it's wild. But anyway, he didn't come out to help him.
Speaker 4: It was those other two teams. So I think this
Speaker 4: is the beginning of a little seed that's going to
Speaker 4: get planted, and we're gonna see Kevin Owens turn heel.
Speaker 4: And I just feel sorry for whoever the good guys
Speaker 4: are because he's going to go on a really long
Speaker 4: wind streak. If he does, you lose a lot more
Speaker 4: when you're a good guy, unless you're the champ. What'd
Speaker 4: you think about the match and what do you think
Speaker 4: about my theory that he's about to turn even.
Speaker 1: I put him in the category of like a Becky
Speaker 1: Lynch or a stone cold Steve Austin, where like he's
Speaker 1: kind of always just Kevin Owens and sometimes he's chippy
Speaker 1: and sometimes he's not. Like it's very it doesn't deviate
Speaker 1: much when he's the bad guy or the good guy.
Speaker 1: Like he's kind of like in my opinion at least,
Speaker 1: like I just I love Ko. I think he's the
Speaker 1: most underrated guy. His mic work is. I would say,
Speaker 1: like back when bray Wyatt was still with us, I
Speaker 1: would always go like Ko and bray Wyre were the
Speaker 1: two like smartest wrestling brains with the best sensibilities.
Speaker 4: Such different promos too, such different promos. But he's so
Speaker 4: good though, like so good and so smart. He just
Speaker 4: knows every he just has great wrestling sensibilities. He's the
Speaker 4: MJF if you will, of ww and when it comes
Speaker 4: to those kind of things. But short, I love Kevin Owens.
Speaker 4: I like what they're doing with him.
Speaker 1: I think if they make him bad of that, I'm all,
Speaker 1: I'm all for that too. But I think Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: is probably my favorite in WB out of everybody.
Speaker 4: Still, Yeah, he's the freaking man, dude. I just I
Speaker 4: don't know him, but we've had like a couple of conversations,
Speaker 4: like through email or through Instagram things like that, and
Speaker 4: he just comes off the nicest guy. I don't even
Speaker 4: know if I should say this, but he made a
Speaker 4: video for my kid and like the things, the things
Speaker 4: he remembered that I told him that he just added
Speaker 4: into the video is basically a promo. I was just
Speaker 4: so thankful and grateful for I was like, dude, like
Speaker 4: he just went above and beyond, like I had done
Speaker 4: a video for him that he had asked for and
Speaker 4: he returned the favor. That's all it was. And it
Speaker 4: was just just be a nice and polite to one another.
Speaker 4: But he couldn't have been nicer to my freaking kids.
Speaker 4: And even remembered Bobby Lashley thing too. He was like,
Speaker 4: don't like Bobby Lashley. It hurts me when he wrestles.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't root for him, you should proot for me.
Speaker 4: And I just thought that was so cool because that's
Speaker 4: my daughter's favorite wrestler.
Speaker 1: As Bobby, it was I wish he was a guy
Speaker 1: that they would put the belt on, like I wish
Speaker 1: they'd make him a bigger I don't know, make him
Speaker 1: a bigger part of the championship conversation.
Speaker 4: I think they'll do that. I think everyone agrees with
Speaker 4: you on that. My I've been like the only holdout
Speaker 4: on that because I've always felt that he doesn't need
Speaker 4: a belt to be over. I've always felt that, like
Speaker 4: he's hones give him a belt, I sure, and and
Speaker 4: he's had them in the past, and he's been a
Speaker 4: great champion when he's had the championship. I've just and
Speaker 4: this may be I don't like hot takes, but maybe
Speaker 4: this is a hot take. There are certain wrestlers that
Speaker 4: I feel are bigger than the belt, and he's one
Speaker 4: of them. Like, if you don't need the belt, you're
Speaker 4: bigger than it. And and I just I genuinely feel
Speaker 4: that way about Kevin Owens. All Right, you didn't talk
Speaker 4: any trash to us this week outside of social media,
Speaker 4: so I have no reviews to read in a sweet
Speaker 4: voice or my own voice, which isn't so sweet but
Speaker 4: insult our kindness. Leave us a review, I will read
Speaker 4: it to you. If you leave mean ones, I'll still
Speaker 4: read it. But Jeff will cut a promo on you.
Speaker 4: He does not take kindly to you. Guys being mean
Speaker 4: to me, but I'll be nice so you get the balance.
Speaker 4: You get equanimity the word of the day. Stay tuned
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