WEBVTT - AEW All In Footage Released and Tama Tonga Joins WWE 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.280 What's up everybody. Welcome back. This week, Jeff and I 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.760 are getting into everything. We have time to get into 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:10.360 the Triple H era, the Rock and Cody Rhoads will Ausprey. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.520 We're gonna get into all of it and more this 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:17.279 week on Wrestling with Freddy, and don't forget Thursday, the 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.200 saga will continue of me trying to sell my own federation. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.439 You guys can hear the ongoing story on Thursday as well. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:30.920 Appreciate you guys for listening. Let's start the show now. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:37.560 Your Mate Events introducing the hosts Wrestling Win Forreddy, Chef 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.720 Ted and for Ready Price Soon. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:43.879 Mister Jeff, how are you, sir? 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:45.760 I'm feeling good, buddy, how are you feeling. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.280 I'm good. You're back in town for a little while. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:49.559 Are you going back on the road. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.000 Same schedule, you know. I'm gone on the weekends, back 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.920 in the on the weekdays. I was just in New York. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.840 I was stuck in West Virginia for a day. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.640 Yeah, I got family in West Virginia. Take it. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.480 It's a great place, but not much going on. A 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.440 lot of woods, a lot of oh yeah, yeah yeah. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.759 Comedy in the Woods was the name of the show 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:09.120 you did. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.640 I mean, it was like a corporate event, and they 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.440 were like people. They treated like Iraq. They were like, hey, 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.880 thanks just for coming out here, man, we really appreciate you. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.039 Just coming out here really means a lot that you 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:20.240 were willing to come all the. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.040 Way out here. Can I ask a comedy insider question 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.720 and you can say, I'm not answering that a few 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.360 to them? Of course, do the corporate gigs pay better 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.000 than the comedy clubs or do the comedy clubs pay better? 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.720 No, corporates pay the best. Corporate and colleges but college 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.640 I don't even know if colleges do comedy anymore, but 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:38.680 colleges and corporates. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.040 Colleges are angry at comedy, and they're used to love comedy, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.600 but now they're very angry at comedy. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.240 It's weird too, because these college kids have Netflix. They'll 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.520 listen to all the edgiest comedians, but if one comes 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.840 to their campus, they're like, can you believe what he said? 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:57.120 It was all bad and terrible and sexist and racist, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.720 you know, But like they'll watch like Pete Davidson or 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.480 I'll watch like, you know, celebrities on Netflix do stand 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.120 up comedy, and they have no problem with it. It's 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:06.800 very confusing. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.200 You said it best, and Jimmy Carr has said it best. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.200 Your version was I'm sorry the way I tried to 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.360 make you happy didn't work, which I love. It's just 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.400 so simple, and Jimmy' says, oh, I'm sorry, And then 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.720 when they go you didn't mean that, he goes, oh, 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.400 so you acknowledge I can say things I don't necessarily mean. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.800 I like that, and I think those are the two 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.200 They're very opposite end of the spectrums, but they're the 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.520 two best ways to defend comedy, which shouldn't need to 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.200 be defended. Neither of these philosophies should have to exist. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.919 Yeah, I don't like the way you tried to make 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:40.520 me happy, That's what they say to me. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.480 Yeah, that's what's the joke. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.080 But it's also like I always think about it, like 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.160 on Instagram, someone like I'll post like a video of 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.280 my stand up, or yeah, I think this goes for everybody, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.480 not just me. You'll post something on Instagram. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:51.720 You know. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.120 It's like, I'm Freddie Brunce Jr. Here's you know, the 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.200 thing I'm doing. And then if someone talks trash you're like, dude, 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.960 I'm sorry that you're not enjoying my free content. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.160 And I'll always get a couple of people that I'll 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.239 just be like, you look old, Stay off Instagram. It's 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.919 like show bro, take it easy, dude. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.760 I didn't sell it to you, and it's not like 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.760 it's not like you paid one hundred dollars something. You're 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:15.480 disappointed with. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.240 The product, Like, Bro, it's a miniature figurine that I painted. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:20.639 Take it easy, dude. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:21.840 Great, exactly. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.600 All right, let's talk some wrestling. There wasn't a ton 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.359 that happened this week, but there are things that are 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:37.400 worthy of conversation. The first and probably most important is 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:42.080 the now defined Triple H era in wrestling. It and 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.400 it's beginning. I think you and I have and other 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.400 podcasts have have spoken about how it's been sort of 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.800 the Triple H era for for quite some time now, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:53.960 and every once in a while, Vince would kind of 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.240 come in and try to undo everything in one episode 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.560 a raw that nobody would like, and everybody go why 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.440 that episode sucked, And then as like news comes out 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.800 that he was, you know, still being involved once in 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.720 a while. That sort of confirms those beliefs. You can 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.760 kind of tell on commentary when Michael Coles loose versus 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.920 when he's tight. Go ahead, real quick. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:19.480 You know, the recently grumpy and bittered Ronda Rousi claims 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.279 that as long as Bruce Pictures is still in WWE, 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.800 that means Vince will always be in it. So she 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.360 was alleging that Vince is still giving stories and ideas 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.520 and things to Bruce, and Bruce will be pitching them 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.040 in during this triple H era. That's what she was alleging. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:37.960 So what do you say to that. 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:43.960 Well, I have no idea. I mean, you can allege anything. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.760 I could allege. Holly Holm, you know, was a better 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.200 fighter than she was. But I'm not a fact jack. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.760 I'm not going to but you know she can. I 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.640 think maybe she had a book or something and maybe 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.800 that's why she was, you know, saying controversial things. Maybe 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.400 she's trying to sell something, or maybe she just doesn't 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.880 like wrestling and wants to, you know, do damage to 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.880 the business and she feels it's done damage to her. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:04.960 Maybe I have no idea. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.960 No what I'm saying, Like she's saying that Bruce Pritchard 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.239 will forever be that link as long as Vince is alive, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:11.080 he'll be able to. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.080 Even if that's true. Triple H is a really sharp guy, 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.479 and if he doesn't like the idea, it's not gonna 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.520 make it to TV. And I think you can see 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.040 that with the type of storytelling he's done. Everything has 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.479 felt very much down down the Triple H pipe and 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.119 not so much down the Vince McMahon eighties and nineties pipe. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.360 It's been much or really just eighties. It's felt very 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:39.080 different for months before WrestleMania, and hopefully we'll continue that 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.960 way because I've really enjoyed it. They've had a couple misses, 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.960 but so has a dubs sure, and you know, it's 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.719 the curse of live television. It's either going to go 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.960 really well or it's going to die very rarely. Do 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.360 you go, eh, well, let's talk about it. Triple H 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.360 came out, he think the audience. He did his wrestler 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.520 guy voice. His wrestler guy voice is so much cooler 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.480 because he sounds tough like this. Normally he's like, hey, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.240 how you doing, and he's like, says this super nice 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.719 guy voice, but he does the tough guy voice. He 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.599 introduces Cody Rhodes and Cody Rhodes is now the new 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.600 face of the franchise, the face of the video game, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.640 the face of the new era. And they played a 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.359 really nice video package for Cody that kind of showed 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.120 his history in the company, and they even showed a 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.440 little bit of Japan. They didn't show that he helped 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.560 create aew, they didn't show any of that. They still 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:33.400 won't acknowledge them, but they did acknowledge Japan in one clip, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.440 I think, and I thought it was really nice and 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.680 sweet and charming, and I thought Cody cut a really 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:44.039 smart promo, not his best promo, but a very smart promo, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.960 and you got a taste of what you're going to get. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.360 But I'll say this, there's no story here, and there 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.560 shouldn't be. They haven't had time to start a new 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.599 story yet, So I think we need to give them 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.680 time and trust them since they did this last year 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.280 and built it up for a year and in one 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.000 case a two year, your story to now allow these 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.800 new storylines to develop that I'm sure they've been working on. 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.000 If this is in fact the Triple H era, what 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.880 about you? Did you You're not the biggest Cody Rhodes guy. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.920 I get the feeling did you Are you liking him 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.360 as Champ? Are you not buying it? 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.800 I don't know what my problem is with Cody Rhodes. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.000 I've just I feel like I pick a guy that 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.800 I like and then I just like them forever, and 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.000 then the guys that don't really grab my attention that 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.600 much is very hard to win me over. But yeah, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.200 Cody's fine. I'm like it right in the middle on him, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.880 He's good. I like it. I you know, somebody had 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.400 to beat Roman eventually, and this is the guy they picked. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.760 I will say this, speaking about the era thing, this 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.600 Triple H era, Gosh, they can't shut up about it. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.360 Uh, there's a lot of it. There's a lot of 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.000 talk of trying to redefine the company. I liked it 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.200 more when it was more organic and we were just 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.520 seeing it. Yes, I like it more when we say 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:52.480 it than when they say it. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.080 Yeah, I mean like because they keep saying it. It's 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.120 in the press conference, they're saying it. It's in the 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.320 opening of raw they're saying it. It's like, we really 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.400 get it. You know, there's a different era here. Do 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.280 you think that in the past we even discussed the 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.440 era that we were in. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.440 No that's what I was I was trying to elude 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.880 at the beginning of the show, as we talked about 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.280 his influence and how strong it was and how much 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.640 more we were enjoying the stories months ago, long before 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.560 it was it was defined as it. But I guess, like, 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.200 once Stephanie says it, then that's when it Yah, So 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.000 it happened. It was It started on Saturday according to WWE, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.400 even though it started before that. But they do change 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.280 a lot of facts in their documentaries. I was a 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.920 part of a few of them. They don't always get 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.640 the right people. But yeah, so she said it on Saturday, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.040 So I guess that was the beginning, and we'll judge 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.400 him from here. I thought we should have judged him 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.360 from Bloodline forward for the last two years, because that 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.040 was his story and that creative team story, not just 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.560 not all credit goes to Hunters. They have writers working 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.480 on that stuff NonStop. But yeah, man, I think it's 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.600 gonna be good. Like we've already been saying, this is 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.920 a renaissance for wrestling, a rebirth of wrestling. So wrestling's 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.800 already been good and I'm cool to everyone's talking about 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.520 the new era, and I guess we're supposed to talk 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.560 about it, but I feel like we talk about it 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.360 every week because we were already down with it, were already, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:14.319 we already liked it. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.120 I just wonder, do we have this change in of 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.280 the era if the Vince McMahon scandal doesn't happened, you know, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.880 oh yeah, well that was the end of a chapter. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.760 Are they really just saying Vince is gone? I mean, 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.720 you can call it an era all you want, but 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.880 it feels like they're really just saying, hey, things are 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.160 they're going to I mean inevitably going to be different, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.280 which is exciting for fans. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.760 Yeah, I think there are one hundred percent saying that 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.959 by just saying it's it's a new era. But I 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.240 think that's how all eras kind of begin and end 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.320 is some there has to be some vanquishing of the 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.640 old guard in order for the new guard to move in. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.000 It's the same in like the fight game. The same 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.440 in basketball when the young team isn't quite ready yet 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.640 and get held down and the refs aren't given them 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.240 the call because they're the stars, and then eventually they're 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.719 the stars and they're getting the calls. You know, it's 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.920 the same in wrestling where you look at the guys 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.960 that are going to be a champion. Cody was a 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.440 homegrown guy. He came up in WWE. He left, but 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.040 he came up during WWE. And they're always going to 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.560 take better care of their homegrown guys, then they're going 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.240 to take care of the outside guys, right like we saw. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.280 La Knight is a self made man. He is self made. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.400 WWE did not make La Knight. La Knight made La Knight. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.760 He made himself, so there was no chance he was 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.880 going to beat Roman Reigns for the championship. WWE will 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.360 claim credit for making Cody. I feel like Cody made 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.360 himself outside of WWE. I think a lot of people 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.480 would agree with that. But he is a face that 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.920 they can say he's one of ours, one of our guys, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.880 like Roman was homegrown, one of ours. I think that's 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.719 what and I think it's subconscious, but I think that's 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.040 why AJ Styles and La Knight didn't get the story 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.320 that the other all the other characters got because all 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.560 the other characters were homegrown guys and those two are not, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.240 and and they got less attention. It felt like they 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.440 rocked their match. I thought their match was awesome, but 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.840 I just didn't care about their reason why because it 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.520 was just one dude buying a plane ticket to Australia 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.880 to wreckon other dude's match, and then for the rest 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.679 of that story, the dude who bought the ticket and 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.120 wreck the match is the victim because the good guys 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.320 doing a home invasion. Basically, oh, and this kid is 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.040 in it like it was just a weird It didn't. 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.040 It didn't feel like it got the tender love and 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.480 care that the other stories got. And those dudes I 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.080 felt deserved deserved a better a better reason why. But 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:38.320 maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.600 I will say it's a lot easier to push a 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.719 guy who's been in the in wrestling forever, you know 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.920 what I'm saying, Like, yeah, from footage of these guys, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.760 you know, running around as kids. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.320 I mean, but it's not their footage, right, And WW 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.439 has this weird thing where it's like if they don't 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.320 own it, if they can't control it, it doesn't exist. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.679 I don't and I don't know why they insist on it, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.719 but and I could be wrong. I'm just saying it 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.640 feels that way. It feels like that's why the guys 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.200 that and the girls that aren't homegrown talent don't get 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.080 the same love. They just don't get the same love. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.080 Does you feel that or a theory? Shit? 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.280 No, I agree with that one hundred percent. It does 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.920 feel like that. But it's like if you imagine being 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.800 a guy like La Night though he's going I one 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.280 of my sorry that my dad didn't wrestle who, my 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.400 grandpa didn't wrestle who, my mom didn't book and my 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.559 aunt wasn't involved in. Sorry, I wasn't at a wrestling school, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.320 like when instead of daycare. You know, it's like you 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.960 can't really do much when you just have a wrestling 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.960 dream and then these guys are just like in it. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.880 You know, if I'd have told my dad I wanted 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.160 to be a pro wrestler, to be like, what the 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:54.960 hell's wrong with you? 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.280 What do you? 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.199 Some sort of mental idiot? You know, but like the 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.559 you know, if Cody Rhoades tells us dad, I want 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.360 to be a pro wrestled and it'd be like, yeah, Jack, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.160 we got you. You're gonna be cool, you know, like yeah, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.719 they'll make it happen, you know. So it's just I 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:09.160 don't know. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.400 No, that's exactly what I'm saying though, It's just it's 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.160 it's weird. I don't know how we got on that. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.280 It's my fault that we got sidetrek, but but yeah, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.240 it just felt weird, and it's been it's been stuck 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.080 in my it's been like stuck in my head since 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.960 since I watched the match as to why I didn't 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.880 like it, and it was because of the story. And 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.560 I'm like, well, why didn't I like the story? And 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.199 it just it felt like they didn't give it the 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.520 same kind of care and they could have. La Knight 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.320 is a frigging star and aj Styles is a walking, talking, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.400 living legend and they just deserve Anyway, let's talk some SmackDown, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.400 because a lot more happened on SmackDown. Paul Hayman, the Man, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.839 the Hall of Famer, with Sola Sokoa and Jimmy Usso 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.360 they came out, they discussed WrestleMania. Roman Reigns wasn't trying 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.760 to blame anyone. He was taking full accountability bloodline loss 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.240 straight up. And then uh, there's a little confrontation backstage 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.040 and some talk of consequences. There's gotta be consequences for 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.680 this loss. They're not able to get into the champs 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.640 locker room now because they're not the champs anymore. It 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.439 hurts and you can see Soeca's egos really pissed off. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:15.000 Later in the show, Tomatonga makes his debut. So Big 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.559 Tomatanga the adopted son of Haku. We all know and 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.440 love Haku. He's the friggin man. If you watch Dark 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.080 Side of the Ring, he was super funny. On episode Lately, 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.920 Tomatonga made his debut and there were consequences. They beat 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.080 the hell out of Jimmy Usso. They beat his ass 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.200 and put a chair around his neck and smashed him 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.440 in the corner. And I'm assuming this is the end 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.080 of Jimmy's involvement with the Bloodline. I don't know where 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.120 he could go from here. They can't damage the character 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.640 and make him beg for his spot back because that 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.280 weakens the Jimmy character, who's already lost the WrestleMania match. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.520 So I think it means he's going to team back 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.680 up with Jay and there can be a Tomatonga solo 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.520 so CoA versus the USOS who have reunited. Jeff, what 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:01.560 do you think about that? 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.520 I think that this will go on my long campaign 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:11.840 of stop having the Bloodline fight inside themselves. I keep 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.240 saying it every week, but it's like, why does this 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.400 storyline have to be so civil war. Let's have some 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.680 real wars. I'm tired of the civil war between the Bloodline. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.480 It is cool to see a new member. I was 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.520 doing my little nerd research when he came out and 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.840 was like, everyone was going, Oh, when he comes over, 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.800 they'll probably put him in NXT. They'll probably make this 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.280 guy have to like, you know, cut his teeth a 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.720 little bit before he just you know, he's not just 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.200 going to be right in the bloodline right away, the 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:49.080 Tomatonga guy. But then no, he's he's in it. He's 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.720 right in the Bloodline, which I love. So I thought 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:52.360 that was cool. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.480 The Roman reign's reaction will be interesting because then we'll 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.000 know is he in it or did Solo kind of 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.240 go off and do his own thing. You've made this 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.760 point before about the infighting that's going on, and I 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.280 think there's something to that. Man. As long as there's infighting, 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.120 they can't be dominant, and when they were dominant, the 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.160 story was really really good. So there's no reason that 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.680 their story needs to be done with Cody, but it 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:23.760 is done. So who's next for the Bloodline? That's the thing, 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.760 And I guess I go back to what I say earlier. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.200 We have to give them time to come up with 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:27.880 a new story. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.240 Yeah, absolutely, and I hope that they do something cool 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:31.560 with it. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.960 I feel like the Bloodline should get a hall pass 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.960 and get to skip school and not go to wrestling school, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.960 like they should be beyond that. So I hope they 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.120 don't nxt any of the Bloodline and that should be 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.320 a part of their story anyway. Like when guys go 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.280 back and wrestles like yo, it gives them something to 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.680 be a heel about, like yo, I'm better than you. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.760 Deal with that, like you're a scrub and I'm on 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.160 the main show. I want to move to Wednesday night. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.440 We're going back in time. We're going to aew Dynamite. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.280 Dynamite is not had the strongest of shows lately. This 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:07.600 was not the strongest show either. However, Will Osprey came in. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.080 We love Will Osprey, or at least I do. I 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:11.960 know Jeff does too. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.919 Yeah, he's great. I mean, how could you not love him? 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:15.240 The kid, he's a star. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.280 Well, WW didn't love him enough and he went to 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.440 AEW and he addressed in his promo this quote that 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.680 hunt that Triple H had had made on I don't 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:31.600 know what ESPN, probably some sports network thing about if 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.920 you're not up for the grind of the WWE, we 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.440 don't want you. And he addressed the grind in his 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:41.120 will Osprey way, coming off like Tom Hardy and Venom, 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.160 but using his real accent and steady of the American one, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.400 just coming off awesome, cool, smooth. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.040 Took a dig, took a dig at Triple H. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.960 But he does it in this dignified way where he says, 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.600 here's a painful jab, just to let you know I 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.879 heard what you said, and now you can hear what 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.720 I said too. He did instigated, he responded to it, 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.680 and I'm fine with people having any sort of response 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.000 they want when they've been attacked or they feel they've 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:08.879 been attacked, right. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.200 But also, don't you think that Paul or sorry Triple H. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:17.119 His little jab wasn't at will Ospray as much as 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.440 it was at ae W A E W will No. 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.720 AW is a lighter workload, it really is, but it 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.080 was why they're over there. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.760 I think it was directly focused at will Osprey one 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.159 hundred percent because he had negotiated with them and he 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.600 turned them down because they offered him an NXT contract 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.840 and so he's like, nah, dude, I in't about that man, 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:38.919 Like you're not paying me seventy thousand for me to 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.240 do my shit, Like my stuff's worth more than that. Yeah, 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.680 And he can make millions at AW. And so that's 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.280 why the jab was made because he because Will had 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.960 talked about, you know, his love for a why he 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.240 chose AW in an interview, and so that's when the 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.200 little you can't handle the grind. So I loved his comeback. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:57.080 I love it too. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.159 I thought it was awesome, and I think comebacks are 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.280 allowed and all bets are off when somebody's gone in 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.439 on you. And I really do think it was directed right. 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.600 But I don't disagree with Triple Ah. You know, when 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.679 when talk to any of these old dogs who went 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.640 over to WCW, you know, rest in peace, Scott Hall, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.520 but like talk to Kevin Nash, talked to Alex Luger, 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.800