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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battle and Eli. Welcome to another episode

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Speaker 5: I like the Naomi one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's the cool thing is it's one of

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Speaker 5: I love all that. Naomi is one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Naomi, So I I sent out a tweet

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Speaker 5: So KB and Lena had a good chuckle about this.

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Speaker 5: I had sympathy for you because this is something I

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Speaker 1: On Twitter, and so you know, I kind of just copied,

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Speaker 5: a pay per view on Wednesday night basically, you know. So,

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Speaker 5: but all this talk about fighter Fest, I'll just have

434
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Speaker 5: to give my opinion. I didn't get to watch it

435
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 5: because last week was the first day that Turner was

436
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Speaker 5: off my TV provider, so I had no access to it,

437
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 5: so I didn't watch any matches of that. I did

438
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 5: watch Great American Bash, but I don't know, I don't

439
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 5: know anything about fighter Fest from last week, So I

440
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 5: blame it on my TV provider.

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Speaker 1: You know, and this sounds very bad, especially when sing

442
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: a wrestling podcast. But I didn't really get to watch

443
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: much of Fighter Fest. I watch a couple of things.

444
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: I did watch the Hangman page and Omega versus best

445
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: Friends match, and I gotta say, you know, having best friends,

446
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,479
Speaker 1: having his mom drop him off that like there, you

447
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 1: could watch AW and see that they're having fun, and

448
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: there's no really script. It's kind of more of bullet point. Ask, Okay,

449
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: here's where you got to get to in the match,

450
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Speaker 1: do a couple of things here and there, here's the outcome.

451
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: Here's some bullet points. Go have fun and you watch AW.

452
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: And I've had this conversation with several people. You can

453
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Speaker 1: watch AW and see that they are having fun with

454
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Speaker 1: their product. Unlike you know, NXT is doing some fun stuff.

455
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Speaker 1: But it's like you could just watch AW and it's

456
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Speaker 1: more driven. I guess more of AEW is kind of

457
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Speaker 1: driven towards like our age of fans because it's like, oh,

458
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Speaker 1: this is fun, and you know, the having his mom

459
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: drop him off to a wrestling match was pretty great.

460
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Speaker 5: Yeah that was Yeah, that was Trent's mom And I

461
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 5: think didn't he like kiss her when.

462
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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, because she was like he got out of

463
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Speaker 1: the car and they were about to go and she

464
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: was like, come give me a kiss or something along

465
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Speaker 1: those lines, and it's kind of like that embarrassing moment

466
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But I think I saw somebody and

467
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: I was scrolling through Twitter when I saw that happen,

468
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: and I think somebody tried to say, oh, look at

469
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: aw copying off of NXT, and I was like, that

470
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: is like a completely like a stretch trying to compare

471
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Speaker 1: that from when the uber pulled up and the you know,

472
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Speaker 1: Dream and Adam Cole match, because like that's that's a

473
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Speaker 1: very strong stretch trying to say, you know, I'm a

474
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: WWE bark screw aw. Yeah, but yeah, it's you're always

475
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,479
Speaker 1: going to have those people. Though, Like the one thing

476
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: about us is we don't really show favoritism. I mean,

477
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Speaker 1: we we favorite a product at the moment, but we're

478
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Speaker 1: not saying, oh, we're strict we're strictly aw. We're gonna

479
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: tell you every single thing, and you know, and on

480
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: this show nothing is off limits and we're going to

481
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: talk about anything and everything, and you know, that's that's

482
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Speaker 1: the one thing I love about the show is. You know,

483
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: we give everybody a voice to say whatever they want

484
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Speaker 1: as long as it's you know.

485
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Speaker 5: We could almost be like Saam Punk, the Voice of

486
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Speaker 5: the voiceless.

487
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: Yes, that's how we are, as long as you're not

488
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: saying like something very controversial that's gonna get a get

489
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: us pulled off the you know, the air.

490
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Speaker 5: But like Roman Reigns is my favorite wrestler.

491
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: Yes, well, the show's gone, it's over. I don't hate Roman, No,

492
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: he's you know, we've had this conversation before, and you know,

493
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: Roman saying, you know what, my health is more important

494
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: than wrestling. That added some major points in my book

495
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: on his part, like him and Kevin Owens and Sammy

496
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Speaker 1: Zay you know, and.

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Speaker 5: Like, yeah, they shouldn't even have to make that decision. No,

498
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 5: I mean, and that Vince should know better. And I

499
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 5: mean when you have. I mean, in the last not

500
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 5: even a year ago, they signed the billion dollar deal

501
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 5: with USA and the billion dollar deal with Fox. They

502
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 5: just got two billion dollars of influx and they're still

503
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 5: making and you know, they just had all those positive

504
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 5: tests come back and it's just like, dude, you're like

505
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 5: asking for just fucking shut it down. And let this pass,

506
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Speaker 5: you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the thing.

508
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 5: Can't can't blame him whatsoever.

509
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: No, and since the whole pandemic of letting people go,

510
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: I think they said that Vince is set to make

511
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: like over eighteen million dollars or something this year. I guess.

512
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 5: Well, the funny thing is a lot of these companies

513
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 5: are raking, like if you look at it, like even

514
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 5: freaking Amazon, Jeff Bezo's he's he's gonna be a trillionaire

515
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 5: because of you know, because of all the because people

516
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 5: just sitting at home buying stuff and the same thing

517
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 5: I guess with ww they're just you know, buying you

518
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 5: know whatever, buying T shirts. And I bet you, I

519
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,800
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520
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 5: because they're like, well, screw it, I'm gonna be staying

521
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 5: at home for the next whatever. Let's just go ahead

522
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 5: and sign this up. So I bet you there was

523
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Speaker 1: you know, with the pandemic, you know, even though I'm

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Speaker 1: going into work every day, I'm They're still like, okay,

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Speaker 1: you come to work these days, work from home these days.

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Speaker 1: right now I've got like this makeshift outdoor backyard table

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Speaker 1: sitting here that you know that I've got stuff on

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Speaker 1: and I've got all that stuff. But you know, the

563
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Speaker 1: thing that that that really surprises me is with with

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Speaker 1: everything that's going on, is like you've got ww And

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Speaker 1: I know that Conrad Thompson had talked about this on

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Speaker 1: one of his podcasts, and they were talking about you know,

567
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Speaker 1: Rick Flair being down there in the performance Center when

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Speaker 1: all these people have COVID. I'm like, he's like high risk.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, he almost died years ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, Conrad had kind of talked about it,

571
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Speaker 1: and you can go back and check out. I can't

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Speaker 1: remember which which which one he does, which one it

573
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Speaker 1: was from, because he does thousands of them, but they

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Speaker 1: they kind of talked about, you know, what's what's what's

575
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Speaker 1: his thoughts on Rick working with with Randy during the

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Speaker 1: pandemic down there with him being a high risk person,

577
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Speaker 1: And I'm just like, you know, I get Rick as

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Speaker 1: the word course and he's going to go and work,

579
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: but what what what is? What what happen? You know,

580
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Speaker 1: if something happened to Rick down there doing this like

581
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: Vince would get so much heat.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean unfortunately, I think it would take something

583
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 5: like that to make them really take it seriously.

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00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it doesn't seem like they're taking it seriously.

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00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: I mean, and then you look at you look at

586
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: Taz with his promo from last week and he just

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00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: he literally shits on Vince and was like that sloppy

588
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: stuff over there. And it is kind of funny because

589
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: at the beginning, because when we've had Cody on. We've

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00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: had Cody, we've had the Box, We've had scu on,

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00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like every time we've talked about it,

592
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, what do you think about WWE

593
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah, and it's like, oh, we're not

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00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: gonna take shots at him, we notice him, blah blah blah.

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00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: But it seems more and more now each week as

596
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: it goes there's more and more shots at WWE.

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00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, Cody wearing that, uh, the American Nightmare shirt that

598
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 5: kind of looked like the old Great American Bash logo.

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00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 5: Oh and yeah, I mean, you know, I think it's

600
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 5: gotten to the point where you can't really ignore each other.

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00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 5: You know, like you don't have to. You don't have

602
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 5: to do it like they did in the nineties where

603
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 5: you were doing skits about each other. You know, you

604
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 5: don't have to go that far. But I mean you

605
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 5: can't like not ignock knowledge them. You know, not only

606
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:28,479
Speaker 5: did a lot of the wrestlers you know start there, Cody, Jericho, Hagar,

607
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 5: you know, the Dustin Rhodes. I mean, you know they

608
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Speaker 5: have a lot of the old people over there now.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, obviously there're two different companies doing

610
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 5: the same thing on national TV. I mean, it's you're

611
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 5: gonna eventually you can't just play dumb. The audience is smarter,

612
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 5: smarter than that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, but it is. It is a crazy time

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Speaker 1: for sure for wrestling. And you know, I talked about

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Speaker 1: this with a guy, a friend of mine, and we're

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Speaker 1: talking about, you know, what what can wwe do? Because

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've got all this stuff that you could do,

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Speaker 1: and you know, during the pandemic, why didn't they just

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Speaker 1: close it down and just you know, run older matches

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Speaker 1: that you haven't seen in a while, or do like

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Speaker 1: a you know, top five best matches of Stone Cold

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Speaker 1: Steve Austin, because you you can clearly fill three hours

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Speaker 1: if you need to on a roll with Stone Cold

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Speaker 1: matches or the Rock matches or go to your your

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Speaker 1: wheelhouse of like I mean, especially with the Undertaker stuff,

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Speaker 1: in which we'll talk about here in a second. I mean,

627
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Speaker 1: you could do so much stuff and have like Renee

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Speaker 1: or Corey or Michael Cole host it, and then in between,

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Speaker 1: you know, you have you know, somebody like an AJ

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Speaker 1: or whatever shooting a promo from their house of like

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Speaker 1: updating you of Like I'm still the Intercontinental Champion and

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 5: Well even that, I mean, they they could like do

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Speaker 5: that and then also like zoom stone cold in Yes,

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Speaker 5: so that way, Renee is like, okay, number five on

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Speaker 5: the list. What do you remember about this match?

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Speaker 1: Yes, And that's what they've been doing with like the bump,

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00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: and you know, that's what they did for the past

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks with WWE Backstage before Fox Backstage or

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Speaker 1: whatever they called it before it got shut down. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's so much stuff you could do with it.

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Speaker 5: Though, speaking of her name, she she announced she's doing

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Speaker 5: a cookbook.

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Speaker 1: So you know how funny that was, Like all of

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Speaker 1: us in the group chat were all like, what's going on?

646
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:26,439
Speaker 1: Maybe she's going here?

647
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 5: Maybe everyone she I think she knew what she was doing,

648
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 5: like oh she had to. Everyone was instantly like pregnant

649
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 5: or oh is she leaving? Is she on? Aw? Is

650
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 5: she you know? I mean, and that I don't think

651
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 5: anyone on the planet except Moxley, was like, Oh, she's

652
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 5: gonna do a cookbook, you know what I mean? Like right, so,

653
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 5: I don't know, little little anti climatic, but good for her.

654
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: And that was the funny thing. It's like, you know

655
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people are thinking, Okay, if any time

656
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: is the time to get pregnant, if you're a wrestler

657
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: and you're a big person, now's the time because it's

658
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: during the pandemic. Because like you've got Becky who maybe

659
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: her and Seth were like, Okay, this pandemic is happening,

660
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: We're gonna stay in Orlando. Let's try to have a kid.

661
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: Maybe does maybe does Charlotte try to have a kid

662
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: with Andrade? You know, Ronda's Ronda. I don't I don't

663
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: think does she have a deal again with ww or

664
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 1: she's still kind of not a free um.

665
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know the ins and outs. I

666
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 5: know that she's like she's not gonna go to like

667
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 5: AW or anything like that. Like if she does anything,

668
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 5: it'll be with WWE. But like, all I know is

669
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:41,479
Speaker 5: that she sunned on for a year but then went

670
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 5: longer because she was enjoying it, and then when she

671
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 5: dropped the title at Mania, that was kind of it.

672
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 5: So I don't really know if she's kind of a

673
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure they have to have some kind

674
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 5: of deal because they're still putting out merch for her

675
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 5: and or stuff like that, but like I don't I

676
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 5: don't know where she stands as a performer.

677
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, but yeah, so that's kind of you know,

678
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: we thought maybe he was pregnant, Maybe she's going to ESPN,

679
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: maybe Fox Sports was gonna use her, because she's like

680
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 1: whoever gets if Renee is phenomenal at what she does

681
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: and you could PLoP her into anything and she would

682
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: excel at it. And that's the thing. It's like, I

683
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: don't think and you could quote me on this, I

684
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: don't think she'll ever wind up in aw but stranger

685
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: things have happened.

686
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it could could happen.

687
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: It does so another thing that that happened that the

688
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: inner child of me doesn't want to believe it. But

689
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: we've kind of saved the best topic for last, and

690
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the Undertaker, and of course, uh

691
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: the Last Ride docuseries, which was absolutely phenomenal. Like, you know, WWE,

692
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: they could easily now turn around and do you know

693
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: instead of having wrestling, you could show these documentaries on

694
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw or SmackDown and just have like the

695
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: first hour if you still want to do wrestling, so

696
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: you're not trying to fill up all that time. Just

697
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: replay these like ESPN and ABC have been doing for

698
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: the last dance Michael Jordan docuseries, like they keep reshowing it.

699
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think anything would be better

700
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 5: than what they're doing right now. But but yeah, I

701
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 5: thought it was. I mean, all their kind of original

702
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 5: stuff usually it's pretty solid. I mean, even going back

703
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 5: to I mean when I first signed up for the network,

704
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 5: I watched Breaking Ground, which was the next TA thing,

705
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 5: and like Baron Corvin was on there, and but this

706
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 5: one obviously no exception, very well done. It was I

707
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 5: think a lot of people were commenting on how, you know,

708
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 5: how human and it made Undertaker look and come off

709
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 5: and right the you know, depending on I'll save that comment. Uh,

710
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 5: but yeah, so I thought it was. I mean, they

711
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 5: probably could have done an extra two episodes, and just

712
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 5: you know his careers, I mean because even before he

713
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 5: was in WWE, I mean he was in WCW. He's

714
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 5: in Memphis with LAWLERD and Jeff Jarrett and all them,

715
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 5: and I mean he's had a I mean he's been

716
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 5: thirty years with WWE, but he also had time before that.

717
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 5: So I mean I thought they could have stretched ou

718
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 5: out longer if they wanted to.

719
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: But and they could have gotten access to that old

720
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: that old footage. I mean with them owning WCW, and

721
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they could have just reached out and

722
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: been like hey, and with Jeff knowing you know, it's

723
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: Jeff Jarrett stuff and he was there, could easily grabbed it. Yeah,

724
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: but I mean.

725
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 5: It, Uh, I'm kind of a I'm kind of torn

726
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 5: in the sense that the uh, his boneyard match with

727
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 5: aj Styles ended up being awesome, and I think even

728
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 5: me and you talked about it, like I would be

729
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 5: okay with him wrestling once a year if he did

730
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 5: a match like that. You know where they they can

731
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 5: tape it, they can take do multiple takes, multiple camera angles.

732
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 5: You know, if they get ten minutes in and he's like, bro,

733
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 5: I got to take a break, then they can stop

734
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 5: the cameras. Like and obviously you could be fresh the

735
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 5: whole match totally. And I mean there's so many I mean,

736
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 5: you could do a boiler room match, you could do

737
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 5: an insane asylum match, you could do a you could

738
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 5: do an actual hell in a cell match, but make

739
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 5: the cell a prison and make him have to you know,

740
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 5: break out of a prison or you know, do the

741
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 5: American Badass thing. I mean, there's so many different things

742
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 5: they could do with this now that they're kind of

743
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 5: embracing this kind of cinematic match thing. But I mean, again,

744
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 5: if you're going to go out, I mean aj Styles

745
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 5: is that's a pretty decent match to end on. I mean,

746
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 5: he's arguably the best wrestler on the planet right now.

747
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't know. I don't know what I

748
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 5: was expecting when I started watching it, but I didn't

749
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 5: anticipate him retiring. Like that never even crossed my mind,

750
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 5: you know. I mean I thought Last Ride was more

751
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 5: you know, that was the name of his power bomb

752
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 5: when he was the American Badass, So I just thought

753
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 5: it tied into the slogans and the lineage and all

754
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 5: that stuff. So, I mean, I wouldn't say I was blindsided,

755
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 5: but I wasn't even thinking about that as an option. Honestly.

756
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 5: I thought it was going to be more like we

757
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 5: did this, We tore the house down, got incredible reviews.

758
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 5: I think I could do these. I think I could

759
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 5: do a match like this a year or whatever. And

760
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 5: that's not the way I went So so I hope

761
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 5: he's done, you know, I not only just from a

762
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 5: performer standpoint, you know, it's always good to move on

763
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 5: and give someone else that spot, but also just his body.

764
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 5: I mean, Jesus, how many freaking how much medical work

765
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 5: was done to keep him propped up for this long,

766
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? And so hopefully he can retire, rest, recuperate, recover,

767
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 5: and you know, enjoy the last part of his life.

768
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you that was a great match, and you

769
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: know you can do mini matches, like you said, you

770
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: can do it, and I really don't think, like in

771
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: the documentary Undertakers, like that was my last match, I'm done.

772
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: And it's like, and you know he's gonna be like,

773
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 1: bring under break Glass if need a kind of undertake,

774
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: and we all know Vince He's gonna break that glass

775
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: every year. And like you said, I mean, it would

776
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 1: be good to just he can easily have him once

777
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: a year, like you said. And of course, the one

778
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: thing that everybody wants is the Undertaker and Sting match.

779
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,919
Speaker 1: But I think I want to say, maybe I read

780
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: something online, maybe it was from Stinger, maybe it was

781
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 1: from Undertaker, where they said we really want this match,

782
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: but we don't want this match, and then of course

783
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: you have Sting adding fuel to the fire of him

784
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: posting that photo on Twitter or somebody posted a photo

785
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: on Twitter about Sting and I'm pulling it up right

786
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: now as we're talking about this, but it was like

787
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: somebody said, who wants to take a ride with at Sting?

788
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: And it was like eighties wrestling, and then Steing responds,

789
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: who wants to take a last ride with Sting? Which

790
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: of course then fueled the fire for that. And I

791
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: was like, if you do this now, save it for

792
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: WrestleMania next year. Don't don't just throw it into a

793
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: pay per view and be like we're getting Undertaker and

794
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: Sting at you know, fast Lane.

795
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that would be really dumb, but you know,

796
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 5: what are you gonna be?

797
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: But but I mean that you can get that kind

798
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: of match, and then you could bring in like a

799
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: Sting who's you know, you don't want to put him

800
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: in in an actual wrestling match, So it's like, okay,

801
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: let's do one of these stories, one of these you know,

802
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: cinematic matches. I mean, you could do Goldberg that way

803
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: and not have him look bad like he did at

804
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia because I mean, imagine, imagine if Undertaker was like,

805
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: fuck it, I'm done after that Goldberg Saudi Arabia match. Like,

806
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: imagine if that was his last match.

807
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I mean like for a lot of people

808
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 5: that you know what I mean, like that would have

809
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 5: been like, well, I'm never doing that again. But yeah,

810
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 5: I don't know. I just I mean, and that's kind

811
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 5: of why I I'm okay if Seeing Punk never comes back,

812
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 5: because like I just I respect somebody that's like, that's it.

813
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 5: I'm done. You know, I've done everything I can do

814
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 5: and I'm not coming back. And you know, the nice

815
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 5: thing is it's been a long time since we've heard

816
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 5: a lot any rumors about Seampunk coming back. I mean,

817
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 5: when he started doing the The Fox Show, obviously that

818
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 5: kind of peaud some interest. But you know, I think

819
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,720
Speaker 5: I think people are starting to finally realize he's he's

820
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 5: he's not coming back.

821
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: So and that's the one thing that I do like

822
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: about how there's not a live crowd is you don't

823
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: have the CM Punk chance anymore or the Stone Cold

824
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: what That's that's the one I hate, Yes, but that's

825
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,720
Speaker 1: the thing is like what was what was the last

826
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: was it Monday Night Raw was at the last event

827
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: that we got to go to live big event? No

828
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: we went to No, we went to Ring of Honor.

829
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 5: Well, yeah we did. Monday Night Raw was in December.

830
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 5: New Japan was in January, and Ring of Honor was

831
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 5: in February. That was the last and then I think

832
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 5: I actually did Tried and True. I think that's actually

833
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 5: after the Ring of Honor like the week after that.

834
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 5: But but those are the last major ones we got.

835
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: I think KB went to the up show.

836
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, on the like March fifteenth or something that.

837
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: Was right is when the pandemic was hitting it. I

838
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: shut everything down.

839
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 5: I don't want to risk it.

840
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, because you know, and you know what

841
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 1: I want to see though, is like what once we

842
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: kind of get back to normal with everything with this pandemic, Like,

843
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: how's how's a live wrestling event going to look? I mean,

844
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: GCW has been doing a phenomenal job they you know,

845
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: they did the event a couple of weeks back outside.

846
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: It had everybody spaced out and it was great. And

847
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: so that makes you think, is there going to be

848
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: a lot more outdoor wrestlings? Like are we going to

849
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:52,359
Speaker 1: see wrestling at the ball field where the Nashville Sounds play.

850
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: Can we see a wrestling event at bi Centennial Mall

851
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: or Centennial Park like that could be the fun part

852
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: of like doing wrestling outside.

853
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 5: I shout attend those I hate the heat.

854
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. I'm a white, redheaded dude,

855
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: and so if I'm out in any sun for five minutes,

856
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm screwed.

857
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, now that I shave my head, I have to

858
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 5: worry about my head getting sunburnt too, But yeah, I don't.

859
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 5: My body doesn't handle heat very well. So so if

860
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 5: that's the future, then I'll be a TV watcher because

861
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 5: I will not be attending any live events outside.

862
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it'll be interesting to see how things

863
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: go out. And speaking of kind of the pandemic, I

864
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: finally got in my mask this week because I've been

865
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: just wearing just a normal face mask. But you know,

866
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: I can't do just normal when it comes to certain things.

867
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: So I found somebody. No I cannot, So I found

868
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: somebody on e Bay who handmakes Luca door masks, and

869
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: I have a Ray Mysterio face mask that I wear

870
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: in public. Now looks really awesome. It is. We'll have

871
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: to put a photo up. You can check it out.

872
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: It's we'll put it up on our Instagram. It's a

873
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: Battleground podcast where you can get them. And uh, there

874
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: was multiples. There's like Ray Mysterio and there's Psychosis and

875
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: La Parka and uh they had Pentagon and I mean,

876
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: the thing is phenomenal. And I looked like a complete

877
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: dumb ask because I was like, I put it on

878
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: the wrong way the first part, so I was like,

879
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: this doesn't fit my face. And then I realize, oh,

880
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: you're an idiot. You got to turn the strings around

881
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: and it goes this way, not that way it happens.

882
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: I was like, damn it. But it's so funny though,

883
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: when I'm walking to the grocery store or whatnot out

884
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: in public and uh, you know, seeing everybody's looks of

885
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 1: that mask because it's not the normal surgical mask and

886
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: everything else, and we're we're not on here talking about

887
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: why you should wear a mask or why you shouldn't

888
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: wear a mask. I mean that's your preference. I mean,

889
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: I've got two kids, and I've got one kid that

890
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: has breathing in so it's like I'm gonna wear a

891
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: mask of public like, you know, to each their own,

892
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: to each their own. But yeah, so uh so yeah

893
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: the Undertaker thing, man, it you know, it's it sucks.

894
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 1: But is he really retired though, because I think somebody

895
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: was saying, like, he will officially retire like after Survivors Series,

896
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: because that was when he debuted.

897
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know. I mean, if he says

898
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 5: he's done and then he comes back for one more

899
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 5: match at the end of the year, like I'm not

900
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,919
Speaker 5: gonna like cry about it, but like, just make sure

901
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 5: that's it, you know what I mean, Like.

902
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: Don't don't keep coming back to it.

903
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,320
Speaker 5: Like the shit you did with WrestleMania where you lost

904
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 5: to Roman and you put all your gear in there

905
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 5: and everyone's like, thank you Taker, and it was all

906
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 5: this thing for weeks and weeks and weeks and then

907
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 5: oh just kidding, like and I really.

908
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 1: Thought he was done because when he folded up everything

909
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: and did all that shit, I was like, Okay, cool,

910
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: you passing of the torch, you handed off the room

911
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah, that's it the end. Undertaker's done

912
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: and he went out on top.

913
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I was just bummed that that was

914
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 5: his final match, But you know, uh, but you know whatever,

915
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 5: I you know, at this point, I think everyone just

916
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 5: wants them to be healthy and happy. So if that's retiring,

917
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 5: please do it. If that's one match year, I mean

918
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,280
Speaker 5: whatever it is, just like kind of make a decision

919
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 5: and stick with it.

920
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: So yes, but it's kudos to him for going out

921
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: on his own terms and him just being like, you

922
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: know what, I'm good, Like I'm gonna enjoy my life.

923
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy this because it's like, you don't see

924
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 1: Austin trying to climb back in the ring. But also

925
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: Austin can't because of you know, certain injuries that he's had.

926
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: But you could open up a cinematic match for Austin

927
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: and that's that's the fun thing now, is like you

928
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: can kick around all these ideas of guys. It's like

929
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: Austin who you know when we'll be had Jim ross

930
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: On because I talked to him about, you know, Austin

931
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 1: it back in the ring, and he was like Austin,

932
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: you know, him stunning people and all that other stuff.

933
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: It's a controlled environment and he's in control. Whereas you know,

934
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,760
Speaker 1: so and so giving Austin an Irish or Irish Irish

935
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,760
Speaker 1: whip man. I can't talk today into the corner. I mean,

936
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: you know, if they throw him the wrong way, that

937
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: could kill him or whatnot. So now you can give

938
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: him the you know, the cinematic match that everybody wants

939
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: to see. You could put you know, Sean Michaels back

940
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,439
Speaker 1: in there, even though Sean can still go, you could

941
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: have him. I mean, there's unlimited amounts of options you

942
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: can do for these matches. Yeah.

943
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think now that they've gotten some

944
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 5: positive feedback from these, I think we'll probably start seeing

945
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 5: them more often.

946
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, so, and that's that's I'm excited about that

947
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: because I'm very interested to see this Bray Wyatts and

948
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: Bronzed and Bayou Swamp, extreme rules, horror stories match, whatever

949
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: you call it.

950
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 5: I think it'll be good. You know, his match with Sena,

951
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 5: the cinematic match at Mania was good. I think they're

952
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 5: gonna tie in things from the the Wyatt family since

953
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,959
Speaker 5: they were both in there. So I think we're gonna

954
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 5: see a bunch of that kind of stuff. But uh yeah,

955
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 5: I think uh that you know, that'll probably be the

956
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 5: highlight for a pay per view.

957
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: I have zero interest in watching, so yeah, I will

958
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 1: be watching it for that and that match only because

959
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: I was reading reports. I think like bor Ash is

960
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: involved in a triple h is involved with it, and

961
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: I think Michael P. Hayes has his finger in it.

962
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: Even though I think Michael is about to have surgery.

963
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: I think he was like more of a scouting location

964
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,760
Speaker 1: kind of person. But yeah, that's gonna be an exciting

965
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: match to watch. And then of course, you know you've

966
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: got matches this week. Not sure what's gonna happen on

967
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 1: Raw tonight, and then of course you got Fighter Fest

968
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: and Great American Bash Wednesday night, and then SmackDown, and

969
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: then you've got Impact Slammiversary in a couple of weeks, which,

970
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: by the way, we will be giving away a code.

971
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: We're teamed up with Fight, letting y'all know this. Now

972
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: we've teamed up with Fight, We're gonna give away codes

973
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: that you could watch Impact Slammiversary, which I mean, they

974
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: have been doing all the right things and we could

975
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: we could discuss this next week because it can be

976
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 1: a kind of looking ahead at Slammiversary because they've been

977
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: doing all the right stuff and we can kind of

978
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: talk about the whole Tessa Blanchard thing being released from

979
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: you know, Impact Wrestling, if we want to spend time

980
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: on that, but from everything that I've heard from you know,

981
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: people within the company and you know, people that know

982
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: her personally, and also other stuff that she was just

983
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: not fun to deal with. But yeah, so we'll give

984
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: away a code for Impact Slamiversary and we'll kind of

985
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 1: talk about that because they've been teasing. Are we getting

986
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: Ace's eight? Is Eacy three? Is you know Gallas and

987
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: Andrews coming back and Anderson come back and there's so

988
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: many things happening with Impact and they're doing all the

989
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: right stuff, which is very exciting to watch Slimmiversary. But yeah,

990
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 1: so that's kind of the end of the Today's show

991
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: for the week, so or for Monday show. So is

992
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: there anything else? Do we miss anything? Do we I

993
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: think that's it.

994
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 5: I think those are you know, without diving into the

995
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 5: crappy stuff, I think that's I think that's a pretty

996
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 5: solid Uh. I mean we crushed it. I mean we

997
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 5: crushed another you know.

998
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: There, we did. Yes, we did, and we do greatly

999
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys hanging out with us and spending time

1000
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: on the show. I mean, I know there's tons of

1001
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: wrestling podcasts and you've selected to hang out with us,

1002
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: and we do appreciate that. We're on Instagram, give us

1003
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: a follow Battleground Podcast. We're doing a contest right now, which,

1004
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: by the way, that ends later this week, so you've

1005
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: got a few days left to get in on the contest.

1006
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: You could win. We've teamed up with a Funko guy

1007
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: that's here in town, here in Nashville, who has his

1008
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: own company. It's called Popping Off Toys, and he has

1009
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: been generous enough to give us two Funko Pop and

1010
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: you could win both of them. Literally, you're gonna win

1011
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: both of them in this contest. It is a funk

1012
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: Co Chase Pop and a Funko Naomi Pop. Just head

1013
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 1: over to our Instagram Battleground podcast and you can find

1014
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: out how you can win those. And of course, uh Twitter,

1015
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: it's Battleground IHR and the more followers that we have

1016
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: on Instagram and stuff, We're gonna do more contests because

1017
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking, you know, in my home studio right now

1018
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 1: and there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven wrestling

1019
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: chairs from pay per views. I've got Wrestledmania Night of

1020
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: Champions Payback fast Lane. I've got some autograph stuff that

1021
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:39,240
Speaker 1: is in the Battleground podcast storage closet. I mean, there's

1022
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: I've got some pretty big stuff that we're gonna give away.

1023
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we finally we finally crossed seven hundred

1024
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 5: followers on uh what Instagram. We kind of were hanging

1025
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 5: in limbo there for a long time. We were in

1026
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 5: the six eighty six ninety range for felt like months,

1027
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:06,919
Speaker 5: So that was cool and yeah, so you know, it's

1028
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 5: just kind of one of those you know, the more.

1029
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, whatever, the more followers that we can get,

1030
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: the more cool contest we're gonna do. Because there's so

1031
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 1: many things. There's so many things that we could do,

1032
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 1: and there's so many things that I'm just sitting here

1033
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 1: looking in in like the corner of my studio here

1034
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 1: at the house of like stuff that could give away.

1035
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: Like we've got more Funko pops, we've got autograph funks,

1036
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:42,720
Speaker 1: we've got autograph action figures. We're working potentially about maybe

1037
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, giving away a wrestling belt. Maybe that

1038
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:51,240
Speaker 1: that's we're kind of in talks with a belt company

1039
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 1: that's a very big name belt company that uh, you know,

1040
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 1: could be given away a wrestling belt soon, so maybe yeah.

1041
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: So make sure that you follow us on Instagram Battleground Podcast.

1042
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 1: You follow us, we'll follow you right back and you

1043
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:06,920
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1044
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:08,919
Speaker 1: if you could do us a favor once you're done

1045
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, if you're listening on an Apple podcast,

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00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,359
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1048
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1050
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Speaker 1: the better we can move up in the ranks. And

1052
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: the bigger the things that we can give away, and

1053
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: the bigger the guests that we can get on. And

1054
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's a team's thing and we're all family

1055
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: and we do appreciate you guys being here with us

1056
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: for the show every week. One Team, one dream Boom.

1057
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Speaker 1: There it is, and that's how we end the show

1058
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Speaker 1: right there.

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Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

1060
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 2: Make sure you give it five stars and a nice

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