WEBVTT - Scott Hall Fan Calls/NXT Preview 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:14.960 Read Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.440 Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.639 day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.360 Pacific sixth eastern. Well, it's Tuesday here on this show. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.680 We got a lot to talk about here today. Yeah, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:33.160 not even been most of the show talking about Scott Hall, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.760 who at the time was I was not doing well 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.479 and uh yesterday at about five Pacific eight eastern. Actually, 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:42.960 I believe that it might have been w w E 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.960 that made the first announcement that that he had passed away. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.879 But he passed away yesterday about five Pacific eight eastern, 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.600 and w W had a graphic for him at the 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.920 start of the show and video package later on in 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.760 the show, which was a very very good video package. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.600 Had a lot of people raving about it, and I 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.920 was told from somebody there that it was actually a 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:10.200 very old video package and they updated the voice over obviously, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.120 but that if you enjoyed it, they're working on a 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:17.520 brand new one that is going to probably be a 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.800 w W dot com exclusive, but they have a a 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.000 new video package of working on for Scott Hall that 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.080 I'm told is really really cool talking to a lot 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.560 of people, so that should be up soon. But yesterday 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:33.400 we took a bunch of calls and text messages emails, 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.039 so we are going to continue that today. If you 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.000 have more that you'd like to uh to say regarding 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:43.120 Scott Hall, the text message line four to five seven 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.920 eight zero seven five six six. That is four to 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.200 five seven eight zero seven five six six. You can 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.960 send emails Bryan at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.200 Alvarez on Twitter, and we will go over a lot 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.600 of those during the show here today. Not really any 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:04.080 news that we didn't talk about regarding Scott Hall from yesterday, 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.920 but we can talk more about moments in his career, etcetera, etcetera. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.800 So feel free to drop us a line with whatever's 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:17.079 on your mind. And of course we've also got NUDS Cody. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.280 Hopefully I can get that out of the way quickly, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.760 and we've got a n x T show coming up tonight. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.520 A w is pretty much sold out tomorrow. WrestleMania also 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.520 stuff to get into today back in a moment Abserver 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:46.680 Live sometimes Love back in the show brand Albert is here, 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:51.280 Wrestling Observer Alive, Mike's and Burbti also Wrestling Observer dot Com. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.919 Yes he is back. Yesterday went to uh see the 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:01.480 Boogie Woogie Man or something like that Boogie Compound, the 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:07.560 Buoy wiggey Man's wrestling camp and UH say, what, why'd 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:12.000 you go? Here's believe it or not. Kevin Gill has 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.240 been talking about it for a long time of the 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.480 wrestling announcer and most notably for g CW right now 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.600 is talking about his love of the Buoy woogey Man 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.440 Jimmy Valiant and he's always talked about going, which and 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:28.040 it's in Shawsville, Virginia's southwest of Roano. God is way 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.600 down there in the hills of Virginia. And I said, hey, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.200 you know, if you ever go, let me know because 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.080 it would be a huge role wind. But I'll make 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.720 that trip. And he said, well, here's the thing. I'm 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.320 going on Monday because they were down in Georgia, uh 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.720 down in Atlanta and Charlotte this weekend. So he ended 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.640 up coming up from Charlotte. I made the eight hour 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.400 trip nearly it's about seven hours with traffic, it felt 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.960 like about fifty, but it's It was one eight hundred 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.119 thirty mile nineteen hour whirlwind to go down and see 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.560 the Boogie Woogie Man and meet him down there, and 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.440 it was absolutely worth it for somebody like me was 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.640 a big fan of Valiant, big fan of mid Atlantic 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.120 and n w A Wrestling, and just a big fan 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.960 of history. He has got so much history all over 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.159 that place and could not have been any nicer and 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.800 sweeter with this time. Gave us a ton of it, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.360 just took us around, showed us everything. The property is incredible, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.239 So it was a it was a huge amount of fun, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.840 as you ended up seeing from the tweet that went 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:37.279 out yesterday, and they sure did well. Let's get into 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.440 the news here that we're talking more about that later. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.279 I want to uh, we spent a lot of yesterday 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.120 talking about Scott HALLI will talk more about that here 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.680 in a while, but man, I I logged in that 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.359 chat and all I saw this morning was Cody. Do 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:54.680 you remember, like back in the early nineties, when you know, 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.280 let's say that that Repo man was coming to coming 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:03.679 to raw or whatever, and you'd see these these vignettes. Actually, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.080 you know what a great one to be with Scott Hall. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.560 When Scott Hall was coming as Razor Ramone, they they 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.080 did vignette after vignette. He's he's out here doing this, 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.200 he's out here doing that, he's flashing his gold He's 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.120 and you waited, and you waited, and you waited, and 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.719 you waited, and you waited, and you waited and you waited. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.200 You watched the video over and over again every week, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.920 and then finally one day the guy showed up. Boy, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:32.120 do we live in a different time? God? Last night? Hi, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.039 that's it. I'm done with this Cody thing. I'm stomped, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.120 sick of it. I'm sick of waiting. I've heard that. Dude. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.840 What we talked about yesterday is exactly where we are 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.919 today originally. And this happens a lot in w W E. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.760 He was gonna debut yesterday because it was Jacksonville. Well 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.080 he did it. Did you watch the show? I think 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.960 some of you didn't watch the show. You just got 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.440 mad that he wasn't there. The entire show was built 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:08.560 around seth Rawlins not having a path to WrestleMania, and 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.240 he came up with this idea that he was going 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:16.040 to basically steal his best friend's gimmick. Remember that old 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.960 song My best Friends gim mick. Anyway, that's what this 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.240 was all about. So he wanted to do his own 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:27.080 talk show and he wanted to steal Stone Cold Steve Austin, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.120 and so Kevin Ollen's like wrote that this is my idea. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.279 You can't steal my spot, And so it led to 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.000 a main event, a main event where Kevin Owens face 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.080 Seth Rawlins and the winner got the talk show and 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:46.039 Steve Austin and Kevin Owens won, and the show ends 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.240 with Seth sadly staring at the WrestleMania side as the 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.800 announcers tell us he doesn't have a match, he has 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.640 no path to WrestleMania. He's gonna be watching the show 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:05.839 on his television at home. In what universe can you 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.359 watch this show and conclude, Ah is Cody thing is 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.080 all a work. He's gonna run a ring of honor. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.440 He's just gonna go back tight bro. I don't know 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.200 for sure that he signed, but I would say, like 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.440 with about certainty, that he's signed, sealed and delivered, and 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.800 he's he's on his way in why there's no patience. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.720 White people are so angry about this. I don't know. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.400 I mean, if you want to be angry about it, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.960 go for I've been sitting here on my own board 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:41.160 for days reading about how poorly they have botched the 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.760 debut of Cody and now he's a failure in w 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:50.840 W E. He hasn't even shown up yet. Whatever we do? 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.560 You even know what the hold up is? The hold 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.040 up is they want to do an angle, that's it. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:01.560 So what are people complaining about? Because they want him 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:05.080 here now? I heard he was going a week ago. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.320 I'm sick awaiting. I don't even care anymore. I'm gonna 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.680 go watch Blow Deck Mediterranean or what's the new one, 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.320 Temptation Island. I'm setting my DVR for Temptation Island. I'm 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.080 sick awaiting for this guy. They don't know, watch something else. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.720 Now they've lost my fandom. Oh my god, original Fox 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.840 version of that do you ever watch? It? Was crazy? 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.560 But look, hey, this guy's going. Brian wants us to 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:36.240 let it play out. Yeah, nothing's happened yet. He hasn't 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.600 even showed off. He hasn't he made his first appearance. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.080 I've heard what a failure his debut was what a failure? 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.240 His run is? How they just don't know how to 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:50.120 use anybody? How bro, he hasn't even shown up. Where 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.120 were all these people during the prediction show, because apparently 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:58.520 they're great prognosticators. Where were you? You better win? You 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.800 better win this year? So the issue is they don't 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.199 like what ww E was doing with something that they 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.599 haven't even started. They're very upset about an angle that 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.400 hasn't even occurred yet. Well, they're very upset about a 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.400 debut that hasn't happened. What what if this whole master 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.720 plan is something leading to after Rustlemania and they have 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.880 some other sleight of hate might be but it was weird, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.920 But they won't because it was clear if you watch 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.720 the show that they're doing an angle to lead to 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.200 Cody versus Seth, which we've been talking about for weeks now. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.560 I'm sorry it didn't happen yesterday. I'm sorry it didn't 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.120 happen a week ago. Dude. Listen, here's the thing to me, 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.840 there's plenty if you want to say bad things about 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.720 w w E booking or shaken what I mean, there's 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.520 a million things you can bury w E about it 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.760 hasn't even happened yet. Why are we fixated on this, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:59.080 of all things, because it's Cody. God, because it's Cody. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.520 This is why initially after everything went down as that, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.560 our martysik of this because it's got nothing really to 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.360 do with the story. The interesting part of the quote 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.720 story for me will be written like five years from now, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.520 when everything shakes out, when all the emotions calmed down, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.679 when we get perspective on what differences were. And they 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.640 hated each other that day, That's what I heard. They 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.360 hated each other. It's like, no, they got into it 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.120 over a meeting, they disagreed, they were hot with each other. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.520 They did hate each other for a couple hours because 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.160 that's what happens in business, and then they did business 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.959 again the next day. Maybe that didn't get reported. There's 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.360 all of these things that when it comes to like 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.120 the book or when it comes to the long form 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.560 newsletter that explains exactly what went down with Cody leaving, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.000 I will be interested in that story because everything will 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:50.120 have shaken out by them. But in real time, you 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.880 know what to be quite quite painful. I just had 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.079 an Idea's that. I just had an idea that and 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:00.000 I hope you're all listening, all right, Okay, I am. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.960 What I'm gonna do is in the final segment of 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:07.960 this show, I'm gonna open up the phone lines. Okay, yeah, 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:13.760 and for for for ten minutes. Okay, it's the Cody 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.760 Prediction Show. Okay, I'm not kidding. I want y'all to 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:23.200 tell me today what's gonna happen with Cody by the 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:24.920 end of the year. I'm gonna give a prize to 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.280 the person that's closest at the end of the year, 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.120 not even the end of the month, not even leading you, Nope, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:31.880 by the end of the year, because boy, we've got 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.360 this guy. This guy here says he's gonna be he's 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.680 gonna be chasing time. Brother. I want and I want 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.679 your name so that I can ridicule you at the 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.240 end of the year as well. I want everyone the 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.280 last segment of this show is going to be the 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.680 Cody Prediction Show. I want you to tell me what's 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.920 gonna happen between now in the end of the year 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.560 with Cody. Okay, And I'm gonna give a prize so 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.680 like you can be all wacky and do oh well, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.040 you know he's gonna you know, you know he's gonna lose. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.480 I it to me, you can do that if you 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.960 want to, but you ain't gonna win. And I was like, hey, listen, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.960 I give good prizes. There's no joke. Asked Mike, is 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.040 this like the prediction contest? Do they have to get 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.160 closest or they have to nail it? Whoever is closest wins? 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:39.400 All right back in a moment Observer Live. Back in 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.440 the show, Brian albare is here Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.160 simper Viv also of Wrestling Observer at dot com. By 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.000 the way, to go to my twitter at Brian Alvarez. 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.960 I retweeted a a news story on the y WF, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:02.800 which actually was from n was because we were still 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.480 running shows at the the gymnastics facility, was before we 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.040 got booted out for insurance issues and I was forced 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:14.120 to start a newsletter and the rest is history. But 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.360 if you want to check it out a second, it's 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:20.480 up there right now. Is this a real news article 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.800 or is this out of like the Free Weeks video. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:30.320 It's como news. Oh my god, it's amazing slow news 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.520 day that day you'll see uh, you'll see the beast, 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:38.560 the Psycho Young Sammy Gavara, the hit man who did 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.439 the he Wars mask for the news thing. That was awesome. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.040 Psycho's mother, that's a good one. Yeah, check it out. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:52.719 And yes, everybody her her first years as he was 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.600 real enough to make me think it was all real. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.600 He wasn't an exaggeration as much as an embellishment. Considering 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.480 his demons came from the fact that he took a 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.360 man's life. He looked dangerous because he was dangerous, and 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.200 as a fan, his finisher looked dangerous, which made me 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.400 think he was a badass. But as a man on 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.120 the precipice of his forties, there's a human connection watching 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.520 him battle his demons. There's an inspiration that comes from 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.839 the fact he never gave up fighting. He didn't want 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.960 to give into the PTSD and be a sober man 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.560 because he knew that man was a better man, maybe 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.360 a good man. There's something humbling that, despite his mistakes 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.360 and pitfalls, he never gave up on himself, that he 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.000 tried to be better. And of course it's a reference 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:35.640 to Scott Hall. This person here says this is hey, yo, 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:41.320 this is Don the Don rast Burger, and he's got 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.240 a song that he was thinking of at the time 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.560 and basically said, Scott fought valiantly with this and never 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.360 tried to hide it. A model human being, thanks for 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.560 all of the wonderful memories. Hugged someone that you love. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.080 I'm not sure if Scott Hall would say that he 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.160 was a model human No, no, Scott Hall wouldn't even 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.440 say Scott All was a model human being, you know, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.480 but he was. He was the ultimate pro wrestling character, 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:10.360 for good and for bad. He he exemplified pro wrestling, 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.880 both in good and bad. Where else could a guy 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:18.320 like that function achieved success, achieved the notoriety, achieved the 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.200 fandom that he has to this very day. Where Else 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.000 what other sport could take somebody such a free spirit 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.800 like Scott Hall and and make him the top of 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.520 his chosen field. And it did. But also he came 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.840 up at a time where what we know in hindsight 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:41.360 now his mental health was damaged a long time before 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.640 he got into pro wrestling. And with all the drugs, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.920 with all the lifestyle, with all the booze, the booze 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.000 that really, you know, really got him, you know. It 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.680 also was unfortunately a pro wrestling story as well too. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.800 I mean it was the He was the ultimate best 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.040 and worst of everything with pro wrestling, and he should 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.800 be looked at now as a the ultimate learning tool 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.120 both inside the ring on what to do sometimes what 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.520 not to do if you're trying to put somebody over, 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.560 but also how to care yourself, how to know your worth, 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.360 how to all that stuff, but also obviously of what 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.360 not to do, and and the steps that other people 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.720 need to take sometimes on your behalf to step in 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.160 to make sure you get the help that you need. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.120 And it doesn't get to that level. As a widow 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.920 of a man who died from a drug overdose, as 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.920 person said, never got a chance to live his life clean. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.120 It's over. I'm so glad that Scott's been his last 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.440 year's clean. He got to know how valuable to the 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.400 world he is, loved, wanted and needed something that my 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:48.800 husband never knew. Do you want Texas seven eight zero 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:56.520 seven five six six is the phone number? And uh man, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.640 here we go. All the all the other texts are 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:02.400 about Cody should have known. Cody didn't show up, but 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:07.080 they said seth WrestleMania plans were dashed and that this 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.000 was his nightmare. I guess they signed him and are 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.720 just gonna wait till next week. I'm pretty sure he signed. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.560 I don't know for for sure, but certainly everything is 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.200 leading in that direction. I ask you a question before 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.760 you go on, because we kind of brought this up 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.600 last weekend. It's like, hey, no, if they don't date 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.520 bum and Jacksonville, I look at WrestleMania and I go, 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.440 his name is not gonna add one single by It's 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.639 not the insult Cody, but with what they already have 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.240 and with what the whole deal is, you know, would 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.719 he be more impactful to kind of build it up 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.000 in the heavy teas at where raw he's gonna show up? 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.000 You know what I mean? That next night, see really 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.160 have something to jump off on, because we've seen there 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.879 is no jump off really, you know, there's gonna be 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.760 a little bump, but there's not that bump that they 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.680 used to get. But obviously they have no other plan 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.800 for Seth But you know, I to me, I don't know. 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.680 I still would have probably the idea of doing another 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.159 plan for Seft for Mania and then having Cody debut afterwards, 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.240 to me, could have just as equal as impact. You're 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.440 looking at this wrong way, Mike, and any other year 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.800 then absolutely he probably should debut the night after WrestleMania. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.400 So people actually care about the raw after WrestleMania again, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.200 since they haven't done jack for the raw after wrestlemanian 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.840 years now. But we're we're we're at the two night 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.560 WrestleMania where they're like fifty eight thousand tickets each night 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.439 and they want eighty. So they're gonna put everything that 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.520 they can get on that WrestleMania card. You know, whether 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.640 whether you think he's gonna sell tickets or not, they 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.639 think we need to put every possible thing that we 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.600 could have on both of these nights of WrestleMania. Because, 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.280 as I've said it before, this this year's WrestleMania getting 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.640 eighty thousand tickets, it's not about how much money you're 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.080 gonna make if you sell eighty thousand ticket, it doesn't 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.040 matter at all. It doesn't matter that the gate from 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.800 Madison Square Garden was like six thousand dollars. It's all 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:03.159 about the the uh whatever the word is. You know, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.280 they want people to think this is hot. You know, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.640 they want ten thousand people in Madison Square Guarden, even 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.159 if they lose money. They want they want eighty thousand 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.240 people each night and WrestleMania even if you know whatever, 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.760 that's more important. It's not like, you know, they made 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.560 a billion dollars last year, it wasn't from selling tickets. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:25.760 That means literally nothing. It's all perception. And so they're 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.280 gonna throw everything on these two. We got the return 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.760 of Stone Cold Steve Austin. I wouldn't be the least 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.320 bit surprised if they shot an angle Saturday to do 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.320 something with the guy. On Sunday. We have got uh, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.480 you know, Cody's coming in, and we've got uh, Pat 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.600 McAfee is wrestling, and Vince is going to be involved, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:49.640 and we've got Logan Paul every They're gonna throw everything 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.160 at this to try to sell those tickets. Man, talk 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.159 about robbing Peter to pay Paul too, because it's like, 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.560 you want to sell those tickets. But that raw after 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.280 Mania main not get that bump that you want, which 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.399 you know, USA could use that bomb obviously for the 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.600 sake to tear in. But then again on the flip side, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.160 well they got another name for Peacock and another big 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.360 deal for their for the other part of the company. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.040 It's uh, it's funny how w w E and very 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.840 impressive for them with the way they have themselves, you know, 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.480 intermingled with things right now. And it's amazing again, it's 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:26.360 amazing how much USA is relying upon w w E. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.280 Good and good for business wise for w w E. 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.600 No question, this person here says I'm not watching WrestleMania, 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.640 but if they announced Cody, I will watch that night. 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:41.520 I cannot be the only one. We'll be. We'll be 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.760 look for a w fans and for people that are 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:45.920 partial there, whether it's to see Cody fall in the 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.840 phase on the space, whether it's the see Cody succeed 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.359 because you like him, you have no animous towards him 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.399 or Brandy or any of that stuff. Whether people are 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.280 hate watching, they will absolutely be people that maybe would 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.080 have been watching almost anything else and catching up on 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.239 indie shows from the weekend. No matter what it is, 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.000 it might say, yeah, okay, I'll linger at least just 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.080 as long as to see Cody. This person years is 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.760 this w W we actually think we believe Seth won't 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.119 be in wrestle menia. I can't see anyone with the 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.399 brain actually believe in this. Well, I don't care. I 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.439 can't either, And listen. No, of course, of course I 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.120 think they think, you know, it's an angle, But apparently 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.240 they gave some people too much credit, which is rare, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:31.400 by the way. Usually they give their fans no credit perstances. 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.400 They're gonna need a new world title after Wrestle Menia. 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.760 I think Cody will be the first. Him. Well, my friend, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.920 in the next segment, you can call and log your 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:44.560 Cody prediction because the Cody prediction contest is coming up 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:50.840 at Circle of Cody Triple H. That we get from 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:54.159 being there and and and being one of the handpicked 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:58.719 guys him and Ted Dviasi Jr. And and Randy and 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.280 for a second there man new you know this is 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.200 what's gonna lead everybody into the new w w F, 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:09.679 into the new millennium. And then we get him destroying 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.080 the whole deal with the throne when he shows up 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.399 and the big overdone entrance and all these things and 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:19.240 all these comparisons and and jokes people out for him 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.879 and Triple H to come back and actually be handed. 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.760 Maybe they can get Bishoff back to get him back 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:28.159 there and handed the championship the same way that Triple 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.760 H was Big Gold. Can you imagine can you imagine 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.720 full circle for Cody Rhodes. The person says, I got 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.240 to see Scott Hall in Evansville, Indiana at a w 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.679 c W house show. We didn't have a camera, but 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:41.760 he still took time for us. Told him I was 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.960 in a backyard wrestling fed. He told us to keep 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:47.400 at it and maybe we would be in a ring 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.840 together someday. He kept my dream alive for years because 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:55.040 of that. The person says, I've been sober fifty two 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.560 days and counting. It's a long road, but it's all 0:22:57.680 --> 0:22:59.920 going to be worth it. Well, good work, dude, good 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:04.439 work really, And also if we got here in the email, Ben, 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.160 people are just mad because the Cody hype made them 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:09.960 waste their time watching raw or they are just desperate 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:12.639 for something exciting on w w E television and he 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:14.960 wants something to tweet, something to throw on the I 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:18.760 G bitch about something. It's Cody, really, see if you 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:20.840 hate him that much, is he worth the effort? Think 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:25.800