Speaker 1: So I throw down my cash, I get my chips,
Speaker 1: and in about I don't know, seven minutes, ten minutes,
Speaker 1: I have about eight grand and I'm like, oh, I'm ready, dude.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna up my bets and if I get back
Speaker 1: down to my original amount, then I'm gonna just stop.
Speaker 1: At least I didn't lose anything. I didn't win anything,
Speaker 1: but I didn't lose anything. So I up my bets
Speaker 1: to like five hundred or whatever it was. This is
Speaker 1: a long time ago. I'm almost forty nine years old now,
Speaker 1: so I don't remember exactly what it was, but I
Speaker 1: do remember the number when she got down, because she went,
Speaker 1: what the fuck? Now you're mad? Even introducing the hosts,
Speaker 1: Wrestling Win Freddy, Jef Died and for Ready Friends, Junior,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to a brand new episode
Speaker 1: of Wrestling with Friends with Me As always is my
Speaker 1: co host, mister Jeff Dye. I'm Freddy Brinz Junior. Let's
Speaker 1: start the damn show. Jeff, how are you, sir? You're
Speaker 1: looking good?
Speaker 2: Dodgers hat on, it's very respect Yeah, Hey it's October.
Speaker 2: I can't be wearing the Mariners hat no more. I
Speaker 2: gotta pick a playoff team to rock and I'm home
Speaker 2: in LA, back from Vegas, back from Pittsburgh, so I
Speaker 2: decided to put on the La Dodgers hat.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is one of my favorite cities in the world,
Speaker 1: not just this country. I freaking love Vegas. I have
Speaker 1: family that even lives there, friends that have restaurants there.
Speaker 1: I love going. How did you like Las Vegas? Do
Speaker 1: you love Vegas? Or is it dirty? Sometimes people say
Speaker 1: it feels dirty.
Speaker 2: I used to hate Vegas, and then I got some
Speaker 2: money and I was like, oh, this makes sense. You've
Speaker 2: got to have money to spend. It's like, of course
Speaker 2: I hated it. I was like twenty one years old
Speaker 2: and I was broke, and I was staying in a
Speaker 2: hotel room with seven other guys, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't really get it. It's like, yeah, yeah, have
Speaker 2: some money to gamble. You have to have some money
Speaker 2: to go to these expensive shows. But Vegas is really awesome.
Speaker 2: I've also never stayed in downtown Vegas, like Premont Street,
Speaker 2: so like this was a new experience of Vegas and
Speaker 2: that was also great.
Speaker 1: It was cool. Do they take good care of you? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was awesome.
Speaker 2: I was at a comedy festival called skank Fest, which
Speaker 2: was awesome.
Speaker 1: You know they got sank fans.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a bunch of commed Let me tell you,
Speaker 2: there's no skanks. It's just a bunch of guys. They
Speaker 2: call their fans skanks, but like, there's no chicks. There
Speaker 2: was just a bunch of guys that looked like wrestling
Speaker 2: fans who just hit there to see comedy. But it
Speaker 2: was a really, really good time. I do want to
Speaker 2: give a shout out to Scott Thompson Carrot Top. I
Speaker 2: went to carra Tops shown. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Why, I didn't know if it was like wrestling or whatnot.
Speaker 1: I never knew his real name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Scott Tom's well he has said, I assume it's
Speaker 2: okay to say his real name because he has as
Speaker 2: his bio on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then it's fine, dude.
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you from Top to Bottom one
Speaker 2: of the greatest comedy shows I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great, dude. Holy shit, it was insane. He
Speaker 1: didn't miss literally for over ninety minutes, just killing funny
Speaker 1: topical current.
Speaker 2: You had some things about the that were regional, he
Speaker 2: had some things that were edgy, and some things are
Speaker 2: politically had some things that.
Speaker 1: Were cleaned props. It was absolutely amaze.
Speaker 2: Everyone talks trash about carrat Top, family, guys taking digs
Speaker 2: at him, politicians take digs at them, Comics, so go,
Speaker 2: I'm not Carrot Top blah blah blah. Did this guy
Speaker 2: from talk to about me is one of the best
Speaker 2: comedians working.
Speaker 1: I don't know about any of the bullshit that he's
Speaker 1: having to take, but I remember him from back in
Speaker 1: the day when he had, like when he was the
Speaker 1: prop comedian, right, and he would like bring out all
Speaker 1: the stuff, yeah, all that goofy stuff, but it would
Speaker 1: always make me laugh, man, I thought, But I haven't
Speaker 1: seen him in forever. Dude, I haven't heard that name
Speaker 1: in forever.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely incredible because I was going, and you know,
Speaker 2: with the I'm not the I'm honest enough that if
Speaker 2: something sucks, I just say it sucks. I'm not afraid
Speaker 2: to do. Oh God, but how will you know? So
Speaker 2: and so think about this. I don't care if something sucks,
Speaker 2: I just say it's suck.
Speaker 1: So I was ready.
Speaker 2: I would have told carratop of his show, freaking stinks
Speaker 2: if it stinks, And I was blown away. It was
Speaker 2: so incredible, So I wanted to use this podcast just
Speaker 2: say if anyone goes to Vegas, go see Carratops see
Speaker 2: for yourself.
Speaker 1: Is that where he has like a normal thing? There
Speaker 1: is that where he lives now? He's been in Vegas
Speaker 1: for like twenty nine years. Also, he's along life. I
Speaker 1: guess all the way, dude, he's Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's had ten years of the MGM and then
Speaker 2: like fifteen or you know whatever the math works out
Speaker 2: on that at the Luxor.
Speaker 1: So he's just kind of stuck.
Speaker 2: I think that's another reason, like people don't know what
Speaker 2: it's like because he doesn't hang out in our circles.
Speaker 1: He doesn't go on the road. He's just at this casino.
Speaker 1: But anyways, it was very very good you show. I
Speaker 1: won't say who the rock star was, but I saw
Speaker 1: a rock star drop like four hundred thousand dollars at
Speaker 1: the Luxor the first time I ever went there, and
Speaker 1: was just like, holy shit, dude, he was pissed. He
Speaker 1: was not having I'll tell you after the show. Who
Speaker 1: was all right? When you gambled? Did when you gambled?
Speaker 1: Are you like a high stakes gambler or how do you,
Speaker 1: how do you do it high stakes? I guess kind
Speaker 1: of revolves around what you consider high stakes, Like I
Speaker 1: don't gamble anymore. Do you spend a lot compared to
Speaker 1: some people? Probably? Yeah, compared to others. No, I spend
Speaker 1: what I would I be comfortable spending going out on
Speaker 1: a night where I know I'm gonna spend some dough,
Speaker 1: like if I was going to a show and a
Speaker 1: crazy ass dinner. And I've had some crazy ass dinners
Speaker 1: where the bill came in and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I got it, but wow, so I spend like that
Speaker 1: much if I go, if I go to Vegas, whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable losing. And I've never spent a dollar more.
Speaker 1: And I used to win big Man. Sarah and I went.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants us to talk wrestling, but maybe they'll like
Speaker 1: this story. So the first time I ever took Sarah
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas, she was getting ready. We're going to
Speaker 1: go see this show called Oh, which was a circdu
Speaker 1: soilet show, which is all these crazy like gymnasts and
Speaker 1: acrobats and contortionists and fire eaters and and all these
Speaker 1: like mimes and clowns, and they do the show over
Speaker 1: the water where they're doing all these crazy flips and shit,
Speaker 1: and so she's getting ready to do that, and I go,
Speaker 1: I'll go down and play some cards. And I sit
Speaker 1: down and I played blackjack, that's what I like to play.
Speaker 1: And I was playing for one hundred dollars a hand,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'll drop like, you know, two
Speaker 1: three g's while I'm waiting for and it'll be you know,
Speaker 1: it'll still be a good time. There's a number, all right.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to ask you a number, but that
Speaker 1: was a number.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like twenty three, maybe twenty four years old
Speaker 1: when when I first took her to vacancy. So I
Speaker 1: throw down my cash, I get my chips, and in
Speaker 1: about i don't know, seven minutes, ten minutes, I have
Speaker 1: about eight grand. And I'm like, oh, I'm mind, dude.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna up my bets and if I get back
Speaker 1: down to my original amount, then I'm gonna just stop.
Speaker 1: At least I didn't lose anything. I didn't win anything,
Speaker 1: but I didn't lose anything. So I up my bets
Speaker 1: to like five hundred or whatever it was. This is
Speaker 1: a long time ago. I'm almost forty nine years old now,
Speaker 1: so I don't remember exactly what it was, but I
Speaker 1: do remember the number when she got down, because she
Speaker 1: went what the fuck? She came downstairs after only about
Speaker 1: thirty minute, and she goes, what the f. She was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm censoring myself after I just
Speaker 1: because she goes, how much money do you have? I go,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was just waiting for you to
Speaker 1: get down. And she starts counting, and I see the
Speaker 1: pit boss and he's like chewing on his thumb, not
Speaker 1: sucking it, like chewing on it like he's nervous. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, how much freaking money do I have? And
Speaker 1: I counted out and I got thirty eight thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and the dealers keeps playing and I run another hand.
Speaker 1: Now I'm playing like three or four hands. I've got
Speaker 1: the table to myself at the same time, and I'm
Speaker 1: winning some and I'm losing. Someone'm right around the forty
Speaker 1: grand mark. Sarah goes, are you ready to go to
Speaker 1: the show? And I just say yeah, I wasn't there
Speaker 1: to gamble like that. I was there to go. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be late, so I go, yeah, killed.
Speaker 1: The pit boss just goes, oh, let's ound this like
Speaker 1: huge sire relief. Like I was trying to like bang
Speaker 1: them for all they got was no. I was just
Speaker 1: trying to waste time, and I would have been willing
Speaker 1: to lose. But that was the most that I ever won.
Speaker 1: It was like thirty eight thousand, I think when I left,
Speaker 1: and that was the most I ever won in Vegas.
Speaker 1: And I've never lost anywhere near that amount. So my
Speaker 1: number now is not I never lost. I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not a big time gambler like Dana White or some
Speaker 1: crazy dude like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those guys will drop crazy amounts. And I hear
Speaker 2: on these podcasts like burg Kreischer and Sigura and Dana White,
Speaker 2: all these guys are going, oh yeah, like one hundred
Speaker 2: grand I'm trying to win and they're naming all these things.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, when I was broke, like no money,
Speaker 2: I would spend like one hundred dollars at the at
Speaker 2: the tables. I'd be like, all right, a hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: If I win win, that's good. And if I leave
Speaker 2: the hundred that's okay. I had a good time. And
Speaker 2: now it's been twenty something years, I've got some money
Speaker 2: and guess what two hundred dollars how much else I spend,
Speaker 2: good Man, that's about two hundred.
Speaker 1: That's all I got, get two hundreds out. If I
Speaker 1: lost the two hundred, that's a rap jack, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it. I had a night where I just cashed it.
Speaker 1: All I had on me was a thousand cash, and
Speaker 1: so I was like, I'll just get all the chips
Speaker 1: and I'll play twenty five a hand and it'll last
Speaker 1: a while. I lost all of it in like six
Speaker 1: minutes because I was like trying to double it when
Speaker 1: I would lose, and I was like, I'm done, Fuck
Speaker 1: you guys, i'bout here. And that was if I'm on
Speaker 1: a bad run, I don't try to just keep going.
Speaker 1: I let myself go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what that's when he That's what it's dangerous
Speaker 2: is when you go, I gotta I gotta get a batcha.
Speaker 1: I'm never a good idea. Speaking of good runs, I
Speaker 1: kind of love it when I'm wrong sometimes, Jeff, I
Speaker 1: did not think in a million years bron Breaker was
Speaker 1: going to lose that match and main event jay Uso,
Speaker 1: who I'm sure made Rakishi proud. As we said last week,
Speaker 1: Rakeshi was very vocal. I hope they do the right thing.
Speaker 1: He must have known something. Y'all listen to the man,
Speaker 1: but jay Uso Main event jay Uso, and that was
Speaker 1: important for him to get this win, to maintain the
Speaker 1: respect of that of that nickname, that moniker, and and
Speaker 1: to help sell that merch and all the good stuff
Speaker 1: that comes with a great name like that, and main
Speaker 1: event jay Uso is exactly that. That's a great name,
Speaker 1: but he has to win the main event one of
Speaker 1: these days, and he finally did, and he's the Intercontinental Champion.
Speaker 1: The Intercontinental Championship has some of my favorite wrestlers ever.
Speaker 1: They carried it, and it's some of my favorite like
Speaker 1: title reigns ever, Like I hated the Honky Tonk Man
Speaker 1: and he held that thing forever. You could not get
Speaker 1: it off his waist. I rooted for anybody that wrestled
Speaker 1: against him, and they could never freaking win. And that's
Speaker 1: what drew me into that title, and then all the
Speaker 1: people that had it after that, and then learning the
Speaker 1: history when I worked at WWE of all the people
Speaker 1: who had it before him. So it's just a great
Speaker 1: title and I love that he won. I know we
Speaker 1: were on the text chat going, oh my god, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, So you probably already knew the finish before
Speaker 1: you watched it, but did you like the ending?
Speaker 2: I liked it, but I wasn't surprised because well, I
Speaker 2: guess it's not that I wasn't surprised. Either one of
Speaker 2: them would have been a surprise to me. I was like,
Speaker 2: how are they not going to let main event?
Speaker 1: How are they You're smarter than me?
Speaker 2: Then, because both I had no clue, Like, neither one
Speaker 2: makes sense to me, because you don't want Jay to lose,
Speaker 2: but you also don't want to immediately take it off
Speaker 2: of bron Breaker.
Speaker 1: I mean he has barely had in a few months. Anyway.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm that's that's the only thing I can think,
Speaker 2: because all I'm hearing is love. You know, like how
Speaker 2: in a business, you know, like you might not be
Speaker 2: crazy about you might be like indifferent about someone, but
Speaker 2: they're just getting so much buzz that you feel the
Speaker 2: pressure to be like, oh, I think everybody like I
Speaker 2: feel like yeah, and bron Breaker is that guy of
Speaker 2: the last like six months. Literally everyone is like yes,
Speaker 2: bron Breaker, bron Breaker, Bradberg, which is pretty exciting, And
Speaker 2: I just agree. He's got seems to have all the things,
Speaker 2: including spray tan, but I was shocked to see him lose,
Speaker 2: as shocked as I was if they would have had
Speaker 2: Jay Louise really so this, so I would have been
Speaker 2: surprised either way, which makes me not smarter.
Speaker 1: I think bron breaker real story starts in January, when
Speaker 1: WWE is on Netflix and it's starting to go live
Speaker 1: on Netflix, which I can't wait for because I can't
Speaker 1: ever watch these shows live. I have YouTube TV, and
Speaker 1: I'm on the West coast, and they know I've tried
Speaker 1: to cheat the zip code and all that stuff to
Speaker 1: get the East coast feed and I just can't do it.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see that. But I think that's
Speaker 1: when his story starts. He is their guy, so either
Speaker 1: he got in some trouble and that's why they took
Speaker 1: the championship off, in which I don't believe is the
Speaker 1: case at all, or we'd heard about it. They have
Speaker 1: a bigger story plan for him, and it's coming quickly.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to give him some some form
Speaker 1: of the brock Lessner treatment, as far as like a
Speaker 1: rocket ship strapped to him and looking awesome and badass
Speaker 1: and dominant, having guys give him great matches. But the
Speaker 1: only reason you take the belt off him is, I think,
Speaker 1: is if you have bigger plans, and I think those
Speaker 1: plans will start in January and we'll see that that
Speaker 1: trail of him going after who I'm is going to
Speaker 1: be Gunther as the champ, which would be a crazy
Speaker 1: story and a crazy match because that makes bron Breaker
Speaker 1: the good guy. And we all want to like Braun already,
Speaker 1: so instead of him being this sort of like petulant
Speaker 1: child and when he doesn't get what he wants, he
Speaker 1: takes his ball and goes home, except in his case
Speaker 1: he just spears everybody and goes home and pays his fine.
Speaker 1: But now we have like him as a good guy,
Speaker 1: and we're pulling for this dude, a badass good guy granted,
Speaker 1: like a stone cold, badass baby face, but he's coming
Speaker 1: up and he has to take out Gunther, which means
Speaker 1: he'll get to kill Kaiser, which would be a really
Speaker 1: fun match because Kaiser sells like not as good as
Speaker 1: Dolph Ziggler, but his cell's really really good. He'll make
Speaker 1: bron Breaker look great and then we can build him
Speaker 1: up and we us the fans will make him champ. No,
Speaker 1: I think they already have a plan. It won't be
Speaker 1: a Brian Danielson situation where the fans actually made that
Speaker 1: shit happen. But yeah, I'm excited to see what happens
Speaker 1: with Broun, And I was really excited to see made
Speaker 1: I know Jay not well, we're not bros, Like I
Speaker 1: don't have his number, we're not texting. But I worked
Speaker 1: with him a lot when I was at the company,
Speaker 1: and him and his brother were both super super cool.
Speaker 1: Tomno was super cool too, that whole that whole group.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so shout out to him. You shouted out
Speaker 1: Kara Top, I'm shouting out Jays.
Speaker 2: I also think it'll be a wrestling trivia question years
Speaker 2: from now, what was the first belt bron Breaker had
Speaker 2: in WWE like that'll because it was such a short
Speaker 2: ic run that I wonder if, like, we get World
Speaker 2: Champion bron Breaker long enough that that.
Speaker 1: People will just not even remember that he was once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. All Right, Mondon Night Raw
Speaker 1: is still awesome because it has dominic mysterio. Nobody thought
Speaker 1: I was going to say that, By the way, dominic
Speaker 1: mysterio the most misunderstood man and professional wrestling. You guys
Speaker 1: hate him and you boo him. But he's been taken
Speaker 1: advantage of by every woman he's ever been with. They
Speaker 1: have manipulated him, and you guys didn't care. They took
Speaker 1: advantage of his naivete, which nobody cared about. And I said,
Speaker 1: nyavtae all fancy. He's misunderstood. He he's the victim in
Speaker 1: all this. And you guys won't even let the man speak.
Speaker 1: You won't even let him complete one sentence without booing
Speaker 1: him and hating him instead of picking him up, lifting
Speaker 1: him up, cheering him, consoling him, and giving the man
Speaker 1: a hug. Where's my man's hugs? All he does get licked.
Speaker 1: He just gets licked. His cheek gets licked. His tongue
Speaker 1: got licked one time. Gross girls are gross, man. They
Speaker 1: all have cooties. And he's just trying to do his
Speaker 1: thing and be a professional wrestler like his father before him,
Speaker 1: his father who slapped him across the face and spanked
Speaker 1: his butt at a WrestleMania. He humiliated him. And nobody
Speaker 1: feels bad for dominic mysterio except for me. But one day,
Speaker 1: one day, you guys are gonna come around. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see the Rhea is just playing with him like a
Speaker 1: little toy, Like he was not a Sean Michael's boy toy,
Speaker 1: Like just the way a dog plays with a toy
Speaker 1: and then throws it out. They don't care about the
Speaker 1: toy once the squeaky thing comes out. And liv Morgan
Speaker 1: just using him to hurt Rhea ripley. I have love
Speaker 1: for Dominic. I understand Dominic. When I was young, I
Speaker 1: was pretty like Dominic had the ladies coming after me
Speaker 1: like I'm old now so I just luck y'a I'm married.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that you were a lot prettier than No, no, no,
Speaker 2: he's also handsome.
Speaker 1: I forgot to say that, very handsome, misunderstood naives victim.
Speaker 1: But he's a survivor. He survived one horrible relationship. He's
Speaker 1: surviving a second, and he's going to thrive, thrive. I say,
Speaker 1: I love Dominic. Mister you just shaking your head. You
Speaker 1: don't believe it what I'm saying. But he's going to
Speaker 1: be hung in a shark. Ridiculous. He's a bad guy.
Speaker 1: He's a bad guy. He's a good guy. He's going
Speaker 1: to be hung in a shark cage above the ring,
Speaker 1: the way they did Vicky Guerrero back in the day. No,
Speaker 1: it's just terrible. He's going to be scared. He's going
Speaker 1: to be terrified. But it was a misstep by Ria
Speaker 1: Ripley who suggested he be hung in a cage. I
Speaker 1: think she suggested it to Adam Pearson he agreed. Another mistake, Adam,
Speaker 1: another mistake. You got all these wrestlers running rampant. You
Speaker 1: can't control Breaker, you can't control braun Stroman, you can't
Speaker 1: control the guy with the typhoon, Jeff's favorite guy, the
Speaker 1: huge dude from New Zealand. You're out of You're out
Speaker 1: of control. And I have reha put poor domin a
Speaker 1: shark cage match. And this is going to backfire on her, sir.
Speaker 1: And we'll get to our predictions on the Thursday show,
Speaker 1: but i'll give you a little hint right now. I
Speaker 1: think this is going to backfire. He's going to get
Speaker 1: out of the cage and it's going to cost her
Speaker 1: the championship. And I won't be sad because Dominic doesn't
Speaker 1: deserve to be put in a cage. Jeff, how do
Speaker 1: you feel you can get you can take as much
Speaker 1: time hating dominic as I took loving him. If you
Speaker 1: if you feel like it.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no hate here. In fact, I loved
Speaker 2: how bad he is. I think that Dominique Masteriro is
Speaker 2: the greatest heel we've had since the nineties and maybe
Speaker 2: prior to the d because here's the thing, even with
Speaker 2: Eddie Guerrero and you had the the nWo bad guys,
Speaker 2: it still didn't feel And the fans disagree with me,
Speaker 2: comment shiit on me for this. It's okay, I'm not
Speaker 2: that concrete and it I could be moved, but I
Speaker 2: will say he feels like a Ted Debiazzi heel. He
Speaker 2: feels like kind of like a nineties vintage wrestling bad guy.
Speaker 1: With the mustache and the way he like acts. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it's the best heel we've seen since like
Speaker 2: Rick Rude or like a guy back in like the mustache,
Speaker 2: Rick Martel, the model. Oh yeah, but just like it
Speaker 2: has that he's like sexy, but he's greasy, like it's
Speaker 2: like kind of like that like well, it's like it's
Speaker 2: like trying to be sexy, but it's like a weird,
Speaker 2: cheesy moe kind of stepdaddy that's how sexy he is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's confused, you know so.
Speaker 2: But I really do think he's the best heel we've
Speaker 2: had since the nineties and unless I can think of
Speaker 2: because I do there was a lot, there's been a
Speaker 2: lot of good heels since then, but he just feels
Speaker 2: like a classic throwback.
Speaker 1: Like a Jacob. Sure, yeah, for sure, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I love the other story. That's making me sad. That's
Speaker 1: making me sad because it looks like the end of
Speaker 1: the new day. Jeff Kofe tried to make amends with
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods, and he brought back all the old stuff,
Speaker 1: all the old goodies. Remember this trombone we named or
Speaker 1: Francine or Francesca something like that. And he brought back
Speaker 1: the bootios. I think he brought some pancakes with him,
Speaker 1: brought all kinds of goodies with him, all the bootyos stuff.
Speaker 1: And Xavier was not receptive and he said, I think
Speaker 1: you're looking into the past too much, and we need
Speaker 1: to be looking towards the future because our right now
Speaker 1: is we're losing, we're losing matches. And Kofey Acquiesques and
Speaker 1: he's like, yo, okay, you take over, you're going to
Speaker 1: make the decisions. And here's where it's a little tricky
Speaker 1: because Kofe's like the nice, nice guy. But you could
Speaker 1: interpret this as Kofe giving Xavier enough rope to hang
Speaker 1: himself and then saying, see, when you're in charge, shit
Speaker 1: gets messed to. Is not just me a muffle, which
Speaker 1: I think is where this is going. I think that's
Speaker 1: how Kofi intended the dialogue. But here's the thing. The
Speaker 1: New Day cannot break up all right. The Final Testament
Speaker 1: cannot have damaged them that much, which makes me think
Speaker 1: that Big Ee is coming back because he's only one
Speaker 1: that can save the New I can't save him. If
Speaker 1: I showed up on RAW and was like, come on, guys,
Speaker 1: work this shit out. You guys are best friends. It
Speaker 1: might work for a night, but it's not gonna last.
Speaker 1: They need Big Ee, they need the actual member of
Speaker 1: the New Day. I think this was the story they
Speaker 1: were trying to do with the other guy, where he
Speaker 1: was getting replaced. I think Big Ee was gonna come
Speaker 1: in anyway. But he's healthy. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: cleared to wrestle, but he could certainly be a part
Speaker 1: of the show, and he could come back, and he
Speaker 1: could save the New Day from themselves and get them
Speaker 1: back on track, and maybe they get the tag team titles.
Speaker 1: Maybe Xavier gets his first championship, although there's not a
Speaker 1: title out there for him to get right now. He'd
Speaker 1: have to go to smack Down to fight for the
Speaker 1: US title. But who knows what could happen. But I
Speaker 1: think maybe there's a chance that Biggie comes back. Dude,
Speaker 1: what about you?
Speaker 2: I'm actually I never even considered that. I think that's
Speaker 2: really smart. I think that we should constitute that as
Speaker 2: a spoiler. If that happens, everyone's gonna go at you
Speaker 2: spoil because that's really that that's a great idea. I'm
Speaker 2: guessing that's probably what they're doing. I thought we were
Speaker 2: gonna finally get our New Day breakup. I've always wanted
Speaker 2: them to break up. I've always I said this. I
Speaker 2: said it last week, I said I said it before,
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna rehash it. Just go listen to
Speaker 2: last week's episode if you want to hear my take
Speaker 2: on the on the New Day breaking up and what
Speaker 2: I would like to see. However, if you thought that
Speaker 2: what I said about the New Day breaking up was stupid,
Speaker 2: or you disagree, or you would never want to see
Speaker 2: that happen. If you got to book wrestling, I will
Speaker 2: say is they can't get back together if they don't
Speaker 2: break up. So if you do break them up, you
Speaker 2: will get this fantastic New Day reunion and they will
Speaker 2: be as big as ever if you take a break
Speaker 2: from it for a decade or five years or two
Speaker 2: years or one year or whatever. The plane with five years,
Speaker 2: But it does make sense.
Speaker 1: I couldn't wait that long. Yeah, yeah, but they would go.
Speaker 1: I mean I think it would make them just as popular.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. If they all broke and maybe
Speaker 1: they break up and Big Ee is the man that
Speaker 1: gets them back together. Maybe that's what it is. Big
Speaker 1: You'll be making a promo like a band. Someone comes
Speaker 1: out starts beating on Big E, and that makes Kofee
Speaker 1: come out, and Kofe's will getting whooped on. This is
Speaker 1: after the breakup, and then here comes Woods, and Woods
Speaker 1: saves the day and they all get back together and
Speaker 1: then a new Day and everyone's happy. That was terrible booking,
Speaker 1: pretty but that's and they'll call themselves a new every
Speaker 1: time they break up. We just add another new. The
Speaker 1: final story for WWE is and I don't know how
Speaker 1: much of a story it is for other people, but
Speaker 1: for me, I think it's important as Kevin Owens and
Speaker 1: the beginning of this heel turn that I think they've
Speaker 1: they've been dropping seeds for a while now with us
Speaker 1: never getting to hear his opinion on Cody because he
Speaker 1: always gets interrupted before he's going to talk and there's
Speaker 1: always a match. But last week there was a bit
Speaker 1: of confrontation. First, it wasn't confrontation, it was almost dismissal,
Speaker 1: where Cody was like, all right, you guys want to
Speaker 1: have a match to the bloodline, We're going to have
Speaker 1: a match. I'm in this ring with Randy Orton and
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens and myself and we'll fight. And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Kevin Owens interrupts him. He's like, no disrespect, man,
Speaker 1: but you already got a match. I'm talking about me
Speaker 1: and Randy versus Solo and this jerk Jacob Fatu. You
Speaker 1: could chill out, so don't worry about it. And Cody
Speaker 1: just kind of takes it, but he doesn't ever give
Speaker 1: him eye contact. He's just letting that settle and resonate
Speaker 1: and then later in the show, Cody comes in and
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, man, we got to talk. And Ko's like,
Speaker 1: all right, but later, and Cody's like, nah, dude, now,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I said later, I'm talking talking with
Speaker 1: Randy and we're strategizing for our frigging match tonight. You
Speaker 1: can't wait. Why because you're the freaking champ. Oh the
Speaker 1: champ can't win. A champ can't wait. And Randy's like, Yo, dude,
Speaker 1: chill out, chill out. We'll get this all done. And
Speaker 1: Kao's like, yeah, all right, man, whatever, and he takes off,
Speaker 1: and then Randy's like and Ko's like, just leave us
Speaker 1: alone and don't interfere in the match, and he leaves,
Speaker 1: and Randy's like, look, I know what Kevin said, but
Speaker 1: if we're out there and the Bloodline comes out and
Speaker 1: tries to ambush us, if you have our back, that'll
Speaker 1: be cool too. Cody's like, all right, man, thanks. So
Speaker 1: he goes out there, they have their match, and sure shit,
Speaker 1: the Bloodline come out and they're jerks and they cheat
Speaker 1: and here comes Cody and he beats them up. Bow
Speaker 1: bow the check Team champs get beat down. That's what
Speaker 1: it sounded like. When he hit him, and then Jacob
Speaker 1: Fatu grabs him and Kato's what I do great sound
Speaker 1: effects like Michael Winslow from back I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's quick. And then he gets outside the ring and
Speaker 1: Jacob fa tou right when Ko is gonna get this victory,
Speaker 1: he throws him into the ring and he hits the
Speaker 1: referee and the referee falls down and he can't make
Speaker 1: the count. And Kevin doesn't see any of this. He
Speaker 1: does sees Cody in the ring and he's like, what
Speaker 1: the hell are you doing? Get out of the ring.
Speaker 1: Many almost kicked him out of the ring, and then
Speaker 1: he takes a double superkick and then Solo Soko pins
Speaker 1: him one two three and we go off the air,
Speaker 1: and that I think is the final straw. I think
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens has made up his mind and he's going
Speaker 1: to go heal and Cody's going to be the impetus
Speaker 1: for that. Randy won't feel very good about it, So
Speaker 1: I think that'll lead to a Randy Orton Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: match at a pay per view, which would be really cool,
Speaker 1: and then eventually maybe another shot at Kevin against Cody,
Speaker 1: although I don't know. We just saw that. So maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong there and it's more focused on Randy and
Speaker 1: Kevin instead, But I think the turn is inevitable. Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens always turns. He always turns on his friends, and
Speaker 1: I think now we have his reason and his justification
Speaker 1: as to why he should be a selfish son of
Speaker 1: a bitch, which is what he's going to be. Do
Speaker 1: you buy that, Jeff? Of course you do? You buy it?
Speaker 1: I buy it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think all that would be great.
Speaker 2: It's very It's always confusing when they throw guys into
Speaker 2: these kind of like bigger storylines that you go, I
Speaker 2: don't know how they're going to link him in with this,
Speaker 2: like what's his motive? What's going on here? So I'm
Speaker 2: a little lost on it a little bit. I like
Speaker 2: if with anything that's the bloodline, I like.
Speaker 1: I like it. Man. I love Kevin Owens, and he
Speaker 1: will give you a promo that explains everything, and he
Speaker 1: will be unapologetic as he always is. We can talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about ae W. I guess I did
Speaker 1: want to talk about Nigel McGinnis and Brian Danielson having
Speaker 1: that really cool match for Free. I thought the story
Speaker 1: was told well. I thought Nigel McGinnis has been telling
Speaker 1: the preamble to this story for the last six months
Speaker 1: or however long he's been come longer than that, since
Speaker 1: day one that he watched a Danielson match. All he
Speaker 1: does is talk shit about Brian because the history they
Speaker 1: had at another wrestling promotion called Ring of Honor. I'm
Speaker 1: only saying that for people who listen that don't know
Speaker 1: about the old school stuff. I know you hardcorese know
Speaker 1: what's up. But they had a really cool match that
Speaker 1: had a ton of history and the finish of it
Speaker 1: was what was special. And if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: I won't say anything, would really like you to watch it.
Speaker 1: But McGinnis is a heel to the end and at
Speaker 1: his core is a heel, and he hates Brian Danielson
Speaker 1: and I'll leave it at that. And the and the
Speaker 1: match was a ton of fun.
Speaker 2: Also, is there anything better than Is there anything better
Speaker 2: than the final count down?
Speaker 1: Is there anything? I don't know, man, it's so hot
Speaker 1: though when he comes out doesn't miss. It's like it's
Speaker 1: like carrat Top, it doesn't miss. Baby. It was every
Speaker 1: time I hear it, I gotta go check out what
Speaker 1: what carrot tops do? It next time I'm in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Will Ospray is still the friggin man. He tagged up
Speaker 1: with Kyle Fletcher, who's a super super talented wrestler by
Speaker 1: the way, but there was some some friction there because uh,
Speaker 1: Don Kallis is the son of a bitch with a
Speaker 1: screwdriver and he's trying to get people to use it,
Speaker 1: and Fletcher was down to and Will ain't trying to
Speaker 1: win like that. He's not about that life. So we'll
Speaker 1: get a little bit more story there. It'll lead to
Speaker 1: another match between these two young men, I'm sure. And
Speaker 1: the first match they had was awesome, awesome, and it'll
Speaker 1: be so much better for them to have a reason
Speaker 1: to fight than that last match they had where they
Speaker 1: had no reason to fight other than hey, let's wrestle,
Speaker 1: and which is cool. But to get people to, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, to get asses in seats and to sell
Speaker 1: out arenas, people have to really care about the reason why,
Speaker 1: or they need at least a reason why that they
Speaker 1: can hate, just something that they can feel about. And
Speaker 1: I think this could be the impetus to a story
Speaker 1: like that where you can go, Okay, here's why I
Speaker 1: like this guy here's why I hate this guy, and
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna watch him wrestle, so hopefully they do
Speaker 1: something cool with that. Brian Danielson got a little revenge
Speaker 1: on Moxley. Wasn't complete and total revenge, but he tried
Speaker 1: to choke him out and they got beat up by
Speaker 1: like a dudes. He doesn't care and that was a
Speaker 1: pretty much anything on aw you want to hit before
Speaker 1: we go, before we end the show and go to Thursday.
Speaker 1: Not really, but it is good to see more of Claudio.
Speaker 1: I feel like I love Claudio.
Speaker 2: He makes me though I know I every time I
Speaker 2: see him on the screen, I get a little happy.
Speaker 1: I think everybody loves it. Then I finally learned how
Speaker 1: to say his name too. All right, you guys, stay
Speaker 1: tuned for Thursday. We're gonna go over our picks for
Speaker 1: bad Blood, so thank you guys. Oh we have a
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Speaker 1: from Northwest Connecticut. What's up, Max? Great great wrestling name
Speaker 1: Maxwell or Maximus? I don't know what Max is short
Speaker 1: for in your case, here we go. I discovered wrestling
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Speaker 1: and that's awesome, he said, thank you both for your
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