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Speaker 1: What's up everybody, and welcome to a brand new episode

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Speaker 1: Wrestling with Friends. We've got some news for you guys.

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Speaker 1: We have moved our record days from Mondays to Tuesdays

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Speaker 1: now so we can give you the most current updates

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Speaker 1: on what's going on in the world of wrestling. That

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Speaker 1: includes the Monday Night Raw that you guys just saw.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so we're really happy about that. We get

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Speaker 1: to stay more current with you guys, So hopefully that's

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Speaker 1: a good thing for you all too, and you don't

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Speaker 1: have to go back in time with us every single week.

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Speaker 1: We've got dynamite news going on. MJF still killing it

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Speaker 1: on the microphone, Big Chakra there. We have Monday Night

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Speaker 1: Raw on Netflix with lots of commercials. We had Friday

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Speaker 1: Night SmackDown. Everybody's getting ready for the Royal Rumble, and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk the Rumble and our picks for the Royal

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Speaker 1: Rumble on I might have to have a few changes

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Speaker 1: in my picks based on the storylines. Right now. On

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Speaker 1: the Thursday show, un Sanctioned with Me as always is

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Speaker 1: Jeff Die Let's start that show.

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Speaker 2: And now your Maine event introducing the hosts A Wrestling

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Speaker 2: with Preddy chef.

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Speaker 1: Died hand pretty Pretjunior. I didn't take one breath through

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Speaker 1: that whole opening, Jeff, That's not true. Would have been

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. How are you certain?

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Speaker 3: Feeling good?

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Speaker 2: Just got back from Indy, happy to be out of

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Speaker 2: the snowstorm. Condomat to anybody dealing with this storm. Even

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Speaker 2: wrestling was dealing with the storm a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I saw a bunch of wrestlers posting their

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Speaker 1: pictures outside their hotel rooms, and Xavier Woods did a

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Speaker 1: video where he just looked Piste. He was just like,

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Speaker 1: what kind of bullshit is this? So yeah, stay warm,

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Speaker 1: stay toasty, stay well fed. We're pulling for you. You

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Speaker 1: guys would be okay though you're used to the cold.

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Speaker 1: You're tough out there and not like us thin blooded

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Speaker 1: Californians where it's seventy degrees every day. We can't take it.

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Speaker 1: We can't take it when it's fifty, let alone twelve.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get right to it. Lots of wrestling,

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Speaker 1: lots of wrestling, lots of wrestling. We'll start with Saturday

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Speaker 1: night's main event. We don't normally talk about SNM, but

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Speaker 1: we have to because this is big time story and

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest stories in WWE is Cody Rhodes,

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Speaker 1: Jacob Fattou and Drew McIntyre and what's going on with

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Speaker 1: them since the Steel Cage, since Jacob Fatu came into

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Speaker 1: the steel Cage. Jeff goes off on why there's even

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Speaker 1: a door on the steel cage, but that's in a

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Speaker 1: different episode. Cody Roads versus Jacob Fatu. They had beef.

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Speaker 1: Cody promised receipts. Jacob Fatuo, don't give a shit about

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Speaker 1: your receipts. Cody Rhoads, bust your ass. He wasn't having it.

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Speaker 1: So they had to fight. And I don't even think

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Speaker 1: I heard a bell ring, Jeff, I don't, so I

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Speaker 1: don't think the match ever actually happens. But the fight

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Speaker 1: was really cool. There was no bell, right.

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Speaker 3: There's no belt, which is a great thing.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they've done this before, but what

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Speaker 2: a great idea you have to because who cares if

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Speaker 2: there's a winner out of this match? You know, like,

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Speaker 2: like this gives us a new way to like be

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Speaker 2: like because they're always looking for creative ways to be like.

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Speaker 2: Some wrestlers don't want to lose clean and some wrestlers

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Speaker 2: don't want to have their record whatever. Like you know,

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Speaker 2: some people don't want to put a belt on the

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Speaker 2: line all the time. But if you just have a

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Speaker 2: thing where it's like he's so rebellious that he didn't

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Speaker 2: angry that they went off in Security's trying to break

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Speaker 2: it up the whole time because this is an unsanctioned fight,

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Speaker 2: Like it was just such a cool way to do it,

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Speaker 2: I thought, and a great way to open the show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the finish kind of protects everybody, right because

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Speaker 1: if Cody loses, then he's not as big a threat

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Speaker 1: a top contender. IFTU loses, it's like, well, what the

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Speaker 1: hell did he wreck that steel cage match for if

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Speaker 1: he's just gonna lose, So you had to have something

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Speaker 1: now it for hardcore, it's predictable. I think hardcore fans

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Speaker 1: and it tells a story for Drew and just all

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Speaker 1: so he's going to damage them even more than they're

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Speaker 1: So it protected him as well made him look good.

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Speaker 1: So everybody looked good. And it was a great match.

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, it's not a match. It was a

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Speaker 1: great fight. You can't even call it a match. Great

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Speaker 1: A great match was just engage you versus Patty Pimblin

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Speaker 1: on Paramount Plus, so it's they're free now. If you

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Speaker 1: have Paramount Plus, you don't have to buy the pay

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Speaker 1: per views anymore. We maybe fucking listen to that and

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Speaker 1: so you just got to watch it. There were commercials,

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Speaker 1: stuff like the minute where they're like, come on, kid,

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Speaker 1: didn't get any of that stuff, which I kind of missed,

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Speaker 1: But it was really cool to be able to watch it. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just saying T k owns at all

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Speaker 1: you might want to follow suit. Okay, Women's Tag Team Championship.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of story here, so not much for

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Speaker 1: me to talk about. But I think everybody involved in

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Speaker 1: the matches badass. I like Rio Ripley, I like Yo Sky,

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Speaker 1: I love Roquel Rodriguez. I think she's awesome. I love

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Speaker 1: that she's calling herself big sexy. My son walked in

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Speaker 1: big chick? Dad, She's pretty sad.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's They've just made the wardrobe, the nicknames, the

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Speaker 2: moves that like they just made diesel. They literally said,

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Speaker 2: what if she just does everything Kevin Nash did, Let's

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Speaker 2: let's just do Let's just give her all that.

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Speaker 1: At least they're not hiding it. I can't wait for

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Speaker 1: her to grow a gray beard.

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Speaker 1: So she has to come out as for the Halloween episode.

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Speaker 1: the Oski. They have really cool chemistry. They combine their finishers,

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Speaker 1: my favorite match of the night. Let's go on to

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Speaker 1: a match that actually matters. A j styles versus shinsk Nakamura,

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Speaker 1: Shinsek or Shinske. On Friday Night SmackDown, came into a

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Speaker 1: Never heard him cut this kind of a promo in

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Speaker 1: English before. He was just talking the way you and

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Speaker 1: I talked, Jeff like no big deal, was like, Yo,

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Speaker 1: was chatting back with him, and he said, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: let's we got to have a match, bro, like we have.

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Speaker 1: He didn't call him bro, he's Japanese. That would have

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Speaker 1: been cool if he did. So. He says, we got

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Speaker 1: to have a match, bro, and they just like you

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Speaker 1: got it, dude, and so he didn't call him dude either.

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Speaker 1: They got to have this match. This was I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you this. This match was so good. It made me

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Speaker 1: just because they were younger, they just got to do

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Speaker 1: It was so cool and it took me down this

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Speaker 1: it was awesome. It was all because of this match

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Speaker 1: and I loved it. But what did you think? First

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Speaker 1: of all, I don't know if you saw Friday Night SmackDown,

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Speaker 1: what did you think of Shinski is English? And what

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I watched it all. I have

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Speaker 2: always liked shins K for sure. This I don't know

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Speaker 3: We're used to maybe, like I don't know what it is,

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Speaker 3: but you were right.

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Speaker 2: You texted it in the group chat before I watched it,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, kids, English is phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: It's good.

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Speaker 1: This like like I either forgot, I forgot.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I forgot or I misremembered or

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Speaker 2: I just didn't know, but like he spoke.

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Speaker 3: Great, it was perfect. I was very excited to hear it.

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Speaker 2: I thought the match was a five star match, Like

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Speaker 2: it was really really good and enjoyable. And yeah, I

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Speaker 2: don't I don't remember the last time they fought as

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Speaker 2: far as everyone is comparing it to the old, the

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Speaker 2: old the famous duo between them, or not duo, but

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Speaker 2: the famous feud. But this was phenomenal and really really

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Speaker 2: good to watch. It makes me nervous that Aj is

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Speaker 2: getting some quick victory lap matches or some quick like

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Speaker 3: So that made me nervous, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: Plunk last night and then it's shins ke that, so

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Speaker 2: it's kind of like, what's happening here? Is it all

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Speaker 2: coming to a close so soon? I don't know, but

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Speaker 2: it may be nervous, but it was a great match.

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Speaker 2: I am total in total agreement with you. If they've

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Speaker 2: rushed this and he freaking loses to Gunther, I'll be

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Speaker 2: genuinely disappointed in the story. AJ deserves way more than that,

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Speaker 2: So it can't And they know that, Jeff. They this

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Speaker 2: cannot be the end. He has to get a win.

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Speaker 2: He's not leaving it. He's not leaving at the Royal Rumble.

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Speaker 2: He's not leaving at the Row. They don't need to

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Speaker 2: Goother's fine, Like he's he's doing fine. I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's for Gunther as much as it is like his contract,

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Speaker 2: like for aj styles contract. And then I think that,

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Speaker 2: like maybe he doesn't want it to be like the

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Speaker 2: long drawn out seen a thing.

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Speaker 3: Maybe he's cut from a different cloth. Maybe he's just.

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Speaker 1: Like maybe you're right, You're right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It just feels so short, Jeff. It feels so short,

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Speaker 1: And it can be a great story on the road

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Speaker 1: to WrestleMania, you know what I mean, Like, and that's

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Speaker 1: his story to get to Mania, and that's where you

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Speaker 1: wrap it up. That's at least that's hot do it point.

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Speaker 2: But he might have been And I don't know any

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Speaker 2: of this. I have no inside information. This is this

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Speaker 2: is not a spoiler. But some people mentally prepare for

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Speaker 1: It would be crazy if Gunther retired, Sina retired, AJA

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Speaker 2: But it is the thing that's one of the beauties

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Speaker 2: make Gunther retire all these legends. I think it'd be

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Speaker 1: close I think to having some good shit to say. Oh,

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Speaker 1: before we get into that, Sammy z Ay, what is

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Speaker 1: And then Sammy Zay slapped the shit out of him

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Speaker 1: and my man didn't do anything about it. What's going on? Man?

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Speaker 1: Are the writers there like not? Would they be okay

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Speaker 1: with getting slapped in the face. No, I'd be like, no, man,

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Speaker 1: to start slapping men back if you ever get to slap.

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Speaker 2: Slap them, because the rule is like the second you

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Speaker 3: So now we're allowed to slap and nobody does anything.

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Speaker 1: You have to slap back. You have to slap back,

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Speaker 1: not even slap back. You gotta beat that dude's ass

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Speaker 1: and let him know, like you just slap the shit

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Speaker 2: But you know where I first slap without the slap

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Speaker 2: back was Becky Lynch smacking see him punk?

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Speaker 3: Then aj Lee smack.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's not allowed.

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Speaker 3: But that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: That's when I first saw it, and I go, well,

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Speaker 2: that makes sense because those are those are gals you can't.

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Speaker 1: You can't.

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Speaker 2: He can't just punk house. He's gotta he's gotta take it,

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Speaker 1: Nah, nah man nah. Chris Rock should have smack slap back, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Gunther should have slapped back. Drew McIntyre definitely should have

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Speaker 1: slapped back. He's got a hairy chest. Man. You don't

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Speaker 1: Nobody ever slapped magnum p. I are you fucking kidding me?

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Speaker 2: Bro?

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Speaker 1: Hell No, all right, I know I went off on

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Speaker 1: a tangent here, but slap Yeah, he's got it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got a super hairy chick. All that. All the

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Speaker 1: Also love that you called. You called. You called the

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Speaker 1: women gals. You'd like a dude from the nineteen fifties, like, Hey,

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Speaker 3: You can't get the squirrel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah see, I don't know why I turned into a

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Speaker 1: forties criminal. Yeah all right, anyway, here's the story. So

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Speaker 1: zayin Hometown Hero returns to the Bell Center. Randy Orton awesome, badass,

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Speaker 1: We love him. Damian Priest is sort of rebuilding his

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Speaker 1: got Trick Williams from NXT that everybody's excited about. So

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Speaker 1: each dude got to you know, it's a WW match,

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Speaker 1: so everybody's gonna get their shit in, and they all did.

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Speaker 1: Trick is definitely a heel, not a babyface, which I

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Speaker 1: think is awesome for him. Better to learn that it's

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Speaker 1: easy to be loved. It's hard to be hated for

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Speaker 1: the right reasons in wrestling, so it's good for him

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Speaker 1: to start off that way. But I think eventually he's

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Speaker 1: looking and super buff, and he's pretty good on the mic.

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Speaker 1: He's only going to get better, and he's pretty good

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Speaker 1: in the ring. He's only gonna get better. Barrin, you know,

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Speaker 1: injuries and shit like that. Anyway, Zayin gets the upper

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Speaker 1: and he gets it off on Damien Priest and they

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Speaker 1: kind of had beef from storyline because Sammy's like, Jamie's like, YO,

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Speaker 1: don't get involved in my matches, and Sammy's like, YO,

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Speaker 1: don't tell me what to do, bro, and he's like,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly If you do, you're gonna have beef. He's like,

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Speaker 1: then we got fucking beef. I gotta go deal with

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Speaker 1: this asshole Drew McIntyre, and that's when he slapped the

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Speaker 1: on Priest, so that gives Priest a reason to have

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Speaker 1: a beef with him when he eventually, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: my pick right now, loses to Drew McIntyre, So now

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Speaker 1: I have to switch my whole, my whole Royal Rumble

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Speaker 1: but they rolled him into a championship storyline to let

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Speaker 1: Drew keep the belt instead. Anyway, post match, McIntyre tried

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Speaker 1: to ambush Zaane, but it's his home town. He heard

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Speaker 1: the crowd going, oh, look out Samy, and Sammy's like, na, son,

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Speaker 1: I blood duck that shit Bomy gets sends him out

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Speaker 1: of the ring. Drew's embarrassed, humiliated. I'm gonna kick your

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Speaker 1: ass at the Royal Rumble and anyway, but Sammy's Ain

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Speaker 1: looked great. It was awesome. I love Sammy's Ain. He's

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Speaker 1: like the Job McClain of movie characters, but in wrestling

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Speaker 1: he's the most blue collar fucking guy ever. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: know karate, he doesn't really you know how to fight.

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Speaker 1: He can just take a beating and eventually you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get tired, and that's when he's gonna kick your ass

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Speaker 1: with that hallufah again, get your ass. He's a great wrestler,

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Speaker 1: but his character just comes off so blue collar, and

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Speaker 1: John McClain was always like, to me, the most blue

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Speaker 1: collar character there was. I love Sammy's Ain. I believed

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Speaker 1: in you to win the Rumble, But now I gotta

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Speaker 1: switch it up. Jeff, what did you think?

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Speaker 2: I love all of it that's happening, except the Sammy's

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Speaker 2: Ain stuff. I find it to be puzzling, Like, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, you.

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Speaker 1: Don't like the Samy's Ain story or him? Uh no,

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Speaker 1: I I just don't know what they're doing. I don't

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Speaker 1: really get it. Is this some sort of Saudi push?

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Speaker 2: Are the Saudis like we love Sammy's Ain, we want

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Speaker 3: We want him to win.

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Speaker 2: Is this some sort of Saudi overlord's bossing.

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Speaker 3: What to do?

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Speaker 2: Because why is Sammy's ain just out of nowhere all

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Speaker 3: In we we haven't even talked about Sammy's Ain for

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Speaker 3: five six I.

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Speaker 1: Talk about him. I talk about him all the time.

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Speaker 2: There for you to talk about him. I know you

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Speaker 2: love him, but he hasn't done anything since he was

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Speaker 2: in the original bloodline, like in that, like in those storylines,

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Speaker 2: and then he had that little push there.

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Speaker 3: They haven't done anything.

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Speaker 1: They had a little gun.

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Speaker 2: Now all of a sudden, he's going to be one

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Speaker 1: Well, he's gonna lose. You know, it's got you got

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Speaker 1: to have somebody that's gonna lose the match. You can't

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Speaker 1: take that if he does again right away? What if

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Speaker 1: he does, He's gonna lose. He's Jeff, I love him.

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Speaker 1: I believe he could wear the belt, and I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you he ain't winning that match unless I hope you're right,

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Speaker 1: unless your conspiracy on the out he's saying, hey man,

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Speaker 1: we want this guy away because they've had like luence

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Speaker 1: on matches before.

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Speaker 2: I believe he whar's the little garb when he's walking around,

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Speaker 2: he does the whole thing. He's he's in like Flynn

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Speaker 2: with the Saudi's, he's mister Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you're not talking me into it. But

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Speaker 1: if you're, I hope you're wrong too. Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't think so. He's going there to make to make

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Speaker 1: Drew look awesome. He'll give a great match, because he

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Speaker 1: always does, and then his story will be one of

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Speaker 1: redemption and am I good enough? Or am I or

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Speaker 1: am I not going to ever wear the belt? And

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Speaker 1: he can then have to, you know, kind of rebuild

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Speaker 1: his image and and find a way back to the

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Speaker 1: championship picture, which I think he can. Man, he's so

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Speaker 1: good on the mic, and he's so good in the ring.

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Speaker 1: I know, you know, he ain't as handsome as Trick Williams,

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Speaker 1: but he looks like a dude we can relate to.

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Speaker 1: He's blue fucking collar, and that's awesome wrestling.

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Speaker 3: One of the most charming and funny.

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Speaker 2: You're the star of movies, You've made out on screen

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Speaker 2: with some of the hottest.

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Speaker 3: Women in Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: You're married to a celebrity. What do you mean he's

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Speaker 2: blue collar like us? What are you talking about? Sammy

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Speaker 2: Zay is not me or you. He's my dork neighbor.

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Speaker 2: I don't I'm not Sammy Zay. Bro, You're not Sammy Zay.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about.

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00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 3: I'm Drew Meg.

429
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 1: John Cena. I'm not Sammy's saying, Well, in my heart,

430
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: I'm Sammy Zay.

431
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:31,160
Speaker 3: Bro.

432
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 1: I got old, man, I'm not a little pretty boy

433
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,679
Speaker 1: like it back in the day you cover a tiger

434
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:43,160
Speaker 1: beat or whatever those were called. He's about to be retired. Man,

435
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 1: you just gotta promo on me.

436
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 3: Bro, I'm telling you the girl, you're the star. You

437
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 3: ain't Sammy Zay.

438
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 1: That was a long time ago. Now I'm now, I'm

439
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: just a supporting I'm an older guy now, I'm just

440
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:10,119
Speaker 1: trying to support people, all right, Dude, moving.

441
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 3: On those kids in that movie?

442
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,879
Speaker 1: What man, No, I'm a nice guy. Bro. You're the

443
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: only one that saw that. He di wrecked it for

444
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 1: everyone who didn't see it, which was everyone. So we're

445
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 1: moving on to Monday Night Raw at the Scotia Bank

446
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 1: Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. And this just happened two

447
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 1: nights ago. Why because we're more current, Jeff, that's fucking

448
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: why here we go, AJ styles, this could be it.

449
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: I refuse to accept it, and so does he, and

450
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: I might be the only one that thinks he's gonna win,

451
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: but I believe he's gonna win this damn match, and

452
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,120
Speaker 1: you'll get my official pick. On Thursday show, Punk came

453
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 1: out in the middle of the promo basically said, Hey, man,

454
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna lose the gun there, so I'm

455
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,160
Speaker 1: gonna give you a shot at the title tonight. Now

456
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: that's not what he said, but that's pretty much what

457
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: he's saying, because you ain't gonna be around to get

458
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 1: a fucking title shot after gunther which makes me think,

459
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 1: holy shit, that's gonna be AJ's last match. I'm talking

460
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,479
Speaker 1: myself into it now. But he came out there, they

461
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 1: got a match. Wasn't you know. It wasn't the best promo,

462
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: but it was still good and Toronto was really into it.

463
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,640
Speaker 1: They love their wrestling up there, and they don't get

464
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: it as often as all the states do. We get

465
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: it like probably three four times per state, more often

466
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 1: than Toronto gets them. So they showed a lot of

467
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,399
Speaker 1: love and it sets up the main event for the night,

468
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,719
Speaker 1: which nobody knew was what it was gonna be. So

469
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: that was a cool, fun way to get into it.

470
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 1: What did you think about the two old dogs getting

471
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 1: ready for a battle of respect? Yeah?

472
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 3: I liked this a lot.

473
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 2: I think it goes back to what I was saying

474
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 2: earlier about like it little made me a little nervous.

475
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, now see him punks come in and

476
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 2: getting his match tonight in Toronto. So like that it

477
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,159
Speaker 2: added to my conspiracy of like maybe we're not going

478
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 2: to see Aja after the royal rumble.

479
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 3: But it was cool and very exciting.

480
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 2: How do you when two wrestlers do the thing where

481
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 2: they say, oh, I'm not mad at you, I'd like

482
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 2: to wrestle you out of respect, Like does that do

483
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 2: anything for you?

484
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: It doesn't get me excited about the match. Only at

485
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 1: that point can the two wrestlers get me excited for

486
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: the match, right, Like, it has to be two guys

487
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: that I really want to see wrestle, because now the

488
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: reason isn't as like dramatic. Now the reason is more

489
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 1: like a Bruce Lee fight in a movie where he's like,

490
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: I respect you and I respect you as well, and

491
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 1: now we will battle, right, And then they fight each

492
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,199
Speaker 1: other right, and it's like, yeah, that's cool, but let

493
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: me just see the fight. It's gonna be the fight

494
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: that's cool, not the build up. There's no build up

495
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 1: for this. Granted they had, you know, an hour and

496
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: forty five minutes to build up to it, but you know,

497
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 1: it would have been cooler if AJ could have talked

498
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,679
Speaker 1: him into it and maybe talk a little shit and

499
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: been like, Yo, man, you're gonna let the people down.

500
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: I thought you were a fighting champion, Like, give me

501
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: a shot tonight. Why not tonight? What's wrong with tonight?

502
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: There's no main event. Let's give him something to scream at.

503
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: If there is a main event, fuck him, it's our time.

504
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: Like something like that could have been cool, you know,

505
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: instead of like bow and I bow back and now

506
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: Daniel Sun fight, Like that's not as exciting. Unlever sweets

507
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: behind it in the eighties. Yeah, Yeah, I want guys

508
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: to want to punch each other in the face, like

509
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: we talked about Gagee and Pimblet earlier in the UFC fight.

510
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,959
Speaker 1: Like the stuff that justin gage says to get himself

511
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: hyped up for a fight is crazy, Like he literally

512
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: like in interviews is like I've convinced myself this man

513
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 1: wants to hurt me, he wants to end my career,

514
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: and I'm going to do everything in my power to

515
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: defend myself and keep him from doing that. And if

516
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 1: that means ending his career at a young age, then

517
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: that's what I have to do. I'm very scared and

518
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: I'm not going to let anything happen to me if

519
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: I can help it. But if I die, he's gonna

520
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,959
Speaker 1: die with me, like it's and he's so like chilling

521
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: when he says it, You're just like what. There was

522
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: an old fighter named Robbie Lawler who was talking about

523
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: Conor McGregor not wanting to fight him is something something

524
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: to that effect, and they were like, well, what would

525
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,360
Speaker 1: have happened if you would have fought him? And he's like, well,

526
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: if I would have fought him, I wouldn't have he

527
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't have tapped out. I would have taken his soul.

528
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 1: And the way he says it, now, I'm not a

529
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: scary guy. I'm the guy from Scooby Doo, so nobody's

530
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: afraid of me. But when Robbie Lawler says that shit

531
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: and just is looking at the interviewer and the interviewers like,

532
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: what the fuck, bro Like, that's scary shit. It makes

533
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 1: you want to watch people fight. And this was just like,

534
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: you know, two dudes that we respect and okay, let's

535
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: get it on. I will say this Ceampunk versus Finn

536
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: Balor the week before was awesome. That was a great

537
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: match in the crowd was loved their boyfriend and the

538
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: reactions were perfect and they made you believe. And that

539
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:36,959
Speaker 1: was a cool match. That's all I wanted to say

540
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: about that. I agree. We had We had a six

541
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: women showcase with Stephanie vacquer Rhea Ripley, EO Sky, Live Morgan, Rox,

542
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: Sane Perez, and Raquel Rodriguez. I got a lot of

543
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: cousins with the last name Rodriguez, so maybe related way

544
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: back in the day. Anyway, all I cared about was

545
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: the champs back. Stephanie vack cares back, y'all. She got

546
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: to do all her moves that everybody loves, but nobody

547
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: loves more than Booker team. She got to do it

548
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: to Live Morgan. So all the perverts were happy about that.

549
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: I'm sure, so don't say WW doesn't give you what

550
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: you want, yes, secos, But the match was cool. Trios

551
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: matches are tough. This one pulled it off. Or maybe

552
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: trio matches aren't tough. I'm just tough on trios matches.

553
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to pay attention because I'm old

554
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 1: and busted, but it was a cool match. They kept

555
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: me into it. Rea Ripley is still the best, and

556
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: that's all I have to say about that. Jeff, would

557
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: you think.

558
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 2: Quick little thing about this for me here? You might

559
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 2: never have heard me say this before. Are do we

560
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 2: just not have enough female wrestlers? Like they were doing

561
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 2: so good in the women's division with like the single

562
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 2: wrestlers and the belts and the storylines and all the

563
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 2: different stuff. There was just so much good stuff, and

564
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: they were really neglecting the women's tag division, right, And

565
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 2: then now it's like, because someone pointed that out, like

566
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: we've got to do something with the women's tag division.

567
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 2: Now it's all women's tag division and there's not much

568
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: going on in the singles world, and so it's like, either, ay,

569
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 2: we need some more female wrestlers to like have both

570
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 2: departments operating well, or don't put all your eggs in

571
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 2: one basket.

572
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 3: Either direction is my only note. I thought.

573
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 2: I think what they're doing is great. Like I said,

574
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 2: they've got such a good roster of female wrestlers. They're

575
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: all banging on all cylinders. They're all doing really well.

576
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 2: According to Unreal, it looks like they all get along backstage,

577
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 2: which is healthy, especially if you're traveling the world like

578
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: Circus Freaks. So it's it seems like all the things

579
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 2: are positive right now. They should capitalize on it and

580
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 2: find a way to make the women's single division and

581
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: the women's tag division both as strong as it could be,

582
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: is my opinion.

583
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think I could be wrong.

584
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: I think the reason why is because Stephanie Vacier got

585
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: hurt and so they had to take the focus from

586
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: the singles division and then emphasize the tag divisions where

587
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: they could showcase their talent more and put them in

588
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: stories until she got healthy again. Now she's healthy again,

589
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: they're working her back in and now there can be

590
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: some focus on the women's division in who's going to

591
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: be the best, who's going to represent the company right,

592
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: which is always a more compelling story. So I think

593
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: that's the reason why, But I could be wrong. I

594
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: don't know how long she was out for, but yeah,

595
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: with her as champ if she's if she's healthy, I

596
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: just keep the belts on Osca and Kyrie and just

597
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: let people chase, you know, every couple of weeks and stuff,

598
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: and then just focus on on the singles. But I

599
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: think because she got hurt, that's why they had to like.

600
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 2: Mix it up and put on Because in my mind,

601
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 2: I go, why would all of a sudden, Rhea Ripley

602
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: be so interested in trying to be the tag champion?

603
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: She totally agree with that.

604
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: She's beaten up dominic mysterial when she was green and

605
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: now she you know, she's coming in the women's division.

606
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 2: She's just a like this monster and then like, oh

607
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: now I care about being a tagged team champion.

608
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: You're like, why why would you? I don't understand. Yeah,

609
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: all right, dude, the vision But most importantly bron Breaker

610
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: and Adam Pierce, is there time to shine? They came out,

611
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: They Paul Hayman spoke for about five minutes. The Toronto

612
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: crowd hated him, as they should, you bastard, and then

613
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: he invites Adam Pierce out and Pierce comes out and

614
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: he's looking at him the way I'm looking at him

615
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: right now. You bastr same look, exact same look. I

616
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: just have a little more hair on my head. And

617
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: he comes out. He's a big ass dude, by the way,

618
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: ex wrestler, big big dude. And he comes out, holds

619
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: his space very very well. He's an imposing figure, and

620
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: he apologizes like a man, and he's hoping that bron

621
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: can handle this situation like a man too, because he's

622
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: going to give Braun everything he wants. He's going to

623
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: lift his suspension and he's going to throw him in

624
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. And that makes Paul Hayman very very happy.

625
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: But Adam Pierce isn't done yet. He throws a little,

626
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: a little wrench in the engine works there, or as

627
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: John McClain once said, a monkey in a wrench. And

628
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: he says, not only is bron Breaker in the Royal Rumble,

629
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: but so is Bronson Reid, so is Logan, Paul booh bo.

630
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: The crowd of fucking hates Logan, and Austin Theory you're

631
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: in it as well. And Austin Theory was dressed to wrestle,

632
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: so he gave him a match because he was the

633
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: only one dressed to wrestle. All everybody else just came

634
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: to party, so he gave him a match against Raymond

635
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: Stereo and they got to get after it. So we

636
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: have bron breaker in the Royal Rumble. Could be my

637
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: new pick by the way, for Thursday. But we also

638
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: have the Vision, So we'll see in this story now

639
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: if the Vision are truly together or if they're willing

640
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: to fuck each other over to get their opportunity at

641
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: the championship. Right, So we'll get into that more on Thursday,

642
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: but that's going to be their story moving forward. Now

643
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: here we go the main event Seeampunk versus Age Styles.

644
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: Now this was a no contest because Finn Balor attacked,

645
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: which kind of derails the finish and to every hardcore

646
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: fan and to well to the casual fan, cool, yeah,

647
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: right on, this was cool in this fight, but to every

648
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: hardcore fan, you could see this finish coming a mile away.

649
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: They should have never had the backstage segment with Cmpunk

650
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: and Finn Baler where he says, yo, man, you don't

651
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: really need the judgment day. That was great, man like.

652
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: That should have never happened. That gave away the whole

653
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: end that he was going to come and they left

654
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: the camera on Finn like way too long, so you're

655
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: just like, Oh, I wonder what he's thinking. You're gonna

656
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: talk shit about my judgment day, Fuck you, I'm gonna

657
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: wreck your match, which he did. But it was predictable

658
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: because AJ can't lose. He can't lose going into the

659
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. He can't be on a losing streak on

660
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: his way to face Gunther. He has to look like

661
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: a credible threat. So so yeah, not the most creative finish,

662
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: but I think the only one that you could do

663
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: based on the booking, Like they were kind of painted

664
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: into a corner on that one. But given the whole

665
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: series of events, how did you think it played out?

666
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 3: I liked it, but again, they telegraphed the whole thing.

667
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 2: It was very predictable as far as you don't have

668
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 2: to watch a lot of wrestling to know what was

669
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 2: gonna happen in that series of events. But that being said,

670
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,479
Speaker 2: all the players involved and all the things that happened,

671
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: I like, I'm a big Finn Balor guy. I liked

672
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 2: the way the whole thing went down, So I liked

673
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 2: it aew.

674
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: The addition, Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida, not loving the

675
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: name of that arena the addition financial like addition that

676
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: sounds so elementary, you guys, it should be like the

677
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: algebra financial arena. Mjf's opening second it's the Year of

678
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: the Devil people, and he opened the show proclaiming himself

679
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: the best in the world. Mm hmm, and he declared

680
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: this year his year, the year the Devil. Bertie King

681
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: was like fuck that came out demanded a title match.

682
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: MJF did a little bit of comedy here and was like,

683
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: you know what, pal let me tell you some they

684
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: know shit, and I knew he was in trouble and

685
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: he's like, no, no, no, no, no, I don't want to match.

686
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: You haven't beaten anyone. He lead enough to earn a

687
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: title shot. It still makes him a pussy heel, which

688
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: he does very well. I don't think he should do

689
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,479
Speaker 1: it often, but he doesn't do it very often because

690
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: he's pretty slick with all this shit. But every promo

691
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: he does his top shelf Man's it's crazy. It's he's

692
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 1: so keyed in. He's great with the crowd, he's great

693
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,919
Speaker 1: with Shavanni. He makes the person he's in there with.

694
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: He doesn't run them over with dialogue like some guys do.

695
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: He gives them opportunities to shine, and he sells when

696
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: they hit their moments like it really offends him and

697
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: upsets him or scares him. And not everybody does that man,

698
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: especially a lot of the older cats. They'll just let

699
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: you sink or swim. And MJF doesn't do that. Man,

700
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,959
Speaker 1: He's like, no, we're in this shit together. We're gonna

701
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: get through it no matter what I've got you. You

702
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: don't have to be a ten because I'm going to

703
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: be a twelve and it's all going to work out.

704
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: And he did it. He did it again. Man, He's

705
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: the He's the fucking man. And I just think he's

706
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: so he's so great in there with everybody on the microphone.

707
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: Jeff, I agree with that one thousand percent. I think

708
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 2: he's the best person to hold a microphone in this

709
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 2: business besides Paul Hammon.

710
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 3: I think, Wow, I think that you nailed it too.

711
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: Like he does a lot of good listening, you know,

712
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 2: like his reactions you're saying is exactly what you want.

713
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: You're watching him listen as much as you're watching the

714
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 2: person talk. And then when he taught like it's just

715
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 2: he's very good. He makes I don't know what wrestler.

716
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: I was listening to someone talk about this week on

717
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 2: an interview. Oh it was Chelsea Green on Unreal talking

718
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 2: about when she had a match with Penta, and she

719
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, but he deserves all the credit, Like

720
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 2: he could wrestle a mop and make it look like

721
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 2: a good match. Like he's just so good. He makes

722
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 2: you he makes you look good in the ring. And

723
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 2: he made me look so good even though I was

724
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 2: green and he was wrestling the female and all.

725
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:58,959
Speaker 3: These different things.

726
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: And I think that that's that's what MJF does with

727
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 2: like mic work, he can make you look good also,

728
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 2: and so I I really like that about him. And

729
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 2: I've always thought he was the best and he just

730
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: continues to get better.

731
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: I totally agree with everything you just said. I wish

732
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,479
Speaker 1: I would have said it like that. He listens. It's

733
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: so important, man. That's that's like he's acting out there.

734
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: Acting is just listening and answering. That's all. That's the

735
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: easiest way for me to explain it to anyone. And

736
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: that's what he's doing out there. All right. We had

737
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: Samojoe versus Speedball Mike Bailey. This match ruled, but you

738
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: knew who was gonna win. Samojoe obviously got the win.

739
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: But Mike Speedball, you know, it's gonna take time on

740
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: the microphone. Maybe you get him a manager, but he's

741
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: really cool in the ring. The barefoot shit is awesome.

742
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's not injured all the time,

743
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: like his feet getting fucked up. But it makes his

744
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: kick sound so good, man like, cause it's skin slapping

745
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: skin dude like it just it's like a high five

746
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: out there. Man, it's so it's so good. My son,

747
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: by the way, when he gives me high fives, if

748
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound loud enough, he's like, no, no, no, we

749
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: got to do it again. Yeah, I love it, and

750
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: we do it until it's loud. But this match was

751
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: super cool. All the matches with him and Kevin, Kevin

752
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: Knight's what's the other guy what's his Tagtam partner's name,

753
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: I can't remember, But all the matches that they've been doing,

754
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: they're really trying to get these two guys over and

755
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: showcase their skills, and I think they've been doing a

756
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: great job with it, and they're giving them story as well.

757
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: On both sides. A look at ae w come on, man,

758
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: I'm loving this. So Joe's being kept warm. He's a

759
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: future challenger, as well as Swerve as his future challenger,

760
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: as well as Adam Page as they're all gunning for

761
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: MGF right now because everybody hates MJF as they should,

762
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: but he's looking good. He gets to now deal with

763
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: with Knight, with Bailey's tackting partner, and I can only

764
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: remember his last name right now, so I'm just calling

765
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: him Night, not La the other one. And the OPS

766
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: still has shit to do too, and MGF gets to

767
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: watch these guys all destroy each other, Jeff, so it's awesome.

768
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: I'm loving their main event picture because even their main

769
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: event picture is involving mid card dudes at the same time,

770
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: which is really cool.

771
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 3: How old is Samo Joe? Is he coming up on

772
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 3: his final road?

773
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: He's yeah for sure, he is, Yeah for sure. I've

774
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: even heard like rumblings of it. Yeah, he's getting old, man,

775
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: he's up. He's up there, dude, he's an old guy

776
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: like me. You're getting there too, buddy, you'll be yeah.

777
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 3: But more luckily we're not in wrestling. We can work.

778
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: Forever, that's true. I can work in a wheelchair, so

779
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: can Kevin Nash all right, all right? So we had

780
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: the Death Riders versus the Don Kallis family in a

781
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: street fight. This was their match of the night. Don't

782
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: know if you needed a bell for this one either.

783
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: They just kicked the shit out of each other. They

784
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: had weapons, they had army tanks, they had machine guns,

785
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: flame throwers, throwing stars. Remember the Chinese throwing stars back

786
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: in the eighties. You could buy them at like skate

787
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: shops and throw them into your fence when you were

788
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: bored or mad at your mom or something. That was

789
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: always a great time anyway, awesome, awesome match. But the

790
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: story being told is this shit's become personal. Don Callus

791
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: holds grudges, dude, and he's petty as fuck, and I'm

792
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: here for it. And he has awesome, horrible sunglasses and

793
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: I'm here for those two. And he cut his freaking

794
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: head open for the business that has a scar for

795
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: the rest of his life. That's commitment and dedication on

796
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: a scale which is rarely seen. But it's not about

797
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: wins and losses. It's about humiliating these fools and dominating

798
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: them and letting him know there's only room for one

799
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: faction and that's the Callus family. And they keep escalating

800
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: the violence, which is all good for John Moxley. You

801
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: didn't give a shit if you cut him open or

802
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: throw them on tax and a board of glass, Like

803
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: he gives no shit, and he'll beat up all these

804
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: guys and then says, I want your best guy next,

805
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: so they've got great beef. Moxley is the hardest working

806
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: dude in wrestling. I said that on our year end show.

807
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: I'll say it again, not just because he works every week,

808
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: the way he works is the hardest dude in wrestling.

809
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: And I love this stuff. I love when there's a

810
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: reason why they're fin and all these guys are giving

811
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: us a reason.

812
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 2: Jeff, what did you think I watch anything with John Moxley, Because,

813
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 2: like you just said, like the dude's a psycho.

814
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: I don't even know how he like I exactly.

815
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 2: He doesn't have any hair anymore, and he still is

816
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 2: the werewolf because were wolves will do anything insane like that.

817
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 3: Like he just he's a maniac. But I loved it.

818
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 3: I loved every part of it.

819
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 2: And also this is the type of stuff that I

820
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 2: think AW does best. When you just get a bunch

821
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,959
Speaker 2: of crazies out there and just let them rip.

822
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 3: You don't really need to like that.

823
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 2: It's just spots, you know, because they talk about the

824
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 2: wrestlers love to have these cliches like it's all about moments,

825
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 2: it's all about.

826
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 3: Telling stories or whatever.

827
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 2: But ad w when you put a bunch of guys

828
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 2: like that in the ring and you just go all right,

829
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 2: just all have a bunch of spots there, these moments

830
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 2: kind of happen that they're doing it great, and those

831
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 2: are my favorite type of things that aew does.

832
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: All right, Kenny Omega, he'd beat Josh Alexander, keeps him

833
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: looking good. On his way to MJF. He cut a

834
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: promo in his new hometown of Orlando. He let the

835
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 1: crowd know he lives there. I would never do that, Kenny.

836
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: You don't want people knowing where you live. Bro, they're

837
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: gonna look you up. Now you're gonna have some lady

838
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: who's like, I love you, I love you, and I

839
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: cross state lines to kill you, cook you, and eat you.

840
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: And you're gonna be like, or did that just happen

841
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: to me? Okay? Never mind? Moving on. Swerve Strickland versus

842
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: Kevin Knight. I got his name right, man, Come on,

843
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: I got your name right, snick keV. Swerve wins this

844
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: match just like Joe beat his partner, but it gives

845
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: these guys a huge spotlight on him. They both looked

846
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: great in the loss. They both still have a story

847
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: separate of singles runs. They've been inserted into a top

848
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: guy story, so to speak. It was really good for

849
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: both of them, and both these guys can wrestle their

850
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: ass off. They look great. I think Kevin might rise

851
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: more quickly than Speedball, but you never know, Cha never know.

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Speaker 1: So to sum up a dynamite, they re established Omega

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Speaker 1: and Samoa Joe. That's two guys that want to kill MJF.

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Speaker 1: They got a big win for not a big win,

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Speaker 1: but a win for Swerve. Keep him looking good. He's

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Speaker 1: a threat to MJF. Hangman Page hates him, so he's

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Speaker 1: always going to be a threat to MJF. And that

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Speaker 1: was this week in wrestling. Wrestling's awesome. I grew up

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Speaker 1: reading comic books, watching wrestling, and going to karate class,

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Speaker 1: and all three of those things still rule, and I

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Speaker 1: do them all as much as possible and it keeps

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Speaker 1: me young. So I hope you guys, remember the shit

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Speaker 1: you used to do. Keep yourselves young. There's too many

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Speaker 1: old fuckers bitching out there. Have fun with your life,

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Speaker 1: enjoy it. We'll see you guys Thursday. Oh, my producer

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Speaker 1: wants me to announce this all right, next week's guest.

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Speaker 1: We're having a guest you guys love guests will be fourth.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to say this. I kind of want

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Speaker 1: to keep it a secret. But former WWE and AEW talent,

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Speaker 1: she has been at both places. She can speak intelligently

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Speaker 1: about both places. We can ask her tons of questions

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Speaker 1: about which one she's going back to. Have you figured

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Speaker 1: it out yet? It's Sorea formerly known as Page or

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Speaker 1: also known as Page aka as Page, and we can't

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Speaker 1: wait to bring that episode to you guys as well.

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Speaker 1: That'll be next week's Stay tuned for on Sanctioned Thursdays.

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Speaker 1: I'm a half of our awesome producer alex On maff

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Speaker 1: Jeff Die, I'm Freddie Peece