"Episode 200"

Man, we are here. We are live. We've been talking about this for weeks and actually probably for a couple of months. And then we did the math wrong and figured out it was going to come too soon. So we had to just take the numbers off. The math wasn't math. The math was not math. But I tell you what, the math is math today. Episode 200 of the TFW podcast, that's freaking wrestling, is upon you guys. Either you are watching, you are listening, you are a part of the family.

So what I will tell you guys off top, if you guys partake in a beverage of your choice, it can be even water, but if you have an alcoholic beverage, depending on what time you are watching or listening, I would tell you to go get you one. We all have something we are drinking on. Maybe showed up more responsible than others, but this is going to be a celebration and a party.

We don't have a run sheet for this. I got a couple of things I want to talk about, but this show may be all about wrestling and what's happening right now. We may deep dive into like some 1970s wrestling conversation, or we may not even talk wrestling at all. I don't know how this is going to go. And that is why I am so excited. So before we get started, shout out to everybody that has listened. that has watched us for any amount of time. Thank you. We appreciate you guys. We

love you guys. You know, we call you guys the freaks because you guys are a part of this show. I am mad. You guys know that. I am your favorite talker out on these wrestling streets. I am joined by my normal cast and crew. Rhodesia is sitting there looking as good as you want to look. Mm -hmm. Glowing. Eshaan sitting there getting... He don't have a tea today. I guess he got just regular water I think the sponsorship fell through y 'all know I think even begin paid off this

tea stuff. He just ain't told us. Yeah, I think like I think his contract ran out Okay, got nothing to say Keeping it quiet keeping it to himself Joining us one is a familiar face To the podcast or voice one is not but is absolutely familiar to the TFW Twitter Instagram, and on this platform, you've heard me talk about this man over and over again. But I'm going to start with the one who was returning. You guys remember Billy came on the show back in October. We had a hell of

a conversation, hell of an episode. Had to bring him back for 200. Billy Mays in the house, baby. Thank you. It's an honor to be here. Billy, before we started this podcast, he showed off his five -star hotel room. and did the whole thing. So right now he is stunting on us and letting us know that he wanted to come on the show just to show that it's possible. It is possible to live out your life's hopes and dreams. You have to understand I flew into Denver today from Atlanta.

I left my house at like 6 45 a .m. I hate flying. For some reason in the last couple years I get motion sick so like I drive everywhere. I flew. I'm all woozy. I land. rental car, seeing Denver for the first time. It's like a desert, but there's like grass and stuff. I don't get it. There's mountains. I get to this thing I had to be at for work stuff, going, going, going. The whole time I'm like, I don't know. I can't, I don't know if I can be there. Like this timing is just

not going to work out. I texted or I DM'd you Matt and I was like, just a heads up. I'm cutting it close. I checked into the hotel like 30 minutes ago and I got to this room and I set up, I got on the wifi, I had to put in some passwords, but I couldn't miss it. 200. This is huge. It is huge. And he was ready before I was. He sent me a text and he was like, hey, where's the link? I was like, man, hey, slow down for a second.

Give me a second. And then the other one that is on this call proceeds to send me the Judge Judy gift of hurry up, motherfucker. Let's go. You guys have heard me talk about Eric constantly

on this podcast. If you are connected to our Twitter, you've absolutely seen his comments or his quote tweets or his retweets uh it is a general nonsense to introduce eric and eric as along with billy mays was one of the first ever freaks i don't know when you started listening eric i'm going to assume maybe it's around episode 20 something or 30 something but you've been here ever since yeah gotta be around 20 something uh and i was hooked i was hooked i'm like I dig

it. First, it's an absolute honor to be here. Absolute honor. When you asked me, I was like, I was in shock. I was like, wow, really? You are one of the number one freaks. Yeah. And so I just have 200 episodes. It's wild to me. Like you said, not many people get this far. And I've just been very, very happy. And I try to spread the word as much as I can to people. My dad's a gift genius over there. Oh, he is. The reaction genius. I think one of the first times you...

It's funny you said that. One of the first times you guys mentioned me on the show was when Eshaun first came up with a big daddy. Oh, my God. You know I was going to get to it. He said, the streets call me big daddy. And I hit him with a SpongeBob. What street's saying it that? Was it this one? Oh, man. It is so funny because Eric is on E's head every week on X. If you are not, please follow Eric. Eric, because yeah, I think you got to be, what is it? MrMom76, right? MrMom76,

yeah. Follow this guy. He is, you'll see. I'll just leave it at that, but hilarious interactions between us and also some good wrestling conversation too. Eric, do you remember Where how did you find us? Like, how did I find you? Do you remember how they went? I think we interacted on a post with Public Enemies, actually. Same thing with Billy. Same thing with Billy. And then and then you guys followed me. I followed you right back. And then I was like, I started seeing this stuff

the guys posted. And I was like, you know what, let me check out their podcast. I listened. And then I just went back and I just started listening. And now it's like permanently like it's Number one on my list on Spotify. I got the notification. So every time the episode pops up, I'm like, okay, I know what I'm listening to at work at night. Yeah, definitely appreciate it. But when I tell you guys he's one, I know there's some people who have been listening with us for day

one. You guys just don't show yourself and I have no problem with that. I listen to a ton of content and watch things and I would never comment or do that. So I appreciate anybody that has consumed our product 100%. Before we kind of get started with, because we can talk about 200 a lot. So this ain't the only time we're going to talk about 200. Radija and or Eshaan. Yes. Any just opening thoughts and talks around what we've been able to accomplish over the last

two and a half years. I'm trying to make sure I look right in the camera. Am I looking in the camera or over the camera? Just scoot back. I do that every time. Now I lost my thought. Okay. Damn 200. So when you think about 200 and literally when we talk about being an expert, I'm nowhere

near an expert at this game at all. But when you talk about just the reps that you have to put in, shout out to Billy and Erica actually listening to us back then and like decided to grow with us just because I can only imagine how I sounded. I knew how I felt. I kept the heart rate over 120 beats per minute in the very First 30 episodes. Um, I was a little excited on this episode too, but 200 of anything is something. Hell, we know one thing of something is something,

but 200. Like you can't take that away from us. I want us to be no longer the mistress. I don't want to be the best kept secret anymore. I want the world to know me. I want to be the number one. But even if that doesn't happen, I should take that out. It's still not gonna take away from what we've learned, what we've gained, who we've become, the people we've touched, all from being pro wrestling fans. Like, that's all I gotta say. 200 is beautiful. I know there's so

much more that's gonna come out of this. And here's to that. Cheers to that. Cheers to that. I like that. Cheers to that. Salute. Man, 200 big number, man. I remember it just... Talking to Mac and I've always wanted to do a podcast and uh, I think I hit up man. I like Matt Let's do a podcast. I've always wanted to do one. Let's just get out there. Let's do it. This is half way Matt was like, yo, I want to add Rhodesia to it Right little sis for sure. Let's get on

here. Let's do podcast, right? And it's what a blessing man, like we know the great is I always tell Rhodesia this I told Matt this like the Rhodesia I thought I knew wasn't the Rhodesia that I know now and this is it's great cuz like this version of Rhodesia Is is is amazing like she's spunked fire. I didn't know she was so damn sassy. I'm like, okay, cool I love it, but

you ain't know me. I did not goddamn yo, but look That's a blessing to us my friends and I met so many people like I said like written like Billy and Eric Eric's Your stuff this really kills me. I'm actually I'm actually at work and I'm not supposed to get my phone I'm not supposed to say my phone on me when I'm actually at work, right? But I was thinking I'll look at something. I'll see what his gifts and I literally just start rolling unprofessionally in front of clients.

So then I got to make up something while I'm being out of nowhere. So then I got to keep the thing going. I make a total lie each and every time. So it's just amazing to interact with friends and now becoming family. We call them the freaks. Let's keep doing this. Get to 400, y 'all. That's actually low key. We want to monetize y 'all like I know what each of this very very sad.

I'm gonna keep it We need to monetize we would love to do this more often Right cuz all of us the three of us work our thing I remember this one guy put one he posted to get a real job asshole. I do know how hard I work How many hours how many shots I'm shooting the gym you won't without shooting in the gym. God damn it right, right I won't take some of them shots back. I would

love to do this more often. I think I'd be more coherent If actually I was doing this earlier in the day because that now it was 925 Billy in Atlanta time 925 is 1225 Over there is that the wife tell the wife we say I understand she's a special guest How are you I'm good. How are you? I am fantastic I just wanted to say thank you to you one for putting up with Eric I can

only imagine the kind of guy he is at home. So thank you for putting up with his nonsense And thank you for keeping him happy We've had just a couple of conversations about relationships and family, and I can just tell that you guys have a really strong bond and relationship. So thank you for keeping my guy right where he's at. Oh, wow. He definitely keeps me quite happy. So yeah, and we're gonna get to that now for the podcast. How he does that. Well, that's another

conversation. That's actually going to be episode three of that's freaking conversations. That's what that's going to be. It is about time for us to bring that back. All right, let's get to it. It is a 12 minutes into the show and we haven't talked about anything yet. Okay. So for anybody who is jumped in to the pie, because they love how we break down wrestling, let's start with a wrestling topic and however we go is where

we go. I do want to start with probably the biggest thing this week was the ending to Monday Night Raw. Okay. I'm not talking about the Stone Cold Steve Austin level pop CM Punk guy. Not even talking about Logan Paul ending My Night Raw after hitting Jey Uso with the right arm, right hand. Can he defeat the guy on Saturday Night's main event, which was a great hook, if I cared anything about Logan Paul. Not even talking about that. I'm not even talking about how Ron Breaker

showed he belonged in that main event. Hmm. I am talking about why did Seth Rollins show up raw dog in those jeans. Big time. That was the first thing I saw. I was like boo boo. Any underwear. Boo boo. He was free balling. Is that what y 'all call it? Free balling? Woo. Commando. I think they call it, you know. I've done it before. It don't feel good. Now, granted, maybe that is some different material. Eshaan, Eric, and Billy Mays, I have a question for you three.

Have you ever done that? No underwear with jeans on, not just no underwear, jeans. Okay, one, have you ever done it? And two, you have to tell me why you did that. If I've ever done it, it had to be in a situation where I had some kind of accident prior. And I had to lead the situation with only those pants. I think my theory is that Seth Rollins, he's known for getting these $10 ,000 outfits. Maybe the other side of those jeans

are pure silk, and it just feels amazing. That's a good call wanted to pause and rewind it, right?

So Billy has done it, but he probably had an accident and that's why he had to do it pretty much the same answer is Billy like I I actually have done it and Because of an accident, but you know, I mean accidents are y 'all in uh it's called uh accidentally having a little bit of water in mexico so oh no monazuma is your vein so you know you know what these go right there in the trash leave them at the hotel and then yeah all right last question before we get to

eat though they didn't seep through the pants they just stayed in your what kind of What kind of underwear did you have? Let's call it black shorts. The substantial part has a barrier. You've got your underwear. But if anything seeps through, I don't know. I'm just theorizing here. I don't remember much. It's like bra and paper towels. No commercials. But they show how much liquid it takes up. Yes. They got bounty draws is what y 'all got. There you go. Quicker picker uppers.

E, tell me about it. You know, I remember charting before, right? It's your accident. It's your accident. And you know, it's like, oops, where that come from, right? And I vaguely remember, yeah, it was like, oops, right? And I don't remember when that happened. But I remember, like, this is back in the day, you know, we were wearing guest jeans. Remember that, Matt? Like, you guys were wearing guest jeans back in the day, right?

i'm older than you guys so yes so you have across colors oh we all have cross colors oh yeah for sure but you know like that it's like that part where connects you know with the what they call that they call that part down there yeah Medically the prunium, I think it's okay medical terms. We're going the bootium the bootium It don't feel good up there like no one to get a cup in the That's rough cheers. I don't know what like you said Billy. I think you might have some silk

lining in there. Yeah Why it slid down so easy to And the crazy part was like say if that would have went down after he hit like the stomp or something Okay, maybe as soon as he hit the scene. All you saw was ass crack like you when you left When you left the locker room, there was no way you was like, yep. I can do physicality physicality night knees. It's impossible He showed up with his ass out. Wait a minute. Hey, let's pause

for one second pause for one second. I didn't tell you guys I think I am I bleed it from my mind, right? I went to go visit moms in Detroit a couple weeks ago, right? Blue Spirit. Had no problem with Spirit. I flew cheap enough, right? I'm sitting in my seat. I'm like row three. About to get my ass off this plane. Oh, so you spent the big bucks for Spirit. You was row three. You had a big seat. Yeah, buddy. You had a big seat. Hey, you know what, though? Spirit helped

me out. I didn't pay for it. Nice. Oh, that's right. You told us that. Yep. Good energy. So I'm sitting there. They recognized you on the CFW podcast. Maybe they did. Right? So I'm sitting there. I'm not getting up. Don't you know how everyone stands up and don't I hate that shit? Everybody stands up in the plane. I hate that shit. Everybody's dead. I'm like, I'm sitting I'm sitting my ass down I'm sitting there guy over to the right of me get up. I Look over and

just enough to my ass. It's a whole ass to crack. Oh Mohawk dog like above like I can live like a big patch of mohawk hair above the like the crack The booty. Oh my God. Oh my God. I mean, I'm talking about it. The ass is like right here. It's like right here. So I turned to the left and the woman, she's like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that happened to you and your man. I'm like, Lord, I forgot that happened. We talked about his ass. My man's ass with the mohawk popped

in my mind just now. I'm sorry you had to go through that, brother. That's pretty bad. all seriousness. I do want to talk about the ending of Raw and what I want to talk about. And you guys can take it wherever you want to after I kind of set the stage. One, Deuso with another great main event match. So at this point, we need to put that to the side, right? Anybody who can't wrestle that whole thing, put that to the side. That was number one. Really enjoyed

the match with him and Braun. Maybe the most telling thing about That entire thing was seeing Punks pop. That was incredible. That was crazy. It is so loud over the TV where you can't hear the music at times. That's a strong pop. That is a really strong pop. And that's after they saw Sammy. It's after they saw Jay twice. They saw everything up to that point. I thought that was awesome. And I want to speak to Punks just knowing the game. They get on the ring apron,

of course they cut the music. Him and Sammy standing there, crowd is singing. They don't move a muscle until we are about to get to the hook of the song so they can explode for the physicality. That is what I talk about so much, and that comes with time, but that is what I talk about so much when I watch some of the younger wrestlers where it's just like go, go, go, boom, boom, boom, move, move, move, slow down. You're gonna get more. out of slowing down and not doing as much

than if you throw everything at us. And I just thought that was a perfect example of listening to what's happening around you, taking your time, and then striking right when you should. I thought that was tremendous. Did anybody else pick up on that? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. They literally just stayed there. And then him and Sammy looked at each other. And they just didn't move. But it was like a nonverbal look. don't do a damn thing until these people get to the chorus. And

then it was just like, bam. And the pop was insane. Absolutely insane. And that was the second, like, huge pop of the night. And I said it to you earlier today, I was like, I don't know which one was bigger, his or Rhea Ripley's? Rhea Ripley's just, her pop was just insane. I couldn't hear her music practically. Her pop was crazy when they showed on the backstage video. I know. The woman is like, that's a different subject altogether. But the CM Punk, the crowd is chanting for him,

chanting for him, chanting for him. So the build is there, the people want him. You hear that guitar riff from Living Color and the roof blows off. That was the level of pop as if he had been gone for injury for six months. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like that's kind of what that was, which was tremendous to see. Do you guys remember, Billy, you've been to a few shows, of course. You've been watching for a long time. E, I think I know your answer, but I'll be interested to

see. What is, what's the biggest pop you guys have been a part of? It could be, of course, wrestling is what we're talking about, but if it was a concert, of course, feel free to share that. But what was the biggest pop that you heard where you're like, this is the loudest I've ever

heard people? Hmm I don't like I don't I the one I can think of I'm pretty sure like just be I can't remember the actual Moment, but I saw Stone Cold in 98 and like it had to be that like I I don't know it hmm Mine was when Triple H returned at Madison Sweet Garden I was there I lost my voice that night first, and I had never heard a crowd so loud. I was fortunate enough to be there for that, and I was like, wow. Holy shit. I lost my voice in my living room that

night. Yes. Unreal. E, what's yours? This is an old man brain con, man. I have no idea. That's what I'm saying. I can't I can't actually remember the moment but well one of them we were together I'm sure which one was it when shaming man came back on raw. Oh shit. I forgot. Oh, yeah That was it. That was it. That was the one because you know, we're real awesome Also, I'm thinking about it because I was there experience at the same time. I was like in the moment Just pop

it up. I don't know why I don't know why I was so happy that Shane McMahon came out of nowhere at the at the like, were you a big Shane McMahon fan, Matt? I was, but not to the level of the way I popped that night. Exactly. Yeah, I mean, I liked them, but like, it was just the whole thing of. He's coming to save the day, right? Like, if you look fast, really what it was, we were like, oh, my God, he is coming back to save the day, because once again, the shows weren't

the greatest. Was it Steph and Vince were in

the ring or what was it? and then that music hit and I just remember it was like a rush of just sound that hit you because you're not expecting it yeah and I remember of course they went to commercial break Shane came back out and he was just like guys I'll never forget that pop again ever in my life like my nipples are hard right now like I'm so excited and he left and I was of course they never showed down TV but I know that had to mean something to him um that's number

two for me number one for me is Steve Austin Billy Detroit when he came and he drove in on the Zamboni mmm, and he hit that ring. He jumped off the Zamboni. I'm getting goosebumps and I Couldn't hear the person next to me. Wow, it was so loud They were screaming at me and I couldn't hear it. I've never experienced till to this day I've never and I've been to concerts with

80 ,000 people in it. Of course, we've been to mania a hundred thousand people etc, etc I've never experienced something so loud that you can't hear Yeah, that's nuts. So what what happened with punk like is as Greenville ever been like known as a They're not a hot crowd. You know what I'm saying? Like you're not a hot bed, but uh It would they were like the best of the best

last night, right? Like they never try to get themselves over granted They did fucking ask for tables during the women's match would I can't

stand that chance? Um, but they never tried to get themselves over and they they cheered for the people that deserved it they booed the people that deserved it they were they were just like the ideal yeah us crowd you know it was crazy though producer you got one that you remember mines was not wrestling i don't think anything would ever compare to what i heard in oh 102 it was the scream tour with Bow Wow, B2K, and others. And I was a little bit older, I think,

than what I needed to be in that crowd. But again, I love all these artists, R &B artists. And I just remember it's the high pitch that I probably did get ear damage from that, because I couldn't hear Matt talking to me either. And what was the crazy part about it? It went from the beginning of their set to the end of their set for every single artist. So imagine being in that constant state of high pitch. I don't know how we actually did it. Nothing can come close to me. They were

shrieking. And I started shrieking when Omarion hit the touch. That was my joint back in the day. Touch. Boom, boom. Let's go. I had another good one from a concert I went to. This is going way back. The second biggest pop was, I was at a, I was at the Smoke and Groose tour. This was back in 1996. Okay. Um, it was like, I was there for six hours. It was like, woo, uh, Spearhead, Busta Rhymes, Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees, Cypress Hill, and Ziggy Marley. Huge conference.

Ooh, wow. So Tribe Called Quest, they're out there. They're, they're rapping. They start doing scenario. Busta Rhymes was already done. He left. He was one of the opening acts and then he jumps up out of the stage for his part in scenario and the crowd just erupted for him. I couldn't even hear him rapping. I was like, wow, that was awesome. That's incredible. And that had to be a hell of a concert to be at too. Oh my God. And I paid like $20. Isn't that crazy, man?

Like $20 ain't getting you parking now. That's not you can park your car for the price. You saw that that show at no back a $35 just the other day to park at Legoland to take my kids I bought $35 worth of Legos and just called it a day Legos She was here this weekend a little matter beyond in a little bit, but she was here she gets everything off team I think she got our Christmas present team My wife they kind

of comfortable. She's like this short actually I probably would like Seth Rollins, but it's kind of like that material That I just sleep in them. Did you be free balling on that one? You do and that's a shoot Am I in a minority So we're talking about the the end of raw And of course Logan Paul shows up like I said at the end which I thought was great business Because

nobody saw it coming. We think it's over right they they all go through the crowd fantastic piece of business with setting up that tag team match for Saturday Night's main event and then cutting back to your champion. Boom. Gets hit by Logan. Logan's staying tall because he's not going to stand tall this Saturday. We know how this works. But my question to you guys is, am I the only one that is just completely checked

out on Logan Paul? And it's not because I don't care about anything people try to talk about personally what he's done. I'm talking strictly on what I'm seeing on TV. He, to me, he's not playing wrestler, but he's the exact same guy that came in to the company two or three years ago. It's the same type of promo, right? I've done a lot. I'm a, I'm a streamer. I'm rich. I'm the best. You should, you should cheer me because of that. And I, and I want gold. I got

all these views. Yeah, like that's kind of been like his, like he doesn't have another layer. So I can't get invested in his matches because I don't care. I know he can work. He's great

in terms of that. He's great in terms of getting heat, but like I think they even They even talked about or they previewed his segment by saying Logan Paul is going to cook tonight on the mic or something like that I know they use the word cook And I didn't like add that didn't add anything to what my expectations were but when it was over I'm like, it's the same promo. He's cut since he's been here Gunther was the one That really brought it. But like, I'm just, I'm kind

of out on Logan Paul a little bit. Like, what do you guys feel or see from him, either positive or negative? What did you think of that backstage with Seth? I liked it. Yeah, I'm with you. And then I saw that and I'm like, okay, well, at least they're trying, like, we'll see what happens, but it might turn out to be one dimensional still. But I got like different vibes from that. It

felt a little different, for sure. Yep. Yeah, the backstage was definitely a little bit different, but like you said, it's like, he didn't carry that promo, like Gunther carried that promo. Like, I was like, that's, that's my Gunther right there. That's Walter right there. That's my Walter right there. Like, bust his chest open, Walter, you know. But like, yeah, I really, part of my language, I don't give a fuck about Logan Paul. I really don't. Okay, you can you can do shit

in the ring. Yeah, so can 1000 other people. So many other people can do shit in the ring. Okay, like you're not the first. You know and wouldn't when it eventually happens that bad bunny Logan Paul match, you know, I hope bad bunny smokes his ass, but you know That's gonna

be great though. See I'm here for that. I'm here for that It's got to be in Puerto Rico since to have this summer house in Puerto Rico I'm sure I don't know if you guys listen to busted open today He came up about Logan Paul and like I don't know. I don't know if it's just like, you know, propaganda or whatever, if they're, they're kind of just saying stuff. But Bully was talking about how he's like one of the boys now he's proven himself and like, the way people

interact with him now is that he's there. He's not just a part timer. And now he has the time to be there full time. And people are treating them differently. So that might or might not be true. I guess that's good thing. I'm someone who I I do find it hard to look past the personal things I have against that guy, but I begrudgingly am like, damn, I like watching him in the ring, at least when he wrestles. Yeah, and I do think the boys have taken him in because he is there.

He's more than earned his spot. Now if we're talking about what he's done, if you take out what our entertainment level or value is with him, he goes out there with a live mic and cuts an eight to 10 minute promo. He can do it. Check. He brings eyeballs to the product. Check. He is putting his body and sometimes life on the line with some of the moves that he's doing because he's not just cashing it in and not taking many

bumps. Double check. So at that point, of course, the boys and the girls are like, no, he's legit because you can see the work he's putting in. For me, though, it's not enough. You're not enough. You are like a generic create a character. And these are the lines that were made by a 2K writer. That's just what it feels like to me. I will say this about him because I am also a person who cannot always separate art from their personal life. So I'm being honest. Him personally is

why I don't like him. I can admit that he can go in a ring. I can admit that he can get nuclear heat. to shoot him a tiny bit of bell. And I can't even believe I'm saying this. It's also in like the last 12 to 18 months who he's gone against. I think he went against like LA night last year. This year he went against AJ Styles, if I'm not mistaken. And, and then to me, those

are people I didn't give two craps about. Maybe at LA night, I tried to hold out faith for him, but other than that, no. So to me, he also hasn't been in meaningful matches, at least to me or feuds for me. on top of me not liking him as a person. I think also one of the things is, is like he's only wrestling at like their special events. It's not like you see him, even when he had the U .S. title, I don't believe he was wrestling weak. He never worked SmackDown. No,

he never worked SmackDown. So it's like, okay, I don't like you. You know, I get it. You're a heel. I'm not supposed to like you. But at least let me see it every week and like develop a little bit more to your quote -unquote character, you know, of to really make like, cause like Rhodesia, I don't like you because of the kind of person you are, you know? So I want a little more. I want my hatred to be fueled. I want your hatred to be fueled by TV and not the person.

I think the perfect thing to get into would be with the newly eventual face turn of Dominic, Dirty Dom. I don't know if you've seen them interact on the podcast and stuff. Dom just antagonizes Logan Paul backstage in a really funny way. And I think if they brought that dynamic, it could do something. Because we want to cheer Dirty Dom. At least I do. my guy right now, but I don't know. That's another subject. Before we jump to that, E, who do you think about this whole

Logan Paul thing? Because I got to talk about Dominic's new love interests. As far as like the personal stuff, I'm sorry, Mr. Logan Paul, I'm not familiar with your game. I don't know anything about the man outside of some of the YouTube things and you know the rest to be honest with you so I don't have that against him to be honest with you but for everything that Matt checked is why he's pushed and why he would continue to get pushed and why if I had the books I would

push him. I think overall this is just my thing you know the more I interact with people online and I interact with other hardcore fans like we are We hold people and things to such a high standard that the average fan just simply doesn't that's kind of disconnects From the responses people are getting on on on TV. Like this guy is getting millions of views So he's not enough for you, but he's like, here's the thing We're all old school fans. They don't listen to us.

No Listen, I'm glad the freaks listen to his band, but these promoters ain't listening us because guess what we gonna show up And we're gonna spend fifty thousand dollars on seats regardless. I mean so So at sometimes it's like all right Because at the end of the day this man is there because he's getting views He's a known quantity and damn he's actually good at what he does. He's respected for the business and people like him like What more does the man he do? He actually

gets legit heat. You can put him in there And and and he's uh, you know, like he's kind of like, you know, you can't he's actually he's taking the missus spot Like right like when you put you can't put insert the miss into a man event or uppercard Like match anymore, like as you know, he's taking the tan Like right you can put Logan and he possibly could win and they keep booking them correctly like right so For me, he's perfectly fine. He's doing what he's

needed to do. Um, like big name he can go in the ring Again, the personal things, I have no idea who the man is. Like when he signed the man, I had no idea who he was and what he was about or any of that shit. You know what I'm saying? Look, I watch wrestling and anime. That's it. So I have no idea the gateways these people lie. But outside, when I watch and see what he does, he's just fine. Does he cut a generic wrestling promo? Like thousands of other wrestlers cut

generic wrestling promos. There are certain people at the top, like a a la CM Punk. Right, right good to talk about to me is miss cut the same damn program for like five six years And he ran with damn thing, right? He was like for me. He didn't burn out. It's like the past like decade He's been around for damn near 35 years. That's crazy. You say right out to the last decade.

That's a long As time though, you know saying so local paw for me is just fine But to your point that like what you're saying is is the reason that the non hardcore wrestling fan responds to him because it's simple and it works and you hate him and that's it like you don't have to know everything about And it works on the hardcore fans because people like me and Rhodesia that are just like fuck that guy It also works for us because then we want to see him get beat,

you know, so right they know that they have It there's no one really like him. There's no there's he's a he's a commodity too Mm -hmm. I can't remember was it Billy or was it Eric who said they wanted something to talk about with Dominic Well, I mean Billy has Billy's gonna leave us early my guy Billy love Billy to death doing some great things out here So we're not gonna take up all this time tonight. No, it's okay.

Keep going Okay, I got something to give you guys so I'll do that before I before I get out. All right, so let's do this then So let's start with Dominic Yeah, these after we get done with Dominic you ask your question and then Billy's gonna bestow his greatness upon us Okay, what about down it I'm all of a sudden. I'm just like a dirty When he went back when he went back to the ring at mania He called that and when and I was just like this this dude I'm for life.

I'm a fan. Like, I don't know what it was. I mean, maybe it's me. You know, I'm like, I'm like this my own little nepo kid, you know, kind of trying to finish my story. But like, he's doing it. And he has such history and lore. And he's so dialed in on what he is. And it's only

getting better. And like, I brought him up because of that Logan Paul thing, because it was just like, he's, he's one of the only people it seems that has publicly antagonize Logan Paul and it doesn't come across as like he's bitter it just comes across like look we know you're an asshole like I can just I can do my thing with you and he probably respects the shit out of him you know yeah I so my wife was away for WrestleMania thankfully So I let the kids stay You were afraid

she was gonna, you know, well, she's gonna put the kids to bed The kids the kids were like begging me can we please watch WrestleMania, please? Tell everybody how many kids you got? How old are they? I have a 20 he's gonna be 25 my stepson and he's getting married next year Eight -year -old And a four -year -old. Wow. And my four -year -old, he's a whole subject. Him, his obsession with Oberfemi, thinks he's Oberfemi sometimes. Thinks he's Oberfemi? I love it. I swear to God,

he thinks that. He's like, I'm the ruler. Like, yo, relax, kid. Relax, kid. Love it. We got to get him on the show. Oh, my God. So they wanted to watch WrestleMania. So they're like... And have they watched? Like, did you get them into it? Since they were like baby babies or what?

Yeah, I have a pic. I actually have a picture of me and Julian my eight -year -old he's at his like he's got a little onesie my first WrestleMania I'm like holding up watching so he would like he regularly watches Wrestling with me when when he can like during the week he can he's got school But in the summertime like y 'all you're staying up. You could stay up watch wrestling You know weekends you watch him wrestle with me stay up

and watch wrestling. Yeah, so they were both stayed up and My mouth was reckless during that four -way Intercontinental Championship match. And it was fire. And Dominic went, I'm like, that's fucking true. I jump off my couch, and both my sons look at me like, uh, I'm like, it's cool. I mean, it's not here, you know? Oh, come on. But it was just. So then, Eric, when did you start watching wrestling? Oh, my god. I was about. My son's age. I was about eight. So we're

going back to like WrestleMania one. Okay. Wow. The original, the OG WrestleMania, like just before OG WrestleMania. Yeah. What was, what do you remember? Like as your first memory? I vividly remember my very first match. You were like, this is, I, this is the best thing I've ever seen. Very first match I saw and it was junkyard dog versus Mr. X. I was flipping through her channels one day, and I came across it, and Junkyard Dog was beating the piss out of Mr.

X in the corner, calling him Terry Funk. I know you're Terry Funk. Like beating the piss out of him, and I was like, yo, this is crazy. And I was hooked. I had never seen it before, never heard about it before. Saw that, and Junkyard Dog was my guy. That was my man. So what was that, AWA? No, this was WWE. Really? Yeah. It was like on Channel 5, it was like Superstars or something like that. One of the old shows, it was on Channel 5, WNYW in New York, like way,

way back. And yeah, that was the very first match I saw and I was hooked ever since. I was hooked on him. I'm like, I'm so old, Tito Santana will still enter the Continental Champion. I thought you was about to say, you're so old, Tito Santana won matches. Because at some point, man, he lost his... Dude, he lost every... We call them jobbers, of course, enhancement talent. It's enhancement

talent. I know it wasn't like this. In my opinion, I've never seen somebody who went from winning matches to never winning a match as quick as Tito Santana. He did something dirty then. He was an IC champion on Saturday night's main event, and then he lost it, and then every match after that, he lost. No, he had a good rail with strike force though. I remember him winning matches. I remember him going against the greatest enhancement talent of all time, Iron Mike Sharp. I'll see.

I'll say Barry Horowitz. No, I'll go with Iron Mike Sharp. He's Canada's strongest athlete. I did just see a post somewhere on I think it was on Instagram. We were saying like wrestlers that had a post wrestling career in a completely different field. And of course, it was like the teacher. Yeah, so he became a teacher. I guess I just learned that like three days ago. Warzone. Guys though, like why we stay there for a second like Eric. Like I know I'm getting old to where

I go like with music. I'm like man This r &b these kids listen to nowadays. It ain't shit. All right, right I know our parents said same thing said all right, of course they did. Yep and not like wrestling right now is great, but man, I just feel like Finding wrestling in the late 80s in early 90s, which is a great time because you had to find it like right like I had to find it like you wasn't as successful you can go online and You can find these guys

you had to find it. So I'm going I Don't get in the magazines don't go into the corner store get in the magazines and discovering all these wrestlers right and these were like You know,

sometimes I know it's the indies, right? But these were guys who were like bona fide superstars in different territories and different wrestling companies or big deals that would end up eventually being big deals in WCW NWA like it just was like for me as a kid it was like a I was like a kid in the candy store trying to all this great wrestling. Um, it's a little bit different. Look now consider now is we're so accessible is everything is so accessible. You can get whenever you want to

get it. No, it is. That's real. And there is something to that too. You know what I'm saying? Like there is something to the, it's hard to find where I'm not supposed to be watching. There's that part of it too, especially if we were in it. as a young kid, depending on where it got in at. I mean, because damn, the attitude there was absolutely like porn, right? ECW was on a whole nother level more than porn. I had to search for ECW. I came across ECW by accident one night

because I stayed up past midnight. Right? Look, porn was more accessible than ECW was. It was. Just walk out into the woods and pick up a little magazine clipping. I don't know, did anybody have that? I don't know, there's like this weird thing, I don't know if you guys, if anybody's

experienced that. There's like a very common experience where people would like teens back in like the 90s would hide their like Playboy penthouse clippings in like something out in the woods and then everyone would know where

it was and you would go see it. I thought I thought it was just something weird that I had encountered when I was younger and then I I saw a thread and everyone's like yeah I had that too and it was just like what was it it's like that rumor about like Marilyn Manson moving his rib You know, like, yeah, like that was freaky freak. Even number one freak right there. The 90s were crazy. I don't know what the fuck's going on. We were on some other shit. Man, weren't we?

That is what made us the upstanding citizens that we are right now. The 90s were my formative years. Junior high, high school. Man, oh man,

but speaking of so you said that. ECW is more accessible than sex and you are absolutely correct a porn or Because I remember I think I was nine so that puts me Third fourth grade It definitely wasn't more than fifth and I remember turning to PBS which was channel 56 in Detroit And it was a Tuesday as you can see this is Vivian Rudy's I may not even ever shared this story with you It was a Tuesday news 8 o 'clock or 9 o 'clock but it was not midnight or anything and it was

a straight sex episode where they were talking about um how you know the ejaculate comes out of the penis and they're showing diagrams they're showing naked ladies they're showing porn i guess it was some type of like breakdown on porn i'll just remember i turned to it yeah it was educational but that's why i try to have certain people try to define pbs that's probably why i am the way i am now But that was crazy, but yeah, I had to watch ECW like 3 a .m. 2 a .m. on passports

Yep, for sure. All right. What is your question for? Wasn't this all started because Eric was talking about WrestleMania and the kids and what a whole thing. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, we skipped that. We started with Dom and then we went to you were going to talk about WrestleMania when your wife was out of town. Dom won. He was like, let's fucking go. And the kids looked at him like, oh, this man is crazy. He was like, don't

worry. Mom's away so we can play. kids went crazy and then I asked the whole thing about when they started watching wrestling when he started watching wrestling he brought up junkyard dog i do this billy i do this i check them and i say man did you hear anything i just said to you Yes, I heard you, Rhodesia. But repeat what I just said. Well, from the moment you walked in the door, you put your coat down and you said, whoo, I had it on day to day. So he remembers. My question about

Dom first was, does he take the bait? Does he be a two time loser and go after Roxanne? Let's talk about it. I say go for it. You ain't a dirty Dom. You're a dirty Dom. Dirty Dom. He's got to end up with all three of them at the end at the same time. At the same time. I mean... Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. So you take the bait. We're sounding yes from everybody.

I mean, keep it moving. I don't know. Eventually. I do want to talk about it. So, so Eric, I want you to look at this as if this was real life. Okay. Take wrestling logic out of it. Okay. You are Dominic Mysterio. All right. Now, see, now, see, we about to get to the shits now. Cause I didn't even, I didn't know who was going to bring it up, but we about to get to it now. You're Dominic Mysterio. You started with Rhea Ripley, right? You then get with Liv Morgan. Liv is gone.

She's in Japan right now. Yep. There was like an 18 -hour time difference. She is just now finding out what he did last night. 16 -hour flight. And Roxanne Perez, new booty on the block. Hold on, hold on. You got to put in the context. Dom was in an abusive relationship with Rhea Ripley. Wait, I don't agree with that. Don't let facts get in the way of a good story. Listen, he's now with Liv, who seems to treat him right. They respect each other. He was doing her moves

in the ring. It's a different dynamic than when he was with Rhea. That was a different thing. Now he's in a comfortable place. He's got the gold. Okay, that you guys had that because now now you got Roxanne coming up and it's not just simple like who's hotter, you know Live Morgan left three weeks ago Do you think she asked Dominic Mysterio if she can go to Japan for three weeks and record a movie film a movie? I don't think

so. You know, no, she didn't this year. No, she did not know she did If you would was with the women, however, you look at that And she said, I'm about to leave for three weeks. And she did not ask you if you're okay with it. Are you going to be okay? What's your thoughts on it? What's your opinions on it? And a new one shows up feeding you after a hard day's work with your favorite meal. What you doing about that, brother? See,

you know, Matt and Rhodesia. So I know Matt and Rhodesia almost, I feel like almost all my life, but we really, really, really become Family family until like they I had calmed down a little bit This is my guy who knows me he already know Look I did what this is why you tell people like My W -2 said single. Until it didn't. Like, right? So, if I'm dating, and some ass comes and I wanna touch, I'm gonna touch it. Cause my W -2 say I'm single. Talk about it. You know what I'm

saying? So, hey, look, I would tell a woman, I'm like, hey baby, don't leave me. If you leave me lonely, I'm gonna find some company. Okay? If you leave me lonely, I'm gonna find some company. Oh, hey, I'm gonna say I say hey look I used to have a I used to have braids a long really long race It's funny. We talked about a marion People people you saw I look like a marion back

in the day, right? So I used to find girls to braid my hair and I had a chick She's braiding my hair between their legs Hey, listen So I had a girl she had to do something. She couldn't braid my hair. I say you sure You don't want to braid my hair this weekend, babe. I have something to do Hey mind you never mind. I ain't say that cuz they're my cousin Anyway, I'm like you sure you don't want to braid my hair, right? Right. I have something to do. Well, okay Okay, I'm

gonna get somebody else to braid my hair. I got somebody else to braid my hair and do me a couple favors Dominic Mysterio If she gonna be gone for three weeks that man, you can't leave him lonely Especially you got a new booty in town. So no, he is a single man. He needs to partake and activities. It's not wrong with that. That's all I'm saying. And when Raquel said Liv's gonna hear about it, he's like, I don't give a fuck. I don't give a damn. Do you not see these tenders?

Do you not see these? Do you not see these nugs? You bringing me food like this, day one? A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, right? You know what they say? And she's nude. We all, as men, have been around when the new one hits. Whatever that looks like in your area when the new one hits we've all been around that at some point Roxanne's a new one. Hey Bad thing is ain't ever gotta be better. It's gotta be new I was gonna get right back. I was gonna get right back.

Shout out to jay -z. Oh speaking of jay -z Kanye West is absolutely a piece of shit, right? I don't I won't listen another Kanye West song But he was right about jay -z and Beyonce's kid Okay, i'm gonna ask y 'all the question because i'm not about to do that with you that was completely out of line my bad Completely out of line and i'm not even going to elaborate on what you meant by that in case somebody don't know the story

behind that He's off a lot. He was I think he was spot on with the youngest when we see it now Thanks, I have no idea what he said I think Kanye made the the comment like slavery was the choice Whenever he said that I stopped you've not ever seen I've been out ever since I made a mistake Clicking into one of those clips of the the famous the infamous song that was just released like a week ago And it's unfortunately the catchiest thing you've ever heard. Somebody

else said that. It stays in your head and it's evil. Somebody else said that. It's looping in your head and you're like, wow. Thank you for ruining my day. I swear. Somebody else said like, it is, they don't rock with it. They don't believe in what he's doing. The message is horrible and it was like, but it's a fire song. It is. Unfortunately, it is and I can't ever listen to it again. Mm -hmm was a fire song I can name a fire song.

Yeah, they all kiss my ass. Yeah Okay, I've been around since day one and This is now where we're about to draw some lines of separation Real thick up in here. It's about to get real thick up in here Let's get this let's let's all get an argument. Yes episode 200 is the last one because everybody's got pissed off. I like this turn this shit up You This is just a billionaire There is a this is it there is a zombie apocalypse And you can only have one of the kelp hosts of the tfw pod

by your side Who would you pick and why? And it gotta be rude as hell, too. It's gotta be rude. You gotta be rude as hell. I gotta be rude as hell. So if I gotta pick one, I'm gonna pick Eshaan so I can be on his neck all day, every day, for the rest of my life. I knew he had to get his shot in somewhere. Not because he wanted, not because he wanted to keep him alive. Not because he wanted to keep him alive because he sees so much promise in him. It's entertainment.

Entertainment. I need entertainment in my life. I'm like, I need somebody shorter than me to like... Listen a man look in my Tim's brother. I'm a good fighter in the half Air Force one. Yo, if I put Tim's on I'll be six four two Tips that's funny tiptoes. I shared that photo online from Matt's graduation and somebody was just

like Man, he like that got you a height. No, like the Air Force one got like an eight and soul now Pertains to that so my my first instinct was Is this a zombie apocalypse everybody's gone like I'm gonna need to procreate forgive me Matt You know what I'm gonna have to tag in little Matt cuz I've seen that graduation picture I'm gonna need a young strong kid to carry stuff be my bodyguard Fend off these zombies. He's a big boy. I love it. I love it. I thank y 'all

for the entertainment. Oh, hell of a question. Hell of a question. I'm going to hold it. I'm going to do something. I'm about to... I'm going to mute real quick. I'm going to go to the bathroom. You guys pop some bottles, do what you got to do. I'll be two seconds and I'm going to come back. I'm going to give you something. That is perfect. He about to go to the bathroom? It is now. See this this is how this is how we work

this thing. That's how you work it It is now he's gone to the bathroom before you know, he has definitely gone to the bathroom before and he said oops I still can't get over like who shits on himself and just says oops Who does that? I have no idea who does that. All right, so if we can get Our video technology working.

He doesn't have his camera on right now. Hopefully he can hear us but we started talking about Roxanne and we started talking about Liv Morgan and I'm like, I gotta like get the biggest freak of the freaks on. I gotta get the biggest freak of the freaks on to have a conversation about the freakiness. Brandon has now jumped into the podcast. We're going to fastball at you really quick. So what we just got done talking about was what should

Dominic Mysterio do? A new hot young one on the block bringing food to this man When his main girl left for three weeks and did not ask him could she leave how he's gonna deal if she leaves She just left on her own accord to go find herself through the movie. Whatever that looks like Brandon the question was Your Dominic Mysterio, what are you doing? Are we live? Oh, we're live, pal. Oh, we're live, pal. You can hear me? We good? All right. We got you. We got you. Let's see

what we can. Let's see what we can do. I can hear you guys clear. Dirty Dom need to dip his nuggets in that Roxy sauce. So, uh, you should make it happen. And that's why he's on the block. I'm about to come home now. This is why I love Brandon. You can't top that, Brandon. It's time for you to go. Go out on top, brother. We'll see you at 300. That's it. My man comes in, drops the mic, and that is it. Shout out to Brandon.

Brandon is on the podcast. Just so you know, Brandon, Billy is about to bestow us a gift. I'm about to tag you in, Brandon. I'm about to tag you in. But before he does that, you come on. You got to put us over, of course. And arrogant Billy has done a fantastic job. And also, Brandon Eric Eric Brandon, there you go. Finally a pleasure, right? Yes. He's on He's sitting there talking about yeah, and as President Trump said earlier,

we are no Brandon. You are on. Brandon is on 133p right now if you're watching on YouTube. Put us over man, this is episode 200 man. We made it to 200 Of course, you have been on these episodes with us You have been down since really day one, of course behind the scenes because you are you are family But uh, yeah what you got for us man put us over Man put you guys over

what I considered going. I was trying to find y 'all first episode and I wanted to play it in the background Okay On what You guys have to beat from day one. No. Yeah. Oh, no, we swissie number Okay, when he used it over here, oh you you sweating Brandon's struggling. What's going on? I'm definitely about to disconnect his ass. He said Dom needs to dip his nuggets in the boxes. That is a hell of a bar right there. And his shit ain't been right ever since. He needs to

send that to Triple H's burner. Ever since, that man's been on the 36 second toilet. Wait, what's going on? He's gone, man. He's gone. All right, all right. I hope, like, if you are listening, hopefully this is coming across great. If you're watching, I know it is. Jump onto YouTube so you can just see. That boy was talking from, like, Monday night at 11 .35. It's like, dude, it's Tuesday at 9 o 'clock. Hey, real talk. The

literal time zones were in effect. When Eric said what he said, and Brandon didn't respond, I was like, shit, there's beef happening right now. He was like, Brandon went into no -sale mode. He's like, I ain't selling shit they talking about. Brandon thinks he's going to undertake a raid. I'm not selling shit to your ass. That's my gimmick. It's shit. Oh, shit. 1991 Survivor

Series, I ain't selling you. I told you before I'm not gonna say I'm out here for a secret reason But behind the scenes, I've been training to fulfill my destiny. It's a thing that I've put off for a long time and for some reason, the time came around and I have my reasons. I'm not going to say you guys know who my dad was. I feel like I'm on this little side quest right now and it's really exciting. But I'm very early. I'm training. I'm taking mentorship from people

who knew my dad and worked with him. But I'm out here to kind of like do my first thing for real. But ever since you told me about 200. Here comes Brandon again. Don't worry, don't worry. Ever since you told me about 200. I'm about to drop a gift and then I'm gonna tag you in Brandon. So I was just filling everybody in. what I'm doing out here in Denver. I'm in Denver here for a little secret project, sort of on the road

to finishing the story, if you will. And as soon as Matt told me about 200, actually before you invited me on, I started preparing a little something, a little practice, a little something I could give you guys. And I don't know how it's going to go. I don't know what's going to happen. It's very short. But if you'll let me, I'm going to cut a promo right now. Okay. All right. I'm ready.

All right. Let me take a breath. My dad, before he would, before the director would call action, he would kind of stand off to the side before the step in and he'd kind of give this look and do a deep breath. And then they'd be like, you ready? And he'd be like, he would just nod. So Billy real quick. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to cut you off. Can I please tell the story about my connection to your dad? Please, please. Maybe somebody who, and I'm sorry to cut you off. No,

please. For anybody who was not listening back in October when Billy was first on, or who maybe just missed that episode, Billy Mays, which is Billy's dad, y 'all know Billy Mays, the legendary salesperson on every and any infomercial back in the day. There is nobody I think on the galaxy who is 40 plus that does not know who Billy Mays is. And that man used to put me to sleep. At

night, I would watch him at night. I told her these are like, if I ever hit the lottery, I'm buying every infomercial that I see, like every piece of product. Like I was a big Billy Mays man. Like I first thought he was fantastic. So we started the podcast and I remember seeing your name, of course, when we started talking

and it didn't connect at first. Cause I'm just like, there's no way I'm like, Kicking it with Billy Mays his son that when I was just like our young teenager like was on my television that I always talked about lovingly and Something happened. I was like no fucking way That is Billy Mays Billy man. That's the name Billy Mays But

shout out to your dad man. Like like I said, I know that for me He was a big part of my television watching especially when MTV used to show music videos Anytime after midnight, your dad ran late night TV. And just to get to know Billie and just a genuine, awesome soul, you are and you have been. And I'm still waiting for us when we start some other type of episodes where we are talking anything that's not wrestling to get you on. Cause I know your passion is music.

There's just much more to you than meets the eye. So I'm excited for that But I just want to put your dad over cuz like that was just awesome and it was like how I believe in life like everything happens for a reason we have good energy good energy finds you so for This to happen that way and I'm just like wow, how crazy is that? But

it's it's what it's supposed to be. Well, look, so I'm I for my whole life at least last 15 16 years since my dad died people have always asked like you know, you're gonna step into his shoes and For a long time, I was just like, no, I'm a musician. I'm an artist. I don't do that. Even though I worked in the business, I worked behind the scenes. I was like a production assistant, like on set with my dad, other commercials, other

infomercials, whatever. I never really thought that it was something that would be just something I would feel called to do. And I don't know what it was maybe in the last like two years. It might be because I have a kid now and stuff. I don't know. And I did start to notice that my life was having these parallels with my dad's, where he was a traveling salesman when he was in his 20s and 30s. He didn't become famous until he was 40. He didn't get on TV until he was 40.

So he was hitting the road, going to these home shows and he was performing and selling these products. I found myself performing music and then selling my little products off to the side, my records and stuff. And I was like, I'm living like, I felt him. I felt like I'm living. experiences that he did in my own way. And so somehow that got around to, well, I actually kind of am a pitch man. I'm pitching for myself and my work and people I love and whatever. And that's what

I do. If you know me in Atlanta, I've made my way to like local businesses and I'm representing them locally and stuff. Not in this kind of way, but so lately I've just been, there's something else that's a secret. I'm not even going to say what it is, but it's also kind of fueling all this. Um, but I'll let you guys on in on off the air, but, um, basically I've started this journey and it's, it's a, it's a little quest to see what happens and develop my voice. And,

um, and a lot of it is just like. Copying my, I feel like I'm reverse engineering what my dad did. Cause I knew him from the very end to the beginning and back. I'm starting where he was at the end and I'm working backwards. I'm trying to get to like. What is my authentic way of doing this? So Bear with me. I'm gonna just I'm gonna

I'm gonna do this thing. It's gonna be what it is, but Just know that like my reasoning for doing this you guys are like the first Real public thing that I'm doing because my goal with this I think that's what locked it in for me of like this is real to me is that I Want to be the voice for people that I love they're doing amazing things that I appreciate and that I respect. So there's some nonprofit stuff and there's people like you guys that are doing something I believe

in. And if I could lend a little bit of help, I wanna do that. So this is that, okay? So here we go. I gotta make sure these people at the Hyatt Regency are gonna hear me next door. Are you tired of throwing on the same old boring pro wrestling shows every week? Hi, Billy Mays here for the TFW podcast. That's freaking wrestling. We got Matt, we got Rhodesia, we got Eshawn, also known as Big Daddy, some people call him

that. That's three the hard way. If you're ready to tap into the best kept secret in pro wrestling, become a freak right now and subscribe today on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts. You don't want to get left behind. Follow That's F &W on all social media. The TFW podcast. That's freakin' wrestling. Yo. Yo. How fuckin' awesome is that? I tripped up a little bit, but you know, I'm an NXT. I'm developmental talent over here. You found the hard camera.

Definitely thank you Billy. That was amazing. Do that. I'm trying not to get too emotional with that Emotional that that brought a little tear to my eye there that you know One you sound when you hit the Billy Mays here. You hit it

like perfect. Oh my god, that's that that part but This goes back to where I just said before you did that and we had no idea you want to do that Just how a gentleman's genuine soul you are I told her these a couple days ago about you and I was saying how whenever You get a tweet that really pops. You put another tweet underneath and talk about our podcast. And I recognize that. And I appreciate that more than you know. And

you don't have to do that. Right? Like, because there's been a couple of times where they're not even wrestling related. And you're like, Hey, for anybody who watches wrestling, check out my people. And it's like, you don't find people like that often. And typically anybody that you guys have seen on this podcast, Eric's now included. They're along for the journey.

Like this is not a thing where oh They're just on and that goes very by I don't want to forget anybody So I'm not going to give out, you know names Thank you. So I know I'm gonna forget somebody and I will feel like shit So I don't want to do that But anybody who's been on our platform or anybody that I've been on their platform You are along for the ride meaning when this thing takes off because it's going to take off You guys are part of Right? Like you're just, you're

not forgotten. And it's like, Oh yeah. Remember when we, if you have crossed that threshold and you have made these airwaves, you are on with us. Just like if you have listened from day one and you have supported from day one. And I know who you are. You are along for the ride and we are not going to forget about you. Um, so thank you for that, man. Like I love you for that. That was incredible. So super thoughtful. And I cannot wait until you are able to do what your

life purpose is going to continue to be. Take it to that next level. And I would be there to shout from the rooftops how great you're doing. I'm trying to figure out what this looks like in 2025. I don't want to be an influencer. I want to call back to the way things were. but in the modern technology and stuff. But that also brings me to something he said earlier. I wanted to take this opportunity to say it's 200. Moving forward, let's set up the Patreon.

I'll help you guys, whatever you want to do. Let's just get it there. Let's just put it out there. And it's time. Thank you, Billy. That means so much to me. Thank you. That's A to B because I can't speak. Yeah, but he really did. You know what? I'm switching up on E's name because I actually changed it to Big Daddy on here. While we were talking. And I was like, I thought that was what I wanted to say. And you knew it was wrong. Don't ever do that again. A big daddy

that's good. Nothing ever come good out from that. It feels so right. It hits so hard. But Billy, let me tell you. You gotta relax. He just said, it feels so right. It hits so hard. It hits so hard. I need you to get off. Double pause. No pause. No pause. Real quick though, Billy. Man, look, I never share with you. like my experience with your dad, like I was a late night TV kid. I used to, my kid, my parents, actually I think about like my mom, I say my mom is too sweet

on my kids. Like they just let them off. I was up to like four or five o 'clock in the morning watching TV back in the day. And I remember being up late and seeing all of your dad's infomercials. So when Matt introduced me to all that, oh my God. And like, now look at your face. I was like,

I see your dad. And when you set your name, in that promo just it just hit man again it gave me goosebumps man thank you so much thank you look I'm finishing the story whatever that means I'm gonna I'm gonna put it out there though for you guys this is the one thing that I do share publicly because I just think it's it makes sense to me I'm manifesting it I'm putting it out here right now for you guys what you got for me finishing the story means I become the official spokesperson

for Taco Bell because my dad was signed to be the Taco Bell spokesperson before he died, but he never got to shoot the commercial. It's declared it. And so I want to do a Super Bowl commercial with Taco Bell. Let's do that. It's manifested. Tell the story and then do a do a do a infomercial for that. You know what? You know what's so cool about this? And once again, I can get really deep, so I'm not going to get that deep on this show, but it's already done because you said

it. Yep. Right. It's already done. It's already done. You saw it. So we're gonna be able to look back and I'm just blessed and appreciate you sharing that with us and our audience of what because you really This is like the infancy steps of what you're about to start doing So to be able to share that it takes courage to share

it and to speak on it, right? Like that is so fucking powerful man So for you to be able to come on here share that with us So I am beyond blessed just for you to feel like that's something that you can share with us Right now in this moment But for you to be able to do that and then say that, it's happened already, man. And I promise you, I will be there for whatever that looks like when you get there. It's a fine line.

Sometimes I've tried to go the other way with my life and not share too much because I'm known to share my goals too much and then they shift. And this was one that I am keeping a lot of goals secret right now and a lot of projects that are in the works secret. But for this one, it honestly To bring it back to wrestling, finishing the story became part of my life through that storyline. I want to meet Cody and I want to just exchange that energy with him because I feel that it's

real for as much as it's a storyline. I feel that it's real and we all felt it and we all know what happened. It was, like, transformational for everyone. And I'm not saying I'm gonna reach that level. I'm not gonna have some WrestleMania 40 moment, but my version of that. And then when it comes down to it, we all kind of are doing that. We're all finishing these stories of our

ancestors. So, like, that's what I'm trying to show here, is that, like, big or small, whatever it is, it's the only thing for us personally, like, whatever each of our things are. We're all our own Cody Rhodes on the road to WrestleMania

40. 100%. 100 % Cody's been gone for 30 days and I'll let you go after this cuz you got to rest up Cody's been gone for 30 days as of today In two sentences three sentences and I need it from everybody How much do you miss Cody Rhodes on WWE TV I On one hand I I think that it's good that he's he's not around right now just because of the landscape. But on the other hand, I think that it's becoming apparent how much of a foundation

he was for the moral center of the show. Even when it wasn't flowing right or whatever, I think it gave people a different kind of wholesome thing to latch onto. And maybe that's why punk is getting the big pop now, because that's where that energy is going. To the bad boy that is there for us too, and he's real, you know? That's my take. Love it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. So when that man comes back, he's going to get that huge pop. You hear that music hit.

One day, Eshaan will learn the lyrics to Kingdom. My four -year -old knows it. Don't hold your breath, brother. Eshaan can't. Understand it, but it's cool. It is what it is. My son's gonna hear that music hit one night on Monday Night Raw or on SmackDown and he's gonna go ape shit. That's it. Nice. Brandon? I don't necessarily miss Cody, but Cody is very much a North Star for that SmackDown show. SmackDown is missing

a lot with Cody right now. I'm not saying that it's a hard watch or anything, but to Billy's point, there's a center in that show for him. And that shows North Star for sure. I'm still trying to process my feelings right now after what you just did, Billy. And I even text Matt like, I can't even right now. I'm shogged up over here in a hotel room. I'm pumping some heat out of my body. Hey, you're a jerk like me. I normally get the foggy glasses off. I'll go wipe

my eyes there a little bit, you know? I don't miss Cody. I don't miss Cody at all. But no, no, no, no, no, this is not, this is not. No, let me finish what I gotta say. Damn. I don't miss Cody at all. She went with at all I can't wait to see she says this time But I know his fans misses him dearly and they're probably missing out a lot on the show for all the reasons that

y 'all just mentioned. Um, so I know that just like how, with how I felt about Roman and when Roman not being there, how much he was missed for me. I can only imagine the Cody fans really missing out on Cody. So again, cause he has been the stability there alongside with like a Seth Rollins, so. Is Cody in hiding? Is he, have we seen him? Has he posted? Like he hasn't done anything. Wow, uh, he's he's trying to keep posted, but he hasn't okay. He hasn't done anything yet.

Yeah Wow Does anybody miss roman? Well, hold on because you know, we got to get the resonant cody. We got to get that on the pod. You got to answer So e how much did you miss cody like legit question? Don't know the words Something something Cody Rhodes My man is sounding like Bill Cosby singing Something something pudding pop come on Like I think I Think Billy somebody made a comment of it, but it's me. No, it was Brandon. Um Cody Rhodes is a smackdown wrestler.

He's not on raw Right? Take out outside of WrestleMania where they do some of the crossover to get people to watch both shows. He's a SmackDown wrestler, meaning he is exclusively on SmackDown. I don't miss Cody Rose until I watch SmackDown. They've done a fantastic job on Raw. I talked about it last week and they really leaned into it. Shout out to whoever is in some type of creative something in WWE. For being a huge fan of the TFW podcast

Shout out to you guys. I appreciate you. All I ask is you just put this pod in the right person's situation Okay, but I talked about it on last week's show where I said raw feels like a living breathing reality Place where people just talk to people matches just happen people are involved in two or three different things They really leaned into that last night, but smackdown is just what it is if this match is scheduled It's that match and we going for another segment.

So Raw's done a really good job of giving us what we wanted. To your point, I think you said Eric, maybe punk pop. It's part of that is because we don't have that hero right now. We got Jay. We going yeet with Jay. We love Jay. And Jay's got it. I've said it before, what a change makes of having gold glasses, having that championship belt and going to just regular black track Nike pants. Holy hell does he look like the superstar that he's been But it's like when you watch smackdown,

you know, something's missing. You like you can watch and say, okay It's alright, but something's missing And it goes deeper than cody rhodes on how they do that show but cody's a really big proponent of What's missing on that show? So he's he's missed on smackdown. Is he missed all the way in wb? This is gonna be stupid. Is he missed all the way in wb? No, is he missed on

smackdown? 100 Absolutely he is Nobody's as big as him on smackdown and there's three or four people just as big as him on raw Jacob fatu is still alive. Oh Jacob fatu That's fair. Oh real quick. That's fair real quick Billy because before you leave you gotta put us over again. Um, yeah Real quick Jacob fatu I don't need the announcers to tell me his catchphrase 32 times on the broadcast. It's making it not cool. I'm good. Stop. Solo's making it not cool too. Dude, he's hilarious

though. Solo is so damn funny, man. Solo has been hilarious for like the last year and a half. He is super funny. Yeah, last year and a half for sure. Whoever listens on WB that listens to the pod. Pull back a little bit on the announcers with the yard that I mean stop like he's he's different. He's a monster Let him be that do not lean into that too much because then it's

not cool anymore. That's that's my two cents on Jacob That's it let me tell you this do you guys feel like like is that is that the bloodline like Is the bloodline just is it over is the bloodline saga over or are we just yeah? It's over. Not in like a bad way. No, not in a bad way. It spawned all these things and this is one of them. There's an old saying that heroes don't die, they just fade away. You know, but

you know where they messed up. And that's how you can tell, damn, as much as we love what Triple H has done, there's been some pretty big misses. This is one of those misses. I get keeping things open for rock. I get keeping things open really for rock is what it is. promote Survivor Series as this is one and done. Whoever wins this, wins everything. One, imagine how much better the hype would be for us as fans. If we know like, oh shit, this is the end of the feud. This is

what we're doing? Oh, I'm locked in. But it was kind of like, okay, we had war games and then they went along as if the perception was that's what it was. Was that oh, well war games told you that roman history won. So why are you tripping

on it? We thought we were getting roman rock We thought we were getting roman jacob and we still thought we were getting roman and solo until of course january, you know first week of um On netflix, but it was kind of just like they just kind of breeze passed through and there was so many More stories. We never got the official awesome roman to Jay, which we should have gotten. We never got that. We really, outside of the hug, yeah, it was a hug, but damn, give me Jimmy

and Jay. Like, really get into that. Like, give me some more of that. It was just, they blew right past it, and we still don't have Solo who said he would acknowledge Roman Reigns if Roman won the Ulla followback, and he's never done that. It was just so much that was left on the table. I think we can blame The Rock for a lot of the issues that you just described, and that sucks, but I don't know. There's something there.

This so if this is a real quick and then of course it's Billy you gotta go everybody Funny side fact is that my dad never really said that it's just no way No, no, it was always I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet. And I'll tell you the reason that I think it's my theory I knew my dad and I knew that he had huge respect for Ron Popeel, the original original guy. And that was his catchphrase, but wait, there's more. And I think my dad like out of respect was like,

no, that's Ron's thing. I'm going to do this thing. But the meme became, but wait, there's more, you know, 2020, every day in 2020, but wait, there's more. Like it was a me. Every time there's something new, there was like a series

of things. So anyway. Fun fact, I love it and I'm done because I can't my question is not gonna top that so put us over and get out bit All right No, I'm just gonna say it's all been said but you guys are the best I Think that I'm serious when I say like you guys deserve to have some monetization in exchange for what you give. And it doesn't have to change anything. It doesn't have to make you do it for that reason. And I

don't think you guys will. And I hope all the listeners right now are in agreement with me that we would suck in a buck and throw a little monthly whatever it is to the show just to like... Let you guys have a budget. Let, let it be the fly E out to a, to an event budget kind of thing. I know you guys. I mean, I mean, to start, it could be that, and then you know, but, uh, anyway, I'm with you guys and, uh, I appreciate it. I don't know. Thank you for having me and thank

you for letting me be a part of it. Shout out to the freaks. You are you are the fucking main you're gonna miss my promo I'm gonna cut About 200, you know what? I know you're gonna rock it. All right. Thanks, y 'all. Until next time. It was good meeting you, Brandon. It was good meeting you. Good meeting you as well, sir. It's a great pleasure to speak with you. I need to come check out your little collection behind you in Atlanta when I get home. For sure, man.

Oh, I thought you were talking to me. Hey, I told the wife. I'm welcome. Wait, are you in Atlanta too, man? No, I'm in Pennsylvania, but this whole wall is filled with just sweet travel pictures. Perfect. Nice. Well, when I come to PA, I'll come up there. I'm actually from Pennsylvania, by the way. So no way. Pittsburgh. That's right. That's West Side. I'm out. You guys continue on. Love you. Love you. Love you. Thank you. Thank you, man. Billy Mays. Billy, are you fucking

serious? Talk about you don't know how awesome that was for me, like legit, like. All bullshit aside, I have no problem showing my feelings and such. But if people, Rudeja understands, of course, if people understood how much I used to talk about infomercials and to get a promo cut from said person's son about something that we've created out of thin air. That was completely unexpected. Right. And it was awesome. I loved

every second of it. Same. Like it even like brought a little tear to my eye like cuz he said it with such passion Like it was just like different yeah, like I felt it he was like this shit means something to me man, you know Like the beginning middle end of every single show like This episode brought to you by Billy Mays. The awesome thing about this, and I've said it every time somebody comes on, and I'm sure the energy comes through the microphone, comes through the camera, on

TV. Everybody's good people. Yeah. Right? Exactly. That is the community that we're cultivating. It's good fucking people. It's fucking people.

And I said that. Earlier this year when you guys were posting during WrestleMania like out there at WrestleMania and You met lovely yeah, and like and I was like This is what it's all about being genuine human connection is what life is all about and I 100 % believe that and it's like the main reason I love to travel the world I Love to learn new languages We're talking earlier this week about like learning languages and shit like And that's the stuff that I want to like

instill my children like you need to go out and you just need to meet people Yeah, and develop those connections Yeah, I told my kid I told my son my son so My son my older son Julian. He's going to Japan with my wife Wonderful. Yeah, and I told him I was like, you know my father lived in Japan for two years when he was in the military. Three years. The look on his face. Here's how you say this. Here's how you say this. Here's how you say thank you. Here's how you

say hello. Here's how you say good morning. Here's how you say you're welcome. Like just teaching him like some basic Japanese, which is like, how do you know that? I'm like, my father taught me. Like just, you know. But it's it's just about building those connections. It's pretty dope. Billy is a genuine connection with you guys. And now I feel after finally speaking in face, because we've interacted, you know, on a course, mama called Twitter. I'm called Twitter. Right.

We've interacted on there. He calls me like he's like, Eric's the reaction king. I was like, Eric, real quick, you know how I know where this is feeling good. She didn't hit the line. So her favorite movie is Coming to America. You hitting that, she should have gotten super excited and said, mama call him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay. But she feeling pretty good right now. No, I'm still pretty emotional right now. So like she's trying to keep it together right now.

I'm trying to keep it together too though. You're like, I am trying to keep it together. So it's like, you know, talking to him face to face, it was like, wow, this is like, or computer to computer, camera to camera. Wow, this is really fucking cool. We had this guy come on to the podcast So we couldn't get these two I could have had episode 200 go by without having this guy on the podcast. Bushman is in the building. What's up, Bushman? Hold on. Listen, let me be

real specific for a second. There you go. Let it go. What's he talking about? Ocean? Atlantic. Atlantic. Atlantic. I'm going to get Arctic up in here. We got one thing and one thing to say. We got to get out of the way, and then we can rock it out. Big Daddy E! Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Let's go That day I was dying from pneumonia in urgent care Log in just for like two minutes,

man. This is just me. I'll be good So my guy Bush man is is in the building also Bush the only rule really we've had all night is you got to put us over Coming on you got put us over going off. It's really this really kind of like what's been happening, right? So before I get to that means not you know Yeah, cuz I got some questions. I got a question. I'm going to ask

you That is a running question. I'm also going to run i'm also going to ask matt this question, too I can't wait to hear matt's answer to that question. Um, which man put us over put you on All right. How do I do this? Let's see Like Brandon down there. I'm a day one supporter. Shout out

to all of the day one supporters. Yes, sir I wish man was the one in the before anybody was leaving YouTube comments Bush man would be in there spamming the comments and shout out to Bush man I mean Bush man go way back if you wasn't on and you didn't listen to that show go back and listen That show that Bush man was on don't interrupt me when I'm putting you over As a day one supporter I gotta say this I mean three friends took an idea, a concept, and their passion for

wrestling, and they rocked it out into something that so many people enjoy. At least, I think we were on the road to 800 as we try to approach the road to 1 ,000. I mean, that's something that not everybody can do. Not everybody will stick with it this long. It's been compelling. It's been engaging. It's been fun. I've loved

to watch my friends. Go on this and and make it something special something fun and a place where you have been able to share your experiences as you go to these events and meet the people and just Sharing your life together because a lot of the you know, I've caught the pod where you and redisha did the thing on vacation. So One of my favorite it's been fun. I'm glad that I could be a part of it a handful of times Of course, baby, you know that you know that appreciate

you Bush man. Love you man. Um, so the question that has been On everybody's mind really just

minds. Okay talking about Dominic Mysterio Brandon's answer was so great Brandon hit his answer and he just fucking dropped off like he went on a tape delay Saudi Arabia it was like a 22nd delay and he was like we asked him a question he just sit there he like this back to you yeah i mean it's great it's like nobody asked you a question brandon that's five minutes ago but he's back my man's back he's still with like 240p that's better than the 132p he was on earlier so my

question is this if you're doma stereo and this is real life this is not wrestling logic okay doma stereo you had ria rippley right Left Rhea Ripley got with Liv Morgan. Mm -hmm. Okay, Liv Morgan left without asking His opinion on should she go and do whatever she's doing filming a movie find herself for three plus weeks He's ass out That new thing hit the block Brings you food your favorite food looking like she looking talking like she talking Bushman if you were

Dominic Mysterio, what are you doing? Whatever I want And then when I'm done doing whatever I want I'm gonna try to go down to NXT and find Stephanie I Love Maria I love mommy lives nice, too But there is nothing and I mean nothing that I want more from this life than for Stephanie to put me in that mood Me too. Face the other way. My face not hitting the mat. She's amazing. Alright, while y 'all getting off on off of her. Dirty, horny. So, hey, Chrissy. What'd you say?

He pulling at you. And like, I did it already on the show too. I already did it on the show. First three minutes. First three minutes. Hilarious. We talked about my favorite wrestler of all times. going free balls too. So we were talking about Seth Rollins. Now we're in any undies this week. How's Seth gonna come out there? Bush man without no damn draws on. His ass is showing out in the first two seconds of what he does. Come on man, you kidding me? I loved every second of it. Never.

Sorry to that woman of Beth, or whatever her name is, Becky. Sorry to Becky. Sorry to that woman. Do I gotta make that picture too? Like, Beth takes his head on Becky Lynch's body? Yes. Our bad, my bad. Sorry to her. Uh, Chris, Bushman. That is Brandon. Brandon, that is Eric. Eric, that is Bushman. Bushman, that is Eric. Eric, pleasure. Nice to meet you. What up? What up? What up? Don't ever throw shade when I'm repping Big Daddy E and giving him a shout out, OK? This

is ridiculous. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, you missed that. What is it? Amen. You can see E is working to, uh, because I would never clap for some of this shit that he got going. I've been waiting. He's definitely working. I've been waiting. I've been waiting this whole time. I've been waiting. So production note, but we were saying on the pod, put the audio for the sound effects at like 70%. When it's at 100, like it blares out everything you can't hear in the nose.

So I'm guessing we do about 60, 70%. It'd probably be like an awesome transition. Hey, this is like a 5%. No, I'm talking about when you actually do the file itself, you can go in and look at every audio and then you can just move it. Because it don't come across same keep me in a hundred. No, so What you had zero we had you had an awesome

question What fun question do you have? Now that Bushman is on and Brandon is on the pile I actually had another question for them, but I'll ask them because they still were day one's So the day one question I had was there is a zombie apocalypse. So this is just for Bushman for Brandon Okay, there's a zombie apocalypse and you can oh wait Let me also started this shit got to get thick after this like we got to be like, you know Already how I'm already thumbs down and you already Bushman.

Oh, you gotta imagine worse than that You gotta be like super rude about it, like to the point where I'ma go, I'ma turn you off. Yeah, you gotta say it like that. Yeah. You gotta be mad disrespectful, yo. Zombie Apocalypse is coming. You can only rock with one host of the TFW pod to be right there by you. Who are you picking and why? Damn. Well, you know it's not you. Why not? I'm the smartest one up here. I can make a fire. But you know, like a fire. It's Matt. Come on, baby.

Let's go. And why? And why? And why? And why? To 2009. It started working for you. Dude, I think it was earlier than that. I got a feeling was earlier than that. I mean, you might be right. I left. I left the newspaper in 09. And then I was Benji's assistant. And then in less than a year, you shuffled me out of there. So 09. Well, so and that's something you can never say Rhodesia is he Needed me and respected my opinion on things and he saw that I took care of him.

You can't say that But no, no, I'm gonna say something that's gonna blow his whole spot up in just a second. So go ahead Tell me why so 2009 Eric Eric Bush has seen this plenty of drunk nights in Vegas He just told you he's seen this on the podcast and he's been there I'm late for parties. Brandon's absolutely seen this side of Rhodesia. Whenever you don't agree with Rhodesia, this is the side of Rhodesia you get. Just so you know. So now you're linked in. I've always

been the one for Sekaroti. Thank you. Let's go. Sekaroti's running around. I can't show a label. To answer your question, I would have to say leadership. Leadership, we're going to survive. Whatever team he has assembled, To get us through this apocalypse and you'll be there. You'll be there The leadership ain't gonna be there. We're gonna survive. No, Eric. You won't be there, but You get one person so you That's gonna assemble a team and under his leadership Look at her.

Look at her. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Huh? Fox five. I told you. Go ahead. Brandon. Breaking news. What's that Matt? I agree. I agree. I'm picking it up. Because I know why. Because I know better Love you. I love you. I love you Yes, ma 'am Bush man the reason why you shouldn't pick Matt Matt be honest, tell me why if a zombie apocalypse happened Tell me what you would do Because Matt still has to come

on and tell his answer, okay. Okay. Well wait, we'll save it then we'll save it I'm gonna sacrifice all of us I still rock with it. It's worse than that. It's worse than that. It's worse than that. So we talked about Rock standing on Raw in the Money in the Bank, which I'm glad to see that. Julia is on SmackDown, which she and I had a little too last week. They were called up. You can kind of tell by the verbiage in their promo. My question to all you guys is, do you trust...

I'm going to put it on... What's his name? Brian. Road dog because he is the head writer of smackdown Do we trust with what we've seen so far an answer may be absolutely. Yes Do we trust road dog to

book julia wright on friday nights? I don't know I feel like the weapons roster on smackdown is top -heavy And even though it's top -heavy I don't know who to put the blame on for how they've done Bailey, but I feel like Bailey has not gotten a fair shake and she's been on SmackDown for the vast majority of I guess the last year, year and a half. I don't know how long Road Dogg's been head of the show, but I don't know. I don't

feel confident. I think outside of Jay, Nia, Tiffany, Bianca, I mean, their personalities, their characters and all that stuff kind of writes itself. I don't know if there's enough, I don't know if favor is the right word, but I don't know if, I don't know if Julia has the cache to warrant, you know, big pushes. I think their priority should be her or one of the priorities should be her given that she's fresh up and she's

a new star. But having said that, I consider what they did with Tiffany over the last year and a half where she was a call up and she was a champion in about a year or so. It's a mixed bag, but I don't feel confident that she'll get the push she probably needs to get over and be established as a star on the show. I agree with everything you just said. Like, I really, I don't, I don't, and it's a shame. I really don't see her that being the brand for her. Kind of wish

it wasn't the brand for her, you know? Because she's so damn good in the ring, you know? She could put on a show in rain. She's tough, you know but I Don't think the focus is gonna be on her maybe mid card title why is Maybe they'll push her that that direction But that's gonna like step on some toes in that mid card in the you in the women's US championship like, you know like Cause I don't know about other people that have been there for a while to be outshined

by her. Yeah. But I think she can put on some really good matches with some of the women that are there. Like she could have a banger match with Meacham. Ooh, yep. She could have a banger match. Hell, shit. Her and Charlotte is probably a dream match. Come on, man. For fucking every wrestling fan in the world. Julia versus Charlotte, like, that typically would be a WrestleMania match. Julia versus Charlotte for the title, boom. You're getting worldwide recognition on

that. That might be what's needed for Charlotte. That might be what's needed for Charlotte. Charlotte needs like. Charlotte don't need nothing y 'all got to stop with this narrative. See like I let

it ride a little bit What do you mean? That's what Charlotte needs Charlotte don't need nothing Charlotte did her part Tiffany had getting up to Charlotte's level and As a matter of fact, I'm glad you said that real quick and you can talk while I pull this up Cody had an incredible It's like a minute, I'll play it for you guys. He had it, somebody asked him about the Brock Lesnar feud. And he talked, it was like so damn

deep. And this is, when you get to this type of inside baseball, this is like what everybody who's on this pie lives for. This kind of stuff. Right? Like hearing them talk about what's really

real. So check to check this out and of course we can get back to Charlotte, but this is good But I can tell you the people ever wonder how real wrestling can be the three matches I had with Brock Lesnar are the most competitive and There's a thing when you work with a guy who's a big monster He's a monster where they make you earn it is what they'll say You're not just grabbing my leg, even though that might be the spot You're not just hitting me with that. The

Cody cutter. It's not just happening that way. You have to actually earn it and earn it is as as close to being in a real fight as I've ever been in life. I look back at the three matches of the bank lovingly and so proud of the the body of work we put up. Yeah, but also I remember scared is probably an appropriate term, but just That was the most aggressive and I've been in fights and I've wrestled folk style, freestyle, did all that. That was the most real anything

had ever been for me in the ring. And it actually gave me a whole new education. Yeah. On getting, I guess, to the top of our game. What it really means is there is an element of you're not just taking this. Yeah. Thank you. This is going to be a bit of a struggle because that man is a freak athlete. How fucking fun is that? How fun

is that? That's fucking awesome. How cool is that right only in wrestling is that a thing and we know once again us on this podcast Probably anybody who's listening to this podcast understands what that is try to explain that To someone who

is sitting now watching for the first time. Oh, yeah It's it's it's predetermined and they have these things called spots that they kind of go over But like when you're at the top of the top You're pushing that person you're in the ring with to make sure that they can hit that spot That you're already at what happens if they don't hit that spot Oh, then that's a whole other thing and then that's when they can maybe get buried or they go drop down in the car But while they're

in the ring they have to do this like that is I thought that was tremendous To hear that from cody to talk about yeah, there's a spot here where you're grabbing my leg But you need to grab my leg. I'm not just leaving the leg out there and i'm falling on my back for you I've

got to fight for it. Yeah. Yeah That incredible man, like so many layers to what professional wrestling really is and it really is and even that little segment there goes Really tells the story of the Tiffany Charlotte feud Charlotte made Tiffy work for it. Mm -hmm and I appreciated that. I really did. I'm like no make her fucking work for it Like fucking work. You are the title. Which is why I'm like, OK. Charlotte needs someone to. Which is why, like Charlotte doesn't need

Julia. I think Julia needs Charlotte. To make her work for it. But in the in like the other sense in the ring. The two of them can just fucking go at it. Like. In the ring, it's not gonna be an issue. It's the other stuff, the outer layer of it that I think Julia needs. And language barrier aside, I think she can bring it. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, I think, I think Julia needs those things. I think it's even interesting for having this conversation.

E, you know, back in the day when Road Dogg was head writer for X -Mackdown, it wasn't the best. And I'm giving, I'm shooting them some bail because it's three hours. Oh, this is not his first day? No, this is not his first day. Oh, okay. But the, from Triple H's perspective, the pushback to that is, but yeah, but I'm not putting my hands all over it. Like, maybe Vince did. I'm letting him do what I know he can do. That's

where I came up with that question from. Because at one point when Road Dogg was head writer of SmackDown, it was the shits. Nah, it maybe had nothing to do with him. Maybe he literally wrote the best script up in the world for that show. He sends in events and Vince completely rewrites it. Maybe that's the thing. Ten minutes before showtime. Right? Right. I don't know. Ten minutes before showtime. Exactly. So E, you have been

around when Road Dogg was head writer. You have talked numerous times about how you feel like it is really important for a wrestler to be able to connect to the audience via promo. You know, we've seen EO get away with it with the subtitle video packages at times. We've seen Shinsuke do that, but you feel like, hey, you got to be able to cut a promo to succeed in WWE. Are you comfortable and confident that with the structure that is SmackDown right now, she's going to be

presented as the star she should be? I think the WWE creative umbrella is stronger than just one man weighing down on talent. I feel like if she's going to be over, she's going to be over. I don't think it's Brodawg is going to be the demise of her. I think she would be just fine because she's talented. If you look at overall, like a lot of those women, especially some of the women with the language barrier, it took them a while to kind of get over with the larger

audience. You know, you look at, you know, Asuka did kind of well. I think that Vince kind of Fumbled her a little bit. I think it was a I listened to Paul Heyman Interview he was talking about Raven, which is one of my favorite wrestlers in the world. I never got a chance to be out there ever will meet Raven To be honest with you. He's one of those guys. I heard it's not all a great experience meeting him I don't want to diminish him being like one of my all -time

great wrestlers But he talked about Raven. He was like, uh, you know He was big and Matt knows and you guys watch ACW know he was a big part of ECW and he kind of never really reached we could have reached in WWE and Paul was like, well look, you know, I'll be mad. It's a WWE. Oh Yeah, yeah I remember him in WCW Um, but you know, we were saying what Paul was saying. He was like, look, I've, I was with Raven day one, fleshing out this character, add nuances, seeing

the character grow. And then now you're going to take this character that was grown somewhere else and you're going to give someone else and they don't understand because they weren't there. Right. You know, they won nutrient this care, right? They're going to take the care, they're going to mold it and they're going to make it in a different way. Right. Not maybe that happened with Oscar, a lot of the NXT talent. But now I think there's a greater symmetry between Triple

H and Shawn, right? Now, how much has the Julia character grown in NXT? She was only there for a hot minute. So still kind of the canvas is not complete. So that character is still going to continue to develop and is going to develop on stage. Now they're going to look at what she does well and what she doesn't do well. They're going to try to fill in, pencil in. Maybe they're gonna do the subtitle things with her which i'm

fine with like right? I watch a lot of anime i'm fine with read subtitles And I can get into a engaged and get these characters in a mode and everything else just by sitting reading a verbiage No problems there. Um, so do this is is like now we look at smack now. We didn't get into it You guys are so damn noisy all good though You're on mute Coughed and then I never took myself off you but that was Eric Eric is making that noise. I'm Drinking first How long have

you known me? Well, but Bush did tell me earlier that he died like two weeks ago cuz he was sick. That's why he Bush ain't really been much About the pot. Yeah, he's about he bounced back. He came back like a bad bag of dope He was like, yeah I just got back today and I was like, oh welcome back like you coming on the show tonight Hey, make sure you bring a drink I haven't been

watching wrestling. I can't really speak on This this particular topic because I don't watch NXT I don't have the reference or the reference for those guys when they come up from NXT. That's when I get to know So so for me to have much much like a lot of people will push you like a lot of people I remember I was telling Matt and you probably maybe heard about like I was on the plane talking these dudes for like We're going to WrestleMania where I was talking to

for like the whole trip. I think it's three hour trip We talked literally the whole entire time and they did not watch in XT at all And but they're a big, you know WWE fans, right? They're going to the show and very excited about but they don't a lot of people don't watch them So they don't know those stories I think Julia will be just

fine. I think her story her character is not As the way we see it now, it will continue to grow and develop I think io This is the best version of her since that she's been on the main roster for a long time now long time, right? So there's definitely growth. So again, I like I think smackdown is what it is for popular reasons I don't think it's just brand. I think three

years. I'm sorry three years three hours of the program is tough and I think And Bush was like, you wasn't president earlier, but you know, Matt and Rhodesia, you know, they shadowing. Cody Rose again and his contribution to this to the company and to the show one more again. That's a lie. We talked about hey is are we missing Cody Rose from WWE TV, right? Absolutely. His name is Cody Rhodes. I was about to say now.

Yeah, I don't know who Cody Rose is. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey I'm usually don't buy now. All right, just track people with so cut pictures. Like we pot every every weekend, one o 'clock in the morning. No, he just can't pronounce the right 1119 is like two o 'clock in the morning for me. God damn

it. It's like this is this is this is it. But Bush, so they were saying pretty much you saying like, you know, Rhodesia, you know, shadow Cody. I don't miss Cody. Fuck him. Right. And then Matt double down on it, too. Let me say this let me just say this one thing about Julie because it sounds like I shit on her a lot Your original question was do I trust? Roadhog to book her properly. I'm ignorant to Roadhog's booking. So I don't know how his pen is. I don't know

anything about his producing. So I don't know. I can't answer that question. What I will say is I'm torn in that answer because one, I didn't think that she should have came up from NXT quite yet. But two, seeing what's left in NXT, I can also say that she didn't need to be in NXT anymore. So I'm in this, in this area of. Okay, well. Oh shit, I can't send it. Fucking hate her contact. See like do you are? Because you knew she wasn't

all right to it. Hey, hey, listen Eric, the bad part is I have no idea what her eye color is. I have no idea what she's talking about. What she says it. She looked gorgeous, absolutely breathtaking. She had her brown eyes, just regular brown eyes. Yeah, okay. That's exactly what it is. Roman with his blue green eyes versus his regular eyes. That's beautiful. That's them. I had no idea. Yeah. I do want to shout out and thoughts and prayers to Zoe start. I hated to

see that. Oh my God. I heard you Bush. Not nice. I was just getting ready. I was getting ready. I was watching live. I was getting ready to tweet. Damn Zoe got her sleep last night. May she look good as fuck. I was about to say the same thing. And then I heard her scream. Yeah, I read when she jumped off the rope. I heard it. She was like, I was like, oh shit, she's gonna knock it out, right? Yep. And then it happened. I was like, oh my god, no. Brutal. We don't get to

the details of it. But if you know what you're looking for, you know what you're looking for. So I'm not going to put this is not a blame game. Of course. But this is what I talked about last week on the pile where I talked about the Julia spot with Jordan grace a week before where I said Julia could have been paralyzed She landed on her neck and just that quick. Yeah, how life can change how life can change and of course like I do believe Tony Stark was shoot. I mean

Tony Stark is always dark. We'll be able to walk again nasty Injury so thoughts and prayers to her also because That doesn't happen if she wasn't trying to make the spot, right? Yeah, and I'll just leave it at that because I say this is not about the blame game or anything like that but if she just tried to hit the spot and Make it look the way it looks and it lands the way it

lands. That doesn't work. So god bless to her I'm also thoughts and prayers to Jim Ross Now it's couple days ago that he has colon cancer. Um, Jim has been going through it As anybody will as you know life is just this is what it is, right? He's got to take you know, the time that you have and maximize it But Jim has been through a lot and hopefully he gets through this

also as well. Well, but um, yeah He's good colon cancer is one of those things like I have to get check for it regularly because of family history and whatnot, so They caught it early. He's gonna have his surgery He'll be good. He'll be good. Love to hear that. To your point with Jim Ross, he's been through a lot. He's a strong, resilient mofo, so he will completely fight through

this for sure. Absolutely. Before you guys make me all emotional again, because I'm still trying to process my thoughts here, I do have a question on injuries, because there's a lot of injuries in pro wrestling. So this is for everybody on the panel. Okay. What is your best scar story? Hmm like personally like on you all your body. What is your best scar story? How much time you got? Hey All the time in the world Wait until I can finish this and this I have several go

for it. I'm about your best Everybody does have a scar right? Yes, okay Who wants to go first? I'll go I'll go first. So you probably can't see it, but I got right here It's you might see it. It's almost like a zit or a bump You can you probably can't tell but it's on your hand, right? In your in your index finger, so couldn't find a can opener and Big tin cans of juice at grandma's house Can't get her up Chris Chris.

This is an audio in video of mention. You got to paint the picture, brother Yes, you can't just say juice. We need to know is a cranberry The biggest knife in the drawer and I'm and I'm stabbing and I'm Stabbing myself and a giant hole. I mean it was a hole and it was put some paper towel on it till it stopped bleeding and I threw that juice away and no one ever knew I got it out just like a bad kid And you can tell bush could be the sweetest kid in the world

or hell on wheels. We're both. We're both, yeah. He's got that look. I caused some trouble. Bush is like a bad kid, but a kind person. That's what he is. He tell you he kisses his ass, but he'll say it really sweetly. Because you won't know what he did. Bad ass. Who's next? Kids are so mad. I got... Scar here on my shoulder, homemade ramps in the hood, crates, plywood, jumping ramps.

I jumped the ramp, went over the handlebars, slid across the sidewalk, shoulder right here to the white meat, had a scar right here, it was real bad. But I still had a scar on my shoulder. How long ago was that, you said? last week Elementary for sure. Oh, I was yeah elementary Yeah, that's a elementary, okay horrible story It goes to me being a badass kid to babysit So, going to my uncle's house, my uncle had, he lived in a smaller apartment. He had a microwave, low power

microwave. I'm gonna try and get through this as quick as I can. His low power microwave, you put the sliders in there, they need to be in there for 10 minutes. That's how low power his microwave was. Oh wow. Fast forward, like a week later, my grandparents got the same sliders. I throw them in their big, huge microwave, 10

minutes. I don't know what time I came back to look but the shits was on fire and all I remember is I ran out the house again granny was always sleeping No one's in a panic except for me we go back over there My granny's holding a wooden spoon looking at me with the wooden spoon and she just unplugged the microwave and fire just goes out Hey Chris and then shortly after I got my ass beat Of course you do. Was granny like granny off of Bassana? Yeah. That is like, that

is funny. Let's think about my grandma. Just real quick. I know. My grandma. I understood that reference. Her legit job was at like a bank teller. She did a lot of things in banking, but my grandfather worked at GM and she didn't really have to work that job after so long. Okay. When she retired, she was a waitress, a bartender at a bar. My whole life. She was at the bar, Prue's bar, and all she did was serve drinks, and she was a heavy -handed pourer. I found out

once I turned 21. Nice. My girl. My girl. Will you say bad Santa, Grandma? Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. That's fucking awesome. That's great. That is. All right. So... Rhodesia, so we went to AW last week, and I told you, I told

everybody who was listening, I would... Tell you guys what the prices were for the AW residencies that was coming now I must have a different mindset and mentality with these residencies come with cuz you're my thoughts an assumption was These are residencies were set up He's well, so they got See in there in an intimate spot they're not gonna cost as much as Like, if they ran an arena, that would only be the common sense thought,

right? That you would think that if they're running a place that sits 400 people, they're not gonna charge the same amount as they would for, like, an arena show. That is not correct. They are charging, like, $350 for, like, the first two or three roles. No. For the entire residency? No, if you buy all if you buy all six you save ten percent total Just ten percent and those seats are like the last couple of rows on the floor Wow, so Yeah, that's we're not doing that.

I looked and like front row for a dynamite was like three hundred twenty -five dollars Hmm Now make it make sense But whatever I just wanted to update that cuz I thought I was like, oh, this is cool They'll be in the same spot, you know for six shows They'll run a package, you know front row You know six hundred dollars for all shows, you know total, you know, but that's not the case. No Yeah No, not at all I did have fun last week But you gotta turn your brain off

with AEW. You just gotta turn your brain off and just watch for what it is Perfect example like Sunday. I'm I'm pretty excited for double or nothing Of course, we don't have to run the car down or anything like that, but I am super excited for over. This is all we can talk I'm super excited for Mercedes because Mercedes has found an ass now Where did that come sorry what I'm back, huh? Where did that come from though?

I know where did what come from? Mercedes means you just decide to start eating them Yes, sir She does no shout to her though that you get everything you can tell that she's doing it on purpose whatever that is Maybe she's doing a different workout. She's eating something. She looks tremendous. I'm excited for her and Jamie I'm excited for us pray and hang man. There's a lot of good matches Don't understand the shot to my guy rich who sent me this yesterday. Um

ricochet and What's his name? Help me out here somebody from That's all the damn tag team No, the tag team young bucks with a mark briscoe the briscoes. Oh Mark Briscoe and ricochet is wrestling in a stretcher match on Sunday That's your love and hate with AW Yep, you love it to give you everything you hate it because why the fuck are they having a structure match? But whatever any who Anything about what's going on over there?

I just know I talked to Mercedes every day and y 'all are just jealous Do you is it the real Mercedes? Listen don't hate on what my $99 gets me Wow So before we bring little man on um I'm trying to do a middle row Yeah, I'm trying to do a mental Rolodex When you try to put us over no, he never He like dropped the mic when it came to my Patreon content. Yeah, I'll put you over. All right, so we need you to put us over So I'm clearly a day one supporter. Yes, sir.

I was a 20 plus year absentee wrestling fan And I don't know if you guys remember this like when we first met on that Vegas trip With Brandi for her birthday. Yeah. Yeah, what's that? I remember I remember y 'all saying like yeah, we're big wrestling fans and I remember thinking like really like still Fast forward to now, I have a son who developed an affinity for wrestling and I

kind of started watching with him. Along the same time, the pod was starting and I would watch one to support my son, but two to keep up with the pod and make sure I know what's going on when you guys are watching. I have since rekindled my fandom because it's been a good product. I enjoy it. but a part of that has to do with you guys and the show that you put out, the product that you put out. Ooh, grandma and ginger ale,

I like it. And you guys just do a good job. I mean, I tell you weekly about the stuff that I feel like is very insightful. The stuff that casual fans appreciate. You guys put out stuff that hardcore fans appreciate. So kudos to you guys. plan to do was I was gonna try to find your first episode of having planned in the background, I was gonna sit with the TV behind me or whatever. But I don't know if I can find it. I don't know

if it's posted. The only thing I what only thing that I did find though was that the very first post where y 'all do clips of y 'all talking. And the we coming. Yeah. And I thought that was really cool. And it gave me goosebumps hearing the old music. So yeah. I thought that was fire. But no, you guys have been incredible for 200 plus episodes. I'm excited to see you guys do 200 more grow this YouTube channel. The Patreon is going to pop and I'm excited to be a part

of just the wave. Of course, man, you absolutely have been there day one. Excuse me, whenever I need Brandon will send me You know his thoughts on just the pot in general. Yeah, and and now this is I'm just about to go into a quick rant

It's gonna be really quick. We might go in a quick rant I talked about on episode 100 right like For me what this looks like and and why and I talked about community see it in spades right now on this podcast I talked about Having a show that people who listen can be proud of of listening to I think we have done that Um, but I, I do just want to say I make this shit

look easy. Right. And I'm not saying this in a way of like trying to be, but I make this easy for what work goes into hosting a show like this. Right. Like I do it for the love of the people who I pod with. In Rhodesia I do it for the love of anybody who listens because that's a big deal to me, right? It's a big deal that People look

forward to listen to our show every week. You gotta drop every week You know I run this shit like we are making a million dollars an episode Because when we do get to that point, you got to have that work ethic This ain't easy It's not easy to host the show Set your pod mates up to look good and it sound good you be entertaining They be entertaining transition topics that make sense that people want to listen to that get people to engage. It's not easy. I'm better than

the majority. And our podcast is better than the majority of shit. That's out here. Fuck your shit. So I'm talking episode 200. I look at like, sorry. No, like bullshit. He sent a text to the, the, our group text a couple of days ago about Will Ospreay. Popping his shit about aw seeing how like they have the best wrestlers in the world and he's not that good On one level we can look at it and say all right will All right, will right and on one level on another level.

We should look at that and say Well, why the fuck would he not think that right? Right repping for his shit What he enjoys he knows and I don't care if you look at listener count viewer count put our show up against any of your main shows. We blow them out of the water. Fuck. It's just about the timing. I just wanted to say that because In these, like, so we're at 200. I said a couple episodes ago, we out of here going forward. Right?

If I got to drag Ian Rodriguez with me to get there, the show is going to feel and sound a little bit different. But I guarantee you, everybody's going to enjoy it more. Right? So just for me, I just had to pop that off because it's not easy doing what we do. But I know I make it look really easy just kind of putting this shit together, but it's not put me up against everybody That's

how I feel when it comes to the main holes. Of course, I can't do it without tradition I couldn't do it out II can't do it out Brandon can't do it out Bushman in the YouTube comments Can't do it out Eric tweeting and represent every single fucking week can't do without Billy Mays cutting that promo I can't do without everybody. I know that but I will say Put me up against who you think your favorite is And I run laps around

them. Our show run laps around them. You can listen to this show and get everything you need, no bullshit, every single week. You don't have to worry about the teetering, the tottering. Well, I can't say this because I got a relationship with this company. And I can't say this because I got a relationship with this person that I know talks to this person. So that person can come on the show. And yes, we would love to get to that point. But I am never going to sell my

soul. Some is not right. Some is not right. If some is great. Some is great There's been times where and I do it intentionally we will have a certain amount of subscribers or ex Followers and I will tweet something on purpose and see that number drop Hmm, I don't want you around. Anyway, if you are only here just to hear pro WWE This ain't probably the podcast for you. No Right and you damn sure in the podcast view if you only want to hear aw we lost him a long

time ago. Thanks a lot Appreciate it, you know I just say that to say over there Easiest job on the pod that's it. So That was all I just wanted to say. So can I do the PR version of that? Yes. Listen, everyone. Thank you so much for all the listeners. But we're going to always be true to ourselves. We're going to always be honest with us. We're going to be who we are. And we all live really, really, really hard. Don't say hard. No. We live our day jobs. We

work hard. We work very hard. Our day jobs. It takes a lot out of us every single day. I do express those we see you with his Yogi brand sponsorship that he has going on right now that he's not sharing There's times that Matt is knocking on death's door and he's still coming on this show putting over when I'm asking Matt Okay, how we gonna do the show run? What do you need

for me? Oh, I got this. So again We know I know I can get better 100 % Brandon, when you said that episode one, that would make me cringe so bad just to see how I look. I remember, and I'm going to go, we can bring Matthew in. I just remember the first 52 episodes, Matt was like, Radizia, when I call it to you, when I call you out, you got to do more than just look there. Like you've got to actually say something, be engaging. But he's like, how y 'all doing today?

Good. And that would be me. But again, like I know I have a lot to grow, but the thing is - But look at the growth you've had already. So this is this is really us. This is our passion Like literally we're not making a penny yet off

of this. We don't we We did two and a half years of this because we want to because we want to Yeah want to and I think that's what some of the people are feeling like we want to do this So yeah, like for me, it wasn't it's not I would love to of course do this for a living, right? Do nothing else but this for monetization But that wasn't why I got in this. I got in this

for, tonight is a perfect example. To be able to spread love and joy and talk freaking wrestling and whatever that comes out to be after that, it comes out to be after that, right? But making those connections, having those conversations, that is what for me it was about. But right now, the young legend is in the house. Just graduated

high school. I've known Chris Bush for at least 15 20 years Eric He is from the the Twitter universe Representing for the TFW podcast is episode 20s something at least that's fire easy You know you mama of course beautiful here's the thing so man I got one question to ask you Yeah, which now has every man that came on the pod today. Okay, that's here No, no, no, no check. He's not 18. Yeah, like your mom's not here. Oh man. Put it out there You graduated you a man son.

Yeah, he's a man. Dominic Mysterio, Matt. You're a man. Oh His roster is nuts Dominic Mysterio first started out Dominic Mysterio with Rhea Ripley, right? Yeah Then he moved on and some would say upgrade it to Liv Morgan Okay, then Morgan left him about three weeks ago to go find herself do a movie whatever she did. Yeah gone for three weeks now She didn't ask that man. So if she could go and what that would look like

for him. She just left. Yes Then that new hot thing come on Favorite meal chicken tendies Nuggets. Oh, yeah Are you feeling it? Look at you. He knows it. I knew the difference. Look at you. That's all he care about is attendees. Look at him. No sauce is nuts. No sauce is crazy. Let me ask you a question. Yeah. What are you doing? Are you going with the new hotness that just got you the chicken nuggets? There's a new hot thing on town? Yeah. Or are you sticking with

Liv Morgan? So Matt personally, like me, or if I'm in Dom shoes? No. Me personally. Answer however you want to answer. No, you. OK. So what I would do is like in like When anybody in Judgment Day is watching, I'm going to act like I don't rock with her. But on the side, you know what I'm saying? She's going to know what it is. I'm going to be eating those chicken nuggets 24 -7 around her. Around her only. Besides that? You're going to be eating her nuggets? God bless. Oh my god.

This man is ready for college. Can I just tell you that? This young man is ready for college. I'm eating her nuggets. No sauce. You eating no sauce? Yo, she's in it. different time zone. It doesn't count. He just earned himself a weekly segment. We need that concert every week. Weekly segment. Weekly segment. What does Lil Matt think? Rhodesia. No, I am. You're running 100%. He's hurting my feelings. He's hurting my feelings. He's hurting my feelings. Oh, I think you want

the zombie question. You're going 100 % Rotten Tomatoes. All right. Quick summary Matt you miss Billy Mays cutting an infomercial about the TFW podcast almost brought me to tears You missed Eric talking about how much he paid for his like first concert that he remembers Which is crazy

in his moment of mr. X and junkyard dog was what hooked him on wrestling You missed your uncle E trying to put more shade on me and your mom because he thought we said something disrespectful about cody rose where your mom did but i didn't i've never said anything wrong about cody rose today listen man that was not very convincing that was not very convincing he said i didn't miss him what's wrong with me saying that so i'm supposed to say i mean yeah he's the biggest

star in the company he's the biggest star in the company right now the company Thank you. Yeah, the company. Oh, talk about it. The company you want to say? No, he's not. He's not who is who is the big the biggest star missing in the company is not Cody Rhodes. He's the biggest star missing on SmackDown. They're gonna say Roman. Yeah, bring my finger down. I'm so mad at him right now. Okay, he'll be back in a few

weeks Yo, I'm gonna say a hot thing. I gotta make this entertaining for the people right? I rarely come on here. I've only been here one time Cody's run right for like the amount of time if we're looking for the amount of time Here we go. The amount of time Roman's run was overall Cody has had to had a better title run than Roman Reigns did and And you got to hear me out here, right? What Roman did for the company,

right? 100 % completely different, but if we're looking at actual entertainment, I think consistent entertainment, right? There was times when Roman's, um, championship run, it kind of started falling flat. He started doing weak matches here and there. But Cody has kept it on the gas completely. Arguably his best match in his entire championship run was towards the end at Money in the Bank. It's like, or not Money in the Bank. Sorry, the ladder match he had with uh, K .O. Owens. Yeah.

K .O. All thanks to K .O. Roman. Amazing. That match was amazing. Roman ran the COVID fucking era. He did that's why I said that's that's true and that's completely no fans in attendance and that man was talking his shit When he was putting Jay in his place when he's putting everybody in his place. Yes, sir Motherfucking Roman. Yes, sir. Okay, you can toggle like Oh Cody's great

with the fans. Okay Roman was there with no fans and put Jay in his fucking place and we were sitting there watching him on bated breath to see what that man said. Hey, COVID was a long ass time ago, man. We move on. We in it now right now. Who was he a long time ago? Roman in that? I'm going to compare real quick. I'll let you get to your part. Roman during that time period, or when Cody after he lost to Roman, and he had everybody on his side wanting him to win that

40? Well, Cody, because his baby face. Roman was always the heel. But to be fair, look what we're talking about right now. Roman ran the company. To be fair, Roman held that shit down.

That is true. That is true. two plus years with no fans and talk about it and this is the first time and this is why w is so hot right now if we really want to talk about it typically when you got that guy hogan cena roman roman's been the only time where they actually was able to hand it off to the next guy that was already there that was no problem they went from roman reigns to cody rose That's right. They tried to go from Hawk Hogan to Ottoman Warrior and

that flamed out in three months. He wasn't ready for it. They tried to go from John Cena to who? I don't know. They didn't have anybody ready. They have nobody. Nobody. Yeah. So for them to be able to pass that off. Well, actually, it tried to be Roman. It's supposed to be. Right. Right. And then Cena came back and said, I'm

back because you can't do your job. But that may be the sweetest handoff in the history of professional wrestling I may be forgetting somebody and please if I am putting in the comments, let me know I don't think there was even so if you went because even Bruno It wasn't brutal to Hogan. It was like Bruno to Bob McClain, right? I was like Bruno to like fucking some random like Larry Zabisco that guy to that guy, and for them to

be able to find him. Bob Backlund, and then they were like, okay, we're not going to do face versus face, so Bob Backlund dropped the shit to Iron Sheik for no reason, and don't get me wrong, I love Sheiky Baby. Sheiky Baby. You know it. Sheiky Baby. My four -year -old put my eight -year -old in the camera clutch, and I was like, yes, make him humble. They don't know about it. Eric, they don't know about it. You just popped, you probably popped three people when you said

that. That was it, cause you only popped me. Nobody else knows about it. Like, Shiki baby, like. Eric, Eric granted an illegal promo in his house. Yeah, I mean, you know, cause we go to Mexico City a lot, so they're illegal. And we need to go with you to Mexico City. Like, for real, we gotta go with you there. I got a question for everybody. I've heard great thing about Mexico City. I got a friend there now. Dude, Mexico City, let me tell you about something

about Mexico City. Yes, you are in a tunnel. Matthew is right there. Wait till you watch this show, Matt. Younger Brandon came home spit the hottest ever spit He turned it to like CNN and Saudi Arabia to like Detroit where they got like that 30 -second they do this Uh -huh. Uh -huh. Nobody's talking. Uh -huh Yeah, uh -huh Yeah, so that was the same thing we saw here. That's that was what he did and he just He was gone.

Yeah, he was gone. So I got a question about his old age This this this is a fun one and you cannot say who's already been named So if you are if you go fourth or fifth, then you just got to pick somebody out the hat There was nobody who was ready after Cena Okay, we just talked about Roman Reigns wasn't ready If you had to pin at that time Who was your next guy after John Cena and WWE that you would have put this

trap in the rocket? Well, what was his last title y 'all know I missed the whole John Cena air No before that before I'm gonna go with Beth Phoenix. She is my favorite woman wrestler after Lita. There you go. I Thought I'd look crazy. I said dude. I thought you said dudes. I just wasn't ready. It doesn't matter. This is her answer. That's true. Okay, okay I don't know cuz I didn't see all of his run, but I'll go

Bray Wyatt That's a good one. He should he should have be seen it at WrestleMania 34 and he did most a great one certainly So like that time here, so then I'll this is kind of might be crazy to say Drew McIntyre like I don't know Yeah, cuz I'm not gonna say it's not Roman. I'm not

gonna say Seth. Oh, yeah, I'll say Drew Okay, so you going drew That drew wasn't drew though But if you mentioned like WrestleMania 30 yo would be a good time period 30 will be a good one, too Drew was like, yes, because I'm thinking he's talking like 2017 kind of 2016 so Yeah, because like um ko and shout to ko2 he still

hasn't had surgery yet. He said he should have some answers the next couple weeks on Having the surgery and what the best course of action is but he's still looking at different opinions.

So Shout out to him Yeah for sure Talk about like not watching NXT and then seeing this guy come in and his first match beating John Cena I was flabbergasted And now like I'm when he's on the TV I'm locked in yeah And going back a little bit, because it got away from us, everyone was talking about what Roman did throughout the COVID era. We cannot diminish what Cody did.

Cody did not have the machine behind him. Coney, man, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, If somebody wanted to Bush if somebody wanted to they could make an argument and of course, this would be years down the line, right? Maybe even after he's retired They can make an argument that he is the single -handedly One of the biggest stories in the history of professional

wrestling. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, absolutely Absolutely. He's one of the And it's been said before like he reignited people's passion That company, I shouldn't say just him because it was a group of people, but he reignited everyone's passion for this business. Things started to get hot again, competitive again, because of everything that they did over there. Now we've gone down the road of what has happened to it

and what they're doing with it now. But every kind of brick that was laid led us to so many great moments. We wouldn't have Punk back today if it wasn't for that. Punk probably wouldn't even be wrestling. He'd probably still be laid up at home with AJ, living living in retirement. Oh, man. That's not that that's not a bad. That's not a bad. That's perfect. Oh, my gosh. Yes, man. I need some women here from experience. Geez. Can we talk about Seth's booty again? Wait

a minute, pause. Can you get to that? He showed up in the first two seconds he was showing ass crack There is no way you put that on you was like I can do physicality tonight It's impossible listen and that's what he did Bush it looks like remember what I said in 52 minutes I had to do Bush looks it looked like he was about to do that and somebody said you had to go out to the ring and he wasn't done pulling his pants That's

fast. Hey, Matt. So real quick, this past weekend, you had an incredible, my god, graduated with honors from high school. With honors. Let's go, baby. The young legend. Hey, when I took away, I'm going to pause for one second. I apologize. I'm going to move. Let me tell you what I took away from the photo that you seen on X. You tower over your parents. Well, if you got it, you got to restart. You got to re -go because the clap was too loud. I couldn't hear you. We talked

about that already. Yeah. Well, what I keep away from your graduation photo before he praises you is you tower over your parents. So, I mean, you run that house now, man. Don't set me up like that. Please don't set me up like that. I'm not claiming I won't want to run any house. No. No, not yet. Not in the Air Force. I said the Air Force once has like a six -inch soul

on it. So We're about to say we are about to say but anyway, sir, you had a fantastic Graduation so proud of you, man last time the first from you You sucked and you still suck, but at least you've sucked now with honors Last time I heard this young man on the pod was episode 100 and that man was cooking. He was cooking. That man went into the cabinet, got the big ass bucket of disco and just started frying. That man. So, yeah, I mean, it comes easy to me. It's second

nature. So, hey man, so Eric just set you up. I have a question for you. Yeah, I remember you told me about this. You didn't tell me what the question was. Correct. You said, yeah. Mm -hmm. What is your hottest take? I don't care what it is. Okay? What is your hottest take in wrestling right now? Wrestling right now. Okay. My hottest take in wrestling right now this second. All right, this is easy. It might not be a hot take, though. Man or woman. whatever, Rhea Ripley is

the hottest wrestler in the world. Not looks -wise. I mean, she's up there too. But like, actually like, running the game. I mean, people are going to the shows to see Rhea. The pop is nuts. The people that dress like her is crazy. Her impact, you're already seeing it. I don't think that's much of a hot take. And that's what I said, I don't know if it's a hot take. But it would just be because there's Cody, there's Cena, there's Roman still. That's the only reason

why I don't think that's really a hot take. Yeah Okay, all right, let me cook up real quick give me so what you Brandon Brandon was ready to chomp at the bit Yeah Chad, Chad Gable, Chad Gable, and El Grande Americano can be the best acting ever. All right. That's enough of you, Brandon. Hey, if anybody was going to mind an hour ago, I told y 'all, Brandon should have left on a high note. I need to see it. And he comes back

and he does that. Yeah, I'll say I'll say we can I go Women's wrestling has evolved beyond what charlotte bailey and becky and mercedes have them Yeah, is that really i would agree yeah, i wouldn't say that's a hot take yeah it has well matt was praising his goat but like 20 years ago I would back that up a bush because I feel like a lot of people still put those caveats on it being like women's wrestling, women, women,

women, women. I do feel like we are now in that second stage of what happened after the Four Horsewomen laid that path for the next generation. I agree with that. I think that is a hot take because I don't think a lot of fans who are truly hardcore fans would actually admit that. I think a lot of ... I'm gonna disagree because I think a lot of hardcore fans love Roxanne so much. That girl has transcended what they are capable of doing. Already? Yes. Yes, already. Absolutely.

Absolutely. And I cannot wait for the MVP of NXT, Roxanne, to go against the MVP of WWE Liv Morgan. In the battle for Dom, in a Dominic on a ladder. Shark cage. She don't want that shit like anything. Why are we fighting over a man? That's a good man. They didn't have to be over a man. But it's Dominic. But it's Dominic. Let's be honest. It's Dominic. Like, come on. Look at him. Eric, what are you about to say? You said all seriousness. What are you about to say?

No, siriness. It's not about a man But it is Dominic That wasn't what you about to say that

one was I said, but he forgot that's fine. Yeah So, let's move on to Saturday night's main event is this a whole whole you said I could get my I have to oh, yeah And my first one I'm gonna not go into 2d because I don't watch NXT too much right and then I'm gonna watch my second one Don Michaels in the last like year Somebody could say it's a hot take as a better booker than Triple H. I could see somebody saying that and then my second one which I believe CM Punk

is the best wrestler in the world right now on WWE. That would be a hot take on everything.

I think CM Punk overall is he's by far not by far no he's by screw it but he's by far the best on the mic I don't care every time I see him I'm walking away thinking nobody's gonna top that tonight and then whenever he's in the ring your eyes aren't off the screen you're gonna sit down you're gonna watch the whole thing if you can't make it to watch the entirety of raw you're making sure the next day you're going to watch his match you're making sure you're

going to watch his promo you're scrolling on twitter you're gonna make sure you see whatever tweets putting out there i think CM Punk's the best wrestler in the world he doesn't even have to be on the mic he doesn't he just has to be there his music just has to hit the presence is what you're talking about Yep. Yep. It's the present. Well, that's when we know you went to that extra, that next level. Yeah. When the crowd was singing his song last night, that was kind

of lit. That was nuts. That was nuts. And they waited. We talked about it, Brandon. We talked about it. And we talked about how, so what I said was we were talking about just how much of a professional CM Punk is. Crowd goes crazy. He stands on the apron with Sammy. and they don't move until the perfect time when they're about to hit the hook to where their crowd pops because we're about to give you the physicality. And

that is just that little stuff, right? And people who don't understand what the art form of wrestling is, we just think it's about moves. It's about moves and getting on the microphone and saying, bitch, ass, fuck, and just, no, that's not. This is about evoking emotion from somebody who is watching. I know this is predetermined. I know this is a show, but damn, I get goosebumps every time X happens. Or I cannot wait to watch blah, blah, blah, because I can't wait to see how they

make this happen. And when you know that, it changes the game of what you're watching. And Punk is one of those guys where he knows exactly how to evoke that emotion. If he's a baby face, if he's a heel, if it's something as simple as I'm coming out just for punches and kicks. Yeah, and we sat here on this podcast and talked about it because he did it perfectly It's incredible. Absolutely incredible Um, alright, so real quick

Saturday's main event. We ain't gotta break it down because I don't want to really break it down. Oh Yeah, I have it pulled up. I'm excited. What is it? Give it to us. Okay, and Yeah for matches so far we have the we have the championship John Cena facing his biggest protege our truth Squash in like in like 15 seconds around the horn. What do you guys think about the match? He thinks when we think about match excited and

excited. I'm for truth deserves it You know, I like people are saying that people are no legit people are saying that I don't know. I mean, I mean half are probably trolling but I Know you're new to this right? Yeah, so like when the whole says like we just Keep it to like 10 seconds. You said your point. You got to say this people. He loved the most man We get to the next match anyways going thanks going He muted up. Oh my god Hilarious. I like it. I think

it's too soon I'll explain later. Okay, keep it going. I like it. Archie was gonna have his moment on Saturday night's main event against his childhood hero. It is what it is like. Which he's older than right, but yeah That's great That's right, that's right you got to give yours right I said fun fun. I think it's tremendous Yeah, it's gonna be fun. It is fun. This is the perfect story for john cena's farewell that we didn't know we needed Exactly thing is great.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. What's next? Next we got Damien Priest versus Drew McIntyre in a steel cage In a salad salad steel cage match, okay salad salad Coming in half. Drew McIntyre is one of the best wrestlers in the world, and he keeps sticking them to Damian Priest. And it's annoying. It is. It's annoying. And I know I'm not the only one that feels that way. Damian Priest isn't bad by any means. He's not. Drew McIntyre should be a world champion right now.

Or at least in things that matter as much. He continues to downgrade. This is the lowest he's been since he was like... The sidekick of Dolph Ziegler years ago. Okay, that's enough now You just graduated with honors why are you so angry? Oh my god You're taller than your dad. Why are you so angry? I wasn't for Damien and drew when

it first started coming together. I didn't think much of it I think that was a universal message across the pod when when it when it started click for me Was the only good thing to come out of backlash was that fatal four -way? And and the spots and the moments they had I'm like, alright, this is this has got some legs to it. I'm excited to see where it goes So I'm sure the steel cage is gonna be fun. I'm looking forward to it Brandy I think it'll be fine. I hope True wins. Eric?

I think it's going to be another great match between the two guys. I think Damien's going to win, especially now that he just had a street dedicated to him and the BX. Oh, that's cool. I didn't know that. I didn't see that today. He has a street. Wow. Dedicated to him in the Bronx, his hometown. Like, my man's grew up, like where I used to live. Like, it's fucking awesome to see. It's like, it's got a full name.

Don't do that. Don't do that. Like something we use and then in quotes, Damien Priest, like Hey, can I say this real quick? I've been I've been I've been drinking real quick ain't nobody ever talk about this But I guess I'm the only woman that's on the show Anybody talk about how fine? Damien Preece daddy is you know We saw his daddy backstage Yeah, I just saw it was on it was actually on CBS News Tonight CBS News

in New York City. He had a street named after him in the Bronx Just earlier today and he was there to celebrate it and his father was there and it was great. It was awesome be who you are Avenue You can't wait to visit it Damien. Okay. All right, Matt. You gonna go before go to you What you got can't wait for the few to be over Yeah, and that's kind of where I'm at You know what it is like freeze. I was on freeze when

he was ROH Roman. This is not a nightmare on the worker the guy He's a tremendous guy There is just something missing with that something is it's him not being his real true self on TV Yeah, once once they can figure that out cuz everybody can't be that I get that This what what we got into some of this about his characters, right? Like people will face pain and they don't wear that in their real life But that would drew us to them There's something missing with priest.

Oh And it's a shit. What do you want a championship? I think yes, I think they need to focus on Him like his interview on CBS earlier today That's the real guy see he's like I I just wanted to be a hero for my neighborhood. I wanted people to see from that you can come from this neighborhood and be somebody. And I was like, fuck yeah, Damien Priest. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I grew up there. Was never said before. He said words never said before. You a layoff Damien Priest, Matt. You

a Damien Priest hater. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Big time. You're Damien Priest hater. You might be taller than your dad, but you're not taller than me. You're making me like, punch me. You're making me like, set me up. You're going to set me up next time he sees you. He knows what it is. Punch me. Oh, man, if we had time, I would let him, I would let you tell the story of what happened to you last week. When you jumped on my back. You talking about when

you couldn't breathe. When I got the belt out. Before that and you were laid out on the ground because you couldn't breathe it was like in three seconds and you sitting there looking ridiculous He tested me all the time I do leave me alone. I don't want to play these games with you. I'm trying to go to sleep. I gotta work tomorrow He was like, no, come on. No, come on. All right, Beth. All right, here you go. Yep, all right. Get out. Why you had COVID? You would have been

impressed. But anyways, let's go to the next match. The move I had him in, I took him from my back to on the ground folded up in 2 .6 seconds. That's why he was on COVID. He was like, I couldn't breathe. He tapped. I know he tapped. I squeezed it even harder. He tapped even harder. He did. He's actually a weirdo, because he did. I was tapping. I couldn't breathe. He was like, do you want to quit? He knew I couldn't talk. He saw your face turn. We got two more matches.

Again, this is just three words. CPS is going to get a hold of this. Three words. He's already 17, so that means he's independent. At this point, we've done our job. He's graduating. They take him out. I agree with that. It helps us. I agree with that. He's more than what he would ever produce. I could walk around the house with you finally. I just want you to know, I've been advocating for you to stay home as long as you possibly can. I appreciate that. Matt is not with it.

Hey Matt, guess what? You keep talking, what you talking? Bush man's gonna be the third person going to WrestleMania with us next year, not you buddy. You keep talking, you see how it works out. Pretty easy what you got. All right, so we have, again, three words, that's all your responses are. Okay. So the next match is Tag Team CM Punk joins forces with Sami Zayn against Seth Rollins and Braun Breaker. Three words only. Three words only you said. Three words only.

All right. Three words only. Sammy Zane turns. Damn it. You got mine. I said don't mine was don't turn Sammy. See? See? Yeah. Don't turn Sammy. And it probably won't be Saturday. Because I think the turn if it is happening is gonna happen on Jay. But yep. Yeah. That's just that's just a thing. Eventually. Sammy at this point don't turn Sammy. No. Never now. Protect yourself punk. I'm gonna channel my inner E here. I don't

care. This is what happens when you let each other's friends Pretty much great quality content Very very entertaining individual three words It's a bitch pass my bitch I'm getting cross out over here. Yeah, but um, I said I can't wait Yeah, I went first. See where it is when you get to the level of actually being the host. Don't do that shit. Do not do that shit. Matthew, cover your ears. Do not do that. Oh, and Matt ain't put us over yet either. So once you get

to this last match, you got to put us over. Last match is for the championship. You got me and Vin J. Uso versus, ugh. Go ahead. One word. Finish it. No, you have to finish it. Logan Paul. Logan Paul. Logan Paul versus a main event Jay Uso. Let me stop. Let me stop. I almost cussed at my own kid. Jay Uso wouldn't be the first time this week. Oh, shit. He's calling you out. The one word is yeet. That'd be yeet. One word is yeet. That'd be yeet. Let's go yeet. Let's go

yeet. Yeah, yeet. One word, four letters, uh

-uh. You know, it's so cool and real quick and then we can But like just watching jay He gets more comfortable every week jay's been doing this for two decades plus Like this thing is not just that you figure it out overnight Like it's just so cool to watch when they're you can see it If you know what you're looking for and you watch it and he is on a roll right now He is doing some awesome stuff and then for him to be in like multiple storylines like this is

we know what this is There's zero percent chance he loses to Logan Paul. But damn, I got Gunther waiting on the other side. I got Seth Rollins waiting on the other side of me. Like, it's just how they're telling the stories. This is top tier stuff. So yeah, you can miss Saturday Night's main event and really not miss anything. Kind of like SmackDown, right? I rushed to watch SmackDown Monday. We were doing everything with Matt in his graduation, so I didn't watch on Friday.

So I watched a couple of hours before Raw. And my takeaway was... I didn't have to watch this. I could have just watched. I could have just heard a recap. That's SmackDown. With Raw though, if you get a recap, like if somebody tried to break down to you right now, say, yeah, oh, Roxanne Perez won against Natalya and Rhea Ripley. You'd be like, oh, I need to see that. And it's great. And if you have not seen the match, please go out of your way. They did a good job. Nia Jax

and Tiffany Stratton smoked it. If you have not seen that match, stop listening to this right now, because we're about to be done. So you're not missing much. But go watch that match. And there probably needs to be a conversation about Nia Jax in the future. Just, we've talked about how great she's been. She was magical in that match. But that was really good. But you could watch SmackDown and just, or not watch it and be like, okay, I got the J .C. Mateo. Cool. Got

it. He was in the match. Okay. Solo score. Money in the bank. Got it. But it's just a different feeling with raw. It just feels like there's more care Yeah, with raw than what it is on smackdown. So That is what it is. Is that the the card baby cake? That is it. That's all we have so far. That's the card Those four matches. I already said earlier. I am excited to watch aww or nothing We're not gonna run that card down, of course, but um, I am excited to see that um Last but

not least lil mat. Yep Come on let's put this over for the podcast It is your turn, sir. Put us over. Okay. Um, magic. I feel like that's the perfect word to, uh, to use with what you three have made for the people to listen to, for the people to be entertained by a family feel, uh, entertainment constantly, honestly, consistently as well. Putting it out always. putting your best foot forward with this, always making sure it's as great as you want it to be.

I know we were talking about that earlier, dad, about how, um, I was like, do you think it'd be good with me on? You were like, I would never put my name on something that isn't, doesn't meet the standard, um, that I would want. And it's, uh, it's very role model S cause then seeing you put that to your personal work and then your podcasting work, it just shows more for me to want to follow a hundred percent, especially with me going into the workforce now after school.

Yeah You can't even watch you can't watch Santa's main event because you'd be working you chicken cooker What's the line from Coming to America? Next week I'll be on fries. Oh, yeah. Oh, talk about Louis Armstrong, or Louis Anderson. You said Louis Armstrong. Louis Anderson. Louis Armstrong is never coming to America. Right now, I'm cutting lettuce. Louis Anderson. First, I was washing lettuce. Pretty soon. Oh, man. I appreciate and love everybody who was on a body major. Listen

to the show We made to 200 y 'all. Hopefully y 'all enjoyed as much as we enjoy presenting this to you for sure Eric my brother. This is not your last time man Appreciate you. Love you. Thank you for always putting on for us quote tweeting retweeting listening to the pot interacting with the pod, telling us to put more Instagram bits out than we do. I'm the only one. And I'm on his head about TikTok. Yeah. Oh, I'm doing it this week. But it was a testament to you.

I said when we hit 200, I'm going to make sure I figure it out. So I'm going to do that. This is how strongly I feel about it. You can run lives from there, impromptu pods where you can engage with your audience. That's one thing. And they can donate and all of that. That's just income monetization for the pod to grow the brand. That's huge. And I think that that that gap that we're that we're at where we're trying to reach

that 1000 followers on my YouTube. Getting your name and getting the pods name out there on tiktok is going to get you That that two to three hundred whatever it is where that you're at. I don't know what the number is right now I know it's close somewhere. I think we're at eight. Hey,

what do we do? Whatever? We are you right? It's gonna get you there because the shorts the shorts that you put the youtube shorts that you put together look at the Geez, I don't know what the the action that they that they bring in. Okay, I don't know what the but and you're gonna Once you hit tiktok, it's gonna blow up Hey Bush, I gotta say to you 786 is where we said We and that right now right there just says it all you said we when we get to a thousand You said everything

right there. Thank you. Yep. We that's what it is. I don't know if you wrong I said that but I say anybody who's been on you guys are coming along with us Like this isn't just a oh you're on right now and that's it if you're listening you're listening right now That's it. Everybody's coming with us. Like you're not going to be left behind whatever this looks like. Whenever we get to that point, if you're with us, you're with us, right? And so like, that's a big deal

to us. So shout out to everybody who has listened, who has been a part of this journey. Keep telling y 'all we going to the next level in these next 50, 100 episodes. I can promise you that's the case. Eric, this is not your last time on. Of course, Bush, you know this ain't your last time. Brandon, you all already in the background talking, talking, whatever that looks like. Matt, this is the last time you're on because you be making a Making chicken chicken chicken cooker chicken

cook. That's all you do is cook chicken poor young man. He just graduated with honors You can graduate with honor some culinary school It is hit culinary classes. Yeah, it is. There you go. He and Rhodesia Any last words on episode 200? Thank you. Love and light, huh? Thank you Yeah, all up in the camera. All up in the camera. Dancing all in your videos. Dancing all in your videos. Not the child. I was asking. Oh, Matt,

you said you had a question for me. I did. Off -pop. Before we started, you said you had a specific question for me. I did. And you forgot. And I'll put it back in the tuck for next time you're on. Beautiful. Beautiful. Yep. Sure did. Works for me. Hey, I do this. I do this. You know what I'm saying? I do this, man. E, what you got for the beautiful folks that's listening and watching? Hey, thank you, freaks. To be on this journey with us is a dream come true. Having friends

and family that I never imagined. Doing this with my best friends. Thank you so much. Join TFWPod. Who is your daddy? Oh, see, you had him. See? You were so close. You were so close. My daddy's name is Richard. My daddy's name is Richard. So close, and you fumbled at the one yard line. And then my daddy's name is Matt. Totally fumbled. Oh, god. Hello. Hey, I'm going to take care of that. Hey, Matt, I'm going to take care of that thing right here. Yo. Oh, my gosh. This man is

blocked out. Oh man. I love it. I love it. I love it. Once again, thank all y 'all. This has been a pleasure. Hopefully it is. If this is half as fun listening as it was doing, we have did our job. I went on my tangent. I literally cannot even wait to listen to it tomorrow. When I said my piece earlier, so I'm not gonna repeat myself, but appreciate you guys I really do enjoy and we do this for you all the hard work that I put in on this podcast Honestly, and I and

I'm not saying I as it We don't do it. I'm only speaking from myself from my heart. I know The joy that this show brings to the people that listen and watch and I take that very seriously And as long as I can do this, as long as we can do it, you will have a spot to come and enjoy. And you're about to have much more laughs than what you've had before. Once again, we're about to take this thing to the next level. I'm excited for it. But thank you for everybody who was on

the show. First 200. Thank you. Like I said, I'm not naming names. I'm going to forget somebody. But if you were on the show, I love you from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you if you have ever commented. If you've ever tweeted, if you've ever retweeted, if you've ever quote tweeted, if you've ever done anything to what this is, I appreciate you more than you know, and just know that you are seen and you are appreciated. Uh, we are back next week. I don't know how we

gonna follow this. This is our first ever three hour plus podcast, just so you guys know. So shout that out for everybody who participated on this one. Bushman, you parted three plus hours. Brandy, you parted three plus hours. Air, you parted three plus hours. Ritzy, you parted three plus hours. I can't believe Eshaun's still awake. I only went to party five minutes, but I'll take three plus hours. Is he sleeping? And we are so angry internally right now, because you know

they were shooting for 30 minutes. I know they were. You know they were, right? No, not on the 200 pie. 200 pie, we good. 200 pie, we can go into 2 o 'clock in the morning. I'm down. Eshaun's still awake. I don't even know what my name is right there. He doesn't even know my name. It's been a pleasure to get to kick it with y 'all. Absolutely. It's been a pleasure. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. I will cut you.

I will straight cut you. Brandon, I will give you my brother, but I will straight cut you. We out of here, y 'all. Love y 'all. We will catch y 'all next week. Yes. Appreciate you. Thanks for having me. Love.