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So talking about Our Truth coming on our podcast, right yeah, man winning the world title again and and that seemed to be gaining waves through some of the dirt sheets and online we've been we kind of took off a little bit some of our conversations with them, So that's what you're talking about, right Yeah. Of course Babyface has been trending worldwide hashtag we want babyfaces my my name on the stream yard tonight hashtag we want Billy put the What was the
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about? Man? Where do we even start with everything that's been going on since Friday Nights backdown? I mean, it's just it's craziness right now. You got you got the whole world clamoring for Cody Roads to finish his story. Right as WWE decides to give us the dream match that people have been clamoring for for years, the Rock versus Roman reigns, and now everybody is revolting against that because of how invested they are this Cody Roads story. So
let's just start from the beginning, Austin. Let's start with the Royal Rumble. All right, let's start with the rumble. Cody Rhoades wins the rumble. Do you or do you not believe that if Cody Rhoades did not win the Royal Rumble, that we would be in the situation that we are today with this whole movement of the hashtag we want Cody movement. I mean probably not. I mean, I think everybody can agree. It would just odd,
an odd situation that everybody was put in with the whole. But you know, I guess that's been the main conversation is why did you even have them book the Rumble? And especially when we have reports that this match the dream matchup we're talking about with the Rock and Roman Now that seems to be coming out that that's always kind of been the plan, even before Royal rum So it just kind of makes things even muddier. Yeah, one hundred percent.
I'd like, if if you're one to believe reports, which i'd you know, take, take them for a grand assault for sure, because nobody really knows what's going on there. There's been reports that have said that they decided earlier or late last week that they were going to go with Rockber's Room,
and then basically that Rock like politicked his way into doing it. But then a report came out saying that it's been the plan well before uh January whatever, January whenever the Rubble was so that like it's always been a plan. So if it's always been the plan, Austin, what the hell was we thinking booking Cody Roads to win the Rubble? Because I truly think that if he did not win the Royal Rumble, like people wouldn't be so invested
in his story. He was like, okay, two time winner the Rumble, Like they're going all in on Cody, like this is the year we were told last year when he lost that, you know, he's got to go through hard times, work his way back into it. You'll get another crack at Roman. Here we are a year later, and it looked like
it was all setting up for that. It looked like the Rock and Roman probably wasn't gonna happen, and then boom, you have Cody win the Rumble and the Rock come in and what seems like potentially taking that spot from him. Why would they do that? That's the question that I had. What if you wanted to do Rock versus Roman, and you have the Rock booked for SmackDown the same week that the Rumble is, why would you not just have the Rock show up at the Rumble and win? Because people would have
went ape shit for that. People would have loved that. Yeah, I mean we were prepared at We were prepared for it at the watch party. Exactly would we would have loved them? You know, we don't mean to
boot Sammy's aim, but everyone was kind of a letdown. And I think that's what the reason why there is such a such a at least from an overwhelming majority that just thought of men, how the World Rumble went, just because everyone's so used to surprises and when you think about it, like, who's like one of the biggest surprises that you'd expect to return now is the Rock and he thought that, you know, they just fit into that story.
But I mean you asked a question. It could also just go down into believe in internet rumors of was seeing Punk supposed to win the Rumble? Did they call the audible mid match? I mean, I don't necessarily No, it doesn't seem like WW would necessarily ever do that. I think that they there was probably something severe to happen if that were the case. Maybe
it was, but also have insight. I won't go ahead and spoil anything, but I have a lot of insight that's told me after a few texts and conversations that it more or less was kind of Rocky sort of politicking his way into business. Not that doesn't seem a lot of people are necessarily mad about that. That's just how the business goes. But just of course everyone just more or less about the bad timing aspect of it too, but also
that balls in line with them. We won't talk about too much of it and really probably won't dive into much at all, but of course the Vince McMahon stuff and how everything's just been in kind of a press nightmare over the last couple of weeks for WW. So, I guess anything and that's just business. That's business. Pal gotta kind of misdirect any any way that you can. And even with all this negativity, they're still been showing, you
know, they're rolling along with it. They're rolling along with it, the company is rolling along with it. We still don't know necessarily what they're doing.
And uh, I guess we could just kind of go ahead and talk about the reaction on how what we got on Raw tonight with everything YEA from SmackDown when the rock came out and everybody seemed to be really excited for the moment, and then of course, after a couple of days of pondering over it, we get what happened to Raw Raw night, And I didn't I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it live. You did, so I just had you tell me kind of catch me up on what happened. Yeah.
Well, and one thing that touch on the rumble before we get get over to Raw. I kind of speculated that they may have called an audible with the whole seampunk injury, But after seeing Cody Rhodes with the T shirt on afterwards, that was like, clearly they had T shirts made. Yeah that said Cody Rumble Winner, and they sold them on the shop and everything, and so they wouldn't have made It's not like they have two shirts made or something like some crazy backup plays. Yeah, it's not like the super
Bowl. Yeah, exactly right, but you know it's it's it's I would think it had to fall under one of those things too, is if it was supposed to be seem punk. I think that that, I mean seam punk still finished the match. It would have. It wouldn't have done any different if if he were to reverse it and throw Cody over and come out
the next night and kind of vacate that that spot. I think you'd have to be really messed up if you were supposed to win, and they called the audible, so I think Cody was supposed to win it the whole time. So we all know what happens on SmackDown on Friday. The internet, the IWC and Twitter is just an absolute shit show all weekend. I mean, hashtag we want Cody battle and Rockey. I've been battling. You've been battling for most I know I have. We've been doing a fair but you've
been you've been handling it this week that this really got to me. Just the toxicity of the tribalism that that this turned into was insane, lead leading to like, I don't know, man, maybe this is just like my biased, like perspective when I was seeing stuff on Twitter and whatnot, but it seemed like the side that we want Cody side was the side that was being so freaking toxic to anybody that didn't agree with their opinion and throwing out
I'm not saying like level headed fans were thrown out death threats and whatnot, but like there's a lot of weird shit like that going on directed towards the Rock, his family and stuff like that, and it's like, bro, if that's the side of the coin that you want to be on, then that's on you, all right. I'm gonna choose to be on the logical side of this thing, and you know, not throw a fit like I'm not gonna throw a fit like the whole The worst part about this is this
entitled freaking fan base. Dude, if they don't get what they want, and this has happened in now three WrestleMania main events within the last decade, that they do this whole hijacking and they're gonna shit on everything, trying trying to make w E change their mind when you know we're we're heading towards matches that have so much potential. You look back to Batista one of the Rumble in twenty fourteen, in the midst of Daniel Bryan's you know, big run.
You know, I'm a Batista guy. So again, maybe it's my bias perspective, but it's like I think they you know, it ended up being a great moment with Daniel Brian, like whatever, that one's not as bad, But then it led into the next year with them wanting Danielbrian to win the rumble again, and Roman reigns get shited on because of that, and then the rains at brock Lesner main event at russell Mania thirty one, which could have been incredible, and probably, you know, if you guys
weren't so shortsighted, if you would have just gave that one a chance, we probably wouldn't have had to do that three, you know, two or three more times in wressell Mania main events. So you're saying, myself made it work though with the whole rollins, I mean, but they well, that's what they had. It was obviously set up to crown Roman as like the next big the next big thing, and they had to call the audible
because everybody shit on it. And because of that, it led to years and years and years of them trying to get Roman over, trying to get Roman over, and uh, you know, Roman versus Brock over and over and over again, trying to get the reaction that they wanted out of it. So really, if you guys would have just let it play out the first time and not shit on it the whole time, then it probably wouldn't
have led to all that. So really, you can think yourselves, uh anyway, Roman ring, but we get the tribal chief out of it now, Yeah that's true, get his gimmick out of it now, so the butterfly effect. So now you know, fast forward ten years later and here we are again a match that and they it really sucks because a majority of wrestling fans have wanted to see the Rock Versus Roman for the last few years now, including us obviously, and even even the ones that are clamoring for
Cody Roads. Now you I guarantee you can find tweets of them like clamoring for Rock Versus Roman in the past couple of years, because like how would you not. But because w E booked themselves into a corner with this ship and booked Cody Roads to win the rumble, got everybody back invested into a story like Okay, this is the year they're going full in on Cody Roads. You know, they have like the whole week to get excited about it, and then the Friday of SmackDown you just are like, nope, fuck
that the Rock interer Rock and everybody just loses their mind. So and and now we have this whole you know, woe movement. We want Cody. People channing Rocky sucks on Raw in the middle, they were handing out the the we want Cody signs. Right, So here's my question to get sorry, I'm talking a lot. Let me get handed over to you. That's that's what this is. Four pound now, no, please, that's what this that's what this is all for. I mean, you're we agree basically
like on everything so far that we talked about. When it just comes to the just the impatience, the immatureess. When I texted you earlier, it seems like no other fan base acts like this, and you just got to let things play out. And I've talked to a couple of people that just seem really really pissed, and Billy, I've been clamoring for this match for a long time, and you know when when the rock plant and when the
rock came out last Friday, I was, I was excited. But I mean, I will agree to the point where there's there's a bit of letdown because we all know that the reason ever won one this match is because it's natural. With the family and everything that's been going on with the bloodline.
Of course that's more or less been like a quarter of the storyline that they either on pause or just kind of just met the last couple of months, ever since Summer Slam, and when that was at the peak, when Roman was really being a manipulator, like being a dick and really taking advantage of everything. That's when you'd have insert rock. We kind of really haven't had that while just because I mean, there's it's it's so now and now we
get it, but it's just at the expense of now. They kind of cracked on the World Rumble winner, and they kind of cracked on you know, necessary. So I agree with it all on that aspect, and but you know, I'm just still on I'm still on your side when it comes to the money matches is what people want. Here's the thing, I haven't even announced it officially yet, so we don't we don't even know what that
was. Because the backlash of everything and all the threatenings of this could be exactly like it was in Philadelphia. How apropos it comes full circle, they get booed again. But I was willing to bet that, you know, the crowd's a little bit smarter that they know what they have here. But you know, a little bit after Raw today, the way Raw started really got these people hyped up and all they're ready to take it up. It's
ready to be taken over. But with subtle hints throughout the show and especially with WWEE like zoning in tight shots on that we want Cody and then just his babyface to the moon right now, So they definitely have something up their sleeve and it's raw, especially with the Cody Earns tweet, right yeah. Yeah. The biggest frustration with this is, you know, again, we've been asking for this match for so long and how they give it to us.
But they give it to us as the most inopportune moment to where now people are gonna shit on it. And the whole point of winning Rock Versus Roman is you want the Rock versus Hogan, the Rock versus Sina. You want that atmosphere of like a spectacle. Right. We know the end ring work is going to leave a lot to be desired, but that's not what this is about. It's about, you know, two of the biggest stars in wrestling history coming face to face on the biggest stage of them all and
they both happen to be related. It should be the biggest match of all time and now because of the way they book themselves into a corner with it, It's not going to come across as the biggest match of all time unless they do some serious band aid work to make this right. And I feel like they started that pand aid work on Raw. But let me ask you this, did they did they shoot themselves into a work to say it kind
of oddly like did the was the plan? Like, you know, we're gonna do this whole thing and Cody's gonna go after SETH and people are gonna be fine with it and then realize, oh shit, time to press the panic button. Time to press plan B and kind of make this all make sense and get Cody back involved. And we're gonna learn a lot at they're hyping up this press conference on Thursday in Vegas. We're gonna learn a lot there. If they definitely you know, sold that on Raw time big time.
But was this a an audible if they have made uh, do you think that Cody gets back involved in this or do you you know, did did they basically construct a yes movement on their own or you know, is this something that they're kind of piecing together? Mm hmm. That's a that's an interesting question. I kind of want to think like it was a little bit of mix between Yes, I I don't even know how to necessarily decipher it yet I would I would say, I would say that wrote, I
would say that Roman and Cody is probably the plan all along. And then I don't know. I don't I don't want to think that they that they just really let the Marks change their whole thing. But I really think of just just take this back to a week earlier, with the whole Netflix deal and them signing the big, the big five million, five billion dollars now Netflix deal that's going on, and Rock being front and center of that, when TKO merged and and and they're at Wall Street. That could be that
that also is is huge too. What kind of deals are they striking up to make sure that Rock appears on Netflix in the next couple of years, Which leads me to the believe that I don't think that match happens this year. I think that that match happens possibly on Netflix, and I think that we could get more Rock matches down the road. But also heard also another spoiler alert. You probably heard it here on the Baby Faces too. A lot of people are thinking since it's going to be in Vegas. That's where
they're going to announce WrestleMania next year. I think think that they were going to announce WrestleMania in Minnesota at US Bank Stadium. It's it's one of the biggest, like newest NFL stadiums that they haven't tried yet. Uh And and it's indoors, so like they're not scared to go to a cold place like that. So and it's just the thing is will rock when I come to Minnesota, right But you know that Netflix deal, it's definitely gonna be huge.
And I think they're gonna work a lot around this press conference, you know. I I they could have worked themselves into it. Who necessarily knows one of the I think the main thing was probably getting out in front of the news and switching everything else towards something else seeing how the fans are going to react to this, and who knows, maybe they were to call it on the flight. I hate to admit that, you know that they're gonna
get bullied like they did a couple of years ago. And as an e drone myself, I would like to think that they'd had this in their pocket because Sanford always cooks, but I think in this situation maybe they kind of tested it out, maybe they kind of switched to we can have that. The reports are him being a martyr, Cody Rhades being a martyr like Daniel Bryan is, and them trying to manufacture the Zone Yes movement, Wold movement.
There's a lot surrounding that press conference. I think that it's going to be Cody somehow involves himself, or I think he gets right back in and involves I think it's still going to be Roman and Cody at this year is WrestleMania, and I think they're probably going to like revolt to something to where in the perfect world, I think the Rockets introduced if it was me booking on SmackDown, and I know you didn't ask that or anybody else, and
he maybe the ten people that's going to listen didn't ask for it. But I think the way to bring him in for that, the best way would have been because he already pointed out like I had you last year and you interfere pointed at solo and I have some counsel that's going to help me out this year, and it's the rock and we get you steel cage match at WrestleMania a special guest referee. He kind of do like a weird kind of mix that they did with like the Sean Triple h s refere and you can
have that happen. Of course, everyone knows Reugh get screwed. You took everything for me, No, I didn't. The only thing I did take from you it is tribal chief and then we go for that next year. So that's how I think that was probably the best way of debuting that. Yeah, to get no one asked for that. Tonight on roll they said a lot without really saying anything at all, which leads me to believe they're kind of gauging, like again how the crowd would react to certain things,
and kind of booking it on the fly here. So I really, I really do think that's still trying to keep a tongue in cheek too. Yeah, they're just kind of like, you know, let's kind of get the reactions and see what we think and go from there and figure it out by Thursday, because they're they're putting all their eggs in the basket for this Thursday
press conference. Yeah, it's gonna be huge. So I feel like tonight was just all about kind of weathering the storm, seeing how it goes, and then you got a few days here to really figure out your plan. But I really do think as of Friday, as as of last Friday on SmackDown, their plan was the Rock versus Roman and Cody versus Seth, and they thought that people would be fine with that and they wouldn't shit on it,
and it turns out it was complete opposite, right. So then it's like an old ship movement, and we got to figure this out because the biggest thing for me is I just want if they do Rock versus Romans still at this at this year's WrestleMania, they still do it, they need to figure out a way to make sure that it gets the reaction that it deserves. It's as simple as that we've been asking for this match for years and it does not need to be rushed or blown off if you don't have all
the perfect you know, aspects of it together for the perfect storm. Right. So you know, I think when the Rock didn't show up at the Rumble, I think both you and I kind of speculated, like, Okay,
Rock versts Roman probably isn't happening this year. The most logical like kind of path was Rock will probably still be at WrestleMania and Philly this year, but he'll he'll kind of help Cody Rhods maybe intercept the solo interference, help Cody Roads win the title, and then we set up the year long billd for WrestleMania forty one Rock versus Roman head of the Table match, just like
Cniverse Rock at twenty eight. So, you know, if they're gonna pivot now to moving the match to next year, I don't know how they logically get there, because why did the Rock come out on SmackDown? Why did
Cody Road say I'm coming for you Roman, just not at WrestleMania. They got a lot probably That's what they're probably going to try to more or less work around is those wordings and try to walk back those wordings, and maybe they can have Cody if he never said I'm coming for you just not at WrestleMania, like everything would still kind of like be logically on the table, like he could have just said after. You know, I had some council
this week. I talked with some legends, and one of them was somebody you know, like the same shit that he said just without saying that I'm coming for you, not at WrestleMania, and then boom the Rock comes out and then it's kind of like a stare off, but between like the three of them, then everything is still kind of on the table. You kind of left it up in the air. You end smack down like with more you know, more uh questions than answers, even though that's that's how it
was on Friday. Still, but you know, you still have Cody in the mix at that point, so now you know they're gonna have to walk that back no doubt if they want to get to it. And honestly, I mean, I'm asking you this question, but I'm gonna I'm gonna give you my opinion. First. The best way to handle this, in my opinion is you take advantage of the two night format. You do Rock Versus Roman on night one. I think that in the main event, obviously Rock
vers Room on night one. I think that more casual fans that will tune in for the Rock, you know, kind of older fans that maybe don't watch as much, or you know, you know, casual fans that that watch once a year, they'll tune in for the Rock on a Saturday night over a Sunday night, because you know, if you're not like Super die Hard in the wrestling, why are you stand up till midnight on Sunday. So I think that's a good even for like marketing reasons, to have that
match on a Saturday is better. The winner of that goes on to face the Royal Rumble winner, Cody Rhodes for the title on Night two. Obviously Roman's going to beat the Rock. I think that's that's pretty you know what, this match has never been been about like being unpredictable or anything like that. Like it's just about seeing those two in the ring. So Roman beats
Rock on Night one, goes on to face Cody on Night two. Whatever happens in that match, I'm not going to speculate yet because I still think that Roman's probably walking out of Wrestle Media as the champion. And oh boy, if you thought the Internet was a shit show this past weekend, just wait if that happens. Yeah. So I think that's the best way in the same weekend, I think, right, I think I think that's the best way to get around this though, is is Cody at the press conference
said, you know, I know what I said on SmackDown. But I've thought about it some more. I've I've talked with my family, I've heard from the front, from from the from the front, from the fans, and I've decided I need to take a shot to finish my story at WrestleMania. I'm still gonna give you your shot, Rock, because I promised you that I would give you that. You guys got family business to handle, and I respect that. I'm a family man. I understand that, you
know, blood runs deep in this business. You guys got stuff to figure out. You guys figured it out on Night one, and the winner of that match goes one on one with Cody Rhodes on Night two of WrestleMania in the main event. I think that's how you fix it. Thoughts so so so I love it. I actually, I mean, I actually the way that you kind of plan that out, I do. I at first, I didn't necessarily love the Rock or Roman doing double duty, and I guess,
I guess, uh. I mean, there have even been people saying that The Rock when he politicked his way in right, that that he was even politicking his way to even win well, and there's people I talked to a shout out Daniel Hillfier listening to this out in La doing something, who I've been having some good back and forth with. He He thinks that that this is a time that they're going all in with Rock and Roman to Rock
needs to be the main baby base. He can't get booed. Roman has to be a straight fucking dick, which I completely understand, Like have have Roman go like a torment Ava or over on NXT and have Roman do the just or the Bloodlines show up and meet the Rock out in La somewhere,
just like just it's so much you could do just just that way. But I don't necessarily the predictability about it just takes me back to the WrestleMania thirty And however, it was a good match when Triple H you know, fought Daniel Brian to start the show and the winner was I mean, but you obviously knew Daniel Brian was gonna go on to the main event. So like, I feel like that took a lot away from me from that, But I man, I don't know. I think I think we just still get
Cody Roman straight out. It's because they never announced anything. I don't think that Cody promised anything. I don't necessarily know Cody's I don't think mad in real life. Everyone wants to point out the the bro hug On SmackDown and then he had the face change and how he wiped his face when he walked away from the ring. Like Cody is a master at getting sympathy, and he is a master. He learned it from right acting school and I also
learned it right here from ov W years ago. It's one of the main things that they teach you is if you get your character to be cared about, and he is a master at doing that. So he knows what he's doing, he knows what's best for business. I think something's gonna happen, and I would be mad if it played out there, you know that way, Like you guys, I understand because Cody is he's got the respectful gimmick he can do. He could do the the I respect your family and you
guys have things to hash out. I just I just need to finish this.
I spoke too soon. I don't know what I was fucking thing, and I don't know I was, I was high whatever, But it's I think it ends up in in something like that it's just gonna be Cody and then and I think Rock ends up getting mixed up into like a special guest referee, and I think we get I think, yeah, well, yeah that's the thing, and we can yeah, we can talk about the world title picture real quick if Cody is officially out of that, which i'd be
honestly at this point, after all, I'd be shocked if Cody Rhodes is still in the World title picture. Like I think they put that to bed tonight in a way because they were kind of setting up like why would Drew and even like the Samysane promo uh segment like that where you're saying like I'm done being an underdog, going to be a champion, blah blah blah.
They're like almost setting up potential challengers for the world title already. So that I think for all you you Cody fans out there, I think it's a really good sign that that Cody is going to be in the in the match with with Roman and you know, however that might be whatever you know, stipulation that is. I do think that we're we're heading towards that. It's just a matter of how they explained that on Thursday, I the special guest
referee. I think that's interesting. That's a good way to do that. Still do the whole year long build up for next year and again when we have Roman versus Rock, if it's this year, if it's next year, whatever, I just need it to make to be sure that we're going to
get the atmosphere that the match deserves and needs. Right So if if the best thing to do is to let it burn and push it to next year and you know, have the Rock involved in the match this year and help Cody win or But that's the thing is like I don't I don't, I really don't know if Roman loses the title at WrestleMania. And honestly, I think that's why they originally were like, Okay, we got to keep the title on Roman, so we can't have Cody go and lose to him again.
But now everybody's pushing for Cody be in this match and again we will get into WrestleMania predictions when that time comes in you know, a couple months. But like, uh, if you thought the Internet was a shit show this weekend, just about Cody getting double duty in him getting Night one, he has to face Rock to get to uh Roman reigns, and then when you do so, you don't get Rock and Roman. No, you just
have you just have him. I don't know. That's the thing. It's like the whole point of the Rock being back is a match with Roman. Like there's really no other program he needs to be involved with. He needs to do one more like big time match with Roman reigns again, whether that be this year or next year. That's on booking and creative to figure out to make this right. I think the way I light I laid it out would be a way to make it right. I think fans would get back
on board with Rock. I don't think you would be the heel anymore. I think they'd be like, all right, cool, we got our guy, Rock, we got we got no beef with you anymore. The reason we had beef with you is because of this terrible booking and you just like swooping in it. What I mean? What? Yeah? Like, why why did they think that would go over? Well? Like, let me just oop in and take the spot from our biggest you know, current babyface right now? How do they think that would do? I'm not necessary,
I don't know, but it got everybody talking. I mean, it's got TMZ reporting on it. It's got all your friends that that that hasn't watched what wrestling in years talking about it all of a sudden they know what's good booking or not. And you have people have four magazines that those story telling
sucks and like it just thought where the story just started? So like, well and now it's playing back in your direction, so like just take it easy, dude, Like it's it's it's because I want to enjoy it too, and I'm I'm speaking of politic and ww if you're listening, we want to get the WrestleMania this year, Chuck my guy, so like he's I want to be there and enjoy the matter, either whether it's there or we're just at Like I want it, like you said, the atmosphere everybody else
to enjoy it, like that. It got very personal with the rock and scene up on that, and they could it could get even more personal with the Rock and Roman reigns. So like that's that, That's what I'm That's what I'm all here for. I'm not just here for you just showed up. I just want the head of the table, Like that's always wanted.
The perfect timing was to be the uh, the tribal combat match last year, right, and everybody was everyone at least I was expecting a tribal combat match and if anything was going to come out of it, it would be the Rock coming out of it. But or or just several times during this
bloodline run last year. Again, That's that's the frustrating thing, right is There's been so many times where it was like the perfect time to insert the Rock into the storyline, and they chose quite literally the worst way to do it or the best way if it was planned. Maybe they're working us. I think that we're all getting worked, and it's just it's what it is. It's all the work. It's wrestling. I mean, it's all work. Listen. They still got time to figure it out that there's still beauty
of it. There is still two months until WrestleMania. Main thing to talk about that, I guess everyone's is is the negative the most disliked YouTube Channe YouTube video ww's ever put out, and I think that's absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how that gained so much steep. I mean, they can have their own push behind it, like we want Cody just gets trending. They
can I think the machines behind everything that's going on right now. Yeah, yeah, I mean there's just so much too and the Rock could be bringing on his buddy Brian Goowartz from the from from the Ruthless Aggression era, who
was one of like the head writers along with Freddy Prince Junior. So he made some of the more fun stuff when kind of we were growing up and loving wrestling or me in the early stages of like the the End of Attitude era, starter of Ruthless Aggression era is uh, and he's always been the Rocks guy, so he's he's gonna be someone that's gonna produce really really well. I think the production part of it, in the storyline, whenever they
get to that part, is going to be pretty fun. Yeah. And I mean I will say, you were talking, you know, you're talking about it got people talking, whether it be awful booking or not. I will say that tonight was probably the most excited I've been to turn on raw in a long, long long time, like like a long time, probably since I was like a kid and I still was you know, innocent and
not jaded. You know what, I'm saying so because I have really just nobody knows what's going on with this thing, Like you see what the crowd was going to be, Like everybody want to see what Cody had to say. Cody didn't end up saying anything at all, and it worked out great, Like the opening promo promo segment was so good and told again they said a lot without saying much at all. So we're in for a good road to WrestleMania either way, you know, Like there's there's a lot of meat
on this phone. There's a lot of stuff that they can do with this, a lot of path paths that they can go. But again, for me, it's just about getting the most out of Roman and Rock. Figure that out. That should be when you're like laying out this plan, Triple H and Brian Gerwitz and all you guys back that are that are writing this story, the objective and main prompt should be how do we get the most out of Roman versus Rock? And then one b under that is what is
Cody's story finishing look like? Right? Like, what what does that look like? And how do we want to get there? And when do we want to get there? Right? So, I think If you answer those two questions, then we're in for a good road to WrestleMania. Cody is advertised for all next week and next time we do turn it on all we're
going to be there. And so I'm I'm always hype. I'm always hype when w W comes, even when there is if there's times where there're been kind of boring shows and not necessary I've always had a great time in a WWE show, but there's times that aren't action going on. But this is like road to WrestleMania type of stuff. Usually it seems like when ww comes here, it's always kind of during like October November. It's kind of like and more or less dead seasons. But we're we're we're full on road to
WrestleMania. I Mean, it sucked at the rapp Arena, but we're gonna have the rest media sign there. That's gonna be pretty cool. Yeah, Yeah, I'm pumped. And yeah, like you said, it's a great time for it to come to town. Like we'll be hot off, we'll be off the heels of this big press conference on Thursday, Like there's gonna be so much that's going on, Like we're probably gonna have a lot of questions leading into that Monday night roll. So you know that should yeah,
that should be awesome. But I feel in the rock and easy easy don't get my hope. I'm gonna make a make a hashtag we want Rocky sign yeeze. That's it. Yeah, So I feel like I feel like we left that at a pretty good spot. We got we got all our thoughts on the table. Felt like a good therapy session. Yeah, yeah, I needed that. I've been tweeting, I've been I've been keyboard worrying it. We're worrioring it this past weekend. So it's good to finally like get
it out, especially so like hot off the show too. Yeah, yeah, for sure, start doing this more often or some doing some sort of little maybe find a way to produce some sort of quick reaction or something that we can post either on social on here. You know, fans, if you're listening, let us know whoever is burning the midnight all with us tonight. Let us know if you you'd be interested in that. Yeah, it's probably trying to late night content. You got a nice got a nice hoodie
on. We're gonna be wearing those at raw That's right, if that's anybody, I mean, I don't know on YouTube or not, but we got some new new merch out I know all since been testing the waters about possibly you know, putting some up for sale. So a good reaction. Appreciate everybody, and appreciate if you're listening. Debt not not the football player, does Bryant, but Desmond Bryant from iHeart Media down at the hub in the
graphics department here Baby Faces headquarters. He was in charge of help creating that logo and shout out to Ideal Design too, right down the street. They kind of help distribute those for us, big big shot up. Appreciate you got super comfy hoodie at Pops, Like, yes, you wear this out, You're you're gonna get questions about you, like you could wear you could wear more with that too than kind of the light like the light like the
light blue that we originally had. But it's just gonna make that like, it's just gonna make that the old hoodie just see much more retro. And it's I'm just gonna appreciate more both of them over the years. Right, it's the vintage, the vintage. Ready now you know it'll it'll come back and with more colors too, because I always like the black on it too. And I think I think white, you know, like a white T
shirt would be pretty nice with like that logo too. Yeah, for sure, have to find a way to make it because there is some white in the logo so it can look transparent. We'd have to find a way to
Yeah, we'll figure it out. We'll work shot that. Yeah. Well, a couple of newsletter things for we get you on the way of what's coming up on on baby Faces. Like I mentioned at the top, interview with Chad Gable, by the end of this week, we should be talking with him on Thursday morning, so we'll try to have that up Thursday afternoon, and you know, we'll post that on social when it's up and all the clips and whatnot. And yeah, we'll be at raw on Monday.
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that's all I got. You got anything else? But yeah, no, that's all good. I think everything's all cool. I think we covered a lot here, and of course you could find out everything that you just echoed if you just look at our old tweets this last week. I mean, we just kind of not getting nasty, but we've just been happy more or less. If you see anything that's nasty, it's me. If you see anything that's coming off like a respectful argument, that's more or less like billy.
If you're getting called an idiot, it's it's coming from me. So don't don't ever, don't ever try to come at you know who it is that's hundred percent correct. Also gets a little more, a little more aggressive in the tweets and listen, I'll have something typed up and then I read it and I'm like, ah, that might be a step too far, So I'll plank part of my therapy. Sometimes I love it. I love it. Well until later this week, we will talk to you guys, right here on the baby Faces podcast