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that tries me fun fun fun fun Fun, fun, fun. Well, then. Who's that? Is that Neutral Nation? Who? They were stuck up. a punk band that had a song that was like, fun, fun, fun. I think I'm out of the neutral nation. Um... yeah our uh our buddy kevin selva the other day was i came in what what promo is the thinking thinking thinking from And I surely didn't know. My friend ChatGPD didn't even know. Oh. Nobody knows.
Well, I mean, I know that, um, Cornette... references it in one of his uh when they like three or four times they let him do those rants on raw oh yeah and he was he was like This one was in response to the... icon versus icon match that WCW was promoting between Piper and Hogan and Cornette went off about uh how old they are and you know if if there was going to be a icon and pro wrestling you know the top candidates would be you know crush kona crush kona crush uh bertha fay
And Duke the Dumpster Drossy, unfortunately, was awesome. Do not evoke that name on this program, please. Uh-oh. So it happened in WCW, I think, right? I believe it happened in WCW. But Cornette goes, and I guess Macho Man is still thinking, thinking, thinking. Freak out, freak out.
if we go through the archives i don't know when or where but i know that i did find macho man saying that at some point but yeah ain't nobody sitting here going through the archives i promise you that no you feel free to search through the back issues friends foes heels and baby faces but uh Right now, we're in the present. We're in the now. We've got a 1983 Georgia Championship Wrestling calendar on the wall. It's Sonny King. I keep meaning to listen to Cornette.
Like, Sonny King obituary, basically. because they spent time together now what uh what's your schedule like friday how early can you set sail for ontario california if you don't mind me asking I'm just going to take a quick glance. Anytime we need to go.
Because, you know, I'm already putting together a little itinerary. Looks like it's going to be you, me, and Jerry. That's the three Musketeers for this trip. Love it. And... got some ideas so that's good that's good because you know why not just get ahead of the whole rush hour thing and be comfortable handling other business in the area prior to the actual show
That's the problem with Friday, though. We're going to be fucked no matter what time we leave, so we might as well just leave. That's right. That's right. Love it. Last Record Store Jerry or Ashley and Jerry? Ashley and Jerry. Okay. Jerry E. I should probably buy some new sneakers. I'd have something, dude, because, you know, he ain't. What size are you? 12. Oh, I might be able to put you into something on the property. Might be able to slide into something right here on the spot.
Am I driving? I mean, it doesn't matter to me. I'm going to get the car detailed. Hey, man, cool. uh so that's good we have that to look forward to oh i i'm always looking forward also after uh so i also took care we have our we now have our tickets for worlds collide and money in the bank June 7th. That's a Saturday. But that's an all-day affair. So we're going to have to go to the Hollywood show on the Friday night.
Or the Friday. They don't have hours listed on that website. But we'll have to go to the Hollywood show on Friday. Because Saturday, man. That first show is like at 11.30 noon. Something like that. Down in Englewood. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. How is June 7th looking for you? TBD? Well, what time does the second show start? Probably about 4 or 5. Yeah. 4, I think is the pay-per-view. You might be a 4 o'clocker. Uh...
We'll sort this out. Okay. Nevertheless, probably best to hit the Hollywood show on Friday. Just get it out of the way. For sure. Sure, I got a cowlick. It's been... since yesterday i don't know what's going on back here well you know what happened is i i finally i uh i had the calendar on the wall The one for this year? No, no, no. Yeah, yeah. Not the 93 one. Not with Sonny King. For the schedule at the YMCA. Oh, the swimming. Yes, I remember this. Brother I went over there yesterday.
I mean, I knew I was out of shape. Sure. I didn't know it was this bad. Swimming is a difficult sport. I was, I wound up doing about 500 yards. Five football fields, that ain't nothing. Dude, I mean, that used to be, you know, the warm-up. Right. That used to be, okay, we're going to end with a nice little cool-down. There was a medical emergency at the Y. Get him out of the water! Well, you know, when you go to the YMCA at about 11 a.m., it's nothing but like a few scattered 80-year-olds.
So, like, no matter how bad I felt, I was like, I'm fucking Michael Phelps, you know, compared to my neighbors. Without the bong rips. But oh my god, when I came back home, I was worried my shoulders and arms were going to be a fucking wreck today. I was sore when I laid, you know, I laid down on the couch. I put on a movie. I was watching the Andromeda strain. Okay. It's a nice recovery film. Well, it was, it was easy to just kind of, you know.
half doze off to before i got any work done but yeah i was like all right i feel pretty good but holy shit all right well it's right back over there It's right back over there. Right back at it. But yeah. So I don't know if it's chlorine in my hair. Sticking it up like I'm fucking 11. Look at that. Look like Wolverine. Half a Wolverine. Would you believe? Already a pay-per-view this Saturday. I know! Did we just get back from Mania?
Here we are. I feel like we're still there. Backlash. You know, I'm watching Hacks last night and they go to Vegas. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I walked by all that stuff. I drove by that. That's right near the airport. Oh, this is perfect. I'm a fucking Vegas expert now after this mania trip.
paul hayman's tan is offensive it's uh it truly is it's it's bordering on racially insensitive it's well it's uh yeah i mean it it it hearkens to our uh You know, someone we used to know, Drake Younger, the color palette that he was using there before he got fired. spider sometimes dips into it uh i think maybe braun breaker is the one who was like you got to try this because breaker's got a similar tone yeah breaker is almost like when they get close on him on those hd cameras i'm like i'm not
so sure breaker might be actually going to the tanning bed and and you know baking it in baking it in i have no idea it's it's so because like hayman's tan there's a consistency to it whereas breakers there are spots where it's just like oh this this man's skin is burnt it feels like
spots are crispier than others whatever they're doing it's it's no good don't you i mean can't they have a talent meeting about this and just you know There's no reason at the highest level that the tan should be so... well i think putting in strange the problem is triple h because he comes out and it's like you know you watch this footage from 95 when he was the blue blood and you're like This guy is pasty Connecticut. you know new england boy and then now he comes out and he's he's crispy well
I don't know. He doesn't look unnatural to me when I've seen him. These people look unnatural. These people look unnatural. He doesn't look, but there have been points in his career, certainly. I'm not talking about the blackface that he did. I mean, just on a night-to-night basis, not when they did the Nation of Domination thing. But also, Kevin Owens, you know, at home, neck in shambles.
He managed to get a tweet out last night. Dear WWE Rollins, do you also plan on getting an absolute insane spray tan job to fit in with the rest of your group? Oh, my God. That reminds me, I haven't checked in on the old... bronson reed recently because he was also uh You know what? It doesn't occur to me until now. Kevin Owens definitely has a burner account and has to follow us on it. Oh, yeah? It wasn't until... Because you get the sprinkling here and there.
of fellas who would take the show or follow us on the socials but it wasn't until like Miz uh exposed himself as a you know I don't even know what you would call the... Well, that's over on a TikTok shop. That's all Maddie right there. That's got nothing to do with the Triple W universe. Of the video garage. Well, it's all related. It's all part of the extended universe, you know? Sure.
But Owens has to be, you know. I mean, you suck on the Pete Holmes show and so does Pete Holmes. That doesn't just happen. How about our buddy Adam Jones debut in Penta's theme song last night for WWE? did you catch that on raw i caught Well, Adam Jones at home fucking cranking out a new tune for Penta to come out too. uh like he came out and played guitar that's no no they were like you know pentas coming out and they're like this dude adam joe you know like they're
Like it's not Tool, it's just Adam? I guess it's just Adam. No shit. I think it's an original piece by Adam is the way I understood it. You know, my comprehension is so-so, but... That's long overdue. No, I feel like I saw Penta wrestle too last night. Who did he wrestle? Fucking... Last night he wrestled JD McDonough. Right, right, right, right. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Leading to the big IC title match on Saturday with... Dirty Dom, that's right.
I was making pasta at that point. Oh, well, don't they help? No, I, whenever they say what time, you know, if they're like 12 minutes al dente, then I go 13. You're like a little over. Yeah, I want to be able to, you know. I feel like al dente gets stuck to my teeth. don't you find that um i don't know what i don't know what the fuck i'm doing you know i just uh it's either i either go uh this came out pretty good or i go You know?
And the director's like, no, no, it's good, it's good. And I'm like, no, it's not. You're not going to say that, it's not. You take the spaghetti, you throw it at the cupboard, and if it sticks, then... Well, the thing I do do with the spaghetti that I learned on Sopranos is I, you know, once I drain it...
I put it back in the pan with a little bit of sauce and just a touch of the water so that the noodles soak up the sauce flavor. And I never knew that until I saw that on an episode of Sopranos. so so no fucking ziti uh i don't mind a master choli i will do some baked shells You know, it's a shame that they did that bit on Always Sunny where he shows up to some event eating spaghetti out of a bag because it's like...
You can't have an original idea, and then if somebody else does it, then people accuse you. it's just what i do here's what i do pay no mind you can accuse me of whatever you want motherfucker because i'm probably not going to find out about it and if i do i'm probably going to move on with my day In the case of someone who wants to intimate masturbation or something on an account of ours, then I'll just remove you from us because I don't need it. Another creep with a burner account.
What are you going to do? but yes uh right now we're looking at a fucking hardcore five match show on saturday backlash if you're counting the McAfee match because for some reason in this world When the announcer, even if he used to kick a football, is wrestling, the guy who just had the world title, we're supposed to believe.
he's got a chance because he can cut a great promo and he you know that was a great promo it was a good promo uh there were there were parts of it that i was like i don't know why you're Yeah. slightly meandering but but always interesting um you know uh it was cheap pop after cheap pop just like oh nebraska oh i love your college team oh i love across the street there's a donut shop it's my favorite bruce springsteen album short of short of mcafee like Snake attacking him.
he really should get nothing. You know? Like, if you want to think about it, like, cm punk in the ufc for instance you think it should be that that embarrassing if mcafee yeah it's like he's just not a professional wrestler i'm glad that he was formerly a professional athlete
okay so are pro bowlers uh and that's all fine and good but in this realm i don't like he if he gets any heat on gunther i'm going for a soda now does that Out of curiosity, does that booking logic, would you say, apply in like Lawrence Taylor versus Bam Bam Bigelow? Um, no, because Lawrence Taylor was fucking, uh, a hall of fame linebacker. Right. This guy.
kicked the football and i'm not saying i could kick the football yeah but but there's no translation there's no translation um but i i see i see i see where you're coming from there no no i'm just curious what if what's the line if it is if it is because he was a kicker what about the nxt run Of him?
yeah we both had the same dream of becoming a ww superstar it's like all right well but you didn't you know that that stood out to me as well because i was like then why'd you go into football I understand the flaw in my thinking, especially with it being 2025, you know, but But I just, as he stands there with this particular guy. No, I think that that is the problem, yeah. Like, um... avila earmuffs like adam cole obviously still a professional wrestler but um
There's something about that that doesn't, you know, like the size or something that, you know. But Adam Cole is a punter. Yeah, like they were both on special teams. Oh, poor Adam Cole. Is he still working somewhere? He was just on... Oh, that's right. He's the TNT champ.
sure he couldn't he couldn't find where the announce table was on collision because like he was he was like looking like i'm supposed to do play-by-play where the fuck's the table the woman had to come out and grab him I'll tell you, one of my favorite things right now is that they have a WCW YouTube channel.
okay uh and they just and they have a live it's always live oh like you can go in and watch it on it but they also just always have something live streaming this is an official tko channel no it is
Yeah. No, I was asking. Oh, I thought you said it isn't. Yeah, so... and there are times when you'll get into like a little bit of a it's almost like when apple music is making a channel for you like guys we just did this run of four songs like it has like but But a lot of times you hop in and you're just watching a fucking weird... you know, a studio wrestling show from
80 whatever you know manny fernandez or something so it's just it's always fun it's the first when i go on youtube it's the first thing i look and see because it could be fucking bam bam and ddp and a fucking street fight on thunder or it could be you know How much of the archive they have digitized. Like of everything they have. Yeah. We might be able to get that answer. We've got a couple people in that building.
True. I mean, you know who it would be great to talk to is the guy who was, you know, I assume this was a shoot. He's the archivist in the WrestleMania 9 documentary. Oh, right. Yeah, he's been there forever. He's like the Dave's picks of WWF. So you end up watching that whole thing?
um no i did not finish it did you get the part where nikon is working the show no what was that well there's just a point where they're like they kind of pause it and you see in the back and like nikon was there like i can't remember setting up chairs like you had some function like working
on the on wrestlemania 9 you know on his way to world dominance yeah he like they did i don't of course you know or i don't have the answer but i can't remember but it was like he was working the show and he was you know maybe maybe at that point he was working like either for caesars or like something like like you know getting his way into that's insane
um but it's yeah it's just funny because like they're like hold on and then you just like he's he's just standing there in the background all skinny he's setting up folding chairs thinking in his mind someday this this seat is going to cost three grand And it's going to have a Saudi prince in it every six inches or whatever it is, 13 inches. Someday I'm going to wait until two minutes before the show starts and I'm going to just walk.
the long way to my chair with my kid so that everyone sees me, but I'm going to pretend I don't want anyone to see me. And then I'm going to sit on my phone the whole fucking show. A great time to be a wrestling fan. Oh, my God. Yeah, so I imagine, you know, they'll probably add one or two matches to this by Friday, right? Five matches. I mean, McAfee is... He's so... good on the promos. It was... i mean the way that
We're all up and up. I was just like... jay uso is is the weakest baby face in the business like he just stands there holding his dick while paul hayman screams at him yeah yeah i'm like what is this i'm like his whole build to getting this belt was him going i don't know if i can do it yeah i'm like he's he's it's his entrance is a dance party and that's the only thing he has going for him uh i mean i think he is um as much as i i do like him i think a lot of uh
his position right now is that he he sells a ton of merch and i'm sure he does you know i think it's one of those things where they're like all right well let's go with this and see i uh i like him i I've never disliked his matches. But it's, you know, I don't know what his persona is other than... you know, um, like a, a stupid baby face or something. I mean, I, I don't know what. Yeah. It's kind of funny that, so he is, and then on the other side, we've got, I wonder if...
At this point, of course, of course, the answer is no, but I wonder, you know, maybe in the, in the quiet moments, uh, you know, in the infrared chamber or whatever, if, if it's ever hunters ever like. Ah, maybe we didn't need to turn John heel. you know because it was really just to satisfy the rock who then was never seen again and that match would have been perfectly fine just cena and cody And now what we have is this like heel turn that.
needs to has been maybe not been explained and his explanation is he's gonna ruin wrestling for everyone and i guess his first thought is like oh you know what i'll do i'll wrestle randy again like that'll do it like remember how much people by the end of that hated hated how many times we wrestled like it's like
and they're trying to sell these fucking t-shirts every night that he's on the show a different t-shirt and it's like this would have been a lot easier just fucking leaving him alone probably you know It's the definition of hotshot booking. It's doing something just to do it.
yeah with then there's no uh rhyme or reason or follow-up you're just trying to create excitement and that was exciting that heel turn was fucking exciting yeah but um you know when when when when the company themselves when they are the kings of saying you got to see where this is going we're telling a story and it's like okay well now it's been a few months and i'm pretty convinced you're just pissing in the dark
right well and also it can't help but feel like two years in a row rock was like Let me, uh... let me let me insert myself here on some level even no matter whatever you've been working on or whatever whatever i think you know what i think i will i think i will show up
And then the follow-up with him on, what was it, McAfee's show? I mean, it was just like, what a fucking jerk. Yeah, well, that's almost worse than like, hey, man, we're telling a story. Like, you don't know where the beginning, middle, never ending, whatever. But it was much worse as just going like...
sorry bud the whole business is a work and it's always been a work so like for you to sit there it's like that that's what fucking bugs me man it's like This idea that people aren't supposed to... i mean obviously at a point everyone gets a little sick of straight complaining but just like any any discourse or any like you know discussion around it is is like poo-pooed like that's
you know it's like it's described as that's the internet or that's that's whatever it's like it's not the people who pay uh way too much money for seats at our shows and buy all our shit and fucking have done it for centuries it's like it's like no no like fuck them when we need to say fuck them and oh we'd be nowhere without them when we need to be nowhere without them i'm here because of all you people like look at my goosebumps it's like yeah unless you don't unless you have issue with
with how I'm conducting my business, then fuck you. Then fuck you. And how dare you even talk about it? Then here's what's going to happen. We're going to boo both guys. Because it's one of those things where it's like, the more that you tell me this doesn't matter, the more I'm going to act like this doesn't matter. And the last time they got locked into the... it doesn't matter i'm gonna serve you what what we're eating for dinner and you're gonna like it
People started blowing up beach balls and a new company was created, you know? Right. So this is, this is, everything goes in cycles everything and especially this company AFTER The Monday Night Wars and WCW closed. Instead of learning from that, they decided we'll never have to worry about anything bad happening to us again. And then there was that slow and then turning Austin's heel led to that slow decline.
john cena became you know john cena sure and then it started building back up again and then it hit that wall of you know if you want to coincide with the pg era I don't think it was exclusively because they went PG, but it was because of Vince McMahon. Vince McMahon. Vince. And this needs to be known as this was the watershed moment. It was after he ripped both quads.
yeah everybody i worked with said he was never the same after that that was the beginning of the real vince mcmahon decline of because that he has been so obsessed with getting old uh since probably Since he was a kid, you know, I mean, it's clearly been this. you know albatross around his neck of like oh because you look at like 30 40 years ago when he started benching guys who were as soon as they hit 40.
it was just like ah the fucking huckster and the nacho man get the fuck out of here now it's like those those guys are in your main event i mean randy's the same age as me you know but BAM!
keeping your your eye off of the indie scene or being like all these little guys don't know how to work or like all this lucha shit is bullshit or like all this you know all all all And then they get into this, you know, they created AEW by being... by by by their hubris right and now they're hot again and now they're making 20 million dollars every pay-per-view and they think ah everything it's like cody i can't believe
Cody Rhodes got booed when he came out at WrestleMania. I was like, oh my God, it's already starting again. They're already, and they do it to themselves. These unforced errors, these shooting themselves in the foot. But it's also that thing of like,
kind of twofold. One, just like anything else, like if you you know you can shit on the people who complain but they're the same people who still show up i mean how many times oh sure do we sit in a stadium full of people who are complaining and or are booing cody or whatever it is right yeah
and it's the same thing you know your fucking your football team sucks you still want to go to the football game you still pay it yeah you're still there right but the other thing to me that is is like that feels a little different is this like You know?
uh everywhere all the time people are discussing sports or movies and yes on the occasion that someone gets way out of line or catches the attention of a particular player or actor something might be like shut the fuck up motherfucker like you don't know what you're talking about or whatever right it feels like in wrestling that is way more omnipresent where it's like um this like anybody who's talking about
or writing about or whatever wrestling on on any sort of level is like very quickly shot down as like oh you know like you're you're just a malcontent or you you also don't know anything about what we're actually doing and all that sort of thing. You know what I mean? But just, there feels like a, i don't know if it's just close like if just by nature it's like the two things are closer together or if there's just a thinner skin you know like maybe
Do you know what I mean? No, I know exactly what you mean. Because I'm thinking in terms of like, you know it all goes back to like rock like going to this busted open guy and being like shut the fuck up if you're going to complain you know no kidding it's strange too because it's like you think of
other fandoms that are that can get very toxic like star wars fans or comic book fans it's like you don't have I'm not aware of, you know, mark hamill going on twitter and being like shut the fuck up mark you know right so i don't know if it's just there's more wrestlers or if there is that there's still that you know, mentality of us versus them like you don't understand the business i put my body on the line for you how dare you but then there was uh who's the guy who did the that second um
sequel was it ryan johnson he was like i remember him tweeting out a picture of himself like holding a piece of paper it just says your snoke theory sucks so it's like that's that's that's as much as i could think of as the same as rock being like shut the fuck up if you're just gonna complain i mean there's like i was after the fish shows i went to i was like watching um
Todd Phillips made a documentary about fish in 98 or 99 called bittersweet motel. Maybe it was even 2000. It's really not a good documentary, but I love watching it because you know, it's just, I got to watch fish. Um, And at one point, he gives Train to Stasio bad reviews to read. And Entertainment Weekly says something to the effect of, Fish has reached the point in their cult career where they can urinate in the ears of the listeners and they will happily lap it up.
And it's like there, I think there are those people. in the front row at Wrestlemania who it's like no matter what shit they get served they're gonna fight like that like that's what rock wants rock wants people who are just gonna be zombies and say you know it was great and there is a similarity to like the jam band fan base where it's like i'm gonna pay my 300 bucks and i'm gonna leave and go god that show is fucking awful and i'm literally gonna be back there tomorrow night you know
yeah yeah i don't know i mean uh it's it's you know what they've figured out like this this nikon mentality of getting like the 20 million dollar gate is they figured out a way to grow the business without necessarily growing the audience.
yeah for sure and it also it's like it feels like the next the next evolution in the companies over not the wrestlers yeah yeah it's like people are chanting for the company not for the wrestler they come for the letters and not like oh this person cut a promo that sold the tickets and now we sell the ticket um for more so that it yeah totally totally um and i think in the long run it is going to embitter people in the crowd and alienate them and strengthen
You know, like the AEW or whatever the next thing is, you know, it's going to spark something. Maybe. I mean, you know, a lot of people are saying... black adam was the rocks torn quads you know he's never the same after black adam but but the smashing machine promo i mean he may be getting the little gold man uh, come next, uh, spring. You see that, you see that fucking trailer for the smashing machine? Oh, I did that. That looks pretty good. So we, who knows? Dwayne might finally, uh,
really come to form in this Hollywood thing. Interesting, Emily Plano, you know. i don't i don't know who this woman is i assume it's his wife but like i was like that it felt Just the outfit and the hair and the... I was like, oh, this feels very against type. She's broadening something. Yeah, no more Jungle Cruise. Hey, man. Mary Poppins getting all dolled up.
Now, they're going right back to this little four-way gimmick here. We got Fatu and LA Knight, Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre. That's a fun little match. That'll be fun. Damien in LA. It was... What was I going to say about it? Yeah, I don't know. I was...
That was a moment on Raw 2 where I was like... because i had already gone like i i went made dinner we ate and did all the whole thing and then i'm back in the room and now i can fast for now i can hit brie mode anytime i want right and that was one of those moments where i found myself reaching for the remote, but stopping because I was like, wait, no, I like LA Knight. What about SmackDown? What was that on SmackDown? Yeah. I was like, I like LA Knight. I like Damien Priest.
And I'm like, all right, I just want to see what's happening. But I did find myself being like, these two. So there is something. What do you mean these two? Like you weren't into it?
no i realized i wasn't like on a on an unconscious level where i was like wait no i like these guys but my my my reflex was to be like let's just get yeah you know Yeah, I mean, it's not like right it's not super it's like the the the issue is not um yeah i was like yeah this this feels um forced and especially you know it feels a
I mean, Drew McIntyre is a man without a country right now. Again, they can't... He has proved himself... however many times you want to say in that company as an asset and then they are like okay well you know we'll get around to him i mean he should have a fucking match with cena at some point Yeah, for sure. But I also think, again, I know I say this maybe every time there's a multi-person, but it just feels like, let's not beat Jacob.
But also we don't necessarily, I guess, want to, you know, I don't know. We can meet Ally Knight, that's fine. But to your point, uh... The big Rusev in-ring debut last night against O.T. with his new gimmick of like, I'm going to come back and teach these people who are squandering their talent like I did to be killers. That's my understanding. like maybe he needs to focus on, you know,
not so much the Otis's, but like, you know, the, it just brings, because immediately, either right after something, here comes Seamus. Like, out of the eighth our first time since the royal rumble right uh to have a match that uh whatever his name, got tricked into having by his partner. Oh, yeah. Awesome theory.
yeah who's who's got to be like oh man i hope this i hope they like this match after fucking 25 people got cut on friday he's just like oh shit fuck fuck shit and yeah you know uh they're going like seamus first ballot hall of famer it's like yeah in the wwe hall of fame 100 You know? Yeah. And I like Seamus.
It's like when George Costanza is showing Derek Jeter how to hit. He's like, yeah, in seven games. You know what kind of blew me out was that package that they showed for... this the orton cena thing from what was it seven 2017 something like orton looks so weird like he just his it's like he his it's like on one level yes he was just like uh thinner
But maybe it was just that his whole head and everything was shaved. I don't know. He just looked so strange to me. I didn't clock it, but I believe it. Randy's one of those guys where, you know, he's... he's perfected the art of wearing the t-shirt with the trunks oh yeah but it's like sometimes if that shirt is a little too long and it immediately reads you know toddler yeah winnie the pooh i didn't clock it but i but i believe it there are times when randy because especially after this
Like, he's so thick now that you forget, you know, he used to look like a fucking electric eel. Yeah, he's a bit thinner in those days. A little more streamlined, if you will. Rusev back from the abyss. Rusev. Back to teach you all a lesson. Yeah. He entered a five-year abyss. That was the other thing they said. He entered a five-year abyss. What are you talking about? He was wrestling every Wednesday night. But what did they say? They said something that felt...
It was, uh... Backhanded? Yeah, well, just something like, yes. What the fuck was it? Oh, I missed that. I don't know. Yeah, anyway. I texted you as soon as that match started. I was like, this American Alpha shirt fucking sucks. Or their Alpha Academy. I know it's not new, but I was just like... watch like seeing all because once you got a close up on because or otis is going to be wearing like a five back
yeah so it's like it's it's almost like a fucking a a nation's flag at that point and i'm just like god the orange is awful the cartoon is awful the the gimmick on the bottom like well we're always there for you or whatever it is I'm like, ah, what? Like, what?
happened in the t-shirt department at that company like you want to fucking fire somebody We should do a thing on the Patreon where we just we just scroll through the wwe shop because there's there is no shortage of trash and there's like that like there are just like design like the case in point the rusev the The newly debuted Rusev shirt is like, you know, I believe you. I'm sure it's fucking trash. Like what?
what is it is it like are they given no notice and so these artists are just scrambling like we needed it yesterday type of thing Well, listen, man, there's plenty of fucking designers who are turning shit out every day. That is perfectly good on a very short... uh turnaround so i don't think that that can be it whatever it is whatever whatever's happening over there and whoever's uh approving it what the fuck is maybe this is an nxt thing what is the culling the culling what's that
oh it's a sean spears related thing but are you seeing this shirt that says culling on it no uh it should be right on if you just click if you go in the shop and just click t-shirt It should be in the second row. Ugh, what is this? Do you see it, Culling? This is terrible. Well, I mean, you know, no one else can see this, but, like, all you gotta do is just every row has fucking... of the worst shit you've ever seen the fucking calling
Alright, I gotta see this Rusev shirt because I'm sure it's trash. I'm looking at these Alistair black shirts. Well, it's not that far off from the culling. It's the exact same shirt! It is the exact same shirt. It's just instead of it being sideways, it's horizontal. Instead of it being diagonal, it's horizontal. This is good. When I put Rusev in the search bar, it doesn't even... Here we go.
Right, you just have to search for it. It just says Rusev and then all around it just says Returns, Returns, Returns. Oh my god, dude. This is trash. Wow. Okay, I'm talking about wow. Oh, a clearance sale up to 50% off. Yeah, because nobody's buying this shit. I remember being in the hallway at Titan Tower, walking out with Brian Gord. And there was just stacks of t-shirts. That's where I got my Bad News Barrett shirt, my Seamus shirt.
i gotta grab something else too but uh again it was like you know before they go to the incinerator yeah does anybody here want these And I remember grabbing my shirt. And Brian just kind of looking at them. And literally Triple H walked by. And he goes, hey, it's up for grabs. Anything you guys want. And Brian goes, there's nothing here that I want.
And Triple H goes, yeah, that's the fucking problem. I will say, uh, um the one on one clearance that i almost pulled the trigger on yesterday is the wcw money nitro for 20 bucks that's that's not a bad deal and it's also an homage shirt so you know it's actually screen printed That one could end up in my pile of a million t-shirts. This gray nitro shirt, that's pretty good. Not too shabbly!
You gotta admit that, Matty. I can see you rocking this aqua tank top bash at the beach. Ooh, it's almost summertime. you know it's incredible these there's no bigger marks than the people in wwe like if you bought this shirt and wore it like like there was one time when i was at work I had one of the WWE produced WCW shirts underneath my button up.
and we were getting on the bus i don't know what city we were leaving what city we were heading to and i was unbuttoning my shirt and several writers saw it guys who had been there for a while and they were like better cover that up quick and i'm like what are you talking about i'm like this this is not a wcw shirt it's wwe sold the shirt they go there's a lot of people who still work here they're still fighting that war Yeah.
That's cool too, man uh vamp for one second i want to get rid of a cup of coffee hold on get rid of it i gotta get rid of it i already drank it now i want to get rid of it I just was watching a little clip of Holland Nash. You know, there's a bunch of Hall and Ash shoots. Some where they're more fucked up than others. This is one where they didn't seem especially fucked up that they were talking about.
um you know the invasion and that uh you know shortly after wwe had purchased wcw and they sort of likened it to the civil war being like like if the civil war just ended or whatever like they're not gonna they're not gonna put over a confederate uh on their tv or whatever some some analogy like that you're not gonna
You know what I'm talking about. Don't pretend like you know what I'm talking about. You understand. You've probably seen it. If you're listening to the show, you've probably seen it. You've seen the clip. I don't know how far away Manny's coffee is. These are not times that I like. You know that. I don't like to sit here talking to shit. Right, Matty? Stop me when I'm telling lies, Matty. What happened? I'm just saying. Okay.
I attended the GCW show this past weekend. Oh, yeah. I was the only one there. I was chatting up with the hot tub. for a little bit um oh you gotta pay respects to the don of socal indie wrestling i i suggested he watch uh he was showing me uh the movies that he got from the library He said, what do you think I start with? And I saw Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. I was like, oh, watch that. I was like, ever see Blue Velvet?
i was like that's the that's the double feature you watch shadow of a doubt and then blue velvet he texted me the next day he's just like blue velvet was crazy but uh nice little show nothing um nothing crazy stood out um if i made any notes i will look at them now go ninja yeah nothing uh no no star matches that i felt like i saw opened up with cardona
just being fantastic just such an entertaining heel promo you know just putting himself i mean talk about a guy that understands exactly who he is what he's doing just uh threw himself like he he's out there looking for sympathy because jimmy lloyd turned on him so is that what is that what it's the point is that he's gonna he's gonna work jimmy
uh seems like it uh jimmy came out and he was like jimmy i'm i'm willing to forgive you you know uh just just apologize and say that you're wrong yeah and jimmy's like i'm sorry that i didn't do this sooner and like knocks him down and then uh mance comes out and beats the shit out of jimmy so then mance and jimmy had a had a nice little match um
I like that. That reminds me of the old ECW style where like one thing just leads right into the next because that match is advertised, you know, you just go boom, boom, boom. There's no, yeah. well my god dragon gate usa when we would go see that that was i mean every single mat right like there was no downtime in between which gabe sapolsky yep from paul heyman which they did that ring of honor some too yeah um
Let's see. Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews. It was nice seeing them again. They're back. flash morgan webster's it's completely i mean both of them look totally different from the pwg days but like morgan webster he doesn't dress like he's you know in the history yeah anymore Alex Price and Jordan Oliver, they are... They're both good athletes. Jordan Oliver did a few things here and there that I was like, okay, I can get down with that. Alex Price, very athletic.
turn to the crowd and like angrily demand people start clapping way too fucking i mean it is so it's like all you have to do is just stand there and put your hand up like that yeah you know people in the crowd will react like later in the later when it was masha versus jonathan gresham
at no point does jonathan gresham turn to the crowd and like not just beg for them to clap and share but like they're like jordan oliver is like offended as soon as he walks out he's like offended that people aren't fucking standing on the chairs and clapping it's like that's It's not endearing. It's on you. You just, like, Gresham kept doing it. Where he's just like, you just hold his hand up. Not even making eye contact with the crowd. The crowd is watching.
Everybody's watching. Even when there's pockets of conversations happening, people are spilling beer, people are doing shots, people are throwing up, you know, there's a mob. I mean, it's a fucking insane asylum. JC Dobb. But if you just do something,
they will cheer for it. Well, yeah, I mean, you need to figure out why you need to beg, you know? Like, that's the thing. It is the most distracting... Like, you want to talk about, like, um... the suspension of disbelief when a wrestler turns and just demands that i cheer for them yeah i'm like you have completely disconnected me from the reality of the pro wrestling show
Anyway, Masha and Gresham was fucking fantastic. You know, maybe the best match on the show. Is my mic still cool? Huh? Is my mic still cool? Yeah. Okay. Atticus Cogren, Sam Stackhouse. Stackhouse pulled into town, huh? Stackhouse, man.
He's a big boy. I wonder where he parks his truck. Because the story goes that he's like a trucker. Yeah, so... uh butterdip they'll be like hey man uh can you like you got a route coming over here by this show like yeah i i got a shipment of stanley uh stainless steel cups that i'm bringing into la that's why that'll work out that weekend sure where's he parking the rig When I was leaving, I left after Ninja Mac and Starboy. I was like,
I've had enough. If Effie and Hammerstone had been the next match, I would have hung out for that. heirs in tremont i was like i mean i i would you know the ultra violent i'm like yeah i could i could take it or leave it but when that that women's three-way came out with um Vipress and Zara and Brittany Brooks. I was just like, I can't. I'm too tired. The time has come to be gone.
And Starboy wasn't gonna... do it for me i was like i'll see what ninja mac is doing i'm glad i stayed for that they did some ridiculous shit what are you talking about after i saw makito And Miyu Yamashita, which apparently is not how you pronounce her last name. Okay. It's spelled Yamashita, but every time she's announced, they say it a different way. And I'm like, oh, I'm doing it wrong.
uh but me who is i'm loving this excursion she's on on the stage she's been she was fantastic on fucking dynamite her and tony holy shit holy shit was that good yeah oh man but yeah they were they were a lot of fun maki you know is one of those people where it's just like what a perfect
everything is airtight like she's as tight as a snare drum the character the coming out she's the cutest in the world but she's gonna flip you off she fucking as soon as she comes out You know, of course she comes out to... from the belt holes because of the mdk association yeah she's just grabbing people's beers and like drinking it and spitting it all over the people and then throwing the beer i'm just like That's perfect. It's just perfect. She's so mean. It's so great.
and mayu won that match actually i was like i was so happy about that i was like she needs to Mikey can fucking lose the next 25 matches in that building and it's not going to matter. It won't affect her bottom line one bit. Yeah, the only thing with Maki for me at this point is a little oversaturation, kind of like what we're talking about with Minoru.
you know where it's like it is it is what it is and it and so you know sometimes it's like all right i've seen this a bunch of times but but it's good it is very good i think what it was too with me was because we didn't go to the tokyo joshi pro over mania weekend i was like i was like oh i'm happy i get to see this match i was hungry and i forgot my manners oh typical All in all. Very fun show. What else?
My God, it's already past 10 o'clock. Where's the time go? You know, we just get talking, Matty. You know, we just start blah, blah, blah, and the next thing you know, flip, flop, and fly. Love that eight-man tag they opened up Dynamite with. I love that. Oh, you must have been so excited to see Red Titus. Oh, you know, I got love for Rhett. I know you do. I've watched Rhett for a long time, but yeah, anytime, you know, because that's, you know, it's one of these guys, you know, it's like.
we get right of payday you know i'm happy to see it for real always happy to see it and the sex best jay leah phil had a nice little match with nick wayne He's so good, Jay Lethal. We finally have ourselves a main event for Friday. Hiroki Goto making the trip to take on Zack Sabre Jr., huh? Oh, I love it. I love it.
um oh yeah let me look at that i didn't um oh my god hangman page and kyle fletcher are you fucking kidding me dude give it to me dad jesus christ that was unbelievable yeah dynamite it's just they just need to stay this course tying up a few screws, and it does feel like, you know, when Tony Storm comes out on Dynamite and opens Collision, I'm like, okay, yes. Yeah. That's exactly right. I don't know if...
Some people seem to think Mariah May is leaving. I mean, she... Her latest... I don't know if it's her latest. Let me see. Because, I mean, they just made all those cuts in WWE. Thank you for Mariah. i don't know i mean she tweeted a picture of herself like in front of the aew logo um and a lot of the comments are just like assuming that this means she's leaving and i'm like well why would you right and almost i'm like i i looked at it i was like oh she resigned You know? That makes more sense.
yeah to to put yourself in front of the company logo at the end of the screw job when he was leaving he wasn't fucking writing wwef in there right yeah and so i'm like and and i'm i'm of the opinion she shouldn't go you know i feel like we talked about this last time but like It's... But they should do something with her.
quick on aw tv if if they you know back to the brink strip up to her house which is and there's plenty of room too because if they're going with you know because tony and and and money are doing their match um so it's like then that's a blank slate like mariah could have a match a feud with literally anybody else on the roster well i saw they're they're doing a sit down with hater Maybe Wednesday? Mhm. So, I don't know, where's Hater headed?
They're doing the... It's her and Tony for the Owen, right? Okay, right. and then presumably Jamie will lose that match, and then it'll be Tony and Sasha at the pay-per-view, unless that's already set in stone. see here's the thing we we watch it every single week yeah and we're kind of overwhelmed yeah with with everything that happens
It shouldn't be hard for guys like us to know what's happening. We know it's John Cena and Randy Orton on Saturday. There's no question about it. It's not like I'm watching WWE any closer than I watch AEW. Right.
so for the people who are overwhelmed and inundated it should be as easy for me to know what's happening as it is for the people who are casual tune in or don't tune in who's coming out i'm gonna flip channels or if i can look at my phone right presumably and i love that idea she's on my goddamn t-shirt right now little haterade coming out if we went haterade with uh mariah may
Tony, throw that shit away, Tony. What about, before we take a trip to the Raw vault, what do you think about these releases? Any surprises? Um... i don't i mean i guess not but but at the same time like It just, it felt like Dakota Kai was still kind of like, even though she hadn't been whatever, like that she was still kind of figured it in some way, but.
um and uh that would surprise me and beef being beef you know how many times has he been released and brought back you know but it just is like you know it's never not a surprise just because he is this like you know this big guy that they have that they can just throw in
to places you know yeah um but i guess other than that nothing i mean you know what cora jade maybe just because i thought they were i thought they were gonna like you know do something with her long term she definitely her and dakota feel like people that are gonna go reinvent or kick ass and then come and then you know drew mcintyre and get brought back i mean maybe core j even more than dakota just because core j was still in nxt like she hadn't gotten that chance on the main roster that
to figure it out now what about this one too where it was like it felt like again you know she i don't know what she injured you know but you know tore both quads and then came back and wasn't the same and it's like well now you're like cora oh cora she got hurt i don't remember what she did
but like kind of came back and wasn't like it didn't even look the same right you know Well, also, complete side note, but for some reason, Cora Jade made me think of Gigi Dolan, which made me think of Darby Allin, who just... Did the world record for kickflip at the highest elevation. He's at camp number two. base camp number two on the way up everest and he fucking busted a kickflip and then ran over and grabbed the like thing to prove what elevation he was at he's on that fucking hill boy
Does he make it back down that mountain? Is he going to jump off the top? Oh, Darby. What are you doing, dude? What are you doing? Because he was like, he's like, where's the fucking, like, after he hits the kickflip, he's like, where? where's the thing you know to like to prove because he's like i'm not fucking doing that again because i'm sure like trying to kickflip it's like out of gas immediately you know oh at that altitude jesus fucking christ
I wonder if he's proved it to them yet. Whoever they are. Well, also, I guess he had a bunch of hot sauce on his asshole. Or no, I'm thinking of the road trip he went on. Anyway. You know who needs to... because i i i i even sent you that promo on instagram that shots he put up yeah and i was just like this woman cannot cut a fucking promo yeah i and and some people apparently were into it they were like oh this is great and i'm just like
It fucking sucked. It fucking sucked. And this is someone that I like Shotzi. Yeah. I mean, it's just... i i when she comes out i'm like into it but i'm like that that is someone she needs a complete overhaul she needs she needs to like look at what it's also not like you can put her with a mouthpiece because her work is not her work is not very good either no it's not There needs to be something. Yet she has a complete charisma, an undeniable likability.
there's just a major piece missing and i look at like a tony storm and tony before the timeless thing was like again it was like god this is somebody i like and somebody whose work is fucking great but i'm just like yeah that's the biggest difference in this scenario that's the biggest difference now we're not talking about hosting something on tcm we're talking about wrestling and shotzy First thing Shotzi needs to do is start from the start and become a wrestler.
And then we can talk about the rest of the shit unless she just wants to go and use her charisma for the forces of other things. And I just feel like if she did something like, because she's like, the biggest horror movie fan in the world she needs to come like she had the run the the the the the tank the the helmet with the horns and the and the the jacket it's all it's great I feel like it's done. And I feel like she needs to, you know, just talk it out loud.
If she did the timeless Tony Storm gimmick, but with horror movies, that makes sense to me. If she just became like Elvira. but wrestling, you know? that makes sense to me like there are times where she'll pop up on her instagram and she's just wearing like the masks from halloween 3 or she's wearing the the creature from the black lagoon mask fucking do that in the ring you know i mean it where Slam? Maybe. I guess. You know? TNA?
uh i just feel because especially like her cutting the promo and trying to be sincere uh is where the disconnect is for me because I'm like, it's obvious that she's trying to remember what she wants to say. She's trying to look... It's just too much trying. I don't want to see the trying. Right. She would benefit by just being... a version of herself right or just being a complete character um that's that's what i would pitch i mean fuck yeah time will tell
We'll have to wait and see on that one. You know, we just got to wait and see. Anyway. WWF Raw Vault on Netflix. Netflix. April 3rd, 1995 from the Mid Hudson Civic Center. Ooh, vintage arenas. We got a WWE WrestleMania 11 recap. It's Cornette and Vince McMahon on the ones and twos. Cornette is wearing the brightest, ugliest yellow sports jacket I've ever seen in my life. And I don't know what the dress shirt is underneath at certain angles.
I don't know if it's just the way the light is hitting it. It almost looks like it's denim. I mean, this is a tragic outfit. Come on, Jim. uh and vince is wearing a gray sport coat over like a black turtleneck but the the collar on the turtleneck says like wwf raw i mean it's just it's both of these men are atrocious It's terrible. Opening up with Bob Holly.
with his friend the one two three kid they show footage of bob holly climbing into a uh a race car sparky plug oh yeah sparky plug indeed what was the deal did he i didn't even look this up did he actually drive race cars i think he did on some level yes i think he you know i don't believe he was a nascar driver you know no i don't think you would walk a figure a track somewhere in some fair or something sure uh he's in there against hakushi
who's also being seconded by the new tag team champions, Yokozuna and Owen Hart. Forgot about those two teaming up. That was a fun little run. Anyway, everybody gets involved. Hikushi goes over. Bob Hikushi. Oh, it's tremendous. We have the WrestleMania report with Jim Ross. We got a clip from Bam Bam Bigelow from the post-WrestleMania press conference. He's distraught. He doesn't know his future in the...
Million Dollar Corporation. He's on the verge of tears, but he knows that he's going to be Bam Bam and he's going to be great. Well, yeah. Uh, yeah. Vince McMahon interviews the new WWF champion in the ring Diesel diesel wants a rematch with sean michaels he warned sean michaels about his new bodyguard said We got Lex Luger and the Bulldog versus Well Done.
on his way out of the company about to be on two shows at once he's about to be on he's about to head to the mall of america homeboy oh real quick did you see what what uh hogan and those fucking guys are actually doing Yeah, it's like an amateur wrestling company. Yeah, like an amateur wrestling company. Yeah, fucking run, don't walk. Yeah, license to print money historically. Katie, bar the tour.
Good, good. To two nicer guys who couldn't have it. Did you read the comments when they finally put up the video with the third man? All the comments were just like, who the fuck is this guy? I didn't see that. Oh, my God. It's so satisfying. Who gives a shit? Speaking of desperate, We had a video package of all the celebrities that were at WrestleMania 11 putting over WWF, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the Playboy Bunnies. And what's his name from NYPD Blue with the most unhinged?
promo of like i might be back i might forget nypd blue me and vince we got a thing going on it's like the mac gala all these celebrities out there so many celebrities This next match gets a star. Medusa versus Paul Nakano. Holy shit.
this was absolutely one of those matches where you're like you can see what medusa's getting at where she's like yeah we were outperforming the men and they didn't like that and so they they they put a stop to us being on the cards real quick right this these two fucking god damn they're having fucking savage steamboat at three oh my god while the other guys fucking poughkeepsie while while diesel's you know trying to high five sean yeah God. Bull. Jesus Christ. She's so mean.
uh does that like grabbing medusa by the hair and spinning around um does this insane like they're there there's something about this that really befuddles the rock vincent lawler or vincent cornett have no idea what to call this submission mood she's like
it's part boston crab part sharpshooter part camel clutch she's holding her up on the thing they're like we don't even know what to call jim ross wouldn't even know what this is called my first thought was excalibur would know what it's called yeah fucking hilarious uh bull does a leg drop off the top rope woof woof She does a tope through the ropes. Medusa does the Samoa Joe out of the way. Just no water in the pool. This woman just dives onto the fucking mats.
God damn like she's in NXT or something. German suplex onto the mats outside the ring. Woof. This match was unbelievable. Medusa wins the belt back. and then gets attacked by Bertha Faye in the Monster Ripper gimmick. Vince doesn't know who this woman is. Are we still on the air? A fan has jumped the railing while she's exiting through the fucking entranceway, so I guess it's not that big of a deal.
uh and then i mean to follow that match with men on a mission i didn't even i didn't even write down who they were wrestling i just fast i was just like you gotta be shitting me Been on a fucking mission. That's a tough transition there. What are you doing? Fucking, I'm supposed to give a shit about somebody wrist-locking Mabel after watching Medusa and Bull. HBK and Sid interviewed with Vince in the ring.
HPK says Sid's going to get the night off, which immediately Sid just turns on HPK and starts yelling at him. They go to commercial. They come back. Sean is down. Sid is up. Diesel makes the save. Next up, Raw, May 22nd, 1995 on Netflix. Netflix. Groom County Arena in Binghampton, New York. Binghampton. Binghampton. Yeah. I... wanted to go i didn't but i'm like i'm curious when was the last time wwe played binghamton that's a good question probably been a minute
This recap cracked me up. The cold open. Vince is like, seven weeks ago. And you see footage from the show we just watched. Like, wow, so nothing's been happening for seven weeks. Recap. Ted DiBiase is behind it all. Sid has joined the Million Dollar Corporation. We go to ringside. It's Vince McMahon and Jerry the King Lawler. We open up Razor Ramon with Savio Vega versus Mike Bell.
red heart comes out looking preposterous he has his leather coat on over no shirt it just doesn't make sense that's rassler that's rassler brett uh intimidates jerry the king lawler at the announce desk really great little work shoot they do the pull apart brett's on the mic says shit might be the first time that that happened on raw Says that... I'll be right back, sorry. Jerry Lawler is lower than shit.
Really gets into his face. Just well done. And not the forgettable tag team. I mean, the segment is actually very well done. uh back up into the ring triple h triple h hunter hers helmsley doing the uh no tanner Blueblood gimmick versus John Crystal.
you think hunter ever calls up john crystal he's like hey just want to thank you for putting me over on raw that one night in binghamton really made my career you know i don't even after after you put me over john i was like i don't even need to marry the owner's daughter to get ahead in this thing i i think just pair me up with John Crystal every week. Fucking aces. Get a Bob Backlund pre-tape. He is running for president. Remember this shit?
Bob Backlund, running for president in 1995, pretty early to announce his candidacy for the 96 election. But, you know, those primaries stink up on you. He's running on a campaign straight out of Mad Magazine. No more summer vacations for kids in school. No more calculators in math class.
Some of the things he said hit a little too... you know close to the bone um so that the literacy is too low in this country that the kids don't ought to read that a a generation raised on computers is no good for anybody like oh remember in 1995 when people were scattered computers did you know that there's like i mean why would we be afraid of you know or surprised by anything these days but like there there is a um Ted Kaczynski has like a newfound cult following on the internet.
But in like his, the Unabomber manifesto has like, you know, people are quoting it or quote it from time to time. I mean, the internet's a fucking trash hole. I'm back. He's back. Just talking about Bob Backlund running for president. Ted DiBiase and King Kong Bundy. I almost said Ted Bundy. Ted DiBiase and Ted Bundy getting fucking... Dude, did you hear about that... uh they think there's a there was a serial killer in no home as george are aware of this very dude that's that's
That's the neighborhood where I used to fucking live. I know. I know. That's that apartment building along fucking Riverside. Yeah. Riverside? Is that what it's called?
i don't know what the apartment building is called but that's the street street riverside okay yeah yeah yeah no thank you just looking for like who leaves a fucking apartment door in life i mean i'm not trying i'm not i'm not blaming anybody i'm not blaming the victim i'm just like it's it's it it was tragic in that in that sense sure but you're also going like who's yeah that's the whole thing's fucked man well the whole thing is it's like well how do you get in the building
Probably not that hard. Uh, you know, you just, you buzz Jerry's apartment and he says, come on up and he opens the door and just leaves it half swung open, you know? Yeah. And that's part of the problem. Yeah. no bueno no bueno amigo but let's let's move it even fucking you know yeah north rush yeah take that shit to fucking uh uh calabasas that's get out of here yeah uh oh we got footage of matt papasella papaselli the winner of the in your house house
Oh. What's her name from... What's the show you were watching for a while on DVD? The... That woman, Nancy, whatever, hosted it like Hotwire or WWF live zone or some shit. Okay. This does remind me of when I emailed Steve Austin to ask him about having seen someone win dinner with him. on like raw or a show or whatever. And did you ever go to dinner with that lady? He's like, Oh, he's like, no, man. He's like, Oh, it's like, no, I don't recall that. Like, I don't believe I ever did.
I mean, they followed up with this kid on .com a couple years ago. WWE.com, first thing, are you still living in that house? Because he won a house in Orlando or somewhere in Florida. Right. And his response was, nope, I don't own the house. Sold it six months after we won it. Oh, flipped it. Just flipped it. You know, they, um... i mean it's it's um what about a good investment just to have i mean you get a free house i mean i guess you got to maintain it but you know
He sold it for $175,000. Okay. That's good money for an 11-year-old. if they just waited till 07 they could have sold it for you know got a quick update the last time WWE ran. Binghamton, New York was just June 2nd of last year. No shit. Yep. The same room, do we know? The Broom County Arena? visions veterans memorial arena so maybe the names change or maybe it's a different place maybe it's for for what show like a tv taping no wwe super summer super show summer tour so like a house show wow
Cody and AJ on top. Wow, when they still occasionally do the house shows, I guess they are still hitting those. I did last summer. Can you find out when the last time they were at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center or Poughkeepsie? Yes. That's tremendous. Anyway, Matt Papaselli is going through the house. He won. And what's her name? Nancy something. We'll just say Nancy Cartwright. We'll assume that it was the voice of Bart Simpson.
uh says oh over here's the kitchen this is my favorite feature open up these doors opens up the doors to the air quotes kitchen clearly a closet Like a double door closet. And in the closet are the Bushwhackers. There you go. The most recent WWE event at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center. January 21st, 2018. Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt on top. Wow. R.I.P.
Back in the arena. Lex and Bulldog versus Tony DeVito and Tom Payne. Thomas Payne. A modest proposal. Isn't that something? He went into wrestling after. basically inventing all these We recap Money Incorporated. IRS has teamed up with his old buddy again. They want a tag team match against Bam Bam Bigelow. Bam Bam Bigelow pulls out his best friend Diesel.
Find a Bam Bam Bigelow shoot where he talks about what a great friendship and relationship he had with Kevin Nash. Dude, just as I talked about maybe even last week, the story about them going to that gas station. Oh, my God. That's the story you need. comma mustafa versus barry horowitz Jerry Lawler has a decent joke about all the tattoos Kama has. He's turning into a walking art gallery.
This is wild, too. They have the Hall of Fame report. The second annual WWF Hall of Fame is happening. The first inductee, Antonino Rocca. looked it up i was it's so funny that those first because they only did it for a couple years and then dropped it until like you know almost 10 years later those first couple of years you do get actually like, okay, yeah, this makes sense. This is, this is all of fame. All the pictures are in black and white. You know, this is. Let's see.
Barry Dudinsky, I think was his name. Dudinsky? He's promoting the Heartbreak Kid all over shirt. And he's like, this is called an all over shirt because the print is all over the shirt. Look at this. then declares we have one size fits all i'm like no no t-shirts no t-shirts aren't one size fits all you have you have a triple x that you're peddling to people your big big main event king kong bundy versus the heartbreak kid sean michaels
And lo and behold, Sean and Diesel are friends again at the end. The Bam Bam Bigelow insisting that they hug. You'll love to see it. You'll love to see it. So there you go. That's your raw vault homework. for the week vince who's your favorite wrestler i'm gonna have to go with kenny omega You love that eight-man tag. I did. And also, I just, you know, I think Kenny has to be a big piece of AEW coming back around. Yeah, no kidding.
So I'm going with Kenny Omega. And you, Matt, have a favorite wrestler I trust? I'm going to go with Mayu Yamashita. I will figure out how to properly pronounce her last name. But, um... If I get to see a fantastic match during the week, I'm down. If I get to see the same wrestler have two fantastic matches in a week, one in person. I mean, one in person, flesh and blood.
She's great. You know, it'll be interesting to see what, you know, she'll get scooped up by somebody here in the States at some point. Oh, sure. Oh, sure. Where can the kids find you online? At Vince Averill on Twitter. Vince.Averill on Instagram. Follow me on all forms of social media. At McCarthy Redhead. And if you want a membership card to the video garage and access to full unedited videotapes.
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