WeWatchWrestling Issue #646

Do you watch wrestling? You are trying.

Well hello there. Welcome, friends and foes, heels and baby faces to the place that's in your face double thumbs up. Whoa, whoa, what the fuck is that? I guess that's the double thumbs up on Zoom. Dude, that was significant, brother. Well, hello there. Welcome to the We Watch Wrestling Podcast. I'm your wonderful darling redheaded bearded host, Wrestling Matt McCarthy, with me always, Professor Wrestling Encyclopedia.

Mr. Pensever. That's an intro. Wow. Wow. And it's funny that the fireworks went off just then, Maddie. I know. Because We don't want to take another second of the show without letting everybody know that it can finally be told. Oh. April eighth, in the year of our Lord, in Los Angeles at the Braindead Studios, the old Ch um Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax, Braindead Studios.

We will be screening Beyond the Mat. And afterwards Maddie and I will be talking with the director, Barry Blosteen, tickets on sale tomorrow at ten AM or today. As you listen to this, it's today, it's Wednesday. Any idea what the capacity of that theater is, Vincent? We don't need to go into all that, but all I need to tell you is get the ticket. Get the ticket. This is this is the old silent movie theater. So tickets are gonna go, bro. Uh tickets are on the DICE app.

Lincoln my bio, Lincoln We Watch Wrestling Bio, Link in all bio Link in the description of this show that you're listening to right now. Ten and I'll put it on my socials, McCarthy Redhead. Tomorrow the twenty eighth of s January tickets will go on sale. The show is on Wednesday, April eighth. Barry Blostine, Beyond a Mad Is it chocolate? We'll find out. Was it chocolate? Who knows? gonna be my it's it's it's been years in the making, Maddie.

And if there are any questions that y'all want us that you've had these burning questions for twenty five years or more. We'll see what we can do. Just you know, we're not gonna ask'em, but It'd be n it'd be nice to have like oh that would be interesting to find out. Uh yeah. So hopefully But if you do want to ask us questions, join the Patreon QA.

Shout out Which I think we'll we'll do on Tuesda uh Thursday. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Shout out to our old buddy Madison, uh who is involved over there and helped us out getting this put together. Suburban fight, the old Sound and Fury guy. That guy's got his hand in more pies than a baker. Yeah, it was nice that someone wanted to help us put a wrestling film on the screen here in LA, so we appreciate it.

See, this is what Dave Meltzer is up against when he tries to write a book. They tell him wrestling fans don't read. We try to put up a movie. People say wrestling fans don't watch stuff. Or or it's too lowbrow. Whatever it is, we don't know. We'll never know. We do know we're gonna watch the film and tickets are on sale as you listen to this, most of you right now, ten AM.

Then uh this w was what's it called now? The brown box? What? The the the theater. That we're going to? Braindead Studios. Braindead Studios. They're gonna be a after this thing is done, they're gonna be knocking on our doors What's the next movie, man? Yeah, Ready to Rumble. When will you get David Arquette down for ready to rumble? He ain't busy. Well, he is Bozo the clown. I don't know what that means. See Bozo the Clown? He is he has he is the current reigning defending Bozo the Clown, yeah.

In like Chicago? What's what's he doing? I mean, if if Bozo Clow Bozo the Clown appears, it's David Arquette. Yeah. Wow. Um I had no idea. Officially. Yeah also tomorrow the release of the new Dave Batista movie. So uh him and uh him and Jason Mamola have an action thriller. Yeah. You know, you you you look you you look at the sign quick through the side of your eye like I did, driving on the highway, you're like Batista and Roman Reigns at WrestleMania? What Second look. No, it's it's it's

Kind of satisfying. Oh, no raw vault homework. No raw vault. We're trying to get through it here, folks. It's been very cold in LA. I mean don't don't yeah, right. We're gonna get letters. Oh. When people finally fall out their ink. Oh, speaking of the weather, dude, did you see that uh yesterday last night Jake Hager was posting or reposting these stories on his Instagram about s snow being plastic and not melting and what's really going on? Look, I mean, Lord.

On a scholarship problem. This is not the stupidest this is not the stupidest thing I think he's ever said either, unfortunately, but classic swag. Classic swags, dude. No, I mean that I mean look, i there's there's plastic in everything, but he's saying This is fake snow that I assume the government or More weather control. More democratic weather control. The the Democrats are are dumping snow on his house, apparently. Big time. Which, you know, hey man

Paul Heyman? Maybe you shouldn't have put maybe you shouldn't have put Dolph Ziggler in the hospital, okay? Then then then then there wouldn't be so much heat on you, homeboy. Huh? Hey man. Uh How about that Nakamura Styles match, huh? I I was right, right? That was that was the best Nakamura match in in years. Oh well I would I would

I I I can't argue that by any means, but also like why wouldn't it have been? Like it was uh it was the most time. These two guys are fucking both incredible, like uh Yeah, but you can't help I mean maybe f it's just me, but like I can't help thinking about our dear friend Hiroshi Tanahashi you know, as I'm watching Shinsuke Nakamura and I'm like man, Shinsuke um I don't know. They he's he's had more time to heal, uh learn to surf. Well he also didn't yeah, more time to heal and also

less time in the fucking shit. You know what I mean? Yeah. He got out he got out earlier and has been able to fucking, yeah, not cripple himself at seemingly. Um But uh I literally almost asked, I was like, Does New Japan pay for all their stuff? And I was like, No, no, no. Japan pays for all their stuff. I uh forgot I lived in America for a second. Um

Yeah, but that fucking that match was was really good. I mean, uh I thought Saturday night's main event was was all very good. I was I was worried uh when when they started um Cody and Fa two, I was like don't I and I tag Vince was I was watching the guy climb the building. Seth Rollins was calling the calling the match.

Were you were you just on your couch watching that or did you go to like somebody's house or something? No no I was I was just on my couch because what happened was I think I was watching the uh I was watching the Red Wing game'cause I think in my Which was on Netflix? No, no, no. I was it was just on whatever ESPN plus or something. But'cause I was just thinking like, uh if I I'm not gonna uh

You know, that's just the window where George and I are usually going to be doing something. So I was like, if I start watching Saturday's main event now, it's not going to, you know. So I was just like, I got to wait.

So I'm watching Rebin Game and then I'm like, Oh, that's right, that guy's just gonna climb that fucking building today and so I switched over there and so that's what I was I was watching him begin his time. Seth Rollins gotta get some work on commentary, not not great on the commentary, but

Well, they gave him nothing to do. He was just he was there, you know, sitting there and then every once in a while they would, you know that guy with the eyebrows would, you know, take the elevator up and then be on the next landing. But also when but when he goes w anytime you're on commentary, generally speaking, and you're like

I don't know, I'm speechless. Like Seth, you can't be. You're not allowed to be now. You got not allowed to bubble something. You gotta fill fill fill the air somehow. But uh I mean the only like I I was in and out, you know?'Cause you mentioned it, I was like, Oh yeah. Like I d I hadn't heard about it, but I saw it on the home screen and I was like, The fuck is that? Yeah. And so I went in and it was classic one of those things where I'm like

Why am I watching this?'Cause he's he's like I like I wanted to see him doing it so I could say I saw it and I'm like, Yeah, that looks really difficult. I could not do this. Right. But at the same time I'm like The only thing I'm watching for is to see if he falls. And we're living in a day and age where if he falls, I can find that footage. You know? And th and then it's and then it's a matter of, well, I don't want to seek out this footage.

If he does fall. That's why you gotta watch it live. That's why you gotta watch it live. So your hands are clean of this one, I swear to God. Yeah, I d I mean I don't even let I was like waiting to see him I was just like kind of Blown away by it and also blown away by like some of the uh the way they were shooting it. 'Cause like I know like people who are a afraid of heights couldn't even watch that just based on yeah, I was more

Taken with the cameraman who appeared to be on a drone. Is he hanging on a drone? What the fuck? I don't know. There was I definitely saw a guy hanging from something, but uh That was weird. Yeah. But yeah, Seth was terrible. When I when I tuned in Yeah. Uh Seth was just like they're like, Well you you've been high though they're they're trying to explain vertigo, right? But they're like not using that word for some reason.

And Seth is just like, you know, I mean when I've been on the top of cages, on the top rope. You know, you as soon as you you you look down, you're like, oh my God, that's really far. And I'm like, this is all he has to offer. But also you're like, how did he get this gig? Other than Raw's on Netflix. Like what how does of all the There's there's no other way. They didn't have anything for'em on Saturday night's main event.

He got fly to Taiwan. Dude, how did I wind up at Charlie Sheen's house for Raw one thousand? It was just dumb luck. Yeah. Uh but anyway, I begin to get a transmission from McCarthy saying, If this match doesn't happen, I'm gonna I'm gonna turn off my television. But then i it it went it they because it seemed like it was gonna be classic, oh He attacked him. We gotta wait. We gotta push the match till

later or or a different time. And I mean I mean it still ended the ending was still stupid. It was still oh n Drew has now waited half an hour to now interfere, you know? Yeah. But I'm gonna sit here and finish my sandwich and when I'm done with this sandwich deal. I'm finishing my coffee. Enjoying my coffee. We're fighting outside the ring to such an extent that I was like, Oh, th this is they're th this is gonna be the match. This will not

Ended up because I thought it was gonna be a non fucking Because because of because of how much the announcers were emphasizing this match hasn't even started yet. I didn't hear a bell ring.

Damn, that's like a Muppet. Muppet announcer. Like like uh like an announcer on the Muppets or something. Oh yeah, I've never seen a guy uh t take a chair shot to the head like that. How do you teach him to fall off a twenty foot ladder? Uh Yeah, I think They gave but they gave enough, you know, for it to be like, okay, like Yeah obviously they they're like like this is not this is not tonight or whatever and but

They gave you gave you some shit, so whatever. Uh yeah, I I mean of the matches I suppose that was you know, the not a match, but um But they yeah, they filled enough time with their non-match to be like, okay. I get it was good. I I like the show, dude.

Uh yeah, I mean Yeah. I mean Anytime you get to see the Viper work nowadays, bro, it's a special occasion. How much I mean The fact that the thing is. He works like two days a month or two excuse me, two days fucking a year. Two days a month. Ready to be like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. My shoulders. Is that what we talked about? I got a bunch of kids at home now. Oh, my neck, my shoulders. I can't do that. Bunch of kids at home.

Oh, so uh so so AJ gets to do his retirement tour but I can't use my punt kick? Did you see that Nakamura posted like a a diary entry that basically is like, Yeah, AJ's retiring at the rumble And then delete it. Yeah. Whoops. Good. Good. I hope'cause uh you know, of course it's it was you know what it was? It was uh'cause on my feed, it's always those uh

I am such a sucker for the clickbait on Instagram that sends you over to threads. Mm mm. It's always some cheese ball garbage train headline like Shinsuke Nakamura might get fired because I'm like Well I got to do it. And I'm like, man, I hope he does get fired because that that'd be that'd be great. Like he gets he he had his best match in WWE. Not his best match, but like He he has to go up Well, I mean I think that NXT stuff is Sami Zayn. No no who am I thinking of?

Now he wrestled Sammy Zayn and NXT, didn't he? I mean I might be thinking of Claudio, but But uh uh in in the E on the main stage. I mean think on think of the first time we saw him wrestle. It was a fucking it was the beginning of the nutshot tour. Oh my God. I forgot about him being the nutshot guy. Danahashi. There were guys there were guys who came to Mania in New Orleans and being like, Oh yeah. And then and then it he became the nutshot artist. That's right.

Suzuki up in a box, drinking a tall boy. Mm, nutshot. Because that because AJ and Nakabura at Mania was dreadful, you know. It certainly wasn't great. And I and I didn't even see it because I was waiting for cheeseburgers. Was that during that match? That whole mat I mean, I watched it after the fact. Yeah. That was the one, huh? That was one of the most uh miserable

I mean, thank God they went to two nights with WrestleMania. Thank God. That was one of the most miserable experiences. Because it was like the show peaked after um the Ronda Rousey tag. Yeah. And then it was like I mean, am I getting these things muddled? No, that was that was AJ and Nakamura that year. That was Roman and Brock, which was another beach ball fiasco. That was Daniel Bryan's big return, and they fucking ruined it. I'm sitting there, I'm standing there just being like,

I can't believe they made me not give a shit about this match. I thought this guy's career was fucking over. I thought this guy's life was almost over. It was the mania where Cena didn't was sitting in the crowd. And it was also I believe it was also the mania where Braun Strowman teamed up with a kid. Oh, with the referee's kid? Yeah. Who I mean you weren't supposed I don't think you we it wasn't supposed to know that, yeah. That's crazy. It was just uh it's not a great time.

Woof. That's right. That's right. We we were in that Airbnb with the weird staircase to get in. 'Cause I remember laying down. Huh? What weird staircase. Well, it was less of a staircase and more just like a couple of rickety steps to get to the door. Yeah. It was like a it was like what do you call it? Like a shotgun or a railroad 'Cause I remember laying down in my bed and like pulling up the WWE network and watching Roman and Brock with the sound off. Oh yeah. And being like

This is crazy. This is this is a pretty decent match. But like in the in the room, dude, people were fucking shit. Holy shit. It turned into fucking Margaritaville. I think that's also the the trip where I discover that Sibley slept with a pillow on his face. One under his head and one on his face.

Almost immediately. That was there was a different house we rented where that phenomenon took place. I I took a picture of it. It was on an old phone, so I'd have to find it on a hard drive. Not worth it. Just saying. But man, if Shinsuke could go out on that match and then just go back to Japan and at least

I don't know. At least attack Tadahashi in the office or like go and get the same haircut as him or something. No, I bet no I bet Knox like Florida's my home. They're gonna have to fucking pry me out of here. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. I mean it's a it's interesting. I mean does sh Shabata live here?

I don't know what I don't know what a lot of those AEW guys that uh you know I mean I think Osprey was definitely and obviously England's a little closer, but uh I think he I mean he goes home every week. Um which is insane. Uh from just just from a just from a time change like uh Well that's what Gunther wanted to do. Yeah.

Um Zokada live here? He must. I mean, I think they all must have the ability to and then go home when they can, you know. I would think Oh yeah, they gotta have a spot, you know. Yeah. Uh not not shacking up in the the the young bucks pool house in uh Rancho Cucamonga. Cucamonga that's coming up quick now. We're gonna be over there dynamite before you know it. But first, hog wrestling.

House of Glory on Friday. Gotta tell ya, a little underwhelmed by the card. Um just because I feel like Usually they're c you know, it's like they they they were teasing a a huge announcement yesterday. I'm like, okay, awesome. Yes. And then they're like, MJF's coming to our show in New York. You know, you're like, oh, okay. Oh, great. Good job. But that's what I mean. It's like, you know, Hardy's are on this show, he's on that show, you know, and then

We've got cash flow Ken Broadway, who could be incredible. We'll find out. You know, that's why you gotta go. But uh Well, you know, some of this new talent, uh we gotta we gotta get get in get in while uh while they're young, while we're young. Starboy versus a guy who looks like he's doing the gimmick of that guy in NXT who got canceled. Oh my god, he totally does. His name's infamous.

Their name's infamous. He's a WAPO. He's infamous. Infamous. Fifty one fifty versus Main Event. Main event we've definitely seen. Fifty one fifty, that's when they lock you up for being crazy. Um Zilla versus Willy Mac, okay, we'll talk about it. Zilla, we'll see how green he is. Where is this? On their uh Instagram? Oh it's the only place anyone puts matches anymore. Then you got uh Andrade versus Amazing Red, which we already know your feelings about.

Uh well Andrade it's just uh I mean we'll see. Mustafa Ali, that hopefully is cool. You're you're When's the last time well when's the last time you saw Amazing Red? Um, we've seen him on, you know, either a Mania Week show. I know he's been on something within the last couple years, I would think. Yeah. Since COVID though?

I don't know. Really? Yeah. I'm I'm almost positive we've seen him somewhere since COVID. I'm I'm not gonna be able to place it, but I'm sorry, but what is this picture of MJF they posted? Is this AI? This is the most insane looking MJF I've ever seen. You might be getting tricked by the new hair. No, it's the new hair. The new hair is fooling you. No. This is this is The skin? Is it the skin tone? Yeah. It's the it's the it's he's got a filter or

Yeah. Or botulism or something. This is an ins that's look at this. That's an insane man. Perhaps it's an it That's a that's a different person. That looks like looks like that ear looks as tall as the building that guy climbed this weekend. That's that's an MJF impersonator. Uh Mustafa Ali gotta love. Your favorite wrestler on the show, Shotzi Blackheart, will be there. Don't say Blackheart, I don't think you're allowed to. Uh Kurt Angel, wasn't she Shotzi Blackheart before?

I I don't know if she's just been Shotzi on the Indies or not. I have no idea. Maybe maybe uh I have no yeah. I don't know. It is so strange being a Shotzi Blackheart fan because like She has some like she has charisma. She has this incredible likability. And then, you know, and the matches are are fine, but then in every match there's always this moment where you're like, the fuck are you doing? You're gonna kill somebody or kill yourself.

Well Well We'll see. Spend a minute. And then the thousand yard stare of Kurt Angle will also be there to meet and to greet you. But I would have to think they're gonna announce, you know, let's see. That's four matches that have been announced. So maybe uh maybe cash flow Kenny Broadway is gonna get his shot against uh Mustafa Ali or something. Who knows? Are the Hardy Boys still the hog tag team champions?

Uh man, you know I don't know shit like that. Let's see. Man here they are with the belts on. This is in December, so that's not anything. Uh feels like a a decent Chance third, heavy as the crown. Looks like Matt Hardy's still holding a tag team title there. Yeah. I don't even know, bro.

Bro, you don't even know. Oh yeah, and by the way the Hardy Boys are coming. I mean, I guess at this point they don't care, right?'Cause th the th the show is all the seats are sold. I don't know how many general admissions Are still available, but it's like the show's kind of sold. So that's also my, you know, it's like, on one hand, it's your first show in LA. You want to fucking

show up a little bit, but you're also like, we don't need to break the bank here, right? I mean we already f the show's sold. Why why but then uh but I mean that is it. You your your focus has to be all right, we we need to make sure we sell the second show. Which what I mean maybe maybe it'll blow our minds, dude. I hope so. Maybe it's gonna blow I want my mind blown, Vincent.

You think uh since it's closing and reopening the Globe Theater, uh drink prices have come down? You think it's less than uh twelve bucks for a Coca Cola in there? I shudder to think what they're charging'em. You think they still got those fucking nachos that fucking caused you to miss one of the greatest matches in PWG history? Five star nachos.

Those nachos were fucking good, dude. I I'd I'd be down, I'd be digging through those nachos and then I'd hear everybody go, Oh and I'd look up and I'm like, What? Oh the fuck? God damn it. Fuck this match. It's me, it's me. You gotta think the majority of people who see Star Boy Charlie's gear hate it. To the like, because he has addressed it. Oh he has. Okay. He has addressed it on the internet where he's like, I'm not changing.

Yeah. He probably thinks it's the airbrush that people have a problem with, not the actual Overalls. Well now he's he's leaning into it to the point where he's like what does he call himself? Like the d the denim dynamite or the the the the overall shm overall Did uh I can't remember when we just saw him, did he did he do the thing where he laid down on the ring and air guitar to Jimi Hendrix or no? I can't remember.

That doesn't ring a bell. I know Royce came out to Coolio and that that was that was my musical moment. Royce Isaacs is on his way, boy. Was that this year or was that the end of last year? Um my brother was there, so it was the end of last year. Great great way to end the year. Oh my god, dude. It was like the twenty ninth or something. Um did

Dude. Oh, so you know what I was thinking? It's it's gonna be um It's kind of str like you think about the Royal Rumble you and there's usually like, you know He fucking... Al Snow comes out or whatever it is. Honky Tonk Man is booked. Yeah. And so like with it in Saudi Saudi Arabia

It's gotta be like all right, y here's here's your here's your travel. We're we're gonna we're gonna bring you in for the night, you know, as a surprise, do the you know, hacksaw Jim Duggan or whatever, but you're g you gotta come to Riyadh. I had I I really hadn't even thought about that. You know?

But and and the other thing is people that are a surprise, like on a more you know, if like Seth Rallin said, like I'm I won't be there, my shit's not healed, whatever. But someone like that who's actually in long term plans, it's probably easier to sneak them. Right.

What is the I mean, do they fli how do they do they fly commercial? Yeah. I mean, although you can. I don't know that like they probably they they all left Toronto last night on on I'm sure a charter. But you can fly commercial too. You know, that that's what like that's what Riyadh season is. It's like their tourism, you know, thing. Like they w like Yeah, I just didn't know if they did.

Oh yeah. I d I don't think like the roster does not. But if you and so maybe they charter a plane, maybe they're like, okay Um we we're gonna pick up Ricky Morton in Tennessee and then we're gonna then we're gonna grab uh and then the plane will leave for Riyadh once we have everybody on board who's gonna be a surprise. I mean it's an interesting thing because it is like

with international'cause like that's when you get like'cause no no matter what the situation is, like if you're flying international, you're going through security. Right. And So that's when you get situations where like Vin there's like pictures of Vince McMahon posing with like TSA people'cause like Vince had to go through security and get the fucking the rub down.

Oh. Mm. A little lower. Just kidding, pal. In his uh in his undercover boss outfit or whatever it was called. Oh. Swerved. In his swerved outfit. Swerved. Slurve. You remember like I told you apparently like the actual footage of that like like you know, obviously this did not air. But like Vince is just harassing that one guy for Ten, fifteen minutes. And then finally like it ended with the guy just going, All right, Vince, this is enough. And then that was the end of the prank.

Brutal Where's all that gonna exist now with the uh the Maybe the WWE vault will post that uh Oh that'd be huge. Yeah. Yeah. Is it swerved? Is that is that stuff gone? Do I have to order a Blu-ray from IVP now to watch? Yeah, because there's like all that like Peacock it it's funny. I was like, I thought I had cancelled Peacock.

And then I was like, Oh, that's Saturday's main event's gonna be on there and also the Olympics are starting. I'm like, I guess I gotta get peacock again and and I hadn't cancelled it yet, but I will say the fucking this TikTok shit and no disrespect to you and what you got going on, but like I was like, Okay All I do is look at you on a peacock or uh peacock, TikTok, fuck it.

I tried to cancel that app and I'm here to tell you, dude, you can't. Like I went through all the protocols and then finally it's like, Okay, we're just gonna like send you a code to make sure it's you. And then I wait and I wait. And then hours later I get the code. And I go back. And then you gotta go back again. It's like it's im it uh as far as I can tell, it's it's impossible to deactivate and delete your TikTok. Really?

It just it won't give you you need the code and it won't give you the code until after the code is useful in my couple attempts. But I mean it reminds me of like it's it's Like trying to It's like impossible to delete like a page on Facebook or like a group. Like to delete a group on Facebook. 'Cause I I feel like the last time we were and this is years ago, where we were just like, Oh, fuck this Facebook group. Let's just delete the whole thing.

You have to one by one remove every member. I'm just being reminded that we have a Facebook group. I was like, I haven't looked at that shit. They have not even fucking who knows what's going on over there. It could be a fucking it could be an ice recruiting center by now. Who knows? I think somebody is mining the store, right?

I don't know. Ding a ling. My dingle. My dingle. I don't even look at my uh Facebook. Because for whatever reason, my Instagram, like it doesn't post my videos to my Facebook and post them to my I guess like the Matt McCarthy comedian page that I started a million years ago. Oh. Okay. Ochies Lounge style? Ochies? But now that has more followers than My main gimmick. So I don't even look at the other thing. Mm-mm. Let's see. Triple W podcast. Let's see. Somebody posted uh

This young German kid dancin? Mmm. YouTube link? All right. Seems like okay, this is AI. That's a shame. Okay. It seems like we're uh just hanging out. Not on scrolling. It feels like there's one There's one dude who's just our Facebook group is this guy Martin, just posting videos. All right, hey man. Get after it, dog. Do your thing. Martin, the all-star contributor. Congratulations. Do your thing. I was surprised to find, I guess.

Maybe I shouldn't have been, but the the show in Australia that AEW's doing right after w we go to Dynamite on the eleventh, the the um Australia shows that weekend, it's just like a I think it's just a collision. Really? It's like Grand Slam Austral uh Australia, but it's not uh it's not a pay per view or anything. It's like um So Well That's weird. I mean, bless up to all the Australian fans. It's a long way to go for a fucking TV taping, but um Let's see here. I know you're amped for it.

For Dynama, bro. Anything from down under, you are Happy Australia Day. My peanuts, my Charlie Brown calendar said it was Australia Day the other day. So happy Australia Day to all who celebrate. Which I assume is Australians. Okay. Did did you do anything for Australia, David? This is the first time hearing about it. So I couldn't really done much. Dude, bro, their toilets flush the other way. Well, I've seen it. I've synced it.

Oh, you've been, right? Did you go with the girls? I did. God damn. They're big about their coffee down there, man. Oh really? It's a big time coffee country. Yeah. You can't it's one of those ones where You can't get a drip coffee. Every coffee is a very even in the fucking convenience store It's like a proper whatever it's gonna be, you know? Americano is the closest you're gonna get to uh yeah to like a drip coffee. It's a it's a coffee coffee drinking joint, man, for sure.

You know, foolin'. Foolin'. You know, it's funny, the other day I um I texted Carlos'cause I was I was watching the Bob Newhart show. And I was like, Man, this bass line goes real hard. Oh. The theme song to the to the the old Bob Newhart show? Sit down i next time you you're flipping around me T V or something and that comes on. Is that the one with Larry Darrell and Darrell? No, no, no. The one before that. The one with uh Hi Bob.

Okay. With Suzanne Plachette, where he's in Chicago. Okay. The baseline, I mean the whole You know, the the drums, everything. The horns, it's just like, God damn, this is fucking funky. But like the bass in particular, I I pointed Carlos towards it. Yeah. And so then um I'm out and about

Walking the dog and he replies, he's like, I gotta look up what band this is. This is amazing and so then I inspired me to re listen to the song. Yeah. And then when I put that on, I don't know, Apple or whatever. Then it just starts like, you know, I have the setting, just keep playing stuff that's similar to it.

The only thing that's similar to it is Bob Newhart's stand up. So I'm walking the dog listening to the Bob Newhart routine where it's Sir Walter Riley uh Riley calling, you know, back back home to England on the phone, which obviously happened. And they're he's explaining coffee to them and cigarettes and stuff. Hm. Funny guy that Bob Newhart. I th the o the only fatal flaw with his routine is that it's so dependent on

A phone conversation where the person is just repeating back everything you say. Uh mm. That'd be a funny routine to do like this is the guy on the other end of every Bob Newhart phone call. Yeah. So why are you repeating everything I'm saying back to me? It's a shame you didn't get uh just an you know, a playlist of TV theme songs. Coming out of that. You'd like to think?

Speaking of bass lines and Carlos, uh, you know, his new his new band's record, Jagged City, is out. The Jagged City record. Check it out. It's out Check it out. And if you wanna have a real good laugh, uh check it out on Spotify. So fucking funny. Um let me tell you something, buddy. I was watching that uh I was watching that there AEW dynamite. Mm-hmm.

And uh it's so funny when um what do they call themselves, Tony Storm and uh Minoshirawa? What are they like the happy idiots or something? Um Uh the tickle. Anyway, but that's I do like to do a dance routine, I know that. But that's that's just it is they come out and they start doing that fucking dance, and I'm like, these two fucking goofs.

Mm-hmm. Funny does not equal money, Maddie. I'm sorry. If she and a a I assume at some point Mina is gonna stab her best friend in the back because it is professional wrestling. Somebody brings out a cake, somebody's going home wearing the cake. But that one in particular. You can tell she's because she's everybody in pro wrestling's good looking. She's unusually good looking. Like it's it's it's suspicious The time of Love Bombs.

Timeless love bumps. It's suspicious. What? Who is how good looking she is. Who? Mina. Uh. Too good looking. Subjective art form, my friend. But my point is I I gotta go back to the part where you said everybody in wrestling's good looking. Everybody's a everybody it's a cosmetic business.

I feel you. Bastion Booger. He had a good look. He had a good look. Agua. Agua. But when she finally turns heel, if she does. She's gonna be a great fucking heel. Hmm. You know who's finally getting their heel run that they always wanted, going back to your days in the E? John Cena. Natty. Come on. Natty is at the very just the beginning. No, she always wanted to be a baby face.

Oh is this the beginning of my babyface run? Oh, I had that I had that turned around mixed up and upside down. You remember when like for like two or three years it was the the the women's division in WWE was like They transitioned out of The bikini matches. And then for like two years, the whole division was just Beth Phoenix and Natty Nighthart beating the shit out of everybody. That was that was all they could think to do. We're about to get the blood sport version of Natty. Uh

I'm down. I'm into it. How much longer does she have? I mean, she's it feels like she's she's gotta be them the person who's been on the roster longer than anybody, right? Where can I find that information? No, I believe it's um Randy? I just some I just saw this. Somebody had this stat? Was it Was it uh? Cause I think our truth, not maybe not like all the way through. Let's see here. Who No, you vamp. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna get this information before you do. I'm on this Rop

R Randy Orton, continuous tenure. That's the information I had. I just hadn't read it out loud yet. Active roster. Ms. and Kofi are around the same. Uh our truth longest as far as just like how long he's been in the biz. Yes, Randy Orton signed with Ohio Valley in two thousand and debuted on the main roster in two thousand two. Prodigy. Which Randy has been wrestling longer like that's before the first Spider Man movie.

He's had some time off for smoking weed in the arena, smashing hotel rooms, getting hurt, getting hurt, getting married, having kids. According to the information I have, he uh recently signed a five year extension and so his contract is secure until twenty twenty nine. Yeah. with like as as previously discussed, two dates max per year. with each additional date costing more than the guy got paid to climb the building in Taiwan. I saw this morning'cause that guy is obviously, you know.

He's on his own trip, but it was like he goes, um, it was uh it was certainly less than what my uh agents wanted to accept. And then it was like someone with knowledge of the situation or more than one person was like, he got he got mid six figures. It's like, wow, you really fucking I mean it's fucking uh

It's sideshow, it's it's carney bullshit. He's climbing a building. This is Netflix, like the amount of people that fucking watch that shit, the the amount of people that were talking about it, like he deserved more than six figures for doing it. I'm not saying he didn't deserve more than six figures. I'm saying I doubt anybody signed up for Netflix to watch that horse shit. I don't know, man. There's some excitement on the streets out here in Eagle Rock. Maybe. I hadn't even heard about it.

Vince mentioned it. I saw it on the home screen. I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, this fucking and then it'cause it is it's it's I'm like this is one of the I it was it was exciting for About two minutes and then I'm like, Yeah, what? What the fuck do I think? He's not gonna fall off the building, he's gonna climb. Get out of here. It's a different of opinion. Difference of opinion over here. I'm not saying anything about what Mina looks like. Get out of here.

Oh man, every This was one of the greatest accomplishments of human history. This man climbs this building all the way to the top. Kidding me, dude? It's windy. And fucking foregone conclusion. When they cut to The the video package of him being a dad, I'm like, Oh, this is horseshit. They know they know they've got a fucking s snooze fest on their hand. They're like, This guy's trying to fall off the building maybe because kids are screaming in the fucking According to my information.

Okay. Yeah. Uh Randy's been there the longest. Second place. Who do you think's been there second longest? Miz. Oh. No, you did say that. Miz. Well my information is that Natty has Natty been there longer than Kofi? Um, you know what's interesting? My results did not uh list any females, even though my query uh was uh longest member of the WD roster. I was I did not gender my my query, so I don't know why.

Uh I mean I guess Cena probably would have been second, but he's he's not there now. But uh as of the end of twenty twenty five, he was the sec because he he debuted in twenty tw uh two thousand two I mean this is interesting because Natty signed in Two thousand seven and debuted in two thousand eight. Kofi signed with Deep South wrestling in two thousand six, and then was in Florida Championship Wrestling and then debuted in 2008. So you could

I mean i i i if we're counting developmental deals. Mm-hmm. Well what would what where was Natty from two thousand seven to two thousand eight? That's that's the real question. Um I guess Deep South. I have some Deep South DVDs that I don't I I watched ten years ago and then have forgotten about. It is funny to look at this'cause I'm now looking at a list of like longest tenure and so you just look at like Seamus has been uh sixteen years.

Um Drew sixteen years. Jimmy and Jay fifteen and fourteen. Uh you know, just talking about like the age of the people that are kind of in the mix over there. Seamus isn't really in the mix. Romans, 14 years. Seth's fourteen years, Charlotte's uh twelve years, Brock is fucking sixteen years, like Brock, forget it. You know, like they uh you know, Brown Breaker. They need they need a little youth movement over there. Bailey's eleven. oh they need some new talent bad Some young talent? Forget it.

Well, I think they what they need to do is you know, they ha they have s they have some people, they're just it's I guess they're just push them. Yeah. Well and it's and it and they're the ones that it's like, hey, the brand is the the draw, so what does it matter? Have have somebody run roughshod over fucking Randy Orton. Yeah. I mean, to me, like

Oh yeah. He's right there. Who's the guy that fucked Cody uh Obafemi? Yeah. God, what a bunch of bullshit the finish of that match was. What a bunch of bullshit. Um just to uh put this to bed, Natty wrestled her last match in ca in at Stampede in January oh seven. and then went to Deep South for the first half of the year and then in summer of two thousand seven went to Florida Championship Wrestling for

I guess a month, and then went to Ohio Valley Wrestling in July of two thousand seven. Nightheart and she's still rocking. The new generation heart foundation. She's still at it. She can go. Natty can go. Natalia, she can go. Um, but that was she wanted to know if she was turning babyface when we started doing the fart thing. Which apparently was something people were talking about.

For a long time where it was just like something to to to pop the other writers in the room, just like talking about like what if Like we ha we do this backstage interview and Naddie's talking and then all of a sudden in the inter i in the middle of it we just hear Is that too high pitched? Can you I didn't I didn't hear any I was like I was waiting to hear s I didn't hear anything. I tried doing like the elephant note like that. Oh, like uh yeah. You hear that? Uh uh.

I heard that one, yeah. And then the interviewer, like Matt Striker, whoever but whoever it is, the interviewer is just like Oh do you smell that? Oh boy. That's why uh you know TKO's having some meetings about maybe bringing Vince back. And that kind of like when the wind the window. Wow, that's Ronarazi said as long as Bruce is there, Vince is there. Oh, don't listen to her. Bruce is clean.

Bruce's hands are clean of this one, I swear to God. Bruce is clean. Ronna needs to worry about drying her hair before she gets on an airplane. She flies commercial. Uh

Now what'd you think about the debut of old Alec Price and Jordan Oliver, the G C W guys getting their AEW time against the F T R, man? What do you think? Um it was fine, you know. I mean they're they're The i i there was something about they're so hyper. Like they're they're they're it's just like they just look like Well, it just it it it it feeds into my uh interpretation of them as being kids. Especially Oliver. I'm just like th and when they did the promo, I was like

um you know, adult professional wrestlers to me, but No. No, and which which then makes it feel like well you don't belong here. Uh I think uh, you know, F T R Bald and F T R Gun did a great job. Sure. I I mean uh unfort like and this is You don't want this to be the takeaway. You know, when when you're having a big debut match. My biggest takeaway was uh Stokely in the wheelchair is fucking hilarious. Like he's uh anytime a heel

is is is you know, on crutches. Infirmed. Yeah, infirmed. Any neck brace. The neck brace. It's The height of heat, of comedy, of just like are you fucking serious right now? Also that he's taking he's taking donations. Right, right. He's so fucking good. He's so I he's perfect for FTR. At first I was like, oh this is a strange combo. And then I realized, Oh, this is brilliant'cause it like that

It's as close as we're ever gonna get to I suppose like a Jim Cornette managing them, at least in AEW. Yeah. You know, some some just piece of shit coward, fast talking son of a bitch. Yeah. Who's just gonna be out there running his mouth and then the these two fucking, you know, surgical dynamos in there in the ring just rip you apart.

Yeah, I and and that someone went to the length of making a website to take donations. And then when you go and you try to make a donation, it's it like gives you an error code, but it's like, in the meantime, you can buy these T shirts, you know. Fucking brilliant. Yeah. I I had to look it up. Jordan Oliver is twenty six. A little too old to be that. I mean t Christ, I mean

That's probably how old Carrie Von Erik was when he won the fucking NWA title, you know? It's it's w it's one of these insane things when you Wrestling more than anything. I mean I know like every once in a while you'll get like that. like a picture of the cast from Cheers with all their ages in the first season and you want to throw up, but like Yeah. When you see like how like David Von Eric was like twenty three when he died or something, you know? I mean it's insane. Yeah, but it's also like

You know, if you if if you uh look at high school kids now, you're like, are this is high school or is this elementary school? Like w like it doesn't even you know, where where you looked at a yearbook of kids older than you and you like it was like thirty five year old men were going to high school just a couple of years ahead of you. Right. Like I look at my brother's high school yearbook and I'm like, who are who are all like

Are these business majors? Who are these men with mustaches in your graduating class? Yeah. Nineteen eighty eight. You know, uh this this Gen Z reluctance to take steroids. These guys need to get on the juice. Oliver needs to get bulked quick. I mean, you know How many beers are you drinking every night? How many, you know, how many eight balls are you buying? Get it going. Get it going. You're in the wrestling biz now. This is not Lauderdale's butter show. This is this is the show.

You know, they they they they're I understand they bolt the TVs to the wall in the hotel room now. You you just need to make a little more effort to throw it out the window. Yeah, man. It's it we're we're not playing switch two here. It's the strip club and then you go to the next town. Even though AEW the next town is home. Okay. Yeah. Hey, hey buddy. Maybe you need a strip club by where you live. I understand you're excited about the new Super Mario Brothers movie. But

Maybe could you just let a few locals know that you're the wrestling is in town. Yeah.

I was reading about uh speaking of hotel rooms, this is apropos of nothing. I was reading about when Betamax machines first came out. Okay. A lot of people and by a lot, you know, dozens. What they would do is they would take they would take the whole fucking unit with them. Uh the V C R uh check into a a a a hotel or a motel and they would tape record the movies. There was still uh like a a window where you could record the movies

Like the b the expensive movies they were showing in the hotel room. Um that's how a lot of the bootlegging was happening. Bootleg. Bootleg. The old days. There's your little fun facts. For more, check out VHS Tapes or Magic. Bootlegs. Swerve and Kevin Knight was pretty sweet. Dude, I was I was like I mean, I Swerve and Kevin Knight was great. I really liked um Uh speedball and uh And um who'd he fight? Uh somebody else from that fucking crew. Um why am I Oh uh he he fought um Hangman.

Right? No. No? No, he fought a bad guy. I think he fought a um I thought he fought a smojo, thank you. God damn was that good. That was that was so good I was like I was like, man, they they really made me think Speedball might win this fucking thing. And and fucking Uh uh uh Kenny in fucking um headgear was on this show too, right? Josh Alexander. Damn, dude. Yeah, that was a really good dynamite dude. And uh

And you had the uh I mean, goddamn the the the Death Riders and the Don Callis family are headed for a fucking bloodbath. They had that that big tag with the the no DQ. Mm-hmm. And then Mox going over and and like intimidating Don Callis at the announce position was fucking beautiful after the match.

I mean, you know what was incredible to me was um just the fact that the Death Riders were baby faces, or at least Moxley is a baby face. I don't know about the but the rest of the crew. But Moxley's a baby face. So ostensibly the Death uh the in that segment, the Death Riders were the baby faces. And then you cut to the the end of the show or or during the women's match, Marina comes out and is choking out Tony Storm or whoever, and then she's a heel later in the show. I mean

The idea of good guys versus bad guys is definitely passe. I mean, when we're talking Wheeler Utah dude, all bets are off. Oh my God, that fucking goof. Old Wheeler Utah, forget it. He's a goof. He's a goon. He's a geek. He's a nerd. He's a dork. Wheeler Utah. How how how many lunch monies has Claudio and Moxley stolen from you? You got Pack up there with his fucking crutches. What a great crew, man. I'm fucking I'm god damn.

It's such a good show. It's such a good show. I'm like sitting there watching, I'm like Man, every match is different. They're exciting. I'm I'm compelled. It doesn't feel like I'm just I'm like I'm sitting here being like, somebody's gonna win this match. I don't all the matches are cold. Bunch of cold matches. They don't do any stories. People don't care about matches. They care about moments. We're here telling stories. Well let'em know, Maddie. I just hate this uh this whole like

WWE i it's not all of it. Not all of it. But it's it's I'm I'm I'm being v I'm very over. It's it's it's uh it's worn out for me. All of this aw shucks, let's have a match shit, you know? That was like the the there was so much of that on the John Cena retirement tour. Yeah. You know, of just like, hey man, how about one last match, man? And then they do it like with Phil and AJ. It's just like How hey man, how about it? And it's just like how about people be fucking you know

Give a shit. Yeah. It's just a little it's it's a it's too passive. It's too it's too like Golly. You know, as opposed to this is my fucking life. This is how I put food on the table. It's they they've they've veered a little too much into um Uh it's not like they're coming out and saying it like, Hey, we're rich. Right. But it it it it has veered a little bit too m into

I'm just here to get a paycheck and have a good time, you know? Well yeah, I mean it's like even in um what other uh forms of sport, you know, there there's There's typically some heat on the go in even if if whoever's involved doesn't actually dislike each other. You know what I mean? Like the handshake after is whatever. But going into it, like let's not you you don't always have to go into it, um

Buddy buddy, you know? Like I saw some clip. I don't know who these women were. I don't know where they were playing tennis. But Uh in between serves. One of the women just goes, Come on like psyching herself up. Yeah. And the have you do you know who I'm talking about? Have you seen this clip? I don't think so. The other tennis player immediately starts complaining to

the referee in the in the chair, the judge, whatever they call him. And was like, Oh, so so we can we can be shouting stuff between points, between serves? And the and the the judge is just like, You weren't serving. She she just shouted, you know, and then at the end, like it was like a Like because the the woman who complained then lost. Yeah. And so then it was a bullshit like handshake and then, you know, the other woman who screamed come on was like, Whoa, whoa, what's your problem?

Yeah. You know, and then in her interview, she's like, I'm sorry that she was upset about it. But like the crowd like kind of turned heel on her. I was like I was like, This is this is what pro wrestling needs to be. Needs a little taste of the tennis. I mean, for God's sakes, you know? We need a little mack and row. At least in WWE. I mean like I'm watching AEW and I'm like, fuck yeah, like Moxley getting in fucking Don Callis' shit.

You know, the the but who who did the uh the time bombs wrestle? Uh was it Bain and um Yes. God oh well, I don't want to tip my bit, but yeah. Anyway. Pen Penelope and Bane. Penelope and Bane. Also known as the current and former Joy Janella.

So bizarre. I mean I guess they're all just best. What about this fucking Joy Janella Cruz? Oh my god, we're buried the lead! It's fucking seven days long? And there's no wrestling on the boat. The wrestling is at each port of call. Wait. So you're gonna be on a cruise ship also with just other punters. There's it's not it's not like the entire cruise ship is is Joey Janella. He's gonna get they're gonna get banned like GCW got banned from the palms. Dude.

And then you stop and there's lucha libre or whatever, depending on where where they're stopping at, you know. I had no idea the wrestling wasn't on the boat. Hey man, I hate to break it to you. Um'cause he like he posted like a clarification. He was like, It's Puerto Puerto Vallarta, Cabo, and I'm gonna butcher this one. Mazatlan? I'm sorry. It's just so funny to me. The the lucha libre presented by Gringo Loco.

Great Sasuke is gonna be there? Yeah, man. He's Ted Biasi? He's going just for the karaoke, dude. Gangrell. गद्धन। I mean uh Alex Price and Jordan Oliver uh uh uh they're gonna be on a cruise? They need to they need to they need to be at home w waiting for Tony's call. Big time meet and greets on the boat, lobster dinners, gambling, and debauchery for seven days. Seven days, dude. Somebody's gonna die, bro. I'm sorry. That's too long.

Also, fuck your boat, dude. Can we get a spring break announcement? Not one and not not one talent announcement for spring break. Hey man. He's got boats to he's got ropes to climb. He's he's you know, he's he's gonna learn Joe you think Joey's just oh I'm gonna book a cruise? No man. He's learning how to how to sail that thing.

He's learning how to tie some knots, dude. He needs to learn how to put a link in the fucking bio of his Instagram to go to the fucking place to buy a ticket. What's going on here? Man, I don't like you fucking chapping Joey's ass, man. This cr th that cruise is getting canceled. No, I mean it's kind of s I guess it's probably it's probably smart that you he's just

He's got a block of rooms on the boat because the boat is not an of it's like officially his cruise, not like Jericho cruise. And then when you get to town, you can sell tickets to the locals as well as whoever gets off the boat. So that's gonna make it easier to see all the shows, you know? That's a great point. I hadn't thought about that. But you you gotta figure everybody on the boat.

has front row seats, right? They they already they all are. You better hope. You better hope. Well I do hope. You better hope you don't get fucking worked like Alvarez and and pay two hundred dollars to get your hair braided. Oh my god. I had forgotten. What was that? Was that the first Jericho Cruise when that happened? The first Jericho Cruise, yeah. When they they got off and the that someone's like, Get your hair right. And it was like, you know, they said

He was in the chair. Twenty dollars or something and then for once you're in the it's like you know, you're you're yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It was twenty no no, it's twenty dollars per braid. That's right. He had his finger. No, no, well, whatever it was, it was just like by the time it No. By the time he's done, it's just like, wait, it's gonna cost how much? He got he got smoked. Meltzer was happy he didn't get in that chair.

God you know what's so strange I now that you mention it I had a dream about Brian Alvarez last night. Like we were we were we were somewhere. I it was probably a wrestling show, let's face it. And he was like he's like, oh hey like, hey buddy. Six stars in the Tokyo Dome. Um

That's it. That was there was no we didn't go on an adventure. That sounds like you want to go to one of the uh after parties, uh, through the Melzer website. Oh Um So you wanna go sit up in the in the in the wraparound suite at the Palms and have pizza or something. No I mean it's it's

Doesn't doesn't benefit the uh you know, the the anecdotes that we walk away with. There's so many and there's also just so many more wrestling shows to attend if you if you want to stay away from hang out with people you actually know. Uh I know we we we have so many actual friends who travel these things now. Yeah, you know. Yeah. Yeah, you know. Well you know.

Maddie Mc So we got hog wrestling on Friday, we got the Royal Rumble on Saturday. Saturday morning. It's too early. Eleven AM? It's too early. East Coast. I mean West Coast time. Please. This guy gets up but earlier on Saturdays. George, I'm gonna go watch the sunrise. More like, all right, all right, I'll fucking feed you. Everyone just calm the fuck down. Hey man, they are on a schedule, bro. That just reminded me. Hey man, I'm here to remind you of your duties.

In this day and age, that show should be over by, you know, two at the very latest. And then what, there's a football game after that or no? We're heading straight to the Super Bowl now, right? Yeah, Super Bowl's not till the following week. But also Sunday's the Pro Bowl, but no one gives a shit about that. Um Do you know the only two days of the year where there is no professional sports on the TV? Mmm.

Your birthday and he's doing a bit. Ah I got no clue, bro. The day before and after the baseball all-star game. But we're not counting uh highlight or That's no, that's when you go to the track. Oh okay. Okay. I learned I learned matches? No, I I learned this from somebody with a severe gambling problem. They were like, Oh, this is the only two days of the year, there's no professional sports, you gotta go to the track those days.

I don't know if this is a fun fact, but it's definitely I mean it it sounds factual. Yeah. I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna believe you. Yeah. Nah. Nah, bruh. Oh, Jesus. I keep meaning to watch that tag match. The um Meltzer was talking about it. Oh, with Saber? Yeah, with Ishii and uh Just this half just a half hour tag match that was just fucking absolutely spectacular. I meant to watch it last night, but I was just like, you know, kinda like dozing off watching

Collision or something. You were in it, bro. Oh bro. Gotta love uh Triple H on the cover of two K. Oh, is he? Oh, good. It's all about the cover. I mean I feel like there's a bunch of covers now, but the fact that they did a commercial for the for his covers, great. That is too funny. I'm gonna have to get that. Jack got a uh PS5 for for Christmas. Dad! You're like, wait, I'm almost done. I mean I downloaded um I downloaded 2025. Yeah.

Haven't even thought to look at it yet. Yeah, I I just took uh I just took the AEW game off my Switch too, just'cause I hadn't fucking looked at it in so long. Yeah. I mean I set him up'cause he's um'cause he'cause he's got the PS four in his room now along with um I I pulled it out of the garage and like cleaned it off. The PS two. Mm mm. And I'm like, All right. My Pop Papa might be in here playing some Fire Pro Wrestling Returns, okay?

You never know. Sounds like he's he's getting closer and closer to a Darossa setup over there. It is so funny. He talks about like he's like, I really love retro gaming. I'm like, Oh, every time I come in here you're just watching Bob's burgers. Retro gaming from twenty fifteen or what? Yeah. Yeah. Really love retro games, you know. I play like PlayStation four, Xbox three sixty. I'm really into retro games. Vincent. Y'all got that game cube? Yes.

Who's your favorite wrestler? Uh I'm gonna say Kenny Omega. Uh I felt like that match, it just gave me like, oh. Maybe he's maybe he's okay. Maybe he's gonna go on a little run here. You know, like I Yeah. There's been something about the previous where it was like You know still hurt. Yeah. And and um no shortage of discussion around that and and no no consistency. And so there was something

Coming out of that match, I was like, oh, like maybe Kenny's gonna go on a little run here and and have a have a somewhat of a return to form. So that's uh that's where I'm at with that. What about you? Y you you got a favorite wrestler? I do. Um, the Megasis, Megan Bain. I I mean it was a common it was it was that tag match on Dynamite, but it was also like I think it i i it had been building for a while just'cause I'm like

She's just such a terrific athlete. Mm-hmm. You know? I'm just like and a and especially like I don't know. It's it's strange that she's kind of paired up with Penelope'cause I'm like, she's limited, you know. Um But I think especially the moment when Megan Bain threw Minoshiragawa clean over Tony Storm's head. And she just bounced on that canvas uh oh or on the on the mat outside. I was like, Jesus fucking Christ. A little rough there. Like I'm like

That's insane. Yeah. That she threw somebody that far. Yeah. Doing a Darby Allen. But then it just everything else in the match is just like Her movement, the way that she she I'm like, do we know her her athletic background? I mean, she must have played something in in college, right? It sure seems like it. I don't know. Let's see. Yeah. That's one of those uh Megans with an H, right? Yep. Really? Yeah. Oh no, nope. I've stand corrected. No H. No H. Local H.

Guy I know from college uh once beat up the bass player from Not a Surf. Oh wha what happened? I never really got the full s I mean, maybe I got the full story at the time, but um you know, they were at a gig and you know, there was problems. And then uh this this guy beat the shit out of'em. Not that we My research shows that she um Powerlifting before her transition into wrestling. Um And then...

I don't know. Yeah. There's no no you know, Wikipedia ain't got nothing. Great uh training. I mean Al Snow, Rip Rogers Among other names. Among others. Oh, so she she did go to Ohio Valley Wrestling. I mean I this is more recently. No. This is not in the um the developmental era. Yeah. She must have done something I'm sure she played you know, field hockey or some shit. You know, whatever these whatever these girls do. I mean, yeah, she had to play.

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