WeWatchWrestling Issue #648

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Salutation. Well hello there. Welcome friends and foes, heels and baby faces, to the place that's in your face, the one-stop shop for all your professional wrestling fandom needs. It's The We Watch Wrestling Podcast. I'm your wonderful darling, redheaded, bearded host Beyond the Matt McCarthy. Mm.

April eighth, ticket's still available. With me always, Professional Wrestling Encyclopedia, Mr. Vince Averill. Looks like you might have gone down to the old barber's chair recently, huh? Oh yeah, yeah. I had my my ears lowered. Looking good too. Thank you. Thank you. Wednesday, April eighth at Braindead Studios in Los Angeles, we will be watching Beyond the Mat.

along with the director of the film, Barry Blosteen, and then afterwards Maddie and I will chop it up with Barry for a little while. So uh the tickets are available. Um I haven't got a updated count on how many we've sold, but uh just do yourself a favor and

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Thriving. Thriving. Uh Maddie, I'm telling you, I'm fucking pumped to go to Dynamite tomorrow, which is today, depending on when you're listening to this. You might already be there. You know what? I mean, w we very well might still be there. Um beautiful Ontario. California. I know we're gonna stop at that that cafeteria or whatever it is. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Maybe we'll even go to the uh the bar that um MVP was drinking at before the show last time.

Remind me of that story? What? So I was at the uh remember I went I ended up going alone and then Shrak met me there. He was like coming home from somewhere and flying into On Terry Airport. So anyway, I'm at the uh And um my buddy Brady Novak, you know Brady. Oh, yeah. Uh him and Why can't I think of his name? Another another comic who we both know. Um Another Dude. Brady's like, Are you going to this this d this AEW show? I mean, yeah, he goes, Oh, I'm me and so and so are are going.

And that's when I was like at my house going like, Do I go? Am I gonna go? I don't know and I was like, Yeah, I think I'm going, whatever And so then I then I'm at the food court and he's like, Hey Um we're over at this like sports bar by the arena drinking with MVP. Well, Brady doesn't drink anymore, but whatever. He's like, we're here and and MVP is having a cocktail. We're here, MVP's here. I'm like, what? I'm like the MVP's still got a show to do, whatever and uh

Um He don't gotta work. He's like, You should come over here and then I was like, Yeah, whatever. I'm not gonna do that. But uh Um and then I saw something later where MVP was like, If I'm not wrestling on the show, he's like, Sometimes it kinda is better for me to have a have a drink or two before I b before I work, like in in a manageri I don't know. But um

Well we'll have to go exploring. No physic no physicality. We can definitely go there. Uh it's right by the arena. But anyway, how it is? You you visit a town, you're like Oh yeah, this is my spot. This is where I like to go. Oh we maybe we better leave at eleven tomorrow instead of two.'Cause I mean it is. It's like once once you're somewhere

You're like, uh it's it's the it's the the risk of failure that motivates all movement when you're in a different town. You're just like, you know what? I like this spot. Even even if you're there for like three days. Yeah. It's like, you know what? I'm gonna come back tomorrow. Uh uh this this is where I eat food while I'm in the city, you know? Well, when we

Well also I think you can fall on the trap of like if you you go on a vacation somewhere and you really like it, you're just like, Well, I'll just do that again, you know? Yep. Um The time that we went out to Ontario with Jerry, we like did we make two stops? We went to like comic bookshops and the the food court or whatever? Yeah, we were also looking for, you know

You know, we go antiquing. Yeah, we just went on a little a little journey, uh d you know, make it worth the the trip out, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that comic book store was okay. I don't think I don't feel like they had back issues, but it was like you know. I f I found a copy of Monsters that I was missing, the Mark Spears thing.

Yeah, it's uh so for those who you know what we're talking about here is um uh what we're talking about is attending a live professional wrestling show. Yeah. Maybe maybe you should try it sometime. But what I mean to say is it's like It's, you know, f forty you know, between forty and fifty miles, but in Southern California terms, the you know, that can be a fucking uh half day travel if uh if you leave at the wrong time. So we like to get out early.

I um ran on a friend of mine yesterday up in uh God, what part of town was I in? They won my part of town, I'll tell you that much. Yeah. And I usually see this guy in Studio City and uh he's like, What are you doing over here? And I'm like I'm like, Ah, you know, I made a mistake and uh you know, I just wound up In the in the wrong wrong place. Driving in the wrong direction.

He's like uh you know, he's like, You should uh go to Studio City. It's ten minutes from my house. Takes me an hour and a half to get there. Damn. You know? It's like what the fuck? What the fuck? Ugh I think Sammy Hagar wrote a song about it a long time ago. But uh I had a fucking crazy ass dream last night.

It was like it it it's it makes no sense. Um, but somehow it was like, oh, PWG is running again. And I don't remember like somehow it was like news to me and I didn't have I hadn't gotten us tickets. And so then I'm like, all right, well, you know, a lot of times if you have been going for a long time, you just shoot an email, Super Dragon, you know, blesses.

And then I'm like looking at the website and uh I realized that the stuff on the website is old. So the show somehow isn't in LA. It's in it's in Madison, Wisconsin. But and so I'm like, how am I gonna I'm like, the show's today, how am I gonna get is there even a flight that would get us to Madison in time for this show? But then somehow I'm kind of in Madison, like in the parking lot, but I'm like

I gotta I gotta get out of here. Like I can't I can't call Georgia and be like I went to Madison without telling you to for a wrestling, you know. But I'm also like I gotta try to get a ticket for Matt. And then but Matt's not I I it was weird, and then all of a sudden you were there.

And we were in front of a door that Super Dragon was trying to get through. Like he sh he just showed up and everyone's like, Oh, he's here and he's like, you know, basically like, get the fuck out of the way. And it was a very strange like'cause it wasn't I mean it was like I guess it was like minorly st stressful, but but more just very confusing, like why is the show in Madison? How am I gonna get there? Oh, I'm already there. Very weird.

I love this. No card was announced. I didn't I didn't have any I didn't have any matches. I didn't know. Oh mystery vortex. I mean... Is there I guess what I'm trying to think of is like Is there a scenario where he runs the show again? And is there furthermore a scenario where it feels it still feels like PWG? Thank you. Um 'Cause obviously he can get AEW guys, you know. Right. Right. But I don't know. I mean

Uh you know I guess I I you know, I like because you know, uh in wrestling obviously the crowd is so important. Yeah. And it's just never gonna be that crowd again, you know? It could be the the hog crowd, it could be some amalgamation of that crowd. Like and and so that's sort of the jumping off point. And then No telling where they might run just because Hog somehow got the doors of the globe reopened. I don't think anybody wants to work there.

Maybe I don't know, but um madness. I mean it's just it's Has enough time, too much time passed that it would even feel like P W G anymore? Well, I guess maybe not. Maybe not for us, you know? It's kinda like you go to a whatever, you're in hardcore show or something, you're like, ah sometimes you're like, Oh, this is nothing's changed except for me.

And other times you're like, Oh, this is like whatever this is is passed me by or something but because you know if there's like Obviously for us at least and for for everybody. Like it was such a time and a place of like everything coming together, guys who were gonna be The industry. Yeah. More so than like ever or or since at least it feels like, you know, the way things went. And so

Um, it's one thing to like be like, well, it's PWG. There's all kinds of like young, hungry guys. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, man. I don't know. It would be nice if there was a place where I was like, Oh, this is This is where the cream has risen to. Yeah. You know? And it's like the these these are the the this is the next generation of of wrestlers. Maybe, maybe it exists. Maybe we just G C W. That that roster feels pretty

static, you know. Um Zillafot too kind of intimating that I don't I mean to me it felt like he was calling Brett like a fucking Pito or something, because he was like he's on this live stream and someone's like Hey, I discovered you and your brother or or whatever, your cousin, whatever at G CW is so great, whatever. And he's like d like, do not go to G CW. Do not go to G C W.

That owner's a weirdo. He's a weirdo. Do not take your kids to GCW. He's like that he's like, fuck GCW, whatever. And there's a guy behind him like going like this. I'm like, what the hell? And then Brett Lauderdale's like Uh when we got Zillow he had thirteen matches under his belt and trouble with Booker T. No one else would touch him. Uh I don't know what the fuck his problem is, you know, like Wow

But uh uh I say all that to say that um you can rest easy knowing that uh it should be a night off for Sandman in his final match because did you see who his final opponent is? It's not Joey? Not Joey. Who is it? Sandman will be wrestling the invisible man. Oh fuck off. So lame. So lame. So lame. Yeah, but at least Sandman's like Yeah, no no bumps for me tonight. I guess that's the only way he can get shit out of the cloud of a cloud, you know? Yeah. Oh boy.

You know, I remember being excited at that I think that first PWG show when um I think it was probably Probably one of the gentlemen who he who should not be mentioned took out like a bag of gummy bears and like poured it out like thumbtacks and then they bumped on the gummy bears and the crowd reacted like it was you know. Like it was thumbtacks, like it was Mick Foley being thrown off the cage. And I remember thinking, Oh, I love this. I love that we're all in this together. Yeah. Um

But the invisible man for me, that is a bridge too far. Well, uh here's here's my deal, right? It's it's fucking it's Joey Janella, maybe maybe the clusterfuck, or maybe even spring break, but it's gotta be like Ray Horace or someone who can just fucking just like bump without anybody else being there, who can just like do a fucking triple Lindy onto his head by himself, like the same and and to like announce Seemingly like a marquee, you know, like Yeah. That's that's the difference. Again.

The fucking front row seats for the show were like two hundred and seventy bucks. You know? Like people can fucking say whatever they want about ticket prices, but like so they've announced him against no one. They've got Hayabusa Part Two with no opponent. And that might be the only two things, but I'm just saying, uh What is is this Hayabusa's son or something? I think it's just whoever has taken over the the gimmick.

Um I don't know that there's any relation otherwise. Uh but Yeah, I mean you're gonna have Like what you're this huge like, oh my god, this is like a a legends final match and then it's like, not really. Why yeah, why even I mean that's can always send out fucking uh Carrie Morton, you know, if you need someone to take up a little slack. Said hook. I mean Why would why would Sandman even retire from what he does now. Right. Why have your le well, you know what? Sandman strikes me as a guy who

Uh you know. He's he's old school in that way of like, Yeah, well that was Yeah. That was my final match, but now I I'm still gonna show up, walk through the crowd with the peers and you know hit him in the head. You know, I didn't go out on my own terms there. I I'm gonna, you know That was bullshit. I'm gonna do it my way now, you know. Paul called me the other day. I'm like, bam fucking what I'm gonna fucking talk to you, you still owe me three hundred bucks.

Let me ask you something. Oh, first of all, uh no raw vault homework this week. Oh what? Hey man. Ever everybody over here has been sick. Ooh, you hate to hear that. I hate to hear that. I know. I haven't even got I I'll I'll get uh VHS tapes uh our magic up today. Uh put a put a delay in everything. How are you feeling as we ride in a car together for an hour and a half tomorrow each week? Oh, I feel fine. Oh good, good, good, good.

You know, I've I've I've had a little stuffed stuffed nose, but that's that's just a couple of boogers. That's what happens with the season. It's like I get I get a little stuffy nose. Dave Meltzer coughs like uh, you know, he swallowed Uh rusty nails covered in covet. Whatever lockdown first started when they when they uh they started to do no no crowd shows and I just remember AJ Styles being like, I had it. Just a couple of boogers.

Like well, no big deal. He was like a couple of couple of boogers is how he described his bout of his first bout of COVID. That fucking goof. Couple of boogers on a flat earth. Yeah, maybe he shows up at PWJ. Mm. That don't count? No. Hey hey hunter. I'm I'm you know, I'm just working for Super Dragon. Don't count. Hey man. I remember like my mental image of when Kid Rock was being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Oh yeah. Um I've I've blocked that out.

is the the clip where he just I don't even remember what he said, but he you know, of course he's being inflammatory and, you know. Stupid. And uh he just goes, I feel like I'm gonna piss off some Democrats. Oh, he was already in that mode. What what year did this even happen? I don't even I have blocked. Couldn't tell ya. But but then the camera immediately cut to AJ Styles, who was on his feet clapping, just like Oh yeah That's for me. Fucking goose. Speaking of former G CW talent.

Do you? Dip into Nick Gage's lives when those happen on Instagram? Um sometimes. Not not not I mean it's it's it's one of these things where it's pretty frequent. It's very frequent. You know. And I I every time I I'm on, I see it, I I jump right in. Okay. It's it's always him walking somewhere. Uh and there's like five, maybe six people watching. See, I I usually catch him um in his basement or some Oh really? Yeah, like he'll be he'll be like training

But you won't you won't see him training. You'll like once in a while he'll like come back as a friend, be like, What's up, Vince? Or what's up, whatever. And then Really? That or I'm like just early and he's setting up still. But like I've caught him a couple of times in like a fucking gray cement What what appears to be some sort of basement area where he's in. No, never. I always every time I dip in

He's literally he's he must be walking from the bus or the train or some public transit to wherever he's going. It's dark out and it's fucking cold. And he and it's like that like the angle is just like Like him walking like this, and every so often he'll look down, just be like, Nah, I don't know, I don't eat White Castle. Or a lot of walking the dog too. I catch that sometimes. Yeah, he's always like

He's always like, I'm just going to check on this guy. I gotta check on this guy to see if he's doing all right. Which I'm like, I don't know if he's, you know If he's sober, if he's doing like twelve-step calls on dudes or something, or that's my hope. But like he's always just like, yeah, I'm checking on this guy. And then every time I'm in there. Somebody will comment and he'll like he'll stop walking and just be like You know, whatever the guy's name is, it'll just be like Eddie E?

Eddie E Oh, this guy's the greatest. What are you doing, Eddie E? You know, every d it's the same thing every time. But I always try and it's you know, every com and it's again, there's five, six people. Yep. And they're always just kind of putting an M D K and he just glances down and he's like all fucking day. Yeah. It's it's I'm fascinated by that man.

Remind me'cause I'm very slow. Uh uh once you've added a third person into a match, it becomes no rules. Is that right? A hundred percent. I don't I don't quite follow the logic of that because If someone does something to get disqualified It becomes untenable that there's that there's a third person in a single like a They should be disqualified and then it becomes a singles match. It's really not difficult.

Yeah,'cause it's just like I mean, it's just so overboard when the obviously I'm talking about last night when Up sure. You know, uh Jake Paul who, you know, whether It was for PR purposes or whatever it was. Well I said that the only reason the only reason Jake Paul came to the defense of Bad Bunny uh excuse me, no, Logan Paul.

Logan Oh yeah, Logan, right, Logan. Because Jake Paul of course is how dare they have uh a non American'cause he has to see l uh Bad Bunny backstage? Because I'm like he's gonna wrestle Bad Bunny at some point. Like Logan He's an idiot, but he's not stupid. Yeah. Yeah. They have to like uh a hundred percent. I'm like that is the only factor here.

'Cause you know what else? You know what else you're both professional wrestlers. I don't think I missed this. Uh-huh. But typically if that company wasn't um Evil evil and and sad about Lord Trump's dick. Yeah. Last night they would have been like, congratulations to bad bunny. No shit on the fucking biggest Super Bowl, halftime, whatever. Like they would have fucking shouted that.

No fucking shit. Instead. And and the other thing that they would do is they would fucking be rushing him back on he would be in a mania mat, like they would be building off of him. Yes. And instead they're just like Uh yeah, we can't do anything with that right now.

That's that's too hot to handle. Linda's gotta go to work tomorrow. I mean, can you imagine if that fell into Vince's lap, he would just be like And Donald's I'm sorry. We're making money over here. He's like, Oh, we've got bad bunny in one corner. And WWE Hall of Famer Kid Rock in the other corner. Who's gonna win? Uh Kid Rock, you can't even lip sync. It's another day. He's headed to the chamber. How about it? I love it. The the warden keeps keeps uh keeps calling.

He's like, Dufresne, I want you to do my taxes. Uh No shit. I mean, my God. It's just uh what what's what's the word when the when the warden Calls and uh you you don't go to the gas chamber that day? Oh, I don't know. Uh a good day. Re a repr a reprise? Oh. Okay. A reprieve. A reprieve. Reprieve, thank you. Right. That's right. LA night with an with another reprieve. Yeah.

Can I tell you something that's apropos of nothing? I'm completely changing. As you like to say that's what this show is. That is what this show is. The uh the car horn in my car, that's where I keep my car horn. Oh can't wait to hear it. Ain't well you can't. It it it stopped working. Oh man. We were uh the other day we were driving through And um I don't know if this happened over by you. Hopefully it did. A bunch of um the kids from like Van Nuys High School uh walked out. Yeah.

And then did that happen over by y'all? Uh I definitely ran in uh like there's no high school right here, but down yeah. I saw it down when I was over by there and then in Pasadena as well. Love it. And you know, they all had the ice out, you know, fuck ice signs and all that shit. Yeah. My my nephew was up in a tree. Really? So of course I I start honking the horn at him. Uh um

With apparently so much vigor, I blew it. Blew the fuse. Oh no. But uh I'm like, uh, do I think take this thing to Carmax or I take it to Hyundai? I'm like I'm like, you know what? Fuck this. I just I Google it. Uhhuh. It's like check this first. I open up I pull out the little fuse. I'm like, this is it. I can see it's burnt out.

Yeah. After I'm done talking to your fucking fuzzy ass, I'm going to fucking auto zone and I'm fixing the damn car horn myself. Five bucks. Dang it. See, I was excited because I was picturing us tomorrow with my head out doing a every time you're GET OUT THE WAY!

He's trying to get the wrestling. Uh Oh, let's talk about that. The fucking the the shot heard round the world on Dynamite. That's the most viral wrestling clip of the year so far. That squash match when Brody fucking squashed MJF dude clean? Was fucking sick. I uh The look on he is so funny, MJF. When he like he did a take like like I haven't seen since Johnny Carson retired, when he looked directly into the camera

Like one of those. Like, and truly, I mean, he's looking at everybody in the back. You know, he's looking at everybody around the world watching. Uh I came apart. But that but when that clip went, um across every seemingly every news outlet that's on Instagram anyway. Yeah. Um it was A riot. But it was also again, you get to see the way people first of all, they don't know that there's wrestling other than WWE. A.

But B just the perception of what a wrestling fan is. Right. You know, that that you truly get that. And I and my brain always goes back to uh oh, who's that asshole? Who does Borat. Oh. Yeah. That fucking prick. Yes. That fucking prick. When he was on uh WTF with Mark Marin. They were talking about whatever movie he did where he does like the the you know the the gay character and it ends with

Uh Bruno, when it when it ends with like a cage fight. Okay. Do you remember this? Did you ever see that fucking movie? Um now that you say it, I'm beginning to reconnect a few synapses, yes. And Marin, I remember Uh I I hesitate to say Marin of all people because it's like not like

You know, he's supposed to be some defender of professional wrestling because he had CM Punk on his show and he, you know, Well no, I mean famously it was his like producer or whatever who was like, You gotta check this shit out. No kidding. But this was at a time when he's like, So who are these people in the crowd? What what what are they like wrestling fans? And he's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, th they're wrestling fans. But like

Saying it in a way of like no, we're not putting on a wrestling show. He's saying it in a way of, Oh, it's a room full of th f froth frothing mouth idiots. Yeah. Bunch of ribs. Yeah, bunch of fucking dumb lowbrow ribs. Yes. And it's it's so funny because I guess it really does speak to You know, beyond just politics that we are all insulated in these bubbles of information and algorithms and, you know, just one more wall partitioning ups away from each other.

Yeah. But I think to the beginning the the the the early days of this show and it inspiring me to do like the professional wrestling fan routine, you know, available on capsule records, but like I it's like, my God. I never hear the people shitting on wrestling fans anymore.

You know, it it it because I am in this like because I'm just being fed this is what you like. Yeah. I mean, accept that Um It's still very much like e I I I don't know how long it's been, but you still have the encounters with the the odd person who's like So it's not real, right? Or you know it's you know it's bullshit, right? You know it's fake. And so with that or like you're not gonna tri like you're not getting me. Yeah. Of course.

with that sentiment which still is see ab as far as in my existence and experience is still alive and well, of course that is gonna beget Those same people going like, so these people must just be fucking like slack jawed morons if they do watch it. Right. So Well, I think it also speaks to like I'm just not out there interacting with

like the the general public in real life as much anymore, you know? Certainly since COVID, it's just like The the the things that have gone online. I mean, my God, like w we used to drive it used to be a coin flip. It's like all right, I'm driving to Vince's today, Vince is driving over here. Yes. You know? Yeah. Uh Much has changed. Uh much has changed. Much has changed. It it it really it um

There was almost something comforting in it where I was like, oh right. As much as things change, it's it's just the um it's just the way the burrito's wrapped. What's inside the burrito is still the same. There's still even though it was people being uh having a prejudice against wrestling fans. There was something oddly it almost made me nostalgic, where I was like, oh, right, right. There's people who don't understand wrestling. There's people who don't understand wrestling fans.

You know what I mean? It was it was just I got to like I d my head came up out of The the the the insulated bubble that I've been in for a few years where I'm like, Oh right, right. I used to have to stand on the tallest mountain and be like, Fucking come at me, bro. I fucking love wrestling and here's why. Yeah. Yeah. Uh yeah, there's just a Maybe I've changed. Maybe maybe it's not

Well Yeah, I don't know. Or maybe I've changed. Hopefully I do continue to grow and Well and maybe it's it's also like As wrestling claims to be as much money as they're making, yeah. Yeah. It I guess it's that. It's like despite the revenue streams, like wrestling just isn't on most people's you know what I mean? Like like I'm sure like Mm Trump or whoever didn't feel the need to respond to the fuck ice chance on AEW because he's just like uh you know, like

That this is happening at at a din and it and it didn't raise itself above the din, even if NBC like talked about it for a second or whatever. Well that's a great example because it's like He never even heard about it, probably. You know, because because again, we we are all in these information bubbles where it's like you're only gonna be get fed what you're feeding yourself, you know, or then what

As soon as as soon as the the algorithm decides, Oh, this is what you like, have every donut in the world. Yeah. Um and and him in particular. He's got like some lackey who literally prints out tweets McDonald's. Yeah. He has r he's got McDonald's and prints outs of the internet. But Now that you do bring that up. It would be tremendous if we lived in a world where that whiff of information came by his desk and his first reaction was like, What?

Get Vince on the phone. They're doing what? They were chanting what? Yeah, he he would he it would be hard pressed to convince him that it wasn't WWE because he's just like that's there, that's all it is. That's wrestling, right? Right. Like and they can't explain to him, like, you know, no no, there's there's another promotion. He's like, was it Ted Turner? How great though. to have that match. It was, you know,

Like you can have a clean, you can even have a squash and no one's gonna be MJF won't be harmed. They'll they'll the He's the fucking champion. It'll continue the story in a yes tremendous way in Australia. Exactly. It leads to the next thing, which is all professional wrestling needs to be. Professional. Is to make me interested. In the next show. Do you see that fucking hot little jag that Clark Connors is driving around in?

I c is he signed with them? Is that is that official? I I don't uh I don't know if it's official or not. I think I think he is or I think he's gonna be. Buddy. Him and him and fucking Gabe Kidd cruising around in a little red jag just dragging people out to the desert? If if they have those two cause Gabe Kidd is New Japan ride or die, or is or is he has he signed with AEW? I mean, I don't know if he's just doing

Shots are if he's got a dual contract or'cause he definitely turns up more than anybody else. Right. Other than Takeshta, who does have a fucking dual contract. Other than Ishii, who God knows. Well Ishii got hurt, I think, is his I mean he's back now. Or at least he was, but but he w that was an injury thing and we're not talking about Braun Breaker's hernia right now. We're talking about Ishii. He's gotta be close to retirement, that Ishii.

Depends on lots of C is waiting for him at the airport. If anybody's hurting for certain, it's gotta be him. He was on AEW so much for a while there I was like, where's he where's he crashing? Is he crashing in Nakamura's fucking surf garage? That guy probably sleeps on the fucking concrete floor and he's just like, This is fine. It's like my dojo days.

I he's like the flamethrower in fucking Rick Dalton's fucking shed. You're like Nakamura's going in to pick a surfboard. And if you don't know you're looking for it, you don't see that Ishii's just sitting there just w just taking a quick nap. Mike Nakamura's never sure if he's gonna be there or not. He doesn't know if he's booked.

It's Wednesday, are you? No, not tonight. Not tonight. He goes in the bathroom, he's just like, Oh, the to like he sees the toilets clock before he sees Ishii sleeping in the shed. Uh goddamn. My friend has visited me. Oh, my my f the the clog fairy visited my toilet, apparently. Um Those two are money. Like Clark Connors, Gabe Kidd, if they were on AEW TV regularly.

That's fucking money. Like if they you know, join the Don Callis family or join the Death Riders or start their own fucking thing. You know just be the guys that fucking drive people out to the desert and dump'em. Dude. If they'cause I I really love the direction that AEW has been in where it's like where it is, you know, gang warfare. And that's that's always been something I was always told that.

When I was at the E, that Vince hates gangs, that was always the explanation of just like Vince hates gangs. And it's like, Yeah, they never really I mean, th they would they would they had DX, you know, they would have the corporation. But it's like that's basically what you're looking at. I mean, like uh any other wrestling promoter like a like New Japan or or like stardom is the much better example where it is like

There's all these dojos or like the house of whatever. Yeah. You know? Where it's like i it makes more practical sense because that's the way M M M A is. Yeah. It's this is the camp I belong to. This guy's on my team. We train together. We fight together. All that stuff. I mean, that makes more sense than anything. Like you're you're From a storyline perspective You're a new guy in the company or an old veteran, whatever it is, it's like

It's all politicking. You're gonna have your clique anyway, you know. I think yeah, and and the only like maybe in Vince's mind, you know, it's like uh like Two's company, three's a crowd, whatever. Three scum, whatever the the term is'cause he'cause you know, there's been plenty of groups, but it's never more than about four. You know, like

Like And they don't last very long. That's the other thing. Yeah. You know, you can you can have a spirit squad, you can have a right to censor, you can have a fucking Godwins, you can have like um also this the uh the Raw Vault that we will do next week Heavy on the fucking is this is this racist? It's not race. Like they spend a lot of time being like, It's not about race. It's not about race. Oh, these guys are racist? You know, like it's just like so over the top. Wow. Okay. Um

I mean it always it does feel like this is oh, Vince hates gangs. It's just like, oh, this is just him Explaining away why the NWO is no good. You know, this this this this phenomenon that's beating him in the ratings is actually shit. He didn't get he didn't have a run in in Greenwich, he just started watching some WCW on accident. Yeah. And that's when he started hating gangs.

But yeah, I mean I love those two, they can do whatever they want. Those can be top guys. Those those could be like Like today, you could build those guys up in a year or two. And it's like th those are your top guys. Those that's like like Clark Connors could be your top baby face and Gabe Kidd can be your top heel and then switch'em. You know? Yeah. And then Gabe's uh I don't I mean I don't see them I really like I really like Clark Connors. I think he is very charismatic. I just think

And you know, again, I I'm I could be way off. He just is so tiny. Maybe. Like. And and and you can, you know, like obviously Rey Mysterio, like there are there are examples of people who have overcome, but he is a little guy. I mean they

Right. But he's about as big as Tizawa, who is Tizawa so funny that that guy went from being um Like when you look back, like just overweight. Yeah. And then you don't even realize it's him when you look at those pictures from like Dragon Gate USA. He kind of looks crazy to me now. Like I was looking at him last night and whenever because you don't get a lot of chance to look at him. And I'm like, this guy, his head is

Pretty big and he's it like he just looks so st and yeah, maybe it's the tan and whatever. He just looks insane, but also Tinally like he it also looks like not only did he lose weight, but he just he also just shrunk or something. It's it's he it's such a strange. He's a strange one. Oh yeah. He was crazy. Yeah. And it's like

Whatever hap has happened, I'm like, uh, good for you. I feel like it's it started to happen before he even signed up for the E because like I don't know if you remember that last time we saw him at PWG. Yeah. The crowd was dead. And at one point I remember he's up he's in the corner, he's even like like has his like rear end on the the the buckle and he's getting ready to jump. He just turns to the crowd and he just goes, Come on, P W G And it's like For me, that's always been

uh death when when a wrestler is is l verbally asking me to cheer for him. Right. Instead of, you know, show don't tell, instead of doing something performance wise to draw that reaction out of me. Right. Um and I just remember especially in that moment just being like S he lost a step somewhere. Something something happened. I don't know what Uh yeah. And then he his he, you know, got left in the the dryer too long or whatever. Um Oh Vince, you are cold blooded.

But uh yes, I think that I think Clark Connors and uh Gabriel have uh have a bright future. I also love how much T V time Mark Davis is getting. Mm-hmm. Uh it's like fucking um Doyle who used to be Jake something, right? I think that was yeah from the Indies. Uh yeah, bummer that he already fucking Messed his arm up.

Who did? Doyle? Yeah, he like last week or the week before he like tore his tore his arm. You gotta be fucking shitting me. Oh God, what a nightmare. Yes a bummer. But you know the crazy thing about um Braun and his fucking hernia is like that they're like he'll probably be back by mania. It's so weird like how sh shit like Like um I'm sure everything, but but hernia surgeries and like hip replacements. You know, it's like I remember my my dad got he had like

at least two hernia surgeries. And the first one it was like you're you're staying in the hospital, whatever. The second one, about two after two hours after it's done, they're like, get up. Like and and you they like, you know, it's just And and I see people getting their hip replaced and like the the day after they they're up, you know. They're not like fucking doing a backflip, but they're like, you know, it's just like the advance in

All that shit. So it's like a hernia surgery now is like, yeah, he he could very well be ready to go by by WrestleMania, you know. I mean I guess that's I guess that's the way it is with Advancements in medicine and technology, huh? Yeah. I'm sure and I and obviously that

It it's not just those two. I just happen to have like some working knowledge of those two. But No, I mean uh like I've just my own family history. It's like, you know, my my my grandfather who I never met because he died of a heart attack. you know, in like nineteen sixty eight or sixty seven. Yeah. Um and now it's like both my parents have both have they both have stints. My my my dad's got like uh has he's on his second pacemaker, you know, it's just like

No, we're but we're both on a medicine that's just like your thing. Right. You know? It's like so it's just yeah, it's it's curious if Um if the payoff to this m uh most recent current hooded figure Is it is Seth Brawlins. Obviously not right now, it's not, but it's supposed to be. And then it ends up being him and Breaker.

So is that why that happened at the Rumble? Because he had a hernia? Um, apparently not. Apparently he has been this isn't completely uncommon. You know, sometimes guys just are working through something like that, but then hit like his Like he he just had a uh you know, it got much worse or something. Um, whether it was from yo, Penny and Ausch. What's up, girl? What you doing?

Penny Pinchu and had any good uh any good chicken recipes, Penny? Uh dude, we we had a like a a a a a like a soy teriyaki chicken last night and Glenis as soon as we sat down at the table, Glennis just goes None of us leave this none of us leave this table. If there's if there's a car crash outside, we leave them to die. Um Yeah, so I think it it was just a situation where it got to a point where it's like I we gotta you gotta get it fixed.

Okay. Um alleged. I can't believe they they did him so dirty at that Royal Rumble. I'm I'm shocked. You know, I don't it doesn't advance a storyline even though they they made it into an angle. It's just like that's not the the like I don't know man. Unless at that point they were like rounds is gonna be ready and and you're you're here, so we can we can start this now and that way you don't have to go into the rumble and lose.

It's funny. That's the other thing they used to always say is Vince doesn't like starting angles in the Royal Rumble. And I'm like First of all That's what you always expected. It's like I'm like that's so it's I'm like That's the madness. That's the m that was that was the madness of trying to work there and write for that guy. When you would hear these these statements and you're like, but that happens every year. Yeah. But I'll be in trouble if I pitch that.

Well, it's funny now having watched um Undeclared. Uh undeclared. I still haven't gotten to it. And um to just to see like oh Like it it doesn't it does not put Triple H in a in a great light and then you hear like how much stuff is changing. And it's like, Oh, all right. So it we're back not n not necessarily like two hours before, but like Um, you know, the thing right now, right, is just hearing about how like like stuff's getting switched around for mania.

Because ticket sales are not like I like I was saying before, that guy who kept contacting me from on location. I'm right. This has never happened. They've never chased. They've never chased. I'm like, so something's up. I love it. Have they have they finally priced people out? Uh well, at least based on yeah not having any a card other than one match now. But but it's so it's just weird that you would if if you know if that's what is happening, that Triple H is like

Scrambling about a card that no one even knows. It's not that's not in fact that's not impacting the the ticket sales. Um I did see yesterday it they've I think they have come down Somewhat. I s I look at that shit all the time. Of course. I look at tickets. I study tickets. Um looking at sneakers. Sneakers, comic books.

Trading cards. Trading cards. Um Then you turn to cooking and you're like, All right, all right, let's go. Can we go now? Um so yeah, I think in certain spots they've you know, I think they're gonna have to slowly If they wanna get to the get to sixty or fifty or whatever the fuck it's supposed to be in there, you know.'Cause what is what what are we looking at? Obviously we have punk and Roman. Mm-hmm. That feels like a WrestleMania main event. Yeah.

Then the other one is at this point Cody and Drew. Cody and Drew. Um with I don't know about that. With the possibility of a of a Fa two. Cody and Drew and maybe Fa two. Um, but again, with everything, you know, with you know, seemingly Triple H uh catching some strays, who knows, man? They've got the elimination chamber and they can fucking rework the whole thing if they want on the other side, you know? I mean Buck. I don't at this point Roman and Punk might be the biggest match they can do.

Cody is still a huge star, no doubt about it. Has lost a little bit of steam, maybe an imperceptible amount of steam, but has lost some steam nonetheless. Punk versus Cody, is that a bigger match than Punk versus Roman? Well, Not after last Monday. Because that fucking interaction last Monday, to me, I was like any any concerns I had, I was like, Oh fuck, all right. I mean obviously they got plenty of time to screw it up, but but that interaction, I was like, this is fucking this is hot yeah um

But but maybe that's you know, maybe that like Roman could have done that with anybody. Um Maybe. You know what's funny is what came through my feed was um I forgot about this. I don't even remember everybody that was in the ring, but it was it w it was Roman and John Cena doing a promo segment. Years ago. And Roman was floundering. Well that's the one. Um I'm not sure what I do. At one point, Cena goes

It's called a promo, buddy. You got you gotta learn how to cut one. Otherwise this isn't gonna work. Yeah, which is like so rude. The Raws we're watching right now, you know, like even Stone Cold's is not like No. Batten a thousand yet. You know, like and and rock. You know, there so you know, there is a there's a little bit of a curve there, but when you when you got the other the guy on the other side just straight calling you out. Um...

That's I mean, but that's that's the Vince McMahon era for you, the just the fucking on air bullying. Bullies. Oh, I hate bullies. That's the other thing. You hear Vince McMahon be like, I hate bullies. It's like, what the fuck are you talking about? Who the f like I can't even imagine like Like there's an episode of The Simpsons.

Where it's like Homer, do you remember what happened last night? And then it cuts to Homer's memory. And it like it looks like a New Yorker cartoon, like it's all sophisticated and stuff. Yeah. Like I can't even begin to imagine Vince McMahon's perception of himself and

His interactions. Dude. When he looks at himself in the mirror, he's like, Mm, perfect. Oh. Wouldn't change a goddamn thing. Mm. God, fucking amazing. But yeah, no, I mean Cody and Drew, uh and and again, to your point, after that Punk and Roman promo. It it it brings my interest in Drew down several notches. It's like Uh well, you know, I I can see that. I mean I yeah love Drew, but yes, they definitely in in in doing their thing they shit all over him. They shit all over Drew.

And they kind of shit all over SmackDown. Yeah. You know? The fucking B show and the B champ. Who gives a shit? And it's so odd because it's like And then they go right into Roman, it's it's a personal issue. I hate you. It's like, then why take a dump on the other main event? Yeah.

Yeah. It it uh it's and then after that I'm just like I'm hard pressed to think of like I mean, because the women is gonna be what? It's gonna be live and Who's the who's the champ? Is it Stephanie? Is it Well, I mean the interaction last night was with Vakur. Yeah. I think is the is the other one's Cargill and you don't even know it's her because she's she's wrestled since she had the belt like Four times or something. Jesus Christ. Um

So and you hope it's not like you don't wanna see anybody or excuse me, I don't wanna see anybody work with her, uh,'cause it's just not gonna be like who's who can get a match out of her. Um So uh you gotta hope it's Liv and and Stephanie because that at least is good. That's hot. Yeah. And then you hope that somehow uh Um Jade just loses the belt before then and they can make a match like a I mean what, they do Jade and Rhea Ripley? I mean is that

'Cause Rip'cause Rhea's the biggest star they got. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. What are you doing? Are you looking to leave? Uh oh. Penny? Was it something I said? She can't hear me She can't hear it. Ooh, now cinch that headlock in. Cinch it in. Make sure it's not a choke. Oh, the tongue came out for a second. This dog is outrageously cute. Come on now, Penny the Pincher. Penny Pincher.

Yeah, man, it's it's a strange uh it's so funny. I really I think I go I go to bed on Monday nights, wrestling's on the brain. I know I'm gonna be talking to you in the morning. Mm-hmm. And it's like I woke up You know, just thinking about like Man, remember when the rock was around? Like what the fuck? Like all of a sudden I just started having flashes.

Of like he you I'm like, so did he get Cody's soul? Like what happened with that? Like him holding the belts on that one raw where he's just like, Can I hold your belts? you know? Well it's also funny that um So strange that f forever It was like, oh, WrestleMania is when like the the real stars come back. They have to have at least somewhat, you know. And so that has tapered off.

And now they're, you know, uh and other things that were hot for them are not. And so like I wonder, you know, what what the feeling is is is Triple H going, uh, if we could just get Well, I mean c yeah, because that's the thing. It's like they've run out of old stars.

And that's good. I mean, but but here's the thing, make some. No kidding. You know, it's like That's the problem. Have like mania can be Jacob Fatou's an uh anointment. It can be Braunbreaker's. You know, it's like and instead They're like, we got these three guys who we think are it, and they are, but but it's like For how long? You know, like and and it's like here's your big fucking show. Like Yeah. And it's also it's just it's weird too of like you retire AJ before mania?

He doesn't have a final appearance at Mania or I mean that's that it was a weird one, yeah.'Cause that's at least somebody you can have It was like AJ's thinking about retiring. AJ's thinking about it. Oh, AJ's done. Yeah. Which almost leads me to believe I'm like

So where does Gunther fit in on Mania? And it's and now you've also set it up, it's like You almost have to put him in there with someone that he's going to retire. It's like, I mean the Brock? I mean, the Brock or Randy. It just it feels like who's ever Like, is at that point where it's just like thinking about thinking thinking thinking about Baby's deal. Randy got a big old deal. I don't think it can be Randy.

I mean unless but Randy's the one guy that they would completely blow up the Gunther train and just have him lose at Mania to Randy. I mean, what's great is fucking so Austin has been announced for the world, you know, like making the appearance at their like Russell Khan. Oh, at the yeah, the rest uh the autograph show. They're like, uh Steve.

We wanna we wanna get you in there with Gunter. And he's like, that's fine. I won't be taking any chops though. I mean No chops for me. Couple of solid ass cats. I'm just looking uh-huh. This is last year's mania, okay? Okay. This is the f the first match on the first night. Jusso submitted Gunther. That was n match one night one? Match one night one last year. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So that is that feels like

A lifetime ago. Yeah. That that that not only that Jay Usu is going to be Gunther, but that he would fucking submit him. Yeah. Um. Because he's another one. Because I mean, Jay is Oh god, I hate this. I can't the like I can't be mad when they like Whether whether it's because people like saying eat or whatever, they they went with they went with the people and they're like, let's let's try this. Like I can't like I'm never gonna hate on that, even if it didn't work out.

Well, it's uh uh uh uh no, no, you're a hundred percent right. As usual. Thank you. I think what it is for me is um okay, I've seen it. You know? Well, he's he's back in the tag team ranks with his brother, man. They're they're back he's back fanning on stream. Yeah, but th now th but now all that means is now there's gonna be two of'em.

Doing the fucking thing. They did say last night that, you know, Jimmy's like, I'm with like I said I think Jay's either in the chamber or trying to get in the chamber or whatever, and so he's like a His brother's always been in full support of him, no matter what, you know.

Like Yeah. Even if it hurts the team. But but that that that's done. There's no like it's not like Jay Uso is gonna be back in a in a match like that. No, no. I'm it's it's honestly it's just me realizing uh I gotta sit through his entrance again. It's just uh'cause I mean like if you go all the way back to I mean it was the last time we saw Hulk Hogan at the the the first Raw on Netflix in the Intuit Dome. Yeah.

Who did he come in with? Jay Uso? He came in with some hip hop star who was um it was uh Cactus Jack. It was um Who's Travis? Travis Scott. Travis Scott. Travis Scott just straight up smoking a blunt in the building. Big old reef coming through. Well when you know some people can do whatever they want.

Amen. Uh uh it's it's medicinal, okay? He's he's got a doctor's note. We know that. His doctor said he had to do this. The Horian. Frank Zahorian. The physician at Ringside, Dr. George Zahorian. George, George. George Zahorian. Now what? I think he is. Uh i if not he is he's he's the like the guy that I went to when I first got to California who didn't even pause his golf video. You having trouble uh with your appetite? Mm. He put the put the uh

Blood pressure cuff on me, didn't even inflate it. He's like, Yeah, all right. Out. And so you're just like, this guy has a has a doctor's degree from somewhere that he's decided it's better for him to make sixty bucks every three minutes. Right. Um I remember the place I went to to get my medical license, it was like not my medical license, my my medical marijuana prescription. Yeah. Was um Was it on Melrose? Yeah, probably. Right.

There was like a there was like a place where they were like, That's where you need to go to get your script. Yeah, which is probably where I went then too. A hundred percent. And and it was like, you know, talk to a a a a lady doctor for five seconds. And then I went into another room with some dude who's just like filling out all I remember is the the dude in the room was just like

He was like warning me about um the federal government and he's just like he's like, You gotta put this in the trunk of your car because uh you know, they they cannot open the trunk of your car. Wow. Just like all this stuff. He's like that's why are you paranoid?

I'm like, I ain't even fucking bought anything yet. He's he's he's he hasn't even handed me the prescription. He's like, You gotta put this stuff in the trunk of your car. Yeah, I uh I also remember down on Venice Beach there was like, you know, there's those like stalls and one of'em was like a

And you know, it was almost just like off Gilligan's Island, you know, with like a little hand painted like uh just the the jankiest looking doctor's office you've ever seen. Hey, uh, can you take a look at my elbow? Oh, that's not what we do here, dude. today, as it was, as it were, uh Statlander Thekla in a strap match, man. Dude. Is that gonna be a little too violent for you? No. No, you ready for that? It's just the right amount of violence for me, dude. And we are so fucking lucky.

I wanna look at this dynamite card. Oh yeah, dude. I wanna look at this dynamite card. So far we've got a tag team championship number one contenders. Status match with the Bucks, the Rascals, and a team to be named later. Bro. We've got Tommaso Ciampa versus Kyle Filecher.

We got Afrob. How do how do you how do you how do you get so lucky? The strap match. Because well here's the thing. Like just look at these Dynamite cards have just been fucking It's unbelievable. I'm like There is I ha I hate to keep just comparing the two, but I'm like there's there's no there's no scenario where I'm gonna walk into a raw or a smackdown.

And be like, Oh, they're gonna do what?'Cause even even on paper, even if it is a match I'm interested in, you're like, they're gonna fuck me somehow, you know. Oh, we also get a f a fucking um Uh I think there's a there's a face to face too. Uh with whom mum. Because you got we're catching Tommaso Ciampa. He's like he's out the door of the E. And this is this is a guy who Kenny and Swerve face to face. Oh baby. We got to see Nana. Oh yeah. Don't throw coffee on me, Nana. You son of a bee.

Their interview with was it with Renee last week was was fantastic. You know my only issue with that was she was like, you know, my guest at this time, s where no Nana gets no introduction. Well, he wasn't the guest. He did a lot of the talking. Yeah. Can we please Hey man make sure everyone's clear on who's whom and where and why? Hey man. Don't get hot. Remember. Remember your blood pressure. I won't I won't do it. I won't do it.

Uh we're no doubt gonna see members of the Don Callis family in other Uh hopefully we see Don, his ugly self. But my God, Kyle Fletcher and Tommaso Ciampa, that is gonna be a fucking They uh it's probably gonna be a nice long two segment match. A war Wait, what's wrong? Do you need to leave? Penny, what's going on? He's making noises. Did you not poop yet? Trying to record, now don't do it in the chair. Do not shit the chair. Oh, oh, oh. Don't shit the chair.

You gotta cinch it in. If you want the shit to come out. Um God damn man. Yeah, man. I'm fucking amped, dude. I'm fucking amped. Let me just check one more thing because I don't I hate to you know, come come too later and be like, Ah, man, I forgot to mention that. Does Cabana know we're coming? Does Nana know we're coming, man? I mean, i they're gonna roll out the red carpet for us. Yeah. Does Brody know we're gonna be there, man? Eh we'll all find out together. We we are hilarious. We just

We just wanna watch the wrestling show. We don't wanna talk to anybody. We don't wanna the la the last time I was there, there was there was more than one offer to go backstage. I'm like, I'm all right, I'm just watching the show. You know, like Like like I just want to watch the show. Okay. Okay. So here's one thing I wanted just wanted to bring up. Not not to skew negative, but Oh boy. It's the positive attitude error, dude. Man, like Becky Lynch.

I mean, I'm glad she's getting acting roles, but her on the show now, it's like her last night with A.J. Lee, it's just It's so over the top. Like, like she's she's so mad. Like she's so frustrated. She's so I'm just like, uh, this is not good. This is not good. It's been that way for a while with her, dude. Yeah. It's just like Yeah. She's she's a fucking she's a ham and it's and not in a good way. Like super duper ham. It's it's it's almost she's veer veering into like

Shawn Michaels versus Hulk Hogan territory of like I'm like, Are you like making fun of me for watching this? You know what I mean? Yeah. No, it's it's like it's just uh it's too much. It's way too much. No. I also feel like they're slowly And also b h hold on to that one point. And AJ Lee is also somebody that I'm like, there couldn't be

anybody in all of professional wrestling that is there more blatantly for a paycheck and does not give a fuck. Whether it comes across on the T V or not, I'm just like, this person hates Triple A. Like They fucked up their wedding day. Okay. No, and I love that it just came up. Uh in the last couple of days because Kevin Nash talked about it. Yes. He's like, Yeah, he's like, Oh, the reason that I didn't end up wrestling punk after that interaction was because

Punk said something off script about Triple H and Stephanie or whatever. And so when I got to the back, Triple H is like, You're not wrestling him. I'm fucking wrestling him and I'm gonna beat him. You know? So it's like

Um yeah, but but you know Kevin's very quick to be like, But if you're not in the business you don't understand, if you're making money, how quickly these things go away, you know how Oh sure no, no hard feelings. All they're all professionals. No resentment. Please. Um Uh meanwhile, every wrestler ever

When when of that generation or before, when Melter gets brought up, they still get fucking steam coming out of their ears because he has the audacity to rate their matches. I feel like they are slowly It's there's something slowly happening with Adam Pierce. Because last week when he like he basically um

Like fucked braun. Yeah. And then last night, when he came out with those guys, he's like, Come on, get out of here. Like, he there's like Some tweaking of whether he's gonna be like a heel or he's gonna be a little more dominant or they're like But also just the like the like the punk and Finn Balor interaction where he's just like Don't screw up my main event, don't make me regret this And it's just like They can't, they, like,

All we need is Jack Tunney. We just need somebody to be like, I'm making the match and then go the fuck away. The they cannot help themselves but make it a character. Yeah, I feel like it's almost gonna be like, you know, they're trying to build up to like him versus not not in a match, but it's just like this thing with where it's him versus Heyman in the vision. Like like it's a thing, you know? Right. And it's like It's because it's because the people who are in administrative roles

are the ones who are in charge of the show. They actually think like creatively, they're in charge of the creative of the show. Whether they're aware of it or not, they start thinking, Well, the most interesting person on the show is the guy who's booking everything, obviously. That's that's what everybody's interested in.

You know? That the I mean the guy with all the power. That's that's where the fucking money is. I just feel like th this should be the show. We should have a fucking show where they follow us around booking the show. This is it would do better than the show. Uh I hear you, bro. I feel you. Yeah, yeah. Something something's something's going on and it needs to stop.

Um, did you catch that parking lot uh brawl with um Kingston and them? When the hell was that? Oh, was that collision? I think it was Yeah, no, I didn't get to that yet. Good. Uh, I mean it was it was cool. Oh okay. It wasn't like a blow away or anything, but it was but it was a good time. Little little fucking Well, if only they had had Chuck Taylor in there, might have gotten five stars.

I just don't want nobody to get hurt. Nobody nobody needs to get hurt. Probably one of the greatest tweets of all time was Chuck Taylor to Brian Danielson. I think it was after he got That five star match. Uh-huh. Um But he was also like Chuck. Wrestled on like a New Japan card and like Brian was just like, Whoa, Chuck's wrestling for New Japan? He's like he's like, Hey and I'm P W G champion. Shit's crazy on the Indies since you left. So something like that. Yeah.

Things have changed. Maybe you ain't heard. I don't shine shoes no more. Mm. That's what Bernsey said to me. You know, maybe we go backstage just just so we can corner Chuck and be like, Hey man, this retirement, same working, okay? Your neck is fine. Okay? You need to get in there with Sandman. Give him a hell of a final match. None of this invisible man bullshit. We'll talk to Tony. Tony will talk to Brett.

Do the right thing. Give s give Sandman a a great retirement. Surely you can work with Sandman. That's not gonna impact your neck. Come on, your neck is fine. You can take a few dings from that fucking cane on the head. Come on. It's not gonna compress shit. Trent, you too. You can do a run in. I think it should have been Sam Stackhouse versus the same man. If anything, for Sam's final final match, he should come out in the the wetsuit. Full circle, bro. Full circle. They

Yeah. Remember when he was the surfer? That's why he was the sandman. He loved the beach. I mean, I I only remember hearing that that's what had happened. I don't I have no recollection of him that other than maybe seeing something post, but

Um maybe I think those I think those ECWs were on the network. Yeah. I just mean I think I think I've seen stuff subsequently, you know. But uh Uh maybe Tejiri comes over for the for the spring break or something, you know, even though he looks like an old lady now, but Man.

Hey, no but uh we'll we'll we'll bring in uh oh well who's where's Horomu headed? Hm. I don't even know, dude. I mean he may just be be he may just be done wrestling. He may just be hanging out with fucking uh um Uh who's the other one? Nito.'Cause it seems like Nito doesn't really work anywhere either. He's just kicking it. Isn't NITO isn't he the champ somewhere? Isn't he in NOAA or DDT or something?

Maybe, but I don't does he is he under contract to anybody? I don't know. I think he is. I think that's why it was I mean, obviously he left under auspicious circumstances, but that's why it was such a big deal that he came back for the Tanahashi thing. Hey man. Hey man. Hey man. Paul Hey man. I'm Paul Hey man. Uh, Vincent, I got to know. Big Bam Brody King. Oh, right? Yeah. Actually that's a good call.

Hopefully we maybe he'll do a tune up match before they leave for Australia, you know? He's hot right now. They gotta fucking roll him out. Tony knows what's what's best. Yeah, you know what? My favorite wrestler is also Big Bad Brody King. Van Nuys his own. It could be like I know you're gonna be like Glennis, here's the chalk clever strawberries, here's the flowers. Now sit down. We're about to watch Grand Slam Australia. That's right. Also the la th they're in LA.

G CW's this weekend, isn't it? Oh yeah. I gotta go to a wedding. These fuckers, man. Someone's having their wedding on Valentine's Day. So I gotta go to a wedding. It's a little on the nose. A little on the nose. A little on the nose. No chance of the Nothing but the best to the bride and groom. Of course, of course. But you know, no chance that the reception's gonna move over to the Ukraine, unfortunately. Hey, not with that attitude. Vincent.

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