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four daily figure four daily with Lance Storm on the website. Nope, nope, nope. But he will be on with us tomorrow on Rustling Observer Alive. That doesn't help you out today, but don't worry. There is something to help you out today and to help me out today. Filthy Tom Lawler is going to be joining me, and we got a lot to get into. I don't know if he watched that next to you last night. I don't even know if we're going to get into that next day. You probably not. I believe
that he did. He's given me the thumbs up right now, and we're gonna get his thoughts on that. But I want to get his thoughts on Amazon taking Monday Night Raw. I know he was a proponent of Amazon getting it, I'm sorry, but Netflix. What he thinks about Netflix getting it? He was a proponent of Amazon getting it the last time we talked on the show. We'll get his thoughts on that. We have the lineup for Dark Side of the Ring, making it a return to Vice TV. We
actually have a ten show lineup. We'll get to some of the names that are on the docket for this year. We have John Cena announcing that he would love to wrestle his final WWE match in England. And we have Kazuchko Okada leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling without putting over somebody from this generation. Got a ton of other stuff to get into as well, because Dynamites tonight and we'll get it all started and when we get back Wrestling Observer Live.
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Welcome back to the show. Mike sempervv here with you. You know, we do this show right here for an hour at a time every single day, but if you want us twenty four to seven, you can try to find us on Twitter, slash x. I am at semper vv, Tomas at Filthy, Tom Lawler, Brian is at Brian Alvarez. The timeline for this show is at won F four w and the broadcasters at Sports Byline USA. Jim Valley is at Jim Valley. He'll be here with you on Saturday Live every single Saturday, one pm Eastern time, ten
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I am doing good. What a overload of information there, Mike, much like there is NonStop in the world of professional wrestling. You mentioned Dynamite tonight. You mentioned NXT last night, which I did watch the Hulu version. I snuck it in there.
Uh.
The final match of Kazuchka Okada and Corrican Hall a very emotional time in front of the fans and backstage for the New Japan wrestlers.
The It was emotional for me hoping that he would put Fajeta over on the way out. I'll say that I knew he wouldn't, but.
Come on, I cannot believe. I cannot believe anyone thought still that Okada was going to lose to Mikey Nichols, Shane Haste or Fujiita. Hey, listen, Fujina. Fujina is zero and two against me. Do you think he's beating Okata.
Look to me, it's the explanation, exclamation point on the bad year that they had booking Kazuo Okada and how he did not put anyone over, whether their name was Kato Kiemia or whether it was Shooter, or whether it was Suji or anybody not even in a tag team encounter. So I knew he wasn't going to put Fajita over, but it was, you know, the hope and maybe the slight, you know, possibility that he slips on a banana peel.
But I guess his l is going to have to come at the hands of Hiroshi Tanahashi, or does it? Does he lose to ton of Hashi, Does he lose to Ace President before he departs for North America?
I think he wins?
Really really? Is that not then really getting into some sort of malpractice if you're the new president of New Japan and the company itself and Gato the booker who has got enough going against him, frankly in my opinion, but.
I believe that's not his final match.
It's still does he lose to Tanahashi? He doesn't lose to Tanahashi, I.
Don't think so, Oh my god. But I'm quite often wrong.
Well, he is going to show up, but they have the ceremony dates or they have something going on at the end of February, right the twenty second, the twenty fourth. I think he said he's he's going to be making shows. I believe those days, am I? Am I crazy about that? Did I?
I believe that's true. There's also been announced a new girlas of Destiny versus Old Gorillas of Destiny matchup with LP and Hiccoleo taking on Toma Tonga and Tonga Loa. It's another interesting match.
There.
Are we going to see Tamatonga as a good brother?
I mean, you know, that's probably the best slot for him, I would imagine, both for him and for all the people involved, you know what I mean. He's still got plenty left in the.
Tank, absolutely, and it's brand new for people here. I mean he really is when he gets right down to it, especially to that fan base. He's brand new.
Yeah. And there was no one that had aj Styles back despite what the club said, unless we find out that they were beat up and left laying by the blood line once again. Backstage, nobody came to aj Styles aid on SmackDown as two plus million people worldwide.
So he's the Ridge Holland of SmackDown. He's got to do it all himself. You saw NXT last night, you know that reference Ridge Holland all alone facing Gallus by himself.
You know what didn't make Earth? What did not make the Hulu version?
What's that.
Ridge Holland and Gallas.
Well, there was no match or anything like that, but there was a a promo that he cut backstage with Kelly Kincaid where he talked about facing Gallas. He had his cup of coffee in his hand and he talked about facing Gallas all on his own, and he walks off and then she sat there shocked. So maybe that Ridge can hook up with AJ at some point. And you know, it would be better for AJ if they were partners, because then the risk of him getting hurt would go down. But up, Thank you, thank you, filthy,
You're very welcome. All right. Dark Side of the Ring officially making its return to Vice TV in March. This story up on the main page of the website. Was announced today that season five of Dark Side of the Ring will premiere on Tuesday, March fifth, ten pm Eastern Time.
Ten episodes in the season, The topics that will be covered Gentleman Chris Adams, sensational Sherry Martell, Bam Bam, Terry Gordy, Black Saturday, Vince McMahon's purchase of Georgia Cha being Chip Wrestling in nineteen eighty four leading to WWF getting the
six ZHO five Saturday night time slot. Chris Colt, which is something, the Sandman, Earthquake, Harley Race, Buff Bagwell and Brutus, Beefcake, Filthy and maybe time that we get the third member of Team Filthy, Greg the Hammer Valentine on to talk a little bit about Beefcake and he can talk a little bit about Beefcake's wife, which I've heard they don't like each other very much, but that bay be a story for a different time. What do you think about
this line up here? And there are some names that are from my generation growing up, like Chris Adams and Black Saturday and you know some things like that, you know you're a little younger, Do those names stick out to you? Do those stories about have they traveled through time? About how crazy Chris Adams was?
Brother? What you read that list off? All I could think to myself was we or scrape in the bottom of the barrel. Here is what we have left for Dark Side of the Ring. I want to hear some scandals. I want to hear about some nefarious doings by unscrupulous characters.
I think you're gonna hear that.
I don't think this is at the level of anything that we've seen in the past seasons.
The Erics, well, yeah, yeah, the Von Erics. I mean we've had some We've had some heavy stuff. We've had New Jack, We've had you know, the the bizarreity that was the life of of Eddie Graham and Matt Bourne.
We had from h Double hockey Sticks.
We had Marty Jannetti, we had you know, we had we had that one. Look, Chris Adams is a story that I think, you know, coming off the Von Erics movie.
Now maybe the time I'm to actually lead off with that one, because he was a world class story and yes he was in many other territories, but he has got some of the nastiest stuff, including a prison stint he had to do for headbutting a co pilot I believe it was of a plane that ended up getting him arrested, and a notorious drinker and drugger Chris Adams was, so I have a feeling that that is going to be quite the interesting story when it comes to him.
Terry Gordy Again, that's an interesting story I think as well too. That again, when you look at the name dark Side of the Ring, there was a dark side over Terry Gordy.
Where's a story about Ricky Dozan? Well, you know, there's plenty of things that they could talk about, and instead, just like just like us, there's scrape at the bottom of the barrel.
They are, they are, and you are the Chris Cult of the show. Dothy Don Waller. We'll be back. Rustum's over live.
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Throwing things around over here, Mike semper Viv Filthy Tom Lawler here with your Wrestling Observer Live. I just look down at the chat here, the Twitch chat, people talking about what would be better stories, what are going to be good stories? DJ Cowboy Chris Adams has a darker story than you might suspect. Yes, he does. Everybody. That is going to be a very very dark story. That
is for absolutely sure. You know, Ashley Massaro, you know, that is probably one that I don't know, you know, it's if people are willing to talk about that one. You know, that's one that obviously, with the name Dark Side of the Ring did not end very well. Art Bar would be very interesting as well too. You know, Art Barr is one of those guys that I'm always surprised, and I get it because he was such a star
in Mexico and he was Eddie Guerrero's friend. But I'm surprised he his past and some of his past transgressions get you know, kind of dusted under and we celebrate Art Bar a lot more. Hey, look, Dom's wearing his shirt and all that sort of stuff. I don't know, I was always kind of shaky with him, but he
probably would make a pretty good one too. Tom. I don't know, you know, for you what are some ones that really stick out and you go, you know, they probably should do this as opposed to Harley Race or Buff Bagwell or Brutus Beefcake.
You know, we were talking during the break, as we sometimes do, and I know that they did a history of FMW, but you know, kind of in the same vein as one along the lines of Ricky Doz and I think you could have one about Hayabusa. You could have one about and this also stems from FMW in a way. You could have Shinya Hashimoto stealing for Yuki's
wife after his funeral. There's a number of things the Noah Exodus, of course, which had major ramifications business wise and personal wise for a lot of wrestlers.
R F running away from Perverted Justice, still running shows here he is people still uh doing signings for him and whatnot. Oh, it's just you know, not to say anything, just pointing that out, but uh, you know, plenty of things could end up on Dark Side of the Ring. We should problem.
You and I could end up on there one day, Mike, if we play our cards correctly.
And we get Brian thrown under the bus, I guess we possibly could be on there. They could come to us and talk about that. Look, you have the right idea of why have they not done dark Side of MMA? They did a deal about the UFC, did they not about in the nineties? Dark Side Vice of the nineties? Dark Side of the nineties? They did something? I mean, if you think about it, I mean, MMA, there are so many stories Tom that we just we know because we've been around for so long, in fans for so
long and around it. You know, that took place in the nineties that people today have no idea about. And there are just so many stories from the nineties and before that nobody really knows about. I mean, it sounds terrible to say, but much like boxing, I mean, MMA is a pretty ripe world to have a dark side series about it.
Yeah, I mean, any sport in which one competitor, Gary Goodrich, perhaps as one of by twisting another man's genitals with his foot back in the nineties, I think any sport that contains a finish like that deserves to have a dark side series about it.
And we said it felt like crunchy peanut butter, do you remember that? That's what he said. That's what Gary Goodrich said. And the thing is, and this is gonna sound terrible, I don't know if Gary Goodwich would remember
saying that, and because he's had so much damage. And that's another thing about that series that you could do with so many of those guys from that Pride era, which in some ways was spectacular, but my god, the amount of punishment these men took and how they went into fights, yeah, when they absolutely should not have.
And we talked about just names during the break as well, like Mark Coleman, Mark Kerr, Phil Baroni, Unfortunately Randman, Kevin Randleman, Stephan Bonner. There's a number of guys and there's a number of incidents as well. Lee Murray, the most notorious perhaps criminal in the history of the world, was a UFC fighter. There's a number of incidents, a number of characters.
Well, the Hickson Gracie Yogi Ajo's story is not you know, is only really known for if you've really been following MMA. I mean a lot of people may not know that story anymore. And really, I mean Hickson Gracie alone as a as a figure for a story could be very interesting.
Yeah, for those of you that don't know what Mike's talking about, yog and Joe, who was a UWF wrestler, flew over to the US to do a dojo challenge. He went to Hickson's dojo and wanted to fight him, and they fought behind closed doors and the only photographs after the event are of yog and Joe just absolutely destroyed beating up looks like a member of the Goonies instead of his normal self.
Baby Ruth. Oh, it's terrible, absolutely terrible. Mister two hundred Yogian Joe was never the same again after that, that is for sure. I mean, hey, look, Akure ma Ada, could you do one show on him? I mean one show was enough for the American fan base. I mean you gotta ease him in slowly. But I mean, if this was a Japanese series, you might be able to do six parks on Maida, couldn't you.
CML versus Deep.
Well, yeah, Alberto del Rio Das Carras Junior fighting with a mask on in Pride against Marco crow Cop. You know that's something that again, you know, unless you were around in the what was it the two thousand and five, two thousand and six, I guess that fight took place. I can't even remember anymore, but that seems like it's lost in time now.
Yeah, one of the early Pride bushetos if I remember correctly.
Hey, super Porky at in Mma fight?
Sure did El Solar fought Suzuki? Yeah, there were a number of Lutradors and we didn't even touch upon the Mexican scene. When we were talking about what could be on Dark Side of the Ring. So yeah, yeah, I don't think that the series it self needs to be put to rest, but I think they could have done a better job this season or choosing subjects.
Be interesting to see how all of it plays out, and that is going to begin on March fifth, Tuesday, March fifth for people who have Vice TV. Unfortunately with YouTube TV, of all of the channels that they have, Vice is not one of them, So I'll have to figure out another way to see those shows.
Where does Dark Side eventually end up, Mike? Does it end up on Peacock? Does it end up on Hulu? Does it end up on maybe Netflix? Perhaps maybe somebody with all those subscriptions out there can let me know.
Yeah, you find out where that does end up. I know it's available for purchase through YouTube after the fact. But speaking of all of these streaming services, Tom, the last time you were on, we talked about what if Raw went to a streaming service, and I expressed my concerns over it. I gotta be honest, a lot of those concerns, I mean, in all reality go bye by because of the amount of money that they're going to bring in. I mean If they kill RAW, no big
deal for the amount of money you got. If you're time to do something later, you can do something later. But I don't think they're going to kill RAW. And it ended up being on Netflix, which is a platform that Nick con had talked about wanting to get one of the WWE shows onto, and he has done that. Now it looks like it's going to be a much broader deal than just RAW. Obviously globally, it's going to encompass all of the shows and premium live events at
some point. But you had talked about preferring Amazon as a landing spot for Raw. What are your thoughts on them actually moving to streaming? Going to Amazon and we're going to Netflix, And are you disappointed about that?
I wouldn't said disappointed, but I thought that with the success that Amazon had seen with the NFL and having live programming on there, that they would have, you know, been the front runner. And I'm not the only one that thought that. I was surprised when I woke up and I saw that Netflix was the eventual landing space.
But like you mentioned, Mike, even if they kill RAW by moving it to Netflix, they're making so much money and by moving NXT to the CW network, They've opened themselves up to a completely new audience that perhaps they wouldn't have otherwise. So I don't think it's a bad idea to take this risk, if you can call it that. You know, one of the biggest things that I'm in true by now is the UFC has a right steal
that will be up somewhat soon. And is this a glimpse into the future of what the UFC will do? Will they divest their shows like they did in the past, Where we'd have UFC on Fuel, you'd have programming on Spike, they'd show up on Fox. I believe every once in a while. Are we gonna move back to something along those lines? ESPN now has the co leader I guess in mixed martial arts, the PFL and Bellator Union at least on their programming networks. So do we see the
UFC move away from ESPN? Do we see the UFC stay on ESPN and also add or move some of their programming to other networks? You know, the Netflix stock went way up today. Are other company's gonna see that and say, hey, we want a piece of this programming?
Yeah, it's it's really there's still some there. Again, it's fascinating for so many reasons that obviously don't have anything to do with inside the ring, which drives people nuts. But I'm really interested in that aspect of it and what happens with the WWE network, because we're going to have, as it stands right now, at the end of the year, we're gonna have a lame duck spot for raw and
putting it on the network. Look, they didn't announce the WWE network going to Peacock until January, and then it started up that March. You know, we'll get into more of this after the break because it gets some more thoughts on it, plus everything taking place on Dynamite tonight when we get back on Wrestling Observer Alive with anyway.
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Welcome back to the show, Mike semperviv Filthy, Tom Lawler here with you Wrestling Observer Live. Big boss Man Brian Alvarez will be back on the show tomorrow. We will be joined by Lance Storm tomorrow. We'll be making the
hot tag from Filthy. Will be here tomorrow, unless Brian's not here again tomorrow and we get another late text, but we'll see how that goes tom Before the break, I was talking about just being very enthralled with this deal and what the possibilities could be for the WWE network, which is going Their deal with Peacock is up in March of twenty twenty six, which means they're going to be doing a lot of negotiations one would assume this year and towards the end of the year we know
what the deal is going to be. When it comes to raw having a lame duck period, and I talked about it with Brian. To me, the smart idea is to put that show in its lane duck form on Peacock, because I'm sure Peacock would want the numbers. You know, they already have it anyway, they already have another WWE property.
I'm sure they would want those numbers for two months, and I'm nick con I'm sure I want them to have those numbers as well too, because I'm still shopping during that time my rights and what's going to happen with them, And I think with Netflix now being involved in this, like you were mentioning, when it comes to ESPN, yeah, it's great to have ESPN there for programming and content.
But one of the biggest advantages that you have is you have an incredible library, much like the WWE library, and then you also have that little addendum of the fact that you can sell pay per views as well too. But you know, I wouldn't think I had not thought about the UFC before this deal in their library being shopped around really to anyone other than Disney ESPN. But this really does open the door for that.
Not only the library, but the UFC Fight Pass still exists and still shows a number of regional MMA promotions, regional grappling promotions, college wrestling as well. And I don't know what the subscription numbers are for UFC Fight Pass, but I would hate to see those avenues of you know, money go away for these regional promotions. I would hate to see less coverage of MMA across the board. So I hope that fight Pass doesn't go the way of the dinosaur. I hope it doesn't even get swallowed up
by one of the bigger streaming networks. But you know, I'm sure it's not the highest priority on TKO Holding's list right now.
Well, it's definitely going to be a priority though, you know, as it goes along, because once this NBA deal gets settled, we're gonna know how much money everybody has left over, because it seems as if WBD really wants it, but doesn't want all of it because it's so damn expensive. Thing same thing with Disney, ESPN, same thing with other people wanting to get their hands in. They all want a piece of it, like it's the NFL, but nobody can afford to have all of it. So a huge
amount of money is going to get spent there. And obviously that's important when it comes to AW because it doesn't seem as though aw's deal is going to get done until the NBA's deal finally gets all wrapped up, So we'll have to keep our eye on that as we keep moving along. AW actually does have a show tonight, as we we mentioned earlier on Adam Copeland against Minora Suzuki in the Cope Opland Cope Open Challenge. I knew
it was going to do that. Will not repeat, not go picture and picture tonight on Dynamite tomm Are you excited about this? Tony Khan has announced it it will go commercial free, just like Samoa, Joe and Hook last week. What do you think about that?
Well, in a world where the term dream match is thrown around quite frequently and means very little in many cases, I would actually classify this as a dream match because never once when Edge was in the WWE and Suzuki was in New Japan. Did I imagine that these two would share the square circle? But now that it's scheduled, I can't think of it being any less than awesome.
Oh yeah, yeah, are you? I don't know ever thought about it either, And I don't hate it. I wish it could have happened five years ago. I think it could have been a lot more entertaining. And I'll say this, I've seen Manora Suzuki do Minora Suzuki so many times now, and I'm always happy when he comes over. I mean I was there live when he wrestled Janelle. I mean I've seen him wrestle so many people that were so
happy to wrestle him. And when he comes over to the States or he does matches like this, I mean that's what it's about. You know, a lot of people I hate the matches, boring this old guy whatever whatever. Like Nah, I get it for the people that are working, and I get it for the fans of these guys. But like I have seen every incarnation of this match. I don't know what they could do differently here, but
it is something different, I mean, that's for sure. And I don't know if you saw collision on Saturday night, But like they just threw this up at the end of the show as the Blackpool Combat Club Kingston or Tees match was going on. It just popped up on this screen and it like you popped the announcers. I don't know if you saw that or not, but it was like, I would have made a bigger deal out of this, and obviously they have on social media since.
But a funny way to to mention that you're doing this as the open challenge.
What else is on the show?
Mike ae W Trio's champions The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn defending against Brian Cage and the Gates of Agony, the former ro Oh World six Man Tag team champions. There is that the.
Gentleman who lost those belts to Billy Gunn in the acclaims new partners coincidentally Bullet Club Gold.
Do you like the Bang Bang Scissor Gang.
You know, if Juice is out for a while and it appears that that's the case, why not you know, we know White, I don't know, was he a heel against m JF.
He's then well no, no, not in my world. But that's it.
It's a difference ever since Card Blade showed up. This guy has had been a heel.
I do like card Juice. Card Juice is a nice addition to the group. No No Paper Champion. See what I did there. When it comes to Samoa Joe, who I would keep the R or the R o H, I would keep the AW World title on him forever. As it stands right now, we are going to have an appearance from him. We're going to hear from him his top two kid, two of the top contenders for his title, Hangman Out in Page and Swerve Strickland will
also be wrestling. Swerve will russell Jeff Hardy because he is still in one piece after facing Darby Allen this past Friday, and Hangman Out in Page will wrestle Penthal Zero Meadeo. So there is that Any thoughts on the title scene or any of those matches.
Yeah, I am a big fan of Hangman, Swerve, and Samoa Joe, all fighting to be the top star, the big man on campus, the top dog, the sweetest tooth, the most twisted metal, whatever you want to call it of AW. The more Samoa Joe the better, The more Hangman the better, the more Swerve the better. These guys have been great all of them for the past half a year, and I think that these are the three guys that should be in the title scene in AW.
Right now, I agree one hundred percent. And I like magnum Ap. I like this new version of Hangman Page. Look, I know there's I get it with the millennial cowboy thing. I understand all of that stuff. Look, I believe that Hangman out in Page more than any other wrestler is the heart and soul of AAW When he gets right down to it, that guy is AW and everything that it represents, and he represents all of their fans, and
I think he does a great job. It's still pro wrestling, and sometimes you still got to, like, you know, kick ass, and it's time for this guy to kick ass, especially basically being emasculated at the hands of Swerve Strickland. I mean, that's what happened with this whole deal with Swerve coming into his house and violating is his child and violating the home and all that sort of stuff. I mean, you know, and then to lose, to lose after drinking
this dude's blood. Come on, Hangman out in Page needs to be a badass and rebuilding him into that will be go a long way. And frankly, I know everybody wants to see Penta spots and I don't hate Penta or anything like that. I don't love him as much as a lot of people do. But all that stuff, take the glove off. How about hang Man just punches him in the face. How about that? How about that? We don't need a fifty to fifty match between these two guys of Hangman out in page is going to
be going for the title. Have him kick a lot of ass, because I swear I assume Swerve is gonna kick Harty's ass.
I believe practically the punch to the face is illegal, so maybe that's why hang Man shouldn't do it. But you get one at least right.
Exactly, it's like, you know, a fine he can take him and choke him for four seconds, pull him off, and then keep choking them and keep doing that until he's he's he's he's near he's near death, and then you can put him away with a Buckshot lariat or something like that. Wardlow faces off against Tramperetta. Probably gonna be a bad day for Trumperetta. He's going to get killed thunder Rosa against Red Velvet. I thought thunder Rosa
looked great. I enjoyed the match with Queen Amannada on Saturday. I'm a thunder Rosa fan. I hope she can acclimate herself into the mix well, and I hope that they can figure out something to do with her here. But Thunder Rosa and Red Velvet looks like Velvet may take her second straight loss. Coming back Tom seems like they're going to probably do a.
Lot of.
Red Velvets, feels, at least right now, and we'll see how this match with Rosa goes. I think maybe she's going to be on a little bit of a losing streak here to kind of build her up and change her character.
Seems to be a common theme that you can rely upon, and especially after I mean, it's not like she's a featured character week after week, but now she's been popping back up, been losing matches, So yeah, I would think there's some sort of character metamorphosis coming our way. Do we have anything announced with Tony Storm.
We do.
We're taking of character metamorphosis timeless. Tony Storm and Diana Parrazzo are going to have a face to face if you didn't see the programming from this weekend. Timeless Tony Storm has owned up to the fact that, yes, she does remember Deanna Parrazzo. Yes, does remember that she's a technical wizard, remembers their time in the Land of the Rising Sun. I don't remember Deanna being in stardom at the same time Tony does. But then again, my memories
bad and all that stuff doesn't matter. But they did some They did some explain in there.
I believe they did Russell like seven years ago to the day, maybe out of Parazzo's return.
I don't know.
You just had that one queued up you looking at cache.
May it might have been for the SWA belt.
Not sure, I'll be that is an amazing memory. The only thing I really remember from Tony Storm off the top of my head was the fact that she won the Princess Tournament, uh one of those years over there before she came back to the States. But yeah, Tony, Tony, Indiana Parazza will have a face to face and then and actually I don't know what order this is going in, but this is the last thing I have listed here.
And then Sting and Darby Allen are going to speak I'm sure having a response for Matthew and Nicholas from last week.
Tom, I'm sure we're heading towards the matchup that a lot of people are gonna complain about.
Are you gonna grow your mustache out like that? Why don't you grow a mustache out? Hey, a little while since you had one.
Vince McMahon's mustache is gone. So I was wondering, are the young bucks gonna follow suit?
You need to bring back you need to bring back the damn the B seven mustache.
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Here's why. Here's why, Tom, because we talk about your adventures, especially in the state of Ohio wrestling. Well, guess what on episode here that I have not heard of? Double D's in Your Face. Dan talks about recently doing some professional wrestling in Cincinnati and once being a bodyguard for Robin Quivers from the Howard Stern Show. The guys also talk about their strangest purchases, some of their best pickup lines,
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An there was an ask Don Fry segment. Sorry, yes, but on inside dating advice. All right, fine, I'm in.
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Thank you for spending the last hour with us.
May God have mercy on your soul, for Producer John, for Producer Dom, and for all of us here.
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