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it doesn't matter. Oh wait, I did it to myself. Yeah, that's that's actually perfect Freddy Friends Jr. Right there to be so kind that he won't even do the catchphrase dunk on someone else. He doesn't. Yeah, I scored an own goal, Jeff. It was a great week of wrestling. It was a great weekend. Thank you to the wonderful of Seattle, your city. The war chest for your boys Federation just got a lot fatter ladies and gentlemen, So we thank you, Seattle, lovers of wrestling. Sorry to Defy Wrestling,

which is an indie promotion up there. They actually had a freaking match while I was up there, and I was exhausted after the first day and at dinner with the lovely Rachel Lee Cook and I missed your guys show, but shout out to Defy Wrestling and all you indie promotions out there. We got love for y'all. We got love Jeff Monday and I Rob Baby. Should we start at the beginning of the week. Let's do it all right, man.

I don't like dumping on stuff. But as far as the judgment day Mystereos storyline is going, I don't care. And I know they got hamstringed because they had to turn edge face when Randy Orton got hurt. So this is completely excusable. What's going on? I want to preface it by saying that. But outside of Rhea Ripley, who

I love, no one is getting over. No one. The Damian Priest thing is is getting weird almost and I used to love him and now it's like, what do they call him the it's the Archer of Infamy, which is I don't know, man, It's just he's not getting over and I felt like it was most important to get him over. Rhea is just killing it because she's beating up dudes chicks. Damon's dragons whatever. She don't care. But other than fitness to be a giant, you know,

she's a giant in the women's division. I just think it's uh, it's it's like you said, it's boring. And also like I'm hearing rumors and maybe maybe this is confirmed by this point, because I heard it a few weeks ago that Edge is gonna retire and it's gonna be done. So what happens to the his his group, it's it's all better not man, he's got more in him. I don't know. That's what I've been That's what I've heard. Well, we're texting him after the show and we're gonna find out.

I forgot you have his phone number. I have to go up through all these weird we're gonna group text. We're gonna group text that one because that's my heart. I know how I felt the first time retired dude. I actually wrote the story for Edge he ended up having to pull out of because he retired. We wrote this whole thing where and it was creepy because it was kind of actually what happened to him where Christian.

He wanted to get the belt on Christian and Christian was going to turn on Edge and just for weeks smash him and like Christian even had like a was gonna be like when Dave Chappelle spoofed Sesame Street and did he was going to do something like that and they were going to spell the words spine and what each letters stood for and just like mock what he did to this fool's neck, and it was this whole thing.

And then Edge actually ends up actually hurting his neck and he couldn't do the story, and so they just wrapped it around Alberto del Rio and uh, he ended up getting it for a day. But um, but anyway, he better not be retiring because I love Edge, but this story is just I don't know, man, Yeah, I don't know. I love Ray Ray, and I just she was in better stories and I'm cool with him putting everyone on the roster over it's Ray. Nothing's gonna damage

his legacy. But just again, they got hamstrung, so no no blame on anyone, but maybe just disband the group and start over with him. Well also, like you know, we don't have spent too much time on it, but like I like every wrestler in this I like every I like all those there's not a single restauran I don't like. It's just this story is boring to man, I know it doesn't. It's not gripping me, and it

really doesn't grant me as the opening to Raw. That's the best way to point to point the finger at it. We both love every single wrestler in the story and we hate the story. It's just not doing much. All right, Well, move on. UM, I just gotta say, the biggest pop of the night came from the biggest slam of the night. Not everybody's gonna want to talk about women's tag team wrestling, but oscar I said it quickly. Are you up? Up? Down? Down?

Words that got on my case? Three years ago and Alexa Bliss took on Nikki a s h Nikki Ash a superhero and do Drop who we are going to call Piper the Viper because dow Drop is a dumb name, um, and Piper the Viper is how she would prefer to be known, so that's how we will refer to her. And I don't care what w W says. So this woman, Piper the Viper, is Scottish. I'm completely in love with her. I fell in love with her the first time. Triple H brought her over for the May Young Classic, and

I literally was like, who is this? She's amazing. Why isn't she on the main roster they brought her up. I don't feel that they booked her well so far, but she did. And I'm gonna say it wrong, a Mitchi Noku driver. Did I say it right? You said it right? But she's calling it a piper Driver. It was awesome. I went bananas. I haven't thought about a Mitchi Nuku driver since the old Nintendo sixty four w CW versus I that's how long it's been. I forgot about the move. I was like, I meet you knew

good driver. I mean I was, and I went to the internet and there's videos of of her doing it and it's labeled like the Piper Driver. But like, I was so excited. Pop hard Bro, Oh my god, I love that you went back to the video game for it. Was it w CW versus n W? Was that the one? Yeah, he was on that game, and like when you got a special up and you did that movie, so it looks so cool. The cool thing about video game wrestling moves is they almost looked better than the real wrestling

moves because it's perfect every time. Nobody's trying to protect anybody if you're literally killing your friends. Yes, and that's why we love video games. MS and Champa versus Mustaf Ali and Cedric Alexander. Look, Cedric is not the best talker, and Ali has not been booked in the best way or hasn't been booked. I guess this is the better way to say it. So everybody kind of knew which

way this match was gonna go. I won't care about MS and Champa until they don't like each other, until one of them feels the other one cost them a match, and all of a sudden they start to get tense, the way Miss was with Daniel Bryant back in the day UM on n x T when it was the Mentor Junior Wrestler program, here's your Badge. I hated that, but once it becomes that no one's better at it than Miss, that's why they gave Champa to Miss. That's

when the Hunter's guys. He's even got the Hunter beard, so you know they want this guy to have an opportunity to shine, and no one's in the company is better at getting cats over than the Miss. Do you agree this wasn't my This wasn't I agree with that. You've you've really been making me agree with that, like in a way you've shown me that light about how MSS does that. So I'm slowly coming to the miss side.

I was gonna say this match though, is it isn't my match of the week, but it's definitely my underrated match of the week. Like most, Cedric Alexander are so good. They're just so good, and I wish that the Internet of the world of the wrestling universe gave as much love to these guys as I as as some other wrestlers who I have to see every hour. But yeah, and I love Champa. I don't know. It was It was a very very very good I liked the match

a lot, underrated, underrated match. I know that the w w E has a television deal with India and that's amazing. And I know that India has stars people that compel you to watch them regardless of what you're doing. They worked with one on twenty four Google, Ashwarya Ray. She's the most beautiful woman on earth. There are huge in Dan dudes that are jack good looking cats that speak English and her actors. I've seen more Bollywood films than any of our listeners outside of you know, people to

live in India. The people they've found since The Great Colleague A colleague was special. Everyone they've found since then. And gender doesn't Counties from Toronto has not worked, right, mirror does not work. So you have to invest there if you're gonna ever have a Western audience. Take that dude seriously. It's easy to take the Great Colleague seriously. He's a hundred feet tall. Yeah, yeah, I mean I worked with him, and I was scared of him, by

the way. Super funny and super nice, even as jokes through a translator would always make me laugh. I like that. You call them special. But he's just big. He's just a huge mountain of man. Uh. This er guy. Also, this match just this might be just a little too harsh, but this, every sequence, every everything was like something from

like ninet WWF like Saturday. It was like, so him going for the big grabs and he can't get the little guy, and then the little guy keeps evading the ring, and then he takes him outside and does bad guy stuff like it was just it was just not a very exciting match. Also, it's the first time I ever heard of bou Keller. I don't know that I didn't know Keller future champion bro Yeah, dude, Um, it just

feels tired. The whole match feel bad. And also do you think that they just don't have somebody to go find like you just said, like the Collie there. He they have a school there. They just must not invest

anything into it. That's weird because he like Ireland, like right, we have Finn Balor and we have Becky Lynch because of Fit Finley like like that, like he was the one who's knew like who was special over there and who could be it's the man, Jeff, you would love this guy, and you probably wouldn't because he's he's super mean, okay, and doesn't like the outside world of wrestling, right, didn't really he was one of the guys that didn't want

me there. And then they gave me a segment where I had to like direct him, and I was like, oh no, this guy hates me. Man, And so I went up to him and I said, uh, hey, Fit, how are you Freddy? He goes all nice doing you. I looked him in the eye, shook his hand. I said, I'm not here to tell you what to do, man, I'm just gonna stand next to the camera and if

you have a question, I'm here for you. Otherwise, just do your thing and he goes, oh, thank you, thinking and he didn't ask for anything, did his thing, and the promo was what it was. Fit Finley was never gonna be you know, J B L. I'm a wrestling god like. He just wasn't gonna be that guy in the mic. So the segment was fine and went on and like the next week of TV, he was like, I just wanted to thank you for for you know, not making it about you, I think, is what he said.

And I was like, hey, cool, cool man. And from that moment forward he was super cool to me. And I had to work with a lot of the diva's back then, that's what they called him, and he is in charge of it. And that dude fought for those women in production meetings more than anyone else in that company, more than Stephanie McMahon, more than me, more than anyone dude. Fit had those women's backs. Vince wouldn't let him do any moves, and Fit every week would get something else

in something else in believe and give him a chance. Boss, come on Vince every single week. Dude, he's the man. I love Fit. Yea, we need a We need an Indian fit. Finlay is what we need. Do you want to talk Lashly styles? Outside of the fact that I thought we were getting spoiled and got an awesome freaking match, and I love both those guys. I would pay a pay per view to watch both those guys wrestle any any sunday. I I love him, and the Dexter Loomis thing is getting kind of kind of w c W

cool man. I kind of like like, that's the only part of the match I was crazy about was the Dexter limits showing up and getting tacked by security, just because also it's kind of weird, Like I don't know, I think this old that too big. By the way, miss sold that way too big on the camera. I was like, bro, you gotta bring that down to take it down and real, real theatrical just happened, Bobby Lashly. Anytime I see a big star lose, you don't you

don't think he has enough credibility where he can take losses. Um, I don't know. I just I just feels weird. I mean, I love Bobby Lashley, so like just I'm kind of I would have been I would have been City saying the exact same thing. If aj Styles wins, I would have been like, man, I can't believe they did that too. It just always feels so you don't feel maybe maybe you save a match like that for a pay per view? Is that what you're saying, like a big two big

names colliding. I don't know. In my opinion, you know, you're probably right. Well I did say I felt like we were getting spoiled and I would pay for it. But you're probably maybe all right because it does. It's like, Yo, he lost on regular TV. I can that's so eighties, Jeff. Yeah, I don't know. I'm I'm being inconsistent, but I just I don't know. It felt weird. Ziggler in theory, we all love Ziggler. He's the man. He gets everybody over, like we know he can. That's all I have to say.

Everybody knows I got a man crush on them. I do. You got a few, yeah, But he's the He's my main squeeze. A man. Nobody sells better, nobody makes any ms kit can't even sell as good as Ziggler. Ziggler takes the best spear, Ziggler takes the best r ko. Ziggler takes the best superkick. Ziggler takes the best body slam. I don't even remember a body slam he's taken, but it's the best. Ziggler's elbows get higher and he doesn't even need the turn buckle. Ziggler's hair flies faster when

he does take the superkick. His gum flies higher when he spits it out his feet. I love dol Ziggler. I don't know what they're gonna do with theory? Can I pitch a weird theory about Austin theory? Let's do the I like, um, I like, what what would be an awesome but way to book? Something by Freddie Prince Jr. That's okay, I like to here's something that would be wild. Let's swap out the word awesome. Let's put in really bad but conspiracy wise. I'm gonna prove it true. Okay,

all right, here we go. I firmly believe that what Vince McMahon did to Carry and Cross was a way to rib triple H because he knew that was Hunter's guy, and that's why he did the whole sexy gladiator uh gimp thing to him, because they're my toys. I'll play with them how I want. And I know that Theory was Vince's guy, his next John Cena, and like Roman said,

your daddy's not here anymore. And I think that was work shoot that he threw in there because people know that, and Roman wants to take advantage of the smart fans. Here's what I think. Hunter gets his revenge for his guy getting played by playing Vince's guy. So we're a clash at the castle and Drew his wrestling. Roman reigns and Drew wins and everyone's happy. There's are the booking is the worst book. Here's the worst part. Here's the part.

Word you'll know, I'll never book. Theory cashes in on True McIntyre, the man who carried the belt during COVID and didn't get to hear a single person cheer for him. Only when he finally hears his own people cheer, he gets busted in the back of the head with the case and Theory cashes in and wins. Here's where it gets even worse. Oh you thought that was the worst part Cherry and Cross comes out. He beats the crap out of Austin Theory, who just won the championship, leaving

Theory just dead in a pool of his own blood. Right, not dead, but beat up and unconscious. Monday Night Raw will also be in England, I'm assuming, and he comes out and they do they do Theory dirty the way they did Christian dirty back in the day when Randy Orton talked him into putting the title on the line

the first night he had it. And he gets the title opportunity on Monday Night Raw, he beats down they almost like Becky Lynch Bianca bell Air Theory and he just puts like ten thousand four arms to the back of his neck, gets the wind, becomes the champion, and Theory has to go back to n x T. That's the That's that's the ship that keeps me up at night, Jeff, That's what keeps me up at night. I like this type of I mean, here's the thing that booking is

so unpredictable. That's what we need. There's a reason it's unpredictable because none of it should happen. It should happen because that's what we need. To shake things up like that, That'd be amazing. Yo. Now, the only reason I thought of that was because last week we were under the impression that Drew was hurt, that there was an injury. Yeah, that's what That's what I thought. But I'm seeing him.

You know. It's back Claymore kick Roman, Claymore kicked Poor Sammy a kid, dude, Sammy's ain dude, He's Samoe it bro, He's He's I was so sad when he didn't win that match because I wanted him to. When he was like, Yo, we're gonna have the i C maybe in the in the family too, I was like, oh, that would be amazing if he got the i C title in the bloodline, and was like, he's pulling his weight. Yes, right now, he's taking boots, but I think they got plans for him.

I love Sammy's Ain't. I got a man crush on Sammy's Ain't too. What do you think about that, Jeff, Well, I'm jealous, you know, because Sammy's Ane's terrible. Although I do like what he's doing right now. Funny, I just you know this guy guy, all this stuff, he's you know, I love him so much. I hated him, and he was the annoying Vince mcmanhel but every time he's not that. I love this conspiracy guy, the skub guy, just a bad idea after a bad idea. If you asked me,

you know he would be into my conspiracy. Yeah, sure, you know he would. He would love that conspiracy. All right, let's uh, let's move to the other side of the wrestling coin a e W And there's really only one story to talk about, and then I would like to make a potential apology and retraction. But the story is see im Punk's promo and talking mad smack on Hangman page and then him and Moxley having their beef. Let's

just jump into it, dude. Yeah, total jerk move to say there's someone I want to call out to a rematch right here, and then he calls out a guy who might not even be in the building. Do you know what you have? A dick move that is to

the fans that are there. Uh so freaking low. I was joking with our producer just before I started, like being like, could you imagine you're at like a raw and someone's like, here tonight, I want to call out the Undertaker And then everyone just cheers, and then there's no wondertake. It's just such a mean Daniel Tosh to do that. The Comedy Magic Club, he would literally if there was a guy behind, like going up after him that he wanted to mess me. Yeah, you will go,

you go. The cool thing about this club is you never know who's gonna drop in. You never know who's gonna be at the Comedy Magic Club because everybody plays this club, ladies and gentlemen, Adam Sandler. The whole place goes crazy. And then Daniel Pop said behind the Curtenty goes, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He's h and so the whole crosses like a shirt move. Yeah, And that's exactly kind

of like what see him punked. Everyone's like, we're gonna get to see see him punk and Hangman tonight, and they're like, no, not really, he's just running his mouth. It's terrible. There's two Oh my god, I'm crying. There's two ways to look at it. It's work shoot and he's trying to turn heel or there's real stuff going on and it was receipt time. I happen to know that. It's more the ladder and I think he's just trying to take advantage of it and saying, Okay, I'll roll

with it. But not everyone backstage loves see him Punk, and it's not just because of Cold Cabana. It's because of the way they feel he's behaved since he's got

there behind the curtain. And it was actually something that hangman Age said in his promo when they were having their run to the title, and he said, I'm not just defending this title, I'm defending it for all those people back there, because a lot of people don't feel like Punk shows anyone respect really, at least not the type of respect that he Well, let's change the word, because respect is earned, the type of dignity that one would expect at work, and when you don't treat people

as necessary parts of the pie. And I've seen this on a lot of studios people look at you a certain way, or on a lot of movies. I should have said, you know, I've known young actors that were like, you know whatever, it's just the sound guy. I'm like, do you want to be heard in the movie. It's pretty important, So it's just catering. Yeah, Well, you're a dickhead to catering. We noticed said it's like and the crew that wants to eat like it's really important to them.

So you may not care because you're a ninety two pound actress, but the rest of us student, I go have your horriboro for lunch and off M. I've basically had those conversations before, so and that's what I've been told as kind of the stuff that's been going on. So hangman Paige, Hangman Paige said a lot of real

stuff in that go ahead. Well, I was gonna say, long before Colt Cabana and cmpunk had their falling out, like even when they were friends, c HM Punk has been a terrible guy in the locker room as far as like some some like them, and most he's he's a brat. He wasn't loved at w w E, and not all of it was his fault, But dude, I do remember this. Punk hated John Cena, not hated him, but just hated what he represented right, and that that's

what the company was behind. And I remember one time Hunter saying the reason, as different as they are, the reason he hates John so much is because he knows if he was in that same spot, he'd act the exact same way and to here, and this is over a decade ago, and to hear the rumblings of a e W basically saying he's acting the way John Cena did back then, it's just like, I mean, damn near everything. I disagreed with Hunter on he was right. He just he just I mean, I don't know how explaining you.

We were talking about dignity and we're talking about the caterine, we're talking about respect. It's like we want everyone that we like to be likable, you know what I'm saying, Like we will go, oh, I like that guy, and then when you meet me, find out every goes, oh he's a jerk back here, or a lot of people have problems with him, or or even if you have a bad interaction with a with a person you'd like or think is famous or cool, it just taints the

whole kind of thing, you know. Like I met Vader and Invader was just like a jerk and everyone and everyone's like, oh, that's how Vader is. And I was like, well, that makes me not as big of a fan of Vader anymore, even though he's like a heel. And so I think the same thing is true with maybe that's why he did that I heard that's not really it uh No. But my point, My point is like when you find out what these guys are really like, it can affect the you're just your opinion of the wrestler.

It's like Brett the hit Man Heart might be the only person that's like a bigger brat uh than uh than See Him Punk. They're just like impossible to please. It's never enough money, it's never enough book. It's just like, just get these guys out of here. Play with the guys that play nice, like Adam Cole and Kevin Owens and all the Ray Wyatt's. Those are the guys we like so tired of hearing about See Him Punk and

these guys backstage who are just terrible to work. I love me some Kevin Owens after he crapped all over Hangman page and his Cowboys Ship to Champship promo, and he's always going to be good on the mic. He's not on the mic. Moxley comes out this same personal I mean, it's something that whoever wrote this, whoever wrote this, is a good writer. See Him Punk laid down and made snow angels during the eighteen minutes. Well it was longer than Edge coming out at Summers and these two

win at it. Man, it was just uh a flurry of insults that I I think we're prediscussed. I'd hope. I mean it went from you can go ahead and be the heart and soul of this company, but I'll be the dollars and cents. And that's legit. I mean, punk can he if he's a heel, he can legit say that. He can legit say it anyway, but there's no baby face way to say that. So that's where

I was like, Man, is this getting personal? Like because Moxley straight calling him out on needing money, not having heart to fight anymore, and we all know why, which takes us back to the m m A days where he kind of embarrassed himself trying to compete with professional fighters instead of going up through the amateurs, which is

probably the better idea in hindsight. But they went after each other and then they fought, and you saw them protecting each other during the fight, which made me go, Okay, they had to have known this was going on, like they had to him. But I love these kind of stories. When I thought Becky Charlotte was real. I still think it was real. It was real. I can confirm. Oh

there you go, boom confirmed. I wanted to watch that match so much more, and so I was okay with it as long as both fellas are okay with it. I don't know how Adam Hangman Page and his body suits are feeling about it, But if I were him, I would be pissed. Pissed because he got hung out to dry in all this. Yeah, I mean literally, I I don't have it memorized, so I just brought it up. What he what you know in our production notes here.

But some of this stuff is so good. John Moxley is the third best guy in his own group, and to me that sounds like a reoccurring theme in his career. I mean, that's what a good zing and he goes he's the third best Eddie I've ever been in the ring with. He's the second best Kingston I've ever shared a locker, and not even the first John I've beaten in Chicago. I mean, like, dude, he's so good on the mike. That's whoever, how does this work here? Behind that?

You know, all the behind the scenes, Someone writes this for these guys or do you think they No, Punk wrote all that. Punk wrote all that even when he worked even at w w WE uh Go Wirts worked with him on some stuff. Cosky, this guy ed Kosky was his guy, though, and so they wrote a lot of stuff together, but it was still Punk driving the ship. I feel like for a lot of those promos. So he's always had that gift of gab Let's stay on Alilite because I think I may have been wrong about

someone we discussed last week. We talked a lot about Daniel Garcia, who is grouped up with Chris Jericho and seemed like an underneath guy in that group. I wasn't hip to any of his work outside of it, and based off his look and how he'd been booked and presented so far, I hadn't seen anything impressive. I see him in a match with Brian Danielson and he looks great. But Brian Danielson has not had a bad match that I have seen with anyone ever. He could make me

look great, so I can't give that to homeboy. And at the very end of the match, which he loses, which he had to lose, he shakes Brian's hand by the way the crowd is so into this match, their cheering the whole time for both guys. They're screaming, you're a wrestler, Clop, clo, You're all right there. They're putting this kid over while I'm watching this match and telling

me how wrong I am. And then the match is over and the men shake hands and Chris Jericho he goes to of the ring and he sees Daniel Garcia like being nice to Brian Danielson, and he's like, yes or you Well, he actually goes to beat up Brian Danielson and because Daniel Garcia was being nice and he's beating the crap out of him, and Daniel Garcia goes to him, grabs his hand and spins him around, and it's like, Yo, knock that ship off, and Jericho's in his face and it's like a father and a son

having that moment. I'm coming around on this big time. And not everyone that Jericho's tried to put over has gotten over, but damn if he hasn't tried to get everyone in this company over, We're gonna end with some SmackDown. All of the Rhonda stuff is weird to me, Jeff. All of it, And I don't know if it's she's not getting the material and she's not able to put what they're writing for her over, or if it's written strangely. Why why would you bring a bag of money and

dump it out? Is that a hell move? She played at Hell, but in today's day and age, that's more of a baller move. Like, none of it makes sense to me. None of the arrests makes sense to me. There's no emotion in her face. Ever. The crowd is super hit and miss with it. Sometimes they're booing sometimes that they don't know what's going on. I don't. I don't get it, man, I just don't get it. Her getting arrested. We've seen this before. We've we've seen we've

done this before. It's so unoriginal, But I'll put her in the cop car. It's like, oh God, Like, I just I don't. I'm so over Rhonda Rousey. Probably about three or four minutes after Rhonda Rousey came to Progress. Yeah, man, I don't know, dude. I know she's a big star, but it just doesn't work anymore. And uh, and the hits just keep on coming with what I'm now calling the strangest booking of a world champion. Ever. Yeah and again, a dude, I don't know who's fault this, Okay, so

hear me out on this. I've never seen someone have to play a week champion, someone who tapped out to get the belt but remains a baby face, has to protect her arm and it's almost not even playing injured. It's like scared and frail and weak. And the stuff with Shana made her look like a punk and she's the champion. And and again maybe it maybe it's her. Maybe they're saying, you know your your arms hurt, but

don't look scared, you know, look defiant. That should be the note, you know, when Shane is like I'm gonna break your hand, she should be looking at her like, do just do it? Do it now. It's get it over with and then we'll see if you even get a match, you know what I mean, like something like some kind of hero, some kind of bravery, courage, something bro, because everything else has been we it's just weird. I've

never seen a week baby face champion. I felt like the crowd when you look at the crowd watching the match, and I just kind of right, yeah, this is yeah, that says that thing happening out there, very black, very very underwhelming. Now SmackDown closed with a strong Roman Drew segment with Sammy taking that food that we mentioned. Um, we don't have to get too into it. I would rather get into my favorite of the week and he're yours, but my best of the week. That match was awesome.

There's a backstage segment. I can't believe my favorite at leap the backstage segment with Carrie and Cross and it was unique. It was honest and truthful, like old school wrestling promos. He's calling out Drew McIntyre on the chosen one. That's the that's the theme behind this promo that he's putting over all the chosen ones of the ones I'm going after, Like Roman was a chosen one. Even when the fans didn't want him to be champion, he was

gonna be champion. That was the same Withdrew. I remember the segment when Vince brought him in and shook his hand and he was clean shaven, and the only note he would get his lose the Scottish accent. I had to work with him back then. It was like, don't stop taking that note, like speak, just speak, you're fine, So crosses promos going in on I know what's going on in your head. You were the chosen one, and then he just cuts his throat and says, but you

were fired because they were wrong. You were replaced by another chosen one. And he just goes in on these And it was beautifully written, completely unique from other stuff. And I know that Hunter is giving the wrestlers who he respects, a ton of latitude with as far as who writes their promos. If he likes the way they write their own stuff, he lets them. If he likes their ideas, he puts them through. And I know he respects Cross because that was his guy, and you saw

what Vince did to him. So I think he's given across a ton of latitude. Remember I used I was talking across a lot, and a lot of the stuff I put in my script were his ideas, his thoughts, his philosophies, because I respected those ideas, and I'm really seeing a ton of his personality come through. This has to be him and Scarlet, and I loved it. I love the way it was edited. I loved the lighting in it. So yeah, so that was my best of

the week. What about you. The best of the week for me was my was a You're gonna be surprised why this was my favorite, but it'll make sen There's a fatal five way number one contenders match. Sammy's at Ricochet, uh because she was insane in this match. He's always insane. I can't I don't know why he's not more famous. Um Shamus, happy Corbin, And there was one more person I can't remember, Sammy. No I said, Sammy's a oh mat Cats. Yeah. Now, fatal five way number one Contenders match.

The only reason it is really good and and Ricochet always is incredible. But the reason it's my breezes, my pick of the week and my favorite match the week is because Shamus one. And I feel like I'm I'm here for a Shamus like run, a big Shamus push. I love Shamus. I know he's a good guy. I also just think he's awesome and overlooked and under it, like just a journeyman in WW just completely doesn't get as much love as I think he should. And I think this is I think I was happy about that.

That's my match of the week. I love that you picked this match. I'm always happy when Shamus wins. I'm always happy when he gets a push. My worst the week, we got to talk about it. Oh no, hit row interrupts the maximum LM. It was so. It was supposed to be a comedic spot, you know, it's supposed to be like and it was comedic for all the wrong reasons. It was laughably terrible. This was unwatchable. They got you, guys.

You have to check the acoustics, like if you're a sound check, if you're at the forum, knock yourself out. It'll make them sound great. The crowd once we want to like them. If you don't, you end up having it sound like that. And it was. It made him come off looking amateur, and they should never No star should ever come off looking like an amateur, unless the intent was to do so. First of all, shout out to mass we love Massa. I wish she wasn't Massa, but shout out. I always l A night was l

A night. I don't understand why they're doing this. L A night fucking rules and this is nonsense. This is nonsense. And then the team that you're getting to shut these guys up and throw them out the baby faces. Your intent is now we're going to make them look bad as well, because this rap and these acoustics aren't gonna sound good and there's no post because don't work like that. You're dead on Bro. It's been one week and I'm

already out on it. I was like one week I was like, yeah, Ris new, this is cool, and then now I'm going up. I'm out. They could figure it out, man, it could turn into like, uh, they could turn it into more like a deaf poetry. I love hip hop culture. I want to see it represented in mainstream, but if it's not represented as clean as everything else on the show, then it makes it look whack and that that doesn't help push it forward. So I would love to see

them find a way to make this work. I hope they never wrap in in an arena like that again, though, or they or they fix the music or something, because that was rough Sauce Bro having lip sync. You know, it is weird what us wrestling fans want to be real and what we want to be fake. It's always it's very difficult to go, well, no chair shots have to be real, but this doesn't have to be real.

It's like, it's what, I don't know, what's happened. Oh hey, we have forgotten, and you're so nice and forgive that you have forgotten or didn't mention it. Tell the people where you're gonna be this weekend. Oh yeah, I would be. Oh that's nice of you. I just got back from Pittsburgh, had a great time, and this weekend I am in St. Louis at Helium Comedy Club. So get tickets for that.

Helium is a great comedy club. The last time I did St. Louis, it was during the lockdown when it wasn't you weren't supposed to be doing shows and stuff and so there was no one there. The mall wasn't even open that the comedy clubs in. So I'm excited to come back and have an awesome weekend. Yeah. Hit him up on socials. It us both up on Socials. If he doesn't see it, I will and I'll make sure he gets it. Follow us on our official show

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