Silvies Got Two Dads

[00:00:07] Speaker A: In the beginning, the earth was a dark, formless void. But then God spoke and said, let there be wrestling. And with that, there was Monday, and wrestling happened on Mondays. And God looked upon her works and said, holy shit, that's a lot of racism in video packages. On the second day, God got depressed and lo did she post about it on the DVD VR forums. And with that, there was Tuesday. On the third day, God said, let there be Wednesday. And lo did the people reply unto her. We know what that means. [00:00:56] Speaker B: And welcome back to Wednesday night Fake Fights, where we talk all things aew. This week we are coming to you from lovely Southern California, Ontario, Canada. Foreignia. Which is apparently a place down there. I'm not familiar. I guess it's young bucks country. But anyway, we got a wonderful show for y'. [00:01:17] Speaker A: All. [00:01:17] Speaker B: It's gonna be a lot of fun, but let's get started with the introductions. As always, you know me, it's your boy. It's Jeff the Toky Mongoose. And I'm here with some cool, cool people. Why don't y' all say who you are? [00:01:30] Speaker A: It is no longer Japan bound. Erica Warrens. I am back in the U.S. the America. I'm back here. I'm not really terribly happy about it, but, you know, happens when you're on a tourist visa team. [00:01:48] Speaker B: Erica World Police. [00:01:51] Speaker A: No. God, have you seen this place? That's too much work. Way too lazy for that. [00:01:58] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a lot of effort. And Yosoy Hampter Sero. [00:02:05] Speaker B: And as I was not blown out. [00:02:07] Speaker C: I know as the mic was not blown out, and as I walked to the ring, pondering my orb of nacho cheese, orange nacho cheese, which I turn into a. A henchman, a full bodied, like, puttied, like, creature in the center of the ring that immediately ddts me and I'm out. [00:02:30] Speaker A: You made a nacho cheese homunculus? I did immediately. [00:02:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I did. [00:02:37] Speaker B: I like that it's always specified as orange too. Nacho cheese. [00:02:43] Speaker C: FDA regulations require me to specify it as nacho orange cheese. [00:02:48] Speaker B: It's. [00:02:49] Speaker A: It's spelled with a Z, like blue. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Nacho cheese does sound like something that would have been like a Nickelodeon kids hit back in the day. God, yeah, yeah. Tasteless. Like it. [00:03:03] Speaker A: I remember when I was like, really, really small, there was. There was like a brand of popcorn and it was like multi. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It would come out like pink or like hot, like green or some. And the guy like. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Yeah, like neon popcorn. [00:03:19] Speaker A: It had different flavors. Yeah, it was, it was really Good. I like that stuff. My babysitter would make that for me. All. [00:03:25] Speaker C: Yeah, that sounds yummo. [00:03:27] Speaker B: I had a babysitter that could beat Dr. Mario. And I know I was like a little kid. We, like, sucked it. And it blew my mind seeing them actually finish it out. I was like, you're the coolest person that's ever lived. [00:03:40] Speaker A: He was. She was really good at paperboy. The old. [00:03:45] Speaker B: Those are the best babysitters. The ones that are just like, play video games with you. [00:03:49] Speaker A: Yes. [00:03:50] Speaker C: I hated babysitting. My discipline had no follow through. [00:03:55] Speaker B: That's why I can't do it. I'm not a disciplined person. I'm not someone who can tell people what to do or get mad when they don't do what I want them to do. [00:04:07] Speaker C: Same with being a manager. I was like, I ate this. [00:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, this is the worst. Yeah, it's like, you want to go home. Yeah, me too. I don't blame you. Get out of here. [00:04:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:19] Speaker B: Speaking of working, we should get to some pro wrestling talk here. [00:04:23] Speaker A: Wrestling. [00:04:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So the show is going to start off with Kenny Omega coming out while I do a little recap. Him and Soros feud that's been going on. That Tony Schiavone who is casually dressed this week. He is not nearly as garish as he's been lately, but he's not color coded. [00:04:41] Speaker C: I know. [00:04:44] Speaker B: He's reserved. He's. I think it's like Taz has to be around for him to dress. Crazy, right? [00:04:52] Speaker A: I mean, it could have been that. He's just gotten so swole. He ripped through his other jacket. [00:04:59] Speaker B: They just had to spray paint clothes onto him. [00:05:02] Speaker C: Yes. [00:05:07] Speaker A: David Beverage's jacket before the show. Oh. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Tony Swolvani. [00:05:17] Speaker C: Supplements. [00:05:19] Speaker B: He welcomes us. We're down to the ring. Tony says last week they saw it all break down between them. Talks about the history and the tension that's been going on. Swerve says he has some stuff to get off of his chest. Just basically talks about how Kenny was like, used to be the top guy in the guy. He was like the king of pro wrestling, the God of pro wrestling. It's kind of a running theme through this promo and how great Kenny was. But every time Swerve was on top, Kenny was gone. For some reason, he was injured or he was suspended or something was going on where their paths never crossed at the top of the card. [00:05:53] Speaker A: I mean, that is true that there's no lies detected. Congratulations. Good job, Swerve. Getting your facts straight. [00:06:03] Speaker B: I can't remember why Kenny was suspended. I don't remember if that was like, bucks shenanigans or something. Like. [00:06:08] Speaker A: It was buck shenanigans. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Which, I mean, all of it was to cover for Canada. [00:06:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. That's right. They. They suspended him after he did a thing, and that was like, so he could wrestle in Japan or something. [00:06:22] Speaker B: I think it was all to get his guts torn out of him because he got the diverticulitis, lightest poison, weak little stomach ropes. [00:06:35] Speaker A: He got. He got his lady parts removed. What's that called? [00:06:41] Speaker C: You know, famous lady part. The guts. Yeah. [00:06:49] Speaker B: The technical term. [00:06:51] Speaker A: Jesus Christ. [00:06:55] Speaker B: They did not say that in the promo. This is my extra information as a. [00:06:58] Speaker C: Medical professional breaking down the timeline. [00:07:01] Speaker B: Yeah, you got Kenny, you got a bad case of guts. [00:07:07] Speaker A: There's something wrong with your guts, Ken. We gotta take that out. Good Lord. [00:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Actually, this promo is much more religious themed than anything about that. But, yeah, it talks about Kenny, calls him a false prophet, says the congregation has found a new prophet in him, says he's not a God, but in his house, the crowd says, who's out of swords house? Yada, yada yada, and kind of accuses Kenny of using his EVP power to get back on top and compares him to the box. [00:07:36] Speaker A: Is he insinuating that professional wrestling is rigged? [00:07:41] Speaker C: What? [00:07:42] Speaker A: That's a bold claim. I hope he's got some evidence to back it up. [00:07:46] Speaker C: Press X to doubt. [00:07:48] Speaker B: I think any sport like that, there's. People get like boxing and mma. It's like, okay, yeah, you're friends with the. Oh, you're high up. They'll give you good. I mean, like CM Punk. You got actual UFC for just being buddies with Dana White. [00:08:01] Speaker A: Yeah, apparently. [00:08:06] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm not a guy, but I watched that and I was like, no, that's. It doesn't seem like you're doing very good there, bud. [00:08:14] Speaker A: I mean, head is how you win. Then he's the champ. [00:08:19] Speaker B: Yeah, you're doing great. Is it like golf where the lower. [00:08:22] Speaker A: Your score is, he's gonna die standing? [00:08:31] Speaker B: It cuts over. Kenny gets the mic and he says he never called himself the God of professional wrestling, but the people gave him that name and give. Puts the crowd over, puts AEW over, says it's where the best wrestle. And when he wrestles there, he's the best. Says, whose house? But for him, the question is, maybe Swerve's house. But the lights. Like, somebody's home. But the lights. The lights are on, but nobody's home. Basically, it was a kind of a Convoluted little metaphor. And then he's like, if you need watch somebody to burn the house down, he's got a friend that can do it. [00:09:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fired. I wanted to point out, maybe I'm misremembering things, but, like, I don't think that the fans ever called Kenny the God of wrestling. No, I think that was Don Callis. Yeah. [00:09:19] Speaker B: I don't even really remember that being, like, a nickname of Kenny's. Like, I always remember him as, like, the. The cleaner and, you know, best bout machine and stuff. I feel like I've heard other people called the God of pro wrestling. Wasn't that. That was jbl. [00:09:32] Speaker A: The only God of this is Nick Cage. [00:09:36] Speaker C: Where did. So I wonder where. I mean, where did Swerve get that then? So weird. Just go to the top. [00:09:45] Speaker B: So many nicknames that maybe it was, like, what they call it. [00:09:49] Speaker A: I think they just wanted to keep the extended religion metaphor going. [00:09:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And also, I didn't really watch AW from, like, 2020 to, like, 2022, 2023. So it could have very easily been something in there. Yeah, they really just kind of roll with the congregation type thing. Since he only lost last week against Andrade because of Swerve. Challenges Swerve to a fight and kind of whispers sweet nothings in Nana's ears. Says if Swerve wants the match, he's got it. Says accept or yield. [00:10:21] Speaker C: I will just jump in here and say that he could have reviewed the tape to see that it wasn't Swerve that cost him the match. [00:10:29] Speaker B: No, that's not. Kevin Owens is the only person who watches show that is. [00:10:33] Speaker C: We had this conversation last episode, which is why I'm bringing it up now, because it's a top tie in. [00:10:39] Speaker A: So, anyways, well, like, the thing is, Swerve didn't help. [00:10:44] Speaker C: It's true. Yeah. [00:10:45] Speaker B: If Swerve hadn't come out intentional, nothing would have. He, you know, wouldn't have gotten distracted and dry. Wouldn't have got. So, I mean, Swerve did cause him to match. If he just stayed in the back, nothing would happen. [00:10:58] Speaker C: Stabbed in the head with a screwdriver. [00:11:00] Speaker A: Be fine. You just walk it off. [00:11:04] Speaker B: So we're gonna get something here that we'll get a little off topic here, but gets the mic. He calls himself the most dangerous man in wrestling. Kenny disagrees and says, the most dangerous man is Brody King and pauses for, like, a moment, which I think was Kenny trying to bring Ice Chance in by Ray. You know, I don't know Oh, I. [00:11:25] Speaker A: Don'T think that at all. I think he was just letting the crowd like cheer for Brody. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Okay, well, the only reason I bring it up is because there's a whole bunch of dumb rumors we've been talking about all day that apparently Brody was taken off of the show. But he wasn't actually taken off of this show. It was a whole back and forth thing where people thought, this is wbd. Basically we're starting a spin off. [00:11:45] Speaker A: This is the most non news story of all time. Yes, we're going to start a spin off of where it's going to be, the newsroom. But it's going to be about a dirt sheet because that's the only. Because like this draw, this, like this drama is so good. It's juicy. [00:12:01] Speaker B: I love it just fundamentally ended up being nothing. Dave Meltzer kind of lied and it turned into like a six hour news. [00:12:09] Speaker C: Like, well, he walked it back and he. And he was just like, they were that. Because I was reading up on it and he was like, oh, well, you know, people in the like the studio execs were talking about it over the weekend kind of thing. Yeah. So whether to save face, you know. [00:12:30] Speaker A: I hope Melter is happy. He's got. He's got our poor innocent Hampter Sero reading the Observer. This is up. [00:12:42] Speaker C: It was, it was awful. Announcing. [00:12:48] Speaker B: The funniest thing. I saw somebody say, like, I bet Tony Khan is feeding fake information out to the wrestlers to see who the leaks are to like see. Like, oh, who told. Who did I tell that this was gonna happen? And then it got today. Oh, that's like game of throw and stuff. Like you people. I spend a lot of time thinking about wrestling, but you need to stop thinking about wrestling. [00:13:10] Speaker A: And then where actually was Brody King? Does anybody want to let us know. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Where Brody was flown out of LAX the night before to go to Australia. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Like, what was he doing? What did we find he was doing? [00:13:22] Speaker B: That wasn't actually what he was doing. [00:13:24] Speaker A: I don't think he was playing. He was playing Magic the Gathering. [00:13:27] Speaker B: I thought it was just a joke that trapped that hard Lore made. I don't know. I could be wrong. Maybe that's what he was. [00:13:32] Speaker A: I mean, that was him in that picture. He was blurry. [00:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:36] Speaker A: Might not have been. It could have been some other huge tattooed guy hanging out at like a Magic the Gathering game. [00:13:43] Speaker B: I believe Brody King plays Magic the Gathering. I could see. [00:13:47] Speaker A: I believe he does. Yeah, I can totally believe that. [00:13:50] Speaker C: I refuse to believe anything else. [00:13:53] Speaker B: No, this like him and Alex Are Black and Julia Hart would all play in the back of the buses and stuff. [00:14:03] Speaker A: I don't believe Julia plays magic. [00:14:05] Speaker B: No. Probably sat there, but. [00:14:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Snaplander. I can see playing magic. Yeah. [00:14:13] Speaker B: Yeah. No style. Under. Definitely plays Magic the Gathering. That seems fair for some reason. I think Stokely does. I was gonna say we're going through the roster on who we think. [00:14:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I can see him. What would Stokely play? [00:14:27] Speaker B: I haven't played blue. Blue. [00:14:29] Speaker C: Control. Wait. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he probably Control. I don't, I don't know. I don't know. I think they all just play Commander. [00:14:37] Speaker B: And I don't know, Dax does, but I don't think Cash does. [00:14:40] Speaker C: Commander would be a good group. Good format, I think for them. [00:14:44] Speaker A: They play Commander with. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna say Commander definitely plays a Commander deck. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, God. What happens next? [00:14:58] Speaker B: Yes. Swerve then threatens to put Kenny in a hospital bed because of his guts, and Kenny slaps him. So they both start stripping down in the middle of the ring. And Swerve says Kenny made his choice and whatever happens next is on him. And he tackles Kenny and they start fighting at ringside. Kenny gets a chair. They brawl up through the crowd. Kenny rams, Swerve into the LED boards on the entranceway. And then V triggers them up against it, which was a pretty cool little spot. They set up the one wing angel, but Swerve stabs Kenny in the head with something they never really. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a mic. [00:15:33] Speaker B: Was it a mic? [00:15:34] Speaker A: Okay, it was a mic. [00:15:37] Speaker B: Gallery was like, oh, he got him with something. I don't know what it was. But then he swerve, spears Kenny through the stage, through some tables. Big cool spot. They. I can't remember if they do it right now or if it's later on, but they set up the match for next Wednesday is gonna, they're gonna be Squirrel, I think Kenny, I believe also in California, which will rally Whip Martin. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Yeah, that's gonna be. They I, I, it did. They did announce it later, but yeah, I was kind of thinking that might be on the the Australia show, but I guess that's like a stacked enough card as it is. [00:16:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's booked the up right now. Even with it being a two and a half hour show. It's got a lot and it's probably matches that are gonna go for a long time. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:19] Speaker B: Gotta get back to Dynamite eventually. [00:16:22] Speaker A: I loved that they actually brawled. Like they had like a full on fight before. Like security didn't just like appear and magically hold back these guys. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Like this event. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Just like just throw hands, throw a guy off the stage, hit him with the mic, throw a chair at him. [00:16:44] Speaker C: So much garbage. So many garbage cans. Like hit him with garbage. Just get in the. Get in there. Really brawl. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Put garbage water in his pants. [00:16:53] Speaker B: Being the cleaner, you're making quite a mess. [00:16:56] Speaker C: Truly. Right. Should he go back afterwards? We fit all up. I mean, I think like a vampire. He must. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:09] Speaker C: This is a Kenny just being like, yeah, I am back and I'll, you know, I'll take you to the cleaners. Like getting that fire in there. [00:17:18] Speaker A: I loved it. Good segment. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean we'll get through it. But this whole dynamite was really pretty top notch. Like when the floor of the show is like 8.5 out of 10. It's really good. Yeah, yeah. We hop backstage with Renee Pette who is chatting with Don Callis and Kyle Fletcher. Renee says there is pressure on Kyle considering his, you know, with his match against Tommaso Ciampa that's coming up for the TNT title. Don says there is no pressure on Kyle. Kyle puts the pressure on. Don and Kyle both say that Kyle is going to win the title tonight. But Kyle asked, Don calls to please let him do it on his own. And Don calls, does a very exaggerated. You mean I get to relax and sit back and kick my feet up? Okay. [00:18:00] Speaker C: I hope Don Callis has children and I hope some of them are sons. So. And they just heard his. They heard their dad being like, ah, the son I never had. [00:18:12] Speaker B: He probably 13 kids everywhere. [00:18:18] Speaker A: I'm actually curious what the. The Don Callis family dynamic is like. They're definitely not a nuclear family, but like, honestly, it's impressive for a single dad to have that many kids by himself. If it's like a father son relationship kind of thing going on. [00:18:36] Speaker B: I mean, I'm sure in normal real life he does have like a wife and kids and stuff, but for some reason I picture him being like a rich bachelor who lives in like an evil penthouse by himself with like maybe a bird. [00:18:50] Speaker A: So like a Dickens character. [00:18:53] Speaker B: That's like more like Kingpin or something. [00:18:56] Speaker C: He is. Oh, well, he was married. No children that we know of. [00:19:02] Speaker A: No, he's got. [00:19:03] Speaker C: He's got like a million, you know, except Kyle Fletcher. Excuse me. My. [00:19:08] Speaker B: Probably listen because of the dick slit. [00:19:12] Speaker C: I was like, wow, two years. That's this. [00:19:15] Speaker B: Couldn't stand looking at it anymore. Your penis head stares at me in the night. It's over. [00:19:21] Speaker C: He just wakes up and it's looking at her. [00:19:26] Speaker B: That's why he hates the Death Riders. Because Moxley. No, that's why she left him. Because Moxley gave him the dick slit and that's why he hates Moxley now. You cost me my wife. That's the basis of this whole feud. [00:19:39] Speaker A: It's always a guy getting divorced at the end of the day. Huh? [00:19:42] Speaker C: Truly. Yeah. [00:19:44] Speaker B: That's what a lot of history is. You look back, it's just dudes getting dumped and up because they're insecure. [00:19:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Truly. [00:19:52] Speaker A: They should transition instead. [00:19:55] Speaker B: Agreed. Could have saved George Washington. Me. [00:20:01] Speaker A: Estrogen. Could have saved her. What? [00:20:05] Speaker B: It's in the history books. [00:20:07] Speaker C: Oh, sorry. [00:20:08] Speaker B: Incredible ones. But. [00:20:14] Speaker C: My remembrance of Valley Forge. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:16] Speaker C: Please continue. [00:20:17] Speaker A: Speaking of Valley Forge, Valley Forge of the Dolls. [00:20:22] Speaker C: The Death Riders trio match. Yep. [00:20:24] Speaker B: The Death Riders and you know, the Don Callis family Death Riders feud continues because of the divorce. And we have a trios match between John Boxley, John Poxley. Jesus Christ. John Moxley. [00:20:35] Speaker C: Pac. [00:20:36] Speaker B: Yeah. John Paxley, John Moxley Pack. And Claudio Castagnoli. How the am I trying? Versus Konoske Takeshita, Josh Alexander, and Mark Davis. See, I did all those fine. Which is all. It's a very stacked lineup from both sides of these factions. Like, these are all really good guys. [00:20:57] Speaker C: I love Death Riders. [00:21:00] Speaker A: It's still kind of a retread from last week's trios, but, like, it's. [00:21:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:04] Speaker A: Like, just moving one guy around on each team, like, drastically changes the dynamic of it and it's so cool. [00:21:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:13] Speaker A: Swap out the little guys. Bring in Claudio and Davis to just good guys. [00:21:20] Speaker C: Well, I mean, I can't imagine Daniel Garcia going up against Mark Davis. Oh, wait, he did last. Last week. Yeah. And see how that turned out. [00:21:28] Speaker A: Like, I want to see it. I. I need to see it. I need to see. Yeah. Like, speaking of people being eaten by Mark Davis, seriously, Daniel Garcia is a whole blooming onion. [00:21:44] Speaker B: That's really good. Yeah. It's all building. The Moxley vs. Tesha on Grand Slam Australia. So it's just another little preview tag kind of progressing the story with that. But yeah, this absolutely rules. Like you said, just even switching out one person on each side completely changes the dynamic from the last really good trios match that these two factions had. And this was equally as cool. I say Mark Davis really looks great. He's. I think you could tell, like, I don't know. I say, but I feel like Tony Khan feels bad for what happened with Doyle injuring him. So he's like, really trying to still use and like, give a focus to Davis and stuff. [00:22:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:22] Speaker C: Which is great. [00:22:23] Speaker A: At all. [00:22:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No. And Davis is making the most of. [00:22:26] Speaker C: His reaping the rewards. [00:22:28] Speaker B: And he's a very good wrestler. I mean, he's a awesome big man. He just does, like. He has some of the best chops, like, in the company right now. Just absolutely insane. Shotgun. Loud. Ass chops. [00:22:42] Speaker A: Ass chops. [00:22:44] Speaker B: Chops. That's what we sell at our steakhouse. Ass chop coming for the chopstick for the ass. [00:22:56] Speaker C: It's a wild combination. I'm not gonna lie. [00:22:59] Speaker B: It's a. I suppose that's a blue and onion. Means something different down here. [00:23:03] Speaker A: What have we done to Perkins? [00:23:07] Speaker C: Turned it into a steakhouse, apparently. [00:23:11] Speaker B: No rules, just right. [00:23:13] Speaker A: That's why they closed it. You're not supposed to. The ass of the chop. Oh, man. This was. [00:23:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Frowns on that. Health inspectors. [00:23:31] Speaker A: Probably not anymore. [00:23:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Healthy for you. [00:23:36] Speaker A: We could probably get away with just serving poop. [00:23:38] Speaker B: RFK Jr. Endorses ass chops. [00:23:42] Speaker A: Honestly, I ate my ass chops raw. [00:23:48] Speaker B: You don't do that again. That is too good. [00:23:51] Speaker C: Yeah, you do a incredible. RFK Jr. [00:23:55] Speaker B: I was looking away from the screen when you did it, and I was transported. [00:24:01] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:24:02] Speaker B: No, no, it was fantastic. One cool thing here is Claudio hits a dead left suplex on Mark. [00:24:10] Speaker C: Yes. [00:24:12] Speaker B: Crazy strong style. Like it's a bell we have or a drum we have banged a lot. But Claudio is not a human being. He is a super man cartoon character. [00:24:24] Speaker A: Yeah, he's Popeye. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Except it's coffee instead of spinach. [00:24:30] Speaker A: What are they having? Oh, yeah, he does have coffee. He sells his coffee. [00:24:32] Speaker B: He's a big coffee guy. He's in a group chat with Seth Rollins and John Cena where they talk about coffee wherever they are in the world. They, like, send each other little pictures of the coffee they're drinking and because they're so fancy boys. [00:24:45] Speaker A: Is that true? [00:24:47] Speaker B: Yeah. No, that is 100 true. That is a little, like, I really. [00:24:50] Speaker A: Need to check because sometimes we just. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Say, no, no, that one's real. Seth Rollins, actually, he has, like, a string of coffee shops in Iowa or Idaho or wherever place he's from, so. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Someplace I can't go. Great. Thanks, Seth. [00:25:04] Speaker B: You and I like the picture Cena with the little cup. [00:25:09] Speaker C: I was like, oh, Claudio. And then he deadlifted. Davis and I had flashbacks to that Mox and Claudio fight. Like, I was in Vietnam, I was gonna say. Oh, right. [00:25:23] Speaker A: Was this, like, Is this. Have you not seen. Have you not seen Claudio since that Mox match? [00:25:29] Speaker B: Oh, he's so good. [00:25:31] Speaker C: No, I don't Think I have, because I might have seen him on. In, like, the tournament, but that was the most memorable to me because, like, that was a. [00:25:41] Speaker B: He is, like, I. I always say, like, somebody's my favorite wrestler and it always varies, but he is, I would say, top 10, if not top five, pro wrestlers for me. Like, he. Claudio was really, really high up in my book. That dude could do amazing. [00:25:59] Speaker C: The emissary of pain. [00:26:00] Speaker A: He's been one of my favorites for like, what, 20 years at this point? Yeah, 2005. So, yeah, 20 years, neighbor. [00:26:07] Speaker B: I saw him, had a chikara show back in the day. [00:26:10] Speaker A: Quite literally. I saw him, the chikara, wrestled a show on my college gym and I saw Claudia for the first time on it, and I was like, holy crazy. Also on that show, Eddie Kingston. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Oh, nice. One thing I like too, is ever since Claudio won the CMLL World Heavyweight title, he comes out in a Death Riders lucha mask now, which looks cool. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:26:34] Speaker C: I was like, who is this? I didn't know there was a lucha in the Death Riders. But no, it's just him. [00:26:39] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah, I like that. He still does. He's always. He has such cool, like, presentation choices. Like, I always love the Warhammer 40K he would do. They had like the space marine scrolls on his arms. And, like, I like it when my wrestlers are nerds. [00:26:55] Speaker A: Right. He kept adding to them while he was doing that too. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:59] Speaker A: Honor scrolls. Yeah. [00:27:01] Speaker B: I'm trying to think it's more cool that happens throughout this. [00:27:04] Speaker A: I mean, like, you talk about Claudio's own presentation, like, the Death Riders were wrestling more baby face in this point. So, like, there was like, he was starting. He did more of his, like, baby face stuff. [00:27:17] Speaker B: He gets to do his papa both. He gets a hot tag at one point where he just hits people with European uppercuts for like five minutes straight. [00:27:25] Speaker A: That was. That was when that was like, the big thing. I noticed because, like, he. He kind of does like this and then just starts doing this, like, uppercuts. [00:27:35] Speaker C: Incredibly sick. Yeah. Just going. [00:27:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. [00:27:39] Speaker A: That's actual Popeye. [00:27:41] Speaker B: It is, yeah. That's the cool dynamic going on with the Death Riders, where especially we'll see in the later tag match, which is very much like the Death Rider side are heels. They are getting booed. They are the bad guys of that section. But here they are super baby faces. They're popping, they're hitting big moves. They are up against a default heel faction and are being presented as the good guys. [00:28:04] Speaker C: It's important to contain many facets. [00:28:10] Speaker A: Was popping for like everything in this match. Like, they loved everybody. Maybe not. Actually, no. I think they still like Josh Alexander, but, like, they popped. [00:28:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:18] Speaker A: No, even they love Davis. Like, everybody's like realizing, oh, I love Mark Davis. [00:28:25] Speaker C: What does Josh Alexander hate pac? Like, I. I feel that because. [00:28:30] Speaker B: Correct me if Canadians and British people can't stand. [00:28:33] Speaker C: Oh, natural, natural. Wait, comedians were from once. British still are British subjects I don't know about. [00:28:43] Speaker B: That's outside my area of expertise. [00:28:45] Speaker C: You know what? [00:28:46] Speaker A: Yeah, well, no, because there's. [00:28:48] Speaker B: There's something. There's something like the queen is on their money. I don't. There's something. There's. [00:28:53] Speaker A: There's a whole thing about how Don. Don Callis is also Canadian and he hates Mike Bailey because they're from Quebec, because Quebec is fake Canadian. And then every else part of Canada is normal Canada, but then there's the French can. So it's like, I don't know, maybe. Maybe Josh Alexander is like one of the evil Canadians, but he's not French Canadian. It's complicated. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Colorful land. Our neighbors to the north. [00:29:24] Speaker A: Geopolitics is hard and I am about a simple podcaster. [00:29:29] Speaker C: I am but a simple wrestling podcaster. [00:29:32] Speaker A: You can't expect me to know these things. [00:29:34] Speaker C: My basic knowledge of geo. Of like, countries, systems of government stems from like high school. So, yeah, that's generally speaking, outside of major world events. [00:29:47] Speaker B: If I was tested on it, I would not do well. I'm going to say that right now. [00:29:51] Speaker C: I understand. Are you smarter than a fifth grader now? Because I'm just like, no, but can you do taxes? [00:29:59] Speaker B: Like, I'm smarter than Jeff Foxworthy, though. [00:30:04] Speaker C: Honestly, that's all you need to be. [00:30:08] Speaker B: Yeah. They do get to Mox and Takesha. Both get tagged in and they have a big old strike off. Mox takes Tesha's head off with a giant lariat. They do the everybody gets their in thing where everyone hits like one big move and gets knocked down. [00:30:22] Speaker C: That was the sickest lariat I've ever seen. I mean, not that I've seen, but God, no. [00:30:27] Speaker B: But he nailed him. [00:30:28] Speaker C: Mustard on it. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he did. [00:30:31] Speaker B: They get Tesh in the to corner and run a train on him for a few minutes. [00:30:36] Speaker A: Sure did. [00:30:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Throw. Yeah. Mox hits a cutter on him, gets the near fall, is just barely broken up by Davis. Mox gets the choke on and Davis tags in. And then the Don Callis family runs with train on Mox. It is. Rules are fair. Sunrise Turnabout is fair. Play on that one. [00:30:57] Speaker C: As to previously consented to earlier. [00:31:02] Speaker B: Get another big, big clothesline from Mark Davis, which gets a near fall. Davis and Mark hold up Mox for Tesh, but Claudio cuts him off. Mox gets the choke on Josh and turns it into the Death Rider and gets the win. [00:31:16] Speaker A: Or. [00:31:16] Speaker B: Yeah. A very, very fun trios match. [00:31:20] Speaker A: Awesome. That was even better than last week. [00:31:22] Speaker C: Shout out to Pac, who has gone up against these massive gentlemen twice now and has managed to at least hold his own and stick with it. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Pac's short. Massive, though. Like, he's. [00:31:38] Speaker C: Yeah, he truly is. [00:31:39] Speaker A: He's. He's angry. Small. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Yep. He's like the anime character after, like hyping up and taking their shirt off. Like. [00:31:48] Speaker C: That's true. His inches. His inches are just in bulk. Yeah. [00:31:55] Speaker A: Buff Krillin. [00:31:56] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:31:59] Speaker A: He's not that short and he does. [00:32:01] Speaker B: Have hair, but no, I'm sure he's probably like five. [00:32:07] Speaker C: He's like five, eight. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, Now I gotta know. Now I gotta know. [00:32:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it's hard. They fudge heights and though, like, it's hard. [00:32:15] Speaker C: Yeah, they do. [00:32:15] Speaker A: That's true. Yeah. Like some guys will have lifts on like. [00:32:18] Speaker B: Yeah, like most dudes as 7 foot or like 6, 8, 6, 9. Like it's wrestling at that point. Yeah, they lie about everything. Rey Mysterio was built at like 5, 7 for a while. [00:32:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:37] Speaker A: Toddler. [00:32:40] Speaker C: You can't lie. Don't l. I mean, you're three, five. [00:32:46] Speaker B: Ankle bite. [00:32:48] Speaker A: Let's see. Ricky says that he is five' eight. [00:32:51] Speaker B: Yeah. About what I asked him, but. Which makes me think he's five' six. But that might actually be accurate. He might be like five' eight. Said a lot of wrestlers are shorter than you think they're gonna be when you see him in person. [00:33:02] Speaker A: His real name is Benjamin Satterley. Satterley. Do you know that? I didn't know that. [00:33:08] Speaker B: That's a little British, but. Yeah, it's not as British as Zack Saber Jr's shoot name, which I. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Which is what? [00:33:18] Speaker B: Like Zack Saber Juniors. His real name is Luke James Ugles Eatwell. [00:33:23] Speaker C: Wow. [00:33:23] Speaker A: Jesus Christ. No wonder he changed it. [00:33:25] Speaker B: That is literally the most British name possible. There's four names and one of them is Ugles. [00:33:38] Speaker A: That's terrible. [00:33:39] Speaker B: I would call myself Zach Saber also. We jump right into the next match here, which is Kyle Fletcher vs Tommaso Ciampa for the TNT title. Yeah, I was gonna say, I really like. I. I like Tommaso Champa. I think he's already establishing himself well in the company. I think he's doing well with It. Don Chaos is out at commentary with Lance Archer with him. But Don says on commentary that Lance is not out there to interfere, but to protect him from the fans, the crowd, or as he calls them, the sickos, which is. [00:34:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:34:19] Speaker B: I would very much like to see people in the crowd try and like, charge. John Callis and Lance Archer just murders like six geeks out there. [00:34:27] Speaker C: Oh, I think that they are legally allowed to beat the. Out of you. [00:34:32] Speaker A: Yeah. If you jump that barricade, they're gonna. [00:34:35] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. There is a. [00:34:39] Speaker B: There is a. I wasn't out here to interfere. [00:34:43] Speaker A: Everybody dies. [00:34:45] Speaker B: Yeah. We start off. Kyle Fletcher immediately rolls to the outside, like right at the beginning. He's doing some heel stuff. Do a lot of just strikes kind of good back and forth exchanges. Lots of boots and shops. Kyle's in crazy super kicks. Champa flips off Don Callis for a big pop. It's always easy, like good heat getter there and blow some kisses at Lance Archer before smashing Kyle against the guardrail. [00:35:10] Speaker C: Into the cuck chair. The ring cup chairs, I like to call it. Outside. They're always. [00:35:20] Speaker A: That there's some. [00:35:21] Speaker C: There's always a chair. There's always a person in it. [00:35:25] Speaker B: Yep. [00:35:26] Speaker A: So wait, security guards are cucks? Is that what we're saying? Yeah, that's what we're doing. [00:35:30] Speaker C: No, actually, it's an interesting. It's an interesting state security guards. [00:35:36] Speaker B: I think they're just there to hold the chair down. [00:35:41] Speaker C: Until it needs to be filled. With a wrestler. [00:35:44] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:47] Speaker A: They're all in their underway. You just got to keep that warm for him because otherwise. [00:35:53] Speaker C: Are we gonna keep the. It startles them. [00:36:01] Speaker A: This episode is going to be called Guts. James Bond will return it. [00:36:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:10] Speaker C: Link to Mom. [00:36:15] Speaker B: It's about petting a cat's stomach. Okay. [00:36:19] Speaker C: Just gonna use tiny URL. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Your mom listens to this? [00:36:26] Speaker C: Yeah, she does. [00:36:27] Speaker B: Oh, God. I have your mom. I'm sorry for everything I've said. I really. I didn't know moms were listening to this. [00:36:35] Speaker C: Your mom. My mom is 82 years old. So if she can't hear, listen. Like handle guts at 82 years old? [00:36:42] Speaker B: I don't know. That's fair. [00:36:47] Speaker C: Don't worry. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Is she a fan of skiing? [00:36:51] Speaker C: No, but she will. [00:36:54] Speaker A: You will be. They do what now? I gotta watch the Olympics. [00:37:04] Speaker C: Hydrochloric acid and. What? [00:37:09] Speaker B: All right, before we just leave us another episode of Mob Anther's Mom. It's a nasty air raid. Crash on Kyle onto the steps, which look really brutal. Very cool. Yeah, yeah, that Was a cool. I. I like his Air raid crash. Whatever. They all recall it. Something weird that I don't remember the name of Psycho Driller. Psycho Driller? Yeah. That's one thing. Like Tony Khan. You couldn't have popped for talking heads song. Like I like Champa's entrance song. I'm glad they do it but like maybe at a pay per view or something. Play psycho killer like you did. Where is my Mind for Orange Cassidy to start. You got the money? [00:37:53] Speaker A: Doesn't really fit his character though. Yeah. I think a little whimsical. [00:37:58] Speaker C: He does call himself the psycho killer though. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:02] Speaker B: Just because it is his. Yeah, it is. Yeah. [00:38:04] Speaker C: But I agree. [00:38:05] Speaker A: But he's not like a talking heads character. [00:38:08] Speaker B: He's more like have him come out in the big suit character. Yeah, yeah. [00:38:13] Speaker A: No, he does have that big jacket. [00:38:15] Speaker B: That jacket is pretty big on him. [00:38:17] Speaker C: Just make it white. [00:38:19] Speaker A: Yeah. I take it he comes out and. [00:38:24] Speaker B: Dances with a lamp like. [00:38:28] Speaker C: Tony Khan. Get on this. [00:38:32] Speaker B: Call us chopper gets Kyle up on the top rope, sets him up for the arrow crash. Kyle gets out and John tries to set up the power bomb. And Champa bites his face off like a. Yeah. [00:38:41] Speaker C: He chomps. [00:38:43] Speaker A: He's like, you want. You think you're gonna eat me? I'm gonna eat you. Ever had a chomp or bite your back? [00:38:54] Speaker C: The chomp bites back. [00:38:57] Speaker B: We're not tomatoes. Leave us alone. Kyle hits a very cool spinning like backdrop driver off the second rope. That looked really nice. [00:39:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Then. Yeah. Follows it up with a let like a really good lager bomb. I mean we've talked about a lot, but Kyle Fletcher's one of the just standouts of this company. He has. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Kyle is great. [00:39:23] Speaker B: Matches with everyone. The smartest thing Tony Khan's done in like the last year and a half, two years is hitch his wagon to Kyle Fletcher. Like he needs just hold on to that boy like a shooting star. [00:39:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:36] Speaker B: Champ tries to jump on Kyle to the outside. Kyle catches him and power bombs him on the apron. And Don Cal says he just blew his back out with that. And nobody says anything. We just move on. I mean he knows what he's doing. [00:39:53] Speaker A: Yeah, he did. [00:39:55] Speaker C: It was a little diabolical that the announcer like so that Kyle Fletcher is going after Champa's like neck and the entire match. And the announcer table like acknowledges it. It's like, isn't that a little grim? Like. [00:40:11] Speaker B: Well, that is. That's a. It's a historical thing. He's had injured like he was out of NXT for a long Time. Because he had neck surgery and stuff like that. It's all. It's a good carryover. But, yeah, they are very much, like, draw attention to that. [00:40:26] Speaker A: And it's like, neck injury seems to be, like, the number one thing that everybody from that generation has because everybody was taking head and neck bumps because they saw Japanese wrestlers doing it in the 90s. [00:40:41] Speaker B: It worked out so well for Masawa. I should. [00:40:44] Speaker A: They. They even, like, directly at, like. Like, Callis even said something directly to Danielson. He's like, hey, no offense, but, like. [00:40:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:55] Speaker A: After you had neck surgery, how do you protect your neck? [00:40:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:00] Speaker C: What are the downstream effects? [00:41:02] Speaker A: You learned. You learned to tuck your. Tuck your. Tuck your head in so you don't land on your neck. Excalibur goes. Some of us never learn to tuck their necks. Huh? [00:41:13] Speaker B: So your neck's. Isn't it, Danielson. [00:41:16] Speaker A: Yeah. He even said no offense, which I would not expect. [00:41:21] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:41:23] Speaker C: He's like, that's why you're so great on commentary. Look at this. The angle that I didn't even see. Excellent. You know, just like. Oh, well. Yeah. It's living it. Okay. [00:41:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:35] Speaker B: I think, though, is, like, the reason we had Danielson on this show and, like, not the. Is because this is on the west coast, which is closer to where he lives. So he's been talking a lot about how, like, his neck, so even just like, being on a plane causes him insane amounts of pain. And at this point. Right. Yeah. I noticed he's been missing more. Like, he was doing the regular commentary thing for a bit, and then he kind of, like, started dropping off. I'm like, this one. California. I think he either lives in California or in the Pacific Northwest or something. [00:42:03] Speaker A: I think he's still up in Washington somewhere. Yeah. [00:42:07] Speaker B: Same time, though. [00:42:09] Speaker A: Yeah. You take the train. [00:42:11] Speaker B: They did a really cool spot where Kyle super kicks Champa, and Champa gets Kyle with the big knee pins him. And Kyle just barely rolls his shoulder up for the two. Like, it is the most, like, just doesn't even really kick out. He just barely struggles to pull his shoulder up and really, like, sells the fight going on here. It's such a cool little spot. Fletcher spits right in Champa's face, which happens a couple times. There's a lot of face spitting throughout this show. [00:42:40] Speaker C: There's so much body fluids going on. [00:42:46] Speaker A: In my mouth. Chomp, Daddy. [00:42:52] Speaker B: I feel like it would get caught in the beard, like. [00:42:55] Speaker C: Yeah. Laying there. [00:42:59] Speaker B: I just don't know how you eat soup like that. Like, I've tried to Have a beer and. And like, I can't get that much with it. Even then, I still would get food in the corners of my mustache and all the time, or like, it get in my mouth. And I hated it. [00:43:13] Speaker C: Awful. [00:43:14] Speaker B: I just couldn't imagine having, like, a big old champ of beard. I would light it on fire on accident, smoking a joint. [00:43:22] Speaker A: I, I, I couldn't at all even begin to think of it. Not. Not my thing. It never really was. [00:43:30] Speaker B: No, it works for him because he looks like a pirate warlord dude. [00:43:36] Speaker A: He's, like, all weathered and. Weathered and leather. [00:43:40] Speaker B: He's, like, the same age as me. He's, like, 40. [00:43:43] Speaker A: 40? Yeah, he's 40 or something. [00:43:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I turned 40 in April. I think we're, like, almost the same age. Like, and he. It's the. Because the beard's white. Like, if that wasn't white, he would not. He'd look 10 years younger. [00:43:58] Speaker A: I mean, it does give him a distinct look, like, you know him. [00:44:01] Speaker B: And I also have the exact same body, too. Like, my same torso, same abs. We have a lot in common. [00:44:11] Speaker A: You're always talking about that, aren't you? [00:44:16] Speaker B: You're older than me, Ham. I didn't know that. [00:44:18] Speaker C: I am. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Millennials. Are you still a millennial or we gotta kick you out. Okay? We don't want no Gen Xers on this podcast. Please don't. I can't go to a Nirvana concert, Boomer. [00:44:34] Speaker C: No, no, no. [00:44:35] Speaker A: We're all 35. I've. I've always learned that 35 is, like, the perfect number. And that's like, every. Everybody I've talked to is just like, you're 35. You could go for 35. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah, no. [00:44:46] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good one. [00:44:49] Speaker B: 35 is, like, the good level of adult. You're not, like, you're past the being dumb and young, but you're not to where you're, like, falling apart. You're not in the ballpark of 40 yet. You're still, like, a young adult. I would say it's the tail end of it, but you're still there. [00:45:05] Speaker A: So it up next in the match because, like, I, I got. I missed, like, half of it. [00:45:09] Speaker B: We're just. No, we're, like, right up to the end here. Yeah. Champa goes for the knee, but Fletcher catches him and turns into a really nice michinoku driver. He hits the brain buster, gets the three count and the win to become the new TNT champ, which I, I like this booking. I like Champa coming in, winning against somebody he knew and was familiar with in Mark Brisco and then losing to somebody that he does, like, he's in this new environment, he's got to learn these new foes and these new people. And he came in looking great. It was a great way to establish him. But this actually is some like, unique storytelling. [00:45:48] Speaker A: That is different. [00:45:49] Speaker C: Yeah, there's like Kyle not going to Australia with the belt, which is. [00:45:54] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a very cool thing. [00:45:57] Speaker A: That was the big thing. I've been like, Mo, it's, it's mostly teasing Ella about like, you know, not liking Champa's matches as much as she does. And like, I get it. But like, he's, he's, I mean, he's on. I've seen it, I've seen it all before with him is the thing, right? Like, yeah, I don't like, he's, he's fine, he's good, he's exciting. It's new matchups for everybody, but like. [00:46:23] Speaker B: It'S, and he is very much the NXT TAKEOVER style and that is not for everybody. Like, I enjoy that was like when I really got into, into wrestling was watching him and Johnny Gargano come up in DIY back in like mid late 2015s on XT. Like those guys really are big ones for me. But it's not for everybody. Like, even this match, the kickouts, like the facial selling stuff like was through there, even if it was through like an AW lens, it was still that that style is in there for sure. [00:46:54] Speaker C: I can see that. I think I just read it as more of like this kind of high intensity. Like everything was like really hard earned in the way that I like, the way that I saw it. Both men were just really intense. I, I, of course, I've never seen Champa. These are like my first couple. [00:47:14] Speaker B: Yeah, you're fresh. [00:47:14] Speaker C: So it's, so it's new and exciting for me. [00:47:18] Speaker A: I mean like, don't get me wrong. [00:47:19] Speaker B: I've never seen appeared like that before. [00:47:20] Speaker A: I like, don't get me wrong, he's extremely good. And it's not like the matches have been bad. They just, they just leave me thinking like I like, you know, I want to, I want to see something else. I want something more. Yeah, but like they've, they've put them with good opponents outright. Like everybody there is like a really good TV wrestler as well. [00:47:41] Speaker B: So like I said, I like this, the story thing. I like short reigns getting mixed in. Like not everybody needs to hold belts for nine to, you know, 15 months. Like sometimes people win them belt and then they lose it in a week or two like that. Just by the nature of competition that happens more realistically that's going to occur sometimes games. [00:48:01] Speaker C: I'd much rather have that too. Like it gets stale after too long. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Yeah. It's mixing it up. It's keeping it fresh. [00:48:09] Speaker A: Especially if you have nothing. Like if you're not building to any specific thing with a long train then having it too long on one person is very man. And like the TNT title is a TV type title. It's meant to bounce around as much as they need it to. [00:48:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And you can build a story now of Champa like wanting to regain that title and like working his way back up to it and stuff. So I think it's a good move. [00:48:33] Speaker A: It could be fun. [00:48:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. They move on. Renee gets in the ring and she's talking with Don Callis. Who's in there? Lance Archer's in there. Kyle's in there. They're all celebrating the win. Renee says Kyle did do it on his own. There was no interference, which was true. That was an entirely clean win. I don't think he cheated at all in that match actually. [00:48:51] Speaker A: Like. [00:48:52] Speaker B: No, I don't. [00:48:53] Speaker A: Was. I don't. [00:48:54] Speaker B: Was there a low blow or anything even? Like. [00:48:56] Speaker A: No, not that I saw. Like I said, I missed half the match. [00:49:01] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I suppose like the attention to the neck and the head is. Is kind of like the worst that he went with. He did the. He did the half and half on the mat which was probably as heal it heal as I get got for him. [00:49:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Archer didn't give all. Don Callis didn't give up. Kyle says that he is coming home with the TNT championship. He is from Sydney, which is where Grand Strand, Australia is going to be. So this is not just a home country show. This is a home city show for Kyle. Fletcher says he will show up with the show up in Sydney with the belt and will defend it there against anyone from anywhere that cues Mark Briscoe's music. Mark gets out, comes out, grabs Mike. Says Kyle has come a long way and congratulates him. Says Kyle has a big mouth and that him and Kyle are 3 for 3 in their matches. They had six matches, evenly split. Challenges Kyle for game seven. Kyle at first says no and that he is sick of Mark Briscoe. But he did say he will face anyone and he is a man of his word so he accepts. But he wants this match seven to be bigger and the best in the final chapter. So he says that Mark Briscoe loves to reach for the sky. So why not reach for the belt and says it will be a ladder match? Which. Hell yeah. [00:50:20] Speaker C: Hell yeah. [00:50:21] Speaker A: I went through a whole range of emotions during this whole thing. [00:50:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:25] Speaker A: Because. And I think a lot of people, especially on Blue sky, did. And then, like, some people either came around to it or are still really pissed about it because they're doing it again. But it's like, yeah, you're gonna do. [00:50:36] Speaker B: It, though, in a ladder match. [00:50:39] Speaker A: Like Bris. Yeah. Briscoe's music hits and I'm like, jesus Christ, really? We're gonna do this again? And then. And then he mentions like, we're three for three. And I was like, oh, oh. They did, like, they kind of snuck in a best of seven series. Because that. That was like a. That was like a hallmark of, like, wcw. And then WWE did it for a few wrestlers where, like, two guys would just have, like, a heated rivalry. They'd wrestle seven times, like, you know. Yeah. Sports playoffs. [00:51:09] Speaker B: That's how Claudio and Seamus's tag team formed the bar. Originally. It started they did as best of seven series against each other and had such good chemistry that they're like, oh, let's form a tag team. And that was sick. [00:51:20] Speaker A: Trying to remember what the really famous one from WCW was. I think it was Booker and Benoit. Benoit wasn't one. I might be getting them mixed up, but I know, like, Booker was. [00:51:32] Speaker B: But no, they didn't do a bunch of these. Yeah. [00:51:35] Speaker A: But, like, they're usually, like, announced ahead of time. So they'll be like, between here and the next pay per view, they're gonna have seven matches available to determine who's the better wrestler. And then this was like, they've done this over months and like, they snuck in like, this is the best seven series. Cool. And now you had the ladder match and like, you know, they're gonna, like, attempt to break each other's neck. [00:51:58] Speaker B: It's gonna be up in the best possible way. [00:52:02] Speaker A: I don't know what they're gonna do. I'm not. I'm like, ah, yes. [00:52:05] Speaker B: But, ah, Mark and Kyle do have great matches together. They really do have fantastic chemistry. And like, for something like this particularly, they are gonna go fucking bonkers with it. [00:52:16] Speaker C: I'm sure vaguely bummed because, well, I mean, I suppose I can always watch it later, but I will not. This would be my first ladder match and I won't be able to get the Sunday pay per view. I have never seen the ladder match. [00:52:31] Speaker B: Really. [00:52:31] Speaker A: Holy. Yeah. [00:52:33] Speaker B: Trying to think if there was. Yeah. Nothing from, like, even the period of washing thing, like big ones? [00:52:38] Speaker A: No, it's been. I feel like it's been ages since AWS even had one. [00:52:42] Speaker B: Yeah, but even like wcw. I think the only ladder match I can really think of WCW is it was like on the NWA NWO pay per view. They did like Eddie Guerrero versus X Pac and one in like 97. [00:52:56] Speaker C: Wow, that's incredible. [00:52:58] Speaker A: Usually they're like tag team matches so you can get like a bunch of people in it to catch everybody. The WCW one I remember best was the Young Dragons versus three count. [00:53:09] Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah. In the 2000 or two. [00:53:12] Speaker A: They were. They were wrestling over the. They were wrestling over a gold record and they just like tried to kill each other on this ladder match. [00:53:18] Speaker B: No, that. That was like during the worst period in that company. There was like this crazy, just like underlying feud of really good High flyers that were. Had stupid gimmicks but were just amazing in the ring. [00:53:31] Speaker C: So the Green Dragons on the what? Young Dragons. [00:53:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Versus the boy band parody group Three Count. The Young Dragons I think were like. Didn't they dress as Elvis or something? Or was that the first flying offices later on? [00:53:49] Speaker A: That was Jimmy. Jimmy Yang. Just as a cowboy in wwe because Vince thought an Asian cowboy would be funny. [00:53:57] Speaker B: It does make me kind of sad. Monday night fake fights didn't get into like, like 1999, 2000s WCW. Because that is some like stupid. And it would be so fun to watch and like make fun of and talk about that stuff. That's if we do a talk about doing these little like mini episode reviews. We should do that ladder match for one very fun one to do. [00:54:21] Speaker A: Yes, we should. [00:54:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be. [00:54:23] Speaker C: Oh good. [00:54:24] Speaker B: A great way to introduce you to the gimmick Amper. Yeah, we'll get. That's some. We'll get some. Some inside baseball stuff we'll talk about. But let's hop back. We do a video package between the Babes of Wrath and Mega Problems. Bib's Wrath are in Australia already setting up. That's why they are having a video package. Basically they just set up their match for Grand Slam, the title challenge because the Mega Problems won the eliminator match against them. Should be fun, excited, cool stuff. [00:54:55] Speaker C: My heart beeps of wrath. That's all. [00:54:57] Speaker B: Oh yeah, they're fantastic. I heard Mega Problems too. Or is it. I don't know if it's singular, if it's just Mega Problem or Mega Bad. [00:55:04] Speaker A: Mega bad. [00:55:05] Speaker B: Is it? Oh, I was mixing it. I wrote down Marina Shafir, you hack. Yeah, I'm embarrassed. That's even why I wrote in my note. I wrote that in my notes. Here. This is bad. They're gonna take my microphone away from me. [00:55:22] Speaker C: No, please. You're driving. [00:55:25] Speaker A: Get out of the pod. [00:55:28] Speaker B: Turn this thing right around. Mega bad. My. My mistake there. But yeah, I like. I like Penelope Ford. I like Megan Bane. I sure will be cool. I think honestly would be fine with Megabad winning the belts on Saturday. I'm ready for Willow to focus more on the tbs. Yeah. Solo stuff for her and Harley. It's been fun. And they could still be a group with stat and everything, but let them. Yeah. Mega bad. [00:55:54] Speaker A: They can be sad together. Spoilers. [00:56:00] Speaker B: We hop over to our next match, which is kind of talking about before with the little Death Riders heel stuff where we got Daniel Garcia and Clark Connors, who is a Death Riders adjacent civilian warrior, I guess at this point. [00:56:14] Speaker C: Yeah, that makes sense. [00:56:15] Speaker A: I think they'd be more. I think they'd have to be like Death Riders Civilian Auxiliary because they're more like military. [00:56:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:24] Speaker B: The War Dogs, who are like, kind of. They're like a little mercenary group that the Death Riders can call it at this point, which is, you know, kind of a cool little gimmick. [00:56:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:35] Speaker B: Anyway, it's those two versus Roderick Strong and Orange Cassidy Clark Honors, I believe now is officially part of aew. I don't know if he ever got the graphic or anything, but it seems he's done with New Japan and he is a functional AEW wrestler at this point. And I kind of like how he dresses like Hunter S. Thompson and has a match in his mouth for no reason. [00:56:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like, I can't have a cigarette. I don't remember him ever doing that. [00:57:03] Speaker B: Yeah, no, he. He's tweaked the gimmick. [00:57:05] Speaker A: Let him smoke. [00:57:07] Speaker B: He still kept the 100 proof nickname, which I like, though. I always thought that sounded pretty cool. [00:57:11] Speaker A: He's Whiskey. [00:57:12] Speaker B: He is Mr. Tekla. [00:57:14] Speaker C: Oh, is he? [00:57:16] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, there are a couple. [00:57:17] Speaker C: Nice. Oh, yeah. That vibes. [00:57:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:24] Speaker B: Yeah. It's all coming together now. [00:57:31] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Fear and Loathing. [00:57:34] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:57:35] Speaker B: It is though, like, pretty obvious that. Because, like, if you, you know, not to get too much into another promotion, but you watch New Japan for the last few months. Clark Connors was pretty checked out over there. I think it was. This was the plan going for a while. He wanted to be with his partner and start breaking into American stuff. I do think he fits well with the AW world. [00:57:53] Speaker A: Do you think because he's dating Tecla he's ever told the joke being like, oh, God, spiders. Get him off me. Just kidding, baby. [00:58:01] Speaker B: I am sure every day he's 100 proof. [00:58:04] Speaker A: So he's like, ah, the spiders are all over me. Just kidding. [00:58:08] Speaker C: Getting the dts. Pink spiders. [00:58:14] Speaker A: Pinks. [00:58:14] Speaker B: I feel like some good withdrawal humor to keep a relationship on its toes. [00:58:19] Speaker C: Seriously. Yeah. It's not. [00:58:21] Speaker B: You're a symptom of my misery. Tech would probably be cool with it. Honestly. Yeah. It's like a crawl under your skin. That's my best Austrian accent. [00:58:35] Speaker A: Which is just your voice. [00:58:37] Speaker B: Yeah. That's how bad it is. [00:58:43] Speaker C: Midwest. Australia. [00:58:47] Speaker B: It's me. I'm Tekla. I'm from Austria. [00:58:51] Speaker A: It's me, Tekla. I'm from Austria. [00:58:57] Speaker B: Shrimp on the barbie. Arnold Schwarzenegger is from Austria, isn't he? [00:59:03] Speaker A: Or yes, I believe he's Austrian. Yes, he is. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:08] Speaker B: They're not. Not normal Germans. They're different Germans. [00:59:12] Speaker A: They're Australians. Yeah. They're a little up. Yeah. [00:59:15] Speaker C: I think it's from the same. I'm not getting into the geopolitical nature of any. [00:59:23] Speaker B: We already Canada. Let's not get into European stuff here. [00:59:28] Speaker C: No, I'm not touching that. [00:59:29] Speaker A: I'm like, dear Austria, why are you no longer Hungarian? [00:59:33] Speaker B: That has been a recurring theme of this show is us not understanding other countries. Yeah. We start off Clark and Orange Cassie start off in the ring, but Rodrick immediately tags himself and gets R. Clark or gets Orange out of there. Theme throughout. This is Roddy still does not like Orange Cassidy. They not. [00:59:56] Speaker C: I picked that up. Subtle. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess Orange is fine with Roderick, but Roddy just hates Orange gas. And he's so. It's when Kyle Fletcher is not around that he can't stand. Like his friends. [01:00:08] Speaker A: I mean, among us, it's our friends. [01:00:12] Speaker B: Friends. [01:00:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Like somebody. So, like, these are always like a. A friend of a friend that, like, when you're forced to hang out with them solo, you're just like, this is. This is not working out, man. Yeah. [01:00:24] Speaker C: No, there needs to be a bridge. [01:00:26] Speaker B: There's got to be the middle element. Yeah. Otherwise it's just. It's not there. [01:00:31] Speaker C: What does Mox say? Familiarity breeds contempt. And he's just like, imagine hanging out with Orange Cassidy all the time. [01:00:40] Speaker A: You should mention that. [01:00:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:45] Speaker C: Fire. [01:00:46] Speaker A: I spent the whole match paying attention to everything he said. Not really. I did nothing the slightest. [01:00:55] Speaker B: Written down than I do. [01:00:56] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. [01:00:58] Speaker A: I was. [01:00:59] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [01:01:00] Speaker B: Start off with one. Moxley's talking about how annoying he finds he understands Roderick not liking Orange Cassidy, because he thinks Orange Cassidy's annoying. Says, can you imagine being on the road with Orange Cassidy? Excalibur says, it would be like having a chinchilla in the front seat. And Mox responds, I don't know what that would be like. [01:01:18] Speaker A: In the front seat. [01:01:22] Speaker C: No. [01:01:22] Speaker B: When they mentioned chinchilla, I did the LEO or campoid. I was like, dry. [01:01:26] Speaker C: Dry baths, dry bass. [01:01:28] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Box listens to the pod. John Mox. If you listen to the pod, do a little. Do a little shimmy in the ring for us. [01:01:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Tug your ear three times on Saturday when you're facing Takeshita, and we'll know. Actually, I don't. Moxley is like one of those people I imagine does not listen to podcast. Podcast. Like, he doesn't seem like Internet enough. Like, no, no, I don't. [01:01:53] Speaker C: You know. [01:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think he listens to anything that isn't on. No, I think it's cassette. Like, heavy metal music is probably the only thing he listens to. Like, CDs. I see being a step too far. [01:02:07] Speaker C: It doesn't trust the technology. And I don't blame him. [01:02:10] Speaker B: I think even Renee has said something about how he always just, like, loses or, like, destroys his phones because he doesn't care about. About them. He's like, I don't want this thing. [01:02:21] Speaker A: I mean, fair. [01:02:23] Speaker B: Yeah, no, you're entirely right. Another Mox thing. [01:02:29] Speaker A: He talks about how, like, Tony Stor is going to look great bald. She could pull it off. He's not even, like, being mean about it. He's just like, I think she could pull it off. [01:02:38] Speaker B: Yeah, he's kind of sweet throughout this, like, next one is Daniel Garcia gets Orange Cassidy in a full Nelson. And Orange Cassidy puts his hands in his pockets to do the skate. And Mox says, that's not going to work. That's not going to work. And then Orange Cassidy, like, slips out of the full Nelson with the hands of the box, and Mox is like, oh, I guess it did work. I was wrong. That was cool. He was really, like, pleasantly surprised that it didn't work out. [01:03:05] Speaker A: My actual favorite, favorite bit was the commentary, talking about how Clark Connors did a homicide with Gabe Kid on Darby Allen the previous week. And Mox is just like, who got dragged to the desert? Darby Allen, he gets himself into all kinds of stuff. [01:03:27] Speaker C: So chill. Just. Yeah. [01:03:31] Speaker A: Like, nothing even surprises him. He is like, darby did what now? Yeah, whatever. Nothing about that surprise him at this point. [01:03:41] Speaker C: He falls out. And when I say fall out, I mean he Chuckles Very much like Mox when Roderick Starong chucks deuces and just walked out of the match. And he's like, oh, that's wrong. [01:04:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Orange goes for the tag and Roddy just jumps off the apron and walks away. And Mox just can't. He just starts laughing. He's like, holy. I thought I knew he didn't like him, but I didn't think he. [01:04:10] Speaker C: Yeah, no idea. Mox can't kip up because he has his hands in his pocket. So he struggles. And Roderick is just like, everything too far, brother. [01:04:25] Speaker B: He is fed up with it. Say after that, after Rodri, Roderick dips out. Clark's a big old Jeep flip on him. And Garcia and Clark Connors just start beating Orange Cassidy down. Connor spears Orange through the ropes. They start fighting to the outside. Then out of the crowd is Darby Allen, who abducts Clark Connors basically from what chair? The cup chair. [01:04:51] Speaker A: He was in the Cup. Oh, my God. [01:04:53] Speaker B: That's why I said. [01:04:56] Speaker A: Goodness, goodness, the lines. It all makes sense. Darby on's a cuck. [01:05:06] Speaker C: You heard it here, folks. [01:05:08] Speaker A: Air horns. Nailed it. Yeah. [01:05:16] Speaker B: Basically, now the odds are even. It is basically just Orange Cassidy versus Daniel Garcia because both their partners have been taken out of the match by various forces. Orange goes for the orange punch. Garcia catches it and turns into a dragon tamer. The Orange catches that and turns into a roll up and gets the win. And yeah, pretty nothing little match. It was fine. It did its purpose. [01:05:41] Speaker A: It was a big storyline match. That's all it really was. There was like it served its purpose. It was fine commentary. [01:05:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we had some laughs. [01:05:50] Speaker A: Really entertaining. It's a chuckle. [01:05:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And all four of those guys are good. I mean, like the bit that it just wasn't a ton to it because you're progressing some stuff. Like I'm sure we're leading probably to Orange Cassidy versus Roderick Strong. Maybe a revolution or something like that. I saw somebody theorizing that Roderick's gonna actually interfere on Saturday and cost Orange Cassidy the match to preserve his wife Marina's beautiful, beautiful hair. But that might be have enjoying the Death Riders. I don't know if that'll happen, but it's an. Yeah, it's a concept. [01:06:21] Speaker A: It could. It could. It could. [01:06:23] Speaker B: They've never really addressed Tim and Marina actually being married. It's always. Yeah, a little. [01:06:30] Speaker A: They don't always. They don't really acknowledge spouses or significant. [01:06:35] Speaker B: No, they never talk about Tony Storm and Juice. Like they never. I mean, they did, I think one signed comment, a promo or something. But yeah, it's. They keep, they keep. [01:06:45] Speaker C: Oh, seeing Tony are married. [01:06:48] Speaker B: No, no. Juice Robinson. [01:06:51] Speaker C: Sorry. [01:06:52] Speaker B: No, no, for sure. Yeah. There's too much beverage faced wrestlers. [01:06:57] Speaker A: Yeah. The only, the only one only marriage that's ever like actually mentioned more than once is Moxley and Renee. [01:07:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:07:05] Speaker A: And that's frequently like somebody would go to Renee and be like tell your husband to calm the down. [01:07:14] Speaker B: And they did that like pre show for one of the pay per views where it was Renee and Max driving around and just like talking about Mox being very evil. It was like at the height of he old Mox just like what the wrong with you? [01:07:29] Speaker C: That's wild. [01:07:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Speaking of Toni Storm, they cut to her up in the crowd. Her music is. She's with Luther in the distance in black and white looking really cool. Tony gabs and Mike and says children, oh my God. It's really. It's a sick looking presentation. I love how they cut when cutting back and forth between Orange Cassidy and the ring in full color and then her out in the crowd in black and white and the camera switches every time it goes back and forth between them. Is very, very cool looking. See? Yeah. She says children of California, lend me your ears. Says that she has made peace with her life choices. Which I really wish I could agree. I could also say that. [01:08:08] Speaker C: But I gave one day. [01:08:11] Speaker B: Good for you, Tony. Yeah. She calls Marina Shafir a mixed martial. Which was a very good line. [01:08:19] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. [01:08:20] Speaker B: I laughed. Says that if Marina knocks her out in front of her family, friends and former lovers, she deserves to have her head shaved by Marina. She says that if that happens, she will evolve into the most beautiful bald bastard that ever lived. [01:08:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:34] Speaker B: Says that if she wins that she will shave Marina's so heads so bald that they can sell her a spirit Halloween. So I really sick. [01:08:42] Speaker A: Yeah, it was good lie. That's a good line. [01:08:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a short little Tony Storm bit, but it was very funny. Like just. And they keep cutting back to Orange Cassidy in the ring who's just kind of like holding his head and like reaching his hand out to her. It was like the dynamic is fantastic between them. She does start to run down Wheeler Yuta but Wheeler Yuta interrupts and followed. Comes out behind. Coming out behind him is Marina Shafir who has Mina Shirakawa in the mother's milk. Garcia jumps and takes Orange Cassie out in the ring, holds him down. Yuta grabs some scissors and cuts off a hunk of Mina's hair, which bum bum, bum. Big drama. Everyone Said very, very angry. [01:09:23] Speaker A: I mean, I assume this got crazy. It got crazy Heat. The crowd was pissed. [01:09:29] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:09:33] Speaker A: Does anything and just everybody loses their mind. [01:09:35] Speaker C: This is not a joke. [01:09:38] Speaker B: Yeah. That dichotomy of the Death Riders, where it's like, it's one segment, they could be huge over baby faces, and then the next, they get the most heel out of any. Most heel heat out of anybody had the entire show. [01:09:50] Speaker C: I mean, I think it. I mean, obviously, heel be heels, be doing heel. But also, you know, once again, dragging somebody else into this. And then in cutting her hair, instead of going after or just waiting till. [01:10:04] Speaker B: Tony attacking what she loves most. [01:10:07] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:10:08] Speaker A: I got her wife's hair. [01:10:10] Speaker B: It would be like somebody cutting one of my cat's hair. That would be Manhattan. [01:10:14] Speaker C: I'm assuming that Mina is just going for bangs. I saw that. Because they. She. Whatever. [01:10:21] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure that was like an extension or something. [01:10:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I think they put an extension in that. You. You'd have proud. I don't think they actually left out, like, a big ass on kind of her. [01:10:30] Speaker C: Yeah. Because it was definitely, like, at the top anyways, because I would. Yeah, it was very into it. [01:10:36] Speaker B: Wrestling magic. [01:10:38] Speaker A: I love wrestling like that. It's awesome. [01:10:42] Speaker B: Just. [01:10:42] Speaker A: Oh, I. I love hair matches. I love mask matches. I love luchas deas. They're great. [01:10:48] Speaker B: Y. I'm. There's so much stuff on Saturday. I'm stoked for. Like, there are so many matches that I really can't wait to see what happens with them, including this one. Like, the stakes of one of these four people is going to have their head shaved. Who's it going to be? And all four options are pretty interesting, honestly. [01:11:07] Speaker C: Yeah. What if they all have to get their head shaved? [01:11:10] Speaker B: They all do. They do a quadruple pin. Like, everybody gets hit and falls on each other, and the ref counts all four of them. Amazing. [01:11:21] Speaker A: Let's go. [01:11:23] Speaker C: Be very. [01:11:25] Speaker B: We do a video package. That's last Wednesday after Dynamite with Don Callison. Andrade. Don is very, very happy that Andrade beat Kenny. He is. And jumping with joy. He said that he knew that Andrade was the man to take out Kenny. Andrade thanks Don for believing in him. And then cuts a promo in Spanish on Hangman Adam Page, which I did not understand because I don't speak Spanish, before saying that. Yeah. Anybody here? Hang up there, Spanda? No. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He says that Hangman is in his way to getting the championship. And same thing. They cut to Hangman last Wednesday after Dynamite says that it Would have been. He thought he was going to be facing Kenny, but he Andrade. Then he speaks some Spanish back to Andrade, which again, we do not know what that means. [01:12:16] Speaker A: I don't. Yeah, sorry. I took French in high school. [01:12:19] Speaker B: Yeah. I did a semester of German and all I know is how to ask where the toilet is. [01:12:23] Speaker C: Oh, okay. So I think according to the AEW website is Adam Page will find out that when you get in the way, you get run over. And he thanked Callous and told Paige who was in his way. Okay. [01:12:41] Speaker B: Yeah. But yeah, it's final promo sets up their match too, which will probably be really cool. Got one more little video package here where they go back to Jet Speed who are walking and talking. Bailey says they need challenges for the trio belts. But Hangman's going for the world championship so that him and Kevin should go for some matches too. Kevin says maybe some singles matches. Basically say they are coming for all the gold. Which kind of. The trio's titles mean nothing. It is. I say. I love those. Those belts are very, very unnecessary. It feels like a lot of the. [01:13:13] Speaker A: Time I keep saying you only have trios titles if you have gang warfare style booking and they don't have that. [01:13:21] Speaker B: We need los. We need them. [01:13:23] Speaker A: They almost. Yeah. It's not good. It's not good. That's where like it works great in Dragon Gate because Dragon Gates factions out the ass. [01:13:30] Speaker B: Everybody's Exactly. [01:13:32] Speaker A: They can go challenge for a title. [01:13:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:35] Speaker A: This is like. [01:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah. It's just every time somebody has the trio's titles, it just feels like at least one member of that trio is also involved in another like title hunt somewhere. Like nobody seems to real or like the tag or something like that. [01:13:50] Speaker A: Pretty much. Pretty much. [01:13:52] Speaker B: Yeah. It sucks. But in the meantime, I'm happy that Mike Bailey has gold in some capacity. [01:13:59] Speaker A: Yay. [01:14:00] Speaker B: Next we go to our match for the number one contender spot for the tag team titles is the Young Bucks versus the Rascals versus a mystery team which had a lot of speculation going. A lot of people thought it was going to be a cool and cage, but it is. Oh my God. It's private party. They're back for a year. Gone. [01:14:21] Speaker A: Wow. I thought they were gone from the company. I don't know what happened. [01:14:25] Speaker B: They disappeared for a year. They lost. [01:14:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:28] Speaker B: Like the tag titles to the Hurt Syndicate like January of 25 and just vanished after that. I guess I saw they still would like represent the company at like events and stuff like that. But they just. I don't know why they did not Run wrestle at all for all of 2025. [01:14:45] Speaker C: Yeah, they. The commentators talk about it, but they don't say why. [01:14:49] Speaker B: So there was no idea. [01:14:51] Speaker A: Someone under the impression their contract had been up. [01:14:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought they were going to NXT or something, but I just. I guess they always. [01:14:58] Speaker A: Everybody thoughts? [01:15:00] Speaker B: I didn't hear anything about them being injured or anything. Yeah. And Mark, Gwen looks amazing. He is absolutely swollen. [01:15:07] Speaker A: The out on the same that swerve was on Marque. [01:15:11] Speaker B: Looks like he ate Mark Quinn from 2024. [01:15:14] Speaker A: God, yeah. [01:15:16] Speaker B: Chicken breasts and rice every night and good old hard work. [01:15:21] Speaker A: And ICO Pro. [01:15:22] Speaker C: I love Isaiah Cassidy. I think thought he was. [01:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I missed him. He's been. He's a talent. [01:15:30] Speaker A: And then. [01:15:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I should say too. Representing the Rascals is Desmond Xavier and Myron Reed this week. No. Zachary Wentz, who as the show goes on, I should establish. I will accidentally call him Pete Wentz. It will happen. I can't help it. [01:15:44] Speaker C: And I'm sorry, just apply that correction. [01:15:48] Speaker A: Now. [01:15:49] Speaker B: I'm glad he wasn't on the show because I probably would have called him Pete Wentz at least two or three times through this match. [01:15:54] Speaker A: But he is not Carson Wentz. [01:15:58] Speaker B: I don't know who that is. [01:15:59] Speaker A: He's a. He was a quarterback for the Es. [01:16:03] Speaker B: That explains why I do not know who he is. [01:16:05] Speaker A: I don't think anybody really. [01:16:07] Speaker B: I. I was too busy listening to Fallout Boy. [01:16:11] Speaker A: This was only like 10 years ago. If you're listening to Fallout Boy, the same thing applies. [01:16:19] Speaker B: No. Yeah. It was like 20 years ago. I was listening to Fallout Boy. I. Under the cork tree. It was like kind of my. After that, I fell off Dance. Dance road too far for me. [01:16:32] Speaker C: I mean, speaking of ancient or forbidden math, the. The Rascals being loosely based off of Little Rascals is me up. [01:16:42] Speaker A: Like, that's that what it is? [01:16:46] Speaker C: I believe so. This is death. [01:16:50] Speaker B: Yeah, that is actual. Yeah, that's their. Oh, yeah, there's references. [01:16:55] Speaker A: Weed thing. [01:16:56] Speaker B: Well, they love weed. [01:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah, they do love weed. That's why I feel like this is a weed thing. It's like, you want some weed? [01:17:04] Speaker B: No, but that is the. I honestly forgot that was like the Little Rascals hand gesture thing. So that's called. Yeah. And then they did their whole. In tna, they had the treehouse they hung out in where they smoked weed in the treehouse. [01:17:16] Speaker C: Like, that's so cool. [01:17:17] Speaker B: I like the Rascals. [01:17:18] Speaker C: I mean. [01:17:19] Speaker B: Hope I'm pretty pro Rascals. To be honest. [01:17:23] Speaker C: There's no he man woman haters club is there? [01:17:26] Speaker B: Well I mean there were some allegations against Beat Wines but it's complicated. I warned everybody. That's what's gonna happen. [01:17:41] Speaker A: I don't. [01:17:42] Speaker B: Yeah, no, this. [01:17:44] Speaker A: I have a confession. This is where I stopped taking notes and I really don't remember anything. [01:17:48] Speaker C: You have to. [01:17:48] Speaker A: That's a dismember lot. [01:17:51] Speaker B: This is a match that's kind of hard to. Yeah, it's kind of hard to go through because it is just like big spot after big spot after big spot. Like this is their. This is a WG style crazy high spot multiman fest. [01:18:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:18:07] Speaker B: But the most important thing is the crowd cuts to Hook who look was sitting in the crowd. [01:18:12] Speaker A: Oh, I missed that. [01:18:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Just real briefly looking like a junkie. [01:18:19] Speaker C: For some reason up there because he's wearing black glasses. His. The dark sunglasses. Very like. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Well they in eating. They announced on a collision that Samoa Joe is out injured right now. So Hook is taking over leadership of the Ops which is just Katsuyora Shabata. That's it. Like there's nobody else in the faction. [01:18:42] Speaker A: I'm Shabbat and Hook told me to do something. I'm like just gonna the out of him. [01:18:47] Speaker B: That Marat in the threw up like. [01:18:52] Speaker C: You and what harmy. [01:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah, the OPS dojo, you kill all them too. I assume that's what it implies is he is now running the mooks like he is in. [01:19:05] Speaker A: All right, so that makes sense because he's like the junior black belt or like one of the lower ranked black belts. So but like he's responsible enough to sort of help with the classes. So he's like in charge of the mooks but he doesn't get to do the advanced stuff. [01:19:17] Speaker B: He folds the belts. [01:19:20] Speaker A: Yes. He. He decides who gets a green belt. [01:19:25] Speaker C: Smos. Joe is trusting him with just enough responsibility now to perhaps promote him in the future. [01:19:31] Speaker B: Is Joe actually they're setting up with this like. No, Joe is legit hurt. [01:19:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:19:39] Speaker B: No, no, they're not filming Twisted Metal right now. Yeah, a lot of people thought that's why he was gone. That's not happening yet. They did confirm the third season of it is going to happen but they haven't started filming yet. I don't know what kind of injury. Apparently it's not. Yeah, it's not a super serious injury. But he's going to be off enough storyline wise that they pivoted to Hook being in charge. And I don't know if he's feuding with any of these people. Why do they cut to him, what he's doing there. He has no history with any of them, as far as I know. [01:20:08] Speaker A: That's a good point, actually. Yeah. He doesn't. [01:20:10] Speaker B: He's not in a tag team. Really? [01:20:13] Speaker A: Is he, like, is he recruiting? Is he gonna try and recruit the Rascals? Is he gonna try and recruit. [01:20:17] Speaker B: I would stop watching if the Rascals join the ops. That would be the dumbest I ever. Unless it is literally, like, them still just getting stoned and off and Hook being mad that he can't. Like, why won't anybody listen to me? [01:20:32] Speaker C: That'd be cool. [01:20:33] Speaker B: I want to train. And they're going off to smoke weed with Eddie Kingston. Be like, yeah, it, man. Chill with him. Maybe private party rips. [01:20:45] Speaker C: This is not proper training. [01:20:49] Speaker A: No. We're supposed to do our cottage now. [01:20:53] Speaker B: They. They probably are setting up where it's going to be Shabata and Hook as a tag team versus one of these two teams. Like, I imagine, because there is nobody else in that faction. [01:21:03] Speaker A: I. I think they're gonna probably gotta recruit somebody because they've lost two. [01:21:08] Speaker B: They've had to. Yeah. Like I said, it is not even a trio. It is a tag team at this point. [01:21:13] Speaker A: If you're gonna. If you're gonna be like, he's in charge of the ops, then you have to give them some more ops. [01:21:20] Speaker C: Needs to be. [01:21:22] Speaker B: I talked about before, a faction has to be at least four wrestlers. [01:21:26] Speaker A: They should promote. They should promote one of the Mooks. [01:21:29] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a good one. [01:21:32] Speaker A: Like, he can be Mook21. [01:21:35] Speaker B: Oasis Jones can join him. [01:21:42] Speaker C: It's Jordan Oasis. [01:21:45] Speaker B: Jordan Oasis. I didn't even get the name right because all I know is this guy. [01:21:50] Speaker C: He's not important. [01:21:52] Speaker B: No, he is the vessel. [01:21:55] Speaker A: He's the vessel of the talk. [01:21:57] Speaker C: You lead with the headliner. [01:22:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm like, I'm pretty fine skipping through most of this match because really, it's just a bunch of cool high spots. They. Desmond Xavier hits a really cool shooting star. Press from the top to the outside, but look really good. Lots of cool, like, you know, double team moves. Get Jackson doing. The Bucks are really like, the star of this match. They're getting most of the offense in. They are really, like, the most over being from Southern California. Everyone else, you know, everyone does well, but it's really like the young Bucks show ends with Bucks hitting Myron Reed with the Meltzer driver getting the win and being crowned the number one contenders for the FTR title or for titles. Yeah, I make. I combined it with the FTW title in my head, because we're talking about Taz. For so long, this entire match was us just talking about Hook. We didn't even talk about. [01:22:54] Speaker A: I don't like. I didn't like. I. I actually watched this match. I just. Like, I. Like I said, I just got tired because I was tired and I stopped taking notes. [01:23:03] Speaker B: I. I enjoyed the mat. Like, this is my kind of match. [01:23:07] Speaker A: It was a high spot sprint, and that's fine. Sometimes you just gotta do that. Yeah, I guess I'm, like, okay with the young Bucks versus FTR again. [01:23:17] Speaker B: I'm a little. Yeah, like, it's kind of been done to death. [01:23:21] Speaker A: But the dynamic might be a little bit different this time around because they're both, like, in their actual element. [01:23:29] Speaker B: I'm hoping they add a third team to the match by Revolution or whatever they're gonna do. Like, have Cope and Christian come back and throw or something. Because I've seen FDR versus the Bucks a lot of times. [01:23:40] Speaker A: That neck, that third team, Hook and Jordan. Oasis. [01:23:46] Speaker C: Not Jordan. Oasis. [01:23:47] Speaker B: It's just a stick in the corner. [01:23:51] Speaker C: Like, anywhere Jordan's in the corner, tags. [01:23:54] Speaker B: It in, and it just falls off the apron. [01:23:59] Speaker A: Oh, man, we're a great podcast. Everybody should listen to us. [01:24:03] Speaker B: We got a theme, Moxley. [01:24:05] Speaker A: Don't listen to us. [01:24:06] Speaker B: I don't blame you. Next, ftr. FTR comes out. [01:24:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:24:12] Speaker B: Speaking of still in the wheelchair playing magic the gathering out back. [01:24:16] Speaker C: Jeez. [01:24:17] Speaker B: This is actually. It ends up being pretty funny. Dax and Cash get in their ring. Dax gets a mic, says they come in peace. Dash says these, you know, that all them are the best tag teams in the world. Talks about all their accomplishment. Starts talking about how the Bucks are in second place behind him, and he starts doing this. I like his new heel stick, where he goes ask them a question, and then just, like, takes the mic back and just keeps talking. Yeah, it says that FDR has been successful everywhere they've been, but the Bucks had to make their own company to be successful. He goes to say something else, and the Bucks super kicked the out of him, knocking the mic out of his hands. It looked really, really good. I thought that was very solid. They go after Stokely, who tries to roll away, which I like that canonically, Stokely is faking his injury. He has been shown to be faking it, but even when they're chasing him, he doesn't want to give up the Griff. So he still stays in the wheelchair and tries to roll away. [01:25:12] Speaker C: He would rather take a beating than give up that bag and you know what? [01:25:16] Speaker B: Yeah. No respect. Get that GoFundMe money. Over a million dollars raised. Yeah. They. They fake out super kicking him in the wheelchair. They stop short, though, they grab the tag button, they give it to Stokely and kind of, you know, give them a little pat and, and be like, all right, yep, where it's on kind of thing. Fun little segment. And I'm. I'm fine with it. I would like something to mix it up because it's something we've seen in bunch, but they always have great matches together. So whatever happens, I'm sure it'll be. Be very fun. [01:25:47] Speaker A: Like, wasn't their first match at a Revolution, probably. [01:25:51] Speaker B: Yeah, probably like six years ago. [01:25:54] Speaker C: Woof. [01:25:54] Speaker B: I know. Time flies. No, speaking of time flying, Will Osprey is on his way back and we got another little video package about it. And him talk about, oh, am I going to be the same coming back after being injured? Which is the question everybody's asking. Have a little MJF and Brody King video package. Setting up their title match on Saturday. Kind of just running everything down with that. And that brings us to our main event, which is Chris Statlander versus Tekla in a strap match for the women's title. First women's strap match in the company. I think they say they've been building to this strap. Strap Daddy is the whole thing. Chris St took a bunch of crazy hot pictures with the strap and post them on the Internet and everybody loved it. [01:26:39] Speaker A: And that was, that was what they call. That was. That was the, the, the shirt that came out as soon as she won the title was Strap Daddy. [01:26:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:26:47] Speaker A: And that absolutely made everyone act up. And boy, everybody was still acting up on this match. [01:26:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it was a very inuendo, innuendo, laden company. Yeah, they make the most of the stipulation here. They even. They started off in tug of war for the strap stat. Pulls Tekla in with the strap and clotheslines her head off. A lot of this is tackler just whipping the out of staff like she is. [01:27:20] Speaker C: So. Yeah. So fun fact, the match was about 15 minutes long. [01:27:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:27:26] Speaker C: And it started off heavily dominated by Chris until she runs into the stairs. And then everything changes. [01:27:38] Speaker B: Yeah, the dynamic completely shifts. [01:27:40] Speaker C: I think Tekla just turns into a monster when she smells blood. [01:27:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right after she pulls her into the stairs, she starts screaming at the crowd. And it is one of the coolest looking things I've ever seen. [01:27:53] Speaker C: This is my game. [01:27:55] Speaker B: Fun little thing throughout this match is Brian Danielson on commentary talking about the strap match he had with Ricky Starks while doing. Doing everything in his power, not to mention the name Ricky Starks. He regularly refers to my opponent instead of saying who the opponent is the entire time. [01:28:13] Speaker C: Interesting. [01:28:15] Speaker B: Yep. RIP Ricky St. [01:28:20] Speaker A: Danielson was also most frequently making comments that sounded like innuendos, like he was taught about. Like, oh, that's the strap I used in my match. And that other strap, some of my. [01:28:32] Speaker B: Blood'S on that strap. [01:28:33] Speaker A: My blood's still on that strap. It's like, oh, yeah there. Brian, what was the other thing he was talking about? Strap awareness. Strap awareness. Yes. [01:28:46] Speaker C: It's important. [01:28:46] Speaker B: I literally. I just wrote that down as a note. Is quote, strap on awareness, end quote. [01:28:52] Speaker A: Bryan Danielson, like, and that's like. He's making good points. Yes. Clean your strap. Strap awareness is important. Like, you have to, like, know your limits and you got to be able to say, like, hey, that hurts. [01:29:09] Speaker B: It's an educational show. [01:29:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:29:13] Speaker B: My opponent, that is too much. [01:29:15] Speaker A: My opponent, that's too much. Ricky. Me. The strap hurts. [01:29:22] Speaker C: The strap. Red. [01:29:24] Speaker A: Red. [01:29:25] Speaker C: Ricky. [01:29:29] Speaker B: I really like, like a like, through thing through the story is the way they use the strap. Stallander uses it in a way to complement her power move. She does a lot of pulling Te in the clotheslines into power slams, like throwing her in it. And Tea is using the Stratmore's weapon. She chokes. Chokes or yeah, like, choke stat with it a lot. She was whipping her with it a lot at one point. Stat gets busted open and bleeding all over. There's a really cool bit where Tekla's hands are covered in stats blood. And she goes over to Aubrey, the ref, and just wipes them all on her. I was like, that is a great little character thing there. [01:30:03] Speaker A: Nice. Yeah. Stat. Stat. Did a great blade job. Loads of blood. [01:30:11] Speaker C: Yeah. There it was every. So, yeah, it happens very early in the match as well because Tekla throws her into, like, the side of the stairs and the camera starts focusing on Tekla. And I think that. [01:30:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. When she's selling over on the side. I think you're right. Yeah. [01:30:31] Speaker C: Because the ref comes over and then. [01:30:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. To get. Probably to get the gig. That's like their favorite spot in aew, I've noticed to do their blade jobs is they'll like crash into the throw to the outside, like high the step and be like. [01:30:48] Speaker C: Technic was nuts too. She, like, digs her fingers into it. Elbow, teeth. I was just like, damn, girl, down. [01:30:59] Speaker B: That stat was bleeding. Crazy style. [01:31:01] Speaker C: Like the fact that she's with Connor is just like, oh, you know that, that comes together. Clark, Connor. Sure. Cool. [01:31:08] Speaker A: Yeah, it all makes sense. [01:31:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:31:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:31:11] Speaker A: The thing that I noted about stats offense is like she was hitting stuff like really, really just viciously, like just kind of trying to sell the. The feet. She hit a blue thunderbomb and those are usually like very pretty looking things. [01:31:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it was nasty. [01:31:28] Speaker A: She whipped the around like as hard as possible and slammed it like it was a quick looking thing. [01:31:33] Speaker B: And right after she does that blue thunderbomb, she's walking away from Tekla and she starts whipping herself in the back like she's Isaac from the Castlevania anime. Like flagellating herself. That was badass. [01:31:46] Speaker A: She's gonna kill all the humans. Yep. [01:31:49] Speaker B: That sounds peaceful. [01:31:51] Speaker C: Like, I know that she was going to lose, but those little things just, I'm just like, well, if you had capitalized and kept pursuing instead of showing off, like, I know, like you could have capitalized and gotten Tekla out or just like. [01:32:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And she does. She displays some great brutality. Like there's technically goes for the stomp, but Stat pulls her down with the. Literally like pulls her out of the air with the strap, which was really cool. And then ties her up with it. Yeah. And hits her with the tombstone, which was a great near fall. Like she had her wrapped up in that. They're very, like I said, a lot of inventive use, like of the strap. I'm keeping this match interesting. [01:32:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:32:32] Speaker B: Sisters of Sin do come out at this point. Stat whips the sisters with the belt to get them out. But while she's distracted, Tecla hits the spear. Tekla ties up stats hands and then hits her with a stump, pins her, hits the win and is the new champion. The trial Mass beat down stat and Windsor and Jamie Hayter, the Brawling Birds, as they are now called, chase them down with a hammer and pipe in hand. Tekla holds the. Holds the belt like a big old dick and swings it around on the outside and that's how the show ends. And yeah, I am very cool with this. Of course. [01:33:09] Speaker C: Is Julia Hart from the Heart? [01:33:12] Speaker B: No. [01:33:13] Speaker C: Okay. [01:33:14] Speaker B: I don't believe so. [01:33:15] Speaker A: No, she's from Minnesota. I think she's in like Minnesota. [01:33:19] Speaker B: No, she's not. Yeah, she's like a middle one. She's a, you know. Yeah, I think it's just like, I don't know if it's her real name. Yeah, I guess it is her actual name, but I don't believe she's affiliated with the Heart family. [01:33:32] Speaker C: Okay. [01:33:33] Speaker A: I think so. [01:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:33:34] Speaker C: I, I, yeah. The last name perked my interest and I didn't want to look it up. [01:33:38] Speaker B: No, no. Because I've, I've thought the same thing and it's me, it's possible I'm wrong, but as far as I know, I think it's just a cool. [01:33:45] Speaker C: I think they're making more of it. If. [01:33:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't just. Yeah, it'd be mentioned. I don't think she ever trained at the dungeon, that's for sure. [01:33:53] Speaker A: Pretty much, pretty much all of. If she was an actual heart, she'd be like all the other heart. Younger generation ones are just like, look at all my pink and black and maple. [01:34:02] Speaker C: True, true, true. Yes. [01:34:04] Speaker A: Mediocre. [01:34:05] Speaker B: Unless you're Teddy come out in genie pants on a cat. [01:34:09] Speaker A: Not be very good at wrestling. Yeah. Oh, not, Not Brett. Not Brett. [01:34:16] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no. [01:34:17] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I know. [01:34:17] Speaker A: Mostly. Mostly. Mostly Natalia. [01:34:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Or all of the other heart sibling like Kevin and Bruce and Jimmy or whatever the, their other names were. The ones that were in the Survivor series match. Stinky Heart. [01:34:35] Speaker A: Stinky Heart. [01:34:36] Speaker B: Yeah, they did that Survivor series match where it was like Brett, Owen, Bruce and like two of their other brothers versus like back in like the 90s. There's a reason Owen and Brad are the only. Yeah, there's a reason it's only Brett and Owen that people remember. [01:34:58] Speaker C: Listen, sometimes that's all you just. Yeah. Stick with the good ones. No need to drink. I drag them all into there. [01:35:06] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'm super happy. Tecla1 stay. I had a good run. I mean she held the belt for like 175 days. She had six really good title defenses. Like I, maybe the story stuff wasn't as great as it could have been, but she delivered every single time she had to in the ring and I thought it was good. And Teco's been so over doing so well that I'm very cool with her getting put on top, you know, striking while the iron's hot with it. [01:35:31] Speaker A: Yeah, like I feel like that people are sort of missing the forest for the trees and that like baby faces don't always have very long reigns in. Aw. [01:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's more, it's a very much a chase company. It's like the stories are a lot more when there's a bad person on top and people going after them and. [01:35:50] Speaker A: You don't necessarily want to have like every single title be held for like a year by one person. Like we were talking about that earlier. It's like sometimes. Yeah, sometimes it's good to just move the title along. [01:36:03] Speaker B: Toni Storm just held the belt for a very long time. It's nice to have some variety going on. And yeah, like I said, Declara's been killing it. [01:36:12] Speaker C: I'm super excited to see her defend too, because it's one thing to like go up against the champion and be in like they were talking about it during the match where they're just like, oh, sat agreement agree to this strap match. But did she know what she was getting into? So, like, it's one thing to kind of. And if it felt vaguely like Tekla had an advantage using the strap. So I'm interested in seeing how she defends moving forward and how that all shakes out. [01:36:38] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's a very cool story with it. [01:36:41] Speaker C: I think same intensity with it. [01:36:44] Speaker A: Makes for some new matches, new title matches. The Braw and Birds are going to be a thing now. [01:36:51] Speaker C: Wild. [01:36:52] Speaker B: That'll be a fun tag team. I like those too. [01:36:55] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm excited. [01:36:56] Speaker A: Hey, they didn't just like try and mash their names together. They came up with like an actual tag team name. [01:37:02] Speaker C: Yeah, I, I think it's. I, I, he. I don't know how I feel about it, but it's not bad. It's just, it takes some getting used to. [01:37:11] Speaker B: I feel it's a little. I, it does sound a little, a little cheesy. I'm not gonna lie. I'm willing to give it a chance, see if it sticks better with me. Like I said. Yeah, it's. And that's, I mean, like, Jimmy Hater's whole thing is her like, 70s stuff. And Alex Windsor is a bit on the goofy side with the whole Windsa thing. So I'm like, I don't hate it, but it does feel a little like when I first heard it, I was like, oh, okay. [01:37:35] Speaker C: They're both British, I'm assuming. [01:37:37] Speaker A: Yeah. That's why they would say like, you're daft old bird or something like that. [01:37:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:37:44] Speaker A: You're a brawling bird, ain't you? [01:37:48] Speaker C: They will be. [01:37:50] Speaker B: Throw another shrimp on the barbie. [01:37:54] Speaker C: Wrong. No. We're up north now. [01:38:00] Speaker B: I am Austrian. This is what we sound like. [01:38:06] Speaker A: Hello there. It's me. Your friend from Australia. Is from my country. [01:38:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Overall on this show, this was a very good dynamite. I felt like I thought everything was good to excellent throughout here. There wasn't really any low spots. The weakest thing was probably, you know, orange and Roderick versus Garcia and counters even. That was still a fun match that served its purpose. I, everything I Thought, hey, pretty well. [01:38:44] Speaker A: I. I didn't think the story lines necessarily are great, but like when the wrestling's really good, then I don't care as much if the story lines are super compelling or not. Yeah, I mean, it always helps, but like, you know, sometimes I just want to see cool happen in the ring. [01:39:05] Speaker C: I watched it twice. I liked it both times and this. [01:39:09] Speaker B: Was kind of a. It's a go home. I mean, it was a little spinning its wheels because the big show is on Saturday. This wasn't. Nothing really was good. Everything's set for that show pretty much. So this was just kind of like moving the final pieces into play and everything for it. But I thought it delivered. [01:39:23] Speaker C: Yeah. As a lead up show, I've certainly seen worse. [01:39:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Without a doubt. [01:39:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:39:30] Speaker C: Yeah. My bar is in hell, though. [01:39:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Good week. If you ask me. [01:39:38] Speaker C: Same. Yeah, I think so. [01:39:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Like they've. They've been on a real tear like the last. [01:39:45] Speaker B: It's been since they got rid of Jericho. Once Jericho disappeared, it got so much better. I hate to say it. I don't hate to say it. [01:39:52] Speaker C: No. Kick the evil out. [01:39:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:39:55] Speaker C: I. [01:39:55] Speaker A: That actually makes me wonder if he actually had creative control in there. [01:40:00] Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah, it was. It dragged it down. Yeah. Even when I would like the whole show, there would be at least one segment where I was like, I really don't give a about this. I really wish this would end. And it's like that doesn't happen anymore. Even if it's not excellent everything, I'm still like, oh, I'm pretty happy I watched that. [01:40:20] Speaker C: I mean, even if you don't have creative control, like if people don't like you, if you're dragging things stuck down backstage or like working with you, like. [01:40:29] Speaker A: Yeah, there, there was like a bummer. Like there was. There was always just like whenever Jericho segment or match was coming up, everybody would just be like, I'm out. No. [01:40:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that was the smoke break. [01:40:42] Speaker A: Or at least that was that. That's again, that's just blue sky. I know. There's like probably statistics. [01:40:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [01:40:48] Speaker A: Well, Jericho had the highest rated segments and like. [01:40:51] Speaker B: Yeah. This quarter every hour. 80 or something. [01:40:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:40:54] Speaker B: People love the learning tree. [01:40:56] Speaker A: Sometimes you just leave the TV on and walk away. [01:41:00] Speaker C: Yeah. Just because it was on. [01:41:03] Speaker B: I don't smoke anymore, but I. People I talk to in like my wrestling group, Chad, like they would get mad when the show after Jericho left because there weren't really times for smoke breaks anymore. Like on pay per views. There isn't Like a smoke break. A match that they can just be like, ah, it. I'm gonna go miss this. Like everything's actually so hit hitting and good at this point. But yeah, embarrassment of riches kind of thing. [01:41:25] Speaker C: It's very funny because in 1996, Jericho has taken off. So he's just brand new and he's like a high flyer in his matches. Like the crowd loves him and I mean rightfully so. He's blonde haired and flying and kicking Nick Patrick's ass. [01:41:46] Speaker B: And he was very good for a long time. I'm not gonna say Jericho was, is not. Hasn't had a more good than like a largely positive history and career. But just by the end of that aw run that, that welcome was worn out. [01:42:03] Speaker A: I mean there really was a point where like they, they're always like, oh, he's so good at reinventing. He's so good at reinventing himself. He always has another gimmick look lined up. [01:42:11] Speaker B: He's the Madonna of wrestling. [01:42:13] Speaker A: But then like you realized that every gimmick that he had in AEW was about he ran a group of guys that loved him. [01:42:23] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [01:42:25] Speaker A: And like it worked at the, the, what was it? The Inner Circle. And then Jericho Appreciation Society was very like, it was hit or miss. [01:42:35] Speaker B: There was good stuff. [01:42:37] Speaker A: Then he did the Learning Tree. It's just like, come on. [01:42:39] Speaker B: It's literally. I mean everyone's the, the Jericho vortex that you would get sucked into. And it was like, that's your career now. Calling Brian Keith the bad apple. Let's not end the show on a negative note because this was mostly good. I'm excited for Saturday. [01:42:58] Speaker A: Yeah, this is great. Yep, good stuff all around. [01:43:01] Speaker B: Yeah. I think we are going to try and do some kind of episode record. I don't know if it's going to go on the regular feed or the Patreon or something, but something talking about Grand Slam Australia because it is such a big show. There's so many title matches and big implications and stuff like that. We want to see if Australian people will chant ice. [01:43:20] Speaker C: Oh, I hope so. [01:43:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I think they will. I, I think they, I think they might in solidarity. Because everybody thinks, yeah. That they pulled Brody from the show when he just had a magic gathering tour. [01:43:34] Speaker B: Dave Meltzer probably did more to get Brody King over. Dumb rumor. Like people. It honestly might have just been, it might have been just a one time thing last week if this hadn't come up. Like people might have kind of moved on from it and not really thought about it. But now that it's been brought back up and people think they're doing it the network. It's probably gonna be every time you. [01:43:54] Speaker A: Show up it's going to be good for it. I'm excited. We are planning on working on some stuff for the we. Well, we have been working on some stuff for the Patreon that's potentially in the works coming down the line. So, like if you want to give us money so that we can do this and do more stuff. Sign up, sign up patreon.com I think it's still M mnffpod. I don't think it's been changed to the. [01:44:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it should all be linked in the notes for the show and everything. [01:44:27] Speaker A: And we have merch. You can check out our merch@garretayor d shop4wall.com. I know Ella's still got the shirts that are being sold at cost for orders aren't real. [01:44:39] Speaker C: Wrestling is real. [01:44:41] Speaker A: So those are still going to Minnesota. 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[01:45:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Outro music over coughing our minds out I couldn't. [01:45:50] Speaker A: I couldn't. [01:45:51] Speaker B: Is getting dry. So. I did take a single note while watching this. Even though I'm not going to be here. But I. I'll just say it out loud. Loud. Let me see if I could bring it up. I want to make sure I got the wording right. Hook. Looks like if Scott Summers from the X Men smoked swag.