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is Joe, and I'm a retired firefighter, and I'm the happiest person that
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and I prevailed, and I gained unshakable joy and the amazing ability to be
totally okay even when my life's circumstances aren't okay at all. And now nothing
brings me greater happiness than sharing with people the tools that led me here,
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right, everyone, this is Memphis Mark coming to you from Mullet Manor and
we're gonna do the review on four twenty five for spring Breaking. There's a
great name, uh that premium event there, spring Breaking, So but yeah,
it's a second one. And they start off and they got Hank Wager.
Hank is talking to Tank Hanking Tank the phone, and uh, you
know, Hank's manning the grill, doing the burgers up, and every one
of them gets everybody in the NXT Rockster. A roster gets a chance to
do a little predicting, so like Ivey beat somebody arm wrestling, and then
they go from that to who's gonna win the championship or who whatever? So
good, little, good, little I guess, good little start. But
the production is always good, even if everything else is kind of funny.
But then they go into a trunk match with Tony D and Stacks and pretty
deadly. And let me give you a little info, a little on little
on uh the match. It is a trunk match, meaning you have to
put both participants into the trunk and close the lid. Sounds a little bit
like the golfin match or the windever mind all right, so uh with Tony
D and Stacks, they're they're getting there quickly. They're pretty freaking good.
But pretty deadly is they're pretty deadly coming. They're really really good. So
these guys tear it up for a while. Uh it's it's moved from move
um and you know they've got the chairs, they got the uh will barrel.
But who in the heck decided to put a kiddie pool with balls in
it? I just I don't know understand it unless they were going to do
some big move and that would help break the fall. Maybe that was pretty
sad. But anyway, the guys put on a pretty good show. You
know, I'm gonna give it a six. I guess you could say maybe
six and a half. H you know, they do the Charlie Brown that's
that's the reason they get the half on anything. They did. The Charlie
Brown meaning they put the football between stacks is uh legs, they're in the
groin area and um, it looks like they're about to punt the balls and
um but no, uh, their ball is moved and it ends up being
a knee upside the head for stacks. Um, and they end up putting
uh, you know, one of the the Tony Den and stacks. They
end up getting put in the trunk first, but they don't get both of
them in. So when they go to put the second one in, there
seems to be a fire extinguisher they found in this beautiful car. It's a
beautiful car, good old. I like old classics like this, and this
is a great classic. I can't remember the owner of the car, but
it's supposedly an uncle of someone. They said, you know who knows.
But the trunk, the trunk, you could use it for vacation rentals.
I mean, you could take this thing somewhere and literally, kids, all
three of you you're gonna sleep in the trunk and it would be okay,
put a little mosquite and nutting up and be like but anyway, the match.
You know, the match is good. You've got chairs, you've got
will barrels, and they bring out an old classic favorite of mine. That's
right. No it's not Frankie Valley, but it's a roll of quarters and
roll of quarters upside the head. So you can never go wrong with that
for a finishing move in my humble opinion. But yeah, they they think
they're gonna get Tony dan Stacks in there, and bam, there's a fire
extinguisher, then a crowbar upside the head and the next thing, you know,
pretty deadly is in the trunk. And uh so yeah, okay,
okay, ending, but they did at least drive off, so there is
a chance later on we could get something out of this. So that's that
match. Then you've got Tiff arriving, Tiffany Stratton and uh you know she
she they feel confident with her because they're giving her the mic and they're letting
her do the promotion for the ladies division. So and she does a great
job. So you got Tiff time, I guess as she said. Then
after that you've got the promo with Andre Chase and uh and Duke Hutson and
uh yeah, they're talking about Braun Breaker and uh, you know, uh
Duke does a pretty good job with that. And yeah, Andrea says he's
gonna go out and do some butt whooping. Uh. And they go to
a commercial break and they come back, and then now with reality sits in.
So you've got chase you versus Braun Breaker. Uh. And he comes
out in all black and he's got a new slogan on his backside there that
says meaner than evil who's writing this stuff? I mean, come on,
all right, but you know Braun's got the look he comes out and whatever.
I guess kind of black tights. Uh, you know younger versions.
Yeah, I don't. I don't know the match. Um you know,
Uh, Andrea comes out and jumps on him immediately, and and uh you
know, Broun gonna turn it around as it goes. You're gonna have a
book or t sighting where he's gonna say, of course, no bread,
no water, just meet. Uh. And that's his little deal he likes
to say. Uh, Braun misses a shoulder in a turn buckle chase,
you gets Andre gets a chance and he tries to do the stump on Braun
and he gets c he can might have gotten ages before it was caught.
And then Braun gets up, tears him a new butthole and puts him in
the Steiner recliner, And uh, that's pretty much that's gonna be the way
that goes. Uh. You know, there's no way around that one.
But hey, you're gonna have a a mellow promo with uh with the hym
era you know they're talking about in Grayson Walla of course. Uh. And
you know what I'm I'm I'm and I hope they do a little something with
mellow here and keep them around. You know, I like Grayson Waller and
everything like that. I'm not saying, but I hope they keep a mellow
hum uh in in in the situation for a while because it would build up
the trick turn you know, they got a turn trick eventually on him,
so that might be pretty good. But uh, you know the hymn era
hum. But yeah, they go from that. You got dragging off coming
to the arena and then he's gone. Dutch comes out of nowhere. It
kicks him upside the head like a bad queen song and continues to whoop on
him for a while, and then they pull out another old classic. No,
it's not a Frank Sinatra song, but it's garage door in your mid
section, that's right, those big electric doors that you see in arenas.
That's right. Die Jack's gonna put dragging Off under there and try to shove
it down on him and really hurt him, and dragging off and stops him.
But in the end, oh d Jack pulls it off, and we've
got a classic hit. There we go. And then we got La Vicara
going against Cora Jade, and uh, you know they're they're doing the build
with Cora. You know, they're building her own up. You know,
Bron's girlfriend. They're gonna take her to the top. I guess next maybe,
But in this match, Valkia just tears it up. Man. She
looks freaking great. And I'm gonna put this out there. I'm gonna throw
it out there. You can holler at me if you want. But Kora
Jade had a little bit of raven quote the Raven nevermore. Uh and uh
and uh, like Carol looked a little Bobby eaton ish Bobby eating one of
the best workers in the business. If you don't know that name, the
Midnight Express. But just beautiful Bobby Eating was one of the best workers.
He got a tag title or he had the tag titles. He had a
couple of single titles back in the Memphis territory with me when he was coming
up that I saw. But uh, man, she looked great. She
worked this match, she made Cora Jade looked good. Core Jay did sell
pretty good. Uh, you know, and she's gonna be Cora is gonna
be just fantastic. She's really good now, but she's gonna be fantastic.
But man Valkara, the moves, the just everything was great. The match
was really pretty good. And there again here is this reoccurring h theme.
Bad end, just a bad end. She's gonna bring the stick in and
the ref takes the stick and there's a little bam bam and Kara gets to
U gets the wind. Uh. So you know, look, Man Valkara
looked good. If they're gonna put a title on somebody and that's that's smaller
that can pull it off. Why they didn't do it with her, I
don't know, Uh, but you know, it is what it is.
But uh by this time, now you've got uh Tonian stacks. They're driving
around with um you know, just kind of driving on the countryside, you
know, and then they keep having a noise from the trunk, and so
Stax goes back there and uh slams the trunk a few times and there you
go. But then you go to You've got Walla and uh Gras and Walla
and uh Carmelo Anthony or Camello m and Trek uh Man, Mellow and Waller
put on a really good show. They come out just like barn Burners.
Like Waller's got some lady bringing his like a ring girl. She's dressed like
a ring girl in a boxing match, bringing his golden shoe out and uh
so the match gets started and there when I say moved from move, Look,
these guys were really throwing down um, and they would have been like
the Rock and Roll Express going against each other because they knew each other's moved
so good it seemed or appeared. But it was a really good start.
Vanilla Ice, I mean not Vanilla Ice, Grayson Waller was just tearing it
up. The crowd was Rillo, Rillo on Mellow Mellow. Um. You
know, Trick has the look he comes out, he's doing a little intimidation.
But then you know you've got Waller that does a little slip out,
a little slap out, and the next thing, you know, there's a
chair upside trick. So now Trick's down, trick down, trick down,
but he has to be helped to the back, folks. Uh. So
it's him against him against Waller and they continue. They put on a great
h a great match. Uh. This was actually, you know, probably
the definitely the best match. But and it's and it's a Mellow's first defense
and everything. So, I mean, you know, Mellow sewed, you
know, really good. Uh, I can't say anything bad. There's a
big, big d D T by Mellow towards end of the match. Uh
you know. Uh, Waller goes after Mellow's leg, tries to take that
out and he kind of controls a match for a while with that, you
know, but the crowd goes crazy. Uh and Waller does do his best
Shane McMahon. Uh. He ends up with a situation where Mellow he's got
him on the announcer's desk book or tea and everybody's moved. He's cleared it
off, so he's gonna do the big elbow off the top, uh,
turn buckle over to the desk and he does and uh, you know that's
his you know, Shane McMahon experience of the night, I guess you could
say. But you know, these kicks were just great. Every you know,
it was a good match until the end. Until the end, there's
a little bit of a mess. Uh kick Mellow pulls a move off,
he gets the wind. Uh just just just a reoccurring thing. It seems
to be tonight, you know. Of course, then he's gonna call Braun
out and uh, you know, the music's gonna crank up and hey,
here comes Braun. Well, whenever they show, you know, the deal,
it's almost as reliable as when somebody is in their own hometown that they're
going to either get beat up or lose. That's right. They're waiting looking
at the ramp for him to come down. He comes in from the side,
he spears Trick Trick had a bad night tonight. Uh yeah, Waller
got him with a chair and he gets speared and then put in the steina
reclina. Uh so yeah, Braun comes out and lays the smack of down
it. But the one thing I didn't like about um the whole thing,
was they're going to you know, the crowd's going crazy, uh, you
know, and Braun setting up a spear on Mellow and Mellow's been you know,
he's kind of like to the side of the announcer's desk and he's against
the wall so you can tell what's coming. But they put him through like
wallpaper. They just had a hole there and it was like wallpaper or something.
I don't know, maybe cardboard, I don't know, but it was.
It definitely wasn't even particle board. It just yeah, Mellow gets taken
out and uh, Broun walks out. I don't know what to say.
All Right, you got Rocks in with a promo she don't play with dolls.
She does make a aj Lee reference, which, after seeing Punk reportedly
shows up at raw last night and they kick him out. Well anyway.
H So then you've got the soap opera folks, Big Daddy as Big Daddy
turns. That's right. You got Brooke Jensen and Keana and uh and uh
they're gonna have that's right, Yoko Ono. Uh and uh yeah, they're
gonna have their match. Uh coming up a little arguing there and uh,
are you ready to be the happiest person that you know, I hope so,
and I want to be the guy to take you there. My name
is Joe, and I'm a retired firefighter and I'm the happiest person that I
know, despite the fact that several years ago I literally had a gun to
my own head after an on the job injury forced me into a medical retirement,
followed by the loss of several loved ones and a dark battle with grief,
PTSD and depression. But I fought my way out of that, and
I prevailed, and I gained unshakable joy and the amazing ability to be totally
okay even when my life's circumstances aren't okay at all. And now nothing brings
me greater happiness than sharing with people the tools that led me here, which
is exactly what I'm doing at the Grit, Growth and Gratitude podcast. I'm
dropping episodes every week that teach you how to maximize your happiness when times are
good and barrel through any obstacle when times are rough. So subscribe now wherever
you listen to podcasts, because you deserve to have way more thri days then
just survived days, and to have a kick ass life that you enjoy.
I'll see you there. Yeah, soap papa. But yeah, you got
Joe Coffee and and and and Joe Gacy and Eva. Uh they kind of
meet up and uh and Coffee uh is just on the phone, and and
Gacy's asking them trying to get a title match. Uh. So there's some
negotiations and it comes out they get a title match with a win by Gacy.
Um. And if they win the titles, and hey, that that's
good. But if they lose the titles, they cannot try for the belts
again. Uh. So hey, you know, but then you've got to
go back to the soap opera. That's the bad thing. But there we
go. All right, So you got you got Briggs and Valor, and
you got Jensen and James. Uh you know, Jensen comes out whooping.
Um that the ladies, to me, really stole most of this, because
when the ladies were in there, they were tearing it up. Now.
Uh really, And Valen looked the best I've seen her. Now, Keana
always does great and she looks good. Uh. Gret good moves, good
timing, but Valen really looked good. Her timing was better. I don't
know if they'd been working together, whatever it may be but it looked pretty
good. It looked pretty good. But you know, but there's a butt.
There's a butt there. And uh, let's say that Briggs and Jensen's
breakup is it's it's it's not going to be as good as the Midnight Rockers
when they broke up, when Shawn Michaels and Marty Janette when they broke up.
You know, I believe, if I remember right, Shawn Michaels put
Janette through a door window or a glass window on the set there. But
it was pretty traumatic and it was a real like wow momentum. And if
just imagine, if Marty Genetti would have done a few more things right,
he would have been in John Michael spot. But that's another topic for another
day. But in this match, Jensen, you know, comes out with
the new look the tights, old school tights. Uh you know, let
me say Briggs, Briggs, he's got to sell better. He's just so
freaking big. It's hard for him somewhat, but they need to work with
him. Because if those two guys when they're normal tag team, they looked
smoky Mountain wrestling, but they did not perform like smoky Mountain wrestling. I
will say that. Man. They go into it, and of course the
purse. They want to bring the purse in and Jensen messes up the purse
deal. He almost hits Keyana. Um. I don't know if that was
a mess he was supposed to hit her or and they just looked so bad
that they had to pull it off that way. But yeah, um anyway,
uh okay, anyway, Briggs wins. Briggs and Ballon win and uh.
Then Keiana dumps U Jensen and uh and his buddy is there for him
though. His buddy comes over and he does not get shoved down this time.
So wow, the band is back together. So hey, just imagine
if Yoko would have not done her job and the Beatles got back together.
Who would have known that? And the Beatles they were a band back never
mind. Um, but you got a little promo with Dragon Lee talking about
Noma Die and his heritage cup, so yeah, that was pretty good.
But then you go into Scripts, yeah, Scripts doing his promo next week,
he coming after um somebody, you know, it just wasn't even worth
it. And you got soul Ruca getting jumped and they don't show who is
jumping her, and then they have the surprise of the night and it's Obi
Fema Obi Fema Big six six two seventy five, supposedly seven ten squad from
Middle Tennessee and Alabama in track and fielding a shot put. I've been seeing
the promos. They've been doing the bella and the build up, but you
know, I don't pay a lot of attention to that, you know,
but in this case, this particular case, this kind of looked good.
Man. He looked like he has been I've been putting some ring time in.
He was kind of surprising. He was going against uh mensa or a
mensa which is is it is great? Uh? And uh, you know
or I has a few moments a little fleeting glimpses. Um. But uh,
now man, uh the build up he you know, this just films.
You know, he might be something something. So hey he wins this
match, and uh, you know, don't sleep on this guy. Uh
more more work, more time in the ring. This could be something something.
Uh. Of course, you got Gigi taking the headphones from from one
of the guys there and uh, you know, calling out jac Jane and
uh saying you're gonna bring my family into this, then my baby brother will
be ringside. Uh, you got Drew Gulak and Charlie Dempsey talking about Wesley
and how they're going to slowly break him down. Drew Goulak, I believe
has the match coming up next, and he of course said he was going
to do it. And uh, look, Charlie Dempsey is is good and
I hope he gets a good push myself because I think they could really do
something and I think maybe they need to bring a couple more mouthpieces in.
They had mister Stone and you know, maybe a mouthpiece or two to work
with some of these people. You know, I don't know, but you've
got you go from that, you know, from Gig and then Drew Gulak.
Uh, then you've got the Ladies Championship. You've got Tiffany Stratton,
You've got Roxanne Perez and you've got Indy Hartwell the champ in a three way
match, and it is uh, it is a oh, we we got,
we got we got a nope, Nope. Nobody was at the end
of it. But I thought we were going to go into a promo with
Tony d but no, they go into the match and the match is actually,
you know, pretty good. Um, the Ladies you know, Tiffany's
a workhorse, She's gonna be good. Indie is great. I think,
you know, uh a well deserved push she's getting. And Roxanne is um
is book or T's prodigy. Uh No, she's getting better. I'm I'm
not hating on her. I just don't like the push so fast. Uh.
And I know it may have been by need because of uh some other
problems they had, but I don't know. This match was okay. At
one point in time, they're doing a big move. Roxanne jumps on the
ladies, Tiffany and Indy through the ropes, and it appears that Indie's ankle
is is messed up. And they did a good job at first because they
got the course of trainers are going to come out. But I always watched
the crowd what's her reaction? And for a few moments the crowd was like
hmm, So it made me think, ooh, maybe there was an accidental
problem. But then I saw the crowd go back and watch the match.
So but they did like a Willis Reid run out from the next I'm sorry,
guys, I'm old. There was a guy a long time ago in
a basketball game that got hurt this team started to lose when he went in
and Willis Reid a great champion he uh or a great man. He hobbles
out and continues on and helps his team win. Well, that was kind
of what happened here. Indie comes hobbling out, she gets back in there,
does a few moves, does a couple of things, and then yes,
he does a moving in the matches surprisingly over Uh quick, I don't
understand it. There again reoccurring theme. Uh. They end the show with
Tony and Stacks kind of by a devotion there, and there's no sight of
pretty Deadly and pretty much there. I guess you would say swimming with the
fishes. Uh. So, yeah, they were gonna go party. They
were heading out in that beautiful car, getting ready to head on out with
a trunk like that, and who knows if business is done for the night.
But all right, I've done the review and now I'm going to give
you a little bit of my opinion. What the heck were these people thinking
about? Uh? First of all that, you know, a couple of
good matches here and there, whatever like that. But you know, I
would have rather seen dragon Ly on this thing. Uh. The debut with
somebody on a premium event. Uh you know where do I go with this?
Uh? Just the endings, the endings. Um, just not there,
guys, just not there. I this is a D show, d
and uh And I hate to to to rag on something like this, but
I was disappointed, definitely definitely disappointed. But you know what, I was
brought up a right way. So if you can't say something good about somebody,
you shouldn't say anything at all. So in that case, I'm gonna
end us. Uh this review of spring breaking spring breaking, not breaking,
I m G but breaking break in I en And I'm just yeah, we're
done with this one, and thankfully we are. But now you look,
guys, we hope to definitely have you back next week because this one,
I'm not gonna say it stunk it up, but I think I need to
spray something, all right, But guys have a gregol Man of course,
if you can rescue, please do And as I always spay a neater.
And this is Memphis, Mark, And it's been a little confusing in the
last few weeks with everything, but it's getting back to normal and so I'm
out. Are you ready to be the happiest person that you know, I
hope so, and I want to be the guy to take you there.
My name is Joe, and I'm a retired firefighter and I'm the happiest person
that I know, despite the fact that several years ago I literally had a
gun to my own head after an on the job injury forced me into a
medical retirement, followed by the loss of several loved ones and a dark battle
with grief, PETE TSD, and depression. But I fought my way out
of that, and I prevailed, and I gained unshakable joy and the amazing
ability to be totally okay even when my life circumstances aren't okay at all.
And now nothing brings me greater happiness than sharing with people the tools that led
me here, which is exactly what I'm doing at the Grit, Growth and
Gratitude podcast. I'm dropping episodes every week that teach you how to maximize your
happiness when times are good and barrel through any obstacle when times are rough.
So subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts, because you deserve to have way
more thrive days than just survived days, and to have a kick ass life
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