Speaker 1: This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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Speaker 2: The time for the mailbag, everybody, Happy Friday and the
Speaker 2: second day of May twenty twenty five. If you're a
Speaker 2: GTA fan. By the way, if you're into Grand Theft,
Speaker 2: Auto Rockstar has announced that the game has been pushed.
Speaker 2: The GTA six game has been pushed to May twenty
Speaker 2: sixth of twenty twenty six, so they pushed out another one,
Speaker 2: probably six to eight months, and I think a lot
Speaker 2: of us may be in the ground before this game
Speaker 2: comes out. It's it's absolutely certain. So anyway, GTA fans,
Speaker 2: my condolences. Let's continue into the mailbag here. Let's jump
Speaker 2: into some of your emails and we'll start with Luis Gonzalez. Luis,
Speaker 2: our host for After Dark, says, I know the chances
Speaker 2: of Orton is of winning him winning a slim, but
Speaker 2: do you think it's possible for Sena to lose the
Speaker 2: belt to Orton or someone else very soon, only to
Speaker 2: win it again later on? Down the line. I only
Speaker 2: bring this up because of what he said at the
Speaker 2: post conference after the rumble. I don't want I don't
Speaker 2: win seventeen for myself. I win it so that one
Speaker 2: day I can shake the hand of the man who
Speaker 2: wins eighteen. Do you think there's a world where the
Speaker 2: writers set this up that SNA loses, wins it back,
Speaker 2: and then shakes his own hand. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: that's possible. That's definitely possible. But Triple H has shown
Speaker 2: through his tenure that he's not exactly a fan of
Speaker 2: hot potato title changes. He has been very much in
Speaker 2: the camp of long title reigns, specifically ones that start
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania. I think that there's not a lot of
Speaker 2: benefit here for I mean John Cena. What I guess
Speaker 2: the goal is to what get John ConA more heat
Speaker 2: if you were to go with that, I mean to
Speaker 2: be funny, but also I think it would be a
Speaker 2: little bit a little bit shallow to do to the
Speaker 2: championship just to get more heat on John Cena. That yeah,
Speaker 2: that would I'm gonna say, No, is there a zero
Speaker 2: percent chance that Norton wins.
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I think there is some, but it's really low, really low,
Speaker 2: and really how many times have we seen wrestlers go
Speaker 2: to their hometowns just to be used as a platform
Speaker 2: to get more heat on whoever the heel is that
Speaker 2: beats down the hometown hero. So I think that, I mean,
Speaker 2: Sin is already gonna be booed out of the building
Speaker 2: because they're in Saint Louis. With Orton's hometown. You have
Speaker 2: an opportunity there to create more heat on Sena just
Speaker 2: because of it's Orton's hometown and the way he's gonna
Speaker 2: defeat Orton is gonna be hook crook. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: a low blow another title shot from what they we
Speaker 2: saw wrestle Mania forty one. That's what I think. So
Speaker 2: thanks buddy. Let's go to our next patron, Dino. What
Speaker 2: do you got for me? So you have a couple
Speaker 2: small things to get off your chest. Let me start
Speaker 2: by giving shout outs to DJ Jeff Jay and everyone
Speaker 2: else in the discord during plis. Also shout out to
Speaker 2: Brad from Florida for the great hilarity that his voicemail
Speaker 2: caused me last week. Keep up the good work. Ryan
Speaker 2: Sprague has a great podcast voice. His voice also kind
Speaker 2: of sounds like AI. Yeah, I mean, that's what happens
Speaker 2: when your voice is too good, people will accuse you
Speaker 2: of AI. Luckily I don't have that problem. Or I
Speaker 2: guess not so lucky, but yeah, so I do believe
Speaker 2: it was me who said his name in the discord
Speaker 2: during WrestleMania, and he appeared, So you can stop the
Speaker 2: hunting down the mystery of the person who said his name.
Speaker 2: I knew i'd find you. I knew it. You couldn't
Speaker 2: handle the pressure. I've been on the hunt since the
Speaker 2: since the night IWO of WrestleMania, I have been on
Speaker 2: the hunt. So the bounty has been collected. You've turned
Speaker 2: yourself in. You are now responsible. Thank you. The main
Speaker 2: event of SmackDown last week, the TLC match between DIY,
Speaker 2: the Street Profits and MotorCity Machine Guns, not only should
Speaker 2: have been on the WrestleMania forty one card in place
Speaker 2: of The War Raiders versus The New Day, but in
Speaker 2: my opinion, it should have been one of the It
Speaker 2: was one of the best tag team matches in SmackDown history.
Speaker 2: I mean it was really good. Doubt that. I mean,
Speaker 2: was it one of the greatest in history?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Subjective? I don't know, And I'd have to actually think
Speaker 2: about it in terms of my own opinion, but I
Speaker 2: can't say no to that. But the war Raiders and
Speaker 2: New Day Sorry not worthy of WrestleMania. This is where
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people disagree. You know, it
Speaker 2: should be everybody, all hands on deck WrestleMania. No, it shouldn't.
Speaker 2: It should just be the greatest of the of the greatest,
Speaker 2: the best of the best. That's what WrestleMania should be.
Speaker 2: And instead they actually they actually do the opposite of
Speaker 2: what a super Bowl actually would be, where there's actually
Speaker 2: there are fewer competitors left on the field. There's only
Speaker 2: two teams left at the end of the day, because
Speaker 2: that's what the super Bowl is. These are the two
Speaker 2: best teams of that year. And WWE said, oh, well,
Speaker 2: you know what, Yeah, we're the super Bowl of wrestling.
Speaker 2: But also, everyone gets a jersey, here's your participation in trophy.
Speaker 2: Here's your participation trophy. Go have fun. And from a
Speaker 2: talent perspective, I'm sure that they would totally disagree with
Speaker 2: me because they get to experience WrestleMania. But it also
Speaker 2: I think hinders competitiveness inside the organization, where you know,
Speaker 2: you maybe go out on the limb, you try something different,
Speaker 2: you talk to management, you know, you push back on
Speaker 2: ideas or whatever the case. And I think it actually
Speaker 2: propagates creativity and effort when you have a show like
Speaker 2: WrestleMania that actually will be trimmed down to only the
Speaker 2: best of the best. But when you know there's a
Speaker 2: good chance if you just do good enough that you'll
Speaker 2: get a spot at WrestleMania, then maybe you don't actually
Speaker 2: perform your best. But to talk about war rators a
Speaker 2: New Day, Yeah, unless there was a Big E return
Speaker 2: there to screw the New Day, and I thought there
Speaker 2: was going to be. I want nothing to do with
Speaker 2: that match. Sorry. Yeah, like having the New Day not
Speaker 2: or a Biggie not there to screw the New Day
Speaker 2: or attack them made no sense. You talk about one
Speaker 2: of the most one of at least in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: one of the biggest flops of a heel turn thus far.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the New Day who started on fire
Speaker 2: with Big Ee and you're thinking this is a setup
Speaker 2: for a big Ee return and it turns out to
Speaker 2: be a big nothing burger and then they're in and
Speaker 2: out of relevancy. Okay, they win the tag team titles.
Speaker 2: They've essentially held the tag team titles for their entire career,
Speaker 2: so it's not exciting or new, and no big ee
Speaker 2: that would have made it I think a little more
Speaker 2: WrestleMania worthy. Finally, on the Rock not appearing at WrestleMania,
Speaker 2: it feels like they were in a tough spot. It
Speaker 2: was all built around Sena selling out to the Rock,
Speaker 2: but then the Rock disappeared. There was an undeniable shift
Speaker 2: from that brilliant evil Scena at Chamber to the generic
Speaker 2: I hate the fans Sena we got. They obviously realized
Speaker 2: the Rock wouldn't be around. I think for me the
Speaker 2: disconnect came when Sena doubled down on the fans when
Speaker 2: quite honestly, he's been shown nothing but admiration for the
Speaker 2: last few years, especially the last few months. It could
Speaker 2: have been more nuanced for me, but instead it felt forced.
Speaker 2: Now they could have it. Nick could save it by
Speaker 2: the end of the year by having it revealed the
Speaker 2: Rock was manipulating Sena and Scena redeems itself. But I
Speaker 2: guess that depends on what happens going forward. This whole
Speaker 2: situation with the Rock and conflict of interests is very odd.
Speaker 2: I've seen online that The Rock pulled out last minute
Speaker 2: due to disagreement with Triple H. But who knows. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've seen so much. There are a lot of reports
Speaker 2: going around that the Rock's trying to out Triple H,
Speaker 2: and there's tension, and the way the Rock responded on
Speaker 2: the Pat Mackffs Show, if you're reading between the lines,
Speaker 2: you know essentially was undermining Triple H. There's a lot there.
Speaker 2: Is it possible they have disagreements. Yeah, in fact, it's
Speaker 2: very likely that they have a lot of disagreements. But
Speaker 2: to say that The Rock is actually trying to actively
Speaker 2: Outstriple H is a is a bit of a stretch.
Speaker 2: I think Triple H is just going through a rough
Speaker 2: patch right now. Remember all the love fest of oh,
Speaker 2: no more events, no more events, Yay Triple H. Remember
Speaker 2: that I do, And now it's you know, boo, Triple
Speaker 2: H terrible main event, and he's still trying to get
Speaker 2: the stench of that main event off of him. It's
Speaker 2: gonna stick with him for a while because unfortunately, that
Speaker 2: is the biggest match, at least from a position standpoint,
Speaker 2: of the entire year. So when you flub a match
Speaker 2: of that caliber. It sticks with you. It's not one
Speaker 2: that's just like a Monday night raw club that was
Speaker 2: a bad main event or even a bad ple e
Speaker 2: main event. This is the ple of pl e s
Speaker 2: of the year in the biggest match of that ple e.
Speaker 2: So doesn't get any bigger, doesn't the spotlight doesn't get
Speaker 2: any brighter. And it was a big wompwomp of an ending,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna take some time to really wash the
Speaker 2: stench of that from from fans minds that it may
Speaker 2: not ever, so I think that Triple A has got
Speaker 2: a heck of a heck of a damage control on
Speaker 2: his mind and or on his plate. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean again, I'm trying not to get back into the
Speaker 2: rock deal, but if it is gonna end up with
Speaker 2: Sena turning on the rock or I mean, we all
Speaker 2: we all understand that the reason that Sina did what
Speaker 2: he did in part anyway, was because of the influence
Speaker 2: of the rock that was shown to us at Chamber
Speaker 2: when he turned, and he only did what he did
Speaker 2: after the rock gave him the signal, after they made
Speaker 2: eye contact. That eye contact and that symbol of the
Speaker 2: rock essentially cutting the throat. We never got explained. We
Speaker 2: never we never got the explanation as to what the
Speaker 2: connection is here. That's embarrassing storytelling. If you take that
Speaker 2: storytelling and you put it in a book, that book
Speaker 2: would sell zero copies, or if it did sell there
Speaker 2: there would be a lot of returns that on that
Speaker 2: particular title, because you're missing a massive hole in logic.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to hear that it's about the
Speaker 2: spotlight on other people. It's no, because if that was
Speaker 2: the case, you wouldn't have injected yourself to begin with,
Speaker 2: knowing how people view you in the business. So I
Speaker 2: don't want to hear that crap. That is just hot garbage.
Speaker 2: It's just terrible storytelling. Oh, we'll get back to it. No, okay, Like,
Speaker 2: don't do me any favors, Like that's you don't get
Speaker 2: back to it. That's like going from chapter one to
Speaker 2: chapter two to chapter seven to chapter eight, nine, ten,
Speaker 2: and then we're supposed to go back to chapter three,
Speaker 2: four and five and six that you missed. No, is
Speaker 2: that how we read books?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: No? It's not. So that's not how you view any
Speaker 2: other form of entertainment. That's not how you view a movie.
Speaker 2: You know, they don't have a big thirty minute gap
Speaker 2: in the in the movie where they're just like, hah, well,
Speaker 2: we'll show you what happened here at the end of
Speaker 2: the movie. It's like, well, no, it should just be
Speaker 2: in sequential order. That's how you tell stories. Don't try
Speaker 2: to pretend you're reinventing the wheel here anyway. Thanks, you know,
Speaker 2: all right, let's talk to Tom. Tom says, so, what's
Speaker 2: going on with the crowds lately? I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: living in a bizarre world. Tom's getting cheered, Sina and
Speaker 2: Fatu is getting cheered, Cody's getting booed. Roman did everything
Speaker 2: in his power to turn back Heel before WrestleMania, but
Speaker 2: kept getting serenaded with OTC and now the other night,
Speaker 2: Seth mentions Punk's name in the out booze. Even Seth
Speaker 2: looked shocked and didn't know what to say. Eventually they
Speaker 2: were egged on to chant his name. But what's going on?
Speaker 2: People are still cheering Seth and singing his song even
Speaker 2: though he's trying to go full blown heel. I guess
Speaker 2: I'm old schooler. Where was I raised in the world
Speaker 2: where heels are supposed to be booed? I mean, what's
Speaker 2: next Drew and Logan Paul getting standing ovations. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: a transition period right now. There's a transition period and
Speaker 2: the fans, I'd have to see more consistency on an
Speaker 2: individual case by case basis as to what's real what's not.
Speaker 2: The domb cheers I think are real. I think those
Speaker 2: are here to stay. The fatuo getting cheered, I think
Speaker 2: is here to stay. Sina will continue and forever and
Speaker 2: always continue to have the mixed reaction with especially during
Speaker 2: his entrance and then afterwards he'll get mostly boozed, but
Speaker 2: have that segment that still cheers, just like the segment
Speaker 2: that cheered, and there was a segment that's still boob
Speaker 2: and he was a baby faced for the last twenty
Speaker 2: five years up until the last five seconds. Cody getting booed.
Speaker 2: You know what? That I hope is here to stay.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if it will be the time
Speaker 2: away he's taking heals wounds right the time away or
Speaker 2: what is it time heals all wounds? It's true, and
Speaker 2: I think Cody taking time, however long it is is.
Speaker 2: The longer he's away, the higher the chance the fans
Speaker 2: will reaccept him. Even though his character was severely damaged
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania by looking like a complete weakling, just this
Speaker 2: overly nice, too compassionate, just weak champion. I think that's
Speaker 2: going to take some time to shake off of him
Speaker 2: himself as well, and time will heal that with fans.
Speaker 2: So also his entrance, Cody's entrances beloved that I don't
Speaker 2: think is and that will help him. Fans love his entrance,
Speaker 2: between the music and the fireworks, everything and the whole
Speaker 2: prison and Roman, I think fans are generally back to
Speaker 2: just cheering him. I don't think they're gonna boo him
Speaker 2: consistently unless they really, really really try. And the reason
Speaker 2: is because what made Roman heel mostly was because he yeah,
Speaker 2: he was not there, but more importantly, he was an
Speaker 2: absentee champion for four years. People had grown very tired
Speaker 2: of his schedule. And now people have just accepted his
Speaker 2: schedule and are much more accepting of it because of
Speaker 2: the fact he's not a champion and he's a big,
Speaker 2: big star that really does and has kind of earned
Speaker 2: that schedule. But yeah, as far as Seth, the way
Speaker 2: you stop Seth is the cheering for Seth is number one.
Speaker 2: Changes music. That's gonna be the first thing you need
Speaker 2: to do with Cody two has changed his music. If
Speaker 2: you want to be you have a really nice, full
Speaker 2: heel turn. I don't care if he goes back to
Speaker 2: the Messiah music. I actually really enjoyed the Messiah gimmick
Speaker 2: more than most. But that was during the pandemic, wasn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But I think that that's number one changes music get
Speaker 2: don't You don't want participation from the audience, at least
Speaker 2: if you want to be a true heel. I mean,
Speaker 2: today's definition of heels are just cool heels, which doesn't
Speaker 2: make them heels at all, ironically, but if you want
Speaker 2: real heel heat, you don't want to give the fans
Speaker 2: anything to cheer for. You don't want to give into
Speaker 2: their one more time chance. When you're giving a baby
Speaker 2: face multiple finishes, you give into nothing. You do what
Speaker 2: you want and what is best for you. Only you
Speaker 2: don't give the fans any joy inside of their brains.
Speaker 2: There is no serotonin. Is that the love chemical released
Speaker 2: in their brains when they see you. At least that's
Speaker 2: how it should be. But as far as Yeah, Logan,
Speaker 2: Paul and Drew getting standing ovations, I mean Drew is
Speaker 2: universally respected Logan Paul has no chance of that, but
Speaker 2: Drew ever want to turn them back babyface? They could,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. He's still in a hell of a role
Speaker 2: and it needs to be in a bigger position. But yeah,
Speaker 2: thanks thanks Tom. All right, I think we have we
Speaker 2: have any more. I know we got a couple of
Speaker 2: voicemails I think floating around, but let me just check
Speaker 2: one more thing. We go inside of Patreon and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna check our messages. No, I don't think we actually
Speaker 2: have any You guys are resting after WrestleMania, and I
Speaker 2: totally understand that. Oh no, we've got we do have
Speaker 2: a couple here. I'm actually in my Gmail that a
Speaker 2: couple of you sent. This is from Jamie, and Jamie says,
Speaker 2: hello mate. I'm guessing you're from Australia. More of a lurker,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to pick I wanted to pick you
Speaker 2: up on something you mentioned recently about the new doc
Speaker 2: and how it takes you out of the moment and
Speaker 2: believing in the story of the documentary. Got it raw
Speaker 2: Close was Seth stomping his good friend. The crowd continued
Speaker 2: to sing his theme song as the show ended. Is
Speaker 2: this the perfect example of us consumers not being able
Speaker 2: to be believed or be invested in a heel character
Speaker 2: because we're constantly being told that everything is a work.
Speaker 2: That's a I mean, yeah, it's a good example of
Speaker 2: the crowd continuing to sing his theme. That's why I
Speaker 2: just mentioned Seth needs to get rid of that music.
Speaker 2: You get rid of it otherwise you're not completing the
Speaker 2: term music is a big, big deal, especially as a
Speaker 2: babyface if you continue that babyface connection of the fans
Speaker 2: chanting along with your song, which by the way, I
Speaker 2: grew real tired of real quick, and I hope he
Speaker 2: changes it because I don't want to hear it ever again.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's the music needs to go. The crowd's
Speaker 2: chanting one more time is something that that's a new
Speaker 2: phenomenon and it's starting to catch on, and it could
Speaker 2: be it's the shiny new thing to do as a
Speaker 2: fan when you're there and you see multiple finishes, you know,
Speaker 2: I remember really starting with Seth getting tsunamid by Bronson
Speaker 2: Reid about a year it was it about a year
Speaker 2: ago before Bronson Red got injured, which I'm excited for
Speaker 2: his return, I have to say, but I think that
Speaker 2: that is something that started there and the fans just
Speaker 2: caught on and go, oh, we can actually control the
Speaker 2: wrestlers here, even though they're heels, and as a heel,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that. You don't give the fans that
Speaker 2: what they wanted. All hatred is a powerful emotion because
Speaker 2: it is balanced out with the feeling of wanting to
Speaker 2: see somebody kick that person's ass. And that's what you
Speaker 2: pay tickets for. It's really what you pay for is
Speaker 2: good versus evil. It really is that simple. I hate
Speaker 2: to be elementary about it, but it always has been.
Speaker 2: And when it's when it becomes over complicated, that's when
Speaker 2: overbooking happens. Confusion, lack of clarity and stories. It doesn't
Speaker 2: need to be overthought. It can be very straightforward, and
Speaker 2: a lot of times things are overbooked, overplanned, or there's
Speaker 2: just no finish. There's no actual long term thought process
Speaker 2: going on. It's just let's just let's do this and
Speaker 2: feel our way forward, which can happen at times. But
Speaker 2: how often does it feel like they just do stuff?
Speaker 2: They just do stuff and it feels like there's no
Speaker 2: real direction kind of a lot, Thanks Jamie. I think
Speaker 2: we have one. Do we have another one? Hmm? Let
Speaker 2: me see here. I thought I had another one on
Speaker 2: Gmail digging. Sorry, guys, I don't know if I do well,
Speaker 2: if I don't, I don't think I have another one.
Speaker 2: Jay who does our NXT? I can't. Let's see, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna dig I know he had one. Let me see.
Speaker 2: Oh well, Jay was saying that he's glad I I'm
Speaker 2: on the Stephanie of Acorp train. Yes, and I will
Speaker 2: conduct that train. I'll be the damn conductor. So all right,
Speaker 2: that is it with the emails. Let's jump into those
Speaker 2: voicemails and we will do that right now.
Speaker 6: It's a couple customer, So I wanted to talk about
Speaker 6: the situation with Jay, So is it gonna end up
Speaker 6: being a problem and he's not being back to the
Speaker 6: show and he was seen now Assassin Breaker his new
Speaker 6: allives that's developing here wherever. That's how would ask for
Speaker 6: the lead?
Speaker 4: Who knows?
Speaker 6: I'm sure rollins me and them facing Jay for the championship,
Speaker 6: probably at subber Slam or even money in the bank,
Speaker 6: probably very soon. I'm sure that's going to be the
Speaker 6: directions put in the title on Rollinson this summer, whether
Speaker 6: that's being Big or Summer Slam. But Diziga end up
Speaker 6: going to be a problem where Rollins keep being vented
Speaker 6: this show and he and Jay's going to be an
Speaker 6: afroth thought kind of rely similar to similar, but I
Speaker 6: feel like the woman on Raw in general is on
Speaker 6: fire right now with Eos Champion would be with Becky
Speaker 6: and Lyra and then with the inquision with Julia and
Speaker 6: rock Fan showed up. Now sure they Roxy had particularly
Speaker 6: named him. He needs to give him me a roster
Speaker 6: at this point, I feel like for me, but I
Speaker 6: just feel like that's like the that's one my interest
Speaker 6: is right now. It's with the women and what doing
Speaker 6: with Seth and Breaker is that could end up being
Speaker 6: a problem moving forward. For sure, he used to partake Lushporler,
Speaker 6: which he had been has been se as an actor. Thought,
Speaker 6: even though he's getting big reactions as a storyline, I
Speaker 6: don't really care what he's doing right now. So I
Speaker 6: don't know to find an interesting for Robinson Breaker being
Speaker 6: invented the show she was gonna run now, so what
Speaker 6: is that for the lead moving forward? But like what
Speaker 6: they're doing, but Jay's kind of the actor thought here,
Speaker 6: but that's just it that.
Speaker 4: Shall call bid.
Speaker 2: Well Kyle. I would say that Jay's been an afterthought
Speaker 2: since before WrestleMania. I mean outside of that one promo
Speaker 2: he cut that was the best of his career leading
Speaker 2: into WrestleMania, that he by the way, never followed through on.
Speaker 2: I really would say that he's been an afterthought all along,
Speaker 2: and it's it's just because his for me, his star
Speaker 2: power didn't match the position on the show. Now, they
Speaker 2: didn't make him the main event. So the idea though
Speaker 2: that the Royal Rumble winners main event WrestleMania should never
Speaker 2: be uttered again out of the words of WWE and
Speaker 2: their announcers, the way they sell WrestleMania and they sell
Speaker 2: the Rumble, because indeed, we have seen time it again
Speaker 2: that those who win wrestle win the Rumble do not
Speaker 2: always main event WrestleMania, and we saw that twice this year.
Speaker 2: So Jay becoming an afterthought, I mean, you listen to
Speaker 2: the reaction, it's good, as you said, but the focus
Speaker 2: has been on Breaker. The focus has been on Seth,
Speaker 2: and it leads you to believe that Seth could be
Speaker 2: sooner or later targeting Jay for the World title. I
Speaker 2: think it's very possible in twenty twenty five we see
Speaker 2: Jay versus Seth Rollins, with Seth Rollins taking the World
Speaker 2: Championship from Jay. I really don't believe Jay's gonna have
Speaker 2: a lot run, at least in terms of the typical
Speaker 2: WrestleMania to WrestleMania length that we've seen now, I mean
Speaker 2: triple H. While I know he's a big fan of
Speaker 2: long title reigns, I don't believe they're gonna keep Ja
Speaker 2: world champion for more than six months. I really think
Speaker 2: that's kind of the cutoff. I think Jay's gonna lose
Speaker 2: it towards the end of the year. As we head
Speaker 2: into Survivors Series twenty twenty five and beyond, Jay will
Speaker 2: not be world champion. I would be shocked if Jay
Speaker 2: Uso walks into WrestleMania forty two with the World Championship
Speaker 2: over his shoulder defending it. I would I would bet
Speaker 2: a lot of money that that's not going to be
Speaker 2: the case. So Jay's run is not going to mirror
Speaker 2: that of Cody's from last year. So that's my best guess,
Speaker 2: and just Jay has been I mean, after thought, maybe
Speaker 2: a little strong. I would say he's not the number
Speaker 2: one priority for the show. That's I mean, afterthought, I
Speaker 2: think is a little bit overdone. But I definitely see
Speaker 2: what you mean, and maybe they changed that. But yeah,
Speaker 2: right now, it's Breaker, it's Seth, it's Paul Hayman. Right,
Speaker 2: so all right, well, thank you, let's get to our
Speaker 2: next one.
Speaker 4: Oh hey, that is better here again. Enjoy the enjoying
Speaker 4: what's going on in the resting at the moment. But
Speaker 4: that's not really why I called. I called just to
Speaker 4: give a response to the wise last week on the
Speaker 4: voicemails he said that you complained too much and that
Speaker 4: you moan too much, and that well, I'm not trying
Speaker 4: to kick out a hornets next year or cause any
Speaker 4: strife or grief or tension. But I just want to
Speaker 4: say was it's Matt show mate. He's earned the right
Speaker 4: to do and say what he wants. It's a simple thing,
Speaker 4: you know, if you don't like it, just do something else. Man.
Speaker 4: I know you love wrestling. We all love wrestling. We
Speaker 4: all have our different viewpoints on it, and that's good.
Speaker 4: But that's what makes this show great. So if Matt
Speaker 4: wants to moan for forty five minutes of an hour show.
Speaker 4: Matt's got the right to you because it's Matt's show,
Speaker 4: and I enjoy the critics, probably because I'm more on
Speaker 4: I share Math's passion and logical thinking about how things
Speaker 4: should go and when we spot flaws. I'm the same
Speaker 4: anything in life. If I spot flaws in something and
Speaker 4: I'm passionate about it, break in my professional world, I
Speaker 4: will keep on at it. If it's moaning or winging
Speaker 4: or whatever I'm call it's fixed or at least to
Speaker 4: get my point across and people can acknowledge it. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say that Matt, it's your show, man.
Speaker 4: I know you don't need me to back you up
Speaker 4: on that, but it's your show. You get to say
Speaker 4: what you want. I'm behind you. I love your show,
Speaker 4: I love what you do. I have no complaints and
Speaker 4: if I ever did, I would probably just go and
Speaker 4: listen to something else. So yeah, anyway, like I said,
Speaker 4: not meaning to cause any grip or attenship, but just
Speaker 4: wanted to share share that that you know she doesn't
Speaker 4: like you, don't like it, do something else, you know. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I will speak to you later. I have a good one.
Speaker 2: But well, thank you for the support. I appreciate that,
Speaker 2: but I've been good to hear from you as always.
Speaker 2: Hope everything's over down down Under? Is treating you well,
Speaker 2: family treating you well. Hope all is good down there is.
Speaker 2: Sounds like you got your hands full, but yeah, look yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I I have a show. Anybody can make
Speaker 2: a show, right, A lot of people do, a lot
Speaker 2: of people to start shows and end shows. And to me,
Speaker 2: you have to have a passion for whatever you're talking
Speaker 2: about to continue for as long as I have and
Speaker 2: many others many I mean, there's tons of podcasts that
Speaker 2: have started way, way, way way before I did. But
Speaker 2: you have to have the passion for it. Meaning if
Speaker 2: you're complaining about something and you truly don't like it,
Speaker 2: you're not going to spend hours and hours and hours
Speaker 2: every week for years complaining about something that you actually hate.
Speaker 2: Then you actually despise to consume. That's it's not how
Speaker 2: it works. That only is a sustainable pattern if you
Speaker 2: actually underneath all the critiques and criticisms, love what you
Speaker 2: watch and understand why you love. Like when wrestling's good,
Speaker 2: you understand how good it can be. There's that pull
Speaker 2: to professional wrestling that we all have. If you're listening
Speaker 2: to this and when you hear critiques and criticisms, it's
Speaker 2: out of passion. It's out of hey, this sucks. Here's
Speaker 2: how you can make it better, or here's a couple
Speaker 2: of ways how you can make it better. And I
Speaker 2: just personally, you know, I love pro wrestling, and if
Speaker 2: I didn't, I wouldn't be here. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: people come on and ironically, what do they do. They're
Speaker 2: complaining about me complaining, so they're doing the very thing
Speaker 2: that they're alleging they don't like I do. Oh, there
Speaker 2: is that, So whoever wants to complain. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 2: I just don't. I don't take it. Personally, I don't mind.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of people that don't like me.
Speaker 2: That's fine. I really just I it's not I mean, like,
Speaker 2: this is part of my life, but it's not like
Speaker 2: my real life, you know, like I this helps support
Speaker 2: my real life. I enjoy doing this, but it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, I have perspective. We're all just here talking
Speaker 2: about wrestling, and you some people love what I have
Speaker 2: to say. Some people really really hate what I have
Speaker 2: to say, or find me arrogant, or you know, I've
Speaker 2: heard racist over the years, I've heard I genuinely just
Speaker 2: don't care when people come to complain about me. I
Speaker 2: really do people think that it's gonna It doesn't. And
Speaker 2: in fact, when people interact with me like that, it
Speaker 2: actually ends up causing unbeknownst to them, or really in
Speaker 2: spite of them, usually boosts my ratings because then people
Speaker 2: are complaining about me online, which gives me free advertising.
Speaker 2: So thanks, you know, and people I've seen that on AX,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, thanks for the boost, thanks for the
Speaker 2: shout outs. When people don't realize when they put negative
Speaker 2: comments on my Apple podcasts wherever, it's actually helping me
Speaker 2: because the algorithm works in such a way where more
Speaker 2: activity on your feed, even if it's in a negative light,
Speaker 2: although not as much as positive, it still does elevate
Speaker 2: your podcast, so you know, it doesn't it's like okay, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: you're you're hurting me, all right. Anyway, it's all perspective now,
Speaker 2: this is this is like playing in the sandbox. That's
Speaker 2: what wrestling is talking about wrestling, it's it's playing in
Speaker 2: the sandbox for adults, you know, I mean, we we
Speaker 2: all have much more important things in our lives in wrestling.
Speaker 2: Nine and a half percent of us do right as
Speaker 2: far as priorities, life, death happens. Now that that takes
Speaker 2: you out. Things happen, and life happens, jobs, stress, kids,
Speaker 2: and this is just a way to talk about the
Speaker 2: things I love outside of that and the kind of
Speaker 2: the passion I've had for twenty how many years I
Speaker 2: don't even know, twenty thirty years, almost thirty years, so
Speaker 2: it's been quite some time. And yeah, so sure, thank
Speaker 2: you for the support, though I do appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Bevin IK's the French guy here, you're current European champion.
Speaker 5: I just finished listening to one of my favorite songs,
Speaker 5: which is Limp Biscuit My Way. Of course, you know
Speaker 5: exactly where that comes from, which is the promo package
Speaker 5: and the theme song the promo package between the rock
Speaker 5: and song called Steve Austin. Another song that I really
Speaker 5: like in wrestling, which is the subject of this voicemail,
Speaker 5: is a Monster from Imagine Dragon. This comes from from
Speaker 5: the video package coming up to WrestleMania thirty from Daniel Bryan.
Speaker 4: I think that.
Speaker 5: Song and that video package captured exactly what the story was,
Speaker 5: which was the ultimate underdog battling against all the odds,
Speaker 5: and that was great. And yeah, guys, I wanted to know.
Speaker 5: I wanted to have some recommendation because I love wrestling songs.
Speaker 5: I would say twenty to thirty percent of my whole
Speaker 5: playlist comes from wrestling guys. Give me your recommendation, Matt,
Speaker 5: if you need time, guys, take a quick look on
Speaker 5: the top of your head. Maybe a theme song, an
Speaker 5: interest interest song from a wrestler, a theme song from
Speaker 5: a pay per view, something like this, anything related to wrestling.
Speaker 5: And yeah, guys, if you want to share with us,
Speaker 5: with me through the mailbag for next week or anything
Speaker 5: through the discord chat, I'll be pleased to listen to them.
Speaker 5: To those songs and started off with you may maybe, Matt,
Speaker 5: what is one of your favorite wrestling music? Bye, guys.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a hell of a question. I like that
Speaker 2: a different flavor of a question. So I did google some.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to pretend that I came off the
Speaker 2: top of my head. I recall memory abilities are just awful,
Speaker 2: so I had to google it fair enough. But there
Speaker 2: are some that I agree with as far as the
Speaker 2: best songs of all time when it comes to wrestling.
Speaker 2: And what I did was video packages. Okay, I didn't
Speaker 2: do wrestler's entrance themes. You know there's times like stone Call.
Speaker 2: I mean, you go with all the traditional ones, but
Speaker 2: here is one, and I'm gonna give you the song.
Speaker 2: And I played only for a little bit because of copyright.
Speaker 2: But take a listen, and then I'll tell you what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 3: Only reason.
Speaker 4: The reason.
Speaker 2: It's probably enough before I get copyright head. So that one,
Speaker 2: as you may have heard always by Salava, and that
Speaker 2: one is let me take a look at where that
Speaker 2: came from. This particular song came from Survivor series two
Speaker 2: thousand and two. That was really good. That I mean
Speaker 2: that that that may be one that I remember remember forever,
Speaker 2: just like My Way with WRESTLEMANA seventeen, which is still
Speaker 2: regarded as one of the best video packages and song
Speaker 2: combinations of all time for any video package. And there's
Speaker 2: been a just zillion of them. So I really like
Speaker 2: that one Bodies by Drowning Pool for ECW's One Night
Speaker 2: Stand in Summer Slam two thousand and one. That one's
Speaker 2: really good. Armageddon we had the end. That's a good one.
Speaker 2: So there's been there's been some really really good ones.
Speaker 2: So those are just a few off the top of
Speaker 2: my head. As far as the just the you know,
Speaker 2: promotional package video packages, that's the that's the one I've
Speaker 2: really really enjoyed. There's also Big Time for WrestleMania twenty two.
Speaker 2: That was fine, not exactly a headbanger. But how about
Speaker 2: Highway to Hell Highway to Hell nineteen ninety eight Undertaker
Speaker 2: versus Stone Cold Steve Austin in Madison Square Garden. That's
Speaker 2: a good one, at least when I say good, it
Speaker 2: really sometimes is overshadowed by nostalgia. I may not actually
Speaker 2: like this song as much as I like the nostalgic
Speaker 2: feel it gives me, So there's a bit of a
Speaker 2: distinction there, But that's a good one. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: look at some other ones here that people have suggested
Speaker 2: that I agree with kinda Again, that kind of does
Speaker 2: it for for right now. Yeah, So take that for
Speaker 2: what it's worth, and you know, if anybody else has
Speaker 2: any other really good ones, memorable ones again beyond my
Speaker 2: way which everyone points to and rightfully so, I really
Speaker 2: think that that is by far and away, and not
Speaker 2: only is it one of the best video packtors of
Speaker 2: all time. But it's one of the best rivalries and
Speaker 2: probably the best match in their entire series that they've
Speaker 2: ever had, so in terms of the Rock and Austin,
Speaker 2: their second match I think was better than their first,
Speaker 2: better than their third. So yeah, just some great stuff.
Speaker 2: And again it's a lot of nostalgic feel to it
Speaker 2: that it helps helps out. So all right, well, a
Speaker 2: bit of an abbreviated mail bag here today, guyslogize for
Speaker 2: the short the short shortened version. But I'll be back.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll do a video tonight. I haven't done a
Speaker 2: video in a while. I've been getting into that a
Speaker 2: little bit lately and putting on YouTube also. I might
Speaker 2: put it on Patreon for those of you as well,
Speaker 2: because I need to get into video. It's a field
Speaker 2: that I know I'm completely missing out on and to
Speaker 2: my own detriment, So I will be maybe getting into
Speaker 2: that a little bit more. They won't be long form video.
Speaker 2: It'll be short kind of to the point, you know,
Speaker 2: short topic five ten minutes tops, and then posting that
Speaker 2: on on Patreon or on on x or on other
Speaker 2: platforms just kind of grow the show a little bit
Speaker 2: because I feel like everything's video and I've been lacking
Speaker 2: big time on that, so all right. Well that'll do it, everybody.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. If you guys want to go add free,
Speaker 2: Patreon dot com is the place to do it, as
Speaker 2: well as Spotify and Apple. And I'll be back again
Speaker 2: unless you see me in a video. I'll be back
Speaker 2: on Sunday with your weekend review, So one week until
Speaker 2: the backlash event already. Take care.
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