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Speaker 2: it and we'll start with the emails as we do
Speaker 2: every single week, and we're going to start with aj
Speaker 2: he says, Hopefully this is in on time. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to bring up that. I'm glad I'm seeing more
Speaker 2: and more people on X point out that the massive
Speaker 2: flaws are in Roman Reign's character. I don't understand why
Speaker 2: people like Michael Cole rode so hard for him during
Speaker 2: his title run. Roman barely ever defended and he always
Speaker 2: had help. Yet Cole a face would call him the
Speaker 2: most dominant champion and ever had that line, never had
Speaker 2: that line about if any other wrestlers are mad because
Speaker 2: about his schedule, they should just beat him. I don't
Speaker 2: know if ever that sentence right, but a right. It
Speaker 2: just made no sense why no one really ever pushed
Speaker 2: back against the character too hard for how he won
Speaker 2: and how often he defended. Also, I don't like how
Speaker 2: everyone just went back to him and he when he
Speaker 2: really hasn't changed at all. Yet his family, the ones
Speaker 2: who screwed him over the most, are just okay with
Speaker 2: him now because Solo is like a quarter as bad
Speaker 2: as he was. I don't know what that means. Drew
Speaker 2: and Ko have every right to hate the bloodline and
Speaker 2: Roman and people like Cody don't make any sense for
Speaker 2: defending Roman's honor. Sometimes you need to just and I
Speaker 2: should probably take my own advice at times, but you
Speaker 2: need to just suspend your disbelief. Try to consciously do that. Now.
Speaker 2: Trying to consciously do it is not usually that effective
Speaker 2: because you're now consciously trying to take disbelief out, which
Speaker 2: disbelief should just happen without you forcing it. But sometimes
Speaker 2: trying to use logic will kill a storyline. I'm very
Speaker 2: guilty of that myself, criticizing stories that don't have logic.
Speaker 2: Non you're I think valid in your criticisms of the
Speaker 2: lack of logic here with Rowan raids, he hasn't changed.
Speaker 2: People did criticize him for how often he defended. In fact,
Speaker 2: that was the number one complaint. Roma's not here, he
Speaker 2: never defends. I was very vocal about that myself when
Speaker 2: they tried to talk about how many days he was
Speaker 2: champion and how it's really a farce because hey, you're
Speaker 2: just racking up days and you're not even here. Anyone
Speaker 2: could do that, and as the number one criticism, and
Speaker 2: it was a criticism that I was consistent with and
Speaker 2: many were as well. And I got tired of the
Speaker 2: well when he's here at special deodorizer, I got real
Speaker 2: tired of that, and sure everyone else all of a
Speaker 2: sudden cool with him, But isn't that also the genius
Speaker 2: that he hasn't changed and people are also on his side,
Speaker 2: that the crowd has supported him, yet he hasn't really
Speaker 2: changed outside of his music. He hasn't really changed at all,
Speaker 2: which is I actually appreciate that it's more consistent in storytelling,
Speaker 2: because if Roman were to suddenly go back to smiling
Speaker 2: and complimenting the crowd, it would have felt very disingenuous.
Speaker 2: It would have felt very heavy handed. But you know,
Speaker 2: you don't need to change a character when they start
Speaker 2: cheering the guy that's not even there, knowing who he is.
Speaker 2: Meaning when Solo did what he did back in April,
Speaker 2: and you saw where they were going to go with this,
Speaker 2: he starts his own bloodline, goes against Roman, assaults Paul Hayman.
Speaker 2: You know what's coming. Very quickly after WrestleMania, this happened,
Speaker 2: Yet people are chanting for Roman to come back, knowing
Speaker 2: who he is. Meaning I don't want Roman to change.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to come back and kick so those
Speaker 2: ass It's kind of a great place to be as
Speaker 2: a character that they don't really want you to change
Speaker 2: to cheer you, and I actually like that. So now
Speaker 2: I think that sometimes they can have kind of a
Speaker 2: critical mistake with the characters, where there suddenly they hate
Speaker 2: the crowd, and then they flip and there suddenly complimentary
Speaker 2: and telling the crown how they're going to be a
Speaker 2: fighting champion and all the rest that I can't stand,
Speaker 2: but all right. Side note, hopefully Ko beats Cody on Saturday,
Speaker 2: but that won't happen because the belt is impurgatory until
Speaker 2: the Rock decides. He feels like he's having a match,
Speaker 2: and that sucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Probably, I'll get to my predictions a little bit. The
Speaker 2: second side note, I've been watching past pay per views
Speaker 2: lately and I really really think that Sammy should have
Speaker 2: been the one to beat Roman. Cody just needed to
Speaker 2: finish his finish the boring story. I consistently say that,
Speaker 2: even though we saw it all play out, and at
Speaker 2: least Roman's non champion anymore, which is the important thing,
Speaker 2: I still believe, still believe in February of twenty three
Speaker 2: it should have been Sammy's ain in Montreal beating Roman reigns.
Speaker 2: I still believe that all these months later and now
Speaker 2: years almost later, Sammy was the right guy at the
Speaker 2: right time, with the perfect kind of crowd connection that
Speaker 2: you want, a very Daniel Bryan esque connection, meaning very genuine,
Speaker 2: very passionate. That's what you wanted when for someone to
Speaker 2: beat Roman. But that's not where they wanted to go
Speaker 2: because they foresaw a potential rock you know of WrestleMania showdown.
Speaker 2: They saw that, Hey it's February, WrestleMania is in two months.
Speaker 2: We're not going to have Roman drop the belt now,
Speaker 2: so I know why they didn't make that call. But
Speaker 2: I'm totally with you. Thanks AJ, Let's go to Dino,
Speaker 2: he says, what's happening. I'm so frustrated. The ticket prices
Speaker 2: for RAW in March twenty fourth here in Scotland Glasgow
Speaker 2: are the same as they were for Clash the Castle
Speaker 2: back in June. I'm not going to dive right in
Speaker 2: this time because I'm not paying the three hundred and
Speaker 2: forty four pounds or four hundred and thirty five dollars
Speaker 2: just for OK seats. The cheapest seats, by the way,
Speaker 2: are up in the back, which is about two hundred
Speaker 2: and nineteen dollars for those interested for the second row
Speaker 2: opposite the hardcam. It's nine hundred and ninety seven pounds,
Speaker 2: which is well over one thousand dollars. Yeah, not happening.
Speaker 2: I don't blame you. That's I mean, that's highway robbery.
Speaker 2: Feels like a cash grab. Now you know why they
Speaker 2: do this, right, you know how they're getting away with it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Couple things. Number One, expenses are higher for WWE to
Speaker 2: travel overseas, ticket prices, planes, hotels, customs, passports, everything, transportation,
Speaker 2: you name it. Expenses and for all that equipment to
Speaker 2: fly over a massive body of water versus just down
Speaker 2: the road is inherently more expensive for the company. So
Speaker 2: they're going to pass those expenses down onto the consumer
Speaker 2: like every other business does. That's not an evil strategy,
Speaker 2: that's that's just the way businesses operate. So that's part
Speaker 2: of it. The other part is they don't visit very often,
Speaker 2: and they know they can charge a little bit higher
Speaker 2: of a price because the fans will pay it since
Speaker 2: they're not there often. So you got a couple things
Speaker 2: working against you, and it is insane. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: that is insane. Sorry. I mean for here in the
Speaker 2: in the States, for the seats you're talking about, for
Speaker 2: the okay seats, I mean I would basically slice everything
Speaker 2: in half. I'd say it's well, not even that, maybe
Speaker 2: less than that for OK seats, maybe a lower level.
Speaker 2: Not even camera side you're looking at eighty eighty bucks,
Speaker 2: maybe eighty bucks. For camera side, you're looking at like
Speaker 2: one twenty one thirty. But if you want a good
Speaker 2: center camera, you're looking at one fifty. You want a
Speaker 2: ring side, you're looking at five hundred dollars. So it's about,
Speaker 2: you know, fifty percent lower to sixty percent, seventy percent
Speaker 2: lower here in the States for eight just a you know,
Speaker 2: a raw or a SmackDown. Now, of course that changes
Speaker 2: with hell shows or pay per views or Peel's. That's crazy,
Speaker 2: all right. I noticed on Wikipedia there will be a
Speaker 2: new theme song for Raw starting on January sixth, So
Speaker 2: it got me thinking, because, as you know, I care
Speaker 2: about all the little things. Does this mean a new
Speaker 2: set back to Pyro for every opening of Raw? Maybe
Speaker 2: back to the classic red ropes, back to three hours,
Speaker 2: back to Cole and McAfee on commentary boy, I hope.
Speaker 2: So except for three hours, I prefer the two hour format.
Speaker 2: I swear the new Raw theme by Travis Scott better
Speaker 2: be good. That used to be a thing for now.
Speaker 2: I know you pay attention to it, Dino, and that's awesome.
Speaker 2: I haven't really paid attention to the raw theme in
Speaker 2: quite a while. I mean, I remember all the classics
Speaker 2: back in the attitude era, back in the ruthless aggression era,
Speaker 2: but I haven't really paid too much, which of close
Speaker 2: attention to the raw themes lately just kind of is
Speaker 2: what it is. It's not something that I pay particular,
Speaker 2: you know, attention to, or have a vested interest in.
Speaker 2: But as far as the McAfee, yes, apparently back. Ifee
Speaker 2: will be back in January. I don't know about the
Speaker 2: classic ropes there. This is gonna be a big deal,
Speaker 2: a big show, massive show, a pl E quality show,
Speaker 2: stars studded everywhere, likely Rock, maybe even Austin. All hands
Speaker 2: on deck, forego the draft rules, which doesn't really make
Speaker 2: it much different than any other week, but it'll be
Speaker 2: especially agree just on January sixth. It's gonna be a big, big,
Speaker 2: big show. Stage will be interesting. Did they need to
Speaker 2: change it, I don't know. I mean, they purposely went
Speaker 2: for the setup they have now to accommodate more seating
Speaker 2: where Vince forewent the seating for presentation, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Is it just me that noticed Alicia Taylor trying to
Speaker 2: replicate Samantha Irvin, especially with Chelsea Green pronunciation. I honestly
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if she gets a promotion to raw
Speaker 2: in this stupid transfer to a coming up. I guess
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter, though, does it? Every now and then,
Speaker 2: even the ring announcer appearing on different shows, because as
Speaker 2: we all know, they don't care not to be a hypocrite.
Speaker 2: But I don't really care either. It's just that Alicia
Speaker 2: Taylor is the worst out of her Lilian and Mike Rum,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, can't disagree. I never liked Alisha Taylor,
Speaker 2: at least in the perspective of looking at like you said,
Speaker 2: the rest of the announcers. She was always in the
Speaker 2: shadow of Samantha Irvin, always because Samantha Irvin was exceptional,
Speaker 2: and they brought her in as a I mean, now,
Speaker 2: you know the three letters I'm thinking if you follow
Speaker 2: my other podcast, it's a three letter higher that I
Speaker 2: won't bring up here, but it's what it was. And
Speaker 2: they made a big deal about her being you know,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, for the first day I'm ever two
Speaker 2: black women female announcers, It's like, okay, but like, is
Speaker 2: she here on merit or because of the color of
Speaker 2: her skin? I mean, that's a good question to ask.
Speaker 2: I don't think she's particularly great because she's always now
Speaker 2: going to be compared to Samantha Irvin, and that's, whether
Speaker 2: fair or not, that's the reality. I have nothing personal
Speaker 2: against Alicia Taylor, but she's not Samantha Irvin, and that's
Speaker 2: her biggest sin. And I just I don't like her either.
Speaker 2: It's always like she is trying to be someone she's not.
Speaker 2: I don't even like her. Her voice particularly, I find
Speaker 2: it not very I don't think her voice fits what
Speaker 2: a ring announcer is, all right, Samantha Irvin perfect, Lili
Speaker 2: and Garcia right up there too, Mike Rome like him too.
Speaker 2: You gotta have a special kind of cadence in voice,
Speaker 2: and Alicia Taylor is not it, all right. So lastly,
Speaker 2: if it's Seth versus punkin rock versus Cody at WrestleMania,
Speaker 2: then perhaps it's Roman versus Solo at WrestleMania for the Ulafala.
Speaker 2: I hope not. But then, as we all have I've
Speaker 2: learned this year Triple H loves Triple Threats, so it
Speaker 2: could be Seth versus Punk versus Roman, or Rock versus
Speaker 2: Cody versus Roman, neither of which I want. By the way,
Speaker 2: the other options for Roman could be Drew or maybe
Speaker 2: John Cena. Either way, it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 2: it all plays out, so I would take those last
Speaker 2: two options out of the equation. I don't think Roman
Speaker 2: and McIntyre are going to be in the same universe yet.
Speaker 2: And by the way, my god side note before I forget,
Speaker 2: if you guys haven't listened to Drew McIntyre's interview that
Speaker 2: he did Unbusted Open, listen to it. There's some free
Speaker 2: promotion for Busted Open. But it is brilliant because I
Speaker 2: honestly don't know if it's a work or a shoot.
Speaker 2: Don't know Drew is entering a new level of believability
Speaker 2: or blurring the lines, shall I say? I don't know
Speaker 2: what to make of this Drew McIntire. It seems authentic,
Speaker 2: like he's giving a real interview, but it also could
Speaker 2: be viewed as part of his character as a heel.
Speaker 2: But he's not on WWE television, He's on a podcast.
Speaker 2: Go listen to it. It's it's not a drop dead awesome.
Speaker 2: It's not like a promo that you go, oh my god,
Speaker 2: best promo whatever. It's just Drew being Drew. But you
Speaker 2: don't know what he's doing right now, or who he's
Speaker 2: trying to be, or if he's serious or if this
Speaker 2: is I'm serious. I don't know what this is what
Speaker 2: Drew's doing to our minds, but it's awesome. Check it out.
Speaker 2: I would lean towards being a work, mostly work, but
Speaker 2: there's some real stuff in there. Okay, far as the
Speaker 2: rest of this goes, could be Rock and Cody at WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: But then now we're hearing all the Rock can't do
Speaker 2: this year's WrestleMania. How often do we effing hear that?
Speaker 2: Every single year we hear about the Rock. Oh, well
Speaker 2: he's not gonna be able to wrestle this year. Well
Speaker 2: he can't do that this year. Well you know, movie movies, movies, movies, movies, movies, movies,
Speaker 2: he has a schedule, movies, movies, movies. And then you know,
Speaker 2: obviously last year got all left up because the fans
Speaker 2: decided they wanted Cody instead of the Rock, and the
Speaker 2: Rock was in a tag team match. Only so after
Speaker 2: all this time, after all the Rocks were to return
Speaker 2: and hubbabaloo is that a word? I don't know, but
Speaker 2: he still hasn't had a one on one match. How
Speaker 2: it's incredible the Rock does all this training. Think about
Speaker 2: all the sacrifice the Rock had to do to train
Speaker 2: and it was just for a tag team match, and
Speaker 2: he still hasn't had a singles match. So I've been
Speaker 2: very steadfast. I don't want Rock and Cody at WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: If they want to do it at a rumble, I'm
Speaker 2: fine by it. You want to do it an elimination chamber, cool, Hell,
Speaker 2: you want to make it one of the biggest SmackDown
Speaker 2: main events of all time and promoted as such, I'm
Speaker 2: fine with that too. But Rock Cody at WrestleMania does
Speaker 2: not interest me. Not that I won't watch it, of
Speaker 2: course I will, but it doesn't interest me in the
Speaker 2: scheme of who could face who. Okay, I don't want
Speaker 2: I don't want Roman and Solo. And the reason is
Speaker 2: we've seen that over the last Yeah, we haven't got
Speaker 2: like the full one on one for the Ula Falla.
Speaker 2: But is the Ulafala really gonna be the hook for
Speaker 2: WrestleMania for Roman, given we've seen Roman versus solo since
Speaker 2: he returned at SummerSlam. I mean that's been his program.
Speaker 2: Are we really gonna stretch that all the way to WrestleMania?
Speaker 2: I don't think they can. I don't think the fans
Speaker 2: would be super interested at it. I mean, don't forget. Also,
Speaker 2: WrestleMania is like mid April, late April, like April twentieth
Speaker 2: or something this year, So that's a hell of a
Speaker 2: long time away to continue this program. So all right,
Speaker 2: as far as John Cena Roman, no, I think John
Speaker 2: Cena right now is gonna be Yeah, he could face Roman,
Speaker 2: but he already faced Roman a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: and it was for the championship. We've been there, We've
Speaker 2: done Roman and Sena and also who you turning heel
Speaker 2: in that? Neither that that would I think be a
Speaker 2: little bit of a bad move. Now, not that they
Speaker 2: couldn't have another before seen it calls it a career
Speaker 2: in December of twenty five, so a year from now,
Speaker 2: But I don't think there's really any value in those
Speaker 2: two hooking it up again, because you don't want to
Speaker 2: turn either one of them heel right now, oh so many,
Speaker 2: so many questions. Thanks, you know, all right, let's let's see.
Speaker 2: I know I've got somebody who's not a patron. But
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Speaker 2: read your emails, but we put those who are patrons
Speaker 2: to the front of the line. So, speaking of which,
Speaker 2: let's talk to Alex the French guy, and he says,
Speaker 2: I want to continue my discussion on SETH and seampunk
Speaker 2: beyond the notion of heal and face here the philosopher
Speaker 2: Frederick NEETs, Oh boy, that's about as good as you're
Speaker 2: gonna get. In his book Beyond Good and Evil says
Speaker 2: that beyond the moral compass of good and evil lies
Speaker 2: the concept of quote will to power. It represents a
Speaker 2: creative and dynamic that drives self growth, self overcoming, and transformation,
Speaker 2: pushing individuals to assert themselves and create new values. Why
Speaker 2: all of this? In my opinion, the WWE audience respects
Speaker 2: this about Punk, regardless of what he does, and if
Speaker 2: it's wrong or not healer face. People will choose Punk
Speaker 2: because he stands up for himself. The same can't be
Speaker 2: said for Seth. For the past ten years, Seth has
Speaker 2: been a staple corporate man that would do everything for
Speaker 2: the company, dressed up like a goof Okay, lose against anyone, Okay,
Speaker 2: defend the company at any cost. Okay. I think this
Speaker 2: is why people tend to cheer for Punk more because
Speaker 2: he seems to genuinely care for himself first, a little
Speaker 2: longer than usual, But I hope it's clear that could
Speaker 2: be the reason, Alex. You know, he seems more anti establishment,
Speaker 2: that he doesn't have any kind of loyalty to the company.
Speaker 2: He's a rebel, he's against the man. But let's take
Speaker 2: everything you said at face value for this for argument's sake,
Speaker 2: that that's why people are cheering for Punk, and they'll
Speaker 2: boo Seth because Punk is caring about himself first. Well,
Speaker 2: if that's true, then that's a little bit of a
Speaker 2: referendum on today's society that prioritizing yourself over the company
Speaker 2: you're working for is something that should be applauded. Now,
Speaker 2: that's not to say you're a slave of the company,
Speaker 2: that you'll do their bidding no matter the request, right
Speaker 2: illegal or not, of course not. Nobody is an actual
Speaker 2: slave to any company they work for. They may say
Speaker 2: it as an analogy, but in literal terms they're not. Okay,
Speaker 2: So putting that situation aside, putting yourself over the company
Speaker 2: is clearly a selfish act that will result in likely
Speaker 2: you being fired. It's a referendum on your character that
Speaker 2: you put yourself before the greater good of the company.
Speaker 2: It's not a great quality. Now you can look at
Speaker 2: it as rebellious or whatever you want. And going against
Speaker 2: the man, going against the machine is something that has
Speaker 2: traditionally been something the fans cheer. Look at Stone Cold
Speaker 2: Seeve Austin, for God's sakes, But he did it within
Speaker 2: the context of still pushing the company forward. Hell, he
Speaker 2: pushed it to heights the company had never seen in
Speaker 2: the late nineties. Right. So sure, you could look at
Speaker 2: Seth dressing up like a goof losing against anyone, defending
Speaker 2: the company in any cost as negatives because he'll do
Speaker 2: anything for the company, But easily those could be turned
Speaker 2: into positives as he's a company guy. He'll do whatever
Speaker 2: the company wants him to do within reason. Of course
Speaker 2: he's not going to go out there and do something
Speaker 2: insanely self destructive or illegal, as I said, of course not,
Speaker 2: but within the context of and the common goal of
Speaker 2: trying to further the company, which is what the star
Speaker 2: is actually because guess what, it still means more money
Speaker 2: in their pockets. Common goals can happen here. You can
Speaker 2: have disagreements about how you want to address I prefer
Speaker 2: not to lose to this person, but here's a better
Speaker 2: way to do it. That's all fine and well, but
Speaker 2: that's semantics. If you have a common goal as an
Speaker 2: employee and you want to still you want to actually
Speaker 2: help the company, because it's sure even if the actual
Speaker 2: underlying reason is to help yourself, If you're still helping
Speaker 2: the company, then who the hell cares? Because both get
Speaker 2: what they want. So I see what you're saying. But
Speaker 2: I think the fans gravitate towards Punk because he feels
Speaker 2: more authentic than Seth rawlins those at times. So for me,
Speaker 2: it's authenticity. It's not necessarily that Seth is just a
Speaker 2: company guy, and it seems to be that way. I mean,
Speaker 2: we don't know. Maybe Seth came up with the whole
Speaker 2: gimmick here. I don't know for sure does he want
Speaker 2: to dress up like that? Maybe that's just who he was,
Speaker 2: Maybe that's that was his Maybe that was his idea.
Speaker 2: Who knows. But I think again, you can have common
Speaker 2: goals and should have common goals, and I think authenticity
Speaker 2: for punk is the reason that people gravitate to him.
Speaker 2: And yeah, obviously he's got still more time in the
Speaker 2: businesses than Seth Rollins does, but Seth Rowlins is still
Speaker 2: a veteran by definition. Two interesting Alex. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go to another patron, Jeff, and he says, hello, All,
Speaker 2: Saturday night's main event is looking like it's going to
Speaker 2: be a great night. There's some positivity, Jeff.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: Nothing big is going to change, but I do feel
Speaker 2: like next Monday, Finn and JD will be losing their
Speaker 2: tag titles to the war Raiders. I also love what
Speaker 2: they're doing with the New Day. This is definitely the
Speaker 2: best I've seen them. Just wanted to stop in and
Speaker 2: say hi to all my fellow wrestling fanatics. Won't be
Speaker 2: in the Discord tonight, as I'll be out for my
Speaker 2: birthday with is today. Oh well, happy birthday two days ago.
Speaker 2: Jeff so happy birthday two days ago. Stay you see
Speaker 2: my friends. So let's go Mets, the new three hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety five dollar poor Mets. Yeah, well you got
Speaker 2: okay very quickly on the Mets. I know some people
Speaker 2: just hate it when I talk about anything other than
Speaker 2: the wrestling, but he brought it up. So the Mets, obviously,
Speaker 2: if you follow baseball or you don't, or you might
Speaker 2: have seen the headline, signed Juan Soto to a sixteen year,
Speaker 2: seven hundred and sixty five million dollar a year, about
Speaker 2: fifty one million dollars a year. So I think you
Speaker 2: meant six hundred or seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, so, I mean that's an all time
Speaker 2: record highest contract ever for any player ever in baseball.
Speaker 2: Wild outbid the Yankees. You guys got Steve Cohen, an
Speaker 2: owner sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars. You're good.
Speaker 2: This is really not that much money for Steve Cohen,
Speaker 2: who is sitting on a pile of cash. And they
Speaker 2: were able to outbid the Yankees for the first time.
Speaker 2: I mean, when was the last time the Yankees were
Speaker 2: outbid by an organization that is like the Yankees never
Speaker 2: so ye, you guys got a hell of a player.
Speaker 2: Hell of a player. All right, Let's now go to
Speaker 2: an email from who is this?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 2: This is Barb or Barbara and she says hello. I
Speaker 2: just wanted to say I love the podcast. I've learned
Speaker 2: so much about the show since listening. It's also so
Speaker 2: fun to getting everyone's point of view. This question is
Speaker 2: for Jeff. I would assume the Jeff that I just
Speaker 2: wrote read eat email from why is the Jury no
Speaker 2: longer introduced? At the Tribal Council? I like that in
Speaker 2: case I forgot names? Is there a reason why this stopped?
Speaker 2: I don't feel like it takes up much time. I
Speaker 2: know how precious it is with this show. I've been
Speaker 2: a fan since the very first season. Love love this show.
Speaker 2: All right, So why is the jury no longer introduced
Speaker 2: tribal Council? I don't know what you're talking about, Barb.
Speaker 2: So maybe that's why it's for Jeff. So this is
Speaker 2: for Jeff. My name is not Jeff. I'm Matt. But
Speaker 2: maybe I'm not sure. So if it is for Jeff, Barbie,
Speaker 2: first of all, thank you for the compliments. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what we're talking about though, so feel free please
Speaker 2: email me back and say, oh, you're talking about this,
Speaker 2: and then I'll feel stupid and you know, I can
Speaker 2: clarify it on the show. But well, thank you Barb
Speaker 2: for listening. And if you're learning from the show, cool,
Speaker 2: you know, the more you know, Q the NBC logo.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much. Now let's get to
Speaker 2: one or two. Wait a minute, no, no, no, I take
Speaker 2: that back. We got DJ. Sorry, DJ, your email was
Speaker 2: down below, So I apologize. Let's get to DJ, and
Speaker 2: then we'll get to the emails or the out of
Speaker 2: the voicemails, and then do my predictions for the Saturday
Speaker 2: night main event. All right, after listening to last week's
Speaker 2: mail bag, I want to preface this by saying that
Speaker 2: some of my grammatical errors were indeed due to me
Speaker 2: trying to keep my eyes open on a Thursday morning
Speaker 2: after coming home from the usual eight hour overnight shift.
Speaker 2: So I apologize, don't worry about DJ. Sometimes I just
Speaker 2: I can't read, and so I just chalk it up
Speaker 2: to either I am belterate right now, or maybe there
Speaker 2: were some typos. It's all good. Now let's get to
Speaker 2: my predictions for Saturday night's main event before I fall
Speaker 2: asleep again. All Right, we'll see how far we can go.
Speaker 2: Gunther versus Priest versus Ballor for the world title. Here's
Speaker 2: DJ's predictions, once again another triple threat. I roll my
Speaker 2: eyes while typing this. I predict gun Through retains okay.
Speaker 2: The Women's United States Championship Finals. I predict that Tiffany
Speaker 2: and Bailey will be in the finals, as they will
Speaker 2: most likely win their semi final matches on this Friday's
Speaker 2: episode of SmackDown. But I predict that Bailey wins the
Speaker 2: US title while some sort of outside distraction from either
Speaker 2: her with some outside distraction from either Naomi and or
Speaker 2: Naya Jacks. Sammy versus Drew McIntyre. Drew wins Live versus
Speaker 2: EO Sky for the women's world title. You're predicting that
Speaker 2: Live Morgan wins. Cody versus Ko undisputed WWE title or
Speaker 2: as many people are suspecting, the Winged the Winged Eagle
Speaker 2: Championship from the mid nineties. This is kind of tough
Speaker 2: for me to predict because Ko makes a reasonable and
Speaker 2: possible case to become world champion. But I'm gonna predict
Speaker 2: that Cody retains. It would be interesting though, if Ko wins,
Speaker 2: since he hasn't won a major title since twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: the same year that Cody requested his release from WWE. Anyway,
Speaker 2: DJ signing off enjoys Saturday Night's main events, have a
Speaker 2: great weekend, and he'll see everyone in the discord chat
Speaker 2: Saturday night, all right or Friday and Saturday alrighty well,
Speaker 2: I'll respond to those shortly, DJ, No, not some bad
Speaker 2: picks or you got you got some pretty good ones.
Speaker 2: I will just say that, but let's get two said
Speaker 2: email or rather voicemails. Let's do that right now, and
Speaker 2: then we'll dive into the bricktion. So let's go.
Speaker 5: This is DJ coolesmel Back added again on your mail
Speaker 5: back show records. You live on a Wednesday board, and
Speaker 5: you know what time it is. It's time to.
Speaker 3: See his name man, he peers.
Speaker 5: I believe in Joe Hendry.
Speaker 1: I believe in Joe Henry.
Speaker 5: Joe Hendry is his name. As I take it to
Speaker 5: my twenty second episode of The Judge Report, coming to
Speaker 5: life once again from Annes closed location, I must mention
Speaker 5: before we start the show a little bit of news
Speaker 5: in professional baseball. As a New York Mets fans. Shout
Speaker 5: out to all you Mets fans out there, because we
Speaker 5: got the word that one Soto is coming to the
Speaker 5: Mets for fifteen years for seven hundred and sixty.
Speaker 1: Five million dollars.
Speaker 5: That's right, seven hundred and sixty five million dollars, as
Speaker 5: he is now the highest paid baseball player in Major
Speaker 5: League Baseball, as he surpassed shawhan Otani's mills that he
Speaker 5: made last season. And any way, this is a time
Speaker 5: to rejoice for all you Mets fans. We are no
Speaker 5: longer playing second fiddle to the New York Yankees who
Speaker 5: are crying and complaining that One Soto ditched their ball
Speaker 5: club and is now joining the New York Mets. So
Speaker 5: shout out to Steve Cohen for making this happen, for
Speaker 5: Juan Soto to come to the New York Mets and
Speaker 5: hopefully we could win a World Series. We haven't won
Speaker 5: a World Series since nineteen eighty six, and of course
Speaker 5: our last World Series appearances was at twenty fifteen when
Speaker 5: we got embarrassed by the Kansas City the rules. But
Speaker 5: this is a day to rejoice for all you Mets fans.
Speaker 5: So to all you Yankee fans, keep crying, keep complaining,
Speaker 5: because this is our city, New York Mets. Let's go
Speaker 5: New York Mets. Let's go man Anyway. Anyway, let's get
Speaker 5: back to the Joe Hendry report. I just have to
Speaker 5: get that off my chest, as one Soto is going
Speaker 5: to be part of a new renaissance in New York
Speaker 5: baseball for the New York Bets. Anyway, let's guess you
Speaker 5: the Joe Hendryport episode twenty two. As last week on
Speaker 5: TNA Parusling, it has been announced that Joe Hendry will
Speaker 5: be included in a fatal four way which will be
Speaker 5: happening this coming Friday at ten day's final pay per
Speaker 5: view of the year called TNA Final Resolution Line from Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 5: As Joe Hendry will be included in a fatal four
Speaker 5: way and this is If he wins this fatal four way,
Speaker 5: he will be the new number one contender to face
Speaker 5: Nick Nevitt for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, which will
Speaker 5: be taking place on January nineteenth of twenty twenty five
Speaker 5: live from Texas at this paper you call TNA Genesis.
Speaker 5: So with that being said, this has to be the
Speaker 5: win for Joe Hendry. Look, he has had a tremendous year.
Speaker 5: Give Joe Hendry the victory in this fatal four way
Speaker 5: to top off a great year of twenty twenty four
Speaker 5: before he goes into twenty twenty five as he this
Speaker 5: time will go up against Nicky but again, hopefully in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five, this will be the year that he
Speaker 5: finally becomes a TNA World Champion. Now, let's also talk
Speaker 5: about what's going on outside of TNA par Wrestlink as
Speaker 5: Joe Hendry of course makes his appearances. This past Saturday
Speaker 5: at Rocket Pro Wrestling and Jolie, Illinois, Joe Hendry made
Speaker 5: an appearance. Then this past Sunday live from Memphis, Tennessee,
Speaker 5: Joe Hendry made his Memphis Pro Wrestling debut in a
Speaker 5: Rumble event. I also saw that Joe Hendry is on
Speaker 5: the cover of p WI Pro Wrestling Illustrator February twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five. Magazine cover is none other than Joe Hendry
Speaker 5: as he graces the cover talking about his story, his
Speaker 5: tremendous year of twenty twenty four and how you must
Speaker 5: continue to believe and say his name the road to
Speaker 5: redemption for where he was back in twenty and twenty
Speaker 5: twenty two to where he is right now and his future.
Speaker 5: Of course he will end up in the WWE. But
Speaker 5: you got to get that digital copy of Joe Hendry.
Speaker 5: It's the February twenty twenty five cover. It's already out
Speaker 5: right now on pwi's website. I will be purchasing it
Speaker 5: at well, and most simporly, folks, always remember to say
Speaker 5: his name, believe, remember the words that Joe Hendry says anytime,
Speaker 5: any place, at any show, and most so portly shoutouts
Speaker 5: all you Mets fans once again, we got war soon
Speaker 5: the best baseball player in the league today. But most
Speaker 5: so portly, always remember to do.
Speaker 2: This song science well to here.
Speaker 5: Substeges once again, this is your guy. DJ Couzmo, have
Speaker 5: a blessed week, be kind to one of those stays
Speaker 5: in my friends.
Speaker 2: Believe and peace, all right, DJ, Yeah the Mats man. Hey, listen,
Speaker 2: people keep bringing it up and get a respond. I
Speaker 2: am a Yankee fan unapologetically. No, I mean I'm not
Speaker 2: sitting here crying about crying about salt. Does it suck? Yeah,
Speaker 2: because again, for the first time, you have an organization
Speaker 2: that can outbid the Mighty Yankees. When's the last time
Speaker 2: that happened. Like I said, this is something that is
Speaker 2: foreign to the Yankee fans that just feel that they
Speaker 2: have an unlimited amount of money that their particular team
Speaker 2: will shell out. Dollars don't matter. They'll just get and
Speaker 2: purchase whatever they want and whoever they want. So true,
Speaker 2: Steve Cohen has deeper pockets than the Yankees do, which
Speaker 2: is unfathomable to most of us. But here's the thing
Speaker 2: that I would warn all Matts fans here. You have
Speaker 2: more potential now, but you didn't buy guarantees right like
Speaker 2: any team. This doesn't just apply to the Mets, but
Speaker 2: since we're talking about them, and this goes for any
Speaker 2: sports team every year, all the time. Every year you
Speaker 2: pick up a player on the free agent market, you
Speaker 2: pick somebody up from college or from the minor leagues,
Speaker 2: or you make a trade, all you're purchasing in reality
Speaker 2: is potential. That's it. The other side of this is
Speaker 2: now you have to deliver. You have to deliver to
Speaker 2: the fans what they expect, and what they expect now
Speaker 2: from the Mets specifically, is a World Series. This may
Speaker 2: be the first time that the Mets are in a
Speaker 2: position of World Series or bust from the fans perspective,
Speaker 2: because they were two wins away this year from going
Speaker 2: to the World Series two, which would have been a
Speaker 2: Subway Series which I actually wanted Verse instead of La. Now,
Speaker 2: the Yankees might have still lost. They played like crap
Speaker 2: in the World Series and were outclassed by younger, more
Speaker 2: athletic talent on the Dodgers, and credit to them, but
Speaker 2: it's World Series are bust now for the Mets. I
Speaker 2: don't think the organization has felt this kind of pressure
Speaker 2: or had this kind of expectation since Hell, maybe your
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty six championship. But again, you bought the Mets,
Speaker 2: the owner, Steve Cohen bought, bought higher potential, but no guarantees.
Speaker 2: There's no such thing. Guarantees don't exist in sports. So yeah,
Speaker 2: but hey, one way or the other, I'll stop talking
Speaker 2: about baseball for everybody, like, oh my god, I just
Speaker 2: want to listen to wrestling. Last thing I'll say on
Speaker 2: this It should be a hell of a baseball season
Speaker 2: in New York. Hell of a baseball season the Yankees, maybe,
Speaker 2: I think in the I think the Eggs will probably
Speaker 2: take the wild car position. I actually if they don't,
Speaker 2: I mean, well, they just picked up Max Freed. But
Speaker 2: I think that they'll be battling for first place. Whoever
Speaker 2: wins is going to win by like two to three games.
Speaker 2: They'll be battling with balt More, and I think that
Speaker 2: it's going to be a hell of a close dogfight
Speaker 2: all season and it'll go come down to the last
Speaker 2: week just like it did was the last year year before.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I'm done with the baseball talk Joe Hendry.
Speaker 2: Guys PWI. Now PWI doesn't have the same cachet swag
Speaker 2: as it used to when it comes to oh who's
Speaker 2: on the cover? Because magazines have gone by the wayside.
Speaker 2: But like you said, the digital copy, yes, but I
Speaker 2: don't know how many people now still read PWI as
Speaker 2: far as like looking at it and going, oh my god,
Speaker 2: who's on the cover? That said it doesn't I think
Speaker 2: take away from what it means Joe Hendry being on
Speaker 2: that on the cover that magazine is a big deal.
Speaker 2: It's a big deal. And I continue to say I'm
Speaker 2: excited for his future, yes, ww bound, but what he's
Speaker 2: doing in the meantime and the impact he's making laying
Speaker 2: the Foundation, and it's a great time for him to
Speaker 2: discover who and what he is and all that kind
Speaker 2: of thing. So thank you Jeff for keeping us update.
Speaker 2: Let's get to our next voicemail.
Speaker 3: Hey, Matt, it's Brad in Florida calling you from W
Speaker 3: two degrees on a Tuesday night. The best saint in
Speaker 3: the country. And I say that as a former New Yorker.
Speaker 3: But listen, man, I have a bone to pick with
Speaker 3: WWE on one topic just tonight, the two night pls.
Speaker 3: I hear they are thinking about a two night Royal Rumble.
Speaker 3: Obviously they're doing a two night WrestleMania of course as always,
Speaker 3: but a two night Summer Slam coming up in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. You know, there's something to be said for
Speaker 3: leaving people wanting more. They're also, you know, obviously going
Speaker 3: to a three hour raw or back to a three
Speaker 3: hour raw, back to a three hour SmackDown. You're throwing
Speaker 3: in Saturday Night's main events here and there. Now, I mean,
Speaker 3: at what point does WWE say, hey, like, maybe we
Speaker 3: should leave our fans wanting a little bit more. Because
Speaker 3: I'm at the point now where wrestling is start is
Speaker 3: going to start, especially with two night pls. It's gonna
Speaker 3: start monopolizing my entire life. And I can't not have
Speaker 3: a Saturday night and a Sunday night. I'm married, I
Speaker 3: have a wife who needs things and wants to go
Speaker 3: places and do things with friends and family and whatever.
Speaker 3: And it's really hard to say, hey, honey, SummerSlam is on,
Speaker 3: so we're we're doing nothing Saturday and Sunday night. It's
Speaker 3: a very hard thing to do, you know. So to me, like,
Speaker 3: I think it's a big mistake. There's a lot to
Speaker 3: be said for you know, scarce scarcity in certain instances.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying they're gonna go to scarce programming
Speaker 3: where it's not a lot at all, but like when
Speaker 3: you're talking about three hours three hours and then another
Speaker 3: three hours three hours during the week, that's twelve hours
Speaker 3: of wrestling in a week, and if you're quitting NXT,
Speaker 3: it's fifth, it's fourteen. I mean, it is a tremendous commitment.
Speaker 3: It's becoming a tremendous commitment, much more than NFL, much
Speaker 3: more than baseball, much more than college football, much more
Speaker 3: than basketball, much more than a hockey much more than anything.
Speaker 3: So I think they should really rethink this. I think
Speaker 3: it's a terrible idea to do two nights of royal rumble,
Speaker 3: two nights of hell and a cell or bad blood
Speaker 3: or whatever like it's just ridiculous. So signing off. Thanks
Speaker 3: a lot man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, please, Brad. I need I need a weather report
Speaker 2: every single week here from now until April. It'll make
Speaker 2: me feel really good about myself.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: The only the only thing I can I can retort
Speaker 2: on that is that I'll be in Cancun for two
Speaker 2: weeks or not two weeks. I'll be off for two
Speaker 2: weeks from work, but I'll be in Cancun for four
Speaker 2: nights in February, and it might affect the podcast. I
Speaker 2: might have some fill ins by the way, I'll have
Speaker 2: more details about that, but that'll be the only time
Speaker 2: that I have warmer weather than you is in February
Speaker 2: when I'm in Cancun. So we'll see. And last year
Speaker 2: I did go to Cancun too. It was a disaster
Speaker 2: of a trip, not that anyone asked or cared, but
Speaker 2: it was a horrible experience last time, and I was
Speaker 2: I've been before that too and it was great experience,
Speaker 2: but the travel there was horrible. Freezing planes, layovers, canceled flights.
Speaker 2: It was like twelve hours later than we wanted to
Speaker 2: get in. It was only two nights or three nights
Speaker 2: that were staying there. I ended up cutting my finger
Speaker 2: the moment we got into the hotel room. The medical
Speaker 2: team had to commit and wrap my finger up. I
Speaker 2: was wearing like this wrapped up finger the whole time
Speaker 2: I was there. It was just a total disaster. But
Speaker 2: oddly I still didn't have fun. But anyway, that is
Speaker 2: the only time I'll be able to give you a
Speaker 2: little bit of a haha. He he look at my weather.
Speaker 2: That's it. And I will be sure to do that
Speaker 2: when I'm if I can record a show there, maybe
Speaker 2: I will. Anyway, WWE has they have the I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's a if it is a flaw or
Speaker 2: a feature or a feature or a bug, whatever analogy
Speaker 2: you want to use, because they have a fan base
Speaker 2: that there's a significant portion that can't get enough. There's
Speaker 2: a significant portion that just has more and more and more.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that's the majority, but I think
Speaker 2: that's some raw being three hours will never get used to.
Speaker 2: Two hours is the sweet spot for a wrestling show.
Speaker 2: I don't want three. But here's the other thing beyond
Speaker 2: fans that do want three or can't get enough or
Speaker 2: can get enough, like you and I are, I'm on
Speaker 2: the same boat man. I got kids, I got a
Speaker 2: wife too, I got life, I got other things I
Speaker 2: want to watch. It's a hell of a commitment. But
Speaker 2: to w w WE, it's not just about well, there
Speaker 2: is a lot of content. I think they also look
Speaker 2: at it as hey, more content, more AD revenue. Right,
Speaker 2: the more you put out in this little show I
Speaker 2: have in the little corner of the of the Internet
Speaker 2: that this show is. I know that we have. The
Speaker 2: more content we have, the more ads I can put
Speaker 2: in the show, the more revenue I make. It's it's
Speaker 2: not a secret. So I think they're looking at it
Speaker 2: through that perspective too. Of Hey, I make more content,
Speaker 2: that means I can sell more AD space, which means
Speaker 2: our company makes more money. And if the downside is
Speaker 2: a bunch of fans that say, oh my god, too
Speaker 2: much content overload, we'll take that. We'll take that trade
Speaker 2: off for more money. And they will every time and
Speaker 2: twice on Sunday, right, because they are money first.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: We want to pretend just that. You know, the WWE
Speaker 2: are here to serve our needs and our preferences. But
Speaker 2: they are here and exist first and foremost to make money.
Speaker 2: I know that a lot of people don't want to
Speaker 2: remember that or pretend that that's not the case, that
Speaker 2: they're here to serve and protect. Right, they're not. Just
Speaker 2: like Juan Soto going to the Mets, the Yankee fans
Speaker 2: wanted to believe he wanted to be a Yankee for life,
Speaker 2: and Monument Park and the tradition and the history nonsense.
Speaker 2: All about the money, baby, It's all about the money.
Speaker 2: And if the fans are happy, then that's a secondary bonus.
Speaker 2: But that's certainly not our priority at all times. The
Speaker 2: priority at all times is to satisfy Wall Street make
Speaker 2: the most money we can. And if people want to
Speaker 2: demonize them for that, so be it. They'll take the
Speaker 2: criticism and laugh all the way to the bank. That's
Speaker 2: what they'll do. And their stock price reflects that the
Speaker 2: WWE has never been more profitable, right and so again.
Speaker 2: But if there's a trade off, and that trade off
Speaker 2: is an overwhelming saturation of content that, as you said,
Speaker 2: also sucks up an entire weekend. Now to be fair.
Speaker 2: It's what now it's three weekends a year that we're
Speaker 2: gonna have to deal with dual night pl We're also
Speaker 2: now no longer in the era of either watch it
Speaker 2: or you can't. You can't watch it right, either watch
Speaker 2: it live or you can't, or gotta throw the VCR
Speaker 2: tape in, right for those of you that know what
Speaker 2: a VHS or VHS tape is anyway, VCR is where
Speaker 2: you put the VHS tape. But you get my drift right.
Speaker 2: Everything's on demand, So unless you are you need to
Speaker 2: know what happened at that moment WW, you would say, well,
Speaker 2: it's on demand. If you have Peacock, you can watch
Speaker 2: it at your convenience at any time. So there is
Speaker 2: that too, But I totally agree with you, just just generally,
Speaker 2: if I could waive my magic wand that doesn't exist,
Speaker 2: I would. I would make less content. I would because
Speaker 2: guess what that also does from a fans perspective, again
Speaker 2: not from Wall Street or money, but from a fans perspective, which,
Speaker 2: as we're seeing right now, is in contrast with the
Speaker 2: goals of w's making money strategy. Rightfully, so is that
Speaker 2: less content will lead to higher quality content At least
Speaker 2: in theory because there's less content tend to produce, so
Speaker 2: you can focus at a higher quality on the actual
Speaker 2: content that you do have, which is less right or
Speaker 2: fewer hours. So there is that too. But anyway, good stuff, Brad.
Speaker 2: I hope all as well, and thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Let's get to one more voicemail and then my predictions,
Speaker 2: which will go pretty quick. But I have some thoughts
Speaker 2: that I haven't shared yet, So one more and see
Speaker 2: see where who it is here?
Speaker 6: I think it's Alex, So let's go ask French guys here,
Speaker 6: your current European champion.
Speaker 7: I wanted to make an actor Dark episode about this subject,
Speaker 7: I'm about to tell.
Speaker 6: You, but I don't have any inspiration enough inspiration to
Speaker 6: make a whole episode of The After Dark for it,
Speaker 6: so I've just put it here. The inspiration comes from
Speaker 6: the recent storylines between seth Rawlins and cmpunk, and I
Speaker 6: noticed that in WW recently recent memory. You can pitpoint
Speaker 6: every storyline in the WW right now, all of them.
Speaker 6: You can make the case for the heel being right
Speaker 6: and the seth Rowlins the cmpunk case. You can make
Speaker 6: the case for cmpunk being right, or you can make
Speaker 6: the case for step seth Rawlins two saying goes with
Speaker 6: the New Day, you can make the case Biggie.
Speaker 7: Leaving his partners not doing anything for them even though
Speaker 7: he's been injured. Same for for Bigie, you can make
Speaker 7: the case for him saying that of course he had
Speaker 7: to leave with the family and everything else.
Speaker 6: Same with the Bloodline story all of of course, it's presented.
Speaker 3: For Solo being the heal of this situation.
Speaker 6: But let's remind everybody that's Roman Reigns was the one.
Speaker 8: To name literally Solo Sicoa as the next tribal chief.
Speaker 8: He did this, and solosica is doing nothing but the
Speaker 8: same methods Roman Reigns did in the previous years, in
Speaker 8: the previous in the town Ray, he's just doing maybe
Speaker 8: some more violent stuff and afficted some members in the Bloodline.
Speaker 6: But that's that's maybe the methods of Roman Rain.
Speaker 4: I can name all.
Speaker 7: Of those storylines generacent memory that are birds between good
Speaker 7: and evil.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of I don't know if it's cool
Speaker 4: or not, it's just something that I noticed. The same
Speaker 4: goes with Drumakin the big points. I say, pit points
Speaker 4: a lot to do today, but he is the big
Speaker 4: point of this phenomenon. That's it for me this week.
Speaker 2: Guys Alex, first of all, thank you. Second, you bring
Speaker 2: up a very interesting point that I think needs to
Speaker 2: be emphasized. Heels are often associated with lying, cheating, and stealing,
Speaker 2: and not in the endearing way that Eddie Garrow was
Speaker 2: able to manipulate them in the traditional very unlikable, low
Speaker 2: quality type of attributes that somebody would have right Lying, cheating,
Speaker 2: and stealing generally are viewed as bad things again, unless
Speaker 2: your name is Eddie Guerrero, but for the rest of
Speaker 2: us here on earth, those are generally who perceived as
Speaker 2: bad things. However, heels in pro wrestling don't always need
Speaker 2: to adhere to them in an absolute vacuum right like.
Speaker 2: It's not in all or nothing and what you're talking
Speaker 2: about here with the baby faces telling or really the
Speaker 2: heels telling the truth. It sometimes can be even more
Speaker 2: frustrating when the heels are telling you something that's true
Speaker 2: that you don't like, because you can't dispute it without
Speaker 2: having to lie yourself about the facts that the heel
Speaker 2: is giving you. Right now, Solo did take the reins
Speaker 2: no pun intended without Roman saying it's time to do so.
Speaker 2: Roman didn't retire or say hey, if I lose, you're it.
Speaker 2: Solo just took it upon himself. That's the difference. But
Speaker 2: with Mcatyre, who's the perfect, perfect guy to symbolize this
Speaker 2: concept of telling the truth can be something heels do.
Speaker 2: That's who you look towards. And then Sampunk two and
Speaker 2: South Rollins two. I know they're not heels, but you'd
Speaker 2: argue that Seth may be turning heel. Here you have
Speaker 2: Drumcatarre who's a perfect iteration of this, giving us exactly
Speaker 2: what he believes is true and what in some cases
Speaker 2: is objectively true. Right, And I think that, as I
Speaker 2: said at the beginning of the show, drum macatire has
Speaker 2: gone above and beyond now. And I will actually be
Speaker 2: doing a video on this shortly. I may put it
Speaker 2: on YouTube as I start to dip my toe into
Speaker 2: YouTube a little bit more, not just on audio, but video,
Speaker 2: So stay tuned for more on that. However, I like
Speaker 2: this right, it's not all about lying. And also on
Speaker 2: that same vein heels don't always have to cheat to win.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the same premise, you don't have to
Speaker 2: cheat to win. Sometimes you're just better, but you're a
Speaker 2: bad guy or a bad girl, right. I don't mean
Speaker 2: that in a kind of provocative way. I mean that
Speaker 2: in the literal sounds like you're just a bad person
Speaker 2: as a character. I should say, like your character is
Speaker 2: an evil person. It's an evil as an evil trait.
Speaker 2: It's very unlikable. Yet they're just simply better that can exist.
Speaker 2: They're not mutually exclusive. You don't always have to be
Speaker 2: in a position to cheat to have to win a match.
Speaker 2: You can just be a bad person and still win
Speaker 2: a match. That actually, to me, would be more imposing
Speaker 2: and more effective as a heel because you legitimize yourself
Speaker 2: as a true threat, Like, hey, this guy is a
Speaker 2: bad dude, awful, awful person, but you know what, like
Speaker 2: he can beat you out right with without having to
Speaker 2: cheat to win. And I think sometimes that's an underutilized
Speaker 2: concept that WWE needs to implement more, not all the time,
Speaker 2: but more often, that sometimes heels can tell the truth
Speaker 2: and can straight out beat baby faces but also be
Speaker 2: really bad people. I think that's something that needs to
Speaker 2: be explored a little bit more so. All Right, Well,
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Speaker 2: to the actual card here for Saturday night's main event.
Speaker 2: My predictions, my thoughts, let's get into it. So let's
Speaker 2: start with Let's start with Gunther's World Heavyweight Championship. I
Speaker 2: fully expect Gunser to come out of this with the belt.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's going to be any major change here,
Speaker 2: any major shift. I think Gunther retains. He should move
Speaker 2: on here from Priest and Balor honestly, because Baler and
Speaker 2: Priest have unfinished business. This is not a one on one.
Speaker 2: I think that Baler and Priest are going to have
Speaker 2: a final finale after this match. Gunther will likely pin
Speaker 2: Finn Balor. I think Finn Balord takes the pinfall here,
Speaker 2: and that's okay, But Finn Baler and Priest have unfinished
Speaker 2: business that needs to be resolved to post this match.
Speaker 2: But this one's going to be fun and I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to this one a lot. Even though Gunther should
Speaker 2: not lose this, there's no need to fool around.
Speaker 3: With that, all right.
Speaker 2: EO Sky versus Live Morgan for the Women's World Championship. Boy,
Speaker 2: you know, while Live is the favorite, I wouldn't say
Speaker 2: it's one hundred percent. I would still say Live is
Speaker 2: about an eighty percent favorite here, you know, because EO
Speaker 2: Sky was champion what just before WrestleMania or I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania she lost to Bailey. So it's been what
Speaker 2: however many months since April, not time for her to
Speaker 2: recapture a championship. Obviously that was a different championship on
Speaker 2: the smack downside. But EO Sky has as of late
Speaker 2: gotten some pretty good support from the crowd. Yes, she's
Speaker 2: supposedly Live Morgan, who has been one of the breakout
Speaker 2: stars of twenty twenty four, having her best year ever
Speaker 2: in professional wrestling, But EO Sky is also on the
Speaker 2: rise and showing you how damn good she is in
Speaker 2: the ring, breaking away from Damage Control. The group I
Speaker 2: think is I think is dissolved, hopefully never want to
Speaker 2: hear in that group again. But if it's not, Eo
Speaker 2: does feel like she's separated and her and Live should
Speaker 2: have a hell of a match. I expect fully for
Speaker 2: Raquel Rodriguez to be involved here screwing Eo Sky out
Speaker 2: of the match. But I'd say it's eighty twenty that
Speaker 2: Live wins. Vin Owens versus Cody Rhodes for the WWE
Speaker 2: Championship or the undispeed w W Championship look Winged Eagle
Speaker 2: Championship or not. I just don't see Cody Roads losing.
Speaker 2: Kevin Owens continues, It's been the staple of his career
Speaker 2: to be in a position to be a fun contender,
Speaker 2: but never a true threat to win the championship. That
Speaker 2: has has been that's been his mo for how many
Speaker 2: years now for the top belt. Now he was under
Speaker 2: speeded champion for a while, right if you remember back
Speaker 2: in August of GOT eighteen seventeen, something like that where
Speaker 2: he handed remember triple H pedigreed Rollins and he handed
Speaker 2: the championship then Spitta Championship to Kevin Owens. But outside
Speaker 2: of that, man, I mean, Kevin Owens has never been
Speaker 2: able to be in a position to be a true threat.
Speaker 2: It's I think part of its timing, and part of
Speaker 2: it is the company doesn't ever doesn't really view him
Speaker 2: as the face of the company. They've reviewed Cody Rhods
Speaker 2: as that. And again, I'll continue to say until the
Speaker 2: Rock comes back and challenges Cody, there is no chance
Speaker 2: Cody loses. I'll continue to say that. Now, they could
Speaker 2: shock the world and have Kevin win. Hell, I'd actually
Speaker 2: really enjoy that. Kevin's on a fun run right now.
Speaker 2: He's doing interviews in rental cars and being a funny
Speaker 2: I guess, not a purposefully funny heel. He's just kind
Speaker 2: of a comedic guy. He's got great comedic timing, but
Speaker 2: he's generally a guy that tells the truth. He's kind
Speaker 2: of on a Drew Mcatarre level, but he's easily unlikable.
Speaker 2: At the same time, he's also likable if he wants
Speaker 2: to be fun match, I expect him to try to
Speaker 2: cheat to win. I expect Cody Rhoades to probably squeak
Speaker 2: this one out and get a victory unless they want
Speaker 2: to shock the world, and I would not be opposed
Speaker 2: to that, but I just don't see it happening. Looking forward,
Speaker 2: you know, looking into the big picture, we're in WrestleMania
Speaker 2: season now. I don't foresee them going into WrestleMania thinking
Speaker 2: Kevin Owens in the main event versus whoever. Just They've
Speaker 2: never put Kevin in that position or even hinted that
Speaker 2: they want two. So once again, Kevin's the bride'smaid, not
Speaker 2: the bride. That's unfortunate here what I believe is going
Speaker 2: to happen, all right, So the other one is Sammy's
Speaker 2: ain versus Drew McIntyre. Drew has to win this. He
Speaker 2: must win this. He must win this match because Drew
Speaker 2: right now is going deeper and darker into a spiral
Speaker 2: than anybody thought we could. And we thought we had
Speaker 2: a fun version of him before. If what I saw
Speaker 2: on the Busted Open podcast is any indication we are
Speaker 2: in for a delectable treat of an even darker, more sinister,
Speaker 2: more selfish character of Drew McIntyre, I can't wait. If
Speaker 2: this is any indication, So Drew has to win this.
Speaker 2: Sammy doesn't need this. This is about Drew and putting
Speaker 2: Drew over. I don't care if he cheats to win,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. This is Drew's time, Drew's time again. This
Speaker 2: is This isn't the biggest match in the history of
Speaker 2: the company by any means, but it is. It'll signify
Speaker 2: where they feel Drew might be going in the coming months.
Speaker 2: So all right, do I expect any big returns? No,
Speaker 2: this is a C level event. This is not a
Speaker 2: return event, although maybe that's the reason why they should
Speaker 2: have a return. I don't foresee that. I don't foresee
Speaker 2: the Rock coming back. I don't you know, I don't
Speaker 2: see Roman Reigns on this card. You know, I don't
Speaker 2: see Soela CoA on this card. So it's kind of
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, fun wrestling match, uh, wrestling heavy event,
Speaker 2: And that's the expectation I think we should have going
Speaker 2: into it, and anything beyond that it'll just be gravy.
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Speaker 2: e of this. I guess I want to call it
Speaker 2: that for Saturday night's main event with all my review
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