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Speaker 4: But you know it is uh.
Speaker 2: Has been a very eventful weekend for Raw and SmackDown
Speaker 2: this past weekend and also particularly in the independent scene.
Speaker 4: At least I got myself back into the independent scene.
Speaker 2: We'll talk a little bit about that later, but first
Speaker 2: I do want to address and talk about SmackDown and
Speaker 2: Raw over this past weekend and into the Friday and
Speaker 2: Monday rather which technically is the weekend, not the weekend.
Speaker 2: But anyway, well, let's start off with the elimination chamber
Speaker 2: qualifying matches. I will say, first of all, good choices
Speaker 2: right now to to begin your elimination chamber qualifications on SmackDown,
Speaker 2: we had the women's Elimination Chamber qualification match and it
Speaker 2: was Tiffany Stratton who came out as the victor in
Speaker 2: that and as the first qualifier, and at the end
Speaker 2: of the night, Randy Orton is uh is the one
Speaker 2: that earned the spot in the Elimination Chamber. Second night
Speaker 2: on Raw, it was Rhea Ripley winning her match and
Speaker 2: one l a night. Yeah, yeah, who did qualify for
Speaker 2: the Elimination Chamber in a really really good two to
Speaker 2: three weeks that he's had so far, at least the
Speaker 2: best two to three weeks in recent memory for the megastar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, oh yeah, Okay, didn't mean to just
Speaker 3: yad out, but that's LA night for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, ever since he came back what was it at
Speaker 3: the Royal Rumble, Right, that's when he came back. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm just baiting you into the as Now. Ever, since
Speaker 3: he came back at the Royal Rumble, I was concerned
Speaker 3: that it would just feel like same old, same old.
Speaker 3: And you know, at this point, part of me is
Speaker 3: kind of skeptical that WW Creative is going to give
Speaker 3: him anything to chew one, just because he's had so
Speaker 3: many starts and stops. I mean, some of that is
Speaker 3: kind of due to injury, but some of it is
Speaker 3: also I think they the WW just has.
Speaker 4: Like they've they've had limited success with his pushes.
Speaker 3: But I will say, after him being back for a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, now I'm optimistic. Plus I mean, I
Speaker 3: will say also, you know, I would be I would
Speaker 3: be remiss to say, Eric, oh my gosh, I'll try again.
Speaker 3: I would be remiss to not mention the injury to
Speaker 3: bron Breaker. That it was unfortunately broadcast right at the
Speaker 3: beginning of raw. Uh we found out that during training, Uh,
Speaker 3: bron Breaker injured himself and he has I think already
Speaker 3: had the surgery for uh hiaidd hernia. I think it
Speaker 3: hiated hernia. And I hear that that is several months
Speaker 3: of recovery.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: The word is indefinite absence for now.
Speaker 3: I now doubt that that bron Breaker will be part
Speaker 3: of WrestleMania at all. But this opens up the opportunity
Speaker 3: for people. You know, when somebody goes down, somebody's got
Speaker 3: to pick up the baton. And uh, you know, unfortunate
Speaker 3: for Brown Breaker, but you know, we wish him well
Speaker 3: and everything.
Speaker 2: Well, we know who's not, well, we know who's not
Speaker 2: going to be at the elimination chamber, at least as
Speaker 2: an illegal competitor. That would be Austin theory because La
Speaker 2: Knight defeated him.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, at least four now right, you never
Speaker 3: know how wrestling can shoehorn him in or anything. But
Speaker 3: I also can see Logan Paul being the one to
Speaker 3: qualify for the elimination Chamber because first of all, he's
Speaker 3: just he will take those chances, and he's probably going
Speaker 3: to want to take those chances with his body in
Speaker 3: the elimination chamber first of all, And so he's and
Speaker 3: also that he's also got a I mean, he's a
Speaker 3: heat magnet. It doesn't matter if he's in wrestling or
Speaker 3: if he's like, you know, commenting one word on what
Speaker 3: he thought about the super.
Speaker 4: Bowl or so we'll hoppot show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a heat magnet and people are going to
Speaker 2: want to boo the hell out of him no matter where,
Speaker 2: uh where, where you are on uh you know, where
Speaker 2: you priceally feel about him, you're always going to want
Speaker 2: to do the guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I mean, circling back to La A Knight, I
Speaker 3: think that this gives L. A. Knight an opportunity. Uh
Speaker 3: of course.
Speaker 4: Uh. I don't know what if WW had something.
Speaker 3: Planned for him before this unfortunate injury to bron Breaker,
Speaker 3: But I think this does open a little bit of
Speaker 3: a door for L. A. Knight to do something special
Speaker 3: mm hmm.
Speaker 2: And that's and and as you said, it's it's been
Speaker 2: a long time. It's it's it's it's due time for
Speaker 2: uh for L. A. Knight to be able to do
Speaker 2: something special here because uh, we've seen L. A. Knight
Speaker 2: over the past I guess three four years since coming
Speaker 2: out of the pandemic and uh uh and uh uh
Speaker 2: what was the what was the probo that really got
Speaker 2: him on the map outside that like once he left
Speaker 2: the Maximum Male Models and Maxine Dupre Uh he had
Speaker 2: I forgot about that. Yeah, uh he's he did say
Speaker 2: something about him having a map and shows you you know,
Speaker 2: uh where where where look at Paul can stick all
Speaker 2: those bottles of prime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my gosh. I mean they had a good feud.
Speaker 3: I think for that a little bit.
Speaker 2: And that's the reason why I see Logan Paul uh
Speaker 2: entering the elimination chamber to continue that storyline with l
Speaker 2: a Knight. The only thing is that the Vision right
Speaker 2: now has been well unfortunately decimated by injuries. I mean
Speaker 2: you had you had Seth and now you have Braun again.
Speaker 2: That's going down. Uh well, bron Breaker rather uh and
Speaker 2: then you and uh and Austin Theory lost the match
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 4: I mean it's and that's.
Speaker 3: Been another start and stop because that guy had a
Speaker 3: pretty impressive return being revealed as well. I guess these
Speaker 3: days one of many masked men in black hoodies.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that that was kind of like when
Speaker 3: when that was revealed, Austin Theory was under that hood,
Speaker 3: and to me it was a kind of uh okay,
Speaker 3: right and then but now a couple of weeks after,
Speaker 3: or a few weeks after, maybe over a month since
Speaker 3: Austin Theory was revealed to be under that hood, have you.
Speaker 4: Seen anything much since then? For him? Not a whole lot.
Speaker 2: Oh, not a whole lot, because because that's the thing
Speaker 2: is that at the time, bron Breaker was the one
Speaker 2: that people wanted to push. Yeah, ron Breaker is the
Speaker 2: one that has the most clout within the Vision. If
Speaker 2: whose name is not Logan Paul and you could Steven
Speaker 2: say that bron Breaker even had more of momentum than
Speaker 2: Logan Paul because not a big because yes, he's supposed
Speaker 2: to be the heel, but he's actually being cheered as
Speaker 2: you know, while he's been his heel persona.
Speaker 4: And of course you know that happens.
Speaker 2: When that happens in wrestling, especially when it happens in WWE,
Speaker 2: you're going to shoot right to the top.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 3: Now, this of course begs the question who is the
Speaker 3: here we go again masked man under the black hoodie
Speaker 3: who attacked brow Breaker at the start of the Royal
Speaker 3: Rumble and who then.
Speaker 4: Attacked Who was it? This week? It was the Vision?
Speaker 4: He attacked the Vision, So yeah, a mask man.
Speaker 3: This time it came out with gloves on raw So
Speaker 3: it kind of like I think during the Royal Rumble,
Speaker 3: whoever that mask man was bare hands, had tattoos. So
Speaker 3: there's like there's a lot of different speculation that's going
Speaker 3: around out there. I think there they added gloves to
Speaker 3: kind of add the options of who it could be
Speaker 3: revealed in the end because I think that it almost
Speaker 3: doesn't matter who it is in the lead up because
Speaker 3: they're probably trying to still put together the pieces of
Speaker 3: the creative and and I'm not really sure what to
Speaker 3: think about this, Like, do you have any theories on
Speaker 3: the masked Man thing?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, first of all, the theory would be
Speaker 2: with the with the gloves that they didn't want to
Speaker 2: leave fingerprints that you know, forensics could pick up on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, unless Leslie Nielsen comes back from the dead
Speaker 3: and investigates just like he did Undertake Ever Undertaker, I
Speaker 3: don't know if we're gonna get in the investigation.
Speaker 2: Do you know what He's be great if if Liam
Speaker 2: Neeson could actually be Beggar could actually get it and
Speaker 2: start start investigating all this. Oh gosh, it would be
Speaker 2: such great continuity with both WWE's universe and the Naked
Speaker 2: Gun universe.
Speaker 3: I gotta say, I know, I love how Potpourri this
Speaker 3: night is going already.
Speaker 4: H I think that I think that I was.
Speaker 3: I was kind of entertained by Leslie Nielsen investigating like
Speaker 3: the Undertaker versus Undertaker mystery and is this the real Undertaker?
Speaker 4: We haven't seen him in months? Where has he been?
Speaker 3: Like? You know, there was a bit of nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: four gold there as it was as I was moving
Speaker 3: to Canada, so so that that was that was pretty
Speaker 3: entertaining to me at the time, even though I've still
Speaker 3: never watched any of the Naked gun movies.
Speaker 4: I was entertained by you have to watch it.
Speaker 2: It's it's the it's the I mean, you know Leslie
Speaker 2: Nielsen's dead humor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again I was entertained by him in the
Speaker 4: w w F Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: And so just think about that, just over the span
Speaker 2: of three movies, him being not him, him him being
Speaker 2: like the most competent dim wit that you could ever find.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. Well yeah, I don't know how he
Speaker 4: got here.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, the mask, the mask man, Uh that
Speaker 3: that attacked the vision?
Speaker 2: Yes, well that's the other thing too, is that I
Speaker 2: think I heard Cole and Graves when they were calling
Speaker 2: the rumble that that comment about a comment, how about
Speaker 2: that that he was that that bron was the bron
Speaker 2: breaker was taken out with a stomp.
Speaker 3: Yes, And that is the key element, that's that they're
Speaker 3: putting on as part of this mystery, which was kind
Speaker 3: of similar to how I think Austin theory came back
Speaker 3: in with a stomp too.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't remember. It's it's a little con
Speaker 4: aloded for me right now.
Speaker 3: But the obvious answer would be Seth as he returns
Speaker 3: from injury at some point. But I think they wouldn't
Speaker 3: make it that obvious if it was Seth hmm.
Speaker 4: I like.
Speaker 3: So this is why there's rampant speculation out there as
Speaker 3: to who it could be, all sorts of different answers.
Speaker 3: I think a fun one would be if the rumors
Speaker 3: of Chris Jericho's returned to the WWE are true. I
Speaker 3: don't know what the motivation would be, but I'm sure
Speaker 3: Jericho could talk us into the house.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he could better than and it would be
Speaker 4: a better moment than it was me. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, there's no higher power, but I mean I would
Speaker 3: I like it to be Jericho, sure, but after the
Speaker 3: excitement of seeing an icon come back, you know, if
Speaker 3: if they don't have a great thing like explanation for
Speaker 3: it real quick, then I'd be like, Okay, another him,
Speaker 3: just for the moment WWE thing.
Speaker 4: Mmm, you know, I just hope they have something planned
Speaker 4: that's like nice. You know what?
Speaker 2: You know now that you reminded me about Jericho coming back,
Speaker 2: that also possible. Yeah, possibly possibly coming back. That reminds
Speaker 2: me of Jericho's return back in what the two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven, two thousand and eight era and of the
Speaker 2: you know, in the middle of the ruthless aggression with
Speaker 2: the parallelogram tron that they had and the whole save
Speaker 2: me thing and that went on. I would have loved
Speaker 2: I would have loved back the day. And for those
Speaker 2: wrestling fans who are listening right now who may remember
Speaker 2: Jericho's initial debut in nineteen ninety nine, he talked about
Speaker 2: how he talked, He talked, He cut a promo with
Speaker 2: the Rock of the Ring and talked about how how
Speaker 2: Jericho is here to you know, to you know, to
Speaker 2: bring back wrestling because this WWE, w W f RAW
Speaker 2: has been failing and I'm the one that's.
Speaker 4: Gonna bring that that that's gonna save it and bring
Speaker 4: it back basically, right.
Speaker 2: I wanted to hear him do that exact same promo,
Speaker 2: but with Randy Orton in the ring during that time,
Speaker 2: that time of his return. Uh. And I can't quote
Speaker 2: it all right now because it is obviously it has
Speaker 2: been a long time since that promo is around, and
Speaker 2: but you can find it on YouTube and everything.
Speaker 4: So but to be able to echo that.
Speaker 2: And maybe maybe, just maybe if Jericho does come back,
Speaker 2: maybe he can call. Maybe maybe he can grab different
Speaker 2: bits and pieces of different debut re debut promos that
Speaker 2: he's had, so you could say about like, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm the man of the millennium, I'm here to save
Speaker 2: w W E E raw.
Speaker 4: Uh you're just you just made the list and yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3: That sounds interesting, but a little convoluted. Free Let you
Speaker 3: know how convoluted my brain is. Yes, but we have
Speaker 3: the audience at WB is of course not just you.
Speaker 3: It is a bunch of children, so they have two
Speaker 3: answers to their audience. You are not the sole audience,
Speaker 3: So I think they would make it more simple than
Speaker 3: that for sure. Uh So, yeah, do I want it
Speaker 3: to be Jericho in the mask in the masked hoodie thing? Yes,
Speaker 3: just because I can't think of much else to resolve this,
Speaker 3: can you?
Speaker 4: Not really right now?
Speaker 2: But I'm actually interested to see what will happen next.
Speaker 4: But what we are going to be discussing next? Hold on,
Speaker 4: hold on.
Speaker 3: They did eliminate some possibilities on Raw. Okay, because there
Speaker 3: was some doubt over who it could be. In a
Speaker 3: lot of like a long list of suspects, it could
Speaker 3: have been a member of the Vision themselves, because you
Speaker 3: know which sellins yes, yeah, or one of the underlings
Speaker 3: to derail Brown Breaker and kind of like flip turn
Speaker 3: and like join Seth when he comes back. But then
Speaker 3: now it can't be Logan Paul because Logan was the
Speaker 3: one chasing the mask Man.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: I think Braun may have been chasing into as well,
Speaker 3: so I don't think it can be them. I think
Speaker 3: Theory was the one that the Mask Man screwed over
Speaker 3: last Monday. On Raw this past Monday, so it can't
Speaker 3: be Theory anymore, which I kind of thought it could
Speaker 3: have been. Some people were even thinking Adam Pierce because
Speaker 3: he has that beef with Brown Breaker, But on Raw
Speaker 3: they clearly showed that as Logan Paul and whoever else
Speaker 3: from the Vision followed him to chase the Mask Man,
Speaker 3: Adam Pierce was on the other side, like hashing it
Speaker 3: out with Hayman and down the aisle, So it can
Speaker 3: no longer be Adam Pierce as well. So they eliminated
Speaker 3: quite a few possibilities on Raw.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm glad that on one and I'm
Speaker 2: glad that it's not Adam Pierce because as much as
Speaker 2: I think he can still go and get himself into
Speaker 2: the ring, I think he is actually in a good
Speaker 2: position right now and right now and the of course,
Speaker 2: the less the least amount of strain on his body
Speaker 2: in the wrestling business that he can do at the moment.
Speaker 4: So yeah, he's good where he is. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, heck if I was, if I was Adam Pierce
Speaker 2: and Nick Alldus, I wouldn't give up those GM positions either.
Speaker 2: You're getting w w E pay for not having to
Speaker 2: take bumps amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I think I think all this really wants to
Speaker 3: suit up though in terms of wrestling gear.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I mean I I think he's also good where he is.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, I mean I mean he's I mean he
Speaker 2: and Mickey have you know, he and Mickey are making
Speaker 2: a good life for themselves with with this wrestling business.
Speaker 4: So that's right.
Speaker 2: And uh, before we go to break, I do want
Speaker 2: to say that we are, you know, as we are
Speaker 2: on our way to WrestleMania and Elimination Chamber. Uh. There
Speaker 2: is one promo on Friday Night SmackDown from February to
Speaker 2: sixth that I think that we need to talk about,
Speaker 2: and it's uh, we did mention that we were anticipating
Speaker 2: that Drew McIntyre was going to respond on behalf of
Speaker 2: his own WWE title reign and also the quality of
Speaker 2: ww SmackDown.
Speaker 4: And we'll talk.
Speaker 2: About that and analyze that a little bit between the
Speaker 2: two of us when we come back from the break
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Speaker 2: believe in Joe Hendry, and Joe Hendry is the WWE
Speaker 2: NXT champion.
Speaker 3: Couldn't have into a nicer guy mm hmm and wait
Speaker 3: for him to match up against people to make some
Speaker 3: more entertaining songs.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmmmmm hmm.
Speaker 2: And well, you know, actually, something that I realized the
Speaker 2: other day is that you know, you know how he
Speaker 2: bought those two Fender Redondo California series guitars uh back
Speaker 2: back last year, one red one and one black one.
Speaker 2: I just realized by looking back at what well Elijah
Speaker 2: Slash Elias did during his WWE run, that was the
Speaker 2: exactly The black one was the exact guitar that he
Speaker 2: used on w w t V.
Speaker 4: Very nice, don't you feel special?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 4: Exactly. The red guitar I called it my Beautiful Lady.
Speaker 2: But the black guitar, I'm gonna I'm gonna call it
Speaker 2: Elias and I'm gonna walk with it.
Speaker 3: There you go different places. Because w WE stands for
Speaker 3: World Wrestling Entertainment. Yay, World Wrestling Entertainment.
Speaker 4: Yay damn right?
Speaker 2: Speaking of World Wrestling entertainment, Yeah, one little before we
Speaker 2: get into the the nitty gritty of the of the
Speaker 2: w WE Championship. Just one little fluffys that you wanted
Speaker 2: to point out, and it shows this well about like
Speaker 2: the whole idea of Vince McMahon not liking wrestling, not
Speaker 2: liking the world the word wrestling, even though that's exactly
Speaker 2: what you know he he purchased from his father back
Speaker 2: of the day.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah so uh.
Speaker 2: An interview with a podcast called Wrestling Epicenter, w w
Speaker 2: E creative director uh former creative director of hon Air Promotions,
Speaker 2: David Sahati commented on the WWF name change to w
Speaker 2: w E because of the legal speak with the World
Speaker 2: Wildlife Fund And Uh, I know, man, I'm just lett
Speaker 2: It's like whenever people are climbing to see in Tower
Speaker 2: for the w w F, and I'm thinking, well, like,
Speaker 2: there's a part of me that wants to see you know,
Speaker 2: Chris Jericho and the Rock and Drew McIntyre and all
Speaker 2: those guys climbing up the stairs of the cea In Tower.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm not over it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't blame you.
Speaker 2: I don't blame you, but this this might even aggravate
Speaker 2: it more because David Sahati uh at what I said.
Speaker 2: At one point when he and Vince and the rest
Speaker 2: of the team were making the logo change, he says, quote,
Speaker 2: Vince wanted to just wanted it just to be called
Speaker 2: w E World Entertainment, and I'm just like, it doesn't
Speaker 2: work w w E. That they said it again, Vince
Speaker 2: wanted it just called we like World Entertainment, and.
Speaker 4: I'm just like, it doesn't kind of work.
Speaker 2: We That conversation lasted for about a month before we
Speaker 2: settled a w w E.
Speaker 4: I kid you not, it made no sense.
Speaker 2: It did not, And so it's just it's like, imagine
Speaker 2: a world I mean, like it was. It's already weird
Speaker 2: thinking that, you know, we we're living in a world
Speaker 2: where the name WWE has lasted longer than ww F
Speaker 2: World Wrestling Federation, and thinking of all those years ago, if.
Speaker 4: It was w E, that's just that just w E.
Speaker 6: Like what yeah, I mean, it's too I get what
Speaker 6: Vince was trying to do in a sense where he's
Speaker 6: trying not to just pigeonhole it into.
Speaker 3: Just wrestling, like just wrestling, yes, right, But the thing
Speaker 3: is it's also the core feature of the commodity yes
Speaker 3: it is, so you shouldn't fully deny it. And that's
Speaker 3: where I think Vince went too far and in a
Speaker 3: whole lot of years of sort of trying to go
Speaker 3: away from that too much. So I mean, through whatever
Speaker 3: like scandalous things happened to get Vince out of there,
Speaker 3: it was almost kind of fortuitous for the company that's
Speaker 3: his baby, because you know it. I think WWE post
Speaker 3: Vince has course corrected very well on some things, including
Speaker 3: sort of proportionally like how much you honor the wrestling
Speaker 3: side the core of your product.
Speaker 2: And I think my favorite moment of that course correction
Speaker 2: was when Cody won the championship at wrestlming Ia forty,
Speaker 2: which we were there for obviously, and Michael Cole going
Speaker 2: through the history between him and Cody and watching Cody
Speaker 2: come up in the business and knowing him as a
Speaker 2: little child and seeing where Cody has what Cody has
Speaker 2: become at wrestlman Ua forty, and he capped it off
Speaker 2: with the words, damn it, I love professional wrestling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yeap, and and who knows what we're going
Speaker 3: to see come from Michael Cole's statement. Also when gun
Speaker 3: Through retired John Cena right right, and and Michael Cole's
Speaker 3: call was, what is it professional wrestling has just what
Speaker 3: is it? Has just not destroyed, but has has just
Speaker 3: conquered sports entertainment or something like that when when he
Speaker 3: when he put John Cena out.
Speaker 4: That's the call that that Cole made.
Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting that they went that way, because,
Speaker 3: I mean, they're never going to not be sports entertainment.
Speaker 3: In fact, WWE's the best at at, you know, balancing
Speaker 3: the elements of the pro wrestling physical storytelling side and
Speaker 3: the other types of entertainment that they mix in with
Speaker 3: it exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: And it's and that term has actually leaked out into
Speaker 2: the rest of culture, whether people understand it or not,
Speaker 2: because figureciating that's sports, that's entertainment, ice dancing, that's sports entertainment.
Speaker 4: NFL has become that too in many respects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly, especially with the commercials, the halftime shows,
Speaker 2: even though you know, the halftime shows are kind of
Speaker 2: questionable in uh in quality over the past couple of years,
Speaker 2: depending on who you talk to, and uh uh and
Speaker 2: and and and and just even like even in even
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball, there was a time that I
Speaker 2: mean just ten years ago, the benches were clear just
Speaker 2: because you flipped the bat during the d a home run. Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: eleven years ago, but ten ten years in a couple
Speaker 2: of months, yes, but h but now it's but but
Speaker 2: now Laddy Guerrero hits a Grand Slam home run against
Speaker 2: the Yankees in Game two of the a L D. Yes,
Speaker 2: he flips the back back to the uh, back to
Speaker 2: the dugout, and nobody, nobody on the New York Yankees
Speaker 2: has you know, you know, uh will you know, have
Speaker 2: sort of umbrage to it. And I think that's and
Speaker 2: and and that's because they all understand that this is
Speaker 2: sports entertainment, and this is it's it's it has to
Speaker 2: be entertainment just as much as it is a sport, which.
Speaker 4: Is something that love of me haden.
Speaker 2: Vince McMahon knew, Vince mcmannon understood before anybody else did.
Speaker 2: And uh uh And speaking of uh, you know, entertainment,
Speaker 2: sports entertainment within WWE, uh the fact that this response
Speaker 2: from w B SmackDown from Drew McIntyre talking about the
Speaker 2: about the the jabs that cm punk and Roman Reins
Speaker 2: took against SmackDown and the w W Championship last Friday.
Speaker 2: Uh and Drew himself exactly, And I think that is
Speaker 2: I I think that's a I think what they did
Speaker 2: has been a great mix of both of the sports
Speaker 2: entertainment sides.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it's been a good back and forth,
Speaker 3: a little bit of tit for tat promo wise, and
Speaker 3: yet they kept the actual WWE Championship scene intriguing and
Speaker 3: kinetic and dynamic because Drew tried to start SmackDown to
Speaker 3: give that impassioned promo, but who cut him off during
Speaker 3: the entrance. Cody Rhodes beat him up. They had to
Speaker 3: get pulled apart. Drew had to walk to the back
Speaker 3: to kind of lick his wounds, and then we see
Speaker 3: him down the line and the show. He tried again
Speaker 3: and he almost got to speak some words, but who
Speaker 3: then attacked him a Jacob too, and that I found
Speaker 3: that really cool because they kept that story alive while
Speaker 3: also then allowing Drew to come out a third time
Speaker 3: and finally getting his words out.
Speaker 4: And they were some good words too.
Speaker 2: And I've got the quotes here actually said Drew did
Speaker 2: say I came here tonight, so it's someday to say
Speaker 2: and damn it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 2: First of all, Cody Rols and Jacob Fatu should be
Speaker 2: banned from the Elimination Chamber qualifying matches for attacking me
Speaker 2: like cowards. So I call bs on that. Sammy's aying
Speaker 2: you believed he was gonna win the Big One. So
Speaker 2: many people believe Sammy was gonna win the Big One.
Speaker 2: But I crushed him. It was broken dreams for him.
Speaker 2: And that's what's gonna happen to anyone that gets in
Speaker 2: the ring with Drew McIntyre. And let's talk about Monday Night,
Speaker 2: Cmpunk and Roman Reigns. I heard what you had to say, guys,
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, I was disappointed. Yeah, the OTC and
Speaker 2: CMPUNK for such big superstars came across to me is
Speaker 2: very very insecure. I mean they would take a dig
Speaker 2: at me and the other one would defend me by
Speaker 2: just telling the truth, shutting down their argument and talking
Speaker 2: about me doesn't upset me.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't care talk about me all day long. What
Speaker 2: frustrated me was trying to make this brand at this
Speaker 2: title feels second rate for the SmackDown Roster. If you
Speaker 2: didn't see that as a declaration of war. If you
Speaker 2: don't wrestle every match that it's your last match, I'll
Speaker 2: show you the door. As for this title, what did
Speaker 2: you say, Punk? The man makes the title, The tittle
Speaker 2: makes the man. This man has been through hell to
Speaker 2: get this title. This man never quit when times got
Speaker 2: tough or went part time. I would never go part time.
Speaker 2: I was there when the world shut down eight banquets
Speaker 2: of crap and earned this title. However, the men that
Speaker 2: made this title, the Sam Martinos, the Hogans, the Brett Hart's,
Speaker 2: the Shawn Michaels, the not Dusty Rhodes. They'll dig it
Speaker 2: at the Roses, the Triple h Is, the Stone Culls,
Speaker 2: the Rocks. Real men, if you try to lie to
Speaker 2: yourself and say that this isn't that eight the number
Speaker 2: one title, I would look you straight in the eye
Speaker 2: and call you a bold faced liar and Roman, I
Speaker 2: get it, bro, I know why you picked Punk. On
Speaker 2: one end you have a two hundred and eighty pounds
Speaker 2: Scottish war machine, and the other hand you have that
Speaker 2: tattoo sociopath fragile Phil nice so Good, who always one
Speaker 2: fall away from his career being over with out there Samoan.
Speaker 4: Army, I'd kill you. You made the best choice for you.
Speaker 2: So of good luck at WrestleMania when you two are
Speaker 2: there out there acting like a couple of little.
Speaker 4: Boys and Aura farming me.
Speaker 2: I got entire rosters claiming over each other to get
Speaker 2: in that elimination chamber for the right to face the
Speaker 2: number one champion, the undisputed champion, and the real best
Speaker 2: in the world in the minlevit of WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: Man, that's a good mic drop right now. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: so good.
Speaker 3: And while you look up in a supplemental way, Cody
Speaker 3: Raheem Rhodes is clap back at the start of the night,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna, I guess while you look that up, I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna comment on Drew as well, because, uh man,
Speaker 3: it was so good.
Speaker 4: I mean it was so.
Speaker 3: Like well executed, like you know, two failed attempts and
Speaker 3: then finally third times a charm and he gets the
Speaker 3: right shots out while maintaining his storylines that are ongoing
Speaker 3: on SmackDown, and.
Speaker 4: It continues his whole stick.
Speaker 3: He's so consistent as a truth teller, you know, and
Speaker 3: wherever you fall on that the brutal truth that Drew
Speaker 3: shares like it continues here. I almost feel like he
Speaker 3: kinda he kind of swung his character in the face
Speaker 3: direction on Friday, just with his words, like it's it's
Speaker 3: like he's still a bad ass who's uh, for lack
Speaker 3: of a better term, a prick, but he's in that
Speaker 3: moment like to me, he felt like a good guy,
Speaker 3: Like he felt like I want to rally behind Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and that and and with the with the
Speaker 2: And that's the thing when you have, uh, somebody who
Speaker 2: can cut a promo that well, yes, of course here
Speaker 2: we've seen uh instances of a turn and a turn
Speaker 2: and a turn in the same in a single promo
Speaker 2: Chris Jericho versus Shawn Michaels back in what two thousand
Speaker 2: and three, Sure, during the highlight reel, But uh, when
Speaker 2: you have somebody like Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 4: And that's the thing too, is that I also personally.
Speaker 2: Didn't like the fact that they did cut down the
Speaker 2: w W Championship for the World heavy and Roman himself
Speaker 2: like helped make it all the more prestigious with that,
Speaker 2: with the year's long rule that.
Speaker 4: He had, so it was very puzzling to me. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: And it's and and so when you think about like,
Speaker 2: you know, yes, the World Heavyweight Championship, Yes, the Big
Speaker 2: Gold Belt.
Speaker 4: People know what the Big Gold Belt is, and.
Speaker 2: Yes it's the The belt itself is supposed to echo
Speaker 2: I guess in a sense the feel of the Big
Speaker 2: Gold the classic crumbline Big Gold that and some design
Speaker 2: elements were based on historical things too. Yes, yes, But
Speaker 2: at the same time, this is still a different championship
Speaker 2: lineage altogether.
Speaker 4: At least I was going to have that too.
Speaker 3: That the WWE Championship is where all the history has
Speaker 3: been amalgamated into, right this World Heavyweight Championship that Punk
Speaker 3: is holding and is trying to like, you know, prop
Speaker 3: up as the better one. Of course right now it
Speaker 3: may be perceptibly better because of the two people feuding
Speaker 3: over it.
Speaker 4: That's another topico discussion.
Speaker 3: But that World Heavyweight Championship has zero lineage, Yeah it does.
Speaker 3: It was made up because Roman couldn't work monthly mmmmmmmmmmmm exactly.
Speaker 2: And when you have Drew McIntyre finally winning a championship,
Speaker 2: the World Heavyweight Championship in front of the in front
Speaker 2: of the seventy thousand at WrestleMania, but then losing it
Speaker 2: five minutes later, you know, I mean, that's one thing.
Speaker 4: That that's one thing, and.
Speaker 2: I would think that he may have had a hunger
Speaker 2: to get that belt back, but now that he's got
Speaker 2: the ww championship on around his waist, that is that
Speaker 2: is the championship that has the lineage, that has the
Speaker 2: history of as he said, the Sam Martinos, the Rocks,
Speaker 2: the not Dusty Roads, the uh, the Heartbreak.
Speaker 4: Kids, exactly, all of that stuff. That's that It makes.
Speaker 2: It gives me something to boo both seam Punk and
Speaker 2: Roman reigns, for which I didn't think that that would
Speaker 2: be possible between those two guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's not very wise to go
Speaker 3: that direction. I mean, I love the back and forth, right,
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, we're bringing out some real passion
Speaker 3: now and we're actually sounding really passionate about it too.
Speaker 3: But I think it's weird framing for the World Heavyweight
Speaker 3: title that's supposed to be like the main event of
Speaker 3: night two. I mean, to me, it's still gonna be
Speaker 3: the main event of Night two because those two names
Speaker 3: are just huge and it's like a dream match. Yes,
Speaker 3: Like at this point it is you know, like years,
Speaker 3: like ten years after they first like came in, you know,
Speaker 3: or when the shield first came in because of Cmpunk apparently.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, it just to me like they
Speaker 3: already have enough heat between Punk and Rains. I don't
Speaker 3: know why they had to take that dig. But now
Speaker 3: maybe even accidentally, maybe the ww Championship is getting more
Speaker 3: shine again now even without.
Speaker 4: Those two names. But because of those two names, that's
Speaker 4: a weird thing.
Speaker 2: Well, here is another thing that could actually work in
Speaker 2: the favor of all four men who will be competing
Speaker 2: in the there's respective championship matches that and five men
Speaker 2: five could be could be, But that's something that I
Speaker 2: want to actually speculate on when we come back from
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Speaker 2: to be talking about the WWE Undisputed Championship uh and
Speaker 2: uh who is involved with the championship matches?
Speaker 4: Uh on the way to WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: But first before we get into what I think could happen, uh,
Speaker 2: in order to determine who is going to go up
Speaker 2: again and go for Night one, Night two to main
Speaker 2: event WrestleMania, which championship match will do? That, I will
Speaker 2: say something that I love the fact that you know
Speaker 2: that uh, that WW is making some fandom cannon as
Speaker 2: well too, so Cody Rhodes jumping on jumping Drew Mcatyre
Speaker 2: during his entrance McIntyre rentre running through the backstage area,
Speaker 2: road stormed into the ring and grabbed the microphone and
Speaker 2: he's and uh he and he cut his promo and
Speaker 2: Drew and he said, as the biggest WWE fan.
Speaker 4: I was excited.
Speaker 2: But when, but why, when this amazing moment has concluded?
Speaker 2: Is my name the first name that comes out of
Speaker 2: your mouth. It's simple. It's because people know what WrestleMania
Speaker 2: means to me and what I mean to WrestleMania. And besides,
Speaker 2: I heard it was going to be a you know
Speaker 2: what measuring contest. Well, they're both glad. I'm not in
Speaker 2: it because I didn't get the name, the nickname Rahim
Speaker 2: for no reason, in essence canonizing the Cody Rahim Roads
Speaker 2: meme that that that has been going on social media.
Speaker 3: I love the Nation of Domination meme that they like
Speaker 3: kind of photoshop Cody into like where he's part of
Speaker 3: the nation, so his skin's a little darker.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then there's another meme that goes out that like
Speaker 3: when Cody enters, it's like, you know, like imagine when
Speaker 3: he takes off his robe and you see this and
Speaker 3: it's like one of those Samoan tribal tattoos on like
Speaker 3: one shoulder.
Speaker 4: It's just it's meme gold.
Speaker 3: And the fact that Cody was so impassioned that he
Speaker 3: had to include that in the promo was was just
Speaker 3: fire like it was so fun and and you know
Speaker 3: what also, and I think Bully Ray said this on
Speaker 3: their radio show, but it reminded him or maybe no, no,
Speaker 3: sorry Mark Henry, sorry Mark Henry. When when Cody went
Speaker 3: off like that on Friday, it reminded Mark Henry of
Speaker 3: his dad, Dusty, because Dusty would look he had these
Speaker 3: like fiery passionate promos where and then apparently and not
Speaker 3: man as an insult or anything. Apparently, according to Mark Henry,
Speaker 3: he kind of heard a little bit more lisp coming
Speaker 3: out of Cody, like when he was all shouty and passionate.
Speaker 4: It's kind of funny how that that turns out.
Speaker 3: I'd have to listen back to it again, but it's
Speaker 3: just interesting that the kind of things that came out.
Speaker 3: It was a good Cody promo too, one of my
Speaker 3: favorites from him ever.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounded aggressive, not plotting, not too clear shay
Speaker 3: like he's been so like safe and very like uh
Speaker 3: like like a clean politician, Like I feel like that's
Speaker 3: the way he's been delivering his promos. But that was
Speaker 3: just fire on Friday, and I loved that side of it.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm exactly.
Speaker 2: And I think that's what taking the title off of
Speaker 2: Cody Rhodes has been able to open him up to
Speaker 2: because you know, he has to be, you know, the
Speaker 2: flag bearer of the company. Uh when he's uh he
Speaker 2: already is a flag bear of the company, but he is,
Speaker 2: you know, with the championship, he is effectually the guy
Speaker 2: that that represents the entire uh, the entire w w
Speaker 2: E to the rest of the world because it because yes,
Speaker 2: the w w E Championship, especially with the big w
Speaker 2: W logo on on on the plate, uh, is more
Speaker 2: recognizable then you know, the big gold, the the the
Speaker 2: the current w w E Big Gold with you know,
Speaker 2: the smaller w W logo on it. But uh, next
Speaker 2: this coming Friday on SmackDown, it's going to be a
Speaker 2: trip threat elimination Chamber qualifier match between Cody Raheem Rhoades.
Speaker 4: Uh uh.
Speaker 2: Uh what uh jaj caught to and Sammy's ay and
Speaker 2: uh and and here's the here's where I speculate now,
Speaker 2: jumping upon that, jumping off of that, rather, here's where
Speaker 2: I speculate could happen. Whoever uh the Jrew McIntyre's uh
Speaker 2: WrestleMania opponent may be. They are gonna be as equally
Speaker 2: offended by c them Punk and UH and Roman Reigns
Speaker 2: cutting down the SmackDown brand and cutting down the ww
Speaker 2: title that they are, that they're all uh clawing at
Speaker 2: the heels in order to get a chance to wrestle
Speaker 2: for at WrestleMania. And because they'll take it personally, they'll
Speaker 2: take it personally. All my life, I've been wanting to
Speaker 2: hold the w W Championship and you guys just cut
Speaker 2: it down like that on your show.
Speaker 3: No nah, right, And so I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Who knows, right?
Speaker 2: But uh, but but whoever that whoever the number one
Speaker 2: contender will be, it will it will start to boil over,
Speaker 2: uh in a kind of in a more semi organic
Speaker 2: way than it would for a Survivor series. And it
Speaker 2: would boil boil over so much that Nick all This
Speaker 2: and Adam Pierce would have to.
Speaker 4: Get together and get those get the contenders together and.
Speaker 7: Say, all right, you two team match player, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 7: tag team match between the raw main event, the SmackDown
Speaker 7: main event, for the for the for the honor of
Speaker 7: closing out WrestleMania, and uh and and the women get.
Speaker 4: Well, now that's that's another part of it. Too.
Speaker 2: But that is a that that that is one thing,
Speaker 2: that's one way that you could actually put that match
Speaker 2: together and have that that that kind of heat with
Speaker 2: the with with both made events and with each and
Speaker 2: with each of the content as well, because uh, you know,
Speaker 2: you had.
Speaker 4: Many of those instances back of the day where you know.
Speaker 2: In in anticipation of the WrestleMania match, you get you
Speaker 2: have Stone called Steve Austin teaming up against teaming up
Speaker 2: with the Rock to take on you know, Kurt Angle
Speaker 2: and and Triple H or something like that at a
Speaker 2: raw and they have to work together and then after
Speaker 2: they work together, they study that they.
Speaker 4: Go and they turn on each other. So that could
Speaker 4: also bring.
Speaker 5: Back a h an element of that classic uh storyline
Speaker 5: beat that may not have been employed as much over
Speaker 5: the past few years.
Speaker 3: Cool as the idea, maybe, I don't think it would
Speaker 3: blossom into something like that until a few months after
Speaker 3: WrestleMania meaning Crown Jewel per se.
Speaker 4: Okay, I feel.
Speaker 3: Like the World Champ versus World Champ thing wouldn't boil
Speaker 3: over until they get to wherever Crown Jewel is this
Speaker 3: year and they do the Crown Jewel Championship because it's
Speaker 3: champion versus champion. Person gets to be named Crown Jewel
Speaker 3: Champion for the next year, has the ring, you know,
Speaker 3: and that they wear that big belt for the moment,
Speaker 3: but then you know, it stays in Saudi or whatever
Speaker 3: in the WWE experience place. It does give an intriguing
Speaker 3: way to get into that this year. I think that's
Speaker 3: where it would pay off more so than WrestleMania. I like,
Speaker 3: I can see where you're going, but I also am
Speaker 3: I guess this would be an exception to this, but
Speaker 3: I'm tired of can they co exist? Hmmm, it's such
Speaker 3: a such an overused trope. Well, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: passion in this one.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing is you don't even have to
Speaker 2: answer the question of can they co exist?
Speaker 4: That's something that doesn't have to be that doesn't even
Speaker 4: have to be asked.
Speaker 2: All is is that All it is is that they're
Speaker 2: both that that that they're that that they have bad
Speaker 2: blood with each other because of words that that have
Speaker 2: been said, uh in passing. And that's the way that
Speaker 2: that that that those emotions will be able to you know,
Speaker 2: boil over in a ring and uh and and and
Speaker 2: and to be able to see that and to be
Speaker 2: able to see that happen, you don't have to even say,
Speaker 2: as he said, you don't even have to say, can
Speaker 2: they co exist? It's like who the who? Who the
Speaker 2: hell wants this match? Who the hell wants the uh
Speaker 2: the uh the prestige?
Speaker 4: More basically, yeah, I I.
Speaker 3: I also don't think they're gonna do that because I
Speaker 3: don't think they want to diminish Night One's closer. I
Speaker 3: think that would not do any service for whoever ends
Speaker 3: up in Night One. Okay, I think that would not
Speaker 3: be good for their product. So I think the payoff
Speaker 3: is more something like a crown jewel down the road,
Speaker 3: because that's like nuclear heat for that, whereas before it's
Speaker 3: just they just randomly stick together the champions. So I
Speaker 3: think that's where the payoff needs to be. But that's
Speaker 3: just one opinion, of course. I think that it does
Speaker 3: lend some intriguing elements to the w W Championship, since
Speaker 3: it has neither Roman nor Cody currently attached to it.
Speaker 3: Sorry since Roman is since Roman and Punk are such
Speaker 3: strong attention getters that it kind of by default has
Speaker 3: knocked down the w W Championship a little. This puts
Speaker 3: some heat back on it. So maybe in a roundabout way,
Speaker 3: this is what they're trying to do.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cerebral, actually yeah, and it's and because of that,
Speaker 2: maybe that there is something that Triple H, the cerebral
Speaker 2: Assassin himself, might be cooking that maybe we don't know
Speaker 2: about him.
Speaker 4: Maybe we don't.
Speaker 2: Anticipate yet because you know he is. Yeah, maybe he
Speaker 2: is cooking something that we don't know. But we're almost
Speaker 2: out of time here on the radio. I just want
Speaker 2: to say I would love to see in terms of
Speaker 2: a championship match. I know that more story needs to
Speaker 2: be evolved so far, but uh, I would love to
Speaker 2: actually see uh Live Morgan picking Stephanie Vakaer as her
Speaker 2: opponent for WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: Who you think though? I think it would be fun.
Speaker 2: Number one, I think the match would go really well
Speaker 2: between those two. Number that's the that's the first thing.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: It was just really really entertaining to see.
Speaker 2: Uh Stephanie speaking to Live in Spanish and Dominicasterio saying, uh,
Speaker 2: you know what, I don't think I should what she
Speaker 2: said because, according to Denise Alcedo, h Stephanie Vakaier called
Speaker 2: her a cheap tramp so.
Speaker 3: Ah, yes, I agree, I want Live to pick Stephanie ultimately.
Speaker 4: I think that would be a great Mania match.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then because I think that Jade Cargill it doesn't
Speaker 3: quite fit. Would Live, No, it doesn't. No, No, I
Speaker 3: think Jade would have to face someone like if Beyonca
Speaker 3: Bellair is finally ready with her finger and coming back,
Speaker 3: you know, like if she's ready to come back. I
Speaker 3: think that's a way more salacious storyline.
Speaker 2: But who else could it be other than Beyonca bell
Speaker 2: Air though, because it's just that it's uh, who among
Speaker 2: the current people yeah that are actid Yeah, because it's
Speaker 2: it's just you can't We've already had I've already seen
Speaker 2: that several times already, and at least like the well,
Speaker 2: the whole Naomi thing and all that, like they're like
Speaker 2: the future was Naomi.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I don't need any more
Speaker 2: Bianca bell Air at the moment.
Speaker 3: I would say, I think I'd be fascinated with Bianca
Speaker 3: coming back because I don't think she and Jade had
Speaker 3: their their resolution. I think it was I think it
Speaker 3: was Jade and Naomi a couple of times, and then
Speaker 3: they they went separate ways because Naomi then won the
Speaker 3: Women's World Championship before having to you know, before having
Speaker 3: to give it up because she got knocked up.
Speaker 4: So but yeah, I think I think Jade and Beyonco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but Jade and Beyonca.
Speaker 4: To me, that's what.
Speaker 3: I imagine the w W Women's Championship is going to be
Speaker 3: at WrestleMania. Of course, there's a whole chamber match of possibilities.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Sorry for Tiffany Stratton, but I don't see her being
Speaker 3: in that title picture this time.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so either, not this time either.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know though.
Speaker 2: That's well, I mean that's what remains to be seen,
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe w W will have a good
Speaker 2: build up as well for the women that they're already
Speaker 2: building for the men at the moment for their championships.
Speaker 2: So it's uh, it'll make elimination chamber uh a lot
Speaker 2: more interesting as we go along.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean there's.
Speaker 3: There's also it's in Chicago, by the way, it's that
Speaker 3: as part of this pl sorry to cut you off
Speaker 3: there that on Monday it was also made that there's
Speaker 3: two matches actually that we didn't get around to mentioning
Speaker 3: yet with two Chicago residents that happened to be man
Speaker 3: and wife. Yes, they're involved in championship matches. Do you
Speaker 3: remember what those are?
Speaker 2: Well, we'll just do it real quickly because we're out
Speaker 2: of time.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you got a j Lee goaded Becky Lynch
Speaker 3: into defending her Women's Intercontinental Championship against aj Lee. So
Speaker 3: that's going to be a fun matchup. And then the
Speaker 3: other one is something that to me could take a
Speaker 3: twist if WW wants to take the risk. But Finn
Speaker 3: Balor is once again challenging CM Punk for the World
Speaker 3: Heavyweight Championship in Punk's hometown of Chicago. The obvious outcome
Speaker 3: is Punk winning in his hometown. However, if they want
Speaker 3: to do a little hot potato, they would have six
Speaker 3: weeks after Chamber to get the title back on Punk
Speaker 3: and resume the feud against Roman.
Speaker 2: That would be an interesting way to go about it
Speaker 2: and give actually Finn Balor a championship for that that
Speaker 2: that that lasts more than twenty four hours, But we'll
Speaker 2: speculate on that as we go along. Following the Road
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