WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:05.559 It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and carn 2 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:07.639 s e O and JP Sorrow. 3 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:10.679 He's a lapsed fan. 4 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:13.679 In all my years and wrestling. 5 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:21.559 I never seen anything. 6 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:23.039 And it's the laps fan name like the one in 7 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:23.480 the ring. 8 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:26.160 Forget about Sado. He the real king of swing. 9 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:28.519 When the bell goes in with the kick like me 10 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.920 throm in the corner, but gets rash like stick. Even 11 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.719 Jerry King can take off the crowd nodded in his 12 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.560 head like it. Steve low Brown would get low down. 13 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:40.240 We go even high up, flipp you on your head, 14 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:40.560 but you. 15 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.079 Know cool driver you speaking more and Dragon spits fire 16 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:47.159 give you more shock than when Edge reat higher drop 17 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.600 a more truth than the con of sniper. 18 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:50.719 Unless you with a coconut. 19 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:52.759 Roddy Piper, Jack and JP. 20 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:55.479 He like j Y d drop the cupcakes and gold. 21 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:58.840 The brain Bob means the best podcast. First start the 22 00:00:58.880 --> 00:00:59.520 close cloud. 23 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:02.399 If you all been his Flassic at pose. 24 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:08.480 Journey continues, The Journey never ends. It's main season once again, 25 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.159 and we thought it fitting here at the Lapsed Fan 26 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:16.359 to bring you a TLF special report because the heel 27 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:19.920 turn of John Cena back an elimination chamber was supposed 28 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:21.959 to be one of those moments that calls out to 29 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.359 lapsed fans, wasn't it, Boss? 30 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.400 It was? Yes, indeed, it's it's the it's the moment 31 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:31.239 that so many, so many lapse fans have been begging 32 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:33.959 for since two thousand and five. 33 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.359 And why why were they begging for it? 34 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:45.079 Because because they hated John Cena, like the character, you know, 35 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.959 because he gave up on the character that made him popular. 36 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:50.640 He gave up or they made him give up on 37 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:53.959 the character that made him popular, the rapper, and they 38 00:01:54.000 --> 00:02:01.840 turned him into this this goofball, childish, idiot atic, infantile babyface. 39 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:04.719 It's been so funny to watch people forget that as 40 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.599 he became the old Babe Ruth legend, you know, and 41 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.639 suddenly it was like greatest hits, the stuff that originally 42 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.800 turned people on him, We don't forget. That's that's that's 43 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:15.759 where the lapsed fan. 44 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:20.000 Listen, forget, listen, listen. If I had been if I 45 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:21.800 had been in some of the events, I don't think 46 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.000 we were ever at an event that he was scheduled 47 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.280 to be at. Obviously he showed up last year Wrestlemanium. 48 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:32.280 But if he had been at at at any other 49 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:36.639 event that we have been live, I would have called 50 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:40.240 people out on their bullshit. I would have reminded them 51 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.520 that they're cheering this guy. They're considering him to be 52 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:48.159 this this legend, this old time or this this babe ruth. 53 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.719 He's done nothing different yet now they're cheering him when 54 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.319 they boot him before when he was their savior. Yeah, 55 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:02.479 I call your hypocrisy, I call your shit. I knew this. 56 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.280 I knew this, I said to the people in two 57 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:09.560 thousand and seven. Yes, and a listener knows. Yep. 58 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:11.439 We were in the parking garage across the field from 59 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.000 ford Field, across the street from ford Field. We're seen, 60 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:15.879 of course, defeated Shawn Michaels in the main event of 61 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:18.479 that show. And after we parked our car, we look 62 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.360 down unto the assembled masses waiting to get into the venue. Yep, 63 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.159 and what did you let him have? What did you 64 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:23.719 let him here? 65 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.240 I let them know that they that they are. You're 66 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:30.599 cheering for Sean Michaels, but you don't really like Sewn Michaels. 67 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.520 You need John Cena. John Cena is your savior. John 68 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:38.800 Cena is why you're here, and you love him. You 69 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.400 love him, you need him, you desire him. He is 70 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:44.879 right where you want him to be. 71 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:51.000 It's almost like we were writing the ideal John Cena 72 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:54.199 turnheel promos way back in two thousand and seven. Yes, yeah, 73 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:56.919 now is that what ended up happening. That is the 74 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:59.639 focus of this TLF special report, brought to you in 75 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.800 the spear of our WrestleMania run up coverage. Of course, 76 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:05.319 we're back with you coming up this weekend on patreon 77 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:08.879 dot com Slash the Lapsed Fan for a WrestleMania live call, 78 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.000 a traditional live call, and that we're in the comfort 79 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:15.319 of our homes. We're not in some fucking different time zone. 80 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.639 Pretending to enjoy it as the discomforts of being live 81 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:20.240 settle in. 82 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:23.079 Not regretting, like leaving the hotel room to have to 83 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:25.240 go be all attendance for this shit. 84 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:27.959 Yeah, there is kind of a there is kind of 85 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:29.879 a tug on the gut when you have to leave 86 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.480 for night one. It's like, really, I'm going to take this. 87 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.639 I'm not going to be back for like nine hours. 88 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:39.040 I know, like you know it really one of the 89 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.160 we really should I'll tell you what would be a 90 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.360 fascinating experiment to go you know, whenever to go to 91 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:50.759 a WrestleMania and go to night one but then spend 92 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:54.600 night two in the hotel room and watching it. That 93 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.920 might be a fun experiment. I know, the tickets, it's 94 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:59.680 not like you get a discount on tickets if you 95 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.439 do that. But still, indeed, I wouldn't care. 96 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:06.560 It's I'm looking forward to it in a special way, 97 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:09.879 of course, this being an Easter Sunday WrestleMania. Yeah, they 98 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.079 kind of made the decision. We'll see who rises again, 99 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:16.160 I know for us, but uh yeah, we thought it 100 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.839 fitting because you know, the Sena Hill turn is supposed 101 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:20.680 to be the Hogan ninety six, right, It's supposed to 102 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:23.319 be one of the most impactful triggers you could pull. 103 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.639 And they did it. And what was said? Did Sina 104 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:31.639 and Cody rise to the occasion? Did they fulfill the promise? 105 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.759 And here's and here's the thing. This is this is 106 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.879 the honest to god truth. I've only seen one of 107 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:38.800 the promos and that was the That was the first 108 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.279 one I watched, the first promo. I don't think I 109 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:46.600 saw the whole thing, and I haven't cared to go back. Now, 110 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.800 when you say the first promo, you mean seen is first, Yes, 111 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:53.720 when in Belgium. In Belgium, absolutely yes, which which is 112 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:55.879 a problem in and of itself. Yes, God bless all 113 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:58.199 of all the fine people of Belgium and all the 114 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:00.160 great wrestling fans of Belgium will get to all that. 115 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.920 But this is in true lapsed fashion to chronological march 116 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:07.040 through pretty much every word Cody Rhodes and John Cena 117 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:10.000 have said to each other on WWE television since that 118 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:12.639 fateful heel turn at the elimination Chamber of pay per View. 119 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.879 Now we know that was landmark because we were there 120 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:20.279 recording for patrons one of the more memorable live calm 121 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:23.040 moments ever. So let's set the stage. Let's get back 122 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:25.600 into that skin. If we're going to determine if the 123 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.079 John Cena Hill turn lived up to the potential boss, 124 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.759 we do have to revisit that initial emotion, recollected and tranquil, 125 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:39.240 absolutely truct like just somewhere else. He's somewhere else, He's danced. 126 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:42.439 What was he doing, He's waving the thing all over himself. 127 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.319 Oh Sage, he's burning Sage. Oh yeah, that's not Sage, pal, 128 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.360 He's not burning Sage. Cody's still looking at him. What 129 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.399 are the Look at his pants? Look at Dwayne's pants. 130 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.800 I can't look at his pants? What are these bill bottoms? 131 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.519 Rock steps back, smirks it. Scene is he is he 132 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:04.519 like doing the production of Mama Mia. Rock is just 133 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:07.279 standing there, Cody's standing there, scene is standing there? Are 134 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:12.399 we waiting for something to happen? This time? Cody Media WrestleMania. 135 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:16.360 They shaved with Scena Gonna. Scena gives us so the Dwayne. 136 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:22.040 Wow Rock in the throat slash, say now look at 137 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:22.839 his fast. 138 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:39.720 Holy ship, holywood, wow boss the fucking heel. 139 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.480 Wow, that's what we get for making fun of his 140 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:51.800 bald spot. Look at Sena's face. Look at that. Now 141 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:56.000 we can shave his head bald. He just kicked Cody 142 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:04.439 and the balls. He grabbed his rolex and pops or 143 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.279 is it nuts? I don't know what it is. I 144 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:09.120 don't know what it is, but it's gold and they 145 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.279 had a plan. Rock and Sena had a plan. It's 146 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.079 his watch, his watch, yeah, wow, none, press knuckles, idiot, 147 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:22.199 it's a watch is boom wow? Sina as a heel, 148 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:24.759 he's doing it. Look at this, He's on a pushing 149 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:31.680 him like a rabbit animal. He's going off. Santa Cina's 150 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.639 got a mic. Hollywood say save it's the Hollywood connection 151 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:40.879 to it. Hollywood gets Travis is down to liking it. 152 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:46.200 Oh in the head with a live micro. Look at 153 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:48.159 it the way Rock looks down like you made me 154 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:55.159 do this. He's got that's his farewell tour, boss the 155 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:59.360 scene a farewell tour. Loving this. I'm loving this. Listen, 156 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.960 this is fucking McDonald's all right, I'm fucking loving it. 157 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:07.120 Oh seeing a Crown's cody with the title Rock just 158 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:14.080 stands there just like, look at it. Oh my god, 159 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:23.639 look at he looks look at him, Hitler. Remember that. 160 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:27.120 I do, I do remember that. What do you remember 161 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:30.559 about it? I remember, I mean number one, it's the 162 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:36.080 first swerve that I think really blew me over. Uh, 163 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:38.759 I mean, I guess seeing Punk coming back was also 164 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:40.799 kind of like that, But I think this was different. 165 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:44.799 In a hole, you know, he kind of knew Sam 166 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.279 Punk was coming back after all his eight A A 167 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.200 E W bullshit, But you never really thought Seen was 168 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.559 ever going to turn turn heel. You never thought that 169 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.200 was going to happen. And I remember it was so 170 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.399 it left such a mark on me that all I 171 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:03.879 wanted was follow up, that's that's a rare thing for 172 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:05.879 them to achieve these days, it is, and that all 173 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.879 I wanted was like I I I think I talked 174 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:14.279 about this that I even went the next morning. I 175 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:17.360 even decided, as I was getting you know, my kid 176 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:19.480 ready to go out for school, to go to school, 177 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.720 I I decided that I'm gonna even watch the press conference. 178 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.000 I've never watched one of those fucking scrums or whatever 179 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.600 they call it, you know after after the show where 180 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.200 Triple H goes out there and and jerks off on 181 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:36.159 all these reporters. But but I said, you know what 182 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:38.120 I got. I need something out of this. I needed 183 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.240 I need to know a little more. I need some 184 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:46.120 kind of you know whatever. Yeah, it never happened, it's 185 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.200 not in the only time it's ever happened. I think 186 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.200 is is when a WrestleMania has happened. And then I've 187 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.240 done that, like I I know that I've I've I've 188 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:00.240 searched wrestle like the day after WrestleMania, have some something 189 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.279 kind of monumental has happened, or you know they that 190 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.279 I know that, or something that some kind of twist 191 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:10.399 at the end. I've gone to see if there's been 192 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:12.519 any kind of report on it or like a you know, 193 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:15.279 a post wrestling a podcast or something like that. But 194 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:18.759 that's it. But this was like, I've never been so 195 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:24.320 invested in anything wrestling honestly to this point in a 196 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.320 long time, long time. 197 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:28.840 I was ten years of laps. We've been saying the 198 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.720 Boss Index tells you that if Boss needs it, if 199 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:34.240 Boss is dialed in and he needs more, that means 200 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:38.000 they have struck gold, that they are onto something. But 201 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:42.480 here we are just you know what, forty eight hours 202 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:46.440 away from night one of Wrestlingania yep, and you don't 203 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:46.799 need it. 204 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.960 No, No, I'll tell you that I was. I was 205 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.080 turned off. Number one. I was turned off that. Listen. 206 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.080 I stand by what I said. We're going to get 207 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:02.320 to that to please go the uh you know, the 208 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:06.399 idea of not showing Sena until WrestleMania. Let's let's set 209 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:09.360 that stage because you know we we of course got 210 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.519 together in the interim and we did a long car 211 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.399 ride together and you ruined it. You ruined it because 212 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.960 what you did was propose a series of touches they 213 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.360 could have done to come off of this thing, to 214 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:26.080 maintain that curiosity, to maintain that sense of what's going 215 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:29.799 to happen, to maintain that sense of something revolutionary truly 216 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.879 being underway, to keep that sort of Paul that was 217 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:37.039 cast over Nitro after Hogan turned alive for weeks and months, 218 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:40.039 to be able to really sort of turn the whole 219 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.200 mood of the show over to something that has happened, 220 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:45.960 that is this monumental Do they have the nuts to 221 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:49.320 do that? And you laid out a series of touches 222 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:53.039 that could have perhaps brought the scene a thing to 223 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:56.559 that level. And I'm sitting there hearing what you're outlining 224 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.799 and bouncing other ideas off of you. And by the 225 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.039 time we were done talking about it, there was no 226 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.000 other way they could have booked the John cena Hill 227 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:05.919 turn to optimize other than what we came up with, 228 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:08.080 which is what happens. And they could have and all 229 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:10.519 they could have done, honest to God, is done one 230 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:12.919 of the things. If they done one of the things 231 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:17.159 that we suggested, well, they talked about virtual buffet for Paulovek. 232 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.000 If we had done, if even one one simple idea, 233 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:26.159 and one of them, there's one that there's no excuse for. Honestly, 234 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:29.799 and again, I've only seen one promo I've only seen 235 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:32.159 and not even the whole thing, like I said before, 236 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:41.159 but they have he cannot come out with his same attire. 237 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:44.840 I mean, the most basic one. They whiffed on the 238 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.240 most basic one. And I know they tried to get cute, 239 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:51.519 and they tried to pretend that they were actually responding 240 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:54.159 to that and playing off of that and making Seena 241 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.639 even more of a heel because he won't change how 242 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:03.159 he looks for you. What a stupid idea? What I 243 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.600 I hope I fucking hope that they didn't do this 244 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.159 because they wanted to be able to sell uh you know, 245 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:11.919 Sina World Tour, Scotland seen a World Tour, fucking Belgium 246 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.679 shirts that they already had in production. Because that's the 247 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.200 only thing I can think of. And if that's the reason, 248 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.559 shame on them, because they they know what they should have. 249 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.759 Done, still sell them. Why can't you still sell that shit? 250 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:24.720 I don't know. 251 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:28.440 But as he walked out there and talked about how defiant, 252 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.639 how he was defiant and not changing his look, I 253 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:33.960 couldn't help but notice the flag of the country they 254 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.120 happened to be in during this European tour that they 255 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:38.879 were on on his fucking hat and the colors of 256 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:41.360 that nation's flag on the on the shirt. They did 257 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.279 in UK, they did it in Scotland, they did it 258 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:47.679 in Belgium, and I, you know, I have to think 259 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:50.559 that this heel turn the truth will come out someday. 260 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.519 Was a last minute adjustment, you know that there was 261 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.600 no real plan once they decided it was Cody and 262 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.120 Sena at WrestleMania for Sena to come in as this 263 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:02.039 as this heel that the what happened in Elimination Chamber 264 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.159 was pitched. Triple A just talked about it in some 265 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:07.159 interviews since he sort of outlined how he had the conversation, 266 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.080 how he put it to Sena, how he's talking and 267 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:11.480 talking and talking, and how Sina when you really are 268 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.399 pitching something to him tends to be very quiet and 269 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.639 listen for a very long time and then come back 270 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:17.840 with a response that kind of casts the die. And 271 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.080 in this case, scene was like, I like it because 272 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:21.840 it was you know, it was a challenge. It was 273 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:24.879 him not not mailing it in in his final life 274 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.279 farewell tool right, which is great, but he didn't speak 275 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:30.519 to his timeline. To me, what always matters in wrestling 276 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.279 is when when when when when when? Because that's the 277 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:35.799 question they do not want to answer because that reveals 278 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.480 that there was conflict, that someone lost in the battle, 279 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:41.600 and the fact that we haven't seen the Rock once 280 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.039 since engineering that moment we displayed back to you in Toronto, 281 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:47.200 an elimination Chamber says at all, if you or if 282 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:52.000 you're wondering, really does in his absence, his absence, as 283 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:55.679 we'll get to, in my opinion, has significantly hurt what 284 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.720 it was they said in motion an elimination Chamber. I 285 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:00.679 don't know if Sena and Cody got together and said, 286 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.440 you know, we're going to box Rock out of this thing, 287 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:04.879 because after a week, as we'll get to, they stopped 288 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.200 mentioning him. They kind of brought him up again recently. 289 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.960 But whatever the decision was to put Rock into the background, 290 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.799 maybe it's maybe he's filming Jumanji three. Sure, I'm sure 291 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.720 wherever he's filming. They knew he was going to be 292 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:19.639 filming when they put him front and center in that 293 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.679 heel turn angle at elimination Chamber. But you know, because 294 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:27.559 that that was the accelerant that you needed, That that 295 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.360 was the Hall and Nash to the Hogan. Yes, that 296 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.240 was the X factor that came along that finally pushed 297 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:35.759 the superhero to the dark side. Right, those were the 298 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.399 agents of chaos at Travis Scott if you want to 299 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:40.200 throw him in there too as well, he'll be at WrestleMania, 300 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:41.960 so I'm sure there'll be some moment. Cody has made 301 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.279 reference in interviews to wanting to get a receipt on 302 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.960 Travis Scott, who legitimately busted his ear drum during the 303 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.039 beatdown that occurred after that. Oh yeah, we'll see some 304 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.480 bruising on Cody's face in the first promos he cuts 305 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:58.039 after the elimination chamber here in a moment. But all 306 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:01.960 of that said, you're sitting there booking this out, and 307 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.600 for the benefit of those who might not have caught 308 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.039 the episodes where we talked about this, we're heading into WrestleMania. 309 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:10.119 It's worth revisiting totally. You talked about the look. Please 310 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.240 lay it all out. How do you do it? 311 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:18.519 Number Number one? Number one, he has to look completely different. 312 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:23.039 Any resemblance to John Senior that we've seen since two 313 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:28.240 thousand and two is it destroys the. 314 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:31.240 Whole thing destroys and that is not an exaggeration. No, 315 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.960 it is a non starter. It is as if Hulk 316 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.880 Hogan continued to wear yellow and red after drowning the 317 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:42.359 exactly Listen, I'm telling you right now. The reason, the 318 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:44.720 reason I didn't follow up with any of the other 319 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.960 promos had nothing to do with what he said, had 320 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:50.359 to do with the that he came out with the 321 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:53.599 same fucking look. And I'm like, fuck this, that's what 322 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:56.720 that's That's why I didn't watch it. He should have come. 323 00:17:56.839 --> 00:17:58.000 I was going to sell out. It's going to be 324 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.160 a record revenue. 325 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:01.480 But it won't be. It could have been he got 326 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:03.480 you gotta say it. He should have shaved his head 327 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.880 bald and he should have grown a full beard. Wow. 328 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:09.519 And I sent you a picture of a photoshop version 329 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:12.319 of what I what I envision did And why is 330 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:14.240 it so important that he do that as far as 331 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.640 the beard in the bald, because it just you need 332 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.599 to start from scratch. You need to erase any sort 333 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:28.720 of any sort of connection with the previous incarnation of 334 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:32.559 John Cena. It's going to be totally different. Why because 335 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:43.359 because because I don't I don't know. All I can 336 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:46.680 think of the writer's room here. Yeah, he's asked me. 337 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:48.000 He's asked me, why is he going to do that? 338 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:54.839 Because fans shouldn't recognize him. This should be the real 339 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:58.640 John Cena in a way, this should be what he 340 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:03.240 truly looks like. I'm the inside, That's what it should be. 341 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:07.599 It's it's because you know, it's simple enough, like honestly, Hogan, 342 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.119 Yes he had the completed tire change, but even the 343 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:13.440 stupid fucking painted on beard made a huge difference, Yes, 344 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:18.319 in how we perceived Hulk Hogan. Okay, so simple, and 345 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.920 I think that this is this is Hollywood John Cena. 346 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.200 This is what we need to see. We need to 347 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:33.400 see Hollywood John Cena. A John Cena that completely embraces 348 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:40.000 like that smarminess of his Hollywood world, wearing the three 349 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:41.599 piece suits. 350 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:43.599 And a John Cena just like you say, who now 351 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.319 has made enough of a name for himself outside of wrestling. Yeah, 352 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:48.720 and kind of dined with kings and queens in the 353 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:50.799 elite in Hollywood to where he can actually look at 354 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.039 these people and go, I don't have to do this anymore. 355 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.160 I don't have to carry on this front anymore. Not 356 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.960 that you people never respected me, No, I never respect 357 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.960 to do that because now now I have the license 358 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:06.680 to be able to express this without losing my livelihood 359 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:08.240 or losing my my pole positions. 360 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:14.680 He he he declared his his retirement tour. He said, 361 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:16.880 this is it. So I got no need I got 362 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:19.480 you know, I'm not I'm not out there hoping that 363 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.359 you'll you'll pay for a next show. I'm not out 364 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:24.960 in there out there hoping that you know, you'll you'll 365 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:27.319 still like me. This is it. I'm done, and I'm 366 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:29.960 gonna go out of my terms and I say fuck 367 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.240 you all. 368 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:36.119 And and does that foreclose on where they're inevitably going 369 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:38.240 by the end of twenty twenty five where he sees 370 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.440 the light again and turns babyface for the for the 371 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:43.119 for the final chapter, if he goes that far, can 372 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:43.519 he do that? 373 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:47.119 Yeah, of course he can. People will want that. People 374 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:49.559 will want that, people will want him to to to 375 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.640 see the light, you know, the only way he should 376 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.119 redeem himself at some point he should he should have 377 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:59.279 and and honestly it should have been all rock Honestly 378 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:06.039 that that's that's the I'm shocked that that something. I mean, 379 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:08.599 obviously it happens and Dwayne just comes and goes as 380 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:13.839 he pleases, but it should have you know that that 381 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:15.920 should have led to Honestly, it should have led to 382 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:20.000 a scene a rock match that that culminated in this 383 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:22.839 And we had seen a rock three, you know, we 384 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:25.279 had that. We finally got the rubber match. And it's 385 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:30.880 it's so it's so simple, and uh, you know, he 386 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:34.000 should have come out he the first time we see him. 387 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:38.720 He should come out he's bald, full beard, three piece 388 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:41.160 suit like he wears. And I know I've I've heard 389 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:45.839 criticism about the Cody thing. Listen, I don't think one 390 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:49.400 anyone can wear a suit and it works. You know, 391 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:54.160 it works. You don't need to be just this one 392 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:56.880 person saying. I mean, like, like you know, that's the thing. 393 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:59.160 You know, if and if what it should be is 394 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:03.839 that if co he's wearing whatever suit, Let's say he's 395 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:09.880 wearing I don't know, I don't I don't know, you know, 396 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:11.720 designers or anything like that. I'll just all just say it, 397 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:16.400 like if he's wearing like a sure and then SCENEA 398 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.839 should be wearing like an Armani shit on Ourmani suit. 399 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.000 If you think something like that, Sena and Cody face 400 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.079 to face, both wearing suits is less money than Cody 401 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:27.319 wearing a suit and Sena dressed like a fourteen year old. 402 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:28.319 I don't even know what to tell. 403 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:30.720 Yeah, I mean because also they can be different colors, 404 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:33.880 like Cody seems to always wear light gray suits, right, 405 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:38.319 not what he mostly wears. No, no, he wears all shades. Okay, 406 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:41.039 well I would say for this program he should wear 407 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:42.640 to make a difference, if you really, if you want 408 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:44.720 to make a difference, he should wear, like some a 409 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:47.440 lighter gray suit and Sina should wear a darker suit. 410 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:49.839 And the point isn't that they look the same. The 411 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:52.720 point is Seena is wearing a suit, Sina wearing a 412 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:54.279 suit as a heel. We saw it on Total bellas 413 00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:54.559 I mean. 414 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:56.960 And also, let's be honest, John Cena, who thinks he's 415 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:59.759 like we see he graduated into some higher level of 416 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:04.440 ass and consciousness is impossible to like. Yes, and that's 417 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:07.680 he's never put that on WWT. Frustrating to watch as 418 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:10.640 a human, yes, correct, right? When you watch when struggle 419 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:13.920 him to try to be a human motivation calendar, you 420 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:15.319 know those things you put on the wall, it's say 421 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:17.200 character or a picture of a whale. He wants to 422 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:20.039 be the human body the embodiment if that's some point 423 00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:23.319 on the line. Some PR analytics, some PR consultant convinced 424 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:24.640 him that that's the way forward. And that's when he 425 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:28.200 started with those motivational tweets and stuff like he's trying 426 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:30.559 to sell me energy supplements or something, or trying to 427 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:32.720 sell me, uh, you know, some kind of vitamin or 428 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:34.880 or some kind of liver that I have to eat 429 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:37.519 six times a day. It's like, dude, like stop, Like, 430 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:40.279 no one's turning to you for motivation. Just be John 431 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:44.880 Cena that he saw in himself the need to do 432 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:48.400 that is heal. It's obnoxious, and so he's not going there. 433 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:49.160 He's not. He's not. 434 00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:53.079 He's not like you said, he's not coming out and 435 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:57.720 saying all along, I was kind of rolling my eyes 436 00:23:57.759 --> 00:23:59.960 at what worked, you know, not not not that you hate, 437 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:02.880 not that you rejected me. That's not why I'm turning heel. 438 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:04.799 I'm turning heel because finally I'm in a position in 439 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:06.400 my life where I don't have to be this fucking 440 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:10.880 clown anymore and I can truly express how better I am. 441 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:12.799 Then, And he could also do the whole thing. You know, 442 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:16.000 he had to cater to the you know, he did 443 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.839 the same thing in a way Hogan had to do. 444 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:20.440 Or he's he's kissing the babies, you know, he's like 445 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:22.480 he's catering, he's doing the make a wish things like 446 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:24.640 how great would it have been if he if he 447 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:27.160 just if he said I fucking hated doing all that shit? 448 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:29.640 Right, Instead, he comes out and says, I've been in 449 00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:32.599 an abusive relationship with you, the fans. 450 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:35.200 I mean again, you know what again? I could I 451 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:37.359 could deal with that. I could deal with that. If 452 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:40.440 he changed his look, I could deal with I could 453 00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:45.200 deal with with with with his sentiments about about dealing 454 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.240 like having been abused by the fans. If he just 455 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:49.799 came out looking different. 456 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:52.480 But if I can see your socks, the top of 457 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:54.240 your socks, it's a non starter. 458 00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:56.440 Right, if you're wearing shorts that go below your knees. 459 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.519 I'm not happy and we kicked it a I thought 460 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:02.240 maybe it could work that he came out with, like, 461 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:06.240 you know, shin high dark black shorts. I don't know 462 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:06.799 he struggled. 463 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:07.240 I don't know. 464 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:09.240 I still don't know what he what he could have 465 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:12.240 wrestled as I mean, I'll just say I've made versions 466 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:18.519 of him in in the in my game to just 467 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:20.759 get an idea as to what he could look like 468 00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:23.880 as a heel wrestler, because it just you can't wear 469 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:26.759 the shorts. You can't wear the jorts right as as 470 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:29.480 a heel wrestler. And what else did we talk about? 471 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:32.559 We talked about how long you can wait before you 472 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:33.480 lay eyes on him. 473 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:36.359 That's the key thing. And I'm sorry I noticed it. 474 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:39.200 I paid attention. I didn't. I didn't have my finger 475 00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:41.599 on the pulse every second of my life. But as 476 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:45.319 soon as he showed up, it was downhill. It wasn't 477 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:48.599 it didn't crash out. But I'll tell you people were 478 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:50.160 more interested in him when he wasn't on team. 479 00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:54.039 Course, of course, because people are. I think too. I 480 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:58.640 think people were expecting something different. That was the key. 481 00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:02.000 People wanted to see something different. And the moment you 482 00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:05.559 see that again, I think, I think so much could 483 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:07.720 have been saved. Again, I don't know how bad it 484 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:10.559 actually got, but I think, from what you're telling me, 485 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:14.680 so much could have been saved if he looked different. 486 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.319 We said the same thing about Roman reigns for years, 487 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:21.160 for years. Second he switched the look up. He was 488 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:23.559 one of the biggest money players they've ever had. Yep, 489 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:26.559 and he turned heel too. You know, all these things 490 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:29.759 that we that we we talked about and it became 491 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:33.920 the biggest, the biggest thing in wrestling in in years. 492 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:39.119 And I watch him back that they did like the 493 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:43.400 seth Rollins Roman Reigns Rivalries documentary thing on Ane and 494 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:45.920 they're showing Roman in those years that he was struggling 495 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:48.359 to be accepted as the you know, the company chosen 496 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:52.319 babyface and he looked so goofy. He had like the 497 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:54.680 thin side burns. At a point on the side, he 498 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:56.799 had just a goateee with no full beard. He had 499 00:26:56.839 --> 00:26:59.640 like contacts that colored his eyes differently than asshole. 500 00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:02.799 He had the flak. 501 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.680 Vest everywhere he went like, who's gonna wear a vest 502 00:27:05.799 --> 00:27:07.119 like that and be a world champion? 503 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:09.400 What are you guys doing? What's gonna take off of him? 504 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:10.200 You're a idiot. 505 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:12.880 Second, we took it off, the fucking and let grew 506 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:16.839 the beard out. The registers started firing like, come on, guys, 507 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:18.880 Jesus Christ. 508 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:22.519 It's it's simple. It's simple. Sid said it all the time. 509 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.519 It's real simple. So Sina, you know, okay. One of 510 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:29.000 the other brilliant things we talked about in my opinion, 511 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:31.079 and I guess this isn't possible now that we realize 512 00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:33.400 that Rock wasn't quite as central to all of this 513 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:35.680 as we may have been led to believe after that 514 00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:39.000 first angle is Rock does a lot of the talking 515 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:42.559 for John Rock should have been again, I believe, to 516 00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:47.119 really make this into a killer program and really make 517 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:50.480 John Cena into this, like you know, really get the 518 00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:55.039 uh the interest factor up is that you promise Sena 519 00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:02.799 and you get Rock instead several times, right, and and 520 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:05.119 Rock says, you know, he comes out and who wha 521 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:06.640 wha wha who whoa who who whoa whoa whoa. 522 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:08.119 Whoaoa, My man is out of here. 523 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:12.720 Yet he's not coming out, you know, like you just 524 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:15.680 you tease it and you say, you know, he says 525 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.000 he's going to come out, and he never comes out. 526 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.039 He never comes out, and it's Rock the whole time. 527 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:24.519 And listen, I know that that would get old pretty fast, 528 00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:26.519 which is why you have to do it only like 529 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.559 two or three times, right, all right, every other week, yeah, 530 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:32.160 two or three times. 531 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:35.640 He had this European tour and you know that they 532 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:37.920 penciled in before they decided seen it was turning heel. 533 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:39.440 So this is going to be seen as last time 534 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:42.039 in these European cities, and they wanted to market that 535 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:44.559 and merchandise that, and they didn't have the courage to 536 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:46.839 sacrifice that to make this as good as a case. 537 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:49.160 I just didn't have the courage. Yeah, that's my that's that. 538 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:54.000 I agree with you. That's the biggest that's it's so pathetic. 539 00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:54.880 It's pathetic. 540 00:28:57.319 --> 00:28:57.480 You know. 541 00:28:57.519 --> 00:28:59.039 I heard Triple A turning interview say, you know, I 542 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.359 just wish fans would stop being critics and just be fans. 543 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.160 And I'm thinking to myself, Hey, trips, Okay, once you 544 00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:09.119 grow up to be like fucking ten years old, the 545 00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:10.960 only thing that keeps you a wrestling fan is being 546 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:11.519 a critic of it. 547 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:12.119 That's it. 548 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:15.440 As soon as you realize it's all phony, blogey nonsense 549 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.359 and that these guys aren't tough as far as like 550 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:23.400 real fighters compared to UFC, you stop caring about the business. 551 00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:23.799 That way. 552 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:27.440 The only reason you have thirty forty year long fans 553 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:30.240 is because they become critics and they become interested in 554 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:33.440 the behind the scenes. They're so don't look exactly, so 555 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:35.319 don't be looking that gift horse in the mouth. Don't 556 00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:37.920 give me that shit, Like that's not half the reason 557 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:40.359 you're where you're at by understanding the psychology of the 558 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:42.720 critic more than the fan. Give me a fucking break. 559 00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:45.720 So here we are, here, we are fantasy booking in 560 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:47.680 your face, and what are you going to do about it? 561 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:52.880 Besides absolutely nothing? So here's Rock and he's not He's 562 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.079 obviously not available sufficiently to pull this off, which really 563 00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:58.799 begs the question, why do we have anything to do 564 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.279 with Rock and imglimination Chamber? Can we just kick Cody 565 00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:02.519 and the balls and go off on his own? 566 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:06.759 Something to do with it? Well? Even more so, what 567 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:08.880 do you do if you're not going to be on TV? 568 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:13.000 I mean unless something crazy came up at the last minute, 569 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:16.920 But I can't imagine that he could manufacture safe Like 570 00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:22.000 why even do the whole Cody thing? Like what what's 571 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:25.039 the point of that? We questioned, like we thought there 572 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:27.000 was we thought that there was a reason. Finally with 573 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:29.440 the whole johnsona Hill turn, and it's like it actually 574 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:31.839 made sense and it kind of for a moment, for 575 00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:34.920 a brief second, forgave all that Rock shit. I then 576 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:38.440 I am not going to be fooled okay into thinking 577 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:40.519 that just because they figured out a way to make 578 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:42.559 it seem like this was the plan all along, that 579 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:43.720 it was the plan all along. 580 00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:47.160 I respect, I respect the craftsmanship of coming up with 581 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:49.359 something where it's like, let's actually take the time to 582 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:51.400 tie up loose ends here and let's try to make 583 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.920 this seem like this is actually a natural extension of 584 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:56.319 four other things we just threw out there because we 585 00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:59.319 knew Dwayne could make the show. And when Dwayne shows up, 586 00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:01.680 he writes all of his stuff, and anything anybody else 587 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:04.880 had in mind for him just disappears. And they take 588 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.319 the time to try to reverse engineer and make all 589 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:09.240 the dots connect, which is good. I prefer they do 590 00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:11.200 that then not do that. But that is not the 591 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:14.400 same as them launching a master plan and Rock giving 592 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:16.519 us this line of like, you know, just let it 593 00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:19.000 play out and know your role and shut your mouth. 594 00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:22.359 It's like, we've seen him flail, We've seen him directionless 595 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:24.839 before the crowd. We've seen him do things that if 596 00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:27.039 this was the plan all along visa VI Cody on 597 00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:29.000 the first Netflix Raw, that he never would have done. 598 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:34.960 He's just you know, he knew he pinned Cody last year, right, right, 599 00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:37.680 that's where all this discussion starts. 600 00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:38.599 Why did he do that? 601 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.400 And the answer to that does not comport with where 602 00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:43.880 they went, And the answer to that is he is 603 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:45.799 going to wrestle Cody at WrestleMania this year. 604 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:46.039 Now. 605 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:50.960 Meltzer recently reported that around August, Rock's management kind of 606 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.079 made the call to WWE that Rock wouldn't be able 607 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:55.160 to do the match against Cody this year. Now, that 608 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:58.640 doesn't mean that Rock doesn't see something bubbling and want 609 00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:01.039 to be part of it, especially in vague Gus home 610 00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:04.000 base for TKO in a lot of ways, and this 611 00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:06.319 big Allegiance stadium to night or remember when all this 612 00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:08.119 is going on, we still thought WrestleMania was going to 613 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:10.519 be in Minneapolis this year. And if you think Rock 614 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:13.480 was excited about doing WrestleMania in Minneapolis, you don't know Rock. 615 00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:16.920 So here he is as it becomes Vegas, and all 616 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:20.240 of a sudden, it's this big fucking you know, tourism 617 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:22.640 bureau play or whatever it is they're negotiating over there, 618 00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:25.839 and this is my read, and he's like, you know, 619 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:27.559 actually I need to insinuate myself here. 620 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:28.200 This is too hot. 621 00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:30.039 So he comes back on that SmackDown in New Orleans, 622 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.119 announces that WRESTLEMANI to be a New Orleans next year 623 00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:34.640 and gets that Glory is the is the board member, 624 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:37.480 and then shifts to the guy that wants Cody's soul. 625 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:39.759 It's like, where the fuck is this coming from? Exactly, 626 00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:42.599 it's just him saying, I want to have something to 627 00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.039 do with WrestleMania, even if I'm not wrestling Cody. He 628 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:47.880 said in the post show press conference after that SmackDown. 629 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:50.160 You know, we think of different ways of telling stories. 630 00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:51.960 I work closely with Paul and it doesn't always Why 631 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:53.200 does it always have to end in a match? 632 00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:53.519 Oh? 633 00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:55.640 I don't know, Rock, because that's the only reason anybody 634 00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:58.680 cares about the wrestling business. Maybe that's why, because if 635 00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.519 there's no match, then it's it's Vince Rusou nineteen ninety nine, 636 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:05.200 Nitro and you know it. Anyway, it was still, you know, 637 00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:07.599 interesting stuff what he was doing with Cody and they 638 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.240 came up with this elimination chamber thing. It's like, great, well, 639 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:12.880 Rock's locked in to at least be part of the 640 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:16.240 scenery through WrestleMania, which is great. That's hugely additive. They 641 00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:18.119 did that when he was the guest host for the 642 00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:20.920 Sena Miss Wrestlemanian. It was a huge success. That fucking 643 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.400 match dies without Rock's involvement. So that's a role that 644 00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:27.680 can be very viable to make a WrestleMania feel special. 645 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.079 But whatever happened, I don't know what it is. Meltzer 646 00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.839 said some cryptic things about how you know my takeaway, 647 00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:36.359 and I think the takeaway he wanted people to have 648 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:39.079 without directly saying it is that Cody and Sina went 649 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:41.519 out there when they were first face to face and 650 00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:44.119 didn't mention Rock, and Rock may have expected them to, 651 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.960 may have expected them to keep him alive as part 652 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:50.200 of this story, and purposely decided between the two that 653 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.160 we're going to de emphasize Rock and we're not even 654 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.640 going to talk about him as being a reason that 655 00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:56.440 we're butting heads, and we're going to come up with 656 00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:59.279 this story where it was. It was always going to 657 00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:01.400 come down to this between us. You know, it was 658 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:04.319 always about who the quarterback of WW is and our 659 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:06.240 history when seen it was the top guy and Cody 660 00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:08.599 was the young boy and all that shit stupid. We'll see, 661 00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:10.880 we'll see how, We'll see how it hits, how it 662 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.760 hits you, but just because you know, we can grade 663 00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:19.480 it for what it is without there being a umpteeth 664 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:22.960 better idea not happening coloring that that decision. It was 665 00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:29.280 actually one of the honestly best uses of Rock, you know, 666 00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:31.280 since last WrestleMania. 667 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:35.239 I was like, this is great. I again, I didn't 668 00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:37.880 think that at the beginning, but I really enjoyed it. 669 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:39.800 Once the heel turn happened, I was like, this is 670 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:42.400 a great use of him where he can perfect, he 671 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:44.760 can play at this Hollywood thing like, it's so great. 672 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:48.119 They're in the same he was forced into. Remember he 673 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:50.320 was forced in a turn. You know, he's the tag 674 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:53.199 team situation last year. He wanted It was clear they 675 00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:55.920 thought Russelman forty Rock Roman, we can get the people 676 00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:57.760 to want that. They had that big family tree thing 677 00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:59.519 on the screen when they did the Las Vegas press 678 00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:02.920 conference and people shout all over that, and then it 679 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:05.360 took the turn that it did. But that tree was 680 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.239 drawn up for a reason. That tree was drawn up 681 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.719 because they wanted to tell the story of the Samoa 682 00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:13.519 dynasty collision and the true tribal chief, which got a 683 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.320 huge reaction. Went on the first raw of last year 684 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:21.039 twenty twenty four, he mentioned or should I try to 685 00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:23.360 should I try to sit at the head of the table, 686 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:25.880 and everyone went ape shit. But when it came right 687 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:27.800 down to it and they realized that this is going 688 00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:30.400 to get in the way of Cody having a chance 689 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:33.119 to finish the story, they picked Cody finishing the story 690 00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:35.840 and he had to and credit to the credit to 691 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.719 Dwayne for this, he had to kind of define himself 692 00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:40.519 down a bit. It was about Cody and Roman and 693 00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:42.840 Cody winning the belt, and he can find a place there, 694 00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.719 but it's not going to be about him and Roman 695 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:48.840 and subjecting Cody to a match with Seth for the 696 00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:52.960 secondary world title, which clearly was on the drawing board 697 00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:55.119 at one point. Anyway, that's all ancient history, but it 698 00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:58.679 is relevant here because that's kind of the pretext. Rock 699 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.800 Is already tried to try to bulldoze into a certain 700 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.559 position and got rejected, and the fans just said no, Like, 701 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:09.679 if you do this, it's gonna be a fucking nightmare. 702 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:12.000 And all anyone's gonna talk about is Cody the whole 703 00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.039 time while you try to make us care about Rock Roman. 704 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:17.039 And then we come through it this year and I 705 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:20.000 feel like he tried to find a way to be 706 00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:22.599 a babyface to Cody so that he could do something else, 707 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.840 execute something else without friction. Remember he made up with 708 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:29.159 Cody on that disastrous and stupid thing where Cody stood 709 00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:31.760 literally in the crowd while Rock praised him, Like why 710 00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:35.880 why Cody wrote the WB champion standing in the audience? Successful? 711 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:40.320 So weird are and their friends and they're drinking Teamana 712 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:42.960 and all that, and then he comes back with this 713 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:44.280 new one of like, actually, I. 714 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.119 Want your soul because I'm the real boss. 715 00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:48.599 He's the real boss, by the way, you know, why 716 00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:52.000 isn't he doing anything about this this Cody's seen this 717 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:52.800 scene a thing. 718 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:54.840 Why isn't he insinuating himself in some way if he's 719 00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:55.159 the boss? 720 00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:58.760 But yeah, that's a whole string of it, and it's 721 00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:01.360 it's relevant because as you were saying, and I agree 722 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:05.320 wholeheartedly that if Dwayne was the driving force of this thing, 723 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:08.159 and we heard very little from Sena, if anything from Sena, 724 00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:10.199 that's the money, yep. 725 00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:13.119 Because to me, the I mean the the the end 726 00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:16.519 game should be. You know, hopefully I would like to 727 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:19.159 see Cody and Dwayne go at it. I think that 728 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.400 would be great. I think that should I should have 729 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:24.119 a big money match. I think it'd be great, and 730 00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:26.280 I think, you know, I think what would be great too? 731 00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:31.000 If you're asking me. Sena gets Sena. Sena sees the 732 00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:35.199 light end of the year. He and he and Dwayne 733 00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:37.639 face off in the main event of whatever pay per view. 734 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:41.400 Dwaine beats him. Wow in his in his in his 735 00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:44.199 go home match. Wow, that's what you do, right, you 736 00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:46.800 put over you know, you lay down when you're when 737 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:49.559 you're when you're heading out right, So he should do 738 00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:55.440 And then Dwayne becomes this ruthless killer going after Cody Codins. 739 00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:58.760 Just you know, Roctus is not in a position to 740 00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.559 commit like that to wrestling. It's very clear by now, 741 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:04.480 like he needs so much, it's so weird, Like, then 742 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:06.440 don't do it? Then why are you on the fucking board? 743 00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:08.679 Like why why? That's the thing, Like, we're not going 744 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:10.800 to begrudge you if you don't do it. But these 745 00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:14.559 half steps nobody did, nobody, nobody cares that you weren't there. 746 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:17.440 But the half steps revealed that he can't. He just 747 00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:20.320 can't stand being on the sideline. That that's why wrestling is, 748 00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:22.920 you know. Kim Wood talked about it right. Yeah, that's 749 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:25.079 why wrestling is the tiger, because no matter how much 750 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:27.679 money a Hogan makes, a Rock makes, a Sina makes, 751 00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:29.960 they're all back at the table. They're all back at 752 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.639 the table because they need it. Brock, that's right. These 753 00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:35.760 people should be gone. These people should not care about 754 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:38.360 the wrestling business another day in their lives. Even see 755 00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:41.119 him punk the money he's made. But the only thing 756 00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:43.320 that makes them feel worth it, and the only thing 757 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:48.320 that makes them feel alive is succeeding in this the 758 00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:50.719 first business to intoxicate them, the first business to give 759 00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:54.880 them a taste stardom and to give them a kind 760 00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:58.519 of a suite of ops basically of people that they 761 00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:02.880 need to outmaneuver to really feel good about themselves. 762 00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:05.400 You know, it's like they can't. They want the politics, 763 00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:07.400 you know, they want to They want to walk into 764 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.440 the lions Den and still command the most attention and 765 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:12.320 still get the biggest paydays, and still be in the 766 00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:15.639 biggest matches. And it excites them not just to do 767 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:17.639 it on screen, but to do what it takes behind 768 00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:18.159 the scenes. 769 00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:20.960 Reality challenged. Thank you. 770 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:24.719 So let's start our march through how we got here, 771 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:26.199 and let's give an honest assessment. 772 00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:29.519 Yeah, I'm ready. How would all play down? I'm excited 773 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:31.880 as much as you can be, as much as you 774 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:32.840 can be, Yes, exactly. 775 00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:35.039 And I think that's that's actually a really good way 776 00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:39.199 to describe WRESTLINGIA this year in most years. So let's 777 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:43.159 talk about something that happened that I think really was 778 00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:46.559 a promising first step. It might surprise you that we're 779 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:50.159 not going to start necessarily with anything John Cena or 780 00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:54.760 Cody Road said. We're actually going to start with something 781 00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:58.800 CM Punk said at the very beginning of the first 782 00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:04.760 raw night after the elimination chamber. It was it was incredible. 783 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:05.360 Uh. 784 00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:09.400 They cut to the back at the very top of 785 00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:14.360 the episode and it's it's CM Punk if you can 786 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:18.559 grab boss the link I just sent you pulling up 787 00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:21.119 in his truck in the parking lot of the arena, 788 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:26.199 slamming the door shut and just marching into the building 789 00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:29.440 on fire. He is pissed and he's going to grab 790 00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:32.719 a microphone. And this, to me is is a page 791 00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:36.400 out of the book of like how when Hogan turned heel. 792 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:42.519 Everybody was expressing their MORTI mortified and frustrated, pissed off 793 00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:46.559 they were. It affected everybody that and that was that 794 00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:48.239 was the emotion they had to go for that that 795 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:50.840 everything about John if everything about John Cena was faked, 796 00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:54.079 and like, my god, someone needs to speak up for 797 00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:57.559 authenticity here. There's got to because if he's not authentic, 798 00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:00.519 then we really we are really rudderless right now, we 799 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:03.400 really don't have an idea of where we're going and 800 00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:04.039 where we're heading. 801 00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.440 So here is cmpunk. If you're ready, we'll do the countdown. 802 00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:08.079 I'm ready. 803 00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:11.360 He's already made his way to this, So he stomps 804 00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:12.920 out of his truck, he makes his way down to 805 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.400 the ring. Before anything happens on raw, he jumps up 806 00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:18.559 on the announced table. He grabs the microphone, and he 807 00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.039 looks into the camera and he gives us a very 808 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:23.519 promising start. And we couldn't end up in a more 809 00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:26.320 different place than where This kind of leads you to 810 00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.880 believe they're going. So if we hit a play, it's 811 00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:31.039 in three two one play. 812 00:41:33.639 --> 00:41:35.960 Listen up, Dwayne, you bald fraud. 813 00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:42.920 You think because you're on the board of directors you're immune. 814 00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:46.039 From critcism, Well, you don't know who you're dealing with. 815 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:49.119 You are dealing with the best in the world. 816 00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.519 Mike flag thrown off. Yep, middle aged. 817 00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:55.840 And crazy walk. 818 00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:02.079 After ten years and literally marched through hell to receive 819 00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:06.559 opportunities at the Big Dance. And you, mister midlife crisis, 820 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.840 just to walk in when you feel like it and 821 00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:12.760 hide behind the fact that you think you're a bigger 822 00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:14.119 star than everybody here. 823 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:17.119 I would love to say all of this to your face, 824 00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:20.840 but you have not graced us with your presence to 825 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:23.440 do your bullshit wow. 826 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:28.199 Wow, and that you care. 827 00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:30.800 About this business that gives you goosebumps. 828 00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:36.639 I have never been so delusional. I have never been 829 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:39.599 so desperate to wear the crowd. 830 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:42.079 Yes they know. 831 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:49.159 I have never been so desperate to wear a fake 832 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:50.960 title and proclaim myself. 833 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:53.760 Wow, People's championship, the fake title. 834 00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:55.559 I heard it. 835 00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:58.239 Ye, look at him, correct. 836 00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:03.760 I have never been so desperate to sell my soul. 837 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.280 And then he brings it back to the storyline. Yeah, 838 00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:12.199 John Cena, and he's someone that can speak once think 839 00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.559 about their history. Oh my god, well now we can 840 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:16.840 all see through. 841 00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:23.960 Yes, something from me in the elimination chamber, a match 842 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:27.639 that after twenty years of hustle, loyalty, and respect, I 843 00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:29.360 gave you the benefit. 844 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.320 Of the doubt when you didn't qualify. 845 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:35.599 I thought what you did in the past secured your future. 846 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:38.360 You're not gonna fool me. 847 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:45.320 Twice hustle loyalty and respect for twenty plus years, and 848 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:48.320 now everybody sees what I've known all along, that you've 849 00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:51.320 been selling all these people and all these kids bullshit. 850 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:56.320 Yes, yes, yes, go on Netflix and say shit, yeah, 851 00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:56.639 let's go. 852 00:43:56.840 --> 00:44:01.159 Punk who gave up the elimination Chamber. 853 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:01.920 It wasn't me. 854 00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:05.119 You'll never see see him. Punk give up on his 855 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:10.639 dreams made it that to WrestleMania. Ironically, mister don't quit, 856 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:14.000 mister don't give up. You gave up on yourself, you 857 00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:16.679 gave up on all of these people, you gave up 858 00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:17.760 on all those kids. 859 00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:21.280 I like too that he's talking to like not talking 860 00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:22.639 to the hard camera, and. 861 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:24.360 I'm gonna getting my hands on the both of you, 862 00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:28.559 bald fraud. Yes, you're gonna make a wish that I. 863 00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:32.440 Never look at that and we payed out. I mean, 864 00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:36.400 that's okay money, that's turn it over to Phil. Okay, 865 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:40.360 that's step one. That's great, that's what Yes, that's great. 866 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:42.440 I mean that's you know again that that's like what 867 00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:45.320 you you're talking about, like you make it. You make 868 00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:48.519 it a problem with everybody. Everybody's got a problem. That's 869 00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:52.440 when it becomes like you have the power. I mean, 870 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:56.880 you're gonna tell me that that that that everyone commenting 871 00:44:56.960 --> 00:45:00.519 on Hogan was just oh, just happy to happen. And 872 00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:02.599 then that made you know, no, it's like that was 873 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:06.239 part of the plan. You have to when something like 874 00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:11.559 that happens, everybody has to be affected, right because it 875 00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:13.840 is that you make it that important and you have 876 00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:14.719 the power to do that. 877 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:20.559 I do wonder, you know, if Dwayne's lack of continued 878 00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.519 involvement traces to that promo, because that promo to me 879 00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:25.519 smacks of, oh, okay, you're gonna give me a little 880 00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:28.360 bit of leeway to call out Dwayne. I'm gonna say 881 00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:31.800 the kinds of things that he just can't come back from, 882 00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:34.039 you know, I'm gonna call out a lot of things 883 00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:36.239 that really kind of make him look like a goofball. 884 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:38.039 Why why can't Dwayne come back from that? 885 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:42.119 He just I don't think he's I don't think he's 886 00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:44.280 wired that way anymore. Maybe if he was live in 887 00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:47.639 the ring, but he's you know, Sina waylaid him on 888 00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:50.440 that second program they had when he called him out 889 00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:51.880 for writing things down on his hand. 890 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:53.679 Do you remember that? Have you heard about that story? 891 00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:53.960 No? 892 00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:56.000 Rock came out when they were doing all the promo 893 00:45:56.039 --> 00:45:58.519 battles for their second WrestleMania match, and they were great promos, 894 00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:00.840 but Rock had written some reminders down on his hand 895 00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:05.639 and seen a mention that in his promo and not yes. 896 00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:08.320 Rock did not okay that he did not expect that, 897 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:10.960 and he was frozen. You could tell he was like, 898 00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:14.199 I can't do the electrifying response to that one because 899 00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:16.719 that one actually pissed me off and I can't show 900 00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:17.480 that side of myself. 901 00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:20.519 You'd think that that would actually make him do better. Now, 902 00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:22.679 I think that when somebody kisses you off like that 903 00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:25.559 would actually that would actually stir the pod a little bit. 904 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:28.840 I think Punk has that in him. I think Sena 905 00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:30.920 has it in him. I think actually Seth Rollins is 906 00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:32.800 showing that he has that in him. I don't think 907 00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:35.840 Rock has that in him. It fully does, you know 908 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:38.079 when he goes to that place a flair, But I 909 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:39.840 just feel like with Rock it's kind of like, oh 910 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:42.280 wait a minute, I can't I can't give a Rock 911 00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.199 response to that one, and nobody you know, nobody wants 912 00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:47.880 to see Dwayne Johnson respond to something, you know, or 913 00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:50.519 least he doesn't want people to want that, whatever the 914 00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:53.199 case may be. But I thought that was just fascinating, 915 00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:56.519 and we didn't and after that, no one was mentioning 916 00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:59.199 Rock hardly at all. I think the next promo that 917 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:01.000 Cody didn't smack down, as we'll get to, he did 918 00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:03.000 mention Rock, and it still seemed like Rock was going 919 00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:06.400 to be part of the menager here. But now pretty 920 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:08.679 soon it was just no one was talking about him, 921 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:12.280 and I do have to wonder, you know, if he 922 00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:14.239 saw that, I was just like, fuck this, Like I'm 923 00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:17.320 walking into a situation. Wow, I am now cast as 924 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:19.880 somebody that is an interloper, you know what I mean. 925 00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:22.199 That's disappointing that he doesn't have the fucking balls to 926 00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:23.800 agree with that. 927 00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:26.800 That's a supposition on my part. I'm sure he would 928 00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:30.239 absolutely disagree with that characterization. Or I'm just looking at timelines. 929 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.920 I'm just looking at timelines all I'm doing and trying to, 930 00:47:33.079 --> 00:47:35.039 you know, suss out cause and effect. 931 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:42.360 He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and JP Sorrow. 932 00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:52.599 He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast. 933 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:55.920 So yeah, that that was just great and everybody was 934 00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:58.360 talking about that promo and what's the key Sino was 935 00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:01.039 not on this show yep, seen and did not talk, 936 00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:04.039 He did not appear yep. And it got the program 937 00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:06.000 over better than it ever did when he did pick 938 00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:08.800 up the microphone. Yes, I think we're going to agree 939 00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:11.800 with that assessment here as we go. Randy Orton did 940 00:48:11.880 --> 00:48:14.119 something similar on SmackDown that fredday it's not worth going 941 00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:17.159 over in this format because it really wasn't that electrifying 942 00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:19.360 or anything like that like Punks was. But he was 943 00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.239 also saying, you know, I just can't believe that we're 944 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.159 in this like world now, this almost twilight zone where 945 00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:27.440 John Sen isn't a good guy anymore. And he also 946 00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:30.039 took a page out of the book. If everyone needs 947 00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:32.000 to comment on this, right, if you're a long time 948 00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:35.679 star in the business, if you're a longtime WWE headliner, 949 00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:38.880 you have thoughts and feelings about the fact that John Cena, 950 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:43.119 the guy that carried the company and lived up to 951 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:47.280 this motto and this ethos for so many years now 952 00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:48.599 threw it all out the window. 953 00:48:48.679 --> 00:48:51.800 Ye should be everybody should be talking about it. I mean, 954 00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:53.880 they shouldn't talk about it every week. They should have 955 00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:56.039 just talked about it week one, because think about this too, 956 00:48:56.840 --> 00:48:58.599 you talk about, you know, everyone talking about Hulk Cogan, 957 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:03.559 you know, being being the guy and being and having 958 00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:08.800 all that, he had a shorter tenure as the top 959 00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:14.480 guy than John Cena did. John Cena turning heel happened 960 00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:18.199 twenty years right after he won his first World championship. 961 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:23.960 Hogan turned heel after twelve years after winning his first 962 00:49:24.079 --> 00:49:29.480 World championship. So, like, this is a huge moment, and 963 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.280 not for nothing. I'm safe to say that John Cena 964 00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:37.000 may invented more pay per views than Hogan ever did, 965 00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:40.239 just because of the of the way that the pay 966 00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:45.159 per view market changed, like we're talking about in not 967 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:48.719 in terms of name value or anything, but in some 968 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:54.239 ways a guy who surpassed Hulk Hogan in a number 969 00:49:54.320 --> 00:50:00.039 of ways in wrestling, not necessarily in mainstream culture, but 970 00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:04.000 although certainly had a better fucking close, better fucking movie 971 00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:05.440 career so far than Hulkogan never had. 972 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:08.880 You know, So so as somebody who like actually managed 973 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.719 to mean more to WW and the idea of the enterprise. 974 00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:16.079 Yeah, that Hogan a guy who was so fiercely loyal 975 00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:19.320 it was annoying. Yeah, it was annoying. 976 00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:22.159 And the thing is they were loyal back to him, 977 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:25.760 right right, you know, as much as he gave, they 978 00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:28.599 built everything around him, even when the crowd was telling 979 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:29.800 them to absolutely don't do this. 980 00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:35.199 Everybody should have been talking about him, Yes, everybody. 981 00:50:35.239 --> 00:50:37.400 Triple EH should have had something. And I don't know, man, 982 00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:39.239 I don't know about Triple H going on the press 983 00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:41.480 conference afterwards and talking about how it's a story and 984 00:50:41.559 --> 00:50:42.400 it's going to play. 985 00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:44.760 Out and we've got ideas and you know, it's one 986 00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:46.639 of the things that always makes me laugh. Blah blah. 987 00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:47.599 I don't know. 988 00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:49.400 I mean, it's funny to see Triple H do these 989 00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:54.119 interviews about like kind of being uncomfortable with giving away 990 00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:57.960 things about behind the scenes before they culminate, but afterwards 991 00:50:58.000 --> 00:50:59.760 it being okay, you know, after a few months you 992 00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:01.880 can look back and to which I agree with in 993 00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:05.880 theory for sure. Yet he also goes and he also 994 00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:09.199 went in on old wrestlers who do podcasts, who pine 995 00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:11.079 for the days of k fade and then they do 996 00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:13.880 podcasts giving the business away and all every secret of 997 00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:16.159 everything they used to do. A couple of things. One 998 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:18.519 I thought the passage of time was okay. How about 999 00:51:18.559 --> 00:51:20.679 forty years, Maybe that's an okay time to start talking 1000 00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:22.639 about it. If two months is okay and you'll book 1001 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.920 triple A. But at the same time, yeah, because they 1002 00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:27.639 want to make money, that's not all is about then, 1003 00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:29.480 and the fact that someone's willing to pay them to 1004 00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:31.480 tell the secrets is all it's about. 1005 00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:31.679 Now. 1006 00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:34.320 You know, these guys are not going to pass up books. 1007 00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:37.480 And if these things existed, if these ways to make 1008 00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.079 money off their experiences existed at the time ca Fabe 1009 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:41.760 was alive, and well they had taken the money then too, 1010 00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:43.920 we better believe it, or they would have leveraged it 1011 00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:46.599 to try to get another payday out of the wrestling business. 1012 00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:48.760 The threat to tell, you know, to kiss and tell, 1013 00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:49.440 so to speak. 1014 00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:50.599 So that that's that. 1015 00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:54.320 But I do think it hurts a little bit that that, 1016 00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:56.719 you know, that they got to walk around talking about 1017 00:51:56.800 --> 00:51:59.280 story and talking about this as being a plot line 1018 00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:01.320 and all that, like, you know, I. 1019 00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:04.440 Mean, yeah, but you know what, I think. I don't 1020 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:06.280 know that that didn't that wouldn't bothered me as much, 1021 00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:08.559 That wouldn't bothered me as much. That doesn't bother me 1022 00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:11.599 as much as I can I can deal with the 1023 00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:12.119 fact of. 1024 00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:14.960 Of like it takes away Triple H being able to 1025 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:17.159 express his personal disappointment. 1026 00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:20.440 Sure, and you know what, maybe he shouldn't. Maybe he shouldn't, 1027 00:52:20.599 --> 00:52:22.320 Maybe he shouldn't do it. If if that's if that's 1028 00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:24.199 the case, and he needs to go out and talk 1029 00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:27.840 about that, then he shouldn't talk about John Cena. It's interesting, 1030 00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:29.599 But you could have other people do it, for sure. 1031 00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:30.800 Imagine that. 1032 00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:33.840 Imagine if if Triple H, in all the media they 1033 00:52:33.880 --> 00:52:35.440 do for wrestling a New Week just said I'm not 1034 00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:36.599 going to talk about John Cena. 1035 00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:39.079 It just let him that. That'd be great. You imagine 1036 00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:41.280 how electric that would be. Love it. 1037 00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:44.320 But he's like in the Creator Road and all that ship, 1038 00:52:44.360 --> 00:52:46.239 and he's got to be seen as that kind of thing. 1039 00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:49.679 So you know, and the thing, the thing that that 1040 00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:54.079 I think would have is is so important when when 1041 00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:57.480 when Hogan turned heel, all right, when Hogan turned heel, 1042 00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:00.079 it wasn't just like people coming out. 1043 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.280 Talking about it. That was what everyone was talking about. 1044 00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:05.000 The commentators were talking about out the entire show. Yes, 1045 00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:06.920 that's what you gotta do. And it's like, yeah, you 1046 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:11.119 want to focus another but for two for a few weeks, 1047 00:53:11.440 --> 00:53:16.440 you can spend that time just talking about john sona if. 1048 00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:18.480 You have a once in a generation Hill turn yep, 1049 00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:23.639 that it justifies talking about little else for the entirety 1050 00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:28.679 of television between Raw and WrestleMania, the Rye after Elimination 1051 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:30.920 Chamber and WrestleMania in this I mean, they brought it 1052 00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:33.119 up every week, but it needs to be on everybody's 1053 00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:35.840 mind the whole time. Everyone on the roster needs to 1054 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:39.000 give their thoughts on it, and you keep seeing a 1055 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:41.599 sparse like it hardly hear from it. 1056 00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:43.920 And it made it great too because guys who had 1057 00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:47.039 nothing to do with Hogan were taking time to talk 1058 00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:50.159 about it, you know, That's how That's what made it 1059 00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:52.920 so impactful was that there were people who weren't even 1060 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:56.000 involved with any of his storylines since he came to WCW, 1061 00:53:56.679 --> 00:53:58.800 and they're talking about it because Hulk Hogan means that 1062 00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:01.679 much to so many people. John still that guy. 1063 00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:05.199 Case in point, after that fiery promo where Punk did 1064 00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:07.679 a better promo than I would argue either Cody or 1065 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:10.280 Seen It even came close to doing, and lead up 1066 00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:14.000 to the show about the heart of the matter, Punk 1067 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.440 right after what we just watched it turns his attention 1068 00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:19.320 to Seth Rollins. Seth Rollins come out, they brawl, and 1069 00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:21.360 we're on our way to setting up the Seth Roman 1070 00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:24.039 triple threat at WrestleMania for the Night one main event, and. 1071 00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:26.119 Like would have went great is if you know Seth 1072 00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:29.000 Rollins even comes out and says and says something like say, 1073 00:54:29.079 --> 00:54:30.719 you know, before you and I get started, I got 1074 00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:33.960 to say something too exactly. That's all it takes. Seriously, 1075 00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:35.960 it makes it, It makes it, It takes it above, 1076 00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:41.199 It makes it something more important than just like this match, and. 1077 00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:43.039 You spread it out over more than just one week. 1078 00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:45.519 You have six people on both shows that need to 1079 00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:47.840 comment on this, and for six weeks they say their 1080 00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:50.119 peace on it, you know what I mean? You drag 1081 00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:54.400 it out like I just can't emphasize enough how much 1082 00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:57.639 bigger this felt before seen his promo. Yeah, I'm not saying, 1083 00:54:57.679 --> 00:54:59.880 we'll see what we think about the merits of that 1084 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:03.119 first promo in and of itself judged by itself, but 1085 00:55:03.199 --> 00:55:05.800 given the alternative of him not talking, I think I 1086 00:55:05.880 --> 00:55:07.440 think I know where I fall in terms of what 1087 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:10.360 would have been the optimal and treatment here. But no, 1088 00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:13.800 I mean punk refocuses on Rollins and hardly ever mentioned 1089 00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:16.320 Sena again. The way he was looking at that camera 1090 00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:18.440 screaming like that, you would think the first second he 1091 00:55:18.519 --> 00:55:20.880 saw John Cena, he'd be jumping on and fucking ass right, 1092 00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:24.119 and that Cody who doesn't even attack Scenea the first 1093 00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:24.360 time he. 1094 00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:27.440 See That's what made And that's when that's when wrestling 1095 00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:30.760 is at its absolute best, in my opinion, is when 1096 00:55:31.880 --> 00:55:38.159 is when people aren't streamlined into their program that everything 1097 00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:42.920 affects everybody, that the whole show, that the whole promotion 1098 00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:46.960 is affected by everybody's actions and people, especially when something 1099 00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:50.239 this big happens. Yeah, like that's what made again the 1100 00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:55.400 NWS is that contect everybody? It wasn't just you know 1101 00:55:55.719 --> 00:55:58.239 a few people that that Hogan and Nash and Hall 1102 00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:01.880 were attacking. Should have been something like that, Like like 1103 00:56:04.599 --> 00:56:06.079 what's been great too? Is that is that? 1104 00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:06.400 You know? 1105 00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:06.559 What? 1106 00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:11.280 What if? What if too? We're not seeing John Cena, right, 1107 00:56:11.320 --> 00:56:13.400 we don't see Johnson. We go with the same format 1108 00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:16.719 that I that I suggest and rocks the guy. You see, 1109 00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:19.000 he comes out, he cuts the promos and says, you 1110 00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:23.360 know what. But at the same time, every now and again, 1111 00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:28.360 a wrestler specifically, maybe somebody who down the line during 1112 00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.840 this retirement tour that he's gonna that's Seena is gonna face. 1113 00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:35.280 All of a sudden, they cut to camera backstage and 1114 00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:38.079 somebody got beat up. Right, we don't know who it was, 1115 00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:42.559 but we can imply that it's John Cena, and that 1116 00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:48.960 John Cena is just attacking people all right, listen, lighting 1117 00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:51.320 the place on fire, right exactly like you know, this 1118 00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:55.360 is this is my fucking time. Have seen it come 1119 00:56:55.400 --> 00:56:57.079 out at the end of Raw for the first time, 1120 00:56:57.559 --> 00:56:59.960 four or five weeks after the turn, have seen him 1121 00:57:00.039 --> 00:57:02.079 Punk fly out of the locker room trying to kill 1122 00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:05.280 him and have Sina with some goons that cut off 1123 00:57:05.320 --> 00:57:08.400 Punk and lay him out while Sina stands there, stone 1124 00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:11.559 faced in a suit with the strap. Yep, well this 1125 00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:13.880 isn't the belt yet, but you know, with the look 1126 00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:15.480 and feel of a guy who's about to take this 1127 00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:18.000 whole goddamn thing over, even Rock can do it. Rock 1128 00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:19.639 can get some licks in with the belt. You know, 1129 00:57:20.559 --> 00:57:22.400 That's what the heat is. You know, I get as 1130 00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:24.840 people trying to get even with Sena and failing for 1131 00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:28.480 what he did. I'm getting I'm getting a I'm getting Honestly, 1132 00:57:28.559 --> 00:57:30.480 this is just happened to me. As we're talking about it. 1133 00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:34.440 I'm getting a bad feeling. What I'm getting a bad 1134 00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:43.400 feeling that we're gonna get a a A Hollywood Hogan 1135 00:57:43.960 --> 00:57:45.719 two thousand and two WWE thing. 1136 00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:49.119 During the course of the match. They're just gonna go 1137 00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:49.760 next for Sina. 1138 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:54.519 No, no, no, that John Seena is gonna lose, and 1139 00:57:54.679 --> 00:57:58.039 Cody's gonna shake his hand and they're gonna let bygones 1140 00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:00.519 be bygones and that's the end of the Johnston the 1141 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:01.159 Heel experiment. 1142 00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:10.679 Making me pretty depressed right now, Hey, what should they do? 1143 00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:17.920 He should go over incredibly strong? Yes, yeah, so strong? 1144 00:58:18.559 --> 00:58:22.800 Like like it I mean. And also it's it's a 1145 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:26.559 it's a situation where I wouldn't mind it because because 1146 00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:30.519 we've already been set up for it. It's not like 1147 00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:38.400 Austin Rock WrestleMania seventeen. I wouldn't mind him beating the 1148 00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:40.719 shit out of Cody with a fucking chair a million 1149 00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:44.760 times to win the belt, Like I wouldn't mind that 1150 00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:48.440 in this because because we're not expecting him to be 1151 00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:51.519 a good guy. We're not expecting like Steve Austin to 1152 00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:55.440 be Steve Austin. He's already done it. He's already like 1153 00:58:55.559 --> 00:59:00.880 he should just brutalize Cody Rhodes. I'm in a perfect world. 1154 00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:03.760 I know this isn't gonna happen in a perfect world. 1155 00:59:03.800 --> 00:59:05.880 And this is the only way, this is the only 1156 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:10.800 way to me that I would ever have Cody lose 1157 00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:14.039 this championship this early. Honestly, even though it's been a 1158 00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:17.960 year already, I still think, you know, after beating Roman, 1159 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:20.119 anyone who beats Roman needs to have the bell for 1160 00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:26.719 quite a while to keep the value up. But I 1161 00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:34.280 wouldn't I wouldn't be disappointed if Sina just fucking charges 1162 00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:37.880 Cody in the fucking aisleway, beats the crap out of 1163 00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:41.079 him for like ten minutes straight, just like lezarded to him. 1164 00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:45.559 Nothing Cody can do, can can affect this John scene 1165 00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:50.920 and just destroys Cody. Wow, because people are gonna want 1166 00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:55.559 to see Cody get revenge, unlike unlike Sena. And funny enough, 1167 00:59:55.599 --> 00:59:58.079 when when Lesnard destroyed him, no one wanted to see 1168 00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:02.760 seen him get revenge, you know, but like people will 1169 01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:05.760 want to see it happen, you know, And then you 1170 01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:07.920 can do that, and you can have Cody take a 1171 01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:10.800 little Codin's take a fucking you know, a little time 1172 01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:13.440 off and and and lick his wounds and then come 1173 01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:15.800 back stronger realizing that, you know what he took John 1174 01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:19.360 Cena for granted, he took this new John Cena for granted. 1175 01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:23.639 It's funny becausehen you tell about brutalizing, it's like that. 1176 01:00:24.199 --> 01:00:26.599 It's the perfect thing for the Sena that we saw 1177 01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:29.079 in the immediate aftermath of the heel turn in the 1178 01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:31.119 ring in Toronto, with that fucking. 1179 01:00:31.199 --> 01:00:34.159 Brutalized who brutalized Codin's roads. 1180 01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.719 He looked psycho. But the Sena that's communicated since the 1181 01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:40.679 Sena that's been in verbal battles with Cody, with Cody 1182 01:00:40.719 --> 01:00:43.719 ever since, that's not somebody that that's going to brutalize anybody. 1183 01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:45.119 I'm not not to say he couldn't do it when 1184 01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:48.679 we get to Vegas, but he dropped that whole component 1185 01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:52.920 of the character with that steely glad, that steely gaze. 1186 01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:55.320 I don't know why they let that happen. I mean 1187 01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:57.880 that was supposed to. He should have gone nuts, like 1188 01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:01.719 he shouldn't have, just like than justified with his intellectual 1189 01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:04.960 reasoning for all that fuck that he went nuts yeah, 1190 01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:06.440 out of that's what. That's what. 1191 01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:08.480 That's when you saw the money in his face and 1192 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:11.039 the elimination shape, when he showed this look he never 1193 01:01:11.159 --> 01:01:13.280 once ever showed you You've never seen even when he 1194 01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:16.400 was a heel, you never saw that look, right, Like 1195 01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:21.320 he was tapped. Yeah, like like like again, it's it's 1196 01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:26.920 it's no different. It's a better executed version of Austin 1197 01:01:27.239 --> 01:01:29.480 at WrestleMania seventeen because you know, in a weird way, 1198 01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:31.719 I think the heel turn would have been if you're 1199 01:01:31.719 --> 01:01:33.119 going to do it, I still don't think you should 1200 01:01:33.119 --> 01:01:34.360 have done it, but if you're going to do it, 1201 01:01:34.360 --> 01:01:37.079 it should have happened earlier. Happening at WrestleMania was the 1202 01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:40.800 biggest mistake, right, It's not just the idea, it's doing 1203 01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:44.599 it as the feature go home thing for WrestleMania, the 1204 01:01:44.719 --> 01:01:47.719 greatest WrestleMania like ever, right, and that way it's like no, 1205 01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:50.840 that's not no, right, it's totally It's one of the 1206 01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:55.000 reasons why I I I really it's still hurts to 1207 01:01:55.079 --> 01:01:59.519 call it the greatest WrestleMania because that finish, it just 1208 01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:04.440 leaves it's so sour, it's so bitter, even to this day, well, 1209 01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:06.119 if the rest of the show sucked and they did that, 1210 01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:07.239 it wouldn't be as tragic. 1211 01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:08.159 It would be. 1212 01:02:08.199 --> 01:02:10.280 Tragic, But the fact that it was such a wonderful 1213 01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:12.280 show and then ended that way it makes an extra tragic. 1214 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:14.960 Yeah, right, exactly. They had a kick ass show and 1215 01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:18.119 a kick assay to make you pissed off at the end, 1216 01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:21.880 right or underwhelmed, you know, right because you didn't have 1217 01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:25.679 a hot finish. It was a fucking awful finish. You know, 1218 01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:29.400 you want to see You want to see Austin attempt 1219 01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:33.199 to stunner and Rock kicks out of Rock pushed them away, 1220 01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:35.239 and then Rock goes for a rock bottom, but Austin 1221 01:02:35.559 --> 01:02:37.960 is able to break out of a kick stunner Pin one, 1222 01:02:38.039 --> 01:02:39.920 two three, Like, you want that kind of a finish 1223 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:40.199 with the. 1224 01:02:40.159 --> 01:02:40.559 Two of them. 1225 01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:44.079 You don't want a brutal or even you know, I 1226 01:02:44.519 --> 01:02:46.360 could have been I could have been okay with the 1227 01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:51.360 way that that Rock finished Austin in twenty nineteen twenty nine, 1228 01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:53.920 Yeah no, it was twenty two thousand and three three 1229 01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:59.199 WrestleMania nineteen. You know, I could have been okay with 1230 01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:02.280 with Rock not going down with one stunner and he 1231 01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:04.440 has to do like four stunners of the enour sunners, Yeah, 1232 01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:06.880 you know, in a row to get him, to get 1233 01:03:06.920 --> 01:03:08.000 him to lose. But I think that would have been 1234 01:03:08.039 --> 01:03:11.440 great too. But the heel turn, it's just. 1235 01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:14.519 Back to Punk quickly. One of the things I'm thinking 1236 01:03:14.639 --> 01:03:18.239 watching that back is like, look, we have to believe 1237 01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:20.440 in the Punk character. We can't believe that See Him 1238 01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:23.599 Punk really thinks that this match with Roman and Seth 1239 01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:25.239 Rollins is his WrestleMania main event. 1240 01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:27.880 It's not. He knows better than that. It's better, not 1241 01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:30.239 even as important as his match with Undertaker. He better 1242 01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:31.760 know better than that. I'll tell you that right now. 1243 01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:34.280 He better fucking know better than that, because if he 1244 01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:36.639 thinks that this is a main event, he's a fucking idiot. 1245 01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:38.000 Right well, well, we have to. 1246 01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:40.239 Believe he's a liar as a character now, because the 1247 01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:42.079 whole thing we can believe in with See Him Punk 1248 01:03:42.280 --> 01:03:44.400 is he's not going to tell us that something was 1249 01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:47.599 monumental unless we really, as fans that understand the business, 1250 01:03:47.679 --> 01:03:49.440 or at least like to think we do, see it 1251 01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:51.639 as monumental. He can't be selling us that. I mean, 1252 01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:54.960 if anything, what this says to me is that he 1253 01:03:55.079 --> 01:03:58.360 will never main event WrestleMania, for right, But that's where 1254 01:03:58.599 --> 01:04:00.920 that's where the money could be. Is he turns around 1255 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:03.719 and actually acknowledges that, or we might be headed as 1256 01:04:03.800 --> 01:04:06.000 this and I'm hoping I'm not just thinking this because 1257 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:07.639 we just happen to watch that promo which they have 1258 01:04:07.719 --> 01:04:10.400 memory hold, so they have not hardly referenced it since 1259 01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:13.039 it happened. Punk really, as far as I can tell, 1260 01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:17.039 has never really spoken on Sena, despite being so revolted 1261 01:04:17.079 --> 01:04:19.480 by him that the way he was acting there, the 1262 01:04:20.079 --> 01:04:22.280 first person who attacked John Cena should be see him Punk, 1263 01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:25.599 not even Cody Rhodes there but even said anything because 1264 01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:27.480 he was off on his own little journey with Roman Seth, 1265 01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:29.280 which has been a wonderful program in his own right. 1266 01:04:29.559 --> 01:04:31.880 But but yeah, it's the same thing. It's like, you 1267 01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:34.960 know again, they have these everything streamlined. Everything needs to 1268 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:36.559 be like you can't now you go in your own 1269 01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:39.000 lane now, right, you can't, you can't cross over. And 1270 01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:42.079 I've hated that. I've hated that. It's it's such a 1271 01:04:42.119 --> 01:04:45.400 disservice like that was that was the greatest thing about 1272 01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:47.760 the NWOS that it happened to everybody, everyone was affected 1273 01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:49.679 by it. And everyone should be affected by John Cena. 1274 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:52.760 And so Punk is in a position where if they 1275 01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:54.679 this is what they do with Punk, you know, you 1276 01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:57.280 go back to him saying, you know, that was not 1277 01:04:57.440 --> 01:04:59.480 he might win the triple Threat match. Then he comes 1278 01:04:59.480 --> 01:05:01.760 out and says, you're not gonna bullshit me that it's 1279 01:05:01.840 --> 01:05:03.960 not the reason I walked out. That is not the 1280 01:05:04.039 --> 01:05:06.159 reason I am cm Punk is to believe that that 1281 01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:08.960 was that was the real moment that I'm chasing. You 1282 01:05:09.039 --> 01:05:11.239 know what I'm chasing. Uh, And it's and when you 1283 01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:13.280 know it's rumble win title win, that's. 1284 01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:16.960 It, or even just it's it's it's it's being the 1285 01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:20.519 last match altogether of Wressell Marria for the championship. That's 1286 01:05:20.519 --> 01:05:21.679 the main event. That's right. 1287 01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:23.760 That doesn't have to be the Rumble, but that's necessary 1288 01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:25.480 that that's a helpful precursor to. 1289 01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:27.199 Sure of course, make it feel like they mean it. 1290 01:05:27.320 --> 01:05:29.400 And I think I think Punk winning a rumble would 1291 01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:30.079 be fantastic too. 1292 01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.159 I think the time is now. So he so he 1293 01:05:33.239 --> 01:05:35.440 wins the triple Threat and then he comes out. I 1294 01:05:35.480 --> 01:05:37.199 don't know if they'll do something with Hayman. I don't 1295 01:05:37.199 --> 01:05:39.440 know what they'll do. But then he comes out and 1296 01:05:39.519 --> 01:05:41.480 Sina wins the belt just like you said, and we're 1297 01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:44.920 all kind of believing that Punk's issues with with Sina 1298 01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:47.360 are in the past. And then Sina goes and maybe 1299 01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:49.960 defends in a rematch against Cody, and then Money in. 1300 01:05:49.960 --> 01:05:51.639 The No, No, I don't think. I don't think. I 1301 01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:53.840 don't think he's I think I think I think he 1302 01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:55.639 should be gone. I think Coden should be gone for 1303 01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:57.880 a while. He should go right away. 1304 01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:00.559 That was that was Yeah, okay, I'm saying it's time 1305 01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:02.480 to deemphasize Cody for a little bit because if he's 1306 01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:04.280 going to lose to Sena, if he doesn't get to 1307 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:05.880 win right back, it's really going to hurt him. So 1308 01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:09.119 he does disappear or maybe lose the rematch. I'll take 1309 01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:11.920 your point. But money in the bank and we're back 1310 01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:17.000 to the old scenario between Punk and Sena mean the bank, yep, 1311 01:06:17.559 --> 01:06:20.199 And he cashes in on Sena and we get the 1312 01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:22.000 rematch at like Summer Slam or something. 1313 01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:26.239 And then although part of me says Punk should be 1314 01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:29.519 the first one to go after it, honestly, there's part 1315 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:31.239 of me that says the title, yeah, he should be, 1316 01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:34.480 like it should be he should get him May and 1317 01:06:34.639 --> 01:06:37.000 June like it should be a multi month program the 1318 01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:39.559 two of them, like they have a few matches. 1319 01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:42.880 I like it, but I like the callback that Money 1320 01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:46.159 in the Bank is to their individual history. You might 1321 01:06:46.199 --> 01:06:47.960 even do it at Money in the Bank itself, like 1322 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:49.360 they had the match of winning the bank. 1323 01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:49.679 Yeah. 1324 01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:54.159 But and at that point, probably Sena still does go over, 1325 01:06:54.559 --> 01:06:57.559 and that's when Cody comes back to beat Sena when 1326 01:06:57.639 --> 01:06:59.719 last time, or maybe Cody comes back to beat Seen 1327 01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:02.159 at the end and a non title match and Punk 1328 01:07:02.199 --> 01:07:05.400 actually beats seen It for the belt. I'm not sure there, 1329 01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:09.519 but I actually prefer that Scena beats Punk in that match, 1330 01:07:09.800 --> 01:07:12.719 and then you have Cody beat Seene at the end 1331 01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:14.199 of the year to get the belt back. Seen It 1332 01:07:14.360 --> 01:07:16.119 just like you said, realizes the error of his ways 1333 01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:18.079 and marches off into the sunset, and we have that 1334 01:07:18.239 --> 01:07:21.599 moment where he can be a good guy again and 1335 01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:25.719 you know, an exit, and then you have Cody versus 1336 01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:30.199 Punk for the title at WrestleMania next year. Sure, I 1337 01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:31.880 think that might be where we have to go, but 1338 01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:35.000 who knows. I'm probably overthinking Punk's role on this because 1339 01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:38.320 they they kind of took a sharp turn after he 1340 01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:40.159 mentioned it once, but he probably did it for a reason, 1341 01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:43.000 and who knows where Dwayne factors in and all that. 1342 01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:48.440 So it's just all it's all poorly done. I haven't 1343 01:07:48.440 --> 01:07:54.000 even done it yet. All listen, I've got no I 1344 01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:58.280 don't on it. If they if they handled this again 1345 01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:03.800 as badly as I think they have based on that 1346 01:08:04.119 --> 01:08:08.320 Belgium promo, I've got no faith for them afterwards regarding 1347 01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:11.440 this John Cena thing and where they're going to go. 1348 01:08:12.280 --> 01:08:15.800 Let's see, let's see if maybe it was better than 1349 01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:18.760 you've been led to believe. So the next link I 1350 01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:22.279 sent you is to the March seventh SmackDown. And this 1351 01:08:22.439 --> 01:08:24.760 is the first time because with the exception of that 1352 01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:27.399 cmpunk screaming on the end of the camera, and you know, 1353 01:08:27.560 --> 01:08:30.479 references constantly made throughout that Monday night Rob broadcast to 1354 01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:32.239 what Sina had done and showing clips of all the 1355 01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:35.279 mainstream media coverage picked up and all the social media reactions. 1356 01:08:36.119 --> 01:08:38.399 Cody wasn't on the show and Sina wasn't on the show, 1357 01:08:38.720 --> 01:08:40.479 so they kept it open as to what Cody was 1358 01:08:40.520 --> 01:08:42.600 going to say and do. The first time Cody addressed 1359 01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:45.680 it was SmackDown that Friday in Usa, and here he is. 1360 01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:48.159 He comes to the ring. He puts the ww Championship 1361 01:08:48.399 --> 01:08:50.199 on the canvas in the center of the ring, and 1362 01:08:50.319 --> 01:08:54.239 he says the following if you're ready, boss, I am ready? 1363 01:08:54.640 --> 01:08:56.800 Three two one play? 1364 01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:03.960 So is the ring blue? Yes? On SmackDown it is 1365 01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:10.760 Jesus Christ. Oh, Philadelphia where he won the belt, see 1366 01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:18.640 like gray suit of champions. Yes, city of David Lynch. Oh, 1367 01:09:20.079 --> 01:09:22.319 what what have you said that? What have we said? 1368 01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:23.560 The city of David Lynch. 1369 01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:27.079 See the black eye he got from Travis Scott. 1370 01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:34.399 Obvious question with an obvious answer. It's the most watched 1371 01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:38.680 moment in WWE history and pro wrestling history. Okay, and 1372 01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:43.439 there I am laying on the bottom tasting my own blood. 1373 01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:48.119 What do you say to a little one not even 1374 01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:51.039 four years old when she looks up at you and says, Papa, 1375 01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:52.960 what happened to your face? 1376 01:09:57.399 --> 01:10:00.399 It's that a conversation that I mommy said, she doesn't 1377 01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:02.520 want to suck your dick anymore? What happened to your face? 1378 01:10:02.760 --> 01:10:06.079 Brother? So I do old what I can only classify 1379 01:10:06.199 --> 01:10:09.199 as a a cody lie. 1380 01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:13.039 Ooh, a cod And I ran into a wall? Brother? 1381 01:10:13.159 --> 01:10:15.000 How you you did? You ran into a wall all right, 1382 01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:16.079 entirely untrue. 1383 01:10:16.119 --> 01:10:21.279 I did run into the wall, a wall designed by 1384 01:10:21.359 --> 01:10:23.399 the final boss, the Rock. 1385 01:10:23.720 --> 01:10:25.079 So we're still mentioning him. 1386 01:10:30.119 --> 01:10:33.920 His associate, Travis Scott. 1387 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:41.399 Rocks fingerprints. You can still see that, yep. 1388 01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:51.439 And by my WrestleMania forty one opponent, John Sina. 1389 01:11:01.760 --> 01:11:07.399 You know, I drove John around for two years, from 1390 01:11:07.960 --> 01:11:09.920 show to show, from city to city. 1391 01:11:09.960 --> 01:11:12.439 All I was trying to do was sponge off every 1392 01:11:12.479 --> 01:11:15.800 bit of knowledge that I possibly could. I felt about John, 1393 01:11:15.880 --> 01:11:18.119 how many people here felt about John? 1394 01:11:18.640 --> 01:11:28.600 He who's a hero. So one day I'll tell her, 1395 01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:31.800 I'll tell her what actually happened. 1396 01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:37.079 I'll tell her that a great man who did great things, 1397 01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:39.840 who was my model in this sport, who was the 1398 01:11:40.039 --> 01:11:43.439 very definition of the word virtuous, a man who used 1399 01:11:43.439 --> 01:11:45.439 to run to the ring with a T shirt and. 1400 01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:48.920 Blazon on it the slogan never give up. I'll tell 1401 01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:51.000 her he gave up. 1402 01:11:53.399 --> 01:12:03.079 Good lie. Yeah, and I gave up on being a 1403 01:12:03.119 --> 01:12:05.560 good person. Yes, I apologize for. 1404 01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:11.800 Any language you might have heard. I'm doing everything I 1405 01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:15.399 can to maintain my composure in this moment. John, If 1406 01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:17.359 you don't owe it to me, I believe you owe 1407 01:12:17.399 --> 01:12:19.279 it to them. We'd all love to know. 1408 01:12:21.439 --> 01:12:27.279 Why. And see he shouldn't have gotten his answer. Why, Yeah, agreed, 1409 01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:29.640 And if I. 1410 01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:33.960 Know my old friend John Cena, well, I'm sure it 1411 01:12:34.039 --> 01:12:38.960 will be a very smooth, well educated, well crapped retort, 1412 01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:42.000 a signature amount of phrases. 1413 01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:45.079 He'll probably say speech at some point in there. 1414 01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:50.680 He will feel bulletproof, he will feel infallible, he will 1415 01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:51.920 feel justified. 1416 01:12:52.279 --> 01:12:56.800 There is no justification for you. John Sina. 1417 01:13:02.359 --> 01:13:05.239 Codins is hoping that some Hollywood agents are watching him 1418 01:13:05.279 --> 01:13:07.520 right now. I am oh, yeah, well aware. 1419 01:13:09.560 --> 01:13:14.680 I am talking to the whole world right now. However, 1420 01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:21.399 for those in this room tonight. 1421 01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:28.840 This room, he says, that's a new one. He's working 1422 01:13:28.920 --> 01:13:30.760 the room. Yeah, you know this story. 1423 01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:33.880 You might have heard it from me in an interview 1424 01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:37.159 at some point in the past. This was the one 1425 01:13:37.279 --> 01:13:40.079 place that my old man was afraid to perform in. 1426 01:13:40.319 --> 01:13:41.880 He's the grandson of a plumber. 1427 01:13:42.479 --> 01:13:45.760 One time painted his face like the Road Warriors, so 1428 01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:48.000 that he knew he was cool, so that you knew 1429 01:13:48.079 --> 01:13:50.880 you could cheer for him. I never shared that same 1430 01:13:51.039 --> 01:13:55.479 fear because, for reasons unknown, one time mustache on my 1431 01:13:55.600 --> 01:14:00.000 face climbing alas money in the bank, briefcase for reasons unknown. 1432 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:03.880 You cheered for me, You chose me, get saddled up, 1433 01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:05.000 and you rode. 1434 01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:09.439 With me, roads with him. He's good about making like 1435 01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:12.279 moments we all forgot about means something I don't even fuck. 1436 01:14:12.279 --> 01:14:14.520 I remember him maning the money in bank match at all, just. 1437 01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:17.960 Across the street, trying to finish a story that started 1438 01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:19.039 in the late seventies. 1439 01:14:19.319 --> 01:14:22.359 Get cheered for me, that one I remember. Yeah, yeah, 1440 01:14:22.359 --> 01:14:25.319 I remember being shows me my ass off for that. Yeah, 1441 01:14:25.800 --> 01:14:27.920 a great delivery there. You chose me again. A little 1442 01:14:27.960 --> 01:14:29.319 bit of his dad in that. Yeah, that's good ship. 1443 01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:31.000 He's good. A little bit of a preacher man in 1444 01:14:31.079 --> 01:14:38.359 that knows how to get him on his side. Man 1445 01:14:38.680 --> 01:14:47.359 sad face look at him. Yeah, speaking of Crussomania forty 1446 01:14:48.199 --> 01:14:49.840 also scene it came out. 1447 01:14:51.479 --> 01:14:53.119 He didn't turn the audio up. 1448 01:14:54.239 --> 01:14:57.159 My old friend John Cena, and the ring celebrated my 1449 01:14:57.279 --> 01:14:58.760 friends and my family. 1450 01:14:58.920 --> 01:15:01.319 He looked at me, he pointed. 1451 01:15:01.039 --> 01:15:04.760 At the title, and I will never forget what he said. 1452 01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:21.760 He said, it gets heavier every day. Well, John, here 1453 01:15:21.880 --> 01:15:27.760 I am holding this championship. It is not heavy enough. 1454 01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:30.199 Here. 1455 01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:33.479 I am holding this championship as I have done for 1456 01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:36.239 the last three hundred and something days. 1457 01:15:36.640 --> 01:15:39.520 John, I know you're watching. I know that you think 1458 01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:42.840 that your successor had to look like you, had to 1459 01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:45.279 talk like you, had to be like you had to 1460 01:15:45.359 --> 01:15:47.239 live like you. Well, the next one. 1461 01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:49.760 Doesn't look like the last one, John, and you are 1462 01:15:49.960 --> 01:15:52.680 convinced that you are the last of your kind. 1463 01:15:52.800 --> 01:15:53.199 You are not. 1464 01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:56.760 I am standing right here, I am holding this above 1465 01:15:56.840 --> 01:15:57.880 my head as. 1466 01:15:57.760 --> 01:16:01.039 If it weighs nothing, and I wrestle forty one. 1467 01:16:01.439 --> 01:16:05.359 I will do the same, John Cena. Clearly you want 1468 01:16:05.520 --> 01:16:06.800 some come. 1469 01:16:07.119 --> 01:16:08.439 And some. 1470 01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:19.720 Damn butts, eat some pie, I said my dad. Yeah, good, 1471 01:16:19.880 --> 01:16:24.079 great promo. And it doesn't make me kept it alive? Yeah, 1472 01:16:24.520 --> 01:16:26.880 it keeps it very much alive, very much alive. 1473 01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:29.119 So what's the move from there? When he says what 1474 01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:34.880 he says? Do you think what should have happened? Yes, 1475 01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:40.000 because I'm happy so far. Yes, I think the next 1476 01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:48.039 move is again, I think they I don't know the 1477 01:16:48.119 --> 01:16:51.560 next move. He wants to see John Cena. He wants 1478 01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:54.760 John Cena. He needs to call out John Cena and 1479 01:16:54.920 --> 01:17:00.760 John Cena doesn't show. Yes, yep, that's good for another week, Yep, yep, absolutely, 1480 01:17:01.239 --> 01:17:05.279 and then that is what happens, but not in a 1481 01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:07.600 way where Cody expresses frustration about it. 1482 01:17:07.760 --> 01:17:10.000 Right, Cody has to be led on to think is 1483 01:17:10.399 --> 01:17:15.840 exactly and then again you know, uh uh, it becomes 1484 01:17:16.239 --> 01:17:22.800 it's he's announced maybe for that Belgium raw that he's 1485 01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:27.960 going to be there. Codins comes down, and then we 1486 01:17:28.039 --> 01:17:31.159 get the Rock, Oh my god, perfect, we get the 1487 01:17:31.279 --> 01:17:34.840 Rock absolutely perfect, like even you know, actually we actually 1488 01:17:34.880 --> 01:17:38.119 even be funny. Actually would be great is if they 1489 01:17:38.239 --> 01:17:46.479 play scene as theme and Rock comes down instead. That'd 1490 01:17:46.520 --> 01:17:48.239 be a riot. And what does Rock say to him? 1491 01:17:49.239 --> 01:17:52.960 I mean, I think Rock, I think I think you 1492 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:55.680 can come up with a million excuses. I think I 1493 01:17:55.760 --> 01:17:59.680 think having playing up the Hollywood thing is what is 1494 01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:02.600 an another element that's missing? I think the idea of 1495 01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:05.840 like I mean talking about he could even say, look, 1496 01:18:05.840 --> 01:18:07.279 I got him, I got him a part in a movie, 1497 01:18:07.319 --> 01:18:09.600 and he just couldn't show I got him apart in 1498 01:18:09.640 --> 01:18:11.680 this next year, he's got a movie coming up. I 1499 01:18:11.720 --> 01:18:13.800 got him a role on this thing, and and you know, 1500 01:18:14.000 --> 01:18:16.159 unfortunately it just you know, it just happened to you know, 1501 01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:18.560 coincide with this time, so he couldn't be here, but 1502 01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:21.239 I'm here to talk to you, you know, And he 1503 01:18:21.319 --> 01:18:23.039 says some ship and then he and then I've got it. 1504 01:18:23.079 --> 01:18:24.960 I've got his ear these days, Cody. Right, So if 1505 01:18:24.960 --> 01:18:26.600 you got something to say to John Cen, you can 1506 01:18:26.640 --> 01:18:27.079 say it to me. 1507 01:18:27.159 --> 01:18:32.520 You can listen. I'm his representative. Oh right. 1508 01:18:32.600 --> 01:18:35.600 And then that casts that intimidates Cody because it's like, yeah, 1509 01:18:35.640 --> 01:18:37.399 he actually is the boss. That's that's what put me 1510 01:18:37.439 --> 01:18:39.479 in this position in the first place, right because Rock 1511 01:18:39.520 --> 01:18:41.439 still is supposed to be mad that Cody said, go 1512 01:18:41.520 --> 01:18:46.159 fuck yoursefe remember that, right, So like Rock is you know, 1513 01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:49.000 I think that's that be so fucking money that Rock 1514 01:18:49.199 --> 01:18:53.800 is the representative here for John Cena, you know, and 1515 01:18:54.039 --> 01:18:55.720 you know whatever, even if he's not feeling a movie 1516 01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:57.800 who cares like you know, some bullshit, it could be 1517 01:18:58.119 --> 01:18:59.680 I mean, it'd be me great, you know you could 1518 01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:02.520 I and then I'll tell you what. Another thing I 1519 01:19:02.560 --> 01:19:05.039 forgot to mention before that we did talk about is 1520 01:19:05.119 --> 01:19:08.279 if you know, if you need to show Sena in 1521 01:19:08.439 --> 01:19:13.680 some way, I think you know you you you the 1522 01:19:13.840 --> 01:19:17.239 cameras were brought to Hollywood, yes, you know, we're brought 1523 01:19:17.279 --> 01:19:19.880 to a movie studio and we tried to get it 1524 01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:22.239 and like you see Sina in the like they zoom 1525 01:19:22.319 --> 01:19:24.720 in he's not actually talking about he like you see him, 1526 01:19:24.880 --> 01:19:27.279 he's coming out, he's coming out of NOBU right exactly. 1527 01:19:27.399 --> 01:19:29.319 Or he's like he's in the studio and you can't 1528 01:19:29.359 --> 01:19:32.159 get past security. Yes, you know, the cameras can't get 1529 01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:35.560 past security, and you see like a glimpse of him somewhere. 1530 01:19:36.880 --> 01:19:39.680 You know that TMZ thing, right that that would be 1531 01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:41.920 such a revolutionary thing to introduce. We've talked about how 1532 01:19:41.960 --> 01:19:44.079 money of an idea it is. We're like the wrestler. 1533 01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:48.079 The wrestler is only caught up to and and caught 1534 01:19:48.159 --> 01:19:51.439 on camera one wrest one ww's and on television. Yeah, 1535 01:19:52.119 --> 01:19:55.319 like you you just create these these fake moments where 1536 01:19:55.640 --> 01:19:57.479 you know he's being spotted in public, and you can 1537 01:19:57.560 --> 01:19:59.720 even do real ones. I mean, imagine how viral it 1538 01:19:59.720 --> 01:20:02.520 would if we haven't seen seen on TV for four 1539 01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:05.319 weeks after he did this, and like some fan catches 1540 01:20:05.399 --> 01:20:08.239 him in a you know, on purpose walking around Hollywood 1541 01:20:08.279 --> 01:20:10.119 or something and runs up on him and tries to 1542 01:20:10.119 --> 01:20:12.399 ask him a question. Yeah, I'm like, just the thing 1543 01:20:12.439 --> 01:20:15.680 gets hit, you know, like like like that, you know, 1544 01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:17.600 they get this thing and then and see it just 1545 01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:21.600 punches whoever it is and the camera dies, the feed dies, 1546 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:24.840 you know, like, yeah, I always think of like an 1547 01:20:24.920 --> 01:20:27.600 organic real fan and knowing that that would happen and 1548 01:20:28.239 --> 01:20:30.159 using that, I mean, that works too. I think, I 1549 01:20:30.199 --> 01:20:31.880 think I think you could mimic that and have it 1550 01:20:31.960 --> 01:20:33.520 be a thing, and then like and seeing that, like 1551 01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:36.439 again you don't hear a word from his mouth and 1552 01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:39.279 and you don't even get a really a crystal clear 1553 01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:41.399 glimpse of him, because again you don't want to spoil 1554 01:20:41.479 --> 01:20:46.359 the look so good. And actually what you could have 1555 01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:48.439 done too, what you could do actually, which would be 1556 01:20:49.039 --> 01:20:51.560 which would be great, is that you could pre tape 1557 01:20:51.600 --> 01:20:52.239 all these things. 1558 01:20:53.239 --> 01:20:54.760 True, you know, you can pretaate them so that you're 1559 01:20:54.760 --> 01:20:57.359 airing them as they as they come along and acting 1560 01:20:57.399 --> 01:21:00.600 as if they're you know, current. But that way you're 1561 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:02.239 not spoiling the look. He can look like his old 1562 01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:04.199 self with his hair and his clean shaven face, and 1563 01:21:04.239 --> 01:21:07.640 that when he when he comes out at WrestleMania, bald beard, 1564 01:21:07.680 --> 01:21:08.840 and it's like, what the fuck? 1565 01:21:09.880 --> 01:21:11.600 And you could also pre tape with Rock too, if 1566 01:21:11.720 --> 01:21:14.439 Rock not being available as an excuse, you know, yeah, 1567 01:21:14.600 --> 01:21:16.880 you could. Basically it's not as great as him coming 1568 01:21:16.920 --> 01:21:18.079 out in Brussels. 1569 01:21:17.880 --> 01:21:20.359 But you know, you would do something. But but but 1570 01:21:20.439 --> 01:21:23.279 you don't be great. You know what Be's with his 1571 01:21:23.399 --> 01:21:26.079 new client right he's on set, and you get it. 1572 01:21:26.159 --> 01:21:27.680 You get because I'll tell you. One of the things 1573 01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:32.159 that I used to love about nineties uh uh raw 1574 01:21:33.119 --> 01:21:39.640 is when someone communicated via the Titan tron huge that 1575 01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:45.199 it was such a great tool where they would argue 1576 01:21:45.239 --> 01:21:48.479 with the screen and it was so great, and I 1577 01:21:48.520 --> 01:21:51.800 think it was undervalued. I mean, they don't do that anymore. 1578 01:21:51.800 --> 01:21:54.079 And how great would it be if if, if if 1579 01:21:54.119 --> 01:21:57.359 you did have this kind of via satellite thing where 1580 01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:01.760 Rock's talking to to Codin's on set that you know, 1581 01:22:01.840 --> 01:22:05.319 he's in a director's chair sitting there. I mean, and 1582 01:22:05.399 --> 01:22:07.279 you know crew members are walking by him and stuff 1583 01:22:07.279 --> 01:22:09.720 like that. It's like, you know, I don't know. 1584 01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:11.800 I just got my man a new a new film 1585 01:22:12.840 --> 01:22:18.760 with Universal Studios. We're talking about another fast Furious. We're 1586 01:22:18.800 --> 01:22:23.800 talking big deals, big deals happening. The Final Boss always 1587 01:22:23.880 --> 01:22:28.960 signs big deals, the biggest deals in the world, you know, 1588 01:22:29.159 --> 01:22:31.199 like just ship like that and it'd be great. 1589 01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:35.199 Can you even have you could I'm losing my mind now, 1590 01:22:35.399 --> 01:22:39.000 you could even have Ari come out. Ari could be like, yeah, 1591 01:22:39.079 --> 01:22:41.399 you know, Dwayne, We're really excited about what we think 1592 01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:43.199 we can do here with John. So he's part of 1593 01:22:43.279 --> 01:22:46.039 that power structure. Yeah, like, hey, you know, I'm I'm 1594 01:22:46.079 --> 01:22:48.880 glad we you know we got we got seen it 1595 01:22:48.960 --> 01:22:50.479 in here. You know, he's part of the He's part 1596 01:22:50.520 --> 01:22:50.960 of the team. 1597 01:22:52.479 --> 01:22:52.680 Yeah. 1598 01:22:52.680 --> 01:22:55.560 You think Ari's a big wrestling fan. Get his response 1599 01:22:55.680 --> 01:22:59.239 to participating in foolishness like that. Now you'll realize how 1600 01:22:59.479 --> 01:23:04.399 how seriously he takes this thing. So great stuff, I mean, 1601 01:23:04.520 --> 01:23:07.119 just fucking amazing. Another thing, I hope, just like I 1602 01:23:07.199 --> 01:23:09.039 was saying, I really hope that this didn't end up 1603 01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:11.119 being the version of this program we got just because 1604 01:23:11.119 --> 01:23:14.319 they wanted to sell the European Tour merchandise. I also 1605 01:23:14.399 --> 01:23:16.920 hope this didn't play out the way it did because 1606 01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:19.359 they decided for some fucking reason to put a European 1607 01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:22.479 tour between Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania this year. Now, the 1608 01:23:22.560 --> 01:23:25.199 crowds were very enthusiastic, and they were super hot, but 1609 01:23:25.279 --> 01:23:28.520 I'm sorry, John Cena needs to give his explanation in 1610 01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:30.479 the garden, and they were in the garden like a 1611 01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:33.319 week the night before the night after this, or two 1612 01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:36.439 weeks after this. He needs to give his real He 1613 01:23:36.479 --> 01:23:38.199 needs to give his reason to Chicago. He needs to 1614 01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:40.960 give his reason before an audience that isn't just going 1615 01:23:41.039 --> 01:23:44.239 to go completely insane no matter what they were given 1616 01:23:44.279 --> 01:23:46.680 by ww on this show. Those are the shows where 1617 01:23:46.680 --> 01:23:48.800 you just give them the basics because it's going to 1618 01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:50.840 be an incredible atmosphere and that does the work for you. 1619 01:23:51.640 --> 01:23:54.960 It's really hard to tell if this is working when 1620 01:23:55.640 --> 01:23:57.800 scene is appearing before these European crowds that are going 1621 01:23:57.840 --> 01:23:58.520 to go ep shit. 1622 01:23:58.600 --> 01:24:01.800 Right, what right? It's really uh, it's really and that 1623 01:24:01.960 --> 01:24:06.079 that's a big mistake and they know it. That's a 1624 01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:11.800 big fucking mistake that they that that that that they 1625 01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:15.560 you know, because any any they're excited to see everybody. 1626 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:20.680 So I just don't I think it was a bad 1627 01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:23.439 It's a bad move altogether. I think so. 1628 01:24:23.560 --> 01:24:25.640 I think it costs them in a lot of ways, 1629 01:24:26.399 --> 01:24:27.960 to say nothing of the fact. Do you remember when 1630 01:24:28.000 --> 01:24:29.920 I broke the news to you that because they were 1631 01:24:29.960 --> 01:24:32.039 in Europe on Netflix for the first time, that they 1632 01:24:32.039 --> 01:24:33.479 would be live at two o'clock. 1633 01:24:33.199 --> 01:24:35.720 In the afternoon. Yeah, Oh, that's just miserable. 1634 01:24:36.119 --> 01:24:38.279 Just so, this scene of promo and Brussels was already 1635 01:24:38.279 --> 01:24:40.600 old news by the time Prime Time rolled around that 1636 01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:43.399 Monday night to anybody who was following on social media. 1637 01:24:43.159 --> 01:24:45.439 Which yeah, I listen. I read about it at like 1638 01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:46.000 three o'clock. 1639 01:24:46.680 --> 01:24:48.199 I mean, what are you guys doing? What are you 1640 01:24:48.239 --> 01:24:52.239 guys doing? There's no seen as explanations. I mean at 1641 01:24:52.239 --> 01:24:55.920 two o'clock in the afternoon on the mind awful, it's 1642 01:24:56.000 --> 01:25:00.520 such bad business. And knowing that they had what was 1643 01:25:00.560 --> 01:25:02.720 a Chicago coming up, they couldn't have just waited and 1644 01:25:02.800 --> 01:25:04.920 not put him on the European tour, done exactly what 1645 01:25:05.039 --> 01:25:07.119 you said and had a perfect reason and just not 1646 01:25:07.239 --> 01:25:09.319 have him talk on it. But we got all this 1647 01:25:09.439 --> 01:25:13.319 merchandise in the warehouse Russian space with the Belgium flag. 1648 01:25:13.520 --> 01:25:17.520 You think they're not gonna buy it because he's not there, 1649 01:25:18.680 --> 01:25:22.840 Come on, people were gonna People were gonna buy all 1650 01:25:22.880 --> 01:25:26.359 that shit anyway because he turned heel. If he knows shows, 1651 01:25:26.680 --> 01:25:29.079 people are still gonna buy it, especially because guess what 1652 01:25:29.239 --> 01:25:30.239 now it's a collector's item. 1653 01:25:30.279 --> 01:25:31.920 Here's a stroke of genius. I was just thinking, as 1654 01:25:31.960 --> 01:25:35.319 you're talking about this, the stroke of genius is this 1655 01:25:35.479 --> 01:25:37.399 only adds to the this only adds to the program. 1656 01:25:38.000 --> 01:25:39.960 Wwe is like, fuck, we got all this stuff we 1657 01:25:40.039 --> 01:25:42.720 printed thinking everyone was gonna be happy to see John 1658 01:25:42.760 --> 01:25:45.920 Cena in Scotland and Belgium and Italy and wherever fuck 1659 01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:49.560 else he went. We're still gonna make it available in 1660 01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:54.720 its own perverse way. It's it's limited edition, one, one 1661 01:25:54.800 --> 01:25:57.520 of a kind item, because you know, it's not like 1662 01:25:57.640 --> 01:25:59.760 Sena is ever gonna wear these shirts and try to 1663 01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:01.720 sell them to you ever. Again, we don't know what 1664 01:26:01.880 --> 01:26:05.039 to do at WWHQ with all this stuff. If you're 1665 01:26:05.079 --> 01:26:07.560 coming to one of these European tour shows, be sure 1666 01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:11.159 to grab these shirts. Even though you're not supporting John 1667 01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:13.560 Cena by doing it, you're just kind of getting a 1668 01:26:13.720 --> 01:26:17.279 keepsake of what could have been. It's almost like, you know, 1669 01:26:17.399 --> 01:26:20.399 like a defect baseball card that gets out into the market, 1670 01:26:20.560 --> 01:26:22.920 you know, and it becomes like this huge collector's item 1671 01:26:22.960 --> 01:26:25.640 because there's a mistake and they pulled it back, so 1672 01:26:25.760 --> 01:26:28.680 it's like rare. You know, you two can get the 1673 01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:31.399 shirts we printed thinking John Sena was going to be 1674 01:26:31.439 --> 01:26:34.560 a hero, but he doesn't even show up. Yeah, I 1675 01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:39.640 actually exactly that exactly, but you know, who are we know? 1676 01:26:40.279 --> 01:26:43.840 So that's Cody's promo and It's very solid. It keeps 1677 01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:45.920 it alive. I was worried that if he was just 1678 01:26:45.960 --> 01:26:48.119 going to address Sena in kind of like a vacuum, 1679 01:26:48.920 --> 01:26:51.840 that it wouldn't work out. But I'm still hooked. He's 1680 01:26:51.880 --> 01:26:54.279 saying the right things. He's keeping me interested in seeing 1681 01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:56.680 what scene is going to turn around and say. So 1682 01:26:56.800 --> 01:26:59.359 the next link I've sent you is to me, at 1683 01:26:59.439 --> 01:27:02.760 least having watched this stuff play out the first time. 1684 01:27:02.840 --> 01:27:07.840 It got a little awkward because Cody on Friday, you know, 1685 01:27:08.039 --> 01:27:10.720 basically lays the gauntlet down, says the things to get 1686 01:27:10.800 --> 01:27:14.000 under John Cena's skin, you know, calls into question his 1687 01:27:14.119 --> 01:27:17.760 whole ethos and his whole self image, tries to preemptively 1688 01:27:18.039 --> 01:27:21.119 counter what the things Sina would be saying and speechifying 1689 01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:24.039 around justifying his actions and going right ahead and saying 1690 01:27:24.079 --> 01:27:26.159 before you even try, John, there is no justification. 1691 01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:26.880 I love all that. 1692 01:27:27.600 --> 01:27:31.159 But then before Sena offers the retort, Cody's back on 1693 01:27:31.359 --> 01:27:35.399 raw Monday, still talking, And that to me is it 1694 01:27:35.520 --> 01:27:37.680 makes Cody look just a little bit weak because you 1695 01:27:37.760 --> 01:27:39.560 already said everything you had to say, and you drop 1696 01:27:39.680 --> 01:27:42.079 the mic until Sena responds. 1697 01:27:42.359 --> 01:27:43.880 But I'll tell you, but here's the thing, though. This 1698 01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:45.920 is why I don't mind it. I mean, we'll see 1699 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:49.000 what he says here, because he should be like, where 1700 01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:54.039 are you? Man? Yes, I'm not like I said it 1701 01:27:54.119 --> 01:27:55.920 all last week, but you're not here? Where are you? 1702 01:27:56.479 --> 01:27:58.520 This is a fucking garden, by the way. The next Monday, 1703 01:27:58.560 --> 01:28:00.239 this is where Sena should have done his speed in 1704 01:28:00.359 --> 01:28:03.199 New York City. You know what I mean, if you're 1705 01:28:03.199 --> 01:28:05.000 gonna do it. Yeah, but I guess you know. The 1706 01:28:05.239 --> 01:28:08.159 schedule they had drawn up for him so stupid before 1707 01:28:08.279 --> 01:28:11.520 they did the heel turn didn't include him working enough enough, 1708 01:28:12.159 --> 01:28:12.720 scene enough. 1709 01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:16.560 So here it is. If you're ready, I'm ready. I'm ready, Cody. 1710 01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:18.680 The Monday, after what we just heard, taking the mic 1711 01:28:18.760 --> 01:28:26.319 again in John Cena stead three two one play, Oh 1712 01:28:29.600 --> 01:28:30.600 some let's go Sena. 1713 01:28:31.880 --> 01:28:37.119 Fun things happen when it's live on Netflix, So go 1714 01:28:37.279 --> 01:28:40.880 ahead with all that John Cena sitting somewhere watching him. 1715 01:28:41.479 --> 01:28:42.399 Let's let him hear it. 1716 01:28:55.840 --> 01:28:56.279 What I did. 1717 01:28:56.359 --> 01:28:58.840 But Gruge just didn't go on social media where he 1718 01:28:58.920 --> 01:29:03.479 took to x and he said, have the discipline to 1719 01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:06.640 do what needs to be done, even if you don't 1720 01:29:06.720 --> 01:29:07.399 feel like it. 1721 01:29:09.039 --> 01:29:13.239 Yeah, he did send that obnoxious tweet. That's cool, agreed, you. 1722 01:29:13.239 --> 01:29:16.199 Ever, that teacher that you wanted to be challenged by 1723 01:29:16.800 --> 01:29:19.640 that mentor that you accepted their lessons even though they 1724 01:29:19.680 --> 01:29:23.680 were almost spiteful and jarring. That coach that stands on 1725 01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:26.000 the sideline while you're in the midst of the fight, 1726 01:29:26.279 --> 01:29:28.279 while you're in the midst of the game, and they're 1727 01:29:28.319 --> 01:29:29.359 still calling plays. 1728 01:29:29.600 --> 01:29:32.039 At a certain point, you have to look over and 1729 01:29:32.159 --> 01:29:34.239 you have to say, John, sit. 1730 01:29:34.199 --> 01:29:36.960 Down, you goddamn moron. 1731 01:29:42.359 --> 01:29:48.640 Best for business, best for business? Right, nobody, nobody defined 1732 01:29:48.720 --> 01:29:52.760 best for business more than John Cina. But I don't know. 1733 01:29:53.560 --> 01:29:58.720 There's almost seventeen thousand people in here tonight more than that. 1734 01:29:58.880 --> 01:30:02.119 Howdy they so shut the fuck up, guys. 1735 01:30:03.359 --> 01:30:09.920 What's best for business? Perhaps the business has changed. I'll 1736 01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:14.239 tell you. It's always tacky to tout stats and the 1737 01:30:14.359 --> 01:30:17.119 carnival bark, But here's a stat that will never be 1738 01:30:17.880 --> 01:30:21.119 It is simply one man's delusion, one man's fantasy. 1739 01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:22.920 And that is seventeen. 1740 01:30:27.319 --> 01:30:28.199 How he looks at the. 1741 01:30:30.119 --> 01:30:30.960 Does not happen. 1742 01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:36.079 But what does happen is I get the heartbreaking privilege 1743 01:30:36.680 --> 01:30:40.920 of beating my hero in his last chance. Why he 1744 01:30:41.119 --> 01:30:47.560 finds out what the rest of you already no and 1745 01:30:47.680 --> 01:30:52.279 he finds it out in real time. John, I'm the 1746 01:30:52.399 --> 01:30:55.159 captain now New York. 1747 01:30:55.680 --> 01:30:56.800 God bless you guys. 1748 01:30:57.159 --> 01:30:57.640 Good naight. 1749 01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.199 Toddy Roads has always wanted to be the quarterback of 1750 01:31:02.279 --> 01:31:03.159 Dudley Juddle ye. 1751 01:31:03.079 --> 01:31:05.279 Wie, and that is where he is now. It padded 1752 01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:06.039 forty nights. 1753 01:31:06.319 --> 01:31:09.760 He chases on John Cena Cena chasing history and a 1754 01:31:09.880 --> 01:31:15.239 seventeenth record breaking world championship for that man, Cody Roadstairs. 1755 01:31:14.720 --> 01:31:21.359 In his way the quarterback. I don't know about that, 1756 01:31:21.520 --> 01:31:24.479 but I mean, I don't really understand why all of 1757 01:31:24.520 --> 01:31:28.239 a sudden, instead of him being mad at John Cena 1758 01:31:28.359 --> 01:31:30.479 for beating the shit out of him and humiliating him 1759 01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:33.399 and turning his back on everything he ever believed in, 1760 01:31:33.880 --> 01:31:36.920 now it's about whether he's the top guy in the 1761 01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:41.680 company or not. That's weird, Like Cody shouldn't be thinking 1762 01:31:41.840 --> 01:31:45.439 because Sina hasn't said anything about this. Yeah, Sina hasn't 1763 01:31:45.479 --> 01:31:48.439 said anything about how Cody doesn't deserve to be the 1764 01:31:48.520 --> 01:31:49.239 face of the company. 1765 01:31:49.279 --> 01:31:52.000 He hasn't said a word. But Cody is like intuiting 1766 01:31:52.079 --> 01:31:54.159 that that's what this is about out of nowhere. Instead 1767 01:31:54.199 --> 01:31:57.159 of just being vengeful, I pissed off. 1768 01:31:57.600 --> 01:31:59.279 It could have played if he said, is that why 1769 01:31:59.359 --> 01:32:01.279 you did what you if he asked the question like 1770 01:32:01.399 --> 01:32:04.159 you know, because that's that's where it's coming. That that's 1771 01:32:04.239 --> 01:32:07.640 really what what matters is why why did he do 1772 01:32:07.760 --> 01:32:09.640 what he did? And I think that could be actually 1773 01:32:09.680 --> 01:32:12.920 an interesting thing, you know, if that could have been 1774 01:32:12.960 --> 01:32:16.199 played out very well with the whole idea that john 1775 01:32:16.239 --> 01:32:19.880 I've called you out, man, I've I've I've come out 1776 01:32:19.880 --> 01:32:23.239 here several times and you still don't show up. Where 1777 01:32:23.279 --> 01:32:24.880 are you at? Why did you do what you do? 1778 01:32:25.159 --> 01:32:27.920 Like that, you know, and and and like coming up 1779 01:32:27.960 --> 01:32:30.319 with a different theory every week would be kind of interesting, 1780 01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:33.880 like is this why you did it? Is it because 1781 01:32:33.920 --> 01:32:37.079 of this? Is because I'm the face? Now? Is that 1782 01:32:37.159 --> 01:32:39.319 what the problem is? You have an issue with that? Like, 1783 01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:41.680 I don't know. I think it could be that it 1784 01:32:41.760 --> 01:32:43.680 could be it could be interesting the way like again 1785 01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:49.439 that way, I think I think the less of Johnson 1786 01:32:49.600 --> 01:32:53.760 that we that you see the better in the situation, 1787 01:32:53.920 --> 01:32:55.600 like you can use X, you can use it and 1788 01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:58.199 oh it's great. I mean that's what your whole idea was. 1789 01:32:58.239 --> 01:33:01.399 That he do these obnoxious tweet that he used to do. 1790 01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:03.039 He used to do those right the self help one 1791 01:33:03.039 --> 01:33:06.600 that you're talking about that and he kind of did, 1792 01:33:06.680 --> 01:33:08.920 and that's what Cody leaned into right there, but he 1793 01:33:08.960 --> 01:33:10.720 only kind of did it once. I feel like it 1794 01:33:10.760 --> 01:33:12.840 would have been that would have been better just sending 1795 01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:16.520 these motivational tweets the whole time instead of ever appearing 1796 01:33:16.600 --> 01:33:18.359 before the people. Honestly. Yeah. 1797 01:33:18.960 --> 01:33:21.359 But he wrote the one that Cody was responding to, 1798 01:33:21.439 --> 01:33:23.880 which I guess was sent between his SmackDown promo on 1799 01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:25.840 Friday night and the one we just heard on Monday night. 1800 01:33:26.399 --> 01:33:28.560 Sina wrote, have the discipline to do what needs to 1801 01:33:28.640 --> 01:33:31.520 be done, especially when you don't feel like it. That's 1802 01:33:31.680 --> 01:33:32.640 just like so obnoxious. 1803 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:35.800 Yeah, And it got all kinds of engagement because now 1804 01:33:35.920 --> 01:33:38.760 it's like he's knowingly doing it. Now, it's like Sina 1805 01:33:39.359 --> 01:33:43.199 gets that that's obnoxious and he's he's doing it, and 1806 01:33:43.279 --> 01:33:45.960 Cody's leaning into that. But I just feel like this 1807 01:33:46.159 --> 01:33:49.439 was when he chose the quarterback language and the whole like, 1808 01:33:49.479 --> 01:33:51.199 you don't think I'm supposed to be the guy. It's like, 1809 01:33:52.359 --> 01:33:54.439 I don't know, I just I think seeing I think 1810 01:33:54.520 --> 01:33:57.600 Cody should have been much more bloodthirsty and much more 1811 01:33:57.960 --> 01:34:02.319 just mad that he got humiliated then reading into it 1812 01:34:02.399 --> 01:34:07.960 all this stuff about Sina. Scena hasn't said these things yet. Yeah, Yeah, 1813 01:34:08.079 --> 01:34:11.239 to make Cody just turn tact like this and he 1814 01:34:11.279 --> 01:34:14.960 didn't really say like you said, where are you right? 1815 01:34:15.840 --> 01:34:15.960 Right? 1816 01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:17.920 Good night in New York. At the end, it's like 1817 01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:20.279 this is just like it's almost like we're in New York. 1818 01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:21.840 So we got to get Cody in front of the people. 1819 01:34:24.159 --> 01:34:25.840 You don't do those kind of pat things when you're 1820 01:34:25.840 --> 01:34:27.720 in the middle of a generational program like this. You 1821 01:34:27.800 --> 01:34:30.039 have to mind those kind of details. So I thought 1822 01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:33.279 this was a first jump the shark kind of hint 1823 01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:35.680 here I'm I'm saying it's it was the first time 1824 01:34:35.720 --> 01:34:38.760 where things didn't feel like they were kept above water. 1825 01:34:38.840 --> 01:34:40.960 They sunk just a little bit where it was like 1826 01:34:41.079 --> 01:34:44.159 why is he why is there? Why is he speaking again? 1827 01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:46.640 Nothing's happened. Yeah, it kind of makes him look a 1828 01:34:46.640 --> 01:34:48.920 little desperate. It makes him look like he wants to 1829 01:34:49.000 --> 01:34:50.880 keep it alive more than John Cena wants to keep 1830 01:34:50.920 --> 01:34:51.279 it alive. 1831 01:34:53.399 --> 01:34:58.680 He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and Jpro. 1832 01:35:06.680 --> 01:35:09.039 He's the lapsed fan wrestling podcast. 1833 01:35:09.359 --> 01:35:12.319 We're gonna go there, We're gonna go to Belgium. We're 1834 01:35:12.359 --> 01:35:13.439 going to go to the first. 1835 01:35:15.119 --> 01:35:18.680 Promo that John Cena cut after turning heel out the 1836 01:35:18.680 --> 01:35:21.479 elimination chamber first time he appeared before the people, and 1837 01:35:21.640 --> 01:35:24.600 like you said, boss As, I'm providing you the link here. 1838 01:35:24.640 --> 01:35:26.000 These are all on YouTube, by the way, which is 1839 01:35:26.039 --> 01:35:28.680 one thing I've been happy to discover during the course 1840 01:35:28.720 --> 01:35:31.479 of preparing for the special report is that they actually 1841 01:35:31.560 --> 01:35:34.479 do do a great job at WWE of putting like 1842 01:35:34.720 --> 01:35:37.199 the key stuff on YouTube. Because you think, like, oh, 1843 01:35:37.239 --> 01:35:40.279 it's all behind like the you know, the paywall of 1844 01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:43.279 like you know, the on demand of your cable system 1845 01:35:43.319 --> 01:35:45.319 for SmackDown, or you've got to get Netflix to be 1846 01:35:45.359 --> 01:35:47.039 able to watch raw and certainly you do to watch 1847 01:35:47.119 --> 01:35:50.000 the whole thing, but they put full segments on there, 1848 01:35:50.039 --> 01:35:53.199 and they put them uncensored. So if if Cody goes, 1849 01:35:53.279 --> 01:35:57.239 you know, if Saampunk goes on Netflix, bullshit. If you 1850 01:35:57.319 --> 01:35:59.880 watch it back on Netflix, it's bleeped because they want 1851 01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:03.680 to favorably rate the replay, I think from a content 1852 01:36:04.600 --> 01:36:07.479 moderation perspective. But when you go on YouTube, they keep 1853 01:36:07.520 --> 01:36:11.840 it totally uncensored on ww's native YouTube channel, and so 1854 01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:13.359 that's good. So you can do you can kind of 1855 01:36:13.439 --> 01:36:16.920 revisit things this way without having to load four different apps, 1856 01:36:16.960 --> 01:36:18.439 because I was like, we're gonna If we're gonna do this, 1857 01:36:18.520 --> 01:36:21.199 we've got to open Peacock, We've got to open Netflix. 1858 01:36:21.520 --> 01:36:24.439 You've got to find a way to get SmackDown YEP, 1859 01:36:24.800 --> 01:36:27.159 which isn't really on any streaming service except Peacock on 1860 01:36:27.199 --> 01:36:30.039 a ninety day delay, so we wouldn't get the latest. 1861 01:36:31.119 --> 01:36:34.680 But here it is, and you're pacing right, you're ready. Yeah, 1862 01:36:34.840 --> 01:36:38.079 this is what you wanted. Well, not really, I wanted 1863 01:36:38.119 --> 01:36:40.960 him to wait. Well, I'm not saying what he did. Yeah, right, 1864 01:36:41.039 --> 01:36:44.039 but yeah I was. I was like, I was sitting 1865 01:36:44.119 --> 01:36:48.359 there and I watched I didn't watch the thing, but 1866 01:36:48.479 --> 01:36:51.880 I waited for the show to be over. I'm not 1867 01:36:51.880 --> 01:36:55.119 gonna fucking listen. They got me one time on Netflix 1868 01:36:55.119 --> 01:36:58.199 because I had to, and that was it. Wow. But 1869 01:36:58.479 --> 01:37:02.159 I so I was waiting until it came out and 1870 01:37:02.279 --> 01:37:04.680 I wanted to see you know what it was on 1871 01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:06.520 YouTube and that's what I did. I waited for that 1872 01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:10.199 and then I saw this travesty. 1873 01:37:10.479 --> 01:37:12.399 It's an underplayed part of it too, is this is 1874 01:37:12.439 --> 01:37:16.399 the first mania built up on Netflix, and you know 1875 01:37:16.560 --> 01:37:21.359 they're doing these European time to shows and smacked. You know, 1876 01:37:21.479 --> 01:37:24.279 the numbers are telling a very confusing story that numbers 1877 01:37:24.279 --> 01:37:26.840 such as they exist for streaming in Netflix, are telling 1878 01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:30.239 a very confusing story where it's like numbers haven't really 1879 01:37:30.399 --> 01:37:32.640 grown at all since they've been on Netflix, even through 1880 01:37:32.680 --> 01:37:35.920 the Rumble season, even on the road to WrestleMania. It's 1881 01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:37.640 kind of weird. It's like it's hard to tell if 1882 01:37:37.680 --> 01:37:40.600 anyone cares or if it's just do they lose a 1883 01:37:40.640 --> 01:37:42.520 bunch of people who don't want to sign up for Netflix. 1884 01:37:42.600 --> 01:37:46.079 Don't forget how remarkably old that the Raw audience was 1885 01:37:46.560 --> 01:37:48.600 just like all of cable television, you know above, fifty 1886 01:37:48.680 --> 01:37:51.720 five was like a huge number, which is like, not 1887 01:37:51.880 --> 01:37:55.279 the people that are necessarily going to figure out how 1888 01:37:55.279 --> 01:37:57.159 to use Netflix just to continue five. 1889 01:37:57.199 --> 01:38:00.199 Oh yeah, No one wants to fucking do that down. 1890 01:38:00.279 --> 01:38:03.479 Ratings, which of course have remained on traditional linear television, 1891 01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:06.399 have have held up quite well since Raw moved to Netflix, 1892 01:38:06.479 --> 01:38:08.760 indicating and naw's ratings got a little bit of a bump. 1893 01:38:08.800 --> 01:38:10.920 It indicates that people who want to watch wrestling on 1894 01:38:11.000 --> 01:38:14.640 regular television as we've known it aren't going to watch 1895 01:38:14.760 --> 01:38:17.439 Raw anymore. They're just going to watch what's still on 1896 01:38:17.479 --> 01:38:18.279 regular television. 1897 01:38:18.319 --> 01:38:20.720 Yeah, I think Netflix was the dumbest fucking move that 1898 01:38:20.800 --> 01:38:21.239 could have made. 1899 01:38:21.840 --> 01:38:24.279 I mean, Vince lapsed. Vince took the stage at our 1900 01:38:24.319 --> 01:38:26.159 show last year and said, this is what the peak 1901 01:38:26.159 --> 01:38:26.560 feels like. 1902 01:38:26.640 --> 01:38:29.319 Pal. I know the deal looks great, I know it 1903 01:38:29.439 --> 01:38:31.319 feels like everything, But Cody winning the belt. 1904 01:38:31.439 --> 01:38:31.800 This is it. 1905 01:38:32.279 --> 01:38:36.720 This is It's downhill from here. Yep, not precipitously, but 1906 01:38:36.800 --> 01:38:38.560 it's not going to keep climbing. And as we're on 1907 01:38:38.600 --> 01:38:41.720 the precipice of Wrestlmania forty one and we're just about 1908 01:38:41.720 --> 01:38:43.399 to get into the meat and potatoes of their big 1909 01:38:43.479 --> 01:38:46.479 idea to make this a special show, gotta say, and 1910 01:38:46.720 --> 01:38:50.079 everybody knows it in their bones. Nowhere close to the 1911 01:38:50.159 --> 01:38:52.760 feeling we would have had this close to WrestleMania forty. 1912 01:38:54.000 --> 01:38:57.479 Twenty six minute segment. Holy shit, Yeah it did. 1913 01:38:57.560 --> 01:39:00.319 It took a lot of different uh dudes to the 1914 01:39:00.479 --> 01:39:02.840 entrance as well, which is important for this because it's 1915 01:39:02.840 --> 01:39:05.239 the first time a live crowd reacts to John Cena's 1916 01:39:05.359 --> 01:39:08.079 entrance since the heel turn. Ye, so let's waste no time. 1917 01:39:08.399 --> 01:39:10.479 Three to one play. 1918 01:39:17.720 --> 01:39:22.039 That's a reaction, that's a react. Yeah, listen, it's great, 1919 01:39:22.920 --> 01:39:27.199 don't get me wrong. It would have been better with 1920 01:39:27.319 --> 01:39:30.399 different music. And now what do you see? I'm disappointed 1921 01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:33.880 as all fuck because I see him in his fucking jeorts, 1922 01:39:34.359 --> 01:39:37.960 he's wearing his stupid fucking shirt, he's wearing hisid fucking 1923 01:39:38.039 --> 01:39:41.039 hat like it's just and he's got a fucking like 1924 01:39:41.079 --> 01:39:43.079 he's got his little stupid towel as well, Like it's 1925 01:39:43.119 --> 01:39:49.039 just it's just pathetic. It's just a disappointment. Yeah, let's here, 1926 01:39:49.119 --> 01:39:51.560 at boss, what are you seeing? I mean, listen, they 1927 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:56.119 are they are screaming. John Cena sucks like at a 1928 01:39:56.279 --> 01:39:58.680 volume you've never seen before. 1929 01:40:01.399 --> 01:40:02.079 Will kill it. 1930 01:40:02.279 --> 01:40:07.359 But like you look at this isn't this John Sena 1931 01:40:07.399 --> 01:40:09.720 that we saw elimination Chamber. This is a This is 1932 01:40:09.800 --> 01:40:13.319 a bitch ass John Cena, Right, you know I was like, 1933 01:40:13.479 --> 01:40:20.760 oh yeah, you guys fucking shuck. Who wants to see that? Right? Yeah? 1934 01:40:20.840 --> 01:40:23.439 This is not a transformed man. No, this is a 1935 01:40:23.680 --> 01:40:31.600 This is a man who's disappointed in everybody the last time. 1936 01:40:31.720 --> 01:40:36.119 Now stop it, stop it. Sena should be talking about 1937 01:40:36.159 --> 01:40:38.880 now I hurt you fans yep, as opposed to why 1938 01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:46.560 did you hurt me? And while this is you even 1939 01:40:46.640 --> 01:40:49.079 hear the Belgian accent thing you can't, I know. 1940 01:40:49.399 --> 01:40:51.600 But while this is an amazing reaction, the point is, 1941 01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:54.000 if you watch the rest of this Raw, they responded 1942 01:40:54.079 --> 01:40:55.760 just as explosively to everything else. 1943 01:40:55.600 --> 01:40:58.239 Too, of course, I mean, because it's exciting, but. 1944 01:41:00.760 --> 01:41:03.199 Yeah, this is on a higher decibel than anything else 1945 01:41:03.279 --> 01:41:07.000 they responded to. But still it's Yeah, it's frustrating that 1946 01:41:07.039 --> 01:41:10.000 you have to grate on a curve when deciding if 1947 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:12.439 how over this this is or is I mean, look 1948 01:41:12.479 --> 01:41:15.560 at his saw, his red socks, his sneakers. 1949 01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:17.960 Well, he's one of the same fucking goofy shit and 1950 01:41:18.039 --> 01:41:21.199 it's so stupid. His knee pads. He's not even gonna wrestle, 1951 01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:25.159 he's got knee pads on. But it's all right, he's 1952 01:41:25.199 --> 01:41:27.159 got the line in his back pocket about how he's 1953 01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:29.800 not going to give us the satisfaction of a new look. Yeah, 1954 01:41:29.920 --> 01:41:34.680 but you know what that's like, that's not okay, Like 1955 01:41:39.039 --> 01:41:42.399 I mean, they're even saying, let's go Seina. Yeah, that 1956 01:41:42.479 --> 01:41:46.119 was an interesting wrinkle. And you heard Cody there on 1957 01:41:46.239 --> 01:41:48.079 that Raw promo kind of lay out when some of 1958 01:41:48.119 --> 01:41:52.880 the garden crowd is channing, let's go. So like the 1959 01:41:53.000 --> 01:41:56.199 picture of his face there was dumb ass, his fucking 1960 01:41:56.319 --> 01:41:59.520 dumbo ears. Look at that ship. I'm looking at the 1961 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:04.000 hard came with his hat looking like I am being proud, 1962 01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:08.800 I am being persecuted, Messiah complex. You know, that's like 1963 01:42:08.880 --> 01:42:12.479 the worst. Not what we want. We want a scene 1964 01:42:12.560 --> 01:42:15.119 on his front foot. We want to see a cockier 1965 01:42:15.239 --> 01:42:24.399 than ever, not a scene of that's contemplatively disappointed. This 1966 01:42:24.560 --> 01:42:26.720 is powerful. He's like that. He's just standing in the 1967 01:42:26.760 --> 01:42:31.920 middle of the ring and just taking the abuse. That's 1968 01:42:31.960 --> 01:42:34.039 what he says afterwards, and it's like, Okay, he's not 1969 01:42:34.159 --> 01:42:36.039 going to be This isn't going to light a fire 1970 01:42:36.159 --> 01:42:39.640 under him. It's just going to inspire a lecture, you know, 1971 01:42:40.119 --> 01:42:45.239 a history lesson. I don't like how they think promo 1972 01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:49.319 should be history lessons. I tend to not like that. 1973 01:42:57.000 --> 01:43:02.840 Huh yeah, I mean he is just a fucking joke. Yeah, 1974 01:43:02.880 --> 01:43:06.479 he looks like a total joke. He should have come 1975 01:43:06.520 --> 01:43:12.319 out looking like an adults. Instead, it was like he 1976 01:43:12.399 --> 01:43:14.520 looks like somebody who had like four kids in it 1977 01:43:14.640 --> 01:43:16.600 when he was like by the time he was twenty 1978 01:43:16.640 --> 01:43:20.840 two years old, right, I never got a job at 1979 01:43:20.880 --> 01:43:22.880 like AutoZone and dresses like this for the rest of 1980 01:43:22.960 --> 01:43:25.920 his life. God bless AutoZone and all of our good 1981 01:43:26.640 --> 01:43:28.560 listeners who work there. I'm just you know what I mean. 1982 01:43:29.000 --> 01:43:31.279 It's supposed to be a superstar, millionaire. 1983 01:43:31.039 --> 01:43:33.439 Someone who's properly ground in. 1984 01:43:33.479 --> 01:43:36.239 Water that he reads the tweet. That was a good idea. 1985 01:43:36.600 --> 01:43:38.880 That's good. See. I don't like that face. He shouldn't 1986 01:43:38.880 --> 01:43:40.079 be smiling at all. 1987 01:43:40.199 --> 01:43:43.520 They shouldn't have to look outside themselves for a pop. 1988 01:43:48.600 --> 01:43:52.560 I don't like that face. No, this again why he 1989 01:43:52.600 --> 01:43:56.600 should not be speaking. He should not be speaking until 1990 01:43:56.640 --> 01:43:59.359 he actually has formed like a face, because now we 1991 01:43:59.439 --> 01:44:01.880 realize he's gon to kind of sound the way he's 1992 01:44:01.920 --> 01:44:05.079 always sounded. Right, right, that's not what we want. 1993 01:44:08.159 --> 01:44:10.600 You are making this so easy for me. 1994 01:44:13.439 --> 01:44:14.399 I like that. You see. 1995 01:44:14.600 --> 01:44:17.920 For twenty five years, I've been. 1996 01:44:17.920 --> 01:44:24.079 The victim history lesson time, Okay, I have been. 1997 01:44:23.960 --> 01:44:27.000 The victim of an abusive relationship. 1998 01:44:28.119 --> 01:44:30.359 He should have No, he should have said it was 1999 01:44:30.439 --> 01:44:33.680 Nicky Bella. She said what he should have said, it 2000 01:44:33.720 --> 01:44:37.840 was Nicky Bella. Yeah, you have lost your time to 2001 01:44:37.960 --> 01:44:42.920 talk moral high ground. He's got rise above hate on 2002 01:44:42.960 --> 01:44:45.119 the side of his hat while he's being hated more 2003 01:44:45.159 --> 01:44:48.239 than any person. Yeah right, be on TV. Right again, 2004 01:44:48.359 --> 01:44:49.680 it's all like, it's so hard. 2005 01:44:49.880 --> 01:44:52.239 What do you do with it? All you do is 2006 01:44:52.359 --> 01:44:53.000 be hurtful. 2007 01:44:53.880 --> 01:44:56.840 All you are is abusive, and all you've ever done 2008 01:44:56.960 --> 01:44:59.680 is bully me in being your damn puppet. 2009 01:45:00.119 --> 01:45:02.479 Expected me to do it with a smile on my face. 2010 01:45:03.039 --> 01:45:18.960 Bully me. Yeah, don't make it about the fans exactly. 2011 01:45:19.319 --> 01:45:23.439 It has to be about you, not them. God, I'm 2012 01:45:23.479 --> 01:45:30.439 so sick of that ship man holding the mic to 2013 01:45:30.520 --> 01:45:31.800 the crowd like CEC. 2014 01:45:32.199 --> 01:45:40.319 So very classy, thank you. Oh look, I am not 2015 01:45:40.720 --> 01:45:41.720 a baby face. 2016 01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:46.880 Oh god, you know we should bring out the terminology 2017 01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:52.880 just for this programs. I'm a human being. It's like, 2018 01:45:53.159 --> 01:45:55.359 I'm not what it was like the fucking Roman Reigns line. 2019 01:45:57.199 --> 01:45:59.199 I'm not I'm not a good guy. I'm not a 2020 01:45:59.239 --> 01:46:01.600 bad guy. I'm a I'm the guy. Like, shut up, 2021 01:46:02.319 --> 01:46:05.880 look at him, beg people to boo him. Go ahead. 2022 01:46:05.920 --> 01:46:07.600 You've been awful and it's. 2023 01:46:07.479 --> 01:46:11.000 Been the same damn noise for twenty. 2024 01:46:10.760 --> 01:46:13.960 Five years, No, twenty years, twenty years and twenty week. 2025 01:46:14.479 --> 01:46:17.520 Oh you let me know really loud that you hated me. 2026 01:46:18.079 --> 01:46:20.000 It's such a weird time to have this fit because 2027 01:46:20.000 --> 01:46:22.600 he's been a lot. Right, this could have happened like 2028 01:46:22.720 --> 01:46:25.239 at the ten year mark, but not twenty man he 2029 01:46:25.319 --> 01:46:27.119 had he should have been more clever and found a 2030 01:46:27.199 --> 01:46:29.399 way to like fold that in, like, yeah, you did. 2031 01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:30.760 You have embraced me lately. 2032 01:46:31.119 --> 01:46:34.119 I mean I think of embarrassment, moments of shame. 2033 01:46:34.239 --> 01:46:36.640 I think talking about how they cheer him now is 2034 01:46:36.720 --> 01:46:38.560 a better thing, like you guys cheered me now. 2035 01:46:38.560 --> 01:46:41.479 All of a sudden, I went and I changed myself, 2036 01:46:41.800 --> 01:46:43.520 hoping that you would like me a little bit. 2037 01:46:43.720 --> 01:46:46.319 And it worked for a second, but then it wasn't enough. 2038 01:46:47.920 --> 01:46:50.840 See that's that's not true. It was enough, right, but 2039 01:46:50.920 --> 01:46:51.840 it's definitely enough. 2040 01:46:52.159 --> 01:46:55.199 I worked hard like I always do, and I started 2041 01:46:55.279 --> 01:46:55.640 to win. 2042 01:46:56.399 --> 01:46:58.399 Oh he's talking about further back, Okay, I. 2043 01:46:58.479 --> 01:47:02.800 Said, and win and win and win and win and 2044 01:47:03.079 --> 01:47:05.079 win and win and win. 2045 01:47:07.640 --> 01:47:10.960 Oh I won a lot. I don't think he should. 2046 01:47:12.039 --> 01:47:14.039 I don't think he should yell either. I think him 2047 01:47:14.119 --> 01:47:18.960 I think him talking calmly and like a mistake, almost monotone, 2048 01:47:19.000 --> 01:47:26.159 would be way better and very almost psychotic. Screaming he's screaming, 2049 01:47:27.560 --> 01:47:32.000 this would be more confident. Right, But what he did 2050 01:47:32.199 --> 01:47:38.000 was the righteous move right now, It's almost like he's 2051 01:47:38.359 --> 01:47:40.399 he's reacting as someone who knows he shouldn't have done 2052 01:47:40.399 --> 01:47:44.399 what he did, you know, right, right right, It's almost 2053 01:47:44.439 --> 01:47:45.760 like he's got his tail between He's like, look what 2054 01:47:45.880 --> 01:47:48.439 you made me do? Like, no, that's not the we need. No, 2055 01:47:49.439 --> 01:47:53.359 you stupid motherfuckers. The whole time, you know I could 2056 01:47:53.399 --> 01:48:00.720 do this to you. You're making my point for him moments. 2057 01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:02.359 What's the only thing I can do? Right? 2058 01:48:02.680 --> 01:48:08.800 I could walk away? What a great example. 2059 01:48:08.880 --> 01:48:11.319 They go from chanting shut the f up to cheering 2060 01:48:11.399 --> 01:48:12.720 when I say I'm gonna walk away. 2061 01:48:13.720 --> 01:48:15.119 What same thing. 2062 01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:18.479 So I announced my retirement in a move that has 2063 01:48:18.680 --> 01:48:22.159 never been done before. I'm actually walking away at the. 2064 01:48:22.239 --> 01:48:22.800 End of this year. 2065 01:48:23.039 --> 01:48:25.359 That's not true. People have walked away when they say it. Sometimes, 2066 01:48:26.239 --> 01:48:27.520 Flair one. 2067 01:48:27.520 --> 01:48:30.079 Last time to get along with you, guys, I tried 2068 01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:31.000 one last. 2069 01:48:30.800 --> 01:48:36.399 Time and it was working. No, no one did anything 2070 01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:41.920 since you came back to face Roman Range in SummerSlam 2071 01:48:42.039 --> 01:48:44.920 that year. They've loved you, so knock it off. I 2072 01:48:45.039 --> 01:48:48.399 know he's just like accessing, like this age old thing. 2073 01:48:50.319 --> 01:49:02.800 Say it's like get out of here, like you're boring. Yeah, 2074 01:49:02.840 --> 01:49:06.600 it's like, no one rejected the retirement tour. Nobody hated 2075 01:49:06.600 --> 01:49:08.920 the idea. Yeah, no, nobody's nobody's hated him in a 2076 01:49:09.039 --> 01:49:14.399 long time, in years, with every breath, I remember the 2077 01:49:15.119 --> 01:49:18.119 the life coming out of it, watching this problem. Yeah, ye, 2078 01:49:18.359 --> 01:49:24.000 it is really where he's going yourself. Don't make it 2079 01:49:24.039 --> 01:49:26.319 about them, That's just the thing. Don't make it about them, 2080 01:49:26.359 --> 01:49:31.520 Make it about yourself. You this, I don't mind. I 2081 01:49:31.520 --> 01:49:33.600 don't mind this. This is fine, But like he should 2082 01:49:33.640 --> 01:49:35.560 have done it. He should have, like he should have 2083 01:49:35.600 --> 01:49:38.840 built up to this moment, Like I like the idea 2084 01:49:38.840 --> 01:49:41.159 of blaming the fans for only taking, Like that's great, 2085 01:49:41.439 --> 01:49:45.640 that is great, but it should have been about him, him, 2086 01:49:45.800 --> 01:49:49.319 him and him him, and then you take. You don't 2087 01:49:49.359 --> 01:49:54.800 give me anything, and so I'm gonna take. Now, I'm 2088 01:49:54.840 --> 01:49:58.439 gonna take the belt from your fucking hero because I 2089 01:49:58.600 --> 01:49:59.119 want to take. 2090 01:50:00.479 --> 01:50:02.680 Not one of you sons of bitches asked me how 2091 01:50:02.800 --> 01:50:03.279 I feel? 2092 01:50:03.920 --> 01:50:08.479 Also, we don't know if it's also the hurt feelings 2093 01:50:09.640 --> 01:50:12.079 we get? What do we get? 2094 01:50:12.760 --> 01:50:16.680 What we Yeah, it's almost like you're selling an entertainment product. 2095 01:50:17.279 --> 01:50:21.239 Yeah, what do we get? You seen? Have you seen 2096 01:50:21.319 --> 01:50:23.199 the what you have earned? 2097 01:50:23.960 --> 01:50:27.439 What you have earned is nothing. 2098 01:50:28.960 --> 01:50:30.800 Have you seen the have you seen the meme that 2099 01:50:31.039 --> 01:50:35.000 they uh, they they talk about John Cena going full 2100 01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:39.159 Willy Wonka, and they showed Gene Wilder because he goes, 2101 01:50:39.600 --> 01:50:44.239 you get nothing. It's really funny there he goes. You 2102 01:50:44.279 --> 01:50:46.640 won't get new you won't get a new look, you 2103 01:50:46.760 --> 01:50:49.920 won't get new music. Yeah, it's got My time is finally, 2104 01:50:49.960 --> 01:50:52.239 not like it's been your time a million years, Like 2105 01:50:52.560 --> 01:50:55.720 I don't get that you get is to take a 2106 01:50:56.039 --> 01:50:58.239 long You don't get a new look, you don't get 2107 01:50:58.359 --> 01:51:04.199 new music. No, okaye, no. See what he says instead 2108 01:51:04.239 --> 01:51:06.680 of instead of saying that, he says, to see how 2109 01:51:07.000 --> 01:51:09.520 how you look. Take a long look in the mirror, 2110 01:51:10.000 --> 01:51:13.800 so you can see how much better I am than you, Yes, exactly, 2111 01:51:13.960 --> 01:51:16.680 not how much better I wished you were, Not how 2112 01:51:16.840 --> 01:51:19.000 awful you are, but how much better I am than 2113 01:51:19.039 --> 01:51:23.000 you are. That's putt you're putting the audience on the stage, right. 2114 01:51:23.079 --> 01:51:30.680 The audience should be watching the stage, right, oh Cody. 2115 01:51:30.760 --> 01:51:31.920 That on Codin's. 2116 01:51:33.039 --> 01:51:34.119 Of course, of course. 2117 01:51:34.800 --> 01:51:36.760 See the fact that they started changing that to me 2118 01:51:37.000 --> 01:51:39.920 is like they're kind of bored. They're going nuts. But 2119 01:51:40.039 --> 01:51:41.880 like you keep saying the same thing a hundred times, 2120 01:51:42.640 --> 01:51:44.279 I felt like he was lost on this. I really do. 2121 01:51:45.840 --> 01:51:47.000 That you're awful people. 2122 01:51:47.680 --> 01:51:49.479 I mean, I feel like I feel like this was 2123 01:51:49.560 --> 01:51:57.119 a I'm getting the vibe that maybe Paul was like, hey, John, 2124 01:51:57.199 --> 01:51:59.640 go out there and just express yourself how you felt 2125 01:52:00.079 --> 01:52:03.520 those days, you know, and it's like, but he's not 2126 01:52:03.680 --> 01:52:05.640 good at that exactly. 2127 01:52:05.800 --> 01:52:09.640 Ding if you very easily, it's nailed it. You're the 2128 01:52:10.039 --> 01:52:11.159 let's go seea people. 2129 01:52:12.239 --> 01:52:14.319 Oh, can't have their support either, guy's gonna try to 2130 01:52:14.359 --> 01:52:15.000 extinguish them. 2131 01:52:15.119 --> 01:52:18.680 Yeah, you're the people are like, man, you're the people 2132 01:52:18.760 --> 01:52:20.560 who have done everything I just said no one ever 2133 01:52:20.640 --> 01:52:23.319 did for me. See to me, this is what's not 2134 01:52:23.439 --> 01:52:27.239 gonna sell merchandise, right, you know, if he didn't show up, 2135 01:52:27.279 --> 01:52:32.039 that would have sold merchandise. Fascinating, right, But now he's 2136 01:52:32.079 --> 01:52:34.760 telling you actively not to buy the shirts, right exactly, 2137 01:52:35.159 --> 01:52:41.239 Like see, now the let's go see a chance start 2138 01:52:41.279 --> 01:52:45.399 up to get because the shouldn't be you hear that world, The. 2139 01:52:45.520 --> 01:52:49.560 Sina sucks jack offs. They've already proven themselves awful people. 2140 01:52:50.279 --> 01:52:52.000 Oh, I said, jack ass, tell you why. 2141 01:52:52.760 --> 01:52:55.760 The let's go Scena people are just as awful. 2142 01:52:58.079 --> 01:53:02.680 I wish you would support me him to support me. Yeah, yeah, 2143 01:53:03.279 --> 01:53:07.399 what have you t shirts ever done? Sirs? What have 2144 01:53:07.560 --> 01:53:09.680 you put millions of dollars in your pocket. 2145 01:53:10.239 --> 01:53:14.119 What have you ever done to support me? 2146 01:53:14.640 --> 01:53:17.920 Well, they're in the audience, done for me, they're there. 2147 01:53:18.079 --> 01:53:20.880 What do they wanted to cook your dinner? Jerk you 2148 01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:27.960 off from Yeah, you actually steal from them by pretending to, right, 2149 01:53:28.039 --> 01:53:30.279 I mean you steal from them because you put on 2150 01:53:30.319 --> 01:53:31.600 a con every time you come in the ring. 2151 01:53:33.960 --> 01:53:37.319 You have made me the butt of a stupid, invisible 2152 01:53:37.439 --> 01:53:39.600 joke for fifteen It's not invisible. 2153 01:53:40.920 --> 01:53:42.600 It is not funny. 2154 01:53:42.720 --> 01:53:44.600 It's weird that he would take that. You can't see 2155 01:53:44.600 --> 01:53:48.119 anything personally, like why it's not even an insult. 2156 01:53:49.119 --> 01:53:51.880 You are pathetic? 2157 01:53:54.600 --> 01:53:59.279 Yeah you are. Actually you are the whole point. You 2158 01:53:59.319 --> 01:54:00.680 don't want to hear this is tough. 2159 01:54:01.600 --> 01:54:02.000 No, it's not. 2160 01:54:02.199 --> 01:54:05.439 It's not tough. It's not ready to hear. It is tough. 2161 01:54:05.640 --> 01:54:08.960 It is tough to hear. Actually, he's not wrong. 2162 01:54:09.520 --> 01:54:12.279 You can't lean into an uncomfortable conversation. He said you 2163 01:54:12.399 --> 01:54:13.239 literally said. 2164 01:54:13.000 --> 01:54:13.279 That, right. 2165 01:54:13.439 --> 01:54:14.119 Feel good. 2166 01:54:15.319 --> 01:54:20.039 You wear words like hustle, loyalty, and respect. I live 2167 01:54:20.159 --> 01:54:20.880 them every day. 2168 01:54:21.319 --> 01:54:23.439 See, that's that's a good one to key. He could 2169 01:54:23.479 --> 01:54:26.039 have kept that one. You think that's a good line. 2170 01:54:27.319 --> 01:54:27.439 Up. 2171 01:54:28.600 --> 01:54:32.600 I am the definition of perseverance and every person here. 2172 01:54:33.119 --> 01:54:36.640 No, see that's that's good. That's good. Yep. It should 2173 01:54:36.680 --> 01:54:39.600 have started there. But everything right, everything that came before 2174 01:54:39.680 --> 01:54:40.840 it ruins it though. 2175 01:54:41.079 --> 01:54:44.680 Support me. What you do is you use me? 2176 01:54:44.920 --> 01:54:51.560 That's good. This is good for your Yes, yes, yes, yes, 2177 01:54:52.000 --> 01:54:53.720 that's good. Good, that's good. 2178 01:54:53.800 --> 01:54:57.840 You've done there for twenty five years is sit on 2179 01:54:57.960 --> 01:54:59.600 your ass and watch me. 2180 01:55:00.199 --> 01:55:02.279 This is how he should have started, Like they should 2181 01:55:02.319 --> 01:55:04.319 have cut all this ship and just started right there. 2182 01:55:04.920 --> 01:55:09.479 This this everybody, including that one kid right there, is 2183 01:55:09.560 --> 01:55:13.239 a toxic, dysfunctional relationship. 2184 01:55:13.319 --> 01:55:17.880 Well that's I mean, okay. Is that what maybe told 2185 01:55:17.880 --> 01:55:19.800 them all the time? And he's using that for these 2186 01:55:19.880 --> 01:55:24.399 fucking clowns? What's that? Maybe that's what Nicky told him, 2187 01:55:24.560 --> 01:55:26.720 you know when after seeing the therapist, like I'm going 2188 01:55:26.760 --> 01:55:29.520 to talk relationship with you, and so he's using that. 2189 01:55:31.399 --> 01:55:33.720 Oh my god, he is he is like this is 2190 01:55:33.800 --> 01:55:35.279 gonna be what Nicky Bella did do him. 2191 01:55:35.520 --> 01:55:40.319 You're dumped. I don't need you anymore, I. 2192 01:55:40.359 --> 01:55:43.880 Don't see you. What he should say, I don't need 2193 01:55:43.880 --> 01:55:48.479 you anymore because I'm a movie star and I'm fucking 2194 01:55:48.600 --> 01:55:52.000 selling tickets in a in a in a better medium, 2195 01:55:52.079 --> 01:56:03.520 than this. I still got ten minutes of this fucking thing. 2196 01:56:09.279 --> 01:56:12.199 You know, this is a moment again to kind of 2197 01:56:12.239 --> 01:56:15.039 make it a little more realistic. He shouldn't have come 2198 01:56:15.119 --> 01:56:18.520 down with music. No, he should have been held back 2199 01:56:18.720 --> 01:56:21.199 and definitely not with Piro and look at him smile. 2200 01:56:22.199 --> 01:56:24.399 Would you remember what he did to him in Toronto? Right? 2201 01:56:24.960 --> 01:56:26.479 Do you remember the fire in his eyes on that 2202 01:56:26.520 --> 01:56:29.680 SmackDown promo with a black eye? Yeah, this is where 2203 01:56:29.720 --> 01:56:34.560 they lost me. But he's not pissed. He's gonna get 2204 01:56:34.680 --> 01:56:36.199 He's gonna get a ship in there. He's gonna get 2205 01:56:36.199 --> 01:56:37.920 a ship and he's gonna pose and I know, no. 2206 01:56:38.239 --> 01:56:43.279 Big mistake. See, this is the problem is that they're 2207 01:56:43.600 --> 01:56:46.000 they're trying to give the this is this is where 2208 01:56:46.199 --> 01:56:48.920 this is. This is where you don't do this ship 2209 01:56:49.880 --> 01:56:52.199 on the television show. Give them this ship in the 2210 01:56:52.279 --> 01:56:56.640 house shows. Don't do this for the television show when 2211 01:56:56.640 --> 01:56:59.439 you're trying to build up a program. Big mistake. 2212 01:57:00.319 --> 01:57:02.760 And part of it is they, like I swear to God, 2213 01:57:02.920 --> 01:57:04.840 is they're going to a market for the that they 2214 01:57:04.880 --> 01:57:07.479 only go to once every four years, and they know 2215 01:57:07.600 --> 01:57:10.119 people want to play sing along and the fans want 2216 01:57:10.159 --> 01:57:11.960 to imitate the American wrestling audiences. 2217 01:57:12.159 --> 01:57:14.920 So why are you doing like? They're still cheer for him. 2218 01:57:14.960 --> 01:57:17.359 Don't don't it's just so stupid. But they got to 2219 01:57:17.359 --> 01:57:19.640 sing a song. Oh book, how great it is you're 2220 01:57:19.680 --> 01:57:24.359 singing with him. Guess what. I want a real story here, 2221 01:57:24.399 --> 01:57:27.880 and I want anger and I want vengeance. I don't 2222 01:57:27.880 --> 01:57:34.800 want this ship. I want I want the grandson of 2223 01:57:34.840 --> 01:57:38.479 a plumber versus the uh the rapper from the tough 2224 01:57:38.560 --> 01:57:43.680 streets of West Newbury, Massachusetts. The grandson of a plumber 2225 01:57:44.359 --> 01:57:51.000 versus the son of an assessor. The tax assessor a 2226 01:57:51.119 --> 01:57:53.680 guy who works for a guy who worked for the 2227 01:57:54.199 --> 01:58:05.119 Mathuin whatever the fuck he DIDs up? The son of 2228 01:58:05.159 --> 01:58:08.800 a guy used to pose at doctor Fozzio's house from 2229 01:58:08.840 --> 01:58:11.640 the Missus Fazio taking his fucking shirt off and showing 2230 01:58:12.159 --> 01:58:16.680 her his muscles. Like what, It's kind of perverted in 2231 01:58:16.760 --> 01:58:20.079 a way, you know, some Oedipus ship going on there. 2232 01:58:20.119 --> 01:58:29.640 But all right, here we go, Cody, see you can 2233 01:58:29.720 --> 01:58:32.560 get this thing back on track. Brother, Have you seen 2234 01:58:32.640 --> 01:58:37.479 Cody's No, I was. I didn't even see all the 2235 01:58:37.520 --> 01:58:40.479 john seenor thing. Honestly, I didn't care so much. Once 2236 01:58:40.520 --> 01:58:42.159 he came out looking like that, I was just I 2237 01:58:42.239 --> 01:58:46.640 was like, fuck this. You don't get a new look, 2238 01:58:46.960 --> 01:58:50.560 you don't get new music. Okay, great, then guess what 2239 01:58:50.720 --> 01:58:52.960 you don't get someone interested in your fucking thing here, 2240 01:58:54.600 --> 01:58:57.520 So I'll tell you what. You know what you don't get. Yeah, 2241 01:58:57.600 --> 01:59:05.680 exactly got to go through the European chance too. Yes, 2242 01:59:05.800 --> 01:59:09.359 it is all bad, bad, bad, bad bad. And I'm 2243 01:59:09.399 --> 01:59:13.680 not saying that they shouldn't. I just think they would 2244 01:59:13.680 --> 01:59:16.640 have been better off skipping this whole thing. And I'm 2245 01:59:16.680 --> 01:59:18.960 not doing this until they are back in the United States. 2246 01:59:19.760 --> 01:59:23.560 I just said absolutely, yeah for this reason, because it's 2247 01:59:23.600 --> 01:59:25.960 just too much about the fans. Because that's right the 2248 01:59:26.039 --> 01:59:28.840 way it always is when you bring live television. That's 2249 01:59:28.840 --> 01:59:32.000 why they never did fucking shows like this. They did. 2250 01:59:32.159 --> 01:59:36.560 They did the video cassettes back in the day. You know, Like, 2251 01:59:37.600 --> 01:59:40.239 I get it's exciting for them to be on live TV, 2252 01:59:40.439 --> 01:59:45.439 but stupid. Let them have a fucking network special. You know, 2253 01:59:45.840 --> 01:59:48.680 it's just not it's just not what the moment calls for. Yeah, 2254 01:59:51.279 --> 01:59:55.840 let them have a Netflix exclusive, you know, a premium 2255 01:59:55.960 --> 01:59:59.720 live Netflix event. What I what always, what I always 2256 01:59:59.760 --> 02:00:04.840 love is they try to make an enthusiastic crowd shut up. 2257 02:00:12.279 --> 02:00:14.399 See this is like, no, all right, this is the problem. 2258 02:00:14.479 --> 02:00:16.720 Nothing to do. These two are supposed to be They're 2259 02:00:16.720 --> 02:00:20.239 supposed to be hanging on every word they say. They're 2260 02:00:20.239 --> 02:00:22.800 just excited to see fake sports. Exactly. 2261 02:00:26.319 --> 02:00:30.079 I think everybody was willing to hear you out. 2262 02:00:30.520 --> 02:00:34.920 Not the Belgian fans, I understood. 2263 02:00:34.439 --> 02:00:39.439 Correctly from what you just said. They've given you their worst. 2264 02:00:40.199 --> 02:00:43.760 But sure they might have given you their worst, they 2265 02:00:43.840 --> 02:00:45.000 have also given you. 2266 02:00:45.119 --> 02:00:48.640 Their best for twenty five years and they did that. 2267 02:00:49.079 --> 02:00:56.000 But here's the thing. What does John Cena is anger 2268 02:00:56.119 --> 02:00:58.079 towards the fans have to do with him turning on 2269 02:00:58.159 --> 02:00:58.720 Cody Roads. 2270 02:00:59.039 --> 02:01:01.239 They did that, you could carry it. 2271 02:01:04.119 --> 02:01:10.720 Stupid because he already locked in the title. Shot just 2272 02:01:10.760 --> 02:01:14.119 won the he won the chamber. 2273 02:01:18.000 --> 02:01:24.560 And it's certainly not kid, it's w w E champion. 2274 02:01:26.439 --> 02:01:28.960 Yeah, if you missed that, Scena step to him and said, listen, kid. 2275 02:01:28.960 --> 02:01:43.239 On the mound and let me ask you, who the 2276 02:01:43.359 --> 02:01:53.159 hell are you? Where's the guy on this shirt. 2277 02:01:54.399 --> 02:01:57.920 Right here in front of you, right there? I mean, 2278 02:01:57.960 --> 02:01:59.479 he might as well just look in a salute. He's 2279 02:01:59.479 --> 02:02:00.560 doing the same sh he always does. 2280 02:02:00.520 --> 02:02:03.600 Inspect of going week to week face to face with 2281 02:02:03.960 --> 02:02:14.000 John Cena, and instead I got this, Well, this better 2282 02:02:14.119 --> 02:02:18.159 not show up at wrestle Mania, because if it does, 2283 02:02:19.279 --> 02:02:20.199 I run it over. 2284 02:02:20.720 --> 02:02:23.079 I run it out because I already. 2285 02:02:22.800 --> 02:02:25.680 Took it's best shot and it wasn't good enough. 2286 02:02:25.960 --> 02:02:27.760 I retire it early. 2287 02:02:34.479 --> 02:02:37.920 So go find John Cena because I want to wrestle 2288 02:02:38.039 --> 02:02:43.079 him at wressele Mayne forty one, not this whiny bitch. 2289 02:02:47.039 --> 02:02:48.680 And it'd be one thing if that lit a fire 2290 02:02:48.800 --> 02:02:51.159 under Sena. But and he makes a face like it did. 2291 02:02:52.319 --> 02:02:54.359 But then it comes back and just speech ifies again. 2292 02:02:57.159 --> 02:02:59.279 But that was a good line book by Cody because 2293 02:02:59.279 --> 02:03:03.479 it was in acknowledging how cringe Sina was being. You know, yeah, 2294 02:03:04.880 --> 02:03:11.399 it wasn't taking too seriously the false fervency of Sina's message. 2295 02:03:12.279 --> 02:03:14.600 Seen the standing in the middle of the ring watching Cody. 2296 02:03:14.359 --> 02:03:16.920 Exit with a It's over, Jenny, It's over. 2297 02:03:17.640 --> 02:03:17.840 Is It. 2298 02:03:19.439 --> 02:03:20.119 Sounds like it is? 2299 02:03:25.319 --> 02:03:25.359 What? 2300 02:03:28.039 --> 02:03:32.159 What is this Codin's Codin's Roads. Chance, that's the European one, 2301 02:03:35.359 --> 02:03:47.640 Codin's Codin's Road, Codin's Codins Roads, Codin's Codin's Roads. Anything 2302 02:03:47.680 --> 02:03:52.199 to say, John with your yeah like a fucking a child, 2303 02:03:54.319 --> 02:03:57.479 that's the fucking idiot, the slow glare and drops the mic. 2304 02:04:00.079 --> 02:04:13.960 Yeah, Yeah, it's his towel back the last time is now? 2305 02:04:17.960 --> 02:04:49.960 H M, such a cry bit. He's walking off the 2306 02:04:50.039 --> 02:04:53.520 field like, yeah, coach who just lost the Super Bowl? Right? 2307 02:04:53.600 --> 02:04:57.600 It was? Look like uh, Tom Brady says on his 2308 02:04:57.680 --> 02:05:01.479 ass remember that. Yeah, it's sad. And then he stops 2309 02:05:01.520 --> 02:05:03.520 at the iss away and does the Undertaker look over 2310 02:05:03.600 --> 02:05:09.600 his shoulder, what are you Undertaker and fucking raise your 2311 02:05:09.600 --> 02:05:10.640 fist stuff like an asshole. 2312 02:05:27.520 --> 02:05:29.720 All I know is what John zen attorneyl The first 2313 02:05:29.760 --> 02:05:32.239 thing I thought of is how is Belgium going to ring? 2314 02:05:33.199 --> 02:05:36.960 Exactly so weird. I'm gonna send you something because listen, 2315 02:05:37.119 --> 02:05:41.960 I've I've you know, I'm fascinated, you know, because one 2316 02:05:41.960 --> 02:05:44.920 of the one of the key things is that the 2317 02:05:45.079 --> 02:05:49.439 music needed to go. The music needed to go. There 2318 02:05:49.479 --> 02:05:52.600 are so many people, there are so many people who 2319 02:05:52.680 --> 02:05:58.560 have written but YouTube videos of their own custom versions 2320 02:05:58.600 --> 02:06:01.239 of John Heena, John Cena his heel song, John Heena, 2321 02:06:01.319 --> 02:06:04.359 it's a better name for him, Johnsena's heel theme, like 2322 02:06:04.399 --> 02:06:07.640 a version of it, like their own, their own inspiration. 2323 02:06:07.960 --> 02:06:11.520 And I'm gonna send you one because I fucking love 2324 02:06:11.640 --> 02:06:15.479 this one. This one was so fucking it's so epic. 2325 02:06:18.079 --> 02:06:22.039 It's just crazy intense. You get it. Boss, he's a heel, 2326 02:06:22.119 --> 02:06:24.960 so you're not going to get right, which is like, 2327 02:06:25.239 --> 02:06:28.920 you know, I was supposed to get excited about a heel. 2328 02:06:28.960 --> 02:06:31.960 Turn that doesn't give me what I want. I mean, 2329 02:06:32.640 --> 02:06:37.319 like I just want to I mean, that's that's not 2330 02:06:37.439 --> 02:06:38.920 what it is, is not You're not going to get 2331 02:06:38.960 --> 02:06:41.119 what you want. I mean because listen, they've already they've 2332 02:06:41.159 --> 02:06:44.479 already suffered through that with Johnsena exactly. You know, so 2333 02:06:44.600 --> 02:06:47.479 like the idea it needs to be that they is 2334 02:06:47.560 --> 02:06:50.640 that this guy is just the antithesis of everything he 2335 02:06:50.800 --> 02:06:54.920 preached about. This guy who talked about hustle, loyalty and respect, 2336 02:06:55.319 --> 02:07:00.279 talked about not caring the ideas that in actuality. Yeah, 2337 02:07:01.640 --> 02:07:07.000 he's this little fucking smarmye Hollywood bitch who just is 2338 02:07:07.039 --> 02:07:17.039 all about himself. Oh, doctor corps. Shout out to doctor corps. Ye, 2339 02:07:23.640 --> 02:07:25.359 he's got it. Seen it with the hat on with 2340 02:07:25.439 --> 02:07:31.399 the red eyes. That's cool. Yeah, that's would have worked 2341 02:07:32.640 --> 02:07:34.760 because he goes back little prototype he tells it on 2342 02:07:34.920 --> 02:07:57.840 machine Yeah, h yeah, it's all boring. It's all boring. 2343 02:07:57.880 --> 02:08:05.439 He's he's used the same song. Yeah. Oh listen, it's 2344 02:08:05.479 --> 02:08:08.039 like it's off. It's off, like it's not the same notes. 2345 02:08:08.119 --> 02:08:12.560 It's just it's using minor minor chords instead, and it's 2346 02:08:12.600 --> 02:08:19.439 just like it makes that big of a difference, Like 2347 02:08:19.600 --> 02:08:23.640 imagine WrestleMania the first time comes out to the exactly 2348 02:08:23.760 --> 02:08:25.880 first time you see you and it comes out to this, 2349 02:08:26.680 --> 02:08:29.359 it's the time. The time isn't in Belgium, the time 2350 02:08:29.479 --> 02:08:34.239 is then. Oh and they missed it. They fucked it up, 2351 02:08:34.439 --> 02:08:37.640 Like he comes out no, Piro, it's just like black. 2352 02:08:37.760 --> 02:08:42.439 It's just darkness and a spotlight on him. Don't be 2353 02:08:42.560 --> 02:08:47.000 mad that this is a better idea, don't retreat to 2354 02:08:47.079 --> 02:08:49.239 your corner of just enjoy the ride and let us 2355 02:08:49.279 --> 02:08:53.760 do our job. Fans shouldn't be able to book better 2356 02:08:53.840 --> 02:08:57.680 stuff than you do. That's not the bargain we make. Yep, 2357 02:09:05.880 --> 02:09:07.399 this isn't the John c and I just saw walk 2358 02:09:07.439 --> 02:09:14.920 Out and Bell not at all. Jesus, what an idea. 2359 02:09:17.039 --> 02:09:24.640 This really grabs me, right, But they're so creatively bankrupt 2360 02:09:24.680 --> 02:09:28.159 in the music department these days. Oh they fired Doctor Corpse. 2361 02:09:28.199 --> 02:09:39.079 Please this guy. That's that's the thing about the modern 2362 02:09:39.159 --> 02:09:42.680 media environment. You can't act like you couldn't come up 2363 02:09:42.720 --> 02:09:48.479 with something better. People just did already. And if you 2364 02:09:48.520 --> 02:09:54.640 don't have the the lack of pride of authorship to 2365 02:09:54.760 --> 02:09:58.000 just embrace someone else's better idea, then it's now we're 2366 02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:06.039 back to the Vince regime again. Yeah, yes, put listen 2367 02:10:06.079 --> 02:10:12.479 to this all weekend as part of our King King 2368 02:10:12.560 --> 02:10:15.079 King King, King, King, King, King, King King King and 2369 02:10:15.159 --> 02:10:16.960 King King King King. I can see him like I 2370 02:10:17.000 --> 02:10:21.800 can see the video package flying shoulder box like zooming 2371 02:10:21.840 --> 02:10:35.079 in on his face at Elimination Chamber first time you 2372 02:10:35.159 --> 02:10:44.680 see him. Yep, it's so so good. It's fucking brilliant. 2373 02:10:45.680 --> 02:11:02.039 H oo. It sounds like a failing system. Damn. Yeah, 2374 02:11:02.479 --> 02:11:04.399 well thanks for that. That was awesome. Isn't that great? 2375 02:11:04.760 --> 02:11:09.479 Fucking doctor corps man. Yeah, whoever you are, Jude, dude, 2376 02:11:09.640 --> 02:11:11.119 you're brilliant. Love it. 2377 02:11:12.520 --> 02:11:15.840 Fuck Now I'm more excited than ever to go forward. 2378 02:11:15.840 --> 02:11:18.239 Yeah, right, to not get what we uh, you know, 2379 02:11:18.439 --> 02:11:20.640 to not get what you want, which I guess at 2380 02:11:20.640 --> 02:11:22.119 the whole point, to not get what you want. 2381 02:11:23.479 --> 02:11:25.720 I mean, we started this thing playing back the sound 2382 02:11:25.760 --> 02:11:29.439 of our live call of Elimination Chamber, recapturing that emotion 2383 02:11:29.840 --> 02:11:31.520 when seeing a kicked Cody and the balls and turn 2384 02:11:31.640 --> 02:11:34.680 heel and what that was like, and now we just 2385 02:11:34.760 --> 02:11:43.720 watched seeing his first words since that happened. Uh appropriate, where. 2386 02:11:43.520 --> 02:11:49.760 Are you at? I'm I listen, I I I stopped 2387 02:11:49.840 --> 02:11:53.920 caring for a reason. That's right, and that that could 2388 02:11:53.960 --> 02:11:59.680 be the motto of this podcast. Damn right, Oh that's 2389 02:11:59.760 --> 02:12:04.920 just awful. I mean, I mean I said it all 2390 02:12:05.399 --> 02:12:07.680 like you can in the ring with the boo boo 2391 02:12:07.760 --> 02:12:12.239 face right. If anything, he should have been red eyed. 2392 02:12:12.439 --> 02:12:15.279 He should have been or like had a crazy smile 2393 02:12:15.359 --> 02:12:18.760 on his face like yes, you know, like like yeah, right, 2394 02:12:18.920 --> 02:12:21.760 you know, he can say what you want. Codin's You 2395 02:12:22.000 --> 02:12:24.600 people have been awful to me. Oh, for God's sake, 2396 02:12:24.680 --> 02:12:29.560 what's what he said? Oh? No, you talk about how 2397 02:12:29.680 --> 02:12:32.720 much better? Like again he he he got it. He 2398 02:12:32.880 --> 02:12:35.880 got some moments about it in the middle of his promo. 2399 02:12:36.359 --> 02:12:38.359 That's why I felt like he was lost because the 2400 02:12:38.960 --> 02:12:41.960 the lines were in there, but there was so much 2401 02:12:42.000 --> 02:12:45.840 extraneous stuff that I felt like was borderline ad libbed 2402 02:12:46.640 --> 02:12:49.560 that to me. Yeah, you feel like he was panicking 2403 02:12:49.600 --> 02:12:53.760 almost a bit. Like he again, I feel like he 2404 02:12:53.920 --> 02:12:57.479 was given the opportunity. I feel like he he I 2405 02:12:57.680 --> 02:12:59.800 really feel like Paul said, just you. 2406 02:12:59.840 --> 02:13:02.800 Know, go out there for ten minutes first, before you 2407 02:13:02.920 --> 02:13:04.520 get to the stuff that we got for you, just 2408 02:13:04.560 --> 02:13:06.840 go out there and just kind of just then talk 2409 02:13:06.880 --> 02:13:09.399 about what you've been feeling, you know. 2410 02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:12.920 And it's like, how about how about No it doesn't 2411 02:13:12.960 --> 02:13:19.680 I mean, you know, because the whole it can it 2412 02:13:19.760 --> 02:13:23.880 could work. You could get angry at the fans if 2413 02:13:24.600 --> 02:13:27.079 you brought up the fact that you guys started to 2414 02:13:27.159 --> 02:13:29.720 cheering me all of a sudden, Huh what happened there? Yes, 2415 02:13:30.039 --> 02:13:32.600 you know, that's that's you know, you start off with 2416 02:13:32.640 --> 02:13:34.800 everything that Elsie said. You talk about how great he 2417 02:13:35.000 --> 02:13:38.560 is and how you know you guys, you guys buy 2418 02:13:38.680 --> 02:13:41.359 this shit. I live this shit, but you guys are 2419 02:13:41.439 --> 02:13:45.079 suckers because you fucking buy it. I live hustle to 2420 02:13:45.560 --> 02:13:48.199 loyalty and respect whatever the fuck you guys just wear 2421 02:13:48.279 --> 02:13:48.720 that shit. 2422 02:13:49.439 --> 02:13:52.159 And I take your and I take your money, yes, 2423 02:13:52.479 --> 02:13:55.239 instead of you take my money? Right, you take take 2424 02:13:55.359 --> 02:14:00.079 take right? Are we taking by patronizing your business. 2425 02:14:00.199 --> 02:14:05.000 Right exactly exactly? It makes no sense? And and then 2426 02:14:05.800 --> 02:14:07.600 you know then and then he says, then all of 2427 02:14:07.640 --> 02:14:10.760 a sudden, you know, I'm I'm gone for a while, 2428 02:14:10.800 --> 02:14:12.800 and all of a sudden, I'm this I'm your hero 2429 02:14:12.960 --> 02:14:14.439 all of a sudden, All of a sudden, you guys 2430 02:14:14.520 --> 02:14:17.359 love me, Yeah, you know, like. 2431 02:14:18.680 --> 02:14:22.119 I would have gotten into like you know, the way 2432 02:14:22.199 --> 02:14:24.560 people talk shit about him when he was when he 2433 02:14:24.640 --> 02:14:28.359 showed us the side of himself on Total Divas. You know, 2434 02:14:28.880 --> 02:14:31.520 the more you learned about me, the more, all of 2435 02:14:31.560 --> 02:14:32.520 a sudden everything. 2436 02:14:32.319 --> 02:14:34.119 You want to write the problem. You wanted to see 2437 02:14:34.319 --> 02:14:37.439 what I was really like on Total Divas, and you 2438 02:14:37.520 --> 02:14:41.640 guys didn't like that either. Exactly. That's me. This is 2439 02:14:41.800 --> 02:14:45.800 That's it right here, That's who I am. I'm the 2440 02:14:45.920 --> 02:14:47.079 selfish robot. 2441 02:14:49.800 --> 02:14:50.960 The selfish. 2442 02:14:52.720 --> 02:14:56.439 His opponent, the selfish Robot. 2443 02:14:59.039 --> 02:15:01.119 Make the T shirt and have it up for wrestle 2444 02:15:01.159 --> 02:15:04.920 any weekend. I want to Red Eyed Sena just like that. 2445 02:15:09.199 --> 02:15:13.920 It would be funny after the prototype days, right, that 2446 02:15:14.079 --> 02:15:15.479 doesn't that sound like a Pixar movie. 2447 02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:22.960 It's the sequel to Wally Yeah. Well, as you can imagine, 2448 02:15:23.000 --> 02:15:25.000 it does not end there. It does not end there 2449 02:15:25.119 --> 02:15:28.239 because now the seal has been broken. John Cena has 2450 02:15:28.279 --> 02:15:32.239 spoken and we're now dealing with what he thinks is 2451 02:15:32.399 --> 02:15:36.119 the best kind of distillation and explaining his motivation for 2452 02:15:36.159 --> 02:15:38.960 turning on Cody elimination Chamber and creating all this buzz. 2453 02:15:39.479 --> 02:15:41.760 We move it forward to the next episode of Raw 2454 02:15:42.079 --> 02:15:44.880 where Sina opens his mouth, and this one takes place 2455 02:15:45.520 --> 02:15:46.199 in Scotland. 2456 02:15:46.520 --> 02:15:49.600 So we're going, my god, we're still overseas. Jesus Christ, 2457 02:15:49.960 --> 02:15:53.760 it's got a two week tour. If you got that up, 2458 02:15:53.800 --> 02:15:59.319 well we'll get this one. There we go. Is it 2459 02:15:59.359 --> 02:16:00.960 supposed to be at the Is it supposed to at 2460 02:16:00.960 --> 02:16:04.359 the one thirteen mark? Uh? No, at the beginning? Go 2461 02:16:04.399 --> 02:16:07.279 to the beginning? Okay, yeah, you have, sorry, you have 2462 02:16:07.399 --> 02:16:10.720 full segment. Cody Rhodes and JOHNSENA yeah, yeah, but it 2463 02:16:10.840 --> 02:16:12.359 started at the one thirteen second. 2464 02:16:12.720 --> 02:16:16.880 Okay, alright, here we go. Folks three to one play 2465 02:16:22.199 --> 02:16:23.640 pretty strong booze yep. 2466 02:16:24.000 --> 02:16:27.840 Not as strong as Belgium, though, well yeah, I mean 2467 02:16:28.119 --> 02:16:30.359 you expect that that would be the biggest this first 2468 02:16:30.399 --> 02:16:33.479 time seeing and now they realize that he is that 2469 02:16:33.600 --> 02:16:37.680 he does suck. So oh Jesus, look at this. Why 2470 02:16:38.159 --> 02:16:40.920 now he's dressed in yellow and maybe look at his face. Oh, 2471 02:16:41.000 --> 02:16:45.559 he's got Scotland colors. Of course, yeah, of course, I know. 2472 02:16:46.719 --> 02:16:51.000 Whiny bitch. John Cena is not fun not the move. No, 2473 02:16:55.280 --> 02:16:57.159 it's so funny because all those years Vince was like 2474 02:16:58.559 --> 02:17:00.760 a baby face can never whine. A baby face can 2475 02:17:00.799 --> 02:17:03.000 ever complain about losing a match, because that wouldn't be 2476 02:17:03.040 --> 02:17:05.719 a baby face thing to do. And now we're seeing 2477 02:17:06.040 --> 02:17:07.920 the flip side of that coin that John Cena, who 2478 02:17:07.959 --> 02:17:10.559 does complain, He does bitch and it doesn't work. 2479 02:17:11.639 --> 02:17:12.719 No, but like. 2480 02:17:13.719 --> 02:17:18.440 Psychotic obsessed John Cena would be fascinating. And again, stop 2481 02:17:18.520 --> 02:17:21.239 with the fucking tie. See this is it. The the 2482 02:17:21.360 --> 02:17:25.639 fucking towels, the fucking merchandise. I'm done, I'm done. He's 2483 02:17:25.680 --> 02:17:27.559 got the last time as now, towel behind his head 2484 02:17:27.559 --> 02:17:30.319 as he makes his way down the aisle. Yeah, thank 2485 02:17:30.360 --> 02:17:31.000 god the. 2486 02:17:31.040 --> 02:17:34.280 Reaction here tonight in Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow. 2487 02:17:34.399 --> 02:17:41.719 Yeah, millions of fans who are stunned last week, why. 2488 02:17:41.840 --> 02:17:43.239 As John Cena. 2489 02:17:44.479 --> 02:17:46.920 Turned his back on the. 2490 02:17:47.079 --> 02:17:51.760 W W universe. You already did that in February, right 2491 02:17:52.159 --> 02:17:53.639 in March Elimination. 2492 02:17:53.319 --> 02:17:58.879 Chamber, twenty six nights away from Seeinga's opportunity to make 2493 02:17:59.040 --> 02:17:59.760 history and winning. 2494 02:18:00.920 --> 02:18:03.159 It's kind of weird too to still pigeonhole in the 2495 02:18:03.239 --> 02:18:07.680 seventeenth title thing. Yeah, like that's that's so immaterial at 2496 02:18:07.719 --> 02:18:11.840 this point. He won the chamber, he had the title shot. 2497 02:18:11.920 --> 02:18:14.479 That is not why he turned heel right that shot. 2498 02:18:14.680 --> 02:18:20.040 Never expected John Cena to blame every member of the universe. 2499 02:18:20.319 --> 02:18:21.319 Even his fans. 2500 02:18:22.040 --> 02:18:23.799 Even his fans won't right. 2501 02:18:25.520 --> 02:18:27.879 To cut a final boss. 2502 02:18:28.600 --> 02:18:36.000 Oh my final boss reference. That's a first. But you 2503 02:18:36.120 --> 02:18:38.680 noticed they had Pat McAfee say final Boss, not John 2504 02:18:38.760 --> 02:18:42.399 c Yeah. Right, there we go again. 2505 02:18:44.159 --> 02:18:47.159 Seems like you have just something you want to say 2506 02:18:47.319 --> 02:18:47.600 to me. 2507 02:18:49.600 --> 02:18:59.479 Nope, not really not interested. Thanks though, surrender you know 2508 02:18:59.559 --> 02:19:01.799 what I love. They pretend that they're not interested in that, 2509 02:19:01.840 --> 02:19:04.479 they're bored, but they do a six hour podcast about it. 2510 02:19:04.760 --> 02:19:10.360 Yeah right, Yeah, you're ready here tonight to do your 2511 02:19:10.559 --> 02:19:19.079 worst star shoe. It's because you finally understand what is 2512 02:19:19.239 --> 02:19:23.040 going on. I have turned the spotlight on you. 2513 02:19:23.399 --> 02:19:27.040 Please, Oh god, say shut the fuck you had plenty 2514 02:19:27.079 --> 02:19:28.799 of spotlight one of you. 2515 02:19:29.079 --> 02:19:32.079 Random ticket holders, and rip you to shreds. 2516 02:19:32.719 --> 02:19:33.559 What does that even mean? 2517 02:19:34.159 --> 02:19:37.600 What does that even mean? Say that they're selfish, No 2518 02:19:37.840 --> 02:19:40.840 one is sa no one's safe. Where do you get 2519 02:19:40.840 --> 02:19:45.639 that from? Yeah, especially the people who wanted to be 2520 02:19:45.680 --> 02:19:46.719 interested in this fucking thing. 2521 02:19:48.760 --> 02:19:54.399 This is poor, pathetic face was everywhere. I hate that 2522 02:19:54.520 --> 02:19:56.440 love wwe posted it. 2523 02:19:58.319 --> 02:19:59.840 And you all loved it. 2524 02:20:03.360 --> 02:20:09.680 Fuck you? Soona there it is there we go, fuck 2525 02:20:09.760 --> 02:20:18.159 you Scotland say that over here Tom Ww's credit man, 2526 02:20:18.200 --> 02:20:20.440 they upload that ship unedited to their. 2527 02:20:25.360 --> 02:20:27.639 Who's worse me? 2528 02:20:28.920 --> 02:20:37.120 The one guy who actually always tells the truth, or 2529 02:20:37.639 --> 02:20:39.319 all of you. 2530 02:20:42.399 --> 02:20:46.079 Whose best idea is to use profanity? 2531 02:20:47.280 --> 02:20:50.159 What he's gonna rail against them for saying you. 2532 02:20:50.799 --> 02:20:56.360 Love to watch and rewatch and meme a poor, defenseless 2533 02:20:56.440 --> 02:21:02.799 little kid getting destroyed? What show need to single out 2534 02:21:03.200 --> 02:21:07.959 anyone here? Because you are all horrible people. 2535 02:21:08.280 --> 02:21:13.079 Oh, for God's sakes enough, you're a bitch. 2536 02:21:14.399 --> 02:21:18.479 Tonight you get to find out how I make you 2537 02:21:18.840 --> 02:21:20.840 pay for the abuse. 2538 02:21:20.760 --> 02:21:23.280 You have put to my God, it didn't used to 2539 02:21:23.319 --> 02:21:25.239 be better, by the way, if you can scar at 2540 02:21:25.239 --> 02:21:27.479 home and guess what John Cena used to be better too. 2541 02:21:28.120 --> 02:21:30.239 Five years I have listened to your. 2542 02:21:30.319 --> 02:21:36.520 Live twenty years, twenty years, twenty Just don't don't don't 2543 02:21:36.639 --> 02:21:39.559 joke yourself here, don't kid yourself. Didn't wait, it happened 2544 02:21:39.600 --> 02:21:41.680 after you won the championship in two thousand and five. 2545 02:21:41.719 --> 02:21:48.600 You're fucking moron. Oh yes, shut the fuck up. Honestly, 2546 02:21:49.479 --> 02:21:52.120 they should not be chanting that when you consider where 2547 02:21:52.159 --> 02:21:54.159 we were at the chamber. They should really be hanging 2548 02:21:54.200 --> 02:21:56.959 on his every word. They should be booing him, but 2549 02:21:57.040 --> 02:21:58.799 they should be interested in what he has to say. 2550 02:21:58.879 --> 02:22:02.200 They shouldn't want him to just at his mouth. That's 2551 02:22:02.280 --> 02:22:04.840 not a good sign to me. I agree, this is 2552 02:22:05.120 --> 02:22:09.520 so easy. You're making it so hard, John. I know. 2553 02:22:10.440 --> 02:22:14.040 While you are chanting profanity at the top of your lungs, 2554 02:22:14.440 --> 02:22:15.799 I've been paying attention. 2555 02:22:16.799 --> 02:22:18.159 I've been learning from you. 2556 02:22:18.520 --> 02:22:24.159 Quizzing you, studying you, testing you, prodding you. 2557 02:22:24.600 --> 02:22:26.799 Stop it. What does this mean? 2558 02:22:27.040 --> 02:22:29.120 Warning you for playing. 2559 02:22:28.920 --> 02:22:34.920 Along with your stupid, childish, curse ridden nursery rhymes. 2560 02:22:35.200 --> 02:22:38.760 He's lost, he's lost. He doesn't know what he's talking about. 2561 02:22:39.799 --> 02:22:41.079 That's just that's awful. 2562 02:22:41.159 --> 02:22:46.440 So you have told me every single thing about you. 2563 02:22:47.239 --> 02:22:49.959 Paying at the fans. I know, stop making about the 2564 02:22:50.040 --> 02:22:50.959 fans about me. 2565 02:22:51.959 --> 02:22:54.719 I know more about you than you. 2566 02:22:55.879 --> 02:22:57.680 Well, if that's the case, then. 2567 02:22:59.120 --> 02:22:59.639 Your luck. 2568 02:22:59.760 --> 02:23:01.959 Then you should know. You should shut your mouth. Then 2569 02:23:02.040 --> 02:23:04.319 just get the fuck out of my life. Your life 2570 02:23:04.399 --> 02:23:05.719 is sad. Okay, here goes. 2571 02:23:07.159 --> 02:23:12.840 Is the best it's gonna get. This is all you have? Okay, 2572 02:23:14.360 --> 02:23:21.639 And me said nothing more than why speim? You have 2573 02:23:21.799 --> 02:23:24.079 been rats in a cage? 2574 02:23:24.840 --> 02:23:28.000 Oh my god, Oh I don't. 2575 02:23:27.799 --> 02:23:30.079 Take out any moment in my career. 2576 02:23:30.479 --> 02:23:35.079 Okay, tell you what I learned from you about I mean, 2577 02:23:35.159 --> 02:23:37.239 I should tell him, Hey, John, I was the one 2578 02:23:37.399 --> 02:23:42.079 preaching at UH Wrestling twenty three that you were their 2579 02:23:42.200 --> 02:23:44.360 lord and savior. What does that put Where does that 2580 02:23:44.440 --> 02:23:47.799 put me on your map of when I was vanilla? 2581 02:23:47.920 --> 02:23:50.520 You were bored, but I was loyal, you were loved. 2582 02:23:50.600 --> 02:23:52.440 That doesn't make any sense. Respect when I was. 2583 02:23:52.520 --> 02:23:54.600 Selfish or disrespected, that doesn't make sense. 2584 02:23:55.200 --> 02:23:58.040 When I was bored, I changed the channel. This so 2585 02:23:59.079 --> 02:24:01.879 so simple, it says over and over again. You make 2586 02:24:01.959 --> 02:24:04.639 this so simple, and it's like, then why does it 2587 02:24:04.680 --> 02:24:05.719 take twenty five minutes? 2588 02:24:06.120 --> 02:24:11.399 You will always tell me everything about yourselves because you 2589 02:24:11.680 --> 02:24:13.479 so desperately. 2590 02:24:13.040 --> 02:24:13.959 Want to matter. 2591 02:24:18.840 --> 02:24:21.600 Thing you ever told me was in April two thousand 2592 02:24:21.639 --> 02:24:25.280 and five. It was a day, I guess. 2593 02:24:26.040 --> 02:24:29.959 Greatest idea I gave you This one's for your boss, 2594 02:24:31.079 --> 02:24:32.879 Oh Spinner Championship. 2595 02:24:33.239 --> 02:24:36.120 All right, don't take this. The only rest pause lines 2596 02:24:36.159 --> 02:24:38.000 he gets here when he talks about the stuff we 2597 02:24:38.079 --> 02:24:42.879 talked about new music. Look, that was like, that's good alive. 2598 02:24:45.000 --> 02:24:48.000 All you have to do is google negative comments. 2599 02:24:49.200 --> 02:24:51.079 I'll tell you what I like. I like the idea 2600 02:24:51.159 --> 02:24:53.399 that he brought that. That's the greatest thing he fucking did. 2601 02:24:53.440 --> 02:24:55.559 I think that's hilarious. Actually, that's a good one. 2602 02:24:55.760 --> 02:25:00.360 Because I changed your championship into a toy, and the 2603 02:25:00.600 --> 02:25:07.399 championship is not a toy. The championship is a symbol 2604 02:25:08.120 --> 02:25:11.040 of the center of all this, and the toy belt 2605 02:25:11.159 --> 02:25:16.399 I made for you disrespected tradition and disrespected your legacy. 2606 02:25:17.680 --> 02:25:21.239 What you ain't talking about what the fans legacy, who 2607 02:25:21.760 --> 02:25:22.719 my mom's legacy is. 2608 02:25:22.799 --> 02:25:27.239 Mostly because that was the biggest mistake you ever made. 2609 02:25:28.000 --> 02:25:31.120 In that one single moment, you were vulnerable enough to 2610 02:25:31.239 --> 02:25:33.319 actually tell you means the. 2611 02:25:33.360 --> 02:25:36.840 Most to you in this life. And now that I 2612 02:25:37.040 --> 02:25:39.639 know that, I am going. 2613 02:25:39.520 --> 02:25:44.760 To ruin wrestling, well, well I'm going to. 2614 02:25:46.479 --> 02:25:52.319 I am going to ruin wrestling for every FANKA. 2615 02:25:51.840 --> 02:25:55.879 For every wrestler, for everyone. 2616 02:25:57.360 --> 02:26:04.559 Okay, that's actually a good sentiment. I just it's it's again. 2617 02:26:04.719 --> 02:26:08.399 Everything leading up to it is what sucks. It's too late. Yeah, 2618 02:26:08.399 --> 02:26:10.559 he's got the lines in there, but he has four 2619 02:26:10.680 --> 02:26:11.159 hundred lines. 2620 02:26:11.200 --> 02:26:15.200 He doesn't need force you to forget the name of 2621 02:26:15.319 --> 02:26:19.040 the fun machine jet Fly whoa Rick Flair? 2622 02:26:19.639 --> 02:26:21.239 See that's good there, right, that's good. 2623 02:26:21.399 --> 02:26:26.799 You will forever say the name John Cena. 2624 02:26:27.399 --> 02:26:32.079 So that's good. That's great. Yeah. The ramming against the 2625 02:26:32.120 --> 02:26:34.360 fans is when he used to go like this, one's good. 2626 02:26:34.680 --> 02:26:40.879 I'm going to win that championship, the center of every superstar, 2627 02:26:41.360 --> 02:26:45.280 of this entire business, of every fan in this building. 2628 02:26:45.440 --> 02:26:48.680 I will win that championship and retire with it. 2629 02:26:49.639 --> 02:26:53.399 Great. That's a great threat. I am taking it home 2630 02:26:54.040 --> 02:26:55.799 with me good. 2631 02:26:57.000 --> 02:26:59.879 And leaving all of you to create a brand new 2632 02:27:00.280 --> 02:27:02.760 toy belts because the real one. 2633 02:27:03.079 --> 02:27:04.879 Comes home with me. 2634 02:27:05.920 --> 02:27:08.360 Good. I'm fine with that. 2635 02:27:08.840 --> 02:27:14.639 I will be the last real Chipion in WWE. 2636 02:27:16.200 --> 02:27:19.799 This is good. Oh, let's t get carried away. Revenge 2637 02:27:19.879 --> 02:27:22.479 is best served cold about real chance. 2638 02:27:22.520 --> 02:27:25.799 I pay you back by ripping your heart out and 2639 02:27:26.079 --> 02:27:30.479 forcing you to watch as I just walk away with 2640 02:27:30.719 --> 02:27:34.479 your memories, with your traditions and your dreams, and there. 2641 02:27:34.399 --> 02:27:36.239 Is nothing you can do to stop me. 2642 02:27:39.600 --> 02:27:43.799 I don't hate this. Yeah. He hit a strate at 2643 02:27:43.840 --> 02:27:52.879 the end. Well man, Wow, it's so nice of Cody 2644 02:27:52.920 --> 02:27:55.040 to let John talk for twenty minutes. Yeah, and then 2645 02:27:55.120 --> 02:27:57.520 come out with his music to uh instead of just 2646 02:27:57.600 --> 02:27:59.840 running out and beating his ass. I'm not for this ship. 2647 02:28:01.040 --> 02:28:04.000 Here he comes again with no, he's gonna fucking wait 2648 02:28:04.040 --> 02:28:06.799 for Pyro. He's gonna talk to fans, He's gonna he's 2649 02:28:06.840 --> 02:28:09.200 gonna go on the ground it all, you know, the 2650 02:28:09.319 --> 02:28:16.559 smile and like yeah, everybody here we go Like he's 2651 02:28:16.600 --> 02:28:20.840 walking out on Carson, you know exactly. He's fucking gonna 2652 02:28:20.879 --> 02:28:25.079 sit out there and suck Jay Leno's dick. Everyone's got 2653 02:28:25.159 --> 02:28:28.360 to do this. You gonna deprive Scotland of the woe. 2654 02:28:30.319 --> 02:28:33.479 I would listen, House show, house show, do it at 2655 02:28:33.479 --> 02:28:36.879 the house show after the TV show's over. What is 2656 02:28:36.959 --> 02:28:37.840 so hard about that? 2657 02:28:41.600 --> 02:28:43.559 But putting it on the show is what makes people 2658 02:28:43.600 --> 02:28:44.959 want to go to the show and so they can 2659 02:28:45.040 --> 02:28:45.440 do it too. 2660 02:28:46.719 --> 02:28:50.840 No, I'm not interested in that. And if that's part 2661 02:28:50.879 --> 02:28:52.680 of what makes the business home, that's part of why 2662 02:28:52.719 --> 02:28:54.799 I say it used to be better because he didn't 2663 02:28:54.879 --> 02:28:58.319 have to do that before to get people engaged. You know, 2664 02:28:58.600 --> 02:29:07.600 they didn't have to be participants. It's like a building 2665 02:29:07.639 --> 02:29:09.319 full of people who show up to w W now 2666 02:29:09.360 --> 02:29:12.040 and say, what can I do? Right? You know what 2667 02:29:12.079 --> 02:29:12.319 I mean? 2668 02:29:13.559 --> 02:29:15.040 Scout's gonna have to save wrestling? 2669 02:29:16.479 --> 02:29:19.280 Who's gonnas gonna save wrestling? Great? See, I don't quite 2670 02:29:19.360 --> 02:29:22.239 get how if johnsona wins the belt, Wrestling goes down 2671 02:29:22.280 --> 02:29:22.680 the trend. 2672 02:29:22.920 --> 02:29:25.559 That's gonna not that didn't speak very highly of his 2673 02:29:25.799 --> 02:29:45.159 drawing ability. H it's time for a point counterpoint Scotland digition, 2674 02:29:46.559 --> 02:29:47.799 fucking meet the press here. 2675 02:29:51.920 --> 02:29:54.559 That that suit Cody's wearing. Met the press back in 2676 02:29:54.600 --> 02:30:10.280 the hotel, right right? What shoes Cody? Say? Here? Boss, 2677 02:30:10.399 --> 02:30:14.239 real quick? And Cody should say, shut the funck off, 2678 02:30:14.319 --> 02:30:18.239 going to kick your ass, you dumb bitch, and knocked 2679 02:30:18.239 --> 02:30:24.840 the hat off his head, yes, and slap him. Yeah, Well, 2680 02:30:24.879 --> 02:30:26.879 that'd be great if you just didn't say anything, yep, 2681 02:30:26.959 --> 02:30:29.120 because you expect another speech and he just walks up 2682 02:30:29.159 --> 02:30:32.399 and doesn't say a word. As you know, steps to 2683 02:30:32.520 --> 02:30:39.760 John how to go through this, whether it's yeat or 2684 02:30:39.840 --> 02:30:44.159 it's the whoah for seth rollins, or it's this or 2685 02:30:44.319 --> 02:30:46.479 even edge and aw they sing his song. Now we 2686 02:30:46.600 --> 02:30:48.440 just kind of have to sit here so sick of 2687 02:30:48.520 --> 02:30:53.840 this shit. Wait, you know, fifty five seconds min and 2688 02:30:53.879 --> 02:31:00.799 a half for the ship to pass, still doing it 2689 02:31:02.639 --> 02:31:15.639 pretty roads roads rods contains codin roads. 2690 02:31:18.040 --> 02:31:24.000 I'm sorry, what did you say? You said you were 2691 02:31:24.079 --> 02:31:29.799 going to take this away from them. Don't you think 2692 02:31:29.879 --> 02:31:31.120 you need to take it away? From me. 2693 02:31:31.360 --> 02:31:37.479 First, I thought about that. You know, it's like they 2694 02:31:38.200 --> 02:31:43.159 this is this is, this is Bretton Vince all over again. 2695 02:31:43.520 --> 02:31:43.959 How up? 2696 02:31:44.520 --> 02:31:47.000 They just don't know how to tell the straight story. 2697 02:31:48.239 --> 02:31:52.120 It's a story, you know, like it's a simple story. 2698 02:31:52.200 --> 02:31:54.600 You don't need all these theatrics to make this work. 2699 02:31:55.799 --> 02:31:59.159 You don't know these all the psycho analysis. I'm so 2700 02:31:59.319 --> 02:32:01.120 sick of psycho analysis and wrestling. 2701 02:32:01.799 --> 02:32:06.920 But you have made a massive mistake. And the mistake 2702 02:32:08.680 --> 02:32:11.040 was not hitting me upside the head with this at 2703 02:32:11.079 --> 02:32:12.280 the elimination chamber. 2704 02:32:12.399 --> 02:32:13.000 No, no, no. 2705 02:32:14.719 --> 02:32:18.639 The mistake was saying what you just said in front 2706 02:32:18.680 --> 02:32:21.120 of these lovely people while I was. 2707 02:32:21.200 --> 02:32:38.479 In Boring Mooring. He called us lovely hang out. Codin's 2708 02:32:38.559 --> 02:32:46.600 Co Controls contains Colden's Roads, Codins Co controlls, Codin's Co 2709 02:32:46.760 --> 02:32:52.200 con rolls Codins Co con rolls. That would just blow 2710 02:32:52.280 --> 02:32:54.159 the chain up so hard. If like you had to 2711 02:32:54.239 --> 02:32:57.079 cone Codins, they would be so confused. I love it. 2712 02:32:57.399 --> 02:33:04.440 That's that would make it brilliant. Roll this whole thing, 2713 02:33:04.559 --> 02:33:09.520 bothers MEPA history. Oh really, I don't need to unload 2714 02:33:09.559 --> 02:33:12.040 your fucking listen. I'm gonna unload a load on your 2715 02:33:12.120 --> 02:33:14.959 face if we don't fucking get this thing back on track, brother. 2716 02:33:15.479 --> 02:33:20.639 One time, just to validate one name, I understand. 2717 02:33:23.159 --> 02:33:25.079 I mean, if you understand him correctly, then you're the 2718 02:33:25.159 --> 02:33:27.120 only one. I don't know what he's talking about. 2719 02:33:28.639 --> 02:33:32.440 All of professional wrestling hangs in the balance because of 2720 02:33:32.559 --> 02:33:33.520 your vanity. 2721 02:33:34.440 --> 02:33:37.760 What are you talking about? That's what you said, you 2722 02:33:37.840 --> 02:33:40.079 want to take it? That's okay, I'm talking about his 2723 02:33:40.159 --> 02:33:45.200 vanity is okay. I don't understand how seen A winning 2724 02:33:45.280 --> 02:33:52.600 is gonna end wrestling right now? Okay, that's a good story. 2725 02:33:52.799 --> 02:33:58.120 Take you long enough. So Atoss is at the mike, 2726 02:33:59.040 --> 02:34:00.000 Cody has ripped his shirt. 2727 02:34:00.079 --> 02:34:12.120 Open ring roads, Colden's Colden's Roads, Colden's Colden's Roads. Nobodys 2728 02:34:12.760 --> 02:34:17.680 his fighting stand. Let me go home. This is so 2729 02:34:17.920 --> 02:34:28.719 fucking lame. Sna leaves the ring instead of engaging in 2730 02:34:29.040 --> 02:34:34.120 debate Society version ten MM. 2731 02:34:38.639 --> 02:34:42.920 Up the aisle, he goes. Pat calls from all directions. 2732 02:34:47.120 --> 02:34:55.840 Sean, Yeah, that's a good one, John, It's like Eric, no, yeah, 2733 02:34:55.959 --> 02:34:58.559 right right, Oh it's hena turned around now making his 2734 02:34:58.639 --> 02:35:02.879 way back towards the ring. You're gonna prove yourself a man, 2735 02:35:03.760 --> 02:35:06.760 I guess. Golly, just saying John to change his mind 2736 02:35:06.799 --> 02:35:13.440 about me. Okay, prove yourself a man, John, I was 2737 02:35:13.520 --> 02:35:18.360 leaving again, did this? You gotta be kidding me? Look 2738 02:35:18.399 --> 02:35:18.959 on his face? 2739 02:35:19.399 --> 02:35:25.639 What John? I cannot let you do it. I cannot 2740 02:35:26.079 --> 02:35:29.799 have that on my conscience right now. I need you 2741 02:35:30.000 --> 02:35:30.760 to see me. 2742 02:35:31.399 --> 02:35:34.159 I need you to Oh my God, and I need 2743 02:35:34.280 --> 02:35:35.280 you to understand. 2744 02:35:35.680 --> 02:35:39.799 Shut up. Psychotic need to take you both suck putting 2745 02:35:39.799 --> 02:35:41.840 this fucking thing over to keep it. 2746 02:35:44.200 --> 02:35:47.360 Your psychotic need to take this does not outweigh our 2747 02:35:48.040 --> 02:35:48.760 right to keep it. 2748 02:35:50.040 --> 02:35:55.040 What's there the chap is standing in the center of 2749 02:35:55.239 --> 02:35:55.799 this ring. 2750 02:35:56.040 --> 02:35:56.559 We know this. 2751 02:36:00.280 --> 02:36:03.200 And see you walking away empty. 2752 02:36:02.920 --> 02:36:12.159 Handed, John Cena, John c from wrestle Mania, and that 2753 02:36:12.399 --> 02:36:14.040 is how you walk away. 2754 02:36:14.520 --> 02:36:16.040 From the w WE. 2755 02:36:17.760 --> 02:36:23.879 Okay. Another segment that ends with Sina in the fuddeled silence, 2756 02:36:23.959 --> 02:36:27.120 and his name is Cody wrote in his face, I'm 2757 02:36:27.200 --> 02:36:31.360 so depressed direction look at him. 2758 02:36:31.600 --> 02:36:34.760 W E Championship against that fan. 2759 02:36:37.600 --> 02:36:41.479 He's a la fan wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnio 2760 02:36:41.920 --> 02:36:42.879 and j Piso. 2761 02:36:50.920 --> 02:36:53.799 He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast. 2762 02:36:53.760 --> 02:36:55.959 Just standing there looking at the fans like this kind 2763 02:36:56.000 --> 02:36:59.879 of s I mean, is this you hoped we'd be 2764 02:37:00.360 --> 02:37:03.000 after the heel turn not at all. This is just awful. 2765 02:37:03.200 --> 02:37:06.360 It's just awful. Come on, it's awful. No, it's awful. 2766 02:37:06.399 --> 02:37:10.280 It's like I don't care. I don't care. How did 2767 02:37:10.319 --> 02:37:12.719 they manage to get me to not care? And like, right, 2768 02:37:12.920 --> 02:37:17.360 exactly amazing, that's just this really sad part is like, am. 2769 02:37:17.200 --> 02:37:18.879 I supposed to care about seeing it coming out like 2770 02:37:19.000 --> 02:37:21.399 dressed like he's always dressed, like just standing there like 2771 02:37:22.559 --> 02:37:25.319 you nailed it. It's like, no, you're not going to 2772 02:37:25.360 --> 02:37:29.200 convince me that this is special because he just nothing 2773 02:37:29.239 --> 02:37:33.239 has changed, Like there's no there's no visual reminder that 2774 02:37:33.360 --> 02:37:35.399 this is like a new set of circumstances, you know, 2775 02:37:35.559 --> 02:37:39.040 right right, So we hit the next promo here from 2776 02:37:39.440 --> 02:37:44.680 do we Have to We're getting there? This is from SmackDown. 2777 02:37:45.440 --> 02:37:50.559 This is after that that confrontation, and this also involves 2778 02:37:50.639 --> 02:37:52.360 Randy Orton and Drew McIntyre a bit. 2779 02:37:53.239 --> 02:37:58.399 Why we're about to find out? Ready okay, yeah, three two? 2780 02:37:58.680 --> 02:38:04.879 One play is Oh my god, where are we now? 2781 02:38:06.200 --> 02:38:09.879 Uh that's a good question. This is the biggest the 2782 02:38:09.959 --> 02:38:12.959 biggest mistake they ever fucking did was doing was this 2783 02:38:16.799 --> 02:38:19.120 See he's doing the fucking rah rah and he should 2784 02:38:19.120 --> 02:38:21.440 be laser focused. 2785 02:38:23.639 --> 02:38:24.840 What do you want to talk about? 2786 02:38:29.200 --> 02:38:29.520 Nothing. 2787 02:38:31.799 --> 02:38:35.959 The March twenty eighth edition of SmackDown seen the Sucks 2788 02:38:36.079 --> 02:38:48.680 chance here in London, London, decidedly on the scene of sucks. 2789 02:38:49.079 --> 02:38:50.399 I don't hear any let's go see it. 2790 02:38:51.280 --> 02:39:05.760 There it is Cody taking the measure of the audience. 2791 02:39:06.959 --> 02:39:10.479 But they're just so like light about it, like, yeah, 2792 02:39:10.840 --> 02:39:13.959 there's no more sense of betrayal, there's no more again, 2793 02:39:14.120 --> 02:39:16.639 that's all gone, like the whole it's just become another 2794 02:39:16.719 --> 02:39:21.879 fucking title program exactly, and now another title match that 2795 02:39:22.000 --> 02:39:22.639 needs a story. 2796 02:39:24.959 --> 02:39:28.159 Yeah, and the story was there. The story was there, 2797 02:39:28.639 --> 02:39:31.000 And now listen to watch what we have to sit 2798 02:39:31.079 --> 02:39:31.959 through before we get to it. 2799 02:39:33.159 --> 02:39:44.200 MS Codins, Codin's Roads, Codins, Codin's Roads, Codins, Codin's Roads, Codin's, 2800 02:39:44.399 --> 02:39:54.440 Codin's Roads, Codin's, Codin's Roads, Codin's Codin's Roads. I don't 2801 02:39:54.559 --> 02:39:59.639 fucking care. I still don't fucking care. You made me 2802 02:40:00.040 --> 02:40:07.079 you not want to see this any emo? Get that 2803 02:40:07.239 --> 02:40:09.840 fucking care? Hashtag lapsed bitch, What the fuck do you 2804 02:40:09.959 --> 02:40:10.879 know about it? Nothing? 2805 02:40:11.399 --> 02:40:19.600 As he goes to break the record and win sevens but. 2806 02:40:19.680 --> 02:40:22.319 That I mean again, this, this could have been a 2807 02:40:22.479 --> 02:40:27.760 thing if you know you're doing with the number seventeen 2808 02:40:27.840 --> 02:40:29.760 story as if he didn't turn here. 2809 02:40:30.399 --> 02:40:32.760 With John Cena in this verse, that was going to 2810 02:40:32.799 --> 02:40:35.719 be the story in this very same arena. 2811 02:40:40.200 --> 02:40:45.000 Uh, who fucking cares? Why is he here? The old legacy? 2812 02:40:45.200 --> 02:40:45.319 Uh? 2813 02:40:46.799 --> 02:40:53.440 Then tour oh Orton had some remarks on the first 2814 02:40:53.440 --> 02:40:56.760 SmackDown after seeing heeld turn as well about how upside 2815 02:40:56.799 --> 02:41:02.399 down everything this is another sound wrest off his own. 2816 02:41:06.040 --> 02:41:08.520 I'm not really the sentimental type. 2817 02:41:09.360 --> 02:41:10.680 Okay, then shut up for you? 2818 02:41:11.760 --> 02:41:14.159 For you London's you know what, screw it? 2819 02:41:17.120 --> 02:41:21.520 Yep, screw it. That's the way to go. Screw it. 2820 02:41:26.399 --> 02:41:33.159 O K O r K O Codins Random's versus Codince. 2821 02:41:36.239 --> 02:41:40.600 Look at you, Yeah, look at you. You're a dumb fuck? 2822 02:41:41.319 --> 02:41:42.159 Who you are now? 2823 02:41:42.280 --> 02:41:42.920 The man you are? 2824 02:41:43.040 --> 02:41:43.200 Now? 2825 02:41:43.920 --> 02:41:49.920 Who cares? Look at where he came from. Yeah, he's 2826 02:41:49.920 --> 02:41:50.959 the grandson of a plumber. 2827 02:41:51.360 --> 02:41:53.239 I remember a Cody Rhoades. 2828 02:41:53.959 --> 02:41:55.879 I remember a Cody Rhoades. 2829 02:41:58.639 --> 02:41:59.120 Roads. 2830 02:42:00.319 --> 02:42:06.719 Eat my fucking shit. I hate this fucking thing. Wrestling's 2831 02:42:06.799 --> 02:42:13.600 fucking fake. You're all fucking phonies. Eat my fucking cock. 2832 02:42:14.680 --> 02:42:16.360 Watch you suck my dick. 2833 02:42:18.280 --> 02:42:21.120 I remember a Cody Rhodes in his early twenties, just 2834 02:42:21.239 --> 02:42:22.319 breaking into business. 2835 02:42:22.959 --> 02:42:26.399 Yeah, I try to forget that hard there. 2836 02:42:26.440 --> 02:42:29.079 We go great fully harder than anybody else. 2837 02:42:29.319 --> 02:42:33.559 Oh, because you're fucking Brandy Orton and you do ship 2838 02:42:33.680 --> 02:42:35.959 that other people don't like you shit in bags and 2839 02:42:37.200 --> 02:42:38.399 he sees things in people. 2840 02:42:38.920 --> 02:42:43.959 Eactly happy, In fact, you were. You were frustrated, but 2841 02:42:44.120 --> 02:42:44.959 you were mad enough. 2842 02:42:45.000 --> 02:42:46.719 You were smart. As frustrated as I am. 2843 02:42:46.840 --> 02:42:50.000 You grow and you couldn't grow in a WWE locker room. 2844 02:42:50.079 --> 02:42:54.319 You were exactly treated fairly in a WWE locker room. 2845 02:42:54.440 --> 02:42:55.280 So you left. 2846 02:42:55.440 --> 02:43:00.760 Man, that took some big ass balls to this company. 2847 02:43:00.959 --> 02:43:03.680 That's right, we run We can say big gass balls. 2848 02:43:04.280 --> 02:43:09.959 N Yeah, all right, you changed the business single Oh, 2849 02:43:10.040 --> 02:43:11.639 for God's sake, shut up. 2850 02:43:11.680 --> 02:43:12.000 You know what. 2851 02:43:12.079 --> 02:43:13.760 All the girls in the beck know it, and you 2852 02:43:13.959 --> 02:43:15.760 know that I appreciate you for it. 2853 02:43:16.479 --> 02:43:17.600 But you came back. 2854 02:43:18.280 --> 02:43:20.000 Yeah, I knew one day you'd come back. 2855 02:43:20.079 --> 02:43:24.040 And the industry has been changed forever, ever since the 2856 02:43:24.159 --> 02:43:26.600 day you stepped foot back in the WWE. 2857 02:43:31.399 --> 02:43:34.000 Toady's crying. You know, I didn't really know. 2858 02:43:34.040 --> 02:43:37.159 What to expect at first, and then I realized. 2859 02:43:36.760 --> 02:43:39.440 You're the same guy. You're the same guy. 2860 02:43:39.639 --> 02:43:41.319 You just did what you set out to do. 2861 02:43:41.559 --> 02:43:42.280 You grew. 2862 02:43:42.840 --> 02:43:45.040 I'd sing along with you, but you might leave. 2863 02:43:48.040 --> 02:43:51.200 That's funny, not appropriate for this, but it is funny. 2864 02:43:52.239 --> 02:43:59.959 We go again. Codin's Codin's Roads, Codin's Codin's Roads code. 2865 02:44:02.079 --> 02:44:04.000 I didn't expect this to be a thing. I should 2866 02:44:04.040 --> 02:44:07.799 have thought. I should have figured it, though, considering how 2867 02:44:07.879 --> 02:44:08.840 much of this is in Europe. 2868 02:44:11.079 --> 02:44:15.079 You remember when this man faced Seth, Rollins and hell 2869 02:44:15.159 --> 02:44:24.959 in a self impressive yeah possible. You started that match 2870 02:44:25.120 --> 02:44:28.719 with a partially torn peck. You finished that match. 2871 02:44:28.760 --> 02:44:29.879 With a fully torn peck. 2872 02:44:30.520 --> 02:44:33.120 Right, Your body turned all sorts of shades, the color 2873 02:44:33.200 --> 02:44:35.360 purple that I have never seen on a human body. 2874 02:44:35.879 --> 02:44:38.680 The pain you must have been in, but you persevered, 2875 02:44:38.840 --> 02:44:41.079 not just for you, actually it would. 2876 02:44:40.920 --> 02:44:43.799 Turn the color purple and several other Academy awards with your. 2877 02:44:43.760 --> 02:44:46.079 Family and your father, who was mostly for all of 2878 02:44:46.200 --> 02:44:48.799 these people, that you stuck it out and you won 2879 02:44:48.959 --> 02:44:52.840 that match with a torn peck. Then you went on 2880 02:44:53.040 --> 02:44:58.920 to WrestleMania in the main event, and you finished your story. Okay, 2881 02:45:02.040 --> 02:45:06.200 but there's always another story, isn't there. Yeah, especially in 2882 02:45:06.280 --> 02:45:10.120 w W in the middle of another one. Because you're 2883 02:45:10.159 --> 02:45:13.440 in charge of your legacy, and it is a privilege. 2884 02:45:13.000 --> 02:45:13.479 To sit back. 2885 02:45:13.680 --> 02:45:15.559 He said that word legacy there, it is right there. 2886 02:45:17.079 --> 02:45:19.120 Ticket sales have been up, the business this. 2887 02:45:19.280 --> 02:45:23.120 More Oh my god, shut up, fuck up. It is 2888 02:45:23.440 --> 02:45:27.040 mostly it's for Nick Connors, is for thee because of you, 2889 02:45:27.440 --> 02:45:39.079 Cody Great. I come for the wrestling, stay for the economics, 2890 02:45:43.200 --> 02:45:46.799 look for the spreadsheets. That's this is what I mean, 2891 02:45:46.879 --> 02:45:49.479 Raandy to bringing a pie chart to the room. Seriously, 2892 02:45:50.159 --> 02:45:52.600 I won't you fucking do a dude, do a presentation 2893 02:45:52.719 --> 02:45:54.639 with an overhead projector please trying to. 2894 02:45:54.680 --> 02:45:58.520 Say, man, it's just a long winded version of long winded? 2895 02:45:58.559 --> 02:45:58.840 Is right? 2896 02:45:59.239 --> 02:46:01.520 And most of all, man and I am very very 2897 02:46:01.719 --> 02:46:02.680 proud of you, dude. 2898 02:46:02.879 --> 02:46:06.239 I'm the promo you do before he turns on him 2899 02:46:06.280 --> 02:46:10.159 and takes you know what I mean, exactly exactly. 2900 02:46:10.559 --> 02:46:14.280 But but but but but but it's time for WrestleMania. 2901 02:46:14.959 --> 02:46:19.840 Yeah, that's what I've been told. Yeah, they want it, 2902 02:46:20.559 --> 02:46:22.520 they want it, Cody. But we were thinking, what if 2903 02:46:22.559 --> 02:46:27.680 we introduced Randy's perspective into this thing. Yeah, that's I'm 2904 02:46:27.719 --> 02:46:30.399 so excited for that that I am going to uh 2905 02:46:31.239 --> 02:46:33.440 kick Kevin Owen so hard in the head. 2906 02:46:34.639 --> 02:46:36.719 That won't be happening as Kevin had to withdraw from 2907 02:46:36.760 --> 02:46:38.159 WrestleMania do to a nick and Tree. 2908 02:46:38.680 --> 02:46:43.040 Wow, really, how many days with our WrestleMania is a bit. 2909 02:46:44.920 --> 02:46:45.799 From his shoulders. 2910 02:46:47.079 --> 02:46:50.319 And I know that you're going to enter WrestleMania champ. 2911 02:46:50.680 --> 02:46:53.239 You're gonna walk out a WrestleMania champ, but not before 2912 02:46:53.360 --> 02:46:55.920 you beat the holy hell out of John Cena all. 2913 02:46:55.920 --> 02:46:57.479 Up and down the Vegas Strip. 2914 02:46:58.920 --> 02:47:08.200 Okay, but after all the smoke clears and the dust settles, Cody, 2915 02:47:08.399 --> 02:47:11.559 just like John Cena is going after number seventeen, There's 2916 02:47:11.600 --> 02:47:13.319 gonna come a time when I'm gonna want to go 2917 02:47:13.440 --> 02:47:14.639 after number fifteen. 2918 02:47:16.079 --> 02:47:24.360 Ooh shit, he's talking fighting words, motherfuckers. Oh yeah, But 2919 02:47:24.520 --> 02:47:26.559 I'm not going to kick you in the balls like 2920 02:47:26.760 --> 02:47:27.520 some coward. 2921 02:47:28.520 --> 02:47:31.280 I'm gonna look you directly in your eye because I 2922 02:47:31.479 --> 02:47:33.959 respect you, I love you and men the balls, and 2923 02:47:34.079 --> 02:47:37.799 I consider you an equal, if not far surpassing anything 2924 02:47:37.879 --> 02:47:40.719 I've ever done in this business. I'm gonna look you 2925 02:47:40.799 --> 02:47:41.799 in your eye, and I'm going to. 2926 02:47:41.840 --> 02:47:42.200 Tell you. 2927 02:47:44.040 --> 02:47:45.120 That I'm coming for this. 2928 02:47:47.639 --> 02:47:53.799 Right and now, the real truth teller. What the fuck? 2929 02:47:57.280 --> 02:47:59.200 Just here one remark here from here and then we'll 2930 02:47:59.360 --> 02:48:02.760 exit this one. But it's kind of funny because you know, 2931 02:48:02.840 --> 02:48:06.319 his whole gimmick is like everyone's a shithead and like 2932 02:48:06.520 --> 02:48:10.200 eventually the right eventually they prove themselves shitheads and he 2933 02:48:10.399 --> 02:48:12.600 just he's the eye told you so, guys, such a 2934 02:48:12.680 --> 02:48:17.000 fucking it is so annoying. I don't want this, this 2935 02:48:17.079 --> 02:48:19.760 whole thing, you know, and and and listen. Yeah, there 2936 02:48:19.799 --> 02:48:22.680 are a bunch of a bunch of these guys are 2937 02:48:22.879 --> 02:48:25.440 great and they do their thing, but man, oh man, 2938 02:48:25.639 --> 02:48:30.040 it's like this fucking story is just ruined. It's just 2939 02:48:30.280 --> 02:48:38.719 fucking ruined. The dead carcass true back and I got it. 2940 02:48:39.520 --> 02:48:41.040 That's wonderful. 2941 02:48:42.200 --> 02:48:45.559 No, a couple of babies, a couple of nipple babies 2942 02:48:45.639 --> 02:48:46.760 having a love fast. 2943 02:48:48.440 --> 02:48:50.879 It makes me absolutely sick. 2944 02:48:52.159 --> 02:48:59.639 Yeah, makes my absolutely sounds like fat bastard. 2945 02:49:00.440 --> 02:49:01.680 You're coming for that title? 2946 02:49:03.280 --> 02:49:06.719 What exactly have you done since your big comeback to 2947 02:49:07.040 --> 02:49:08.479 justify that title match? 2948 02:49:08.920 --> 02:49:11.879 A sibe Randy Orten, Nobody, that's a big moment. 2949 02:49:11.920 --> 02:49:14.559 I can remember you being on the shelf for months 2950 02:49:14.639 --> 02:49:15.719 and months and months. 2951 02:49:16.559 --> 02:49:19.159 People like to make jokes about it, but more people 2952 02:49:19.319 --> 02:49:23.200 talk about my five minute, forty six second world title. 2953 02:49:23.040 --> 02:49:27.159 Raid than your entire comeback so far. So get to 2954 02:49:27.280 --> 02:49:34.799 the back of the lighting Sunshine. That's for you, Cody, what. 2955 02:49:34.840 --> 02:49:38.520 Do you say you shunned me? 2956 02:49:42.440 --> 02:49:45.639 Everybody Sam Punk should have listened to me about. 2957 02:49:45.479 --> 02:49:48.920 John Cena, but they did it, and the next night 2958 02:49:49.200 --> 02:49:52.479 he kicked you right in the twig and Berries proven 2959 02:49:52.639 --> 02:49:54.159 you right as usual. 2960 02:49:55.959 --> 02:50:01.520 Twigging berries should be Cody Rhoads against the UK's only 2961 02:50:01.639 --> 02:50:03.760 ever world champion, drew back and. 2962 02:50:03.879 --> 02:50:09.520 Tire close that piece out there. So I should have 2963 02:50:09.600 --> 02:50:12.559 told you so, kind of like kind of like Heenan 2964 02:50:12.920 --> 02:50:14.680 saying I told you Hogan was a piece of ship 2965 02:50:14.760 --> 02:50:17.879 all these Yeah, except not as nearly as uh as poignant, 2966 02:50:18.479 --> 02:50:20.520 not even closed. So how are we? 2967 02:50:20.719 --> 02:50:23.239 How are we feeling? Let's try to go back to 2968 02:50:23.360 --> 02:50:27.319 the feeling elimination chamber night and the possibilities due. 2969 02:50:27.520 --> 02:50:33.920 I mean, there's nothing, It's just a fucking I mean, 2970 02:50:33.959 --> 02:50:42.600 I've I've yeah, it's just it's it's like it's like 2971 02:50:42.680 --> 02:50:44.680 they it's like they didn't know. They really didn't know 2972 02:50:44.680 --> 02:50:48.479 what to fucking do. No, Nope, and think that they 2973 02:50:48.520 --> 02:50:51.159 didn't they didn't have a game plan like at this 2974 02:50:51.319 --> 02:50:53.840 at this point, they should have just kept jouncing the face. 2975 02:50:54.760 --> 02:50:56.959 Don't shit, I know, because it's it's gonna end up 2976 02:50:57.000 --> 02:50:59.239 there by the time it's over, because eventually people are 2977 02:50:59.280 --> 02:51:01.920 gonna poke holes and codys saying, and I don't know. 2978 02:51:02.719 --> 02:51:05.200 At one point Triple A said, like, how much fun 2979 02:51:05.280 --> 02:51:08.760 would it be to write for a heel sna It's. 2980 02:51:08.680 --> 02:51:09.719 Like not that much fun. 2981 02:51:10.120 --> 02:51:12.200 Already, you're in the wrong frame of mind. There's no 2982 02:51:12.280 --> 02:51:16.680 writing here. Okay, this isn't this isn't about a character sketch. 2983 02:51:16.840 --> 02:51:19.680 It's already the characters are already established. You don't have 2984 02:51:19.760 --> 02:51:20.440 to write anything. 2985 02:51:21.239 --> 02:51:23.559 I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, Yeah, now, I mean, 2986 02:51:23.639 --> 02:51:27.280 listen again. They just got it all wrong, like they 2987 02:51:27.399 --> 02:51:33.319 they they I don't, I don't know if it was. 2988 02:51:34.520 --> 02:51:38.680 I mean, they just they got it all wrong. They 2989 02:51:38.760 --> 02:51:43.319 did everything wrong with this, Like they couldn't have fucked 2990 02:51:43.360 --> 02:51:46.639 it up. They missed all the easy Yeah, this should 2991 02:51:46.639 --> 02:51:51.760 have made the easiest fucking heel turn ever. They had 2992 02:51:51.840 --> 02:51:55.200 all the elements to just do the right thing, and 2993 02:51:55.760 --> 02:52:01.799 everything wrong. You've been awful to me, Like who cares? Fans? 2994 02:52:01.879 --> 02:52:10.520 Boo everybody, like you're still one. You have No, you 2995 02:52:10.600 --> 02:52:14.319 didn't lose anything, right, you fucking won. It made all 2996 02:52:14.399 --> 02:52:17.600 kinds of money. The one guy who shouldn't care that 2997 02:52:17.639 --> 02:52:19.079 he gets boot all the time. Is the guy who 2998 02:52:19.120 --> 02:52:22.399 went on to make as much money as he would 2999 02:52:22.399 --> 02:52:25.000 have if they cheered him, John Cena, Yeah, you know 3000 02:52:25.040 --> 02:52:26.840 what I mean. It's not like he should give a shit, 3001 02:52:26.959 --> 02:52:28.920 knocked him out of his position for a second, or 3002 02:52:29.000 --> 02:52:32.520 had the kind of pathetic So it's a pathetic story. 3003 02:52:32.719 --> 02:52:35.000 It's a it's a it's it's just the it's the 3004 02:52:35.079 --> 02:52:39.159 absolute like it's lazy. It's extremely lazy. Like they could 3005 02:52:39.200 --> 02:52:42.120 have done the Hollywood thing would have been so fucking 3006 02:52:42.200 --> 02:52:46.040 money and it would have been so easy, and it 3007 02:52:46.040 --> 02:52:49.600 would have been great because you know what, everybody hates 3008 02:52:50.159 --> 02:52:57.719 smug Hollywood phonies. Yep, hence the rock Yep. They don't 3009 02:52:57.799 --> 02:53:02.520 not like him because he's the Row. They don't like him. 3010 02:53:03.639 --> 02:53:06.319 Wait they don't. Yeah, that's not what I meant to say. 3011 02:53:06.680 --> 02:53:08.639 It's not that they don't like him because he's the Rock. 3012 02:53:09.520 --> 02:53:12.719 It's so they don't like him because he's the Hollywood 3013 02:53:12.840 --> 02:53:16.159 rock who came back to control things. Yes, that's why 3014 02:53:16.200 --> 02:53:19.680 they don't like That's why people boo him, not because 3015 02:53:19.760 --> 02:53:22.159 just because he's the Rock, but because he's Hollywood. 3016 02:53:21.760 --> 02:53:24.360 Rock and scene is not coming back to control anything. 3017 02:53:24.440 --> 02:53:26.440 Scene is acting like he has no control. Seene is 3018 02:53:26.479 --> 02:53:28.840 acting like he is this permanent victim. 3019 02:53:29.079 --> 02:53:31.600 You know, Yeah, it's just weird. Like he should just 3020 02:53:31.719 --> 02:53:35.959 be he should realize that the Rock had the right, 3021 02:53:36.760 --> 02:53:39.879 the right mentality the whole time. Right then, now I'm 3022 02:53:39.879 --> 02:53:41.559 gonna splin I should have been listening, you know what. 3023 02:53:41.600 --> 02:53:43.200 I should have been listening to the Rock back in 3024 02:53:43.719 --> 02:53:48.440 back in twenty twenty seven, twenty No twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. 3025 02:53:49.040 --> 02:53:50.719 One of the things Triple A seems to pride himself 3026 02:53:50.760 --> 02:53:53.079 on saying is that you know, with the heels, even 3027 02:53:53.079 --> 02:53:55.000 if you don't agree with them, you have to understand 3028 02:53:55.000 --> 02:53:57.520 where they're coming from. You have to see their perspective 3029 02:53:57.520 --> 02:53:59.719 a little bit like, Okay, I get why they're acting 3030 02:53:59.719 --> 02:54:02.239 that way. No, that has not happened with this John Cenam. 3031 02:54:02.319 --> 02:54:04.280 You don't need to. You don't need to. You don't 3032 02:54:04.280 --> 02:54:04.520 need to. 3033 02:54:04.600 --> 02:54:06.760 And further you, that's not an option because everything he's 3034 02:54:06.799 --> 02:54:10.319 saying to explain where he's coming from just goes in 3035 02:54:10.440 --> 02:54:13.200 one ear out the other. Right, everything he's complaining about 3036 02:54:13.200 --> 02:54:18.920 having been cost by the fans, he didn't actually lose 3037 02:54:19.000 --> 02:54:20.639 out on at all. He didn't have done on anything. 3038 02:54:21.879 --> 02:54:23.719 I mean, what difference would it have made if they 3039 02:54:23.760 --> 02:54:25.440 were cheering him all those years he was on top? 3040 02:54:25.559 --> 02:54:28.280 None? So it's hard for him to point to the harm. 3041 02:54:28.520 --> 02:54:32.399 You know what I mean? Right again again you talk 3042 02:54:32.479 --> 02:54:38.440 about the What makes it work is not that they 3043 02:54:38.479 --> 02:54:41.440 were booing him back then, but that he's resentful that 3044 02:54:41.520 --> 02:54:44.520 they cheer him. Now, that's the money, that's where it's 3045 02:54:44.600 --> 02:54:47.600 that's where you can bring in the fans. Is that 3046 02:54:47.879 --> 02:54:50.799 where were you back then? What makes it? What makes 3047 02:54:50.879 --> 02:54:51.719 me special now? 3048 02:54:51.840 --> 02:54:52.040 To you? 3049 02:54:52.639 --> 02:54:52.760 Right? 3050 02:54:53.040 --> 02:54:55.159 Why do you like me now? All of a sudden? 3051 02:54:55.600 --> 02:54:55.719 Right? 3052 02:54:56.680 --> 02:54:57.200 It just right? 3053 02:54:57.200 --> 02:54:59.520 Because that that's what really clicked it in with me, 3054 02:54:59.639 --> 02:55:02.399 that you, you fans are not worth catering to, because 3055 02:55:02.520 --> 02:55:05.520 it's just something as arbitrary as the passage of time 3056 02:55:05.879 --> 02:55:08.319 can have you completely reverse how you feel about somebody. 3057 02:55:09.399 --> 02:55:12.959 And that's that that that resonates. I think that's that's 3058 02:55:14.799 --> 02:55:17.440 that's that's and that's easy. And live long enough to 3059 02:55:17.479 --> 02:55:20.120 see yourself become the villain. Yes, And you know what, 3060 02:55:20.959 --> 02:55:25.079 I'm better off now. I'm Hollywood. I make movies, I 3061 02:55:25.200 --> 02:55:29.639 make TV shows, I sponsor fucking McDonald's. I'm the king, 3062 02:55:30.200 --> 02:55:33.479 I'm the voice of every commercial you hear and I 3063 02:55:33.600 --> 02:55:37.680 don't need you, guys. I never did and I don't 3064 02:55:37.719 --> 02:55:39.280 need you now. Back then I had to put up 3065 02:55:39.319 --> 02:55:42.319 with it because I needed you, because I guess guess what, 3066 02:55:43.200 --> 02:55:45.959 You're still gonna buy tickets to my movies. And that's 3067 02:55:46.079 --> 02:55:49.000 him winning, that's not that's not him on a mission 3068 02:55:49.120 --> 02:55:52.680 to get the fans to look in the mirror. And no, no, 3069 02:55:52.959 --> 02:55:54.479 just you don't need them to look in the mirror. 3070 02:55:54.520 --> 02:55:57.680 You just tell them I knew all all along. I 3071 02:55:57.799 --> 02:56:00.280 knew it all along. You buy you give me money, 3072 02:56:01.639 --> 02:56:04.559 you buy my merchandise, you come to see me. I 3073 02:56:04.799 --> 02:56:07.319 do you know what happens there? I take that money, 3074 02:56:07.799 --> 02:56:08.920 It goes in my pocket. 3075 02:56:09.200 --> 02:56:11.600 You know what a self own it is to spend 3076 02:56:11.639 --> 02:56:15.600 your days trying to get people to admit or acknowledge 3077 02:56:15.639 --> 02:56:18.440 that they've contradicted themselves. You know what a self own 3078 02:56:18.559 --> 02:56:20.920 that is. That's like you go to the grave and 3079 02:56:21.040 --> 02:56:24.680 the other person that you obsess to the death about 3080 02:56:25.000 --> 02:56:28.000 pointing out that they've contradicted themselves just shrugs it off. 3081 02:56:28.600 --> 02:56:30.920 And here you go, driving yourself into a mania, trying 3082 02:56:30.959 --> 02:56:32.360 to make a case that no one gives a fuck 3083 02:56:32.399 --> 02:56:36.760 about it. Meanwhile ignoring you know, putting a skip in 3084 02:56:36.799 --> 02:56:40.479 your step, putting a glide in your stride, right, all 3085 02:56:40.479 --> 02:56:44.239 at the expense of making you a worthwhile person. You know, No, 3086 02:56:44.319 --> 02:56:46.159 I'm just gonna I'm gonna spend all my oxygen in 3087 02:56:46.239 --> 02:56:48.040 time talking about how someone else is a hypocrite. 3088 02:56:48.159 --> 02:56:50.200 It's like so stupid at that point. 3089 02:56:50.239 --> 02:56:53.440 You actually negated your existence at that point, right in 3090 02:56:53.520 --> 02:56:57.159 a very strange and curious way. Well, they did make 3091 02:56:57.280 --> 02:56:59.200 one bid, did Cody and Scene, as far as I 3092 02:56:59.319 --> 02:57:02.399 can tell, to amp up the juice a little bit, 3093 02:57:02.840 --> 02:57:04.760 to go a little bit beyond this kind of hyper 3094 02:57:04.840 --> 02:57:08.920 superficial you know, you fans are awful kind of an 3095 02:57:08.920 --> 02:57:11.239 approach to this thing. And it took place in the 3096 02:57:11.280 --> 02:57:14.799 March thirty first edition of RAW. I believe I've emailed 3097 02:57:14.840 --> 02:57:17.600 you this. I'm losing track here of what the last 3098 02:57:17.639 --> 02:57:18.479 thing I sent you was. 3099 02:57:18.719 --> 02:57:19.239 Let me see. 3100 02:57:21.920 --> 02:57:24.639 Yes, okay, so we're there, if you can pull this up. Yep, 3101 02:57:25.200 --> 02:57:29.000 this one got a little saucy. This is the last 3102 02:57:29.639 --> 02:57:32.879 I'm not mistaken. Yes, but as we're recording this, okay, 3103 02:57:33.399 --> 02:57:37.479 this is the last confrontation between John Cena and Cody 3104 02:57:37.600 --> 02:57:41.959 Rhodes before WrestleMania. Now, quick note, we are recording this 3105 02:57:43.120 --> 02:57:45.959 before the Go Home SmackDown, which will be live from 3106 02:57:46.040 --> 02:57:49.399 Las Vegas, and I believe has advertised John Cena as appearing. 3107 02:57:50.079 --> 02:57:53.399 So there will be one final chapter to this and 3108 02:57:53.559 --> 02:57:56.399 we'll certainly reflect that in our live call. But we 3109 02:57:56.479 --> 02:57:59.639 had to get this one out the door before SmackDown 3110 02:57:59.639 --> 02:58:03.319 obviously because this came out on Saturday morning. I'm not sure, well, 3111 02:58:03.319 --> 02:58:04.680 we wouldn't have the time to do it, and I'm 3112 02:58:04.719 --> 02:58:05.680 sure people really. 3113 02:58:05.520 --> 02:58:05.959 Give a fuck. 3114 02:58:06.079 --> 02:58:09.479 So this is this is your appetizer into the weekend, 3115 02:58:10.000 --> 02:58:12.719 and so here it is that final bid here to 3116 02:58:12.799 --> 02:58:13.399 get you to care. 3117 02:58:13.479 --> 02:58:16.200 We'll see how they do. Boss. Let's hit play in 3118 02:58:16.319 --> 02:58:27.000 three two one play divided crowd. I think they shouldn't 3119 02:58:27.000 --> 02:58:30.760 be divided. They should not be divided. That's part of 3120 02:58:30.799 --> 02:58:40.719 the problems starting to happen. Yeah, that's a lot of cheering. Yep. 3121 02:58:41.200 --> 02:58:45.079 That's a lot more cheering than Belgium. Yep. Well you 3122 02:58:45.200 --> 02:58:47.600 nailed it. That's what's gonna happen. There'll be cheering him 3123 02:58:47.639 --> 02:58:53.319 like Hull Colvin at WrestleMania, a farewell tour like that 3124 02:58:53.360 --> 02:58:57.479 should be there. This fucking this stuff should they just 3125 02:58:57.959 --> 02:59:04.280 they fucked themselves. The shirt merchandise line. They did all 3126 02:59:04.319 --> 02:59:06.799 these are they still are they still in the U? 3127 02:59:07.120 --> 02:59:09.600 They're still in Oh my god? Enough for this UK 3128 02:59:09.799 --> 02:59:18.559 tour after WrestleMania. Hello, that's when you do it. The 3129 02:59:18.680 --> 02:59:22.520 towel behind his head again. I'm so tired of this, 3130 02:59:34.040 --> 02:59:38.040 the selfish robot. We nailed it. 3131 02:59:42.719 --> 02:59:44.120 The smile has. 3132 02:59:44.040 --> 02:59:50.440 Become a on the face of a six tillion time 3133 02:59:50.559 --> 02:59:51.479 a world champion. 3134 02:59:52.520 --> 02:59:53.719 John Tatum. 3135 03:00:06.639 --> 03:00:08.760 Sing A long time with that, right, that's what it is. 3136 03:00:09.440 --> 03:00:11.159 European is what you say? No, no, no, no, no, no, 3137 03:00:11.200 --> 03:00:13.319 no no, it's not saying a long time with John Cena. 3138 03:00:16.840 --> 03:00:19.600 Dwayne would have made this work so much better totally. 3139 03:00:19.719 --> 03:00:22.399 He would have added it such a different energy because 3140 03:00:22.680 --> 03:00:27.079 because John Cena should not speak, look at him, he 3141 03:00:27.120 --> 03:00:34.760 should be motionless and emotionless. They're booing the hell out 3142 03:00:34.760 --> 03:00:38.200 of him. But yeah, but this could have been They 3143 03:00:38.239 --> 03:00:40.559 could have he could have had a nuclear heat, he 3144 03:00:40.600 --> 03:00:47.600 could have had nuclear volcanic heat. That sounds nuclear to me. No, no, 3145 03:00:49.440 --> 03:00:53.600 because half the cross the crowd right exactly. That amazing 3146 03:00:53.719 --> 03:00:55.440 when he turns heel, half the people are with him 3147 03:00:55.440 --> 03:00:58.479 and against him, doesn't matter, but that that negates the 3148 03:00:58.520 --> 03:01:01.479 whole thing too. Yep, his baby face. Half the people 3149 03:01:01.520 --> 03:01:03.399 love him, half the people hate him. I mean half 3150 03:01:03.399 --> 03:01:04.799 the people of him. I mean, what is it? Two 3151 03:01:04.799 --> 03:01:08.079 thousand and five? Sounds like the same thing, and before 3152 03:01:08.120 --> 03:01:12.799 he can draw the mic to his mouth, Cody, when 3153 03:01:12.840 --> 03:01:16.159 you watch it back to back like this, it's so nauseating. 3154 03:01:17.360 --> 03:01:20.440 Here we go. Hey, I will say one thing. During 3155 03:01:20.479 --> 03:01:23.239 our recent coverage of w W European Rampage again in Germany, 3156 03:01:23.639 --> 03:01:27.040 we were kind of lotting and lamenting the loss of 3157 03:01:28.040 --> 03:01:29.840 you know, a gimmick where you could bring the American 3158 03:01:29.920 --> 03:01:32.639 flag to Germany and get a German crowd. In the US, 3159 03:01:33.399 --> 03:01:36.159 Cody is doing that. Cody doesn't get booted anywhere. He 3160 03:01:36.200 --> 03:01:43.079 wraps himself on the flag. That's true. But I don't 3161 03:01:43.079 --> 03:01:45.760 see anyone buying American flags and bring him to the shows. Yes, 3162 03:01:45.840 --> 03:01:53.719 that's true. Was he gonna? Was he a fucking getting 3163 03:01:53.959 --> 03:01:55.879 ready to do a production of Guys and Dolls with 3164 03:01:55.959 --> 03:02:01.360 that fucking suit? Yeah, he looks like a guy at 3165 03:02:01.399 --> 03:02:07.159 Johnsona looks like a doll. Like again, there's just like 3166 03:02:07.440 --> 03:02:10.239 it's just this is just a title program. There's nothing. Yeah, 3167 03:02:10.479 --> 03:02:13.639 there's just nothing interesting in this at all. Exactly like 3168 03:02:13.799 --> 03:02:15.719 Johnsena might as well have been a baby face and 3169 03:02:15.840 --> 03:02:19.879 just fucking been like the heel in this program. You know, 3170 03:02:20.040 --> 03:02:22.000 point we probably would have been in much the same place, 3171 03:02:22.280 --> 03:02:25.520 right exactly, and it would have been and we wouldn't 3172 03:02:25.559 --> 03:02:28.440 have that fucking rock bullshit pandering to the fans about yes, 3173 03:02:29.280 --> 03:02:32.760 his whiny crap. If you're not going to follow up 3174 03:02:32.760 --> 03:02:36.280 with the rock thing and add that layer, probably shouldn't 3175 03:02:36.280 --> 03:02:43.440 have done the term. I just can't believe that a 3176 03:02:43.600 --> 03:02:46.719 month after that angle, three four weeks after that angle, 3177 03:02:46.799 --> 03:02:49.799 it feels this kind of blah, you know, this kind 3178 03:02:49.840 --> 03:02:53.959 of standard. I mean, it's like it's not even I mean, 3179 03:02:56.079 --> 03:03:04.159 it's it's crazy to me that the first appearance of 3180 03:03:04.280 --> 03:03:08.719 John Cena changed this whole the feel of the whole thing. Yeah, 3181 03:03:08.840 --> 03:03:10.559 that was it. When he got in that when he 3182 03:03:10.600 --> 03:03:12.319 came out and got in that ring and you realize 3183 03:03:12.319 --> 03:03:14.639 where he was going, it was like, Nope, this ain't it. 3184 03:03:15.799 --> 03:03:17.239 And they should have been smart enough. 3185 03:03:17.079 --> 03:03:17.360 To know it. 3186 03:03:24.079 --> 03:03:27.000 Yeah, don't you know what, Yeah, don't bother me till 3187 03:03:27.000 --> 03:03:31.159 the end, either bothered me to the as. Yeah, Sena 3188 03:03:31.280 --> 03:03:35.559 dresses like you would dress a male Barbie doll. Yeah, 3189 03:03:35.639 --> 03:03:38.200 if you were five, right, exactly. That's what I mean. 3190 03:03:38.440 --> 03:03:40.719 You know, it's like if you were a child and 3191 03:03:40.879 --> 03:03:42.840 they didn't know how people dressed in real life, you 3192 03:03:43.000 --> 03:03:46.959 dressing like John Cena. Does his clothes look like Barbie 3193 03:03:47.000 --> 03:03:49.440 Doll clothes? Yeah, the hang off his body in a 3194 03:03:49.600 --> 03:03:52.399 similar way. Oh my god, look at he's He's like, 3195 03:03:52.799 --> 03:03:55.239 you don't even know why he's angry anymore. Is he 3196 03:03:55.319 --> 03:03:59.719 angry yet? He's just kind of just yeah, dopey, mopey 3197 03:04:00.159 --> 03:04:04.639 n sena, it's an idiot. Okay. Now we got to 3198 03:04:04.680 --> 03:04:13.399 listen to them sing the song. Tell them, John, tell 3199 03:04:13.440 --> 03:04:17.440 them shut up. Right, that's your moment, that's your moment 3200 03:04:17.520 --> 03:04:20.159 to really take something from them. It's like, why don't 3201 03:04:20.200 --> 03:04:25.440 you shut up now singing fucking songs? Standing there waiting 3202 03:04:25.680 --> 03:04:25.879 for this. 3203 03:04:26.200 --> 03:04:26.319 I know. 3204 03:04:26.479 --> 03:04:30.040 It's like it's like it's all about soaking in ovation moments, 3205 03:04:31.079 --> 03:04:35.959 soaking in moments and ovation and the crowd energy. And 3206 03:04:36.040 --> 03:04:40.079 this is something Kowalski told me. Just pause and take it. 3207 03:04:40.520 --> 03:04:45.719 You Kowalski, bullshit. Kowalski never fucking said that said time 3208 03:04:45.799 --> 03:04:49.079 you fucking comeback, so the fans fucking go rabbit for you. 3209 03:04:50.639 --> 03:04:52.399 I'll tell you when you start beating the ship out 3210 03:04:52.399 --> 03:04:52.559 of me. 3211 03:04:59.159 --> 03:05:02.159 Okay, we've listened to you talk for two weeks. 3212 03:05:02.319 --> 03:05:06.959 The same with you, fuckhead, you've talked more. Yeah, right 3213 03:05:07.319 --> 03:05:13.719 for you, like he should just fucking slap Cody in 3214 03:05:13.760 --> 03:05:14.079 the face. 3215 03:05:16.479 --> 03:05:17.399 Where do you want to start? 3216 03:05:17.719 --> 03:05:20.159 Said discourse? Cody said the word discourse. 3217 03:05:20.319 --> 03:05:26.079 When it comes to me. Okay, for starters, I have 3218 03:05:26.280 --> 03:05:29.959 a little bit of a list, you know, y'all know. 3219 03:05:30.520 --> 03:05:33.600 Yeah, look at him smiling the guy's face who almost 3220 03:05:33.680 --> 03:05:34.559 killed him in Toronto. 3221 03:05:35.520 --> 03:05:35.840 Stop. 3222 03:05:41.280 --> 03:05:45.959 Okay, let's bring up star Dust. Okay, that's what I thought. 3223 03:05:46.559 --> 03:05:48.120 That's where I thought. The scene of hill Turn was 3224 03:05:48.200 --> 03:05:53.479 going back at elimination chamber, right, not his psychotic obsession 3225 03:05:53.559 --> 03:05:54.280 with winning the belt. 3226 03:05:55.559 --> 03:05:56.719 That's gotta bother you. 3227 03:05:56.840 --> 03:06:00.559 I mean, that's who you're wrestling at WrestleMania forty one. 3228 03:06:00.760 --> 03:06:03.239 Going on last in your final. 3229 03:06:03.479 --> 03:06:07.079 Makes you get that shot in their camera? Guy, startups wrestling? 3230 03:06:08.879 --> 03:06:14.079 That's wrestling wrestling? How about restless. 3231 03:06:15.639 --> 03:06:18.280 Bingo? All right, all right, this is a good one. 3232 03:06:18.840 --> 03:06:21.600 I have an arm tattoo, but it's on my neck. 3233 03:06:24.959 --> 03:06:34.159 Codes Codin's Roads, Codin's Codin's Roads, Codin's Coden's Roads, Codin's 3234 03:06:34.319 --> 03:06:45.319 Codin's Roads. Oh I fucking I hate every in the 3235 03:06:45.399 --> 03:06:50.040 fucking planet ready for this, the heel turn of John Sada, 3236 03:06:53.319 --> 03:06:57.120 the neutral turn of Johnson's I created. 3237 03:06:57.799 --> 03:06:59.719 Gosh, there's so much I knew you weren't gonna bite 3238 03:06:59.760 --> 03:06:59.920 on it. 3239 03:07:00.079 --> 03:07:02.959 Need of this stuff, though, And here's the thing. Perhaps 3240 03:07:03.040 --> 03:07:07.360 I'm struggling. Perhaps I'm struggling with the idea that Superman 3241 03:07:07.559 --> 03:07:08.520 is really dead. 3242 03:07:09.319 --> 03:07:17.000 Yeah, but honestly, Superman isn't dead. Superman is just fucking null, yes, 3243 03:07:17.319 --> 03:07:24.120 like Superman is merely a man, Like Superman is just 3244 03:07:26.399 --> 03:07:29.719 like took a nap or something. Superman is boring. 3245 03:07:33.319 --> 03:07:36.559 That would that would bring me to my next point. Actually, 3246 03:07:36.639 --> 03:07:40.399 I do know that your words have matched your actions. 3247 03:07:40.479 --> 03:07:42.520 I think for the last two weeks. 3248 03:07:42.639 --> 03:07:45.399 You have lied to this audience. 3249 03:07:47.639 --> 03:07:51.319 Yeah, and not what you all do. 3250 03:07:52.639 --> 03:07:58.799 I know you cared about me at one, about them. 3251 03:07:59.760 --> 03:08:03.120 So take the opportunity. You don't have to look at me, 3252 03:08:03.440 --> 03:08:06.760 look at them and tell them. John Cena, really. 3253 03:08:07.559 --> 03:08:08.040 Why. 3254 03:08:09.440 --> 03:08:13.200 Still asking why after all this? I mean, honestly, I 3255 03:08:13.319 --> 03:08:17.559 don't know why yet myself. I know I know it's 3256 03:08:17.639 --> 03:08:21.479 so bad. It's so bad that I can't like anchor 3257 03:08:21.600 --> 03:08:28.239 on one line right that explains it? Sold out to who? 3258 03:08:28.319 --> 03:08:30.559 There's nobody are no right. I mean, you sold your 3259 03:08:30.600 --> 03:08:33.000 soul apparently, but we haven't seen the soul taker. 3260 03:08:33.200 --> 03:08:37.520 Not going to reduce myself and punch down to your level. 3261 03:08:41.079 --> 03:08:41.680 That's a good life. 3262 03:08:41.879 --> 03:08:45.639 Just to protect you, Cody Rhodes, You've been protected long enough. 3263 03:08:45.799 --> 03:08:47.079 Oh here we go. Okay. 3264 03:08:47.280 --> 03:08:50.520 I'm also I'm also not gonna cook you. 3265 03:08:51.000 --> 03:08:56.600 Uh what, I'm gonna bury you, okay, just like I 3266 03:08:57.000 --> 03:09:04.120 buried everyone else. They've been saying for years that John 3267 03:09:04.360 --> 03:09:11.200 cina Berry's talent. I don't bury talent. 3268 03:09:12.520 --> 03:09:14.239 I am talent. 3269 03:09:16.200 --> 03:09:21.319 Huh. Okay, I bury mediocrity. Oh well, I like that. 3270 03:09:21.559 --> 03:09:21.959 That's good. 3271 03:09:22.639 --> 03:09:26.559 I don't give a rats ass about your list or 3272 03:09:26.680 --> 03:09:30.520 your failures. You have manipulated your way to the top 3273 03:09:30.600 --> 03:09:35.079 of this business, and your ego outmatches your ability. 3274 03:09:36.200 --> 03:09:36.479 Okay. 3275 03:09:36.600 --> 03:09:39.120 All you have done here is ride the coattails of 3276 03:09:39.280 --> 03:09:43.479 my success. I have been so great that the w 3277 03:09:43.920 --> 03:09:49.799 we can hand the heartbeat of this organization to my chauffeur. 3278 03:09:51.040 --> 03:09:54.120 That's good, that's right, But he should be wearing a suit. 3279 03:09:55.760 --> 03:10:03.159 Is nothing more than my chauffeur, A slimy pickpocket who 3280 03:10:03.239 --> 03:10:06.159 thinks just because he stole the blueprint, he can run 3281 03:10:06.280 --> 03:10:07.040 the Kingdom. 3282 03:10:07.760 --> 03:10:14.280 There's your why Cody Rhoades because you with that discuss. 3283 03:10:14.559 --> 03:10:19.680 Okay, so this is the Belgium promo right side, and 3284 03:10:20.479 --> 03:10:23.840 this is this is it like, this is where you. 3285 03:10:24.040 --> 03:10:30.040 Start the program with underwhelming. This is where you start 3286 03:10:30.079 --> 03:10:33.200 the program egotistical skull. 3287 03:10:33.680 --> 03:10:35.319 You have to be auf there, but it should be 3288 03:10:35.360 --> 03:10:35.920 fucking you. 3289 03:10:37.840 --> 03:10:43.600 Didn't listen and it shows you're too perfect, you're too polished, 3290 03:10:44.040 --> 03:10:48.479 you're too rehearsed. You rely on lazy gimmicks like them 3291 03:10:48.719 --> 03:10:49.719 singing your name. 3292 03:10:50.040 --> 03:10:58.920 Over and over. This is great, This is great. Yeah? 3293 03:11:02.920 --> 03:11:04.559 Is it sad that I'm just sitting here waiting for 3294 03:11:04.680 --> 03:11:05.360 him to fuck it up? 3295 03:11:05.559 --> 03:11:10.479 Actually, you are just like the pipe Piper because all 3296 03:11:10.600 --> 03:11:11.719 you've ever done. 3297 03:11:12.479 --> 03:11:14.840 But if they fucking Roddy Piper's music hit and out 3298 03:11:14.879 --> 03:11:16.120 came Piper's corps. 3299 03:11:16.079 --> 03:11:23.440 These people into loving mediocrity, strip away his music and entrance. 3300 03:11:23.840 --> 03:11:26.680 There is not much to look at except a thick 3301 03:11:26.840 --> 03:11:27.959 pin striped suit. 3302 03:11:28.280 --> 03:11:31.680 Yes, yes, yes, yes, but you could. 3303 03:11:31.559 --> 03:11:34.120 Walk me out here in the silence and bet your 3304 03:11:34.200 --> 03:11:37.479 last dollar I would body you before your first breath. 3305 03:11:37.840 --> 03:11:41.319 Boy, go do does not like. 3306 03:11:43.239 --> 03:11:45.600 He doesn't act like me, and he's sure as hell 3307 03:11:45.680 --> 03:11:46.159 doesn't work. 3308 03:11:46.639 --> 03:11:48.200 He should have said, doesn't act like me. That's why 3309 03:11:48.200 --> 03:11:49.479 I'm in all fucking movies, and he's not. 3310 03:11:50.479 --> 03:11:52.879 You don't look like you, you don't act like you, 3311 03:11:53.120 --> 03:11:55.879 and you don't work like you. Because after all these years, 3312 03:11:56.239 --> 03:12:00.159 you are still afraid to show who you are. So 3313 03:12:00.360 --> 03:12:01.520 what do we get instead? 3314 03:12:02.319 --> 03:12:06.680 Cody gives us a generic mix of every superstar he's 3315 03:12:06.719 --> 03:12:10.040 ever loved or TV show he's ever watched in some big, 3316 03:12:10.239 --> 03:12:13.639 confused blob, and it makes you looks like a sixteen 3317 03:12:13.719 --> 03:12:16.680 year old kid taking acting lessons who's still afraid of 3318 03:12:16.799 --> 03:12:23.639 public speaking. You you have showed me one thing, and 3319 03:12:23.799 --> 03:12:27.239 the one thing you have showed me is someone mediocre 3320 03:12:27.680 --> 03:12:30.719 wearing something meaningful nowadays is. 3321 03:12:30.799 --> 03:12:34.959 Enough to trick these people careful about describing your own 3322 03:12:35.040 --> 03:12:38.239 run John, Yeah, damn well, that's that's good though. That's good. 3323 03:12:39.600 --> 03:12:42.799 Yes, that's good for this around by a paint by 3324 03:12:42.920 --> 03:12:47.639 numbers sociopathic NEPO baby who is so into himself he 3325 03:12:47.760 --> 03:12:51.719 had his wrestling gimmick tattooed for the world to see. 3326 03:12:56.239 --> 03:13:00.680 It's not where your tattoos at, Cody, it's what your 3327 03:13:00.799 --> 03:13:04.319 tattoo is that exposes you to the world for who 3328 03:13:04.399 --> 03:13:04.760 you are. 3329 03:13:05.639 --> 03:13:07.719 A common fan like them. 3330 03:13:08.600 --> 03:13:09.520 That's great. 3331 03:13:10.360 --> 03:13:14.000 So after WrestleMania, it'll be great for you. Go straight 3332 03:13:14.120 --> 03:13:18.479 to fanatics, buy the toy buildings, stay by, call yourself 3333 03:13:18.719 --> 03:13:22.959 their champion because the last real champion is taking that 3334 03:13:23.159 --> 03:13:24.319 home forever and. 3335 03:13:24.440 --> 03:13:28.200 Exposing you for who you are is a babyface again? 3336 03:13:28.399 --> 03:13:31.840 Wow? An errand boy, that got lucky. 3337 03:13:34.239 --> 03:13:38.639 Ah, they don't know what they're fucking doing. Chanting Sina, 3338 03:13:39.040 --> 03:13:43.479 What about the hillt Why pal were they chatting for Hogan? 3339 03:13:43.600 --> 03:13:45.040 By August of ninety six? 3340 03:13:46.520 --> 03:13:52.680 No oh, I didn't expect to say this. Maybe you're right, 3341 03:13:54.559 --> 03:14:00.200 maybe I was a body, but you know who chose me? 3342 03:14:02.719 --> 03:14:03.559 They chose me? 3343 03:14:05.840 --> 03:14:06.559 I hear booze. 3344 03:14:06.799 --> 03:14:07.600 Can you say the. 3345 03:14:07.799 --> 03:14:11.120 Same, John Cena? Or was it one guy in an 3346 03:14:11.200 --> 03:14:14.000 office who chose you? Who's not here anymore? And we 3347 03:14:14.120 --> 03:14:14.959 don't talk about it? 3348 03:14:15.719 --> 03:14:16.040 Wow? 3349 03:14:18.399 --> 03:14:24.120 Oh, fan, strip everything away from me, right? I don't 3350 03:14:24.159 --> 03:14:26.280 know who I am? Who the hell knows who they are? 3351 03:14:26.399 --> 03:14:26.840 I know this. 3352 03:14:27.440 --> 03:14:30.799 I'm Cody Rhodes. I'm a wrestler like my father before me. 3353 03:14:31.159 --> 03:14:36.319 And if anybody is a company creation, it's you, John Cena. 3354 03:14:36.280 --> 03:14:37.040 And not me. 3355 03:14:39.639 --> 03:14:41.159 You said it's good because you can throw it back 3356 03:14:41.200 --> 03:14:41.360 at it. 3357 03:14:41.559 --> 03:14:44.120 That's terrified of you on the mic. 3358 03:14:44.440 --> 03:14:47.120 I'm not because I know you've got more dick in 3359 03:14:47.200 --> 03:14:49.559 that promo than you're doing your George. 3360 03:14:51.840 --> 03:14:52.280 That's good. 3361 03:14:53.440 --> 03:14:54.959 He's gonna last make fun of. 3362 03:14:55.040 --> 03:15:00.239 Me for appearing like I'm sixteen taking public speaking lessons. Well, 3363 03:15:00.280 --> 03:15:03.319 you're the one who hangs out with zach Efron and 3364 03:15:03.440 --> 03:15:05.840 which as he was sixteen. 3365 03:15:05.479 --> 03:15:07.079 And the first time, and this whole fucking thing they 3366 03:15:07.120 --> 03:15:09.639 talk about his Hollywood career. Yep, what a. 3367 03:15:09.959 --> 03:15:14.440 Softball, Thank you, John, What a softball you've thrown me 3368 03:15:14.559 --> 03:15:16.639 by saying you created all of this. 3369 03:15:17.200 --> 03:15:20.120 You created me. Here's what you created, pal. 3370 03:15:20.600 --> 03:15:24.520 You created a lot of disenfranchised fans who made it 3371 03:15:24.639 --> 03:15:28.000 easy for me to pack up and go elsewhere and. 3372 03:15:28.120 --> 03:15:29.399 Say, hey, look at me. 3373 03:15:29.799 --> 03:15:32.239 Don't act like you cleaned up your room before you 3374 03:15:32.399 --> 03:15:34.840 left and went to Hollywood, John, don't act. 3375 03:15:34.799 --> 03:15:37.680 His quick breaths are making me or giving me trauma. 3376 03:15:38.040 --> 03:15:39.079 And while we're at it. 3377 03:15:45.319 --> 03:15:48.319 While we're at it, there are two of us standing 3378 03:15:48.399 --> 03:15:50.840 in this ring right now, And what I'm about to 3379 03:15:50.959 --> 03:15:53.399 ask you might punch a giant. 3380 03:15:53.200 --> 03:15:56.079 Hole in all that logic that you just threw up. 3381 03:15:56.239 --> 03:16:00.719 And it's quite simple between you and I, which one 3382 03:16:00.799 --> 03:16:02.799 of us sold out to the Rock. 3383 03:16:04.040 --> 03:16:14.840 Okay, that comes back long overdue. Seriously, I feel like 3384 03:16:14.920 --> 03:16:17.280 they tried to tack away from Rock and then gave 3385 03:16:17.399 --> 03:16:21.200 up and came back around. Yeah, at the last fucking moment, 3386 03:16:21.319 --> 03:16:24.319 this all feels like a departure from the last few programs, 3387 03:16:24.440 --> 03:16:25.079 right it does. 3388 03:16:25.879 --> 03:16:35.159 You are still You're still my hero, but you're also 3389 03:16:35.280 --> 03:16:36.440 a piece of ship. 3390 03:16:40.520 --> 03:16:40.799 He is. 3391 03:16:41.319 --> 03:16:52.959 Yeah, Yeah, that's funny. It's a new one pieces just 3392 03:16:53.200 --> 03:16:54.600 like all these people. 3393 03:16:54.719 --> 03:16:57.959 Your brain is filled with feces and not facts. 3394 03:16:59.159 --> 03:16:59.520 Idiot? 3395 03:17:06.479 --> 03:17:09.680 Was I ever protected from an audience or a superstar 3396 03:17:10.159 --> 03:17:14.079 present company included taking their best shot at me? As 3397 03:17:14.120 --> 03:17:17.200 a matter of fact, everyone knows every time I step 3398 03:17:17.319 --> 03:17:20.079 on this canvas, it is a challenge to every arena 3399 03:17:20.440 --> 03:17:23.360 or every superstar dumb enough to walk down that ramp 3400 03:17:23.600 --> 03:17:26.239 to take their strongest swing to see if they are 3401 03:17:26.360 --> 03:17:31.200 worthy to put me in the ground. No one, no 3402 03:17:31.520 --> 03:17:36.040 one has been worthy. So I decided to just do 3403 03:17:36.239 --> 03:17:44.120 it myself. That's why, Cody, I have never left. I 3404 03:17:44.319 --> 03:17:47.559 have always been here because no matter how high the 3405 03:17:47.719 --> 03:17:49.239 hill should climb, right. 3406 03:17:50.879 --> 03:17:54.719 They give me, I find a way to make it great. 3407 03:17:55.399 --> 03:17:56.479 You had to leave. 3408 03:17:57.799 --> 03:18:01.120 You had to leave because you really that your best. 3409 03:18:01.280 --> 03:18:09.120 You can't wipe my ass. Empires for billionaires, this is great. 3410 03:18:09.479 --> 03:18:11.879 All you've ever done is steal money from their kids. 3411 03:18:15.239 --> 03:18:21.079 See you at WrestleMania, Champ John John John No, no, no. 3412 03:18:21.079 --> 03:18:21.600 No, no, no, no no. 3413 03:18:21.959 --> 03:18:22.120 Hey. 3414 03:18:22.239 --> 03:18:24.639 I just want to remind you and all the time 3415 03:18:25.319 --> 03:18:27.879 that I have been here and everything I've been through, 3416 03:18:28.239 --> 03:18:32.559 never once has an audience, never once have they chanted 3417 03:18:32.639 --> 03:18:32.920 at me. 3418 03:18:34.000 --> 03:18:37.000 You can't wrestle. 3419 03:18:43.639 --> 03:18:46.719 Sina. Oh my god, stop looking around like a ball. 3420 03:18:48.399 --> 03:18:50.559 They're not gonna chant it now, are they. They're not 3421 03:18:50.639 --> 03:18:53.959 gonna chant it now, are they. They wouldn't dare. Oh 3422 03:18:54.040 --> 03:18:57.319 it' seen the steps back in the spring and his 3423 03:18:57.360 --> 03:18:59.639 step he should do like a he should do like 3424 03:18:59.680 --> 03:19:03.520 a uh uh uh, like a rear takedown and like 3425 03:19:03.600 --> 03:19:05.920 do a fucking all this amateur wrestling ship right now? 3426 03:19:06.959 --> 03:19:09.440 Is it his fighting stance as is Cody and seeing 3427 03:19:09.479 --> 03:19:11.159 the cracks a smile and you know you should do 3428 03:19:11.159 --> 03:19:12.799 he should kick him in the balls again. That's a 3429 03:19:12.840 --> 03:19:16.000 good idea. Oh, it goes after him, duck underneath, Cody 3430 03:19:17.280 --> 03:19:29.200 hooks him up crossroads readjust the tie that's strong for Cody. Yeah, 3431 03:19:30.920 --> 03:19:37.120 what that tells me a scene is winning, right, there's 3432 03:19:37.159 --> 03:19:40.680 no reason to have them touch unless I agree. Yeah, 3433 03:19:41.360 --> 03:19:43.639 not in that way. I again, I think another cheap 3434 03:19:43.680 --> 03:19:48.600 shot by scene would have been better. Yes, if Cody's winning, no, 3435 03:19:49.159 --> 03:19:51.719 even if he's not. Well, Yeah, how they think I'm 3436 03:19:51.760 --> 03:19:53.319 not saying it's yeah right, that's how they feel. 3437 03:19:55.559 --> 03:19:58.440 Oh, you know what this has said. 3438 03:20:00.280 --> 03:20:07.120 Is indeed worthy. Tony Rhoads isn't afraid to show who 3439 03:20:07.200 --> 03:20:12.360 he is, and in Night k n at WrestleMania, Tony 3440 03:20:12.440 --> 03:20:17.360 Rhoads can show the world it truly is the undisputed. 3441 03:20:18.639 --> 03:20:30.760 Champion. So they get they get a little bit of 3442 03:20:31.040 --> 03:20:32.959 it back or what's your thought? Yeah, No, I think 3443 03:20:33.000 --> 03:20:36.760 that was great, but that should have been the beginning. Yes, honestly, 3444 03:20:36.959 --> 03:20:39.239 I mean, listen, I stand by my belief he should 3445 03:20:39.280 --> 03:20:42.360 not have been on television at all. Yes, I think 3446 03:20:42.360 --> 03:20:47.120 they could have gotten so much out of teasing and 3447 03:20:47.280 --> 03:20:51.799 not delivering. But that's if you're gonna if you're gonna 3448 03:20:51.799 --> 03:20:56.879 have them do promo battles and and you know it's 3449 03:20:56.920 --> 03:21:01.159 gonna be fucking eight mile every now and again, then 3450 03:21:02.159 --> 03:21:06.440 then this is where you start. That was great. What 3451 03:21:06.639 --> 03:21:09.479 was great about it? It was great because the focus 3452 03:21:09.680 --> 03:21:13.879 was on what he wants. Yeah, They never talked about 3453 03:21:13.879 --> 03:21:15.959 the fans or anything that ship right did but but 3454 03:21:16.120 --> 03:21:17.879 not in the way but but right, But it wasn't 3455 03:21:17.920 --> 03:21:21.840 about blaming the fans. It was about you did this, 3456 03:21:22.719 --> 03:21:25.760 and that's why they booed you. You did this, and 3457 03:21:25.879 --> 03:21:28.360 that's why they said you sucked. And like that's that's 3458 03:21:28.399 --> 03:21:32.559 where you come from. You can't blame the fans, Like 3459 03:21:32.680 --> 03:21:37.159 that's that's cheap, it's lame and lazy. Yeah. Yeah, so 3460 03:21:37.239 --> 03:21:37.559 they did that. 3461 03:21:37.680 --> 03:21:40.239 They flipped a page there they did, and they figured 3462 03:21:40.239 --> 03:21:43.559 out some some cutting lines about each other. Yeah, you know, 3463 03:21:43.639 --> 03:21:46.840 we're designed to make you look at each other in 3464 03:21:46.920 --> 03:21:49.000 a different way, which is always kind of a lynchpin 3465 03:21:49.079 --> 03:21:51.959 of a great promo or a great line. Sure you 3466 03:21:52.040 --> 03:21:53.600 make someone go wait a minute. Yeah, he is kind 3467 03:21:53.639 --> 03:21:54.399 of like that, isn't he? 3468 03:21:54.799 --> 03:21:59.479 Yeah, exactly exactly. So we've been on quite a journey. 3469 03:21:59.559 --> 03:22:01.079 But I think it's it's safe to say, in both 3470 03:22:01.079 --> 03:22:03.319 of our cases that we are not anywhere near where 3471 03:22:03.399 --> 03:22:06.639 we were excitement wise, the night Scena kicked him in 3472 03:22:06.680 --> 03:22:06.959 the balls. 3473 03:22:07.120 --> 03:22:09.440 No, that's not again. He has not shown himself to 3474 03:22:09.520 --> 03:22:11.799 be crazy like he was that night he. 3475 03:22:11.879 --> 03:22:14.159 Had to go nuts. He didn't go nuts the whole time. 3476 03:22:14.200 --> 03:22:14.760 He couldn't do it. 3477 03:22:14.799 --> 03:22:16.440 He couldn't bring himself to go nuts. He had to 3478 03:22:16.479 --> 03:22:20.000 play this cool, collected you know, like even if he's 3479 03:22:20.040 --> 03:22:22.200 boiling inside. Like the only difference between the baby face 3480 03:22:22.280 --> 03:22:24.360 John Cene and heal John Cena is a heel. John 3481 03:22:24.399 --> 03:22:27.360 Cena kind of makes a scowl on his face right 3482 03:22:27.479 --> 03:22:29.879 when someone insults him. Where's the baby face Johnson? 3483 03:22:30.040 --> 03:22:33.520 And is open and is open to criticizing the fans 3484 03:22:33.520 --> 03:22:35.600 as opposed to like saying, hey, you guys, believe whatever 3485 03:22:35.639 --> 03:22:37.360 you want. I'm still here exactly. 3486 03:22:37.760 --> 03:22:39.600 That's not much of a hill turn to me, right, 3487 03:22:39.959 --> 03:22:41.520 that's not the hill turns I knew. 3488 03:22:41.879 --> 03:22:43.799 No, I know it should have been. Again, a complete 3489 03:22:43.920 --> 03:22:47.920 change of character, and it all starts with the look. 3490 03:22:48.239 --> 03:22:51.360 Thank you and again the final promo here from Cody 3491 03:22:51.479 --> 03:22:54.959 on the April eleventh SmackDown. There will be one presumably 3492 03:22:55.079 --> 03:22:58.239 maybe even another mid Ring microphone face off on the 3493 03:22:58.319 --> 03:23:01.079 final smack down the night before Night one of WrestleMania. 3494 03:23:01.399 --> 03:23:02.959 So much for that, but we're going to bring our 3495 03:23:03.000 --> 03:23:07.319 special report home with this interview. Here Cody mid Ring 3496 03:23:07.440 --> 03:23:09.760 with the WB Championship proudly displayed, and what looks to 3497 03:23:09.799 --> 03:23:10.920 be the Spinner belt as well. 3498 03:23:11.000 --> 03:23:15.559 Boss, are your goodness? I I am ready three two 3499 03:23:15.840 --> 03:23:29.440 one play. I always got all the belts, wow, I 3500 03:23:29.520 --> 03:23:36.840 mean literally every fucking belt. There's the beautiful one Attitude one. Yeah, 3501 03:23:37.799 --> 03:23:39.680 that the Bruno under the last you guys have gotten 3502 03:23:39.840 --> 03:23:40.200 I think so. 3503 03:23:40.920 --> 03:23:43.440 Thank you very much, Seattle. You have always been. 3504 03:23:45.040 --> 03:23:46.159 We're back in the States now. 3505 03:23:47.799 --> 03:23:53.600 Finally You've always been good to me, whether it's just 3506 03:23:53.719 --> 03:23:55.559 sold out arena here tonight or when I. 3507 03:23:55.600 --> 03:23:58.079 Did defy and now being back here again. 3508 03:23:58.200 --> 03:23:59.159 Thank you very much. 3509 03:24:00.799 --> 03:24:03.399 I find to defy wis no. 3510 03:24:07.280 --> 03:24:12.719 Is the tangible definition of realized potential. It's the denotation 3511 03:24:13.639 --> 03:24:17.840 of excellence, the metric that stands this ride here soon. 3512 03:24:17.959 --> 03:24:20.719 I want to see you are the best wrestler in 3513 03:24:20.879 --> 03:24:21.360 the world. 3514 03:24:21.559 --> 03:24:23.639 Show me the old belts. I don't care about this right. 3515 03:24:23.559 --> 03:24:29.719 Now, and I'm blessed. I'm blessed to be able to 3516 03:24:29.840 --> 03:24:32.760 carry this and it's mighty weight. But it won't always 3517 03:24:32.959 --> 03:24:37.280 be me. That's what this has become. That's what WrestleMania 3518 03:24:37.520 --> 03:24:40.159 has turned into. It's not just a match between two 3519 03:24:40.280 --> 03:24:44.079 many more, it's about our right to keep this at home. 3520 03:24:45.399 --> 03:24:49.239 It's about the next twenty champions. Whether that's Sean's NXT 3521 03:24:49.479 --> 03:24:53.239 kids watching wrestlesly or id prospects. 3522 03:24:53.559 --> 03:24:56.399 Maybe there's a young man in spinner belt? What's the 3523 03:24:56.440 --> 03:24:56.760 other one? 3524 03:24:57.000 --> 03:24:57.440 One more? 3525 03:24:57.799 --> 03:25:02.159 Come on, Champion? About the next twenty champion? 3526 03:25:03.399 --> 03:25:06.000 This match is about the next twenty champions, Okay, And 3527 03:25:06.079 --> 03:25:08.280 then I thought it was about Johnson attorney heel. 3528 03:25:08.239 --> 03:25:10.719 Right, trying to take all that away. 3529 03:25:13.799 --> 03:25:16.120 It'd be great if you found a loophole and like 3530 03:25:16.559 --> 03:25:20.920 was able to actually like decommission the Dude Championship when 3531 03:25:20.920 --> 03:25:26.600 he retired. So there is no world champions what's on 3532 03:25:26.719 --> 03:25:30.680 the right? What is Oh that's Hogan's age. Oh that's 3533 03:25:30.760 --> 03:25:36.239 the WrestleMania two belt. Yep, no big Green belt. Huh. 3534 03:25:36.239 --> 03:25:38.440 I know they don't have the one he wonted eighty four. Yeah, 3535 03:25:41.760 --> 03:25:43.239 they can't believe there's still let's. 3536 03:25:43.079 --> 03:25:48.760 Go sena chance. That really is amazing to me. They are. 3537 03:25:49.639 --> 03:25:52.959 Wouldn't it happen if they fucking manned up and made 3538 03:25:53.040 --> 03:25:54.719 him Hollywood Hollywood Cina. 3539 03:25:59.280 --> 03:25:59.840 John c. 3540 03:26:02.920 --> 03:26:07.120 Has neglected to make Seattle part of his farewell tour. 3541 03:26:11.479 --> 03:26:15.479 He is up to be in Vegas for SmackDown next week. 3542 03:26:18.559 --> 03:26:22.479 It would be cowardice on my part to rebuttal John's 3543 03:26:22.520 --> 03:26:24.719 remarks from when we shared the ring in London. 3544 03:26:24.760 --> 03:26:26.559 But one thing he said that sticks with me. 3545 03:26:26.920 --> 03:26:30.360 He referred to me in the placement of my tattoo. 3546 03:26:31.920 --> 03:26:37.120 He said, me having this tattoo makes me a common fan. 3547 03:26:40.239 --> 03:26:43.920 As opposed to a common man. That's true, He's just 3548 03:26:44.000 --> 03:26:45.159 a common fan. 3549 03:26:47.280 --> 03:26:50.959 Working hard tattoo for the same reason that I wear 3550 03:26:51.000 --> 03:26:54.159 this suit. It's not because I think I'm somebody, It's because. 3551 03:26:53.920 --> 03:27:01.840 I want to be somebody. Is that somebody who can. 3552 03:27:01.840 --> 03:27:04.280 Sell out the world's most famous arena one hundred and 3553 03:27:04.399 --> 03:27:07.600 eighty eight times to the rhythmic chance of his own name. 3554 03:27:08.200 --> 03:27:10.760 Is that somebody who can sit up each and every 3555 03:27:10.879 --> 03:27:12.760 night broken ribs. 3556 03:27:12.520 --> 03:27:16.280 And become beautiful w E's phenom is that somebody who 3557 03:27:16.360 --> 03:27:20.040 can set the world ablaze with Latino heats. 3558 03:27:21.760 --> 03:27:24.799 And disputed title was Eddie the Wing Deos undertaker and 3559 03:27:24.879 --> 03:27:27.200 the other one of the old one is Bruno. Now 3560 03:27:27.239 --> 03:27:30.959 he comes to the spinner belt. IM gonna call out 3561 03:27:31.000 --> 03:27:32.000 Hogan on my last belt. 3562 03:27:33.319 --> 03:27:36.360 Word about that he's got any guerrero chant in the 3563 03:27:36.399 --> 03:27:39.360 middle of the Yeah, right, Cody John Cena program, he 3564 03:27:39.440 --> 03:27:42.600 spun it. It's spending Wow, that's the old one. 3565 03:27:42.799 --> 03:27:46.440 Carry a company on his back through good times and 3566 03:27:46.719 --> 03:27:58.280 bad for ten years. John Cena. John Cena looks at 3567 03:27:58.360 --> 03:28:00.760 this and considers it a bad thing. 3568 03:28:01.040 --> 03:28:01.520 I don't. 3569 03:28:02.319 --> 03:28:04.600 I see it as a man who is trying to 3570 03:28:04.719 --> 03:28:08.159 break the wheel, a man who is trying to find himself. 3571 03:28:08.799 --> 03:28:12.360 To sound familiar, John, You've told me that I don't 3572 03:28:12.440 --> 03:28:15.479 know who I am, that I don't present myself authentically. 3573 03:28:15.760 --> 03:28:18.680 Here's what I do know, John, I'm the w w 3574 03:28:18.920 --> 03:28:21.079 E champion and you are not. 3575 03:28:27.920 --> 03:28:28.760 Yeah, that's true. 3576 03:28:30.680 --> 03:28:33.959 Always teaching, John is always preaching. 3577 03:28:34.360 --> 03:28:37.440 Perhaps this is the one time in my life that 3578 03:28:37.559 --> 03:28:40.079 I can teach John Cena a lesson, A lesson I 3579 03:28:40.159 --> 03:28:43.479 saw my old man struggle with as a career babyface, 3580 03:28:43.639 --> 03:28:46.319 and it's very simple, John. 3581 03:28:47.319 --> 03:28:55.680 They are allowed to love somebody else, and Dusty did 3582 03:28:55.760 --> 03:28:56.360 have trouble with that. 3583 03:28:57.079 --> 03:28:59.760 I told myself the captain here, but I'm part of 3584 03:28:59.799 --> 03:29:01.520 a that has c him. 3585 03:29:01.559 --> 03:29:06.440 Puss A quarterback, Jordon Jayu, so Rio, Ripley, Live Morgan, 3586 03:29:06.719 --> 03:29:10.079 aj Styles, Kevin Owens, Sammy's. 3587 03:29:09.600 --> 03:29:13.559 Aying, just the name a few we make each other better. 3588 03:29:18.479 --> 03:29:21.799 And now I found myself with the unenviable task. 3589 03:29:21.879 --> 03:29:22.399 But it's in my. 3590 03:29:22.520 --> 03:29:25.479 Nature to want this task that I have to halt 3591 03:29:25.639 --> 03:29:29.079 history with your record setting title win so that we 3592 03:29:29.200 --> 03:29:32.120 can have history here in the first place. 3593 03:29:32.319 --> 03:29:34.159 John Cen is a man of his word. He said 3594 03:29:34.200 --> 03:29:36.559 he was leaving. He means it. He says he means 3595 03:29:36.600 --> 03:29:38.840 to take this with him. He means it. So let 3596 03:29:38.920 --> 03:29:40.159 me share some honesty with you. 3597 03:29:40.360 --> 03:29:40.600 John. 3598 03:29:40.840 --> 03:29:43.280 I'll tell you the same thing that I told Brock, 3599 03:29:43.639 --> 03:29:46.520 the same thing that I told Roman. I do my 3600 03:29:46.680 --> 03:29:49.879 best work when I'm back into a corner. I don't flinch, 3601 03:29:50.280 --> 03:29:52.959 I fight, I wrestle. That's right, John. 3602 03:29:53.280 --> 03:30:00.079 But bell is gonna ring, goodline, and. 3603 03:30:00.120 --> 03:30:05.280 When it does, and this is over, I leave you 3604 03:30:05.479 --> 03:30:09.360 to this ring, John, to have your moment, your moment 3605 03:30:09.959 --> 03:30:16.639 to say goodbye. It would be clever for me to 3606 03:30:16.719 --> 03:30:19.479 tell John your time is up, my time is now. 3607 03:30:19.559 --> 03:30:22.319 But John, you've known your time is up for quite 3608 03:30:22.399 --> 03:30:24.600 some time, and that's why you did what you did. 3609 03:30:24.879 --> 03:30:27.440 And one day my time will be up soon, But 3610 03:30:27.680 --> 03:30:31.319 until then, this is timeless. 3611 03:30:31.399 --> 03:30:32.000 And this. 3612 03:30:34.399 --> 03:30:35.479 Stays home. 3613 03:30:36.200 --> 03:30:44.040 This stays with us, the People's champion. 3614 03:30:44.760 --> 03:30:47.760 By the champ and I love connecting all this actually 3615 03:30:49.200 --> 03:30:50.399 Bruno's belt. 3616 03:30:50.559 --> 03:30:52.760 Even pausing at the spinner belt. 3617 03:30:53.239 --> 03:30:56.319 And Wade, that's not the John scene we've seen, right, 3618 03:30:56.360 --> 03:31:00.959 there right, keep from the relation. Cham for a reason. 3619 03:31:04.760 --> 03:31:09.000 You have it, and I invite you to consider how 3620 03:31:09.079 --> 03:31:11.520 much more electric it would be if Cody delivered that 3621 03:31:11.639 --> 03:31:14.600 exact same promo on that exact same date, and we 3622 03:31:14.719 --> 03:31:17.239 haven't yet to hear a word from John Cena. 3623 03:31:17.559 --> 03:31:18.600 I just think it'd be amazing. 3624 03:31:20.360 --> 03:31:23.479 Well, we can't focus too much on what wasn't. We 3625 03:31:23.600 --> 03:31:26.319 have to focus now as we turn to the live 3626 03:31:26.440 --> 03:31:29.399 call weekend. A special two night spectacular for you over 3627 03:31:29.440 --> 03:31:32.360 at patreon dot com. Slash the Lapsed Fan. The co 3628 03:31:32.559 --> 03:31:35.280 chairman give you the lapse treatment, what you need to 3629 03:31:35.399 --> 03:31:39.319 survive Slmania forty one in Las Vegas. This has been 3630 03:31:39.319 --> 03:31:42.239 a TLF special report the heel turn of John Cena. 3631 03:31:42.639 --> 03:31:44.959 It might not be one we talk about ten years 3632 03:31:45.000 --> 03:31:47.639 from now, like we have so many other great heel 3633 03:31:47.680 --> 03:31:50.360 turns over and over again on the show, but consider 3634 03:31:50.479 --> 03:31:54.399 this the first draft of that history. We will see 3635 03:31:54.440 --> 03:31:55.760 you on that live call. 3636 03:31:58.559 --> 03:32:01.920 As a TJ to Santus, its content is intended for 3637 03:32:02.040 --> 03:32:03.000 private use only.