WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:03.319 Well, it's time to talk SummerSlam, Wald Wall, Summer Slam, 2 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:05.440 some emails. We'll get to those emails right up front here. 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.919 As we are now just one day away until SummerSlam 4 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:13.279 Saturday and Sunday in Minneapolis, We're gonna go through all 5 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:16.839 twelve matches on the card and give you my thoughts 6 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:20.399 and some wild cards and some news. I'll just start 7 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:24.519 with that. Kevin Owens reportedly is close to returning to WWE. 8 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:29.280 That's according to some sources on X some bigger names 9 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:35.119 in terms of wrestling news, and is he actually gonna 10 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:37.520 come back? I hope. 11 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:37.719 So. 12 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:40.600 I mean, if you do a good quick Google search 13 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:46.759 right now, it's on Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports about the 14 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:52.079 potential of Kevin Owens' return to WWE, and others as well, 15 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:55.560 like Randy Orton, Where's Drew McIntyre. So you have three 16 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:00.920 huge names that are maybe close to returning, all within 17 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:02.960 the same month or so. I don't think they're all 18 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:05.439 going to return this weekend, but I think one of 19 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:09.200 the three, between Drew McIntyre, Randy Orton, and Kevin Owens, 20 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:13.680 huge names, guys that are difference makers, needle movers, would 21 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.120 absolutely make a difference in the product right now, and 22 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:20.680 it's sorely needed in a time where I feel like 23 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:24.760 we are dying for star power and authenticity. So we'll 24 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.400 talk about that in terms of the potential of who 25 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:30.840 could return again, I think maybe one of the three 26 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.159 is possible, and we'll get into that. But first let's 27 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:37.120 get to the emails, and also let you know that 28 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.439 we have an ad free experience over at Patreon and 29 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:42.719 you can get rid of all the ads you hear 30 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:45.480 for as little as three dollars a month over at 31 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:52.200 patreon dot com. Slash WWE podcast. Okay, email time, So 32 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.840 let's start with Let's see, we got Curtis, but he 33 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:01.239 has a voicemail. We'll get to him in a moment. 34 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:05.439 We're going to start with Jeff from Calgary. He says, 35 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.319 I completely agree with you about there being a total 36 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.840 lact of build for SummerSlam. That seems to be wwe'smo 37 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:16.280 this year for ples. Remember how weird it was that 38 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.560 there was zero build for the Rumble and Saudi after 39 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:23.400 a major pl I'll give WWE credit for the fact 40 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:25.639 that the card is stacked for SummerSlam, with the potential 41 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.240 for some banger matches. Considering the talent involved if given 42 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:32.960 enough time. However, properly building anticipation for matches makes the 43 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:37.280 difference between fans saying I'll check out SummerSlam versus them 44 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:40.680 saying it's must see. I can't afford to miss SummerSlam. 45 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.000 Pro wrestling is at its best when a solid match 46 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:47.120 pays off a strong build. Matches on their own can 47 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.159 always be good, but they're elevated by compelling story that 48 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:55.800 builds anticipation for the outcome. Well, that's the key element 49 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:58.800 that's been missing from WWE for the last several years, 50 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.560 and yes even more so as of late. They don't 51 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.400 know how to build anything, or they don't care, or 52 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.759 they've run out of ideas or all three. 53 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:09.680 They just. 54 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:12.919 Again. I don't know if it's a lack of talent 55 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:18.879 or concern for building things properly, but they have not 56 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.800 executed well and it has put a damper on the 57 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:25.639 whole season. And we say that almost every WrestleMania season 58 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:27.439 this past year. I remember it's a good point. The 59 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:31.039 Royal Rumble had almost no build, which was ridiculous. Now 60 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:36.879 we have Summer Slam that has a lukewarm build at best. 61 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:43.120 Anticipations have the fun getting yourself geared up for that weekend, 62 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.919 thinking about what could happen, getting yourself all riled up, 63 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.800 wondering the outcome, wondering about what could happen. 64 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:53.159 And it's just. 65 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:54.719 I don't haven't felt that way about the product in 66 00:03:54.719 --> 00:04:00.759 a long time. So my predictions meaning Jack's not mine, 67 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:07.159 he says, Nights Solo and Keys go over the budline. 68 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.360 The bell is in page over Fatal Influence, Gunther over 69 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:17.040 Aldus Sky over Morgan, Femi over Lesner. I'm still holding 70 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.839 out for Gunther to retire Lesner and next year's WrestleMania 71 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:25.079 Punk over Rhodes, hoping for a roads he'll turn Night two. 72 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.879 Dan Housen over Dirty Dom. After this, Dan Housen needs 73 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.839 to go away. I agree Corbyn over Williams. Still not 74 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.279 sure why they brought Corbin back when you have talents 75 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:38.920 like draggon Off and Carmelohayes doing nothing. Yes, I've heard 76 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.920 that as well. Gable over Penta. Wouldn't be surprised if 77 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:45.000 this steals the show. Balor over Zane. I'm a Samy's 78 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.160 Ain fan, but I think it's better for his character 79 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:52.720 if he loses. Charlotte wins the ladder match, and will 80 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:58.040 then continue her program with Cargill rains over Rollins Rollins 81 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:02.720 Win provides fresher time title matches going forward, but tkoc's 82 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:04.800 too much money and rains as Champ keep up good, 83 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.720 good content and enjoy Summer Siam minus all the commercials. 84 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.000 Well that's the other part of it. Yeah, I mean 85 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:14.279 it's commercials with a side of wrestling. All right, Jeff, 86 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:23.839 thank you. Let's go to Dylan. He says. Oh, okay, 87 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:25.439 a few days ago, I discovered I had a tick 88 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.920 submerged on my shin. Thankfully the doctor helped me and 89 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:29.319 got it off. There's no live disease. 90 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:29.560 Okay. 91 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.519 I think it was a follow up from last week. Well, 92 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:35.319 glad you're you identified the tick on you. I've had 93 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:40.120 a tick as well before. It's uh, just gross and 94 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:43.439 you don't really feel them on you until they're embedded, 95 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.560 and then you feel something on you. You're like, oh, 96 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:47.360 you know, it's this lump and you go, I know 97 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:50.399 what that is. It's uh yeah, Well, good glad you 98 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:57.600 got out off Dylan. Let's go to Kuali qualitya from Kenya, 99 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:03.240 and Qualitia says, assuming brock Lesner has his final match 100 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:08.160 this weekend, who do you think should or will be 101 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.480 the next Paul Haman guy. If I were to pick, 102 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.519 I'd go with Royce Keys. He's got the look and 103 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:17.519 also good in the ring. If you've seen him in 104 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:22.920 aew let me know what you think. I'm gonna take 105 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:25.839 a different direction. I'm gonna say no one else should 106 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:29.399 be a Paul Hayman guy. I mean, he could return 107 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.680 to the vision where he's kind of stepped back a 108 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.000 bit from, but he could return there and get really 109 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:41.240 behind Bron Breaker. He could do that, and Bron would 110 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.160 be better for it. Bron's a decent talker, though it's 111 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:48.360 not as if he's really inept on the mic. He's decent. 112 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:51.879 He could do that, But I would actually argue, perhaps 113 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:55.439 Paul Haymond has a different role. I know he's great 114 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:59.879 in the on air managerial role. He's been legendary with 115 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.079 Rock Lesner. He's had a hot minute with Seth Rollins, 116 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:07.360 He's done a lot with cmpunk. I get it. In 117 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:10.680 Roman Reigns, of course, as the oracle or the tribal 118 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:15.800 the wise man. But what if he decides to maybe 119 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:20.079 go to commentary. People forget how good Paul Hayman is 120 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:25.199 on commentary. He's magnificent. If you want a sample, he's 121 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.959 done a lot of it in WWE go listen to 122 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:32.480 WrestleMania seventeen. Excellent, he's he's so good on the mic, 123 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:35.879 and you can still utilize his on air personality. But 124 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.720 make him a color commentator or you'll throw Wade Barret 125 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:42.279 out the window. Take Corey Graves off. I mean, Paul 126 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:47.120 Hayman would be excellent. Excellent, maybe or make a three 127 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.079 men booth. I guess you could do that. I like too, 128 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.759 But his talents could be utilized very very well on 129 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:00.720 the announcing side of things. All right, So oh Joey, 130 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:05.000 final email, and he says, before I go into my scenario, 131 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:08.199 I will tell you a gas station story. A few 132 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:10.199 years ago, I was chilling at the counter. It was 133 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:13.319 like eleven o'clock at night, and this customer that's a 134 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.319 regular came in. His name is Dennis. He came in, 135 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:17.959 said hi to me, and went to the back where 136 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:20.600 the refrigerators are, and he grabbed one of those nasty 137 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.639 burgers already in the plastic bag. The price of them 138 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:25.879 went up to three ninety nine. He used to be 139 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:28.680 two ninety nine for the burger. They aren't bad, but 140 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.720 they give you the shits. Dennis, who's a bit of 141 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.600 an oddball, came up and bought one of the burgers 142 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:38.120 and paid for it and started yelling, this is just 143 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:40.960 fucking wrong. What kind of fucking beef do you use 144 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:42.480 in these burgers? 145 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:43.879 Wagoo? 146 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:49.159 I said, I didn't know the company ships them here. 147 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.799 Then Dennis pulls the burger out of the bag, keep 148 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.600 in mind he paid for it, and then puts it 149 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:57.720 on the floor and proceeds to pull down his pants 150 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:00.840 and underwear and literally shits on the burger and walks out. 151 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:04.759 I was stunned. I called my boss, who then called 152 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.960 the police. Dennis must have known we called the police, 153 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:09.799 so he literally picked up the burger with the poop 154 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:12.519 on it with his bare hands and runs away with 155 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:16.200 it down the street. I can see him in the 156 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.720 distance of the city lights, still holding the goddamn burger 157 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.320 with shit on it. The police came later and I 158 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:25.440 showed them the footage. Later on that night, Dennis comes 159 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.679 back holding his shit in a plastic bag and throws 160 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.759 it at my counter and then proceeded to stick his 161 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:38.960 fingers in my mouth. Okay, this just this, just did 162 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.879 a ninety degree turn. Uh, let me reread that, make 163 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.360 sure I got it right. Later that night, Dennis comes 164 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.080 back holding his shit in a plastic bag and throws 165 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:55.399 it at my counter and then proceeded to stick his 166 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:59.679 fingers in his mouth. Oh, not my mouth, his mouth, Okay, 167 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:03.039 so miss something there and barked all over the floor, 168 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.879 and then called my boss and told him I'm done 169 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:08.879 for the night. I got my to my car and 170 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:14.159 I saw Dennis getting placed in handcuffs and he was yelling, poop, poop, poop. 171 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:17.639 Fuck this life. I drove home after giving I gave 172 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.519 the cops a statement and showed them more footage if 173 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.000 you want to hear more. I still have Uh, I 174 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:24.480 still have a few. But this is by far the 175 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:25.080 worst encounter. 176 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:25.399 Yeah. 177 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:28.200 By far, I mean I feel traumatized by reading it. 178 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:31.720 Just the fact that I had to create this scenario 179 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:34.960 that I never experienced in my mind. I feel as 180 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.840 if i'm I'm I need some kind of therapy at 181 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:47.080 this point. That is horrible. Damn. I had a feeling 182 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:50.120 it would be bad, but not that bad. At gas stations, 183 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:53.559 you see all kinds of people. Okay, Anyway, here's my 184 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:57.799 scenario for the week. You and Michael Cole are officially 185 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:00.279 best friends from the barbecue. So one day Mike Cole 186 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.960 facetimes you and says, I'm bored with the WWE. Let's 187 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.159 go to the movies. You jump out of your couch 188 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:09.159 and yell, Yippi a good idea. You and Michael Cole 189 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:12.600 drive his WWE car. You both get to the movie 190 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:17.159 theater and order popcorn and pop for the movie. You're watching. 191 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.840 The movie starts and Michael Cole is feeling a bit 192 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:25.159 silly and starts throwing popcorn around, yelling WWE. Food is 193 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.519 getting everywhere as everyone in the movie is partaking in this, 194 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:32.080 And the staff closed down the theater and you're in 195 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:34.120 and locks it up and says no one's leaving until 196 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:36.879 Michael Cole and Matt clean all this up. The only 197 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:38.840 problem is people keep throwing food all over the place. 198 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:39.279 What do I do? 199 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.519 That's easy. I mean, I'd start dishing out some sweet 200 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:47.360 chin music. I mean, tune up the band. It's dark 201 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:51.919 in there, people can't see it coming. You just stand 202 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:54.120 in the corner, tune up the band and starts, you know, 203 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:59.840 dishing it out. Or I mean you could you could 204 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:02.159 go real extreme, the threatening I have a bomb and 205 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.879 saying everybody better shut the fuck up and clean help 206 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:06.519 me clean this, or I'm gonna blow this place up. 207 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:10.320 I mean, you could get crazy, but in reality, yeah, 208 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:13.879 that's another very realistic scenario that I'm gonna have to 209 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:18.799 be concerned about coming up in my life. So if 210 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:20.799 everyone is just throwing food all over the place and 211 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:23.519 only I'm responsible, along with Michael Cole, to clean up 212 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:27.679 the place, I would try to find an emergency exit, 213 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:31.840 do what Obafemi's doing, and just beat up the security 214 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.000 guards or police as well as quickly as I can 215 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.159 to get out the door, because I'm not cleaning up 216 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.799 everyone else. So shit, let me tell you that. All right, 217 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.240 And oh gosh, you have an image attached. I'm scared 218 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:47.440 to download it. There it is best threads forever. These 219 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:54.080 are just these are wild, fucking wild. So we're watching Okay, 220 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.000 I wish I could post these. I should post these 221 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.919 somewhere over the hedge is the movie we're watching. He 222 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.919 created an AI image. We both have BFF shirts on. 223 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:07.200 There's food everywhere and there's a sign that says theater 224 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:14.080 locked clean up all popcorn to be released. This uh man, 225 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:15.559 this is disturbing. 226 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:16.120 Ai Is. 227 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:19.200 It's a net negative of my life at this point 228 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:23.679 because it's too real. You can't discern anymore between reality 229 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:29.759 and what a computer system has generated. So Joey, thank you. 230 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:32.200 Hopefully nobody comes in and shits on the burgers. You 231 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:37.000 guys have so best of luck. All right, let's get 232 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.120 to actually, yeah, this has been a while, but let's 233 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.480 get to Curtis. He has a quick voicemail, and then 234 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.919 we'll get to the official predictions and preview for Summer 235 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:48.360 Slam on the back side of that. 236 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.000 Hey, Matt, I thought today would be a good time 237 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:57.240 to do a voice email because or a voicemail, whatever 238 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:01.799 you want to call it, because I just got back 239 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:06.159 from an evening walk, beautiful night for a walk, and 240 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:08.799 I was listening to your Monday Night Raw review and 241 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.919 I could not agree with you more. I'm sitting there 242 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:15.679 in my living room with a cold one, just enjoying it. 243 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:17.440 I didn't hate it at all. 244 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:21.759 I did not hate Monday Night Raw up until this 245 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:27.559 fucking segment. And man, all I can say is thank 246 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:30.440 god my woman was in the other room. If she 247 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.559 came out and saw this, I would have been just horrified. 248 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:39.000 You know, when Dan Housen debuted. 249 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:42.039 She unfortunately had to see that, and I told you 250 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:45.200 before on an email a while ago when he debuted, 251 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:48.080 it reminded her and I both of Scooby Doo. 252 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.879 But then after that it wasn't bad. I gave him 253 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:52.759 a chance. 254 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:57.960 You know, he's really bringing in that merch money for 255 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:01.879 TKO and all that fun stuff. 256 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:06.120 But I don't hate him. 257 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:10.120 I don't, but they really got to reduce his TV 258 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:14.840 time because that bullshit was just so unnecessary, especially for 259 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:15.919 a go home show. 260 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:17.360 If that was. 261 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:21.000 A normal Monday Night Raw just during the year, still, 262 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:26.320 I would still be fucking embarrassed. You know, I am 263 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:31.039 not joking you. I finished that episode of RAW, and 264 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:36.639 I don't watch NXT up until this past Tuesday. I thought, 265 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.559 you know what, I'm gonna give NXT a chance. And 266 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:44.279 I'm not joking you. I thoroughly enjoyed NXT more than 267 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:46.960 Monday Night Raw, and I'm probably gonna be watching a 268 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:52.399 bit more NXT so because I can actually enjoy I mean, 269 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.519 it's not perfect, but it's it's better. 270 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:02.519 It's better than Monday Night Raw. So my cat was 271 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:04.720 trying to put her pawd on my drink. 272 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:11.440 So anyway, Yeah, I just wanted to email you with 273 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.360 a voicemail this week because I have no other way 274 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.759 to get this off my chest with anybody. My wrestling 275 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:22.679 community circle is very small and limited, so I just 276 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:28.240 thought I would give you a voicemail. I am going 277 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:31.480 to a house show in August. I emailed you with 278 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:35.399 that a while ago, and it can kind of concerns 279 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.080 me now because now I'm thinking, what the fuck am 280 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:42.080 I going to get because last couple of days I've 281 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:45.799 been seeing clips of See Them Punk and Cody Roads 282 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:51.279 kissing Dan Housen And if you haven't heard of that, 283 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:53.399 I wish I was lying. 284 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.799 I wish I was joking, but it's. 285 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:58.759 Out there, so if you look it up, not that 286 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:03.480 you'd want to, it's unfortunately out there. And I was 287 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.759 hoping it'd be AI or something like that, but I 288 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:08.720 don't think it is. 289 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:15.559 But anyway, thanks Matt. Keep doing great work on the pod. 290 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:20.039 I listen to it literally every time I'm at work, 291 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:24.640 on my Sunday shifts, sometimes my Monday shifts too, and 292 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:27.799 sometimes like one of them, on my evening. 293 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:33.319 Walks just going around the town. So thanks Matt Curtis. 294 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:34.960 Yeah, good to hear from you for the first time 295 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:39.240 I did see this, and unfortunately was a it stumbled 296 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:42.480 across my feed I have been burned forever with that. 297 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:48.279 And if you haven't seen it, I guess viewer beware, 298 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.400 or if you don't care, whatever, the fact that Seampunk 299 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.559 kiss Dan Housen at a house show, why, you know, Like, 300 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.880 what are we doing here? Is it supposed to be funny? 301 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:02.079 It's just it's just not why. Yeah, that's what I 302 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:06.680 want to see a week before the biggest title defense 303 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:10.359 of his career. I want to see him kissing other 304 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:11.440 wrestlers at house shows. 305 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:11.880 You know that. 306 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.759 That really gets me going, That engages me for SummerSlam, 307 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:17.640 really gets me excited for the show. 308 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:17.960 And the match. 309 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:21.920 It's just and Punk is incredible on the microphone. We 310 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.519 all know that that's an undeniable fact, how good he is. 311 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.160 And in the ring, yeah, I mean he's showing me 312 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.160 still at the top of his game, put on one 313 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.720 of the greatest matches I've ever seen with Roman Reigns 314 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.119 at WrestleMania. None of that can be taken away, But 315 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:37.680 what the fuck are we doing here? I don't need 316 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:40.880 to see you kissing other dudes. Whether it's supposed to 317 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:42.799 be funny or not like that that's not doesn't what 318 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:43.680 is it supposed to do? 319 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:44.799 What? 320 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:47.880 It's all in good fun fun for what there's what's 321 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:52.599 the reason here? I don't know, but yeah, that that 322 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:57.319 Dan Housen segment. It has been thoroughly destroyed, demolished, embarrassed 323 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:03.000 as it should be. And I agree. My circle of 324 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.200 wrestling fans in my life is very very small as well, 325 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:08.799 which is why a lot of us come here and 326 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.680 talk to other people that we don't even know or 327 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.240 have met in our lives, and we connect over wrestling. 328 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:20.359 That's what a lot of us do. So could you 329 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:24.599 imagine if you had somebody who is like a WrestleMania 330 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:27.960 fan that only comes in for the big stars and 331 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.519 the big moments, and they still ask about Attitude era wrestlers. 332 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:33.839 I have a few friends like that, and I'm sure 333 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.680 maybe some of you do too, where they're only interested 334 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.279 in his Hey Austin, did he did stone Cold show 335 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:42.359 up and stun anyone? Did the Rock come back? That's 336 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.200 the kind of like wrestling fans I have in my life. 337 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:50.319 Very few actually still watch regularly. So that's also a 338 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:52.599 great outlet for me here because I can come and 339 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:55.759 talk to you guys about it. But imagine bringing in 340 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.880 somebody in your personal life to watch raw and they're like, Okay, 341 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.000 you know what, I'm going to give it a chance. 342 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:04.720 And imagine them sitting there watching that. How embarrassed would 343 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:08.480 you be? I mean, if you can be embarrassed sitting 344 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:12.920 by yourself alone with no one there and you feel 345 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.799 ashamed of yourself for consuming this content, imagine bringing in 346 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:23.079 a person that's in your real life. That's how That's 347 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.480 how bad it was. And I'm trying to move on 348 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:28.680 from it. I think they'll learn from it. But whoever 349 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:31.480 was involved in it needs I mean, you just need 350 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:34.359 to be fired. It's that egregious of a mistake. It's 351 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.160 not a whoopsie. Well we tried. We had a good idea, 352 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:42.960 it just wasn't well executed. See, there are sometimes good 353 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.200 ideas that just aren't executed well, like heel turns or 354 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:49.799 baby face turns or title changes. Fine, or a stipulation 355 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:53.400 in a match. Fine that I get that. I can 356 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:55.839 appreciate the effort, and sometimes it just doesn't go the 357 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:57.400 way that you think it's going to go, or it 358 00:20:57.480 --> 00:20:59.880 doesn't play out the way you think it's going to. 359 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:04.319 But there's not any excuse for designing this or trying 360 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.000 to execute it that is a good idea. It is 361 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:11.480 a cancer to professional wrestling when you see this shit. 362 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:15.279 And there's been things like this too. I mean, Dan 363 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.000 Housen has been evolving into more and more of just 364 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:22.440 a plain walking cartoon. And he's had some decently chuckled 365 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:26.440 chuckle a bowl segment, segments. He's done decently in his 366 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:29.640 role backstage. But the moment you bring him out and 367 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:31.160 you put him in front of a crowd, the crowd 368 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:34.160 receives him well, but he always has to have some 369 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.920 other ridiculous antics or people or midgets or boxes or 370 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.680 toys or magic tricks, and you may say, well, that's 371 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.640 part of his charm, but you'll see on raw you 372 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:50.200 can overdo it very quickly and it'll come out horribly. 373 00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:51.880 So I would agree with a lot of the listeners 374 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:55.000 here that he needs to go away for a little bit. 375 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:58.119 They won't do it because, as you said, Curtis, they 376 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:00.640 look at him as a money machine. In fact, what 377 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:02.279 I think they're going to do is the opposite and 378 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:04.599 continue on this path, if not show him more, because 379 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:08.000 they are making him, they're making TKO money hand over fist. 380 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:09.599 I don't want to hear any of the reason that 381 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:12.759 he's there. That's the only reason he's there, despite the 382 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.279 fact that he's had seventeen matches and he's been victorious 383 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.240 in these seventeen matches, is really irrelevant. It's just the 384 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:20.960 fact that he's a walking cartoon that a lot of 385 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:23.839 people connect with, and including the much the younger audience 386 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:26.319 and some older ones. But this is how you lose 387 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:30.839 the older ones. You lose the older ones, meaning anyone 388 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:36.039 over twelve by doing this kind of just horrifically bad 389 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:40.720 bullshit and when he's out there just too much. But 390 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:42.200 what I'm hearing is he's going to have an ice 391 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:45.160 cream truck at SummerSlam. All this other you know, he's 392 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:50.480 going to do something ridiculous at SummerSlam. So they have 393 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:54.920 put themselves in a precarious position with this character. And 394 00:22:55.759 --> 00:23:01.039 I'd be very very very cautious about how I present 395 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:04.160 him and how much I present him over the next 396 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:07.359 week or two and give fans maybe a chance to breathe. 397 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:12.319 The thing is, you know they won't because TKO just 398 00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:16.839 cannot help themselves and will forego everything and anything to 399 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:19.599 make money and feel that if he's not on TV, 400 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:21.880 how our kid's going to be reminded to go buy 401 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:27.200