Speaker 1: This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre, and you're listening to
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Speaker 2: The one that everybody wants me.
Speaker 3: God Stand three sixteen said, your ass is mind.
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Speaker 2: It's time for the mail bag. It is Friday, the
Speaker 2: tenth day of January twenty twenty five, and we are
Speaker 2: going to jump right into those emails here and then
Speaker 2: of course voicemails on the backside, as we are, well,
Speaker 2: what three weeks, three weeks and change from the Royal Rumbles?
Speaker 2: It three weeks might going crazy, four weeks, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh So, I think we got about twenty some days
Speaker 2: until the Royal rumb which is going to come up
Speaker 2: quicker than when you realize two weeks go by, Bam,
Speaker 2: roy Rumbles. Next weekend are here, we go off to
Speaker 2: the races, off to predictions, off to potential WrestleMania Maine events.
Speaker 2: As we are really at this point able to predict
Speaker 2: the WrestleMania forty one main events. I think it's fair.
Speaker 2: We're in this striking distance now, so let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Let's get into those emails, and we'll start, as always
Speaker 2: with patrons, and start with James James from the UK,
Speaker 2: and he says, with raw starting here at one am
Speaker 2: in the UK, I would usually watch it the next day,
Speaker 2: but on Monday I decided to sacrifice sleep and I
Speaker 2: was left a bit disappointed. I expected some sort of
Speaker 2: progression towards Rock versus Roman. When the Rock placed the
Speaker 2: ulafala over Roman's head, I played for a rock Bottom,
Speaker 2: prayed for rock Bottom, and the Rocks standing over him,
Speaker 2: saying something like you might be the OTC, but you've
Speaker 2: not beaten the final Boss. Do you think we'll still
Speaker 2: get it at WrestleMania forty one? I feel fan might
Speaker 2: not take it as seriously now and will not get
Speaker 2: the match we should have gotten at WrestleMania of forty Well,
Speaker 2: you've been looking for the Rock versus Roman seriously. It's
Speaker 2: been discussed for ten years now. I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 2: Royal Rumble twenty fifteen go back ten years. I bring
Speaker 2: this up often because it is such an inflection point
Speaker 2: in Roman's career and really the career the trajectory of
Speaker 2: the main event. Roman reigns in Philadelphia as the Rumble
Speaker 2: winner gets booed out of the building as a babyface
Speaker 2: when he was the big dog Rock comes out to
Speaker 2: try to save him. Rock gets booed for trying to
Speaker 2: support Roman ten years so they could play on that.
Speaker 2: It's a nice even ten years now. They really have
Speaker 2: something that they could use as a foundational piece for
Speaker 2: the Rock to potentially ruin Roman Reigns's royal rumble. But
Speaker 2: if we don't get Rock Roman at some point, is
Speaker 2: it even possible to not get it? We saw what
Speaker 2: happened last year. But here's the thing with Rock Roman.
Speaker 2: I've said this literally for years. The title doesn't need
Speaker 2: to be on the line. No title needs to be
Speaker 2: on the line. Just pride, just family precedent, just tribal warfare,
Speaker 2: whatever they want to call it. That's all that needs
Speaker 2: to be on the line. You just need the two men.
Speaker 2: You don't need any additional sauce, nothing, So all right.
Speaker 2: I thought the matches were pretty good verse with Punk
Speaker 2: versus Rollins being the best of the night apart from
Speaker 2: the multi finisher spots, and with all the advertising all
Speaker 2: over the canvas, I hate it too. It should be
Speaker 2: blank and also ditch the sponsors along with the ring
Speaker 2: aprons and barriers, bring back the traditional pay per view aprons.
Speaker 2: All the best James from Scotland. James, I wish we could,
Speaker 2: but money matters to them big time, Okay, as it
Speaker 2: does any organization. I don't fault them for that, but
Speaker 2: as a traditionalist with pro wrestling, I don't accept this
Speaker 2: new advertising billboarding over everything. I mean, at some point
Speaker 2: you're gonna now see logos on the ring attire for wrestlers.
Speaker 2: I mean we're gonna be that far. Somebody's gonna get
Speaker 2: a tattoo of it, right, I mean it's insane, and
Speaker 2: they're making up for a lot of it for lost
Speaker 2: ad revenue that they were making through the USA network. Yes,
Speaker 2: there are ads on Netflix, but the additional ad revenue
Speaker 2: and maybe even more than that, is coming from the
Speaker 2: ad sponsor. The sponsors paying probably out their nose to
Speaker 2: put their brand on the WWE ring, matt on the canvas,
Speaker 2: on the ring apron for three hours, a lot of money.
Speaker 2: So it's money, man, money, money money. It's kind of
Speaker 2: in a much much smaller universe here on this show.
Speaker 2: You hear the ads. If you're not a patron, you
Speaker 2: hear ads on this show. Same thing. Monetizing my show
Speaker 2: makes sense. It's annoying, right, but you can pay to
Speaker 2: remove the ads, which leads me into my next pitch.
Speaker 2: Here guys, and by the way, thank you James. Head
Speaker 2: on over to patreon dot com if you want an
Speaker 2: ad free experience slash WW podcast, let's go to Darren.
Speaker 2: Another patron says, hey WW podcast family, did you guys
Speaker 2: hear Raws on Netflix? Now? What? Darren? Stop messing with me?
Speaker 2: Stop Darren. I don't believe you. I'm sorry. The first
Speaker 2: episode had its good and bad moments, but I just
Speaker 2: want to talk about one thing. How disappointing the Rocks
Speaker 2: promo was. If WWE's goal was to bring in new
Speaker 2: fans and bring back old ones, which it clearly was
Speaker 2: with all the legends, I personally think it would have
Speaker 2: been better to keep him. Heal not saying to run
Speaker 2: down the look of the crowd, but he shouldn't have
Speaker 2: been praising Cody. Anybody else could have done that. Everybody
Speaker 2: knows what a babyface Rock is, and if they see
Speaker 2: that he's now a bad guy and actually enjoyed and
Speaker 2: involved the story, that would make me want to keep tuning.
Speaker 2: Ins go to SmackDown on the seventeenth awesome. Well, if
Speaker 2: you want to give me your thoughts on the name
Speaker 2: person December, not December the seventeenth SmackDown. Please, I'm guessing
Speaker 2: it's a week, yeah, week from today. I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear your notes. So the Rocks promo did I if
Speaker 2: you're looking for Heal Rock, the most successful version of
Speaker 2: the Rock. By the way, we didn't get it. We
Speaker 2: got Dwayne playing the Rock, playing the babyface Rock, and
Speaker 2: suddenly all the storyline progression with Cody and Rock goes
Speaker 2: out the window in a trash can with one promo.
Speaker 2: They're joking. Cody says thank you, And what the hell
Speaker 2: is Cody sitting in the crowd for too? By the way,
Speaker 2: why is he there? Why are any of the wrestlers there?
Speaker 2: I talked about this on my Raw review. Why are
Speaker 2: they there? It's not a I don't want to feel
Speaker 2: like you're part of the fandom. You're don't tell me
Speaker 2: you're a fan. Okay, You guys are supposed to be
Speaker 2: larger than the life. You're supposed to be elevated in status,
Speaker 2: not as a human being, but as a wrestler, as
Speaker 2: an entertainer. We pay to see you. I don't want
Speaker 2: to see you pretend to be one of us, So
Speaker 2: stop it. You have your undisputed champion sitting in the crowd,
Speaker 2: presumably voluntarily, just terrible. And yeah, the whole thing with
Speaker 2: the Rock and Cody and making jokes and what is happening?
Speaker 2: Can we just I'll let them do a redo here.
Speaker 2: If they go back to what they originally had planned
Speaker 2: here and stop with the whole brand stuff above all else,
Speaker 2: then I'll throw away this one episode and just move on.
Speaker 2: But if they continue with this as the Rock just
Speaker 2: being Dwayne playing the Rock, yeah I'm not here for that.
Speaker 2: Thanks Daron. All right, let's go to Shahar And from Israel.
Speaker 2: She says, what's up. I wanted to share with you
Speaker 2: my d disappointment from the Raw debuta on Netflix. It
Speaker 2: all started, of course, with the Rock opening the show.
Speaker 2: Why he just couldn't help himself and had to take
Speaker 2: this spot from another star who deserved this more like
Speaker 2: Cody Roman Seth and not just that, he also thanked
Speaker 2: Cody what well, I just went over that, Shahar. I
Speaker 2: mean he took the words out of my mouth or
Speaker 2: I took them out of yours, rather just towards terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2: I know he's on the board of TKO. I don't
Speaker 2: care as a look from a business, this was like
Speaker 2: a corporately created business entertainment event. It wasn't a professional
Speaker 2: wrestling event. And I think WWE eventually they may take
Speaker 2: it too far here. And I'm not saying WWE's on
Speaker 2: the decline. In fact, obviously they're on in the opposite direction.
Speaker 2: So everything I say here is of course being disproven
Speaker 2: just simply by stats revenue ratings, but from a viewership
Speaker 2: in old school mentality, they are moving so far away
Speaker 2: from pro wrestling it would make Vince McMahon blush. I mean,
Speaker 2: there were times, and I know we all look back
Speaker 2: sometimes with unfairly and everything bad that happened was Vince's fault.
Speaker 2: Everything that happened was everything bad was Vince. Everything good
Speaker 2: was not Vince, and that's not fair. At times, I
Speaker 2: even have an issue with just that lens, historical lens,
Speaker 2: and it is not fair and it's not accurate either.
Speaker 2: More importantly, but Vince did have and show a lot
Speaker 2: of respect for the business at times. He didn't have
Speaker 2: the restlers sit in the crowd voluntarily. Okay, that was
Speaker 2: not something Vince McMahon did. And I'm not saying Triple
Speaker 2: H is all responsible for this Nick con is a
Speaker 2: lot of very much responsible for this. The McMahons are
Speaker 2: no longer in charge of the WWE, so we're now
Speaker 2: getting a vision of somebody who's not a mcmon of
Speaker 2: what the company should be and will turn and into
Speaker 2: like that's the vision we're seeing is somebody who is
Speaker 2: not a McMahon, who has no professional wrestling experience owning
Speaker 2: the company or running a professional wrestling company, who's now
Speaker 2: bringing who's saying that entertainment is above all, the brand
Speaker 2: is above all. But yet they still refuse to acknowledge
Speaker 2: that they're a professional wrestling company. They are that even
Speaker 2: even Triple H would say they're not. They are, and
Speaker 2: what fans want is to believe. I want to believe.
Speaker 2: I want to make you make me believe, And they
Speaker 2: have now gotten so far from that, even with Triple
Speaker 2: H at the front of the office here of creative
Speaker 2: they're they're moving in such the opposite direction, not just
Speaker 2: with the match styles of or the match pacing, and
Speaker 2: every match seems to feel the same. The lack of
Speaker 2: just general selling in matches, the insane overuse, the egregious,
Speaker 2: hilarious but also very bleak use of finishers, in matches,
Speaker 2: the very much fourth wall breaking promos that happened all
Speaker 2: the time. They've pulled the curtain back so much that
Speaker 2: it's like they fans don't want to see that anymore,
Speaker 2: Like we know what's behind the curtain, pull it back,
Speaker 2: let there be some kind of mystery. Instead, they're like,
Speaker 2: oh no, no, no, no, yeah, we know that. You know that,
Speaker 2: we know, so why even keep it closes anymore. It's like, no, see,
Speaker 2: that was part of the magic. Part of the magic
Speaker 2: was you keeping that curtain closed. We pretty much know
Speaker 2: what's behind the curtain, but we still want to have
Speaker 2: that childhood belief, that part of us that wants to
Speaker 2: believe because it's more fun that way. It's not insulting
Speaker 2: our intelligence. It's giving us what made you successful in
Speaker 2: the first place. It's giving us what brought us to
Speaker 2: the product to begin with. It's not to say that
Speaker 2: you're going to convince us that progressing is real again,
Speaker 2: That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that
Speaker 2: when you constantly remind us, the company that creates the
Speaker 2: wrestling constantly reminds us all the time that what we're
Speaker 2: watching is a production, it's hard to get invested. It's
Speaker 2: really hard to get invested. Like I said, it's an
Speaker 2: equivalent of watching a movie that you can't wait to see.
Speaker 2: It's like the part three of a trilogy. You don't
Speaker 2: know how it's going to end. And every five minutes
Speaker 2: they have an intermission where somebody sitting down with the
Speaker 2: actors the protagonist, the antagonist and asking them, oh, how
Speaker 2: did you like playing this role? And how did you
Speaker 2: like pretending to be this person or that person. Wouldn't
Speaker 2: that take you out of the moment every time? Of
Speaker 2: course it would. So I think that they've taken it
Speaker 2: too far where they've pulled back the curtain and then
Speaker 2: let it stay open when fans, I think generally want
Speaker 2: it shut, close it back. Don't again, you're not going
Speaker 2: to try to pretend that we're going to pretend that,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, wrestling's real, right guys. No, but you can
Speaker 2: stop at least reminding us all the time that's the killer.
Speaker 2: So yeah, brand above all else, the Cody thing on raw,
Speaker 2: thank you and let's smile and hug.
Speaker 4: It's horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just befuddled as to why they would
Speaker 2: do this. What did they gain from like what's the
Speaker 2: net positive here? What came out of this? If i'm wwe,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm representative of that decision. And you guys are
Speaker 2: the fan who was asking me that, and you asked me, hey,
Speaker 2: why did you do that? What were you hoping to
Speaker 2: gain here? And what do you think you gained? I
Speaker 2: would have no answer. Oh, this is entertaining. It's entertaining,
Speaker 2: entertaining for who? In what way? How did this push
Speaker 2: any storyline forward? Didn't? So, yeah, I'm totally with you.
Speaker 2: Just horrible, totally disappointing. So I don't know what this
Speaker 2: was about. It was just I've said enough. Moving on.
Speaker 2: So Strahar continues. She says, to continue with the tribal
Speaker 2: combat that had no surprises whatsoever except for the ending
Speaker 2: when rock put Roman the Uli follow on him, and
Speaker 2: for some reason this was a bad surprise. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I've already gone through that. I was hoping for
Speaker 2: a rock Bottom too. We didn't get anything after that,
Speaker 2: for some unknown reason, we didn't get the last woman's
Speaker 2: standing match we should have had. The match between the
Speaker 2: Rihanne Live was good, but I was waiting. I was
Speaker 2: waiting for the last woman's standing stipulation. I have no
Speaker 2: idea why it didn't happen. Also, no show from Becky. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know you're a big, huge Becky fan. She seems
Speaker 2: like she's enjoying being a mom certainly, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's a full time gig, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. And I was disappointed. I thought it was
Speaker 2: somebody had said it was the last woman standing and
Speaker 2: then it didn't happen. And I don't know either they
Speaker 2: there was a rumor it was going to happen and
Speaker 2: it didn't, or it was planned and they pulled it back.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but yeah, I know, Becky. Sorry, I'll
Speaker 2: stop there because I have exciting news to tell you.
Speaker 2: As of this week, I'm the co founder and co
Speaker 2: host of a new podcast called The Queens of the Ring.
Speaker 2: It's the first podcast in Israel about wrestling and hosted
Speaker 2: by women. So I'm very proud and excited. I wish
Speaker 2: you knew Hebrew so you could listen till next time.
Speaker 2: My friend, Well, yeah I couldn't. Sorry I don't know Hebrew.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, different culture here. You know, very very
Speaker 2: few people here know Hebrew fluently. Some may know it
Speaker 2: in passing from most people in the United States, most
Speaker 2: not all, of course, not all. A lot of bilingual people,
Speaker 2: but Hebrew is not a very commonly fluid language. Here
Speaker 2: tell you that much right now. So if I heard it,
Speaker 2: it would here. Here's what I think I might be
Speaker 2: able to do. With all the advances in AI, all
Speaker 2: the advances in AI these days, I will say, perhaps
Speaker 2: there's a way for me to translate it on the fly,
Speaker 2: like on the go apps are becoming much more complex
Speaker 2: and capable. Perhaps there's a way for me to listen
Speaker 2: to it while having AI translated in real time. That
Speaker 2: sounds like a thing that's possible, but I don't without
Speaker 2: actually trying it, I don't know. Well, Chahar, let me
Speaker 2: ask you this and you can email me or whatever
Speaker 2: Patreon or here. Is it on Apple Podcasts? I'm thinking
Speaker 2: it is because that's the biggest podcast platform in the
Speaker 2: world right now. So I'll check on Apple Podcasts, and
Speaker 2: if you know Hebrew, check out the Queen's of the Ring.
Speaker 2: If you don't, still check it out and give them
Speaker 2: a five star rating. All right, So, Shahar, very I've
Speaker 2: still actually I'm going to check it out. I actually
Speaker 2: still am even if I listened to it and I go.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what they're saying. I'm still gonna
Speaker 2: do it. At the very least, I know that I
Speaker 2: can translate text because they have transcriptions built directly in
Speaker 2: to the Apple Podcast app now, so I can get
Speaker 2: transcriptions translated to English, so I know I can at
Speaker 2: least do that. Very cool, all right, DJ, Let's see
Speaker 2: what you got. He says he's back at it again.
Speaker 2: Let me mention this by saying, Joe Hendry unfortunately did
Speaker 2: not appear in the Raw on Netflix, but I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to seeing him appear at the Rumble. More on
Speaker 2: that and other things on Today's Joe Henry Report. Yes,
Speaker 2: we'll get to that. Secondly, I did not subscribe to
Speaker 2: Netflix yet to start up this year, I'm cutting back
Speaker 2: on the amount of streaming subscriptions that I use and
Speaker 2: don't use. Plus, i'll wait until W's partnership with NBC
Speaker 2: Universal and Peacock end in twenty twenty six. But from
Speaker 2: watching the clips and highlights on social media, the Raw
Speaker 2: on Netflix was an okay show that kind of went
Speaker 2: over the top in my opinion. First, did John Cena
Speaker 2: confirm that the leak twenty twenty five Roll Rumble results
Speaker 2: to be true by saying he's going to win, plus
Speaker 2: is seen it going to be on TV every week
Speaker 2: as part of his Farewell to Farewell tour or is
Speaker 2: it just selected cities and pls. So I don't know
Speaker 2: about the leak. I mean, at this point everyone's probably
Speaker 2: seen it. If you haven't, the leak said that Sena
Speaker 2: was gonna win, but I take that with the grain
Speaker 2: of salt. Leaks have come out many, many, many times before,
Speaker 2: and WWE is obviously not stupid. They follow this kind
Speaker 2: of news and they may change it. But I still
Speaker 2: think John Cena even if he doesn't win the Rumble,
Speaker 2: and I think he's a favorite, but if he doesn't win,
Speaker 2: there's a second path. Everyone forgets that there's two pass
Speaker 2: to the main event of WrestleMania, one for each show,
Speaker 2: so it's not an end all, be all if you
Speaker 2: don't win the Rumble, but from one understand if you
Speaker 2: listen to the post conference, the press conference after the
Speaker 2: ple or after a after the raw premier on Netflix.
Speaker 2: I think it was Chris van Vliet who and I've
Speaker 2: actually had him on the show Good Guy, His boy.
Speaker 2: His channel's taken off, isn't it. He just did a
Speaker 2: great interview with Seth Rollins if you haven't checked it out,
Speaker 2: I'm almost through all of it. Great interview with Seth Rollins,
Speaker 2: hour hour and a half whatever it is, long form
Speaker 2: interview on Chris van Vliet's show. So there's some free
Speaker 2: press for you there, Chris as if you need it.
Speaker 2: But I will say though that John Cena did mention
Speaker 2: in the press conference that he has thirty six thirty
Speaker 2: seven dates. Then he's going to be on over the year,
Speaker 2: So that means, hey, that could mean wrestling, that could
Speaker 2: be just dates. I think it's probably just dates and
Speaker 2: probably maybe more in between if he feels up to it.
Speaker 2: But thirty seven spread out over twelve is like two
Speaker 2: a month two no, sorry three three appearances per month
Speaker 2: that might include live events. I would think that does
Speaker 2: so three per month for the next twelve months. Now
Speaker 2: some you could have at some point. It doesn't mean
Speaker 2: exactly three of your month. You could have him show
Speaker 2: up ten in one month and then he takes two
Speaker 2: months off and you know what I mean. We'll see
Speaker 2: and hopefully no injuries. Okay, what's up with the Rock
Speaker 2: acknowledging Cody Roads accomplishment for carrying the company on his
Speaker 2: back and by the way stared down between Rock and
Speaker 2: Roman didn't lean to anything. I was expecting the Final
Speaker 2: Boss to strangle Roman with the ulafala. I guess the
Speaker 2: rumor is true that The Rock will not appear at
Speaker 2: forty one. Well, Triple H also did an interview subsequent
Speaker 2: to this on the with Sports Illustrated and he was
Speaker 2: asked that question directly about The Rock, and he's basically
Speaker 2: said he that they stay tuned. I can't give anything away.
Speaker 2: Rock's a big star that makes a big time impact whenever.
Speaker 2: Here basically a bunch of corporate jargon, but left the
Speaker 2: door open for The Rock to still appear. And if
Speaker 2: he does, Roy Rumble seems like a damn good time
Speaker 2: to interfere, maybe cost Roam in the Rumble, as I
Speaker 2: said earlier, So I wouldn't mark it completely off the
Speaker 2: calendar of The Rock. But if you base it on
Speaker 2: this show alone, if The Rock was going to appear
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania or not, or at least have a match,
Speaker 2: it's not great. Like there was not a lot of
Speaker 2: evidence that he would. He was just kind of making
Speaker 2: amends and hugging everyone and ye just you know, throwing
Speaker 2: flowers at the feet of the guy that he was
Speaker 2: just bloodying in the parking lot and insulting his mother
Speaker 2: six months ago made no sense. Stupid. There's just I
Speaker 2: don't know. If I was in the crowd, I would
Speaker 2: have booded that all right? Where was Gunther? The war Raiders,
Speaker 2: bron Breaker, These individuals are champions on Monday Night Raw,
Speaker 2: and they were not featured prominently on this premiere episode,
Speaker 2: especially gun Through, because it was seems that w W
Speaker 2: is probably getting gun Through on the back burner until
Speaker 2: whoever wins the Rumble or is runner up. A lot
Speaker 2: of speculation about Gunther over the next few months, a
Speaker 2: lot of speculation about who they could be building them
Speaker 2: up for. Brock Lesner's name is still in the conversation.
Speaker 2: But look, that was a corporately created show, or at
Speaker 2: least a corporate serving because most of the stuff is
Speaker 2: I mean, corporate does probably have some impact on the show,
Speaker 2: so you could say by default every single show is
Speaker 2: corporately created, but this was much more of a corporately
Speaker 2: presented in corporate audience show. It felt like people in
Speaker 2: a boardroom came up with this show with no respect
Speaker 2: or caring for the current storylines and wants only the
Speaker 2: biggest stars. That's it. That's what this show was about.
Speaker 2: It was about brand. Hey we're on Netflix if you
Speaker 2: didn't know, and making sure that the biggest stars were there.
Speaker 2: Most celebrity appearances were on camera. You saw all through
Speaker 2: the show how many celebrity appeances. Mcaulay Culkin was there.
Speaker 2: The Kulakulkin by the way, he got a bigger pop
Speaker 2: than Hulk Hogan. Kind of funny, but that's what this
Speaker 2: was about. It's about image and brand. That's what this
Speaker 2: is about. It wasn't about, like you said, DJ, it's
Speaker 2: not about gun Through the war Raiders, Brown breakery. That
Speaker 2: wasn't even in the conversation, I'm sure, because it was
Speaker 2: all about who's the biggest stars, biggest stars period. That's
Speaker 2: all they wanted. Hell, they had the Undertaker come out
Speaker 2: and just ride his bike, you know, pet pedal is
Speaker 2: a little bicycle around the ring and then just leave.
Speaker 2: You know where you could have had at least gun
Speaker 2: Through cut a quick promo or something, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. But hey, Hulk Hogan did not need to
Speaker 2: be there, only get to get boot out of the building.
Speaker 2: It seems like this cancel culture movement will always be
Speaker 2: a thing that cannot be avoided. My take on Hogan
Speaker 2: being there is just for the casual fans, the ones
Speaker 2: that grew up watching WF back into today day but
Speaker 2: then stopped watching wrestling after the nineties. Plus, nobody cares
Speaker 2: about Hogan's real American beer. There's a time and place
Speaker 2: for anything in life, and I felt that Hogan promoting
Speaker 2: his beer brand was just bad timing in both the
Speaker 2: political sphere sphere and with him supporting Trump and the
Speaker 2: cancel cultural sphere from his racist comments from twenty years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was just a perfect storm. And plus again, you know,
Speaker 2: you're in a really politically opposed and I'm using that
Speaker 2: as gently as I can. I mean, you talk about
Speaker 2: a diametrically opposed city. It's about as blue as it
Speaker 2: gets over there, and he is bright red. So you
Speaker 2: take that, you take the racist comments, and you take
Speaker 2: the fact that no one cares to really see Hogan
Speaker 2: anymore at this point, and then he starts promoting a
Speaker 2: beer that he's just selflessly promoting shamelessly, and he wrapped
Speaker 2: it all together and people who just rejected it outright,
Speaker 2: and I understand why. Yeah, It makes perfect sense. This
Speaker 2: isn't a mystery. There's not a lot to dissect here.
Speaker 2: You don't need to do a lot of investigation. There's
Speaker 2: no dissertation that needs to be formulated over this. It's
Speaker 2: very clear. You know, all right? The Undertaker Mark Callaway
Speaker 2: showing up at the last woman's Last man Standing match?
Speaker 2: Was it a last woman standing? No, it wasn't. It
Speaker 2: wasn't because we Ripley hit two rip tides to beat Live.
Speaker 2: But it didn't make sense to me. It felt very odd,
Speaker 2: out of place because it made Ria, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: look like a lesser star in contrast to take her.
Speaker 2: I predicted that Ria would win. But what this loss
Speaker 2: will do for Live and then what's next for her
Speaker 2: outside of a likely title rematch at Saturday Antimate Event. No,
Speaker 2: I actually don't think they're going to have a rematch.
Speaker 2: The reason is they build this as kind of the finale,
Speaker 2: and I think the fans are ready to move on.
Speaker 2: If they have a rematch, I'll be very surprised. I
Speaker 2: don't think the fans are all at all interested in that.
Speaker 2: As I've said, I think liv is going to move
Speaker 2: into the icy title picture because she certainly showed she
Speaker 2: can become champion and be a very very respectable champion.
Speaker 2: So if she starts chasing the Icy Belt after the
Speaker 2: Dakota Kai or Lyra Valkyria win it, that's fine. Maybe
Speaker 2: she'll attack either one of the winners after they win
Speaker 2: the Icy Belt on Monday, because forget that's that's another
Speaker 2: big match coming up on Monday. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: know what the hell Undertaker did that was his place? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Undertaker over the last couple of appearances has done things
Speaker 2: really oddly. He's done things like again, he appeared at
Speaker 2: WrestleMania forty where Stone Cold Steve Austin was a perfect
Speaker 2: fit and he didn't because of money, and Taker shows
Speaker 2: up choke slams the Rock. Again, There's there's no precedent
Speaker 2: for that. What's the precedent for Undertaker choke slamming the
Speaker 2: Rock or WrestleMania none other than just we couldn't get Austin,
Speaker 2: so he got Taker. At least with Austin, it makes sense,
Speaker 2: it makes sense why he was there. They're natural enemies.
Speaker 2: You also had the Undertaker show up and then just
Speaker 2: ride around the ring, you know, ding ding ding on
Speaker 2: his bike and then raised his hand with Rhea, but
Speaker 2: it yeah, it did make Riea look like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Riea's a big star. And then you put take her
Speaker 2: next to her and she's like, it's like, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree. And last, but not least, Penta did not
Speaker 2: make his debut. He probably don't know who Penta is.
Speaker 2: He's a former wrestler from AW and previously from Impact
Speaker 2: on Luca Underground. He was originally supposed to be the
Speaker 2: mystery tag team partner with Ray against the New Day,
Speaker 2: but that match got taken off the card seemingly at
Speaker 2: the last minute, which was kind of weird because there
Speaker 2: were only four matches on this three hour premiere. Four matches.
Speaker 2: That's insane, DJ cuzmost signing off have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Well again, it does make or it is it is
Speaker 2: insane for a three hour plus show you have four matches.
Speaker 2: But when you look at what the purpose of this
Speaker 2: show was, as I just mentioned five minutes ago, the
Speaker 2: purpose was biggest stars, biggest celebrities, promotional show, make a statement.
Speaker 2: Look how important WWE is. Look how look how big
Speaker 2: we are with all these celebrities coming out. Yeah, look
Speaker 2: at the rock even the Rocks coming out and He's
Speaker 2: putting all the storylines aside to just be Dwayne. That's
Speaker 2: what this is about. So you know where WWE is
Speaker 2: when it comes to push, comes to shove, where the
Speaker 2: priorities lie, and that will always be with the brand,
Speaker 2: not with individual storylines. They don't care. So it was
Speaker 2: about just promotion, promotion, promotion, that's it. It wasn't a
Speaker 2: wrestling show on Monday. So hopefully things change and we
Speaker 2: see what it will be on a weekly basis starting
Speaker 2: this Monday, and we can move on like, ok here
Speaker 2: on Netflix. Okay, great, let's go like where were you
Speaker 2: in the story? Now? Last week was a fun little intermission.
Speaker 2: Where are you all right? Thank you DJ. We'll get
Speaker 2: to your report in a moment, but let's talk to
Speaker 2: AJ another patron. He says, I really think WWE got
Speaker 2: all four matches wrong. Speaking of which, perfect, perfect little transition.
Speaker 2: They've tanked Solo's character with him starting strong and then
Speaker 2: losing every match ever before, trying to take or make
Speaker 2: him look strong again, and then they have him cheatd
Speaker 2: and lose to Roman. I don't think they have a
Speaker 2: plan for Solo, and I'm sick of Roman having every
Speaker 2: match and with some sort of interference. It should have
Speaker 2: been Solo winning with help and just to show Roman
Speaker 2: what he put everyone else through for all these years.
Speaker 2: They have certainly damaged Solo, no doubt about it. Remember
Speaker 2: when he was undefeated, I remember that good times? Huh
Speaker 2: until Cody Roads beat him on Raw. I think leading
Speaker 2: up to Wrestle many A forty, he beat Solo Socoa.
Speaker 2: That was one of, if not the only loss Solo
Speaker 2: took up up until that point. But then Solo gets
Speaker 2: his own bloodline and then proceeds to oddly lose and
Speaker 2: lose and lose and lose. Not a great way to
Speaker 2: build a guy. So I would agree Live in Rhea.
Speaker 2: I felt they should have ended with Live winning because
Speaker 2: Ria was distracted and attacking dom Ria. Could you some
Speaker 2: character growth and that loss would have helped. Yeah. Ria
Speaker 2: is an interesting case study. She is a big star
Speaker 2: in the women's division, one of the faces, dare I say,
Speaker 2: of the women's division in the entire company, And now
Speaker 2: she's back to being Women's World champion, taking back what
Speaker 2: she never lost. So first, sure, the storyline has come
Speaker 2: full circle. But Ria, now that she's passed the judge
Speaker 2: judgment day and she's passed being the part of the
Speaker 2: Terrors wins. She's passed the Live Morgan deal. It's this
Speaker 2: is a new chapter. This is actually a really good
Speaker 2: time to start talking about Ria as where's she going?
Speaker 2: Because if those things are behind her finally after six months,
Speaker 2: what now Ria's at a crossroads and it's an opportunity
Speaker 2: for growth. Jay and Drew was ridiculous. They keep making
Speaker 2: Drew look weak when he should have been presented as
Speaker 2: the strongest guy in the Ross for outside of Gunther,
Speaker 2: which they need to make him stop being afraid. I
Speaker 2: totally agree, fear should never even enter the mind of Gunther.
Speaker 2: By the way, ever, Travis Scott smoking a blunt during
Speaker 2: Jay's intro was kind of funny, especially especially after them
Speaker 2: just showing Rock drinking his alcohol immediately driving. Yeah. Interesting,
Speaker 2: interesting drug use on raw, especially given the fact that
Speaker 2: it's a PG show, at least that's what the ratings
Speaker 2: said at the top left corner. Very interesting that they
Speaker 2: decided to have blunts and alcohol basically drinking and driving
Speaker 2: on the show. Pretty intense or at least I guess
Speaker 2: ballsy or unintended consequence, unintended side effect, I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but yeah, the blunt thing got a lot of attention,
Speaker 2: and the fact that most people are talking about the
Speaker 2: blunt rather than the actual matchup Jay and Drew not
Speaker 2: a good sign. The crowd was quiet, Sadly, most people
Speaker 2: didn't really care. They had gotten through the Rock, they
Speaker 2: got through Triple H Undertakers like they they were kind
Speaker 2: of okay, cool, we can sit and recharge here during
Speaker 2: this match. That's how they kind of viewed it because
Speaker 2: the star was the show was a star studded show,
Speaker 2: so when you finally get a match, it's almost like
Speaker 2: a breather. It's like, okay, guys, we can go get
Speaker 2: a you know, go relax, just recharge here, take a breath,
Speaker 2: go get some food. And that sucks during a Drui
Speaker 2: and j match, but that's how big of a night
Speaker 2: it was for stars and Hogan and all that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: but rock drinking and driving was just I don't understand
Speaker 2: the intent on that. Yeah, not sure. Seth and Punk
Speaker 2: is one that I really don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: to complain on, But I think Seth getting the win
Speaker 2: and having him call Punk old would have been good
Speaker 2: fuel for Punk, who should and hopefully will beat gunther
Speaker 2: that I mean, I gave my full review on that.
Speaker 2: I if the goal is to get this to Punk
Speaker 2: and Gunther, then that makes sense for Punk to get
Speaker 2: the victory, because then you have somebody who's coming off
Speaker 2: a massive victory and has maybe the rights to claim
Speaker 2: number one contendership or at least be in the conversation
Speaker 2: for it. But it also, and more importantly, I think
Speaker 2: turns the tide for Seth, hopefully to turn him heel,
Speaker 2: send him to the dark side. This could be what's
Speaker 2: makes him snap. That's for me what I took out
Speaker 2: of that. Also, Sena could have just had a match
Speaker 2: to kick off his final run, not even a five
Speaker 2: minute squash of some random heel.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I actually wasn't expecting a match, and to be honest,
Speaker 2: at his age and with the higher risk of injury,
Speaker 2: even if it is very unlikely he'd get injured, I
Speaker 2: want to save as many bumps as I can on
Speaker 2: John Seena's body until they matter. If you wanted to
Speaker 2: just give some in AA, fine, But I actually didn't
Speaker 2: want to match, nor did I expect to match. Overall.
Speaker 2: I was expecting more returns like Becky who was apparently
Speaker 2: supposed to. I will also say I'm a bit concerned
Speaker 2: if they really thought Hogan was going to get an
Speaker 2: ounce of positive response, because that just shows the complete
Speaker 2: lack of awareness. And I don't think him getting booed
Speaker 2: and had anything to do with him being a Trump
Speaker 2: supporter or in LA when Taker got cheers. He's made
Speaker 2: some very racist comments and I think more so people
Speaker 2: are just sick of him. Bummer. There was no Austin
Speaker 2: hopefully at WrestleMania. Well, you have to remember, yeah, Undertaker
Speaker 2: was also outspoken in support of Trump, and he did
Speaker 2: have him on his show. But if you remember Hulk
Speaker 2: Hogan showed up with the Republican National Convention invention and
Speaker 2: tore off his shirt. Think there was another appearance too.
Speaker 2: Hulk Hogan was part of the actual political events, and
Speaker 2: LA is about as far left and Democrat as you
Speaker 2: go outside of maybe San Francisco or you know, the
Speaker 2: Bronx in New York. Those are as deep blue as
Speaker 2: blue gets or Chicago. Right, But so that was part
Speaker 2: of it, I would disagree. I would say that I
Speaker 2: said it's part of it, not all of it, not
Speaker 2: even the majority of it. But you add that the
Speaker 2: racist comments, the selfless beer promotion, the fact that really
Speaker 2: nobody's asking for Hogan returning anymore, and he just came
Speaker 2: to play his greatest hits and not do anything, you know,
Speaker 2: other than that, which again, at his age he can't.
Speaker 2: But all of it, it was just you just boil
Speaker 2: that all up and you're just They're just like, no,
Speaker 2: we don't need to see you by So yeah, Austin. Sure,
Speaker 2: I actually don't want him them to waste an Austin
Speaker 2: appearance unless there's meaning behind it. I want some kind
Speaker 2: of purpose. Does that lead to a match? You know what? Sure,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's crazy to say, given the fact
Speaker 2: that he came out of retirement and wrestled Maingia thirty eight.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's an unfair expectation anymore to say that.
Speaker 2: I want Austin if he's going to come back, to
Speaker 2: not just do his typical you know, drink beer and
Speaker 2: maybe give a stun or maybe not, and then leave
Speaker 2: no a dis close to WrestleMania, especially the time of
Speaker 2: the year we're in. I don't want Austin there to
Speaker 2: just sit on commentary or something. I want him there
Speaker 2: for a big reason. Do I think he'll have a
Speaker 2: match this year? No, there's no talk of it. There's
Speaker 2: nothing being discussed as far as I know, but I would.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm complaining about all this, or I'm complaining
Speaker 2: about something that didn't happen, but I will say I
Speaker 2: still would take a stunner at WRESTLEMANI even if it's
Speaker 2: just to come out and give the Rock a stunner
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania. I still, and I still, you know, I
Speaker 2: deserve that. I'm outed, I'm od it, so all right,
Speaker 2: because it's all about me. All right, let's talk to
Speaker 2: Let's see another emailer here, and this is Andrew and
Speaker 2: then I know we said some other patrons. We'll get
Speaker 2: to you in just a moment here, and then we'll
Speaker 2: get to some others that are not patrons. But this
Speaker 2: is from Andrew, and he says, I had a lot
Speaker 2: of issues with the raw. Geez boy, you guys really
Speaker 2: didn't like it. But let's get to it. So Solo's buried,
Speaker 2: Live is buried. My biggest issue though, was how the
Speaker 2: Rock was portrayed. Wow, I see I'm seeing a theme.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing a theme. But let's get to it. I'll
Speaker 2: get to your take here, Andrew from Michigan. The Rock
Speaker 2: comes out essentially drop the Final Boss character. He then
Speaker 2: tells Cody that they're cool and then acknowledges Roman. I
Speaker 2: have so many issues with all this. I feel like
Speaker 2: WW just told me the entire story leading up to
Speaker 2: WrestleMania with Cody didn't matter. Why have the Rock come
Speaker 2: out during the Rock after WrestleMania and threaten Cody? Why
Speaker 2: have The Rock come out at Bad Blood and make
Speaker 2: a threatening gesture to Cody and Roman? Why did the
Speaker 2: Rock go on a ten minute Instagram story ran about
Speaker 2: the Final Boss after Bad Blood. This could obviously lead
Speaker 2: to the Rock turning on Roman, but it feels more
Speaker 2: like The Rock couldn't keep his schedule straight and now
Speaker 2: can't commit to Mania, so this is the turning face.
Speaker 2: You could say that The Rock was portraying a t
Speaker 2: KO boss and we need to be patient. That's too confusing, though,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be reminded of watching something scripted.
Speaker 2: I thought this segment was a slap in the face
Speaker 2: to fans. Also, whose idea was it to have Paul
Speaker 2: Cogan do a beer advertisement in California? Yeah? Yeah, that's again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Hogan bad, just bad. So I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: how much more I could talk about this, but yeah,
Speaker 2: he killed two storylines with one promo, the Roman one
Speaker 2: and the Cody one. Just completely crapped all over it
Speaker 2: in one promo. Can you bring it back? Sure? I
Speaker 2: mean you could, Rocks Talented, you could do it. People
Speaker 2: would buy in because people want to see it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can easily have the Rock bring this back. But
Speaker 2: it's just for one night. It made no sense and
Speaker 2: then we'd have to just pretend that Monday night didn't happen.
Speaker 2: But yeah, all the stuff, bad blood, WrestleMania, insults, beatdowns,
Speaker 2: all of it. Just like what was it all for?
Speaker 2: To just play Dwayne for what?
Speaker 4: For what?
Speaker 2: Yes? Just this total misstep, total, total misstep. All right,
Speaker 2: so we have got some more. I'm gonna dig inside Patreon.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. So who do we go to first?
Speaker 2: Let's go to uh, let's go to Scott Scott m
Speaker 2: And he says, hey, quick one for the mail bag.
Speaker 2: I hope you had a good Christmas in New Year,
Speaker 2: thank you too. Just watch Ron Netflix and wow, it
Speaker 2: was like a pl E solid matches and Johnsena's promo
Speaker 2: was awesome. So the first two sentences are good. Here
Speaker 2: we go. Now for the negative We're obviously not getting
Speaker 2: Rock versus Roman after Wayne showed up and did his
Speaker 2: usual greatest Hit moments and thanked everyone, including Cody did
Speaker 2: demand forget he's a heel. Unless we swerve this again
Speaker 2: and have the Rock cost Roman at the Rumble, then
Speaker 2: we won't get much or won't get that match for
Speaker 2: another year, which is a bit frustrating as neither one
Speaker 2: are getting any younger. Could you see the Rock entertaining
Speaker 2: the rumble or throwing Roman out? Also, we are getting
Speaker 2: Chad Gable versus a Lutrador next week on Raw, which
Speaker 2: is obviously going to be the debut of Penta. I'm
Speaker 2: hoping that they push this guy far because his in
Speaker 2: ring work is great, But I'd also love to see
Speaker 2: our Truth in a Mask come out before Penta actually debuts.
Speaker 2: Thanks keep up the good work for Scott from UK.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good, Pretty good, Scott. I like that having
Speaker 2: our Truth do that adjusting up in a you know,
Speaker 2: just putting like a mask on, like a Ray masterial
Speaker 2: mask and pretending he's luchador that yes, please please make
Speaker 2: this happene Yes, Penta is clearly going to be the
Speaker 2: debut opponent for Chad again. I don't know how much
Speaker 2: more I can hammer this home with Rock Roman. I
Speaker 2: feel like that's been the whole topic of the show
Speaker 2: here for forty minutes, but you guys are talking about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's my one hope here. Here's my prediction.
Speaker 2: You guys want something here. My prediction is this. The
Speaker 2: Rock shows up at the Rumble, costs Roman the Rumble,
Speaker 2: and Rock also loses, but he costs Roman, and then
Speaker 2: Roman and Rock go to WrestleMania and face one another.
Speaker 2: That's my thought. That's where I think we're going is
Speaker 2: Rock screws Roman. Roman ends up still screwing the Rock somehow.
Speaker 2: Maybe he comes back in the Rumble eliminates the Rock,
Speaker 2: so they essentially eliminate each other and we're off to
Speaker 2: the races. That's what I think happens. Thank you, Scott.
Speaker 2: All Right, one more email, and it's from Tom from
Speaker 2: North Florida, where he says it's at chilly twenty six degrees.
Speaker 2: Wherever that one guy in Florida does his weather report,
Speaker 2: I need to go there. That's Brad. Brad from Florida.
Speaker 2: I would like to talk to Brad, though I think
Speaker 2: he's northern Florida. I'm pretty sure, but I would like
Speaker 2: to talk to him because he's been bragging him out
Speaker 2: that weather. But even in Florida, the cold has dipped
Speaker 2: all the way down there. Yes, yes, yes, the cold
Speaker 2: has dipped all the way to Florida. So where you're
Speaker 2: at now, Brad? Okay, So man, here we go, guys.
Speaker 2: This is more rock stuff. Boy. I figured the rock
Speaker 2: would be a small, well, let's say, medium sized topic.
Speaker 2: It has completely overtaken the entire show here. So it
Speaker 2: sounds like, guys, I know I'm repeating myself, but I
Speaker 2: want to give you guys a voice, all right, And
Speaker 2: I'm trying not to say the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2: So if I feel like I'm going to repeat myself,
Speaker 2: I won't respond too much to this because it's like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, we've already heard your opinion. But I
Speaker 2: want to give everyone else a chance. So here's what
Speaker 2: Tom says. I was really disappointed with the Rocks return
Speaker 2: on Monday. So you're telling me the last four times
Speaker 2: he was on TV, he made Cody Rhodes bleed in
Speaker 2: the rain, beat him up, told him he was coming
Speaker 2: for his belt, then came back at Bad Blood and
Speaker 2: in a seemingly angry gesture to him in Roman and
Speaker 2: went off on a rant. But then last Monday, he
Speaker 2: makes a joke about the whole thing and asked how
Speaker 2: Mama Rhodes was doing well. Cody laughed together like they
Speaker 2: were two best friends, retelling good times. WWE, to me
Speaker 2: missed a major opportunity with this story. I always thought
Speaker 2: Rocks should have been the mastermind behind the new bl bloodline,
Speaker 2: and when he walked out there to give the ole
Speaker 2: to follow to Roman, I was hoping he'd put around
Speaker 2: his own neck instead of Romans. This was the perfect
Speaker 2: setup to a future for you with Roman, and I
Speaker 2: feel like w E blew it. So where does Solo
Speaker 2: go from here? If Roman is going to run a
Speaker 2: feud with Punk or Seth, it seems the new Bloodline
Speaker 2: story could be buried some on SmackDown There is right. Now,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. Here's what WWE has de Lena the
Speaker 2: Royal Rumble. What that means is the Bloodline doesn't have
Speaker 2: to feud with any other particular group, and it feels
Speaker 2: like the original bloodline has kind of already gone their
Speaker 2: separate way. It felt like a one night only and
Speaker 2: now they're kind of they're in their own little cells
Speaker 2: like Samuel defend j and Jay of defend Sammy, but
Speaker 2: like they're not a cohesive unit. So we got our
Speaker 2: answer there as far as how long that'll last. But
Speaker 2: it's a royal rumble, which means every man for himself,
Speaker 2: which means you can have the bloodline feuding with like
Speaker 2: individual big stars, and that's probably where it'll land here.
Speaker 2: But you're not going to have them feuding with a
Speaker 2: Babyface group. There's not even really a big Babyface group
Speaker 2: on SmackDown if you take away the og bloodline, which
Speaker 2: seemingly they already have. So Solo is interesting. I think
Speaker 2: he'll compete in the rumble. He's not gonna have a
Speaker 2: singles match, but he's gonna compete. He'll be a big
Speaker 2: player in the rumble, obviously not gonna win, And then
Speaker 2: you'll have you know, I mean, I don't know as
Speaker 2: far as Punk or Seth though, I mean, that's another
Speaker 2: question right now, guys. You have Rhea who needs a
Speaker 2: new path. You have Punk and Seth who need to
Speaker 2: figure out where they're going if this was a one
Speaker 2: and done or Seth's turning heel, or if Seth attacks
Speaker 2: Punk off the laws. So right. You have Roman kind
Speaker 2: of in flux. If he's done with solo, then where
Speaker 2: does he go. You have Rock who just made amends
Speaker 2: with everyone. You know, he just decided to be Dwayne
Speaker 2: instead of the Rock, which was just horrible. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: have Cody who is still kind of feuding with Kevin
Speaker 2: in like but not really. It's a weird time. People
Speaker 2: seem to be in between programs waiting for something, and
Speaker 2: this past Monday did nothing to really help that. In fact,
Speaker 2: it aggravated the issue. And as we get closer to
Speaker 2: the Rumble, hopefully things get back on track, hopefully even
Speaker 2: this week after this just just big celebrity circle jerk
Speaker 2: is what it was. Let's let's call it what it is,
Speaker 2: is one big circle jerk of the executives and celebrities
Speaker 2: just in one big circle. You know, everybody you know,
Speaker 2: quote giving each other a hand. You got the visual
Speaker 2: in your head. Good, And I'm trying to make this
Speaker 2: somewhat child friendly, right with a word like circle jerk,
Speaker 2: that'll really do it. That'll bring the kids in, that'll
Speaker 2: that'll have the parents turn up the volume on the show.
Speaker 2: But that's what it was. That's you know, that is
Speaker 2: the best way to describe Monday? Is that so great? Questions, Tom,
Speaker 2: I don't have the answers you're asking them because it's
Speaker 2: a kind of a convoluted mess right now, and I
Speaker 2: don't have an answer. I gave you my predictions. But yeah,
Speaker 2: so thank you, Tom, And we are now going to
Speaker 2: get to some of the voicemails here, trying to get
Speaker 2: through all of them, running close up on time here.
Speaker 2: I had a feeling that this would be a big
Speaker 2: show for the Mailbag, but let's see how many we
Speaker 2: can get through.
Speaker 5: This is DJ Coles melt Back added again on your
Speaker 5: Mailbag show record you live on a widsday board and
Speaker 5: you know what Tom it is.
Speaker 2: It's time to see.
Speaker 6: His name, Man Heppeers, I believe.
Speaker 2: In Joe Hendry.
Speaker 6: I believe in Joe Hendry.
Speaker 5: That's right, folks, Joe Hendry is his name. As I
Speaker 5: take it to my twenty sixth episode of the Joint
Speaker 5: Report recording to live as always from disclosed location, I
Speaker 5: must mention another award that Joe Hendry won, this time
Speaker 5: for NXT. As they did their twenty twenty four awards,
Speaker 5: none other than Joe Hendry wins the Moment of the
Speaker 5: Year so let's count it off, folks. Joe Henry has
Speaker 5: won three awards, two awards in TNA Male Wrestler of
Speaker 5: the Year and Moment of the Year, and in NXT
Speaker 5: he wins Moment of the Year. If you remember, he
Speaker 5: did have a main event matchup against Ethan Page at
Speaker 5: NXT No Mercy in September of twenty twenty four. And
Speaker 5: of course, when he finally made his debut on an
Speaker 5: episode of NXT, the crowd went wild as they were chanting,
Speaker 5: we believe, we believe, we believed. So shout out to
Speaker 5: Joe Hendry as he has now won three awards. What
Speaker 5: wrestler in the game today can win two awards from
Speaker 5: two different wrestling promotions in TNA and in NXT only
Speaker 5: Joe Hendry. Now, let's get you to what took place
Speaker 5: last week on the episode of TNA par Wrestling. A
Speaker 5: pre taped episode of TNA par Wrestling, as they get
Speaker 5: ready to kick off twenty twenty five, as Joe Hendry
Speaker 5: comes in and he thanks the fan for supporting him
Speaker 5: as he won the number one contendership at Final Resolution,
Speaker 5: as he mentioned that he is now in the running
Speaker 5: to become the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion. Leading into
Speaker 5: January nineteenth, live from Dallas, Texas, TNA Genesis as it
Speaker 5: will be Nick nemet versus Joe Hendry. He mentions that
Speaker 5: way way back on January one, twenty thirteen, it was
Speaker 5: his resolution that he wants to become a professional wrestler,
Speaker 5: and now twelve years later, here we are and Joe
Speaker 5: Hendry is now realizing his dream that he will eventually
Speaker 5: become a world champion. But before he continues, here comes
Speaker 5: Nick Nemo's brother, Ryan Nemett to interrupt and say all
Speaker 5: the things that he despises about Joe Hendry, as the
Speaker 5: crowd was saying you suck, You sucked to Ryan Nemett.
Speaker 5: But then Joe Hendry was like, wait a minute. You
Speaker 5: know what, for everything that I I'm about, you will
Speaker 5: never be on the level that I am at. Just
Speaker 5: paraphrasing here, folks, just paraphrasing. Anyway, Joe Henchy made a
Speaker 5: match for Ryan Nemett against the ECW legend Rhino, but
Speaker 5: the match ends in disqualification as Rhino attacked Ryan Nemett
Speaker 5: with a steel chair. But later on in the show,
Speaker 5: here comes the TNA World Champion, Nick Nemett as he
Speaker 5: gave his congratulations and of course acknowledges that Joe Hendry
Speaker 5: is the number one contender, and rightfully so, because he
Speaker 5: is the face of this company in terms of how
Speaker 5: the crowd loves him and how everybody in the locker
Speaker 5: room supports Joe Hendry. But then Ryan neman came in
Speaker 5: and interrupted Nick Nemat and says, why are you supporting
Speaker 5: this guy? Why are you acknowledging Joe Hendry. I still
Speaker 5: have an issue because he stabbed you in the back
Speaker 5: when he attacked you a couple of weeks ago at
Speaker 5: a pay per view. And then of course Nick Nema
Speaker 5: was like, wait a minute, let's not go down this road.
Speaker 5: He did that by accident. He attacked me by accident.
Speaker 5: So here we now have that. Ryan Nemett proposes a
Speaker 5: tag team matchup for next week's episode on TNA par Wrestling,
Speaker 5: as it will be Joe Hendry and the ECW legend
Speaker 5: Rhino versus the Nemett brothers of Nick Nemett and Ryan Nemett.
Speaker 5: I must also mention that Joe Hendry will now be
Speaker 5: part of Chris Jerichos Jericho Cruz that will be happening
Speaker 5: on February second, twenty twenty five. Isn't that a very
Speaker 5: strange coincidence that it's the day after the Royal Rumble?
Speaker 5: So is there a possibility that Joe Henry could also
Speaker 5: make an appearance at the Royal Rumble before he makes
Speaker 5: an appearance on Chris Jericho's Jericho Cruz called Six on
Speaker 5: the Beach that'll be happening on February second. Whatever the
Speaker 5: case may be, this is some exciting times for Joe Hendry.
Speaker 5: And yes he has to win the TNA World Championship.
Speaker 5: We all saw this past Monday night on Raw Real
Speaker 5: Ripley regains her championship. We saw Tiffany Stratton become the
Speaker 5: new WWE Women's Champion on SmackDown a couple of nights ago.
Speaker 5: This is a possibility that we could have a new
Speaker 5: champion in TNA in Joe Hendry. So always remember, folks
Speaker 5: to say his name. Believe, always remember the words that
Speaker 5: Joe Hendry says anytime, any place and any show.
Speaker 2: And most so poorly, most so poorly.
Speaker 5: W always remember to do this.
Speaker 6: Strong sc we believe, sustigious.
Speaker 5: Once again, this is your guy. DJ COULSMO, have a
Speaker 5: blessed week, Big Kai to one of the stays in
Speaker 5: My Friends Believe and Peace.
Speaker 2: Well, DJ, you present a pretty convincing timeline. I mean,
Speaker 2: he just seemed to be open that you know he
Speaker 2: could be there for the rumble. I keep holding on
Speaker 2: to it. I don't know. I mean, if you look
Speaker 2: at the leaked quote unquote leaked oral rumble sheet, I
Speaker 2: don't see his name there. But doesn't mean he can't appear.
Speaker 2: It's not finalized. I think that it's possible. And I
Speaker 2: appreciate all of your updates on his awards, that he's winning,
Speaker 2: where he's going, who he's feuding with, and you stay
Speaker 2: hunkered down at that undisclosed location, my friend, you stay
Speaker 2: hunkered down, stay warm, and keep us updated. Alrighty, let's
Speaker 2: get to the next one.
Speaker 7: Say Matt, it's Bratt and Florida. So on ww Netflix.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna give you a weather report because it's
Speaker 7: cold here. But on Netflix, like just a couple of
Speaker 7: things that like I thought were weird, Like trip Boy
Speaker 7: said it was gonna be a family friendly show. I
Speaker 7: watched with my kids. I know a lot of people
Speaker 7: out there that and don't give a shit about this,
Speaker 7: But you have the rock drinking and driving you have
Speaker 7: Travis Scott smoking lead. And by the way, let's not
Speaker 7: forget Travis Scott is a guy who had ten people
Speaker 7: die at his concert while he seemingly didn't give a
Speaker 7: shit and just kept singing and oddly chanting to them
Speaker 7: in Houston, while you know, with all sorts of imagery
Speaker 7: around the concert and all sorts of crazy stuff, he
Speaker 7: gets cheered. But hull Cogan gets booed for having a
Speaker 7: different political opinion. I know that people will say that
Speaker 7: hul Cogan got booed because of all the things in
Speaker 7: the past that he said. He said something on a
Speaker 7: phone call ten years ago, whatever. I don't give those
Speaker 7: stands enough credit. I think they were remembering him supporting Trump,
Speaker 7: and that's why you know that happens. That's why he
Speaker 7: was booed. I think it was just really disgraceful. I
Speaker 7: don't like. On another note, the Rep's new outfits. I
Speaker 7: think the stripes are the way to go. I think
Speaker 7: they kind of almost blend in with the floor a
Speaker 7: little bit too much with this navy blue shirt that
Speaker 7: they have right now, the new thing. I did think
Speaker 7: Netflix raw was cool, like as a spectacle and everything
Speaker 7: like that, but I don't know. I would have had
Speaker 7: more exciting, like like a return of you know, a
Speaker 7: Becky Lynch or this or that makes someone who's on
Speaker 7: the current roster feel like a really big deal. I
Speaker 7: know they had the Rock return, and they had seen
Speaker 7: and this and that, but I'm talking about like arrestler
Speaker 7: that someone would say Washington the first time, Oh who's she?
Speaker 7: Or oh who's that? Or you know. I just I
Speaker 7: just don't understand why Becky didn't come back, why a
Speaker 7: Charlotte didn't come back, why, you know, maybe Alexa Bliss
Speaker 7: or a who knows? I mean, I don't know, man.
Speaker 7: I also thought rio winning was kind of the.
Speaker 8: Wrong decision or wrong move.
Speaker 7: I would have kept that belt on live for longer.
Speaker 7: I think she's doing an amazing job. I think she
Speaker 7: was really compelling on television. I don't see what Rihea
Speaker 7: getting the belt back really does for her, you know, honestly,
Speaker 7: I just think you could have waited a lot longer
Speaker 7: on that.
Speaker 5: But hey, I.
Speaker 7: Guess they wanted to have a title change for that
Speaker 7: audience so they could see it. But there's a lot
Speaker 7: more raw left to go and a lot more wrestling.
Speaker 2: Left to go, all right, Brad, another victim of the
Speaker 2: three minute time limit bites the dust. But thank you, Brad,
Speaker 2: and funny, I didn't even see her email or your
Speaker 2: voicemail while I was talking about you earlier with your
Speaker 2: weather report. So yeah, that weather report is not so
Speaker 2: not so good now. But hey, that's much more of
Speaker 2: the exception than the rule down there. Even if you're
Speaker 2: in northern Florida, you'll be returned to sixties and seventies
Speaker 2: and in short order. Where that right now is a
Speaker 2: pipe dream about four months away at best. I mean,
Speaker 2: sometimes it snows into April and May up here. Okay,
Speaker 2: I remember, not that anyone cares or asked, but I'm
Speaker 2: going to share it anyway. My prom junior prom in
Speaker 2: high school as well. Six you're sixteen six and seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 2: I was seventeen years old and my prom is in May,
Speaker 2: or was in May. I think it was like May,
Speaker 2: second week of May something like that. It's snowed, like
Speaker 2: two inches of snow in you know, two weeks into May.
Speaker 2: So it happens, and you know, it's so what when
Speaker 2: I hear about, oh, it's cold in Florida, It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that'll last like a week a couple days and you're
Speaker 2: back to it, you know. Anyway, I almost moved out
Speaker 2: into Florida. I was very close, very close. I was
Speaker 2: going to move into Tampa. I had a job like
Speaker 2: interviews set up, and I was going to move in
Speaker 2: with one of my buddies down there. I was close
Speaker 2: back in twenty thirteen after a bad break up, and
Speaker 2: I was just loving every time I go down to Florida.
Speaker 2: I was just like, man, I could live here. I
Speaker 2: got a friend down here, I can, you know. And
Speaker 2: then I met my wife and the rest is history,
Speaker 2: as I say. But boy, I was real close right
Speaker 2: in the Tampa area, clear Water area, Indian Rocks Beach, Dunedin,
Speaker 2: That's where I was. I was looking. And now, I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously that's a long, long gone, but I still like
Speaker 2: to visit down there, Still love going down for vacation
Speaker 2: three four days out of the year. And yeah, so
Speaker 2: anyway has nothing to do with your response, prit So
Speaker 2: let's get to it. Yeah. Family friendly. I just talked
Speaker 2: about that too, man Like family friendly. Yeah, family friendly.
Speaker 2: Yet you're drinking and smoking, and not only drinking, but
Speaker 2: you're drinking and driving and smoking blunts. Uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but hey, it all depends on how they define it,
Speaker 2: because how they how they define TVPG and family friendly
Speaker 2: like that has expanded, not for the better. If you
Speaker 2: want to know how family friendly T is defined nowadays,
Speaker 2: it's not how it was defined back in you know,
Speaker 2: when you and I were kids, right, we were teenagers
Speaker 2: in the nineties, in early two thousands. The umbrella of
Speaker 2: what's allowed under family friendly has expanded greatly, so that
Speaker 2: definition has not remained the same. Now. Yeah, Travis Scott,
Speaker 2: ten people died of his concert. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I honestly, here's something for everybody that should shock nobody
Speaker 2: if you've heard this show. I've never heard of him
Speaker 2: in my life. Never. I don't even know who Travis
Speaker 2: Scott is. Like I said, he could walk into my
Speaker 2: house and someone could say to me, he's a famous musician,
Speaker 2: and I'd be like, I don't know, T Pain? Are
Speaker 2: you t Pain? I'm not sure that's my extent of
Speaker 2: knowledge in a lot of the music genres. Okay, so
Speaker 2: when I heard it, I go, Travis Scott, that sounds
Speaker 2: like a country singer. But I look at him, I go, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not fitting the bill. So I'm sure a lot
Speaker 2: of you were sitting there going, how does he not know?
Speaker 2: It's because I don't. I don't care. It's not my
Speaker 2: music genre, don't you know. I might have heard the
Speaker 2: name in passing, but I probably thought it was a
Speaker 2: country song, a country musician, country artist. So there when
Speaker 2: I when I saw him come out, I go, who
Speaker 2: the hell is this? As I tend to do with
Speaker 2: a lot of the current musicians that the young young
Speaker 2: folk like I have no idea who they are. All right,
Speaker 2: all right, so let's go to Becky, Charlotte Alexa. Why
Speaker 2: why did they not have any of these big returns? Well,
Speaker 2: Number one, it's not I'm sure it wasn't a choice. Yeah, maybe,
Speaker 2: but unlikely that they chose not to reintroduce or bring
Speaker 2: up a new star or whatever. But here's the overarching issue.
Speaker 2: Beyond the fact that maybe they did or didn't decide
Speaker 2: to choose the biggest star, they wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: that you paid attention to on Monday Night. You wonder
Speaker 2: who their biggest star was the WWE themselves. The logo
Speaker 2: that is, who was the biggest star was on WWE's
Speaker 2: Monday Night Raw on Netflix? Not The Rock, Not John Cena, Nobody,
Speaker 2: no Wonder, not the Undertaker, not Riya Ripley's victory, no
Speaker 2: Na seem Punk or Seth Rollins's match. At the end
Speaker 2: of the show, WW themselves was the star they wanted
Speaker 2: you to pay attention to. So Ria, was it a
Speaker 2: bad decision? Time will tell. I was with you. I
Speaker 2: thought that Live should have kept going. I think she
Speaker 2: was doing fine as champion. Didn't feel like it was
Speaker 2: ready for her to lose. But I here's why I
Speaker 2: think she lost WWE. You've used Rhea Ripley as a
Speaker 2: bigger star than Live, and there's some credibility to that,
Speaker 2: just general brand value. I think Rhea has a more
Speaker 2: name recognition than does Live Morgan. But Live has really
Speaker 2: done an awesome job the last six months. I mean
Speaker 2: just wow. Credit to her, maybe longer than six months,
Speaker 2: twelve months, but they want Live probably involved in the
Speaker 2: icy title picture moving into another title picture because they
Speaker 2: know she can handle it. Ria is a bigger star
Speaker 2: and means when you have a bigger star and you
Speaker 2: have your biggest show of the year coming up, bigger star,
Speaker 2: bigger show, they jive well. So I think they viewed
Speaker 2: Ria as a bigger star. They wanted her going into
Speaker 2: WrestleMania's champion, and yeah, I mean, we'll see if that
Speaker 2: decision pans out, we'll see. It's also the final match.
Speaker 2: It was built as kind of the final match in
Speaker 2: their program. And Rhea was, you know, trying and trying, trying,
Speaker 2: couldn't get it, couldn't get it, couldn't get it. So
Speaker 2: she's reclaiming she never lost. And remember she didn't lose it.
Speaker 2: She had to forfeit it because of injury. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of fair. As much as I actually would have
Speaker 2: kept it on lived too, it's kind of fair that
Speaker 2: she gets it back, you know, in a in a
Speaker 2: world where fairness actually is used to make decisions. So
Speaker 2: all right, thank you, Brad, and we have one more.
Speaker 2: We'll get to one more voicemail and call it a night.
Speaker 9: Ask the French guy here, your court, through pH P,
Speaker 9: New Year's Eve, through everybody, and now Raw is.
Speaker 10: Exactly where it should be on Netflix if you didn't
Speaker 10: catch it.
Speaker 11: During the show.
Speaker 8: I wanted to highlight some aspect of the show, which
Speaker 8: is south. Which are that most and I say most
Speaker 8: of storylines that's.
Speaker 4: Ocurred during the show. We're a long, uh long sport
Speaker 4: line in a while because and that's the case for
Speaker 4: a lot of storyline.
Speaker 9: What I mean by this Cemplum kids.
Speaker 4: That fallin They have a beef now, but it's because
Speaker 4: they had a deep then. The Roman Raid versus Solo Ticoa,
Speaker 4: the old storyline of the of the plumb line can
Speaker 4: can be hit.
Speaker 9: Two like two years ago, like they have long history together.
Speaker 9: True Black and tire Jay who's the same?
Speaker 4: Same?
Speaker 11: What else?
Speaker 9: Live Morgan versus Real Really Fame, Damien Priest versus Finn
Speaker 9: Ballad same?
Speaker 7: What else?
Speaker 4: What should I say? I enjoyed the show, but I
Speaker 4: also want mir.
Speaker 10: Storelines do art being developed.
Speaker 11: And I hope that the stars from Ransomania Road starting
Speaker 11: at Royal Rumble will ride us duel Storelines do dynamic.
Speaker 11: I don't think we'll move from the Bloodlines dynamic at
Speaker 11: all for the moment, That's okay.
Speaker 4: I don't want to.
Speaker 9: Move outside of the Drew gimmick as well. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 9: that Damien Priest versus five Dollars please finished this fifth
Speaker 9: dollar is such a talent David Chris.
Speaker 4: Also, I don't want this story land anyway, and you know,
Speaker 4: just outside of the bloodline and Cody Rose, where is
Speaker 4: she where.
Speaker 10: Is he against Kevin Owens?
Speaker 9: Yeah, why not? But I think I think would get
Speaker 9: all of.
Speaker 10: Those by turning Steph Bowman's heel. He's against Roman Reigns,
Speaker 10: he's partly Withdrew against them Pump.
Speaker 4: The case could be.
Speaker 10: Made for Steth Runners to get Tody Rose for the same.
Speaker 9: Reason as uh.
Speaker 10: Kevin Owens. So yeah, maybe you understood that you're not bye.
Speaker 2: Guys, Thanks so much, Alex. Good to hear from you,
Speaker 2: and you're just the undisputed champion European Champion forever. I
Speaker 2: guess that's the way it's going to be. So nobody's
Speaker 2: contending it, nobody's even trying to challenge you. But so yeah,
Speaker 2: now you're continuing to reinforce my one of my overarching themes,
Speaker 2: one of them for this particular episode of The Bailbag,
Speaker 2: and that is everybody seems to be many do at
Speaker 2: a crossroads. It seems like a lot of storylines wrapped up,
Speaker 2: things are about to start. It feels like we need
Speaker 2: new matchups and we'll get them. And yes, sir, turning
Speaker 2: Seth heel would make a lot of sense in a
Speaker 2: lot of ways. Seth has been babyface for years now,
Speaker 2: and I think it's time. I'm ready for it. I
Speaker 2: think a lot of the fans are ready for it.
Speaker 2: He has squeezed everything he count and can out of
Speaker 2: this revolutionary, visionary whatever, this character that we have. We've
Speaker 2: all sang the song. We've all had a chance to
Speaker 2: sing the song. Let's go. It would improve his character,
Speaker 2: would make him much more interesting as a character, and
Speaker 2: it would allow him and the company to have more
Speaker 2: matchups because now those that he were allies with that
Speaker 2: he couldn't have a match with because they were both
Speaker 2: baby faces, he can have a match with because he's
Speaker 2: a heel. So yes, Roman's a big opponent hell the
Speaker 2: Rocks and opponent if you really want to go there, Yep,
Speaker 2: you could have an alliance with Drew, although Drew's now
Speaker 2: on SmackDown. But so there's a lot of more. There's
Speaker 2: more benefit to having set thron heal than there's not.
Speaker 2: But on top of that, again, you have Rhya who
Speaker 2: needs a new opponent and is at a crossroads. Drew
Speaker 2: and Jay that's kind of done, let's go. Those two
Speaker 2: need new opponents, and perhaps Drew does target Cody as
Speaker 2: he tried to befriend him on SmackDown and that didn't work,
Speaker 2: but Kevin Owens continues to attack o K. Kevin continues
Speaker 2: to attack Cody. So there's a lot happening here, and
Speaker 2: where does the rock code? Does he attack Cody? Does
Speaker 2: Cody not? And then Randy Orton's coming back at some point.
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna target Kevin Owens, but he also could
Speaker 2: turn on Cody and then yeah, so many different things, guys.
Speaker 2: It just weren't in the tumultuous part of the cycle
Speaker 2: here where it's like, Okay, things have wrapped up. Rhian
Speaker 2: Live is done, Drew and Jay is done.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Seth feels like after a big loss, he needs to
Speaker 2: go somewhere. But where does punk go? We're like in fogland.
Speaker 2: We can't really see. We can project where we might go,
Speaker 2: but ultimately we can't see two feet in front of
Speaker 2: our face and we won't know until we know. So
Speaker 2: it's exciting. If you like on predictability, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of that right now, a lot of that. So thank
Speaker 2: you Alex, thank you to DJ, thank you to everybody
Speaker 2: that emailed us call this you know, Brad from Florida,
Speaker 2: thank you, And a good show as expected, a full
Speaker 2: show here with voicemails and emails coming off of a
Speaker 2: big money net RAW if you didn't hear, they're actually
Speaker 2: on Netflix now, not on USA. I know that shocks
Speaker 2: many of you. In case you didn't know, they sent
Speaker 2: a small press release about it. They didn't make a
Speaker 2: big deal about it. They're very shy when it came
Speaker 2: to that, So don't go to USA for RAW anymore.
Speaker 2: They're relying on podcasters like myself to spread the world
Speaker 2: because they haven't really done a good job of it.
Speaker 2: So go to Netflix, guys. Believe it or not, I'm
Speaker 2: not kidding. Netflix is actually hosting RAW now, so go
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