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Nothing much, man.

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I'm sorry to hear that

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you're under the weather,

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but it's that time of the season, bro.

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So things happen.

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Exactly.

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Never.

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But yeah, man, we got a packed show, man.

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Let's jump right into the shit, man.

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I woke up this morning and immediately

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I'm seeing notifications,

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ESPN is sending out notifications.

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First thing I see was Dwayne

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The Rock Johnson is now on

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the board of operations for TKO.

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Our board of directors, sorry.

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He's on the board of directors for TKO.

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Huge monumental news coming

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up first thing early this morning.

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Let's talk about it, man.

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So

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This is a big deal.

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First and foremost,

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the biggest part of that is

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that he gets The Rock.

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Out of that deal,

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he owns the rights to The Rock.

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So how huge is that?

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That's big because that's

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something that's never happened before.

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Anybody who's ever come to the WWF,

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now WWE...

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you know,

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they've never actually either

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never got to use their name

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or they had their name

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before they got there.

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So The Rock was something

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that was created for Dwayne

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while he was in the WWF.

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And to see him actually have

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the name The Rock,

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it's a name that people know him for.

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He's synonymous with that name.

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Just like when you think of Hitman,

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you either think of Thomas

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Hitman Hearns or you think

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of Bret the Hitman Hart.

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Those are the two that come to mind.

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Hulk Hogan, I mean, come on.

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You know, the Macho Man, Stone Cold,

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these are names that are synonymous,

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and I'm glad to see that

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The Rock gets to be The Rock.

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And he's on the board of directors now.

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This is a monumental day for

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not only the WWE,

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but sports entertainment in general,

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because...

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of what happened after that,

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because not only did The

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Rock join TKO Board of Directors,

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but we also found out where

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Monday Night Raw is heading in 2025,

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which is going to be streamed on Netflix,

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which is a big deal because

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Netflix has wanted to get

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into the live genre of

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sports entertainment style programming.

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I think that it's going to bring

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over to Netflix who want to

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see WWE programming.

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But also,

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this actually helps out the

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entire wrestling industry

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because it makes it more profitable.

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People can see wrestling as

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if Netflix can make a deal

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here with WWE for $5

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billion over 10 years.

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But the terms of the details

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of the agreement are

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Netflix after five years

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can opt out or they can extend the deal.

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If they extend it, it goes to 20 years.

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So,

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This is a crazy situation.

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But like I said before,

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now that we know where WWE is going,

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I think all of their stuff is in check.

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They're going to be on a CW for NXT.

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They have SmackDown coming to USA Network.

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You have Raw going to Netflix.

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I'm safe to say,

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AEW is going to remain on

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the Turner Networks.

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This void on Monday nights

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with the USA Network,

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as you and I were talking

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about a minute ago.

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Yep.

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Opens up the possibility of

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TNA filling that void.

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Yeah, it does.

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Impact show to USA Network.

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And I think because they are

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doing business with Endeavor,

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they're on the Endeavor umbrella,

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quote-unquote,

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with the streaming situation.

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I think in the fact that

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they are calling their

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pay-per-views now PLEs.

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Take that into consideration.

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They're calling them PLEs now.

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I think that it's a very

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good chance that we can see

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TKO coming in and doing

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some favors for TNA and

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getting them that spot on Monday nights.

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And you've got wrestling.

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It's just big.

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Different wrestling every night.

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Exactly.

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And like I said before,

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it helps the entire wrestling industry.

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It does.

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It does.

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In the immediate, it opens things up.

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And that was the biggest

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news coming out of that.

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The Raw deal is that, yes, on one side,

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they go to streaming, but it opens up

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everybody because they're

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the biggest company they

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went to streaming first so

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it's going to open that up

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that relationship gets

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great now other streaming

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platforms are going to look

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to bring wrestling into the

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fold which is it's good

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it's good for everybody

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right and then on the flip

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side of that the void that

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it left leaving network

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television has to be filled

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and the perfect company to

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do it is tna and so it's like

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The tide rises for everybody right now.

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That's the situation that we're in.

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So it was definitely cool to see.

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Also,

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the effect that it had on the stock

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market,

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both TKO and Netflix saw a

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significant increase this morning.

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And TKO is actually still

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rising off of that.

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Netflix also announced today

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that they gained, in their fourth quarter,

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they gained 13 million new subscribers,

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bringing their total to 260 million.

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So they're probably going to

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see more come in off of this deal.

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And the biggest thing that

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was coming out was like, well,

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what is the average wrestling fan doing?

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Or the older wrestling fan, right?

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The higher end of the key demo.

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Like,

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do these guys want to cut cable and

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go to the streaming services?

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And I'm like, why the fuck not?

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I already have Netflix, right?

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The average person is

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already cutting cable, right?

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So this deal is actually

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catering to that crowd.

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So the majority of the

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people that I interacted with was like,

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I haven't watched network

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television in a long time.

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I've been cut the cord to cable.

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So it's actually playing

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into the hands of a lot of people.

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So it's going to be very

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interesting to see how this

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unfolds and what this is

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actually going to look like

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in the long run.

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I think it's going to be

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very good for the industry as a whole.

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I couldn't agree more.

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It's a very positive situation.

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And the fact that streaming

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is where it's at and WWE is

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now approving that because it's

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I mean, they're taking a big gamble here.

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We're going to Netflix.

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Oh, yeah.

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Somewhere where it's never been before.

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Yeah.

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So that's a very big deal.

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And then on top of that,

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this also opens a door for

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Warner Brothers Discovery to come and say,

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OK, hey, listen,

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we're going to take the AEW

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program that you have and

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we're going to finally put it on the max.

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We're trying to compete here with Netflix.

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And also,

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you have a situation where Amazon

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Prime is out there looking

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for content as well.

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So they also could open the

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door for a possible TNA.

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Or it could open the door for an NWA.

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Or it could open the door for, let's say,

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a Ring of Honor on Amazon.

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But the thing about this is that Tony,

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I think, wants to stay with Netflix.

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Warner Brothers,

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because they have such a

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working relationship.

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I think Warner Brothers, for the most part,

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is happy.

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I think the big conundrum

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right now is the fact,

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I think it might be financial,

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is why they're not meeting head-to-head.

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Nothing's been signed yet is

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what's going on here,

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because WWE just announced

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this deal today.

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Right.

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This deal might swing things

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in AEW's favor, right?

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I don't think – I never for

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once really thought –

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that they were going to go

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anywhere to begin with.

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Right.

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Because, I mean, you already have,

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the brands are already

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established on the Turner Networks.

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Correct.

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So there's no point of

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switching networks at this point.

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I know Tony wanted to stream

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Ring of Honor on the Max,

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and he may get the

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opportunity to do that now

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because you can look at

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what's going on at WWE and say, okay, hey,

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listen,

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We're going to do this,

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and we're going to do it the right way.

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And on top of that, too,

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we also found out that the

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Peacock deal actually

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expires in March of 2026 for WWE Network.

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So this will be very

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interesting to see if

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they're going to renew that

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come that time,

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or is that also going to

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migrate over to Netflix,

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or will it become a

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standalone service again?

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Right.

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Well, that's interesting, too,

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because the UFC deal also expires.

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Their rights deal also expires, I think,

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in 2025.

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So it's like back to back to back.

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But this was is I'm thinking

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this is a setup for all of it.

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Right.

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So you already got you.

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And after five years,

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they can revisit that deal, which in turn,

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if they if they already

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have UFC under that umbrella as well,

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then they can UFC and

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network under that umbrella.

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Then they can just pull that

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back under the fold after five years.

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And then it all runs kind of uniform.

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Right.

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So, yeah,

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it's this was this was it's

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interesting on a lot of

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levels what this will do.

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Because we haven't seen

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anything like this before.

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We haven't seen anything like this ever.

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So it's going to be very

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interesting to see how this plays out.

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Yeah, I mean,

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WWE were the first ones to

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actually take it to

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streaming with the original...

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incarnation of the network,

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which was WWE 24-7.

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They were the first ones to

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go with the over-the-top

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kind of broadcast,

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which was showing the

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classic archived footage from WWF, WCW,

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whatever.

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So fast forward that into

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where we are now with the Netflix deal,

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with the Peacock deal.

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And like I said before,

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I believe that eventually

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They're probably if they

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can't continue to lease out

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this content to Peacock,

12:58.930 --> 13:00.591
they're most likely just going to say, OK,

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we can do two things.

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We can migrate this whole thing to Netflix,

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which I mean,

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Netflix would love to get

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their hands on the WWE

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Network because that's more

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content for them to stream.

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Oh,

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the docu-series is actually a part of

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that deal, too.

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They're bringing the

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documentary series over to Netflix now.

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Yeah, so it works even better.

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So you have that, plus you have, okay,

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they're still in other parts of the world,

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but WWE Network is still its own entity.

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So you can actually take it

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back to being its own entity,

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which you actually could

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combine the UFC streaming

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service and the WWE Network together.

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Right.

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There's still a lot of

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content that's in the

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library that WWE has digitized.

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They just haven't released it yet.

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Like people, you know,

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a lot of people that, you know,

13:54.587 --> 13:55.688
when I'm on Reddit and I'm

13:55.708 --> 13:58.929
looking at the posts and shit,

13:59.589 --> 14:00.069
a lot of people are

14:00.089 --> 14:00.929
complaining about the lack

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of the classic content

14:02.290 --> 14:04.090
uploads for the WWE Network.

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Because not a lot of people

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watch the current stuff.

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They like to go back and watch the past.

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And majority of the time,

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the only place you can get

14:11.452 --> 14:12.333
the classic content is

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going to be on YouTube.

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Because WWE only has so much.

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And I remember talking to

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someone who used to work on the network,

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and he told me that when he

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basically got released, he got let go,

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they were kind of phasing

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out the video-on-demand

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part of the company.

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And I believe that's what

14:31.432 --> 14:32.453
happened with the uploads

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here and why there's a lack of uploads,

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because they have nobody to

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work on the show.

14:36.436 --> 14:38.618
When COVID happened and they

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cut a lot of shit.

14:45.902 --> 14:46.782
There's a lot of stuff that

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goes into producing this

14:49.183 --> 14:49.943
stuff for the network.

14:49.963 --> 14:51.604
You have to go in there.

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You literally have to go

14:52.644 --> 14:53.305
clean up the footage.

14:53.905 --> 14:54.345
You got to

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Dub music that needs to be dubbed,

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bury it.

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So much stuff goes into this shit,

14:59.402 --> 15:00.523
and I don't think they just have,

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they don't have anybody

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dedicated to doing it right now.

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I think that's going to

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change because Ari Emanuel knows,

15:07.849 --> 15:10.831
TKO knows, we have this vast majority,

15:10.851 --> 15:12.853
this huge library that we have.

15:12.873 --> 15:14.114
We have the biggest library

15:14.174 --> 15:15.475
in sports entertainment of

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all the territories, everything we have.

15:17.376 --> 15:18.177
Let's put it out for the people.

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Because we know we can make

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money with this shit.

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So I think, like I said,

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this Netflix deal is going

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to lead to a lot more bigger things.

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And it's just kind of like a

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wait-and-see deal.

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But that wasn't the only thing.

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Because before this deal happened,

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yesterday,

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we got the official trailer for WWE 2K24.

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And I have to tell you,

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I marked that big time.

15:40.928 --> 15:43.689
Like 40 years of WrestleMania mode.

15:44.249 --> 15:46.049
I'm looking forward to playing that.

15:46.914 --> 15:48.335
There was some interesting

15:48.375 --> 15:50.757
stuff that came out of that.

15:50.777 --> 15:52.078
Some very interesting stuff

15:52.098 --> 15:52.918
that came out of that.

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Yeah.

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Which, if you... Yeah.

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Yeah, that.

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Like, yesterday,

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and then the focus on Cody

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that they put on that trailer, I was like,

16:06.547 --> 16:06.607
huh...

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But that was yesterday.

16:10.166 --> 16:10.947
I didn't know I was going to

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wake up this morning to see

16:12.727 --> 16:15.828
The Rock had joined the board.

16:15.848 --> 16:20.689
It's a big week,

16:20.749 --> 16:22.509
and we're heading to where

16:22.549 --> 16:24.490
right now we're literally

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on the road to WrestleMania

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at this point.

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I mean, and as we were talking, I'm like,

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you know,

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the way I would do this thing on Sunday,

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and people can agree with

16:34.332 --> 16:35.092
me or disagree with me,

16:36.038 --> 16:38.320
This Royal Rumble right here is important.

16:38.620 --> 16:42.904
It's giving me 1992 vibes right here.

16:42.944 --> 16:43.684
Very, very.

16:43.724 --> 16:45.005
Of the star power that they

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got in this match.

16:46.346 --> 16:47.928
And you got so many guys out there.

16:48.208 --> 16:48.728
You literally,

16:48.768 --> 16:50.029
and this is what makes this fun,

16:50.750 --> 16:51.991
you literally don't know

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who's going to win this thing.

16:54.493 --> 16:55.174
That's the truth.

16:55.874 --> 16:57.115
That is the absolute truth.

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If you'd have told me a week ago,

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I would have had two answers for you.

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Now I got like four.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because I legitimately don't know.

17:08.209 --> 17:10.071
Because CM Punk is hot.

17:11.051 --> 17:11.792
Cody is hot.

17:12.312 --> 17:13.713
Drew McIntyre has been

17:13.733 --> 17:15.394
basically replenished.

17:15.414 --> 17:16.074
He's hot again.

17:16.455 --> 17:16.715
Yep.

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You got the Damian Priest situation.

17:19.797 --> 17:20.057
Yep.

17:20.557 --> 17:23.079
Now you got Gunther out here

17:23.119 --> 17:23.819
with Seth Rollins.

17:25.020 --> 17:26.021
You got so many.

17:26.081 --> 17:28.963
You got Jimmy Uso, J Uso solo.

17:29.645 --> 17:29.905
Yep.

17:30.546 --> 17:31.306
All these different cats.

17:31.346 --> 17:32.948
There's so many people with

17:32.988 --> 17:34.769
the potential to win this thing.

17:34.849 --> 17:35.369
Exactly.

17:35.569 --> 17:36.010
So many people.

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And I think, like we were talking about,

17:37.711 --> 17:38.932
if I'm booking this match,

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I am going to do the finish

17:41.314 --> 17:43.295
they did in 94.

17:43.295 --> 17:46.237
And that is Luger and Bret

17:46.277 --> 17:48.399
Hart over the top at the same time.

17:49.107 --> 17:49.727
That's what I would do.

17:49.867 --> 17:51.388
Cody and CM Punk over the

17:51.408 --> 17:52.089
top at the same time.

17:52.109 --> 17:52.849
Because you don't know.

17:52.869 --> 17:53.770
There is no definitive winner.

17:54.250 --> 17:54.490
Yep.

17:54.550 --> 17:55.330
That's what I would do.

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Plus that interaction.

17:57.252 --> 17:58.512
That interaction they had on

17:58.532 --> 17:59.493
Monday Night Raw.

17:59.993 --> 18:00.593
Fire.

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So one thing about that

18:02.154 --> 18:03.255
interaction that I didn't

18:03.395 --> 18:04.496
really like very much.

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What's that?

18:05.676 --> 18:07.317
The crowd wasn't really into

18:07.377 --> 18:07.998
it all that much.

18:08.798 --> 18:09.899
The crowd was kind of flat.

18:10.719 --> 18:12.280
And they really need to turn

18:12.300 --> 18:13.561
the Thunderdome down, bro.

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Yeah.

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To me,

18:17.765 --> 18:21.087
it was more they were split because

18:21.167 --> 18:21.867
it was just like,

18:22.668 --> 18:23.568
I don't know who the fuck

18:23.589 --> 18:24.709
to root for right now.

18:24.809 --> 18:25.890
Because that's how I felt.

18:26.611 --> 18:28.912
I was like, okay.

18:29.052 --> 18:30.573
They weren't really popping to anything,

18:30.593 --> 18:30.793
though.

18:31.454 --> 18:32.715
They were popping to some things,

18:32.755 --> 18:34.196
but when CM Punk says, well,

18:34.676 --> 18:36.958
I'm the biggest superstar

18:36.978 --> 18:37.738
that's going to come back,

18:37.978 --> 18:38.899
nobody reacted to that.

18:40.103 --> 18:40.943
That is true.

18:41.584 --> 18:43.965
They more so reacted to the, uh,

18:44.165 --> 18:45.446
I'm more of the American

18:45.506 --> 18:46.927
dream than you are.

18:46.967 --> 18:47.127
Yeah.

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And then when you say I'm more CM Punk,

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they reacted to those things.

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Yeah.

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You know, so, but it's kind of getting,

18:54.671 --> 18:55.371
you know, I don't know.

18:55.631 --> 18:56.832
It's kind of getting tired

18:56.892 --> 18:58.813
now to hold when you left the company and,

18:59.332 --> 19:00.673
Kind of getting tired now, bro.

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It is.

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It is.

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We already know he left.

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But you say that because you

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can't acknowledge the other place.

19:09.577 --> 19:10.157
Exactly.

19:10.817 --> 19:11.418
Exactly.

19:12.438 --> 19:14.239
That and it came from Cody.

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So I was like, okay, that's a stinger.

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That's a stinger.

19:21.903 --> 19:24.584
I would have loved if he would have said,

19:24.604 --> 19:26.925
I came here.

19:28.086 --> 19:29.527
Because I chose to.

19:30.648 --> 19:31.889
You came here because you

19:31.949 --> 19:32.769
didn't have a choice.

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Something along that line.

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Yeah.

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I came here because I chose to.

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You came here because you had to.

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Yeah.

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Something like that.

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Right.

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But in reality,

19:47.829 --> 19:49.370
it's where Punk wanted to be all along.

19:49.791 --> 19:50.451
All along.

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And this brings me back to a

19:53.333 --> 19:58.457
promo that Cody cut before he left AEW.

20:00.399 --> 20:02.000
Because that's what that

20:02.140 --> 20:03.541
encounter reminded me of.

20:04.201 --> 20:07.364
And he started the promo saying,

20:10.226 --> 20:11.507
someone told me to wait.

20:12.608 --> 20:13.569
to make this promo.

20:13.609 --> 20:14.289
But basically,

20:14.309 --> 20:17.012
he cut the promo that he cut on CM Punk.

20:18.112 --> 20:19.293
But he called himself the

20:19.333 --> 20:21.155
Forbidden Door in AEW.

20:23.537 --> 20:26.899
But he basically told Punk to his face,

20:26.939 --> 20:29.201
he was like, the things you talked about,

20:29.902 --> 20:30.883
I actually did.

20:31.786 --> 20:33.708
But he cut that promo in AEW

20:34.028 --> 20:36.670
where he was like, someone sat up.

20:37.150 --> 20:38.291
Because I think they were in

20:38.311 --> 20:39.252
Vegas when he cut it.

20:39.312 --> 20:39.652
He was like,

20:39.672 --> 20:41.594
someone sat up there and they

20:42.154 --> 20:43.235
did the pipe bomb.

20:44.496 --> 20:45.857
He talked about the pipe bomb.

20:46.058 --> 20:47.078
And then he talked about

20:47.619 --> 20:49.701
what he intended to do.

20:50.601 --> 20:52.583
And he said, I actually did it.

20:52.943 --> 20:54.825
He's like, in that sense,

20:55.005 --> 20:56.486
I became the Forbidden Door.

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And then right after that, he was in WWE.

20:59.847 --> 21:00.087
Yeah.

21:00.127 --> 21:01.448
So that kind of leads me to

21:01.508 --> 21:03.288
think here that at some point,

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Cody and punk may have been, you know,

21:06.670 --> 21:07.390
talking about it.

21:07.750 --> 21:08.010
Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

21:09.931 --> 21:10.611
Talking about it.

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So that's what told you.

21:11.992 --> 21:13.492
Cody, Cody is all business.

21:14.753 --> 21:15.693
Oh, yeah.

21:15.733 --> 21:16.413
Cody is business.

21:16.433 --> 21:18.634
Cody already said we can do something.

21:19.514 --> 21:21.615
Yeah, most definitely.

21:21.895 --> 21:22.075
Now,

21:22.255 --> 21:23.636
I would have wanted that to happen

21:23.736 --> 21:25.056
after mania.

21:25.937 --> 21:26.817
Oh, check this out.

21:27.057 --> 21:28.078
I'm reading this right now.

21:28.738 --> 21:29.038
Go ahead.

21:29.798 --> 21:32.900
So, William Regal was on NXT tonight,

21:34.081 --> 21:38.964
and he made Ava Reign the

21:39.004 --> 21:40.565
new general manager of NXT,

21:41.226 --> 21:41.946
The Rock's daughter.

21:42.647 --> 21:44.068
Ooh.

21:45.589 --> 21:46.649
The hits keep coming.

21:47.470 --> 21:47.730
Right.

21:52.553 --> 21:53.834
It's basically AEW.

21:56.356 --> 21:58.017
This is where AEW should have been.

21:59.038 --> 21:59.238
Right.

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It's crazy, man.

22:02.331 --> 22:02.891
It's crazy.

22:03.932 --> 22:04.112
Yep.

22:04.772 --> 22:06.252
So William Riegel can now appear.

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I guess that time is up that

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he couldn't appear on TV.

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He can now appear on TV.

22:11.213 --> 22:11.494
Yep.

22:13.514 --> 22:15.534
So good shit.

22:16.655 --> 22:16.875
Look,

22:17.275 --> 22:20.936
Jeff said he was and he was already

22:20.976 --> 22:22.216
pulling strings for family.

22:24.557 --> 22:24.977
Why not?

22:25.737 --> 22:26.217
Why not?

22:26.929 --> 22:27.950
Bill wants you to do it.

22:28.330 --> 22:29.410
Bill wants you to put this

22:29.431 --> 22:30.151
kid in the world

22:30.171 --> 22:31.051
championship back in the day.

22:31.472 --> 22:32.032
Hell yeah.

22:32.092 --> 22:32.833
Speaking of which,

22:34.173 --> 22:35.154
I think The Rock might have

22:35.234 --> 22:36.895
actually spoiled the main

22:36.935 --> 22:38.296
event for Mania.

22:38.316 --> 22:39.036
Oh, I saw that.

22:40.057 --> 22:40.757
I mean,

22:40.857 --> 22:42.558
he basically said there's no bigger

22:42.878 --> 22:45.520
match they have except for

22:45.560 --> 22:46.200
him and Roman Reigns.

22:46.781 --> 22:47.501
Rock is telling you that.

22:47.901 --> 22:48.802
Rock is pretty much telling

22:48.822 --> 22:50.043
you what the main event is going to be.

22:50.063 --> 22:50.483
That's the main event.

22:51.758 --> 22:54.459
You can't be on the board of

22:54.499 --> 22:55.379
directors and be like,

22:55.419 --> 22:56.819
that's the biggest match possible.

22:57.439 --> 22:58.159
Yeah,

22:58.179 --> 23:02.160
that leads me to believe that Punk...

23:03.261 --> 23:04.181
So here's a scenario that

23:04.241 --> 23:05.441
I'm thinking in my head, right?

23:07.201 --> 23:09.222
So what I'm thinking is CM

23:09.262 --> 23:10.422
Punk versus Cody.

23:11.542 --> 23:12.262
Seth Rollins,

23:12.863 --> 23:14.343
he relinquishes the Royal Championship.

23:15.356 --> 23:17.937
Seth Rollins versus Cody.

23:18.498 --> 23:19.058
Oh, no, sorry.

23:19.078 --> 23:20.259
CM Punk versus Cody for the

23:20.279 --> 23:21.159
World Heavyweight Championship.

23:21.879 --> 23:23.881
Cody beats Punk.

23:24.521 --> 23:25.081
He gets it.

23:25.581 --> 23:26.722
He finishes the story.

23:27.642 --> 23:28.843
And then Damian Priest

23:28.903 --> 23:30.104
cashes in on him and

23:30.144 --> 23:31.184
becomes world champion.

23:32.365 --> 23:34.366
But, yeah, I can see that happening.

23:34.386 --> 23:35.547
That sets up a whole new

23:35.587 --> 23:37.007
feud now with Damian Priest

23:37.047 --> 23:38.328
and Cody over the world title.

23:39.108 --> 23:39.769
I can see that.

23:41.490 --> 23:42.190
That's what I would do.

23:43.612 --> 23:44.372
Look at this comment.

23:44.432 --> 23:46.173
I can attest that back in January 2023,

23:46.173 --> 23:48.394
no gimmicks crew has been

23:48.454 --> 23:50.195
putting this match up in the universe.

23:50.235 --> 23:50.675
We have.

23:52.356 --> 23:55.678
It's the biggest match possible.

23:55.778 --> 23:56.818
It's the biggest match since

23:57.298 --> 23:58.479
Hollywood Hogan and The Rock.

23:59.099 --> 24:00.280
I agree with that.

24:00.660 --> 24:01.400
I agree with that.

24:02.541 --> 24:06.843
And I was saying before this even happened,

24:06.863 --> 24:09.264
I didn't even know about the Seth injury,

24:09.364 --> 24:09.524
but

24:11.085 --> 24:15.047
If you want to make a big WrestleMania,

24:17.328 --> 24:21.549
night one has to be Cody versus CM Punk.

24:22.630 --> 24:23.310
At this point,

24:23.950 --> 24:26.951
night two has to be Roman

24:26.991 --> 24:27.792
versus The Rock.

24:28.712 --> 24:29.392
It has to be.

24:30.893 --> 24:31.293
Yep.

24:31.413 --> 24:33.534
And I'm still angling for

24:33.554 --> 24:36.035
Randy Orton versus Solo.

24:37.048 --> 24:38.709
I think that's a good matchup there.

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Yeah.

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And so at this point, too, it's like, okay,

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so in doing this,

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what do you then do with Drew McIntyre?

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Because he's hot.

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But also here's the problem with Drew.

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Drew has not resigned.

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This is true, too.

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If I'm really wanting to do that,

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then my night one would

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have Drew versus Gunther.

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Problem with that is,

25:10.050 --> 25:12.351
is Drew a heel now or is he a tweener?

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I think he's more of a tweener,

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which it'll work either way.

25:19.295 --> 25:20.936
I don't know.

25:20.976 --> 25:21.776
That's kind of tricky.

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Do I heel versus heel or

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heel versus tweener?

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It is.

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It really is.

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I mean, I go back to back in the day.

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I mean,

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that's the reason why Warrior

25:32.299 --> 25:33.079
versus Hogan at

25:33.119 --> 25:34.179
WrestleMania 6 wasn't

25:34.219 --> 25:35.580
really a success that they

25:35.600 --> 25:36.240
thought it was going to be.

25:36.580 --> 25:38.581
Because it was two babyfaces going at it.

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And Vince didn't want that.

25:40.262 --> 25:41.522
He's like, we can't do that again.

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You know?

25:42.602 --> 25:42.943
True.

25:43.803 --> 25:47.244
It's like with the NWO days,

25:47.984 --> 25:50.145
you had Hall and Nash would

25:50.205 --> 25:52.186
go up against the Faces of Fear, right?

25:52.686 --> 25:52.986
Right.

25:53.106 --> 25:55.267
And in that match, on paper,

25:55.287 --> 25:56.167
you would be like, oh,

25:56.187 --> 25:57.328
that's two heel tag teams.

25:58.254 --> 25:59.194
But Hall and Nash would be

25:59.214 --> 26:00.034
the ones getting cheered.

26:00.995 --> 26:02.095
Because who are you going to cheer?

26:02.115 --> 26:02.695
Are you going to cheer the

26:02.755 --> 26:03.395
Outsiders or are you going

26:03.415 --> 26:04.215
to cheer the Faces of Fear?

26:04.775 --> 26:05.035
Right.

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So that's kind of like with

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this situation with Gunther

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and Drew McIntyre for the

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Intercontinental Championship,

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which I believe that's kind of,

26:12.557 --> 26:13.497
wasn't that a triple threat

26:13.537 --> 26:14.637
match last year at Mania?

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It was.

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With Sheamus.

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So it's kind of like,

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do we want to repeat the

26:18.018 --> 26:18.778
same match again?

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Yeah, that's true.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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So it's not like there can

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only be one winner.

26:23.319 --> 26:24.059
That was a banger, though.

26:24.079 --> 26:24.359
Probably.

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Yeah, it was a banger,

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but there can only be one

26:27.631 --> 26:28.751
winner for the Rumble.

26:29.492 --> 26:30.512
Everybody can't win the Rumble.

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And I know for damn sure, CM Punk is like,

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I'm probably going to get

26:35.054 --> 26:36.074
my WrestleMania main event.

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Yeah.

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But then also, you got to be like, okay,

26:39.515 --> 26:40.176
finish the story.

26:40.296 --> 26:41.016
So much.

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And it's like, bro,

26:43.757 --> 26:46.578
Punk just got back at Cody and said, yeah,

26:46.618 --> 26:46.918
you know,

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you're on the cover for WWE 2K24.

26:48.339 --> 26:49.519
I was on the cover for WWE 14.

26:49.559 --> 26:49.699
Yep.

26:56.044 --> 26:58.626
So, yeah.

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People seem to forget that.

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Yeah.

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There's so many ways you can go with that.

27:06.011 --> 27:06.572
So many.

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Right.

27:10.074 --> 27:12.916
So, all good shit, though.

27:13.457 --> 27:14.717
But what about this comment?

27:15.918 --> 27:17.720
Bubba was in the No Gimmicks

27:17.760 --> 27:18.400
group and said,

27:18.480 --> 27:19.621
Rollins versus Gunther

27:19.661 --> 27:20.682
would be dope at Mania.

27:21.022 --> 27:22.063
I would agree with that.

27:24.198 --> 27:25.158
It would be dope,

27:25.519 --> 27:27.019
but the problem is that you

27:27.099 --> 27:29.420
risk exposing Gunther

27:29.941 --> 27:31.961
because they're not going

27:31.981 --> 27:33.642
to have Robbins drop the belt to him.

27:34.523 --> 27:36.083
So he would have to take the fall.

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And right now, he's been a strong,

27:39.425 --> 27:40.705
dominant Intercontinental Champion.

27:41.185 --> 27:43.987
So it's not, for me, business-wise,

27:44.087 --> 27:45.407
it's not the best decision to do that.

27:45.988 --> 27:47.828
You keep those two guys apart.

27:48.148 --> 27:49.789
Especially right now,

27:49.849 --> 27:51.670
you don't know Seth Robbins,

27:52.110 --> 27:52.710
if he's even going to be

27:52.730 --> 27:53.851
able to compete at WrestleMania.

27:55.354 --> 27:55.955
You don't know if he's going

27:55.975 --> 27:57.816
to be able to drop the belt.

27:57.856 --> 27:58.657
Nobody knows yet.

27:58.757 --> 28:00.599
So that's kind of like where

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they got a lot of plans changed.

28:04.942 --> 28:07.704
CM Punk coming back, changed plans.

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Randy Orton coming back, changed plans.

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AJ coming back, changed plans.

28:11.127 --> 28:12.568
The roster is stacked.

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It's stacked, bro.

28:13.809 --> 28:15.070
And then Seth gets hurt.

28:15.751 --> 28:18.533
Then Seth gets hurt in a match with Jinder,

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which some people said the

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match with Hook and Samoa Joe was better.

28:23.595 --> 28:25.036
than Jinder and Seth.

28:25.096 --> 28:26.236
That's what... That's crazy.

28:26.696 --> 28:27.477
That's why I've read.

28:28.817 --> 28:29.497
That's crazy.

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Yeah.

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And I'm like,

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why... And I understand that

28:34.960 --> 28:37.221
Seth is the working man champion,

28:37.241 --> 28:37.661
pretty much.

28:38.021 --> 28:39.021
The fighting champion.

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But why would you be risking

28:40.842 --> 28:42.043
that so close to WrestleMania?

28:42.503 --> 28:43.924
That's... Yeah, that.

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And it's like... That's why

28:46.365 --> 28:48.405
Hogan never... They never

28:48.505 --> 28:49.526
had Hogan out there doing

28:49.586 --> 28:50.706
any big matches before

28:50.726 --> 28:52.107
WrestleMania or some shit like that.

28:52.683 --> 28:55.244
Why would you risk your guy getting hurt?

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Yeah, run the angle.

28:57.364 --> 28:57.624
Right.

28:58.144 --> 29:00.385
Him showing up is more

29:00.465 --> 29:01.945
valuable than him wrestling

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at this point.

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Right, right.

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Which is, that's crazy.

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Because, yeah, that one,

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and you've seen it when he landed.

29:11.427 --> 29:13.047
When he landed, he looked concerned.

29:13.207 --> 29:14.207
It was like, uh-oh,

29:14.587 --> 29:16.328
there goes a whole lot of shit.

29:16.348 --> 29:19.428
Because him, I would guarantee you,

29:20.689 --> 29:22.149
if Seth doesn't get hurt,

29:23.948 --> 29:25.649
CM Punk probably wins the Rumble.

29:26.009 --> 29:29.610
CM Punk probably challenges Seth.

29:30.970 --> 29:32.271
That's probably the plan.

29:34.371 --> 29:37.172
Now, everything's topsy-turvy.

29:37.832 --> 29:40.013
What if Seth is cleared to go?

29:41.373 --> 29:42.454
The only thing I can see

29:42.494 --> 29:45.835
happening is if Seth can't go,

29:47.855 --> 29:49.356
they basically say, here's the deal.

29:51.156 --> 29:52.157
This guy's going to be out

29:52.617 --> 29:53.217
of commission forever.

29:54.326 --> 29:56.046
At the Elimination Chamber,

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we're going to put these

29:57.687 --> 29:58.607
guys in the match.

29:58.647 --> 29:59.347
This is going to be the

29:59.407 --> 30:00.507
fallout from the Rumble.

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We'll put these guys in the match.

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The winner of this match at

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the Elimination Chamber

30:06.308 --> 30:07.509
will become the World

30:07.549 --> 30:08.409
Heavyweight Champion.

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So have an Elimination

30:10.769 --> 30:12.230
Chamber for the belt.

30:12.490 --> 30:12.910
Correct.

30:13.250 --> 30:13.770
Correct.

30:13.950 --> 30:14.850
And if they did that,

30:14.970 --> 30:16.650
that gives Seth an out that

30:16.670 --> 30:17.731
he gets beat right there

30:17.771 --> 30:18.571
and drops the belt.

30:19.131 --> 30:19.371
Right.

30:21.184 --> 30:24.666
Or he don't even make it to the match.

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They can effectively strip

30:28.869 --> 30:29.710
him of the title.

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They could.

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Or we could do another angle.

30:33.632 --> 30:34.413
They could do that.

30:36.054 --> 30:39.076
And we can have a situation, storyline,

30:39.336 --> 30:41.978
where Seth Rollins is

30:42.078 --> 30:43.879
refusing to give up the

30:43.919 --> 30:44.879
World Heavyweight Championship.

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Therefore,

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we are making a new World

30:48.202 --> 30:49.202
Heavyweight Championship.

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And

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We will crown a new champion.

30:52.300 --> 30:54.240
Seth Rollins comes back from injury saying,

30:54.260 --> 30:56.622
I am the real world

30:56.682 --> 30:57.742
champion because I never

30:57.802 --> 30:58.762
got beat for the title.

30:59.203 --> 31:00.023
Whoever the champion is.

31:00.043 --> 31:01.043
Like what CM Punk did.

31:02.124 --> 31:02.584
Exactly.

31:02.784 --> 31:03.064
Okay.

31:03.304 --> 31:03.825
I like that.

31:04.045 --> 31:04.705
I like that.

31:05.686 --> 31:06.926
And it can be Punk doing the

31:06.966 --> 31:08.407
same angle all over again.

31:09.007 --> 31:10.167
The real world champion.

31:10.528 --> 31:11.748
Taking the spray paint and

31:11.788 --> 31:13.009
putting the X over the belt.

31:13.389 --> 31:13.629
Yep.

31:14.910 --> 31:15.910
Doing it in WWE now.

31:16.650 --> 31:16.850
Yep.

31:17.571 --> 31:17.951
I like it.

31:18.925 --> 31:19.666
I ain't mad at it.

31:20.326 --> 31:21.066
Realistically,

31:21.287 --> 31:24.749
what I would have done is I

31:26.430 --> 31:28.191
would have had Seth come out Monday,

31:29.832 --> 31:32.874
announce that he was actually hurt.

31:33.915 --> 31:34.955
Cue Damien Priest.

31:36.356 --> 31:37.297
Cash that shit in.

31:38.938 --> 31:39.578
Cash it in.

31:40.539 --> 31:40.919
Absolutely.

31:42.760 --> 31:43.221
But, you know,

31:45.062 --> 31:46.563
it plays out how it's going to play out.

31:48.262 --> 31:50.663
I think they're foolishly

31:50.723 --> 31:53.465
banking on Seth being available.

31:53.765 --> 31:54.386
I think so.

31:55.446 --> 31:55.747
Well,

31:55.967 --> 31:57.308
it's really depending on what the

31:57.368 --> 31:59.149
injury is because nobody knows.

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Well, he said he had a grade two tear.

32:03.952 --> 32:07.735
Yeah, but sometimes it's kayfabe shit.

32:07.795 --> 32:08.655
Like I said,

32:15.000 --> 32:16.362
It comes down to we won't

32:16.402 --> 32:17.142
know anything until

32:17.182 --> 32:18.683
Saturday when the Rumble's over,

32:19.084 --> 32:20.305
the direction they're going to go in.

32:20.625 --> 32:21.125
And even then,

32:21.165 --> 32:22.126
that direction is not

32:22.266 --> 32:23.828
concrete because we still

32:23.868 --> 32:24.869
got the Elimination Chamber.

32:26.350 --> 32:26.630
Yeah.

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Yeah.

32:30.073 --> 32:30.273
So.

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Yeah.

32:31.394 --> 32:34.116
That's a crazy outlook.

32:34.957 --> 32:35.177
Right.

32:36.278 --> 32:37.319
That's a crazy outlook.

32:37.359 --> 32:38.740
Do we want to go over to Rumble?

32:40.001 --> 32:41.062
You want to go over to Rumble?

32:42.263 --> 32:42.423
Nah.

32:46.735 --> 32:47.716
I mean, it's early enough to go over.

32:48.696 --> 32:51.198
I mean, you already know Roman's winning.

32:53.079 --> 32:53.959
What if he doesn't?

32:55.861 --> 32:57.622
No, he's winning.

32:57.642 --> 32:58.662
You know damn well he's not

32:58.682 --> 32:59.303
dropping that belt.

33:00.704 --> 33:03.105
His title matches at this

33:03.125 --> 33:03.826
point are pointless.

33:04.166 --> 33:05.006
Because you know damn well

33:05.026 --> 33:05.787
he ain't dropping the belt.

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But what if he does, though?

33:08.569 --> 33:09.269
He's not dropping it.

33:12.017 --> 33:14.337
None of those three guys

33:14.377 --> 33:16.418
he's wrestling right now

33:16.438 --> 33:17.258
should be world champion.

33:17.618 --> 33:17.918
Sorry.

33:18.958 --> 33:19.839
Oh, that's sad.

33:21.879 --> 33:22.639
But it's not knocking him.

33:23.119 --> 33:25.000
It's just Roman has been on

33:25.020 --> 33:27.940
this trajectory to become

33:28.700 --> 33:29.441
the man beating all these

33:29.461 --> 33:30.001
people's records.

33:30.301 --> 33:31.001
So all of a sudden now we're

33:31.021 --> 33:32.621
going to sacrifice him to

33:32.661 --> 33:34.562
Randy Orton or AJ Styles or LA Knight?

33:35.322 --> 33:36.062
No, I wouldn't do it.

33:36.082 --> 33:36.982
That's bad business.

33:37.222 --> 33:38.062
It's bad booking.

33:40.023 --> 33:41.583
I'll check Cage Match later and see.

33:42.819 --> 33:44.680
Seth getting hurt changed that match too.

33:45.540 --> 33:46.460
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

33:46.800 --> 33:48.661
Because if you would have told me,

33:49.401 --> 33:51.141
if Seth is healthy,

33:51.701 --> 33:53.402
CM Punk wins the Royal Rumble.

33:56.063 --> 33:56.463
Actually,

33:57.063 --> 33:58.383
you probably don't need Punk to

33:58.423 --> 33:59.404
win the Royal Rumble.

34:00.084 --> 34:05.705
If Seth is healthy, Cody wins the Rumble.

34:07.666 --> 34:08.966
And later on that night,

34:10.547 --> 34:12.007
Randy Orton wins the title.

34:16.041 --> 34:19.543
You can still have Seth and Punk at Mania.

34:21.365 --> 34:22.585
You can have that for the

34:22.625 --> 34:23.986
main event for that title.

34:24.867 --> 34:25.827
You don't need the main

34:25.887 --> 34:27.829
event for night two to be

34:27.909 --> 34:29.990
Cody versus Randy.

34:30.931 --> 34:32.712
Cody just needs to finish the story.

34:33.052 --> 34:34.813
You can have that as the co-main.

34:36.494 --> 34:38.936
And that'll still be a good match.

34:39.116 --> 34:39.737
It'll draw.

34:39.837 --> 34:40.857
It'll be for the title.

34:40.937 --> 34:42.178
Cody finishes the story.

34:42.518 --> 34:43.259
Everybody's happy.

34:45.387 --> 34:47.468
You end that night with, obviously,

34:47.548 --> 34:48.709
Roman versus The Rock.

34:52.151 --> 34:53.892
And that would have been night two.

34:54.532 --> 34:55.933
That would have been my guess.

34:56.893 --> 35:00.835
But since Seth is hurt, I don't know.

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I really don't know.

35:03.437 --> 35:05.198
I had a prediction, and now I don't.

35:07.739 --> 35:08.039
Yeah.

35:08.379 --> 35:09.060
But then, shit,

35:09.120 --> 35:10.240
I just thought about something else, too.

35:10.280 --> 35:10.801
Because then,

35:11.241 --> 35:12.261
when you look at the Rumble

35:12.321 --> 35:12.962
participants...

35:14.107 --> 35:16.189
You still got Bobby Lashley.

35:16.389 --> 35:18.490
You got Street Profits, Karrion Kross.

35:18.911 --> 35:20.652
This is where they should

35:20.712 --> 35:23.674
have did that 40-man battle royal again.

35:24.635 --> 35:25.236
Yeah,

35:25.316 --> 35:26.337
this would have been a perfect

35:26.357 --> 35:26.957
opportunity.

35:27.758 --> 35:27.938
Yep.

35:28.698 --> 35:29.259
This would have been a

35:29.299 --> 35:30.240
perfect opportunity.

35:32.701 --> 35:33.122
Max said,

35:33.142 --> 35:34.323
you don't think a women's match

35:34.343 --> 35:35.424
could headline night one?

35:35.504 --> 35:35.744
No.

35:37.665 --> 35:37.845
No.

35:37.886 --> 35:38.686
No offense, but no.

35:39.247 --> 35:39.387
No.

35:40.839 --> 35:43.500
Because if you look at the stories,

35:44.540 --> 35:45.660
even though they are having

35:45.900 --> 35:46.841
a women's Rumble,

35:48.701 --> 35:52.562
that's almost like the men's.

35:52.642 --> 35:54.443
So if you have a men's winner,

35:55.323 --> 35:56.863
that story means more

35:57.344 --> 35:58.424
coming out of Rumble.

35:59.724 --> 36:00.865
And you'll probably have

36:00.985 --> 36:02.445
them both on the same night.

36:03.700 --> 36:05.281
Honestly, honestly speaking,

36:05.921 --> 36:07.901
because who's coming out of there?

36:08.842 --> 36:10.082
Oh, wait a minute.

36:12.603 --> 36:14.043
Who's coming out of the rumble?

36:14.344 --> 36:16.004
Who's coming out of the women's rumble?

36:18.225 --> 36:21.606
That can be a challenger for the title.

36:23.807 --> 36:24.427
And you'd be like,

36:25.727 --> 36:26.728
I'm there for that shit.

36:28.828 --> 36:29.349
Right now?

36:30.129 --> 36:30.489
Right now.

36:35.899 --> 36:36.559
They're going to probably

36:36.599 --> 36:37.260
have to – honestly,

36:37.300 --> 36:38.981
they're going to – there's

36:39.041 --> 36:40.321
only two people.

36:40.882 --> 36:41.362
Who's that?

36:42.142 --> 36:45.664
So they would probably run

36:46.024 --> 36:48.145
it back to Becky, okay?

36:48.165 --> 36:48.325
Yep.

36:49.346 --> 36:54.708
Or they bring in Mercedes.

36:56.830 --> 36:58.810
Or – High, high possibility.

36:59.171 --> 36:59.971
Or J Cargo.

37:00.371 --> 37:02.132
That's what – that was a

37:02.172 --> 37:03.353
question just popped up.

37:03.953 --> 37:04.433
You know what I mean?

37:04.593 --> 37:04.954
I think –

37:06.457 --> 37:08.118
Jay could debut at the Rumble.

37:08.719 --> 37:09.899
I think that's perfect timing.

37:09.919 --> 37:10.280
Yeah.

37:11.220 --> 37:13.722
Making an immediate impact on the Rumble.

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Right.

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She comes into the Raw Rumble match.

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We're going to see what

37:19.645 --> 37:22.047
she's learned since she's left AEW.

37:23.147 --> 37:24.528
The Raw Rumble match will be

37:24.548 --> 37:26.409
a very good test for her

37:27.470 --> 37:28.931
because it's very

37:28.991 --> 37:29.952
competitive with the women.

37:31.252 --> 37:31.373
And...

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We'll see if she has a

37:33.680 --> 37:34.641
dominant performance.

37:35.161 --> 37:35.982
Let me tell you who had a

37:36.062 --> 37:37.403
dominant performance in his

37:37.483 --> 37:38.684
first Rumble match.

37:40.005 --> 37:41.366
And went in there and just

37:41.507 --> 37:42.587
started throwing people out

37:43.048 --> 37:43.548
left and right.

37:44.289 --> 37:45.610
And then made a name for

37:45.630 --> 37:47.191
himself and he was over by

37:47.211 --> 37:47.952
the time it was done.

37:48.873 --> 37:50.374
It was Kevin Nash as Diesel.

37:51.835 --> 37:53.016
Yeah, you're right.

37:53.036 --> 37:53.717
1994 Rumble.

37:53.957 --> 37:54.517
You're right about that.

37:54.537 --> 37:55.238
He entered the match,

37:55.638 --> 37:56.879
threw all the people out,

37:56.959 --> 37:58.280
didn't give a damn if they were heels,

37:58.661 --> 37:58.961
faces.

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He was dominant.

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They bring Jay Cargill in there.

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She could be dominant, too.

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Have a dominant performance.

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She don't have to win,

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but she can have a dominant performance.

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She can just start throwing

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people out left and right.

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She could be eliminated,

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but people remember Jay Cargill.

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Everyone will remember her, yeah.

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And let's also think about the possibility,

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too,

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of TNA talent appearing at the Rumble.

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That, too.

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So we can see Trinity come in.

38:32.116 --> 38:33.837
She's just finishing up with TNA.

38:33.917 --> 38:34.997
We can see Trinity coming in.

38:35.137 --> 38:37.298
I like Trinity coming back, honestly.

38:37.938 --> 38:38.458
As a heel.

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As a heel, yeah.

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With her husband.

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Finally a part of the bloodline.

38:44.260 --> 38:44.760
I like it.

38:47.441 --> 38:48.321
Stack the numbers.

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What was the comment there?

38:50.242 --> 38:51.582
I didn't get a chance to read all of it.

38:51.602 --> 38:53.143
Max said, if I keep hanging around, yeah,

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I'm going to end up coming

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with some storylines from WWE.

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Bro, join the club, my friend.

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You might as well.

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Join the club.

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It's good.

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It's cool to play Monday

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morning quarterback and shit.

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It's cool to go back and do that.

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It is.

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Unless you're a Dallas Cowboys fan.

39:16.911 --> 39:18.312
There ain't no hope for them.

39:18.392 --> 39:18.872
I said it.

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I said it on this podcast.

39:21.534 --> 39:22.314
I said it.

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It was funny as hell, man.

39:25.176 --> 39:25.717
They were pissed.

39:26.297 --> 39:27.178
Hey, man, I knew.

39:27.198 --> 39:28.239
I knew.

39:28.259 --> 39:31.881
They were mad as hell.

39:32.321 --> 39:33.162
They were mad as hell.

39:34.403 --> 39:35.664
One dude was on there.

39:35.804 --> 39:37.085
Damn sons of bitches.

39:40.787 --> 39:42.809
Goddamn church fashion.

39:43.649 --> 39:44.050
Hold up.

39:45.829 --> 39:47.130
Man, you better put that flag down.

39:47.150 --> 39:48.110
What's wrong with you, boy?

39:48.470 --> 39:48.930
Shit.

39:49.290 --> 39:50.991
You just throwing the flag in the bush?

39:51.031 --> 39:52.351
What's wrong with you?

39:52.732 --> 39:53.752
Out there just tripping over

39:53.812 --> 39:54.572
a football game.

39:54.632 --> 39:55.473
Dang it.

39:55.533 --> 39:58.614
That's like me tripping over

39:58.634 --> 39:59.454
some wrestlers.

39:59.494 --> 40:01.415
I could be like, oh, my God.

40:01.695 --> 40:02.415
I can't believe The Rock

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just came out there and won.

40:03.175 --> 40:04.156
He hasn't been there forever.

40:04.836 --> 40:05.756
Give it to somebody who's there.

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They just screwed over R-Truth.

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I'm just mad the possibility.

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That's funny.

40:11.891 --> 40:15.613
The possibility was there last year,

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and we were in the building,

40:17.293 --> 40:19.534
and all these jabrons get

40:19.554 --> 40:21.055
to witness it this year.

40:21.075 --> 40:26.537
It is what it is.

40:27.077 --> 40:27.998
It is what it is.

40:28.218 --> 40:28.898
It is what it is.

40:29.218 --> 40:30.158
I hope y'all happy.

40:32.539 --> 40:33.920
We shall be watching.

40:34.622 --> 40:36.483
Yeah, most definitely.

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I just thought about something.

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What's that?

40:42.607 --> 40:43.108
So,

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isn't Collision going head-to-head with

40:45.029 --> 40:45.329
the Rumble?

40:46.850 --> 40:48.651
Oh, that is correct.

40:48.711 --> 40:50.413
Ain't nobody watching that shit, bro.

40:51.093 --> 40:51.693
Look at you.

40:51.974 --> 40:52.814
Look at you now.

40:53.174 --> 40:54.495
Talking shit.

40:55.556 --> 40:56.437
I'm not talking shit.

40:56.497 --> 40:57.557
I'm being realistic.

40:58.678 --> 41:00.339
That's a realistic thing.

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Oh, everything's great.

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The show is good.

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Nobody's watching it, though.

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Ain't nobody watching it.

41:10.865 --> 41:11.286
It was.

41:11.766 --> 41:12.766
CM Punk was on it.

41:13.567 --> 41:15.387
CM Punk is going to be on the show.

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The Rumble competing against

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the show that used to be his show.

41:19.369 --> 41:21.390
Isn't that funny how shit works out?

41:22.030 --> 41:22.270
Yes.

41:22.351 --> 41:22.671
Wow.

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Yep.

41:24.992 --> 41:27.233
Collision is getting the DVR treatment.

41:27.273 --> 41:28.813
Now, I will say this.

41:29.574 --> 41:31.094
I will say this for Collision.

41:31.515 --> 41:31.995
Collision...

41:33.447 --> 41:36.690
has done a way better job of

41:36.810 --> 41:38.111
pacing the show.

41:38.471 --> 41:39.392
And again,

41:39.512 --> 41:40.553
I don't know what it is with

41:40.593 --> 41:42.174
these AEW shows, man.

41:42.214 --> 41:45.377
They dynamite dynamite is

41:45.397 --> 41:46.278
starting to get there,

41:47.218 --> 41:49.881
but the shows that aren't on Wednesday,

41:50.121 --> 41:51.242
they all do better than the

41:51.262 --> 41:52.002
Wednesday show.

41:52.503 --> 41:53.043
It's weird.

41:56.626 --> 41:58.207
Yeah, I guess I haven't watched it.

41:58.227 --> 41:59.348
I don't know how long and I

41:59.368 --> 42:00.289
don't plan on watching it.

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It's super weird.

42:05.177 --> 42:05.998
They all do better.

42:06.518 --> 42:07.919
Collision's actually a good show.

42:09.260 --> 42:10.941
And I'll tell you right now,

42:11.281 --> 42:13.583
I'm going to say it now on

42:13.623 --> 42:16.545
this show so there's no confusion.

42:17.946 --> 42:20.588
If you do not, AEW,

42:20.948 --> 42:23.049
if you do not strap the

42:23.109 --> 42:26.752
rocket to Queen Aminata in a year,

42:27.072 --> 42:29.834
she'll be going just like Jade Cargill.

42:33.154 --> 42:35.695
Queen Aminata is the one.

42:36.035 --> 42:36.816
She is the one.

42:38.456 --> 42:39.697
If you don't strap the

42:39.757 --> 42:44.079
rocket and firmly establish

42:44.859 --> 42:45.720
Swerve Strickland,

42:46.800 --> 42:50.442
he will be going back to the WWE.

42:51.502 --> 42:53.903
You have to start to listen.

42:54.383 --> 42:55.864
Queen Aminata went out the

42:55.904 --> 42:57.465
first time I saw her and I

42:57.505 --> 42:59.726
forgot about her because

42:59.766 --> 43:01.387
she's been out of action for a while.

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But the first time I saw her, I was like,

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I don't know who this is,

43:07.122 --> 43:09.183
but they need to do more with her.

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And then when she came back, I was like,

43:11.565 --> 43:13.006
oh, yeah, I remember her.

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And now I'm saying that again.

43:15.768 --> 43:20.651
She's had five matches so far.

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All bangers.

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All bangers since she's been back.

43:25.794 --> 43:26.655
They've all been good.

43:26.795 --> 43:28.356
And they've all been against

43:29.236 --> 43:31.478
some of the top women in AEW.

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She's put on great matches.

43:35.566 --> 43:37.028
And the way she looks,

43:37.228 --> 43:39.570
the way she carries herself, star.

43:41.031 --> 43:42.352
It's written all over her.

43:42.892 --> 43:43.373
And I'm like,

43:43.433 --> 43:45.034
if they don't do anything with this,

43:46.155 --> 43:47.656
she will get noticed and

43:47.696 --> 43:48.577
she will be gone.

43:50.219 --> 43:50.519
Well,

43:50.959 --> 43:52.440
there's also another pre-agent out

43:52.481 --> 43:54.002
there that we should talk about.

43:54.842 --> 43:55.843
And that's a possibility

43:55.863 --> 43:56.804
that she could show up at

43:56.844 --> 43:57.585
the Rumble as well.

43:58.065 --> 43:59.346
And that is former NWA

43:59.386 --> 44:01.228
World's Women's Champion, Camille.

44:03.427 --> 44:03.887
Her too.

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So I know she's been making her rounds.

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She's been going around with,

44:10.830 --> 44:12.130
she's been at AW.

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She's been backstage in WWE.

44:14.691 --> 44:16.332
So I know that she's making her rounds.

44:16.392 --> 44:19.973
So her and there's another one, Julia.

44:22.274 --> 44:25.235
So where does Camille end up?

44:27.076 --> 44:29.837
If you want me to be honest, I, oh man.

44:32.442 --> 44:35.463
I would say that Camille

44:35.523 --> 44:37.624
would probably end up in WWE.

44:39.064 --> 44:42.446
I tend to agree.

44:42.706 --> 44:43.626
If I'm looking at the

44:43.666 --> 44:45.067
situation and I know that

44:45.087 --> 44:46.107
she's assessing it,

44:46.827 --> 44:47.647
I know that she's

44:47.707 --> 44:49.608
experienced both locker rooms.

44:50.629 --> 44:53.990
And of the two, the more professional,

44:55.590 --> 45:00.392
by opinion of the wrestlers,

45:01.129 --> 45:02.410
What gets thrown out,

45:02.750 --> 45:04.912
the more professional of the two is WWE.

45:05.913 --> 45:06.453
Well, of course.

45:06.853 --> 45:12.117
But she would be making more money in AEW.

45:12.558 --> 45:13.058
She would.

45:13.919 --> 45:14.199
She would.

45:14.239 --> 45:15.720
Just like the situation here.

45:15.740 --> 45:17.061
And there's also another guy

45:17.561 --> 45:18.842
that we need to talk about

45:18.882 --> 45:20.003
that could possibly enter

45:20.023 --> 45:20.804
the Rumble match.

45:21.424 --> 45:22.305
I don't necessarily know if

45:22.345 --> 45:23.106
it's going to happen or not,

45:23.386 --> 45:24.387
but it's a possibility.

45:24.787 --> 45:26.228
And I'm talking about Okada.

45:29.633 --> 45:30.233
You know what?

45:30.773 --> 45:31.454
I'll say it too.

45:31.774 --> 45:33.755
I think Okada's going to WWE.

45:33.895 --> 45:38.418
I think WWE would need to snatch him up.

45:39.739 --> 45:42.341
So I would say Okada,

45:43.181 --> 45:46.923
if Okada doesn't show up at

45:46.963 --> 45:48.244
the Royal Rumble,

45:49.485 --> 45:51.086
he shows up at WrestleMania

45:51.126 --> 45:52.507
doing the same thing Cody did.

45:54.148 --> 45:54.768
I can see that.

45:55.269 --> 45:55.809
I can see that.

45:56.894 --> 45:59.035
Now, if he doesn't show up in WWE at all,

45:59.315 --> 46:00.176
then there's AEW.

46:00.756 --> 46:02.077
And if he shows up in AEW,

46:02.437 --> 46:04.038
he shows up at Revolution

46:04.138 --> 46:04.998
to sign a contract.

46:05.478 --> 46:05.738
Yeah.

46:07.299 --> 46:07.980
But in both ways.

46:08.760 --> 46:09.680
I'll tell you a segment I

46:09.740 --> 46:11.161
saw on Collision.

46:11.221 --> 46:12.602
Actually, I thought it was kind of cool.

46:14.083 --> 46:16.684
It was the formation of the

46:16.724 --> 46:18.905
Bang Bang Scissor Gang.

46:20.406 --> 46:20.826
I like that.

46:22.447 --> 46:22.807
I do, too.

46:22.827 --> 46:24.308
That was a good segment.

46:24.988 --> 46:25.769
I liked it a lot.

46:26.549 --> 46:26.669
Yeah.

46:27.418 --> 46:27.698
Plus,

46:27.758 --> 46:30.060
I think all of them are entertaining.

46:31.081 --> 46:31.901
Right.

46:32.021 --> 46:33.262
And it will work for them.

46:33.943 --> 46:35.144
Jeff says he thinks Okada

46:35.184 --> 46:37.085
already has a deal in place for WWE.

46:37.705 --> 46:38.446
That may be true.

46:40.267 --> 46:41.648
He very well could be.

46:41.988 --> 46:43.450
He basically, from what I understand,

46:43.770 --> 46:46.632
is he made the decision very recently.

46:47.501 --> 46:48.582
To leave New Japan.

46:49.203 --> 46:50.404
I think what it comes down to is,

46:50.464 --> 46:51.705
I think he realizes if I'm

46:51.725 --> 46:52.365
going to do something,

46:52.385 --> 46:53.526
the time is now to do it.

46:54.387 --> 46:55.228
You know what?

46:56.529 --> 46:57.690
One place I'm not going to

46:57.730 --> 46:59.812
rule out is TNA.

47:00.372 --> 47:02.174
Because he was recently at TNA.

47:04.276 --> 47:05.316
Unless TNA is going to throw

47:05.357 --> 47:06.397
some major money at him,

47:06.497 --> 47:07.719
I don't see that happening.

47:07.899 --> 47:11.282
I say, I honestly think at this point,

47:13.203 --> 47:13.584
because...

47:14.833 --> 47:17.355
Will Ospreay is at AEW.

47:17.375 --> 47:18.776
I think it's a very good

47:18.796 --> 47:20.017
possibility that Okada's

47:20.037 --> 47:21.558
going to end up there.

47:21.658 --> 47:22.599
That could be that, too.

47:22.919 --> 47:25.181
There's a lot of history.

47:25.261 --> 47:26.202
It's 50-50 right now.

47:26.262 --> 47:26.882
It's 50-50.

47:27.282 --> 47:28.503
There's also another guy

47:28.824 --> 47:31.526
that basically just also left New Japan,

47:32.386 --> 47:33.587
and that's Tama Tonga.

47:37.090 --> 47:39.612
I would love to see Tama Tonga in WWE.

47:40.372 --> 47:40.933
Absolutely.

47:41.453 --> 47:43.034
I would love to see him in WWE.

47:43.895 --> 47:44.015
Yeah.

47:45.231 --> 47:45.511
I agree.

47:47.153 --> 47:51.056
Although, if he shows up in AEW,

47:51.236 --> 47:52.698
shit's going to get real interesting.

47:54.779 --> 47:57.101
I'm already thinking Bullet Club.

47:57.902 --> 47:59.844
Something Bullet Club.

48:00.164 --> 48:01.485
It's not Bullet Club unless

48:01.505 --> 48:02.546
you have Tongan in it.

48:03.667 --> 48:04.308
That's right.

48:06.990 --> 48:10.253
So, I think if he shows up in AEW,

48:10.293 --> 48:12.715
shit's going to get very interesting.

48:13.723 --> 48:17.566
And I will give them the benefit to watch.

48:19.027 --> 48:19.727
I don't think it's going to

48:19.747 --> 48:21.688
be nearly as good as what they did before,

48:21.789 --> 48:24.010
but we'll see.

48:25.791 --> 48:26.592
We shall see.

48:29.674 --> 48:30.274
Yeah, man.

48:31.155 --> 48:33.556
So much so, do we do this?

48:33.777 --> 48:36.559
Any more surprises you got for the Rumble?

48:39.901 --> 48:40.181
No,

48:41.202 --> 48:42.783
I don't have any more surprises for the

48:42.823 --> 48:43.043
Rumble.

48:43.655 --> 48:44.435
I think it's going to play

48:44.575 --> 48:46.276
out exactly kind of the way

48:46.296 --> 48:47.197
we're saying it right now.

48:47.217 --> 48:49.898
Because they already left

48:49.938 --> 48:52.159
you with the cliffhanger on

48:52.219 --> 48:53.840
Monday with Cody and CM

48:53.880 --> 48:54.800
Punk face to face.

48:55.760 --> 48:58.822
They're telling you, this Saturday night,

49:00.322 --> 49:01.663
watch the rumble to find

49:01.723 --> 49:02.363
out what's going to happen.

49:03.024 --> 49:03.884
Between these two.

49:04.464 --> 49:05.325
Between these two guys.

49:05.625 --> 49:07.405
They will be the last two in the ring.

49:07.666 --> 49:08.086
Exactly.

49:09.506 --> 49:10.707
The ultimate challenge.

49:12.961 --> 49:14.021
It's the ultimate challenge.

49:15.442 --> 49:17.782
The son of a plumber versus

49:17.842 --> 49:18.943
the blue collar worker.

49:22.564 --> 49:24.004
The straight edge versus.

49:27.145 --> 49:27.745
It's the elite.

49:27.765 --> 49:35.048
It's the elite versus the punk.

49:35.628 --> 49:36.728
I heard a very interesting

49:36.788 --> 49:39.409
thing on Busted Open.

49:40.795 --> 49:42.797
And someone compared Cody

49:42.837 --> 49:45.118
Rhodes to Anakin Skywalker.

49:47.379 --> 49:48.740
Oh, so they're taking our shit?

49:51.002 --> 49:53.864
I don't necessarily say they're taking it,

49:54.604 --> 49:57.066
but the way they compared

49:57.106 --> 50:00.808
him was... Let me say

50:00.848 --> 50:02.709
something before you finish.

50:03.150 --> 50:03.530
Go ahead.

50:04.450 --> 50:06.071
We have been coming on this

50:06.332 --> 50:09.774
fucking show for months.

50:11.209 --> 50:12.610
We can go back to the

50:12.910 --> 50:15.352
archives of this podcast

50:16.834 --> 50:18.595
where we had a whole damn

50:18.635 --> 50:21.177
scenario where we talked

50:21.257 --> 50:24.300
about Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton.

50:24.760 --> 50:25.281
This is true.

50:25.301 --> 50:26.642
Master and apprentice.

50:27.483 --> 50:30.145
We said that he was Anakin Skywalker.

50:30.185 --> 50:30.665
This shows him.

50:31.286 --> 50:31.486
Yep.

50:31.566 --> 50:33.488
We have been saying this for months.

50:34.268 --> 50:36.070
I am literally sitting here

50:36.150 --> 50:38.432
right now doing this fucking show.

50:40.219 --> 50:41.540
With Yoda right here.

50:42.240 --> 50:43.141
Yep, he is.

50:43.181 --> 50:44.322
The Empire behind me,

50:44.702 --> 50:45.743
and I'm wearing my fucking

50:45.783 --> 50:46.823
Darth Vader robe.

50:49.565 --> 50:50.926
We have been doing this.

50:51.726 --> 50:52.087
Okay?

50:52.567 --> 50:53.508
We've been doing it.

50:55.249 --> 50:57.630
So, whatever you say.

50:58.251 --> 50:59.712
We've been talking about this shit.

51:00.512 --> 51:01.092
This is true.

51:02.013 --> 51:02.573
This is true.

51:02.894 --> 51:03.034
Now,

51:03.094 --> 51:05.175
the comparison that he's... He didn't

51:05.515 --> 51:06.596
walk it down like we did.

51:07.472 --> 51:09.533
But the comparison to Anakin

51:09.553 --> 51:11.034
Skywalker in the moment

51:11.054 --> 51:14.616
that he actually interacted with CM Punk.

51:17.497 --> 51:18.037
I saw it.

51:18.958 --> 51:20.839
I didn't compute the two.

51:21.139 --> 51:22.680
But yeah, you're right.

51:22.760 --> 51:23.580
We have been saying this

51:23.600 --> 51:24.340
shit the whole time.

51:24.360 --> 51:24.440
Well,

51:24.460 --> 51:25.601
let me tell you what I got from that.

51:27.142 --> 51:29.363
I got from watching that segment.

51:30.984 --> 51:34.165
I got the Anakin vibe as well with Cody.

51:34.205 --> 51:34.766
And I'm going to tell you

51:34.786 --> 51:35.466
where it came from.

51:37.557 --> 51:40.279
The vibe I got with him was

51:40.939 --> 51:44.542
from Revenge of the Sith when he says,

51:45.583 --> 51:47.184
I want more, but I know that I shouldn't.

51:49.205 --> 51:50.166
That's Cody.

51:50.806 --> 51:51.947
Yep.

51:53.068 --> 51:58.872
Cody is a power-hungry asshole.

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He is.

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Yes, he is.

52:04.116 --> 52:05.577
I'm talking Cody Rhodes, the character,

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not the man.

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This is true.

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But as a character of Cody Rhodes,

52:12.224 --> 52:13.764
Cody doesn't know it yet.

52:15.185 --> 52:16.005
But he's a Sith.

52:17.825 --> 52:18.585
He just don't know it yet.

52:19.625 --> 52:21.106
He had the same problem in

52:21.226 --> 52:23.826
AEW where he was tempted by

52:23.886 --> 52:24.746
the dark side.

52:26.767 --> 52:27.787
That's what's going on here.

52:28.727 --> 52:32.008
This guy is tempted by the dark side.

52:32.048 --> 52:32.668
You know who else was

52:32.708 --> 52:33.708
tempted by the dark side?

52:34.929 --> 52:36.730
Before WrestleMania 17,

52:36.730 --> 52:40.792
Stone Cold Steve Austin, he said,

52:40.812 --> 52:42.613
I have to beat you, Rock.

52:43.314 --> 52:44.394
I need to beat you.

52:44.774 --> 52:45.675
I need to beat you.

52:46.235 --> 52:48.356
And he sold his soul to the Emperor,

52:48.637 --> 52:51.158
Mr. McMahon, to become the WWF Champion.

52:52.038 --> 52:53.359
Cody Rhodes is going to do

52:53.579 --> 52:54.980
anything possible that he

52:55.040 --> 52:57.862
possibly can to finish the story.

52:58.875 --> 52:59.716
At WrestleMania.

52:59.756 --> 53:00.196
He has to.

53:00.216 --> 53:01.558
To hold the championship

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that his father never held,

53:03.560 --> 53:05.041
that his brother never held.

53:05.602 --> 53:08.044
This guy is going to turn to

53:08.084 --> 53:09.846
the dark side with the help

53:09.926 --> 53:10.586
of the Emperor.

53:10.887 --> 53:12.088
Who is the Emperor, you say?

53:12.468 --> 53:12.808
Paul Henry.

53:12.828 --> 53:13.769
The wise man.

53:14.010 --> 53:14.670
The wise man.

53:15.251 --> 53:16.572
Which, coincidentally,

53:16.592 --> 53:17.813
they talked about him too

53:17.833 --> 53:19.295
during that interaction.

53:21.977 --> 53:23.719
Telling you, it's going to happen.

53:24.704 --> 53:26.225
Cody is a heel.

53:26.325 --> 53:28.165
He's going to be glorious, bro.

53:28.325 --> 53:29.326
He is a heel.

53:29.766 --> 53:30.566
He is.

53:30.686 --> 53:33.167
He is a heel.

53:33.507 --> 53:35.388
You have somebody like CM Punk come in.

53:35.668 --> 53:37.669
Who is CM Punk in this story, right?

53:37.689 --> 53:38.709
Who is Punk?

53:40.510 --> 53:40.710
No.

53:42.050 --> 53:46.412
No, I think CM Punk is Mace Windu.

53:48.333 --> 53:49.193
That's what I put him as.

53:50.734 --> 53:51.614
He don't like Cody.

53:53.206 --> 53:54.906
So he wants to come in and

53:54.946 --> 53:56.087
take Cody and he's going to

53:56.147 --> 53:58.007
stop him from becoming the

53:58.087 --> 53:58.767
world champion.

53:58.807 --> 54:01.848
Just like Mace Windu says, we, we,

54:01.928 --> 54:03.349
we grant you a seat on this council,

54:03.369 --> 54:04.109
but we would not give you

54:04.129 --> 54:04.869
the rank of master.

54:07.390 --> 54:07.690
Okay.

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I am coming back.

54:10.451 --> 54:12.851
I have come back to become

54:12.951 --> 54:15.912
the world champion to finish my story.

54:16.952 --> 54:18.173
I've come back and I am

54:18.353 --> 54:19.533
derailing your story.

54:21.055 --> 54:23.836
So I'm stopping you from going.

54:24.316 --> 54:25.096
I'm stopping you.

54:25.816 --> 54:27.756
Same way they said to Anakin Skywalker.

54:28.637 --> 54:30.857
We do not grant you the rank of master.

54:31.817 --> 54:32.617
And he was like, what?

54:34.138 --> 54:34.798
Same thing with Cody.

54:35.418 --> 54:37.178
You're not going to be the royal champion.

54:37.498 --> 54:38.599
You're not finishing your

54:38.659 --> 54:40.239
story before I finish my story.

54:40.559 --> 54:40.759
What?

54:43.079 --> 54:43.360
Hmm.

54:45.220 --> 54:45.480
Hmm.

54:47.108 --> 54:48.188
And that, ladies and gentlemen,

54:48.229 --> 54:48.929
listening to No Gimmicks

54:48.969 --> 54:50.389
right now here on VDFPN and

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Patreon is how you break it

54:51.810 --> 54:53.010
down Star Wars style.

54:56.692 --> 54:57.412
That is correct.

54:58.293 --> 54:58.933
Yes, sir.

54:58.953 --> 55:00.734
By the way, by the way, cheap luck here.

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If you want to listen to The

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The Queens of Nerdum, USDN, Smoke Pit,

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Make It Make Sense.

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The DFPN Patreon is where it's at.

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Three dollars.

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Three dollars.

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All right.

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That's like going to

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McDonald's and getting

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something off a dollar menu

55:20.944 --> 55:21.444
or something like that.

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Three dollars gets you all this content.

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Commercial free.

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You get it first.

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And also you help support your boys.

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Three dollars a month.

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What do you have?

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Yep.

55:42.213 --> 55:44.314
Did my man freeze or did I freeze?

55:46.635 --> 55:47.516
I hope it's not me.

55:49.537 --> 55:50.077
I don't know what the hell

55:50.097 --> 55:51.758
just happened here.

55:52.399 --> 55:53.199
I was like,

55:53.219 --> 55:54.740
did you freeze or did I freeze?

55:55.440 --> 55:57.261
It was both of us.

55:58.182 --> 55:58.842
It came back here.

55:58.862 --> 56:00.463
The dark side of the force

56:00.523 --> 56:01.163
is overwhelming.

56:03.404 --> 56:04.125
Speaking of which,

56:04.565 --> 56:05.125
I want to make an

56:05.165 --> 56:05.866
announcement right here

56:05.906 --> 56:08.827
right now on the No Gamers podcast.

56:10.428 --> 56:11.429
Me and Mr. Black here

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We are going to be talking

56:13.323 --> 56:15.165
about a new podcast venture

56:15.185 --> 56:16.086
coming up very shortly.

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And it is going to be

56:18.769 --> 56:23.834
devoted to Star Wars.

56:24.434 --> 56:24.675
Correct.

56:24.735 --> 56:26.957
We are going to be launching

56:27.037 --> 56:28.338
very shortly in the near future.

56:28.358 --> 56:29.159
We are going to be launching

56:29.239 --> 56:31.641
the Rogue Empire podcast

56:32.102 --> 56:33.663
right here on the DFPN.

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And this podcast here is

56:35.784 --> 56:37.245
going to be talking about Star Wars.

56:37.265 --> 56:37.925
And I'm talking about

56:38.025 --> 56:38.665
everything in Star Wars.

56:38.685 --> 56:39.246
We're going to be talking

56:39.266 --> 56:41.347
about Star Wars news happening.

56:41.367 --> 56:43.728
We're talking about the Rey movie.

56:43.748 --> 56:44.569
We're going to be talking

56:44.589 --> 56:45.829
about Mandalorian Grogu.

56:45.849 --> 56:46.470
We're going to be talking

56:46.490 --> 56:47.890
about the Old Republic.

56:47.930 --> 56:48.491
We're going to be talking

56:48.511 --> 56:49.991
about the Skywalker saga.

56:50.252 --> 56:50.792
We're going to be talking

56:50.812 --> 56:52.653
about everything Star Wars.

56:52.753 --> 56:53.733
And we're going to put a no

56:53.813 --> 56:54.934
gimmicks twist on it.

56:55.755 --> 56:57.155
So get ready for that right

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here on the DFPN coming shortly.

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Your boys will present the Rogue Empire.

57:03.319 --> 57:03.799
Correct.

57:06.104 --> 57:06.604
And with that.

57:07.425 --> 57:10.387
And if I froze, if I froze,

57:10.528 --> 57:11.528
I will tell you this.

57:12.609 --> 57:13.330
It was a force.

57:14.210 --> 57:23.177
I am ice cold right now.

57:23.197 --> 57:24.078
Final shots, man.

57:24.098 --> 57:24.579
What you got?

57:25.219 --> 57:26.720
Final shot is simply this.

57:29.362 --> 57:31.064
Help control the pet population.

57:31.964 --> 57:33.526
Have your pets spayed or neutered.

57:33.786 --> 57:34.727
The last thing you want.

57:35.732 --> 57:36.532
you want to have this

57:36.873 --> 57:38.633
bastard right here coming

57:38.653 --> 57:39.854
to get you with the

57:39.894 --> 57:41.335
lightsaber and telling you

57:41.375 --> 57:43.235
you know something how dare

57:43.295 --> 57:44.836
you take your dog outside

57:45.236 --> 57:46.797
when it's freezing cold the

57:46.877 --> 57:48.138
arctic freeze that we had a

57:48.178 --> 57:49.178
couple weeks ago how dare

57:49.218 --> 57:51.059
you walk your dog on ice

57:52.159 --> 57:53.240
how dare you do that you

57:53.320 --> 57:58.182
son of a help control the

57:58.262 --> 57:59.543
pet population have your

57:59.583 --> 58:01.684
pet spade are neutered or

58:01.724 --> 58:04.185
you will feel the wrath of lord veda

58:06.937 --> 58:07.617
You heard the man.

58:08.117 --> 58:08.537
You heard the man.

58:08.557 --> 58:09.818
And parting shots is simply this.

58:11.638 --> 58:12.998
Support your boys here on the DFPN.

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Patreon, $3 a month.

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Get you everything.

58:16.059 --> 58:17.920
You listen to the Black Mac, Frankie D,

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Mac, your boy, Jeff.

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Everybody here at the DFPN.

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Everybody at the DFPN.

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$3.

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Make you holler.

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That's correct.

58:29.500 --> 58:30.841
I got nothing else, my friend.

58:31.161 --> 58:33.322
Rogue Empire podcast coming soon.

58:33.783 --> 58:34.103
Like I said,

58:34.123 --> 58:35.143
we're going to take deep dives

58:35.163 --> 58:35.504
into Star Wars.

58:35.524 --> 58:36.404
We're going to talk about everything.

58:36.644 --> 58:37.545
And not just Star Wars.

58:37.845 --> 58:38.866
You may catch me on a good

58:38.906 --> 58:40.286
day one day where I say, hey,

58:40.507 --> 58:41.527
let's talk about the other

58:41.587 --> 58:43.708
failure at Disney called the MCU.

58:43.829 --> 58:47.791
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

58:47.831 --> 58:48.912
I got numbers to back it up.

58:49.472 --> 58:50.913
Whoa, whoa.

58:50.973 --> 58:52.013
I got numbers to back it up.

58:52.674 --> 58:53.214
Whoa.

58:53.554 --> 58:54.175
That's too far.

58:55.540 --> 58:56.361
No, it's not too far.

58:56.641 --> 58:58.122
We don't want to talk about Hasbro.

58:58.143 --> 58:59.504
We don't want to talk about Hasbro, do we?

59:00.344 --> 59:01.045
We don't want to talk about

59:01.065 --> 59:02.746
how Hasbro bought an

59:02.846 --> 59:04.307
entertainment company for

59:04.427 --> 59:06.909
like $4 billion a few years ago,

59:07.090 --> 59:07.730
cash money,

59:07.850 --> 59:09.011
and they sold it recently for

59:09.011 --> 59:11.393
$374 million because

59:11.593 --> 59:12.634
they're in debt right now

59:13.615 --> 59:14.215
because they're not making

59:14.235 --> 59:14.976
any fucking money.

59:15.836 --> 59:17.217
Just like the biggest flop

59:17.258 --> 59:18.939
in cinematic history was the Marvels.

59:20.220 --> 59:21.461
But I've got numbers to back this up.

59:22.517 --> 59:22.697
Well,

59:23.017 --> 59:24.358
that's what you'll be hearing on the

59:24.398 --> 59:25.519
Rogue Empire podcast

59:25.539 --> 59:26.679
because we're not talking

59:26.699 --> 59:27.380
about it tonight.

59:28.800 --> 59:28.920
Oh,

59:28.940 --> 59:30.141
we're going to talk about this shit

59:30.181 --> 59:30.481
later.

59:31.362 --> 59:32.102
We sure will.

59:32.282 --> 59:33.683
We shall talk about this later.

59:33.803 --> 59:35.004
I have the numbers to back it up.

59:35.424 --> 59:36.664
Hey, let me ask you a question there,

59:36.724 --> 59:36.985
Black.

59:37.405 --> 59:37.625
What?

59:39.066 --> 59:40.066
Perhaps you think you're

59:40.086 --> 59:41.007
being treated unfairly?

59:43.908 --> 59:44.068
No.

59:45.209 --> 59:45.429
Good,

59:45.489 --> 59:46.470
because I would hate that to be for

59:46.490 --> 59:46.970
Garrison there.

59:52.168 --> 59:52.629
Wow.

59:53.970 --> 59:54.270
Brother.

59:55.912 --> 59:56.252
Wow.

59:56.412 --> 59:58.334
Oh, speaking of which, speaking of which,

59:58.354 --> 59:59.115
we forgot to bring it up.

59:59.175 --> 59:59.595
I just did it.

59:59.615 --> 01:00:02.338
40 years of Hulkamania.

01:00:02.859 --> 01:00:04.781
Yep.

01:00:04.801 --> 01:00:06.102
40 years of Hulkamania, brother.

01:00:06.843 --> 01:00:07.403
Unbelievable.

01:00:07.704 --> 01:00:08.564
They got some really cool

01:00:08.604 --> 01:00:09.886
merch that they just released for this,

01:00:09.906 --> 01:00:10.106
too.

01:00:10.947 --> 01:00:11.287
Did they?

01:00:12.108 --> 01:00:12.368
Yes.

01:00:12.388 --> 01:00:13.970
WBShop.com.

01:00:14.190 --> 01:00:14.951
We're not going to get it.

01:00:15.672 --> 01:00:15.932
Okay.

01:00:16.308 --> 01:00:17.649
Khan does all this stuff

01:00:17.689 --> 01:00:20.871
here for everybody, but WBShop.com,

01:00:21.311 --> 01:00:22.652
they have all this 40 years

01:00:22.672 --> 01:00:23.372
of Hulkamania shit.

01:00:23.392 --> 01:00:24.373
I'm actually going to pick some shit up,

01:00:24.393 --> 01:00:24.553
man,

01:00:24.573 --> 01:00:25.533
because they got some really cool

01:00:25.553 --> 01:00:27.354
designs for Hogan.

01:00:28.035 --> 01:00:28.415
Okay.

01:00:28.535 --> 01:00:31.737
So on this day in 84,

01:00:31.737 --> 01:00:33.838
he beat the Iron Sheik for

01:00:33.858 --> 01:00:35.099
the WWF championship.

01:00:35.539 --> 01:00:36.700
And this was started all.

01:00:36.900 --> 01:00:37.720
Now let's get it right here.

01:00:37.940 --> 01:00:39.181
Hulkamania was way

01:00:39.261 --> 01:00:41.182
established before this and the AWA.

01:00:41.783 --> 01:00:43.163
I'm talking about Hulkamania

01:00:43.203 --> 01:00:46.400
and the WWF was formed in 1984.

01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:47.701
So we're celebrating 40

01:00:47.701 --> 01:00:48.761
years of Hulkamania.

01:00:49.602 --> 01:00:50.703
And it's just crazy that

01:00:50.723 --> 01:00:51.843
it's 40 years of Hulkamania.

01:00:52.063 --> 01:00:53.364
But I was never a Hulkamaniac.

01:00:54.085 --> 01:00:55.406
I wasn't a Hulkamaniac.

01:00:55.886 --> 01:00:56.806
I wasn't either.

01:00:58.007 --> 01:00:58.607
Hollywood.

01:01:00.168 --> 01:01:01.609
But this shit does look cool, though.

01:01:02.530 --> 01:01:03.350
That merch looks... Yeah,

01:01:04.071 --> 01:01:04.711
I'm looking at it.

01:01:04.771 --> 01:01:05.352
It looks cool.

01:01:06.072 --> 01:01:06.472
Oh, hell yeah.

01:01:06.912 --> 01:01:07.893
Some cool-looking merch.

01:01:08.714 --> 01:01:08.934
Yeah.

01:01:10.295 --> 01:01:10.855
Hollywood.

01:01:13.136 --> 01:01:13.476
All right.

01:01:13.757 --> 01:01:14.957
I might go on there.

01:01:15.258 --> 01:01:15.478
That's...

01:01:17.090 --> 01:01:17.590
Pretty cool.

01:01:18.450 --> 01:01:19.571
So what we're going to do

01:01:19.631 --> 01:01:20.751
next week since we're

01:01:20.871 --> 01:01:22.892
talking about 40 years of Hulkamania,

01:01:22.932 --> 01:01:23.312
brother.

01:01:24.592 --> 01:01:26.713
Next week on the No Gimmicks Podcast,

01:01:26.773 --> 01:01:27.993
I'm putting it out here right now.

01:01:28.074 --> 01:01:29.934
We are going to take a look at Hulk Hogan.

01:01:30.554 --> 01:01:31.335
And we're going to bring up

01:01:31.455 --> 01:01:33.775
the top 10 Hulk Hogan

01:01:33.815 --> 01:01:35.096
matches of all time.

01:01:36.356 --> 01:01:37.076
Bring your list.

01:01:39.097 --> 01:01:40.157
Bring your list, everybody.

01:01:40.578 --> 01:01:41.278
We're going to do it.

01:01:41.478 --> 01:01:42.398
We're going to put out the top 10.

01:01:42.998 --> 01:01:44.219
Oh, by the way, Mack, your boy,

01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:44.899
if you're still in here.

01:01:45.848 --> 01:01:46.889
How dare you?

01:01:47.830 --> 01:01:49.992
How dare you post in the smoke pit?

01:01:50.712 --> 01:01:51.873
How dare you post,

01:01:52.554 --> 01:01:53.354
take one of the Michael

01:01:53.394 --> 01:01:54.355
Jackson albums off?

01:01:54.936 --> 01:01:55.957
You put me in a very,

01:01:56.057 --> 01:01:58.219
very precarious situation, my friend.

01:01:59.420 --> 01:02:01.301
I mean, I like rock music, man.

01:02:01.942 --> 01:02:03.283
It was management.

01:02:03.523 --> 01:02:05.205
Yeah, you were wrong for that, dude.

01:02:06.466 --> 01:02:08.968
It was management.

01:02:09.248 --> 01:02:10.229
You will be hearing from the

01:02:10.309 --> 01:02:11.550
emperor for that one.

01:02:12.779 --> 01:02:14.159
You're going to blame that on me?

01:02:14.439 --> 01:02:15.300
That wasn't me.

01:02:15.660 --> 01:02:17.720
Oh, it was.

01:02:17.860 --> 01:02:19.121
Oh, you know what?

01:02:19.181 --> 01:02:19.921
I can believe that.

01:02:20.301 --> 01:02:21.661
I can believe it was you who

01:02:21.681 --> 01:02:22.502
did it because you used to

01:02:22.522 --> 01:02:23.222
do that shit with New

01:02:23.262 --> 01:02:24.322
Edition and Boyz II Men.

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So you're an asshole.

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That wasn't me.

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What the fuck?

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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No.

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Right.

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I'm innocent this time.

01:02:36.787 --> 01:02:38.948
I saw that he had on there.

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He had it on there in the smoke pit group.

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And I'm like, look, look at this shit.

01:02:43.991 --> 01:02:45.392
It has some bangers on it, but it's like,

01:02:45.452 --> 01:02:46.453
man, like, damn.

01:02:48.674 --> 01:02:52.276
No, no, I was, uh, that was not me.

01:02:53.217 --> 01:02:54.338
I was, I was,

01:02:54.658 --> 01:02:56.659
I was torn looking at that shit.

01:02:56.699 --> 01:02:58.100
I was like, what the fuck?

01:02:58.700 --> 01:03:00.922
But I was like, Ooh, looking at it.

01:03:00.962 --> 01:03:02.783
I was like, I have to do off the wall.

01:03:03.689 --> 01:03:05.371
I have to, I had to do it too,

01:03:05.631 --> 01:03:06.612
but I'm like, damn.

01:03:07.893 --> 01:03:08.915
And I'm like, and it's like,

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this is what I'm talking about.

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People.

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If you're not listening to the smoke pit,

01:03:12.839 --> 01:03:14.040
you got to listen to the smoke pit.

01:03:14.080 --> 01:03:15.021
And the shenanigans that

01:03:15.041 --> 01:03:18.805
these two do is this crazy shit that will,

01:03:18.825 --> 01:03:20.307
at the end of the day will piss you off.

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So go listen to it.

01:03:23.870 --> 01:03:26.333
The DFPN also, um,

01:03:27.560 --> 01:03:28.681
USDN as well.

01:03:28.921 --> 01:03:30.983
Jeff, they do a good show over there.

01:03:31.343 --> 01:03:33.304
Deep dive into a lot of different stuff.

01:03:33.324 --> 01:03:36.727
We have so much talent here on DFPN.

01:03:37.267 --> 01:03:39.509
And DFPN in 2024, this is our year.

01:03:39.549 --> 01:03:40.730
We're taking over the business.

01:03:41.310 --> 01:03:41.831
I guarantee it.

01:03:42.671 --> 01:03:43.352
Absolutely.

01:03:43.912 --> 01:03:45.213
And that's my parting shot, people.

01:03:46.234 --> 01:03:47.875
My parting shot is we got

01:03:47.955 --> 01:03:49.676
memes tomorrow on Patreon.

01:03:50.077 --> 01:03:50.797
Make it make sense.

01:03:51.438 --> 01:03:54.420
And USDN is off outside, though.

01:03:56.512 --> 01:03:57.235
and they're going to be

01:03:57.275 --> 01:03:59.165
doing their show tomorrow, too, so

01:04:00.117 --> 01:04:03.659
Great stuff coming this week, and tune in,

01:04:03.699 --> 01:04:04.459
tap in, man.

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It's going to be an awesome week.

01:04:06.580 --> 01:04:10.242
We will be back this Saturday.

01:04:10.482 --> 01:04:10.802
Correct.

01:04:10.822 --> 01:04:12.043
This Saturday night live.

01:04:12.743 --> 01:04:15.164
After the Royal Rumble, we will be live,

01:04:15.364 --> 01:04:17.465
probably outside the confines of Patreon.

01:04:17.505 --> 01:04:18.986
We're going to go live with

01:04:19.226 --> 01:04:21.467
our review of the Royal Rumble.

01:04:21.707 --> 01:04:22.367
So you want to check that

01:04:22.407 --> 01:04:24.288
out here on the DFBN and

01:04:24.388 --> 01:04:25.669
all the local affiliates.

01:04:25.689 --> 01:04:25.929
Correct.

01:04:28.305 --> 01:04:29.547
And with that, I got nothing else.

01:04:30.167 --> 01:04:31.008
I got nothing else either.

01:04:31.509 --> 01:04:32.250
All right, man.

01:04:32.350 --> 01:04:34.372
Well, until next time,

01:04:34.392 --> 01:04:35.534
thank y'all for tuning in.

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Until next time, peace.

01:04:41.633 --> 01:04:43.734
And I know it's all finished, all finished,

01:04:43.955 --> 01:04:46.736
all finished We give em no gimmicks,

01:04:46.776 --> 01:04:48.978
gimmicks And I know it's all finished,

01:04:49.218 --> 01:04:49.738
all finished,

01:04:49.938 --> 01:04:51.980
all finished We give em no gimmicks,

01:04:52.780 --> 01:04:54.941
gimmicks And I know it's all finished,

01:04:55.182 --> 01:04:55.682
all finished,

01:04:55.922 --> 01:04:58.344
all finished We give em no gimmicks,

01:04:58.384 --> 01:04:58.824
gimmicks