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Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Ethan Page Defends; Joe Hendry In Action, The Rascalz Split | WWE NXT 8/6/2024 Show Review & Results

Duration:
2h 5m
Broadcast on:
07 Aug 2024
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mp3

Alex (@AlexSourGraps) and Kate (@MissKatefabe) review tonight's episode of NXT, including:


-WWE NXT Championship Match: Ethan Page (c) vs. Oro Mensah

-WWE NXT Women’s North American Championship Match: Kelani Jordan (c) vs. Tatum Paxley

-WWE NXT Tag Team Championships Match: SuperSonic Duo (Axiom & Nathan Frazer) (c) vs. MSK (Wes Lee & Zachary Wentz)

-Joe Hendry vs. Joe Coffey

-Trick Williams vs. Pete Dunne

-Kendal Grey vs. Wren Sinclair


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Welcome to another episode of the, gosh, it's Tuesday. It is. What was just on NXT? After party, that doesn't seem right. No, Alex, let me tell you. It seems like we should be like sad about what just happened, not only partying, but then again, it's us. So. It was the great American bla- today, but guys, it's the NXT post-show. And here's Super Chats, get in your Hump4Chats at Hump4Chats.com. Jewelry puns is where we're going because CM Punk is such a bracelet curve. We thought it would be fun to bring that over here on the Tuesday night show. But we're going to take a reminder for a couple of things. We're going to give you a reminder for a couple of things. One, leave a thumbs up on this video, pretty, pretty please. Helps people find us in the algorithm. Two, subscribe to this YouTube channel, if you would. We cracked 100,000, which was incredible. Alex got his play button, but you know what, I want a frickin' play button. So we need more of you to subscribe so that I get one, and I can hang it right here. That would be so nice. And three, don't remind you to subscribe to FightfulSelect.com. There were three, count 'em, three, one, two, three, SummerSlam Scoops threads that were going on over there, anything that you wanted SummerSlam wise had you covered during and out of SummerSlam, some NXT Scoops that went up thanks to Corey, who's two-coward leader show up tonight, I guess, but some really good stuff happening. Cooking on FightfulSelect, you also had Alex Plaski that I'm doing like a two and a half hour post-show, two 40 post-show of SummerSlam. 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So some cool stuff here, and Alex, it's like the only cool thing that we get to talk about today, because my hopes were higher for part two of the Great American Bash, because it just looked like a more loaded card, we had more title defenses, like just felt like there was more happening, and then it kind of just wasn't it, like it wasn't great, it wasn't great, I don't understand why Ethan Page and oral men's who have been feuding this long went on at eight fifty p.m., because they were going to end it with by doing a TNA story, that TNA deserves to tell. So he's done, and True William's go on first, that like at least, yeah, I guess suppose you could jerk the curtain with the NXT champion, you could do that, you could, but they didn't, they didn't, they didn't, yeah. I was genuinely let down, and by the way, two weeks in a row with no Obafemi, fired. I mean, well, he was, he was technically on the show, just wasn't wrestling, he'll wrestle against somebody who doesn't like, listen, I'm, I'm very nervous about all this thing, because we will talk about it later, but there's the possibility that I may get the number one idea I've pitched, and have wanted more than anything else at the expense of my favorite thing ever, and, and that is going to be a very hard thing for me to take. I'm not, I'm going to be tearing my hair out, and I am bald. Which means you're going to be tearing your facial hair out, which is, yeah, just awesome. That sounds. Meet Norma says, "Hello, broves and potnas, OTB here, that's original tribal beef." I would buy that t-shirt, I'd buy that t-shirt me Norma's thing. What are they doing with Obafemi, and why didn't he destroy Tony D. We'll talk about it later. We're conflicted. Bad Apple Jam Trievers says, "If you don't want to get stuck jerking behind the curtain, I'm going to be straight up with you guys." We have four sponsors tonight, which is, on this show is one and a half hour. That's actually not a bad cadence, but like, he got to give you those segues a little later, because I just did an ad read. We're going to come back to that because that is good. We'll do it after the first match, but pretend you didn't see that one yet. Nobody saw that. Again, jewelry, and we've also got people who are using precious stones, jewelry, and fancy accoutrement puns in honor of CM Punk, who is in love with the bracelet. Yeah. Definitely not with precious stones at it, though, just like from Michael's, but if you're looking for examples, I was messaged by L.E.C.'s Adam Pierce years, for example, or Kurt Inglitt. That makes it sound like a little kid that he had, like a little Inglitt. There you go. I can talk. Killing it. Um, so, again, I have no memory of the, like, that, listen, again, conflicted. This is going to be the theme of tonight. Let me be the theme of tonight. Well, hold on. Before we dive in though, because I know we were going with this, I'm pretty sure that again, I didn't think you were the bracelet wearing types and what did you do yesterday. So I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I fed the bit, Kate. That's what I did. Well, I know you're killing them, if you ask Sean. So, in WWE overall, one thing that I find both frustrating and perplexing is they are giving me so much of what I want and they're taking the weirdest roots to get there. And I live in Jersey where you're not allowed to make a left turn. Like, they gave me goontheres champion and I was like, because Finn Balor put his foot on the ropes, though, like, uh, there's a lot that we're getting today. Like, I love the way Pete Dunfield's right now. But what did you, you neutered Trix championship reign to then go and do this? Like, there's so many things where I'm like, those are the right outcomes. And a lot of titles, quite frankly, on people I really like, um, but the roads to get there are questionable at best across all three brands, I feel that way for sure. Um, let's turn it to our photos as we are all influenced. Um, thank you. Stop influencing me. Look, I just, I can't help it. Okay. I can't help it. That the last Mountain Flamington gave me these beautiful lashes and, um, that I got the influencer, right? Okay. So we start out with, um, uh, Pete Dun coming out and I, I legitimately forgot they made this match. I, I, I knew we were building toward it, but I forgot that they actually made the match in a concrete way for this week, um, Trix Williams comes out and it is the first of many times that I simply had to mute my television. I cannot take a Booker T's trick thing anymore. I just can't. It just, it, I think it's a really good song. He ruins it. He ruins it. I think it's one of the best songs that they have out right now because they've taken so many good songs away from people and replaced them with drag. This is one of the best songs anybody's got. And then they got Booker T going like, yeah, it's trick, I like it. And I can't, I can't do it, man. Yeah, there's just like a lot of times where I have to, it's very frustrating too, because I think Vic Joseph is great, like I think he's really, really good. And you're a commentary partner to my knowledge as opposed to compliment you, uh, not drag you down. And it feels like because he doesn't know who the wrestlers that he's talking about are half the time. Yeah. It doesn't work. Right. Um, I, I need trick called to the main roster just so I don't have that when he enters. But considering how they're booking him, I don't think he's going up any time soon. Uh, yeah, I don't know what we're doing. I don't know if they're trying to get him back to a, I'm on a downfall heel turn thing or what, but like, a waste that would be correct. And again, a waste that would be, especially if you noticed the show tonight. Well, that's what I was just about to say. I don't know if you noticed, but if Sam Puck is a Michaels bracelet purve, Sean Michaels is a heel turn for no recent birth. So I love Pete Dunne, I'm really into the idea of him coming back to NXT in a major way, but not while he's also doing something on Raw. I don't, I don't feel like that should be allowed. I'm pretty firm on this. I, I don't understand. There's so many people who aren't doing anything on the main roster. Let them go to NXT and stay in NXT. And then when they're done doing their NXT stuff, they can go back to the, to the main roster. Maybe there's some spot for them, but like I, I, it's a, it's a weird thing for me to, to, to be like. So on, on Mondays, Pete Dunne wants revenge on Seamus because maybe Seamus gave him the nickname Butch. I guess that might, I guess that's- >> That's what they're implying maybe. >> I mean, it's not, but that would be the best reason to get revenge on him. If this man called, made them, everybody called me Butch. Like I showed up, he forgot my name and he was like, hey, we're with my friend Butch and everybody in the locker room called me Butch for like a year and a half. So I'll never forgive him for that, and I want to bust a head open with a chilelli. That would make sense, but I don't think that's why he's doing it. Anyway, he's doing that stuff on Mondays and separate from that. He's also on Tuesdays, like trying to prove something against Tripp Williams. And also I guess going after the NXT title which he never had. Like either of those things done without the other one I'd actually be really excited about. But now I got a, I'm watching it going like I don't feel like these people, they have too many separate issues. Like, I don't know, I don't think you should be doing both. He should focus on one of the two things. >> I mean, the brand's was just full on debt. So like I, if you've got problems with people on multiple programs. I get what you're saying and in spirit, I agree. I'm not as in as hard of agreement when you're at least the same person on multiple shows. Like I was peak annoyed when Mia Yim was a baby face on one brand and I hear a lot of the other. This at least feels like it's the same guy showing up on multiple shows. And yesterday, I mean, Grace and Waller at Austin Theory came to Rob because of Jelly Roll. Like the brand splits dead, kill the draft. Just have people on different shows and then trade them when you need to. It's a much better way to go about business. It's absolutely stupid every year. >> And that being said, I liked the instance of Randy Orton coming over for Goother because the story kind of called for it. >> Yeah, right. >> So like don't put weird constraints on that. Anyway, Randy Orton coming for Goother to like, get revenge because he was never really pinned in the king of the ring final. Imagine him doing that while at the same time on SmackDown, doing a slow burn heel turn to try and fight Cody. Like, don't do both things at the same time. Do one and then the other. >> I don't know why we're doing this at the same time. Anyway, the match between Pete Dunn and Trick Williams is predictably very good. Trick Williams just to do a lot of things in this match, he doesn't normally get to do with other people. Pete Dunn is a wonderful professional wrestler. I said a few years ago when it was at the height of who Pete Dunn was in NXT. I said the only reason this dude isn't world champion right now is cuz he's not a six foot five, he was just too short. And otherwise, he had so much everything about him that was so cool. And they were like, we mean small, also English. And the weird thing where you like puncture yourself in the face, that's weird, could you not afford sleeves for your fur coat? There were a lot of sniggling things that people had backstage. They were like, I don't know, anyway, he's so great. He gives Trick a great match. Trick gets ahead of himself, angry about something. And winds up like me-ing the turnbuckle and turning around into a bitter end and loses to Pete Dunn clean. >> Clean as a sheet. >> Which I'm like, okay, well, that might be something that might be. This is what I thought at the time. This might be the beginning of something I don't agree with it. But the beginning of like, hey, maybe they're like sending him down like he's hard on himself, he doesn't know where to turn all this stuff. Maybe you get like more of like a edgy or type of thing. And I thought separate from Pete Dunn though, cuz you just lost to Pete Dunn. >> Clean. >> Clean. >> I'm gonna show where nobody ever loses clean ever. >> Just sparkling, like a hospital room. >> Yeah. >> Clean, sanitary. That's how clean he lost, he lost sanitary. >> Mr. Clean could never. >> You could eat off the floor of this loss. That's how clean it is, okay? So Pete Dunn is backstage, you're asking the battle. How about what he said, well, we had that great win against Trick Williams. And what's next for you is like, big Trick Williams, he's a great competitor. But I proved that I should be next in line for the title. If Trick Williams wants to, and then Trick Williams comes out and starts to punch him. First beating him up, so here's the deal, Trick Williams. This is part of his overall character, because it is. He won the North American Championship after they released Mustafa Ali for no reason. And then he stepped in and got a match versus Dominik Mysterio and beat him at a play at no mercy last year and held the title for three days, maybe two. >> He lost it on the following Tuesday, just lost it right back to him. And he didn't do any, all he did was try to politic his way. I think via Cody Rhodes, into a multi man thing for the number one contendership to the top title. I never even approached the NXT title again, didn't care about getting it back. What he finally became the champion, there was not his fault, bad bucket. That terrible 90 day, like 60 day, I don't know, it felt like 30 day. Very short title reign, it felt like after he beat Ilya. And then he lost the title to Ethan Page, wasn't pinned, actually knocked out Ethan Page to pin the guy who he possibly lose the title. And he doesn't immediately come out and say, hey, that's BS, I want my title back. He's like, where do I turn from here? So he doesn't care about getting titles back that he lost. Then you put him in a little feud with Pete Dunne that kind of feels like it's more about Pete Dunne than it is about trick Williams. They have a match about it, and trick loses sanitary. That's how clean he lost. And his whole thing is now, now this the most over baby face in NXT. I would argue maybe top three most over baby face on the roster. Four Roman Reigns is baby face now. But he's in there, top five for sure. And you've decided that now that dude is on top of everything else the way you booked him. Now you made him into a sore loser. What are we doing with trick Williams? I don't understand how I don't understand how any of this is possible. Like it feels like if you were just rolling, doing it randomly, you would have to come up with a better way of booking this guy than this. Yeah, if you had the Manatee ideal balls from South Park you wouldn't come up with something better. This is, so what was frustrating was I thought the match was really good. And I felt like it was a showing that I don't want to say trick Williams needed. But he has been performing to a lower ceiling than he's able to because of the circumstances that he's been performing under. Like in that four pack, etc. That's why he wasn't doing cool stuff, but it was sometimes you just need like a clean one-on-one wrestling match with someone who's really good. And I needed that for trick Williams. Trace me happy because he had one title defense against Ethan Page. It wasn't great that he lost it. So I was glad that he had this match from that standpoint. The finish. 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I'm really nervous because HVK just likes to turn people heel when he doesn't know what else to do with them. Like that this is going to be sour grapes, which as you know, is way worse than sour grapes. Trick shouldn't be a whiny sore loser. He shouldn't be fixated on Pete Dunne. It's not just even that he lost his title. It's that he lost it in a four pack where, as you said, the champion oops the daisy to onto someone. And there was no story set up coming out with the other three guys that were in that match or the champion. Like it was just like, OK, you are completely separate from the rest of the top of the cards now. Like that is just so bizarre to me. Very happy for the Pete Dunne side of it. I liked the video we got last week or the week before. He looked great in this, as always. He's he's great. I'm a tech or sick. Oh, this is this is an up my alley dude. And he's just like this. This angry little menace without being so Tasmanian devil, like a lot of WWE presentations of small angry dudes are. He's great. So I was happy for him, but just absolutely perplexed by the ending. And the sanitization of the way trick lost made it even weirder. Like somebody broke out some rubbing alcohol. Like that's that's how clean it was, man. There is an infectious disease that breaks out in a hospital and they have to isolate that person. You know, this is the room they put them in. What like where you have to like when you're coming out of the room and you stand the little wee little shower thing in your hazmat suit, that's how clean he lost. Danny Tanner would be so happy. So you know, Danny Tanner, but not Gia. Of course I know Danny. Well, I think of course you should know Gia. Listen, again, I do not want to relitigate this. If it's like after season five, I'm sorry. I wasn't watching anymore. I moved on. There's a there's a through line for this entire night that involves an indoor barbecue, which kids don't do it. Don't do it. That's carbon monoxide poisoning. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't don't burn coals inside or turn on a propane gas grill. That seems bad. Don't do it. I am assuming it's because the weather coming through Orlando was pretty bad right now. Not great. Not great. No, you can't do the outside thing. And it's George form, Ingrellet, may I like do some kind of like we're looking it's backstage. There's you can see the clangy poles back there, all the all the roadboxes there in the back. They didn't even bother putting up like like a backdrop that looked like a picnic or of the beach or something. It was obviously backstage and they just had a grill sitting over there was like you did not grill the things indoors. You can't because you can't. So the American thing would have been like, oh, it's bad weather. We should have something delivered to us because you're the delivery driver. Yeah, party. It's a pizza party. You should have been there. Yeah. However, Hank and Tank, they're calling themselves the belly boys and I I reject that nickname because we did not give it to them. But they definitely do watch the show because they're just saying, okay, blurry boys, that's kind of good. And bouncy boys or bouncy bouncy beef. This is belly boys. We both have bellies. I mean, honestly, I'm flattered. Henry Tankland, welcome to the show. It's good to see you here. Tankland. I don't know what his full name is. I love that he has to have a full name beyond Tank. Well, I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to be a good host. Tanklands. Um, Joseph the third, however, it can't pass down. I just want to let you know since we did not come up with it, we will not be referring to you as the belly boys from here on out. Oh, sorry. I'm so sorry. We can't pay to license it. Also Hank and Tank just works, man. You don't need an nickname. Hank and Tank is great. So like, we just watched the belly boys saying Hank and Tank is much better. So cool. So we, uh, we got this backstage deal, the barbecue, where Lexus King is playing generic butt rock. Like they can't, they're not going to license the actual songs. So it just sounds vaguely like a hair metal guitar, but he's wearing a Nirvana shirt. Like I know you are a music historian. So this had to bug you as much as it bugged me. But I'm going to talk about it because it is still technically my show. Nirvana is what killed hair metal. If you are a hair metal enthusiast, Nirvana is your kryptonite man, hair, hair metal would still be going strong. Grunge is what killed hair metal. Grunge like put, put several wood in the center of the fabric, Eric Hart of hair metal. You know, Hey, Nirvana, like, what are you doing, man? Not even just grunge killed hair metal, Nirvana killed hair metal, like specifically them, but specific, yeah, specifically hair Nirvana, but like I'm just saying, if he was wearing the sound garden shirt, it wouldn't be my track. It would also be incorrect. Yeah. But like to wear this one when it smells like teen spirit put people that were playing stadiums into arenas overnight, because it was cool and radio friendly enough, like you cannot, you cannot tell me that someone that listens to heart shaped box also is like, yeah, rounded around by rat attack, cool, knock it off Lexus King rat attack. Rat with two T's, rat attack. No, wait, what's a rat attack? There was a band called rat attack and there was a band called rat attack, but it was it was rat attack. It was rat attack rat rat. Well, yes, there was definitely, was there a song? I literally remember it because of guitar hero. There was something that was rat attack on guitar hero, 100% sure of that. And now I'm remembering the Michael commercial where they say they have a rat problem and they're playing that song in the ground round round. That's a great one, man. That's a good. It's like, listen, yeah, it's listen. So he says, I broke Eddie Thorpe's hand, which is why he's not in charge of being the DJ and that Eddie Thorpe shows up and they were going to fight. And they're like, no fighting at our at our barbecue, get out of here. And then they made a match later for Eddie Thorpe, who apparently has a broken hand, versus Lexus King next week. So that'll allow Lexus King to get his win back and then we'll just continue this feud forever. Shout out to the chat who's pointing out how young I am at the age of 24. It's impressive that I really know as much as a historian, that's why I did perhaps talk about it so much that you started reading a book. It's just how his Gen Z people act, which are part of, obviously. I'm okay with them running because they've only had the one match, right? Or have they have two? They've had one. They had the one and then they're going to have a second one because according to Lexus King, he broke Eddie Thorpe's hand in their first match. And so in their second match, Lexus King will do the hidden balls to his hand and then it will further break his hand and he'll have to be pinned and then the third one. We think there's a shoe injury, should I be asking Corey, your thoughts? I don't know. He said he broke his hand. If he broke his hand, I would hope they wouldn't clear him for the match next week. We just happened to know a Scoopster of this brand. I mean, I don't know, Lexus King said I broke his hand. And that's why he's not spinning his beat-boop music. I do appreciate that he is somehow simultaneously like hair metal, but also boomer. It's like, oh, skits in their rock and roll, but my version of rock and roll was awesome. Those engineer bleeps and bloops. Now if you want back in my day, we had poison. Now they weren't actually poisoned. They were called that. They had their first album, look what the cat dragged in. They were all wearing the makeup on the front with their hair all teased like fancy boys, but they were the most manly men in rock, and every girl wanted them. And there was Brett Michaels later, he lost all his hair, wore a bandana to cover it up. But there was a, they had very good said they had, what's it called, that every rose has its thorn, which is a very helpful diagram of the biology of a certain kind of flower. You know, it is nice. It helped me get through all of the, all of those biology quizzes about bad life. So you were in biology class when that song was out. Yes, Dr. Real, that song came out in 1986, that's to realize how old I am now. It's very old. You know, I mean, we were old. No, it's fine. I just thought you were more in the like 80 to 90. Now I was 18 in 1986, which means I was born in 1968, which means I am now almost 60 years old. You were, you look great. Thank you. Okay. And we're not our rules, way better than hair metal. What we were talking about? Great. So, this weird glizzy party backstage also involves, not Seahawks, sadly. No, it also involves Jada Parker talking to Brindley Reese. And does no one, if people are going to bury hatchets, they've got to do it on screen. Because like, it was a month ago that Jada Parker like did her running butt to the ear of Brindley Reese and like talked shit to her afterwards. Like you lost and like, you lost to me and your power positivity thing. That's null and void, basically causing her and Idris and Malik Blake to break up. And now they're hanging out on a picnic table, just talking to each other like old friends. And I just feel like if you're going to do like a full feud, if they're going to be friends later, I want to see it happen. You know what I mean? That's fair. Bye gums should be bye hears until we see them be gone. Bye still here. Which is hard because it feels like you're saying goodbye to something that is currently still here, but this shouldn't be by gone for sure. Absolutely not. It should be hello still here. That's what it should be. It shouldn't be by gone. It should be hello still here. That's fair. That's fair. It should be hello still here. I can't, I do not understand the value of a single one of these segments that we got tonight. Like, you know, there's zero, zero value for any of them. Jada Parker wants a shot at Roxanne and it's either, I think it's Tyson. It's Tyson of team tie tie comes in and says, well, Lola first says, I almost had her in my last match. One another shot and Tyson comes in and he goes, did you see, I think we, hey, I think we can all agree that match last week between thea and Roxanne was fire and I was like, what white guy scripted this for you and people to sound like that they'd be in a conversation that they would not be actually having. Hey, I think we can all look at how, how many times have you walked into a circle of people talking and speaking on behalf of the room, I would say Kenny Omega and Brian Anderson was one of the greatest matches I've ever seen live. No, I think we can all agree. Anyway, nobody agrees. Jada, Jada wants another shot at it and so was her first shot at it and Lola wants another shot at it. So Ruka's there just kind of vaguely nodding. There also is, there's going to be a wing eating contest between, I think it was supposed to be Hank and Mr. Stone and Mr. Stone's like, you're, it's my cheat day. So I'm, I'm ready for this. This is no problem. And then Stevie Turner's like, I think I can eat more wings than you. And Hank was like, it's like Hank, hey, I think you should let Stevie Turner have your spot in this wing eating contest. And so they have a co-ed inter gender wing eating contest, which is going to play great on the CW. I'm telling you, those people over there love them some messy, competitive eating between mixed genders. They love it, especially like as a part of a pro wrestling show. Yeah. Yeah. Jada Barker rules. She does later, we see the aftermath of said contest, both of them are about ready to throw up. Like they have to prove, they have to prove that they're the best assistant to Ava by eating more wings like none of this makes any sense. But like Robert Stone is overhearing other ladies, two of whom I've never seen before saying, wow, look at all the talent in this women's division. I hope one of us will get a shot at the title soon, he's like, that gives me a good idea, a multi-woman match next week among anybody who hasn't had a shot at Roxanne yet, then the winner will face her at no mercy, I think is what he says. And so we're going to do that next week. Oh, by the way, also, Ashanti is hitting on all the ladies. And they're basically saying, you know what, we don't want to talk to you, but they don't actually assault him, unlike sexy Robbie, whatever that guy is from that terrible Roku show, he shows up and remember, Kevin Petrovich kicked him in the face a couple of months ago. Now he gets punched in the stomach and then shield power bombed through a table full of glizzies in the back. And everyone reacts as though it's the greatest thing ever. But I'm wondering why he's not allowed to hit on people, but Ashanti is, even though he's rebuffed, he's not put through a table. No, and he made, I mean, I guess good that the women are now allowed to respond to themselves. But Ashanti, who was hitting on Chikara Jackson in previous weeks, heads on Jada, that immediately hits on, was it low, low, low? Yeah, and then this guy just comes in with God bless him, his eggplant emoji buns-ing. And all he says is like, hey, we won't need smoke for the barbecue because there's so many smoke shows back here. And like that guy, I was like, smoke show's not even like, I would, I would take smoke show over a lot of what people have called to me at times. I was like, that's not even that gross, like that's kind of nice. True. Oh, I forgot Stevie Turner to order to make sure she's the one who presents like the amazing idea that Robert Stonehead punches him in the face and then runs away. Also the beach shows up with a solo cup that obviously has nothing in it. And Sean Spears looks out at the cup and says, beach, I vouched for you. I told the people that you were going to behave yourself. What is this? It's like, hey, man, you're not my dad. Leave me alone. So like, you vouched for me. Well, I owe my career to you. And like, I honestly, I just feel like you don't need this to have a good time at this party. And the only stuff we see available for anyone to drink behind them is lemonade. So like, like he's not allowed to drink lemonade. He swore off lemonade. Like, what are we saying is in the thing is there's not a keg at the party. If there is, we don't see it. It's just a weird deal to me. Are you the captain of the sour ship going to tell us that lemonade is not an addicting thing? Well, it's certainly not alcoholic, which is what I'm assuming he's allowed to have. You should have been carrying around a can that just had beer written on it. You know what I mean? Yeah, or like a molesin, but with his fingers covering the letters so that it's not a thing. How is this guy still allowed to walk around this party? I don't know. It's what I want to know. Like, that means absolutely no sense to me. And most consternating to our friend, Luis Palito, is that in walk the good brothers and Carl Anderson questions the quality of the glissies at the barbecue and then has a fight with with two fellow lower mid-carders. Carl Anderson and Luke Gallows apparently not allowed to do that. And it's just too bad. It is too bad because, you know, it would be fun would be like Carl Anderson versus Pep Buchanan or whatever he's going by right now. I feel like that would be cool. Ben Buchanan. Ben Buchanan. Ben Buchanan. That's a very different person. Hey, that could also be very fun. Let's be real. Well, no, it could be fun, but it's definitely not the thing you're thinking of who I was referring to. You know, God, asking the real questions here. Why wasn't he drinking Wheatley's? So good. He could drink and eat. Because then you would have to have Sean Spears, so you're not allowed to drink that. That's a good point. That's a good point. I get the loose killing thing. I feel like lose Caitlin's don't hang out at barbecues. And I feel like at this point, Sean Michaels said there should be second chances and this guy is on like his eighth chance. So I don't, I don't understand why they were like, we'll give you another chance to prove yourself. And he's like actually proved that I am terrible and a detriment to this company. And they were like, we're going to take zero action about that. So God, I was asking you, Pat Buchanan was been dead for what? 30 years. Pat Buchanan still alive. He is, he is 84, 86, 86 years old. Okay. Well, I'm 24. So I'm sorry, I have no idea anyway. So we do what we just went through most of the show because most of the show was the backstage glizzy party. It wasn't great. Um, Luis says, it's G one season, damn it. The machine gun Carl Anderson should be fighting for the heritage cup, not fighting over freaking glizzies with three exclamation points. Well, hold on glizzies, warrant multi month feuds, according to some people in the wrestling space. But Alex, yes, no, I can't even, that's, that's even, no, that's too even, I can't even make that transition to that particular sponsor for going to just keep moving. That's too, that's too far for me. It's a glizzy reference, I was going to do a reference, uh, if your glizzy is substandard, just like the ones that Carl Anderson threw away blue chew main event performance main event confidence and a main event deal go to blue chew.com and use the code Fightful. And you will get blue chew with their first shipment for free shipment. Yeah. Yeah, I said shipment. Waiting in line at the pharmacy, no awkward doctors visits. You take their online exam and then if approved, it ships straight to your door. That's right. Same act of ingredients as Niagara and Seattle's, but in a chewable form and much more affordable. How can you pass up on this? How can you pass up on that confidence? 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In my day, they were called Frankfurters because they all came from the German city of Frankfurt or the Kentucky city of Frankfurt. It's a different one. That's the state capital down there. That's where all the glizzy's came from. Oh, dang it. Now I'm doing it myself. And there was a dog and if there was a dog and it was hot, you had to eat it. Oh, that's terrible. Go vegan. Um, Kalani Jordan defeated Tatum Paxtley, um, okay. So Tatum hides somewhere outside the ring and she, oh, she climbs underneath the ring and then Kalani goes to where she went under and instead of finding her, she finds the Barbie doll and she picks it up and throws it, throws it down and disgust and then Tatum Paxtley runs in and does a chop block to the back of her knee. And honestly, if your whole thing is gymnastics, it's hard to gymnastics when you don't have one of your legs. True. Um, so no bias is literally just went through that. Right. Um, Wendy Chu comes down and stands there for the set, the entire second half of the match, menacingly and doesn't do anything. Like it was not even like she was distracting Kalani. Like she just stood there. She just, they're being weird. And then, um, hey, Tatum had a hell of a 450 Kalani kicked out. Kalani eventually does, um, uh, she did, she did a really good job of selling the knee. So good for her. She, her, her in ring, her in ring, uh, the, the, the acrobaticness of it has never been lacking because, you know, gymnastics, but now she's like doing professional wrestling stuff. Yes. So, um, of, of the knee was excellent, the way she climbed up and like had to like steady herself on the bad leg before she basically just jumped with one foot to get out there to do the frog splash was very good, but Tatum lost. And, um, and then, uh, Wendy Chu kind of like looked at, at Kalani picked up the doll, walked over to, um, Tatum who was sitting on the ring steps, handed it to her. And then while like staring at Kalani choked out, um, Tatum from behind in approximately three seconds, like she just let go of her so fast, but Tatum was already out. I don't know if that's supposed to be like supernatural or that's what I was trying to think you. Yeah. I don't know. But, um, why can't we have nice things? Tatum was so excited for Tatum Paxtley, you know, and he chewed to be a tag team to be something like to be, I don't know, but like, I guess Wendy Chu was showing that she's not actually in legions to anybody. She just wants a thing. I feel like I'm owed a thing where they tell me why Wendy Chu is like this now. Yeah. I feel like I'm still really owed that. And maybe if she has a full program with Kalani, eventually we'll get the thing that tells us why she's possessed by a sleep paralysis demon. I don't, I don't know, you know, I, so I thought the match was really good. We did see more storytelling from Kalani in this, which is great. We still don't have like a ton of character for her, but hopefully that's also developing with time here. Tatum translating this very different thing than she ever was to the ring is going well. Like I always, especially for spooky stuff, I, one thing I always look for is match pacing. And I, because I feel like that's where so many of the creepy tension moments breathe is in match pacing and Kalani obviously moves very quickly because gymnastics. So I, I just thought she did a really, really good job and she didn't look like there's nothing that takes me out of a spooky gimmick faster than like this moment is too big for me right now. That kills everything and there was none of that. She looked very assured of who she was there, which is really great stuff. So kudos to them for that. This is the problem with not having the women's tag belts around. Yeah. Like, what were they going to do, a tag program for no reason? I mean, you could, if you're going to do that, a spooky duo is the way to do it. I thought it was going to be more of an alliance thing, but I think you're right and that Wendy Chu was kind of using Tatum maybe to get to Kalani or whatever. But we do, it does feel like we're going to find out why Wendy Chu became this when she's in a proper first feud, which we haven't seen her yet. So I'm hoping this program with Kalani seems inevitable. I think that would also do wonders for Kalani if we could get her to program with someone as experienced and interesting as this version of Wendy Chu is, so really good match. I like more and more of what we're getting from Tatum. And I liked even things like she got distracted by the belts in this, like that tells me you're fixated on that stuff, and with this cooled off thing, like that's what she's obsessed with still. So some good work in here, but yeah, I was, they weren't an alliance for long enough for it to feel like a turn on her head, any impact? Yeah. So I don't know where we go from there. Yeah, I don't know either. It does feel like I certainly thought we were going to get low-level vice versus Kalani, and I thought we were going to get Jada Parker versus Kalani Jordan, and either one of them would be great people to take the title off of Kalani, but now they're both babyfaces. And I just, I don't, uh, Fallon and JC Jane? I think that's back or probably coming in heel. I mean, I should be coming in heel, sure, but like, whenever that happens, like they're doing a lot to tease Roxanne and her. You know what I mean? Like Roxanne keeps name-dropping her on social media. Like, you think that's Julia? Julia has her, they announced her first date, which is like, I don't know, next month at some point. Like, I don't know. I just, I, you know, I'm me, I'm impatient. And I, I, I think that I'm looking at the current field of heels in NXT. And I'm like, I got Fallon, I got JC Jane. I got, who do I got? Jada's kind of tween-er-ish, right? Well, like, they sure, they, they certainly presented her as babyface tonight. And they have been earlier. She definitely was talking shit to Roxanne last week, which doesn't mean she's a babyface, that is presenting her as an antagonist to Roxanne, who is certainly a heel. And usually they don't do gray area with that. So I don't know. They don't. We most recently saw, I don't think it worked, but two faces face each other and two heels face each other. Jada Parker to me reads almost like, go with me on this. >> Mm-hm. >> Cuz it's a weird comparison to Star, but by the end, I think it makes sense. Reminds me of Eddie Kingston where I feel like she wants to fight everybody. Maybe she'll have one best friend, maybe she'll have her, her John Moxley in the process. But that, that face or heel that just wants to fight everyone for whatever title it has a prop with everyone, when she calls, was it Tyson, she called a meatball that actually maybe left today. She has so much, she has the thing that's unteachable immediately. So that's really cool. But to your point, if I'm in charge of booking, but I think maybe Kalani's a little too vulnerable for this right now, and I have Delta signed, she comes and destroys Kalani and wins the title. >> That's a good one. >> That's a good one, cuz you guys are gonna love her. But to your point, we have this new mid card title, and it feels like everybody that should be established around it is not really established around it right now. So I just hope that gets corrected cuz it felt like this will bring new life to the women's mid card. >> Yeah. >> Bad Apple Jam Treebeard says, I mean, you can still do gymnastics with one good leg, just to carry a shrug. >> It's true, estimated violence. >> Yes. >> With the injured calf. >> Mm-hm. Just Ricardo says, taters Paxtley from Idaho should have won. And Sweet and Sassy creation says, why is Kalani still champion? She's boring, we want tatum. I really love tatum Paxtley. I think that they have a lot they can still do to make Kalani way more less boring, more less boring. >> [LAUGH] >> More interesting, less boring. >> Yeah, yeah. Tastes great, less failing. But I think that they should do that with somebody before they become champion, but that's just me. >> Or if you're gonna do it when they become champion, you have a bunch of stuff lined up. Like, okay, we haven't, oh, but femmy is actually a great example of this, of like, they haven't really done anything at all, but they have the personality for it, and we're gonna give them. >> Mm-hm. >> Push to the mood. >> Meet Norma says, is tater a spooky horse girl now? What is this? >> I don't know. >> Tater's not a horse girl. >> Well, she was going after, she wasn't a horse, the Barbie thing, I don't know. I'm not sure why that's a horse girl thing. I'm really sure meet Norma's. I'm not sure what's going on. Ranchekini says delta to destroy Kalani. >> Yeah, that's a nice- >> That's a really good idea. >> A nice part. >> Because I, personally, I just want like, you know, Stephanie and Julia to just basically decide, we're both here now, and there's only room for one of us. >> Hell yeah. >> And they just decide we're going to destroy each other, at the, at the detriment of everybody else would be kind of fun. But Tom, Tom, the man 94, did say Cora Jade, and I don't know how soon she's coming back. She's got hurt in December last year, so it's been like nine months. So I don't know how close she is to coming back, but that's a really good spot for her. >> Sure. >> That would be kind of fun. >> I'm also, I don't know when Nikita comes back, but I did ask Cori to ask about Nikita. Because we just haven't heard anything. >> No, we haven't heard anything about her. >> Okay, so third match of the night, just right around the turn change over of the hour, our NXT champion, who is the Miz. He's the Miz, he's the Miz, like we, he's the Miz and it's not awesome. He's, he did, he's so freaking good. >> He's so good. >> He's such a great natural talker, like he did this really cool little thing. Once he was signing all these autographs, autographs, things really today, he was like, you know what, everybody who's gonna come to see me beat Oromenza is gonna take home this an autographed eight by 10 of me talking crap to Oromenza. You can sell that on eBay for obviously hundreds of dollars pay off your cell phone bill. And he's such natural talker. I loved him talking backstage with Nathan Frazier was really cool. >> Yeah, that was really good stuff. >> He's so great. Why is, he doesn't, he hasn't, they've given him no direction except for to like have a match finally with the lower midcarder Stooge. Sorry, that's kind of what he was. He was a baby face now so it's different and he got a title match. But at the time he was attacked by Ethan Page, he was a lower midcard Stooge of an upper midcard midcard contender in Noam Dar. And that is who the guy is who was his first major program as a champion, is that. Now that could, I thought could have been taken care of with a five minute match, the first taping after he won the title. And then you have him into a different thing by the great American bash, but they didn't do that. And now he, I guess his direction is whoever wins this feud between Trik Williams and Pete Dunne, which feels like it's probably gonna last two more months. Like I don't like, I thought for sure somebody was going to like come out. After this match with Oremenza, spoiler alert, he won obviously. Like the match is good, though they're both very good wrestlers. It's fine, but like none of it matters to me because it just is another perfect example of how they have no idea how to book their champions that used to be the babyfaces. And now it's also the heels because they don't have anything planned for a guy this great to be champion. >> This also felt like, I was very Zoolander, I feel like I'm on crazy pills with this match, because I was expecting much like Drew and CM Punk. It felt like we built for eight months there to a story that we didn't get in the match. It became about Seth and Embracely, thanks Lee. Here it felt like we've been building for weeks leading into months of like, there should have been so many one, two and a half near falls that just drove Ethan Page crazy. Like so many quick rollups that he's like, what the hell is going on? And that drove Ethan Page off the deep end to the point where he should be the crappet of Oremenza or whatever. >> So this is like a regular match, the story doesn't allow you to. >> It just didn't, there was no payoff and there was Ethan Page such is so great at emoting in ring and telling story that I just felt like the way that this match was put together was so ran so perpendicular instead of parallel to what they've been telling us. So it was very much a bummer, this went on at 8.50 PM, very much a bummer. That the story didn't match what we got in ring from the weeks of build. And this was indicative to me too, cuz Alex, we live in this hour verse and we watch this every week. >> We do, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's true, it's true. >> My, I was on the Shining Wizards podcast yesterday, go check that out. And one of their hosts, Matt, had kind of just started watching NXT when Jordan Grace came back. And he even yesterday was like, we gotta get over this Oremenza Ethan Page match. And I was like, he just started watching again and is already fatigued on it. Like, cuz he knows what Ethan Page gives you too. And so I think everybody, it was just interesting cuz it's not just the same. We see the same pattern bookings over and over and over again. He's only been watching since Jordan Grace came back and had the same takeaway. So that was indicative to me of that it's not just us sour tears, it was him as well. >> I realize now I missed like the first minute of the match and didn't think to rewind it. But are you telling me that the very first thing that happened in this match was not. Ethan Page tries to run at him and Oremenza ducks behind him. And does the little school boy roll up and it's a 2.999 and it's like that close. And Page is like, holy crap, he might actually do it. That is the obvious way you start this match because that's the story you've been doing. Is that Ethan Page has been saying he doesn't matter that he pinned me in all these things that didn't actually matter because when it actually matters, I'll just kick out. That's obvious, he can't actually pin me. I'm the champ and if on the very beginning Oremenza comes that close to doing it, it will middle make Ethan Page lose it. >> Yeah. >> And that allows him to like wrestle a complete different match because he's always paranoid. And every so often he'll get another even better version of roll up with like more leverage or like a seat belt type thing or whatever. And he gets him so close every time and Ethan Page just is losing it. Like how you're not even doing moves to me. >> Yeah. >> Like this is not allowed. Hit me with a finisher or something like that would have been great, but it was just a match. It was good, but it was just a regular match. >> I mean, the plus side of that is that we got to see Oremenza do some really cool stuff. Which I was glad, cuz he's really good. But the match that this story called for in my opinion is much closer to what you said. And I feel like the first five minutes of this match should have been that. And Ethan Page just, at first he's like, I'm cool, and then it's like, all right. And then he just goes ballistic, right? Like that feels like what was called for in this. >> Ethan Page one, he put Oremenza through a picnic table on the outside. Which had hamburger buns on it and nothing else. And the ref was very lenient with his 10 count. They kept mentioning like using his discretion, it is a championship match. Nobody wants to win this by count out. I guarantee you Ethan Page would be fine winning this by count out. But he dragged him back in the ring. >> One, Mr. Sippy. >> And then he brought him in. He hit a big boot and he did another ego's edge. Pined him and then he talked to the camera about Pete Dunne, trick Williams, whoever you're coming for. It's not NXT, it's NXT. >> [LAUGH] >> So that's good. >> No bracelets. >> No bracelets. Hey, Joe Hendry came out. And they got to play the music louder for- >> Yeah, it was a little late tonight, that was weird. >> For the people in attendance, cuz they were way off beat when they turned the music up. >> I believe in Joe Hendry, it was the whitest clapping I've ever seen or heard. [LAUGH] Two and four white people, two and four. >> They weren't even on the ones and threes. They were on the fives and sevens, they were way, way off beat. >> They were listening to some weird prog bands. I don't know what time signature you think this is in. This is not King Crimson, this is Joe Hendry, okay? >> Some dream theater shit, I don't know what the hell's going on. But he has his match with Joe Coffey, he's good. Of course he's good, and he wins with a big choke slam, he's good. So again, I don't think they're doing, nobody is saying that Joe Hendry isn't a good wrestler. Even very good, but what makes him special is all the other stuff that HBK neutered last week, that song still remains terrible. And so whatever else we're getting, he said after he pins Joe Coffey, cuz he pins Joe Coffey, it's fine. He does a fun little Eddie Guerrero spot where he takes a chair that he obviously placed there. And hands it to Wolfgang and then lays himself across the announce table. And then the ref sees it and kicks out Wolfgang and Mark Coffey, who do a really good job of being angry about it. And then he gets in the ring and hits like three moves and pins Joe Coffey. So, you know what I mean? I did like that the beginning of it started with like the wide shot and him doing the turn, that he just immediately threw Joe Coffey through a table, I think. Or was doing something at ringside. Right. He also kind of gave like a weird goodbye thing, which makes it feel like he did not give a goodbye thing. He says, I'm staying here for a long time. He says, he's having a match versus Wolfgang on an impact this weekend. They promoted that, so that was nicer than to promote that. But, so my thing is now like, I'm sticking around. Well, you got rid of the, I guess you won't have until after Thursday. But you got rid of the gallows boys, so now what is your direction? You're just here, you're just here. And I feel like- Well, that's right, he said like if you say my name- I'll appear, but you don't even need to say my name, because I'm guarantee you I'll be here next week. And I thought it would be the cool if he had been like Ethan Page, keep that title warm, because I'm coming for it. You know what I mean? Like, that's a really good thing, because I don't think people would- It would be really fun. Hopefully we get a right to write a better song, making fun of Ethan Page. Ethan Page would be mad about it. It'd be two big guys smacking each other around when they finally have the match. And then you have Josh Alexander show up, and cost Joe Henry the match, and he and Ethan Page can be like, hey, I remember you. And it'll be really fun. And it's a really easy way of furthering stuff for both shows. Why not do that? Maybe they will eventually, but it felt like a really great opportunity when he had a microphone on his face after he got rid of the gallows boys, to be like, I'm coming after Ethan Page, who currently has nothing to do, because right now he's waiting around for the victor of Pete Don versus Trick Frick Williams, which will be over at Halloween Havoc. Well, Pine the Skydream, maybe Noam Dards, closer to Ready Than We Think. So that would be nice. Maybe. I have less of a problem with that, just because he probably does have two other gallows boys to take care of, so I'm willing to give that some time. This was the best appetizer that we got of Joe Henry, I feel like, as far as- Yes. Seeing him in the ring and seeing the full presentation, he's unbelievably over, which is just cool. It just is kind of weird, because it feels like he's more on NXT than TNA from what I gather, from people that watch the TNA product. So I don't know, but Alex, if I had to put money down. If you did. I would say that Joe Henry is going to be signed to WWE, as will Jordan Grace. Really? Yeah, but I would want to know the most that I could about such betting odds. Probably. Yeah. And I would want to go to the place with the earliest openings for such a thing. You would definitely need to do that. Yeah. And I would want to do so online. That's just my preferred way. Sure, sure. We want to do that. Of betting. Yeah. So I don't know, maybe Sean could tell us where we could go. I want to talk to you guys about our great partner at Bet Online AG. Yes, the place that lets you bet on pro wrestling. 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And Alex does a rampage watch along and smackdown review on Fridays without me. Yes, it's good. Because I'm on the main. Yeah. All right, jewelry puns. I'm going to read these before we get it going. Because we have like three more matches to talk about. I mean, I thought it was basically this shows basically over. So let's get the jewelry puns here. Let's get some puns in. INR says tiara team 2000. Starting up hot. And also turquoise team 2000. Hey, there we go. INR says zirconia saber junior. I thought it was better than that, to be honest. It's like a very. INR says bam, bam, birthstone. Very nice. I love the the you and me ones out the game. Insert clever. Teagan Nox pun says Teagan onyx. INR says. Para Doba, Femi. Wow, very good. Here's how uncultured I am. I assumed that gem was called a paradot. I think a lot of people do. I think a lot of people do. I'm an uncultured swine. Jessica Cardo says diamond dowels page. I think it means diamond Dallas, but Ruby Soho and Jade Cargill. Very nice. INR says it's ring. INR says pendant El Sero meido. Chris Barrera says better than blooded of diamonds. Better than blooded of diamonds is very good. I mean, say the state of the world, but yes, but accurate. Seidogato six says gem the anvil nightheart. That's my favorite. That's amazing. All you have to do is just change that one little tweak, man. Gem the anvil nightheart's very good. The new blood diamonds. Every luchador's favorite move, topaz suicita. Jessica Cardo says monster factory diamonds, diamond mine, and Diamante. I don't get the Diamante one. Isn't that diamond? Is that what's? Oh, is it? I have no idea, but it feels like it's with me. Is that is Diamante Spanish for diamond? It is now. I mean, I mean, she's a she's a gem. I'll tell you what, she is that a death man that lady. Seidogato says obviously Ruby Soho. Of course. Um, Paul diamond and sweet sapphire. Very nice. The integral photo says bangles, bangles, gang. And choker slam. Very nice. I think I at least he's actually text to be that one too. Cara says Robert gemstone. Very good. Um. The check thing you are correct. Um, I am the uncultured swine. I, I, I believed that it was, but then you were like, is it? And I was like, I think so. I didn't take it. I don't know things. I'm Spanish. It's four. I know. I know. Thirty years ago. So I think I know my Spanish. Well, look, I, I took it in college just three years. ago. Right, right, right. I know. I should know. Uh, CZ says Tiffany and company Stratton. Very nice. Very good chat. Toodles. Uh, little Tom LaValle says, uh, best friendship bracelet. You got to give the people what they want. Um, meat, meat normis says penta el sero medallions. Pretty, you know, bracelets on a night like tonight. And bam, bam, burstones. Very good. Very nice. Um, I like penta el sero medallions. That's what it's like. But bad, bad apple jam tree beard says, I mean Ruby Soho, Santana Garnett. Uh, jade kargill emerald flosian, josh alexandrite, diamond mine, jasmine onyx, uh, moon stone salt, and coral jade. Very nice. Very nice. Um, silver apocalypse says the missing cuff link. Very good. Choker slam. It's ring and Prince Albert. Sorry. LOL. I very much like it's ring me. Meat normis says Rolex is king. Uh, uh, Jeff carrot is a cartier. Yes, it is. Cartier. Excuse me. Cartier. That bad apple jam tree beard says sky blue opal and pretty Peter Pearl. Uh, meat normis says big pressure terms Adam Cole into a diamond mine. Uh, Chris Bora says Seiko sadomora. Very nice. Bad apple jam tree beard says tank, tankerson, tankland and hank, hankerson, hankland. That's not a, that's not a pun, but it is what we should be calling them. That is fair. I like that a lot. Uh, Chris Bora says cadon Cartier bracelet. Very nice. You can get this guy's for that on tiktok. Oh, really? Yeah. Cartier bracelet. No, I just made that up because she was on tiktok twins. Oh, right. Right. Right. I was like, don't, don't buy a Cartier bracelet from from tiktok. No, I mean, I would know as an influencer. Right. You would know as an influencer, you would know. Um, bad apple jam tree beard says Zach Slafire Jr. and Topaz team 2000. Nice. And papa caso says, um, Isaac yankum VVS. Very nice. Um, all right. Get more of those puns in. Uh, That's very demanding. I mean, I'm telling him, telling him to get more. We invite you. I, I've read all of them. So give me more. Wow. That's it. There you go. There you go. I invite you, humbly, to send in more puns in the precious gemstone or jewelry family. Yeah. We appreciate the sport here despite Alex's behavior. You know what? I don't appreciate chase you. Um. Yeah, but like what if what if Duke finally leaves? What? Let him go. Well, when January, that's how long it takes to tell stories. Kate. So I just want to be. Colin apparently gifted the school with their very own classroom that doesn't have curtains for walls. And he's like, do you like the new classroom? And they're like, yeah, we like the classroom. Thanks. Rich is. Where was this guy when they were in debt? If he's got money to just give him the idea. He was in. Wasn't he? Yeah. He was in. Was he? NXT at the time. He just wasn't part of this. I don't know. Did he? I mean, you know what? He probably. It was all a fever dream to me. Probably the one who bought all those stupid calendars. Check his tech storage unit. He's probably got boxes and boxes of those calendars. It's possible. Crazy things have happened. So, um. So we, um, we got Rich Holland saying that, um, as one more thing. I called in my last favor with Ava. Why did you have any favors with Ava? I don't. She watched you assault a man outside her office. And you never got any comeuppance for it. I caught him in my last favor with Ava. And I got chase you a tag team title match next week against whoever wins the main event tonight. And Duke Hudson is like. Wow. Great. Thank you, Rich. Mr. Mr. Chase are going to. Oh, by the way, I should mention earlier in the whole thing. Thea Hale, Duke Hudson, both very sad because they lost title matches. Their respective title match. Individually. And Riley trying to like, you know, make them feel good. And then anyway, he says, hey, great. Next week, Mr. Chase and I, and then Rich says, oh, sorry. Uh, should have mentioned this. It's gonna actually gonna be me and Mr. Chase next week. Because I really need to prove that I belong. By usurping your rightful place as the member of the tag team. Obviously you will feel that I belong when I win the tag titles with Mr. Chase. And the only way this, there's two ways this works. Duke stops Ridge from winning next week. Or Ridge wins next week. And the second one is way more likely. And if you're going to tell me that we have the blurry boys, finally lose their titles. After only like a four month reign. Less than that, three and a half month reign. But they lose their titles, not to MSK. But to, but to friggin chase you. And not even the proper versions of chase you. Just so we can further a story between Duke and Ridge. I'm gonna poop a brick. I'm just, I will pass through my rectum a brick. That's, I will, I will do it. Because that's how angry I will be. Because why are the tag, like you finally, you have one. One, one of the, one, one of the three sets of title belts. Is actually being treated as its own actual thing. Because the Judgment Day, they're not really tag champs. They're just part of the Hana Nana Nina Nas. And then over on Smackdown, now the bloodlines got it. So it's not really going to be about the tag titles. You finally have like a really great fun tag team to watch. You were the champions have a banger match after banger match. And then they're going to have a match versus Ridge Holland and Andre Chase. And then it's going to be the chase you titles again. I don't, we did that already. I don't want to watch Chase and be tag champs again. Not for a Ridge Holland story. I think you and Seth Rollins need to go to the same doctors because he has to have his endoscopy and stuff. I hope that Duke Hudson just turns on them next week. Because that would be good. And then Duke can move on to something else. Duke Duke and Riley shared a look like this. I don't think so. I don't like, I don't like any of this. Yeah. I don't like any of this. So yes, I know. Sorry, I went off the rails there. It's okay. We brought you back. Yeah, I didn't want to say shit at brick. So then I said poop. And then I was like, well, maybe that's too much too. So maybe I'll just use the scientific. Um, terminology for it. And that was worse. That was worse. And I apologize. I do apologize. You don't have to apologize. No, I'm not. It's honestly, you called your shot. You have to apologize next week if that happens and you don't do that. That's when you have to apologize. You calling your shot, just Babe Ruth Pointin. That's all we're doing over here. Yep. Here's the kicker, Alex. Chase, you're probably going to lose. And Ridge is going to churn on ChaseU for no reason. I mean, maybe. I don't know. No, it feels like Duke's the one to go. Yeah, it does. Bad Apple Jam Tribute says shouldn't it be Ridge and the other fellow Riley Osborne so they can show they're the better tag team with ChaseU? No, because Ridge is sucking up to Andre Chase. A professor so bad at his job that he had to be gifted a classroom with walls. Look, sometimes it's nice to have class outside. But they can't have class outside because there's a tornado or a hurricane. No, because on the other side of the curtain is a down glizzy party. The glizzy parties on the other side of the curtain. So it just smells like glizzies inside the classroom, which is really distracting. Well, yeah, but then you're just by like the school cafeteria. Just saying. It's fun to have class outside. Yeah, okay. Anyway, there was a fun little thing, I guess, with Ren saying, "Hey, so what are you? Where's Tavion? Did you, Damon Campan, him into a trunk or something?" It's like, "No, he's in Japan fighting the N1 tournament." And it's just like, "Oh, right, he's in Japan." I really like this. Sure, sure he is. And then it's like, "I have a match, which is Kendall Gray, and what happened?" If I win, you'll let me into the group. And Tony D says, "No, sorry." Charlie Dempsey says, "No." I mean, the implication is, and I actually may mention, I think later, like, you just don't want a girl in your group. Tony D comes in. They say, "Yes, flat out says that." So, "Hey, you don't want to waste some money. You don't want to go in your group? Come on, listen. There's me and these two guys and a girl." So, obviously, for the two of our factions to feud, it's got to be you and two other guys and a girl. So, I would just think, since she's here, why don't you induct her into your faction so that way we can finally get around to having a big eight-person mixed tag? What do you think? And I don't think he quite took the booking that hard, but it wasn't far. My thing is, he didn't need to, because that's basically what this thing is like. Oh, 100%. We need a girl for no quarter catch group, so they can do a full eight-man tag. And I did love this. She says something of it was funny, where Chase is like, "All right, when you can be in the group." And friends are like, "I didn't hear you." And Miles is like, "You can't hear him, either." And I thought that was really funny. That was really funny. It was really funny. I don't want that to be his entire character, because they've made that joke several times that this one was-- No, no, no. His entire character is "Get's Suplexed by Girls." That's his entire character. This is like a weird ancillary portion of it. Two shame. I really liked this with Renz and Claire. She has really good timing, and I loved the-- They're like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, in Japan." I know where they go. And that they doubled down on it. A couple of times it was very, very fun. And I don't know, this is working for me, and I feel like Charlie Dempsey has stepped into a role that he was not supposed to be in quite well. Like, I think he's doing a good job with this. Yes. And I think that it's good that mobsters peer pressure people into not being sexist. So there you go. Yeah, it's-- Yeah, that is-- Those are the kind of mobsters we want around here. Like, like basically forcing Charlie Dempsey to deal with his misogyny. Yeah. By saying that if you-- If, hey, if she wins, you got to let her in. But also, if she wins, I'll give you a shot at the heritage cup next week. Ah! Ah! And he says, "Fine." So a Superman bass fisher says that I sound mad, am I constipated? Well, yes. 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I get it. I didn't. I didn't know I got it. ENR says, "Don't forget every kiss begins with Kalex." Got you a smooching out here. That's what we do once hour grabs. So, yeah. TV on beat Titus Alexander in the N1 tournament. So I think he's one and one. Okay. So here we go. Rens Sinclair defeating Kendall Gray because interference. Just basically just cause stuff. But this was good. Rens Miles Bourne. I want to talk to this lady who suplexed me a couple of times. No, if you touch her, though, you're going to disqualify the person who... It was weird. Anyway, Rens wins with a giant punch to the face and then a headlack driver. She stole Riddick Moss's finisher. Then Charlie Dempsey, but grudgingly, does the little catch you thing. So we were now going to get Rens Sinclair in the thing. I loved when she threw it up in the beginning of the match. She just like pulled her arm down. That was really cute. I'll pull up this chat by Rens Chini, starting to step on your job. But he said, "I know the joke is they only hired gymnasts for women built over the past several weeks. They've showcased different styles from the women. Gray and Ren felt fresh, more opponents for Delta, Steph and Juliet. Having three women like Julia, Delta, and Steph, who are so different stylistically and so established, I think it's going to be really, really good. I don't have a problem with a bunch of gymnasts. And Kalani and Solruka are incredible in the ring. It's just the rest of the pro wrestling part that we love that is not developed yet for a lot of them. But also gymnastics. But also gymnastics and hopefully having a swim in there will force a lot of the women who are there to really step up their game. Because Stephanie and Julia and Delta are with the exception of like, I don't know, three of the current roster worlds beyond what they can do. Even the ones who are very good don't have that stuff to them. So you got to step up not only your in-ring game, but also if you want to be one of the people who's challenging for these titles, that they're presumably going to be holding sooner or later, you got to step up the character work too. Because otherwise those feuds aren't going to be compelling, and they're going to try and find anybody they can to make them so. I agree. And I think you would have to be actively standing in your own way to not benefit from working with those three women. Right, right. Also, I cannot wait for the first promo where Stephanie Vicare tells people to put some respect on my now. I know you think Steph's the one, but Delta doing that would be even better. Australian accent and her luck and presentation, amazing. So we got one, another video package for Jevon Evans. Again, very good. Again, what's your plan? Like, this is my thing. This was really great. I really loved him because he's got something in common with a friend of the show. Scripps, just at the body of Antora, in that he believes Matt Bloom is forever Lord Tensei. And because he, the first wrestler he ever met when he was a little kid was Lord Tensei. And apparently he's the story is that he walked up and said, how do you get those tattoos off your face? And they took a picture together. It's very sweet. It's like, and now he's my coach. Oh, no, he's probably not going to like it that I called him Lord Tensei on TV. You could edit that out, right? He's very fun. He said, they asked him a question. What do you think you're going to be in 10 years? Like, I just turned 20. Like, like the idea of like, if you would ask me, like, he didn't say this, but it makes sense. The idea, if you would ask me when I, where I was 10, where I'd be in 10 years, that's crazy. That's like another third, that's, that's half of my life over again. Yeah. That's a crazy thing to even think about. I mean, to me, I'm like, I would say, keep the kid at five years before you start doing 10 years. That's crazy, but he's got all the things. Um, and it was a really, it was a really, really effective, very nice video package. What's your plan? I'm going to, I'm going to, for some reason, even though I will live to regret this, I'm going to assume you have a plan and you're holding off on it for a bit. But there's needs to be a plan with this guy. This kid is far too valuable to just have him hang out and then play vignettes about him. There's got to be some specific stuff he's doing. I do also feel cautiously, foolishly, optimistic, because it feels like when they have a pet project that they want to get behind, they do. Like they are behind Obafemi. They were behind Bronbreaker, right? And that's not to say I don't think they're behind like Ethan Page or whatever, but when it's like one of their like performance center working from the ground up kind of things, not that he wasn't on the indies before, but like their way of molding them. I think there is a little extra added care. And sometimes it starts with vignettes like these where it almost feels like they're making the plan while these vignettes are being played. Like they're like, okay, we're going to spend two weeks booking this kid's next six months and we're going to make these vignettes of the process to get us on the road or whatever. So he's very easy to like, like there's something very playful about him and magnetic about his energy that is just very fun to see. And this has been nice to contextualize him as being something other than, wow, what a bouncy athletic freedom. So a couple of times we got last last week we had Obah wipe walk right in front of Tony D. Yes. This tonight we had Obah wipe walk right through Tony D talking to somebody. He's like, again, with this guy. And then Obah is being interviewed and he says, and they asked him, you know, what is like, next week I will be have an open challenge and like against whom, against whoever is brave and or foolish enough to get in the ring. And then what out walks Tony D is like, you want to know a big scoop next week. I'm going to have this match, which is Charlie Dempsey. Hey, and oh, but did not look happy about it. So like, so this is obviously building toward Tony D'Angelo versus Obah Femi. I'm so cool. I'm so torn, Kate. Tony D, I feel like as much as I hate the idea of this, I feel like he's kind of if he's going to be feuding with Obah Femi over the North American title, if he's currently the Heritage Cup champion, I don't like him like having a match with Obah Femi and losing like if he's the Heritage Cup champion. And I also don't want him to lose the Heritage Cup. We haven't even seen him eat spaghetti out of it yet. It's still early in his reign. So if he loses the Heritage Cup championship to Charlie Dempsey because Obah does something, I don't want Obah like messing with it that way. I don't want that at all. But like, listen, just in a vacuum, not in a wrestling ring, but in a vacuum. Obah Femi versus Tony D is everything that I want. Of course it is. It's everything that I want. However, one man has to win and the other man has to lose, and that will make me sad. But also the other context of it, R E Tony D already has a match next week. Obah's got an open challenge next week versus whomever. And Tony D's got a title match title defense next week. So all of that has to get ironed out. It seems obvious the Labor Day plan, no mercy, will be Tony D versus Obah Femi. Just because I would love to see how it works, I wouldn't mind it being a North American title match fought under Heritage Cup rules. Ooh, okay. As kind of a melding of the things, because Obah like just having to like just being so frustrated with the time limit and everything because he's not part of this. He doesn't understand how this works. That could be fun too. I don't know. There's just there's a lot of fun stuff you can do with it. I don't want it to become silly because and I also like I don't do I want Obah Femi to be the champion forever or do I want him to possibly do my Italian American championship? I don't know what I want more. It's so hard. I don't know what I want more. His meltdown is adorable. I love it 11 out of 10. I'm intrigued to see what happens to there was talk about wanting to bring Tony D up but them wanting the rest of the family to be ready for that. We haven't seen big action in forever though. So I don't know. I feel like I feel like they didn't love what they saw when she was two minutes. I know but I I remember being rough. So I don't I don't know. Maybe they don't have anything for her to do. They will once they start feuding them actively because because that feud won't really get started until after Tony D versus Obah. Tony D's losing to Obah and then they'll do a whole thing with his North Quarter catch crew versus the family. I wonder if it goes the other way that somebody costs Tony D against Obah Femi which is fine. Like if probably not Charlie Dempsey but like somebody. Maybe it's Vincent Claire. Maybe she's the pawn in the game now. Like fine you can be in this but your job is to go out there and cost Tony D or whatever. Could be fun but uh yeah that's that is the Sophie's choice for Alex. Mead Norma says how do they go two nights at the bash with Penta El Sero Obah Femi matches. There's no conflict Alex give Obah everything and do better HBK will always do better HBK. You can always do better because you can all be looking kid. Even if you improved by a million you would could still do better than that. But yes no this is this is the thing. I have been wanting since like December of 2021 is the Italian American championship worn by Tony D'Angelo. She hasn't had a match for the North American title since. I'm just close to getting the thing that I've been wanting for the longest. But at what cost Alex? But at what cost? At what cost? Thank you for putting it so succinctly. Louise asks who will answer this Obah's challenge next week. It'd be kind of cool if it was somebody from TNA but it won't be it'll just be Malik Blade or somebody. Um okay The Glory Boys versus MSK there was this really sweet thing between them about you know before the match which made the ending so much worse of Zach Wentz talking about how it's been 800 and something days. He had 191 days since he left this place and it's put like a long time coming. I can't believe I'm back here. Trey Miguel being so supportive of his friends like the three of us together were the rascals but tonight's all about MSK and Wesley being like so wistful and happy that he's back with his friends. He's so happy to be back with his brothers pre-match. And the match is excellent because it's these four guys. Yeah it's with the with the one tiny exception of the dumb backflip that requires to be pushed onto your onto your opponent. That's the one thing I don't like in this whole match. It was so so great. Oh kudos to all four men. It was brilliant. Really really really great. So when you're moving that fast the timing that everybody has to have to be perfectly on point with all of the stuff. My god what a fantastic match. Um Zach Wentz gets trapped outside the ring. Um Axiom hits the golden ratio they used to call that. Um his running uh single leg drop kick on Wesley and pins him before Zach Wentz came back in the ring and um they they shake hands afterwards. Um the blurry boys go backstage. Um Wesley can barely stand. He's so distraught over this. Trey Miguel was like fighting back tears. Um Zach Wentz is keeping together the most out of the three of them. They all stand together. Wesley kicks Trey Miguel in the face and Zach Wentz is like why that's your brother why would you do this? And he kicks Zach Wentz in the balls and then he destroys both of them, puts Trey Miguel through a barricade. Drop kicks Zach Wentz's head into the into the steel steps that he's turned fully healed. This is this is uh uh so Luis will tell me she will know this. He will know this. Um Luis will tell me how long the rascals have been a thing. Like I know there was a breakup because Wesley and but if you if you just decide the time that at least two of them were together how many years is that? And for the most part there's always been something going on in TNA with some of them. This is a TNA faction. When MSK came over to um to NXT for a while and there were two of them there and only one of them in TNA and Trey Miguel was doing his own thing. I understand it's that was part of it but this was a TNA faction. And the idea that you would break them up after what six or seven years on an episode of NXT that just feels very much to me like it is not your story to tell WWE. Like if you were going to do this you do it on an episode of of TNA. I understand it's your guy Wesley doing the heel turn but this is you could easily just show you could show footage of it and then have Wesley explain himself in NXT that gives you what you want. If you did this in TNA and brand film of it on social media people would tune into your show the following Tuesday to see what the hell happened. Like it does not feel like this is your story to tell. It was executed very well. It doesn't make any sense to me but I don't know the full history of these guys. Wesley screaming at Zack Wentz, you left me alone. Like it was the idea that it was his his his choice to leave for the for the whole social media fervor that went on leading to a thing of him from years before leaked which forced their hand to release him. Like it was his idea to do that doesn't make any sense to me. Wesley being distraught over coming back not being able to get his NXT North American title back being the one pinned in this title match trying to like help his friends. I get all that but for him to be like go from I mean just jovial Wesley to Anakin in the middle of Revenge of the Sith. Like please don't kill the younglings Wesley. The younglings didn't have anything to do with it. So there were two things that that struck me about this one in full agreement that not only to my understanding and if you want TNA insight that is a Joel and Cresta ball game that is not a me ball game. I cover ROH so I do a post show while TNA is going on I don't know the scene that well. But from my understanding like the rascals are as integral to that program as just about anything and like a breakup of them should have been like a slam aversary breakup. Not just a breakup on the TNA umbrella but like a major pay per few major major big deal from my understanding. The other thing that kind of struck me was just like why are you turning Wesley heel when you have no faces. I mean this whole roster. Who's the champions. Ethan Page. Yeah Gary he might be much a heel. And Obafemi a guy he just lost to. What is there for him to do? He can't feud with these guys. I mean I guess he can but they're TNA dudes. Like this feels like a thing you do to kick them back over there and they don't come back. I don't know what you do with Wesley at this point. But even like other guys in that world right like Sean Spears leading heel. I mean Duke Hudson if he breaks free of this I don't I would imagine he I don't know what side he would be on. But like Javad Evans is a face we'll see what they do with him. But Trick Williams is a face and he's eating clean losses to be done. Like I'm I just don't understand why you're turning one of the most like easy to love baby faces. Who offers something different as a face too. He's not like Mr. In your face baby face. He has like this very cool ease about him. Um he's a different size than the other faces that you have in NXT right now. Like I I just don't it was so frustrating because like you said the match was incredible. These guys were amazing. They were amazing in the sixth man. They're amazing here. I it it feels like TNA got robbed on the breakup and it also feels like the crowd reacted well. But like they're not an established unit on NXT programming. So you're not going to get the same level of investment and pay off that you would if they were one of yours. So I don't know man like this was I kind of want to see where it goes. But like off the bat I I don't get it at all. Like there's not a single thing that unless there's there are people I'm forgetting about which is entirely possible. Like who does Wesley face next? Like just a non title program with Javon Evans would be great. But like you're going to be Javon Evans and like there's a lot of momentum you have with Wesley. Like this feels like a thing you do with Wesley if a you're short on heels. Correct. And you got to find a new one and be the the champion currently the top champion is a babyface who needs challengers. That's what that's when you do this and you catapult Wesley a new version of Wesley who doesn't give a shit about anybody but himself back at like that's a totally different guy. I'm not saying Wesley can't pull this off because I think he can. I just I just question why now is the time and why this show is the place. So MD Cyclos saying Javon trick Eddie Tony D Briggs. Briggs definitely seems like he's still in this thing with double vest and yeah and and with beach excuse me and and and Sean Spears as well as gonna be it's beers standing in the way of Briggs so he's out. Tony D is gonna be with Obafemi yeah um trick is gonna be doing this with Pete Don on his way back to the title so like nowhere near any of this right any Thorpe has Lexus King he I would love to see those matches after like Wesley versus any Thorpe sure yeah um and Javon I don't I don't feel like Wesley should be losing and I definitely don't feel like Javon should be losing right yeah so uh it just makes no sense to me unless there's some trajectory that I oh no oh no this is exactly what's gonna happen for Dante John is gonna eat the fin yeah um weird way to end the show weird way to end the show and quite frankly like I get why this had to close the show but sacrificing the Ethan Page's championship match to be at the beginning of the show when you had a two week special with two nights and it was very weird to me like yeah you could have easily had that go on first like have Ethan Page cut a promo it's like I'm not waiting any longer I need to get this guy out of my life forever as soon as possible I talked to Ava and I demanded that my title match be the first match on the show and because she knows what she has in yours truly she said yes so everybody don't don't tune in late because if you want to see all the go you got to go on to the top of the show have him cut that promo run it all over the social media boom that's the reason why it's first and you do trick and and Pete in the middle of the show or all the problems Roxanne and Thea was great it really was thea's best match by mile and Roxanne is incredible uh Komeine event it they love doing Komeine events they want to do quadruple main events like Komeine event it the story was not strong enough going in there that it needed to be some standalone thing yes none nothing can explain sometimes the horrible booking kids motivations however I think alpha bill is on to something only explanation is HBK is wearing the bracelet bracelet check HBK next time show us your wrist show us your wrist show us your wrist okay so Luis telling us that including the iterations and TNA PwG WWE CES and CZW and the variants that included Myron Reid the Rascals has been and had been an active fic faction since 2016 and Wesley and Zach Wentz had been the ones as members in all promotions eight years ended and in random Tuesday episode of NXT yeah the only thing that would make this more of an HBK calls if there was a barbershop window for somebody to get kicked through it did feel very very much like those like Tony pieces so everybody's just turning on everybody in WWE huh so it's going to be Randy and Cody Axiom and Frazier Miz and Truth Waller and Theory as I'm missing anyone also did they do a hard babyface term with Jada because look who she was talking nice with uh yeah if she was definitely talking nice with all of the babyfaces on the roster which is not what she had been doing recently and she was talking shit to Roxanne so where'd me him go back I mean the she's I don't know she's hanging out with Bailey all right uh Tim McFowl says the Rascals shouldn't break up any more than New Day should and as well as Wes did with this how can anyone watch him and think he's a heel a few HPK yeah it's it's also too soon to his comeback from injury like they needed way more space from that yes Henry the case he says HBK equals generational talent and worst booker of a generation made me feel worse for Wes Lee than when when Scott fired I'm done till Henry is funny again well I don't know man it's a it's it's NXT I don't know if he's ever gonna be funny again like a generational talent and then what's like a a generational flopper sure okay yeah um Paul Elizabeth says uh Greetings SGS hi Dan sorry to see take sorry sorry to see Kate take only the silver medal in the segue event I know I mean I did three of them come on now it's like the all-arounds I mean sure I'm sorry I'm so busy influencing over here okay you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you have a lot going on dad jewelry puns right dad proud just Ricardo says gemstone called very good that's a really Ian Ian R says gemology gi dolan very good Ian R says who's house Swarovski's house wow well done well done Ian R with some watch puns cassiobah femi and time expok very nice very well just Ricardo says Julia Hart J E W E L I A very nice very nice um mr. Showtime says Kate deserves a play button just for dem bangs well thank you so much they're a little long gotta come we're good okay here we go juke boxes um okay uh you you have to sing a couple of duets you do yes you do yes you do yes we're gonna get yelled at by shawling because we're gonna go over again okay bad apple jam tree beard says lender to sing log drivers waltz by Kate and Anna McGarragal what on earth I don't know I mean I like the first thing it's they're a Canadian they're they're a Canadian group if you're a skinny girl from the parish around what pleases her mouth from her hand to her toes she'll say I'm not sure that it's business of yours but I do like to waltz with a log driver for he goes burling down in down whitewater that's where the log driver learns to step lightly yes burling down in down whitewater the log driver's waltz pleases girls completely that feels like it might be a double entendre it does feel that way we'll have to ask that make some boys um okay uh to to um here we go okay uh insert clever tegan knocks pun says one of the gallows boys doing home for arrest by spirit of the west every canadian over the age of 45 is not popped massively okay here we go y'all have to excuse me i'm my best i've been going for a month i've been drunk since i left these so-called vacations will be my soon be my death i'm so sick from the drink i need home for the rest we were arriving December and what it was called we stayed in the bar as a long cheering crossroad whenever i saw nothing but taps of an oak kept a shine on bare with savor coats you ever excuse me i'm not my best i've been drunk for a week i've been drunk since i left and so far the occasional symbol of death i've been so sick for the drink i'd hope for the let's take me home thank you um okay well this is the great american bash not the great canadian bash so enjoy your hall of care or whatever fine um uh okay um bad apple jam tree beard says tiffany and gunther slash walter to sing ratatata by baby metal and electric call boy okay i will open that because i have the other do i open my bed give me one second i wanted i wanted to group the dusties together because it's easier i understand i understand that's a dynamic little duo yes dusty and tiffy coming up but yeah yeah do you want to do the verse or the chorus uh i'll do the verse okay every night when the sky turns red up above i feel the beat in my veins and i'm searching for love you know that hips don't lie i leave you hypnotized just one more try to make you feel that vibe when it goes ratatata my body is a weapon ratatata we're gonna hit the floor ratatata we're gonna make it happen ratatataata now give me some more i will push it to the limit i never want feeling the sound of the night i don't want to stop we push it to the limit together we crash the boning like bun bun bun moving bun bun bun bun bun bun ratatata thank you um and that's beautiful meat norma says my people want dusty and tiffany to duet diamonds are forever by surely bassy your people that's what me me norma says oh that's what me norma says hello i'm a i'm a vegan so i just i didn't i didn't know that's right why don't you want to do voice one i'll do voice two that sounds beautiful all right diamonds are forever they're all i need to place me they can stimulate and tease me they won't leave me in the night i have no fear that they might desert me diamonds are forever that air hold on up and then correct it touch it through it and undress it i can see every part baby nothing hides in the heart to hurt me i don't need love for what good would love do me diamonds never lie to me but when love's gone they're left to own if you feel all right so here we go the ghost adaptive uh things paper rings by swift daddy that's taylor swift of course i hope the morning's high like your friends were the night that we first met went home and tried to stalk you on the internet now i've read all the books beside your bed the ones cold like the stroller that i gave you in the street cat mouse for a month or two or three baby now i wake up in the night and watch you breathe kiss me once because you know i had a long night oh kiss me twice because they're gonna be all right oh three times because i waited my whole life one two one two three four i like shiny things but i married you paper rang uh-huh that's right darling you're the one i want and i hate accidents except for when we went from friends to this uh-huh that's right darling you're the one i want in paper rings baby in picture frames daddy in dirty dreams baby daddy oh you're the one i want if you will thank you that's beautiful um all right well i gotta go i gotta go back to the way beyond sorry oh wow okay that was so quick that we love it when you're here the glizzy party has gotten out of hand i gotta go oh no go tend to that glizzy party it's important that you do hello tomla valley's just ricky rainbow sings lucy in the sky with diamonds right did i ever tell you about how i used to party with vingo star you didn't i don't think you ever did well that's because i didn't picture yourself on a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies somebody called you you answer quite slowly i'll go with kaleidoscope eyes cellophane flowers of yellow and green tailoring over your head look for the go with the sun in the rise and she's gone lucy in the sky with diamonds lucy in the sky with diamonds oh thank you that was beautiful finally meet normous says Rihanna diamonds as sung by me ricky rainbow so many diamonds shine bright like a diamond shine bright like a diamond find light in the beautiful sea i choose to be happy you and i you and i we're like diamonds in the sky you're a shooting star i see a vision of ecstasy when you hold me i'm alive we're like diamonds in the sky i knew that we'd become one right away oh right away at first sight i thought the energy of sun rays the side of light inside your eyes show shine bright tonight you and i were beautiful like diamonds in the sky eye to eye so alive the beautiful like diamonds in the sky shine bright like a diamond whoa thank you it's the woes for me that really give me whoa thank you right well that's it and so now i will say keep ku kabuku is your vehicle stopping like it should does it squeal or grind when you break don't miss out on summer break deals at o'Reilly auto parts