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And it almost feels like WW listened to us and fixed some of the things we had complaints about. I will not lie to you. They might have listened, they might tune in, they might ask me for the link. I don't know. You never know. Uh, yeah. But of course, appreciate you guys for all tuning in. As always, send us your super chats if you want to join in on a conversation or share us a question about something or send us a helper chat where we get more of the cut that's hopperchats.com/fightful. Um, but yeah, let's get into this episode. Um, go home episode before bashing Berlin, bashing Berlin will take place in, uh, Berlin, Germany tomorrow. Um, I believe it's noon my time. It's a 1 p.m. Eastern time. Mm hmm. So yeah, another early pay-per-view can be mad at that. We got an early pay-per-view last weekend with, uh, all in London and I enjoyed it being able to watch the full pay-per-view and then still being able to enjoy the rest of your day. I loved it. I totally enjoy these, uh, pay-per-views that are being done over there. Uh, you know, uh, last week we had the AW1, anything that could, that could keep me busy throughout the afternoon and I don't have to be outside more in the lawn or doing anything extra. Let me just sit around and watch freaking professional wrestling like we will tomorrow. Um, I'm a static four. Yeah. So we got a pretty good, uh, episode of Smackdown for the Go Home episode. It was pretty eventful. We got, uh, two big title matches. We got a return. Uh, we got a lot to get into. Yeah, let's go, baby. Yeah. So, uh, to open the show, we got LA Knight, uh, issuing his open challenge that he talked about from last week's episode and man, he got a pretty good pop. Uh, and I was like, man, this crowd is very much into LA Knight and then Louis Wickeiser came out and we saw what a real pop is because that guy got a massive reaction. Yo, like it was nuclear, like, you know, yeah, we get, you know, we get here in the U S like we kind of like give love to our, our, our stars and, uh, people that we love, but jeez, when he came out, I was not expecting that. I mean, I knew there was a level of hypeness there, but I was not expecting what, uh, what we saw. Yeah. He got a great reaction. Uh, that crowd. Um, I couldn't tell what they were chanting, um, in German, I suppose, but, um, yeah, he got the, the sing along, so he got the chance, um, he came out and he cut his promo in German. Uh, and then he started talking and his like elongated, uh, I am very talking. I am Luke Wickeiser voice. Um, but it was great. I, I am one of those people that was skeptical about waiting so long to put the U S title on LA night because I was like, man, don't miss this opportunity because this guy's hot and he's remained really hot, even with, um, the Kaiser stuff to open the show, he still was very popular in front of the crowd. Yeah. Um, I'll tell you what, um, LA night has transcended his way into like, you know, the megosphere man, when it comes to like his likability, I don't, I don't know how this man's ever going to do it if he decides to go here. I don't think there's a heel side of him ever. I think even if he was, people would still like adore him. He's just that good man. And it's crazy because he's later in his career, later in his life. And he's, he's on top of the world right now. Yeah. Uh, I don't see him going back to stuff he was doing on NXT where the heel, uh, he did some stuff with, uh, impact TNA where he's a heel too, but like right now he's just so popular. I can't see it. Uh, but yeah, uh, one of the great things about this, uh, Kaiser said that he was going to win the US title and he was going to remake it into the European championship, which I immediately thought was cool because I was like, man, we haven't seen the European title and so long. And so I all immediately was like, man, what if he went in, but I knew he wasn't going to. I, I, I, be honest, I, um, that's interesting. And if someone like that were to happen, it would be cool. We just saw that happen in AEW with the, uh, international championship where it was turning into the American championship with MJF. So I think it would be so cool if they kind of like, hey, um, if it would have happened down the line, they were to just take it and say, this is what we're doing with it. It'll be fun. It'll be new because we haven't seen. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, this was a great way to start. Uh, we opened with a pretty good match. Um, Kaiser, uh, worked his way back in his match every time it looked like LA night was going to make a comeback. He was kind of smothering him, stand all over him. Uh, he did the drop kick onto the stairs that he does and he's injured a few guys. I'm surprised that LA night got up and continued to wrestle through it. Uh, but yeah, I thought this was a strong opener, including the promos and this match. Yeah. If you're going to start off a show, um, especially, uh, outside of the US hot, why not put this guy on, on your TV and you get your local, you know, so, you know, lubric is going to be, it's got that major pop again. I didn't know if he was going to get it, but just seeing it afterwards is just insane, man. Just so cool. Yeah. Great to see Kaiser get that moment. Um, I know coming against this, most people were expecting going through to be the guy that gets like these big reactions, but good to see Kaiser get this moment and get the title match. Uh, I figured when they announced the open challenge, they're probably going to go with somebody like this and he looked great. This was a great match. I agree. I'm with you. Uh, let's see, uh, we had a super chat from Jessica Cardo. He says, uh, hello, Phil and hi, Alex, uh, hello chat. Uh, see you tonight. I think that's what it is. All right. Yeah. We saw Ricardo. How are you man? We appreciate you and the, uh, sending some love, uh, we got a humper chat from Orion then says, uh, this was a much better go home episode than raw. The best of seven is cooking, those guards has needed that when loot wig and the women's street flight rocked, uh, uh, give me her powers. Uh, yeah, I agree. I do think this was a much better episode than a raw, but I feel like raw has overall been a better show for a few weeks. This was the first time that I can say I thought smack down with the better show and it was possible because of the German crowd, but also I just feel like they just, they just had more going on this episode with the title matches we got. It felt more eventful than raw did. Yeah, I agree. The, um, just the fact that, you know, you got the, the show was, you know, done there. I think that hyped up the show a lot more, um, and I like that. I like that. If, if you're going to be, you know, at a certain location, why not just book it for the Friday as well, you know, yes, it benefits them because they have enough time to like edit things out before it airs here in the U S. You know, so just have it freaking just have it done, um, taped and go for it. I enjoyed it. I mean, we should, we should do that a lot more instead of like taping it here in the U S, you know, doing a double night taping on for smack down. Yeah. Yeah, a strong episode. So far, see, we got another super chat, um, Ben twin play says, uh, no bang bang gang tonight. Collar bone combat club. Yeah. Baby. Is that like a reference to my business? Oh, wait. Yeah. So, so obviously, uh, Kate's bangs. So right. Yeah. So she's the bang, bang crew and collarbones because I tend to kind of like show my collar bone a lot and you know, the crowd loves that. You know what I'm saying? I'm starting out only collar on only collarbones. I can't even see that straight. That's almost up. That is. Okay. Cool. Uh, so yeah, after this, we got the promo package for a gunter versus Randy Orton for the world heavyweight championship, uh, I thought this was strong. I, I like what they're doing with this. Uh, it's still kind of, I don't want to say it's not a good basis for the match, but it's still kind of funny to me that this is all based on the fact that they got the finish of the king of the ring match wrong. And so when they replayed the match and they show Orton's shoulder off again, I was like, his shoulder is so clearly up. I think not to be this. Yeah, um, you know, mistakes happen, I tend to kind of like when it comes to professional wrestling, people try to get a little bit, you know, too technical with it, but you're talking about, you know, people going in the ring, you know, high intensity on the live television show, uh, stuff like that is going to get through, but I, I do appreciate if you kind of use it to infuse a storyline to infuse things further, you know, along and whatnot. So, um, I like that sometimes they, they blur those lines where they're like, oh, my shoulder wasn't even completely down, you know, so I, I know we're going to get a blow off match here between these two, you know, and I don't know what your prediction is for that, but uh, I just don't see myself seeing going through ever losing it. I just want to throw it out there now earlier in the show, but yeah, I thought this was a good video package. I thought it was a good way to hype the match. Um, I do think Gunther is going to retain. It's way too soon for him to lose that belt. I can't see him losing it during the international tour either. Um, I, I think this is all to set up or in coming back to Smackdown and eventually challenging Cody in some way. Yeah, I agree. Uh, but yeah, I thought this was a good, uh, not much to write home about, but I thought it served its purpose. Uh, see, after that, we got Los Garza taking on Baron Corbin and a pilot. And this is kind of what I was talking about. Last time, uh, I was on with you and reviewed, we reviewed that gauntlet match and I believe they opened the gauntlet match, correct? Yes. Yes. And we both were sitting here confused like, Hey, why didn't Berto and Angel just win that match? Cause they are the tag team. Um, but this time around, I thought they wrestled a much better, uh, match all around. I even thought that Corbin and Apollo had better chemistry in this match. Uh, this was just all around a better match. Yeah, for me, I, I, you know, I enjoy seeing, you know, Baron Corbin back on my TV, like on a Friday or Monday, you know, I'm saying whatever right now he's on Fridays, but, um, I'm enjoying seeing him back. I'm not, I don't watch NXT religiously or anything like that. I kind of just, um, by the wayside I'll watch it, but it's kind of fun to see this tag team that he's put together. Um, I think it fits them really well. I think it's really cool like that they keep him, um, with Apollo crews for a while. Eventually, I feel like man, Baron Corbin will always be like a heel to me, no matter how nice he is. I feel like he's going to turn on Apollo every time they're out there, dude, but, um, but yeah. And like you mentioned, it's nice to see Angel and Umberto out there as well, um, and getting some damn freaking victories because I, I tell this to Kate all the time. I'm big into representation, the Latin representation is, you know, uh, uh, uh, that's where I come from. I'm Puerto Rican born and raised. So for me, it's kind of like see these guys out there and win some matches because they were, they were doing, they were doing some hot stuff with legato for a while. And then it just kind of like cooled off. Yeah. You know? So it's kind of nice to see like the group kind of coming back and having some meaningful matches. Yeah. Um, yeah. The story here is that, uh, Berto and Garza got the shit together. They are wrestling a better match. You're right. And they picked, and they picked up the win here and they needed this one desperately needed one. I love this soon as they picked up the win, um, Santos and a lecturer were already walking towards the ramp. They were already done with it like, yeah, we're out of here. Yeah. We're going to win. I thought that was hilarious. I love, man. You know, I wasn't big into the whole legato thing when they were in NXT, uh, or even Escobar, you know, like I was, I was listening in and kind of keeping an eye on him. Man. He's on another level. Like everything he does, uh, from, from the vignettes to, to, you know, him being ringside, you know, his psychology. I mean, I've been very lucky to become friends with him, you know, and kind of like see where he's, where he's at when it comes to professional wrestling. I mean, he's, like I mentioned before, he's just on another level and I love it. I hope that they continue giving them something to hang their hat on, you know, and continue going, um, because I feel like, I feel like they could be an influential group, you know, instead of just like doing the same old thing where you kind of would throw him up against L.W.O. or whatever, you know, continue to let them cook, you know, yeah, I agree. They're very talented group. Um, I was a big fan of Garza when he was on NXT. Um, I thought he had a great cruiserweight Ryan, uh, and straight away, I knew he had talent. Right there. And doing a bit where he ripped his, uh, pants off and he had the trunks under it. Um, he just immediately stood out. He had, he had a great charisma, had a great look and he wrestled really well. Um, and Berthos kind of the same way that I thought he, he had something going for him and just needed the right thing. And I think they worked very well as a tag team. So I hope they keep this going with them. Yeah, they're clicking. I love it. I love the way you put that. Let's see, we got one chump. We got it. One super chat here from bad robot, uh, 2342, he says, hello, favorite post show. I always catch grabs of the late, nice to see you live Phil, uh, the Andrada and Carmelo weekly show was amazing, as always. Would you pick the two to, who would you pick of the two to the throne LA night? Wow. That's a good one. Uh, yeah, appreciate you for, uh, continue to support gravity. Um, it is interesting every time someone's like, I don't watch it live. So, you know, either I watch it on, uh, delay or I listed audio. So, but yeah, appreciate you. Um, that's a tough question. Um, I, I actually wouldn't mind if, if, because Andrada had such a bad run there, unfortunately. It was the US title, right? He had the US title before he was like, go. So I think to see him kind of like carry that on, like I know Carmelo, I don't, I know Carmelo is really good, man, but I think that they're going to be loyal to Andrada first, if they were to go in that direction, you know, um, I think the bigger match and the would be that. I mean, but is Andrada even a heel or is he just middle ground as well? Like he's great because I know Carmelo's fully going, uh, heel. So, um, yeah, I don't know. I think for me is Andrada, but I, you know, you always got to play that good guy versus bad guy card. Yeah, that's, that's the part that I was thinking. I think if you're going with like the, uh, stereotypical heel versus face dynamic, it makes more sense for it to be mellow to be some, yes, because he had the heel. And honestly, I think mellow kind of needs to win more because he's had nothing going since they brought him to the roster. Yeah. So I, I kind of think it probably should be mellow, but you can't go wrong either way. And I agree there just their weekly matches has really been the highlights, back down. Yeah. Uh, if they are doing, did they announce that it's going to be, maybe I missed it, that it's going to be a best of seven, or are they just fighting, fighting to the death right now? I think most of us are just assuming that's the best of seven, uh, which we'll get into that in a few, but, uh, I think we're just mostly assuming because they've had, or matches at this point. Got it. Yeah. I, I think, um, I think this is going to go really well, man. The last time that I saw something this good was, uh, Seamus and, um, uh, uh, Claudio, I forget what they called them in WWE. The bar. Oh my God. The bar. Yes. But what was his name? Why am I drawing a blank now? Sorry. No. Cesar, there we go. Yes. That was a great best of seven. They were even doing it in house shows and they were, they were reporting it that they had a match in a house show, which counted to the best of seven, which is really cool to see. So yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Chad. Yes. Cesar. Classic few great tag team. Um, yeah. That was one of the things that I hated by the time he left that they broke up the tag team because they were so great together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I hope that, um, they do go the distance though. Yeah. Duh, duh, duh, duh. Uh, see, we got the solace of Coa promo after this. Um, he says that he's taken out his brother, Jimmy, the wise man, Paul Heyman and Roman rain. So imagine what he would do to DIY in the street private. He's basically trying to intimidate them going into the championship match. Um, and he's also laying a seat that whoever wins, uh, the title match on Saturday, either Cody or Kevin Owens, he's going to challenge them next for a championship. And I was sitting at a whole time like, please don't. We just stay away from Cody. Just leave Cody alone. Yeah. I don't, you know, that's another one. I mean, if, if I, if I'm okay to say it, like picking a match there with, with Cody, I just don't see Cody losing it anytime soon until like a giant freakin PLE, you know, like a WrestleMania style, I just unfortunately just, I don't want to say that Cody's run to me has been boring because it hasn't has had some good meat on its bones, but outside of the bloodline stuff, I, all the other matches have just felt like, okay, cool, like even this one with Kevin Owens to me is like, okay, cool, like let's see these two fight, you know, but other than that, I'm not like, oh my God, I know Kevin's going to win it. It's just, I hate feeling like that, man. I want to go in like with an empty canvas. I actually feel the opposite. I feel like everything he's done outside of bloodline has been more interesting because I feel like the bloodline in a lot of ways, it, there's nothing really more for him to do with them. He, he beat them, he beat Roman and you're not going to get this great match out of solos of coa. That's not like he's a bad worker, but I mean, for me at least out of all of his title defenses, the solo matches, the worst match, yeah, I just, I'm like, man, just the AJ matches were both great. I didn't really care for the bill to the LA night feud, but I thought the LA night, sorry, the night LA night, the Logan Paul feud. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, but the Logan Paul match itself was good and I think this Kevin Owens match is going to be good. Yeah. Yes. The matches I think are going to be great. I just feel like the, the, the story being built around it or just the hype to be around. Like I love the physical stuff that happens in the ring. I think, you know, like you said, AJ Logan, like, you know, they've all been great. It's just like, okay, cool, but like, you know, you kind of expecting not to have anything happen, you know, or an interference or something happened that Cody's not like, damn it, you know, um, but yeah, man, like, I, I, you know, ah, yeah, yeah, I mean, the solo was the worst one. I'm going to have to go rewatch that. Wasn't a big thing. I'm going to have to rewatch it, but that match wasn't really meant to be like this great match. It was meant to be kind of a placeholder to get to the Roman stuff. Right. Yes. Because you knew what was happening at the end of that match. Sure. Which is fine. Yeah. See, but yeah, we'll get into some more Cody stuff in a few, uh, we got, I thought a really good Cody and Kevin Owen segment, uh, but before we get into that, I am going to hit you guys with a word from our sponsors. I'm traveling a lot and when you travel, you got to protect your data. 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I think for the people that have been saying that their issue with the CODI reign is that there hasn't been enough storytelling, I thought that this promo brought a lot. They did a lot in this segment to sell you on this match. If you weren't already sold, I feel like there was a lot here that made this match even more intriguing. Other than the stuff with Kevin Owens of wondering will he or will he not turn on CODI? They sprinkled in some other interesting stuff straight away. I very much like the idea that CODI immediately felt guilty because Kevin Owens has been linked to Bloodline all of this time for almost four years, over four years at this point. He's been beaten down by them the most out of anybody. I love the idea that he feels guilty because he's throwing himself back in the line of fire because he's CODI's friend and he's his ally. He looked around like, "Hey, what if I give him a title match because he's owed a title match?" I'm only in some ways doing this because I feel guilty, but then in the same breath, Kevin Owens is like, "I don't deserve this title match," and not just that. You act for this. Careful what you act for because if I have to go to that place to beat you for this title, then I will. I founded, at first I was like, "I was trying to get into it because the first thing he drops is the bomb about the knee. Why didn't you come and go get down on one knee?" Right there, I understood, "Ah, this is what they're going with. This is how they're going to get into tomorrow's match. This is going to be his weakness. This is what they're going to attack tomorrow." At first, the promo started off slow for me. I love the fact that they continue to bring in past instances and things like that to the storytelling with Cody. I'm glad they laid off of the dad stuff because that, to me, just gets a little bit old and over the top of all the freaking time, so I'm glad that he was- You can imagine if he's dad at least once. Once, yes. Most of the time, it's kind of like, "I loved your dad," and he took me to get ice cream one day. I don't want to hear stories, I'll just cool. They acknowledged him and they left it at the left to be, so I'm willing to partake and to see how this is going to- How are they going to tell this story? Obviously, we know in our brains what we think the outcome is going to be, but I know it's going to be a great match because you're going to get a little bit of that heel of Owens coming out tomorrow, and that's going to be great, you know? Yeah, so this started with Nick Aldous coming out, and I don't know if it was me, but Nick Aldous looked huge. Like Nick Aldous been looking swole as hell. Like, he looked like he was about to, like, oak out of his suit. He looked like Captain America in a suit coming out there, dude. But yeah, he came out and he introduced the two competitors for the World Title match, and he addressed the crowd. At one point, he addressed them in German, very smooth, and the crowd popped very big for it. Yeah. So I wonder if he has some German to send in him because that was way too freaking smooth. Like, he was just like, he talks German at the dinner table on a regular basis. Yeah. Jack talks tight. Jack talks tight is real good. Yeah. But yeah, he brought in Owens, Kevin Owens, he brought in Cody, Kevin said that he wanted to talk to him about what happened with his knee, like you said, because he made it seem like he was hiding it from him. And he immediately took offense to that because he didn't want any copouts if he beat him on Saturday because his universal title run, which I think is one of the great tragedies of his time with this company that that world title reign didn't go better and that he hadn't had another one since. And I kind of always hated that they didn't just give him and Jericho that main event for the universal title. So they should like they should have and they gave the title to Goldberg and understood why they did. But I just thought it was such a bad way to end a run that started on such a kind of confounding note for him because it's forever going to be tied to this triple H thing that we never got an explanation for. Sure. Um, you know, before I get to my thought, I want to say, uh, give a shout out to Danny on the chat here, um, who was just doing her stream. She's all the way from fricking, uh, Israel. So I know it's super duper, duper early over there and they're hanging out on the chat. And so his zombie as well, zombie fighter. So thank you guys for hanging out here on the chat with us today for this Mike Vamposha. Um, yeah, for sure. You know, it's funny because Michael Cole also mentioned, he's like, we've seen what happens when, uh, with, with, when, you know, friends, uh, as you remember with, with Kevin Owens and a certain festival of friends, you know, like, oh, I popped out like he mentioned it. Like, yeah, you know, they, they threw that in the montage last week. I thought the montage they played last week was very good, uh, but yeah, to, to keep going into this, uh, Cody said that his knee was fine. Uh, he made the point. He wasn't hiding it. Uh, Cody instead started to talk about, uh, when Owens had handed him the title, it looked like he was going to hit him last week and, uh, Owen says he knows Cody has heard and if Cody isn't a hundred percent, his victory will be tainted. And so Cody gets mad at this confidence because he's just like, what do you mean when you beat me and that guy, that raised some tension between them. And of course that ended with Cody being Cody and being small to you like he always does and just turned into Kevin. I love you. You're my friend and I just want to know after this because I've done this before and someone else and I assume it's a mutual friend that he and Kevin Owens have, uh, asked him the same question he's going to ask him, are we going to still be friends after this match? Now, I was sitting there racking my brain after this and I was like, who could this possibly be a reference to? Um, it could potentially be a reference to the Kenny Omega match, uh, from 2018. Uh, it could, it could be a reference to, uh, the match against the Young Bucks where it was Cody and Dustin versus the Young Bucks in the first year of AEW and I just couldn't figure it out. Um, but it could have been a reference to multiple things. Um, but I, cause I was wondering if it was just the WWE wrestler, why wouldn't he just say the wrestler? It felt like one of those inside baseball things where it's a reference to a wrestler. He can't say by name on TV. And they've been doing that a lot lately where they kind of throw little, like they've been allowed to kind of mention certain things, um, including the commentary table. They now mentioned things, you know, like outside of their own world, uh, which I think is brilliant. I would beg to differ that sometimes I think that WWE crowd, if not most of the time has no idea what's going on outside of the WWE. So sometimes when they do throw Japs like that, a lot of people are kind of left like, who is he talking about? Like, you know, there's, you know, they'll, they'll just start, like you just said, running down the roster. Um, but you know, we'll, we'll see, we'll see, I, I wish, I wish they kind of just like mentioned it, but it was cool to kind of like speculate about what and who he's talking about. It's so funny to me about this and I made this, uh, reference on grabs it as well. It's almost like Cody has created a newer different version of the Cody verse with WWE, uh, because with a w he had his Cody verse, which seemed like all these things happened inside his bubble and they didn't affect anything else on the show. And it kind of feels like he does the same thing here, where he's able to reference all this new Japan stuff and all this other inside baseball stuff, even if it's stuff lower with his dad and everything. And if you get it, you get it. And so, um, I think that's such a great extra layer to his title reign, like, um, even just going by the AJ style stuff. Um, I think the thing that made his AJ style cute so interesting is that, uh, AJ styles is a guy that, that did all of the stuff that Cody did away from the company before he left in 2016. So, in a lot of ways, AJ kind of laid this blueprint for what he needed to do to take over the indie scene when he went away. So of course, when he came back and he got to the top of the mountain and won the world title, that was the first match he should have got. That's also the guy that he never wrestled. Um, I think Kevin Owens has some same, um, connections with him and he immediately mentioned that in this promo that they have mutual friends. Um, and I don't think you get the credit for the revolution that happened without you because I was there instead of you. And I thought that was very interesting as well, because we did get the teas three years ago of Kevin Owens possibly signing over there and reuniting Mount Rushmore. And so all of those things that if you know, you know, I think like they're great Easter eggs. I do agree with you. If you're just a WWE fan and you're just sitting around like, what does this mean? Yeah. What is there to decrypt out of this? But I, I thought a lot of those things from this promo were very intriguing and as well as the Kevin Owens stuff up, is he going to turn? Is he not going to turn? I thought him asking him, are we going to be still friends after this? And he didn't outright answer it. He just whispered something to him and walked away and this could have gone either way. He could have told him, careful what you act for. He could have told him, yeah, of course we are. We don't know. And that makes this match even more interesting though. The whispering always gets to me because you're in the middle of a ring with 15,000 fans around you. You know, you're whispering and the mic is not picking anything up. And you know, it leaves you thinking like, what exactly are you telling him and why can't the world know? You know, like, is he telling him to go F himself? You know, like, that's what, you know, or is he telling him, watch her back or so many things, man. He might be just telling him, he might be just telling him it's fly something. That's true too. He might just be like whispering him a joke to see if it would make him crack in the middle of the ring and just walks away. I don't know. But yeah, I thought the segment was great. I was very much hyped by the end of it, but that also comes with the fact that I am a big Kevin Owens guy. I was a big fan of Cody before he came back. I followed a lot of his New Japan and Ring of Honor stuff. And maybe if you didn't follow all those things, you might not get the appeal of it. I could totally understand that. But for me, I was all in. Nope. No pun intended. All the pun intended. You should just tell him let him know you own it now. But yeah, I thought this was great again. I thought this was a great way to add to this title match. I think over the past two or three weeks, they've got me more and more invested in this match. I'm excited. I was just going to say, I don't think that Cody's going to lose, but I'm just excited to see what they do with their relationship coming out of this. They've done a good job of doing that with Cody and the last minute matches like this, where they kind of put them together and you have a few weeks build up, two to three week build up. They've done a good job of kind of like trying to put that story together on how they're going to, you know, why are they battling and what's happening here? You know, so and it's happened a couple that happened with AJ. Like when AJ came back and I was like, why is AJ like going after the title? I don't understand. And for like two weeks, they kind of had like had to put that together. Yeah, I'm okay with it. I want to see what's going to happen tomorrow. The talking for me was like, all right, cool. There was some back and forth going on there. The whole knee thing took me away because now you're telling me that tomorrow you're going to focus on his damn knee. I would have preferred tomorrow to hear from commentary with a little like video package. Oh my God, he heard his knee and, you know, Kevin knows something back happened and said you already told me today, hey, I know you're hurt and I know exactly where I'm going to hit you tomorrow. Yes. But I think we all know like regardless, regardless what happens with Kevin Owens and Cody, this is leading to Randy coming back to smack day and getting his title match and Randy is going to turn on them. They're being way too nice to him to each other. All of this stuff for Cody is giving these emotional monologues about how much he means to him and how much he inspired him. This is. I don't know. No way. Yeah. I'm I'm so like I'm with you there. It'll be a great mess to have. I believe it's survivor series. The last map, a pay per view of the year because they don't do it. They're not doing December. They they're done doing a pay per views in December. So it used to be it used to be TLC, but they've they don't do TLC anymore. So I think it's going to go from bad blood to survivor series and it might be a thoughty show in November too. I just don't remember. Yeah. There is. Well, the November November is the Saudi show. And then yeah, and then you got survivor series, what the the week after. Yeah. It's like giving. Yeah. She's leaving weekend. Yes. It's usually the same weekend or the weekend after Thanksgiving to me. I think this is where you might see that blow off where if Randy does turn, you might see this happen. I said, now, this is a bigger build for me. This is something because you have time, right? If this is going to happen, you know, and then you just kind of like let them let them cook and kind of see where they go with it. I would like it to be in in in survivor series. So yeah, yeah, I think in terms of what we know about Cody and how much he is like beholden to southern wrestling and how big of a deal it is that he's bringing wrestling back to Atlanta. I have to assume that the order to match is probably going to happen there. Yeah, that's true. Oh, shoot. Yeah. But I could be wrong. I don't know what they're doing to get bad blood, but that is a month away. I have to assume the ordinance has to be the next big thing up unless we're getting another solo match, which I don't want. I mean, man, you're right, I think, you know, you you you're probably making a lot of sense here because it is bad blood. So they've I mean, what a perfect pay per view for them to fight in because they've had bad blood since when they were together back in the day, you know, like they they've had this history. Yeah, I like that. I think you're right. I think it would be something along the lines of a of a bad blood. And now that I think about it, I think you probably have something happen to survivor series that might be bigger, maybe a Roman. I don't know, but yeah, yeah, I have to assume they're going to do this bloodline war games match. That's my guess for the survivor series. But the chat is telling us crown jewel is on November 2nd and bad blood is October 4th, I believe, and then survivor series is at the end of November. Wow, that's, um, she is quickly coming to end. Crazy. Jesus. Huh. Yeah, never mind yet, because you got the bloodline if you do the war games, yeah, that that automatically removes Roman range from anything in the title picture. Huh. Yeah. Wow. That this leaves a, you know, I was talking about open, you know, having blank canvases for certain things. And I think this is actually like leaving that blank canvas for what it could be, what could be happening for Cody in the next couple of months. Yeah. Well, yeah, strong segment, very much looking forward to this. Right after that, we got a eight town down segment with Corbin and Apollo crews coming backstage, deflated after their loss to legato del Fantasma, Waller for some reason started kneeling them and theory was not feeling this at all. It looked like he was trying to do what he's been doing over the past week, where he talks a good game and then theory ends up getting beat up because of it. So theory tells them what's he thinking doing this. That team's not falling apart. We are. And then Waller immediately apologized and theory accepts the apology. I don't know how I feel about them trying to make Austin theory a baby face. I don't know if it works for me. I just think he's much better of the heel. I just don't know, man, like it can work, but I think the only saving grace in it is that grace and Waller is such a good heel that if he has anybody to play off, that's a immediate positive coming out of this. Yeah. Huh. I don't know. I don't, I think we spoke about this before, I think I let you know how I feel about these two. I know I tell Kate all the time that they need to separate them. And I know that the more charismatic person there is, is Waller, while theory is more of the brawler, you know, and I don't think he holds himself on his own when he talks on the mic. I think Waller's been doing that for the tag team. I think what we're going to see probably hell, it might even happen about blood is see them go against each other, you know, but, and I would assume that I think you would want to push Waller. Yeah. Unfortunately theory for me is his, you know, from the golden egg era to the week US title run, he is just, I forget money in the bank. Oh yeah. Yeah. I don't think I don't know, man. He's just been, he's a, he's in a lot of ways, WWE, Sammy Guivara in the sense that he continues to get all of these chances. They just keep giving him all these reinventions, hoping something will stick and it just still hasn't happened for him yet. I think that they work very well as a tag team, but it's just immediately obvious to me that Waller has the brighter future once they separate. Yeah, you're right, and you know, they also said that Cina destroyed him on the mic as well. He's never recovered. That's what I'm saying. You, he got a Cina match at WrestleMania. He got a Cina match at WrestleMania. He got a money in the bank reign. He got a US title reign. He went back and forth to NXT to keep workshopping him. This guy has got chance after chance after chance. He's not clicking for me, unfortunately. I do see Waller kind of being the bigger name there. Yeah. I don't know. And I mean, I don't think that he's bad. I just think care to wise he hasn't landed on anything that's really worked for me. I like these two guys together, but if you ask me to pick, I'm going to say Waller every time. I think Waller's the better guy. Waller Gray, man, I think I missed the super chat that just popped up on the screen. Ah, there we go. Guy from Emily B, she says, great insights tonight. Thank you both for all that you do. Appreciate that. Thank you, Emily. Appreciate you. Let's see. Appreciate you guys, as always, be sure to send your super chat and your hover chats in humber chats.com/fightful. We got another Giovanni Vinci segment and every time I just cannot I just cannot see it without thinking this is people like, yo, yes, this is people like, what is this? Yes. Mr. three oh five in Italy. I don't know what their area could be like plus 11 or whatever, but yeah, sorry. I don't know. I was messed up. Anyone's area code, but especially in Italian area code, but yeah, he's just with the tight shirt. Yeah, he's definitely he's definitely pitbullying it up the glasses with a nice car. He stands out there and he poses like it looks like a pit bull video every time they show these vignette he should just be like, I know you want me, like just do some fun. But they're going to try to make up a serious character as much as we're kind of just like saying this. I think they're going to try to make them the absoluteest character until I see what I mean. He's a great wrestler. But until I see like what what exactly how this is going to play out, I God, I just hope it doesn't like turn into like him turning into like an Austin theory. Yeah, I know. But he's a he's such a good wrestler, man. I was a great. Yeah. It's a theory. Don't get me wrong. I like theory in the ring. Eventually when he was on 205 live and he was still a baby and I can miss the 205. Yeah, he man, he was great on that. Even when he made the move to NXT, I was like, this guy is very good, like just give him something that clicks it. It's messed up that the stuff with Imperium didn't work out because I thought that they were a great tag team. But hopefully this clicks for him. Hopefully he finds his lane on SmackDown. Yeah, same. I'm going to hit you guys with one last word from our sponsors, then we're going to get into the rest of this show. We've got the women's title match the end of the show and we've got this week's edition of Andrade and Carmelo's Peter Griffin and chicken fight. But yeah, we will get into that in a sec before we do that. I'm going to hit you with a word from Manscape. Manscape.com and the code Fightful. They have a monopoly on the bathroom. Let's be real, when they start selling wipes, it's over for everybody. What don't they have at Manscape? 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We've got a TNA show tonight, a long with Smackdown. We've got a New Japan show tonight. That's where Kate is, I believe. And we've got the WWE pay-per-view tomorrow, and we have NXT No Mercy on Sunday. Jeez. Labor Day weekend. The funny thing about all of this is this is supposed to be all out weekend, but all out has been moved to next week. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of wrestling for the rest of the year, people. Get ready. Strap on. Yeah, there is no shortage of wrestling guys. You'll find something to fit your preference. There's something out there for you, no matter what. Yeah, we got the latest edition of Carmelo Hayes vs. Sundraw Day. Again, this has really been a highlight of Smackdown since these guys started going back and forth. This match was no different. Very, very good match. I was wondering how they were going to keep this interesting because Andrade jumped out to that lead and won two matches back to back, but this match was very competitive. I like the use of the turnbuckle really, really fun match. Yeah. These two guys are continuing to show off and show us what happens when the chains are taken off and you're able to tell a story in the ring. It's cool to let them have their segments separately. They've had that one instance where he showed up and they kind of like had a face to face, but I really, really do enjoy the fact that they're just letting them wrestle. And by letting them wrestle, they're telling us a great story and having, from what I'm seeing from what you're telling me and people are saying in the chat, a mess of seven, I'm here for it. Why not? What else are they doing? You might as well just utilize these two. Yeah. They don't have anything else going. You might as well just do a few with these guys based on who's the better wrestler. And sometimes that just works. When you have two guys that are as good as these guys, Andrade is an incredible wrestler. Carmelo is also very, very talented. Very talented, yeah. These matches have been super heat. I've loved it. It's weird because I want to say other things about it other than it was really good, but I mean, it was just good wrestling, Andrade picked up the loss again. Carmelo used to turn exposed, turn buckle to get the win. I assume that that's going to be the way to get Andrade to act for the next match because he didn't lose clean here. But hey, if they want to keep this fuel going, give me as many matches as you'll give me. Yeah. As long as maybe the final match will have some type of stipulation where like, you know, we mentioned earlier today, it leads to a title match of some sorts, you know, somewhere down the line for either or. I think it's a great way to kind of like put a button on that, you know, and it gives us it gives us a reason to really, really, you know, we're really going to watch it, but kind of like really pay attention to the whole meaning of these matches that they're having. Yeah. I'd have to assume that that has to be the end result of this few one of these guys is going to make the move up to be LA nice challenger. I would guess. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody's talking about this, this four way in the chat and it's funny. This sounds dope, though. Which one? Hold on. I mean, look at it. Yeah. Apparently, there's a fatal four way for schedule for tomorrow to be serenidive for us. It's not DeRosa and Queen Amunata. That sounds like it's going to be very, very good. That sounds like they're letting the women cook. What's the kids like to stay today? Well deserved. I think that's been one of the highlights of a Debbie's program. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, pretty straightforward match. Another banger from these two. Right after that, we got the Jay Kargill and Bianca Segment where they kind of did the flashback to Clash of the Castle and showed them watching the footage of their loss of Clash of the Castle and their continuing to tease the stuff for the tag match. I'm very excited that they actually put the women's tag match on the pay-per-view. I'm still on the fence on how I feel about these smaller cards, like the five match cards, but I think it's good because you are getting a more concise show. Sure. But a lot of times, I feel like the women get shortchanged when they do this. So again, I'm very excited that the women are getting this spot, especially in front of an international crowd, and I think that match will be good based off of their first match. Yeah. You mentioned that about the smaller cards. There was a big shift, and nothing I'm about to say is in a negative way, but there was a big shift when the network came out with the whole $9.99 thing. And then obviously that went into the whole Peacock deal and blah, blah, blah, but the whole feeling of these PLE's pay-per-views for WWE, at least for me, they feel less like what a big show would feel like just because we're not paying the $55 anymore, that's number one, which is a great thing, right? But because we had to pay those $55, you had to work hard to get people's attention and put these amazing matches and bigger cards on a pay-per-view, right? It doesn't have to be 10 matches, doesn't have to be 12, whatever, 9, but 5, 6, 7 matches are, I think, are pretty good. It all don't have to be 18-minute long matches either. But I think with the new way that the world is, where everything has to be quick and whatever, and plus the fact that now we're paying whatever Peacock is, $8, $7, $5, we've watered down the pay-per-views to just being a bigger role, a bigger smackdown, unfortunately. But that goes with everything. I know AEW will eventually, once they get their assuming deal, it'll feel the same way, too. They're going to have to, you know, whatever, make the chart, the cards shorter. But I do hope that the show tomorrow, even though we have a few matches, feel strong, even with the women. I want the women, and I tell this to you guys all the time, on the chat. I love me some women matches. I love me some Nia Jax beating this shit out of everyone. Like, the tag team division for the women, I want them to flourish. Like, I want to see fighting, you know, especially from the women, they deserve to be on the card and they deserve to have all the time in the world. But we'll see. Yeah, I kind of wish they would just settle on, like, a standard, like, seven matches for the shows. It seemed like they settled into seven matches for, like, the bigger shows, like SummerSlam and WrestleMania, but I don't see any reason for something like Bash and Berlin, where you've told us multiple times on this episode of SmackDown that you haven't been to Berlin in 27 years. I know. If you go there, you give them five matches. You could have a good seven matches. This is cool. I know. It's, you know, it's funny that you say that because they always find, you know, it's always something historic. It's always something like, Oh my God, we haven't been here since the, you know, wall fell down and Bret Hart saved America, whatever, whatever was happening back then, which was a really nice package that they played last week, narrated by, by Nati. But you know, I guess maybe they felt that by having the SmackDown there, then having that, that, you know, they're doing this now in all the shows where they kind of like have like the public opening of the show and have the wrestlers come in. I think they, they feel like maybe that's just enough plus remember at the end of the day, they're a publicly traded business. They're here to make money. Yeah. They're not either here to, you know, I think Danny said it earlier in one in her stream is like, you know, they're here to collect the money from the tickets, which are expensive. They're here to collect money from the merch, which is expensive, you know, so at the end of the day, here's your five, here's your five, uh, five match card and let's, let's, let them, let them have fun. Yeah. Amen. And they're doing, they're doing great business. So they are 100% doing green business and then by nothing that I'm seeing is shade. They are doing it. And they're doing it very well. What is it? 39 sellouts now on television, 39 weeks in a row. So yeah, hot crowds at their shows, they're selling out, selling a bunch of merch, they're killing it right now. So sure. Can't complain about too much. Uh, a shock, call this AP, APA, Alex bill, Alex man, um, I do want to say on the chat, I see you guys putting it out of there. I totally forgot to mention it on the top of the show. I want everyone right now in the chat to touch tips. If you can, please. Whoa. Bill wants to welcome to Friday nights. I don't know if you're down with, uh, touching tips, but we're at, uh, on Friday nights. Yeah. We love touching tips. Uh, uh, all right. Uh, see, we got one super chat here from Tom Lezale, he says, uh, hi, Alex and Phil. Welcome to Friday SGS rate. Uh, appreciate you. Let's go. Thank you. Uh, I think that is our last super chat, uh, last call for super chats and helper chats before we get into this main event, uh, which was very good. Uh, I had no doubts that it was probably going to deliver, but I thought it was very good. Um, well, you got a couple of, yeah, you just got another super chat coming in. Woo hoo. We got a very generous, uh, super chat from Tim McFall. He said, Phil, welcome to Friday nights. Hopefully you don't catch any straights for reasonable taste like on X, uh, weird as behavior that could plan about black and Latin men, uh, getting a well-deserved bag. Um, as, uh, as for SmackDown, Melo and Andrade and me and Nia humped, uh, absolutely. Um, yeah, what are you, you're getting shit for friggin talking about? Well, dudes getting bags like, come on, man, like, no, people were, people were mad because I, I wasn't a big fan of that whole Jack thing from Wednesday and I was like, Oh, this is a choice. Oh, I got it. Okay. Um, yeah, I am exhausted guys. I was just telling Alex before we got on here, I have gotten like no sleep. I've been, yeah, my man has not slept. I've been going for like a good, I don't know, 30 hours or so. I've been. And I've been hitting him with the touching of the tips. He's not happy with it right now, uh, but yeah, man, I appreciate you guys coming through. Appreciate your super chats. Uh, let's get into this main event. Uh, this was a very strong main event. Uh, we made it with the WWE women's championship. Uh, Nia Jax defended her belt against Mi Chen and a street match. Uh, this was great. I love the way they built it up. Um, I love the backstage stuff going into this. Um, I'm glad that Mia got this opportunity, um, because I think she's been deserving for a long time, um, especially because she's been back. She's been one of those that, uh, Triple H made the point of bringing back, um, when he took over creative and I was just wondering like, when are you going to do something big with her? When are you going to utilize her? And this just seems like such a good feud for her on TV to give her something to do. And I think she's been great here. This was kind of more of the same with the Kindle stick. Um, I thought we got some great spots in this, uh, but very entertaining match. I, I enjoy this, this curtain run that Nia is in. Um, yeah, you know, uh, when I look at stuff that had happened just like even three years ago, just getting into that fist fight with, um, Charlotte in the middle of the ring or whatever that was. Well, you know, like you, you look at her range. You look at, you know, for whatever reason, she got like, go coming back, you know, this is my favorite run of Nia's. Uh, I, I'm a big fan of hers. I love women that look like they can beat the crap out of anyone. Um, so she's definitely up there for me. Um, I feel like she is, um, commanding the role and, and being, and, and the way that she talks and walks and looks down at Tiffy and like kind of watches her back all the time. Like, I don't, you know, don't be a dick. I think you might want to cash in on me or something like that. You know what I'm saying? Like she's really playing this role perfectly. The way this whole match played out with Tiffany coming out, I was just like, what is happening? They did really good. I think they did really well. I think as they continue to, um, do these run ins with Tiffy is great because it just leaves you freaking hanging. When is she actually going to do this? And would Nia, would Nia, is Nia going to be like, how badly injured or beat down does Nia need to be because she's such a force right now that you would see Tiffy finally getting that victory over her, you know, like I'm so, I'm so intrigued over this. And I'm, I'm a big fan of everything that the women are doing right now to get themselves over and how well they've been put on television. I just wish they had more time to tell a lot of their stories and a lot and a lot more time to kind of like see what they can do together because, you know, politics, I guess, or something. I'm not going to say anything, but yeah. But yeah, I thought that this was, I'm glad that this got the main event spot. They got a good amount of time to tell a story. And this was a very eventful match. Not only that we got a good match with these two opponents, I thought this made me a look great. I thought Nia continues to look good as champions. She continues to look dominant. Sure. Yeah. But even reintroducing Tiffany and having Tiffany come down with a briefcase. I almost bit. I was like, is she really going to cash it because I know, yeah, because it looks like Nia was dead in the ring. She was not moving. So so does she gets in the ring and she's trying to get the ref to come over to give her the case and Nia turns over and kind of does the Rasputia. How you doing? I'm still here. What are you doing? Yeah. What do you know? It didn't bring case. I also like the fact that that Nia's aware, like she's not is the days of having a dumb wrestler inside kind of like, Oh, wait, what are you? No, no, no. She's fully aware that you're coming in here to try to take something from me. You know? They don't want to take anything away from me, a meachin. She she's had a resurgence in her wrestling career as well, a lot of TV time in front of people's faces. Bad ass herself, you know, like this match with Nia was great. I hope that they continue utilizing her and kind of like see where we can go with her. Even if they I know they always say that they're going to introduce a mid-card title for the women, she'd be she'd be all over that. I mean, she's so good, man. But yeah, kudos to to all the women that are putting these stories together there for the for today's show. Also, I stayed away from all the like the spoilers for the day except for I was watching a stream earlier and then I heard what was happening. So I kind of had to like mute it, but yeah, I didn't see any spoilers because I was podcasting earlier this morning and then I went out and came back. So I didn't see anything. I didn't I wasn't online to see any of it. But yeah, the fail cash in happened and then Tiffany immediately got got back to business stood up, Brian was like, no, no, no, I'm here to help you see I'm dragging her. I do you like here. Pinner. And so she dragged me a million over got the near fall. Then she tried to maneuver again, still didn't get the pinfall. And then we got the return of Bailey. I was very excited to see Bailey got a great reaction for the bird. I thought that that was a good surprise because I didn't even think about Bailey coming back tonight. But yeah, very excited to see her. I'm assuming this is leading to a rematch for the women's title against Nia. You still have Tiffany in a mix. Maybe that will be the bad blood feud? I don't know. But I'm intrigued regardless, but I did pick up the win. She hit that sheet, the diamond, what is the name of her finish that dominated right now? Sorry, I've been awake for a long time. So I'm just my brain is like, it's, it starts with a deed. The, yeah, it has to be the, I know I have it as the bonsai drop. I'm sorry. But yeah, it's yeah. It's the bonsai finish. Yeah. I know she's names that they all have their own names for everything. So, uh, the, not the eradicator that I said, it started out. Why did I think an eradicator for Annihilator, Annihilator is a much better idea. Like she's absolutely huge. It is the Annihilator. I think people are putting that annihilator. Where did a eradicator come from? That's, yeah. An island. Damn it. Tim, Tim made up a good point too. I love my women. Uh, that can kick ass. I love my women. They can kick my ass. I'm a big Jade Cargill fan. I mean, she can choke me out any time she wants like, I'm just a huge fan of these women that are just larger than life and could just do it all. Okay. Yeah. That's it. I'm putting it out there. Yeah. Annihilator is a great name. I could not come up with that name for nothing. I would never. Yeah. My brain is like sizzling. We've been messing with it on a Friday night here. He's tired as hell. We're touching tips all over the chat. I mean, we're showing plavicles. He has no idea what the hell's happening. He's never going to come. He's going to text. Kate and be like, I'm never working with Alex again. But yeah. Uh, Nia Lance, her bonsai trap, which is called the Annihilator, uh, picks up the win over me again. Uh, Tiffany lives to fight another day with her briefcase and Bailey is back. And that is the way we in SmackDown, uh, again, very strong episode. We go home episode, um, even if you don't, even if I don't feel like this, uh, some of this stuff is building to actual pay-per-view itself. This definitely made me want to watch SmackDown next week, uh, we're moving soon. SmackDown will be moving to USA on September 13th. Yeah. That's right around the corner. I keep forgetting that that's happening. Friday the 13th, September, Friday the 13th, those are going to be our first, uh, creepy hours, creepy episode of real quick, Phil, do you think that we are going to have, um, I know that because we're on free television are, you know, the, and I'm not a numbers guy. I hate reading. I hate because it's such an old thing. I'm not a writing tool. Okay. So do you think that by, by moving to cable, they might see a little bit of a, of a, of a shift, um, in viewership there? I don't know. That's a good question because, uh, of course, um, we're all like, I don't have cable. Yeah. I, I basically stream everything. Yeah. So Ross still does good numbers. So I don't know. That's a good question. And like, I was there in the high twos there and like, you know, they get, they get really great numbers for SmackDown. They're doing way better numbers than raw. Um, so I have to assume that it's, that it's because it's on free television. Um, but you know, I don't park court numbers. I just think about like how the dynamic for the business will change. I love thinking business wise as well, but yeah, I just wanted to throw that out there and see what your, what your quick thought was that on that, especially, I know starting in January, we're moving to Netflix, Roy is, yeah, you know, so you'll be able to catch raw on Netflix in the U S, uh, Latin America, the UK, um, the, and Canada. Those are all the places that you'll be able to watch, um, raw on Netflix outside of, outside of that, um, they have, I guess affiliates and other ways to watch it and any other place outside of those four places that I just mentioned. Yeah. Um, yeah, Heather, uh, Heather said, wait, are you still doing grabs either tomorrow morning? Um, I am not, uh, we did it, uh, today at noon instead of tomorrow because we didn't want to conflict with the pay-per-view. Um, so yeah, if you missed it, there is an episode of grabsity on the YouTube channel for you to watch on delay. Um, we made sure to knock that one out for you. Um, it's also part of the reason why I am exhausted. Amen. Uh, but yeah, this was, uh, this was a lot of fun, great episode of Smackdown. Appreciate you guys coming through, sending us your super chats, your humper chats. Oh, yeah. Uh, this was a fun one again, Alex, uh, hopefully we'll pop through again. Oh, yeah, man, I would love to. Yeah, I'm probably going to, uh, throw the, uh, Malice and the Palace documentary I've been watching in between wrestling on Netflix, uh, which is very good. I just haven't been able to finish it because something keeps coming up and I'm like, oh, well, I'll come back and finish it later. So I'm probably going to cut it on now and then fall asleep on it. Are you going to watch the, uh, uh, this is the main thing when it comes out in the next couple of weeks. I have no real interest in it. Yeah. Uh, good stuff. Same. I don't know. I have no real interest. I know enough. Let's just leave it at that. Yeah. I think I've had enough of them good, uh, but yeah, no shortage of other things where you're watching Netflix. If you don't want to tune in and watch a creep, I love that. And that's the way Friday night Smackdown Post Show is going to end watching the creep. Let's go. Well, yeah, again, appreciate you guys. Uh, this has been a Smackdown Post Show. I'm Phil. This is Alex. 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