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You'll have a main channel one, but a good excuse to subscribe to Fightful Select, best $5 in the bids, very excited, very excited for a weekend full of wrestling. We hope you're having a safe and wonderful Memorial Day. But get in those super chats, get in those Humpfertats@humpfertats.com. Please leave a thumbs up on this video to help people find us in the algorithm. Looking forward to digging in to this episode of SmackDown, but Cardoza, what's going on with you? You got this, this internet outage, but other than that, how are things? Listen, I want to apologize to everyone right now. I can't deal with these companies that shut off internet because they got work to do. It's all about me. They got to think about me, they got to think about me doing this show on a Friday night. They think that they're doing me a service by shutting it off, not during working hours. Hello, I run my own business. I'm here with Cape Friday nights. This is work. AT&T, you owe me. It's true, AT&T, we're coming for you, all right? But not really because they're my internet provider or my mobile provider and they gave me a good deal on my last phone, so whatever. But anyway, get in your super chats, get in your Humpfertats. We are going to talk Ching and Queen of the Ring. No Sean tonight because he was a Lexington legend today. He threw out the first pitch at the Lexington Legends game. Go Lex Legends on X. I'm very disappointed that he threw it well. There was no 50 cent mean coming out of him. He said that was the goal was to not become a meme for him, but very excited that he got to do that. I'm very happy that he was able to enjoy that. He deserves it after a very long couple of months really and headed into a long weekend of wrestling. But we've got SmackDown to talk about tonight, Luis just finding out now, I guess. But yeah, independent league baseball baby, Sean Ross, that's taking over. I think it was in Jeddah, but I know I they might sign him for all I know. They you were the counter clocks for a season, Brandon Phillips owns them at one point. They've been through a lot that Lex is Lex's legend franchise, but give them a follow. Show them some loves show with Sean some love. You can find them on Instagram. Hopefully we can co-ear some into putting up a video or something, but go at Lex ledge. Lex legends on the old X, but enough about Sean, enough about that guy. He was burying me because I got locked out of Twitter this week. Thanks to Tom Campbell. We'll get another and more, but I'll be free. I'll be free late tomorrow, but Alex, what did you think of tonight's episode of SmackDown? I thought for a predictable go home show, it was pretty all right. The pacing was fine. It was kind of standard and very, very go homey and also curious to know if you watched it this afternoon or if you watched it in in our usual timeslot because we had some afternoon wrestling today between this and rampage. Let me tell you something. We had a plethora of afternoon wrestling, so I actually stayed away from it. I really wanted to kind of watch it tonight and get the feeling. I did see a couple of spoilers that just kind of came through with the whole Nia Jax thing, but other than that, I stayed away from it, but it's also a very predictable card toward the end. Very unpredictable when it first started, I was like really pumped for it, but now that I winded down to the finals, I was just like, "Eh, okay, it is what it was except for the Nia. I was not expecting Nia." I think that's part of it too, as we go through tournaments, right? We start to do some heel and face math, and then certain winners are winning on certain nights, especially with two shows going on. You can kind of do some reverse engineering into who is going to be taking those final slots. It's a little bit more predictable. This kind of, from the beginning, for the men's side to me, has felt like Goon Thirst to win. If you're going to do this and you're going to have Goon Thirst in it, it's kind of like he can't lose based on what you've felt out for him so far, and I think hopefully that's what we will be getting tomorrow. It's nice to have a tournament. Also, I can only assume that Triple H was watching sauerkraps with me and Alex Polowski, because Alex Polowski said, "You know, they used to have this thing be a title shot at Summerslam. I wish they had thrown some stakes on this thing, and what did you know it? A couple days later, Triple H says, "Hey, that's the stipulation." I think Alex would prefer that maybe he listened to a lot of other things that we talk about, but we'll take that one. We'll take that one. That's some super chats that have come in from you guys. Thank you so much for the support. Van Twinblade saying, "Announcer voice, bangs, bangs, gang, thumbs up." I got a little top-not situation going on here. Thank you so much. Absolutely. The bangs gang. You're a part of it, even if you don't have bangs, Van Twinblade, you're a supporter. But if you're banging, wait, no, that's not true or not. We don't have that tonight, unfortunately. There's not a blue. That's the exact way there, but I like where your head's at. I like where your head's at. You were thinking, "You were trying to take that one." I tried, Kate. I'm trying to be like you. We got Kylie saying, "Hey, cuties, I got a three-day weekend baby. We'll help you. Let's go." We love that. I hope everybody's getting a little relaxation in thinking, of course, about the true meaning of Memorial Day as well, but also taking some of that TLC wherever we can get it, right? Sheldon Jackson saying, "Fun fact. The King and Queen of the Ring winner receiving a world title shot will be the first world title shot awarded to a winner since the beast incarnate Brock Lesnar defeated RVD in taking the ring of 2002. My goodness." Wow. It's been a while since it was anything more than an artificial device, I guess. I do like whenever there are stakes thrown onto something. That was a tiny little pup in 2002. That's right. We were all babies. We were all babies. I am 24, so I was two years old when that happened, according to the lore that that's wonderful community has created for me. Timmy Fowls saying, "It's Sans of Blind tomorrow." I can't believe I didn't mention that. Sans of Blinds, me and Alex Fowlowski do a specialty show because Alex doesn't watch the Saudi Arabia shows because he has moral principles, but I don't. What I do is I watch and I explain to him what happens. I throw in three lies and he has to detect them. It's our most popular post show that we do, I think, behind there. Twice a year. Twice a year? Yeah. A couple of times a year. I think we'll see what happens there, but let's get into this episode of SmackDown. I did also want to say I felt like last week was not my best show, and I don't take wrestling podcasting too too seriously, but I do take my work seriously, and we kind of skipped over a couple things last week, and one of them was the spooky lore because it's not really for either of us, and it wasn't technically in the programming, but I'm going to recap some of what we got because it is for a lot of people, and they put a lot of creative effort into those things, and I want to give it its due justice. At the end of this show, we're going to talk about spooky lore regarding the Wyatt 6, but for now, we finally get into SmackDown as I've been talking at you for eight minutes. Eight strong minutes. Eight strong minutes. I would like to think so. I would like to think so, but we start off with our women's queen of the ring semi-final. This was a good match. We kind of knew going into it what was going to be going on with Bianca because they had her injured knee take place previously, and you could only assume that was going to come into play, especially against someone like Nia Jax, but this ends with Nia hitting Bianca with the Annihilator, her bonsai drop to advance, and for what they were going to give us, I thought this was a decent match. You kind of knew what the ending was going to be, I think, with Lyra on the other side. At your point, they could have pulled an upset and had Bianca, because I think Lyra and Bianca would actually be a pretty fun match based on their in-ring, but she does a good job selling the knee. You get Bianca with a diving crossbody and the knee bothering her when she lands. She looks for a backbreaker, and her knee gives out, and you just have Nia posting that knee into the mat, and then, of course, the ending where Bianca tries to get under her, and her leg gives out a third time. We have a cent on that connects, and the bonsai drop. What did you think of our opening women's match, and were you surprised by the result? Very surprised. I did not have Nia coming into the finals at all, nowhere, but here we are, and, you know, I think it's well-deserved, Nia in the past has not been used very well. Obviously, she was let go by the company and came back. She'd actually been booked a little bit better. She seems like a man is stronger. I think in the past, they tried to play up too much of that punch that she did to Becky a couple of years back, but outside of that, there hasn't been nothing that really screams to me and says, "Man, I think her wrestling's great sometimes." But when she really puts her mind to what she wants to do, she's like, "I love her character. She gets angry. She beats people up. I love that about her." This definitely has been an improvement to me over the work that we had seen in her previous runs, especially in Ring. I'm still not totally sold on it. I feel like there's more that can be done. I do think at the end of the day, we're going to get Queen Lyra. My preference would be that Lyra loses, and that's how Becky starts to help her out. The possibility that Liv Morgan costs Lyra to get to Becky also definitely exists. You could see Queen Nia, and honestly, with Nia, she could win it here. I think this one could kind of go either way, because her getting a title shot makes sense and she's taken a lot of high-profile losses, like quality losses, but they kind of do need to give her something. You kind of do need to give her something. We've got Super Chats and Humber Chats coming in fast. We thank you so much. We're going to go through some of those right now, Bad Robot saying, "Hello, favorite posh show." Well, hello. Extremely kind. I'll just go back to Roombag. I was trying to think of more fictional robots. I try and cycle them in and out, but the Roomba is the most fun ones. We're getting a PLE with no bloodline. We'll see about that. I'm not sure if it's been said, but maybe a new era. Nobody has ever mentioned the new era before, but Lyra Nia has me hyped. Oh, man. You announced Flasky, both. The King General, but I could see Randy, King, Orton now. It would be interesting to see if they went in the direction of two heels for King and Queen of the Ring, right? I don't feel like they usually do that. To me, it feels like you can't have Gunther be in this if he's not going to win. Kind of feels like whether they had Brian Davidson being Royal Rumble to not win it. There's certain things that just don't put them in the thing if you don't want them to win, or a better example, more recent example, if you weren't going to have Cody Rhodes take Royal Rumble for a title shot, don't have him win it in the first place, right? They reverse-engineered out of that, but I really am intrigued to see which direction this goes. I feel like it's more likely Goother wins than Randy. I think it's more likely Lyra wins than Nia, but that one feels way more up in the air to me. What are your thoughts? Are you feeling Goother here? Corey Ben with Bangs down here. What are you doing? Lyra don't feel like it. I didn't think I would like it. I'm just saying. I think it's a possibility. They're not going to have both King and Queen on Raw. They're going to have one on each show. Okay, but then you have two heels? That feels kind of weird. But it doesn't matter because the two shows don't, they do coinciding storylines and think we won't notice. One show has one heel, Monarch, and the other show has a different heel, Monarch, but they're like, "Nobody's going to notice." That's what's going to happen, obviously. I was running on lurking back there, the whole damn show. But no, you've got to go. Lyra Velt, here he is going to win. I get enough of that crap from Corey Brennan online. I don't even know where. Like an RKO, Alex Flowski appears. I just think it's a possibility. I think it's a possibility. You know, he said that it's even going to people aren't even getting title shots because of me anyway, because we can't catch this show on Monday night and said, "Oh, that's a good idea. We actually haven't given anybody a title shot in SummerSlam since 2002." So he's like, "Yes, let's do that." But that wasn't in the cards until now. It is, I can't say, we can't report it as fact, but it is an undeniable correlation that you set it on Fightful Select, the best $5 in business. True. Right? And then all of a sudden, a couple of days later, we don't need to drop any QR codes here at Fightful for you guys to make direct connections. You know what I mean? Right. So here's the deal. I was going to do my old little sauerkraps over there on the other show, okay? But because I have moral turpitude, I wasn't allowed to watch SmackDown, otherwise it'd be a hypocrite, and that I am not. So I was going to just do a whole thing about the episode of Rampage today, but guess what my DVR didn't do? Oh, no. Oh, no. Well, I have nothing to review, so I'm just hanging out back there and I'll pop in to yell about something if I so choose. Well, fine, but for now, we're going to take you off screen and you can yell later. How's that? Anyway, if you want to see where Triple H is getting all of his ideas from Fightful Select.com, Zach, putting it over with a generous super chat, very kind of youth act is they got to plug Fightful Select discord specifically as I'm trying some new stuff such as a watch along tonight and the voice chat channels for people in the discord to talk to each other seems to be going well. Much love to everyone. I did a Q&A session two weeks in a row before ROH. It was very, very fun. I've been loving that community, especially as Tom Campbell got me locked out on Twitter. But it's really nice to have a controlled environment to talk about wrestling in. There are channels for every show that you could want. There are channels for other things. Sean has an Ask SRS channel and they're please don't ping him. He's a big time Lexington legends now. He can't be bothered with all the notifications. No, but that channel is specifically for that purpose. So good stuff and some backup on our theory here. Sir Brando saying enjoy the discard voice chat tonight. Best $5. The discord is where is that, man? We took time to build that thing and put it together for everyone. So I'm hoping everyone's enjoying it. I want to say we because I raised my hand and was working with it with the boys. I go back once in a while to make sure everything's good and up and running. But yeah, it's just it's such a great community to be a part of and watch as it there's never anyone there that will not get kicked out, but if they try, they will, but it's cool. It's a good time. It's definitely a good time. A hugely generous super chat from Ryan saying, "Fiple, I just wanted to say thank you for all that you do. I go through winning this tourney for the men's side since the start, but since the announcement from Triple H said the winner is going to get a title shot, I have this gut feeling that Orton is going to win." That doesn't make me reverse-engineering a little trickier as far as it feels like if Gunther is going to go for the title he has to win unless they have Elia drag it off in her fear or something like that. But if you want to get to Orton versus Cody as they are both faces, you can do that with a tournament. That's actually a good use of a tournament, which WWE doesn't always do the best with, but that's an efficient use of it, and then you have Randy Turnheel during or after the match. That could work too, but to me, it does feel like Gunther is to win. I'm going to keep riding that horse because I feel like that is the way to go. Van Twimblade with the important question asking, "Kate, is Pulaski in the bangs bangs getting hell?" Yeah, he is, first of all. What's her sign? Like, no? No sign. I mean Pulaski has- That's her sign right here. The most luscious hair in the game, really. And I was the inaugural member of the bangs bangs gang. Can I be part of it? Can I be like, I don't know, third member, like, I was the third, you know. You're definitely in there. Can I be the third guy? Like, we see W and Hogan. Oh, I swear, but third man. Nobody will turn on you. You are sending slightly robot-y. I don't know if there's anything you can do about it, but we have bad robot in the chat. So as long as you stay a good robot, that's all that really matters. So more love for those women's stuff here. We got bad robots. Speak up the devil thing. I think Nia wins Bailey Piper, then Nia just monster heals David and Goliath. Kate has the best bangs in the biz and Alex has the most incredible clavicle. Well, thank you for the kind words. Nia winning would make sense. There's certainly, I really feel like that one could go either way because it would be the type of moment that they would book for Lyra despite Pulaski being angry about it. But Nia winning also makes sense. She needs a big win. She can dine out on it for a long time as I feel like a lot of heals are bound to do. And there could be a nice setup for her in Bailey at summer sleep. I don't mind that. Kate McFowell echoing that, such a meant saying, feels like we're getting a Bailey Nia at summer slam with Tiffy in the bank, cashing in similar to what Rollins did at Mania to create a big summer slam moment. I don't hate that. I don't hate that. Tiffy in the bank definitely feels like the way to go regardless of what that timing looks like. I feel like she is the shoe in to win it. She is the shoe in to win it. Guys, keep those super chats and humper chats coming. We thank you so much for all of the support that you guys are giving us today, but let's dive back into SmackDown where after this match, just a quick backstage with Kayla Braxton interviewing Nia while Bianca is getting medical treatment. Not a ton to say that, just kind of a typical call out calling out Lyra who's at ringside saying that she went through Bianca the same way she did Becky conveniently glossing over all of the major losses that she had, which is fair, heels are allowed to do that, but saying that she's going to win tomorrow and then go on to summer slam. So typical stuff, Bianca icing her knee and you got a Tiffy insult drive by there. If you have anything to weigh in on with those, feel free to, but kind of standard fair in a way. Yeah. Same thing. Am I still suddenly robbery like a robot? A little bit, but not as bad. Okay. I'm just, yeah, but to add on to that, no, I'm just, like you, I'm just going to say run and wait to see what they're, where they're going and what they're doing with that. Agreed. Agreed. I think we'll see these things continue to play out and then Nia and Lyra tomorrow, we will see. But Byron's hacks in interviewing Bianca and she says she's disappointed because she really wanted that crown, Candice Lorraine, Indy Hartwell, roll up, bad audio quality there. Not much better than what Alex is trying to fix. Jade Cargill arrives looking like a star as usual and says to the heels to bug off and that she's going to go get a match. Indy Hartwell and Candice Lorraine versus Bianca and Jade should be fun. Shayna and Zoey want a Contendership match on Monday. How come when Shayna and Zoey Contendership matches, they have to wait months to catch them in? What are we doing with this? You need to stop having number one Contenders matches or you need to start having number one Contenders get their match before anybody else gets a match. You get a pick one and then do it. Agreed. Thanks Alex. I'm looking forward to seeing the in-ring on this. I'm excited that Candice and Indy get something where they look strong. They picked up some wins, them getting a shot that makes them feel like a legitimate tag team is good. Oh my gosh, the women's tag title is being defended on a PLE, finally, right? This is good stuff, but justice for Shayna and Zoey, man. Now with Saudi Arabia pay-per-views, I try not to jump to conclusions because I know there are some talent that don't feel comfortable working them. I know Shayna has in the past. I think Zoey worked one if I can remember correctly, but I'm not positive. But my notes on this just say, Shayna and Zoey actually get their Contendership Challenge. Look how come they keep winning Contenderships and not getting to challenge for the titles with them. Are they just trolling me at this point because this is one of my favorite tag teams going? I don't know if this is maybe we're so new to Ville. We'll come in to play further to be like, hey, they won this match. She's been a managerial figure before. She knows that it appears well. Maybe they can pull some strings. But I just want to see Shayna and Zoey kicking ass as often as possible. That's just me. But I am excited. These titles are finally defended on a PLE. And I love watching Candace Lorre, and I really like Andy Hartwell too. Your thoughts, not just as interview, but what gets set up here? You know, I don't have any faith in with the Candace Lorre like tag team. Is that bad? I haven't seen anything like good come out of it yet. I think there's something tricky when the story with the team is that they're lethal and they'll cheat so much that most of their matches are very short because they cut those corners because we've seen some very, very short matches from them where we don't actually get to see what they do. So it's kind of a double edged sword with that because they aren't long enough that you can invest faith in them in a way because you're not seeing the full extent of their capabilities. But also the women's tag picture hasn't been getting treated that seriously until this title switch. So it's probably a little bit of both. And I think it's also one of those things where the outcome is super inevitable. So it's hard to be excited about the other side because you're like, no way Jane and Bianca are dropping this early, right? So that's what I believe you. That makes a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. Guys, keep those super chats and humper chats coming. We are working our way through Smackdown, of course, before tomorrow's King and Queen of the Ring at P.L.A., followed by Double or Nothing on Sunday. So if you are a wrestling podcast, you're here at Fightful. Very possible that you don't have as long as we get this a lot of other people out here, but we love it. We love what we get to do. And we love review and Smackdown over here. So let's keep working through it. We get Grayson and Austin Theory with the Grayson Waller effect. And they talk about how, or Grayson Waller is talking about how Austin Theory is one of the most talented, entertaining men on the roster. And Carmelo Hayes saves us from the rest of that life, he says, that he came out because it sounded like they were talking about him, which I love from Carmelo, that feels like such a great heel thing. I'm like, oh, are they talking about how someone is so great, must be, that they were calling me out to the ring. And A-Town Down Under says that they are switching things up, so they're going to have Carmelo come out instead of Stupid L.A. Knight's theory laughs about Lashley, the Street Profits, or Bobby Lashley only giving the Street Profits advice on how to lose, and Mellow says that just like Bobby Lashley, they are selfish and jealous, egomaniacs, and that Carmelo Hayes starts talking about L.A. Knight saying, there's nothing worse than a veteran who hasn't accomplished anything but wants to talk. And boy, does that feel like he was talking about the booking and not L.A. Knight. This summons L.A. Knight out, he gets to the ring, and says that they're poking a mean dog with a sharp stick, and soon enough he's going to bite the hell out of them, and they'll figure out whose game this is. He goes to leave and Mellow attacks him, they break down here, the Street Profits come out for the save, and the baby faces clear the ring as we go to break. This goes into the A-Town Down Under match with Carmelo Hayes versus L.A. Knight in the Street Profits, but a pretty loaded segment here where not a ton happened, to be honest. Like, which is okay, it's a go-home, but not a ton said other than some good old-fashioned shit talking, but that's L.A. Knight's specialty, so I don't mind that, Carmelo Hayes ain't bad at it either. What were your thoughts on the Grayson Wola effect tonight? Yeah, we pivoted away from him for so long, you know, by him I mean L.A. Knight. Like we haven't seen anything really strong for him. I think that this might be, for me, really interesting to see how this plays out for him, and where they start shifting him around. I like him with the Street Profits. I think that's a pretty good formidable team for him, and I know that AJ, we'll talk about AJ later, but he betcha, he doesn't have a lot of time, right? My brain thinks the same way for L.A. Knight. How much longer can he go before they strap him and do something with him? Like I'm scared that they might not take the time to put something on him for the long run. It's something that's going to be like a middleman, you know? Well he is in a contract here, so there might be some things that have to get ironed out. It does feel like they're headed toward L.A. Knight versus Logan Paul, which makes me happy because he should be the guy to dethrone him. I also think that's a safe setup because of Logan Paul routines and he leaves the company, they're okay on that too, like he goes out with a pretty solid loss on his way out the company, but we're going to talk about this match in a little bit, but Alex, while you are watching in the evening, some of us were other places in the world. You know what I mean? They were watching a little bit earlier if they wanted to. 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He's going to warm that arm up. He's going to be out of here. The minor league baseball system is known for being extremely profitable, so I'm sure we are in a great danger of that. This is where he makes his millions. This is it. This is where we're going to lose him. He's going to have an agent. He's going to come in here and big time loss, but go give those Lexington Legends a follow if you would. Go Lex Legends on Twitter. We moved to our multi-man match, A Town Down Nanda versus Carmelo Hayes versus LA Knight in the Street Profits. LA Knight in the Street Profits. With the win pinfall here, with a nice Frog Splash of Montes for a ridiculous one, he just has the best one. Grace and Waller, this is tricky, and it's kind of one of those ones that says to me, if you can book anything, why are we booking this? Because it doesn't feel like anybody in this should be taking a pin, particularly on the heel side. You just pin the champion and you pin to Grace and Waller. So I feel like if you're going to pin either of those two, it should probably be Austin theory because maybe we're setting up dissension there, I don't know. But you also don't want Carmelo Hayes pinned because he's like the young hot prospect that just came up here from NXT. He needs to feel like a big deal on SmackDown. He needs to get established. So I feel like usually when you do champions and another guy, the whole point of that another guy is so that he can take the pinfall, but you can't do that with the another guy that you picked in this. So not my favorite there. I don't love the booking here. I do like the baby faces getting a win though, LA Knight being kept strong in this, good stuff. But that Montez Ford, Frog Splash and everything he does in the ring is just so impressive. But a fun match here, not a ton to say, because this was pretty stakesless. It was just to continue a story and a feud, wouldn't hate LA Knight and Carmelo Hayes if we're doing LA Knight and Logan Paul at SummerSlam and we have a feud in between for Money and the Bank to get us there. Don't hate LA Knight versus Carmelo Hayes, that's a fun one. Both of those guys can talk a lot of shit. Carmelo is a phenom, LA Knight solid in the ring, sometimes great in the ring, I would say. Good, good stuff here. I just would like the belts to move off the Vosta theory and Grayson Waller personally. But this was what it was, any thoughts? I think when you talk about Carmelo Hayes versus LA Knight, what a great learning tree is to be underneath someone like that. No, it's a learning tree, it makes me think of the Jericho stuff. I get that part because of my bad. No! But yeah, I think it'll be cool to kind of just see him doing his thing, like someone like they can go back and forth, trade a couple of wins here and there on their way to SummerSlam, have a little blow off match right before it. What do we have, Money and the Bank before it? At that point, you can see Carmelo's star rising, man, and if LA Knight is going to go and head towards the US title belt, then you start sneaking little things in there left and right. Carmelo's working that heel side, you tell, like he's really pushing it. So he could do a handshake deal with the Paul brothers, you know what I'm saying? And just be like, we can work some out real quick, they're always catching you with the freaking with the brass nucks, why not just put a chance for a little bit. So I like where they're going, there's a lot of ways to mix it, and I'm finally happy to see LA Knight in a contender spot. Again, I'll relate this to what I said before, I'm afraid of how long that'll go. I want to see LA Knight in something memorable. Agreed, and that was kind of what they said on the Grayson Waller effect, right? I'm like, oh, this veteran loves to lecture and he hasn't really won anything, and that to me is a condemnation of the booking, but Alex, it's a new era. So let's hope that perhaps this new era does give LA Knight something, we got some more love coming in. First time I'm hearing that, by the way. If you know what I'm saying, set partners, let's crank. I didn't watch SmackDown, but wanted to support women and Cardosas. Well, thank you for supporting women and Cardosas. Also, my phone is at 69%. Nice. Happy Memorial Day, well, happy Memorial Day to you, meet Normas, I'll tell you what, I have not missed Twitter being locked out of it. It's been like the most peaceful week of my life, but the only thing that did upset me was yesterday's episode of ROH was 69 minutes long, and I couldn't even tweet about it. What a heartbreaking development that was, I was like, oh no, I can't tweet about this in a minute, it's perfect, it's for Kate, but no jokes, no jokes for me. Very upsetting. I'm making a shirt, this is, 69 is for Kate. Oh no, don't call the internet that, it'll be terrible for me. You said it, you got the Bang Bang gang and, you know, the freaking 69 is for me. My God. There's no way this could end poorly, not at all, not at all. Speaking of things going poorly, what was this segment between Logan Paul and Cody Rhodes and a second lieutenant colonel photo, we thank you for your service and the photo brigade. Also wondering the same thing, please explain WTF that Cody Logan segment was, I'll be honest, like, I was staunchly anti-Logan Paul, a lot of it was because of some stuff he's done like as a person, less so in the ring. I never thought his in ring was anything other than impressive except for the psychology aspect, it took time to get that going, but he had like three reps when he took you, so like that's fine, right? And since they've shifted from ha ha, Kevin Owens is fat to logical heel stuff where he's telling the truth about stuff and just being an arrogant prick, I don't give a shit about the prime energy stuff that's boring to me, but like him actually calling people out on real shit, I think he's done all right with it. Cody having his first two feuds be somewhat heatless, in my opinion, largely because of the schedule, like they had a contract signing with AJ and then a face to face with AJ, which are essentially the same thing, match, and then we had like a three-week build to Saudi Arabia. There's no breathing room in here, so part of it is that, but like of all the segments they had, this one felt like the messiest to me, I felt like Cody actually contradicted himself, which is weird because he's not, there are things I don't love about Cody Rhodes promos, but usually they're very clear, like I get the motivations of them, I understand what's going on, but he was kind of in and out of your YouTube, youtuber impersonating a wrestler to LOL, no you're not, like this has been very, very jerky, but let's go through a rundown of it and we will get your thoughts Alex. So we get footage of Logan Paul giving Michael Cole his brass nuts, well I don't trust that one bit to neither should you, but Cody makes his entrance, but before he can even say anything Logan Paul comes out, he walks down the aisle, says he's gonna take Cody's title tomorrow, backs it up with all this, all these facts or whatever and says he's smarter than Cody, which doesn't really make sense because we don't have any proof that Cody reiterates that he takes him seriously, but that's kind of the opposite of what he said last week. He's also seen Logan have imposter syndrome and that he believes that he has another set of brass knuckles on him right now and darn it, wouldn't that just be the case Alex, Logan says there are no extra knuckles and that he's not a liar and that the ref should shake Cody down first and then he, the ref does, but then he checks Logan and wouldn't you know it's, Logan does actually have brass knuckles and is a liar, I did appreciate him saying they're his brother's fans and not his because that, that feels like a little sister defense that I would have made in my teen years, like if I got caught with something on me, I would have been like, these are Lydia's dreams, these aren't even mine, Lydia's my little sister. Um, so I, that I much, I did appreciate, but then Logan Paul says he's not being totally truthful right after saying he's not a liar and Cody says basically that the brass knuckles are the difference between the two of them and he doesn't need a crutch like Logan will, Logan will never be on his level and that he will regret ever stepping into the ring with him. This just did not hit with me. I don't know what else to say other than that, this was like, it just wasn't good. Cody has gone back and forth, I'm like, you are talented, but you're not as good as me. And I'm, I'm not like your other challengers who underestimated you, but then he's like, but you're still not as good as I like, it just feels a little all over the place. And I feel bad because I think Cody Rhodes is both times has desperately tried to throw some heat on stuff, but it's just the type of face he is doesn't really allow for it. And then on top of that, these builds have just been like, bang, bang, scissor, getting fast, like too fast and, um, too furious, too fast, too furious. They were like, this is title for title. Like, hey, no, it's not like if it's supposed to be that Logan is getting into Cody's heads or playing tricks and that Cody is a step ahead of him, I understand the story that they're going for with that of you have a veteran who is a step ahead of the, um, overly ambitious heel in a way, but it's one that has not successfully been told in, in my estimation. This was way, I didn't even love the like title for title thing where Logan out Fox him, but I liked it better than what we got tonight of like double breath, nucks, psych was not pretty. But what did you think about this? This has not been my favorite, uh, you know, I was talking to Freddie before and he mentioned I don't, I don't think they really have anything substantial for him. Name drop. Sorry. I'm ready. I'm ready. Prince. I don't know if you've heard of him. I don't know if you've heard of Freddie from the junior, um, I don't know what you did last summer, um, anyway, um, yeah, like it's, it's not for me. I don't understand why like he was on such a hot streak of storytelling and it has completely cooled off to the point where it makes absolutely no sense for him to be in the ring with, with the Logan fall. Like, I don't know why they would even entertain this. Um, I think that Logan should be on, on, on another trajectory, but on his own. Um, I've come to respect his in ring work and the stuff that he's doing in the ring. Like you, it made no sense. The promo, like I think of you know, as a pro wrestler, that's just like, no, I don't even like, come on, man, really, you're playing yourself for like, if this was the 90s, this is how we talk. You're playing yourself, bro. I mean, I'm aging myself here, you know, but like, don't really don't play yourself Cody. Don't call him a pro wrestler. They call him a YouTuber. They can go back to you will respect his in ring work, but you're also a part timer. Like, it made absolutely no sense for me. Um, and I do hope that, uh, this is quick, easy, there's, there's obviously going to be another guy in a bottle again. Um, you know, so another guy in a bottle, oh, God, it's so pro wrestling guy in a bottle. But yeah, Cody, Cody Road should just come out with like a recycling man, like just a that should be a great big realizer for the prime energy, oh my God, stop, let us know in the chat who should be the recycling man. Like, the reason that they're doing this outside of K famous, of course, because they need a heel who can take a loss in Saudi Arabia. But yes, Alex, this is what I was afraid of. They don't know how to book a baby face top guy, because they haven't had one in four years. So they have no idea what to do with Cody, a new era though, haven't you heard? Uh, I mean, there is not that new, it's been a couple of months, come on, let's, let's go. What was your plan? What was your plan? When you put the title on Cody, because the plan shouldn't have been, uh, H.A. Styles, I guess, and then I'll Logan Paul and Saudi, like this is why I, this is why somehow I want Randy Orton to win King of the Ring, because then you have Randy Orton versus Cody Rhodes and SummerSlam, Randy Orton turns heel on Cody becomes the champion and then you can actually book Cody Rhodes to try and get the belt back. So he's champion again, going into mania. So he can do the thing with rock. You can do Cody Rhodes being champion, but not for a year. That ain't going to work. So the best option they have right now, I think to take the title off of him is Randy Orton turning heel on Cody Rhodes. I think that'll actually work. Please do that because whatever they're doing now with Cody ain't it. Hear me out. I mean, they haven't really done this before. Maybe they could cut an angle where like, like they, they talk about Cody's family like for maybe his dad. I don't know. They bring in some type of like, I just, I feel like that's just so out of the field. Like, like, I feel like it just weird, like just out of the clear blue sky to mention it. Who was Cody's dad? Oh, uh, it's, um, I believe he's a son of a plumber. Let me look this up. No, no, it's, uh, no, it's, uh, it's. Benjamin Rhodes. Okay. All men wrote. He's a plumber. He's out of Georgia. All that Benji is in his dad was a drummer, so sorry, Daphne did not like our joke very much. She's like, bank her head against the desk to like pay attention to me. I don't like your Cody's dad jokes. Since, since he's a plumber, they, they used to name him after the pipes he worked with. They called him rusty. Rusty Rhodes. Okay. That's enough of a Alex Blasky will have him removed at once for that pod. But, um, I, I kind of see, I do see where Alex is coming from. If they don't do that, they at least need to have him in a longer term story cause these like quick builds where both of them have had contract signings just doesn't work. It just doesn't work. Like they need something with some, some heat on it and some depth to it. I really think some of this was just getting handicapped by the schedule of PLE two, three weeks, another PLE like I, I don't want rematch city like we used to have, but also, uh, we gotta, we gotta get something longer term in place. I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to blame the schedule. I think I just literally think, I mean, yes, you can use the schedule. I didn't mean it like that, but at the same token, you know, I'm sorry, um, Romano reigns worked like that sounds like a spaghetti sauce I should buy, um, he, he, he just worked like what once a month, every two paper views and they still had major storytelling for him. Major storytelling. That's the beauty of, of factions. I do appreciate that Cody is at least defending with frequency because, sure, we need as an absent champion. So I'm very happy that he is working very hard and making dates and making towns and that is good. Um, I'm proud to have a Latino champion baby Cody Rhodes, he's Cuban, or his mommy's, or he has a little bit of Cuban in there you go. He's my, you know, by the way, I had something I wanted to say, but I'm not gonna say it. I'll tell you after the show. Fair enough. It's really doesn't like Cody Rhodes does he wants the title off of him already. Two things are true about that. One, yes, he does not like the Cody Rhodes character, uh, largely because of the portrayal of how squeaky clean and overly patriotic and stuff. That's just not super a Pulowski type character. The other piece of that is that, uh, it doesn't feel like they have a super strong plan in place as of right now for what they are doing with him, but AJ Feud fell flat. This doesn't feel super hot. So it's two things, I think, um, but we are gonna move along guys getting those super chats. You guys have been great to us tonight. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Still got the wall. Whoa. We move in to Orton versus Tomatanga and Orton says that Tomatanga has shown that he's vicious and unhinged and unpredictable, but unfortunately for him, he's Randy Orton, man. So he's built his entire career around that same kind of triumvirate of traits, uh, and he overcomes the odds and tonight will be no different when he delivers the RKO. Not a ton to say there, but a nice promo before our main events. Uh, we also see Bailey walking backstage with the title and she runs into Nia and Nia telling her to keep that title clean for her. Bailey makes an entrance and sends us to break, uh, any thoughts on either of those two segments? No, no, very, very, uh, impactful. I like Nia being there, you know, kind of like, I guess what? I'm coming for you. Like she's already sitting at the table, bro, like don't play around. We didn't really get one of those from Lyron Monday, which makes me think maybe Nia is gonna go over. So hopefully I actually am kind of rooting for that possibility because I think there's more intrigue in it, uh, the flaming, singing Alexis clear your robo voice and scratching and robotic. So I just want to say this, it's also coming in crackling and robotic on Kate. I just didn't want to bring it up. I just, uh, I was like, maybe it is just me and I'm hearing crackle. I don't know, you come in, no, no, you're coming a little bit crackly on my headsets, but I don't know if it's, if the chat wants to tell me if it's just me, I'm going to dump these headsets and power bomb them real quick, um, I'm definitely glitchy for myself. So we're going to power through. We're going to power through here. It's not us. We're perfect. It's them. We are. We are. We move on to, uh, the street profits being interviewed backstage and DIY comes to talk about how optimistic they are to take the titles and Tommaso Champa pours, uh, their cutout and tells them it's empty or pours that a cup out, excuse me, and tells them that it's empty. Kind of good DIY stuff. My only bummer here is I don't think they're going to win the tag titles that I really want to because I'm a huge DIY fan. So that's my only thing with that. Uh, but we move on to Bailey and Chelsea green with a quick match here. I feel like Chelsea green has so much like support and momentum that they just keep killing with these squashes. Like I, I feel like she could be doing so much more, uh, but Bailey with the convincing win with the rose plant, but I do like what happens after here. Piper Niven tries to beat Bailey down, Bailey puts up a fight, but bale, uh, Piper just hits that black hole slam and a couple centons and that's really, really fun. Like I, I like Piper still coming to the defense of Chelsea green. There's still some sort of working alliance there. So we'll either get a feud between the two of them or they've kind of come back together in this way. Uh, I just, I want to see Chelsea get some meaningful wins at some point because she keeps getting punished for doing her job very well. And I don't think that's necessarily fair, but nobody can take a loss like Chelsea green. I can pot, like very say that with a lot of positivity behind it. I think that she is excellent at her job quick match here. Bailey, of course, looking strong going into the pay per view, which is what you want, but, uh, your thoughts on this? Yeah. Same. I'm with you. It was quick to the point. I, I, I, I hope that they have something good for Chelsea. They brought her back and it kind of just seems like they, you know, always stick her with someone. So I hope that things change revolving door of injured tag team partners there. And they never made the tag titles feel important with her from a defense's standpoint, like they were never prominently defended, but just the fact that they were on her and Piper with some consistency, I felt like set the division on a closer track, but she never reaped the rewards from that at all. So that's kind of a bummer, but Alex, are you there for Alex on his phone today? We appreciate him sticking it out. We appreciate you guys joining us guys. Get in your super chats, get in your humper chats and also get in your bets at bet on the line. Gee, there are some fun betting options on bet online with these pay per views coming up. Some very heavily favorited matches will Osprey, I think is, is leading the charge. So if you want to maybe get a, a, a low risk couple of bucks in, you can maybe place a bet on Roddy Strong or someone, but why take it from me when you can hear all about our friends on bet online, a G right here. 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We'll see who hits the free agency mark and who doesn't, but some AW cracks coming up as well, they don't usually do the release thing outside of the one time they did releases and then hired half of them back anyway, so we'll see what contracts are up and does not renewed I guess, but we get this chat from Ryan who says props to Mike Rome for that Chelsea entrance, haha, but yes, Piper, Piper versus Bailey at Clashle as we like to call it around here, Clash at the Castle, inject it into my vein, Piper versus Bailey would be very, very fun and a spot that Piper well deserves, well deserves and I think with how over Bailey is in Europe every time that they're there and it obviously being so important for Piper to get an opportunity like that, I think that could be really cool, I think that could be really cool and I'm sorry that Chelsea has to get smooshed on the way to get there, but sometimes that's what the story calls for, we get a quick interview with AJ Styles and Nick Aldis who's asking for one more chance against whoever wins the title before he gets desperate and does something to somebody that he regrets and Aldis considers it and tells Styles, he knows how much respect he has for him and if this were personal of course, but professionally he can't just give you title shots, I love the way Nick Aldis runs stuff, all of it is stuff that makes sense, even with that kind of weird segment that we had with the not one on one title match or title for title match where he came out and was like, that's not what we agreed to, I love the way Nick Aldis presents himself on this show, doing stuff like that, like, hey, I really respect you and your career dude but as an officiator of my role as the GM around here, I can't do that and AJ says that Nick knows he doesn't have a lot of time yet, left and Aldis says he can't help him and apologizes and they go to commercial break so some good stuff, some good stuff there, we'll see what's next for AJ, we haven't really seen Shinsuke since he got drafted, I wonder if they run back him and Shinsuke under better circumstances because their feud was so poorly done the first time around and that should be great but I feel like that could be a fun test or a fun thing to revisit through a better lens, thoughts on AJ Styles saying he doesn't have a lot of time left, I feel like AEW would be a fun run for him if he did want to go there but it's also a very crowded roster with the use of the overflow brand being abysmal in ROH unfortunately but what are your thoughts on this AJ interview that we get? >> I kind of felt like AJ when he says he's about to lose it, kind of felt like he was going to go after Aldis a little bit there, kind of giving him a little bit of a look, tapping the desk, that desperation is starting to get through and if you're not going to give me what I want, I'm going to slap the ship out of you and take it and we know these gentlemen have made the rounds in the past and I don't think, I don't know if this would want to get back into the ring or if that's even in his future anymore. >> I hope so, he's great in the ring. >> Yeah, but I do, I felt it and if I felt it and if maybe this is a way AJ kind of starts fizzling out a little bit and does what he wants to do later on, whether just producing or whatever, I think it would be great, I mean man, like no one's giving him a chance that he finally loses it, okay. >> That's the sound of something falling three stories. 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King supers, fresh for everyone, fuel restrictions apply. >> Boom, you know. >> I would love to see Nick Aldous back in the ring, I assumed that would happen with the bloodline because of the way that he was kind of like, yeah, I don't really care with all the roses and haven stuff where Hamum would be like, but the tribal chief says and he would be like, I don't, there's no bearing on me, this is my show when I run it. But I would not mind seeing Nick Aldous and AJ Styles run back, I'm intrigued to see what's next for him, but certainly feels like a heel turn may be sooner rather than later. >> We love you too, you're always so supportive of us, and we appreciate that about you. We also get one from Flame Inc who wants the Internet to get mad at us, I guess, by asking this question. But says WWE on Saturday, AEW on Sunday, who's got the better show? For me, it's AEW because I feel like most of these pay per views in Saudi Arabia aren't really for major story advancement as much as they are for spectacle, and I think there's going to be some cool surprises for Double or Nothing and some really like impactful stuff just because they're heading into all in, not that far from now, you've got Forbidden Dogar coming up, so I think it's just a more heavily weighted pay per view for AEW. So I'm expecting that that one will be better. There's some stuff that I can't wait for on this pay per view that Alex won't be able to watch because that triple threat for the IC title very, very, very much so looking forward to that. I'm also really looking forward to Goother and Randy Orton from a match perspective that's just interesting to me based on their styles and their characters. It's not a combination that I would have anticipated, so don't mind that at all. I think they'll be good shows, but I think AEW just because of the implications of it will probably be a little bit stronger. What do you think? Am I still crackly? That's what I think. No, you sound good. You sound alright. Alright, perfect. I apologize to everyone, unfortunately, like I mentioned on the top of the show, their new complexes are being built and they're working overnight and my internet took a hit. Anyway, yeah, AEW, I definitely feel like AEW has the better show, it has a lot more stories that are with a lot of impact, like you said before, a lot of things that have to move forward. It's the five year anniversary of that show, so they're now chugging along and about to beat the record for Monday Nitro being on the air, which is insane. I love TNA and I love what they've done in the last 22 plus years of being on television, there's always a little bit of miscues here and there with TNA, but AEW has had a strong relationship with TNT and Turner itself and they just seem to be teasing something bigger is coming. So, yeah, I think this here, this pay per view is going to set up the rest of the summer for them. Yeah, I think the only thing I don't like about it is the Triple main event because that means there is no main event and that makes me want to barf, but we will see, I'm looking forward to both of them genuinely because there's a couple matches that I really want to see on this pay per view that we're heading into tomorrow and the double or nothing card looks loaded, so I'm happy about that. I'm happy about that. Wrestling is for me, man. I'm having major wrestling matches on a weekend, on a Memorial Day weekend. Are you serious right now? I'm like, so well fed by all these wrestling organizations right now, I'm going to blow out of my pants. If only I had a bluetooth tagway for tonight, but I don't, sadly, good for you guys though because that would be another ad spot you guys don't have to sit through, but I'm also looking forward to it. I got asked yesterday, like, do you even, like, are we used to be your favorite brand and it's not doing anything right now, like, do you even want to do this post show and the answer is yes, because I get paid to watch wrestling and talk about it. Do you even like wrestling, Kate? Do you even like Wrestle, bro? You even watched, bro. But I understood what they were saying because I basically rant about the same things every week, but, like, I get paid to talk about wrestling, like, of course, I don't think people understand that, no, because we get, you know, we get stuff thrown at us, unfortunately, but we are getting paid to talk about this great sport. I mean, I get it because ROH was my favorite brand and they've run it completely into the ground for no reason and destroyed it and broken my heart. Well, you should take it over. I don't know why you're not putting your damn hat in the ring. Oh my God. Kate of honor. I'm here for you. Kate of honor. Wow. Cool. [laughter] Ring of cater. Something like that. But we come back from commercial and I, speaking of things that break my heart, we get Andrade Hyperiel about how this hasn't been an easy journey, but he controls his destiny. He doesn't talk about, about bees knees, unfortunately, which is Alex Flasky's favorite thing in the world because it sounds like he's saying bees knees, but he's going to show everyone who he is and oh my goodness, let's get the show on the road with this guy, please. I know. We also get legato who are backstage and they are so upset about Andrade, but lecture Lopez and Santos Escobar kind of calm everything down. Ken Hispanics on the show only fight each other, Alex. That's what I want to know. I'm so tired of this shit like this is this is the problem, please give me Andrade versus Santos Escobar because that will feed families like I'm dying to see that, but it is also like, why can't they face anybody else? I don't know, listen, you know, we Hispanics, we love a lot of people. We love almost everyone, almost, you know, we, we, we want to fight everyone and we also want to love everyone. So let's just put it like that. See, like, I just don't understand it's like always in pro wrestling, I'm not going to single out WWE, but in pro wrestling and wrestling itself, it's always but the bucket system, bucket everything that's like in a bucket, right? Like it's so freaking weird, like, why do we need to have the Hispanics, the Latinos facing each other all the time? No, we don't. We get Shinsuke involved, let Andrade get pissed off, you know, talk crap about Shinsuke. Also you just said it yourself. When are we going to get on dryness seems to be just one long, um, backstage segment or promo at both companies, by the way, at both companies. It is very frustrating, especially because on Raw, he was like, I am coming after Dominic Mysterio and then he was like, I am on another brand. We are not doing anything about it, him making king of the ring, I'm going to love for like a for a real run. I felt like that would have been cool, but but that's that we also get a Blair Davenport vignette, which is good because I think a lot of people forgot that she had even gotten drafted, but my goodness, I think we are joined quickly by a legend, a Lexington legend in the house. He might be here to recant his experience. Oh, my goodness. My God. Are you signed, are you signed, Sean? Are you joining the stream? All right, I was just having my, that stream just went crazy on my mind. Yeah, I just kept hoping he's hoping an owl out of the stream, no, it's just lurking. Yeah. All right, well, we'll just keep going with the shell. I guess. Sure. Let's just do it or no. I don't know what's happening. You go seven for seven with three grand slams. No, I left by the fourth inning, but I saw four home runs in that amount of time. How? My family surprised me and showed up there. That was very cool. Shout out to Kate for organizing a lot of this. What do you mean? What is happening? I just have a black screen. Do you just have a black screen in the center of the way? We all see each other. No, we all see. Yeah. We all see everybody. I told you we were having issues this whole show. It's not us. I think it's them. I think it's Kate. I'll leave me come back. I just want you just the world that I'm trying to be nice and strong, like, no, I didn't. Specifically Kate and Kate's internet is what this is. I was trying to compliment her and she was like, what's going on? A little plug for you guys. Fightfulselect.com. We've just had an insane amount of news over the last couple of days. MJF's return. I was hinting about it the last couple of weeks, I think it was. Also we had an update on Kenny Omega on our free tier. For those of you who aren't aware, we do have a free tier of Fightful Select that we've got. You don't want to pay the $5, you can get the free stories and see the headlines for the paid stories. You also had a Julia WWE update. We had Smackdown producers, Smackdown plans, Natalia news. That was in the employee cuts, unfortunately, on the free tier. We're going to have a lot more on Saturday, including the rundown for King and Queen of the Ring. We're going to have producers backstage news. We're going to have a big Scoop's thread on Double or Nothing. We've got a lot of AEW news coming to Fightful Select. A lot of it. Check that out. I've got reviews for both shows, but Kate, are you here? I am here, I am. What kind of gateway PC are you using? What kind of gateway? My internet's been so much better, it's not so you come on that it breaks. You're using the PC that came in the box with the cow pattern on it and all that stuff. With windowed meat built into it. That would probably work better at this point, honestly. Kate's about to look at the screen and say, "No, dude, I've got a Dell." That's what she's... Right. She has her comp user with a giant monitor. Steve was such a legend from those Dell commercials though. She's running this on a Tandy. She can play Stellar 7 on it. She has the speed I was building. Don't make fun of my Windows 3.1 setup. What did they call those Macs that were like all the colors of Skittles? I'm Macs. I'm Macs. Yeah. I'm Macs. There you go. No, I would love one of those. Are you kidding me? Hey, guys. Leave me alone. My hours just ran out on AOL. I need a new disc. I might need a new disc, Sean. But yeah, I threw out a first pitch today. Thanks to Kate for helping organize all that. Oh, yeah. A little gratitude. Thank you, Sean. Oh, that's so cool. Oh, I love that. Look at that. Nice. Nice. Nice to see you. Look at you. I've been watching them for 20 years. I set that up so that you would become a guest and then you just did okay. I'm just saying, even though it's called awfulannouncing.com, I definitely did make this rising stars list and Adam Wainwright, former pitcher of the St. Louis Cardinals was on that list and I'll let you know which one of us threw a pitch more recently. Yeah. That is fair. That is fair. Yeah. Congratulations on that, by the way. A little slider. What would you do? A slider? Oh, no. I robbed that. It was like a Henry Rowan Gartner folder. I didn't want to become a meme. Are you serious? I was not going to be 50 cent. There were 2,000 little leakers there, at least. So that's a lot of pressure because there's nobody later than Little League. They had one of those kids do it right after me and he was not worried about being a meme. He fired that thing in there. I'm not sure. I was just like, ah, he pitches every week. He's good. His arms loose. Yeah. He knows what he's doing. Yeah. I was looking for my Sabo glasses, but they're not here. That's what I'm going to say. I can only give you third base advice. Shame. Shame. He gave you a few other positions, I think. But mainly third base. Yes. Yeah. He gave us Hot Corner, right? Yeah. Yeah. He was. That's where he played All-Star Games as. Hot corner. I played third base. I was Hot Corner. Kate. Hot Corner. Kate. Wow. You just dropped him like it was hot. Just dropped him like it was my internet. Yeah. Oh my God. Hot corner Kate could have a lot of other. I didn't want to say it. No. Really? You think that. I came. I feel like maybe. Hot corner Kate from the bang bang, from the bang bang, with her brand new 69, 69 her Kate shirt that she's about to. Yeah. Right. That's right. This is this show's gone to hell. I love it. I love it. I never got out of there, fella. That's right. It's Friday night. My God. Congratulations on your commemorative baseball. Yeah, dude. That's awesome, man. You are cool. I'll tell you this, the dumbass little kid didn't get one. Wow. I love that. How old was his dumbass little kid, do you think? Old enough to know that he didn't get one of these baseball? Yeah. That's all that matters. Well, good. Good. You should put it on the trophy case that's behind you. They're video of this. There. Yeah, I got a video somewhere. I'm sure. Yeah. I am actually going to reveal some news and the like. There were people asking about Natalia not being there if that was a sign or anything. Not her being not in Saudi Arabia because T.J. Wilson was and all that. They are like, they are in talks right now, the G and WWE. They have approached her. I've heard it's a decent deal and all that. They had her in New York doing like Special Olympics, military work and the like. An interesting production note that I noticed from last week. Now there's not heavy producer influence on the post show dark matches, but there were two world title matches as dark matches last week on SmackDown. There was, I think a Damien Priest match and Cody Rhodes match or there were two world title matches either way. Molly Holly produced both of those solo, which is very, very rare, even in dark match segments to see. In fact, sometimes now she doesn't even produce matches solo on the main show, like Bailey and Chelsea Green. Sean Devari helped out with that, but a bit of an interesting production note that ended up happening, Michael Hayes is back producing bloodline related stuff solo. It was interesting because you could kind of tell based, what is it? So while I see what you did there, bloodline stuff, you could end up seeing who was going to work with the bloodline sometimes based on what Michael Hayes was producing because not only would he produce their stuff, he would produce stuff that was featuring people that they were about to work with. That was also something that used to happen with Paul Heyman when he was listed as a writer on certain segments, but yeah, a little bit of an interesting note there. And also like cross scarlet, there are a few people there that just weren't booked for much of anything. We're just, they're chilling. For those asking, yes, that was absolutely a private beach that they were all taking pictures at and all that. The roster, yeah, the roster was all hanging out this past week and all that and listen, they know the drill, they know they wouldn't be able to do that in any other circumstances. So I think they're probably just making the best of it, but yeah, we're going to have a full review tomorrow and then sort of a full review on Fightful Select with Alex and Kate. So that should be fun. It's one of their more popular shows, but it looks like Alex is smelling the super chat for Mantic Collins, hang here for the scoops where you got some, you got some right there and you can get more at Fightful Select dot com, a lot of fun to be had in the discord today. A fun thing that happened while I was there. So Kate, you know the people on that team are wrestling fans because they interacted with you. They played the cha-cha slide, which isn't fun at all, actually. And the part where they talk about clapping your hands, they showed a video of DIY on the apron clapping their hands. Oh my God. That's great. Another fun story. I had a friend in high school and he had an extra set of front teeth and that was fun. And he said, well, you burned me a CD with this Metallica song on it. And I said, yeah, sure. What else do you want on? And he said, literally anything. And I put his Metallica song and then 13 cha-cha slides on right after that. My goodness. I feel if there ever was one. I was the first person in my, I'm going to say, fifth grade class to have a CD burner. And so I was the most popular girl in school. Well, yeah, I was not popular the day after that because he told me that he took a sleeping pill, melatonin, whatever. And when to listen to his new CD, he goes, God damn, I knew every word of the cha-cha slide by the time I woke up in the morning. Top five of him is a Louis. He's like, left, right, Charlie Brown. I knew all of it. Oh, God damn it. Cha-cha. Again. Listen, here's an even better rib. This goes. We had, we had that guy join our choir class just that he made us laugh. He was a funny guy. He sounded exactly like Johnny Cash when he sang. Wow. And our choir teacher is like, well, you can't do anything in choir with that. So we did an arrangement just based on that and won the competition. Wow. You love to see it. You do love to see it. Take it back now, y'all. Yeah. A very funny John Bellini sketch to the cha-cha slide on SNL by the way. That guy died or was it the Casper slide? Yeah, I think it was Casper slide. I think there was the Casper slide. What's the Casper slide? I don't even know. There's another one. It's the other one. They play at weddings now. Is it for those? I choose. From late choir. That's great. He did them both. Whoa. I think. DJ the Casper. He was a wide specialist. Yes. DJ Casper did the cha-cha slide. But there was another one. Shout out to Andy Collins who came here for the scoops that I was making. I was talking about the cha-cha and Casper slide. For those of you who were like, oh, sick, we're getting to the main event. It is DJ Casper. He died less than a year ago. RIP. But listen, I think we can all agree. All right. The cha-cha slide is at least better than the wobble. Oh, the wobble, socks. Yeah. The wobble socks. That's like the lowest tier of wedding day. Yeah. Listen, I had banned all of those songs from my wedding. Smart men. No. No. And it was a mistake, man. Dance floor was empty. Some of the girls came up and they said, can you un-band the cha-cha slide and the wobble? They appealed and I said, fine. And the DJ, who was a friend of mine, it's like he was ready. Like, his feet were hard to point down the butt and then... Man. You guys don't know the wobble. Some of the people in the chat don't know the wobble. It sucks. It's stupid. Be glad you don't know it. No bad. I would get lured to a bar by one of my visiting friends called the Plaza in our college town. Yeah. And it is one of those types of bars that has pool tables and a punch rating machine. And like, in between them playing the wobble every 12 minutes, you would look over the same guy was punching this punch machine all night long. Which means like, there's three options there. He was really bored. He was trying to impress a girl or he thought he was being recruited by somebody. Like, he thought this was his big break because he was feeding that thing dollars all night long. I've never seen him since. So he did not... I'm heading to your home. I'm going to hang out with Sean one of these days just going for a week and I'm fun. It's not fun. Listen. There's Jesus golf by you. What are you talking about? Wait. Did Jesus golf? Okay. Hold on. The actual name of it was. I feel like, oh, I didn't. I told in the weeds, okay. So I have talked about Jesus golf a lot. I play plenty of Jesus golf and people will go, what the hell Jesus golf? My IRL best friend like eight, nine years ago was like, you've got to complete Jesus golf. And I was like, no, that's dumb. And then I got there. It's amazing. It's so good. It's Bible themed mini golf and it's like really, really great. So I looked at the hours for it to open up this year. And I saw the name and I go, oh my God, it's the only thing better than Jesus golf. It's fair way to heaven. No. I was like, you know, we've been like facetiously calling it Jesus golf for so long and they got us. They went up to us. They're very self aware Bible like parting the water. Yes. There is literally a hole. Here's the funny thing. You have Old Testament, New Testament and miracles, Old Testament, appropriately the hardest. A little. A little. A little rude sometimes. A lot of time. It makes you sacrifice your wife. Yes. Like in order to get the whole whole. Don't bring your children to that one. You're not going to leave with them or your animals. It just becomes a whole, a whole. Yeah, if you get the stroke limit, you got a sacrifice. One of your loved ones or an animal or it's not summer, all because of many goals. Man, I just got texts from my cousin that said, and I quote the show is that it's peak tonight. And he said the fucking Chachas like my cousin who watches an unlike most of my family that watches also watches wrestling. So shout out to him. They're very Kentucky, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Never. I've never been man. So yeah, there we go. Lucky you. Actually, I love, I love Lexi, I love where I am like I would, I was not entertained as a teenager living where I lived because there wasn't anything to do besides getting in trouble. But like out here in Lexington, I really enjoy it. Like you can go to an independent baseball game. You can go to college football, college basketball, stuff like that, especially now that they can get paid, which is pretty nice. Yeah. But I mean, we got lots of theaters, arcades, Jesus golf is a thing. You got our kids, bro. That's awesome. I remember right before you moved, you were like, I can't even get door dash out here. I need to do that. You have door dash back where I live now, but it's like just Wendy's Taco Bell subway. That's it. And I'm sure there's like one dash or out there that's doing it all. Of course. Of course. Like one guy. Okay. Kate's gonna miss burn. Notice. I hate that show. You love that show too, don't you? So burn notice, I'm sure we're way off track of whatever it is you all were talking about. No, just the main event. No big deal. All right. Just the most part of the show. No big deal. Keep going. I can't wait until one day. I get to go ahead to give you all the greatest quote on air that Randy Orton ever gave me about anything because it was. Hi. I heard it. You did. And it moved up to the hype, but I didn't watch like any TV besides like South Park and baseball and wrestling. That's it. And I would just. And that's not relatable at all. And I burn notice was on after raw. They got me with it and I watched it and I don't like monster of the week shows. I really don't. And that's kind of what that is. It's a different side mission every single week. But I did learn how to break a lock on there and I had a storage unit and a storage unit that I had and the lock was rusted out and the storage unit said tough shit get bolt cutters or figure out how to break the lock. And I had a can of screen duster and because of burn notice, I knew to turn it upside down and freeze the lock and it broke it off. It's pretty nice. Wow. I embarrassing to admit this, but I've already admitted it publicly into Jeremy. I got sucked into the temptation island from the Smackdown lead and I think it's so much worse than burn notice. Yeah, it is. You got no way you can ever say anything about burn notice. Like the only, you know what, it could be worse. You could be a grizzly girl. Oh, no, I did, I did, I did silk stockings that's the age I come from. So, you know, and then I did a month man, not after all, but duck man would be on later USA sometimes. Yeah. So that's my. There was an episode. There was an episode of raw where Jerry Lawler interviewed a character from duck man. It was a duck man. And why don't I know about it? It was a, it was a, it was like an adult swim type, uh, cartoon on USA before adult swim existed. Was he Jason Alexander was the voice of duck man and there was a different guy who was the pig wearing a suit and I don't remember what his name was, but like, but Jerry Lawler interviewed him via telephone during a match on an episode of raw. Is he a person with a duck head or something? Like what? No, he was a duck. He was a duck. We're in close. Yeah. As a nurse, the one thing you don't do is stand still. You're always going, doing, helping, thinking, solving, saving. Your nursing career shouldn't stand still either. Post university can help you move it forward from RN to BSN, from BSN to MSN, even from MSN to DNP. Learn more about our accredited programs at post.edu. Start taking steps toward an advanced degree. Apply now to post university. Post makes it personal. And glasses. It was a cartoon. Okay, but like how was the duck? Very beavis and butt head like. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was very 90s. Yeah. Very, very nice. I'll need to dig into this. Mama Darla. Yeah. There you go. So Randy Orton, right? And I'm like. Oh, look at Alex wanting to talk about wrestling in the main event of the show. Oh, I'm so sorry. I mean, there was an alternate universe where I was at least intrigued to see Tomatango win because his dad was King Haku. But also I would have liked, I wouldn't have minded to see the bloodline get on the bad side of goonther in some capacity. I think that could have caused for something great because goonther and Roman range is a match that I want to see in the future. And yeah, but I mean, I'm I think that tomorrow's match is wildly unpredictable with goonther and Randy Orton because they could go Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes or they could go goonther versus literally anybody and it would be good. Okay. If they if they say goonther is going to face the trash can that holds the 24/7 title at SummerSlam is going to be a good match. Yeah. What if goonther was the 24/7 champion? I always wanted there to be a 24/7 champion like goonther where people go. Not worse. I'm good. I don't need that. I don't need that in my life. You just swatch them aside. If anybody tries. It's not bad. You know, they'd be like, I'm good. I don't really need the belt that much. I'm fine actually. That's how it should have went away is that somebody had it and they just never really lost it. What if they said it was a bunch of people just swarming one person constantly. I should probably you've set up my podcast now. That's why I was on the back end of this website. Okay. All right. Cool. See you guys. Bye. And for the scoops, stay for the duck man talk as we always say. And bird notice. I can't believe I admitted that I watched Temptation Island on purpose. I got tempted. I don't know what to tell you people, but it's in the name Kate. It was right there. I don't normally watch a ton of trashy reality television shows. I don't know why that one I did, but it gives me a Lambert something to talk about continually. Yeah, sure, I didn't watch the show because, you know, morals, but I did see film of Tama Tonga's entrance where he crawled out like demon Finn Balor, except he's an actual human being. I think I'm not sure it's kind of it kind of feels guerrillas of destiny ish when they were in their pain era. All right. Um, a lot of people have said that they like the theme as like one of the better duck rebel ones. I feel like if I feel like if you hear that in a royal rumble, it still feels pretty generic. That's my only thing. It's like there's not like a snap to it that makes it feel good, but we get Randy Orton winning this with the RKO and then we have the newly reformed bloodline coming to make attacks. And Kevin Owens returning to go after solo sakoa hot off of the Taylor Swift era's tour with his family, which is adorable. It just out here to go after solo sakoa. You love to see it get a man who can do both, as they say, but this match was a lot of fun. Honestly, they give it a lot of time. I think this was a pretty good showing for Tama Tonga, but Randy Orton kind of who you figured with what we saw on Monday, that was kind of the only thing about the Smackdown was you can see the winners a mile away just because of how it had to be set up essentially to make the stories work. But I still think Gunther's winning tomorrow. I wouldn't be stunned if Randy Orton did, but I wanted to be Gunther. I feel like the king general is the way to go. It feels like this tournament was brought back for him, but I wouldn't be like super mad if Randy won it because Randy versus Cody is something I think would be good to get to. But a solid main event, like this was obviously the, it was very go homey tonight, but for what they gave us, pretty good. And it's always nice when Randy Orton feels energized to do his job. And he certainly has the past couple weeks going into tomorrow. He seems like someone that would genuinely be excited to face Gunther. So I'm excited to see what we get out of this. I'll leave the floor open. I'll just, you know what I'll do. I'll say Alex, your thoughts. Well, then all I got to say is this, Randy Orton to me is like someone who is not taking the limelight away from anyone. He doesn't feel like he's trying to push himself into matches. Like he to me feels like the right person to be put into these situations like the king of the ring, right, where he could elevate someone man. I know that Gunther is elevated as fuck because he's, excuse my language, because he's, the rain that he just had beforehand. But I feel like these two are really going to go the distance. This feels like a big match for me with Gunther and Randy. Just because of the, obviously it's Randy Orton. I mean, I've been watching him for 20 plus years now in my brain. So it's just like, I feel like, I feel like Gunther might take it. And if Gunther does take it, Randy's just going to be hell of surprise like, oh my God, he's going to give him that smirk. Like you got me, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like that nod and then probably just beat him up afterwards. I think, I think either way, it feels like a big deal and that's a good thing. Oh, it does. Yeah. You have to feather on the cap for him if Randy Orton beats the unbeatable Goonther. That's a really good step for him to take to Pulowski. You said you're kind of rooting for Randy at this point. And I think that's probably because of the booking possibilities coming out of this with now the SummerSlam title stipulation being in play here. Listen, if they could pick either championship, then I want Gunther to win and pick Cody. Right. That's the match, but because he can only challenge for the Raw title, that becomes a minefield to me because we already know we're getting priests versus Drew at Clash the Castle. So I think we all want Drew to win and at home in Glasgow, right? So Drew wins and then faces Gunther at SummerSlam. But Gunther can't lose that Gunther's got to have a rocket strap to him to me. If he wins the King of the Ring, he's winning that title at SummerSlam. So that means that back in Tyre, if he wins at Clash of the Castle, would then lose that title less than about six weeks later to Gunther at SummerSlam. And that's fine. Not every Tylerman's got to be really long, but like what are you doing with Drew in the meantime? Once you give him that title, how do you book that reign? Or the major problem with all of this is there's that looming CM Punk thing. Yeah. So does Punk cost Drew in Glasgow? Yes. Because that's the keyliest move ever. And they're going to book him as a baby face having done it and that sucks. So does then Drew winning Glasgow and Punk cost Drew at SummerSlam? Because then Gunther is only the champion because Punk helped him. That's a no across the board from me always. Yeah. So unless somehow Damian Priest is still the champion at like there and and Punk doesn't get involved at all that like losing clean the priest also feels very wrong. No. Yeah. Yeah. Which is why I am rooting for Randy because I don't think you get to baby face Randy because he's fully babies face now versus baby face Cody any other way. And you get a possibility of Randy turning heel to beat Cody in the match. So we get another title reign from Randy he should get another one before he retires. And then Cody can get the belt back. I have no problem with Cody because everybody says you got to have Cody versus rock for the title at WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas. I'm like fine as long as Cody loses the title somewhere in the mix and if he gets it back to face rock then I'm okay with it. But I just don't I don't want another year long title reign. I like I like what you say I 100% think that if this whole deal with it was WWE wants to book he he is nuclear they want to they want that pop and they want that that visual they want the social media flicks what better way than to have Punk interfere in that match one way or another you know what I'm saying and then you have you have priest as the chicken shit heel. Yeah. Like laughing his ass off back and out of there. That's the problem they are they want priest babyface. That's why he's behaving the way he is to the rest of his judgment day guys. He doesn't want them involved in his in his stuff because they're they're making him a babyface. Now I thought this to Luis until I went back and watched Triple H announce it at the press conference he says they will get a title shot for the title on their brand yeah at summer slam he specifically spells it out so you can't they cannot cross brand with the title shot I mean they could they could just change it they could just change their mind apparently they do that all the time so well maybe they'll send good through cheese platter of Triple H fix misspoke that is that happened before known to happen before DNC digital chiming in on the Sean CD burning cha-cha slide conversation earlier I'm sorry I missed this but the best part of that is he listened to the song and waited for the next song hopefully it would be different and didn't stop said process for the entire CD. I also love that it was thirteen cha-cha slides after the sixth wouldn't you assume the rest were just also cha-cha slides especially when like you're starting with Metallica and most CD players had that like repeat just the first track thing but DNC digital also chiming in with a non-CD burner related thing saying Randy wins king of the ring drew wins at clash Randy Cody at summer slam Gunther beats Drew and Berlin drew punk at summer slam not sure who I would have a Gunther face at summer slam I don't I don't know what you do like Drew and punk feels like six months or three months it's an era of finality to it if you do it that way feel like it's got to build to something and I don't I don't I just don't know because it's there they are firmly with with heat with Drew heel and CM punk baby face right now yeah they can change that by summer slam but it feels far off I love the idea of Drew keeping it all the way till till Berlin and losing it to Gunther there but I just I don't know they're gonna do that good revisit this I'm also concerned that Ilya costs Gunther tomorrow so we'll see that is that is that is not Ilya style like it besides Ilya's already he's he's locked into a new feud he's feuding with Braun Breakaker he cut a promo on Braun Breakaker after Monday like he's got a he's got a new thing to do let's hope it stays that way there's a 33 and a third chance that he can jump in tomorrow there is there is but guys we're gonna call that a show for tonight we have so much coming up for you this weekend oh my gosh we've got your regular Queen Kagan Queen of the Ring post show here on the main channel you've got me and Alex doing sands of blind on Fightful Select where I fell Alex it on the show and plant three lies and he has to detect them all oh my gosh these these King and Queen of the Ring finals I am screwed because if you tell if you tell a lie really well I'm I'm I might have to buy it and if you but then I might think that you were telling a lie even if you weren't these are those are real those are minefields I am screwed tomorrow it's gonna be a fun one because there's there's lots of seeds that I could plant Brian's only asking is that the finals for the tournament 60 minutes if so do you think Orton and Gunther go near that limit cheers I don't know I don't think he doesn't do 10 minutes 60 minutes yeah I don't think the story would warrant it either like I think if you do 60 minutes I think it the story has to call for it and I don't think Gunther's that guy and I don't think Randy Orton's that guy either like I don't think someone should be able to survive Gunther for 60 minutes under pretty much any circumstance but I did forget to to do this I'm glad Luis brought it up this is a long show so I apologize for how long it's run but I did say because I skipped over the spooky lore last week and I felt bad about it that I would rock and roll this week and kind of fill you in on what happened because it's not my favorite thing and it's not Cardoza's favorite thing but it's a lot of people's favorite thing and I felt like I didn't do a good job last week so we're gonna do it now basically WWE used WhatsApp to tease a second Twitch streaming video a week after the first one on Thursday that video was out there it dropped on Bray Wyatt's birthday depending on how you read the clues you can kind of see where every person has been revealed we had like a a figure with a glove on writing these letters which was very very creepy one letter says it's never easy to feel lost you have lost too much already you deserve to be set free I know you are angry and that's okay let me show you what anger can do you are ready to take off the blindfold when you already take off the blindfold and come find me you can always wear your mask smiley face a lot of people thinking that's Eric Rowan because he is the last surviving member unfortunately of the original Wyatt family known for that sheep's mask the second one said I am so sad to see you look for a friend but find none the second letter read how sad for them to miss out on finding someone as special as you I have watched you stare into the abyss hoping someone would look back I want you to know I see you you are seen you are loved come home your new family awaits a lot of people suspecting that's Nikki cross oh that's definitely Nikki yeah feels that way feels that way for sure the third one said your family betrayed you you deserve better you are accepted as you are come to me and I will make you brand new I will set you free we can be a real family we can be a real family this one's a little more vague but a lot of people saying this is Dexter Loomis who's been off TV since forever and the other family members being the way kind of has a nice ring to it he was this psychotic artist if you were unfamiliar with him that could also be Joe Gacy whose family members abandoned him as well it could be this one is what people are assuming is Joe Gacy yeah you had followers and they betrayed you turned their backs and when you were asking for help asking for love asking for someone anyone to notice you they all did nothing I will give you a family let's teach them consequences with a smiley face as well you remember those terrible smiley face masks from NXT a lot of people are thinking that former schism leader Joe Gacy who was an NXT and has not been doing anything in NXT for a while so we could assume they are called up but the video ends with letters being delivered and followed by a figure entering a house and we see a female figure who has been shown before and we can maybe assume it's either sister Abigail or a hint at Alexa Bliss being involved seems like the man behind the mask is definitely uncle howdy though but this this is something that got skipped over by me and there's been a lot of creative effort put into it and I'll try to give a more thorough recap at some point too of all the QR codes and stuff but this show has run very long so we're gonna get out of here but I am excited for the people that this is for very very much and I just wanted to give it it's due diligence a little bit because they have been doing some very cool stuff but it seems like June 17th is gonna be the big reveal based on some of the number stuff that was getting done in this angle too which is pretty cool there's been longitude latitude coordinates released and all sorts of stuff so people have gone very very deep into the rabbit hole and the cool thing is they're probably right like these things are pretty carefully crafted and it's nice when fans get rewarded for being super invested so always a fan of that but guys for almost at two hours which is a me and Pulowski thing not usually me and a cardos is like work come on this is like work it is like we're compared to what we got the rest of the weekend we got your main channel show you got me and Alex on select as we already said you've got a collision post show as well tomorrow no grabsity but same deal with double or nothing you get Pulowski and I on Fightful Select and your main channel show and then it starts right back up with sour grabs for us on select and your regular rotation so yeah looking forward to it looking forward to it but guys have a safe and fun wrestling weekend we appreciate you hanging in there to talk smackdown and bird notice and chock-chock slide and whatever we could get our hands on tonight we appreciate you have a safe and wonderful wrestling weekend and as always slide to the left slide to the right crisscross everybody clap your hands that's the sound of something falling three stories now imagine if that were you well if you get in a crash it could be hitting the windshield at just 30 miles per hour feels like the equivalent of falling three stories see felt save lives that's why you should always wear one you reduce your risk of serious harm by 50% nobody is above the laws of physics click it or ticket shipped into safe a message 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