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You also get access to the FightfulSelect Discord. If you want to hang out with normal people, i.e. not on Twitter and all the best groups in the game, plus me and Alex being cranky about other brands, not just NXT, behind the old paywall. Join us there. This was bad. This was a bad episode of NXT. This was a particularly atrocious, especially because like, listen, you're going to keep yelling at me. They'll probably be saying this three weeks from now. Battleground was still trending at 11 a.m. the following morning, and so everyone's going to take credit for that. And if you're going to capitalize on all of that, do some good stuff. Do some stuff that makes sense. I know the whole thing is that I'm always going to hate the show apparently because they're never going to do the things that I want them to do, but I don't know how anyone could sit there, even if you like this show and be like, "This was a good episode of television." Especially with the context of where everything is coming from and capitalize on some stuff. Like, no Boba Femi on the show tonight, not mentioned, not mentioned once. His top two challengers from Saturday over Sunday, fought each other in a six-man tag. He wasn't mentioned. He didn't appear, wasn't mentioned. I know that hyperbolicly, but only slightly hyperbolicly, say that he's the greatest wrestler of all time. He's just the greatest wrestler currently. He's not better than Brian Daniels, and I still think Brian is probably going to figure out where to tap him out in the ass block, but I mean, he's amazing. Please put him on TV more, but he's also your North American champion, and you have major people tweeting about how he's a huge deal. In the aftermath of Battleground, you're not featuring him at all. You don't even mention him. Not a highlight package, not a vignette, like nothing. And then you build all episode to a state of the union where a bunch of mid-carders come out to challenge Roxanne. Mid-card heels. Mid-card heels come out to challenge heel champion Roxanne, and you building all night to the main event segment, a lot of people could be forgiven for thinking you were going to do another major debut or crossover talent or something, but no, it's just no. And so to do all of that, and the main event in-ring features, one of your top-up-and-coming stars, maybe the top-up-and-coming star in all of wrestling, who you book a coach to go over. Because that's what Sean Spears is in his career right now. He's the guy who's going to put over people in matches, but his major job is to produce and coach, because that's what he is in his career, and you book that guy to go over one of your top young stars. Now, I know it's probably a longer feud, and I'm assuming Javon Evans wins the feud. But what are we doing any of this for? Why? And what is this in NATO? By the way, Cody Rhodes is invited to the cookout, so everything's fine. I don't know if we have to do a rest of the show. That was pretty good summary on most of what was wrong with the night show. I mean, I don't expect Cody to say anything of substance when he comes to NXT anymore. My expectations are very low. But what he said, I'm going to reveal who your next opponent is, and immediately said, actually, it's going to be whoever wins this 25 person battle royal. I was like, you didn't reveal what the opponent was going to. You revealed a match stipulation. Now, the big news out of that was he said it might not just be from the NXT locker room, which I assume means main roster people are going to come down and more likely to like, you're going to see some people from the TNA Impact brand come on over to this. But like, I said, because you pointed out a very funny headline yesterday about like, some people, it was a Cody headline where he was like, some people have assumed that the gift that the Rock gave to me was this, but we may never know. And it's like, he gave it to you, man. So I said he comes across as perd happily from Parks and Rec to me, who was the newscaster on that show who would be like, we are recording a podcast right now on YouTube, which is where the podcast is being recorded. So just like so much fluff and not to be whatever. >> Yeah. >> Yes, was Battlegrounds still trending 11 o'clock the next day? Sure. >> He did say, he did, he did, he did. >> Did Fred also have a fight in the airport that got broken by Jesse? >> No, but that was, she was arrested the day before she did. I think she was at Newark Airport to fly to Vegas and got in the brawl and then she was arrested. >> Now, look, I have to fly out of Newark regularly. And I have been tempted to do far worse than what I saw from that video. But like, didn't that news break? That might have broken a day later, actually. I was cuz I didn't that news break then, weren't you trending? Because sexy but kind of fight at the airport and people were making Battleground jokes. But I think that was actually this morning, so not the next day. But either way, you're right, it felt like we had all this momentum coming out, even though you and I felt like the pay per view was weird. But there were certainly directions they could have picked to go and we just got the, it is nonsensical, not in the way of like NXT is nonsensical. And we don't like it, like nonsensical in the way that it made no sense. But sense was not made today, at NXT. It was a really rough episode. >> No, it was- >> Really rough episode. >> So, okay, what are we gonna do for puns? >> I mean, I don't know, people that maybe mask puns, people who wear masks, I don't know. >> It feels like it's not gonna give us a lot of money. >> No, I don't know, listen, honestly, I have no idea. Here we go, cookout puns. Picnic puns, things should do at a barbecue, stuff like that. You know what I mean? Let's do cookout puns. >> Sure. >> It was really important that we all at home know that Cody Rhodes is invited to the cookout. >> Yes. >> So, because- >> Call it by a full guy handshake. Like, he was about to leave the ring. And Trick called him back into the ring and said, I got one more question for you. Do you like my weird platform shoes? He didn't actually ask that one. >> [LAUGH] >> But he did ask, they're coming to the cookout. So it was so important that Trick had to call the man back into the ring to ask him this question. And if it's that important to Trick Williams and NXT, that I think is important to us to do cookout puns. >> I think that's fair, and you guys are off to a great start. I've already seen them in the corner. >> Okay, so- [SOUND] >> J.B. Pringle says amazing Alex, killer Kate, Papa Paul, sisters, and Louise. What the actual F was this, what the actual F was this S? HBK out, HBK himself. This wasn't even funny bad, just bad bad. Listen, he did this dumb frigging meme that made me so angry. Him and Jordan Grace and Sexy Red, Sexy YY Red. And he was only a cook, a chef's hat, and he's like, NXT Battleground, five out of five stars, meal. I'm like, just, yes, yes. Do not, I implore you, do not to go to any restaurant where he is the chef, cuz you will walk away with food poisoning. It might taste good while you're eating it, but by the end, this is awful. That's basically every match he looked. Will, I don't know if it will cuz you'll be like, this has an orange twist to it, but it's also a fried piece of paper. I don't know what is going on about this show. And if he were to cook something, I would be alarmed that he's not even using ingredients for the kitchen at this point. >> Yeah, yeah, okay. >> Tama Valle says, Prince Puma is all elite, Ricky starts NXT. Is that like, would that be fair? Yeah, I think so, that would, I mean, sure. >> I kind of like, I don't know about that, and here's why. >> Mm-hm. >> AW is not at a lack of incredible work, right guys. And Ricky brings something so different than anybody else is doing on the product. Especially, MJF is back to his whole heels thing. >> They're not using them, though. >> I know, my preference would be that they are both on television. >> Yeah, yeah. And bad apple jam tree beard, I get what he's doing, he's trolling me. I can't wait for the ZSJ OC marriage to happen in Forbidden Door, right, Kate? >> Somebody went and dug up a tweet, I guess. The ZSJ said he wanted to marry Orange Cassidy. And Orange Cassidy replied, get in mind babe, like eight years ago. >> Nice. >> Now they're going to fight each other, long term storytelling. I'm looking forward, I love wrestling weddings. So like a ZSJ Orange Cassidy marriage at the end of Pride Month at Forbidden Door. I'm so in, so in. >> Should be good. So bad apple jam tree beard says I feel like Oba should win all men's titles in WWE, both in NXT and main roster, merge them into one true Oba title. >> I am not normally an advocate for such things, but also the women's titles. Women's tag titles. >> Well, he's- >> Oba's versus Shaded Baszler is always start signing me up, I mean. >> He's going to have a tough time overcoming the passion of Iliata Dragunov. >> It's true. >> Who we booked last night, there's nobody else, there's nobody on Raw. There's no one on Raw who can come have to live Morgan. So it's going to have to be Iliata Dragunov, just Dragunov in a wig. >> It's Natalia who won't be contracted for much longer that we know of. Raquel if she was healthy would be perfect, but I don't know what her status is and I never want to speculate on that. And Zelina Vega. So if you thought Becky Lynch not being on television wasn't a big deal, that is what the women's babyface roster of Raw looks like right now. >> That's good. Not great. >> Meat Norma says, hello, broves, let's crank. Do we know if HBK had a recent head injury? His booking makes me think he may be concussed. Also, there's no Obafemi then it's not for meat. And then Meat Norma also says the sex YY bread brawl was better than NXT. >> I mean, she did use like a stanch and didn't she? >> Something like that. >> I respect the hell out of that, that was amazing. So I'm gonna combine two things, okay, into this segment. Something happened, something was put on TV much, much later in the evening. But I'm gonna talk about that first. There was this wonderful vignette for Solruka where like she designed and made her own gear for the big North American title ladder match. And it showed her working out in this really interesting like just a window into who she is and where she comes from like that whole do it yourself thing about her and how emotional she gets when she goes and does this. And it was just like, it was a minute and 44 seconds long. And it really like show- >> There was surfboard in sight either. >> No surfboard in there at all, like most of the vignettes are involved surfing. So I was watching this and I was going, this is excellent. This is how you let me know who your wrestlers are. And now I know something about her. I have a connection to her, I've watched this woman make her own gear. And she explained to me why certain things were on it. She had these gold studs because flashy for Vegas and stuff. And I was like, that's perfectly great, and this was really cool. She wanted to make it look like she was wearing a swimsuit under like cut off jeans shorts, like it's a really cool little idea for everything put together and you can see it actually her putting the whole thing together and all that stuff was really nice. And in a minute and 44 seconds, I now know more about Solruka. Then I know about Kalani Jordan who's been on the roster for, what, two years? A year and a half. >> And it is great, like she's real good. >> She's great, she's great, I'm sure she's got wonderful things about herself that she could share with us. But you're not presenting her in any way that where I know anything about her. So while I'm watching this, I'm watching Solruka's vignette. And I'm finding a connection to Solruka the person. Plus I know she's a lot of fun to watch in the ring. Now I know Kalani Jordan is a lot of fun to watch in the ring, but I know nothing about her. So if you were asking me to pick one of the two for me to root for, I'm probably picking the one that I have actual connection with because you've shown me something about her. This is a dramatic failure of TV programming. That you've decided in a year and a half to show me nothing about Kalani Jordan. And a whole bunch of stuff, just beyond, there was a really cool vignette, where she was talking about how she would try ridiculous things on a skateboard or a surfboard and she'll fall and she'll bust her ashes like whoop, maybe I'll take that time, you'll try it again. And it was really endearing who this person was. They've done that a lot with Solruka, none with Kalani Jordan. So I'm watching Kalani Jordan come out with the North American titles to start the show and going, I don't know who you are. Like I'm sure you're a lovely person, but they haven't shown me any of that. So now I'm like, so later in the show when they show me Solruka, I'm like Solruka should have been the North American champion. Simply because that's my immediate thing watching it going. This is a person that you're showing me stuff about. I'm creating a connection with her right now. And the person who is the champion, I don't know anything about that. That's not Kalani Jordan's fault. And I'm not saying she's a bad wrestler. I'm not saying she's a bad person. I'm not saying that I'm saying you, the programmers, H.P.K. and all your ilk. You're not showing me anything about it. So I have no connection to her. So I immediately want her to lose the title to Solruka. >> Alex, it would appear that when H.P.K. was cooking, he left the ingredients of Kalani Jordan vignettes out of the recipe. And it's unfortunate. This is story time with Kate Elizabeth, maybe, okay? >> Yeah. >> Back in the day, the home run derby for baseball had really stupid rules. And the rules would always make it so the person that had the showcase that everybody remembered was never the guy who ended up winning. Because by the time they got to the final round, they were gassed. Cuz they hit like 20 bombs, 25 bombs, whatever, and the round before. And then they had nothing left in the tank. That is what it felt like when I saw the Solruka stop. She was like the standout in that ladder match. Other than Beachin for like if you're looking like smart wrestling fan eyes of like, she's the one trying to make sure nobody dies. But like Solruka had the really cool spots. And now we have this vignette. It almost made it feel like they planned for her to win and then just changed their mind for some reason. >> It really looks like that. >> Yeah, like we got so much insight and access. And what was really nice to your point, you said it was like a minute 45 or whatever. That kept it from feeling like I was like, are we just gonna get a documentary and all of NXT programming now? Because during the PLA, we got this really weird takeover of Brooklyn stuff. But that was like brief and it gave us insight into who Sol was. It wasn't gimmicky cuz it wasn't about just surfing. We know that about her, all right? Like show me something else, we got something else. And Connie Jordan, I think the one thing we do know about her is that she's a gymnast. And unfortunately, that's like 80% of the gals on the roster have been gymnasts or cheerleaders cuz they're not pulling from the indies. So it was kind of different when we saw it with Tiffany Stratton. But Tiffany Stratton also had a, we're out of the swear window. A batshit gimmick that they had to rein in cuz she was like a tennis player, gymnast, daddy's girl, but we were like, what the hell is going on? And they pulled it back in, so they either give us nothing or they give us nothing that makes sense and there's way too much. And they really gotta find a better balance. It felt like they were starting to do that a little bit. And now, I hope that with Connie Jordan's title reign, they let us know who she is a little bit more. Cuz I think she's really good in the ring. Incredible look to her, she's a beautiful young lady. And I think there is a charisma there that is naturally very magnetic. So tell me a single thing about who you are. And let's get her in a proper feud to express that because I feel like most of what I saw her in was like tournaments or multi-woman matches. And I never really got to know who she was from like a one-on-one feud storytelling perspective. So please, if you're gonna strap her up, let's get to know Colotti Jordan a little bit. >> Yeah, we don't, in this segment either. She says about how much it means to her to win the title, which it would mean a lot to anybody who won the title, the first ever North American women's title. So that's not really an insight. >> No, the best PR professor ever had said you can't use proud half of your thrills in a quote for a press release because we know that about like, if you're releasing an album, we know that you're excited to be doing it. Like if you're a champion, we kinda figured if you were in a ladder match for that title, that you're excited to be champion. >> Yeah, and then we don't even, we don't get an actual insight on who she is in this thing either 'cause she's almost immediately interrupted by Jada Parker. And I was like, oh, that makes sense. Jada Parker coming after the title, it felt like, hold on. This is what I thought at the moment because I thought there's no way they could do something as stupid as what they're about to do, as nonsensical as what they're about to do. And that thought never crossed my mind because it's utter nonsense, okay? So I thought Jada Parker was somebody they heavily built up in leading up to the ladder match where they did none of that with Kalani Jordan. So it did feel like the, again, the analogy I used was the first ever UK championship tournament where Tyler Bait won it as the baby face to get a big reaction from the crowd in the arena, them knowing full well the real person they're going to strap up and let them run with it for a long time was going to be done. And that's what they did. So I thought maybe they wanted to have the big baby face reaction with Kalani Jordan. And then they were like, they were going to give it to Jada Parker to let her run with it for a while. But they had set up this thing with Mia Yim, Meachin and Jada Parker, you know, because they had this little rivalry last week and the weeks before. So let's get that all taken care of before before I thought, because there's no reason for this not to be the truth, before Mia Yim, Meachin moves back up to Smackdown permanently to do stuff. He's already got a match set up in Scotland this Friday with Nia Jax, where Nia Jax will squash her, okay? That's the thing that's going to happen. So instead, she have her come out interrupt Jada Parker, they start fighting. Then the match starts Jada Parker versus Meachin medium and it's fine and it's going well. And then I liked this a lot more, the run and the run and butt to the face. That was actually done as a transitional move to knock kneeling Mia Yim out of the ring where she fell down. And that was a cool little thing to do for Jada Parker at that point, much better than being used as a finish. And then the good brothers are out there, like what are the good brothers out here for? Like they haven't been associated with Meachin for a long time, they lost their title match and now they get to go back to the main roster, which we've seen them now for the last couple of weeks, hanging around AJ Styles again, AJ Styles is absolutely super mega keel on the main roster, Meachin has been playing babyface in NXT and she's definitely babyface versus Nia Jax on Friday. So now they've got a, they're doing double duty playing babyfaces on NXT, referencing their heel friend on, they're referencing tonight, their heel friend who's on Fridays on SmackDown, who's gonna have an I quick match with Cody Rhodes, like none of this makes sense, but they come out there to support Meachin, who again, we haven't seen them together in months, and Meachin because of the support of the good brothers, like goes, gets into the ring and wins with an O'Connor role, she pins her, she pins, she pins Jada Parker, she wins. I'm in Jada Parker, we see later Jada Parker and OTM are very mad about this, it feels like OTM is basically like we're gonna go, you know, get a piece of the good brothers and like why, why are the good brothers here, they're doing other stuff on the main roster, if you're doing something on the main roster you don't get to be on NXT, I am going to be by the close of business tomorrow, certified, I want it, I want it CC'd to everybody in headquarters, I need an email in my inbox by the end of business tomorrow, Sean Michaels, you have to tell me what the fuck is going on with main roster people in NXT, because I just can't take it anymore, you have to establish some rules that I can refer to to see whether or not you're breaking them, why are people who are actively doing important shit on the main roster, also doing stuff in NXT, there's a whole bunch of fucking people on the main roster who aren't doing anything, break them to NXT, that would at least make sense. And, if they're gonna be on both brands, can they be consistent about whether their baby faces are healed, that's the biggest thing, that's the biggest thing going on, and then on top of that, they never explained, they made a very big deal out of splitting up the good brothers and AJ Styles, and then they just were back together, because AJ was back together again, he slapped Carl Anderson in the face, like in March, he slapped him in the face, he slapped him in the face, Carl Anderson doesn't seem like the kind of guy to be like, yeah, that's fine, we're good, it's chill. And then I was like, were you gonna retire, but then you didn't, we're cool again, like that's not how that works, yeah, my biggest thing is I don't like the crossover from Brand to Brand, especially to your point, I don't see Jones hasn't been on TV in like a year and a half. >> He got drafted last year, it hasn't been on TV since. You brought Tyjak up to do nothing, you brought Keanu James up to do nothing, you haven't done shit with Shinsuke Nakamura, there are all these teams and there are all these people doing nothing on the main roster that you could just have doing stuff at any seat, and not to continue to harp, but like how many times are we gonna see people get drafted to the main roster with nothing to do, they're doing shit, there are so many people that are not doing anything and then, so that's frustration number one. And then on top of that, when you're a completely different person, but then other people aren't, Cody Rhodes was the co-tiest, roadiest guy that he could possibly be, came down, it was the anniversary of his dad's passing, so they acknowledged that, he said he was gonna reveal something and then reveals not that, which is just becoming a classic Cody playbook thing. So he's the most consistent dude in the world and then me and him is like, I'm a face down here and the good brothers are like, we love that about you, but there we are, not nice, and we are fine that H.E. Styles has slapped us, like it is so mind-bogglingly inconsistent and is very frustrating as a viewer that watches all of the brands because it's wildly inconsistent. So if you're trying to get more people to watch NXT, which clearly you are, like a little bit of not insulting of the intelligence of those viewers would go a long way. They absolutely can bring people from the main roster to NXT and have them just be there for a long time. They did it with Apollo Crews, they did it with Baron Corbin, they're doing it now with a ridge of Holland for some reason, they can- >> What the heck are calm up and isn't doing anything out of it? >> Again, like the Penny Deadly got drafted to SmackDown, has not appeared on television since the draft, pretty deadly. People like it when my voice cracks, pretty deadly. >> Bad Apple Jam Treebeard says, I love this Lewis Black impression in my house, I am the Lewis Black of wrestling media. This list so later, Mia Yim comes out of Ava's office and celebrates with the Good Brothers about how she has now been given a title match versus Kalani Jordan for the North American title, which will happen after this coming Friday when she will be squashed by Nia Jax. Like she's gonna get squashed by Nia Jax on Friday. And then after that, she's gonna get the title match for the North American title. Like you just need to be able to create delineation between these things. There's no reason for, like I wanna see Mia Yim on television. >> Hell yeah. >> There's no reason she's gotta be doing double duty in things that conflict with each other. She wins a match versus Jada Parker this week. And then on Friday, on this Tuesday, and then on Friday, she's gonna go to Scotland to get squashed by Nia Jax. And then after that, she gets a title match with Kalani Jordan that she was granted before the squashing. The Good Brothers are, lose their title match to the blurry boys and they could just move up and they could be gone, we don't need to see them again. But they're here and now they're gonna feel with OTM who are here. Are they straight up baby faces in NXT, but heels on the main roster because I don't think that should be allowed. I'm sorry, I don't, I'm old school enough, I don't think that should be allowed. >> It's also confusing as a viewer, like it's not, I don't like it when you have people losing NXT and then they go and win on the main roster, like that kinda stuff. >> 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. Seafelt 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 tick it, shift into safe. A message from the Colorado Department of Transportation. >> Looking for a meaningful career, then come to RTD and make connections. We're currently hiring operators starting at 2596 an hour, body shop techs at 3026 an hour and mechanics at 3272 an hour. All positions are eligible for a $4,000 signing bonus, RTD offers paid training, great benefits and a chance to make a difference in your community. To apply, visit RTD-Denver.com/careers, that's RTD-Denver.com/careers, an equal opportunity employer. >> Bugs me. >> But when you're just straight up a different person from brand to brand, that bugs me a lot more because one of them, I'm like, okay, but you're serving different purposes in different places, I get that, right? I can, I shouldn't have to, but I can forego the take a buy-in of how that consistency fails you. I can do that. When you're just straight up a different person, that I'm sorry, that's a bridge too far for me as a viewer of you because your motivations as a character should be consistent. So if you're just nice to these people and be to these people and you cheat here, but you don't cheat there, like it does not work from a psychology standpoint. And especially when it's raw in NXT because those are back-to-back nights. >> Yeah. >> So, I did at least have a couple of days of breather, but I'm like, I literally saw you 24 hours ago being a different human being is maddening to me. And I also think Ava is pretty heavily profiled, and I like that. I think authority figures should be. But if you're gonna do that, there should be an in-story justification about why certain talent appear in places. If you're gonna break the draft rules immediately, Ava should be able to say we didn't get any draft picks. So that means I get X main roster people a month to challenge my best of the best talent, whatever. Like there needs to be delineation there, cuz I can accept certain things. I cannot like it, but still accept it if you have people floating in and out. But like just give me reasons for why this stuff is happening. That's all. >> Right, yeah. >> Why is Chelsea Green getting a title shot on NXT when she's been smooshed on the main roster, consistently like those things are what get under my skin at what makes Alex's voice cry? >> Yeah, I just, I don't understand why the good brothers are doing whatever it is they're doing in NXT. Like people, Ava's reported, I don't know, maybe they decided not to do it. But Tegan Knox is somebody who's doing nothing on the main roster, was reported that they were considering her for a long run in NXT. Why is she not doing the Mia Yim stuff? And I'm not saying that then they, I'm not saying that they would then be a unit, but then you could bring down somebody like pretty deadly to do tag matches with the kids in NXT while the good brothers are doing stuff on the main roster. Like if you're, if people who are on the main roster, okay, everybody line up against the wall. Have you been on TV at all in the last three weeks, okay, anybody who has leave the room? The rest of you, we have some ideas for what could be a role for you in NXT for the next couple of months. If you don't wanna do it, that's fine. If you do, we have ideas for you. Like honestly, there are people who I'm sure don't like that they're not on TV on Raw and SmackDown. >> Of course. >> And would, and would absolutely take some time in Orlando working out with the kids, like learning, teaching them what they know and doing TV storylines, give these storylines to the people who aren't doing anything on the main roster. >> That's something that I learned from Manny and Brennan's streams a lot, was they talked about like how maddening it was to, cuz they were always pitching ideas. And like none of them were getting rejected. Like there are some people that if you said go down to NXT and do, you can do that idea on NXT, they would have loved to have done that. They would have jumped at the chance. So it's, there are people whose ambitions would align with something like that. Shinsuke, you're doing literally nothing with. After all the cool vignettes and all of the high quality losses, the tons of them that he took. They've done nothing with him on SmackDown. >> I mean, if indeed, if indeed, the battle royal that Cody booked for us next week does yield a TNA crossover challenger, fine. It might actually not, it might just be a regular person from NXT who gets it. And if so, it shouldn't be. It should be Shinsuke Nakamura. It should be Shinsuke Nakamura versus Trick Williams. Like he should be the guy, like have, do that and do that instead. >> It's really cool actually. >> Because Trick Williams isn't losing the title the next time he defends it anyway. So like, and Shinsuke Nakamura as much as I hate it, he never wins any of his matches. But he would be a great person for somebody like Trick Williams to work with. So like do that, here's the thing like bad apple jam tree beard says one. I mean, one explanation could be that OC Mi Chin will turn heel cuz they finally started to listen to AJ again, thus turning Jada and OTM into faces. Brother, let me tell you who doesn't work his faces. OTM and Jada Parker, Jada Parker's amazing as a heel. She would not work as a baby face. Besides, they already have baby face OTM, it's team tie tie. It's the bouncy boys, the beefy bouncy boys. They're already the exact thing with what baby face OTM would be. You can't run that. So like, no, I'm sorry, that just wouldn't work. Yeah, and today was Jada Parker has like a ton of charisma. And I feel like she's so many, even though we haven't gotten a lot of vignettes, we do know who she is because of who she is in the ring. This match was not great tonight, unfortunately, with her and in Mia Yem, I felt like there was a lot of it that just looked very mechanical. Just seemed like a chemistry thing. Like that, that happens sometimes, but I was kind of bummed cuz I was like, well, this is weird as hell, but like these two can both go. Like I've seen it, but just like kind of destroyed it, kind of sloppy. That Jada Pringle says, Alex is gonna burst a blood vessel. I'm fully in control. I am the meme of Conan O'Brien eating hot wings. I'm fine, okay? I am perfectly fucking fine. Look, we've seen what Alex raining himself in looks like and it's not pretty. I never wanna see it again. It was very alarming. No, it's fine. Robert Ponce pointed it out on the chat. Where are the yas boys? Where's Cedric? Where are Dem Loaf? Apollo Crews got his match pulled on Friday. Bring those people in. Bring the people in who aren't doing anything on the main roster please. >> I'm more continually perplexed by Odyssey job. Unless something is very wrong. Like I always want to leave room for, I don't think he's injured cuz he hasn't done an action in over a year. But like people have health conditions that are beyond that. People have mental health things. So I always wanna leave room for that, that sometimes people aren't TV for reasons that are none of our fucking business. >> Yes. >> But assuming he's healthy and clear to go and wants to be a wrestler. >> Have, are you kidding him versus trick Williams? Him versus Obafemi? Like what aren't we doing with Odyssey Jones man? >> I keep saying, I think you're after the wrong to the wrong brand for this. But I keep saying like, that's a dude who should be walking around behind Carmelo Hayes. >> A hundred percent. >> Like a hundred percent. >> There's a perfect duo, like it's a perfect thing. The guy who cannot stop running his mouth and a big dude to shut all those doors when anybody tries to get in his way, that's it man. But anyway, Ellen has letting us know that they gave a bunch of sinca when Okada was signed to AEW. It did feel like, and I'm not sure it's because of that. But it's around the same time, it was just like, I don't know why we decided to do it. >> You mean that with other people that got drafted? And it also felt like, it felt like they decided Shinsuke wasn't gonna be in King of the Ring, and then they haven't figured out a way to get him on TV since. And part of it I think is just these PLE cycles are so quick. >> Like you mentioned yesterday, like Bronson Reed was a mid-card title threat, and now was on main event, like they just don't have a lot of follow up with some stuff. And it's not great. >> Yeah, Ellen has didn't realize how many people have been missing. Yeah, there's just a whole bunch of people who got drafted in the draft. And like, it's just weird. >> It's actually sneaky. >> So, all the men in ChaseU, all four of them, because that's the only people who are in this fucking college, they're all talking over each other very loudly. And Thea Hale comes in and says, everyone shut the fuck up and sit down. >> This is the most I ever liked Thea Hale in my whole life. >> Doesn't make any fucking, I won't tolerate it, because it's the dumbest thing ever. Why is it, why does any of this have to do with a college? Like in what way, how, why is Rich Holland's not a student? None of this makes any fucking sense. Like it's just a thing, like out of context, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. In context, it makes zero sense. Why, the college, I mean, whatever, she receives to dress down everybody but Rich Holland, which is so weird because Rich Holland a few weeks ago was like, my little girl would guess, and all that would just put me off entirely to all of this. And again, I don't know what was settled here. She yelled at them, none of them said like, I'm sorry, nobody was changed. And then she walked away, like all she did was get them to stop yelling at each other. That's it, like not minds weren't changed. She was like, you know, if they were, if they were changed, fine. But you've got to give us more of an actual depiction of that on screen than stunned silence. Like hey, Riley Osborn, you can't, well, you're mad at him for it because he's an outsider. But guess who was an outsider too? You. And he sits there and his expression doesn't change. Now maybe he's taking it all in and thinking about it, but you know what makes for really bad TV, someone silently sitting there taking it all in and processing it emotionally without making a change in your face. Like I don't know what any of this does helps and I have no idea what on earth the actual end they are progressing toward could be these people. They don't know either. And the reason I feel that way is, and you and I have been split at points on chase you. I warmed up to it in points where they've made it made sense in the ring. You've always been like a university shouldn't be wrestling, which is extremely fair take. I will buy into your silly shit if you make it translate to the ring. I will say whether or not you and I have liked it. This has been one of the most over acts consistently that they had on NXT and they weren't anywhere close to being booked for the PLE and that is an indicator of their own. They've they've dammed themselves and like they had one of the most over acts in the promotion and just they had nothing for any of them, they had nothing for any of them. >> Like the a hail not being in the ladder match was weird like there was nothing that that made sense or work because the a hail is so because the a hail is so busy babysitting these grown men and have and helping them deal with their issues. She's not a person who walks out at the end to confront Roxanne Perez with she's she isn't going to have agency of her own because she's got to sit here and be like all you boys need to work it out. You know what I mean? And I mean, I I don't think that that. >> It also was like, this is happened this afternoon, a w is happening in WWE a lot. What has changed from the week before about what you were. What has been built upon from the week before, because this just isn't been if OTM is out the mud, this has been in the mud for a really long time at this point. And like Rich Allen's not getting anything out of it, probably because he was shoehorned into it in a way that made no sense. Sean Spears was like in charge of him and then was like, we need to add people JK, I'm gonna go beat Javan Evans for no reason today, like just very, very disjointed, very, very disjointed at all. So Duke Hudson is amazing, why isn't he wrestling all the time? She brought up the Duke Hudson thing, which is that he, everyone, everyone expected you to stab Andre Chase in the back and you didn't do it. And you know why? Because we gave you a chance, we believed in you and you showed that who you really were. And I was like, yeah, I do remember everyone expecting to do that. You know why? because it would have made fucking sense. He was a heel who showed up and was being all skeevy and was like looking around and obviously trying to usurp or do something. And the only reason you go against the expectation of all the audience is because you have something else for him to do specifically and they don't. So when he didn't turn on Andre Chase or try to usurp his authority, when Andre Chase was off dealing with an injury, instead, all he is is a guy carrying around a trophy that he won 18 months ago, like in the meaningless one, it doesn't carry a title shot with it. It doesn't carry, it's not like the Heritage Cup, right? I don't get it because he's so good in the ring and he's a good looking dude and he's charismatic as hell and anything he's been given has had sincerity, the hair match stuff with Cameron Grimes speaking of people that they missed the boat on. His timing with the comedic stuff is never the issue, it's just not well written for the most part. So like, I just will forever root for that guy. Yeah, I would like to see him. I would like very much for him to break away from this nonsensical storyline that's been nonsensical since the first day they introduced Andre Chase. Well, and there was a point where it looked like it was going to be sensical because it looked like he was in cahoots with the D'Angelo family and then they screwed that all up and made a weird calendar, like it's just so, it's such a waste and again, we haven't liked it but it was incredibly over and then now there's nothing for any of them to do, like that's their own failure, like we want what's better for them because we think their ceilings are higher than what they're given, but this was over and now nobody cares, like because they didn't follow up on it. They didn't follow up on it at all, it sucks. So after the match, the North American title match, that battleground, Galis, all three of them ganged up on Wesley and people, including our own Sean Ross Sapp, were like, this is what an awesome thing that they're going to bring the rascals back together for one night only to deal with this. Instead it was like Wesley got his old buddy Tyler Bate and Tyler Bates tag partner currently Pete Dunn and these are guys who also don't like Galis, but also like you could have brought the rascals back together and you did Tyler Bate and Pete Dunn, who are having matches on main event on the main roster. So like they're not like they're not like they're a prominent thing, you know what I mean? Because awesome truth is the tag champion. So this was a fine little six man tag, but then you just that you just had Joe Coffey pin Wesley clean, like like Joe Copley, I'm so okay. We don't know anything about this, I guess because Obofemi's not around and they may have a completely new deck, a new direction for him to go with North American title, but it sure seems like there was a triple threat. And the two losers, the two challengers who didn't beat the champion fought each other in a triple in a six man tag. And one of the two challengers pinned the other challenger, like if you look at that scenario and you don't know any any other context, does that feel like the challenger who pinned the other challenger gets a one on one title shot? Yeah. And like is anybody interested in that? Like I like Joe Coffey, but like I thought when Wesley came back, I'm getting that North American title back. Like are we really not going to do a one on one with him and Obofemi at any point? I mean, I don't know, maybe that's not where they're going again, but it really feels like this was the opportunity for Wesley to be like, okay, now I'm done with Galis, I'm coming for you big man and there's going to be nobody else is going to get in the way. It's going to be you and me and I know I can beat you and Obofemi can laugh at him. And then Obofemi can come this close to losing his title at Heatwave, but that'll be Wesley's big moment. And then he can move on to something else. Now we're just like dragging this out because I mean, here's a little secret. I don't know if everybody knows this. Joe Coffey is no way beating Obofemi, there's not a chance in hell. You know what I mean? So like, I don't know, it's just I just don't, I just, I just don't know. I guess that is almost obnoxiously predictable, how triple threats go. That's why it's why it's, we're like, oh, it's a triple threat and then you do the triple threat math in this tool face, whoever. Like it, it's, it's morally predictable. My only guess is that maybe they want to put Wesley off for a bit. Like they might not want to have him lose again that quickly because I don't think this title is going off of Obofemi anytime soon. So maybe they don't want to have him just kind of like keep taking Ls, Wesley considering what his injury was and how he was out looks awesome in the ring. It's ridiculous. He does. But Kate, listen, listen, I want you to listen to yourself. They don't want, they don't want Wesley to lose to Obofemi. So they're going to book him to lose to Joe Coffey in a match that's not for the title. Yeah. Like, I mean, like, that's the, that's not, that's not your fault. You're trying to figure out what we're frigging thing must be going on in HBK's head that he could do this. Yeah. Here's the other piece of this. I'm wondering if they're going to do a, I had the wrong friends in my quarter and then MSK is going to show up next week because I'm guessing the battle royal is going to yield a bunch of CNA talent, but then a just don't do this and be how many trios of nonsensical people are we going to get on WWE programming? Yeah. I have no idea. Kevin Owens in the street profits made no sense. Then what did we get on raw? It was, who was it with, oh, it was the TikTok tag team. Yeah. That's right. Yes. Like, it's so weird. Like these trios of just like, well, you're, you're also good guys and you're a good person. So the autumn, you clearly are. Yeah. I mean, like for all, I mean, honestly, it's, it's the 11th of 11th of June. And heat wave is like, I think the 8th of July. So if you told me that Eddie Thorpe is getting the title shot against Obafemi by the 8th of July after tonight, I would believe it. And if that's the case and they're going to do something else entirely with Wesley, maybe by heat wave, you have Wesley at the rest of the rascals back together versus gallus in a six man tag and Wesley gets the pin there. You know what I mean? Maybe that's what you do, but I'm trying to figure out, I don't understand why any of this involved Joe coffee, pinning, pinning Wesley, like, I don't understand, you know? Yeah, why did Wesley take the pinfall too? That was weird. Uh, Luis says, if you're, Wes is feeding with gallus from now to heat wave, the match should 100% be the rascals versus gallus of heat wave. Yes, that, that, that could, that could be it. I don't know. Again, Obafemi, not on the, not on the show tonight, which is a grievous error. He should be on every show. So this is the other problem with this episode. Like the things that were presented to us weren't great, but like, Obafemi should be an hour and 40 minutes of every episode. So, and then the remaining part should be Tony D and the family. Mm hmm. I don't understand this because I'm not sure if you're talking about the, is it the video game or the show about the video game, bad apple jam tree beard says done and bait must be fallout fans because they are NCR and I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what that is. So I don't know anything. Yes, indeed. Oh my God. Same Z's. Indeed. Okay. I watched that band spend a half hour tracking down pocket watch or hugging mirror is a mirror, I think. Yeah. Here's the other thing like we'll, we'll talk about that. The Heritage Cup, so like, um, so, so the, the Siler bait and Pete done our backstage with Nathan Frazier and Axiom looking at footage of them beating the good, the good brothers and Tyler paints like, Oh, Roy, good job. I was a good move there. I'm so proud of you. And Pete done standing in the back on like, he doesn't like any of this. He was sour. He was, he was, he did not look that far off of this, just wasn't a grand, a little Saturday. Okay. Um, uh, bad apple jam tree beard says NCR is a faction in the games. Awesome. I don't, I haven't played them. So I don't know. But there you go. They are NCA. They are new catch Republic. So Tony comes in with stacks carrying the, the, the cup around for him, which I think was so great. Um, it's like, Hey, I hate you, you, I don't tell your name on this. Um, let me give you a little history lesson on the heritage of this year cup. I'm like, you think we don't know about the history of British wrestling. Um, uh, and, uh, the Nathan Frazier is just staring at it. So we're going to get Nathan Frazier versus Tony D for the, for the heritage cup, which is going to lead to the blurry boys breaking up for some reason. Because he's like, what, like, hey, we're the tag team champions, like, Oh, what? You think I can't do double duty? I could defend the heritage cup and the tag titles at the same time, which like that's, that's the beginning of the end of that. You know what I mean? Like there's, when you have him say that before he even becomes the heritage cup champion, there's zero chance that either if he ever actually becomes heritage cup champion, there's no way he can also defend the tag titles along with that. So he would lose one or the other. Hopefully he doesn't actually beat Tony D because I think we've just scratching the surface on Tony D is Italian heritage camp champion. So I think that might end up being the return of a kid if they split up. I, I would hope because it's I guess so. Yeah. Axiom is incredible in the ring, but like a kid as a character would be better. Um, the other reason I know that they're going to split up is because they're a tag team and NXT. So if they make it more than three days or whatever. Under the, under the, under the WWE umbrella, they're splitting up at some point. Um, this is when I talked to my sister about wrestling, because she doesn't watch, but I make her talk to me about it. That's like her thing of like, Oh, well, they're going to break up as the tech. She learned that was a possibility and she runs it into the ground now. And she's, she's right, probably like 60, 40, which is so annoying. I, I'm fine with Axiom and Nathan Frazier breaking up. A kid comes back as long as Axiom is still around in scenes that don't feature a kid. Because I desperately need them to do a thing where nobody knows they're the same guy. Like that is, that is my brand of dumb wrestling comedy, where the mask, because it actually does cover his whole face and you really can't understand what he is saying. I don't, does he have any identifiable tattoos on his torso? I don't know if he does. Not that are exposed. I don't think no. Um, because that's an awesome thing for, like, for a kid to have a kid to come back and, and want to be a tag team with Axiom. 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My goodness, Ted Gable updates, Becky Lynch updates, news of other people's contracts being expired or on the break of it, Dijak Natalia, Shane Hast, her still favorites. I would say also can pop ass with the best of them, I think he taught Sexy Red a lot of what she knows, but his contract running out at the end of the month. So many scoops over there and more, best $5 in the game. Yeah. You should definitely do that. Brindley Reese doesn't watch the product. She was like, "I'm having a match with Wendy Chu tonight. She's so nice. Everyone loves her. I'm so honored to be the person who she's having a match with," but if she had come out the way we want tonight and they didn't do the little reveal of the eye makeup and the last vignette that they played on the show and then also twice at Battleground, then maybe he could be forgiven for not realizing what she was getting into, but they definitely told us that this was going to happen and she doesn't know, but Malik, Blade and Edison are facing to know, but they're not going to tell her. So she's great. She's actually, listen, I'm just going to say it to me. She's a far more palatable Thea Hale because she runs at a 7 and Thea Hale runs at a 12. You know what I mean? Like, she's just at the level where it's believably over the top, but not crazy where I can't, like, I just can't, I can't with you. You know what I mean? She's up all the time, but not that up. I think we also see more of Friendly Reese being normal. Like Thea Hale is pretty much always in a state of panic about something and she plays it the way she plays it and that's fine, but Friendly Reese has more just ups and downs about her. So we just get to see more of that because I really like when we've gotten sincere notes of Thea Hale, they're just so few and far between. But I just want to say, for all of you, Dragon Chew enthusiasts, I think I was right about not wanting this to be a thing. Well, so she's not Dragon Chew. That's why, because it's not what I want it. You've booked something else and you're done. I booked something else. This is not Dragon Chew. This is Joker Chew. I saw somebody describe it as like she was this weird, possessed, raggedy and all. And that's what it feels like more than anything else. She doesn't speak. She doesn't actually have human facial expressions. She doesn't make a noise as far as I could tell. But she's doing, she's gone from girl who sleeps a lot to sleep paralysis demon. And it's creepy. I don't know, I don't know what, I don't know what we, what we do with it. You know what I mean? Like it's, it's, it's spooky. It's, I'll get here's what I, here's what I would like to know. You want, you want to talk about, I need a vignette, the, the joke, where's the vignette? I need a vignette. I need a vignette. Because last time we saw her, she wasn't like this. So I'd like, I just want to know what happened. I just want to know what happened, why she's like this, because I, because I am fully able to accept, I am, I am, I am willing to accept seeing somebody transition to being crazy on screen, watching the transformation from regular person who just likes a nap into, you know, a demon of the netherworld. I'm willing to watch the transformation happen over the course of several weeks, several months, whatever. We didn't see the transition. So watching her now is, it's, it's, it's, I don't, I don't, I'm not, I wasn't prepared for it. I wasn't prepared for it because, because this was not Dragon Chew. This was not what we got was what we got was Abaddon with narcolepsy. And I'm, I wasn't prepared for it at all. Like this was a fun little thing that we did, but like, um, like her, like, Britney slapping her because she didn't know what it else to do and her head rocking back. Like that was really really effective, but like, but, but, but like, what, what happened? Why is, why is she this now? I mean, the fact that the fact of the matter is like, it wouldn't be, it's one thing if like she came back and it was an entirely different person who was a dark, creepy thing. But this is absolutely a, a demon from hell possessed Wendy Chu. And I just, I didn't see that. Like, you know what? This is what this is. This feels like I've watched part one of a trilogy, missed part two, and always meant to see it, but didn't. And then my friend says, come on, we're going to see part three in the theater. And I'm watching the whole time going, I have no idea why this person is like this now, because I missed the whole, the middle part, but everybody missed the whole middle part because you didn't put it on TV. It doesn't exist. Uh, what's funny about the vignette thing is we got an exhaustive amount of vignettes that were very short and cool production, but it was like, we saw her wake up. We saw her get out of bed. We saw her go to the mirror. But none of them told what happened to us. Maybe that's something that's going to get revealed to us, but Wendy Chu, Karen Q, Dragon Lady, whatever you want to call her. She has the blessing and the curse of being really fucking good at whatever they give her. And because of that, they throw sometimes, well, almost exclusively, things that are very high risk at her. And she delivers them very well, but because they're high risk, she, she killed it, by the way. Yeah. She's absolutely playing this part perfectly. I just, I just don't know. I just don't know why she is this now. No, and they could do some really cool like Tarantino wing of it. Like there might be something that happens in match that reveals why she got this way or whatever. She's jarring now, but she, she, she can be girl who falls asleep on top of walkers. She can be 5,000 year old Dragon Lady. She can be haunted, raggedy, and all whatever. She's incredible. She's really, really incredible. She's so good in the ring too. Like I love the way that she be friendly Reese. Credits a friendly Reese too. I thought she did a good job playing countered a very weird thing. It almost feels like, and it, this is hard because you, you have to get so specific. But when Malachi Black, or Alster Black, defined his character as the devil with amnesia. So like he couldn't remember what he had done to make himself so evil, but he knew he is. Yeah. That's one of the most badass things I've ever heard. But that's like very specific and methodical and planned out. Yeah, sure. So if this is in line with that, where we're going to get this incredible story that's like revealed to us, I hope there is a very strong plan. And I think it could be cool if they follow through with it that she beats Kalani Jordan for that North American title. Because I feel like Kalani Jordan could probably play that like, in peril, vulnerable baby face thing very well. Just like, just based off of what we've seen it for so far. So I am a little oversaturated on the spooky stuff because it's not my favorite anyway. I don't want her going after a title to fall too far in line with what Tatum Paxtley is. And I know we're about to get the Wyatt six stuff. So I'm, it's just not my thing and there's a lot, there's a lot of it. Like, like, Tatum is a disturbed young girl who's fixated on a title belt. Yes. So this Wendy, this Wendy Chu is a completely different thing entirely. I believe Tatum Paxtley is, is from this plane of existence. Nothing tonight that Wendy Chu did makes me believe that she's not a demon. You know what I mean? Yes. Like that's, that's a, there's a different kind of creepy. Like there's creepy and like you're, you're not all there. You're, you're weird and creepy and you, you wear black or whatever. And then there's whatever this was. You know what I mean? Like the gates of hell opened and out walked this. My concern with the Tatum Paxtley stuff is we had that incredible vignette and I don't feel like they followed through on the kind of creepy, but almost chomp a Goldie like character that we were promised in a way. So I just don't want them to fall into the same track because they don't follow through on it. Right now they're different, but there's, there's just a lot of black, let's stick on my TV at all. When Apple Jam Treebeard says Wendy Chew was possessed by a deadite from the Evil Dead movie series, that looks more like what this is than actual anything else I could say. Well Chisholm says, let's get her up to Wendy for keeping her eyes like this for that, that for the whole match. Yes. Like she was doing amazing character work throughout this whole match. Fantastic stuff. And, and, and was not, and she didn't need to do it with like, like I'm not taking anything away from Abaddon, but like there's a difference between doing it with full entire hair, makeup, face paint, contacts and everything, which does help. And this, which is just weird stitches being painted on your face and some eye makeup. That's it. Like that, that takes, that there's a lot of stuff to do with that. So I, I think that there's a possibility that this could work out really great, but right now I just, I need more context, but I think, I just don't trust them. I think, I think cyclo's given it to us though. Wendy got murdered by Blair Davenport in the NXT parking lot. Her body was buried in the parking lot under the old schism tree. And this is her cursed soul. Now, if they, if they showed me that, I honestly would be like, you know what, that tracks, I mean, that makes sense. I feel like NXT is not a very good show and NXT Wikipedia is something I'd be extremely interested in though, I got to say. Will Chisholm saying, I want this Wendy to pop up in TNA and hang out with the crazy girls and be like, they get me. Just add her to the faction with Rosemary. Honestly, it's just perfect. Like if you actually do a full on talent exchange program, just let, let her go over there and do something with Rosemary for a while. They'd be awesome together. You know, what's next at Moss Adams. That question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading accounting consulting and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. 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They're going to love it. A big faction, everybody clearly identified as long as they don't push them toward the wrong part of the card immediately. I think it could be really cool. But the thing of it is then that's your only spooky act. You cannot have competing spooky acts that they inhabit the spooky corner of the roster. That's it. Nobody else. It's got to be directly into the Wyatt six. Make it the Wyatt seven as soon as she gets there, because there's nothing else for her to do if she's this character. You could make her something else. You could have her get called back to normalcy, like in a. You could. In a thing. But we'll see. Yeah. As Louise says, now apparently havoc have a kayfabe died for some reason. And now Rosemary is doing her own spooky thing. I cover the show weekly and I have no fucking idea what is going on. Tim McFall says, tonight's show sucked, but Dragon Choo didn't, Kate, you need to get on board. She's going to bulldoze those blonde lookalikes. Now she's backstage. She had a match with Britney Reese and then backstage. She Carly Bright tried to introduce herself like with Carly Bright was not watching the show tonight, because she's like, Oh, Wendy, hi, it's so good to meet you. And Wendy obviously is the person from the match. And and Carly's like, Oh, um, hello, like, do you, were you not watching earlier? Cause I mean, so, so basically it's just going to be Wendy Chu just destroying all these blonde chicks in the realm and it's just fine. It'll work out. I did have a moment where I was thinking about, first of all, unless we see that a wrestler has been watching and they're watching like this, they haven't been watching the show as far as I'm concerned. Fair enough. I did have a moment where I wasn't the biggest Kelly Kelly girl because I started watching in 2009, but my favorite thing that they did with Kelly Kelly was when Karma like just came into the picture and she destroyed her and Kelly Kelly literally cowering in the corner at the turndacles being like, what the hell has just come to the women's roster was like the most entertaining that I found Kelly Kelly in her room. And I think they have an opportunity to do something similar with Carly Bright here of she is as Elle Woods is shit yet she says baby phased blonde cheerleader, whatever as something can get and Wendy Chu just not being human with it. And just sorry Carly Bright beating the ever-living dog shit out of her could make it feel like this force has arrived and we don't know that they're gonna have a field day with this at Halloween Havoc and probably the chucky series at some point. Well, Chisholm saying the Triple H did make Wendy a 5,000 year old dragon lady LOL, so like he does he does have some ideas for wants to do. Bendy Carvalo says Carly Bright's reason to get into WWE was Kelly Kelly. So it's a great idea. A lot of that tracks and it is a great idea. Thank you. That is the saddest thing since Cameron's answer of the best wrestling match she's ever seen. I hate being mean about the Divas era because it was like, hi, you're untrained and you have two minutes go get yourself over like those women were put in a no win position. But when we see what women's wrestling can be and what was being presented to us at that time, like finding inspiration and that stuff when you when you've had Bailey and Sasha Banks and I see take over Brooklyn is crazy. Wilchism says Wendy the blonde chick killer. That sounds like a good movie, sorry Kate. Well, I'm a like you blonde onion, so I can be the one that got away. There you go. Good. Byron Sachs interviewed Roxanne Roxanne says you don't need to know what I'm going to do my state of the Union thing and it's it's a promise it's going to be amazing and it wasn't. Um, so trick Williams is supposed to come out and that's when Cody Rhodes comes out to like steal a thunder of the champ and then he you know it's just it's just that the universe moves. That's death. It's set. Um, uh, yes. So he's there. It's his Cody Rhodes on his art. He co he cuts a pro he cuts a friggin promo about AJ Styles. You know what I mean? On NXT. Because what is he doing there? Like in his defense? Like why is he there? The whole reason he came was to give JC Jane his old mask, which we're going to get to in a second. What was so weird was the good brothers were here and he talked a bunch of shit about AJ Styles and I kept waiting for them to come out and just, um, so anyway, he, um, he does get interrupted by trick and trick is wearing these crazy 1976 disco platforms that I just have never seen him wear. Um, and, uh, it was, it was, it was, I just, I literally spent the most of the first minute he was on screen going, what are those over and over again? Um, no, Alex, I don't want to say that you're not the spirit of things, but you won't pop ass. You won't wear cool platforms. What are we doing here? I did appreciate that you said you would leave that to the professionals and maybe it's the same thing with the platforms. Honestly, that's true. Um, so, um, trick wave says you and I have similar journeys that like, no, you don't, no, you don't. Not at all. No way, just because you're a baby face who finally won a title doesn't make you have similar journeys. You know what I mean? And then, what do you want to start at a different company? You and I, we are not so different, you and I, oh no, wait, I thought about it for a second and we're totally dissimilar. We're not in all the same. We are very different people, you and I, um, so Cody says I have been authorized by Ava to tell you that, um, that your new challenger will actually what he says first is like there's always another, there's always another mountain to climb. He says with his old, with his own thing, like, like trick Williams is not coming for that title while you hold it. Not while you hold it, Cody, please tell me you're going to lose that before trick is on the main roster in the position to come after it, please, please, please, you have to lose that title soon, Cody, please, please, um, and then, uh, but he does say your, your next challenger will be determined in a 25 man battle royal next week. Um, uh, and there might be some, some, some people you'll recognize and some people will be from different locker rooms and, uh, I think a, a keel in the, um, in the chat said that the people from different locker rooms, it'll just be Ron Smackdown it'll just be Ron Smackdown. It won't be anybody from CNA, he won't be anybody to get at all. Um, I, well, that's not what he said, Alex, what he said was that he was going to reveal his opponent and then what he did say was that it'll be whoever wins a 25 man battle royal. Yeah. Yeah. So no, you didn't. Right. Cody, you're a big liar, but not as big of a liar as trick who was like, we've had such similar journeys that I go, I audibly said, come on, because nothing happened. He just basically said we're both champions that overcame adversity, which is every single day they face up. Um, I was like, no, you were not a trick. You weren't a part of the bullet club like don't, don't just lie. I understand the desire to connect with someone and have a common ground with them, but that ain't it. Um, I did appreciate that he asked him for advice because that was like the only thing that felt cohesive in this whole segment, um, but yes, a tale of two different fashions coming in a suit, tricking his platforms. Again, they are not on similar path. Um, in fact, Cody was never an NXT champion, so they were really not even close. No, not at all, crowd loves Cody. They're talking about here. Here's what they did say. We have a similar journeys that we've both been, been hunting for the title so long. Now we're the hunted and it's different. And I'm like, the, the similar part is that nobody in the, in WWE knows how to book either one of you, they can't, they can, they can book a baby face chance chasing a heel champion pretty well. Honestly, they can do that all right. But they have no clue what to do with baby face shampoo once they become champ as evidenced as evidenced by both of these guys booking currently. So you know what I mean? Hey, to say it, but even Bailey, like, um, she, hers is a little bit better, but it's not like, they don't think beyond the moment that they book for winning these and that becomes a problem. Anyway, so there's a 25 man boy battle royal, um, and a battle royal in WWE always starts with all the people in the ring at the same time. So unless it's going to be like a royal rumble style battle royal, there's going to be no surprises. You know what I mean? Everyone's going to be in the ring at the same time at a giant mass of, of man meat. Just don't know what's going to be able to see anything. It's only going to be like, oh, there's, we start out with these two guys and then another guy comes in and there's never going to be more than let's say eight dudes in the ring at one time in the royal rumble. We actually get to see the surprises that going to have people face off. You know what I mean? Like, oh, a dream match scenario between this guy in TNA and a guy in NXT, like, that's not going to be, they might just amend it by next week and say it's going to be fought under royal rumble rules to make the actual surprises seem fun. But other than that, like, it's not going to be a big part of somebody, you know what I mean? So they've got to. But the other thing is with these royal rumble style matches, everybody's themes that Selk are going to get super exposed. But like you can't have, if Joe Hendry is in there, you can't not have his thing fly. Like that would be a huge mistake. And they should just, the first 40 minutes of next week's show should just be that. Just do that. Yeah. That would be the most exciting thing that you can do. Bad Apple Jam tree beard says either Joe Hendry or Obah to win the battle royal. Now, while Obah can't be in the battle royal unless he wins it. That's just straight up can't because I don't want to watch him people like, oh, let's get eight of us to eliminate him together. I don't want to watch that crap. So I hope he's not unless he's going to win it. And if he's going to win it, then he's going to win the title from Trick Williams. I don't think they're ready to do that yet. So, Obah's not in it for whatever reason. Joe Hendry, sure, if he's if he's people saying he's not healthy, Luis says, of all people I can see appearing, my pick is Steve Macklin with the goal of finally winning NXT goal after being a forgotten son during this whole run there. That's not a bad call. That's not a bad, it's not a bad idea, honestly. Like that would be kind of cool. It would be a fun, it would have fun match for them and it's, I mean, I don't know, man, it's we'll have to see who they're going to send is a sacrificial lamb to Trick Williams for heat wave. You know what I mean? So yeah. Yeah, it doesn't feel like they're running an Ethan Pageback, that's for sure. I think it would be a good opportunity to send in a Shinsuke, send in an Odyssey Jones. This would be, this would be a good one, honestly. He's a new guy in it in TNA, but- >> Hell yeah. >> Hammerstone versus Trick Williams could be a lot of, lot of fun. >> When that guy was still in NLW, I was like, how has WWE not come calling for the second coming of Hogan if Hogan was good in the ring? It blows my mind. >> It's like if Hogan and Lesnar had a baby and it was just, it's just that, out popped Hammerstone. >> He's on, he's like. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> He got injured recently on, no, he got pulled from, well. >> Hammer did? >> Yeah. >> Oh, that's right. >> Anyway. >> I remember this now. >> Tell him how he's saying the first 40 minutes should be Joe Henry songs. >> [LAUGH] Not bad about it. >> Mm-hm. >> That'd be actually kind of cool. >> He could write a really fun song about Trick, like you know. >> If he just, if he did, like, you know, every, every so often in a battle on a Royal Rumble, somebody will get, will come out, but never actually get in the ring. If he came out and then, like, set up his, like, guitar and a stool, right by the entrance and sang a song about everybody who came in after him, and finally, like, and it would laugh. >> That would be very fun. >> Bad Apple says they should do the funniest thing and have Nick Nemeth win it as a TNA crossover. >> I think, more likely, Mustafa? >> It would, it would, I hope it's almost, I mentioned ever set foot back in that fucking company. But I can't wait to see the crazy verbal gymnastics that Vic Joseph does if it's Nick Nemeth. That's dope, I mean, I mean, TNA superstar, Nolf, Zemeth. >> By Elegant. >> Mm-hm, by Elegant. Luis says, Joe Henry does a remix of Whoop that trick from Hustle and Flow for his match against Trick Williams, LOL, that could be- >> He would do, it's very good, like, it could be a really bad gimmick, but he has done such a good job of balancing an actually good song with a diss trick feel to it. The Adit Francis one wasn't credible, but the Matt Cardona one of Being Edge's bitch was unbelievable. Like, he's good at it, he's really good at it. >> I also don't want it to be Mustafa Ali, because he's still writing his undefeated streak if I'm not- >> Yeah, I'm mistaken, so- >> [LAUGH] >> Nolf by Elegant. >> [LAUGH] >> So- >> Did they use today? >> It's perfect. >> There you go. >> So then let's do the rest of this Cody crap. By the way, before he left, Trick called him back in, like, I gotta know you're coming to the cookout, and then everyone's Cody's looks around like, I don't know, am I even allowed to come to the cookout, I gotta ask my wife. Like he was doing this weird thing with his eyes like, my goodness, I've never been asked this before, like, I mean, I'm hoping you've gone to several cookouts with your in-laws family. >> I would say- >> I'm hoping, Cody, but he was like, I've never been asked this, he did this weird reaction to it. And the crowd was like, yay, say yes, Cody, solve racism again, Cody, please. >> He said yes, and they did the cool guy handshake, and that was fine, but then he goes backstage and he's carrying out a paper bag, and he comes up against, comes up to J.C. Jane, and he like reaches in and pulls out his old dashing mask, his undashing mask. And I'm like, from 2011, and he's like, just the person, I've been wanting to see. Here you go. And I'm like, when have you ever in your life met this woman before? So certainly it's ever been on television. >> Why are you bequeathing your mask to somebody you have no connection to? >> And it wasn't an injury mask. It wasn't like shame, it was, I was a dashing stan. I loved dashing Cody Rose and what they did with that. It was kind of at the beginning of me getting into wrestling. I totally connected with the 80s, smartly looking in the mirror guy, and I thought the downfall with the mask was super fun. I remember that really vividly, but that was not a, my nose got injured mask, I don't think, was it? >> I thought it started with him getting, he like- >> Someone snatched his face and that's why he was wearing it cuz he was unbearable to look at. >> Yeah, something like that. >> It wasn't like a shameous thing where he was like, I'm gonna fight while I'm injured or whatever. >> I thought it was a thing where he was all kayfabe, you know what I mean? As opposed to JC Jane literally is wearing a mask because she got her nose broken. Like JC Jane, I have to wear a mask, I got my nose broken, but also I'm hideous, don't look at me. Thing would work for her, but I don't understand why it's gotta be Cody's mask. And then later she comes out spoiler alert and she's just put his mask on over her own mask. >> It was like, but you know over again, it was like just far out from her face. She had a giant, really thick mask on over her own mask. And I don't know, everybody go, that's where I was. Yes, now Rey shoot, broke Cody's nose with a 619. >> No kidding, okay, that was actually a pretty cleverly done thing then, sorry, it was a while ago for me to remember. >> But then, the other thing, where he's walking backstage and runs across Sean Spears and we'll talk more about what Sean Spears is about up to, says, hey, it's good to see it, yeah. I'm gonna win that battle royal and then I'm gonna be champion or something. And then Ethan Page walks up and he's like, >> And you didn't know Ethan Page was a heel already from everything that we've got about it, a shirt that was like, I got three buttons above my belly button. >> Yeah. >> Do everything you need to know about it. >> Ethan Page walks out and go, hey, don't forget about that, I'm in that match too. I'm gonna win. And then Brian Pillman Jr walks up and he's like, hey, now I'm gonna do it cuz I'm a major star, I'm gonna win, I'm gonna be the champion. And then they all just stand there for a little bit and Cody goes, you guys look like you're in a good place. >> So which I say- >> I'm like, I mean- >> What evidence? >> I agree. >> But they're happy, awesome, but this was not the episode to pull that out. >> [LAUGH] >> So- >> All right, cuz Lexus King is mostly eating pins other than tonight. Sean Spears abandoned the storyline where he was building a stable entirely to beat a rising star tonight. And Ethan Page, they didn't protect his finisher at his first match on the brand for the world title. >> I know, Matt. >> And he lost basically clean to get attacked after the match. >> Mm-hm. >> These guys aren't at a good place. I hope they're in a happy place, but- >> Yeah, Matt Logan says, I loved seeing Cody with the AEW outcasts, I mean, I guess you can call it that. And this is also true, Peyton saying, they posted a pic of the four of them doing this Spider-Man mean point, and Peyton Carter saying this, they all did a photo shoot after this, and that's all WWE has posted on Twitter since. They're so proud of this moment, you know what I mean? >> I mean, it's just, I mean, whatever, I mean, listen. I just wouldn't take a victory left on this episode. >> Listen, it's Cody, Cody's obviously a huge success story moving from me. I think he could have been, he could have been easily been this over there if he hadn't done the dumb, I'm never allowed to challenge for the top championship. So let me get the mid card champion and then act like a heel but not actually be heel thing. Like he could have been what this is over there and he'd not come back. They drop the ball totally on Easton Page, and I hope he becomes a giant success in WWE. Like Sean Spears wasn't being used at all. And like, and Brian Pillman Jr. has to me only proven all of his detractors about his work in AEW right since he's been here. So it's a weird flex to pull with these particular people because it's all very different. You know what I mean, whatever. What I agree with for sure. Like I was happy that they graded Sean Spears' release because I think he has a lot of value to the wrestling industry. He wasn't big used in AEW. Brian Pillman Jr, I feel like, or Lexus King outside of having a cool slidey chair. I just haven't seen what people see in him that says that he's a star. I don't find, I don't find the creative direction for him in NXT particularly consistent or good either, but I don't feel like he's mostly just had a slidey chair and been skeezy to women. They all got wins tonight, which felt intentional, but like- Well, sure. Oh, you had to have them all get wins tonight except for Ethan Page who's not allowed to win because he got his picture kick out of him. World Chisholm says they're going to run the same three guys with Cody, but the fifth band will be Ricky Starks, AKA Cody's friends, man, if they do, if they do, an AEW invasion angle. Just no. I don't want to see it for them like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Ethan Page makes completely separate of everything else. Please just make it just, just let him be how weighty he is. It was a bad start at Battleground. Weightwave is in Toronto, like he's from Hamilton, Ontario. Like they should have saved the one-on-one match for him and Tric at a heat wave. Oh, he's so weird. And now he's- Oh, bro. I mean, if just a regular NXT guy, especially a guy who just came off of losing to Tric, wins the battle royal to get- like that would be a huge mistake. Hold on, let me see if I can find a thing on that. It's- they have made choices. That would be one of these, if they were to actually just book Ethan to win a battle royal when they've teased people from TNA being in it. It would just be weird to do that. I honestly think it should be like Shinsuke, genuinely. It would be kind of cool. Anyway, so Sarah Schreiber interviewed Dante Chen backstage. She used the Singapore cane to smack the wall or something, and then he said he was going to teach him discipline. I don't know, they only call it- they're not calling it a Kendo stick match, even though that's what they- that's what they canonically have called these weapons for 20 years. You know what I mean? Well, 15 years. They called them Singapore canes in ECW to capitalize on the weird phenomenon of that kid who went over there and did graffiti or something and then got caved. And they haven't called them that sense, but they're doing it because this guy is from Singapore. It just- it always felt weird. But like, he and Pelman hit each other with Singapore canes a lot. There wasn't much else to this match at all. They hit each other hard. They each got some pretty big welts. Yes. And then it was just impossible to watch because Booker T was- Booker T was just slurping noises. It was just Booker T slurping noises then going, "Oh yes, man!" It was just that. He just- I don't know why they've decided that the guy that- that- he's not a heel commentator. He's not Nigel McGinnis. No. He's a bad commentator, but he also picks some faces and some heels to go after. You know what I mean? Like, but he's decided that the one he loves the most among all people is Lexus King for some reason. I call him a TV star. I mean, I don't know, is that the biggest, I don't know. It's weird. It's very weird. Victrosif was even like, "You've been hit with one of those. How does it feel?" And he's like, "Not bone, man." Like, it was just very- Weird. Stop doing a thick theme, the gimmick matches, they're all bad. The Shalele match rules, and if you are a Viking heritage, the Viking ship thing was awesome. It- neither of those should have been as good, but they were- they were great. You can just do it as an extreme rules match and then have the guy who is of that persuasion. If you want, he goes to a specific corner of under the ring and pulls out a weapon he stashed there that matches his own thing. Naming the match after the specific ethnic weapon is weird to me. You know what I mean? That's what you look him to lose. Why is he losing this match? When he just came back, you've paired him with Robert Stone only- Because he just won two straight versus Lexus King and they're pushing Lexus King. They're pushing- I know, but they're pushing Lexus King, and the thing of it is, Lexus King gets his scepter that he comes out with sometimes. He came out with it with it today because he was going to use it to hit the guy in the balls and then win with that because it's a different kind of stick that- that actually has weight to it as opposed to a Kendo stick, which does not. I really like Dante Chen, genuinely. I think he moves super well in the ring. I think he has something very- I don't mean this in like a- he's no attractive way, but like attractive about him that makes you want to see him wrestle, and I feel like he comes across as very authentic, and I don't hate the idea of a single 4K match. I hate the idea that there was no match around the single 4K. There was not a lot of wrestling in this. It was just beating each other with sticks, and that's a bummer because I feel like I've even seen Lexus King do better work than this, and I've definitely seen Dante Chen do better work than- than this. I get the point of it, and it was supposed to feel like a very personal blow off, but it just feels weird to have Dante Chen lose the blow off when A, he's the one that's from single 4 and B, he just came back to this feud. Like he was off-screen for like a year and a half or whatever, so he came back, won the first two, and then lost this. I'm like why didn't you just have to go one in one and he wins this? I mean he did see- he said- Dante Chen said this is it, this is- now we're gonna- we're gonna end the things for real now, which is weird if you're like, I'm up two to nothing, and if he beats me in this one, then the feud is over. Like I don't know how that works, but apparently I think that's what they're gonna do. They're gonna move on past it. So, Skate Beach, Luis is saying that he came up with it. I feel like I came up with it independently of Luis, but most of it- It's very past. We'll do 65/35 U on the million dollars that they- that we're gonna sue WWE for when they start using Skate Beach and all their marketing. He scares Booker. Those kids are gonna sell like hotcakes. Yeah, that's great, um, scares Booker and Vic, like just runs up and grabs Vic, and then Booker's like, "Where's my security?" and Vic just was like, "Don't even acknowledge it. We just gotta move on." Like they only- and apparently he was like talking to people in the parking lot, but then like security asked him to leave. They're really trying to make us believe this is some kind of shoot. They are very- they are trying very hard to do that, that is correct. What is up with Brooks Jensen, I don't know, R.I.P. the beach. He ain't that guy anymore. He's a different fellow now. Meet Norma says, "Who grabbed Vic Joseph? He wasn't even in the parking lot." Now that was- that was- that was- that was- that was- that was- that was Skate Beach. That was Skate Beach. I feel like he's as frustrated as we are just in a different way. Yeah. Like he's- he's frustrated. When you need meal time inspiration, it's worth shopping king supers, where you'll find over 30,000 mouthwatering choices that excite your inner foodie. And no matter what tasty choice you make, you'll enjoy our everyday low prices, plus extra ways to save, like digital coupons worth over $600 each week. 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Go to Shopify.com/try now to grow your business. No matter what stage you're in, Shopify.com/try. We have the same intensity, but does that book you? They showed again the Eddie Thorpe looking into a fire thing. I have to do representation which is why we're talking about Chief Jay Strongbo who's very famously not at all Native American, fully Italian. Fully Italian guy just pretending to be Native American. You can show the briscoes because they had some Native American blood. You can show Chief Wahoo McDaniel who was full-chop to I believe. But Chief Jay Strongbo was not at all weird. You can say these are people who represented Native Americans in their characters before, but you're definitely not showing to Tonka that's weird, but you're not. But why show Jay Strongbo whatever? Like as famously not as Kofi Kingston was not Jamaican, you know what I mean? Yes. So anyway, Eddie Thorpe defeated Tavion Heights and if after the breakout tournament, the Obiefemi won, if you had told me, we would not see Tavion Heights again on WWE programming, on NXT until now, have her money months that is later, and when he is on TV, he's going to basically just be booked to lose straight up and with no frills at all to Eddie Thorpe in a return match. I wouldn't have, I would not have believed you because Tavion Heights had, like seemed to me to have everything you could possibly want in a guy and they haven't used him at all. And apparently this, weirdly like they have, Eddie Thorpe have his first match back beat this guy, handily, but have that be the impetus for Tavion Heights getting more TV time? Because they do a thing with Charlie Dempsey saying, hey, that guy looked really good, but even though he lost, bring him to me, he's, we're going to induct him into the North Quarter catch crew. And I'm like, that's fine. But it's a weird thing to like, haven't come off of just having to be beat up, you know? They had kind of earned my trust on taking people off screen for months at a time because it's paid off when people have come back, most notably in the form of Open Feathers. Like they took that guy off TV for a year and every move that they made with them basically said it's been perfect. So they kind of earned my trust with that a little bit. Bringing him back to get smooshed by Eddie Thorpe here was a little perplexing, but I like that the loss still mattered in a way, which they don't always do. So I'm appreciative of that. And I'm very happy to have any Thorpe back. Like he's very, very good and again, that everybody else and that makes me happy. If you told me he's getting North American championship in less than a month, I believe it. You know what I mean? Like he's in North American championship match. He's not going to win the championship, obviously, because Obofem is going to keep that forever. But yeah, that match should be really fun. He would sell like crazy for Obofemi stuff. And I think he's got enough fun offense that Obofemi wouldn't, you know. But anyway, Javon Evans lost to Sean Spears. Really fun match with a dumb match. Really fun match. And then he jumped to the outside and caught all of the corner of the announce table in the sternum, which allowed him to then immediately be pinned via C4 from Sean Spears. Patrick Moore says, "My two favorite parts were the sap Javon match." I think you mean Sean Spears, not Sean's sap, but that's a mistake you made as well. No, that would be a drop toe hold, wouldn't be the ending of that. And the soul Ruka's package, "Love your sour takes the most, though." Well, I'm not too sour about this, except for the fact that I feel like you don't want to beat Javon Evans here, but I'll be sour enough for everybody next segment. So you, yeah, this was good, but I just thought, I don't know. I think Javon Evans probably wins a longer feud with Sean Spears, and this is just part of the feud, but it didn't feel like to me that it was like Sean Spears got away with cheating or something. You just beat him. You know what I mean? Yeah, this is weird that this match happened. It's also weird that Sean Spears was like, "I have my eye on another person that I added by Stable." And then was like, "I'm gonna go beat Javon Evans for no reason." Very nice to see. I love Sean Spears. I was a big fan of him as Ty Dillinger. I wish that he had gotten more gusto in AEW, because I think he's a really great wrestler. The collision of Styles in this made the match for me. There was a lot of hard hitting and cerebral work done by Sean Spears, and Javon Evans is obviously just an unreal generational talent coming up. So very, very fun in what we got in-ring. Very hard hitting. This felt like they were out kicking the coverage of what they were. They were like, "This is the second to last real thing on the show," right? And it's a match that doesn't really have a story, and I don't know if it's going anywhere. But they went out there and you can tell when people go all out on stuff, man. They really did. And I always appreciate that as a viewer when you can tell that they went out there and emptied the tank when there weren't really any stakes to this. So I always appreciate that. I have no idea why Sean Spears won. I'll give them another week or two to explain that to me in kayfabe. But why you smoosh one of your up-and-coming stars for someone that is, I thought, building a stable and mostly in a coach of production role. Like, I really thought we were getting Sean Spears in Ritalin versus the Chase U squad. And then very much not. So you can have Javan Evans lose. I just don't know what productive was productive that came out of this for either of them. What does the Sean Spears victory mean, and what does this Javan Evans' loss mean? It doesn't make any sense to me. Margov says this is the full year with Fightful. Appreciate y'all. Thank you, Margov. And then Taylor Cannon. So it's been with Fightful for almost three years. It's been wonderful. You both are big reasons why. Love y'all. We love Taylor Cannon. I adore Taylor. So... Why is that going off? I didn't say he's buried for that in time. I just don't get it. Yeah. I don't understand why. No. There's... Yeah, it's weird. Stevie Turner is a snitch, I guess. She comes up to Ava and says, "Hey Ava, I just want to let you know." Roxanne's been saying that she's going to call you to the ring for an apology. And also Robert Stone is there with a shirt that doesn't fit. Because the... He didn't look great today. I don't mean to be mean, but this was like from like an ill-fitting shirt perspective today. Yeah, it was... He's now just straight up her assistant. I guess? Yeah. I don't... I don't know what that is. It felt like he was courting female talent to manage. It did, but now not anymore. So Stevie is now, I guess, the informant who's going to like report back to Ava with all the juicy dirt. I don't know. Those dirt sheets. So. She started as a podcaster and now she's warming her way in. Roxanne comes out to deliver a state of the union for the Women's Division and like here's something. You know, they showed the whole opening of the show was highlights of the... Did you notice what they left out entirely? The dumb non-distraction distraction? No, they they they used that. That was part of the thing. They actually showed the Tatum thing, day-nash by elegance. They showed all of that leading to Jordan Grace losing. But in a different women's match, they just straight up excised all of the crazy Shayna Baszler lost her mind and that's why she lost. Oh, yeah. And every time when they when they show highlights of the pay-per-view a couple of days later and they just straight up change how the match ended, that's how you know that they know they sucked. Yeah. Because they're like, we can't defend this. So we're just going to retcon it out of existence. So the thing that you and I hated the most, Shayna Baszler losing her mind for no reason. And that's why she lost. They just said that never happened. So... They don't want us to remember that going into Scotland. Like that's... Maybe. Roxanne comes out and says that she is the obviously the best thing in the Women's Division. The Women's Division is the best in the world because I'm the champion of it. And then she calls out Ava to say thank you or something for like, what am I saying? Thank you for you had a great match. Good for you. And then J.C. Jane and Jasmine Nix come out. And they say like, how do you say you're the leader of the Women's Division? Before you even got here, I was the star of the Women's Division. I was like, you were the third member of a three-girl faction. Let's be honest, okay? Like... And one of them got fired on the other one. Apparently is horribly injured, unfortunately for G.D. Dolan. And you're left. And now you have like a friend in Jasmine Nix. And like, they have not... In your five seconds. They could have and didn't. They could have put J.C. Jane on the level of perpetual, almost challenger for the top title of the Women's Division, but did not do that once since she turned on J.G. Dolan. So the fact that now she gets to come out and be like, I have a superpower now, which is this mask I'm wearing that Cody gave me. And it allows me to tell you that I'm the top woman in this division, which is weird. And then last legend comes out with Jakara Jackson. And they say that they're the best. And I'm like this, you should... You're a couple of mid-cargers. Like, honestly... Any of these women had wins of any streak. Yeah. Like, where are the consistent wins in this division? And the answer is Lola Weiss. Like, who comes out next? Yeah. And then Lola Weiss comes out and I'm like, okay, well, at least this makes sense. Lola Weiss, but wait a minute. No, it doesn't. She's a heel and so is Lola Fox man. I mean, you can do heel versus heel, but they're not good at booking that. So I don't want to see them try. When is the last two in the breakout tournament, or was that Kalani? No, no, no, Roxanne. You got my Roxanne in her? They were in your part, right? Yeah, they were in different breakout tournaments. And it was Kalani versus Lola Weiss. But Lola Weiss says, I'm the baddest woman here, and I'm going to do... And then they start fighting. And then she's just saying, how dare you even come out and talk to her? She's obviously on another level that all of you, a level that only I am also on. And then they do like a thing where they clear the ring, and they stand together like looking at each other while they've knocked everybody else out of the ring. I'm like, this was it. This is what you built to? Did you think Julia was in the building? And then she just left? I don't understand why you do this segment last, if this is what the segment is. I just, outside of Jasmine next getting called the Kim Kardashian wannabe, which I thought was pretty good, because she kind of looks like that. What stake do any of these women have to a challenge? And why is it all heels? I don't know. Why is it so ruka in this? I don't know. It was so confusing to me. You could easily sell me on Lola Vice coming after Kalani Jordan for the North American History. They have history, and it's a perfectly fine thing to do because it makes more sense than Mia Yim getting the first title shot at it. And then you can easily do soul ruka coming after Roxanne. Sometimes the obvious thing is obvious because it's correct. And those things are obvious and they're just going up completely against type. So you could even just switch it. You could have Mia Yim coming after Roxanne because she's faced down here. And you could have the whole device going after Kalani Jordan. I do think, again, I don't trust them to do it, right? But I think you could do something really fun and special with Lola Vice as a heel and Roxanne as a heel because they're just very different. Like Lola Vice is like, I'm going to knock you out with one punch. I've got an MMA background, Roxanne is the prodigy, more traditional wrestling base. I will say Roxanne has settled into this character better than they have every right to do this. I wish she was a face because I think it's better. And I wish she was a face because I think she's going to get called up and raw desperately needs faces as we were talking about. But yeah, man, I don't know. Even if you were going to send a bunch of heels out there, like, maybe Fallon Henley? Like, I'm so confused about this. But it just seems like so Ruka was the obvious choice. And with that vignette we got earlier. I was like, I just kept waiting for her to come out. I was like, where the hell is she? Why is someone who isn't medically cleared and someone who has been only in multi women matches, I want to say, and one singles match? Maybe in Jasmine Nick's coming out as a challenge. Well, she's not. She's just like the second of JC Jane. She's just the person who's going to be in her corner. The same way Jakara Jackson's not challenging her last legend is. But it is a little weird, maybe maybe now that she has Cody's mask. Now that she has Cody's mask. Now there's she's going to wear. She's wearing two masks. Like nothing's going to hurt her face. She gets hit in her face. She's wearing two masks now. She's wearing two masks that come out this far out of her face. Remember when retribution took off their masks and they had other masks under them? Yeah. That's what this is going to be. Yeah, Ava was talking on the phone to somebody and I guess we're supposed to assume it was Julia. I don't know. But she was talking to some weird person. She was like, yeah, don't worry. I cleared it with Adam Pearce and Nick Aldis. So it's totally fine that somebody from TNA is going to come to a challenge Roxanne. Like sometimes she just has weird, expositional phone calls. So maybe she's not talking to anybody. I don't know. We want Twitter, Ava. They could have built up JC as a top heel, but they put her on chase you and her momentum completely stalled. Why isn't the hair coming out at the end of the segment? Because only heels are allowed to come out to challenge the heel Kate, obviously. So on to actually good stuff, Louise says, CMLL's CUCsies makes her AW debut tomorrow against Mercedes we says Louise. Much better build to Forbidden Door than we've had in past years. I think they've found a rhythm with it. You've got two women's matches already, which is fantastic. I hope they give Athena one. You have a wedding between ZSTA and Orange Cassidy. There's a lot of good stuff, a lot of good stuff for Forbidden Door. But I love that we're getting more promotions than New Japan and AW. Will Chisholm says, I think people who are in fans there are just ready for Julia to be named because they keep saying nobody in the world is on Roxanne's level. And then obviously she's the person who's on Roxanne's. I'm also there with you. You know what makes people think that it might be Julia even more. You building the whole night to this segment. I've been assuming there's going to be a big deal happening in that segment. But I don't think they want to name her until they know she's going to be cleared. Like if you don't name her you leave the wiggle room of oh I talked to the two GM's on the main roster they can send down whoever. So I think they they're trying to actually be smart about that. Right. Paul Elizabeth sending something high. Everything sucks. It's M. T. K. Alex, the council, the sisters, Mr. Norma's supermod Luis, the S. G. S. And of course J. G. Pringle. Matt Logan, thank you for your thank you for your super chat. And then Mr. Bandana had says, I can't change this condition of love. But I think I'd be better off without it. Orson wells. This quote at times sums up my love of wrestling. Thank you for the S. G. S. Here's a little behind the peak behind the curtain. Before we went on. Alex was like, this made me want to not watch wrestling and we need to end NXT and we need to end all pro wrestling until they can sit in the corner and think about what they've done. And I had the opposite reaction of watching it next to you. Maybe want to buy tickets to Capitol collision so that I could watch the other end of the spectrum of what this pro wrestling thing is. I just think like what this is, what you like. It's so deadly. I just don't want it to leak into anything else and doing crossovers now. You know what I mean? Like this somebody could come here from TNA, get infected, take it back to TNA. And somebody who's there might leave TNA and go to AEW. And then they brought whatever this is, this disgusting plague to AEW. The whole thing collapses that AEW is going to do in Forbidden Door, like then all of a sudden New Japan crumbles just because it's just this horrible plague of whatever this is. The H. K. I think what we're safe with is the fact that impact TNA has no problem killing off talent. So if like somebody comes down with something that that's lethal, they'll just kill them off. Will says also I saw the video of EO saying she's going to work Merigold and that women's reaction with me tear up. Yeah, that's amazing. That's incredible. That's incredible. All right. Click out puns. Just Ricardo says Picnic Nemeth. JW Pringle says Michael Coleslaw. Very good. Bad Apple says Shane's Potato Punch Salad. Louisville says Picnic Nemeth, Cook Outsiders, Bam Bam BBQ. That was great. Do you let me him says Carlito Salad? Wait, I don't get that one. I don't know. Is there a salad called Lido Salad? It might be. Maybe. I don't know. Or maybe Potato Salad, Carlito Salad, Potato Salad, maybe like that. My meanerma says Divan, get the picnic tables. Insert clever Tegan Nox puns says Hibachi Gannox. Time of Valle says Orange Casserole. Formerly known as Fire Ant. Chris Pereira says Shish kebab backland. Boom. There's your leader right there. We got to move on from that. Chris Pereira says Tomatongs. That's really good too. They're just some really good ones. So this kind of Colonel Photo says Corn on the Coba Femi. Corn on the Jeff Cobb's right there. That's the only thing. Corn on the Jeff Cobb is right there. Yeah, it's true. Bridget Hewlett says Adam Coleslaw. I like the Coleslaw's one. Insert clever Tegan Nox puns says Tegan Scotch Eggs. Bad Apple Jam Treebeard says from Eric Masden, Bambam Barbecue. Thank you again for Bambam Barbecue. I do. Chris Pereira says Briskit Wilson. I miss them. They're so funny. This is a really good one too from Louisville. Nobody is ready for Asada. Chris Pereira says that Hank Hill sells Prokane and Prokane accessories. You know what I'm? I am anti-cane. I am anti-cane. I'm sorry. I'm anti-cane. Bad Apple Jam Treebeard says Bad Apple Pie. Very nice. Lieutenant Colonel Photo says Juicy Lucy Robinson. Ian R says Bambam Barbecue. We got a lot of Bambam Barbecues. Because they know. They know you love the Bambam Bigelow puns. True. Ian R says Potatobas Femi Salad, Potatobas Femi Salad. Luis Palito says Mark Briskit. Reach for the Sky, boy. JW Pringle says Booker T-Bone Steak, a dry ass one at that. Yeah. Somebody giving me too long, lifted on there too long. It's just awful. Ian R says Blackstone Combat Club. Teletric Mayhem says Gorilla Monsoon. Sonya Devilled Eggs. Baked Beans Combat Club. And Cheeseburger. There you go. I love Cheeseburger. Chris Ferrara says nobody is on the level of the Devilled Eggs. Lieutenant Colonel Photo says this is from the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Photo. Oh my gosh. They have such a scandalous story if I recall correctly what to sell. Burnt Eds of Days. Roasted Marshmallow Hays. The True American Nightmare playing is that fireworks or gunshots? Oh God. Jessica Cardo says Maxwell Jacob Fitter. Very good. Chris Paler says the gorilla Dan Maloney. Maloney, Maloney, Maloney, Maloney, Maloney. The Jay Gorilla. Jim Pringle says Austin Theories Soul the Rocks Golden Deviled Egg. Ian R says Fish Fry Day Night Smackdown. Very nice. A Bad Apple Jam Treebeard says Bobby Fish and Vetter the Picnic. It's true. Me, Norma, says Dalton Casserole. Pentel El Cerro Meets at Cates Cookout. Cerro Meets. For me, I would allow other people to bring Meets as a cookout. My goodness. It's just all Impossible Burgers. I could never do that to other people. I would never rob somebody else. You just pass them off as regular. And these are all beef hot dogs, but they're all tofu. I mean Joey Test Nuts on the vegan train because somebody paid a $1.2 billion speed. But God bless them. And then they were like, no, you can't come here if you like vegan food. Which isn't saying because I'm like, I think you proved he could eat all the beef and hot dogs in the world, man. Like, what if do the Impossible ones? No, you have to pay for it with your soul after you eat that many beef hot dogs. Eddie Kingston Pop Eddie. Oh, sorry. Eddie Kingsford, partner. Figure four Pork Shop. Street Corn Profits. Very nice. And Solo Copsakoa. Solo Copsakoa is very funny. Louisville, this is a great one from Louisville. Sweet Baby Ray Mysterio. That is an excellent deep cut. Tom LaValle says Walter Millen. And then writes Gunther Millen. No, no, it's Walter Millen. It's, we got it. Ian R says AOP, the authors of Propane. Chris Ferreira says Jeff Corn on the Cobb. There we go. We got it. Ian R says tailgate team 2000. So you've got yours as well. Thank you. Bad apple jam tree beard says Jeff Cobb salad. Another Cobb. A very good one. Live smorgon. The revenge store. Live smorgon. John Wick one GM says Claudio Casaroli and Boba Femi. Ian R says. I don't guess they're always really good. Ian R says, what do we do at every picnic with sliced bread? Feed the duck hudson. Very nice. Slice bread also a top favorite move of mine. Apparently you're not supposed to feed bread to ducks. But it is funny that like people would have been filming bread to ducks for 100 years and I haven't seen a lot of ducks just dying. So no, and also like a duck hudson I feel like. Yeah, duck hudson could eat it. He can. Yeah, he's not like, who's the guy who loves to bread? Kojima. Did he have his code? It's Kojima. I didn't want to say it was the wrong guy. I didn't like there's a lot. You respect the heritage. I get it. Yeah, yeah. He's pretty in love with bread. Yeah. Greg Cherry says so new to build eggs. Trick grilly napkin chasa napkin chasa is really good. That's really good. Ryan I was got a new finish. I don't know if you know, but it's. Smore, smore, smore, smore. Catch up and muscle buster. Got in a major announcement on my show tomorrow. So tune into Greg Cherry's show tomorrow. Sorry for missing a few weeks. Love yans. We yans love usans. Ian R says snack saber junior. SSJ as they call him. And just Ricardo says Adam charcoal bebe raise. Very nice. Very good. This is very good from bad apple jam. Says I'm going to start manifesting the idea of Kate becoming the manager to a tag team of Tiffany and Maxine. And they could become they could be called the mega blondes. I don't hate it. I don't hate it. I have some work to do, but I don't hate it. I'll tell you what first move in there. Maxine is starting on tag gable. Boom. Boom done. All right. We got a lot of we got a lot of jukeboxes. Nothing else coming in. I don't want to see a single person send in another jukebox. We got lots of them to get through tonight. Okay. Do I have any? Hold on. Probably not. Okay, good. Nobody send them because I don't want to open the document and screw up my internet. Okay. Hold on. This is bad apple jam. We call the column that on cmltv soy sauce boy zsj. Because he said soy soy boy. Like I am a sandwich, but soy boy. That's crazy. What? Where's my whole my thing just collapsed? Can you see me still? You're frozen. I just assumed it was my internet because obviously. I do not have access to anything. My thing just could be collapsed. Can I share a new one? Yeah, new window. Can I open a new window? I cannot open a new window. Do you want to try leaving and coming back? Oh, I'm going to take that as a yes. So there you go. I'm going to take away this little background for a second. And we can talk about whatever you guys want to talk about. How about that? Is anybody in the chat going to capital collision? I want to go so bad. [sighs] Luis is having a nutty. Oh, no. So what do you guys want to talk about? We talk about Channing's being a tag champ. And Mikey Nichols underrated. I'm so happy for them sincerely. That winning both tag titles rules too. So that makes me happy. The CMDK agenda. I like that that's immediately what you guys default to. What the hell happened? I don't know either, but we're glad to have you back. I was like, what do you guys want to talk about? They were like, "TMDK." And I was like, "I'm here." My Google Chrome just completely shut down. It happens. I don't know what that was. But now I got to go find the document again. That was weird. You're here and you made it. We'll do the best we can. We're already over on time. So. I know as I guess. There are some genuinely very good jukeboxes that I would like to honor and make people send in money. And so that's for you. Okay, so let's just make sure this doesn't. All right, here we go. All right, Bad Apple Jam Treebeard says, "Galles to Sting the Spark" by Rime Eyeland, aka that Scottish elementary school kid's viral song. I do not know what that is, but let's do it. Nor do I. Said, "You can stop what we do. I do it. We got the energy, we'll tell you all about it." I said it from my spark and I found it. Everybody in the clouds don't bounce it. I think I can stop what we do. I do it until you got the tellery, I tell you all about it. I just heard my spark and I found it. Everybody in the clouds don't bounce. And making bangers at a young age, buggos. My pen sitting finally the page for you. I can show you how to rock that stage. Listen to this in the car. You'll be getting road rage. Listen up because we do what we do every day is decent. Cabin crew non-stop on top of every playlist. If we see a dream, you know we're going to chase it. So get over any feeling you have, just face it. There you go, that's it. That's all we're getting into. That's beautiful. Thank you. All right, here we go. We got Regal from Bad Apple Jam Tree Beard to do, "I'm Afraid of Americans" by David Bowie. But he says spoken word version of it and that's just Regal. Johnny's in America, low text at the wheel. No one needs anyone. They don't even pretend. Johnny's in America. I'm Afraid of Americans. I'm Afraid of the world. I'm Afraid of the world. I'm Afraid of the man in the mask. I'm Afraid of Americans. I'm Afraid of Americans. I'm Afraid of the world. I'm Afraid of the world. I'm Afraid of Americans. I'm Afraid of Americans. Johnny's in America. Johnny wants a brain. Johnny wants to suck on a coke. Johnny wants a woman. Johnny wants to think of a joke. Johnny's in America. I'm Afraid of Americans. He's also, I'm Afraid of the world. I'm Afraid of the man in America. Modern mask. Scrummy, scrummy, scrummy. Remember that? That was a long time ago. Finally, before we get into the last big ones here, Louis Ville wants Bronte to sing Peaches by the Presidents of the United States of America. Moving to the country. Gonna eat a lot of Peaches. Moving to the country. Gonna eat me a lot of Peaches. Moving to the country. Gonna eat me a lot of Peaches. Moving to the country. Gonna eat a lot of Peaches. Peaches come from a camp. They were put there by a man in a factory damn town. If I had my little weight, I'd eat Peaches every day. Some soaking bulges in the shed. Moving to the country. Moving to the country. Gonna eat a lot of Peaches. Get these cans of Peaches. That is one of my favorites that you do. Bad Apple Jam Treebeard wants Bronte Strowman to sing Jambalaya on the Bayou by Hank Williams. I'm not familiar with this one. I don't know if I can actually sing it. It's going to be spoken word again. There we go. Go ahead, Joe. Me got to go. Mio, Mio, Mio. Me got to go pull the perobe down on the Bayou. Mio on the sweetest one. Mio, Mio, son of a gun. We're going to have a big fun on the Bayou. Jambalaya in the crawfish pie in a fieland gumbo. Because tonight I'm going to see my share of Mio. Pick guitar, fill fruit, jar, and be gayo. Son of a gun. We'll have big fun on the Bayou. Get these hecks. Okay. One, two, three, four of those. So we're going to go ahead and break them up a little bit. We got four dusties. Four dusties. Four dusties and a ricky. So let's do this, too. The passing of his anniversary of his passing. So nice to send a move. All right, here we go. Make sure. Here we got it. We're good. Okay. Here we go. Boom. It's me. You know, honestly, you know, they down there, you know, either where they're living, they do birthdays. Sure. Up here, they do deathdays. So we had a big, we had a big deathday surprise party for me, which is, you know, it's wonderful. It's just, it was me, and I come into my apartment, and it's all dark in there. And then all of a sudden, everybody else surprised. And Macho Man Randy Savage jumps out from behind a couch. It's just, it's the best. It was nice, everybody. They were there that sheet cake. That was nice as well. And we had ice cream sandwiches. It was, it was, it was wonderful. It was, it was one of the best things ever. Yes, nice. I'm so happy for you that they celebrated the day of your arrival. Yes, that's true. That's how we do it up here. All right. Oh, hold on right here. Tom Lavelli wants the, the, the ghost, the, the, the ghost, the ghost, the same common man boogie, which of course was my theme song, I believe. You believe? It's true. It's my theme song. I'm going to, I'm going to change it around because that's me singing. I'm just a common man. Working hard with my hands. I'm just a common man. Working hard for the man. I'm a man looking dream. I'm a man looking dream. If you're a black or white, redneck sunkies, that's all right. Blue eyes with a lot of soul. Common man has got his gold. He's a man that's my song right there. That's my song. I don't got no deaf rebel up here. They're not allowed. Come up here. I give a new song to people. Everybody's got their own song. They should not be writing for anybody in rest or heaven. They should not at all. So here we go. Bad apple jam tree beard says the roast of gusty doads. The sing the ugly boogie song from not member for Christmas. Well, well, well, well, what have we here? Santa Claus, huh? Oh, I'm really scared. So you're the one everybody's talking about. Ha ha. You're joking. You're joking. I can't believe my eyes. You're joking me. You got to be daddy. This can't be the right guy. He's ancient. He's ugly. I don't know which is worse. I might just spray the theme now if I don't like laughing for you. Well, Mr. Oogie Boogie says there's trouble closing hands. You better play attention now, baby, because I'm the boogie man. And if you want to shake in, then there's something very wrong. Because there might be the last time now that you hear the boogie song if you feel. It was beautiful. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Hold on. I'm being called in the other room. We're still having the party. So I'll be right back though. Okay. Okay. Hello. Ricky, your timing is impeccable as always. Oh, fantastic. Bad apple, gem, tree beard. What's me to sing the new Chris Jericho Learning Tree theme, which is a song by Fuzzy Cole Spotlight. So there's a crucial edit on the front of it though. I am the learning tree. I'm the light of the truth. The one who sees to work through. I know you're a remover. Got my eye on you spotlight. I know you've got a secret. It's buried down below deep within the basement. Let it go. Let it go. I know you've got your issues. A homicidal mind. Silence cannot save you. I'm bringing you to light because every lie you tell. I know everywhere you go. I go. It's written on your face, even though every thought you have betrays you. Now, now, now. I'm the lot with the truth. The one who sees to work through. I know you're every move. I've got my eye on you. Go on and bury it down. I'll follow you. Tell us out. I've got my eye on you. I've got my eye on you. Thank you. We love you, Ricky. Oh, this is where I leave you. But maybe I'll come back in a second. But someone else has got to sing two more songs. Oh, OK. Sorry, I'm back. They just wanted to know where they were with more napkins. So anyway. T. Electric Mayhem says you can thank John Silva for wearing a shirt on BDO for a few weeks back. They reminded me of this one. The ghost of Dusky is saying Scat Man by Scat Man John. This is an oldie but a goodie. That is an oldie but a goodie. (SINGING) (SINGING) (SINGING) Everybody stutters one way or the other. So check out my message to you. As a matter of fact, I don't know nothing holds you back because it's a Scat Man can do it so can you. That's it. I'm not going to skip it either. You bought or balls no more. Um, Scat Man kind of, I'm a Scat Man. Whoa, I'm a Scat Man. I think there's a remix opportunity in there. Yeah, it could be for you talking about for Mr. Ass. Yes. I understand. Man, have you ever heard "Belly Gun Scat?" I can't say I have no. Neither have I, I'm assuming it would be terrible. So here we go. Last one, this is a request that comes in from Louisville who wants Dusty Road to sing "The Climb" by Molly Cyrus. I can almost see it. That dream I'm dreaming but there's a voice inside my head saying you'll never reach it. Every step I'm taking, every move I make feels lost with no direction. My face is shaking. But I gotta keep trying. Gotta keep my head hip high. There's always going to be another mountain. I'm always going to want to make it move. Always going to be an uphill battle, baby. Sometimes I'm going to have to lose. Ain't about how fast I get there, daddy. Ain't about what's waiting on the other side. It's the climb, baby. If you will, that's it. That was beautiful. Very heartfelt. Thank you very much. Very impassioned to perform. Thank you very much. I mean, I could do the whole song but over time as it is, I'm assuming. So yeah, and I gotta go back to a party. So I'm going to go ahead and leave. But anyway, I'm going to keep you from that. That's right. So I'm going back to the baby arm but I'll see you next time. Bye. Hello. Hi, Ricky. I've come back just to say the Lord and Lord's thing, which is the thing that we say when we leave, which is keep cool. Gabba goos. Toodle. Every day we rise, challenging ourselves to work for what we believe in. At U.S. Border Patrol, protecting our borders is more than a job. It's a calling. Agents answer the call, working together to keep our country and community safe. 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