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Hello and thank you so much for joining us for your SmackDown Posho for Friday, July 12th. My goodness, it is the hot hot middle of July. We are in the dog days, my friends, baseball fans know the trade deadline is coming up. Got a lot going on and we've got a lot going on and pro wrestling my goodness. So get into those super chats, get into those bumper chats. If there's anything that you would like to talk about about today's show about SmackDown in general and he posted money in the bank thoughts that you guys may have, we want to hear them. Go ahead and send those in. We'll also ask you to leave a thumbs up on this video. It's very helpful for us. If you go ahead and do that, it really helps people find us. It goes a long way towards supporting the show. So just leaving a little thumbs up for free is one of the best things that you can do for us. I'm also going to remind you if you haven't already to subscribe to Fightful YouTube. We always appreciate that. That also helps people find us. It'll keep you posted on all of the latest and greatest content that we have here at Fightful. Tons of post shows. Tons of interviews that have come out too. You had Shaw talking to Diejack. You had Shaw talking to Miss Kate. There's so much happening. So stay subscribed here on Fightful YouTube and the final thing. We ask so much of you. Do you guys are so nice to us as to please subscribe to Fightful Select.com. It is a crazy little environment out there and I know you're probably like, I don't want to pay for news for wrestling. I can just get it from somewhere else. It goes a long way in supporting us. It is how we get paid. But my goodness, if you don't want inaccurate news or if you want to support the original creators of that news, please subscribe to Fightful Select.com and there's just so much of it coming out this time of year. There's so much of it coming out. It seems like all the time, but so much contract news that is still on the way. There are some really big contracts that have not gotten settled up. I'm not going to name any ones publicly. You'll hear about some of them when you're ready for them or they're ready to be settled out. But the tally is a free agent. Diejack is hitting the indies, but was showing up in AWF forbidden door. Tons of retribution news. Honestly, this week Shane haste a new Japan tag team champion. He resigned with new Japan and MXM also in that story. Signing with ROH. Give a shout out to Mansoor who hit 2.2 million views on his max caster wrap roast my goodness. Funny funny stuff over there with that Mansoor. What a fella, but we've got so much to talk about with tonight's SmackDown. There's going to be WWE contract news coming up along the way as well. Not too far away from SummerSlam. These pay-per-view cycles move very quickly. We're coming out of money in the bank. I felt like tonight's show was pretty decent. Whenever we have shows that have these longer match times, Alex, like for me it just flows better. And it wasn't super long, but we had a lot of like seven minute plus matches on the show tonight. So even though the totality of them wasn't long because we weren't like stacked necessarily with matches, the ones that did had some time to breathe and I very much appreciate that. That was not the case on NXT this week. It was like a bunch of three minute matches. So very nice to have some real matches. Loved what we got at Mia Yim, Meachin tonight. Really, really good stuff. Other than that, some kind of typical stuff, but typical stuff that also made sense. So I'll take that. What did you think of tonight's show? It was a pretty good SmackDown. We're starting to get back into the group of things moving over to SummerSlam. Seems like the bloodline is here again to bookend the show, you know, kind of started and did like we were doing in the past. So it's just if sometimes in the past it felt like it was like where we're going with this, but I feel like now that this they got every piece in place, it feels really cool to kind of see where and what they're doing. And every week, if you give Jacob Fatu the keys, and he's going out there and doing what he does, which we'll get to later on tonight, my God. I think he, I think he at one point, SummerSultan and hit me at home. He did actually. Yeah, I don't want to say he got like a little bit of a shiner. Oh, right. I'm just making sure I was trying to use makeup, but you know, we've got Ricardo saying some love to balance out Lex's hater from earlier on I got boy or they hate me, man. They wrote something. I'm not going to repeat it here, but if anyone went into my ex account Twitter account, you'll see man, he went in on me. I was like, yo, all because I like wrestling. Yeah, no, it's like, I feel like it's worse toward weekends too, because people have less to do or something like I swear to God, they just sit online and say things. Like the response to Steph that you're signing with WWE, like just a woman choosing to work at one place instead of another was some of the most insane reactions. I was so happy to hear that she signed with someone. She's so cool. And if it wasn't for AEW, like bring her in and at Forbidden Door, I wouldn't have been smart enough to who she was. I kind of just saw highlights here and there, but once she was on the show, I followed everything. We started going back and watching old matches. I mean, she's excellent, man. She is. She really got to kind of showcase what she could do it Forbidden Door and the build into it. Outstanding talent of New Japan strong mostly and also CMLL. So you've got a lot to look forward to with Steph back here, who's going to be at those Mexico shows. That was part of the reason they made such a. Let's go. Are you not making bank? I'm also. All day. Let's go. Good stuff. Vance Whimblain saying bangs, bangs, gang buns up. I do actually have a bun up today. We thank you so much for your super chat. Bang bangs in full effect. They need to be trim-drims because they are in my eyes. Now, ladies, if you want to get your job to train one, we don't have a man skate free today, don't I? I know. I'm damn it, man. Another time, but Taylor Cannon, who's always so great to us saying Jacob needs to lead the bloodline. That man is too good to be solo sidekick. I could see them kicking solo out soon, especially if they get hickelayo. So there's some interesting things here. And we do start the night with a video package kind of recapping some of the bloodline stuff. We obviously end the show with a huge angle with it. There's something kind of cool about the fact that solo was Roman sidekick and then solo kicked Roman out. And he had gone from enforcer to now strategic leader. And now Jacob Fatu was kind of his enforcer. And you got to wonder if maybe sooner than later, Jacob Fatu is here to kick out solo sakoa. But we'll see what happens with this because there are so many possibilities of ways that this could go. There are other members of this family who are not even being considered yet. My goodness, there's a ton of possibilities here. I feel like summer slamish is probably when we'll see this start to pick up again because I think my survivor series we're going to have a ton of clarity around both sides. Meet Norma Steg, minion 690069. That's me. And Alex of the house of collarbones acknowledged me. How was SmackDown? I was doing meaty things. Well, I don't doubt that you were sir. But SmackDown was pretty decent tonight. And thank you for bringing up my fearless minion leader who definitely has a very, very, very severe real injury on our own age. So a bad robot saying, happy Friday, best post show more segments with pretty deadly and hyper and Chelsea, all the love for Scoops Cardoza here and Twitter. And happy early fightful anniversary, Kate. Well, thank you so much. My anniversary of my first appearance on Fightful is tomorrow. I did a prediction show with Sean three years ago for Money in the Bank then. And that was like before the CM Punk News broke, that was before I was hired properly. I always say that was like my dark bash here and I didn't know it. Like, I don't know if Sean knew it at the time either. But Jeremy Lambert, our incredible director of content was doing this SmackDown show with Sean at that time. And he said, I'm ready to just commit to the editorial side. And then I was a co-host and then a much like solace Coa, I kicked out our dear tribal chief. So and then they brought in the Jacob Fatu. That's right. That's true. By the way, really quickly, I was looking back at it. I made two years in May. That's crazy. I don't even know where two years went. Yeah, that's nuts. I mean, Sean's been running from the grind of here for two years. This is what that means. My goodness. But when played saying, and now a message from Alexis from 1998. I'll save you my pronunciation of Spanish. No, you did really well. Look at you. Thank you. You can hang in with me for two years. That's what it is that. You are now Puerto Rican. Really. I was also really just like bad high school and college education in this. But it happens. Let's dig into our SmackDown show here. We do open with a bloodline recap. But then we go right into our Tiffy and the Bank celebration, which was a pretty decent little segment. I got to say, we have Tiffany kind of with standard fare in the beginning of this. But what I liked is she said whether it's Liv or Roxanne or Bailey, they're going to be in trouble basically. And I love that she included your NXT champion in that just because little things like that, I think, starts to make NXT feel a little bit more relevant on the main roster. I would guess Roxanne Perez is going to be up here sooner than later. But she gets interrupted by Bailey and Bailey references when she was here in 2019 and says Tiffy probably didn't even know what WWE was in 2019. And Tiffany Stratton gives a great, what was that like a million years ago? She's just such a funny valley girl, Brad. I love, love, love it. And she also notes that she's the youngest money in the bank winner because of that, which I really like. And Bailey says to enjoy being the first failed women's cash in if she chooses to cash in on Bailey, and we get Nia interrupting. She says Bailey is BBL Bailey, which seemed to be what everyone took away from this segment. But what I liked was Bailey saying, I'm not the same girl I was in 2016, and I'm not the same hugger I was in 2017 when Nia put Bailey on the shelf, loved that detail being called back to. She's a champion, she's a grand slam champion now, and she's the Royal Rumble winner. And Nia says she has no problem with Tiffy, Tiffy's her Barbie doll. But that Bailey is her next victim, and she will victimize her at Summer Slam. So some good stuff that seems to be heading the direction that I was kind of thinking it was going to and the direction I was hoping it was going to, which is we have this alliance between Tiffany and Nia where if they don't cross too many wires, they're cool with each other, they'll back each other up some good stuff. This gets broken up by me chin and leads into their match. Some really nice flow into that. But let's start with the Tiffy Nia Bailey aspect of this. What did you kind of think of our money in the bank celebration? And most importantly, Alex, why do we not have a pink briefcase for this woman? I'm pretty sure it's on the way. These things take time. I spoke to someone at WW earlier today that we're trying to get in contact with me. And we're going to make it happen. As far as the segment went, I know Bailey is supposed to be a face good person, good guy, good girl, good woman. I would have wished that she wasn't like, when she was talking back and forth with Nia was she was kind of like smiling and laughing a little bit. I want her to be a little bit more right tough with her like this and Nia like shut the F up. Other than that, I think the whole thing was excellent. If she would have seen used the same words, just a different facial reaction, I think it would have came across a little bit more like menacing, like don't mess with me, you know, and you hit the nail on the head and put it on Twitter today. I was just like, man, like you can see this, this alliance coming together between these two Nia and Tiffy. But at the same token, one of them is going to turn on one or the other. And it's even today with just the slightest little luck behind her. Tiffy was like, eh, she's too close to me. When she kind of like walked behind her after Bailey was out of the ring, you know, Nia kind of like then left the ring and she was going to put the briefcase in. You can tell already, which is great. I love it. You got to watch her back, you know, especially when Nia, I love Nia. And you know, Nia could literally beat the crap out of her. Yeah. Yeah, I think there's something really fun about the dynamic there. And we'll talk about that in this next segment, but we'll raise you to the point. Is it me or when women's wrestlers want to act? It's just trash the way they treat Zalina Mercedes, Stephanie Beckier and Naomi and many more. It's a lot of Dutch jobs on social media. 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I can't imagine what the actual talent and performers go through. Like it's, it's nuts just from like what I deal with with 10,000 followers on Twitter. I can't imagine how inundated with absolute nonsense these poor women are. And a lot of them just have signed off because of that. So more power to them. Because now I just try not to signal raisin and block. But sometimes, sometimes she got a dunk on them because they make it too easy. They make it too easy. But we have this segment getting broken up by Mi Chin, which I loved. Kind of was like where's Naomi? Because Naomi's been her friend the whole time. But I'm just in my head deciding that Mi Chin beat her there because she has this match with Naya. And I felt like this was probably the best showing that we have had for Mi Chin on the main roster in a long time simply because they gave her the time for this. You still had Bayley at ringside. You still had Tiffy being a little brat ringside here. But I loved Mi Chin coming in to break up the beatdown on Bayley. And then in the match, just some really, really good hope spots in here. Mi Chin, one of my favorite things is just the way that she counter wrestles and the way that she has these reversals. And when there's a size advantage in that, the way she used Naya's momentum against her, I felt like was so great. Even little things where she was like running the ropes. She almost looked like a cartoon character that knew they were faster than their opponent. Like she founds off the rope and Naya would look one way and then she'd be somewhere else already. Some really, really good work from Mi Chin in this. I also loved her gear and her look tonight. I just thought it looked awesome. She looked great, man. She did. She looked like a star. So I loved what we got in here. There were some really fun spots in the corner where she like really got her hope spot in like her big kind of run on this. And I got to say it was really refreshing because the crowd was very into it. And because Mi Chin has been booked so inconsistently, like the crowd's not always there for her. But if you let the woman work, like this is what you get. The crowd was hot for this. So I loved it. You have Naya winning with the Annihilator eventually, which makes sense for what we have here. And then there's another post-match beat down at Bailey. And what I love is exactly what you talked about. The feigning of the cash in from Tiffany, because she knows Bailey is vulnerable. But then Naya looking at her like, hey, what the hell? I'm supposed to have my shot at SummerSlam, right? So I thought that exchange was fantastic. Spots that I loved was that Huracan Rada into the shotgun drop kick, a cannonball into the corner. Only a two-count on Nyla, but that sequence just looked so good for Mi Chin. But some really, really good work. I think she turned a lot of heads tonight the same way Chelsea Green did and the money in the bank match. But enough from me. What did you think? Again, and I'm sorry for dumping the gun before when I started my world happen after the match, or whatever. Same thing. I really like when the women get the time. And you kind of have these interwinding, smaller stories coming in. Like Mitchings have been having problems with certain people. So they're putting her on the camera a little bit more. She's showcasing a little bit more. I like it because it kind of just, it doesn't make it as boring as it was before, where we only saw the same five women all the time. And then the stories were kind of just like, okay, cool. We know what the story is, but now you're like mixing and matching different types. I like whatever direction they're all of a sudden taking. It's been so freaking good. It has. And I got to say this is the first time. They're freaking physical, which I love. Meachin, especially when she has someone that she knows that she can beat beat up a little bit, like she'll she'll really go for it. And this is the most consistent that we've seen BAM and Meachin be on NXT and SmackDown. This is also by far the best work that we've gotten from from Nia Jax. And it makes me very, very happy. I'll ask you here. Oh. It feels like Charlotte is, Charlotte is, Flair is getting close to a return. And I think SummerSlam might be a possibility. I think we could get Nia Jax beating the crap out of Bailey, not winning, but Tiffy Cashing Ed, and then Charlotte Flair just returning and just doing like one of those standing at the top of the ramp. Like I'm coming back for that kind of things. What do you want to see out of that? Do you think that's where she should go? Do you think Charlotte should go to Raw because they're in desperate need of faces over there? Or is that Ria's place again? What are your thoughts on where Charlotte Flair might re-enter? She just go right after Bianca. So, you know, Ria's regaining the Raw show. Obviously, you know, she's already featuring they're featuring her everywhere for next week. You know, like she's back on the fold with that. Here's the thing I counter back to you. Do we always got to see Charlotte in the title picture? Because it seems that every time she leaves for an injury, you know, unfortunately, or anytime that she's off screen and comes back, she is always near the title or in the title picture itself. It's never like her chasing is never kind of like her having a off-side, you know. Yeah, for you. Or you know, like, hey, let me chase for the gold because I'm at the bottom and I got to go through all these all these women, right? But you're right. I think that and you know, she'll get on the mic and tell and say the same thing. I got to work myself from the bottom all the way to the top and I'll go throw the women. But the women happen to only be like two or three, you know, so like some squashes on the way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I do see that. I mean, that would be insane, right? Because once you hear that beat of her song, people are going to cheer and go crazy for her. So I do see that happening. And that's crazy that you bring that up because I have not even seen a posting of her in a while besides like she posted something not too long ago that she was just like, does the gym be in the gym? Yeah, being really really good working hard. She's been out since December of last year. It's pretty crazy. You know, that's not like almost a year. Yeah. Wow. What is that? Yeah, like eight months or so? Yeah, yeah, it'll be eight and a half months. So here's the thing. I don't need her immediately in the title picture. They always booked her that way. But this is a new era. So I've never heard that before. Yeah, I just coined it myself. They could have it. I should have got to be a millionaire. I think realistically her coming back to this could like make Tiffany Stratton. Like, I'm not always a fan of that, but like she's been gone nine months. She realistically is one of the best and bring workers in the world. And I think what she could do with Tiffany Stratton being the winningest women's champion there against this bratty know it all. I think it's something that could be a feud that I mean just catapult Tiffany Stratton to a different level. So I'm not actually against it. The money though is Charlotte Flair versus Bianca because Bianca has not beaten Charlotte Flair. It's the only one of the last for horse women that she has not beaten. They think they were setting up for that before Charlotte got injured. So I am very much in favor of it there. I just don't want her to immediately win. Like I don't need that. Yeah, or just you know, kind of like let the women cook right now with what they're doing and kind of just ease her into the picture through someone as opposed to just like sliding right in, you know, make a young star and let them have them in it. I'm with you on that. We got to start raising this next generation. But well Chisholm says it is crazy how WWE and NXT got Stephanie Vachera, Julia and Delta. I hope I spelled her name right. That is a nasty upgrade. I don't think Delta's been confirmed, but assuming that is the case because she's been doing a lot of goodbyes in Australia and had a WWE tryout in Australia, I found out about Delta about this time last year. Delta and Jessica Troy were the two women from the Australian scene that I discovered and was just blown away by. She came up in the same scene as Rhea Ripley. If you go to her Twitter, Delta Brady underscore, it takes you about two seconds to realize this woman's a mega star that they should be making a million dollars off of her in no time. Julia, world class talent, Stephanie Vachera, world class talent. I think NXT is healthiest when they have a mix of people that are coming through the performance center and experienced women that are going to be there not for as long but are going to acclimate to the WWE way of doing things and get called into the main roster. You're going to have some incredible matchups for Roxanne on the women's side. And you're going to have some main roster infusion because those three women, different parts of the world, different styles, all ass kickers. So it makes me very happy. But we'll say, no, Kate, I love you, but no Charlotte title match. Bianca is not in the main title picture. It won't tell Charlotte, I'm not mad if she's coming back for Bianca, but it just feels like they're setting up other stuff for Bianca, like that we might get her Jade losing this title shot and turning on each other sooner than later. So if Charlotte comes back and loses, I have no problem with it. And I think it could actually be a fun way to turn her back heel because I personally feel like Charlotte works better. Oh, she's always been a halo in my mind. Anytime she's even a good person, she's just I'm always waiting for the shoe to drop. Who are you going to snap in the back today? There was one time I forget what she was doing with the ref, but she forgot she was a face. It was so funny. I was like, she's just naturally, I think she like, she did like one of those like raise my hand things. And then she was like, Oh, no, I'm supposed to be nice to Yeah. I remember that. We I think we spoke about that here. Probably, probably. Well, we have a really fun backstage that is just unreal to me. Chelsea Green has no right stealing as many scenes as she does. Like my God, she's backstage and she's got her neck brace on and she's talking with Byron Saxon. She calls herself the mother of mayhem princess of pain. She's got her purple bejeweled neck brace. And she says she's waiting on Sir Nicholas, the dickellis. My God. If ever there was a time for a bluetooth that way, but I don't have one. Later, we get her backstage. And pretty deadly is waiting there. And they want to talk about pretty deadly the musical, which I am so in on. I would love to see pretty deadly the musical, but Chelsea Piper, pretty deadly waiting backstage outside of thick, all just his office and outcomes LA night. He has what we'll find out later is a summer slam contract in his hand. But Chelsea's like, is he available? And LA night kind of gives him the like, they'll call you when they're ready. Like it's good, but Chelsea just doing such great work. She is someone who maximizes every minute that clip of Goldie from the monster factory being a security extra that when he got hit with the crossroads, just like sold it. So insane that people were talking about it online for days and days and days. I feel like it's she does that every time she's in the ring. Like, you always end up talking about what she did, whether it was a backstage segment, whether it was something in the rain in the ring. She's she's just hysterical. Her and pretty deadly. A combination I didn't even realize that I needed, but they were so funny and LA night being so dismissive of them. I thought was super fun. Any thoughts on either of those segments? As soon as the as soon as pretty deadly come in and she called them, what is it? The glittery princesses or whatever it was. I freaking fell over on my chair because I was kind of turned away and I hear them and I'm like, Oh, they're they're on TV. Let's see what they're doing. And she just you put your purposes or whatever. Just go to the back. I was like, Oh, she's so damn witty. She's smart. She's good in the ring. She's the complete package. When you look at someone who needs to be a professional wrestler and go out there and do the things that they do, you know, she doesn't need to be like she doesn't need to be as over the top as she is, right? Because she just a little bit like today, just her like bringing stuff over to Piper when she was like, here, some snacks and water. That was great. But she just like gives you this extra, which is just like the cherry on top. Yeah, man. I love her. I mean, we had her on wrestling with Freddie name driving and, you know, like she was she was so good and she's so smart. The things we talked about. I was like, wow, she really is someone who just shows an incredible amount of creative like the stories of her being like, I have 47 ideas for you. Pick one to this man or whoever would listen like she was just always getting in people's ear. Tremendous amount of respect for her. And I love seeing it get appreciated this time around. Matthew plus our forever troll saying not sure I agree with blue true strategy of spending ad money on an audience that is sexually enacted now listen. All right. Wow. Not letting you slander our great sponsors, but we do pretty all right over here with our blue chew ads. Okay, but we don't have a blue chewy today. Unfortunately, no, we just have so many wonderful sponsors. And if you want to be one, you can email me. We've got some summer slam packages coming for you. But tree, I'm the only right now. Please do please do. But I will tell you my little Alex car does just it's literally being read while your stuff is over here. That's perfect. I'm 100% it. We will take a minute to tell you all about Nord VPN that was the best VPN in the game. There's a lot of pay per views happening. 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And I will when I look up and down the roster, there are many times where it's always one of the four horse women it seems like. But a lot of times at Charlotte Flair that someone has had their best match with, like honestly, objectively, someone likely has had their best match with Charlotte Flair. So I'm I'm never mad about her being profiled in the high spot. It's adjusted to the John Cena type. 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. We leverage industry focus insights with the collective technical resources of our firm to elevate your performance, uncover opportunity, and move upward at MossAtoms.com. At King Super's pharmacy, care is what's most convenient for you. Care is being here when you need us for open evenings and weekends. 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Maybe a shot, but I feel like this is also a wrestling trope we've seen for forever, right? Like the lined up outside thing. The fact that it was Chelsea and she was like infamous for being like, I have 900 ideas. Pick one. Maybe adds a little bit of credence to that, but you also have pretty deadly saying they want to discuss their musical. So who knows? I'm so happy to see her character evolve from where when she brought back and she was supposed to be this annoying Karen like character has completely evolved into being he stole, yes, being annoying. But she is like looking for situations to get herself into when being fights and not complaining about this person said this and that person said that. No, she's like really legitimately has her gripes in an annoying way. She's fantastic at her role and I think money in the bank reminded people that that role also includes being a great in rig worker and I'm making some of these younger talent look good. I agreed. So we move on to this Andrade interview, which was interesting. I will see where it goes, but we have Andrade, I love when they sit in the stands and when they do interviews in natural settings. It's so helpful, but they say Andrade was kind of a show stealer in the money in the bank match and the people that were saying he's underrated essentially are the same ones asking what's next for him. They're quickly interrupted by Carmelo Hayes. So it seems like Andrade doesn't have to only fight his fan of people, which is good. But Carmelo Hayes doing what I was kind of hoping he would do honestly. Like he was a number one draft pick and he has not felt like a number one draft pick. He is like, listen, I was number one draft pick. I pinned Randy Orton like kind of hyped up everything that he has done, that it feels like they've let slide under the radar a little bit. I do think Allie Knight's winning at SummerSlam. I do think Carmelo Hayes is his first feud. But I liked Carmelo, who's always standing on a shit standing on a shit here. And then the interviewer asks, what is next for you basically Andrade is like, I'm gonna fight that guy. So they kind of bicker. And it seems like that's gonna be the thing that tides us over to SummerSlam. I'm very intrigued by that in the ring. But I gotta say, there's a couple situations on this episode of SmackDown. And this is one of them where people that are facing each other both need wins. I felt that worry about Blair down before Naomi so much. And I also feel that way about Andrade and Carmelo. So I guess that they both look strong in the end here. Cool. But at the same time, kind of feel like both of these guys needs wins, Alex. It's a lot of people who I feel need wins and that have let me down, you know, especially in my Latin community. I don't know if you know what I mean. Well, one of them got a big win later tonight. So that's good. Yes. Yeah, you're right. But you know, seeing Andrade, you know, kind of come back an extension of what he was doing in AEW, basically. That same character has really kind of is what he's doing now at WWE as well, right? The slow, methodical talking and like what his aspirations are and what he wants to do. Yeah, a businessman. Yeah, he's part of what is a LFO, WWO, all those groups. LFO, you did not do the song Summer Girls, but no, that's the wrong song here. I think it's violent. Girl, stop in the summer. That was that was. I can't remember what I wore yesterday, but that lives in my head forever. I'm probably going in Dallas, ran free in my head too. Yeah, you know, I'm doing gardening and stuff. You're like, actually, in sixth grade, I wasn't white girl at a dance. So there you go. It's great. I was in high school. All right. Anyway, yeah, but so what I'm trying to say is like, I like that they kept that character because he to me has that look, business man. I'm coming after this. And like, people should fear him because when they talk to him, he's giving you that look back like a Scarface type of style look, right? I like that they're doing subtitles things for him because his his accent is a super fact. Yeah, you know, with four Cs at the end of it. So I don't want to see these two fight each other, Carmelo and Andrade just yet. I would like to see them climbing the ladder and then meeting at the top and saying, all right, it's time. So they can get, you know, some meaningful matches and wins underneath them before one of these unfortunate to have to fight each other and then lose because it's just especially with Andrade just coming back. And then you have the number one draft. Like you said, like it just it wouldn't make any sense right now. Yeah, I feel like neither of them are cemented enough. But I did like Carmelo kind of standing on his achievement so far. But it does feel like Andrade came back. He was the big royal rumble surprise. Yeah, and they haven't done anything with nothing. No, the backstage talking. That's it. Basically. Yeah, basically. Well, Chisholm saying I love how Bailey said Nia had PTSD from one of Alexa Alexa Bliss cashed in on her and Rhonda. I actually I've been equating the Tiffany relationship with Nia very similar to that. Like I felt like there was almost like a test case with Alexa Bliss that it worked with Nia and that it's kind of like a nice foundation from Tiffany because while Tiffany is different, it has completely different in ring style than that Alexa in a lot of ways. The the goddess Miss Twisted Bliss is not like that far off from Tiffany. So I like that she made that reference too because it it also reminded me of that a little bit. But we move on to our tag team match of Baron Corbin and Apollo Cruz versus Umberto and Angel with Santos and Electra every side. Yeah, yeah. Apollo hitting it in it's a gurry and then a military press. He's so impressive man. I forgot that he wrestled. I know. Well, he was shelved for a very long time. I know they started using him as a utility guy, but Lopez distracting the ref and Escobar with a knee to Apollo, which allows Angel to hit the wing clipper and get the win super kick from Umberto in this. But he got him getting caught with a Death Valley driver was like one of the favorite spots in this. This match was really, really fun. Yes. I again, I'm so sick of beating this drum. They have got to have plans for the people they call up from NXT. I'm going to say it again about their player dev import later. I'm saying it again about Baron Corbin. Baron Corbin was doing awesome work as a singles guy in NXT. He was doing incredible work with Bronbreaker as a tag team champion in NXT. They called him up and now he's just randomly tagging with Apollo Cruz and just like a plugging guy. Just let him keep cooking in NXT. Then like they need people down there to feel like contenders. Not as much right now because Ethan Page just won. But like they just have got to have more intentionality when they're calling people up because otherwise you get stuff like this and it makes the people that come up from NXT not feel like a big deal because they just go off there and lose. But the match was more fun than I had any right to be considering there was really nothing to it. But all four ring styles in this like very, very different, especially team versus team. I had a lot of fun watching it. It just didn't really mean a whole heck of a lot. Right. Yeah. I mean, I would want them to kind of start putting some emphasis on all these people that are like kind of just on the sidelines right now. You know, you got some incredible talent that are just kind of, it's cool. We see them on TV weekly and whatnot. But they're not are you happy with just being there and just being part of the show? Or, you know, do you want your character to kind of have some type of meaning behind it and move forward? And you mentioned this and I want to ask you this question. Their farm system right now, you can talk about it being a third brand, but their farm system is NXT, right? At what point is too much? So you eventually are going to have to start bringing talent up, right? And you've and you've seen the steady decline of, you know, people coming up into the main roster and they continue to bring in more people in tennis because you got to feed the system. But those people then now there's a certain group that have to move up. How do you combat this? Like, I feel like eventually like there's people that haven't even seen in six years, like Shinsuke, you know, there's there's a and I'm just focusing on this right now. I know both both companies have an overflow, but right now, it seems like they're continuing to add, where do the rest of you do we just bet on every May, April, you know, what's coming that big acts, you know, but it's also my thing is if you're calling anybody up, they there should be a reason for it. Not the not just they seemed ready because what is Keanu James doing? We're doing a phenomenal talent and she had no reaction today because they didn't do anything. No, and there's so many people. I don't mean to interrupt you, but there's so many people that I watched their entrance and they don't pan to the crowd. No, the crowd is sitting on their hands. This happens when you don't know who any of them are. Yeah, correct, correct. It's frustrating. So and the other thing is it's where have the creeds been other than now, it seems like they're hanging out with Chad Gable, but like they came up were immediately over and then just pushed aside is weird. So I don't know if they need to rotate better per week, like have one slate of competitors on one week, and then another slate of competitors on the next week and like a better rotation that way, or if they need to maximize screen time, but don't call people up with no play in, like that just feels like a recipe for disaster. Usually it's your point, I don't know where Shinsuke is, but now you also have all this cross promotion. So it's easier, send people to TNA, send people to pro wrestling. No, like that's where AJ Styles is right now, right? So I just feel like the talent deserves better than to have like the coolest moment of their life of being called up to the main roster of the WWE met with you're going to take a pin in this triple threat as a money that I fall fire. Like they've got to have better plans, but Alex, oh boy, if history dictates the future, I bet they're not going to do that. 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So he started thinking that with or without that briefcase, he was going to be the walking embodied of Mr. Buddy in the bank. And I love how much room he takes up with his presence on the shelf, like in a very, very good way. This is all basically to say that he got a contract signed by Nick Aldous when he was in his office before, and that he signed it. And then Nick Aldous signed it. But the Edgelord Logan Paul has yet to sign it. And he would love to make that happen tonight. But surprise prize Logan Paul is here. He's had this title for over 250 days. He has defended it twice. That is so boring. Oh my god. That's crazy. So kind of what we were all expecting, but L.A. Knight always doing it in his L.A. Knight way absolutely rules him calling him an Edgelord was very, very funny to me. What were your thoughts on our L.A. Knight promo here? He's he's just a hot hand. Anytime you want to, you know, to get your your crowd, you know, back into it, he is there for you, not only just because the people like him, but because his story is so unique that people are just kind of wanting to get behind him at every single turn. And it seems like it just, it's almost there. It's almost there. It's almost there. It's taken away. It's almost, but this time right now, we're all just begging for this damn title to be removed off of Logan Paul. Your experiment has gone well. That's just let's let's great. Let's get this title back. Let's put it back on a professional wrestler who has busted his behind the last 35 years in the industry. And he's been wrestling since he was five and is now ready to kind of elevate it to the oomph degree because that that man. Ellie Knight is about to elevate the title and it's about to make that title. So I hope people are ready for that read because the title has done nothing on Logan. I'm sorry, as it made him, he hasn't done anything for it. He said two defenses. Yeah, there's just yeah, there's just not a lot of meat on the boat when he said two defenses. He's had he said one title challenge against Cody not for that and two defenses. He said 50% as many world titles shots as he has. I've had more wrestling matches than Logan Paul has defenses in WWE. I have not professionally. I'm way too smart to take bumps, but it's fine. Guys, get into your super chance at your home. Wow. Yes, get in your super chance. Get your upper chest out for chess.com. We thank you so much. Please leave a thumbs up on this video as we keep plugging away here on our episode of Smackdown, a decent little episode in a decent match between Naomi and Blair Davenport, man. Just a bummer. Just a bummer when Blair Davenport doesn't get reactions, but she did some really, really good work in this match. This is again a situation where I feel like both of these women need some wins to start feeling better like in the product, but Naomi needs to win more probably because she was brought in as a special attraction. Blair Davenport can like earn her way up a little bit. Naomi had like a huge return and not a lot of wins since coming back. So we got Naomi. I loved this. She goes for her split leg and moonsault, but Blair blocking it and trapping her into a tree of low, I thought was one of the most creative counters to split leg and moonsault I've seen in a long time. Like taking advantage of the fact that she's in the corner already, I thought was super, super smart. She's got a few stomps before Naomi drops. And then they trade rollups a little bit here, but a knee strike from Naomi and that pub a bomb for the win. At then backstage, Naomi walks in to find Bianca and Jade and they are all celebrating Naomi's win. I'm a little confused by this because there's not a trio's division, but they walk by Nick Algis's office and Bianca says that Nick isn't even there. Chelsea Green is huffing and puffing here and goes into the room with Piper and it's empty and this is just a whole bunch of fun. This is good, good stuff. Great character work as always, but Blair doesn't want any trouble. She offers respect to Naomi, which Naomi accepts and no jumping from Bianca or from Blair Davenport rather Chelsea Green and Piper storm out of the room. Nick Algis isn't there and then there's a back attack from Blair Davenport. So just a little back and forth there, but Nick Algis not being in the office was a fun little payoff or lack of payoff. What did you think of our match at our back stage here? There was a moment there towards the end of the match where both ladies looked like they were a little bit tired because they were going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Outside of that, the match was excellent. They just kind of looked like they were kind of like trying to do a lot of things too fast. I'm not a professional wrestler, but I've played sports and I've done a couple other things here and there. They looked a little bit, but other than that, man, Naomi is such a special talent. I hope that by her coming back, she's going to be doing some really cool matches or in the title picture because she's kind of not been doing anything. It's kind of like how for a long time Lyra has been Becky's friend and then Becky went away and now she doesn't have a character. Naomi needs to be more than Bailey's friend now, like like this woman to stand on her own two feet. The six woman match was really cool at SummerSlam, but we haven't even having even having Bianca there and Jade. I feel like she should be more of a standout. She's she's more of the veteran. She's definitely an ass career. I want her to kind of just break away from those two. I don't care if she kind of has to turn on them and just like bitch, lap and be like, bro, I'm here for one thing and I'm not here to be playing around backstage with y'all. You know, like I just want that. I don't know what maybe throw her in the bloodline. I don't know what everything got to do, but just just I think I think that she's just she should just be a step above where she's at right now. Sure. Either all the losses she's been having need to mean something or she needs to start winning. And I don't want. God, now you got this in my freaking head. You have like Charlotte come in and then if Charlie comes in, all of a sudden she gets put on top of the freaking of the of the run for the title. And then you have someone like Naomi who I think should be definitely with the way that she's you know, she's handled herself and like, Hey Bailey, I know we're friends, but bro, we're here to you know, we're here to fight. You know what I'm saying? 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I also popped at that when you mentioned that the cameras are bros because I can't hear the word "brove" not in Will Osprey's voice anymore. 1,000 percent. We moved on to our tag team championship match, DIYs. I'm feeding a town down under in this and I gotta say, I thought their TV match last time for the title was incredible. This one just felt a little off to me. I don't know if it's because of the story we were getting but it just wasn't Grayson Waller's best outing in particular, like it was just a little bit rougher. I don't know what was up. It just didn't feel like it clicked the same way as it did last week but nothing egregiously bad or whatever. Just felt like a chemistry thing. This was like a little bit off this time around but Waller in theory want to do the meet me in the middle but Chompa avoids it and sends Waller to knee theory in the face but the shatter machine to Waller and then the meet me in the middle gets the pin here. I'm so happy the titles are on DIY. I just want defenses and work rate and Johnny Gargano to get his flowers and Tommaso Chompa to also get his flowers and be wearing incredible duck and donuts like track suits or whatever he was backstage today. What a fashion. He still love that for him but what did you think of our tag team as just click in for me today. You're 100% correct and I think maybe had some yeah maybe has something to do with the fact they knew what was coming you know what I'm saying and it was just kind of just like let's just not phone it in but kind of just like it wasn't it wasn't clicking all the way. I do got to say every time you say meet me in the middle I can't stop thinking about that being meet Norma's finishing move and if he was a professor no wrestler it absolutely would be he would be his finisher would 100% be the meet me in the middle. Yeah but I like I like the highway man I do I I was watching them back in the day in NXT they were doing special stuff man they were doing some special things even when they were fighting against each other it was just all special and I think having them here finally in meaningful battles in a meaningful run and hopefully seeing what they can do you know with the last four months of the year and bringing it into the new Netflix era for you know whatever and then them going to USA kind of just like seeing like these people now carry on the company because they are the champions and I feel like when I see them in the wrestling ring they are real tag team champions nothing against the the raw tag team chance but they look feel act wrestle everything tag team you know you know I think it's because I feel this way I've had a lot of programming on Raw right now where the stories make sense but it feels like the titles are props in them rather than the story like it feels like Gargano and Champa have fought their way to the titles and they want to hold on to them and they want to defend them and they'll sell stories with that where on Raw both Liv's title rate has been like a pawn in this bigger story and Judgment Day having these titles is another like pawn in a bigger story so I just love that that's the case yeah um I do know MLW is live right now this isn't a super chat but I'll call it up because I'm a bad do Tito stand so you bet I know that MLW is I love MLW right now I love me some bad I used to go to sis Cicero Stadium in in Chicago and go watch MLW tapings um that was cool and that's like again that's where I first met MJF so it was like uh it was pretty cool to kind of see that yeah see him before he became who he is now insane insane to be felt saying I hate that the tag champs were squashed but that was a badass beatdown by Jacob Fattu post match and you're pushing him huge right now so let's talk about that thank you for the chat Tim and I agree um if you're wondering what's next for your tag champions I think it's gonna have something to do with the bloodline here yo I don't know how long this run is gonna be for Johnny and Champa they might lose in Johnny's hometown which would be so sad but by the way that's the WWE thing to do you don't win in your hometown I hope everyone knows this you don't win just look at or uh Drew McIntyre you'll let you know I know but you had the spooky Scottish witches win because Scotland so it's a real big tag they are spooky down witches and they changed the outcome with their potions and their thing of a jiggers you know that they do I love I live on sorry no you're not it's fine yeah let's talk about this post-match angle because twice today and I think it helped the flow of the show you kind of had I'm not like I don't love when there's multiple post-match beatdowns in the show but when it helps the flow of things go from segment to segment it's a pretty cool way to get from point A to point B and post-match here you have Jacob Batu running down and laying out theory as waller runs away so love that baller was like I am getting the hell out of here uh but you got a Samoan drop to Johnny and then uh another no soul DDT from Champa which I thought was awesome but he super kicks him in to the grounds hip attack to Johnny pop up Samoan drop to Champa headbutt springboard moon salt in here this was like a mini match almost in this post-match beatdown but yeah you're gonna you're gonna see solo and the Tongans uh working their way into this title picture I think sooner than later but really strong post-match beatdown let's talk about that before we talk about this go-home segment here what did you think of what we got in this post-match this dude is a freaking freak all right the things if you guys never got to see him when he was uh doing his thing whatever you other company um boy you got a lot to look at it and he's a slimmer version of what he used to be so this man's gonna be this man is gonna be very agile uh and I mean he is quick on his feet and he prances up there like a kitty cat on a twine like just perfectly um Jacob Fatou I think you know I'm just looking forward here he's gonna be the breakout star of the blow line 2.0 and will probably be the one to beat all three of them up and kind of just say I'm going on my own to be completely honest he seems unhinged looking around his facial expressions are on point like it just he was he was like praising solo in the ring like he didn't have to do all that and he was doing his like I love you and all this stuff and don't dance into the song you know like I was like yes I feel like he super kicked me through the tv he kind of did he took you took some bumps today my friend I did I took I got a shiner my back hurts me too but that's just from like having to have moved some furniture yesterday so wow okay we moved the coffee table and that was it for like oh I'm done I'm cooked pack me up I'm cooked but uh yeah it's Louie's calling this out the Peruvian moonsaw on Gargano had an extra leap from the last time he hit that just incredible he is just phenomenal and he probably didn't feel a thing either when he landed on him which is great like I stub my toe when I'm in tears you know what I mean I don't know how any of these guys do this stuff never buy it's what he did tonight but I love that you also called out that this was all in service of solos coa too like so far he has been the loyal pitbull of solos coa solos really stepped into the Roman role so let's talk about this last segment because earlier Randy Orton's like hey I'm going to turn heel soon but I'm going to be subtle until he was like I just want you to know that no matter what I've got your back and Kevin Owens can't be here for good reason that he's not there he's tended to his family continued healing thoughts and to him from Fightful as he's been dealing with that but he says after you square away this bloodline stuff a lot of people are gonna be coming for that title and I have your back and I'm like Randy you are literally a viper in the grass we know that's not the case okay but we're gonna bring on Alex Palowski because he's always here for the sourfower and I have a complaint that me Norma's has a complaint about so we're gonna talk about it all in one foul swoop here let me bring Mr. Palowski on-screen and that is we are back to having idiot baby faces once again there are four vicious people Jacob Fatu is basically as painful as eight people at this point and me Norma said what I was thinking the whole time which is WWE is on the struggle bus when it comes to making anybody relevant without a title or a chase for one also why don't baby faces have friends like ever uh the street profits were just for rent for whoever wanted them but like Cody Rhodes can't can't get him. Cody Rhodes is literally invited to the cookout yeah oh my goodness come on like where's the street profits let's go I feel like we're now entering a territory and it this is what's tricky about it uh let we'll talk about the segment and then we'll let Alex get us into the the sourfower that he had today but I love solo coming out here and being like acknowledge me and let me remind you about what happened to those who didn't Jimmy Uso my flesh and blood didn't acknowledge me he's out of here Paul Haven didn't acknowledge me he's out of here if Roman Reigns comes back it'll be his turn to acknowledge me and guess what if he doesn't he's got to be out of here but let's bring out Cody it's his turn to acknowledge me um let's Paul is there and then we'll talk about Cody coming out because here's my sour one but it's with the sourness of four I feel like so much of Cody's reign has been him dramatically getting his ass kicked before a match and like too many tears too much dramatic Cody we just did two years of adversity to get to this point and it's just more like numbers game whatever uh this segment was exceptionally well executed I felt like because it looked super vicious but he's an idiot they told us he's an idiot that he's gonna go out there and challenge the bloodline who has four people and one of them is Jacob Fatu who is taking everybody to task and he's like you know what Randy Orton is enough I'm fine I doesn't come across his grit to me it comes across his stupidity to me and I feel like this segment would be more effective if the rest of Cody's title ring did not feel so similar to him just looking so weak before people get the come up into aspect of it uh that I didn't love this I thought Randy's part was really good when they were all four of them were beating the hell out of him he sold like a billion bucks but Cody looking so helpless to help him was weak um a numbers game segment with the bloodline doesn't exactly feel fresh and Cody doing this doesn't feel like a fresh way to close the show that's my sour one but I'm gonna throw it to Pulowski for the sour fower and I'm gonna see if my complaint falls into his four and then we'll talk to Curtis Dosa about the end of this too um my you know the only sour thing I don't want to spoil it because my thing happens during the beatdown is is that I only have really one thing I mean slightly like LA night why why were you in Nick Aldous's office if he wasn't in there um I didn't mean to mention that was there a trap door like what was were you doing a video conference with all this just using his office to do that to wick with Nick Aldous because I don't know why I don't know where you've got the contract is that yeah that a fake contract did you actually get the contractors that oh actually no contract that's not really a sour thing really you know what I'm sour about that uh DIY finally became the tag team champions on the main roster and they're losing um uh summer slam that's that's too bad um although I won't be sour if they choose Jacob Vattu and Tomatanga and not Tonga Lo and Tonga Tonga because that would not be the best I just if it's Tonga Loa I just really feel for uh the taints of Tomasso Champa and Johnny Gargano because because those things bruise really easily and I just don't want that anything bad to happen to their taints um but uh yeah my my major gripe is is with this exact exact thing of of Cody Rhodes striding to the ring in his damn suit just just oh no it's corporate suit man we better leave and I was I always hate that about this but the biggest thing was during the beat down of Randy Orton no leave him alone you bastard take me and spread it's Randy Orton you six foot five at 270 pounds like what are we doing what are we behaving like Randy Orton is like some fragile little flower that Cody Rhodes no no no no I'm the one you want I know leave him alone I'm the one you want take me what what is David also like your hands are done your hands are in the Andre the Giant position in the ropes you know how you you know how you get out of that you do you do one of those you just do a little do one of those then you're then you're fine and it's but now nope nope take me instead please see Randy Orton alone he suddenly got two days to retirement alone it was one of those it was very very dramatic and also like I don't know I don't trust this Randy Orton I feel like he might just end up stabbing him in the back but Cardo was a there was a lot that I liked about the physicality of the beat down but I feel like this makes Cody look less smart than tenacious what did you think of our closing segment I did love the shot of Cody tied up in the ropes and Jacob fought to in front of it like that one camera shot every single thumbnail but then the rest of it got a little silly to Alex's boy I you know he's he's he has to be the front man he's always gonna I think this is his fault he's always going to be doing stuff like this he's always going to be in a ring with 17 guys and just because he needs to defend himself and just be the the man right unfortunately that cost him big time tonight it did not play out well for him and the way I saw it I was like damn come on Cody you're either crying about your dad in the middle of the ring or you're freaking getting your ass beat by five guys and we just like figure out some type of balance and no one wants to save you no one wants to come to your help because they're either not here or if they are there they're kind of eyeing you for other reasons you know what I'm saying like like they do obviously you know he didn't he didn't come out and everyone got their ass whooped you know but it's almost dissension around poor Cody right now he hasn't gotten away from the bloodline for the last three years you know so um it got silly yes but what other I mean what other way are we gonna be able to tell this story you know what I'm saying of you know they're gonna have to eventually soon bring in more reinforcements to help out and I don't know who or where or what fits into this into this bloodline picture hickuleo I think will be on the way but I do feel like um it is this I feel like this is actually decently done but because of the stuff that came before it it feels more tired than it should also when Cody was giving his promo he kind of said if it was up to me it wouldn't be at summer slam it would be tonight right now yeah what kicked this all off my internet this whole shock a lot of you was lagging and because Cody's delivery is so slow he sounded hammered it was so funny on my stream of it because he just sounded wasted way more so than at the press conference but Tamamelli saying to guys a girl at a sour effing pizza place thank you yes to Alex this girl sounds really good I should get pizza to tell you dude we should both go off for pizza tonight I might wish I live near if I live near Alex we would be slamming eyes right now slamming eyes all night long I believe but guys that concludes our episode of smackdown not a bad episode of smackdown we will take it we thank you so much for joining us this is a less eventful wrestling weekend I got to say comparatively but we will have death before dishonor next friday so likely I will be on that show and not this one I'm gonna still figure out who will be joining Cardoza it might be me maybe we'll throw someone else on her who knows but we will figure that out uh we've got a busy little wrestling summer so stay tuned I'm gonna let my Alex's plug themselves before we get out of here we'll start with Pulowski Alex you were right behind the paywall before you came on here for the sourfower yeah and also you got dogs and you should tell everyone about them yes yeah I got dogs their names are Benny and Beaufort they are uh they're like a they're that Bassett hound lab mix I think we're not second part is but definitely Bassett hound but they're taller that Beaufort's got a real Bassett hound face and just with a lab body and I don't even know where his brother gets any of his stuff because he doesn't look at it at all but anyway they're they're very affectionate young young boys but they're scared of literally everybody who's not in our immediate family so my daughter has a bunch of little neighborhood kids who come and play in our backyard almost every day in the summer and they were so afraid they wouldn't go outside oh so yeah so we're gonna have to figure out how like to you know to men that up but uh there's a very tiny little poodle cockapoo I think across the street that just barks all the time and they wanted to go back in and they didn't want to they didn't want to take a walk because they thought oh my god if they're if they're safely inside and anything happens out they're all they're barking but if they're outside near anybody if anybody gets to them they're absolutely scared of their twitter trolls is what you're saying oh wow yeah pretty much that's basically what it is but no they're we love them very much uh so we i love that for you guys yeah it'll be it'll be good um so yeah there's there's that that's that's basically my life for the next decade so i like that subscribe to fightful select for Alex's watch along of rampage and his sour review of smacked down and although other times that he's stuck with me which is every Monday for the most part and for pay-per-views but Cardoza you've got a lot going on tell the good people where they can find you yeah yeah you know i do things here and there sometimes here over here too but you can follow me on the instagram at Alexis Cardoza you find everything i do there working on some really great shows over at wrestling with Freddie with some new uh new guests that are coming in um people asking all kinds of questions of course Kate knows about that i'm still waiting to see what the hell i did or what i didn't do or what i could do and then also working on bringing back christmas films unwrapped uh this time with a lot more fun stories i know Alex is so smart and so cool when it comes to these things that i'm gonna have to have them there and Kate and i be trading uh all kinds of christmas memes back and forth and just can't wait we have this christmas spirit in us and that's just how it is but yeah um everything that i do on my instagram and uh let's be friends you can follow me at miss kate fave on social media you can subscribe to my own youtube channel i'll be moving some content up on that once this office situation is finally coming along and settled in of some more independent stuff but you can also catch me at excite wrestling commentary there on july 20th and soon you're gonna want to feast your eyes on some stuff that's going on over at excite some really cool things i used to use excite.com press it i know you use bluetooth for all my search needs there you go uh but yeah check out excite wrestling it's wrestling so it's spelled with an x and not an 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