Sit Down Shut Up Mark Out Ep. 107
AEW’s Storytelling Formula Explained | Ospreay & Mox, Swerve Hunts Bandido, Darby’s Run
AEW has carved out a storytelling identity that feels distinctly different from the traditional pro wrestling formula—and it’s not by accident. Where wrestling has historically relied on a clean, linear path of building heat toward a satisfying babyface victory, AEW thrives in the gray areas. Stories overlap, characters evolve in subtle ways, and outcomes often feel less predictable without coming off as random or rushed. This approach rewards attentive fans who follow week to week, blending modern pacing with classic wrestling psychology. It’s not about abandoning the past—it’s about remixing it into something that feels alive, reactive, and a little chaotic in the best possible way.
On this episode of Sit Down Shut Up Mark Out, Blade Daily breaks down how that philosophy plays out across the current AEW landscape. From Will Ospreay training alongside Jon Moxley (and the spread of the now-infamous “tummy poke”), to Swerve Strickland setting his sights on Bandido, the show is full of interconnected threads that feel purposeful rather than thrown together. Add in Darby Allin’s already standout title reign and the growing importance of the Women’s Tag Team Titles, and you start to see the bigger picture: AEW isn’t just telling stories—it’s building a world. The question isn’t whether it’s better than traditional wrestling storytelling—it’s whether fans are ready to engage with something that plays by different rules.
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Sickos Club.
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Hey, come here.
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You like pro wrestling?
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We got a little something-something for you.
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Two fans, 3,000 miles away.
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We've each been watching for more than 30 years.
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Celebrate the art form.
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The homoeroticism.
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We hate great magic.
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We hate analyzing stories.
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We hate experts.
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We just sit down, shut up, and bark.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to another edition of
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Sit Down, Shut Up, Mark Out
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to Pro Wrestling Podcast about Pro Wrestling.
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I'm Blay Daily.
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I'm flying solo today, except for all these amazing people
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I have in the chat with me right now.
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Really, really happy to be here.
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I did kind of a shortened little baby episode last week
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so that I could put my focus on the new show
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that premiered this past Monday,
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which I'll talk about in a few minutes.
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Before we go any further, though,
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I just wanted to send huge, huge, huge love to Rebel,
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AKA Tanae Brooks, who revealed today
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that she has terminal ALS, Lou Gehrig syndrome,
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on top of cancer that she's already fighting.
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Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
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I mean, Rebel is one of those people
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that I think in the long run has been so overlooked
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in the beginning days of AEW.
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And as much as people miss Britt Baker,
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you can pretty much look at Britt's act
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from the time that Rebel joins it
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to the time that Rebel leaves it.
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Those are the times that I enjoyed her act the most.
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And she made such a difference with Britt.
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I remember they even toyed around with the idea
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of Britt having her own Piper's Pit kind of segment.
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They did it on Dark a number of times.
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And her with Rebel was absolutely fucking hilarious.
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I thought it was so, so good.
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So it's really sad.
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And if I can just be real with you for a minute here,
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over the last six years or so,
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the world's experienced so much tumult.
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I mean, longer than that,
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but since the pandemic specifically,
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when we lost so many people,
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everybody knew somebody who had COVID got really sick with it.
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We've all had to confront the real truth
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that the people in our lives mean everything to us, right?
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The people around us are the ones who kind of create
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the atmosphere around us, right?
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And all of you that join me for these live streams,
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all the sickos I know out there,
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if you're listening, if you're watching,
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if you're with me live,
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if you're just listening after the fact,
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if you're somebody that I talk to on social media a lot,
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I just want to say I appreciate every single one of you.
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I appreciate your support so much.
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We got to be there for each other.
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We have each other at the very least,
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even when things seem bleakest, we have each other.
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And I think all of us are sending massive,
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massive appreciation and love to Rebel.
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So that was very sad to hear and best of luck to her
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and her family and wish her all the best.
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There is one person, honestly,
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I could do with a little less if I don't want anything,
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you know, medically bad to happen to him,
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but just slightly less of,
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which is obviously Professor Degree.
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And unfortunately,
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he hosts my new podcast, Pro Wrestling Forever,
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which kicked off this week, this past Monday,
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and was a total blast.
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If you haven't yet,
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please go check out Pro Wrestling Forever pod on YouTube
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or wherever you listen to podcasts and give us a follow
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and a five-star review if you can.
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It does really help us in the algorithm.
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It boosts us up, you know,
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tells Apple podcasts or Spotify or whoever, wherever,
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it tells them,
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hey, this is a podcast worth recommending to people
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when they are searching for wrestling.
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We don't try to fit into the algorithmic bubble,
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the way that a lot of people do.
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We are not modeled to be necessarily
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the most searchable thing in the world.
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So we rely on your support as much as we possibly can.
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It really does mean a lot. Thank you so much.
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But it's not a bad podcast.
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Even with Degree there, it's a good podcast.
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So I would say you should check it out.
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You should check out the episode we just did.
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We were talking about the best worst wrestlers, okay?
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We talked about the Honky Tonk man.
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We talked about Hulk Hogan.
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We talked about Junkyard Dog.
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We talked about a lot of people who got a lot of shit
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from dirt sheets, Lex Luger, the British Bulldog,
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who are actually great at a lot of things.
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And if you look at what people used to say
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about these people, Sid was another one.
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If you look at what people used to say about them,
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the scrutiny, the criticism just doesn't hold up
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to the test of time, you know?
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So definitely go check that out
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and check out this Monday's episode
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because we're talking all about factions.
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Who's your favorite faction?
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We could talk about who is the member of a faction
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that when they joined that faction, jumped the shark.
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We're gonna talk about the history of factions.
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It's faction, faction, faction, faction.
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It's just a lot of factioning.
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We're gonna be factioning a lot this Monday
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on Pro Wrestling Forever.
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Same time, 3 p.m. Pacific, 5 p.m. Central.
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Make sure you join us.
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Check it out and make sure you subscribe
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to our YouTube channel and to wherever you listen
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to podcasts, subscribe there.
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Let's see what the chat's saying here.
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Too fat to cook, fuck ALS and cancer, absolutely.
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Pippin, the waiting room was amazing.
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That's what it was called.
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It was called the waiting room.
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It was a lot of fun.
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I was really shocked that they didn't go farther
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with that because it was a great segment,
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but Rebel was part of the secret sauce
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that made it so fun.
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She was so great with her bat shit over the top,
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that crazy laugh that she had.
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Oh, so good, so good.
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And it's not always the best wrestlers
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that make the wrestling show.
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Go watch ECW if you wanna know what I mean.
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That promotion is almost all gimmick.
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There's some great wrestling that happens at times there,
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but a lot of it didn't hold up very well.
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I'm watching a lot of it right now.
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I'm in the middle.
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I just got to the point in ECW in 1994
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where they just did the NWA title tournament
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and renamed themselves Extreme Championship Wrestling.
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Shane Douglas threw the belt down.
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There's like five great wrestlers in that promotion,
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but there's like 30 people who sporadically come
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in and out of TV, and it's a lot of fun.
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It holds up so well because the characters are so great.
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Rebel was one of those.
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She made every segment she was in super entertaining.
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Blair Lyon, I've seen lots of people
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who work as extras or enhancement talent talk
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about how Rebel always went out of her way
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to ask them questions and get to know them
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and make them feel welcome.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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Scare Glow says we love Rebel.
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We do.
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You know, she made such an impression on all of us.
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And four years since I think she's been on TV,
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three, four years since she's been on TV,
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we're still talking about her,
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and we still would be regardless of today's news.
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She's one of the true good human beings
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of pro wrestling.
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It's horribly unfair that she's experiencing this.
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We love you, Rebel, from Blair Lyon.
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Pippin, the algorithm can't handle the sickos club.
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That's fucking right.
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That is fucking right.
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You hear me, Elon?
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You hear me?
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Whoever the fuck runs Google,
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you can't handle this shit.
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All right, sorry, guys.
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I know that I'm intimidating when I get that way,
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so sorry if I scared any of you.
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The Scare Glow degree is funny,
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and he knows Masters of the Universe.
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He loves that shit.
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Degree is the most unapologetic nerd
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I have ever met in my life.
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He is also one of the most creative nerds
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I have ever met.
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Dropping K-Fave for a minute,
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the guy is fucking hilarious,
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and shit that he says just as a serious statement to me,
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I just die laughing because he'll tell me about
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him and his friends hiding WCW cards in their shit
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at random times,
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and somebody's like,
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oh, man, I got Alex Luger again.
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If you're our age,
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he's a little older than me.
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He's a lot older than me.
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He's way older than me.
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He's the oldest man alive,
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but he just says that shit just like it's nothing,
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and I'm like,
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dude, you had cool friends.
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Like, holy shit.
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Blurry line,
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if Pro Wrestling Forever gets 100 positive Spotify reviews,
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Degree will let his children in the house
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for one per week night
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so long as it doesn't conflict with AEW being on.
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Let's negotiate on that,
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because I kind of like the way it is right now
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that he doesn't even acknowledge them at all.
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Tina Ibarra,
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I'm so sad for her and her family.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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Another last rebel one here.
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Rebels cackle in comedic timing,
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elevated Brit as she was finding herself as a character.
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Rebel crawling out of a dumpster with a banana peel on her head.
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She made the most of her segments.
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Yes, she did.
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Yes, she did.
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You know,
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the two ladies who walked out of collision a few months ago
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and Maya World and Haiyan stepped into their place
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and basically showed them what they should have done.
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Rebel is who we're talking about.
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You make the most of your minutes,
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however you do it.
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You know,
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and Rebel did that.
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She made,
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she could be on screen for 45 seconds
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and make you laugh your fucking ass off.
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She was so funny.
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So much fun.
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I just,
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I can't say enough good things.
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She was a big part of the building blocks of AEW.
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Just huge, huge.
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An unheralded MVP in a lot of ways.
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And then fuck your mama two times.
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Man, that video of Rebel talking made me cry.
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Same.
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It's, it's really, really sad.
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Really sad.
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But moving forward,
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I've brought you all here today to talk about a specific topic
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because I've noticed a big shift.
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Now we all know I'm wrong most of the time, right?
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It's kind of my gimmick.
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Well, if streaming on YouTube has taught me anything,
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it's that most of you are too.
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So it's not just me.
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I'm happy to be the face of your wrongness.
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Don't get me wrong.
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It served me well.
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I think, you know,
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you can still hide behind me and pretend you weren't wrong
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or make fun of me and pretend you weren't wrong.
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But now that I've had you make your predictions in the chat,
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I know the truth.
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For most of my life,
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wrestling has followed a pretty simple story beat
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that's relatively predictable, right?
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After a while, you can, after a while of watching,
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even as a kid,
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you can kind of see where things are going to go.
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And that's part of the fun, right?
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Is you feel like you're part of,
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you're on the inside of what's happening.
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So much of wrestling, honestly,
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is about feeling like you kind of are on the inside
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of knowing what's about to happen, right?
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That's why dirt sheets are so successful.
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That's why you have fans addicted to this shit
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for their entire lives.
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Way past the age people of my generation
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would have been told to grow out of it.
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I'm 46 years old, still watching this shit.
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But, you know, the basic storyline development,
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you build some heat,
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the bad guys come out and get one over on the good guys.
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Maybe they steal a championship from a good guy
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and then another good guy or the same good guy
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rises up through turmoil
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and comes back to beat up the heel
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and so on and so on and so forth.
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And that's basically the foundation,
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the building blocks of wrestling, right?
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It really isn't that different now than it was 70 years ago.
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Except, I mean, there's less nationalism,
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less racism, there's still some,
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significantly less racism over homophobia,
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that kind of thing.
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But, you know, the premise is built
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on seeing the good guy eventually
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give the heel their comeuppance, right?
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And when AEW started,
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there was a lot of subtlety to some of the stories.
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Like, definitely Hangman and Kenny was one.
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It felt like we were watching
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a different kind of storytelling happen.
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And at the time, it was really easy to think,
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hey, that was because of Hangman and Kenny.
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And I'm sure most of it was, right?
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But most of the pay-per-views, you know,
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outside of that feud and maybe a couple others,
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you know, CM Punk and MJF had some nice beats to it,
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but it was a little more straight-up pro wrestling.
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But most of the time,
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once a pay-per-view was announced,
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myself and I'm sure many others
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could tell you who the winners and losers were going to be
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and be right maybe 90% of the time.
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You know, there might be a surprising result here or there,
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but for a long time, I mean,
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I don't know if you guys remember,
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but a lot of discussion was that AEW was so predictable,
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and people who defended AEW would be like,
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well, just because it's predictable
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doesn't mean it's bad, which is true, right?
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But Tony Khan, I think became like that Michael Jordan gif
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where he's like, and I took that personally,
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because after the last year,
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after being solidly wrong about just about everything
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since the second Wrestle Dream,
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which I was in the audience for,
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someone in a comment, you know,
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told me I was not seeing things clearly
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and that I was very scarred
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by Vince McMahon's storytelling that I was so indoctrinated
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into WWE's way of doing stories
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that I wasn't seeing things
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the way they were actually being presented.
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That is not a fun thing to hear.
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Number one, nobody wants to hear that, okay?
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But two, the really bad part was I realized later
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they were right.
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I have been scarred by all of that, you know,
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which is like, if you're going to lose at the pay-per-view,
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you win on the Go Home show
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or you stand tall on the Go Home show
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right before the pay-per-view and then you lose
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or vice versa, right?
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There's all these tropes that wrestling follows
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that you see AEW do sometimes,
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and then they subvert your expectations a little bit.
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And then every once in a while, they'll play into it,
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except with a little wink and a nod, right?
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So a good example would be Kenny Omega
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and MJF for Dynasty.
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There's multiple parts of that that I want to pull apart,
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but do you remember the last segment
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before Max and Kenny went to Dynasty
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was Kenny and Max in the ring.
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Kenny's in this cool suit,
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and Max tries to hit him with the dynamite diamond ring,
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and Kenny Dux hits him with a V-trigger
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and pulls the ring off his finger,
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puts it on his own finger,
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and then says, you know, goodbye, good night, bang.
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And Kenny did lose, but how did he lose?
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He got hit with the fucking ring.
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They were kind of giving you like a little bit
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of foreshadowing the whole way through.
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It's just not the foreshadowing
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that you thought it was going to be.
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It played with your, it subverted your expectations,
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but it made sense, you know?
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And that's what AEW has become,
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is this company that plays with wrestling tropes,
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then subverts those tropes
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and pulls the rug out from under you.
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But even when they do that, it still makes sense.
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It's still, it's not swerve for the sake of a swerve,
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unless it's a swerve Strickland, in which case his house.
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But, you know, that's true.
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BJ Dixon, that's WWE PTSD.
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Yes, yes, sir, it is.
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Yes, sir, it is.
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Neon Ghost in the chat.
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What's up, brother?
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Good to have you here.
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Good to have you here.
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But yeah, AEW has been playing with our expectations
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and dancing circles around all of us
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for quite a while now.
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You know, I was talking about how I was so sure
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that MJF was going to win at Revolution.
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And then in the chat, we all got to talking
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and everybody pointed out the multitude of reasons
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that MJF couldn't win and Hanger had to win.
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And y'all convinced me that Hanger was gonna win.
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And so I changed my prediction
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because y'all made too much sense.
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And then he lost.
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I mean, that's the thing.
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Tony Khan's like, oh, you don't think I can?
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Yes, I can.
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Yes, I can.
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Yes, I will.
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Yes, here you go.
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Yes, I did.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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That's what wrestling is, baby.
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That's what wrestling is.
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If the storytelling's good,
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I love that I don't know where it's going.
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And I have definitely, especially,
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a good example of this,
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if you've listened to this podcast a lot,
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would be the Death Riders, okay?
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I've been saying I want the Death Riders to break up.
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I'm tired of the Death Riders,
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the Death Riders, the Death Riders.
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And I don't blame myself
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for feeling that way at those times, okay?
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Because they had been on top of the company for so long.
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But right now, I'm loving the Death Riders.
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We're gonna talk about the story they got going on
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in a little bit here.
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But man, holy shit, I love the Death Riders.
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They're hilarious and menacing
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and a lot of things all at once.
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But they found their own little space
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in the AEW sphere, right, in the connoisseur.
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And I'm really enjoying their story right now.
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It's one of the better stories in AEW.
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Let's read some chat here.
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Tino Ibarra, side note, Maya and Haiyan's theme
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is an absolute banger straight out of the early 90s.
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Very true, very true.
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Pippen, Rebel was from a time when AEW was even dorkier
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along with Leva Bates, Peter Avalon, and Brandon Culler.
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Yes, Brandon Culler's gimmick was literally based around D&D.
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Oh man, so true.
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Tino Ibarra says,
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it's because TK doesn't treat his audience like idiots.
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He doesn't, he doesn't.
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And one line that they've started towing
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that I think they do really well
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is now they're finding ways to like introduce you
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to the characters if you haven't been watching
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for a long time.
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But it doesn't take up too much of the show
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and it doesn't waste the audience's time
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that pays it, that's been watching every week for years.
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You know, I've never missed a single episode
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of anything AEW related.
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Even if I didn't see it live, I saw it at some point.
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I saw every rampage, I've seen every collision,
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I've seen every dynamite.
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And I don't feel like people are wasting my time
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with the way they're doing the video packages and stuff.
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It does.
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And sometimes those video packages will even remind me
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about something I did forget.
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One little moment here or there that I forgot about
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that was pivotal to building a character.
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And it's cool, you know?
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Pippid.
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TK knows the tropes inside and out
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and that's why he can break them 100%.
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You can only break them if you're a super Mark.
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You know, and I am just at this point now,
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you know, that's why I don't know if you guys saw
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the thumbnail for this episode,
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but it's when Moxley poked Pac in the belly.
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And I said Mox is Tony Khan and Pac is my dream booking
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or my fantasy booking because he just,
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he's just fucking stunting on me now.
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Like, I don't know shit.
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I don't know shit compared to this guy.
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And wherever he goes, like I trust him with that shit
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more and more all the time right now.
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The scare go glow.
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The critics want AEW to play by the old rules,
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but then how do we move forward?
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Things don't have to be so crusty and stale.
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Totally agree.
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Totally agree.
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And I think we're wrestling one.
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I think one of the reasons for this is
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I think a lot of people in wrestling
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don't acknowledge it as an art, right?
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They acknowledge it more as a sport.
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And so there's like a way to play football.
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There's a way to play basketball or baseball
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or whatever sport, right?
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So it's easy to start thinking there's a way
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that you tell wrestling stories,
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but that's the art of wrestling.
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The athleticism is the sport part
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and everything else is the art.
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Always never one of those people.
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I got to give art time, friend.
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I know, I know.
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It's one of those things.
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I'm a musician.
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I'm a very patient person with visual art
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or movies or anything,
510
00:20:06.220 --> 00:20:07.240
but with wrestling,
511
00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:10.180
I can get in that mindset where I'm like,
512
00:20:10.180 --> 00:20:12.100
I feel like I know where I need to go
513
00:20:12.100 --> 00:20:13.480
or where we need to go.
514
00:20:13.600 --> 00:20:15.000
Let's start getting there, you know?
515
00:20:15.560 --> 00:20:17.460
And there's still some times I think that's valid.
516
00:20:17.540 --> 00:20:19.280
Like I think it did take us quite a long time
517
00:20:19.280 --> 00:20:20.520
to get to Okada and Takeshita,
518
00:20:20.560 --> 00:20:21.780
but at least we're getting there,
519
00:20:21.800 --> 00:20:23.440
and it's fun getting there, right?
520
00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:25.620
So at least they don't let you down
521
00:20:25.620 --> 00:20:27.000
when you finally do get there,
522
00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:28.380
even if it did take a long time.
523
00:20:29.260 --> 00:20:29.620
NeonGhost,
524
00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:31.900
I think Tony is really evolving wrestling storytelling
525
00:20:31.900 --> 00:20:33.160
beyond heel and baby face,
526
00:20:33.180 --> 00:20:34.780
and I couldn't be happier about it,
527
00:20:34.780 --> 00:20:36.420
especially with Mox and the Death Riders.
528
00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:39.200
Absolutely, absolutely.
529
00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:40.340
Fuck you, mama.
530
00:20:40.380 --> 00:20:40.700
Two times.
531
00:20:40.700 --> 00:20:42.460
What if the Death Riders are grooming Will Ospreay
532
00:20:42.460 --> 00:20:44.420
to take over once they do turn on Mox?
533
00:20:44.980 --> 00:20:45.860
That's a great point.
534
00:20:46.020 --> 00:20:47.060
And funny enough,
535
00:20:47.120 --> 00:20:48.420
that's a part of our discussion
536
00:20:48.420 --> 00:20:50.320
that we'll be having just a little later.
537
00:20:50.520 --> 00:20:52.360
I'm going to read some more of what I had written,
538
00:20:52.360 --> 00:20:54.120
and then I'll read more chats.
539
00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:55.600
You guys are the best.
540
00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:56.780
The best!
541
00:20:58.880 --> 00:20:59.340
But yeah,
542
00:20:59.580 --> 00:21:01.500
so AEW has really developed their own way
543
00:21:01.500 --> 00:21:03.960
of telling stories that is both wildly unpredictable
544
00:21:04.500 --> 00:21:05.820
and still makes sense.
545
00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:08.860
They arrive at destinations I could never foresee,
546
00:21:08.860 --> 00:21:11.980
but the stories have been extremely subtly hinted at,
547
00:21:12.080 --> 00:21:13.780
like that Kenny thing I was just talking about,
548
00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:14.880
the whole time,
549
00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:16.240
and they don't feel hotshotted,
550
00:21:16.860 --> 00:21:18.060
because then they'll bring you back,
551
00:21:19.100 --> 00:21:21.360
so they'll show you something, right?
552
00:21:21.360 --> 00:21:22.820
And that will lead you to believe
553
00:21:22.820 --> 00:21:23.960
they're going in a certain direction,
554
00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:26.020
but they'll have shown you something else
555
00:21:26.020 --> 00:21:28.500
that was much smaller in that same bit
556
00:21:28.500 --> 00:21:31.320
that is the thing you should have been paying attention to.
557
00:21:32.840 --> 00:21:35.240
And then they totally drop you on your ass later,
558
00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:35.640
and you're like,
559
00:21:35.660 --> 00:21:37.980
oh, fuck, they were hinting at that the whole time.
560
00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:39.780
Holy shit, you know?
561
00:21:40.020 --> 00:21:41.860
And it's just, it's wonderful.
562
00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:43.580
It's wonderful to be worked
563
00:21:43.580 --> 00:21:47.740
and to have somebody consistently shock you and surprise you,
564
00:21:47.740 --> 00:21:50.520
but in a very genuinely satisfying way.
565
00:21:52.420 --> 00:21:53.920
I saw a ton of people, for instance,
566
00:21:53.980 --> 00:21:56.060
this past week on socials and YouTube
567
00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:59.180
predicting that MJF would win the TNT title
568
00:21:59.180 --> 00:22:00.520
from Kevin Knight on Wednesday,
569
00:22:00.620 --> 00:22:03.300
and then that would be what Max would put on the line,
570
00:22:03.460 --> 00:22:06.360
as Darby has been telling me he's going to need to do
571
00:22:06.360 --> 00:22:07.860
to get another title shot.
572
00:22:08.180 --> 00:22:10.180
Then that got me started on a conversation
573
00:22:10.180 --> 00:22:12.300
with Blair Line privately about the possibility
574
00:22:12.300 --> 00:22:14.440
of doing a title versus title match
575
00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:16.260
for the TNT title at Double or Nothing
576
00:22:16.260 --> 00:22:17.360
between Max and Darby.
577
00:22:17.560 --> 00:22:19.560
Then that got us started on a conversation
578
00:22:19.560 --> 00:22:21.140
about merging those two titles
579
00:22:21.140 --> 00:22:23.760
and how honestly it wouldn't be the worst idea.
580
00:22:23.980 --> 00:22:26.500
And then Kevin Knight beat MJF on Dynamite,
581
00:22:26.600 --> 00:22:28.260
and none of that is going anywhere.
582
00:22:28.340 --> 00:22:29.400
None of that's going to happen,
583
00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:31.840
but goddamn, we had a fun time
584
00:22:31.840 --> 00:22:33.400
exploring those possibilities
585
00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:34.800
and having that conversation.
586
00:22:34.800 --> 00:22:37.120
That is what wrestling is about, right?
587
00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:38.160
It's what the adults used to call
588
00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:39.520
the water cooler talk, right?
589
00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:41.180
Back when we used to have water coolers
590
00:22:41.180 --> 00:22:42.680
and work in offices, anyway,
591
00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:44.660
or have jobs or money.
592
00:22:46.100 --> 00:22:49.240
Yeah, it's what gets people talking.
593
00:22:50.040 --> 00:22:52.400
So, you know, people were talking,
594
00:22:52.540 --> 00:22:54.060
is Darby going to beat MJF?
595
00:22:54.340 --> 00:22:55.840
They're asking their friends about it.
596
00:22:55.860 --> 00:22:58.520
That gets a buzz going about the company.
597
00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:01.280
Remember when Darby was calling out MJF
598
00:23:01.280 --> 00:23:03.700
and said he would go until he saw God or gold?
599
00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:06.900
And the upcoming match at Dynasty at the time
600
00:23:06.900 --> 00:23:08.020
was Kenny versus MJF.
601
00:23:08.120 --> 00:23:10.340
And he said, until I see God or gold.
602
00:23:10.380 --> 00:23:12.040
And then right after he said God or gold,
603
00:23:12.600 --> 00:23:14.720
the God of pro wrestling, Kenny Omega, walked out.
604
00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:16.640
It made me think in that moment
605
00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:19.080
that Kenny was the thing
606
00:23:19.080 --> 00:23:21.220
I was supposed to be paying attention to, right?
607
00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.100
And that he might have had a real chance of winning,
608
00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:24.160
even though intellectually,
609
00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:25.840
I knew that was probably unlikely.
610
00:23:26.600 --> 00:23:27.920
Because the real thing I should have been
611
00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:29.860
paying attention to was Darby, right?
612
00:23:30.840 --> 00:23:32.180
These details go a long way
613
00:23:32.180 --> 00:23:33.980
to adding just a pinch of doubt
614
00:23:33.980 --> 00:23:35.440
to anything that's happening.
615
00:23:35.980 --> 00:23:38.440
And you know, Tony's kind of done the mad man booking
616
00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:39.900
where it's like he wouldn't do this
617
00:23:39.900 --> 00:23:40.520
and then he does.
618
00:23:40.760 --> 00:23:43.520
And not only does he do it, he makes it work.
619
00:23:43.820 --> 00:23:46.880
That's the difference between Tony Khan
620
00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:48.440
and Vince McMahon putting Brock Lesnar
621
00:23:48.860 --> 00:23:50.880
over a bazillion times
622
00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:53.120
and the crowd booing the shit out of it.
623
00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:53.760
You know what I mean?
624
00:23:54.220 --> 00:23:56.320
It's not even the same thing.
625
00:23:56.440 --> 00:23:58.300
It's not even, I don't know why I made the comparison.
626
00:23:58.460 --> 00:24:00.680
It's the closest thing I can compare, I guess.
627
00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:03.600
So yeah, so yeah.
628
00:24:03.620 --> 00:24:05.560
So let's see what else you guys got.
629
00:24:05.980 --> 00:24:07.660
Blair Eilion, I will say at the beginning of AEW,
630
00:24:07.660 --> 00:24:10.000
they treated the audience not enough like idiots.
631
00:24:10.060 --> 00:24:11.140
Like the Dark Order and the Butcher
632
00:24:11.140 --> 00:24:12.840
and the Blade debuts were definitely rough
633
00:24:12.840 --> 00:24:15.680
because they'd assumed we'd know who they are.
634
00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:17.520
Yeah, yeah, no, I know what you mean.
635
00:24:17.860 --> 00:24:20.980
It's, you know, the knowledge that they expected you
636
00:24:20.980 --> 00:24:21.940
to have of indie wrestling.
637
00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:23.980
I was in the crowd when the Dark Order debuted
638
00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:26.340
at Delaware now thinking people were chanting,
639
00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:29.760
like, who are you or we don't know you
640
00:24:29.760 --> 00:24:30.520
or something like that.
641
00:24:30.580 --> 00:24:33.540
It was not the greatest debut, not the greatest debut.
642
00:24:35.600 --> 00:24:36.620
Saw that one.
643
00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:38.340
Death Rider has been a top tier faction
644
00:24:38.340 --> 00:24:39.740
since Mox lost the title.
645
00:24:39.860 --> 00:24:41.600
Them finding purpose post-title
646
00:24:41.600 --> 00:24:43.700
is showing the characters and strengths of each member
647
00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:44.560
much more.
648
00:24:44.780 --> 00:24:45.720
Couldn't have said it better, Blair.
649
00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:47.760
Very, very true, very true.
650
00:24:48.220 --> 00:24:49.580
Oh, he's never says Cutler is dope
651
00:24:49.580 --> 00:24:50.840
and I will never entertain people
652
00:24:50.840 --> 00:24:52.400
that don't appreciate his in-ring work.
653
00:24:52.820 --> 00:24:55.820
You know, I remember he had the first Dynamite match.
654
00:24:55.860 --> 00:24:58.560
I think he was in the first match ever on Dynamite
655
00:24:59.020 --> 00:25:03.200
and he botched something kind of simple in the match.
656
00:25:03.660 --> 00:25:06.260
And people were really, really all over him about it
657
00:25:06.260 --> 00:25:08.120
on socials because you know how people are.
658
00:25:08.120 --> 00:25:08.960
They're just terrible.
659
00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:14.180
But, but he worked so hard to get so much better.
660
00:25:14.300 --> 00:25:16.820
It's kind of sad that he doesn't wrestle very much,
661
00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:21.140
but him being the Young Bucks dude was so much fun though.
662
00:25:21.360 --> 00:25:23.160
I mean, it was so much fun when he just became
663
00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:25.520
the guy who got his ass kicked in place of them.
664
00:25:25.760 --> 00:25:26.580
That was great shit.
665
00:25:26.800 --> 00:25:27.740
That was great shit.
666
00:25:29.600 --> 00:25:31.420
John Moxley's face turned in the death writer
667
00:25:31.420 --> 00:25:32.400
should be studied.
668
00:25:32.700 --> 00:25:35.140
Yeah, yeah, it really should.
669
00:25:36.100 --> 00:25:36.440
Oh, he's never.
670
00:25:36.620 --> 00:25:37.840
I love that TK is booking different
671
00:25:37.840 --> 00:25:40.200
than the outdated tropes, 100%.
672
00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:43.340
We got people talking about Leo Rush, BJ Dixon.
673
00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:44.960
I was telling a friend that unpredictability
674
00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:46.480
has lost art in professional wrestling
675
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:47.960
and A.W. has been holding that torch
676
00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:49.160
for the past year and a half.
677
00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:52.340
It's one of the many reasons that I continue to watch.
678
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:54.360
Yeah, absolutely.
679
00:25:54.360 --> 00:25:58.420
I mean, it's, it's because it's thrilling, right?
680
00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:00.280
Like you don't know what's going to happen next
681
00:26:00.280 --> 00:26:01.520
and you don't need to.
682
00:26:02.080 --> 00:26:03.660
And even if you think, you know,
683
00:26:03.840 --> 00:26:06.500
the possibilities are endless where it could go.
684
00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:08.960
And you could absolutely not see where it was going.
685
00:26:09.100 --> 00:26:10.640
I remember last year at Double or Nothing,
686
00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:12.000
when we found out it was going to be
687
00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:13.680
hangman versus Osprey in the main event.
688
00:26:13.860 --> 00:26:15.740
I thought it was going to be Osprey.
689
00:26:15.860 --> 00:26:16.420
For sure.
690
00:26:16.420 --> 00:26:17.580
I thought it was going to be Osprey
691
00:26:17.580 --> 00:26:18.200
and then it was hanger.
692
00:26:18.580 --> 00:26:20.080
I was shocked, but super happy,
693
00:26:20.220 --> 00:26:21.780
but I predicted Osprey would win.
694
00:26:21.780 --> 00:26:23.160
And I was wrong.
695
00:26:24.360 --> 00:26:25.220
Always never agree.
696
00:26:25.300 --> 00:26:26.800
Some of these stories do take some time,
697
00:26:26.820 --> 00:26:28.720
sometimes just a month or two, too long.
698
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:30.800
Death writers are never turning on mocks ever.
699
00:26:30.840 --> 00:26:31.800
I'd bet money.
700
00:26:33.140 --> 00:26:34.680
At this point, always never.
701
00:26:34.860 --> 00:26:36.640
It's just like, who can even say, you know,
702
00:26:37.420 --> 00:26:39.880
because the shit is so wild, right?
703
00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:41.000
But it's so much fun.
704
00:26:41.180 --> 00:26:42.300
It's so much fun.
705
00:26:43.900 --> 00:26:45.900
Always never says commentary can only do so much,
706
00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:47.040
but man, I love live wrestling
707
00:26:47.040 --> 00:26:48.520
and not knowing what the fuck is going on
708
00:26:48.520 --> 00:26:49.600
and who I'm looking at.
709
00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:50.600
It is fun.
710
00:26:51.280 --> 00:26:51.640
Yes.
711
00:26:51.860 --> 00:26:53.020
Scare Glow, I love seeing Darby
712
00:26:53.020 --> 00:26:55.120
and the jet hitting the low blow on MJF.
713
00:26:55.260 --> 00:26:57.760
Smart faces with a little gray area makes so much sense.
714
00:26:57.840 --> 00:26:59.500
MJF can't handle it, you know,
715
00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:01.120
and they really started that with Hangman
716
00:27:01.120 --> 00:27:04.220
where Hangman, he'll cheat if he's been,
717
00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:07.440
if somebody's, you know, wrestling in bad faith,
718
00:27:07.460 --> 00:27:09.480
I guess you could say he'll cheat
719
00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:11.980
and he'll beat them at their own game and win.
720
00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:13.740
And it just makes him a smart baby face
721
00:27:13.740 --> 00:27:15.080
that you like even more.
722
00:27:15.520 --> 00:27:18.000
What people hate is dumb asses, you know,
723
00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.720
like Surfer Sting was such an idiot.
724
00:27:21.420 --> 00:27:22.440
Like I liked him.
725
00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:23.840
I appreciated his wrestling.
726
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:24.820
Don't get me wrong,
727
00:27:25.360 --> 00:27:27.880
but the amount of times he went back to trusting Rick Flair
728
00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:31.200
who always, always, always turned on him
729
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:32.420
was just ridiculous.
730
00:27:32.520 --> 00:27:33.640
Hulk Hogan, same thing.
731
00:27:33.740 --> 00:27:34.900
It's just like, you're an idiot.
732
00:27:36.020 --> 00:27:36.660
You have the gold.
733
00:27:36.900 --> 00:27:37.600
Everybody's going to take,
734
00:27:37.760 --> 00:27:38.740
try to take the gold from you.
735
00:27:38.760 --> 00:27:39.960
That's the point of the gold.
736
00:27:40.520 --> 00:27:42.100
You know, there was, there was the thing with Kenny.
737
00:27:42.380 --> 00:27:44.360
I said after watching this week's episode,
738
00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:46.880
the AEW is like the best elements of Raw
739
00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.540
and Nitro fused together.
740
00:27:48.780 --> 00:27:50.480
A lot of people seem to agree.
741
00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:53.400
A few people thought I went too far though.
742
00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:54.540
And I challenge anyone.
743
00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:56.680
And this is, this is what I mean when I say this.
744
00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:58.480
I challenge anyone at all.
745
00:27:58.980 --> 00:28:02.760
Go watch a full episode, a full entire episode,
746
00:28:03.580 --> 00:28:06.380
even the very best episode of either one of those shows
747
00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:09.300
and put it up against an average AEW Dynamite.
748
00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:11.600
You will inevitably have to sit through
749
00:28:11.600 --> 00:28:13.500
at least 20 minutes of bullshit
750
00:28:13.500 --> 00:28:15.340
or 13 year old potty humor
751
00:28:15.340 --> 00:28:18.360
or a headbangers match or a race angle
752
00:28:18.360 --> 00:28:20.940
or some other horrid shit
753
00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:23.780
before getting to that one Austin or Rock
754
00:28:23.780 --> 00:28:25.820
or NWO segment that you love so much.
755
00:28:26.100 --> 00:28:27.520
We're not comparing moments.
756
00:28:28.060 --> 00:28:31.900
I'm saying consistently value per second of watch time.
757
00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:34.580
There is no greater show than AEW Dynamite.
758
00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:38.200
It's the best shit I've ever seen week to week.
759
00:28:38.760 --> 00:28:40.860
Like they've raised the bar so much
760
00:28:40.860 --> 00:28:43.360
that it's made everything else kind of seem ridiculous
761
00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:44.840
that's on American television.
762
00:28:45.320 --> 00:28:47.460
You know, I mean, I hate to say it,
763
00:28:47.460 --> 00:28:50.600
but you know, and I'm not saying these places
764
00:28:50.600 --> 00:28:51.220
shouldn't exist.
765
00:28:51.320 --> 00:28:53.000
I'm just saying I can't enjoy them very much
766
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.180
as TNA looks just ridiculous by comparison.
767
00:28:56.800 --> 00:28:59.420
WWE, I mean, I don't watch it,
768
00:28:59.420 --> 00:29:01.220
but the stuff I see is just like,
769
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:06.420
okay, great, great storytelling cinema, whatever.
770
00:29:07.780 --> 00:29:11.560
It's just, AEW Dynamite is really
771
00:29:11.560 --> 00:29:13.480
elevating wrestling to this whole new level
772
00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:15.680
and we've been kind of waiting
773
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.160
for another generation to grow up with AEW Dynamite
774
00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:21.900
as they're in for wrestling.
775
00:29:22.700 --> 00:29:24.440
And it's slowly happening.
776
00:29:24.580 --> 00:29:26.080
And as it's slowly happening,
777
00:29:26.940 --> 00:29:29.640
the narratives about WWE being the only thing
778
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:31.220
that there really is, the only real wrestling
779
00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:33.660
or whatever are going to fade over time.
780
00:29:34.100 --> 00:29:37.340
But this is what smashing a monopoly actually is.
781
00:29:37.660 --> 00:29:39.780
It's just, it's a lot to grind through.
782
00:29:40.060 --> 00:29:42.060
And I'm not saying that for us as fans.
783
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:43.300
I'm saying if you're Tony Khan,
784
00:29:43.380 --> 00:29:44.720
if you're somebody who works for AEW,
785
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.020
you've had to listen to people just smear you
786
00:29:48.020 --> 00:29:50.300
at every turn because this monopoly
787
00:29:50.300 --> 00:29:51.920
wants to stay a monopoly.
788
00:29:52.360 --> 00:29:53.160
You know what I mean?
789
00:29:53.560 --> 00:29:55.920
But I think Tony's made it through to the other side.
790
00:29:56.080 --> 00:29:57.520
We're seven years in now.
791
00:29:58.740 --> 00:30:00.960
Like AEW's forever, even if it goes,
792
00:30:01.340 --> 00:30:02.920
if it went out of business today,
793
00:30:03.300 --> 00:30:04.400
people would talk about it forever
794
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:05.400
from this point forward.
795
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:06.260
You know what I mean?
796
00:30:06.580 --> 00:30:09.860
Because there's a legacy that's traceable
797
00:30:09.860 --> 00:30:12.120
and you can see the change in wrestling
798
00:30:12.120 --> 00:30:14.540
from the minute AEW started to now.
799
00:30:15.540 --> 00:30:19.540
Anyway, Tino Ibarra should never trust Ric Flair
800
00:30:19.540 --> 00:30:21.920
either in kayfabe or in real life.
801
00:30:22.220 --> 00:30:23.700
Nuclear Vessels X, I tried rewatching
802
00:30:24.140 --> 00:30:25.860
late stage attitude era.
803
00:30:26.340 --> 00:30:27.160
It was terrible.
804
00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:31.220
Yeah, yeah, it's really pretty horrible.
805
00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:35.420
The bad parts are so bad that the good parts
806
00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:38.660
are almost, you know, I like, for instance,
807
00:30:38.800 --> 00:30:40.580
I don't, I would rather watch the best
808
00:30:40.580 --> 00:30:43.760
of Stone Cold DVD set than watch a raw.
809
00:30:43.760 --> 00:30:45.520
Like, I don't, I don't need to see all that.
810
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:47.400
Like, it's not that good.
811
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:49.320
You know, like Mark Henry and Mae Young,
812
00:30:49.340 --> 00:30:50.140
I gotta watch that.
813
00:30:50.180 --> 00:30:50.900
Are you serious?
814
00:30:51.220 --> 00:30:51.960
You're gonna watch that?
815
00:30:52.460 --> 00:30:54.120
A lot of the Undertaker stuff is terrible.
816
00:30:54.300 --> 00:30:55.400
It's just God awful.
817
00:30:56.100 --> 00:30:57.300
You know, the way women are treated
818
00:30:57.300 --> 00:30:58.720
on those shows, horrific.
819
00:30:59.580 --> 00:31:02.720
So I mean, really, always never,
820
00:31:02.900 --> 00:31:04.080
even with most of the women's matches
821
00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:05.520
being in collision instead of dynamite,
822
00:31:05.520 --> 00:31:07.340
women's wrestling alone makes AEW better.
823
00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:09.320
The reason I left the Fed behind in 2006
824
00:31:09.320 --> 00:31:11.200
for TNA Knockouts, interesting, okay.
825
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:13.540
I know that TNA Knockouts was,
826
00:31:13.540 --> 00:31:15.800
that was a point I wasn't watching, to be fair,
827
00:31:16.040 --> 00:31:18.080
but I know TNA was hugely influential
828
00:31:18.080 --> 00:31:21.140
on what WWE eventually brought in
829
00:31:21.140 --> 00:31:23.880
with the women's division because it got so popular.
830
00:31:24.120 --> 00:31:26.780
So that's a really interesting perspective to get.
831
00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:29.400
And we're gonna talk a little more
832
00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:31.460
about the AEW women's division today too.
833
00:31:31.820 --> 00:31:33.100
Blurry line, trying to watch WWE
834
00:31:33.100 --> 00:31:35.240
after only watching AEW makes it feel
835
00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:37.500
like you've been set back a few years of school.
836
00:31:37.520 --> 00:31:38.500
It really does.
837
00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:44.180
It's like, man, like I don't even know
838
00:31:44.180 --> 00:31:45.260
what this is anymore.
839
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.720
I remember the truth is when Dynamite started,
840
00:31:48.780 --> 00:31:51.600
I was still suffering through WWE
841
00:31:51.600 --> 00:31:53.280
and I was gonna make the effort
842
00:31:53.280 --> 00:31:55.580
because it was still hard for me to fathom the idea
843
00:31:55.580 --> 00:31:58.740
that I wouldn't ever see like Kevin Owens
844
00:31:58.740 --> 00:32:02.380
or Sami Zayn at the time or Shinsuke
845
00:32:02.380 --> 00:32:06.240
or AJ Styles or Sasha or Bailey or whatever.
846
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:08.220
I was gonna try to watch all of it.
847
00:32:09.320 --> 00:32:10.180
I'm not shitting you.
848
00:32:10.300 --> 00:32:12.520
After two weeks, I gave up on WWE entirely.
849
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:14.180
I was like, I like this shit so much.
850
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:14.820
I don't care.
851
00:32:15.040 --> 00:32:16.320
I do not care.
852
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:17.940
TNA bar, there's deaf kids now
853
00:32:17.940 --> 00:32:19.520
that AEW is their gateway to wrestling.
854
00:32:20.060 --> 00:32:20.300
Yeah.
855
00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:23.400
And that's what will change history.
856
00:32:24.800 --> 00:32:26.880
They're not gonna be having these same arguments.
857
00:32:28.340 --> 00:32:29.700
And there's gonna be kids that go,
858
00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:31.300
yeah, my dad still likes WWE,
859
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:32.300
but I think it's lame.
860
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:34.020
AEW rules, that kind of stuff.
861
00:32:34.820 --> 00:32:36.220
Yeti Malone, someone in a hundred plus years
862
00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:37.560
flying an AEW flag.
863
00:32:37.820 --> 00:32:38.760
It's my heritage.
864
00:32:40.620 --> 00:32:43.920
I would fly the AEW flag over the American flag any old day.
865
00:32:44.060 --> 00:32:45.220
Let me tell you that.
866
00:32:45.900 --> 00:32:47.180
Scare Glow, I'm in my forties.
867
00:32:47.180 --> 00:32:48.360
I've watched wrestling a long time.
868
00:32:48.420 --> 00:32:50.940
It's embarrassing to show most people most wrestling,
869
00:32:50.980 --> 00:32:52.720
but my wife and I had been watching AEW
870
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:54.660
its whole existence, still married.
871
00:32:55.280 --> 00:32:56.160
You got a keeper.
872
00:32:56.560 --> 00:32:58.100
You got a good one there.
873
00:32:59.320 --> 00:33:00.940
Blurry Line, I don't know if this is a hot take or not,
874
00:33:01.040 --> 00:33:03.440
but Undertaker became a good wrestler in like 2005.
875
00:33:03.860 --> 00:33:05.880
His hit rate in the preceding 15 years
876
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:07.340
was rough.
877
00:33:08.700 --> 00:33:09.540
Yeah, it was.
878
00:33:09.740 --> 00:33:13.800
I will say he always had a good amount of athleticism.
879
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:14.560
You know what I mean?
880
00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:17.580
But yeah, not a lot of great matches.
881
00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:20.040
And honestly, even the stories and all that shit,
882
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:22.320
I remember Bruce Prichard talking about
883
00:33:22.320 --> 00:33:24.340
on something to wrestle with when it first came out.
884
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:25.880
I remember him calling Undertaker and Kay
885
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:28.280
in the greatest story in the history of wrestling.
886
00:33:28.460 --> 00:33:30.960
And I remember going, yeah, maybe he's right.
887
00:33:32.300 --> 00:33:33.640
That's laughable to me now.
888
00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:35.640
I mean, just utterly laughable.
889
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:38.560
Insane, insane.
890
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:41.420
Tino Ibarra, oh my God,
891
00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:44.180
the amount of misogyny and homophobia and old WCW,
892
00:33:44.260 --> 00:33:45.100
I must have blocked it out.
893
00:33:45.260 --> 00:33:46.200
It's crazy.
894
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:48.140
And as they get closer to death
895
00:33:48.140 --> 00:33:49.580
with Mark Madden on the mic
896
00:33:49.580 --> 00:33:52.340
and Vince Russo on the show regularly, it's so bad.
897
00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:53.660
So bad.
898
00:33:54.540 --> 00:33:55.180
All right.
899
00:33:55.700 --> 00:33:57.020
So we're switching it up.
900
00:33:57.360 --> 00:33:58.160
We're switching it up.
901
00:33:58.760 --> 00:33:59.940
So we're talking storytelling.
902
00:34:00.760 --> 00:34:02.320
Let's talk about the story of Darby Allen
903
00:34:02.320 --> 00:34:05.120
as AEW world champion in its second week.
904
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:07.720
It was hyperbole, but I did say this on threads.
905
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:09.580
Darby's only been champion for two weeks,
906
00:34:09.580 --> 00:34:11.320
but it's already one of my favorite reigns.
907
00:34:12.560 --> 00:34:13.560
Hyperbole, obviously.
908
00:34:13.699 --> 00:34:13.820
Okay.
909
00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:15.639
There's been some great world title reigns.
910
00:34:15.820 --> 00:34:17.900
I doubt Darby's going to be champion for very long,
911
00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:20.800
but I love that he's determined to defend that title
912
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:22.760
at every chance that he gets.
913
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:25.980
Last week, he has a fucking classic with Tommaso Ciampa,
914
00:34:26.060 --> 00:34:28.080
one of my favorite matches this year so far.
915
00:34:28.460 --> 00:34:31.179
Excuse me, Tommaso delicious Ciampa,
916
00:34:31.179 --> 00:34:33.800
as I now call him, if you know, you know.
917
00:34:34.300 --> 00:34:36.300
They beat the fuck out of each other.
918
00:34:36.699 --> 00:34:39.080
He and Brody King have a match this week
919
00:34:39.080 --> 00:34:40.380
where they beat the fuck out of each other.
920
00:34:40.560 --> 00:34:42.280
I've seen Brody and Darby and Defy.
921
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:43.880
I've seen them at Wrestle Dream.
922
00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:44.360
Okay.
923
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:45.480
I've seen them wrestle a ton of times.
924
00:34:45.520 --> 00:34:46.540
It never gets old.
925
00:34:47.020 --> 00:34:49.360
These guys just have unbelievable chemistry.
926
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.620
And while there was like a hardcore element to some of it,
927
00:34:53.040 --> 00:34:55.340
Darby is proving why he's not just a star.
928
00:34:55.540 --> 00:34:58.100
He's a great wrestler, really great wrestler.
929
00:34:58.420 --> 00:35:00.880
This is what I've wanted to see out of Darby for some time.
930
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:03.200
I loved the feud with Mox for the most part.
931
00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:04.680
I liked the hardcore stuff.
932
00:35:04.900 --> 00:35:07.200
I love seeing him wrestle Gabe Kidd,
933
00:35:07.200 --> 00:35:09.660
but I'm like, man, this dude can do submission shit.
934
00:35:09.720 --> 00:35:12.220
This dude can do complicated grappling stuff.
935
00:35:12.240 --> 00:35:13.500
I want to see it.
936
00:35:13.520 --> 00:35:14.640
And we're seeing it now.
937
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:17.640
You know, it's, it's really, really, really cool.
938
00:35:18.420 --> 00:35:18.860
Yeah.
939
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.500
And Blair line says Darby Allen champ for a good time.
940
00:35:22.580 --> 00:35:23.240
Not a long time.
941
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:23.800
Absolutely.
942
00:35:24.100 --> 00:35:25.980
That's exactly what he did with the TNT title.
943
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:27.280
Every time he ever held it,
944
00:35:27.300 --> 00:35:28.960
he has the record for most defenses
945
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:32.160
because he would only hold it for like a month or two,
946
00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:36.780
but he would defend it like 12 times in that, in that period.
947
00:35:36.780 --> 00:35:37.280
You know?
948
00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:40.280
So, you know, when he's champion,
949
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:43.100
all you're going to get out of Darby is him breaking his body
950
00:35:43.100 --> 00:35:45.540
to give you the absolute best shit he possibly can.
951
00:35:45.740 --> 00:35:48.380
And these world title matches feel utterly legit.
952
00:35:48.900 --> 00:35:53.820
They've already elevated him in my eyes as a champion level guy.
953
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:54.920
Now he's a top guy.
954
00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:55.520
Period.
955
00:35:55.740 --> 00:35:56.200
Period.
956
00:35:56.200 --> 00:35:58.840
I don't think it's all that subjective anymore.
957
00:35:59.120 --> 00:36:02.200
Like Darby holds himself as a top guy.
958
00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:06.340
And there used to be a thing where you'd see a guy
959
00:36:06.340 --> 00:36:08.660
win a world title for the first time.
960
00:36:08.680 --> 00:36:10.180
And the first time he put it on,
961
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:11.600
he kind of looked a little weird in it.
962
00:36:11.620 --> 00:36:14.160
Maybe didn't look quite right in it or like triple H.
963
00:36:14.180 --> 00:36:15.640
He never looked quite right in it,
964
00:36:15.640 --> 00:36:20.640
but like you would see it would take you a minute to like
965
00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:22.780
adjust your perception of that guy.
966
00:36:23.520 --> 00:36:25.760
And then eventually you did, you know,
967
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:28.440
but it might take a minute and with Darby,
968
00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:30.180
it really hasn't taken very much time at all.
969
00:36:30.180 --> 00:36:32.320
Maybe it was cause I was in the building when it happened.
970
00:36:32.340 --> 00:36:32.780
Right.
971
00:36:32.780 --> 00:36:35.060
And I saw him hold that shit up for the first time.
972
00:36:35.160 --> 00:36:36.320
But to me,
973
00:36:37.020 --> 00:36:37.900
Darby is,
974
00:36:38.460 --> 00:36:40.940
he could be a world champion again at any time,
975
00:36:41.020 --> 00:36:41.520
any time.
976
00:36:41.540 --> 00:36:43.940
And I would absolutely buy it and go for it.
977
00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:44.780
I've I'm really,
978
00:36:44.820 --> 00:36:47.100
really loving his work guy is,
979
00:36:47.100 --> 00:36:49.440
is great no matter how short this rain is.
980
00:36:50.820 --> 00:36:52.480
Let's see a skewered universe.
981
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.560
Darby has finally been given the chance to show his entire
982
00:36:55.560 --> 00:36:56.540
toolbox of moves.
983
00:36:56.700 --> 00:36:57.560
A hundred percent,
984
00:36:57.560 --> 00:36:58.480
a hundred percent.
985
00:36:59.380 --> 00:37:00.040
Tino Ibarra.
986
00:37:00.040 --> 00:37:01.940
Darby is earning the belt with every match.
987
00:37:02.420 --> 00:37:02.900
Absolutely.
988
00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:04.720
And he's showing how much,
989
00:37:04.820 --> 00:37:05.080
you know,
990
00:37:05.080 --> 00:37:07.140
when he says I'll kill myself for this company,
991
00:37:07.260 --> 00:37:07.540
I'm like,
992
00:37:07.600 --> 00:37:07.880
Darby,
993
00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:09.260
I know you're serious.
994
00:37:09.380 --> 00:37:10.480
Please don't.
995
00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:11.740
But this is what he means.
996
00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:15.660
Like he had that killer match with Champa.
997
00:37:15.820 --> 00:37:18.340
And then like immediately after the match,
998
00:37:18.660 --> 00:37:20.280
Champa is just getting out of the ring.
999
00:37:22.500 --> 00:37:25.380
Brody King starts walking up the steps and you're like,
1000
00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:26.080
holy shit,
1001
00:37:26.080 --> 00:37:28.600
we're just going from that to this next week.
1002
00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:29.380
Crazy.
1003
00:37:29.740 --> 00:37:31.200
And then you see this match they have,
1004
00:37:31.220 --> 00:37:32.560
and there's a couple of spots where you're like,
1005
00:37:32.580 --> 00:37:32.980
holy shit,
1006
00:37:33.100 --> 00:37:34.780
did Darby just land on his fucking head?
1007
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:37.800
And then he's up and holding the title up and Kevin
1008
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:39.580
Knight's watching from the stands and you know,
1009
00:37:39.620 --> 00:37:41.220
they're going to do it again next week.
1010
00:37:41.660 --> 00:37:42.960
This man is incredible.
1011
00:37:43.860 --> 00:37:44.260
Incredible.
1012
00:37:44.580 --> 00:37:46.320
I hope he can walk in 10 years.
1013
00:37:47.500 --> 00:37:47.760
Darby,
1014
00:37:47.860 --> 00:37:49.080
you better not be bullshitting me.
1015
00:37:49.080 --> 00:37:49.920
I hope you know what you're doing,
1016
00:37:50.080 --> 00:37:50.400
man.
1017
00:37:50.620 --> 00:37:51.720
Cause you're damn good at it,
1018
00:37:51.720 --> 00:37:52.080
buddy.
1019
00:37:53.380 --> 00:37:54.060
Skewered universe,
1020
00:37:54.240 --> 00:37:56.220
Darby and Orange Cassidy are the workhorse champions,
1021
00:37:56.340 --> 00:37:58.140
willing to defend their titles until their bodies
1022
00:37:58.140 --> 00:37:58.640
give out.
1023
00:37:59.020 --> 00:37:59.860
Totally true.
1024
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:01.200
Totally true.
1025
00:38:01.980 --> 00:38:02.320
Always never.
1026
00:38:02.680 --> 00:38:04.120
Darby's mic skills are so great.
1027
00:38:04.140 --> 00:38:06.160
And I love that he's not just surviving matches.
1028
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:07.960
He's outsmarting motherfuckers.
1029
00:38:08.040 --> 00:38:08.700
So dope.
1030
00:38:09.100 --> 00:38:09.860
Couldn't agree more.
1031
00:38:10.140 --> 00:38:12.760
He had this spot with Champa where Champa had been
1032
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:14.040
throwing them all over the place.
1033
00:38:14.160 --> 00:38:14.800
And finally,
1034
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.920
Champa throws him to the turnbuckle.
1035
00:38:22.620 --> 00:38:24.700
Darby jumps up on the turnbuckle.
1036
00:38:24.740 --> 00:38:27.300
Champa falls to his back to duck whatever Darby's
1037
00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:27.620
going to do.
1038
00:38:27.680 --> 00:38:30.340
And then Darby hesitates and then just stomps
1039
00:38:30.340 --> 00:38:31.560
Champa off the turnbuckle.
1040
00:38:31.640 --> 00:38:32.460
It was so smart.
1041
00:38:32.500 --> 00:38:35.340
He's been doing a lot of that in these last
1042
00:38:35.340 --> 00:38:35.920
two matches.
1043
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.200
And you see that there's a lot of great
1044
00:38:40.200 --> 00:38:41.840
psychology to what Darby's doing.
1045
00:38:41.980 --> 00:38:44.060
It's not just about doing crazy shit.
1046
00:38:44.060 --> 00:38:45.920
There's a lot going on in there.
1047
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:49.060
And I think he's absolutely killing it.
1048
00:38:50.020 --> 00:38:50.860
Nuclear Wessel's axe.
1049
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:52.020
Darby is a fighting champion.
1050
00:38:52.140 --> 00:38:53.180
But what is next?
1051
00:38:53.820 --> 00:38:55.560
I think what's next is him probably going
1052
00:38:55.560 --> 00:38:56.960
to the pay-per-view and losing it.
1053
00:38:56.960 --> 00:38:57.820
Probably to Max.
1054
00:38:58.340 --> 00:38:59.260
That's my guess.
1055
00:39:00.240 --> 00:39:01.900
Tony Khan has told me to shove my
1056
00:39:01.900 --> 00:39:03.680
fantasy booking up my ass.
1057
00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:04.360
Plenty.
1058
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:05.920
And proven me wrong many times.
1059
00:39:06.060 --> 00:39:06.860
So maybe I'm wrong.
1060
00:39:07.040 --> 00:39:07.800
Who knows?
1061
00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:08.820
Larry Line 7.
1062
00:39:08.900 --> 00:39:10.360
I think the closest comparison is Jeff
1063
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:10.580
Hardy.
1064
00:39:10.660 --> 00:39:12.380
And Jeff never had long title reigns.
1065
00:39:12.380 --> 00:39:13.980
It just doesn't suit that kind of
1066
00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:14.200
wrestler.
1067
00:39:14.380 --> 00:39:16.260
Though Jeff often got in his own way
1068
00:39:16.260 --> 00:39:17.340
for those short reigns.
1069
00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:17.640
Yeah.
1070
00:39:17.640 --> 00:39:18.900
He does remind me of Jeff Hardy.
1071
00:39:19.580 --> 00:39:20.420
I think Darby.
1072
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:22.220
Theoretically, I think Darby could be
1073
00:39:22.220 --> 00:39:24.840
champion for a summer or whatever.
1074
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:26.800
I don't think he will be this summer,
1075
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:29.380
but I could see him conceivably being
1076
00:39:29.380 --> 00:39:31.020
champion for three or four months at a
1077
00:39:31.020 --> 00:39:33.120
time if they wanted to go that route
1078
00:39:33.120 --> 00:39:33.840
with him.
1079
00:39:34.160 --> 00:39:36.720
Unlike Jeff, the one difference I see
1080
00:39:36.720 --> 00:39:38.880
with Darby is more killer instinct.
1081
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:40.880
Jeff is a...
1082
00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:44.200
In no way am I trying to talk down Jeff
1083
00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:44.520
Hardy.
1084
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:48.960
But Jeff isn't a guy who has a ton of
1085
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:50.480
psychology to the way he works.
1086
00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:52.260
His moves don't look that brutal.
1087
00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:54.380
They're kind of show-offy,
1088
00:39:54.560 --> 00:39:56.880
gymnastic looking things that wouldn't
1089
00:39:57.580 --> 00:39:59.080
ever do to anybody.
1090
00:39:59.940 --> 00:40:01.700
And they don't look like they hurt,
1091
00:40:01.740 --> 00:40:02.300
really.
1092
00:40:02.740 --> 00:40:04.940
And I'm sorry, but that's just...
1093
00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:05.760
He's not my guy.
1094
00:40:06.020 --> 00:40:07.420
Jeff as a singles has never been my
1095
00:40:07.420 --> 00:40:07.660
guy.
1096
00:40:07.660 --> 00:40:09.780
Like, the Hardy boys I love.
1097
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:12.360
But Jeff as a singles guy was never...
1098
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:13.200
I never got it.
1099
00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:14.840
I never got why he was ever a world
1100
00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:16.140
champion, to be honest with you.
1101
00:40:17.100 --> 00:40:18.780
And I know a lot of other people will
1102
00:40:18.780 --> 00:40:20.060
feel differently, but that's just my
1103
00:40:20.060 --> 00:40:20.280
take.
1104
00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.280
But I do see a lot of similarities
1105
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:23.880
between Darby and Jeff, and I loved
1106
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:25.580
that they had that one singles match
1107
00:40:25.580 --> 00:40:26.060
with each other.
1108
00:40:26.080 --> 00:40:27.060
That was super cool.
1109
00:40:28.180 --> 00:40:28.680
Tino Ibarra.
1110
00:40:28.720 --> 00:40:29.740
He and Kevin Knight are going to tear
1111
00:40:29.740 --> 00:40:30.280
the house down.
1112
00:40:30.620 --> 00:40:30.980
Yeah.
1113
00:40:31.260 --> 00:40:31.540
Yeah.
1114
00:40:31.540 --> 00:40:32.600
And they're going to call back to
1115
00:40:32.600 --> 00:40:34.960
that C2 match where Kevin beat Darby.
1116
00:40:35.200 --> 00:40:36.060
Oh, so good.
1117
00:40:36.100 --> 00:40:38.400
Kevin is just on a rocket to the
1118
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:39.240
top right now.
1119
00:40:39.540 --> 00:40:40.720
It is crazy watching.
1120
00:40:41.260 --> 00:40:42.060
Watching it happen.
1121
00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:43.020
Skewered Universe.
1122
00:40:43.040 --> 00:40:44.720
Darby is the believable small man.
1123
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:46.340
He uses his smarts to win and retain
1124
00:40:46.340 --> 00:40:46.740
the title.
1125
00:40:47.160 --> 00:40:48.420
He's proving that he's not just a
1126
00:40:48.420 --> 00:40:49.620
daredevil spot monkey type.
1127
00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:51.040
100%.
1128
00:40:51.040 --> 00:40:51.480
Blarry Line.
1129
00:40:51.580 --> 00:40:52.620
Jeff wrestles for the pop.
1130
00:40:53.100 --> 00:40:53.580
Absolutely.
1131
00:40:54.380 --> 00:40:54.860
The Scare Glow.
1132
00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:56.460
No other wrestling organization is
1133
00:40:56.460 --> 00:40:58.240
showing heart like Darby is on AEW.
1134
00:40:58.360 --> 00:40:59.560
Can't buy that.
1135
00:40:59.860 --> 00:41:00.120
Yep.
1136
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:01.980
Blarry Line says, I will say the
1137
00:41:01.980 --> 00:41:03.100
Swanton looks like it hurts, but
1138
00:41:03.100 --> 00:41:04.660
mainly because he just fucking lands
1139
00:41:04.660 --> 00:41:06.040
directly on the guy nowadays.
1140
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:06.740
Yeah.
1141
00:41:06.780 --> 00:41:08.160
And when he was younger and he
1142
00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:09.780
was he would kind of land on his
1143
00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:11.620
feet slash ass instead of really
1144
00:41:11.620 --> 00:41:12.560
landing on the guy.
1145
00:41:13.180 --> 00:41:13.860
Didn't look very real.
1146
00:41:13.900 --> 00:41:15.120
It looks more real now because it
1147
00:41:15.120 --> 00:41:16.120
kind of is more real.
1148
00:41:16.380 --> 00:41:17.520
He's not selling it.
1149
00:41:17.620 --> 00:41:19.500
The guy taking it is just taking
1150
00:41:19.500 --> 00:41:19.880
it now.
1151
00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:21.420
He's taking a real Swanton.
1152
00:41:21.740 --> 00:41:22.360
Tino Ibarra.
1153
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:23.440
I could see Kevin winning the
1154
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:24.320
big belt by next year.
1155
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:25.620
I absolutely can.
1156
00:41:26.100 --> 00:41:26.820
I absolutely can.
1157
00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:28.020
And I don't think that whole
1158
00:41:28.020 --> 00:41:30.440
little subtext with swerve is
1159
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:30.880
over yet.
1160
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:31.620
I really don't.
1161
00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:32.720
I think there's a lot more to
1162
00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:34.640
come and I can't wait to see how
1163
00:41:34.640 --> 00:41:35.200
they get there.
1164
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:36.060
Cannot wait.
1165
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:37.480
Okay.
1166
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:38.800
We're going to hit some music.
1167
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:39.780
We come back.
1168
00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:41.880
We're talking about some women's
1169
00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:42.840
division story that just might
1170
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:44.400
be the best story in AEW right
1171
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:44.640
now.
1172
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:00.580
All right.
1173
00:42:00.580 --> 00:42:01.080
We're back.
1174
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:03.520
And now we're switching gears just
1175
00:42:03.520 --> 00:42:06.820
a little bit because we are talking
1176
00:42:06.820 --> 00:42:08.800
about the one and only Hikaru
1177
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:11.200
Shida and how her story might be
1178
00:42:11.200 --> 00:42:12.620
the best one they're telling in
1179
00:42:12.620 --> 00:42:13.720
AEW right now.
1180
00:42:14.260 --> 00:42:15.980
When she came back and wrestled
1181
00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:17.700
the match with Willow, I was
1182
00:42:17.700 --> 00:42:22.780
very excited because I am a huge
1183
00:42:22.780 --> 00:42:23.440
sheet of fan.
1184
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.360
But I thought, is this a one
1185
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:25.860
off?
1186
00:42:27.180 --> 00:42:28.660
Even when she's in the company
1187
00:42:28.660 --> 00:42:29.900
full time, she's not always
1188
00:42:29.900 --> 00:42:31.440
been featured regularly and not
1189
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:33.420
always used to maximum effect.
1190
00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:36.100
And that's a sad truth, right?
1191
00:42:36.680 --> 00:42:38.340
I don't know why that is.
1192
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:39.740
I'm not going to pretend I
1193
00:42:39.740 --> 00:42:41.820
understand the dynamic there, but
1194
00:42:41.820 --> 00:42:43.020
it's just always been the
1195
00:42:43.020 --> 00:42:43.280
truth.
1196
00:42:44.060 --> 00:42:46.360
But in this run, she's been on
1197
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:47.060
TV every week.
1198
00:42:47.060 --> 00:42:48.300
She's usually on Dynamite, but
1199
00:42:48.300 --> 00:42:49.760
she's been on Collision too.
1200
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.840
Her sowing the seeds between
1201
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:54.840
Harley and Chris Statlander.
1202
00:42:54.980 --> 00:42:55.540
Fantastic.
1203
00:42:56.040 --> 00:42:56.260
Okay.
1204
00:42:56.600 --> 00:42:57.860
Her trying to be this
1205
00:42:57.860 --> 00:43:00.840
manipulator who's very
1206
00:43:01.520 --> 00:43:02.940
disingenuously praising people
1207
00:43:02.940 --> 00:43:05.240
and then very to the point
1208
00:43:05.240 --> 00:43:06.460
about her hatred of Harley
1209
00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:07.460
because she doesn't see her as
1210
00:43:07.460 --> 00:43:08.240
a real wrestler.
1211
00:43:09.140 --> 00:43:09.700
Fantastic.
1212
00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:12.080
What is this doing with Stat?
1213
00:43:12.080 --> 00:43:12.980
Who knows?
1214
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:16.420
They had a fantastic tag match
1215
00:43:16.420 --> 00:43:18.220
with the divine dominion,
1216
00:43:18.240 --> 00:43:19.220
which we're going to talk about
1217
00:43:19.220 --> 00:43:20.380
the divine dominion a little
1218
00:43:20.380 --> 00:43:20.760
later.
1219
00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:22.900
That was absolutely great.
1220
00:43:23.460 --> 00:43:24.460
Her English is a lot better.
1221
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:25.540
It's just true.
1222
00:43:25.820 --> 00:43:27.200
And she's really, really
1223
00:43:27.200 --> 00:43:28.980
showing what she's capable of
1224
00:43:28.980 --> 00:43:29.760
as a character.
1225
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:31.160
And I couldn't be happier
1226
00:43:31.160 --> 00:43:31.600
about it.
1227
00:43:31.600 --> 00:43:33.480
And it is pulling in a lot
1228
00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:34.600
of other people from the
1229
00:43:34.600 --> 00:43:35.700
women's division into this
1230
00:43:35.700 --> 00:43:38.100
story, which has something to
1231
00:43:38.100 --> 00:43:39.540
do with Mina Shirakawa
1232
00:43:39.540 --> 00:43:41.500
suspecting that she took out
1233
00:43:41.500 --> 00:43:43.040
Tony Storm, which has
1234
00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:43.740
something to do with
1235
00:43:43.740 --> 00:43:45.440
Statlander who just reunited
1236
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:47.100
and made up with Willow and
1237
00:43:47.100 --> 00:43:47.380
Harley.
1238
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:48.260
Right.
1239
00:43:49.220 --> 00:43:50.900
So it's sowing a lot of
1240
00:43:50.900 --> 00:43:52.900
seeds that it's one of those
1241
00:43:52.900 --> 00:43:53.060
things.
1242
00:43:53.060 --> 00:43:54.040
I'm not even predicting where
1243
00:43:54.040 --> 00:43:54.920
it's going to go anymore
1244
00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:56.480
because it could go about
1245
00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:57.580
seven different directions.
1246
00:43:57.820 --> 00:43:59.320
I think she could very well
1247
00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:00.740
not be the person who took
1248
00:44:00.740 --> 00:44:01.280
out Tony.
1249
00:44:01.780 --> 00:44:02.120
Okay.
1250
00:44:02.120 --> 00:44:03.160
But I could also see her
1251
00:44:03.160 --> 00:44:03.940
being the person who took
1252
00:44:03.940 --> 00:44:04.420
out Tony.
1253
00:44:04.700 --> 00:44:05.100
Right.
1254
00:44:05.100 --> 00:44:05.900
She would have very
1255
00:44:05.900 --> 00:44:07.380
justifiable reasons as a
1256
00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:07.600
heel.
1257
00:44:08.080 --> 00:44:09.580
I love justified heels.
1258
00:44:09.580 --> 00:44:10.640
She would have great
1259
00:44:10.640 --> 00:44:11.900
reason for doing so.
1260
00:44:12.600 --> 00:44:13.820
And I'm just having a
1261
00:44:13.820 --> 00:44:14.400
blast with it.
1262
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:15.680
It's so much fun.
1263
00:44:15.780 --> 00:44:17.180
I'm seeing her user acting
1264
00:44:17.180 --> 00:44:17.420
chops.
1265
00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:18.580
And I got to say right now,
1266
00:44:19.820 --> 00:44:22.120
Sheeda and Tecla are doing
1267
00:44:22.120 --> 00:44:23.220
a lot of the work to carry
1268
00:44:23.220 --> 00:44:24.280
the women's division right
1269
00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:24.400
now.
1270
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:25.740
And they're both crushing
1271
00:44:25.740 --> 00:44:26.360
it.
1272
00:44:26.680 --> 00:44:27.920
You know, I think Tony,
1273
00:44:30.260 --> 00:44:33.140
one of his, one of his
1274
00:44:33.140 --> 00:44:34.300
things, I wish I could choke
1275
00:44:34.300 --> 00:44:35.840
him a little bit sometimes
1276
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:36.900
without established
1277
00:44:37.420 --> 00:44:38.600
minute by minute rating
1278
00:44:38.600 --> 00:44:39.200
stars.
1279
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:41.020
Sometimes the women get
1280
00:44:41.020 --> 00:44:41.580
pushed back.
1281
00:44:41.720 --> 00:44:42.680
I think losing Tony
1282
00:44:42.680 --> 00:44:43.560
Storm and Mercedes
1283
00:44:43.560 --> 00:44:45.080
Manet at the same time
1284
00:44:45.080 --> 00:44:46.420
has affected the way the
1285
00:44:46.420 --> 00:44:47.180
women have been featured
1286
00:44:47.180 --> 00:44:47.420
recently.
1287
00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:49.920
And I don't approve of
1288
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:50.780
it because I think this
1289
00:44:50.780 --> 00:44:52.040
division is so deep.
1290
00:44:52.380 --> 00:44:53.380
All you need to do is
1291
00:44:53.380 --> 00:44:54.760
expose these fans to
1292
00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:55.540
these women more.
1293
00:44:55.660 --> 00:44:56.800
And they're going to
1294
00:44:56.800 --> 00:44:57.580
become huge stars
1295
00:44:57.580 --> 00:44:58.160
themselves.
1296
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:00.420
I think Sheeda, you
1297
00:45:00.420 --> 00:45:01.200
know, just when I
1298
00:45:01.200 --> 00:45:02.360
thought maybe her run
1299
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:03.600
on top was over,
1300
00:45:03.940 --> 00:45:04.620
is showing me she
1301
00:45:04.620 --> 00:45:05.280
could have a whole
1302
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:06.340
another one, you
1303
00:45:06.340 --> 00:45:06.680
know.
1304
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:09.180
And, you know, you're
1305
00:45:09.180 --> 00:45:09.780
seeing the potential of
1306
00:45:09.780 --> 00:45:11.140
Amina Shirakawa right now.
1307
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:12.080
You're seeing the
1308
00:45:12.080 --> 00:45:12.980
potential, you know,
1309
00:45:13.100 --> 00:45:13.840
Harley Cameron has
1310
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:14.540
always felt like she
1311
00:45:14.540 --> 00:45:15.660
could be a top star
1312
00:45:15.660 --> 00:45:16.360
at any minute.
1313
00:45:16.640 --> 00:45:18.520
Chris Stalander is
1314
00:45:18.520 --> 00:45:19.980
is looking fantastic
1315
00:45:19.980 --> 00:45:21.220
and is, is as an
1316
00:45:21.220 --> 00:45:22.260
actual story to sink
1317
00:45:22.260 --> 00:45:23.480
her teeth into a
1318
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:23.980
little more.
1319
00:45:24.300 --> 00:45:25.320
I felt like her
1320
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:27.960
title run was good,
1321
00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:29.560
but maybe exposed that
1322
00:45:29.560 --> 00:45:30.920
she didn't have necessarily
1323
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:31.880
a completely clear
1324
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:34.280
direction as the,
1325
00:45:34.860 --> 00:45:36.180
what was that
1326
00:45:36.180 --> 00:45:39.240
The Cosmic Killer
1327
00:45:39.240 --> 00:45:40.560
didn't necessarily have a
1328
00:45:40.560 --> 00:45:41.140
clear cut direction,
1329
00:45:41.180 --> 00:45:42.180
which I think is becoming
1330
00:45:42.180 --> 00:45:43.600
a little more clear cut
1331
00:45:43.600 --> 00:45:43.940
now.
1332
00:45:43.940 --> 00:45:44.840
And I like it.
1333
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:46.020
I like it a lot more
1334
00:45:46.020 --> 00:45:47.300
to what you guys think.
1335
00:45:47.640 --> 00:45:48.120
Blurry Line 7,
1336
00:45:48.160 --> 00:45:48.900
she's showing the
1337
00:45:48.900 --> 00:45:49.640
signs of someone who
1338
00:45:49.640 --> 00:45:51.060
killed Tony Storm,
1339
00:45:51.260 --> 00:45:51.820
even if I don't think
1340
00:45:51.820 --> 00:45:52.880
it's actually her.
1341
00:45:53.580 --> 00:45:54.460
Yes, exactly.
1342
00:45:54.560 --> 00:45:55.280
I love it.
1343
00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:55.980
I love it.
1344
00:45:56.040 --> 00:45:56.900
They're subverting our
1345
00:45:56.900 --> 00:45:57.480
expectations.
1346
00:45:57.620 --> 00:45:58.380
They're playing with our
1347
00:45:58.380 --> 00:45:58.920
expectations.
1348
00:45:59.060 --> 00:45:59.860
It's amazing.
1349
00:46:00.180 --> 00:46:00.860
Skewer Universe,
1350
00:46:01.120 --> 00:46:01.900
Sheeda could have
1351
00:46:01.900 --> 00:46:03.120
been on TV this much.
1352
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:04.660
Sheeda should have
1353
00:46:04.660 --> 00:46:05.600
been on TV this much
1354
00:46:05.600 --> 00:46:06.200
from the jump.
1355
00:46:06.200 --> 00:46:07.180
She's just so good
1356
00:46:07.180 --> 00:46:08.220
from promos to
1357
00:46:08.220 --> 00:46:08.960
in-ring work.
1358
00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:09.800
Agreed.
1359
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:10.340
Always never.
1360
00:46:10.560 --> 00:46:11.320
I love this story with
1361
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:11.940
Sheeda.
1362
00:46:12.100 --> 00:46:12.840
Tino Ibarra.
1363
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:13.480
Sheeda came back
1364
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:14.340
and immediately became
1365
00:46:14.340 --> 00:46:15.180
a major player again.
1366
00:46:15.200 --> 00:46:16.280
Not everyone could do
1367
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:16.600
that.
1368
00:46:16.860 --> 00:46:17.660
And good, you know,
1369
00:46:17.660 --> 00:46:18.780
I will give him some
1370
00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:19.000
credit.
1371
00:46:19.140 --> 00:46:19.840
Good on Tony Khan
1372
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:20.720
for going, you know what?
1373
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:21.180
We're going to run
1374
00:46:21.180 --> 00:46:22.100
with Sheeda.
1375
00:46:22.240 --> 00:46:22.960
Like she's back.
1376
00:46:23.180 --> 00:46:23.920
She's not going to
1377
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:25.420
come back and do
1378
00:46:25.420 --> 00:46:27.440
a surprise pop match
1379
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:28.620
with Willow, lose,
1380
00:46:28.640 --> 00:46:29.240
and then fade to
1381
00:46:29.240 --> 00:46:29.600
the background.
1382
00:46:29.600 --> 00:46:30.120
We're going to run
1383
00:46:30.120 --> 00:46:30.860
with her.
1384
00:46:30.860 --> 00:46:32.220
Love it.
1385
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:33.400
Skewered.
1386
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:34.100
AEW has been good
1387
00:46:34.100 --> 00:46:34.740
at intertwining the
1388
00:46:34.740 --> 00:46:35.360
men's storylines
1389
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:36.400
and it's about time
1390
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:36.940
they do the same
1391
00:46:36.940 --> 00:46:37.400
with the women.
1392
00:46:37.740 --> 00:46:37.920
Yes.
1393
00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:39.520
Sometimes I enjoy
1394
00:46:39.520 --> 00:46:40.260
the women a lot
1395
00:46:40.260 --> 00:46:41.300
more than the men.
1396
00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:42.280
Fuck yeah.
1397
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:43.480
The women's division
1398
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:44.540
is so fucking good.
1399
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:45.440
That's the thing.
1400
00:46:45.620 --> 00:46:46.740
I mean, the reason
1401
00:46:46.740 --> 00:46:47.460
we want to see more
1402
00:46:47.460 --> 00:46:48.020
women, Tony,
1403
00:46:48.020 --> 00:46:49.040
is because you have
1404
00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:50.020
a fucking stacked
1405
00:46:50.020 --> 00:46:50.920
division that's like
1406
00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:52.460
getting just as stacked
1407
00:46:52.460 --> 00:46:53.700
as the men's division is.
1408
00:46:54.180 --> 00:46:55.060
That's why.
1409
00:46:56.080 --> 00:46:56.720
Tekla has made
1410
00:46:56.720 --> 00:46:57.400
dumb bitches
1411
00:46:57.400 --> 00:46:58.080
my audible
1412
00:46:58.080 --> 00:46:58.940
stim for like the
1413
00:46:58.940 --> 00:46:59.700
last month.
1414
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:00.900
I love that
1415
00:47:00.900 --> 00:47:01.700
Tekla goes,
1416
00:47:02.500 --> 00:47:04.880
um, you know,
1417
00:47:05.140 --> 00:47:05.940
people ask why
1418
00:47:05.940 --> 00:47:06.880
I call the
1419
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:07.620
AEW women
1420
00:47:07.620 --> 00:47:08.420
dumb bitches
1421
00:47:08.420 --> 00:47:09.360
and then I was
1422
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:10.420
going to stop,
1423
00:47:10.420 --> 00:47:11.300
but then they
1424
00:47:11.300 --> 00:47:11.960
they keep being
1425
00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:13.000
such dumb bitches.
1426
00:47:13.900 --> 00:47:15.120
And no matter
1427
00:47:15.120 --> 00:47:15.560
what you might
1428
00:47:15.560 --> 00:47:16.140
think of her,
1429
00:47:16.140 --> 00:47:16.600
I did think
1430
00:47:16.600 --> 00:47:17.340
it was pretty funny
1431
00:47:17.340 --> 00:47:18.200
that Deanna
1432
00:47:18.200 --> 00:47:19.560
Parazzo tweeted
1433
00:47:19.560 --> 00:47:20.540
that, um,
1434
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:21.300
you know,
1435
00:47:21.300 --> 00:47:22.000
there are a lot
1436
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:22.560
of dumb bitches
1437
00:47:22.560 --> 00:47:23.240
in this company
1438
00:47:23.240 --> 00:47:24.000
and that's why
1439
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:24.640
I'm happy
1440
00:47:24.640 --> 00:47:25.500
AEW is paying
1441
00:47:25.500 --> 00:47:26.700
for my education.
1442
00:47:28.120 --> 00:47:28.600
Good stuff.
1443
00:47:28.740 --> 00:47:29.260
Scare Glow.
1444
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:29.920
Holy Sheeta.
1445
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:30.580
I'm so intrigued
1446
00:47:30.580 --> 00:47:31.320
by what she's up to.
1447
00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:31.920
I would love to
1448
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:32.900
see her help
1449
00:47:32.900 --> 00:47:33.460
turn stat.
1450
00:47:33.520 --> 00:47:34.200
A more dangerous
1451
00:47:34.200 --> 00:47:35.200
Statlander would
1452
00:47:35.200 --> 00:47:35.700
be scary.
1453
00:47:35.780 --> 00:47:37.060
Good that 450
1454
00:47:37.060 --> 00:47:37.880
that she hit
1455
00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:39.060
on Lena
1456
00:47:39.060 --> 00:47:40.640
and Megan Bain.
1457
00:47:40.700 --> 00:47:41.240
That's about
1458
00:47:41.240 --> 00:47:42.360
as tight a 450
1459
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:43.040
as you're ever
1460
00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:43.520
going to see
1461
00:47:43.520 --> 00:47:44.460
the raw
1462
00:47:44.460 --> 00:47:45.320
athleticism of
1463
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:45.980
Chris Statlander
1464
00:47:45.980 --> 00:47:46.680
is unfucking
1465
00:47:47.420 --> 00:47:47.860
believable.
1466
00:47:48.060 --> 00:47:48.800
Skewered Universe
1467
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:49.860
AEW women's division
1468
00:47:49.860 --> 00:47:50.320
has so much
1469
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:50.860
goddamn talent.
1470
00:47:51.060 --> 00:47:51.740
I think TK gets
1471
00:47:51.740 --> 00:47:52.300
worried that
1472
00:47:52.300 --> 00:47:53.240
without the big
1473
00:47:53.240 --> 00:47:54.040
stars like
1474
00:47:54.040 --> 00:47:54.700
Monet and Storm
1475
00:47:54.700 --> 00:47:55.480
people won't be
1476
00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:56.160
as on board.
1477
00:47:56.420 --> 00:47:56.720
Yeah,
1478
00:47:56.720 --> 00:47:57.380
I think that's
1479
00:47:57.380 --> 00:47:58.180
his big concern.
1480
00:47:58.380 --> 00:47:59.140
I think he does
1481
00:47:59.140 --> 00:47:59.500
want to make
1482
00:47:59.500 --> 00:48:00.060
more stars,
1483
00:48:00.060 --> 00:48:00.620
but this would be
1484
00:48:00.620 --> 00:48:00.980
a great time
1485
00:48:00.980 --> 00:48:01.580
to have Athena
1486
00:48:01.580 --> 00:48:02.160
on TV.
1487
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:03.300
You know,
1488
00:48:03.300 --> 00:48:04.120
um,
1489
00:48:05.220 --> 00:48:06.060
when was last
1490
00:48:06.060 --> 00:48:06.760
time we heard stat
1491
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:07.440
actually talk?
1492
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:07.880
She's doing
1493
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:08.740
the silent deadly
1494
00:48:08.740 --> 00:48:09.200
thing and it's
1495
00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:09.480
great.
1496
00:48:09.660 --> 00:48:10.580
And I think maybe
1497
00:48:10.580 --> 00:48:11.100
that's the best
1498
00:48:11.100 --> 00:48:11.660
thing for her
1499
00:48:11.660 --> 00:48:12.120
right now.
1500
00:48:12.200 --> 00:48:12.860
She does doing
1501
00:48:12.860 --> 00:48:13.860
all the talking
1502
00:48:13.860 --> 00:48:14.500
for both of them
1503
00:48:14.500 --> 00:48:14.940
right now.
1504
00:48:15.020 --> 00:48:15.480
You know,
1505
00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:17.200
always never says
1506
00:48:17.200 --> 00:48:17.640
current status.
1507
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:18.260
My favorite
1508
00:48:18.260 --> 00:48:19.040
version is all
1509
00:48:19.040 --> 00:48:19.700
of her versions
1510
00:48:19.700 --> 00:48:20.500
smashed together.
1511
00:48:20.540 --> 00:48:21.200
It is.
1512
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:21.640
It is.
1513
00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:22.880
I agree.
1514
00:48:23.780 --> 00:48:24.420
Tino says
1515
00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:25.300
Deanna is low key
1516
00:48:25.300 --> 00:48:25.800
so funny.
1517
00:48:25.940 --> 00:48:26.880
BJ Dixon's
1518
00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:27.400
she didn't stand
1519
00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:27.920
on my favorite
1520
00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:28.540
women's wrestlers
1521
00:48:28.540 --> 00:48:29.160
right now.
1522
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:30.040
Can't wait to
1523
00:48:30.040 --> 00:48:30.620
see what
1524
00:48:30.620 --> 00:48:31.320
twist and turns
1525
00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:32.200
the storyline
1526
00:48:32.200 --> 00:48:33.160
will take them.
1527
00:48:33.260 --> 00:48:33.620
Me neither,
1528
00:48:33.820 --> 00:48:34.000
man.
1529
00:48:34.240 --> 00:48:35.020
I'm really,
1530
00:48:35.020 --> 00:48:35.960
really enjoying it.
1531
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:36.580
I'm really
1532
00:48:36.580 --> 00:48:37.520
enjoying it.
1533
00:48:37.600 --> 00:48:38.080
BJ ads.
1534
00:48:38.100 --> 00:48:38.760
He's a huge
1535
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:39.200
sheet of mark,
1536
00:48:39.200 --> 00:48:39.560
by the way.
1537
00:48:39.600 --> 00:48:39.980
How can,
1538
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:40.960
how can you
1539
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:41.740
not be a huge
1540
00:48:41.740 --> 00:48:42.400
sheet of mark,
1541
00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:42.840
right?
1542
00:48:43.200 --> 00:48:44.160
Like she's
1543
00:48:44.160 --> 00:48:45.260
fucking fantastic.
1544
00:48:45.940 --> 00:48:46.700
Um, and,
1545
00:48:46.720 --> 00:48:47.940
and it's so
1546
00:48:47.940 --> 00:48:49.080
great to see her
1547
00:48:49.080 --> 00:48:49.940
show everything
1548
00:48:49.940 --> 00:48:50.600
she can do,
1549
00:48:50.640 --> 00:48:51.240
you know,
1550
00:48:51.460 --> 00:48:52.300
so much fun.
1551
00:48:54.270 --> 00:48:54.970
I love,
1552
00:48:56.030 --> 00:48:56.450
we're switching,
1553
00:48:56.770 --> 00:48:57.530
switching topics.
1554
00:48:58.570 --> 00:48:59.450
I love,
1555
00:48:59.450 --> 00:49:00.330
this is going to
1556
00:49:00.330 --> 00:49:00.810
sound weird.
1557
00:49:01.090 --> 00:49:01.770
When wrestlers
1558
00:49:01.770 --> 00:49:02.970
have their own
1559
00:49:02.970 --> 00:49:03.490
realms.
1560
00:49:04.270 --> 00:49:04.450
Okay.
1561
00:49:04.450 --> 00:49:05.430
It happens a
1562
00:49:05.430 --> 00:49:06.550
little bit.
1563
00:49:07.390 --> 00:49:08.030
Like I would say
1564
00:49:08.030 --> 00:49:08.530
for the death
1565
00:49:08.530 --> 00:49:08.710
writers,
1566
00:49:08.730 --> 00:49:09.590
the backstage,
1567
00:49:09.930 --> 00:49:10.610
like the,
1568
00:49:10.610 --> 00:49:11.890
the kind of
1569
00:49:11.890 --> 00:49:12.390
boiler room
1570
00:49:12.390 --> 00:49:12.650
area,
1571
00:49:12.750 --> 00:49:13.550
that's their realm.
1572
00:49:13.750 --> 00:49:14.150
They're always
1573
00:49:14.150 --> 00:49:14.830
filmed in that
1574
00:49:14.830 --> 00:49:15.410
one area.
1575
00:49:15.730 --> 00:49:16.590
The outrunners
1576
00:49:16.590 --> 00:49:17.570
kind of live in
1577
00:49:17.570 --> 00:49:19.210
this VHS 80s
1578
00:49:19.210 --> 00:49:19.650
realm when they
1579
00:49:19.650 --> 00:49:19.990
do their
1580
00:49:19.990 --> 00:49:20.550
pre-tapes
1581
00:49:20.550 --> 00:49:21.110
or whatever.
1582
00:49:22.310 --> 00:49:22.430
Well,
1583
00:49:22.490 --> 00:49:23.490
Bandido has his
1584
00:49:23.490 --> 00:49:23.910
own realm
1585
00:49:23.910 --> 00:49:24.450
right now,
1586
00:49:24.590 --> 00:49:24.930
and it's a
1587
00:49:24.930 --> 00:49:25.190
spaghetti
1588
00:49:25.190 --> 00:49:26.070
western realm.
1589
00:49:27.390 --> 00:49:28.930
And craftily,
1590
00:49:29.210 --> 00:49:29.710
AEW,
1591
00:49:29.750 --> 00:49:30.830
it was while I
1592
00:49:30.830 --> 00:49:31.390
was at
1593
00:49:31.390 --> 00:49:32.290
the Dynamite
1594
00:49:32.290 --> 00:49:32.710
in Everett,
1595
00:49:32.710 --> 00:49:33.030
I think it
1596
00:49:33.030 --> 00:49:33.790
was actually on
1597
00:49:33.790 --> 00:49:34.070
collision,
1598
00:49:34.110 --> 00:49:34.730
but they showed
1599
00:49:34.730 --> 00:49:35.930
kind of a
1600
00:49:35.930 --> 00:49:36.670
montage of all
1601
00:49:36.670 --> 00:49:38.110
those Bandido
1602
00:49:38.110 --> 00:49:39.250
vignettes that
1603
00:49:39.250 --> 00:49:39.730
they had done
1604
00:49:39.730 --> 00:49:40.070
in the
1605
00:49:40.070 --> 00:49:40.730
spaghetti western
1606
00:49:40.730 --> 00:49:41.050
realm,
1607
00:49:41.230 --> 00:49:41.830
right?
1608
00:49:42.950 --> 00:49:43.730
And they did
1609
00:49:43.730 --> 00:49:44.070
that a
1610
00:49:44.070 --> 00:49:45.050
couple weeks ago.
1611
00:49:45.310 --> 00:49:46.430
And then this
1612
00:49:46.430 --> 00:49:46.890
week,
1613
00:49:47.250 --> 00:49:47.970
we see that
1614
00:49:47.970 --> 00:49:49.090
little realm again,
1615
00:49:49.130 --> 00:49:49.470
right?
1616
00:49:49.490 --> 00:49:50.210
The spaghetti western
1617
00:49:50.210 --> 00:49:50.690
realm that
1618
00:49:50.690 --> 00:49:51.470
Bandido's from.
1619
00:49:52.010 --> 00:49:52.510
And we heard a
1620
00:49:52.510 --> 00:49:53.190
lot of screaming
1621
00:49:53.190 --> 00:49:53.950
and wailing from
1622
00:49:53.950 --> 00:49:54.870
the broken bodies
1623
00:49:54.870 --> 00:49:55.530
of those who
1624
00:49:55.530 --> 00:49:55.870
must have
1625
00:49:55.870 --> 00:49:56.750
opposed Bandido
1626
00:49:56.750 --> 00:49:57.350
like we've
1627
00:49:57.350 --> 00:49:57.810
seen before,
1628
00:49:59.610 --> 00:50:00.570
Except that
1629
00:50:00.570 --> 00:50:01.810
not Bandido.
1630
00:50:02.110 --> 00:50:02.450
No,
1631
00:50:02.770 --> 00:50:03.270
no, it's not
1632
00:50:03.270 --> 00:50:03.590
Bandido.
1633
00:50:03.590 --> 00:50:04.350
We saw a hand
1634
00:50:04.350 --> 00:50:04.770
reach down
1635
00:50:04.770 --> 00:50:05.250
there and we
1636
00:50:05.250 --> 00:50:05.550
knew it
1637
00:50:05.550 --> 00:50:06.370
wasn't Bandido
1638
00:50:06.370 --> 00:50:07.210
and grab
1639
00:50:07.210 --> 00:50:07.930
his most
1640
00:50:07.930 --> 00:50:08.590
wanted poster
1641
00:50:08.590 --> 00:50:09.210
and hold it up
1642
00:50:09.210 --> 00:50:10.050
to his face
1643
00:50:10.050 --> 00:50:11.090
and it was
1644
00:50:11.090 --> 00:50:11.710
fucking
1645
00:50:12.630 --> 00:50:13.190
swerve.
1646
00:50:13.810 --> 00:50:14.370
What?
1647
00:50:16.770 --> 00:50:17.330
Swerve?
1648
00:50:17.510 --> 00:50:18.450
And Bandido?
1649
00:50:18.850 --> 00:50:19.450
And Nana was
1650
00:50:19.450 --> 00:50:19.890
there?
1651
00:50:20.510 --> 00:50:20.890
And they
1652
00:50:20.890 --> 00:50:21.430
lit that shit
1653
00:50:21.430 --> 00:50:21.770
on fire.
1654
00:50:21.890 --> 00:50:22.250
That wanted
1655
00:50:22.250 --> 00:50:22.750
poster of
1656
00:50:22.750 --> 00:50:23.170
Bandido
1657
00:50:23.170 --> 00:50:24.190
got lit the
1658
00:50:24.190 --> 00:50:24.670
fuck on
1659
00:50:24.670 --> 00:50:24.910
fire.
1660
00:50:25.250 --> 00:50:26.150
People, what is
1661
00:50:26.150 --> 00:50:27.110
happening right now?
1662
00:50:27.790 --> 00:50:28.390
These are the
1663
00:50:28.390 --> 00:50:28.810
kind of dream
1664
00:50:28.810 --> 00:50:29.330
matches I
1665
00:50:29.330 --> 00:50:29.930
haven't even
1666
00:50:29.930 --> 00:50:30.730
had time to
1667
00:50:30.730 --> 00:50:31.630
think about yet
1668
00:50:31.630 --> 00:50:32.430
because they seem
1669
00:50:32.430 --> 00:50:32.970
kind of far
1670
00:50:32.970 --> 00:50:33.870
off and then
1671
00:50:33.870 --> 00:50:34.670
they just
1672
00:50:34.670 --> 00:50:35.410
get announced
1673
00:50:35.410 --> 00:50:36.270
and they just
1674
00:50:36.270 --> 00:50:37.130
or they just
1675
00:50:37.130 --> 00:50:37.770
happen or they're
1676
00:50:37.770 --> 00:50:38.850
teased or whatever.
1677
00:50:39.890 --> 00:50:40.290
But we're
1678
00:50:40.290 --> 00:50:40.590
going to
1679
00:50:40.590 --> 00:50:41.010
Bandido
1680
00:50:41.010 --> 00:50:41.610
and swerve
1681
00:50:41.610 --> 00:50:41.790
next.
1682
00:50:41.930 --> 00:50:42.590
Are you fucking
1683
00:50:42.590 --> 00:50:43.350
crazy?
1684
00:50:44.470 --> 00:50:45.050
That is
1685
00:50:45.050 --> 00:50:45.630
insane.
1686
00:50:46.650 --> 00:50:47.250
That's how I
1687
00:50:47.250 --> 00:50:47.670
felt when they
1688
00:50:47.670 --> 00:50:47.850
announced
1689
00:50:47.850 --> 00:50:48.410
Bandido
1690
00:50:48.410 --> 00:50:49.070
and Andrade
1691
00:50:49.070 --> 00:50:49.830
Revolution.
1692
00:50:50.010 --> 00:50:50.650
Like, are you
1693
00:50:50.650 --> 00:50:51.450
kidding me?
1694
00:50:51.810 --> 00:50:52.390
We're going to do
1695
00:50:52.390 --> 00:50:52.970
this?
1696
00:50:54.910 --> 00:50:55.510
And then I got
1697
00:50:55.510 --> 00:50:55.910
to thinking,
1698
00:50:55.910 --> 00:50:56.570
is swerve
1699
00:50:56.570 --> 00:50:57.130
going to challenge
1700
00:50:57.130 --> 00:50:57.550
for the
1701
00:50:57.550 --> 00:50:58.370
ROH title?
1702
00:50:59.250 --> 00:50:59.930
Because Bandido
1703
00:50:59.930 --> 00:51:00.390
is already
1704
00:51:00.390 --> 00:51:01.490
booked against
1705
00:51:01.490 --> 00:51:02.090
Blake Christian
1706
00:51:02.090 --> 00:51:02.690
for Supercard
1707
00:51:02.690 --> 00:51:02.950
of Honor
1708
00:51:02.950 --> 00:51:04.190
on the 15th,
1709
00:51:04.190 --> 00:51:04.610
which is
1710
00:51:04.610 --> 00:51:05.150
before double
1711
00:51:05.150 --> 00:51:05.770
or nothing.
1712
00:51:09.240 --> 00:51:09.580
Kind of
1713
00:51:09.580 --> 00:51:10.260
interesting.
1714
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:12.320
Kind of
1715
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:13.060
interesting.
1716
00:51:13.700 --> 00:51:14.420
Tina says,
1717
00:51:15.380 --> 00:51:15.920
I don't know
1718
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:16.440
what swerve's
1719
00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:16.800
beef is
1720
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:17.360
with Bandido.
1721
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:18.160
I just know
1722
00:51:18.160 --> 00:51:18.920
it's going to
1723
00:51:18.920 --> 00:51:19.460
be awesome.
1724
00:51:20.260 --> 00:51:21.220
Yeah, I have
1725
00:51:21.220 --> 00:51:21.680
faith in them
1726
00:51:21.680 --> 00:51:22.280
to tell that
1727
00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:22.780
story, whatever
1728
00:51:22.780 --> 00:51:23.480
it's going to be,
1729
00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:24.080
right?
1730
00:51:24.520 --> 00:51:25.160
But that's my
1731
00:51:25.160 --> 00:51:25.640
question.
1732
00:51:26.980 --> 00:51:27.940
So is
1733
00:51:27.940 --> 00:51:28.800
it possible
1734
00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:29.440
that swerve
1735
00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:29.900
fucks with
1736
00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:30.480
Bandido
1737
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:31.840
at Supercard
1738
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:32.180
of Honor
1739
00:51:32.180 --> 00:51:32.720
and cost him
1740
00:51:32.720 --> 00:51:33.100
the title
1741
00:51:33.100 --> 00:51:33.880
to Blake Christian
1742
00:51:34.520 --> 00:51:35.240
so that
1743
00:51:35.240 --> 00:51:35.560
Bandido
1744
00:51:35.560 --> 00:51:35.840
can be
1745
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:36.760
full-time
1746
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:37.680
AEW?
1747
00:51:38.060 --> 00:51:38.800
Because I just
1748
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:39.920
don't see
1749
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:40.680
swerve winning
1750
00:51:40.680 --> 00:51:41.380
the ROH
1751
00:51:41.380 --> 00:51:41.840
title in
1752
00:51:41.840 --> 00:51:42.140
wrestling
1753
00:51:42.140 --> 00:51:42.800
and ROH.
1754
00:51:42.900 --> 00:51:43.220
You know what I
1755
00:51:43.220 --> 00:51:43.340
mean?
1756
00:51:43.340 --> 00:51:44.080
Unless
1757
00:51:44.080 --> 00:51:45.200
there's huge plans
1758
00:51:45.200 --> 00:51:45.760
for ROH
1759
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:46.220
that we just
1760
00:51:46.220 --> 00:51:46.600
don't know
1761
00:51:46.600 --> 00:51:47.040
about.
1762
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:49.380
But I could
1763
00:51:49.380 --> 00:51:50.000
see swerve fucking
1764
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:50.860
over Bandido.
1765
00:51:52.580 --> 00:51:52.800
You know,
1766
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:54.000
and it's kind
1767
00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:54.460
of an easy
1768
00:51:54.460 --> 00:51:55.120
story to tell
1769
00:51:55.120 --> 00:51:56.900
because swerve
1770
00:51:56.900 --> 00:51:57.760
came to reclaim
1771
00:51:57.760 --> 00:51:58.460
his spot as
1772
00:51:58.460 --> 00:51:59.100
world champion,
1773
00:51:59.300 --> 00:51:59.540
right?
1774
00:51:59.560 --> 00:52:00.140
And then Kenny
1775
00:52:00.140 --> 00:52:00.920
beat him
1776
00:52:01.940 --> 00:52:02.860
and swerve
1777
00:52:02.860 --> 00:52:03.420
is going to
1778
00:52:03.420 --> 00:52:04.060
get resentful
1779
00:52:04.060 --> 00:52:04.580
of the people
1780
00:52:04.580 --> 00:52:05.520
climbing the ladder
1781
00:52:05.520 --> 00:52:06.220
who he
1782
00:52:06.220 --> 00:52:06.740
feels might be
1783
00:52:06.740 --> 00:52:07.200
in front of him
1784
00:52:07.200 --> 00:52:07.860
and he's going
1785
00:52:07.860 --> 00:52:08.140
to have to
1786
00:52:08.140 --> 00:52:08.920
show that
1787
00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:09.600
they're not in
1788
00:52:09.600 --> 00:52:10.000
front of him
1789
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:10.840
because he's
1790
00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:11.340
still swerve
1791
00:52:11.340 --> 00:52:11.760
Strickland.
1792
00:52:12.300 --> 00:52:13.060
I don't even
1793
00:52:13.060 --> 00:52:13.400
care about
1794
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:13.840
the outcome
1795
00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:14.380
of the match.
1796
00:52:14.380 --> 00:52:14.940
I just want to
1797
00:52:14.940 --> 00:52:15.540
see it
1798
00:52:15.540 --> 00:52:16.040
because these
1799
00:52:16.040 --> 00:52:16.540
two could do
1800
00:52:16.540 --> 00:52:17.240
insane shit
1801
00:52:17.240 --> 00:52:18.300
with each other.
1802
00:52:18.660 --> 00:52:19.440
Insane shit.
1803
00:52:24.310 --> 00:52:25.110
Let's see.
1804
00:52:25.210 --> 00:52:26.110
Skewered Universe
1805
00:52:26.770 --> 00:52:27.310
swerve in
1806
00:52:27.310 --> 00:52:27.710
Bandido
1807
00:52:27.710 --> 00:52:28.290
in a match
1808
00:52:28.290 --> 00:52:29.050
that
1809
00:52:29.050 --> 00:52:29.990
I don't know
1810
00:52:29.990 --> 00:52:30.330
what the rest
1811
00:52:30.330 --> 00:52:30.690
of that was
1812
00:52:30.690 --> 00:52:31.490
going to be.
1813
00:52:31.810 --> 00:52:36.290
Is there an
1814
00:52:36.290 --> 00:52:36.650
most wanted
1815
00:52:36.650 --> 00:52:37.270
poster I have?
1816
00:52:37.450 --> 00:52:37.550
It's a
1817
00:52:37.550 --> 00:52:38.110
hundred thousand
1818
00:52:38.110 --> 00:52:38.830
dollar reward.
1819
00:52:39.150 --> 00:52:39.510
Maybe that's
1820
00:52:39.510 --> 00:52:39.750
what he's
1821
00:52:39.750 --> 00:52:40.690
looking for.
1822
00:52:42.230 --> 00:52:43.330
We read that
1823
00:52:43.330 --> 00:52:43.710
one.
1824
00:52:44.030 --> 00:52:44.130
Also,
1825
00:52:44.270 --> 00:52:44.670
Bandido has
1826
00:52:44.670 --> 00:52:45.430
the ROH title
1827
00:52:45.430 --> 00:52:46.150
and obviously
1828
00:52:46.150 --> 00:52:46.630
Nana has
1829
00:52:46.630 --> 00:52:47.310
huge ties to
1830
00:52:47.310 --> 00:52:47.710
ROH.
1831
00:52:47.810 --> 00:52:48.950
That's interesting.
1832
00:52:49.230 --> 00:52:49.670
And the
1833
00:52:49.670 --> 00:52:50.350
embassy towel.
1834
00:52:53.190 --> 00:52:53.750
Hmm.
1835
00:52:55.250 --> 00:52:55.810
Hmm.
1836
00:52:56.050 --> 00:52:56.790
That could be
1837
00:52:56.790 --> 00:52:57.610
very interesting,
1838
00:52:57.750 --> 00:52:57.890
Blair.
1839
00:52:58.810 --> 00:52:59.930
Very interesting.
1840
00:53:00.370 --> 00:53:01.010
Skewered Universe
1841
00:53:05.630 --> 00:53:06.210
swerve in
1842
00:53:06.210 --> 00:53:06.650
Bandido
1843
00:53:06.650 --> 00:53:06.810
now.
1844
00:53:07.250 --> 00:53:07.890
Fuck yeah.
1845
00:53:08.390 --> 00:53:09.170
That would be
1846
00:53:09.170 --> 00:53:09.990
that would be
1847
00:53:09.990 --> 00:53:11.010
really like
1848
00:53:11.010 --> 00:53:11.830
a fun cinematic
1849
00:53:11.830 --> 00:53:12.190
match they
1850
00:53:12.190 --> 00:53:12.730
could do.
1851
00:53:13.110 --> 00:53:13.730
Holy shit.
1852
00:53:14.630 --> 00:53:15.010
That's
1853
00:53:15.010 --> 00:53:15.930
that's a great call.
1854
00:53:16.370 --> 00:53:16.630
Swerve in
1855
00:53:16.630 --> 00:53:17.150
Bandido is
1856
00:53:17.150 --> 00:53:17.550
the match I
1857
00:53:17.550 --> 00:53:18.230
never knew I needed.
1858
00:53:18.230 --> 00:53:18.850
Swerve could
1859
00:53:18.850 --> 00:53:19.590
hold to announce
1860
00:53:19.590 --> 00:53:20.190
ROH's
1861
00:53:20.190 --> 00:53:20.690
TV deal.
1862
00:53:21.130 --> 00:53:21.670
Yeah, BJ.
1863
00:53:21.950 --> 00:53:22.590
Yes, he could.
1864
00:53:23.190 --> 00:53:23.890
Yes, he could.
1865
00:53:24.190 --> 00:53:24.750
Tino says, I
1866
00:53:24.750 --> 00:53:25.570
think Athena may be
1867
00:53:25.570 --> 00:53:26.010
losing the belt
1868
00:53:26.010 --> 00:53:26.830
at Super Card of Honor
1869
00:53:26.830 --> 00:53:27.370
and hopefully
1870
00:53:27.370 --> 00:53:35.570
we get her in
1871
00:53:35.570 --> 00:53:35.950
ROH.
1872
00:53:36.070 --> 00:53:36.910
She's already done.
1873
00:53:37.550 --> 00:53:38.610
And really, she did
1874
00:53:38.610 --> 00:53:39.570
quite a while ago.
1875
00:53:40.110 --> 00:53:41.070
Athena, free
1876
00:53:41.070 --> 00:53:41.670
Athena.
1877
00:53:42.610 --> 00:53:42.910
Nuclear
1878
00:53:42.910 --> 00:53:43.450
Wessels X
1879
00:53:43.450 --> 00:53:44.110
Blake as
1880
00:53:44.110 --> 00:53:44.930
ROH champ would
1881
00:53:44.930 --> 00:53:45.530
be awesome.
1882
00:53:45.610 --> 00:53:46.210
I agree.
1883
00:53:46.470 --> 00:53:47.490
I think guys at that
1884
00:53:47.490 --> 00:53:48.210
level should be
1885
00:53:48.210 --> 00:53:48.950
the ones being the
1886
00:53:48.950 --> 00:53:49.470
ROH champion.
1887
00:53:49.690 --> 00:53:50.310
Have him have a
1888
00:53:50.310 --> 00:53:51.010
six month run
1889
00:53:51.010 --> 00:53:51.690
where he's just
1890
00:53:51.690 --> 00:53:53.070
this little shit head
1891
00:53:53.070 --> 00:53:54.350
that, you know,
1892
00:53:54.470 --> 00:53:55.250
keeps weaseling his
1893
00:53:55.250 --> 00:53:56.390
way through
1894
00:53:56.390 --> 00:53:56.850
and winning.
1895
00:53:57.150 --> 00:53:57.650
You know,
1896
00:53:57.670 --> 00:53:59.050
he could be great.
1897
00:54:00.930 --> 00:54:01.490
the scare glow
1898
00:54:01.490 --> 00:54:02.330
ROH might be on
1899
00:54:02.330 --> 00:54:02.930
the come up.
1900
00:54:03.030 --> 00:54:03.570
You know,
1901
00:54:03.710 --> 00:54:04.530
them moving it to
1902
00:54:04.530 --> 00:54:05.870
Florida, them
1903
00:54:05.870 --> 00:54:06.990
starting to just
1904
00:54:06.990 --> 00:54:07.810
there's a little
1905
00:54:07.810 --> 00:54:08.650
bit of a vibe
1906
00:54:08.650 --> 00:54:09.590
building up around
1907
00:54:09.590 --> 00:54:09.990
ROH.
1908
00:54:10.190 --> 00:54:10.870
The stories being
1909
00:54:10.870 --> 00:54:12.210
more congruent.
1910
00:54:13.030 --> 00:54:14.130
I think there is
1911
00:54:14.130 --> 00:54:14.910
a possibility that
1912
00:54:14.910 --> 00:54:15.410
they're on the
1913
00:54:15.410 --> 00:54:16.250
come up and that
1914
00:54:16.250 --> 00:54:16.730
maybe there's
1915
00:54:16.730 --> 00:54:17.350
something finally
1916
00:54:17.350 --> 00:54:18.490
brewing for ROH
1917
00:54:18.490 --> 00:54:19.370
with the TV deal.
1918
00:54:19.450 --> 00:54:20.390
If Swerve were to
1919
00:54:20.390 --> 00:54:21.310
win the ROH belt
1920
00:54:21.310 --> 00:54:21.750
somehow,
1921
00:54:22.650 --> 00:54:23.790
I really do think
1922
00:54:23.790 --> 00:54:24.770
they're getting a
1923
00:54:24.770 --> 00:54:25.170
TV deal.
1924
00:54:25.230 --> 00:54:25.810
That's the only
1925
00:54:25.810 --> 00:54:26.450
reason you would
1926
00:54:26.450 --> 00:54:27.110
have somebody like
1927
00:54:27.110 --> 00:54:27.770
Swerve win it.
1928
00:54:27.770 --> 00:54:28.390
He was the
1929
00:54:28.390 --> 00:54:29.370
AEW world champion
1930
00:54:29.370 --> 00:54:30.130
two years ago.
1931
00:54:30.250 --> 00:54:31.090
You know what I mean?
1932
00:54:32.490 --> 00:54:32.890
Skewered,
1933
00:54:32.970 --> 00:54:33.610
Bandito and Athena
1934
00:54:33.610 --> 00:54:34.430
need to be full-time
1935
00:54:34.430 --> 00:54:34.910
AEW.
1936
00:54:35.030 --> 00:54:35.470
Blake Christian,
1937
00:54:35.530 --> 00:54:36.070
Vanilla Baby,
1938
00:54:36.270 --> 00:54:36.770
ROH champion.
1939
00:54:36.950 --> 00:54:37.210
Yeah,
1940
00:54:37.270 --> 00:54:37.910
Bookin TK.
1941
00:54:38.410 --> 00:54:39.210
Yeah, exactly.
1942
00:54:39.370 --> 00:54:39.770
I mean,
1943
00:54:40.270 --> 00:54:40.530
look,
1944
00:54:41.590 --> 00:54:42.290
no matter how you
1945
00:54:42.290 --> 00:54:42.770
feel about him,
1946
00:54:42.770 --> 00:54:43.470
I wouldn't mind
1947
00:54:43.470 --> 00:54:44.350
if Sammy Guevara
1948
00:54:44.350 --> 00:54:45.410
was the ROH champion
1949
00:54:45.410 --> 00:54:46.090
at some point
1950
00:54:46.090 --> 00:54:47.310
or Beast Mordeaux.
1951
00:54:47.870 --> 00:54:48.770
You could even do it
1952
00:54:48.770 --> 00:54:49.610
with somebody like
1953
00:54:49.610 --> 00:54:50.430
Roush who I think
1954
00:54:50.430 --> 00:54:51.550
is on the verge
1955
00:54:51.550 --> 00:54:52.590
of something in AEW.
1956
00:54:52.670 --> 00:54:53.230
They're definitely
1957
00:54:53.230 --> 00:54:54.090
featuring him a lot
1958
00:54:54.090 --> 00:54:54.910
and I think maybe
1959
00:54:54.910 --> 00:54:55.470
they finally have
1960
00:54:55.470 --> 00:54:56.170
some plans for
1961
00:54:56.170 --> 00:54:56.470
Roush.
1962
00:54:56.590 --> 00:54:57.250
If he can stay
1963
00:54:57.250 --> 00:54:57.710
healthy,
1964
00:54:58.610 --> 00:54:59.430
that are going to
1965
00:54:59.430 --> 00:55:00.350
be pretty cool.
1966
00:55:00.790 --> 00:55:01.570
Whatever they are.
1967
00:55:01.830 --> 00:55:02.250
I would love,
1968
00:55:02.390 --> 00:55:02.870
wouldn't you love
1969
00:55:02.870 --> 00:55:03.310
to see a
1970
00:55:03.310 --> 00:55:04.370
Roush TNT title run?
1971
00:55:04.390 --> 00:55:05.430
I would love that.
1972
00:55:05.610 --> 00:55:06.130
He's so great.
1973
00:55:06.170 --> 00:55:06.870
He's just got to
1974
00:55:06.870 --> 00:55:07.750
avoid getting injured
1975
00:55:07.750 --> 00:55:08.570
and getting
1976
00:55:08.570 --> 00:55:09.250
maybe suspended
1977
00:55:09.250 --> 00:55:10.130
for actually
1978
00:55:10.130 --> 00:55:11.490
shooting on people.
1979
00:55:14.050 --> 00:55:14.630
Next topic.
1980
00:55:16.490 --> 00:55:17.270
Even though
1981
00:55:17.270 --> 00:55:18.030
we still need more
1982
00:55:18.030 --> 00:55:18.710
women's matches
1983
00:55:18.710 --> 00:55:19.430
in AEW,
1984
00:55:19.510 --> 00:55:20.210
I want to take
1985
00:55:20.210 --> 00:55:23.510
this moment to
1986
00:55:24.530 --> 00:55:25.550
so like I said,
1987
00:55:25.690 --> 00:55:26.210
something that's made me
1988
00:55:26.210 --> 00:55:26.850
a little less happy
1989
00:55:26.850 --> 00:55:27.330
has been the foot
1990
00:55:27.330 --> 00:55:28.030
coming off the gas
1991
00:55:28.030 --> 00:55:28.770
of the women's division
1992
00:55:28.770 --> 00:55:29.410
since Tony and
1993
00:55:29.410 --> 00:55:30.390
Mercedes have been gone.
1994
00:55:31.130 --> 00:55:32.150
Even with multiple
1995
00:55:32.150 --> 00:55:32.930
promos or backstage
1996
00:55:32.930 --> 00:55:33.610
segments
1997
00:55:34.890 --> 00:55:35.850
and even with
1998
00:55:35.850 --> 00:55:36.690
maybe two matches
1999
00:55:36.690 --> 00:55:37.550
on a show
2000
00:55:37.550 --> 00:55:38.490
at this point,
2001
00:55:38.550 --> 00:55:38.850
isn't that
2002
00:55:38.850 --> 00:55:39.530
the bare minimum
2003
00:55:39.530 --> 00:55:40.830
with this division?
2004
00:55:41.750 --> 00:55:42.510
But one spot
2005
00:55:42.510 --> 00:55:43.170
where I have to say
2006
00:55:43.170 --> 00:55:43.490
they've done
2007
00:55:43.490 --> 00:55:44.350
a great job
2008
00:55:44.350 --> 00:55:45.190
is the women's
2009
00:55:45.190 --> 00:55:45.790
tag division.
2010
00:55:45.910 --> 00:55:46.790
In my opinion,
2011
00:55:46.790 --> 00:55:47.410
it's one of the
2012
00:55:47.410 --> 00:55:47.990
best divisions
2013
00:55:47.990 --> 00:55:49.070
in AEW.
2014
00:55:49.070 --> 00:55:49.790
Okay?
2015
00:55:49.930 --> 00:55:50.930
And it has a lot
2016
00:55:50.930 --> 00:55:51.650
to do
2017
00:55:51.650 --> 00:55:52.730
with the tag jams.
2018
00:55:52.830 --> 00:55:53.210
Okay?
2019
00:55:53.410 --> 00:55:54.070
After seeing them
2020
00:55:54.070 --> 00:55:54.550
live and seeing
2021
00:55:54.550 --> 00:55:55.350
the crowd's response
2022
00:55:55.350 --> 00:55:55.970
to them,
2023
00:55:56.150 --> 00:55:57.170
I can tell you
2024
00:55:57.170 --> 00:55:58.330
that Divine Dominion
2025
00:55:58.330 --> 00:55:59.250
is them.
2026
00:56:00.130 --> 00:56:01.050
Holy shit.
2027
00:56:02.110 --> 00:56:03.070
The aura coming off
2028
00:56:03.070 --> 00:56:03.570
those two
2029
00:56:03.570 --> 00:56:04.630
is crazy.
2030
00:56:05.430 --> 00:56:06.110
It's crazy.
2031
00:56:07.770 --> 00:56:08.730
They need
2032
00:56:08.730 --> 00:56:09.550
somebody
2033
00:56:10.370 --> 00:56:11.550
I see in the
2034
00:56:11.550 --> 00:56:12.110
distance who's
2035
00:56:12.110 --> 00:56:12.870
being built up
2036
00:56:12.870 --> 00:56:13.310
for them
2037
00:56:13.310 --> 00:56:14.010
and might even
2038
00:56:14.010 --> 00:56:14.470
take the belts
2039
00:56:14.470 --> 00:56:14.810
from them
2040
00:56:14.810 --> 00:56:15.350
at some point,
2041
00:56:15.350 --> 00:56:15.890
but I hope it's
2042
00:56:15.890 --> 00:56:16.710
not for a while.
2043
00:56:16.710 --> 00:56:17.570
I hope it's like
2044
00:56:17.570 --> 00:56:18.470
an all-in thing,
2045
00:56:20.380 --> 00:56:21.540
but I think
2046
00:56:21.540 --> 00:56:21.960
what you're
2047
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:22.600
ultimately trying
2048
00:56:22.600 --> 00:56:23.360
to get to here,
2049
00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:24.140
if you're Tony Khan,
2050
00:56:24.380 --> 00:56:24.720
is you're trying
2051
00:56:24.720 --> 00:56:26.220
to get to
2052
00:56:26.220 --> 00:56:26.840
Divine Dominion
2053
00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:27.940
and the Brawling Birds.
2054
00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:31.160
Because those three,
2055
00:56:31.180 --> 00:56:31.920
those two teams
2056
00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:32.680
will kick the
2057
00:56:32.680 --> 00:56:33.540
living dog shit
2058
00:56:33.540 --> 00:56:34.600
out of each other.
2059
00:56:35.040 --> 00:56:35.600
Lena Cross
2060
00:56:35.600 --> 00:56:36.500
is such a
2061
00:56:36.500 --> 00:56:37.560
great fucking pickup.
2062
00:56:38.620 --> 00:56:39.700
And Megan Bain
2063
00:56:39.700 --> 00:56:41.360
is just a freak.
2064
00:56:41.560 --> 00:56:41.860
She's just
2065
00:56:41.860 --> 00:56:42.300
unbelievable.
2066
00:56:42.620 --> 00:56:43.580
Modern-day China,
2067
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:44.900
but so much
2068
00:56:44.900 --> 00:56:45.620
better than China.
2069
00:56:45.860 --> 00:56:46.360
You know what I mean?
2070
00:56:46.980 --> 00:56:47.540
Like,
2071
00:56:47.540 --> 00:56:48.320
holy shit.
2072
00:56:48.700 --> 00:56:49.400
In so many ways.
2073
00:56:49.620 --> 00:56:50.100
Megan Bain,
2074
00:56:51.500 --> 00:56:52.220
Tony needs to
2075
00:56:52.220 --> 00:56:52.880
lock these two up
2076
00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:54.120
for a long period of time.
2077
00:56:54.240 --> 00:56:55.580
I really hope he has.
2078
00:56:55.860 --> 00:56:57.220
Because they are
2079
00:56:57.220 --> 00:56:57.500
just
2080
00:56:58.000 --> 00:56:58.480
unfucking
2081
00:56:58.480 --> 00:56:59.120
believable.
2082
00:56:59.500 --> 00:57:00.300
Those two are
2083
00:57:00.300 --> 00:57:00.980
the future of
2084
00:57:00.980 --> 00:57:02.220
the AEW Women's Division
2085
00:57:02.220 --> 00:57:03.440
by my estimation.
2086
00:57:04.060 --> 00:57:05.340
They could be
2087
00:57:05.340 --> 00:57:06.280
the present
2088
00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:07.100
of that division
2089
00:57:07.100 --> 00:57:07.800
anytime.
2090
00:57:08.260 --> 00:57:08.540
Anytime.
2091
00:57:08.600 --> 00:57:09.200
Just pull the trigger,
2092
00:57:09.200 --> 00:57:09.780
it's done.
2093
00:57:10.820 --> 00:57:11.260
But yeah,
2094
00:57:11.300 --> 00:57:11.940
I think the money
2095
00:57:11.940 --> 00:57:12.900
match between
2096
00:57:12.900 --> 00:57:14.920
Divine Dominion
2097
00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:16.480
or for Divine Dominion
2098
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:17.420
is the brawling birds.
2099
00:57:17.520 --> 00:57:18.260
I cannot wait
2100
00:57:18.260 --> 00:57:19.680
to see a tag rivalry,
2101
00:57:19.700 --> 00:57:20.460
a legit one
2102
00:57:20.460 --> 00:57:21.160
between them.
2103
00:57:21.420 --> 00:57:22.180
And I can see
2104
00:57:22.180 --> 00:57:23.060
a series of matches
2105
00:57:23.060 --> 00:57:23.600
over the course
2106
00:57:23.600 --> 00:57:24.320
of a couple of
2107
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:24.680
pay-per-views
2108
00:57:24.680 --> 00:57:25.080
if they play
2109
00:57:25.080 --> 00:57:26.020
their cards right.
2110
00:57:26.500 --> 00:57:27.340
Just beating
2111
00:57:27.340 --> 00:57:27.880
the shit out
2112
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:28.340
of each other.
2113
00:57:28.680 --> 00:57:29.820
We know AEW
2114
00:57:29.820 --> 00:57:30.680
does women's
2115
00:57:30.680 --> 00:57:31.920
hardcore matches
2116
00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:33.120
so well.
2117
00:57:33.820 --> 00:57:34.220
Like,
2118
00:57:35.220 --> 00:57:36.180
I can't wait
2119
00:57:36.180 --> 00:57:36.840
to see that shit.
2120
00:57:37.080 --> 00:57:37.440
I can't wait
2121
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:37.960
to see that shit.
2122
00:57:38.040 --> 00:57:38.880
Bleary Line agrees.
2123
00:57:39.420 --> 00:57:39.980
Divine Dominion
2124
00:57:39.980 --> 00:57:40.480
have been
2125
00:57:41.020 --> 00:57:41.500
incredible
2126
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:43.280
in says like
2127
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:43.680
in-ring,
2128
00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:44.300
in-promos,
2129
00:57:44.340 --> 00:57:45.120
in-presentation.
2130
00:57:45.520 --> 00:57:45.640
Yeah.
2131
00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:46.960
But yeah,
2132
00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:47.520
a lot of people
2133
00:57:47.520 --> 00:57:48.120
have said
2134
00:57:48.120 --> 00:57:49.040
that they,
2135
00:57:49.220 --> 00:57:49.760
you know,
2136
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:50.960
with the women's division,
2137
00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:51.840
I think
2138
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:53.100
that there's
2139
00:57:53.100 --> 00:57:53.600
not enough
2140
00:57:53.600 --> 00:57:54.860
non-title rivalries.
2141
00:57:54.900 --> 00:57:55.880
There's not a lot of,
2142
00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:56.700
and there isn't,
2143
00:57:56.840 --> 00:57:57.060
right?
2144
00:57:57.480 --> 00:57:57.880
Like,
2145
00:57:57.960 --> 00:57:58.800
most of the singles
2146
00:57:58.800 --> 00:57:59.640
feuds revolve
2147
00:57:59.640 --> 00:58:00.240
around Tecla
2148
00:58:00.240 --> 00:58:01.720
or Willow.
2149
00:58:01.880 --> 00:58:02.340
The tag feuds
2150
00:58:02.340 --> 00:58:03.260
are all going to revolve
2151
00:58:03.260 --> 00:58:03.940
around the women's
2152
00:58:03.940 --> 00:58:04.760
tag titles right now,
2153
00:58:04.780 --> 00:58:05.240
right?
2154
00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:06.300
But with
2155
00:58:06.300 --> 00:58:07.300
Divine Dominion,
2156
00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:08.620
I think what you see
2157
00:58:08.620 --> 00:58:09.440
is Megan Bain's
2158
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:10.200
way more comfortable
2159
00:58:10.200 --> 00:58:10.860
cutting promos.
2160
00:58:10.980 --> 00:58:11.500
Lena Cross
2161
00:58:11.500 --> 00:58:13.120
is very comfortable
2162
00:58:13.120 --> 00:58:14.320
cutting promos.
2163
00:58:14.980 --> 00:58:15.400
And
2164
00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:15.940
like,
2165
00:58:15.940 --> 00:58:16.940
when you look at them,
2166
00:58:17.040 --> 00:58:17.240
like,
2167
00:58:17.380 --> 00:58:17.660
it's that,
2168
00:58:17.860 --> 00:58:18.200
you know,
2169
00:58:18.200 --> 00:58:18.780
it's the stupid
2170
00:58:18.780 --> 00:58:19.900
airport test thing.
2171
00:58:20.660 --> 00:58:21.300
They both just,
2172
00:58:21.600 --> 00:58:21.940
like,
2173
00:58:22.260 --> 00:58:23.420
holy shit.
2174
00:58:23.740 --> 00:58:24.280
Bleary Line says
2175
00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:25.320
bar room brawl please.
2176
00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:26.280
Holy crap.
2177
00:58:26.940 --> 00:58:27.460
BJ Dixon,
2178
00:58:27.600 --> 00:58:28.160
I'm in love
2179
00:58:28.160 --> 00:58:28.840
with Lena Cross
2180
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:29.800
and I don't know why.
2181
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:30.820
I do.
2182
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:33.340
She's incredible.
2183
00:58:33.380 --> 00:58:34.060
What can you say?
2184
00:58:34.060 --> 00:58:34.660
You know?
2185
00:58:35.380 --> 00:58:35.740
But yes,
2186
00:58:35.820 --> 00:58:37.040
so massive,
2187
00:58:37.060 --> 00:58:38.680
massive props to
2188
00:58:38.680 --> 00:58:39.760
the way they've
2189
00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:40.360
they've treated these
2190
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:41.480
tag titles so far.
2191
00:58:41.620 --> 00:58:42.680
In America,
2192
00:58:43.240 --> 00:58:44.040
specifically with
2193
00:58:44.040 --> 00:58:45.120
the most prominent
2194
00:58:45.120 --> 00:58:46.200
women's tag titles
2195
00:58:46.200 --> 00:58:47.640
in WWE,
2196
00:58:48.680 --> 00:58:49.280
they have never
2197
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:49.920
been treated like
2198
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:50.420
serious titles
2199
00:58:50.420 --> 00:58:51.200
because the men's
2200
00:58:51.200 --> 00:58:51.700
tag titles aren't
2201
00:58:51.700 --> 00:58:52.400
even treated as
2202
00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:53.060
serious titles.
2203
00:58:53.640 --> 00:58:54.200
The women's titles
2204
00:58:54.200 --> 00:58:55.660
even less so.
2205
00:58:56.060 --> 00:58:56.520
So,
2206
00:58:57.300 --> 00:58:57.860
it's
2207
00:58:57.860 --> 00:58:58.600
pretty pathetic,
2208
00:58:58.600 --> 00:58:59.440
you know?
2209
00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:00.400
And
2210
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:01.600
I have to say,
2211
00:59:01.720 --> 00:59:02.860
I have my
2212
00:59:02.860 --> 00:59:03.420
fingers crossed
2213
00:59:03.420 --> 00:59:03.960
but I didn't know
2214
00:59:03.960 --> 00:59:04.860
what to expect
2215
00:59:04.860 --> 00:59:05.480
when they announced
2216
00:59:05.480 --> 00:59:06.060
these belts.
2217
00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:07.120
I was excited
2218
00:59:07.120 --> 00:59:07.740
because I thought
2219
00:59:07.740 --> 00:59:08.380
more women would
2220
00:59:08.380 --> 00:59:08.740
be featured
2221
00:59:08.740 --> 00:59:09.560
and they have.
2222
00:59:10.420 --> 00:59:10.900
But,
2223
00:59:11.720 --> 00:59:12.520
they have surpassed
2224
00:59:12.520 --> 00:59:13.180
my expectations
2225
00:59:13.180 --> 00:59:13.840
in a whole
2226
00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:14.500
lot of ways
2227
00:59:14.500 --> 00:59:15.800
with these tag titles.
2228
00:59:15.980 --> 00:59:16.940
Just incredible stuff.
2229
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:17.960
Just
2230
00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:18.980
incredible stuff.
2231
00:59:19.660 --> 00:59:20.640
And the Scare Glow says
2232
00:59:20.640 --> 00:59:21.560
is Persephone
2233
00:59:21.560 --> 00:59:22.120
going to join
2234
00:59:22.120 --> 00:59:23.060
the Triangle of Madness
2235
00:59:23.060 --> 00:59:24.860
after being misted?
2236
00:59:25.700 --> 00:59:26.440
Sky Blue
2237
00:59:26.440 --> 00:59:28.040
certainly alluded to
2238
00:59:28.040 --> 00:59:28.540
like being
2239
00:59:28.540 --> 00:59:29.260
misted was the best
2240
00:59:29.260 --> 00:59:29.780
thing that ever
2241
00:59:29.780 --> 00:59:30.520
happened to her.
2242
00:59:30.620 --> 00:59:31.240
You know,
2243
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:32.060
they've shown Willow
2244
00:59:32.060 --> 00:59:33.040
resisting the mist,
2245
00:59:33.920 --> 00:59:34.740
but they haven't
2246
00:59:34.740 --> 00:59:35.520
really done anything
2247
00:59:35.520 --> 00:59:35.920
with the mist
2248
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:36.520
turning anybody
2249
00:59:36.520 --> 00:59:37.420
in a long time.
2250
00:59:37.780 --> 00:59:38.220
But Persephone
2251
00:59:38.220 --> 00:59:39.000
hasn't been on TV.
2252
00:59:39.080 --> 00:59:39.880
I thought Sky Blue
2253
00:59:39.880 --> 00:59:40.820
mentioning that
2254
00:59:40.820 --> 00:59:41.620
was kind of cool
2255
00:59:41.620 --> 00:59:42.780
and I would love
2256
00:59:42.780 --> 00:59:43.200
to see
2257
00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:44.060
Goth Persephone.
2258
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:45.320
Holy shit.
2259
00:59:45.640 --> 00:59:46.760
That would be awesome.
2260
00:59:47.500 --> 00:59:47.980
Awesome.
2261
00:59:48.220 --> 00:59:49.000
Persephone is
2262
00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:51.040
so fucking good.
2263
00:59:51.620 --> 00:59:52.280
Yeti Malone says
2264
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:53.040
VKM hated
2265
00:59:53.040 --> 00:59:53.800
tag team wrestling
2266
00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:54.640
because he'd have
2267
00:59:54.640 --> 00:59:55.340
to pay twice
2268
00:59:55.340 --> 00:59:55.880
as many people
2269
00:59:55.880 --> 00:59:56.580
for one match.
2270
00:59:58.320 --> 00:59:58.840
That's
2271
01:00:00.080 --> 01:00:01.120
so often
2272
01:00:01.120 --> 01:00:02.180
when you hear
2273
01:00:02.180 --> 01:00:03.140
old wrestlers
2274
01:00:03.140 --> 01:00:04.020
or old promoters
2275
01:00:04.020 --> 01:00:04.780
or whatever
2276
01:00:04.780 --> 01:00:06.000
say shit like that.
2277
01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:06.620
It's like you guys
2278
01:00:06.620 --> 01:00:07.760
are only thinking
2279
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:09.620
in the short term.
2280
01:00:09.680 --> 01:00:10.160
You're only
2281
01:00:10.160 --> 01:00:10.880
thinking about
2282
01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:11.840
the inconvenience
2283
01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:12.780
it's causing you
2284
01:00:12.780 --> 01:00:13.340
instead of
2285
01:00:13.340 --> 01:00:14.220
if I give the fans
2286
01:00:14.220 --> 01:00:15.120
exactly what they want,
2287
01:00:15.120 --> 01:00:15.680
more of them
2288
01:00:15.680 --> 01:00:16.660
will come to the shows,
2289
01:00:17.040 --> 01:00:17.560
buy merch
2290
01:00:17.560 --> 01:00:18.960
and pay for the product.
2291
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:20.280
It's such short-term
2292
01:00:20.280 --> 01:00:21.520
small-time thinking.
2293
01:00:22.520 --> 01:00:22.880
And Vince
2294
01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:23.780
was no different.
2295
01:00:24.020 --> 01:00:24.460
You know,
2296
01:00:24.460 --> 01:00:25.060
for all the ways
2297
01:00:25.060 --> 01:00:25.320
in which
2298
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:26.280
this guy is treated
2299
01:00:26.280 --> 01:00:27.480
as some fucking genius
2300
01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:28.580
for thinking so big
2301
01:00:28.580 --> 01:00:29.280
about wrestling,
2302
01:00:29.620 --> 01:00:30.160
he thought very,
2303
01:00:30.220 --> 01:00:30.820
very small
2304
01:00:30.820 --> 01:00:31.860
in so many other ways.
2305
01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:32.980
He really is
2306
01:00:32.980 --> 01:00:34.600
a very overrated brain
2307
01:00:34.600 --> 01:00:36.080
in the wrestling business.
2308
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:37.720
Big ads
2309
01:00:37.720 --> 01:00:38.580
wants evil
2310
01:00:38.580 --> 01:00:39.120
Persephone.
2311
01:00:39.720 --> 01:00:40.140
Yes.
2312
01:00:40.180 --> 01:00:40.840
What's up, buddy?
2313
01:00:41.380 --> 01:00:42.480
And always never says
2314
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:43.260
I would love a shiffer
2315
01:00:43.260 --> 01:00:43.720
Persephone.
2316
01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:44.500
I would too.
2317
01:00:44.860 --> 01:00:45.260
I would too.
2318
01:00:45.300 --> 01:00:46.020
One person
2319
01:00:46.020 --> 01:00:46.840
that it certainly
2320
01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:47.440
looks like
2321
01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:48.180
we are seeing
2322
01:00:48.180 --> 01:00:49.620
a shift for
2323
01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:51.320
is the Billy Goat,
2324
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:52.140
Will Ospreay.
2325
01:00:52.340 --> 01:00:53.220
Holy shit.
2326
01:00:53.220 --> 01:00:54.080
So
2327
01:00:55.180 --> 01:00:56.420
after that loss
2328
01:00:56.420 --> 01:00:57.880
at Double or Nothing,
2329
01:00:58.120 --> 01:00:58.900
they really made
2330
01:00:58.900 --> 01:00:59.980
the distinction clear.
2331
01:01:00.340 --> 01:01:00.860
Moxley said,
2332
01:01:01.040 --> 01:01:01.440
Ospreay,
2333
01:01:01.740 --> 01:01:01.820
you know,
2334
01:01:01.820 --> 01:01:03.460
your emotions misled you.
2335
01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:04.300
I told you
2336
01:01:04.300 --> 01:01:04.940
they were going to
2337
01:01:04.940 --> 01:01:05.520
and they did
2338
01:01:05.520 --> 01:01:06.280
and you lost.
2339
01:01:07.100 --> 01:01:08.000
If you want to be
2340
01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:09.080
the killing machine
2341
01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:10.400
that you could be
2342
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:11.260
the greatest wrestler
2343
01:01:11.260 --> 01:01:11.980
in the world,
2344
01:01:13.040 --> 01:01:14.320
you need to let it go
2345
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:15.520
and I can help you.
2346
01:01:15.780 --> 01:01:16.060
Right?
2347
01:01:16.240 --> 01:01:17.160
This week,
2348
01:01:17.460 --> 01:01:18.020
Will showed up
2349
01:01:18.020 --> 01:01:19.000
backstage with
2350
01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:19.980
the Death Riders.
2351
01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:22.100
And folks,
2352
01:01:22.100 --> 01:01:22.820
we've been talking about
2353
01:01:22.820 --> 01:01:24.160
the finger poke of doom
2354
01:01:25.080 --> 01:01:26.860
for almost 30 years.
2355
01:01:27.700 --> 01:01:28.440
And it's finally
2356
01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:29.240
been replaced
2357
01:01:29.240 --> 01:01:30.260
with the belly button
2358
01:01:30.260 --> 01:01:31.200
poke of doom.
2359
01:01:32.640 --> 01:01:34.440
When Moxley becomes aware
2360
01:01:35.540 --> 01:01:37.280
that Will is interested,
2361
01:01:38.040 --> 01:01:39.000
he gets so excited
2362
01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:39.720
like a little kid,
2363
01:01:39.720 --> 01:01:41.380
he jumps up in the air.
2364
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:44.560
This guy is just
2365
01:01:44.560 --> 01:01:45.680
what the fuck?
2366
01:01:47.120 --> 01:01:48.620
And he looks at Pac
2367
01:01:48.620 --> 01:01:48.920
and he goes,
2368
01:01:49.080 --> 01:01:50.400
and he pokes him
2369
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:51.240
in the belly button.
2370
01:01:51.240 --> 01:01:52.100
Pac is wearing
2371
01:01:52.100 --> 01:01:53.460
this white polo shirt
2372
01:01:53.460 --> 01:01:54.420
and a little cap.
2373
01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:56.500
He looks like a Jordy
2374
01:01:56.500 --> 01:01:57.300
like little
2375
01:01:57.300 --> 01:01:59.700
like a pizza delivery man
2376
01:02:00.240 --> 01:02:01.740
and mox pokes Pac
2377
01:02:01.740 --> 01:02:03.160
in the belly button
2378
01:02:03.160 --> 01:02:04.290
and Pac looks so
2379
01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:06.310
with just one facial
2380
01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:07.480
expression,
2381
01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:08.390
Pac looks so
2382
01:02:09.920 --> 01:02:11.160
just dehumanized.
2383
01:02:11.360 --> 01:02:12.980
It's so fucking funny.
2384
01:02:13.180 --> 01:02:15.060
I saw so many gifts of it.
2385
01:02:15.060 --> 01:02:16.240
It ended up being
2386
01:02:16.240 --> 01:02:17.300
the cover of this week's
2387
01:02:17.300 --> 01:02:17.780
episode because
2388
01:02:17.780 --> 01:02:19.080
it's fucking hilarious.
2389
01:02:20.660 --> 01:02:22.270
But Moxley said everything
2390
01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:23.600
that you're carrying
2391
01:02:23.600 --> 01:02:25.400
with you needs to go.
2392
01:02:25.580 --> 01:02:26.940
You need to drop it all.
2393
01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:28.120
Whatever your feelings
2394
01:02:28.120 --> 01:02:28.680
towards me,
2395
01:02:28.680 --> 01:02:30.500
you need to drop them all.
2396
01:02:32.460 --> 01:02:33.060
And Ospreay says,
2397
01:02:33.240 --> 01:02:34.480
OK, then he says,
2398
01:02:34.560 --> 01:02:35.120
where's the ring?
2399
01:02:35.120 --> 01:02:35.480
And they say,
2400
01:02:35.520 --> 01:02:36.680
oh, we don't use the ring.
2401
01:02:37.640 --> 01:02:38.540
He's got a he's got
2402
01:02:38.540 --> 01:02:39.320
to wrestle with them
2403
01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:40.300
backstage.
2404
01:02:40.980 --> 01:02:41.680
Fucking cool.
2405
01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:44.120
This could go in a
2406
01:02:44.120 --> 01:02:45.460
million directions,
2407
01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:47.060
a million different
2408
01:02:47.060 --> 01:02:49.220
directions and literally
2409
01:02:49.220 --> 01:02:49.900
any one of them
2410
01:02:49.900 --> 01:02:50.640
I would love.
2411
01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:52.300
So Will joins
2412
01:02:52.300 --> 01:02:52.920
the Death Riders.
2413
01:02:53.020 --> 01:02:53.620
That's a direction
2414
01:02:53.620 --> 01:02:54.360
they could go.
2415
01:02:56.340 --> 01:02:56.820
Will
2416
01:02:57.360 --> 01:02:58.400
learns from Mox
2417
01:02:58.400 --> 01:02:59.680
and then uses everything
2418
01:02:59.680 --> 01:03:00.460
he learned from Mox
2419
01:03:00.460 --> 01:03:01.480
to obliterate
2420
01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:02.480
the Death Riders
2421
01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:03.780
because he's not
2422
01:03:03.780 --> 01:03:05.120
let go that grudge.
2423
01:03:06.140 --> 01:03:06.880
That could be
2424
01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:07.680
cool as hell too.
2425
01:03:08.380 --> 01:03:09.400
And then he takes
2426
01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:09.940
what he's learned
2427
01:03:09.940 --> 01:03:10.920
to win the world title.
2428
01:03:11.740 --> 01:03:12.500
That could be awesome.
2429
01:03:12.780 --> 01:03:13.960
Moxley, I can see Moxley
2430
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:15.500
getting hidden bladed
2431
01:03:15.500 --> 01:03:17.100
into oblivion
2432
01:03:17.100 --> 01:03:17.940
with a big smile
2433
01:03:17.940 --> 01:03:18.580
on his face.
2434
01:03:18.580 --> 01:03:19.460
You know what I mean?
2435
01:03:20.040 --> 01:03:20.960
I could see it.
2436
01:03:21.040 --> 01:03:22.160
I could totally see it.
2437
01:03:22.560 --> 01:03:23.340
There's any number
2438
01:03:23.340 --> 01:03:23.780
of directions
2439
01:03:23.780 --> 01:03:24.420
you could go.
2440
01:03:24.820 --> 01:03:25.440
It's fucking
2441
01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:26.800
insane to me.
2442
01:03:27.460 --> 01:03:27.960
Skewered says,
2443
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:29.020
Osprey, a Death Rider?
2444
01:03:30.560 --> 01:03:31.040
Possibly.
2445
01:03:31.340 --> 01:03:31.940
Yeti Malone says
2446
01:03:31.940 --> 01:03:32.700
in Greek mythology
2447
01:03:32.700 --> 01:03:33.660
Persephone is
2448
01:03:33.660 --> 01:03:34.520
the wife of Hades
2449
01:03:34.520 --> 01:03:35.640
and Queen of the Underworld.
2450
01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:39.360
Good point.
2451
01:03:40.100 --> 01:03:41.060
Good point.
2452
01:03:41.160 --> 01:03:41.840
Skewered Universe
2453
01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:42.600
said Mox had
2454
01:03:42.600 --> 01:03:43.760
that Big Dad energy.
2455
01:03:43.980 --> 01:03:44.880
He really did.
2456
01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:46.540
He really did.
2457
01:03:47.140 --> 01:03:48.300
I love that he jumps
2458
01:03:48.300 --> 01:03:49.040
up and down.
2459
01:03:49.300 --> 01:03:50.360
He's so excited.
2460
01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:51.200
Big ads.
2461
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:51.820
My head hurts
2462
01:03:51.820 --> 01:03:52.580
with all the twists
2463
01:03:52.580 --> 01:03:53.580
and turns Moxley's
2464
01:03:53.580 --> 01:03:54.300
character has taken.
2465
01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:55.440
But here I am
2466
01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:55.940
still watching
2467
01:03:55.940 --> 01:03:56.360
and be one of
2468
01:03:56.360 --> 01:03:57.080
the most compelling
2469
01:03:57.080 --> 01:03:58.080
characters on TV.
2470
01:04:00.640 --> 01:04:01.820
Mox, he's just
2471
01:04:01.820 --> 01:04:02.320
one of the greatest
2472
01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:03.180
of all time.
2473
01:04:03.480 --> 01:04:04.340
He's a legend.
2474
01:04:05.180 --> 01:04:05.880
He's a legend.
2475
01:04:06.180 --> 01:04:06.520
He's one of
2476
01:04:06.520 --> 01:04:07.160
the best promos
2477
01:04:07.160 --> 01:04:08.100
I've ever seen.
2478
01:04:08.780 --> 01:04:10.100
Even though he's not
2479
01:04:10.100 --> 01:04:11.260
like one of my
2480
01:04:11.260 --> 01:04:12.240
top five favorites,
2481
01:04:13.600 --> 01:04:14.860
I give the man his due.
2482
01:04:15.160 --> 01:04:15.600
Utterly.
2483
01:04:15.700 --> 01:04:16.860
He is one of the greatest
2484
01:04:16.860 --> 01:04:17.320
workers.
2485
01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:18.520
One of the greatest
2486
01:04:18.520 --> 01:04:19.500
promos.
2487
01:04:19.780 --> 01:04:21.680
He's got aura for days.
2488
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:23.580
He oozes a physical
2489
01:04:23.580 --> 01:04:25.180
charisma that you can't
2490
01:04:25.180 --> 01:04:25.560
replace.
2491
01:04:26.020 --> 01:04:27.220
And you buy everything
2492
01:04:27.220 --> 01:04:28.380
he says feels real.
2493
01:04:28.520 --> 01:04:29.400
He is never a dude
2494
01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:30.040
who's acting.
2495
01:04:30.860 --> 01:04:32.420
He feels dead on
2496
01:04:32.420 --> 01:04:32.820
legit.
2497
01:04:33.120 --> 01:04:33.560
Always.
2498
01:04:33.720 --> 01:04:34.860
No matter what
2499
01:04:34.860 --> 01:04:35.740
direction his character
2500
01:04:35.740 --> 01:04:36.180
goes.
2501
01:04:36.820 --> 01:04:37.560
And that's the highest
2502
01:04:37.560 --> 01:04:38.300
compliment I think you
2503
01:04:38.300 --> 01:04:38.860
can give anybody
2504
01:04:38.860 --> 01:04:39.860
is they make you believe
2505
01:04:39.860 --> 01:04:40.620
in what you're seeing.
2506
01:04:43.290 --> 01:04:44.530
Man pokes pack
2507
01:04:44.530 --> 01:04:45.450
in the belly like that.
2508
01:04:45.450 --> 01:04:46.150
You know he's not
2509
01:04:46.150 --> 01:04:46.750
afraid of anything.
2510
01:04:47.530 --> 01:04:48.010
Exactly.
2511
01:04:48.130 --> 01:04:48.930
Pac's face.
2512
01:04:49.190 --> 01:04:49.710
Oh my God.
2513
01:04:49.910 --> 01:04:50.870
This guy's the
2514
01:04:50.870 --> 01:04:51.690
screen cap I got for
2515
01:04:51.690 --> 01:04:52.910
the cover of this
2516
01:04:52.910 --> 01:04:54.730
episode is perfect
2517
01:04:54.730 --> 01:04:55.970
because Pac looks like
2518
01:04:55.970 --> 01:04:59.720
Oh, I die.
2519
01:04:59.780 --> 01:05:00.260
You know that
2520
01:05:00.260 --> 01:05:00.860
was improvised.
2521
01:05:00.860 --> 01:05:01.420
I don't think that
2522
01:05:01.420 --> 01:05:02.260
was planned at all.
2523
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:02.840
I don't think that
2524
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:03.320
was planned.
2525
01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:04.980
And that's what you
2526
01:05:04.980 --> 01:05:06.580
would never see a silly
2527
01:05:06.580 --> 01:05:07.820
like a weird moment
2528
01:05:07.820 --> 01:05:09.100
like that in WWE.
2529
01:05:09.340 --> 01:05:10.080
They want everything
2530
01:05:10.080 --> 01:05:11.200
scripted to the
2531
01:05:11.200 --> 01:05:11.980
20th degree.
2532
01:05:11.980 --> 01:05:13.080
You know, so you
2533
01:05:13.080 --> 01:05:14.300
never see spontaneous
2534
01:05:14.300 --> 01:05:15.180
shit like that.
2535
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:16.140
That's that's why
2536
01:05:16.140 --> 01:05:16.860
the product feels
2537
01:05:16.860 --> 01:05:18.060
so weird when I see
2538
01:05:18.060 --> 01:05:18.580
it now.
2539
01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:20.060
It just feels so
2540
01:05:20.060 --> 01:05:20.740
plasticky.
2541
01:05:21.300 --> 01:05:21.960
You know, and that's
2542
01:05:21.960 --> 01:05:22.760
that's just my opinion.
2543
01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:23.440
If you like the shit,
2544
01:05:23.460 --> 01:05:23.960
that's fine.
2545
01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:25.340
But to me,
2546
01:05:25.340 --> 01:05:26.800
that's why it has
2547
01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:27.860
no interest to me
2548
01:05:27.860 --> 01:05:28.480
whatsoever.
2549
01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:30.080
Larry line mocks
2550
01:05:30.080 --> 01:05:30.920
excitedly bopping
2551
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:31.620
around because of
2552
01:05:31.620 --> 01:05:32.180
wrestling is one of
2553
01:05:32.180 --> 01:05:32.760
my favorite things.
2554
01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:34.200
Him on comms for
2555
01:05:34.200 --> 01:05:35.340
Brian versus ZSJ
2556
01:05:35.340 --> 01:05:35.820
was amazing.
2557
01:05:35.820 --> 01:05:36.840
See that was a
2558
01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:37.640
match I saw live
2559
01:05:37.640 --> 01:05:38.400
and didn't hear
2560
01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:39.100
the commentary
2561
01:05:39.100 --> 01:05:40.340
until later that
2562
01:05:40.340 --> 01:05:41.620
night and I was
2563
01:05:41.620 --> 01:05:42.060
dying.
2564
01:05:42.640 --> 01:05:44.060
Oh my God.
2565
01:05:44.560 --> 01:05:45.320
BJ Dixon says
2566
01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:46.300
I posed a question on
2567
01:05:46.300 --> 01:05:47.040
my tick tock is
2568
01:05:47.040 --> 01:05:48.020
Ospreay joining the
2569
01:05:48.020 --> 01:05:48.900
death writers or is
2570
01:05:48.900 --> 01:05:49.940
he going to implode
2571
01:05:49.940 --> 01:05:50.780
them from within?
2572
01:05:51.460 --> 01:05:52.140
This could be a
2573
01:05:52.140 --> 01:05:53.100
generational story.
2574
01:05:53.200 --> 01:05:54.160
It really could.
2575
01:05:54.500 --> 01:05:55.480
It really could.
2576
01:05:55.800 --> 01:05:58.340
He could eliminate mocks.
2577
01:05:58.380 --> 01:05:59.920
He could eliminate
2578
01:05:59.920 --> 01:06:00.760
the whole faction.
2579
01:06:01.460 --> 01:06:03.160
He could join the
2580
01:06:03.160 --> 01:06:03.780
faction and just
2581
01:06:03.780 --> 01:06:04.620
be part of it.
2582
01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:05.540
He could be mocks
2583
01:06:05.540 --> 01:06:06.020
could end up being
2584
01:06:06.020 --> 01:06:06.800
his fucking manager
2585
01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:07.440
for all I know.
2586
01:06:07.460 --> 01:06:08.260
I don't know.
2587
01:06:08.580 --> 01:06:09.340
But wherever it's
2588
01:06:09.340 --> 01:06:10.460
going, I really like it.
2589
01:06:10.460 --> 01:06:11.580
I really, really like it.
2590
01:06:11.580 --> 01:06:12.480
I'm so glad I was
2591
01:06:12.480 --> 01:06:13.240
wrong that the death
2592
01:06:13.240 --> 01:06:14.960
writers didn't break up
2593
01:06:14.960 --> 01:06:16.360
because I was dead wrong.
2594
01:06:16.660 --> 01:06:17.440
I love being wrong.
2595
01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:18.060
It's right.
2596
01:06:18.080 --> 01:06:19.260
It's a lot of fun in
2597
01:06:19.260 --> 01:06:20.180
this context.
2598
01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:22.320
In this context, not
2599
01:06:22.320 --> 01:06:23.860
not about like what
2600
01:06:23.860 --> 01:06:25.360
that about like your
2601
01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:26.180
taxes and stuff.
2602
01:06:26.220 --> 01:06:27.000
Don't be wrong about
2603
01:06:27.600 --> 01:06:28.120
that.
2604
01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:29.500
Smart ass judge.
2605
01:06:29.740 --> 01:06:30.540
How do you not
2606
01:06:30.540 --> 01:06:31.540
love WWE?
2607
01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:32.520
We'd have never seen
2608
01:06:32.520 --> 01:06:33.440
what mocks is capable
2609
01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:34.040
of period.
2610
01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:36.160
I came back to
2611
01:06:36.160 --> 01:06:38.740
WWE in 2012 and it
2612
01:06:38.740 --> 01:06:40.100
was right after the
2613
01:06:40.100 --> 01:06:40.840
formation of the
2614
01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:42.580
shield and Dean
2615
01:06:42.580 --> 01:06:43.220
Ambrose really
2616
01:06:43.220 --> 01:06:44.600
stood out to me
2617
01:06:44.600 --> 01:06:46.980
as the guy who felt
2618
01:06:46.980 --> 01:06:48.040
most like he should
2619
01:06:48.040 --> 01:06:49.040
be like a heel.
2620
01:06:50.220 --> 01:06:51.460
But as the guy who
2621
01:06:51.460 --> 01:06:53.220
like had a sense of
2622
01:06:55.840 --> 01:06:57.400
of not purpose,
2623
01:06:57.400 --> 01:06:58.240
but like I mean
2624
01:06:58.240 --> 01:06:59.240
purpose, but like a
2625
01:06:59.240 --> 01:07:00.700
sense of like Seth
2626
01:07:00.700 --> 01:07:01.820
and Roman seemed
2627
01:07:01.820 --> 01:07:02.720
like dudes who
2628
01:07:02.720 --> 01:07:03.660
were young guys who
2629
01:07:03.660 --> 01:07:04.120
didn't really know
2630
01:07:04.120 --> 01:07:04.700
what the fuck they
2631
01:07:04.700 --> 01:07:05.620
were doing yet
2632
01:07:05.620 --> 01:07:06.620
as characters.
2633
01:07:07.160 --> 01:07:07.960
And mocks was the
2634
01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:08.900
guy providing all
2635
01:07:08.900 --> 01:07:09.260
the direction.
2636
01:07:09.300 --> 01:07:10.200
He was the general.
2637
01:07:10.520 --> 01:07:11.200
You know what I mean?
2638
01:07:11.200 --> 01:07:13.400
And I liked the
2639
01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:14.180
whole time I watched
2640
01:07:14.180 --> 01:07:14.660
WWE.
2641
01:07:14.940 --> 01:07:16.480
I liked mocks a lot
2642
01:07:16.480 --> 01:07:17.480
like Dean Ambrose,
2643
01:07:17.480 --> 01:07:18.760
but I always felt
2644
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:19.760
like they screwed him.
2645
01:07:19.820 --> 01:07:20.600
They just never
2646
01:07:20.600 --> 01:07:21.240
let him do what
2647
01:07:21.240 --> 01:07:21.880
you knew he was
2648
01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:22.640
capable of.
2649
01:07:23.220 --> 01:07:24.500
But even I did
2650
01:07:24.500 --> 01:07:25.220
not know he was
2651
01:07:25.220 --> 01:07:26.120
capable of what he
2652
01:07:26.120 --> 01:07:27.100
does now.
2653
01:07:27.720 --> 01:07:28.500
I remember seeing
2654
01:07:28.500 --> 01:07:31.420
him in the G1 and
2655
01:07:31.420 --> 01:07:32.440
just being blown
2656
01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:33.280
away that this
2657
01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:33.940
guy was the same
2658
01:07:33.940 --> 01:07:34.320
guy.
2659
01:07:34.920 --> 01:07:35.920
I remember seeing him
2660
01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:36.600
in that death
2661
01:07:36.600 --> 01:07:37.400
match with Kenny
2662
01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:39.260
at full gear in
2663
01:07:39.260 --> 01:07:40.320
2019 and going
2664
01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:41.860
like, holy fucking shit.
2665
01:07:42.200 --> 01:07:42.780
Kenny showed me
2666
01:07:42.780 --> 01:07:43.540
a lot then too,
2667
01:07:43.600 --> 01:07:44.040
obviously.
2668
01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:46.820
But you just knew
2669
01:07:46.820 --> 01:07:47.600
this was just the
2670
01:07:47.600 --> 01:07:48.200
tip of the fucking
2671
01:07:48.200 --> 01:07:48.640
iceberg.
2672
01:07:49.180 --> 01:07:50.260
And with all of it,
2673
01:07:50.380 --> 01:07:51.140
with AEW,
2674
01:07:51.220 --> 01:07:51.560
with mocks,
2675
01:07:51.580 --> 01:07:51.880
with Kenny,
2676
01:07:51.980 --> 01:07:52.600
with all of it,
2677
01:07:53.040 --> 01:07:53.820
that's been true.
2678
01:07:54.080 --> 01:07:55.040
That's been absolutely
2679
01:07:56.060 --> 01:07:56.500
true.
2680
01:07:57.740 --> 01:07:59.300
Very light with the
2681
01:07:59.300 --> 01:08:00.020
best comparison.
2682
01:08:00.220 --> 01:08:00.900
Pac looks like a
2683
01:08:00.900 --> 01:08:01.660
big starling dog
2684
01:08:01.660 --> 01:08:02.280
who just got
2685
01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:03.000
booped and is now
2686
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:04.100
angry but confused.
2687
01:08:04.620 --> 01:08:05.660
Yeah, yeah,
2688
01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:06.320
exactly.
2689
01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:07.320
Exactly.
2690
01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:08.300
He got emasculated.
2691
01:08:08.700 --> 01:08:09.580
The Scare Glow Moxley
2692
01:08:09.580 --> 01:08:10.460
has said recently he
2693
01:08:10.460 --> 01:08:11.220
will not go in a
2694
01:08:11.220 --> 01:08:12.320
direction that WWE
2695
01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:12.620
would.
2696
01:08:12.780 --> 01:08:13.400
It's so refreshing.
2697
01:08:13.580 --> 01:08:14.020
It gives me so
2698
01:08:14.020 --> 01:08:14.660
much faith in his
2699
01:08:14.660 --> 01:08:15.260
decisions.
2700
01:08:15.420 --> 01:08:17.060
100 percent.
2701
01:08:17.260 --> 01:08:17.740
Blair Elyon,
2702
01:08:17.899 --> 01:08:18.500
also we need to
2703
01:08:18.500 --> 01:08:19.000
think about the
2704
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:19.779
proxy wars involved
2705
01:08:19.779 --> 01:08:20.200
with this.
2706
01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:21.800
Death Riders are
2707
01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:22.380
allied with the
2708
01:08:22.380 --> 01:08:23.439
dogs who are
2709
01:08:23.439 --> 01:08:24.080
Bullet Club.
2710
01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:25.700
Mox is part of
2711
01:08:25.700 --> 01:08:26.100
United,
2712
01:08:26.840 --> 01:08:28.380
Will is part of
2713
01:08:28.380 --> 01:08:29.160
United Empire who
2714
01:08:29.160 --> 01:08:29.960
went to a literal
2715
01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:31.160
career ending war
2716
01:08:31.160 --> 01:08:32.180
with Bullet Club
2717
01:08:32.180 --> 01:08:32.640
War Dogs.
2718
01:08:33.040 --> 01:08:34.240
Yeah, exactly.
2719
01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:35.319
Exactly.
2720
01:08:35.640 --> 01:08:36.120
I've been thinking
2721
01:08:36.120 --> 01:08:36.520
about that,
2722
01:08:36.740 --> 01:08:36.880
too.
2723
01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:37.620
And plus,
2724
01:08:38.540 --> 01:08:39.160
the United Empire
2725
01:08:39.160 --> 01:08:39.680
looks like they're
2726
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:39.939
about to
2727
01:08:39.939 --> 01:08:40.600
fucking turn on
2728
01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:41.100
Will at any
2729
01:08:41.100 --> 01:08:41.439
moment.
2730
01:08:43.060 --> 01:08:43.740
There's a lot
2731
01:08:43.740 --> 01:08:44.220
up in the
2732
01:08:44.220 --> 01:08:45.040
air right now.
2733
01:08:45.180 --> 01:08:45.840
A lot.
2734
01:08:46.200 --> 01:08:46.840
Watch out for
2735
01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:47.420
Forbidden Door.
2736
01:08:47.580 --> 01:08:48.140
Something big is
2737
01:08:48.140 --> 01:08:48.460
gonna happen
2738
01:08:48.460 --> 01:08:49.080
at Forbidden Door,
2739
01:08:51.620 --> 01:08:52.100
Security Universe,
2740
01:08:52.180 --> 01:08:52.700
I was a huge
2741
01:08:52.700 --> 01:08:53.260
fan of him in
2742
01:08:53.260 --> 01:08:53.920
WWE but
2743
01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:54.520
god damn I
2744
01:08:54.520 --> 01:08:55.040
wanted them to
2745
01:08:55.040 --> 01:08:55.420
let him off
2746
01:08:55.420 --> 01:08:56.200
the corporate leash.
2747
01:08:56.640 --> 01:08:57.200
Mox has
2748
01:08:57.200 --> 01:08:57.859
thrived being
2749
01:08:57.859 --> 01:08:58.620
given freedom.
2750
01:08:58.740 --> 01:08:59.080
Cody had
2751
01:08:59.080 --> 01:09:00.439
freedom and
2752
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:01.000
yearned for
2753
01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:02.200
the WWE handcuffs.
2754
01:09:02.340 --> 01:09:02.520
I mean,
2755
01:09:02.640 --> 01:09:03.040
yeah.
2756
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:04.420
I know.
2757
01:09:05.020 --> 01:09:05.359
I know.
2758
01:09:05.359 --> 01:09:05.720
Final
2759
01:09:05.720 --> 01:09:06.140
death
2760
01:09:06.140 --> 01:09:06.939
the nation in
2761
01:09:06.939 --> 01:09:07.319
the health
2762
01:09:07.319 --> 01:09:07.920
brother.
2763
01:09:08.399 --> 01:09:09.380
What up?
2764
01:09:09.620 --> 01:09:09.880
Person.
2765
01:09:09.899 --> 01:09:10.260
I shouldn't
2766
01:09:10.260 --> 01:09:10.920
assume gender.
2767
01:09:11.340 --> 01:09:11.479
Sorry.
2768
01:09:11.779 --> 01:09:12.160
Blurry
2769
01:09:12.160 --> 01:09:12.540
Line 7.
2770
01:09:12.620 --> 01:09:13.120
Expecting Will
2771
01:09:13.120 --> 01:09:13.359
to play
2772
01:09:13.359 --> 01:09:13.700
nice with
2773
01:09:13.700 --> 01:09:14.100
someone like
2774
01:09:14.100 --> 01:09:14.260
Gabe
2775
01:09:14.260 --> 01:09:14.540
Kid is
2776
01:09:14.540 --> 01:09:15.240
gonna be a
2777
01:09:15.240 --> 01:09:15.660
huge
2778
01:09:15.660 --> 01:09:16.520
conflict point.
2779
01:09:16.779 --> 01:09:17.200
Dogs are
2780
01:09:17.200 --> 01:09:17.680
gonna remember
2781
01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:18.260
that Ospreay
2782
01:09:18.260 --> 01:09:18.620
ended
2783
01:09:18.620 --> 01:09:19.380
Coughlin's
2784
01:09:19.380 --> 01:09:19.700
career.
2785
01:09:20.700 --> 01:09:21.979
God damn it.
2786
01:09:22.240 --> 01:09:22.800
God damn it.
2787
01:09:22.800 --> 01:09:23.840
It's also good.
2788
01:09:24.160 --> 01:09:24.760
It's also good,
2789
01:09:24.939 --> 01:09:25.300
guys.
2790
01:09:26.040 --> 01:09:26.920
It's also good.
2791
01:09:27.500 --> 01:09:27.920
And this has
2792
01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:28.240
been a great
2793
01:09:28.240 --> 01:09:28.840
episode of this
2794
01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:29.260
fucking show.
2795
01:09:29.359 --> 01:09:29.920
Thank you all
2796
01:09:29.920 --> 01:09:30.800
so fucking much.
2797
01:09:31.500 --> 01:09:31.800
I'm so
2798
01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:32.340
happy to
2799
01:09:32.340 --> 01:09:32.640
share this
2800
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:33.140
time with you
2801
01:09:33.140 --> 01:09:33.560
all.
2802
01:09:34.420 --> 01:09:35.800
Make sure you
2803
01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:37.080
follow us on
2804
01:09:37.080 --> 01:09:37.479
YouTube.
2805
01:09:37.899 --> 01:09:38.260
Make sure you
2806
01:09:38.260 --> 01:09:39.020
subscribe to us
2807
01:09:39.020 --> 01:09:39.479
on YouTube.
2808
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:40.260
Okay.
2809
01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:41.779
Click the little
2810
01:09:41.779 --> 01:09:42.840
ding-a-ling so that
2811
01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:43.399
you get notified
2812
01:09:43.399 --> 01:09:44.120
every time that
2813
01:09:44.120 --> 01:09:44.859
we go live or
2814
01:09:44.859 --> 01:09:45.740
have a new
2815
01:09:45.740 --> 01:09:46.300
video up.
2816
01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:47.420
There's always more.
2817
01:09:47.740 --> 01:09:48.840
Make sure that
2818
01:09:48.840 --> 01:09:50.180
you leave us a
2819
01:09:50.180 --> 01:09:50.760
five-star review
2820
01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:51.180
on whatever
2821
01:09:51.180 --> 01:09:52.040
podcast platforms
2822
01:09:52.040 --> 01:09:52.939
you listen to.
2823
01:09:53.819 --> 01:09:54.260
I got a
2824
01:09:54.260 --> 01:09:54.840
little more chat,
2825
01:09:54.840 --> 01:09:55.200
so I'm
2826
01:09:55.200 --> 01:09:55.440
not gonna
2827
01:09:55.440 --> 01:09:56.300
wrap it up yet.
2828
01:09:57.880 --> 01:09:58.200
Scareglow.
2829
01:09:58.240 --> 01:09:58.620
Corporate
2830
01:09:58.620 --> 01:09:59.160
wrestling is
2831
01:09:59.160 --> 01:09:59.780
absolute trash.
2832
01:09:59.820 --> 01:10:00.180
And you know
2833
01:10:00.180 --> 01:10:00.740
what's funny about
2834
01:10:00.740 --> 01:10:01.340
that Scareglow?
2835
01:10:01.460 --> 01:10:01.940
By any
2836
01:10:01.940 --> 01:10:02.340
definition,
2837
01:10:02.360 --> 01:10:03.020
AEW is
2838
01:10:03.020 --> 01:10:03.720
corporate too.
2839
01:10:04.040 --> 01:10:04.380
It's just they
2840
01:10:04.380 --> 01:10:05.220
don't act that
2841
01:10:05.220 --> 01:10:05.480
way.
2842
01:10:05.580 --> 01:10:06.280
They don't act
2843
01:10:06.280 --> 01:10:06.660
like a
2844
01:10:06.660 --> 01:10:07.100
corporate
2845
01:10:07.100 --> 01:10:07.780
wrestling
2846
01:10:08.420 --> 01:10:08.900
thing.
2847
01:10:09.020 --> 01:10:09.380
You know what I
2848
01:10:09.380 --> 01:10:09.840
mean?
2849
01:10:10.940 --> 01:10:11.660
But they've
2850
01:10:11.660 --> 01:10:11.960
got so
2851
01:10:11.960 --> 01:10:12.280
much money
2852
01:10:12.280 --> 01:10:12.760
behind them,
2853
01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:14.240
you know?
2854
01:10:16.340 --> 01:10:17.140
Final Destination.
2855
01:10:17.220 --> 01:10:17.660
You think Will
2856
01:10:17.660 --> 01:10:18.200
is gonna turn
2857
01:10:18.200 --> 01:10:18.380
heel?
2858
01:10:18.440 --> 01:10:19.980
I don't know.
2859
01:10:20.280 --> 01:10:21.120
I don't think
2860
01:10:21.120 --> 01:10:21.840
he's gonna turn
2861
01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:22.860
heel per se.
2862
01:10:23.220 --> 01:10:23.960
I can see him
2863
01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:24.480
becoming more
2864
01:10:24.480 --> 01:10:25.000
of like a
2865
01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:25.460
Roxley
2866
01:10:25.980 --> 01:10:26.380
tweener,
2867
01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:27.740
or I can see
2868
01:10:27.740 --> 01:10:28.340
him turning on the
2869
01:10:28.340 --> 01:10:28.740
Death Riders
2870
01:10:28.740 --> 01:10:29.420
and being Will
2871
01:10:29.420 --> 01:10:30.180
Ospreay and being
2872
01:10:30.180 --> 01:10:30.740
that guy
2873
01:10:30.740 --> 01:10:31.480
that he always
2874
01:10:31.480 --> 01:10:32.360
has been.
2875
01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:34.240
So many
2876
01:10:34.240 --> 01:10:34.840
seeds planted.
2877
01:10:35.580 --> 01:10:35.960
Big ads.
2878
01:10:36.060 --> 01:10:37.060
UE needs to
2879
01:10:37.060 --> 01:10:37.480
show they don't
2880
01:10:37.480 --> 01:10:37.860
need Will,
2881
01:10:37.900 --> 01:10:38.420
and Will seems
2882
01:10:38.420 --> 01:10:39.200
to be using UE
2883
01:10:39.200 --> 01:10:39.700
as the only
2884
01:10:39.700 --> 01:10:40.240
reason not to
2885
01:10:40.240 --> 01:10:40.880
go all in with
2886
01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:41.320
Death Riders.
2887
01:10:41.580 --> 01:10:42.080
It's a pretty
2888
01:10:42.080 --> 01:10:42.940
loaded situation
2889
01:10:42.940 --> 01:10:43.680
that promises
2890
01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:44.680
to result
2891
01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:45.560
in crime.
2892
01:10:46.060 --> 01:10:46.340
Yes.
2893
01:10:46.920 --> 01:10:47.340
Big ads.
2894
01:10:47.340 --> 01:10:48.260
Classic Blade wanting
2895
01:10:48.260 --> 01:10:48.860
you to play with
2896
01:10:48.860 --> 01:10:49.340
his ding-a-ling.
2897
01:10:49.540 --> 01:10:50.180
Hey now.
2898
01:10:50.620 --> 01:10:50.860
It's true,
2899
01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:52.400
but hey now.
2900
01:10:53.260 --> 01:10:53.660
Skewered,
2901
01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:54.000
if you're not
2902
01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:54.620
supporting this show,
2903
01:10:54.700 --> 01:10:55.160
what's wrong with
2904
01:10:55.160 --> 01:10:55.920
you?
2905
01:10:56.640 --> 01:10:57.440
Thank you.
2906
01:10:57.520 --> 01:10:58.040
Player Line 7,
2907
01:10:58.180 --> 01:10:58.840
I would love an
2908
01:10:58.840 --> 01:10:59.360
Alex Coughlin
2909
01:10:59.360 --> 01:11:00.100
appearance during
2910
01:11:00.100 --> 01:11:00.580
this feud as
2911
01:11:00.580 --> 01:11:01.300
someone to really
2912
01:11:01.300 --> 01:11:02.040
sell the violence
2913
01:11:02.040 --> 01:11:02.960
of bad blood
2914
01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:03.860
between everyone
2915
01:11:03.860 --> 01:11:04.240
involved,
2916
01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:05.160
and you tell
2917
01:11:05.160 --> 01:11:05.720
more of the
2918
01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:06.880
dog story too,
2919
01:11:07.140 --> 01:11:07.540
you know?
2920
01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:08.160
Because there is
2921
01:11:08.160 --> 01:11:08.580
people who
2922
01:11:08.580 --> 01:11:09.480
watch AEW
2923
01:11:09.480 --> 01:11:10.400
who never
2924
01:11:10.400 --> 01:11:11.380
watch New Japan.
2925
01:11:11.860 --> 01:11:12.580
So, you know,
2926
01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:13.800
Gabe and
2927
01:11:13.800 --> 01:11:15.040
David Finley
2928
01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:16.040
and
2929
01:11:16.040 --> 01:11:16.640
Clark are
2930
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:17.060
still like,
2931
01:11:17.100 --> 01:11:17.580
who the hell are
2932
01:11:17.580 --> 01:11:18.000
these guys?
2933
01:11:18.040 --> 01:11:18.540
They're still
2934
01:11:18.540 --> 01:11:19.480
figuring out
2935
01:11:19.480 --> 01:11:20.000
that part of
2936
01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:20.520
the storytelling.
2937
01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:23.120
The doctor said I
2938
01:11:23.120 --> 01:11:23.720
can't click
2939
01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:24.260
the ding-a-ling
2940
01:11:24.260 --> 01:11:24.660
anymore because
2941
01:11:24.660 --> 01:11:25.860
it might fall off.
2942
01:11:26.300 --> 01:11:27.060
Doctor, eh?
2943
01:11:27.560 --> 01:11:28.040
Interesting.
2944
01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:29.200
Player Line,
2945
01:11:29.400 --> 01:11:29.620
obviously
2946
01:11:29.620 --> 01:11:30.160
non-wrestling
2947
01:11:30.160 --> 01:11:30.660
role sadly.
2948
01:11:30.900 --> 01:11:31.280
Yeah,
2949
01:11:31.340 --> 01:11:31.820
Alex Coughlin
2950
01:11:31.820 --> 01:11:32.440
is not going to
2951
01:11:32.440 --> 01:11:32.880
wrestle anymore.
2952
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:33.860
What a shame.
2953
01:11:33.940 --> 01:11:34.620
He was really
2954
01:11:34.620 --> 01:11:35.380
good too.
2955
01:11:36.200 --> 01:11:36.640
All right.
2956
01:11:36.960 --> 01:11:37.560
So, yes,
2957
01:11:37.560 --> 01:11:37.920
once again,
2958
01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:38.420
make sure you
2959
01:11:38.420 --> 01:11:39.140
follow Sit Down,
2960
01:11:39.180 --> 01:11:39.400
Shut Up,
2961
01:11:39.500 --> 01:11:39.980
Mark Out on
2962
01:11:39.980 --> 01:11:40.240
YouTube.
2963
01:11:40.260 --> 01:11:40.800
Make sure you
2964
01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:41.640
follow Pro Wrestling
2965
01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:42.340
Forever on
2966
01:11:42.340 --> 01:11:42.780
YouTube.
2967
01:11:43.060 --> 01:11:43.680
That's Pro Wrestling
2968
01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:44.400
Forever Pod.
2969
01:11:44.820 --> 01:11:45.880
We just did our
2970
01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:46.720
debut episode
2971
01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:47.820
this past Monday.
2972
01:11:48.260 --> 01:11:48.840
This Monday,
2973
01:11:48.860 --> 01:11:49.280
we're going to be
2974
01:11:49.280 --> 01:11:49.700
talking about
2975
01:11:49.700 --> 01:11:50.120
factions.
2976
01:11:50.200 --> 01:11:50.680
I want to know
2977
01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:51.140
who's your
2978
01:11:51.140 --> 01:11:51.780
favorite faction.
2979
01:11:52.240 --> 01:11:53.060
What member
2980
01:11:53.060 --> 01:11:53.820
joined a
2981
01:11:53.820 --> 01:11:54.120
faction and
2982
01:11:54.120 --> 01:11:54.900
killed it for
2983
01:11:54.900 --> 01:11:55.160
you when
2984
01:11:55.160 --> 01:11:56.080
it totally
2985
01:11:56.080 --> 01:11:56.500
jumped the
2986
01:11:56.500 --> 01:11:56.800
shark?
2987
01:11:57.500 --> 01:11:58.200
What are some of
2988
01:11:58.200 --> 01:11:58.520
the best
2989
01:11:58.520 --> 01:11:59.420
faction wars
2990
01:11:59.420 --> 01:11:59.860
that you've
2991
01:11:59.860 --> 01:12:00.400
ever seen?
2992
01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:01.240
Like,
2993
01:12:01.740 --> 01:12:02.280
it wasn't even
2994
01:12:02.280 --> 01:12:02.660
a very
2995
01:12:02.660 --> 01:12:03.080
good war,
2996
01:12:03.220 --> 01:12:03.240
but,
2997
01:12:03.420 --> 01:12:03.560
like,
2998
01:12:03.560 --> 01:12:04.000
remember when
2999
01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:04.220
the
3000
01:12:04.220 --> 01:12:04.600
Shield and
3001
01:12:04.600 --> 01:12:04.820
the
3002
01:12:04.820 --> 01:12:05.100
Wyatt's
3003
01:12:05.100 --> 01:12:05.860
came face-to-face
3004
01:12:05.860 --> 01:12:06.180
for the
3005
01:12:06.180 --> 01:12:06.780
first time and
3006
01:12:06.780 --> 01:12:07.200
the crowd
3007
01:12:07.200 --> 01:12:07.680
response?
3008
01:12:07.960 --> 01:12:08.480
That was
3009
01:12:08.480 --> 01:12:09.240
something else,
3010
01:12:09.240 --> 01:12:09.560
right?
3011
01:12:10.080 --> 01:12:10.780
That should have
3012
01:12:10.780 --> 01:12:11.260
been so much
3013
01:12:11.260 --> 01:12:12.400
better, but
3014
01:12:12.400 --> 01:12:13.080
unfortunately,
3015
01:12:13.200 --> 01:12:13.340
it was
3016
01:12:13.340 --> 01:12:13.960
WWE telling
3017
01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:14.420
the story.
3018
01:12:15.100 --> 01:12:16.160
But I want to
3019
01:12:16.160 --> 01:12:16.320
know.
3020
01:12:16.400 --> 01:12:16.640
I want to
3021
01:12:16.640 --> 01:12:17.160
know everything
3022
01:12:17.160 --> 01:12:17.560
that you think
3023
01:12:17.560 --> 01:12:17.900
about it.
3024
01:12:17.900 --> 01:12:18.460
I'm going to
3025
01:12:18.460 --> 01:12:19.040
tell you what I
3026
01:12:19.040 --> 01:12:19.360
think the
3027
01:12:19.360 --> 01:12:20.180
history of
3028
01:12:20.180 --> 01:12:20.680
factions and
3029
01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:21.140
wrestling is.
3030
01:12:21.220 --> 01:12:21.360
I'm going to
3031
01:12:21.360 --> 01:12:21.580
be doing
3032
01:12:21.580 --> 01:12:22.120
some research
3033
01:12:22.120 --> 01:12:22.620
this weekend.
3034
01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:23.100
We're going
3035
01:12:23.100 --> 01:12:23.820
to have a
3036
01:12:23.820 --> 01:12:24.240
very
3037
01:12:24.240 --> 01:12:25.260
good goddamn
3038
01:12:25.260 --> 01:12:25.920
time.
3039
01:12:27.460 --> 01:12:27.820
Hornswoggle
3040
01:12:27.820 --> 01:12:28.120
is going to
3041
01:12:28.120 --> 01:12:28.560
feature on this
3042
01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:28.880
list.
3043
01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:30.360
Surely, he
3044
01:12:30.360 --> 01:12:30.840
joined like
3045
01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:31.200
every faction.
3046
01:12:31.360 --> 01:12:31.640
It's true.
3047
01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:31.980
He did.
3048
01:12:32.080 --> 01:12:32.340
He even
3049
01:12:32.340 --> 01:12:32.620
joined the
3050
01:12:32.620 --> 01:12:33.100
McMahons at
3051
01:12:33.100 --> 01:12:33.460
one point.
3052
01:12:33.660 --> 01:12:34.000
Are they a
3053
01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:34.200
faction?
3054
01:12:34.400 --> 01:12:34.560
They're a
3055
01:12:34.560 --> 01:12:34.840
faction.
3056
01:12:35.840 --> 01:12:36.360
All right, guys.
3057
01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:37.540
Well, until
3058
01:12:37.540 --> 01:12:38.260
next time,
3059
01:12:38.780 --> 01:12:39.180
I'm Blade
3060
01:12:39.180 --> 01:12:39.760
Daily,
3061
01:12:40.480 --> 01:12:41.200
pro wrestling
3062
01:12:41.980 --> 01:12:42.340
forever.
