C-M-F-T-DRAMA | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #705 – 8/17/23

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It's stupid up. Welcome everybody.
Welcome to this week's EDI and this st

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realto Show, episode number seven hundred
and five for August seventeen, twenty twenty

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three. Welcome to this week's edition
of ass R to You. I am

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one after show. I am Jeff
Peck joined every single week front Go soone

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only Dtor Trey Franklin Doctor Trey.
Rememberin I said that there was no drama

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going on in a w my friend
wait, im my fan room. Collision

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Now, yeah, I think so. I think they may have just sent

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doctor Trey home, and by the
end of this episode, they may be

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sending me home. Welcome to this
week's edition of sr tu H. It

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was within the last month I felt
like that we spoke about see him Punk.

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He seemed rejuvenated. We didn't hear
any bad stories. Maybe it leads

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to them feuding with the elite.
And then Collision happened on Saturday. Tons

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of cmpunk. Drama and controversy has
come off of this past week's edition of

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Collision, and it didn't even air
on television. It's what it took place.

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After the camera stop rolling as cmpunk
cut a promo after Collision, going

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off the air taking shots at Hangman
Page. That wasn't approved by aw nor

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was it a quote work Sampunk took
shots at Hangman page for merchandise sales,

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toy sales. It was a very
weird line and segment on paragraph that he

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went off on about Hangman Page.
I gotta be honest, came out of

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nowhere. Seemed very desperate, and
it appears that it opened up the floodgates

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Doctor Trey to a whole bunch of
stuff which I spent a good portion of

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the afternoon preparing for this week position
the podcast timelining everything. So I'm going

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to get to the floodgates. But
the initial, I guess pipe bomb that

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set it all off was Cmpunk's weird
after show promo on Hangman Page. It

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just seemed unnecessary. Yeah. The
funny thing is so like, you know,

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pull back the card. We're actually
recording on Wednesday. Do you know

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where Dynamite is tonight? No?
I don't actually Huntsville, Alabama. Wow,

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Doctor Trey Man, you missed out, Bud, I know, I

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know. And then when my buddy's
just texted me, he was like,

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Hey, they're about to ring the
bell, and I'm like Yeah, they'll

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lake slap on the ring bell,
so don't worry about it, You'll hear

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it. But are we really surprised
about I mean, hey, I'm not

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really surprised about drama from AW and
B really not surprised that it's circling around

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cmpunk, because the amazing thing is
is that, you know, you and

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I have been doing this show for
a very very long time. We have

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been fans of cmpunk the performer for
longer than this show has been on the

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air, and it just seems like
that the last decade that just drama kind

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of follows him. And you know, he's arguably the biggest name in AW

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and he's kind of the lightning rod. So if he does something, we're

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gonna hear about it, because I
mean, really, before a couple of

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days ago, he had anybody really
heard of Nick Nemuth before a couple of

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days ago, Ryan, Ryan that
Nick is actually Dolph Siegler. Oh yeah,

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my bad seat that just she goes
to show you remember NICKI Nicky.

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Yes, it's only because I also
saw him on being the Elite the other

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day, so that was on being
the Elite. Yeah, but you know,

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we hear these stories and it's like
everything that he does is going to

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come out in the news and whether
it's good or a bad and different.

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But the promos he's been cutting over
the last two years, some have been

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really really good and some have been
kind of weird and awkward, And this

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is kind of falls in that.
All Right, we're taking shots to the

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guy that was thinking shots at about
merch sale and toy sales and just random

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stuff like, is really anybody in
AW killing it in toy sales? Is

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anybody killing it in merch sales?
Like it's it's a different animal to be

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in the AW merch bubble than the
WW merch bubble. So like it was

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just it was unnecessary and I felt
like he did it just to get a

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reaction from the crowd. Yeah.
I mean there's definitely more to that,

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and we'll get to that here in
the timeline of events. So this off

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air promo about hanging out and page
that wasn't approved by AW was not a

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work happened, and then it just
felt like anybody that was in AW that

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was withholding information or dirt on cmpun
because they just wanted things to be okay

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and just move past what happened from
all out decided to like let every outlet

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know what was going on. So
I'm going to go through this timeline,

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Doctor Trey. At any point that
I go through this, if you want

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to stop and discuss the particular,
you know, part of this story here,

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let's get into it. I mean, there are a lot of parts

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here, and this has probably going
to dominate most of the podcasts here.

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But it's such a huge story this
week that's like mind boggling that it's it's

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it's happening again. This is where
SRTU becomes srt U m Z. So

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we're back at it again. So
following the promo, I think it was

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like literally the next day, stories
come out following that. Ryan Nemth,

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Matt Hardy, and Christopher Daniels have
all been sent home from Collision tapings due

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to see Him Punk. At this
point, Punk and Nemth had tension due

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to Nema's tweet calling cempunk quote literally
the softest man alive during his return promo

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on the first episode of Collision.
Punk and Nemath talked it out at the

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Collision taping, but Punk perceived nemothist
during the pot in the locker room Nematha

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Punk shook hands, but there were
still tension. Nemath is featured on BT

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being the Elite regularly, and Punk
confirmed Nemoth was sent home as per his

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call. Heman Page was flown in
for Collision to do a pretape interview for

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Wednesday's Dynamite, but when he got
there he was told that they would have

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to do it away from the venue
and not to go to the show.

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The belief is this was not Punk's
call, but management's call after what happened

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to Nemoth Earlier that day, Matt
Hardy was sent home due to his relationship

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with the Elite. It was perceived
Isaiah Cassidy was a casually of Hardy being

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sent home as well. Punk reportedly
said that was not his call. So

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there's really no reason right now why
Matt Hardy and Isaiah Cassidy were sent home,

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but Punk is saying that that was
not his call or people close to

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Punk. Christopher Daniels was sent home
because of his involvement from brawl Out.

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He is the head of talent relations
for a W since Ace Steele was also

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involved and not allowed to return backstage. Punk felt the same about Christopher Daniels.

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Punk reportedly said that Daniels being removed
was his call. Tonykh is still

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a big fan of seampunk and sees
him as an integral part of the company's

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business strategy. There was a report
that after Punk walked through the Current after

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his Collision return promo, Cohn was
standing up chanting sampunk in Guerrilla kind of

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Weird. It was reported that Punk's
post Collision promo on Adam Page did not

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come across how he would have liked
and felt bad afterwards. Punk reportedly personally

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apologized to Page by text message and
took shots so that there is a possibility

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to feud with the elite in the
future, so he took shots during that

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return promo to open up the door
to feud with them. Punk shots at

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Page reportedly quote an attempt to do
a comedy line that backfired. Fightful Select

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report that Punk recently gotten into an
argument with jungle Boy Jack Perry as well.

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Per the report, Punk took issue
with a spot that Perry planned on

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performing during an early episode of Collision, which took place during Aw's tour of

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Canada. Apparently, Perry wanted to
use real glass and a backstage segment and

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Punk immediately pushed back against the idea
as it was a safety hazard. The

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article also states that Tony Schivanni and
others objected to Perry using glass. The

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exchange led to an argument between Punk
and Perry, with the latter reportedly upset

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about his plans being knicks. Afterward, the company reportedly initiated guidelines to ensure

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that no performer used real glass without
receiving permission from the office beforehand, which

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is a story that we heard about
like four or five weeks ago. Now

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we know why. Furthermore, Punk
reportedly told Perry that Collision doesn't have segments

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of that ilk and invites him to
stay on aw Dynamite if you had a

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problem with it. Well. Many
people in the locker room describe the situation

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as an argument between the pair.
Punk side claimed that Perry threw a tantrum.

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All in all, though most people
agreed with Punk, as Perry's planned

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glass segment was objected to buy doctors
and others. The belief backstage at Aws

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that this entire situation needs to be
nipped in the bud right now, or

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it's going to be a giant,
terrible explosion. As per Dave Meltzer,

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So why is aw doing this.
They are doing everything they can to keep

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him happy, Dave Meltzer said,
and then Russell observe a radio show because

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quote, when you are a draw
in this business and they feel he is

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in dispensable, we're close to indispensable. They allow him to do this because

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they are trying to launch this show
Collision on Saturday, and the feeling is

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obviously that having him is more important
than having a situation where the head of

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talent relations can go to a show. Christopher Daniels obviously was again reportedly told

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to leave the lead's Collision taping at
Punk's requests. More quotes, They feel

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that it's more important to keep seeing
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on Saturday. The top draws will
always have that power. And it's a

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unique situation because of the feeling that
they're trying to get this big giant television

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deal and the Saturday shows are very, very important. They COLLETI believe that

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he needs to be on Saturday's show
or there's a great chance that the show

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will do lower numbers, and in
the long run, those lower numbers will

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mean less money when they do the
new TV contract nual, the expense of

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the locker room and everything else,
So that's the basic situation end quote.

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Meanwhile, Meltzer suggests that something else
happened between Punk and Ryan Nemoth, who

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was also reportedly removed from Saturday's collision, as we discussed earlier, outside of

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their alleged backstage confrontation in June Didially, Meltzer said that Punk has the power

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although it's not written to kick people
out of events, and then awco Tony

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Kahn gave him that ability. Lastly, Fightful Select reports that Steel A Steel

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recently met with AW president Tony Kann
about returning to wrestling in some capacity.

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Steel is still employed with a DOOT
but isn't permitted to attend shows due to

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being an insurance risk. Steel's reportedly
back in AW but is not on the

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road and is allowed to seek work
elsewhere as his contract with AWS up in

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twenty twenty four. The report mentions, but doesn't outright confirm, that Steele

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may have received back pay for the
time he was out following the altercation.

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Steele's role is reportedly focused primarily on
suggestions for creative regarding CM Punk Doctor Trey.

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That is, everything I think I
could capture from the CMFT drama that

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took place over the last four or
five days in aw your thoughts. So,

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so, you know, do you
remember the from a couple of years

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ago when we had the discussion about
you know, the EVPs or ny I

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was kind of stripping some powers away
from the EVP and you know, the

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buck stops with me and I make
all the decisions. And we heard that,

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we heard that. It doesn't feel
like that's the case anymore. It

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feels like Tony's running Collision. I
mean, Tony's running Dynamite and Punk is

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running Collision like they've it feels like
I would say, is running Dynamite.

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Well, but and the rest of
the roster. Yeah, but the booking

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decisions are from Tony Kahn. That
was what it was. That's what was

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said by melting the past. And
now you look at Collision the booking powers

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with them Punk. If he doesn't
want somebody on that show, he's gonna

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send them home. And it now
sending Ryan Nemath home because you don't really

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get along with them that well,
not a huge blow like Ryan's Ryan's a

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good wrestler, but he's not you
know, top of the pecking order,

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so to speak. But when you
said to Matt Hardy at home, that's

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going to get some attention. Now
it may have been its called, it

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may not have been his call,
you know, sending home the head of

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talent relations, Well, like,
does that mean just to clarify there,

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because it does get lost in the
shuffle of everything that I just went through.

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Punk is saying that he did not
send Matt Hardy home. Yes,

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that's why. That's why I say
whether he did or not, you know,

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because Matt Hardy still very popular among
fans. I would say to defend

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Punk. I mean Punk, If
if him or close to him is saying

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like, this is who he sent
home, this is who he didn't send

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home. If he's owning some of
those, I don't think we can say

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personally speaking that it may he may
or may not have sent Matt Hardy home,

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you know what I mean. So
we'll take Matt Hardy out of the

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equation, you know. But but
still to send Now, once again,

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I know Chris Rodaniels was the head
of talent Relations, but then I think

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Chiovanni's the assistant head or co head. I'm not really dynamic, but they're

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both in talent relations. Yeah,
but to send the perceives head of talent

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relations home from an aid you show
is a ballsy and b shows that punk

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has more stroke than management. Like
that is crazy to me. So I'm

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like that blew me away now arguing
a jungle with Jack Perry not surprising.

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Two different trains of thought, two
different schools of thought, and you know,

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the veterans, the doctors, Chiovanni, every else goes, yeah,

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we don't want to use real glass
here. Do you not remember, like

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I was gonna say, do you
remember having to Bill Goldberg smashing in a

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car window? But then again,
I don't know Jack Perry was alive when

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Goldberg smashed in the car window and
seven and Artery in his arm, I

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don't think. Yeah, so that's
just like a long standing rule for the

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last like twenty five years. And
hell, he might have been in the

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womb or he was he was he
was born in ninety seven, Jack Perry,

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Yeah, so he's like a year
old when that happened. But that's

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why we really haven't done that in
the last twenty some odd years. So

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I could understand and there being a
battle, and honestly, I can totally

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see Jack Perry three at temperate tantrum, Like that's not shocking to me,

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but it does. It does feel
odd that some of this stuff happened in

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June. Some of this stuff happened, you know, before the promo.

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It didn't come out, but it
kind of feels like, you know,

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Punk did something, Oh I gotta
go tattle on him. It feels like,

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you know, it's it's one of
those things where like, oh,

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I'm mad at him. I need
to go tattle on him for all this

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little stuff he did. So,
I mean some of the stuff I understand,

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some of why I don't understand,
but you know, the like like

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he were saying earlier about like Punk
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We used it a story last week
on Roman Reigns has say so over

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who beats him for a belt,
Like, if you're a draw, you

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get special privileges. And it's been
that way throughout the history of wrestling,

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whether it's you know, Brett Hart
not wanted to drop the the title of

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Shawn Michaels in Canada and try to
drop at the Shamrock or Undertaker, whether

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it's Hogan pushing people down player pushing
people down. Bruno like, if you're

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the top guy, you do get
these special treatments. And that's just the

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way society is. I mean,
we've all worked for companies where the best

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sales guys make the most money and
get the most leeway, and the guys

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who aren't as good are micromanaged.
I mean that's the nature of business as

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a whole that gets so to speak. I think to me, the biggest

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thing is is this is obviously bubbled
back up again again. I mean I'll

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reiterate like, we've heard nothing we
talked about on this podcast. We've heard

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nothing since Punk return. It seemed
like all was well in aw If this

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crew was doing their thing on Saturday
and this crew is doing their things on

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Wednesday and it's equally harmony and good
creative content that's being portrayed on the shows

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on Wednesday and Saturday and carries over
to the pay per view, then we

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as Rustling fans are here for it. But the promo happens, all these

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stories start coming out and it does
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It also does not paint Tony Khan
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let's just say it right. There's
a perception that Tony Khan can be very

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markish at times, comes off as
as a mark and there's the story that

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he was chanting for punk. Whether
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Seampunk to, you know, dictate

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what the company is doing to a
degree, and I don't I don't know

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if that's the right decision. There
have been times in wrestling where performers have

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been allowed to do things that have
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And I immediately think of the stories
that you hear about with the Click

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and Sean Michaels and Jitzickmann from you
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eight, that like they were in
his ear and they had a real powerful

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voice in the behind the scenes area
where people weren't getting pushed, people weren't

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getting opportunities in the main event.
And it's reminiscent of that, and that

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was a very vulnerable time for WWE. As business got better and they had

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Steve Aust and the Rock and the
Attitude era, you never heard of these

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stories ever. Again, there's always
been stories about Triple H holding people down.

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There's been stories about John Cena holding
people down. Never really anything about

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Roman reigns, but it's you know, we hear it from time to time,

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but never to this degree. I
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the story is that in aw's own
internal eyes and Tony Kahn's eyes at his

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company year number four, it'll be
four years of dynamite in eight weeks from

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now, less than eight weeks from
now, that they are vulnerable. They

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are a vulnerable company. They're heading
into a show that will have a gate

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of probably over eighty thousand people,
which is a huge accomplimentshion for them.

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I don't know why they feel like
they're vulnerable, but they feel like since

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this brawl out situation has happened,
that they need sempunk on the roster,

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that they need cmpunk representing AW.
I don't know nor think cempunk has a

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backup plan if AW doesn't work out. I don't know if WW would welcome

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and back with open arms. You
know, we heard the story a couple

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of months ago that he went to
WWE's raw in Chicago and said hi to

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some people and made amend's specifically the
folks like them is believe that he had

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a conversation with Triple H. What
that entailed, what we won't know,

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But I mean that to me is
the biggest thing of this all, Doctor

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Tree, is that internally Awver views
themselves as vulnerable. Tony Kahn, as

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the leader, views himself as vulnerable
based on the decisions that he's allowing to

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happen from one talent. Internally in
aw it's upsetting part of the roster and

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this will not create a good working
environment again. And it's just like one

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of the things that I read,
it's a powder keg and if it's not

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nipped in the bud, and I
don't know how you nip it in the

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bud. At this point, it's
going to be one big explosion. And

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I know there's a lot of negativity
towards see him Punk right now, but

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I think that something that should not
be lost in this all is that Punk

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wants to work with the elite.
He wants to put this behind them.

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He wants to put this as a
money maker and that would in turn make

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aw better and a creative program that
people are going to tune into it because

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controversy creates cash. Is it that
bad that the elite's like, no,

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fuck this guy, we don't want
to work with him. It's it's a

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slew of different ranges of an emotions
here, doctor Try. I mean,

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this is again opening up old wounds, and it's very very strange that this

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amount of stuff is taking place in
aw right now. So you know a

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couple of things you know you mentioned
earlier. Tony kN comes off as markish

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and you can look at the four
years of this company and see that,

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like he has a shiny new toy
fetish and it's year one the elite and

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Cody whatever they say is what we
do. Year two you get Jericho and

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Moxley. And guess what Jericho and
Moxley were everywhere last year. It was

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you know when Brian Danielson came over
and Adam Cole, they were there everywhere.

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And then now it's to see him
punks show. It's like he does

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kind of get behind whatever. Like
I said, a shiny new toy he

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gets and I'm sure like if you
know, I don't know, I'm trying

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to throw a name at the wall
from w B High End. Like let's

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say seth Rawlins came available and somehow
Tony gone made him offer he couldn't refuse.

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Guess what it'd be the seth Rawlins
show. It's the new show.

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It's a new toy mentality, like
I'm gonna play with this until I get

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bored with it, move on the
next thing. The problem that happens is,

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for one, the direction of the
company constantly changes, so you don't

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create any stability because year one,
you know you and I say, here,

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it's like the Super Indie Show.
And year two it was kind of

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like, oh, look at all
these x WWE guys coming in, whether

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it's Andrada or Miro or Alis or
Black or whoever it was. And then

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year three it's like, oh my
god, the technical wrestling show. Like

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this, the wrestling is really really
great. And then now it's kind of

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like, okay, well we have
one show that's super Indie Show, and

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then we have other one that's kind
of the more traditional show. Like you

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kind of almost know don't know what
you're getting from one show to the next,

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like there's no consistency, and maybe
that's by design. Maybe back at

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they're looking back at the old days
of ww and some people loved raw for

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the storylines and all that stuff.
People love smacked down for the work rate,

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but it just kind of creates instability
everywhere. And I think now the

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wrestlers are really starting to where Tony
Kant's been their buddy, their pal,

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until hey, they show a new
toy doesn't like me. Now I'm not

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on shows, now, I'm not
working events. Now I'm just kind of

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stagging it, bouncing around. And
that's why you starting to hear these little

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rumors about people losing faith in Tony
Khn as well. And I don't know

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if vulnerable is the right word,
but it does kind of feel like they're

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on I don't want to say fit, but like they're on a teeter totter,

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like if you're selling out Wembley saing
or you putting eighty thousand people in

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Wembley stating you're not vulnerable to like
a takeover or something, but you could

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lose the locker room, or you
could lose half the locker room, or

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maybe you already have, Like how
can you play both sides of the coin

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and you go back to brawl out
And when everything first happened, that's one

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of things I said, like how
can you sit there and here Sam Punk

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say these things about the elite and
not stop him, not shut him up,

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but just nod your head like you're
in agreement. Then when something happens

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you take the other sides point of
view. It's like you're you're just trying

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to play both sides of the card. And that's not strong leadership. That's

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you know, non confrontational, passive
friend buddy, that's hanging out with you,

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just trying to be part of the
it crowds, so to speak.

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Now, we obviously don't know the
full story, and it's always possible with

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these types of reports that this is
loosely based and there may be some irregular,

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irregulartees that did not actually take place. I mean, I think we'd

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have to say that and say that
this is not gospel concrete, this is

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how it all worked out unless things
are confirmed which punk or as people have

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done and what have you. But
there may be some things with that said.

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You know, the elite just resigned
with the company for like three,

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four or five years whatever it is. It's a long term contract extension.

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This is all going on. Why
in the hell would you want to work

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for this company? I mean,
this is wild because Tony Khan is siding

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with punk and letting him do whatever
he wants. According to these reports and

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the belief of what we're seeing,
why would you want to work with somebody

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work for somebody like that, and
who is siding with someone that started a

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fight with you publicly and privately that
was basically done out in the public,

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even though they're not allowed to talk
about anything, like, how would you

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why would you want to stay in
this atmosphere? I don't. I don't

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get this, Like this is so
bizarre to me that people want to work

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at this company with this ship going
on. So think of everybody who's resigned

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recently, and the number one thing
they say is the schedule. If I

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don't have to work as hard and
I can make almost as much money not

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working as hard as the guy that
works for the company across the streets,

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yeah I'll stay here. It's work
smarter, not harder. You know.

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It's like, yeah, am I
going to get all the money that you

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know Cody getting or somebody else getting. No? But do I have to

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be on the road two hundred and
eighty five days a year. No?

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I only got to show up twice
a week. And maybe if I want

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to go work a house show,
maybe I worked and the roster split in

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half, and it's a pretty solid
split. Like so, really, I'm

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only working one day on TV and
then if I want to go to a

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house show, and I'm making still
making life changing money, and I'm referencing

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the middle of the card enough,
you know, the bottom of the card.

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Guys are just there to get exposure
and try to get noticed and try

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to get over, you know.
But look, you and I have all

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we've all been in companies we've worked
for where we're like, man, upper

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management's dumb. But hey, I'm
making a pretty good paycheck right now and

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I'm not working that hard, So
yeah, you know, and and I

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did in my business. I worked
for one company. I was working my

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tail off, killing myself, and
the other company across the town reached out

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offered me more money and I don't
have to work as hard. Well yeah,

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and I even I actually had this
conversation with my boss today and I

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told him they're me and the manager
in the Huntle area have had the same

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conversation that we worked way less hard
here than we did our previous jobs,

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so we almost feel like we're cheating
the company. At times. He's kind

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of laughed, and I'm like,
no, I'm serious, Like I feel

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weird that I'm not doing enough,
but then my numbers say I'm doing good.

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And that's kind of how it is
with the wrestling. It's like,

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hey, if we're putting up decent
numbers in the ratings and people are talking

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about us, and we don't have
to work as hard and I'm still making

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life changing money, Like unless I'm
just a WWE mark and I want and

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I want the Cody thing where I
want to get a shot at being the

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WWE champion, why would I leave. I'm making really really good money and

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I only have to work and if
I want to go it do indie shows

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or do signings. They have no
problem with that, like, yeah,

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why would I leave? Its It's
easier there and you don't have the authoritative

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voice raining down on you about Nope, we don't like that gimmick. We're

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not doing that. You know.
It's oh, oh, if you want

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to try it, go ahead.
Like it's just like the commune vibe almost,

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you know, it's like hit like
Woodstock. It's like Woodstock in sixty

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nine over there in aw at times, So it's a little bit like why

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would I leave if I don't have
to try hard? All right, So

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let's wrap this up here because we're
almost coming thirty minutes. I'm talking about

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this and started thing. But it's
so wild that this has been going on.

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So the big part of that story
is like this needs to be nipped

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in the bud or it's going to
be a terrible, big explosion or giant

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terrible explosion, I think Meltzer said. So, how do they nip this

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in the butt? If if they're
not talking to one another, they're not

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making money on television, if they're
not burying the hatchet behind the scenes,

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how is this ever going to stop? It would have to mean that somebody

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would have to leave the company,
So I mean that's one option. The

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other option, doctor right to me
is get everybody in the room. Let's

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end this shit. Okay, no
no coming and blows for the good of

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this freaking company. Let's get everybody
together and bury it. Even if we

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walk out and still hate each other
and we don't want to work with one

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another, Let's end this shit.
Elite, do you want to see AW

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grow and be successful? Yes?
See them punk? Do you want to

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see AW grow and be successful?
Yes, all right, meet in the

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middle, shake hands, move the
fuck on, because this crap brings the

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company down. The company has been
so good creatively lately. I'm excited for

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all In. I'm excited for all
Out. I know there's bitch in complaining

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about the creative for all In right
now and how they're not announcing matches or

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what have you, But nonetheless,
the company has been doing great. Doctor

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Trey, what is your suggestion to
put this shit in the back burner so

402
00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.599
that aw can move forward? Because
this is wild that this ship happening.

403
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.759
Yeah, like it's it's it's funny
because I kind of feel like I had

404
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.400
this conversation with all my friends a
day. I'm like, he's got kids.

405
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:10.559
I have kids, and I was
like referencing to you're referring to our

406
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:12.880
kids to or compare our kids to
the people on our team, And I'm

407
00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:18.640
like, if you let let the
child do something once, you can't then

408
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.079
come back the second time ago,
No, you can't do it, Well,

409
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:25.160
you already let me do it once, Like you can't take you can't

410
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:27.279
put the genie back in the bottle. And that's almost where we're at,

411
00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:34.799
Like the biggest difference with these two
companies and the last forty years of WWE,

412
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.279
there's always been a father figure,
whether it's Vince or Tripolation. Now

413
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.160
you don't want to let Dad down, you go out of your way.

414
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:49.079
Tony Kahn's not a father figure.
He's your buddy, your pal, your

415
00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:53.359
brother. You know, anybody the
sibling knows it. We've all disappointed and

416
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:56.359
pissed off our siblings at some point. But you know, you don't want

417
00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:59.799
to make Dad angry. You don't
want to make Dad mad, You don't

418
00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.359
want you don't want Dad giving that. I'm not mad, I'm disappointed talk

419
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.559
And that's where we're at right now
with this. You know, it's there's

420
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.799
no buddy taking control. And my
friend I was talking to about his team,

421
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.839
team was kind of rebelling against him
because they're in two different areas,

422
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.839
and I literally suggested, like,
you need to go to them, show

423
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:23.119
them that in order for this to
work, we have to work together.

424
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:27.720
Nobody believes we can do it.
Let's prove them wrong. And I feel

425
00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:30.240
like AW has to take that step, like you say, get them all

426
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:36.319
in a room, hash it out, create that US against the world mentality,

427
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:40.039
and then figure out a way to
work together. Like in the history

428
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.920
of wrestling, there have been a
lot of feuds that made money when the

429
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:48.920
guys hated each other. It's like, this is kind of wrestling when I

430
00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:51.359
wanted, but for the sake of
the sport, for the sake of the

431
00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:53.440
company, you put your egos aside
and you do the business. We just

432
00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:56.400
saw with Riddle and Seth Rollins not
too long ago. Those guys don't like

433
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.640
each other, but they did a
nice little I have a read a couple

434
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.720
of pay per view matches and it
did decent business. Rollins and Rhads Cody

435
00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:07.160
have admitted that they have like they
don't tend to like each other, but

436
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.640
it's a healthy competition because they want
to both be the best they minute and

437
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:17.519
they respect one another. It's just
just while that we're in a generation where

438
00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:21.400
it's like bygones can't be bygones.
And from the stuff I'm reading, it

439
00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:26.720
appears Punk does want to again cannot
be lost, and they said he does

440
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.119
want to move forward, he wants
to make money, he wants to put

441
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:32.400
himself into an angle with these guys, and it just seems like the elite

442
00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:34.319
want nothing to do with it.
And I don't think they're being leaders.

443
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:38.440
If that's the case in all and
across the board, Tony Kahn is not

444
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:41.400
being a leader, Punk's not being
a leader. Members of the elite are

445
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.279
not being leaders for this company,
and those are the people that should be

446
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:49.079
because you know, when all this
drama is going on, it's affecting everybody

447
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:52.680
and it's making a do you look
really really bad in the press over the

448
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.759
last couple of days. So it's
it's mind boggling to me unless something riveting

449
00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.000
happenings on Dynamite Because as Doctor Trey
and I are recording this, Dynamites going

450
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:07.880
on that turns this into a work. Yeah, they're shooting for no reason

451
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.839
and it's just just stupid to me. It's bizarre. But here we are

452
00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:15.599
going Doctor Trey CMFT drama I like
to call it here on this week's edition

453
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:22.000
of SRTU switching gears to things that
are drama, but it's actually stuff that

454
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.720
writers have written. We'll go to
WI here. Jay usso closed out smacked

455
00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:30.799
down this past week, Super Kicking
Roman reigns Super Kicking Solo Sukoa looking like

456
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:34.680
he was going to re embrace with
his brother Jimmy, who explained why he

457
00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.440
did it. He did not want
his brother to end up like Roman Reigns.

458
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:39.920
That's why he costs him the match. Jay super kicks him, says

459
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:43.920
I'm out of the Bloodline, I'm
out of SmackDown, and I'm out of

460
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:46.279
w WE, and says deuces.
So this is the next layer, this

461
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.559
next chapter of this storyline, Doctor
Trey and the fans again, I've been

462
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:53.240
saying it. He is one of
the most captivating wrestlers and all professional wrestling

463
00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:58.440
today. That is Jausso thoughts on
how that angle played out following Summer's landing

464
00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:04.960
with Jausso in the Bloodline. Really
well done hasn't been done? I mean

465
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:08.519
the walking out of the company.
I'm done with this place. That's been

466
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:13.359
done before. The layers of it's
a little bit different, and these storylines

467
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.319
are great because what that does is
the absence makes the heart grow fonder.

468
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.400
We've always talked about the biggest poss
we hear when guys come back. You

469
00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:24.680
want to elevate Jay Husso to being
a main event guy, like a legitimate

470
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:29.240
main event guy. This is that
extra layer you can put on it.

471
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:32.359
So, like, really well done. I think the last time we really

472
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:38.279
had the walkout was yeah, yeah, and when he came back, huge

473
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:42.480
reaction. I think they tried it
with Ziggler at one point when he was

474
00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:45.400
doing the no music thing and stuff
like that, but it didn't really the

475
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:50.079
audience thing capture onto it because he
wasn't viewed in that light. But I

476
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.400
mean, you can go back to
even when they lose, re leaves,

477
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.680
town matches, things like that.
It's all a design to help get the

478
00:33:54.720 --> 00:34:00.799
baby faces over more. And this
is a perfect angle because uh, you

479
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:04.839
got the family drama, the brother
drama, the whole nine yards. It's

480
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:08.840
it's really it was a really really
good course to take when we thought,

481
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:13.199
hey, like where are they going
to go with us next? I didn't

482
00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.000
see that walk out coming, so
good job by the writers to give me

483
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:20.800
something that I can sing my teeth
and do because was unexpecting. Yeah,

484
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.079
I mean the layer to this is
I did not expect Jimmy USO not to

485
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:28.360
side with the bloodline. That was
another layer to it that I really enjoyed.

486
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.320
The walkout was not expected far to
Jimmy yusso it was reunited with the

487
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:36.760
bloodline. It was the complete one
eighty From that, his explanation made sense

488
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.719
Obviously it's not easy to cause your
brother the Universal Championship in the process as

489
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:45.760
well. So overall it's just very
well executed, very well done, and

490
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:50.679
where this goes from here leaves me
wanting to watch SmackDown on Friday, which

491
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:53.760
is the most important thing. It's
like that close out angle is it leaving

492
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:57.679
you to wanting to see what the
product is going to do next? And

493
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.119
it is great stuff all around.
Continued from the outline jus So, Jimmy

494
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:06.119
Uso, Roman Rain Siloskoa, and
of course Paul Hayman. Carrying over to

495
00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:08.400
Monday Nights, Doctor Trey, it
was looking like it was gonna be Cody

496
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:13.639
Rhodes to vie for the World Heavyweight
Championship next, but it appears to WW

497
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.280
is setting up Shinsk Nakamura to take
on Seth Freaking Rollins. We talked about

498
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:21.760
a little bit on last week's podcast. Is Shinsk the right opponent to be

499
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:29.840
Seth Freaking rollins next challenger for the
World Heavyweight Championship. It's debatable, it's

500
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:32.880
arguable, Like for me, I'm
fine with it because if you're trying to

501
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.840
establish the credibility of the World Heavyweight
Championship, I still go back to what

502
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:43.039
I said before the last PLI and
you convinced me to change my pick.

503
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:49.239
You gotta get a little bit of
time on the championship. You can't hot

504
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.320
potato a brand new title around,
because then the fans are going, is

505
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.039
this like the twenty four seven title? We're gonna get like four champions in

506
00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:59.400
three months? Because at one point
you and I talked on the show it

507
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:02.119
go from a Seth rolls the finn
Bella to Damian Priest really really quick.

508
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:07.440
Then you would have three world champions
in two days on a brand new title

509
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.599
belt. So to take somebody like
Shinske, who has credibility, who the

510
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:17.079
fans, the diehard fans love Shinsk's
last heel run I really enjoyed as well.

511
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:21.280
This is a guy that can jump
on both sides of fence. Matchup

512
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:27.000
with Seth is eccentric like Seth,
So to me, it's a good choice

513
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:31.239
if you're trying to establish a little
bit longer run for Seth. Plus,

514
00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:36.159
Seth hasn't been babyfaced that long,
and if you throw him in there with

515
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:40.360
a Cody, it splits the crowd
and you don't get that build up to

516
00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:44.079
it. To me, is it's
a good way to keep Cody out of

517
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.599
the world title picture for a little
bit longer until they go back to that

518
00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:51.559
route. So I'm fine with it. Shinzk is an excellent worker. And

519
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:57.039
look, people on here and the
other chatboard are not you know, chats

520
00:36:57.199 --> 00:37:00.840
social media. We've all bitshed about
shinsk not being in the picture for a

521
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:06.320
long time. Shinz case back in
the picture now, So kudos to Hunter

522
00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:09.360
whoever was that elevated back up and
you're starting to see that come to your

523
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:15.719
fruition with his NXT favorites, you
know, jumping more into the limelight on

524
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:17.400
the main roster, slowly but surely. Yeah, you took my next point

525
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:21.119
I was gonna ask you, is
it's very telling that where coming out of

526
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:23.480
one feud that was Finn Valor,
now the next feud is gonna be Shinska

527
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:27.960
Nakamora. It certainly feels like Triple
H is sending a message, and it's

528
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:30.800
a message I can get behind because
that NX are with those guys was phenomenal

529
00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:36.000
and I love seeing these Triple HS
guys getting an opportunity like Finn and shin

530
00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:38.880
because they deserve it. They were
not booked well since the call up from

531
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:42.880
NXT, and here they are now
shining and it's made for a very,

532
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:45.920
very fun product. So I'm excited
for Shinska Kaka More to get this opportunity

533
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.199
again. Yeah. And then even
if you look at SmackDown, the stuff

534
00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:52.280
with EO Bailey Osca, you know
all of that stuff, those are all

535
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.400
Triple H people as well. In
the women's division, you look at like

536
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:59.199
some of the others, like,
you know, we could get a Cody

537
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:02.880
Ripley, Yeah, and then we
can get Cody, Sammy and Kevin against

538
00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:08.920
Judgment Day. That's mostly Triple H
people. So it's kind of like watching

539
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:14.199
that elevation kind of comforted. We're
seeing Choppa back on TV, Bronson reads

540
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:16.280
on TV. Ricochet's getting a lot
of TV time, you know, we're

541
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.880
seeing some of the NXT guys like
Carmelo Haze, these other guys, bring

542
00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:24.159
back Gargano, let's go yeah,
well yeah, and bring back Tag Team

543
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:29.079
Wrestling full time in WW. So
it's tough. It's tough when both when

544
00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:32.239
the champions are legitimately hurt, right
now, that's the unfortunate part. Well,

545
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:37.000
we got Drew and Riddle beating the
Viking Raiders, which I wasn't really

546
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.519
a fan of, but anyway,
they love those makeshift makeshift tag teams.

547
00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:43.719
We'll have to see where they go
with the new day on this upcoming edition

548
00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.559
of Monday Night Raw real quick here
doctor for the close up shop here talking

549
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:50.960
about people that are getting a opportunity
to JD mcdonne's now being shown in this

550
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:57.360
Judgment day feud yr and a on
that. I'm a ya on it because

551
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:01.760
JD mcdonn is a fantastic wrestler.
Most people who know who he is or

552
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:06.599
know who Finn is know that there's
a tie into that because they've actually talked

553
00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:09.280
about it on NXT back in the
day when he wasn't j D mcdonna.

554
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:14.079
So and then it creates a little
bit more tension because now you feel like

555
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:21.440
it's the Dominic and Damian against the
Irish guys a little bit. So it

556
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:27.360
curates that friction as well. Maybe
a little too much JD on Monday Night,

557
00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:30.280
but overall I think it's good for
the storyline. Yeah, yeah,

558
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:32.760
I agree. It's nice to see
him to get some shine. I am

559
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:37.119
a fan of JD mcdonna at school
seeing him because it makes sense for if

560
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:42.159
you know the history to add him
into the judgment day stuff. So there

561
00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:45.440
you go. Lots of discuss here, CMFT drama leading the way, some

562
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:50.760
great stuff going on creatively in w
E on Ron SmackDown, and again just

563
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:53.599
full full on here with all the
ship with AW we discussed for most of

564
00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:58.000
the show. Aw's been doing great, and I'm excited for them to go

565
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:02.840
into All In and you know,
hopefully hopefully kill it here I mean,

566
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.320
is that is that next week?
Now all In? We get ready for

567
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.480
All In next week? Next week's
pretty sure? We do preview like we

568
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.039
do preview and prediction next week.
Yeah, wow, Okay, I'm hope.

569
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:16.280
I'm hoping we get a few more
matches in now because I don't want

570
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:20.199
to go into a preview prediction show
with like five matches. Yeah no,

571
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:22.800
that would be bad. So because
we know that show's gonna go five hours,

572
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:27.639
so we need to No, I'm
I'm with you. They need to

573
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.599
have some more matches and the card
is looking a little lackluster right now.

574
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:36.960
Not try to say, I mean
paper a couple of things even now.

575
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.159
So I mean you're getting Adam calling
MJF. That's a fantastic matchup. You're

576
00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:45.440
getting the bucks in FTR. That's
fantastic. Maybe see him punk and uh

577
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:50.440
samo Joe. Yeah. By the
way, I think if if Samoa Joe

578
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.280
loses, he'll be that's new challenger, because that's the progression you get from

579
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:58.360
Finn to Shinsk to Joe. Ok. Yeah, next thing you actually Shinsk,

580
00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:00.440
Finn and Joe. So he switched
the order a little bit. But

581
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:06.199
once again, Uh, Samojoe starring
on a show on the Peacock Network,

582
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:10.719
which you know that's where the WB
network is as well. I didn't realize.

583
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:14.559
Speaking of samo Joe, I heard
the other day on Collision. I

584
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:21.199
was watching Collision on DVR and Ian
Ricabani said that Samojoe was approaching five hundred

585
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:22.519
days and as TV Champian like that, man, that can't be right.

586
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:28.039
He just joined the company. He's
been an aw for fifteen months. Yeah,

587
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:32.480
April twenty twenty two. Yeah,
completely lost that. And then once

588
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:37.239
again it's Samoa Joe. So he
was hurt for eight of those fifteen months.

589
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:40.000
I thought he's been healthy, he's
been hurt well for a while.

590
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:45.480
He wasn't. Then it was like
he came in worked hurt, came back

591
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:50.519
TV title, didn't see him on
TV for a while, and then back

592
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:52.280
in when c Hi punk goes back
around back into the limelights. Though,

593
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:54.440
No, no, he might not
have been hurt that much. I just

594
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:59.440
I think he's doing the thing.
Yeah, and for most people, that's

595
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:01.000
not seeing it at all. Yeah, that's not seeing I'm not paying on

596
00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:05.960
our club for nine to ninety nine
month to watch four episodes of their show.

597
00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:07.559
All right, Well, that said, let's get a couple plugs and

598
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:09.800
spots out of the way. You
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599
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:14.679
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600
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601
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can follow us individually on X for myself

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at SRTU, Jeff for Doctor Trey, for Franklin at the Doctor Trey and

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of course don't follow the show on
X at SRTU podcast. With that being

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said, what is going on in
the wonderful world of Doctor tre Franklin this

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week? Oh, I'm just making
sure that we're out on a porn set,

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right, No, no, no, no, not you X Okay,

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all right, I just want to
make sure, but yeah, you

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can follow me on X for the
FKA, Twitter at the Doctor Trey.

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You can find me on Facebook as
the Graham Doctor Trey for Franklin be sure

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Jack Out, Rocket Stay Championship Wrestling
and It's Partner Championship Wrestling when you're on

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Facebook. Those guys put out some
really great shows. And then also I

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just had to say I am so
proud of Jeff Peck not because of marriage,

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not because of anything else other than
he finally said no to a wrestling

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show. He said no to Ring
of Honor in nine ninety nine a month,

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so I am very proud of Jeff. We're going that's one show too

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many for the value. So I'm
proud of man's got a nose. Limitations,

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Doctor Trey. It's I can't do
it. I just can't or I'm

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not going to see family anymore and
I'm mar right now, so I can't

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keep doing it. All right.
With that said, we will preview and

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predict aw all In live from Wembley
Stadium in London, England on next week's

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in the podcast two weeks from now, we'll obviously recap and review all in,

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and then we will also preve and
predict all out, which is that

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Sunday. So the next couple of
weeks is gonna be very aw donovant and

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hopefully it doesn't include more drama.
So all that and more in a very

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historic show coming up here for aw
to invade Wembley Stadium in about ten days

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or so. Exciting times for professional
lessaying, thank you for making us part

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of your week, thank you for
downloading this week the podcast and until next

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week for doc straight Franklin. I'm
Jeff Peck. This is just a real

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show, didn't