How Good Was WWE This Week? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #749 – 6/20/24

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It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to
this week's edition of the Still a Real

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Doest Show, episode number seven nine
for June twenty, twenty twenty four.

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Even though we're recording this on June
twenty second, twenty twenty four. I

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am one half the show. I
am Jeff Peck, joined every single week

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from my co host Solon Wily,
doctor Trey Franklin, Doctor Trey. I

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now join you as a father of
my friend. Yeah. I think back

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last week's episode and we kind of
talked about alf air with everything going on,

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that it was going to be the
last show you did before Father's Day

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and you actually becoming a father.
So I know I'm not the first to

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say this, but congratulations, thank
you, thank you my friend. Yeah,

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it has been a world win couple
of days, and we actually started

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talking about it pre show here and
I was like, you know what,

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let me let me just kind of
say this for the podcast here and just

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talk it out. So my son
was born on Thursday at three twenty four

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pm, six pounds twelve ounces,
twenty inches long. His name is Luke

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James Peck. He is doing great. Everything is great with my son.

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Obviously, we could not have recorded
the show on Thursday. Given everything that

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was going on, there was going
to be a potential little glimmer of recording

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the podcast on Thursday night. Potentially
was thinking Friday, but unfortunately my wife

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had some complications from the C section
surgery and I could sit here and I

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could say everything is fine. Now
she is on the road recovery. She

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is doing well. It was obviously
a very scary situation for us as a

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as a family, but I'm obviously
happy to say that she is doing well.

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I'm able to sit here and do
the podcast for an hour, have

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a little bit of window I'm recording
that. We're recording this on Saturday morning.

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Hopefully goes right up rather quickly when
we sent it over to our good

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friend Bauer, who always posted up
at real Guy radio dot com. But

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yeah, that is that is the
latest. That's why there was a little

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bit of delay. Energy level is
lower than normal just given everything going on.

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It's been a wild wave of a
roller coaster of emotions, not a

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lot of sleep so far. And
this is actually coming from a guy who

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has not had an overnight with his
son yet. Just given the circumstances of

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what's going on, and just trying
to focus on getting my wife back up

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to road recovery what she is,
and just trying to piece meal everything else

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in life because you know nowadays doctor
Trey or what I'm going to be learning

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now going forward. More importantly,
it is very difficult to get off the

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roller coaster of life in general,
whether it comes to work, hobbies,

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podcasts like this. It's like,
holy crap, I have a bunch of

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stuff that I need to get done. And I spent the night sleeping at

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the hospital on Thursday night into Friday, and the first time I got home

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was about Friday night at like ten
ten pm Eastern, and I spent that

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time getting caught up on a lot
of stuff that we left here when we

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went to go deliver my son at
the hospital and watched the SmackDown. Have

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not watched Rampage from Friday night yet, but I did get a chance to

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watch mac Down while I was filling
the blanks. Went to bed super late

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because there was so much stuff that
was to be done. But I figured

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this is like, you know,
the way to get used to intermittent sleep

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for the time being. So happy
to be here, happy to make this

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announcement, and I will be looking
for obvious advice from doctor Trey Franklin,

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the two time Father. But I'm
happy to join the stable of wrestling,

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stable of fathers. I guess what
is it? The f WO? What

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are we doing? F degeneration?
F what is the father? Horseman?

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How does this? What is this
table called? Noah? I've always led

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to like Father the Father world order
because it's you know, it's a different

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world to be and when you jump
into it. I can't believe that you

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didn't look at the Dodgers and the
nurses Thursday and said, look, I

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have a podcas I have to do. Can we pump the brakes a little

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bit so I can get this thing
done? I mean, we got priorities

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here. I know my wife's getting
ready to have the C section everything else,

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Guys, I have a podcast I
have to do. We have to

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prioritize this. So I'm a little
I'm a little bummed out. Jeff.

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I thought you do it from the
hospital. I mean, I've always been

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the one to do it from do
the show from like weird locations, So

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I thought this was your chance to
kind of jump into that world. Yeah,

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yeah, you know that would have
been a really fun and interesting way

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to record the podcast. Do it
that way. It was It's funny that

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you mentioned this, because going into
the week just out like I'm wired sometimes

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and I know this. We were
in the window. It was June twentieth

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to June twenty eighth they predicted my
son would be delivered, so obviously June

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twentieth he landed on Earth and walk
away we go. But I really debated

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going in this week, and doctor
Trey and I always text with one another,

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like, Hey, how's your schedule
this week? How's it's working out.

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We've been on this swing lately of
doing the show on Thursday afternoon.

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It gives us an opportunity to basically
watch all of wrestling. It's the one

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day a week where there is no
wrestling, unless you know, we randomly

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cover Impact wrestling or excuse me,
t and A wrestling because I know they

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are on Thursdays now. And I
debated. I was like, I wonder

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if I should do the show on
Wednesday. I had off from work for

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the federal holiday, and I was
like, you know what, she isn't

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showing any signs of labor. I
think I could probably squeeze one out here

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on Thursday, and I figured by
the next time we recorded, probably my

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son would be bored at that point, and boy, oh boy, was

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I wrong. It was I went
to bed, what was it now?

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Wednesday night? I was usually I
could get so I watched Dynamite typically late,

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as it's like, once it starts
going, I'll get in the DVR.

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I don't know. I guess I'm
getting impatient with waiting for commercials nowadays,

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and they don't have many of them
on Dynamite. So I think I

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got through the first hour on DVR
late Wednesday night and it was about eleven

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o'clock and I was like, man, I am dead tired. I should

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just go to sleep. And I
usually try to power through, and I

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didn't, and thank god I didn't, because I woke to about one thirty

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in the morning on Thursday and my
bedroom was lit up like a Christmas tree.

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Lights were on, doors were open, my wife's in the bathroom,

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and I'm like, what the hell
is going on? And I rush up.

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And earlier in the week my wife
had we actually went to the hospital

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on Tuesday because she had thought that
potentially her water broke and it did not

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break, and it was like you're
still you know, this could be three

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weeks so from now, it could
be two days from now, it could

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be three weeks from now. Typical
doctor speak, which has been a theme

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this entire time, doctor speak,
And anybody who has experienced a doctor knows

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what I'm talking about. Doctor Trey
with his foot, It's like, so

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is my foot going to be okay? Uh? It may it may be,

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you know, there's always the chance
of It's like, you know,

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can you just give me some sort
of positive reinforcement? But I digress.

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So one thirday morning, I get
up and there she is, and she's

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like, my water broke. Pretty
sure, my water broke. I'm like,

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okay, so what do we do
next? Because everybody I've talked to

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doctor Trey and maybe you can attest
to this as well, has said when

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the water breaks, it's not like
this drop down immediate oh you know,

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stuff that you see in the movies
television shows, like oh shit, we

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got to get to the hospital right
away. Like I did immediately think that.

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But thankfully she jumped in and she
was like, when this happens,

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I'm supposed to call the hospital,
speak to the on site doctor and get

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some advice from there, but it's
always like the water breaks, we got

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a rush, you know, is
that what you experienced in the past.

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Yeah, I like now with my
first with Carmen, my oldest, my

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ex wife, water never broke like
we it's and if you remember me telling

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you this, like the first child, like you'll start the woman with especially

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if you have a date set in
mind, like if you have a date

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set with the doctor's offs, like, hey, then we're going to deliver

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the baby on this date. Usually
about a week to ten days before they

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start having like the Brax and Hicks
contractions, and you know, it's kind

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of like the body's prepping itself because
the body sets like a deadline in their

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head, like, hey, the
baby's coming on this date. Let's go

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ahead and make sure every thing's working
properly to you know, to do everything.

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So when my first kid was born, she had Brax and Hicks contractions

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a couple of times before the actual
due date, but her water never broke

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until the day of the delivery,
like the day of that we were scheduled

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to go in. And actually I
think Sammy was the same way like her,

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Like Megan's water didn't break until we
got to the hospital, so I

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never had that we weird you know, oh, oh crap, we have

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to go now kind of feeling come
over me because we'd had the brax and

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Hicks issues, but we'd never had
the water break until we were already at

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the hospital. Yeah, that's it, you know, it's funny. I

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was. I always was like telling
everybody because everybody would give me the advice

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like, oh crap, you know, no, I'm good. We probably

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won't won't rush out there. I
won't have like this freak out moment of

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Okay, well your water's broke,
we don't have to immediately leave, blah

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blah blah. And it was a
complete opposite of that. I was like,

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all right, so should I be
getting ready? And again she calmed

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me down, called the doctor.
Funny enough, the doctor, you leave

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a message, and the doctor called
her back, but my wife had her

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phone on do not disturb, so
we were like in panic mode and it

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was like, oh shit, and
she left the voicemail. I think my

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wife tried picking it up while the
voicemail was being left on her iPhone and

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they had hung up the phone at
that point, and it was like,

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how crap. So then she's going
to go through this entire thing again and

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leave a message, and then of
course the doctor doesn't get back to us

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until forty minutes later. Now,
so this is like two am, and

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she said that she was delivering a
baby. The doctor and she said,

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you know, you could labor at
home for a little bit, watch your

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contractions, and once it gets elect
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on down the hospital. So my
wife started having contractions. We were timing

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them. They started at twenty minutes, let's say, in like the two

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am hour, By the three am
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by the four am hour it was
about eight minutes. So I was like,

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we got to leave. And we
got a dog, so I'm calling

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my mom who lives nearby to drop
my dog off. And we left for

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the hospital at five am, got
there about five point thirty and started the

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process of labor. So went through
all that my life. My wife tried

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to give a natural birth. Everything
was going really, really smoothly, and

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the thought was that you know,
we could have a baby out before noon

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time. At that point, she
was pushing and it just got to the

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point where the doctor said, I
think she went was in labor for about

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two and a half to three and
a half hours, and doctor was like,

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listen, I think thing we have
to do with sea section. So

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we did not go in there with
the sea section. So went through that

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and I was in the room with
my wife while they were doing that,

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which is did your ex wife wife
did they do? Did they do see

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sections? Doctor Trey? No?
No, everything was natural. Yeah,

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now natural the sense of always something
that my favorite thing about the first my

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oldest being bored was my wife did
not want to have an epidural and refused

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it. God bless her. Yeah, I'm literally like, you're in pain,

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you need this. And then they
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kind of loosen things up and relax
her. And then right like after like

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the fifth hour that she was in
there, she was kind of groggy,

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and they went there like, you
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you're at you know, six centimeters
eight cent or something like that, and

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they're like, this is your last
chance for an epidurl. If you want

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ween, we can do it.
If not, there's no turning back.

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If she goes, and I went
that was her saying yes, give her

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the girl. So my wife debated
that. So, my wife had a

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back surgery when she was younger and
was worried about all the the area,

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like literally the area that they'll hit
it is where she had her back surgery.

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So it was concerned about that.
Talked to the doctor and she eventually

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gave in when we were in the
trioge portion of the pregnancy phase and like

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as it started coming on, she
said to me at one point, I'm

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so happy I did this. So
she was relieved that she did that.

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So did the c section. Which
is anybody that's listening to this podcast,

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if your wife went through the C
section. That is one of the oddest

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things I have ever been a part
of because they are calling out loud body

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parts, internal organs that they are
moving around and then like putting back and

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I even being in fire and EMSs
and I've seen some stuff avoided completely seeing

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anything that was going on. Like
the way that they brought me in doctor

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Trey. Her front was facing me. It wasn't like I was immediately walking

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in and I was gonna go sit
behind her. It was facing me.

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And thankfully I didn't look. I
did not want to look, had my

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head down and then sat down with
her and tried to keep her calm.

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And it's a tough situation. I
mean, it's a very exciting situation,

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but it's a very tough situation because
you don't she did not go in there

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thinking she was gonna have surgery.
I mean, she did not mentally prepare

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herself for having surgery. My sister
in law went into it and was having

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a C section, so she at
least could mentally prepare for that. And

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anybody who's had a surgery in their
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I'm sure you feel this way too, doctor Trey, is you know when

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you mentally, at least you can
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wife did not get an opportunity to. And even though like a very joyus

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occasion, she was shaking, which
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section process, and I could tell
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very very strong and a warrior,
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And our son came out, spent
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after about an hour or so after
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know, pretty serious. But thankfully
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got her stable, and it's just
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and you know, we dealt with
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and then you know, by Friday, I knew by Thursday night she was

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going to be okay and stable,
and then as she progressed forward, everything

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improved wholeheartedly. And she was actually
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debated, but she, you know, quickly came to by Friday morning and

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was by Friday night I could leave
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scale one to ten given the painkillers, was at a three, and she

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just wanted to sleep. Was very
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up on some stuff. And here
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a big family. My mother in
law, my sister in law are down

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there there helping my wife as we
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stuff together for my personal life,
my work life, my podcast, to

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get everything up and going here so
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going to be home intermittently every couple
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here right now recording this, my
dog is to the left of me,

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asleep on the floor. She made
her first appearance on SRTU last week after

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Doctor Trey said, man, I've
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then she did. But very happy. My wife is on the road recovery.

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My son is doing great. It
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hours. And it's probably the oddest
segue that I will ever get into start

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to recap in reviewing Clash at the
Castle. But here we are, Doctor

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Trey, and I'm thankful to be
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be able to take a little bit
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wrestling for the week because it was
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here and doing my first show as
a father. I forgot to ask you

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this beforehand, So when Sammy Franklin
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playlist prepared because I had got through
this and I forgot to bring this up

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to you of theme music to play
upon his entrance into the world. Now

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mind you. I started off with
Paul Cogan's I'm a Real American and immediately

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the wife maybe turn it off,
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in his head started to come out, I started playing Rick Flair's theme song,

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and it was immediately told by several
people in the room to turn it

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off. And then the last one
was Macho Man's theme song. So I

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forgot to ask, did you think
about that at all? Like I gotta

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turn this up a little bit?
Or was it just like I gotta be

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very very straight and narrow and focus
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do anything kind of silly and goofy. It was when we were doing the

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I was like super super focused on
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part and just trying to keep her
comfortable. We had put on music at

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some point and felt like the most
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just putting it on country music,
something calming to keep her calm, which

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was an idea. I had never
thought about doing a wrestling theme song at

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all, and when I got to
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a little bit more serious than that
and all that stuff. But I did

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not think of that, and I
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the New Final Boss theme song I
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break it down, I will say
for child number two, may I said,

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just whatever all time favorites American males. Ooh, American males. American

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males. I think it was a
bower that cringed the first time? You

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really like was it? Like I
remember you guys did it like a theme

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song show one time on one of
the podcasts you guys did in the Wheelhouse.

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mean it was either a Bauer or
cause that just like heard that song.

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It was just like no, no, that's awful, and then it just

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became a running joke for a while. But yeah, like that's always I've

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been a if. Unfortunately for me, I guess there's no more uh fatherhood

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events in my life. Uh all
all that that that that little playground has

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been shut down, so it's closed
permanently out of business. So I don't

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I won't get that option. Uh
maybe when I become a grandfather at some

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point I can talk one of the
kids into doing it. So uh,

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I have to live VI carefully through
you when it comes to you know,

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oncoming shopbick. But my thing was
like, well, he's making an entrance

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into the world and there's no better
way to make an entrance there with theme

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music. Yeah, I like,
I think Goldberg Themes song will be pretty

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good. Maybe do a little bit
of Sparkler's Bitch may set off like a

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smoke alarm, let's uk the baby's
headbutting things on the way out. True.

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True, I wish I wish I
had thought about that a little bit

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more now that you mentioned. Yeah, it's such a I don't know,

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frazzling situation as a man, because
it's like, I'm very low key,

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uh not very like like because it's
like the training I've always had as a

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fire you know, working in for
as a first responder is not to be

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like, don't go too high,
but don't go too low. Always take

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it pretty constant. And I've always
been trained that way and not have tunnel

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vision. And I got like extreme
tunnel vision. And when this was all

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going on, it's completely different when
it's your own family members. Oh yeah,

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absolutely. And then the other thing
I forgot to mention was, and

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I feel bad that I didn't,
is because you almost walked into it by

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don't look down there when the baby's
coming. And this is where any listen

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to the show like that hasn't had
a kid yet. The doctors and the

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nurses will always kind of say,
hey, do you want to see the

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baby coming. I will tell you, y'all don't do it. Because you

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heard them saying body parts that you
know, in talking about like that,

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that's kind of jarring. But to
actually see it is kind of Yeah.

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It takes you a little while to
get that image out of your head.

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Like I still I didn't see Sammy
come into the world, Like I perfectly

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stayed just out of it. Like. And the other thing was they had

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a weird spotlight over her to see
what they were doing. And that's also

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why I thought of the entrance stuff
and like, well, he's got a

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spotlight, might as well set that
up there. But I always something like

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when my daughter was born, it
looked like a koala bear bursting out of

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a strawberry cheesecake. See, that's
a very interesting analogy, doctory I've never

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heard that one before. Kawala bear
going through a strawberry cheesecake. It was

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like a great hit. And then
there's you know, all the other stuff

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going on down there, and I'm
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It took a while for me to, you know, feel comfortable with my

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wife, to like go back into
the normal husband and wife routine, because

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that was the image I kept playing
in my head down there, and I'm

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like, yeah, I just don't
want to. I literally told my first

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wife, like, I will never
ask you for a second kid just because

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of what you went through. If
you want another kid, you have to

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ask for it. Yeah. No, I mean that's definitely gone through my

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mind. We're obviously not going to
have that conversation yet, but yeah,

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I mean everything that they go through, I mean, once you experience,

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it's like a comple I mean,
you obviously love and respect your wife,

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but when they go through that,
it's like, holy crap, like this

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is you're my hero type stuff.
Afterwards, I did not look at any

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point. We've talked about the C
section side, but when she was pushing,

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I had they had me up by
her shoulders and like helping hold her

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neck and any every time she was
pushing, I would just look, you

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know, more towards like the back
of her head, like my face.

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Her face is going forward, mine
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the wall. I did not want
to look at any point, and I

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did not know that they were going
to utilize me as much as they did

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during the labor process. I was
like, I did not know this.

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You want me to hold this foot? Okay, you want me to do

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this, hold this pillow? Okay, did not know this? And where

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is my pay for this? You
know how am I getting paid to do

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this? So yeah, it was
it was an experience and looking forward to

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watching wrestling with my son soon enough. He when he was born, the

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Yankees were playing, and they were
playing on a day that they lost seventeen

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to five to the Baltimore Orioles.
That was not a good start for my

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Yankee fandom. And as I currently
record this, they are zero and two

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since my son has been born.
So my son has not seen a Yankee

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win and he may be bad luck. They may never win a game again,

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which I don't know what I'm going
to do in that situation. But

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since he has been alive, Jacob
Fatu has joined WWE. Yeah, it's

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been it's been wild. He has
not seen the why at six or sick

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yet six six. I don't know
what they're doing yet with that name,

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but yeah, everything is has been
good. It's been a joyous occasion and

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I'm just happy everybody okay. That's
even before all this other stuff. That

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was obviously my biggest concern, which
I did not share with my wife,

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is I just wanted everybody to be
okay afterwards. I mean, that is

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that's a scary part and one of
the things that I did forget. So

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one of the reasons why they did
the c section is an umbilical cord was

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wrapped around my son's neck and obviously, when you hear that, you're like,

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holy crap, this is crazy.
It's part around his body. And

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come to find out, I mean
that happens about a third of kids nowadays

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when they're born. So I mean, doctors are very casual in telling you

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this type stuff, but when you
hear that, it's very scary. So

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again, I'm just so thankful and
blessed that everybody's okay, very thankful and

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blessed to be here recording the podcast
today as well and being able to talk

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wrestling for everybody with everybody for about
an hour. And again, yeah,

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I'm happy to be part of the
New Dad order. I saw that shirt

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up on WWE shop dot com.
May have to buy that, and yeah,

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I guess let's let's get into it. Doctor Trey. It's probably the

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weird again, the weirdest segue I've
ever had in the history of this show,

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going from like, hey, I'm
a dad, this is what's been

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going on to uh, let's talk
about Clash of the Castle. Well,

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I mean there are a lot of
second generation wrestlers in WWE, So there

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you go. That's its fatherhood and
we just have Father's Day, so it

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all it all kind of ties together. Yep. The throne is now the

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torch can be passed at some point. At some point Young Sammy Franklin and

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Luke pak will be sitting here doing
the still Reelta show after Doctor treye I

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retire, And as you could hear, you know, I've been battling allergies

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still, so that's always been fun. So forgive me for I always try

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to turn my mic off but when
I'm taking a swig of water, coffee

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and whatever. But I'm not gonna
do that today. Okay, guys,

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I'm just gonna forget it, Like
I have a little drink right now out

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of my eddie and power through here. So let's get into it. Clash

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of the Castle recap review this past
that day from the Ovo Hydro in Glasgow,

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Scotland. First match here Cody Roads
Defeast AJ Styles and an equit match

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retaining the nentisited of WE Championship.
We both had. Cody Rhodes love the

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entring psychology and storytelling this match,
love seeing blood being used during a WWE

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match again as well to nitpick a
little bit, I just feel felt like

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there were some spots that could have
grabbed more of an emotional investment from wrestling

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fans while watching this one, whether
it be Mama Roads teasing, throwing in

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the towel, or a little bit
more of a violent finish that caused AJ

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Styles to say I quit rather than
being afraid of getting hit with steel tips

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steel steps. I also didn't love
Cody Rhodes passing out during an I quit

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match, because there was a case
I think he could have lost because of

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that. I know, Stone Cold
c lost a completely different match for US

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many thirteen loses to Brett Hard his
submission match, and he never gave up.

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He never said I quit, he
just passed out, and I was

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like, this is kind of reminded
me of wrestlming A thirteen match and did

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not love that but Cody Rhods retains
Doctor Trey. Your thoughts. Yeah,

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the match itself I thought was really
good, Like I, like you said,

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the psychology, the storytelling. I
love, you know, the temptation

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of somebody else throwing in the towel
that's not in the wrestling business quote unquote,

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even though I mean, dear gosh, she's married to Dusty and she's

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the father the mother of Cody,
so she's in the business. But you

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know, but yeah, like for
me, the I hated the finish of

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this one because we see the steel
steps get used all the time around matches.

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All the time, guys are getting
hit and AJ's been hit with steel

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steps probably a hundred times in his
career, and for in that moment to

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go, you know what, this
one I'm not really feeling, so let

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me just go and say I quit. Just I didn't like the inning.

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I did love the fact that in
I quit match there's blood. It gives

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it a more realistic feel. I
mean, your god, this is the

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Steel Real Twist podcast. So yeah, anything that gives us that that line

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we enjoy. But just for a
guy like AJ to say I quit in

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that sentence, I don't think maybe
it's a different Maybe it's a different take

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on his character. They're going in
a different direction going forward, but just

408
00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:17.440
for a guy like AJ that we've
seen go through so much stuff over his

409
00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:19.720
career, in that moment to say
I quit, I didn't really like.

410
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:23.880
But overall, outside of that,
outside the finish, a really solid equip

411
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.960
match. Yeah. You got to
wonder now everything that we know from SmackDown

412
00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:30.880
on Friday night that if they went
with the violent direction based on his next

413
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.319
few which is going to be solo
Socoa, the belief is that match will

414
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:37.079
be taking place at Money in the
Bank. Obviously, Jacob Fattou, which

415
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.400
we'll talk about here, getting involved, joining the Bloodline, He's got to

416
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.200
force Cody Roach to get a little
bit more violent, and the AJ style

417
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.920
stuff. I think everybody's under the
belief that him say and I Quit is

418
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:51.279
going to lead him to return to
TNA Wrestling at some point. It was

419
00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:57.319
chanted during the kickoff show on Friday
in Glasgow that aired on Peacock ahead of

420
00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:02.240
the pay per view he will be
taking He will be going to Pro Wrestling

421
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:08.599
Noah on July thirteenth for in Japan
there wrestling match. So where AJ styles

422
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:15.160
goes from here will be intriguing as
well. Next match is Alpha Fire and

423
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.799
Ela Dawn defeating Bianca bel Air and
Jade Cargill and Shannon Basler and Zoe Stark

424
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.119
in a triple threat tag team match
to win the WA Women's Tag Team Championship.

425
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:25.319
Doctor Trey and I both at Bianca
and Jade getting the win. Shocking,

426
00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.759
surprising result, probably the most shocking
result I have seen this year.

427
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:32.519
I wonder if this was done to
get the surprising home country pop or if

428
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:36.359
we would see some cracks between Bianca
and Jade, it would not shock me.

429
00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:37.759
A Fire and Dawn's title reign is
short lived. It's nice to see

430
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.440
the women's tag team division get a
decent amount of TV time and focus lately,

431
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:48.319
so hopefully that continues. Bianca lost
her money the Bank qualifying match the

432
00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:53.200
same way they basically lost the tag
team titles at Glasgow last weekend, so

433
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:59.039
I wonder if the match on next
Friday with Jade in the qualifying He's going

434
00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:02.799
to be a similar result, which
may lead to some sort of deterioration between

435
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.599
Bianca and Jade's partnership, which I
thought was gonna last a lot longer.

436
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:08.960
Maybe carry us in in twenty twenty
five rather than potentially something that may be

437
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:14.119
a lot sooner, say SummerSlam time, which I could see happening at this

438
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:18.279
point. Nonetheless, very happy for
Alba Fire and Islad Dawn. Alba Fire

439
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:23.880
went through a completely horrific personal tragedy
with her mom passed away after getting hit

440
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:27.960
by a car believe in Orlando,
Florida last month, so I'm sure it

441
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:32.279
was just a relief to get that
moment and then the crowd had a great

442
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:36.039
reaction to it. Nonetheless, we
have new women Tag team Champions, Doctor

443
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:40.759
Try. Yeah, I think if
you had told me that before the show,

444
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:42.759
that you know we have new tag
team champions. I don't even think

445
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:48.119
I would have picked Alba and Isla, Like I love their characters and I

446
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.119
love the little pairing, like I've
liked it ever since they got paired up

447
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.079
in NXT after their feud. But
you know, I might have picked Shana

448
00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.000
and Zoe because Shannon was coming off
that you know, NXT Underground loss recently,

449
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:01.160
so I was like, well,
if they're gonna put the belts on

450
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:04.400
somebod else, it might be Shane
to kind of boost her back up a

451
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:07.799
little bit so surprised. But if
you remember last week, I literally kept

452
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.440
saying, somebody from Scotland has to
win one of these title matches. You

453
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:15.759
have to have at least one,
and this was actually the one that I

454
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:20.200
didn't think would change at all.
So really surprising the result, but I

455
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.519
was. I was happy the women
got a good amount of time. The

456
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:27.799
match itself was kind of iffy at
times, but you know, overall,

457
00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:30.920
good result. But yeah, I'm
with you. I'm kind of surprised they

458
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:35.599
went this route so quickly with Bianca
and Jade losing the belts, because I

459
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:37.359
kind of felt like this might be
something that you could leave and build up

460
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:45.160
to and help really establish another tag
team being you know, a strong adversary

461
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:50.279
for them. So surprise the results, good time, but match yourself was

462
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:53.960
a little bit off in moments.
Next match, Sammy's Aye defeating Chad Gable

463
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:58.079
to retain the w WI Interncoundal Old
Championship. We both hat Chad Gable.

464
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.119
This feels like table center. This
is what I wroach this Field wrote.

465
00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:05.400
This is a feels like a table
center match for something bigger as Chad Gable's

466
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:08.640
Alpha Academy implosion and otis breaking free
looms forward, which we saw play out

467
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:12.839
on Monday. It didn't feel like
they could hold Gable back from winning a

468
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:15.279
singles title anymore. But the Chad
can't win the Big One storyline seems to

469
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:20.480
be gaining momentum for the eventual and
hopeful conclusion, and as Gable deserves to

470
00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:23.240
win the Intercontinental Championship. He didn't
mention on Raw that he's entering running the

471
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:28.039
Bank aiming for the world title.
He was involved in a qualifying match.

472
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:30.240
He was removed from a qualifying match
because of a big angle that we will

473
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:32.960
talk about later on in the show, and then I saw this morning he

474
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.359
has been added back to the qualifying
match on Monday's Raw. Nonetheless, Doctor

475
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:43.720
Tray Samy's Ain retains the Intercontinental Championship. Yeah, this was another surprising result.

476
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:49.519
Yeah, you can't say anything bad
about sammy's Ay and Chad Gable wrestling

477
00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:53.720
each other because there are two of
the best intering performers and in sellers of

478
00:33:54.440 --> 00:34:00.200
our generation probably and probably two of
the most underrated interring performers of our generation.

479
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.400
But yeah, I don't like it's
weird. On one hand, you

480
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:07.159
want Sammy to win because he's the
babyface and the crowds into it. The

481
00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:09.960
flip side is though, like for
a guy like Chad Gable you and I

482
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.639
admire so much, you're like,
come on, the guy deserves a win

483
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:16.880
here. Uh, but yeah,
it's setting up bigger stuff. I mean,

484
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:21.360
we saw, like you saw playing
on Raw with the with the you

485
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.599
know, Alpha Academy implosion, the
stuff, you know, towards the end

486
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:29.360
of the show, like it feels
like he's on a different trajectory. But

487
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:32.280
usually if you're going on a big
upward trajectory, usually grab the icy title

488
00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:37.599
on the way to that. So
I don't know where the Chad Gable stuff

489
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.880
is going. But anytime we get
get more Gable on TV, I'm a

490
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:45.519
fan of it. So it kind
of sucks for him because I think the

491
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:50.320
glass the Scotland crowd really did even
though they're cheering for Sammy, I think

492
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:53.360
almost everybody wanted Gable to get a
win, just because we all kind of

493
00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:57.920
felt like he deserved it and then
also what he could do with it.

494
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.679
But once again, you got Sammy's
saying still on top, and that's arguably

495
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:06.000
one of our top three performers of
the SRTU era. So I can't really

496
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:08.280
argue the result on that one.
Yeah, and this loss may be something

497
00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:14.920
bigger for Chad Gable, and in
the short term it appears that way with

498
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:19.400
everything that he's currently involved with creatively, as it looks like the Alpha Academy

499
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:23.360
implosion has happened and they will no
longer be aligned with him. Next match

500
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:28.079
is Bailey defeating Piper Niven to retain
the WAE Women's Championship. We both had

501
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:32.480
Bailey winning this one. I want
to see Piper Niven given more opportunities like

502
00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:36.320
this in the future. I love
that she got this opportunity, and I

503
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.480
just let's get away from even the
hometown stuff. I thought Bailey did a

504
00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:44.119
great job helping put Piper over and
Niven show that she belonged in the spot

505
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:46.679
again. You know, I just
hope this wasn't growing Piper Niven a bone

506
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:51.119
because she was the hometown girl again. I think she should be pushed more

507
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:53.960
outside of this. Bailey's title run
as a babyface hasn't connected with me like

508
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.559
I hoped it would, which is
a bit surprising. She's she's kind of

509
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:02.000
been stale, which tells you that
she is really really good as a heel.

510
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:06.199
The last couple of years in this
incarnation, and if they're going to

511
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.360
make her a babyface, which I
think Doctor Trey is alluded to in a

512
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:13.280
lot of the responses since she turned, they really need to consider getting her

513
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:16.559
to that hugger character, which she
may not want to do at this point

514
00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:21.800
in her career either, because that
was one of the most over babyfaces I've

515
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.679
ever seen in professional wrestling in the
last entire time we've been recording this podcast.

516
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:29.119
But I just feel like this current
title run, this babyface has not

517
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:32.119
connected well with at least me as
a viewer. Doctor Try, Yeah,

518
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:35.599
I would. I watched this match. The first thing I thought was I

519
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:37.519
really liked this match, and a
little bit, like you said with the

520
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:39.800
first match, it was a little
bit of the storytelling, a little bit

521
00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:45.599
of them kind of leaning into this
was the omp favorite Bailey that kind of

522
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:47.039
play I don't say a tweener,
but she could kind of play at the

523
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:51.320
graph because the crowd felt like they
were really wanted Piper to win, so

524
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:55.480
she could kind of play into her
previous character. But it's similar to the

525
00:36:55.519 --> 00:37:00.239
feedback I get on about Cody Roadse
on Top is it's a little stale and

526
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:05.960
a lot is because they just haven't
developed that next big challenger for it kind

527
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.360
of feels like they're going through,
you know, opponent of the month.

528
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:13.679
There's not a lot of depth in
the storytelling to kind of help build up

529
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:16.280
the baby face, Like she really
hasn't felt like she's had an obstacle to

530
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:21.920
overcome since winning the title at WrestleMania
and damage Control going to Raw. So

531
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:23.719
I think there's still the process.
I think, you know, the Naya

532
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:29.920
Tiffany alliance will be the thing that
really makes her breaks Bailey's run here,

533
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:35.719
But yeah, I feel like she
feels like the same character, just instead

534
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:39.360
of getting onto the crowd, she's
encouraging the crowd. Like nothing really about

535
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:44.880
the Bailey character is different from her
run as a heel to a face other

536
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:49.880
than just playing to the crowds.
More so, she needs an adversary that

537
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:52.599
gives her an obstacle that she feels
like are that looks like she may not

538
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:57.119
be able to overcome to really cement
this run. And I see I think

539
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:00.119
you can see the seeds being planted, you know, with the Nigha stuff,

540
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:06.840
with the Tiffany stuff heading towards Summerslap. Yeah, I think the execution

541
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:09.199
on turning her baby face now,
it's very easy to say after the fact,

542
00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:14.000
just wasn't great. I mean,
she was such a despised he oh,

543
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:17.559
really really good heel well light heal, and the damage control stuff was

544
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:22.320
really good in the separation from damage
control. While there were points where it

545
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.480
was like it took a little bit
of time and there was some definitely some

546
00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:34.119
room that was breathing, I think
the points of execution it didn't help make

547
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:38.440
her sympathetic when the turn eventually happened, like when Sammy Zane eventually left the

548
00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:44.239
Bloodline or Jay Huso finally left the
Bloodline. I wish they did a couple

549
00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:47.880
more pages out of that book down
granted both those guys more Sammy than Jay.

550
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:52.599
When the turns was happening, Sammy
was completely over the crowd. Jay

551
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:55.920
wasn't yet. I think everybody saw
the potential, but I would have liked

552
00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:00.239
to see that play out more than
the way that they executed it. And

553
00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:05.159
I agree with you completely. I
think the Niya Jacks, Tiffany Stratton stuff

554
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:08.719
is going to lead to hopefully making
Bailey a little bit more of a sympathetic

555
00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:16.880
babyface right now. And I think
that will help hopefully help move things along.

556
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:22.000
My only concern is, which I
think is a very real possibility come

557
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:24.199
Summer Slam, if Bailey is still
champion, there's no cash in and obviously

558
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:30.840
Nia gets her title shot. Is
Nya winning the title. So we'll have

559
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.039
to say again, it's so strange
to say this. If you told me

560
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:36.880
this seven years ago, I woult
to believe you. But Bailey's run as

561
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.840
a babyface has been very stale and
it just doesn't seem like it's connecting well

562
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:43.679
with the audience. And this was
someone who was kind of fifty to fifty

563
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:45.360
with Piper in Glasgow. They still
loved her. They were still singing the

564
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:50.360
songs that they typically do every time
they go over to the European areas.

565
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:58.280
Is the Bailey song that was first
sung at that NXT London takeover several years

566
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:04.760
ago. So Bailey retains over the
hometown girl Piper Knifven, who I just

567
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:08.800
loved how sincere and happy she was
that her hometown crowd loved her back.

568
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:14.599
I really really love that and I've
always enjoyed watching Piper Niven wrestle. Finally,

569
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.480
the main event here, Damian Priest
defeats Drew McIntyre to retain the World

570
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:20.719
Have a Weight Championship. We both
had Drew McIntyre getting the win. I

571
00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:24.440
love the hype intention between both guys
going the week going into this match.

572
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:29.519
I wish they capitalized that on that
a little bit more over the last month

573
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:32.119
going to this match, as it
felt like both guys actually don't like one

574
00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:36.239
another, and that is cool and
that's what you want to see. As

575
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:38.519
for the match itself, I don't
know what Drew McIntyre has to do to

576
00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:42.679
get his moment in the sun at
some point. So many times he was

577
00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:44.960
booked to lose, and despite being
upset with that, I'm always left to

578
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.000
be more intrigued with his character.
The top of the Raw brand card is

579
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:51.800
very hard to predict right now,
and that makes the main event picture for

580
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.480
the Red Brand really fun as a
fan, and it has a big fight

581
00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:59.920
feel to it as well. We
saw on Monday's Raw Drew quit. He

582
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:05.760
appeared on Friday SmackDown in a very
cool camera angle where he bloodied up Sampunk

583
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:08.159
who was on SmackDown. So two
guys on Raw showing up on SmackDown in

584
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:13.119
his hometown, Crown of Chicago,
laid out Sam Punk and obviously the belief

585
00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.519
it is here. This is probably
going to keep him off television until he's

586
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.000
fully cleared, which I think the
hope is for SummerSlam. I think he's

587
00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:21.960
due to get clear here, maybe
in the next six weeks. I think

588
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:25.840
Meltzer may have had a report out
there that it's possible he may not be

589
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:29.760
ready for Summer Slam, which would
push it out a little bit more.

590
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:36.280
But this was a fun match,
fun build going into the week. Really

591
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:43.719
enjoyed it that the leg getting caught
spot was extremely gnarly and thank god Damian

592
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:49.559
Priestino get hurt, lose a leg, nothing of any substance or damage to

593
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:54.360
him. And I don't know what
Drew has to do Doctor Trey to win

594
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:59.320
the Big One, but it makes
his character more intriguing. I know it

595
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.079
upsets. I know the fans in
Glasgow were upset, and rightfully so.

596
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:06.599
But boyle boy, do I want
to see more of Drew mccatyre every time

597
00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:09.559
he loses one of these matches.
Yeah? Watching the match, especially like

598
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:13.960
the match itself, like you get
two athletic big men going at it.

599
00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:17.000
To me, that's the epitome of
professional wrestling. It's just two guys that

600
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:20.760
look like badasses just beating the hell
out of each other. I love that

601
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:24.280
stuff. It had for this to
be. One of my notes was like

602
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:30.400
for this to be the the B
Heavyweight Championship. It had a big fight

603
00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:32.440
feel and like, you're right,
like the way these guys have blurred the

604
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:37.880
lines of like you wonder if they
really dislike each other or they're just doing

605
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.159
a good job of presenting it that
way. Like it was really well done.

606
00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:44.679
And the matchesself, but I thought
was really good. The Lake spot,

607
00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:47.239
oh my god, I freaked out. I was like, cause momentarily,

608
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:51.519
like you saw the ref and Drew
macizar book go crap, what do

609
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.719
we do? And they played it
off really well. But as soon as

610
00:42:57.039 --> 00:43:00.400
punk Rant came out, I went, oh my god, this is what

611
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:04.679
would happen if John Cena had beat
Rob Van Damit at one Night's stand,

612
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:09.519
Like I literally thought we might have
a riot crow just go nuts. But

613
00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:13.719
yeah, it's it's a weird situation
where it's like you're absolutely right. Every

614
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:16.840
time Drew loses in these spots,
you get more intrigued about what he's going

615
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:19.800
to do next, which is one
of those things where it's like, well,

616
00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:22.920
crap, maybe he doesn't need the
title, Maybe he doesn't need the

617
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:28.199
win because he gets more over every
time. It's like every time he has

618
00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:30.840
this weird obstacle, like he's he
has more obstacles to overcome than most of

619
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:35.760
the baby faces and he's kind of
the heel. So it's a really interesting

620
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:39.159
dynamic they're playing out here because you
get a guy that's it's it's a little

621
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:45.920
bit of Breton Sean where in certain
areas Drew's loved and Punk is hated,

622
00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:49.199
and then you flip, you go
to another area and it's completely flipped.

623
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.719
So, uh, we may you
mentioned Brett and and soh call from ustlbody

624
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:55.920
at thirteen. This is reminded me
of Breton Shan when they'd be in the

625
00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:59.679
States and Brett's hated and they go
to Canada and Brett's loved. So it

626
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:04.519
kind of feels like that with Drew
and Punk. So but overall, like

627
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:07.519
really good match, decent finish,
like it kind of did come out of

628
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:12.000
It was a little bit surprising,
like I honestly did not expect to see

629
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.800
see a Punk in Scotland up until
about a day before when Drew was making

630
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.760
the comments about don't come here because
this country will kill you. But yeah,

631
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:24.320
it was just a really solid main
event to close out Clashing the Castle

632
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:28.840
with a somewhat disappointing result with Drew
not getting to win. Yeah. I

633
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.480
knew he was there punk because there
was a couple social media posts that got

634
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:37.039
leaked to him being like out and
about in Glasgow, which was you know,

635
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:38.280
it's like it's a bummer, like
he had to figure he was going

636
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:43.280
to potentially appear. I know the
referee spot. I love that they did

637
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.000
a camrangle far back so you just
see somebody run into the ring and then

638
00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:50.039
when he slides in the back of
it, which which was really well done.

639
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.800
I knew right away it was punk, and I'm hearing that there are

640
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:54.880
people out there that were really surprised
when they moved the camera, like the

641
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:59.079
reaction from the live crowd. I
would have thought everybody knew it was punk

642
00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:01.559
as well. But when they shift
the camera angle because it's such a big

643
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:06.360
arena, and then they show his
face and stopping it too, and the

644
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:09.239
reaction was really well done. You
know, I thought that was a really

645
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:15.360
nice surprise. Maybe people were like
really super hyper focused at the count and

646
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:20.440
thinking he was gonna win, which
was which was cool. Yeah, everything

647
00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:23.440
was just played out really really well
and was just a, you know,

648
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:28.440
a very nice finish the show.
It was funny because the crowd was chanting

649
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:30.760
for CM Punk, Like all night
long, they were chanting for CM Punk,

650
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:36.239
which I found very funny because it's
literally like the hometown boy, but

651
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:39.119
Punk is so loved that they still
want to cheer for him, and there

652
00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:44.639
was still a decent reaction. But
then I saw the post show like farewell

653
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:46.880
from Samantha Irvin and she got booed, which people were upset about. But

654
00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:52.719
it's like, what do you expect
that crowd to do? I love Drew's

655
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:57.400
postmatch reaction like that. It was
it's it felt legitimate. He was cursing,

656
00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:59.519
they were bleeping him out, they
were covering his mouth so that you

657
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:04.280
didn't know he was saying fuck.
It looked it looked really really and authentic,

658
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.039
and I just thought it was a
really nice finish. So all in

659
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:08.960
all, it was a fun show. Doctor Trey and I went both two

660
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:14.159
and three on the PAP Perview prediction
record for this one. I'm sitting at

661
00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:17.360
sixty eight and sixteen. Doctor Trey
is at sitting at sixty three and twenty

662
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:22.719
one event rating and match the night. I gave it a three point seven

663
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:27.760
out of five. I didn't love
the show. I it actually expected more

664
00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:32.000
from Glasgow and I thought the crowd
compared to like the France crowd was not

665
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:37.639
as good. So hopefully that doesn't
lose any Glasgow listeners that tune in here.

666
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:39.480
I thought the show was okay.
I thought it was a fun show

667
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:43.079
on a Saturday, but it didn't
make me go man. I could watch

668
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:45.960
that show again. And my match
of the night was Cody Rose and aj

669
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.159
Styles. I thought that was the
best match. I don't feel like any

670
00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:54.719
matches particularly stood out very well,
but I thought this was was my favorite

671
00:46:54.719 --> 00:47:00.280
match from the show. Doctor Trey. Yeah, I was slightly high point

672
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.079
eight. I I gave it my
match and I was samely in Chad,

673
00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:07.000
just because I'm like I can watch
these guys wrestle and never be disappointed,

674
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:10.719
and it was kind of a better
finish to the match than the other two

675
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:14.760
men's matches. My only this goes
a couple of things though, Like for

676
00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:16.239
me, it goes back to what
you and I have talked about before with

677
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:21.320
the booking of the pay per views, like only having five matches, I

678
00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:23.440
kind of wish there was at least
a one or two more, uh,

679
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:27.280
to kind of give a little bit
more meat on the bone when when we

680
00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:30.639
do really small shows, it does
kind of feel like a b pay per

681
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:34.719
view. But that was my take
My big takeaway was just like, yeah,

682
00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:38.199
it was a solid show. But
outside of Punk as a referee,

683
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:43.800
which never really gets explained is how
he's licensed to be a referee. But

684
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:45.480
outside of Punk as the ref I'm
like, Okay, I don't really think

685
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:49.960
anything's going to like really stand out
to me, you know, three,

686
00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:52.840
four or five years from now.
So again, I gave it a three

687
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:55.039
point seven match that I was coached
road JJ styles and again, doctor Trey,

688
00:47:55.079 --> 00:48:00.000
you're rating the match that I was
three point eight, so slightly higher.

689
00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:02.440
And then match of the night was
what again I went with Sammy and

690
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:07.639
Chad, Sammy Zain and Chad Gable. So there you go. Feel free

691
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:13.000
to chime in at s RTU podcast
on x and hit us up on Facebook,

692
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.519
Facebook dot com. Slashes to a
Real Test show. Let's get into

693
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:19.320
some of the other big happenings that
happened this past week, Doctor Trey.

694
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.639
Obviously, the big one on Monday's
Raw was finally the execution of the Wyatt.

695
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:27.559
I don't think we have I don't
know the pronunciation of the of the

696
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:30.880
name yet. Is it the Wyatt
six, that's what they calling it,

697
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.639
but they're spelling it six with a
six at the end. It's it's six.

698
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:37.079
It's like S I C K S
because that saw on the T shirt.

699
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:42.400
Okay, so it's the S is
like a like like the number six.

700
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:45.679
Yeah, it's there. They they
do a weird formation with it,

701
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:52.840
but it's still six, like pluralizing
sick illness. Oh. I didn't realize

702
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:54.840
that that the It was like a
weird way to spell the S. I

703
00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:00.239
don't have to take a look at
that. So all right, yeah,

704
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:02.840
so the execution finally happened. I'm
trying to find the shirt right now on

705
00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:07.039
shop, which is great for you
know, while we do that. Oh

706
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.239
I see that? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

707
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:14.400
All right, So it's the Wyat
six finally arrived. Closing out Monday

708
00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:22.719
Night Raw, we see Nicky Cross
as Sister Abigail, Eric Rowan as the

709
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:30.280
Rambling Rabbit, the Dexter Loomis as
Mercy the Buzzard, Joe Gacy as Huscus

710
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:35.119
the Pig, and then obviously the
return of Uncle Howdy. The reaction for

711
00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:37.960
Uncle Howdy was great. I'm sure
they made Bo Dallas, who is under

712
00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:44.280
Uncle Howdy, feel phenomenal. And
obviously this is the first time in like

713
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:52.079
professional wrest in history that we're seeing
a legacy carry forward with a legit passing

714
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:57.000
of someone. I know there were
some angles in the past that were tasteless

715
00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:00.719
in my opinion, when Eddie Garrell
had passed away, like putting a low

716
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:04.000
rider in the back of the SmackDown
set and blowing it up I think,

717
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:07.400
like weeks after he died and all
that crap. I was not a big

718
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:09.000
fan of that, and I know
they brought that up during the Ray angle

719
00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:13.920
and how Eddie was in hell and
all that shit. Did not enjoy that.

720
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:21.599
This, however, made me happy
and smile and know that Bray Wyatt's

721
00:50:21.639 --> 00:50:27.719
influence is still on and professional wrestling
and his story can continue forward by these

722
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.599
five individuals and his brother, which
was just really awesome. The angle itself

723
00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:36.320
was great. Maybe I don't know
if they're ever going to have a name

724
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:39.320
to it, but like this raw
massacre. It was funny because a lot

725
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:45.119
of people were joking online that everybody
was murdered based on the really graphic bloodstains

726
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:47.559
that they did, and they said, like Chad Gable got shot in the

727
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:52.679
head, it looked like and blood
being splattered up against the wall. It

728
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:58.159
was something that we've never seen in
w before. It was very horror esque,

729
00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:02.880
which I'm sure made Bray Wyatt smile
from up above. And yeah,

730
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:07.440
the execution of the angle was very
memorable, Doctor Trey. The crowd loved

731
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:10.920
it. I loved it at home. It was cinema and I know,

732
00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:15.159
Vince, you would always use the
line that we make movies, and I

733
00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:19.840
never really felt like those words were
really true for most of the time under

734
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.000
Vince's creative rain. This was a
time that when it was over and I

735
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:24.880
watched it, and I was like, man, that felt like a movie.

736
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:29.599
They made a movie. We'll talk
about the wrestling impact of it in

737
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:32.360
just a moment. But the execution
of the angle, Doctor Trey, your

738
00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:39.480
thoughts, my friend. For something
that was so hyped and something we were

739
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:43.519
all kind of looking forward to to
see how they executed, this is one

740
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:49.800
of those few instances in the wrestling
where I thought they the execution met the

741
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:53.559
expectation, Like I was expecting something, you know, really cool, something

742
00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:58.320
outside the box, something that would
kind of make you go, holy cow,

743
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:00.800
what did I just see here?
And they nailed it, like they

744
00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:08.000
like from everything from you know,
sister Abigail's entrance, the with the door

745
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:10.960
and the whole thing, you know, kind of a throwback homage or whatever

746
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:15.320
you want to do with that.
So the smoke being all throughout the backstage

747
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:20.880
area like that was really well done. The lighting was good, the camera

748
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:24.000
angles were well done. It's I
don't know about you, but it feels

749
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:28.599
like even with the camera direction,
it's it's so different from the Kevin Dunn

750
00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:31.119
era now that it's fresh and different, and this is one of those instances

751
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:34.199
where you're like, wow, this
is really too well done. You know,

752
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.880
the body's laying everywhere was cool.
Now once again, like I don't

753
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:40.039
know if they're gonna make this like
a dream sequence, because like, I'm

754
00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:44.320
pretty sure I saw Braun Stroman laid
out backstage, but then I see Braun

755
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:45.840
commenting that, no, that was
I don't know what he's talking about.

756
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:49.079
Like it was like a weird like, I don't know if it's if it's

757
00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:52.440
a dream sequence, a nightmare sequence
or what. But he said he was

758
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:54.679
like still chasing the judgment day right, Yeah, Like, I don't know

759
00:52:54.679 --> 00:52:57.639
what you're talking about. I was
still out chasing the judgment down of the

760
00:52:57.639 --> 00:52:59.440
building. I'm like, no,
I'm pretty sure I saw you laid out.

761
00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:04.960
You're kind of stand out, you're
a giant. It's just the and

762
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:08.159
then the camerang is where you're leading
into each different character, Like it's almost

763
00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:15.599
like it's kind of like doing a
promo, you know, shoot for these

764
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:19.599
characters live, like where it's leading
into this giant guy with a sledgehammer in

765
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:22.960
a rabbit mask, and then here
the buzzer, like all these things.

766
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.280
The way they weaved it in was
really really well done. And the shot

767
00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:32.920
that they did of Uncle Howdy coming
out, I love that shot because you

768
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:38.639
feel like you're right there with Bot
Dallas and not only presenting this character,

769
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:44.360
presenting this new faction, but then
feeling the love from the crowd. Like

770
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:46.920
I loved that shot. It was
really it was beautiful a lot of ways,

771
00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:52.400
and seeing all the fireflies laid out
as he walked out just fantastic camera

772
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:54.400
works to set all this up.
Like you're absolutely right, like this was

773
00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:59.960
the most cinematic thing they have done
since the cinematic era of the pandemic time,

774
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:04.920
but just something so different in out
of the Box is something we haven't

775
00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:07.679
seen done. Like, I loved
it. It met all my expectations.

776
00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:10.960
A couple of things there if you
go back and watch it. Thank god

777
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.960
this didn't happen. But I'm pretty
sure Bo Dallas almost tripped going by as

778
00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:20.239
he was walking towards Joe Gacy that
or he didn't know like the I think

779
00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:22.679
there's like a ramp that he didn't
realize. Go back and watch that.

780
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:25.840
There's like something where he kind of
missteps a little bit. I'm like,

781
00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:30.800
holy crap. Would you imagine if
he tripped or kind of got like sideways

782
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:36.440
a little bit like during this angle? That would have been horrific. There's

783
00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:40.159
a couple of points there, what
was it Chad Gable in the background later

784
00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:45.840
to come to find out the was
it the rambling rabbit puppet was behind him.

785
00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:51.840
There was one with Huskus as well, right, you mentioned I don't

786
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:53.679
remember who was in who was the
cam wrangle, but Huskus you had mentioned

787
00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:57.280
was in the background, right,
Yeah, And I'd have to go back

788
00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:01.639
and look because I think there's the
little characters to kind of lead into stuff.

789
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:04.840
And I thought somebod else, I
don't know if you saw this,

790
00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:07.440
somebody else said that they thought they
thought they saw Gunther feed one of the

791
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:09.199
ones laid out backstay. Yeah.
I wanted to address that because you mentioned

792
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:13.840
the bronze stroman thing. The last
thing I'll mention real quick here with like

793
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:15.760
the behind the scenes shot. I
guess there was one on SmackDown last night

794
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:22.280
with Cody Rhodes in the backstage area. The logo of like the circle and

795
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:24.119
then it's like a like a like
a cross with like a smiley face that's

796
00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:29.960
been airing. It almost looks like
a gender. I guess it's the wyaed

797
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:34.119
six logo. Now. It was
on a door in the background, which

798
00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:36.880
is funny that they did that and
then there was no execution. There's been

799
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:39.760
stuff on the Pat McAfee show that
they they were taking over the feed and

800
00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:45.440
then Adam Pierce's Twitter feed has been
a while like taking over. When he

801
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:50.280
was announcing that Chad Gables back in
the match on Mondays for Mondays were on

802
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:53.400
today on Saturday, and I think
there's been a couple of times his social

803
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:59.519
media account has been hacked. What
have you? So you mentioned this dream

804
00:55:59.559 --> 00:56:02.159
sequence stuff, so people thought that
they saw bron Stroman. There was like

805
00:56:02.199 --> 00:56:07.719
this list of victims during that angle, and it was like all these different

806
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:12.440
faces and it was like Bruce Britchard, Triple Ah Gunther, Carmelo Hayes,

807
00:56:12.559 --> 00:56:19.599
Bronz Stroman, and there was a
extra or if it was legit Gunther,

808
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:23.599
that did look like Gunther laid out
just as a pan from I think it

809
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:29.000
was Ramblin Rabbit, Eric Rowan,
and it looked like Carmelo Hayes as well,

810
00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:31.760
an extra who had some corn rows, and it looked like the same

811
00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:36.880
exact way that Carmelo Hayes wears his
hair. So to that point, if

812
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:40.679
if this is a dream sequence where
it eventually leads to those people getting laid

813
00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:45.280
out, Bravo, I love it. But if it is just something where

814
00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:50.119
wrestling fans are like being sluice online
and thinking me, those are those people,

815
00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:54.199
then ww needs to learn from the
situation and do extras that do not

816
00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:59.920
look anything like any of the wrestlers. Because I believe that this is just

817
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:04.199
extras that happen and look like those
wrestlers right now, because the only one

818
00:57:04.199 --> 00:57:07.559
that was the legit wrestler in there
was Chad Gable, But I think Chad

819
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:12.960
Gable being there led to more people
being like, holy crap, I think

820
00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:17.679
that's Gunther. So they need to
definitely address that situation, whether it be

821
00:57:17.719 --> 00:57:22.920
a little bit more poignant that this
is a potential dream sequence foreshadowing, which

822
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:28.719
is they've done and it is fantastic, But if it's just them having extras

823
00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:31.119
that look like wrestlers, then the
restless on the roster, then they cannot

824
00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:35.519
have that because you can't have fans
thinking this because this reminds me of the

825
00:57:35.599 --> 00:57:37.559
Alexa Bliss situation a couple weeks ago. I think Seamus was going to the

826
00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:43.360
backstage area and people were sure that
he walked by Alexa Bliss, and I

827
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:45.840
watched it multiple times today and I'm
I'm pretty sure it's her as well,

828
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:51.440
or it's someone who looks really like
her. Even when you like slow it

829
00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:53.320
down, You're like, man,
that looks like Alexa Blix Bliss, But

830
00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:57.960
I can see that it's potentially not
Alexa Bliss. So I feel like they

831
00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:00.719
need to clean that up a little
bit and and kind of give the viewer

832
00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:07.000
a little bit of a better foreshadowing
conclusion to this entire thing, rather than

833
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.440
us making up our own social media
theories, which is honestly something WWE may

834
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:14.519
want us to do anyway. Yeah, So one of the things I was

835
00:58:14.559 --> 00:58:19.760
thinking about as you were mentioning the
different people that whether it was Carmelo Hayes

836
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:23.039
or an extra or somebody else,
everybody that was kind of mentioned there is

837
00:58:23.079 --> 00:58:28.000
factored into money in the bank.
So the internet sleuth in me is looking

838
00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:30.519
at going, well, we saw
Carmelo Hayes in a qualifier on SmackDown and

839
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:34.639
he was one of the people that
was potentially laid out. Gable's been in

840
00:58:34.719 --> 00:58:38.159
and out this match, you know, ron Stroman Gunther, you know,

841
00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:43.360
maybe not in a match yet,
but it should be announced. Maybe this

842
00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:46.039
leads to something big of money in
the bank as well. And wouldn't it

843
00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:49.559
be weird to have Uncle Howdy or
one of those guys with the money in

844
00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:53.320
the bank briefcase and the fact that
they can be so secretive and mystical and

845
00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:59.239
whatever you want to call it,
that would make a really interesting cashion If

846
00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:01.159
Uncle Howdy money in the bank,
and then the lights go out at some

847
00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:06.559
point during a heavyweight title match and
come back on and that's his cashion.

848
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:12.599
So uh, that's just fantasy fantasy
fan like really fantasy bookings something. But

849
00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:15.639
it was weird that the people they
showed there were ones some of the ones

850
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:19.559
that were involved in the money that
make qualifying matches. Yeah, yeah,

851
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:22.679
it's that would be an interesting tie
in. So the way that they do

852
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:27.679
this, I don't want to jump
to any conclusions yet, because you know,

853
00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:31.400
I'm like, it's again, it
goes to one. If it's storyline,

854
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:36.280
awesome, love it. But if
it's like, holy crap, these

855
00:59:36.320 --> 00:59:38.239
extras really look like Carmelo Hayes gun
through, then we need to change it

856
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:43.320
up a little bit. So really
fun execution of the angle. And then

857
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:45.400
obviously the second part in this doctor
training. I think everybody is kind of

858
00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:52.880
talking about this because I loved the
Fiend bray Wyatt, but as an in

859
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:57.480
ring performer and not the actual in
ring skills of bray White by any means

860
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:02.039
whatsoever, but as an in ring
performer, the Fiend bray Wyatt was hard

861
01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:09.480
at times to love because he destroyed
everybody was so menacing and violent that it

862
01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:15.920
really felt like nobody could or should
ever be able to beat him, and

863
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:21.880
he was so dominant. Whenever you
do these supernatural type characters, whether it

864
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:25.719
be the Fiend bray Wyatt or the
Undertaker, it's hard to do flaws where

865
01:00:25.840 --> 01:00:30.559
it's hard to believe that these people
could actually lose. And I had read

866
01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:35.760
going into the angle being executed that
they were going to try to shy away

867
01:00:35.840 --> 01:00:45.400
from that and shy away from him
having these supernatural powers per se, all

868
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:47.760
of the characters that make like however
they're doing these costumes was going to give

869
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:52.760
them the opportunity to really wrestle and
not be hindered by wrestling, because if

870
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:57.679
you actually go back to that Immortal
documentary on Peacock of bray Wyatt, bray

871
01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:02.519
Wyatt mentions that he had a really
tough time wrestling with the burned Fiend,

872
01:01:04.119 --> 01:01:09.920
and that's what actually creatively changed the
whole moment at Wrestlmania thirty eight where or

873
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:15.079
was the thirty thirty seven excuse me, where his he transformed back to the

874
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:19.559
Fiend bray Wyatt from after being burned
leading into the angle with Randy Orton.

875
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:24.079
So it does seem like there's some
apprehension right now on Okay, this angle

876
01:01:24.239 --> 01:01:29.920
was really good, creative, entertaining
and fun, but how can this translate

877
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:32.360
to professional wrestling? And as much
as I love the angle and thought it

878
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:38.320
was perfect executed amazingly a very memorable
moment in w w EE raw wrestling history,

879
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:40.880
there is a part of me that's
like, Okay, how is this

880
01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:45.480
going to play out now? From
the you know, squared circle perspective?

881
01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:47.840
Yeah, one of the things I
thought about it too, because one of

882
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:54.400
the things it was really hard to
book the Fiend because he's basically, you

883
01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:59.000
know, you're Michael Myers, you're
Freddy Krueger, he's your you know,

884
01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:01.480
horror icon. But the crowd is
cheering for, Like, the crowd loved

885
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:06.199
it so much, it was hard
to make him make it a heel type

886
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:12.480
character. So it's hard to book
monsters when the crowd loves them. It's

887
01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:15.280
just one of those things like good
you know, I've said the show.

888
01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:19.920
Dear God knows how many times good
guys need obstacles to overcome. You need

889
01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:23.159
a reason to cheer for the guy
that you're you're following, and they have

890
01:02:23.239 --> 01:02:30.159
to have things that seem insurmountable at
times, and the Fiend nothing seems insurmountable.

891
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:35.719
Typically, when you book monsters as
heels, the monsters are dominant,

892
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:37.679
but they make one mistake. They
slip on the banana peel. They make

893
01:02:37.719 --> 01:02:42.519
that air in judgment and then the
good guy can capitalize and get the wind.

894
01:02:43.039 --> 01:02:45.079
So when it came to this group, when they're laying it out,

895
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:47.559
I was like, yeah, I
really don't want them to go the supernatural

896
01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:51.360
oute like turn the lights on off. Cool, that's fine that I mean,

897
01:02:51.800 --> 01:02:53.760
you can have an inside guy in
the you know, in the backstage,

898
01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:57.960
killing the power, so to speak. I kind of hope his group

899
01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:04.079
comes off as a cult and they're
followers of Bray or their followers or the

900
01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:07.239
Fiend, because that you can do
a cult and they're not supernatural, which

901
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:12.559
gives them, you know, a
human element than that they can be defeated

902
01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:15.840
at times, but then you have
the group swarming and it seems insurmountable.

903
01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:22.119
So I'm with you. I kind
of hope they kind of stay away from

904
01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:28.719
the supernatural undertaker Caine Bray Wyatt type
stuff and make it more of a humanized

905
01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:30.400
cult. That's one of the things
I loved about listen to fully Ray this

906
01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:32.159
week was that, you know,
somebody was asking him, like, who

907
01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:37.960
the sixth person is in the Wyat
sixth and he said, it's Bray.

908
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:43.360
Bray is in the lantern or whatever. But that's them following Bray and Bray

909
01:03:43.480 --> 01:03:46.159
is the leader of this whole group, and he's the sixth member even though

910
01:03:46.159 --> 01:03:51.960
he's not physically here with us.
And I love that mindset of basically these

911
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:59.679
people coming together to follow the mentality
what the Bray Wyatt character was, and

912
01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:04.639
they're more of a human cult than
supernatural characters. Yeah, it's going to

913
01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:11.519
be intriguing to see how this continues
forward here over the next couple of weeks.

914
01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:15.440
I'm really looking forward to Monday's Raw
and seeing this play out. So

915
01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:19.760
the Wyat six have arrived and I'm
excited. I'm really really excited for it.

916
01:04:20.599 --> 01:04:23.599
And then finally, the last thing
I want to talk about here in

917
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:26.880
regards the big moments, and then
we'll talk about one last thing to wrap

918
01:04:26.920 --> 01:04:30.840
up the show. Jacoba two finally
joins a bood Line on last night's edition

919
01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:34.920
of SmackDown Doctor Trey. I don't
know much about Jacoba two. I do

920
01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:39.400
not watch MLW, but it seems
that a lot of the hardcorees that are

921
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:43.719
out there do watch MLW are very
excited for him to get this opportunity to

922
01:04:43.880 --> 01:04:47.639
be on a bigger scale of WE
and get this opportunity because he could be

923
01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:50.920
a menace, is hard hitting,
his physical as violent, so there's a

924
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:54.559
lot of people that have seen his
work that are very excited. I did

925
01:04:54.599 --> 01:04:58.599
read going into this that there was
concern from the creative team reportedly that he

926
01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:01.920
is so believable in his role that
they think that he may be able to

927
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:08.320
surpass Solo Solo Sokoa, who they're
trying to push forward here obviously in a

928
01:05:08.360 --> 01:05:13.679
main event perspective. Moving along,
what do you know about Jacobatuo if anything,

929
01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:15.760
Doctor Trey and this has been the
long rumor. I think this was

930
01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:19.239
pre wrestle MANI even that the feeling
was is that he had signed with w

931
01:05:19.239 --> 01:05:23.559
W. William was going to be
joining the bloodline at some point. Yeah,

932
01:05:23.639 --> 01:05:27.280
he was Actually to me, I
thought he would come in before Tomatonga

933
01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:34.559
because he's he's freakish, like,
he's so athletic, like he's umaga with

934
01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:39.719
the ability to do moon salts,
like he is one of the most believable

935
01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:43.719
characters of just being like a wild
crazy if you go back, like I

936
01:05:44.280 --> 01:05:47.880
don't know if how old you were
when like the Samoan Swat Team or the

937
01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:53.280
head Shrinkers were around, but as
a kid, those guys actually freaked me

938
01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:58.239
out, Like they were so believable
in those roles that it blurred that line.

939
01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:00.480
I'm much older, and he blurs
the line for me, Like there

940
01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:03.000
are times I'm like, this dude
seems like he's out of control, but

941
01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:09.239
he's he's that believable. Like if
you're looking for a big, bad Samoan

942
01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:12.920
enforcer, that's your guy. And
some of the stuff he can do in

943
01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:15.960
the ring is incredible for a guy
his size. I mean the guys like

944
01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:21.039
three hundred pounds three hundred and twenty
pounds and can fly around the ring at

945
01:06:21.079 --> 01:06:24.880
times. Like That's why I said, Like the best comparison I've had to

946
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:30.199
and we've used it with Solo is
he's a bigger Solo, except that he

947
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:33.440
seems more unhinged than what Solo was
when he came up to the main roster,

948
01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:38.000
Like the Solo he saw on NXT
was different than we saw Solo in

949
01:06:38.039 --> 01:06:42.440
the Bloodlined, which is different from
the Solo E See now he's Jacob Fatu

950
01:06:42.559 --> 01:06:46.280
is legit. So I'm really excited
to see this incarnation because there was the

951
01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:51.639
rumors that he may side whenever we
do the Roman Rock Bloodline civil War,

952
01:06:51.679 --> 01:06:55.599
that he might side with the Roman
site. Well you're not seeing that now,

953
01:06:55.679 --> 01:07:00.280
So it makes it interesting to see
who they bring up to maybe pair

954
01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:04.159
with Roman and the USO's for that
murmured match down the road. But right

955
01:07:04.199 --> 01:07:09.079
now, I mean when you put
the grills of Destiny, Jacob Fatu and

956
01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:13.199
Solo Soakoa together like it's it's gonna
be interesting to see how how well this

957
01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:15.960
all plays out. By the way, the Paul Hayman Them Puck stuff Us

958
01:07:15.960 --> 01:07:19.760
SmackDown was so well done that I'm
like, Paul looks like he's scared for

959
01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:24.800
his life, and I love it, like he is just terrified everything going

960
01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:30.360
on. It's a completely it's a
complete departure from anything he's ever done,

961
01:07:30.440 --> 01:07:32.119
and it's once again just on the
depth of the character of Paul Hayman.

962
01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:35.400
But we did get a Paul Hayman, see I'm punk hug out of this

963
01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:40.039
whole thing as well. I did
love how the announcers put over Jacob Fatu,

964
01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:43.519
like he's the one that the family
members don't want to be around.

965
01:07:43.639 --> 01:07:46.119
And again, I love character development, and you just point out some great

966
01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:50.400
stuff with Paul Hayman on On Friday
SmackDown, which will bring up here momentarily

967
01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:55.760
as well. But if you go
back at that closing segment, there's a

968
01:07:55.760 --> 01:08:00.800
couple of things I did, like
Solo Soka like kind of directing Jacob Fatou,

969
01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:04.079
like you could hear him saying Jake, Jake, like go do some

970
01:08:04.119 --> 01:08:09.920
stuff on the on the top of
the turnbuckle to get his attention. And

971
01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:12.519
then the close of SmackDown. So
there's two parts here. The one part

972
01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:15.640
that I thought was funny is Jacob
Fatwu did not hold the one for long,

973
01:08:15.640 --> 01:08:18.960
and you could see Solo say to
him, like put the one back

974
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:25.319
up. But look at Tongaloa from
behind, Like Tamatunga has a really cool

975
01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:30.319
reaction where he doesn't really change character, but Tongaloa is like apprehensive, like

976
01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:32.920
holy crap, he's with us now, and then puts his finger up like

977
01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:38.680
I don't know if I'm even okay
with this, And it feeds into what

978
01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:42.279
Corey Graves said, like this is
the one that the family members don't want

979
01:08:42.319 --> 01:08:45.079
anything to do with because they're afraid
of him or whatever. So I thought

980
01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:47.960
that was really well done. So
yeah, I'm excited. I don't know

981
01:08:48.039 --> 01:08:51.840
much about Jacobatoo, but I've heard
so many great things about him and I'm

982
01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:58.560
excited to see the latest member of
the Bloodline take place here. With that

983
01:08:58.600 --> 01:09:01.199
said, I just want to say, like, how good. This is

984
01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:04.079
the last thing I want to talk
about. How good was WWE this week?

985
01:09:04.520 --> 01:09:10.000
You had the Wyat six drew in
Punk. That segment on SmackDown was

986
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:14.840
great. Paul Hayman Cempunk Bloodline that
Doctor Trey talked about. I love the

987
01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:18.000
character developments of Paul Hayman and he's
like take me with you, like he's

988
01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:24.159
afraid and then Solo Sokoa everything lost
in all this saying I talked to the

989
01:09:24.720 --> 01:09:29.399
tribal chief he's not coming back,
and Paul Hayman being devastated, which also

990
01:09:29.560 --> 01:09:32.520
makes me think Doctor Tray that maybe
the Roman return is coming sooner than we

991
01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:38.760
think, maybe as early as SummerSlam, or maybe they prolonged a little bit

992
01:09:38.760 --> 01:09:41.479
more. It's definitely gonna be something
like I would feel at a Big Four

993
01:09:41.560 --> 01:09:45.960
pay per view whether it be SummerSlam, survivor Series Royal Rommel, But I

994
01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:49.439
think the fans want to see Roman
now and the iron is very hot.

995
01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:56.359
Would not surprise me if we go
Cody versus Solo at SummerSlam, Cody retains

996
01:09:56.680 --> 01:10:00.439
and you close out that show with
the turn of the Tribal Chief. I

997
01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:03.000
mean that crowd is going to lose
their ship. They are excited to see

998
01:10:03.039 --> 01:10:08.520
Roman reigns back, which is incredible, incredible stuff the creatives doing right now.

999
01:10:09.000 --> 01:10:14.239
Otis finally snapping on Gable, Joe
Hendry and Frankie Kazarian of TNA joining

1000
01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:19.760
NX or appearing on NX T Joe
Hendry's segment is the most viewed and liked

1001
01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:29.039
YouTube or TikTok so maybe both since
WrestleMania, which is Wild seth Rawlins Return

1002
01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:31.039
and now is a match with Damian
Priest Money in the Bank. And I

1003
01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:34.079
also want to say AW was very
good as well. I love the Swerve

1004
01:10:34.199 --> 01:10:39.840
Osprey face to face segment on Wednesday's
dynam My MJF and Rouche was very fun

1005
01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:44.800
as well. Great week for professional
rat saying, but overall, no disrespect

1006
01:10:44.840 --> 01:10:47.319
to AW. I mean, how
good was w W This week Doctor Try.

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They were, they were. It
was weird, like the the pl

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01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:55.760
E was the letdown of the last
seven days as we re record the show,

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01:10:56.279 --> 01:10:59.920
and it was still a solid you
know p l E. But raw

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01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:02.760
was so fantastic. I mean,
Seth Rollins channeled his inner godfather with that

1011
01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:06.640
outfit. Like I kept wait for
the come down to you know, pimp

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01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:12.840
and easy type stuff. But you're
you're seeing the stuff with you know,

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01:11:13.399 --> 01:11:17.560
that was a Babyface Damian Priest promo
out there with with with Seth Rawlins,

1014
01:11:17.560 --> 01:11:19.840
I'm like, oh, we did
that? Does that tie into more so

1015
01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:23.880
with the eventual split of the judgment
day and then of course you like you

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01:11:23.880 --> 01:11:27.359
mentioned the YA six and then SmackDown
with Salt like the stuff even the stuff

1017
01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:30.079
with like Logan Paul and Santos Escobar
in La nine, like that was well

1018
01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:33.520
done and that that's like the throwaway
feud in all of this, you know,

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01:11:33.560 --> 01:11:36.720
and that's gonna be those things and
and I see, I don't know,

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01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:43.039
did you did Joe Henry stuff like
I've I've seen Joe Hendry And just

1021
01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:48.239
for somebody tell me that that's the
most viewed WWE video since WrestleMania Just shows,

1022
01:11:48.279 --> 01:11:50.920
you like, what kind of pull
the guys. His theme song was

1023
01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:56.640
on the charts in England for Crying
Out Loud, Like they're playing it on

1024
01:11:56.880 --> 01:12:00.279
terrestrial radio as a song like it's
crazy. See how well that song's over.

1025
01:12:00.439 --> 01:12:05.960
So maybe the most over song since
Glorious And that's how catchy that thing

1026
01:12:06.039 --> 01:12:09.960
is. I saw people say that
they didn't know who Joe Henry was,

1027
01:12:10.359 --> 01:12:13.039
but they can't get the theme song
out of their heads since they watched NXT

1028
01:12:13.199 --> 01:12:17.520
this week. So just a crazy, crazy week. The Frankie Gazeria thing

1029
01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:23.640
like lost in Shoffle. I am
so happy for Franki Kazerian to get a

1030
01:12:23.800 --> 01:12:27.359
match, be involved in a match
on WW television. I mean, you

1031
01:12:27.399 --> 01:12:30.399
think about how long this guy's been
wrestling, and he's been on TV as

1032
01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:34.000
enhancement talent, but to actually be
in a match after almost twenty years in

1033
01:12:34.039 --> 01:12:38.479
the business in NXC like, I
was so happy for him as well,

1034
01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:44.199
and we still even then didn't get
the weird aw thing with Kazan Kazarian lexis

1035
01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:46.600
kid like we thrown that into the
mix from the previous AC when Cody was

1036
01:12:46.600 --> 01:12:50.159
there, that would be good too, so but just tremendous week of w

1037
01:12:50.319 --> 01:12:55.720
W programming. So always lost in
the Kazarian shuffle is that he was a

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01:12:55.800 --> 01:13:00.319
WWE wrestler at one point. Do
you remember that? Not in the sense

1039
01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:02.920
of like I can remember his name
in WWE, like I know he's been

1040
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:05.720
used at enhancement time. I remember
I had seen him on Sunday Night eight

1041
01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:11.560
a lot back in the late nineties
early two thousands, but like, never

1042
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:15.920
in a featured role. He signed
with the company back in five, was

1043
01:13:16.039 --> 01:13:21.079
on Velocity for a little bit,
and then left the company in August,

1044
01:13:21.079 --> 01:13:26.479
so it was very, very short
lived, and he was like working like

1045
01:13:26.560 --> 01:13:30.079
cruiseweight matches at that point, so
I don't think he ever made it to

1046
01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:32.159
a raw on SmackDown, but it
was working like Velocity on the like the

1047
01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:34.880
SmackDown brand, and then went back
to TNA. It just wasn't working out

1048
01:13:34.920 --> 01:13:40.640
for him. So it was a
really fun and wild week. I was

1049
01:13:40.760 --> 01:13:43.840
not I'm not privy enough to know
much about Joe Hendry as well, but

1050
01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:45.199
I can't get the theme song out
of my head. I know he's very

1051
01:13:45.239 --> 01:13:48.600
over with the fan bases out there, and you could just tell he's got

1052
01:13:48.600 --> 01:13:53.239
a lot of chrisma and is a
captivating character. So that was I'm sure

1053
01:13:53.239 --> 01:13:56.880
a very fun moment for him as
well. So great week of programming on

1054
01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:00.520
we I also don't want to shy
away from saying that I thought aw did

1055
01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:04.119
a really good job as well.
So this has been an action packed episode

1056
01:14:04.159 --> 01:14:09.079
of s RTU. I think it's
time to wrap up this week's edition of

1057
01:14:09.119 --> 01:14:13.199
the show and head down to the
hospital, go see my wife and son,

1058
01:14:13.399 --> 01:14:15.680
and enjoy the rest of the day
here. So with that said,

1059
01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:17.760
let's get a couple plugs and sponsor
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01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:23.399
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1061
01:14:23.600 --> 01:14:26.279
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1062
01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:29.840
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1063
01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:31.720
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1064
01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:35.520
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1065
01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:39.159
With that being said, what's going
on in the one world of Dot Trey

1066
01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:42.439
Franklin this week? Well, like
Jeff said, you can check me out

1067
01:14:42.439 --> 01:14:45.399
on X at the Doctor Trey.
You can find me on Facebook and Instagram,

1068
01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:47.279
Doctor Trey Franklin. When you're on
Facebook, be sure to check out

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01:14:47.279 --> 01:14:50.760
your Rocket CEA Championship Wrestling. We
are actually they're actually having a big show

1070
01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:55.520
tonight. I'm still as I as
we record the show debating what they're not.

1071
01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:59.359
I'm going to make an appearance there
on crutches because this is the last

1072
01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:03.319
five days of me being in a
cast, so I'm trying to debate whether

1073
01:15:03.359 --> 01:15:06.239
or actually making parents or not.
But be sure to check them out.

1074
01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:11.079
And then also just go check out
your local independent wrestling shows. You can

1075
01:15:11.119 --> 01:15:14.520
find your Jacob Fatus, your Joe
Hendry's of the World, your Roushes.

1076
01:15:14.880 --> 01:15:17.239
Those guys are floating around your area
right now and they'll be big stars here

1077
01:15:17.279 --> 01:15:21.840
shortly, so get out, check
them out. Go be a fan of

1078
01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:27.439
pro wrestling before you start, you
know, bitching about how much to take.

1079
01:15:27.439 --> 01:15:31.800
The costs are absolutely absolutely fun week
professional wrestling, fun week for personal

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01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:35.319
lives. Thank you for downloading,
Thank you for making us part of your

1081
01:15:35.319 --> 01:15:39.039
week. Sorry for the delay of
everyone, but I had a very very

1082
01:15:39.399 --> 01:15:44.000
very good reason. And until next
week. For Doc Tray Franklin, I'm

1083
01:15:44.079 --> 01:15:46.199
Jeff Pack. Thank you for downloading. Thank you for listening. This has

1084
01:15:46.239 --> 01:15:47.720
been to still real that show