Is Now The Time To Get The Belt Off Roman Reigns? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #727 – 1/18/24

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It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to
this week's edition The snow Real Doll Show

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EPISOD number seven and twenty seven for
January eighteen, twenty twenty four. Welcome

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to this week's edition of ass R. She you. I am one after

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the show, I am Jeff Peck
joined every single week with my colors,

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The One Only, Doctor Tray Franklin, Doctor Trey. How frozen are you?

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My friends? Uh? You want
to build a snowmand You got some

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snow? No I didn't, but
it's we got some in the in the

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upper part of Alabama, like I
got mostly ice, so that which is

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not good for your location. I
mean, are you guys prepared for that?

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Now? Now do you mean you
guys as an the state or me

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personally. Let's start with you personally
then the state. Yeah, no,

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I'm always prepared for this. I
mean, you know, I spent so

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many years traveling that I'm like,
Oh it's a blizzard. Oh it's a

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hurricane. Oh it's an earthquake.
I've driven through all these things. It

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sounds like you just went through like
the beginning stages of a hurricane promo.

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Yeah, basically to stand back,
but no, like I'm I've traveled the

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country, so there's not really a
weather system I haven't driven through. So

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for me, you know, I've
been up there the Northeast. I think

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it was about five years ago,
six years ago, pre Sammy, when

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I was in Boston and we got
hit with like three feet of snow and

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then I had to drive down from
Boston all the way down to Atlanta and

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even drive through Connecticut like you'd be
driving down the interstate. I said,

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Oh, here's a giant snow drift
in the middle of this lane. Let

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me get over. It's kind of
like playing Froger. Wasn't that like the

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last time you and I saw each
other in person? Yeah, actually I

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think it was. Yeah, I
felt like it was around December time,

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several years ago, and yeah,
I remember there being like a lot of

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snow on the ground. Yeah,
And for me, like like I'm fly

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with them. But and then,
you know, just the years that I've

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been with my wife now Matt to
teach her a little bit about like,

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hey, so when you're driving on
ice, stay off your break. You

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really don't want to accelerate through either. You don't want to get to a

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good speed. And then just kind
of coast and keep your wheel kind of

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straight, like with whichever angle you're
going, keep your wheel in that alignment.

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It's it's pretty easier for that.
And really down here, like it's

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been, it's patchy ice. So
you'll be cruising along sixty miles an hour

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that there's a you know, twenty
foot section of ice on the road.

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You don't hit your brakes, you
just kind of coast through it. So

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we've been good. I've been able
to get around, but the rest of

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the states, No'll not do so
much. Yeah, I was. I

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mean, I tried to stay away
from the news for the most part.

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List it's like things that I need
to know if they're important, they'll make

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their way to me. That's kind
of I feel about things nowadays. But

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when I would turn it on to
keep it back into wrestling, and I

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saw that they were at Little Rock, Arkansas this past Monday, and they

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had like a huge pile of snow. I think in one of the opening

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shots, I'm like, WHOA,
Okay, first off, they've gotten more

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snow than I have in the Northeast. I know, it's like really cold

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throughout the country right now, like
it for me. I think it's eighteen

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degrees here right now as I record
the show. It's terrible, Doctor Trey.

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You have pets. I have a
pet, and trying to get your

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dog to crap in this type of
weather not fun at all, especially when

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what kind of dog do you have? Now? I have a German shepherd.

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Okay, so your German shepherds little
begger than my. So he can

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kind of hover a little bit off
the ground, like when you have a

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French bulldog and a basically a Boston
tearing English bulldog. Like they're low to

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the ground anyway, Yeah, it
is. Basically they just run outside.

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Like we have a ram, like
a like a basically like a handicap sole

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ramp coming on to our front porch. They basically yesterday they're basically sliding down

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the ramp and then doing their business
right there at the bott of the rips

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slightly off the side, thank goodness. And then the fun part was watching

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them try to come back up the
ramp. Now is it still cold there?

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Yeah, we're like today our high
was thirty two. Wow, right

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now it's about nineteen twenty degrees outside. Yesterday the highway seventeen in the lowest

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three and you guys aren't used to
this. No, no, not out

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here. I mean there's homes that
legitimately don't have heat, right, I

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mean, well even my house totally
we don't have We don't have central heating

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and air in this house. So
what are you doing? What are you

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doing right now? For heat that
we have? We have like the no,

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no, I know you're five minutes
ago freakouts. These are not the

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gas don't tell me the space heaters. They're not the gas space here,

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but they are the electrical one we
haven't been surge protector. We have one

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on each in each room. Well
I think we have three each room connected

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to the surge protector to minimize the
voltage and stuff like that. But that's

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kind of what we have because we
don't really have to use them that much

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in the winter, like just occasionally
knock the chill out of the air because

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usually our lows are at worst thirty, so we really we rarely get below

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freezing in this area. No,
this is pretty crazy. Is it set

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to warm up in Alabama this weekend? It's supposed to warm up tomorrow and

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Friday, then we get another blast
of not really freezing weather. It's gonna

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below freezing a little bit, but
it's not supposed to be as bad as

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this blast one was. But then
by Tuesday they said that he should be

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sixty five again. Wow wow wow. Yeah. I know it's supposed to

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warm up here like next week,
but yeah, I mean, I know.

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This is like the beginning of the
wrestling podcast we did see, like

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Little Rock Arkansas had really bad snow
for the start of Ross, so bad

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that they actually had to change the
set for Monday Night R on twenty four

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hours notice because they didn't want to
hang anything off the roof because they were

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afraid that there could have been potential
collapse. I should be laughing, but

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it's like absurd when you read it. And that's more people are like,

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wow, did they change the set
for RAW? I don't know if I

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like it, Like that's what people
are thinking about. It's like, hey,

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they did this because there was potential
roof collapse with the snow on top

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of the building. Like this is
for those that are outside the United States

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that are listening to this podcast.
For where Doctor Trey lives, for it

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to be really cold, for it
to have ice, for there to be

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snow and not just like an inch
or two of snow, but like six

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to twelve inches of snow is extremely
rare. And this just appears to be

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those times where it always feels like
it's a lead up to the Royal Rumble

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to tie again back into professional wrestling. That it's like we have like this

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wild cold snap in the United States. So I hate it, but I

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live in an area that you're used
to it, Doctor Turayon not so much.

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So I hope all of our folks
that are down south that listen to

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the podcast here are doing all right. That seems to be a traditional thing

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that we talk about this time of
the year on the show. Another non

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wrestling thing, Uh my Boogeyman returns
this Saturday night, Doctor Trey, and

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it isn't the Boogeyman for professional wrestling, But I think we should get this

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out of the way, uh myself, Green Bay Packers fan slash owner Doctor

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Trey, San Francisco forty nine Ers
fan. As long as we've been doing

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this podcast, the forty nine Ers
and the Packers I think have meant in

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the playoffs maybe three times and every
one I think it's been more than that

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because it was two times just in
the past for years. Uh to the

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playoffs too. Was it THEUSY Championship
game? There was the Auzy Championship game

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where so you did it at Garoppolo
got the Super Bowl? Was that the

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most or game where he ran for
like two hundred yards? Yeah? It

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was someone saying all right, so
hold on, there's so the twenty tens,

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and I know people that don't care
about football are going to be like,

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what the hell are they doing this
for? But we're going to do

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it. Okay. Twenty twelve playoffs, the forty nine Ers won forty five

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thirty one at Candlestick. That was
the NFC Division Round twenty thirteen. They

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won at lambo I remember that one. That was a field goal in the

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game. That was the wild Card
Round twenty nineteen NFC Championship game. They

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beat the Packers thirty seven twenty So
that was twenty nineteen, so that's three

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and oh. And then NFC Divisional
Round twenty twenty one playoffs they defeated the

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Packers thirteen ten at Lambeau, so
that is four and oh in the playoffs.

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The forty nine Ers are during the
history of the Sorialta Show and they'll

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be doing it for a fifth time. So I fully expect that this is

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going to be another fun bug a
boot time for me. See, and

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I'm in the opposite room because I
still remember the Brett Farviers where the Packers,

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oh the Nighters in the playoffs.
They did, but they did outside

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the Steve Young was the Steve Young
Terrell Owen's game, which which Jerry Rice

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fumbled the ball. Yeah, the
famous he didn't, He did not fumble.

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That was a nineteen ninety eight playoffs
in the wild card round. Yes,

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the catch two as forty nine ers
call it, but Packers fans call

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it Jerry Rice fumbled the ball,
but like far owed the Niners in the

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playoffs usually. So like I still
have those years in my head because I'm

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like, oh great, this is
a new quarterback and he doesn't have that

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tie at San Francisco, like you
know, Aaron Rodgers did. So like

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Jordan Love is like, oh this, I'm stressing already because are you nervous?

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Yes? Are you more nervous than
any other time that the Niners have

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played the Packers. Now with Aaron
Rodgers, let's just say for that for

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that sake, because I can understand
the mid nineties because yes, the Packers

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did own the Niners in the playoffs, with the exception of like the catch

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two game that we talked about,
But are you nervous about Saturday twenty twenty

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nineteen. I was probably more nervous
the one that that Garoppolo got Super Bowl

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with, because I was like,
I did not think Garoppolo could now do

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a Brett Park I mean Aaron Rodgers. I did think that was gonna happen,

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So I was probably more, but
I didn't. I think I take

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that back. I think part of
it is like my expectations are higher this

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year because we're the number one seed. We're typically you guys were seated higher

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than us in the playoffs, so
we had nothing to lose. So I

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get more nervous when we're the favorite
because I don't like being the favorite.

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I like being the underdog because if
we lose, then I don't feel bad

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we weren't supposed to win. But
if we're the favorites and we lose,

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then it just it's really depressive.
Yeah, for nobody who people don't like

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give a shit about football. Apologies, like we'll get to wrestling here momentarily,

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but this Green Bay team is playing
with some serious house money right now,

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Like they're dangerous. They are,
yeah, but I mean like every

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time they win, I said to
my wife on on Sunday when they were

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playing the Cowboys, like all day
long, like usually high anxiety for the

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playoff games, and there were certainly
there some there, but I said to

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her at one point, I was
like, this is the most non anxiet

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read and I've ever been for a
playoff game and some time for the Packers,

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because one, I didn't expect him
to be there from the start of

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the season. Two they've been on
like this wild ride roller coaster still,

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like three weeks ago, didn't think
they were going to make the playoffs and

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here we are now. So it's
like every time they win, it's like,

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yeah, I mean this is this
is something else. So if they

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are able to get past San Francisco
dout Trey, I will start to get

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nervous. I'll probably definitely be nervous
on Saturday, for sure, But if

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they are able to get past the
Niners, like it's it's like wait a

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minute, now, they're one went
away from the Super Bowl, which is

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absolutely mind blowing. The pat the
forty nine ers making the Super Bowl even

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right now is not mind blowing to
me. Packers getting there is, so

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I was curious to hear if you
were nervous at all for this. Yeah,

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And the bad thing is I don't
have any Like there's no rivalry between

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this version of the Packers and Irist. There's nobody really on the team that

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I just like immensely. Like Jordan
Love I'm like, all right, he's

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pretty cool. I like him so
far, Like Romeo Dobbs see the University

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of Nevada, which is my mom's
hometown at school, so I'm like,

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hey, Robbo Dob's pretty cool.
Christia Watson's pretty cool. Like the only

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guy I dislike is Aaron Jones is
because of you know, he's dug the

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longest agreed guy left on the team. He's also like one of the nicest

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human beings, which is wild.
So I get it. I don't have

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that, Like, you know,
I don't have that hatred for Mark Shimura,

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like Fair Fair and Brett Farv and
Rogers Deavante goes on even Rogers did.

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I never really hated him because I
knew he was a closet forty Iron

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fan, so I can't really hate
the guy. For him. I never

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really have had dislike for the Niners
in all honesty, which is bizarre because

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I went to like I had a
one of my best friends was a forty

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nine Ers fan, and when we
were growing up, obviously at that point

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in time, Packers were kicking their
ass, but even then, I probably

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never really hated a Niners team other
than maybe those Torell Owens, Jerry Rice,

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Steve Young days. I mean,
that's that's even when they've had Kaepernick

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and Garoppolo and Alex Smith the last
fifteen years, it's just kind of been

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like tip your cap. They've always
been the better team, They've always been

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better coach, whether it be Kyle
Shanahan or Jim Harbaugh, they've had better

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players most of the time. I
guess Garoppolo is the one that I would

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say I can't believe we lost to
them. But defensively, Joey Bosa,

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it's George Kittle, It's like people
that are likable. So my expectations for

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this Saturday are I'm just going to
ride the wave. It's probably the lowest

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confidence I've had in a Packers team
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sometime in the playoffs, but this
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I'm excited, Doctor try, I'm
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he's like, yeah, I really
good before in this game, but dear,

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I mean worse. At least I've
got the Cowboys. I'm not the

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Eagle if we now at least we're
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true, that is one way to
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when the Cowboys are eliminated from the
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our America's team right now. Yeah, because you hate the Cowboys more than

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I hate the Cowboys more than Niners. But the Niners have been This

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is like what the Seahawks were for
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Seahawks just kind of owned us for
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like overcame that hump and blah blah
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owned the Packers the last fifteen years. So I just want to get this

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like monkey off my back quite honestly. I mean I can't sit here and

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like next week prepare for the Rumble
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Packers lost to the Niners again,
that would be five and oh during the

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history of the Packers are the playoffs
here during this podcast that we would be

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tipping the cap to Doctor Trey as
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yeah, but you got did you
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there? So there are, but
those those don't count. Come on,

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they do to me because in my
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like nine to zero against a team
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losses in their big in somewhere,
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the upper advantage in the playoffs.
Right now, people that have downloaded this

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podcast are probably pissed. We've spent
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NFL. But you know what,
this is what we're gonna do. It's

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our podcast kind of slow week and
professional wrestling as we gear up towards the

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the pay per view and what have
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with some folks that are located or
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these three is a Niners fan.
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person this match was born and raised
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I'm assuming that they probably are not
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Nowadays it was it appears here Doctor
Trey, and you and I are recording

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this as aw Dynamite is airing live
this week as we speak. But the

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close to last week's edition of the
homecoming edition of Dynamite was the Young Bucks

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making their return, the first time
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looks, mustaches galore. They interrupt
Sting's promo where it was like, okay,

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so who is going to be your
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They come out, Sting never answers, and all signs are pointing towards

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that the final match of Sting will
be he and Darby Allen taking on the

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Young Bucks fight. Full Select is
reporting that the ending of this last week's

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edition of Dynamite was the result of
a long time plan for Sting's retirement match

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as a we Hall of Famers,
a major saying who his opponents would be,

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and as of several weeks ago,
the Young Bucks with the team,

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Sting was on board with facing The
new look for the Bucks including far less

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garsh gerrish, garsh clothing, I
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whatever, then usual and newly manicured
mustaches is said to be part of their

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long plan shift and presentation. This
is written by Wrestling Ink Shout Out There.

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Sting's is reportedly adamant that his last
match to be a tag team match,

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alongside his Meanty Darby and Allen Darby
Allen. According to the report,

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aw has done what it can provide
whatever Sting requests on his road of retirement,

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including fellow w Hall of Famer Nature
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Fifles reporting that there are no plans
for Flair to be an in ring

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participant in Sting's final match, but
the former ww World Await champion has been

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pushing for more physical interactions during his
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This comes to us from Wrestling Observer
newsletter via Wrestling Purists on Twitter. When

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Sting was asked who he wanted to
face in his final match, the Young

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Bucks were his choice as he loved
doing the Forbidden Door twenty twenty two match.

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The Young Bucks were originally going to
take more time off before returning,

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but Sting asked them and they weren't
about to turn that down. So doctor

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Treay, I simply ask you.
With everything now painted of this picture Sting

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Darby Allen taking on the Young Bucks, it appears it will be his final

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match at Revolution. Is this the
right choice? Is it my personal preference?

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Probably not, But then again it's
it's you know, it's sticking.

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If this is who he wants to
go with, if that's who he wants

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to be his final dance partners,
and you know, it's not really up

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to us to to critique that,
Like, this is who he wants to

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wrestle. He wants Darby there,
he wants Flair there, Like you know,

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I'm sure if if if Arn could
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side or something, he'd be okay
with that too. So now, if

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this is what the man wants for
his final match, Like I I'm on

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board with it because that's what he
wants. And it's kind of how don't

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want to say. It's like,
you know when somebody's uh making their you

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know, their will, and they're
like, I just want to honor your

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last wishes. This is kind of
Sting's last wishes. And if he's happy

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with that choice, then you know
it's it's awesome And I mean, you're

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not gonna get a better tag team
to work with, and and the Bucks

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are going to bump their ass off
and make them look like a million dollars

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on his way out the door.
So it's a good matchup in that sense

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because you don't have to worry about
somebody making Sting look bad in his last

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match. The Bucks are going to
make sure Sting looks good and take care

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of Darby and you know they'll probably
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be an enjoyable time for all.
So you answer, which I figured would

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be the way right? Is it
the right choice? Who is us to

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pick it out? That's what he
wants for his retirement match short, so

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be it like we're not going to
go against a legend like Sting. But

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let's look at it from what you
were hoping it to be. What would

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be your dream farewell Sting match?
Because when I originally thought about it,

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I think we even mentioned it during
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this would be his last match a
couple of months ago. I always thought

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it was going to be Sting versus
Darby Allen, and I thought it was

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going to be a torch passing match. Let it be a single match.

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He's been riding around with Sting this
entire time, you know, Let that

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be the way that they carry it
out. I think it's nice that he

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wants to have it still have Darby
in the match, but from a tag

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team perspective. But I would have
liked to see Sting do one more singles

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match on his way out Trey.
That would have been my dream match scenario

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for Sting retirement. Yeah, I
was thinking, and with all this stuff

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going on with Sting Derby the Christian
Cage group so like that, I was

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hoping for maybe Sting Christian Cage.
Ideally when this is person else, I

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was hoping the Adam Copeland and Christian
Cage thing would have been died off and

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we could have got maybe Stinging Derby
versus Copeland Cage, and I thought that

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would have been a really cool final
match. But you know, I was

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like I was looking before you get
Sting Christian Cage T and T title online,

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Sting wins, wins a championship in
aw and then retires and then Cage

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invokes some kind of rematched clause and
get the belt back, you know,

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something like that. But yeah,
obviously, like the people that you know

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he has history with are really floating
around the building anymore, and there's not

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a whole lot of guys that you
work with. I mean, it would

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have been maybe cool to maybe get
Paul White involved because there is some big

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show giant stingwo Wolf packed tie in
stuff like that like that would be pretty

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cool, but really, like when
you look at the roster that there's not

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a whole lot of guys that he
has a ton of history with. So,

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like you know, fantasy booking,
Stinging Edge would have been a cool

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match. Stinging Christian Kge would be
a good match, but you know,

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on paperwork, like I said a
second, the Young Bucks, you know

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they're gonna make him look fantastic.
They're gonna make him look better than maybe

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Jeff Jared and Jay Lethal did for
Rick Flair's final match. So that's just

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kind of how I'm looking at,
Like, those guys are buff machines.

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They can make anybody look good.
So it's still not a bad choice.

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I don't know necessarily enough that was
Jeff jar and Jay Lethal's faught, but

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yes, yeah, yeah, neither
you're there. So looking towards the match,

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I I mean, we've still got, you know, six seventy eight

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weeks to talk about this. But
is there a scenario where Sting doesn't win

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this match? Because the Young Bucks
coming back early reportedly were set to be

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some major heels working in There were
reports of a stable with Brandon Cutler and

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Colt Cabana as well, and really
playing up how they've ran a lot of

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people out of the company. What
have you? Is? Is there a

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world that they lose? Because you
can make a case like, well,

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they're going to be around for a
while, Darby's going to be around for

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a while. Torch passing right,
the guy that is retiring usually takes the

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l, should and would and will
Sting take the L in this match?

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Should? He? Probably not?
I mean there's not there's not a title

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on the line, there's no there's
no rub. I mean unless that stable

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comes together between now and then,
there's no real rub for them retiring sting.

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I mean you mentioned the other guys. I go back to the Kurt

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Angle Baron Corbin match. It was
supposed to be a big sendoff, and

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really, I mean, Baron Corbin's
done nothing since that match, a Wrestle

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Media Kurt angle. So you know
Rick Flair's her retirement match, I mean

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he got I mean, the Shawn
Michael's was great for Sean, but even

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then you felt bad that Sean won. You know, it was a good

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set off for that. But when
you look at this match in particular,

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like, I don't see the upside
because not to mention, yeah, they're

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not in charge of booking, but
the Young Bucks are still seen as even

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though maybe they're not EVPs anymore,
they are or what they're still looked at

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as kind of in that management role. And if management wins a match against

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a guy in his retirement match,
that's indie show booking one on one where

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the booker goes over. So that's
I don't see an upside to the Young

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Bucks getting the victory in this match, Plus it would just leave a sour

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taste in people's mouth, much like
the current Angle match. If you know,

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the Bucks get the win and Sting
goes out with an L. So

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I just maybe the only way you
do it is if Darby takes the pen

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and fall, so Sting's not the
one getting pinned, and that's how they

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you hide it a little bit.
But really, I just don't see the

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upside and having the Bucks go over
this match. I just had this vision

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of the match ending with Sting and
Darby Allen putting both the young Bucks into

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a scorpion deathlock, and that's how
it happens. Both at the same time

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they're both tapping out. Crowd goes
nuts, sending them fans home happy.

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You do that DIY double submission where
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Ye, well they won't tap out, and finally that they stinging Darby

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pull them apart a little bit where
they have to tap out, they're biting

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their fingers stuff like that. They
could even go r old school right style

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and hopefully this resonates with some of
the fans. Were like, the wrestlers

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come out and they're surrounding the rings, slamming the ring, get all excited.

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It's it's gonna be pretty cool,
and we've got plenty of time to

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talk about it. But figuring like
that's the direction that they're going, I

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was really surprised by it, kind
of thrown off. Did not see a

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tag team match coming. Always felt
there was gonna be a singles match.

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Always felt like Darby was number one
if it was going to be the singles

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match. But this is the direction
that sing wants to go, and I'm

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sure they build these next six,
seven, eight weeks there are gonna be

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a lot of fun. So we
will see as the Young Bucks prepare themselves

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to take on Stinging Darby Allen and
what will be his retirement match at the

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aw Revolution pay per view in early
March, which can't get here soon enough

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with this friggin weather looking towards next
week's pay per view. So I was

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watching SmackDown this past Friday and they're
hyping up the Fatal four way with Orton

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aj Styles La Night Roman Reigns.
There's a lot of talk right now about

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Roman Reigns being the champion, potentially
taking on the Rock for the title at

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WrestleMania. People not being happy with
that because they feel like it should be

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cod He taking on Roman Reigns again
for the championship. It shouldn't be Rock

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and Roman with the title on the
line. Blah blah blah blah blah blah

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blah blah. And I thought to
myself, you know, there could be

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a world where WWE decides to take
the title off of Roman Reigns next Saturday

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at the Royal Rumble fatal four way
match. He's protected, he actually doesn't

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get pinned, and then they could
start building towards Roman Reigns versus The Rock

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with no championship, because I think
everybody can agree you don't need a championship

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involved in this match to make it
big and have people excited to see The

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Rock and Roman Reigns battling and out. The head of the table can be

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enough for the tribal chief position can
be enough. And I was like,

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there's actually a chance here. And
if there's a chance, who could they

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put the title on. Maybe Randy
Orton, Maybe Cody Rhodes wins the Rumble,

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and maybe it's Randy Orton versus Cody
Rhoads, which makes a ton of

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storyline sense at WrestleMania so that Cody
Rhodes can finish the story. This is

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pretty damn intriguing, Doctor Trey.
And it's just me with my fantasy book

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in here. But I was like
watching SmackDown, I'm like, I think

403
00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.920
there's a real possibility. Am I
crazy? Or do I have an idea

404
00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:57.279
here that could be potentially taking place
in about ten days? It's not crazy.

405
00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:02.039
I think the Rumble is one of
those first I don't want to see

406
00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:04.599
the test for Triple H. But
you know, for years you died to

407
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:11.759
this show. And sometimes the title
gets thrown into a match that doesn't need

408
00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.319
the title, But that was always
evinced thing, whether it was you know,

409
00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.799
Rock seen at two, or they
went for some reason a title like

410
00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:22.839
Lesnar reigns. A couple of times
that belt got thrown into the mix during

411
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:26.039
one of those main events. You're
like, what, like, we don't

412
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:30.640
even really need the belts, Like
it's it's not as important in this matchup

413
00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:33.759
as it could be in another one. And this is one of those times

414
00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:37.400
where you're absolutely right, like you
could pull the trigger. Have Orton pinned

415
00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:42.799
a j Orton wins the title.
Roman doesn't get pinned. Roman then goes

416
00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:47.119
to wrestlemanting to fight the Rock,
and Cody wins The Rumble a game we

417
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:51.480
get Cody Norton, and that way
you don't you have Rock in Roman,

418
00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:55.680
and that way it makes it more
intriguing because if the Rock is fighting Roman

419
00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:59.119
for the title, I don't think
anybody expects The Rock to win. If

420
00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:03.799
Rock's fighting straight up with no title, now that's a different little question as

421
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:10.240
to who gets to win. So
I don't think you're crazy in that idea.

422
00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:14.160
But then we had those other reports
where they added AJ and l A.

423
00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:21.240
Knight to protect Randy for something down
the line. So I don't think

424
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:25.559
it's a far fetched idea, but
it is. It would go against WWE

425
00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:30.200
precedent for what they usually do heading
into WrestleMania season. Yeah, it just

426
00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.319
got me thinking because there's these reports
out there that Roman isn't supposed to be

427
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:36.799
an elimination chamber and that this match
at the Rumble will be his last match

428
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:42.440
before WrestleMania. I guess he's not
said to be at Backlash either following WrestleMania,

429
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:47.920
and his schedule is starting to resemble
a lot less date. More of

430
00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:52.400
that, Brock lessner schedule where he's
popping up at at certain times throughout the

431
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:55.920
year, wrestling at the big shows, whether it be SummerSlam, WrestleMania,

432
00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:00.920
Survivor Series, what have you,
and popping up here and there as it's

433
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:07.680
champion, and that's not great.
I am all four long title reigns,

434
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:14.279
but give me twenty twenty, twenty
twenty one most of twenty twenty two Roman

435
00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:17.960
reigns versus what we saw this past
year, and I'm still down for this

436
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:21.759
title reign Doctor Trey. I want
to see more of those first couple of

437
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:25.599
years he held the title versus this
past year, because this past year was

438
00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:30.359
not not great because he really was
not a round. After Wrestleming, he

439
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.960
had the match with jay Usso then
he had the stuff with La Night at

440
00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:37.720
Saudi Arabia and that was it.
I mean, here and there he's on

441
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:42.640
television and he's such a compelling and
fun character, entertaining character during this run

442
00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:48.240
as a tribal chief that one of
our favorite storylines, one of our favorite

443
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:53.559
groups, the Bloodline, has completely
started to deteriorate from a we television standpoint

444
00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:59.480
since August. Really, I mean, I don't have as much compelling interest

445
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:03.359
in them as a storyline, as
I did earlier in twenty twenty three when

446
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.400
obviously the Samy's Ain stuff was going
on, and then later in the year

447
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.359
when the Jay Uso stuff was going
on and Jimmy USO's stuff. So it's

448
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:18.240
it's kind of ow. Yeah,
it's it sucks that he's not on television

449
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:21.920
anymore. And I just think that
maybe this is the time that you pull

450
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:25.920
the trigger and allow someone else to
run with the championship and move forward with

451
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:30.079
original laid plans of putting the title
on Cody at some point would be my

452
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:33.000
guess. Let me ask you this, and this is what I was thinking

453
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.319
about as you were answering that question. Do you view Roman's title as being

454
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:44.000
more important than Seth's World headweight title? I do, because of you know,

455
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:48.440
it's Seth's title is still brand new. I mean it doesn't, which

456
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.480
is funny because when they bought brought
back the World of weweight championship in twenty

457
00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.720
twenty in two thousand and two to
combat the undisputed title when brock Lesard was

458
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.519
championed, then they just gave it
to Triple H, which was not a

459
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.480
great creative way to do it.
I did look at it as equal titles,

460
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:06.640
and I looked at those two titles
as equal, and I think that

461
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:08.920
was the old school fan of me, because that was the ww Championship.

462
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:12.759
This is a new world title on
raw that has no history, has no

463
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:18.519
lineage, so they're still building it
up. But it's like just a step

464
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.200
below the Universal Championship that Roman Reigns
is holding, because I look at it

465
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.319
as a workhorse title similar to the
Intercottinental Championship. Right now, That's what

466
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.400
I was trying to figure out,
like the sheer fact that Seth has defended

467
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:34.160
this title so many times. I
think they said like sixty six times.

468
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:40.519
Yeah, it almost counted. How
shows It almost works against the prestige of

469
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:47.640
the title because we see it so
often that it's become an expectation of a

470
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.839
show as opposed to a special attraction, so to speak. And I don't

471
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:55.759
know if that's the wrestling fan because
even though you know, you and I

472
00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:00.640
talked about aw Lot, the aw
World Championship for a good part that MDF

473
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:02.319
fraud. He have a big match
of everything, we wouln't see it for

474
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.599
like two weeks, and so it
did kind of make it feel like a

475
00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.559
little more special when he did show
up. And with seth situation where he's

476
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:13.920
on Raw all the time and he's
de been to this title everywhere all the

477
00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:16.920
time, it almost, I don't
want to say, depreciates the value,

478
00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:22.599
but like you know, if your
favorite food truck vendors in the same spot

479
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.880
every single day all the time,
you just kind of go, oh,

480
00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:28.759
well, I don't have to go
there today. I can go there tomorrow

481
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.400
the next day, whereas you're like, hey, he's only here once every

482
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:37.119
three weeks, I have to go
get those tacos today, you know,

483
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:40.160
saying like if that makes sense,
like the specialness of it, maybe because

484
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:45.240
it is a workhorse title is lost
because we have it all the time,

485
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:50.440
or as the Universal Championship is seen
as more prestigious because of the infrequency of

486
00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:53.880
its appearances. Yeah, it's it's
it's a workhorse title. Right now.

487
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.119
I think we're on the same page, and it's been defended so much that

488
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:00.440
it kind of loses this of it
it's importance in a way, like you

489
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:06.079
respect it that he's doing it,
but it's I don't know, it's like

490
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:09.799
lost that prestige, Like I dig
that they do World Everyweight Championship matches from

491
00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:13.839
time to time unraw, but I
feel like they've been doing it very frequently

492
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:17.079
lately, so I think that kind
of loose a little bit of luster.

493
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:22.920
You take it for grants, you
do, you absolutely do. And I

494
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.079
guess while we're talking about there is
a seth Rons factor in this all right

495
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:29.880
now because he got hurt on Monday's
raw. We don't know as we record

496
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:31.839
this what the severity of the injury
is, if it will keep him out

497
00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:37.799
for the WrestleMania. There's really no
direction of it. They're saying that seth

498
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:43.640
Rons is neither pessimistic nor optimistic.
They have no idea of the severity of

499
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:45.599
the injury. It could be really
bad, it could be nothing. So

500
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:51.160
that's a bit concerning, and maybe
this changes the story on next week's ition

501
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:54.240
the podcast with the direction of everything. But I do think like if there's

502
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:59.079
a time to get the title off
of Rains and still protect Rains, it's

503
00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:01.319
now Doctor Troy, because if it's
not at the Rumble, then we're going

504
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:07.759
to get Roman versus Rock at WrestleMania
forty right now for the championship, and

505
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.440
then I believe Roman is going to
be holding that title even longer in twenty

506
00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:15.480
twenty three, to the point where, at best, excuse me, twenty

507
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:19.679
twenty four, at best he may
drop it at SummerSlam to a Cody Rhodes

508
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.960
like that, or he could go
around the world again, another way around

509
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:28.480
the earth and be the champion for
at Wrestle many forty one, and then

510
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:32.159
we're looking at well over what seventeen
hundred days at that point as universal champion.

511
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:37.840
So it's interesting times because I do
think, given the direction of Roman

512
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.159
reigns right now, I would take
the title off of them because it just

513
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:45.000
has not been as enjoyable as it
was the last six months. What was

514
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:50.679
Hogan's time was a forty he jeez, I know, uh, I think

515
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:55.000
Hogan. I'll have to look this
up here. I thought. I think

516
00:34:55.039 --> 00:35:00.440
Cogan may have had like fifteen there
was the one where we're and took the

517
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:05.199
title, because I think that was
close to fifteen hundred days. And then

518
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:08.440
that's where that's where the tie in
comes in, where if they don't pull

519
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:15.000
the trigger at Rumble, he's not
losing the title to the Rock because obviously

520
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:16.960
the Rock can't defend the title,
and that Rock doesn't have the schedule to

521
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:22.320
really do anything with it, then
it probably won't get lost until the next

522
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:27.679
wrestle media because that would have him
beat Hogan his record, and then you

523
00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:30.039
take the belts off of him because
at that point he's now past Hulk in

524
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:35.440
the longest run of the I know
they say modern air, but they still

525
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:39.159
count of one of Bruno's runs in
there, Like, yeah, I'm looking

526
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:45.800
at it right now. So Rains, where is it? I just had

527
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:49.039
it here. I just turned my
phone side away so I could see the

528
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.079
dates, and of course I lost
it. I sound like my dad on

529
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:59.159
the phone. Where was it?
My dad says part two? Yes,

530
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:05.159
what the hell is? So?
I saw that Rains was at twelve thirty

531
00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:09.559
five, and he's two days away
from passing a rain that Bruno had,

532
00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:14.960
which was twelve thirty seven, and
then Hogan was like fourteen seventy four,

533
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:17.559
so he made it all the way
to exprestl Meinia. He'd be over fifteen

534
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:22.199
hundred days, so that he would
break he would break Hogan's mark. He

535
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:25.840
would break Hogan's mark this year like
SummerSlam time. Yeah. So that's that's

536
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:30.920
where that issue comes in. If
you don't pull the trigger. Now you

537
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:34.960
can have him break Hogan record,
which would then arguably make him the greatest,

538
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.360
the greatest heavyweight champion of all of
all time, you know, outside

539
00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:43.239
of Brute because it's a whole different
world. Yeah, so here here it

540
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:45.360
is, sorry doctor Trace. So
yeah, Roman right now, Court in

541
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:50.559
Wikipedia is at twelve thirty five.
Next on the list is Bruno San Martino

542
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:54.079
with twelve thirty seven, so he
would pass that by like Friday's SmackDown.

543
00:36:55.239 --> 00:37:01.360
Three is Bob Ackland at fourteen seventy. Hogan is number two at fourteen seventy

544
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:07.079
four, and then Bruno San Martino
is twenty and three, which is like

545
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.599
eight years. So no, that's
not happening. But WrestleMania season, you

546
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:15.119
get to two hundreds some of my
days is roughly seven months, so that

547
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:20.000
would be around SummerSlam if Summerslam's in
August, yep, so you could have

548
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:23.119
him hold the title always SummerSlam.
Let Cody beat him. There. At

549
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:29.440
that point, range is jump past
Backland and Hogan and is only second to

550
00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:34.079
Bruno. So as much as I'd
love to see the belt change hands now

551
00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:36.840
and just get rolling in the rocks
straight up to WrestleMania because then you and

552
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:38.840
I could actually have a debate as
to who you have win that match.

553
00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:45.000
There's a lot of logic WB wise
to have him hold the belt all the

554
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.400
way to at least SummerSlam, if
not Wrestle Media next year and pull the

555
00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:52.840
trigger there. It's interesting, It
is interesting. So you think if they

556
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:54.880
just get him past number two,
I mean, he's not going to reach

557
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:59.760
Bruno. No, no, I
mean if they had him go there for

558
00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:04.079
the for in our record, he
wrestling once every six months, So there

559
00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:07.199
we go. I think he's trying
to transition slowly into the other stuff now.

560
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:12.320
But I mean, I mean his
kids are like in their like their

561
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:16.719
early tens oughts. I think I
think, I think they're I think he

562
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:22.760
had some kids during the pandemic.
Actually does he like two sets of twins

563
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.159
or something weird like that. I
think he had, like the older sets,

564
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:28.679
which was the one we saw the
reading commercial. I think they're like

565
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:30.719
in their teens now and the other
sets like in their threes and fours.

566
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:34.559
I know he has a daughter because
he was having tea with her in that

567
00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:39.639
same commercial. So yeah, it
appears he's slowly or I guess kind of

568
00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:44.760
fast speeding into that like wrestling at
just the big events, and he sells

569
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:46.800
the championship. So we'll see.
We'll see if this is the time to

570
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:50.840
get the title off of him.
We'll see what the bill is on Friday

571
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:53.039
SmackDown. Obviously, I think they're
doing the contract signing. Roman's supposed to

572
00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:57.800
be there. But again, I
mean, you've got a fatal four way,

573
00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:00.079
you've got triple threats. We've talked
about this in the past, the

574
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:01.960
Roman reigns in his title reign.
If you want to get the title off

575
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:06.400
of them, now's the time to
do it. And I don't think anybody

576
00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:08.639
would bat an eye against it if
they chose to do it at Saturday or

577
00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:15.360
next Saturday's Royal Rumble because of the
potential direction of the w Universal Championship.

578
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:20.239
Speaking of the Royal Rumble, Doctor
Trey, as I was watching ROS this

579
00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:25.880
past Monday, I could not get
over the fact that I don't remember,

580
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.079
at least on the men's Royal Rumble
side. I think the women's Royal Rumble

581
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:32.440
build has been good as well,
but just not as good as the men's

582
00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:39.119
Yet Royal Rumble matches that are being
built very well creatively, like the men's

583
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:44.599
match. Everybody that is entering the
Rumble wants to win it, says they

584
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:49.119
want to win it, has a
legitimate reason to win it, and makes

585
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:51.920
you go, oh, you know, now, I won't remember why the

586
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.159
Rumble was an important match because there
was a period of time where it would

587
00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:58.400
be like maybe two to four people
Doctor Trey and I thought were going to

588
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:01.039
win the Rumble match each and every
year, and this year it's a little

589
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:05.760
bit more of a crapshoot. I
certainly have my favorites and picks right now

590
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:07.480
that we'll talk about in the next
week the week's edition of the podcast.

591
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:12.960
But whether it's Drew, whether it's
Cody, whether it's Bobby Lashly, whether

592
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.599
it's CM Punk, You've got some
people coming out there saying they want to

593
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:19.840
win this match. They're declaring for
the match, and it has me hyped

594
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.840
and it has me really going and
thinking that this could be a very special

595
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:27.559
Royal Rumble match. And they're doing
the same thing with the women. It's

596
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.440
not as good yet to the level
of the men on the build, but

597
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:35.119
they're doing it really well and I'm
very much so just really enjoying the build

598
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:37.320
for the Royal Rumble matches taking place
in about nine to ten days, Doctor

599
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:43.119
Trey. Yeah, let me like, this is maybe the most show that

600
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:46.000
I've asked you the most questions.
Do you have more than let's say,

601
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:50.119
three people that you think can actually
win the Men's Rumble? I mean,

602
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:53.239
in realistically, I have three people? Do you want me to share?

603
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:55.719
No? No, no, we'll
save it. We'll save it. But

604
00:40:55.880 --> 00:41:00.400
like I'm at two, Okay,
I have at least three. Okay,

605
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:04.880
well, actually now I think I
do have three, but one I don't

606
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.440
think is much more of a little
bit more long shot because I think he'll

607
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:13.000
be in a different match. But
I like the build. I don't think

608
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:17.800
it's more about who I think will
win. I'm really intrigued by some potential

609
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:22.440
fights bringing out during the Rumble,
like I honestly, I mean, of

610
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:24.079
course, you want to see punkin
Rows going, You want to see punkin

611
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:27.960
McIntire go at it. There's some
Yeah, there's I want to see.

612
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.159
I want to see Jay and Drew
go at it during the Rumble match because

613
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.920
we really haven't had that rivalry kickoff. As much as Drews talked about Jay,

614
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.719
we only had really like what one
match between those two guys we haven't

615
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.800
had the rivalry yet. Like I
want to see where Sammy Zaye fits into

616
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.119
all this because he was being built
up as he was trying to get to

617
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:49.239
the main event picture. Then that's
kind of been pushed down a little bit.

618
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.760
But you know, I want to
see Punkin and Kevin Owens fight.

619
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.920
I want to see Punkin and a
lot of it is the CM punk factor.

620
00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.440
I just want to see him in
the ring fighting different guys. That

621
00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:06.440
gives us some compelling match matchups for
twenty twenty four. So for me,

622
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:10.039
I think realistically my number of people
I think that can win the Rubble this

623
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:15.840
is about maybe the same as years
past, but the intrigue with the potential

624
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.440
matchups, and I got to get
a lot of gred at the booking because

625
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:23.239
we've kept some of these guys apart
and haven't seen them square up one on

626
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:28.400
one, like maybe we would have
seen in the past where maybe they would

627
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:34.280
have shotgun some stuff. But you
know, I want to see if depending

628
00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:37.360
on where the placement is, Hey, what if Randy gets in the rubble

629
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:39.800
and all a sudden's Randy and Cody
Like that would be great, or Randy

630
00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:44.679
and Punk for that matter, like
some of those people that we see in

631
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:47.079
the Fatal four Way or some other
things that maybe get factors back into the

632
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:52.559
rubble match would have me really intrigued
as well. Yeah, it's been a

633
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:55.280
very good build. I like the
focus of it as it should be.

634
00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:00.280
The importance of this match should be
is the high level intensity as it it

635
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:04.880
should be receiving. And I think
that's something that has been lost over the

636
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.000
years. I just I don't remember
a time where it's been this much of

637
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:12.320
a focal point as it should be. I mean, it's one of the

638
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:15.800
best matches that they do all year. We talk about every year, maybe

639
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:21.760
my favorite match that we cover probably
my favorite match that we watch as wrestling

640
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:24.199
fans, like I love sitting on
the couch and the countdown coming and seeing

641
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:28.719
who's gonna come out, what surprise
is going to happen, some really fun

642
00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:31.679
moments. It's it's a ton of
fun all the way around. And the

643
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.960
build for the men's and the women's
matches have been very good. And I

644
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:37.280
want to do a little bit of
a hat tip here because I just don't

645
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.360
remember a time where it's been this
good Doctor Trey, where it's getting this

646
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:45.960
much play in this much love on
we television as much as it has last

647
00:43:46.119 --> 00:43:50.960
several weeks. Yeah. I mean
usually in years past, you would just

648
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:52.800
see somebody go, hey, you
know by the way, I've been this

649
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:58.079
year's royal robo and you're like,
okay, great yo, like give me

650
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:00.840
like why there. It was almost
like a throwaway and and so and was

651
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:04.559
entering the rubble. Least this year
they put a little more focal point on

652
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:07.800
I met her the rumble and this
is why I want to win. And

653
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:10.800
then they give a little bit of
history to it, like I even this

654
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:15.480
stuff with like Drew and Cody from
a from last week or week before last,

655
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:19.000
with you know, mentioning their former
tag team and mentioned them last time

656
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.239
they went one on one, and
you know, things like that were like

657
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.599
those diehard fans like us, like
we go, oh crap, I remember

658
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:29.599
the dashing Ones, and I remember
that little that match, and I remember,

659
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:36.599
like that's what really hooks the long
tenured people and the newer fans are

660
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:37.599
just like I just want to watch
Cody and Drew fight. You know,

661
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:46.440
it links all those all those fandoms
together and making this match means something.

662
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:50.199
In years past, you know,
I remember you and I sad there.

663
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:53.039
We watched the We watched the forty
mand Rubble together at the bar with Bauer

664
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:58.679
when uh, Santino almost won the
Rumble, but like nobody was picking Santino

665
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:01.159
to be in the F two with
you know, Alberto del Rio. So

666
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.000
years past, maybe one or two
people we actually thought had a chance to

667
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:08.199
win it, we actually cared about. Who won. This year is like,

668
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:10.880
yeah, there's you know, by
the end of this thing, there's

669
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:14.840
probably be seven or eight guys that
I can say, Hey, that guy

670
00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:16.679
really deserves to win this. I
don't think he will, but it would

671
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:21.960
make really great TV if this guy
won. Yeah, it's been a really

672
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:25.440
fun build and I'm really looking forward
to seeing how it goes on SmackDown this

673
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.360
Friday. Monday is raw and of
course the SmackDown leading into the Royal Rumble

674
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.320
because it deserves to get the bill
that it is. And it's kind of

675
00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:37.519
funny because we just haven't gotten in
over the years and they're given to it

676
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:43.000
now. And it's fun to see
because people are declaring, they're saying they

677
00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:45.599
want to win, and then they're
telling the other opponents like listen, that's

678
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:46.559
great, that this is your plan. But you're not going to mess up

679
00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:51.960
my plan because I need to win
this match. Drew Mcatire needs to win

680
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:54.519
this match. Cody Rhoades needs to
win this match. Seampunk needs to win

681
00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:59.639
this match. Bobby lastly needs to
win this match. And when people need

682
00:45:59.719 --> 00:46:02.840
to do something, you're captivating your
audience, You're captivating your viewer, and

683
00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:06.159
you're making them go, all right, I'm invested in and I want to

684
00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:09.079
see them win this match. And
this is why so propositificly way for doing

685
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:14.440
what they're doing right now with the
robo matches. Final thing I want to

686
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:16.039
talk about here on this week's Just
is the podcast Doctor Trey. Usually I

687
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:19.920
set it up with like, you
know, I watched, I saw,

688
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:23.280
but quite honestly, like I didn't
watch the show this past weekend. I

689
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:29.000
watched clips. Typically, back in
the day when we would use to do

690
00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:32.679
this podcast, when it was around, we would go to you in this

691
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:37.400
specific genre, and now that it's
back, I feel like we have to

692
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:40.679
do it again. But t and
A returned this past Saturday with Hard to

693
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:45.760
Kill. Everybody is hyping up this
show, said it was a good show.

694
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:50.480
I saw clips on Twitter looked a
lot of fun or X saw the

695
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:52.920
clips on YouTube. Looked like a
lot of fun, some good signings.

696
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:59.119
Nick Neamath is there now, the
former Dana brook ashby Elegance is now in

697
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:02.960
TNA. Zion Brookside, who I
really enjoyed in an x A UK,

698
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:07.800
now in ten A Wrestling, So
dot try. I simply ask you TNA's

699
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:12.320
back. Did you watch the show? And if you did, what were

700
00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:14.960
your thoughts? And if you didn't, what did you see? What did

701
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:20.480
you like? You were the TNA
guy always on this podcast, So surprisingly

702
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:22.559
enough, I actually did watch this
because I had a very very long drive

703
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:27.960
coming home Sunday, so I just
threw it on and listened kind of watched

704
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.480
and listened to it as I was
driving back from North Carolina. It was

705
00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:36.880
a really good show. Like you
mentioned, I watched the women's Ultimate X

706
00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:40.199
match and Zion Brooks I was there, and then oh damn it did Danny

707
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:45.320
Danny Luna sorry like she was in
it in the Giselle Shawl And I'm like,

708
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:47.360
oh, so there's some people that
I don't I'm not that familiar with

709
00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:51.800
the people I knew. Ultimate X
Mash was pretty good. It was.

710
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:53.800
It wasn't the best Ultimate x match, but then again, the women are

711
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:59.159
still kind of getting used to it. Saw the stuff with PCO. Watched

712
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:02.440
the Madge with the four Way for
the men's tag match, which is incredible.

713
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:07.000
Good to see the Grizzled Young Vets
being the grizzled Jung Vets and not

714
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:13.239
the Diad but that was really fun. The Triple Threat match with Saban Khusheta

715
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:16.920
and l Heel del Vikingo, which
you know I wasn't a huge fan of

716
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:22.480
earlier in his run, like the
stuff at AEW with this match Gray Psychology,

717
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:25.599
what he did the match made sense. It was a well structured booth

718
00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:30.159
and Alex Shelley, the stuff with
Nick Neemath, the Jordan Grace Trinity match

719
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:35.360
was really good. So it was
a really really solid show from from top

720
00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:37.360
to bottom. I'm not a huge
fan of Data Brook in general, but

721
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:40.880
the character at least is maybe a
little bit. I know people are already

722
00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:45.760
compared to Tony Storm stuff, but
you know, it's not a bad thing.

723
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:50.280
If you see somebody that seems something
that's successful and you do your own

724
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.159
version of it, it's not always
a bad thing. So I'm willing to

725
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:57.960
give it a little bit of a
run with it. But you know,

726
00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:01.239
seeing Nick Neemath and TNA is pretty
awesome because I know that he's gonna whoever

727
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:04.559
he works, but he's gonna make
them like a million dollars if he doesn't

728
00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:07.800
cut out on top himself. So, uh, Dan good signing for them

729
00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:10.440
of that hit as well. So
is this a show I should check out?

730
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:15.760
Doctor try? Would you suggest myself
other wrestling fans who did not watch

731
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:17.599
Hard to Kill to sit down and
watch the show and they'll be, you

732
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:22.079
know, surprisingly happy with it by
the end of it. I would say,

733
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:24.679
yes, it was. It was
better than what was the last show

734
00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:29.360
we reviewed? Was it the aw
show? Yeah? Yeah, World ten

735
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:32.039
and we gave it like a three
point four point five. That was not

736
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:36.400
a good show. Yeah, this
was probably about a three point seven three

737
00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:38.199
point eight. Yeah. I mean
it's gonna be a little bit hard for

738
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:43.920
some of for some folks that don't
know maybe the backstory leading into the matches,

739
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:45.920
because the matches were really I mean, of course everybody does use Josh

740
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:51.199
Alex interface. His match with Alex
Hammerstone was really really good, uh as

741
00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:54.239
well, Plus it gave people some
exposure to Hammerstone and why he's you know

742
00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:58.079
book of t's hyping him up,
that w to go sign the guy up.

743
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:04.000
So yeah, overall I would say
it was better than the last AW

744
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:10.280
paper here at least. So is
this something? Is this? Is this?

745
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:14.800
Because the thing right now with the
window with TNA, right they this

746
00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:17.079
is what I'm having my like nostalgia. Everybody's gonna be excited to see it.

747
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:22.320
Right when ECW came back to w
WE, I was so stoked after

748
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:24.199
the second one night stand, I
was so happy ECW was back, and

749
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:27.880
then quickly realized like a month in, like, oh damn, this is

750
00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:30.480
this is gonna be crap and it
was not great. And I just watched

751
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:35.639
because I'm a wrestling fan. But
if you're somebody who's been watching Impact Wrestling

752
00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:39.159
and now you're tuning and or wasn't
watching Impact Wrestling, you're tuning in TNA

753
00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:45.159
thinking you're gonna see a nostalgia act
and watch TNA and and be happy with

754
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:49.440
it, TNA as a company only
has like a very small window to captivate

755
00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:53.679
you. Do you think that window
is pretty big right now for to captivate

756
00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:57.800
the fans or do you think they
have like a good month to try to

757
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:00.679
add some new viewers and new eyeballs
to their because right now there is a

758
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:06.199
ton of hype out coming out of
Hard to Kill. I always say they

759
00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:10.800
probably have maybe two to three months
they got to capture people, because wasn't

760
00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:13.840
it. I mean outside of and
I'm gonna say Dolphins, there was just

761
00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:15.519
because that's where he knows the man
say Nick Nave. It still sounds weird,

762
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.880
but outside of you know, the
Dolphin Ziggers running this is It's not

763
00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:22.239
a company that's going out. It's
not like AEW was where like every single

764
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:25.679
week we seem to have a new
sighting coming in for a while. I

765
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:31.199
will say for fans of professional wrestling
that maybe get a little birth out on

766
00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:35.639
AWB high spot, high spot,
high spot throughout the match with a lot

767
00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:40.559
of psychology, these matches made a
lot of sense and it was I would

768
00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:49.559
say probably the closest thing to a
WWE style match matches was Tod Hard to

769
00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:53.559
Kill. So if you're a fan
of the ww style of wrestling, this

770
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:57.000
is a little bit more up your
alley, but it still has elements of

771
00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:00.280
the aw sive. I like the
show because you have your high flying magics,

772
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:04.559
you had your technical stuff, you
had a little bit of comedy stuff

773
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:07.239
and you had your hard hitting stuff. So it gave you kind of smorgus

774
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.119
board of a wrestling pay per view
that you know, guys like you and

775
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:15.000
I typically like and this is a
question of hey, did you find your

776
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:17.320
guy? Or you're a couple of
people that you're like, Oh, I

777
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:22.000
really like this guy. This is
so many to follow along and see where

778
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:24.639
he goes from here. That's kind
of how I see their window. Like

779
00:52:24.679 --> 00:52:29.599
if they don't, if you don't
find that one or two people that really

780
00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:34.960
suits your appetite, you'll probably tune
out to me. The rebranding of TNA

781
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:37.920
was more about the fact that even
when they're going by Impact Wrestling, people

782
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:42.239
still call them TNA. Yeah,
So it just it just kind of made

783
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:45.719
sense to revert back to the name
because that's what people were still calling it

784
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:52.599
even though it hadn't been TNA in
almost seven eight years. So it makes

785
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:54.199
a lot of sense to go back
to the brand that everybody know you buy.

786
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:58.719
Because I didn't really watch the show, I didn't really get a nostalgic

787
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:00.559
field, like it's not the six
ring. He's still a foresighted to ring.

788
00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:05.679
It's not nostalgia for the sake of
nostalgia. To me, it's a

789
00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:12.199
much more conscious branding choice than anything
else, and bringing in people to the

790
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.840
company that are good workers that know
how to put together a good wrestling match

791
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:22.519
is better for the long term success
of this company than anything else. Yeah,

792
00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:24.760
it's it's a fresh code of paint
on a product that's been around for

793
00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:30.440
a long time, and it does
tug on the install just heartstrings. But

794
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:32.599
now that that's all out of the
way, this is the time that if

795
00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:37.119
there are new eyeballs tuning into the
product to captivate them. Because I did

796
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:42.159
watch Impact Wrestling a lot from two
thousand, I think late twenty nineteen to

797
00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:45.360
about mid twenty twenty one, and
then I just couldn't do it anymore.

798
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:49.440
Was way too much wrestling overload with
everything already on my plate. But I

799
00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:52.280
got into them during the pandemic,
really enjoyed it, and I always thought

800
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:53.679
it was a very, very solid
show. So I'm happy for them.

801
00:53:54.119 --> 00:53:58.559
I hope it continues to grow.
I think we're going to wait a little

802
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:02.199
bit to see if I'll go out
there and check them out on a weekly

803
00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:07.320
basis. But huge props of TNA. I heard the show was great and

804
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.480
based off a Doctor Tray's review,
I think it was a pretty damn good

805
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show and people should go out there
and check it out. I think I'm

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gonna check it out this weekend now
that Doctor Tray is fully recommended. With

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that said, let's get a couple
of plugs and sponsors out of the way

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before we close up shop on this
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download the show every Thursday or Friday
at realguid Radio dot com, Russell Chattennett

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rate, review and subscribe to help
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follow us individually on X for myself
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Trey Franklin at The Doctor Trey,
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show on X at SRTU podcast.
With that being said, what's going on

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in one for World of Dot Troy
Franklin this week? Well, like Jeff

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said, you can follow me on
Twitter at the Doctor Trey. You can

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find me on Instagram and Facebook and
search out Doctor Tree Franklin when you're on

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Facebook. Take out Rockets and Championship
Wrestling. They have a big show coming

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up this Saturday, be at because
as of one eighteen, Uh, it

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is Sammy Franklin's fifth birthday. Hell
yeah, so we're gonna be partying it

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up this weekend before he makes his
uh Royal Rubble predictions. Uh that has

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become a staple of the show somehow, But we'll be doing that later this

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week. But more partly, Sammy
turns five. So Sammy, can you

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say happy birthday to me? Say
happy birthday, Hey, birthday? There

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you go, Happy birthday. So
Sammy's birthday is coming up, so we

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will be in Rocket Hey go to
another show once. But we just hit

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the rubble and you can find the
video on their Facebook page. So there

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you go. We will celebrate young
Sammy Franklin's fifth birthday on next week.

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In the next week's edition of the
podcast, he will give his annual prediction

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for who he thinks will win the
both the Men's and Women's Royal Rumble.

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In years past, Nia Jacks was
set to win the Men's Royal Rumble,

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and uh, I believe Rick Flair
one year was supposed to come out of

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retirement and win. Do I have
that right? Talk to Trey. Yeah,

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and I think last year he picked
the Miz in the first and I

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think Bebop and rock Steady almost won
once from the Ninja Turtles. So tune

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in and all for the annual pick
there. We will post that up on

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our Facebook page and instant Twitter accounts
what have you, sobody can check that

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out as well. So join us
on next week's to the podcast, we

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will preview and predict the Royal Rumble. In two weeks we will recap the

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show. It's a lot of fun. The Road to WrestleMania forty begins on

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next week's edition of SRTU. So
until next week, thank you for downloading,

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Thank you for making this part of
your week. For doctor Troy Franklin,

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I'm Jeff Peck. This is this
is the real of the show.