SRTU Turns 14 Years Old and Elimination Chamber Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #732 – 2/22/24

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It's still leaving living all right,
Let's complain to see the faith tells people

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lost the song back thanks to see
he leaves Basbee Young Girl said that N

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said, I don't tell, Gety
tell, Jill, Jimmy. Welcome,

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everybody, Welcome. So this week's
edition this No Real, No Show Episomber

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seven or thirty two for February twenty
second, twenty twenty four. This year

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at we Elimination Chamber BREVI and Predictions
edition of as r TE you I am

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one after the show, I am
Jeff Pack, joined every single week by

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my homes going only, Doctor Prey, Franklin, Doctor Trey. Happy fourteenth

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anniversary of SRTU. My friend.
Yeah, I know we can legally.

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We can legally almost buy beer on
the show. We're getting closed. I

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mean, we can almost legally vote. We can almost legally drive right now.

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I'm just impressed that we've both hit
SRTU. Puberty and NONI of our

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voices are cracking. That is true. That is true. You know,

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I thought about throwing up the first
episode with with myself and Eric Ardullo,

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throw up the first episode with you
and I because it's always fun to like

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listen back and hear how our voices
sounded back then, Oh, the torture

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would be real because I think,
like even on the first episode I called

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in on, my voice was cracking. So I was nervous. By the

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way, I don't ever I told
you I was so nervous to call in

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to you guys that first night that
was the you're talking about the Bower showtime,

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right, No, I mean like
when you like the when you guys

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went live and a blog talk live
calls yep, yep. I was so

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nervous to call in because you know, Eric had the impressive resume, and

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at that point I was just,
you know, this dumb, lonely,

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fat guy that loved wrestling in the
north North Carolina. I didn't have anything

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on my resume. It kind of
brought myself up when it came to wrestling,

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So I was I was really nervous
that Eric would just basically because Eric

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knew that you and I were friends, and you know, there's that little

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bit of jealousy that kind of comes
into play when you're competing for the attention

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of a Velvettne voice podcaster, and
I was afraid that ar would like just

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be super dismissive and if anything I
ever had to say so, I was

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kind of completely terrified of Eric Garzulo
that first time I called in. Yeah,

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shout out to Eric. I haven't
spoken to him in a really long

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time. For those who may not
know, Eric was the original co host

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of SRTU. He was on the
show for about like two years with me.

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The first two years of SRTU,
it was always like that preview prediction

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special heading into WrestleMania twenty eight that
I always remember, the one in Miami

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where Doctor Trey joined, and that
was the beginning of Doctor Trey and I

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doing the show together for a really
long time. Eric popped in every now

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and again, like in that first
year that Doctor Trey had taken over as

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the full time co host of SRTU, but he hasn't been on in a

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really long time. Eric is a
good dude. He used to hold a

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host of a show called Pro Wrestling
Radio. He was the original voice,

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the very first commentator for Ring of
Honors first show, and he was with

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cz W for a really long time. I actually saw a clip the other

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day of a young Kevin Owens then
known as Kevin Stein or his real name

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Kevin Stein in a match with Elgenerica. I think it was their CZW debut,

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and Eric was doing commentary for the
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holy shit, there's Eric, and
yeah, him and I are still Facebook

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friends, but I have not spoken
Eric in a really long time. I

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hope he's doing well. He had
left the show because he had just gotten

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married, and yeah, he was
a busy guy at that point. I

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think he's basically not doing anything with
professional arrests anymore because his old blog,

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caml Clutch Blog, I don't think
it exists anymore. Yeah, and at

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one point, that was one of
the biggest, you know, websites for

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wrestling information and opinions in a lot
of time. Emember talking to you and

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you're talking about like, hey,
I got an article, I got a

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post up on Gamba Clutch and I
was always kind of envious of that of

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that stuff. But no, Eric
is fantastic. Funny you mentioned Facebook friends

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a couple of people from uh,
you know, the Old Wrestling Show,

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the old on the Trivia Show,
Like, are still friends with those guys

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on Facebook? So ea game show? Who are you friends with? Stell

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Zach Oliver? Okay? Eighty eight
Del junior fan eighty eight Dale junior fan.

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Uh you know who I remember roasting
pretty badly on one of the episodes,

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what about why MoU Whymu I'm still
friends with on Facebook and also Pokemon

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go okay wow wow. Yeah.
And then the guy that Bauer used to

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do the show with was his name, the skinny guy, Eric Gray.

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Eric Gray, I'm still friends with
on one of my face on one of

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my Facebook accounts with Eric Gray as
well. Yeah, it's uh, it's

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a wild ride. I mean,
we launched the show back in February twentieth,

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twenty ten, so I'll be actually
coming up on my fifteenth year of

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podcasting here relatively soon, which is
insane. And the world that we had

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built from that Wheelhouse podcast that launched
into this podcast and everything else in between,

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wrestle chat Net and various other forms
Camic Clutch Blog that that we were

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all part of it was. It's
definitely shedded away a lot over the years.

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There's not many people left hanging around. You know. The Wheelhouse is

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no longer a podcast, The Bower
Shows no longer a podcast, Camic Clutch

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Blog no longer exists. Pro Wrestling
Radio with Eric Cardruilo no longer exists,

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Rust, Chattnet is all gone.
It's like everything that we were all tied

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to, and we're like the sole
survivors here, Doctor Trey. Are we

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the last Blockbuster? I think?
So we're that blockbuster Blockbuster and what Oregon?

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Yeah, it's actually uh my my
old cameraman Lauren Lauren Campbell for uh

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Raga City actually lives in Bend,
Organ where the last Blockbuster is. Does

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he have a membership? I actually
so, I went about five years ago

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up to do a job up there, and you didn't have to me,

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you didn't have to have the membership
card to get in. But I think

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in one of my old storageingits because
I don't know if you remember this,

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that I actually managed a Blockbuster at
one point. Oh yeah, remember And

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when our store closed down, I
took the uh the new arrival sign up

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that they used to have the all
the new all the new movies and new

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releases I used. I took that
sign I took the Blockbuster a little log

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book they had that you had to
sign in on when you first got there,

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and I took a bunch of the
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and I actually did my living room
with a lot of I had all my

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DVDs on Blockbuster racks in my living
room at one points. I think they're

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actually a storage and I were in
North Carolina. Still, that's pretty cool.

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Yeah, I mean we're getting a
little nostalgic here because uh yeah,

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Doctor Trey. I mean the amount
of times we've We've mentioned it every now

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and again on the show, but
like literally I think we've done this show

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every hour in the day. Like
legitimately, there have been times that we

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did the show at midnight into one
am. When I was working for ESPN

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Radio and Bristol, Connecticut, we
literally were doing shows at like four am

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Eastern Standard time, and we were
doing that because I was coming off of

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work. Doctor Trey was getting ready
to go into work, and that was

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like legitimately the only time that him
and I could record the podcast and keep

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it going. And we were doing
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am talking professional wrestling. I mean, we've done it like anytime any place

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anywhere, it's it's it's apropos.
Doctor Trey's recording the podcast this week sitting

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in his car, which was a
huge studio location for you. Most of

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the time in the beginning stages of
the show Doctor Trey. One of these

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days, I'm gonna sit down and
actually do the math on how many states

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I've actually recorded the podcast in,
because I'm pretty sure I've done the podcast

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in basically, I would say over
half the states in this country. I

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think that would be a fair assumptionect
because for a while, I mean,

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I think if you're coming up on
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close to eleven. And for a
good chunk of that, for probably good

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seven years I was traveling. Yeah. So remember when I used to always

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we would do the intro and I
would be like, where in the world

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is doctor tre Franklin this week?
Yeah? So I mean if I sit

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down, I actually do the math
and think about, like, you know,

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the place I've stayed in more than
a week, I would say I've

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probably done the show in at least
twenty five to thirty different states. Wow.

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Yeah, no, I believe it. And you and I have done

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the show probably at least now maybe
five hundred and fifty to six hundred episodes,

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and so subtract two years, which
would be one hundred and roughly one

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hundred and four episodes. Yeah,
something like that, right, Yeah,

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so, and I think the only
time that you and I have ever recorded

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a podcast in the same room was
the very first year that I started,

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when you came up to New York
City. It was like my second podcast

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of all time, starting with Bower. Yeah, we've never done this show

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together. Yeah, we were ahead
of the technological curve when it came to

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being able to record the show wherever, whenever, and now like Zoom and

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Google Meet and what have you have
taken over, and we continued to be

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able to host a show in different
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and still do it like it's we're
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Yeah. I mean it's funny.
As much technology has progressed, we're still

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in like twenty eleven, so we're
still doing on Skype with no video for

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anybody to watch. What was the
most memorable times for you in SRT Usually

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like obviously the episodes when people have
passed away, so like you know,

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most recently the Bray White episode,
the Luke harpress. I remember the Dusty

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Rhodes episode was hard for me because
there were certain people I like. Once

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I got into wrestling, there were
certain people I wanted to meet, and

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then it was just like a rush
of them passing away. Roddy Piper,

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you know, Dusty, Like just
a bunch of guys that were on the

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indies had passed, and I was
just like, damn, is this another

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one my hero's going down? Let's
see the you know me getting stopped by

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the police episode is up there I
have, which apparently I think you told

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me a couple weeks ago that that
is no longer your favorite episode where something

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happens to me. It's the Sammy
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your favorite one. Yes. When
I came to with some of my favorite

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sound bites of all time, it
was like you were doing something all of

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a sudden you got hit with a
bull by Sammy just out of nowhere,

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the old RKO out of nowhere,
the some of the ones I did.

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There was a a we did like
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I was working overnights that we record
the show at like one o'clock in the

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morning, and I was literally behind
a store, like in a random shopping

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center, sitting out back on the
basically the little lonely area recording the show,

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like one o'clock in the morning and
you're like, who's in the store

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with you? I'm like, nobody's
just me by myself at one o'clock in

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the morning putting beauty supplies on the
shelf. So those are some good old

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days. And then you know,
most recently, like you know, you

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getting married was a great episode for
me because I just I was I always

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felt like it's like I knew you
and Kim were going to catch up to

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me at some point because I was
just like, I think I've been hounding

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you for about seven years about getting
there. Yeah, so it just took

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a little while, just took some
browbeating to beat it into you a little

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bit. But uh, you know, like seeing you go from the young

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man that was kind of like just
just happy to be there and be a

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part of broadcasting to where you've progressed
you now, like I'm so proud of

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it. I've seeing how far you've
come this. Yeah, I appreciate that,

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man, I appreciate that a lot. Like when I think about some

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podcasts too, that stood out to
me. I just think of like the

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pandemic era all the time now,
like that was that was almost forty years

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ago, and I just remember we
had like nothing to do, and we

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were doing watch along shows. Remember
we interviewed Dave Willis, the guy who

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said it's still real to me,
damn it, who just reached out to

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me a few weeks ago. Really, he just randomly reached out to you.

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Well, what happened was I think
somebody had posted a clip of the

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whole you know, It's still real
to me, damn it. And it

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was somebody I knew, and I
tagged him in the post. It just

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you know, made a nice little
compliment what a nice you know, how

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gracious and nice Dave was. I
think I said, you know, that's

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actually where our show got our name
from. Dave came on the show,

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was super nice and gracious, and
he messaged me He's like, hey,

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I just want to say, really
appreciate it. Still revery on the show.

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Its great time, Thank you guys
so much. Yeah, yeah,

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he was. He was a lot
of fun. I remember where he just

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like would start talking about stuff like
in depth wrestling that he grew up on.

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But yeah, that pandemic era was
wild because we were just basically we

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had nothing to do. I remember
like watching WrestleMania, like it was the

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most insane thing of all time.
That entire time period was really really wild

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and insane. It's also got a
lot of creative juices going in professional wrestling.

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You about to say something, Doctor
Tryck, Yeah, doesn't like the

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Thunderdome era. It's just kind of
feel like a fever dream. Yeah,

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it feels like it wasn't that long
ago, but it's coming upon four years

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and I think the farther we get
away from the better off feel. Yeah.

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It. What's weird is like they
actually have that in one of the

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WWE games. I think it might
be two K twenty two, they actually

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have the screens up around the ring
and there's like random faces popping up.

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I'm like sitting there like it's almost
like a weird dream that that whole time

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period didn't happen in a sense,
but it's like, yeah, like it's

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a constant mind, but like it
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not think about, you know, the

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calamity crashing down around us, and
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wrestling wasn't really good, it was
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UGH Getting nostalgic here, Doctor Trey
seems aproposen fitting because on Friday's edition to

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SmackDown, I got really nostalgic as
the Rock came out and it was throwback

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rock, full blown heel rock,
and I got admit, Doctor Trey,

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I loved every second of it.
What were your thoughts as the Rock came

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out this past Friday and aligned himself
officially with the bloodline. I mean,

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it was it was funny because it's
been so long since the Rock has actually

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been a heel character in WWE THATWT
you almost forget how good he is at

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just kind of flipping the script.
And I had just came across a clip

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of Rock Hogan after Wrestlemany eighteen when
they when Rock had gone heel and Hogan

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was a babyface, and I forgot
that, Like I just for a moment

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forgot how good he was in the
mic in those moments, and we got

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a taste of it on SmackDown.
And it does it feels weird? I

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will say, is it? Does? You know? Rock's you know,

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right around fifty now, maybe fifty
one, and he's standing in the ring

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and there's Solo and there's Jimmy and
there's Roman, and I don't want to

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say he feels out of place,
but it does kind of feel like Romans.

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I don't say Roman's dead. It
feels like the you know, the

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big uncle stepped in the room,
you know and just shut the kid's table

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down a little bit. So I
right now I kind of feel like Rock

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is going to overshadow Roman for a
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they go with to get to where
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like he's I will say that there
are times I feel like he sounds a

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little cornyish or a little bit of
a pair, like a little bit of

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a self. And I don't try
to think it wasn't it a Parody's like

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he's almost like a parody of himself
at times. But I think it's just

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because it's getting the Like we talked
about ring rust, I think there's also

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a little a thing called probo rust. If you haven't kind of good probo

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in a while. I mean,
I gotta admit I loved the line where

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he's like, uh, where were
they this past week? Utah? Like

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Salt Lake City, Utah? Yeah, Like, listen, I want to

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congratulate you. First off, I
want to congratulate you all that you have

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set an attendance record and the crowd
starts cheering and crowd, you know,

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going nuts, and an indoor attendance
record for the most pieces of trailer park

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trash I've ever seen. I thought
that was a great line. Ironically enough,

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Salt Lake City was actually the last
Dynamite before the pandemic hits. Oh

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yeah, well, good times,
very good times. According to Wrestling Observer

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newsletter, Dwayne the Rock Johnson over
the weekend following his appearance on SmackDown where

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Cody Rhoads removed himself from the match
put Rock in there, said it was

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best to be out of the Roman
Reigns match and put Cody Rhads in,

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which by that point everyone conceded by
Rock, who then pitched the heel turn

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and the idea of the Reins and
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nine one that is still not official, so maybe things could potentially change.

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But according to reports, Rock was
the one who pitched the He'll turn and

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I mean doctor Trey, he turns
heel and then turns babyface in like the

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same segment because the fan base ate
it up and loved it. Rock from

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ninety seven to ninety nine, just
before in even a little bit up further

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on worry he turned Babyface was probably
some of his best work as the Rock

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and why he got so over like
nineteen ninety eight is a huge year for

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the Rock into ninety nine, and
I love that he came out and he

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was wearing the five hundred dollars shirt
which was a vest, Like, I

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love that throwback. The stuff that
he was saying was very reminiscent of that

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time period as well. He still
needs to throw in a little bit of

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Rudy Pooh candy asses in there,
but it was like, man, this

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is this is great, this is
awesome, this is fun. This was

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the right move, and it's very
well possible because he was getting such a

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good reaction in Salt Lake City that
rockets cheered no matter who he's across the

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ring of. In Philadelphia at WRESTLEMANI
forty, I loved it. I thought

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it was great, right turn.
But it's like he went from babyface to

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heel and then heel to babyface all
in the span of two weeks. Amongst

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the fans' eyes. I just can't
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They're gonna eat this up like him
trash talking them yes and so on

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a much smart scale. There there
have been times in my career like I've

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bounced back at fourteen heel and babyface, but I'm a way better heel than

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I have a baby face. And
I have had fans come up to me

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after the show and like have been
yelling at me, booing me, cussing

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me out during the show, and
then come up to me after the show

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and go, I just want to
say, what a great job you got,

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Like, what a great job you
did. That was fantastic. I

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loved every minute of it. And
I'm like, and I kind of get

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that same vibe from the rock where
we are happy to be booing him,

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like it makes us feel good because
he's doing his job so well. It's

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a little bit like you know,
when the miss is really when the miss

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is really you know, killing it
as a heel, you and I say,

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here, go, he's doing such
a great job, Like I want

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to punch him in the face.
He's doing such a great job. It's

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like this weird admiration because we know
what you're like, what you're doing.

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We admire the work in it,
but we also love the fact that our

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emotions get taken for the ride with
him. So I just think a back

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a couple weeks ago, when you
know the Rock was on Pat mcabee's show

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and he's basically tell everybody to like
shut their mouths and enjoy the ride.

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This is what he was talking about. And I think it's it's part of

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it too, is like they love
them to saw jact like it's so cool

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and it's not something we saw just
figured that he would come back out the

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way that he was at the kickoff
special for WrestleMania and that would be it.

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But for him to go throw back, it's like, oh man,

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this is this is gonna be fun, this is gonna be good, and

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I'm I'm happy to be part of
the ride and people are gonna cheer him

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and eat it up. I think
the other thing is to Doctor Trey,

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is the vibe around this entire thing
is that Rock will probably be turning on

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him within the next eight weeks Roman
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Would Jimmy turn on him? Really
yes, because like if he turns on

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Roman, yeah, the crowd will
eat it up and they'll cheer him.

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But if he gets beat down by
them, then he gets the sympathy behind

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it too. And Babyfaces need to
overcome obstacles and Rock against the rest of

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the bloodline is an obstacle, where
if Rock just turns on him straight up,

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it's not as much of his obstacle. I think you need a little

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bit of a factor. But what's
a bigger What do you think is a

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bigger pop him getting beat down by
Jimmy Solo and Roman at Wrestling and forty

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Maybe they take an l on the
tag team match, or Rock costs Roman

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or helps cost Roman the WE Championship
against Cody Rhodes. I think it's Cody.

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I think it's him helping Cody somehow
Cody, but I still don't see.

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And this is also I love it, like how like fancy Bookie.

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I like the slow builds. I
kind of want to see Rock and Roman

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be kind of like a dominant thing
on SmackDown for a little bit and then

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get the Summer Slam or get to
wrestleming a forty one with the payoff of

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Rock and Roman. But that's me. I like the long, slow builds.

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But I can see it. I
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you know, Rock costing Roman the
match. I mean, there's all those

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little subtle innuendos that people are picking
up like easter eggs in a Deadpool three

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trailer. You know, Oh he
didn't do the one correctly. He made

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an L and he was talking,
he was looking at Roman while he was

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talking to and all those little innuendo
things like that. I can see them

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pull the trigger earlier. But me, I'd like to see this play out

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a little bit like what the two
man ego trip of Austin In Triple A

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or Austin Triple H was supposed to
be before Triple H got hurt, that

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it was gonna play out and they
were gonna run rough shot over the company

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for a while, until their egos
got too big and they blew up,

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you know, mega powers explode things
like that. Like I like seeing those

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two big egos try to work together
for a while and then explode. I'm

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with you, I just don't think
that works because of the Rock schedule.

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I'm in total agreement with you.
If I thought Rock was gonna be around

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from like now to August Summer Slam, I would say, let it play

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out, let this grow, let
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of Rock schedule, I just feel
like it's going to be heel until Mania

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turns babyface, and then that takes
us into like Rock returning at SummerSlam or

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whatever at that point. Well,
I just I don't know what his schedule

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is now that he's actually on the
board and is trying to be a part

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of all this. I mean,
that's that's the one thing that nobody's really

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said, is what's his schedule?
Like, I mean, honestly, his

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last couple of movies haven't been huge
successes. The us the XFL and the

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USFL merged. I know he's still
part of that organization. Yeah, he's

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like the face of it basically.
I mean, he's got seven other companies.

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I love. I love when Tyler
Braings always mentions every single company that

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Rock runs on their up, up, Down Down show. But you know,

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you really don't know what his schedule
is. So I mean they him

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and Rome could almost sync up schedules, and I still think we would kind

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of eat that up if it got
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forty one payoff match. All right, last question, or Doctor Trey,

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was this character change for the Rock
everything that you saw on Friday SmackDown the

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right move and are you excited for
what's coming forward? I think it is

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the right move. Because what it
does is it sets up obstacles for Cody

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to overcome, which you need to
become a big baby face star. And

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if you're building the company around Cody, you don't need Cody being overshadowed by

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the Rock. So if Rock came
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overshadowed until he finally gets his own
breakout moment. So this kind of appeases

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the masses and still gets people to
tune into WrestleMania, So you're kind of

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getting the best of both worlds here, Greed, Greed, I think it's

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really exciting. I love the segment, love the character change, and I'm

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pumped to see where things go for
the Rock moving forward into WrestleMania season.

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Doctor Trey. Something I've noticed on
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the way that they deliver programming on
WWE as of late, whether it be

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these walk ups into the arena where
it's always like one twenty two Eastern time

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or two twenty two Pacific Standard time, whether they're showing Cody Rhoades or Ridea

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Ripley entering a stadium, little subtle
things. I really am digging that and

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enjoy in it. If you go
within the arena, you're seeing graphics now

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which aren't so busy as they used
to be, Like around the barricades and

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the ring apron themselves, it's just
a simple black background with the raw logo

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w E logo. You got that
around the arena as well. The lights

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now are no longer the colors of
the show, whether it be red or

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blue. Red for Raw, blue
for SmackDown. It's back to that clear

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coloring that we all kind of grew
up. In the attitude area. You

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could see the crowd a lot better. It's it's these subtle things since Kevin

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Doune left that are very noticeable with
the graphics, the production, the way

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things are promoted on television that I'm
really digging lately, and I've really enjoyed

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this turn that w W has taken
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Have you noticed it and is it
noticeable to you where it's it's in

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a good way per se. Yeah, I've noticed it that in like the

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busyness of it, Like they're not
graphics flashing up all the time. It's

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not constant movement going around when it
times time for matches, it's we focus

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on the entering stuff. We focus
on you know, the promotions or stuff

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like that when we're doing the backstage
show, on the walk ups and things

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like that, Like the little things
like that. And it's one of those

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things I try to teach when i'm
you know, teaching guys in marketing and

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sales is sometimes you know, less
is more, simple is better. You

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want to keep things as simple and
as easy for people to understand and not

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divert their attention in three or four
different ways, like keep it straight to

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the message. And I think that's
what they're delivering now, is you're giving

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it a little bit more of an
authentic vibe with it still being a wrestling

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promotion. A lot of it is
you're seeing a lot of the throwback to

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what black and NXT Black and Gold
was or why it was successful and why

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you know, a lot of diehard
wrestling fans fond over it. It was

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a little bit of the realism mixed
in with you know, the storytelling that

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is WW He's also what made you
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was you kind of blurred these lines
sometimes between what's real and you know,

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what's a shoot and what's the work
and those walk ups, those things

404
00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:12.039
like that is part of that.
I just always think it's funnyhen I see

405
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:17.440
guys walking up at like one o'clock
in the bell time seven, because then

406
00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:19.799
independent wrestling at the bell time seven
guys are showing up at like six fifteen.

407
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:23.920
So it's a little bit different in
the independent world as opposed to wrestling,

408
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.960
but they're actually showing up six hours
before bell time. Yeah, there's

409
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:30.680
a little bit more of a sport
to what we're seeing, Like it's more

410
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:36.480
of a sports presentation for professional wrestling
then it has been in years past.

411
00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:41.920
And it's been very It started subtle
and it's starting to grow where you're starting

412
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.039
to see people online really start to
notice it. And it's been enjoyable.

413
00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:48.440
It's been an enjoyable watch. It's
not as busy, it's just straightforward and

414
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.000
it is what it is and I'm
digging it and I hope it continues moving

415
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:56.839
forward here in we because it's been
a nice change. And all of that

416
00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:03.200
is doing part to Kevin Dunn retiring. Base From all accounts is these changes

417
00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:06.519
are happening because Kevin Dunn is no
longer in charge of WA programming. And

418
00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:08.680
what you see on television each week
for the last twenty five to thirty years,

419
00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:12.960
and I'm digging it. I'm digging
the change. It's noticeable. Thumbs

420
00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:19.759
up all around world wrestling Entertainment switching
gears our weekly segment here heading into Wrestlemanning

421
00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:25.000
the Wrestlemaning forty Card roundup. Nothing
was confirmed this past week. We're still

422
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:30.160
sitting on Eosky and Bailey and Roman
Reigns and Cody Rhodes. Some rumored expected

423
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.079
matches that we saw potentially progress forward. I think the easiest one here Doctor

424
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:38.960
Trey is Jay us versus Jimmy USO
is Jimmy cost Jay the Intercontinental Championship on

425
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:44.400
Monday's Raw. It's clearly now showing
that we're going to be getting Jimmy and

426
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:48.000
Jay at Wrestle Many. A lot
of the camera shots that they took place,

427
00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:51.279
going back to the way that the
show is being filmed, was a

428
00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:57.680
lot of motions towards the big WrestleMania
logo that sits up over in the top

429
00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:03.680
of the arena during every show,
Jay Jimmy pointing to it at one point.

430
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.799
It seemed like a lot of the
shots were meant for the package that

431
00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:11.039
will eventually air heading into their match
at WRESTLEMANI forty. Like the wrestle Mania

432
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.599
of forty log was kind of like
the thought bubble that they used to have

433
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:17.440
in the comic books and stuff like
that. It's like, uh huh,

434
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:21.160
yeah, you want to fight,
And then the slow turned towards the WrestleMania

435
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:22.359
sign. It's like, oh,
there's the thought bubble. But yeah,

436
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.039
it does feel like they were heading
that way, and it's it's fantastic.

437
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.160
I mean, we've we've had father
and son. Now we're gonna get twins

438
00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:32.559
going at it. I mean,
and if the Bellas cann't pull this off,

439
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:34.920
I don't know who else can except
for Jimmy and Jay. So there

440
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:40.400
you go. The other thing is
here is gunther right. I don't know

441
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:44.440
what they're gonna do with Guntherer.
Because the rumor has been Brock listener,

442
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.240
it was basically confirmed that Brock and
Gunthroer we're going to be having a match

443
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.640
of Wrestleman of forty. Up until
Brock was dragged into the vincick Man allegations.

444
00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:59.079
I thought that maybe bron Breaker could
be the person meant to take on

445
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:06.119
Guntherer but then he signed with SmackDown. I saw the exchange with Pat McAfee

446
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:10.279
going crazy for Jay Usso's theme song, putting his hands up in the air

447
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:14.920
and Gun They're looking at him and
then calling him a stooge on Twitter.

448
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:19.519
I'm like, can they be doing
Pat McAfee versus Gun through Wrestumani, which

449
00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:23.160
I would not be down for whatsoever? And then the wave they're building the

450
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:29.319
New Day right now makes me wonder, could we see all three members of

451
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:35.319
Imperium take on all three members of
the New Day and Big Eye returns to

452
00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:37.319
save his brothers of the New Day. You know, there's a lot of

453
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.240
rumors out there he may never wrestle
again, his career may be over.

454
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:44.799
But there's three of them, there's
two of them. I'm like, could

455
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.400
they be going that direction? I
guess that's really the only other thing from

456
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:51.240
a potential Wrestum and he forty card
perspective. I wanted to bring up this

457
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:53.160
week, Doctor Trace because there's a
little bit of a cloud right now on

458
00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:58.400
what they're gonna do with the Intercontinental
Championship. Maybe it's Sammy's name, Maybe

459
00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.039
it's a three on three with Imperium
and Day with Biggie returning. I don't

460
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:06.200
know, but there's a lot of
question marks right now. I've since Braun

461
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:09.599
signed with SmackDown Friday Night, I've
been leaning kind of Sammy's aying, just

462
00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.359
because we need something for Sammy to
do, I've been trying to figure out.

463
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:17.319
Usually when you have a match like
the Elimation Chamber and that's coming up,

464
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:22.119
and Gunther's in that match, but
for all intentsive purposes, once again,

465
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.759
what if it might be gunp it
still might end up being Gunther in

466
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:32.119
seth you know and the how.
But isn't Gunther in the Chamber match?

467
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:36.359
No? No, he's not.
Oh that's my mistake. I thought he

468
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:37.799
was in. He confused the shit
out of me. I was like,

469
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:42.559
how are you? How do you
see this taking place? I'm interested?

470
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:47.680
So yeah, I've been trying to
figure out then, like where do they

471
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.000
go from here with with Gunther?
Because I'm with you, I thought I

472
00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:55.319
was gonna be bron breaker. You
know, he signs with SmackDown, so

473
00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:00.160
that kind of takes him off off
the menu, so to speak. You

474
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:05.680
know, Sammy Zay, you know, maybe it's a John Cena match at

475
00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.280
WrestleMania. Maybe we go that route. But once again, like, I

476
00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:10.320
don't think he brings Sena back to
fight Gunther after he just you know,

477
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:15.719
kind of took the ass kick against
Solo not too long ago. So yeah,

478
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:17.360
it's really up in the air.
I don't know if we're gonna do

479
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:22.440
some kind of crazy, weird gauntlet
match or you know, elimination match.

480
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:27.480
You know, got me out after
Chamber to pick his opponent. But I'd

481
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.880
be on board and bring it back
to Chad Gable stuff because Gable's still super

482
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.480
over, so I'd be fine with
circling Gable back around. Yeah, Gable

483
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:36.880
was a lot of fun. He
got a big win over IVR on Monday's

484
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:39.480
Raw as well, so that'd be
pretty cool. So that's really it for

485
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.000
me, Doctor trey On on the
RUSTLMANI forty card stuff. I obviously will

486
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:45.519
have a clearer picture on next week's
edition in the podcast, But is there

487
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.400
anything that you saw from programming this
past week that I may be missing.

488
00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:53.840
I'm still like the I still kind
of think it's gonna Becky winning the Chamber

489
00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:59.159
and getting the real Ripley match because
of the interactionally Becky, Naya and Rhea.

490
00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:00.880
But the yeah, we might do
it they might do a three way

491
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:05.239
at Wressell, Jamesween and all three
of those ladies. That would be interesting.

492
00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:07.559
Yeah, yeah, that would that
would be interesting. But I think

493
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:12.639
with doing the elimination chairing match,
I'm not really too keen on just adding

494
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.079
another person in there that maybe not
was not in the match. This upcoming

495
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:19.599
Saturday, well, I mean,
maybe there's some kind of weird finish with

496
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.159
Rhea and Naya. Naya comes out
and complains about the finish and blames it

497
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:29.440
being in Australia. Becky's won the
chamber if Nya, If Nya blamed it

498
00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:31.280
on Australia, I would be like, but you knew where you were wrestling,

499
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:35.800
but she didn't get to pick it. But yeah, she just woke

500
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:37.840
up and all of a sudden was
in Australia. That'd be a trip,

501
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.360
you know. But then you know, Nya is tied to the Bloodline stuff,

502
00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:44.840
and it wouldn't surprise me if she
gets factored into, you know,

503
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:46.800
a main event women's title match,
you know, with you know, her

504
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:50.519
cousin kind of helping run the company
right now, or being on the board

505
00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:52.480
directors with the company. Yeah,
okay, that would be interesting. I

506
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:55.159
mean she's tied to that behind the
scenes. We haven't seen that play out

507
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:59.480
too much on television evers, but
that would be pretty cool. Or maybe

508
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.800
uh Ava throws herself into the match
just because the GM's backdown in the rocks

509
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:07.159
to Dad. Yeah, I'm sure
fans wouldn't revolt at all on that.

510
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.119
No. Forget, she did have
interaction with Paul Hayman on NXT a couple

511
00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.880
months ago. As she mentioned it
when she got the position that a wise

512
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:22.039
man told her blah blah blah blah. Sure it all right, let's switch

513
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:28.079
gears to w W Elimination Chamber Premium
live event. This is our previeum predictions

514
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:34.599
this Saturday from Uptus Stadium in Burstwood, Western Australia, Australia. Uh,

515
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:38.679
it'll be airing five am here for
me, four am for Doctor Trey Dot

516
00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:43.639
Trey. Will you be watching live? Uh? If I am, that

517
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:45.519
means the wife and I have got
a huge fight and I'm sleeping on the

518
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:50.480
couch. Okay, fair enough,
Yeah, I I probably am not.

519
00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:54.039
Maybe I catch half of half of
the show and I wake up on Saturday,

520
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.639
because I do wake up pretty early. Yeah. The only way I'm

521
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.880
watching it is if I find out
Billy K will on the show, and

522
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:04.280
then I might tune in to see
Billy K because I do love some Billy

523
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:08.760
K. Yeah, little Peyton Royce
as well. Peyton and you know Sean

524
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:13.199
Spears are having kids and doing all
that stuff. But uh, you know

525
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:15.440
Billy, Billy's free to roam around. Billy just had a kid, Doctor

526
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.440
Trey. Well, then there you
go. So maybe uh we just do

527
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:24.559
like a big daycare thing with all
the misses kids and the daycare match kids,

528
00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:29.039
and yeah, we just have a
baby rumble and that's how Dominic wins.

529
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:31.400
Dominic wins match. All right,
let's get into it here. The

530
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:37.800
Judgment Day defend the undisputed WA Tag
Team Championship against the newly known New Catch

531
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:40.920
Republic Pete Dunn and Tyler Bate Doctor
Trey. Who do you like in this

532
00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:45.000
match? Well, I want to
take the I'm gonna take the Judgment Day

533
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:50.119
just because I hate the name.
I hate the name because they have the

534
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:54.599
No Catch quarter crew in NXT.
Yes, doesn't they get confusing? I

535
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:59.360
was literally like, this is confusing
to me, So I'm taking. I'm

536
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:00.719
taking. Well then again, Judgment
Day is named after an no old pay

537
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:05.239
per view. So these horrible names, they really need to hire somebody come

538
00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:07.719
up better names. But I'll think
Judgment Day Getty Way. I'm going to

539
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.639
take the Judgment Day to retain as
well. Next match is Rhea Ripley defending

540
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.920
the WA Women's World CHAMPIONIP against Naya
Jacks. I've really enjoyed this bill that

541
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:21.960
they have done a fantastic job of
making Naya Jacks the first real competitor to

542
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:24.280
take it to Rhea Ripley, who
continues to beat up Rhea Ripley each and

543
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:28.719
every week. We have not seen
that during this title run, not at

544
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:31.639
all since this dominance of her in
the last near two years. They've done

545
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:37.920
a really good good job of making
this a believable opponent for Ria Ripley on

546
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:43.519
Saturday. But nonetheless, you don't
let the hometown girl lose in her hometown.

547
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.280
She is going to get a Heroes
welcome, probably the biggest pop of

548
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:50.159
the night. I would even make
a case that this should be the match

549
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:52.400
that closes out the show, but
I don't think it will, being that

550
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:57.239
the elimination chamber is on the card. With that said, of course,

551
00:38:57.280 --> 00:39:00.840
I'm taking Ria Ripley in this one, Doctor Trey, we don't let the

552
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:05.079
hometown girl lose, but we had
Drew McIntyre lose to Roman Reigns at Cardiff.

553
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:07.400
Well, unless she's taken on Roman, I don't think that's gonna happen.

554
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:13.880
Well, she's taken on Roman's family, Jeff, No, it's if

555
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:16.000
this is the Vince big Man era. There's part of me that would pick

556
00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:21.079
Niage because that'd be a Vince move
to let the hometown girl lose. Yeah,

557
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:23.840
he would like insult in like ten
seconds. Yeah, he'd make her

558
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:28.760
join the Kiss My Ass Club after
the match. But New World that we

559
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:31.800
live in. Ria is being booked
as the baby face in this angle heading

560
00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:35.920
into Australia, so I'm taking to
Rea to retain as well. All right,

561
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.480
next match, here's the Women's Elimination
Chamber match winner gets a w Women's

562
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:44.039
World Champion match at Restraining forty.
They will take on either Ria Ripley or

563
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:46.159
Naya Jackson. There's Becky Lynch,
Bianca bell Air, Live, Morgan,

564
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:51.119
Tiffany Stratton, Naomi and ra Kel
Rodriguez in this match, Doctor Trey,

565
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:53.559
who do you like in this one
man where Kel Rodriguez came out of nowhere.

566
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:59.320
Uh totally almost forgot about her.
But that being said, this is

567
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.599
heading into Mania, you look for
who your biggest draw is going to be.

568
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:06.800
I'm taking Becky Lynch get the win
because we haven't had Becky Henria yet,

569
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:08.559
so I will take Becky Lynch getting
the win. Yeah. I think

570
00:40:08.599 --> 00:40:13.679
they alluded to it at the Kickoff
Special a couple of weeks back, with

571
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:16.639
Becky Lynch confronting Mary Ripley. So
I'm gonna be taking Becky Lynch as well

572
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:21.320
to win this match and then the
next match here is the Man's Elimination Chamber

573
00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:23.559
match for a w W World aweight
champion match against Seth Freakin Rollins. At

574
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:28.480
Wrestlminging forty, You've got Drew McIntyre, Randy Orton, Bobby Lashley, La

575
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:31.480
Night, Kevin Owens, and Logan
Paul. Up until Monday, I thought

576
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:35.679
that I was gonna be picking Randy
Orton for this match, and then Drew

577
00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:39.880
McIntyre defeated Cody Rhodes semi clean on
Monday's raw. I don't think you give

578
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.840
Drew McIntyre that win if you're not
going to be putting him into a championship

579
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:49.079
match. At WrestleMania. Drew's run
as this tween er heel has been a

580
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:52.119
lot of fun. It's been very
entertaining. He seems refreshed in this role

581
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.320
as well. And I'm going to
be taking Drew McIntyre to win this match.

582
00:40:55.400 --> 00:41:00.559
Doctor Trey. I am too,
because I think this is how you

583
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.239
get the Damien Priese cash in at
WrestleMania's because we've seen Drew and Seth go

584
00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:07.159
at it. If they do at
wrestlemands be the third third pay per view

585
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:12.440
they've headlined in the last six months, So I think that's where you get

586
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.800
the cash in for Damian Priest.
So I will take Drew McIntire getting to

587
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:20.000
win as well. So there you
go. There is our Elimination Chamber preview

588
00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:23.159
and predictions. We will recap it
on next week's edition of the podcast,

589
00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:28.519
which will be February the twenty eighth
last show of the month heading into March

590
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:32.840
Madness of this Wonderful World of twenty
twenty four. With that said, let's

591
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:36.480
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592
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596
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598
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doct Trey Franklin this week? Well, like Jeff said, you can find

599
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Wrestling. And honestly, I don't know

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the name of the show I'm working
this Saturday. Look cool? Yeah,

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so I will be another show,
but I'll let you guys know next week

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what the name of the show was. But you can check all that stuff

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out Facebook, Rocket Stay Championship Wrestling, Spartan Championship Wrestling, and then just

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find my Facebook page and you'll see
the poster that I share for the show

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that I'm doing this Saturday. That's
going to be featuring Action Mike Jackson,

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one of my favorite wrestlers in the
area, seventy four years old and still

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kicking butt to this day. So
go shoot. Be sure to check those

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out. But most importantly, like
I say every week, go check out

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your local independent wrestling show. The
people that you see in the ring at

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Wrestling Mania were started all all these
people started out in the independent wrestling world.

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Hell, I still remember seeing Seth
Rollins do a backflip off a fat

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guy's chest at an independent show.
So be sure to check out your too.

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Support all the great things that support
SR to you and for the last

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fourteen years, Thank you so much
for downloading this show each and every week.

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Once again, we will be back
next week. We will recap,

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review Elimination Chamber, we'll look at
the latest with the Wrestling forty card.

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At that point, all the main
event title matches will be pretty much clear

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at that point, I would assume. And then we'll also preview and predict

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aw Revolution which will be taking place
the following weekend. So it is a

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very busy time in the world of
professional wrestling, and we are here for

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you all each and every week.
Like we have for the last fourteen years.

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So once again, thank you again
for downloading, thank you for all

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your support, and until next week
for doctor Trey Franklin. I'm Jeff Peck.

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This is still with a show