The Future of SRTU Revealed | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #744 – 5/16/24

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It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to
this week's edition the Still Realda shows number

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seven and forty four from May sixteenth, twenty twenty four. Welcome to this

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week's edition of ass R Team you
a historic edition of SRG elon Tap.

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I am one out of the show. I am Jeff Beck joined every single

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week on my post only Doctor Gray
Franklin, Doctor Trey. I was surgery,

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my friend. Uh, surgery was
fun. I don't know how people

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asked today, like how was surgery? I'm like, I slept through it

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all. I really don't remember much
about it. Like I remember laying in

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the bed they started willing being back. I was already tired because they wanted

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us there like or forty five in
the morning, so I didn't sleep really

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it all the night before. So
by the time they were willing me back,

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they they probably I don't know if
they actually used the anesthesia on me,

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Jeff, because I was already asleep
as they were willing me back in.

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So the fun part of the fun
part about all this is the fact

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that base I can't walk for the
next few weeks. So I got the

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crutches and the knee scooter and all
that stuff. So just just good old

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times right now here. Now.
If there was ever a time for you

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to sell a heel manager injury,
this is it. Yeah, except the

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fact that I wouldn't be selling it. It would be legit. And that's

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that's the downside. It's funny because
last year, when I originally broke the

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foot, they had me in the
walking boots, so I did. I

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worked a couple of Rocket City shows
in the boots. I was doing my

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regular job where I'm convincing people to
check out these gutter filters to keep leaves

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and to free your gutters. So
you have to climb ladder, and that's

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I had more leads written from that
because if you were web in your foot,

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I'm like, oh, it's climbing
a ladder, clean out my gutters.

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He's your pride, check out this
stuff. So it worked out really

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well. I am bummed though,
because I think I'm probably gonna have to

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miss Wrestling Con this year because I
just don't know if I can actually make

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it up there for this year's show. But all good things come to an

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end, so my streak of Wrestling
cons is coming to an end this year,

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probably so. But outside of that. The fun part is watching Sammy

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Franklin kind of stare at it,
stare at the foot with all his bandages

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and all his glory, and just
kind of like figure out he's supposed to

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touch it or not, or come
near me or not, or how he's

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supposed to act when dad's got a
big giant boo boo. Not there you

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go. I mean, at least
he's he's carefully considering you right now,

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doctor Trey Slash. Maybe a little
bit of frighten about what the hell's going

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on with his dad? Yeah,
yeah, that and he crawled up into

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bed with me. Uh so we
got surgery was Tuesday morning. We got

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home Tuesday night. Right away he
crawled up in bed. He avoided the

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foot, but somehow managed to elbow
me in the groin. So I may

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have to have another searcher for that, penosky. But yeah, he's he's

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been good. His wife's been home. She took the entire week off to

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make sure I didn't follow my face
or it incapacitated. So yeah, it's

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been a We both said today that
we're going stir crazy just being in the

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house. That's not our normal.
Usually we're out running around doing stuff,

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and the last forty eight hours being
confined to the house has not been that

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great. Yeah. No, it's
like reminiscent of COVID right like four years

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ago, where you couldn't leave and
it was strange to do that because I

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don't know's that's not what we're supposed
to do as humans. It's like,

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oh, I feel like going outside. I'm going to go outside. I'm

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going to go for a walk.
I'm gonna go to the store. I

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can do that. I'm gonna go
drive my car the side. If I

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had percosets during COVID, I I've
been a lot happier during that time.

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So yeah, the painkillers have been
helpful because you get these weird fantom shooting

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pains like it's every now and then. It feels like an electrical shock into

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my big toe just because of how
it's all bandaged up and prays like all

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the pressure runs to the big toe
because it's the one thing sticking out from

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from this bandage, from this rap
and I'm like, just I forgot how

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ugly toes are and just makes me
want to just cut that one off too

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while I'm at it. All,
Right, there you go, doctor,

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Tray not a toe guy of all
things. Remember share your favorite like shows,

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Ben shows for Doctor Trey to watch. Now that he's like laid up

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here for the next couple of weeks, so hit him up at Doctor Trey,

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the Doctor Trey on Twitter or x
whatever you want to call it.

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And I'm glad to hear you're doing
well because I know when you originally told

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me off air about doing this,
there was a possibility that you may not

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be joining us because of how you
felt, not like you were gonna,

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you know, die from the surgery. It was more like, I don't

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know, man, I may still
be kind of fed up from it.

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I'm a little iffed up. I
mean, the pain killers have kicked in,

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But you sound good. We might
end up talking about rhinos and hippos

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and unicorns and stuff like that.
At some point during the show. Remember

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when Rick Flair went down that rainbow. Uh no, Yeah, it was

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crazy like Sting was chasing him and
he was like throwing stuff at him.

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That was my favorite time during the
Magnificent seven run of WCW. What are

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you talking about? Magnificent seven?
And wasn't there the Millionaires Club? Yeah?

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Yeah, there was the Millionaire's Club, which made me feel bad for

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the other guys because like, oh, you guys are broke, okay,

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so that's why Kidman only has one
shirt new Blood the new Blood. And

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then Hogan was wearing an f UNB
jacket for a long time, which every

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time tied all in here. Every
time I see Trick Williams now and that

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whooped, that trick black cut off
like gene vest that he's wearing and he

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has the white letter around the back, I immediately think of Hogan from WCW

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when he feuded with Billy Kidman for
a period of time, were said,

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fu n B on the back.
Oh good, Who have ever thought that

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in this world Jeff Peck could relate
to Whole Coca and Trick Williams. I'm

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impressed by that. That's good.
It is that weird knowledge of professional wrestling

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that I have going on up here, and it's been something that we've been

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doing here for nearly fourteen and a
half years. On the Story Realta show,

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We Tease It at the end of
last week's edition of the podcast,

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We Tease It online Earlier this week, big announcement regarding the future of SRTU

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so to completely pull back the curtains. So obviously you got one part of

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this is doctor Trey being laid up
with surgery. We're getting a little bit

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older. I myself have surgery planned
for later in the summer that is going

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to affect the way that I talk. It's going to be a jaw surgery

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that I'm supposed to be getting and
may put me out of commission for a

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little bit. And then there's talk
of maybe a second surgery in a couple

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months of that later that would completely
put me out of talking. And then

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you know, those are the medical
side of things of two older guys that

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are getting older. And then the
second thing, which doctor Trey obviously knows

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about. We have not shared this
on the podcast whatsoever, but late next

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month I am becoming a father.
My wife is pregnant with a boy,

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and we'll be having a kid in
late June. It's like basically timed up

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right now, right around forbidden door, and there's a lot of all these

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life things that are going on right
now. And I always like to try

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to personally take a look at every
like WrestleMania season, like coming out of

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WrestleMania and go like, you know, do we have the gumption, desire,

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the length of wanting to move the
podcast forward basically for another year.

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And every year it's been like,
you know, this is nope, I

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want to keep it going and we'll
continue forward. This was one of the

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first years that I felt like coming
out of WrestleMania that given the personal stuff,

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like stuff that's going on my life, stuff that's going on Doctor Trey's

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life, like we are hair on
fire most of the time coming down here,

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sitting down on the podcast. Doctor
Trey's had a long day at work.

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I've had a long day at work, and we're sitting here and we're,

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you know, brains are a little
bit mushed trying to figure out what's

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going on the world professional wrestling.
It's not like how it used to be

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when life was a little bit more
simpler when we started back in twenty ten,

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twenty eleven, twenty twelve. A
lot of things have changed, marriages,

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children, jobs, and here we
are, you know, years later,

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and I thought this was like the
year. I was like, wow,

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this this could be it. So
Doctor Trey and I had a discussion

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a couple of weeks ago following a
podcast and you know, basically said like,

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hey, you know, do you
want to keep this thing going?

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I know there's a lot of changes
going on in your life, my life.

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What happened, And we came to
the agreement that yeah, we do.

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We do want to continue forward here
for heading into the fifteenth year,

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heading into rest of many forty one. So that is like the big announcement

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there of And it may be not
too dramatic as we were pumping it up,

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but hey, this is show business, so we're continuing the podcast forward.

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I got admit, like the pandemic
for me, doctor Trey, I

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felt like save the podcast. I
thought that you and I heading into the

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pandemic of professional wrestling at that point, was a little bit kind of fed

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up with professional wrestling. W wasn't
that good. AW had just started up,

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and again we were getting older,
and time constraints and you know,

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flexibility what have you was was certainly
on the plate. And then when we

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had the pandemic, it kind of
revitalized at least me personally. And then

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the product lately, especially with WA, has really revitalized me. I wish

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I could say the same about AAW, which we'll get to here momentarily,

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but yeah, I mean we've we've
been doing this a long time and when

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we first started, it was two
hours of raw, two hours of SmackDown,

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one hour of NXT that we covered. We did not really cover TNA.

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We would cover it on the on
the offset of it. Actually,

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Doctor Trey when he first started the
podcast, it was like, hey,

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you're the TNA guy, give us
like an update of what was going on.

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And that's what Doctor Trey was kind
of responsible for in those first early

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days of SRTU. Since then,
three hours of raw, two hours of

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NXT, two hours of SmackDown,
and a whole other brand that we've been

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covering. Two hours of Dynamite,
two hours of Collision, one hour of

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Rampage. I mean, it's a
lot more than recovering. It's it's doubled

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what it was. And again,
we don't make money off this. We

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do this as as a hobby,
as a joy, as a passion,

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as a love for professional wrestling,
as wrestling fans, and we try to

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give everybody an alternative list I mean
viewership, listenership to professional wrestling and then

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what you're accustomed to. Try to
be not as negative all the time towards

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the product and just be too,
fans and friends that are like just randomly

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talking about professional wrestling how we feel
about it at the period of time.

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And then you know, that kind
of weighed on me a lot. I

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mean, it's a lot of wrestling
that we cover in a week, but

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you know, we're going to try
it here, continuing for another year.

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But I think I guess we would
be lying to ourselves a little bit,

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Doctor Trey if thinking out loud that
covering a wrestling podcast isn't as easy I

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guess as it used to be.
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of

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content that we have to take in, digest and then you know, regurgitate

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back out to the audience. And
you know, when you know, being

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married like you and I both are
now, you having a kid on the

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way and me having a couple of
kids in the house and little mini farm,

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and we both have very demanding jobs, it does get you know,

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a little bit of delirium setting in, so to speak. But you know,

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I think, you know, we
talked about it Coo weeks ago that

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this is kind of still our escape
from reality. We can go hide from

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everything else in the world for an
hour and just sit down talk about wrestling

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and that that part of it's still
enjoyable to me. And I will say,

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you know, with us, we
are always tweaking the times we do

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the show and moving things around and
see what works best. This this new

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time slod that we're recording, it
is working out really well. Plus I

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think it's just kind of a kind
of an fu to the jobs that we

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can go, Hey, you know, let's take an hour and just talk

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about wrestling. And you know,
it's kind of like a still being rebellious

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in nature. But you know,
fourteen and a half years of doing the

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show, it's like I never thought
we'd hit seven. I didn't think we'd

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hit ten. And at this point
it's almost like, you know, not

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that I would ever think about dropping
show, but at some point you go,

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man, like I can't believe we
were still doing this, But it's

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still fun. And the pandemic time
did help out a lot in the sense

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of, hey, it helped us
cope with what was going on in the

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world around us. You know,
you being you know, volunteer fireman,

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you were on calls all time,
you know, running out, having to

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help people out like that. This
was still our break from reality. And

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you know, with Sammy frank Sammy
Franklin is going to enroll in kindergarten next

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week. That's that's crazy to me, you know. And you have the

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little peck coming on coming along here. It's just it's still that little bit

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of break from reality that we enjoy
so much. And yeah, I'm just

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fired up now for this year as
I was for year one and two.

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Yeah, it's definitely revitalized there.
You know, I'm not going to sit

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here and lie that. It's a
little bit obviously a scary world about becoming

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father and then trying to balance everything
else that we do in our personal lives

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and trying to keep up on professional
wrestling is a definite concern of mine.

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But a lot of people I have
talked to have said, like, no,

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this is actually like the time where
you're got to be watching a lot

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more than you probably ever figured it. And I watch a ton right now,

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when it's like feeding time, it

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is time where I get caught up
on professional wrestling. And like doctor Trey

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said, I mean we are,
we're doing a new recording time that has

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been a lot more convenient for the
both of us. We're not as I

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mean personally speaking, like not as
tired from a long day heading into trying

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to do a wrestling podcast and like
shaking my mind of like all right,

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what happened that day? And Doctor
Trey's not coming out of work like hair

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on fire doing the recording. So
I think that this new recording time has

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definitely helped things out for us,
and I hope that continues forward with the

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podcast moving forward. I've always felt
that if there was ever I mean,

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obviously all things come to an end, so at some point, at some

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point, SRTU will come to an
end. Sadly, it's just the way

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life is. Everything comes to an
end. But I always figured it would

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go from like a full time to
like a part time because one of the

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things that I even talked to Doctor
Trey about off air was what if we

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just did like a like a WrestleMania
season podcast, like where we took off

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the summer months or whatever and came
back in October November time and covered w

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WE every week heading into WrestleMania.
You know, maybe that is an option

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at some point, Maybe there's an
option where Doctor Trey and I are going

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guns are blazing for a period of
time and then come like maybe May,

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June, July, August, what
have you. Like, we're doing it

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maybe two shows every couple of weeks
out of that month rather than every single

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week, but you know, we're
not at that point right now. Still

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enjoying it. Professional wrestling has a
ton of fun, really enjoying covering it.

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It's it's an escape. We've been
doing this show, you know,

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seven hundred and forty four straight weeks, fourteen nearly fourteen and a half years.

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It is. It's literally also two
from a personal standpoint, it's like

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the last chapter left in a period
of time for both Doctor Trey and I.

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Like it's funny because I was looking
at something yesterday. And for those

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who don't know the story, Doctor
Trey and I started out as friends on

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a platform, an online gaming platform
called EA Game Show. So EA Sports,

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who makes all these you know,
Madden, NFLS or bringing Back the

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College Football Game had a online game
show platform, which I still think was

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ahead of its time, with live
host prizes, the whole nine yards.

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Doctor Trey was a player on there. I was a player on there,

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and over time just kind of became, you know, friends, like I

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think we had spawned off into doing
at the time a message board, and

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then I got hooked up with one
of the hosts of via game show,

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Bauer, and started doing a podcast. And then a year later he encouraged

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me to do a wrestling podcast,
and then they say the rest is history,

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and Doctor Trey and I have been
doing this podcast ever since. He's

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been filling in for Eric Rjuloh headed
into as a full time role since resume

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twenty eight, so it's it's been
a long time, and there were a

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lot of things that were tied to
that. It was the podcast I was

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on at the time, the Wheelhouse, the radio show I was on at

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one time, the Bowers Show that
was in Hartford, Connecticut. I was

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at ESPN Radio at the Mothership in
Bristol, Connecticut. Doctor Trey was working

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various different jobs at that point,
traveling the country. So we start off

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the show, as you know,
where in the world is doctor Trey Franklin

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this week, kids being born,
marriage is happening. All that stuff kind

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of all dwindled away. Wrestle Chatnett
was a dot net, was an actual

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website at one time, and now
that has phased away, and it's like

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the last thing left of that period
of time, THEA Game Show, Real

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Guy Radio Network, Wheelhouse Podcast,
Bower Show Podcast, Russell Chat dot Net

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has been the still RELTA show where
the one thing left that's going and it's

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the last thing left of that chapter
in my life. I left professional radio

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almost ten years ago. Now we're
walking out of Bristol, Connecticut and ESPN

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Radio Headquarters, Global Headquarters, and
knowing that this was the end of the

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line as I started a new career
path and just went in a straight podcasting

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and you know, it's kind of
shocking and I'm still doing it. It

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will be sixteen years of podcasting next
March, fifteen years of the STORELTA Show

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this upcoming February twenty twenty five.
So there's a little bit of sentimental feeling

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there for me, doctor Trey that
like still holding on to that chapter of

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my life, our lives. The
last remaining relic of that time period is

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this very podcast. Yeah, it's
it's funny like I'll be gone all I'll

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be on Facebook and come across some
of the other guys from EA Game Show

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and see what they're doing now,
and it is there's a little bit of

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nostalgia to it because those were some
good times. I mean, honestly,

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we start on game show. I
didn't like Jeff Peck because we were always

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the top two guys. When it
came to like wrestling trivia, when he

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would beat me, I would get
mad, and then vice versa, and

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there was just like this mutual admiration
and respect. Society kind of built out

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of it to you know, what's
gone now, but you know he's been

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with my one of my good friends
now for you know, almost a decade

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and a half. If nothing else
came from that, I got a lifelong

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friend out of this. So it's
it is weird, kind of like looking

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back fourteen years ago my life was
at then versus where it's at now.

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I would have never thought I'd end
up living in Alabama with a five year

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old and a new wife. Like, these are all things that just kind

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of came out of it. And
this has kind of been like my my

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safety net in a sense that when
everything else is you know, any other

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bad day or anything crazy is going
on, I can sit down talk with

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my buddy about wrestling for an hour
and with with all the listeners that tune

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in. So yeah, still hanging
on to it and it's but it's never

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been. There have been times,
and I know Jeff's all the way too,

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with the wrestling and product being bad. It is like we need to

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shut this thing down because what we're
watching is just got awful. And you

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know, like you said earlier,
like coming out of the pandemic into the

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Triple H era of professional wrestling,
it's so good right now, I'd be

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it'd be ridiculous that stop talking about
it now when everything's good. It's like,

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we put up with years of crap
to get to this point. There's

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no sense in walking away from it
now. Yeah, it would be,

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Uh, it would be an interesting
move for us to do that and be

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more of a selfish one because we
would be you know, obviously doing it

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for our families and to vote a
little bit more time to everything that's going

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on. But we're still wrestling fans
at hard. We enjoy this, so,

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you know, continuing the podcast forward
here, you know, I think

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I always mentally take it like year
by year at this point and just try

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to see like where we're both at
and where things are, especially with the

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podcast. If obviously things are going
great with the podcast, there's not much

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more to think about it. It
was more of a of a personal decision

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or discussion that we needed to have
because of a lot of the things that

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were going on in our lives that's
taking place, and the jobs and all

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that, And like Doctor Trey mentioned
earlier, we kind of came up with

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a new recording time that's been more
convenient and more accessible and made us happier

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to do the show. Not like
we were unhappy, but I just think

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at the end of the day,
it was like kind of draining at that

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point to sit up there and it's
like eight o'clock East Coast time and Doctor

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Trace just coming off at work seven
pm his time, and like we're talking

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what we're talking wrestling? What the
fuck happened today? Tell me what happened

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or I missed aw or whatever the
night before, whatever it may be.

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So, and what the crazy thing
is is the concert the butterfly Butterfly effect.

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Right. At some point there was
a decision that Doctor Trey made to

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go play this game EA game show, following Bauer, who was on Maxim

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Radio on Serious XM at that point. It is a long time listener to

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that program, and so he made
that way, and then I made the

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random decision. Somehow found EA game
show clicked it started playing it, and

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that led to this very podcast happening. It led to personally a career for

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me for a period of time in
radio, where I had the opportunity to

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interview CM Punk, Dean Ambrose,
Dolph Siegler, Claudio Casignoli, Chris Hero,

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Carrie Silken, the old ROH owner
like Terry Funk. Had the opportunity

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to do all that and have a
great friend in Doctor Trey and continue talking

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about professional wrestling, and this podcast
led to Doctor Trey jumping his feet into

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the world of professional wrestling as a
wrestler, as a manager, get involved

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with a promotion where he lives,
and like it's just just wild where it

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all kind of started with that decision
of like yeah, I'll go play this

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platform, Doctor Trey. Yeah.
Yeah, And especially like you know,

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the Bower Show was was a big
part of my life, you know,

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when you and I met, because
I'm Max with Sirius Sally Radio and I

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was traveling so much, like I
was always calling in the Bauers Show and

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stuff like that, so to see
where that was at then, and I

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was wearing a giant I got did
you still get did you ever get the

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giant chicken shirt? By the way, No, I never did. I

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got I had one for years.
But you know, to be on this

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little game show and winning prizes and
you know, forming a somewhat friendship with

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Bauer, just you know, doing
stuff for the show on air, like

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is what led me down this path. And when I moved to Alabama,

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I was like, you know,
people knew that I was doing a podcast

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and that's how the whole wrestling thing
happened. They're like, well, if

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you're doing a podcast, because that's
back in the days when nobody had a

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podcast. Well, if you're doing
a podcast, you must be able to

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talk. Well, if you can
talk, hey, we need an announcer,

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we need to ring, we need
to re announcer. Hey, well

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you can talk, Maybe you can
be a manager, Maybe you can do

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this. And it's just crazy to
see that of the evolution that you laid

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out and how a random chance happened
meeting has led to all of this.

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So and watching you know, I
got I think almost ten years on you,

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but to watch you grow from this
this kid on this game show to

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being on radio to the career path
and you know, meeting your lovely wife

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all those years ago at the Tampa
Bay Rays games and knowing that you had

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a family coming around. Like,
I'm very, very proud of you,

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man. So I mean, that's
it's it's watching the evolution of one of

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my friends as well. So I've
told you before, like when you tell

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me the show's overs, when the
show's over, like, I'm with you,

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I'm right or die until the end. Man, No, I appreciate

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that. And likewise, I mean
I remember doctor Trey, you know,

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being a very hard worker in the
country, working his tail off, and

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now he has a really great job. He's home, he's got a family,

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he doesn't have it to travel as
much, and we're enjoying life as

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best we can. So that was
the big announcement the future of SRTU.

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We're not going to lie to you
guys and say that we didn't have a

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discussion about where we want to take
this show moving forward. As always,

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I think it's something that probably Doctor
Trey and I will we'll look at as

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the time moves forward and seeing how
everything goes and whether we want to do

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it every single week or multiple times
a week, or what have you,

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or you know, once a month
we'll or end it all together. We'll

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have that discussion and try to be
as transparent as possible with everybody. But

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I always tend to look at like
Rustlemania a season and go, all right,

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do we have another one in the
chamber, Because fourteen years of doing

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a podcast is a really long time. Not missing a new episode for seven

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hundred and forty four straight weeks is
very difficult to do. We've gone through

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hurricanes, all different types of hours
of the day and night in early morning,

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like the period of time I've talked
about, like Doctor Trey and I,

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the best time we could do it
was I was doing an overnight shift

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at ESPN Radio. I'd get home
at four thirty. He was just beginning

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his shift at like five thirty,
and that was like the window where we

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recorded the podcast legitimately and it kept
the streak going. So and there was

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a very time that this podcast when
I was doing with Eric car Juli,

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we were going to do it for
a couple months and then take the summer

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off, and we actually ended up
not doing it. I was trying to

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figure out why did I not do
that? And it's because wwe ran the

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Nexus angle and we were so damn
excited about it when they like took out,

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Cena, ripped up the ring,
Danielson choked out Justin Roberts that we

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were like, all right, we
got to hold onto this. We can't

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go off now. I mean,
this is one of the hottest angles in

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professional wrestling history. And I know
it didn't end great, but I still

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say that nexus angle is one of
the best angles to end raw in the

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history of the entire show. So
here we are. That's the big news.

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The last part about this that I'll
say and then we'll get into some

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wrestling talk is all of our listeners
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some time since we had some ratings,

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00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.200
some reviews. That legitimately gives us
some energy to be like, all right,

408
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.680
the people are behind us, they're
listening to the show, that they

409
00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.160
enjoy what we're doing, and we
appreciate that support. So a little bit

410
00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:11.079
of homework there. Let us know
your feedback on the podcast, what you

411
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:12.960
like, you don't like, You
could dm us, if you follow us

412
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:18.319
on Twitter, whatever you got to
do, Facebook message us and we'll take

413
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:21.839
it from there. So a little
bit of homework there, Doctor Trey for

414
00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:25.799
everybody. Oh yeah, and you
know it's not only we haven't asked this

415
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:29.559
before. I mean, we didn't
the show the way, but it does

416
00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:33.119
help us out a lot. I
mean, when you're doing a podcast that's

417
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.400
downloadable and we're not doing it live
and we're not seeing the people jump in

418
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:41.480
the chat rooms the message boards and
things like that. It does kind of

419
00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:44.640
feel like at times like is anybody
out there? You know, it's like

420
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:47.039
we see the numbers, receive you
the download, but it's like, you

421
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:48.799
know, the feedback. The feedback
is great. We love feedback. We

422
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:52.559
love you know, people messaging us. We I mean I remember back in

423
00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.519
the day, like I was getting
messages on Instagram from people like overseas and

424
00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.640
things like that. I got all
that stuff is great. That's what kind

425
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:04.200
of helps motivate us even more to
keep pushing on. And I hate saying

426
00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:07.359
pushing on like it's like it's a
burden. It's not, but it does

427
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.119
kind of, you know, revitalize
you a little bit when you go,

428
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:14.839
hey, thank Eric. Darcy guy
is a pretty good guy, and he

429
00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:18.319
does subscribe to the show and he
listens to us, and you know,

430
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.240
just just that little bit of energy
can help us out on a day when

431
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:26.440
you know, life happens and we're
both feeling crappy, or Jeff's in his

432
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:29.880
allergy season like he is right now. Like those things really help us out

433
00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:32.400
and keep us motivated even more.
Yeah, we don't want to be just

434
00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:37.319
talking into a black hole to nobody. So the listeners really are the energy

435
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:40.720
of the podcast. So if you're
a listener, you're a diehard listener,

436
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:44.359
give us some give us some notes
out there. It really really helps us

437
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.799
out and lets us know, all
right, this decision that we're making is

438
00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:49.920
not for not because Doctor try and
I love wrestling, and we could certainly

439
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:53.839
text with one another, call each
other and have our own little podcast that

440
00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:56.640
nobody listens to. But you know, we save that for an actual show,

441
00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.440
and we hope that everybody's out there
supporting us. So a little bit

442
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:02.960
of homework for everybody, and I
hope we get to see some of that

443
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.599
here in the weeks moving forward.
So big announcement out of the way.

444
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.559
And what's funny, what's kind of
tied it all into this a little bit,

445
00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:15.079
Doctor Trey is I'm at a little
bit of a viewership crossroads. And

446
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:21.079
I'm not necessarily sure you're at this
space yet, because i know we've talked

447
00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.920
about this a little bit on air
off air, but I'm legitimately there and

448
00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:29.319
I'm like, man, maybe this
is maybe this is it. I'm at

449
00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:34.519
an AW viewership crossroads. Simply put, I am a fan of AAW.

450
00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:42.000
I want to see AW succeed but
I'm tired of watching some of their shows

451
00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:49.519
rampage and collision for collision to a
degree that I don't want it to feel

452
00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:52.599
like I'm wasting my time as a
viewer. It's like, why the hell

453
00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:55.920
did I do that? I could
just watch YouTube clips of this show afterwards

454
00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:59.799
there on the aw page. I'm
at a little bit of a crossroads.

455
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:04.839
It reminds me of and it was
pre SRTU. I was an original fan

456
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:11.599
of NWATNA. I used to watch
the weekly wrestling shows that they had on

457
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:17.359
Wednesdays on pay per view before it
hit onto Fox Sports. And as time

458
00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:22.880
went on, I drifted away from
TNA Impact Wrestling so much so that like

459
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.880
the first time I got back into
impact wrestling was legitimately during the pandemic when

460
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.920
I kind of fell in love with
it. I loved Impact Wrestling. I

461
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.759
thought it was a great show.
Unfortunately, as the pandemic, well,

462
00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:40.240
fortunately as the pandemic widened down at
that point, I didn't really watch it

463
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:42.839
anymore because it was way too much
wrestling at that point on my on my

464
00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:48.200
platter, and I had to cut
TNA had to cut Impact Wrestling. I

465
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.519
do see some of the clips from
time to time, and I'm kind of

466
00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:56.880
at that spot right now with AW. They're booking is not great. Their

467
00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:04.240
creative for the most part, is
not well done. There's a lot of

468
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.799
start stops. You know, where
is Ricky Starks right now? What happened

469
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.680
to Wardlow? First time I've seen
Wardlow back on AW television was last night

470
00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:15.200
on Diimite when he played a background
player. And about eight weeks ago he

471
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:21.759
was the number one contender for the
World Championship. Why is Christian Cage the

472
00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:24.680
number one contender for the AWA World
Havyweight Championship despite dropping the T and T

473
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:29.440
Championship and they brought the ranking system
back? Is he the number one contender?

474
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:31.799
Because the young bucks are in charge
and they punted the ranking system and

475
00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:35.279
they're like, this isn't working.
I mean, they legitimately just bought the

476
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:39.240
ranking system back. You know,
Tendance is down, viewership is down.

477
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:45.680
AW will still be a monster because
we'll talk about their rumored talks with Warner

478
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:52.240
Brothers Discovery. But it's like it
would my life be better as a wrestling

479
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:54.920
fan if I stopped watching. I
mean, they're coming up on five years

480
00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.799
as a business at double or nothing
in a couple of weeks and then Dynamite

481
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:02.680
will be five years old in early
October. But I hate to say this

482
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:06.359
because I've never given up on WE. And people are gonna say that,

483
00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:08.119
well, you're a w homer,
and you're absolutely right, because it's been

484
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:12.039
an institution in my life for thirty
plus years. I've never given up on

485
00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:15.519
WE. It's like, why would
I stop watching the NFL, the NBA

486
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:20.400
MLB, right, I mean,
I've They've been an institution in my life.

487
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:22.799
AW is fairly new, and I
compare it more to my viewership for

488
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:28.920
NWATNA later known to CNA Wrestling than
anything. So that's kind of where I'm

489
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:32.839
at. I still watch every show
and I hope for it to get better.

490
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:37.119
There are we love the pay per
views. There are some of my

491
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.599
favorite wrestlers in the world on that
show, like Will Osprey, Swerve Strickling

492
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.039
right now, those are some of
my favorite stars to watch. But it's

493
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.079
like, you know, I could
go and I could watch the Will Ostpray

494
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:51.240
match and not necessarily be invested in
the whole show. So I'm at a

495
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:53.359
viewership crossroads. Doctor trep. I
don't know how you feel about AAW.

496
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.079
Maybe you're there too. Maybe you've
already been there, maybe you've cut the

497
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:01.039
cord on them, or maybe you're
enjoying what your thoughts on aw and this

498
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:06.720
viewership crossroads I'm in. Yeah,
no, I've I've already passed that mark.

499
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.000
Like I don't watch Dynamite every single
week if it's it. It's one

500
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.920
of those shows now where it's like, oh, if I'm home and it's

501
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:19.519
on and you know it's not going
to inconvenience anybody else in the house,

502
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:22.760
I'll sit and watch it or watch
it as much as I can, because

503
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:25.840
there's been times I've started got about
forty five minutes into it was just like,

504
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:30.119
man, this show's awful, and
turn it off. And you're absolutely

505
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.519
right. Like as you were saying
it, I was thinking of, like,

506
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:39.239
what kind of comparison could I have? Like the n Ring matches are

507
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:44.639
phenomenal, Like those guys Bell to
Bell in the Ring are great. It's

508
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:50.000
all the stuff outside of it,
the booking, the creative I mean hell

509
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:53.400
to a degree that production at times
as well is just not good. And

510
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:58.760
it's like okay, if I have
a restaurant with a food is fantastic,

511
00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:01.360
but the buildings falling down to the
wait staff is horrible? Am I gonna

512
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:06.920
keep eating there regardless of how good
the food is? And that's kind of

513
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:08.039
how I feel to aw Like.
I'm like, yeah, like I can

514
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:15.199
watch We'll Ospray and Bryan Danielson go
tear it Up, or Copeland and Malachi

515
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.679
Black or whoever's going on right now. I can watch those matches and just

516
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:23.239
ignore everything else. I'm like and
be entertained by the wrestling matches, But

517
00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:30.440
dear God, everything else around it
right now is just not good. And

518
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.920
I'm trying to say it as nicely
as I can, but you know,

519
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.199
I was. I use it.
I relate that wrestling to the soap opers

520
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:42.400
because that's what my grandmother got me
into wrestling, But she's also who got

521
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.400
me into Days of Our Lives.
I can flip on Days of Our Lives.

522
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:49.079
I haven't watched it Days of our
Lives in probably seven years. I

523
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.280
can flip it on and still kind
of figure out what's going on with the

524
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.800
show. The characters are pretty stable
for the most part. You know,

525
00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:59.599
you kind of know who the good
guys are, who the bad guys are.

526
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.840
Kind of watch it from afar and
still get the gist. Of the

527
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.920
story, where right now with AW
you missed two weeks of it and not

528
00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:10.840
see anything about it. You flip
back on you're like, wait, what

529
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.440
happened here? It's like everything's different, and it's all over the place,

530
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:22.599
and there's no consistency to anything going
on outside of the ring. And I

531
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:24.599
know there's a lot of younger wrestling
fans out there that like, I just

532
00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:28.920
want Bell to Bell. I just
want the great wrestling. But the great

533
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.639
wrestling has to have a story to
it to make it to make you a

534
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:37.360
lifelong fan, you know, go
back to the Attitude era or days like

535
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:39.039
that. It's like, yeah,
like the wrestling was fun back then,

536
00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:43.920
but it was all the craziness that
was going on around it, which is

537
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:46.719
what hooks people like you know,
like Jeff and me to stick around for

538
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:50.559
the next thirty years, or pro
wrestling. It was all the other stuff.

539
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:54.679
It was Austin the beer trock or
the d X Express exploding or all

540
00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:57.960
these different little things that happened where
you're like, oh my god, I

541
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.480
never thought i'd see that on TV. It is what made you tune in

542
00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:04.400
the next week. If I I've
always said, like, if it came

543
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.039
down to just wrestling, you know, wrestling action for a product that I

544
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:13.320
know is scripted for lack of a
better term, I can just watch UFC

545
00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:15.360
and watch two girl men actually fight
and beat the hell of each other.

546
00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:21.679
Wrestling is simulated combat, but you
need the story too. I always tell

547
00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:27.559
people it's soap operas with stuntmen,
and right now it is so all over

548
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:32.880
the place and just bad at times. Like the only thing that makes that

549
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.679
show any better now than what WCW
was in two thousand and one is the

550
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:42.920
entering action. Everything else going on
around it is really reminiscent of how bad

551
00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:47.679
WCW got it again. Yeah,
it's and this hasn't been something that came

552
00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:52.159
out of nowhere. I think is
As a fan of AW, I was

553
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:55.800
like really trying to think about when
I would be like the most excited and

554
00:37:55.920 --> 00:38:00.119
in tune to everything that was going
on AW. And I would say when

555
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:07.079
it launched in twenty nineteen till about
September twenty twenty one, coming out of

556
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:10.360
all in, excuse me, all
out, I always get those two mixed

557
00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:15.039
up. All Out twenty twenty one
when Punk made his return and we were

558
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:16.000
like, I think that's one of
the best shows we ever recovered. It

559
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:20.800
is. It's one of the best
shows top to bottom we ever covered,

560
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.880
Like Adam Cole debuted, Danielson debuted, and it was a historic show.

561
00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:29.360
I think it's one of, if
not their best pay per view they've ever

562
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:36.880
done. And then it just slowly
went downhill from there. Now it's not

563
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:40.719
all just bad creative. They have
had some really bad luck. The Adam

564
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:46.920
Cole MJS stuff went to hell in
a handbasket very fast, And it's to

565
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:52.440
the point now where it is such
a long time ago now that even if

566
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:58.320
MJF came back tomorrow, I don't
know if I would give a shit about

567
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:04.719
this entire storyline, because they took
him out in late December. Cole had

568
00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:08.239
Adam Cole had that freak injury that
has sidelined him this entire time. I

569
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.239
know he's walking now, but he
hasn't been on television for a little bit.

570
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:16.199
MJF reportedly ended up having to get
surgery. I think he was in

571
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.599
like a comic con recently, in
a sling, So he may be off

572
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:23.320
for another let's say, three to
six months, And at that point are

573
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:29.039
people got to really care about what
happened in December twenty twenty three, and

574
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:34.199
that was the biggest storyline they were
pushing. You know, they're pushing Kenny

575
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.360
Omega and Chris Jericho as a tag
team, and you know, Kenny Omega

576
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:44.079
gets diveticulitis and nearly dies from it, and it's like terrible timing and he

577
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:47.719
may not be back anytime soon.
He's due to get some surgery. Obviously,

578
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:51.360
there's a lot of kfabe and a
lot of the news reporting and whatever,

579
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.320
and it's like, okay, this
is a little bit, you know,

580
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:55.880
could it could it could? Or
could it not happened? Because I

581
00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:59.800
thought Darby Allen was gonna be out
for a while, and he came out

582
00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:02.960
at the end of Dynamite on Wednesday
night and he'll be in the anarchy in

583
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.440
the Arena match. And of course
the Eddie Kingston injury is another piece of

584
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:14.159
bad luck Powerhouse Ops another piece of
bad luck in their sense. So they've

585
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:16.719
been snake binn. But there's some
other things. It's Tony Kahan as an

586
00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:22.679
owner, I mean him coming out
and calling WWE the god. Who's that

587
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:29.559
disgraced movie director whose name is escaping
me right now? Doctor Treystein Harvey Weinstein,

588
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:34.159
a professional wrestling like Tony Kahan can
knock out out of his own way.

589
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:42.440
He went from like this lovable owner
who helped revitalize professional wrestling to this

590
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:46.159
person who and this is not going
to ever win me a job in aw

591
00:40:47.159 --> 00:40:52.800
now frankly may or may not be
because we don't know the inner workings of

592
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.920
All Eite Wrestling. Should not be
in the position that he is as head

593
00:40:55.960 --> 00:41:02.280
of creative because it is lacking consistency, it's lacking organization, it's lacking focus,

594
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:07.159
and it's not making me interested in
the matches. Because if they're not

595
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:08.800
going to put out good TV products, then just run as a pay per

596
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:13.679
view company once a month like the
old school indies used to do, like

597
00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:19.159
roh and hype it up from show
to show in between on the YouTube channels

598
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.199
or whatever. So you know,
I don't think he should be in that

599
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:27.800
space, and I think he's went
from likable to not so likable. I

600
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:34.400
think the honeymoon phase of All Wrestling
has finally completely whittled away, and I

601
00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:38.599
think all the good collateral that they
had as launching as a company putting out

602
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:45.440
good programming has eroded away as well. Doctor Trey I don't think that there's

603
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:52.199
anything left in that anymore like it
used to be. It's Dynamite is an

604
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.920
okay show. It's a show that
you can watch all the others. It's

605
00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.000
like interchangeable. I mean, they
had a Brian Keith Drake match, and

606
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:02.480
I find those guys to be great
workers, but it was like a very

607
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:07.840
quick match on Collision and not that
great. Meanwhile, it's like, I

608
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.920
don't want to miss Collision because then
I'll miss Dax's hard Word versus Dynamite Kid

609
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.519
Tommy Billington, which was a great
match. You know. It's it's like

610
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:22.400
I I continue to hope that I'm
going to get the best out of ELID

611
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.960
Wrestling, and it's reaching the point
where when we had this discussion about continuing

612
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.000
forward the show, and I'm like, man, one way, that would,

613
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:32.320
you know, leave a lot of
tension off my shoulders if I removed

614
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:37.960
six hours of aw from my viewership
each week and we just kind of focused

615
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.519
on and when necessary and or as
need be, and I kind of gave

616
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:45.199
up as a diehard fan. I
don't want to get there, Doctor Trey,

617
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:49.519
but I think I would be doing
disservice to myself as a wrestling fan

618
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:52.559
if I didn't at least consider it. Yeah, there are times watching this,

619
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:58.320
I mean I compared to w C
everybody really reminds me more of what

620
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:05.079
was it two thousand eleven twenty ten
WWE when everybody was out injured the show.

621
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:08.440
I mean we were focusing on like
Luther Rains and Nathan Jones and those

622
00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:13.599
guys. It was like, man, this show has got awful, Like

623
00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:15.599
and you and I always sit there
and go, do we need to get

624
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:20.000
doing the podcast because right now I'm
not enjoying it And right now the saving

625
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:24.840
grace is that the other companies doing
fantastic, so it keeps you around as

626
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:30.559
a wrestling fan. But yeah,
I mean they AW from top to bottom

627
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:37.960
has more talent than WWE. But
in the constant changing of storylines or the

628
00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:44.360
non continuation or the start stops or
things like that, like it drives me

629
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:46.000
nuts, like not to mention,
like you know, we get this Swarves

630
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:49.880
Trickman Christian case for you. There
are two of my favorite performers in the

631
00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:52.239
world, and yet you know we
haven't seen some moo Joseph he lost the

632
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:59.679
belt that seldom happens in WWE.
Maybe a Roman reigns, Roman loses the

633
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:02.679
wrestle, and we haven't seen him
since. He's still is his name is

634
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.639
still a factor though in the programming. You know, it's just like,

635
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:09.480
oh he lost the belt, you
know, just forget about that. I

636
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:13.719
pay no attention to to someone behind
the curtain, so to speak. It's

637
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:16.239
just that. And then you got
the stuff with with Jericho, where one

638
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:19.760
week is the baby face, he's
a heel, he's bad. Like this

639
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:24.760
constant switching back and forth. It's
like the entire show is big show.

640
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:28.760
The entire show is basically guys are
switching back and forth for the sake of

641
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:31.440
switching back and forth. The only
thing, I mean that really has kept

642
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:36.679
me around has been how entertaining Swerve
is. But then again, I liked

643
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:40.960
him better as a heel. And
a little bit of the Nick Jackson Mad

644
00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:45.480
Jackson stuff with the EVP stuff,
because I'm just like, it's so corny,

645
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:50.000
it's bad, but it's entertaining at
the same time. So but really

646
00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:53.480
everything else, like you just you
can't, you can't hold on to any

647
00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:57.079
one thing. It's you know,
even w c W. The bad days

648
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.119
you had the you know, you
had the the Loocha division. You know,

649
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:01.519
like, okay, well the top
of the car is horrible. At

650
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:06.239
least we get psychosis and Dean Malenko
this week. You know, it's just

651
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:10.000
everything else that you really want to
sink your teeth into. Every time you

652
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:13.519
get ready to take a good bite, they ink that plate away and give

653
00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:15.519
you something else, and you're like, it's not what I want to guys.

654
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:20.239
It's just it's just too all over
the place right now for me to

655
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:25.039
really just embrace fully again. Yeah, it's it's lack of consistency. It's

656
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.199
Ward Low's a focal point number one
contender, then he disappears. It's like,

657
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:31.519
how did we get here? But
just basically put him on the shelf

658
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:37.280
again. Ricky Starks was one of
the most red heart hot stars of the

659
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:42.599
company last summer, and he's completely
off TV. He says he's not injured.

660
00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:45.199
He doesn't know why he's off TV. That could be a little bit

661
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:47.920
of k fape for all we know. But yeah, I mean it's just

662
00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:53.280
all around confusing time and time again
and the lack of consistency. And I

663
00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:57.320
think one of the things too,
is there major storyline this whole Young Bucks

664
00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:01.159
Okada Jungle Boy stuff is. I'm
having a real tough time getting behind it.

665
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:04.880
And I was the one a couple
of weeks ago that was so optimistic

666
00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:07.679
because the angle that they executed in
Jacksonville had a lot of promise, and

667
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:12.199
I felt like the last couple of
weeks it's kind of been lacking a little

668
00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:16.760
bit, and I think part of
the reason is is and this was before

669
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:21.199
all this, but I had a
really tough time Doctor DREI taking Jungle Boy

670
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:28.320
seriously, even now working as the
heel him pouring the drake Antoni Shavanni's head

671
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:30.519
the other night, Like he comes
off as a prick, as a dicks,

672
00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:35.519
like someone you want to beat up, But like I legitimately think that

673
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:37.719
if I got in a tussle with
him and he may still win at the

674
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:39.559
end of the day, that I
would have a fighting chance against him.

675
00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:47.320
I really believe that footage from all
in them airing it did not put Jungle

676
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:52.639
Boy Jack Perry in a good light. He looked like a punk, He

677
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.320
got punked out. Why would I
ever think that that is someone who is

678
00:46:57.400 --> 00:47:01.480
a viable and suitable heel position,
somebody that can like take it to the

679
00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:06.039
baby faces and be a fighter I
just don't see it. And I'm not

680
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:13.559
one of those guys that likes to
talk about size and strength and whatever.

681
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:17.079
But you've got the young bucks who
are not the most biggest guys in the

682
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:21.480
world, but they do a really
good job of playing off of this EVP

683
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:25.519
like dick attitude, as does Jack
Perry do a degree, and Okata even

684
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:30.719
doesn't like really intimidate me. And
they're the top faction, and I almost

685
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:34.199
want to see them throw their power
around a little bit more on television rather

686
00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:37.440
than like their physicality, because that
is where it's going to be, is

687
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:38.880
like throw the power around a little
bit more. That angle they ran with

688
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:44.039
the Christopher Daniels far in him was
pretty good, but I wish that that

689
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:47.079
built up a lot more than the
last four or five days from Collision to

690
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:53.280
Dynamite, like really kind of start
playing those seeds of Christopher Daniels is cutting

691
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:57.760
you know, their cutting packages.
Weeks before that, he really needed this

692
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.280
job. He was at a crossroads
his family. He did know if you

693
00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:04.719
needed to retire from wrestling, and
then aaw came along, offered in this

694
00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:07.920
position and has revitalized his career.
His love of rest and all that stuff,

695
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:13.239
and then weeks later that's where this
Angle plays out and they fire him

696
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:19.199
pull on the emotional strings. Why
is WWE so good right now? They're

697
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:22.360
pulling on the emotional strings. They're
having good matches, but everything between the

698
00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:28.599
emotions there in just AAW. It's
just like really good matches, no other

699
00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:32.880
emotion, And I think that's very
much showcasing. And if they don't start

700
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:36.519
turning the corridor a little bit,
it's just gonna be nothing but a niche

701
00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:42.679
product, and it's gonna be wcwesque
Doctor Trey. It is very similar crossroads

702
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:45.760
as I was in in the late
nineties early two thousands when I stopped watching

703
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:51.920
WCW, and it's it's TNA ish
in a way as well. TNA and

704
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.639
some of the best matches in professional
wrestling from two thousand to twenty fifteen,

705
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:00.639
but nobody gave a shit because they
weren't watching the show. Do you got

706
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.199
to be like a die hard to
go watch Kurt Angle and Samo Joe tear

707
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:07.360
it up in two thousand and six
A pound for LORI like you needed to

708
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:10.480
do that stuff, and AW could
be setting themselves up that way, with

709
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:16.320
the only exception being that they have
a national television contract, so interesting times

710
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:20.440
ahead to hear. I'm gonna hold
out a little bit more, Doctor Trey

711
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:22.679
and hope for the best. But
I mean, I'm in the crossroads of

712
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:27.079
my viewership and it and like you
said earlier on, I think you're already

713
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.599
there. Yeah, this I'll I'll
put it this way. This is preparing

714
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:36.320
you for fatherhood, Jeff, because
when the baby comes, there's gonna be

715
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.000
a lot of shit you have to
deal with. And so by you sticking

716
00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:45.360
to this, you're going to deal
a lot of shit from aw well said.

717
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:47.960
I think that is a well said
way of putting it all together,

718
00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:55.639
Doctor Trey speaking of television deals.
So despite the viewership, despite the attendance.

719
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:00.639
According to fight Ful Select, this
comes to us via wrestling purists on

720
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:07.800
Twitter quote. The announcement of a
new AW slash WBD Warner Brothers Discovery deal

721
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.079
is expected to be kept very close
to the vest and summer fall could be

722
00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:16.880
a more likely announcement point. The
excluvity window between AW Warner Brothers Discovery continues

723
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:21.760
into the summer, though affirm date
on when that ends is not known.

724
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:27.880
WBD sources spoken to had indicated that
WBD had interest in adding AW pay per

725
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.199
views to the Max slate for quite
some time, thank god. They also

726
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:32.920
note that the two sides have been
in talks for quite some time about what

727
00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:37.519
a deal would look like, with
some proposals being made as far back as

728
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:42.440
last year. So TNT, TBS, they may be losing the NBA Doctor

729
00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:46.840
Trey, but it looks like for
everybody who is hating on AW or worried

730
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:52.559
about them, that AW staying on
TNT and TBS is something that will continue

731
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:55.920
on for a little bit of time. Still. Well, I mean,

732
00:50:55.960 --> 00:51:00.280
you have all these platforms out there, the first three, whether it's the

733
00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:07.880
Max deal or you know, Discovery
Plus or Netflix, who they're all of

734
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:14.159
you for content and if you can
provide enough content and original content, your

735
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.400
your commodity, so as bad as
the product may be. And and you

736
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:21.599
know, in all honestly, most
of those people at Warner Broad Discovery don't

737
00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:24.599
watch wrestling. Uh. They just
see a bunch of content that's available for

738
00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:30.880
them to put on their platforms and
hopefully increase you know, viewership on those

739
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:34.119
platforms. I mean, I have
we have MAX here at the house.

740
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:37.800
It's because we got it through at
and T. When we sign of an

741
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:38.760
AT and T, it gave us
Max for free. So it's like,

742
00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:44.039
sure, if there's something on Max
that I'll watch, and I watch an

743
00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:49.079
occasionly because there's a lot of the
DC cartoons are on there, which is

744
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:53.079
nice to watch when you're laid up
in bed. You know, you get

745
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:57.280
a reason to tune it in.
So, uh, content is king,

746
00:51:58.039 --> 00:52:00.360
as somebody once said, and they
have a bunch of content. Because if

747
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.400
they're aready doing six hours of programming
now, and they've talked about doing some

748
00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:09.719
more reality style shows, they'd be
a commodity for any of these streaming platforms.

749
00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:14.400
And you know, ww's already kind
of leveraged, you know, Warner

750
00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:16.800
Brothers last year, which is what
kind of stopped the talks because they were

751
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:21.199
trying to leverage that into their TV
deal. So it makes a lot of

752
00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:24.320
sense if your Warner Bros. To
move a commodity that has six to eight

753
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:30.159
hours of live programming every week to
your streaming platform to get more to get

754
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:34.039
more viewers to come to that direction. So there you go. Some news

755
00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:38.480
there that looks like AW will be
staying on Warner Brothers Discovery barring any changes.

756
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:43.599
We'll obviously keep an eye on that
throughout the summer. But yeah,

757
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:46.760
I'm excited if they go to Max
because I would buy If it's similar to

758
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:52.679
the way that they're distributing wepl's on
Peacock, where you buy Peacock and you

759
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:54.000
watch the pay per views, I'm
in. If it's like you got to

760
00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:59.239
buy Max and then buy the pay
per views on your own for like another

761
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:01.239
price, It's like, is it
really worth worth of doing that? It's

762
00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:02.920
got to be one stop shop for
me. I mean, you've got to

763
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:07.599
be competitive with what WWE is doing. I mean, the PA perview distribution

764
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:13.880
is not what it used to be. So we'll keep an eye on on

765
00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:19.119
where things go for all lad Wrestling
heading into the summer months with Warren Brothers

766
00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:22.519
Discovery is something that will be keeping
a close eye on. Despite everything I

767
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:27.599
said earlier, I obviously want aw
to continue to succeed and keeping them on

768
00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:32.800
war Brother's Discovery does add some much
needed in the professional wrestling market. So

769
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:37.039
I also don't want to lose the
fact that despite all everything that we're saying,

770
00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.000
as we've learned with WE that you
really, you know, it doesn't

771
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:45.760
take much to revitalize the product,
so AW certainly has the opportunity to do

772
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.880
that last thing I want to talk
about here, Doctor Trey on this week's

773
00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:52.119
sedition of the podcast, because we
had a little bit of time from downtime.

774
00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:55.960
Next week will preview predict King and
Queen of the Ring plus double or

775
00:53:57.039 --> 00:54:00.719
nothing. Who right now, when
you look at w W and you look

776
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:07.039
at AW, tell me who you
consider the core of the companies to be.

777
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:09.639
It doesn't have to be any amount
of number. You don't have to

778
00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:13.960
be like, I think it's these
four guys and girls. It's this five

779
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.800
guys and girls. When you look
at both companies right now, who in

780
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:22.320
your eyes is the core for each? Oh that's going for w W.

781
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:31.079
Let's see, I probably go Cody
Seth, Drew, Damian Priest as the

782
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:37.920
top four core guys. The girls
are probably it's probably Becky Rhea, Charlotte

783
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:42.639
Bailey, and they're building off of
that. That's probably my WWE core.

784
00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:53.840
AW. That's tricky because probably a
swerve obviously he's the Champ, Danielson,

785
00:54:55.760 --> 00:55:01.920
Copeland, and I guess the bucks
we're probably in my core a W guys

786
00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:06.320
girls, I'm still I'm still searching
on that one. I have no I

787
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:07.840
mean the people I was able with
Corey. He was you know, we

788
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:13.480
was seeing Britt Baker and almost a
year now, so but that's probably who

789
00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:16.000
I think I would think my core
is for those two shows. I think

790
00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:19.760
the only changes I would made make
to your list. I thought the women

791
00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:27.039
was spot on. I think I
would maybe add Bianca to that group as

792
00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:30.480
well, because I think you said
Bria, Becky, Charlotte Bailey, right,

793
00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:37.760
yeah, that's of course. If
I was wasn't gonna have a numbers,

794
00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:39.599
I was just like, yeah,
there's four, there makes five out.

795
00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:43.800
That's not just core I think of
pillars. I would think of four,

796
00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:47.119
that's why. And I think I
may swap Damian Priest out with Roman

797
00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:52.400
still, even though Roman's not a
round. Yeah that was I was gonna

798
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:54.079
say Roman, but you know,
we don't know how long he's going to

799
00:55:54.119 --> 00:56:00.000
be away for, so that's kind
of where Roman, if he's an obviously

800
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:05.239
takes Damien's spots, but with him
not being around right now, it's kind

801
00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:07.639
of what I had Damien in that
spot. And then on the a W

802
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:13.960
side, I would add Moxley.
Yeah, he's he is the workhorse of

803
00:56:14.039 --> 00:56:17.599
that show. So I think cause
the hell he's the what he wrestles in,

804
00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:22.199
Like, he wrestles everywhere all the
time. So yeah, Moxley's definitely

805
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:24.719
in that conversation. And then the
only one that I would say, and

806
00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:29.119
this is kind of like Damian Priest
for w A, is would you consider

807
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:31.559
Ospray in that spot right now too? On the on the core of AW?

808
00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:38.639
Not yet. I think he's getting
closer, but that's like saying,

809
00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:43.239
you know, to me, Osprey
and o'cata in the same spot. You

810
00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:45.440
know, it's like there, you
know, we already know their history,

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but what have they really done so
far in AW? Like Ospra had a

812
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:54.639
great match and then they threw into
that other weird match and then now he's

813
00:56:54.639 --> 00:56:59.280
got the match with Roderick Strawn coming
up. It's like, it's give give

814
00:56:59.360 --> 00:57:01.880
me a reason. So you see
that he's once again featured as the top

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00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:05.840
guy. Like everybody else I mentioned
has been featured as a top guy.

816
00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:10.079
He hasn't been featured as a top
guy yet in the AW women's division.

817
00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:14.480
I could not agree more. I
mean, that is such a crap shoot

818
00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:19.199
and that's sad. Yeah, because
right now, like as I'm sitting here

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00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:25.159
on Tony Stars the Women's champion and
blows the TBS champion. Yeah, that

820
00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:30.159
correct, Okay, and the TBS
titles getting been featured almost more than the

821
00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:36.840
women's title because Mercedes Monet's and like
in that thing, and like, it's

822
00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:39.199
just kind of a train wreck in
the women's division right now. And that's

823
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:44.760
been one of the issues with AW
in general. Yeah, I mean,

824
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:50.480
and that was a company that when
they launched Doctor Trey, I really thought

825
00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:55.159
that the especially the tag team division
and the women's division would be competitive,

826
00:57:55.239 --> 00:58:00.679
if not better than WA, and
they are lacking in both when compared to

827
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.480
w A. Yeah, it's it's
crazy when you look at all the tag

828
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:09.880
teams that are available in AW and
shit, I'm trying to think of who

829
00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:14.800
the tag team champions are right now. A young Bucks. Oh yeah,

830
00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:16.119
okay, so the Bucks thing gets
right, I forgot, but yeah,

831
00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:21.119
but realistically, I mean, you
and I were this when AW longs.

832
00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:22.039
We're like, man, you got
the Bucks, you got the Lucha Bros,

833
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:25.360
you got FTR, you all these
tag teams are available, and you

834
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:29.039
know, it's like and not to
mention like some of the young tag teams,

835
00:58:29.079 --> 00:58:32.800
like how hot the Guns were at
one point. Yeah, how hot

836
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:37.360
these teams were. I mean the
Acclaimed was the most overact in pro wrestling

837
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:42.760
for about three months and then just
disappeared basically. I mean, I know

838
00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:45.519
they're around, but they're not nearly
the level they were at last year.

839
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:51.719
So that just you think if you
want to be an alternative, focus on

840
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:54.800
the areas that the other show's not
focusing on, and you can make headways,

841
00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:00.559
yeah, it's it's now, So
there you go. Free to chime

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in on Twitter at sr to You
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slash the Storrealtest Show. With that
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00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:13.519
umber seven hundred and forty four for
May sixteen, twenty twenty four. With

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a couple plugs and sponsors. You
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being said, what's going on the
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week? Well, like Jeff said, you can follow me on x at

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Well you're on Facebook. Don't forget
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Wrestling as Wrestling Con seven is coming
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857
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