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wrestle. Mania. We're on the road to Madison Square Garden. It feels like the buzz is in the air.

Sancho, before we like fully jump into our topic, Sancho, I wanted to kind of gauge your

temperature here because a couple of weeks ago, I always want to gauge you a couple of weeks ago,

you said this mania was dead in the water. You did. You did. I'm not clowning you for it. I'm not

clowning you for it. You said this mania was dead that you were not interested in this mania.

I'm curious since the last couple of weeks, since the Randy Orton heel turn, since the further

developments in the bloodline, since Obafemian Brock Lesnar, we've had more matches be announced.

What is your current feelings going into this mania? Because people are still in the comments saying

and Sancho said this mania was dead. So I want to give you the floor to either double down

or maybe give us some thoughts on how things have evolved for you.

No, this is not what I said. Some people don't understand what I'm trying to say.

I said, for them to build up that 19% to find that gap, to turn that all around,

I said the build for that is dead. The state of that is dead. The mania

story of what they're trying to tell where we were at at the time. Where were we at at the time,

Sancho? What was happening? I don't really remember. I think it was a elimination chamber had

just ended. Right. A chamber ended and it was the idea of, it was the idea of Cody looming.

Remember that that was the the cloud that was hanging over us is like, oh my god,

are they going to give the belt to Cody? And the idea for me was like, we were talking about

the panic button. What was the idea of this panic button that the WWE was going to press? What

were they going to do to turn it around? And for me, when I was feeling like this WrestleMania

and I said, not dead, I said it was awash. That somehow is worse. It's awash.

It's awash, meaning that I felt at the time that where the WWE's trajectory was going,

where they were so focused on how can we make up this 19% wasn't the right way to approach it.

And as time goes on, when I am realizing that the WWE has done and has really should focus on

as time going forward, is that they should trust their performers and trust their superstars

a little bit more. Like lean into the talent that you have and lean into the abilities that

now I think I figured it out. I was talking about the main card was so top heavy that we were

forgetting about the rest of the main card. And I feel that the WWE has done a great job,

especially SmackDown, focused on the rest of that card. Because remember, don't forget,

you and I were in the same boat. We were talking about the Thanksgiving dinner. We were talking

about the ham. We were talking about the turkey. And we were like, where's all the other fixants

that bring it about? And so yeah, don't put me alone in this boat. You know what I was saying?

I was out of the same boat as you. I don't smell the kitchen. The turkey doesn't smell right.

You were just sitting there. No, no, no, no, you said there was no main dish.

There was no story. And you were like, go, last year we had John Cena being healed. That was

the main thing that brought us to the table. And then in WrestleMania 40, we had Cody Rhodes trying

to finish his story. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. I literally give him the opportunity to

explain himself. And he's like, no, you did it. We're together. I'm like Drew McIntyre,

dig a butt too. I'm pulling you down. So I asked you, Sun Zee,

WrestleMania 42. What is the dish that is bringing us to the table, brother? By the way,

classic Sancho, you ask him a question, classic political Sancho, just like in the OBFME conversation.

I asked him a simple ask question. And he cannot answer it. He can't just answer a question.

I said the temperature for me is I'm happy that the WWE has put the the onus put some power back

into the superstars rather than scheming about how we're going to come up with this 19% rather than

focusing on the numbers, just focus on the talent you have. And you're going to be able to turn

things around. Now let's not get twisted. They've done a lot of sales. They've done a lot of

different things to be able to make up that difference. But I'm excited that they put the power

back into the superstars. That's my run for office. Run for office. You say so much with saying

nothing. Absolutely nothing. Just say, yeah, I think I'm more excited about WrestleMania now.

Or no, I'm doubling down. What a simple question that I asked that Sancho just cannot answer.

Would I make multiple videos more so than I ever have in my wrestling YouTube channel?

Sancho was wrestling. If I wasn't excited, Tunti. Just say so. Just say so.

I don't know what I mean. Whatever it is that you're drinking right now. I'm going to answer

your question. What I think is the is the meat, the turkey. This is interesting, Sancho,

because I still don't see Roman and Cody, sorry, Cody and Randy or Roman and punk as like Turkey.

Like, this is what I'm showing up for. It's fascinating because I think this year I'm showing

up for almost like the post dinner. What's going to happen because of Randy versus Cody?

The dessert? Yeah. Am I tuning in for a potential double turn? What am I tuning in for Roman and

punk? Am I tuning in for the bloodline reunion, for the rock to show up? You see what I mean?

Like, I'm more excited about the prospect of things that can happen within the match.

Then I am currently for the current builds of the match. Mind you, we're recording this and

there's still about four episodes of Ross and Smackdowns left to fill in those gaps. But right

now, my excitement for the main, main events or for the things that could happen as a byproduct

of the matches. Okay. Now, for me, was I wrong to feel that it was a wash at the time?

Yeah, because you made you call it a wash, like, like, like,

freaking six months before the show even started. I called it after chamber. I don't think anything

at chamber got me excited for Mania. Oh, no, that's fair. I would echo that. I don't think

anything at chamber was like anything at rumble got me excited for Mania either.

And those are the two catalysts, pay per views, PLEs, whatever you want to call it. Those are

part of the big four. Well, chamber was like five ish, sixes with and money in the bank. But those

are the big needle mover story point milestone launch pad, whatever you want to call it,

chapter closing into like PLEs these days. Don't get me excited for main event,

wrestle mania. What's getting me excited is the weekly television that they're actually doing

some great story beats and there are a lot of nuance behind it. But did Oba Brock excitement

happen at rumble? At rumble? Yeah, rumble. And rumble, no, but it started the conversation

of what people wanted to get excited at chamber chamber kind of did Roman and CM Punk kind of got

as excited with Roman winning the right rumble. I mean, the next day they cut like a fantastic

promo. So yes, but that's that said at rumble. I mean, what do you want to happen? Like, you

want to go out there and promote what you are right after the rumble? Roya rumble and chamber to be

great. I don't know. All I'm saying is that I think this is a sneaky wrestle mania build that

I'm enjoying the build to everything that they're building. But I will continue to echo the thanks

giving analogy that we've done where like I'm kind of like tuning in for everything except the

turkey right now. I just I don't think the football game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the main events

have me have me intrigued have me intrigued not for the match or even the build right now they

have me intrigued for the byproducts of what could happen from the matches. Is that a WWE thing,

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it is entirely leaning. It's like they've chosen for some reason or another, for better or for

worse, to not lean in on their pass and get personal. It's like they were going that route and they're

like, we're going to go down the road of the bloodline and bloodline narrative and drama with

J.U. So is he the tribal chief? Is he commanding Roman? Is the rock going to come back? We're

putting him in the back of shots involving the bloodline. It's very clear that it seems very

intentional that they want you to tune in for things that could happen as a byproduct of the

bloodline narrative as opposed to tune in because of the relationship between punk and Roman reigns.

That's my current interpretation and the reason I'm excited for that match, which again,

goes to what I was saying. I think the excitement of that match will be once the match ends and

what happens at the ending of it. But you can't have two the same type of personal stories on

two sides of the coin because that's what you're going to get with rainy and goady. You're going to

get that personal story. You're going to get, you're going to get their pass. I mean, you're not

going to get to deviate to junior, but you're going to get both. Why can't you, why can't they both

be personal? Because it's the same kind of flavor. It's the same kind of flavor. Why can't we have a

world building bloodline, CM Punk going out to building out to the possible of the rock and I'm not

talking about match involvement, but it grows out and expands to that much. And then you have

something small and intimate like Randy and Cody, like, why can't we have, it's like we're the same

kind of restaurant, but at one point we have this big commercial factory. Another one we have a

small intimate space between the two. Little flavors, little flavor profiles. Well, I would think that

the flavor profiles, that's our, that's our undercard and all of the different things that we can

have in the undercard. Listen, I'm not even saying that you're wrong. I'm just, I'm just asking why we

they can't both be personal bloodfews. I think they absolutely could have been, heck, they started

as such. That's how they, they were initially leaning towards Roman and Punk and they, and they

moved away from that to just becoming, are we going to masterfully rage, rage bait each other?

Which I just don't find as, as interesting as it could have been. Had they gotten a lot more

personal and focused on their relationship with one another? I'm on that coin. I am, I'm enjoying

the mind games between the two because I do feel that there is a purpose behind it. It's a, it's a

purpose that will lead to greater jumping points or branching roots or whatever you want to call it

that I think it would lead to greater things for both C and Punk and Roman rather than having it

just be a personal feud. If you bring in multiple of these facets of attributes, if you bring in

characters like Jay, Jimmy, even Rocky, even he's an ominous type of figure, you could do greater

things with it than just, hey, this is a feud between C and Punk and Roman because can C and Punk

and Roman deliver a, an action pack fight in a ring that's exciting with false finishes left and

right? No, because we all know it's going to be, it's going to be a Roman type match where it's

going to be slow at the beginning, shenanigans the second half and who's going to withstand the

shenanigans. I'm excited for that reason and I think that's where we were at here. I'm excited

for the possibilities like there's a lot of open space to play with Roman and C and Punk whereas

I think you, are you looking for a more conclusive, more definitive ending between those two?

I wouldn't mind that because we're talking about a part-time Roman reigns, right? So to not do

something definitive means that we then need to run it back but then we wouldn't be able to run

it back for half a year when Roman decides to show up. If I had more confidence that's like,

okay, at backlash, we could actually get the follow-up to that, then yeah, I'd be a lot more

open to the idea of it being an open-ended saga, right? That could give us the next spot but

I don't see that from Roman and Punk. I see it far more with Randy and Cody.

Can I help you with the Roman and Punk thing?

Right now what I'm seeing is, hey, you're old and then the next week, I'm going to spend 10 minutes

telling you why it didn't hurt my feelings that I'm old. That was the most insecure sounding

promo from CM Punk that I've ever heard. Being old is great. Am I right, fellas? Look at us being

old and cool. Hey, this guy can't keep playing and most of you don't even know anything about

he's old. That dude, he's old and he was cool. Okay, young powder one, coming from the older guy here.

Let me break it down, dude. This is the mind games that they're playing, okay? Roman's already told

CM Punk there's nothing you can do that you can phase me, right? You can't get to me about dead,

that thing. I know I made a video about this and I know you watched this part but let me break it

down a little bit faster. So essentially CM Punk knows that what's what's Roman's weakness. If

CM Punk said my job is again the head of my opponents to able to help me win. That's what I've

always been doing. That's why you cheer for me. He knows that Roman reigns weakness is his family.

That's the one weakness that he has and the bloodline will be the thing that will slowly rip a

part Roman reigns from the inside because the things are different. Jay Uso's not just like just a

soldier. Jimmy's not a soldier. They're both now have their own type of personalities and they're

slowly grown out. Even Sola Sakao, Jacob a two. Roman reigns is not at his optimal strength. He's

already been told that you're alone. There's no one behind you. There's no one beside you and that

in fact the end of the day you can get buried in the dirt with your dead dad. That is what CM Punk

is trying to tell Roman the mind games is like you can't do anything. In fact any bloodline member

can't do anything without someone else. They're back up. So that's going to make Roman go hey,

I don't want Jimmy and Jay's help, right? He's already said that to Roman. He said that to Jimmy. He

goes Roman says respectfully get out of my ring, which we love to come on brother. I love that

bloodline drama that stuff that always works for me when Roman tries to put his family in place.

And then now Jimmy and Jay, I mean, Jay is going to Jimmy's his brothers keeper. Like I said,

and he's the protector of all the family and he tries to keep the peace. But Jay now is unhinged,

right? Unhinged Jay Uso. Warpath Jay Uso is what Jimmy said for the third time in the last 12

months. Hopefully they actually. Nine months ago, I've said that it'd be great if Jay Uso took

over as a troubleshoot because more importantly, he's there all the time. And that would be fine

if you want to keep the bloodline blood going, you want that story pumping. So the difference is

this time around Roman again ripped the part by his family trying to be like because there's a way

saunty that at the end of the day, Roman Reigns could maintain the babyface status. Believe it or not.

At the end of Mania, you said, what are you going to look forward to after post-match,

the end of Mania, Roman Reigns could still be your babyface. And how we get there is this.

So Jay Uso tells Roman, you know what you have to do. His the job is the trouble chief that was

besotted him by the elders is to take care of his family, right? You need to take care of business.

Roman didn't want to do that. He was like, I don't want to put my hands on CM Punk,

because he knows Roman knows it's a mind game. Roman's like, all right, I got this. I don't want to

be tricked by a CM Punk. I don't want to fall for a strap. But because his family pushes him to keep

the family honor and keeps pushing him. Jay pushed him, pushed him, pushed him. And Roman had no

choice but to deliver. He snaps into it and takes out CM Punk powerbombs and CM Punk laughs it off

like the Joker saying like, I got you this whole time. I tricked you. I now know I'm in your head

and I understand your weakness. It has been confirmed that the bloodlines your weakness. So now Roman

post could go, hey man, Jimmy and Jay stay out of my business. Jay, you're not in my ear. You're not

my trouble chief. I'm the trouble chief. Listen to me, right? And then now we have friction between Jay

and Roman on a higher level. How does Roman become a babyface at the end of the day?

All this is happening. And guess who's watching as the the man on the in the sky, the overseer,

the ominous final boss watching all this go down from his Moana live trailer, which I dig,

right? I like Moana. I'm excited. So we get to that point of now the final boss is hearing all

these rumblings of CM Punk a little peon is messing around with down there and he has to come down

to earth to see what's going on. Dude, the past kind of relationship of Roman and rock always

fascinated me and rock definitely is the big brother to Roman and he little brothers Roman when

he first showed back up as the final boss. And now he went from, oh, these are the bloodline

sevenths. No, no, these are the rock segments. And we're just here to enjoy the ride. And then we

remember we had that great moment of rock was about to cut his promo. If you smell and then Roman

stops them, you're like, oh shit, here we go. This is different. And then rock ends up acknowledging

Roman. So rock could go come down. Be like, what's wrong with you? You can't handle CM Punk.

What's your deal? And so if CM Punk ends up beating Roman at Mania, one on one, Mano and Mano,

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Expecting the family, the bloodline doesn't uphold his end of the deal who could show up and say,

hey, you are no longer the tribal chief because you didn't beat CM Punk who disrespected our family,

who went to your face and disrespected Jimmy, JNU, and you still lost Emeania?

Who could do that? Who could show up when Roman's beaten down the rock? And now

we're on a way to rock and Roman in the next mania, right? Exactly. Okay, okay. I want to

stop you here for a second. It's good. It's just good because it's a part-time attraction

that could eventually grow and build in the background and then ramp up when Mania starts.

Okay, that's a way if you have a part-time or have them go up against a part-time,

we're going to the rock. Okay, I was bored by 90% of what you said,

not your delivery or anything. I'm talking like the story. I'm like, this is just not interesting.

And until you said the rock and that goes to what my initial problem was that I mentioned,

which was, I'm excited for this. I am. I know I'm sounding really critical, but I'm critical

of the things that I love. My excitement of this still hinges on the thing that could happen

right now. The excitement of this almost hinges after WrestleMania. What does Jay look like

after WrestleMania? Because he's the one that's there full-time when Roman's gone. Are we going to see

tribal chief J. Uso? Are we going to set up the rock versus Roman after WrestleMania?

And that's great. I'm on board to get excited for post-resolmanian stuff.

And I don't want to say the dreaded name of WrestleMania 27, but I will. But unfortunately,

that was that's very WrestleMania 27-ish, where like, I'm not excited at all for the Miz and

John Cena, but I'm excited about what the rock might do and create post-resolmania,

which created once in a lifetime, one of the most iconic WrestleMania builds of all time.

Here, post is in the air.

Well, that was so good. We might get hit with copyright. But no one was excited for the Miz and

John Cena, right? People were excited for the prospect of what could happen at the show with

the rock and John Cena. This is not on the same level as that, like because I am still very

much excited for Roman and punk. I think my concern as a fan is, wow, is the big excitement of

this, really the post-mania implications as opposed to the actual main event of the show?

That's all, I'm kind of like poking at, like, okay, if that's the case, fine,

but then the post-resolmanian stuff better be frickin' incredible.

You see what I'm gonna say?

I see what you're coming from. I'm excited as well. And I said in the video that I made,

is that every character is slotted into where they belong. And I think everyone is performing

optimally right now. And when you have like a chemistry formula, it's like they're all the

ingredients are there for a potential banger of a match. The CM Punk's at his best when he's

going up against the powerhouse authority. And the bloodline is the authority because they have

the rock in their corner in their back pocket. And I know you may be listening or watching saying,

I'm annoyed with these guys talking about the prospect of the rock. He's not coming back.

He didn't come back last year. I think the rock didn't come back last years because the whole

Travis Scott thing fizzled. Like if Travis Scott and at the rock, if you are a professional wrestler

and it's in your lifeblood and you saw Travis Scott and you're like, okay, you're telling me

creative wants me to have a match with Travis Scott and a tag match, whatever. And I'm gonna be

in Travis Scott and I'm gonna be a tag team partner. And I look at Travis Scott and immediately go,

this guy doesn't have it or doesn't have the care. Or doesn't care.

Doesn't care. Right. I think it doesn't have the passion, just the word I was looking for.

Doesn't have the passion. I'm not tying myself to this boat. I'm out.

Sorry, rock. Sorry, Cena. Sorry, Cody. The rock ain't gonna play.

Which sucks, right? Which really does suck. But if the rock who's always wanted Roman at Mania,

you've wanted this a long time. If the WWE was like, we could give you Roman at Mania,

but you have to commit to these certain steps. And if the certain steps only involved him appearing

at Mania and then non-appearing to, you know, WrestleMania season X season, I think he could commit

to that bottom line just to wrap this like to put a bow on it. CM Punk, Jimmy, Jay, and Roman are

all capable of carrying this to Mania on their own. But if they threw in a little spice, it couldn't

even be a social post from the rock. Talking about CM Punk or just the rock in an interview so

you feel better watch out just like that. That's enough to add this up to a whole new layer of,

there's much more to this. And that's what gets me excited. Now, Rainy and Cody on the other end,

I think we're just getting started with that. And I am excited for that potential in terms of

a personal story. Yes. But I feel that one has a lot more landmines. It is not as clear as

CM Punk and Roman where they're both either you'd like CM Punk or you're like Roman. This one is,

this one's tough, man. You're going to have to navigate this one a lot easier, a lot more

expertly when it comes to Cody Roads and Randy Orton. We'll get there in just a second. But

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The switch to GameCube store digitally, but it's still a nasty, expensive game, unfortunately.

Path of Radiance. Path of Radiance. Path of Radiance on GameCube.

On GameCube, yeah. Yeah, I'm curious what it is. Do you just

I got a complete in box. All right, complete in box.

You're like, you're talking north of 200 bucks. Yeah, for that one game, man.

That's been I spend like that much on on a game. Yeah, but like it's a game I'm probably

not going to play. He just wanted it on the for the GameCube collection. Maybe eventually,

I will play it, but if I play it, I'll play it on the switch too, just so I can have like digital

saves and stuff. Are you trying to get a complete set of GameCube collection? I'm trying. Yeah.

That's the top once again, a complete. I know. I know. It's years. It's going to be years of

collecting, but slowly, but surely not bad. Corned price charts, 222, not bad. I mean,

the thing about it, the bright, the box itself, 56 bucks, just the cart. Dude, the box that I

have is pristine. They never played this thing. It was. Are you ready? I'm my guy should get

it graded, but then it doesn't look good in my collection. You know, I mean, because I don't know,

dude, graded price, $619. I should. Maybe I should. I'm not in it for the price. I'm not here

to make money. I am here. Why not? You can put it around your neck and then when you bring a big

game to you. Yeah, dude. What are you? Do you date you? I'm on. Dude, we're on the next wait. No,

you tried to let I get what you're trying to do. What am I trying to do? For the people

of rest of the school, Sonny tried to put me in the hot seat right away. You know what he does.

This man, when he puts me in a hot seat, that means one thing and one thing only I've known this

man for years. Hell, I hang out with him every Tuesday as much as longer than my wife and kids.

My wife. My wife. You are afraid, sir. You are scared. You are fearful. You got swept

between the crack of your ass because there's one man. Two words. Jelly Roll is about to jump off

the top rope this Friday. You thought you had time. You sat there like, oh, well, he hasn't

toured with Post Malone. There's no way he's going to fear that media. Whoa. Lo and behold,

Jelly Roll pops up not only on WWE button TNA with AJ friends. Oh my god. AJ's going to put me

into as well. Then you start sweating and then lo and behold, Jelly Roll comes out and tries to

help out Rainy. You are like, come on, Randy. Randy, you and I, man, I'm not trying to talk to you.

The rest of them trying to talk to you. The husband love and you're like, oh, no, here comes you

start sweat. And then what do they do? So either WWE, they put it. Get well, son and jelly roll

on the ring together to do a poetry slam segment. Then Jelly Roll goes, oh, just go ahead and ask

your mom because I put my bell on her back. And then here we are. Jelly Roll versus kit will

send this Friday up on the rooftop. Jelly Roll climbs jumping off the top rope into the splash

Income, Santi with the bottle of oil, squirt, squirt, squirt.

What kind of oil you got? Coconut, uh, synthetic. Or are you going to go all natural

round, brother? I tell me the truth right now. Have you oiled up the practice? Come on. I know

I have not done a stunt to oil up for breakfast. No, I haven't. You have no

mirror. You wait, what are you like? Hold on, am I going to do it like this or maybe like that?

These are going to be a circular motion. Is it going to be horizontal side? Are you going to do that?

You should just recreate the biggie gift. You know, that's exactly what I'm picturing the biggie

gift. Except I'm nowhere near as in shape as biggie. Listen, this is, this is my pulley, my

message in a bottle. And I don't think it's impossible because of the very clear, you know, hey,

I'm the angel on your shoulder of Randy Orton. Randy, please punt the fuck out of jelly roll

before the match. Before the match, please punt that man into the sky.

Please, please, I don't think it's off the table that that could happen even before the match to

write off jelly for a while. Randy, please punt jelly roll. It's the next thing. They set up jelly

roll to be the sacrificial lamb. The Randy your husband. You're such a good guy. This,

that and the other, punt them. Punt that man and save me, Randy. Punt that man and save me from

this oiling. Here's the thing. Even if he doesn't get punted, I still don't think it happens on

Smackdown because I do think that there is a bigger match in play here, whether it's WrestleMania

or maybe a further PLE. I think he's going to save the jumping up the top rope for a bigger show.

It can't be on Smackdown. Jelly, please don't, if you're going to make me oil up, do it on,

do it on a paid show. Do it on a paid show where then I can talk about it in the Patreon review

for the PLE and at least make a couple dollars here or there. Jelly, don't do this on an episode

of Smackdown. I'm going to review the Smackdown on the Patreon. Please, Randy, punt jelly roll.

For me, you're a dog. You follow me on Twitter, Randy. I know you want to show.

Twitter right now. Don't be a punk. Twitter right now.

Dot at ready, or please for the love of God. I'm literally going to tweet that right now.

All right, I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Not that you can see because you're still blocked on Twitter

jump. Hey, Randy Orton, please punt at jelly roll before his match this Friday.

You're like, Roman Raids. Hold it up to the camera. This is your call.

Please, Randy. You're the voice in the head.

That's it. The calls have been with me.

Well, let's talk about that. Do you like the theory that he's just this is fight club and he's

just talking to himself? Yeah, we talked about last week. If they have the the cinematic gall to pull

that off, I mean, they totally can. It could be as just as simple as someone picks up the phone

and be like, there's no one there or you know, Arcturus saying like he's talking in. There's no one

on the other line. Sure. Why not at least make it different because rainy clear as day has really

no real motivation in turning heel except that this is how I win championships. So if you want to add

a little layer to it, be sure. We've already tried to see it with Bailey and Bailey didn't work out.

And I called that like as soon as I saw that, I was like this whole mind shift split, whatever

is going to happen is not going to work for Bailey because it just the WWE doesn't have

the attention span and the patience to pull it off organically to where it doesn't feel like

it's all slapstick where it's not like gold doesn't Tourette's. Well, Randy Wharton, I think they

are patient enough to do it. And I think that they are willing to see what Randy could do because

as you can see, Randy who cut a promo on SmackDown, he went into that dark place that you saw in

the documentary where he's like turning all red and everything's like, yeah, there it is, the

intensity. And it's so funny to me that what Randy Wharton's doing is crazy beating up Matt

Cardona calling him a Marquastouge and an indie nerd that they added everything out of all the

cheers that we gave Randy Wharton. Like they, I kid you not something. I might be crazy. I don't

know if you were paying attention to him yet because sometimes I do not have been yet in terms of

I'm not like watching intently. I just have it on just to listen to. But I think they piped in

booze for Randy Wharton. Oh, I'm a million percent. The Monday night, we're all like recap that they

did. Those were a million percent piped in booze. There was not a soul booing. Dude, that brings

up a really interesting point. And I think you kind of alluded to it when you say, you know,

there's some landmines here that they could step on. And I do want to explore a couple of those.

One of the like, you know, there's some landmines that people can't see. But then there's a

landmine that is dog. This isn't a landmine. This is an intergalactic missile that's coming towards

Cody Rhodes right now that I can see from light years away that I have no idea how WWE is going to stop.

What in the world are you going to do with Cody and Randy in St. Louis? Because that is the

smackdown a couple of weeks before WrestleMania. That, that could set the pace for what the

go home crowd is going to feel about Cody. And then the WrestleMania crowd is going to feel

about Cody. That's St. Louis. If you're betting March Madness, you should be doing it at my bookie.

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for this main event and for what WWE wants to do with Cody Rhodes and Randy Orden. North Carolina,

they they just chose to not boo Randy and I don't think that the next crowd and I think it's

Pittsburgh. I don't think they're going to boo Randy either. If they can't find a way to get

Randy get to get booed before St. Louis. St. Louis is going to ruin any plans of having Randy B,

the evil maniacal bad guy that gets booed by crowds. They need to find something between now and

the April 3rd show, which is literally just the Pittsburgh show. If they cannot figure it out in

Pittsburgh, the St. Louis crowd will dictate the pace of the crowds moving forward for WrestleMania

and they will be marked my words all pro Randy Orden for better or for worse.

Sancho, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. That could create a really really fun atmosphere.

You know, it's not the worst to have the baby phase B, the most hated guy in the building. We saw

with Rock and Hogan, right? Like that was nostalgia took over and this could be a situation here as

well where the nostalgia of Randy Orden is just too powerful, too strong and people want to see

Randy Orden win 15. Maybe that's going to be the case and it can still create something special.

But more often than not, when the dynamics are this off, with a baby phase in a heel,

it doesn't lead to great things. I do think we're dealing with performers that can make it great,

but I'm just saying historically, it doesn't end very well or very satisfactory for the fans.

I see what you're saying, but I think we're discounting the magic of Cody Rhodes.

And I know that may feel like I'm a Cody lover or I'm a Cody crybaby.

No, I know what you're talking about. He has the ability to to win

crowds over at this time of the year. Oh, yeah, he could walk into the lines then and be like,

I know, though, fifth buff, ain't Louis, what do you want to talk about?

He could do that. And I know really have to give him the list on both asses in St. Louis,

St. Louis. They're going to, they're going to boo him like a lot. And he's like, yeah,

I know you want to boo me. I know Randy's your favorite. And he's your hometown guy, you know,

he could lean into that. And he does such a good job of exorbing booze and then just

and then getting cheers out the door. I mean, I know in London, he took the easy route and be like,

well, what if we had a mania here? And then we're like, yeah, we love you, Cody.

So we'll see what they do. But I am in beliefs that the WWE does trust Cody to turn

that around. And I think they'll, there I say they'll send his ass out there. Like we're out

to rip, like we're out to rip and smack now. Like sure, like I think if they were to do that,

that'd be huge for Cody. If he, if Cody has to go out first, you know what I'm saying? He can't

let Randy go out first because Randy will then get all those cheers and those acceptance. And

then how can you come back from that? Whereas the other way you have people go, oh, I sympathize,

Rick Cody. Yeah. I get what you're saying that Cody has that ability. I also was very optimistic

and was telling people, hey, like, give Randy the benefit of the doubt. He's one of the greatest

heels in this business. He can get people to hate him. Sure. And then he wasn't able to in this

episode. And he tried. He really did try. Oh, yeah. Which that's to me, one of the, the

canary in the coal mines. We haven't used that analogy. You know, while we used to, we used to

be killing canaries and coal mines all the time here. Sancho on the wrestling school podcast.

But I do think it's time to bring out the canary in the coal mine because Randy is very good at

being a heel. He is a professional heel for higher in the WWE. And he was not able to get a single

boo from that crowd. And here's the thing, Sancho, WWE showed their hand. They showed their hand

that they want him to get booed by giving us the piped in booze in those vignettes in those

promos. So clearly, it's not going the way that they wanted to, which has me more concern because

if this is part of the show, it's all part of the plan. Are you enjoying the show? Then I'm like,

okay, what are we doing with this at WrestleMania with this change in dynamic and crowd? But WWE

is doing WWE things in trying to control the narrative of what people at home are supposed to

perceive this feud as who's the good guy and who's the bad guy. But Sancho, you and I both agree

there was not a single soul booing Randy Orton. But the fact that they piped in those booze,

I think I think says a lot like I think there's an entire essay that I could write about what that

means for WWE and what they want out of these characters going into WrestleMania. And again,

I see St. Louis in the not too distant future. And if they're piping in booze to make you pretend

like Randy has hated and they're about to run into St. Louis, a crowd that's going to go

absolutely betcha maniacally over on Randy Orton. We got a problem. I do think we got a problem.

And they cut out the one more time. Yeah, you put more of a card number out.

I still want to push back on people saying like Matt Cardona, all you came back and look at you,

it was like dude, Matt Cardona is like, yeah, I worked with Randy Orton again.

Yeah, made a segment of Smackdown. Yeah, he's just eight.

Those sign photos are going to get kicked up another five to 10 20 books.

What you're going to say a little bit more like five, 600 bucks, five 20 bucks.

Hey, hey man, price is hard these days, you know.

Good inflation, shrinklation, stagflation, all the flations are happening right now.

And that right there is a proper recession indicator. Matt Cardona photos going up by five dollars.

Not only that, dude, it's sad to say, you know, if it games a little of a thousand employees,

right there, Fortnite was not as recession proof as we thought. I thought Fortnite was untouchable

in a recession, man. Ah, you fell into my trap. Stone Cold, Steve Austin, and live Morgan,

maybe coming to Fortnite, baby. Oh, can you imagine Stone Cold, Steve Austin putting together

two truck splashes and going, you know, I'm excited to be so sick. Come on,

Tanti, people have asked me every time I play Fortnite. Oh, why don't you play with

Santi? Kid Santi? Santi, did you play for it? When you come on, dude,

don't you want to ride the wave? You don't want to have to carry me, man. I haven't played

a BR in so long. The Morgan goes watch me. Oh, I was your email. Come on, dude, you know,

you want to do it. That's going to be a sitcom. What a strange pairing, though, in my opinion,

though, if you really think it's Stone Cold and live. Yeah, it wasn't the, it wasn't one of the

pairings that they released Becky Lynch and Cena. That's pretty awkward. No, they had Becky and Bianca

as a pairing. And then it was Cena as a standalone. Well, they came out like around the same time,

and then there was Taker and Cody weren't a pairing, which is sick. Strange it itself, sick it,

Cody Rose. What about L.A. Knight? Is he in Fortnite or he can't even get on that either?

Can't get on the Vadea card. He's probably going to be a special guest referee. His job is just

now helping out the Usos. He's doing nothing, man. Can't get on Fortnite. Can't get on Mania.

What is this dude's WrestleMania plan, man? Is he just out there going to be rooting for Jay?

Is he just going to be Yeetan from the crowd? Yeetan Yeetan? What's he doing, man? What is your boy

up to? And I don't want to hear, it's just money in the bank. We're just waiting for money in the

bank. You know that that's just wishful-ass thinking. He ain't going to win anything at money in the

bank. He isn't going to win King of the Ring. You know that ship is sailed, but WrestleMania is

around the corner. And now, you know, I'll put you on the spot in Sancio. Give me an answer.

Don't give me your political ass answers of no answers and just around about way. Tell me what

you think L.A. Knight is actually going to be doing at WrestleMania.

You know, great question, Sancio. When I think about L.A. Knight,

it's like 4th and 50 right now, brother. Okay? There's not a lot of not-office, you know.

But David, we're going to light up anyway. You know what I'm saying? We're going to lose, but you

know, let me get first out. Getting first out of your Saudi is winning. Do you understand? Okay,

we, we are winning. Here's my plan. First out on 4th and 50.

Is this the same place? It's going ahead, man. At this point, this is more, this is just more

support center for you than it is a safe place. Hey, how's it going to me? Oh, it's you,

Sancio about L.A. Knight. Here's the play that I see that it would work for me, considering

you have the vision still involved. He's still involved with the Usos. I do see

world. Walk with me here, pack a lunch, put down the phone, no scrolling. I do.

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Right. You have the vision going to Mania to take the belts and they were going to face

jelly roll and a superstar of his choosing for the titles. I think that would be a great match.

And I know that means the titles are slipping further and further down, but whatever, jelly roll

will be your new tag team champion. Hear me out. I'm up there. Okay. I'm up there. Wait,

where the hell is this ghost? Quiet. Okay. That freeze that freeze up. It's fourth and 50. It's

like a flea flicker. It's calm down. Place that over yet. There's more. L.A. Knight will then have a

one-on-one L.A. Knight versus J. Uso at Mania. Yeah, versus eat. Finally happens. I don't mind it.

You get an unhinged J. Uso. He's going to be the clear heal in that fight. You get L.A. Knight.

Oh, and then if L.A. Knight wins, it would be because the shenanigans with Jimmy. And that's fine.

That protects J and L.A. Knight and Jimmy. If J wins, it's because of Jimmy and go heal. And then

you have J over L.A. Knight. It doesn't matter. We still get the progression of J. Uso being unhinged.

And then it will lead into whatever program with CM Punk and Roman. So it's like a, it's there

in a little canary in their coal mine. Whatever happens with J. Uso and L.A. Knight will have a fallout

in Roman and CM Punk later that night. In my opinion, I just feel, yeah, it always feels weird

that L.A. Knight is always the third chair when it comes to J. Uso and Jimmy and then the vision and

this and that. But if L.A. Knight accidentally causes the vision, winning who knows, they could

have some friction going on there. But at the same time, at least we get a, so I think a great

match between J and L.A. Knight. Yeah, here comes the comments. I'm going to be a budget man. Did you say

a great match between J. Uso and L.A. Knight? Yes, a great match. L.A. Knight could get a great

match out of most people. Don't do that to me. A great match between L.A. Knight and J. Uso.

Buddy, I can already picture it. All right. You got J. Uso about to go for the spear.

He falls. He falls. And then L.A. Knight puts on the top rope. L.A. Knight goes to jump up to the

top rope catches his nuts right in the ropes right there. And it's just going to be a bot filled.

Yeah, yeet fest. You know how it's going to be, Sancho. There's nothing good from an

in-ring perspective that we're going to get out of L.A. Knight and J. Uso. Be real. I know you're coping.

I know it's fourth and 50, but be realistic. You basically just said, hey, I know it's fourth

and 50. Let's run it up the gut. You ain't getting any hurt to win that idea.

Yeah. The cutie draw play. Yeah. Dude, you kneeled the ball. You kneeled the ball.

Brother, I do. Dude, there were some things there for when when first J,

and to clarify, I do think that's going to be the match. I do think you're right.

Because they already have the whole thing, you know, L.A. Knight telling J.

Hey, you're sounding like Roman. And then Jimmy, you know, they have that side eye and then

you have the rock in the background. What I want to make is there was something there when

L.A. Knight and J were first going back and forth and then they became a tag team.

That there were some good things. And then of course, the whole back and forth. Yeah. Yeet.

Yeah. Yeet. It's going to be a fun match. It's not going to seal the night, but it's going to

ain't going to be like, all right, time to go get refreshments type of a situation. Yeah,

versus yeet, I think their promos would be fun. And at the same time, L.A. Knight has fun with

the bloodline. You know, he did the whole thing about. Let's say you're at WrestleMania, right?

You you paid all this money to be at WrestleMania. Or is it Vegas? Okay. So where am I staying?

Where am I staying? I'm staying on the strip off the strip. You're at the flamingo. You're at the

flamingo hotel. Okay. Flamingo pretty close by. Did I over there or did I walk there to try to

save money? You ubered. You've ubered there. Okay. Okay. Okay. You're ubered there. It's important.

And I don't actually be important for this question. You've paid an arm and a leg to get into

the stadium. J.U. So there. Yes. Yes. J.U. So versus L.A. Knight is about to start. But you

realize because Vegas is so hectic that you haven't had a chance to eat. You see that there is no

line at the food at any of the food stands within the stadium. Have they walked in or not?

Have they walked in? Has J's entrance happened yet? They are about to ring the bell.

You see that there is no line at any of the food places and you are starving. Do you choose a

succulent hot dog or L.A. Knight versus J.U. So and after this match, the lines go back to being

40 minutes long. You're taking the match or the hot dog?

Taking the match. No, that's a lie. You're going to take that hot dog because you know

want to miss any other match. You understand I can. You will suffer hungry. I would. I can't. Do

you understand? You know when people come up to me and shout out to the people I met at the

arcade there as a guy his name is Sir Colton. I think his name was Colton. Nice guy came up to

me. He's like a big fan of you. And you know, I don't know what I say thank you. But then my

fall is usually like, hey, salty sucks. Right? Don't know why they laugh about it and they have a

good time. But you know, they appreciate. Shout out to you. And he respected that I was with my

kids. But I don't think anyway. Look, they always come up to me like, hey, man, don't worry, L.A. Knight.

L.A. Knight is going to come around everybody. Everybody. They tell me this. Okay. There was an

indie wrestler at AEW name was Travis. He's like, hey, man, love your stuff. But hey, don't worry,

man, L.A. Knight, man, L.A. Knight. He's going to come around. So I have to keep on keep on trucking.

You understand? I will go keep on keep on keep on moving through through the night. Yes,

Brady bunch. But yes, I'm going to go for go the glizzy. All right. I can't be like you just

because when you go to the stadium, you get stopped every two minutes. You can't even go to the

bathroom. It's true. To the point where security goes, oh, are you famous enough? And you're like

suffering from success, suffering from success and then you you don't even take pictures.

You're like, you're like chaperone, you know, like, oh, no, no, no pictures. I don't want this.

I take two pictures. Oh, no, no, I heard the stories. I heard the stories. Soon,

you're going to have a bodyguard when you go to shows. That's what you're going to be you.

Dude, I'm going to do the Jack D'Arty. I'm going to just I'm going to arrange people in the

and to fighting my giant bodyguard. It's broke. It's going to walk like this. It'd be

boy's your walking through. Oh, wow, dude, content these days. But yes, dude, I have to be there

for my boy a late night. You know why? Because when he reached his to the top, when he's climbing

that metal rung that fireball, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, one by one, bop, bop, bop, bop,

he's dangling dangling with that little cabbina up there. You know what I mean? The little thing

that little little clip, you know, he's out there dangling that little clip and he pulls

off that briefcase. I will sit there and go, yes, it was all worth it.

The three years of agony though, good things come to those that way. I'll believe it when

I see it, my friend. I'm out of the best for you. Am I going to find out what LNI wins

a championship or LNI wins the money? No, no, he has to win a championship. He has to

win a championship. Yeah, we don't, we don't celebrate money in the bank. Is it a guaranteed?

No, dude, with LNI, no, he is like 50, 50, and you know it. He could be like awesome

theory here. And then go for the United States title and get out of here. No, in LNI, he'll

go down to NXT and cash in on the North American title. All right. That's how little I think

of WWE's booking of LNI that even if you were to win something big, I'd find I believe

that they would screw it up. Cash it in on the speed championship.

He loses because he wasn't able to win in three minutes. Another one, get those things

come to wait, man. But that's my goal. That's my dream of LNI, Jiu. So, all right. Here's

my question, then, you know, Jiu. So LNI, where are we leaving voices in here? Are we leaving

Jimbo off the car then? No, I think again, Jimbo would be heavily involved in the rest

of the mania. But that is not a match. Not he would not have attacked the match. You don't

see him on that level then of a WrestleMania guy. That's great. He's going to be a huge

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Dude, you a lot of people did not appreciate your carrying cross roll. I know, they've

been gone. He's the carry cross underneath the bus for no reason. That dude's a two-time

indie champion. He's the current MLW champion. You better watch out. He's going to go for

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Is there a world where Karian comes back? I think so. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think

that's off the table at all. Clearly, they like the character. They gave it to Alice or Black.

So clearly, they like the stuff he was doing. They just didn't like him doing it.

Isn't it interesting that Alice or Black's not being credit for Randy Orn? I told you that would

happen. No one's connecting the dot that WD wants and it's Alice is doing. Yeah. It's the same

thing that's going to be with Sami Zayn. You know, oh, man. Oh, I hear voices in the air.

Those poor waterbottles. It's Emmy versus the water bottle. All right. Let's move on here.

And you know, I asked you about LA night. Now, what are we doing with Gunther, brother?

Gunther has been off of TV here for the last couple of weeks. Yeah. Okay. All right. I'll

give it to you with Gunther. I think they're leaving him off the card. I think they're leaving

him off the card. I think all of this is purposeful. Like think, okay. I didn't, this might make you go,

oh, my God, they are. Once I point this out because they got pointed out to me after the show.

I'm like, oh, my God. Dude, they were in Cena country. They were in Boston and they didn't even

have Gunther go out and rage bait in the easiest place for him to do his rage bait stick of I may

John Cena tap out like a little bitch. They didn't even do that in Boston and Cena territory. If

they're not even willing to have Gunther make an appearance there after what he did with Cena,

after retiring agent, after retiring Goldberg, I think they're just going to keep him off the

card and wait for the proper program for him after WrestleMania. I think Mania is filling up

and to me, once again, we're going to kill another canary here. Not having him do anything in

Boston to me is very telling, Sancio. This close to Mania, no, no, not so much as even an interaction

that could be a WrestleMania match right now is a screaming being left off of the WrestleMania

card. I don't think we get Gunther at WrestleMania. That hurts, dude, because that is a huge

huge time and equity investment that they invested in Gunther time and all of the matches, all of the

championship reigns that he's had over the last two years. I mean, two world heavyweight championships

in just the past 12 months. The fact that they invested the retirement of Goldberg, the retirement

of John Cena, the retirement of AJ Styles, and making it to the final two of the rumble,

to be this close to WrestleMania with no interaction at all whatsoever with anybody.

And with the Boston context, I think he's just being left off of the card and they're saving him

for when they actually have something for him, which I think is stupid. I think it's silly.

And I think it goes to show that you and I were right when we said that there is a scary,

very apparent ceiling to the career killer gimmick. People completely love to misinterpret

what I say. When I said, you can't really do the career killer gimmick if you're going to start

running out of people to career killer, they said, well, those would always have to be a career

killer. I never said that that's all the matches he needs to have. But at major shows like this,

and major shows like WrestleMania, and major PLEs, when you're off the back of all of your

promos being about how you've ended careers, if your next match isn't killing a career, it's going

to look like a step down. It's going to look like you were a rung below where you were before,

a couple of weeks, a couple months ago, taking out the career of AJ Styles and John Cena out back

and shooting it. It is a step down. And I don't think WWE wants to take that step down because I

think they want his next match, his next major PLEs to also be a retirement career killer match.

And because it got taken off the table with Rey Mysterio, what's the option here for Gunther?

There's plenty, but none of them are career killers. Air gold, they'll be seen, whatever match

he has, as a significant step down. Because he could absolutely go out there and have a match with

Penta, he could go out and have a match, hell with LA Knight, he could go have a match with maybe

Seth Rollins, maybe Seth Rollins, maybe Paul Heyman, Hires Gunther, I don't know, and there's no

Bronbreaker. There are matches that they could absolutely force with Gunther, but if he's not

killing a career because of how much they've invested in the career killer thing, it will feel

like a step down. And that's why I think they're keeping them off the card because they know that,

and if they don't have a career to kill, might as well keep them off the card and wait until

there is a career to kill. I mean, you said it. Imagine in Boston, if he does this whole thing,

and they hear, oh my god, but you want to hear my 10-foil hat conspiracy theory?

I know Rey has been getting injured, but I don't think Rey agrees to being retired by Gunther

since Rey's not around. Oh, I'm going in the business for myself. For my son, too.

Oh, for my son, from Yeo. Yeah, so I don't, because you know, everybody wants Rey versus Dom

to be the final match. And if you're talking about careers, they're known to line up, there's only

a few names. And one of them is not even in the company, and that's Chris Jericho, then why would

you want to get rid of just Chris Jericho for just a couple months rental, when you have

Rey Mysterio who's clearly the only one available to be that lamb. But I think, damn, bro,

your boy got choked out for no reason, man. Yeah, man. Am I being overly critical here

of my analysis of the career killer thing? Like I said, you wouldn't want to see a follow-up

of Gunther versus Dragon Lee. I'll take that at many of that match that they had on Raw was great.

That'd be a great WrestleMania match, but a bad match for the career killer. You know, you

see what I mean? Maybe like an I quit match. So they could do those little recordings. Have you

ever seen those two K recordings or I quit? Yeah. Where it's like, Dom, like, oh, no, please, I quit.

I quit. Maybe like Dom, maybe I Gunther, I quit. I quit. I would love that. I would love a

Dragon Lee match. But it just shows you that you're a Dragon Lee is going to be prox. You

pieced somewhere else for Mania. But they had this happen before. I'd literally saw an interview

with the Undertaker. It must have been an old clip, but a podcast clip came up and Undertaker's

like, hey, Vince goes, hey, take her. We have really nobody for you. You only have RVD or

Ric Flair to work with. You pick. And that's all that sometimes it all shakes out. It's like,

eventually everyone's taken and there's no one to feud with. You can't go down with Sammy.

I think Sammy would be interesting. If you want to show that Sammy has this new edge to him and

Sammy is accepting in the inspiration of Randy Orton, you know, that he's been like, oh, man,

I've been watching random inspired by the choices he makes. And maybe that could be a great step

for for Sammy. But you, I think what you're what you're, it is, Santi is you, like I mentioned,

it's the Gunther bubble and they're creating this big bubble and it just keeps growing and growing

and growing. And now it's gone to the point of no return. You can't go back now. Yeah.

Fellas, there is a, there's a lesson here in finance and the AI bubble. It's the Gunther bubble

in WWE. I see a lot of similarities here. We're running out of careers to kill. Eventually,

we're going to run out of data centers and in organizations to buy AI chips and RAM. We're going

to run out of RAM and then the AI bubble is going to burst and then boom, we're going to end up

getting Gunther down in TNA. That's what's going to end up happening here. But yeah, man, it's

concerning. And unfortunately, that's how I see it playing out. You asked me who I think

Gunther is going to face right now after not doing anything in Boston, dude, in Boston.

I like he's doing anything on Mania. I think they're going to save him for when they have a

prayer to kill. Dan Howzen. Dude, what's funny is that sure? I'll take it. But Dan,

match just something, a segment, cursing Gunther. Just to get this career killer thing away

from him, it wouldn't be cursing him and he loses a match against Ray. Oh, damn, he lost

why Dan Howzen? Of course, that's why I love this hiring of Dan Howzen. It's the ultimate

get out jail card. It's the ultimate. We painted ourselves in a corner. Oh, we can't figure out

what to do. Oh, how do we get the belt off a Dominic Mysterio? We can't do it. He's cursed.

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