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2:03seat. Take your hand, deep it up down there, you might just steal funnions. No, no, I'm good, I'm good till we get to Mania in late April. We had another I thought killer punk Roman promo tonight, and we also have a new men's Intercontinental champion in the form of Ciro Mieto Penta got that title after Judgment Day was cursed from Dan Housen tonight on Raw. Yeah, it's good to see Dan Housen's presence leading to things happening. Yeah, sure. In AEW, the curse thing was always kind of played for last, and while it was still kind of played for last in this particular bit, now the curse has some measure of weight to it. At least people think it does. It gives Dan Housen something to do. I liked how they handled his backstage tonight. I thought it was well performed.

3:05It was funny, and immediately he's going to have a match, probably in the short term with JD, long term dump. This might be, he might, well, now Dom already has, who does Dom, I think Dom has Vickingo at Ray to Ray's, I'm not mistaken. All right. Yeah, I think he's got Vickingo. That's why Vickingo attacked Mini Vickingo, which apparently is that kid's name that I mentioned when I was talking about the, yeah, it's actually just Mini Vickingo. So I don't know if Dan Housen fuse is going to take place in AAA, or if it's going to stick around here on rising, they're going to give, he's already like the number one shirt selling on WWE shop right now. And also, he brought the artist that he used for other stuff into his WWE merchandise fold real art on the shirt. Good. That's great to hear. Steven Larson approved. I mean, Dan Housen has had over the last few years some of, if not the absolute best

4:07pro wrestling merchandise you could get. And so that's great that he understands this is important. And so I'm going to bring my person with me to make sure my merch is up to my standard. That's awesome. That's great. So, the WrestleMania picture, which up until now has been a little on the blurry side. Is slowly coming into focus. It seems like we might have raw tag team title match, which is the match we mentioned in the 10 matches that should be happening at WrestleMania, it's the Uso's versus division. Look at us. Look at us. They're listening. We did it. We did. Hey, did you hear Corey said about the vision, some people and say that they're snakebit. Yes, I did. We said that. Couple of instances from like. And I forget, I'll be honest with you, I forget if I mentioned it here are Wrestlejuice. But I mentioned JD is being one of the first people Dan Housen would have a match, which

5:11is because he's like a bad guy and he's a good match guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I wasn't here. It must have been on Wrestlejuice. It must have been on Wrestlejuice. Somebody's listening, somebody's watching. Let's get back to the punk Roman segment because that was the main event segment. Yeah. Gave him plenty of time to talk about your trash to each other. Some good barbs, good insults there. I thought the barbs were solid, I thought I thought I was tickled by Roman constantly calling him Phil. Yeah. He seemed to really like to lean into, oh, Phil. Yeah. That's the best part of the suit as far as I'm concerned, his Roman calling punk Phil. Oh, yeah, it's good. Did this segment add enough in terms of story like it's still pretty much, I don't like you. Oh, you from Roman's perspective and Phil's like, oh, you've been chasing me your entire career. That's still all kind of what it is. Yes, it's a bit more personal because they're talking shit to each other. Yeah. But it is, is, is, I don't know, Roman's playing it be what?

6:15Three more episodes of Raw, I was about to ask, what's the over under on like two and a half? They get bi exclusively on, on just a lot of shit talk without developing the story a bit more. Here's why I think they are planning to because they've already built it as they're building it based on name value alone because they're building it as the greatest WrestleMania match. Sorry, the one of the greatest WrestleMania main events of all time. And so given that they're already using that as the marketing, then I feel like, yeah, they're going to see how personal they can get. And granted, there's a lot of good material to work with. We will get some pull apart brawls. Oh, it did. Indubitably. I do not expect any twists and turns beyond.

7:16This guy got the best barb in tonight, like punk did tonight. And I'll be honest, they've all been entertaining. I mean, dude, in terms of like twists and turns, what can you really do? Bring Seth Rollins kind of tangentially into it, even though he's doing his own thing with the vision right now, clearly it's going to be Braun Breaker. He stomped a shit out of Paul Heyman, I thought that was pretty fun segment because you see where it's going. You know, like as it happens, like, yeah, oh, Paul's looking around like, why is everybody leaving me? They're idiots. They're just taking the bait. And, but unless there are some twists and turns, they're, they're kept. It's just two dudes. There's not a lot, just not a lot you could do at this point. And so you are relying on one of truth, like historically, one of the best promos we've ever had CM Punk. And over the past couple of years since he's found this character, Roman Reigns is a good

8:17shit talker. As we saw tonight, he can at least hang with Punk. Sometimes he can get Punk's better and Punk, as in his own words, ooh, tried his damnedest to bury him tonight with his words. And he left him speechless. Isn't, is that enough? That remains to be seen because if they're going to rely predominantly, if not exclusively on marquee value and crap talk, it's better be some top tier crap talk consistently every week. You know what I mean? Yeah. So like, to, to contrast this last year's triple threat involving two of these dudes plus Seth Rollins, you had twists and turns and a story. It was a story. It's like who was Heyman going to line with and Seth early on was was, you know, obviously a foreshadowing Heyman turn on both of them and aligning himself with, with, with himself. So yeah, there was a lot of twists and turns and, and, and whatnot. And so far, I don't, I don't disagree in terms of twists and turns.

9:21Like, what can you really do other than bring Seth into a problem? Here's one thing they could do based off of what we heard tonight. Roman Reigns getting in CM Punk's ear saying, you're hanging out with my cousin's backstage. They can't wait to shit talk you once you're gone or once you're out of the building or at, you know, at a earshot when I show up, Punk says, well, you're alone all the time I am hanging out with them. You could do something where the usos are involved. Punk goes to them, Hey, this has been sort of living in my, in my head, rent free. Have you, you guys talking shit about me? What's going on with this? Maybe he gets a little bit on the paranoid side. Maybe Roman brings some, some heat next week that gets, that drives Punk to that. And the usos at first are like, Hey, we're neutral in this, you know, much respect. But then, and this would be a heel thing. They're not going to do that because, you know, they're, they're right now they're the good guys in a vision thing. But it'd be kind of cool to have them do it both ways.

10:22Yeah. The usos, you know, feed Punk a couple of super kicks. And then he's got to figure some out. There's still six weeks left to meet you. There's still a lot of time left. There are. One of the things that Punk keeps hammering home is, Roman, you can't do this all by yourself. And that's another thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's another thing. So, yeah, I think that there's, at the very least, the question of, Hey, they could insert some story into this. If the trash talk is this good, it's, well, let me ask this, are they just then just sort of relying on the, the trash talk and the intrigue of is Roman going to win the, I don't, I don't think Roman honestly has a chance because he's not there. Yeah. So like, and Punk as illustrated in this is, so I, I just don't think it from like that point of view would really make sense for Roman to win this. But that being said, it's Roman Reigns, you cannot, you cannot, you cannot count them out at all. So maybe they're in lie some of the intrigue like, oh, who's actually going to win this.

11:24But like, even if Roman's around for three more weeks, Punk still has to do stuff, maybe that stuff is with the Usos, maybe there, there is, you know, some, some subplot here with that, which could add some intrigue if, if Jay and Jimmy blast Punk, hey, that, that, that, that ratchets things up a little bit, you know, yeah, that would, that would, that would be a, that would be interesting take on things, that's for sure. Other stuff regarding, uh, WrestleMania, we already know Rear Ripley's taken on Jade Cargill. She's going to be on Smackdown Friday to sort of officially begin her road. Oh, they seem like they're there to kind of began the feud on social media. Oh, was there shit? I saw, I saw some shit talk, but it involved Jade and Chelsea Green. No, it was, there was some stuff, some crap talk back and forth with Jade and Rear. Okay, did it get like heated? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh, like what? What did they, what was that?

12:24Kind of like it got, like the last two comments from Jade says something along the lines of essentially saying that Rear was politicking with creative a lot. And then, uh, and then Rear responded something like no fun, no friends, um, something about disparaging somebody or something, disparaging people or something like that. I can't really say. Okay. Perveteer, I'll pull it up rather than just kind of guessing. Yeah. Yeah. I don't really, you know, that stuff is kind of like whatever to me. So yeah, she'll be there on Smackdown. That'll be kind of interesting. Oh, this is what, this is what, this is what Rear said, says not having fun, not friends, learn to work and never lie to defame someone's real human character by breaking the fourth wall. That's what Rear responded. Oh. Okay. Well, you know, hopefully they do some bullshit on television. Yeah. Because Jay said, uh, uh, uh, uh, Rear says something about all that Jay does is talk

13:30and Jay says, talk like the hours you spend talking to creative. Oh. Huh. Okay. Um, as I mentioned also, we have a new intercontinental champion in Penta. Yeah. Did you see the turbo? I know you, you haven't, you started a little later seeing a fast forward through commercials. Do you see the turbo text commercial? I did. Where did I say? I think I saw it on YouTube, actually, and it's hilarious. It's pretty great. Did they get, they got voice actors for the singing, right? Or no, I think that's LA Night's singing. I think that's Penta singing. You know, okay, singing, LA Night would not shock me. Penta just sounds like Penta. And for Stephanie, I was like, did they get somebody? But LA Night, this dude has been on the grind for 20 years. You cannot tell me that LA Night in LA did not take singing lessons, did not have singing lessons. I guarantee you we did. We did some community musical theater for all we know. He might have. Anyways, we have a new intercontinental champion. Dom still has the mega championship. Do you think Penta is going to walk into WrestleMania as intercontinental champion?

14:31They're just going to do the old flipperoo back onto it. I mean, I suppose it's possible, but yeah, I think, I think so. I think this is a situation where Penta is going to have this title for a while and now if Finn and Dom are going to feud, it's just not going to be for the intercontinental title. That being said, who's Penta going to face at WrestleMania? Are we going to put a ladder in the middle of the ring and get five guys out there? They probably don't even know at this point. I got two words for you, a ladder war. A ladder war. Yeah, do a ladder war, yeah. Penta loves the ladder. Do that. He's the hardcore guy from TNA, of course, he's the hardcore guy from TNA, exactly. So we did have confirmation that we're getting El Grande Americano versus the other original El Grande. Yeah, they're in the four-way at Rader Ace, yeah, both of them. That's right. You got to think that's going to be in advance of a proper WrestleMania match. I do, I don't know that they would do mask versus mask at WrestleMania because I feel

15:32like with original coming back, he's got a lot of juice and they're both there. I feel like they're both on the come-up, especially in AAA, where Ludwig is a good guy and original is a bad guy. So here's the thing, if they do mask versus mask, Ludwig has to win because you saw in the backstage segment tonight, look Chad Gable's fantastic performer. In terms of doing the Americano thing? It's Ludwig. Ludwig laps him. Laps him. Laps him several times over. He does. And now he's got like the Dark Attire, the Dark El Grande, which I like. Yeah, I don't disagree with that. This is the first time, if I'm not mistaken, besides like an AI promo that we've seen original talk since he's come back. And he was doing his Chad Gable as Americano stick that he does.

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20:51match. I guess this juncture, I mean, I guess I don't, granted all the people talked about it, but given that AJ approach Kyrie, you think Oscar would have the advantage maybe in terms of how they were setting things up, don't you think? It's going to be, okay, number one is this gauntlet match, the number one contender going to be a match that happens before WrestleMania. I would think so. I would think so. I would think so. The way AJ was talking about, I want to be a fighting champion that leads me to believe there's be multiple defenses before Mania. So we'll probably end up having Becky versus AJ at WrestleMania, probably was nowhere to be found tonight. So I guess it will probably be, I'd be surprised if Bailey wasn't one of those matches. Yeah. So that was going to be my thing is I could see them doing Bailey because she's on kind

21:56of unstable mental ground in general, like she was anyways for a while. I don't know, even if she's doing that still, but this could be the kind of thing that could drive a wedge between her and Lyra because it doesn't really seem like they're in the tag title picture right now, although there isn't guys and and and lash and I are back. I mean, it doesn't right now. But if they have a multi team match, Mania, I mean, it was supposed to be Lyra and Bailey last year. Yeah. Yeah. For the tag titles. And then, you know, Bailey got taken out, Becky replaced her Lyra and Becky ended up winning the tag title. So it might be an interesting kind of bit of a symmetrical storytelling of this year. You have Bailey and Lyra going into Mania competing for those titles and maybe even winning up. That'd be great. Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah. So it could be like a loss brings them closer together or goes the opposite direction drives them apart. I don't know. Right. Mania, there's going to be 14 matches of Mania and there's limited space.

22:58So I don't know if they would do a one-on-one there with Lyra and Bailey or just throw them into a tag cluster, you know? Yeah. But there's a lot of tag teams, right? There are a lot of tag teams, a lot, which in the fact that they're all together still say. I mean, the only reason to read an EO aren't going to be is because Ria is going after women's title. Yeah. Otherwise, all the teams they've built up with the last few months are all still together. I could see this. Maybe it is Kyrie. Or an AJ could have a fun match. She loses, of course. Oskie gets pissed. Or they do a thing where Oskie like demands Kyrie spot and somehow gets it gets a match with AJ. She loses, takes it out on Kyrie. I feel like EO is going to come to Kyrie's aid when Oskie goes, she's already going overboard, but like super overboard in her abuse of Kyrie saying EO saves her and then he do EO

24:01and Oskie at Mania. I mean, dude, that's a fucking match that I would die to see, like a WrestleMania match between those two. That would be fun. And the feud before it. Oh my God. Yeah. That'd be good shit right there. Yeah, it would be. It would be fun. So, yeah, I see those as all options. I kind of feel like those are all options. Everybody is an option except for Ivy Nile, probably. Yeah. She'll be like the first. She'll be like the first out. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. So let's talk about that punk Roman face to face. Actually, before we do that, I want to bring this up. I am eagerly anticipating a new piece of entertainment video content, Larson. I'm not talking about a new show on HBO Max or a new show on Paramount Plus, which I think all they have is Star Trek and Yellowstone. I'm anxiously awaiting the Melty Hoodie review from Mr. Dope. Yeah. I don't know when we're getting this thing, or even if it will happen.

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30:11Venmo stash terms and exclusions apply at Venmo.me slash stash terms max $100 cash back per month. Anyways, always talk about raw dive into this Roman punk face to face. So Roman comes out first because he's the challenger. He says, no way, did punk come out first? No, Roman comes out first and says Indianapolis acknowledged me the punk's music hit. He comes out. Oh, yeah, Roman didn't say shit. Okay, that's what I wanted. Well, he just said Indianapolis acknowledged me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then punk comes down the ring and he says, why are you punk says, why are you so angry? Less than interruption and feeding your ego, I'm going to do this. I'm acknowledging you. I'm acknowledging Roman Reigns, but hey, I hope you came here to do more than that. We aren't wasting money on one of your dates for that. That could have been a tweet. Yeah, referencing a tweet that Roman put out there saying that, uh, what was it? Champ looks tired. Champ looks tired.

31:12That's what he said. And Roman says, ah, my tweet hurt your feelings, Phil seems like you have thin skin, Phil. Punk says, now I don't care about that. I don't get mad or hold grudges about stuff set about me on podcasts. By people with punk derangement syndrome, perhaps he says your tweets were accurate. I'm tired. This is a good thing. I got these bags under my eyes because we're seven weeks. I got to carry your bullshit until WrestleMania hold on. Is it great to be alive at a Monday night in the apples or what? He says we're on the road, WrestleMania. He says we have history. Don't we? He says, this is where the shield debuted where I brought you to the dance and Romans like correction. You might have brought the other two, but not me. Punk says, all right, we remember things different. He says, ah, maybe I didn't pick you, but you definitely pick me. He says, look at us now. Look at us. He says, made of interstellar, made of who thought? He says, if you ask me, ah, I've already won. Last time you and I are face to face, you said you hated me.

32:12He says, I got you where I want you. I made you this emotional lady. He says, you hate me. I'm in your head. As empty as it is. I'm under your skin. And here to tell you, I can see right through you, Roman says, yeah, I do hate you. But this is what you're missing. Phil, he says, if you didn't have that title, I'd be indifferent. You wouldn't even be in my radar. Let's remind you, we brought you back to entertain the 30 to 40 year old virgins who live with their parents to sell some shirts to maybe draw a house in Chicago, but we didn't bring it back to be champion. That's above your pay grade. Anyway, he goes on and on and Punk says, we, we, he's like, oh, because because Roman goes on to say he's going to retire him, he's going to send him back to NXT to teach his next generation. He says, then you're going to send him up to me and I'll snatch every, every one of him. He said, it's funny because he said smash. And I noticed that Garrick's here has snatch, but I think he meant smash, smash it. So, so Roman tries to leave and Punk is really taking him back by the, he's like, he can't

33:13just walk away. He says, are you done? I'm not. And you're going to listen. You said a bunch of shit when he to cover. He said, first, we, who's we? He said, you're all alone. You're alone on your bus in your room, your cousins left you. There's no more shield. You don't even have a wise man. I took him away from you. He said, you're all alone. I love it. He said, it illustrates your entire career. You chasing me, I'm the champ. You're the main event of WrestleMania, not because you won the rumble, but because I'm the main event. This is my show, I run things. He says, I'm in the locker room hanging out with your cousins and you're alone. He says, you can't get things done on your own. Can you? You're not. But one thing I won't let you do is disrespect me. He says, you're going to retire me, brother. You just made the list. And he tried his damnedest nuts like Jericho. But you got to wonder if they're sort of planting those little things here. Yeah. That's a very particular phrase to say. Something that's not normally in Phil's, you know, like, playbook.

34:13And he's not one to misspeak or to accidentally steal somebody else's wildly over gimmick. Yeah. There could be something there. He says, you went get, he said, you went from getting beat at WrestleMania. Now I'm going to bury you. Then you won't be alone because I'll bury you next to your father. Ooh. Roman was shook. Yeah. Shook on that one. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Chris Jericho confirmed. Is that going to be on a bunch of YouTuber thumbnails tomorrow? Jericho confirmed? Probably. Maybe. Maybe we should do that. Maybe. Rhea had an interview on the stage, so Jackie introduces her Rhea, makes her enchants with EO, and Jackie asks Rhea about facing Jade, and Rhea says, it's been a whirlwind of motions to say the least. I mean, losing their titles on SmackDown, it sucked. It really sucked because EO has been so many things to me and opponent and a tag partner, and most importantly, my best friend.

35:14So I want to thank you, EO. Thank you for supporting me. And most of all, thank you for pulling me out of a very dark situation. EO says, you would do the same for me. You on the chamber showed everyone by mommy as always on top. I'll be all right, Audra. You go handle your business and win the WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania. And Rhea says, thank you. Says, I will do it. And I'll do it for you. So, hold Audra off for me because this Friday, and she says this directly to camera. She pulls the camera closer. I'll be seeing Jade face-to-face on SmackDown to come WrestleMania. I will be leaving your new WWE Women's Champion. So you texted me. Just live from. Just live from. Right after this live. Okay, hold on a second. I'll let you say your piece, and I'm really curious about this. Because when I watched it, I was like, oh, this is cool, I like this. I noticed right before the last shot, she was in like two, three, five. It was like super letterboxed. And then the next one, it went up to 16-9 with no letterbox. Was that your main point of contention?

36:15It's not just that, they shot it with two different cameras. Neither of them were balanced for exposure. One was super bright. It was like the typical TV camera. And then one they had kind of three quarters on her was the 24 frame ones. And it wasn't exposed to the same level as the other one. And they were cutting back and forth between these two shots, the different camera quality, completely different exposures. It was driving me crazy. I didn't notice the aspect ratio, that was pie change in the whole time too. They went from a 30 to a 24, like cutting back and forth, really? And the 30 is super bright. I'm really surprised I missed this. I don't know how I did. Yeah, I don't know how I did. Wow, okay. It was jarring. I couldn't really pay attention to what she was saying. Because like, who put, how did this, like make it pass? QC? Yeah. Like at least get the two shots. So the exposure is comparable. If you're going to do a 30 and a 24 and one of them, like you got to do it up,

37:18like put, like make one look like it's all scratched up, put it in black and white, you do something. It's got the drastic difference. Strobe effect, drastic difference. This just looked like, all right, they had two cameras and no one bothered to make sure they were set anywhere close to each other. But then how does an editor get their hands on this and it doesn't do it up? That's crazy. Probably because they was, all right, you got 20 minutes put this together. You're probably right about that. That's probably what it is. So they had enough time to cut it and not, you know, do color timing on it. That's wild. Yeah. Yeah, watch it again. It's weird. That's, I do not know how I missed that. That's crazy. I don't know how you missed it either. I don't know, man. Live look pretty good though. I tell you what. So anyway, she said, hey, Stephanie, I'm sure you have some questions about last week. So I'm going to explain myself because it's when she popped her with the mic. She said, you try to embarrass me, you thought you knew everything about me and she's like, you know what you're right. I am privileged. I got signed at 20 and I had it so good. You got rejected on your first tryout. You grew up in a mud hut, in a mud hut for 10 years. She said, you know why? I'm a star.

38:18I don't dwell on my past. I'm like you. That's not the only thing I can talk about. But I see a bit of myself in you. You're talented. You work hard. You're a great champion. I'm going to give you something. I'm going to give you the privilege of stepping in with the greatest Rumble winner and Crown Jewel champion. You get to step in the ring with the live Morgan and you're going to learn everything you need to know. She should have said, watch me. Watch me. Watch me. She should have done like the Steve Bruehl thing. You got a 24 here, a 20 and a 30 here and started doing this shit. That would be good. So yeah, the Pento on the Intercontinental title night. So earlier in the show, we see Penta talking to OGL Grande. OGL Grande says, well, Pento, I'm so excited for your match tonight, but you know when you win, I'm first in line. Yeah, the Penta's like, yeah, sure. So Ludwig, Americano, Pete Dunn, Tyler Bait, walked up to OGL Grande and asked him, how long do we keep up the charade?

39:18And OG says, not only my El Grande Americano, I'm the only El Grande. Ludwig El Grande says, we'll see March 14th, rate of raise. Gabel says, we don't need to wait, hide behind your little amigos. I'll talk to Pierce and I am seeing Uno of you tonight. So later on, we have that match. Talk about that later. But first, Penta gets a promo. Yeah. He says, don with the bell rings, I won't just fight. I'm coming out with all the energy and the love and heart of my people, nothing and no one can save you because it's only you and me in the ring tonight. Penta makes history, but becoming the new Intercontinental champion. So then we go to, later on after commercial break, we come back. We're in the clubhouse and live is talking to Cal about challenge eight, oh, Rekels in the gauntlet, oh, okay, pretty sure I didn't, I didn't see if you're probably right about that. I was looking to the graphic really quickly. So I don't, you know, so Liv tells Rekel, hey, you should, you should challenge AJ for the Intercontinental title, go to WrestleMania's champion.

40:20So she's like, yeah, good idea. So Dom asks JD, hey, you're going to be out there for my match and Finn walks by and ask how he's feeling because I'm not happy with the result, but in that piece, that how it went down. So I'm like, yeah, whatever. Now that you're over losing the punk, can you focus on my title defense and Finn's like, we talked about this. You have to do this by yourself. And Dom's like, no, I mean, when I win, you're going to come celebrate with me, right? Finn says, you can count on me. I'll be out there to watch you win. So before the Intercontinental title match, we have Pierce Backstage on the phone, turns and there's Dan Housen in Dan Housen says, Stone Cold Steve Austin, nice to meet you. And then Adam Pearce is no Adam Pearce, Adam Pearce. I like this part because Dan Housen says, as you saw, Dan Housen, Dave, you do a thunders, cheers and applause. Taking the piss out of the fact that he's getting out of the laugh, that's good. Yeah. So he says, go ahead. All right. He says, so here's a list of demand Housens.

41:21He says, I went up Limp, a Hall of Fame adduction this year, personal assistant, one of those triple H pointing at me photos. He says, and my face and all the trucks, and he gives them a list, but it's like, what paper towel? Yeah. And Pearce is like, why is it so soggy? He says, it fell into toilet, which is funny. And then Judgment Day comes by, introduces them to Dan Housen, and then Pearce leaves, and then Dan Housen says, hello, Finn, Dom, and then JD says, I already hate this guy. And so Dan Housen wants to go, so he starts to grab the IC title, and he says, can I have this? Well, I'm says, this is as close as you're going to get at this, but not so nice to meet you. Beat it before something bad happens to you. Dan Housen says, bad happens to me. You are cursed. It does this thing. Yeah. And then they laugh it off. They sort of, Dom turns into laugh at JD and Finn, and then they turn back around and Dan Housen's gone, and Finn started doing his comedic looking around, wondering where he is.

42:22Yeah. So yeah, then we had Penta versus Dom. Pearce worked. Pearce worked. Pearce worked. So towards the end, Dom yells at JD, you go grab the hammer. So JD goes the time keeper's area, grabs the hammer, and as he's about to approach the ring, Finn takes it, and he says, no, he wants to do it himself, let him. And Dom's like, oh, I didn't necessarily mean it like that. He never said that really. No, he never did. So Penta takes out Finn and JD with the tope. Kicks Dom away, goes for destroyer, but Dom's dead ghost, and there's 619 misses, then Penta hits the destroyer, covers and gets the win. Yeah. Let me add you some, there was, I want to say it was Meltzer. And this feels like one of those grain assaults, like super grain assault, but it'd be a funny conversation. All right. Look, Gordon and Meltzer, there are some higher ups in WWE creative, who were not interested

43:27in bringing in Dan House. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Those higher ups name is Bruce Pritchard, right? Road dog. Road dog might like Dan House, and road dog might be like, oh, the kids like this guy, I better, I better hitch my wagon on him. Maybe, or maybe it's a situation where at first doesn't get it, then, you know, works them a little bit. Ah, I understand it now. Does Triple H find Dan House and funny? Or is he simply doing this because he doesn't want to miss out on Dan House? I would guess more so the forer because I think, you know, obviously Dan House and was hurt for a while, and AEW was not on TV at all. So the buzz that he had for that spell, when he was in the independence and went to Ring of Honor, that has passed, you know, through no fault to Dan House's. This AEW didn't utilize them at all.

44:27It was hurt. And then he was on the sidelines because they extended his deal. So that buzz just is not what it used to be. So I don't know if the situation where Triple H is looking at Dan House is like, oh, this guy's got so much buzz right now. We got to bring him in because he's the buzz worthy wrestler. I'm not necessarily thinking that, oh, he's going to miss out on, oh, because obviously he's not going to go to AEW. He was just there. They didn't do shit with him. He's not going to go to New Japan. I mean, he could go to New Japan. That could be wildly fun. Put him in house torture. I don't know. Take over for Evil's Gone. He'd be a new leader. When I say he doesn't want to miss out, I mean more like he knows he might not get it, but he knows there's probably an audience for it. Oh, I'm sure he's probably aware of the buzz that did exist for Dan House. But does he find him funny? Yeah, I think I could see him find him. You think so? Maybe. I don't know. It's not juvenile enough. Even though there's a toilet joke. Yeah.

45:28I don't think it's juvenile enough. It could be. It could be, I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. I don't know. I think other, I think the younger, I'd like Rob Phoebe. He probably thinks so. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? There's probably, there's probably a lot of people in the right area and they're like you got to sign this guy. That are like younger. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. You got to sign this guy. Yeah. I don't get it, but okay. It could be that. I like his presentation. It could be that. I think he probably likes the presentation. Yeah, without a doubt. You know, I wonder if, like we saw tonight, if he's, there's, whether it's Chipel H or other people see how he could be utilized in telling stories, having someone that goes around accurses people and see how it plays out tonight. I hope we get some footage of Chipel H arranging his entrance. Of course, yes. I want to see him like doing the choreography of the dancers. I know. That's what I want to see. I really want to see that because I feel like Chipel H can do something with him like

46:30a behind the scenes thing for a laugh and it'd probably be pretty funny. Yeah. And he'd probably get that. Yeah. I don't know. I just, it always, because he's got like such a horrible sense of humor that he does. Oh, he does. He does. He does. It really is. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I would think that maybe, I don't know, Chipel H is maybe somewhat aware of maybe some of the inspirations behind the Dan Housen character. Yeah, it could be. It could be. And maybe he doesn't, maybe not exactly get the humor of Dan Housen. Maybe he gets the inspiration. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Uh, so we missed the slides T-shirts on, on per wrestling T's like, wow, this dude's got great shirts. I mean, no. These are going to sell a ton. Yeah. That could be, and they are now. Yeah. So, uh, we had a bit backstage where Oscar is just ripping into Kyrie, uh, and, uh, and then AJ Lee comes across her after Oscar's done talking shit.

47:34She's like, hey girl, uh, you good? And then Kyrie is just, she's just frozen in fear and then Oscar screams for her. So AJ comes out for a promo. She says, I'm not sure how we got here. I know I came back to WWE, uh, purely just to snatch the pretty hair from Becky's big ass head. But I ended up snatching her title too, but I got to be real. I didn't know if I could, or if I could go rather, um, she says, you believed in me, had my back for a decade. Remember me when some of you wish, when some wish you'd forget, and he made me believe I could fight the very best. That's what Becky Lynch was. The best of the best. But I beat her. She says now that Becky's behind me, WrestleMania is ahead, but I'm not wait until then I'm going to be a fighting champion. It's been 12 long years since I held the title. I won't take it for granted or waste any time. So a couple of weeks ago, I kind of mentioned I wanted to get my hands on some women in that locker room. Now, I have this on my shoulder. I know they want to get their hands on me. So ladies, show me what you got.

48:36So then we have the participants of the gauntlet all sort of doing various things backstage. We had Bailey and Lyra backstage. He's like, I feel stuck, I don't know about you. Lyra's like, I know he had no luck lately, but I can't sit back and watch you miss WrestleMania again. AJ's a new champion who wants challengers, why can't it be you? I saw I have to women line up, why not you and Bailey's like, yeah, how about you do it too? We'll both do it. So they went and did that. As they go to Pierce's office, EO Sky is walking out. I like that they walk in and Lyra says, scrap daddy. I know, that's good. I know. We have the vision kicking off the show. Paul Heyman says, usually this is the part of the show where we welcome you to Monday Night Raw. We're live in Indianapolis. I hate to spit on everybody's parade, but we're here tonight talking about Seth Rollins. And then he talks about they all do. Seth denying Logan Paul his win at the Chamber, even though he eliminated three people from

49:41the match. A feat only Brock Lesnar had accomplished prior. Well, that's not exactly true. Shayna Bays are like eliminated everybody that one year. She did eliminate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she did anyways, then Austin theory gets the mic because here's my theory. Oh, no, that's going to be his thing and then any pressure and he's got theorems about everything. Yeah. It's so bad. It is, and I texted you this and I have no problem saying on camera. I feel like Triple H gave him some direction and he took it way too literally. He's like, listen, you're going to be the pressure, all right, you're going to be, I want you to be relentless. You're going to be the pressure. He's like, oh, the pressure. Yeah, the pressure. And so he's like, I'm going to say that in my promo and then, and then, you know, but then he starved. He's like, I need a new, I need a new phrase. I've got a theory.

50:44So bad. And Triple H is since their two and I's being like, what are we going to do with this guy? Exactly. We can't let him go. There's something in there, but we can't get it out. We have no idea how to get it out. So he talks, it's just word salad for the most part. He passes the mic to Logan and Logan mentions, hey, I'm going to say, by the way, when he gave the mic to Logan, it was as if, because at one point, the crowd was razzling him and he had a really weak come back. Yeah. It was as if he couldn't wait to get that mic out of his hands. It was like burning his hand. Yeah, well, it felt like that. Yeah. Logan talks about Seth denying him the win at Chamber. He says the rest of the show isn't happening until Seth comes out and the answer is for it. So Pierce says, all right, all right. We get it. You're upset. You're not holding the show hostage and you know, and Pierce says, and you're not interrupting

51:47my show like you did on SmackDown because you're the ones that laid out Jay, right? And Heyman pushes back on that and says, we had nothing to do with it, but if you want, we could plead guilty and advance for what we're going to do to Seth wrongs. Pierce says, glad you brought him up. I need to have a conversation with him because he can't do anything stupid. He's not medically cleared yet. So please leave the ring. Let me continue my broadcast. So we had one mass man jump with a barricaded and then another and then another and then Logan goes chasing after one. There he goes chasing after the other. And then finally Seth sneaks in disguised with a chair, hits Heyman with the chair and then hits him with a stomp. My question is, that appears was just out there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did he turn around and leave and this not hear anything like the crowd making a bunch of noise and think the turn around to see what was going on? We never see what happens. He was on the stage. He was just there before the first mass man appeared.

52:48I don't know. Why wouldn't he just stay there and be like Seth, we need to talk. I don't know. Yeah. He's got a lot going on. Yeah. I took care of that business maybe. So during they come back from commercial. We see that Heyman's got a bunch of blood coming from his nose. They load them up to an ambulance and then theory and Logan like we got to get in the car. Got to follow the ambulance to the hospital. So Logan sends his theory to go get the car. Sorry. The other way around Logan gets the car theory weight. SUV pulls up. The theory is about to get into it. But him Jim Wu says in there looking for a pound of flesh for the vision probably laying out. Jay. Yeah. So he attacks theory. Throws within an ambulance road cases. He makes his way over to the driver's side of the ambulance. Yeah. Yeah.

53:48His only appearance tonight. I know. It says nice work. I'll take it from here. Don't worry. I'll get him the help he needs. Yeah. Yeah. And then we have him Jim Uso versus Austin theory. This was lame because it ended a really quick DQ because Logan attacks Jim Uso. Yeah. This wasn't great. And then afterwards we had Jay Uso's return. They like the vision. Yeah. Like it would so like for the second time in a night they got like they're like, oh, where either they're looking in the wrong direction. His music hits. They're looking at the ramp behind him. He's the same truck man. Same exact tropes. I mean, it's like that thing I sent you earlier with the 21 instances of someone being disguised in a hoodie in a mask. Well, now they've got what like five more. Yeah, there's at least three tonight. They Uso ones were hilarious though. Yeah. Yeah. Those are great. I like that he just went back like what a couple of years because like 21 instances. I know.

54:49Yeah. There wasn't like there's at least once where Sammy didn't have a mask, but he had the hoodie on. Yeah. My favorite, actually, my favorite album was this Drew because his hoodie was open. And it was like, because Joe Tessetor said it's Drew McIntyre in a hoodie. It's like, he's the most obvious man. I know. Because his hoodie was, oh, number one, even if the hoodie was closed and he was wearing a mate, he's so big. Yes. But like also like he had, you know, he didn't have the mask on and he had the jacket like open. It's like you just, it's just. Drew McIntyre. He held that beef. He's not hidden. He's not hidden in any way, shape or form. There was no need for him to have the hood on. No. We're getting Rusev versus Oba Femi next week. Rusev interrupts a recap of Oba defeating the Miz on SmackDown. Says, I'm tired of listening about Oba. I'm tired of waiting. Here I am. I know you're back there.

55:49So here this. If you want this fight, I want this fight. How about we fight right now? He says, I'm not moving until you show up the second time someone tried to hold the show hostage. He says, go ask your daddy. He had a pierced foot. So okay. So Oba makes his entrance, gets in the ring, gets a mic says, you spent all this time talking, why don't you come in here and make something happen. Rusev shrugs, leaps off the announced desk, gets in the ring, they start fighting. Keep in mind during this whole thing, Oba Femi has dress shoes on. Yes. Yeah. Any time his fists were taped up though. Yeah. He had what jeans? I think he had dark jeans, you know. Yeah. And dress shoes. And his merch shirt. Yeah. So they start fighting and it ends with the Oba closed lining Rusev out of the ring. And it was announced later on that match is happening next week. I like the notes from Chris Garrix here. As Oba shakes the ropes, warrior style. Yeah. Yep. We also had Dragon Lee get unmasked by Gunther.

56:53I swore this match happened before and then when Cole said, this is the first time they were wrestling, I went in cage match and yeah, they had a wrestler before it just been fights. Okay. This might, again, I'm horrible at this. Did Gunther fight Ray Phoenix? I don't know. No. Ruse on Smackdown. Yeah. I know. But I don't think so. I don't know. Maybe he roamed around. It may be. I don't think so. Did he have a, he had a mysterious match like recently, didn't he? Gunther? No. No. If he had, there was the promise of like a dumb match or something or a Ray match or some shit. Maybe I thought that Dragon Lee would be the gateway to Ray. Yeah. We talked about that. Okay. That's what we talked about. No luchadors recently? Oh, he defeated El Grande Mercano. So the real luchadors? He's been wrestling Sami Zayn and Javan Evans on the house show circuit. There has.

57:53I wonder how hard he goes with the chops on the house show circuit. Probably not very, huh? At least not with Sami. Let's see. Yeah. Some house shows against Penta. Nothing, huh? No. No. Anyways, he was wiping the floor with Dragon Lee, hit two nasty power bombs. It was like, no, that's not enough. Throw them out to the floor. It's an apron power bomb. Power bombs them onto the announce tables. Looking for another one, then Dragon Lee reverses that to a code red. Gunther tries to get back on the ring, Dragon Lee kicks them off the apron, hits the suicide dive. It's a destino on the floor. Lee rolls in and then Gunther just barely beats the 10 count. Lee hits a few strikes, Lariat takes down Gunther. He's looking for another destino, but then Gunther counters that with a sleeper. Rips the mask off, so Dragon Lee has to tap. It's going to be Gunther and Ray at Manion.

58:54Feels that way, yeah. Yeah. That seems right. Ray is going to come out. Oh, how dare you disrespect Lutilebrae. Mm-hmm. You know, it's going to be Ray Mysteria. Oh, man, it should be Dombie. Like, no, you're not retiring my dad. I'm retiring my dad, and then we get Domb versus Gunther. That's what it should be. Yeah. Yeah. As mentioned earlier, we got OG Grande taking on Peter Dune. Peter Dune. Uh, OG El Grande gets the win, even though Tyler Bait tries to interview her quite a bit. In the end, chaos theory, OG El Grande gets the W. Correct. Would you like to answer some questions? Answer some questions, yeah. It's the answer some questions, Mr. Lee. All right. Um, I like this question. I don't know if I'm going to have an answer for it, but maybe you will. Reaper Red. What's a wrestling question you never want answered?

59:58Mine might be, what is the real attendance number for WrestleMania 3? Mine is. I always want it to be 93,173. I, oh, for me, it's, did Sid Crap his pants or WrestleMania 13? Do you don't want confirmation on that? I think it's, it's, it's funnier if it's this kind of out there in the ether, but no one knows for sure. That's a good point. That's a good point. I like that. Uh, Mr. Sinister says, what are your thoughts if Drew loses a title this Friday on Smackdown that fully crashing out and challenging Nick Aldeus to a match at Mania? How about this? What if you just throw that? I love all that. What if he crashes out? He has a match at Mania and he's not champion. It's going to be against Jacob thought too. Yeah. It is. Nick Aldeus is guest ref. Oh, I like that. I like that. He wears like the blue shirt with the bow tie and he says, I'm going retro. But no sleeves, he's probably still super jacked. Jacked. Yeah. He towers above most of the wrestlers. I know. He's huge. He's huge.

1:00:59He could still wrestle easily. I, at the very least, I want coded to get the title back this Friday because we'll be doing our review and we'll get numbers. Numbers. Yeah. That's what I really want. Cruise here. I should EO turn on re-up Mania and cost her the match. No. No. Uh, no. No, never turn either of these people against each other. No. Crowd didn't want to see that shit. No. Absolutely not. Damn. Him and Tushek says with Ring of Honor now filming in Jacksonville's local PBS station, do you think it harkens back to an era of territory wrestling on local TV stations? Yes. The studio wrestler show. Yeah. I love that studio wrestling. I love that shit. Uh, Josh M says, why do people think that would be you can get bad bunny at Mania? They get bad bunny when he wants to. Don't they know the world runs on bunny time? Yeah. Yeah. I can see that. Well, you know, it's, it's, they are hoping that he will. He will. He can make himself available to do some wrestling that he would choose WWE to do the

1:02:01wrestling. Well, they're hoping just to get a whiff of that bad bunny right there, man. He means one of the most famous people in the world. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Uh, all right. Would you like to blindly power rank? Sure. Well, do this one. Oh, let me get my, which one is it? Lehu wants you to blindly power rank. I love this. Influential guitar players. Oh. How many? Seven. Okay. I like it. Number one. What? Jimmy Hendrix. Gosh. I don't know if there's anybody in the history guitar who's been more influential than Jimmy Hendrix. Maybe Eddie Van Halen, maybe. But people this day still rip off Jimmy Hendrix risk. I got to put Jimmy at one.

1:03:03Jimmy number one. Yeah. All right. I mean, I loved it. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Number two. Dave Gilmore from Pink Floyd. Dave Gilmore. Very different guitar player than Jimmy. Very different. More understated, very melodic terms with solos. You could see them like the melodies of his solos. Very grumpy that Dave Gilmore seems like him and him and the other cat Roger Waters. Yeah. They're always a nods. If you ever watch, if you're watched their live at Pompeii special, which I think it's just on YouTube. Yeah. I used to have the DVD. It's terrific. It's really cool. You get to see him in the studio doing all sorts of crazy shit with all sorts of knobs and stuff. But they just come off as not arrogant, egotistical, at all, just like grumpy. Yeah. Like they've been through some shit.

1:04:04Yeah. I'm going to put Gilmore at five. I think he is relatively influential, but I think people really like his guitar tone. Mm-hmm. Okay. I mean, his soloing is good, but I think his guitar tone is probably like people, there's whole, like, websites that detail how he got his tone. So I think that's what people really interested in too. Next up. I know you're a huge fan of this guy, Ted Nugent. Seven. Ah! Trash. Ah! Ah! Ah! Trash. What if he seemed like a really good guy? His music's still not very good. Ah! Ah! What if he was like a huge save the tree's guy? Would that get him to six? Maybe. Right. His music's still not that good. Taking the well-rounded approach, I see. Next up. Santana. This is about influence, yeah? Yeah. I just, I mean, he's, he's obviously a really good guitar player.

1:05:08I don't know how influential he is. I think more people these days know about him because of the smooth sound. I think he did the 60s or 70s. I think you're right about that, but I suspect, and I have nothing to base this on whatsoever, that the fact that I know his name, and he doesn't sing, or at least I've never heard one of his songs where he does sing, I could be fucking completely wrong about that. People will probably correct me in the comments, but like, from what I understand, he's just guitar player. Yeah, he is. And he made his name on that, but without, you know what I mean, like, that's me. He had to have been influential in some way, say, perform, but I don't know. I'm not doing the list. So I don't know. But I can't put him again. I don't think I can put him above Dave Gilmore. So I got to put him at six. Okay. All right. So what do you have left? Two through four. Okay. Next up. I think this. Well, we'll see. We'll see. Next up is Prince. Oh, Prince is great. He is great. And the most underrated guitar players ever.

1:06:11Yeah. That's underrated musicians. He played all the instruments on most of his early albums. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Gosh darn. I mean, if he was talking about influential musicians, he's pretty high up there. So I will say this. I stumbled upon this because Adam and I was going through an Adam and phase. Yeah. And he dabbled in the Minneapolis sound. Yeah. Which is Prince, you know. So much stuff in the mid to late 80s had that sound. Yeah. Yeah. In terms of the sound of Prince, that was really influential at the time. I think he's fantastic. I'm going to put him at three. Okay. And the event that Eddie Van Halen's in the list, because Eddie Van Halen would probably be number two. You don't have most of the 80s guitar players early 90s without Eddie Van Halen. What do you have left? I have two and four. Two and four. Okay.

1:07:11All right. Next up is, in fact, Eddie Van Halen. Number two. All right. I was trying to see if there was a way I could get these two to flip. But regardless, at number four, we have Mike McCready. Which I love because it shows that lay he was paying attention when you said you do not like Mike McCready. I don't care for Mike McCready. I was so hoping he'd be even higher. Talking about someone who rips off Jimmy Hendrix riffs. Mike McCready. I was so hoping. I was so hoping. I was so hoping. Mike McCready solos are mostly just Stevie Ray von solos. Although, I guess there's a lick from the alive solo. He ripped off from Ace Freely from from Kiss. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, although I think Gene Sim has told the story, no, Mike McCready told the story that Gene Sim has told the Ace stole that lick from some mother song. Okay. All right. I think there he was. There you go. All right. You want to power rink sandwiches?

1:08:12Seven of them. Oh, dude. I love these. Yeah. I'm hungry too. So all the, most of these still good. I had a sandwich tonight. Yeah. What kind of sandwich? Uh, you know that Walmart rotisserie chicken? Yeah. It was still good. You know, after you mentioned that on Saturday, Sunday, I wouldn't have got myself a rotisserie chicken. Not from Walmart, but I got a rotisserie chicken. I got half of it. I was still. I was freaking shocked. Like it was in the fridge, you know, since the Saturday. Yeah. It's only Monday. Yeah. A couple days out of a rotisserie chicken. But like I put in a little glass boy, put a little bit of water in it. I put in a microwave. Oh my, it's so juicy still. Yeah. Fuck. All right. Rotisserie chicken sandwich. Sadly, nonetheless list. How many are there? Seven. Seven. Okay. No rotisserie. No rotisserie chicken. Nope. What a drag. First one I know this is a favorite of yours. It's the BLT. I love a good BLT. Goddamn bacon hits the spot. Parrot with some juicy tomato. Some iceberg crisp lettuce.

1:09:13Some mayo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good shit. Man, I don't know if it's a top three though. It's made even better. You put some avocado on there too. Oh man. I'm not disagreeing with that one. I'm going to put number four straight to the middle, just dab middle. Oof. Next up. Rubin. Oh, I like a Rubin. Rubin's good. I'll put Rubin in number five straight to the middle. Next up, chili. Uh, chili. Fili cheese steak. Oh, dude. Cheese steak is really close to a French dip, which is like my number one. Mm. There might be grilled cheese on here too. I love grilled cheese can hit the spot if done right. Cheese steak goes in number three. All right. Next up, tuna salad. There has to be something worse than that. Next up, here, we'll change the order a little bit up. Oh, great. What's the spot that you have left? One, two, and seven.

1:10:14Ooh. Next up, turkey club. I mean, dude, they're not going to do a thing where shit sandwiches on here, right? Like that's, you can't eat that. That's not a sandwich. That's a phrase. Not a real sandwich. It's an insult. It's not a real sandwich. Hi. Where's a turkey club going, Steve? Who's doing this one? The Scots. Mm. I don't know. Ah. Turkey club. Mm. This is a steak. Yeah. Pick. I should have put cheese steak higher. A turkey club. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not hating on that. I feel like there's going to be something rude on here, especially because the salmon makes this up. Fuck it. You know, I'm going to go with my gut. I'm going to say turkey, turkey club. Now, I'll put number two. God, is it terrible? It's terrible. It's awful. I should have put that cheese steak in number one. Next up, I know you like these. It's a peanut butter and jelly. Damn. Oh, they're going to screw me.

1:11:17They're going to put a French dip at seven because I'm putting PB and J at number one. Oh, with some Fritos and some cold milk. Oh, that shit's good. Turn on Pluto TV. Seven is the grilled cheese steak. Oh, I thought it was going to be the shit sandwich. GC at number seven. What a drag. All right. Well, that's going to do it for the show today. Thanks, everybody, for tuning in. We appreciate it. Till next time. Oh, we'll see you guys around. Goodbye. Monster Energy. Everybody knows white monster, zero ultra. That's the OG. It kicked off this whole zero sugar energy drink thing. But ultra is a whole lineup now. You've got strawberry dreams, blue Hawaiian, sunrise, and vice guava. And they all bring the monster energy punch. So if you've been living in the white can, branch out. Ultra's got a flavor for every five. And every single one is zero sugar. Tap the banner to learn more.

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