Jim Cornette Experience - Episode 544: Jim Reviews SummerSlam

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

This week on the Experience, Jim reviews WWE SummerSlam 2024! Plus Jim reviews A&E's Ted DiBiase Biography & Smackdown! Also, Jim talks about Louisville news, Cleveland, hotels, and much more!  Follow Jim and Brian on Twitter: @TheJimCornette @GreatBrianLast Join Jim Cornette's College Of Wrestling Knowledge on Patreon to access the archives & more! https://www.patreon.com/Cornette Subscribe to the Official Jim Cornette channel on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialJimCornette Visit Jim's official site at www.JimCornette.com for merch, live dates, commentaries and more! You can listen to Brian on the 6:05 Superpodcast at 605pod.com or wherever you find your favorite podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Like the midnight and the rock and roll. He's in a fight for wrestling soul using a racket and some mind control. He's Jim Connest. The keys to the future held by the past and with tag deep art. Cornyrd experience, it's the SummerSlam report. Back and Solo's going to be in trouble. Halo! Oh man's back!

And other stuff happened too. And you've heard him in the background. joining me to talk about this and more. Hawaiian Brian the podcasting line the King of the Arcadian Vanguard podcast network. Mr. Co-host to you, he's everybody's BFF, bossy fucking friend, the great Brian Last, everybody.

Aloha, Jim, a pleasure to be here once again. I wouldn't call myself Bossy. You, I guess, are the embodiment of a all-white girl vocal group of the 50s or 60s. Wait a minute. An old white white. girl. I'm the embodiment of an all white I said vocal group of the

There was a pause. Well, I was putting my words together in proper form. We're in proper order here today. And of course, just let them flow. No, no, just let them flow. Just scatter them out there to the winds, baby. Like you're shooting craps in Vegas. Just fling those words out there. Hey, box cars, big bennies.

Oh, boy. Here we are. are again, I'm going to tell you what. Just right now at the top of the program, I, we, I'm trying to be in a good mood and you, you tickled my taint a little bit right before we went on the air. Well, I mean, in a verbal, in a verbal sense, you know, because we're, we're far apart. We are now here at New Jersey and Kentucky, but it's a,

actually, what is, is that the official, the way the restraining order came We've got to stay at least this far apart. It's about 700 miles, whatever. Anyway, I'm trying to be in a good mood because if you heard the drive-through that we did that's probably been released before this show will be released, because we've already done it, whereas we're just starting this one. I've had a run of stressful luck lately, and the estimate to drag this 30-ton former tree,

out of my goddamn backyard and do all of the other things that need to be done after the latest fucking catastrophe of Mother Nature has entered five figures. But there's some things, and I'm doing my pen again here today for you there, just see, I'm going to put that down right now before you start complaining about that. Snap in my last. Like a 1950s, all-girl white vocal group.

playing with a pen cover. Hey la, yeah, let's go. Hey la, hey la. Anyway, we'll put the cover on that. Duda. So, but other things in town are perplexing me. Before we talk about the wrestling, can we just branch off into everyday life for a minute here? Brian, just you and me and the nearly countless.

I mean, I'm sure there's a number for y'all out there, the cult of Cornette listeners, de people. but they're nearly countless. You could count them eventually and take a while. But can we just talk about everyday life for a couple of minutes and let me, not only is my life been stressful here, but also the news in Louisville, Kentucky, just things are just weird things are happening.

And it started with me the other day, when in the midst of all, actually yesterday, now that I've come to think about it, it seems so long ago. Yesterday, all my trouble. came piling down on top of my head like a big bunch of diarrhea from a giraffe. So in the middle of all of this other, and by the way, to let everybody know again, Stacey's mother's feeling better after her procedure.

Stacey's feeling better after her dental surgery. Harley is feeling better after her bad allergy attack that gave the little baby the coughs this past week. Everybody's feeling better except me. I'm kind of constant. I never particularly feel. that good or bad either way. But in the middle of all of the natural disasters,

the other things has been happening, I'd committed, I'd told us this fellow, this fellow that runs this handyman operation to have him come over and paint the fence. It's been five years, the birds have shit on the fence, and the weedwhackers have eaten it up at the bottom, and there's some pealage going on, and I just fuck it, I wanted to spruce up the front fence.

It ain't going to affect my standard living. At least it wasn't before the latest round of natural catastrophe. As a paint the fence, I said, I'll get to paint. Because we're using all the same shade of brown around here. Brown in front fence, back fence, the house paint where indeed it is painted brown, it's all the same shade. So it gives us some consistency here. I like consistency.

And so since I have not had the chance to, and they're coming this week, allegedly, I'm going to, I just figure, I'll go right over here to Sherwin-William. You've heard of Sherwin-Williams, right? He covers the world with paint. He's up here in the Northeast, yes. Well, he's everywhere. I don't know where he is. I can just verify he's here.

Well, he gets around, I'm telling you. You see, people all over the world, I'm sure, will recognize, because that's there where used to be their slogan when I was a kid, we cover the world with paint. A bucket of paints being poured over the fucking world. So Sherwin Williams, and it's the Sherwin-Williams color, in their little color fucking thing that they give out,

so I go to the Sherwin-Williams store that's two miles over here from my palatial estate that's falling down around my ears. Just to buy five gallons of fucking paint from Sherwin-William. I didn't think that was too much to ask and not even take a bucket of the paint

and even though this is a loophole that will come into play later the last time that I got something painted around here the people were painted they bought to paint at Lowe's but it's sure when Williams the color and it has it on the barcode thing

on the so I take the whole bucket I say hey I walk into the store And here comes Sherwin walks up to Great Me Good morning, good morning I'd like to buy five gallons of paint Right here of this kind

And he looks at it He said we don't have that kind I said well it's your color You see yes I said we got this from Lowe's but since it sure could just give me the same kind of thing and instead of the Lowe's What is this Coke and Pepsi

I'm trying to figure out what's going I'm not an experienced paint purchaser, Brian. So I don't really, I just asked. I've walked into Sherwin Williams' store and I'm talking to Sherwin and I want some paint in his color, one of his colors. Well, he's not Sherwin. It's just you're calling anyone who works there. No, he had it right on his goddamn shirt, right on his,

name on his shirt, Sherwin Williams. So I'm talking to him. He happened to be in that day. It was actually convenient for me. I could talk to the boss. cost. Anyway, I said, give me five gallons of whatever you have. It's like that. Well, we don't have anything like that. I said, you're, you're Sherwin Williams. This is your, what, what he said, well, see, they got this at Lowe's, and we have a collaborative effort with Lowe's to provide them

with these colors. But then basically, he tells me, I don't have any paint that good. I only of paints it'll take two coats. This is a paint where it takes one coat. I told him I want the big, heavy duty, top of the line, outdoor exterior paint, whatever the fuck. And apparently, they don't have the top of the line, outdoor exterior, whatever the fuck paint.

They got paint. It's only middle of the line. You got to paint it twice. And I said to him, I said, but Sherwin, You're Sherwin fucking Williams. You're telling me that Lowe's has better quality paint than you do. And he kind of stood there and humming that, humming that. Jesus fucking Christ.

So I came back home. His Lose is too far. But is that that, what has the world come to when Sherwin fucking Williams, the best shit they got is middle grade? I ask you Who owns it now? Is it the same owners that had it 40 years ago? Or is it some

Well, I assume if... Fun that bought it, loaded it with debt, and now they got nothing. No, he didn't look like that old of a fucking guy. I'm sure he's... But the point... You're sure of nothing. Again, he had Sherwin Williams on his shirt,

so I'm blaming Sherwin Williams. But if you want paint... that you can't see through, apparently you need to go to Lowe's instead of, or any place else, I guess, instead of Sherwin fucking Williams. Just a word to the wise out there. If you're thinking about painting anything,

don't talk to Sherwin. Was this unique to this one store? They don't carry what you're looking for. I don't know. They have a big sign over their goddamn store that's in this little, what do they call it? mall or strip mall of stores side by side.

What are they, what are they, call those things in town? A mall? The strip mall. A strip mall? You pull in the parking lot, and the stores are side by side,

and there's a whole row of them. There's like eight or ten in a row. It's a, that's a shopping center or a strip mall area or a place of business or whatever. They're in one of those stores.

They got a big sign over their front door and says Sherwood Williams it lights up in the dark I'll have you know I've seen it and when you walk in there's all kinds of paint cans and a bunch of fucking colors of shit

on the wall that you can pick out from that to me indicates that they should be hoping for business with everything they fucking got or they shouldn't tease us and tantalize us

don't know we just got the rotten shit here you'll have to go over to fucking bar to stand to get the good shit. What the... Well, the other thing is they are in business. So does this...

Just barely. Does this mean that... I was the only one in there when I walked in. Does this mean that no one is asking for this kind of paint except you? Apparently. But it's not... I don't... I didn't ask for any kind of goddamn paint concocted overseas with a special gold lining

and sent here on fucking Eagle's wings. I said, give me the best quality longer, when I bought this paint that I've been using. And when the people painting things bought the paint that I've been using, I said get the best quality longest lasting outdoor paint that you'd paint siding or a fucking fence with. And that's what they got.

And apparently Sherwin Williams, this big noted paint fucking guy, I'm just telling you, Sherwin, I'm letting people know about this. What kind of name is Sherwin? Yeah. What was his mother had a lisp and she couldn't pronounce Sherman?

That wasn't what I was thinking, but that could be an option. That could be what happened. Hello, Sherwin. Maybe she has Mama Cornette. You say she was hair-lipped. Anyway, here's another thing that I heard about

happened here in Louisville, Kentucky, Brian, and I just wanted to let people know about This was the greatest thing I've ever seen on the local news a couple days ago actually made me giggle in my moments of trials and tribulations. There is a pediatrician in this town that, and they showed the outside of her clinic. And it was like, it was like a kids are us, toys are us kind of thing, kids are us. Toys are us kind of writing on the kids clinic or whatever the name of it was. Well, Kids or Us was a thing too. kids clothing store. Okay, well, maybe I've seen it, but to point it, you know, the kind of

kiddie type writing across the front, hello, kids clinic or whatever, the name of their place, and it looked very, it could have passed for a daycare center, right? They're really catering to the children, I guess you could be a pediatrician to treat people up to the age of what, 16 or 18 or, but they're going for the younger audience at this clinic. It'll look like from their front door, right? And this pediatrician, and I've seen the I saw the initial start of this case but now it's been

resolved we think but his pediatrician was just sent to prison this woman looks like she's in her 40s I guess for hiring a hit man to kill her husband while she was

operating or working at or part of this fucking kids medical clinic and the way that this unfolded was that people started noticing that something was awry when she started asking people she worked with at the medical clinic if they knew anybody that might be able to kill her husband for her. Just out in the open.

That raised the first suspicion. Hey, you know, I was thinking, if you could pass those fries, do you know anyone I could kill my husband? How do you ask multiple people that? But the report, she began asking people that she were, hey, you know, anybody that might be able to kill my husband for me. And they're like, no, you know, we really don't know anything about that. And so then apparently, now with that the whole thing has come out and then they've had the court case and trial and the whole nine yards, apparently then she started looking

online, there was some mention of she was looking for a witch doctor that could cast a death spell online. So she's like making up code at first maybe. So she's obviously a genius. But then she finally finds somebody and said, yeah, I'll do it for like

$7,500, I think. So again, you know, your deal, because I would think you'd need to pay a significant amount. out more to have a really professional operation come in and take care of it. But she made up some more code language to get this guy to, but this guy guess because of the

apparently the noise that she had made already this guy that agreed to do it turned out to be an FBI informant. He said, yeah, I'll do it, lady, let's work us out. And she works it out with the fucking FBI informant to hire him to kill her husband. And then they hauled her into the crossbar hotel, as Bill Watts used to say, and put a case together against her, and they've gone to trial. And she said, I think the sentence was 12 years or whatever.

But at least the story has somewhat of a happy ending. Because Brian, guess what the first thing she did when she got in jail was? I don't know. she started asking her other inmates if they knew anybody could kill her husband for her stop it come on they reported this on the goddamn local news that's amazing so her husband's still a little nervous even with her in jail for 12 years nervous and you can understand why but can you also imagine how bad it must hurt it's not just your wife wanted you dead the cops come they talk to you they tell you what's going on and how much

Did she offer to pay them $100,000? No, no, no. $50,000? No, no. That she offered them jewelry or anything from the kitchen? No, no, no. $7,500. $7,500.

Well, see, it's all his fault. He should have been more successful and given her a bigger household budget. But anyway, so... Nice to meet you. You don't know what to kill my husband. Sure. As soon as she gets to prison, it doesn't stop. And they had her lawyer was on camera, right?

They asked, does this, I can't remember what the woman said, but does this woman, Dr. Chaos here, do you think she needs some type of counseling or, you know, psychological evaluation, whatever, some work done here? And the guy says, oh, yeah, I think that, yes, after everything that she's been through with this arrest and trial and what she's looking at in the fias, she definitely needs some overlooking the fish. She apparently didn't need any when she was asking everybody in town if they knew anybody would kill her husband for her.

How you doing, Susie? You know, I just can't find a good hitman these days. You know anyone? You know, Fred never asked for a second cup of coffee. Would you like to put a bullet in his brain? there's some crazy people out there and one more thing I got to bring you up to date on it is a sad update and just a quick little story here that you can't even rest in peace anymore Brian

when I bring up the name Denny Crum you know who I'm talking about we've talked about him many times yes you just can't elaborate on who I'll tell everybody who he is again in case you've forgotten. A Hall of Fame

basketball coach with the University of Louisville for 30 years, one of the winningest coaches of all time, protege of the legendary John Wooden at UCLA, a beloved,

probably the most popular man in the city of Louisville throughout his life and over his retirement until the last 20, whatever fucking years, passed away last year. We talked about it.

and now they just did an update, a news story again. They went to the cemetery, and they're down the row and to the left from the monument. That's what the rich and famous folks call a tombstone, by the monument of Muhammad Ali and across the field, as they might say, from Colonel Harlan Sanders in a dignified place of honor in Louisville, Kentucky is Denny Krumm

and he's got a big hole with concrete filled in it and nothing on top of it. Guess where Denny Crum's tombstone is? I don't know. We talked about this. This is a while ago we talked about him. No, we talked about him passed away,

but guess where his tombstone is? We know where Denny is. He's the same place. he's been for quite a while now. Probably not really going to be a world traveler from this point, but guess where his tombstone is? I have no idea. At the bottom of the red sea. That was going to be my second guess.

At the bottom of the red sea. And what apparently, Ben, I know this to be true, because same for my mom and dads that I had. made, the kind of marble that then the way they decorated and blah blah, blah, they do these things overseas. And I don't recall, I think his was coming from India. I don't know, I can't remember now. But I don't think that ours came from India, but it's the same

principle. On the boat, I guess you can't really airmail a goddamn you know, marble, granite, fucking several ton item. On the boat over here, it got involved in, I think, the Hamas war, the terrorism, potentially pirates, who knows what's going on, and the ship was sunk and the fucking things at the bottom of the Red Sea. And now, and they're, they're working on a replacement, but, it's going to really, it's going to really fuck up the archaeologists in like 2,000 years when they find that but nobody.

They're going to think, oh my God, how did they get him down here? What century could this have been from? When did they do this? He obviously was one of the Greek gods. One of the sea people that we've heard about. Yes, Neptune and Denny Crum. Denny Crum of Atlantis, we salute you.

But it's ironic because the U.S. colors are red, because the Louisville Cardinals are red, because Cardinals, the birds are red, and he was the coach of a red team for all those years, and now he's at the, well, he's not, but his monument is at the bottom of the Red Sea. What kind of monument was he getting that? They had to ship it from over there.

Well, that's why, it's, I mean, it's not like it's a goddamn giant, you know, monolith you're thinking about, but no, when you do the nice tombstones, as we regular folks, used to call them, but still they weigh a couple of tons if you have like a double header, and they do, they have better marbles and materials and engraving and they can do things over there and they can do them in it more inexpensively. And so many of these monuments come from various places other than the United States. Have you ever seen

some guy in Cleveland doing quality work on a tombstone? I don't know. On Long Island we had the fine people at sprung monuments. Sprung? Sprung. They went to school with my father. Stephen Sprung. Went to school with my father. So that's how I know them.

Very nice people, though. Took care of multiple dead relatives of mine. There is, well, I was, there is. Stones arrived on time. No pirates. That's the sprung way. But there's, there's, there's some line involving getting sprung from a cemetery that I can't think of right now.

But was, uh, You know what? God dang it. Sprung, I'll go with it. How about be hung with sprung? No, that wouldn't work because that's the method of... Why? Well, that's the method of execution.

So that if you would be more planted, you'd be buried with Harries. Well, nevertheless. That's, again, well, let's just clarify from our good friends at Harry's. This has nothing to do with them. No, it's a completely different Harry. Unless he, you know, decided to diversify. And we can't ever blame these big business typhoons for spreading out.

Do you think when Harry from Harry's is buried, like, it has to be well kept. The plot, right? Like, they can't let anything grow. It's not not lost like we have, lost the plot. What is it your show? This is your show. That means it's your fault. Some things that have been going on, ladies.

Oh, I would like to say, happy birthday on August 7th to William. And see, I don't know how to exactly, I don't want to insult him and not, and mispronunciate his last name on his birthday, but it's N-I-N-O. Would that be Nino or would that be, would that have to be the Nino, like El Nino?

Nino. Well, no, that sounds like Minno. Seems like there'd be a W at the end somewhere. The Mets have a great player, Brandon Nimmo. It's N-I-M-M-O. Well, no, this is N-I-N-O. Oh. Not M-I-M-O.

I thought you said there were two ends. No, there's two. Well, yes, there's two ins. What are you saying in New Jersey-ish? What are you saying? You just changed the spelling of the word you spoke. No, N-I-N-O. N-I-M-O?

N-I-N-O. Okay, but there's not two in a row. That would be Nino, you're right. Oh, you thought two ins and her. I thought you said two M's because you have that accent. No, this accent. I thought you were saying, Nimmo. That's what I did say.

Nimmo? I said the brets, the brets, the Mets have an outfielder. Name Nimmo. Why am I yelling at you? Give an outfielder named Nimmo and you're going to like that. Well, that's the thing. It doesn't make any sense because that would be M's in there instead of ins. but this guy has a birthday

on August the 7th William Niño and apparently he's a customer at Cornett's collectibles but his wife Melissa apparently did some kind of favors I don't know for Hotchkis and that's how I'm well let's not put it that way let's not put it that way

well that's how I'm alerted to to mention this is that well you know there was some correspondence between Hotchkis and this lady while there was some transactions going on with Cornett's collectibles and in the process I get a note, hey, wish happy birthday

on August 7th to William Niño. So you won't know about me and Hotchkiss at the Super 8? No, what you and Hotchkiss? Her, I'm saying, is that what she's saying? Is she throwing... No, she didn't say it's just having an affair with Hotchkis. they closed the Super 8 is what I'm saying to you. That's why I didn't know what you were talking about.

I'm a fool. It's been gone a long time. All right. Now it's it's the old log in. It's a fucking woodsy resort type of area. If you were going to open up a national, if someone said Jim Cornett, you've missed your calling.

We're going to help fix that. We want you to plan a national hotel chain. One of the most important qualities to have. Well, I think... And it has to be affordable. It can't be just like, you know, for the rich people like you. Well, no. Oh, come on now.

The ritsy-titzy cornets rolling into town. Hey, where's the valet? Hey. Oh, shut up. Now, you know, I have many times ranted and raved about the ritsy-titzy hotels, and I don't want to walk miles through stores and shopping areas and restaurants to get to my room. I don't want everybody trying to help me carry my shit and wheel my shit and fondle my shit and get a tip for it. I don't want to be able to park in the parking lot, go through the side door, get to my room and sleep in peace and comfort.

So don't try to pan, pan, pan, don't try to pawn that type of talk off on the people out there. But I think we, we, you stick with. Your middle name is Waldorf. Not many people know that You stick with the like the Carlin concept of just have the motel that has the sign It says sleep Fuck

Sleep and fuck That would be your hotel I didn't know I was going to go down this road I should have But just the bay You need a comfy bed in a quiet room And people might in their own business at the front desk.

And it's good to have a, you asked about an, it's good to have a restaurant in the, you don't have to have a four star restaurant, but something that will give people the basics in the, in the lobby there,

and a little room service, certain hours, and cleanliness and security, and nice bathrooms, and good cable. What about a hotel where you could skip the front desk, some kind of way you could check in

before you get there? and I guess they could check out. Oh no. They have all of that shit now. They send your emails. Oh, you can e-check-in with your, blow it out your ass. When I show up at the hotel,

I go to the front desk and I announce my arrival. Hello, I am the person that has a reservation, and I am here to claim it. I will be staying with you people for an approximate period of such and such. And I will be no trouble if you are no trouble to me. Good day to you.

No, I want to, you check in. It's part of the process. And you get a feel for it. Do these people know what the fuck they're doing here? Do they have their shit together? And then they know you're here on their property. And I've assessed whether or not that I might be able to come to them if I do have any questions or if they're just going to be as dumb as a box of rocks.

And then we go from there. And I do sometimes pick their brains, no matter how. microscopic they may be on back in the old days, places that I wanted to call it delivered food late at night and or directions to wherever the fuck I was going and how bad the traffic would be, things of that general nature. And then it's a business transaction and you're pleasant to them and they're pleasant to you, they better be, and then you go on your way.

So no, I don't want to just walk out. I'd feel like I was breaking and entering if I'd just walked into a goddamn place and just suddenly went into a room automatically. Well, this is your show today, and it sucks. Well, hey, that's because you've been asking all the questions. Hey, don't blame me. I was trying to bring you up to date on some things going on. All right, before we talk about SmackDown, which was basically the two-hour promotional video for SummerSlam and then SummerSlam itself,

I think we should mention this. I've had a trying week, and Brian shamed me because he was prepared. I was not. We were going to talk about both biographies from last weekend. Hard week, folks. Ted DiBiase and Paul E. Danger Heyman. But because I could watch DeBiase while distracted, but I wanted to give Heyman some attention. I know those words sound odd coming from me.

I didn't get to watch it at all. So we're going to catch up with Paul Heyman in depth. We're going to go inside Paul Heyman deep. His biography on A&E, on AEW, whatever the fuck, on your show this week. So you can take credit for it. Oh, boy. Well, it's been a trying week, you know.

For heaven's sake, sometimes... I had a very action-packed exciting week. Production's a little bit behind schedule, because I got the witness firsthand. I said it before, Stephen Pino, the left, the right, the uppercut. I got to see it all for seven hours. He even used the Bolo Punch.

I found that... That's almost when you're taunting your opponent is when you just wind up and use the old Bolo Punch. We'll be talking about this more in the future once we get some legal clearance on it, but I have to say, Stephen certainly showed the person he was talking to hard times.

And he made sure that these hard times were explained thoroughly. There'll be more to come. In granular detail, individual A, as he shall be known, understands now that it would have been just so much easier not to do the thing that he did.

But anyway, that's what I'm saying to you, Bride, and did you ever want to, were you ever, I will ask this question in English. Were you, were you? Well, we'd have a nice

conversation if you wouldn't interrupt me. Did you ever just, when you were sitting someplace and you were in a situation, did you ever want to disappear, be somewhere else, stay more private, away from the intruding outside world,

just feel like you were protected all around you with a cone of silence, a bubble of anonymity? Did you ever feel that way, Brian last? I mean, not really. I'm pretty good at just hiding in public as it is. Well, if you ever did, like all the rest of us, want to just vanish and stay private and not have people spying on you and sperming on you and

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You know, suddenly... That's what you think pulling the plug is? Well, so when something happens where they're going to hack this whole thing, and then it's going to just all fall apart, right? Right. And then everything that you do will just go to other people's computers, and it'll just... And so, look, now there are little Pismo clam in...

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I enjoyed it. He's a very pleasant man. He just seems very happy. And, you know, if you don't mention any of the state scandals in Mississippi, he seems like a very well-together, you know, put, well, mentally together guy. A well-well-to-like me. Unlike this, here, me, you. What?

This is biography, DiBiase, the million-dollar TED. Nouns and pronouns, adjectives. I'm not saying this to knock, Ted, I was disappointed in it. I was disappointed in it because one of the, we, I liked Ted, that's why I was disappointed, because the main part of his career that I liked, that I just wanted to see maybe five, six, seven minutes of footage or, you know, attention out of the hour given to,

they completely skipped to fuck over. The period from what 1981 to 1987 they just they kind of told it in that yeah he went he started in the old

mid-south of the McGirk territory the Louisiana he worked in Texas went to work for Vince in 1978 which I think it was 78 79 had a run goes to Georgia or whatever does something else and oh Vince has an idea

and then Vince met Bruce that's what the documentary made it see well yeah yeah and well let's face it Bruce had everybody's phone number so technically that's uh but nevertheless the period of time where he they established that he was well thought of

from the beginning and got some you know, early notoriety and then completely skipped over when he was the best worker in the Mid-South territory as a baby face and as a heel. A big run in Georgia. The UWF transition and he was a major player at that point. Just everything that happened from the period of time where he really started getting over to where he became the million-dollar man.

I mean, there was a good story to tell there, even if you kind of wanted to minimize it. It could be, I went to, I returned to Mid-South as the biggest heel in the territory, and then you could show the angle of Flare and Murdoch and explain how that turned him into the biggest baby face in the territory. They didn't even show any of that. I mean, that's the one thing everyone thinks about with Mid-South, the stuff with the dog and the stuff with him and Murdoch, or the match with him and Flair and the Murdoch incident, I should say. Yeah, and you know what, I'm not saying, I know that they only had 46 minutes plus commercials or whatever, they couldn't focus on individual feuds or angles

or they could have showed some highlights of that but to skip over an entire six-year period where he, yes, they basically ended up with him how did they phrase it being passed by for the NWA title which was back in 1981 again and he was kind of upset and then Vince called 87 boom

his best years as Ted DiBiase, pre-million-dollar man, were those, and that's kind of stuff I was just wanting to see on the national television. So that's why I was kind of disappointed, not in that Ted was not a great talent or I don't just, you know, didn't like the program. Although they get a lot to the preaching after his in-ring career was over with. But it was cool seeing the childhood pictures because they raised the great point at the beginning of all the second generation talent, how many actually their mother and father were both wrestlers and we get to a baby doll and help me besides Dibiasi here. There's got to be a luchador too. that we're not thinking of.

I don't know. That's a tough question. Mother and father. We will research it and get back to you if we come up with anything. But and then both his mother and real father were in show business. Before that wrestling even became a thing, she was a dancer and his father was a singer. But they got divorced when he was like two years old. some great old pictures there, and then Helen Hilled, his mother, married, who worked in the

50s, and you see her name everywhere. She was a, you know, a name female wrestler in that era that traveled almost all the territories. And she married Mike DiBiase, who was a big name, especially in Texas and had been a AAU, the AAU was before the NCAA, correct? They predate that organization. But he had been a major collegiate shooter and then a name pro wrestler. Did he not hold the junior heavyweight title at some point?

You know, I'm not sure it sounds right. I know Ed Francis had the World Junior Heavyweight title in the 50s. I got to see what Mike DiBiase would have had. Or it may have been regional, but nevertheless, they had some black and white footage of Iron Mike and then tell the story. It was July of 1969.

He had a heart attack after a match in Lubbock. And when he died, that's, I think this was a great, I think the best part, the highlight of the show was illustrating the relationship that Mike DiBiase

had had with Dory Funk Sr. And the Funk family and what the Funks did for Ted is a result of their you know, they liked him also but their respect for Mike Dibiasi.

You know, Dory Sr.'s wife was the one who called Ted out in the hallway when they all came over to the house and told him what had happened to his father. And Terry is the one who brought his dad's ring bag back to him. So that was, you know, Ted was only, I think, when he said, 14 or 15 at that point. So it wasn't like Ted was ever in the business.

They just knew he was Mike DiBiase's son. And it was, you know, it was moving to hear him tell that story. But you could see just in that brief story being told here, and Terry Funk's own words telling it, why Terry was so revered by everyone who worked there. Yeah. Forget about everywhere else and fans like us. When people work for West Texas, they didn't come out of their complaining, like, oh, the fucking promoters, kids, none of that. And Terry really did look after Ted DiBiase.

Like, there was a genuineness beyond the craziness that every wrestler had that Terry Funk never lost. Thank you. That's very profound. I was waiting for more. But yeah, that's, you know, they had thankfully comments from Terry that they'd recorded, you know, years ago, probably when he did the Hall of Fame thing or whatever. But talking about Ted and Terry played an instrumental part in at certain points in his life, including getting him to New York and getting him to Georgia and et cetera,

but it was interesting that he had a pause and Ted had a pause in his life where he moved to Arizona with his grandmother

and he wanted to play football in college but he hadn't watched wrestling and since his father had died and now he's gone to college so three

four years or whatever and he saw one of the funk shows from the TV from Amarillo but they were bringing a house show to Tucson so he went

to visit and ended up switching. And instead of going to Arizona to play football, he went to West Texas State so he could eventually work for the Funks. So that was, you can tell they probably made an impression on him at night and gave him a good, I mean, I'm sure he wanted to do it to begin with, but they also probably gave him a good assurance that, yeah, this is the thing you need to do. you know again he didn't have too many people in that kind of role i'm not saying Terry funk was a father figure he was you know maybe an older brother that could look after him he

knew he would be okay under the funks in west Texas well and see that's when dory senior was still alive think about it because he um Ted was already he didn't go back to his last year of college and he started in 1970s. so he would have he may even have talked to the old man himself there that night because that would have been what 1972 or whatever

so he would have had you know some of the most important and knowledgeable guys in a business you know taking him under their wing which is why he probably turned out to be

you know such a great worker and he had the aptitude and he had the eye for it and a lot of the guys that were either trained in West Texas or came, spent a lot of time in that system, from, you know, Saruta to Dick Murdoch to the guys that the Funk's trained for on and off for Japan or DiBiase here. They were all so fundamentally sound, as Gordon Soli might used to say. and they were just all around excellent workers who understood the flow of the fucking match.

But anyway, that's, you know, they tell that story up to that point. And then he debuts in Lubbock in 1974, the same town that his dad had died in. And then they sent him to work, what was the McGirk territory, it wasn't Mid-South wrestling. Right, they called it Mid-South.

At that point. for the sake of, I can see why for the sake of clarity for the average viewer that they did that, but it was actually, come on, it's like if you work for Continental and you call it Smoky Mountain. Well, but there you go. You got me there. But still, the point is it was, and actually it wasn't really all Mid-South though yet because they sent him Louisiana and Mississippi and Arkansas. and he didn't have

in Oklahoma, he didn't have Houston yet, blah, blah, blah. But nevertheless, that's where Ted spent if he went there spent, you know, probably eight of the next 12 years because

he was so good at that, it was a really a territory where the baby faces and the heels need to have their shit together. And he was so good at both first as a baby face and he finally got to turn heel there and, you know, learn from not only Watts, but all the, the dusties and all the top guys that came through there.

And that's why I would, go ahead. Between 76 and 86, how many wrestlers put more miles on their car than Ted DiBiase? Oh, God. How many cars? I don't know he had to have gone through in that point in time. And that's why he said it. He told me at one point when he was in Louisiana, in 84 some of the later part of the year, while we were still there.

And he could see, we were kind of dragging. And he said, hey, I was here one time for a year and a half. My hair started falling out and I hated the business. I had to get out of here for a while. But then he'd come back because the money and, you know, you could not only make money there, but you could establish yourself as a top guy and he was always considered a main eventer there. And if he left and he came back, he was right on top.

But that period of time, and he was working St. Louis and, you know, being brought in there and his first run in the W, was it WWF still? When he got there the first time or they switched to WWF? I think it was still the extra W. when he first got there. And, you know, you could tell that he was a little pale

and Ted was never a muscular man. He was like Bobby Eaton. He didn't have a lot of muscular definition, but his cardio was through the roof. But you could tell he didn't kind of fit in without a gimmick in the WWF from the highlights they showed. But he worked everywhere else

because he was such a good, solid baby face, that could sell and understood what was going on, and they were already talking about potentially, you know, him being the next champion. By 1981, what was it? That's where Funk said, don't go back to Texas, go to Georgia,

meaning get on the TV there, TBS. You need people to see you because they were talking about him being one of the next champions for the NWA. And Terry would know that because by then, you know, it was Terry and Dory. Well, they were booking for Baba, the Americans, and they still had membership in the NWA. I think that by that point in time, they'd sold Amarillo,

but you know what, they knew what was going on. And by the way, let me just clarify, I was wrong. It was WWF when he got there at 79. When did they switch in 78 then? In 79. When you said 78, that's what threw me off. 79 is when they switched. He gets there as the North American champion.

and then he feuds with Paterson and all of a sudden they announced Paterson won a tournament in Rio de Janeiro and he's now the intercontinental champion. And I got pictures of DiBiase with the North American title belt from Frank Amato. Do you remember that photographer?

Yeah, of course. Everybody does because he would write in black sharpie his last name Amato across the corner of every picture he ever took on the front. He wasn't the only one A little Al Vavasor had a stamp that he put on everything. What are your thoughts as a photographer on other photographers that would...

Mar, deface, vandalize their photos? Well, that would put a stamp on there or something to let the world know it's their photo. Well, see, it was harder to steal shit in those days anyway. So the kids wouldn't understand what we were talking about because now they got the watermark online, but you can make a digital copy of anything. to steal someone else's picture on a grand scale in the 1970s, you had to take a decently clear picture to a photo place and have a copy negative made off of that picture,

which wasn't going to look as good as the picture did, and then have copies made off of that. That was the way the procedure worked. So you were just, if you were stealing, somebody's picture you're being a complete prick because everybody could tell it it was a copy of a fucking picture and it looked like shit

so most people wouldn't want it. So a lot of them put their names on the back of the picture so they couldn't get printed in magazines without credit but some people would write their name on the front

of the fucking picture which I thought was cheesy because god damn it somebody wants the picture to put on their wall. They don't want your... Unless... They felt like it was their autograph because they were celebrities.

But I'm digressing, aren't I? That's what this show's all about. You know, the digressions are sometimes better than the transgressions or the progressions. They didn't talk about any of the Ted's transgressions in terms of the Mississippi state government and... Oh, come on. Now, you keep going back to Mississippi.

The ghosts of Mississippi. Let the fucking ghosts of Mississippi. That's what they're calling those tax dollars. The ghosts of the city, that money just vanished. They went, woo, off into the night. Woo, the money. What'd you think, though, of, you know, getting to the WWF portion here, and again, Bruce plays a big part of that

because that's right when he got there, and maybe one of the things that helps sell him to Vince as someone who could be a complete stooge. What did you think of seeing? You were looking for the word, I was thinking TOTI, but I decided to go a different route. What did you think seeing the vignettes and some of the, very briefly, some of the behind the scenes of the early million-dollar man Ted DiBiase vignettes,

we always hear, I think it was the Scott Hall biography, where they said, yeah, this was a big thing for Vince. He was on hand producing it himself. Same thing with the million-dollar man. Well, I'm going to be in the minority. The million-dollar man was not my favorite Ted DiBiase, as I pretty much mentioned before, my favorite Ted DiBiase was

when he was a serious baby face on top and a serious heel on top in that early to mid-80s period when he had that deep voice and he cut the fucking convincing promo and his work, the matches. But now having said that, I recognize that he made more money

with the million dollar man and that's what everybody remembers. And I liked him in a lot of cases as the million dollar man. Again, in the ring, it was still Ted DiBiase. But I thought so much of the, so much of the vignettes, it was over the top.

I know that's what everybody was doing in the WWF at that point in time. But the laugh, it was, ah, ha, ha, ha, was it, bring it back. And that's a thing. Bruce loves to say the phrase, well we wanted to create this character

and they're all trying to self-filate themselves like they're in the actor's studio he can't just come out and say we wanted the gimmick to be he's a fucking multi-million we wanted to create this character and you know it worked because he could work and he could talk and he could pull the shit off

but it was Vince as you because it was Vince's alter ego. It was Vince's personal gimmick that he came up with. Tony Kahn comes up with, what's his name, hologram, and Vince came up with a million dollar man. And he did produce everything, but also Ted was taking it and running with it. But that's why.

If it was Tony, it would be the boy with all the friends. Yeah, there you go. The friended boy. the boy with too many friends how many friends too many friends too many friends but

because of that it was over the top corny in a lot of cases of what they put on television and I know Ted got a kick out of it and Bruce got a kick out of everybody but I'm like he was more effective

when he could really fucking dig into it you believed it but nevertheless just the laughing in some of the over the top of us. I'm not talking about the general heel kicking the basketball out of the kids dribble or when.

By the way, that was Virgil's son, I believe, but they never mentioned that on this show. But anyway, the vignettes are what people remember. And at the same time, Vince, because this was his thing, actually, the stories are legendary, did fly him first class

and paid for limousines and had him stay in the best hotel and gave him cash to fucking tip $100 bills to keep the gimmick up. If it had been somebody like the ultimate warrior that had got that deal, it was even being, because even Warrior didn't get goddamn tip money from Vince, right? The boys probably would have fucking killed him and buried him under a dam somewhere. But because they respected Ted and his ability, they know, oh, you lucky son of a bitch. it was that kind of thing.

Did this? This was another thing that bothered me, but I guess it would have been, it would have been confusing after all? They, they covered the February 1998 NBC main event that was primetime on Friday night. 88.

I said February 88. You said 98. Well, that's the old 98 used to come around the bend. That was the old 98. I was ducking out of the way of it. February of 88 is before I got on the train. It was a Friday night, wasn't it? Friday night at like 8 o'clock.

That's right, Friday night. It was the main event, not Saturday night's main event. Well, NBC main event. The NBC main event. Whatever the fuck it was. Anyway, that was where they did the twin referee deal. But they cut out the twin referees, what I'm trying to say to you. And they were talking about Ted wanted to buy the WWF title from Andre after Andre

beat Hulk, which was the rematch from the previous year's WrestleMania. That's why it drew. What was the viewership? Like 33 million viewers? Something on the biggest audience ever for professional wrestling. Yeah, it was the first prime time network wrestling program. since the Dumont Network had gone under in 1956, and it was the highest rated wrestling program ever in the United States.

And so it was also when they signed, because I remember seeing it going, oh, my God, that's fucking Earl! Because Earl had been working for us at Crockett up until, like, the previous fucking day. And suddenly they did the twin referee, but they didn't show that. They just, that Ted bought the referee,

off or whatever. And couldn't they have couldn't they have said to Ted paid? Because that's what they said on the show, right? Was it, my God, did DeBiC pay for the plastic surgery? Is there some, did they have some

law? It was Earl in a lawsuit or Dave in a lawsuit or which I can't tell which one of them they showed because they were twins, you know? Yeah, I don't know about any lawsuits. Obviously there were issues that caused them to be fired for, I think, bootlegging merchandise, but that was a long time.

Well, which was bullshit, by the way. I don't know anything about it, was it? I side with the Hebner's. Why, what were they doing? I don't know, but I side with them. You can't say it's bullshit if you don't know. Yeah, well, I heard, but I can't remember. That's good enough for me.

God damn it. Yeah, defendant will answer the question. Don't make me badger you. Anyway, so they. did that deal there. And then, of course, Jack Tunney had said, oh, no, no, no, you can't do that. So they had the title declared vacant

for the tournament at WrestleMania 4, which was against Clash 1. A lot of numerals here. And by the way, that's the Sunday afternoon from Greensboro where we had 7.8 million people, I believe it was, watching the last 15 minutes

of flare and stang over on the Clash of Champions on TBS. 36 years ago Tony but Teddy put Savage over in the finals of the tournament at WrestleMania and he kind of phrasing

well you know Vince was selling the action figures the toys and everything to the kids he needed a hero I think he was he was going to put it on Savage all along anyway Well, you know, that was what was planned, was it not? Originally, it was supposed to be debiasey, the story was, and then it was changed because that's when the story goes, Hockey Talk Man was asked to lose the intercontinental title back to Randy Savage, but he didn't have a contract.

So he started talking to Dusty Roads, I guess, or someone in that office, with the idea he would show up on TBS with the Intercontinental Championship. Vince made a deal with hockey. He held the title until SummerSlam. Instead of Savage winning that, he won the tournament that, again, rumor has it, DiBiase was going to win. Ah, so there may be some smoke to that fire, or fire to that smoke or charcoal, gasoline,

something to the story. There could be. There could be. Well, Ted bought the million dollars. belt. So there you go. So he did the million dollar and again I think that probably cost Vince more than any other belt that he ever, even though it was

cubic zirconi, that's the plural, it still was a lot of work, a piece of work, and so Vince spent more on that belt than probably any other belt they ever bought in history. And then, you know, once that they established that, the rest of the show was, well, meanwhile, the wife was taking care of the kids

and Ted was always on the road and people mentioned that Ted was partying hard. And then his wife said that she saw charges on the bills that made her catch him cheating. He put his shit on credit cards? Ted, what's his 3,500 for hookers? I know what a class act massage servant.

What the, how? Party favors, aka cocaine. What is this? Why'd you charge it, you idiot? I don't know, Hiddler. Jerry Springer, he got caught when he was running for fucking governor, right, in Ohio, after he'd been to mayor of Cincinnati writing checks to the massage parlor. But how do you...

Ted, I'm going through the books. I'm trying to get the taxes in order. What's this charge for a late night pussy? It's just... And then it says everybody has a price. What's going on over there? The memo line says, get checked on Tuesday.

What is... So somehow... And I don't know how, but somehow we've just... This has merely been conjecture on our part. ladies and gentlemen on how but his wife saw paying the bills that he had been cheating on her and they went to counseling with a pastor and apparently got religion so once again extreme emotional stress leads to irrational beliefs and I skipped a lot of this part

just being honest with you hey Ted someone in your hotel room rented the movie ass blasters five you know anything about this are you watching it alone or with Virgil. Ted, I went back and watched Ask Blasters 5. You were in it. No! No, and again, mere extrapolation, ladies gentlemen on our part.

Speculation only. If necessary, I'll be happy to go back and watch Ask Blasters 5 and make copious notes to make sure Ted's not really in it just so I can clear him of that. Seriously, though, what could she have seen on the credit card statements unless it was like, you know,

Madam Suck and Fuck, like what could she have seen on the statement that would have said Ted's fucking around unless it was just dinner for two something that simple. Well, I mean, here's the thing. If you, I hate to say this, but if you've given any thought to this whatsoever,

have any experience of this type of thing, you're not going to buy any type of present or gift or service for an unauthorized individual and put it on a credit card or some type of paper documentation that your significant other would be examining at a later date

unless you just have completely lost your fucking mind, which has been known to happen. So, you know, but I hate to think that Ted would be that sloppy. But apparently, something may have taken place. What's it say here on the receipt about sloppy million dollar dream? What was going on that night?

Ted. Either that or wait a minute. How did you spend $7,000 at Adam and Eve? Yet all I got was this lousy thing from fucking Spencer's gifts. Maybe it's that, maybe his gifts. Who'd you buy all this for it? Bergdorf. Who? Bergdorf Goodman. It's a famous store. Oh, oh, I haven't been to Bergdorf's. Bergdorf

Bergdorf Well it's his place So it could be That's a possessive Apostrophe S It belongs to him Bergdorffs Well back to a smackdown

No back to Debei Back to Ted Dibeiase Basically after the religion part They got back to wrestling Just to say that he was having neck issues And he decided to retire And managed and announced for a little while And started preaching

And I skipped through the the preaching part of the last of the show also. So that's kind of why I was, I was just, I wanted to relive some of the glory years Ted DiBiase before he sold out and became the million dollar man and made all that money. But it was a, it was a decent, a decent program. Indeed, it was.

What was your final thoughts on? I mean, I enjoyed it again, I joke about it, but leaving out that story when it's happening right now, it's hard to think this has credibility because of that. It's a very WWE

centric documentary focusing on the things that make Ted happy. It seems to be that's most of these documentaries. If it makes you happy. Oh God, stop. Not the Cheryl Crow catalog.

We've talked about this on like four different occasions. I just learned the tune of that, though. I just, I was proud. I mean, a big takeaway. I mean, if they wanted to make some money, they could put on Amazon.

But how much is he involved in that? Or was it his sons and he caught it, got caught in some blowback end or ancillary heat? I see what's going on. DiBiase got to you. Well, no, I'm asking you. Does he have just, what was he accused of? Because I know that his sons were doing things with ministries and state money. And those two things never fucking mix well together.

But what was Ted actually doing involved in this? They said that I believe he profited from the whole thing. I want to say there was a beach house or something. And also he slapped a child. Do what now? No, no, no, no, I added that. Just to get your attention. No, apparently there was some kind of financial shenanigans that I believe.

And he would. And an old blind lady. And of course, uh, there was a mansion on the water, as always. A mansion on the water. As opposed to smoke on the water or fire in the sky. I don't, I mean, it's not, it's not goddamn. Nightline is not a 20-20 piece. I don't think they're going to talk about his legal issues, except if he had brought it up as part of his wrestling career. You think when they bust him for it

and they say, what are all these charges? He should go back to his old faithful one. I'm cheating on my wife. It was all in the process of having an extramarital affair, and I was trying to... I didn't know anyone was going to look at these statements again. I didn't know this is going to happen. you would think you'd get your paperwork in order after well good story good documentary it's amazing how when you see the photos of him as a child other than like the period in the mid and late 80s where he grew up the facial hair and dyed it kind of blonde he looks exactly facially now like he did when he was a kid you see a picture of ted de Biasse you know it's him

yes and he almost just the uh the cheeks and the eyes and the the overall shape and he's always had a damn fine head of hair. And deceptively big, because he's skinny. He was never big and muscular like you said earlier, but he's what, 6'3? Probably at least. Yes, but what's your definition of skinny? Now, there's a ways in there between not muscular and skinny. He's always been, I think, 240, 250, and he is 6'3.

He's a big guy. He just... He looked like it next to the other guys that were that same size, but they were all bulked up. Even when he was on the gas in WWE, he never got bulked up like that. Yeah, and sometimes, you know, it's not there. You can be in go-shape better than show-shape, if you see what I'm shayin. Well, speaking of the shape of things, as well as people's personal affairs, we'll be reviewing the Paul Heyman biography on the drive-thru.

Yes, as I mentioned. because I want to give it some attention because I want to try to see if I can get any insight into what makes happy Heyman tick. This is one I want to sit down. I didn't want to be interrupted for an hour over.

But, you know, the thing about debiosity, they showed the modern stuff, the stuff he's doing now. He's preaching, he's preaching to small rooms. Brian, he's preaching. He's in person, not the big crowds that he was in front of in the stadiums,

not the major tens of thousands of people and millions that he was addressing on television, but he's down here, he's just speaking to a few people. I wonder if Ted should set up some kind of

online presence to sell the religion to the folks, a platform, if you will, where he could get online and instead of standing there in front of 24 people well he could be standing out there in front of 20 billion

people all around the world if he just had the platform to sell the product and service that he's trying to sell to the people. Don't tell my wife.com. That's it. And right now, ladies and gentlemen,

if you have something like that that you don't want your wife to find out about it. Something like what? If you've got If you've got something like that, if you've got a product or a service or a line of horseshit

that you want to sell to people around the world for good, honest money, that they will pay you for your product or good or service or whatever the case may be. And you need the platform which to launch this drivel, I mean, launch this golden opportunity out the world. That's where you need our friends at Shopify, don't you, Brian?

I think the average person out there with their business looking for a good online solution for commerce needs Shopify. I don't know about this specific example or whether they would want to be associated with it. Well, I agree with many of the words that you just uttered. Because Shopify's the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Now, every stage, there could be upstages and downstages. Now, a lot of people, people, they just want to get you and upstage you. But these people, they will get you and downstage you too. They're going to stick with you every stage of the way. And they're going to take in money and they're going to send you a good part of it. I'll tell you that right now.

Because Shopify powers 10% of all e-commerce in the United States. That means they're closing, they're already one-tenth of a monopoly. So think about this, when they are the global force behind the platforms at all the major online retailers, and they already have millions of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries, when they've wrapped this whole thing up and you're not involved, well, you're going to be fucked. Because they're going to remember you, everybody that is not doing business with Shopify right now, they're making a list. And I'll guarantee, God, damn to you.

No, you don't guarantee anything. When they've wrapped up 99% of all the e-commerce in the world and you're getting squeezed, I mean, they're squeezing your neck until your britches are full. That's how tight it is. You'll wish that you had come crawling to Shopify when they were willing to deal with you instead of what's going to happen to you now. So right now, folks. Let's just talk in positive ways in a positive manner. Hey, your business needs help.

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the air that you breathe, this you'll become a brood mayor for the state it's all under one umbrella shopify dot com slash jce no matter what stage you're in well brian i guess we're going to have to talk about the night before summer slam smackdown at cleveland the the rocket mortgage field house Google Fy for me, if you can, how many people they had there while I vamp for you for a second. But I'm wondering if this was the old gunned arena and now it's become the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse

because it looks like a big old building, but they had a big old building up there all over. Anyway, have you got any of this information? A couple of things here. It opened October 17th, 1994, it was the Gundarina. Okay. Smackdown.

This is the wrong Smackdown I'm looking at. Well, you had one for two at least, but the Gundarina was where they had SummerSlam 96, Vader and Sean Michaels, and it's a big old building. I think it seats 1920,000, some whereabouts.

And that's where the W.E or F, or as it was known then, used to run. But it was a brand new place then. That's why I couldn't imagine that they had just cast it out like a bad penny and built another one in that time. Go ahead. I need another moment if you don't mind. Oh, God damn it.

See now, see, you usually have these things at your fingertips. You had all the information on the gunned. the reason why I'm saying this is because let's remember they're in Cleveland and I know it's SummerSlam and it's a big a big show and a big destination event for WWE fans but they're not in Las Vegas they're not at Nashville for the country music or Florida for the weather or somewhere else for the whatever they're in fucking Cleveland Because they had, what is, I'm trying to find goddamn notes here that 57,000 something. Now, even with WWMath, they had a lot of fucking people in that stadium.

Where do they announce? Ah, 57,0791 is what they announced for SummerSlam. Do we know anything about paid there yet? Paid? No, we don't know yet. So, but they announced that many. so you add what they had in the fucking gunned arena which is an NBA arena

it sees 20,000 people and that was fucking jammed they had a decent size stage but still the fuck 60 or 70,000 people in Cleveland how is it it's good but it ain't that good is it

I'm shocked and amazed anyway they get people to come and pay and park and come in to see an infomercial the night before to advertise the pay-per-view. And that's kind of what Smackdown was and just of note, it won't take us long.

I have observations on, you know, what happened in a couple of the spoken word interludes. They had the Cody showdown or face-off or pose down, strip down, whatever, with solo. And they don't have to do anything. Cody does his entrance. They chant his name.

They sing the whoa, whoa, whoa. They go crazy. He got, what do you want to talk about over finally? I think he could come out and fucking fart. They'd be, yes, what a great fart. Okay, give me a break. Well, I mean, what the I mean, it's

They're telling very good stories But at the same time still, it's like, are they putting something in the soft drinks When the people come in the arenas They got there's some kind of mind control device being Maybe when you get your ticket from ticket master these days

they also chip you so that you're a pawn of the WWE fan enforcement committee they're doing everything they want him to fucking do as soon as he mentioned solo they boo him and then they play his music and out comes solo and he, have you noticed he looks like a Samoan Al Sharpton? Well, now that you say it, I guess I could see it. He's got a long black coat

over the top of another black coat with a gold chain around his neck and the gloves and he looks like before Al lost all that weight and as soon as he gets in the ring they chant we want Roman I mean it's

he tells the fans to acknowledge him and the screen goes black apparently somebody said fuck you and they chant solo so and then they speak to each other. And Cody delivers that, you know, staccato roller coaster of verbiage in a flawless manner that I know you think is overly dramatic, but it fits this, it fits this Shakespearean scene they've got going on here where the lights are on these people as.

I am from multiple points in time here to talk to Flash Gordon. Like, what is this way of talking? It's just so... Because at times when he nails the... Cody can get the humanity of everything better than most, and he also gets the faken of the over-acting of everyone. The grandiose. Yeah.

It's grandiosity. And it's like... It sounds like Dusty doing Shakespeare. Yes, and alas, poor Yor Rick. I knew the motherfucker well Horatio Maybe not that dusty doing a...

That's the way he'd do it on the plane After After watching the volunteer jam one videotape about three times He had last poor York I knew that motherfucker better than anybody But solo is doing a good job here Given his level of experience

But the whole thing was to sell Somerslam and then the one part they got somehow crossed up or somebody went to business for themselves because Solo was starting to offer the challenge or proffer the challenge

to make SummerSlam a bloodline rules match when suddenly there's Jacob Fatu coming through the fucking crowd and it stepped on it and then here comes the Tama's and the Loas and the Tongas and Cody got it back on track,

but they stepped on the challenge there, didn't they? Maybe a bit, but I don't think so. I don't think it was that big a deal. I mean, we got a big reaction when Jacob Fautu started walking out. And then, you know, they... Yeah, well, it stepped on Solo's original offer of it. I think somebody missed, maybe thought they heard the cue or whatever and sent a guy, but then Cody reiterated it.

So they heard it. so there's that you weren't offended by this do you think there's much incentive to take on the bloodline rules well no it doesn't make any say yeah i'll just let you and all of your friends you know make it okay for you to just gang up on me and just beat the shit out no it doesn't make any sense

but that that puts jeopardy in the baby faces path and to be honest all of these people now have given up on having anything make any sense anyway. They just want to see some fucking Jeopardy. I lost on Jeopardy, baby. Woo.

I don't remember the woo-woo's there, so let's... Remember the Greg Ken Band did Jeopardy and then Weird Al did the Jeopardy parody? Anyway, Cody Rhodes says to them, he's not afraid of the Tongas and he ain't a, even though he's he may be dumb or whatever, I'm not afraid of Jacob

Fatu, you dumb son of a bitch and then everybody chanted for Cody and Cody agreed for the stipulation bloodline rules at SummerSlam and in Solo told Cody well I'm not going to have them kick your ass now because they're going to win a tag team title night and we're going to kick your ass tomorrow

and Cody said well the tribal chief's not here so I'll settle for the wannabe, and then they all walked off. Well, that got a big reaction. You just went through pretty quick, but when he said that, again, referencing Roman, that he's the real tribal chief, that got a big reaction. Yes, it did, because they want to see Roman, hence why they've been chanting, we want Roman.

And I didn't mean to throw it off like that, but that's the point is that, you know, they've set, they've established the pattern that if these guys, you know get in the ring with somebody they're going to just kill them and nobody does anything about it and then they just well but this time we're not going to fight because they it's they shouldn't fight that close to summer slam it's already made but they have to they always have to do the thing where well they're going to be face to face so now because they always fight everybody expects a fight and then when they don't fight everybody's let down because they didn't fight so they kind of painted themselves into a corner there

sometimes you know they don't just always have to be face to face every fucking week is the point I'm making it was already the match was already made everybody was as interested as they were going to be but then they couldn't figure out a way for all these people to run in without it being bloodline rules so they just well let's make it bloodline rules

anyway they had a bunch of fucking matches it didn't mean anything and then Logan Paul came home Logan Paul came home to Cleveland even though apparently he's actually from West Lake Ohio what was revealed a little bit later on but

again this is basic shit it's see-through shit you can see it coming and it's all working the people are loving it they hate the piss be or they love the piss being taken out of the heel they hate. They like it when the baby face, L.A. Knight,

gets over on this fucking asshole. This is wrestling 101 with a giant budget where they can have banners made and drop them from the ceiling and they can hire extras or just have people at work in the office now that are wearing a suit, just fucking stand, whatever. But this was... A 15-minute segment, and it didn't break any revolutionary booking ground,

and everybody loved every goddamn thing. And it's just so simple. And Nick Aldous is in the ring. He announces he's in the ring with these Cleveland dignitaries, and there's two people and a woman standing behind him. Yeah, who were they? Exactly. And they were not named.

And then he introduces Logan Paul, and the people boo him, as he's coming to the ring, the screen goes black two or three times out over there giving him the finger or they're showing their tallywackers or whatever. And they've got a sign in the crowd prime tastes like water from Lake Erie. And he does a good heel promo. And of course, apparently we're beginning more and more to find out he may be a dick, really. So now people are really not liking him. And they get all over him and he trashes Cleveland because,

even though he's from there, you know, he's better than them because he's a success, blah, blah, blah. And that's why he brought out these Cleveland dignitaries

and then oldest is what I said, well, I actually Googled their names, put them into Google machine and I couldn't find anything and Logan Paul, you're not from around here. You don't know how much they mean.

And he wants to und, it's such a good answer. That's such a good answer. You're not from around here, see or you'd know. And he goes to unveil his champion Banner with big fanfare. And when it drops from the ceiling, it's got, yeah, spray painted across it.

And again, I said, this is classic wrestling. I have done this thing. I did it in Smoky Bad Wrestling when I unveiled the portrait of my mother, Mama Cornette, and the Rock Roll Express had snuck in and switched a picture of a St. Bernard with curlers in its hair or whatever. and it's been done in every territory and it all and the people love it. This is a fucking big budget deal. And that's when L.A. Knight comes out. And he gets a big pop and they chant L.A. night.

And they, everything he says is over. They yeah, and they fill it in. And he's the one that tells everybody that Logan Paul is from Westlake and gets a pop. and he said, I'm going to go in the back and get you a banner. Since I ruin your banner, I'll go get you a banner. And so he goes in the back and he just, he's won around. And this is like something they would have done with Steve Austin in 1999 or whatever. And he asked the jobbers for a ban.

He ain't got no banner. And finally, he runs into the prime Hummer. And at that point, Logan Paul in the rings like my fucking truck and he starts running to the back and L.A. Knight has gotten in it and started it up and right

as Logan Paul comes running in LA night drives it off and Logan Paul chases it, I can't catch it at it. That's a crime. It's a fucking wrestling. Can anything be more basic and the people are eating it up? Nothing will be more basic than a man

chasing after a Hummer. good segment. I agree with everything else you said. It's as old as time. And then they had the women's tag team title on the line with Jaden Bianca against fire and ice. And the heels got disqualified because Blair Davenport came up and they came up or came out or popped out. Whatever. What did she do?

Now I'm completely confused. Well, she interfered is what she did. She came into the ring and came out to the ring, interfered, and they got disqualified, and they beat up the baby face. And she rose from a subterranean post to get there? No, she came, she, I'm coming out. I want the world to know. Got to let it show.

I'm going to beat these old bad heels up now. All right. That was in your key. Yeah, that was my key, all right. Well, speaking of the key, the key of Jacob Fatu, the Samoan Werewolf, is where we're rounding this program out because the men's tag team title was also on the line with Champa and Johnny Sameface,

who's also from Cleveland. He let everybody know in his pre-match interview. They let him talk. Jesus Christ. They were defending against Tomatonga and Jacob Fatu, accompanied by Tonga buyer's remorse Loa.

Stop it. He's my favorite guy in the company right now. Well, so they put Jacob in this thing, and thank God. And he's getting over like a superstar. But Gargano, as I said, tried to do a fired-up promo because he's a hometown guy. But he,

we've seen this. I don't know how he lasts that long in this environment where he never gets any different grows as a person, never blossoms like Drew McIntyre has. He's small. He's plain.

He's technically proficient. And he looks like a fucking nerd. And he's never going to be a top guy. I can understand with Champa, he's it is 40s now and he's had a history of major injuries that he's come back from like a goddamn cyborg but maybe and he's got a unique look

and his work is great and he's but maybe they don't want to invest that much because of those issues but what the fuck why keep his fucking Gargano around in this star-filled environment what does he offer to this fucking

program except a boring indie presence is my question to you. Well, you wouldn't want to lose a talent like that to AEW, so you got to do what you can. Oh, God, he'd be perfect over there. He'd actually probably be in the super heavyweight division over there. But look, he's not my favorite. I don't mind a fan of Garganos. And once you point out his facial expressions, it never changes. Once you hear his promos, never changes.

You realize that's not his thing. The skits that he was doing with his wife for a while with theory and in the Hartwell where they all lived together. It was like three's company, but they were four. It was terrible. Yeah, I mean, people like his matches because he kicks out of moves. He'll take big moves, he'll kick out of everything, and that's the key. You can take someone who looks like dog shit, and if they can work a match without getting hurt and just kick out of everything that happens to them, everyone will be raving about him. well he didn't kick out of everything it happened to him here

because it was a decent match short for this program's norm and you know again but Jacob Fatu hit Gargano with a pop-up Samoan drop a springboard moonsault an implant DDT one two three thank you for coming and stood over his fallen fucking body Were a wolf of Samoa. Is he from the Bay Area?

That's what I was doing. I was baying at the moon. Now Harley just turned her head and looked at me. I'm sorry, baby. It's okay. Now, obviously, tag team wrestling and tag team, the tag team division has meant nothing, means nothing in WWE because of the way they use it.

But every now and then the tag titles end up around or near main event people, what do you think of the idea of putting the belts on Tomatanga and Jacob Fatu here? Well, this is perfect because even if the belts still don't mean anything because there are not a variety of full-time teams to challenge the bloodline at the level that they need to be. In other words, everybody else is a middle card fucking talent in the tag team division. But with the bloodline having the gold,

and it's part of a promise that they're starting to fulfill. fill of winning all the gold again and having this hierarchy be dominant like the last one was so that makes it mean something and also you can have the Orton's and the Owenses and people

LA night whoever the fuck teaming up to go after the tag team title and you can put that in the May you can't have the bloodline versus pretty deadly or whatever the fuck in any kind of main event, but you can pair up the normal single

stars that are fighting the bloodline. So it's going to be, it's going to hopefully elevate the tag team title rather than the title elevating the team because it's part of the top story now. So I like that. And obviously, we said it was going to happen. It had to happen. It couldn't go any other way. Because they weren't going to fucking beat Jacob Fatu and Tomatanga or any members of the

bloodline with Tomaso Champon, Johnny. Jarnie Gargano. Oh, Jarn. Jarnie wrestling. Jarnie wrestling. Carnie wrestling, more like it. But so that was Smackdown, and that set us up for, again, they're in Cleveland, and they've drawn 60-something thousand people over two days.

And this was a two-hour infomercial for what they were going to be invited to come back and pay to see the following night. I mean, you know, but am I wrong? How is this? It's they have, they've, TCO has hired a staff of mass hypnotists to cast a spell on these people because just it's elementary shit, but everybody's over and people are fighting to give them their fucking money. How has this transpired? I think it goes to the argument that the simple stuff is what works.

And for years under Vince, they got away from a lot of the simple things that always work to the point where you would leave a segment of the audience with resentment. Or they would feel like WWE resented them. Yeah. And you don't have that anymore. And no one's presented in an insulting fashion, for the most part. I mean, like even the goofy stuff like the models, or not the models, but a model girl and Otis.

Like, that's the height of the silliness now. So that ain't that bad, because it used to be a whole lot lower. Yeah, well, quite a while back, Vince was out there pulling his pants down so somebody's head could be shoved up his ass. And none of that stuff was on this show. You know, none of the things that Philip Smackdown and Raw either matches that, you know, no one for the most part really cares about it.

It's none of the main event people, none of the main event talking segments, or raw, where you do have some silliness and, of course, the odd zombie or two, that wasn't on SummerSlam. You know, so it goes to say a little bit about what the priorities are and what's being put on these shows. And again, even if, you know, the baby face loses, nothing is done in a way that you feel like you're yanking the rug out from the fans. And you saw that a lot with Vince, whether it's things like guys losing in their hometown.

Yeah. For no reason. I mean, I'm not saying everyone has to win, like Eddie Gilbert at Memphis. That doesn't have to be that way everywhere, but it became like a thing that almost like fuck with a wrestler. And I don't think right now Triple H and Nick Kahn and Lee Fitting are fucking with the wrestlers. They're collaborating with him. And, you know, happy wife, happy life, happy life, happy wrestling locker room, happy fan base, who knows. Well, and, you know, at the top, the Nick Kahn's,

the TKO people and the R.E. Shapiro's and Mani, Manuel. Ari Emanuel. Mark Shapiro. Mark Shapiro. Well, it could be Ari Shapiro and Mark Emanuel. It could be, but those are different people that don't work for this company or have... Well, regardless. It's a new day. They're just maximizing revenue. They're used to... It was almost like when some city government heard a wrestling show was coming to town, they're like, oh, shit, we got to try to put a stop to that. now the fucking towns are paying them.

Please take millions of dollars to come here. Oh, Christ. All righty. Well, they were in Cleveland Brown Stadium. For SummerSlam is what they were in or for or there to do. Yes, they were all of the above and so much more. You never know what's going to happen with that summertime spectacular. Used to be the end of summer.

Now it's in the middle. SummerSlam. Now it's right dead in the middle where you can't get a lot. around it. And what a fucking house, what a stadium at a little. You know, the last time I was there it was municipal stadium. I have worked Cleveland

at a stadium wrestling show. Of course, it was a stadium baseball and wrestling show. In the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium, 1987, the Indians bought a show from Crockett and the midnight wrestled, as I recall, the Rock and Roll Express. Really? Anything else interesting about that

show? Well, if Funny that you might ask. Was it after a game or was it a day where the team was out of town? How did it work? No, no, it was after. It was, they bought a show. It was after a game. They played a baseball game.

It was an afternoon deal. And they played a baseball game. And then they had like a four or five matches, I recall, wrestling show. And it was at the old stadium back. And as from what I remember, the crowd was nothing like, the SummerSlam because a lot of people weren't going to see the Indians back in those days

but there was still probably 15,000 or whatever and that's why they had that the Super Bowl of wrestling back in 1972 Johnny Powers and Pedro Martinez the NWF in the same building as I'm talking about and that flopped

they didn't draw but maybe 10,000 people so because it was an overbook concept. Tony Kahn must have learned more from Johnny Powers than anybody else. That's who he models his hair after. Well, there you go. But no, but at the old stadium, so we had

midnight rock and roll and they told me, I've told you this story before, but they told me they said, we got to build the ring now. They've got to put the ring up after the baseball game because they put the ring next to home plate so people could see what was going on. so we're going to call an intermission but go out and cut a promo and kill a little time

and then we'll call an intermission we'll get to ring up in that time and so I went out there and some people had come because they advertised and Crockett was on TV in Cleveland and they knew I was gone with the NWA and so they had come to see the wrestling but there was some people

that just came to see the goddamn Cleveland Indians play baseball right and they weren't used to hearing wrestling promos because they might not have watched wrestling. So when I went out to, in the first 45 seconds, I had said the last people, the Indians beat was Custer. And this, you know, why did they put the rock and roll Hall of Fame here?

Name one rock and roll star ever from Cleveland, the mistake on the lake. I fired them up so bad. They started throwing shit. And we're trying to climb over the guy. I don't know what they call the, the fencing they have between the grandstands and the fucking field and baseball and the baseball people came and give me the egg you said go ahead and cut it off now

go on by will you just well you killed enough time but that was a you know they had the cleveland indians were playing ball then in this dilapidated rundown stadium and they didn't draw 20,000 people i don't think it's the same stadium well no that's what i'm saying back then they're in a dilapidated stadium and they didn't draw 20,000 people and now they got this giant fucking Super Bowl stadium

and they've got 60,000 people there for fucking wrestling. Do you like the movie Major League? I'm trying to remember if I ever watched the movie Major League. Really? It seems like it'll be right down your alley. Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, Tom Berringer, the Cleveland Indians suck,

and they somehow turn it around to get their extra. showgirl owner and really a teach her a lesson. I've seen the poster. I remember the poster. We need to do a review. You may like this movie. Did they pattern the owner on Marge shot?

No, more like Hank Gunkel maybe. No, actually, I don't know. I don't, it wasn't like Marge shot. But you may, I'm very serious. You may actually really enjoy that movie more than any other baseball movie ever. was this before Charlie Sheen went mad before why you hear that thunder

now they're coming for you holy shit that's a long thunder no Charlie Sheen had already gone mad it's just it wasn't out in the public really yet okay so we didn't know that yet yeah well we'll we'll check back in with that

speaking of people that have gone mad the people went mad over Triple H at the start of the fucking show they've a time to play the game and Triple H makes his entrance into the aisle he didn't even have to walk all the way to the ring it might put too much stress on him

but he does the promo in the aisle and welcomes everybody at SummerSlam and now they love him whereas before they no matter no matter who was in the creative spot they knew Vince was in charge the fans I'm talking about being they too many pronouns, pal.

And they didn't like Vince, and they didn't like what Vince was doing to their favorite wrestlers. They were mad at Vince, and that made the company heals. And now they have done away with all this fucking bullshit, heel, evil empire, McMahon ownership of the company. People are smart that that's gone. And Triple H is the guy that's bringing them all this great wrestling with these stars that they love.

So they love him to love is in the air, Brian. Love, the Cupid's arrows are flying. And the other thing is now this is becoming a semi-regular thing on these big events. You know, Vince did it for WrestleMania 3. Everyone remembers that. But Triple H is now coming out to do the intro for these shows on a lot of these shows. And it's getting the right reaction. It's getting people amped up.

People are cheering them. No one's yelling, hey, you bald asshole. Hey, why haven't you returned? my calls, dick, like, none of that or anything else. There's more thunder. Boy, they really are coming for me. But he's doing intros now. What do you think of the idea of the promoter, you know, for lack of a better term, for the fans, he's the promoter doing an intro to these shows? Well, he's smart and it's perfect because he's still not,

he's not the top guy in this hierarchy anymore, but the more that he becomes the face, like old Dana White and his fucking political activities, but he's the face of the UFC, the more that Triple H is the face of the WWE, not only he's doing a good job, but the more he ingrains himself into that position, like, do you want to take me away from them?

They trust me. The fans love me because I bring them this wrestling. So it's a smart thing to do, but also it baby faces the company in general with the fans that have been disaffected. That's why AEW worked in the beginning to the extent that it did,

not that it was ever really any good, but because it was something for the people who hated Vince and Vince's wrestling to cheer for. And now that they don't have to hate the other company and the other company has all the stars and the other company has given them shit they want. That's why only the really drooly, knuckle-draggy type of goofy comedy wrestling fan

is still rabid, you know, in support of the other guys that don't make sense and present a secondary product. That's why I think I said this a year ago, when this old thing started to emerge, that AEW has lost their primary weapon, which was that so many people just didn't want to like the WWE. Now they're like, oh shit, this is great.

And so, and I ain't got time for that other stuff. That's just me, but I think it, there may be something to that fucking thought, just if you dig down in it. But then Triple H, I'll say this and I'll let you, comment, Brian, got heat with me by introducing Jelly Roll who sang something in the ring. I bet now that he's a celebrity,

he's rethinking those prison tattoos on his fucking face. I don't know, it's kind of the end thing now with some of the kids, especially if you know if you want to show that you're hard. Well, but he, I don't care whether he's hard or not. By the way, did you see the size of that belly? He probably can't tell whether he's hard or not. Well, again, I don't know. What was the question?

Well, the thing with jelly roll, he walked into gym one day where I was working out. You, really? Yeah, I was working out. He walked into gym. And I said, holy shit, look at you, the size of you, you're fat. And he said, yeah, I know I'm fat. And I said, how long's it been since you've seen your dick? and he said, it's been a long time.

And I said, why don't you die it? And he said, why? What color is it now? All right. You know, there's no reason to, once again, this man has to go through life with those tattoos. There's no reason to make fun of everybody further. On his face, on his fucking face.

Anyway, and the Miz is the host in the crowd. He's the host with the least. But they started out with the women's title, Ria Ripley, Live Morgan, Ria Ripley, accompanied by Dominic Mysterio, Mommy and Pooh-Poo are back together again. What did she call him? Dom-Dom.

Dom-Dum, dumb, bam-bam, whatever. Anyway, I think you will probably agree with me here that Ria Ripley is the best talent currently in women, women's wrestling and maybe of all time in women's wrestling at an in ring level. She's very good on promos and she's really over, but just in ring, she stands out, I think, above any other female in the business. And I've... I agree.

I hope you asked me, so I'm going to jump in on here and make sure I'm on the record. I agree. And in terms of who we've seen here in the United States on TV, I don't think anyone's ever been better than her. and at the same time I've said that I'm not much on Live Morgan but they've told a great story here and they've got the people into it

and I like this because Liv Morgan is still in the ring to me as sloppy and unbelievable and I just I don't I don't get it and you know if she was a little Weasley manager or something blah blah blah I'd like her a lot more but nevertheless the match was good because Ria Ripley can make something out of any kind of a match and because people were into it because of the story.

So Liv is still not Mildred Burke but this worked and again there was some element of psychology and logic placed in it that Ria is twice her size and she ran from Ria and hid from her. Until finally Ria caught her and beat her up for a while but then when Rhea had a miscalculation and got her bad shoulder run into the turnbuckle

then she could sell the bad shoulder which she does so well and gave her a reason to sell for tiny little live and to be at a disadvantage against tiny little live and you know again Ripley's the basics the facials the little things are fantastic that I got to be honest with you, most women, even the really good women, don't pick up on. And I would have to be sitting here breaking down video to show you what I'm talking about. But anyway, I'm not sure that I like the idea.

At one point, Liv Morgan goes for the dive on Ria. She's on the floor. And Dominic shoves Ria out of the way and eats the dive. and that was fine for a spot like it was people reacted to it but with where they ended up going I'm I wish they hadn't done that to me you know what I'm saying I don't want to spoil it for the people who haven't heard it yet you think it was too much doing it that first time it doesn't make sense with what's going to happen later why would why would he want her to miss you see what I'm saying right yeah I mean unless they're going to come up with some argument but what's the

argument. And he could have easily looked up and seen her flying and gone, oh shit, and put his hands over his head because he is a chicken shit prick. And he wouldn't have committed. And he could have, you know, got out of the, whatever. Anyway, finally after Ria had sold the shoulder, it's out, she's screaming, it's out to people, she does the deal where she runs it into the desk and, quote,

puts it back in. It makes it. It makes it. or come back. Isn't that a, is that a Mel Gibson thing? Because he's from Australia too. Oh, I don't know. I thought, you know, he's a schmuck. I don't know if anyone goes based on that. Do you think that was done too much in this match?

Stacey pointed that out because she said, well, that's what Mel Gibson was doing in the movies. And he's, that's where they got the idea. He's Australian. I don't know. He didn't write the movie. But, uh... Well, he goddamn perpetrated it.

What do you think of that spot? Because that was, again, done in a similar fashion. later in this match. I think if she did it once, it was fine when she did it again. I'm like, you know, if my shoulder had been separated, I don't know if I want to run it

into that turnbuckle again another couple times. But nevertheless, it wasn't a great match. Liv is awkward, but they got the story. And Liv kept going to the arm, and finally, then they did a spot, here's the, again,

Liv Morgan gets a chair and comes in the ring, and the referee stands there and looks at her. This is not a no disqualification match. But she just, because she hasn't used it yet, somehow if you bring a foreign object into the ring and get caught, it's a disqualification rule, has morphed into, well, we'll just stand there and maybe admonish you

until you actually kill somebody with it, and then we're going to punish you for it. So, Liv then goes to hit Ria with the chair, but Ria kicks her, and she drops the chair, and the referee leaves it laying in the right place because it's in the right place. This is starting to sound like lazy booking.

And it was. They want to do something, but goddamn, take some more care to get there. So the referee doesn't pick the chair up, and Rhea hits the riptide on live, and then sees the chair, and picks it up, and all the day she thinks she's going to have good luck,

luck and draws back and then Dominic grabs the chair and takes it away from her and says you can't win like this. Me neither the referee has tried to do nothing. So Dominic says you can't win like this. And she's like, why can't I fucking win like this? And as they're discussing this, Liv kicks Ria into Dominic who gets knocked down and then Liv hits her sloppy finish where she jumps into the. ropes and falls backwards and whatever and gets a two count.

And then Dominic slides the chair back in the ring and draws the referee. So that one would think Ria Ripley could pick up the chair and he's had a change of heart. But instead, where he slid it in, Liv ran and jumped into the ropes and did her sloppy finish to Ria on the chair. and pinned Rea Ripley 1, 2, 3. And everybody's, what the fuck, what the fuck, and then Liv rolls out. And Dominic, that no good, that, that reprehensible cad,

that bounder, that rapscallion, he picked Liv up and he hugged and he kissed her right on the mouth and everything and left with Liz. and ran out on Ria. And you just know she's going to have to do something about that. If I was in high school again, I could appreciate this more,

but the people are into it. You know, Dominic and live together could be a heat machine. Just a heat machine. And I don't work for nobody. You make me think of something. I'm trying to make you stop. When Dominic was first with Ria,

she was still a heel. to the point where the fans weren't cheering her yet. Yes. Now it's awkward. Now it changes everything. All of a sudden, now he's with the... I don't think is there any woman in the women's division with more heat than Liv Morgan?

Well, probably not because she's the one that just stole Dominic away from Ria. That means she's one of the mean girls. I think she's actually, personally, I think she saved Dominic a lot of heartbreak because Ria was going to trade up at some point. she's too big of a star to have a little Dominic trailing around with her. Well, we'll see what happens, but that was the opening match.

I thought it was a fun match. Whatever sloppiness you're attributing to Liv Morgan, Ria Ripley saved. Like the spot where she landed on the chair, all these different things. Oh, yeah. Ria Ripley, the way she moves around the ring, you believe she's hurt a lot even when she's not. She's, I think, the very best we've ever seen.

Yeah, so that's why you're saying, you can accept live if live is, even if live is sloppy. You wouldn't mind sloppy live Morgan. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, Jim Cornett. Well, in the back, in the back of the building, the Judgment Day Clubhouse, Dominic Priest came in and was pissed, and his ass and J.D. Funcoe and Finn and Carlito. Where's Dominic? And then he snatched Finn up me. Did you know about this? And Fin's like, no.

Well, where is the little prick? And everybody scampers out to find Dominic. They put out the APB. And because Priest is not happy about what's happened here. He has brought dishonor to the judgment day. He asked for the prick. McAfee yelled, piece of shit, I think. At the end of the first match, I think asshole may have gotten on this show as well.

Yeah, he was on it. He was on it, but he was in one of the later matches. What do you think, though, of this? It's not the attitude error or anything. but the idea that they're opening up the language thing. So if you are watching with a kid still, they're now just introducing all, I mean, we're a few weeks away maybe from fuck.

Well, see, the thing is, are you on pay-per-view, you know, okay, yes, then you can say asshole or, you know, prick or whatever. But now it's not really pay-per-view, it's on peacock, so the kids have it in their very own home. But I guess, have you seen the kids are running around the fucking hill?

and valleys these days, they probably heard worse than asshole. But it is quite a departure from when they couldn't say boo to a goose, because Vince was mad that they wouldn't get a sponsorship from Gerber baby food or whatever. What do you think of this dynamic? The idea that priest is upset that Rhea, who he was one of the founders of Judgment Day with, was screwed over by Dominic. Well, that's perfect with where they're going later on, which we kind of We called all this shit, didn't we?

Pretty much all of it. I think we have to go back and listen to our predictions, but I think we were fairly well accurate in much of the things that we said. As far as the way the things we're going to turn out here, flesh out, shake out, rattle and roll out, who was going to win? We'd done pretty good, didn't we? Speaking of which, for the Intercontinental Title, Sammy Zane v. Braun Breaker, and I'm sure that a lot of the

the modern fan, the AEW type of fan would just be putrefied by this match because it didn't go that long. It didn't seem like it was seven or eight minutes. I don't know if it was that. But oh, what a rotten match because they made the step to get Braun Breaker over by beating Sammy Zane

who went 25 minutes with Roman Rains in about seven fucking minutes and that's smart and that's what it doesn't hurt Sammy Zane or Zsa Jaja Gabor it doesn't hurt Sammy Zane he's already over

it was done well there was a reason for it and both guys did it perfectly and Bronn Breaker gets over as a goddamn beast. It was back and forth. Sammy using the speed and agility and

Bronbreaker being physical and mauling him. And apparently now McAfee was calling it a Brekensteiner instead of a Frankensteiner. There was some controversy. People had been trying to analyze what it was

he said because it sounds so similar. But he's been calling it the Brekensteiner, but there's still acknowledging that Braun Breaker is a Steiner because Rick and Scott Steiner were in the goddamn skybox watching the match. Yeah, this doesn't clarify that he's not a member of the Franken family. This has nothing to do with that. Yeah, well, you know, and I'll tell you what,

if he was a member of the Franken family, he would have a goddamn ton of money because after they invented Frankenberry, they fucking cleaned up. Serial magnates is what they were. What do you think of booberry? Well, I wasn't much on booberry. What about Count Chocula?

Count Chocula, I don't think you should mix your chocolate with your cereal. But did you notice that booberry was the one that disappeared? You never saw Bubei again. Well, I've seen them in recent years. I guess they'd bring it back for people who still want to taste it. What do you mean chocolate shouldn't be with cereal? You don't like cocoa puffs or something? No, no.

Chocolate should not be with cereal. Cereal is in the morning and chocolate is in the evening. And don't you know that? The evening. No, I didn't know this. Chocolate's in the evening. Yes. Yes, because chocolate is a dessert.

It's a candy. It's something you eat after a meal. You can't mix your chocolate with your breakfast unless you stayed up all night. Anyway, so they had a, Braun and Sammy, they had a really quick back and forth, boom, fast-paced. Braun hit a big spear, got the speed up for the big spear, and speared him one. one, two, three, and won the Intercontinental title, as we predictified he would. And it's also, Brian, feel free to chime in on this, the ugliest championship belt ever, that Intercontinental Belt they're using right now.

You can't remember what it looks like, can you? Oh, no, I was listening to the rain outside. I apologize. I mean, it's, I don't think it's that bad. You think it's that bad? I think it looks like shit. Why? I really did.

Just bad. Because it's one color? Because it's just like one. It's one color. It kind of looks, you know, it doesn't stand out. It doesn't have prominent features. It's just, it's like a hubcap. A fancy hubcap.

Speaking of a fancy hubcap, it can Logan Paul find any weirder looking fucking friends? Well, when you're looking for unemployed people to hang on, there's only so many people you can pick from. Every one of his friends, they are all named by their initials. They all dress inappropriately, look very well. He came out with some skinny tattooed guy named M.G.K. That's Machine Gun Kelly. He's a musician.

Well, he must be. He had his fingernails painted. He had a razor blade earring. He weighed about 120 pounds, even though he stood apparently about six feet tall. and he had again an obvious prison tattoo how long did he spend in jail to get all those tattoos what the who are these fucking people are you slapping stuff what are you doing over there I turned my my chair creaked here as I moved in it were you slapping before that before the creek

I may have put my pen in again okay that may have been it that may have been it Would you like me to slap somebody? I have a few candidates if you need a list. Yeah. Well, anyways, Logan Paul and L.A. Knight for the U.S. title. And Logan Paul comes out with the skinny guy named M.G.K., I guess, machine gun.

Kelly, you say. He's so skinny when he gets a sunburn. He looks like a thermometer. When he sticks his tongue out and turns sideways, he looks like a zipper. He could hula hoop with a cherry. he has to run around in a shower to get wet all right he could fucking limbo through a garden hose

anyway they had the match for the U.S. title and as we mentioned L.A. night needs to produce but the people here were with him but he drove up in the prime truck that he stole Friday night and broke one of the windows out and then made the entrance

and Logan Paul jump starts it and they fight on the floor and they fight into the prime cart and Logan Paul spitz prime in L.A. Knight's face. I bet that could have blinded you, that kind of battery acid stuff. And he cleared off the desk and then L.A. did the yeah heads to the desk and gave Logan Paul a big neck breaker on the desk. And then they got in the ring and the referee rang the bell. remember when

again whenever both guys got in a ring or came near the ring and they started fighting the referee's like oh shit ring the bell here we go now they can fight apparently for 10 minutes but as long as they don't both get in the ring the referee doesn't have to ring the fucking bell when did this rule change pop up

I don't know they change all sorts of rules who are counting and referees What's a DQ and a countdown? Countdown. Countdown. Countdown. Instant replay. I get to hit.

Well, anyway, this was, again, it was a good match. It wasn't anything revolutionary. It was exactly what it needed to be. Babyface against heel. They love L.A. Knight. They hate Logan Paul. And so L.A. Knight cooked on him. then Logan Paul posted him and started some heat.

LA Knight fought from underneath. Finally made a comeback. You know, hit an elbow off the top rope and got a two count. And then Logan Paul did a springboard moonsault to the floor on L.A. night out of fucking, I don't know where the fuck he came up with that. That was fucking incredible. There was no like, you know, okay, he's going to run through the ropes and set it up and you can anticipate it.

quick and he hit it perfectly. And that's a thing. This guy is 6-2 or 6-3 or whatever he is. He's fucking 200 and enough pounds that he's got abs in a chest. It's not like the Cirque de Salee

crew doing this shit when something like that from that guy gets people's attention. And then Logan Paul hit a K-O punch with his steel impacted hand and got a two count.

And then L.A. Knight did his, they ran to the top rope, but did a superplex and got a two count. Almost didn't get Logan Paul turned over, but he got him. And then suddenly L.A. Knight goes out on the floor and just pulls two of Logan Paul's stooges over the rail and starts kicking a shit out of them. But when that happens, M. G.K. hands Logan Paul

the brass knucks that are on a chain around his neck. Now he's not only carrying nugs, but he's got a big chain too. And that's why I made a note, why are all of Logan Paul's friends people that look like they should be on probation? I think you should maybe vet his social circle more carefully. And then Logan Paul hits L.A. 9 with the nucks and tries a buckshot lariat,

but L.A. Knight ducked it and hit his finish one, two, three. So this was not an Eddie Graham finish. It was basic and easy, but it got a big pop because of people wanted to see L.A. Knight win that belt. It was a good match. It was an okay finish, but it was definitely the right result. And now they've kept L.A. Knight in a position where if he had failed here,

I'm afraid people would have, would have not have said, yeah. But now they've got him in a position whereas they still dislike Logan Paul as much as they always did. It didn't hurt him a bit. So, again, nobody had to die into making of this motion picture

and people got exactly what they wanted. Yeah, really good match. Logan doesn't lose anything. L.A. Knight needed this win. This was make or break, and now he gets a big title win in the stadium. And we'll see where they go from here. I mean, Logan Paul is not exactly full-time. We had heard rumors that he may be at some point, but it's not happened yet.

And this way you get the title on someone who's on every single week. Well, but at the same time, it doesn't necessarily mean it's over, because obviously Logan Paul can be, you know, incensed about this and want to get even and whatever so they can work a little program. But now when Logan Paul gets heat on El, LA Knight, it's not doing any damage to LA Knight's aura within reason, because LA Knight's still a champion. And this fucking guy's jumping him from behind and trying to get an

advantage or whatever. But L.A. Knight has proven himself. He won the big one. Now can he keep the big one? So that, you know, I think it's better for our friend L.A. If I can be so bold as to use his first name and call him L.A., I don't want to overstep my bounds of familiarity

But what is it supposed to stand for Lawrence Allen Well What would L.A. Knight be? One would think A Los Angeles But then

What if it turns out His name is Logan too? Well they say that it They say that he's from Maryland But he's L.A. Knight But you know He could be L.A. Day. L.A. Day.

L.A. Knight. Marianne. Same thing. if he's from L.A. and you know, you got the boogie knights out there. Maybe he's got a large phallic symbol. And that's why they call him L.A. I don't know how this got from one place to another here. I just said, what do you think L.A. stands for him? You went to boogie nights and large phallic symbols. I don't know, but see, that's what I'm hearing when I listen to the voices in my head that are provided to me by the Racon everyday wireless earbuds. Now, Brian, you may think that I'm listening

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Well, now, Brian, it was that time in the program at SummerSlam that comes at some point all the time where you get up and you go and you take a poop. And that happened when the women's title was defended between Bailey and refrigerator jacks and I know the show is going along smoothly and nothing's been too crummy and that type of thing but I

can't watch this giant barco lounger fucking roam around the ring it makes me, it gives me anxiety like the kids say. Did you watch this? First of all you never said these kind of things about Jerry Blackwell or even Stan Frazier

was never I can't watch this walking couch. You didn't say any of that shit about them. No, because Frazier was a walking fucking

appliance box. Oh, well, that settles that. That settles that. No, I always said Frazier was the shits too. Lawler could

every once in a while could draw some money with him, but... The fact that you knew she was going to win the title, did that help her hurt you watching the match? I didn't really know,

but I suspectified because of the push they've been given her. And his whole thing with Tiffany Tiffany Stratton. I was trying to think of the name of the power tool that she's named after.

It wasn't Black and Decker, it's Briggs and Stratton. Maybe Tiffany Black or Tiffany Decker would have been better. Well, you see if you would accept their offer of being the head of creative, you could have suggested that, but instead, no, you got to stay home and... Well, that's...

Hang out with the trees. That's because they got the deal with Pepsi, and I wanted to Sprite contract. You see, Pepsi's... not the number two anymore? Who is number two? I think I saw that it was a certain one, but before I make a fool of myself, let me double check.

Number two... Of course, we're in the soft drink field we're talking about. Dr. Pepper is now the number two soda. Dr. Peeper has overtaken Pepsi? Dr. Pepper has overtaken Pepsi. Well, that surprises me. Where do you stand on Coke versus Pepsi? well I don't like either one because they got the caffeine and that'll poison me

but I was always a Pepsi person previously but I at the same time would acknowledge the fact that Coke is the original Coke is like Kleenex they you know it's just it's ubiquitous and I can't believe that Dr. Pepper with that weird concoction of synthetic flavors that they've got going for them has passed by one of the great American cola companies.

And they say he's not even a doctor. He never passed any examination that I've heard of. I've never seen a diploma. All right. Well, it makes me want to have a Dr. Pepper. So why don't we get back to Bailey versus Niagara Jacks? Well, we'll go to the refrigerator. her.

Well done. Well done. We'll just reach our hand in. And Bailey foiled a bonsai. Fridge was going for the bonsai, and Bailey got up under her and not only power bombed her off the buckles, but carried her.

So I have to tip my hat that I'm not wearing here. I'll tip my headset. To Bailey for that one, hit the elbow off the top two count and then here runs out Tiffany with the briefcase and Bailey nails her off the apron and the refrigerator

fucking stops Bailey and hits her with two power bombs and two working bonsize at least she either she likes Bailey or they gave her a talking to about the plummeting of the ass into people's rib

cages one two three the refrigerator wins the match for the other women's title. Sort of like the other white meat. This is the other women's title. It's the pork product of the WWE. What'd you think of this? You saw more of it than I did.

Yeah, I mean, it was fine for what it was. I did see a minute or two, and then I decided to go to bed. This is actually what chased me off of the post-show press conference. And here was the big, mean, heel, Naya Jackson. just very happy talking about how grateful she is for the opportunity. And so it's like you can't even say like, okay, she's finally getting it. And she's a great monster heel. No, she immediately wanted to like celebrate with the world that gave her the title at SummerSlam.

Oh, Christ. But we'll see where they go with, uh, she's a very polite monster. Yes. It's what you're saying. She's very polite. She wants to thank everybody for the opportunity. opportunities they give her. Would Frankenstein have thanked the villagers for the pitchforks?

I mean, the heel went and hugged her mom at ringside and then gave a hug to the Rock's mom as well. That's usually not a heel move to start hugging senior citizens at ringside. Yeah, hugging old women and mothers at ringside. It worked for Abdullah the butcher for all those years. all right let's move along because the main event was next not the last match but the main event of somerslam was next it was of course the grudge match long anticipated and awaited between c m punk and drew mcintyre the scottish psychopath with set franklin rollins doing his best job of dressing as elton john if he was

refereeing and i mean this this this This, to me, was the main event because this, they wanted to see what was going to happen with Cody and Solo. Whether Roman was going to come back, what the bloodline was going to do. Nobody really believed Solo was going to win the belt. And the anticipation was more as a personal issue on McIntyre and punk. And it was perfect, as I said, they had their first. match and still the whole focus was really the interaction with Seth Rollins so they've had their

first match on a major event and they still have all kinds of shit they can do in a rematch without Seth as referee or both of these guys in singles matches against Seth because they set everything up so this was they didn't waste a thing here It was like when they were making sausage, they got the snout in, the anus, they got everything. They didn't waste a bit of this. And you got cess entrance and the people chant and sing and, and you got McIntyre's entrance and he's got heat.

And a people are on him. And then you got like Mussolini in Cleveland. and you got the big it's clobbering time and you got the in a stadium as Michael Cole said the first time in 10 years that CM Punk has had a singles match on WWE television so this was

this was the big fight feel and they did it perfect because again they've still got they have so many other directions to go and so many other things they can do even in a rematch with Punk and Drew, the crowd was hot for it,

and the little things, the little interactions. Punk threw his hoodie on Seth before the match even started, and Seth just doesn't sell it and takes it, and as he's walking to throw it out of the ring, wipes his ass with it, and throws it. But anyway, should we talk about the match, now that I've droned on about the concept, of they've still got every which way to go.

Yes, we should talk about the match. We should talk about the match. They laid their shit in and they would basically they started out. One guy would have the momentum would have charge of things until Seth would exert his authority

and then while they were arguing, the other guy would take over. And then when something was happening, that Seth didn't particularly mind seeing. Like punk is ramming McIntyre's head into the stairs, Seth is tying his shoes. And again, this is, I've seen these spots when I was 10,

when you had a baby face as a special referee. But it works here because it's so old, it's new. And nobody has bothered to do this shit in a logical manner for, so long. So anyway, so Seth is turning his back on stuff at, you know, blah, blah, blah. And Punk is back to selling his baby

face, and he did then, Drew got heat well. And at the same time as Seth was doing some things where he's letting them play, he didn't start counting cockat. All the counts that he gave were normal on false finishes, so he wasn't, he wasn't tipping his hand that he was just going to fuck somebody outright. He's just letting him fight, right?

That's what it means. And finally, at one point, Drew gets a chair and Seth sees it, and Drew tells him, hey, just turn around and let this happen. And Seth does, but then as Drew draws back, Seth grabs the chair because he can't go that far, right? It's got to be hand-to-hand. and then they did the spot reminiscent of Sean Michaels, Brett Hart, the Undertaker,

where when Drew Pfe-Face Sess swung the chair and Drew Ducked and Seth almost hit punk, but he held up. So again, this is like some Eddie Graham shit they've laid out here where they're going back to previous matches and previous things that have happened years ago and destroying some cliches. and then finally Drew pulls out the bracelet that he stole from Punk and he put it on and he went for a kick but punk kicked him and started his comeback and hit the

knees and the elbow off the top and then got the vice on him but he saw the bracelet and the bracelet's more important to him than winning so he pulls the bracelet off of Drew's wrist and gets it back but Drew then has the opportunity to hit a kick and gets a two count. And now he's dropped the bracelet so Seth gets the bracelet and puts it on. So nothing happens to it. But then they go back and forth and punk calls for the go to sleep, but when he picks up Drew,

he sees Seth wearing the bracelet and drops Drew. And then Punk and Seth are arguing. And Drew blast punk from behind into Seth. And Seth goes to the floor. Punk foils the DDT and hits the go-to-sleep and covers, but there's no referee. And the fans count to seven, and Seth gets in, one, two, and he kicks. And now Punk is yelling at Seth, and Seth's yelling back at him.

We don't want you here. It's not all about you, asshole. So punk picks Seth up and gives him the fucking GTS. And takes his bracelet back from Seth. and he turns around and Drew kicks him into balls and hits the Claymore kick. And McIntyre covers and now Seth is coming over and now he reluctantly, he counts one, two, three. And then he rolls out and takes his referee shirt off and throws it down and walks the back

and Drew takes the bracelet back and stands over Punk. That's the way you set up a fucking three-way. the way you set up rematches. That's the way you fucking work a special referee goddamn deal. Everything made sense and you've still got the opportunity to have punk and Drew have a whole different match the next time they have one with a regular referee. Your thoughts, my fine feathered friend. At the very end, I have no feathers and you know that. You're very well aware of that. I've looked for the feathers. They're not there. At the very end of the match, or at the very end when Drew picked up the bracelet again,

my first thought was he's going to break it. And what will that do? But instead he stored it away. So that continues. Kind of feels like in the end, punk has to get the bracelet back, and then AJ has to slap whoever, I guess, Drew, and then Larry has to piss on him while he's down to really make the comeback complete at this point. I thought it was good.

You know, I thought the match was okay. by the end it got really clever and I like that but and I thought Ronald you know again my personal taste Rollins as the referee dressed the way he was and just being a gimmick was a bit distracting

from the seriousness of it and I held my nose on the outfit because it's Seth and it's the WWE but you know it started off really hot with them doing a thing where you stand in the middle of the ring and you trade the blood but I don't know. For two guys that hate each other,

it felt like, to me, it felt like it almost had to be amped up a little more as a match. But I like everything they did and everywhere they went at the end because obviously, like you said, it sets up lots of things. Well, this was their first singles match,

but they've been, because of circumstances, they've been going back and forth for six fucking months. So they, if they'd, if they'd have come out there and done tables and chairs and ladders and blood and guts and, you know, barbed wire dildos, whatever, then where do they go in a rematch? You've had the match.

You've had this way the distraction of the referee being involved in the middle of it, keeping things from happening, and at the same time being a focal point, they didn't need to do all that shit because there wasn't a spot for it, and they've still got it where they can do it in the future. So I agree with you, yes, they should do more things, but this was a great way to save that until... So imagine this, they didn't have a nuclear explosion in the first act of the play. Do you do Punk versus Rollins as a match before you do the next Punk versus McIntyre, or how do you mix it up with these three?

I mean, I think you could you definitely do one of these other matches before you do another punk and Drew and I'm not even sure whether it's Punk and Rollins because you could do something cleverly on TV before the next big event to build a reason for Seth versus Drew and then

because maybe maybe Punk is saying if it hadn't been for that screwy referee I wouldn't have got beat, which is kind of true. But maybe Drew takes a... Oh, now you're blaming the referee. Well, I could fucking kick his ass. See, I do that accent so good. And then Seth is like, oh, fuck you.

I didn't have to count at all. I could have kicked you in a head. And then you've got that. And then punk fucks Drew out of that, but then Seth gets mad at punk. Then you have Seth and Punk. But Drew's mad that... You see where I'm going with this. You got all kinds of shit.

And that's what I... it'll be all kinds of shit. Anyway, would you like to move along? No, one more thing. How did you think Punk looked in there? First time we've seen him in the ring obviously in quite a while and he got hurt, you know, in AEW, the freak injury where he jumped into the crowd and hit his foot on the barricade and then the second injury and then when he came into the WWE. So this is the first time we've really seen him in a while. What did you think? I thought he looked good. I don't think he has the, the cardio of 25-year

old see him punk nor do we all but at the same time again you don't want punk in his first match back in that long of a time coming out off of multiple injuries where he really hasn't wrestled all that much in the last year and a half you don't want him trying to do what fucking edge did and jumping off the top of the cage right and breaking his own leg i think he's smarter than that but yeah well but i'm saying well yes that's why he didn't do it punk is but i'm saying you don't want him to because you've been again this is major money on the line and when you can get these people to where they're buying the tickets and they're screaming at the top of their lungs and they're reacting to everything when the guys are having safe and entertaining matches instead

of risky car crashes that they really do get hurt from and you can't capitalize on what you've built and it hurts the business and it hurts the customers and it hurts the company and it hurts the talent, I don't see there's anything wrong with that. If the building, you know, the stadium in Cleveland was half full, then they may need to evaluate what they're doing. But as far as I could tell, it's pretty fucking full. And the people were screaming and cheering for things. That's what I used to tell the guys in Ring of Honor.

My God. In front of 672 people in Milwaukee, and they can't see. scream any louder already and you want to spike pile drive a motherfucker off the fucking roof. So there's levels to this. So I thought what they did

told the story, continued the story, gave them multiple places to go and took the people on a fucking ride without goddamn resorting to anybody having to go have emergency surgery afterwards

for fuck's sake. did that answer your question indeed it did two more matches deed did doodily two more and that's the thing you know punk's 40 fucking whatever now so he don't need to be doing a lot of that screwy shit but he needs to be relying on his his personality his ability to connect with the audience his reputation and give them their money's worth in ways other than you know, taking flat back bumps on beds of fucking nails. And, you know, fortunately, he's in the company where they're all smart enough to want to work toward that goal

instead of building fake fucking walls out of drywall so they can be run through them on forklifts. I think I can watch him and Drew McIntyre just see that each other every single week forever and happy. Yeah, yeah. Just fucking react. Just see the displeasure that each one of them possesses that the other one is alive on the planet. It's great. You believe it because it's real.

Yeah, yeah. Hey, you know, we can't all be bosom buddies. Speaking of the bosom buddies, it was now time for the world title to be on the line before the world title was on the line. when Gunther challenged Damian Priest and boy this had every opportunity to kind of be a death spot too

between what they've seen and what they're about to see and I'm not sure that I like this as much as the normal Gunther matches but again they told the exact story they should tell they did the exact finish they should do and is it is it that priest does a lot of modern stuff the spinning and the leaping and the kicking in the air and the blocking and the parrying and the thrusting

and Gunther is such a really a great throwback to an old-fashioned Gene Kineski kind of motherfucker just comes straight at you that was it a bit of a clash of styles normally Gunther is timeless but this was really a lot of this was really modern. And you didn't, you didn't, and I'll say there one more thing,

and then you respond. You also, you didn't have the pure baby face and heel dynamic from the start. You usually have where Guernher is, is bullying a smaller guy. He was trying to make priest his physical equal. And they transitioned priest to a baby face by the end,

but it wasn't there at the start. Now you talk. There's no priest-guuther history or feud or anything that really seems like a big deal. So there was no energy, not that everything could be punk versus McIntyre, but like that at the beginning. It was just two guys wrestling.

At least Priest was wearing all black. I don't think purple has helped him. And he was wearing all black. And yeah, he wrestles a lot of them. He wrestles a lot of the modern style. He does a lot of that stuff. And Guinther, you know, Guelther has wrestled pretty much

mostly guys who wrestle that style his whole career. They also followed Punk McIntyre. They were also clearly the only match before what people thought may happen in the main event. It is kind of the death spot. You said before something interesting you thought the finish was what it should be.

Do you mean Gunther winning? Do you mean the method in which he won? Or do you mean the Judgment Day story coming together leading to him winning? Gunther winning is what they should have done and Finn being responsible is what they should have done. I don't know if it could have been a little more exciting than what actually happened.

But let's get basically in the match, they, not really a blow by blow, that's all they did. Punches, chops, and kicks. And Guelther's chest was bleeding from the, and not one of the Jericho blade jobs tried to get one of his Japanese turrets. hurdles over, but actually he was bruised up. But they just, they laid it in and had a big guy fight, you know, back and forth until

finally they got to the, to the story. Finn got to ringside to cheer Damian Priest on. And Priest had fired up and made a comeback and hit a couple clotheslines and a razor's edge and a choke slam and covered Gunther. And as the referee goes down to count, Finn rolls in and put Gunther's leg on the road. and rolled back out. And then Priest gets up like, what the fuck happened? And he looks and he sees the replay on the screen, which is a nice touch, because why wouldn't you?

It's on a giant screen. If you're not sure what happened, they're going to show you again. No, that was great. They had a shot behind Priest of him watching the big screen. So you all got to see how he was brought to know about this. He was, how the jig was up, as they say. And their fin had his back turned and he's smiling and doesn't realize until he looks and realize,

oh shit, he saw that. And then Priest goes toward Finn, but Gunther got the sleeper from behind and had him down. And then Priest kind of fought out and reached out and grabbed Finn, but Gunther grabbed him from behind

and power bombed him, got the sleeper again, and put him out. And that, to me, was a little flat. Once that Finn or that priest knew that Finn had done it, he's reaching for him.

if Gunther had come from behind and they had done some kind of exchange which led to Gunther either getting a pen or even if fucking, you know, a priest had fucking planted him again, but Finn had given him some kind of elbow in the back or with some pinfall. When everybody just goes down and lays there for a while after a betrayal, a betrayal should be followed by shocking one, two, three, my God, let everybody react when you're watching a guy sitting in a hold. To me, it takes so long they're already thinking about what happened. They're anticipating the guys lost.

It's not as big a pop when he does lose because they saw it coming. Have I made all those points halfway clear? Halfway. It just, it was a little blah. A little blah at the end there. But so now, Priest, Dominic has pissed, priest off by turning on Ria. Finn, for reasons I'm sure he'll explain next week on TV, did what he did when he did it. Priest loses the world title as we predicted to branch off into

the judgment day. This is kind of like dusty booking in that they don't want priest to get even with Gunther, so Priest has somebody else to go get even with so the people don't notice that he's not getting even with Gunther. So everybody's in the right place. It was just, it was a little blasé on the end. I don't know, you tell me. What do you think Judgment Day becomes? I mean, we'll find out soon enough, obviously.

Do you think it becomes Finn leading J.D. and Carlito? Or does it become Dominic would live? And all five of them, then that's the new judgment day. I don't know about that. Because you got to think, is he going to just go after Finn or is Dominic tied into it? Because, again, it goes into earlier. You got to assume now he was like, lying to Damien about knowing what Dominic was up to, right?

I think Finn as a single and as a former champion there, and he's got a track record, he's got a nice program with Priest for Priest to redeem himself and come out ahead in the end. And then I don't see why Priest and JD wouldn't be a tag team and let Dom and Live be on their own for a while and potentially, as they're trying to run from Ria, then potentially you've got the mixed tag with Dom and Liv and Ria and Priest.

But does there need to be a judgment day? Are the people going to set the seats on fire if there's no judgment day? I don't think they'll set the seats on fire. Is the judgment day something that people aren't sick of that you could use as a prop to fill up TV time? I just wish they'd get rid of the clubhouse. Well, yeah, who's paying rent on that?

thing. Yeah, whose name is it in? Did they sign a lease? They're still signing everything in the name of Adam Copeland, apparently. Is there a security deposit? I bet Adam Copeland put the security deposit down when he started the whole thing. Boy, how things change. Adam Copeland starts a group called the Judgment Day, and now he's home with a broken leg

working for the distant number two company. And a guy that was a flunky of his just lost the world. title in front of 60,000 people for the big company. And this is the moment judgment they found that their shirts have not been selling as well as they used to. All right, time to break them up. But anyway, that, I, you know, I don't know. But everybody's in the right place now.

Gunther is the world champion and as we said, he can get heat off of having a belt to people view as secondary by talking about how he's making it more important than the other one that they think is important. Whereas a baby face couldn't really do that. And who's he going to feud with, Jay Usa? I hope not, but we'll find out. Did you watch any of the Miz and Our Truth and Theory and Waller and Jelly Donut segment? When I saw that the Miz was coming out, he was the host with Art Truth, I used that as my break.

I didn't realize, and now I know for the future, every match there was like a minimum of 15 minutes between matches. And if I knew that, I would have used my time better. but I use this as a chance to go outside and have my late-night joint. Well, you didn't make a mistake because I speed-searched the goddamn thing because I don't watch this live because there is 15 minutes in between matches. But basically a lot of people on Twitter was, well, I can't wait to hear Cornette tear this apart. Well, I didn't even watch it and I can still tear it apart. Because it's not even about why is Ms. the host?

why is there a host? What does the host do? He came out and announced the crowd. Triple H could have done that, whatever the case. 57-791 is what they're telling people. And I guess they had to shoehorn our truth in here in some kind of way. But you talked about earlier, we were both talking about it,

that things have improved since Vince has been gone as far as just the really silly stupid stuff, the distasteful, whatever. But why do the goddamn, musicians have to now beat up the wrestlers. Jelly Donut came in the ring and ended up choke slamming Austin Theory, who got all kinds of air for him.

But just because Jelly Donut weighs 500 pounds doesn't mean that he should be treated like a goddamn physically imposing motherfucker when in actuality, the only way he could probably hurt as if he fell on you. And his stomach is so big, he couldn't reach you if he was reaching out in front of himself because he can't reach past the end of his fucking belly.

And you could obviously outrun him. So, my point is, why did they, all the goddamn musicians, why do they have to let him in the ring to do wrestling moves to the wrestlers? I assume he got paid to be there. He got the promotion of singing his song on a big show. he could buy another couple of fucking face tattoos. But Jesus Christ, why do the musicians have to get to beat up the wrestlers? Does this happen in the UFC?

This is one of those things from Vince that still may carry over, where they're so happy to get anyone that they think is a mainstream celebrity or a celebrity somewhere else to be there, that they could just completely debase the heels or beat them up. At this point, Austin theory absolutely must have pissed off a lot of people. Yeah, he must have just goddamn horrible heat. Because I didn't watch this. So when you said he got chokeslam by Jelly Roll, I'm like, oh my God, like what?

Again, Waller, right next to him, it's theory that has made those like the punts. Maybe he's one of those guys with one of those personalities. He beat John Cena at WrestleMania. And then Jelly Roll beat him at SummerSlam. anyway it was now time ladies and gentlemen for the last match of the evening

for the WWE undisputed well it's actually disputed by the guy that has the other title but for the WWE title the big one Cody Rhodes and Solo Sacoa the new tribal chief

and they gave the big the big entrance to solo but then they went back in the back and they went all the way to Cody's bus. The camera's on the bus and watch him get off the bus and tip the bus driver

and be handed the leash of his dog Pharaoh who wasn't allowed on the bus apparently not because he was already standing out there waiting for him but it was not he kissed Pharaoh on the head. See I love a man who loves his dog

and he's walking Pharaoh through now he the only thing is he didn't come out with pharaoh out in a building so why was he walking pharaoh couldn't he have just left pharaoh to watch the monitor like the rest of the family but anyway here's the the story of the entrance is as he's walking through the back

leading the dog he looks over to the left and he sees Arne Anderson and he's you mean to tell me that's when Cody first realized that one of his oldest friends was in the building. Just hanging out, just there leisurely in a polo shirt. He was surprised he wasn't in catering. Well, he looked like he had been there.

And Arne gave him a pep talk that was not well-miked, and Arn doesn't have the projection that he used to have in his voice. And he told Cody that he still had. as friends, they're on the way. You can do that type of thing. It was a pep talk. I understand it was again another sign of the

new administration, the new ownership that Arne was there to begin with. And he is an important figure in Cody's life and background. And he has been talked about but this wasn't a stirring go out there

and win one for the Gipper type of speech that you would have thought maybe in that environment. Should they have done that on the bus where it was a little more intimate you could hear better? It may have been something for like the moment before Cody leaves the bus. He gets to hear some words, some Arn, but, you know, Arn's not really a big rah-rah guy. You're not going to get that from him. It's not like he's going to stand there like Jimmy Hart and, you know, jump in the background and yell, go get him, go. Well, no, but I, but maybe you need that. Maybe you need a A stirring motivational speech like the enforcer in the day would have given.

But the people popped when they saw him on the screen. They ran out of time, though. Part two of the speech was, why did you bring your dog if you're going to have to just give him that his other guy in a minute? Yeah, well, and Pharaoh's being passed around for heaven's sake, like an unwanted dog at the pound over and over before this baby. Anyway, and they said it was his last trip on the road. are they retiring the dog the dog has decided to retire i didn't hear the explanation for why the announcer said it was his last trip with cody they couldn't come to terms on a new contract with pharaoh are they putting

pharaoh down yeah really why'd they say that oh come on no he looked in the in the what the hell does that mean what the hell did they say that for then anyway he wasn't going to take a trip with him on the road anymore maybe brandy's putting her foot down to pharaoh's too old for this shit oh so it's like a last hurrah a big final farewell to Pharaoh anyhow Cody got a big entrance he's over the bloodline rules

the WWE title Cody solo here we go and this wasn't so much of a match as an Eddie Graham finish on steroids put on a loop every I mean they sat down and worked on this one it was a giant of performance piece where they had to make it bloodline rules,

basically no rules, because they gave the people every kind of twist and turn and up and down and run in and whatever that they could, but there would have been no way to figure out how to do this in a regular match, so they had to do what they did.

And before the run-in started happening, I just had observations. Solo is the younger brother of both the Uso's, right? Solo is the younger brother of the Uso's correct Yes he's the best worker of the bunch of them Oh by far he's solid he lays his stuff in There aren't there aren't as many of the holes that you point out with Jay Uso Especially with Jimmy Uso too

You don't see that with Solo He's not as awkward with the kicks and the movements It's you're not distracted because he's wearing tennis shoes and baggy shit is not open-handed slapping people and he does different stuff and before I've mentioned that I thought solo was sometimes limited in what he was doing

but Cody obviously was the captain here and either brought out more in him or he's trying to expand his repertoire but he and that bit the Samoan drop that he does is more like a Samoan release suplex where instead of coming flat down on the guy like Jacob does he's fucking boosting him and throwing him.

But his in-ring is coming along, and I think his confidence is coming along. And I think he did more different stuff here than any match I've seen of him or the Uso's maybe put together. But finally, you know, to start the run-ins, Cody hit a big superplex and both sold it,

and they went into a Yee-boo exchange, and then Cody fired up and hit the crossroads. And right then, here comes Tomatanga and Tongaloa. And you know what I'm about to say. It's gotten to be... I love it. He's my favorite. Look, before you insult him or say anything.

All right. Tonga Loa, when he came out there, I'm thinking, oh, right, there's been all these past incidents that seem ridiculous. But when you put them all together, it's quite the picture. now he has an eye patch all I'm thinking is wouldn't it be funny if he just doesn't go the right way because of the eye patch?

If it threw off his depth perception because we're talking about a guy with two eyes that missed a stationary nutshot that whiffed a guy hitting a guy in the balls and the guy wasn't moving and so in this

when he comes in and they hold Cody and he's going to try to run and spear Cody backwards kind of into the turnbuckles and he ran into Cody and drove him the wrong way he missed the corner of the ring and he just drove him into the ropes and you could see Cody looking back like where am I fucking going? And then he had to shove him back into fucking corners

so that Tomatanga could run and do whatever he was going but he missed the fucking turnbuckles in the corner of the ring. Cody was going backwards and he knew he was going the wrong way. And it just, that's the first thing you see, the first thing who does. I'm sitting here waiting for it and watching for it and that he doesn't run in front of you. It's almost like you don't believe it.

I've never seen anyone miss the turnbuckle. I've never seen anyone miss the turnbuckle. He missed a corner. How do you miss the corner? Well, yeah, it wasn't even there. There was three turnbuckles to choose from. He missed all. all of them by five feet to the right.

So then, but then the Tongas beat up Cody and solo covers him, but he gets two count. So the Tongas get back on Cody, but then Owens music plays. And Kevin Owens comes in, it gets a big fight. And then, but they get Owens down

because they're the numbers advantage. And then Orton music plays. And when Orton comes down to make this big save, did you see him coming down, slapping fans' hands on either side of the entranceway. Yeah. Also, both guys are in their gear. Do you think it would have had more impact if they ran out there in street clothes? They weren't working. Well, with Owens, anything that you can do to cover

up his body, I'm in favor of. But I've mentioned before, Orton never goes out there. He wants to look like a star. Anytime he goes out in front of people. He's always dressed in gear. But if I would have been wondering if they were my friends where they were fucking hiding for the, you know, two minutes that these guys were beating a shit out of me before they decided to play their music and come out and help. Well, Arns said they were on the way. Well, God damn, would they come in separate cars?

Because one got there for the other one did. Well, they had the way for the music to get queued up. Well, no, one guy had to shake some hands on the way down because he's running for office. The only thing better than that was when Jeff Hardy made his AW debut to save Matt Hardy and he stopped to dance. He stopped the dance. Oh, kha-hawkawkawkaka-hawk-a-hunk-hawk. But anyway, after shaking the fans' hands, Orton got in and cleared the

ring and Power Slam solo and then Owens went to the top and Swanton solo and then Cody Crossroads Zizz did solo and got a two count and it was a weak kickout

and I don't know what the fans went eh because it looked like this guy big move this guy big move then the champion big finish boom he either it was a weak kickout and the people didn't see it and there wasn't a lot of reaction.

He either needed to kick out strong or maybe they didn't need to do that there. But at that point, Orton's and Orton's and Owens, the team of Orton's and Owens chased the Tongans out of the building. They fought off, Brian. See, that was Harley's allergy cough.

She's much better now. Well, they fought out, not fought off. Well, they fought off, they fought out. They fought off. They went off. They went away. off with you off with their heads so then cody throws the stairs in the ring and he hits solo with him once and he hits him twice and he goes but now he's just hit this guy with the stairs twice and he goes for the big third one and solo comes with a spear spears him out from under the stairs two count great facials on both by the way when they're selling it just sometimes

you would think maybe one shot with the stairs may have worked Solo missed the running ass in the corner on the stairs when Cody moved. And then Cody hit the crossroads twice, and he was going for the third time. But you know who's been unaccounted for? Oh, the werewolf. Was that the werewolf? I sound like Lassie.

Oh, there's the whale wolf. It's the whale wolf man, Jack. Is that Wolfman Jack? Yeah, what are you doing? That's what Jacob Patoo sounds like. He sounds like Wolfman Jack. Playing mounds are sad, You got the money, honey, I got to time.

And Fatu levels Cody Rhodes and hits the springing moonsault and puts Solo on top of Cody. Two count. Holy shit. So then Solo says to Fatu, put him through the table. And Cody, or Cody puts, Fatu puts Cody on the announced desk, clears it off the

who puts their desk back together I saw the desk cleared off at least three times right and then the next time somebody goes to do it all the monitors are back the notes the fucking the wiring everything's right there they sweep it all off again

do they have a desk reassemblerererer over to the side or do you think each announcer has to fin for themselves you grab a leg and I grab a leg no they have to have someone there you grab a leg and I grab a leg honey you grab a leg and I grab a leg

so he cleared off the desk of the thing and he goes to the top rope and he splashes Cody through the table but instantly Jacob Fatu grabs his left leg I believe it was his left leg and he's screaming and he did an incredible job of selling it it looks like he's either

had a leg broken or broken somebody's leg before because he did a fantastic fucking cell job. Many people were convinced that he was goddamn fucked up. Well, apparently he was seen around today in a walking boot. And I'm proud of him for that too. That's the modern day equivalent of the neck brace. Because, well, and maybe we're going to find out that he broke a bone or two. but what I'm saying is there was a need

because what was going to happen next for Jacob Fatu to be rendered encompassmentus rendered irrelevant there they couldn't with the push they're giving him and the bill they're giving him they couldn't have somebody else take him out that would destroy his aura of

danger and potential invincibility but they couldn't have him up and about for what was about to go on and what is the perfect compromise he hurts himself in the act of hurting someone else and then he can't get back in and interfere in what's going to go on.

So I say, Bravo, chef's kiss to that fucking leg cell. And then when they roll Cody back in the ring, Solo fucking splashes him off the top rope and gets a two count.

Cody is goddamn indestructible, but at least he's not 132 pounds like Darby Allen. And then Cody foils the spike that Solo tries and kicks him and hits a cutter on him and both of them are down and you think, well, what in the world else can happen and suddenly the opening drum beats

of Roman Reigns' music hits and the fans in that fucking stadium go absolutely bat-shit insane. And I'm saying, it's like they just saw their mother return from a fucking lunar fucking landing that didn't go well. Holy shit, did you hear that fucking pop erupt

when they all knew instantly what that fucking drum roll meant? Yeah, no, it was a major pop, and, you know, people were hoping for it, and they finally got what they were hoping for. Well, they've been chanting for We Want Roman, and since the way that he left at WrestleMania, let's say April, May, June, July, so he's been gone for four months. The time is right, they're ready for it, boom, they see the screen,

they know it's him, and then here he comes, and he's walking to the ring with the game face on. And he fucking slides. in and even an announcer going like yeah but you know who's he because he's got the history with Cody and he's obviously

not going to be happy with solo and the way he's been running his pie hole around the place and he settles things instantly there wasn't a big milk which I was glad of because it was there he Superman punches solo

and hits solo with a fucking spear boom and gets a big pop and then looks at Cody and steps out of the ring and starts walking to the back and Cody grabs solo and hits the crossroads, boom, one, two, three.

And then Roman looks back over his shoulder at Cody and Cody's looking at Roman and one of them was looking back to see if you were looking back to see if I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me. But boy, that's why Jacob Fatou,

you still don't know what will happen physically when Jacob Fatu and Roman Raines get mixed in with each other. And Jacob Fatu had a good reason for not getting in the way of Roman Raines doing what he did to Solo and Cody went in the match. He was taken out of the equation. So everything fell right into place perfectly,

but we still didn't answer questions that it was too early to answer. What can Solo and Roman do to each other and et cetera, et cetera. Do you think Hayman should have come out with Roman in a wheelchair? He could have just pointed. Them, him, he did it.

Well, and I see, this is perfect because why Roman is in no danger right now, Roman was in control of the situation. if Haman had showed up all, you've still got another great return. If Roman can be put in a place of jeopardy, not that Haman can come and physically, you know, rescue him from, but that Haman can do a wise man thing and put him, maybe the wise man thing is the wise man is the one that puts Roman

and Cody finally together as a team against Solo and Jacob. Again, so many ways to go. And now, how many goddamn top-level baby faces do they have in that company, now that Roman has come back in that fashion? You've got Cody Rhodes. You've got Kevin Owens. You've got Roman Range. You've got L.A. Knight.

And, of course, Randy Orton, who at some point probably over the next run of big shows and Saudi Arabia $100 million spectacular will stab Cody Rhodes in the back and be one of the hottest heels in the company. But they've got mega baby faces now. It's insane. Well, that was the insanity known as SummerSlam. And again, I joke that, yeah,

they may be making more money these days, but back then we had the crowds. Now they've got the, fucking crowds too. 60,000 people in Cleveland ain't nothing to sneeze at. Cleveland! Have you ever, I spent a month

there one night. I'm telling you, that is not a... Makes you wonder what Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn think, because they can't just completely ignore what's happening. The fact that things are so hot, they've maintained it, they started advertising, like I told you, the John Sina tour. The year. The

year long tour. I mean, they've got everything set up for another hot run or for this hot run to continue. It's crazy to think about it. You know, you would never really thought, I mean, I guess a lot of people thought things would improve when Vince was gone, but the fact that business it's through the roof, it could almost not get any hotter right now. Well, actually, it could because they sold out a stadium in fucking Cleveland without John Cena or Randy Orton advertised or Kevin Owens advertised or Roman Raines advertised or Brock Lesner advertised

Jesus, they're and the rock they've still got the rock Yeah and they've probably got at least one more good run out of him before the big scandal that takes them down forever And the mixed tag team match With Atta But that's what I'm saying

It's like my God it can get bigger What the fuck anyway and for the people who think we're blowing them no we still recognize when shit sucks and much of it does especially on the regular weekly television I still don't want to watch Raw

ladies and gentlemen I know but god damn and that's part of the thing is our astonishment that they've got the personality so over that they can do as little as they do and sell as much as they sell

so that was indeed SummerSlam, one for the ages and boy howdy it's going to be probably another month or two until they get

$50 million from Saudi Arabia or fucking put 30,000 people in a building somewhere wait until they go to London and break the Wembley record that's going to be the big moment

oh God two nights in a row kidding that'll Tony is going to goddamn he's going to just fucking his head will explode. When they go there and two nights in a row beat his single attendance record, I'm wondering if, you know, they may sell out the pay-per-view. I don't think it works like that.

No, it's going to be, the pay-per-view will be sold out. Unless you get it early, you will not be able to order the pay-per-view anywhere in the world. That will be sold out as well. I don't know about that. But that was SummerSlam and that was the drive-through. This is not the drive-through. No, this is the experience. You're done with the whole thing, aren't you?

You're just fed up with it. No, I'm having a great time. Oh, well, it sounds like it. Well, folks, if you're having a great time, then you're going to want to come back and have some more of those times. So come back here next week on the experience. Come back in a few days on the drive-through.

We're going to talk about all kinds of things and even more. And until then, for Grumpy Brian, I'm Jazz and Jimmy. Thank you. Fuck you. And bye-bye, everybody. Te-tang.