My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 409 - YEEEEEEEET! (FROM THE TOP ROPE WITH JARED CARRABIS)

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

Robbie and Jared Carrabis return to break down the #RoyalRumble, the #RAW that followed, and the Road to #WrestleMania ahead of us! Did you like the decision to have Charlotte Flair and Jey Uso win over the likes of Alexa Bliss or John Cena?! What did you think of Cody Rhodes vs Kevin Owens in a ladder match?! Sound off in the comments below. **************************************** My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike! Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to From the Top Rope presented by My Mom's Basement presented by Barstool Sports. I am your host Robbie Fox along with my co-host as always, The Rocket Jared Karabas, and we are here for a post-Royal Rumble edition of From the Top Rope and oh boy what a royal rumble it was Jared. Yeah I mean you're gonna have to fill in some parts for me I think I rumbled a little bit too hard Bob. I actually I didn't even get to tell you this but at like probably 2am is probably when I went to bed and I got up to go to the bathroom

And my girlfriend fell back asleep And then she woke up and like put her arm over And I was not there And she was like, where the fuck did this guy go? And she went into our bathroom And I was in my boxers Sitting in her makeup chair With my head on the desk like this

And I had a bath towel as a blanket I was passed out asleep drunk in the bathroom at 430 in the morning so there's parts of the rumble I'm probably gonna have to relive with you today I think that was the most I've ever seen you get after it like that rumble besides the World Series parade that's probably the drunkest I've been since the World Series parade yeah Wow and I was there for it was a great time I went up to Besides the World Series Parade. That's probably the drunkest I've been since the World Series Parade, yeah. Wow, and I was there for it. It was a great time. I went up to Saugus and we hung. I got to hang out with the Dork Party. And I gotta say, delightful people. All of them. What a great time it was.

And it was like a legit, like, part, like, a good amount of people here. It was like a Super Bowl party. Pretty much, yeah. There will be more people for the Rumble and mania than there will be here for the Super Bowl, I guarantee you. Yeah, it's kind of like so the dork party for anyone who doesn't know is it's kind of like a super team of all the wrestling fans in my life. So like there's people that I met at Fenway. There's people that I grew up with from Sagas. There's family members. There's people that I worked with at Barstool. There's people that I work with that DraftKings There's people that I now work with that underdog and they're just all Like they're just hey you like wrestling you probably don't have anyone else in your life that likes wrestling

Come on over here, and I just take these people in they're all wrestling fan refugees And we've just made this this community that we all watch the the pay-per-views together every month it's a beautiful thing and everyone brings their girlfriends or wives or fiancees whatever they may be and there's a funny dynamic there too whether the fiance is actually like the wrestling whether they're noobs about it whether they don't know a lot about it like I was explaining a lot of the stuff to my fiancee oh this guy's this guy this rivalry you know when they show Roman Reigns looking behind Seth Rollins I'm like oh this is absolute cinema you don't

get it and years worth of shit Indy's a big city for them like you know going to all of it but great rumble we'll get into all of it great I thought pretty good and I won't say great it was a good raw after the rumble there was some stuff on raw that was just meh last night. There's a the promo that Jay opened with wasn't great I didn't think Charlotte's promo. Oh, I don't know what happened there. That was yes Yeah, but good main event obviously and like the way they ended raw was sick, but let's start at the rumble Let's start at the the opening of the night We'll go through because there's only really four matches that really three matches to talk about the women's rumble kicks off

Charlotte flair is the winner She entered at 27. That was my number in the rumble pool. I won the first Relations first rumble pool I ever won that was very exciting Kind of predictable I feel like a lot of us knew this was coming Yeah. Um, kind of predictable. I feel like a lot of us knew this was coming unless AJ Lee came out and there was a lot of people holding out hope for that. Obviously no AJ Lee.

The surprises we got Jordan grace kind of a surprise, but people knew she was coming. Tristratus was a surprise. Yeah. That was it though. And the match itself, it was Alexa bliss. Oh, Alexa bliss. Fuck. I forgot she was the biggest pop of the night.

What a dope IMC you gotta fill in the gaps for me you weren't that wasted. Yeah but not that was the opening match I mean I don't even know who was in the match I don't even know who won the men's. The Alexa Bliss pop was the biggest pop of the night and it felt like to me that it was almost too big that she wasn't gonna win the rumble Which is like if you go back to Cena oh wait like biggest pop biggest surprise and then he wins So it's like it's happened before but I don't know I just I didn't like I know that wrestling the the internet wrestling community

They're a bunch of assholes and they hate everything the internet wrestling community. They're a bunch of assholes and they hate everything. So when I saw, you know, they were all the dislikes on the videos of Charlotte winning and Jey Uso winning. I mean, with Charlotte, they stood on business on Monday Night Raw. When Jay came out,

you would never know that it was a super disliked video on the YouTube page because he got all the love. Like the most love I've seen a male babyface get since I guess Cody won the titles. But honestly, like I feel like Jay got more love the raw after the rumble than Cody did the raw after mania. Don't even make that face Bob. I don't know about that.

Did Cody get a 10 minute standing ovation where he was standing there and couldn't even get a word in because the crowd kept cheering no no that didn't happen That didn't happen. I guess no, but and I'm not trying to take anything away from J. Uso I agree with you the the response online is ridiculous, and I was shocked We were all shocked when he won, but it was like a good shocked. It was like oh fuck. They're doing shit That's unpredictable that we can't see coming there's videos from outside Lucas Oil Stadium they put the yeet cam up and fans leaving the arena are yet and they're going crazy it looked like the happiest time ever leaving that arena so I think that was like definitely the right move in the Charlotte thing too I didn't really mind

Charlotte winning like I know people roll their eyes and they're like oh Charlotte's breaking all the records and you're just gonna put the tightest liner guess what there's like not many people right now that like can Believably go against ria ripley if that's where they're going with that. I like to do that Against Liv Morgan at mania and that's a good mania match Yeah, it is like cuz they've dumped her over the top rope They're very alike like that's like you could imagine them on a poster facing off against one another no doubt. Yeah, I agree I agree, but I think Alexis Jacket was cool to the friends for life fiends for life. That was sick. Shout out Bray Wyatt

I think with Jay winning because I think I saw like Booker T It was a clip from his podcast where he said like I think they're gonna go in a direction this year where it's unpredictable Because you had all the favorites were punk, uh, Seth, Roman, the rock and Sina, like that was your top five favorites. And then they went outside of that and it felt like that was the direction they were going to go in because it was basically what Triple H is first rumble that he was deciding on. Um, so it made sense cause you're, but I thought if you were gonna go

outside the top five favorites to make a star, it would have been Jacob Fatu. Like if you really wanted to swerve people and build a star and be like, this is a dude right here, Jacob Fatu is the guy I would have went with. Cause like, Jeyuso doesn't, you need to get Jeyuso to Gunther, I guess, at Mania. So like I see the path with him winning the Rumble.

But if you wanted to use this year's Rumble to swerve people, go outside the top five favorites and make a star, Jacob Fatu is the correct answer. But does that mean that Jacob Fatu is ready for a, like he wasn't going to challenge Cody, he wasn't going to have a match with Gunther so like the pieces didn't fit so maybe next year is the year that they do that i think you're right yeah yeah and they could do that next year they could do it even the year after but like Jacob did have a good showing in the rumble as we expected him to um the jay thing is super interesting because i love that they did it and I love that they

shocked us especially when it was down to the final two. Jay and Sina, you sent the money. You were like, to the person who had Sina, you were like, it's over. Everyone figured it's over and we were just enjoying the good back and forth the two of them were having because it was good when it was down to the final two and they're on the apron. They were doing the whoa, is he Is he gonna fall is he not? Them putting J over is huge, but immediately they go he's going on to the main event of WrestleMania

And you just have to know like he's probably not gonna main event night one or night two I just don't think he is when we have all those names you mentioned that were the favorites to win the Royal Rumble when we have all those names you mentioned that were the favorites to win the Royal Rumble. CM Punk, Roman Reigns, John Cena, Cody Rhodes' champ, The Rock potentially involved in all of this, Seth Rollins, I don't think there's enough spots for Jey Uso to main event one of the nights. There's certainly not enough spots

for Charlotte and Jey Uso to main event. So this almost comes off like, yes, Jey is going to pick Gunther, like he kinda said he already was going to, and. And he's going to open up one of the nights of WrestleMania. Yeah. And that's not a bad spot to be in. That's a great spot to be in. But that being said, it's like should the rumble be used for the main event of WrestleMania? This precedent has been set before Del Rio in 27, Sheamus at 28, but it's just, I don't know. It takes a little bit away from the rumble, I think.

It does, but I think wrestling fans, if you were to ask them, do they mind? Some years it's Cody winning to challenge Roman for the main event. Some years it's Jay challenging for the World Heavyweight title instead of the WWE title. And like you said, like it was what? Daniel Bryan and Sheamus opened up 28 It's Jay challenging for the world heavyweight title instead of the WWE title and Like you said like it was what Daniel Bryan and Sheamus opened up 28 for the world heavyweight title I mean it was over in 17 seconds, so it wasn't even like a good match, but I think you know an edge of 27 actually was a good match and that was a del Rio rumble winner Yeah, and and so here's the thing like yes Jay, I love Jay. I think his character is awesome. I think his charisma, his acting is awesome.

Like all the stuff that he did in the bloodline when he was a heel was, I mean, people were talking about, why don't these guys win Emmys? They absolutely should have, you know, it's still television. Why not? Like their character work was amazing. I think, you know, the memes that were going around of like the PlayStation controller was just like yeet super kick splash and Whatever else like spear like a mowing drop or whatever

Yeah, yeah, like that's all he does as far as like wrestling is concerned so Barstool Zone Kirk Minahan Kirk Seamus Minahan made this point where he said he's like I think we're now in an era where like Guys themes are over not the wrestler and I think Jay you can't make that case entirely for Jay But I think it's certainly a big part of it like the fact that he has like the yeet thing and the theme and everyone goes nuts like when his music hits and the Fact that he he restarted his music music. They're like stop talking hit the music. Yeah. Yeah, so like there's definitely certain guys in WWE right now where their theme is just over and it's like that's why we like this guy is because the music if you have Like like Finn Balor, and I know it's a bad example

But when he came out no pop pop, because everyone's like, What the fuck is this theme? I felt so bad for him. So bad! Cause that wasn't his fault. If his normal theme hit, he would've got a pop. People fucking love Finn Balor. But they gave him that stupid, it was like a trap rap song or something. It was so not fitting of Finn Balor at all.

And the rumble shined a light on that every year too. They brought back AJ, like he's been on the picture for months and they're like oh here, cause his new theme sucked. Horrendous. Sucked. We couldn't believe it, he debuted that at Wrestlemania right this year? Yeah. We couldn't believe it. We were like what the fuck.

Cause he was another one that fans were like alright new themes aren't great but he's got one of the good ones. People would sing along to that one and shit. Yeah. The Rumble shines a light on how generic a lot of the themes are now because especially the women early ones Yeah, they're music hits and it's like alright We gotta see who the titan tron says first cuz we don't know who this is yeah. Yeah, I feel bad for the women they have ass themes I thought you're going in a different direction with that. I was like Jared family show come on

I thought you were going in a different direction with that. I was like Jared family show come on Themes are trash. I mean I don't want to completely shit on Def Rebel because They did give us both Roman themes They gave us a good ones dolo like all the bloodline themes are awesome Oh, there's there's a couple girls that have good themes with good openings. The openings obviously being the most important thing. Like, I think the Liv Morgan opening is like recognizable and people pop for it. I think the Alexa one people popped for right away. Isn't that still Def Rebel? Or is that CFO Dollar Sign?

I don't know if it is. I think it's CFO Dollar Sign, yeah. Might be CFO Dollar Sign. Shit. And then Ria's is like a band. Yeah, it's a real band. Motionless and White. Is that...

Who does it? I don't know. I know it's a band If it's if it's not them, it's a band that's very similar. Yeah. But yeah, the men's rumble overall I thought was awesome. Like truly like one of the best rumbles. You were a little toasted for it, but I would go back and rewatch it because there's not a lot of surprises, but a lot of good moments, which is something the whole party was talking about. Do we want the surprises? Do we want the moments? Do we want the moments? And we got the moments. Joe Hendry being a big surprise in the men's. That was very cool. People wanted to see it. They got it. He got a huge pop.

He got a huge, like, moment. He got to hit a fucking big choke slam on the Miz, get speared by Roman. I was a little upset that when his music hit, I- maybe I was toast by that point. It felt like I was the only upset that when his music hit I maybe I was toast by that point It felt like I was the only one that clapped I felt like I was the only one that did the Maybe you were I don't even remember It felt like I was a I think I think the room was just excited about it the room was excited about a lot How do you hear Joe Henry's music and not do the clap dude? I don't get that a Lot of people had drinks in their hands a lot of people people had meatballs and a pappuccino pizza in their hands. I'm sure I fucking had a drink in my hand too and I probably put it down to make sure that I clap for that moment.

What are your thoughts on in the future because I think there's so much talent on the roster of... Because here's the answer to that. I already know what the correct answer to my own question is. They should do 40 they should move it to 40 because we're like we Yeah, because we we didn't get any of like the nostalgia acts We got no surprises like Joe Henry was a surprise, but like we all knew he was gonna be in a rumble Especially when he won the TNA title But you they don't have the depth and the women's like you can't move the men's to 40 and keep the women at 30 and

they do not have the depth to move to 40. Honestly though I wouldn't move it to 40 because I thought it was kind of a breath of fresh air this year that it wasn't like oh here's Evar and here's Eric and here's one of the Los Matadors and like yeah you know what I mean like they only in no disrespect to any of the names I just mentioned but they're always trying to fill the rumble out with like Single or with tag team acts that you know aren't even single stars not like the Usos Jimmy and Jay at this point They're their own single stars when they start trying to fill it out with tag teams It's like all right. It's not always a bad idea sometimes

You gotta have a heel tag team run the show for a little bit that's part of the story but it's just like or this year had no filler in the 90s in the 2000s I certainly remember times where you would have tag teams enter as singles in the rumble they're in there at the same time and now it's like oh are they gonna turn on each other like yeah man started a rumble once that right Jeff Yeah, there's been there's been plenty of rumbles. I think Kane and the Undertaker at one point We're in the rumbles either one of them. You gotta make a part of the story not just fucking you know Here comes oh, yeah

Exactly like and they have to do that sometimes so it's like yeah I like that this year it felt like it was just stacked like absolutely by the end of it We're like who's gonna come out is it gonna be? Logan Paul is it gonna be solo Sacoa is gonna be Randy Orton We still had all of these like big names that it could have been even when they were down to like One or two names left. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was gonna be the Ryback Honestly when J1 and Steve took the video you could see me say it in the video I'm like 31 wait is there 31 because I was like there's no way that they're actually just striking while the iron's hot on

Someone the fans love right like they got to pull this away in some way I'm so precondition to like no way can they just send the fans home happy here right like yeah This is happening, but no 31 no rock. I don't know if we're gonna get rock at WrestleMania in a match I think we'll get him showing up to maybe set something up for next year But it's not looking like he's gonna have a match No, and and I think the writing was on the wall when he came out as the final boss on Netflix But just was Dwayne that stunk. I hate that got that god about that you reminded me about it earlier this month Or I was a month ago today, and I already friggin forgot about it hated that I guess knows January 6th wasn't it yeah

I remember it was the holiday yeah Yeah, so why why yeah? Why have him dress come out to the theme like why not just have him come like like Triple H has the game and he has The King of Kings theme like have a fucking Dwayne Executive theme don't come out to the final loss of what was three two one. What was that? What did I mean? Why did they have to main event with that over Seth Ryder over a Drew McIntyre and CM Punk in the Hell in a Cell just so Rock could do 321. What is 321? Don't know and it who knows if it'll ever be explained

Drew McIntyre another person worth bringing up because he made some headlines. I don't know Whether or not to read these as real whether or not to read them as a work or a shoot But if you do watch the rumble back It seems that when he was eliminated by Damien Priest they bumped into LA night and Logan Paul And it was kind of like a cluttered spot Happens in the rumble a lot of big bodies in the ring a lot of moving parts It also kind of did seem like I'm not a fucking ring general here It seemed like Logan Paul and LA night like the cameras were on them

They were doing the spot and then they kind of rushed the Drew McIntyre elimination I don't know but Drew McIntyre apparently like stormed out of the arena and they said the same thing you brought it up the Night of that they said about CM Punk where it was like yeah, he stormed out Yeah, someone had to get their shit in yeah, I so I think now in the era of Triple H Booking and being at the head of everything, they are totally leaning into like, we could feed these dumbass journalists anything and they'll report it. In baseball, it's like you've got these people that went to college for like, these are smart

people. Wrestling journalists are just wrestling fans that gained a fall like they're assholes like us that gained a following on social media And then and then walk around like they're journalists so if I have a WWE like executive producer being like hey Jared, you know drew stormed out last like you're not gonna like Confirm that with other sources and work your back channels. They're just gonna be like,, oh, my God, like this guy fed me this huge story. I'm going to run with it. Like how many likes and retweets am I going to get? I totally believe that that's what happened is maybe he even did leave early

and he probably didn't go to the rest of the Royal Rumble party after party that they had. But is he furious over that spot? Probably not. But would it be crazy to think that WWE is now using, because they show all the WWE streamers now. Like anytime that there's like a big moment, they'll show the streamers on Netflix and whatever. So I think they're totally leaning into, like we have this community of people

that create content around our content and we can essentially use them as Like Carriers of our story, you know, I think they've done that in the past for sure The camera or something backstage like that was filmed by fans. They did that knowing that I will say I know there's wrestling journalists out there some the very Small group that do have their degrees and they do try to vet sources and stuff This is one of those things I could see easily getting past That of like oh so-and-so said it and then so-and-so and so heard it backstage and so and so didn't know if it was a work or a shoot. So then it got back to someone and they were being legit.

They were like, I don't know if it was a work or a shoot. So it gets out like that. Do you think Drew McIntyre should have a right to be upset if the reports are true that he's going to have a singles match with Damien Priest at Mania? Cause he considers that like a nothing match. Yeah, I think he I think that Drew McIntyre has had too great of a I mean you could say a year you could say he's had too great of a five years to not have a prominent spot at WrestleMania this year. It's just where does he fit because I think that's what I was thinking

like the when you say McIntyre priest My head kind of goes to like alright that fits in my mind like it gives them each a singles match on mania Is it a nothing match kind of like it's not a match that um Immediately thrilled about and intrigued by when you bring it up But also if they have just a big guy horse match and beat the fuck out of each other And it's like one of those McIntyre Se Seamus, Gunther, you know, classics. It could be awesome. It could be but what for? Like how many matches has Drew had in the past year that meant something? Like he had a point in his past year where he made a

bracelet feel more important than the World Heavyweight title. Like for real. Like that's... You're right. Like the blood feud with CM Punk Meant more than some of the matches then pretty much any match Gunther has had as world heavyweight champion All the brace drew in that match like could you find a way to make that a triple threat? But do you want to do that if they're going the direction of Seth Roman and Punk triple threat? You don't want to triple threat matches like that on Mania.

I don't want to say it's watered down, because it's not watered down. It's a little diluted right now, where like Seth came out on Raw last night, and he was like, fuck Roman Reigns, fuck CM Punk. But CM Punk's got beef with Roman, but he's also got beef with Sami Zayn and it's like everyone like and then Drew and now Kevin Owens attacked Sami

Zayn yeah so we're like everyone has beef with everyone so there's no like right now we just started WrestleMania season and you've got babyfaces who are beefing with babyfaces but then but then like Randy Orton like he got put up by Kevin Owens But Kevin Owens just started a new feud with Sammy's like where does it all fit like there's there's too many pieces and not all Of it makes sense because there's there's heels against heels There's baby face against baby faces And then there's these love triangles like you have with Seth Punk and Roman like the love triangle Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, like I don't know, like who, I don't know. I don't know. I didn't see that coming either until they set it up at the Rumble and I thought that was one of the best parts of the Rumble. Is them getting eliminated, Punk going up over the top and then the double foot curb stomp was fucking insane. The one on the stairs after that, him screaming in Paul Heyman's face, Punk getting mad at Paul Heyman, like all of that was awesome

Very very well done but all that to say Drew fits in with the the the orgy over here of Seth punk Roman Kevin Sammy like everyone that hates each other over here Randy and Then you drew belongs in that because he's been like Anti-bloodline he's been flirting with Seth and Kevin so he fits in that bubble and now you're just gonna give him a match With Damien Priest why? Yeah, it's because you need to find a spot for him. It's you know it's one of those like I guess we need to find a spot

I'm wondering if these two WrestleMania's You know, it's one of those like, I guess we need to fund a spot. I'm wondering if these two WrestleManias, they went to two nights and they made both nights feature much less matches. Now there's like five or six, maybe seven matches a night on Wrestlemania. I'm wondering if this year they're gonna go back to like a ten match a night card because they have so many people that they want to fit on. I kind of like the fact that we were at the longest Wrestlemania of all time. Like that is, like we'll never be yeah like that and our our clock I feel

like extended past WrestleMania because we were just walking on a highway trying to find like a taxi cab that came out of nowhere like we were in the Sahara desert or something I had to pay the dude double to take us back yeah city because he was like I'm not going back to Manhattan. It ain't happening The compromise he's like I'll just drop you off at the Port Authority and we were like fine Like just get us over the bridge through the tunnel whatever you need to do to get us into Manhattan Yeah, yeah, WrestleMania 35 if you were there, you know the horror show that it was getting out of that terrible terrible absolutely terrible If you were there, you know the horror show that it was getting out of that stadium. Terrible. Terrible.

Absolutely terrible. Another thing I wanted to bring up, I show Speed the special entrance into the men's Royal Rumble. The way it comes out, and I had him in our Royal Rumble pool. I had number eight. Akira Tozawa comes out and I'm like, all right, we're definitely not winning with Akira Tozawa. And then he gets attacked. And I'm like, all right, maybe we're gonna get a replacement here

Who could we get could it be someone funny or could it be someone that you know might legitimately win this thing for us? And no they come back to gorilla with the camera It's speed in the back and I love the way they shot it all is like I shot triplets like speed get out there He's in the room He's talking to step You're in the rubble. He's like what? What does that mean? They sent him out there with his streamer so he's still live on his own fucking stream

going through the curtain. He comes out, he dumps Otis along with Bron Breaker and then Bron Breaker gives him a high five, he does his backflip and Bron Breaker hits him like a Mack truck office linebacker style, spears him out of his shoes throws them over the top then Otis launches him over the announce table he like lost a chunk out of his leg did you see that did you see I did see that it was so painful that probably hurts like a motherfucker in the shower the sting of that oh my god but oh my god I loved the entire celebrity involvement they had I

love I don't want to say I love speed I don't know that much about speed, but I love speeds involvement in the WWE his RKO that he took at WrestleMania last year when he was barking and Randy Orton's face And then yeah, you're barked at his face and our code him. He's been great This is like apparently the most viewed clip in the history of the Royal Rumble So yeah million views in 24 hours. This is the way to do the celeb involvement. This is like, I feel like nobody was like rolling their eyes or cringing at this.

No, and so I don't, like I know of him, I've never watched, like I don't watch streamers in general, but I know of him. Usually I don't like celebrity involvement if they're not fans. Like I like when Jelly Roll came out and he like dropped like a choke slam on the Miz. It's like yeah he's like a fan like that's a cool moment to have but I think the the fat dude Mark that time to

play the game. Oh yeah. He was pissed that Speed was invited to the rumble because he's like he doesn't even like wrestling and I mean what a fall from grace like the mark dude because he he thinks he's like turned on him real quick yeah I mean they deserve it like he thought that like he should have but he basically thought he should have been treated like the rock at the royal rumble um he tried to I think he tried to get GCW to pay him like three grand booking fee just like sing one song and to like have like a limo car service or something Yeah, he lived he lived like down the street or something. Yeah Yeah, so we're out on mark. It was a nice run great story, but it's over and the whole thing about speed

What he didn't like was oh, he's not even a wrestling fan and blah blah blah, but it's like okay but if he has 35 million subscribers and he's streaming backstage, he is bringing in a whole audience of people that never would have been watching the Royal Rumble anyway. And I've seen it, because I'm doing it myself on a very, very, very much smaller scale. I'm taking people that never even considered

being wrestling fans and knowing like the rumble is fun enough to where this could be a great entry point for you to become a lifelong fan you just never know. So yes, like Speeds Impact, no pun intended, could be very great in terms of converting non-wrestling fans, people that never even considered being a wrestling fan into like, oh, this is kind of cool, even if he's not on it.

Like all you need is the entry point. And he is at least, he was a fan growing up for sure because he had clips with people backstage. You could tell he was referencing things that happened in like 2010, 2011. And he sang when I was a kid and I hated you, I liked you or so and so. But the fact that they also had

Him backstage the whole night Kai Sinaat backstage the whole night and allowing these people to stream We've dealt with you know going to ww shows going to UFC shows It's not always you're not always allowed to film the ring you could film your reaction But they don't want you filming the ring, and it's not even their rule necessarily It's like they're selling TV rights, so they're like shit We can't I wonder if something is new in the Netflix peacock era where this will be more allowed because I think that shit is really gonna open things up like the Kaisenot stream got millions of views in like an hour and it's just him

backstage hanging with the people hanging with the wrestlers some people are kayfabe and some people are just talking to him like he's normal and then he goes out to the crowd and he's able to film Speed getting speared and then immediately his reaction to it and people I assume as many people saw those clips as they saw the actual broadcast yeah, yeah, I mean yeah hundreds of millions of views and Did you see the John Cena clips with them backstage to with speed looking around pretending like he didn't see Cena? No He's like storming through backstage. He's like, where's John Cena? Where's and seen is just standing there like frozen and then eventually seen it just yells

He's like, yeah and speed like falls down and John Cena just runs away really funny clips Like I like again, I don't really know a ton about kaisan on speed I just I don't watch their streams But I watch the clips that I see on my timeline from them. Every clip I've seen has been very funny. So I understand why these guys are the most successful doing it. There's also a clip of... I show Speed the other week. He went down... I think it was somewhere in South America, maybe Colombia or something. Yeah.

They made him the mayor. Yeah, they made him the mayor for like an hour. And there's this video of him addressing the nation. And the entire nation showed up to see him talking at this balcony. And there's so many tweets that are like, this is like that one side character. Like when you check in with the weird side character on a sitcom and this is their side plot.

Yeah. But yeah, there's like 25,000 people like showed up. I was surprised we didn't get Kaisenat in the Rumble as well to like throw Speed out or something. I was also surprised we didn't get Pat McAfee in the Rumble, being it was an indie. But also I know him and the Colts are feuding right now. I don't know if that was a touchy thing. Are they? Oh, big time.

Public, yeah. I don't know the exact details of it, but I'm pretty sure... The broad strokes, and this may be wrong if I'm wrong about this, excuse me. I think Pat criticized the way that the organization was doing some things the organization came back out like against him and some people Were like if you're not with us you're against this sort of thing and then everything Pat said was gonna happen Happened and then he put out this like pretty long tweet where he was like This is what you get for doing this this and this he canceled his season tickets It's a very like big thing right now. Oh wow I Completely missed that

Yeah, maybe maybe that is part of it because I think he would have gotten a huge pop in indie I mean he did get a huge pop I saw the video when he they do the commentary entrances like before they go live Yeah, wild form still it's like the indies definitely behind him I just think the Colts in him are having like a beef right now. Yeah, I could see that. That sucks. That's yeah, it does. I know he was like the face of the friggin city. Yeah.

I mean, he kind of still is like when I think of India. I mean, he is. Yeah. Other than the two rumble matches, we also got a tag team match. The Motor City Machine Guns and DIY was fine. It was it was nothing special for that yeah it was kind of a buffer match and we got the WWE Championship ladder match Cody Rhodes versus Kevin Owens these two murdered each other and I knew they were going to I know they're lunatics if you watch their ladder match history we were talking about at the party we were like think back at the ladder matches they've had Kevin Owens

the crazy generical ladder match in ring of honor that everyone loves the very underrated Finn Balor ladder match at NXT Brooklyn he's got a couple of these and obviously anytime Kevin Owens is in any kind of gimmick match He's probably taking the most ridiculous bumps you've ever seen since fucking Mick Foley And then you've got Cody Rhodes, and he's just as big a lunatic. He's doing crazy flaming table spots in AEW He's doing the thumbtacks. He's doing the dives off the cages the Sammy Guevara ladder match So you put those two together you think they're also like close from back, you know back in the day the dusty stuff So they're probably more comfortable with beating the fuck out of each other and they went out there They beat the fuck out of each other. This was like one of my favorite one-on-one matches

I've seen in months just because it was so brutal there were so many different spots that had the whole room Gasping and being like oh my god Like what do they do the final spot the Alabama slam spot was the most insane thing I've ever seen Yeah, it was it was amazing tremendous. It was up there with like the what was that the Selena del sol in the yeah I'll see yeah, which I was front row for by the way That this match had me walking away from it being like I wish that there This was like a three match blow off like go into it with 11 see for all the marbles. We're obviously I don't think we're gonna get that unless do you think that they'll have have like a rematch at

elimination chamber I don't think so because of what they just did it raw you know him coming out and hitting Sammy with the package pile driver unless Cody's like I want to avenge Sammy for some reason but I then again I don't know who Cody Cody would face it Elimination Chamber if not. Why did he do that to Sammy? I think K-Fabe because Sammy promised Kevin he would have his back at the Royal Rumble. And it is. Oh, he didn't knock him off the ladder. I think Kevin expected that.

Yeah. And there's a shot where Sammy almost looks like he's thinking about it. Yeah. Cody's going up to get it after the Alabama slam. I think in kayfabe Kevin's mind he's like, this is the guy who's been fucking us over. Like, he's the one that's wrong about all of this. Like, help me out, not him. Like, don't stand there while he wins the titles. Yeah. That did stand out in my mind. As Cody was climbing. And just Sammy being out there.

You know? Like, when he went out there was mind as Cody was climbing. And you can see Sammy being out there, you know? When he went out there was nothing that he really did out there, so there had to be a reason for it. And I think it was that. But like the shots of Cody standing over Kevin's like dead body, kind of heel vibes. Like they're leaning into this shit hard. That's not the shit that a baby face does. He had blood all over his face. He looked like he was like a zombie at the end of that match.

I don't know how he's like fined by RAW. Although he was still selling it on RAW. He like, when he came out, he looked like he was like stoking cussed, fucking hit the package pile driver and he was still kind of out of it. Yeah, yeah. I thought something happened in the scramble there

because it looked like he was bleeding, but he just really had a bad shiner from the bubble. Well, I think he I thought something happened in the scramble there because it looked like he was bleeding But he just really had a bad shiner from I well I think he had to get stitches and he might have like opened it up. Oh He definitely I think he had to get stitches like on his on his eyebrow like from the water I don't work. I think from one of the spots. I don't know if it was from that ending Alabama slam spot But I don't know what else one it could have been. Yeah, I hope they have a rematch at the Elimination Chamber just because- They gotta put the title on Kevin at some point.

Like, he is so goddamn good and the fans are so behind him. I think it would be cool if, let's say, Cena wins the Elimination Chamber and chooses Cody and we get that match, Cena-Cody. I think Kevin would be a cool guy for Sina to drop the title to it. Maybe SummerSlam. Yeah. I think that could be really cool. Yeah. Imagine, imagine John Cena having the balls to take a package

pile driver in 2025. Imagine watching that happen. Imagine his next like Hollywood studio watching that. Yeah. Like, no. Yeah. By the way, some people are editing the oh in Loyalty as his bald spot. I saw that so loyalty respect that ain't yeah, that's that's over the line brother

He he in fairness I Respect what he said I think he was it Logan Paul's podcast He might have gone on and said I'm just cool with aging like I don't it is what it is He has no intentions of getting any kind of transplant or whatever but Go back to the bus. Yeah, if you're gonna give us a nostalgia run give us the nostalgia haircut. Give us the buzz cut I don't want the the wall street scene a haircut like get that shit out of here I hate it. I hate it and go get a fucking tan while you're at it.

Oh, is he not tan? I didn't notice that. No! He hasn't been tan in years! Like, the last time... Come on, Cena's been tan in the last couple years. No, he hasn't. No, he hasn't, Bob. Go back and watch all the SmackDown Raws and PLEs. He has been pale as fuck with his... He used to be like a tan guy, though?

Oh, yeah Yeah, you're gonna have to send me like some comparisons alright. Uh Send me watch any seen a match from before 2018 Listen just for the for the viewers on YouTube I want you to do me a favor you find one tan seen a picture for me and then one Recent white one, and I'm gonna put him right here as we're talking about it. Please and and don't use um you're gonna find the pictures don't use the prototype don't use the prototype because he was too tan yeah prototype was too tan give me 2013 2013 John Cena with the

buzz cut and the tan and then this John Cena this pale ass pasty wall street haircut John Cena with the buzz cut and the tan and then this John Cena this pale-ass pasty Wallstreet haircut John Cena it sucks Bob I Can't get into he had a decent showing in the rumble though. He did but here's the thing I I didn't notice it obviously at the time because I was very intoxicated But the next day when I was rewatching the clips and I saw some of the feedback people fans were like he is when I was rewatching the clips and I saw some of the feedback people fans were like he is Can he be serious for a moment like he's like jumping around and the overly animated reactions

They're like he almost feels like the he's playing a father in a sitcom That's that's Cena bro, but it's not like it is Remember when he won money in the bank and it came off and he was just like Remember remember when he was in money in the bank 2011 and he was walking into a hostile environment and he was serious He didn't even do the hustle loyalty respect. That's different. That's a hostile environment. This is this is a celebration Hey, it's the last time my last royal rumble stew. Look at those goosebumps of mom But he's he's in the ring with Roman Reigns the tribal chief version of Roman Reigns Seth Rollins and his arch-rival CM Punk He's in the ring with Punk for the first time a stare down and he's hopping around like Bugs Bunny

I guess what he's gonna regret that I think that was a kayfabe mistake It's like he's not taking this shit seriously enough. He thinks he's on this fun dandy retirement tour he gets his ass tossed by Jey Uso someone that ten years ago he would have spit in the face of in terms of you know you think Jey Uso is gonna throw me out of the Royal Rumble ass like I think it's one of those things he came out at the Royal Rumble cut a great promo in the post show whatever where he's like I'm declared for the elimination chamber now he's got to lock in he's's gotta go back to the old me. And Punk even said to Chael Sonnen in DC,

he's like, if I would have booked the Rumble, I would have had me and Cena last and I would have had Cena throw my ass out. And I was like, oh damn, that would have been good. At the same time, given J-Usso the Rumble rub and having that be the last two at the elimination chamber, now that's intriguing to me.

And it could make sense where if Punk and Cena are the final two in the chamber, you let them cook, you let them have fucking 10-15 minutes by themselves. And you have Cena go over, now Punk needs to get on WrestleMania and he doesn't have an avenue there, oh wait, he does. Paul Heyman owes him a favor. So he demands his way into that WrestleMania main event then triple threat Seth Rollins Roman Reigns CM Punk maybe that night you have Heyman Like with Punk and I think Roman goes over in that triple threat if you do that triple threat

could be Yeah, I think one of the one of the thoughts that I had last night watching raw, just the main event being Sami Zayn versus CM Punk, I was just sitting there probably, I don't know, seven minutes into the match being like, I can't believe it's 2025 and I'm watching CM Punk main eventing Monday night raw against Sami Zayn. You know, just like no disrespect to Sami, he Zane, you know, just like no disrespect to Sammy He is like, you know, I know the angles you're not on my level like that, you know, they're on similar levels it's not like

They're on the same level. Well when when he when he Had the match against Seth on the the debut of Netflix on raw that raw felt like a pay-per-view So that I wasn't sitting there being like, wow, I can't believe I'm watching punk on Monday Night Raw main event. That felt like a pay-per-view. But to just have punk in a singles match on Monday Night Raw in 2025, I was like, wow.

I was just appreciating it. I was just appreciating the fact that I had it. Didn't care if you went over. I was just watching it it. I was just appreciating the fact that I had it didn't care if you went over I was just watching it being you know It's funny is I had that last week with Rey Mysterio versus Kofi Kingston I swear to God sitting there watching Rey versus Kofi Kingston going you know I know this match really means nothing But I just can't believe I'm still watching Rey Mysterio wrestle like yeah Just going out there and having matches like he's one of the boy like he's one of the young guys

Even in the Royal Rumble I mean Penta fucked up and double foot touch to like two seconds into the match But the fact that we got to watch Rey Mysterio and Penta open the rumble I was like this is fucking cool, and I saw someone posted a video of Rey getting more lasers on his knee They were like he's gonna be doing this till he's 90 Yeah, yeah Even just like the spot where like Logan pulled ray out of the ring last night And he would just like face plant it on the mat. Yeah, I'm like this man is 50

And he's still taking crazy shit like that. Yeah, yeah He's moves like he's fucking in his 30s. Yeah, this hurricane Rana's and shit also I love J J Usu pulled out a poison Rana like the reverse one in the rumble they were like yeah He's like beating the you know to move allegations or whatever Yeah, I'm pulling out a third tonight I also like the video it broke a fave but seeing Jimmy and Jacob greeting him backstage was fucking pretty cool Jacob in a in a yeet t-shirt. I know

Showing like how much he's loving the family put the flowers on him. I don't know if it's that's the ulla falla I don't think no it's different. Yeah, it know if it's that's the ulla falla. I don't think knows it's different Yeah, yeah, it's different. You gotta know your ulla falla history Bob Did you see the video from last year's Royal Rumble where Jacob fought to was just in the crowd and lose in his mind Yeah, he was eating with a Zilla I don't know if he was with Zilla, but Zilla Zillailla's in the crowd to this day. Like he'll just go to the shows even now. Yeah, but yeah, Jacob was just in the crowd Yeeting to Jay's theme. He's basically doing his fucking dance in the crowd too.

Yeah, and by the way, that was huge when he's doing that in the rumble. They had some great moments like the yeet versus yeah, the LA night Jay going back and forth and they're each hitting their thing. Jacob when he's doing every time he gets hit by Roman He fucking does the little thing goes and hits another good rumble moment very underrated didn't really get talked about enough Braun breaker a hitting Roman Reigns with an amazing spear and Roman selling the fuck out of it Like that was a moment everyone in the crowd. Oh my god Heyman had a great reaction on the outside then unfortunately kind of got forgot after the match How did you feel? Uh, you know, did you did you see the nod that they made the brawn breaker roman moment where

brawn Spears roman and then brawn goes to throw out roman and he does like the pirouette and throws brawn over turns Yeah, that's how familiar What is that familiar from? That is how, uh, Batista eliminated Roman in the rumble. You're right. Absolutely. Yeah. So Roman learned from his mistakes there. Yep. I like that.

I was going to say, how do you feel now that we're a few days later, you're not intoxicated. I know you were very upset the night of about the decision to have Logan Paul eliminate CM Punk. I said that No, no, you were upset about it. But how do you know about it now? I did not remember that Yeah, yeah, yeah that so that alright. That's news to sober Jared. I didn't know that Logan Paul eliminated CM Punk. Yeah So you're getting a fresh reaction right now It's whatever I mean I think I was more just upset that punk got eliminated

Yeah, I mean you were riding or dying at that point You were so drunk that kfabe went out the window and this was this was a legit real brother Yeah, I was talking to Nate about it, and we were both agreeing that it's like you set up the thing with Sammy You're not on my level It would have been nice to have Sammy toss him at the same time if Sammy tosses CM Punk booze come down I think and and Sammy doesn't deserve those booze. They're not necessarily even directed towards Sammy It's just people love CM Punk. So I think you almost have to have a shithead eliminate CM Punk I think it almost has to be a Logan Paul or you could have a Jacob Fatu, you could have like a big badass

heel or you could have like a Dominic Mysterio. Bronbreaker. Bron could have done it as well. Bron's a tweener right now because he's clearly a heel but every time he pops up on camera you get the dog barks. Yeah. And also was his gear, the numbers on it, was that Steiner math gear? I didn't notice that, but that would be very funny if it was. Yeah, yeah, I think it might have been. I don't know. I couldn't tell.

Rich Callahan brought that up and that was his idea and I was like, I can't tell but I need it to be. Also, there was a sign in the crowd that said like soprano season Three episode seven and had like an exact time stamp of like it's just a funny moment The sopranos were uncle june like he tries to start a blender without the cap on it so fucking goes every He's like oh motherfucking bitch That's the yeah, that's what the fucking sign in the crowd said they're trying to have more people bring signs by the way Have you seen that they have sign stations at the arena? The arenas and the airport the Indy Airport had a sign station. Oh, all right. How about that? Interesting I bet you that's just triple H being like yeah

I remember back in the day when everyone had fucking signs there were signs everywhere like let's bring that right on TV It's also very fun like as a kid I remember making signs as a show that being said I mean Just the worst when you're there live and someone pulls up a sign in front of you can't see shit. Yeah J or Jimmy I can't tell yeah Yeah, yeah, I mean I definitely missed the signs that was a that was an event back in the 90s the late 90s when Everybody had a sign they were all some in the 90s the late 90s when everybody had a sign They were all some of the signs were just like Eric Cartman. Yeah. All right

That's just a sign you want to get on TV a lot of times sometimes you bring a generic one You know you bring a generic you suck and you're like I'll see someone I hate yeah some of them were just gay slurs And a lot of them in the 90s a lot of them yeah they weren't confiscated either they were welcomed and encouraged actually yeah USA Network was like let's move in on that. Great gold dust sign brother yeah yeah yeah those were the days you could just bring whatever sign you wanted I remember I was at the RAW where Vince McMahon revealed himself and it was me Austin it was me all along Austin sure you would I'm sure you've told me that before but like oh front row you were actually there

Holy shit front row. Yeah, I've sent you this little Jared shocked Yeah Yeah, but I mean like that was the night that big show chokeslam the Undertaker through the ring. Oh, great, great moment. Can I send you those videos and you can put them up here? They're like super, they're super zoomed in. I don't know if I'm allowed. Will WWE get me? No, because it's literally, it's cropped to just me.

Oh, then yeah, yeah. Then I'll put it in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm in the crowd and I think like Xbox music hits and I'm just like I think yeah, I do remember that I do remember that and then I want to say there was another point where I think like Undertaker a big show is coming out and I have mr. Socko on my hand and I'm just waving mr. Socko and then I think Kane Kane goes to like choke slam someone he gets like the wrap around their neck and I'm just like Yeah! Yes! I mean have the fucking time of my life. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that would have been June

99 Would have been a month before my first birthday. Damn. Yeah. Yeah, so you weren't watching live. You didn't see me. No, no, I wasn't watching live. Actually I could have been watching live if like my brother was watching live and I was in the room.

But that's really the only chance I had at seeing that live. Yeah. I definitely wasn't like, oh, that's my future like podcast co-host, the Rock Team partner. Tag Team partner. Yeah, no. Is there anything else from the Rumble or the RAW after that we're forgetting? Anything leading into WrestleMania that we wanna touch on? Like, Elimination Chamber, obviously huge, Toronto, it's gonna be awesome.

I think the Chamber match itself is gonna be absolutely stacked. Who do you think is gonna qualify? Who was the other qualifying match? It was, didn't they announce one for SmackDown? We stacked who do you think is gonna qualify who was the other qualifying match it was? To then didn't they announce one for Smackdown they did I? Could find it on Twitter. I'm sure yeah, I can't remember who the other qualifying match was but I know like punk is in and See, you know, I hate how That was the other thing that I was saying

When everyone was over for the rumble I was like, why can you just declare for the Rumble and only 15 people do it? Because if you win it, you get to challenge for any title at WrestleMania and you can just say, I'm doing it. But for the elimination chamber, you have to qualify. Like, why wouldn't every guy in that out to just? Yeah. Like, why wouldn't every guy on the roster be like, oh, I'm gonna be in the rumble. Yeah. So we have next week Logan Paul versus Rey Mysterio.

Logan Paul will obviously be going over there. But also, I think Dominik told Finn Balor that he got him a qualifier match. Yes. Right, so I could see Finn, I mean, I could see Finn losing a qualifier as well to, you know, someone else, but I could see Finn getting in that match. Um, that'll be fucking stacked. I, the, I will admit the new chamber is meh.

It's still mid to me in relation to like the old chamber. And I know it's way better on everyone's bodies and I'm For you know preserving the wrestlers, but just not having like the steel chains slam Yeah, like it's just like plexiglass now. It's like all right, but and they'll get excited for it Yeah with the amount of names involved this year. I'll get excited for it I don't know what Cody Rhodes is gonna do unless it's like a tag team thing. I Don't know what you do with that. The one thing that we're leaving out here is they are kayfabing an injury for Roman

where he's out for the foreseeable future. So I saw that coming as soon as he got stomped twice. Yeah, but like, is that devastating enough to miss elimination chamber? We got double foot stomped,, he got double foot stomped. Like, two feet, nobody, that's never happened to anybody. On a mat. But, but they say that they act like kayfabe, the mats on the outside are like more painful than the ring. Which they actually are.

I guess. No give on them. It's just concrete under that mat. Well, he got stomped on the stairs too. On the stairs as well Yeah, and then did you see the video him getting like taken out through the crowd? Roman yeah, no, bro. You got to see this video. It's so funny. He looks drunk as fuck and he looks like you Well cuz his hair is like up and over here. He's like

Yeah, and he keeps looking back to the ring He's like I gotta go back to the ring and they're like no no no Roman you can't yeah He's totally like kayfabe and through the crowd that was funny and seeing speed they put speed in a golf cart I did and they took him through and he like turned his stream off all angry He's like I'm never coming back to WWE again that that was all really funny stuff. Yeah overall good rumble only four matches on the card I probably would have if I were booking I would have Taken the tag team match off the card and putting like an IC or US title match in its place Yeah, the tag team match was just like yeah

It was a but we all knew as a buffer and it was two out of three falls as well So it went on for a little bit longer than it should have it was a fine match There's nothing bad about it, but it was just like, there's nothing notable about it. And I'm excited for WrestleMania. We're in this unpredictable era of WrestleMania. Like you said, we don't really know. Everyone's feuding with everyone right now.

We don't know what direction they're gonna go. There's a lot of directions that they can go. A lot of directions that are exciting as well. I'm down for the Jey Uso thing. I know people are shitting on it. Don't think he's gonna main event WrestleMania I got shit for that too when I said that on Twitter like I think he'll open people were like You think he's gonna win the Royal Rumble and open WrestleMania. It's like yeah, it's happened before why would that be so crazy?

Yeah, I'm with you a hundred percent like that was and also opening WrestleMania with the yeet entrance would be a fucking huge moment To open like that would have the whole crowd going nuts for the opening of WrestleMania They want those moments. That's why I mentioned Kirk's point about the theme being yes Because you just you open it with my dozen to have my dozen partner by the way. Oh There you go I'm on team minahan. Are you really it's me Clemmer and Kirk team minahan officially. I'll see how long you last Come on. Don't say that no I mean, it's just I'm looking at the I'm looking at the history and

I want to say he's on His 17th different teammate for the dozen. I think Clemmer goes before me I think for sure me and Kirk. We're gonna be like this minifans for life I think we're gonna have decent like knowledge Gaps almost like I think maybe yeah, I'll get some of the earlier celeb mashup Music stuff and he'll obviously dominate everything movies golf sports. You know movies though action You know more recent movies, but Kirk knows like every fucking movie nominated every Oscar He's like a true encyclopedia with that shit. I like a lot of the pop culture famous movies.

Yeah. Yeah. I can be humble about my new movie knowledge, but I think, and I know Kirk would agree, me and Kirk are better fits as teammates than Kirk and Clemmer. Cause, and Clemmer knows that as well. Clemmer's knowledge is basically Kirk Jr.

Yeah. Like it's all of the same thing Kirk knows, but not everything I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know if he knows all that. Yeah. Yeah.

It's like, I love Clemmer. He's a great teammate. He's my fellow honker. I'm not shitting on him, but he would admit the same. His, his knowledge with Kirk aligns a lot more than my knowledge with Kirk, but I'm excited for the trio. It's something that nobody saw coming. Me and Kirk teaming up.

That that's like Kirk being like, I taught you everything that you know, but not everything that I know. Correct. I think that's a good way of putting it. Yeah. That was From the Top Rope, Royal Rumble Edition. We'll have to do another one of these for the Chamber, of course, leading into WrestleMania.

It's fun to do these. It's fun to talk wrestling again. Yeah, it is. And it's good that we have your attendance coming off the rumble to go into From the Top Rope together. Exactly. Yeah, that was the first time that we've watched a pay-per-view together in years, so many years. How many years? I don't know. Probably, I mean, five years. WrestleMania? Like WrestleMania 35? Probably. I think we watched the COVID mania on Zoom together. Didn't we do a show and we watched it on, didn't we stream that?

Were you part of that? Oh, you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. AJ Styles, Undertaker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was fun. I don't remember that a ton.

COVID is such a fucking blur. I'm like, I don't even remember who was that. You and me. I think Nate was on it. Was Brandon Walker on it. I want to say was Clem on there Clem might have been on there was Doug's on there was Eddie on there. I don't know I don't remember a bunch of guests. I think we had a bunch of people from the office that were like Nate, you know Nate for sure I think Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, the last time we watched a

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, but the last time we watched a paper view together was probably WrestleMania 35. I know, we gotta do it more often. The Rumble, I was in Miami with everyone for the Rumble. Do we have SummerSlam this year at MetLife? I believe so.

Maybe come down for SummerSlam, that'd be fun. I might be into that. That would be fun. Alright. But it's two nights. It is two nights. Yeah. We don't have to make those plans now.

It's a long ways away. It's in August. Yeah. I like doing more of these from the top rope field trips, we can call them. Let's do that. Alright. Thank you everyone for listening. Shout out to all the people in the dork party.

The dork party was a great time. Absolutely loved it. They welcomed me with open arms. If I wasn't welcomed into the dork party there would be an issue. I mean I'm a dork for sure. Yeah. But yeah that was from the top rope and we'll catch you when we catch you.