AFC South Preview Fantasy Football Draft Party & Spider-Man Brand New Day Review | The Clubhouse

It is 08:00 on the East Coast. It is 05:00 on the West Coast. It is the July 30 in the year of our lord 2026, season 17, episode three, seven hundred seventy six times. You have been welcome to the clubhouse podcast, your one stop shop for all things sports, entertainment, pop culture, and pro wrestling. Welcome. My name is Rob. I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast. And if we've learned anything, it's why it's important to be logged in at 06:45 when there's conversations to be had so we don't have to get yelling when we're doing countdowns. That way is my cohost and a man who finally got his soccer shirt in, and we're both wearing soccer shirts because we are now on the countdown. We are now four days away from Ted Lasso. He is I cannot wait till we get to this because everything is getting better with the world, and the world is better with Ted Lasso. At the bottom of your screen is the official fact checker of Sooner Gator Productions and a man who may or may not have worn a bib the other night. You may know him as Ike Bunu, but his mama named him Don Ford. I'm gonna call him Don Ford. Hey, man. All I'm gonna say is that I did get a bib. The question is, did I wear it? I believe that's literally what I just said. But I did get one. Redundant. And I still have it. I still have it. If you look up redundant in the dictionary, it says see redundant. Mhmm. Alright. Boys, let's dive right in. Dive. Today, we are talking AFC South because we are thirteen days away. Don, mark your calendar because it is specifically asked that you are there. Duffy Sports Grill on in the Knox Henderson area of Dallas. We will be doing the Sunset Lounge Stolen Water Media Conglomeration Fantasy Football Draft live. Don, you have specifically been asked to be there because I was told you did such a great job last year of doing the Vanna White thing. They're they wanna make sure you're there. Now what if I what if I, for the first time in my entire life, say, No. I no. I don't think you're going to say what you're going to say because there's a reason, and we talk off air about this. Okay. We're locked in, bro. Okay. There's a lot going on right now because if you go to stolenwatermedia.com I screwed up the the website yesterday about that. You have you, the person that is not one of us. Yeah. The royal you. Empire has some great opportunities. Okay. I'm gonna I had this later in the run sheet, but let's just go ahead and do it now. Good idea. We could double down too. Oh, stay with me. You have the option as a as as I don't wanna call it a buy in, but as a a tiered membership type thing for this event. You could be a scout. And what that means is you would you will advise one of us, not not just us. We're talking Norm. We're talking Reiner. We're talking Mac. We're talking everybody except the guys from El Maximo because there's some logistical things there that would that prevent them from being a part of this. You what's gonna happen is we're gonna draw names at random, and that person is going to sit with us and help us with the draft. That's one thing. Mhmm. You could also be a co owner of one of our of, of a team, which means we would give you the keys to the kingdom, and you could help us all the way through the season. And if you're really feeling saucy Really? You think you've got the guts. Mike Reiner, Norm Hitskas, radio hall of famers, legends, revolutionized sport talk radio on this planet as you know it. They're giving you the opportunity to run their team completely for the entire season. Oh, boy. Go to stolenwatermedia.com right now. Check it on the fantasy football deal. We'll talk more about Dudley's here in just a little while, but we're gonna be there live August 11. It's a Wednesday. It probably will count for our show that week because we might be a little exhausted by the time it's all said and done. Yeah. But I'm gonna tell you something. I was there yesterday. I was I guessed it on YDC. Mhmm. Very interesting, turn of events. Tell you what happened, but one of our guests surprised me. And I and he was surprised too because neither one of us realized we were involved in this deal. So and I'm very excited about this. But we'll talk more about Duffy's here in a little while because they wanna host your fantasy draft as well. Dudley's. Dudley's. Why do I keep saying I thought I said You keep saying Duffy's because that's what we had in South Florida all over the place, but Duffy sucks. It's Dudley's Sports Grill. I I Dudley's rocks. Like the Dudley boys. I think I got it wrong once, so I'm good. Dudley boys. At least. But Dudley's, Dudley's, Dudley's, Dudley's, Dudley's, Dudley's, Dudley's. Gotta think about Arnold's best friend on different strokes. Dudley's. But we'll be down there on the eleventh, and it's a really cool place. They've they've actually got one in Rockwall, and we're gonna talk about something they announced yesterday about the Rockwall location that's very intriguing at Dudley's. Dudley's. Alright. So let's get in. We're talking about the AFC South this week. Oh, boy. Towards opening day in the NFL. Alex, this is your bit, so run with it, brother. You know, I I gotta say there's there's a little bit of a pro con when you talk about the AFC South because the word is always potential. And I can't imagine a more boring division. So this might go really quickly, but we have some interesting stuff. Starting on top with the Houston Texans. Now, straight off the bat, statistic statistical analysis says that they should be around nine and a half wins. Now that would be really good except for the fact that yes, they won 12 games last year in a lighter schedule. CJ Stroud and the entire offense was almost as bad as the browns. I wanna say abysmal, but that almost feels like it's not a strong enough word. Now when you win 12 games and you're abysmal, they were twenty eighth in offensive success rate. They were twenty fifth in expected point average, and they were twenty second in points per drive, a team that won 12 games. That's how good this defense is. The defense behind Dameko Ryan's is lights out. They did. They have proven the mold for what we talked about a couple weeks ago with the Miami dolphins. Sacrifice the dead cap, build through the draft, and try to make something, and Houston is doing that. The problem they have is that their defense has been so great. Their offense, not so much. And you don't fix an offense by trading for a 29 year old running back. I don't care how much I like David Montgomery. That's giving up something for the twilight of a career. And I know football is weird that way because I say 29 and, oh god, I missed those years, but I would be ancient by NFL terms. But the thing about Houston is that they made some real under the radar brilliant moves because everything is gonna start with that offensive line. They signed Wyatt Teller, former Pro Bowler. They signed Braden Smith, former Pro Bowler. But more importantly, they signed Braden Smith, former Pro Bowler for rival Indianapolis. So they have built that lineup where they had some issues. So they have shifted to making a better running game. And Montgomery isn't really a true 29 because his carries have been split the last two to three seasons with Jamere Gibbs. And even last year, he barely touched the ball comparatively in the second half of the season. So it's almost like he had just half a season. So you would think, oh, but it's a high flying offense. They run three wide receiver sets. They love 11 personnel except for the fact that there's an exact replica much like Miami is doing with Houston's idea. If you look at the Rams last year, they realized they were failing when they got close to the end zone and had to get better efficiency in the running game. And we saw the Rams do really well last year despite my expectations. That was the biggest miss I had last year. I will own that. But why am I talking about the Rams with Houston? Well, Nick Cali is in his second season as the offensive coordinator and happens to be straight out of Sean McVeigh's coaching tree, which means he has the keys to the wizard on how to fix that. There is a very strong possibility Houston locks up this division before December, but that's because I don't think much of the rest of it. However, not only did they sign a couple of good offensive linemen, they also drafted an absolute mauler in Keelan Rutledge to play center. They are going to try to demolish every line they face. And having the 26 hardest schedule kind of puts that nine and a half feeling like, okay, that's why it's come down from 12. The offense being bad, they've done some things. The defense being absolutely electric. Okay. That carries to championships. I still only think they barely get over at 10 wins. Don, how many wins do you think Houston has? So what's the line again? Nine and a half, did you say? Correct. Actually, I'm gonna say I'm gonna go up a little bit for them. Okay. Last year, they were twelve and five. Mhmm. I'm just gonna say eleven eleven, four, and one. 11 and a tie. Okay. We're gonna have some fun with it. Yep. Okay. So Don's cutting his leg off for being exactly right potentially. But Rob, do you think Houston has a tie, or do you think it's straight wins and losses and how many? I refuse to put ties in my predictions. Same? For two reasons. One, don't like it. Two, it's Don's bit, and I'm not gonna steal somebody else's bit. Yeah. There's already a bit stealer here. They don't win this division. Okay. I'm gonna I'm not gonna bury the lead because I'm gonna justify after. I've got them at eight wins. Okay. They're gonna rip off five of them before the before the buy in week eight. They do have a tough run late on. They're back the the back of their schedule is brutal. Mhmm. They play Jacksonville overseas. Who is the pseudo overseas team? That's in division. And even though sometimes we're like, oh, these these international games, give them division rivalry games. I have no Absolutely. I'm on board with this. However, outside of that, they got one Monday night game. And if you know anything about the way we do this show, I gauge the the league's faith in a team by the number of games they play in prime time. And that's one more than I do. So give me eight wins for Houston, Houston, Houston. And I wanna clarify. You said five wins before the buy? Five before the buy in week eight. Okay. With my 10 wins, I have them at four before there, and I think they win six down those stretch. That that the back half of their schedule is just not fun. Well, for a team to succeed with that strong or difficult of a schedule, other teams have to fall, which brings us to the Indianapolis Colts, which was everybody's biggest surprise last year. And if they said they weren't surprised, they're lying. Sorry. Let's fill everybody in. Let's fill everybody in on that stretch after the buy. At charge at chargers, at Cleveland. Hold on a second. Let me let, you you want me to reply in real time on, where I think those six wins are? At at charge. For it. Loss. At Cleveland. Win. Hosting Indy. Win. Hosting Baltimore. Loss. At Pittsburgh. Win. Oh. At football club. Win. Hosting Jacksonville. Win. At eagles. Loss. At packers. Frozen loss. And hosting titans. Win. I mean, that's the that's the second half of their season. You better win games up front. Oh, yeah. I think they're gonna win on both ends just because of the defense and the running game. Yeah. Like that. They are going to be so unfun to watch. They're gonna be winning games 10 to seven, ten to six, thirteen to six. It's going to be ugly, but they're gonna win. And they're definitely gonna beat their division rivals in Indianapolis because I think that crash is coming. Statistically, they're looking at seven and a half wins after winning eight last year. But I believe they had most of those eight wins in the first couple of months because Daniel Jones was playing out of his mind. But one of the things that really is not working in Indianapolis of his favor is sometimes we talk about rest advantage when we're talking about these teams. It's how much more time a team has to prepare than their opponents. Indianapolis pretty much only has one real rest advantage and that's going to Philadelphia I believe in December they're still not winning that game because despite having the ninth easiest schedule based on 2020 five statistics, it's an illusion. Oh, they have the ninth easiest schedule. Yeah. That's because they get they're gonna get a Baltimore team that dealt with all the injuries in the world. They're gonna get a Kansas City team, which we're gonna talk about next week that had all the injuries in the world, and they're gonna get a Minnesota team that apparently did not have their quarterback of the future, but now they might. It's going to be bad, and teams are not gonna be shocked by Daniel Jones this year. He gets his one season with a team, and now it's back to the dumpster fire. Daniel Jones? Because somehow he was sixth in EPA among quarterbacks expected point he was sixth and then he tore his Achilles and that's pretty much a death knell for a mobile quarterback, which Daniel Jones is. That's a year. So you're looking at it and the coaching staff is amazing. I there is no denying that this is a really good coaching staff, but they also lost five pro bowlers. I did no replacements. They signed Arden Key pretty much the end of the list. Now I say that with all the love in the world for what, the queen ear say is doing there. There is no owner that I know cares about their team more than her. So she's gonna find a way to make things better. So I still think they're gonna be a little bit competitive, but I think there's a big crash and a lot of regression coming from where they got lucky last year. So even with seven and a half being a deflated number, I still don't think they hit it. I think they only get six wins. Don. There are train wreck rating to happen. I'm debating I'm debating four wins or five. I'm in a good mood. I'll say five. I'm still looking past that at all. Yeah. And it's it's one of those things. You can have the greatest coaches in the world, but you don't have the talent. It doesn't matter how good Staiken's offense is. It doesn't I think matter the cowboys are gonna spank them too. That's how bad it is. So Well, I only have them winning four games, so that's not a surprise. But Yeah. Rob, how do you feel about the colts? Not good. I think it would be a a a good start there. Good start. I've got them at six wins. Okay. Bad as they are, they've gotta go twelve weeks before they get the buy. Mhmm. That's a tough deal. They're gonna play football club overseas. Three of the four teams in this division play an overseas game. One of them plays two. So technically, your average is one perk. Yeah. They've got two primetime games. One Thursday, one Sunday. So no Monday nights for Indy. Yeah. I don't think they win either primetime game. This team this team's gonna struggle this year. Like, it's the AFC North and the NFC South. That's gonna be the tough ones to watch. That's all I'm saying. Six wins. Yeah. And when you get rid of your quarterback's security blanket to Pittsburgh, that's saying something. Mhmm. I literally think a third of their wins are the last two games. I think they have four wins going into Cleveland. Cleveland and hosting Jacksonville, which at that point, Jacksonville may be sitting everybody anyway because That is a very distinct possibility. But as the coach would say, not so fast, my friend. Jacksonville really surprised some people and did surprise me because as corny as Liam Cohen is and the worst delivery of Duvall that has ever been delivered. He unlocked some consistency from Trevor Lawrence. Now, if you just look at the surface level and some statistics, you would say, well, he was still basically average except he needed better receiving. And they went out and got Jacoby Myers midseason. He's gonna be better ingrained into the offense. Brian Thomas can't possibly be as bad as he was last year. He needs to work on his route tree because running a nine route isn't gonna cut it in the NFL if that's all you do. But they were thirty sixth in receiver errors. Now we've heard the term drops. That's just one part of it. Running the wrong route, making a bad play, poor effort, all gets lumped into receiver errors. They were 36. And I want you to think about that. There's 32 teams. It was 36 for Trevor Lawrence out of 32 teams. If you remove two thirds of the drops, so not Trevor Lawrence's fault, accurate passes that were not caught. He has a 70% completion percentage. I like Trevor Lawrence. I think this is a really fun offense. But losing Travis ETN to free agency, I'm not a big proponent for running backs. There are select ones that really have an effect. ETN may not have been a world beater as a running back, but he definitely made this offense work better. And it really is gonna be how do you feel about Chris Rodriguez junior? How do you feel about Basil Tuton? How do you feel about LaQuint Allen junior? Can those three kind of create a Cerberus or a Hydra that fills in for ETM? Maybe. I don't know. But they had one of the most ridiculous stats I've ever seen. In 2024, Jacksonville's defense only had nine turnovers total. That's when the that was the four win team. That's barely one half of a turnover per game. Exactly. Matt And yet and yet somehow last year without a lot of changes, they had 31. Yeah. There's gonna be a regression and a crash here. This this is arguably the biggest limb I'm going out on and not a Don Limb, an actual limb. They think it's nine and a half wins statistically. I'm gonna say it. You're going to find it. It's five. I think Jacksonville wins five games. Don you every year go to bat for these kitties. You always pick Jacksonville because you just had that one year that was right and they made the AFC championship. So what crazy thing are you gonna say in line with what other people think that puts them in the playoffs? That one, they're gonna win the division. Okay. K. And I said, Houston 11, five in one. I'm gonna say Jacksonville twelve, four in one because those two are gonna tie at the end of the season at the game that you have at the end of the season in Houston, which will give Jacksonville Please don't please please don't tell me you're saying that it's going to be one of those where they intentionally tie so that they both No. No. No. It's just that I had if one team's gonna tie, I have to choose another team that's gonna tie. Awkward phrasing. You can only have you can only have you can't have just one team that ties in the entire game. What what I'm Yeah. What I'm saying is is is this are you are you predicting a collusion tie based on what you're saying? No. No. No. It's just that's the game that's gonna tie because they're gonna be so beat up. You think it's just gonna be a legitimate tie? Okay. A legitimate tie goes into OT. Okay. So week fifth yeah. That's when we have 15 is the one you're saying is gonna tie in. So I'm just saying Okay. Yeah. Houston 1151. Jacksonville 1241. Okay. They're gonna win. Wrong. That's my go to team. How many wins? Because I know I don't have to hear about ties from you. I'm gonna say something that I don't say much on this show. I half agree with Don. Okay. Because they will win the division. It will be over, but they will win 10 games. Their buy is right in the middle, which is I'm sorry. Week seven. I got ahead of myself. Week seven for the bye. They've got back to back overseas games with the eagles and Houston Houston Houston. I am gonna say that Jacksonville, as we've said, this is they are the kings of the oversea games. Some would argue that they're visiting their new stadiums when they're over there. I don't know. It's a possibility. I think Philly's gonna come in there, and they're gonna lose. Wow. Jacksonville overseas, there's just something about it, especially since they're playing back to back games. They're gonna have plenty of time, brother. That makes a lot of sense. And they've got one of each primetime game. So they've got as many primetime games as two of these other teams combined. Mhmm. Two of got two and one of them got one. Yeah. I I have them winning week one, week eight with a massive rest advantage. Back to back in eleven and twelve and then 17. That's my list. Alright. So alright. You guys, especially Don has pretty much exhausted all of his wins for this division potentially, but here's my drumbeat and I feel like one of these years I'm gonna be right the way Don was with Jacksonville. Tennessee's gotta turn it around at some point. I don't know when it's going to be, but this this may not be the year. Statistics is showing six and a half as the line. But almost everything in Tennessee is brand new. This coaching staff is amazing. Okay. Robert Sala, who was not the problem in New York. Correct. You have Brian Dayball, who I do not believe was all of the problem in New York. Can't say I disagree there either. And Gus Bradley, who maybe wasn't ready to be a head coach, but has many, many, many years. Oh, I don't know. Architecting the legion of boom as a defensive coordinator. Three guys with head coaching experiences. That's all of your leads right now. I think these are the right guys to turn it around. Maybe not this year, but they're gonna start building because they already have the pieces on offense after this signing Wandell Robinson to play a slot. Drafting arguably the best receiver in this draft in Carnell Tate, who is going to become Cam Ward's best friend. Now everything is based on Cam Ward's development because he wasn't bad, but he did get hit a lot. So they bring in Brian Daboll who basically took Josh Allen from looking like a bust to peeing Josh Allen. So he's the right guy to coach up Cam Ward on this. And I think Carnell Tate's going to be the big thing. He's going to be that get me 10 yards. I don't care how ugly the catch is. He's gonna be the guy. Wandell has had drop issues in the past, but they're not gonna be asking him to be a number one the way the Giants had to last year, and we saw how that went. So the other interesting thing you have on that is they only won three games last year, but they wound up facing 10 different teams with winning records. That's insane. When you think about most of their games are played twice against other teams. So 10 different teams winning records is insane. But I expect the 2027 to be where they really make some noise because I barely have them going over six and a half with eight wins. I have it about, you know, the opposite side of the coin from a Mike Tomlin season, which is nine and eight. So on top of the 10 winning teams, winning record teams they faced, they had seven one score games. They were in and lost all but two. Now in the NFL, that parity usually balances out to good teams are barely over 50%. Bad teams are under 50%. If you give them just a couple of what they should have had based on EPA and expected play average, they would have been four and three. So you have to wonder what could possibly have pushed it so far down. Oh, right. They had the worst head coach that may have ever had coached. Yeah. I said it. Sumi Callahan. He sucked. He did everything to make this team worse. Yeah. But he makes auto parts for the working man because that's who he Tommy. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Big Tom Callahan does that. This is Brian Callahan, the disappointment. Yeah. I'm coming at you. But this one's gonna be up in the air because you have a new team. I think 2026 going to be an experiment and maybe some balls bounce their way and they have basically a 500 record at eight wins. I may be on an island there. Don's already given away all the wins except for to Indianapolis. So how many wins do you have for Tennessee? Oh, I'm thinking it'd be nice today. I was gonna say three like last year, but I'll be nice and give them four. I like when he tees up the I'll be nice and I already have the number typed in because I know where we're going. But, Rob, I don't always know where we're going with your picks. So what do you think for Tennessee? This is the team that has the buy in week nine. I I this ain't the year. They're they're not this is not gonna be the team that people are gonna freak out over. One Sunday night game, two games that are in the late set. And those two games in the late set, Jacksonville and the Raiders. I'm sorry. Where do you see a Sunday night game? Because I have zero for them. Let me look. Let me look. Let me look. Let me look. Now granted, it may be that they are penciled in for one of the flex weeks as a Sunday night, but there's a distinct possibility that comes away. You know what? I was looking I found it. It was in preseason. Scratch that. Ah, okay. So they have zero primetime games. Zero primetime games. Zero international games. And they have two games that aren't in the early set. And, again, Jacksonville and the Raiders. So take care of what you're paying for it. I'm going more than Don, but I'm only going six. I'm barely gonna hit the under on this. Okay. Yeah. That that's solid. Thanks. So that wraps us up on the They and Indy will be in the stellar, but Indy will have the tiebreaker. Gotcha. Alright. So that wraps up the AFC suck, I mean, for this week. Next week will be the AFC West where we were gonna get into my best call after my worst call, which is the Denver broncos and a number of other things that has a lot of moving parts. I think the AFC West is gonna be great, so you're gonna wanna see that next week. Alright. Let's keep it moving. Hard knock starts Tuesday, boys. Whoo. Defending Super Bowl champions. That's a surprise to me still. It's the first time they've ever done it. I know. It's still a surprise. And we talked about Dudley's earlier. Their location in Rockwell starting, I think it's, like, it's it's middle of next month. It's a five day Lobsterfest. Go on. Every day, they're gonna have a different lobster dish. They're gonna have live music, and they're gonna have a raffle. You want all the details. It's on yesterday's episode of YDC. Lobsterfest at Dudley's in Rockwall. And we talked about this earlier. If you want to have your fantasy football draft just like we're gonna do on August 11, Dudley's wants to host it. They've got a private room in the back. It's got some very comfy chairs. They've got sofas. They've got a pool table. They've got they've got their own bar back there if you want it. They've got two packages for your fantasy football draft right now. We have the wings, alcohol, and pizza because I'm not calling it by its initials even though they are. It's set for six to eight people. Oh, I'm done. I'm just done. I saw that on the flyer, and I was like I am so done right now. I was like, uh-huh. This is your friend. So $150 handles six to eight people. You're gonna get two domestic beer buckets, and that's gonna involve Bud Light, Miller, Coors, and and McUltra. You're gonna get two flatbreads. And let me tell you something, my friend. Oh, boy. I am not a big flatbread pizza guy. That flatbread that we had yesterday, it was it was mozzarella and pepperoni with just a drizzle of hot honey. I'm a tell you something. That'll change your religion. Mhmm. Two pounds of wings and chips and their wings are off the chain, bro. I'm I'm not even gonna bury the lead here. The buffalo's got a good kick, and it's not too spicy because they they had four four of their flavors of wings for us to try. Nice. Garlic Parmesan that's full without you needing an Altoid on the way out. Okay. The barbecue. Oh, they're barbecue. And then the oh, I can't remember what no. The fourth one was the lemon pepper. You ain't gotta go to Atlanta. Go to Dudley's because those lemon pepper wings are something else, brother. And you're gonna get chips and queso. All of that for a $150 plus tax and tip. Now if you're really feeling saucy and you wanna go up to 12 people, for $200, you can get their trophy chaser package. That's gonna get you three domestic beer buckets. You're getting an order of their nachos. Yeah. You're gonna get two flatbreads just like the other one. You're gonna get one pound of wings, but you're also gonna get an order of tendies. And they do garlic Parmesan on their fries that'll that'll just launch you into the stratosphere. And their tendies, very Reiner ate all the attendees. And Reiner only eats pizza at one place. He loved that pizza. Wow. They're fully Reiner approved. I was there. I saw it happen. And you're gonna get chips in queso. And I would we were talking. I was like, I will judge you by your queso. You have said this before. Yes. You have. Oh, and they also gave us the they they also brought us their, so we had the wings. We had the pizza. We had the tendies, and they brought out their soft pretzel that that it's one of those they hang it on a hook. Oh. Oh, I I hear my siren song. Get soft pretzel. Three dips. Alright? Okay. Cheese dip. You get honey Dijon mustard Two for two. Or Dijon mustard, and you get garlic honey butter. That's one dip. All three. One dip. Gentlemen, you have a good show. I'm gonna be out. Later. No. Like, that's that's awesome. I oh, I'm telling you. Every time we talked about food, I was like, just pack all of this up. Because that one of the things I said was like, because they they do serve like, they they do brisket nachos. Any of their salads you can do as a wrap. You walk in there and you can smell the barbecue. That's all you need to know, bro. And then you might have seen some, a little commercial spot that I might have cut yesterday. No. Could actually did two of them. There you go. I will confirm. Thank you, Ashley, for taking care of that. Ashley and Yvonne were were on yesterday. We had a run. Oh, check out Dudley's for your fantasy football draft because and and book now because there are already people booking. So you can go to the website right there, dudley's-sports.com, or you can give them a call. Google the number because we almost screwed it up yesterday. Yeah. That number on North Henderson would be 4692508810. 4692508810. Rumors abound that I might be down there Saturday night. Oh. To to honor a dear friend. And they're gonna be and they're gonna be showing SummerSlam. Nice. So, you know Yeah. What could happen? Not saying. I'm just saying. You know what? I I believe that's a real foxy idea, but I don't wanna hound you about it. I wanna say, by the way, shout out A and W root beer float zero sugar. That I have to try. Mug's doing one too. A and W's is a got a better blend of the two, but they're both good. K. So, of course, we're gonna talk about LeBron. Two years in early for $8,000,000. I literally had to read that notification, like, four times. I'm like, are we missing at least a digit in this? Nope. Like, nope. Two years, 8,000,000. I mean, the guys god goes to him for loans. Like, he's got Well, I I do still have a theory that this is part of the process and him eventually owning the expansion or transplanted Vegas team. I I really believe this is him. I'm not that idiot. But I I I don't know if that's the thing that that puts Philly over the top. Nor do I. What do we say on the show? You're the champs until somebody tells you otherwise. And then the guy that uncursed you, he's gonna have his own ice cream truck out there in Minneapolis this week. And you and you think about it, that team is only a couple hours north. Have you seen the the ice cream truck? Yes. I have. Love it. I love it so much. Getting to to Major League Baseball talk. Right now, I've got Nat Mills at my braves to tied it up three all. Just had Andre Jones in the in the booth because he went into the hall of fame this weekend. Deserved. Well deserved. Absolutely deserved. Arguably, the best center fielder I ever watched play live. Yeah. He puts the play for my brave, so I got a bias. But Well, and he played against my Mets, so you know that says something. So right now, it's a top of six. They were down three nothing, and they've clawed their way back into this thing. Well, they better for reasons. Yeah. Let's, let's get into state. In the AL East, the Toronto Blue Jays, they're currently nine games below 500, but they're 14 and a half back in this division. They're three back on Baltimore. Baltimore now four back on Boston. Red sox are four back on the yankees, and now Tampa Bay, they've won two in a row, one at the rangers expense last night. They've got a three and a half game lead in that division. In the AL Central, the Royals, yep, they're a royalin. They're 12 back. They are five and a half back of Detroit. Tigers now three and a half back on Minnesota. Minnesota's a game back on Cleveland. And the Guardians are two games back on Swiss. Swiss are now leading that division. Again. And in the, AL West, Los Angeles, Angels of Anaheim, Orange County, California, America, North America, Earth, Milky Way, Universe, Multiverse. They're still in last place. They're, 13 games back. They are four and a half or three and a half back on homeless vagabonds. Homeless vagabonds now, seven and a half back on Seattle in the middle of the pack. Seattle game and a half back on Houston, Houston, Houston, and the rangers after dropping two in Houston winning three, they are now a half game ahead in the AL West, and they will be playing each other next weekend. So Don't you just love when it that happens? And it's even better when it's the end of the season. In the AL West, Colorado Rockies are currently 26 and a half games back. I know. Yes. That too. They are, four and a half back on the Giants. San Francisco now nine back on San Diego. I feel like he used up all my brainpower on YDC history. San Diego now a game and a half back on Arizona, and the Dodgers now have a an 11 and a half game league in that division. By the way, Padres on a five game heater. In the and of Central, the reds are still terrible. They're 16 and a half back. They're three back on the cardinals. Saint Louis now a game back on your Pittsburgh pirates, Don. And you are seven games back on the cubs. Cubs are now five and a half back on Milwaukee and in the only division that matters. The NL East, the Mets are still struggling. And garbage. You're 17 games below 500, and you're 17 and a half back in the division. But the good news is To You're not North America's favorite game show. But to borrow Don's phrase, is that all? You're nine back on the Natinals. Natinals in Miami are tied, and they're both two games back on Philly, and Atlanta now has a six and a half game lead in that division. Alright, boys. Are you ready for North America's favorite game show? Yes. We are. I feel like I never am. What is the run differential for the second week in a row for the homeless vagabonds? What happened to my Rockies? By the way, are not last in the division. I am mad at my Rockies. How dare they not be the biggest losers in the league? I'm just So he's not allowed to root for a Pittsburgh team in baseball anymore is what he said. Yeah. Want to. But I'm I'm gonna be daring. I'm gonna say I was gonna say a 100, but I'm gonna be daring. One twenty five. Negative one twenty five. Alex. Yeah. I. Every game I saw this week looked like it was three two four two. So I was thinking in the range of, like, negative one zero eight, one zero nine, but I don't also don't remember what last week is. For comparison, Colorado Rockies are currently at a minus one thirteen. Oh. Okay. They jumped up a little bit. Nobody's I don't I don't know that we'll ever see a season like Swiss had last year. Oh god. No. We witnessed history. To be fair to be fair, we we did say that about the season where Baltimore ran the table, and then Chicago said, hold my dog. Homeless vagabonds are currently four and a half games up on law. Law in comparison has a run differential of a minus 71. Homeless Vagabonds are currently 18 games below 500. That's a four seventeen win percentage. They're nine and a half back in the division. They're seven and a half back on the on the Mariners. They're twenty one and thirty two at home, twenty four and thirty one on the road. Twenty four and thirty one. Three and seven in their last 10. Closest without going over is Don. Really? Because currently, homeless vagabonds have a run differential of minus one twenty eight. That is a minus 12 over last week. I'm proud of myself. It's almost August, boys. It's the days of summer here. That's why I called this episode that. TV that we watched this week. I'm gonna kinda cheat on this a little bit, but I will defer. You know, I don't remember watching much TV because I've just been very gaming and movie intensive this week. Don, do you have anything? Yeah. Two things. Because, because of the last week thing, the, Dark Side of the Ring premiere started, they've had a couple episodes which were Oh, they have been very good. I I lied. I have seen those. They have been very, very good. The TNA one was really, really good. The three parter. Yes. Yeah. The three parter. So, actually, we've learned a few things from that one. The second week, I I'm just gonna say because it hit home. If nothing more and I don't wanna say anything else except last week with John Oliver on Sunday. I haven't watched it yet. I haven't watched it. I'm not You have to see it. I'm waiting on the lovely and talented missus Urban. Have you seen it, Alex? That's alright. I I have not been watching the show, but I know exactly what you're referring to. So you if you can, just watch it. I we're made I I I think I know what you're talking about because I may have had ruined for me. It is that. So but when Jen gets home, I'm gonna try to watch it this evening. So Yeah. Do not ruin this for me. Mhmm. So and I said I was cheating a little bit. This actually has a foot in two worlds because 30 for 35. We are currently and the first three episodes are currently available of six. It's a six parter documenting the Shohei Ohtani Oh. Gambling thing with his interpreter from a couple of years ago. You mean when the interpreter took the fall? Well, that's that's we're getting to the point where there's questions. Uh-huh. Because episode three dropped today. They dropped the first two, and then they're doing one by one. It's it it I would say it's upper half of the 30 for 30 podcasts. Oh, that's that's pretty high. It's good. But murder at the u is one of my favorite. That's the last one they did. The one they did exposing the guy behind Berkram Yoga was really good. Done as well. I mean, if you because I'm not a true crime guy, but I like what thirty does with their podcasts. So check that out right now. It's called the betrayal of Shohei Ohtani. Yeah. I and I wanna clarify. There was an episode of I and I apologize. I didn't wanna step on you here, but an episode of Dark Side of the Ring that came after the TNA. Very different feel than most of the other episodes, and I greatly appreciated it. Okay. ABC, Fox, Disney, ESPN, Hulu. Alex I'm gonna be mad. Alex, rejoice. You're getting a new holiday themed Bob's Burger shortcoming this year. Nice. It will be called on the fourth day of Christmas. Okay. I I think I know where we're going with this one, and I approve. Futurama will also have a Christmas episode this year, and they're doing two more that and two other supersized episodes. Oh, interesting. Of of that on the Hulu. American Idol renewed for season twenty five to the shock of absolutely no one. What I think is the most upsetting thing for Alex, I think Yes. I I know what he's referring to was announced today. Disney Plus has canceled Wonder Man after one season despite getting renewed and an Emmy nomination. I I think there's some good to be had in this, though. I am disappointed we're not gonna get more Wonder Man, but I think that's because his screen's about to get larger. Alright. Because there is a connective tissue that we're gonna talk about in movies and have some reviews based on somebody who had writing and directing cred in Wonder Man and what's coming out this weekend. AMC has a renewed interview with the vampire for season four, and Don, they're gonna rename it for season four. They're doing queen of the damned. Okay. Cool. So Yeah. Hopefully, it gets better than staff thing if they're done. Queen of the damned. They got big shoes to fill because you need to crush that. That's all I'm saying. Mhmm. They're sold. CVS has canceled the Tracy Morgan spin off for the neighborhood crutch after one season, but he's got Reggie Dinkins, and that's Yeah. He's gonna be fine. Paramount plus announces today that they have ordered the clueless sequel series to production with the Alicia Silverstone. Interesting. That's cool. So Now is it an on screen or a producing for her? Do we know? She is in it. Oh, okay. Jerry is returning. Prime videos got some big announcements this week. If you're a fan of stars, which I think we all are, and if you're a fan of Crunchyroll, Prime Video is now offering a bundle where you can do both of them for $16.99 a month, which is almost a 25% saving. That's really good. I don't like the fact that I can't use my other logins for their hubs. I don't like that. Yeah. I appreciate that you can get to the hubs without having to go out, though. There is that benefit to it. I should be able to with with that login. Interesting announcement for season three of the Rings of Power, boys. Mhmm. We have the voice of the Balrog. Yep. And it is one Simon Pegg. Let's go. Yes. It is. Love that, man. Big fan. See, here's my problem, though. I can't not picture a comedic Balrog because it's Simon Pegg. Season two of Batman Caped Crusader kicks off Friday? Yes. It does. Did you see that announcement? I did not. Does the word Matthew Needham mean anything to you? Why do I know that? You might know him from Sherlock. He played Biza. He was Mhmm. In Bonaparte in Napoleon. He's, Lord Larys, the club foot strong on the house of the dragon. Mhmm. He is your voice for the joker. He's really good. He is if you I can see interestingly enough, I can see that from house of the dragon to Batman. I can see that connective tissue and the enunciation. The delivery. I can see the charisma that the Joker requires. Not a ton of stuff that came out of San Diego, this past weekend, but they had quality over quantity. That is very true. And because they also announced that the series that they're doing based on Carrie will kick off October 7 with all eight episodes. Oh, okay. So, TV on DVD and Blu ray this week just there was just a ton of PBS. Yeah. A ton in the list. Let's get into, movies, stuff we watched this week. I did not get to be there with you boys because I now have a board where the my sliding glass door used to be. Oh, no. Like, I I I did text you about how sad I was that you didn't. And let me just say this. Louis Lawn Service, they do a great job. It was a freak thing where it came to rock. I hold no no grudges, no ill will. They've been taking care of us for about three years now. Louis Lawn Service, if you're in this area, the guy does great job and it doesn't cost a ton. So Good. Yeah. They had to take the window out, and they it's like three to five business days. So it's a little darker in my living room right now. But what you're saying is now is the perfect time for movie movies in your living room. But but it but it actually it worked out well for me because it gave me a night to just chill. That's true. And I watched Raw on Monday night, I didn't have to watch it on Tuesday morning. I But I think you boys have to wait until we get the new releases if I'm not mistaken, unless you got anything. I will I will be happy to defer, but I want to say that when you do go, I would be more than happy to come see, but we'll talk about it more later. But I will say, Don, I did have to correct something in your review. Okay. Stated that the format you saw it in was not the format you saw it in. Okay. Because I thought it was in okay. But never right. You're on the wrong you're on the wrong side of the theater. Okay. That's it. They give me either way. I have besides the new release, I did probably see this the other night, Mortal Kombat part two. And I bet you hated it. I loved it. I love it too, but I I don't I wanna make you feel a little better about it. It was such fan service to those of us that played the games that Well, I I I love Raiden. That that was my character. Right. But what I'm saying is for specifically the later Mortal Kombat games. I'm gonna give you one little Easter egg, Don. Remember the bartender at the beginning that was talking to Johnny Cage? I think so. He was one of the guys that created the game. That was Ed Boone. Oh, really? Oh, that's Yeah. Yeah. That was Ed Boone. Okay. Yeah. Alright. So one other thing is if you remember the care oh, sorry. If you remember the character Noob Saibot who may or may not appear in this, that is the two creators names backwards, Boone and Tobias. Okay. So what the other one I saw, which was on Netflix was it's kind of a movie slash documentary called The Toxic Love Story. It was just released. It's basically a documentary of where a lady says she's being harassed and stuff, like, by her husband's ex and says had to get a restraining order and all that and was very but the whole twist and turn gets real interesting. The exit, the man or whatever is actually a a federal agent, a marshal. And the whole story has twist and turns. So it's one of those documentaries of just can't leave the x's alone enough, but I enjoyed it. So if you like that kind of thing, it'll be good. Rob, do you wanna say the line, or should I? Feel free. I was just So it's a feel good movie. I'm like Exactly. Albee's just took the first base coach's helmet off and rubbed his head. It just made me get good. Trey I think oh, well, the tonight, though, on TV is that, accused guilty or innocence, which I think starts tonight, which I always loved on A and E. And that's it. Nothing more. That's TV talked on. I know. I forgot that too. I forgot to put that in. I'm just adding it late. My bad. Then you should've waited till next week when you've actually watched it. I can't Do know how that works? Because that's why it's called stuff Sir, sir, I I you're talking about me doing it now. On. On. Are he doing the smart You are asking for logic Yeah. From Don Ford. Hence ask today? The name. Yeah. Trailer talk this week. I saw the trailer for Don't Say Good Luck. This is, Sunny Sandler's film. Oh. Adam Staller. She plays a girl that is trying to live her dream of she's in high school, and she wants to be an actress, and she gets into, she gets into a musical. Looks pretty good. Buscemi plays her grandfather, which was a little upsetting to me, but it looks pretty good. I also saw the trailer for lanterns. Oh, what did you think? To to there. I want to go to there. I want to go to there. Two more weeks. Very exciting. Matchbox the movie with John Cena. Oh, great. Can't wait not to see it. I have questions. I have many. So John Cena plays a guy who goes back to his hometown and meets up with his high school friends. Mhmm. And they end up getting they find out the hard way that he's actually a spy, and they get roped into a to a spy caper with him. But the concept of matchbox cars is so shoehorned into this. Sir, we've already had groundwork like this laid. What if the matchbox cars become family? Stay with me. Yeah. But the concept of the matchbox car is so shoehorned into this that it's you see the cars in flashbacks when they were kids. And then later in the trailer, he refers to them as the matchbox gang. And I'm like, why? Why? I mean, I understand the money part of it, but there's so much other things you could have done. Have you never heard the theory have you ever heard the theory about picking the worst script? When a studio has an IP that they absolutely need to use, they won't choose the best script because they're not good. They just choose the worst one because it'll still get people talking. And I also saw the trailer for a documentary called You Had to Be There. This looks amazing. There was a production of Godspell in Toronto in 1972. With a cast that remember, this is '72. So Yeah. Yeah. There this is before I was negative 11. But I'm just saying, like Yeah. It's it's called how the Toronto godspell ignited the comedy revolution. Let me just Okay. Okay. You had to be there. How the Toronto godspell ignited the comedy revolution spread love and overalls and created community that changed the world in a Canadian kind of way. That's the entire title. I feel like we're about to hear some massive names, aren't we? Mike Myers, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, John Candy, Dan Alroyd, Lin Manuel Miranda, Victor Garber, Janine D'Orofalo, Heidi Gardner, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Jane Eastwood, Gilda Radner, Paul Schaefer, Gary Gohlman. Are you kidding me? Apparently not. Star power. A little star power on that one. Coming up September 25. Okay. I will find a place to see this. Because it it talks about how this cast, this group of people basically changed comedy in especially in Canada and and the generations that came after them. That's why you have, like, Mike Myers and Heidi Gardner. Because they talk about it. I can't wait for this. Yeah. Looks fantastic. So find it on the tube of you. Mhmm. Don, we we lost, somebody that you're a big fan of this this past week. Glenn Hansard passed away at the age of 56. This is the male half of once. Mhmm. Yeah. I saw that. Who actually has a cameo at the end of power ballad. He's the homeless guy. And I Oh, that that was him. Yeah. That was him. And he was actually playing the song on his guitar. Yeah. Or see him. Like you see him a couple different times. But the first time you see him, he's actually playing the song that was nominated for an Oscar. People all over the industry just an out the outpouring of love for this man. It's yeah. When when you have the boss saying he's one of the greats Yeah. I mean, that kinda says just a little bit. Totally. That was the song. I couldn't remember off off the bat. Yeah. To our best of his family, friends, and fans of which we are. We do also wanna send a shout out to somebody on this show because this past weekend, Alex was featured on matinee heroes talking about the wolf, did a fantastic job, which also includes Craig's q and a with Mark DeCoscos, and it is hilarious. It is. It really, really is, but I also found the the fun connective tissue of this movie I love that it feels like almost nobody else saw that also happens to star a guy who I met when I was a child filming an HBO movie when that was still a thing. You you remember only the strong, right, Rob? Oh, yeah. You were around for that. Yeah. Where we all wanted to learn capoeira. And you have a really nice autograph from him as well. Yes. I do. I even had it hanging up behind me on an audio only podcast. So go check out Matt and A. Here's check out that show every week. It's a great show. I listen every week. Toy Story five has crossed a billion worldwide now. I I mean, it's Toy Story would just be a money printing machine at this point, would it not? And the Odyssey's already crossed 700,000,000. And still could. Did you see the headline for that? No. Which one? The extension. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's gonna be no one said they're prob they're gonna pull they're not gonna pull the 70 millimeter because there's so few theaters. It's probably gonna run till Thanksgiving at this point. So Very good possibility it goes all the way to Dune. Big announcements from San Diego this weekend. Mhmm. Black Panther three is set for 2028 with David Johnson to play T'Challa's son. Yep. Toussaint. I was in the Damson Idris group, but the moment they announced Johnson, I was like, that dude has skill. I'm cool with this. And another big thing coming to 2028 for Marvel, Ryan Gosling's gonna play Johnny Blaze in the Ghost Rider movie and I am here for it. Okay. I learned something about this. And I don't know if I told you about it Rob but Ryan Gosling pitched the story who to direct and him as Johnny Blaze. He has only ever pitched that level one time in his career. Would you like to guess what that project was? La la land. No. Drive. Okay. We're we're gonna skip ahead. No. Very highly. I've never seen it. I've never seen it. But but it's also not the answer. That's why I'm trying to skip ahead. Project Hail Mary was pitched by Gosling with Lord and Miller so that he he could be two for two. So I I am ready to get there. But I do kind of hope that they give, some credit. I am losing his name, from agents. Mendez or, Morales? The the one that played Ghost Rider in the TV show. Oh, okay. Which he did a great job for that character too. Yeah. I I I hope they give him some credibility, some maybe something multiversal because maybe it's cosmic ghost writer. We don't know. Yep. But the the the moment of the entire, comic book was Ryan Reynolds. Don, did you see that? No. I didn't. What happened? Ryan Reynolds put on a gray like an ashen gray Deadpool costume. K. And just walked the floor. People were taking pictures. He he got a picture with sergeant Slaughter. Nobody knew him. Nobody knew Until he started posting the pictures online. So he goes to the Comic Con as Deadpool because everybody dresses up and thinks it's just some guy, But he's just going around getting pictures. Hey. Hey. Cool costume. White. It was like a black and white style. Don't don't don't look up a don't look up details about the costume. Do not look up details about the costume. He walks into Hall H during the Avengers doomsday panel. He he was the last member of the q and a. Yeah. So he grabs the mic, and he was like, hey. When do we start filming? Yeah. And he he asked Paul Rudd a question. Why is he so downtrodden? And Paul Rudd is like, oh, I'm a Wrexham fan. I guess they knew. And so the next day, he just starts posting all these pictures. And I'm like, imagine being these people that thought they were just taking a picture with some random dude. Yeah. And you and you were taking a picture with Ryan Reynolds. I think That's why that man gets a pass with me no matter what happens in his life because that was fantastic. But a couple other things, John Legend is gonna play Harry Belafonte. Oh, that's good catch. I love it. It'll be called the road home. That was announced. That's really good. And for fans of Universal Hollywood Horror Nights Mhmm. You're getting a house based on Ozzy Osbourne. Yep. Was announced today. I saw the teaser video. It actually looks, yeah, I'm not gonna do it. No. Movie new releases this week, we have the, Olivia Wilde. I want your sex. So it's called Oh. That was the George Michael thing. And, the the movie you boys saw the of the Spidermans, and it's brand new day, not the Sting album. And you guys are kind of in the same ballpark. Well, I Yeah. You'd kinda have to be with this one because you you can argue no movie is perfect, and there's a couple of really distinct blemishes, but I also believe that they're intentional choices. And I'm not gonna go into it too much here because they can go to that website, look for our reviews, and find them. That's our website. Ding. I don't have the soundboard. But I, that's why I was avoiding it. And that, of course, it was in a it was the kind of the cool thing before the the screening ends and we'll say, you know, turn off your phones, all that. They said, please be spoiler free in your thing. Oh, they were. That's why I don't like it. If it no. If it wasn't in the trailer, I said nothing about it. You gotta give me a good one than that. I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try to do it tomorrow. But it it it was very, emotional, very good. I I was how they reckon it it really got to relationships very well. So Movies on DVD and Blu ray this coming Tuesday, the based on the video game exit eight. Mhmm. Available on Tuesday. I will neither confirm nor deny that I have officially staked my claim, and I may have a a four k set coming to the house that I may have to store upside down. Oh. Oh. The American pie by the way, cheaper at Barnes and Noble than it is on their website by, like That doesn't surprise me. By, like, $35. That does surprise me. American Pie two, the unrated limited edition four k steelbook. We have little fuckers in four k. Nope. The, I've heard rumor that this next one is an Amazon exclusive, but I've seen the packaging and it looks fantastic. It's the four k Rambo one through five set. Oh, okay. Seen a couple of reviews. People are raving over this. The twentieth anniversary four k steelbook for Ricky Buby, Talladega Nights, which boys, speaking of which Okay. There's a new Jolly video coming. They went to Talladega for the race. Oh my. I cannot wait until this I I will say Talladega Nights is what got me to come around on Will Ferrell. He I found him unbearable before that. Tom Cruise, use your magic. Help me, Tom Cruise. Arrow Video has their limited edition of the people versus Larry Flint. I saw that in the Love that movie. That is a really good movie even if it is. You know, and it it means that that bit movie, there was a lot of criticism in the academy after that because how it got shunned by the academy for, like, best actor, best director, which they should've got more nominations than it did. But, yeah, I'll leave it at that. So It I I it's not a movie that I could watch multiple times. It was a director, and it's a great film. And it's just not one I could watch more than once. Yeah. Scream Factory is doing a four k steelbook limited edition for Night of the Comet, so I might have to update my collection with that one. And the Criterion Collection is doing a four k of a movie called Safe. So that being said, I can now say this. It's time to do this cheap popcast thing that we do as the latter half of our show as we talk about the week that was in our sport. Real quickly, Santos Escobar is now Romeo Malverde. So, adjust your roster accordingly. Romeo Bad Green. Got it. So But, honestly, before anything else, I really just if this entire segment was just playing the video I sent you, I would be happy. I'm not even kidding. TNA has released Victoria Crawford because, again, without Tessa Blanchard Expendable. Yeah. Big fans. Love her. Yeah. Yeah. Where where do you think she will go? Victoria. He just worked the convention circuit for a while. Yeah. You don't you don't see somebody trying to grab her or anything like that? No. Maybe backstage, but not not in the ring. One note from Impact. We had the the, match of the Hardy's and the righteous for the righteous deletion. Okay. And we had an appearance by the Mardi Gras belt. Of course, we did. Oh, man. Why? WWE news, another thing from San Diego, which was great. I I'm I'm glad I got to tell Alex about this before he could tell me about it. Mhmm. And Don, I don't know if you saw this, but they unveiled Mattel is doing a two pack of AJ Lee and Centimeters Punk. Okay. And it comes with a little Larry. Mhmm. Oh, boy. And the dog. And they filmed their their reaction to it when they brought it out. It's it's adorable. So they didn't know until after the I don't know if they knew or not. Yeah. Okay. I'm seeing it, like, you can you can tell punk's You can tell there was a motion. Yeah. They also that wasn't the only couple set that they also revealed because they did also reveal a Cardona and Chelsea Green not as much fanfare because of Larry, but very, very happy for both of them to Oh, yeah. Have that. And apparently, Matchbox did a, a limited edition Top Gun two pack that when you put it together, it's the Mig and then the F 14 on over it. Nice. Friend of the show, Jason Dilworth, put it on his, his social media. Looks very cool. Very good. SummerSlam weekend, boys. Oh, yeah. That's right. That's happening. Yeah. All I have for SummerSlam. Aldis wins this. Right? No. No. I think this is his one shot. No. I don't see him. No. So I am having a hard time being excited for any of this outside of the ladder match and even then that stretching. Some trip layout news, you have La Hiedra, did I say that right? Hiedra? La Hiedra. Yeah. And Laredo Kidd are your new triple A mixed tag team champions which. Very talented. Many many people are saying that that is good. That is the NXT Swan song for a little device and she's going to SmackDown. That wouldn't surprise me. So But did you see Grande's entrance? I did not. No. On horseback. Nice. So he has started to encapsulate and invite the crowd of adoring fans. And in the classic flag on one side, horse underneath, surrounded, entering the arena. It's just it's, I cannot love this man more. I just cannot love his And you know when he gets backstage and he's like, this is my life now. Yeah. It is. Absolutely. He should never take that mask off. I don't care. Announced today that night one of triple a mania thirty four or triple a triple a mania Trenta Iquatro will now be at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Oh, so they had more interest. So the pearl wasn't big enough. That's awesome. Apparently, due to ticket sales. They've had Yeah. Well, MGM Grand's not a massive arena. It's about 12 k at max. But the pearl is only, like, two. SmackDown, I think I know the answer to this. Mhmm. But in the opening segment, does this mean that all this goes back to being GM after the match? Cause they never real but whatever Yeah. They did. But on the show, they were like, he's just relinquishing. So I was like, is he gonna be GM again? Is he not? I I'm very kidding. I I think this is Aldis getting his big WWE match going to essentially what we're going to have in some form or another is it is an unofficial official retirement, but what they're going to do is he and Pierce will swap shows so that he and Gunther are separated. Yeah. I mean I mean, how many people You look at everybody who's gone to Gunther and everything from Pat McAfee to AJ to you name it. They all lose, but it's nothing bad to lose to him. Because he's that good. Yeah. Well, that's why they've even I believe they're still working on the trademark for career killer. I mean Yeah. So that's why I'm trying to think, well, you know, I don't see all this winning this one at all. I mean you would have to have some kind of crazy interference for it to make sense, but I could see that happening. Of course. You never see never in this business. Enter Nikki Bella. So now we're gonna have the Sorry. Tag at at SummerSlam because Okay. We put this on the line. Okay. And LA Knight, there's just something about every time he says you're gonna get slapped back to factory settings that just makes me get It's so perfect. It's such a great line. Yes. And that Damian Priest promo. Yeah. Bruh Bruh man was there. That's all he meant. Good mercy. Here's my statement about the opening segment of Raw. You know you could just lift the cage. Right? Because you lowered the cage, and then you had to raise it up anyway. I understand wrestling logic, but that was Or lack thereof. That was a little too acne for me. I was like, it's not bolted to the floor. Just raise the cage. The whole thing was just trash. The whole episode was trash. And then at the end, and new women's Intercontinental champion, Raquel Rodriguez, we're gonna see how this goes. For that. Yeah. NXT Mike Santana is now Cruz Montana. So adjust your roster accordingly. And I said this to Alex the other day when he and we're talking. If you have wrestled on their programming Mhmm. You should keep the name. I agree. But I I appreciate him coming out and explaining the name and making it suck less, I guess, would be the way to put it. Yeah. But, oh my god, the response when that was said by somebody else. Have you watched the promo yet? Yes. I have. I didn't. Grayson Waller. But remember, I've been the Grayson Waller guy since the jump. So Grayson Waller took the first minutes of that show, Don. Really? Okay. And basically did this generation's version of a pipe bomb. And. Oh, really? Okay. Don. I'm I'm the guy. No. No. No. I wanna put something in a compartmentalization for you, okay? Okay. He comes out absolutely booed. They're calling for other names. They're basically doing the Centimeters Punk thing when everybody was getting boring at one point, and they were just chanting Centimeters Punk because it's like, give us anything else. On this last this past NXT. But NXT. Okay. He cuts a promo so clean, so precise, and so biting. You can literally hear the crowd rotating as if it's Rocky four and the Russians start cheering him. That's how it was. That's all I'm saying. And the old those lines about the women's division just just is. So Gracie Waller NXT, I gotta check that. I'll I'll You do. It it's on YouTube. I'm not even gonna try to ruin it or just pull it up. It's awesome. I that's why I'm saying it's on YouTube. End of statement. AEW redemption was a thing in Montreal. Oh. It sucked so bad. You had a lot of belts move. It sucked so bad. Andrade El Idolo, who I'm gonna talk about in a minute. That was he should. He absolutely should. It was great. But Willow Nightgale first triple crown champion. Congratulations. I I love Willow. I love my friend more. Mhmm. Yep. Give her the give her the Owen now. Maya World is your new TBS champion breaking the Mhmm. Oh, it's my birthday. I'm gonna lose. It was her birthday, and she won. But I feel like that's an outdated reference because that's a different company. Right. AEW tends to do the reverse. Mike Bailey is your number one contender for the international title. Because hometown. Other than that, I mean Yeah. You said it. You said It it it was it was arguably the least interesting pay per view that AEW has done, but there was a lot of wrestling in it. It's not that it was bad. It was just not as it was not up to a paid event from AEW. It felt like, you know, dynamite without commercials. That's really what it was. And then you get the finish where Omega wins and I'm I'm sorry. Your main event was Kenny Omega versus Kevin Knight. Really? Did anybody think Omega was gonna lose? Did did think that was gonna win? Don, hold on a second. Yeah. This was literally just a setup for the Death Riders to then jump Kenny Omega and try and get Will Osprey to, quote, murder him? Yeah. But they brought up The way they did with Brian Danielson? Yeah. I know what you're talking to. And then Osprey has left the Death Riders, and it's just it was not interesting. And I feel bad saying that, but it was like, after the women's title match, I was done. And I don't even mean I was tired. I mean, like, I don't care what else happened. It was it was a thing. Yeah. With the kickoff of WWE radio this week Mhmm. Thunder has left busted open. Well, she was forced to. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. Who who did you say? I didn't hear. Who Thunder Rosa. Oh, okay. Oh, I don't know if Don knows about this. No. Channel one fifty two that used to be their normal wrestling channel is now WWE radio. Okay. They are keeping busted open as their morning show. And this weekend for SummerSlam, you will have Booker T and Vic Joseph doing separate commentary for SummerSlam kind of as an alternate audio. But nope. Big yawn. But everything non WWE has been cut. They're not gonna do anything but. Yeah. Yeah. That's where I'm pissed. Grand Slam Mexico's next week. Yeah. It is. Looking forward to it. This week's collision is tonight. Yep. Because SummerSlam. Of course. But from last week, if you have not watched the six man match of Dalton Castle and the Outrunners conglomeration. Yes. Do do not deny yourself joy. It is so happy. I just said I just said, match the duck on you. Let's do it to him. Because that was fantastic. So many great spots. I think the double j guitar shot may have been a little stiffer than they planned it because that thing didn't break well. They grabbed the wrong one. Oh god. And, Jack Perry talks about, quote, opportunities falling from the sky, end quote. There, and we move on. And on dynamite, as Alex said, Osprey officially gave his death rider's patch back to Moxley. Mhmm. There's a guy in reality of wrestling. Multiple time Texas champion. His name is Max Castellano. Okay. And I'm starting to wonder if he is gonna call gimmick infringement with Andrade Elivo. But if they work something out where he comes to AEW, I think it would be a really good storytelling because he has this lady with him all the time. Oh, okay. And she lights the cigar for him and all the things. I would love for if they if they brought him to AEW to tell the story of one of the girls that Andrade selfies with is her not knowing who she is, and that's how you do that thing. That would be a fun story. But, you know And and here's the interesting thing. Sometimes you have the enhancement talent, no disrespect, but sometimes you have that where there is some story to it. Yeah. I mean, we saw that here where newly engaged. Congratulations, Barrett Brown. They did a story with him getting squashed, you started it off with something going on, something with a story. You made it entertaining even though we knew, yeah, this is done in twelve seconds. Shout out to Christian Cage for mastering the art of subtlety. Watch that. Always has. Watch that promo exchange with them and with him and and, Adam and the young bucks. It's just it's good TV. You you know what note I have from that segment? What's that? Our production team's better than theirs. That sound was terrible. Do not job Willow to Mercedes, please. Yeah. You're you're you're barking into the wind. And they've had they've had a long history of some good matches. But And You're missing the obvious reason it's gonna happen, though. Why? Who was the original New Japan Women's Open or new new Japan Women's Strong Champion? What wasn't Will? Yeah. But it wasn't supposed to be. Yeah. I know. Mercedes called the audible because she broke her foot. This is her get back. And I'm pretty sure one of the people in the costumes in these HEB commercials is Billy Starks. I'm con because if you watch someone where they're, like, on the parade float, one of them looks just like her. And even though my recording cut off at two hours, I did find out that you have new trios champions in the demand. Yep. So you got that going for you. Ring of honor, they were right at two hours last week. No. They're It's just they've gotta do something. Yeah. Yeah. They gotta do something. Anything else you boys wanna talk about? I don't really have anything for me. Sorry, Don. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. What? Oh, no. No. I was just gonna I was gonna hand off to you. Well, I I don't know how true this is for the first thing. I heard that for SummerSlam, they only sold, like, 20,000 tickets for each night or something ridiculously low like that. Yeah. As a member of club WWE, I did receive an email for some wildly discounted tickets. So I'm betting there's some fire to that smoke. We. Yeah. We. What? I I wasn't trying to steal thunder. Just saying we. Yeah. You you were offered $30 tickets? Yeah. I got the email. Yeah. Okay. Because I'm part of that too. Yeah. And even some of it I was using that as a segue to say the price, Rob. Okay. And I just wanna add the real fast on the big four titles for SummerSlam, who do you think walks away with the belt on all four? I am so not invested in SummerSlam that I haven't really done any any looking into things. I just don't. This is this is the harshest SummerSlam card I have seen in a And it's supposed to be two nights. Yeah. So does Roman retain? Breaking news. Uh-oh. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Let me go back to the other thing because watch this. Watch this. Where'd you go? Where'd you go? Where'd you go? Mhmm. No. Hold on. I'm I've got a thing. Here it goes. We have breaking news coming from Little Elm, Texas. This is a really long graphic. Yeah. It is. But it's cool. We now go live to Alex. Deebo Samuel is signing a one year up to $7,000,000 contract to return to the San Francisco forty niners. Alright. I'm guessing Ricky Pearsall's knee is that bad. I don't I I I honestly think Roman Seth ends in the schmaz. But what would be the schmaz if you were booking it? I don't know. Because you can't turn any of the the bloodline yet. I have a bad feeling what that schmaz is. Go for it. Solo. Well, I read today originally that base run was not supposed to last long, but it's going so well. They're extending it. Well, I think that that's I think that's a red herring. I think you're going to have them lose the six man tag, Solo realizing he can't do it on his own or with people that aren't family, and we get the same thing they do all the time and you redux clash at the castle and here he comes hoodie on spike spear finish. Could be Zilla. Well, hopefully, he's got his stuff figured out, but I feel like he might be an NXT stop off first. What about Punk and Rhodes who walks away? I think that's a Rhodes one. Or actually, no. With my booking, it would be punk, but I think this might be a old school pass back and forth where Cody gets the win here. Punk gets it back at rumble or something along those lines. So when McIntyre return. Liv and the Eos guy who walks away, I think Liv. Nope. Oh, you think Eos? Okay. I think punk retains Eos. I mean, Liv stays. The latter match for the women, who do you think grabs the belt at the end? I think they could put it back on Jade. I can say I can be daring and say Chelsea Green. Why not? I don't know that that's really daring if you've ever watched any moments of unreal. I'm I'm just saying, you know what I'm saying? Why not? But what I'm saying, it's not that's not daring. Okay. It it's Don Daring. But you know what? Her husband did the same thing at WrestleMania. Yeah. Exactly. He only had the title for twenty four hours, lost it on Raw the next night to The Miz. I called it. Yep. And he lost it twenty four hours later to The Miz. Which apparently, I read I read today that that was that was the plan, that there wasn't it was supposed to be a one day run, which I don't Actually, you know what? It's it was a funny thing. Do you realize that the miss has not won a singles match since before 2024? Really? There's something I saw something like that. It was either his last win was in 2024 or before 2024. Okay. And he's o and 41 in singles matches since. And real fast, Obaf to me. I think he takes over Lesnar. I I I think that's low hanging fruit at this point. Yeah. This this might be the real Lesnar Swanson. Okay. That's all I want. Your thoughts on the big ones real fast. Yeah. Alright. There's a QR code over there. You should scan it and get to all of our social media Or you know? And you can follow all of us on your social media because it's how we roll. I am at yes that Rob Irvin or Rob Irvin the host, and that is spelled e r v I n. I'm Vexploit on all social media. If you'd like to help out the show, go to prowrestlingtees.com and search for the cheap podcast. We got a lot of different shirt designs, lot of different color options within those designs. If you're an artist and you wanna contribute a design, tweak a design, any shirt that sells with your design, you're gonna make the money. We keep none of it. And you could send those to me at Alex@theclubhousepodcast.com. And that URL to get those awesome shirts that even make me look good. Prosandts.com/chiefpodcast. 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