Cowboys Draft Deep Dive: Fatu’s Future, Bob Kavourian’s Legacy | Don Ford | Ep 2643

It is 08:00 on the East Coast. It is 05:00 on the West Coast. It is the April 30 in the year of our Lord 2026. Season 16 episode 43, 764 times. You have been welcome to the clubhouse podcast. Your one stop shop for all things sports entertainment, pop culture, and pro wrestling. And we're almost back to abnormal welcome. Oh, I gotta turn on my lights. Hold on. Sure that the store is open. Gotta turn turn the lights on. My name is Rob. I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast, and, man, it's been a couple of weeks. Alex out on assignment tonight, but joining me is the official fact checker of Sooner Gator Productions and a man that's probably gonna wanna head back to Disney World here before too much longer. You may know him as Iggbunu, but his mom and name is Don Ford. I'm gonna call him Don Ford. Hey, man. We're gonna be going right next to a Buc ee's. And, of course, we're gonna have to hit that, tomorrow night and Saturday. And I have to get what was You will get We have to get the, was it the soccer? You know, they got the soccer jersey? If they've got any left. Alright. But it's kinda interesting. I I was in the one dent, in Denton two days ago because I was out doing stuff on on my job and stopped in. They actually had a new Buc ee's NASCAR T shirt. Oh, yeah. They got a new one this year. Saw that. It's like, yeah. I'm gonna grab one there because there ain't gonna be one at by the one that we're gonna be at tomorrow. So they'll probably be sold out real fast. You know, probably not. Wanna start the show. We've got a lot to catch up on. Yes. We do. I wanna start with an RIP that happened, last gosh. It's been almost two weeks now. Something that I mentioned a lot on this show because it's had a very big impact on my life and has for thirty five years now. Two Saturdays ago, Bob Kavoyan passed away. And for those of you that are unfamiliar, is the Bob in Bob and Tom. Oh. I first yes. I first discovered Bob and Tom, my first year of college. And because they're they're out of Indianapolis, So we didn't have they were they became syndicated, but we didn't have, in my area at the time, we didn't have an affiliate. So when I was in college at USF, one of the girls in my dorm that was from the Midwest, she she knew that I'm a big fan of comedy, and I'm a student of stand up and, all things therein. And she gave me this this tape that she had. It was from something called the Bob and Tom show, and it was an album called with a little help from our friends. And within five minutes, I was absolutely enthralled. Bob and Tom is fully responsible for most of the comedians that you like are only as popular as they are because of the Bob and Tom show. They were committed to helping comedians, launch their careers. Bob and Tom were the reason I know who Pat McAfee is. After Jeff Saturday retired because he was on their show every week. Pat joined the show on Tuesdays just as a guest when he played for the colts. He actually bought the house next to Bob's, and they'd been neighbors for over ten years. Pat did a beautiful, beautiful, tribute to to Bob the other day on his show. It's available on YouTube if you wanna see it. Not it's not there today, but I will be procuring a Los Angeles Dodgers cap that I will put in this case behind me to commemorate the life of Bob who lost his battle to cancer. If you've listened to this show for any an extended period of time, you know my love for that show and everybody on the crew. I have every CD they've ever done in my phone right now. Actually, once I got ahold of with a little help from our friends, I kept the copy. I kept it because that was the first one I ever owned. Been a VIP member for almost twenty years, and the show and now the show's on YouTube every day. But I do get a podcast in case I'm not home and things of that nature. So to Becky, to Toby, to his sons and and the the rest of the kids and to the family of Bob Cavoyan, I wanna send my personal best. He left a very long lasting legacy that that will carry on. So thank you, Bob, for everything. I know that on his final hours, they were he was a big Beatles fan, and they were listening to Abbey Road. And the very last song on side two is called golden slumber, and he passed away right after that song played, which I thought was very poetic. Tom got to see him the weekend before. If we can transition out of that, talking about Todd Griswold. If I if I can, what, you see you talked about Dodgers hat. What's the reference of that for people who won't know? Bob was a big fan. Always wore a Dodgers cap. Always. Okay. Okay. Every day. The only time he didn't wear one was the on the day of his wedding to Becky. She told him he could not wear the cap, but she had talked to everybody else. And when he had a he had a black one, he wore after that that matched his tux. But as soon as they were pronounced man and wife, he turned around and everybody in the whole church had him on. Oh, wow. Which I absolutely loved. But as we transitioned to Tom, the whole crew was off last Friday. Tom had already been scheduled to be off with the rest of the crew who just needed a day to decompress. Tom went to The Bahamas and got married. Oh. Monday, middle of the show, Christie said, you know, I'm a woman because I noticed these things. You're wearing a ring. And Tommy goes, oh, yeah. I got married over the weekend. It's like, wait. What? What? He and Kelly he and Kelly have been together forever. Okay. I don't know if one has anything to do with the other. I do know that they've had it planned for a while, And Tom tells a great story about, you know, they were in The Bahamas. It rained and and the whole nine. So I wanna say congratulations to Tom Griswold for joining the institution once again. So Puzzle top. Yeah. So great. Just it's been it's been a roller coaster of a week. Let's get into it. We only have a little bit of sports to talk about right now. I've got the stars game on here. They're currently down three two in their series, and currently, they're down one nil, I believe, in the second period. Yep. There's five minutes left in the second period. Oh, interesting news coming down from the NCAA yesterday, Don. The men's basketball tournament's gonna go to 76 teams. Is that gonna be official? I heard something on that. It's official. It's happening next season. So now, yep, four more teams getting into the tournament. Just let everybody in. Just let everybody everybody get in. We'll make it, like, three months of a tournament because why not? Well, what it's the Thursday or what, they're gonna do, like, kinda games to get in to get clobbered, basically. The play in games as I call it. Yes. Okay. So when are those gonna be played? But but then usually the tournament starts on a Thursday. Right. They're gonna probably they're probably just gonna add games to what they do now when they play them on Monday and Tuesday. Okay. So Monday, Tuesday, if you weigh any going, you're gonna get clobbered because we're gonna put you against the number one seed. There you go. But then that way, they can't complain when you're not in. Not always. But yeah. Yeah. So, baseball, let's get into some standings, Don, in the AL East, the Boston red sox. They're currently eight games back. They're seven games under 500. They're two behind Toronto. The blue jays are a half game back on Baltimore. Baltimore now three and a half back on Tampa Bay, by the way, who's six and four in their last 10, but they're still a game and a half back on the yankees. In the central division, Kansas City, they're twelve and nineteen. They're three and a half back, but this is a tight race in this division because they're only three and a half out of first place. They are, a game back of the Twins Minnesota, a game back of the White Sox. White Sox now a game and a half back on both Detroit and Cleveland. So keep your eyes on that. In the AL West, Law. Law's lost six in a row, Don, and they're one and nine in their last 10. This team is not playing well. They are currently five, and they're tied with for they're tied just off the top of your head, Don, who do you think they're tied with in the cellar in the AL West? Oakland. There there's no team in Oakland, Don. I mean, so LA we're we're it used to be Oakland, the a's. Who are now the a's? No. No idea then. They are tied for the seller at five and a half games back with Houston Houston Houston, Don. Oh, and usually Houston Houston Houston's kinda doing good good good. And they're three and a half back on the rangers. The rangers now a half back game, back of Seattle, and Seattle's now a game and a half back on athletics. They lead that division right now, Don. Yep. Now my browser's doing weird stuff here. Alright. Let's go to the national league. Okay. In the NL West. I'm checking on some things. Checking on some things. In the cellar there, the giants right now were six and a half back, and they're tied with Colorado for the cellar. Colorado just don't kinda don't care, I think. They're just like, whatever, bro, which, you know, put something on the field. That's all I'm saying. Sick of talking about them being in the seller. They are and those two teams currently are three games back of the Diamondbacks. Arizona is actually tied with Swiss in the run differential category. But here's the thing, Don. They ain't North America's favorite game show right now. Now let me ask. What about the the Rockies? Are they gonna defend their title for being clobbered last year? Are they I don't know. I I I Let well, let's get there. Get I'm I'm kinda interested. You know? Arizona's three back on the Padres, and the Padres now had a half game back on the Dodgers. In the central division, Don, your boys need to step it up. You're currently four and a half games out of first place and in the cellar, but you are 500. So you got that going. Here's the thing. Before, I don't know if I put a curse on them because they're, like, three and seven. Oh, yeah. You got clobbered when you were there. Y'all got clobbered when you were there. When they were when when I saw them about a week ago, they were like six their percentage was like six twenty. And I was saying if they were in other divisions, they'd be in the top spot. They're the lowest in the division in their 500. Yeah. Everybody's five in a row. I know. Your boys are drunk. Division's 500. They're in a tough division right now. But you're only a game back on Milwaukee. I know. Well, a of people are to play. Milwaukee is a game and a half back on the cardinals. Cardinals a game back on the cubs, and the Cincinnati reds hold a one game lead in that division. In the only division that matters in the NLEs, the Mets are tough right now. They're not doing well. They're 11 and a half games back, and it's April 30, Don. They they just hit double digits wins. They are, a game and a half back of the of the Phillies. The Phillies now three back of Washington. Washington's a half game back on Miami, and my Marlins are now six and a half back on my beloved Braves. My beloved Braves right now, Don, have a run differential of plus 66. How many games have they played so far? We have played 32 games, Don. My boys are twenty two and ten right now. So And my end's fifteen and sixteen. So They're averaging two a game. Yeah. Plus two. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're playing well. I we've got some important pieces coming back from injury soon. And, today, Buster only said that they were one of two teams. Them and the Yankees are the only teams he sees that could threaten the Dodgers from winning winning again. So we're gonna keep an eye on that. Let's go to North America's favorite game show, Don, shall we? And I think you'll be I think you'll be shocked when I tell you who our subject is. Is that my pirates? Is not. Okay. And then I feel bad. K. What is the run differential for the Philadelphia Phillies? Yes, sir. You know what? You know what? You said they were negative minus plus 66, did you say? That is correct. I'm gonna say negative 66. I want the exact opposite. You went over. The Philadelphia Phillies are currently eleven and nineteen. That's a three sixty seven win percentage. Like I said earlier, they're 10 back in the division, seven and ten at home, four and nine on the road. They're three and seven in their last 10. Now last year, the Chicago White Sox were most of the year. They are currently tied with Arizona at minus 24. Your boys currently are at a plus 12. The Mets are currently minus 35. The Philadelphia Phillies on April 30 have a run differential of minus 46. Even the so Mets have a worse record, but they got a worse run differential. They got a better run differential. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. And they've they've also scored less runs. So okay. Let me ask. Where's the Rockies? Because I feel bad because they did such incredible job last year of being in the gutter. Colorado's at a minus seven currently, Don. They're almost positive. Yeah. They're they're four games below 500 right now. They're fourteen and eighteen. Mean, last year, they were getting clobbered. They were the the laughing stock. They had to make up 300. Oh, yeah. We're gonna see where this goes. So Philly is now the standard bearer. Okay. Official transition to baseball from hockey. So Philly is now the standard bearer. We're gonna see where this goes. Let's get into TV talk and stuff we watch this week. Don, you were, out doing your thing last week. Yeah. I haven't watched the newest episode, but I have been watching American gladiators. And how is that going? It's not bad. Okay. It's okay. Chris Rose, does the commentary by himself. Miz is actually in the arena with a female cohost. There's some new there's some new events. All the classics are back. The only thing that I really didn't dig about it was in the eliminator. They didn't have that part where you have to choose, like, a door to bust through, and one of them has a gladiator and the other one doesn't. That one's not there. K. But it's fun so far. I haven't they released the first three episodes, and then there was a new episode last Friday, but I haven't watched it yet. I might try to do that tomorrow. But that's all I got this week. Anything for you? There was a high potential season finale. One of my favorite shows, which I've been watching since year one, season one, Gold Rush, the season finale is tonight on Discovery. So I'm interested to see always like that kind of show. Deadliest Catch starts in two weeks. Those are, you know, two shows I've always watched throughout the years throughout the years, and I hope they always keep going. But beyond that, just our normal watch, but nothing new, nothing where the season finale is ending except on those. Alright. Let's get into it. We have the teaser up for season four of Ted Lasso, And they have told us that season four will start on August 5 on Apple TV plus. And I gotta get a subscription to that because I I gotta catch up on that show. It's so good. I I I believe it. HBO Max, Warner Brothers, TBS, TNT, Discovery, Helena Bonham Carter, who was supposed to be part of season four of the White Lotus has left, and they're gonna have to recast the role. Okay. So we're And why would you leave that show? Because that is popular. That's that's getting a cult following. I have not heard any I have not heard anything. So I haven't heard why on any level. Yeah. When we we started that show, like, on season one episode of, like, the season and then it's like then we got hooked, and we had to catch up. And then we follow as it goes. So season three of house of the dragon will start on June 21. So that we are getting a third season of that show, which I'm still stuck in season one. Fantastic. Pete Ford is gonna go nuts on that. NBC Universal has renewed Chicago Fire for season fifteen. There goes that. Oh, my wife loves all the Chicago shows. Netflix has renewed Virgin River for season eight. It's one of their drama shows. They've also given a second season to the stranger things tales from 85 animated series. Now have you started watching that? I have not. I'm going to at some point. I just haven't yet. So, and Hasbun Hotel, which is a very popular anime series, keep the kids out of the room. This been renewed for a fifth and final season. I've heard it's very, very good, but it's also very, very adult. So Let me what do you think about stranger things doing the cartoon animated series? What do you think on that? Get your money. Money? Okay. Get your money. My head's just all it's real stuffed up. I don't know what's going on right now. Okay. Ah, that's better. TV on DVD and Blu ray this week, season one of the HBO series, It Welcome to Dairy, is available if you're not caught up there. The complete series of Blue Thunder, which was the TV version of the movie of the same name, which we'll talk about a little bit later. You've also got the complete series for Gilmore Girls and Rizzoli and Isles available on Tuesday. My my wife used to really like Rizzoli and Isles. Saw that one. Never saw it. The TNT series, I believe. Two weeks from tonight, this show proper will not be on because Alex and I will be at the Longhorn Ballroom for the second year in a row for the Eric Nadel birthday benefit concert. It's fourteenth edition. It's gonna basically, Eric Nadel voice of the rangers. Every year, he does a concert for his birthday that is a benefit, and he'll bring in a couple of his favorite bands. And his musical tastes are a little bit different than most people, and which is cool because you get to learn about new bands. And who doesn't wanna learn about new bands? This year, it's Brooklyn based Sammy Ray and the friends on one coast. And then from the other coast, Bay Area favorite Chuck Proffitt and the Cumbia shoes. That's gonna be two weeks from tonight, May 14. Doors open at 06:30. Showtime is at 07:30 at the Longhorn Ballroom. If you don't know where that is, the historic Longhorn Ballroom. 216 Corinth Street, that's on the South Side. We will be there with YDC, on the purple carpet as people show up. I will be at last year, I was at the table with Reiner. Alex is working with groups on the carpet. I'm sure that is the same arrangement this year. We'll be talking to the dignitaries and all of that. It benefits the work of the Grant Halliburton Foundation. It's a local nonprofit that provides mental health education, training, and support to teens and families. If you wanna learn more, you can go to granthalliburton.org, org, and, slash Eric Nadel, and that is n a d e l, and it's Eric with a c. You can sponsor a table. They've got suites. Last year, they had a huge silent auction. I'm sure we're gonna have a bunch of memorabilia this year as well. It's presented by Haynes Boone and KXT ninety one point seven FM. You could also go to stolenwatermedia.com and click on our community because there's details for you there as well. Movie stuff we watched this week. I did not watch any movies this week, but I've got some I got some things in the works that I'm gonna start doing. I'm hoping very, very soon because there's a lot of movies I have that I've never watched. And so I'm gonna start working on some of that, watching the Blu rays, reviewing the Blu rays, the whole nine. Don, you got anything? Well, since last week, we we were at the USA Film. I don't know if I wanna bring up the mother Mary review that I did on that one. I'm gonna say it's gonna make a certain list, unfortunately. But there are two movies that I wanna that I saw since the USA Film Festival last week. And both of these are gonna make a list. One is the new Mark Wahlberg and Hauser, who I love that guy. The ball's up. Paul Wahlberg. No. See, Don, you weren't at the theater the night they were doing that screening when Alex and I were across the hall. Okay. There were some very there let's just say some of the promo items that go along with that film were a little funny. Very human. Yeah. But those items are probably funnier than the movie. Okay. Well That's unfortunate. It's gonna make a list just like mother Mary. Now Okay. On the extreme other side, I saw a movie. It's on the Hulu, Disney plus. It's a documentary, and right now, it has my top spot of the year. Sky King. The documentary about the guy who Oh, wow. Hijacked a plane, just kinda joking around. Very, very, very well done. Very emotional. And just how the people in his life who some of are hearing tapes of him talking to the control towers during this event. And some of the stuff there's scenes where they're like, oh my I had no idea he said that. I had no and this is family members and friends. It it's done right considering what the situation is and what happened and very I see bear so very tastefully done. Everybody's been seeing raves about this. I don't even know what's on Rotten Tomatoes right now, what the ranking is, but I'll tell you right now, it has my top spot, and it gets the bomb city promise. That's my movies. Put it that way. Alright. If you have Hulu, Disney plus, you can see it. It's worth it. We got a quick announcement. Okay. Quick announcement from our friend at Allied. Don, I want you to mark July on your calendar. K. Because this is gonna happen in your Fairburg. K. We've got Warner Brothers Discovery Global Experiences is teaming up with Fever, the world's leading tech platform for discovering culture and live entertainment. They're gonna be doing a Harry Potter drone art show in Grand Prairie at the Cricket Stadium Okay. In July. It's part of an international tour that's kicking off this year along twenty five years of magic. It's gonna blend advanced drone choreography with unforgettable music and iconic moments from the Harry Potter films with 1,200 illuminated drones soaring across the night sky. As darkness falls, audiences will witness a live violinist and a stunning canvas of light as memorable moments from the films are reimagined through breathtaking aerial displays set to the iconic soundtrack and dialogue from the films. And attendees will also be wearing LED wristbands. It's gonna let them interact even further. It's the tour's going across America, The UK, and most of Europe. Only select cities, and our city has been selected, will host it. We're in, involving wizards, witches, and muggles to create the beloved film series that has marked generations. In LA, if you're out that way, you're gonna be treated to a one night only event celebrating the franchise's twenty fifth anniversary at at the at Dodger Stadium on June 13 with additional moments created just for that. And in our audiences here, there's going to be a wizarding world inspired preshow atmosphere, including food and beverage offerings and Harry Potter merchandise. Get your tickets at, you can look for the droneartshow.com, and you can look go to Dallas and Harry Potter. I'll add that to our website as well. That's gonna be the last weekend in July, kids. So go check that out. So, Don, have we talked about what people are pitching as the next Barbenheimer weekend? I heard stuff come and go, but December 18 is the day. K. You will get both Dune three and Avengers Doomsday. The same day. So do you think they'll do the combo things? Look. They're calling it Doomsday at this point. Doomsday. Here's the problem. What's that? Who gets the premium formats done? Because I know the answer. Dune has laid claim to IMAX. Okay. Okay. So Disney, in response, in the same month that they laid off their entire visual effects team, is rolling out infinity vision. For select theaters, it will involve a screen width of at least 50 feet and 7.1 Dolby Surround. It's kind of their answer to premium format. I don't know how this is gonna go, but we'll take a look. But it's gonna be called Infinity Vision. So I've got a feeling that they might be testing this with Mandalorian and Kevin later this month. So keep your eyes out. Do you think that these studios could get together and maybe do a combo where you get to watch them both on IMAX in the same time? There's no way. There's no way. You're talking Disney versus Warner Brothers, which is now gonna be part of Paramount. There's no way. I'm just saying that maybe they could just, you know, sit down and say, hey. You're also talking about two of the biggest franchises right now in in sci fi. I know. But okay. If I were There's no but, Don. It's not gonna happen. I know. There's no but. They they can say we're making billions. We can make trillions if we did this and put them together and and one's showing. You know? Then you gotta talk revenue sharing and everything else at Dog Don't Well, they can figure that out. Trust me. No. Trust me. They don't want to. They don't have to. Oh, I know that, but I'm just trying to be positive. When you were a when you wore a younger man's clothes, Don Yes. Did you enjoy the fern gully? Fern gully? It was an animated series about the rainforest. Oh, I'd have to look it up, but I think I watched it once or twice. You are getting a live action version that's gonna be written and directed by Marielle Heller, who did the Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Okay. And she also did, the movie this past year called night about the girl that was turning herself into a dog. Okay. We have more casting for your new John Rambo reboot. Major Troutman has been cast, and it will be played by the David Harbour. I like him. I'm a big fan. So is the long gonna come back still? Or This is this is a complete reboot. He might appear, but he's not playing John Rambo. No. Okay. That's that's that's what I was kinda curious on. Let's see here. Charles Dance, who you might know as Papa Lannister from Game of Thrones. Yes, sir. He is gonna be playing Harvey Dent's father in the Batman two. So I guess we're gonna get some flashback sequences as Harvey Dent becomes two faced. So looks like he'll be involved in this new one. Alex Garland, who is a director that's that you kind of had on your radar the last couple years, guy that did civil war, the guy that did warfare. Mhmm. He's working on a film for a '24 and IMAX in 2028 based on the video game series Elden Ring. It's definitely got some people talking, and it's deaf not everybody's fully on board, but when are they anymore? But Alex Garland, you know, the guy knows how to do combat. We've seen it. So we're gonna see what he does there. Do you have May 13 marked on your calendar, Don? It's a Wednesday night. Not really. Do you really realize that this year, Don, is the fortieth anniversary of Top Gun? No. And one day only, May 13, you'll be able to watch both Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick in theaters for the fortieth anniversary. So they do a combo thing. Yeah. Put them together. I was thinking I thought it was next year, but I guess it was '86. So like both of those movies. Very much enjoyed them. You know, it's 40. Shows how old I am getting. Yeah. I'm already there, brother. We talked about the Miami Vice reboot that's gonna have Michael B. Jordan and, I just lost his name. The kid that played Elvis. It's actually gonna be called Miami Vice 85, and it's gonna come out next year on August 6. Austin Vice 85. So I think it's gonna be kind of a it's gonna be more of a a tribute to the original series, which I like the movie they did with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. I thought it was great on the soundtrack. I was kinda with it. It was there for me, but that's just me. We have another sequel to talk about, Don. Now what? It's a movie that I I can't remember how you felt about it last year. K. We're getting Heart Eyes two. Hold on. This was the one, the killer that had the the glow in the dark. He wore a mask and the eyes were hearts, of course, hence the name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Can't remember how you felt about that one, but we're getting a sequel. I thought it was okay if I remember right. It was 02/11/2028. Stick out or anything like that. What are they gonna call it? It's hard ice two. Hard ice two. 02/11/2028. We've been talking a bit about the murder she wrote reboot film with Jamie Lee Curtis. It's been pushed back about a month and a half to February 4. So the week weekend before heart eyes two, you'll get murder she wrote. Interesting back to back nights there. We talked about Michael B. Jordan earlier. He's working with the director Nick G, who did the first Charlie's Angels film, and he also did a film called Fastlane back in the day that I very much enjoyed. They're working with EA Games to bring the Battlefield video game franchise to the big screen. So I I know we're already getting Call of Duty, so why not? And, Don, did you watch either of the Enola, Holmes movies? Which ones? Enola Holmes on Netflix with the Millie Bobby Brown? No. No. No. No. You're getting a third one. It's gonna hit Netflix the day before my birthday on July 1. So, movie new releases and places you get movie new releases, this first one, I don't know how this is gonna work, Don. What's that? We are do you know who Angel Studios is? No. They do a lot of faith based films. Okay. They are doing a new animated version of animal farm. I don't know how this is gonna go. Animal farm? I don't even remember the original, if I remember. I don't wall novel that basically it's it's basically an allegory of anti communism. Okay. So, yeah, get ready for that. Also, week, a movie called Casa Grande. A prodigal daughter rejoins her family at their farm during a difficult time as her ailing father faces both a terminal diagnosis and mounting pressure from competitors. Old wounds resurface as they grapple with what lies ahead. This has Daniel Mora is in this. Stop it. Madison Lawler is in this as well. We also have Deepwater. Yes. Moving on. The devil wears Prada two is also this week. Friend of the show, Mark Walter, saw it, and he wasn't real happy with it. So but it's back to back in Hathaway weekends because last weekend was mother Mary, and that's this weekend. Well, guess what? Strike two can we say then if this one's not that great? We also have Hoakum this week. This is Adam Scott. A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch. I'm out. And that's that's a theater release? That is correct. Okay. We also have one spoon of chocolate. This has, Shamik Moore is in this. Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael, is in this. Let's see here. Blair Underwood is in this. An ex military convict seeks a fresh start in a small town, but his past catches up as he finds love amid amid danger and chaos. Also this week, if you are an anime fan, and this is the re this is a real thing, Don. This is the name of the show. Alright? It's called that time I got reincarnated as a slime. So the movie comes out this week. It'll be called tears of the Azure sea. So movies on DVD and Blu ray original. It's original. Movies on DVD and Blu ray this week. You know, this what they're calling the the Poonaverse with all these characters going public domain, so they're making horror movies out of all of them. Bambi the reckoning hits DVD and Blu ray this Tuesday. I'm sure Doc will be featuring that at his house very soon. Also, the animated film goat that came out earlier this year that is still in my top 10. It's really, really good. Very much enjoyed that. I I loved it. That was really great. I can only imagine two, which, deals the further story of mercy me, and this deals with the song even if, which is a great song. Solo Mio also from Angel Studios. This is the Kevin James movie about the guy who gets stood up at the altar, he goes by himself on the honeymoon. So I've heard good things about it. I'll check it out. The Wuthering Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Alorty that came out earlier this year. That comes out Tuesday, but it will be on HBO Max this weekend. So if you wanna get a jump start, you can watch it there. We're getting a four k release of the 1951 version of Alice in Wonderland. Also, it came from outer space in a four k steelbook. There's a thing called the pusher trilogy. This is a British these are some British films that are very, very good in four k. Top Gun, of course, getting the four k steelbook. Arrow Video, as we talked about earlier, the Blue Thunder television series getting a release, and they're doing a limited edition of the movie with Roy Scheider this week. Also, they're doing GI Samurai in a limited edition, and the Criterion Collection has a four k version of Stray Dog if you're into such things. Real quick. Wanna talk about one of the official, sponsors here at Stolen Water Media and the Sunset Lounge DFW. It is CBD house of healing. If you are an individual that's dealing with pain, anxiety, sleepless nights, the whole nine, If you wanna be able to help solve those problems naturally, the CBD house of healing is here for you. 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We had an RIP from the old WCW days, Don. Who? Van Van Hammer passed away. If you remember him from back in the day, he passed away a couple of weeks ago. Big big big player in WCW for a while. Guy was a was a lot of people loved being around him and some great stories that came out, so we wanna send our best out to him. Allegedly, we found out the week of mania, one of the things that Alex and I went to when it was here was a thing called blood sport, which is just basically, it's a combination of pro wrestling and, shoot fighting. And, I mean, apparently, it's done. Josh has said that they're putting it on on the shelf. He doesn't know if it's gonna come back or not. We loved our time there. Was a lot of fun. So, and if you remember Killian Dane, he is now big Domo, and he's part of MLW. MLW's stacking talent right now because they're getting ready to get a TB deal back. So we're gonna have to keep an eye on what MLW's up to. He is also a mister Nikki Cross, and we'll get to that here in a minute. Where do you where do you think the TB deal will go with who? They haven't said yet, but they have a they they're bringing back fusion. So, one quick TNA note, Trey Miguel had, broke his patella at rebellion couple of weeks ago, but he's he had surgery. He's doing okay. Okay. So he'll be back soon. Good for you. Before we get to mania Okay. K. We have to talk about something that you've been heralding for the last few months. The 2026 purge has happened. So we're gonna go down the list. All of the Wyatt six are gone. Here's my question. Has anybody told Universal? Because they they had a whole house at at Hollywood Horror last year. And I'm pretty much gonna say they have that lineup set for this year already. So if they planned on it, are they still gonna do it? But all all five of them no longer with the company. Alistair Black and Zelina Vega both gone. There are conflicting reports about AEW. I wouldn't be shocked, but we've got the ninety days to wait. So we're not gonna know anything until almost SummerSlam. Malik Blade and Tyreke Iguay, they were a tag team in NXT. A lot of NXT talent. Let go this go around. Carly Bright, who had just become part of the ID program, she's gone. Andre Chase, Chase University from NXT, a bit that went a lot longer than I thought it would. The guy's mad talented. So he'll show up somewhere, and he'll get repackaged. I like him a lot. Dante Chen, who NXT had really high hopes on and then just kind of petered out. I don't know what happened there. Guys, mad, mad, mad, mad, talented, need some work on the mic a little bit. Apollo Cruz. Let go. Where did you see him going, though? You know? I know the hurt syndicate's looking for a new member. And they don't they can't get Cedric Alexander because he's in TMA. So, Luca Cruciofino, which once the the D'Angelo family separated, he kinda disappeared, and he has said he's retired. He's not coming back to the business. Santos Escobar, which we thought might happen. I could definitely see him showing up in a CMLL. Triplaya, I don't know because of their relationship with WWE. I'd be okay with it, but WWE is sending too many other people over there. Tyson DuPont, who was another NXT guy that just they weren't doing anything with. Alba Fire. So both both her and Isla Dawn are no longer with the company. So we're gonna see where that goes. Chris Island, he was an evolved guy. He had he and Serena Linden and Trill London, all three of them are gone. The Motor City machine guns are gone. And I'm very upset about this. One of my favorite tag teams on the planet. So They got them in, and they did nothing with them. Yeah. They gave him the titles once or twice, but didn't put him up like with against the Usos all the time or something and give him that top spot. You know? Kyrie Sane, who's already moved back to Japan. Or already back. He lived. Tyrone Steele, who was part of Evolve. Zoe Stark, who was just about ready to come back. You you hate when this happens. In some cases, it benefits the talent because they go other places and can excel. I got home from USA Film Festival Friday night, Alex texted me and was like, the list is out. I'm like, I'm gonna wait till tomorrow. I'm tired. He's like, no. You need to read it now before it gets ruined for you by social media. So one of my favorite places to read news is 411mania.com, and I went there and went, oh my god. So most of the people have put up some very beautiful words, and some some of the current superstars have had really nice things to say as well. So we wanna wish all of them the best wherever they go, wherever you wind up. Hope they push you to the moon. Shout out. So here's my thing. Does Alistair Black get go back and get that trios group again and this time have Selena there? Well, Buddy's almost ready. Buddy's almost back. That's what I'm saying. But, you know, the other guy you know, who's the third guy, the the with all the all the tattoos? His name is Brody King. Yeah. Brody. He's getting pushed good. Do you think do you take that away? They're not gonna they're not gonna put that belt on him next week. I know that, but he's getting a big push right now as a single you know, he is getting a push in that You can still continue to push and just, you know, have somebody that you know, he keeps getting beat down, beat down, beat down, and he gets reinforcements. I mean, you can do that. And then I'll say yeah. And he brings back you know what? Okay. Let's say, I'm just thinking possibility, you take someone like Wyatt or Bo Dallas, whatever you wanna call it. You had him you had him with the house of black with those three, maybe someone else, and you got something like the next blood and guts against some other faction in AEW. Imagine, you know, that five of the crazy I could you know, who knows? But the machine guns, that makes me mad. Yeah. They got they got in there and they give yeah. They gave them the titles. They did give them the titles, but they didn't press. They were just a mid card and tag team. We're not gonna give you anything more. We're not gonna press you like the Usos. So I mean and my other thing with Apollo Cruz, maybe they could bring him, Obofemi, and almost put them together as a faction also. Almost. I'm a faction. Almost. Ain't going anywhere. But you can't type the boy where they can't do something. Going anywhere. I know that. I'm just saying if you would have put almost with almost Femme, you could have a tag team also. You know what I'm saying? You have big Omos versus Fame with all the power. A tag team like that would be killer. Yeah. You know? But the problem with that, Don, is it's almost too much. I don't You know, you you've got there'd be nowhere for them to work, and Omos still isn't on the level that he needs to be from a work standpoint. I mean, Obafemi is just naturally built for this. No. Of course. Built for this. Let's get into mania while we're talking about that. Yeah. Do we have to? I wanna I wanna talk to the fan base first. Okay. I have never in my life read more reports, especially during mania week of fans that don't know how to respect personal space of superstars. Uh-oh. I mean, it was multiple times a day people were like, guys, keep your distance. Like, people following superstars with their phones, filming things, and when they're asked not to film, they still do invading privacy. Show some respect, people. And I don't know if they cut back the security budget or what it was, but it just seemed like security was a secondary thought in this deal. I got reports from people I know out there that were saying the energy level was next to nothing in Vegas. Nick Khan said this week that they were that they don't see themselves doing back to back in the same city again, which I think was part of it. It just the vibe was completely different this year. Don, if I were to ask you to compare attendance of last year's mania with this year's mania, what kind of a number difference would you put on it? Knew what the number was. I kinda looked. But did you compare it to last year? Yeah. Because when they gave the result with Don Cena came up. That's what I'm that's what I'm asking you. If you were gonna compare this year's attendance to last year's attendance, what would the difference be? It was something, like, if I remember right, like, eight to 10,000 people different less this year than last year. You're too low. 13,000 people less this year over two nights. Night one was down 8,000 people. Yeah. Night two, 8,000 on night one, five thousand on night. That's why I said 8,000. I thought you're just night one. I didn't know about both nights, but, yeah, I knew I saw it was, like, 8,000 on night one alone. Yep. Because it was just over 50, and they had 58 in the house last year. And then 60, but they had more people on night two. But let's get into night one. I watched the entire preshow for night one cause I was at home. Night two, I didn't cause I was coming from practice. I had forgotten that Wade Barrett held the Intercontinental title five times. That that blew my mind. I was like, he's a five time Intercontinental champion? Yeah. I like the idea. I had no idea. This is something that people have talked about. That split screen entrance for the vision. Especially since that was the first match, I'm like, if we're doing this with every entrance, this is gonna drive me to the brink. Mhmm. That was terrible. Don't ever do that again. I was a little worried about Aisho's speed, because his his promo in the preshow was terrible, but he worked in the ring, and he hit that splash. So I He did. Loved, Lash and Naya with their demolition outfits. Respect that. Cool. That was pretty awesome. The page rumors were true Yeah. With new tag champs. A lot of belts changed hands. I think only one belt didn't each night. Yeah. The the over under was five, four and a half, and there was five that changed over both nights. I know this has been beaten to death, but we haven't beaten it to death. I pay it's it's bad enough that I've gotta deal with commercials on Netflix because there's no other way around it unless I wanna wait three days. Mhmm. But to have that many commercials during WrestleMania, when I pay for ESPN unlimited because I have Hulu. That was insane. And we'll get to the numbers here in a minute. Mhmm. Because I have the numbers. Because when we want when Alex and I watched NXT, we were standing deliver on on YouTube. If you pay for YouTube premium, it was just like a montage of the superstars while everybody else had to watch commercials. That's fine. I can fight through that. But when I'm watching full three to four minute commercial breaks after every match, you realize, Don, there weren't even 15 matches on this card period. There were only, like, 11 or 12 matches total over both nights. Mhmm. So you either go back to one night and start earlier, or you gotta put more matches on the card because that was I I can't even imagine how bored the crowd was getting because, okay, now there's another commercial break. That was insanity. If you watched Becky's entrance, the band that played her in missed their cue to start. It was a little awkward. But she did not suffer the curse of the live intro because she got the IC title back. We had Braun Breakers return. If you if you haven't seen it, go check out the footage of him backstage before he runs out, watching him prepare for the run out and getting psyched up. And then he he had a un he had an unzipped hoodie, and he removed it by pulling it over his back, just kind of a baller move. Liv also had a live entrance and one. So, congratulations to Bianca Belair announcing her pregnancy, which was I thought was kinda cool. Yeah. That was cool. Cody beats Randy. McAfee still walks away. He says he is done. His wife put up a post the next day that said for the first time in ten years, my husband is not involved in the world of pro wrestling. So I it was just a bad idea. On a certain level, I felt bad for McAfee because this was the the payoff was not worth it was not worth the lead up. And then you the payoff happens two weeks before mania, and you have two weeks to tell that story. It just doesn't work. He did the best he could. I I still can't defend the booking. It was not good booking. Yep. It's definitely over the top, but, I still don't understand the function of the host because here's your stats, Don. Total host appearances on night one. Two. Four hour run time. In four hours, total wrestling time bell to bell Mhmm. Four hours eighty two minutes and thirty five seconds. Mhmm. Not even an hour and a half. Not even a third. Uh-huh. Then we get to night two. Now I had to watch most of the first hour of night two in the car because I was coming home from band practice, and I had to stop and get some groceries. Them to advertise Oba Lesnar to be live on ESPN and for it to end as quickly as it did was a little weird for me. But Lesnar did for Oba what Taker did for him. Lesnar wanted Oba to win the match. He wanted Oba to go over in his retirement match, which I respect. Yep. Alex and I were talking. We felt kinda bad for Oba Fenny because he had to do his walk down that ramp that was, like, a mile and a half long. Like, that dude's gonna be winded before he gets to the ring. Trick Williams wins the US tie. Did you see the meme somebody put up of his entrance on a face? What are you doing, my son? One on Obo real fast. Yeah. I think it made the point when he got f five, and it only seemed like it phased him for five seconds. That was the perfect move on Obo. Not just to stand up like Oba. Get up. Oba. Oba. Not Oba. He's not he's not on Instagram. Famek. But how he just took, like, a five second delay then got up versus just a straight up. It's kinda saying, you could give me your best shot. Guess what? Well, but the the other brilliance of that was not only because he didn't he didn't, like, pop up. Like, it took him a second. But the brilliance of that moment was watching Lesnar thinking he did it. It's over. I'm done. I got him. And then his realization when he turned around and Oba was standing. And if that whole moment you watch go back and watch all three parties in that. Watch Oba as he gets up. Watch Lesnar as he reacts, and watch Haman as he just basically has a meltdown of, oh my god. What's it gonna take Mhmm. To put this guy down? But did you see the trick Williams memes, Don? Somebody went to his entrance because he had the big long coat thing, and they put a CVS receipt over the jacket. And I was like, I don't know who that person is, but they've done their work for the day. We did get a we'll be right back in night two, but we only got it once, and we got commercials the rest of the time. Don't understand it. Alex gave me an interesting stat with the demon beating, Dominic, which Dominic's entrance was awesome too. One second. Need to cough. That was the demon's first win in a decade. Wait. How many times has he been the demon? At least a handful. Okay. Rhea Ripley wins the women's championship, which, you know, I'm kind of okay with. Jade speaks very highly of her in that match. I got Hunter the battle cats losing his mind over here. Roman wins, and I don't know how I feel about it. What I'm what I'm thinking is gonna happen, and I had this thought the other day. Now this is kinda long term bookings, so you're gonna have to roll with me a little bit, Don. You can look before it. We are shaping up for Cody's next challenger to be punk. I don't think it happens at backlash. I think it happens in Saudi because they won't go all the way to money in the bank. But what I'm wondering is this Roman bit goes through the fall because what happens that involves both of them in October? It's when Street Fighter comes out. Cody and Roman are both in that movie. So you're gonna have some kind of a match tie in for it, which why not? Apparently, they're using AI to write the storylines anyway right now. Of course. I don't like it. But in a world where we had the Mountain Dew pitch black match, which still nobody understood, why not have the street fighter street fight for the title as you gear up for survivor series? I'm just saying. Alright. Night two. Total host appearances. Two. Although the video of Dan Hausen chasing after John Cena in the golf cart is one of the funniest things you'll see all day if you haven't seen it. Another four hour show. Now remember, Don, night one, your total resting time was eighty two minutes and thirty five seconds. Do you believe that night two was more or less than that? I think it was less, not by much. It was more, but not by much. 92, total wrestling time, eighty five minutes and forty nine seconds. Total wrestling time in an eight hour show. If you were to sit down right now and just watch Mania, don't count the six hours of preshow because there were no matches on it. In eight hours of wrestling, your total wrestling time was two hours forty eight minutes and twenty eight seconds. You could have done all of Mania in less than three quarters of one night. Yeah. Yep. It's inexcusable. Nope. Not at all. The the only upside to it is at least we didn't have to pay $70 for it. Yeah. But you took up a workday, basically. Even and if you don't include if you include the preshows, that's eleven it's almost a half a day of programming. That's almost 25% of your weekend awake and asleep. Uh-huh. And I got less wrestling than it takes to watch stupid boat movie. I bet you movie. If what was the last AEW pay per view? Dynasty? I think Dynasty had more wrestling in that one pay per view or the ones even before that than the total combined wrestling in mania on both nights. I'm not debating that. No. AEW gives you more wrestling in one night than WrestleMania gave you on both nights. AEW has AEW has the opposite problem. Not every pay per view can has to be four and a half hours. I know. That's not even including zero hour. I understand. They've gotta manage their time better. They gotta manage their time better on the live shows because my DVR keeps cutting it off. But here's my problem. I would rather have the AEW problem than the the WWE problem when it comes You're not wrong. You're not wrong. Yeah. Each of them do have their own setbacks. I understand. Number one, AEW does most of their pay per views on a school night. So if you're somebody's gotta get go to work on Monday morning and it's ending at 12:30 in the morning eastern, there's drawbacks to both. But if I gotta pick one Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You know, AEW's gonna win because at least there's something for me to watch that isn't cricket wireless for the ninety seventh time. Or that stupid that stupid Drew McIntyre, Tiffany Stratton online casino that absolutely beat me into submission, which they showed right after he lost that unsanctioned match, the Jacob Botu, which there was nothing unsanctioned about it. They didn't get me started on that match. This is the worst mania I have watched in at least a decade. At least a decade. Yep. And I don't like to be the guy that's coming down on stuff. I don't like to be a negative Nancy, but I've got to call this like I sell see it. This was terrible. And it's not the fault of the talent because the talent did everything they could in that ring. The outside of that fought to McIntyre match. That was probably need to be the weakest of the matches. They should have just made it an extreme match and been done with it. When there was action in the ring, I was entertained. I cannot I I can't debate that. But when that amount of time is less than thirty percent, and my math is probably wrong, but it ain't off by much. When when it's less than 30% of the total time you were on the air on the show proper, this everything about this mania week was horrid. Nashville, you're you're the leader in the clubhouse for 2028 because we know where twenty twenty seven's gonna be, which is the same place that night of champions is gonna be on June 27 in Riyadh. So where's 2028 gonna be? Are they talking? Nashville's the the the current favorite because they're the titans are getting that new stadium next year. I could see that. Which they were supposed to have at least one? Right. They were supposed to get it next year, and then there was the it was like this year where New Orleans was supposed to have it, and they pivoted. They were supposed to get it next year, and they pivoted to Saudi. Yeah. And plus Nashville never got it, so I could see it. That would be kinda cool, especially at the new stadium. Looks like a big But here's my thing, which I was I wanted to say is that it's pretty sad when the breaks between the matches are longer than the matches themselves. You're not wrong. You're not wrong at all. Now here's the thing. I understand the national anthem with or, you know, America is beautiful. Is America is beautiful on night one, national anthem on night two? I under and plus the hall of fame, ten minutes of the hall of fame, whatever, five, ten minutes hall of fame. Well, and they didn't do hall of fame on night two. No. No. Which was crazy. And they did it both nights when we they were here. Lord knows you had enough time. That's what I'm saying. What else did they do? What if and here's the thing. You always say there's a theory that somebody's watching. I hope they're watching. But it's not like we're the only one saying it, John. Stars just took the lead. Yes. I really wish Alex was on tonight because that way we could all get this out of our system at the same time. Mhmm. It just hurt my soul. This And it got so bad where worse. They tried overpricing it like they did the year before. Oh, it's gonna be a sellout just like last year. And then it got so bad that they had 25% off all of a sudden. Hey, get WrestleMania by by you know, it's on SmackDown. We're gonna steal till Monday. And guess what? You still had how many thousands of people less this year? You got too priced out and Well things like And imagine what had happened if that blackout imagine if that blackout had stayed intact, and you couldn't watch it anywhere within 50 miles. Oh, dear. You wanna talk about failure on a whole different level on a whole different level. I would like to see the numbers on the number of people that were in Vegas watching it that weren't there because I saw a couple of the events, and there were a ton of people. A ton. It was Yeah. I hope I hope they do a postmortem so they can figure out all these problems because and a lot of them were fixable. That's the worst part. A lot of these problems were fixable. They were. Don't have the power to do. I can fix some of these things. Just saying. Check the book in the checkbook for a year. Please. Happy to help, and I won't use AI to do it. Okay. We got out our system. On the SmackDown before Jacob Fatouk finally gets the chance to cut the promo like only he can. That was a great promo he cut the night before WrestleMania. I will say that. Yes, I am. And I was thinking about this. For the the SmackDown before oh, now it's tied up again. For the SmackDown before and the Raw after WrestleMania, is that the only time that cheap pops don't really work and cheap heat? Because it wasn't like they could come out and go, go Golden Knights. And, like, 80% of the arena be like, we don't know who that is, and we don't Who's that? Yeah. Especially when they're from Europe. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. They're from London and stuff like that. Shout out to Royce Keys for winning the Andre, which they kinda telegraphed, but I'm glad he won it. I still call him powerhouse. You know? It felt like they muted the crowd during Cody's entrance on that SmackDown before because there weren't a lot of boos like there had been leading up to it. Wrestling with regret had a really good comment about the way they were booing him at Mania and then chanting his name during the match, and it's words we can't say on the show. Yeah. You have a new women's United States champion, the Tiffany Stratton? Good for her. Get get get the wheels back on. I'm not sure how I feel about them bringing fatal influence in at this point because at some point, Jaycee Jane has to stand on her own. If you're gonna call her up, she has to have the opportunity to stand on her own. And I don't know I mean, are they gonna turn they've gotta either turn Jade and her her people face or turn fatal influence face because those are the only three person factions you have on SmackDown right now. Hunter, please, my son. Come here. I know. I know you think you should be fit, but it's not that time. Blake Monroe was getting called up, which makes sense, which they did a bit, on NXT that was really funny because she, she lost to Tatum Paxley in a casket match. And so this week on NXT, she was cutting a promo next to a Doug Gray for Blake Monroe after the the thing. And then Blake put something on, on Twitter, and Tatum just responded, how are you tweeting right now? Which I thought was pretty funny. Ricky Saints is getting called up, which Cody's been giving him a little bit of grief because, you know, they had a lot of crossover in AEW, and they're very close. So I'm excited about that. On Raw, we have Ethan Page. He finally gets called up. We're excited for Ethan Page. Raw after Mania. You remember the part where they were coming back from commercial, and they were showing the drone shot outside of Dolby Live because they were advertising where you could watch the kill Tony show on Netflix. Did you notice anything in that shot, Don? Mm-mm. In the background, there was a huge marquee advertising the AEW Dynamite show that's coming up in Vegas. Oops. Apparently, the same thing happened last year, but I didn't notice it. But this year, noticed it. Okay. Oops. And that that the Rock to WrestleMania, it wasn't the Rock is, like, ten years ago. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But he was actually in Vegas earlier that week, but he left on Thursday because he was doing something that he was supporting his daughter. So But you kinda get my point that I think since WrestleMania turned to two nights and so drawn out and that like you said, the vibe is just not there, like like it was last year compared to last year. Yep. That the RAW after WrestleMania is not what it was like when we did it ten years ago. Remember how the crowd just I think they're just so worn out now because it used to be you have the hall of fame on Saturday, You had WrestleMania Sunday, and then you got the night after. Now you have all this Yeah. Next year's gonna be interesting to see how it works logistically. When Punk came out, I thought he was doing the John Cena entrance for a second because everything was dark, and it just had his name on the screen. I I I do think it'll be him and Cody probably at money in the bank. They might do it at night of champions, but, Sol Rooka getting called up. The street profits made their return, which I love those guys. And we'll just we're gonna see where this Jacob Fatu thing goes. They announced Tuesday night on NXT because their last plea was on on, YouTube because they have completely separated from Peacock. Starting this summer with the Great American Bash, their pleas are gonna be on the CW, Don. Good for them. So Yeah. And it's also going to be, with the weekly shows and the pleas will be available on ESPN unlimited if you have that. So if you don't have, like, a CW affiliate where you live, you can get the Oh, okay. Community to watch on ESPN unlimited. And the episodes, the weekly episodes will also be available the next day on the Roku channel. So NXT getting a lot of love right now. I know the NWA is going to something called Comet, which is a streaming platform as well. Allegedly, over the weekend at a house show, Noam Dhar finally returned, but he did not show up on this week's episode. It looks like they're just taking a bunch of people from Evolve and bringing them into NXT. So are we gonna fold Evolve? Are we just gonna make LFG that part now? It's kinda weird. NXT is always in a weird place when they have the call ups because it's just it's I mean, they always persevere, but it's just like they they just drain the roster and then rebuild it again. So we're gonna see where that goes. There were some reports last week that AEW might be parting ways with pro wrestling tees. That is not the case. There was some duplication in staffing for designers. They did lay off some designers, but they are still working with pro wrestling tees. So You've agreed to the EW Fried, I think, probably. And apparently, we're getting a new pay per view in July, Don. They're they've they've copyrighted the name AEW redemption. And your current rumor will be that it will be in Montreal. There you go. Samoa Joe came back on Dynamite last week, so he's back with the ops, and they finally got Bowens involved. And then ring of honor, super card of honor, was a pretty good episode last week. They got it under two hours, which was nice. But Supercard of Honor, which comes up, two weeks from tomorrow, they're gonna have the first ever women's survival of the fittest fittest match for the women's world title, which that'll be great to watch. Josh Woods will take on Nigel McGinnis, and the winner will be the number one contender for the pure title. Michael back, Come on again. So I'm very excited about that. Anything else you wanna talk about, Don? Nah. I we we got the well, let me say this. I'm you know, MJF lost the title. You got Rob. Well, I mean Yeah. That that match he had this week with Kevin Knight was kind of cool the way that ended. He was gonna go for the ring, didn't get the ring, still got the low blow. Like, the way that ended was kind of cool. Like, I'm not a big fan of the constant use of the low blow, but the way they did it, I was like, okay. That makes storytelling sense. I'm here for it. Yeah. So No. I I I mean, he'll get the title again someday. It's you know? But still MJF is MJF. He'll he'll be fine. Just my the fantastic Dave Ford had to give me a hard time about it. See, he's a cheater. He lost hot. You know? So no. I got my WrestleMania things out of me. I feel better now. There's a QR code by Don's head. Click on it. Get to all of our social there you go. All of our social media, including stolenwatermedia.com. It's up and live. So if you go to the clubhousepodcast.com, it will take you there. But bookmark stolenwatermedia.com, we were putting up trailers all the time. Our episodes are very, very soon, you're gonna have the entire catalog that I have available. We're getting we're doing blog posting now. Our reviews are there. 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