Episode 17

Drilling the crust
It is eight o'clock on the East Coast literally.
It is five o'clock on the West Coast.
It is the eighth of February of the year of our Lord, 2024.
Season 14, episode 17, the Clubhouse podcast is live right up in your ears.
We are your one stop shop for all things sports, entertainment, pop culture, and professional
wrestling.
We are so glad you are here, back after a week off because we were at a screening that
we'll be talking about here in just a little while.
And then Saturday night was a rumble.
Cannot thank all of you enough, actually it's been a week, it's been a week and a half,
almost two weeks since the rumble.
I can't even do math anymore.
We want to thank everybody that came out for the rumble party.
We had a blast.
We're going to be doing it again soon.
So keep your eye on our social media for that.
My name is Rob.
I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast.
And I am coming to you live from an undisclosed location called Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
As I'm up here for work this week, I'll be traveling home tomorrow, but I wanted to make
sure that we got back on the air and I'm willing to do that for you.
We do it for the kids.
That way from me is the official fact checker of sooner or gator productions and a man
that I think next week or maybe we're going to have his turn his lights back on.
You may know him as Igboonoo, but his mom and even Don Ford.
I'm going to call him Don Ford.
Hey, man.
Get some stuff and adjusted here.
I like it.
But when you first law done, you had your other light on and it looked fine.
Yeah.
Okay.
Hold on.
Okay.
This is riveting.
I know.
This is what we do.
We're going to do it.
We do it live.
See that looks great.
No, it looks great.
Okay.
Next turn that light off down there.
Alex out on assignment this week, he should be back with us next Thursday night.
But let's go ahead and get into it.
We are getting ready for the superb owl.
It is this Sunday.
Can you believe it, Don?
It's almost time for all of us to be undefeated again, come Monday morning.
Sunday Sunday Sunday.
Right now.
If you can believe it, San Francisco is giving to.
What are you thinking?
I would take San Francisco.
Alex did not send his official piggy.
He did send us some prop bets to talk about, but I am also going to take San Francisco
because I said in August that this Super Bowl would be San Francisco Buffalo and I believe
I did pick San Francisco to win it.
I can't get off the train now.
I got to stay with my pick.
I am very excited that I am not only the only person on the show that had one team in
the playoffs.
I had both of them.
Even though Buffalo did not quite do what they were, I was hoping they would do, but you
know, wide rights going to be wide right.
So I thought it would be fun, Don, if we could go, Alex sent me an email earlier today
of some of the prop bets for the Super Bowl and I thought it would be fun to go through.
As we do this every year, so first of all, National Anthem over under at 89 and a half
seconds.
Who's singing it?
Reba McIntyre will be singing the National Anthem this year.
I would say, I don't think she will drag it out like maybe some of the aren't these
years.
Is that going to Christina Aguilera it?
Yeah, or pop singers.
I think she'll be do it, do the boo.
I would say under, under.
I am going to take the over and as Alex says here, no anthem has been under since 1998.
Ooh.
So I'm going to take the over there, scoring songs during the halftime show.
As we know, Usher is your halftime show this year.
The number of songs he will perform your over under is eight and a half, Don.
Um, I would say over.
I'm also going to take the over because Usher has had a lot of hits over the years.
Kids been in the game a long time.
So there may be 45 seconds of a song, but yeah, it may it may hit nine, it may barely
hit the over, but I'm right there with you.
The first song he will play or odds on favorites right now are caught up and the title track
of his first album, My Way, I'm not going to take either one of these.
I think, you know, they're in Vegas.
I think that the song that's going to start it, even though My Way, Sonatra, Vegas, whatever,
I'm going to go with something more like up in this club or DJ, got us falling in love.
Those are those are my two odds on favorites for the first song he will play Don.
Do you know the uvra of the Usher well enough to make a call on that?
You don't even want to really know is that hey, hey, hey, don't that.
I would be.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But Alex also betting, yeah, because as he says, it's a banger and saw it speak of
popularity due to the hangover, which is also set in Vegas.
I.
Yeah, is the closer, personally, I think it might be the start.
What's the other, the more the two top ones, though, again, My Way has had tons of them.
No, no, the on the betting thing you're saying, his, the betting favor started up.
He has as caught up or My Way, which both great songs guys had banger after banger after
banger.
I got caught up.
I got caught up.
There's a great song.
I'm a big fan.
Uh, the purdies over under for passing yards, 246 and a half for the purdies, the purdies
for brought purdies, brought purdies passing yardage over under is 246 and a half.
I'd say over.
Alex is saying under 246 and a half would mean probably closer to 250.
He says both teams are top five defenses and average yards by quarterback facing both
of these defensive, both defense that have faced, ah, let me try that in English, average
yards by quarterbacks facing both of these defenses is 217.
I will take the under, but not by much.
I think purdies going to have a great game when you've got guys like Debo, Sanio and
George Kittle on the field.
I think you're going to be okay.
Uh, if does purdies throw a pick, what do you think, Don?
Does he throw a pick?
Yeah.
Maybe low, but one, two at most, but I would stay one because that's still good defense.
Alex says his pro football focus score is the same as Bryce Young from Carolina, but he
has also been insanely lucky.
I think, I don't think he throws a pick in this game.
I just don't.
I think that he plays very smart.
A lot of people are calling him a system quarterback.
Yes.
He was Mr.
A relevant, but you know what?
Hard and interesting stat this morning on that, Don.
Did you know that Patrick Mahomes makes more per pass attempt in a game than Brock Purdie
makes in a game?
What do you mean makes?
So Patrick Mahomes with his contract broke it down.
He makes more money every time he throws the ball than Brock Purdie makes in an entire
game.
Wow.
Because Brock Purdie being on a rookie deal is making 800,000 something a year.
It's like 49,000 a game.
Yeah.
So, and you know, we all know Mahomes is making a bazillion dollars in only part of the
royals, which is his own fault.
Purdie, here's another one.
Purdie over under 4.5 rushes, rushing attempts for Brock Purdie.
He likes to get out there.
I would say, I would say over.
I'm going to take over too.
I think he gained a lot of confidence in the NFC championship game.
I will also take the over here.
I think that's going to, they're going to mix up this offense because if you're going
to go up against defense like Kansas City has you have to keep them on their toes and
they're going to do this a lot.
I think you're going to see a lot of plays you haven't seen before.
You're going to see a lot of schemes you haven't seen before.
I think San Francisco comes ready.
Isaiah Pacheco over under 80 yards receiving, Don.
I'm sorry, over under 80 yards of rushing.
I had that wrong.
Yeah.
Over.
San Francisco, Don, Alex is great against the past, but they're only seven adjusted against
the run.
I would take the over as well.
I think they're going to rely on Isaiah Pacheco a lot, Kansas City will, but I still don't
think it's going to be enough.
I'm still staying by my pick with San Francisco, sacks.
He did not give me an over under on this.
There's a long, there's 40 to one though on zero sacks in the game.
Total sacks between both.
If there are no sacks in the game, your odds are 40 to one on that.
Would you take that between both teams?
That is correct.
I'm assuming because he didn't give me any other information on that.
No, I wouldn't take that because I think there's going to be at least one sack by one team.
I think it's going to be at least one on each side.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Crystal's joining us.
Hello, my friend.
My boyfriend, her daughter's name is Taylor too, so I don't know if that's a, there's
a bias there.
But you know what?
I think this is going to be a fantastic game.
I'm very much looking forward to it.
Two points is not a lot.
And I think that's a testament to the season.
Both of these teams have.
I just, I think it's San Francisco's time.
A lot of people are talking about the, the chiefs being the new Patriots.
I don't know that I agree with that because I kind of like the Patriots.
I'm Patrick Mahomes showing a little bit of a spoiled brat in the last few games.
Yeah.
But I don't, and maybe it's because the chiefs aren't in my division, but I just don't
have the, the dislike for them that I had for the new England Patriots.
So I'm very much looking forward to this game.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
You know how much I enjoy the superb owl every year.
And we'll talk about the results next Thursday on this very show.
You know, but there is that conspiracy theory that they did this.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Stop it.
I may be 1500 miles away, but I can still get to you.
I know.
That's good.
Oh, it's going to do the NBA standings real quick in the Atlantic division, the Toronto
Raptors.
They're there.
And it's almost, it's the all-star break weekend for the NBA too, Don.
Do you see what they're doing with the, with the skills competitions?
No, no.
And they always have like the dunk and everything.
Right.
The Saturday night skills competition, the dunk competition on it, they're going to have
like a class, a glass floor, and there's going to be an LED under the floor.
It looks pretty cool.
You should check it out.
They're not going to do that for the actual all-star game.
That's actually next weekend.
I'm sorry.
But they wouldn't do that the same day as the Super Bowl, why?
But Toronto right before the all-star break, they've got 18 wins on the year.
They are two and a half back on Brooklyn, Brooklyn now, 10 back on Philadelphia, Philadelphia,
two and a half back on New York, in New York, a six back on Boston.
I don't know what it is.
Off tonight.
In the Central Division, Detroit is still terrible.
They're 26 and a half games back.
They're 16 and a half back on Chicago, Chicago, four and a half back on the Pacers, Pacers
four and a half back on Millowalkay, and Millowalkay only a game back on Cleveland currently.
In the Southeast Division, the Washington, Wizards, they're not good, Don.
No.
They're 18 games out of first place.
They're a game behind Charlotte, Charlotte is 12 and a half back on Atlanta.
The Hawks are five back on Orlando, Orlando now five, a half game, sorry, a half game back
on Miami.
Miami's lost two in a row.
They've had some key injuries as of late and they had a guy today that got in some
trouble as well.
In the Pacific Division, the Golden State Warriors currently 10 back there or two back
on the Lakers.
The Lakers are three back on Sacramento, Sacramento, a half game back on Phoenix, Phoenix,
now four and a half back on the key pairs.
In the Southwest Division, the Spurs, man, this team is bad.
They've lost five in a row.
They're 20 games back.
They're eight back on Memphis, Memphis five and a half back on Houston, Houston four
and a half back on Dallas.
Dallas, not only two back on Fly, Pelican, but the Pelicans have one four in a row.
In the Northwest Division, the Portland Trailblazers are 19 and a half games out of first
place.
They're 10 back on Utah.
Utah is nine and a half back on a three-way tie for first place right now, Don.
Denver, Minnesota, and Oklahoma City all in a three-way tie in the Northwest Division
in the NBA.
The NHL, Eastern Conference, Atlantic Division, the odor-wast Senators, they are 29 points
out of first place.
Is there getting ready for the Elser break as well?
They are six points back on the Sabres.
Sabres two back on the Montreal Canadiens.
Thank you.
Montreal eight points back on Detroit.
Detroit is a point back on Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay is a point back on Toronto, Toronto
six back on Florida, Florida now, let's see, five back on Boston.
What is our other division in the Eastern Conference, Don?
What's the position?
That is correct.
The Columbus Blue Jackets are currently 25 points out of first place.
They are nine points back on Washington, Washington two back on New Jersey who are tied with
your Pittsburgh penguins and you're a point back on the Islanders.
They were actually in town this week, Don, and I did not prepare well enough to go see
the game.
So that's on me.
How far away?
You're not far from the Eagle.
I mean, can solve the arena, are you?
It's all right here.
Okay.
You're right by that arena, then.
Okay.
So I told you in the pre-show that if you look out the side window by office building,
you just see right into PNC Park and then at restures right there and then PPG's the
other way.
Yeah, because I know there is some distance.
I know how close of you are to the other, you know, go ahead.
The Islanders are now four back on the Flyers, Flyers three back on Carolina, Carolina,
six back on the Rangers in the Atlantic division, the Otter Was Senators, oh, we already did
that whole division.
I can, I gotta get to the Western Conference, Don, man, I am off today.
Oh, boy, what is going on here?
Try this again.
Let me get to where I want to be.
Western Conference, Central Division that has no Eastern or Western, the Chicago Black
Hawks are 38 points out of first place.
They are 19 points back on Minnesota, Minnesota and Arizona are tied both five back on Nashville
and St. Louis who are also tied.
They're back nine points on Winnipeg, Winnipeg three back on Dallas, Dallas now tied with
Colorado for first place.
By the way, Chicago has lost five in a row.
In the Pacific division, the San Jose Sharks, they're 40 points out of first place.
I guess who's going to get America's North America's favorite game show tonight, Don?
Oh, boy.
They are five back on Anaheim.
Anaheim is 13 back on the Calgary.
Calgary is a point back on Seattle, settle four back on the Kings.
The Kings three back on Edmonton.
Edmonton is seven back on Vegas.
Vegas is now seven back on that Hoover.
All right, Don, you're ready?
North America's favorite game show in this time.
What is the gold differential for the San Jose Sharks?
I would say negative 101.
You're over.
Oh, boy.
The San Jose Sharks after 51 games are 1432 and five.
They're 913 and two at home.
They're 519 and three on the row.
They've lost one in a row.
They're 532 and their last 10.
They're gold differential right now, a minus 92.
That's close.
So it still was over.
Still, 93 is over.
You may have some breaking news coming up here on Montero at least stay by the channel.
OK.
Some TV news while we're waiting.
Did you hear this thing about the, you've heard your sports story of the week when it comes
to TV news, Don?
Not depends on what you're talking to be Disney Warner Brothers and Fox are teaming
up this fall for another streaming app that is just sports that will be north of $40
a month.
Just sports.
Yep.
And what's going to be on this sport?
Don't know.
They'll be exclusive games and things like that.
I'm a hard pass.
So it's Disney and who else did you say?
Disney Warner Brothers and Fox.
So they're going to put it app or streaming channel.
It's all sports and it's cost 40 bucks a month and a little bit north of that.
Yeah.
So you're talking like 500 bucks a year at least easily.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's pass.
I don't even know what brand is here with some brother.
Sorry, Don, I'm working on this breaking news or something.
No, it's all right.
Press conference.
No, it's okay.
Yeah, hard pass for me.
Yeah.
Did you know CBS is doing a reboot of Matwalk?
No, I didn't know that, but with Kathy Bates.
Oh, Kathy Bates.
And joining the cast, uh, being subbed out for someone that was in the pilot boat bridges.
Oh, really?
In that show.
I was like, and then Kathy Bates, she, I mean, she won an Oscar for gosh sake.
Yes, she did.
Yeah.
Disney Plus has renewed Percy Jackson and the Olympians for season two.
So more Adam Copeland, I'm hoping.
Yeah, I heard he was going to be in on that on the next season.
They're going to keep bringing back the character again.
We finally got watched the whole thing and got to think out of last weekend.
And the fantastic three, four liked it.
I liked it.
It was a fun little show.
HBO Max announcing Catherine O'Hara has joined season two of the last of us as a yet to
be named character, currently being seen in our guy on a theater near you.
I thought she did a fantastic job on my big fan.
And the lead in Scott Glenn will be joining the white Lotus in season 10.
That can't be season three, maybe it's not season 10.
Showing you had 10 seasons, I can't type today.
I have to tell you, I am off today.
Don't worry, I have updates too, so don't worry about it.
NBC peacock announcing that Sam Waterson will be leaving law and order.
Jack McCoy leaving the mother ship.
He will be replaced by Tony Goldwood.
And I never got any of those.
I know there's a lot of them.
I used to be a law and order junkie.
I'm not so much any.
Yeah.
So let's see, and they haven't renewed the traders for season three.
That is the game show with Alan coming.
That seems to be doing very well on peacock.
And that one, I just, we don't, I can't do the game shows.
I'm sorry.
You know, I got enough stuff to watch too.
But only other thing in TV talk this week, Anthony,
Anthony Michael Hall on prime video will be joining a richer in season three.
OK, now I like him.
He's done some good stuff throughout the years.
TV on DVD on Blu-ray this week wolf packs season one, not about the NWO.
It's another show and the complete series of Voyagers,
which is a show I was a big fan of as a kid.
That one I'm trying to remember Voyagers.
I don't know.
This was about a kid who gets mixed up with a guy who's kind of a time traveler,
but what he's part of a group called Voyagers and they go through pieces in history
or something has gone wrong and they have to fix history.
OK, loved that.
I think I remember that part of that.
But I think it's coming back to me, if I remember right.
Yeah, a little thing.
If you have a manual, they lost the manual.
No, that's the greatest American hero, Don.
No, no, no.
This one, he had a little pocket thing and when he flipped it open,
it was a red light and a green light and it was a red light.
They had something they had to fix and it was a green light and they fixed it.
I think it is a little kid in the guy or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Yeah, they didn't have a manual.
He just got lost in time pretty much.
Yeah.
If I remember like the one with Thomas Edison, how do you have to keep fixing the light
and he tore the shirt and he just took the little thread or whatever and realized,
oh, that's how I make it and they're able to get time back to normal.
I remember that now.
A couple of in memoriams this week, Tuesday morning as I was on my way to the airport.
I saw on Twitter that Toby Keith had passed away.
He'd been fighting stomach cancer for a long time and a great line of work.
I'm hearing nothing but awesome stories about him.
Very big support of the troops and a lot of USO tours.
Some great stories that have come out of that absolute legend.
We wish the best of his family, friends and fans.
I also want to send a quick shout out.
If you watched our Royal Rumble show, I was wearing my Legion of Doom t-shirt for a reason.
Locally, we lost a dear friend of the show by the name of Daniel Calhoun.
He was a cosplayer.
A lot of people knew him as Captain of Meridad.
The first time I met him, he had a bunch of different Captain America cosplays, but
the first time I met him, he changed out of his Captain America cosplay and he and his
son were Hawking Animal.
I thought that was awesome.
He and I became very fast friends and we lost him a couple of days before the Rumble.
They're having a celebration of life for him tomorrow.
I will not be able to be there because I will be on my plane home.
We want to send a shout out to everybody that will be there.
Daniel is so many great stories that people have been telling about him.
He was very, very deeply loved by a lot of people.
One we haven't had a chance to mention because we were off the air for a while.
Very good friend of the show, still dealing with it.
Chance Monsterman passed away about a month ago.
He and I have been friends for better part of 30 years.
He and I met when we were both doing karaoke for a living.
There was no, he wouldn't really tell anybody what was going on.
He was always just chipper and high energy and I had a conversation with him a couple of
months before.
Chance forgot to him as well.
Absolutely talented musician.
We've had him on the show.
He debuted one of his new singles on our show at my house when we were still doing it there.
Guy has a heart bigger than Texas.
Excuse me.
And it was always willing to help out the telephones every year.
It was always willing to lend a hand, one of the most wonderful humans I've ever known.
And he has greatly missed and I wanted to make sure that we put that shout out in there
as well because Guy was a legend.
So what love seeing all of his bandmates come out and support and tell great stories
and all the people that we knew at the same time.
He actually came out and saw Grace D and did a video bit with me outside of the profit
bar afterwards and it showed up on my memories feed and it just kind of brought me some joy.
So and I'm still dealing with a little bit of me on this with you.
It's never easy.
No matter what.
We love you see hands.
Yeah.
We love you to death brother.
Yeah.
What's going on?
Hold on.
I'm going to pull this up so I can talk about it when we get there.
Okay.
That's not what I want to be.
This is where I want to be.
Okay.
Interesting.
Moving news.
Jim Carrey will be returning for Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
And I think I saw part two after part one.
I haven't seen either.
Wonderful.
Yeah.
But I can tell you where you can watch it coming very, very soon.
If you're in New Braunfels, Texas, Hill Country Comic Con coming up first weekend in April.
We're going to be watching that after drive in.
That's cool.
That's going to be fun.
More details on that in coming weeks.
Millie Alcock who you might remember as the young Raynara Targaryen from House of
the Dragon.
She is your new super girl.
Oh, really?
So we got moving you releases this week.
If you go to our website right now, I don't have the buttons done.
Yeah.
www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
That's the other way around.
But Lisa Frankenstein hits theaters tomorrow.
Basically, in my opinion, what you need to know is if John Hughes and Tim Burton got
together in 1989 said, let's make a movie.
That's what you get very much enjoyed it.
It's a lot of fun.
A lot of people looked at me at that screening.
I'm like, why are you here?
I'm like, this isn't a horror movie.
So it's not and it's not a horror movie.
It's fun.
It's a dark comedy, but it's not too dark.
It's placed in 1989.
So all the things that come with that, you can read all about our thoughts from our
reviews on the website.
Let's see.
The monk in the gun.
A documentary.
Go ahead.
That desk door.
And there are some gore in it.
But I think it's done in a fun way.
Where's that is to say on that film?
Yeah.
I noticed you had written that in your review.
I didn't find anything to be too gory.
There's some, but they didn't write.
It's the point I'm trying to make on that.
Yeah, I guess because I didn't really see it as gore because it was just more like it
was like a teenage monster movie, I guess.
Yeah.
We also have the taste of things this week, a French film.
The story of Yogyny and a scene to cook in Dodon, the fine gourmet with whom she has been
working for the last 20 years.
It's actually looks really good.
But Dodon doesn't do subtitles.
So.
I have a hard time with that.
I've done a couple.
Hey, one made my top film of the year.
You're not wrong.
Yeah.
We also have out of darkness this week.
In the old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new
land.
But when they suspect a malevolent mythical being is hunting them down, the clan are forced
to confront a danger they never envisioned.
Not doing anything for you, Don?
Yeah.
Not really.
Yeah.
Remember, we're in the first couple months of the year.
So.
That's when they kind of drop certain stuff and stuff they've been waiting on, but just
be a good time.
We also have the private eye this week.
The life of private eye, Mort Madison, is spiraling downward when a beguiling, slightly
familiar woman hires him for his most unusual case.
Comedian Matt Reif is in this.
Let's see.
Anybody else?
Eric Roberts is in this.
Eric Griffin is in this who was in a couple of great series.
I've watched in the last few years and that's all the names I recognize in that particular
one.
The monk in the gun, which I really wish I could have been in town to see, but it was
the day I left to come here.
So we're going to have to, this is a documentary.
I believe if I'm not mistaken, an American who travels to Bhutan in search of treasure
crosses.
Okay, this is not, this is a narrative crosses path with a young monk who wanders through
the serene mountains instructed by his teacher to make things right again.
This seems kind of like it's kind of a little bit of a western vibe for anything, though
to it has a lot of subtitles too.
That's why I can.
Yeah.
On that.
It looks pretty cool.
It looks cool, but you know, certain things like you don't do horror films and mean subtitles
just don't mix either, you know, that is true.
Yeah, it is true.
We also have popular theory this week or when a girl genius is the youngest student in
high school.
Unfortunately, she struggles with social isolation.
When she meets fellow sirens guru Winston, they team up to invent a chemical that changes
the high school hierarchy forever.
Okay.
Okay.
And it's not flubber.
So I think we're good there.
And Peppa Pig has Peppa's cinema party this week for the kids.
All right.
As you know, over there, it's not the movie theater.
It's the cinema.
The cinema.
Okay.
Orlando Bloom has a voice in this.
Ten new episodes, a three part wedding special, a mix of animation and live action where
Peppa enters the real world.
There's a lot going on in this and it's only a ten new episodes in an hour and five
minutes.
I kind of like to see the paperwork on that sand.
Only a couple of movies on DVD and Blu-ray this week, The Criterion Collection has two
releases.
Michelle Yo and Maggie Chung, with a double feature of the heroic trio and executioners
and nothing but a man.
It's a movie from the 60s, both getting the Criterion Collection treatment this week.
All right.
Let's get into.
We're going to try some different.
Here.
Hold on.
Okay.
We're going to get into the other half of our show this week.
Hit the theme.
The other half of our show is the cheap pop cast where we talk about the world of
professional wrestling.
What a week it was in our sport and we're going to talk all about it right now.
We have breaking news from the WrestleMania press conference taking place in Las Vegas
from Correspondent and former co-host of this show Cody Hawkins.
He says rock just kind of joined the bloodline and went full heel that it should be.
It looks like to be a now a tag match of rock Roman versus Rollins Roads.
Which means neither belt would be on the line.
Or does the winning team get both belts?
Can we screen this up even more?
Don, you know better than ask that question.
It had potential.
Cody finally gets it.
When's the belt takes on Roman.
So the headline that was Cody picks.
Romans to face.
Fixed Roman reigns to face a WrestleMania and then the rock slaps Cody Roads.
Also breaking news.
I saw this earlier today and the WWE was looking to copyright WWE speed.
It is officially announced.
It's going to be a show on X formerly Twitter.
Okay.
So.
You know what I would then bring in the rock in.
You make Roman do double duty.
And then he finds the title on the first night on Saturday.
He loses to Cody.
And then he faces a rock for the head of the table.
Like you're kind of talking.
But no, let's.
That does not look to be the.
Does not look to be the.
Pathetic tag team match where Roman's going to be shoved down our throw.
It's for another year.
He's going to defend a title four times and the fam is getting involved each time.
So, Cody winning the belt finally.
Hey dad, look what I did.
No, no, let's just.
Screw us up even more than we can.
Make me a lot to care about WrestleMania even less.
You're Lord.
My head hurts now.
Yeah.
Let's see how it all.
No, things could turn around.
You even have the fan base saying Cody no, you know, Cody finished the job.
You have that story going.
Yeah.
Scott DeMore has been let go from TNA wrestling.
Do they see why?
His contract was terminated.
That's all we know at this point.
From what I have read.
It is nothing malicious.
This was just business.
A lot of it's a lot of the talent not happy about it.
No.
I did see something in a lot of talent saying he's the guy that saved TNA.
TNA slash impact from really going under and keeping it going for the last couple of years.
Which I agree.
I could see that.
But maybe you know that the contracts, you know.
Leave it at that.
But yeah.
Who knows.
It's beyond our.
You never know what's going to happen sometimes in the world of pro wrestling.
And we'll try not to mongo mic Michael is going into the pro football all the same.
Yes, he.
So that was announced today.
Getting back to WWE.
It is now official.
WrestleMania will start at seven Eastern.
Actually, it's not correct.
It's going to be six Eastern.
So it's going to be five o'clock central each night with a two hour pre show.
Okay.
Get ready.
Smackdown.
Your new announced team is Corey Graves and Wade Barrett.
I don't know how I feel about this.
I like them both.
But together.
I don't know.
Somebody's got to work faced on.
I know.
That's the thing.
Let's say, you know, let's say both want to be heels and try something new.
Break the, break the barrier.
Because who says you can't have two healed dancers.
Try something.
Try to have somebody to balance it.
Who knows Tiffany Stratton has been called up.
She is now on the Smackdown roster.
Colby's.
Want to match against me a Yim.
Bailey makes her choice.
Here's a question for you, Don.
Yeah.
Haven't we known she could speak Japanese for a while now.
And as you say, how would that please elaborate?
Because when she when all of the rest of dams control minus Dakota Kai.
Was talking smack about her in Japanese.
And then Bailey got in the ring and took Japanese to them to let her let them know.
She understood what they were.
Yeah.
I thought we'd known for a while.
She spoke Japanese.
I didn't know that.
Really?
Because she spent a lot of time over there early in her career.
I didn't know because I know like Kenny Omega is basically almost fluent in.
In Japanese, but I didn't know she was, you know.
I know how John Cena has been trying to learn Mandarin and stuff like that.
But I didn't know that she.
How much she knew Japanese in real life.
I don't know.
So she will face EO Sky at WrestleMania.
For the for the women's title.
I can see that now.
Who do you think Jake Cargill goes after.
Rhea.
Well, we got well, get to that here in just a minute.
Okay.
B Fab joins what has still not been named but named on social media.
The pride.
She is now the female piece of.
Female piece of the puzzle for.
The street profits and Bobby Lashley.
So we're going to see how all that works out as they take on the final testament.
We now, I did this.
This flushes my next two items because after the pro after the press conference,
we don't know what's going to happen now.
Maybe we'll get some resolution on this tomorrow night.
Yeah.
Who knows.
On Smackdown.
But.
But it is an interesting thought process when you had the fan reaction after Smackdown.
Going into raw.
With the.
We want Cody rocky sucks thing in my commentary on that is very simple and I've said this for a long time.
For those of you that have been clamoring for the return of the attitude era.
Number one, it's never going to happen.
Number two.
This is how you react when they give it to you.
There's only one person bigger in the attitude era than rock and it would have been Austin.
So we give you a piece of the attitude era and you boo it out of the building.
Yeah.
But here's the thing you got to look at what the fans want.
And I understand bringing rock back is great.
And there's ways you could do it back where the fans would really get into it.
Okay.
So what you do is you have Cody win the title of mania.
Then rock comes in and says, you know, you got on the usos when they lost to take tiles.
You embarrass the family.
Now you lost you embarrass the family.
I'm challenging for the head at the table at Somerslam.
You know what I'm saying?
At Somerslam or mania.
Okay.
That's what I'm saying.
Cody wins the this mania.
He finishes the story.
Then, you know, Roman says, you know, you embarrass the tag team division by losing it in the family.
Now rock comes in and says, you lost.
You embarrass the family.
So Somerslam, you and me for headed the table.
That's only four months away.
Now be a good bill for the big for the main event of Somerslam.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't trust any of it right now.
I know.
But that's him.
If I had like you're saying the book in the checkbook for a year.
Yeah.
Cody wins.
Rock comes back.
The big match.
Head to the table.
Which which you so is going to be with the rock.
Which one is going to be with Roman at the match.
You know what I'm saying?
The whole family comes in.
The Samoans, everything.
And you let those two go at it for the head of the table at Somerslam.
Have you noticed that raw.
They're starting to do the same kind of in lower thirds that AEW is doing where they're putting a detail on the side of the screen.
Yeah, I didn't notice that.
I was like, really?
Okay, fair enough.
So you mentioned the the women's world title earlier.
We found out this week that the way we're going to determine that is that the winner of the women's chamber.
A week two weeks from Saturday.
Will face rear Ripley at WrestleMania.
Your first qualifier for that.
Was Becky Lynch.
I don't know if Jade Cargill is.
I think that they were kind of ruined her debut.
In the rumble because.
You know, you do all this build up and then she gets eliminated.
What's one of the final three though?
Yeah, but still I just I don't know.
If she came in as number 17 and is out by 22.
That's one thing versus she comes in like at number 18.
And she's won the final three.
I mean, I believe I do believe she signs to raw.
I believe that.
Okay.
But I don't know if she wins the chamber.
But maybe go ahead.
I'm saying, but that's, you know, she comes in.
She's a new shining thing.
I won the chamber.
Now I get the title on the.
Because they're talking about how she's the biggest free agent they signed and all that.
And the women's in a long time.
DIY gets the shot with Pete Dunn and Tyler bait.
Tomorrow night on Smackdown.
They will take on each other.
The winner of that becomes the number one contenders for the unified tag titles.
Why not just.
I don't know.
We want.
I need them to separate these tag titles.
And did I miss when they added heavyweight to the intercontinental championship?
Yeah.
And so it's just been the.
They kept calling it out.
I'm like, no, it's just the intercontinental title.
Yeah, it's not.
I've been heavyweight.
And the Kabuki warriors did retain their tag titles on raw as well.
Vengeance day.
Did you watch that last Sunday, Don?
No.
So I'm going to run it down for you real quick.
Not a great show.
Okay.
It's really rough to get through for me.
The wolf dogs do win the dusty.
So they will.
They will get a shot at tag team gold.
I do not believe that they now they are going to get it next Sunday night.
I don't think they beat the family because with Braun being called up.
I don't know what that does for you.
Okay, fair enough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Die Jack wins over Joe Gacy.
And a no DQ match was actually a decent match.
And then they had the family.
Retaining winning the six person in.
Flack.
The mixed tag six person match.
Was won by the family.
But I feel like they should have put that in between like put a title match in between the first two.
Instead of third on the card.
I think I made the pace.
Do you think they should move die Jack up to the roster again?
Not yet.
Still came down there.
I think he's a guy that can help some of the younger talent learn because he's been around the business for a while.
Okay.
A low advice pulled a Seth Rollins during the women's title match and made it a three way cashing in her breakout tournament contract.
Breaking news Mike Zimmer formerly of the Minnesota Vikings.
Now your defense of coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys.
Awesome.
Okay.
They didn't do the Washington switch or whatever.
He did not.
Okay.
But Lyra Valkyrie does retain by pinning a little advice sending Roxanne Perez into a tailspin.
Goes off backstage.
Oba Femi does retain the North American title.
The Ilya trick Williams match for a long time.
It felt a lot longer than it was.
Ilya does retain after a melt of a ref bump.
And then at the end of the show mellow turns hit some a bunch of times on the knee with a chair.
I think that this will be your main event for stand in deliver.
Not roadblock.
Although roadblocks a possibility.
But I think they're going to wait till stand in deliver because number one is the big show number two.
It gives them time to sell the knee because roadblock is like March seven.
I think something.
Or March 5th.
But I think that's your main event for standard deliver trick wins mellow goes up and joins the Smackdown roster.
That's kind of the thing with standard deliver.
Booker T is out with a health problem.
We wish him very speedy recovery.
So filling in for him.
That's the desk down at a vengeance day.
It was weighed Barrett but going forward on Tuesday nights until booker T comes back.
Hall of Famer Byron Saxton is at the desk.
And I've lived to see the day where Byron Saxton quoted white snake on an NXT broadcast.
So.
That was.
It's just just.
Oh, L.A.
Listen is a mind.
L.A.
He's not anti McAfee too.
So.
Yeah.
A.W.
Congratulations to Texas product.
The bounty killer Brian Keith.
He is now all elite.
Yeah, he had promote on that.
That was.
That happened on collision.
And it looks like we're doing some kind of an invasion angle with CMLL.
But I would like to see it kind of crossover with.
Black cool.
Black pool combat club going there to.
I think that would be really cool.
Or how they invade their.
They're.
Yeah.
Do a little bit of both.
Yeah.
Adam Page is lower third on dynamite just said undefeated.
They end up going 30 minutes.
And then.
Page believes that he should get the shop.
And now that gave that match at revolution will be a three way dance Samoa Joe versus source with Strickland versus Adam Page.
Man, I'm off tonight.
Yeah.
March 13th in Boston.
What did you think about that announcement last night done?
Uh,
should notice anything about the picture.
No, I didn't see the picture though.
So it will be called big business.
Okay.
Taking place in Boston at the TD Garden.
TD Waterhouse Garden or whatever calling it this week.
In the lower left corner.
The word Boston was spelled B O S S T O N and the S's had dollar signs through that.
I didn't see that part, but I could.
Yeah, there's there's been the rumors of that.
You know, I didn't want to, you know, go ahead in case you were going to.
Yep.
From what I've read, Mercedes Monet actually signed the last month.
And they were just trying to figure out when to bring her in.
And apparently this is the night and it will be March 13th at big business.
Yeah, but that's it.
I'd like to use the boss and try to get around, you know.
I don't know.
No, no, no, no.
WWE.
I'll probably try suing it or whatever.
But another great main event for AEW Dynamite.
Sting jumping off the tunnel.
On the first level, I was like, oh my gosh.
Yeah, 62 years old.
I know.
And new and new tag champs.
Yeah.
So his final match is next month, right?
Revolution March March.
Is that the third or fourth?
I think it's the third.
Okay.
And maybe stay by the channel where it might be announcement about that.
Got something working.
Got something brewing done.
Okay.
But here's my thing.
Okay.
From what I have read, Sting did not want to win the tag titles.
He didn't want to do it.
But he kind of just rolled with it.
I learned last last night that my DVR does did run over.
So it just rolled into the next program.
So I didn't miss the ending.
What has been my biggest complaint?
About AEW.
You remember Don?
A couple of things, but maybe how it rolls over the DVR time?
No, I don't.
It has to do with the name of the company.
All eat wrestling.
That my biggest fear since day one, and it's happened a couple of times now,
where it has become all elite wrestling.
I sincerely believe.
Sting does not win that match.
Sting and Darby Allen do not win that match,
because they're just going to put the tag belts back on the young bunch.
And now we're back closer to all elite wrestling.
Now, in a perfect world,
Sting and Darby Allen win that match,
and they just vacate the titles.
But this thing that they're doing with the young bucks,
it just seems real petty.
Yeah, I really like AEW,
but they think they angle with them doing the,
being all dressed up and acting like the business guys
with the clipboards and all that stuff.
Well, it's a shot at CM Punk is what it is.
Yeah, that's all it is.
That doesn't make me like you anymore.
Like, I don't care.
But I've said for years,
this is what happens when you have talent with authority.
You can't do that.
Management, let management be management,
but labor, be labor in this particular case.
Well, you say they'll all eat if they get the titles back.
But what about, well, how long is,
do they have any idea when Omega's going to return?
I haven't heard a word.
But remember, there was a time when all three of them had belts,
and then they had the Trio's belts.
Worked back.
I have no, I have no problem with the bucks getting the belts
as long as they don't keep them forever.
I mean, they were ROH tag champions.
They deserved it.
You know, they're a good tag team.
You know, if they were in WWE,
they probably get a tag belt also.
If they went to, you know,
WWE instead of, because they are that caliber,
they could be champions and take it for a while.
Well, they were impact tag champs too,
if I remember correctly.
Yeah, probably.
Yeah.
I just, again, I don't know what this does
for your product having them with the tag belts.
Like, if you are an executive,
it should be your job to develop your staff
and develop your team to be the best it can be.
And I don't believe that they're the best option
to hold those belts.
I don't.
Sometimes you got to turn them in,
I don't know,
bring them from one team to another team.
If they don't constantly have it like Roman has the belt,
I have a problem with them to have.
That is a fair point.
Yeah, you kind of get the point,
because they are caliber of being able to be champions
and they've been champions,
but they didn't hold it forever.
If it's a short run,
I could deal with it.
It starts a revolution and it goes through all out.
No.
Drop them in for a bin door,
drop them a devil or nothing, something.
Drop them at a random dynamite.
You're not going to hurt my feelings.
But not a huge week otherwise in our sport.
We have a lot going on.
We got a lot coming up.
Anything else you want to talk about down?
We are way ahead of the game tonight.
Not really.
Let's see.
No, I think I'm good.
Just enjoy it.
You know, I'm jealous that you're having community brothers.
I had it for dinner tonight.
I probably have it for lunch tomorrow at the airport.
Okay.
Okay.
One other thing.
I'm going to predict it.
There's going to be some kind of outage at the Super Bowl this year.
An outage?
Yeah.
Just like I called that power outage at the halftime show that one time.
Wasn't it the halftime show?
Dawson of the third quarter.
No, it's during the halftime show.
It was after it was after the halftime show.
I know, but the third quarter got delayed because of it.
So it's still very technically during halftime.
And I think Vegas is going to be okay.
In coin flip, I'm going to see Tails.
Tails never fails.
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