Part One of the Double Feature!

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It is five o'clock on the West Coast, it is the 18th of April in the year of our Lord
2224, season 14, episode 25, 660 times.
You have been welcome to the Clubhouse podcast live every Thursday night as long as we can
make it happen.
And if you saw the name of tonight's episode, we got a lot of stuff to cover.
Don out on assignment tonight, so tagging in that way is my co-host and a man who got the
outfit memo this morning, he is Alex.
I want to clarify there was no outfit memo, he just happens to be a favorite color for
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Before we get into this, we are going to talk about the title of tonight's show.
It is part one of the double feature.
Tonight we will be covering the sports piece.
We will also be covering the wrestling piece.
However, we are not going to be covering the other piece of it because the pop culture
piece and the entertainment piece come tomorrow night.
Now, wait a minute, Rob, you do the show on Thursday.
Why are you doing a show tomorrow?
First of all, because we can, it is our world, judge a pain, right?
But tomorrow night, Alex tags out, Don pseudo tags in, because tomorrow night we will be
broadcasting live at seven Eastern for Pacific, our old times, slot from the USA film festival.
From the Angelica film center in Mockingbird Station, we will be there tomorrow night, broadcasting
live with film makers about the USA film festival.
It is a big deal every year.
We are very much looking forward to it.
We are going to get the configurations going to look a little bit different.
We are going to be experimenting with some new tech.
I'm very excited about this.
I wish Alex was there, but I know he's got some stuff that he's got to take care of.
And then Saturday, you can come hang out with me if you're here in the DFW area.
I will be at Dallas Comic Show at the Vista Mall in Louisville, talking to some great
guests.
It's a stellar lineup.
If you're a fan of anime, if you're a fan of, I don't know, pro wrestling, you listen
to the show.
On Stasiac, we'll be there.
If you're a fan of birds of prey, if you remember the series on Warner Brothers back
in the day when it was, I think it was still the WB at that point.
It was at a new PN.
I don't remember.
But that was the WB actually, Scott, who has a very interesting distinction as it relates
to this show that I'll be talking to her about on Saturday.
Saturday, night at the Texas theater, we will be having, I will not be there, but there's
a screening of Mean Streets with one of its stars, who is going to be there and why did I
just have a brain lock on his name, but I'm going to fix that right now.
What happened?
Oh, it didn't.
Okay, there we go.
David Proval, who has a very storied career, I'm going to be talking to him during
the day, but then Mean Streets will screen at the Texas Theater Saturday night.
Sunday night, I will be there at 530 for a screening of Toy Story 3 with John Morris,
who was the voice of Andy in all of those films with a Q&A.
A lot going on in the next 72 hours tonight, Alex and I tomorrow night, 6 o'clock central,
we will be on air from the USA Film Festival.
Next weekend kicks off the Dallas International Film Festival.
We are locking down final details on that to be able to do a live broadcast from there.
We will let you know the particulars on that as soon as we have them.
Okay.
And you think yourself, okay, Rob, maybe you can get into the show, not yet my friend.
Because we have a major announcement for most of you.
So last weekend, I had a thought as I was coming home from church and I called Alex
and I was like, hey man, let me run this by you and tell me if I'm off face.
And so I ran my idea past Alex and he was like, no dude, that doesn't sound off face.
See what you can find out.
So since it's been almost a year since we no longer have vocal anymore.
And I have struggled with how to get the podcast outside of where we currently have it on
Facebook on YouTube on Twitch because for those of you that don't know how podcasts work
on the back end, let me pull the curtain back for you a little bit.
For you to be able to get a podcast from who your favorite podcast, of course that
being us.
If it places like Apple, do not store that.
You have to store that in your own server space and have what's called an RSS feed.
That RSS feed location, which also has to be on the internet, connects to iTunes.
That is the gateway when you find a show on iTunes and you follow it, it's that RSS feed
that is stored by the hosts or whomever's producing the podcast, which is where you get
the podcast from.
There is a cost involved in that as I used to absorb that cost before there was a vocal.
Once we had vocal, there was no need for me to do that.
Now that we don't have vocal, it was a lot of me trying to figure out, okay, I want
to get us back so that our our our our our members of the empire that like to listen to
the audio version because I've always said I have the perfect face for radio.
How can they get it back without me incurring more cost because, you know, builds.
So I have a Dropbox account and I was like, well, what would be the difference between a server
at somewhere like GoDaddy and just what I already have with Dropbox.
So I found out, yes, you can do that.
So I found a service.
It's called Jumpcast.
I'm just going to put it out there.
No free ads, but for a very affordable cost, they have not only helped us out with that piece of it.
But they are actually writing the RSS feed for us much in the way that I used to have
another service that did that back in the day, but this is a lot easier.
So our huge major announcement tonight is as follows.
If you are somebody that per per first to have the audio version only of the show, because
you're on the go, you like to listen to podcasts in the car, we get that, you can do that
now.
If you up there in the QR code, Alex has added the links for Apple podcasts, Spotify and Amazon
music.
We are on all three of those services now.
We're very excited about this, just look up the clubhouse podcast, look for the logo.
You'll know it because Alex and my name is on there.
We're very excited to announce this.
So go out there, follow my cast.
We're very much looking forward to our members of the empire.
Ricardo, I see you.
Thank you, brother.
We are, I'm excited.
I was texting Alex, like there was no tomorrow on Sunday night that I was doing all the
things.
And shout out to Jumpcast.
They make it really easy for you to be able to produce your podcast for $9 a month.
You can actually have two different podcasts that they will take care of for you.
Now there are some other links within Jumpcast.
They have to update because Stitchers and their Stitchers are not a thing anymore.
Google podcasts is not a thing anymore, so just be aware of those things.
But they do a fantastic job.
It took me a little bit to just find everything.
Once I did, it's going to be fantastic.
We're looking forward to having you.
And we can sort it by season.
It's awesome.
They did a fantastic job.
Thank you, Jumpcast.
Okay.
Go ahead, Alex.
Yep.
Use the QR code.
QR code's got everything.
I, for once, welcome, our QR loads.
Let's dive in.
Well, I guess that we're doing sports and wrestling tonight.
Everything else, our night from the Angelica, come hang out at the Angelica with us.
Look at, look at Ricardo giving us the clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.
Love it.
And remember, when you're live with us, we've got,
the, whether you're on Facebook, whether you're on YouTube, whether you're on Twitch, we have the live chat available and we're watching it the whole time.
So we love to interact with the Empire because the Empire's cool.
They said it couldn't be done.
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny said, we accept your challenge.
Shout out to Rexum, promoted again.
To twice into years after 40 years without a promotion.
Y'all.
Paul Molyne is a beast.
Well, and you look how close they are to some certain leagues now.
And the, what, what did McElhenny call it?
The 20 year goal is now there in what five years just about?
Well, and I wonder if that's why they delayed the season premiere of Rexum,
that they pumped it back two or three weeks.
And I wonder because they wanted to make sure they had everything that it could last long enough for the full season.
I'm wondering.
Well, I also wonder if there's another aspect where they said, let's keep everything,
all the premiere stuff after the main table is run, so that they can just focus on the pitch.
And I wonder if that is part of it.
And as per normal, Ryan Reynolds gets tweeted the week.
So there was a story in the news of a guy who stole a car.
And then he got into a wreck.
And the person he got the wreck with is a woman who was also in a stolen car.
And Ryan Reynolds responses, this is the rom com that I need.
I love that man.
I'm going to go out on a live and say he kind of has the stroke to get that made on his own.
Well, and that ended.
He had another one on Instagram.
And I started asking him to ask a week before with everybody bought him and his family and talking about these are the people that make my life complete.
And I'm nothing without them and like, live was in the picture too.
I just wanted like that's the reality show we need.
That is very high school.
See, the problem is, I don't know if that's the reality show we need.
Or if it's a just the fact that much like we've had to do it at different events where it's like you turn it on.
or it's like just low heat.
Whereas you get them in the reality show and it's just,
I'm funny or online.
It's like, what do you call you Jen?
It's nothing.
What do you do with that?
Also, huge news in the NHL this week,
I might actually get the name of the coyotes right.
Since you really have to do it one more time?
Well, last night was allegedly the very last night
if they are playing in the state of Arizona
as they are moving to Salt Lake City, Utah.
I have heard some of the names
and just keep them the coyotes.
Go ahead, sir.
So it's not allegedly.
It's done.
It has been signed off by the owners.
They are SLC bound.
I have not seen any of the names,
but the thing that I hate the most
is part of the move to Salt Lake City,
they are dropping coyotes, they are dropping the history.
Because fun fact, even though the Winnipeg Jets
are back in the NHL historically,
Winnipeg Jets history from its early run
is tied to the Arizona coyotes.
So when they are not taking coyotes
or any of the history with them, the Salt Lake City,
that means it's the end of one of the longest
raining franchises or longest running franchises
in the NHL.
Recartus is the Salt Lake Seagulls.
That is not one of the five.
I have them if you would like them.
Well, I don't know if you're aware of this,
but there aren't any seas for the goals.
That is a fascinating fact, though, about the coyotes.
That's a sea.
It angers me.
It truly angers me because you think about it.
Yes, the Winnipeg Jets were just the absolute bottom wrong
for many years,
but you have the gritsky years.
You have the aspect of ice in the desert
and proving that it can work
the state's bird is actually the sea goal.
Let that can't be right.
Hey, he's, he's, he's, he's it's a warm and warm thing.
I just got that, no, we're not,
we're not entertaining this.
Let's just take a look at the sea goal, check it in.
Okay.
Which was done on a HTTGM.
Come on, take a look.
You're talking about the gritsky years, my friend.
But yes, but all of the stuff that has happened
throughout that franchises history,
ceasing to be,
I, I, I have a hard time with that.
Would you like the five names that were sent to the US
patent and trademark office on Tuesday?
Are we going to judge them in real time?
Yes.
Okay, do you want to do it scale 1 to 10?
And being, that's got to be the name,
one being whoever's interested they should be fired.
I'm going to do this in the order,
descending to a sending of what I like.
Okay, so that just kind of gives away your rankings a little bit.
That doesn't give away the actual ranking there.
All right.
First up, the Utah Fury,
and they're going after the entire state.
They're not going to name them,
Salt Lake City was for what has been applied for.
I figured that was going to be the case.
Even a Fury is not a terrible name.
It's not, it sounds a bit too much like a national women
soccer league theme, but maybe a beer league softball team.
Say it's right in the middle of about a five or six.
I'm sitting about a three.
And by the way, this is the other story.
I'm just reported by Detroit hockey,
I get I'm assuming dot com because it's all one word.
Also reported by KSL sports.
Next up, the Utah Venom.
I did actually see this when I thought it was a joke.
I like this one less than Fury.
Would they be sponsored by an energy drink?
Well, I would be more curious to be daily get sponsored by Disney.
Or Sony actually owns the rights on that one for now.
Or not, cut the check, Sony.
You're cut to check Disney.
Tom Hardy just shows up at one game goes.
Now, if next up, the Utah Blizzard sponsored by Dairy Clear.
That could get us a yeti mascot again, but that would be good.
I would say like, okay, so for me, for me, Venom is down at like a four.
It's about where it's Blizzard.
Gotta be sponsored by Dairy Clean.
But it's it's it's around the five or six range.
It's about where it's from now.
The last two are kind of one in one A because they're basically the same thing.
I'll say so basically you think they have a dialed in.
It's just a matter of specific.
You'll understand here in a second.
Okay, I'm going to give you both of them.
Because I like both of them.
Even though it's terminology that I connect to another sport.
We have Utah HC and Utah hockey club.
That's the same thing.
Right, that's what I'm saying.
It's a one in one A, but it's also terminology,
normally reserved for another sport being soccer or football.
I like it because
like it's better in Utah jazz, but
I will never forget the basic ball line.
The New Orleans jazz move to Utah where they don't allow music.
Yeah, although I I want to go back to New Orleans,
but I also like to say fly pelican.
So it's not you would throw it in there like that would be better.
That's the problem when you're dealing with.
We're in Delaware.
I don't know.
We're in Delaware.
You don't know enough about Utah.
To be able to say, but sir, aren't you their governor?
That doesn't mean I have to know about it.
Modern politics just means I run things.
But I like it just like I always liked Washington football team.
Because I thought that was cool.
I kind of okay.
I have to say Ricardo, that's a no-go.
That's already that's already trademarked.
Yes, but
Elon monsters are already trademarked for the Vegas golden nights.
I mean, we're going to see what it's going to be.
Apparently, they were playing in a arena called the Molot Arena.
That one point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I like I got to think like I need this.
Can I get you?
I got to stop suggesting the names that are already used by other teams.
The Utah osmons.
Let's do that.
Oh, my.
They they showed up when the winner Olympics were there.
They were part of the the thing.
I know, it may be think of the Utah boggins.
Oh, I like that.
Very nice.
I don't even like it.
It's my joke.
Would you like your other wheels off stat about the NHL playoffs?
Hit me because I love wheels off NHL stats.
There's no wheels.
So the other night, the capitals are playing the red wings.
Okay.
The flyers.
Can't remember who they were playing.
But Torta Rela pulls his goalie to try to win in regulation to get them to the playoffs.
The other team scores an open netter.
Oh, what Torta Rela didn't know is that 30 seconds earlier, but right
both of the other teams were eliminated from the playoffs.
So we didn't matter.
And Washington gets in.
Here's the stat, though.
The Washington tries to North America's favorite game show.
Mm-hm.
The Washington capitals at a minus 37 is the lowest gold differential for an NHL playoff team
since I was a senior in high school.
33 years ago.
I wasn't going to say it.
I had a separate a Parisian that I was letting lie.
So like, I feel like I need to mute him for a while.
No, no, we need it.
So to me, that's crazy.
Yeah, it's, it's one of those things with the NHL.
You do what you think is best.
And as much as people are hating on Torta Rela right now,
the man has earned his flowers as a coach.
It's just been a little bit.
But I mean, plus he's focusing on the game that's in front of him.
Yeah, trying to get in the playoffs.
He's not checking his phone.
You know, he doesn't have people in his ear going down.
Don't worry about his memory anyway.
Actually, I don't think there are allowed to have that kind of contact.
All they have is the out-of-town.
Like, and on the other, yeah.
And he's just, he's focusing on the ice.
Would you like to give your final prediction
for North America's favorite game show?
Because I got it on screen.
I think, you know what, it's a game of one.
So, make the show.
What? I'm sorry.
What is the final goal differential for the San Jose show?
Give me an even 140.
Mine is 140, okay?
Let me give you whose close to them.
And close in quotations, right?
The worst in the eastern conference is the Columbus Blue Jackets at minus three.
Minus 63.
Remember that.
Oh, in the western conference.
Anaheim at minus 94.
The black hawks at minus 110.
The San Jose sharks still have a game to play tonight.
Because tonight is the actual last night of the regular season.
They are currently 1953 and 9.
They are 50.52.
53 and 9.
You heard that correctly.
They are 50 points below the red line.
They are 11.25 in five at home.
They are 8.28 in four on the road.
That's fairly consistent.
Bad consistent.
You did come up under.
Okay.
Because remember last week it was 136.
It was 137.
37.
It's now minus 146.
That's only like three gates.
That's mailing it in.
That boy is just just score.
We're good with it.
No, that's like, okay, we're not going to be able to celebrate anything.
But you better believe those ads next season are going to be like, hey,
do you like scoring?
It may not be awesome.
Come on down to the shark deck.
So we had 10 teams finish about the century mark.
I did read that in 2017.
We had 11.
Okay.
What we thought wasn't anomaly,
they may or may not be.
I tried three different types of Google searches
and they just kept giving me that.
Yeah.
So sometimes around now, Google food is not do well,
because there's so many people looking up so many things
for the end of the season.
The NBA is still having their play in games.
Miami is a player lose tomorrow night as well against Chicago
and Sacramento and Fly Pelican with Zion Williams
and going out again.
And then also Jimmy Butler.
Yeah, but he losing Jimmy Butler.
So we're going to see how this goes.
Right now, you've got those two games going on.
Your other matchups in the Eastern Conference,
Cleveland will take on Orlando,
Millawak K will take on Indiana congratulations to the Pacers.
And the next will take on Philly,
which will be, I think, a fun series to watch.
On in the Western Conference,
the Clippers will take on Dallas Minnesota.
We'll take on the Suns and Denver and the Lakers.
So you got that going for you, which is nice.
Would you like the, as you would put it feels off that
from the NBA season?
Please do.
So as we during North America's favorite game show,
we would kind of, if you could see it in one light,
bag on the San Jose sharks for being terrible,
what we have seen is Detroit has been all time terrible this season
in the NBA.
I would love to know.
Go back a year from prior, a year prior from today.
And if somebody had placed a bet that the Detroit pistons
would have the identical amount of wins to the Detroit
lions on the season, I would have loved to know what this is
Oh, that is fantastic.
Both teams won 14 games this season.
That is outstanding.
Now I am so glad I didn't tell you and appreciate it.
This is why I don't want you to tell me these things.
I saw that and it broke my brain.
I was like, hold on a second.
18 and 68.
And I believe, nope, there is one, there's one team worst point
differential than them in the cut two in the eastern conference
because their point differential was of minus 9.1.
Charlotte was minus 10.2, Washington minus 9.3.
And then and the western conference, Portland, nine even.
And yeah, and then you've got regard to like 20 years ago,
they beat the lakeers, it's just a man alive.
Ben Wallace, the arguably the best all-time center,
not drafted in the NBA.
So this is what we got for the next couple of months because, you know,
got the playoffs and then we'll fire up baseball in a couple of weeks.
So look at that line of rip Hamilton, Rashid Wallace, Ben Wallace,
Shantay Prince and Larry Brown.
Have you ever heard the connection Larry Brown has to a certain ESPN host?
Shouldn't it be Tashon Prince?
Maybe you're probably.
I think so.
But do you know that his connection
do a certain personality on the ESPN?
I apologize, who's connection?
Larry Brown.
I feel like I should know this.
He was a summer camp counselor for one Tony cornhizer when he was a kid.
I did not know that one because every time they mentioned Larry Brown,
like Mike Tyson or camp counselor,
the hard part I have with that,
and it speaks well of Larry Brown and not so much of a cornhizer,
but I would have guessed they were the same age, I know.
Because I thought cornhizer might have been older.
Every time somebody brings up Larry Brown,
and I'm just like, I can't wrap my brain around that.
I cannot make sense.
All right, let's get into pro wrestling.
This Saturday is TNA Rebellion.
This is an actual paper view.
This so I will not be able to watch it because I'm not,
now they are TNA plus is offering 25% off their Uber package
that where you get it with the paper views,
but it's still $160 a year.
So I can't drop that kind of coin all at one time.
If they would do a monthly that would do that for me,
I would strongly consider it.
Yeah, I can't drop that kind of coin all at one time.
I don't know right now.
But in that Josh Alexander versus Hammerstone
will be last man standing.
Well, this is their third go around, I believe,
isn't Hammerstone his full heel.
Oh yeah, a lot of people have been liking what has been going on
between Hammerstone and Alexander,
but we've known those two guys know how to go for years.
And our best to Matt Cardona, he is an ex-surgery today.
He did come through the surgery, but he's going to be out for a while.
Which, unfortunately, it looked like he was getting set up
for a major program in a couple of the indie markets that he
had to tell them that he couldn't go because of what was found to be a torn back.
Let's talk EW first because I got less to talk about there.
You just described the state of professional wrestling right now.
You're not wrong.
Congratulations to Ruby Soho after they went off Dynamite's
hair last night.
She did announce that she is pregnant and allegedly she an Angela Parker
are really a thing.
And have been for a while, allegedly.
All I've read.
No, God bless those kids.
Muzzle time.
Hey, if you're happy and you ain't hurting nobody do it.
Have you seen your latest all elite wrestling signing?
A legend.
I don't know that I have seen this, but I am worried.
Well, he should be worried at paper views.
Carlos Cabrera is all elite.
So watch their announced table, my friend.
Okay, I did see this.
Yeah, I thought you were going somewhere else with it.
But yeah, no, I think it's great.
I like him.
I always like watch, I can't, of course, I don't speak Spanish,
but watching them react to things at ringside.
Guys, a legend.
It's the energy.
It's the energy.
Well, I mean, I don't know if you did it,
but I used to turn on telemundo and watch AAA,
or whatever we were getting over from Puerto Rico.
I was like, no, I don't understand 95% of these words,
but they're having fun.
And so am I.
You spent time in the same section of the country.
I did growing up.
But there was a show that was PBS back in the day.
That actually helped me learn some Spanish.
It was in Spanish and half of it was in English.
It was like a sitcom.
It was called K-Pasa USA.
I do remember that.
I did not watch it though.
It took me, Ricardo says there's another signing.
If it's who you're, I think you're referring to,
I have not heard that on an official level.
I've heard that it is all but done.
Oh, he's about Rob Shambler.
Yes, I did read that he's actually doing art for that.
That dude does amazing work.
Yes, he does.
But there, yeah, I was thinking he was talking about
somebody, somebody's.
That might be in the ring.
Yes, and that's like you said everything, but they ain't signed.
Nope.
But the other one that I noticed interestingly enough,
during dynamite, did you, and apologize if I'm jumping too far ahead?
Did you happen to notice who swirled landed on
in the group of security guards?
I didn't, I only saw the end of that spot,
but you know how much I did test that spot, right?
Oh, I 100% agree with you on that way.
He did it.
Was cool because it wasn't, I'm just going to fall on everybody.
Like he did a lot of splits, like letting you know,
I am taking out everybody.
I don't care.
I like the way he did it.
Don't do it a lot, but I like the way he did it.
But he's a main crash pad, former NML W National Openweight
Champion Calvin Tankman.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, so if you go back and look at it,
Tankman is the one that's holding everybody together,
but only looking away from the ring,
while the other security guard tells him the spot.
Oh, and also back to TNA for a second,
there is a new member of the rascals.
Did you see this?
No, I think you'll be in prep.
Yeah, I don't dig the rascals thing.
Well, but given who it is,
I know that you enjoyed his work somewhere else,
Miron Reed is a member of the rascals now.
Okay, he is actually bloated through
with the rascals in other places.
So that's not surprising.
I have him officially being, let's call him the Wesley
replacement.
Yeah, but I like him.
No, he's a great worker.
Mm-hmm.
Let's see, Dynasty is this Sunday.
Mm-hmm.
I'm conflicted.
I'm not going to be home in time to really watch any of it,
because I'm not staying up till, you know, past midnight,
because by the time I get home and fire it up,
even if I bought it, they do four hour paper views.
So, that's a long night.
Offer a discussion.
I'm not saying it on here.
Okay, fair enough.
Of congratulations to John Moxley.
He is your idol.
He's a heavyweight champion after New Japan's Windy City Riot.
The pictures of him and Renee backstage start wanting to grow.
Well, you know what the funny thing is?
I can't put my finger on it, but that title looks legit on Moxley.
Where it looked like a trinket on nighto, in Okada,
and even doing extend on Osprey, and definitely on Sanada,
it looks like a legitimate title, rather than just a belt you buy for kids.
I can't argue with what Ricardo Sanada,
they won't, the matches he's interested in,
Danielson versus Osprey, of course, and Joe Swerve.
Like, there's really nothing else on that card that makes me go.
I gotta be, I gotta be totally honest.
This card has me.
It absolutely has me in almost every match.
Fair enough.
Now, don't get me wrong.
We've already seen FTR in the box,
but we've, I don't believe we've seen them in a ladder match,
so let's see what they can get with creatively.
The only ones I don't think I'm really into are the trio's matches.
Everything else, I can get on board with.
Do not go looking for rampage tomorrow night,
because it won't be on because the NBA playoffs,
it will air after rampage, I mean, after collision.
Another night of three hours of Aida,
because battle of the belts, 10.
Well, at least they don't have to compete with the NCAA tournament,
well, we're gonna talk about that a little bit too,
given something that was said yesterday.
Wrestle Dream, now rumored to be October 12th at the Tacoma Dome.
Hmm, I read that earlier today.
You know, that tells me at least one of those matches
might have a definitive ending.
Yeah, so, um, and I'm happy for it.
Recartists says they're trying to to merge the trio's titles.
I, I don't want them to let our OH be our OH.
I, I don't think that they're actually going to be merging them.
I think this is going to be, we want the most interesting trio on A. E. W.
Proper. Then I think this is going to be setting up for a separate deal.
I think they're getting ready to try to hard separate ROH,
and because Bang Bang Gang and the, uh, the acclaimed
are definitively A. E. W. Property in that scope,
because that's where they appear more often.
I think we're about to get a wholesale separation for ROH,
which is why we have Mark with the world title, Athena who doesn't pop on A. E. W.
virtually ever as the women's Billy Starks in the same vote.
I think they're going to try and hardline separate ROH here in the not too
distant future because whoever wins that match will wind up being the A. E. W.
Trio's and then they'll have something else that they set up for ROH,
where they get the hot shot some younger talent.
And you've also got the kingdom as the tech champs. Very true.
And then you've got Kyle Fletcher, I believe, is currently the T. E. E. E. E. E. E. The only note
I have this week comes from Dynamite. There was a sign in the crowd.
That said, tickle him. That is gimmick infringement.
I will not stand for it.
Here attorneys will be content.
Oh, there is one other thing.
I don't know if I feel like what I've mentioned this before, but maybe I haven't.
They've got to change the opening from Joe's theme.
Because every time I hear it, I want to go.
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.
Because it sounds like the opening from Donkey Kong.
Every time I hear it. I lost. Sorry.
Sir I need you to understand we're older than the normal demographic now.
They don't care about that.
I just I just I see Donkey Kong every time they play it.
And you know what, I now I just, I want some O a Joe to bring out ages.
kid as Diddy Kong. No, I want them to come out and go
car. And for those of you that didn't think about it
before, you're welcome. I'm just saying. Let's get into WWE
news. That's like that piece to the interesting comments
yesterday from Nick Khan referring to the big five.
So we are now counting money in the bank. He has said
going forward, the big five being the rumble, summer slam,
mania, uh, survivor series and money in the bank will only
either be in America or Canada. Oh, really? Yep. He has
said that they need to plan better. He said you will not
see a day where mania is being held in an east coast open
air stadium in April. He said you will no longer see a day
where they're running a show against the final four. They are
going to be taking a lot more time planning when the the
I'm just going to get to the majors. That's what I've always called them.
I'm and I agree with adding money in the bank to that list.
Because if I'm not going to get a real night of champions,
I will take money in the bank as as a substitute.
Did you see the other part of that quote from Nick Khan though?
I may have but go ahead. The talk of moving mania to may.
The thing about that is you're taking it from being too close to the rumble
and I'll be in too close to summer. Well, but and you don't know. Well,
no, no, and I get that aspect. But if they're going to do that,
what I was going to say is we might have to reverse engineer this again,
because I totally agree with the idea of them moving mania to may.
Because it gets away from everything else. You don't have to worry
about the overlap that they're so concerned with. Plus,
the big month for UFC is actually June. So you could have their big May to June,
Roland for TKO, but you would have to move other things around. Now, if you make sure that
summer slam is the end of August, cool. My thought process would also be in there
where do you move money in the bank or do you leave that in July?
Well, I mean, Ricardo is like with ancient charge money, the bank will have its prestige.
I agree. It's when you've got five majors. Now, if you put Mania in May,
60% of them will be within 90 days of each other. But that's why I'm saying, if you
what would you do to move it? If Mania is in May, let's say that's the anchor.
All right, you with me? Yeah, build out the rest of the calendar.
I would you've rumbled a February. Okay. Keep summer slam where it is.
So late August? This year it's early August. Well, what I'm that's why I'm saying is I'm just trying to
meet in the first half of August. Okay. I would move Survivor Series.
And I know this will be blasted to me and it'll never happen. I would move Survivor Series
to October and then do money in the bank as your December show. So now you're giving somebody an
entire calendar year to cash in versus having to do the math. And do it as what would normally
be that day one? Do it as the last weekend of the year as long as it's not interfering with
the holidays. And now you've got a full calendar year to cash in.
That's an interesting way to look at it. I'm going to say something that you might think would be
blasted with, especially for me. I think I might move the rumble to the end of February
possibly even into March to be right before the April May two month build to Mania.
But I would actually have money in the bank, start the year in January.
Keep Survivor Series in November. Summer slam. Kind of right before Labor Day, maybe.
Starcade is your deadline for cashing in money in the bank at the end of December.
Everything else can be fudged around from there. But that way you give us what they tried to
do with day one. But what I would say find that date right after college football hits that
major national championship grabbed a week day the weekend today the next week or something
trying to thread that needle with the NFL. Give that your kick off for the year because now you
have one person who's the wild card for that calendar year. But you have other people start to
feel the desperation of needing to win the rumble for that coming up afterwards. And that kind of
set you up in a couple of areas. I might be able to regain my status as smart as me a lot
from the role of hearing today. All the talk that Minnesota has been doing about
WrestleMania 41 may not be the actual thing because if you guys noticed they didn't announce
next year's Mania at this year's Mania which they never do. The strong at the end of time don't
yeah or it's like the day before. It was like that week. Yeah. Yeah. So apparently right now the strong
rumour is Vegas. I might actually have to go do that one. Just oh darn. Because again they
they owe them after you know having to pull money in the bank out of that stadium. Oh my god I just
have a thought go for it. What if I could get us into the most burger sweet for Mania fully here for it.
Our card is just keeping a rumble elastic in January may for Mania money in the bank end of June
beginning in July summer slam mid August but would you a survivor series though? I think that just
leaves survivor series in November right? Yeah. I don't I don't I don't speak emoji Ricardo.
Still bring back you know bring back this regular survivor series matches but still have
work games because for games he says keep it in November. Let's see here congratulations to Logan Paul.
He announced this week he's about to become a father with his fiance Nina Agno.
Yeah. Oh my god. Did you see the video that Hayman posted for him? For him? No.
Of him coming back. Oh he's saying the eyes were for the Mania sweet. Logan coming back stage
before the Hall of Fame and given and given Hayman his flowers. Oh yeah. So I did see that one actually
WWE posted that originally. Okay I just saw it from the Hayman household page. So yeah.
Let's smack down. Interesting. I'm intrigued at the future of the Black Knight.
Enter Tomatanga. Also enter a coup.
I am in because solo taking the phone out of Hayman's hand and stepping all over. Oh okay I couldn't
tell if you were trying to say Haku. No. With an aspect because of Tonga but this that ending to
smack down was at the beginning. No that was that was at the end. I very I thought that opened the show.
This was this was good writing. I enjoyed this. Now well we've heard the rumors of
possibly having Jimmy booted out of the bloodline that's been coming for a while. Especially after
the loss at Mayday. Oh, regardless of the middle show.
For everything disappeared after that for me. The way it unfolded I thought was brilliant. I very
much enjoyed this. Watching the reaction of Hayman of the very slow putting the one in the air like
the horror vibe face and that comes after him explaining to solo
Cody's the champ now. Cody gets the locker room. We don't have the power right now.
This was fantastic storytelling. I was here for it. I very much enjoyed it. Did you see
Ricky's reply? I did not. Let's just say he was very much on board with his quote unquote
favorite sun being in charge. Just seeing how much if you if anyone ever doubts
the abilities of Paul Hayman first of all don't. Secondly I submit for your approval
Roman Reigns. You know solo Sokoa. I mean solo Sokoa in the last two years.
If you look at his NXT stuff like you could see the potential there but it was like they weren't
sure where he fits into the bigger picture. You bring him in as the enforcer of the bloodline.
You let him sit at the knowledge tree of Paul Hayman and this is what happens.
I was going to say this was this was the learning aspect of a guy who was quote unquote the
muscle end of list and some level of evolution like even what he gets me the most is he's been
very good at presenting himself. Solo has. He's been very good at conveying with just looks
which is so hard for so many people especially when they come from a wrestling family who are like
drill the techniques drill the techniques drill the techniques, drill the techniques, sell sell sell
but there's a little bit of the level of acting to it and where I really think this is going to
be the slow build to survive or series where I wonder if Roman will be back by then and I
yes I am saying it that way because I expect him to return at summer slam but I don't know how this
organization shakes out I think we're going to have maybe all the way to then for the usows
to unite at summer slam to reunite excuse me where obviously they can get torness under
but some moon wall where wolf which I cannot wait for oh my god I cannot wait to see Jacob
thought to flying around a WWE ring. I gotta say he's still who for 37. Do you see a situation
of old bloodline versus new bloodline? I interestingly enough I don't know if that's a fair statement
because if I was grasping at what I think is likely to happen I think you would have rock on a
heel side and Roman as a returning hero to save the usows as your square up of rock with an extra
person Roman with the usows but then where is your extra because there's another part of me that
wonders if there's Wendy's Zilla freed up because him and Jacob were working together at reality
and in various stops but how do you balance it out or do you wind up and follow me on this one?
Freshly off losing the icy title and directionless again a face bloodline is reunited by Sami
Zane and that's your face side of the bloodline to face rock solo, Thomas and Jacob.
Recartist's NW Oversus will pack redo without the chaos. Without somebody looking very red in the face.
This Friday tomorrow night we will have AJ Styles versus L a night to determine the number one
contender for backlash France. Oh yeah Simone workings I'm fully here for that. Oh I think that goes on
without him. With that expectation yeah. So to take on Cody I don't I want L a night to get this shine
I don't know that this is the time and plus you've got AJ Styles full heel.
Did you see the the the picture comparison with Cody in the way he's carrying the belt?
I've seen many of them. I caught it before the pictures came up because
somebody somebody who I will not throw under the bus asked me like did they not even know
does he not even know how to wear a belt? I was like you need to learn your history.
Let's see from raw the before we get off of that it's it's 100% AJ Styles. I think it's a
AJ Styles at this stage of his career puts on amazing matches but makes the other person look good.
On raw we know that rear Ripley is injured. We want to be clear. I would like to be clear.
I don't know what your stance is here from everything I have read. This was not live Morgan's fault.
It was a result. Some are saying it was a result of that spot that rea turned the wrong way
and hurt her her shoulder. So people that are trying to throw her under a bus let's tap the break just a
little bit. If she had gone one more day she would have beaten Bailey for the longest rain with
that belt. Now here's my real issue with this. AC joints can be upwards of four to six
months but we've also had ones where people have come back in two or three. If there's a chance
and follow me on the map that reas back by money in the bank or summer slam don't you just keep it on
her and let the division fight itself out and let her just be queen mommy. I mean we've done it
before with other titles. Yeah but I think what they're in in my opinion and I have this nothing
to be based on but just my gut. I think they're really trying to in this I hate using the
era because they're killing it. They're trying to keep the champions active.
And I can understand that and I get it but house is never in this go. I do believe it's a
to me it's a foregone conclusion that when she comes back and she's 100% she's in the title hunt
very quickly much like Charlotte Charlotte came back got the belt right away. I think we do the
same thing three. I saw another interesting note on that one. Go ahead that this could be a blessing
in disguise because Ria is so far better than a very good women's division. I'm not saying that
this is a knock on the women's division at all but Ria Ripley is so good. I have seen some things
where H is talking about possibly giving her a shot with the IC title or something like that.
And you know what I'm kind of interested. She is using generational talent. No doubt. Absolutely.
I can say that with no reservations. But there's also some other aspects you'd have to be okay with
male versus female in that kind of a match for the IC aspect but I would not put it past them because
you know what I know we've had this discussion these apples and oranges.
I don't know that I wouldn't put Ria as the best women's performer at all ready.
She's definitely cream of the crop in this generation. No doubt. Jackson is coming by to say hello.
Rekarna says biggest pop after at either summer summer survivor series hold her off to the bigger
shows. I really hit the tail. That's what we're doing. It's all going to depend on where things are
at once. She's 100 percent because I could see them taking their time and I'm not saying I agree with
this but I kind of am here for it a little bit. Wait till January and have her on the first
wrong Netflix. That's an interesting way to go about it. That's a long stretch and you'd make
sure she was healthy but there's also another part of me and it's weird to put it in this context.
I kind of see her in the same vein as ICMJF. He's not appearing on AEW so they're missing their
best product. If Ria is missing for that long in WWE, I think they can weather that store but I don't
know that I would want them to. I'm not fully here for it but it would be pretty cool.
Well, I was going to say I'm in hot and idea that I want your feedback on. Okay. Jackson, what
can you do? We teased it with Damian Priest and an outfit before. But what if we have her just full
make up judgment day, Skeletor, calling down the minions even though Damian is the World Heavyweight
Champion, calling out for Finn and McDonald to go after the tag titles, calling on Dominic to go
after the ICS title and just being the Ria Palpatine of the judgment day because she's physically
unclear but mentally she's still on top. You know? You think something's something tag teams.
Sorry. But you get what I mean. I let her be the evil overlord of the judge.
I'm here for it. Like she is ratings. But it's not, it's not, let's call it for what it is.
Ria Ripley equals ratings. Well, I have a selfish booking in my mind that I want to happen but
boy would it be a death now for somebody else. Go for it. I want Ria to, okay, let's say Ria goes away.
All right. She's rehabbing. You hold her off for January.
Maybe judgment day is struggling just a bit. Here comes Ria to unite the troops. But wait.
Here's the House of Black behind her.
Hey, what have I said? What have I been starting to clam before? I want a real forbidden door. Let's do this.
Oh, I'm not even talking about a forbidden door. I'm talking about bringing all of them in
as the replacements for judgment. No, I'm just saying like do that because you remember what I said,
but it didn't even let her do the Joker voice and just be like, we're going to have
well, you remember what I said? I want for the for the real forbidden door. I want orange
Cassidy versus our truth. I want them as the tag team. Sean said the thing yesterday. I want
them as a tag team. Speaking of our truth. What an absolute segment.
Ria, buddy Murphy versus Turkey. Oh, dear. What a segment that was first of all. I don't,
I don't know how I feel about the new tag team goals. I'm assuming we're going to get new ones tomorrow
night, too. I think so, too. But I think we're going to like those better. I like them, but I don't love them.
Bring back, bring back the ones that Demolition had and that the smoking guns had,
those are the best tag belts they ever had. Well, here's the aspect. I'd go back to the
ruthless aggression era. Have one of them just be tag team champions and have one of them have
the old world on it. And there's your separation because I don't dislike the current belts,
like you were saying, but it feels so cookie cutter of okay, every belt looks the same again.
And I don't like that. And just I don't want to point where Charlie's just like, can I go?
Like when he, when he breaks, he's great. But the fact that it comes down to oh,
our truth just speaks French. Yeah, that's what got through it. I just miss going. I got this.
With that you just calling H, Shampa to his face. I don't even know if he knew that was coming
at that point. He had to have gotten back to the gorilla because it just started laughing.
He's like, I have to get this out because I should know why I could do it out there.
But yeah, I just, I don't know how I feel about him. It's an improvement.
Because I like those belts when they first came out, but I didn't like it when they,
when they were, after they stopped being copper, the copper looked better than the silver.
And then they, yeah, the copper wouldn't have worked on the colors when they changed the letter.
We'll see what the ones tomorrow night look like. I got a feeling that they're going to look like
home play again. Because that's what I think they will. I think that's our way to go.
But Cody has said he's trying to get the eagle belt back. You know what, I saw somebody
mock up a Cody modern eagle belt and it was amazing, but nothing official.
Please do this. What's going to happen when that happens? And you now have no chance of the
blue universal title. I will tears of joy. tears of joy and me texting LA. How much I hate it.
And then they turn the strap loop. I will murder someone. I will straight up murder somebody.
Last note that I have, we finally did get the gable turn as we thought we would.
Somebody drawing the parallel between Volter getting in the face of gables family and then
gable getting in the face of Sammy's family. I thought I didn't think about that at the time,
but I was like, you know what? All right. That's good storytelling. I don't know what you do with
gable. I'm sure you're going to have a match at backlash France. Here, backlash France.
Um, and that is the official name, right? It is backlash France. I don't know that it is.
On the posters. It's like backlash France. I'm going to look that up because
what I want to keep seeing is backlash Neil. I want to know if Charlotte would go.
Because if you remember one of my favorite Charlotte's quotes is, I hate the French, but I want to
go to Paris. But she did go there last summer, but still.
I know it would be a really, it is backlash France. It is backlash France.
We are backlash France. Do we have to say it like, is it book loose fruit? No, when Don's here,
I'd say backlash France. We can go ha ha ha. I say that we get past the plea before that gets caught on
Well, no, I hadn't do it last week. Okay. So, we'll see. Anything else you want to talk about, sir?
I, you know, it's, there's nothing going on right now. But right as, I believe that you and I were
two of the bigger defenders of AEW when it started out against the push back in every way shape
and form, are you finding it harder to watch AEW every week or is it just me? It's, I don't know
that I'm finding it harder to watch. By the way, great booking by Ricardo, have Sammy Tapp and Gabriel
doesn't let go. First the definite and then the next plea, I give Sammy a run with this.
But I like the book it. I can't say it's harder for me to watch AEW.
It's getting harder to defend it. Like, again, hear me AEW. Let FTR win on Sunday.
I don't like that because I don't need all elite wrestling again.
I will say that the bucks last night. That was the easiest version of them to deal with in this chapter.
With them just interrupting the package and then doing the thing like, I kind of dug Matthew
also commenting during the match. No, but he will ever be Booker T. No, I'm saying, but it worked
better than I expected it to. Let me clarify that. But when it's good, it's really good.
And then there's other times where I'm like, I can walk away for 40 minutes and I'll be fine.
It's it's feeling like the worst parts of the attitude era to me, where it's like,
all right, we got stone cold. We got Undertaker. We got, okay, Braun Paine's match. I'm out.
Ricardo saying that Tony News to get an actual booker. I can't say I disagree because
what if I always said you never let talent book, ever. Whether it's dusty, Jared, Nash,
Hogan, you never let talent book. But they'll have to take it better. But, right, former talent,
totally okay with it. But if it's somebody that's currently on the roster, it misses more than
it hits. I mean, nothing's 100%. But man, that's close. But I mean, we'll see how Sunday goes
and see, you know, this is the first time that we've had back-to-back paper views with them.
Yeah. So, and then you're now you're talking, I haven't heard anything for May, but for
Bitten Door would come in June. Oh, no, May is double or nothing. So we're going to have back to
back to back to back because for Bitten Door. Well, what I was, what I was more curious about in
that scope as they try to tease is whether or not there's going to be another AEW or ROH tag team that
winds up in the Crockett Cup. If they try to spread their wings that way somewhat,
or if Billy Corgan still has the bad taste in his mouth from people going to work the Crockett
Cup and then be like, hey, you should come work for AEW and him getting like Ricky Starks and a
number of people just go on. Let's see. Anything else you want to talk about?
I think we've covered everything just because we have a shorter show tonight, but we do have
everything getting covered tomorrow during the film festival from a pop culture standpoint.
I think we're good for today. All right, tomorrow night at seven Easter. We will be live.
I'm going to put up the link tonight. I didn't want to put it up before we talked about it because
then that's a thing. We will be live from the Angelica Film Center in Mockingbird Station. Come
hang out for this. The USA Film Festival will be on promptly at seven Easter and we, they actually,
I'm sure you saw the email, Alex. They gave us a schedule of who the guests are going to be.
So we're going to have about 30 minutes, probably, to get settled and then we've got back
to back to back to back guests. I'm very excited to have some filmmakers on with us.
And then Saturday, come out to Dallas, Comic Show, come hang out with me. I'll be doing panels all day.
We, by the way, the Cosplay Contest will be dedicated to the memory of friend of the show Daniel
Calhoun. I'm very, I'm glad that Mark's doing that. Mark's good people. And then Sunday night,
I will be hosting a screening of Toy Story 3 with John Morris. Saturday night will be Mean
Streets, which is a great film. And it's, it's that guy's second credit ever. And I am to be
which is crazy to consider because when you look at his body of work, it's ridiculous. David Provault
is, I can't wait to sit down with him. It's going to be awesome. You can go to Dallas ComicsShow.com
for the full schedule. And it's not an expensive show. Mark keeps his costs very low. There's going
to be some awesome vendors. There's going to be a ton of artists, Sam Wafty, Mark Brooks, Nick Petara,
Lauren Wright, Matthew 8, Ariel Diaz, Andy Landy, all comic book artists going to be there.
We've also got a Q&A with the cast, a very hot anime right now. I want to make sure I get this
right where I will be sitting down with them as I'm still scrolling through that. And that's,
so we're going to have the first ones going to be him. And then we have Ashley Scott. And then we
have the cast from Heavens of Heaven officials blessing. I get that screwed up. Five of the
voice actors from that will be with us. And then Miriel Ferion, I believe I said that right.
She is actually the person that created Strawberry Shortcake. Oh, well, be character, not the dish.
I, and she's got a great story to tell as well. Lots going on this weekend. And then next
weekend, we got the Dallas International Film Festival running for about a week and a half. And
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