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Pod Warriors 15: Wrestlemania Weekend Wrap-Up
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The Pod Warriors are joined by the Pod Wives as Sheena (Chick Foley) and Ari join Seth & Jordan to talk all things ‘Mania Weekend including the hijinks and highlights from their road trip from Nebraska and their visit with the Phelps Pham.
Plus, a Wrestlemania-sized Mailbag!
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Transcript
WrestleMania Recap with PodWives
00:00:01
Speaker
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
00:00:17
Speaker
What is up? Holy fam, the Pod Warriors are back for a very, very special post-Wrestlemania recap episode. We are joined by the PodWives tonight. We did this right after SummerSlam last year, so we got some special guests here with us tonight. We're going to step through the entire weekend. I apologize. My
Weekend Highlights and Roman Reigns Discussion
00:00:35
Speaker
throat's a little bit sore from screaming so much, and Roman Reigns pulling off that shocking victory last night.
00:00:41
Speaker
But yeah, we're going to basically go through from Friday till the raw after mania and take you through all the other hygienes we've been getting into here in Tennessee.
Meet the Pod Warriors and PodWives
00:00:49
Speaker
But let me start by introducing Michael Padre, the man who makes the pod warriors possible, the fig guy. Jordan, what's going on, man? Just sitting in the Phelps family living room to record this audio gold for you guys.
00:01:01
Speaker
Yeah, I'm pretty dehydrated all my tears from Cody losing. And the booze.
Unique Recording Setup and Audio Quality
00:01:08
Speaker
The booze and the tears. Yeah, we're flowing. There's a lot of flowing. Yeah, Jordan kind of said we're all gathered around here in the little sitting area Sheena's crafted here at our house. If the audio sounds a little bit different from the audio gold like you're used to, like Jordan mentioned,
00:01:24
Speaker
Just know it's four of us gathered around one mic like we're a 90s R&B group about to lay down some fire a cappella tracks So it may sound just a little bit off.
Sheena's Pix League Victory and Social Media
00:01:32
Speaker
We did a little sound test for you with us I think it should still be pretty decent, but just wanted to let you guys know if it sounds a little bit off That's why let me introduce our first special guest the lady with the nails, you know We plugged their big time on the regular chick photo show a couple weeks ago So I know she's got a little bit of a niche following here with our group It's her first time on the podcast since that moment. All right, what's going on?
00:01:53
Speaker
Not much, not much. Thank you guys for having me once again. Just happy to be here.
00:01:59
Speaker
And then last but not least, the star of the Chick Foley universe, Chick Foley herself. She know what's going on. And new Chick Foley Pix League champion. Don't forget you have to, I'm gonna make you acknowledge that I am the Pix League champion. I should have put the cricket sound effect on the soundboard. Every time that you introduced me from here on out until the new champ is crowned in season five. But choosing Roman, I haven't picked against Roman in the two years that he's been champ.
00:02:29
Speaker
I wasn't gonna start with WrestleMania and it paid off in a big way and I am your new fully Pixley champion, so.
00:02:36
Speaker
Yeah, we usually keep the Pixley content on the main show feed. So Sheena is kind of going off brand there. So we'll save all the controversy that went in. I want everybody to know. I want pod warriors listeners to know. I want Chick-fil-A main show. I want open mic listeners to know. We'll give you guys a little clip to tune into the regular Chick-fil-A show. We're going to go on the main feed later on this week. We'll go into all the controversy and collusion behind Sheena coming from out of nowhere to steal the championship on WrestleMania weekend, like Seth Rollins cashing in.
00:03:04
Speaker
Uh, let's do plugs real quick. Sheen, remind the listeners where they can find you on social media. You can find me on Instagram at Chick Foley. Marco runs our Twitter machine over at Chick Foley show.
Nail Art Inspired by WWE
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Speaker
You can join our Facebook group and let me beat your butt at the next Chick Foley show or Chick Foley picks league, uh, at chick Foley.com. You can join our Facebook group and join the next season of the picks league.
00:03:25
Speaker
I think that's all of our plugs for our chief Foley. Obviously always follow our brothers over at the Pod Foundation. So at Pod Foundation on Instagram, Extra Cooler Show coming down the aisle and Turnbuckle Tavern.
00:03:39
Speaker
Harvey, you want to remind the listeners where they can find your beautiful nails. Nail art. Yeah, nail art. Well, if you're so inclined, you can follow me at nailsbynemy over on Instagram. You know, we have a lot of, you know, sweaty, sweaty men here that listen to our podcast, but a lot of those sweaty men have significant others that like to paint their nails and
00:04:00
Speaker
I think we're all figure collectors. I like just the hobby of it, man. That's what I really... When I checked it out, I just really appreciated just the aesthetics of it. It's always interesting to me getting in detail on people's hobbies and stuff. Ari helped me out. She helped me pick out a few new polishes this week. I need some help. I have... You need some help, yeah. You're a little bit ratchet. Yeah, I have dirt from the garden under my fingernails. Chicken poop. Yeah, chicken poop.
00:04:24
Speaker
I have, you know. She's got working hands. Yeah, busted chipped toenail polish, you know, so I allowed Ari to help me get me back in check this weekend.
00:04:35
Speaker
I was having a hard time pitching it to Ari to plug it because every time I'm saying nails, all I can think of is big boss man. Nails, man. I'm picturing big six foot eight nails. There's probably people listening right now, people that are half ass listening while driving, they're like, somebody made a whole IG account just for nails.
00:04:56
Speaker
We should start a new side project. You could do a nail polish combo that matches all different ring gear that is inspired by WWE legends, you know? You could do different nail color combinations. I'm stuck on this nails thing, dude. I think we need to get extra cooler to draw up a logo where it's nails behind the bars, but it has Ari's face with some beautifully painted fingernails dripping the bars and stuff, dude. Nails. No? I'm here for it. I think that's gold, man.
00:05:23
Speaker
All right, let's get into
Road Trip Adventures from Omaha to Tennessee
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Speaker
the show. So again, we're going to kind of step through all the wrestling we saw on screen and then let you guys behind the curtain with some of the hijinks that the pod warriors were into over the weekend. So first off, tell us about the road trip out here, man. You guys broke it up over two nights, right?
00:05:39
Speaker
Yeah. So we, uh, started last Thursday. We went from, uh, Omaha to Columbia, Missouri, which is about a five hour drive. Um, say no, tell them they got up early on Friday morning and finished the drive to old Oakland, Tennessee. So was it everything that you pictured it would be as Oakland, as grand as you envisioned it? I mean, my second visit has just been a real treat. Let me tell you, like this city is just booming. It's just growing and growing. Like I'm pretty sure there was a new cornfield this time when I drove
00:06:10
Speaker
Everything was sprouting, all the beans, all the corn. That's beautiful down here. What was your first impression, Aria? When was your first time being here? A lot of wide open space. So let's go back to the road trip, man. We need details. What were the snacks in the Ford Explorer, man, on the way over here?
00:06:29
Speaker
The old Explorer, oh yeah, we had a rental car and it was an Explorer. So the road trip was already off to a bad start before we even got going. I mean, there wasn't a whole lot of stuff. Every time we'd stop at the gas station, we'd get something. We stopped at a quick trip and
00:06:44
Speaker
I think we're outside Kansas City and got some roller grillers, the buffalo chicken and the taquitos. Seth had never been to a quick trip until we went to Nashville and he was quite impressed by it. I had neither. Me and Ari, I was like, what am I going to get here? There's like everything. You've never been to a quick trip. It is a impressive gas station. They have tons of food items and stuff. So it's really cool. But as far as snacks, we had some sunflower seeds and stuff like that. When you break it up into two days, it makes it a whole lot easier.
00:07:13
Speaker
Any interesting restaurant choices on the way? You know, we had to hit Waffle House. So we hit Waffle House Friday morning before we head out. And then we hit White Castle on Thursday night. So you book into your trip with Waffle House. You started with Waffle House and then you guys just ate at the Waffle House just a few minutes ago. We ended with Waffle House. Yeah. Nebraska doesn't have any Waffle House. So we have to really treat ourselves when we're on the road. You got to pay homage, man.
00:07:38
Speaker
It's like you're making a pilgrimage to this cathedral, 590, man, redneck hibachi. Exactly. What's you guys game plan for? Because I know you guys got Zoey, who's a little bit older than our kids. We can kind of just impose our will on our kids with what's going on on the radio. What's the radio situation on the drive?
00:07:57
Speaker
We usually listen to a couple podcasts. Okay. I'm the DJ the whole way. Like Arielle will have a say if there's something that's really not great, but for the most part, it's what I want to listen to since I'm driving the entire time. And you have to go to podcasts. Podcasts. And then I always have like mixes and stuff made for road trips.
00:08:14
Speaker
He's got his mix tape. He's got his CD with his Sharpie. I got my 2002 junior high mix. He had all the WWE theme songs on a CD. I'm thinking you made a CD just for this road trip, man. Like maybe like five or six weeks ago and you've just been saving it. You know, a couple times you were about to listen to it and you're like, no, you know what? I'm going to wait. I'm going to save it for the trip. I mean, there is a Tennessee road trip playlist saved.
00:08:37
Speaker
Walking in Memphis is the number one song in there. So it's on repeat the entire way once we get close. Maybe I can mess with the sound, but maybe we need to make that the outro for this episode because Jordan fucking loves that song, guys. If you didn't know that. I'm pretty sure at his funeral, we're going to be playing Walking in Memphis for whatever reason, even though he's never lived there. This man gets moved by that song. We listened to it today. We're going out to eat and I looked over and there's a little gangster tear going down his cheek as it's hitting the crescendo. Did he serenade you with it?
00:09:06
Speaker
He has before, yeah, he has before. He was a little bit more restrained with you guys in the car, I think. I've definitely heard him sing in walking in Memphis before. I'm not
Tennessee Arrival and Tornado Warnings
00:09:14
Speaker
singing on the NWA road trip. I knew, I was going to say, I was definitely, I heard you guys talking about being serenade on the NWA road trip. Between that and talking Tennessee, I think I serenade set the whole way.
00:09:25
Speaker
I like listen to podcasts when I drive like 95% of the time, but if it's on a road trip for whatever reason, I like to get the tunes going. I feel like it just kind of keeps me more aware. It like powers me through like, you know, changing the songs every couple minutes and stuff like, yeah. So that's pretty much the only time I really listen to music a whole lot when I'm driving. All right. So you guys got here Friday, midday. What do we do Friday after they got here?
00:09:45
Speaker
We just chilled out and then a freakin' Ring of Honor came on like, soon after you guys got here, right? Me and Sam did a quick fig hunt and stuff and grabbed some groceries. We had the storms coming through. Oh, that's right. We had tornado warnings. Yeah, Friday was kind of crazy. She already blacked out on Friday in case you guys didn't notice. She's like, oh, you guys got here, then Ring of Honor started.
00:10:08
Speaker
I totally did have, you know, blacked out the tornado warning. I don't think we talked about the five we talked about in the Facebook group and some of the disaster that's followed us anytime Jordan and us joined forces. Our rooster did pass away within about an hour. Jordan stepped on foot on property. It's always just coincidence. It's never anything that you like directly tie. Like, you know, Jordan, you did this. Yeah.
00:10:26
Speaker
it's always something so thoughts and prayers for norm and then yeah and then all of a sudden you know we get these tornadoes coming through uh all around us right so we're just like holy shit sirens going off everywhere uh so yeah thankfully we survived you know it hit some surrounding areas but we didn't get any
00:10:44
Speaker
Latin the town that Jordan are you we're in just that afternoon. Yeah, we went there like five hours earlier We're in the town of Covington is the name of it and a liquor store and it just got absolutely demolished So yeah, it's it's crazy the death and destruction that follows me. Yeah It's supposed to be some more storms tomorrow night, this is them This is right after the Monday night raw after WrestleMania. We're recording this if you stumbled on this down the road and
Wrestling Shows Review: GCW and Ring of Honor
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Speaker
Yes, we'll see. Maybe those storms just chase Jordan all the way out of town. And then let's get to our first in-ring action, man. Ring of Honor. I was a little bit underwhelmed by the show, man. There were some bright spots, but I thought this was going to be a chance to be the show of the weekend.
00:11:28
Speaker
Let's talk about it a little bit. Numerous times I looked up and either someone had their eyes closed or we were all four on our phones at the exact same time. There was not a lot of us paying attention to this show. It started off okay. I mean, Comander and Vikingo was good. The problem is I feel like that show really died after Mark Briscoe lost. I think that just killed me. Yeah, that took the air out of the room. Yeah, it just killed the entire show. I mean, it wasn't a bad show.
00:11:57
Speaker
When you're on a WrestleMania weekend, Supercard of Honor show, you're expecting greatness. I mean, that show has given us hearties and young bucks before. And yeah, it was a pretty big letdown for me also. I think in its defense, we were all pretty much preoccupied with the weather situation here. Yeah, we were preoccupied with the weather and the kids were up running around. There was a lot of stuff going on here. And also, like you said, Mark Briscoe didn't win.
00:12:24
Speaker
I wanted Eddie Kingston to win. I don't know if that was like a, you know, that out there pick, but I was like, dude, it's just time. Like, you know, he, I could totally see him as ring of honor champion. Like they're never going to let him get the AEW championship. He's had, he's had so many moments where you think like, dude, this could be, this could be his moment and it never happens. And then with the moments, it's all about the moments and they didn't let Eddie Kingston get over either. So I was kind of just like, wah, wah.
00:12:47
Speaker
I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give you guys a little peek behind the curtain. I look over and Seth's grabbing his laptop as he's sitting right next to me. And we are having weather problems and stuff. And Seth turns on the laptop and it's got weather on it. He's like, damn, man, I was just trying to watch SmackDown in this weather report, David Graff. I was like, this is how Ring of Honor was going. Seth was trying to watch SmackDown. I mean, it was the go-home show for WrestleMania. They'd been hyping up Roman and Cody having one last showdown. Obviously, that's been
00:13:15
Speaker
Very tense. I was looking for any little glimmer of hope that maybe Roman was going to retain on Sunday night. But yeah, it was nothing but the fucking Doppler radar, Winter Center, whatever it is, whatever that shit is. Yeah. And then we watched GCW. Like I said, I think my takeaway from GCW and Ring of Honor, Vikingo was basically salvage those shows to make them make them passable and not just straight up, you know, snooze fest. Yeah, because we only made it. We didn't even finish GCW. It got pretty late and
00:13:43
Speaker
I crashed that before the main event of ROH. Yeah, you didn't even make it ROH, but we watched GCW and we made it through the Maki, you know, Nick Gage versus Bussy. And it just, I don't know, man, it might've been weird just gas from traveling, but Seth even said he was done
Youth Soccer Coaching Highlights
00:14:01
Speaker
with it. It was cool, but it was just your typical GCW show. It wasn't anything special. It paled in comparison to that show we saw at Nashville back in July, for sure.
00:14:10
Speaker
The problem is it wasn't even your typical GCW show. There was nothing that was putting it over the top. You watched GCW to see the spots. That's why you watched GCW and there was none of it. They were going hard on the quirky comedy stuff. We saw a doll give a guy a German suplex. That was the best part of the show.
00:14:27
Speaker
Saturday morning we woke up. Shout out to the Arlington Panthers. You know, I'm the head coach. I'm basically like the Bill Belichick of youth soccer. We went out and just slaughter these poor little kids. We got this new kid on our team named Micah who's just a freaking prodigy. I don't think he had about eight goals.
00:14:44
Speaker
Yeah, it was a great one. We went undefeated last season also, so a great way to start the year. What did you guys think of your soccer experience you got on Saturday? Well, he did say 14 to 0, and if this gives you any peek behind the curtain of how bad the other team was, one of the kids walked past Aria, and she had a little tiger in her lap, and he goes, ooh, nice tiger. Yeah, it was my daughter's stuff.
00:15:08
Speaker
my daughter's like plush tiger and Ari was holding it and this adorable little like ginger kid came by he said oh nice tiger and he came by and said he said it then he kind of like got back in the mix in the game for a couple seconds then he turns around again he's like that's a nice tiger yeah like the game is going on at this time
00:15:28
Speaker
And he's the little kid that he would back up 15 feet off the ball when he was going to go kick it in bounds. He would get a wind up running start. He started the game with tears in his eyes. He was crying. So yeah, there was a lot of hijinks. And maybe a good strategy for the rest of the season, just putting some really enticing stuffed animals there. Ooh. That's not to distract your kids.
00:15:49
Speaker
One thing, I know next to nothing about soccer. If it's one thing I've done well as a coach, though, is we have instilled a nice competitiveness in our team. So they generally stay pretty focused on the game. The rest of these kids, I don't even think they know. And they care about the score and stuff. The league doesn't keep scoring. There's no winners, no losers. We're kind of breaking the rules. We didn't carry the guys. We're kind of breaking the rules a little bit by actually even telling them what the score is and stuff and everything.
Bowling Night Fun and Banter
00:16:16
Speaker
But the kids love it. Winning is fun. Winning is fun, dude. Yeah.
00:16:19
Speaker
All right. And then we went bowling, which that was pretty interesting. Uh, yeah, I think I was robbed. I think if we would have finished that second game, I would have left the championship. I was killing the game. I got, I had two strikes and a spare five frames, you know, and then it cut us off. And I was like, son of a, I did terrible. The first game, I finished first and wiped the floor. It was embarrassing.
00:16:44
Speaker
I'm pretty sure my, I mean, granted, my son Brett, they had the bumpers on, but he scored more points than me with bowling.
00:16:53
Speaker
I mean, I did do a sin though. I bowl without drinking, so my midwesterner friends are not going to be thrilled with that. But we tried to drink, dude. This is a pretty nice bowling alley, right? I wouldn't say it's upscale, but it's not some slummy bowling alley. It was a nice spot. And it was, what, 1 o'clock in the afternoon, right? It was 1.05 when we started bowling. Yeah, 1.05. And me and Jordan go to get around, and the chicks are like, oh, you guys got to come back in 20 minutes. I'm not ready yet. It ain't like we're right there is the
00:17:20
Speaker
This is one in the afternoon, man. I couldn't even get a beer while you're bowling. Like, bowling's like one place where you want to get, like, a pitcher, right? That's what happens when you live in the Bible Belt, dude. They don't prioritize the boozing. Between golf and bowling, like, the only competition is how much beer you can drink while you do it. I don't really care about what I score. I just want to drink as much as possible to make myself better or think I'm better at it. Maybe that's why you bowl so big.
00:17:44
Speaker
Yeah He had this talent the whole time well, I mean Seth immediately started talking crap as we started what I do He's like I'm in your family's here. They're gonna I can't believe you're doing this in front. They're gonna be embarrassed. I
00:17:59
Speaker
And then right after that, two strikes in a spare. I was given Seth the double birds the entire way back. Seth says your family's going to be embarrassed as he goes up to the guy who's running the little, you know, the bowling parlor and says, can I get a six pound ball? Dude, that's what I'm saying. If I would have had that six pound ball in the first game, I would have won that. I'm a finesse bowler, dude. I'm not going out there sending those kids flying. I'm all about the accuracy and the precision.
00:18:22
Speaker
They don't even, they don't even stock the six pound balls. You have to go ask them for the, ask them for the kids. Hey, I'm, I had the will to win to walk my happy ass up there and ask for that kids ball. So I can play. There's a nice bowling alley in Omaha and it registers like how fast you roll the ball. Like it registers your speed. Wow. Sheena chucks the ball. Like I thought I chucked the ball. Like Sheena chucks the ball just as hard as I do. Every time I look up, I'm like, damn, they don't show speeds. Cause
00:18:47
Speaker
I just wanted to see, because anything under eight does not register on the thing, so I wanted to see me and you register, and then Seth went up there, and then it just says zero, and I didn't register. Yeah, that's cool. That was backwards. Yeah, that was going backwards.
00:19:02
Speaker
Yeah, I'm a brute. I can't help it. I'm not a finesse person by any stretch of the imagination. Anytime I try to put any kind of stank on it when I'm throwing it, it just never works out. So that's why I just try to go like nice and stay down the middle. But the problem is I always, and Jordan also wants to point out, I'm like the man at knocking down like seven, eight, nine pins on the first one and then left with like, you know, a tough spear.
Whataburger First Impressions
00:19:23
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But always fun. I enjoy it the two or three times I go a year. It is a good time. And that was the kid's first time going, so we had that to the mix of family activities. You guys, we skipped it, man. You guys had your first Whataburger experience. Oh, yeah. Give us the review. No Holds Barn. Whataburger's not a sponsor. We don't have an official restaurant at the Chick-fil-A show. So if you're out there and hearing this and you want to join in, feel free. But you can go gloves off on Whataburger, because I know you got some thoughts. So Seth said the chicken sandwich was really good. And I was like, man, we're going to Whataburger.
00:19:52
Speaker
I'm not ordering a chicken sandwich. And by the time we got there, I was like, all right, I'm going to order a burger and a chicken sandwich. So I got to try both. I am a big dude, too. So a chicken sandwich is no problem. It's no problem. I don't know when you're getting this again. So you got to get your shit in. I'm house on both of those. So I ate the chicken sandwich first. That was a giant fucking mistake because the chicken sandwich was far superior to the burger. Like the burger was like
00:20:15
Speaker
I don't know, man. It was almost like a Mondo McDonald's burger to me. Did you get a single or a double? I got a double. Double? Because I feel like a double is really where you can tell the quality of a burger. Yeah. Yeah. Because I was going to ask. Because it does feel like a double. The double's become the standard. Yeah. Because they are like the smash burger patties. Yeah. So you need a double to get a good feel for it. Man, I took the first bite of it. And I was like, man, this is this hype. The chicken sandwich was 10 times better than the burger to me. Yeah.
00:20:44
Speaker
If you feel like the burger is better than the chicken sandwich at Whataburger, I'm sure our friendship isn't gonna go very well. So you're saying Whataburger is just a burger? Whataburger is just a What-A-Chicken. Yeah, the grilled What-A-Chicken is delicious. What'd you think of it, Ari? I like to have the spicy chicken sandwich. That's what I had. And as far as spicy chicken sandwiches go, it's pretty good. Yeah, it'd be good. Yeah, I grew up in Texas, so Whataburger has been a thing for me over my whole life. And I don't know, the first time I went when I was a kid, I was probably like 10 years old,
00:21:14
Speaker
The grilled what a chicken stood out to me on the menu and I got it. And that's all I've gotten since then. I've already eaten what a burger a hundred times and I've never ordered a cheeseburger from there. I've always gotten the grilled what a chicken with cheese. Yeah. Well, I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but that chicken sandwich I got from slim chickens today. I want to say that was better than the freaking what a chicken. That was better than the water chicken. Yeah. So I go with the grilled what a chicken. Ari and Sheena both got the crispy chicken. I can't coast. That one doesn't got the official set, like five star step approval. I like to get the grilled.
00:21:43
Speaker
chicken sandwich, which is interesting because I typically don't really like grilled chicken that much. No, I was going to say, I've never seen you just like eat a piece of grilled chicken or like, you know, order a grilled chicken sandwich. So yeah, the fact that you like the grilled chicken so much is surprising to me. And I don't, I mean, maybe I need to try it. I'll take your word for it. I'll try the grilled chicken next time. I'd like to give a shout out to the
WrestleMania Outdoor Theater Setup
00:22:01
Speaker
spicy ketchup.
00:22:01
Speaker
I've never had spicy ketchup, and that was a big one for me. You like spicy ketchup, Seth? Yeah, it's good. Check your Walmart. That's Whataburger's signature condiment, and you can get it in the bottle. That's surprising. I didn't think you liked Filipino. It's definitely not nationwide. It is only in places that have Whataburger. Interesting. Yeah, it was good. Maybe you guys can hit up Walmart on the way to town, man. Grab a couple bottles for the road.
00:22:24
Speaker
All right, so we get back. We got everything set up for the outdoor theater. First time we've opened up the outdoor theater for wrestling so far this year. And we watched, or no, I think we watched The A.W. Show. The last A.W. Show we did too. Yeah, you're right. But first time Jordan getting to watch wrestling on the back porch here. It's a nice song to be honest. You got the chickens still milling about, goats doing their thing.
00:22:44
Speaker
and it was night one of WrestleMania. First off, let's go through the, you know, everybody always wants to know the food and drink menu. We had just a smorgasbord of mixed drinks. We had some Maker's Mark mixed in there, all kinds of craft beer. But tell us through the food situation, Sheena. Sheena kind of had some timing issues on the
00:23:01
Speaker
the dinner plans. Yeah, so I was out in the yard doing gardening and stuff. When Sheena gets out doing her farm chores, she gets in the zone. It's straight up tunnel vision. There could be World War III breaking out throughout. Zombies are invading the neighborhood. She'd be the person in the movies when the zombie invasion's been going on for four hours and they're just totally oblivious to it. That's Sheena out in the backyard digging up roots or something.
00:23:25
Speaker
No fruits or something, yeah, that's it. And yeah, so I don't know what I was thinking. And then all of a sudden I'm like, oh shit, it's like six o'clock, dude, like I need to get this fricking dinner plan started. And I was making wings, which wings are pretty quick to make, right? We're frying them in lard. I had to get the lard. That was a whole situation this weekend. Yeah, the lard situation. Me and Jordan said lard probably like how many times this weekend, like 75, 100?
00:23:51
Speaker
At least. At least. If you've never fried, get rid of your canola oil, people. Get rid of the canola oil. Fry in lard or a tallow or something. Get some sort of animal fat on your wings. It is life changing.
00:24:05
Speaker
getting back to where we were. I was doing them outside so I could just be out there with my friends, also not smoke out the house and make it smell like a freaking friary in here. And it was kind of cold, so my lard wasn't getting as high as I needed it to, so it was taking the wings a little longer to fry. That's one thing that chaps my ass is some lukewarm lard. It's some lukewarm lard, yeah. It really was. It was like pissing me off. I was like, come on, dude.
00:24:32
Speaker
So anyway, it took a little longer. So I was like watching, um, WrestleMania on the phone as I'm going back and forth in and out of the house. Uh, so yeah, but we got them all in the wings were freaking delicious. We did an old Bay flavored wing and we did a regular standard hot wing. I use Frank's hot sauce with a little bit of Worcestershire sauce and you know, obviously some grass fed butter up in there. And, um, I added a little bit of trough hot sauce in there too, just to kick it up and give it a little bit of extra umami and a little bit of extra heat too. So.
00:25:02
Speaker
Yeah, Sheena's wings are on point, they're really good. Facts, Ari said facts. And the fries too. Yeah, yeah. The other good thing about using a lard, like you go back to the lard, because yeah, like I said, we talked, there's been a lot of lard talking in the house this weekend. It's going to make your food go for it, dude, because like, you know, normally I'm like a 10 to 12 piece kind of guy, dude, but you eat six of those lard wings, like you're cooked, dude, like you're good to go for at least a couple hours, man, and the fries too, so.
00:25:28
Speaker
Can you tell the difference on the large wings? Yeah, I only ate 14 large wings and I'm normally a 20 to 24 winger. But you broke that up into like two servings, right? I only ate eight on the first serving. Exactly. He said he could eat like 10, 12 on the first. Yeah, the animal fat is satiating. It's good for you and it makes your food taste good. I want to get hot lard really goes a long way. That's right. Do you want to give a plug to your preferred brand of lard sheen?
00:25:52
Speaker
Oh, I mean, I prefer to find a local farmer and get pig fat and render it yourself. Well, just give us something that anybody... This is an international damn
WrestleMania Set Design and Matches
00:26:01
Speaker
podcast here. Give us something that anybody can go to their grocery store and find. Fatworks is a good brand.
00:26:08
Speaker
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00:26:37
Speaker
all kinds of stuff. So you can fry all your shits and animal fats. Some delicious lard. Some delicious lard. Lard. Lard of mania. Lard of mania. All this episode. All right, let's get into night one of Roast of Mania. First off, what did you guys think of the stadium and the set design this year?
00:26:56
Speaker
It was cool. They did a good job making it Hollywood. The only thing I was a little bit disappointed with was the posters that were on the separate screens and stuff. I thought they were gonna play into the entrances and stuff and they did it all. It just turned into a bigger screen is all it was. So that was a bit disappointing, but overall it was cool and that stadium's awesome. So I think you could basically do anything in that stadium. It's gonna look cool.
00:27:21
Speaker
Yeah. Stadium looks spectacular. I'm with you. I thought they were going to stick with the movie theater theme and kind of tell you everything around that, but yeah, kind of just turned into standard. All right. First match, my boy, I think I'm definitely the highest on this guy on the Chick-Bole Show. Austin Theory beats John Cena, relatively clean. I had a little, little straight nut shot in there, but for the most part, this was just a straight up match. And John Cena took the L against Austin Theory. What'd you guys think of this one?
00:27:46
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, I wasn't surprised that he went over Cena, but I don't know. I was surprised because they had, like, Cena had all this, like, heartfelt, like, good feelings. They brought out all the Make-A-Wish kids and everything. I was like, oh yeah, Cena's winning this one. Hands down. His whole intro was about how he's done the most wishes to anybody ever. Yeah. Yeah. So they, like, did all this, like, you know, philanthropic entrance for John Cena. And then, yeah, then he got beaten by freaking Austin Theory. But I mean, WWE is high on Austin Theory. He beat Rey Mysterio tonight on Raw. So,
00:28:15
Speaker
Something, something's happening there. I wish it would have been like, I wish John Cena would have won. Yeah. Somebody should say, I wish I want to see, not just I want to see John Cena at WrestleMania. I want to see John Cena win at WrestleMania. That needs to be your wish kid. They totally could have had Cena beat him last night and then lose it back on raw. Just to start off WrestleMania like a feel good moment. I feel like we shouldn't gloss over the Cena thing too much though, dude. The dude has done 400 wishes. Like,
00:28:42
Speaker
what a human being to do that much as big as he is especially now like dude he i mean it's weird to say but he is way bigger than wrestling at this point yeah him as a humanitarian now he's a movie star and all that stuff john Cena is just a good dude like everyone is gonna miss him when he's like finally for permanently gone i mean i personally miss him already like i like having john Cena around i feel like
00:29:09
Speaker
you can heat John Cena for any match at any point. I mean, you saw, I mean, they were cheering the hell out of him. I think people do do already feel that, you know what I mean? Even though he's not officially like gone from WWE or like in the Hall of Fame or any of that kind of stuff. Like people do feel his presence being gone and they appreciate him a lot more now when he comes back.
00:29:29
Speaker
But to answer your question, I didn't have any feelings about Austin Theory winning other than I still hate Austin Theory. I want to go back to a few episodes ago when Seth was like so low on Austin Theory, just play these side by side. That was before SummerSlam. I've been on the Austin, this is nothing new. I've been on the Austin Theory train for eight months and I admitted I was wrong about him because I, yeah, I used to not be able to stand him, but I think he's the man. I think he's probably the brightest prospect of all the young guys on the roster.
00:29:53
Speaker
right now. So I was up in like tending to the kids and helping Sheena doing shit like between matches. Did they give Sheena any kind of curtain call or anything? Or no, it just ended in pretty normal. Get the first of 200 commercials we got throughout the night. Yeah, this was definitely the most like commercialized WrestleMania ever like felt like every single instant replay everything we saw everything was sponsored by something broke the record from last year's mania for the highest commercial. Wow. Yep.
00:30:20
Speaker
Get that money. All right, up next we had the WrestleMania Showcase Tag Team match. We've had some debate going here in the house. Definitely chime in. Let's know what you guys thought. Was the Showcase match meaningless? I think it was at least a decent way to get the guys on the show. I would have rather seen Andre the Giant Battle Royale, but what do you guys think of having these two Showcase matches on both nights of Mania? I mean, the men's one was fantastic. I love the men's one. I thought it was really good. It got all those guys some time and I was really down on
00:30:49
Speaker
this one and the women's one going into it but yeah the men's one delivered the women's one uh
00:30:56
Speaker
we can scrap that one. We don't need to do that again. I mean, Shane and Rhonda won and I think they wrestled for a combined minute in that match. So I think that tells you all you need to know about that one. Street Profits got the dub. Do we think they're actually going to break up anytime soon or are they just, are they starting with like tag team wifers at this point? I hope not, man. Cause Montez needs to be on his own. Me and Sheena actually talked about it. Why Seth was putting the kids down tonight while we were watching raw. Um, they get, they got to break Montez out. I know that's going to screw Dawkins, but,
00:31:25
Speaker
Montes is just a star man. Yeah like it if Elimination that showed us anything man. This dude is a star. They just got to get him away from Dawkins I know it sucks, but they do man I'm thinking maybe they're just maybe this way until they get some good creative lined up for him So that way can be really meaningful when it does happen third match of the night saw our favorite wrestlers Seth freaking Rollins defeat Logan Paul What'd you guys think of Logan Paul's homage to HPK on his entrance? I
00:31:53
Speaker
Shocking I literally can't believe they let him do that Yeah, it was cool, but I thought we were done with zipline things at this point I mean it was less of a zipline more of like a line that just happened to be carrying him I mean it really wasn't a normal It was like that the the cable can be yeah Yeah Yeah, maybe in that same cable. That's an FL stage. It'd have been yeah, and what about fat centers? What'd you guys think of it?
00:32:21
Speaker
I mean, Seth, I mean, he was dripping, dude. He all red puffy robe situation with the Jeff Jarrett entrance gear underneath. Like, yeah, I thought he looked amazing. I told Seth they just did it just so they could use that Jeff Jarrett mold that they wasted on the alternative. Yeah, exactly. We spent way too much money on this thing. We're going to find a way to use it.
00:32:43
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, his entrance gear was a lot and it was cool. I mean, it's everything you've come to know and love about this Seth Rollins now. So, I love Seth's entrance. I thought the conductor was cool and all that stuff. Oh, the conductor was awesome. Yeah, I mean, it was really good. There was a video of Becky seeing Seth's entrance gear for the first time. She was like, I'm so jealous. I didn't feel like that match was like as over the top as I thought it was going to be though. I thought that was going to be like,
00:33:08
Speaker
uh almost an instant classic because I just figured they'd have so many crazy spots but it was still really good good match it wasn't what I was expecting honestly I got a little bit of an outtake man I think I'm starting to be over this version of Seth's character I kind of want to see him go back to more like the 2019 2020 like
00:33:25
Speaker
We have more of a mean streak, was more competitive. I just feel like he's goofing off right now every time he's out there. He's not winning a title with this. He's not winning a title with this enigma gimmick or whatever you want to call it. It's just, it's not happening. I mean, you're, you're exactly right. I cannot picture Seth Rollins walking out with a universal title wearing whatever the hell he was wearing tonight with a bunch of faces on and stuff. I'm just.
00:33:48
Speaker
I mean, I'm all for fashion and stuff, but dude, it's so out there now. Yeah, I don't think... I mean, the fashion's one thing. It's the mannerisms and the delivery of his promos and stuff like that. I don't care if... I mean, I could see him wearing over the top high fashion couture gear and all that kind of stuff. That stuff's cool with me, but yeah, he does have to tone down the goofiness a little bit.
00:34:11
Speaker
That's an easy fix. Yeah, it is. I liked it as like a detour for the last year, but I think it's time for something. It's better than poking out freaking Rey Mysterio's eyeballs. Everything's better than that. All right, let's get into Jordan's dream match, Trish and Lita back at WrestleMania. They team with Becky Lynch to defeat damage control. Yeah.
00:34:31
Speaker
We had to keep a check on Jordan's pulse during this match. We had the heart monitor. We were going to cut the TV off if he got too excited. So Trish comes out and just got on the suspenders. I was like, oh man, she just redid her look from WrestleMania Hollywood last time. And then right after I said it, they said it, and everybody just looked at me. I'm like, it's okay. I know what's going on here. We learned this weekend that Jordan has an intense suspender fetish.
00:34:55
Speaker
No, it's only with Trish though. It has nothing to do with the suspenders. It's just the Trish suspenders. I'm sending you pictures of suspenders anytime soon. So like IRS will see one of your favorite male wrestlers. What about? Just make sure I'm not in public, okay? Just at least make sure I'm at home. Yeah, doesn't Butch wear suspenders, dude? Or what's his name? Freaking... Peter Dunne? Peter Dunne? Yeah. I'm a big Peter Dunne fan. Maybe it is a suspenders. You guys might be onto something. That's right. But yeah, Trish looked like a million dollars. That's all we really need to say about this match. It wasn't good.
00:35:23
Speaker
Yeah, I think Lita, it's time for her to make her feel. I just worry about her getting hurt, man. She seems like she's just, she's got like the Matt Hardy type movement when she's in the ring. It's almost like wooden or something. I said it during this match, like it's pretty crazy. Trish can come back after five years of not wrestling and look like she hasn't really lost much. Lita has been wrestling off and on for the last three years and she doesn't look like she's been wrestling off and on for the last two or three years. It's just, it's, it's a lot of like hesitation and stuff when she does anything. So.
00:35:53
Speaker
I don't know. It was okay for what it was. It was okay. And I also think that the lack of excitement for damage control lately made this match a little bit flat too. They're dead. Yeah, damage control is dead in the water, man. Yeah, they got beat against Night on Raw. Like I said, I don't know why damage control is even a thing anymore at this point. Yeah. All right, up next we have the second ever father versus son match at WrestleMania, Rey versus Dom.
00:36:15
Speaker
I thought this was, I was very sports entertained by this match. I thought it was super fun. I actually picked Dominic to win. I should have known that they were going to have her a Mysterio win with Hall of Fame and all that kind of stuff, but I figured it was going to be sort of a passing of the torch type of situation or like a, you know,
00:36:30
Speaker
I don't know just a nod of like yeah, here you go kid. This is what I expected I just I don't think Dom's area for a passive torch mode I think we're gonna get that maybe even at mania next year, but not this year. But yeah, I thought this was like pure WrestleMania sports entertainment all the interference work all the big spots work It was just just a really fun. Both of their entrances are really fun, too I love the jail entrance and I love Ray's, you know tributes like Eddie and like all the all the stuff I thought that was really cool
00:36:56
Speaker
The only thing I did not like about this match is the Aliyah part where she was holding the red solo. Yeah. And you could just tell they were doing something with the red solo. Yeah, I was like, they couldn't get her a stadium cup, do you? Like, at least, you know. Yeah, doing the street proposition. That's what I was saying, the street proposition was to come over. Couldn't have telegraphed this any more than they did. Yeah. But, I mean, yeah, it was good for what it was. I mean, it's so cool to see that.
00:37:18
Speaker
I mean, father and son wrestling is pretty incredible. That's pretty badass. You went into the hall of fame and the next night you get to wrestle your kid. That's pretty awesome. And by the way, wearing a great mood, a tribute mask, like Ray's mask. Ray was checking all the boxes this weekend, rode out in a low rider to Eddie's music with Snoop Dogg. Man, this dude just checked a five bucket list off. He was winning this weekend for sure. Yeah, I'd love to see that Ray's Ultimate Edition. Probably the most Toyota flip we had on the night I'd say for him are Seth Rollins, right?
00:37:48
Speaker
I would definitely say Ray. I think Ray was, I think his everything about him was awesome that night. All right. Then we have what I think was probably the best match of this WrestleMania SmackDown Women's Championship. Rhea Ripley finally gets the win over Charlotte Flair via pitfall and just a brutal, brutal match. Yeah. There's so many false finishes, dude. Like it was just hard hitting match. I just thought both ladies just laid it all out there, man, and just gave it all. And I was so happy to see Rhea come out on top.
00:38:18
Speaker
This was a top three women's match ever for me. I'm not going to name off the other two, because right off the top of my head, I can't think of them. But I know this isn't going to be in my top three. I love this match. I thought everything about it was great. There was a couple of botches, but dude, they were laying it in. Charlotte took some really heavy bumps in this match. Basically, on this broker nose, it just
00:38:44
Speaker
He may have broke her nose, man. I haven't seen any updates on that. I love when they break kayfabe. The match ends, Rhea wins, and Charlotte's just smiling on the outside. She was so happy for Rhea. Those moments are more of the stuff that I wish they would give us because
00:39:01
Speaker
I mean that was cool like you can tell charlotte was like legitimately happy for ria because she was happy because she knew they just killed it too you know yeah that's true especially after all of us were like oh my god ria and charlotte again because yeah i mean seriously they literally wrestled 20 weeks in a row i'm pretty sure i'm raw after mania of 2021 so
00:39:21
Speaker
It was great to see them have an awesome match. But it's crazy to see how much better Rhea is now. I think joining the Judgment Day really just elevated. And that's crazy to say because we were all at one point like, what the fuck is the Judgment Day? And I think just her being there and being able to come into her own and just having the support of
00:39:38
Speaker
you know, a guy like Finn and I think that's just, I don't know, I think it's really helped her out a lot. She has really leaned into her being a badass, too, ever since she's been in Judgment Day. Like, I feel like she kind of shied away from it a lot of times in her matches, but like, dude, she knows she's a badass now and she can basically do anything she wants. And yeah, man, we all love Ria, so.
00:39:59
Speaker
Yeah, I'm excited to see what she does with this range. She got the big win over Oscar at WrestleMania 37, but it felt like she wasn't quite all the way there yet with her character. She's definitely peaking right now, so I think it's going to be a big year for Rhea Ripley. Next, we got our little tension breaker before the main event. Pat McAfee defeated The Miz. The rest of us have discussed this guy a lot over the years on the podcast. Ari, what are your thoughts on The Miz? Where are you at with The Miz as a WWE superstar?
00:40:24
Speaker
So I still remember the mist from like, what was it? Uh, real world, real world. And like my first encounter will not encounter with him, but like, uh, memory of him in any sort of wrestling thing was me having him in a Royal Rumble. Correct me if I'm wrong.
00:40:40
Speaker
coming in and like out in like three seconds. He was one of my picks. I'm like, oh my God. I can't get that memory out of my head every time I see him. Yeah, this was when he was still in the douchey shorts and had that douchey hair. Also, we're like a group of suppression men. It was like early in your relationship then. Oh yeah, I think this was probably our first or second year of dating.
00:41:01
Speaker
Yeah, I get it way back. I threw already right into the wrestling world. I was like, all right, we're gonna do a real rumble pool here at my friend's house. And she's probably thinking, what have I done? And did you pick the news? Or was it just like the number that you drew? No, we like pick the order randomly. Yeah, pick the numbers and then whatever number. Gotcha.
00:41:19
Speaker
Gotcha. We'll get on you from sticking with it. The Miz was one of my first couple tastes of wrestling. I may have just bailed right there. I respect the guy for being so reliable and being such a good guy for the company over the years, but he's just the worst to me as far as entertainment about you guys. Breaking kayfabe. I think he's a really good human. He's an animal lover and I think he's a good family man. We're not shitting on The Miz as a person. It's just
00:41:43
Speaker
Oh, absolutely. Because I think even last time we went to WrestleMania, all four of us, we saw him interacting with kids. So that kind of changed my perspective of him too.
00:41:52
Speaker
he was really good with kids. So I'm like, okay, but as far as wrestling goes, I'm like, no, I can't. He doesn't have it. No. Yeah. I like his character. I don't like his ring work. He's just, yeah. The gear is a little, I mean, he's a Hall of Famer for sure. Yeah. He's a double grand slam champ. Yeah. Kayfabe he's probably in Kayfabe. He's probably like a top 20 WWF wrestler or WWE wrestler of all time. This is by far the best thing about wrestling is you don't have to like someone to realize like they are very talented at what they do. I mean,
00:42:19
Speaker
That's the best thing about wrestling, it's all opinion based. Everybody has an opinion. Sound like you in Roman Reigns. Exactly. We'll get into that. We'll get into it. All right, main event night one. This is a truly, truly historic match. So this is the first time since WrestleMania one that a tag team match has ever main evented WrestleMania. And it's the first time ever
00:42:41
Speaker
at the tag team championships at main event. Think about all the amazing tag teams we've seen over the years. Legion of Doom, the British Bulldogs, the Hart Foundation, the Hardy Boys, Demolition. The list goes on and on. Dudley's, yeah. It's never happened until now. This bloodline storyline and the work of Kevin Owens, Sammy Zane, and the Usos was able to get it there.
00:43:01
Speaker
And I thought it was a spectacular match. I don't know if it's Uso's best match ever, but it's definitely on the short list. I loved everything about this, including the emotional finish, letting Sammy finally get the payoff for his amazing work he's done the last year. Yeah, I love this match. And again, I was so happy to see Sammy get his moment and have it at WrestleMania. And it was really bizarre to see the closing shots of Mania was the guys holding up the tag titles. It was a really cool moment.
00:43:30
Speaker
I think Sammy and KO will always be on my like short list for beloved wrestlers just because you know how those two guys
Night 1 Highlights and Drinks Discussion
00:43:38
Speaker
are. And dude, I kind of like tried to think of this in like real life perspective. Like how would I feel if like me and Seth went somewhere and like won something and like just thinking about it ending like that us winning something. Cause I mean, that's basically what that was. That was two best friends winning the titles on the grandest stage of all.
00:43:57
Speaker
and both of them getting their moment. And dude, I was just as happy for the Usos, because I talked about it when it started. I'm like, they finally got their moment too, because the Usos always got screwed at WrestleMania. They were on a pre-show, the second match. They never got a meaningful spot on the card. So I was just as happy for them as I was, Sami and KO. And those four guys are just really good friends too. And it's great for tag team wrestling, because
00:44:24
Speaker
WWE, I mean, we all know this is a fact. WWE does not care about tag team wrestling as much as any other company. They just don't care. So getting to see this was awesome. Do I have high hopes that they're gonna continue having tag matches be a focal point? No, not at all. But I'm glad we got it no matter what. You got me kind of choked up, man. You inspired me. What's something we could go win as a team, dude? Anything we put our mind to.
00:44:50
Speaker
All right, we'll think of something. If you listen in, give us some comments. Let us know what trophy, what accolade me and Jordan need to go pursue. Zach Hertzler even put it in the group. Like he said, as far as like group terms, it's like Jordan and Seth winning something. And I was like, I had just thought about that.
00:45:09
Speaker
I'm like, damn, man. Yeah, we love Zach. Thanks a lot for that comment. That brought some big smiles on Saturday night. You guys could win like the beer fest. Remember how they do like the DOS boot? Nobody is beating us in that. I got pretty, we could probably win that. You could take care of the chugging stuff. We would give Jordan the boot at the end and be like, turn it, turn it, turn it. I don't even do that. I can just take all that. There won't even be an air bubble. That's how sour beer. Yeah.
00:45:38
Speaker
So overall, everybody thumbs up for WrestleMania Night 1. Night 1 was a thumbs up for me. I thought that was honestly the best one night of WrestleMania since they went to two nights. Yeah. I mean, it gave us everything that fans wanted. They literally let us have every finish that all of us had wanted to see. Yeah, they let you go home happy.
00:46:01
Speaker
I mean, a lot of people just assumed Charlotte was going to win. I was one of them. I picked Rhea just because I wanted Rhea to win. But I just assumed they were just going to keep the Charlotte train rolling. So that was a big one for me to make this night as successful as it was. Charlotte's on that Roman Reigns level where you can never be 100% sure they're going to have her lose. She could come back after three years off and win the title the first night. Oh, wait. That just happened. Exactly.
00:46:26
Speaker
Yeah. Night one. I think it was a smashing success on all fronts. You know, Dave Meltzer, whether you love him or hate him, he is probably
00:46:33
Speaker
the authority on like wrestling history. Uh, and he even came out and said that he thought if it was, if night one was a WrestleMania, it was probably the best WrestleMania he's ever watched. So pretty high price. I just think it was the booking man. I really do. Like they paid off. It was good stories and they paid off in the way that you expect that there was no like swerves just for swerve's sake. Uh, and for the most part, they gave us all the results we wanted. Like any heels win on night one.
00:46:57
Speaker
Austin Theory. Austin Theory. Austin Theory, yeah. But that one made sense. It made total sense for the heel. That was the only heel that won. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I guess Ria's technically a heel. Ria has to say, Ria's not a heel. She's technically a heel. I mean, the crowd was rooting for her, yeah. The crowd wasn't, when they were doing the booyay chance, there was 100% in favor of Ria. I mean, that's technically two heels. Right. Yeah. Let's do, let's take a quick beverage break before we dive into night two.
00:47:34
Speaker
All right, shout out to Cody, got a little bit of California love going for the beverage break song in tribute to WrestleMania being out in Cali. So let's go around the horn. I'll start. I'm drinking a beer that Jordan graciously brought here with us. This is by Kahootz Brewing out of Chicago, Illinois. It's Duck Duck Juice, Hazy India Pale Ale. This is that part of their hop highlight series with Citra. What do you know about Citra hops, Jordan?
00:48:01
Speaker
that they're very citrusy. Yeah, it's good man. It's a very tasty beer. It's good. It's a 7.7 and I'm almost down the whole thing since we started this podcast 45 minutes ago. So it drinks easy despite being a pretty strong beer. And yeah, thanks Jordan for bringing it out. What are you drinking man?
00:48:17
Speaker
I'm just doing the old standard of Miller Lite tonight. In a coddle, in a fancy coddle. Started with a can, went to a J Balvin coddle, so I got to drive this home tomorrow morning, so I got an 11-hour drive ahead of me. Yeah. Ain't no IPAs tonight. We do got to take a quick review, man. We did the Broken Skull double IPA this weekend, much hyped. I thought it was good, but that was probably it. It didn't change my life or anything.
00:48:42
Speaker
I still think the regular IPA is the best bro. I just, I don't know, man. I'm going to, I got a couple of them that I'm going to take home and I'm going to give it another shot. Cause I don't know. Sometimes after you've had a couple of beers, it doesn't hit the same. So I'll try it again. But yeah, so far.
00:48:58
Speaker
The Broken Skull is one for three on beers that I'd keep in a regular rotation. Broken Skull is in my regular rotation forever now, but I don't know. I'll try it again, but the American Logger to me is just a normal beer. I feel like you're chasing the hype, dude. Broken Skull changed the game. I don't even really like IPAs, and I really like Broken Skull. Just what I wanted. Sasha Banks. Yeah, Broken Skull IPA is a world-class beer. The American Logger and the Double are just
00:49:26
Speaker
good beers. I did like the double IPA a little bit better than the lager. But I support any projects that Stone Cold puts his name on. So, you know, I got to support the guy. All right. And then we got Sheena and Ari repping the Seltzer gang. So Ari, what are you sipping on?
00:49:41
Speaker
I'm sipping on some tasty Simply Spike blueberry lemonade. And what do you got, Shane? I have a Simply, this, Jordan brought these two and they are Simply Peach. So, you know, if you've had the Simply Spike, like the Simply Lemonade mixes, they're so, so good. But now they have changed the game and they've made them peach instead of lemonade. And they are so good. They have a peach mango, strawberry, a kiwi and a regular peach. And I've got the strawberry peach and it's,
00:50:08
Speaker
Really good. So are the peach ones better than the lemonade ones? I mean, they're both really good. I wouldn't pick one over the other. I love sour stuff. Yeah, I do love the sour of the lemonade, but that's really delicious. I do think the Simply Spikes are the best of all, like the canned cocktails or seltzes that have dropped the last few years. Do you got a favorite, Ari?
00:50:25
Speaker
Um, my favorite is usually high nudes. High nudes are good. Yeah. Neutrals are chronic up there. What are they? Neutrals? I've never had a neutral. I'll have to try that. Yeah. High nudes use the real fruit juice too. I think that's key. Yeah. Like you have actually like real flavor, like real sugar in there. Like sometimes the ones that are just like hardcore, I'm like the artificial flavor and sweeteners.
Shopping Trip and BBQ Visit
00:50:43
Speaker
Like they still go down as easy. All right. Let's get into Sunday. So Sunday. Yeah. So we stayed up late Saturday night. What would we watch? We watched what WrestleMania eight, right? After night one. Yeah.
00:50:53
Speaker
We didn't want the party to end. WrestleMania night one ends. We don't want WrestleMania eight. And I think we made it all the way to Ric Flair and Macho Man's match before we finally called it a night. So everybody pretty much slept in Sunday morning. We went our separate ways. You can tell us about the little girls day you guys all did.
00:51:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah. So we got up after we slept in a little. I didn't sleep in because I'm a psychopath. She's a farmer. She's up with the sunrise. It's impossible. I guess I did sleep in. I slept until 7.30. So that was late for me. But we got up and then went to Target. We went to TJ Maxx. And then we stopped by Sonic for a delicious lunch. Why don't everybody get a Sonic?
00:51:32
Speaker
Me and Stella got a corn dog and a and a milkshake and Ari which you got a burger, right? Oh, yeah, you got a chicken sandwich and we got we got a chicken sandwich gang this weekend Yeah, and we got I went out the three times this weekend got chicken sandwich all three. Me too. Me, too That's I guess I got a corn dog in the two chicken sandwiches. But yeah, then we got so so mom
00:51:55
Speaker
some nugs. She loves her nugs. It was fun. I don't really get to get out and just casually browse Target and places like that anymore, so it was super chill just to not have to rush around with the kids and have them asking for every toy and everything. Let's start Sissy with you.
00:52:11
Speaker
I had Sissy, but it was- She's usually okay when she's by herself. Yeah, when she's by herself, she was like super, yeah, she was super chill. They're a bit of a symbiotic relationship. Yeah, there was one adult per child. Zoe's not even really like, Zoe's totally self-sufficient. She's 10 years old. So we had three basically people who could care and entertain Sissy. So I got to have some casual browsing of the target. It was fun to interject Stella with like sparkly
00:52:35
Speaker
Cute seed girly. She loves that. She's a little princess. If you know anything about me, I'm kind of just like a hippie earth mama type. Windflower. Earth tones and dances with wolves. I don't have a lot of glitter and sparkly things in my life. My daughter, who I've never really introduced that kind of stuff to just because it's just not my thing, not intentionally, but she is like a little unicorn princess.
00:53:05
Speaker
loves pink and purple and sparkly and crowns dressing up and yeah nails painting her fingernails the whole nine so yeah it's it's funny how just innately she wants to be so girly and I'm just not
00:53:20
Speaker
My daughter's growing out of all those pinks. We were in trade for a while, yeah, and I'm gonna send Sissy home with Ari, so she can relive all the- Ari's like the mom Sissy never had. The princess mom that Sissy never had. She can always know. Wow.
00:53:38
Speaker
Well, yeah. Zoe's taking the view with the chickens. Zoe's chasing Zoe. Every time I looked up this weekend, Zoe's walking around with the chicken arms out. Zoe wants to be a farmer now, so yeah, we'll have kids swap for a little while. Yes, in the back. Don't bring her back. What's the next week? Money in the bank. We can swap back, babe. We'll come to the office place for money in the bank. We can swap kids back. We'll cash in. Yeah.
00:53:55
Speaker
On the opposite end of spectrum, we had just straight up guy's day over here, didn't we? You can smell the testosterone when you walked in the house. Me and Jordan and Brett. Brett, he's like half in half out. He's a little wild man, but he also loves doing stuff. He had to basically talk him out of going to Target with the girls. He wanted to go.
00:54:16
Speaker
He loves going to Target and going to Starbucks. He likes to find her things in life. He loves the outdoors too, though. Me and him and Jordan piled up. We went and got some lunch at Baby Jack's. Really badass barbecue spot here. It's a small little regional chain here. What did you think of your first West Tennessee barbecue experience? You got chicken there too, right? I got the chicken sandwich, yeah. And Brecka and the chicken nose. They got Bang and Ash fried chicken there.
00:54:39
Speaker
It was an interesting experience from the start. So they outsourced their family. This is bizarre. So we walk up to order and it's like a TV screen, a sideways TV screen, a horizontal TV screen. And a lady comes on from her bedroom to take your order. I was like, what the... What is going on?
00:55:00
Speaker
And then so they take your order or whatever it prints off the receipt and you go sit down and they bring your food up. But the food was outstanding. I got a brisket sandwich. I would say of coleslaw on it and barbecue sauce. I mean, I know everybody says if you put barbecue sauce on, it's not good barbecue, but I like to have a little, I don't like it. Dry ass sandwich. I don't like it slightly, but I like a little bit of sauce. I just see it a little bit, but yeah, it was, it was really good. I mean, I really enjoyed it. People yuck your yum, dude.
00:55:25
Speaker
Yeah, I love barbecue sauce, dude. Yeah, it was really good. So yeah, it was fun going out with just Seth and Brett. I mean, usually when I come... Hold on. Usually when I come in, she and I have a solo day where we got a Home Depot or Walmart or whatever, and we get some projects for me to do around the house. So having the girls here kind of delayed my project work.
00:55:46
Speaker
I think Sheena and Seth were a little disappointed with my work on the farm this weekend.
WrestleMania Night 2 Matches and Reviews
00:55:50
Speaker
We got you something. I'm going to have to make a return trip here by myself here pretty soon so I can put in some work because we had to entertain everybody. I'll be like, man, these gutters really need cleaning. Yeah. And then we, uh, someone went to Walmart, got some bait, came back and had probably the most glorious fishing trip ever. I'm talking like the fish were basically jumping out of the pond into our hands, like before he'd even cast a hook.
00:56:14
Speaker
How many bites did you get while we were fishing? Exactly zero. That's funny because Brett got zero and I got zero also. Wow, what do you think it was? I think it's still just a little too early in the season, right? Like they're just, they're not biting yet. The water's still pretty cold, especially since we just got off that last snap we had.
00:56:30
Speaker
It was a beautiful day. It was a little bit windy when we got there and the wind kind of died out. It wasn't a cloud in the fucking sky. If you would have drove by, you'd be like, man, it's a good day to be fishing, but we didn't get our stream pulled one time. It wasn't even nothing where you could be like, yo, I think I'm getting a bite. We just got straight skunked. Yeah, you know what? I should have known. I could tell that you weren't catching any fish because you texted me and said, hey, what are y'all doing? You on your way home? If y'all were catching fish, you would not have been texting me, dude.
00:56:55
Speaker
I'm not exactly like a master fisherman. I don't, I don't, I don't do a lot of whole outdoorsy things. I mean, I like being outside, but I'm not like a fisherman or a hunter or anything like that. And I definitely don't like use like nicer poles and stuff does have some nicer fishing equipment.
00:57:10
Speaker
So I'm not like used to that. I'm used to like gills up So like it took a little bit of a learning curve, but yeah, I was doing pretty good towards the end so But if it tells you anything Brett was basically had his feet in the water and was walking in the mud That's how well the fishing was going and then all of a sudden I look over and he's whizzing into the lake like it was just all going well He's riding his bike. It was really going well
00:57:35
Speaker
Well, yeah, we had a good time. There's good side and we had some good laughs anyways Came back got the got the cooler ice down and we got set up for night two of Of mania luckily was a little bit warmer cuz it ended up being pretty dang cold for for night. Yeah
00:57:54
Speaker
Let's get into it. First match, really controversial match for the whole last month. I wouldn't even say controversial. I don't think we had any almost sapiens in this house. Everybody was rooting for Brock. This ended up being a little bit of a let down. In four minutes and 55 seconds, Brock Lesnar defeats Omos.
00:58:10
Speaker
And the crowd goes mild, yeah. Our reaction to tell you everything. Yeah, this match was bad. I thought we were going to get some sort of bigger spot or even some sort of angle where like I'm thinking maybe they reformed the hurt business like bring Bobby last year and this was just like nothing, bro. Hold on. He gave Omos an F5, pinned him for three and Omos was standing there by the time Brock got out of the ring looking at him.
00:58:30
Speaker
I just, I don't know, man, I hate to like be overly critical in wrestling, but when it's bad, you have to say something. This was bad. This was very bad. This is a waste of Brock, man. Like we probably have, I mean, dude, what do you think? Maybe three Brock WrestleMania matches left at this point. Maybe. I may do. Our WrestleMania Brock card is getting low. Our wrestling match Brock card is getting pretty low. Yeah. And even though they've watered him down a little bit last couple of years, he's not quite the indestructible force he used to be. It's still special, man. Still special.
00:58:59
Speaker
Shout out to Omos, he's cool. I mean, there's always a spot in wrestling for those giants like that. Especially when Vince McMahon is in charge. Yeah, that's always been a thing, but I just felt like they could have done something a little bit more compelling with Brock this WrestleMania. Then we had the Women's Showcase. Ronda and Shannon get the win in 8.25. Anybody got any thoughts or feelings they want to express on this match? Next.
00:59:23
Speaker
I'm cool with them retiring the women's tag team belts at this point on NXT. Instead of that, I would rather them combine the Raw and SmackDown into one big belt and give us whatever the equivalent of the Intercontinental US Championship, give us that for the ladies. There's enough talent because the tag teams, you're always trying to make it work. There's never enough dedicated women's tag teams. Let's have a mid-card women's championship. I'm here for that.
00:59:51
Speaker
Alright, another one, I think this may have been the match we were all most excited for. The triple threat for the Intercontinental Championship. Gunther, Seamus, and Drew. Did this one live up to you guys' hype? This delivery. It was hard hitting just as you wanted it to be and just you knew it would be. These three guys, man, they just deliver every time they wrestle at this point. If you get a bad Seamus, Gunther, or Drew match,
01:00:14
Speaker
that other person must just because these three guys, you can tell they actually care about their craft and they want people to be into their matches and enjoy it.
01:00:26
Speaker
I get why Gunther won and I did pick him to win, but I just felt like that was the time to put the belt on Sheamus, give him the grand slam. We talked about how great Night One was booked and how they made the right booking decisions. I feel like it was the exact opposite on Night Two. I literally felt halfway through that show, like, is Vince just literally booking this show? Because that's what it felt like to me. He didn't care who won or lost or how the crowd felt.
01:00:55
Speaker
when he was normally in charge. He wasn't worried about that. He never was. Sometimes he'd actually do legal against, like not giving a crap what they wanted. To me, dude, not to get too far ahead of it, man. I think this one may have been a victim of that main event. I think if the main event hit gone in a different direction, maybe we see Gunther go ahead and drop the belt.
01:01:12
Speaker
Yeah, they move on to something else, but maybe they don't have to go through take the loss if he's going to be floating in the mid card for a few months. But awesome match, man. Guys, like I said, they were rocking each other, dude. I know that those guys got to be sore this morning. All their chests were bloody and bruised up. It was pretty nasty. Do you think Seamus is going to get, or do you think
01:01:30
Speaker
Also many a moment like like, you know, like I think that was it I mean he's I think his big moment was class at the castle when they get hurt and caught that match was going through I think I do They have he has to become a slam champion if they blow that with the year that Seamus has just had I feel like that would be one of the Capitalize on on the on the momentum that Seamus had
01:01:53
Speaker
Cause eventually they're going to have to move Gunther away from that title. Like Gunther has brought prestige back to the intercontinental title when it was severely lacking it. I just feel like he needs to be on the main event picture. Like Gunther is extremely talented. He's got the longest run since Honky Tonk, man, at this point, man. Maybe they're going to try to just erase Honky Tonk, man, from the, from the record books. And then get a new ultimate warrior and have him losing 12 seconds. Oh my God. Is that not the darkest timeline, dude? Brown breaker comes up in squashes.
01:02:23
Speaker
goop there for the belt. Oh my God. We always got time for some Bret Hart talk on this. Bret Hart made some news this week doing an interview and basically criticizing and I just know the leg slaps on the super kicks. He was criticizing the exact kind of wrestling that goop there Drew and Seamus were doing where you just chop the shit out of each other's chest until there's welts.
01:02:42
Speaker
and blood and bleed and everything. He said it's crap work. It's supposed to look like it hurts, but it's not supposed to hurt. Your opponent's not supposed to come back black and blue after the match. What do you guys take on that? This is one of Brett's worst takes. Yeah, that's a bad take. You guys know I love Brett. I usually stand by him, good or bad, but this is a terrible take. I really enjoy
01:03:04
Speaker
hard hitting, just, you know, beefy men slapping man meat, you know what I mean? Like, it's very, very entertaining. And it's like whole and it's different than what you typically see. I mean, you see a ton of the high spots, you see like, a lot of the, you know, grappling and stuff. But like, this is just it's just different. I don't know. What do you think, Ari? They were the first time. So I think there was like him just
01:03:25
Speaker
beating the crap out of me. It sticks with you like, oh shit, these people are really beating the shit out of each other. You don't want that to happen to you. You don't want that to get that chop. I don't know, it's impressive and it's something like, oh crap. So I appreciate that.
01:03:46
Speaker
for, I don't think it's a bad thing at all. Yeah, I don't mind it, especially at WrestleMania, right? Like it makes sense. I don't necessarily need to see it on Raw and Smackdown every week, but if you're saving it for the right occasion, like, yeah, it definitely adds something when you just got that visual, right? Like what, you know, Steve Austin say, red equals green, right? If you got blood and you actually got some violence, like it can really help to sell the emotion of a match. And it definitely did. And that tripped with the rest of the guy. I mean, if you're getting chopped and your chest doesn't light up like a freaking stop light, I mean, then it's just kind of like, hmm. You know what I mean?
01:04:14
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, if it's just for the sound only, like I feel like it's kind of useless and I feel like we get so much. Not hard hitting wrestling anymore. I feel like so much of it is like finesse wrestling and stuff like that. So I feel like when you have one of these matches, I've just grown to appreciate it so much more because I mean, wrestling used to be a lot more hard hitting. Like they weren't, the way they used to bump back in the day is completely different than now. It's a, it's a lot safer now.
01:04:41
Speaker
and honestly like sometimes i want to feel like man there is zero chance i'd ever even consider getting in that ring oh yeah those three guys exactly there's no yes there's no chance that i'm getting in the ring with goon through shamus or druid because that's just slap i'm yeah one slap you're not you're not gonna breathe for a week you know so help sell everything else not just yes but all the other matches that are not as physically
01:05:04
Speaker
dangerous as that one looks like or feels like. You know, somebody who doesn't watch wrestling as much as you guys, it's like, oh, okay, I can kind of get myself into the other, the following matches after that. You don't have to suspend your disbelief as much. Yeah, like I, that's a good, that's a good point Ari. All right. Raw Women's Championship Bianca Beller defeats Asuka. Again, this is kind of, it was what it was. Asuka looked awesome. Like she's going to make a great figure.
01:05:29
Speaker
I don't really know that the whole, you know, winning the elimination chamber and then this whole bill just to get beat by her just by using the mist and everything. I don't think this did a lot for Oscar. No, I didn't. I mean, they brought her back as evil Oscar, which is everything everyone has wanted for.
01:05:46
Speaker
seven years, they bring her back and she loses her first huge match to Bianca, which don't get me wrong. Bianca is absolutely incredible. She's probably one of the best women's wrestlers. It's going to go down in this generation, but
01:06:01
Speaker
I don't know, man. I picked Bianca to win just because I felt like it made more sense to keep the towel on her because the big match is obviously Bianca and Ria down the road. Um, but I don't know, man. I just, this kind of killed everything that Oscar had going. Like, like Seth just said, like what, where does Oscar go? I don't think they know what to do with Oscar, dude. I don't think they're going to, they're just not going to give her
01:06:26
Speaker
that main title, especially with the sale of the company and everything. I don't think like Oscar is the right one to be like the women's title bearer. You know what I mean? The language barrier is a huge thing for her. It is, it is. That's not being racist. No, you can't send her on Good Morning America and do interviews. Exactly. And then just have her yell, no one's ready for Oscar. That's not gonna sell tickets or do anything like that.
01:06:49
Speaker
Smart key thing. Yes, exactly. I think Oscar's body of work is incredible. But again, it's just, that's what she's got. She doesn't have the WWE it factor to be able to like cut a bunch of promos or go do a bunch of interviews or do all those things. And I just, I've always felt like that's held her back.
WWE Sale and Future Expectations
01:07:10
Speaker
We haven't talked about it yet. But WWE just sold obviously merge with UFC company Endeavor.
01:07:15
Speaker
I feel like now more than ever, they are really gonna put the champions on the forefront. There's gonna be a ton more public interviews, stuff like that. Cuz have you guys noticed, maybe you guys haven't, Ariel Hwani has done a ton of interviews with WWE superstars in the last three months.
01:07:31
Speaker
I think that was when people started to notice what was happening. It was starting to turn and he's always interviewing the people that everyone wants to hear from. He interviewed Sammy right before Elimination Chamber. He just interviewed Cody. He just interviewed Roman.
01:07:47
Speaker
And he did taker. He did a taker interview. He got the taker interview. That taker just refuses to do with anybody. So I feel like now more than ever, the people that are champions is going to be really important as far as like public eye. So sending Oscar in to be interviewed by Aria Hawaii probably ain't going to work. I'm just.
01:08:06
Speaker
I mean, they need to give her a manager, bro. I've said that since the beginning. I keep thinking of, you know, great mood. It was obviously on everybody's mind this, uh, this week. Remember when he had Gary Hart is his manager way back in the day. Like we never need to hear Oscar. Exactly. Oscar needs a manager. Dude, she is a bad ass. I don't want to hear her talk. Exactly. Her whole entrance and like her whole, like just.
01:08:32
Speaker
or an energy is like that's that you feel it but then she like all she says is you know nobody's ready for oscar and i'm just like 20 years we heard brock say approximately 10 words exactly you know why because he's absolute garbage on the mic and it's okay it's okay there's nothing wrong with being garbage on the mic if you can bring it in the room after
01:08:51
Speaker
I felt Rhonda needs a damn manager. Like, you know what I mean? Like Rhonda should be treated the same way. Like she needs a freaking manager. They gave, they gave Roman Paul Heyman because, and he wasn't good. And then, you know, he's obviously fine. He's fine tuned over the two years. But he's still nowhere near like, you're not going to go to Rome and be like, Hey, go out there and cut like a 20 minute promo.
01:09:11
Speaker
They're like, okay, Paul Haynes is going to do the majority of the talking. You're going to say your meaningful lines and then we're going to move on. There's nothing wrong with that. In recent history, maybe I'm just overlooking somebody and you guys are really like, duh, Sheena. But have they ever given a woman a manager like that? Nia Jax kind of had Alexa Bliss for a little bit. They were like manager slash tag team, but not really. Who would you give her as manager? Paul Haynes would be the obvious choice.
01:09:38
Speaker
But obviously the bloodlines gotta end up before that. I don't know, there's no real managers nowadays. That's the other thing. Yeah, that's, no. I don't know who you, you got anybody in mind? That's a real good question. Yeah, I don't know who's out there. Yeah, it's gonna have to be somebody that's incredible on the mic. So it just can't be anybody, obviously. What was his name from the, from the diamond mine? The, or there was- Malcolm Bivens? Yeah, Malcolm. I know, I'm just saying. Stokely Hathaway? Yes. Bivens. He would have been a, he would have been a good one.
01:10:07
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's just, it's going to be hard to find her somebody that's going to mesh with who she is and everything though. Cause I mean, she has, she's just a bad ass. You can't have just someone just normal come out and talk for her. It's got to be someone that's like really well respected and stuff. So it's going to be tough, man. Oscar's going to have a tough sell, especially now. So, I mean, she still is obviously one of the best women's wrestlers in WWE, but
01:10:31
Speaker
Yeah, like I said, it just sucks because the new presentation was really, really cool. And I think ultimately we're going to look back on this as being pretty kind of meaningless a couple of months for us. It was a waste. Yeah, I don't see the... We saw Bianca tonight on Raw. There was no mention of any kind of rematch or any other engagement. She beat him. Oscar didn't come out tonight, yeah. No, Oscar at all. They brought out Rhea and just teased the match that everybody wants to see. I think that's...
01:10:55
Speaker
Just kind of future booking. That's got to be one of the two nights of WrestleMania next year. The main event will be surprised seeing both of the belts, man. Like obviously they're, they're at a point now where they're going, they're leaning back into super long title reign. See like Bianca is it a year right now? Let her hold it for a year. Let her hold it for another year and like rehold her about for a year and we get some sort of unification match next year. That's an easy main event. That would be a killer main event too.
01:11:19
Speaker
All right, we had our most unintentional comedic segment of the weekend with the Miz versus Snoop Dogg and Shane McMahon. Kind of walk us through the timeline on this one, Shane.
01:11:31
Speaker
So, Miz comes out and him and Snoop Dogg getting a little tiff and then Shane McMahon's music comes out. He shimmies down the aisle, you know, total like, you know, Shane-a-Mania jersey and the whole thing, right? And gets in the ring and then does one move and he's supposed to beat Miz. Jumps over the top of Miz, comes down and lands and
01:11:55
Speaker
Blows his freakin quad out of his big man style only one not both We've seen the Steve jump off the Titan Tron off hell in the cell like be all these crazy spots over the years The quad he tried to get up he tried to get that's how yeah, that's how we knew it was a quad not like an ACL, you know what I mean? Because I mean Seth Rollins literally, you know powerbombed Kane with a freakin torn ACL and MCL You know, I mean you can still stand on a on a MCL and ACL for the moment
01:12:22
Speaker
But yeah, he tried to stand up and his leg just went straight jello status and so then this was happening like in the match and so Snoop Dogg has to like run in and freakin pin the miss so he does the worst people's elbow in history, but I mean it was so Snoop Dogg, you know what I mean? He did throw a mean right hand though that actually looked like it connected and everything I was like
01:12:45
Speaker
Yeah, so Snoop Dogg saved the day, went in, did people's elbow, pinned the Miz, one, two, three, and you know, it is what it is for Shane. Shane got really choked up too when he started talking, when he got in the ring. He was almost in tears. Yeah, he was in tears in the first. I wonder if he knew that was the last time he was going to appear on like... Well, yeah. Because I mean, he knew the sale was going through. What is the use for Shane McMahon to come back out there? I was shocked he came out. That was already the first time we saw him since we were at Wimble last year. So it's been over a year since we've even seen him on TV.
01:13:15
Speaker
Yeah, crazy stuff, man. Shout out to Shane, hope you get well soon. All right, last two matches. I know it's, this next one was, I'm still not really sure what they did with this one. Edge and Finn Bower, Hell in the Cell, cool inferences, match never really got out of second gear though. And then just out of nowhere, pretty much clean as a sheet, Edge hits a concerto and pins Finn Bower, man. Like what do we make of the demon losing his second straight match?
01:13:38
Speaker
The demon is dead. Don't ever bring the demon back. I never want to see the demon again. What do we make of the fact that they stopped that match for five minutes because Finn's head got busted open, which hold on, just before we just gloss that over, like it wasn't a big deal. It was a giant game. I'm typically annoyed when they do that, when they stop it in the middle of the matches. But after seeing that picture, like I totally get what I would have preferred. His skull was probably showing. I honestly would have preferred them just to stop the match at that point because it wouldn't have killed demon Finn at that point. Yeah.
01:14:06
Speaker
The fact that they let him do a concerto and just getting pinned right after that was, I mean, that kills Demon Fin. It honestly probably kills Judgment Day if we're being serious. Yeah. I mean, outside of Rhea, nobody in Judgment Day. Yeah, Damien wasn't even on the car. Dom lost, and then Fin got freaking pinned plain as a sheet. So yeah. Etch had some cool entrance gear though.
01:14:29
Speaker
Yeah, I like the music. He had Rocket. Edge was cool. It's going to make for an awesome figure. Edge was some Slayer and some Devil Wings and some kind of weird mirror mask. I don't know how we didn't see Gangrel and Christian, man. Like, Gangrel, they were, you know, it sounds like Gangrel was a done deal. He was going to be a part of it. And supposedly, AW would give him permission for Christian to make an appearance. Like, I don't know. I think that, I think, or Vin getting his head busted open killed it. I really think that's what happened. I think that was all supposed to happen during the match and that just killed it.
01:14:58
Speaker
I was thinking that the other thing I was thinking was maybe there was just they knew they had so much just shenanigans planned for the main event that they didn't want to have like two matches like that, you know, I mean, you could tell they were stalling for the main event because the main event was not supposed to go on that fast. So like we have like 30 minutes of commercial and
01:15:17
Speaker
other dumb shit before the main event even started. I feel like that Finn and Edge match was supposed to go another 10, 15 minutes. Makes sense because most time the modern Hell in the Cell matches are going 25 minutes plus. I honestly can't even believe that they did that spot. I mean, he literally threw an entire ladder at Finn's face. How did they think that was gonna happen? It was just a block. I think it just was mistiming. Yeah, it's a ladder. Yeah, it thinks it happened.
01:15:41
Speaker
I guess we'll have to see if they run back some sort of rematch here pretty soon. If they, if they kind of, it was like, you know, try to wave the, the Jedi like wand or the men in black. No, the men in black, the little memory eraser. That match for us never happened. And then we see Finn go over with a strong one. We'll know something was up. So yeah, so we, we had that match wrap up. It seemed like, I don't know how long it actually was. It felt like there was about 25 minutes of commercials.
01:16:03
Speaker
Random videos and you know shout outs to the crowd before we finally get to the main event probably the best built WrestleMania main event match in Parsons WrestleMania 30 with you know the evolution and and Daniel Bryan situation Cody Rhodes and Roman Rance. We'll start with the entrances. What'd you guys think of Cody's gear?
01:16:23
Speaker
Oh, the jacket was dope. Yeah, I mean with the wings. Yeah, it was dope. Him giving Brody the the weight belt. I just we thought it was a lock at that point. Yeah, we we all went so like you know he's coming down. Seth makes a comment. He's like those don't look like championship pants.
01:16:39
Speaker
He said, those are blue pants and it should be wearing like white or gold pants. You know, he said, I don't have a bad feeling about these blue pants. Then, you know, he goes ringside, his whole family's there. He picks up his baby girl. His baby girl just like melts into him and like puts her head down in front of like, you know, a hundred thousand people, like just puts her head down. You couldn't, you couldn't like, if you, if they have like a, a, a kayfabe baby, they're like teeth, you know, trying to get her to act like that. It couldn't have been any better. Yes. And so she just like lays her head down and just gives Cody like the most warmest like, you know, father daughter embrace.
01:17:09
Speaker
And then to make matters even worse, he goes and takes his weight belt that he had written all of his, you know, companies on and hands it to this kid. And we're kind of just like, we weren't even like really paying attention. I was like a nephew or something. Yeah. And then we realized it's freaking negative one. It's Brody Jr. Yeah. The announcer, he said, you know, the, the person that he gave his weight belt to is Brody Jr. And we were, we all went, Oh.
01:17:33
Speaker
Like I could like see everybody's like eyes kind of change like even Seth He was already kind of nervous about this match anyway, but I could even like see in his face. He's like, well, this is a done All that and still ended up staring at the lights in the bell ring I
01:17:52
Speaker
Shocking turn of events man. I mean I legit was like after everything they did with Cody as much as I talked shit You know in our pie foundation group chatting it anybody else that would listen man I you know, I still thought that Roman was probably gonna lose It just seemed like it made the most sense But the show goes on man freakin Roman Reigns wins Like what would you guys think of that truly kind of shocking result? What's the the bell ringing in Romans music hit?
01:18:16
Speaker
I mean honestly like when he did the two crossroads I was like holy shit he's actually gonna win the belt like I kept like looking over at Seth and Sheena because I mean obviously everyone knows I'm not like the biggest Roman Reigns fan and it's fine it just is what it is I don't hate him or anything like that but
01:18:33
Speaker
I kept looking over at them to see their faces and stuff. He hit those two crossroads and I just saw Seth's face and just looked dejected like he knew because this is exactly how Seth said this match was going to go. He said they're both going to hit a finisher or two and then it's going to end on three crossroads and he was getting ready to do the third crossroads and it was clunky though. You could tell that they had just like set this up that night.
01:18:56
Speaker
Cause solo wasn't even in position to do it at the right time. Oh, you had to kind of back up with, he had to move back three times and they were just standing there and then solo hits him with the spike. Roman does the double rope spear, which that's an instant ending. Yeah. And then he pins him. And I seriously didn't even have any words. Like I was, I mean, we lost our freaking minds, but I will say, dude, like I,
01:19:22
Speaker
I thought that Cody was going to win. I picked Roman in the picks leagues. I want to go on the record and say Seth picked Cody in the picks league and I picked Roman. So, I mean, who really believes in Roman Reigns here, you know? I think that the biggest thing for me was it's not that Cody lost. I think that they just did him dirty because they had, they literally had Sammy Zane and Kevin Owens come in, get a shot in on freaking Roman Reigns. They hit finishes. Yeah, he hit a stunner.
01:19:51
Speaker
and a haluva kick, and then Cody still couldn't beat them. To me, I'm like, dude, they could have went without that. And it was like, oh yeah, everybody comes in and gangs up on Cody. Cody loses, that sucks. It was a really heel shitty way to win. But the fact that he couldn't win with assistance really downgraded Cody, in my opinion. And I just think that was not the right answer. Yeah, I'm sure over the next weeks and months, we'll get all the backs around it. But I kind of agree.
01:20:19
Speaker
Even though being a Cody fan, I think they kind of did him wrong and they said if he was going to lose, he should have just he should have lost by himself. They said it all up for him to win. And then the Indian wasn't even, it wasn't like a WrestleMania match. I mean, it was a perfectly fine Indian for the main event of a rock, right? Where you get just some quick interference and then guy hits his finisher. That's not how
01:20:40
Speaker
That's not how the biggest show of the year should end. Well, Pfeiffer put out that article that Jordan showed me yesterday and it was, or was it today? Today, yeah. Pfeiffer put out an article that said like, none of the talent or whatever knew the finishers until today. So I mean, I was just like, well, that's what it felt like. That's exactly what it felt like, that all the run-ins were going to happen and all the interference was going to happen. And I don't know. To me, I just thought, I thought like rewinding all the way back to when Cody was signing like the biggest, most extensive contract in WWE history, like
01:21:08
Speaker
I thought page one was like, I'm coming here to win the title at WrestleMania. I don't think they ever really make promises like that to guys though. I don't think they ever get that specific. I don't think they do, but I just never know how those finishes are gonna go.
01:21:25
Speaker
I mean, I guess I mean, now we know that dude. But I mean, in my mind, I'm thinking like that because the way Cody talked about like his contract negotiations and like, you know, him coming back and like all the things that led up to him being back here and getting this just meteoric rise to the main event status, like I think,
01:21:42
Speaker
I just thought it was a lock. I have never in my life seen WWE build someone up the way they did Cody for a year. I've never I've watched wrestling my entire life. I've never seen them take someone from me and Seth both said this when he signed this dude is mid card forever. Yes. Maybe he's just coming back because it's just like a feel good story for him. And this is where I think he belongs.
01:22:07
Speaker
They took him from what I thought was absolute mid-card at best, maybe a US champion, something along those lines. That dude was, and me and Seth talked about this yesterday too, we all talked about it. That dude was on the highest of highs that I've ever seen someone on.
01:22:24
Speaker
And he was coming in to face Roman and Vegas had Cody Rhodes as a minus 800 favorite. Why did we not put money on Roman? I don't know, but either way, like, dude, I've never seen that happen in the history of wrestling. I've never seen, I mean, Daniel, Daniel Bryan obviously had a, it was way quicker than that, right? They didn't build that over a year. I mean, Cody tore his peck in that year and was still, he came back and it was like, he didn't even leave. It was like, he wasn't even off for five months. He was right back to where he was.
01:22:54
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, this is the first time in two years that I had to think about who I was going to pick. Like when I was, when we were doing the picks league, I was like, well, am I going to pick Cody? Like, you know, I haven't picked against Roman this whole time. Like, and I had to think about it because like nobody up to this point, I felt like has been a proper contender to just thrown the tribal chief and
01:23:13
Speaker
Yeah. The fact that they, they didn't pull the trigger on that opportunity. I'm like, well, I hope they have something planned because otherwise like it's just, it's going to be a long time. There's always a plan, but I don't think they can ever get Cody that high ever again. I just don't like, dude, you can just erase what just happened last night for a memory. I mean, we saw tonight on raw, he's going to have a few with Brock. That's fine.
01:23:36
Speaker
So I think that's gonna help him. He's got like major baby face empathy going on right now. He just got the shit beat out of him. He was supposed to tag team with Brock against Roman and Solo. And he got the crap beat out of him when Brock turned on him and just beat him out of the stadium. So I don't know.
01:23:52
Speaker
Brock is definitely not on the level he used to be. He's won two matches in the last year now. It's a bounce back feud for Cody. It's a bounce back feud, but it's not the bounce back feud that's going to put him back to where he was before last night. The dude was literally on top of the world. The woes kept getting louder. They did all that shit at ringside.
01:24:12
Speaker
You can't do that again. Well, my thing is, is like, what is the storyline going to be now? Because he's already cashed in on the, like, daddy finish your story. Like, you know, I'm all that kind of stuff. Like, I don't think running that back just feels like, like, lazy booking. This is why I seriously think Vince had way more say than what they were originally announcing. The fact that Triple H had to, like, say all that stuff about your story's never finished and all that stuff in the post. That tells me that
01:24:42
Speaker
I mean, he's just basically trying to gloss it over, like, hey, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, we're selling the company. Figure out whatever you have to do. Roman's winning.
01:24:54
Speaker
Yeah, he's right. You don't really ever finish your story. The problem is, is like, this was supposed to be the finish to the story. That was the whole, like, monogram. That was the entire point of it. That was the slogan of the feud. And you can't do the thing where he's, like, hugging all this family and grabbing his daughter and giving the belt again to Brody, because it's not going to feel the same. Like, you can't ever recapture that pre-match Cody ever again. And I know there's a lot of people that have been in the group chat. They're like, oh, Cody will be fine.
01:25:23
Speaker
I mean, fine. Yeah. He'll be fine. There's no way he can ever get back to that level. But nobody wants to be fine. Everybody wants to be the fucking head of the table. Outside of him at backlash wrestling, every person on the roster and putting them clean and then wrestling Roman at some percent, I don't know how you get him back to that level. Yeah. So we'll do a quick speed around football and WrestleMania. Will Cody Rhodes win the championship before WrestleMania 40?
01:25:50
Speaker
before WrestleMania 40? What I just said before WrestleMania 40? No. All right. No. Jordan. I think, here's the thing. I think Roman definitely loses at least one of those titles before WrestleMania 40. Okay.
01:26:08
Speaker
Cody still makes the most sense as far as like having someone take one of those belts because we've talked about Rollins. We've talked about everybody else outside of bringing Kenny in. Who are you going to have beat him? I mean, Cody is really the only dude they got right now.
01:26:23
Speaker
Yeah. So if he's going to lose one of those belts, which I think he has to lose one, right? If he keeps the universal title for five years, whatever, you can't just have both of those belts tied up in one feud for five years though. So I, yes, I think Cody is going to win a title. Do I think he's going to win both titles? No, but he's going to win at least one title. Yeah. I think the only guys are like.
01:26:44
Speaker
Jay is there a storyline, but I feel like the Jay and Roman, when that goes down, it's not gonna be- It doesn't need to be the title. No, that's just- That's just the blood, right? Yeah, to me, it's Cody. Cody and Seth are going to guys they have that are believable that can take it. And like we talked earlier, Seth needs to have some character changes before he's back at that level.
01:27:02
Speaker
Alright, we got a ton of blister milk, we got leftovers from last week, but before we get to that, got to ask Jordan and Ari, kind of the only big thing we did today, you guys had your first trip to the Bass Pro Shop at the period. For those that don't know, Memphis Pyramid was like a semi-famous sports arena in the early 90s, really, really cool architectural design, it's basically a stainless steel
01:27:21
Speaker
Omos to the Egyptian pyramids and they had a lot of sporting events there. I saw a WWF house show in 1992 with Papa Shango and Bret Hart main eventing. The Memphis Grizzlies played there the first couple of years and the Memphis Tigers college basketball played there for a really long time. But it got kind of, it got played in mothballs around 2010 until Bass Pro Shop came and turned into the world's largest Bass Pro and it's ridiculous man. What do you guys think of it?
01:27:46
Speaker
It's just strange like knowing that it was a sports arena and you're walking around in a Bass Pro Shop because it's still like the surroundings of the Bass Pro or the pyramid are still set up as like a sports arena. Like you can tell that's what it was set up for.
01:28:01
Speaker
I just thought it was weird honestly. It felt so weird walking through there like we were on the second level of it and I just like looked up and I was like this is like the weirdest place I've ever been to. It's like somebody would make up as a joke. Yeah and if you've ever like been to like a real big bass pro shop I mean the front always looks like you know very outdoorsy and like you know the woods. Yeah it's all brown and then you walk up to this
01:28:26
Speaker
gold pyramid that is just like, you know, got a big Bass Pro logo on it. It's weird. It's definitely weird. Yeah. But I mean, it was cool. It was cool to see it. I mean, I don't think it's like something like I need to do 10 more times or anything like that. Like once you see it once, I mean, it is a gigantic Bass Pro shop when it comes down to it. All right. We'll take a quick musical break and then we will get back with some super-sized Pod Warriors mailbag.
01:28:51
Speaker
Red light, green light. Everybody take a shot. Red light, green light.
01:28:58
Speaker
Give me everything you got, red light. Mr. 305, flow rider and lunch money. Three Miami boys, you know what time it is. Give me the green light, cause I'm ready to go. Let's have a good time. What you waiting for? You only got one life, and we gon' live it up. So give me the green light, cause I'm ready to go.
01:29:29
Speaker
All right, that was a little green light from WrestleMania 33. That will always have a soft spot in my heart. It is the absolute best WrestleMania song ever. So we got a super-sized mail bag. Sheena's gonna be running point here, kind of dishing the questions off to me, Jordan and Ari. These are all the leftovers from the WrestleMania preview. Remember, Sheena was a little under the weather, so she did join us for the WrestleMania preview episode last week. So we're gonna be playing catch up on all those questions, plus the new questions you guys dropped us today. So Sheena, hit us with your best shot.
01:29:57
Speaker
All right, Phil Dunnett says, how does it feel to be beaten by your wife?
01:30:03
Speaker
I mean, I got it for free. Some people have to pay for that kind of thing. So I guess it felt okay. And we were here to watch it. It was very entertaining. Having a front row seat to that beating was quite entertaining. Seth and I have always had a pretty competitive relationship as far as like, when we like go against each other, like play a game against each other. So yeah, it felt pretty good to gloat and to win the picks league. So yeah.
01:30:32
Speaker
And it makes it feel even sweeter that like this whole time he's been talking so much shit about, you know, Roman beating Cody. And then ultimately, you know, he didn't pick, didn't pick Roman at the end of the day. My brain out with my heart. Yeah.
01:30:45
Speaker
All right. Phil D hits with another one. He said, endeavor buyout thoughts. I can't wait to see Walter and Brock in slap fights. Jordan, what do you think about the endeavor buyout? I do think some things are going to change, not right away, but I do feel like we're going to go back to paying for paid reviews. I mean, that's UFC's model. And that's, I mean, that's endeavors model at this point. That's what they've shown us. Triple H said nothing's going to change. I think that's true in the short term, but I think long-term we're going to see some changes.
01:31:13
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think he meant, I think he meant product wise. I definitely, he never mentioned like, you know, Oh, you're, you're a peacock subscription. It's still going to get you, it's still going to get you all the paper views. We're going to find out on backlash Sunday. They're going to be like, Oh, by the way, you have to pay 50 bucks. And if you have a peacock subscription, it's only 39.99.
01:31:31
Speaker
Yeah. What are your thoughts? You got any thoughts on Endeavor? I'm not really familiar with them enough on the USC stuff. I do think the days of not having pay-for-pay-per-views are probably going away, which, you know, it's cool. I mean, we've been totally spoiled. We haven't had a pay-for-pay-per-view since 2014.
01:31:48
Speaker
But it's not gonna, I do agree with Triple H. It's not gonna be anything in the short term. Because Peacock's deal, what they have right now runs through 2026. So it'd have to be, it'd have to come from NBC Comcast. If we're gonna start paying for pay per views before that. But I would look for 2026 to be the time when we started seeing some changes. Kenden says, on a scale of one to 10, how annoying are Cody Rhodes fans? 10.
01:32:09
Speaker
I don't know if Cody Rhodes has fans. I feel like Cody Rhodes fans are the same as me. Like, you know, I gave, you know, I've said it a bunch, man. I remind you guys all the time, dude, when we did our three year anniversary show, I said Cody Rhodes was the best wrestler of the Chick-fil-A show era and I can't stand the guy. So I think that's what Cody has. I think he's got a lot of people that appreciate him, but I mean, what, what bad-ass matches is Cody having? I think it's just like the thought or idea of Cody people were buying into. I just, I don't know. He had some pretty awesome matches against Seth Rollins recently.
01:32:36
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, they were okay. That's cause Roland's loss. That's why this is there. I feel like Seth had some awesome matches with Cody on the flight period. Awesome matches with Seth. There we go. Uh, Phil Dunnett also says, would you say the Rhodes family or even a top five wrestling family? So we took a sneak peek at this today. Uh, me and Jordan did when we were off running some errands this afternoon.
01:32:58
Speaker
I think they are, but I think they're just barely. I think they're number five. So you got the, I think you put the Onewa'i clan with Roman, Brock, Yokozuna, all those guys, Usos. They're number one at this point. Hart's number two. I put the McMahons number three. I don't know if you want to classify them as a wrestling. Me and Jordan coming back and forth if they're actually a wrestling family or not. They've all wrestled.
01:33:19
Speaker
Yeah. So I put the McMahons number three and I put the flares, even though the flares just Charlotte and Rick, you know, still two generations where you got the best men's champion and the best female champion ever. But I think the roads are number five. We talked about maybe the Von Erics, right? Yeah. The Von Erics got a little bit of a case. Yeah. But no, just not enough mainstream success. So yeah, I think they're number five, man. What do you think, Jordan?
01:33:43
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I think they're number five as well. Uh, when you mentioned flares and Charlotte and Rick, you forgot one flare. David flair and crowbar had one of the greatest teams ever. So yeah, it's definitely right there, but I think they're in there. All right. We just had it. We just had a sleepy, a sleepy baby join us up. You hear some rustling around. Yeah, we got a fifth pot of warrior coming in. So, uh,
01:34:07
Speaker
Yeah, the Bretman is going to lay on Seth's lap and take a little nap. Johnny JB says, I know you have your custom gobbledygooker. Did you order the two of the gooker and taker? And what do you think of it? Yes, we ordered that. I love my custom gobbledygooker.
01:34:28
Speaker
I don't even know how you would describe it. Like actual little cutout feathers of like felt feathers. From our guy, from our guy. Yeah. The head sculpt looks incredible. Like it's, it's just, it's just a beautiful figure. I did order the actual Mattel figure just because, I mean, you get, I've been asking for a gobbled, an official gobbledygooker. Every time I, um, every time we say like, what's your dream fig? I'm always like, I want the gobbledygooker.
01:34:52
Speaker
We got it even better. We got it with the egg. We got it with Undertaker. It's just going to be an awesome set. The thing with those customs, you always got to worry about them breaking down over time. Because even awesome guys like Viking Hall Toys, Ivy's Custom Figgies, the Mad Reaper, they don't have access to the same factory grade sealant and finishes and stuff. So you got to worry about some of that paint. And especially something like the Gooker, where it's almost like a craft project, man, like how detailed it is.
01:35:19
Speaker
So I think we're going to have that custom googer. It's not going anywhere. It's not going for sale. No, we're keeping it. It's going to be a display piece in our dining room now. It would be such a Seth Phillips thing to sell that gobbledygooker and then they cancel.
01:35:38
Speaker
So Zach Hertzler hit us with a long form question. So this randomly popped into my head today at work. We all know how important Roman has been over the last several years. We know that he took time off in 2018 after he was diagnosed with leukemia and battled that. Came back stronger than ever. But do you guys think that that may have played a part in him gaining more popularity with the fans?
01:36:01
Speaker
then finally turning heel to be our tribal chief today. I'll be honest, I was never a fan of Roman until he finally turned heel because I was tired of him being shoved down my throat. But him coming back after leukemia did play a part in me being happy to see him back on TV, but still didn't care about him until the whole heel turn and being on with Haman.
01:36:19
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's what's made this character so compelling, man. Like he had so many just babyface pushes that fail flat, or it seemed like, you know, go back to WrestleMania 34. It was kind of similar to Cody. They built this guy up over a number of years, and then all signs point to him beating Brock for the belt, and he loses, man. So many failed pushes. I think all the rejections and stuff that he got from the fans, like that's really what kind of has been the steam that caused him to kind of, you know, go to the dark side for lack of a better term.
01:36:46
Speaker
I think without those, I don't think this character works. I think all the years of the fans kind of shitting on him despite him going out and putting on really good matches. I think that's what's made this character so compelling. There's probably two moments for me, him coming back from leukemia.
01:37:04
Speaker
we went at length about my Roman Reigns fandom is not obviously as high as everyone else's. I appreciate the guy, I appreciate what he does. Him coming back from leukemia was, that was a pretty emotional night. The fact that he made it back and that he was actually, because I'm dead serious. I didn't think the dude would ever wrestle again, honestly. I thought that was the end of it. So him coming back was really cool. And the moment number two,
01:37:28
Speaker
telling you guys, man, him taking his shirt off was moment number two. I'm telling you that dude never gets to that point with his shirt on. I'm telling you, like you're not a main event guy. All we can hear is, is Jordan chanting at WrestleMania. The moment the shield broke up, Jordan has been, it was all the way back to 2014. Jordan was saying he had to
01:37:51
Speaker
you know really i think you're saying he's got to ditch the whole shield typically yeah he's gotta leave the vest man yeah i just i i always said he needed to ditch the vest because it just reminds me too much of him being in the in the faction like yeah and he was still using the faction he needs to be his own person until he's his own person i don't think it's gonna work
01:38:09
Speaker
And he was in the middle of this run when that happened. He took the shirt off and he just went to a different level at that point. That came around the same time that he got new teeth and ditched the contacts too. So it was just like a whole new look for Roman. He came out with all the shirt and I texted Seth. I said, see, look what happened.
01:38:28
Speaker
And he got new entrance music too, which elevated him tremendously. Oh, the entrance music made a gigantic difference. It is a way different. As much as I do all this shit about, like I hate Roman Renzo and all this stuff, I don't hate the dude. He is extremely talented. He's going to go down as one of the top five wrestlers of all time.
01:38:46
Speaker
Dude, you can't deny what's happened in the last three years. I mean, you could shit on them all you want, but you can't deny it. Like, dude, people shit on every wrestler in history. There's a lot of people that hate Ric Flair. You can't deny they're in wrestling now. There's people that hate Bret Hart. It's like a turnbuckle. The two bad chads always say, nobody hates wrestling more than wrestling fans. Nobody's more critical of stuff than us. Ari, I don't think I've ever heard you go super in-depth on it. Where are you at on Roman Reigns? What's your level of Roman Reigns fandom? I think I liked him more when he was in a shield. And now, like,
01:39:16
Speaker
I feel like I'm just tired of him. Okay. Totally fair sentiment. Because he's just always there and he doesn't lose. I like a little bit of a change in the story. We're going on almost 10, you know, really since the shield broke up, he's either been, he's been one of the top three or four guys in the company, right? Most TV times. Yeah. I don't think anybody could look at you sideways. I mean, you're kind of crazy because he's been on top for a very long time. There's been other guys who look like Seth.
01:39:42
Speaker
He's kind of rotated it out sometimes. He's had moments where he's the top guy for a while and then he rotates back under the midcard. Roman has never been presented as anything less than one of the most important people on the show. We're back 10 years now at this point. 10 years? It's 2014 when the shield broke up. Yikes. That's crazy. Brett Charles says, how do we feel about cloth hooded singlets on the ultimate Kurt Angle? Love it. I love it. Fantastic. My favorite Kurt Angle figure they did so far was the one that came with the
01:40:11
Speaker
Okay. With the hoodie jacket and stuff. Yeah. So the curtains, one of the guys, I think soft goods works great. Yeah. Yeah. Mike Rivera, what thing is your favorite of all the ones they showed this weekend? So instant reaction, I'd say the Scott Holland dental, but there's some major, I think if they don't make some part changes, I'm going to have to do some, uh, some mashup work on that one. Once it comes out, because they kind of botched the genes on that. Um,
01:40:36
Speaker
I don't know, maybe the Jerry Waller. They're finally giving us like 97, like Monday Night Raw version of Jerry Waller. I think that one was pretty cool. That 2002 Shawn Michaels is pretty special too. That 2000 Shawn Michaels. That's just 2002 Shawn Michaels is pretty cool. And then the Brett Defani moments, you know. Yeah, that's awesome. The rest of the match against Roddy Piper has always been one of my favorites. And that's my absolute favorite Brett Hart jacket. How crazy is this? The Mattel line has been around
01:40:59
Speaker
going on 14 years now. This is only the second soft goods jacket we've got for Bret Hart. How is that fricking possible? Well, that was just the defining moments, right? Like they were both defining moments. Both defining moments, yeah. They have never done the, and they've really only given us the ultimate, you know, the new ultimate edition. That'll make it five Bret Hart figures across 14 years that they've actually given us his jacket, man. Yeah, yeah, true. I think the defining moments were like the coolest reveal because we knew this line was coming back. All the figures are dope.
01:41:28
Speaker
Those four figures are that mankind is possibly the best with the tax in his back and tooth and his nose like everything about that Like that the whole sets awesome, but if I didn't say Razor of modern denim, I think everybody would fucking price Yeah, that's a Foley show because I've been calling for this for the last three years and that's a shoe in yeah I mean, that's a bit of glaring omission from the figure or
01:41:52
Speaker
for a long time. It is going to piss me off if the jeans really aren't tucked into the boots, so that's going to take a little bit away from it. Yeah, we have to get them fixed up. The other one, the Captain Lou superstars, man. I'm not necessarily that particular figure, but because I'm hopeful that that means we're going to get a Captain Lou Elite, which he's been my number one most wanted for a long time. Yeah. We need more managers. Yes. Need more managers. Tony Barker.
01:42:15
Speaker
He says, if you could bring back an obsolete form of physical media, what would you bring back? I'm going to throw this one to Ari. So anything that's like, you know, like that we don't use anymore. CD's, cassette tapes, laser discs. Yeah. VHS. Magazines. I think I would go with a magazine. Yeah. We just talked about this. Gene Beat? Yeah. I mean, just like magazines in general. It used to be a thing. Magazines were like, we would talk about, I mean, yes, there are still magazines. You go to a, you go, but I mean, nobody's like, no, nobody's like buying. If you find anything on the internet, like it's like,
01:42:45
Speaker
You really got to seek it out. Ari and I were having a discussion about how like we used to feel like it was such a treat. You would go to a store and you would like pick up a magazine for yourself at the checkout, you know, and like read it and read all the articles and you saved them. Yes. I remember after... Yes. And you stacked them up and you went back and referred to them. Yeah. After soccer games, when I was a kid, man, in Texas, dude, we would always go to the 7-Eleven by my house and I'd get a slushie, a hot dog, and I'd pick out a wrestling magazine. They had all the after magazines. Pro wrestlers are straight up the wrestler.
01:43:13
Speaker
And I had milk crates, man, like the same way I got in the office right now, I keep the figures in. I would have had like probably four or five just milk crates full of wrestling magazines. And like you guys said, I'd go back and look at them all the time. Yeah, I love the magazines. And let's not forget to talk about the fact that you went to like a bookstore like Barnes and Noble or something. Yes, yes. And the entire top rack was nudie mag. Yes. And I'm 14 years old and I'm tall enough to reach the top rack. So I grab and peel open the plastic.
01:43:40
Speaker
I was gonna say because of pervs like you, they started putting them in like the black plastic sleeves. Oh no, I rip the sleeve off every time. Like I'm looking at it. Barnes and Noble was dope for the magazines in the airport, airport newsstand. Yes, they tune you up for them airport magazines though, dude. It's like they're, they're all a little economy, like $8 for a magazine, you know? Now they're like 18. God dang. Dude, I got, the last time I was in the airport, I got like a, I think a bag of Guardetto's and it was $8. Guardetto's. What's your favorite Guardetto piece?
01:44:10
Speaker
Not the right chip, dude. The right chip is the best, dude. That's what Seth likes. I like the breadsticks. Breadsticks are my favorite. No, dude. If I reach in for a pinch of Gardetto's and come up without a right chip, I'm disappointed, man. Oh, my God. Somebody in our group, I can't remember. They just ate the right chip. They make the oops all rise or whatever. This came about a year ago on the pod. So this is the second time Gardetto's has been on top of a discussion. And I think it's because of Jordan. I think Jordan always thinks that Jordan brings up the Gardetto's. I'm just a food man. Yeah.
01:44:40
Speaker
Oh, does anybody have any other forms of media that you I'm not gonna lie. I like to VHS I liked the whole waiting for your VHS to rewind and stuff and when you got one of those like the fast rewinders or whatever like the separate piece like you knew you were in a rich family if you had the separate rewinder and one of my friends had it and I was just like
01:45:03
Speaker
It takes me like 18 minutes to rewind my movie and you just get to do it in two minutes. It's like unfair. Before you have to return it, you could kind of watch it back when you rewind it. Yeah. Like maybe watch it one more time in reverse. Yeah. Make sure you rewind your videos and you take them back to Blockbuster. That was the greatest sticker I've ever gotten. I try to go VHS also, man. I think it was just... I think the box art is probably what it was, man. The DVD experience was very similar to VHS in that, you know,
01:45:29
Speaker
You had to actually take this thing, insert it, remove it from the freaking machine, all that, dude. But I think the actual box on VHS just made it much more compelling seeing the box art. That was my earliest wrestling memories, dude, was going down to the video store with my grandma's house.
01:45:45
Speaker
Picking out from I was gonna say I'm gonna go a step further and I'm gonna say like I miss the whole video store experience. Like, you know, just going in and you know, they always had like a cool candy rack of like all kinds of cool it cotton candy and like snacks and popcorn and stuff and like you could see all the different movie are like a movie that you would never normally pick out. Yeah.
01:46:05
Speaker
You want it for your new release, right? Like you got to go to the address, it parks out this week, let's rent it. But then you're going to go and browse and grab two or three of the dollar rentals. Exactly. I'm not going to lie to you, like I'm kind of depressed that our kids will never get like the video experience. Like all I remember about being a kid was like Friday nights would get a little Caesar's pizza and go to Blockbuster video and rent movies.
01:46:24
Speaker
That that as a kid was like the coolest experience ever I know and you had to be committed cuz like you're taking that movie home and you're probably not gonna get another one for like at least a few days, you know, Exactly. And so like here our kids they don't like something. They're like, I want to watch HBO max. I want to watch Netflix You still get the same browsing experience even if you try to just like browse do like the streaming sites the algorithms typically get you down Yeah, well that you're gonna see something on the first three or four choices. Yeah, but I want to watch I
01:46:50
Speaker
Yeah. Great question, Tony. I'm a physical media person. Something else, the iPods. Just MP3 players in general, because my phone is so distracting. I feel like I can listen to something on my phone and also scroll at the same time. And then you kind of miss it. And then you're not even listening. Yeah. I just want like a MP3 player. It's been a bigger question, right? I wish Apple would bring back the iPod Classic if they wouldn't drop that. Give me a terabyte of memory. Yes. All it's going to do is let me put my songs on there. I love that. Because I had an iPod Classic I kept for a really long time.
01:47:19
Speaker
Finally the battery just totally died on it. It doesn't work and you took it to an Apple store and they looked at you like you're a fucking idiot It wasn't even that I didn't get that far. He was like this. Our device is no longer supported whatsoever It's like a 2007 model. I'll still use them like 2018 you guys don't miss like picking out CDs from your visor. I'm like
01:47:39
Speaker
That's too much of a hazard. Yeah, I do that was nice. I had a huge album. Yes I would say I miss so much like the visor thing cuz I was always a pain in the ass But I do miss like, you know looking to see him like what the art on the CD was Yeah, like the discart and stuff Seth had a big binder. I remember and I it's so funny because I saw a Meme the other day that was like, you know parents nowadays like oh you shouldn't text and drive It's so distracting me as me as a kid and you got a big album in your lap like switch him while you're driving looking for the right CD
01:48:08
Speaker
which page it was on and which page it was on. Oh yeah, I think Seth's were all like alphabetized, dude. I think you go over. Oh yeah, that's right, that's right. It was chronological, that's right. And when you burnt like mixtapes and stuff, like everybody had a nickname in high school and mine was J. Dove or J. Skrillo, that was always my nickname in high school.
01:48:25
Speaker
So like it was like I was on like jdub volume 75. Nice. And every song was like trap music on all of my CDs. Like it was always like 36 mafia and all that stuff like chop a style. Oh, man. That was a great question. Thank you. Randy Smith, go to the store, walk that cookie aisle.
01:48:50
Speaker
What are you grabbing? I don't really go for cookies a lot. You used to, go ahead. I probably go keyboard, soft mesh, or Oreo thins. The Oreo Thin is by far superior to the traditional Oreos. If you like double stuff, just unsubscribe and turn the pot off right now. Do we all like doubles? I like all. I bet you both do like double stuff.
01:49:15
Speaker
Oh my god. I wasn't answering that. No, man. You need just enough cream to hold the cookie together. Oh, is that right? Yes. Wow. This question went so fast. Never want your cookie to separate from the cream. No. Oreo thins are cute. We're soft batch. That's my two.
01:49:34
Speaker
Jordan. Yeah. Keyword soft match, the red packaging. You just know when you grab one of those, it's going to be a good day. I did like the Fudge Stripes and stuff like that a lot when I was a kid. Fudge Stripes. Those are fire. What is that funny for? Those are awesome. I mean, I was not expecting to say Fudge Stripes. It's like one of the basic-ass cookie things. No, it's not.
01:49:57
Speaker
I mean, they're fine, dude. I think chips ahoy, like chocolate chip, which are also delicious. That's probably like your most basic cookie. Chips ahoy suck. Did you just say chips ahoy are delicious? They're the most dry ass. You just got dung them in milk. Chips ahoy fucking explode in your mouth when you bite them, dude. They actually explode in like 5,000 cookie particles, dude. They're like, to me- Who eats cookies without milk, though? I mean, you should at least- Sorry? You could totally eat a soft batch without milk, dude. You could eat soft batch without milk. True.
01:50:23
Speaker
To me, that's what I imagine if I bit into like a ceiling tile. Like a industrial ceiling tile. It just fucking explodes into cookie dust, dude. Like, no, man. Hey, going back to the soft batch, dude. Nice pro tip. I don't know if you've ever done this. Microwave them for like 15 seconds, dude. I don't have time for that. No, just do it, dude. Trust me. That's 15 a little long. That's going to melt it all. That's slowing down my shoveling. No. Give them like 15 seconds. It makes them all ooey gooey. Like, yeah, they're on point. There's still nothing I can house to this day. This isn't at the store.
01:50:52
Speaker
the Girl Scout peanut butter patties. Dude we got those a couple weeks ago and Ari's like all excited and stuff and I was like hey do you and Zoe want a cookie before I finish this sleeve? And she's like what do you mean finish this thing off like there's only 15 cookies in an hour?
01:51:08
Speaker
Yeah, girl, I'll just I know you can't get these like at the at the store unless it's like Girl Scout season But yeah Girl Scout cookies are freaking banging dude. I love me some thin man. Oh, they're so expensive They're so expensive. They used to be like we're cooking the most overrated thing in the snack business, dude Like they're living off of only being available at certain times. That's true, too You get them year-round like nobody would give a shit
01:51:29
Speaker
Um, I like Pepperidge Farm cookies though, you know, I'm kind of bougie. I think like all the like Pepperidge Farm options. What's the other brand? We mean, Clark's is that what they're called? The green packet. No, Tate's cookies. Yeah. The Tate's cookies are really good. They're like super thin and like crispy. And yes, the Pepperidge Farm, I think they don't have enough for you to share.
01:51:48
Speaker
No, it's individual. That's a one person. That's a personal, that's a personal. It's like a pepper. And they're expensive too. That's like, that's like 90 cents a cookie, dude. Yeah. So he's like the, the snack queen. So like if you have a snack out, she's going to want some of it. Dude, she had, well, she had, uh, no, we were talking about Otis Spookmeyer cookies. Dude, those were freaking banging, dude. That's exactly what we were talking about. Cause I got the kids that Otis Spookmeyer muffin at the soccer game the other day and it was in my purse. And I was like, guys, you remember the Otis Spookmeyer cookies and Ari was like, yes, I do.
01:52:17
Speaker
So we didn't get Ari's answer, what's your cookie off? It would be the soft batch ones. Soft batch, yeah, they're delicious. Those are the ones with the peanut butter chunks. No, they probably make them, but yeah, they have them, but he just likes the regular chocolates too. The other thing that tests them into those, those have been like relatively unchanged, like the cookie, like the packaging, everything. I feel like it's been the same since we were kids. Every once in a while we get like the M&M ones. Yeah. The cookies. Oh yeah. Those are always a nice little treat too.
01:52:44
Speaker
All right, Tony Barker with another one. In your opinions, what was the best ever storyline in WrestleMania history? And what was the worst? I'm gonna go with our wrestling historians on this one. Best storyline in WrestleMania history. I don't know. Is that really a storyline though? That's more of like a suit. I think Macho Man and Hogan, dude. The mega powers explode. I feel like that, or Hogan Andre, dude. I feel like Hogan, I feel like Hogan and weird was just a super match, dude. Yeah.
01:53:08
Speaker
It was definitely memorable and it was definitely a moment in time. I got to go WrestleMania 3 or WrestleMania 5. What's the worst? Lawrence Taylor, Bambam, Bigelow, WrestleMania 11. Honestly, there's been worse ones of that because I'm thinking main event level, right? There's been a ton of horrible storylines in the mid-card stuff, WrestleMania for main event.
01:53:29
Speaker
probably Chris Jericho and Triple H in 2002. Triple H returning hero and the whole storyline ends up revolving around like Stephanie McMahon and her dog and stuff. So I say WrestleMania 18 was the worst made of it storyline. And yeah, I'll go three and five for the best. We'll just go with this story. All right. Well, I'm going to refer to our women's wrestling enthusiast. Kirk Kilburg says, best or just your favorite women's match in mania history?
01:53:54
Speaker
Mickey James and Trish Stratus at WrestleMania 22 that is it's just
01:54:01
Speaker
I don't know what it was about that match that just always makes me remember it. I mean, there was some really dirty things in that storyline, like Mickey was in love with Trish and she was stalking her and stuff. But I don't know, just the payoff of that match was really good. And that match is just always in my head. I just remember watching with all my friends and everything and they knew how much I loved Trish. So that's always the one that, I mean, it's not necessarily the best wrestling match. It's just for me, like the feud and everything behind it is what makes it so great to me.
01:54:31
Speaker
Yeah. So, all right. So that is your retro wrestling recommendation for the week. Um, Sam bro, our, our mailbag, um, enthusiasts, he says, do you find the laughing emoji insulting when you post? No.
01:54:47
Speaker
I'm indifferent. If I post something serious and somebody puts the laughing emoji, yeah, I'm offended by that. My freaking cat just got ran over and somebody hits you with the laughing emoji, they're getting some heat with you. Oh, you better hope you don't have your address listed anymore.
01:55:04
Speaker
No, I don't find it insulting. I don't I tend to not be insulted by emojis. Like I think like, you know, I don't know, I don't put much thought into it. And if I post something, somebody puts like a mad face emoji or whatever, like, I just consider that like, okay, well, you should agree with what I said about the Facebook reactions and stuff.
01:55:21
Speaker
Yeah, it's very easy to do the wrong one. Yes, I've had people yeah, I would never somebody actually put a laughing emoji on my my Presley Memorial video today and I know I know this person didn't mean to But it like and now when you look at it, you gotta hold down your thumb. Yes I know this person didn't mean to do that And it was just it's funny now because you look at the post and it's like, you know Got all the little care emojis in the heart. There's one sociopath laughed at it, dude
01:55:48
Speaker
Hey, if I don't laugh, I'll cry. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I don't get offended by, by that kind of stuff. And being on, I think being on chick Foley for so long is like desensitized me. Like, even if somebody says like, you're fucking idiot, you fucking Mark, like I, like that's the, you Lardo whore. Yeah, I don't know. None of that stuff like affects me anymore. Like I just, yeah.
01:56:15
Speaker
Oh, man. Yeah. All those Cody fans that say that kind of stuff to me this week. No, I'm just kidding. But no, I don't. Sam Bro says, is Cardona working everyone again? Or is he going to be a part of the nightmare family?
01:56:29
Speaker
I don't know. I thought we would have seen him tonight. It doesn't seem imminent. It seemed like he was, like, we kind of didn't even bother discussing Rock Romania because it was for the most part a non-event. I thought if Cody won, we may see Cardona come out to be the first challenger. I don't know. I think he may really just be doing his indie thing. He's got, the big issue with him, he's been so successful with, you know, the podcast really blew up a lot after he got out and they got their own figure line stuff going out.
01:56:52
Speaker
I don't know how- That stuff will go away. I don't know how copacetic it would be for him to come into WWE and keep all that stuff going. I don't know if it'd be worth it for WWE to pay him the amount of money it would take for him to get rid of all that stuff.
01:57:07
Speaker
I don't know. Maybe they'll just continue to be the indie God. He's carved out an awesome niche for himself. He's probably the biggest indie star out there right now. The only reason he would go to WV is the money because he's not winning like a main title or anything. He's not going for the world title. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. They'd have to promise him some serious cash or some sort of creative control and obviously see if Cody did Cody creative control to make it happen. I don't think Cardone is getting it out. I think he's totally fine to keep doing what he's been doing.
01:57:33
Speaker
Brian Vermeer, what would your baseball walk-up song be? Actually, Seth picks Jordan's walk-up, Jordan picks... Okay, I'm not good at this kind of thing, so I'm just gonna ask around the horn what your... I'm gonna have Jordan walking up to the Bella's theme song. You can look what you can't touch. That's what he's talking about. I had one picked up by Sheena, because we saw this question last week. Okay, what do you pick it up? Sheena's walking up to chicken head.
01:57:55
Speaker
Oh, okay. Yes. I know that song. Wow. I like that. Okay. All right. You have a song for Seth.
01:58:05
Speaker
or Seth, do you have a song for Ari? I gave Jordan the Bellows. You guys are the music. You know me, I'm not good at these. Ari's such a sweet, nice person. Probably the nicest out of the four of us. I'd have her coming up with something just totally against personality. I'm thinking for whom the bell tolls, like the cow fair or something like that. There's something intense. She does have RBF, so it could scare some people off. I'm thinking for whom the bell tolls, Ride the Lightning, some Slayer, something like that.
01:58:32
Speaker
Pure intimidation. She's welcome to play with her beautifully painted nails. Brian says his would be Barbie Girl by Aqua.
01:58:47
Speaker
Sambro, of all the people that you know slash follow, who do you think has the top fig collection? Gotta acknowledge the big dog, Kyle Peterson. I mean, Fig Heels, dude. It's hard to pick the best. Check out Figball, dude. Figball told us on the real. Fig Heels got a crazy one. Kyle Peterson's got a crazy one. I mean, ours is pretty, I don't put us up there. If I had the space or, I mean, I guess we could do it, but I'm just not really dedicated enough to put my whole collection on display at once.
01:59:17
Speaker
I think Figbalt, dude. If you go check out Figb- Joe Kelly, awesome, fully famous. Check out his IG. Finder of the Rowan. Check out his IG, which we need to have him on sometime because looking at it, it looks like a fucking fortress, dude. It looks like he's got like, you know, Batman or Superman's like hideout.
Funko Collection and Space Management
01:59:35
Speaker
Yeah, like he goes down into a lair. I don't know if that's a finished basement or what his situation is. It's a vault. It's a Figbalt, yeah.
01:59:42
Speaker
But so I'm not gonna say anybody's the best but I'm gonna say one that pretty much always I like stop stopping really Yeah, is is fig vault. They're all good. They're all great though. Yeah So many awesome collections out there. Yeah, and I mean, there's a lot of like micro collections out there that I think are awesome I don't think you have to have like a big sprawling collection to be like a good collector. So yeah, we're just we're just like pulling like the freaking, you know level 1a like
02:00:07
Speaker
heinous collectors do. For a solid three years, I thought I had one of the top 50 Funko collections. I was a completionist on WWE. I was a completionist on horror. I was a completionist on Stranger Things.
02:00:24
Speaker
I had all the, all the, um, more completionist, NBA, NBA, MLB, and NFL pops. I was a full completionist on all of those and dude, it just, it got out of hand, man. I just, I can't do that much stuff. Like I was going to have to buy another house. Yeah. That's it's, it's insane. Funko. Funkos are a whole nother way. We were literally waiting in line every time that somewhere would open to get the new Funkos. Like we were.
02:00:53
Speaker
I mean, I was that committed to it. Do you have a storage unit or are you able to keep everything at the house? Everything, all my stuff is at the house. We do have a storage unit, but all my collectibles are at the house. I didn't even know it was a storage unit. I can't believe some people believe they're like shoe collections in a storage unit. I'm like, dude. Jordan's like, put all the family photos in the storage unit before bringing the Funkos in. Is that wrong? No. Put your bed in a storage unit. Yeah, we don't need all these extra pillows. What are you talking about?
Streaming Services and Tattoos Discussion
02:01:21
Speaker
Favorite streaming service? Sambrough wants to know. I say Peacock because WWE is out there. Yeah. I'm not going to go to Netflix. I think Netflix streaming service for how long it's been around. And it just keeps getting better. It had the office for a bajillion years. I mean, it had Stranger Things, which is a, you know, monster success. I mean, there's a ton of Netflix shows. I would probably say that for the longest time Netflix was the one that I watched the most. But I do watch a lot of Peacock. Peacock, Peacock.
02:01:51
Speaker
Ari.
02:01:52
Speaker
I can always find something to watch on Netflix. So, we'll go on Netflix. Sethi? You said Peacock. Oh, you said Peacock. Okay. HBO Max is a close second because I don't watch it the most, but the shit on there that I do watch is freaking primo. I don't remember. All the HBO shows, you have to have a reason to tune into HBO Max. You're not just going to casually go browsing there. They don't just drop anything on there. Yes, exactly. They drop good shows. Yeah, they drop freaking primo content.
02:02:21
Speaker
HBO Max has to get a shout out. Do you guys have any tattoos? If not, what's something you like to get? I think we're all tattoo virgins here. Yeah, we have zero tattoos between the all of us. So that's pretty freaking wild. Does anybody want any tattoos? I don't, man. Cause at this point, like they've become so trendy. I feel like it's all, and shout out to anybody who's got tattoos, right? It's awesome. I love tattoos. I think tattoos are cool. I feel like it's almost a cool thing to just not have any tattoos at this point. I think if I was going to get some, because I, uh,
02:02:51
Speaker
because I don't think I've ever had like seen like one thing where I'm like, yo, this is like super compelling. I want to put this on my body for the rest of my life. I feel like I would have to go like full sleeves, right? Like, you know, full sleeves. So that way nothing really like, I don't got to have any deep meaning on any one particular tattoo. And at this point, it'd just be kind of weird if I was setting out to know where I got full sleeves. The only thing like I've
02:03:12
Speaker
nearly committed to 50 times is getting Zoe's name, date of birth, and then like her foot and her hand print on my chest.
02:03:21
Speaker
Dude, I mean, that's on your body forever. So you better make sure it's meaningful. Because dude, a lot of people get shitty tattoos when they're 18 years old. And like, that's on your body forever. And also, dude, I know they're more accepted. But like, if you're in a sales job, like I'm in a sales job. Yeah, I can't be rolling in there with nowadays. Nowadays, it doesn't really matter. There's definitely there's people that want to do business with me because I have facial hair. They've told me this year, I told me.
02:03:47
Speaker
That's crazy. Yeah. I like the kid thing, but yeah, but if you're like, you know, naked and doing it, you're like looking at baby feet, you know what I mean? Like, it's just... It's kind of, I feel like... You're thinking more of like a naked lady just sprawled out of my chest. You think that'd be better? Yes. Like some sort of like sea winch with her jits out, you know? Yeah, now we're talking.
02:04:11
Speaker
Oh, man.
Guest Appearance and WrestleMania Reflections
02:04:13
Speaker
Thomas Montalto, the OG Fig Kid. He says, when will the OG Fig Kid be on your show? I hear he's a big fan of yours. Probably pretty soon. We need to get him on here. We've been talking about this for years. We love Tom. Tom is like an- We've never really done Guess, man. I think it's been less than 10 episodes in the entire almost five years we've been doing this stuff. We've actually had Guess.
02:04:32
Speaker
It's just not something that we really do. But Tom, we're gonna, I give you my word, before WrestleMania 40, we'll find a way to get you on the show. Because you've been an awesome longtime supporter and a good podcaster in your own right. So maybe next time we got a big figure heavy episode, we'll bring the OG Fig Kid along. Yeah, so make sure you check out everything that Tom drops over on the Turnbuckle Tavern feed. They have, I mean, a ton of content on their YouTube and their podcast feed. So we love you, Tom. Tom Montalto hit us with another one.
02:04:58
Speaker
Biggest mania miss, something you guys think would have been a great mania moment that we never got? I don't know. That's a tough one, man. It's been for biggest mania miss.
02:05:11
Speaker
I feel like the fact that the shield triple threat happened on a battleground pay-per-view at not a WrestleMania main event. Yeah, they should have built that to make it more important. There's two for me. Bray not beating Cena at WrestleMania 30 to me is still one of the all-time biggest blunders in wrestling history. I am a Bray fan, but you can ask anybody that is a huge blunder. The other one is...
02:05:33
Speaker
I still think also Blunder was not doing Shield and Wyatt Family on WrestleMania. That match at elimination chamber is one of the best matches. I seriously think that's like one of my top five comfort matches. I just, I love that match so much. Everything about it was great. And if they could, if they would have saved that for WrestleMania, that would have eliminated the Cena issue also, right? Just get Cena out of the picture and let those guys go. Yeah. Yeah, it sucks.
02:05:58
Speaker
All right. Last question. TNT Tyson. The pie foundations, number one fans is what are your thoughts on a new version of WWE championship after me? Do you guys want to see a new belt? I really wanted to design. I mean, it's going, that design is going back to 2014. So they typically never really kept a belt design for
02:06:16
Speaker
for nine straight years. I think the wind eagle was right about nine years. And that's the other one that was been around the longest, but it's a clean design, man. I know some people don't like it. They think it's kind of obnoxious just being a big logo, but I think the belts look fine. So I wouldn't be opposed to a change, but I don't feel like they have to change the belts.
02:06:32
Speaker
I mean, I love Big Golden, Wing Deagle, all that stuff. But I mean, at this point, all the titles, the one titles, I think they should change. I still think the tag titles are absolutely repug. I think those are some of the worst titles in wrestling. I wish they would go back to the old tag titles.
02:06:50
Speaker
But I mean, I'm fine with the world titles. I think they're fine. And at this point, WWE has proven that they are all they're about sponsorships, marketing, branding, all of that. And like nothing says WWE like a giant WWE logo, like that's why I don't understand why the tag titles still look the way they look. Like, I mean, those are
02:07:10
Speaker
I hate those tag titles so much. Oh, man. Well, that wraps up our listener mail. All right, that is it for the WrestleMania recap podwares episode that you guys are sticking with us. It's been over two hours. That's crazy. I had to look at the time. I was like, wow. Yeah, this one flew by. It was a lot of fun. Thanks, Sheena and Ari, the podwives, for joining us. And Jordan, leave us with some closing thoughts before we hit your all-time favorite song, Walking in Memphis, for the outtakes. Oh, man. You guys are in for a real treat tonight. Hopefully, Seth plays the whole song for you.
02:07:40
Speaker
man you can't finish the story when you lose so i'll just wish you guys a good week and uh yeah we'll talk to you guys next time use lard on your wings lard put on my blue suede shoes and i boarded the plane
02:08:03
Speaker
Touchdown in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain WC handy Won't you look down over me Yeah, I got a first class ticket But I'm as blue as a boy can be Then I'm walking in Memphis
02:08:29
Speaker
Walking with my feet ten feet off a beam Walking in Memphis But do it in a feeling the way I feel Saw the ghost of Elvis