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This week Garrett and Chris find out how well they know each other as Fax hosts The Newly Wed Game! Also, hear about the Nick Gage appearance at Chris' 40th bday, the boys AEW show in Long Island last week and Chris saw Beastman in Queens!
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00:00:34
Speaker
Hey,
Playoffs and Wrestling Events
00:00:35
Speaker
everybody. Welcome to another episode of Predetermined Pro Wrestling Hangout. I'm your host, Garrett Callender. And with me, as always, Chris Miggs and Jimmy Fax. We're here. Iles in the playoffs, baby. Just get off Wednesday night. It's 10 o'clock Eastern. And I haven't seen none of dynamite because Iles, baby. I might not watch any wrestling. I got the Knicks in the playoffs. I got the Islanders in the playoffs.
00:01:00
Speaker
I got Yankees regular season. I'm gonna be on the show every week just so you guys can tell me what's going on and what I haven't seen. I don't like the bragging about having a team in the playoffs. This is the first time I've not had a team in the playoffs in a very, very long time. And it hurts, it hurts. You know, I grew up spoiled. Like I was very, very young, like baby young, but the Islanders won.
00:01:27
Speaker
a lot of Stanley cups. The Yankees have won a lot of championships. The Giants have won some Super Bowls. Next, we don't really talk about, but I've been very fortunate, but like there hasn't been a lot of my teams, the New York teams that have won championships lately. But I was thinking back now going through right now for going back one year, the entire, my NBA team, my NHL team.
00:01:47
Speaker
My MLB team and my NFL team all made the playoffs in this last cycle. So I will say I feel the most lucky because my NBA team, the Nets made the playoffs and, and the hat, the Nets hat stopped being a symbol of antisemitism. So it's that's been a real win for me. Even if the
Kyrie Irving Controversies
00:02:08
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team doesn't get very far, I can wear the hat again. Wait a minute. So no one could support their favorite sports team.
00:02:18
Speaker
Unless we wanted to have a complicated conversation about Kyrie Irving's politics and willingness to tweet weird movies. Which, generally speaking, I was not interested in doing with random people. I like weird movies. What kind of movies?
00:02:40
Speaker
I mean, if he's just got odd film taste, like me and him could still hang, I don't, I mean, the way your face made, I don't know what this man said. Yeah, we're talking like Lars Vantreer or something that you would get from a Rob Black video store. Again, Rob Black would have been, it would have probably been an upgrade over Kyrie. He basically tweeted out a movie that was, yeah. Facts. I'm aware of what happened. So it's like,
00:03:09
Speaker
I don't I think the Mel Gibson director joint, like the organization did kind of condemn it right away. So it wasn't something where it was like, long brewing, it was kind of like, they had to get rid of this guy. But they couldn't just do it because, you know, he isn't good at basketball. He was also trouble with with
00:03:31
Speaker
pandemic stuff too, right? So this is not, but he's like, he's a flat earther. This is real. He's a, he's the actual flat earther. He is an anti-vaxxer and he's an anti-semite. And, uh, and he's the flip Gordon. He's the flip Gordon of basketball.
00:03:52
Speaker
But I thought you said he was talented. Yeah, I was about to say, he's like Matt Jackson of basketball, but with the Flip Gordon personality.
00:04:07
Speaker
of basketball. Right. So recent a few weeks ago, the Nets did the the most brilliant thing, which was they traded him to Texas for some good young players and a lot of draft picks. So that's where and the Nets still made the playoffs. So and oh, and by the way, his team didn't. So it's just really and he is one of Brooklyn and he is now the most popular black man in Texas. I was going to say now that he's in Texas, like anything flies down there. Yeah.
00:04:37
Speaker
Well, it sounds like it worked out for everybody. Well, we won't, um, I guess I'll never find out what the movie was, but it sounds like it needs to check out 21 Jump Street. Uh, so Chris, I, um, I hear it was, and by, I hear, I hear, I hear it was your birthday over the weekend and that you had a good time. It was,
Chris's Birthday Surprises
00:05:01
Speaker
it was, it was, um, and I'll, I'll,
00:05:04
Speaker
give this out to the assembled audience here, it was my 40th. That's a big one. By the way, I have the movie, it was called, and I'm not making this up, Hebrews to Negroes is the name of the movie. It's a...
00:05:27
Speaker
It's directed by Ronald Dalton Jr. and based upon his 2015 book of the same name. A description of the film states that it, quote, uncovers the true identity of the children of Israel, unquote. While a similar one for the book reads, quote, since the European and Arab slave traders stepped foot into Africa, Blacks have been told lies about their heritage, unquote.
00:05:53
Speaker
But basically the idea is that more extreme factions of black Hebrew Israelites, which have a long history of misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and antisemitism is promoted in this film.
00:06:11
Speaker
And it was not directed by Mel Gibson. It was not. It was not. But Mel's probably enjoyed it. But let's see if we can get a picture of this Ronald Dalton Jr. because it might just be Mel, you know, with like a... Find a picture of him and then tell me what wrestler he kind of looks like. He... All right. George the Animal Stew. He... So it's hard, like... There's so many pictures of Kyrie Irving when you look at him, but I would say he looks like...
00:06:40
Speaker
I would say Biggie Langston's older brother that never really worked out and just kind of has that more big man size, but without the musculature and athleticism one would associate with being a professional athlete. He also looks kind of high in quite a few of these pictures, but he might just be dumb.
00:07:07
Speaker
I like that on the cover of his book, they do the two kind of like too fast, too furious. Oh, yeah, I should have. I should. But but then unlike it, they have Hebrews, the number two, then the word two, Negroes, just in case you either can't read letters.
00:07:25
Speaker
or numbers. It has both, although I don't know how you read the rest of the title or the book if you don't know letters. Well, speaking of numbers, Chris turned 40. Oh, yeah. Yeah, back to that.
00:07:41
Speaker
Yeah, it was really great. I got some video, so Fax was there. Tom was there. He came straight from bending some things. He brought some metal for everyone. Got some birthday wishes from Garrett and from Derek, our predetermined family, as well as,
00:08:09
Speaker
Well, I'll let you you you can introduce him. Well, let's let's just talk on because because Garrett, I got to give you credit because there was a long it was like a 20 plus minute reel of all of these people. Chris's friends really went all out. His wife went really all out reaching out to bands and things like that. And I got to say, Garrett, yours was kind of towards the end and it got a big pop. Garrett, you told me that you recorded this during
00:08:38
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your torture. I, it was, yeah, it was actually like within an hour after I had finished watching, uh, watching grim stoyko and, uh, went outside and did you a birthday message. And I, I mean, I did mention it, but I don't think you could see how mad I was. No, you, you came off as nice and after all syndrome from your, for the, your appreciation for your torture.
00:09:08
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And then you concluded it with stone colding a couple of beers, which I think that went over well and probably you really needed after your Grimstoyko nightmare. Yeah. Yeah. When I recorded that, it was one take because I thought I had a case of beers and I only had two left. So it had to go well or I was just going to have to do a second take just wet and you would never know why.
00:09:37
Speaker
I love it. But yeah, so one of the big surprises, though, is that we organized that one of the greetings and birthday wishes was one from one former GCW world champion, Nick Gage. Yeah, I will say a lot of people.
00:09:54
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in the room who were not wrestling fans were a little surprised to find out. Which is the majority, right? There were definitely some, some wrestling fans there, but there was, I would say there was a couple of people like us, a couple of people that are wrestling fans, but not the type of wrestling fans that would really know Nick Gage. And then 70% were, were people. Civilians. Civilians. Yeah. Who were really surprised to find out I'm a member of the MDK gang.
00:10:25
Speaker
was your leader. Yeah. My wife did turn to me and she goes, what's wrong with it? And my wife knows the name Nick Gage. She's seen Nick Gage wrestle before. All of our wives know Nick Gage. He's been spoken enough in these households that they know.
00:10:46
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, Chris and I, both of our wives and Toms, all of our wives joined us to see Nick Gage wrestle outside the boardwalk in Atlantic City during the pandemic. But even she was like, that's what he looks like now. What's wrong with his mouth? Which kind of, you know, maybe we can post a clip of it or something on Instagram in a little bit, but like, fair. It's kind of a fair feedback.
00:11:12
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And I didn't have an answer for her. My parents a little bit concerned that I had joined a gang. You know, they were... Christopher! These are your whole models? No, your dad, your dad, I almost like, I was keeping an eye on your dad to make sure I could go in there and do CPR if needed. He was laughing so hard. He loved it. He loved it.
00:11:41
Speaker
I'm glad that it went over. But like you mentioned, his mouth looked unusual, which I think Fax and I were probably two of the first people to know about that prior to the collective weekend. Yes. Because we had that. I mean, we were talking about you and I were talking about that before the collective and we were like,
00:12:03
Speaker
What's going on here? Cause we had just watched him the weekend prior. Yeah. And then like a few days later, I get this, this, uh, cause we got that video from him. I feel like that was the St. Patrick's day show was a Friday. And I feel like we got the cameo, like the following like Tuesday or something like that. Like it was days later and I have to text facts and say, uh, something's going on. I don't think Gage has any teeth.
00:12:28
Speaker
Like, but we just saw him. Where did they, and we're like, well, maybe those were dentures. And I'm like, who in their right mind would have those other teeth as dentures? It's interesting question. Do maybe he just got dental work recently? Maybe it's had some things removed in this. I'm almost certain that's probably the case.
00:12:47
Speaker
Lauderdale is just paying him in dental work now. Lauderdale is kind of flush with some of this fight TV money, but he's also not getting that super big singular payday for the collective that he's used to getting those individual fight orders. So I think around for collective weekend, he has to get creative with the bonuses. So he probably knows some dentists down in Trenton.
00:13:11
Speaker
Right. That he can kind of throw a couple of bucks under the table and be like, take care of my boy, Nick Gage. It's perfect. What happens though, when he shows up to the next GCW show with just like perfect veneers, like it's so unsettling because we're so used to, I mean, I guess maybe he's changing the character.
00:13:36
Speaker
This is a perfect opportunity to do something different. We've done this character for so long. Now it's time for like a fancier man version. He does the blue bloods thing. He's Nicholas Chancellor Gage or something. Chancellor Nicholas Gage. Well, I think it'd be more like Nicholas Franklin Gage. Maybe that's why Regal left AEW. Everyone was like, oh, he's going back to WWE. He's going to work at the performance center. No, no, no.
00:14:04
Speaker
Lauderdale and Nickage pitched him on bringing this to GCW, and then Nick Gage was going to be his pretty woman to turn into a British gentleman. And Steven Riegel is just like, I'm in, I'm in or William Riegel, whatever. He's like, since I finished this, I'm turning Jimmy Lloyd into my new Jeeves. Oh. That would actually be a killer angle.
00:14:32
Speaker
I think that if Lauderdale, we're writing material for you, you got to use this. You don't got to pay us, but we're going to bring us to the writer's room. I mean, you can pay us a cleaning, you know? Yeah, exactly. Just cover my copay on my next cleaning. Yeah, I want to use my dentist. I want to be very clear about that. I want to use my dentist. All you got to do is pay the copay. It's not a lot. So, OK.
00:15:00
Speaker
So the video plays, at any point does your birthday party turn into an intervention. Where people are like, we have to get him out of this game. Something is going wrong in Chris's life.
00:15:15
Speaker
Well, so he also doesn't, by the way, so if you don't know, it's not like he starts it with like, hello, I'm wrestler Nick Gage, former GCW world champion, and then goes in it. He's just like, it's Nick fucking Gage, you're my fucking MDA, you're feeding my cell block. And it's just like, no context. So I'm just trying to whisper to people, be like, he's a wrestler, he's a wrestler, he's a wrestler. This is part of his thing, he's a wrestler. But a lot of people I don't think picked up that he was a wrestler.
00:15:46
Speaker
This is your buddy that you just know. Because there's been other people, I mean, and people had done, our friend Jimmy did a song. Yeah. My friend Alex did a long bit about like a performance review. So people were expecting weirdness. Maybe this was just a friend. A couple of friends did like a full, they did a full edited multi-camera sketch.
00:16:10
Speaker
like a comedy sketch in this video too so like it was like produced stuff there were like like other like other notable like musicians were in it and again people don't generally be like i'm you know this person from this band which you might know from this song they're just like yeah you either know me or you don't
00:16:30
Speaker
I'm just recording a video for a guy whose birthday it was and either I know him or his wife asked real nice or his buddies asked real nice and maybe paid me some money. We will confirm nor deny if the latter happened. We also, by the way, did try to play some money to Masha Slamovich. She don't give a fuck about you, Chris. They can't.
00:16:55
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's literally because Nickage went quickly that she heard Nickage recording his cameo in the back of like the locker room. And then she's like, fuck this guy. And then we tried to put back in the order and order a second time because we ordered it.
00:17:11
Speaker
Well, in advance, Garret ordered. To be fair, he did most of the work. But yeah, twice. She nagged us twice.
Newlywed Game: Wrestling Preferences
00:17:18
Speaker
What's funny is after I send all the things I want her to say to you and things that I would like her to bring up, I was a little mad that Gage did not refer to you as the mayor of Boonton.
00:17:33
Speaker
he uh he he did a little editing to what i said but it's like i'm the mayor of budan that's not the mayor of budan you ate the mayor of budan the mayor of budan's the one who took my teeth out he's in my gang you're in my gang but two different gang members i'm not disrespecting the mayor okay i mean he's the reason i've gotten i've gotten a bowl in that bowling alley downstairs very few people have
00:18:00
Speaker
I got, I got my mailing list of gang members on my Geocities page and you're both on it in two different lines. He's mayor at Putin.biz. But we are going to go back to that bit of just in case he doesn't know him, convincing Nick Gage that one of us is the current mayor of Putin until it's true. And then, you know, it's a shoot.
00:18:32
Speaker
So on Cameo, the person has seven days to respond. And Masha went the whole seven days and did not respond. And I get a message from Cameo that says, unfortunately, Masha didn't respond, but she still really wants to do it. Just reorder it and she'll do it. We have to cancel it, but she really wants to do it.
00:18:55
Speaker
And so we did it a second time and they're like, Masha doesn't like him. So sorry, Chris. If that might change how you feel about the current GCW champion. It was weird when they said when you resubmit, send a picture of the person who's birthday it is.
00:19:11
Speaker
and a voice sample and she had some really rough stuff that she put into the email just about your voice. It's funny because you do include a photo of the person so Nick Gage as he cut that promo looked at a photo of you holding your daughter. He does say in the video come see me the next time you're at a GCW show come say hello. Yeah he does.
00:19:37
Speaker
which I don't I don't I don't know if you're bringing Maddie to any of the GCW shoes and probably no problem I know she's she's okay with seeing the main event and Aussie open but I don't think she's quite ready for the live Nicki each experience I don't think she was ready she was in the room when the video played but
00:19:56
Speaker
She just liked people on the screen yelling at daddy. I don't think she put too much thought into the gang member. I think she was entertained by that, yeah. It's possible that Masha looked up and she's like, I know that guy. He was standing next to Grimstoyko at the show and they talked to my parent. No, there's no way I'm doing this video for them. This is going to go on a Grimstoy show thing.
00:20:25
Speaker
There's no way. They knew you stocked your dad in the bathroom. Is he Dilfoy? I think that's Dilfoy, right? If that's grim. Which we also tried to get a Dilfoy cameo. We sent him a whole sack of ramen. And he just took off with the ramen. We never got the cameo. We sent him dry ramen, then we cooked some ramen and sent it to him in Tupperware.
00:20:50
Speaker
It also could be Masha could have seen the request was coming from Garrett and then like googled his name and then the podcast would come up and then she just heard me talking about she like doesn't know which one of us is talking she doesn't know and she's just like one of them's talking about how my parents still fuck and that's just kind of that's kind of rude. It's true, but they're not no one's supposed to know that. Yeah, exactly. Why hide it? Let the world know you fuck it. I think it's beautiful. I think it's beautiful.
00:21:19
Speaker
Speaking of fucking, last week we did some newlywed game questions. And by the way, I do need to say, because I think this is the perfect transition into newlywed game, is Chris did get probably top three drunkest I've ever seen him.
00:21:40
Speaker
So he was up there. And at the last place we went to, which was like we probably got there a little bit after midnight and we're there till like, I don't know, close to two. There was a long ish conversation between karaoke songs about how much he loves you, Garrett, and how much he knows that you love him. So we're going to still go through with this game. But the original setup was, Garrett, you weren't sure if you'd crossed the line.
00:22:10
Speaker
And you'd said some hurtful things. And I know truthful drunk Chris truly has forgiven you, but. The gauntlet was thrown down. So ladies and gentlemen, it is time to play. The newlywed game. All right, I'm your host, facts. Contestant number one, you want to introduce yourself in the in the green sweatshirt.
00:22:37
Speaker
Garrett, Garrett, calendar, uh, from Nashville, Tennessee. And, uh, contestant number two, you in the black, uh, nitro t-shirt. It's, uh, Chris Miggs from Queens, New York, home of the elf's lodge. And how did you newlyweds meet? This is just an ice breaker.
00:22:57
Speaker
Well, when I first saw Chris, he was wearing this beautiful red jacket. I thought he looked so nice. We were surrounded by neckbeards and some of the most famous wrestlers of all time, but he stood out. He smelled nice. He looked handsome. There was a sparkle in his eye that you didn't get from anyone else. And Okada was in the room.
00:23:24
Speaker
Now, did he actually smell nice or was it just the bar of smelling nice at a wrestling convention is kind of low? Like he had showered that week. If one of the questions were when was the last time Chris got that jacket dry cleaned, I wouldn't know the answer. Fair, fair. Chris, do you want to take over the story here? Oh, sure. You know, of course, you know, I'd walked into a
00:23:51
Speaker
the ball, as they called the Schomburg Hyatt. And we were a little bit nervous walking in, didn't know how people were going to accept us. And a beheaded, bearded man beckoned us to the table, welcomed us onto their podcast. And that's what we knew. We were friends.
00:24:13
Speaker
And, and I'll just add in, cause I was there and Derek was there, but me and Derek, we just locked eyes and we just immediately went to the men's room and started fucking for us. It was a purely physical thing. Whereas for you two, it was pretty clear that actual long-term romance was in the air.
00:24:31
Speaker
So with that, I sent you guys six questions plus a tiebreaker question. We're doing this newlywed style. So I asked you both the exact same six questions and you have to answer what your answer was as well as what you think your partner's answer is. And we'll see that you get one point for each answer that you have able to correctly
00:24:55
Speaker
get what your partner says, okay? One point per question, six points total, and we do have a tiebreaker that has a numerical question where if we need to go to it, it'll be closest to the number wins. Okay, question number one we asked was, who, Garrett, who is your favorite tag team of all time?
00:25:27
Speaker
I feel weird saying it because it is such a new team. Not really. I mean, at this point, not really, but it feels like I should go deeper and further back. Contemporary team. It's a contemporary team. It does feel like the Young Bucks. That is what I put. And Chris, what was your answer? Same question. My answer, and Garrett's answer is honestly my like,
00:25:54
Speaker
It's my one B, but my answer was the Midnight Express.
00:25:59
Speaker
And this was ding, ding, ding. Both players score this point. It starts out hot and heavy, just like you guys did. It's one to one. We're both very open about our feelings about this. By the way, Garrett's full answer to yours, Chris, was, oh, fuck, someone old, I bet. Midnight Express? That is the point. That is the point. That makes me happy.
00:26:31
Speaker
All right. Question. Question number two, Chris, what was your best subject in high school? History slash social studies. OK, fuck. Garrett did not get that one correct. He put math and Garrett. What was math was close. Yeah. What was your best subject in high school? English. And Chris did correctly guess that. So he is off to a two to one
00:27:01
Speaker
Lee man likes books and likes books. I almost fucking put history. I really did. I was really good at math until I got to calculus. I was very bad at calculus. I don't know. There's just like tax, tax numbers. I don't know. I like the logic. I like the logic. All right. Question number three. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with any wrestling personality,
00:27:31
Speaker
Who would it be, Garrett? Sawyer Rec. And Chris did correctly guess that. He has three points. And Chris- It seems like she'd be helpful on the desert island. She is very tall.
00:27:49
Speaker
That was my thought process, too. It wasn't like that I'm a weirdo creep. It was, she's tall enough to help me get the coconuts out of the tree for us to survive. And she's pretty skinny, so she might not really eat all as many of the coconuts. So, like, she's... Yeah. And it gives us plenty of time to get to know each other and see if, you know, if things are gonna work out.
00:28:14
Speaker
I feel like that's also your best chance of getting off the island is that you creep her out so bad that her fight or flight just kicks in so much that she just somehow gets off the island. And when she's explaining it to the authorities, she kind of has to reveal where you are.
00:28:31
Speaker
and that's how you're saved. But anyway, Chris, what was your answer to who you would be stranded on, a wrestler or a wrestling personality? So, and this is a hard one, but I have a logic for this one. And it's Dax Harwood. Okay. Here's why. I think if I'm stranded on a desert island with Dax, first of all, he would, we would spend half the time, he'd be like, we gotta get back to our families. And he would like kind of inspire how we're gonna get there.
00:29:02
Speaker
other half of the time, he seems to, I feel like we would just describe Midnight Express matches to each other, which would be interesting. He'd be like, okay, Midnight Express, Fantastix, Chattanooga, 88, let's go. Okay, we start with a lockup and we would just sort of like build them in our brains, even without a video. It just feels like it'd be fun. Yeah. What was Garrett's guess from mine? It doesn't sound like he got this one.
00:29:30
Speaker
It was Mox. Oh, see Mox is, I don't buy Desert Island though.
00:29:38
Speaker
He seemed like he doesn't give up. He seemed like he's somebody that would get you off of that island. I think he doesn't give up on himself. I think he would absolutely give up on you if you were holding them back on the island. Trust me, if you looked malnourished, he would let you drink his blood and then replanted your body. Well, there would be plenty of blood. You would definitely not have an iron supply issue.
00:30:02
Speaker
All right, question number four, and I'm not gonna, I'll just kind of give the answer for you, because this one was, it's a little controversial, but the question was, do your parents know your co-host's name? And both of you responded confidently that you think the other person's answer would be no. And then when you gave your answer, you gave some kind of version of probably not,
00:30:30
Speaker
So I'm giving you both the point because it sounds like if there's not a confident yes, I'm going to consider that a no. Yeah. Although that may have changed this weekend because my parents saw a video with Garrett in it. They might they might remember that now. But again, they're probably unfortunate. They're probably going to remember Nick Gage more. Yeah, that fair. And even though it'll be wet in his. It'll probably be that. It'll probably be that wet boy and that gang guy. That's how they're going to remember them. So.
00:31:00
Speaker
I had already filled this out and sent it to you, but this afternoon I did end up on the phone with my dad. And I thought about this and I was like, oh, hey, just real quick. Do you know the names of the guys I do the podcast with? And he goes, the curtain jerks? And I said, what? Yeah. And I said, but do you know their names? And he goes, no. I'm shocked they know curtain jerks though. That's actually kind of a nice, yeah. Well, here's a fun thing. So when Derek was the co-host,
00:31:30
Speaker
My dad never missed a single episode. My dad had listened to every single episode. He has not listened to one since we have started. He's missed all the Vince McMahon penis cocaine. He would have loved it. All right, question number five.
00:31:55
Speaker
What wrestler do you most hopes writes in autobiography in the future? Garrett, your answer. Jimmy Lloyd. Jimmy Lloyd and Chris gets the point. He did correctly guess or he knew rather Jimmy Lloyd. It was between it was him engaged, but I was like, no, it's the it's the Jimmy Lloyd auto auto that.
00:32:24
Speaker
And then I'm gonna change the format here and I'm gonna say, Garrett, what was your answer to what you think Chris's answer was gonna be? I also guessed Jimmy Lloyd.
00:32:39
Speaker
I really think that he's got some stories. We need to hear about the set of The Good Shepherd. We've got to hear his cocaine tales of Brett Lauderdale's house. So that is actually the right answer, not what Chris actually put, but I'm giving you the point because that's just objectively the right answer. The wrestler needs to write. But Chris, for the record, who did you say? I wrote Shane Douglas just because
00:33:08
Speaker
You know, we got I want more details. I want him. I want he.
00:33:13
Speaker
If Brett wrote a 700 page book, Shane would write a 1500 page book and I'd read every page. But he would just probably write it in like four paragraphs at a time on the Appalachian Facebook page. Cause you know, you always hear about like the bucks we always talk about. Oh, we're just writing it on our iPhones when we're on like layovers and he would do the same thing. And he doesn't know that his only thing he knows about his phone.
00:33:39
Speaker
is that it's a phone, but everything he does on it goes to the Appalachian Facebook page. All right, the final question, score is five to three in Chris's favor. Fuck. The final question is, who is more aggressive in the bedroom? Neither of you
00:34:03
Speaker
thought the answer was yourselves. So I find that telling. I find
Parents' Awareness and Birthday Recap
00:34:09
Speaker
that telling that you're both kind of a little bit of maybe afraid of intimacy. I'm not afraid of it. I just I feel like I feel like I'm bad. I don't I've never felt like I've
00:34:23
Speaker
I'm great at it. So getting aggressive just, I feel like my confidence level's already low enough that I'm just excited to be there. Getting aggressive is so far out of the ballpark of what I'm... My wife will sometimes give me the feedback that I never am the exact right amount of aggressive. Cause I can go over skew. I can go, I'm either way under or I just like way overdo it.
00:34:52
Speaker
So you're either crying or whipping her with a belt. Exactly. However, Garrett thought. Chris's answer would be Chris, but Chris thought Garrett's answer would be Chris. So Chris takes the point and this guy, Chris gets all six points. A clean sweep them.
00:35:22
Speaker
Uh, six to three, Gary, you got 50%. That's not very good. No, didn't he get the fourth one too? If he thought I was. No, no, no, he didn't get that last. No, I didn't. I got the fourth one. He got the first one. Okay. The fourth one and the fifth one. So the answer is you do know me well enough to give me any punishment. And honestly, I deserve a punishment for not getting some of these right.
00:35:52
Speaker
Punishment Migliaccio. All right. Well, I guess it's going to be another three hours of grim story. Can we do the tiebreaker just for fun? Okay. So the tiebreaker is.
00:36:07
Speaker
At what age did you lose your virginity? Now I will say, Garrett, you answered this question without me asking for an answer. I had said, I'm only gonna actually ask this question if we need it, but you went ahead and answered it right off the bat. Chris, if you're comfortable, you can give your answer live and on the air to see if we can continue to shut out.
00:36:27
Speaker
So give your answer, your actual answer, and then what you think Garrett's answer is. Wait, which one do you want first? Mine, my actual one or the one? What is your actual one? It's 20. 20. Okay, I will just say this. Are we gonna Price's write it? We are Price's writing this. And I will say Garrett is within one. So you need to get to beat him, you need to get dead on.
00:36:57
Speaker
And to tie him, you need to be off by only one human year. Basically, you have to look me in the eyes and tell me. Yeah, look him in the eyes. How cool do you think I am? At what age did Garrett lose his virginity? I'm doing 20 for Garrett, too. Garrett takes the point. He, Garrett, if you want to give the answer, it's your life. 17. Oh, wow. Good for you, Garrett.
00:37:29
Speaker
Like one of those teen movies, I did make it out of high school. All right, well, that is the newlywed game. Again, I think it shows that there's a lot of love on both sides of this. And you know what? I love you both for what it's worth. Just not as much as I love non-wrestling sports.
00:37:57
Speaker
We'll come down for Garrett's 40th whenever it happens and just getting him as drunk as, uh, until he's really honest about whether he loves us more or Derek more. But yeah, it's been a bit, I mean, it's been, you know, it's been an eventful week, um, because a Saturday night, uh, facts that I had a fair bit to drink. Um, and, uh, and, but Wednesday and Thursday I was out, uh, at wrestling shows. The first of those with facts.
00:38:24
Speaker
And Tom, Professor Tom. And Professor Tom. And I'm told that you can even see us at certain points, which makes us, we were in the fourth row and kind of close to the aisle, like right where, well, it was the ADW show on Wednesday, where the acclaimed, where they, what's it, Anthony goes back and receives the scissor in the crowd? That was right by where we were. So I don't know if that's when friends, I didn't actually watch the TV broadcast.
00:38:52
Speaker
I don't know if that's when I saw you when MJF was in the ring. I can see you in the in the corner of the TV from certain angles, you know, but I very clearly saw Mr. Jimmy faxes face on TBS last Wednesday. And and Chris, so you went to two evenings. You bought two tickets to wrestling shows, but you actually saw 135 hours of wrestling, right? Is that
00:39:18
Speaker
135 episodes of wrestling, right? Because so I think we got at least three at AEW with a bit of dark elevation, a dynamite and an ROH. And then, of course, I went the next night, I went to an MLW show and I'm pretty sure that's going to be airing for the next six years. Just in various chunks and blocks and various orders.
00:39:44
Speaker
And not in greatest hits compilations. There's going to be new content for the next six years. Oh, yeah. Ty
Wrestling Show Experiences
00:39:50
Speaker
about it. They're they're they're holding on to it in like six months from now. Ty about they're going to have Ty of Valkyrie jobbing to Delmi XO. That's a real because that's a wrestler's name and not what I made up to be clear. Because until it airs, that doesn't count as a match that gets her out of a contract. Mm hmm. Exactly.
00:40:10
Speaker
Domiexo sounds like the most hygienic Japanese vibrator ever created. It's soon to be black. I'm just picturing, that is Bowen Yang's next character on Weekend Up. I can see it.
00:40:36
Speaker
Yeah, that was a wrestling match. No, but I mean, Dynamite, right? Obviously, we got to see the AAW debut of J. White, which was... Yeah, that was pretty unexpected. And we were wondering, like, how are they going to get through all these matches? And that's a pretty good way to screw fans out of a match, but making them happy by doing it. You know, because people definitely were intrigued to see the white the white star.
00:41:03
Speaker
I tuned in a little bit late, so I completely missed that segment. The crowd was excited, they were hot, they were ready for Jay White in AEW. Yeah, so Jay comes out, him and his Bullet Club brother, Juice, then kind of lay waste to Ricky Starks. And the crowd who like Ricky Starks were super into it. They were like, not in that we don't like Ricky thing, but just kind of like, oh, we're excited they're here and I want to see Ricky Starks fight these guys.
00:41:32
Speaker
Do you think that there's gonna be a problem with American fans not knowing who Jay White is, so we should start him in an angle with Jericho to help get him over? I think people, no, that's the thing, I think they realized they didn't need Jericho last week, that we can just, part of the other thing is I think it does seem like they're gonna be, he and Juice are gonna be the Bullet Club. So for the first time since like 2018, American Bullet Club is,
00:42:02
Speaker
Definitely better than Japanese Bullet Club. Admittedly, that's more about Japanese Bullet Club, if we're being honest, because even American Bullet Club, the obvious interesting thing is the dynamic of what they do with the elite, right? Because when they've had those Bullet Club kind of tie-ins teased on AW or outright like, right, the AW with fit and written door, it was very much like, oh yeah, the elite is kind of, is an unofficial, official extension of the Bullet Club or vice versa. But now, if this is a longer term deal and J. White's actually going to be on
00:42:31
Speaker
TV, you know, a lot and juice is going to be on TV a lot. You know, you do have to address that in the actual canon of AEW. Right. So that's fun. And as long as they just don't have to address David Finley. Well, at the very least, whatever David Finley has done to his beard.
00:42:56
Speaker
I'm pretty sure the only way David Finley is showing up in a significant spot of American television, um, is on the missing person's report on the news. That's my hot take. Spooky. Where's, where do you think he is? Uh, Japan. I think he's still, he's still over there. He's just in Japan, but his family got worried. No, I think he's under the ring with Hornswoggle.
00:43:24
Speaker
Right, because their brother, Shalalie, it's just a... Makes sense. Honest to God, Hornswoggle, more entertaining leader of the Bullet Club.
00:43:34
Speaker
And the other thing that show is there's the big MJF celebration. He does the show tune and I am in all of my glory. I'm wearing my Islander shirt. Now I open with the Islanders thing. I'm a long Island guy. And I, I think honestly, the MJF punk thing in the first show they did at the Islanders new arena, the UBS arena, their AWS first visit to long Island is one of my all time favorite moments as a wrestling.
00:43:59
Speaker
It really, really was. And it's definitely one of my most favorite moments that didn't feature a match. And this was not to the peak of that, but it really is there. I got to say, we talked about wrestling Meccas. I'm not going to necessarily put this with Bhutan. I'm not going to necessarily put this with the BW threes in West Virginia, but there is something special about seeing an MJF segment in the UBS arena with a bunch of long Islanders.
00:44:26
Speaker
I mean, especially when he entered ADD at him. In a positive way. Yeah. Like we were encouraging overcoming ADD. I love that he's basically like, cause I've never seen this. Like we've seen like the Brett in Canada thing where he's just like a face in Canada and a healer. We've never seen this where MJF is still a hundred percent in character as this asshole villain.
00:44:53
Speaker
But he's like the Joker in the Joker's hideout, where all of his henchmen are laughing at his jokes. That's the only thing you can compare it to. And I think it's just one of the all-time great things. And we can get into it. And maybe it's just because we were at floor seats, which we don't normally have. And maybe it's an acoustics thing. I think, overall, the crowd was pretty mid. And definitely was the weakest crowd that they've had in that arena.
00:45:18
Speaker
But for that segment, everybody was on their feet. Everybody was super was eating out of his hand. And honestly, not a bad singer. And we'd seen it on the video with Jericho, but this was like he was doing it live and like no notes killed it.
00:45:36
Speaker
Not to go off on too much of a tangent, but just speaking of a wrestler singing, I did catch a bit of the Minoru Suzuki Karaoke on YouTube a little earlier while I was working out. Now, was this like an official YouTube of some kind or was this like just strictly fan cam?
00:45:56
Speaker
No, Circle Six is like official stream of it. I didn't know it was actually live streamed. I gotta check that out. It opened with Spider Nate Webb doing Teenage Dirtbag and pretty damn good singer. Like, you know, he didn't always hit like the high notes, but like he was...
00:46:13
Speaker
It was a pretty good rendition of the song. I'm sorry, I just... But if he didn't know the words to that song, he'd have a real problem. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hard canceled. He'd be working Marty's squirrel and some Polish dungeon next week if he didn't know the words to that.
00:46:33
Speaker
He's like, I don't even wanna wrestle that bad. You have to go to Poland. But honestly, the crowd, we were in the fourth row and we were literally standing up during the main event of the show, the main event of Dynamite and there were people being like, sit down, sit down. We're trying to watch this and it's like, you bought floor seats to Dynamite and it's the main event.
00:47:02
Speaker
What? What? Can you remind me who the main event was last week? It's FTR and the aspects. If you're winning the tag titles, yeah.
00:47:13
Speaker
A very, like a very fun match. And Dax at one point, you can like, it'd be interesting for people to go back and watch on TV. Cause like in that match in particular, the crowd was like dead. It's like they peaked at MJF and then they just died after that. He didn't sound that, and like Dax could tell, Dax turns around during that match and fucking yells at the crowd to get into it. And that, that like the people like us that were already up, like made more noise, but there were just a lot of people that were like, it's fucking 9 45. I'm tired.
00:47:42
Speaker
Well, I just felt the crowd just all night was very quiet during the matches. People were big for the entrances, big for the promos, but like you'd be mid-match and the crowd was just silent. Like noticeably like really silent. It was, it was kind of odd, honestly. Well, historically Long Island is very similar to Japan and how polite they are. Yeah, exactly. That's why MJF is our ambassador.
00:48:10
Speaker
but have anything to do with like how much wrestling they had to watch before dynamite like on ring of honor did they have to watch like
00:48:18
Speaker
Mark Briscoe job to one of the boys or something? No, I would think that that could be the case certainly by the end of the show and into the ring of honor tapings. And I would say generally there was a lot of the crowds theater and for the very beginning of ROH and then people started rapidly filling out, but like everyone knows dynamite's on a date, right? This is the third show, the third dynamite they've done at UBS. So like, and presumably some of these people have probably been to Grand Slam, they've probably been to the Newark show too.
00:48:43
Speaker
And people know the actual show starts today. So anything you get in Dynamite is just free bonus wrestling. Even Chris and I, we got to our seats at 7.45. Because we worked full work days. I'm not leaving work early to watch Dark Elevation. I don't watch it on YouTube. Why would I get to the arena?
00:49:04
Speaker
But the fans, like if it was at the end of the show, if it's like during a rampage, that I get. But this is like, you know, the main event is that you know what the main event is. Like when you showed up, like it just seems like that one, not cool. Long Island. Um, I think you got to do better next time. Or, you know, I think that one of the lessons learned be maybe you put MJF in an actual match. They had some pretty big.
00:49:28
Speaker
segments for MJF in Long Island? Haven't had a big match for him yet. I do wonder though, cause I do think in some ways it plays, you can play it both ways a little more easily with a segment, right? Because you don't need the like the win-loss energy and someone getting booed during a match. Whereas in a segment, the idea of, yes, look, the people of Long Island love MJF.
00:49:55
Speaker
comes through and I think doesn't play, but he's, but he's the, he's the champion. Have him wrestle a big heel, right? Have him rest. That's what Lance Archer's for. Right. Is you have him wrestle Lance Archer. The crowd is allowed to side with MJF MJF still had to be a heel, but he's the lesser heel and he's the champion. So there's still some drama. Obviously nobody's going to buy that Lance Archer's going to win the title, but like, why not? Like he beat Moxley in a main event once, like for a title, like it's not.
00:50:23
Speaker
outlandish and i'm just using him you brian cage you've got a bunch of guys like that that you can kind of do like these big badass heels i don't know but the one of the biggest weird things is we were talking as we're walking to the remix chris and i literally we met at jamaica on the train we were on the same train we didn't know we were on the same train together until we got off we knew we were likely going to be on the same train because the schedules we didn't know we were in the same car of the same train and when we get off walking from the train to the arena we're talking about shabata
00:50:51
Speaker
And I'm like, what do they do with the ROH pure title? You'd think they would announce Shabbatah if he's wrestling, obviously. But I'm guessing there's no chance we get Shabbatah, but what do they do with that title?
00:51:04
Speaker
And then fucking Shabbatah is there unannounced after like dynamite ends. They've never mentioned the name Shabbatah and he fucking shows up. So we went from this guy being retired to only working like Tokyo dome matches to now. I mean, I know it's not technically a dark match because they showed it on our HTV, but like he worked a dark match in long worked. He worked a long Island dark match at at 11 o'clock at night.
00:51:33
Speaker
It was 1030 at the latest facts. 1030 at night in a one-third full arena. Because I would say the fans stayed for the first match of the RH was the match with Mark Briscoe. And it seemed like fans were like, let's see what they give us. And then it was like, oh, we saw Mark Briscoe. We're good. Because it seemed like most people were in their seats for that first match. And then immediately left afterwards. Yeah. Who was Briscoe up against?
00:52:01
Speaker
It was the six man, right? It was a six man. Briscoe and the Lucha brothers against the work horseman and Shane Taylor. Yes. Shane Taylor. That sounds right. Yeah. It was very enjoyable. And then we're like, Oh, well, let's see what's next. And then like the music, it's fucking Shibata wrestling. Christopher Daniels just casually on a Wednesday night in Long Island in front of us.
00:52:26
Speaker
Like, I'm not the biggest Shabbatah guy, but the idea, I'm like, I got to see fucking, we thought that man was dead and we could see him wrestle on a Wednesday night, just casually, I mean, and that's the other thing though, I'm thankful that they stack that first because, you know, we got to see that, we didn't have to wait all night, the show ended at 12.15 apparently. Jesus Christ. But yeah, yeah.
00:52:52
Speaker
But on the other hand, it is weird that like, you know, that was followed by like Jay Lethal against someone. That's, that's what did it. I was like, I wasn't sure how long I was going to stay. And then Jay Lethal came out and I was like, okay.
00:53:06
Speaker
Yeah. Cause I remember it was like, literally I left right after that Shabbat a match. Cause there was like two trains we could catch and it was like two trains that were like 20 or 30 minutes apart. And then there was like an hour gap, I think. So it was like, we're both going to, and then I was like, I'm not going to risk it. I'm going to try to catch the earlier train. I'm going right after Shabbat and Chris is like, I'm going to roll the dice. I'm going to roll the dice and see what this next match is. And I, I won that gamble. It sounds like. Yes. Okay. So.
00:53:35
Speaker
What I'm most excited to talk about. Chris, you were the first person of predetermined to see Becca in person.
00:53:46
Speaker
I was, I was. So that was actually the MLW show I thought was actually an interesting, as much as we make fun of the length of MLW shows, it was about three and a half hours, which is with an intermission because I needed to put up the cage for the main event. So I actually thought it was a reasonable length show. So it ended before 1215 on a work night. Actually, it ended almost right at 11, essentially. So yeah, over an hour earlier than Tony Khan lets his people. Indeed.
00:54:15
Speaker
But yes, so one of the matches on that show was Becca against Billy Starks. Here's a question I have, Garrett, and I have done no research on this because I was just curious to be answered and I feel like you'd be able to tell me. Becca comes out and she's singing this song and we're like, this isn't going the best. And then she gets in the ring and she's like, that's the first time I've ever done that song. Thank you guys for being such a great audience. Does she do that every time?
00:54:43
Speaker
I've only seen her fight Matt Tremont in a death match. Did she sing a song on the way in? No, she came out with the thumbtack guitar and looked very cool. But even in that match, I didn't know she was a pop singer. I didn't know until I gave her a follow on Instagram that that was the bit. She sang a song. She sang a song on the way in. And then her and Billy Starks had what was a pretty good match.
00:55:12
Speaker
Frankly, one of the better ones of the evening. I had that maybe arguably the numbers too. Uh, we all know what number one is and I'll talk about that in a sec, but, um, but that was, I thought it was a great match. I was going to say, I was going to say, I don't know what number one is and then I remembered. Yeah. We talked about it on the air. I'm assuming it's that one.
00:55:31
Speaker
So was her in-ring work pretty good? Like, I mean, you said the match was good. Like, is she somebody that we could potentially see in another company eventually? I think eventually, yeah. I mean, I think she was very solid and kind of a base. I mean, I don't think she's like a flashy worker, but I thought she was very solid, kind of in a... Kind of like a... I don't know how this comparison's gonna sound. A little bit like a Madison Rain.
00:55:59
Speaker
in the sense of being sort of a base and a very kind of like solid worker. Like you're never like, wow, what's that insane thing that she did? But on the other hand, like the character work was really good and the actual in-ring work was good. So I think there's potential there. Certainly more than Delmi XO. Well, again, if she can sing, we know Vince likes people that can sing.
00:56:28
Speaker
Right, so obviously Vince, if he's still alive, which I have to believe he will because he's clearly undead, he might make or get some plastic surgery. Probably a lot of it. Because Vince doesn't like, he likes his wrestlers and he likes his entertainers. And you don't need to do both. He does both. Vince can wrestle and currently one of the most entertaining men in America.
00:56:56
Speaker
I mean, we made John Oliver this week. I don't want to see this mustache, though. That would be great if Becca got to like NXT and that was her gimmick is that she dyed her hair jet black, put on a fake mustache and she was like singing Vince. That would be that's just great. That's just a great gimmick. I want to see this now, actually. Cross dressing young singing events.
00:57:27
Speaker
Sounds like Becca and Bron Breaker will be the main event of TakeOver next year while we're in Philly. But it'll be a shoot. It'll be a shoot if Bron is anything like his father. OK, so number one match of that night, Chris. It was Beastman against Microman, I got to tell you. That was the best three and a half minutes of wrestling I've ever seen.
00:57:57
Speaker
It was just the moment, just the moment where, so first of all, so Beastman comes out and our buddy Mike, who's a listener to the show and was in town and was like, uh, yeah, let's, let's, I was like, do you want to go to this MLW show? And he's like, yeah. And I'm like, you're up for anything. I mean, he's a tough man. He was in the Marines. He can handle an MLW show. Um,
00:58:18
Speaker
But he was like, oh, I kind of like this Beastman thing. This is like, I kind of get it now. And then Microman came out and he was like, we were both like, what is happening? Because I'd seen Microman before. But I don't think I'd ever processed exactly how small he was. He came up to like Beastman Shin. Yeah, you sent a picture. And I was like, that can't be authentic. It was real.
00:58:49
Speaker
I will find out if Reels is a Reel channel, which I'm not sold on, but I will figure that out and figure out a way to make sure I can actually see this match when it airs in June of 2026. You're anticipating it just as much as you are. I'm trying to think of a movie coming out summer 2024. The John Wick spin off the ballerina. You're gonna get them around the same time.
00:59:19
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. I'm ready for fast 13 and. But he literally, I mean, it was just amazing. I mean, beast man picked him up. Well, I would say I was disappointed. I tried to get the husk husk husk chant going.
00:59:33
Speaker
And
AEW Announcements and Speculations
00:59:34
Speaker
I could not, people were not with me on it, which disappointed me a lot. And MLW does have a confusing crowd because there's definitely like a lot of hardcore like indie fans because it's just like, Hey, it's wrestling in New York. Um, and, and there's obviously some names there, you know, at an MLW show, but it's not like, like pretty much anyone you like that's working in MLW show, you're disappointed that they're at an MLW show and you wish they were at like a GCW show or just a house of blurry show even. Um,
01:00:04
Speaker
So is it more like families there and stuff? No, it's kind of a normal wrestling crowd in that, in terms of ages and stuff. It's just more their reactions to the actual content. Because there's definitely some people that are on the pulse of MLW. But there's a lot of people that are just like, I'm just a generic wrestling fan. Which includes us, by the way, when we go. It's not like we're watching MLW religiously.
01:00:32
Speaker
Although again, I'm gonna be clear, because at one point I looked and I was like, maybe I should watch a couple of recent MLW episodes to figure out what's going on. And I quickly realized two things. One, the new episodes are just on that channel Reels, which I'm told is a real channel, but again, in fact, I haven't confirmed that. There were short videos. I'm assuming that's the fishing channel, right, Reels? Yeah, I think so. It's the fish.
01:00:57
Speaker
It's the Bobby Fish channel, right? It's the one he's doing. He loved wrestling and now it's just Bobby Fish doing these fishing videos. I watched some of the YouTube videos. I was like, oh, there's like short clips angle stuff to figure out what's going on. That'll help.
01:01:17
Speaker
There, I watched what's called a war chamber, which is just shitty war games match. Not to be confused with their shitty Royal Rumble. Right, right. Battle Riot, it's, yeah, Battle Riot is shitty Royal Rumble, war chamber is shitty war games. It's, and there's, I presume there is gonna be an angle that sets off the fact that it's, I know that the Ravens group had attacked Hammerstone. Presumably other things happen
01:01:46
Speaker
that lead to the fact that it's Hammerstone and the second gear crew, essentially, against Raven's guys in this. But I don't know why. Now, it was an interesting match. So War Chamber, unlike War Games, it's only one ring, which is not great because there's a lot of stuff happening. It's also similar to Beastman's promotion. We watched the Beastman. Exactly.
01:02:13
Speaker
Exactly. Although I think Beastman's promotion did a much better job of the way the match built. Because I was thinking initially, after like 15 minutes of this match, that maybe there was going to be no blood at all. Because legitimately, we've gotten the ring. Matthew Justice, Mance Warner, RSP, Akira,
01:02:39
Speaker
I'm even one of the Manders, right? All of these guys. And you know Moxley was in Long Island the night before. So he's somewhere probably around. His spirits in there. No one's bleeding. No one's bleeding until they get all the guys in the ring. We're clearly getting towards the climax. First of all, number one, RSP just gigs himself wildly deep for no discernible reason towards the very end of the match.
01:03:06
Speaker
He's been in there for like 15 minutes. He's just like, no, no, no, right now is the time. They then built a table with two chairs on it.
01:03:19
Speaker
And Mansur gave RSP a superplex through this, which admittedly did look kind of cool, but then busted open the back of Mansur's head to a degree where Mansur, you could see Mansur was trying to figure out how bad did I cut myself? Because it was just pouring out of his head. And then at some point they went, I think the finish was not great, but that's in part because Hammerstone appeared to,
01:03:48
Speaker
I have not heard exactly the extent of the injury. It looked like he had Shane McMahon himself during the match, which would have been very unfortunate. Although to be fair, his calves and hamstrings significantly more muscular than the McMahon hamstrings. Yeah. Very muscular, that man.
01:04:08
Speaker
But it was a weird, the whole war games thing, it was interesting to see, and again, wasn't disappointed to be there, but was kind of glad, kind of an odd vibe. Raven's group is also, it's very strange. So here's in Raven's group, who's in Raven's group right now. RSP, Akira, Delirious, as in like the old ROH Booker, Mandy Leon,
01:04:36
Speaker
Okay, don't that kind of confusing. And some guy who wears a mask and some overalls and like a like a butcher bib doctor something. I don't know. He was just kind of there. It was a doctor redacted. Was it? I don't believe so. He might have been going by a different name. If so, maybe it was him. I don't know.
01:05:01
Speaker
Very odd. Again, nice to see Raven. Raven didn't really do much. He mostly just sort of stood there. I like the idea of Raven, RSP, and Akira being a thing. In my head, that sounds interesting. I mean, I would say that sounds MLW interesting. I would say if you were like, you know who showed up on Dynamite this week, and then you said that, I would actually punch you in the face.
01:05:30
Speaker
for even bringing it to my attention. I am told I have some rage issues. Well, let's test your rage issues and see if you're satisfied with the re-debut this evening on AEW Dynamite. I mean, I saw the re-debut of the Islanders into the playoffs. But yeah, again, I'm going to get spoiled on this before I think I can watch it. Hit me, Daddy.
01:06:00
Speaker
Jeff Hardy. Oh, that's very mediocre. That's, that's up there with like the mogul affiliates merger being with the stable whose name I don't know with Prince Nana in terms of. It's the embassy. This is something that such a small announcement that Tony Khan didn't even ask Adam Cole to announce it for him.
01:06:31
Speaker
Which we didn't get to, Chris, you, you, you have to repeat the bit that you told me because like we we've been making jokes. And then of course that Tony Khan, every time there's a big announcement, he kicks it to Adam Cole and, and Chris, you had a good line if you remember it. Well, it just, it just seems like if that's, I'm just imagining the future where he's just using Adam Cole again, he's announcing all in, he's using them to announce the all access show. And I'm just thinking.
01:06:59
Speaker
Look, Tony Khan has found a beautiful woman that he, or man, I don't know what his thing is, person, he wants to spend the rest of his life with. And he's like, I love you, but I just don't know how to say this. So to say this, here's Adam Cole. Adam Cole gives a beautiful speech. No, Adam Cole super kicks the waiter.
01:07:27
Speaker
takes the bottle of champagne from him and then gets on one knee. Right, and says, it's time for story time with Adam Cole, baby. TK loves you. He's very confused. Very confused. The story is TK loves you and wants to be with you forever. Will you marry him? And Tony's just behind Adam Cole being like,
01:07:48
Speaker
Yes. Admittedly, that's a joke, but if they actually sell over 50,000 or 60,000 tickets to the Wembley Stadium, he is absolutely doing that. Adam Cole is his good luck charm. Adam Cole is basically getting paid to do live cameos for Tony Khan. Exactly. He's a pitch man. That's what he is. That's where Vince missed the boat.
01:08:13
Speaker
Cause he's very fragile. He's fragile in the ring. He's great in the ring, but he gets hurt. So we're just going to have him pitch product. Yeah. He's the easy. Is he going to be, he w's miss? Is that, is that what's happening? Or is he going to be like their legit shoot, like chief marketing officer? It's possible. That seems plausible. It seems like something Adam Cole would be good at.
01:08:40
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Yeah, and by the way, I just want to add in because a lot of the people were going into, I did semi call this because I called, I bet it's a big stadium show. Now, admittedly, every time, as you guys know, every time there's a big Tony Khan, that's because he's, that's always my go to of what I say it's going to be. So eventually I was going to be right.
01:08:57
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But I think that the smart money favorite was finally a release date for the video game, but it sounds like we have an update that's the opposite, that actual real retailer websites, including Amazon, that had a tentative Q1 date, then instead of flipping to a Q2 date, they put a January 1st of next year, I believe, as the release date, which is more of their, we don't know what the real date is, but don't bank on it this year. So that's kind of disappointing.
01:09:28
Speaker
Are you excited about them being in a stadium? When I looked up the capacity of that place, for a soccer match, it's 90,000 people.
01:09:43
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I mean, it's only going to be a little, yeah, it's only going to be a little more if, if, if even anymore, because there's going to be a big stage and there's going to be a lot of seats that they block out. So like when, like when Vince does football stadiums for WrestleMania, it's only like very slightly more. It's pretty much the same capacity as for, for an NFL game. I think it's usually let, I mean, if, if it's like a.
01:10:03
Speaker
If it's a really, really big, maybe it can often be less. Well, it also, it's like if they try, cause they also weren't until like, like they weren't selling out stadiums, the football stadium for the most part, particularly with them with the two nights. So it's like, they might not, they're not clearly not trying to maximize the space, but maybe they will next year after the buy rate. This one did. Um, I mean, I, I'm excited at the idea. I don't think I'm flying to London for this one.
01:10:30
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I'm, I'm also confused. Are they doing all out in Chicago? Cause that would be like a week or two weeks later. So that's perplexing, right? Cause you got to build some pretty big shit to sell a a stadium show B people in the U S where the majority of your fans are in Canada that are ordering a pay-per-view not live or at a very weird time. Right.
01:11:01
Speaker
Yeah, I'm with you. I think it's going to be it's like bigger match and you did. Would you put the bigger match on all out, though, because it's the bigger show that's probably going to get more eyeballs on TV or do you put it on all in where you you're trying to sell as many tickets as possible? It's it's very confusing to me if they just said it's all out.
01:11:21
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And we're just doing it a little early because that's not a holiday weekend. You know, Labor Day is not a holiday weekend in the old UK. Cool. I'm into it. I still don't know that I'd be flying to it, but I think I would have been much more interested in a stadium show in the US, even if it was Jacksonville.
01:11:38
Speaker
I'm also worried that it's going to be an aberration, that they're just going to be like, oh, just the fact that it's a show in the UK and other European, like that's enough to sell all these tickets. Well, maybe they'll get Osprey, maybe they'll get some other kind of UK talent, probably not Marty Skirrell. Maybe they'll do that, but like I am a little concerned that they're not actually going to build like
01:12:04
Speaker
Kenny Okada, Osprey and like Hangman in a four corners like match for both titles or something great, which is what the main event should be for something like their big first ever stadium show. I'm worried it's just going to be like,
01:12:21
Speaker
Will Osprey against the Lance Archer? In one of our group chats, I think something that came up multiple times was, what if it were the Elite versus FTR and Punk? That's a pretty huge main event. I agree. Because all this news that Punk is wanting to come back. I agree. And I think that that makes a ton of money in Chicago two weeks later. I think it makes more money in Chicago two weeks later, regardless of what the gate is.
01:12:51
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I think part of it, I think they're going to figure out what they have to do, much like the original all in, right? Where they always said there were different versions of that card. If they didn't sell out that immediately, we actually were probably getting bigger matches, honestly, because they would have had to do certain things to sell, move tickets, as opposed to just being like, Hey, we're going to do the version of this we're most interested in. I think they're going to look and they're going to see how many tickets they sell. And if they have to build it up huge.
01:13:20
Speaker
they're gonna figure that out, and if they don't have to, they're gonna do something cool, I'm sure. They're not gonna have nothing, but I think that's the big question. I still feel like even if they do big matches, it's not gonna be a big thing in the AEW continuity. I feel like they're not gonna, unless it is replacing all out, which again, it sounds like they're not. That's the rumors, it's just that it seems like both are still on the calendar. I don't think anyone's confirmed all out yet, so.
01:13:49
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And that means like you wouldn't have to have all the titles on one show, you know, you can have a, I don't know, you can, it'll be fun. Yes, you do. Damn it. If it's in Wembley Stadium, you have to have all the big titles, all the times people care about it. You need to be on that show.
01:14:06
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But like, yeah, I don't know. Like you said, though, with the original all in, like if they do sell a shit ton of tickets, if that had happened, like we would remember how good Okada versus Marty was. And we didn't really when that was announced, like this is not the matchup I was hoping for. And then it'd be fucking great. Yeah. But but if they hadn't, though, it probably had to been Okada against someone who's a bigger deal, potentially. Yeah. Right.
01:14:33
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Same with like at the time Kenny versus Pentagon, people weren't super stoked on that. I was very stoked about that from the get-go. Maybe I was in the minority. I thought that was very well from the get-go. Like once we knew it wasn't gonna be Kenny Okada again, right? Right. And Cody against Roman, I mean, Nick Aldis. That was pretty great.
01:15:00
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Remember how they did that story where Cody was trying to win the title for his dad and then he won it? And we all cried. We'd be like hugged. We were like, this was a feel good moment. Yes.
01:15:18
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Yes, people talked about how emotional and the feelings that Cody's story brought up for them. And then seeing him actually succeed at it was a fulfilling experience as opposed to seeing a random Samoan man hit him from behind and then have him lose. Think about how you felt it all in though.
01:15:39
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Once we finally get to the climax of Triple H's vision that keeps him up at night, you will also hit your climax.
01:15:49
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Because this is going to be unlike anything you've ever seen. But that's actually why it's not Triple H's vision. It's Vince's vision. And that's why he had to go back into power is because he's like, listen, people, I don't know why you're not putting cocaine up your penis hole. So I'm going to have to find a way to make you feel like what that feels. And that's how the Roman Reigns story is going to end at XL baby.
01:16:13
Speaker
I guess here's my, I don't know what my future holds as I said, I'm getting older. I don't know if my heart's gonna hold up, but if something happens to my heart that takes me out for a while and then Triple H figures out how to make heart better and defeats Roman, maybe that'll be the thing that is the most beautiful thing for me. I'll go,
01:16:37
Speaker
Much like I had this connection to Cody, now I have this connection to Triple H because he found a way to make his heart better and put himself over in the main event of WrestleMania. Maybe I can do that too. That would actually, if this all leads up to us caring about Triple H, that'd be pretty cool. Don't you kind of want to care about Triple H in five years? I do not. Fuck!
01:17:08
Speaker
Well, you just don't see the man's vision. He can feud with Raven's new flock. Old Triple H versus Ricky-Shane Page. Like, we gotta put that in a stadium. I'm surprised Billy Corgan isn't pushing for NWA to do a stadium. That seems like something he would do, like, yeah, I think we can do that.
01:17:34
Speaker
He's just going the full like Citizen Kane of like, I expect to lose a million dollars next year. At that rate, I'll go bankrupt in two and a half years. But maybe that wrestling and music festival he's throwing in Mexico City is doing good ticket sales and he's just like, fuck it. Get me a soccer stadium in Mexico. That's where NWA's home is. The end, the nation in the end of the NWA is the nation of Mexico.
01:18:03
Speaker
He finishes 1979 and he's like, thank you everyone. And now the real main event, Tyrus against DC three. I was going to say, I'd love to see the two of them cutting promos, not on each other, but on having to go to Mexico on Fox business.
01:18:22
Speaker
Like, how do you expect to pay for all of it? It seems like on paper, this isn't doing well. I will play bullet with butterfly wings at every state fair in the goddamn country. As long as it pays for Tyrus's or, you know, just the entire country loving Tyrus, finally.
01:18:42
Speaker
It's a complicated match, sorry. It's a complicated match they're gonna have because they're gonna need to build the cage slash the wall before they can have it. Like the wrestlers have to, they build, they both build and then they have to climb over it. It's complicated, it's very. Tyres, you've referred to tacos as, and I quote, sewer food. How do you expect and ask where you can get some real American chicken?
01:19:13
Speaker
How do you expect you're gonna do in a week defending your title in Mexico? How is Tyrus the champion still? Sewer food, did you see that finish? He eats so much sewer food that his whole body, like the guy couldn't get up. He fell on top of him. That is not a pin. That was an accident. Like his large body smothered the other man to the point that he couldn't kick
Old School Wrestling and Hypotheticals
01:19:40
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out. But do we think Billy,
01:19:43
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Billy looks at looks at tires and goes, yeah, I know our ratings on YouTube aren't great. Not a lot of people are buying us on a fight. But this guy, this is the guy that's going to take us to the next level. And we're going to get to that stadium. Well, the NWA, it's all about the classics, right? And who's the only classic wrestler we've seen use the finish where they just lay on top of a guy and smother him blimp leavy. So that's.
01:20:11
Speaker
The goal here is just building up the classics. Both of them, they also, again, they both get around, but again, blimp with much more consent than Tyrus, it seems, allegedly, allegedly.
01:20:29
Speaker
According. Well, I thought you were going to say old school, meaning xenophobic people with a lot of sexual harassment in their day to day as wrestlers in the old school 70s and 80s. And by the way, I just looked him up. Tyrus is a spry 50 years of age. That was a little shocking. I obviously know he's not a spring chicken. I was a little surprised to see 50.
01:20:56
Speaker
That means the old Funkosaurus was about 40 when he was doing that, right? I mean, I don't know. That seems about right age-wise for NWA.
01:21:08
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Like Wikipedia lists the Funkasaurus as 2012 to 2014. So he was aged 40 through 42. So Chris, it is not late for either one of us to have our Funkasaurus period, then become Fox business commentators and then NWA champs. Here's what I see. Our paths is facts. I don't because I don't I don't think we want this path for ourselves.
01:21:38
Speaker
I don't think we want this. Now, on the other hand, could we become the the Funka maniacs? Hmm. Right. We're dancing. It's kind of like an like an like an animalistic funky dance that we do. We become commentators on reels.
01:22:07
Speaker
on a show in which we describe a lot of different things. We describe- Strikes to Bass and Trout. We describe Bass. We describe Bass. And then we become, of course, champions of Appalachian Championship Wrestling. That's my dream.
01:22:28
Speaker
And I believe
Wrestlers in Mundane Roles and Show Closing
01:22:29
Speaker
that. And that way we can get access to Shane Douglas' phone and turn his memoirs into an actual book that we can publish. Just picturing you guys holding the title up, then it goes to the copyright at the bottom, goes to the next show. It's already in progress, because you actually ran a little long. And it's just Bobby Fish with his reel. And he's just like, the rainbow trout really is the most beautiful fish.
01:22:55
Speaker
No, no. See, the thing is Bobby Fish actually isn't doing the shows about Fish. He's doing infomercials trying to sell underwear, ironically. I don't know. I don't know. That's it, everybody. That is that is the show this week. I have to really do some soul searching and think about Chris.
01:23:21
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Think about his wants, his needs, and actually get the answers right to his wants and needs. Facts, I don't know, how would we do? Would you have been able to answer those about me? Did you get any of those?
01:23:36
Speaker
I think I would have gotten more about Chris maybe than you, but there's definitely some of Chris's like the desert island with Dax. I saw that and I'm like, nope, there's no way I would have gotten that one. I do think Chris is a little bit more of a chameleon than we give him credit for in some of his proclivities. I think with yours, I think my answers would have been pretty similar to Chris's. Again, I did not do this exercise.
01:24:03
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sullied by having seen, but I remember when I saw Chris's, because I saw yours independently and I didn't remember what the other one had written because I looked at them a couple of days apart. And I remember when I looked at Chris's, I was like, yeah, that seems like a pretty good swag at what I would say for Garrett. I'm a complicated man, the piano karaoke, because my birthday party involved piano karaoke.
01:24:26
Speaker
after the video in which it was very clear that I was a wrestling fan, my wife got up and sang a Debbie Gibson song that I love. And the piano player, we asked, there was no Motorhead, we asked. But the piano player Mark, he loves wrestling and Debbie Gibson, everyone. And I was like, I'm a complicated man. All right, everybody, great to be subscribed.
01:24:54
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Aperture podcast at Jimmy facts at Chris Migs at guard tat real quick though before we get out facts. What age did you lose your virginity? I was Let me think let me think 18 18 so in between you guys so Garrett you're the low man on the totem pole here Self high five. All right, everybody in our goddamn music
01:25:51
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And for what it's worth, because that was an in-college 18, not a high school 18. So it was 18, but I did not make the American pie cutoff.