Mailbag Episode #196: Listener Reactions to The Judgement Day Split, Randy vs Gunther, Cody's Title Run, Bash in Berlin

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<v Speaker 4>All right, guys, welcome to the ww podcast mail Bag.
<v Speaker 4>It is Saturday, Yes, Saturday, August seventeenth, twenty twenty four,
<v Speaker 4>and thank you for joining me as we are going
<v Speaker 4>to go through the mail bag as quickly as I
<v Speaker 4>can here. I'm on vacation right now.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 4>Yesterday I was gonna publish it and I got sidetracked.
<v Speaker 4>If you guys are on Patreon, you know why that is.
<v Speaker 4>I had an emergency with my daughter, who is okay.
<v Speaker 4>You know, everything's good. She fell and hit her head
<v Speaker 4>and started bleeding. So I don't mean to laugh, but
<v Speaker 4>everything's good now, so I guess, you know, it can
<v Speaker 4>be taken a little more lightheartedly, but it's scary, you know,
<v Speaker 4>And so took her to the er and checked her out,
<v Speaker 4>and you know, she got staples in her head, but
<v Speaker 4>she's you know okay, no no concussion, no no issues
<v Speaker 4>with her actual head. It's just when you cut anywhere
<v Speaker 4>on your face, you know, or anywhere on your head,
<v Speaker 4>it bleeds profusely, even if the cut is you know,
<v Speaker 4>super small. But that's what kept me up. You know,
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<v Speaker 4>emergency room process is a nightmare. And whether you universal
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<v Speaker 4>a nightmare. We were there for four hours plus, it
<v Speaker 4>might have been longer than that, and it's just it
<v Speaker 4>doesn't make any sense, and it wasn't that busy, and
<v Speaker 4>it's like, what the hell is going on? You know?
<v Speaker 4>So anyway, thank you guys for joining me here. All
<v Speaker 4>is well now, and I apologize as being a little late.
<v Speaker 4>On top of I'm on vacation, so coming to you
<v Speaker 4>from an undisclosed location from basically my car. That's where
<v Speaker 4>I'm at. If you guys follow me, every August, I
<v Speaker 4>take a vacation and the car is the only place
<v Speaker 4>I can do it because if I go anywhere else
<v Speaker 4>people are sleeping in the house and it'll it won't
<v Speaker 4>be good if I wake them up. So thank you
<v Speaker 4>everybody for joining me here. And we're gonna get to
<v Speaker 4>wrestling right now. Let's start with emails, and we're gonna
<v Speaker 4>start with let's see Hungry Pup the patron Hungry Pup,
<v Speaker 4>He says, Hi, Matt, I'm loving the Judgment Day storyline
<v Speaker 4>and it's my favorite program. Do you think Ria and
<v Speaker 4>Damien are going to form a stable? Who will join?
<v Speaker 4>Will Finn rename the Judgment Day? I hope he doesn't.
<v Speaker 4>For what it's worth, I'm on Heel team, the team
<v Speaker 4>Heel Judgment Day. They're way more fun. Well, Heels are
<v Speaker 4>allowed to do a lot more too. I mean, if
<v Speaker 4>you're a heel, you can pretty much do anything you want.
<v Speaker 4>You don't have to worry about the crowd cheering for you.
<v Speaker 4>That's not your goal. Your goal is to be you know,
<v Speaker 4>selfish and to get the crowd to hate you. And
<v Speaker 4>it's easier in my mind, to get people to hate
<v Speaker 4>you than it is to trigger people's you know, admiration
<v Speaker 4>for you. So for me, yeah, I think that I
<v Speaker 4>understand why you like the Heel team of the Judgment
<v Speaker 4>Day better. I don't know if he'll rename it. He
<v Speaker 4>might out of spite, because they aren't the same group
<v Speaker 4>nearly as when they started. If you remember, the Judgment
<v Speaker 4>Day was Edge, it was Finn Balor, Damian Priest and
<v Speaker 4>Rhea Ripley, and then they turned on Edge. How many
<v Speaker 4>years ago was that? It feels like forever ago. But
<v Speaker 4>that's how the whole thing started, so not too many
<v Speaker 4>original members of that group left, so renaming it to
<v Speaker 4>another name may not be the worst thing. But at
<v Speaker 4>the same time, there may not need to be a
<v Speaker 4>name change. If dom Or, I'm sorry, Damian and Rhea
<v Speaker 4>decide to just team up, but don't form an official stable,
<v Speaker 4>and I don't think they should. They may have temporary
<v Speaker 4>alliances with common enemies that the Judgment Day has with
<v Speaker 4>Ria and Damien. That's fine if they're temporary. But Damian
<v Speaker 4>and Rhea I think are a are talent that you
<v Speaker 4>leave alone. In the individual sense. They are much more
<v Speaker 4>successful on their own. They are ready to be on
<v Speaker 4>their own. They don't need a stable built behind them.
<v Speaker 4>So that's just my take. But all right, thanks Hungry pup.
<v Speaker 4>All right, let's go to Darren. Another great patron. He says, Hey,
<v Speaker 4>ww podcast family, you've asked a couple times now for
<v Speaker 4>Cody fans to let you know what they think about
<v Speaker 4>this title run. That's not me. His character bugs me
<v Speaker 4>about as much as it does you. But I think
<v Speaker 4>there's two possible reasons you haven't got a response. Either
<v Speaker 4>you scared them all off, or even they can't argue
<v Speaker 4>with some of the stuff you say. So no, I
<v Speaker 4>need to apologize for your Cody rants because I think
<v Speaker 4>the Cody crybabies that still listen have thick skin enough
<v Speaker 4>to not let it get to them that much, and
<v Speaker 4>they're hardcore fans. Yet maybe that's it, although I don't.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if there's too many people out there
<v Speaker 4>that don't have, if they disagree with me, a shyness
<v Speaker 4>about disagreeing with me. And that's cool. You know. I'm
<v Speaker 4>not trying to scare anybody off. It is a legitimate question.
<v Speaker 4>I just it's not a gotcha, it's not a debate.
<v Speaker 4>It's a genuine question I have for those people who
<v Speaker 4>are Cody supporters and have been from his title chase
<v Speaker 4>to his victory to now his title run, how do
<v Speaker 4>you view his title run thus far? All of this
<v Speaker 4>build up about finishing the story, how important it is,
<v Speaker 4>and then he does it, and then in my mind
<v Speaker 4>it's been very underwhelming. But is that more symptomatic of
<v Speaker 4>just when Babyfaces win it's not as exciting as the chase,
<v Speaker 4>which is true for almost all Babyfaces, to be fair,
<v Speaker 4>or is it just that they've been very I don't know,
<v Speaker 4>very very underwhelming with the booking of Cody Rhodes. To
<v Speaker 4>be quite honest, it feels like they haven't done much
<v Speaker 4>with him. He's too busy coming out in his suits
<v Speaker 4>and you know, cutting his very self aware promos that
<v Speaker 4>he does. Nonetheless, it is a genuine question, and I
<v Speaker 4>continue to want an answer. I want to know what
<v Speaker 4>you guys think about his run thus far as champion.
<v Speaker 4>All right, thanks Darren, let's go to d He says, Hey,
<v Speaker 4>ww podcast World, DJ comes went back at it again.
<v Speaker 4>Did you see him? Did you watch his vignette? I'm
<v Speaker 4>talking about none other than Giovanni Vinci, Yes, because thank you,
<v Speaker 4>I forgot about that. It seems like they will be returning.
<v Speaker 4>He'll be turning very soon. I totally forgot him out him.
<v Speaker 4>I remember when he was Gunther with Gunther and Kaiser
<v Speaker 4>on Raw, But I thought Vinci got released. Since he
<v Speaker 4>got drafted to SmackDown, we haven't heard much from him
<v Speaker 4>or seen him until his recent vignette this past Friday
<v Speaker 4>night on SmackDown. If it's like Triple H and Creative
<v Speaker 4>just realized, it's like they just realized there was another
<v Speaker 4>underutilized talent on the main roster that they should just
<v Speaker 4>give him some TV appearances. So based on the quick vignette,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, is this cool character that's rich? I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I don't really have a ton to say other than
<v Speaker 4>short of that, as that vignette was. That vignette was
<v Speaker 4>more entertaining than his several year career on the main roster.
<v Speaker 4>So that's all you need to know about how much
<v Speaker 4>they've put time into giving him a character development, you know,
<v Speaker 4>giving any kind of character development on TV. So there
<v Speaker 4>is that. I don't the jury's still out. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>I can't really pass judgment yet on a thirty second vignette.
<v Speaker 4>But is Cody Rhodes even the guy anymore? With all
<v Speaker 4>the hype of him finally finishing the story at WrestleMania forty,
<v Speaker 4>then he becomes champion, and then after he's kind of
<v Speaker 4>been an average champ, nothing memorable, nothing important, nothing recognizable
<v Speaker 4>as of late. In my opinion, even the summer Slign
<v Speaker 4>main event was not about him. It was all about
<v Speaker 4>Roman's return and what he'll do to Solo Socoa. Roman
<v Speaker 4>got allowed baby face pop from the crowd, but even
<v Speaker 4>with saying without even saying a word on the mic
<v Speaker 4>as he as he has yet to do. Just marinan
<v Speaker 4>in that thought, how can a wrestler get a huge
<v Speaker 4>pop from the crowd without saying a word. Anyway, didjacuzmost
<v Speaker 4>signing off ivery hear weekend see y'all in the Discord
<v Speaker 4>Server for Friday Night SmackDown Joe Henry Report. Yeah. So
<v Speaker 4>the idea that Cody Rhoads has havn't had an average
<v Speaker 4>run so thus far, I think is it's a fair point.
<v Speaker 4>I would agree average is what he's had thus far.
<v Speaker 4>But to his credit, he still continues to get very
<v Speaker 4>very loud pops, regardless of the fact that they haven't
<v Speaker 4>really done a whole lot with him that's been exciting
<v Speaker 4>since WrestleMania. He still gets the reaction, you know, give
<v Speaker 4>or take a little bit from his WrestleMania forty victory.
<v Speaker 4>You know, the fans aren't falling off, right, The fans
<v Speaker 4>aren't starting to boo him. They're not starting to turn
<v Speaker 4>on him, not yet. If they do, we got something
<v Speaker 4>to talk about. Unbelievably, the fans have just bought into
<v Speaker 4>this manufactured you know, just about no better way to
<v Speaker 4>put it than politician. It's what he is. He dresses
<v Speaker 4>like it, walks like it, talks like it. He is one,
<v Speaker 4>albeit very talented, but it's it is kind of amazing
<v Speaker 4>that he has not They haven't really focused on him
<v Speaker 4>at all. It has been a lot about Where's Roman,
<v Speaker 4>Where's Roman got to take out solo? Right? That's what
<v Speaker 4>it's been about. And one also could argue, well, you
<v Speaker 4>know what, taking a back seat to the spotlight isn't
<v Speaker 4>a bad thing. You know, you don't always need to be,
<v Speaker 4>nor should you be in the spotlight of w w A,
<v Speaker 4>and what exactly they're doing all the time needs to
<v Speaker 4>be about you, you know not their top storyline doesn't
<v Speaker 4>always need to be about you. That said, you did
<v Speaker 4>beat the champion that was champion for four years, likely
<v Speaker 4>the longest title run of all of our lives. Listening,
<v Speaker 4>isn't that crazy? Think about that? Everyone listening to this
<v Speaker 4>podcast right now. Most likely. Most likely, the odds are
<v Speaker 4>that Roland Reigns's title run is the longest run we
<v Speaker 4>will see in our lifetimes. Just they're not going to
<v Speaker 4>do this again, at least I believe I will be
<v Speaker 4>in the grave by the time this happens again. If ever, so,
<v Speaker 4>just something to I don't know, not to bring our
<v Speaker 4>mortality into the conversation, but I think it was it
<v Speaker 4>was appropriate there to get some perspective on how long
<v Speaker 4>Roman's reigns Roman's reign really was. But yeah, I that
<v Speaker 4>popped from the crowd without saying word. I mean, didn't
<v Speaker 4>you forget when when Jericho returned? Was it twenty ten,
<v Speaker 4>twenty eleven? When Chris Jericho returned, he didn't say a
<v Speaker 4>word for like weeks, didn't say a word after his return,
<v Speaker 4>and the crowd continued to cheer him. He didn't say
<v Speaker 4>anything upon his return. So there is a way to
<v Speaker 4>do it. It's not a sustainable strategy, but it is possible,
<v Speaker 4>and sometimes it's very effective when you don't say anything
<v Speaker 4>at all. So all right, DJ, thank you, let's uh,
<v Speaker 4>let's go to Freeman says it might be a bit dated,
<v Speaker 4>but I wanted to take a mode. You appreciate how
<v Speaker 4>the Wyatt's Six are not using Deaf Rebel for their music.
<v Speaker 4>The impact of this choice can't be overstated. Just to
<v Speaker 4>remind you, it seems like you forget Deaf Rebel or
<v Speaker 4>ww's music producers. I never watched Bray Wyatt wrestle and
<v Speaker 4>have no personal connection with him, Yet the music still
<v Speaker 4>resonated with me as I had been following all along.
<v Speaker 4>Most wrestler's themes are about strength and power, which makes sense,
<v Speaker 4>but Deaf Rebel's formula has dulled for dulled our emotional
<v Speaker 4>response to these songs. The Wide Six theme, which most
<v Speaker 4>rage and sadness rather than just strength, is a refreshing change.
<v Speaker 4>I hope WWE continues to use Bray's old theme for
<v Speaker 4>the group and doesn't let Death Rebel after it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I don't have a ton of thoughts on that other
<v Speaker 4>than the music is very effective. Despite the fact that
<v Speaker 4>Bray's character for the majority of his career was confusing
<v Speaker 4>to me. There was very little consistency. At times, he
<v Speaker 4>spoke in riddles, with a riddle that was wrapped in
<v Speaker 4>a riddle, and you know, we were all supposed to
<v Speaker 4>sit here with our decoders and take time to decode it.
<v Speaker 4>I never did because it was too much for me
<v Speaker 4>in my simple mind. But I mean, bray White is
<v Speaker 4>still an amazing talent. I mean bray White's legacy is
<v Speaker 4>going to live on. Despite the fact I was frustrated
<v Speaker 4>by his character at times, he is, still, without a doubt,
<v Speaker 4>one of the best to DeGrace a ring, not necessarily
<v Speaker 4>in ring, but character and that gravitational pull that he
<v Speaker 4>had that a lot of stars don't have. That you
<v Speaker 4>can't teach, that just is there. So I dislike the
<v Speaker 4>SmackDown ending this week. Romans shouldn't have single handedly taken
<v Speaker 4>down the whole Bloodline in a frontal assault. He just won.
<v Speaker 4>What else does it to prove? Why does he even
<v Speaker 4>need help from the others if he can handle all
<v Speaker 4>on his own. Honestly, SmackDown is boring right now. The
<v Speaker 4>only reason I'm watching is the Bloodline story, and even
<v Speaker 4>that is getting stale. On Raw we have the Live
<v Speaker 4>Dom Judgment Day saga with the White six American Made rivalry,
<v Speaker 4>the New Day breakup, and the ongoing Punk Drew matchup,
<v Speaker 4>among other things. But on SmackDown, it's just the blood Line.
<v Speaker 4>They can't carry the show alone. WW should try a
<v Speaker 4>few episodes without the bloodline to see if they can
<v Speaker 4>develop their stories. Well, there has been several episodes in fact,
<v Speaker 4>post WrestleMania, when Roman left it wasn't all about the
<v Speaker 4>blood line. Yeah, Solo was starting to build his group
<v Speaker 4>and he did main event SmackDown several times and he
<v Speaker 4>started to kind of see where they were going with it.
<v Speaker 4>But there were also times too, when the build up
<v Speaker 4>to WrestleMania, when The Rock and Roman weren't on the show.
<v Speaker 4>It wasn't really about the blood line. You know, SmackDown
<v Speaker 4>can exist without the blood line, you know. But however,
<v Speaker 4>that said, the bloodline when you think of SmackDown, has
<v Speaker 4>been a centerpiece of it, and its ratings bear that
<v Speaker 4>out that it's been an unmitigated success. Yes, it's constantly
<v Speaker 4>the bloodline for the most part, but they have been
<v Speaker 4>very successful with that story and there are still several
<v Speaker 4>versions of it that we haven't seen that they want
<v Speaker 4>to tell us about. They want us to sit down around,
<v Speaker 4>you know, grandpa, and give us the story of Roman
<v Speaker 4>versus Solo, Roman eventually versus the Rock. There is more
<v Speaker 4>story time to come with the bloodline. So if you're
<v Speaker 4>tired of the blood Line and anything and everything that
<v Speaker 4>has to do with it. You've got a long way
<v Speaker 4>to go. You know, Roman's chapter is Champion for four
<v Speaker 4>years was only one part of the story. And it's
<v Speaker 4>just wild to think, isn't it, Because we've now got
<v Speaker 4>Solo versus Roman? And then how does that play out
<v Speaker 4>when the Rock comes back, and is he on solo side?
<v Speaker 4>And what happens when Solo and Jimmy and Jay eventually
<v Speaker 4>cross paths and does he convince them to all of this?
<v Speaker 4>It's gonna be a lot of fun. But yeah, I
<v Speaker 4>haven't given too much thought to the music. That's why
<v Speaker 4>you're here, Freeman to educate me, and I appreciate it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>but if the fact that he beats the Bloodline, why
<v Speaker 4>does he need help? Well, he didn't beat him in
<v Speaker 4>a match, you know, like, there's still that. He didn't
<v Speaker 4>beat them in a match, definitively, that's where it really counts.
<v Speaker 4>So there's still that. And he didn't become tribal chief again.
<v Speaker 4>You know, that is still up in the air. And
<v Speaker 4>I have more from my weekend review coming in the
<v Speaker 4>next day or two about that whole thing, and how
<v Speaker 4>if you just hold that necklace, you are the tribal chief.
<v Speaker 4>That's all that was needed, even though Roman didn't wear
<v Speaker 4>it all the time. And if just carrying something makes
<v Speaker 4>you automatically that thing, that means I could go over
<v Speaker 4>there in theory steal that necklace and they have to
<v Speaker 4>call me their tribal chief. So apparently it's been simplified
<v Speaker 4>and really defined down to an item. I didn't like that.
<v Speaker 4>To me, that's just a symbolic of who you are.
<v Speaker 4>It doesn't actually make you that thing. That's the problem
<v Speaker 4>I had remember with Solo on SmackDown and saying, hey,
<v Speaker 4>if Roland took this and this makes me the tribal chief,
<v Speaker 4>and if I didn't have this and Romand took it
<v Speaker 4>from me, I'd have to acknowledge him. It's kind of childish.
<v Speaker 4>That doesn't make any sense. Being something doesn't mean you
<v Speaker 4>have to have an item to prove your that thing.
<v Speaker 4>It's a lot deeper. So it's been really I mean,
<v Speaker 4>define down may not be the best way to define
<v Speaker 4>it or explain it. It could just be its being
<v Speaker 4>a travel chief is very superficial now because all it
<v Speaker 4>requires is you to hold the necklace. I could go
<v Speaker 4>on smack down, grab the necklace, and they have to
<v Speaker 4>acknowledge me as a fan. I'm their travel chief. You know,
<v Speaker 4>it's ridiculous. I did not like that, all right, honestly
<v Speaker 4>smacked out. Wait I just said that already, fellow, so Freeman,
<v Speaker 4>I already went through an email. Thank you, buddy. All right,
<v Speaker 4>let's go to bad Fish, he says, Hey, Matt, real quick,
<v Speaker 4>what are your thoughts on the judgment day being called
<v Speaker 4>the Finistry of Darkness? Saw that online and thought it
<v Speaker 4>was hilarious, but seriously, a red Buddy Murphy and Alisa
<v Speaker 4>Air Black have contracts ending in the fall. Could you
<v Speaker 4>see them signing the WW to join Brian Dom much Love? Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>they could definitely join. They haven't been doing a whole
<v Speaker 4>lot in aw from what I understand, So yeah, why not.
<v Speaker 4>I'm sure rehould be advocating for it. Hell yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 4>sure she is. And the Finistry of Darkness, Sure, that's
<v Speaker 4>not a bad idea, but it's too cute. It is funny,
<v Speaker 4>but do you want that group being funny? You know
<v Speaker 4>it's funny, but do you want comedy? That's the question.
<v Speaker 4>All Right, let's talk to another patron, and let's talk
<v Speaker 4>to Dino, he says, it's you know from Scotland. Let
<v Speaker 4>me hear you say yeep. In response to last week,
<v Speaker 4>I called SummerSlam about the big moments lame and gave
<v Speaker 4>the show B plus. I was grading the plee I
<v Speaker 4>was gonna give your I was gonna judge your entire life,
<v Speaker 4>as you put it, but I couldn't because I don't
<v Speaker 4>know you in real life. Although I do think sometimes
<v Speaker 4>you take things too seriously literally and analyze too much.
<v Speaker 4>Some things aren't that deep, bro, Relax, you don't need
<v Speaker 4>to read this bit. Well, I'm gonna read it. And
<v Speaker 4>also sometimes I think that you are the perfect type
<v Speaker 4>of person that would really benefit from smoking weed and
<v Speaker 4>chilling out. You know, it's funny, okay, a couple of things.
<v Speaker 4>I decided to read that because it's my show. It
<v Speaker 4>seems like I, you know, I have to say, I
<v Speaker 4>am probably one of the more chill guys in real life. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>And this is not an act I put on. I
<v Speaker 4>get passionate about wrestling when I talk about it, but
<v Speaker 4>I'm not going around high strung all the time. In fact,
<v Speaker 4>I'm probably too relaxed about a lot of things that
<v Speaker 4>I should not be relaxed about in my life. And
<v Speaker 4>I hear that a lot too, that you overanalyze, you
<v Speaker 4>take things too seriously analyze, Well, what kind of podcast
<v Speaker 4>would that be if I'm just sitting here going the
<v Speaker 4>bloodline is good, the World Championship match was okay, the
<v Speaker 4>ending was was predictable, and I've just drawn on about
<v Speaker 4>superficial stuff instead of deep diving. That's what podcasts do.
<v Speaker 4>That's the purpose of a podcast. Anybody can have a
<v Speaker 4>two sentence elementary opinion on something, you know, Podcasts dive
<v Speaker 4>deeper into that one person's opinion who hosts the show,
<v Speaker 4>you know, So that again, by definition, is what a
<v Speaker 4>podcast should be. Is more than just five sentences on something.
<v Speaker 4>But no I have Here's a fact about me. I've
<v Speaker 4>never smoked weed in my life. Never, never, And it's
<v Speaker 4>not a flex. It's not me saying, you know, I'm
<v Speaker 4>a square, I'm better than you, and I just never
<v Speaker 4>had an interest in it. I'm not really high strung
<v Speaker 4>to begin with, believe it or not, so I don't
<v Speaker 4>feel the need for it. I also alcohol is my jam,
<v Speaker 4>although I don't even do that that much. Is maybe
<v Speaker 4>a couple times a year now. It's just really hard
<v Speaker 4>with kids, and I got this to do, and I've
<v Speaker 4>got a real big, big boy job outside this in
<v Speaker 4>my life. It's just I have no time. It'd be hungover,
<v Speaker 4>be horrible. So I gotta really, like, you know, strategically
<v Speaker 4>pick my days or times that I drink, which is
<v Speaker 4>again maybe twice a year, which is probably mind boggling
<v Speaker 4>to some of you. But kids will change your life,
<v Speaker 4>and I can't underscore that enough, and not for the worse.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I'm not saying being at a bar and
<v Speaker 4>being hammered would be a better thing than having children.
<v Speaker 4>That's not what I'm saying. It just changes your life
<v Speaker 4>in so many ways. But to get into weed really
<v Speaker 4>wouldn't do anything for me, you know, not that it
<v Speaker 4>wouldn't affect me, but I just I don't see the
<v Speaker 4>need for it that a lot of people do. Just
<v Speaker 4>it doesn't interest me. I like the way alcohol feels.
<v Speaker 4>It's just unfortunate that alcohol gives you a hangover where
<v Speaker 4>we'd I guess from what I hear does not. So Also,
<v Speaker 4>it's been illegal most of my life. Up until the
<v Speaker 4>last like thirty seconds, weed has been illegal almost everywhere,
<v Speaker 4>So if you did it, it was kind of under
<v Speaker 4>the radar. You know, a lot of people that did
<v Speaker 4>it were looked at as gateway. They looked at it
<v Speaker 4>as gateway drugs to worse stuff, you know. So there's
<v Speaker 4>that now that they've legalized that, you're having a lot
<v Speaker 4>of people do it that otherwise wouldn't. And so anyway,
<v Speaker 4>I think Randy and Gunther should main event Bash in Berlin.
<v Speaker 4>I'm starting to get that big fight feel as we
<v Speaker 4>get closer, and who knows, if Randy wins and Gunther
<v Speaker 4>refuses to go to SmackDown, it could possibly open a
<v Speaker 4>spot for Sammy or Jay to move to move over
<v Speaker 4>instead of and walla, Okay, that's the one move over
<v Speaker 4>there with the chess pieces slowly but surely moving into place.
<v Speaker 4>Doubt it, though, gun There will probably win, and my
<v Speaker 4>point will be moot. Yeah, probably, Gunther's probably gonna win.
<v Speaker 4>Though you can fantasize all day about Gunther losing. He
<v Speaker 4>just got started. Man, it would be wild if he lost.
<v Speaker 4>It's not impossible, but I would really have to hear
<v Speaker 4>an unbelievable argument for him to lose and why it's
<v Speaker 4>for the best. I don't know. I don't know what
<v Speaker 4>argument you can make I really don't, okay. One of
<v Speaker 4>the things I missed with the two thousands is each
<v Speaker 4>show having a different feel. On Raw, the ropes are
<v Speaker 4>white and they should be red. And on SmackDown the
<v Speaker 4>ropes are blue and should be the white ropes that
<v Speaker 4>should be for the ples only. I would also I
<v Speaker 4>would also wouldn't mind black ropes for ples. And with TKO,
<v Speaker 4>who are probably a billionaire company, they could easily afford
<v Speaker 4>to have different set for every ple. They could also
<v Speaker 4>easily afford pyrot to sort of very raw SmackDown a
<v Speaker 4>pl I miss the small things. Small things do matter
<v Speaker 4>and and small things add up, but things can't always
<v Speaker 4>and they don't stay the same. I agree that every
<v Speaker 4>show doesn't feel like it has its own identity at times. Especially.
<v Speaker 4>Here's the biggest problem that were that you didn't bring
<v Speaker 4>up is they they have rand splits, but they don't
<v Speaker 4>adhere to them. If they adhere it to them, it
<v Speaker 4>would be jaw dropping news. If somebody from Raw came
<v Speaker 4>to SmackDown or vice versa, it would feel like a
<v Speaker 4>big deal. But since they don't care and still under
<v Speaker 4>the Triple H regimes, seemingly not care. Yeah, their own
<v Speaker 4>identity with their own rosters. Doesn't really have the maximum
<v Speaker 4>effect that it could if they seemingly just stay with
<v Speaker 4>their draft rules. All right, uh, let's see lastly. Believe
<v Speaker 4>it or not. But for the last few months I
<v Speaker 4>was actually gonna make the point how you should do
<v Speaker 4>another podcast unrelated to wrestling and run it concurrent with
<v Speaker 4>the w W podcast. But haven't got a round to it.
<v Speaker 4>So while you're doing WWE, you'd also at the same
<v Speaker 4>time doing another podcast on politics and other things. I
<v Speaker 4>think it's such a great idea and I can't wait
<v Speaker 4>till you bring this out. Hopefully there will be a
<v Speaker 4>mail bag stuff where politics can be talked about open,
<v Speaker 4>we can let our voices be heard by sending in
<v Speaker 4>our emails. I'm hoping this is a podcast where nothing
<v Speaker 4>is off limits and people can really express where their views,
<v Speaker 4>whether it's on current day topics and big news stories
<v Speaker 4>that developed during the week, the war in Ukraine and Russia,
<v Speaker 4>what's going on in the Middle East, in your favorite
<v Speaker 4>the way women rest and so to be, sometimes transgenderism,
<v Speaker 4>the conspiracy theories, and even crazy personal experiences people have had,
<v Speaker 4>like near death, out of body experiences. For example, if
<v Speaker 4>your new podcast comes to fruition. My hope is that
<v Speaker 4>this podcast is absolutely nothing off limits, and that you
<v Speaker 4>don't give a damn about snow the snowflakes and get
<v Speaker 4>offended at everything. See again next week. Okay, it's funny
<v Speaker 4>before everything in crap hit the fan last night and
<v Speaker 4>I was in the er for many hours and the
<v Speaker 4>whole issue with my daughter. That was gonna be on
<v Speaker 4>my list to actually publish an episode. I've got some
<v Speaker 4>cover art, I've got the name of the show, I've
<v Speaker 4>got things kind of I to go, and I was
<v Speaker 4>gonna publish my first episode, but I haven't recorded it yet,
<v Speaker 4>so there's that. I had a whole plan, and of
<v Speaker 4>course that I got all left up last night, so
<v Speaker 4>it is in the works. It is something that is
<v Speaker 4>I will say it's mostly focused on politics, but it's open,
<v Speaker 4>as you said, like kind of anything. The problem with
<v Speaker 4>making a podcast podcast about any and everything is that
<v Speaker 4>it's also about nothing, if that makes sense, because people
<v Speaker 4>don't search out podcasts that are titled the everything podcast.
<v Speaker 4>Although I shouldn't say that there is a very successful
<v Speaker 4>podcast called everything, I should I take that back as
<v Speaker 4>a general rule, though, a podcast that is that is
<v Speaker 4>not focused on a topic usually is not successful, okay,
<v Speaker 4>usually with rare exception, so I need to have a
<v Speaker 4>focal point. But I don't mind if there was to
<v Speaker 4>be a kind of an off topic section of the show.
<v Speaker 4>I mean that's a possibility. So while I would focus
<v Speaker 4>mostly on politics or whatever, it could be where I
<v Speaker 4>split part of the show and do a mailbag that
<v Speaker 4>is open to anything, like you said, uh, near that,
<v Speaker 4>near death experiences or you know whatever. So it is
<v Speaker 4>in the works. It's also a matter of timing, and
<v Speaker 4>I will say, when this show is published, not gonna
<v Speaker 4>be able to record as much as I do here.
<v Speaker 4>There won't. There's not gonna be like a daily, six
<v Speaker 4>times a week thing. It's probably gonna be once a
<v Speaker 4>week to start out. See how the numbers go. And
<v Speaker 4>I'll of course let you guys know how that is
<v Speaker 4>and what the name of the show is. I'm sure
<v Speaker 4>some of you will will listen to the show and
<v Speaker 4>hear truly what I think about what's been going on.
<v Speaker 4>And no filter. By the way, there's not gonna be
<v Speaker 4>any filter on this well in terms of you know,
<v Speaker 4>topic for mail bag section or something, though, but I
<v Speaker 4>don't want to Here's what I don't want just a
<v Speaker 4>bunch of F bombs for F bombs. The reason is
<v Speaker 4>that it cuts your sponsorship, like possible funding by a
<v Speaker 4>lot because a lot of sponsors and ads that you
<v Speaker 4>hear throughout the show, they don't want to deal with
<v Speaker 4>explicit podcasts. They don't that's not their target market. So
<v Speaker 4>I'm kind of shooting myself on the foot if i
<v Speaker 4>put a public feed out there where I'm saying this
<v Speaker 4>that just so I can say F this, F that,
<v Speaker 4>you know, so that part of it the uncensored. Maybe
<v Speaker 4>I'll bring the Patreon or something. But to bring politics
<v Speaker 4>into this show as an actual separate part of this show,
<v Speaker 4>like a cutout portion, I don't think that's a good idea. Well,
<v Speaker 4>I sometimes have bled into it. I don't want it
<v Speaker 4>to be an actual part of the show because that's
<v Speaker 4>not what this show should be. In my mind, it's
<v Speaker 4>my show. I've decided it shouldn't be because it's about WWE,
<v Speaker 4>hence the name of this show. All right, thanks to
<v Speaker 4>you know. All right, let's talk to somebody else here.
<v Speaker 4>I wanna check my here's what I'm gonna do every week.
<v Speaker 4>I don't do this, and it's embarrassing it's just embarrassing.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm gonna go over to Patreon. I want to
<v Speaker 4>make sure that nobody else has messaged me here. I
<v Speaker 4>don't think they have. I've got some non patrons, so
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna move over to some non patrons. And who
<v Speaker 4>do I want to go to? First? Let's talk to
<v Speaker 4>somebody who had a subject in the email that said
<v Speaker 4>shaking my head. And this is gonna be fun right,
<v Speaker 4>I just want to say, I'm not sure you're always
<v Speaker 4>watching the same show as everyone else. Funny how you
<v Speaker 4>don't mind the two goofs dressing his females, but hate
<v Speaker 4>on Cody for not being manly enough, which actually cracks
<v Speaker 4>me up because I haven't seen anything that says Cody
<v Speaker 4>is weak. You have his manny and petty, but really,
<v Speaker 4>what are you doing looking at his hands the whole time?
<v Speaker 4>And you just know? Oh and just so you know,
<v Speaker 4>people love dogs. Oh, this is gonna be a I
<v Speaker 4>can't wait to respond to this. We get that you don't,
<v Speaker 4>but bro, give it a rest. With the Cody dog thing,
<v Speaker 4>actually with Cody altogether. You say the same thing every week.
<v Speaker 4>Let the pod, love the pod. Just my thoughts. I
<v Speaker 4>know you don't care well, LEVI, it's not that I
<v Speaker 4>don't care. If I didn't care, I wouldn't I wouldn't
<v Speaker 4>have read your email. I do actually love opposing views.
<v Speaker 4>I think I need more of it, not to manufacture
<v Speaker 4>fake opposing views, but and encourage people to just be
<v Speaker 4>and and you know, controversial or you know, contrarian, just
<v Speaker 4>do it. I think that's a that that's kind of
<v Speaker 4>a false, a false way to to debate. But I
<v Speaker 4>appreciate this, I really do. That's not being a jerk
<v Speaker 4>about it. I do. Here's here's a little more clarification.
<v Speaker 4>So the two dudes, I imagine you're talking about Pretty
<v Speaker 4>Deadly who obviously just very feminine. But here's the difference
<v Speaker 4>between them and Cody. They're not supposed to be taken seriously.
<v Speaker 4>They are not world champion Cody is. We know what
<v Speaker 4>Pretty Deadly is, we know who they are, we kind
<v Speaker 4>of know where they are in the pecking order. Cody
<v Speaker 4>is supposed to be this every guy. He's supposed to
<v Speaker 4>be the every man. It's also kind of funny that
<v Speaker 4>you say I say the same thing every week, yet
<v Speaker 4>give me an email where you know I'm pretty much
<v Speaker 4>gonna say the same thing so you're now encouraging me
<v Speaker 4>to do the one thing that you said I do
<v Speaker 4>all the time. So I guess you're glutton for your
<v Speaker 4>punishment here, But I guess here we go and I say,
<v Speaker 4>I'm a lot. I know too. I'm trying to work
<v Speaker 4>on that. So the dog thing, I don't hate dogs.
<v Speaker 4>I'm not in love with them like many people are.
<v Speaker 4>I don't feel a connection that I have to have one.
<v Speaker 4>I would never purposefully hurt an animal. I would never
<v Speaker 4>hurt anyone's pet. Now, I wouldn't well, I shouldn't say
<v Speaker 4>I've never hurt an animal. If an animal attacked me,
<v Speaker 4>I would of course defend myself. I'm not gonna lay
<v Speaker 4>there because oh it's an animal. I guess I'm just
<v Speaker 4>gonna bleed out here. No, I would probably try to
<v Speaker 4>kill it. If an animal, if a dog bit me
<v Speaker 4>and it wasn't just playing, I would and it was
<v Speaker 4>like actually really trying to hurt me, I would kill
<v Speaker 4>the dog. I wouldn't even I wouldn't even hesitate. I
<v Speaker 4>wouldn't even think twice now, because that's self defense and
<v Speaker 4>that's just how I feel. But again, I wouldn't actually,
<v Speaker 4>I wouldn't go after an animal actively to try to
<v Speaker 4>harm the animal. So I don't hate dogs. I feel
<v Speaker 4>neutral about them. Just generally, if I see a dog,
<v Speaker 4>I don't go ah. And I also don't go, oh
<v Speaker 4>my god, shoot the thing. I just go look, it's
<v Speaker 4>a dog. I feel neutral. I just I don't love them.
<v Speaker 4>I don't hate them. That's the truth. That's the god
<v Speaker 4>God's honest truth. And I know some of you, many
<v Speaker 4>of you own dogs, love dogs, have companions. You're very
<v Speaker 4>you know, you feel an actual connection with your dog,
<v Speaker 4>and that's awesome, good, seriously cool. Great. It's just not
<v Speaker 4>for me. I also, and so you you must be
<v Speaker 4>on her own, like are you a dog or a
<v Speaker 4>cat person? I don't like cats. I actually don't like cats.
<v Speaker 4>Cats freak me out. That's somebody coming from a cat owner.
<v Speaker 4>I wish I didn't get a cat. They don't do anything.
<v Speaker 4>They don't do a thing. They walk around creepily. They
<v Speaker 4>you know, just need their claws on crap. Some of
<v Speaker 4>them may kind of snuggle you or look like they
<v Speaker 4>want to snuggle on your lap, and then they turn
<v Speaker 4>around and swipe you with their claws. I don't believe
<v Speaker 4>in declawing. I wouldn't do that. But again, even though
<v Speaker 4>I don't really like cats, I would not actively harm
<v Speaker 4>a cat. So I just wanted to give you my
<v Speaker 4>general view on animals and domestic animals. I don't love them,
<v Speaker 4>I don't hate them. They're just there and I feel neutral.
<v Speaker 4>So there's my perspective before I give you the Cody answer,
<v Speaker 4>the Cody answer, why do we Here's the question, why
<v Speaker 4>do we need to see that?
<v Speaker 2>See?
<v Speaker 4>No champion that I can ever recall my nearly thirty
<v Speaker 4>years of watching wrestling has ever had an entrance like
<v Speaker 4>that and multiple times where we need to see his animal.
<v Speaker 4>My answer, my question to you is why do we
<v Speaker 4>need to see that? You know the change is with
<v Speaker 4>Cody and his presentation, So the Burgener proof is on you,
<v Speaker 4>not me, to tell me why it is such a
<v Speaker 4>need that that we need to see his dog. It's
<v Speaker 4>been like three times now that I think maybe more.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I know the reason is we're supposed to
<v Speaker 4>feel related to him. We're supposed to feel it's gonna
<v Speaker 4>be a connection because oh, wow, I own a dog.
<v Speaker 4>Cody has a dog. Wow, isn't this so relatable? He
<v Speaker 4>loves dogs too? No, it makes him look weak. Not
<v Speaker 4>because he owns a dog. But because we have to
<v Speaker 4>see why they're showing us he owns a dog. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>this is like how you act at home. You want
<v Speaker 4>to act at home with your dog and pet your
<v Speaker 4>dog and walk around with your dog, go for it.
<v Speaker 4>I don't want to see your stupid dog at your
<v Speaker 4>bus and then you hand the dog off to some
<v Speaker 4>handler and then go to the ring. All right, And yeah,
<v Speaker 4>if he has many, petty I'm not staring at his hands,
<v Speaker 4>but you know he's the kind of guy that gets one.
<v Speaker 4>He's got a clean shaven face, nothing wrong with that,
<v Speaker 4>but you just kind of know he fits the bill here.
<v Speaker 4>He wears a suit in the shower. As I said,
<v Speaker 4>probably he has bleach blonde hair, which no one has
<v Speaker 4>done since in Sync gave it up in two thousand
<v Speaker 4>and one. All right, and sure it does it. It's gonna,
<v Speaker 4>it's gonna. It's a good look for him, no doubt.
<v Speaker 4>You know, he's the guy that goes there and probably
<v Speaker 4>gets manny petties. And hey, I've gotten a petticure before,
<v Speaker 4>nothing wrong with that, but he does it probably on
<v Speaker 4>the regular. Uh, it's just an assumption on my part.
<v Speaker 4>So that's just some of my responses here I can continue,
<v Speaker 4>but as you have just pointed out, give it a rest.
<v Speaker 4>You know what I'm gonna do when someone tells me
<v Speaker 4>to give it a rest with something or is tired
<v Speaker 4>of me saying something. You should know me by now,
<v Speaker 4>LEVI what am I gonna do. I'm gonna take the
<v Speaker 4>low road and I'm gonna talk about it more, which
<v Speaker 4>you have just inspired me to do. So another character flaw,
<v Speaker 4>but I'm fully embracing it. Okay, maybe another email or
<v Speaker 4>two then we're gonna kind of wrap it up. Andrew
<v Speaker 4>from New Zealand. I just listened to the Weekend Review
<v Speaker 4>while heading to work. Just a quick thought about this
<v Speaker 4>whole Cody and Kevin saga. Maybe Randy confronts Cody about
<v Speaker 4>why he didn't get a shot at the title, then
<v Speaker 4>confronts him, or then then confronts Kevin. Then during the
<v Speaker 4>title match, Randy does a heel turning gives Cody and
<v Speaker 4>Kevin both an RKO, setting up a triple threat or
<v Speaker 4>a Cody versus Randy that we're all waiting for. Well,
<v Speaker 4>we all know, and thank you for the email, Andrew.
<v Speaker 4>We all know the RKO is coming for Cody Roads.
<v Speaker 4>It's on its way. The package has been mailed. It's
<v Speaker 4>just a matter of did Randy Orton send it ground?
<v Speaker 4>Did he send it standard delivery, did he send it express?
<v Speaker 4>Did he send it overnight. We don't know the delivery
<v Speaker 4>method that Randy Orton shipped his RKO out in. All Right,
<v Speaker 4>I tend to think it is probably in the next
<v Speaker 4>couple of months. But you gotta you have to understand too,
<v Speaker 4>this Cody Randy rivalry that is inevitable. It is one
<v Speaker 4>they know they have in their in the back pocket.
<v Speaker 4>It's one that if the Rocking and Cody Roads aren't
<v Speaker 4>going to have a wrestlemanium match, and I hope they don't,
<v Speaker 4>they get it over with earlier. You know, Cody Randy
<v Speaker 4>is a wrestlemanium worthy match. That is a wrestleman They
<v Speaker 4>have more history by a mile than Cody and the
<v Speaker 4>rock do. So I think Cody Randy is a much
<v Speaker 4>better matchup aout WrestleMania than Cody rock So yeah, but look,
<v Speaker 4>the turn's coming. The turn is coming by one or
<v Speaker 4>both men. All right, let's go to one more here,
<v Speaker 4>We'll do one more from what is this carrion? So
<v Speaker 4>thank you for reading the review last week. Your reviews
<v Speaker 4>are good healthy, banter is always good. What do you
<v Speaker 4>mean just good? Good? What do you mean good? All right?
<v Speaker 4>So anyway, thank you. Friday Night' SmackDown, in my opinion,
<v Speaker 4>not the best. La Knight was great, very deserving. Tiffany
<v Speaker 4>and Chelsea or Tim. Tiffey and Chelsea are planting the seed.
<v Speaker 4>I still think Charlotte will join her at one point,
<v Speaker 4>perfect combo. I love CG and PN. They're great heels.
<v Speaker 4>The hatred towards Ny is awful, but she'll have a
<v Speaker 4>long run. I could be wrong. Well, the hatred is
<v Speaker 4>what you want as a healed I don't think that's awful.
<v Speaker 4>That's what you're looking for. Roman is a as a
<v Speaker 4>BF is good babyface. But as I said last week,
<v Speaker 4>the Bloodline bores me. Rest were fillers at best. Well yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, if you're bored by the Bloodline right now,
<v Speaker 4>I think that opinion will change in short order. When
<v Speaker 4>Jimmy comes back, Jay comes back, Paul Hammon's back, Cody
<v Speaker 4>and Sammy join them, and we're looking towards Survivor series, right,
<v Speaker 4>that'll change things in a big way. Survivor series is
<v Speaker 4>going to be a massive, massive no no not raw
<v Speaker 4>opening superb. The dynamic between the New Judgment Day and
<v Speaker 4>the Terror Twins is outstanding. The Bill to Orton versus
<v Speaker 4>Gunther is getting great. The Drew and seem Punk angle
<v Speaker 4>is cool. Although I hate CM, Chad is the mirror
<v Speaker 4>of curd Angles heel and it's really good. OJ is
<v Speaker 4>a beast and so is Bronson. Reed. The push is
<v Speaker 4>a positive thing my humble opinion, though, Wyatt Six are
<v Speaker 4>great and prove that in there. I'm trying to read this,
<v Speaker 4>make sure it gets The punctuation sometimes throws me off.
<v Speaker 4>In my opinion, the Wyatt's six are great and prove
<v Speaker 4>that in their match after SummerSlam. Oh I see, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>I know you disagree, but Alexa would be perfect in
<v Speaker 4>a final sendoff for Bray. Thank you so much. Once again,
<v Speaker 4>I have to level up to get down the air.
<v Speaker 4>I have a lot to contribute. Thank for the hard work. Okay, well,
<v Speaker 4>thanks man, appreciate it. I didn't know you were a patron,
<v Speaker 4>otherwise I would have read you so far down here.
<v Speaker 4>The White Six, I think have debuted in the best
<v Speaker 4>way possible. This is a group that you're concerned about.
<v Speaker 4>Whenever there's hocus pocus potentially and magic and stuff that
<v Speaker 4>is just you know, sometimes too far fetched to believe.
<v Speaker 4>Very few characters or groups can pull it off, very few,
<v Speaker 4>and you need to be very careful how it's done
<v Speaker 4>without looking hokey and just playing out fake. And the
<v Speaker 4>White Six I think have really been more based in
<v Speaker 4>reality with just people that have issues mentally. Instead of
<v Speaker 4>relying on hocus pocus, they're relying on character development, and
<v Speaker 4>that is where it's at. That is I think that's
<v Speaker 4>a sustainable, absolutely sustainable path to success for this group.
<v Speaker 4>As far as Alexa goes. I mean, I've been steadfast
<v Speaker 4>on the fact that Alexa joining the group is probably
<v Speaker 4>not the best use of her. However, if Alexa wants
<v Speaker 4>to do it, I mean I'm not gonna say no.
<v Speaker 4>I just think she's better used as a talent not
<v Speaker 4>in that group. There's already a female Nikki Cross. However,
<v Speaker 4>there is history with Niki Cross and Alexa Bliss, long history,
<v Speaker 4>so that would be fun. It's just in my opinion,
<v Speaker 4>I don't think it's the best. However, Alexa Blis Lexei
<v Speaker 4>Kaufmin is very talented. I don't think she gets the
<v Speaker 4>credit she deserves. I don't think she's talked about enough.
<v Speaker 4>She's an extremely good promo. I think that a lot
<v Speaker 4>of times that's overlooked how good she is on the mic.
<v Speaker 4>And you know, we'll see how good she is when
<v Speaker 4>she returns if they bring her back as a t
<v Speaker 4>I'm sorry, as a actual singles babyface run that is
<v Speaker 4>not connected to a team, or they do bring her
<v Speaker 4>back into the fold as a WIAT six member, that's fine.
<v Speaker 4>That's fine too. Again, not how I would do it,
<v Speaker 4>but if they did it, she's talented enough to make
<v Speaker 4>it really interesting. So I'll give you that. All right. Now,
<v Speaker 4>let's see here before we get to the actual I
<v Speaker 4>think we have, we'll just get to the Joe Henry
<v Speaker 4>Report in just a moment. I want to give a
<v Speaker 4>shout outs here if we have some new patrons here
<v Speaker 4>we have, Oh, Carrion, you upgraded your membership. I appreciate it.
<v Speaker 4>We had a couple of people cancel, so the heck
<v Speaker 4>with you. I'm not going to name names, of course,
<v Speaker 4>but people are free to come and go. It really
<v Speaker 4>does not hurt my feelings. People try things all the
<v Speaker 4>time and it's not for them. It's no big deal.
<v Speaker 4>It's really totally it's totally fine. I did have and
<v Speaker 4>I'm trying to I'm fumble around in my car right
<v Speaker 4>now because I know I had somebody who joined us
<v Speaker 4>over a Patreon in the last like several days here,
<v Speaker 4>and I want to give them credit and a shout
<v Speaker 4>out on the show. It's Oh Jay Jay jag so
<v Speaker 4>j a G. Thank you so much you joined us
<v Speaker 4>on the smackdowns here. I hope you enjoy your membership,
<v Speaker 4>my friend. All right, let's get to the Joe Henry Report,
<v Speaker 4>and then I need to wrap this up because it's
<v Speaker 4>getting hot in this car right now. All right, let's uh,
<v Speaker 4>let's see what the Joe Henry Report is all about
<v Speaker 4>this week.
<v Speaker 2>Hello doing to Me podcast world. This is DJ coolsmel
<v Speaker 2>back added again on your Mailmax show Records. You live
<v Speaker 2>on a Wednesday board and you know what time it is.
<v Speaker 4>It's time to see his name man, he peers.
<v Speaker 2>I believe in Joe Hendry.
<v Speaker 4>I believe in Joe Hendry.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, folks, Joe Hendry is his name. As I
<v Speaker 2>take it to my fifth episode of the Joe Hendri Report.
<v Speaker 2>But before we get to what took place last night
<v Speaker 2>on NXT. In regards to Joe Hendry, I must say,
<v Speaker 2>and it hurts my very soul to say this, but
<v Speaker 2>then I missed the opportunity to meet Joe Hendri person
<v Speaker 2>as this past Sunday in Queens, New York, at Marios
<v Speaker 2>Pete Seria and Restaurant, Joe Hendrick was doing a meet
<v Speaker 2>and greet, a nice little casual signing at a pizza joint,
<v Speaker 2>and I wish I was part of the long list
<v Speaker 2>of fans that were waiting just to get an opportunity
<v Speaker 2>to meet Joe Hendry in person, to meet the icon,
<v Speaker 2>the living legend himself, the guy from Scotland, and everybody
<v Speaker 2>loves then, everybody sings his music. Joe Hendry is his name.
<v Speaker 2>Hopefully he gets to come back to New York City.
<v Speaker 2>But I guess when you're the most popular person around town,
<v Speaker 2>you gotta be where the people are, whether it's had
<v Speaker 2>a pizza joint, whether it's at a bingo hall, a church,
<v Speaker 2>a park, a mall, a grocerreet, wherever where the people are,
<v Speaker 2>you gotta be there. And Joe Hendry was there this
<v Speaker 2>past Sunday, but I wish I was there to meet
<v Speaker 2>him in person. But anyway, hopefully he comes back to
<v Speaker 2>New York City. Now let's get to NXT at what
<v Speaker 2>took place last night. As Ethan Page, the NXC champion,
<v Speaker 2>opens the show as he talked about how everything revolves
<v Speaker 2>around him, but then he also mentioned potential contenders for
<v Speaker 2>his championship in Trick Williams and Pete Dunn. But then
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, he gets interrupted by Joe Hendry.
<v Speaker 2>Joe Hendry comes in and he mentions that he is
<v Speaker 2>here to win the NXC Championship, putting his name in
<v Speaker 2>the billing to hopefully go up against Ethan Page at
<v Speaker 2>NXC No Mercy, which is coming up on September first.
<v Speaker 2>But then after when everybody is singing along to Joe
<v Speaker 2>Hendry's music, as Ethan Page can't get that song out
<v Speaker 2>of his head and he absolutely hates it, he gets superkick.
<v Speaker 2>Joe Hendry gets superkick by none other than Wes Lee.
<v Speaker 2>But then later on in the show, Joe Hendry returns
<v Speaker 2>the favor and attacks Wesley doing the I guess you
<v Speaker 2>could say promo battle between Wesley and Pete Dunn. Is
<v Speaker 2>there a possibility that we could have a triple threat
<v Speaker 2>for the Number one Contendership? To see who's gonna face
<v Speaker 2>Ethan page at no mercy for the NXC championship of
<v Speaker 2>Joe Hendry versus Wesley versus Pete dun It's a possibility, folks,
<v Speaker 2>and maybe a fatal forward if you add Trick Williams.
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, before I continue on, I must say and
<v Speaker 2>stop right here, because everybody believes that Joe Hendry and
<v Speaker 2>most of portly buy his music. Listen well, not buy
<v Speaker 2>his music, extreme his music, enjoy all the good vibes
<v Speaker 2>that Joe Hendry brings on the Internet, and most supportably
<v Speaker 2>do this.
<v Speaker 1>Strong science, well believed jew.
<v Speaker 4>Her once again, this is your guy.
<v Speaker 2>DJ COULSMO, have a blessed week, ma kid to one
<v Speaker 2>of those stays in my friends believe at peace.
<v Speaker 4>Oh DJ, I feel for your brother. Oh man, you
<v Speaker 4>had the opportunity so close, so close, hit so far
<v Speaker 4>from meeting Joe Henry. But listen, you're in the You know,
<v Speaker 4>you're in a pretty good place living in New York
<v Speaker 4>City to have WW passed through there. You know, occasionally
<v Speaker 4>I think you're good. So this this is a missed opportunity,
<v Speaker 4>But certainly I think you'll have others. I wouldn't be
<v Speaker 4>too discouraged. But it is frustrating, no doubt, when he's
<v Speaker 4>right there and you're, ah, man, I missed. How did
<v Speaker 4>I miss that? I get it, I get it, and
<v Speaker 4>it is It is fun to meet the stars because
<v Speaker 4>you know, you never know how they're gonna act, you
<v Speaker 4>never know what's gonna be said. You know, it's just
<v Speaker 4>a cool thing. You don't get to do it too often.
<v Speaker 4>So so the Joe Henry deal, Yeah, I mean Joe
<v Speaker 4>Henry again, I think it's really cool that we are
<v Speaker 4>hearing everything he's doing from you, for those that aren't
<v Speaker 4>paying attention to him, and for you, if I were you,
<v Speaker 4>I mean you probably if you wanted to meet him,
<v Speaker 4>you just have to say his name. DJ. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>he tells you what to do. Isn't that the magic formula?
<v Speaker 4>You just you just have to say his name. So
<v Speaker 4>maybe try it. Maybe he's like beetlejuice. You just have
<v Speaker 4>to say his name three times. Try it, give it,
<v Speaker 4>give it, give it a go. Let us know how
<v Speaker 4>it works.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 4>But I appreciate it, DJ, I really do. And a
<v Speaker 4>lot of us that maybe aren't interested in NXT or
<v Speaker 4>have the time, may carve out some time because Joe Henry.
<v Speaker 4>I think will be in my mind a potential, big,
<v Speaker 4>big time main roster star. Now, potential is you know,
<v Speaker 4>worth a diamond, doesn't. Everybody's got potential. It's a matter
<v Speaker 4>of actually executing. So he has caught fire and NXT.
<v Speaker 4>I've been keeping the close eye on it, just specifically him,
<v Speaker 4>and he is certainly on fire there. The crowd seems
<v Speaker 4>to love him. A lot of it is due to
<v Speaker 4>his music, but he does have a gravitational pull to him.
<v Speaker 4>He does, he does, and I think that the song
<v Speaker 4>can only take you so far. The catchiness can only
<v Speaker 4>take you so far. And I think right now he's
<v Speaker 4>in a good spot that's got people's attention. It's just
<v Speaker 4>a matter of can you keep it? You know? Are
<v Speaker 4>you able to keep people's attention, are you able to
<v Speaker 4>continue to evolve yourself and get better in the areas
<v Speaker 4>that you're not good at, you know, or or it
<v Speaker 4>makes you a more rounded wrestler. So anyway, thank you, DJ,
<v Speaker 4>Thank you to all our callers all well, which is
<v Speaker 4>only one. I think if other people send me voicemails,
<v Speaker 4>you gotta let me know. I don't. I just sometimes
<v Speaker 4>have issues with the system, But let me know. Thank
<v Speaker 4>you to all the emails. I don't know if I
<v Speaker 4>missed any, but I usually do, so that's pretty embarrassing.
<v Speaker 4>If I did, I apologize. But you guys can join
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<v Speaker 4>that'll do it for me. I don't know what's happening
<v Speaker 4>with a Week in Review tomorrow. We'll have to see
<v Speaker 4>because this schedule, my schedule on a vacation is obviously
<v Speaker 4>a little different. I'm also going to try to be
<v Speaker 4>publishing my very first episode of my new podcast that
<v Speaker 4>I will let you guys know about. I don't. I'm
<v Speaker 4>not gonna give you the name yet because you can't
<v Speaker 4>even search for it. It's not even there's no actual
<v Speaker 4>episode that you can search for yet, so you can't
<v Speaker 4>even search for it. If I told you the name,
<v Speaker 4>it doesn't exist yet. So I'll give you that as
<v Speaker 4>things progress, and that'll do it for me. Thanks everybody
<v Speaker 4>for listening. Take care, I'll talk to you next time.
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