As if they don't have too much on their face. The Kings of Combat Sports Podcasts, neither way. They talk about the things they did that day. They learn about the word gap, triple H. We want to smack down, we want to smack down, we want to smack down, we want to smack down.
We want to smack down, we want to smack down. And a big hello and welcome to everybody listening on the free portion of Rewind to Smackdown. My name is Wei Teng, and the Kings of Sports Podcasts today at least are not kneeling way. It is Jordan Goodman in way. Welcome to the free side, Jordan.
Yeah, love the free side. Happy to be here. What an honor, where is Neil? We don't have to read that. You know, it's a secret. It's a secret only reveal to XL members that we're about to
one Neil Flanagan this week. But if you join the post-wrest on Cafe, you can find out right now, along with all of John Paulitz updates that he's been sending to us in audio form over the course of the past two days detailing some really rough goings as far as his first day of travel and just quite the ordeal that he's now had to do on his own solo. So for those audio updates along with some details about his hangouts with the Poison Ronna crew, you can go visit the Ted Lasso filming location today. And I've only seen here that they met a man with a snake with a giant pipe on the subway.
So that's fun. I also want to direct people's attention to post-wrestling and Poison Ronna's media day interviews that are currently up right now on our YouTube channel. So go to youtube.com or youtube.com at Poison Ronna prod for our latest interviews, where John had a chance to speak to several people ahead of all, including Kyle Fletcher, Speedball, Mike Bailey, Willow Night and Kale, Maya, Maya World, Kevin Knight, and also Davies peeking to Tommaso Champa in Orange Cassidy as well. So that's out there for all of you guys for free, either on our free audio feeds or on YouTube. You had a chance to listen to some of these any standouts, any highlights from you? Tommaso and Davy got on real well together.
Yeah. It's fascinating to watch like a Kevin Knight because it seems like he's still finding his voice in these roles and I find that to be incredibly fascinating. But yeah, I don't know if Davy was planning to have done this. If that was not the case, David did a great job. John of course, great job as always.
Still a few more, I look forward to watching, but it's great to see them. Far from home, I guess Davy far from his current home doing this, really representing post wrestling and Poison Ronna well. So you don't want to comment from the YouTube about the similarities in John Pollock and Koff Fletcher. Was that apparent to you in the same? Okay. So they're both white and mostly bald
and they've got two eyes. I think that's it. That's kind of what passes the bar for a comment on social media these days. But that is up there for everybody and a great talk from our friends at Poison Ronna and John Pollock while they're out there. Wait, when's the last time you saw one of those? Did they still do like the missing person on a milk carton gimmick? I don't
think so. Not here. Not in Canada. I've never seen no. It's been replaced by I would say more immediate sort of um, I you know methods to find missing people. Okay, because the local
grocery store here found this today. This milk carton. Oh, we're all looking for Neil. I see a milk carton and for audio listeners. The missing poster that Jordan previously revealed earlier on this uh, the XL version. He somehow found its way onto a milk carton. Uh, well, do you have a
hotline? Like what do people call? Is there a phone number on that poster? Um, I don't know where to call for that, but we certainly call Neil Daddy around these boards. Wonderful. Okay. Well,
wherever Daddy is, um, please come home. Please come home. Yeah. It's back down tonight. Night down is taped coming to us from Ottawa, Ontario. Of course, the site of raw this past Monday,
they take this right afterwards. So uh, so the schedule, you know, just for refresh people, they are actually doing a set of tapings tonight, maybe even as we speak from Cleveland, because they are choosing to give this group a little bit of time off, you know, towards summer. So by the end of tonight, they will have completed all of their television heading into Sunday night's main event. Um, so this is a tape show and we start things off in Canada with Kevin Owens. Kevin Owens comes out here in Ottawa, Ontario and you know, Kevin Owens says he was hoping to come back, he was not hoping to come back to Ottawa this way. He has lost a lot of total matches, but none of
them have stung this bad. He talks about spending the last 17 months getting back here and fighting so hard to get back specifically for summer slam. He wanted to win last week in Toronto because his parents were there and then he gets into the sub. I would say like pretty emotional story about um, talking about being the last time in Toronto, his mom, um, mentioning that his mom was getting rushed to the hospital, fighting for her life. Thankfully, he says she kicked out of that, but traveling for her has become much more difficult than on Friday. Last Friday, she and her dad drove
to Toronto to go to that show and all Kevin wanted to do was win that title in front of her, but Sammy Zane ruined those plans. He and Sammy have done a lot of stuff to each other, but he will never forgive this one because all the stars had to align for this moment and he will never get it back. The when he when he says that, he means specifically, well, having his mom there, of course, but also beating CM Punk for that championship. He turns his attention to punk and says, I had you beat. I was better than the best in the world. You capitalize on Sammy's actions, and if you think
we're done, I will not stop until I get that title. So out comes CM Punk says, he says, I don't, I didn't need Sammy. I had you beat Kevin Owens with the GTS. He says, I'm going to send you home packing from Ottawa faster than if your last name was Kachuk. So some NHL humor for you, Jordan Goodman, huge hockey fan, you are, I'm sure. Yeah. Do you love it? The caps yet? The who?
Washington capitals? Oh, is that your team? Yeah. I've also been to many Florida Panthers games in person. Back to back champions. Are you familiar with this? Kachuk? Yeah. I am. It was, yeah, I loved it. It was
a great one. He, you know, he says, of course, as he's wearing his senators inspired CM Punk t-shirt, Gunther shows up at this point and Gunther is sick of these two arguing about what happened 20 years ago. He is here right now and he's glad Owens mom kicked out, but too bad Kevin didn't last week. So out comes Finn Balor says Owens already long. So there's a line for that championship. It starts
with him. Nick Aldous then makes a triple threat match with the number one conditioner, Kevin Owens versus Gunther versus Finn Balor. Starting with Kevin was the right call. That's who the audience would want to hear from most and how the story played out. I love the blend of his family, perhaps real life and then the fiction of pro wrestling. It's relatable,
even if you know nothing about pro wrestling. All the stars aligned, he said, and like Sammy ripped it from him. He was very reminiscent of a few years ago, Sammy losing to Roman. We all knew that really was Cody's time and not Sami's, but my God, was that built perfectly for Sami. So I'd imagine Sammy stealing these opportunities from his on and off again best friend. If Sammy
couldn't have it, neither can he. Yeah, that would certainly bring about some great motivation from Sammy for doing what he's currently doing. Not just Kevin Owens, but everybody on the roster. I thought Owens was terrific here. I think the moment he's come back, he's been able to inject some incredible realism into his words. And seeing Plunk is very much the same type of promo.
And that's why I think to me personally, I love their interactions together. And Owens on his own even here, I was not certainly expecting this much sort of like personal vendetta to emerge out of the loss last week, but he was able to convince me that last week was an unforgivable act by Sammy saying so Owen sounded tremendous. And then of course our procession of a, you know, total challengers ahead of the main event tonight. So up next we've got Chelsea Green and Tiffany Stratton. Chelsea says she's going to go out there to Russell tonight. She says she's been cleared.
Tiffany Stratton, as she sure reminds us that Tiffany or Chelsea only has 30 days to defend her championship and she doesn't want to jeopardize that with this technique. Chelsea has added him in about it after what night and last have done. So have you been following much of like this sort of Chelsea Green babyface run and do you have any thoughts or opinions on how well it's going so far? I've been following like her specifically. Like I've been a huge fan for a long time. I'm a fan of
Matt Cardona as well. And yeah, her segment, I guess it was maybe two weeks ago in ring with Nick Audis. Some of the more, I'm talking about Kevin Owens believable. And that was a word I kept coming back to throughout the show. There's talent I really like in baller in the opening segment Tiffany Stratton here backstage. I just don't find them in their current roles, particularly believable. Chelsea is
much more so and because in part, like yeah, she's playing characters and she's hamming it up, but there still feels like there's an authenticity in the performance. Obviously we all know it's a performance. She's really easy to root for. And again, not so much because always the fiction that plays out. That's now finally being integrated into a WWE storyline. But I've always found people
like her and people like Cardona who seemingly work hard and really give a fuck about this business and their involvement in it. And certainly the setbacks she's had many, Cardona is now dealing with another one in Triceps Ter. What wonderful reality to help emotionally connect us as an audience to not only root for the characters, but root for the human being performing as these wrestling characters. Yeah, big fans, both of them. We should maybe update people where Matt Cardona has revealed that he has gone in for a triceps surgery. And in a pretty lengthy video, it spoke personally about
just what is that back? It's been for him. I thought in this little dialogue with the audience, he spoke pretty candidly about recognizing the place where he was in on this roster. On the indies, he was big fish on a small pond here. He's been still struggling to try to find who Matt Cardona is with WWE and how this has been that much of a bigger setback now that he's in his 40s. So the odd thing is since his return, I haven't found him to be believable. And I think
he would agree with that. This video he put out today, I think was his best piece of work since rejoining WWE and no surprise, he did it seemingly on his own. And that's how he initially connected with the fan base well over a decade ago with his YouTube shows. Hopefully, this is a blessing in disguise just like Chelsea's injury may have been a blessing in disguise. Hopefully WWE gets on board with the again, this blending of reality and fiction. I've never watched the Unreal show,
so I don't know. I mean, Chelsea's current story, a significant beat of that story played out from from an Unreal episode. Who knows how legitimate or not that was? And that's really not the point. The point is that the audience at least believes enough in this. Cardona mentioned like what a
bad time to get injured given that he really wasn't involved in anything. The Gunther thing was a highlight, but then it seemed like the next week he was on main event where he fully tore his muscle. Hopefully only good things come from this, but still what an awful step at. The next week got the resistible Vork forces versus Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea Green. Green is wrestling with a face mask here. Stratton and Green are successful in delivering
double T moves very early on as Green goes for the Unpreetier. Nia quickly stops at delivering a headbutt to the injured orbital boat. Chelsea tags out and Stratton quickly comes in, spending the break reluctant to tag Chelsea back in. Back from break, Nia delivers a knee to Chelsea's head, and the medics at this point are checking on Green on the outside. The heels continue the two on one beatdown on Tiffany Stratton and they eventually decide to escort Green away, citing that they can't let her take the risk. But she musters up the courage anyway and goes to save Stratton,
hot tagging herself in and saving her partner, ending with a nice high cross to Nia on the floor. Chelsea does well on her own, but when Stratton comes back in, she gets taken up by Lash onto the floor and it all collapses for the baby faces. Nia simply delivers this straight open palm strike to Chelsea's head, Simone drops a Nia Jax pins the champion. So let me ask you a question and then I'll tell you a secret way. Sure. So first off the match, it was a WWE 101 type of match.
Okay, so Chelsea is fully a baby face. She's coming out. She's given her hat to a child. This is right heart, sunglass, like baby face 101 in the best of ways. So she's clearly a good guy.
She's a Canadian in Canada and yet the visuals during her entrance still have the US flag. How does this make sense? Right. Yeah, they simply have not updated her herself her entrance since her US champion dates. Yeah, it's an oversight for sure. With the amount of resources that this company has,
you that probably feels like a long long time that they probably should have changed that. Yeah. Okay. Now the secret. Okay.
This is between us, right? Yeah. No one else is listening at this point. I kind of like Nia Jax. Oh, yeah. This should be a secret. I think she's done well in the role.
Yeah. She's like, like, to me, she was the highlight of this match. I watched her on a busted open panel prior to SummerSlam last month. Like she, I like Nia Jax. Like, I hope she gets something of significance, at least the opportunity. Sounds like they're kind of positioning her up against
Chelsea in the near future. Dude, like, there was a toward the end. One, one, like setting up like the initial plot point of the match to go to the first commercial was an iJax headbutt to Chelsea's mask. Pitch perfect. Love it. But to set up, I guess, the finishing sequence, some like Palm
Strike to Chelsea's forehead, like, that was fucking great. I thought it was awesome. Yeah. I love it. And I did not, I did not like this match at all. I like the people involved. It's wasn't a compelling
match. But again, there were a handful of things that Nia did where I was like, oh, I grabbed you by the throat and got me to pay attention. And that's all I'm asking for. If I'm going to spend my Friday night watching a wrestling show. She has been a rehire following a layout that I think has tremendously been successful on her second run because I think she plays such a pivotal role in the division as the monster. And one of the only at this point, like capable monsters, because like,
their other monsters are, well, Raquel is getting there. But like, you know, I don't think she was as good as Nia, you know, in this heel role for a long, long time. Their other like, you know, like taller, stature women is like a really, who's their biggest baby face, right? They have people at NXT that are like on their way, you know, making their way up here, like a Calliar Armstrong or like, you know, like a Lockwood, I suppose, but like they're, they're not there yet. I think Nia is there right now. And she's proving to be still an incredibly useful person for a Chelsea Green to
you know, be the monster for Chelsea to overcome. So I agree with you Jordan in this match. It was really nothing impressive. But I thought they like, decided a nice match to evoke drama and heroism within Chelsea Green, you know, she still clearly has like, I think a pretty limited palette when it comes to like what she's able to do in ranked, whether it be due to the injury or just like due to her own wrestling style. But in a match like this, they really allowed them to like maximize her high cross for instance, or like, they actually booked her relatively strong here, being able to like save Stratton, you know, with from the two on one. And in fact, it was actually Stratton that was
sort of a person who caused the downfall of the team. And I think they're also doing a really good job of building resentment within Tiffany, you know, leading to having to defend Chelsea repeatedly at her own expense. Right. So that turn is going to, I think, feel pretty big whenever it happens. So I know I know that crossbody, but also what I know that night took it really well. And it takes
to make a move look good. Yeah, like, I think this was maybe one of my broader takeaways from watching the show. The story of the match, I think was effective and with Chelsea on the outside and then trying to be a hero of sorts. And I guess maybe for me, it's like, maybe this show isn't for me, was one of the conclusions I came to after watching it. I don't watch every episode of SmackDown.
And often if I put it on, I'm fast-forwarding or maybe more interested in hearing Neil's thoughts on the show. But yeah, it's been a very long time since I sat down for a full episode of SmackDown and with this kind of watchful eye. And maybe it's just not for me. And maybe it was this was like a great piece of storytelling business. So the show's not for you, but you liked this segment?
No, I didn't like it. No, I didn't. There were things I liked, like some of Nia's stuff, and I like Chelsea as a character and all that. And I think the lashes positioned well in this tag team. Also, talk about the opposite of Lazy. These are two tag teams who had similar gear.
Like, I appreciate that stuff. But in the broadest strokes, the story of this match, that wasn't for me. And that's not necessarily a problem. Again, I'm just wondering, maybe this show isn't actually for me. So you think it was done well, but it wasn't maybe of your own personal preference? I guess. But who was it for? I don't think for the type of person listening to this podcast.
I did not dislike this. I mean, I was able to maybe appreciate this for its merit of trying to make Chelsea Green a bigger star, which I thought it was successful at. But you know, so maybe it is for me. All right. And the vastment, you know, of sea of Chelsea Green fans that are certainly out there. At least we're talking about this segment.
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Slam. If memory serves me right. Okay. So obviously they've cooled off slightly on Dan Housing. I think that's wise. You watch SmackDown Weekly. It's your job. I don't. The Miz and Kit and the
Cardona that was just dropped cold or was there any sense of okay? Pretty much. Yeah. Unless there's like an online exclusive I missed. I mean, last I saw was just like an online exclusive of Wilson and missing man, that was crazy. Like, you know, being stuck in the in the later, thank goodness
we got out. Something to the extent. I don't really pay that off nor have they paid off or they've not even continued to tease this reveal of who might be under that blanket, this clone that he's been working on for all these months. They seem to have dropped everything to do with a lot. Did you have a theory at that time? I don't know. Man, like people were suggesting
like it could have been Baron Gordon could have been like all the stuff. I don't know. It just seems like it's it's over. But a month ago, Dan hasn't essentially had storylines on both shows because I guess the Judgment Day stuff was for Raw and that led to the Summer Slam match. I think it was wise to pump the breaks a bit. This was just enough and certainly not too much. I loved it. The Dan Housing
is such a present performer. If you just watch him reacting to the other people in the scene, again, it's it's an unbelievable gimmick. But his performance, I find believable, mostly because he's present and committed. He's very good. Yes. And I don't think like, you know, pausing on the Dan Housing
like experience or at least like dialing it down just a bit is bad at all because I think he's the type of guy that could could be overexposed, you know, very quickly. So at least slowing things down a bit. I don't think it's such a bad thing. Up next our title match here. It's for the US Championship between J.C. Jane and Paige. This is Jane's first title defense after defeating
Tiffany Stratton. And this starts with Laney Reed on the outside booting page on the floor. Jane taking control of Paige's neck throughout the commercial break page. Matt's a comeback. She goes for the rampage, but Reed and Henley on the outside distract. This allows J.C. Jane to catch her
with a small package for the win in what was a very standard match with a very, very, very standard distraction finish. And in terms of wrestling, you know, like we've seen enough of Paige at this point both in her AW and WWE runs to kind of know what to expect from her. It was honestly nothing that impressive. But I mean, we are reminded that she is on her second career after a very significant neck injury. But I will also say while I think in AW, this self-help, very lacking, like in WWE, I think she just feels standard, you know, and there's really to mean nothing wrong, but also nothing great, you know, about the match either. This was not an ideal crowd.
They had already seen a full episode of Raw. I'm sure that had something to do with it. But man, I feel like at this point Paige should feel like closer than not to legend status. I mean, we kind of, as a fan base, kind of, I imagine many of us had some sense of like she was retired for a period of time. But so someone with that stature, like she was really working to get a reaction in the entrance and throughout the match. And she just really wasn't getting it. And I don't know if part of it
was just the crowd. But I think some of it has to do with her, there needs to be some new layer. So like even prior to the first commercial break, she screams, this is my house twice. And she did it earlier and then realized, oh, I kind of have to do it again in order to distract myself from the lady read kick. Yeah, again, it's like it's it's I'm not believing it. And it feels like
she it doesn't feel inspired. Maybe that's the best way to put it. Yeah, I totally agree. I think, you know, big pop wrong return, but I don't think they've done anything to capitalize on that into maybe further who she is on this run versus maybe like maybe her one line bio of who she was before she returned. There's really been nothing on the other hand, JC, I don't watch NXT. I haven't watched
NXT really since a w started is too much wrestling for me weekly. And I chose a w at the time. And so I really don't know this group that much. JC has a natural, believable, easily dislikeable presence. I understand why she's the focal point. I understand why she's the singles
champion. The other two I really don't have much of a feel for at this point, but even just in the entrance alone and throughout the match, I thought this match had a bit more physicality and aggression than the first match did. By the way, it really wasn't much wrestling on this show. No, not at all. And it was mostly women's matches, nothing wrong with that, but it just I assume most episodes are not like that. No, I think that's pretty standard in these two hour shows, which I mean content-wise,
this particular show cutting out all the commercials because we got it early or at least inter-not live on Netflix. This was an hour or 17 minutes total content. So for me, a very easy watch chopping through all the commercials like that. But when you're talking about a show that features as much talking as it does, it's priority clearly is not the in-ring. We should mention here, after the match, Nikki Bella comes back and she tends to deliver a pretty intense beat down here with four arms, stomps on the chest to convey what she's attacking the neck.
And it ends with a RAC attack 2.0. And again, considering this being the third hour of taping, the reactions here I thought were pretty mild. And this was not a segment that they seemed to do any sort of audio-sweetening for because I think this could have really used it. And they just clearly didn't care as much or didn't see this feud and Nikki Bella's return as that big of a deal, at least not at this point in the show. Is this a SmackDown match that they build to or something more prominently featured?
Paige and Nikki? Yeah, I thought Paige was a raw wrestler. And did you get moved? I mean, it doesn't matter. You would know better than I think it's a SmackDown feud now.
Okay. But does the story peak with a SmackDown singles match? Oh, okay. If not this, then it would be what money in the bank. I feel like the Sunny Knight's Main Event card is pretty packed right now. So I could see a pay-per-view match. I don't
think I would necessarily suggest it because I'm not that optimistic about the interim quality for it. But they put these two in pretty prominent positions before. And I could certainly see it for pay-per-view because of maybe the lure of some of their names. Their stars certainly. Yeah. Yeah.
The Total Divas was not insignificant at all. Right. Terms of opening up to a different audience. But just yeah, not for me. This feud. Not pretty good. Cody and Finn are backstage. Cody asks Finn Bella what he should
do about this Randy Gordon situation. Well, Finn tells Cody not to walk down the same dark path that he once did and tells him instead to focus on the world title because after tonight there's going to be a new champion on the horizon. So that sets up our segment later on. We also see Little Yadi with Trick Williams and Trick asks Yadi if he is ready to face Corbin at Sunny Knight's Main Event because if as a reminder, they set up last week a situation where if Yadi can survive, sorry, can survive Baron Corbin for five minutes then on that same evening Trick will get a title shot against Baron Corbin. So he's wanted to tell all this to call the match off. But Yadi says he's had bigger fish to fry and Baron Corbin put him through a table on ESPN. So
he says he's going to last the five minutes at Sunday night's main event and then Trick will beat him for the US Championship. Yadi leaves and comes Corbin who says he doesn't have any friends because they make him do stupid things. So you're a hip hop head as they say in the wrestling business. Little Yadi, is he all right? I have no idea. Really? Like he's certainly like after my time and I
can't really tell you I might have listened to like a British or two of his on like a feature but I don't know enough to be able to say what I'm not. I think he's a big name. I think so. He's certainly a big name. I just don't know if it's more of like a pop hip hop act or was he featured on this album you just reviewed? WWE aggression? No, he was not. He's not not present at
that time. He's anist opportunity. Yeah, were you a WWE aggression? Listen, no, no, no, they missed you one. You were listening to Oh the, the story. No, I wasn't listening to the story either. It was more of a
yeah. What were you doing in the year 2000? In the year 2000. Oh, you know what? So I was in Times Square for 99 into the Y2K New Year's Eve. Yeah, you started the very first moment of 2000.
Now let's go through everything. No, no, no, no, no, no. And we're there and I decided instead of the ball and the whole thing which essentially was I guess the reason to be in New York City for New Year's Eve, I went back to the hotel room and I watched a New Year's Eve WWF special that I think started at 11 p.m. Interesting. Yeah. Oh, that's what I was doing at the start of 2000. I was
probably finishing a TAPEWF production. What a lovely memory. That must have been. Yeah. All right.
Okay. Well, maybe Cody Rhodes was doing the exact same thing here because he starts the segment up next and talks about Randy Orton. He's talking about Randy Orton going for his 15th championship when Randy really could have been the title record holder at 18. But Orton, as the story goes, kept scoring up and there's always excuses and it's never been his fault. Cody says he had a front seat to see Randy getting multiple second chances. He says he got slaps on the wrists,
he got do-overs and his shoulders could never holster the accountability of his own actions. So all comes Randy Orton who says Cody was right. He did have a front seat for it all. In fact, Cody had the driver's seat. He was his babysitter and his bitch on the road and he made sure that Orton got tucked in every night. And if he were Cody, he would resent Randy for it too. So he
invites Cody to take a swing, but Cody doesn't. He reminds Cody of Orton costing him at SummerSlam and invites Cody to take a swing again and Cody does not. Randy then starts talking about Pharaoh, Cody's dog. He says you used to bring that dog around. Did that dog die? Is that dog dead?
Did your daughters have to bury that dog? And did they have to do it in Atlanta? Your backyard with the place where Sunday nights may not have been his? Or were your friends in your trailer park trash mother are going to see me kick your face in again? What about that trashy ass wife of yours? And at all of this Cody, you know,
of course he's getting more and more angry but refuses to attack Cody and break all this stipulation that says if anyone lays a hand on the other than the matches off. So Cody knows what Orton is going to do. He's trying to get out of this match at Sunday nights may not be bad. Cody says in Atlanta, we are going to find out if you really are a once-in-a-lifetime generational superstar, like his dad was Cody's dad. Or are you a first-class screw-up like Randy's dad was?
And Orton at this says that's too far. And then Cody says you want to hit me? I'll see you in Atlanta. And I personally thought this was a great segment. I felt Orton, you know, basically brought a machine gun here and stepped way over the line in a very short amount of time unloading on a number of taboo topics here against Cody Rhodes. And I thought while Cody was, you know,
like he's he fought back and he fought back dirty enough to show that he's not a boy scout and not push over. And he didn't have to do it with his fists. He did it with his words. And I thought that showed I think a really strong like edge to Cody Rhodes that that's willing to sort of like play in the mud. But again, not like be stupid enough to play, you know, to Randy Orton's game plan here.
What do you think about the segment? A comment on this that I want to talk a little about Cody. I think Cody's retort was to your point strong enough. But him getting up his back for a few beats before exiting the ring, knowing that Randy wasn't going to do shit about it. To me, that was at least equal fuck you to the comment about his dad. Again, Cody quotes the talk at the end of it.
But Randy was on another level. My God, talk about believable, talk about being present, talk about not being in your head and thinking about what line comes next. Like Randy, many in the industry talk about like how smooth of a wrestler he is. This dude is as smooth of a talker as anyone I've seen wrestling recently. Like it was it was biting. It was it was compelling.
The verbiage, but the delivery certainly again looking at the image like getting in this in this guy's face being Cody like treating him like the young boy he once was to him. I love this. This was by far the best thing on the show. Yeah, like again, not knowing as this show for me or not. Uh, this was for me and I'm very interested to see a pro wrestling match between these two.
Yeah, both of them I think delivered really high on intensity and I mean they conveyed the story of the segment really well in Cody trying to go, you know, sorry, Randy trying to go to into canceling this match. And they they really stepped all over the place to maybe catch your attention with Cody, um, delivering again, like a really strong line to retort that to me matched the sort of like dig um, and that that you know, ready, ready delivered. But doing it in a way that like still kind of like maintained his, um, heroic nature. So great job here from all involved. Um, if I can touch on Cody, so you mentioned at the XL edition that I worked for Ring of Honor for a couple of years, starting in 2017, dude, I was spoiled. Cody was my first R.O.H. World Champion when I joined the company. And
even though I've been a part of post wrestling and co-hosting podcasts for the better part of five plus years, I, I, there haven't been many opportunities for me to really just talk about my experience in pro wrestling. And I could easily think of 25 stories like this about Cody specifically. Um, and for me, it's like, this was my experience. Why not that share some of it? It just to speak to, I guess the Cody Rhodes behind the scenes of what this man was like to work with.
Again, him being the first world champion I worked with, like I was spoiled. This dude, he cared and he, he felt the responsibility. He owned the responsibility. He wanted the responsibility of at least for him, what it means to be a world champion. I would get texts from him throughout the week. How many tickets do we have sold for this upcoming show? Okay, what more can we
do? Like this was rare for talent to kind of engage in this way. But the story that came to mind is as I was watching this tonight. So it's maybe a couple weeks out from Super Cardivon or 2018 in New Orleans, coincidentally where I met you and John in person for the first time at that show. So, so this was the, the bill to Cody versus Kenny Omega, Bullet Club, Mega Powers Exploder, whatever.
And we, Cody Floot of Baltimore went to the warehouse. B.J. Whitmer was a wrestler and he worked in the office with me and he was sometimes used as like a mouthpiece, sometimes on commentary. And in this case, did a sit down interview with Cody Rhodes. And we filmed it as a quote Facebook Live, but we didn't film it live and we pushed it to Facebook Live like hours later that day. And it was a
mix, and this was something that I was there to produce. And it was a mixture of some Q&A that we got from social media, but also B.J. asked some questions. And again, the whole point was to build awareness for this upcoming paper view and the launch at the time of bring the Vonder String service. From memory, this conversation definitely went more than 30 minutes, maybe even closer to 45 minutes away. And in the last minute or two, B.J. is now transitioning to just like,
here's the information for SuperCard of Honors, let's say, you know, this weekend. And B.J. maybe like flubbed a line. It wasn't that big of a deal. It certainly wasn't perfect. But again, the,
it is a quote Facebook Live and like, it's okay to not be perfect necessarily. So they finish. And Cody says, what if we did it again? Would you guys be okay with doing it again? And we all agreed. Sure,
if you if like, yes, like, but the point that I'm trying to illustrate is that it didn't need to be re like, they went, it wasn't just like, Hey, let's punch in that line, because we were creating the illusion this is a live stream. They did a 30 minute plus again. Now, obviously, it wasn't the exact same that the questions were the same from from social media and whatnot. And Cody more less gave similar answers. But Cody was like, it could have been a little better right at the close.
I'm willing to suggest that we just do the whole thing again, which means we're all here for another hour. And maybe just as impressive was him essentially doing the same thing again. He felt just as present, he felt just as believable, he felt just as committed as he had the first time. And again, I could easily think of many more stories about him alone that kind of speak to his character and why he ended up in the positions that that he had and now finds himself as in his words, QB one, it makes complete sense to do you believe he was even at that point, you know, targeting the current position that he's currently at and using all of those experiences as some form of training for himself. He never told me as such. But of course, yeah, again, at this point, I don't
think one could foresee a Tony Khan coming into the picture and a one or discovery prime time deal coming into. So again, I don't think it was perhaps in his mind to help start a competing promotion. But how could again, he did that and he seemed really very comfortable there. And yet, he left to go back to WWE, which certainly was a set of risks for his career. So it certainly seemed like he chose to leave WWE. And he made it his mission to gain as much experience as he could in addition to
an engaged fan base to eventually go back and be the guy. And he did it. And again, not surprised in the least that that man that I worked with for a couple years went on to have this career past decade. Thank you for sharing that lovely story, Jordan. It makes total sense, honestly, why this man would be a successful and you never really hear a bad word about him. In fact, quite the opposite.
So hello, hello, hello, David Portman here from Poison Rana. We cover NXT every Tuesday night on the post wrestling feed in a show we call up next, but we do so much more. Follow Poison Rana pod on YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts for our live Sunday show, plus our Patreon with movie reviews, retro wrestling reviews, and more. Find out everything at poison Rana dot CA. All right, let's move on here with our edition of SmackDown, a pair of segments in the back here with Jackie and Tatum, Tatum whisper something about like the voices in her head to Jackie that creeps her out. Alexa and Charlotte are here. They have a match against Jaden the baddies at Sunday
night's main event. So that's been added. Charlotte tells her not to regret choosing her to Tatum and Tatum hugs her Charlotte hates it. They have the whole, you know, don't really want to be a friend going on. Phoenix is with Byron Saxon in the back and Ricky saints quickly interrupts. St. Tonson about losing
the tournament match against Penta on Monday and then wanting a title match from Phoenix for the Triple A Cruiserweight Championship. Phoenix argues back saying I'll win the tournament and then I'll beat you up next week. So we shall see what the outcome is of Phoenix's match with Penta on Monday. Probably not great for Phoenix. I did like that package though. I've been the match.
I might have skipped it actually. It was a pre-produced package with both Phoenix and I know if I got it on, I watched the USA feed on YouTube TV during the States. Yes, they were building the match for Monday but both cut believable promos and it was edited really well and it got me excited for Monday and this is certainly the best thing to happen to Ray Phoenix and his company. Yeah, no doubt. All right and that match will have already taken place tonight actually. So spoilers are out there but I don't know if we'll have to really read them to
find out. Did you avoid spoilers for tonight? That's what we watched. Yeah, I did too. Yeah, I just say to me it doesn't really matter. Right? Like there's there's I'm watching the
show anyway. So why would I read spoilers or why would I read? But if you're saying it doesn't matter like but you also wouldn't have mind it. I wouldn't have minded either. Okay. Yeah,
yeah, I'd rather not if I'm gonna watch it. Why would I want to know what's that? Well as somebody who's been involved in wrestling production, I mean even knowing the result of the show, can you still not appreciate it? It's execution and talk about it's execution. Of course. Yeah,
all these things can be true but if I'm going to just be a fan, I don't want to know what's gonna happen. I was surprised that Chelsea Green wrestled. I thought that's something you would promote in advance. I don't think they announced like the match. Okay, they announced the match ahead of time.
Okay, I don't know after the segment two weeks ago it felt like it should at least feel like a bigger deal that she was already competing in the ring. I wonder if like by last week they do, that she would be cleared. I don't exactly like know what the status of her actual injury is but yeah, they could have been so last week if they knew. Yeah, but again, like what I love about wrestling and what I guess I don't love about Tate's shows is anything can happen. A promotion in general could be awful but next week everything could be better which is I think part of the reason why we can say hooked to these shows because again that's part of the beauty of this this art form.
Everything can change in one show. So yeah, if there was like a big surprise or title change, I don't want to know that going into this episode might not have been for you but next week, maybe. Yeah. So we got a meet you versus the team, Paxtley and Paxtley Smackdown, England, David, Paxtley get some good vocals support from the crowd coming back from commercial break, Paxtley, the first one, nice sounding kicks. Meachin is about to go for the styles class but Paxtley powers out delivers a rolling kick and then the cemetery drive forward victory in a match that you know again not that much to sort of like speak about other than I think Paxtley looks fine.
She looks comfortable as a character like she seems to I think really know herself in ring which is more than I could say for somebody let's say even like a liar about Kiria who is still kind of discovering that from the beginning with her current character but I will also say this was a card that was certainly tired by this point and they didn't seem to have the care or the patience for a match with a newcomer and you know in me trying to put a little card heal. Agreed. So perhaps my perspective is unique maybe relative to the people listening to this but probably not unique for most people watching it tonight. I don't think I've ever watched it Tatum Paxtley match before. Again I haven't watched NXT with any regularity in a long time and I've seen some of the segments building up to this match and I have not enjoyed her presentation and the Charlotte and Alexa stuff like I'm just not for me is an understatement. So I had very
little interest going into this match but then immediately Tatum does this back handspring like out of a move and that immediately grabbed my attention and throughout this match she showed a really just an impressive athleticism and it felt like that's what the crowd was mostly responding to specific moves but certainly not the narrative of the match and I think that was my experience as well. So I'm much more interested to see her in the ring certainly because yeah her athleticism was like crisp and confident and compelling. I think she has like tremendous underdog appeal.
Like to me like her NXT character is somebody who maybe has been around for a long time and has sort of been overlooked you know in favor of like other people from her class that have graduated sooner than her and I mean there's just like a real like ability to her as a personality and like the whole sort of creepy stuff is I don't think it's a hindrance to it. I don't think it necessarily enhances it either but I think it does like it offers a cool look it offers like you know something for her to for these writers to kind of write for her. I'm not a fan at all of these Charlotte segments in the back I think they're trying too hard to be cute but I also think like there's probably there's a good chance that I think the audience will gravitate to her despite all of that. Like they have you know for many other people in similar situations like her.
Did Tatum have a title run in NXT? Yeah she did. She won NXT Championship. Okay so like she's demonstrated what she's capable of. Yeah but it was like a pretty brief run.
Okay all right so we go up next to Blake Munro who is asked why she jeopardized her match with Julia last week and Munro says the match was beneath her and tells her to question why all this would put her in the match this low in the first place. This is when Julia interrupts beats on Munro kicks her into the steel door and won't further teasing a rematch or at least an attempt at another first match between these two. Kevin Owens is with Randy Orton in the back and this was just a short segment to maybe like tie up some loose ends here with Orton telling Owens that he was right about Cody but he has not forgotten Kevin for dropping him on his head and no one says yeah I'll call you about that later so anyway I don't think this was meant to lead to anything other than to just like say suggest oh they're both here last time we saw the two of them they were at odds they don't really seem to be anymore. NFTs I don't know they must have bulkshot these like MFTs like in a how-coup videos because like it's just kind of week after week of this where they're in this dimly lit room and the MFTs are in their sunglasses and how-coup has this big stick.
They talk about Nakamura and Kiyoki the former H and I was I had all the credentials I was sent up with like many dozens of passes and whatnot to distribute to other new Japan people and the first person I see in the lobby was Hakku and inside I became very giddy dude it's cool. Can you talk to him? No. No. No. No. No. Actually no.
I don't know what I'm gonna say. Hakku. Other than my like what I watched the most when I first got into pro wrestling was WrestleMania 5 and perhaps the first match was King Hakku being carried out in his royal throne to the ring to I think wrestle Hercules. Awesome. Very cool. Yeah. So the MFTs
motherfucking Tongans like this is saving that that MFT moniker yeah. I guess they printed plenty of T-shirts and they didn't want them to go to waste so it's not my family tree anymore it's motherfucking Tongans. How's that not great is that catching on I don't have a feel? Um catching on I'm not really sure like I'm not chanting it yet. I don't think so. I mean you know they're they are healed so I don't
think you're meant to to change it. I feel nothing for this team personally but um do you feel anything for Haromo just debuting on the main roster? I haven't seen enough you know we just saw that backstage segment so you know next week will be the true test because they will announce their match coming up here but um I'm not optimistic about really anything regarding the state division but Haromo's charisma could sort of break them out you know certainly. I will say uh giving a a a talent graphic to announce that Daryl was coming to a ring of honor show that was you know one of the more exciting things to to share and and got got some some good traction that day. Daryl's over certainly um maybe maybe a future inductee into a you know some Hall of Fame maybe a ring of honor Hall of Fame candidate. Yeah. What are some Tongans? Priest and truth are in the back. Truth wants their
titles back but Priest says you know this was just sort of a summer fling you know with us and he has says he's moving on to focus on the world championship and the war Raiders come in here they're teasing Priest about running away after losing the titles and so our truth challenges the Raiders to a triple A tag team title match and Priest is not at all interested but truth just accepts on his behalf and he tells Priest one more ride dog and Priest is one more so uh I always saw I always saw like like Priest is like like like a dominatorado you know like if you show that head past and furious I've never seen that. Oh my god and the most dog shit ride at Universal Studios in Orlando they actually just closed it. I mean you're missing out okay I know you're just making your way through the Marvel movies but come on this is your next you're next viewing here anyway so uh one more ride dog Priest and uh they there is now I want to suggest like even a little bit attention here between this group um in that response out truth is falling in back. I'm looking at this picture I'm not seeing too much tension in this picture right now. Not yet but I mean there is something at stake
here in that one person wants to focus on a singles career the other desperately wants to keep this going and now there's to me a little bit of intrigue in this title match beyond just defending and fighting for the championship. Now if they fight and beat the war Raiders they get to keep the team right so I think it adds like to me a little bit of drama between them that certainly was not present during their actual title run um when there was this really I think bad comedy so. So first of all Priest loved the man very happy for success um it's a former WWE champion. God's sakes wonderful. Then being paired together obviously Damien goes to SmackDown the longer part of the Judgment Day and he needs something to sing his teeth into. My assumption was okay pairing him with truth
might draw some more personality out of Priest. Do you feel like that happened in any way or that he the audience became more bonded to him as a result of this? I don't get the sense either and then it's like okay well then is are we just trying to get anything out of this by turning Priest heel again to me that's not interesting too. I think the most interesting thing of either these guys in some time was truth briefly being a heel and what if that's what happens next? I feel like they tried that and and I feel at this point they I don't think they they see truth's value being in any sort of heel or at least like I don't think the audience will hate him enough for him to turn heel whereas I think Priest like to me was was far more successful as a heel um not to even say like the breakup requires a turn like they could just simply break up and it could be heartbreaking but they go their own ways for now you know right off into the sunset just like Paul Walker in a you know
Vin Diesel bit. Whoa spoilers man. Um maybe I shouldn't tell you what happens in real life um anyway I I you know I'm not really sure but like the pairing I was optimistic for too because like some of the great sort of like odd couple pairings in the past like you know like a book routine gold dust had a really eccentric person and another person in the straightment position that I think was at least able to offer some personality to break out I mean Priest really was just a flat straight man you know without any sort of personality coming out whatsoever in these seconds that you know made truth look funny to some but offer nothing to anybody else in the scenes so that's there's that um did you work with David Priest? Yeah yeah I got to know him fairly well um enjoyed him greatly yeah war raiders uh we crossed ships they were I just hey nice to meet you and they were gone within the first couple months and he worked in there to I guess go to NXT um but Priest was there the whole time that I was there um yeah like one of those guys that what whatever you need happy to do super
professional super personable too um as I'm sure we all know like this the wrestling business is a it's an interesting community and culture of quote professionals in this business and I'd say most you can't trust but again this is a business and a culture predicated on on K-Fabe of the seating the public and the line so um and then naturally most most business and political everyone wants spots make money etc but but Priest Louise he was just one of those guys that felt like yeah he's a dude and this is his business and we can be professional but like there can also be some sense of humanity in the relationship and I certainly appreciated that because at least for me at that time my goals within the business I wasn't interested in trying to fuck over people to get on top in this I got into it for very different reasons so it was nice to kind of connect more to people uh level with uh people like yourself way you you ended up not no I'm here to fuck everybody
over yeah I had that at that perception and I realized oh man he's uh he's hard on the outside self on the inside nia jacks is in the back with nicholas and nia complains about getting screwed out of her total opportunity before summer slam and demands her total match after pinning Chelsea green and reminds nich about the 30 day time limit for Chelsea's total defense so she says within two weeks she will she should she needs her total match or she will take the title by force and two weeks time from today would put the date on September 11th which is actually like a bit more than 30 days from when Chelsea won the championship or whatever uh so look for that match on the horizon here and in walk miz and kit wilson who say all this owes them as well after being treated as danny has its lab rats under his watch so all this rewards them with a match against knock around kyoki next week the team now known as buck side do we know what this means um I feel like I looked it up last week I don't care to look it up again but when you say it like like the way it's supposed to be pronounced it sounds like backside which uh it's kind of you know kind of cool kind of catchy backside water back side of what water jungle cruise huh
I you're gonna have to school me on that oh i'm doing watching fast and furious to yeah the one i know jungle cruise while you're watching fast and furious i'm going to Disney world backside water jungle cruise is that up is always that a movie or a ride what is that I think it was a movie maybe a decade ago that the rock was in it so this has some wrestling connection but in connection to fast and furious yeah but it's right it dates back to Disney land so many many decades of course yeah they like making a movie space on rides to be seen muppets haunted mansion uh no not the right the haunted mansion um yeah with the muppets well no although actually in this so this this one picture of of Neil it looks like he's orgasming but this was actually Neil this past February on rock and rollercoaster starring erosmith and he was one of the last riders to ride that iteration of it because just three months later it was re-themed as rock and rollercoaster starring the muppets they pivoted from erosmith the muppets wow well they own the muppets IP
i don't even think erosmith was particularly relevant when the ride first opened erosmith does not tour anymore they even kept the poster design and just replaced erosmith with the muppet here look at that interesting i'll be going on it on this new it even had like they had animal replaced the drummer from erosmith with it with a jungle drumsticks look at this wow of course i'm gonna go on this in like two weeks okay well i won't be watching my new favorite wrestler nia jax potentially become women's champion because i'll be on rock and rollercoaster starring the muppets all right kind of jealous maybe we'll bring you on for a review of the ride the muppets iteration okay well thank you for that um number one time i was just going so far with me right here i think fantastic yeah should we talk more about uh uh uh julia no okay talk to know i've been joined the show cool me too are you or you know no i mean i'm mostly here for the money but i'm having a nice time too okay well um you can even wait for a check in the mail join here hey i'll move you
lying here and you might not know who i am but you'll recognize all sorts of names on my show real talk without the movie lion i've shouted with wh park jordan goodman nate milton niel flanigan and scored beyond the mat with brandon thirst and the lego movie with weighting and home alone with john pollock if you love movies and post wrestling subscribe to al the movie lion on youtube now um we got our main event number one contender is match fin valor versus konther versus kevin ohen's here uh gunther attacks valor during his entrance and they deliver a pretty fast-paced three-way that uh i would say successfully wakes this crowd up you know um deep into the show here deep into the taping i should say um gunther logs in his lee baron ohens valor breaks it up with the kudagra valor delivers the final cut he's about to deliver the kudagra to gunther when in comes sammy zane to break up the pin zane then decks the referee dan engler on the outside he uh ohens on the inside is about to hit the stunner to gunther but there is no ref to count the pin referee darryl charmer then runs down but sammy zane ends up laying him out too this is when cm punk comes out to attack sammy zane and sammy says that or cm punk says this is justice ramming him and his injured wrist into the post and the
match is still going on so punk chases zane into the ring where he and oh and start brawling sammy after ohens lays punk out decks ohens with the title decks valor with the title decks conther with the title and then finally lays punk out too so for the second week in a row in canada sammy zane closes smackdown holding a championship getting booed and you know um non-finished aside i mean for the brief time they had i thought the action was strong but of course this is not a show that you go to for full complete matches instead maybe just continuing to spot like sammy zane as a focal point despite his uh what seems to be a legitimate risk injury what do you think about the closing segment also match the match was fine i appreciate it like urgency and physicality at the jump especially compared to all the other matches on the show um it was hard to get emotionally not even invested but interested in in this match assuming that this was how it was going to play out however me knowing that it was a triple threat okay no dq so sammy will inevitably
get involved and kevin ohens probably isn't winning but i assumed someone would be winning and and it was no dq but yet there was no end to the match and the announcers really didn't seem interested in the fact that the match just isn't going to end and at least for me it's like and again maybe i'm just thinking too much about this but it's like if the point of the show is to have wrestling matches maybe that's not the point but again okay it's not the point but okay then why care about a match that we're building to our main event if we're not even gonna sometimes it's about the wrestling like it was with kevin ohens and and cmponk um but other weeks it's just it's to give you the hope of never one imagine i'm not i'm not suggesting this is the right way to book the show this is an appointment though it's like we see nikaldis throughout the show okay maybe these are the two only referees that you have and now sammy zane took him out i really liked him taking
out the second referee didn't see that come and just cut him off mid run that was good piece of but nikaldis is managing this show and where was he um probably freaking out in the back uh and sorry i mean i guess like what what they were trying to show is that everybody at this point is laid out in the match and therefore there nobody is conscious for a match to continue for any sort of referee to make any sort of ruling okay so so end the match that's my point okay so you're like you needed oh so it's not here to ring the bell yeah because if if if no one's going to stress importance for a finish of a match even if the finish is a dq or hey everyone's knocked out they can't make the ten count whatever they're all right look like what's the point of having wrestling matches if no one cares that the outcome or that there even is an outcome yeah even if it's an unsatisfying outcome at least we start the match we end the match that's that's all right i would
suggest maybe like the no contest was implied you know just just given the show graphic showing up like and you know for me like it kind of felt obvious and i would suggest maybe yeah like probably could have run the bell um would that have made a big difference to the to the feeling on the segment if i wasn't watching to review it i don't know i'm or i may have just had thought of like oh that that's a loose end that could have very easily been tied up with some logic um but they just didn't think to or didn't care to or were too lazy to um but again this is pro wrestling it's silly it's often stupid and great but i guess for me it's like at least try little with some of these things but again maybe i'm in like a real minority with that but again i'm watching tonight being asked to like offer art criticism and if the whole thing is predicated on these matches resulting conflicts or to achieve dreams and titles and stuff like that then like you start the match you end the match
yeah yeah they probably should have done that um i'll say i thought they were i'd never think like these but so basically the same thing character is that he at this point is unhinged and he's ruining these main events and that's going to prompt nicald is to do something right here he even like attacked referees so this is sort of like a new level of like chaos that you know sammy is bringing onto the show so all this will have to respond to that somehow i thought they were successful in conveying that you know that sammy is at a sort of like new level of like frustration that's prompting him to do this sort of thing um then i would have loved nik to come out and just be like just call off the match but maybe even more importantly for the story purpose like sell his his dismay that sammy ruined everything yeah and that would that wouldn't take the the focus off sammy if anything it would elevate sammy's actions so your thoughts overall and tonight's additional smackdown i loved randy orton and cody and i really was not into much else yeah i guess friday night and like i'm gonna watch two hours i'm gonna spend my friday night watching this thing
like again but it's like try and and also i say this and i also i feel very protected as someone who has worked in and with the wrestling company so i have look i just on twitter all day because i was managing social media amongst other things so i see a lot of this and and a lot of the criticism often is unfair uninformed whatever um and often i feel more protective of a wrestling promotion of a of a that booker or creative team and certainly the talent themselves and production people too when things aren't aren't perfect because it's really really hard work to do this with the amount of consistency that these wrestling promotions like pump out these shows um but again tonight my role was more so like tell me how you felt about this tv show and like it there i didn't like it like period um sadly and like it's not that i was telling my wife like damn i was i want to i want to love it i want to come on here and be like this was awesome
and and i was so compelled but again i i love wrestling i've it's been a big part of my life and i love it because i know of the potential of it done at the highest of levels and the bile accounts like in terms of just here's a show i think this really missed the mark tonight so i i just probably picked a bad week to do this with you i certainly felt like um i think like i know what they're trying to do is saying but i can also suggest that it's going to be a pretty satisfying viewing to end two shows with this sort of interference finish um even if it is the point of this character you're going to expect you know people to kind of feel shitty about maybe the entire experience especially for a match like tonight that i mean did not have maybe even a tenth of the fanfare of kody ros sorry cn punk versus kevin no one's um i really enjoyed the kody orton segment would suggest people to watch that i also really enjoyed kevin no one's promo at the very beginning of the show so those are big moments on the show otherwise you know um depending on how you're feeling about some of the women's programs you had you know something chubby green you know
furthering a bit of an extractor page and icky bellow continuing their feud um and you know i would say a lot of like sort of mid mid mid of the you know like middle of the pack stuff that is kind of typical of smacking on these days outside of like the big star of segments so um yeah there we go all right um Jordan before we go to the excel edition for uh what do we have any feedback to this one um let me see here yeah okay one piece of feedback why don't we just read it here and then we can maybe close things off um for everybody here let's go get out yeah sorry just you're doing all this tonight like i just want to uh acknowledge like all the notes you're taking and the news and and walking me through this uh it's a lot and it's not it's not easier good job thanks man appreciate the recognition um i guess it you know it's it gets easier the more you do it every single week you know but i appreciate that it's what Alex importantly who says i didn't watch my channel okay there you go however i did listen to the new pat mac if he album did you know he's making music now they're denied until today now i was made aware um it's out of garbage some of the most generic music you'll
hear his vocals are slightly auto-tune the instruments sound quite generic the song structures are nothing unique in the lurch or nothing pat likes welcoming drinking and having fun what a unique personality he's a song mentioning how he wants to be rich as shit before he dies a quick google search letting him find his network to be 60 to 80 million my least favorite lyric is i used to not have shit now i got a bidet don't you buy a bidet because you have shit you don't have shit then you don't need a bidet right literally one of the worst albums this year has produced okay well thank you Alex from Portland do you have anything to add or share dorn i have a bidet do you have like an actual bidet or like an add-on like so in my home the add-on but uh my mom's spot in florida it came with like there's a toilet and then you have to get off the toilet and we had one of those two yeah those are currently outdated yeah and the other it's like the water pressure isn't as as great and and just you know it's a clean and take a lot of space and there's expensive i mean there's been like uh thank you Alex for introducing this topic but there's really been like a recent revolution in bidet technology where i mean we're not where japan is yet okay they've been on this for
decades now but i know you've been to japan maybe more than once have you used like their version fuck yeah that's the point that's the whole like half the point of going to japan because i still need use i still need to use toilet paper like this today's but in japan as well well yes you should still use toilet paper um that's out park episode it may it may seem like but it makes it way cleaner like because at least you're you're using water and you have to use less of it ideally you know right right but yeah i have one of those like sort of like add-on ones too that's like like like 30 bucks and um do you ever accidentally like crank it too hard well maybe initially but yeah come on you got you got to practice i know but i got a decent feel for it um but but yeah it's not bad if he's wrapping he's wrapping nice soon i have no idea great okay um okay okay he's wrapping he's singing about being rich enough to be able to shoot a jet stream of water up his asshole i'm interested are you not you know what i'm sure i'm sure that the metaphor for something
that'll uh if you really dig in i'm sure it makes sense i also think he's at the point now where like he's got a big enough audience that i think he just slap his name on any stupid thing and and he will probably make some money on it so i don't know was he really monetizing this album though maybe i don't know yeah you're right like would he make like do you make any money off of like streaming with this or maybe he's just he just like maybe he just loves music you know nothing wrong with that have you ever i know you're a musician i know you play music have you ever like you sometimes you do my question my question is like have you like ever recorded and released music not like on no nothing nothing to this extent like we've recorded just stuff for our personal enjoyment i guess yeah it's not too late though i don't really have those ambitions no yeah i'm good i've always put my voice every every few days so that's true yeah but how about you like i mean i know you haven't passed any any further plans um i got fine i got to find something we put we were the last song in a band put out was like literally at the start of covid kind of
the dampen of things um but it's a good time maybe we could start a band um sure okay okay maybe we'll start a rap project okay and maybe we can do some rap remixes of wrestling entrance themes just like a number of rappers did in 2000 with the release of ww regression which i got to review this week with chris from la and the returning john cino did you know did you know john cino made his return for us oh i listened to uh maybe the first 30 minutes while i took a bath and i was texting cino during the days it was lovely to hear uh back from john cino is lovely to you know get some of his rap expertise did not realize that we had a representative from the west coast and chris and also a representative from the east coast in john cino for this particular review and uh i really enjoyed it we always get to talk a lot about um won't just um you know music and the way music interacts with you with pro wrestling and in this case um rap so listen to that right now in the post wrestling cafe also follow all of john pollock's audio updates throughout the course of the weekend i will be back with john pollock on sunday sometime i would say about maybe nine or ten p.m eastern time
here at youtube.com slash post wrestling for our all in post show and uh join in good men will you be watching um all in i will i'm looking forward to it i'm going to brett get lint's house i'd give you the address but i don't know it off hand shut up right shut up right here i believe this is him yeah that is shut up right it is all right will you be live tweeting your your thoughts and if people uh want to follow that where would they no i won't but theoretically at jordan beatwell and at paupero john snapchat dot com on instagram all right and also oh jordan oh the jordan at yahoo dot com please send your hate mail of never have this this fucking clown on your wrestling review show i greatly enjoyed this and uh anytime you'll um you know choose just to not show up again you will be getting called thank you very much yeah we gotta find him let us know yes come home you'll plan again all right thank you everybody i will talk to you all uh on sunday collision course tomorrow with jlacie and k4mattre all until then talk to you guys later bye bye