October 22, 2025 • 34 mins
Welcome back to another episode of Wrestling with Freddie. We're diving into AEW's action-packed weekend pay-per-view, WrestleDream, with all the highlights, predictions, and storylines. Plus, I share my thoughts on WWE's move to integrate AI in their creative process & the inevitable debate surrounding it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of Wrestling with Freddy.
I'm here in sunny, beautiful, gorgeous California, and you're only
gonna get me until November one, and then I am
going to film a movie. But the show will still
be here with my awesome co host Jeff I and
our wonderful producer mister Alex you can call him the
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big Man, Big al Cardoza. That's the news for the show.
So let's start the damn thing. Let's start the show,
and now your main event. Introducing the hosts are Wrestling
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with Freddy, Jeff Die and farready Prince tuneor all right, everybody,
Jeff can't be as you can imagine, flights are a
little crazy right now. So the life of a stand
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up comic is very difficult because there's no government employees working,
or very few, i should say. So hopefully this situation
gets resolved and people can get where they need to
go all the other jobs as well, it can start
getting paid. Let's talk wrestling, everybody. We had an action
pack weekend. All Elite delivered another pay per view. If look,
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if you're not into tag team wrestling, then maybe you
didn't feel this pay per view because there were a
lot of tag team matches. But if you just love wrestling,
this was a pay per view it delivered. We're going
to give you all the takes on where the stories
are going to go. We're going to talk about all
our predictions, whether we were right or wrong. But you
know how we go on this show, man, Yeah I
had I might have had a couple weeks where I
was maybe batting like, you know, sixty percent, which is
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still pretty good, by the way, that's a winning record.
Maybe you know, even a little higher. Back to a
full one hundred. Back to a full one hundred. Come on,
you guys, here we go. All right, Oh, a little
wrestling news. I saw this on the interway and I
found it interesting and disappointing and kind of funny all
at the same time. Earlier this year, WWE hired someone
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to bring AI that stands for artificial intelligence into the
creative process. To allow a computer to create art, and
think that that's going to be have any sort of
human element, which art must have to be called art
is really funny to me, like having a robot paint
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to painting, or having Picasso painted painting. Now, maybe you
don't care. Right, You're like, it looks the same to me.
I'll buy that. That's cool. That just means you don't
have taste in art, which is fine. A lot of
people don't and some people just have different taste. I'm
not a Picasso guy myself. Some people think he's the master.
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I thought Modiani, I'm a deal. Modiani was better. He's
my favorite, and Pisaro, Pisarro was great. Any like post
impressionist artist I did, But imagine robots painting paintings, imagine
like I know. Netflix has talked about this internally. They
wouldn't admit it publicly, but they've talked about doing scripts
that are full AI scripts and having actors act in them.
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And now they're talking about having AI actors, which they
made a movie about this called Simone. Simone and al
Pacinos start in it. It's not a great movie, but
it's it's cool for what's going on now if you're
interested in AI and all this. Triple H called the
shift to AI inevitable, as if what That's the most
ridiculous thing I've ever heard him say. Besides, I had
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nothing to do with the screwjob. That's hysterical of course,
it's not inevitable. You just don't do it. It's that simple.
You keep a writing team unless you're trying to cut costs,
more costs and make the company more valuable, which makes
it more attractive when you want to sell it in
the next five years. Listen, when corporate figureheads speak publicly
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on criticism, you're never going to get a straight answer.
You're going to get a corporate answer, and it's going
to be ingenuous and dishonest. And to say that it's
inevitable was the funniest part of this entire story to me. No, dude,
you're the head of creative it's only inevitable if you
allow laziness to exist in the workplace. That's super funny.
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I mean, maybe he didn't mean it, Maybe he was
just saying it just like off the cuff and has
had time to think about it. But yeah, bro, you're
the one in charge. It's only inevitable if you don't
want to hire good writers and if you don't want
to pay good writers to put up good stories. Now
you could argue, hey, man to ww's has some crap
stories and some crap writers, and you'd be right. I
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mean it hasn't always been good. Some they've had years
where they put out good stuff, bloodline stuff. Some people
like the Jeff Hardy stuff that I did back in
the day. Anything cempunk touches John Cena's storylines, like, they've
done good stuff. But yeah, they've done a lot of
ugh where you're just sort of like, all right, anyway,
the majority of people have have criticized this. I don't
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know anyone, at least none of my wrestling friends that
are yeah, let's give it a shot. But yeah, so
that's the news that's kind of going on. Oh, one
of the they used this AI and there's a report
that one of the pitches had Bobby Lashley was over
in aew now returning as a wrestler obsessed with Japanese culture,
which reminded me of Prince Albert and his Tensi character
when he came back and was a white dude obsessed
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with Japanese culture. If they're just feeding in bad storylines
that they did back in the day to get new storylines,
then yeah, they're just gonna get more bad storylines. But
this was the silliest story of the week for me.
I hope they don't do it I hope they respond
positively to criticism. Most companies don't unless you stop watching
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or stop buying and stop consuming their product. But if
the shows sucked, people won't watch, Ratings will go down,
people will get fired, and changes will get made. So
that's that's where they'll be because there's no place for
math and art. There's just not like analytics don't. That's
what people bitch about out with so many movies today.
They only have the same seven actors in every movie. Analytics,
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every story sounds exactly the same. Analytics are telling these executives,
this is a movie that works. You must have three
set pieces. Freddie, what's a set piece? Do you care? Okay,
I'll tell you. Set pieces are like the big moments
in movies, like the airplane bit in the latest Mission
Impossible movie, or if you're watching a newer movie like
I just saw Black Phone to the lake bit, the
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ice skating bit. That's a set piece right where somebody
gonna die. This is a big moment. They want three
of those. They want actors that open to this amount
of money in this state, in that state, in this
theater and that theater. Saint Louis is hard to get
ratings in This actor gets good ratings in Saint Louis,
so we're gonna hire this actor on the show, even
though they're the wrong actor for it. Like that's what
analytics do. They're what you guys complain about online NonStop,
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but you're still consuming it, so they're still gonna make it.
When you guys go, you know what, these movies suck,
I'm not going anymore. Then they have to change course.
But until then it doesn't happen, and the same will
happen with WW. We spent a lot of time talking
about AI. I'm sorry, guys, it was a long night
in Saint Louis. Y'all. The pay per view went into
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the midnight hour. On the East coast, You suckers on
the East coast, don't you remember the Oregon Trail. You
guys don't remember that, The Great Western Migration, the quest
for gold and better weather. I'd like for everyone to
remember something when the settlers, when Lewis and Clark made
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it all the way to the west, and they told
other people to go out you got to check out
the West. Everybody came out there, and I'd like for
you guys to notice and just realize quickly. Nobody came back.
Nobody went back to the East Coast. Nobody was like, oh, yeah,
that cold weather and rain all that bullshit. Yeah that
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was lovely all that. That trip through Minneapolis, Yeah, I
love that. That was great. Man. I saw animals I've
never even seen before, and it is eight feet of snow. Wonderful. No,
they stayed because they knew a couple hundred years down
the road they could watch wrestling and still go to
bed at a decent hour and pan for gold. What
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are you guys panning for on the East Coast mud silt?
We got gold? Baby, Well we're out of it now.
I'm pretty much pretty sure we're all out. But anyway,
it was fine for me. I didn't even have to
stay up that late. I went to bed at a
reasonable hour, cooked dinner, had a great meal with the family,
watching professional wrestling. The main event wasn't nearly as bloody
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as I thought it was gonna be, so I didn't
even have to apologize for professional wrestling. There were some
big moments, A really wonderful and lovely surprised twist with
a gray haired gentleman. Shout out to all the dudes
with gray and white hair respect. I love you guys
and you girls too, even though you guys color it.
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We're gonna start with the fact that the previous match,
the FTR versus Jetspeed, this match just kept on going
and they did it on purpose. A w's been doing
cool stuff. Man. They did that jail cell promo between
between Mox and Darby and they shot it very cinematically.
I thought that was super cool. They've been trying all
kinds of different things. Not everything has worked right, like
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the Statlander Tony Storm promo on the canvas where they're
like had to head that they were trying with that,
but I don't know if that translated is the way
they thought it would. But they've take big swings. They're
trying to find themselves creatively, and they've been attaching stories
to every single match, damn near and I love you
guys for that. You guys are doing a great job.
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FDR has had plenty of story. So this was just
a match to get everybody hyped and warmed up, and
that son of a bitch Stokely Hathaway cheated to get
FTR the win. This wasn't on the pay per view,
so this wasn't a match that we made a prediction on.
But these two tag teams have storylines. Now, this match
went on beyond the beginning of the show. They're launching
Pyrip and they're still wrestling, and the crowd was like, Yo,
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what's going on? Man? This is kind of cool. We're
feeling it. Good crowd, by the way, good Saint Louis
loves wrestling, great city. I got back broken there and
they cheered these bastards. He liked it when I got hurt,
really hurt, by the way, Dix. Anyway, you guys were
a great crowd. Guys always give the wrestlers everything, and
this was no exception. So here we go. The first match,
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the real match. Those were five hundred grand because Tony Kahan,
he'll just do a cash purse prize for the winner
of a match and say, yo, this time, you guys
aren't wrestling for a belt. You're wrestling for half a
million dollars. That's two hundred and fifty k each. Because
I'm good at math. The tag teams were Matt Jackson
and Nicholas Jackson. Are Nick Jackson the Young Bucks versus
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Jack Perry and Lucasaurus. They were back and they're back together.
Jack Perry cut a promo as to you know why
and how they got back together on the previous Dynamite.
I believe it was while he was carving wood whittling.
I believe they call it whittling whilst cutting a promo.
I thought this was pretty predictable match, pretty easy to pick.
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The stuff they were doing wasn't predictable, but it was
easy to find a winner. I don't think you're going
to bring Jack Perry back and then he just jobs
out right away. That would suck. And the story for
the for the Young Bucks is that they're losing. They're
they're getting broken down to the absolute floor, to the
below the floor, to the foundation of the house so
that they can be rebuilt as babyfaces that the aw
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crowd will love. And it's already starting to happen, and
it started at the very end of this match. But look,
I like tag team wrestling a lot, so all a
lot of these matches were tag matches. They were all
super fun. This was no exception. The Young Bucks know
how to freaking wrestle. They do crazy combination wrestling, you know.
Don't get don't get me started on Jack Perry and Lucasaurus.
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I love me A big guy and a little guy
doing stuff together. So they had their match. Cames comes
down to the Jurassic Express. They hit their signature countdown
to extinction finisher, Poor Matt Jackson. Matt Jackson's been taking
a lot of a lot of falls, a lot of
bad luck for Matt Jackson and his brother, and they
won the five hundred k. After the win, Jack Perry
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and Lucasaurus offered to share some of the money with
the Bucks. He's like, yo, man, let me give you
ten K. I feel kind of bad for you. And
all of a sudden, the don Kallis family comes out
and they attack Jurassic Express. Kenny Omega runs out and
he's like, hell, no, man, I hate don Kallas. I'm
gonna save these guys, and you guys, the Young Bucks,
you gotta help me do it. And the Young Bucks,
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you see them kinda I want to do the right thing,
but f those guys they just beat us. Man, and
we're broke. We have no money and we have no
fame anymore. And we're now we're infamous, not famous. Life sucks.
We're not helping you, no, no, we're leaving. But you
could see him struggle. So in the next few weeks
they're gonna continue to get broken down. But these guys
are turning Babyface super soon and the crowd's gonna love him.
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And they're gonna come down and save Kenny Omega when
he's getting vicmized like they always victimized Kenny Omega. Kick
him in the gut. He had surgery there, he had
a shoulder surgery, break his shoulder. He's always getting victimized
in the middle of the ring. They're gonna come out
and they're gonna save him, and everybody's gonna love it.
We picked Jurassic Express. We knew they were gonna win.
You know that. We're gonna give you guys great advice.
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So you picked Drastic Express to win, and everybody won money.
And I hope you bet the farm on it. I
hope you beat your friend. He has to buy you
pizza for a month. Next up, Jamie Hayter versus Tekla
everyone else banned from ringside. That means her little Trio
of Terror can't remember what they're called. But they didn't
get to be there unless Julia Hart and sky Blue.
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They didn't get they didn't get to be there. So
now it's just one on one. It's a fair fight.
You know, Jamie Hater's gonna hit her with the Hater aid.
I'm drinking some gatorade right now, Jamie Hayter, here's a
sip to you. Cheers, cheers to your victory. We all
picked Hater. She won. Yeah, she cleaned her clock. She's
the number one contender. I don't know when she's gonna
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get her story launch, like the starting point because the
story now is going to be Statlander money, and I'm
assuming Money wins that, and then Hater goes after Mercedes
million belts however many belts she has. Now that's her
story is she's a belt collector. But yeah, I don't
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know exactly where that because well we'll get into Tony
Storm and and a champion a minute. But anyway, Hayter, one,
we bet it. You won it because you agreed. Did
we go five for five? Six for six? However many
matches there were? I think we did. Next up the
trios match. Now, I've never been a fan of the
trios matches, but I've told you, if you guys are
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religious listeners, it's growing on me. This had Bobby Lashley
on a bunch of top shelf wrestlers, so it was
going to be good no matter what. But the trio's
match was Ricochet, Bishop Khn and Tota Leona versus MVP
my Man, Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin, who I had
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an awkward conversation with the first time my first day
on the job at WWE. They wanted me to write
them a promo, and I wanted to write them. So
I think I've told this story, so here's the quick version.
I wanted to kind of change things up the way
they did it and not have so much like always
mentioning the name of your finisher in like an analogy
type form. I just wanted it to be more like
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UFC style. They were not. No one wanted to do that,
but I learned. I learned. Okay, So Hurt Syndicate. We
all predicted the Hurt Syndicate was going to win this match.
They've been going back and forth, though both sides have
been getting wins over the other side. Lately, it had
been Ricochet's team that was getting the wins. So I
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felt like it was time for this to get finished
and the Hurt Syndicate to put it down. They can
now pursue the ops Samoa, Joe, Hobbs, and Shabbata and
they can go after their titles and then eventually Bobby
can break off and he can do you know, world
title stuff once Max has the belt again because now
they have a history because Max was briefly in the
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Hurt syndicate. They know each other. And then Bob, anyway,
you see where I'm going with this, they want to
match you. It was a really cool finish. They were
all gonna all three guys had Ricochet cornered in the ring.
They're about to kill Rikoshe and he's like, nah, nah,
don't kill me. And then his boy, Bishop Conn was like, Yo,
you ain't killing anybody except me, and he jumps in.
He pulls Ricochet out and he jumps in and he's like, yo,
fuck you guys, and he starts fighting on. They just
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kill poor Bishop Conn and they get the pin and
they don't get to get the fall on Ricochet, which
was very smart. And we move on to the Women's
World Championship. Chris Stattlander the champion versus Tony's Storm. The
challenger feels weird, saying the challenger, Tony Storm, we all
picked stat Lander. It would have been a terrible choice
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to have her lose it right away right after winning it.
You have to give her a chance to find herself
as a character, to find herself as a champion, and
they have not yet. One, they haven't given her enough time.
And two I don't feel that they found her yet.
I think she's they're still kind of searching to see
you know, who this woman is, what kind of personality
she has, and how she likes to get it out there.
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What's the most effective way to put her personality on
the audience and say, hey, do you guys like me?
Like Sally Field said back in the day, who's Sally Field? Okay,
you guys are young. Sorry, just google her? You like me?
You really like me? Anyway, Tony Storm. Every fighter has
like a like a kryptonite fighter, right Like there was
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a fighter named Sugar Shane Moseley in the nineties and
two thousands, and he was great, you guys, He was
a great fighter, and he just speed and technique and
footwork and defense and a beautiful jab and combination punching
and he was just smoking everybody. And then he ran
into this guy who was a very good fighter named
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Vernon Forest Rest in peace. He was shot and killed
at a gas station still while he was still fighting.
But Vernon Forest, for whatever reason, just had Shane Moseley's number.
And they fought twice. I believe it might have been
three times. I know they fought twice. This is a
long time ago, and I've taken shots to the dome. Anyway,
everyone bet on Shane because nobody really knew who Vernon
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Forest was, except you know, the hardcore boxers who had
seen him on like you know, USA's Tuesday Night fights
back in the day and shit like that. And he
came out there and he just looked so clean and
crisp and pure and just kind of flowed. It was
like Buster Douglas versus Mike Tyson. There was no way
this guy could win. And here he is winning the
fight and looking good doing it, not getting lucky, looking
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good doing it. And Shane loses the fight and he
gets the rematch and he's like, now it was a fluke,
I'm gonna get him this time. And they fight again
and he gets knocked out again. Vernon Forest just had
his number. So that's the story as it applies to
Tony and Chris right, like Tony lost in a fatal
four way, and it's like, yo, I have to know
if it was a fluke or if you're good enough
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to beat me? Are you my murderer? She says, And
they take big swings with Tony or Tony I should say,
it takes big swings. She's the one that has to
commit to this character, and sometimes they work and sometimes
they don't. But are You my Murderer? Promo I thought
was really well done, and I thought she executed well
and that sort of explained her philosophy onto. You know,
why she wanted the rematch and didn't want to take
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a break, why she has to fight for this title
once again, And that's the story building up for it,
which I thought some weeks hit and some weeks missed.
But we're still here, and I still wanted to watch
the match because they can both wrestle their ass off.
So we get this match, and sure as shit, she's
her kryptonite. She beats her again. She beats Tony's Storm,
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and Tony Storm's like, girl, you got my ass, I'm
out of here. She takes off. We all predicted stad
Lander to win, so we made you guys, more money there.
Take note, Take note all those bad predictors out there.
We are the Nostradamis of wrestling predictions. So Statlander is
in the ring, she's celebrating. All of a sudden, we
hear the music and here she comes see e, oh,
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see e. And she comes out and interrupts the champ
and she's like, yo, Statlander, get even though you're the
champ with the best belt in the in wrestling, get
out of my ring. And Statlander goes, I'm like, you know,
that kind of makes the champ look weak. You just
made her look strong to make her look weak. What
the fuck are you guys doing? I'm getting kind of pissed, right,
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stat Lander goes, And then Mercedes Monday is like, yo,
I've got six hundred and twenty three belts, but I'm
looking for six hundred and twenty four. So who wants
to come out and lose to me? Because if you're
wrestling me, you know you gotta lose because I make
more money than anybody in this business. And Mina Shira
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Kawa comes out. She's the Ring of Honor Champion. She
comes out and she gives a great match and makes
you believe a couple of times. Oh shit, is she
going to be the one. They're gonna literally do this
and give it to me? No, that's cool, but no, No,
she gets caught and Money gets her finishes her, and
there is no interim champ anymore. There's just Mercedes Money
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with every belt except Chris Stadlanders. And she comes back
out and now they make her look strong, and I'm like, okay,
I could have done without you making her look weak.
But at least she gets to finish strong. She's out
there cool. We still picked her to win. She wins Boom,
another match we predicted correctly, with Brody King and Bandido
known as Brodito versus Kazuchiko Okada and Knoski Takeshita. I
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like this story a lot, you guys, not so much
the tag team story as to why they're fighting, because
that was just built off, you know, way we beat
these guys who are number one, so we're wrestling for
the title. It's that Okada and Takeshita don't like each other,
and Okada is clearly the heel and takesha is clearly
the babyface in this. Okada does not want to share
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his shine with another. I mean this is what it
feels like with another Japanese wrestler. He's just like, nah,
fuck all that. I'm the one. I'm the star. America
doesn't accept too many of us, and they accepted me,
so there's room for me on top and not know you,
no Shin Skan, WWE, no anybody else. Man, It's me
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and me alone, and I stand on the top. I'm Okada,
I'm the best wrestler in the world, and the rest
of y'all are just some punks. And Takesha is like,
bron fucking bigger than you, dude, I'll punch you dead
in your face. Fuck does the matter with you, bro?
And that's where he's coming from. He's not taking any
of that. He just won the IWGP title in Japan.
He's like, yeah, that one that you held nine times
or seven times, whatever it is, Yeah, I got it.
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Your shit is old. I'm the new hotness. You're old
and busted like they said and men in black back
in the day. So they've got some bad chemistry going,
but they're both awesome wrestlers, so it's gonna be a
competitive match. They almost win, but they don't. Well, Okada
screwed up or Diddy and he hits his finish accidentally
on Takeshaa and he's flipping them off and he's like, yeah,
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I'm flipping you off, dude, deal with it. And tkesha
is like, Dude, if you're flipping me off, I'm legit
gonna beat your ass. And Okada's like do it. They
have this whole beef right so, and Don Kallis is
in the middle of it. I'm wearing Don Kallis sunglasses
right now. Oh May maybe the Glaire's gone, Yeah, all right,
no more Claire. The future is Babyface Takeshaa heel Okada
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for the International Championship, with takesha To being the one
that finally beats him. That's their story, that's where that's going.
So when that match happens, I'll be betting Takeushaa all day.
Jeff's gonna be betting Okada, Alex is probably gonna bet Okada,
and I'll be up one to oh on those suckers.
So just remember that when we get there. Next up
and shout out to Brodito man, never stop fighting. All right.
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We got two matches to go, y'all, and we were
right on both and by the way, we didn't get
to predict on the Mercedes Monday match, but everybody in
their grandma was gonna pick money, so we were right
on that too. Deal with it. The World Championship hang
Man Adham Page the champion versus Samoa Joe. I used
to play this baseball game called super Mega Baseball, and
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I did an all wrestling team because you can customize
all the characters, and one of my pitchers was just
like big He looked just like Samoa Joe's real big dude.
He was like the third or fourth starter on the team,
and instead of Samoa Joe, I gave him all like,
you know, like baseball, I don't gimmick infringed, so I
changed their names a little bit, and since he was
a pitcher, I called him soa throa Joe and he
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ended up being my best pitcher man, but he wasn't
the best man tonight or the night that they wrestled
last night for me a few nights ago. For the
rest of y'all, Hangman Adam Page retained good match opening belt.
Joe beat his ass, beat his ass, jabbed him, hit
him with the right German souplexes, kicked him in the face,
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got him in a Cokina clutch, nearly ended the match.
The Hangman wasn't going to lose that belt. We all
knew he wasn't going to lose that belt. He's a
people's champion. He fights for the people. He shows the belt.
Moxley hid the belt. He took it away from you, guys,
and you still cheer him. He took it away from you.
Hangman Adam Page is for the people, and he fought
back because he heard you guys screaming for him. He
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hit the Sunset Flip power Bomb and the dead Eye.
Joe wasn't done. He went for the musclebuster. Hangman escapes
and the finish is like the triple Buckshot Larry, and
he hit him with it once and Joe's like, oh,
jack me up pretty bad. I'm waiting for Joe to
do a walk away on one of these where he's like, nope,
got him, gets him with the second one. I'm like, oh, no,
is he not going to do a walk away? Here
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comes the third one ball? Oh my god? Him? No? What? Two? Three?
I like some o joke. I knew he was going
to lose, but I really wanted him to win. I
picked Hangman to win, so did our producer. We were
all right, as usual, you can't end the Hangman run yet.
I don't know who's going to take it from him.
I'm guessing it's going to be MJF eventually, but he's
going to be champed for a long time the main event.
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It's weird when the main events not for the most
important belt in your company. But in this case, neither
of these guys need a belt, and they've been dedicated
or allotted that's a cool word, allotted the most time
to get hype for their match, because both guys can
talk pretty good. John Moxley gives a good promo. Darby's
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promos are pretty good. He's still kind of like developing,
and he's very experimental in life, like the choices he makes,
like climbing freaking mountains and doing backflips off of them
and do a coffin drops eight thousand feet in the
air and whatever other crazy shit he does. But John
is very he knows exactly who his character is. And
I thought they built this up really really smart for
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weeks and weeks and weeks. This is months actually, with
Molotov cocktails and body bags and like, nah, dude, you
tried to kill this company. I'm here to save this company.
Saved me, so now I'm gonna save it from you,
you son of a bitch. That's what Darby Allen's talking about.
And Moxley's like, dude, you don't get it. Man, I'm
hardening everyone here. Man. It's like, I'm making you guys tougher.
We have to be tougher than the other company. We
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have to be better than the other company. And I'm
making you better. You just don't know it. That's where
Moxley's coming from. And they've they've been button heads because
they have different philosophies. They're like Magneto and Professor X
not they're not at all like that. And they finally
have to have it out, not in a steel cage,
because that's not enough. They wouldn't end the beef. They
just try to kill each other some more so. It's
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an I quit match. I'll be honest with you, guys.
I had a dream about this match and about the finish,
and the finish in my dream was John Moxley was beaten.
Darby Allen's ass so bad that finally he was just like, dude,
just fucking quit and Darby's like, no, I never quit,
and he realizes this dude's never gonna quit and mocks.
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He's like, then, fuck you, bro, I quit and he
just walked away. That was the dream is now. I'm
not saying that would have been better or good. I'm
just saying that was the dream I had. And I
woke up, I was like, what the hell did I
just dream? This match happened close to midnight, so kiddos
should be asleep because midnight. If you're on the West Coast,
hopefully you have good parents and they tell you, you know,
these guys agree to this stuff. This is just a story.
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It's no different than a Jackie Chan fight scene where
they tried to drown Jackie and who am I? It
gets no different than you know, any any other movie
where somebody's heads gotten dunked in water. I know some
people are tripping out, but we just got to be
responsible parents and talk to our kids and be aware
of what they're watching that kind of stuff. Let them
know that, you know, certain behavior is acceptable, certain behaviors not.
This is a television show. This is a movie. For
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my generation, it was Beavis and butt Head. Their attitudes
and Beavis's obsession with five. A kid burned down a
school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was, or in Colorado,
the state just north of New Mexico. His parents tried
to sue Mike, Judge and Fox and blame them because
my son was obsessed with Beavis with fire, fire, fire,
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and that's why he burned down the school. Yeah. I
don't subscribe to that philosophy. I think I think we
need to be more responsible than that. So to me,
this is just a This is just a match with
a lot of crazy gimmicks. That said, I get where
other people are coming from, but I just think we
need to be more responsible as as parents and be
more present in our kids' lives. This my opinion. Here
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we go, So Darby wins this match. They did everything.
This was a horror movie brought to life. I quit
matches the perfect scenario for it. This view has been
going for almost a year now, almost a year, maybe
even a little longer than a year. He brought the
flag out. He tried to like hang John Moxley with
the AEW flag. That was pretty cool. He got skewers
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under his fee fingernails. That was pretty cool. What else
was pretty cool. They brought out a fish aquarium like
it looked like a ten gallon aquarium, filled it up
with water. You gotta bring a lot of water to
the ring for that one to work. Tried to drown
Darby Allen, but Darby's not gonna quit. Darby went through
two tables with Moxley's finisher. Darby's not gonna quit. Darby
got thrown by Claudiocastignoli out of the ring a good
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nine ten feet in the air before he landed on
the freaking table. He must be made out of pipe cleaners.
I don't know how else guys like him and Hardy
don't get just murdered every single night because they're just
they're just built out of you know, rubber bands, I guess.
And then finally they're gonna kill Darby Allen and the
lights go out, and everybody knows who's gonna save the day.
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It's Darby's dad. It's Sting. It's Sting. And he had
a full head of white hair and a white beard,
and he had the face paint on and he looked awesome.
It was like the Justice League Star where they were
all old and like grizzled and Superman had a little
extra meat on the body, and Batman was getting all
like everybody. I don't remember the name of that storyline,
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but it was a lot of fun. I like seeing
the older guys come in and kick ass within the
constructs of reality, right, like in a wrestling match. He
can't beat John Moxley, but if he sneaks up behind
him and puts a bat around his throat and tries
to choke him, he can win that fight, right, So
he does that. He hits a Wheeler DA and the
gut or Cloudio maybe, and then he gets pock got
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you to pack? Oh that's und funny. He beats up
everybody and Darby eventually gets the win. Moxley finally quits.
There was lighter fluid in this mat. He was going
to burn his ass and then Cloudio saved him. There
was good stuff in here. But yeah, this was a
huge career moment for Darby Allen. He beat John Moxley.
Not a lot of people beat John Moxley. He's like
a Roman Reigns type figure. When you beat him, you're
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supposed to be a maid man. And this guy did
it selflessly. He didn't do it for himself. He did
it for it aw the company that saved him, the
company that made him, the company that he now wants
to put on his shoulders the way this company embraced
him and put them on their shoulders. So he did
it for all the right reasons. Ultimate babyface Moxley deserves
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a freaking vacation. Take a couple of weeks off, bro.
He won't, but he deserves it. Hey man, your lovely wife. Yeah,
get out of town, have a couple of weeks, go
to an island. Drink some Oh no, you don't drink,
my man, have some juice, work out in the gym,
get some waves. But you need to be by a beach,
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my brother. You've earned it, You've definitely earned it. But
it's a crazy match. I thought it was going to
be a bloodbath. It was not a bloodbath, thank god,
but really fun match and an awesome pay per view.
We called all the matches correctly. You know why because
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entire WWE Run from Husky Harris all the Way to
the Fiend. That's on sanction Thursday. I actually know Nick.
We went on a road trip together. When I went
back the second time to WWE, I like driving and
none of them did, so I was like, Ah, I'll
drive him, and I think we got it. Do we
get a ticket? No? But I drove Hella fast. That's
back when I drove quick. I'm an old guy. Naw
drive slowly, yell at the fast drivers. He's a really
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good dude. Haven't seen him since I left the company. Really,
we had a mutual friend who was also a writer there.
That's who kind of introduced us, and I'm really excited
to have him on. We're going to break down all
the braywhite stuff ww creative. Maybe he has some thoughts
on AI. Yeah, stay tuned for that. Until then, we'll
be back next week. Jeff will be back, hopefully, our
government eployed will be back, and I wish all of
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you guys nothing but love and health and happiness. See
you next week. Peace. M
Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of Wrestling with Freddy.
I'm here in sunny, beautiful, gorgeous California, and you're only
gonna get me until November one, and then I am
going to film a movie. But the show will still
be here with my awesome co host Jeff I and
our wonderful producer mister Alex you can call him the
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big Man, Big al Cardoza. That's the news for the show.
So let's start the damn thing. Let's start the show,
and now your main event. Introducing the hosts are Wrestling
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with Freddy, Jeff Die and farready Prince tuneor all right, everybody,
Jeff can't be as you can imagine, flights are a
little crazy right now. So the life of a stand
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up comic is very difficult because there's no government employees working,
or very few, i should say. So hopefully this situation
gets resolved and people can get where they need to
go all the other jobs as well, it can start
getting paid. Let's talk wrestling, everybody. We had an action
pack weekend. All Elite delivered another pay per view. If look,
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if you're not into tag team wrestling, then maybe you
didn't feel this pay per view because there were a
lot of tag team matches. But if you just love wrestling,
this was a pay per view it delivered. We're going
to give you all the takes on where the stories
are going to go. We're going to talk about all
our predictions, whether we were right or wrong. But you
know how we go on this show, man, Yeah I
had I might have had a couple weeks where I
was maybe batting like, you know, sixty percent, which is
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still pretty good, by the way, that's a winning record.
Maybe you know, even a little higher. Back to a
full one hundred. Back to a full one hundred. Come on,
you guys, here we go. All right, Oh, a little
wrestling news. I saw this on the interway and I
found it interesting and disappointing and kind of funny all
at the same time. Earlier this year, WWE hired someone
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to bring AI that stands for artificial intelligence into the
creative process. To allow a computer to create art, and
think that that's going to be have any sort of
human element, which art must have to be called art
is really funny to me, like having a robot paint
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to painting, or having Picasso painted painting. Now, maybe you
don't care. Right, You're like, it looks the same to me.
I'll buy that. That's cool. That just means you don't
have taste in art, which is fine. A lot of
people don't and some people just have different taste. I'm
not a Picasso guy myself. Some people think he's the master.
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I thought Modiani, I'm a deal. Modiani was better. He's
my favorite, and Pisaro, Pisarro was great. Any like post
impressionist artist I did, But imagine robots painting paintings, imagine
like I know. Netflix has talked about this internally. They
wouldn't admit it publicly, but they've talked about doing scripts
that are full AI scripts and having actors act in them.
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And now they're talking about having AI actors, which they
made a movie about this called Simone. Simone and al
Pacinos start in it. It's not a great movie, but
it's it's cool for what's going on now if you're
interested in AI and all this. Triple H called the
shift to AI inevitable, as if what That's the most
ridiculous thing I've ever heard him say. Besides, I had
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nothing to do with the screwjob. That's hysterical of course,
it's not inevitable. You just don't do it. It's that simple.
You keep a writing team unless you're trying to cut costs,
more costs and make the company more valuable, which makes
it more attractive when you want to sell it in
the next five years. Listen, when corporate figureheads speak publicly
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on criticism, you're never going to get a straight answer.
You're going to get a corporate answer, and it's going
to be ingenuous and dishonest. And to say that it's
inevitable was the funniest part of this entire story to me. No, dude,
you're the head of creative it's only inevitable if you
allow laziness to exist in the workplace. That's super funny.
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I mean, maybe he didn't mean it, Maybe he was
just saying it just like off the cuff and has
had time to think about it. But yeah, bro, you're
the one in charge. It's only inevitable if you don't
want to hire good writers and if you don't want
to pay good writers to put up good stories. Now
you could argue, hey, man to ww's has some crap
stories and some crap writers, and you'd be right. I
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mean it hasn't always been good. Some they've had years
where they put out good stuff, bloodline stuff. Some people
like the Jeff Hardy stuff that I did back in
the day. Anything cempunk touches John Cena's storylines, like, they've
done good stuff. But yeah, they've done a lot of
ugh where you're just sort of like, all right, anyway,
the majority of people have have criticized this. I don't
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know anyone, at least none of my wrestling friends that
are yeah, let's give it a shot. But yeah, so
that's the news that's kind of going on. Oh, one
of the they used this AI and there's a report
that one of the pitches had Bobby Lashley was over
in aew now returning as a wrestler obsessed with Japanese culture,
which reminded me of Prince Albert and his Tensi character
when he came back and was a white dude obsessed
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with Japanese culture. If they're just feeding in bad storylines
that they did back in the day to get new storylines,
then yeah, they're just gonna get more bad storylines. But
this was the silliest story of the week for me.
I hope they don't do it I hope they respond
positively to criticism. Most companies don't unless you stop watching
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or stop buying and stop consuming their product. But if
the shows sucked, people won't watch, Ratings will go down,
people will get fired, and changes will get made. So
that's that's where they'll be because there's no place for
math and art. There's just not like analytics don't. That's
what people bitch about out with so many movies today.
They only have the same seven actors in every movie. Analytics,
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every story sounds exactly the same. Analytics are telling these executives,
this is a movie that works. You must have three
set pieces. Freddie, what's a set piece? Do you care? Okay,
I'll tell you. Set pieces are like the big moments
in movies, like the airplane bit in the latest Mission
Impossible movie, or if you're watching a newer movie like
I just saw Black Phone to the lake bit, the
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ice skating bit. That's a set piece right where somebody
gonna die. This is a big moment. They want three
of those. They want actors that open to this amount
of money in this state, in that state, in this
theater and that theater. Saint Louis is hard to get
ratings in This actor gets good ratings in Saint Louis,
so we're gonna hire this actor on the show, even
though they're the wrong actor for it. Like that's what
analytics do. They're what you guys complain about online NonStop,
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but you're still consuming it, so they're still gonna make it.
When you guys go, you know what, these movies suck,
I'm not going anymore. Then they have to change course.
But until then it doesn't happen, and the same will
happen with WW. We spent a lot of time talking
about AI. I'm sorry, guys, it was a long night
in Saint Louis. Y'all. The pay per view went into
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the midnight hour. On the East coast, You suckers on
the East coast, don't you remember the Oregon Trail. You
guys don't remember that, The Great Western Migration, the quest
for gold and better weather. I'd like for everyone to
remember something when the settlers, when Lewis and Clark made
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it all the way to the west, and they told
other people to go out you got to check out
the West. Everybody came out there, and I'd like for
you guys to notice and just realize quickly. Nobody came back.
Nobody went back to the East Coast. Nobody was like, oh, yeah,
that cold weather and rain all that bullshit. Yeah that
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was lovely all that. That trip through Minneapolis, Yeah, I
love that. That was great. Man. I saw animals I've
never even seen before, and it is eight feet of snow. Wonderful. No,
they stayed because they knew a couple hundred years down
the road they could watch wrestling and still go to
bed at a decent hour and pan for gold. What
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are you guys panning for on the East Coast mud silt?
We got gold? Baby, Well we're out of it now.
I'm pretty much pretty sure we're all out. But anyway,
it was fine for me. I didn't even have to
stay up that late. I went to bed at a
reasonable hour, cooked dinner, had a great meal with the family,
watching professional wrestling. The main event wasn't nearly as bloody
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as I thought it was gonna be, so I didn't
even have to apologize for professional wrestling. There were some
big moments, A really wonderful and lovely surprised twist with
a gray haired gentleman. Shout out to all the dudes
with gray and white hair respect. I love you guys
and you girls too, even though you guys color it.
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We're gonna start with the fact that the previous match,
the FTR versus Jetspeed, this match just kept on going
and they did it on purpose. A w's been doing
cool stuff. Man. They did that jail cell promo between
between Mox and Darby and they shot it very cinematically.
I thought that was super cool. They've been trying all
kinds of different things. Not everything has worked right, like
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the Statlander Tony Storm promo on the canvas where they're
like had to head that they were trying with that,
but I don't know if that translated is the way
they thought it would. But they've take big swings. They're
trying to find themselves creatively, and they've been attaching stories
to every single match, damn near and I love you
guys for that. You guys are doing a great job.
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FDR has had plenty of story. So this was just
a match to get everybody hyped and warmed up, and
that son of a bitch Stokely Hathaway cheated to get
FTR the win. This wasn't on the pay per view,
so this wasn't a match that we made a prediction on.
But these two tag teams have storylines. Now, this match
went on beyond the beginning of the show. They're launching
Pyrip and they're still wrestling, and the crowd was like, Yo,
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what's going on? Man? This is kind of cool. We're
feeling it. Good crowd, by the way, good Saint Louis
loves wrestling, great city. I got back broken there and
they cheered these bastards. He liked it when I got hurt,
really hurt, by the way, Dix. Anyway, you guys were
a great crowd. Guys always give the wrestlers everything, and
this was no exception. So here we go. The first match,
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the real match. Those were five hundred grand because Tony Kahan,
he'll just do a cash purse prize for the winner
of a match and say, yo, this time, you guys
aren't wrestling for a belt. You're wrestling for half a
million dollars. That's two hundred and fifty k each. Because
I'm good at math. The tag teams were Matt Jackson
and Nicholas Jackson. Are Nick Jackson the Young Bucks versus
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Jack Perry and Lucasaurus. They were back and they're back together.
Jack Perry cut a promo as to you know why
and how they got back together on the previous Dynamite.
I believe it was while he was carving wood whittling.
I believe they call it whittling whilst cutting a promo.
I thought this was pretty predictable match, pretty easy to pick.
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The stuff they were doing wasn't predictable, but it was
easy to find a winner. I don't think you're going
to bring Jack Perry back and then he just jobs
out right away. That would suck. And the story for
the for the Young Bucks is that they're losing. They're
they're getting broken down to the absolute floor, to the
below the floor, to the foundation of the house so
that they can be rebuilt as babyfaces that the aw
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crowd will love. And it's already starting to happen, and
it started at the very end of this match. But look,
I like tag team wrestling a lot, so all a
lot of these matches were tag matches. They were all
super fun. This was no exception. The Young Bucks know
how to freaking wrestle. They do crazy combination wrestling, you know.
Don't get don't get me started on Jack Perry and Lucasaurus.
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I love me A big guy and a little guy
doing stuff together. So they had their match. Cames comes
down to the Jurassic Express. They hit their signature countdown
to extinction finisher, Poor Matt Jackson. Matt Jackson's been taking
a lot of a lot of falls, a lot of
bad luck for Matt Jackson and his brother, and they
won the five hundred k. After the win, Jack Perry
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and Lucasaurus offered to share some of the money with
the Bucks. He's like, yo, man, let me give you
ten K. I feel kind of bad for you. And
all of a sudden, the don Kallis family comes out
and they attack Jurassic Express. Kenny Omega runs out and
he's like, hell, no, man, I hate don Kallas. I'm
gonna save these guys, and you guys, the Young Bucks,
you gotta help me do it. And the Young Bucks,
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you see them kinda I want to do the right thing,
but f those guys they just beat us. Man, and
we're broke. We have no money and we have no
fame anymore. And we're now we're infamous, not famous. Life sucks.
We're not helping you, no, no, we're leaving. But you
could see him struggle. So in the next few weeks
they're gonna continue to get broken down. But these guys
are turning Babyface super soon and the crowd's gonna love him.
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And they're gonna come down and save Kenny Omega when
he's getting vicmized like they always victimized Kenny Omega. Kick
him in the gut. He had surgery there, he had
a shoulder surgery, break his shoulder. He's always getting victimized
in the middle of the ring. They're gonna come out
and they're gonna save him, and everybody's gonna love it.
We picked Jurassic Express. We knew they were gonna win.
You know that. We're gonna give you guys great advice.
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So you picked Drastic Express to win, and everybody won money.
And I hope you bet the farm on it. I
hope you beat your friend. He has to buy you
pizza for a month. Next up, Jamie Hayter versus Tekla
everyone else banned from ringside. That means her little Trio
of Terror can't remember what they're called. But they didn't
get to be there unless Julia Hart and sky Blue.
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They didn't get they didn't get to be there. So
now it's just one on one. It's a fair fight.
You know, Jamie Hater's gonna hit her with the Hater aid.
I'm drinking some gatorade right now, Jamie Hayter, here's a
sip to you. Cheers, cheers to your victory. We all
picked Hater. She won. Yeah, she cleaned her clock. She's
the number one contender. I don't know when she's gonna
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get her story launch, like the starting point because the
story now is going to be Statlander money, and I'm
assuming Money wins that, and then Hater goes after Mercedes
million belts however many belts she has. Now that's her
story is she's a belt collector. But yeah, I don't
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know exactly where that because well we'll get into Tony
Storm and and a champion a minute. But anyway, Hayter, one,
we bet it. You won it because you agreed. Did
we go five for five? Six for six? However many
matches there were? I think we did. Next up the
trios match. Now, I've never been a fan of the
trios matches, but I've told you, if you guys are
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religious listeners, it's growing on me. This had Bobby Lashley
on a bunch of top shelf wrestlers, so it was
going to be good no matter what. But the trio's
match was Ricochet, Bishop Khn and Tota Leona versus MVP
my Man, Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin, who I had
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an awkward conversation with the first time my first day
on the job at WWE. They wanted me to write
them a promo, and I wanted to write them. So
I think I've told this story, so here's the quick version.
I wanted to kind of change things up the way
they did it and not have so much like always
mentioning the name of your finisher in like an analogy
type form. I just wanted it to be more like
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UFC style. They were not. No one wanted to do that,
but I learned. I learned. Okay, So Hurt Syndicate. We
all predicted the Hurt Syndicate was going to win this match.
They've been going back and forth, though both sides have
been getting wins over the other side. Lately, it had
been Ricochet's team that was getting the wins. So I
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felt like it was time for this to get finished
and the Hurt Syndicate to put it down. They can
now pursue the ops Samoa, Joe, Hobbs, and Shabbata and
they can go after their titles and then eventually Bobby
can break off and he can do you know, world
title stuff once Max has the belt again because now
they have a history because Max was briefly in the
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Hurt syndicate. They know each other. And then Bob, anyway,
you see where I'm going with this, they want to
match you. It was a really cool finish. They were
all gonna all three guys had Ricochet cornered in the ring.
They're about to kill Rikoshe and he's like, nah, nah,
don't kill me. And then his boy, Bishop Conn was like, Yo,
you ain't killing anybody except me, and he jumps in.
He pulls Ricochet out and he jumps in and he's like, yo,
fuck you guys, and he starts fighting on. They just
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kill poor Bishop Conn and they get the pin and
they don't get to get the fall on Ricochet, which
was very smart. And we move on to the Women's
World Championship. Chris Stattlander the champion versus Tony's Storm. The
challenger feels weird, saying the challenger, Tony Storm, we all
picked stat Lander. It would have been a terrible choice
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to have her lose it right away right after winning it.
You have to give her a chance to find herself
as a character, to find herself as a champion, and
they have not yet. One, they haven't given her enough time.
And two I don't feel that they found her yet.
I think she's they're still kind of searching to see
you know, who this woman is, what kind of personality
she has, and how she likes to get it out there.
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What's the most effective way to put her personality on
the audience and say, hey, do you guys like me?
Like Sally Field said back in the day, who's Sally Field? Okay,
you guys are young. Sorry, just google her? You like me?
You really like me? Anyway, Tony Storm. Every fighter has
like a like a kryptonite fighter, right Like there was
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a fighter named Sugar Shane Moseley in the nineties and
two thousands, and he was great, you guys, He was
a great fighter, and he just speed and technique and
footwork and defense and a beautiful jab and combination punching
and he was just smoking everybody. And then he ran
into this guy who was a very good fighter named
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Vernon Forest Rest in peace. He was shot and killed
at a gas station still while he was still fighting.
But Vernon Forest, for whatever reason, just had Shane Moseley's number.
And they fought twice. I believe it might have been
three times. I know they fought twice. This is a
long time ago, and I've taken shots to the dome. Anyway,
everyone bet on Shane because nobody really knew who Vernon
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Forest was, except you know, the hardcore boxers who had
seen him on like you know, USA's Tuesday Night fights
back in the day and shit like that. And he
came out there and he just looked so clean and
crisp and pure and just kind of flowed. It was
like Buster Douglas versus Mike Tyson. There was no way
this guy could win. And here he is winning the
fight and looking good doing it, not getting lucky, looking
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good doing it. And Shane loses the fight and he
gets the rematch and he's like, now it was a fluke,
I'm gonna get him this time. And they fight again
and he gets knocked out again. Vernon Forest just had
his number. So that's the story as it applies to
Tony and Chris right, like Tony lost in a fatal
four way, and it's like, yo, I have to know
if it was a fluke or if you're good enough
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to beat me? Are you my murderer? She says, And
they take big swings with Tony or Tony I should say,
it takes big swings. She's the one that has to
commit to this character, and sometimes they work and sometimes
they don't. But are You my Murderer? Promo I thought
was really well done, and I thought she executed well
and that sort of explained her philosophy onto. You know,
why she wanted the rematch and didn't want to take
(19:30):
a break, why she has to fight for this title
once again, And that's the story building up for it,
which I thought some weeks hit and some weeks missed.
But we're still here, and I still wanted to watch
the match because they can both wrestle their ass off.
So we get this match, and sure as shit, she's
her kryptonite. She beats her again. She beats Tony's Storm,
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and Tony Storm's like, girl, you got my ass, I'm
out of here. She takes off. We all predicted stad
Lander to win, so we made you guys, more money there.
Take note, Take note all those bad predictors out there.
We are the Nostradamis of wrestling predictions. So Statlander is
in the ring, she's celebrating. All of a sudden, we
hear the music and here she comes see e, oh,
(20:15):
see e. And she comes out and interrupts the champ
and she's like, yo, Statlander, get even though you're the
champ with the best belt in the in wrestling, get
out of my ring. And Statlander goes, I'm like, you know,
that kind of makes the champ look weak. You just
made her look strong to make her look weak. What
the fuck are you guys doing? I'm getting kind of pissed, right,
(20:38):
stat Lander goes, And then Mercedes Monday is like, yo,
I've got six hundred and twenty three belts, but I'm
looking for six hundred and twenty four. So who wants
to come out and lose to me? Because if you're
wrestling me, you know you gotta lose because I make
more money than anybody in this business. And Mina Shira
(20:58):
Kawa comes out. She's the Ring of Honor Champion. She
comes out and she gives a great match and makes
you believe a couple of times. Oh shit, is she
going to be the one. They're gonna literally do this
and give it to me? No, that's cool, but no, No,
she gets caught and Money gets her finishes her, and
there is no interim champ anymore. There's just Mercedes Money
(21:21):
with every belt except Chris Stadlanders. And she comes back
out and now they make her look strong, and I'm like, okay,
I could have done without you making her look weak.
But at least she gets to finish strong. She's out
there cool. We still picked her to win. She wins Boom,
another match we predicted correctly, with Brody King and Bandido
known as Brodito versus Kazuchiko Okada and Knoski Takeshita. I
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like this story a lot, you guys, not so much
the tag team story as to why they're fighting, because
that was just built off, you know, way we beat
these guys who are number one, so we're wrestling for
the title. It's that Okada and Takeshita don't like each other,
and Okada is clearly the heel and takesha is clearly
the babyface in this. Okada does not want to share
(22:08):
his shine with another. I mean this is what it
feels like with another Japanese wrestler. He's just like, nah,
fuck all that. I'm the one. I'm the star. America
doesn't accept too many of us, and they accepted me,
so there's room for me on top and not know you,
no Shin Skan, WWE, no anybody else. Man, It's me
(22:30):
and me alone, and I stand on the top. I'm Okada,
I'm the best wrestler in the world, and the rest
of y'all are just some punks. And Takesha is like,
bron fucking bigger than you, dude, I'll punch you dead
in your face. Fuck does the matter with you, bro?
And that's where he's coming from. He's not taking any
of that. He just won the IWGP title in Japan.
He's like, yeah, that one that you held nine times
or seven times, whatever it is, Yeah, I got it.
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Your shit is old. I'm the new hotness. You're old
and busted like they said and men in black back
in the day. So they've got some bad chemistry going,
but they're both awesome wrestlers, so it's gonna be a
competitive match. They almost win, but they don't. Well, Okada
screwed up or Diddy and he hits his finish accidentally
on Takeshaa and he's flipping them off and he's like, yeah,
(23:14):
I'm flipping you off, dude, deal with it. And tkesha
is like, Dude, if you're flipping me off, I'm legit
gonna beat your ass. And Okada's like do it. They
have this whole beef right so, and Don Kallis is
in the middle of it. I'm wearing Don Kallis sunglasses
right now. Oh May maybe the Glaire's gone, Yeah, all right,
no more Claire. The future is Babyface Takeshaa heel Okada
(23:46):
for the International Championship, with takesha To being the one
that finally beats him. That's their story, that's where that's going.
So when that match happens, I'll be betting Takeushaa all day.
Jeff's gonna be betting Okada, Alex is probably gonna bet Okada,
and I'll be up one to oh on those suckers.
So just remember that when we get there. Next up
and shout out to Brodito man, never stop fighting. All right.
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We got two matches to go, y'all, and we were
right on both and by the way, we didn't get
to predict on the Mercedes Monday match, but everybody in
their grandma was gonna pick money, so we were right
on that too. Deal with it. The World Championship hang
Man Adham Page the champion versus Samoa Joe. I used
to play this baseball game called super Mega Baseball, and
(24:34):
I did an all wrestling team because you can customize
all the characters, and one of my pitchers was just
like big He looked just like Samoa Joe's real big dude.
He was like the third or fourth starter on the team,
and instead of Samoa Joe, I gave him all like,
you know, like baseball, I don't gimmick infringed, so I
changed their names a little bit, and since he was
a pitcher, I called him soa throa Joe and he
(24:54):
ended up being my best pitcher man, but he wasn't
the best man tonight or the night that they wrestled
last night for me a few nights ago. For the
rest of y'all, Hangman Adam Page retained good match opening belt.
Joe beat his ass, beat his ass, jabbed him, hit
him with the right German souplexes, kicked him in the face,
(25:16):
got him in a Cokina clutch, nearly ended the match.
The Hangman wasn't going to lose that belt. We all
knew he wasn't going to lose that belt. He's a
people's champion. He fights for the people. He shows the belt.
Moxley hid the belt. He took it away from you, guys,
and you still cheer him. He took it away from you.
Hangman Adam Page is for the people, and he fought
back because he heard you guys screaming for him. He
(25:38):
hit the Sunset Flip power Bomb and the dead Eye.
Joe wasn't done. He went for the musclebuster. Hangman escapes
and the finish is like the triple Buckshot Larry, and
he hit him with it once and Joe's like, oh,
jack me up pretty bad. I'm waiting for Joe to
do a walk away on one of these where he's like, nope,
got him, gets him with the second one. I'm like, oh, no,
is he not going to do a walk away? Here
(25:59):
comes the third one ball? Oh my god? Him? No? What? Two? Three?
I like some o joke. I knew he was going
to lose, but I really wanted him to win. I
picked Hangman to win, so did our producer. We were
all right, as usual, you can't end the Hangman run yet.
I don't know who's going to take it from him.
I'm guessing it's going to be MJF eventually, but he's
going to be champed for a long time the main event.
(26:20):
It's weird when the main events not for the most
important belt in your company. But in this case, neither
of these guys need a belt, and they've been dedicated
or allotted that's a cool word, allotted the most time
to get hype for their match, because both guys can
talk pretty good. John Moxley gives a good promo. Darby's
(26:43):
promos are pretty good. He's still kind of like developing,
and he's very experimental in life, like the choices he makes,
like climbing freaking mountains and doing backflips off of them
and do a coffin drops eight thousand feet in the
air and whatever other crazy shit he does. But John
is very he knows exactly who his character is. And
I thought they built this up really really smart for
(27:04):
weeks and weeks and weeks. This is months actually, with
Molotov cocktails and body bags and like, nah, dude, you
tried to kill this company. I'm here to save this company.
Saved me, so now I'm gonna save it from you,
you son of a bitch. That's what Darby Allen's talking about.
And Moxley's like, dude, you don't get it. Man, I'm
hardening everyone here. Man. It's like, I'm making you guys tougher.
We have to be tougher than the other company. We
(27:25):
have to be better than the other company. And I'm
making you better. You just don't know it. That's where
Moxley's coming from. And they've they've been button heads because
they have different philosophies. They're like Magneto and Professor X
not they're not at all like that. And they finally
have to have it out, not in a steel cage,
because that's not enough. They wouldn't end the beef. They
just try to kill each other some more so. It's
(27:47):
an I quit match. I'll be honest with you, guys.
I had a dream about this match and about the finish,
and the finish in my dream was John Moxley was beaten.
Darby Allen's ass so bad that finally he was just like, dude,
just fucking quit and Darby's like, no, I never quit,
and he realizes this dude's never gonna quit and mocks.
(28:09):
He's like, then, fuck you, bro, I quit and he
just walked away. That was the dream is now. I'm
not saying that would have been better or good. I'm
just saying that was the dream I had. And I
woke up, I was like, what the hell did I
just dream? This match happened close to midnight, so kiddos
should be asleep because midnight. If you're on the West Coast,
hopefully you have good parents and they tell you, you know,
these guys agree to this stuff. This is just a story.
(28:31):
It's no different than a Jackie Chan fight scene where
they tried to drown Jackie and who am I? It
gets no different than you know, any any other movie
where somebody's heads gotten dunked in water. I know some
people are tripping out, but we just got to be
responsible parents and talk to our kids and be aware
of what they're watching that kind of stuff. Let them
know that, you know, certain behavior is acceptable, certain behaviors not.
This is a television show. This is a movie. For
(28:54):
my generation, it was Beavis and butt Head. Their attitudes
and Beavis's obsession with five. A kid burned down a
school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was, or in Colorado,
the state just north of New Mexico. His parents tried
to sue Mike, Judge and Fox and blame them because
my son was obsessed with Beavis with fire, fire, fire,
(29:14):
and that's why he burned down the school. Yeah. I
don't subscribe to that philosophy. I think I think we
need to be more responsible than that. So to me,
this is just a This is just a match with
a lot of crazy gimmicks. That said, I get where
other people are coming from, but I just think we
need to be more responsible as as parents and be
more present in our kids' lives. This my opinion. Here
(29:37):
we go, So Darby wins this match. They did everything.
This was a horror movie brought to life. I quit
matches the perfect scenario for it. This view has been
going for almost a year now, almost a year, maybe
even a little longer than a year. He brought the
flag out. He tried to like hang John Moxley with
the AEW flag. That was pretty cool. He got skewers
(29:59):
under his fee fingernails. That was pretty cool. What else
was pretty cool. They brought out a fish aquarium like
it looked like a ten gallon aquarium, filled it up
with water. You gotta bring a lot of water to
the ring for that one to work. Tried to drown
Darby Allen, but Darby's not gonna quit. Darby went through
two tables with Moxley's finisher. Darby's not gonna quit. Darby
got thrown by Claudiocastignoli out of the ring a good
(30:23):
nine ten feet in the air before he landed on
the freaking table. He must be made out of pipe cleaners.
I don't know how else guys like him and Hardy
don't get just murdered every single night because they're just
they're just built out of you know, rubber bands, I guess.
And then finally they're gonna kill Darby Allen and the
lights go out, and everybody knows who's gonna save the day.
(30:46):
It's Darby's dad. It's Sting. It's Sting. And he had
a full head of white hair and a white beard,
and he had the face paint on and he looked awesome.
It was like the Justice League Star where they were
all old and like grizzled and Superman had a little
extra meat on the body, and Batman was getting all
like everybody. I don't remember the name of that storyline,
(31:08):
but it was a lot of fun. I like seeing
the older guys come in and kick ass within the
constructs of reality, right, like in a wrestling match. He
can't beat John Moxley, but if he sneaks up behind
him and puts a bat around his throat and tries
to choke him, he can win that fight, right, So
he does that. He hits a Wheeler DA and the
gut or Cloudio maybe, and then he gets pock got
(31:31):
you to pack? Oh that's und funny. He beats up
everybody and Darby eventually gets the win. Moxley finally quits.
There was lighter fluid in this mat. He was going
to burn his ass and then Cloudio saved him. There
was good stuff in here. But yeah, this was a
huge career moment for Darby Allen. He beat John Moxley.
Not a lot of people beat John Moxley. He's like
a Roman Reigns type figure. When you beat him, you're
(31:54):
supposed to be a maid man. And this guy did
it selflessly. He didn't do it for himself. He did
it for it aw the company that saved him, the
company that made him, the company that he now wants
to put on his shoulders the way this company embraced
him and put them on their shoulders. So he did
it for all the right reasons. Ultimate babyface Moxley deserves
(32:15):
a freaking vacation. Take a couple of weeks off, bro.
He won't, but he deserves it. Hey man, your lovely wife. Yeah,
get out of town, have a couple of weeks, go
to an island. Drink some Oh no, you don't drink,
my man, have some juice, work out in the gym,
get some waves. But you need to be by a beach,
(32:37):
my brother. You've earned it, You've definitely earned it. But
it's a crazy match. I thought it was going to
be a bloodbath. It was not a bloodbath, thank god,
but really fun match and an awesome pay per view.
We called all the matches correctly. You know why because
we love y'all. That's why we want to make you
guys money. So don't forget to listen to all our episodes,
especially our prediction ones, because that's how you get paid.
(32:58):
We get paid with commercials. I know there were a
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listen to your podcast. Please that stuff always helps, And
stay tuned for tomorrow's show on Unsanctioned Thursday, where we
have Nick Manfredini, who worked with Bray Wyatt throughout his
(33:19):
entire WWE Run from Husky Harris all the Way to
the Fiend. That's on sanction Thursday. I actually know Nick.
We went on a road trip together. When I went
back the second time to WWE, I like driving and
none of them did, so I was like, Ah, I'll
drive him, and I think we got it. Do we
get a ticket? No? But I drove Hella fast. That's
back when I drove quick. I'm an old guy. Naw
drive slowly, yell at the fast drivers. He's a really
(33:40):
good dude. Haven't seen him since I left the company. Really,
we had a mutual friend who was also a writer there.
That's who kind of introduced us, and I'm really excited
to have him on. We're going to break down all
the braywhite stuff ww creative. Maybe he has some thoughts
on AI. Yeah, stay tuned for that. Until then, we'll
be back next week. Jeff will be back, hopefully, our
government eployed will be back, and I wish all of
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you guys nothing but love and health and happiness. See
you next week. Peace. M
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