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Solomonster reviews WWE Smackdown from Tempe, AZ with Jade Cargill returning and TURNING HEEL on Tiffany Stratton, plus Ilja Dragunov defends the US Title in an Open Challenge to keep the series alive (hooray!) and Drew McIntyre leaves Cody Rhodes laying heading into their championship showdown at SNME.  This show was the definition of MID.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
WWE tonight was in Tempe, Arizona, running a building that
they have never run before, and not with a very
big crowd relative to the types of crowds they usually
do here for these TVs. With the types of buildings,
they run about five thousand people in the building. I
think that's pretty much max staut of what it fits,
but I was surprised. They usually don't run buildings that small,

(00:21):
especially when they've been packing them in, you know, for
most of this year. Apparently, you know, Salt Lake City
is hosting Saturday Nights made have end next weekend, and
the advance for that is not great. I don't even
think they have five thousand tickets sold, you know, in
a building where they could fit well more than double that.
So maybe people are starting to send a message to

(00:42):
WWE when it comes to these ticket prices. I don't know,
but you would expect, you know, it's a big show
next weekend. We got a bunch of championship matches on there,
and that's not good, certainly by WWE standards. This year,
that's not good. This has not been a good week
for Jimmy Usso. Jimmy Usso was a lid from the
Battle Royal on Raw Monday Night, where he had the

(01:02):
chance to become a number one contender for the World
Heavyweight Championship at Saturday Night's main event against CM Punk. Instead,
USO is going to that show, but it's the other USO.
It's Jay Usso who's going. And even though he saved
his brother a whole bunch of times in the Battle Royal,
he got dumped by Jay, so he was unhappy about that,
and then he shows up on SmackDown tonight trying to

(01:24):
avenge what happened to his cousin, Jacob Faughtu last week
when he got bloodied up. But his teeth got all
knocked out on the floor, and he's going to be
out for a while, not nearly as long as it
was rumored. We'll probably have faugh two back by December,
which would be great. But he was here for revenge,
so he was in the main event tonight as well
as Monday Night. Tonight, it was an OTUS qualification match

(01:45):
against Drew McIntyre and that did not go well for
Jimmy either. Jimmy comes out on the losing end of
that and all roads now lead to Cody and Drew
for the WWE Championship at Saturday night's main event that
set Ilyya Dragonov last week made his return after more
than a year out, and he beat Sammy's Ain a

(02:07):
excellent Open Challenge match for the United States Championship, and
I was hoping, please let them continue the Open Challenge gimmick.
It has been the favorite part of SmackDown for me
every Friday night, and we found out tonight that in fact,
the Open Challenge thankfully is going to be continuing. And
tonight he had another very good outing as he did

(02:27):
with Sammy last week, not nearly as good as that,
but tonight he was defending the title against Alistair Black.
Speaking of people who have made their return, we had
the return tonight of Jade Cargill. She's been out for
several weeks. If you remember, she got that nasty gash
on her face in the triple threat match with Naya
Jackson Tivity Stratton a few weeks ago. She was back

(02:49):
tonight to make the safe for Tiffany and then she
lowered the boom and Jade car Gill takes out Tiffany Stratton.
It was the heel turn that was much needed for
Jade car Gill. She will be challenging Tiffany for her
championship next weekend in Salt Lake City, and I suspect
there we are going to get a title change. I
don't see any reason to put these two back in

(03:11):
the ring together unless they are going to do a
title change. Otherwise, it just feels kind of pointless to me.
But it's the right move to make. Jade, by the way,
has a nasty scar right across her eyebrow. That was
a hell of a gash that she had on her
head a few weeks ago. I don't know if that
thing's going to fully heal or not, but I will say,
at least the way it looks right now, she looked

(03:34):
pretty badass with it. Not the best place to have
a giant scar right in the middle of your the
middle of your face, but she makes it work. But
I was happy to see them at least switch her
to the other side, especially if they were going to
run this match back. It wouldn't have made any sense
to do another babyface against baby face match between them,
And honestly, outside of those two things, outside of the

(03:56):
open challenge and outside of the Jade heels, a very
average episode of SmackDown it was a step down from
what we've had the last few weeks. It really felt
like there were some changes being made to this show,
changes for the better, and you know, this week it
just felt like we took a step back. There's still

(04:16):
much work to be done. It was a no change
whatsoever in the status of the women's United States champion.
The men's United States Championship is the best part of
the show. The women's US title. The situation with Julia
that still has yet to be addressed. That is still
something that they need to work. Although Julia was on
this show, but she didn't do a whole lot of

(04:38):
really anything. This is your Friday Night SmackDown review. It
is October twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. I am the
Solomn Monster. Thank you for closing out another week with yours. Truly.
I know there's a lot of sports competition tonight, had
a couple of friends at the Knicks game. They were
sending me pictures from there. I think the baseball game
just then did right, or maybe it's it's I'm trying

(05:02):
to say, has it ended yet? Because I know that
the oh no, and that has not ended. For some reason,
I thought the Toronto game was ending. Apparently it's only
the sixth inning and they are crushing it. Apparently the
Dodgers are getting spanked good. I'm not upset about that.
So anyway, there's a lot of sports shit going on.

(05:24):
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(05:46):
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in the description down. Yeah. I was just putting some
notes down earlier today, getting prepared for episode nine thirty

(06:07):
five this Sunday, and I actually I got a great
question from someone that I got it and I really
got me thinking. And I was just jotting down some
stuff and I got on a roll and I'm like, man,
I cannot wait to address this on the podcast this weekend.
It's just one of those questions that really made me
think when it comes to just wrestling and things that

(06:29):
don't make sense and all that sort of thing. So
there'll be some entertaining things to talk about on the
pod coming up on Sunday, but for now, let's get
into SmackDown before we get there. The show opened up
with the WWE champion Cody Rhodes. He was walking backstage
when he encountered Jimmy Usso, who apparently is cross branded
and just goes to whatever show he feels like showing

(06:50):
up on. So Jimmy told Cody that he appreciated what
Cody did for his cousin Jacob last week. Jimmy said
that he was going to go talk to Nick all
this about what happened to fa Too, and he said that,
what did you want to revisit an Italian night fart
again from t Yeah, you know, I have to bring

(07:10):
that up as well. On Tuesday Night Titans on Tuesday Nights,
we were discussing this Sinnatti interview with Chris van Vliet
and she was going over the old Natty Knight fart
storyline from many years ago, and it was quite the segment.
It was quite the segment. Let me tell you, that's

(07:31):
a whole segment that if you missed it, you should
go back and check out. But anyway, no farting on
this show tonight. Cody asked how things are going between
you and your brother Jay. You know, Jacob is one thing,
but what about you and Jay? And Jimmy said that
Cody saw what Jay did to him on Raw and
he asked them, how would you feel. Cody said, I

(07:51):
get it, I get it. I got a brother in
the game too. Cody pointed him in the direction of
Nick Aldos's office and he said that he was on
his way out to the ring to speak to the people.
Once he was inside the ring, Cody quickly turned his
attention to what happened at the end of the show
last week, which Drew McIntyre said that what he did

(08:13):
it was very uncharacteristic of him, the way that he
came out there and he kind of lost his cool
and then he walloped McIntyre in the head. If you
recall with the WWE Championship, the coward that he is
to save his title and get himself disqualified. Before he
could continue and say anything else, Drew McIntyre himself interrupted
and he could not believe that the crowd was still

(08:35):
with Cody, even after all the shit that he's pulled,
all the things he's done, and hitting Drew in the
head with the belt last week, they still come out
and they still cheer for this man, and he couldn't
believe it. He said that this is now a situation
where it's become about him, Drew McIntyre finishing the story,
and he would do it next week at Saturday Night's
main event. So McIntyre again deflected blame for the Jacob

(08:58):
Fatu attack. He said, I didn't do it. And it
was very interesting because after McIntyre dismissed the idea that
he could have been the one behind the attack on
Jacob fa too, all of a sudden, Cody Rhoades got
very angry and he interrupted and he challenged McIntyre, let's
do it again right now. He challenged him to a
fight on the spot. It was almost as if Cody
was awfully quick to interrupt McIntyre before McIntyre could potentially

(09:21):
point the finger of blame at Cody Rhodes. Cody cut
that shit down real quick. Yeah, I wonder why. So
as the two geared up for a fight, Jimmy Usso
leaped from the barricade at Ringside over by the timekeeper's area,
onto Drew and he went on the attack. Security poured

(09:42):
out to break things up, but not before Jimmy got
in a suicide dive on McIntyre. I did notice, it
was impossible not to with the hair. One of these
security guards who was there trying to break things up.
Here between these men was Doug Mallow, the man who
he pulled Rajah Jackson off of Psycho stew He was

(10:03):
one of the security guards. I recognized him straight away
because I look at him and he just is to me,
he's a dead ringer for Lance Archer. He may not
be as tall as him, but to me, I look
at him and the hair and everything, he looks like
Lance Archer to me, and it definitely was not Lance Archer.
So after a break, McIntyre was raging backstage to Nick

(10:24):
all this. He was telling him do something about what
Jimmy did, and Jimmy jumped him again and the two
of them had to be separated. So you knew that
we were getting the main event. It wasn't official yet,
but you knew that we were getting a main event
with these two guys. Later in the show, Hards RDS says,

(10:44):
I thought it was Lance Archer. No, it was not
Lance Arger. It was not lancear Look. I know Andrade
can be under WWE contract and pop up on dynam I,
beat up their top guy and then be pulled back
into WWE. But that's not how it works with Lance Arger.
Lance Archer not hopping from one show to the other.
We had the team of Ray Phoenix and Shinsky Knackomora

(11:06):
because he did lose his tag team partner. There is
no more Androde for the time being, so he needed
a new partner and Knackamora was the guy and they
were paired up to take on the MFTs. It was
the team of Tomatonga and j. C. Matteo in their
clown makeup that they're now wearing. So after running wild
for a little bit the MFTs, they slowed Phoenix down,

(11:29):
but he created the separation that he needed. Knocka more
Go got the hot tag. He attempted to lift JC
but to no avail. Mateo answered with a twisting backsuit
plex that kept Knockamora grounded. As Tomatonga tagged in, Phoenix
hit a springboard splash onto him. I love the way
that Toma fed into that too. Some guys do this,

(11:50):
you don't see it too often, but basically, you know,
he came off for the big splash and Toma jumped
up at him to absorb the impact of the movie.
So he followed that up with a goodbye, Amigo top
rope kick. Things broke down, Phoenix jumped Onto and J C.
Matteo on the outside. As Phoenix tried to go up
top solo, Soco was out there. He was watching this.

(12:13):
He created the distraction. Talatonga as a solo was providing
distraction on the other side of the ring. Talatanga chokes
lamp Phoenix onto the apron and they were not in sync.
I think Phoenix just jumped too quickly, so it didn't
look good, but it weakened him enough. Toma Tonga then
hit a hidden blade style running elbow for the win

(12:34):
for the MFTs. I mean, you know, this was decent enough.
Still nothing but random matches here for the MFTs. It's
really all it is. You know, people complain about random
matches on this show. Or that show you talk about random,
that's what these matches feel like. You know, these MFT
matches are random. And the thing is that this group

(12:55):
is not interesting enough on their own without any sort
of real character development, Like there's been plenty of character
development over the last few years for Solosko, but what
about the other members of the group. He got four
other guys here, and they just they just refuse to
do anything. They don't do anything to address that. That's
a big problem when it comes to this group, and

(13:17):
I think it's a big part of why a lot
of people just don't give a shit about the MFTs.
So as long as that doesn't change, this is going
to continue to be a miss for me, no matter
how much makeup they want to put on their faces.
And I should also point out with Knakamora, you know,
he was part of the Japan tour they just had
last week and he spoke I believe it was to
Tokyo Sports, and he told Tokyo Sports he wants to

(13:39):
win a World Heavyweight Championship in WWE before his time
in the ring comes to an end, which he says
is coming very soon. He doesn't say he's going to
retire next year, you know, like aj Styles is. But
he says his time is nearing its ends soon enough,
and he really would like to win a World heavyweight
championship in WWE, whether or it's the world title, the

(14:01):
WWE title, you know, whatever it may be. I'll tell
you what, though, if he's going to win a world
title in this company, they got a lot of work
to do because he's a guy. I know. They just
switched him back baby Face, they got his old music back.
He needs direction. I'm not even saying that even after
all these years of just nothing and being a background player,

(14:25):
that they can't rehab him enough. Even if it's like
one last run to potentially be a world heavyweight champion
and get a short run, you know, could it happen.
Sure it could happen, but it's gonna take a lot
of work. I don't know the Triple H and the
creative team. I don't know if they look at Knockamore
in that way. I don't know if they see him
as someone who they would like to invest in in

(14:47):
that way by putting a world championship on them. And
I don't see him holding the WWE title. So if anything,
it would be the world heavyweight title, which is on
the other show. Yeah, so he's just not He's not
in that category anymore in this company. So look, it's
nice to have goals, and it's not as if you
can't come up with an idea to give him that

(15:09):
one last shot, you know, trying to become a world champion.
And I think the crowd could get behind it, but
you've got to have the story there to support it,
and there's just no indication that WWE is interested in
doing that now. Backstage, Jimmy Usso told Nick all This
that everybody knows that McIntyre attacked Jacob Fatu, everyone except

(15:32):
this guy right here, who doesn't believe that for a second.
Watch it'll end up being fucking Solo Sokoa who attagged him.
So all This said that he would book Jimmy against
McIntyre in a match. Jimmy said, I don't want to match,
I want to fight. All this made it notice qualification.
Elsewhere in the back the Women's United States Champion Julia

(15:54):
Holy shit, she breeds there she is. She was chatting
with someone on the phone, maybe her action agent, telling
them get me out of here, but she was talking
to somebody on the phone. She was approached and erupted
whatever by Chelsea Green and Alba Fire, and Chelsea spoke
about being the first and the best women's United States Champion.

(16:14):
She called for a campaign for her to become the
new WWE Women's Champion, when Keana James walked in and
shot down Chelsea and then headed off for her match.
Not much of a segment, but it did lead into
Tiffany Stratton non title one on one against Keana James.
And at some point during this match, I could have

(16:36):
sworn that I heard Michael Cole refer to Keana wearing
a neck brace on her right knee. Could have sworn
I heard him say that back me up on this.
Keana flatt and Stratton with a running big boot to
the face. Both women battered away at each other with strikes.

(16:59):
Stratton got the better of it. She nailed the handspring
back elbow into the corner, followed by her Alabama slam.
Stratton connected with the rolling sent on but could not
capitalize with the prettiest moon salt. Ever, Keana responded with
a falcon arrow but only got a near fall in
the corner. Keana placed Tiffany on the top rope, she
could not get the superplex that she was looking for.

(17:19):
She got shoved back down to the mat Stratton's sword
at that point with a Swantan bomb and almost brained herself.
Every week, one of these weeks, it's gonna happen. So
she almost brained herself. Then she followed that up with
the prettiest moon Salt ever and she got the win.
After the match was over, her celebration was cut short

(17:41):
Julia attacked with the Arriva Derci knee. Before Julia could
dish out any more damage, Jade Cargill shows up and
she storms her way down to the ring and she looked,
she looked incredible, and she sent Julia scurrying away with
a pump kick. As Julia and James were backing off,

(18:03):
Jade turned around and she saw Tiffany on the mat
and she offered her hand to help her to her feet,
and Tiffany at first was skeptical, but she accepted the gesture,
pulled herself up to her feet, and the niceties they
didn't last much longer because a few seconds later and

(18:27):
Jade was smiling and everything, and I'm like, yeah, no,
this is about to go very very much south here
for Tiffany stress too much smiling going on with a
woman who's got a fucking scar across her head that
she probably blames this woman for, even though I think
it was Nya that she was wrestling with at the time, right,
it was Nya that threw her into the steps. So
the niceties were over very quickly, and Jade blasts her

(18:50):
with a clothesline. And from the moment that she hit
her with that clothes line, the crab booed, So this
was a heel turn. This is not a hey, I
don't like you, you've wronged me. This was, hey, this
is a different side of me that you haven't seen before.
So she blasted her with the clothesline. She followed Tiffany
out to the floor, she started tossing her around. She

(19:12):
threw her into the ring steps. She continued the attack.
She threw her over the announced desk and Tiffany fell
on the floor. She followed her around the announced desk
and started kicking her ass on the other side. As
she was laying there, officials poured out to restrain her,
and the champion is trying to crawl away and with
Tiffany's leg conveniently placed across one of the steps. That's

(19:36):
just where she ended up. Jade came over and she
stomped on it before finally leaving, and Tiffany was shrieking
in pain and clutching her knee. And that was the
big postmatch angle. The match itself, it was an acceptable match.
You know, Keana doesn't get a lot of ring time,
so of course, you know, the more ring time for
her sake that she gets, the better. And I thought

(19:58):
she looked okay. Really it was just a match to
get Tiffany a win. It was all about the postmatch angle.
And again it was a heel turn. That's how the
fans treated it. They bowed the hell out of her
from the moment she knocked down Tiffany. This was needed,
this was needed, This was the right move to make,
especially if the play was to get them back in

(20:20):
the ring and put the championship on the line again.
And it's official now, and made it official later in
the show. Saturday Night's made event next weekend in Salt
Lake City, it will be Jade car Gill once again
challenging Tiffany Stratton for the WWE Women's Championship. This will
not be the first time that she has been in
the ring with Tiffany for the title. This will be
what the third time, maybe fourth? I think third? Okay,

(20:44):
And obviously, up to this point, Jade has not walked
away successfully with the championship. So now you're running this
back again. Now you've turned her heel, and you mean
to tell me that you're going to go into that
show next weekend and what have Tiffany beat her again again? No?
I don't think so. Jade car Gill needs to go

(21:04):
in there and win that championship. Whether you believe that
she's ready for that spot, I'm not even talking about that.
I'm just saying in terms of what they have booked here,
all signs point to her winning the championship and she
should because if you just put her in there on
top of the fact that she just turned heel and
then you beat her, I don't know what that says

(21:25):
for her future, but it's not very good. This reeks
of a title change next weekend, and if they're going
to get behind Jade is this dominant heel, then that's
exactly what they need to do, and then they could
build to the eventual match maybe at WrestleMania between Jade
and Bianca for the WWE Championship. If Bianca ever comes back,

(21:46):
I don't know when. I don't know if this woman
is ever going to come back. I suspect it should
be soon, and if Jade is the champion, it's only
natural that they would build to that match, you know,
for WrestleMania next year. But this was needed. Jade needed
some sort of change here on this show. I think
this is the change. I mentioned. The scar. It's a
pretty gnarly scar. It's only a few weeks old. I

(22:10):
don't know how well it's going to heal. I'm sure
there'll be some kind of mark there again, you know,
her out there like that, looked like a badass. It
works for her, you know, but I don't know how
long that's going to take to actually heal up in
what it's going to look like now. Backstage, after Kathy
Kelly caught up with Jade, who said that this world

(22:31):
doesn't reward patience and that she was ready to take
what's hers, the WWE Women's Championship, and I do believe
that she will next weekend. Elsewhere, Sammy's Ain congratulated Ilia Dragonov.
I'm beating him last week for the United States Championship.

(22:52):
In Sammy's mind, dragon Of was the right guy to
carry on the legacy of these open challenges. He said,
John Cena passed it on to me. I am out
passing it on to you, and I was like, thank
you God. We are continuing with the open challenges, my
favorite part of SmackDown. I was hoping these would not end.

(23:13):
And that brought Ilia Dragonow out to the ring for
the next US Title Open Challenge. Now before the match,
Dragonov got a little bit of promo time here and
he addressed the audience. He said that he missed the fans.
After being out for so long, he thought that he
would never see the light at the end of the tunnel,
but he said that he would never give up. Right
in that John Cena spirit, Dragonov declared that he would

(23:36):
defend the title and proudly continued the US Open Challenge.
She said, tonight Payne shall entertain you. And with that,
Alister Black accepted the open challenge. I assume because they
played his music, So he must have told the music
man first, Hey, I'm accepting the open challenge. Hit my music,
so they played his music. Zelina Vega is now with

(23:57):
him as part of his entrance. It did remind me
very much of a carrying cross scarlet entrance, just the
way that Zelena was sort of on her knees and
slowly rose up. It was definitely giving me crossing scarlet
vibes as far as their entrance goes. So if you
missed it a few weeks ago, there was a last
man standing match. I think this was right before Crown

(24:19):
Jewel Alistair Black Damian Priest. This is where we saw
Selena Vega get involved. She ran distraction and that allowed
Priest to take a fireball to the face and Alistair
Black ones. So now husband and wife have been paired
together on TV, so this is their first time together
here with the Black coming out for a match. Black

(24:40):
countered a Constantine Special with a kick before Vega launched
Dragonov into the barricade with a horror Canrana off the apron.
I remember the days of her with Andrade and NXT.
She would do that all the time. In fact, one
of my favorite matches that I've ever seen NXT Philly
in How to Be twenty eight Androde defending against Johnny

(25:03):
Gargano and Zelena did that to Johnny Gargano during that match,
and then of course later they did the spot where
you know, Zelena was marching over to Gargano on the
outside what she gonna do? And Candace Larray was watching
in the crowd, and Candace jumped the barricade and she
double legs Zelena. Everything about that match is great, and

(25:24):
then the finish hits and it's like everything felt like
it was building to Johnny winning the belt and then
Androde just beat him and then it was like, really,
but I still remember that match. There are certain matches
like that that still stick out of my mind. You know,
we talk about on these shows week to week and frankly,
even a lot of the plees how forgettable these matches are. Right,

(25:47):
you can have a great match, but it's not great
in a way that's going to make you remember it
six months or a year from now. But then you
have certain matches where I could look back on an
NXT match literally from seven years ago, eight years ago,
and I still remember the large majority of it. It
still sticks out of my mind. That match for me
is one of those bouts. It's one of my favorite

(26:07):
NXT matches of all time. So when I saw her
do that. For whatever reason, it made me remember that
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Black then absolutely blasted Dragonof with a running kick to
the face from the apron, and that sent us into
the commercial break. They came back with the two men

(28:55):
exchanging strikes. Dragonov then threw Black around with some repeated
German souplexes, followed by a very unique I guess the
way I would describe it as rotating souplex for a
near fall. I don't think I've seen that before. So
as Dragonov headed up top, Vega created a distraction that

(29:15):
allowed Black to halt his attack, and from the top
there was a meteor that stunned Dragonov. Briefly, Black failed
to connect with some sort of springboard attack. Dragonov hit
the Constantine special could not follow up. He was selling
it like he hurt himself, and they went to another break,
so Dragonov. Later on he flew from the top with

(29:36):
a sent on for a two count. Dragonov had Black
targeted for the torpedo Moscow, but he was met with
a knee strike to the face and Black got a
near fall out of that. Alistair had Dragonov in his
sights for Black mass he missed, though when he fell
victim to a torpedo Moscow. Dragonov got up. He attempted
to finish things off with an h bomb. Zelena coateel

(29:58):
this is not going well. She reached in and she
tripped him, and the referee saw it, or at least
the tail end of it. He's looking at her, He's like, oh,
what's going on here? So he ejected her at that point,
and as she was leaving. It wasn't long after she
was ejected from the match, Damian Priest's music hit. Because
I was thinking, Okay, how are they going to end this?

(30:18):
And I said, well, Damian Priest is probably going to
come out and interfere in this match, and sure enough,
they play his music, and here comes Damian Priest and
he's walking down the aisle and he's got sunglasses on
his face, and then he reveals after he takes the
sunglasses off, he's got a burn mark right on the
side of his eye. And honestly, as these makeup jobs go,

(30:39):
this one didn't look too bad. It's like, oh, he
got little burn there, it's mostly healed, didn't look like
anything too gross, but he had a burn. He didn't
look very happy about it. Anyway. This distraction was enough
for dragon enough to land another torpedo Moscow and he
gets the wind to retain the United States Championship. After

(31:01):
the match was over, and irate Damian Priest, he grabbed
two chairs he cleared off the announced desk and he
was looking to dish out some damage. Here Zelena jumps
on his back and scratched at his damage die and
that allowed Black to escape, so he will live to
fight another day. I am not a fan of the

(31:22):
fact that it took a distraction, interference, whatever you want
to call it. It took outside interference for Dragonov to
win his first defense as United States Champion. I think
that is incredibly lame. And it was a pretty lame
way to end what was otherwise a very good match.

(31:42):
I enjoyed this. That's the second very good match that
Black has had in this Open Challenge series, and he
has nothing to show for it. He has yet to
win the championship. But Dragonov just won the belt last week,
and a lot of people were very happy that he
won the belt and very excited to see him back.
Imagine if they took the belt off of him a
week later, the uproar there would be a fucking hashtag

(32:04):
on social media right now. He wasn't dropping that belt.
This was realistically the only way they could and this
match is by having Damian Priest get involved after what
happened to him with the fireball, but it's still made
for a very lame finish. I am not nearly as
enthusiastic about this feud continuing as I am the Open
Challenge continuing. That excites me a lot more. I'm just
wondering where they go from here now, because you had

(32:26):
a match between them a few weeks ago, Last man Standing,
Last Man Standing, So where do we go from here?
This feud is not nearly hot enough for like Hell
and a Cell or something like that, so That's That's
the only thing I'm wondering, now, where do we go
from here. It's like the Hurt Syndicate and Ricochet's group

(32:47):
in aaw having a big street fight at Daly's place
at the beginning of the month, and then following that
up at Wressel Dream with just a trios match, a
tornado match, but still just a t match. It's like
you do the stipulation match and then you take a
step back. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense
to me, So I'm wondering what they have in mind
here now. Carmelo Hayes was interviewed about his attack on

(33:14):
the Miz last week, and Hayes said that everyone was
expecting him to say that he was happy to attack
the Miz, but he wasn't going to do that because
revenge was a double edged sword. He noted that he
was ready to get his career back on track. When
Kit Wilson showed up and noted that he was a proponent,

(33:37):
Hayes was says, Carmelo Hayes is a proponent of toxic masculinity.
This is a new thing now. He said this to
Damian Priest several weeks ago. All this toxic masculinity here
in this company, right, So he's trashing him for that,
and Carmelo said that he would see him in the
ring next week. Wrestling Kit Wilson is not the way

(33:58):
to get your career back on track. Even if he
goes in there and wins next week, that is not
how you get your career back on track. He's off
to a terrible start now. Elsewhere, Ilia Dragonov met with
Phraxium in the back. They were just hanging out and
he noted that the open challenge is going to continue
and it is open even to tag teams. Either one

(34:21):
of them should want to challenge him. He'd be more
than happy to accept the challenge. So off went the champion.
DIY walked in and they were taunting Phraxium. I did
see a note earlier. I might have been PW insider,
but I don't recall that Candice Lay apparently has been
doing some producer work. She might have been doing that

(34:44):
even earlier tonight. I'm not sure, but could be something
that she does more of in the future. She's been
around for a long time. I mean, I would imagine
that she is someone who certainly would have a lot
to offer in that department, but she was with them
here when Diy showed up, and they taunted Phraxium over
Dragonov or not over dragon but they were taunting phraxium

(35:05):
after Dragonov left. So then after they left, Tomatonga shows
up and I'm wondering, Okay, what's he going to say here? Oh,
he doesn't say anything. Tomatonga is looking at Phraxium and
he's sizing them up and trying to intimidate them. And
he did his yeah, and then he walked off. Now

(35:26):
you may be entertained by that, right, ye Oh, I'm
sure that's very entertaining. But this is exactly what I
was talking about earlier when I was talking about the MFTs.
If you want to see the level of character development
when it comes to this crew, Solo Sokoa Aside. You've
got Tomatonga, You've got Tonga Loa, You've got jac Matteo.
You've got four fucking guys, right, four of them, and

(35:49):
the level of character development is basically really it boils
down to ye, that's it. Great storytelling, great writing here
on this show. Good job road, Doug, Way to go,
Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss. Enough of the MFTs. They

(36:14):
were being interviewed and they were asked about Bailey challenging
them to show up on Raw this Monday, which they
said they would. Well, they're going to that quicker than
I thought they would. I said that a few weeks ago.
I said, Bailey and Lyra against Charlotte and Alexi, I
think is the play. And evidently we're getting a match.
They didn't say it would be a title match, but
evidently we're getting a match between them on Raw this Monday.

(36:38):
Nya Jack showed up. Yes, I know. She said that
Flair and Bliss were pretending to be besties, but she
was waiting to see one of them stab the other
in the back. Flair said that she used to be
like Naya, but then she learned about healthy relationships, and
Nya said that she used to be in a friendship
with someone. She was uh eyeing Alexa Bliss when she

(37:01):
said this. She said that she learned from the best,
saying that Bliss will hug you with one arm and
stab you in the back with the other. And Alexa
said that if Nya is looking for the old hers,
she's not hard to find. So they are going to
have a match on the show next week. This is
another situation here with Charlotte and Alexa were it was

(37:23):
really the most interesting thing that they had done with
Charlotte on television in forever, and it is good for her,
I think, to take a step back from the spotlight
in the World Championship picture. I think it will do
her a lot of good when she eventually challenges for
the title again, unless they push her to a US
title run first. Maybe they want to give her a

(37:44):
US title run at least once. You know what, I
wouldn't be opposed to it, honestly at this point, I
really wouldn't. That could be exactly what Julia needs to
get in the ring with somebody that they actually give
a shit about. Fine, that's fine, I'm off for a
Charlotte Julia feud for the US title. I think it
would do that championship a world of good, just like

(38:05):
Becky holding the Intercontinental title has done that title a
world of good. But this friendship, this partnership between Charlotte
and Alexa, again, it's just it's lacking. Now, it's dragging.
They're not doing enough with it. I wish they would
get a little more creative when it comes to these
types of segments here. The main event was Drew McIntyre

(38:33):
one on one with Jay Usso. This was a no
not Jay Uzo Jimmy us So. It looks so much alike.
Drew McIntyre and Jimmy Usso, no disqualification. USO and McIntyre.
They brawled at ringside for a little bit before the
action spilled into the ring. Jimmy clotheslined him back out
to the floor, and then he followed with an attempted

(38:53):
suicide dive that got met with a forearm shot to
the face. At ringside, USO slamm Mack and Tyre's face
across the ring steps, which sent Drew retreating into the crowd. Jay,
there I go again. Jimmy. They are twins, you know.
Jimmy followed Suit into the crowd. The fight continued into

(39:15):
the stands. McIntyre attempted a DDT on the floor but
got countered into a supplex. Drew got thrown back over
the barricade, and Jimmy obliged the crowd's demand for tables
by pulling out a slim jim table from underneath the ring,
and that took us into the final commercial break. Now
a little bit later, there was a spot outside where

(39:37):
Jimmy did a tight rope walk across the top of
the barricade into I guess what was a splash attempt,
but McIntyre caught him and then launched him overhead with
a belly to belly suplex on the floor. McIntyre grabbed
a chair from the timekeeper's area. He hit Jimmy in
the ribs with it before whacking him across the back
and Drew unfolded the chair and he smashed Jimmy's face

(39:59):
on the seated portion. So he set Jimmy up for
a clay More kick, but then there was a drop
toe hold from Jimmy that sent Drew face first onto
the chair. Jimmy followed with a whisper in the wind
for a two count, and then he grabbed the chair
and he went to town on McIntyre with repeated strikes

(40:21):
set up the tacky slim gems. You know, these tables
are just such a great representation of modern day WWA
is are they? Every time I see them, I just
I shake my head at how ridiculous it all is.
So he grabs one of these TACKI tables. Jimmy got
caught by surprise though with a future shock ddt for

(40:42):
another near fall. McIntyre tried to go for another claim war,
but he was intercepted with a Samoan drop onto the
table which broke in half, and then Jimmy tried to
follow up very quickly with a Nuso splash off the top. McIntyre, though,
threw a chair at his face on the way down,
and this allowed McIntire to finish things off with a
Claymore kick for the wind. So after the match is over,

(41:07):
McIntyre places Jimmy's neck across the chair and this led
to officials running out to try to stop him from
doing something he was going to regret. Cody Rhodes runs
out and he starts to mix it up with Drew
threw him over the barricade into the timekeepers area. Cody
goes back to the rink to go check on Jimmy,
and as he's helping Jimmy up to his feet, McIntyre

(41:29):
re emerges and he's in the ring and he's setting
up for a claim war. Cody doesn't know, and Cody
turns round and he eats the kick and down goes
the champion and that is how they close the show
and drew McIntyre's standing tall and Cody Rhoades laid out
with a claim war kick, perhaps the final scene in
their match on Saturday Night's main event next weekend. So

(41:52):
we got some generic plunder brawling here in what was
otherwise a very standard main event here for this show,
McIntyre he got a small measure of revenge for what happened,
you know, when Cody was going crazy last week, and
all roads lead to Saturday Night's main event. And the
question now is, you know, what are they going to do?
Are they going to do a title change? Does Randy

(42:15):
Orton get involved? Even though Randy Orton really hasn't had
anything to do with this the last several weeks. I mean,
I know there was a match six weeks ago, maybe
it was seven weeks ago where McIntyre beat Randy Orton.
He hasn't even been seen since, so you know, is
he going to show up and get involved in some way?
And why would he out of nowhere like that get
involved in this match? I am anticipating a women's title

(42:39):
change on that show. To me, I feel a lot
more confident about that, and we already know that we're
supposed to crown a new world heavyweight champion on the
raw side. I'm not yet convinced that's actually going to
happen on that show, but they're promising that we're going
to have a new world heavyweight champion. It's just hard
for me to imagine that if they crowded new world champion,

(43:01):
and if Jade Cargill beats Tiffany Stratton, that they're going
to do a title change in the main event as well,
or what I presume would be the main event between
Drew McIntyre and Cody Ruts. I don't see all of
these titles, you know, ending up around you know, new
wastes on that show, so I'm not sure. I'm honestly

(43:22):
not sure what they're going to do. You know, this
match was originally supposed to happen at Survivor Series and
it got bumped up because of the Jacob Fatu injuries,
So now we're getting it here on this show. They
could extend it out to Survivor Series. I really don't
see a reason for them not to do so, because
I'm not quite sure who Cody would defend the title against,
if not Drew McIntyre. So I stand by what I've

(43:45):
said before, which is that I feel like McIntyre really
should get at least a short run with this title.
Maybe it doesn't happen next weekend, maybe it happens at
Survivor series, you know, and maybe Randy Orton does re
emerge between now and then, and maybe we end with
a triple threat. You know. But Drew has had opportunity
after opportunity after opportunity, And he said it himself on

(44:10):
the show tonight in his promo, you know. And I've
used this expression in the past. Always a bride's maide,
never a bride. That's the story of Drew McIntyre's run
in this company over the last five or six years,
you know, since that COVID run that you know, had
no fans. And how many times are you going to
have this guy go out there and get screwed and

(44:32):
then show up on TV the next week and talk
about how I was screwed. He's like the Brett Hart
of this generation. How many times are we going to
see that until you actually put the championship on it?
I mean, how many more of these matches can he
have and come up lame? So, whether it's Salt Lake
City or whether it's San Diego next month. I would

(44:55):
put the title on MacIntire. I would let McIntyre even
hold that time through the rumble, Like, it doesn't have
to be a quick, one and done thing. I don't
expect him to go into WrestleMania as the champion, but
what do you have to lose? It would make things
a little bit more interesting, right, Honestly, in the big picture,
it doesn't change much because if McIntyre wins the title,

(45:16):
he's gonna show up on TV. Cody's gonna be chasing
after him, maybe Randy. It's gonna be the same people. Like,
it's not gonna be radically different, like, oh wow, they
put the belt on McIntyre, right, we're gonna have to
start of a new era now, Like, realistically, not a
whole lot is going to change, but it would make
things a little bit more interesting with Cody in the
position where he has to chase to get it back

(45:38):
and McIntyre can finally say he got it, you want it,
come take it. I would like to see it. I
don't know what they're gonna do. I just don't see
all of these titles changing hands on that show. But
this was a very average episode overall, the Dragon of Match,

(45:59):
the Jade Heel, and those were obviously the highlights. If
they plan to make changes to the women's US title situation,
then we're still waiting to see those changes play out.
Because Julia was on the show tonight. She was back
on the show, but didn't do a whole hell of
a lot. And when I talk about someone like Charlotte,
I just use her as an example before and doing,

(46:20):
you know, a program with her and Julia, or even
putting the belt on someone like her. It's not like, oh,
Charlotte must have the title, but Charlotte is is, you know,
the veteran on that women's roster who has been out
of the world title picture now for a little bit,
has credibility because she's been there for so long, she's
won so many championships, credibility that Julia does not yet

(46:43):
have on this roster, Credibility that title does not yet
have as compared to the Intercontinental title on the other show.
They need to level this title up very soon, and
she's one person who could help do that, you know.
I mean, you could always shake up the roster a
little bit and move somebody over from Raw and have

(47:04):
them in that position to you know, feud with with Julia.
I'm just looking at this division and who could Julia
even work with? You know, that's gonna help elevate her
to that level she needs to be at. You know,
if she's working with people like I'm just using them
as an example, Zelina Vega or you know, Mechen and
b Fab, it's not going to do anything for her.

(47:26):
It's not going to do anything for her. You look
at raw Lyra had Becky to work with, and now
Lyra's also working with Bailey. Right, these these women have
been around for ten years now, they have credibility. It
helps someone like a Lyra Valkyrie to be out there
and working with these people. And you've got a lot
of faces on raw Riya, Ripley and Eosky and Osca

(47:48):
and Kyrie and Bailey and Lyra and my god, that's
not even all of them. SmackDown is still in dire
need of some new faces. Bianca coming back eventually, that
will help, but it's going to take more than that.
You know, Bianc is not going to be the savior.
There are still major changes that need to be made
here to this show, and I hope they make those
changes very soon. Take a look at the poll. What

(48:15):
did you think of SmackDown from Tempe Arizona. Seventy percent
thumbs up for tonight's show, thirty percent thumbs down. Although
I don't know how many people watched SmackDown tonight, they
were probably watching baseball basketball. Four hundred and twenty votes

(48:35):
so far. That's low. Four to twenty. Nice job, I
like it. We got four to twenty on the pole.
Where's the Dorrito's microphone? TKO, they're leaving money on the table. Yeah,
you know what, that's the next thing. I'm surprised I

(48:57):
don't have the sponsor logos on the mics. That's right
on those mic flags. That'll be next. That'll be next.
You'll have the Blue Choo mic. You want to hold
something phallic in your hand, sponsored by Blue Cheo, and
then boom, there's the logo there. Nothing would shock me.

(49:17):
At this point. We start with Scumdog four to twenty.
You can get those super chats on it if you
want me to read them, if you have questions. Now
is the time. We are also at two hundred and
ninety five likes, so you know what that means. It

(49:40):
looks like be the booker. We'll resume on Monday night, hopefully.
Scum Dog says, Hello, Solo, I just wanted to apologize
for falling asleep during your Wednesday night stream. Please don't
have a Gulberg spear me. Well, there are a lot
of people that have been falling slave on Wednesdays, so

(50:01):
you wouldn't be the only one. You are forgiven. I
forgive you, hey, bass Beers, thank you for the super
ched death Side. On Outside the Ring podcast, Jeff Hardy
expressed a desire to wrestle Cody Rhodes, listing it as
a dream opponent. Jeff said Cody is the biggest wrestler
on planet Earth as we speak. Actually, in the past,

(50:24):
Jeff has said he really wanted to wrestle Roman Reigns.
So apparently he's over Roman and he's moved on to
Cody Roads now. But death Size says, I could see
it being a singles match or a TLC match for
the WWE title, with both guys his baby faces or
Cody as a heel. The story can be. Jeff won

(50:45):
the WWE Championship in two thousand and eight, can he
do it again eighteen years later? Man eighteen years. How
would I book it. I would book it just the
way you described it, but I would not put the
title on Jeff Hardy. I would book it. It would
be a big match to do and Cody would win.

(51:09):
Would not put the w WE championship on him. Gabriel
Boss said, you say Tony Tony Storm is the top
woman in aw but how come Monette is the bigger
star and attraction to all of the indies that they
book her, that they book her instead of Tony Storm,

(51:32):
Because that's the gimmick. You know, this was a Mercedes idea.
Her idea was to enhance women's wrestling and highlight women's
wrestling by going around to these different you know indis,
different countries, countries that people didn't even know they had
wrestling there, and you know, wrestle for the championships and

(51:53):
wrestle their you know, local talent. I saw she's about
to go back to Italy to actually defend one of
those titles. I don't know if it's this weekend or
when it is, but that's her gimmick. The gimmick is
the belt collector. That's how this whole thing started. It's
not Tony Storm's gimmick. How often do you hear about
Tony Storm going around doing indies? Okay, it doesn't happen,

(52:16):
but for the women's division in that company, she is
Tony Khan's biggest star and has been the last couple
of years. Victor says, have you heard Macho Man's rap album?
It's great. I heard it many years ago. Obviously be
a Man Hulk. The song he did, Challenging Hulkgan is

(52:38):
the one that people think of all the time. I
honestly don't remember too much about the other songs on
the album, but credit to him for even doing a
rap album in that voice. No less, definitely, I think
is an acquired taste if you listen to it. Victor says,

(53:00):
Buy Sell rent Edge two thousand and six, Orton two
thousand and nine, CM Punk two thousand and eleven, Buying
On Punk twenty eleven. I am going to buy on
I'm sorry, I'm going to rent On Edge two thousand
and six and sell on Orton two thousand and nine.

(53:22):
Thank you, brother, we got Victor again, says buy Or
Sell nineties, Bret hart Or two thousands, Sean Michaels nineties,
bred Haart favorite and least favorite runs of John Cena.
My least favorite run for John Cena was probably that

(53:44):
probably like two thousand eight, two thousand and nine, twenty
ten period. Yeah, that period where he like buried the Nexus.
That period my favorite run was, honestly, I think by
my my favorite run might have been the US Title
Open challenge you did in twenty fifteen, either that or

(54:05):
the Thogonomics era. JF says, I'm surprised Brett hasn't dropped
a few bars about Goldberg. Oh man, that's what we need.
We need a Brett Hart rap on Bill Goldberg. Please, someone,
for the love of God, put this together. Get in
contact with Brett's people and make this happen. I must

(54:26):
hear this. Horrifying dried chicken not watching SmackDown tonight, watching
horror movies filled with blood and guts and some TNA
action if you know what I mean. Oh, I know, man,
TNA impact on Access TV. I'm sure that's what you're

(54:50):
thinking of. Also says it's Wrestling Murder Mysteries WWE edition
Triple H is having a meeting with Gable, La Knight,
Julia Mella McIntyre, Natalia Santos Escobar, Chelsea Green and Mechen.
All of a sudden, the lights go out and Triple
H is laying on the floor dead with a puddle

(55:11):
of blood. You're the detective and you have to decide
which wrestler murdered Triple H. Well, it's very easy, actually,
none of the above. The answer is Brett Hart because
he does not like Triple H. So he has framed
all of the other wrestlers, but he was able to
sneak in and do the deed himself. So you want

(55:34):
a plot twist, now, you don't need Russo for a
fucking swerve. There you go. The mount Verning Kid, Christopher
Ben and Hay Sola. Did you see Nia James tonight?
I don't know who Nya James is, so I did
not see her. I saw Naya Jacks. I did not
see Nya James. According to Cole, Keana James has a
neck brace on her right knee. Oh did Michael Cole

(55:55):
call her Nyah James? Is that what happened? But yeah,
I say, okay, So I wasn't the only one who
picked up on Cole saying that about the neck brace
on the knee, And he says, not really feeling how
Dragonov won tonight. Yeah, you and me, balth I thought
that was a really lame way for him to retain
in his first defense. So you are not alone and

(56:19):
feeling that way. Brandon Proctor I mentioned Saturday Night's main Event,
and my member chat meant December. Well, let's take a
look at what he wrote here, forty one months of membership.
Really hoping Saturday Night's main Event turns out to be
really good and not just a one match card taking

(56:42):
off work so I can watch seen his final match. Yes,
obviously he is referring to December thirteenth. In DC, we
have a back to back months of Saturday Nights made event.
I don't know that that's actually happened since the original
run of the show, when they were doing a lot
of them over the course of the year. Even when

(57:03):
they revived the show in two thousand and six, it
was like a quarterly thing. And yeah, I don't know
that they've run back to back months of Saturday Night's
main event in fuck. I don't know forty plus years.
Maybe Holiday one ninety seven says hey solo, I think
Jade is winning the WWE Women's title at Saturday Night's

(57:24):
Main Event. And holding it until wrestle Maniate to defend
against Bianca Bell. There, Tiffany's rain needs to end. She
has no credible challenges left except for Alexa. Yeah, well,
which is not gonna happen because Alexa is one half
of the Tag team champions. So Tiffany needs to lose
the belt. I agree, Doctor Scorpio. At least we Jays
ain't getting swept, but I do expect the Dodgers to

(57:48):
bounce back. In Game two six, the inning change the
game for the Jays. Cheers Solo, Hey, look, shout out
to all my Toronto fans out there. I hope they
go all the way. Brandon says, just wait, Jade is

(58:09):
gonna start coming out every week painting her scar up
like she's Don cal Oh she totally should. Yeah, you
notice that don callus. That scar gets like brighter and
brighter every week. Beas Beer says, eighty eight point eight
K subs ninety k before twenty twenty six. I don't

(58:31):
know if there's enough time for that, but we're definitely
gonna hit ninety k in the uh first the first
portion of twenty twenty six. Actually, you know what we
usually pick up the most around WrestleMania season, but it'll

(58:51):
it'll take a little while to get there now. Less,
of course, you spread the good word and get other
people to sub to the channel. That always helps. Brian
Finellelly says, those Jet two holiday videos got nothing on
mount Airy Lodge. Did you walk around singing that jingle
all day today? I sure as hell did. I have
another throwback for you tomorrow? Thanks for a fun week. Yeah,

(59:13):
I had that song stuck in my head all day
when you tweeted that to me. I don't even know
where mount Airy Lodge is. I just it's obviously probably
upstate somewhere. But yeah, I used to see those commercials
back in the nineties here in New York all the time.
Beautiful mount Airy Lodge. All you have to play or
all you have to bring, I'm sorry, all you have

(59:33):
to bring is your is your love of everything? Fucked
it up that in the the Action Park commercials. That
jingle is in my head as well, or as the
people who went there would call it traction park. You
talk about taking your life in your hands. That alpine

(59:54):
slide that scraped the shit out of my leg more
than a few times. Basce Bears before Billy, there was
Cosmo Kramer, the assmen. Oh. Speaking of asmen, I'm glad
you mentioned that. If you did not catch it. Earlier today,
WWE Vault uploaded a pretty cool video that I had
never seen before from I believe the fall of two thousand.

(01:00:18):
I think it was maybe a year after the company
went public. I think they switched from NASDAK to the
New York Stock Exchange, I think it was, and they
hosted an event. They hosted a few matches outside on
Wall Street. They put a ring outside. They had a
big crowd there. They were literally on Wall Street and
they had a bunch of matches, and they posted a

(01:00:39):
twenty minute video on the Vault channel earlier today with
a bunch of matches. Taz against al Snow, The Dudley
Boys had a match testin Albert had a match. I
think the main event was the Hardy's. Was it the
Hardys against d LO And I forget who? So you

(01:01:01):
got fucking Jeff Matt and Jeff Hardy, who right now
are like the belt collectors, And I'm like, man, this
is this is literally twenty five years ago. And there
they are and they're outside wrestling on Wall Street. Oh,
Regal was in a match as well. It was Regal
against I forgot who He was the European champion. Obviously

(01:01:25):
the belt wasn't on the line because he lost, but
he didn't lose the title. But how about that? See,
I wish they would do more stuff like that. Pick
a place and be like, hey, why don't we have
why don't we have a show here, Why don't we
have a few matches here outside? We need more outside
the box ideas like that. These these people now and

(01:01:45):
TKO and everybody play it too safe. I will I
will give Vince credit for that. At least he was
not afraid to, you know, take chances. Shotgune Saturday Night,
that whole concept. It wasn't afraid to take chances when
it came to that stuff. They play it too safe. Now,

(01:02:08):
mount Airy is in North Carolina. It's a small town,
Mayberry is based on Okay, Well, I was way off
when I said I thought it was in upstate New York. Now,
why the hell was I seeing commercials for it in
New York. Now I got someone telling me, now mount
Airy lodges in Pennsylvania. Okay, so are there multiple mount
Airy lodges? Because now I have one person saying North

(01:02:30):
Carolina and one person saying Pennsylvania, and I thought it
was in New York. Maybe they have multiple ones all
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Friday's the WWE's an afterthought, I will catch your review

(01:05:25):
to stay up to date. Well, that's all I ask, man.
You don't even have to watch their shows. Just watch mine.
I will keep you posting on all the things that happen.
You don't even have to waste your two hours watching
it on a Friday night. Bas Arus's Lol, Golden Arches

(01:05:47):
McDonald's on the mic. I'm telling you, man, they can
open anything up to sponsorship if they want to. We'll
start seeing the sponsor logos on the microphones. They'll have
them on the lid, that giant lid, the cover, on
the announced desks. They already have them on the mats,

(01:06:08):
the turnbuckles, the ring skirts, the barricades, the tables. Soon
it'll be the seat of the chairs, right, and then
they can have they could do wraparounds on the Kendo
sticks and have sponsored Kendo sticks. They've had a sponsored ladder.

(01:06:28):
They did have the money in the bank, Fireball the
Fireball Ladder. Oh, believe me, there's plenty more branding to come.
Bobby means, I got a proposition. By the way, having
said all that, I would like to extend this invitation
to any and all sponsors who may be listening to
this right now, that you can sponsor the sound off

(01:06:49):
mailbag on the podcast. Just get in touch face Bears.
Thank you for that super chat. Bobby Means says, I
got a proposition for you. I believe Julia and would
kill it for the US title. That would shake up things.
Plus I would do some NXT call ups. Well, NXT
call ups are a must. I've already run through a
whole bunch of names of the women at least that

(01:07:12):
they could call up. Julian Osco would be fun. Did
Julian Oscar wrestle ever in Japan? I don't know. I
feel like that would be a match that would have
happened at some point, but I don't know if their
careers overlapped. Doctor Scorpio says Jay's fans, chanting, we don't

(01:07:44):
need you when Otani was up to bat. Last thing
we need is to poke the bear for game two.
For fuck's sakes, Yeah, don't do that. Do not poke
the bear. Alex says brother solo. Did Vince already map

(01:08:05):
out the long term plan for his fake death storyline
from two thousand and seven? What was his reasoning behind
that story? I don't know if he mapped it out
all the details of it or not. I think my
understanding was that the reveal was going to be Linda
was behind it, and I don't know if it got

(01:08:28):
any further than that. So that was always my understanding
of where that was headed. The reasoning behind the story.
They just they were looking for a big storyline that
they could pop some interest in numbers off of. He says,
I don't remember Don Callus too much during his WWE years.

(01:08:50):
Was his run memorable with the Truth Commission or the
current run with a Oh my god, the current run
with AW is far better for him him than the
Truth Commission run was. Yeah. I mean he was Cyrus,
the virus AW in ECW, he was part of the

(01:09:10):
Truth Commission, the Jackal in WWF. Very forgettable run, very forgettable. Honestly,
this run that he's on right now, as far as
leading this whole family and when he was with Omega
few years ago, all the stuff he's done over the
last five or six years is probably the most memorable
thing he's done his entire career. As far as like

(01:09:32):
an on screen performer. Bass Varus' power bomb is top
five greatest moves ever. I agree, power bomb is one
of my favorite moves. It has to be executed by
the right person. Sid and Nash had the best power bombs.
Some might say the Undertaker last ride because he got

(01:09:54):
that incredible height on it. So that's in the conversation.
But I always love me a good Sid vicious power bomb,
and he didn't have to hit multiple ones either. All
he had to do was hit one and that was it.
Of course, today Sid would have to hit fucking five
of them to win a match. And Doctor Scorpios says

(01:10:17):
at Bat, I meant to say sorry, No, I knew
what you meant. I corrected you in real time. I'm
very good at that. My brain works very quickly. Hey.
You know, if we have a sponsors watching, we can
get the sponsor logo here on the mic. Here even

(01:10:41):
I could be a trendsetter and then wwe will follow suit. Yes,
Callous back in his Cyrus days he had Now he
has no hair, but back then he had long hair,
and now he has no hair scar thanks to John

(01:11:01):
Moxley tripping over himself in a backstage promo they were shooting.
It is a very I mean, they do color it in.
There's no doubt in my mind they're coloring in that scar.
But that's still a gnarly scar to have, like on
that part of your body, because they're just how visible
it is. But for him it works because he's such
an evil guy. He's such an evil character. It just

(01:11:23):
works for him. Brandon Procter says, how long until the
wrestlers have sponsors on their gear? Good question. We know
the fighters do in UFC. I think it's definitely gonna happen.
I don't know when. I think it will start with
select wrestlers, someone like a Cody Rhodes, right, he'll probably

(01:11:46):
have Wheatley vodka on his tights or something. So you'll
see some top names like Brock. When he came back
to w W in twenty twelve, he was the only
one who had logos on his gear, but he had
a pre existing agreement with Jimmy Johns, so when he
came in he had the shorts fighting shorts with the

(01:12:07):
Jimmy Johns logo on them. Eventually you will start seeing
that with the wrestlers. I don't see why TKO wouldn't
do it. I mean, they make money every other way.
What would be stopping them from doing that? Even better
if they cut the talents in on that. But yeah,
probably not gonna happen with all but the very top

(01:12:31):
names in the company. Holiday says, Unfortunately, I don't think
Drew is winning its Saturday Night's main event, assuming that
Jade wins the title and a new World Heavyweight champion
is crowned. I doubt that they will crown three new champions. Yeah,
that's what I said before. And I think in that case,
Drew is the odd man out. I just I don't

(01:12:52):
see Jade not winning the title on that show. So
if we have to pick and choose who's gonna win
and who's not, I mean, I would rather be Drew,
but I think Jade's gonna win. And if that's the case,
that makes it less likely that Drew wins the title.
But again, they may want to run it back at
Survivor Series anyway. If the original idea was to do
the match at Survivor Series and they bumped it up,

(01:13:13):
let's say, because of the Jacob injury, they may want
to run it back there again. Even though we already
got it at Wressell Palooza and now we're getting it
again next weekend, they may run it back one more time.
Bace Bearris'. Has McDonald's ever had WWE toys Happy Meal toys?

(01:13:36):
I don't believe. So I don't believe, so I can't.
Like when I was a kid, I would have been
all over that shit that was back when I actually
ate McDonald's. Believe me, I would know if they had
WWF toys back then. I would have been literally I
would have been shoving other kids out of the way
to get my hands on them. So they didn't have

(01:13:56):
them back then. They haven't had them anytime recently that
I could think, so I'm going to assume the answer
is no, that they have not. Anyway, thank you guys
for hanging out with me on a busy sports night
talking some SmackDown. I'm gonna be with you live again
on Monday night for the Raw post show. We'll have

(01:14:17):
a normal week Next week. We have Monday for the
Raw post Show. I'll be with JD on Tuesday night
on his channel for Tuesday Night Titans. That'll be episode
one eighteen. Wednesday, we have the Dynamite post show Friday,
though a week from tonight Halloween. It's the Halloween episode
of SmackDown, So get ready have ourselves a little fun
Halloween stream that night if you've got nothing better to do.

(01:14:42):
I know some of you may be at trick or
treating with the little ones, but we'll have some fun
with that. And on Sunday, episode nine thirty five of
The Solemn Monster sounds off. Every week that goes by,
we get that much closer episode one thousand. I haven't
even thought that far ahead yet, Hoffman. My membership post

(01:15:11):
didn't come up. No, it's here, It's right here. I
was gonna get to it after, but I guess we'll
get to it now. Fifty four months. Fifty four months,
it's like a prison sentence. You've been a member longer
than did. He'll be behind bars, says no Joseph. So

(01:15:34):
here's your Batman question from another Batman fanatic. Did you
watch the Flash Movie? And if so, how great was
it to see Keaton back in the suit. I saw
some clips of Keaton in the suit. I did not
actually see the Flash movie though, is it worth seeing?
I know there was a big controversy over Ezra Miller

(01:15:56):
being in it and all then his whole history, but
as far as the movie itself, I didn't see it.
But it was good to see Keaton back in the suit.
It just seems so natural. It just seemed it's he's
my favorite Batman. So with the yellow logo right there
in the suit, right in the center, Duff's vis says,

(01:16:21):
I found a book called how to Fix fifty percent
of your problems. So I bought two a smart thing
to do. Look at this guy, man, he's using his brain.
He's actually using forty percent of his brain to Wab says,
I remember Solo confiscating Pokemon cards when he was a kid.

(01:16:41):
That well, so no, you gotta get it right. It's
not like I was a kid going around confiscating Pokemon cards.
I was not a kid anymore. When Pokemon became a thing.
I was a camp counselor for a few summers and
Pokemon cards were just exploding in popularity. And the rule
was because it was getting out of it, and the
rule was that you know, at least during certain parts

(01:17:03):
of the day, you cannot have those cards out. So
I was the head counselor and I was confiscating Pokemon
cards and the kids were not very happy, and I
didn't give a shit because you were told, the rules
are the rules. Who break the rules, this is what happens.
So I took their cards. You got to play by
the rules. That's how it works. Alex says, are you

(01:17:28):
going live for Saturday Night's main event this weekend? No,
because there is no Saturday Nights made event this weekend.
I will, however, be live next weekend for Saturday Night's
Made event. I'll be live for the last two Saturday
Nights Made events this year. I'll definitely be live for
the Sena Show obviously, and I will be live next weekend. Yes,

(01:17:51):
it's a damn How old is Solo? That's for you
to guess. That's for you to guess. But did you
keep them? I cannot say, Emperor comet, So I'll have
two number nine, a number nine, large number six with

(01:18:14):
extra dip, A number seven, two number forty five's one
cheese and a large soda. That's great, and you'll be
dead in two weeks. Where will I get my superchats from?
Doctor Scorpio says Episode one thousand gotta be a live
stream if possible. We'll see Maybe Solo is one hundred

(01:18:40):
and thirty years old. Hey, some mornings I feel like
it been down to get something from under the bathroom sink.
My knees click fun times, stand back up, they click again. Man,

(01:19:00):
Solo is twenty Look at all these guesses here, Solo
is twenty six. Solo is twenty six. Huh, So that
means I would have been born in nineteen ninety nine.
I would say you're off by a little bit there.
Bass beer is damn Solo. You repoe those Pokemon cards. Hey,

(01:19:21):
what's mine is mine? It's yours is mine too. You
aged yourself with the mount Airy Lodge and Action Park reference.
I'm giving you as many hints as I can here,
but people aren't picking up on them. Out of Action
Park hasn't even been a thing for many years. It

(01:19:41):
don't exist. No more people were dying there, so yes,
it doesn't exist any mright Afually, there's a whole documentary
about it. I don't know if it's on Hulu or
I think it's on Hulu. I think it's on Hulu.
There's a whole documentary on Action Park. I think it
is called Traction Park. Actually, Duff's VIDs what you do
if your nose goes on strike? You pick it? Man,

(01:20:05):
I should have given you the booze for that one.
Solo has access to the Fountain of Youth. I try
to drink from it every day, just a little sip
here and there. Class Action Park, Okay, maybe that's what
it's called. Yes, class Action Park. That's right. It's a

(01:20:27):
really good documentary. Though. You don't have to be somebody
who lives in the Tri State area here or went
there to appreciate it. Like you will watch that documentary
if you're not familiar with it, and you I mean
you will watch it and go wow, Like I can't
believe a place like this was allowed to exist. It
was fun, though, I gotta say, you know, you took

(01:20:50):
your life in your hands there at that park, but
it was fun. They had the wavepool, they had man,
they had so much stuff there. The one thing about
Action Park is like you would make many trips to
the to the medical station that they would they have
like a medical station there, or if your parents were

(01:21:12):
smart enough, well if they were smart enough, they wouldn't
let you in there, but if they were smart enough,
they would bring you know, band aids and antiseptic and
stuff for the inevitable cuts and bruises that you would
end up with. I mentioned the Alpine slide, like literally
it was basically like this, this concrete slide. It was

(01:21:32):
like a series of slides and you would be in
not a go cart, it was like a cart of
some kind. You weren't strapped in or anything, and you
would just go, you know, weaving in and out. But
like at such a trajectory or speed that you would
scrape your legs up against the concrete or in one case,
somebody went flying and you know they got killed. You know,

(01:21:55):
but I'd be lying if I told you it wasn't
a lot of fun. Yes, someone died on that ride.
It was not really a ride, And I don't want
people to like visualize it as like a roller coaster.
It wasn't really, that's not what it really was. See now,
before we get out of here, I have to look
this up. Now, I have to look up the different

(01:22:17):
rides at Action Park. There has to be a website
that here we go. Okay, this is from Men's Health. Okay,
they did a whole feature on this five years ago.
It was probably based around the documentary there. It is.

(01:22:37):
First thing that comes up is the Alpine Slide. Perhaps
more than any other ride at Action Park. The Alpine
Slide is one that a person with common sense simply
would look at, think for a split second and say,
absolutely fucking not there. It is a twenty seven hundred

(01:22:59):
foot long slide that riders wrote a ski lift to
get to the top of, and the tracks were below them.
Once at the top, riders would hop in their carts
and ride down a slide track made of a combination
of concrete, asbestos, and fiberglass. They had a handle that
went in two directions, so ostensibly you would pull back

(01:23:19):
to break and push forward to go faster, a speed
that a former park employee described as death awaits. They
weren't on any sort of track, and any slight fall
would lead to a serious abrasion. At this point, riders
were taken to an infirmary and sprayed with an iodine
solution that left a serious, recognizable red mark. See I

(01:23:46):
told you that's right. Shout out asbestos. I see, I
thought it was just concrete. I didn't realize it was concrete,
asbestos and fiberglass. Wow. Yeah, if you didn't break properly, man,
you were you were in for a root awakening. Let

(01:24:09):
me see what other rides here. Yes, they had, that's right.
If you remember American Gladiators, and there's a new season
with the miz debuting next year. I don't know when
they had an American Gladiators, Like course, it might have

(01:24:29):
only been certain times a year, but they had like
the jowstun, this giant platform, and I think they had
the Eliminator, which was always that last challenge at the
end of every episode. So that was fun. They had
that there. They had water World. Yeah, yeah, the tidal wavepool,

(01:24:53):
the wave pool. You know. Look see look, I haven't
been in a wave pool in so many years. I
I used to like the wave pools. There was a
wavepool in Pennsylvania. They had Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom.
I went to that one, the one at Action Park.
There are a few other places maybe over the years.
I had Vacation two where they had a wavepool when

(01:25:13):
I was younger, and I did it, so I always
thought they were fun. But this one says this was
Action Park's wave pool and it was an absolute abomination.
In nineteen eighty two eighty four, in eighty seven people
died in the wavepool, drowning. The attraction was nicknamed the
Grit Wow the Grave Pool because the teenage lifeguards, twelve

(01:25:38):
of whom were standing patrol at all times, were constantly
saving countless others from the same fate. The fact that
more than one person died in your wave pool, who's
that second son of a bitch? That's who your heart
really bleeds for, says a comedian and former guest of
Action Park, Nobody should ever be the second person to

(01:25:59):
die in a wave because after the first person dies,
dives in or dies in a wave pool, close the
fucking wavepool. The wavepool had a capacity to hold between
five hundred and one thousand people, many of whom acted recklessly,
and that they didn't even realize that they didn't know
how to swim until the water was way over their heads. Yeah,

(01:26:19):
that's a problem. The waves also reached up to forty
inches in height, and it wasn't entirely clear that the
water in the pool was getting deeper when it indeed was.
The documentary features employees discussing how truly unsafe this was,
saying that they called it the depth zone when people
got to shoulder length water, also noting that families and

(01:26:41):
large groups of people would stick together, potentially bringing one
another down under the unruly waves. Lifeguards would supposedly make
as many as thirty rescues during any given busy weekend,
a stark contrast to the one or two that are
typically found in a typical entire pool or l season

(01:27:03):
man this park claimed the whole bunch of lives here. Yeah,
why go in if you can't swim. That's a good question.
I don't know why you would do that. Then they
had this, Oh, I forgot about this, the Aqua Scoot.
There was a ride where park guests would climb up
a bunch of stairs and get on a cart and

(01:27:25):
then ride it down a water slide. The cart would
then land in a pool of water that was very shallow,
with the intent purpose of skipping along the water like
stones thrown in a pond. If riders distributed their weight incorrectly,
they would often go head first when leaving the slide,
injuring themselves. If they got up without injury, but were
even somewhat slow, a cart would come from I should

(01:27:49):
be laughing. A cart would come from behind and knock
them down, inducing an injury. That was the That was
the That was the aqua scam. I'm sorry. That was
the Aqua Scoot. You had to get out of the way.
That was the thing with some of these things. You
had to get out of the way as quickly as possible.

(01:28:13):
Then there was the Kamakazi. I mean, that just says
it all right. Kamakazi was a fairly tame water slide
by Action Park Standards Blue in color with drops and
rises periodically. It's one of the few rides that survived
when the park became Mountain Creek Water Park, but has
been defunct and removed since two thousand and nine. Then

(01:28:37):
there was the Kayak Experience. The Kayak experience is that,
like the Viking Experience, the Kayak Experience sounds like the
most serene of all the action park rides. It's not
the most serene of the action park rides, considering in
nineteen eighty two, in the same week as one of
the Wavepool drownings, someone was electrocuted to death when they

(01:29:01):
fell out of their kayak. The ride was a simulation
not only of kayaking, but whitewater kayaking, which meant underwater
submerged fans. When a guest who fell out of his
kayak tried to get back in, he accidentally touched the
wiring of the fans and it sent him into cardiac arrest,
killing him. The ride closed immediately after this incident. Oh man,

(01:29:29):
this is just it's just on and on and on here.
Then there's the Tarzan Swing, one of the most popular
rides in the park. Guests would grab a twenty foot
cable and then swing over a spring fed pool of water,
which at one point wasn't water at all, but rather
a cushioned area, and they would jump in theoretically when

(01:29:51):
the rope reached its height. Some people held on too
long and scraped their feet on the concrete. Others got
into the pool but were shot by just how cold
the spring fed body of water they had been completely submerged.
It was in nineteen eighty four. According to the Weird
New Jersey story, a man was so stunned by the
coldness of the water that he had a heart attack

(01:30:13):
and died. My God, yet a heart attack and died.
Others would sometimes need to be rescued by lifeguards, briefly
forgetting how to swim due to the shock of just
how cold the water was. In the documentary, interviewees said
that because of the ride's long lines and the fact
that the line overlooked where guests would jump in, other

(01:30:34):
rowdy guests would often be rape people who were jumping
into the water, calling them a pussy or something something
to that effect. The Roaring Rapids standard whitewater rafting ride,
and one that the park, when legally forced to, reported
a number of injuries in nineteen eighty four, that included

(01:30:57):
injuries to people's femurs, collar bones, knees, and more. And
by the way, I just realized, as I am looking
over here, believe it or not, that we actually ended
up hitting the goal. We actually hit the like skull,
which means that we are going to do be the

(01:31:17):
book or believe it or not. I thought for sure
that we were a dead duck here tonight. Yes, electrocuted
to death is is kind of redundant. Oh, here we go.
The diving See I did this. I did this too.
The diving clips. Two diving clips, one twenty three feet

(01:31:38):
and another eighteen feet were set above a sixteen foot
deep swimming grotto. Seems reasonable enough, except that the grotto
was also open for regular swimming, and people at water
level didn't have any indication that people would come flying
down from above, sometimes slamming right onto them. I do

(01:31:58):
remember that, Oh my god. Yeah, well, I remember you
walk right up to the edge of this rock and
I would try to make sure there was nobody, you know,
down below. But what I was worried about is after
I dove in and get my bearings, like, is the
person behind me going to just dive in? So you
really did. You had to watch because people would just

(01:32:19):
come flying out of the air. Also, people who couldn't
swim would frequently make the jump not necessary. What is
what these people who can't fucking swim? Why are you
going into water if you can't swim or if you
don't have any flippers. People who couldn't swim would frequently
make the jump, not necessarily realizing how deep the grotto

(01:32:39):
was and need lifeguards to save them. Eventually, the ground
of the swimming area was painted white so lifeguards could
spot bodies below the surface. Ah, and there's a lot
I can't possibly get into all of this. There's a
lot more here that you can read up on. I

(01:33:02):
thought somebody was decapitated there once. Let me just see
real quick here. I'm almost positive someone was decapitated at
Action Park. Let me see maybe I don't know. Well,
we'll find out later on, but right now we must

(01:33:23):
go ahead and be the booker. I didn't think it
was gonna happen, but you guys made it possible. So
let's do it. Ladies or gentlemen, it is now time
to be the booker. Action Park sounds like a fun place.

(01:33:46):
Tag team, be the booker here we go, and we
begin with Hangman Adam Page and Kenny Omega. I could
tell right away this this looks like Revolution in twenty
twenty aw tag team champions Hangman Page and Kenny Omega,
one of the best tag team matches in company history,
Revolution twenty twenty against the Young Bucks. Oh, a triple threat.

(01:34:13):
We got a triple threat, which means we're getting a
three way tag team match here. We haven't landed on
a stip here and tag team beat the Booker in
a while. All right, So we got two more teams
to add to this match. Oh, we got the Briscoes,
Jay and Mark Brisco joined Kenny Omega and Hangman Bean.
This is already getting a bell. I don't even care

(01:34:34):
who the last team is. These two teams will just
gang up and kick their ass and knock them out
of the match if need be. It doesn't even matter
who the third team is. Well, I think it's a
very good team. Actually, the team of Owen Hart and

(01:34:54):
Jeff Jarrett. You know, we can get Kenny Omega and
Owen Hart in the ring together. How great would that
have been? What a match Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett,
the Briscoes and Kenny Omega and Hangman Page. I love it.

(01:35:15):
That is one hell of a start here to be
the booker. The Boba Fetts says, the decapitation happened on
the alpine Oh, what happened on the alpine slide? That's right,
I think it did happen on the alpine slide. Wow,

(01:35:35):
Charlotte Flair. I just got done talking about Charlotte Flair.
I said her name and she appeared. If we land
on Julia, I'm gonna laugh after what I just talked about.
Charlotte Flair against cost playing Charlotte Flair, Charlotte Flair against

(01:36:03):
Michelle McCool. To be fair, I do think that would
be a good match. But my first thought when she
showed up on my screen here was cosplay Charlotte Flair.
And now we've come to our main event. We are
looking for the sweep, that sweet sweet sweep. Can we

(01:36:27):
get it? We have the bad guy, Razor Ramone. Look
at the swag on this guy, Raisor Ramone against Hiroshi Tanahashi. Yes,

(01:36:58):
you know, we weren't even going to do be the
booker tonight, and we just had one of the best
rounds all year. We just had a clean sweep. We
were not even supposed to do one tonight. We were
gonna miss the mark and look at what we ended
up with, saying that's why these streams, man, you just

(01:37:21):
never know. Duffs vides why don't monsters eat ghosts? They
taste like sheet not your best work? Thank you, doves,

(01:37:43):
all right, give yourselves a Barry Horowitz pat on the back.
We killed it and be the Bookers. So that's cool.
But let's bring that same heat again on Monday and
do it all over again. That's the next time I'll
be live with you. Thank you again. Be well, stay safe,
enjoy the rest of your weekend. I'll see you guys

(01:38:04):
back here real soon. More Sound of Live on YouTube.
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