R-Truth's Release is Dumbest Move by WWE Yet! The RCWR Show 6/2/25 (Episode 1156)

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Here we are The RCWR Show with Lee Sanders. Yeah,
oh yeah, it's great to be back with you guys
on a Monday Night. What is going on? Boys and girls?
Lee Sanders with you all for an all new edition
of the RCWR Show. It is Monday Night, June second,

(00:25):
two thousand and twenty five. What is up? Yo? We
have not done a Monday Night in two weeks now,
and I appreciate you all's patience. You guys have no idea.
I am in the final stretch of my term at
my community college. As I am now officially in the

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end game. I'm taking my last class, which is a
science class because I have to fit and basically complete
another science requests and then I get my associate's degree.
And I had a hard time weeks back trying to
figure out what science class was I gonna take, and

(01:09):
I ended up deciding to go with this health and
nutrition class because it ties into everything that's been going
on with my hypertension my diabetes. Like some of my
friends and family, they weren't even aware about some of
the health issues that I'm having, and now that they know,
they're kind of like, holy shit, Lee, Yeah, we need

(01:30):
you around, man. Like get that in order already, Like,
don't go out like that. I'm like, I'm on it.
And so I've been focusing on that last class, and
the class has been awesome, all the things that I
have been learning. I went into it thinking I was
going to have a bit of a hard time getting
the material and everything because it's an advanced class and

(01:51):
basically this class it lasts essentially one month one month,
and it's an accelerated class, so we're learning a lot
of the material at three times the level of what
would normally be a seventeen week course. I thought our
professor was just gonna be like, ah, we'll give you
the abbreviated version. No no, no, no, no no. She

(02:14):
is cramming so much that is the equivalent of a
seventeen week course. That there's so much that's due so
long story short, That's part of the reason why we
haven't done the show the past Monday and I show
the past couple of weeks because I've been trying to
get my groove, get my pace together and all of that.
But man, we're off to a good start right now.

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I'm sitting on an A plus for the class, so
I'm taking it one week at a time. So if
you're kind of like me, okay, one week at a time.
Right now we're sitting on a plus. Okay, if we
can just ride that out going into the end of June.
We know, we good? Right, we know? We good? Hey,
what did you think about tonight's ww ROW Sound off?
Let me know, sound off? Let your voice be heard

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and vote that way, my pretty babies. This was the

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go home edition of Monday Night Raw as it is
setting up a very very busy weekend for WWE. We
got the world Collide, a joint that's going to be
happening as NXT stars from the WWE main roster, the
TRIPLEA promotion, all these entities are gonna be colliding for

(03:43):
what should be, without a doubt, a fantastic event that's
going to be early in the afternoon and pretty much
by the time that goes off the air, it's gonna
be setting us up for money in the bank. Looking
forward to that one and seeing what type of tone
is going to be set, especially considering that New Orleans
next year is gonna be getting money in the bank.

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More on that later, of course, I'll be sounding off
for the very first time my thoughts on Our Truth.
The veteran wrestler and Our Truth longtime Stapleton in WWE
Our Truth, we're on the Truth killings being released by
the company. Well it's not quite official official, but WW

(04:27):
basically has said we're not gonna be renewing your contract.
We're not gonna be offering you a new contract. We're
just gonna go ahead, let that expire and thank you
for your services. We got it from here. That's pretty
much how he's being done. A couple of other people
looks as though they've pretty much been showing the door
as well. We'll talk about all of that later on
Fun Fun Show. So you pick it a good night

(04:48):
to tune in. I am happy to be back with
you guys on a Monday night. You have no idea
I missed you, guys. I wanted to make sure that
I put myself in the best position possible now that
I'm in the final stretch and everything with getting my
associates and also not to mention, I felt burned out.
I gotta tell you legit. And it happens when you've

(05:10):
been going almost as long as I have for almost
fifteen years, and you're putting out multiple shows a week.
At some point you do start to anybody that tells
you they don't get burned out, they are lying. They
are lying. So yo, let's talk about some key points
from tonight's Monday Night Raw show, which was pretty solid overall.

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The one thing that really jumped out to me the
most is the fact that Raw opens up pretty much
with Pat McAfee and Michael Cole going over the fact
that two weeks ago there was a basketball bet that
was made and to see that bet be fulfilled. You're thinking, Ah,

(05:53):
they're just going to put some stuff out on social media,
and that's pretty much how they're going to address this.
Nothing more, nothing less, keep the show moving along. But
it didn't just stop there, did it, folks. It didn't
just stop there. No, no, no, no, no. The next thing, you.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Know, the next thing, you know, we freaking see that
Michael Cole takes off his blazer, he takes off his
button up shirt, and the man reveals himself to be
in a freaking pasers a Pacers jersey.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Right, he's in a PACER's jersey. I'm like, okay, all right,
all right, he's fulfilling up bet Okay, cool, I like this,
this is what's up? But then it gets even sweeter,
does it not? For those that watch the show tonight?
It gets even sweeter because later on during the broadcast,
we see some highlights from one of the Pacers, Nick Games. Okay,

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and you're going, wait a minute, NBA footage being shown
on a WWE broadcast of like all things like Monday
Night Raw, like like seriously, like what is going on here?
Because let's be honest, those of us that's been watching
the WWE product for so many years, we know that

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under a different route Gien under Vince McMahon. Yeah, we're
not acknowledging all those other guys. We're not acknowledging the NFL.
We're not acknowledging this. We're not acknowledging. It's all about
the WWE bubble. That's what it's all about. No, we're
not gonna show any highlights. We're not gonna show that.
We're not gonna so to see what we had got tonight,

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I gotta tell you it put a big old smile
on my face. Shout out to the whole NBA slash
TNT courtesy credit. When they were showing the film footage
and all that. Now, me being a greedy person that
I am, I thought for sure while we were on
top of all of that, maybe we were gonna get
some type of a reference to Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley,

(07:58):
Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, Kitty to Jes Smith. I thought
for sure we were gonna get some type of a
nod to them. Since Inside the NBA on TNT is
now over and done with, and I tip my hat
off to those guys, thank you for all the fantastic memories. Now.
Granted a lot of people are going, Man, it's not

(08:18):
like they're going anywhere. You know, they're coming back. Yeah,
but it's not gonna be the same because you're talking
about a show that you know for decades upon decades.
Not to be too long winded about it, but we
do happen to talk about sports on here from time
to time. You know, I'd be reminisced if I didn't

(08:39):
mention my thoughts about Inside coming to an end, which
is it's heartbreaking. It really really is heartbreaking, and it
truly will not be the same. I have trepidations when
it comes to them going to ESPN because it's not
like we're gonna be getting them on a weekly basis

(09:01):
guaranteed every single that's that's not how it's going to operate.
You know, we're gonna we'll be lucky if we get
them like a quarter of the time when they do
make their run on ESPN. And I'm happy to hear
that the same crew, everybody that's basically gonna be utilized.
They'll be doing their thing from out in Atlanta and everything.
And the promise by ESPN slash Disney is that the Inside,

(09:25):
the NBA as we have come to know and love it,
it will remain the same. Just I don't need to
be long winded on this, but if you're asking me
straight up, for as many decades as I've watched Inside,
if you're asking me what I'm gonna be looking out for,
what will make the show truly be successful, it's this,
in a nutshell, which is, don't try to add anything

(09:46):
new to it, not unless it is unanimous across the
board that what you're adding will enhance the product even more,
It'll make it even better. That's for starters, and then too,
the commercials. The commercials is what I'm really going to
be focusing in on, because anybody that has watched the

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NBA game on ABC, Slash, ESPN commercials out the yin yang,
ain't it? Tell me? I'm lying commercials out the yen yang?
So what's gonna happen with inside when they're on ABC, Slash, ESPN.
Are they really going to be allowed to breathe just
like they did on TNT? Only time is gonna tell.

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But I promise you if you don't stick to that
same kind of formula that made the show work in
the first place. That's my thoughts on that. But yeah,
I was being a little bit greedy when I saw
the NBA footage there on WW program, and I was
kind of going, well, maybe we can get a nice
little Hey Kenny Ernie go by odds. I wasn't expecting it.

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We didn't get it either, For those of you curious,
we didn't get that either. But I had to do
a double take and go, wait a minute, what net
work am I watching? Again? Like, am I really watching?
Awwe product? And then for see them Punk to open
things up, and then he's mentioning the preview basically for
the NBA Finals, which Oklahoma City thunder taking on the

(11:16):
Indiana Pacers that should be should be one when hell
of a series there. I told you guys, I had
this feeling that maybe it was gonna be the Pacers
or the Celtics in the finals, and I think I
also went with I think I might have went with
Golden State Warriors. Did I not? I kind of liked

(11:37):
how it was looking there with Warriors, but no, you know,
at the end, pretty much was wrong. I like when
I'm wrong. So see them Punk opening things up, taking
a few verbal jabs at John Cena, not so much
ju so, but letting it be known that it is
the Summer of Punk and that he is going on

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to money in the bank and that he has to
win this because he is hungry for some gold. He
is hunting for some gold. He'd be fixing to have
some gold around his waist during the kickoff to summer.
I love the jabs that he took at John Cena,

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letting it be known that he has had John Cena's
number in the past and that if he does decide
to end up going with him, he's pretty much gonna
pick the bones off of that bleep. Okay, love that
even was able to mention Dwayne the Rock Johnson, not
even by name, but you knew exactly who he was

(12:39):
talking about. All of that was lovely. I ate all
of that up. Sammy Zain coming out there basically being
a raw rock goods sport, he had his opportunity as
far as trying to qualify for money in the bank,
he came up short. Just wasn't his time, wasn't meant
to be rootting on CM punk for him to go
in there, get the job done, get or done, and

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that if seth Rawlins Bronson reed braun Breaker tried to
interfere in any type of way, he juso definitely they
would have CM punks back and everything so nice way
that they had set the tone essentially to open up
tonight's show good strong, right, and then you think about

(13:26):
what was sprinkled in during the night, which really sets
the tone even more, not just for money in the bank,
but it also sets the tone for the weeks to
come with television because Carrie and Cross, who wwee like,
I'm just trying to figure this out. I really really am.
It's very nerve wrecking what's going on because I see

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guys like Carrie and Cross and I just go, Man,
this dude, week in and week out, every single opportunity
this man is being given is crushing it. And he
is just doing these lion manipulating things, these schemes that
he's cooking up. He's just doing all of these great
things behind the scenes. He is literally a puppet master.

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He's just pulling the strings in everything and essentially is
taking advantage of like all the carnage that's going on
in everything. I love what's been happening with this guy,
and it's just so nerve wrecking that in twenty twenty five,
I'm looking at a guy like Carrion Cross and I'm going, Man,

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can we get this guy a championship run? Already? I'm
looking at him and I'm going, why isn't this man involved?
Please explain to me, why isn't this man in the
money in the bank. And then I'm looking at the
twenty twenty six money in the bank in New Orleans,
and I'm going, well, I'll tell you why unless we

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are gonna lay down the foundation from here to next year,
you know, if there's got to be a plan for
carry across, because if we're not doing something big and
major with Carrie and Cross in twenty twenty six, I'm
literally going, what is this all for? Because he's finally
starting to really find his groove creatively and everything, and

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I am really really proud of the man's work that
he's been putting in. I knew what the man was
capable of long before he came to WWE. Longtime listeners that's
been checking out the show for ages, you've heard me
sing this guy's praises back when he was in MLW
and everything. And I've been a big fan, big advocate

(15:38):
of his since that time. I saw him in MLW
and everything. So I want nothing but the best for
this guy. And it seemed like he went through some
growing pains in WWE many many years back, but now
he's finally creatively on that right groove and I am
really loving it. He is a enhanced version of the

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late Sean O'Hara. He really really is. When you stop
and think about it. But at the same time, he's
also his own man. Okay, he's also his own man.
But I loved how he was pulling the strings. Later
on during the night, as he crossed paths with Sammy Zain,
fresh after Sammy's Ain and Jay Usso had won a
match via disqualification against the team of bron Breaker and

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Bronson Reed. Pretty solid matchup. Sammy wanted to know what
exactly was Carrion's deal. Why the past couple of months
Garrian Cross has been all up in his face? What
is this really about? Like, get to it already, what's
with the mind games? And Carrion told him straight up,
you can fool everybody else, can't fool him. When it's

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all said and done, Sammy Zain is not a good guy.
He is a bad guy. Sammy Zain going, no, you
know what you're wrong, Jerry and Cross looking right back
at him, keeping it simple and saying, you know, you
might be you might be right, you might be right

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about that, but you know I could be right. And
he walked away. So you know, I love those seeds
that's being planted. And I know many of you guys
have been saying off and on the past couple of weeks,
seems as though the writing is on the wall that
ultimately Sammy Zain, maybe he will be that that bonus

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man that could be added to Team seth Rawlins, the
New Dangerous Alliance Stable and all that. I gotta say,
it's been a good minute since we've seen a heel
Sammy Zain. You think about everything that's been happening with
Sammy Zain. He has tried to win on his own marriage.

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He's tried to be, you know, that guy that fights
the good fights and always try to be there for
his brothers in arms. But when has he truly no?
You know what, I want to make this be about me.
I want to get mines right now? The hell would
everybody else. I'm always being the robbin to this person

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and that person. I'm always being this person's sidekick. I'm
adding strength in numbers to this person's stable and this
person over here. And when is it going to be
all about me? When am I going to do my
just do? I feel as though I ain't really getting
my respect? So you know, the seeds have already been planned,

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especially when you go as far back as remember when
Sammy z ay in recent months, remember when he had
became the Intercontinental champion, and fans were crapping all over that,
and Sammy just could not understand the reaction and he
was stunned by all of that because this was around

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that period where everybody was pretty high on bron Breaker,
and when Sammy got that championship, it was like whoa
whoa wait wait wait wait, wait, time out, Like what
the hell's going on? Remember that? So you could almost
make an argument that maybe a little bit before that period,
or definitely at that time frame, that was the start

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of something they're brewing with Sammy Zay and I tell
you what if WWE, it's a very interesting path that
they can definitely go down if they want to. But
if eventually the story that they're going to be telling
is Sammy z Ain coming on over to the dark side,
if you want to try to do some nice fine

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backpedaling and storytelling, you could definitely go back to that moment,
right down to the point you can even reveal once
Sammy z Ay turns that after that championship match had
happened or something along those lines, brom Breaker and Sammy
they had a very intimate conversation or whatever. You know,

(20:02):
you could definitely go that route. But I like how
we're tying in. There's reasons why, because if you really
stop and think about it, it seems the pattern and
I don't know if you guys have been noticing this,
but it seems the pattern with carry and Cross, whoever
Carrying Cross is messing around with, you're getting essentially a
preview of the next big story arc, the next big

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development that's to come for that respected character that's always
been pretty much a hand in hand type of deal
when Carrying Cross is involved. So I love what's going
on there and everything. Let's talk about that Money in
the Bank Men's Qualifier, by the way, since we were
mentioning Sammy Zain and Ron Breaker and all those guys,

(20:47):
let's go ahead and let's go right to that Men's
Money in the Bank Main Event Qualifier, Triple Threat match
CM punk taken on the phenomena one AJ Styles, whose birthday,
at least for the next hour plus on the East
Coast remains it's his birthday. Happy birthday to the phenomenon

(21:08):
one AJ Styles, forty eight years Oh, looks fantastic, looks fantastic.
When I look at him, I'm forty four going on
forty five later this year. When I look at him,
you know, guys like him, I just go, you know what,
that's some serious, really good motivation to health, nutrition, stay

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on top of it and everything. And you know, watch
those calories, watch that sodium intake, saturated fats, all that
good stuff. And you know, if you want it, you
can definitely, you know, as far as wanting to live
a healthy life and all that, like, you just got
to say yes, you know right. Nobody can force you, right,
you know the whole deal. Nobody can force you. You gotta
want it for yourself. So to see Aj Styles forty

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eight years old. Yeah, if that's not motivation, If that's
not inspiration for you to, oh man, I gotta I
gotta check myself right too late. I don't know what
to tell you. There see them punk, AJ Styles and
Chad Gabel as il Grande Americano. Nice way to close
out this week's Monday Night Raw. A couple of moments

(22:14):
there see them, Punky kind of seemed as though maybe
he was gonna have this bad boy in the bag.
But you just felt that with everything that was going
on with this new dangerous alliance, Uso zaying Punk, you
just felt, Nah, there's like no way, nohow here that
see them Punk essentially is going to be able to

(22:36):
advance in this right, like not when you got a
numbers game like this, And sure enough, when it counted
the most, that Dangerous Alliance Stable they made their presence
felt they essentially cheated see them Punk out of a
golden opportunity to advance in the men's money in the bank. There. Hey,

(23:00):
you know what, I'm okay with that when it's all
said and done, I'm pretty much okay with that, because see,
I'm a little conflicted because on the one hand, I
don't mind the fact that, Okay, we got Punk once again,
and you know, at this point, this stage of his career,
he doesn't really need a World Heavyweight championship reign, all right,

(23:20):
He's good. But then I'm looking at Jay Uso and
I'm going, ah, Jay, I remember what we talked about
last couple of weeks back, which was Jay Uso. I'm
kind of not feeling his current title reign right now
because it's very similar to what was happening with seth
Rawlins and Jay and j Security and the Authority and

(23:42):
you know, it was all about this supporting cast of
people that essentially was helping carry the big bulk of
the weight for seth Rawlins during his championship reign. And
that's kind of what's been repeating right here essentially with
Jay Uso and everything. I gotta say, I'm not quite

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a fan of what's happening. I want to see Juso
be more. And I think the steps just to be
Devil's advocate, because you could definitely make this argument and
you'd be absolutely right. Not for nothing, but the steps
that WWEE took two nice specifically with Jauso, to hey, look,
we know he's got this thing going on with this

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this alliance, but yeah, he is still a world heavyweight champion.
I love that touch that they added where they had
Guther confront Jay and say to him, hey, I see
what's been happening with you with that world heavyweight championship,
and you have my respect. I know the weight that
it carries the responsibilities, and I see what's been happening

(24:47):
with you and all that. But just know next week
you and me one on one, and I'm going to
take that responsibility off of you. I love I wasn't
quite a fan of seeing Jay make all these funny
looking facial expressions. He kind of was pulling a Hector
Salamanca from Breaking Bad. I didn't like those sour patch

(25:12):
it's the sour patch kids face, That's what I like
to call it. I wasn't a fan of the facial
expressions he was making. I felt it was too forced.
I felt it was too overly animated, too comical. At
the same time, but I do like the fact that
WWE is, Hey, we got to make sure we get
Jay right back in the groove of things as far

(25:34):
as being a champions champion, you know, getting back into
singles competition and everything. But you know, that main event
it had a big fight feel. You could even say
that it had a Saturday Night's main event type of feel.
I enjoyed when CM Punk and Chad Gable were locking

(25:56):
up there. I mean, those guys, didn't they flow so
good together? For those of you that watched, didn't they
flow so well together brief little bit of time that
they were in there. I would love to see something
involve in those two in a short program that would
be sign me up. That would be freaking badass. You know,
we've seen styles and Punk face off a few times

(26:18):
as well, and brief little bit that they were doing
their thing. That that jail, the nostalgia just it was
off the charts in this one. I definitely was enjoying this.
Love the fact that Chad Gable El Gronde Americano he
went over in this one to qualify for money in
the bank. So you're looking at this and you're wondering,

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could this be the year for Chad Gable El Gronde Americano.
Who knows? Who knows? I have to wait and to
see how it all goes about. In the end, Punk
attacking bron Breaker. Roninds runs in there for to say
of attacking see Punk, they're duking it out. Punk trouts
for the gt Yes, ends up getting speared by Breaker.

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Sammy's Ain't comes in there, he gets flatlined by Big Bronson.
Reed Seth Rollins comes in with that trademark curb stomp
to Sammy gives one to see Punk as well. Jay
gets speared by Breaker. Reid goes up for a tsunami
on Jay hits that a couple of times. Pretty much
That's how we had closed out the show, so pretty strong,

(27:28):
strong finish all those parties involved very very good high
marks on that. Some of the other interering action that
we got in between was pretty good as well. By
the way, shout out to the select group of fans
that was channing for our truth at the top of
the show. Was not expecting that that was pretty badass.
A buddy in the bank triple threat qualifier for the

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women Stephanie vekir Rawl's newest acquisition. By the way, for
you WWE Supercard fans, how are you all doing so far?
I know that as far as the latest WWE Battle
Pass this month, it is Stephanie the care. Are you
all gonna pony up the money and you're gonna check

(28:12):
it out? Or I gotta say, the animation and all
that the art for that card it's pretty badass, I
dig it. I think they could have gone in a
more different direction. That's me personally, but I think it's
one of their most strongest artistic designs to date. I

(28:34):
don't know if I'm gonna pony up the money and
get that battle pass. Part of me kind of wants
to within. It's like, ah, I think I might sit
this one out and just enjoy myself. I would rather
and I haven't seen anybody do this comparison yet, but
I would like to see because ww Supercard they did
bust out a new tier. I think it was just

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last week. It's a unhinged tier. So I would be
curious to see how the unhinge Stephanie the Cure Card
that's obtainable. I think you can even fuse it. If
you got all the parts and you're at the rarity level,
I think you can make it. I'm curious how that

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compares to the Battle Pass Stephanie the Cure Card, Like,
what are we talking about as far as a difference
in stats? Is it a difference of about five thousand
points in each category or it's a little higher than that.
I would like to see that respected comparison. Hopefully we'll
get that soon because I think if a lot of

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people were able to see Okay, no, you know what,
if I call f up the thirty dollars for the
Battle Pass, at least out here in the United States,
all right, I'm getting my money's worth because look at this,
and this car will definitely last me a good minute.
It's kind of one of those type of deals. Then yeah,
I can see that being a good investment. But I
don't know, guys, I don't know about that one. But

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Stephanie v Kier taking on liv Morgan and Ivy Now
in this triple threat match, Stephanie v Kier going over
in this one kind of felt like a Julia Rock Sand.
You know, you can't help but think about those girls
when you're also looking at Stephanie v Kier because you're going, man,

(30:23):
all these girls from NXC, they were doing so well
being transplanted onto the main flagship shows and everything. I
am so so proud of Stephanie Vikier. She has really
really taken WWE by storm. Such a great exotic look

(30:44):
that she has about her, a commanding presence at that
and you know she is a bit on the small side,
but she's still so intimidating. There is that intimidation that
a lorning factor. The camera is very very friendly to her.

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If she has ever taken a bad photograph, I don't
know anything about it, quite honestly, but I tell you,
everything just seems to be aligning so right for this woman.
Very busy weekend that Stephanie Vikier is going to have,
because remember she's going to be taking on Lola Vice
at World's Collide, So you've got all that that's going

(31:30):
to be going on, and then she's going to be
participating in Money in the Bank, So double duty for
that respect and as a matter of fact, and we'll
talk more about how things are looking for World's Collide
and Money in the Bank as far as previewing those later,
we'll definitely get into that. But yeah, Stephanie Vakier and

(31:50):
Lola Vice. Correction, Stephanie Vakier and Lola Vice. They'll be
teaming up at Worlds Collide to take on Chick Tormenta
and so that should be a very solid women's slash
luchador tag team matchup. I think the right woman went
over and everything in this one. And so again I

(32:12):
was talking about how Stephanie Vikier she's got double duty,
so she's gonna be going into that women's Money in
the Bank. Where you're looking at the fact that you know,
you got Rox and Perez, You've got Julia, you know,
and you're like wow. As far as NXT alums, man,
these are, without of doubt, these are three of the

(32:35):
absolute best that in their own respective right was carrying
the NXT brand and now look at them. They're involved
on the flagship shows and everything. I see what's what
Julia's been doing and everything, and it looks like Julia
has her eyes set on the women's championship. They're held
by Tiffany Stratton, whether or not Lightning is going to

(32:59):
and we'll just have to continue to see how that
all pans out and everything. My first impressions from AFAR, though,
just looking at the current Tiffany Stratton rain, I think
too much too soon, quite honestly, it's really kind of
feel enforced. For my cup of tea hell of an athlete,

(33:19):
hell of an athlete, but justus, everything just feels so
forced right now. I kinda am losing that aura about her.
That's just me, that's just me. Maybe that'll be shaken
off when I get ready to watch the next edition
of SmackDown. Who Knows. From there, there was a really
great video package of Ruseph. He takes issue with the

(33:44):
fact that Seamus is pretty much getting involved in his
business and talked about how disgusted he was when he
needed Seamus the most, pretty much when he was oust
from WWE Castrated if you will, Seamus was nowhere around,
and now that Rusep is back, Rusef Seamus colliding and everything,

(34:10):
and I love that promo. Rusef basically saying you've got
the body of a god, but you've got a neck
full of pennies, talking about how he's gonna send him
back home as a hero, make sure that he gets
the heroes welcome that he deserves, while basically at the
same time putting him out of commission for good. Loved

(34:32):
all of that. I think it was Kathy Kelly. I'm
not really sure, but somebody called up to Seamus later
on to get his thoughts and everything. Seamus is like, yo,
I bully bullies, so bring it. I'm gonna love when
those two guys finally lock it up. Very solid tag
team action between the war Raiders, Eric and Ivar. No

(34:54):
sign of Sarah Logan Valhalla by the way, we'll talk
about her a little bit later on. Little teaser right there.
Taking on the Judgment days, Finn Balor and j D
McDonald Judgment Day, picking up the wind there, but they
got a little bit of help. They got some help

(35:14):
by Roxanne Perez. She made her presence felt when it
counted the most. She set up a really nice distraction
as j D took out Ivar. Fn Balor follows up
with the kup Dee grab Boom one two three, picking
up the win, and as the drama unfolds with Judgment

(35:34):
day continued as we saw a meeting of the mind
shortly after between Finn Balor and liv Morgan live wondering
what exactly is Finn Balor up to, calling him out
on his Shenanigans, Finn Balor pretty much taking it upon
himself to recruit Roxanne Perez and saying, hey, nothing but

(35:56):
good can come from this this, you know what, what
have we got to lose here? Like, like seriously, you
know you're tripping for no reason? Uh, you know you
can you can trust her, like everything's good and lives going,
you know, live pretty much saying cryptically, you know it's

(36:19):
not her I'm worried about, right, kind of letting it
be known that she's got issues with Finn Balor, And
just when we thought maybe things were gonna come to
a head, we actually saw them have a little bit
of a Kumbaya moment, a little bit of a of
a meeting of the minds, if you will, and basically, okay, look,
you know we got something coming up later on in

(36:39):
the night. How about you be there at Ringside Lives, like, no, no, no, no, no,
how about you maybe go on out there and I'll
go do this thing instead with I think it was
where kil Rodriguez. Yeah, because kil Rodriguez had a match
with Cary saying I almost blank out on her name there,
forgive me, but it was Cary saying that she had

(37:00):
a match with a matter of fact, let's go right
to that match once again, we saw Lyra Vlkira and
Becky Lynch meeting in the ring, talking trash brawling with
one another. We'll we'll see how that goes. I mean, look,
don't get me wrong, their last match was pretty good,
so but I'm about ready to see them just move
on and far apart from one another. Speaking of girls

(37:23):
crossing paths, I did enjoyed the nice little touch of
Stephanie the Keir and Mommy Ria Ripley crossing paths backstage,
Ria Ripley pretty much extending a handshake, saying she'll see
her down the road, looking forward to locking up with
her and everything a lot sooner than you think. There,

(37:46):
Cary saying, picking up the win versus Rare kill Rodriguez,
and that's despite the fact that Liv Morgan was out
there trying to do a little something something. Yeah, this
was a perfect case of Live Morgan, Hey, finnbal thing
you can do, I can do better? Well in this case,
I kind of backfire right here and everything. Love the
added drama that we have going on with Judgment Day,

(38:09):
especially given the fact that Dirty Dom still has the
Intercontinental Championship. Finn taking these little jabs at Dom, letting
it be known he's got a serious chip on his
shoulders over the fact that Dom is holding on to
that ICE title, Okay, and then the power moves that
Dom has tried to make in the process as well.

(38:31):
And you know, with Carlito pretty much on his way
out the door, you can't help but wonder how exactly
that is going to play in the storyline for the
Judgment Day. I really wish that was not made publicly.
I wish something could have been done storyline in a
way where something happens to Carlito and it's just basically,

(38:55):
he is out for the foreseeable future. He is out indefinitely, right,
set it up like that, and then right, so they
kind of messed all that up, giving some of these
guys the opportunity to speak to their fan base ahead
of time, let them know what's going on with their
current contract situation and all that. Not really a fan

(39:17):
of any of that, just trying to touch upon if
there was anything else noteworthy to talk about from tonight's show.
I think we went over everything here. Eo Carey love
how they pretty much liked the reconnection that was going
on here because EO, when the numbers game became a

(39:37):
little bit too much, EO Sky did come out ford
to saving everything. It was kind of nice them re
establishing that connection again and everything Roxane perezdo big story
coming from out of this, continuing to gain a lot
of street credits with the judgment day and everything. Other

(39:58):
than that, I think that's it for the Talk of
Monday Night Raw. Yeah, we went through everything. They set
the towne there for money in the Bank. Solid episode.
Definitely a good job in building up towards money in
the bank. When it's all said and done, it feels
like for the better. What's happening with the current women's roster,

(40:23):
like just as a whole, especially now that we know
that the Evolution pay per view is right around the corner.
That's going to be coming very very soon. I'm very
excited excited for that. You know, it really feels like
the women's division is really turning a corner for the better.
I remember a couple of months ago, a lot of
fans were in disarray, very very concerned, serious trepidations about

(40:48):
the women's division. And you know, it kind of seems
like now and you can kind of tell who's been
paying attention to what's been happening. And then XT and
all this, you could tell who's watching the problem. You
never once heard me put down the women's division, you know,
I always said, ah, look, you know they got all
these other women, like we got to give WWE time

(41:10):
and right, they're gonna bring up the girls that they
feel are ready and slide them in. And you know,
if you're telling me now, we've pretty much reached that
point where ww is going, Okay, look these people, we've
given them opportunities and they are not quite stepping up.
Let's go ahead, let's phase them out, and let's give

(41:32):
these other women opportunities. I mean, look, in a perfect world,
it'd be nice if people could just continue to stay
on the payroll and they just get transitioned out into
something else, but that's not really the nature of the beasts.
And at the end of the day, you know you

(41:53):
got to do the cuts. You gotta do the cuts.
When it's all said and done, let's see what you
guys had to say about tonight's Monday Night row. First
thing we'll do, we'll hit on over to Twitter at
the RCWR show. See what you guys are saying over
there again, Twitter at the RCWR show. All right, let's

(42:13):
see here, we've got a tie. At eighteen percent. Half
of you thought it was an awesome show, and the
other half of you did not enjoy the show at all.
Tonight meanwhile, twenty seven percent of you said it was
an average show, and thirty six percent of you said
it was a below average show. Very interesting, below average show.

(42:39):
I don't know. Maybe because I've been on hiatus for
two weeks, I'm not going to say it was a
slam dunk. But for a go home show, I thought
it pretty much hit all the marks. Let's see what's
going on via YouTube. But first, hang on, I was
getting ready to have a nice refreshing glass of water
here and now I'm good, So let's put this right here.

(43:08):
You see I'm standing up tonight for the show. By
the way I got to I'm trying to get more
into the habit of standing. Early voting coming in, I'll
see one hundred percent of the votes from YouTube community
is saying it was awesome show. As always, I don't
know what it is. But usually the next day that's

(43:30):
when more votes start coming in on the YouTube post,
and then we really start getting a better gauge where
everything is. So you heard the results. You don't have
to vote on both poles, just you heard. Go vote accordingly.
Appreciate everybody that has cast their vote. So hey, right
before we get into headlines, a little bit of house

(43:52):
cleaning we got to do here some shoutouts basically shout
out to the folks. I don't know their name right
now now I want to say maybe it was feed Spot.
Don't quote me on that. I'm really really bad at name,
especially when I'm getting older. If I'm not writing it
down somewhere so I can mention it. It's kind of
one of those I believe the guys' names or feed Spot.

(44:15):
If you bear with me a second here, because this
ties into the podcast and anytime good news happens involving
the show. I love to share the news with you guys,
So let me see here, let me see if I
can find it this way. No, no, no, that's literally

(44:36):
what I want. I literally see what I want. Wait
a minute, that's funny. I literally am seeing what I want.
And for some weird reason, my tablet has decided to
freeze on me and now it magically went off. Has
this happened to you? I mean, talk about weird okay,

(44:59):
and now tablet is deciding it wants to work again.
So yeah, I don't know what's going on. Let's try
out again. Let's try it again. And if I can't
figure out these guys' names, then it's kind of one
of those Yeah okay, I got yeah. Feed Spot. Feed
Spot is the guy's names. Shout out to them. They
hit me up with the email right before the weekend.

(45:20):
I don't know why I said it like that email,
but they hit me up with an email and they said, hey,
we just wanted to offer our congratulations because your show,
the RCWR Show with Leese Anders it made the list
of top sixty wrestling podcasts on the web. And I'm going, oh, okay, interesting.

(45:45):
So I read the email some more and then I
open up the link and I go to see all
these sixty podcasts that have been mentioned, and I see
my boy, my friend, and Jason Solomon of Solo Monsters.
Sounds off. I see he's He's on there, very high

(46:06):
up there on the list, and I'm going, hey, all right,
some of my friends in the podcasting world were not
on this list besides Jason and and it was kind of,
I won't say alarming, but I thought for sure I
was going to see them on this list. I thought
for sure I was going to see John Draper uh

(46:27):
Spitball Media. I thought for sure I was going to
see my friends and Miss Thomas and Joe Numbers of
Wrestling Soup. I thought for sure i'd see them on
the respected list. I thought for sure that with all
the years that Don Tony has been on the air,
I thought for sure i'd see him on this list.
I thought i'd see all these people who I respect
a great deal, dutch Man, Tail and Jim Cornett. I

(46:50):
thought I would see all these people on the list
way ahead of me, you know, I'd be further further
down the list. And I didn't see any of them. Man,
and it was kind of you know, so what kind
of list is this? Exactly? I'm always wondering stuff like
that because with everything that I have learned about surveying
information and collecting statistics and doing a blind survey or

(47:16):
study and all this other stuff like, it's got me
wondering like what all goes into? You know? But can
I put that to the side at least for one
day and just go, hey, man, this is a W
not just for my show, but this is a W
for the listeners as well. Okay, if not for one day, okay, sure,

(47:37):
but forgive me for caring about my friends and colleagues.
But yeah, I appreciate the honor to we ranked number
twenty nine. By the way, out of sixty we ranked
number twenty nine. So first off, to be included on
any lists, you know, I don't care if it's number one,

(47:59):
I don't care. Just to be included on anybody's lists,
you know. And sometimes there'll be some people in forums
and also on social media they'll make a list and
they'll talk about the top, you know, just to even
be mentioned in conversation. I appreciate that. It lets me
know that for the almost past fifteen years that you know,

(48:22):
I've been on the air, I've been doing this. You know.
It lets me know that we are making our mark.
We are, you know, making some some relatively it's quiet moves.
You know. We might be doing it small, we might
be doing it in burst, but it's it's nice to
have that work be appreciated, especially at this stage of
my life where I am right now, because we're getting

(48:45):
ready to turn a huge, huge corner in the next
several weeks from getting my associates in media production and
then chilling for the rest of the summer, preparing to
transfer to a four year university and majoring in journalism
in storytelling. You know, it's we're turning a corner for

(49:11):
the better. And I still just feel like the best
is yet to come. And I think it's still good
that all these years later, with regards to the podcast,
I think it's still good that I come on here
and I'm always striving to Okay, that show is good,
but okay, on to the next one. How can we
make the next one even better? You know, so thank

(49:31):
you to everybody that you know, you did your thing,
to those that were listening. I was looking at some
of the numbers even though we hadn't done a Monday
night show the past couple of weeks, you know, you
guys decided, well, at least kind of one hiatus, let's
go back and check out some previous episodes. So I
noticed a significant spike for the show on demanding downloads.

(49:52):
You guys are representing. You guys definitely were eating up
the wrestling with the topic shows that we put out
in everything. Sorry for the delay in that too, You
guys understand what was going on. Y'all are caught up
though for your your feeds, your RSS feeds and all that.
You guys are definitely caught up now. So I wanted
to mention that though. I thought that was a really
cool thing to see, and I remember when I shared

(50:12):
it with the wifey, she was like, oh wow, that's
that's really cool. But she even said the same thing.
She's like, where's Mesh, Where's where's Cornett? Where's where's Dutch?
Like Ash, that's what I'm wonderings. It's like, wow, no DT,
Like yeah, no DT, Like hmm. You know, even she
if you can make her go hmm, like, let's let's

(50:34):
a little suspects. I'm very curious to see how the
next list looks whenever that that comes around, and everything
all right, we got some some work to get into here.
We got some digging, we got some digging we need
to do here. Let's dive into it. A couple of
headlines caught my eyes on this last I was on
the air with you guys. First off, shout out to
the great Hall of Famer, the legend himself, gym Ross,

(50:57):
good Old j R. He's success fully got out of
surgery for colon cancer. He is home as we speak,
and he is recovering. He had the surgery just handfull
of days ago and he's now at home recuperating. I
had the fortunate pleasure of meeting Jim Ross several years

(51:18):
ago when he came to the DC area for his
one man Show's great seeing him some fun stories that
he told. I would love it if he could do
it again. I'd love to see him do another circuit
of that tour. Definitely come on back to DC or

(51:39):
maybe to Baltimore or whatever that be. That would be nice.
The stories that he could tell Baltimore, Baltimore and wrestling, rich,
rich history and all that. We'd love to see him
do that. But his one man show, very entertaining. I
wasn't sure what to expect, and I just came out
of it at the end wanting more. I loved it

(52:01):
on so many levels. Had a chance to talk to
him before and after the show, and just so personable,
super friendly, chatty, chatty as well and everything. Good guy.
You know, he has provided the soundtrack of our lives
if you go that far back with Jim Ross and everything.

(52:22):
So to hear of all the health issues that this
man has been experiencing over the years, and somehow he
is able to continue to say, Okay, oh it's cancer,
f you. I'm gonna kick this. This thing's ass. I mean,
every time you turn around, he just keeps. I know,
he was having the issues with his ankle. There was

(52:44):
some type of cancer on his ankle and he had
like multiple surgeries. You guys remember that we're talking about
here on the show that he was going through. So
he is a tough and resilient man. And it's just
nice to see that the guy is kicking and everything.
So definitely a speedy recovery. H goes to him. Did

(53:05):
not appreciate the words that Rick Flair put out there,
like Rick Flair, come on man read the room. You know,
I get it, you're salty because of what Jr. Had
said on the Dark Side of the Ring about the
infamous flight, you know, the infamous airplane episode and Dick

(53:28):
Rick Flair running around, you know, robe and springing his
his manhood around like a helicopter to a stewardess and
and and all of that. But you know, there's a
time and a place you got to read the room.
And it's kind of one of those things where, no
matter how you may personally feel, if you don't have

(53:50):
anything nice to say, like how about you don't say
anything at all? That's that's always been my model. And
this is just one of those instances where it's like, dude, seriously,
just go crawl back under a rock, go like why
are you even like seriously do and I would imagine

(54:11):
And look, that's the thing. When you try to tweet
and delete as I like to call it, right as
many of you call it, Unfortunately you've already put it
out there and the entire world now knows what you're thinking.
Like you can be real quick and you can delete
it all you want, but it's still forever out there

(54:31):
on social media. So I've always been a firm believer
that before you get ready to hit that publish or
that live button, just take a moment read it, and
if you even hesitate for one second, then it's kind
of one of those you know what, probably shouldn't be

(54:55):
right just one second of a hesitation, then you probably
shouldn't be posting it. That's my model. It came off
very insensitive, It came off heartless, it came off very cruel,
It came off selfish. It just really painted him in

(55:16):
a very bad light. I was not a fan of
that whatsoever. It's like, come on, man, you know, and
I'm sure even Conrad Thomson, I'm sure he's just like, Jesus,
this is my father in law. What the hell you know.
I'm sure he's like, I got none for you, man.
I'm sure he's literally like that right now. That was

(55:36):
just it was very tasteless, very very tasteless. Meanwhile, let's
get to some of these upcoming releases. Let's first start
things off talking about Sarah Logan Valhalla. She is set
to exit WWEE in a couple of weeks. Of course,

(55:56):
we know she is married to Eric of the War
of the Viking Raiders. She's been off television since what
like early twenty twenty four because she recently gave birth
what was that November of twenty twenty four, so we
know why she essentially has been away. She took to

(56:20):
Instagram and put out a very heartfelt post. I definitely
want to read that to you guys, in case you
all had missed that. She says, I come to you
with tears in my eyes because our time has come
to a sudden end. WWE informed me yesterday that they
are letting my contract expire. To be completely honest, my

(56:42):
ego can't help but be damaged. You always assume that
when you end a lifelong career there is going to
be a grand exit. But here I am using the
notes app on my phone. You got iOS hi fi.
First of all, I love the notes app. I love
the fact that I can sink that bad boy with

(57:06):
my phone. And if I have a MacBook, it's SYNCD
up and I can just pick up where I left
off a little bit later down the road. I hear
my dog's barking. I can't help but wonder if my
oldest one maybe wants to keep me company. So let
me just open the door, see what's going on. Hang
on real quick, guys, hang on real quick. Let's see
what's going on here. That way, if she wants to

(57:36):
come in here, she can, and again she might not.
I don't know. We'll see what happens here anyway, So
that's cool. On the notes, I love the notes myself. Anyway,
got's completely sidetracked there. See. You always assume that when
you end a lifelong career there's going to be a

(57:57):
grand eggs ed. But here I am using the notes,
tap on my phone, typing up a goodbye letter to
an entity that I will forget I was even there,
to an entity that will forget I was even there.
I truly take no offense to this. My career as
it was is getting unscaped by my vocation, and it's

(58:23):
all on a divine timeline that I trust deeply. I'll
definitely miss you, but no, I'll be taken care of
by my wonderful husband, by the land you provided for me,
and alongside the children I've made along the way. I'm
going to take off the weight of being a superstar

(58:45):
and let myself soar being just Sarah. She's been growing
on me, and this time I let her fully cultivate.
I love all the people you've brought into my life,
but my social media paid won't be about you anymore.
It will share only the parts of me that I wish,

(59:07):
and none of that will be wrestling. I'm more of
a clean break kind of girl, and the other calls
to me will be taking my full attention with all
my love Sarah. So, you know, not to go all
doctor Phil here, but if you're really kind of reading
it between the lines of what Sarah Logan aka Valhalla

(59:30):
is basically saying, she essentially is saying, Okay, you know what,
as far as continuing on a wrestling persona, as far
as continuing on in the wrestling world, you know what,
there's something else that's been itching at me for quite
a long time, which is I just want to let
my hair down. I want to get away from the makeup.
I want to get away from the costumes. I want
to get away from the entering action. Hey, look, you know,

(59:53):
I've got these kids, I've got this wonderful life. I
want to just go on ahead and embrace that, try
to find myself, rediscover myself, and enjoy these little things
that's happening, especially with this young growing family. That's what
I'm reading. In a nutshell, It's very similar to I

(01:00:18):
can't think of the wrestler's name right now. If I
were to describe her to you guys, you probably would
know who I was talking about. But she used to
do a bunch of hardcore matches, mainly in TNA. I
wish I could think of her name right now. White girl.
I know at one point she did a match where

(01:00:39):
she had her hair cut off. This was all in TNA.
She was a hard core. I mean, this chick was crazy.
But I remember she eventually phased out of wrestling altogether
because now that I think about it, somebody injured her
pretty bad if I'm not mistaken, and she rustled a

(01:01:00):
more matches, but then it was kind of like, yeah,
you know what I'm done. I'm just gonna go on ahead.
Why am I thinking? Roxy? Is that Maybe who I'm
thinking about? Maybe it's Roxy, But I remember she ended
up meeting a really nice guy who had nothing to
do with the wrestling world. He seemed to be really
big into health and fitness, and she eventually made the

(01:01:23):
transition out of professional wrestling, and she hasn't been involved
in its sense. Last I checked. I believe she has
three kids now, and I mean that wrestling world is
so so far behind her. When you go check out
her social media posts, she's mainly doing her thing on Instagram.

(01:01:43):
Nothing wrestling related. There is nothing wrestling related. Maybe something
in regards to the loss of Daphne, but other than that,
she is not talking anything wrestling. It is all about health, fitness.
She's posting things about her family. That's pretty much it.
I'm saying all that to say same kind of impression

(01:02:05):
that I'm getting here with the Sarah Logan and everything,
and you know, you think about it, look Sarah Logan
aka Valhalla very blessed when it's all said and done.
When you really stop, you think about it, right, you
go with the fact that you know, eventually, as far
as being a recurring character, everything pretty much started for

(01:02:27):
her as a makeup artist or whatever involved in one
of Missus segments, and then she found her way to
the riot squad with Ruby Soho. I got to make
sure I call him as you guys know them now.
But Ruby Soho live Morgan isn't that interesting in itself there,

(01:02:51):
you know, because that wasn't that long ago and now
it's a case where Wow, of the trio in WW like,
this is the one that ended up being the Last
Woman Standing, which is a Live Morgan. And it's so
weird because when you go way back and you're just
trying to predict, like, okay, who you know, you're literally going, okay,

(01:03:13):
you know what Ruby soho, Yeah, for sure that's a
future Women's champion. Not you know, you're looking at Sarah
Logan and you're going, wow, she's got a nice look.
Maybe Sarah never could string it all together. Sadly, live
you kind of felt like, ah, maybe she'll just be

(01:03:37):
a consistent ballet for a tag team or whatever. Like
you never really women's champion, you know, a mainstay, you know,
a face, a player like that would have never right,
So it's just amazing how time flies and everything. Then eventually,

(01:03:57):
when Logan there was a draft and she became a
solo act, you know, that went over pretty much like
a wet fart. She got released in twenty twenty, eventually
came back in twenty twenty two, had the brief reunion
there of the Riot Squad before becoming Valhalla, and everything

(01:04:17):
else was pretty much you know, I dug her work
as Valhalla. I really really dug her work as Valhalla.
I thought she added a whole new fun and entertaining
layer to the Viking Raiders and everything. And Michael Cohen
his own respected right, he did good and helping getting

(01:04:39):
her over, getting her some attention and everything. So you know,
it sucks, but in the case of this particular release,
you just go, hey, look, man, you really were fortunate.
You really were blessed, you know, to be able to go.
Is this long as you were able to go? You know,
that's a testament in itself. I personally Phil now on

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to our next release that's going to be coming up.
It looks like Carlito Carlito he revealed on social media
that WW informed him that they will not be renewing
his contract and that his tenure with the company will
be up in a couple of weeks. Most unfortunate because

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you know, Carlito. I still remember a couple of years
back when Carlito first came back to the WWE remember
that royal rumble. We saw him and it was like,
holy shit, look at this dude, right, and everybody was like, man,
this dude got big. I'm going, yeah, that's that's about right,
because I was keeping tabs on him on social media

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and all that, and I would see some of the
work on the Independence and like, damn, this dude, Why
is a WWE giving this dude a holler? Like what
the hell is going on here? So I was a
static to see that. From that return to the WWE,
it pretty much had spawned him coming back. But I mean,

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this guy, Carlitle, this guy goes way way back. I
mean we're talking far back to the Ohio Valley Wrestling days.
That's how far back Carlito goes. Of course, not to
mention World Wrestling Council, you know, pretty much everything started there,
and to think as far as somebody that really came

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up the ranks as a wrestler, when you just look
at how he got his first start into the world
of wrestling, like one of the first jobs that he had.
Remember it wasn't as a wrestler, you know, nah, it
was like part of the technical crew. That's how his
journey had officially started in the wrestling per se. So

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an incredible journey that this young man has been on
and everything US champion Ship run in w w E,
the Intercontinental Run, the feuds there involving in Shelton Benjamin
I was some of my favorite moments. I loved it
there with the Tory Wilson messing around a little bit

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there with Trish Stratus and everything, teaming up with the Cologns.
Remember that one of the colognees. This was short little
stint and everything. I mean, this guy pretty much done
it all. I mean, he's seen it all, he's been
through it all. I thought he was going to come
back to the w w WE much much, much sooner,

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you know, but it didn't seem like that was that
was in the cards. Unfortunately, as far as what's been
happening with him, you know, in recent years, I look
at Carlito and I just go they kind of didn't
really utilize him properly. I personally felt. I felt that

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with the look that he had when he first came
back to everything that was about him, I honestly felt
not only should they have picked up where they left
off with Carlito as a solo act, but I also
felt that Carlito should have because the guy can talk.
If you put him in the right position, give him
the right material, the guy can definitely go. And I

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just felt that WW never truly invested the way I
thought and probably most of you all were thinking that
they would invest in Carlito, so instead he pretty much
was relegated to just do your thing here with the
Judgment Day and look not for nothing. I think Carlito

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had some very solid moments in the Judgment Day. You know,
I don't know how many of you are big fans
of the Three Stooges. Of course, for me, I love
Curly Mow Larry. I mean, who doesn't, right, you'd be
surprised though, but we've seen so many variations of them,

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but always like that's it. But the one continuity there
with regards to the Three Stooges Larry. And you got
a homeman on Larry because every single episode of The
Three Stooges, and this is my new challenge to anybody
that really has not truly truly paid attention, watch any

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episode of The Three Stooges and always watch Larry certain mannerisms,
certain moves, even certain phrases. But just Larry is the
silent professional worker in the background that is just brilliantly

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stringing everything together. Since Carlito has been involved with Judgment Day,
there are just so many cool, little little knickknack moments
where Carlito has been Larry and you're just going, oh,
you know, just that one little thing that he does,
like he makes the segment memorable, you know, and he

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was serving his role well in Judgment Day. That's what
makes this really really because I'll admit, when it first
started off with Carlito being involved with the Judgment Day
kind of seemed like Carlito wasn't even really sure what
his true purpose was in this group. And he you
see early on he was struggling to find his footing.

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But then once he was able to, then it was okay,
now he's off to the races. You know what really
sucks about this whole thing with Carlito rolling out is
the fact that we never got an opportunity to see
him go out on the date with Raquel Rodriguez. That's
the his part about all of this. I hope that
with a couple of weeks that's left, I hope that

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we at least get some type of segment where Raquel
finally just breaks down and she's like call me some time, right,
and Carlile is just like, eh, I got her number.
You know, I would love to just see something like
that go down. Carlito's gonna do just fine as far
as on the independence go and everything, He's gonna do

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just fine. I mean, not for nothing. But wasn't there
a championship that he just won. I'm kind of looking
in my notes here. Yeah, WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight champion.
He just won that title over the weekend. So he
is going to do just fine and look not for nothing.

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But I think in the very near future, with regards
to Triple A and all that other stuff, I don't
think it's the last time that we'll see of Carlito.
I think we definitely will be seeing him somehow incorporated
in the WWE universe and the very near future with
these whole international crossovers that WWE is doing. It's a

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huge loss, though. You know, you got yourself a really
nice good veteran right there in Carlito, only forty six
years of age, can still go best shape compared to
a lot of the other right, and can definitely go,
can still go, excuse me, can still go. And if
you give the guy the right type of material, you

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know he can definitely make that work as well. He'll
be all right though, he'll be all right. I know
a few wrestlers had commented on his release, you know,
quite taken back by it and everything. But probably the
one release that has everybody talking right now is the
fact that Ron the Truth killings Ron killings our truth.

(01:12:57):
After seventeen years, seventeen years, this second rodeo with the WWE,
that's going to be coming to an end in a
couple of weeks as his contract is not going to
be renewed. Ww gave him the heads up, and I mean,

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stop and think about that. This guy's been with the
WWE almost twenty years. Talk about a magical ride, talk
about being blessed. You look at this release and to
see all the comments, and I legit believe them, you know,
I know PW Insider, I know fight ful. They jumped

(01:13:38):
out there and talked about how people that they have
spoken to, some high up superstars you don't want to
remain anonymous and all that, but they basically are saying
this is a ridiculous release, like it's unanimously just all
across the board baffling, And you know, they are definitely

(01:13:59):
entitled in there spot on those that spoke anonymously about
this particular release as a fan, speaking as a fan,
speaking as a person that you know understands, Hey, nothing personal,
it's just business, you know, thinking from a business sense
and all that. Even I am left scratching my head,

(01:14:24):
very baffled at this. This guy, in more recent weeks
was involved in stuff with you know, recent months, I
should say, involved in stuff with the Judgment Day, you know,
involved there with Jay Uso. For God's sake, he just
had a short program there with John Cena. He had
Ron sena merchandise flying off the shelves. Okay, So I mean,

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you know, it's one thing if you got a guy
like our Truth and it's just it's just a waste
of space. Why are we paying this person this money?
And with this guy, every single time you put him
in a situation where it was make this work. He
made it work every single time. He made it memorable,

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he made it funny, he made it entertaining. What more
could you ask for from your superstar? You know? This
was and it remains one of the most baffling releases
by WWE of all time. Now, some people may say, oh, well,

(01:15:36):
you know, Drake Maverick, it's a big difference there when
it comes to our truth, and it comes to Drake Maverick.
Understand something. Drake Maverick ended up being given another opportunity
because this isn't me being mean. It's just when you
really stop in and you think about it, he cried
in front of his camera, and look, there's nothing wrong

(01:16:00):
with that. He was just giving you his raw emotion.
He was letting you know, just this was his dream, right,
it was his dream being taken away from him, and
he felt that he he didn't have a fair shake here.
He got the raw end of the deal and and
a lot of people connected with that on on a

(01:16:21):
human level. And I think because of that outpouring support
and in essence the backlash that came at WW because
I remember seeing all of that pan out in real time,
and there was a lot of backlash on WWE. Forget
the pay per view, this was the real backlash that

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he eventually made WWE go, Okay, you know what, let's
give this guy, well, let's just okay, let's just and
then we'll figure something out. Let's maybe maybe he'll surprise us,
but if not, you know, I can't say we didn't try.
And and eventually, second time, okay, now he's on his

(01:17:03):
way out. All right. First time, okay, sure, see what
you can do, But they got him that second time.
And as far as looking for the outrage and like
it all didn't happen the second go round, it pretty
much was, well, not for nothing, but maybe you should
try the free agency. See what's going on out there.

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And rest is history. Now this is a completely different
beast because I've had the pleasure of talking with people
over the years that are either directly involved in the industry,
used to work in the industry, somehow still have connections
in the industry, and I have heard nothing but good

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things about Our Truth. You won't find one bad person
I will say anything negative about Our Truth. One of
the most caring, giving individuals that you will ever come across.
If you want to pick his brain on any and
everything about the business, the guy is willing to bend

(01:18:13):
his ear and he is willing to give you those
pointers like always approachable, funny, funny, hilariously funny, you know,
and then the I'm sure by now you guys have heard. Hey,
one of the main reasons why Our Truth was in

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WWE for so long is because Vince McMahon loved him
and Vince McMahon. You know, he always knew how to
make Vince McMahon laugh, and as a result of that,
Vince would always do his best to look out for him, because,
let's be honest, you know, we have two sets of eyes.
We've seen many times over the years. Hmm hm. And

(01:18:58):
you're a little bit concerned there barred our truth and
kind of wondering, but it kind of seemed like somehow
our truth was able to avoid being cut and maybe
a large part of that, you could say, is because
of Vince McMahon. Well, Vince McMahon is sadly not around anymore.
I mean, this is very reminiscent. And I don't know

(01:19:20):
if a lot of people are picking up on this,
but this is very reminiscent to how when Vince McMahon
ultimately came in charge of WWE from his father, Vince
McMahon singer. You know, it has those same kind of
vibes where Okay, hey, the old man said that this

(01:19:40):
person and this person and this person, hey, they'll have
jobs for life. There's nothing to worry about. These guys
are good and blah blah blah, and eventually, oh, you
don't have to worry. You know, Vince, He's not going
to do anything with the territories. It'll be business as
usual like it. It'll be fine, and ye ain't got

(01:20:00):
nothing to worry about. And then events comes along and oh, well,
you know, everything's still good. I'll still have a job here,
you know, because the old man, you know man promised
me that the kid will look out for me. I'll
be all right, And we eventually saw what happened there.
This almost kind of has those same kind of vibes. Look,

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I wouldn't put it past people if they were kind
of of the impression that we, you know, say, which
is will about our truth and everything. But if you
want to do a conspiracy theory and say, hey, maybe
this is a case where he is part of that
whole week gotta flush out any and old relics of

(01:20:44):
that which was the Vince McMahon era, and I want
to shoot that down right now. I would just like
to believe, especially based off everything that has been posted
in the past several days about our truth, I would
like to believe in all honesty that when it comes
to our truth and again it goes back to what

(01:21:04):
I was saying just a few seconds ago. You won't
find one bad thing ever said about our truth. No,
I feel that with this current regime, like if I
were to try to make sense out of it, maybe
I could say, maybe he was getting too popular, maybe

(01:21:25):
he was doing his job too well. But then at
the same time, if I see somebody I don't know
about you guys, but if I see somebody that's doing
something right, the last thing I'm going to do is
put them down or kick them to the curb. If anything,
I'm going to go, Yo, what you have been able
to do, especially by defying father time. You're in your

(01:21:49):
fifties and you continue to defy father time like all
sense of logic, You continue to somehow remain relevant, You
somehow continue to be able to get yourself over. Look,
you see what's happening with some of our younger stars
who were looking at going These should be the faces
of tomorrow, and yet they're struggling. Yo. We need you.

(01:22:12):
We need you as a coach, Yo. We need you
as a producer. Yo. We need you as a trainer
to not is baffly? Is bafing. I want to touch
upon something that MVP has said recently because it does
need to Be said. He talked about this in a

(01:22:33):
recent interview where he talked about saying he has issues
with Triple H. And he basically said, you know, yo,
it's not related to race. It's not a race thing,
you know, bod And he said this, and I quote,
Let's just say this, Bobby Lashley was a two time
WWE champion, and after he took over he being Triple H,

(01:22:58):
Bobby Lashley was reduced to the card. Bobby Lashley is
a bankable, marketable guy and the two time ww champion
just got reduced to mid card whatever. What I said,
specifically in response to the person on my Instagram page
was that you see it. It's my opinion of how

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he chooses to book certain talents. Some people say all
the time that oh, MVPs, just griping, MVPs, just crying. Okay,
well just watch the program. Who were the people in
the top spots under his leadership who were given the opportunities.

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And I'm not talking about NXT, I'm talking about the
main show. Because for anybody that wants to say, well,
look at Oba Feme, look at Trick Williams, look at
Javon Evans, look at he's talking about the main show,
and he's got a very valid point. He goes on
to say, I have my opinions based on my personal experiences,

(01:24:02):
and at some point on my podcast and my YouTube show,
I'll talk about it. I'll go in depth about what
my issues are with that man, and I'll be honest
with you. My issues with him have nothing to do
with Race. My issues have to do with him as
a person and our personal interactions and things that he

(01:24:22):
said and did that caused me to have zero respect
for him. But I'll get into that on my show.
Mad respect for MVP. I've had nothing but love and
respect for MVP for years upon years upon years. I
remember there was a couple of times I tried to
get him on the show, and this was before he

(01:24:46):
came back to the WWE the last Rodeo, way before that,
and there was a couple of times unfortunately, like scheduling issues,
just it wasn't it wasn't possible. There's always a couple
of times that I did reach out to him, there
was some type of a conflict in he couldn't do it,
but he is like you know, you know, you see

(01:25:08):
nowadays it's rare that I'll do an interview. I don't
get that bug anymore, you know, And I don't want
to just be horn out just to be doing interviews.
I actually want to Okay, you know, this is going
to create a really good discussion, is going to get
people talking. I like those engaging kind of conversations, right

(01:25:29):
that's me personally. MVP I always felt was one I
could definitely bounce off of. And you know, I don't know.
Maybe I'll see what's up with him. I don't know,
Like I'm so busy right now. It's like, let me
get past this current semester. And you know, honestly, if
that's something that you all would like, yeah, I'll try
to see if I can make something happen. But I

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do believe MVP from the standpoint of no, it's not
a racing, I don't think. And that's not me being silly,
that's not me being naive, not at all. I think
Triple H almost kind of has the same mindset to

(01:26:13):
a certain degree as Vince McMahon, which is, you know, look,
I don't see black, I don't see white, I don't
see Hispanic, I don't see Asian, I don't see Indian,
I don't see Ethiopian. I just see one color that's green.
If you are printing me a boatload of money, I

(01:26:36):
will gladly put a rocket ship to your back and
I will ride your ass to the top. I do
believe that is the mindset that Triple LHe has. I
think that's definitely something from Vi McMahon that has carried over.
Now I say that, and you guys go, okay, But Lee,

(01:26:58):
we see what's been happening with our truth, and when
we see everything that this guy like still like, how
do you explain what's going on here? Because this cannot
go without Triple Ah Paul Lovek signing off. Because if
there is ever a buffer that could go no, no,

(01:27:20):
no no, you need to do what you can to
keep that person. Triple H, Paul Lvek, Nick Kahn, they
are the two people that can go no, no, no no,
give them a new deal. So again, why is our truth? Like?
What's going on here? Lee? Like, seriously, what's I think?

(01:27:44):
This is honestly a case that is quite similar to
what happened. This is an educated guess and I could
be totally wrong. I could be totally wrong with this,
but I want to throw some names out there at you,
Dolf Ziggler, Bobby Lashley, MVP Shelton Benjamin. What do all

(01:28:12):
of those guys have in common besides the fact that
they are basically older wrestlers. There's probably some other older
wrestlers from WWE that you could think of as well. Hell,
you could put Edge Adam Copeland on that list as well.
You can put Christian Cage on that list as well.
What do all of those guys have in common? Chris

(01:28:36):
Jericho the icon sting, like, what do all of those
guys have in common? Think about it for a second.
I just give you besides the fact that they're all men,
what do they all have in common? I gave you
a nice variety there, didn't I What they all have
in common is the fact that they all in their

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own respected, right tenured veterans. And I believe, I truly
believe we have gotten to a point everybody knows a
thing or two about Madden the Football Game, right. You
know how it is when you go into GM mode
and you're trying to do, Hey, my girls are in here.

(01:29:20):
One of my I knew she was gonna come in
here and hang out with me. She always wants to
my oldest dog, Precious. She's in here, chilling on the sofa.
She's kind of looking at me like huh, like nah,
just looking out the corner of my nd I saw her. No, no, no,
stay with me here. And for those that don't play Madden,
you'll get this. But you got your GM mode and

(01:29:41):
all that in Madden, okay. And you are wheeling and dealing.
You're trying to do everything you can to stay under
your salary cap. You don't want no penalties and all
that other good stuff. You're trying to make sure that
you have with the respected cap space salary that have
going into the new season. You're trying to make sure

(01:30:03):
that any contracts that's up for renegotiations, you're able to
smooth all those things out get the deal that you need.
All that good stuff, right, And all the guys that
I mentioned all good and they're all respected, right. But
the price tags for those guys, it's it's pretty hefty. Right.

(01:30:26):
Something that I always like to say here on the
show is, man, if it don't make dollars, they don't
make that sense. I'm talking about that common sense, right,
And so do you want to continue to keep paying
this person you know, that's continuing the age. It's not like,
you know, each year that goes past, like they can
have six pack, eight pac, twelve pack, sixteen to twenty pack.

(01:30:49):
They you know, hit the bowflex machine all they want. Yeah,
they can do that seven days a week, you know whatever. Right,
you know, but father time is underfeat it. So are
you going to continue to give that talent X amount
of money? Okay? When you can take that same amount

(01:31:10):
of money and for that same amount of money, you're
eventually gonna be able to hire five, six, seven people
for this department, this department, this department. Oh a talent okay,
let's do about two right here for this amount of money,
and you're able to do all that thanks to pardon
ways essentially with that one talent. I truly believe that

(01:31:36):
with the our truth situation, just you know, making sense,
common sense out of it. I think it is a
case where, look, you know, unfortunately we've gotten to that
point with our truth that we don't really feel we're
gonna be able to really get a low ball offer.

(01:31:56):
You know, we were not. We can't pull that off.
You know, we know we can't keep paying this person
xt amount of money and you know, what we would
really like to do is pay them even less while
continuing to keep their services and all that. But you
know they're not gonna go for that, right because they're
gonna feel that, you know, they've earned this blah this
blah that. Now, where WWE did fucking go wrong is

(01:32:23):
the fact that for somebody that has given you almost
twenty years, for someone that has you know, one day
without a doubt as far as going into a respected
wrestling Hall of fame, 'ron, the truth killings is that guy.

(01:32:43):
He's definitely that guy. All the contributions this guy has
made to the sport of professional wrestling, especially in the
early days of TNA. And don't even get me started
on that. People, don't even get me started on that.
You're going nah. You know why, if there's anybody that
deserves to have a hand as a producer, a coach,

(01:33:07):
a okay, we want to transition you out of and
get you more so that you know what you have
done successfully for so many decades, we pass it on
to this next generation. That's where we really need you
the most now more than ever. That is what's really
baffling the most to me. So you can make these

(01:33:30):
arrangements with Booker t but our truth we're just now.
Look granted, maybe those conversations. I'm curious, like I don't
want to speak for our truth. I like to know
if those conversations has surfaced, and if it's been a
case where our truth has said No. I want to
keep going. I want to keep doing what I'm doing.
I'm loving what I'm doing. I want to, you know, no,

(01:33:50):
I want to I want to keep entertaining the fans.
I want to keep going in there in the ring,
and I want to keep doing it. Let's keep going.
That's the only thing that makes sense to me, making
sense out of out of this release. I'm curious what
you guys think in regards to the release. If I
am TNA Wrestling, I'm capitalizing. I'm trying to see and

(01:34:14):
do whatever I possibly can to get this guy. If
I am Tony Kahan slash ae W, I am going yo,
an injuring veteran, a locker room leader, per se like
a Ron the Truth killings my roster would do good.

(01:34:34):
I gotta get that guy. I gotta have him. You'd
be a fool if you're Tony Kahan, and you'd be
a full and I would imagine Edge, Adam Copeland, Chris Jericho,
Brian Danielson. I would like to believe they're going, Yo,
you gotta get that guy. Bobby Lashley MVP. I would
imagine they're going, They're all going, you got to get him,

(01:34:55):
whatever you gotta do, whatever you gotta spend to get him.
It is truly an investment to get him over here.
So truth will be just fine, you know, whatever he
decides he wants to do. Look, I'm telling you that
is one guy. You can't feel sorry for him because
he's been on an incredible, magical journey. And if you remember,

(01:35:15):
a couple of years back, I talked about his twenty
four to seven little documentary, which now more than ever,
if you have not watched it, I would highly recommend
you go out of your way and you check it out.
But now more than ever. And I mentioned that documentary
because when you watch it, you just really go, wow.
This guy is from where he was in his life

(01:35:37):
early on, trouble with the law and all that, to
just where he is today. You just wow, this guy
is truly true. He's living a really, really good life.
He's being very smart with his money. Look, if he
continues to be involved in the wrestling business and he
goes to any one of those promotions, it's because he

(01:35:58):
still loves the industry and he still feels as though
he can contribute. That's it. But he has commanded a
position for himself now where anything is possible, anything that
he has his mindset out to do personally. Personally, if
I could bend the ear of Our Truth, I would say, man,

(01:36:22):
just focus on you. Focus on your brand now more
than ever. It is a great time to be a musician.
The collaborations that's out there with different artists. I would
love to see Our Truth give back in such way where,
if I'm not mistaken, I believe he has his own
production studio label. I would love to see him compliment

(01:36:45):
that by maybe having there be some type of a
recording studio that underprivileged youths that are aspiring artists, you know,
such as rappers, musicians. He's basically like, he has this
place where they can come to and if it was

(01:37:06):
ever an issue where well I know how to produce,
or I've always wanted to play this instrument, like but
my parents don't have the money, or I would love
to see our Truth, and he would be that guy
that would do this. But I would encourage the brother
to definitely open up some type of a facility like
that where the underprivilege can come and you know, they

(01:37:27):
can pick up those instruments, they can see if hey,
maybe this is something that they actually want to do,
and Our Truth can set it up so that they
can get lessons. And I would love it if it
was some type of a program like that. Per se
Our Truth could also go into the podcasting business. Just

(01:37:48):
the stories that he could tell alone and the different
guests that hands down, because it's him, he'd be able
to get them to sit down. Nobody else, right, you
know he would because that's the type of respect and
casheer and all that that he has. He'd be easily
able to command that seriously, So he'll be all right,

(01:38:12):
He'll be alright. It's very baffling. Is one of the
most stunning, stupidest head scratching releases by WWE and quite
some time, I know John Cena had recently put a
comment out there, let me try to see if I
can pull this up. Shout out to the guys over

(01:38:34):
there at Newsweek. You I mean, you know, it's big
when John Cena puts something out there, John Cena, see
if I can pull up his comment here, trying to
see if I can find it here. So John Cena,

(01:38:56):
as far as reacting to the news, Scena just posted
the image of Ron killing so and you know it's
kind of one of those reading between the lines, you
know exactly what I gotta say this. He'll run that
scene has been doing. I love how he's been. It's
one of my favorite runs, Miz. I don't know if

(01:39:17):
he's doing it out of protests because of what happened
with Our Truth, but he basically has unfollowed WWE. He
has removed all mentions of WWE from his social media
accountslor you're looking at that wondering if maybe he is next,
like what's going on here? But he posted some thoughts,

(01:39:38):
really cool image saying forming all some truth with you
was one of the best runs of my career. No
one made me laugh harder. Your energy, heart and smile
lit up every room in every arena. You're not one
of a kind, You're one in a lifetime. Love you, Truth,
keep shining some really good stuff. There is Alena Vega

(01:40:01):
saying thank you Truth for everything. Everything you are as
a performer, but also everything you are as a person.
You always have an ear and a hug for everyone.
You're always so kind to me, whether it was just
an extra just coming in looking to show, looking to
you for advice, or as a co worker to got

(01:40:24):
a little cut off there, Uh, trying to load it up.
I want to finish out Alena Vega's thoughts there to
laugh with you every week. You're forever a star, a genius,
a pro and someone whose presence will always be felt.
You're cemented in history as one of the best. Love

(01:40:44):
you and there was more, you know, rear ripley tons
of people like this guy would be all right. I mean,
trust me, after you watched that documentary, you know you
definitely come away going this man and his wife like, yeah,
they're smart with their money, They're gonna be all right.
But without of doubt. For the record, this is one
of the dumbest, stupidest WWE releases. And look, there's a

(01:41:09):
couple of weeks to go. Maybe something will happen and
maybe that will change, Maybe they will do like I said,
and look, truth, let's transition you out and have you
do this instead, because now more than ever. We need
you in this role. In other news, shout out to

(01:41:31):
the legend himself, Ricky Morton. After eleven years of his
wrestling school trained some really good folks, he has decided
that he's going to be shutting it down again. After
eleven years, my hot time flies. So one chapter another
one begins, So shout out to him for that. To

(01:41:56):
nail Dashwood despite everything that is going on in our country,
you know, to nail Dashwood, Emma. So everything that's happening
in our country here in the United States of America,
pissing off of the countries left and right, the tariffs,
all that other craziness, to Nail Dashwood became a US citizen.

(01:42:17):
I gotta commend her for that. And at the same time,
I really hope that the Trump administration doesn't take any
issue with that. I really hope she's she's okay, seriously,
because with this current administration, I don't know as far
as seeking US citizenship and all that. Like, with this

(01:42:40):
current administration, I will it truly hold up. Like I
don't know. We see that one guy, yeah, he said
he was involved in you know, a gang and like no,
no whole gang affiliation whatsoever. And he should have been
brought back to the country by now, but he's he's
still out there in Mexico. Yeah, whatever, Big Veto. You

(01:43:04):
remember Big Veto back in the day, Big Veto, He's
claiming that WWE asked him for help with the D'Angelo
family and thinks that WWE is ripping off his gimmick
while bearing him at the same time. So I know
that's kind of a mind you know what, Big Veto.

(01:43:25):
Veto Lagrosso known for his mob gimmick throughout his time
in TNA, w cw ECWWWE. He claimed that ww came
to him for help on family storylines, referring to the

(01:43:45):
Tony di'angelo family. He also claims he would be brought
down to floor tho. So here's what he had to
say here. This is a little bit lengthy. Let's go
through this real quick. I've got an honest question for
and he actually at triple H. I've lived this lifestyle
my whole life. I've been doing this gimmick since nineteen

(01:44:08):
ninety nine. I'm still the Dawn in the squared circle.
But this kid who has publicly disrespected me, has stolen everything.
With the shoes on my feet your own. People have
reached out to me asking for help with family storylines,
those ideas mine. Talent relations even called me, said I'd

(01:44:30):
be brought in down in Florida. Yet here I am
a thirty five year veteran watching WWE bury me while
they rip off my gimmick wholesale. And yes, I've got
the receipts to back up everything I'm saying here, So
tell me, are we really going to keep doing this?

(01:44:54):
Keep embarrassing Italians with this nonsense, keep disrespecting my thirty
five years in this business. He also mentioned Stacks calling
him out, saying, I get it. Imitation is supposed to
be the sincereous form of flattery. I've got a few
old leather jackets if you need them, but I doubt

(01:45:17):
you can pull off the bald look. Just remember, no
matter who put you in the costume, they'll always be
living in my shadow until I give my stamp of
approval the don So that's where we are with that.

(01:45:38):
He's saying he's got receipts to back it up. If
he's got the receipts to back it up, my whole
thing is, well, what are you waiting for? You know why?
Not just go ahead and put it out. Or is
it a situation where you're not interested in completely burning

(01:46:00):
the bridge? Is this a situation where you know WW
promised you and they did not, And so you're a
little bit frustrated over what's going on, how you keep
being sponged off for ideas, and the ideas that is
being sponged off you what you're saying to them, you know,
they're putting their own twist to it, and as a

(01:46:22):
result of that, it's it's downright bad. I mean, look,
I'll be honest with you. When I first saw the
Tony di'angelo D'Angelo character come about, it never grew on
me because my whole thing was, I've seen this before.
I remember the full full blood of Italians, you know,

(01:46:44):
the the FBI, I remember Nunzio and and and all
those guys. And for me, yeah, you know, it didn't
get any better than those guys, than the FBI and
all that. So to see this knockdown, watered version of

(01:47:04):
and I tried, I tried to get into it, but
it just it never clicked for me, and anybody that's
been listening long enough. I always told you guys, look
for that intimate circle of an audience that is NXT.
That might work for them, but it's not going to

(01:47:25):
resonate on the bigger scale. That is going to be
dead out of the water. On that much bigger scale,
the fans are not going to be entertained. You know,
it's going to be dead. And then we're not going
to see those guys again for several weeks and they're
pretty much going to be released, like no, no, no, no,
no no no no. Uh. You know, keeping that in mind,
you know, I was always under the impression that if

(01:47:46):
you were going to go anywhere with the Tony dangel family,
I was always kind of under the impression. And you
can tell who is like really on top of their
pulp culture and like who is with the way the
stuff is being written for the Tony D'Angelo family and
all that, Because if I were to use something as
an inspiration of storytelling and everything, I would have gone

(01:48:10):
in the direction of Casino when it comes to the
Tony di'angelo family, That's where I would have gone. I
would have done a situation where Tony D'Angelo when he's
first starting off, when I remember when he was like
first introduced to the NXT universe and everything. I thought

(01:48:31):
that was kind of okay. That's still wasn't behind it,
but I'm going okay. And you know, it could have
been a case where because of his respected connections, the
family basically they're very proud of him, and you know,
he's got to remember to continue to pay his dues

(01:48:53):
to the family every chance that he gets. And when
he started to hit a buff patch in his career,
the family they pretty much want to see him. And
for me, I always thought it would be kind of
cool if we saw Tony DiAngelo somewhere in New York

(01:49:13):
or New Jersey, wherever the hell he's from, Chicago, wherever
the hell he's from, and he goes into this closed meeting,
you know, and we see these silhouettes, if you will,
of Italians or whatever like you see spaghetti and meatballs
and garlic, bread and wine, you know, being consumed, and

(01:49:34):
you know they're telling him, hey, look, we're a little
bit concerned. You've been watching what's been happening with you.
He's passed couple of weeks and uh, you know, we
want to send you one of our guys to try
to help you. Guys. Ah, I don't need that. I'm good,
I don't need any help. Ah. Well, you know this kid,
he's going places, you know, a very bright career ahead
of him. We want you to work with him. And

(01:49:55):
that's how you kind of you're properly introduced to Stacks
on it. And I always kind of felt that with
Tony di'angelo and Stax, the way it should have gone
was the Rayle, Yoda and Joe Pesci characters and Casino.
I always felt Tony DiAngelo, Yeah, he's doing everything right,
but now he's starting to hit a rough patch there.

(01:50:16):
Stax is coming out there basically to clean up the
mess and all that. And eventually, if you've seen Casino,
then you know what happens with those characters and their relationship.
It's always under the impression that's where it should have
gone with them. I think if they could have somehow
figured out a way to translate that very well as

(01:50:36):
far as storytelling goes, definitely would make the fans be
very very And to Big Vito's point, you know, I
know last year they did something with Nunzio, but it
really would have been awesome how they try to figure
out a way to bring back all the old school

(01:50:57):
Italian guys, the Italian stables and all that they remember
from back in the day. If they could have figured
out somehow, because eventually it would have been nice had
you seen faces behind some of these silhouettes every time
Tony DiAngelo would have to go in for these meetings,
and and what if he did a situation where, oh,

(01:51:17):
this guy's gonna get made. I would have loved it
if it could have been a situation, Oh, this guy's
gonna get made, this guy's gonna get made. What if
it would have been such a situation where somebody actually
was assassinated, right, I mean that would have been really
if you're gonna go there, I always say, go all
the way, have fun with it, be creative with it,
like a moful, especially if it's a situation where you've

(01:51:41):
got a character who's maybe coming up on their WW release.
You know it's not they're not gonna be renewed. Okay,
even more the reason why, okay, well let's put them
with Tony di'angelo and okay, they did something wrong, they
get off. Yeah, so I hear where veto is? I mean,
from the whole Tony dangel thing, it is very very

(01:52:05):
it's the weakest stuff on NXT. I got ADMT. Anytime
I go and I check out NXT on the DVR,
I am constantly just fast forwarding like a like a mofo.
I'm getting a question about Jayden Daniels. It's a football
related question where it's being asked, do I think Jayden Daniels? Now,

(01:52:30):
for those that's kind of like, what the hell is this?
This is football talk, NFL talk Jaden Daniels of the
Washington Commanders. Do I think he'll have another big year
this season? I know I watched a lot of the
Commanders games last season. I am still in the NBA
frame of mine, Nicholas, I've been checking out everything that's

(01:52:53):
been happening this NBA season, So I'm still in that
NBA frame of mind, to the point I have not
even sat down to see who the Washington Commanders, who
remains from the previous season, if they've added some new
weapons on offense, if they've added some weapons on defense. Like,

(01:53:15):
I don't know anything that's going on with the Washington
Commanders right now. So what I can do for you, though,
is between shows. I don't think we're going to do
it this week, but what we can do is maybe
next Monday we can revisit the Talk of the Washington Commanders.
We could sit down because I know the schedules for

(01:53:36):
all the teams for the next seventeen eighteen weeks, it's
already out. We'll sit down next week, we'll look at
the schedule and then we'll knock out your question at
the same time. I think that's the best way that
we can do that. But good question. Appreciate you. Moving along,
Mariah May. I'm sure if you guys had heard about this.

(01:53:57):
Mariah May has apparently been removed from the ae W
roster head one over to the AW website and she
is nowhere in sight. Apparently word is is that she
won't be renewing with AEW and that eventually she's going

(01:54:17):
to be coming on over to the WWE. And this
was kind of one of those well this was set
in stone essentially nine years ago with a nice appreciation
post she put out there for Triple HN for WWE.
So look, I've always said, I've always said, and let

(01:54:38):
it be no different here and now. I always said,
back when I was doing rampage bad with a belt,
sometimes I would cover dynamite over on the full one
Mania site. I would always say, Mariah May, my God,
like this girl. She is really really entertaining as hell.

(01:54:58):
Always one of the highlights, the major highlights for me
on any of the aw shows. If I saw she
was on, I knew I didn't have to worry about
fast forwarding. I knew I was going to be entertained.
I knew she'd have a pretty solid matchup all that
good stuff. I wasn't a fan of the fact that
she was always at the receiving end of a defeat,

(01:55:19):
but I knew regardless, I was going to be entertained.
And I felt that this was a woman that was
talented on so levels, so good at plugging and playing
with you know, whatever you needed her to do, she
could crush it out of the park. And I remember
saying way back then that Tony Connie's got something really

(01:55:39):
really good here on his hands. He's got to do
everything he can to keep this woman, you know, much
like a Willow Nightingale and Queen Amanada. And you know,
he really hit paid her here. So if you are
to sell me that Maurriah May is in fact hitting too,

(01:56:02):
wwe you know, I'm sure Mariah is looking at what's
happening with Jade Cargill. She's also looking at Stephanie Vicer,
Julia Roxanne Perez. I'm sure she's looking at all those
girls and she's going, Yo, why not me? Why can't

(01:56:26):
I go over there? And I'm sure she probably has
a little bit of a bitter taste in her mouth
with the whole Mercedes Monette thing and going, look, as
long as Mercedes Monette is pretty much at play like
it's the Mercedes Monete show, and maybe she really is
kind of you know, you know, grass looks kind of
better over here. Got some rumors out there saying that

(01:56:49):
maybe Mariah May May shown up as soon as the
Evolution WWE event be a nice place to make her debut.
I think that'd be pretty bad. Wouldn't put it past
w w EE? Why not? Why not? But if the
reports are true that Mariah May is pretty much wrapping

(01:57:10):
up and she's going to be done with AW and
she's eyeing the hell out of WWE, that's a huge loss.
That is a huge, huge loss for AW. Definitely for
Tony Kahn. You know, we've seen them recover in the past.
I remember when they lost Jay Cargill. It was, and

(01:57:32):
you see they never have truly recovered. We thought maybe
Camille was going to be that Camille bi Brickhouse. We
thought maybe she was going to be the one to
step up to the plate. They fumbled a big time
just out of the gate. They messed ot all up.
And we see what's going on there with Meghan ban

(01:57:53):
not not quite the same. I've seen her stuff on
the independ It's not quite the same. It's not the
same Megan Bay that I've seen on the d not
quite the same, much different. And I mean that in
a bad way, right, not doing good what you want
to throw nyla rose and consistent and consistent girl can

(01:58:18):
have a match and then you don't see her again
for about three to six months, seven months. It sucks.
That's one name though, Like wherever she lands WW like
she's gonna do well, she's gonna do. I would love
me personally. I would love to see what she could
do in WWE. Let her start off on NXT. Let

(01:58:40):
her start off on NXT, fine tune, you know, do
it over there. John Laernidas has been dropped from the
Janelle Grant lawsuit after agreeing to provide Janelle Grant and
their team with evidence on the case against Vince McMahon.

(01:59:02):
I'm sure if you guys had heard about this, But
Grant's side says Lauren Nightis has agreed to provide her
with evidence related to the case, saying quote John Laryon
Nightis has agreed to cooperate and provide evidence in Jenaill
Grant's lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE. His agreement to
a confidential settlement is a pivotal next step toward holding

(01:59:24):
McMahon in WWE accountable and bringing justice to Miss Grant
after years of sexual abuse in trafficking. Mister Lauren Nightis
looks forward. Excuse me too, looks forward to moving on
with his life. We cannot provide any additional details at
this time, so we're winded back. May seventh, Grant's request

(01:59:47):
to amend her lawsuit against Vince McMahon, John Laryn Nightis
and WWE. It was approved by the judge. The defendants
are expected to foul motions to move the case out
of public court and into IVID by June thirteenth. The
way it's looking, Grant can request discovery related to litigation

(02:00:09):
over whether the arbitration clause included in the three million
non disclosure agreement will be enforced. The original lawsuit, as
you guys remember, which accuses McMahon of sex trafficking and
sexual assault during Grant's time as a WW employee, that
was fouled back in January of twenty twenty four. So,

(02:00:31):
I mean that is a huge, huge development, right there.
Is this a case where John Larnidis is trying to
get back to good with his wife you know, the
bellas and all that other good stuff, or because as
far as I remember, he's not divorced at least not yet.

(02:00:53):
So is this him trying to do some form of
damage control and finally take some form of self accountability,
gets some therapy help, sexual addiction help and all of that.
Like what's you know, kind of one of those to
be continued type of deals. But you know, we've seen

(02:01:14):
him flip flop before. But if he sticks to this
and he actually comes through, this is a damaging blow
to Vince McMahon, who is trying to move on with
his life. He has officially started up a new production
company called fourteenth and I and you know, by the

(02:01:35):
looks of it, you know, these guys are basically trying
to back sporting events, live events. I mentioned sporting events, right,
it looks like they might do a little something with
the music industry as well. Looks like as far as
financing and production needs. Kind of seems like that's how
these guys are going to be operating and all that.

(02:01:58):
So I'm more curious to see who's going to sign
up and try to work with these people. I said
it once before, I'll say it again. I think for
those that are very desperate, very hungry, you know, just
want to get their foot in some type of a
stepping stone so they can start building upon their resume

(02:02:20):
early on, I can see people trying to work on
work with Vince McMahon and this production company from that standpoint. Look, look,
make no mistake about it. And I know some people
are like just stay away regardless because it's Vince McMahon,
Like the hell, like just stay away. And like I
can tell you this from a lot of the people

(02:02:42):
that I spoke to, because remember I'm you know, majoring
in media production, journalism and storytelling and everything. You know,
a lot of people they want to work for the
big major networks. They want to work for the NBC,
they want to work for the ABC, the Fox, the CNN,

(02:03:03):
and you know, they they want those heavy hitting names
because they figure with those heavy hitting names, it's gonna,
you know, it's gonna get give them the notoriety that
they that they're looking for. It's gonna give them that
mad street cred. It's gonna put all that nice, big
money in their pockets and all that. And sadly, it's

(02:03:23):
not gonna happen like that for most people, for a
vast majority of people trying to break into the industry,
it's not gonna happen like that overnight. You gotta you
gotta start somewhere, you know. And maybe that's with working
for a Roland Martin and and you know, his respected network,

(02:03:43):
or you know, maybe that is working for the smaller
guy over here and insert the name right, or maybe
you're doing something on a much smaller, smaller scale where
you're you're doing something for a local county uh television, right,
maybe you're doing something, you know, public access TV basically right.

(02:04:04):
The whole point, everybody's got to get their start somewhere.
And I still feel that with this Vince McMahon production company,
those that man, if only somebody would take a chance,
if only somebody would roll the dice, and you know, yeah,
eventually I'd like to get to Warner Brothers. Yeah, eventually,
I like to get to Sony. Yeah, eventually. I would

(02:04:26):
love it if if I could get the Marvel Studios
or you know, I can get to right. But until
you can, everybody's got to start somewhere. I think this
could really be good for those really looking for Hey,
you know, I just need an opportunity, or those that Okay,

(02:04:47):
all these other people said no, these guys over here
they'll say yes, right. It's kind of one of those
type of deals. I think that's honestly, what's gonna happen.
I think Vince McMahon and then this whole production company,
I definitely feel they're going to cure a great deal
about quality. I don't quite see themselves horn out to
the level of what's the guy's name that's the producer

(02:05:11):
of the Steve Wilco Show and also the Jerry Springer Show.
I think he also had a hand and Operation Repo
and Hardcore Pond and all those shows from back in
the back in the day. I don't see Vince McMahon
kind of horn himself out like to that extent. I'd

(02:05:31):
be actually kind of surprised if he actually went that route,
But I don't know. We'll see, we'll see. Also some
interesting sad news here. I don't know if you have
heard about this, but Billy Jack Haynes apparently he's being

(02:05:52):
sued by his late wife's estate for elder abuse. I
cannot wait to hear what my friends in the podcasting
world think about this one. But yeah, we got details
that's emerged about alleged abuse that Billy Jack Haynes put
his wife through before her death. William Albert Haines the Third,

(02:06:15):
also known as former pro wrestler Billy Jack Haynes, was
accused of killing his eighty five year old wife, Janet Kraft,
on February twenty twenty four. Haynes, seventy one, has been
sued by the Craft's estate for elder abuse. Per per
court documents that's been obtained by Fox twelve out in Oregon,

(02:06:41):
excuse me, Haynes is being charged with second degree murder.
Just last month, he was deemed unfit to stan trow,
but Craft's estate filed a seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars lawsuit against Haines back on May twenty second. They're

(02:07:02):
claiming that for five years leading up to her death,
not only was she mentally abused, physically abused, but also
financially abused by Haines. The suit notes that Becraft was
vulnerable and disabled, which made her suspectable to Haines's alleged treatment.

(02:07:25):
Some of the claims are that Haines made Becraft in
contact with her family, liquidate her retirement funds, would draw
her money from her account, and switch medical providers to
providers he had a relationship with. In addition to that,

(02:07:47):
Haines allegedly introduced the craft to heroin and meth, forced
her to purchase a gun that he was unable to
acquire because of his criminal record, and he forced her
to marry him in twenty twenty one. So loaded right here.
You know, when when you hear this, you just go WTF.

(02:08:10):
And if you're like me and you happen to make
your rounds watching Investigation Discovery and you see those Deadly
Women shows, or you watch Oxygen Snapped, like you know,
you hear these messed up stories all the time. Yeah,
it's funny. I was watching an episode of Deadly Women
literally yesterday morning. It's this messed up story about this woman.

(02:08:33):
Now did I say this, You guys are like, yeah,
I've seen that episoutely. It is this interracial couple. Black
young guy weighed about one hundred and fifteen pounds, He
was in a wheelchair. Girlfriend who was white. You know,
she loved him and this young brother he had a
very promising rap career. Like everybody knew him in the neighborhood.
They wanted to collaborate with him, like cause he was

(02:08:57):
a dope artist, really dope rap artist. And this girl
she really really loved him, cared about him, and you know,
guy weighed one hundred and fifteen pounds, and so she
would do most of the work. You know, she would
have no problem carrying him, pushing him around, taking him
to go do errands, whatever he wanted to do. Eventually,

(02:09:19):
he decides, Yo, won't you move in with me? You know,
make it one step closer, you know, take this relationship
to another level. And you know, you're like, okay, So
if that works out, then they're gonna get married obviously.
And then little did he know she had a meth
slash heroine problem and just the way this guy ended up,

(02:09:41):
you know, with his life being taken away from him.
It was so messed up, so heartbreaking, and just the
level of abuse that she was doing to this guy,
it was just WTF. You know, when I think about
what potentially had happened here involving Billy Jack Haynes and
his late wife, you know, it's just oof. You know,

(02:10:05):
abuse to animals, abused to the elderly, abused to people
with disability in any form, it's just sickening. I just
find it sickening to my stomach and everything. I know,
the whole thing about you know, and it's said until
proving guilty, you know, in a court of law and
all that, but to you know, hear all of this well.

(02:10:26):
And by the way, as far as because I probably
said something there was a little bit buzzworthy to you.
You guys are like, wait a minute, unfit? What was
what's going on there with Billy Jack? Unfit? So a
county judge a couple of weeks ago had ordered Billy
Jack Haines be sent to a Oregon state hospital, ruling

(02:10:48):
that he is unfit to assist in his own defense.
A certified evaluator assays haines behavior at the hearing us
statements from his attorneys, and consider stipulations from both the
defenses and prosecutors, all of which indicated that he is unfit.

(02:11:10):
Court records stayed another hearing on Haines's fitness that had
went down on May twentieth. He has waived his right
to a hearing twice back in April and May of
last year. So if everything holds up, is trials currently

(02:11:31):
set for December twenty twenty five. There is doubt, as
court records say, he could be committed to the Oregon
State Hospital anywhere from one to three years. You kind
of have to have that going on in the back
of your head when you hear about that. So troubling times,

(02:11:53):
troubling times. I want to end on a little bit
of a lighter note. I know we've got the new
Karate Kid movie that's out right now. By the way,
shout out to Mission Impossible. Oh my god, you know what,
there's an unveiling. I'm glad we're still we're still on
the air. There's an unveiling that we can do. Speaking
of Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning, great movie.

(02:12:22):
I had a great time. I've been talking to some
of my some of my classmates from previous classes over
the semesters that I still keep in contact with, and
you know, we all have each other's numbers, so we
text each other randomly and all that, Hey, you know,
did you go see the new Mission Impossible movie? Like yeah,
and we're all like literally saying the same thing and everything,

(02:12:43):
which is, you know, good movie overall, but a couple
of plot holes here and there, Da da da da da.
So I talked about this on Wrestling with the topics
from last weekend, not this weekend. We just came out
of the weekend before that. The shows are available on
demand another downloads, so go check it out if you

(02:13:05):
haven't already. And I talked about how AMC Theaters they
had this big advertisement thing that was going on where
it was, hey, if you go see Mission Impossible to
Final Reckoning on Fan Opening Day, well what's fan opening Day? Basically,
if you went to go see it on Thursday before

(02:13:26):
Friday it was released everywhere, you basically got an opportunity
to see the movie without any commercials. So when you
sit your ass down, if you got a two pm showing,
no trailers, no commercials, boom, just jump right into the movie.
That didn't happen. Where I was at, I saw trailers

(02:13:49):
like everything. It took like thirty minutes before the movie
came on. And they also said when you go to
the fan day event, you would get a special commemorative ticket.
I did not. I get my special commemorative ticket. Like
right down to the point the attendant, dude, he didn't
even know what the hell I was talking about. And
he was asking his manager, you know, if they knew,

(02:14:11):
and like they weren't aware of any promotion. I told him,
I said, yeah, said it is plaster. It was plastered
all of you guys' website for AMC theaters, and I
specifically came, you know, because not for nothing, but my
my local AMC. Like we've had some some actors, we've
had members of the press, media. Our AMC is pretty big,

(02:14:33):
it's pretty popular. So it's in a really really nice,
good neighborhood too, for that matter. So the fact that
that AMC was advertised for Final Reckoning Fan Day and
you're supposed to get all this stuff and none of
it was fulfilled, You're like, WHOA. So I had a
lengthy conversation with AMC customer service told them what happened.

(02:14:57):
They were like, oh, you know, this was only suppose
to be a participate in AMC theaters. I said, well, sadly,
that's not what was advertised on you all's website. You
know if I saw that, like trust me, you know,
but this is what were advertised and it didn't happen.
So they were like, you know, we're really sorry about that.
How about we comp your ticket and whatever you want
to go see you know you can, it's on us.

(02:15:20):
Like okay, all right, bet So they did that for me,
and then one of my friends was like I told
them what happened. They were like, leeve I'm so sorry
to hear that, dog, But tell you what, I know
somebody that knows somebody that know somebody, and if you
want those commemorative tickets can hook you up. So that's
what we got here. This came a couple of days ago.

(02:15:40):
So let's see what we got. And this isn't just
one commemorative ticket. The guy that hit me up was like, actually,
if he wants all of them, because I got I
got the whole set. It's like I just wanted I
just wanted one. He's like, okay, you got the whole
set like, okay, well, let's let's go ahead and let's
go through it. So that's what we're gonna do right

(02:16:03):
now for you guys, as I'm taking this out. And
I love the way my friend pretty much packaged this
bad boy. This thing was packaged very very nicely. Here.
I can't wait to watch this stream back. By the way,
we ditch stream Yard. I cannot recommend a stream yard
anymore because stream Yard they are charging different prices for

(02:16:30):
different people. You're not even able to see the same
price anymore. So what might be twenty dollars, for example,
for you, for your friend in the next state in
the same you know, in the United States, not in
the next state over, they're probably paying forty five. And
then this person that lives in this country, they're paying

(02:16:51):
this price that's just for starters. Customer service, very very bad.
And then so the quality of the streams for the
amount of money that you're paying, that's been really bad
as well. That hasn't been that hasn't been good as well. Wow,

(02:17:13):
I love the way my friend taped this. He made
sure these did not get damaged here. Wow, all right,
we're slowly getting there. So we have hooked up with
ev MUCKs. Ev MUCKs. I was doing some research online

(02:17:36):
and I put out some feelers with some friends and
they were like try this, and the top two that
I was given it was emoks and oh, guys, I
don't know about this one. Hang on. It was emos
and I'm struggling here because the way he's got this

(02:18:01):
hooked up. Hang on here, I'm trying to figure out
how to open it. It was emucks and e Caam.
So tonight is the first show that we're doing with emucks. Okay,
And I can just take them out individually, right, Yes,

(02:18:24):
I'm taking them out individually. Now. I love the way.
I love the way my friend packaged this. This is
really really good. This is really really good. Oh my god,
my man hooked me up. My man hooked me up.
My man hooked me up. Fam Oh man, this is good. Okay,
all right, so let's just start off all right. So
here you go. These are the Mission Impossible, the final

(02:18:47):
reckoning commemorative tickets that if you went to fan opening day,
you know you should have gotten one of these, not
a case where you had your pick, just randomly. You
get what you get here. And I love which one
in the back. So I see here. This is from

(02:19:09):
the SF Cinema from Thailand. It looks like the release
date was back on May seventeenth, twenty twenty five, apparently.
Let you guys see the front of that again. Okay,
so that's that one. That's that commemorative ticket. We we
got all all the guys, all all the cast and crew.
I'm gonna say the best for last. All right, let's

(02:19:30):
keep going here. I love this one. I love this one.
That's that's pretty bad us. Let's you get a good
look at that. See what you guys are looking at here? Alright,
you go bring that upright. So that's two down. Let's
keep going. This one's pretty good too. It's very nice,

(02:19:58):
very nice. I'm probably gonna frame them all. For those
of your carreos, I'm probably gonna frame them all. We
got two more to go. Thing rhymes. That's my boy,
that's my boy, that's my boy. Did him good. And

(02:20:20):
last but not least, the man himself, this crazy mofo.
My god, the stunts this man was doing, dude is crazy. Man. Seriously,
if this is not like the ultimate motivator to being
good health and all that other good stuff, like, I

(02:20:40):
don't know what it is, man, So yeah, I will
be putting all these in a frame for sure, individually
and have it in the back somewhere. If it is
going to be the final Mission Impossible, I think they
went out on a very good note. Shout out to
the cast, and they're still killing it at the box office.

(02:21:02):
I think Lelo and Stitch is the live action remake.
I think that's got the number one spot right now.
I believe Mission Impossible two, I'm sorry, Mission Impossible, the
final reckoning. I believe that's in the number two spot,
number three, and I wanted to give congrats to them.
Karate Kid Legends. Now, they had a budget of about

(02:21:25):
forty six million dollars and it looks like for opening
weekend they just about broke even, so I mean that's
pretty good. They ended up grossing over twenty million dollars
between the United States and Canada, and they did twenty
six million in the other territories. That pretty much gave
it a worldwide box office total of forty six point

(02:21:49):
three million. So there you go. You broke even. You
made your money back for the amount you put in
to making the movie, so that's great. Originally, this movie
was projected to gross twenty five to thirty million dollars
in the almost four thousand theaters opening weekend. Now just

(02:22:10):
on the first day alone from Thursday night previews, it
brought in seven point seven on the first day, and
that included two point three million from Thursday night previews,
and it went on to debut at twenty one million.

(02:22:31):
So actually I have a correction. It finished third behind
Lee Loo and Stitch and Mission Impossible the final recording,
so apparently Mission Impossible is still number one in theaters.
Correction on that, So a slight underperformance, you could say
for Karate Kid Legends, because you know, you're thinking about

(02:22:57):
the Netflix series Cobra Kai and and then you're also
looking at the fact that Lilo and Stitch basically when
you look at Cobra Kai and you look at the
new Li Lo and Stitch joint like the same age
demographics per se. So just imagine going to a movie
theater Lilo and Stitch Karate Kid Legends, and it's like

(02:23:20):
they both are sharing the same age demos. You get
what I'm saying. Because you're thinking about Cobra Kai, you
know what the target audience is for that now you're going,
you know, Lilo and Stitch or Karate Kid legends. So
the timing kind of kind of bad. But I'm hearing
nothing but good things for the new Karate Kid, so
I'm looking forward to seeing it. I'm most curious if

(02:23:44):
you need to be in a position where you watched
Cobra Kai in order to where you don't need to
watch Cobra Kai like you're gonna be fine. I can't
wait to watch it and see how that goes. But
sounds like it's off to a pretty pretty solid start.
It's all said and done, so it's getting some love
out there. Saw some pretty solid reviews on it so far.

(02:24:05):
Looking forward to the new James Gunn Superman movie and
the Fantastic Four. Those look very very promising. Hearing the news,
by the way, that Warner Brothers was seriously considering approaching
Michael Mann to direct a Henry Caville Superman sequel before

(02:24:26):
everything went to James gun route, I'm just going, yeah,
I'm kind of glad it didn't work out that way. Hey,
I would he give a shout out to you guys.
You all been representing and seeing what you guys have
been doing for one, demanding them to downloads much love.

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We've been blowing it up on that YouTube channel. I've
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and it's like, nah, because then I'll really be a
fat ass. And what I'm trying to do right now
is actually go in the opposite direction. And I've been

(02:25:08):
doing pretty good. But you'all keep your fingers crossed, keep
me in your prayers, and you know, because I mean,
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and I'm doing good. I'm sitting off the weight. It's
been a slow journey, but you know, nothing to but
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(02:25:28):
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So look, we did not get into money in the
bank predictions. We did not get into World's collide the preview.
That should get its own joint right. So what we're

(02:26:13):
gonna do. We're gonna come back here Wednesday, Wednesday night.
I'm thinking I think it will come here Wednesday night
after AEW goes off the air. We'll talk a little
bit of AW, we'll talk a little NXT, we'll preview,
give predictions for World's collide and money in the Bank.

(02:26:35):
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