July 19, 2025 • 42 mins
In this episode, the hosts delve into a fervent discussion about the delayed publication of Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) issues, highlighting how outdated issues like July's WrestleMania as featured in November. The conversation then shifts to the controversial Goldberg retirement match and his subsequent complaints, alongside reactions from various industry figures like Dave LaGreca. The hosts explore the broader implications, forecasting WWE's future treatment of stars like John Cena and drawing comparisons to AEW's elusive HBO Go viewership numbers. This episode also touches upon the convoluted nature of modern streaming services, showcasing the hosts' personal streaming preferences and frustrations.
00:00 Outdated Issues and WrestleMania Coverage
01:03 Chelsea Green's Uncertain Future
02:05 The Challenges of Wrestling Publications
06:34 The Viral Coldplay Concert Incident
14:09 Goldberg's Controversial Interview
20:12 The Goldberg Controversy
20:54 WWE's Handling of Goldberg
22:28 Goldberg's Reputation and Narcissism
22:48 WWE's Future with John Cena
24:33 The Undertaker's Last Match
24:58 Goldberg's Interview and WWE's Strategy
30:42 The Role of Ads in Modern Media
34:11 Streaming Services and WWE's Presence
37:09 Netflix's Success and WWE's Contribution
39:16 AEW's Ratings and HBO Max
41:58 The Complexity of Streaming Platforms
42:58 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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00:00 Outdated Issues and WrestleMania Coverage
01:03 Chelsea Green's Uncertain Future
02:05 The Challenges of Wrestling Publications
06:34 The Viral Coldplay Concert Incident
14:09 Goldberg's Controversial Interview
20:12 The Goldberg Controversy
20:54 WWE's Handling of Goldberg
22:28 Goldberg's Reputation and Narcissism
22:48 WWE's Future with John Cena
24:33 The Undertaker's Last Match
24:58 Goldberg's Interview and WWE's Strategy
30:42 The Role of Ads in Modern Media
34:11 Streaming Services and WWE's Presence
37:09 Netflix's Success and WWE's Contribution
39:16 AEW's Ratings and HBO Max
41:58 The Complexity of Streaming Platforms
42:58 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wrestling-soup--1425249/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All of their issues are months out of date, so
I don't know where the fuck Eddie got this list from,
but clearly it's after October.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's probably November, but nothing in November, right, well, because
the July November has leaked, right, November is leaked, but
the July issue just covered WrestleMania.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh god, and when.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Was WrestleMania in April? The beginning of April, middle of
April nailed it right on.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Time, Right is the time that right as people are
really feeling that WrestleMania spirit.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know, if you're ever in trouble and you're drowning,
don't call the PWI hotline. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Don't get back to you when you're in your next
life basically at that places. Yeah, they'body scooping you out
at the bottom of the pool when you're an ooze.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
M h yeah, because their October issue is all about
Tony Storm.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Oh yeah, even though she just had like oh Chelsea yeah, yeah,
by that time, who knows what the fuck Chelsea Green
will be doing like that. And this isn't me being like,
oh she's gonna get hurt ha ha ha, but like,
who knows, maybe she'll be the champion. You know, she'll
(01:54):
get the belt back to the United States Belt. Maybe
she'll be off television. Who knows they even call it
West Champ. I'm thinking in by October she might have
be world champ. You don't even fucking know. Yeah, truly,
I mean when you think about it, and you know,
this isn't a common occurrence. It's not like people get
hurt as bad as that did, you know, all the
time or nothing. But who's to say you don't have
(02:18):
some bullshit throwaway match on a SmackDown where you send
out you know, well, Naomi's on rob but you know
what I'm saying, Well, you send out Naomi against against Chelsea,
Naomi fucking you know, lives her shoulder or something, and
then they're like, well, well Chelsea's the champion now, who knows.
Like that's why you can't really back catalog wrestling shit
(02:41):
unless you're sort of talking about stuff off the path,
you know what I mean. Like I've been thinking because
like I was talking to the other night about I'm
going to be away for four fucking WWE shows because
I'm gone for five days or something, and I'm like, well,
maybe I should try to record some stuff, and then
I like, I have to really think about ideas for
(03:01):
something because fuck all, Like I could be like, well,
here's the summer Slam card and then they had three
more matches. Oh are they never having an old list?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Because I'm looking, I'm looking for this and the first
thing that pops up is the twenty twenty four issue.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Oh okay, oh my god it is.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The women's No because Naomi's number one. Oh oh top
ten list for the week. Oh now I'm ready, Yeah,
full thing.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Well, thanks Eddie. That's very different.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, I'm like, wait a minute. The PWI Women's two
fifty comes out in January. I'm like, do we just
get next year's January is late?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Like we're gonna see that next Nothing else will happen
between now and then, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
That'll actually go up stil next April.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Come on? Yeah right, No, my god, that is so
fucking dangerous for them to do that. It really is,
because you truly do never know, right, it's between obviously,
life happens, injuries happen. It's wrestling. You know, you never
know who the fuck's going to be over in three months.
You can't be like, oh, well, let me tell you
(04:07):
who's the biggest fucking star of the How do you
know that? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You brought up a great point, and I think I
think they've been caught on this before. What happens when
somebody dies? Do they just print about them four months later?
And I'm like, I think I've seen that happen before,
and I think they do. Like the editorial like like
there's usually like a single page that they leave blank
in case of like in case shit happens, and that's
(04:32):
when they'll fill it in with like, oh, by the way,
this happened currently at this time, blah blah blah, because
the news moves so fast in the wrestling world.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Joe, it's FYI this person is is a fucking pile
of dust. Now Yeah, bray waat, why do you go money? Yeah,
I don't think they're going to have a big year.
I'm gonna say I all my predictions for them for
the next year, I'm gonna have to kind of, you know,
cross those out. Yeah, but no do It's it's so
(05:01):
fucking funny to me, and it's so bad because it
makes me think too, like what if we got a
handful of people together to write shit let's suppose wause
you know, we sure believe me. I don't think this
is the best idea in the world, but I just
we could do that. We could do that pretty easily,
you know, but it would have to be, Okay, what's
(05:23):
going on that month, what's going on that fucking week?
Like you'd actually kind of have to put the screws
to people and beyond them, because, like I said, it's
just it goes so fucking quickly.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't think they have to be as late as
they are. So when you look at it from the
angle of the editor, right, there's a lot of things
that play here. First off, the interviews. A lot of
those interviews. The reason that they take four months is
because they try to collect all the interviews that they
can and then shove it into their magazine, have the
(05:55):
picks and everything else like that. And then once you
have everybody else that turns in their homework because that's
basically what it is, then you have to send it
off to the illustrator. Then you have to set it
off to the printers, and then you have to go
through distribution. So there's like there's a lot of stages
to this, which I think there was this great invention
(06:15):
that they created called the Internet where people could just
post that shit directly themselves online and you don't have
to wait for a paper version of it four months.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Later, right, right, This shit happened so fast that that
guy that got caught at the cold Play concert, his
wife probably fucking oh got home from work.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
He had ninety days to go to Argentina. If that
was in a magazine, he could have broke up with her,
divorced her, sold the house, right, had everything.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
He could have had all his shit squared in the
time if that had been in a magazine and not
on the internet, right, yeah, oh my god. By the way,
like I mentioned that to you last night and I'm
still kind of laughing about it, and I was talking
to talking to Missus about it last night when I
got off the show. Where it's like the way that
that guy got caught cheap For those who don't know,
I mean, it's a big viral story of this guy
(07:10):
got caught hugging on some chick at a fucking cold
Play concert and he he straight up corpse dude.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He should have just no souls. Yeah, that's what I
was thinking too. I'm like, why did you even act
like that. You were just hugging on her. It wasn't
like he was finger banging her and shit.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
No, no, I could have just been like, oh, I'm
hugging her and then you know, somebody there saw him
and talk said to the wife, Hey, what are you doing.
He'd be like, ah, I was drunk and you know whatever,
blah blah blah. He could kind of play that off,
but just selling it.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, well they she turned around first, which was the worst.
It's like a lady, you have a horrible poker face.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah you yeah, But that was dude. That was so
funny to me because, like I said, not only did
this guy just completely sell himself to fuck out, but
also in like I was talking to Missus about this,
this guy at that point just fucking get a divorce.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, you're romance cheating at that point. There's a big
difference between hey, you know, and by the way, I'm
not like Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Caught it a Gwar concert versus right, there's a Coldplay concert.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, Oh god, dude, there's a there's a difference between like, oh, hey,
some chick that I work with, you know, we have
a sexual tension and you know, she sucked me off
in my Mazda Miata at break or something as opposed
to like I'm taking you to a fucking cold Play
concert to hug and sing songs like Jude. That's a
you're you're dating that person. That's a relationship. That's a
(08:44):
romantic you know, whether you realize it or not, whether
you what is the you know, what.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Is the line? What is the line that you could
get away with a romantic band versus a non romantic band,
Like would would Creed be considered a romantic band?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Honestly, misch, I think just about any concert if you're
taking somebody to go well, I mean obviously like I'm
gonna go take her to go see like fucking cattle
decapitation or something. Yeah, well that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Like if if you took a if you took a
girl to a weird l concert, I know he's gonna
be like, oh well, clearly they're fucking.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah right, and they're like, man, what fucking look at
these briggs. Get a room all there to be horny.
You know, somebody's living in a pussy paradise. No, dude,
you gotta be you gotta be kidding me with this
whole you know. Oh, well the guy, you know, he
didn't you know, he didn't think da da da da. Man,
(09:45):
you took her to go see like a sissy fucking
you know, lovey dovey band, right, I mean I get it.
I know they're kind of like the Apple Store music
now they're like the official generic fucking musak band whatever.
But that's that's very different. Like I said, this isn't
just people, you know, trying to get a fucking room
(10:08):
at the Red roof to fuck. That's the difference there, right,
you know. Yeah, And that's like and that that makes
complete sense if you think about it.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Well, yeah, I guess I'm just kind of confusing the
layers of it. Right, So dedicating a certain band to
a romance band and getting caught there versus getting caught
at a Sillier concert or a death metal or something
that really wouldn't be immediately jumped to the conclusion of yeah,
they're fucking is interesting to me because I don't know
(10:39):
if it was that, because I think even still the
guy and that girl could have gotten away with it
by saying they were shy, oh we don't want to
be on care oh geez, why are you putting us
on camera? We enjoy the music, But like, I think
the fact that he he was open about it, right,
didn't he have some kind of comment or something like that?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And well, supposedly the guy released a statement, but it's
like ninety percent sure that was a big fucking work,
you know what I mean, Like it was meant to
be a meme or whatever. Oh the comma was fake, okay,
all right? Yeah. Also it's it's only funnier to me too,
because the guy is I guess some sort of CEO
of a company, so he has some sort of bigger
(11:22):
job within the company, and I guess they were there
for a work thing and everything. I'm like, man, this
is just talk about just saying, hey, you don't what
go fuck everybody? Fuck off? You know what I mean?
You're smooching on And I guess she was like an
HR woman that worked there too, like work, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You got in trouble doing non HR things with an
HR lady. Oh you are going to hell, sir, dude.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
How about just this load? And like, I'm not one
of these people that's always like, oh, you know your
job and you gotta fucking be this way or that
way for your job or blah blah blah. But how
are you gonna be somebody that works in that department
there and telling you being like, oh well, I mean,
I don't know about that. It's like, dude, you're fucking
(12:09):
a married guy and smooching it that works here and
smooching them out at the company picnic, like you're gonna
you're gonna tell me what I'm doing? Is you know
what I mean? Like, that's maybe this is not the
department for you at that point, working in fucking HR
banging the fucking boss that's married.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I didn't see their pictures up like that, Thanks Brady,
Brady one throws it up there. It's Andy Byron and
Kristin Cabo Cabot Cabot Cabot Cabo Chris Kristen. Fucking that's
only better because that's a very famous brand of cheese.
I don't know if you guys got Cabot cheese, but
(12:51):
we get cab It over here. That's only I go
to Wisconsin and then it's all dry.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe she'll fall back on her
family's cheese.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
And picture is awful of both of them. Yeah, I
mean she looks like Brett Hart. He looks like Goldberg
and she looks like Brett Hart.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
What is that? Well, no, dude, that's an actual A
Oh I thought that was really dumb. Look at me.
If they looked if they looked that bad, I think
people would wouldn't even they'd be like, all right, whatever,
they're just homely. They wouldn't sell it. Those ugly people. Yeah,
(13:32):
why we got why we gotta make it harder on
these ugly people to find love?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Fuck it? Show me the AI version of Breton Golder.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, oh my god, yeah there was one day. Oh
my god, did you see the one where somebody made
it with with Page and Brad Mattens. It's classic. It
put all three of them together. I'm like, yep, there
we are. And the Internet always provides, doesn't it. That
was the second picture?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Did make that picture? Or has that been floating around too?
Because I missed the bretton Goldberg one.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
That's great, No, that's that's fantastic. But by the way,
speaking of Goldberg, oh, did you there's now because I
talked too loudly about him near my phone or something.
I don't know. I've gotten like six things suggested by it.
What's his name? That the guy I'm forgetting his name
from busted open the boy, He's goy O Greca. Greca
(14:29):
was not pleased either, And it was really funny watching
Tommy Dreamer try to not try to not have too
much of an opinion on it. I don't know if
you saw that video yet.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
No, no, I haven't pull it up real quick.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Dreamers just kind of sitting there like, yeah, I could
do this all day. Like there's a point in where
he's like, I could do this little day. Oh god,
eighteen minutes Jesus, really, Joe, Yeah, oh no, I'm not
telling you to watch the thing. Oh I thought you
it was a clip. I didn't realize it was the
whole sh Oh. I'm sure there's clips. I'm sure there's
(15:02):
abbreviated ones hanging around if somebody has one shots it
in there.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But let me start it off because I'm kind of curious.
I like Dave for a few reasons, but yeah, he
gets heated lately.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I was in a great mood yesterday.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Got to see him by my daughter, got to spend
time with my beautiful wife. Everything happened that I wanted
all birthday wishes all candles were blown out and wishes
came true. The biggest wish, of course, is Pro Wrestling
Nation twenty four seven. That big did the dream a
lot to celebrate yesterday until about nine oh five. Okay,
(15:36):
that's when I get a phone call from.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
A producer amor PM PM, nine five PM, nine o
five am.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Then I couldn't have had that great of a birth
like nine oh five.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
If it was nine oh five am, you had a
great birthday because the chances are you started it at
twelve oh one, which is great.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Oh fucking it up, dude, right air nine oh five
am yesterday.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Why is he so red faced? He looks like fucking
brother loving this clip? He does. But maybe he got outside,
got some sun. You know, it's the season, man.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
He's a nine five PM from Paul, our producer. Now,
I was a little out of pocket yesterday because it
was my birthday, was.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Celebrating with my family.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
So I got home like four minutes before Paul called me.
So I'm I put on NXT. I'm catching up on NXT.
We'll get into NXT because NXT was very good last night.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
We'll get into NXT.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
And Paul says to me, Hey, have you watched the
Ariahjuana interview with Goldberg? And I said, you know what,
I saw some things like, you know, like on my
twitter feed and everything, but I haven't obviously I hadn't
had a chance to watch it.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
He goes, I think you should, so I watched.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I love that Tommy Dreamers just sitting there picking his ears,
just picking the wax out of his ears this entire time.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Tommy, remember, legitimately, when he's on these shows, every time
I see him, it looks like somebody has a nest
cam on an old dog, Like the old dog is
in the bed and they're just making sure it doesn't
fucking die. I just you get the camera on it.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Tommy Dreamer looks like he's at the corner of the
guest bedroom. He doesn't even have a full camera set up,
just the corner of a guest bedroom with some shelves
on it and some toys on it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
The bule is like, you're not taking away the kid's
toys room, right, you gotta go in there and just
film your podcast over there in the corner. And he's like, oh, right,
I'll go in. Maybe that's where they threw his big
dog bed It's just like a random corner from the
citing that makes sense. Instigated this on your Break.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
As soon as I got off the phone with Paul,
I watched it, like I stop watching NXT because I
can always go back and watch it. But I was
very interested in the Goldberg interview with Ario and Aria Hawani.
I'm a big fan of great guy, and I'm gonna
say this for the record, and I love to get
Ario Hauane on because that had to be the easiest
interview that he It was like he was interviewing a child.
(18:12):
And when I say that, and you know when you
talk to a child, Tommy, like you know when the
child is lying, because you could see it on his face,
like like all right, yeah, this kid is just every
and then the truth comes out that happened in quick
like Goldberg see it look like the most.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Miserable human being on the face of the yard. He
just had his retirement career match three days earlier, where
everybody's praising it talking about wow, man exceeded expectations.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
It was great.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
And I'm expecting this Arieljwane sit down to be kind
of like just pats on the back and great and
awesome and what a way to go.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Out and all.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
He was exactly the opposite, and I mean Goldberg complained
about everything and then did the whole why don't mean
to complain like, I'm not complain?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (19:04):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
You don't mean?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
What are you talking about that you don't want to complain?
You're oh, you're complaining, you can't complain, and then say, well,
I'm not complaining. You just complain. You can't complain. And
then to say I'm not complain.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
You got complaining. It's such a good I'm not saying, come,
don't complain, but you're complaining. And then you're saying that
you're not complaining, but you are complaining.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I like Dave Dave. Dave's a funny guy. Sometimes he's
good energy, but.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I he he's ship dude. It's he's pretty rough on Goldberg.
I'm telling you, man, you're you're giving him so much core. Nah.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
That's the problem is I think people are thinking that,
and it's like, no, man, if you guys listen what
I'm saying. I'm more upset at the play because that's
why we did the whole swap out with Booker t.
I'm like if that was Booker T and people and
WWE treated Booker T that way, wouldn't people be pissed
off about that? Like that's my whole dance. I openly
(20:13):
admitted multiple times Bill Goldberg, as it's heard, I get that.
I'm not upset with that at all. I think they
didn't think in foresight, and obviously I brought up the
Gunther streak and a few other things. I think that
WWE dropped the ball as far as maximizing the value
of Goldberg. But then again, there's other people like Steven
(20:34):
Richards that said why didn't Goldberg do shit? And it's like, well,
that's a great fucking point too. So through and through
the whole Goldberg thing still falls on the shoulders of
Goldberg as well. But I really think that the way
that WWE held everything was just shitty. It was shitty.
And yeah, maybe it's because WWE is a company has
a gear to grind, you know, has as has problems
(20:59):
with Olderg and it's like that's I get that too.
But then if he really didn't want to honor his
commitment with Vince, why fucking even do it? Why even
waste everybody's time and do it anyways that.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
It's funny that you say that too, because Magreca's pretty
fucking tough on Goldberg in this instance, and Dreamer has
some good points, like I said, even though he looks
like he's struggling to stay awake. But I don't think
anybody has shit on this harder or been more conspiratorial.
There was a whole chill son in thing too, chill
(21:34):
Son and went on a thing where he's just like,
let me tell you, I'm pretty damn sure that this
whole thing was them to fuck with Goldberg. Like he's
like he's like he wanted to let them know, or
like they wanted to let Goldberg know that he ain't shit.
And I was like, all right, yeah, chaill jail definitely
fucking Oh no.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
He's like he's a straight shooter for sure. He definitely
says what he feels. Look, once again, my real platform
isn't about I got to come to the defensive Bill Goldberg.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Believe me, it's not.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I'm just underneath the guise of if they're gonna do
this to Goldberg, they're gonna do this to everyone and anyone,
and it's just it's a bad light. Look, we got
John Cena's retirement coming up in a couple months, right,
that's right around the corner, Like, what's gonna happen there?
We haven't seen him in a few weeks, which is fine,
(22:28):
John Cena could take another month off or so. But
if they don't fucking get this story by the rains,
they're gonna make his retirement look like shit too. Are
they just gonna cut him off the middle? And I
heard the responses to that, Well, they cut him off
of the middle because it's NBC. NBC does what NBC does.
I'm like, that's fair. Then who booked fucking Goldberg to
(22:48):
be in a fifteen minute match?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Well, there's a question that I thought was raised pretty
good too at one point, was that how much of
that time that got eaten up? Is also them trying
to figure out what they're gonna do with Seth Because
at that point, when he's sitting there and he's in
the corner, it's like, Okay, we don't know how much
longer that match was gonna be, right, we had no
idea what they were gonna do with that. But he's
(23:13):
sitting there, they're thinking about it. They're communicating with everybody.
Ella Knight's kind of just sitting there with his put
in his hand, and you're like, okay, well, how much
time was eaten up by them having to rework everything?
You know? And what's unfortunate is and I think this
goes back to, once again, what a fucking turd Bill
Goldberg is is. I could almost see Goldberg sitting back
(23:35):
there being like, they get that guy out of the ring.
Yet they get him out of there. Come on, we've
got things to do, Like he said, he is a
fucking dickhead dude. Like that's I think it kind of
always goes back to that, like where you would hope
wwe would do something I guess for people. And yes,
(23:56):
the Undertaker's last match was him against Asia Styles in
like a silly cinematic match, Like that's what the Undertaker
got right during COVID in front of fucking nobody, in
front of fucking yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
We did the fucking YouTube video where instead of coming
out to whatever the music was, he came out the
fuck music. We had dan Zig, We played a whole
bunch of song tracks underneath there, and.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
That was the Undertaker's last right And it's like Goldberg
even said in that interview that he did with Aaron Jjuani,
where he's just like, you guys wouldn't treat you know,
Undertaker like this, or you wouldn't treat Bubba Bah. Which,
first of all, I really have to point out the
fact that like in the world of WWE and their fandom,
he is not even close to the to the level
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of those guys. No, the regular WWE fan does not
see Bill Goldberg and think he's the same thing as
John Cena. I not even fucking close. I agree. So
that's where even in his mind he's like, you treat.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Goldberg as a narcissist. Goldberg is a genuine narcissist, right,
There's a lot of them in wrestling, But Goldberg is
an exceptional narcissist because he's a two sport narcissist. And
you know what I mean, He's like Bo Jackson of narcissism, right,
if Bo Jackson was also a wrestler. So, but Bo
(25:16):
Jackson's actually nice. So I don't even know if that's
a good comparison.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Gold nose sucking his own dick.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, but the problem was the execution of it. And
let's pretend that Shale someone is right and WWE did
all this just to fuck with a jew, fuck with Goldberg.
I don't know if that was necessary. Why waste the
time and energy on that, Why do anything at all
because I wanted to embarrass him in front of a
(25:43):
few people. I just don't I don't understand the laugh
track behind that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think you kind of nailed it right, and it
was something funny enough. As you're mentioning this, it was
shit that I'm remembering from what Sun was going on about.
He said, you know what, it was probably never even
about the retirement for WWA, which makes sense. He goes, well,
how do you get a narcissist to show up and
do something? You convince them it's about them. So you
(26:11):
have him come in, You tell him, oh, it's for you,
the whole pomp and circumstance, blah blah blah. All it
was really for was to have Gun there be able
to beat him. Yeah. So and you think about it
and you go, oh, well, that's kind of but truly,
that is what you have to do. If you were
a company and you were trying to bring in somebody
that you know is just totally fucking in love with themselves,
(26:35):
you have to be like, oh my god, we have
such a great idea for you. You're not gonna believe
what we have for you and for me, Oh yeah,
it's all for you. But that's elaborate. Anybody else that.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Is such an elaborate fuck you that they could have
just literally fucking told him fuck you and slammed the
phone down.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
That's show business, baby. They wanted him in. They wanted
him in to sell some tickets.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Nobody, which I mean, probably sold a couple of tickets,
but nobody was buying that shit ass shirt. Nobody was
walking out with the ratfink fucking narcissistic Goldberg head on
the car.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I honestly, God, if you're still fucking de Lulu enough
in the year of twenty twenty five to like Bill Goldberg,
you probably bought that stupid shirt. Oh my god, you
probably thought that shirt was cool.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
That's fucking okay, And ourgo in the chatta saying you
think WWE is above an elaborate fu that smells like
Vince McMahon. Shit, though, doesn't it doesn't that feel like
more of a Vince thing than a Triple H thing.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
At the end of the day, he was still his
sens a sir ah, maybe yeah, he learned to learn?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Is that what it is? He's he's picked up the
fucking the the Darth Maul sword or whatever the fuck
it was.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Yeah, you must grab this rock from my hand. Name
is Dwayne and he is also a narcissist cinemark for himself.
I said sword whatever, same shiit saber sword? Fuck? Well,
I can tell you, dude, either way, I'm about ninety
eight percent sure that that's now a complete burnt bridge
for the guy.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Anyway, Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what are they gonna do?
Ask Goldberg to come back one more time and then
do it again?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
What is he?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Charlie Brown and w w e is fucking my god?
I forgot her name too, peppermin now Pepper Lucy Yeah whatever,
that's a different I know, like a.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Pepper by pepperdrowk Paddy. But the Goldberg, dude, I gotta
tell you, is at this point him saying like, oh,
don't worry, I'll be able to spill the beans in
two weeks. I don't know if you heard all of
this Areajwani interview too? Yeah, so pretentiously terrible. I'll tell you, man,
(29:00):
I did some research this morning because I'm sitting there
and I'm going, Okay, we had a good conversation about
the Goldberg thing, and I was like, well, I need
to know more about it because I'm kind of basing
it off of the handful of things that I heard
and let me go into it and to just hear
him be like, well in two weeks, I'll tell you guys,
like the real story too. It's like, what your princess
(29:23):
fucking cut it out? Oh, he's a sixty year old man.
He's just doing the wrestling bit at that point. He's
trying to stretch this right. That's that's what he's doing.
He's probably gonna have it on his podcast that has
more commercials than ours. Does I love it? Which is
(29:45):
just a reminder once again go to patreon dot com.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, the people that actually listen to the episode on
Spotify and shit, yesterday, I have no clue what went
on with the placement of ads to They had four ads,
four ad breaks in the first I want to say
twenty minutes, which is fucking insane because I went back
(30:11):
and I looked at it and then there was like
a thirty minute break of nothing, just straight show and
then the ad started up again, and this weird, like
every five minutes there's an AD break, and then it
just ends the show after that with like another stretch
of show. It's almost like they forgot to separate the
ad breaks and they just jumbled them all together. I
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don't know what the fuck happened.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Which is kind of funny in a way though, because
people like, there's so many of these and it's like, well,
if you knew that they all were up front and
then you didn't have to deal with them anymore, that's
not too bad. I would be perfectly fine with that
as a model for anything that has ads on it,
where it's like, listen, you got five minutes at the
beginning of the thing, you're gonna watch ads, and then
you don't got to worry about it for the next hour.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
But that's the sponsor's decision. That's you know what. Look,
I see people saying speakers bad speakers run through clear channel.
My dude, that's iHeartRadio. So that's those are radio people
and sponsored people that are picking those those those spots
on the show. I don't know. I think this time
it might be an automation issue, because we've never had
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that before. We've never had it where all right, guys,
the first thirty minutes of this show is gonna suck,
because I mean, if that's the case, I'll just start
fucking playing instrumental ai music for a half hour, get
everybody through that, and it's like, okay, now you can
listen to the show.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
You know, I would just get up through all just
start at thirty two minutes. Yeah right, I dude, I
don't know. I just find it really funny at this
point too, where people, you know, there's ads on it, Dude,
they're just they're jamming them into fucking everything now and
long long ones at that. That's why, like I said,
(31:51):
I got the Netflix and Max thing through my phone
and it was like ten dollars a month for both
of them. But there's ads on it. I'm like, I'm
so used to fucking's being all over Netflix our YouTube anyways,
Like I don't care.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Oh YouTube is brutal. I looked at our Evolution post show.
Maybe I think I even said this yesterday. I don't
know if I said it on the air off the air,
but during the Evolution show, I looked at all the
ad breaks. It was literally an ad break every four minutes,
three and a half minutes. And it's crazy because that's
what YouTube throws in there. And it's like people complain
about our shows on Spotify or Speaker iHeart, and it's like, dude,
(32:29):
don't even go to YouTube unless you have a blocker
or you're paying for premium. You are gonna get slammed,
slammed with fucking ads.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I don't know. But there's also I don't know. I
think there's also a point of it too where I
just don't expect any of it to any of it
that's free. I don't expect it to work. Well yeah, no,
I I still have that. I still got that mindset.
I know that's like a you know, that's a dated
way of viewing things now, But in my mind, I'm like,
well how much should this cause it's nothing? Okay, well right,
(33:02):
what I paid for here? You know, like that's kind
of how this fucking goes, you know, That's that's how
that's gonna be. It's another story like for some people
where they spend fucking so much money, so much money
on random shit, Like I thought, the YouTube, what is
it like sixteen dollars for YouTube without ads? I'm like
you guys are really pushing it there. I know they're
(33:24):
trying to make it miserable enough that people will just
pay it, But nowadays that's like it's asking a lot
of people that are stretched it. You know.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
It isn't though, because they also give you music on there.
So while you guys pay separately for for fucking Spotify
and shit, if you get the YouTube Premium, we get
all your YouTube shit without commercials. You get the movies
for free without commercials.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Oh that's see.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
And you get YouTube music, which is pretty much every
fucking song on YouTube for free without commercials.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
So oh okay, that's the game that they that's how
they get you. It's like three and one. So yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
And if you get that YouTube is it YouTube bread
that actually gives you the TV so you get the
TV channels with it and shit too, and the NFL
packages and all that shit.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Dude, I can't. I can't follow all this anymore. It's
really so much. It is so cool. It's just called
YouTube TV. Okay, thanks, Ochy. And it's funny because you'll
say that people like okay, old man, and I'm just like, no,
it's it's just a fucking lot.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Oh yeah, they change it all the time, all the
fucking time.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
So well that was like for years, and I've bitch
about this with the with the hockey channel, the local one. Yeah,
for years they were like, yeah, it's on Netflix or
not Netflix, it's on Nessen. So if you have basic
cable you get all the hockey in the Red Sox games.
And you're like, all right, cool, that's that's reasonable, right,
And they were like, well, if you don't have cable,
then you can also get it on YouTube TV. And
(34:44):
it's like all right, well, that's that's not bet either.
It's like, yeah, now it's on Sling and you're like,
all right, cool, so you got some options you can
go do it now. They're just like no, no basic cable,
no Sling, no YouTube, thirty more dollars a month and
you're like, you think people are gonna fucking pay? Well,
it's even crazier. Ro teams that suck right now, Like
it gets.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Even crazier when you're trying to measure that up internationally too.
Oh yeah, Like we're just talking about the problems of
having American TV. Then the international people have to go
through all of our crap half the time. Let alone
try and get a VPN so that they can pretend
they're from Gotham City, Illinois or some shit, you know.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Right, Oh, for the luxury of being able to watch
a TV show that's probably not even that good to
begin right, you know what I mean? Like it, I
don't know. I'm just glad at this point that now
I have the I have Netflix, and I'm just using
it actively and I'm able to use that for the
WWE because it is fucking it is helpful.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah, oh yeah, if you're watching it through a VPN,
that's the only way to watch it now, because you
get smacked down, you get raw, you get NXT. I
don't have to go to the seat w app. I
don't have to go to the Peacock app. You could
just watch all all the pay per views are on Netflix.
Like WWE in the US is a giant pain in
the ass.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
But I say that.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
And Netflix just reported that to their second quarter of
twenty twenty five on Thursday, that their earnings have gone
to eleven point oh seven billion in revenue for April
to June, which is sixteen percent up from last year,
and yeah, which was higher than what they were expecting.
The growth their projected revenue growth of fifteen percent was
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seven point oh three, but they actually made eleven point
oh seven billion, so good for them. And WWE was
mentioned on there. They were saying that they basically they said,
what was it, Squid Games was the number one show,
the fastest growing show the season three that happened in
this previous quarter blew the roof off, and it's like, yeah,
(36:43):
no shit, everybody was waiting for that, the depreciation of
the dollar. Sorry, I'm trying to scam to it.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yeah, no, I'm just like, I don't I've never watched
Squid Games. I just know it's massively fucking popular. It's
not bad.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Season three was kind of a letdown for me, but
it's not bad.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
It's kind of just like the The whole thing is
just basically Battle Royal, right, like that movie.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Yeah, that's a nice way to put it. There was
actually a Japanese show that that happened before that that
they stole all their ideas from. I forgot what it
was called. Yeah, they they And that was a Netflix
show too that they stole it from. Yeah, Hunger Games
is on there, but it's a little more violent than
Hunger Games. I don't know, but w.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I always thought Hunger Games was just PG thirteen Battle Royal,
and I thought that was supposed to be for young adults.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Right, Yeah, but WWA has like a few million hours
of view time in this past quarter, so like that
was the big thing. Where you know, Aw's talking about
all the the hundreds of thousands and millions of people
that are watching on the on the app. Here's Netflix saying, well,
the only reason we fucking made it is because WWE
has millions of hours since they've showed up in January,
(37:51):
millions of hours of viewership.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
So well, dude, there's still are they still hiding the
fucking Epstein five, I mean the HBO Go numbers? Yeah,
still being hidden they are? Yeah? Aw, Yeah, that's Aw's
Epstein files, isn't it. At this point it kind of
feels like, right.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
It's one hundred and eighty million viewing hours, thank you, casuals.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yes, someday we'll release the numbers on how many people
are watching HBO Go, you know what I mean? And
do you think Tony Khan's going to just be like
this was a big fabrication? Cee him Punk wrote all
those numbers down before he left.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
What do you think that, how do you we're gonna
get that would be hilarious if they just started blaming
the young bucks. Now that they're not EVPs anymore, the
numbers all start slipping.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Dave Meltzer right after all in said that's aw did
five hundred and eighty eight thousand, a point one five
last night, and that was the first place on cable
And that number doesn't include the millions they got on
HBO Max.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Oh my god, Yeah, did he really say that? He
didn't say millions, but knew a men. Well, the sad
thing is is you never know anymore. Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
He said that. The follow up was, we don't really know.
Low end estimate was eight hundred and eighty five thousand
more high end one point one million.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Yeah, come on, come on. There's nothing funnier to me
at this point where now we just have like supposed
Ratings're like, well, we supposed it would be about that much.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Well, this is like when he pulled that college number
out of his ass that Oh yeah, fucking Dave.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Well, you know, sometimes people just leave their TVs on,
or sometimes people log in with their parents, like Netflix
accounts and You're just like, dude, what what the fuck
are you talking about? That?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Dave was going around creeping in all the college dorm
windows and making sure they were watching AW that week.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
They're like, are you looking at the girls? He's like, no,
I'm looking at their TV. I want to know what
they're watching on TV.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Hot sorority girls hitting each other with pillows, and Dave's like,
but are they watching Dynamite?
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Move the fuck out of the way. I'm trying to
on TV. There's these girls and they're like making They're
like making out with each other, and he's like trying
to crook his neck around the things, like move out
of the way. I'm glad you girls are trying to
(40:31):
find yourselves, but I need to know what quarter three
is doing on the HBO though. Yeah, dude, who gives
who gives little little drip of piste about any of this?
I mean, I got the HBO go, like I said,
because it was fucking five bucks with ads, and I'm like, Okay,
I'm sure I'll find something that I'll enjoy on this.
(40:54):
I'm like, I watch old episodes of The Sopranos and
they're random documentaries that I like and ship and I
think HBO goes, oh no, because they put that because
once again streaming shit. I'm sitting there and going, oh,
did they put all their sports documentaries? I'm like, no,
I think those are on ESPN Plus. Wait are those
on ESPN Plus? No? I think they might be on
Disney Plus? Are they on Disney Plus? Now it's fucking
(41:15):
just just this complete, big circle. But it all really
comes down to Netflix or bust. Really, yeah, we'll get
the fuck out of here. Keep that cup flight I Goldburn,
I don't even know what that was.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
But I personally and I don't know anything about the
subject or I don't know about the situation seth Rollins gets.
Speaker 8 (41:40):
Hurt whom how many way ways
All of their issues are months out of date, so
I don't know where the fuck Eddie got this list from,
but clearly it's after October.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's probably November, but nothing in November, right, well, because
the July November has leaked, right, November is leaked, but
the July issue just covered WrestleMania.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh god, and when.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Was WrestleMania in April? The beginning of April, middle of
April nailed it right on.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Time, Right is the time that right as people are
really feeling that WrestleMania spirit.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know, if you're ever in trouble and you're drowning,
don't call the PWI hotline. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Don't get back to you when you're in your next
life basically at that places. Yeah, they'body scooping you out
at the bottom of the pool when you're an ooze.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
M h yeah, because their October issue is all about
Tony Storm.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Oh yeah, even though she just had like oh Chelsea yeah, yeah,
by that time, who knows what the fuck Chelsea Green
will be doing like that. And this isn't me being like,
oh she's gonna get hurt ha ha ha, but like,
who knows, maybe she'll be the champion. You know, she'll
(01:54):
get the belt back to the United States Belt. Maybe
she'll be off television. Who knows they even call it
West Champ. I'm thinking in by October she might have
be world champ. You don't even fucking know. Yeah, truly,
I mean when you think about it, and you know,
this isn't a common occurrence. It's not like people get
hurt as bad as that did, you know, all the
time or nothing. But who's to say you don't have
(02:18):
some bullshit throwaway match on a SmackDown where you send
out you know, well, Naomi's on rob but you know
what I'm saying, Well, you send out Naomi against against Chelsea,
Naomi fucking you know, lives her shoulder or something, and
then they're like, well, well Chelsea's the champion now, who knows.
Like that's why you can't really back catalog wrestling shit
(02:41):
unless you're sort of talking about stuff off the path,
you know what I mean. Like I've been thinking because
like I was talking to the other night about I'm
going to be away for four fucking WWE shows because
I'm gone for five days or something, and I'm like, well,
maybe I should try to record some stuff, and then
I like, I have to really think about ideas for
(03:01):
something because fuck all, Like I could be like, well,
here's the summer Slam card and then they had three
more matches. Oh are they never having an old list?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Because I'm looking, I'm looking for this and the first
thing that pops up is the twenty twenty four issue.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Oh okay, oh my god it is.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The women's No because Naomi's number one. Oh oh top
ten list for the week. Oh now I'm ready, Yeah,
full thing.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Well, thanks Eddie. That's very different.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, I'm like, wait a minute. The PWI Women's two
fifty comes out in January. I'm like, do we just
get next year's January is late?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Like we're gonna see that next Nothing else will happen
between now and then, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
That'll actually go up stil next April.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Come on? Yeah right, No, my god, that is so
fucking dangerous for them to do that. It really is,
because you truly do never know, right, it's between obviously,
life happens, injuries happen. It's wrestling. You know, you never
know who the fuck's going to be over in three months.
You can't be like, oh, well, let me tell you
(04:07):
who's the biggest fucking star of the How do you
know that? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You brought up a great point, and I think I
think they've been caught on this before. What happens when
somebody dies? Do they just print about them four months later?
And I'm like, I think I've seen that happen before,
and I think they do. Like the editorial like like
there's usually like a single page that they leave blank
in case of like in case shit happens, and that's
(04:32):
when they'll fill it in with like, oh, by the way,
this happened currently at this time, blah blah blah, because
the news moves so fast in the wrestling world.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Joe, it's FYI this person is is a fucking pile
of dust. Now Yeah, bray waat, why do you go money? Yeah,
I don't think they're going to have a big year.
I'm gonna say I all my predictions for them for
the next year, I'm gonna have to kind of, you know,
cross those out. Yeah, but no do It's it's so
(05:01):
fucking funny to me, and it's so bad because it
makes me think too, like what if we got a
handful of people together to write shit let's suppose wause
you know, we sure believe me. I don't think this
is the best idea in the world, but I just
we could do that. We could do that pretty easily,
you know, but it would have to be, Okay, what's
(05:23):
going on that month, what's going on that fucking week?
Like you'd actually kind of have to put the screws
to people and beyond them, because, like I said, it's
just it goes so fucking quickly.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't think they have to be as late as
they are. So when you look at it from the
angle of the editor, right, there's a lot of things
that play here. First off, the interviews. A lot of
those interviews. The reason that they take four months is
because they try to collect all the interviews that they
can and then shove it into their magazine, have the
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picks and everything else like that. And then once you
have everybody else that turns in their homework because that's
basically what it is, then you have to send it
off to the illustrator. Then you have to set it
off to the printers, and then you have to go
through distribution. So there's like there's a lot of stages
to this, which I think there was this great invention
(06:15):
that they created called the Internet where people could just
post that shit directly themselves online and you don't have
to wait for a paper version of it four months.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Later, right, right, This shit happened so fast that that
guy that got caught at the cold Play concert, his
wife probably fucking oh got home from work.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
He had ninety days to go to Argentina. If that
was in a magazine, he could have broke up with her,
divorced her, sold the house, right, had everything.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
He could have had all his shit squared in the
time if that had been in a magazine and not
on the internet, right, yeah, oh my god. By the way,
like I mentioned that to you last night and I'm
still kind of laughing about it, and I was talking
to talking to Missus about it last night when I
got off the show. Where it's like the way that
that guy got caught cheap For those who don't know,
I mean, it's a big viral story of this guy
(07:10):
got caught hugging on some chick at a fucking cold
Play concert and he he straight up corpse dude.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He should have just no souls. Yeah, that's what I
was thinking too. I'm like, why did you even act
like that. You were just hugging on her. It wasn't
like he was finger banging her and shit.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
No, no, I could have just been like, oh, I'm
hugging her and then you know, somebody there saw him
and talk said to the wife, Hey, what are you doing.
He'd be like, ah, I was drunk and you know whatever,
blah blah blah. He could kind of play that off,
but just selling it.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, well they she turned around first, which was the worst.
It's like a lady, you have a horrible poker face.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah you yeah, But that was dude. That was so
funny to me because, like I said, not only did
this guy just completely sell himself to fuck out, but
also in like I was talking to Missus about this,
this guy at that point just fucking get a divorce.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, you're romance cheating at that point. There's a big
difference between hey, you know, and by the way, I'm
not like Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Caught it a Gwar concert versus right, there's a Coldplay concert.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, Oh god, dude, there's a there's a difference between like, oh, hey,
some chick that I work with, you know, we have
a sexual tension and you know, she sucked me off
in my Mazda Miata at break or something as opposed
to like I'm taking you to a fucking cold Play
concert to hug and sing songs like Jude. That's a
you're you're dating that person. That's a relationship. That's a
(08:44):
romantic you know, whether you realize it or not, whether
you what is the you know, what.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Is the line? What is the line that you could
get away with a romantic band versus a non romantic band,
Like would would Creed be considered a romantic band?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Honestly, misch, I think just about any concert if you're
taking somebody to go well, I mean obviously like I'm
gonna go take her to go see like fucking cattle
decapitation or something. Yeah, well that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Like if if you took a if you took a
girl to a weird l concert, I know he's gonna
be like, oh well, clearly they're fucking.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah right, and they're like, man, what fucking look at
these briggs. Get a room all there to be horny.
You know, somebody's living in a pussy paradise. No, dude,
you gotta be you gotta be kidding me with this
whole you know. Oh, well the guy, you know, he
didn't you know, he didn't think da da da da. Man,
(09:45):
you took her to go see like a sissy fucking
you know, lovey dovey band, right, I mean I get it.
I know they're kind of like the Apple Store music
now they're like the official generic fucking musak band whatever.
But that's that's very different. Like I said, this isn't
just people, you know, trying to get a fucking room
(10:08):
at the Red roof to fuck. That's the difference there, right,
you know. Yeah, And that's like and that that makes
complete sense if you think about it.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Well, yeah, I guess I'm just kind of confusing the
layers of it. Right, So dedicating a certain band to
a romance band and getting caught there versus getting caught
at a Sillier concert or a death metal or something
that really wouldn't be immediately jumped to the conclusion of yeah,
they're fucking is interesting to me because I don't know
(10:39):
if it was that, because I think even still the
guy and that girl could have gotten away with it
by saying they were shy, oh we don't want to
be on care oh geez, why are you putting us
on camera? We enjoy the music, But like, I think
the fact that he he was open about it, right,
didn't he have some kind of comment or something like that?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And well, supposedly the guy released a statement, but it's
like ninety percent sure that was a big fucking work,
you know what I mean, Like it was meant to
be a meme or whatever. Oh the comma was fake, okay,
all right? Yeah. Also it's it's only funnier to me too,
because the guy is I guess some sort of CEO
of a company, so he has some sort of bigger
(11:22):
job within the company, and I guess they were there
for a work thing and everything. I'm like, man, this
is just talk about just saying, hey, you don't what
go fuck everybody? Fuck off? You know what I mean?
You're smooching on And I guess she was like an
HR woman that worked there too, like work, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You got in trouble doing non HR things with an
HR lady. Oh you are going to hell, sir, dude.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
How about just this load? And like, I'm not one
of these people that's always like, oh, you know your
job and you gotta fucking be this way or that
way for your job or blah blah blah. But how
are you gonna be somebody that works in that department
there and telling you being like, oh well, I mean,
I don't know about that. It's like, dude, you're fucking
(12:09):
a married guy and smooching it that works here and
smooching them out at the company picnic, like you're gonna
you're gonna tell me what I'm doing? Is you know
what I mean? Like, that's maybe this is not the
department for you at that point, working in fucking HR
banging the fucking boss that's married.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I didn't see their pictures up like that, Thanks Brady,
Brady one throws it up there. It's Andy Byron and
Kristin Cabo Cabot Cabot Cabot Cabo Chris Kristen. Fucking that's
only better because that's a very famous brand of cheese.
I don't know if you guys got Cabot cheese, but
(12:51):
we get cab It over here. That's only I go
to Wisconsin and then it's all dry.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe she'll fall back on her
family's cheese.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
And picture is awful of both of them. Yeah, I
mean she looks like Brett Hart. He looks like Goldberg
and she looks like Brett Hart.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
What is that? Well, no, dude, that's an actual A
Oh I thought that was really dumb. Look at me.
If they looked if they looked that bad, I think
people would wouldn't even they'd be like, all right, whatever,
they're just homely. They wouldn't sell it. Those ugly people. Yeah,
(13:32):
why we got why we gotta make it harder on
these ugly people to find love?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Fuck it? Show me the AI version of Breton Golder.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, oh my god, yeah there was one day. Oh
my god, did you see the one where somebody made
it with with Page and Brad Mattens. It's classic. It
put all three of them together. I'm like, yep, there
we are. And the Internet always provides, doesn't it. That
was the second picture?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Did make that picture? Or has that been floating around too?
Because I missed the bretton Goldberg one.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
That's great, No, that's that's fantastic. But by the way,
speaking of Goldberg, oh, did you there's now because I
talked too loudly about him near my phone or something.
I don't know. I've gotten like six things suggested by it.
What's his name? That the guy I'm forgetting his name
from busted open the boy, He's goy O Greca. Greca
(14:29):
was not pleased either, And it was really funny watching
Tommy Dreamer try to not try to not have too
much of an opinion on it. I don't know if
you saw that video yet.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
No, no, I haven't pull it up real quick.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Dreamers just kind of sitting there like, yeah, I could
do this all day. Like there's a point in where
he's like, I could do this little day. Oh god,
eighteen minutes Jesus, really, Joe, Yeah, oh no, I'm not
telling you to watch the thing. Oh I thought you
it was a clip. I didn't realize it was the
whole sh Oh. I'm sure there's clips. I'm sure there's
(15:02):
abbreviated ones hanging around if somebody has one shots it
in there.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But let me start it off because I'm kind of curious.
I like Dave for a few reasons, but yeah, he
gets heated lately.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I was in a great mood yesterday.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Got to see him by my daughter, got to spend
time with my beautiful wife. Everything happened that I wanted
all birthday wishes all candles were blown out and wishes
came true. The biggest wish, of course, is Pro Wrestling
Nation twenty four seven. That big did the dream a
lot to celebrate yesterday until about nine oh five. Okay,
(15:36):
that's when I get a phone call from.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
A producer amor PM PM, nine five PM, nine o
five am.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Then I couldn't have had that great of a birth
like nine oh five.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
If it was nine oh five am, you had a
great birthday because the chances are you started it at
twelve oh one, which is great.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Oh fucking it up, dude, right air nine oh five
am yesterday.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Why is he so red faced? He looks like fucking
brother loving this clip? He does. But maybe he got outside,
got some sun. You know, it's the season, man.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
He's a nine five PM from Paul, our producer. Now,
I was a little out of pocket yesterday because it
was my birthday, was.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Celebrating with my family.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
So I got home like four minutes before Paul called me.
So I'm I put on NXT. I'm catching up on NXT.
We'll get into NXT because NXT was very good last night.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
We'll get into NXT.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
And Paul says to me, Hey, have you watched the
Ariahjuana interview with Goldberg? And I said, you know what,
I saw some things like, you know, like on my
twitter feed and everything, but I haven't obviously I hadn't
had a chance to watch it.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
He goes, I think you should, so I watched.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I love that Tommy Dreamers just sitting there picking his ears,
just picking the wax out of his ears this entire time.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Tommy, remember, legitimately, when he's on these shows, every time
I see him, it looks like somebody has a nest
cam on an old dog, Like the old dog is
in the bed and they're just making sure it doesn't
fucking die. I just you get the camera on it.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Tommy Dreamer looks like he's at the corner of the
guest bedroom. He doesn't even have a full camera set up,
just the corner of a guest bedroom with some shelves
on it and some toys on it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
The bule is like, you're not taking away the kid's
toys room, right, you gotta go in there and just
film your podcast over there in the corner. And he's like, oh, right,
I'll go in. Maybe that's where they threw his big
dog bed It's just like a random corner from the
citing that makes sense. Instigated this on your Break.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
As soon as I got off the phone with Paul,
I watched it, like I stop watching NXT because I
can always go back and watch it. But I was
very interested in the Goldberg interview with Ario and Aria Hawani.
I'm a big fan of great guy, and I'm gonna
say this for the record, and I love to get
Ario Hauane on because that had to be the easiest
interview that he It was like he was interviewing a child.
(18:12):
And when I say that, and you know when you
talk to a child, Tommy, like you know when the
child is lying, because you could see it on his face,
like like all right, yeah, this kid is just every
and then the truth comes out that happened in quick
like Goldberg see it look like the most.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Miserable human being on the face of the yard. He
just had his retirement career match three days earlier, where
everybody's praising it talking about wow, man exceeded expectations.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
It was great.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
And I'm expecting this Arieljwane sit down to be kind
of like just pats on the back and great and
awesome and what a way to go.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Out and all.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
He was exactly the opposite, and I mean Goldberg complained
about everything and then did the whole why don't mean
to complain like, I'm not complain?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (19:04):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
You don't mean?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
What are you talking about that you don't want to complain?
You're oh, you're complaining, you can't complain, and then say, well,
I'm not complaining. You just complain. You can't complain. And
then to say I'm not complain.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
You got complaining. It's such a good I'm not saying, come,
don't complain, but you're complaining. And then you're saying that
you're not complaining, but you are complaining.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I like Dave Dave. Dave's a funny guy. Sometimes he's
good energy, but.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I he he's ship dude. It's he's pretty rough on Goldberg.
I'm telling you, man, you're you're giving him so much core. Nah.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
That's the problem is I think people are thinking that,
and it's like, no, man, if you guys listen what
I'm saying. I'm more upset at the play because that's
why we did the whole swap out with Booker t.
I'm like if that was Booker T and people and
WWE treated Booker T that way, wouldn't people be pissed
off about that? Like that's my whole dance. I openly
(20:13):
admitted multiple times Bill Goldberg, as it's heard, I get that.
I'm not upset with that at all. I think they
didn't think in foresight, and obviously I brought up the
Gunther streak and a few other things. I think that
WWE dropped the ball as far as maximizing the value
of Goldberg. But then again, there's other people like Steven
(20:34):
Richards that said why didn't Goldberg do shit? And it's like, well,
that's a great fucking point too. So through and through
the whole Goldberg thing still falls on the shoulders of
Goldberg as well. But I really think that the way
that WWE held everything was just shitty. It was shitty.
And yeah, maybe it's because WWE is a company has
a gear to grind, you know, has as has problems
(20:59):
with Olderg and it's like that's I get that too.
But then if he really didn't want to honor his
commitment with Vince, why fucking even do it? Why even
waste everybody's time and do it anyways that.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
It's funny that you say that too, because Magreca's pretty
fucking tough on Goldberg in this instance, and Dreamer has
some good points, like I said, even though he looks
like he's struggling to stay awake. But I don't think
anybody has shit on this harder or been more conspiratorial.
There was a whole chill son in thing too, chill
(21:34):
Son and went on a thing where he's just like,
let me tell you, I'm pretty damn sure that this
whole thing was them to fuck with Goldberg. Like he's
like he's like he wanted to let them know, or
like they wanted to let Goldberg know that he ain't shit.
And I was like, all right, yeah, chaill jail definitely
fucking Oh no.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
He's like he's a straight shooter for sure. He definitely
says what he feels. Look, once again, my real platform
isn't about I got to come to the defensive Bill Goldberg.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Believe me, it's not.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I'm just underneath the guise of if they're gonna do
this to Goldberg, they're gonna do this to everyone and anyone,
and it's just it's a bad light. Look, we got
John Cena's retirement coming up in a couple months, right,
that's right around the corner, Like, what's gonna happen there?
We haven't seen him in a few weeks, which is fine,
(22:28):
John Cena could take another month off or so. But
if they don't fucking get this story by the rains,
they're gonna make his retirement look like shit too. Are
they just gonna cut him off the middle? And I
heard the responses to that, Well, they cut him off
of the middle because it's NBC. NBC does what NBC does.
I'm like, that's fair. Then who booked fucking Goldberg to
(22:48):
be in a fifteen minute match?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Well, there's a question that I thought was raised pretty
good too at one point, was that how much of
that time that got eaten up? Is also them trying
to figure out what they're gonna do with Seth Because
at that point, when he's sitting there and he's in
the corner, it's like, Okay, we don't know how much
longer that match was gonna be, right, we had no
idea what they were gonna do with that. But he's
(23:13):
sitting there, they're thinking about it. They're communicating with everybody.
Ella Knight's kind of just sitting there with his put
in his hand, and you're like, okay, well, how much
time was eaten up by them having to rework everything?
You know? And what's unfortunate is and I think this
goes back to, once again, what a fucking turd Bill
Goldberg is is. I could almost see Goldberg sitting back
(23:35):
there being like, they get that guy out of the ring.
Yet they get him out of there. Come on, we've
got things to do, Like he said, he is a
fucking dickhead dude. Like that's I think it kind of
always goes back to that, like where you would hope
wwe would do something I guess for people. And yes,
(23:56):
the Undertaker's last match was him against Asia Styles in
like a silly cinematic match, Like that's what the Undertaker
got right during COVID in front of fucking nobody, in
front of fucking yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
We did the fucking YouTube video where instead of coming
out to whatever the music was, he came out the
fuck music. We had dan Zig, We played a whole
bunch of song tracks underneath there, and.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
That was the Undertaker's last right And it's like Goldberg
even said in that interview that he did with Aaron Jjuani,
where he's just like, you guys wouldn't treat you know,
Undertaker like this, or you wouldn't treat Bubba Bah. Which,
first of all, I really have to point out the
fact that like in the world of WWE and their fandom,
he is not even close to the to the level
(24:40):
of those guys. No, the regular WWE fan does not
see Bill Goldberg and think he's the same thing as
John Cena. I not even fucking close. I agree. So
that's where even in his mind he's like, you treat.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Goldberg as a narcissist. Goldberg is a genuine narcissist, right,
There's a lot of them in wrestling, But Goldberg is
an exceptional narcissist because he's a two sport narcissist. And
you know what I mean, He's like Bo Jackson of narcissism, right,
if Bo Jackson was also a wrestler. So, but Bo
(25:16):
Jackson's actually nice. So I don't even know if that's
a good comparison.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Gold nose sucking his own dick.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, but the problem was the execution of it. And
let's pretend that Shale someone is right and WWE did
all this just to fuck with a jew, fuck with Goldberg.
I don't know if that was necessary. Why waste the
time and energy on that, Why do anything at all
because I wanted to embarrass him in front of a
(25:43):
few people. I just don't I don't understand the laugh
track behind that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think you kind of nailed it right, and it
was something funny enough. As you're mentioning this, it was
shit that I'm remembering from what Sun was going on about.
He said, you know what, it was probably never even
about the retirement for WWA, which makes sense. He goes, well,
how do you get a narcissist to show up and
do something? You convince them it's about them. So you
(26:11):
have him come in, You tell him, oh, it's for you,
the whole pomp and circumstance, blah blah blah. All it
was really for was to have Gun there be able
to beat him. Yeah. So and you think about it
and you go, oh, well, that's kind of but truly,
that is what you have to do. If you were
a company and you were trying to bring in somebody
that you know is just totally fucking in love with themselves,
(26:35):
you have to be like, oh my god, we have
such a great idea for you. You're not gonna believe
what we have for you and for me, Oh yeah,
it's all for you. But that's elaborate. Anybody else that.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Is such an elaborate fuck you that they could have
just literally fucking told him fuck you and slammed the
phone down.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
That's show business, baby. They wanted him in. They wanted
him in to sell some tickets.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Nobody, which I mean, probably sold a couple of tickets,
but nobody was buying that shit ass shirt. Nobody was
walking out with the ratfink fucking narcissistic Goldberg head on
the car.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I honestly, God, if you're still fucking de Lulu enough
in the year of twenty twenty five to like Bill Goldberg,
you probably bought that stupid shirt. Oh my god, you
probably thought that shirt was cool.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
That's fucking okay, And ourgo in the chatta saying you
think WWE is above an elaborate fu that smells like
Vince McMahon. Shit, though, doesn't it doesn't that feel like
more of a Vince thing than a Triple H thing.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
At the end of the day, he was still his
sens a sir ah, maybe yeah, he learned to learn?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Is that what it is? He's he's picked up the
fucking the the Darth Maul sword or whatever the fuck
it was.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Yeah, you must grab this rock from my hand. Name
is Dwayne and he is also a narcissist cinemark for himself.
I said sword whatever, same shiit saber sword? Fuck? Well,
I can tell you, dude, either way, I'm about ninety
eight percent sure that that's now a complete burnt bridge
for the guy.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Anyway, Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what are they gonna do?
Ask Goldberg to come back one more time and then
do it again?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
What is he?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Charlie Brown and w w e is fucking my god?
I forgot her name too, peppermin now Pepper Lucy Yeah whatever,
that's a different I know, like a.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Pepper by pepperdrowk Paddy. But the Goldberg, dude, I gotta
tell you, is at this point him saying like, oh,
don't worry, I'll be able to spill the beans in
two weeks. I don't know if you heard all of
this Areajwani interview too? Yeah, so pretentiously terrible. I'll tell you, man,
(29:00):
I did some research this morning because I'm sitting there
and I'm going, Okay, we had a good conversation about
the Goldberg thing, and I was like, well, I need
to know more about it because I'm kind of basing
it off of the handful of things that I heard
and let me go into it and to just hear
him be like, well in two weeks, I'll tell you guys,
like the real story too. It's like, what your princess
(29:23):
fucking cut it out? Oh, he's a sixty year old man.
He's just doing the wrestling bit at that point. He's
trying to stretch this right. That's that's what he's doing.
He's probably gonna have it on his podcast that has
more commercials than ours. Does I love it? Which is
(29:45):
just a reminder once again go to patreon dot com.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, the people that actually listen to the episode on
Spotify and shit, yesterday, I have no clue what went
on with the placement of ads to They had four ads,
four ad breaks in the first I want to say
twenty minutes, which is fucking insane because I went back
(30:11):
and I looked at it and then there was like
a thirty minute break of nothing, just straight show and
then the ad started up again, and this weird, like
every five minutes there's an AD break, and then it
just ends the show after that with like another stretch
of show. It's almost like they forgot to separate the
ad breaks and they just jumbled them all together. I
(30:32):
don't know what the fuck happened.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Which is kind of funny in a way though, because
people like, there's so many of these and it's like, well,
if you knew that they all were up front and
then you didn't have to deal with them anymore, that's
not too bad. I would be perfectly fine with that
as a model for anything that has ads on it,
where it's like, listen, you got five minutes at the
beginning of the thing, you're gonna watch ads, and then
you don't got to worry about it for the next hour.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
But that's the sponsor's decision. That's you know what. Look,
I see people saying speakers bad speakers run through clear channel.
My dude, that's iHeartRadio. So that's those are radio people
and sponsored people that are picking those those those spots
on the show. I don't know. I think this time
it might be an automation issue, because we've never had
(31:15):
that before. We've never had it where all right, guys,
the first thirty minutes of this show is gonna suck,
because I mean, if that's the case, I'll just start
fucking playing instrumental ai music for a half hour, get
everybody through that, and it's like, okay, now you can
listen to the show.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
You know, I would just get up through all just
start at thirty two minutes. Yeah right, I dude, I
don't know. I just find it really funny at this
point too, where people, you know, there's ads on it, Dude,
they're just they're jamming them into fucking everything now and
long long ones at that. That's why, like I said,
(31:51):
I got the Netflix and Max thing through my phone
and it was like ten dollars a month for both
of them. But there's ads on it. I'm like, I'm
so used to fucking's being all over Netflix our YouTube anyways,
Like I don't care.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Oh YouTube is brutal. I looked at our Evolution post show.
Maybe I think I even said this yesterday. I don't
know if I said it on the air off the air,
but during the Evolution show, I looked at all the
ad breaks. It was literally an ad break every four minutes,
three and a half minutes. And it's crazy because that's
what YouTube throws in there. And it's like people complain
about our shows on Spotify or Speaker iHeart, and it's like, dude,
(32:29):
don't even go to YouTube unless you have a blocker
or you're paying for premium. You are gonna get slammed,
slammed with fucking ads.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I don't know. But there's also I don't know. I
think there's also a point of it too where I
just don't expect any of it to any of it
that's free. I don't expect it to work. Well yeah, no,
I I still have that. I still got that mindset.
I know that's like a you know, that's a dated
way of viewing things now, But in my mind, I'm like,
well how much should this cause it's nothing? Okay, well right,
(33:02):
what I paid for here? You know, like that's kind
of how this fucking goes, you know, That's that's how
that's gonna be. It's another story like for some people
where they spend fucking so much money, so much money
on random shit, Like I thought, the YouTube, what is
it like sixteen dollars for YouTube without ads? I'm like
you guys are really pushing it there. I know they're
(33:24):
trying to make it miserable enough that people will just
pay it, But nowadays that's like it's asking a lot
of people that are stretched it. You know.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
It isn't though, because they also give you music on there.
So while you guys pay separately for for fucking Spotify
and shit, if you get the YouTube Premium, we get
all your YouTube shit without commercials. You get the movies
for free without commercials.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Oh that's see.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
And you get YouTube music, which is pretty much every
fucking song on YouTube for free without commercials.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
So oh okay, that's the game that they that's how
they get you. It's like three and one. So yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
And if you get that YouTube is it YouTube bread
that actually gives you the TV so you get the
TV channels with it and shit too, and the NFL
packages and all that shit.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Dude, I can't. I can't follow all this anymore. It's
really so much. It is so cool. It's just called
YouTube TV. Okay, thanks, Ochy. And it's funny because you'll
say that people like okay, old man, and I'm just like, no,
it's it's just a fucking lot.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Oh yeah, they change it all the time, all the
fucking time.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
So well that was like for years, and I've bitch
about this with the with the hockey channel, the local one. Yeah,
for years they were like, yeah, it's on Netflix or
not Netflix, it's on Nessen. So if you have basic
cable you get all the hockey in the Red Sox games.
And you're like, all right, cool, that's that's reasonable, right,
And they were like, well, if you don't have cable,
then you can also get it on YouTube TV. And
(34:44):
it's like all right, well, that's that's not bet either.
It's like, yeah, now it's on Sling and you're like,
all right, cool, so you got some options you can
go do it now. They're just like no, no basic cable,
no Sling, no YouTube, thirty more dollars a month and
you're like, you think people are gonna fucking pay? Well,
it's even crazier. Ro teams that suck right now, Like
it gets.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Even crazier when you're trying to measure that up internationally too.
Oh yeah, Like we're just talking about the problems of
having American TV. Then the international people have to go
through all of our crap half the time. Let alone
try and get a VPN so that they can pretend
they're from Gotham City, Illinois or some shit, you know.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Right, Oh, for the luxury of being able to watch
a TV show that's probably not even that good to
begin right, you know what I mean? Like it, I
don't know. I'm just glad at this point that now
I have the I have Netflix, and I'm just using
it actively and I'm able to use that for the
WWE because it is fucking it is helpful.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah, oh yeah, if you're watching it through a VPN,
that's the only way to watch it now, because you
get smacked down, you get raw, you get NXT. I
don't have to go to the seat w app. I
don't have to go to the Peacock app. You could
just watch all all the pay per views are on Netflix.
Like WWE in the US is a giant pain in
the ass.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
But I say that.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
And Netflix just reported that to their second quarter of
twenty twenty five on Thursday, that their earnings have gone
to eleven point oh seven billion in revenue for April
to June, which is sixteen percent up from last year,
and yeah, which was higher than what they were expecting.
The growth their projected revenue growth of fifteen percent was
(36:22):
seven point oh three, but they actually made eleven point
oh seven billion, so good for them. And WWE was
mentioned on there. They were saying that they basically they said,
what was it, Squid Games was the number one show,
the fastest growing show the season three that happened in
this previous quarter blew the roof off, and it's like, yeah,
(36:43):
no shit, everybody was waiting for that, the depreciation of
the dollar. Sorry, I'm trying to scam to it.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yeah, no, I'm just like, I don't I've never watched
Squid Games. I just know it's massively fucking popular. It's
not bad.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Season three was kind of a letdown for me, but
it's not bad.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
It's kind of just like the The whole thing is
just basically Battle Royal, right, like that movie.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Yeah, that's a nice way to put it. There was
actually a Japanese show that that happened before that that
they stole all their ideas from. I forgot what it
was called. Yeah, they they And that was a Netflix
show too that they stole it from. Yeah, Hunger Games
is on there, but it's a little more violent than
Hunger Games. I don't know, but w.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I always thought Hunger Games was just PG thirteen Battle Royal,
and I thought that was supposed to be for young adults.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Right, Yeah, but WWA has like a few million hours
of view time in this past quarter, so like that
was the big thing. Where you know, Aw's talking about
all the the hundreds of thousands and millions of people
that are watching on the on the app. Here's Netflix saying, well,
the only reason we fucking made it is because WWE
has millions of hours since they've showed up in January,
(37:51):
millions of hours of viewership.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
So well, dude, there's still are they still hiding the
fucking Epstein five, I mean the HBO Go numbers? Yeah,
still being hidden they are? Yeah? Aw, Yeah, that's Aw's
Epstein files, isn't it. At this point it kind of
feels like, right.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
It's one hundred and eighty million viewing hours, thank you, casuals.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yes, someday we'll release the numbers on how many people
are watching HBO Go, you know what I mean? And
do you think Tony Khan's going to just be like
this was a big fabrication? Cee him Punk wrote all
those numbers down before he left.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
What do you think that, how do you we're gonna
get that would be hilarious if they just started blaming
the young bucks. Now that they're not EVPs anymore, the
numbers all start slipping.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Dave Meltzer right after all in said that's aw did
five hundred and eighty eight thousand, a point one five
last night, and that was the first place on cable
And that number doesn't include the millions they got on
HBO Max.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Oh my god, Yeah, did he really say that? He
didn't say millions, but knew a men. Well, the sad
thing is is you never know anymore. Yeah, let's see.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
He said that. The follow up was, we don't really know.
Low end estimate was eight hundred and eighty five thousand
more high end one point one million.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Yeah, come on, come on. There's nothing funnier to me
at this point where now we just have like supposed
Ratings're like, well, we supposed it would be about that much.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Well, this is like when he pulled that college number
out of his ass that Oh yeah, fucking Dave.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Well, you know, sometimes people just leave their TVs on,
or sometimes people log in with their parents, like Netflix
accounts and You're just like, dude, what what the fuck
are you talking about? That?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Dave was going around creeping in all the college dorm
windows and making sure they were watching AW that week.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
They're like, are you looking at the girls? He's like, no,
I'm looking at their TV. I want to know what
they're watching on TV.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Hot sorority girls hitting each other with pillows, and Dave's like,
but are they watching Dynamite?
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Move the fuck out of the way. I'm trying to
on TV. There's these girls and they're like making They're
like making out with each other, and he's like trying
to crook his neck around the things, like move out
of the way. I'm glad you girls are trying to
(40:31):
find yourselves, but I need to know what quarter three
is doing on the HBO though. Yeah, dude, who gives
who gives little little drip of piste about any of this?
I mean, I got the HBO go, like I said,
because it was fucking five bucks with ads, and I'm like, Okay,
I'm sure I'll find something that I'll enjoy on this.
(40:54):
I'm like, I watch old episodes of The Sopranos and
they're random documentaries that I like and ship and I
think HBO goes, oh no, because they put that because
once again streaming shit. I'm sitting there and going, oh,
did they put all their sports documentaries? I'm like, no,
I think those are on ESPN Plus. Wait are those
on ESPN Plus? No? I think they might be on
Disney Plus? Are they on Disney Plus? Now it's fucking
(41:15):
just just this complete, big circle. But it all really
comes down to Netflix or bust. Really, yeah, we'll get
the fuck out of here. Keep that cup flight I Goldburn,
I don't even know what that was.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
But I personally and I don't know anything about the
subject or I don't know about the situation seth Rollins gets.
Speaker 8 (41:40):
Hurt whom how many way ways
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