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A little bit different. Programming for you today. If you are a normal Winklerverse listener and you're on the podcast and you're thinking, oh, he's going to talk some brewers or Some bucks or the draft, none of that on this episode. This is a WrestleMania night one recap. For Saturday night.
So if uh If this is not of your persuasion, We'll talk to you on Monday with Carlos. If it is, let's talk some WrestleMania. Uh, not a good show overall on night one. I think that. The wrestling For what it was.
Um was Fine to God. Acceptable to good. It wasn't the wrestling that was the problem. I do think in my head a little bit about How, and especially when I get um happy place hemped up 25 off promo code BART, and I watch wrestling. There's a wrestler who said if we don't do enough house shows, everything begins to look like a dance.
and how choreographed. Um Everything starts to look. Mike check one, two, mic check one, two. How choreographed everything starts to look. When I'm all happy, place M Dub, promo code bark, barked.
BART, 25% off. You really do see like the dancing nature to it. You really do see that. And I thought that, even though I am not hemmed up. Yeah.
I thought that in the first few matches, it was like, all right, there's a little bit of a. Choreography that we can see what they've planned to do. We can see what they plan to do.
So that that is That was weird in the beginning. And they were also short matches. I think. A lot of What you saw tonight. In terms of the pacing and the structure.
was they treated their pre-show, because the show, it's nine o'clock where I am. WrestleMania, I don't think has ended this early ever, but it also started early.
Well, if you're not used to that, Saudi Arabia next year, I don't know what fucking time that's going to start at. But it started earlier because they're trying to. Jam things onto the ESPN content. There was. An hour on ESPN two tonight, and an hour on ESPN.
On Sunday. And so they gave you the Usos and LA Night and then the Vision and Nice Show Speed.
Okay. And then they gave you another one: Fatu and Drew McIntyre. And if I'm trying to program WWE and saying, What can I put on? This first hour to get people hooked, I don't think that was the worst thing. I thought that made sense, I thought that was fine.
But then the rest of the night. The pacing was a little bit rough. There was not enough wrestling. Again, Logie says this: it was the lack of wrestling. There was not enough wrestling, and the wrestling that you got didn't feel like it was.
A bigger event. Just quickly through the matches. The Usos and I show speed and LA Night and the Vision felt like a pre-show match. That's what that felt like. It felt like a pre-show match.
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I decided not even to get up and go and do what I used to use as my studio after that. I was disappointed. Let me just, I'm just, I'm quickly just spitting through the matches quick. Go ahead. Because I thought the beginning things seemed a little choreographed.
The hour on ESPN, you can feel them jam that in there. Fatu going over Drew is fine. I wish that was ten minutes longer. Um, the tag match was actually kind of confusing having four tag matches for me. And then Paige, we could talk about that.
That was short. Becky versus AJ was short. Gunther and Seth Rollins short. Uh Liv Morgan and Vakir short. Cody versus Randy.
Was the only one that to me felt like an actual WrestleMania match. But overall, the show didn't feel like WrestleMania because, and I'm totally fine with like, obviously, we're brought to you by Carl's place, we're brought to you by Dan Shaney, we're brought to you by Happy Place Hemp. You understand that you need like, that's how it works. But WWE, there's not a turnbuckle that's not exposed. There's not a part of the ring that's not exposed.
I thought Bianca Belair's belly was going to be sponsored by Huggies. Kind of a joke I stole, and I just changed the sponsor. But so, overall, to me, Um Did not feel like a WrestleMania. Maybe this doesn't need to be a two-night thing. Obviously, there's too many commercials.
When they show commercials, and then like the ESPN app is like, all right, four more minutes of commercials. That's a bridge too far.
So there's pros, there's things we'll talk about that we like. But overall, I think the main complaint is that did not feel like a WrestleMania. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, man, right? Like, I was excited to watch it all day long, and uh. It just immediately felt like it was, like you said, just Monday Night Raw.
Felt like it was like an episode of SmackDown. Um the commercials That was an issue. Like what they should do, and like you said, I get it. But if you want to add, why not just have endorsements the way that they used to, right? Like, Here's your super soaker.
moment of the week right and they like cut to Cut to a scene of something, right? Like a, I don't know, like a video package. That's the other thing, there's no video packages. It's WrestleMania. I want to see a video package for Seth Rowlands and Gunther.
See, because for a while, if you were on Peacock Premium. Yeah, you could get that. But then, if you were on regular Peacock, you didn't. And I'm a cheapo.
So I was like accustomed to not seeing the packages. But then I guess they don't even bother making these anymore. Like, I saw somebody say, You put all five. By the way, hi, good to see you. And so Great to see you.
You um You put all this effort into, like, hey, Pat McAfee's here. I show speeds here. There's all these things that we're trying to bring you in. Here's our product. Oh, by the way, we're not showing you the story.
of why these two people are fighting to begin with.
So if I'm someone that's like Like, if I'm a Josh Pate, I saw his stupid ass tweet. I wasn't going to watch, and then McAfee's in. Oh, okay. But if I'm someone like that who's like not going to watch, and then I watch because of this, I'm watching Liv Morgan and Stephanie Vakir. I don't know these people.
I don't know why they're fighting. I don't know why I should care. I just and even for like me. Show me how we got here. How's that so?
I don't I don't understand the cutting out of that. Yeah, right. Like, I always like the video packages and uh Again, WrestleMania is supposed to feel big. Like, I never understood the complaint that it's too long. You know, then again, like.
I like I like professional wrestling. I used to like it a lot more than I do right now, but I mean I used to stay awake or get up early, I should say, for Wrestle Kingdom. New Japan Pro Wrestling, and that was two nights. Like, it could be two nights. I thought a couple of years ago.
Remember the first Cody Roman WrestleMania, the one where Cody loses? I thought as a two-night event, that was really good because night one. They had Owens and Sammy against the Usos. And they win, they go over.
So you think, like, oh, the next night now, Cody's going to win, then they throw that swerve. I thought that was like that was a really good main event for night one. Sh I mean shit like WrestleMania has been really good actually here for the most part the last decade. You had the KO Stone Cold match. Both, like I said, Cody Roman matches were really good.
Then you had last year. And that was a complete done.
So you would think that they would learn from that mistake, right? Like, that was a terrible show. This might have been even worse.
Now there were two really good matches. I thought that the Drew Fatu match, I thought that that was really good. I thought it could have been about 10, 15 minutes longer. Yeah, tell more of the story. That's the problem.
Right, yeah, and then Seth versus Gunther. Which shouldn't have been that shouldn't have even been a match. Like, Braun Breaker was ready. They said that they the reports were that they didn't want to rush into the storyline. Was he ready?
He sprinted 100 yards and missed a tackle. I also thought that they just totally messed that up, man. Like kicking Rollins out of the group and adding Logan Paul. Like, they like when Edge got kicked out of Judgment Day. Yeah, just have Seth is like a mouthpiece, right?
Like with Heyman. Or go away for a while. And then come back as the heel and continue to tell the story.
Now you're just. Rushing to get to Braun versus Seth already.
So I don't know. I mean, that was a really good match, though. I like both of those guys. But again, it could have been 10 minutes longer. I didn't understand why they were rushing through the entire thing.
I love the women's matches, but I thought that they probably should have split it up a little bit more between the two nights. Um because again like with that tag team match there was really no story like Paige just joins. Yeah, now if Paige if Paige is gonna win with Bree What about when Nikki's ready? Are they just gonna kick out Paige? I feel like that'll set up some sort of storyline there.
Again, man, like he just comes back and wins. I mean, I thought Triple H was like this master storyteller, right? Like the first couple of years, at least that first year. And now it's like they just completely. For example, like the main event, right?
I feel like they're completely just going to nix the story. Like they realize they saw the social media stuff. the internet wrestling community, anybody that really watches the product. And they're like, oh man, we screwed up again. Like the Travis Scott storyline.
Well, let's just throw this away because. Why does Randy Orton just immediately turn on Pat? Right, yeah, all right, so I want to get into that match. Like, really quick, it just seems like because they completely want to, like, they're like, oh my God, we had the perfect story. We had Cody versus Randy.
Um they told this story in the one video package that they had. And they're like, oh, we fucked it up.
So now let's get rid of Pat. But. It's like it never made any sense to have them then. We'll see. I mean, if there's anything that comes into fruition tomorrow, but I don't know, I feel like they're just like, oh, we screwed up, let's throw this away and let's start over.
Like, I feel like, dude. WrestleMania, and I get it's only night one. But like WrestleMania shouldn't end with Cody wins. That's a little bit of a swerve, so cool. Yeah.
But then Orton just picks up the title and hits him. Like, that's a raw. They wanted to do both. They wanted to do an ending for both. They wanted, here's the ending if Cody wins, but we're still going to give you the ending if Randy wins.
Like, WrestleMania should always be the end of a story. Like nobody likes Sammy, but like l you know, if he won the title or when Daniel Bryan won it. Cody wins it or Cody loses. It's like the end of a story, or story arc, at least. Instead, They're like, just going to start this whole thing over.
Now, Orton's even more evil because he kicks people again.
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Must be 21 plus. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Yeah, the the show, I think the show itself. Like normally in a WrestleMania.
You Okay. I mean, you're here, dude. You're fucking here. I don't I don't Whatever. No, it can stay in that little box.
Normally, in a WrestleMania, we're talking about, oh, he botched that shit, or that's a weird decision. You know, you're talking about the wrestling kind of stuff. This WrestleMania, the complaint is going to be the presentation of the show. Because the matches were too st short, so they couldn't tell the full story. I don't think the wrestlers are gonna.
I don't, I mean, there might have been like, was that a botch? Or, you know, that kind of stuff happens, but it wasn't egregious where it tanked a match. It was just, it was just too short.
So then you get to this. And like. I'll say this. I saw the general mascot was in the crowd, but who was the other mascot in the crowd? You only need like one commercial mascot in the crowd.
And then last night, the fucking gingerbread man was in the crowd, but that was all right. I kind of liked SmackDown better last night than I liked today's WrestleMania, honestly. But let me talk.
So, that last match, you're right, because there was a lot of backlash, especially to the Pat stuff. And then he comes out. And I'm not loving it. But at least they are still doing their story. Then He leaves jelly roll.
appears like fucking through a Doctor Strange portal. Where the fuck could have been anybody. Then he disappears back through, and then they actually fight. And you're like, okay, we're going to get the fight we wanted. Then Pat comes back out.
Yeah, why the fuck, first of all, doesn't he go one just go one, two, three? Why is he gonna come all this way in a rep and then still ref? Like, no, if you're gonna him over, fuck him over.
So, when he didn't hit three, I thought that was confusing. Then, Randy RKO's him, like you mentioned, which All right, satisfying, but then you're still punting Cody after, so it's not like. It's not like we're trying to present you as a good guy, and now are you bearing the McAfee story? Which was all over your shit. This is a completely different WrestleMania.
If it was on Peacock. Than if it was on ESPN. This is a completely different WrestleMania if Vince McMahon is running it for better or for worse than if TKO is. And I think people are like, It's going to go to McMahon, it's going to go to TK, all this stuff is fine. But when you start.
You start taking away more of the product, like sitcoms back in the day. You know why they don't have those two-minute credits? They don't have those anymore because the TV networks are like, oh, that's another 90 seconds we could have for commercials. If we just do a title card, WWE has already figured out how to jam commercials. Into their WrestleMania.
Now I do believe they are polling. Basically, if TKO ran the NFL. Quarters would be 12 minutes in the Super Bowl, so TKO could get three more minutes of advertising. I would rather WrestleMania be like what it used to be, where you just have like the legends come out, Stone Cold comes out, cuts a promo. You could do that and have him Mention um I don't know.
I didn't even, honestly, I couldn't even pay attention.
Now it's almost like an automatic piss break, or I get up to get something to eat. Um you know, you could get up and If you're, you know, hit up your supply of happy place hemp, you know, take a couple of gummies. But but that's my point though, right? Like. It's WrestleMania They shouldn't give you a reason to.
wanna walk away so much. I I just I I felt like I was watching Saturday night main event. That's what that felt like. I mean, like, for example, like, Again, like Becky and AJ, I just feel like I've seen that like 15 times. I mean, they should have just built it up and saved this for WrestleMania, but I've seen the tag match.
It was way too short. AJ's past her prime. I mean, she should have came back a couple of years ago. Becky Lynch doesn't really do it for me. I mean, she's great in the ring and whatnot, but I just think the whole storyline's kind of dumb.
So I didn't care about that match. The beginning. Again, like, I feel like the whole Logan Paul being involved, and even Austin Theory. It's just so stupid because You know, the vision got messed up with all the injuries.
So, um, I didn't really care for that one. It sucks that LA Knight can't find anything better for the guy to do because he was really over.
Now they've kind of just killed his momentum. And I thought he was feuding with the Usos for a while, and now he's just. Speed's hype, man? And I thought they were like teasing that Main event Jay or Jimmy, I can't even main event Jimmy. How do you like main event Jay Uso is leading off on ESPN 2?
Yeah, that I just that's that's a shitty way to lead off WrestleMania and just giving up WrestleMania for free. I don't know, man. Again, it just. It feels like Again, like, I I mean for true wrestling fans though, like, WrestleMania has always been a big spectacle and for the um like the casuals and and people that don't really watch the product, I guess. But if you're a real wrestling fan, I mean SummerSlam's always the better product.
We all, I mean, Royal Rumble is always great, but I don't know, man. Night one was a joke. I do think that Night Two has some serious potential. I was always um More excited for that one. I want to see.
I hope that they give Finn and Dom some time. I hope that's not like a 10-15-minute match because I want to watch that one. I'm a big Finn fan. Um, I don't remember the last match that he's won, so it should be pretty cool to. See maybe him go over in that one.
Uh I'm excited for the main event there. I do think that I do think that there's a chance that they throw a swerve maybe and Punk turns heel. Because again, man, Crossface Hausen says: what if Cody turns on Punk tomorrow? Inside was Roman in rock. I was thinking, I mean, there was the heel.
But but now, but I don't think so because they've already felt if you watched the end of SmackDown on Friday, Cody and Punk kind of had like a Goodbye to each other. And then, so it feels like one of them's going to lose the belt.
So we'll see what happens with punk. If there's more of this story, want to shout out Evil Badger for throwing five bucks to the show. WrestleMania was too bleeping predictable. For five bucks, you can just go ahead and say fuck. Or just for free, you can come on here and say draw the link.
Really quick, Bill makes the comment that my son played a Fortnite match between matches for what's that worth, for what that's worth. And that's my point, man. Like, I remember being Nathan's, my son's 12, right? And we watched this together. And at first, like, we're all into it.
And then, like, in the middle, and I don't blame him. He's on his iPad, and it's not even in between the matches. It's during, like, I remember being 12, 13. And it was like. Oh shit.
Undertaker's fighting Kane. We're finally getting it. Brother against brother. Oh, Sables coming. Did your kid watch with you?
Did he watch it? Yeah, but he was like, I mean, like, you know, We were both kind of. I was again, that's why I'm in bed already. I was like, okay, I want to talk about this. But like, I was like dozing off a little bit.
I drank a. like a mid-show coffee um because it was just I was like, this feels like a house show, kind of to me.
Well, I'll tell you, I want to tell you, my kid. I like always now that it's, it's kind of like Saturday Night Live and the late night shows where I just kind of like follow along with the shows through clips, but because the storylines just don't do it for me. And I don't know. Tonight just it again, I've said it a hundred times, but I don't I I it didn't um It didn't, yeah. I had to get an energy drink.
That's how I felt. My kid's locked into wrestling and he's at a birthday party. And, like, when I like, we'll watch brewers, we'll watch sports, we'll watch whatever we watch. But in wrestling, he like sits there in a stance and he's quiet. And then we got home from this party today and he's like I don't want to watch wrestling.
It's just like Rar SmackDown. And this is before the show, even. I'm like, no, come on, you got to watch this. I was worried for a second. Then he gets in, I turn it on, immediately, he's locked back in.
Like standing there in front of the screen. But the Rollins-Gunther match didn't excite him. And I think Because I feel like this product's geared for six years old right now. I do feel like he has. He is more into the stories that have stories.
And while Seth and Gunther might have been a good match, and they weren't going to go out there and try to not make it a good match. For him, it's like, why are these two people fighting? I don't care.
So he was off plane, he was doing wrestling matches with his. Dinosaurs. And I love how they try to like... Just throw some white bogus ass storyline together that Like, God bless Cole for trying to sell it. Yeah.
Even though I think his work has gone downhill the last couple of years, Michael Cole. He sounded sick today. But man, I love how all of a sudden he hates Pat now, too. But I They're like Gunther hates Rallins because He said he was ducking him when he had the title. Or because they fought one time nine years.
I don't know, man. It was, it was like, again, this could have been. It should have saved this. Um I I would have rather like they could have had honestly They could have had like Seth. Brought him back as the badass and had him go one on three against the entire vision.
What's left of him? And then, like, if he beats the city, because Neyman came out, is Bron still in the vision? Is he even in the vision? Because the vision was there, and Brock can come out. Heyman came out.
Is Heyman a part of the vision? I thought he said, fuck these guys. Like, I feel like I could have booked a better WrestleMania. What I would have done, man, if everybody was like hurt except for those guys, I would have had Seth. Here's what makes sense.
You have him against. All the guys that are left in the vision, and like the stipulation is if he beats them all, he gets five minutes. Locked in a cage or something with Heyman, and they have it like he's about to get it, and then you bring Breaker out and bring him back. And he, in you know, Heyman like pins Rollins or something like that, and you set up some heat for that match instead. Y it you know, and it was because they didn't have anything for Gunther to do, which why was he originally gonna fight Ray fucking Mysterio in the year 2026 anyway?
It didn't make any sense.
So I don't know. I don't know who's screwing it all up. If it's Triple H or if it's TKO, but. Combined, they're fucking up. the product enough to wear I don't know, I when I watch AEW, I'm like, this is much better, but There's just like so much going on, and there's like way too many wrestlers in AEW, too.
But I don't know, man. I was excited for tonight, and I just felt like they really for the second year in a row. Shit the bad. They're probably going to feel the pressure.
So tomorrow. Hopefully it's better, but... I don't know. I mean, tonight had some real potential, but terrible. Why are people shitting on my flat brim hat?
I'm a flat-brim hat guy. I've been telling you guys this. I'm a flat-brim hat guy now. I threw out the light hats that aren't flat-bred anymore. Yeah, but I mean I saw this one and it came flat brimmed so I just kept it.
Yeah. I'll buy non-flat brim, but I like the flat brim. I threw the link out. Logan's jumped on. Logan, a few minutes with Logan.
What's up? Nothing just like Reacting to the WrestleMania. And I think it's just been like. Kind of like a microcosm of what, like, the whole year has been for WWE. It's just been rough all around.
And like you guys talked about it. And I mentioned it at the top in the chat. It's like there just isn't wrestling anymore. If you watch Raw and you watch a SmackDown, If you like actually time it out, it's like you might see like 25 minutes of wrestling on a. Two two and a half hour show.
Yeah. These matches could have been better. They just didn't get the time to tell the story. And it's not like. It's not even like the time was for A band.
You know, I got upset when their band came, but they were just doing Becky's song.
Okay, it's not like. It's not like it's for a skit or for like Dan Hausen to come, you know, ride that blimp. It's just for commercials. It's just for commercials. That's it.
I think, really quick, guys, I think that the one way that they could save that weird ass ending to the main event. would be if You know how Cody was... Like, okay, so Stephanie McMahon comes out, 'cause this didn't really make any sense. And she has him get all fired up, and he's he's gotta pretty much be Randy Orton to beat Randy Orton. He has to Find his evil and dark side, right?
So he does that tonight.
So what if that was really like a double turn? Because... Right, like Randy listens to the voices and listens to the fans, and he's like, fuck McAfee, hits him with the RKO. And then Punts Cody. What if that was actually Randy, not turning heel?
But he's. Like you said, Bart, and like whoever in the chat said the same thing. Like, what if Cody tomorrow night? Cost pawn Gorkos reigns and Cody did a low blow. That's a heel move.
And they'd start like this TKO versus WWE thing. Yeah, but I don't have any interest in that. I just don't. And it's like Cody and Punk turns corporate. Or it's Cody and Rome.
But I think it would be Cody and Cody and Punk. Are the corporate like heels? Pumping a corporate shill could be. Interesting enough. And then you get Cody versus Roman, the last one, part three at Nex Mania, or whenever they want to do that.
That's how I think they saved this, if that's what we saw tonight. Because if not, it doesn't make any sense. It feels like they panicked and just threw Pat out. But maybe that was the whole thing. Like, you know, Randy was like, I don't need this guy.
He's turning into the good guy. Cody takes the shortcut. Maybe that's what we saw. I don't know. I was just kind of like stunned by the whole thing.
'Kay. Login? I think just like a lot of the reaction I see is like, I mean, obviously, blaming TKO and stuff like that, but like. As far as like the complaint is there's too many like celebrity like who are these streamers? Like, I'm sorry, like, I teach fifth graders.
Like, this is who it's for. Like, streamers are their celebrities. They're going to be involved. I don't even really care about that. Speeds, that was great.
And plus, he's awesome. Yeah, and like, he obviously has. Like it's it's insane what he can do without any kind of like. background but like It just feels like they do this short-sighted stuff.
So, like, when they come to the board, they can see, like, did you see how many Twitter engagements we had from the Pat McAfee thing? And, like, these are people who don't. No wrestling. They don't care. They do want to see engagements, just like with Travis Scott.
It's like, and I would argue, like. From maybe like 2021, 2022 to like... Before last year's WrestleMania was one of the best periods we saw in wrestling, probably since a couple periods. From Ruthless Aggression, maybe. Phase three of Marvel, and then ever since it's been phase four MCU.
Yeah, it's been ass.
So, I mean, and like, I. Have buddies who will like watch Mania or will watch The Rumble, and they're like, What the hell is going on? And, you know, you try to explain like that. Hey, actually, this was pretty good the last year. Not withstanding, but like I saw someone tweet: we had a nice run.
It's now embarrassing to admit you like wrestling again. Yep. Yep. We have, I mean, the pendulum has totally swung back. Yeah.
All right, Logan, anything else? I'm going to let you go. Shout out RIQ Radio. Shout out Pat Turner. There it is, baby.
Logan. A lacrosse lad. Right there. Uh, hot take Jake is confused, Jake, in his car. Hey, what's up, fellas?
Yeah. So yeah, I guess I'll be diplomatic and say an interesting night one. I thought the match quality was good. A little short, which I'd rather lean on that side than too long just for the sake of too long. But like it was nothing egregiously bad and nothing like wowing.
And then the main event, just you know, I really think at first things first, they're trying to acknowledge. Yeah, we messed up with this McAfee thing, so like, just get rid of him. Then to bring him back, it's like, no, you did the right thing. Just eliminate him and let's just keep this thing going. But I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
And, you know, you guys kind of stole a little bit of my thunder. I think this is going to lead to something more tomorrow. Punk. I don't want to think that way. I'm not watching WrestleMania saying.
what this is gonna lead to.
Well, I mean, yes, yes and no, like, because WrestleMania is not over.
Now that it's two nights, it's just not a one night decisive thing. But um, I you know, I I I like the idea that this is leading to something bigger and that you know, punk has been alluding to certain things in the last few weeks. Number one being talking smack about Roman family. We saw the last time someone talked smack about Roman's family. The final boss gets involved.
So Punk made it pretty clear that he was being disrespectful to the family. It's Vegas. It's the Rock not showing up last year. I could see him becoming a part of that tomorrow. And then the big sport.
It's just going to be the same shit. Don't. This isn't leading to anything. I think it is. It could be.
I mean, it is. I think I'm not going to be cynical right now. It's much more fun to not be cynical as a wrestler.
So you're looking at it, it's halftime. Yes, yes, there's still a lot of clock, a lot of game left, as Aaron Egler would say. But yeah, I think maybe the ultimate swerve is Cody finally sold his soul to the devil. He's got his movie role. Him and Roman can team up and now you have the two corporate champions on both shows.
I think it makes a lot more sense for Roman to be the counterpart to that t than Punk. Mainly because the crowds, they're not going to boo CM Punk. It's just not going to happen. He's reached that. Undertaker Randy Orton level of respect from the crowd to where no matter what you do, he's going to get cheered like crazy.
So that could be interesting. And I do think, you know, everybody wants the Cody Homelander heel run as much as it's overly talked about. I do think that that is going to be the best work of his career ultimately because it's tailor-made for it.
So yeah, I guess other things to note: I liked Paige's return tonight. I was, I felt happy for her. I can't imagine going to AEW and working for that nightmare of a company. I think we thought with punk, like, I think with punk, Going to 18. I like that they were showing Punk's career, and they're just like 2013, and then don't worry about that little, yeah.
I think um where'd he go guys? It's like a radio career. Yeah very very uh on on or spot on with that. But I think one of the best things for Punk's career was going to a shit show like AEW and seeing like, oh, actually this wrestling thing can get way worse. Like maybe I didn't have it so bad.
So, um but yeah, I like it I was happy for Paige. She looks great. She looks healthier than she did in her last run. I think she was going through a lot.
So that was cool to see. Yeah, i I guess my overall review for night one was it was fine. We'll let's see what happens tomorrow. And it ended by nine o'clock, so my kid could watch it all and still go to bed. That I love.
Please give me more of that. Like, the, the, the, the fast shows, like that's cool. I dig that. All right, Jake. I'll talk to you tomorrow, maybe.
Alright, love ya. See you, buddy. I'm going to add Ben L back to the show. Ben, you're on with Bart Wiglard. Right.
Oh, right. Hello. Good evening, gentlemen. What's up, Ben?
So, I probably bring a different perspective because I'm not much of a wrestle mania or WWE or anything, really. It's probably my first time sitting down and watching a match in over 20 years.
So, what do you think? Because I talked to another guy today. I'll just cut you up real quick. I talked to a guy. My kid was at a house, big day for my kid, and I thought the dad was into wrestling.
And I'm like, are you watching Mania tonight? He's like, I don't even know any of the guys. What'd you hear? And I go. Um Have you heard of Cody Rhodes?
Yeah. Have you heard of CM Punk? Roman Reigns? No. Randy Orton?
He's like, uh-uh. I thought he watched like at least, you know, in the Orton time, but. But no, not as much crossover appeal until you get into the McAfees and the ISHO speeds. Yeah. So you you how much familiarity did you have With everybody coming in, because then you're probably watching some of these matches, being like, I don't know why these two are fighting.
Well, I was unfortunately only able to really watch the main event.
Okay. And I knew all the characters, all the people involved. Um a lot I knew some of the storylines just from bits and pieces but In the words of the great Admiral Akbar, It is a trap. You guys are being baited. They want you to think that tomorrow is going to be another thing, and then tomorrow is going to be another thing for another thing.
They're not going to pull from day one into day two. I don't think they're going to pull from day one and day two. Um And I did enjoy Pat McAfee getting smashed. By Jelly Roll on the table. I thought that was impressive.
I actually thought his neck, it looked like his neck hit something.
So when he came back out with the neck roll, I was like, okay, that's That's kind of fun, but. Um I enjoyed it. I wish there would have been more dialogue. I feel like they didn't utilize the mic. I don't know if that's their characters, like if Cody Rose and No, but there wasn't any, like, this wasn't a normal mania.
There was no backstage stuff. There was no, everything, I mean, I guess, okay. AJ Lee earlier came out with some other kids and then Becky had a band, but The entrance was a little different for Randy and Cody. Cody's was. You know, showing some clips, but Yeah, there wasn't anything.
There wasn't anything like that. I thought McAfee's dialogue or the introduction of Randy Orton was really good, actually. Um I felt like his his Just the mic work was well done. And I thought there'd be more of that, and there wasn't.
So I was kind of disappointed. Maybe they'll have more in night two. I'll watch more in night two. All right.
Well, we'll talk to you then, Ben. Thanks, gentlemen. Have a good evening. See you, buddy. Ben.
Do you like the decision to have Cody win? Is that... Did you think Orton should have won? You know, the more I think about it, man, I think that that's what we just saw. I think we saw like a double turn right there.
I do kinda want to see now where they go with it. I thought that they should have just probably stuck with the storyline where, like, Orton was this. Evil fucking version of himself, he wins. He goes over. Um 'Cause I mean, they have they haven't had anything for 'em.
I feel like they've I feel like they kind of always disrespect Orton as a legend. I've always been a huge Orton fan. I love his work as a heel. I don't like... Good guy, Orton.
Orton is a face. That bullshit. You know who I feel like is the Ryan Horvod of WWE? Who? Drew McIntyre.
I feel like that too. He just never catches a break. And then, when he is the champ, it's during fucking COVID, and he's always got a. He's always got to lay down for these other fucking guys and put everybody else over. I got very big Horvat vibes from Drew McIntyre.
Laying on his back tonight. Exactly. I appreciate that. And I also agree with that. I think he needs to go away now for a little bit, man, because, like, where does he go now from here?
Um I agree with the decision to have Jacob Fatu win. I think you got to continue to build him up. I don't know, I mean there's a couple of guys, I mean we'll see. what they do tomorrow in the Brock match. Um All I care about, honestly, in this mania is Oba going over Brock.
And that's going to happen really quickly. It better fucking happen. It'll happen. It'll happen. I want to see Oba versus Roman at SummerSlam.
It'll happen. But to your original question, so I don't know. I mean, I was kind of just, I'm a Cody guy, I like Cody. I agree with what Jake said, though. I think he's probably going to do his best work as a heel because right now.
The crowd don't like him. I mean, my buddy is in, is there. He just texted me. He's like, man, he's that mania? Yeah, he said they're booing the shit out of Cody still.
And this is like when I jumped on with you.
So it's like 10, 15 minutes after the show ended.
So I feel like that's the route that they have to go. Did you tell them to be louder? This crowd stinks? And I think that that's kind of what they were hinting at, right? Like Cody was about to turn heel, and before he could.
He got kicked. And uh And I think that's the point of. While I I also think it's WWE acknowledging that the McAfee story was never good. I think it's they're also a way of kind of rewriting it where Orton's like Wait a minute. You know, I needed somebody to tell me, like, you know, I'm not washed anymore.
I should be going for the titles because, again, like, WWE's not had anything. He's been healthy for a while. They haven't had anything for him.
Now, finally, he's in the main event again of Mania, where he should be. And I think that's kind of like part of the storyline. But then he's like, wait a minute, I don't need fucking Pat McAfee. He's listening to the crowd because he's walking in. The stories, they're chanting his name.
Like Jake said, where they won't boo punk. They're not going to boo Orton either. And they're only going to like him more as the heel.
So you really can't have him the heel. They hate Cody right now. They hate Sami Zayn. They hate Cody. They're getting the X-Pac type.
So I think what they did there was they made Cody, they were about to make him the bad guy, and Orton, while it looked like you know, that was just him being a heel, punting Cody in the head. Everybody wanted Cody to get punted in the head.
So I feel like tomorrow. That's where you gotta go. It you know, but And I think you have to go with What's the match? How did you work him into that match?
So do you have Cody? I do. I think it's gonna be like Stephanie McMahon. I think it's all gonna turn into this like TKO corporate world. Do you wanna see that though?
I don't. But I think that's what they're hinting at, right? Like with the whole Cody and Punk thing. But I think how it goes. Is that they're going to be the end up being the bad guys in Roman.
And Orton are gonna be end up being like the team. We're WWE guys. Right, 'cause in in punk and And Cody are easy to make the bad guys, man, especially like Because you would never think of them as like Vince McMahon, McMahon, Triple H people. But they will be, and they can also sell the story that, like, they're not even loyal. They left the fucking company and they both went to AEW.
Shit, Cody started the company. Roman's whole thing has always been I've never left. Orton's whole thing has been I've never left.
So I think that's where they're going with it. I don't hate that. But if they're gonna be like, if they're gonna be like, we left the company. I think they have to mention that they went to AEW. Dude, don't they?
Or are they worried about it? I think they might go there, man, and might. I don't think they're gonna make um Nick Conn or whatever the hell his name is. Like a big character, but I do think probably. He said he doesn't want to be a character.
Then Cody's kissing his kids in the front fucking row. It's like you're not a character, but your presence is felt. What? Did he do that tonight? Yeah, Cody was kissing these two kids.
I'm like, who the fuck are these two? And then I saw Nick Khan right there. Dude. They're setting that up.
So, yeah, he's going to be. He's gonna be like and also him and Cody didn't lock eyes, so I felt like Cody is gonna lose 'cause he was mad at the boss. And that's gonna be the swerve 'cause everybody thinks everybody thought Orton was gonna win, right? And then everybody thinks Reigns is gonna win. And right now, Roman doesn't need to be champ.
You're right, Pung's hot. Roman's not going to be around to defend the title all the time, but you make Punk the bad guy and you start like them as the corporate. I've got to see our thing about Mac. That's my prediction. Has anybody predicted that yet?
I'm going to go with that. That's what I'm predicting. No, I don't think any of the, I think all these convoluted predictions are a waste of fucking time. I think, no, I think that's what happens tomorrow. We're doing it, we'll do it tomorrow, obviously.
And I think, I think that's my pre if that doesn't. Jake has won the unofficial contest that's going on in the comments. We need Brim Shea to jump on.
Okay, all right. I feel like I feel like I'll give him this. Yeah. You know, I'm getting so cautious here. Should I go backwards, hang?
I'm telling you, Bryce sleep. My wife's sleeping on the couch tonight because I'm talking to wrestling. There you go, you fucking cocksuckers. There's no magic in the in the household when you're talking about wrestling it. 10:45 p.m.
on the East Coast. No, but hey, if that isn't the way that they go, Cody and Punk is the corporate bad guy feels that I think it's worst WrestleMania ever. I'm calling it. Worse than COVID. When the main event was Drew McIntyre, Brock Lesnar, and then Drew McIntyre fought the big show for some reason after.
Yeah, I remember the next night on Raw, they go. Breaking news, we taped a match after. Here it is. Russell But that's kind of how I felt when KO and Rollins were on that sign, and he threw him down, and it's just a thud. There's like no.
Okay. I feel like I feel like WrestleMania ending with Randy Orton hitting Cody with a title and holding it up is like SmackDown. It's like when you play the storylines in SmackDown versus Raw. Yeah, I don't they they had both endings. If Cody's gonna win, Cody needs to stand up like Mania always would end, remember, with like somebody overcoming something and then confetti drops from the sky.
The Ameribrim Nightmare. Oh, Winkler Completus, Zach. Gotta watch them all even the wrestling ones. Um So, what is like, so Pat McAfee, I was thinking about him because he's got his name on the Tron and he's walking down. He's got his own theme song.
He's able to cock off and flip off whoever he wants. And I'm thinking of like this guy used to be a punter. This guy used to be doing like week 17 NFL on Fox. And this guy has vaulted his career to be this. He has.
brought in the WWE into his show. Where does he go? Like, what is his shit? This is it. If this is it.
Like no more Pat McAfee this weekend. On the Monday Pat McAfee show, is he just like.
Well Oh yeah, that was fun. Anyway, Dexter Lawrence traded to the Bangles. You know? Great deal for both teams, honestly. Great deal for the Giants who are for the 10-pick.
They get the ten. They're continuing to uh You know, build what they want to do there for Hardball. I do think that, like, They're a good by low team here in the next year or two. If Jackson darts any good, we'll find out. Him having a real coach will help.
And then I think this is good for the Bengals because Defensively, they've been a nightmare. And obviously, they have a really good offense. Right. You know, um One last thing is uh I love seeing Going back to what, you know, really quick, also what Jake said, because Paige coming back, my kid, Nathan, was all excited about that, because, but I feel like. The other thing where they fucked up, man, is why did they announce that?
That could have been like an all-time WrestleMania moment. Like we found out yesterday she was signed. Yeah, 'cause like one we we kinda knew obviously, you know, when when Whatever Bella's Hurt came out with uh with a crotch She wasn't gonna be able to go. You heard she was hurt. I felt like also there could have been a cool way to a cooler way to bring back Paige.
If you have three women's matches. I mean, she wins a championship, so that's a cool WrestleMania moment. But I don't know, they spoiled it. Why spoil that and say, hey, we signed her when he could have brought her back? And then tonight, the after show was going on then announced it.
Did anything happen on the after show? I haven't been watching. No, I didn't I mean I don't know I didn't watch it either 'cause we were doing this. Um Tony Khan has tweeted: AEW is where the best wrestle. Don't miss AEW Dynamite this.
Did you watch Dynamite? Are you up to date on who the champ is? In AEW, yeah, yeah, it's uh Darby Allen, and he squashed MJF, didn't it? Yeah, because they had MJF. Beat Kenny Omega and kick out of his finisher, which nobody does.
That they they make some weird decisions, man. Yeah, I think they don't do that if it's not WrestleMania week. Because their ratings are going up and m more people are They were good and then they hit like a divot and then they came back up and A big reason for that, I think, is MJF. And now you take the. Belt off him and Darby Allen.
Darby Allen, let me say this: squashing a guy. It's not, it doesn't work. Doing four coffin drops is not the same as doing. Four F fives, you know. It just did not it didn't work for me.
Him as your champion doesn't work, right? And that also. Yeah, that's if you're a WWE guy or if you're in that match looks like Darby Allen versus Roman Reigns, right? Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
Like, if you're WWE, though, you're like, ah, these guys. They they should have momentum right now, but they keep shooting themselves in the foot, so and it's just a sloppy company. Like CM Punk said.
So do you think tomorrow's gonna be a lot better? Every match there's like glass and and it's like a screwdriver in a guy's eyeball. And don't get me wrong, I love some violence, but like Jesus Christ, every match we don't need somebody's You know, getting stabbed. I do think that tomorrow is going to be better. I was always more excited for night two.
Again, I want to see Dom versus Finn. I think that match is going to fuck. I want to see Sammy versus Trick. Dude, Trick better go over. Trick's got to go over.
Open's got to go over because this is where the crowd is. But why did they even have Sammy win the title if he was going to be you know what I mean? Like, why didn't they if they were going to and I thought, okay, they're setting it up triple threat, and they're just like, no, let's just bury Carmelo again. Carmelo Anthony, as Roman calls him. It's also just really shitty storytelling because remember when Sammy went to SmackDown?
He was like I'm done with this US title bullshit. like i don't want to i don't want to compete for this anymore i'm here to compete for the Heavyweight championship, and that was the match they were, or the story they were telling. And then he gets squashed by Drew McIntyre. And then he just he's fighting for the US title again.
So I just thought that that was kinda dumb. Yeah, I'm excited for that match. That should be a good match. Everybody hates Sammy right now. Like I said, Finn Dom, I'm excited for.
I do feel like Sammy. What did I even do? he says. Like, that's what I always say. Like, why does everyone hate me?
What do I even do? But I'm looking at Sammy like, Oh, you fucking suck, bro. Yeah. So I get it. I've never really been the biggest fan.
I'm the Sami Zayn. And you're the Drew McIntyre, which is fitting because I think Drew is 15-0 against Sammy. He is. And you're constantly running circles around me. He is.
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I and then I'm it's hard not to be excited about Roman Reigns and CM Punk. Yeah, well, that's the main event of the show and it feels like it. Yeah, so I mean and that's the point is that I don't know. Maybe they don't need two nights. I think that they do need two nights, though, because they have a bunch of talent.
If they were better storytellers, it sucks that Brock's first, but didn't Brock say ones like, if I'm not last, I'm first, so I can get the out of there. Yeah, he don't wanna be there. I ma like I was I was joking around with my brother and and I was like he was like, I wonder why that match is going on for free first and I was like because Brock wants to get out of there and he's like yeah, that makes sense. He was like also imagine Brock Lesnar Hanging out in the back with like today's WWE dudes, like him and Kit Wilson. Like, what are they gonna talk?
Like, him and Sami Zayn, what do they have in common?
So, it's probably best to get him out of there. It does seem like he really likes working with Obitler. Like, he wants to put him over. You could always tell when Lesnar wants to work with a dude. Right, like he clearly didn't like go back and watch his work with um Ambrose or Moxley, whatever.
He hated the dude.
So that's why that match stunk. I think that that's going to be a pretty good match. It's not going to be. 10 minutes, even. It might be 10 minutes.
It's not going to be 15, 20 minutes. It's probably going to be short, but I do think that both guys. We'll get some work in. I hope it's not just a finisher fest, though. You know what I mean?
Like both guys just hit their finisher like eight times and keep kicking out. It probably will be. I don't know. I just be just. Oh, when Randy hit Crossroads and Cody hit RKO.
That's what I'm saying. You would have thought like my for my kid, that was like Captain America holding Thor's hammer. He was like, holy shit, what the fuck? He was right. The match itself was good.
That's why I Yeah, the match itself. The night needed, every match needed eight more minutes, and then we're talking a lot different about the show. Right. Right. And again, I mean, I know it's already been said, and it's just like the commercials.
I hate them during pay-per-views. Back in the day, there would be a couple. They're premium live events now, Ryan. You would get the WWE, yeah. You would get the WWF like cologne commercial really quick.
Maybe like a 1-800 collect commercial really quick, or buy a Macho Man squishy. Like I said, just find ways you have so much. Especially with all these celebrities getting involved. You have so many, so much talent that's not even being used, and it's WrestleMania. Like find ways to sell advertising and sell product.
with the talent have them go in the ring like they used to with the fucking slim gym Um I don't know. I I just it's a momentum killer. It's just like college basketball. You're like, oh, yeah, I'm starting to get into this, man. Why don't I watch this all the time?
And then they go to the. They go and go into review. Cody's entrance is longer than a match. There's 1524 to go in the first half, and the Badgers in Minnesota are tied at six, and we go watch. you know, to see if the ball went out on Wisconsin for 25 minutes.
I'm going to bring Landmark in here. One more Winklerverse guest, Landmark, who's. Looking pretty fit, Landmark. You're looking good. Thank you, thank you.
You know, it's a journey. When's this wave championship game happening? We are going to find out tomorrow night because the San Diego Soccers are going to money bag their way into their 97th championship game in a row. Maybe we'll go. Oh, Ben, come on.
Thanks, Ben. $10 from Ben for Brim. His comment is just Brim. What's up? What'd you think, Landmark?
So it's interesting. It's kind of two points. There, you know, matches were good. It feels like, like, you know, Horvath was saying, with the commercials and the fact that there's so many of these now that are these two-night events. And it doesn't feel like the old school WrestleMania.
And that could just be me being old man yelling at cloud.
So that is a possibility. I mean, we can say, like, oh, it sucks now. It sucks now. But go watch a different, go watch a WrestleMania from even 10 years ago. It's complete, it's just different.
There's no way to say. I said Yeah, $5 for brim from JR, who's been shitting on the brim all night. Thank you. Like, I'm not saying it's bad. It's just different.
It just feels like it's whatever run-of-the-mill bash at the beach, you know, whatever pay-per-view you want to call it. You know, you get the makeup and the hair and the big entrances and $9 million worth of pyro, but. The way that WrestleMania used to feel, it used to be like special. You'd like sit down, you order pizza, you order whatever, you're like, this is going to be good. And I'm just over here, like, well, I got it on my iPad and I'm.
cleaning my floors because that's kind of how this feels right now. More money from Jake, he says. Legally watched Mania for free so I could donate to the Brimmlerverse. That's how I felt, though, man. You know, and I even fucked up my diet because I ordered pizza.
I was like, you know, it's got to feel like WrestleMania. And now I'm going to be. We were going to get domino. I should have went chicken. The kid had it already.
Felt like I was watching like Backlash nineteen ninety seven. Yeah, I mean, it was good. Like, I have a buddy who is more of a casual fan, and we were going back and forth. And one of the things that he despises is the rough bumps. And he even called out in the Becky Lynch AJ Lee match how the rough bump spot was actually creative for once.
And I was like, Yeah, that makes sense. Like, it was a cool way to get the heel to be able to cheat.
Well, the ref push back since when are they doing that?
Well, that's always been a thing. That was the whole like Nick Patrick thing back in WCW. More brim. What is the fucking? Who knew wearing a brim?
You know, I paid six bucks for this fucking hat. But thank you guys. It's very kind. It's very kind. Sorry.
Goddamn Bram. Who knew the star of the night? WrestleMania was so bad. We're doing an hour on my fucking brim. Brim, baby.
I mean, like I said, that brim is crispered in a gunther chop, so we gotta. We got it. We got it. People are asking you if you have a brim. Landmark.
All of my hats are currently upstairs, unfortunately. I decided, I was like, I haven't been on the Winklerverse in, I don't remember how long. It's been a while. And then I was like, I'm going to.
So I was like, I'm just going to jump on my computer because the last time I tried to jump on the phone, that did not work out well for me. But they are all upstairs.
So unfortunately, no brims in this office, just lots of sports memorabilia.
Okay. What are you doing? Are you giving birth? What are you doing, Aurva? Me?
I just saw your leg pop off like you were giving birth. I just sat down for five hours of a wrestling show. I watched all three hours of the pre-show. No, why? Was there anything good?
No, I did not really do that. My brother texted me. He's like, Are you watching the pre-show when I started? It's three o'clock. Fuck no.
It was the Super Bowl? Yeah. How do you think tomorrow night goes, Landmark? How do you think the main event goes? Um, I mean Well, based on the fact that tonight was kind of Heela Mania, where it was like, all the heels are winning, brother.
It's kind of, it's going to be interesting. I think. Yeah. I have a feeling that they put the belt back on reins. There's a lot of people who are thinking that they're going to go with like Bloodline 3.0, but.
Well, we're only in the third inning, isn't that what Heyman said? Yeah, pretty much. I want to see Opa beat Brock. I want to see Open Reigns at Summerfest. That's what I want to see.
Yeah, I mean, I think that would make sense. That would be interesting. But that's the whole thing with Oba. If Oba beats Brock, and this is what a lot of people have said, too, you have to put him in the main event picture. You can't have him out here fighting, you know, Kit Wilson or whoever.
You've got to get him up the card. Quickly, and it makes sense because he's good, he's got it. Yeah. Should be interesting. We're going to wrap up soon, Landmark.
Good to see you again, buddy. Indeed. Take care. David. Hey, what do you think about this?
I was wondering what that was. Last Christmas. I love it. I love that song. I love covers of that song.
Great Chris. You know, it's like, do I not wear this hoodie until next Christmas? And it's like, fuck no. Like, that's, I would argue that's a good song year-round. That song comes on even in.
July. I'll listen to it. The original version, wham, not the... Who else tried it? Ariana Grande, who, by the way, I do not body shame, but what is with her and the other girl that is like withering away?
They are the weirdest people ever. I don't care, I've already been canceled. The people from that movie are the weirdest people ever. We're going to find out that they're into weird things, and then you guys will be like, wait, Horbat was right. They look, every time I see them, they look weirder.
But when she's not with her, she looks normal. I don't know. There's a new Fockers movie she's fucking in now. Nope. That'll probably be good though.
But like, I don't know. And they're all like she's always like all like if anybody looks at her like all the I I guarantee too they're probably like the most evil people. Do you like how the NFL is just like We're not even gonna pretend to give a fuck about Mike Vrabel. We don't even, we're not even gonna fake fucking look into this. You know, I'm glad that I could finally give my take on this, and I tried to on Twitter.
So here's the point, though, right? Like, most coaches, and I could like say this. Are like a lot of them are like scumbags, you know, and also in the locker room. Football players, basketball players, baseball players, like anybody that's played on a team, let's be honest, we know this, even if you weren't. There's like a lot of dogs in the locker room, and it's like that's the culture, right?
And so You know, like I saw people in Boston. They're like, is Vrabel going to lose the locker room? No. If anything, they're just going to. Vrabel's going to gain the locker room.
Right now, if you're urban, tell me about Harusini.
Now, if you're Urban Meyer and you're just blowing off practice to play grab ass after a game and then you don't know who Aaron Donald is in the film room, yeah, players are going to lose respect, but the Patriots just made a Super Bowl because of Mike Vrabel.
So, no, he's not going to lose the locker room. And how are you really going to punish him? And what did he really do wrong? If anything, he's getting more information from the reporter, right? He's not giving up any information.
So, Russini, she gets in trouble because, like, you can't be screwing the sources. And I saw people like, oh, it's sports, that doesn't matter. And I'm not even saying that she wasn't, or, you know, I'm not like, you know, trying to speculate and say that she was having relationships, but it does obviously look like that because. If she had the evidence of The friends that she was staying with, skiing with, or whatever, the girls' trip. We're not looking at this type of situation, man.
So she screwed her career over.
Somehow, though, she'll have a job before either of us do. She'll be with Barstool or Outkick or some bullshit. Making a ton of money because that's life these days, unfortunately. But like, but like, I just said half, if I said a. Tenth of the shit Dan Dockich says.
I got a kick out of like the Simpsons like. double standard like No, not really, dude, because like Same situation, right? I mean. I don't know. I just, I mean, but that's why, right?
And also. Look at uh I mean like look at All the tweets and all the stuff that has come out, like the whole AJ Brown situation. Right, I mean like So it's it's it's I'm going to say this, is that With her? As soon as I moved here, I started hearing all these like crazy ass stories, man, about like her and what was the other girl's name? Britt McHenry or whatever, and Sean McFay and all types of stuff.
Obviously, you know, there's something going on there. But I just thought it was funny that people are. I mean, again, like, yeah, but here's the other thing: like, Vrabel's a scumbag. I mean, don't get me wrong. I mean, his wife Horvat's married Bobby.
Hehehe But uh I uh I mean like You know, Vrabel's obviously a scumbag is why. I think his wife thinks you're good-looking, is why. Nice. His wife's probably going to uh leave him. His kids probably now think he's a piece of shit.
You know, people are like, anybody with any morals probably is going to look at them. Different. but he's a good coach at the end of the day like you know you know you know who you know who else You know who else was a piece of shit? Michael Jordan. He was cheating on Juanita for years.
Um, all you know, I'm not saying all these, there's a lot of good guys, and there's like a lot of coaches that are good people, too. But there's Also, a bunch of uh you know dogs out there so None of that surprised me. It just surprised me that people were trying to take her side, right? Yeah, well everyone's rushing to take her side. And anybody that thought Vrabel was going to get punished is an idiot.
Now, I have heard people say, though. Like, why did Yudoka get in trouble? That's because he was screwing a staffer. Yeah. You can't do that.
No, yeah, I mean, yeah, I get it. Yeah. Uh all right, so that was night one of WrestleMania. And Diana Rossini. You'll be back for night two?
Oh, yeah, because I gotta, I have to follow up on your prediction. Yeah, that's what's gonna happen, though.
So, tomorrow, the big CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, heel turn. Ryan Swalla. Oh, Jesus. Swallow. No, his name's not.
Oh, okay. Uh we're still going with this hat. We're going brim. I bought this hat for this show. It worked out.
Thank you. We'll be back tomorrow. Enjoy. The rest of the WrestleMania weekend. And thank you all for stopping into.
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