Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
Everyone hates work, but almost all of us have to do it. Join Heavy D with a new guest each week, asking the dumbest questions about their job we can come up with.
Basically just people talking about how much they don't want to work. That's all.
We try to stay under your lunch time so you have time to cry before clocking back in. usually a guest stops by to tell us a story about their crappy job.
Remember that nobody is stopping you from quitting your job, But you.
Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
The Grass Is Always Greener and The Exit Interview
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Can you imagine getting ejected from a Little League game by an elderly umpire? Rhino shares this hilarious and frustrating experience on today's episode of Unpaid Lunch, where Heavy D and Rhino also debate the allure of "greener pastures" when job-hopping. We dive into the chaos and passion of youth sports, reminiscing about our unpredictable recording schedule and brainstorming future content ideas. It’s a rollercoaster of laughs and reflections, setting the perfect tone for our episode.
But there's more than childhood memories and career reflections. Ever wondered how using the wrong pronoun could get you thrown out of a game? We recount some surprising personal anecdotes from umpire school, emphasizing the strict rules that govern the sport. The importance of proper training for umpires can't be understated, as we explore how these decisions impact younger players. And, of course, there's an unexpected twist involving our newfound love—the Cluck Truck, which has delightfully redeemed itself from our initial skepticism.
As we wrap up, we delve into the intricacies of exit interviews and the paradoxes of navigating toxic work environments. From humorous tales of HR mishaps to predicting the next big thing in professional wrestling, the episode is a blend of personal growth, strategic decisions, and passionate fan theories. Expect engaging discussions about past guests, nostalgic reflections, and even some fantasy booking for WWE and AEW. This episode is packed with insights and entertainment, promising a lively listen for all our fans.
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On your break. Today it's super late. Me and Rhino are back making content in the studio. Talk about exit interviews and the grass not really being greener on the other side. All right.
Speaker 2:Time to clock out for lunch you ready bang the bang. Yeah, let's go for it. I was born born fucking ready.
Speaker 1:Welcome into unpaid lunch and thanks for spending your break with us. I'm Heavy D Rhino back in studio.
Speaker 2:You better leave the born fucking ready part on it. Just cut me in on that piece, I will.
Speaker 1:I'm not even going to swap it around. It's literally just going to be born ready. I said you ready to go? And he was like I'm born ready done this shit in three months.
Speaker 2:This dude forgot how to podcast. Which is problem? Is we learned?
Speaker 1:how to laugh. Yeah, that sucks. It's just life y'all. Look man, everybody's just doing shit and everybody knows how it is, and we get approached all the time about doing a new episode and we got the content, or you know, the ideas for the content for days like literally we send messages like three or four times a day. It's like oh, this is hot, let's do this and it's funny if you guys knew how much we plan to record and we just fucking don't do it.
Speaker 2:It's like, let we're gonna, let's do it this monday, we're gonna record this monday so if you just said hey, I've got captain morgan down here, probably get me down here quicker, I'm just kidding yeah, I was gonna say the only people in studio.
Speaker 1:Usually there's like seven people here, but it's just me and Rhino. My kids are in bed. They had a bonfire, james Bonfire.
Speaker 2:James Bonfire.
Speaker 1:They had a bonfire tonight and went to the pool and froze to death.
Speaker 2:Actually, I don't know if this person listens and I apologize for using your name out loud, but there is a kid in our little league system whose dad's name is James Bond.
Speaker 1:No, it's not, I swear to.
Speaker 2:God, it's awesome. Is he British? I don't think so. That'd be super cool if he was British. Actually, I've never met the man Couldn't tell you. Did the kid tell you that, being out of the heart of the Appalachian Mountains? No, I doubt this guy's English. Is the redneck James Bond I don't know what that entails, or what that would be like.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty interested in his vehicles Speaking of Little League, it's just Mad Max.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go on a little tirade here, real quick.
Speaker 1:You want to tirade about Little League?
Speaker 2:I sure know. So listen, we've had a whole episode. We've had all episodes about umpires and that's the bed.
Speaker 1:I've been trying to help everybody.
Speaker 2:It's not your son, who has done a phenomenal job, umpiring this year. Um I, for lack of better words, got ejected. Oh, I've never done that, never been ejected. I have said some heinous things to some people in stripes oh god, is this what you told me? Heinous stuff to people in stripes. I have said things about their mothers, fathers, like. Whatever you want to think I've said it bad. Uh, I don't know if sam still listens this episode, but lord, when I said the same, call your one night, sam, I'm calling you out.
Speaker 1:It was brutal and the dude still didn't toss me okay yeah, I'm surprised he didn't toss you all right, setting the stage.
Speaker 2:We have an umpire who is probably 8 000 years old. Came across on the ark, at, least when um, when the ball comes across the plate. I don't know how he caused ball to strike his head's looking out his right ear hole because he's scared of dad, but whatever I mean, I appreciate the man I really do.
Speaker 2:This is going to sound bad, but like I have done everything in my power to make this man's life not miserable this year he calls balls and strikes like before they get to the plate he quit at one point this year because of some things that happened on the field behind the backstop, and I literally I like to think I was the one that kind of engaged for him to come back, reach out to him, apologize for everybody, whatever. And I think this is where I got myself in trouble. I think I weaponized him uh told him I said listen, people are giving you shit, dude, toss them, okay, yeah, yeah, I primed that, uh, so, and it I mean obviously I'm gonna be a little bit irate because it was my own kid, and here by always is when it is your own child. Uh, one umpire behind home plate, no umpire in the field. Um, asher walks thinks he's Superman. Instead of just going to first and sitting there and like a good little boy like you should, he rounds first and just takes off like freaking Sandlot.
Speaker 1:No, no sign.
Speaker 2:No, he's too tall, should he rounds first and just takes off like freaking sandlot. No nigga, no sign, no, so they've thrown it back to now. If they're throwing from home plate, I'll be the second. Yeah, he probably makes it sure it goes to the pitcher pitch, turns around, makes a quick throw. The second. Now here's where things get messy. Naturally, I mean little league. Wherever you want to be, if the play beats the runner, they're probably going to call you out. Play be him by a solid step and a half. He slides foot, hits the bag. We got those breakaway bags. It almost dislodges the bag tag, catches him in the throat. He's under the tag, umpire calls him out. I am coaching third base.
Speaker 2:The two coaches behind me are like oh my god, before I could even say anything the other team's coaches, the other team's coaches and I like in unison with him, I was like, yeah, just run back in asher, go back in asher's crying because he's a crybaby and he doesn't like to get out god. So he runs back and I'm just sitting there just laughing. I'm like my Lord and I can see him making eye contact with me. He's pissed at this point. So after the meeting's over, I'm walking from third base back around towards the first base dugouts and actually I have to walk past this guy. I should have probably went around second base, around that way I didn't get myself in trouble.
Speaker 2:I didn't say a word. I was like whatever for one main crew. I made it a point this year not to give that was your body talking, though, when you walk by oh yeah, I'm sure I had the freddie johnson walk down at that point I get the home play.
Speaker 1:He says hey, coach.
Speaker 2:Hey coach, come here, come here, come here, come here, mike. Yeah, he said I don't think you ever got there. I don't think he ever got there. I don't think his foot got to the bag. I said, well, insert umpire's name. He nearly dislodged the bag with his foot, almost dislodged the bag. So I know he got there. Well, why didn't you have to fix the bag then? Because it's a breakaway bag. I was like well, the key word in that sentence is almost. It almost dislodged the bag. Therefore, I did not have to fix that bag. That's just common sense. Well, at that point I start walking away. He's like he didn't get there, coach.
Speaker 2:And he's the one arguing he instigated the conversation and by him saying I don't think he got there. I think he's asking my opinion on the call. So I go back and I'm literally patting him on the back in the most calm tone in the world I've got like 60 witnesses, calmest tone I've ever had in my life. I'm like listen, I'm not going to fight with you. We've made it a point to have a good year together. You know, and I've I've umpired games with you this year. We've talked about calls right wrong. I said never going to, never gonna lie to you. I'm gonna shoot you straight. That one was bad and I try and walked away.
Speaker 2:The coach that was coaching on the opposite team. He calls me that coach's name, so let's say that coach's name is bob. He said bob, you're out of here. And it took me a second. I'm like well, did bob say something down the third baseline behind me and they've got objective for something? I don't know what's going on. He's pointing at me. I'm like well, did Bob say something? Down the third baseline behind me and they've got a jigger for something. I don't know what's going on. He's pointing at me. I'm like me. He's like yeah, you, bob, you're gone. He don't even know your name. I was like my name's not Bob. You're out here, bob. I was like, okay, my name is Ryan, but thank you, I'll go, so I leave, I give my phone off because.
Speaker 2:I'm using game changer to keep the score, so I have to give it to somebody else and I go all the way down to the picnic table outside right field. Yeah, at this point he's pouting and basically saying that I need to go off the hill, I've been ejected, I'm supposed to leave.
Speaker 1:No, he don't know the rules. You go to the picnic tables, baby.
Speaker 2:I am literally the only member of the board of directors for the league up there. At that point I'm like I will leave, I'm fine with it. Yeah, but he's going to lock down the press box, lock down, count down the concession stand. He's going to turn all the lights off and he's going to be the last person that leaves his fucking hill. He'll have to do everything. So they went part-time to that and he shut up, so whatever. So in our little league I don't know if it's little league rules or what, I've not looked at this part but I had to carry a suspension for a game after that. So I had to spend a whole another game In right field at the picnic table Just hanging out. But today, for the first time that happened two weeks ago.
Speaker 2:He stood right up underneath my back hip and he said hey, coach, you not going to talk to me the rest of this year? I was like what do you want me to say? I'm in a good mood right now. I'm not going to fight with you. I'm not going to fight with you, coach. You know why I tossed you. You know why I had to do it. It's because you showed me up in front of everybody. I said you asked you my opinion that it was bad. I didn't cuss at you, I didn't yell at you, I didn't raise my voice. I said you cannot say that I raised my voice in front of everybody.
Speaker 2:I said there is a video that I can show you. He said I'll believe there is. He said I had a talk with your wife about it, which brings up another funny point. So while I'm sitting at the picnic table in right field, he goes over to the concession stand and starts telling another parent that I cussed him till a fly wouldn't land on him and called him everything under the sun.
Speaker 1:He said that you said that to him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right in front of my wife, and he did not know that she was my said wife and and she knew better she went, oh, she went, mad hen on him. She screamed at him. I'm very sure, I'm very sure I'd rather make you mad than her. And then he had Jordy escort him to the parking lot what I don't like what yeah, jordy, who's the size of my right thigh? Yeah, because what was I going to do? Kill an old man in the parking lot.
Speaker 1:What were you going to do anyway? I mean, I could have got away with it.
Speaker 2:He didn't know my name. He he got away with it. He didn't know my name. Does he think he's like Bob? He has no idea who you are, Bob, Bob punched me.
Speaker 1:Bob punched me. Does he think you want to fight him?
Speaker 2:I don't know man.
Speaker 1:Do you want to fight him?
Speaker 2:No, I mean he pissed me off. I ain't gonna lie we're trying.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to carry some Kanye.
Speaker 2:I'm going to throw him game balls and if he tries to ask me any questions about it. Listen, I know this story. If you ask me something you're going to throw me out. That feels like entrapment. It was entrapment.
Speaker 1:Do you think that was the right or wrong call? You say wrong call. He was like you're gone.
Speaker 2:Well, he also told everybody. He said that in umpiring school, shut up. Yes, that was the term used In. Yes, that was the term used in umpiring school. If someone uses the term you or your in direction to your ability of officiating a game is considered a personal attack on your character and is an ejectable offense. I was like well, let me ask you a question then. If I say you're calling a great game today, and I mean it sincerely, there you go. Am I ejected Because I use you or your.
Speaker 1:I just don't, I don't get, I guess I don't get.
Speaker 2:I didn't know there was umpire pronouns Umpires.
Speaker 1:You got to call your umpires the right pronouns. I did not know there was umpire pronouns that.
Speaker 2:Could you gotta call your umpires the right pronouns? I did not know. There was, I think, pronouns that could get you.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I'm really surprised he threw you out, really surprised he threw anybody out. And then I'm really surprised he mentioned umpire school I've never been to umpire school.
Speaker 2:That part got me good do you know anybody that's been to umpire school? No, we need to get jeremy. Ask jeremy see what he thinks. But we ask uh it may be something in existence, but we get clay in here umpire school got me ejected. Oh well, listen, there's.
Speaker 2:The problem is I don't want clay and jordy learning from him and sadly he's like trying to I don't want to use groom in a negative term, but they're being groomed. I don't think we can say being groomed, I'm just like ugh, especially you can't say it, I don't mean it? That way.
Speaker 1:I think Jordy has enough hand on his shoulders to avoid some of those things.
Speaker 2:Listen, jordy has hands full tonight. Oh, in the softball, mm-hmm has hands full. It was in a coach pitch softball game, so shout out, jordy. If you listen to this mess, I hope you made it out there, okay I hope you don't listen I hope you don't sure he doesn't, um, so we record.
Speaker 1:When's the last time we recorded?
Speaker 2:years ago was it years ago, probably sometime in 2023 no, it wasn't really, I think it's march, though um, since then got some updates. Uh, I've had a cluck truck a couple times yeah it's been really good every time I have it for those that don't know, cluck truck, that was the uh food truck that I demolished on an episode and felt bad about months later.
Speaker 1:Probably a year later, wasn't?
Speaker 2:it? It was close yeah, I think it was, and really I had to do a retractment episode.
Speaker 1:Maturity. I feel like the growth that we now we're. You know we can say nice things about them.
Speaker 2:That's because we finally got our chicken.
Speaker 1:Yeah, honestly, it could have went either way, I love you.
Speaker 2:I can still play jokes here. What's funny about Mike?
Speaker 1:is. I think he'd be like if it was shitty the second time. It's okay, you can do the episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But now it's been good a few times.
Speaker 2:It's so funny that it's all intertwined Like we talked about that in one episode. We had Tyler here for an episode. The reason I found forgiveness in my heart was because of Tyler's show, which we need to get Tyler back. We need to get Tyler on.
Speaker 1:This man is popping off right now. Dude, we need to get Tyler back. We need to get Tyler on.
Speaker 2:This man is popping off right now.
Speaker 1:We need to get Tyler on. He wants to do a call. We'll do a call and we'll get him on. Corey Harris is going to come in studio. I was like man, you can call because I know you're busy. He's always on tour and shit.
Speaker 2:What are we talking about with Corey? Are we talking about his time working as a police officer, his time as a musician? I think he probably wants to promote his music His time coaching animals.
Speaker 1:God Can't do it. Oh my gosh, corey, I love you, I had to. I'm sorry, corey, you, you gotta come on the show now defend yourself. So what's funny, what you guys don't know about unpaid lunch is the first plan for a podcast that I had. Um is we just got people on the podcast and then casually had conversations about like conflicts or shit they've been into or stuff, wrongdoings, and it was called if the shoe fits and I still kind of want to do that show and um, I think I need to learn to fight more before I do that show. But Corey, come on and talk about his music. He can talk about his music and hunting.
Speaker 1:We'll talk about hunting. We'll talk about all that, but he wants to come in studio. Micah wants to come in. We got to have Micah over though.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:And then he can cook for us here.
Speaker 2:We'll videotape it. We'll videotape it, we'll just do the whole episode from the beginning.
Speaker 1:He posts shit on Facebook and I'm like what are you doing? You make that it's brunch.
Speaker 2:He makes the prettiest dishes. He was like I'm hungry His ramen and I don't even tried ramen like that, but it looks so good so we're going to pivot. You ready to pivot?
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I'm ready. I'm ready for this.
Speaker 2:Are you doing what I think you're doing? We've done our intro shit here, so what we're going to do now, today's focus which is my focus here soon is the exit interview.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:How many people out there actually go through this, what I call a natural phenomenon. I don't understand why in the hell any company and most all companies do this want to know your opinion about your time, your experience while having worked there. As your ass is going out the door, I think it's the funniest thing. Do you expect it to be glowingly positive? Why would you?
Speaker 1:want to do it. Why would you want to do one of those? Why would you want to offer one of those You're not going to get?
Speaker 2:a true representation.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it's a disconnect, right? I think it's literally the disconnect from the top, Like they think that's what employees want to do and they don't know any better. You know what I mean I think it's a ploy.
Speaker 2:Oh really, I think it's an HR ploy. Please explain. So the reason I think it is an HR ploy is you're able to air any kind of grievances as you're going out the door?
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So I, if you're heading out the door and you throw shade at a specific leader or anything like that, you know that gives them potential reasoning to go and check that out. Sure, but it also gives plausible deniability. They can go and get their story straight with that potential okay, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:Short opinion kind of that's true that doesn't open themselves up to HR fault in the future. That seems super crooked but sounds right.
Speaker 2:I mean, hr's not there for you, no, so Anybody that thinks that HR is there to have your back, hr is there to have a company.
Speaker 1:Funny sidebar One of my good friends at work One of my good friends at work got HR, got an HR job it was a new opening at work got hr, got the got an hr job. It was a new opening at work. And she got hr. And she was. She came from cs, where I came from. You know, I've not been the same department and everything with her, so we kind of talk about work, you know, and I told she's got her new office and shit and like she's going through her training and stuff and I was like you know, I can't talk to you anymore, like we can't, like we can't talk anymore. And she was like stop that. And I was like what do you mean? I was like we can't like we're not gonna I'm gonna come by, I'm gonna talk to you like I'm gonna come, I'm gonna go by your room.
Speaker 1:I'll be like hey, you know, did you have a good lunch? The principal's office yeah, it's the principal's office I told her that she was. She's so mad at me about it. She was like no, we're friends, you come in here we talk. I was like if no, we're friends, you come in here we talk. I was like, if I come in your office and close the door, I'm taking a box out with me. This is what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:No Cheers. Well, I'm all about some rum.
Speaker 1:That was water. I took a shot of water. Where's Keisha when you need her? There's barely any liquor here.
Speaker 2:So, in light of us discussing famed exit interview, we actually have a sample. So bear with me because I'm going to errata the shit out of this as we go through it.
Speaker 1:We're going to get AI to do it. We're too stiff to use AI.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if I start going through it, I don't want to self-incriminate this person, because this is what I would consider a mailbag.
Speaker 1:I did get approval to use it. I asked her if approval to use it. I asked her if I could use it. She said if you remove the. She said if you remove the names uh, and the subjects from it, use it. And then like 20 minutes later she texted me and said fuck it, send it the way it is. And I was like well, I can't send it the way.
Speaker 2:So we're gonna be careful we're not gonna do a full sin, no full sin um. No full sin. Listen, that's good. Listen, just read it. People make fun of me all the time for saying listen. That's like one of my catchphrases, crutch words, but like I've said before, I'm not a fan of two weeks notice. I'm not a fan of this shit.
Speaker 2:I'm getting ready to read, I think it's stupid, yeah, stupid, yeah, but you should just leave all purposes applicable. Don't burn any bridges. You never know when you're going to need that income. So, with that said, we are going to errata. But, like I said, bear with me. I'm going to probably stumble and fumble, but I'm going to make sure we don't say any incriminating bullshit here. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Due to circumstances with COVID exposure, I assume I won't be able to provide my exit interview, as is generally customary. So keep in mind, sitting in stage here, this is definitely a year or two ago, as we were working through our exodus from COVID. As I prepare to start my last shift on what would be a happy day, I find myself sad, upset and angry, but that's nothing unusual, as that's how each of my days have started for at least the past two years. I would first like to make clear that this statement does not reflect my experience as a employee or the people I've worked with, but a direct account of my personal employee experience and representation of the company that I work for, my current jobs description and I'm going basically going to give a vague overview here, because this is an errata, but they basically handle interactions with customers that are full-up, caring 100% About the best way to explain it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've started or typed this sentence at least 50 times a day for the past one and a half years. This is considered an air quotation easy job. Since air quotation, all you have to do is work with customers over this said contact type.
Speaker 1:Let me explain.
Speaker 2:Because you've got to work with Karens. Let me explain what that actually means for the employee. In my time in the position, some of the names that have been called and I'm just going to go ahead and say all-encompassing air quotations, because this is going to be a lot Children earmuffs.
Speaker 1:Sorry for cussing.
Speaker 2:Idiot Dumb bitch Bitch Slumdog which I think is funny Motherfucking asshole.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Dumb cunt. What Useless piece of shit, what. And then the creme de la creme Worthless cock-sucking cunt. Woo, I mean, I know her. That's how you roll. I mean I've.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've been there right On the phone.
Speaker 2:The threads made against me have been, but not limited to, being held down and assaulted by someone of an ethnic persuasion, which is crazy that someone would even say out loud let me stop and put this in perspective for you. The customer wants me to be held down, my legs forced apart and assaulted. We're not calling it air quotations, sexual assault no, call it what it is ugly in the light of day.
Speaker 1:I don't want to say that you don't want to say the word rape.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can say it. Okay, I'm not sure if it gets canceled. I think you to say that you don't want to say the word rape. Yeah, you can say it. Okay, I'm not sure if it gets canceled. I think you can say it. I'm going to skip over it a little bit here.
Speaker 1:It's too much.
Speaker 2:It's very incriminating, but basically it's being told have thicker skin. This next paragraph I would say, or stanza, whatever you want to call it. It's like for the amount of money you're being paid deal with the emotional abuse. Yeah, but let's continue. Other things that I've heard. I hope your family dies.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I hope you get chained up and starved to death. Okay, I hope you get shot up. I'm going to blow your brains out. I want to beat you. I'm going to blow your brains out. I'm going to beat you, then tie you to my car and drag you through the streets. I've seen that done.
Speaker 1:I hope you and your kids burn to death.
Speaker 2:Alright, I will hunt you down and kill you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all that seems accurate.
Speaker 2:That's hot. I'm just saying, that's some good stuff, good quality.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is better than an exit interview. Uh, you asked for it yeah, like I don't.
Speaker 2:Why does anybody want this?
Speaker 1:how do you feel about your time here?
Speaker 2:well, buckle up this isn't just my experience, but it's every employee's experience. There's at least 30 of us going through this during the shift. You know X amount of hours per day, x amount of days per week for the lowest paid rates in this company that we work for.
Speaker 1:That's probably true.
Speaker 2:The effects on my health have been, but not limited to. This sounds like side effects off of a medication not being able to sleep, nightmares when I do, not being able to eat due to nervous or irritated stomach, depression, migraines, hair falling out, panic attacks to the point of being taken to the hospital. Injury to my jaw and its tendons for clenching my teeth so hard. Yeah, I almost kind of wanted to keep adding stuff onto that.
Speaker 1:That sounds accurate.
Speaker 2:This is all stuff that I've read.
Speaker 1:Bologna in my ears.
Speaker 2:Eye drippage, anal seepage it just sounds like a medicine ad I died.
Speaker 1:Stay tuned. After the show, me and Rhino were in studio talking about wrestling, so we decided to just hit record. What we got was almost an hour of wrestling content. And for more wrestling content, check out our other podcasts show and color podcast. On youtube and on spotify put the link in the comments. Thanks for tuning in. And on Spotify, put the link in the comments.
Speaker 2:Thanks for tuning in. All of this is happening while employees are told to approach the customer with an appropriate tone, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1:Et cetera et cetera.
Speaker 2:Like I said, bear with me. I hope that this email inspires change and encourages the company to make the employee decent so that we may continue to function. I'm not 100% sure. I think it's talking about the employee experience.
Speaker 2:I would say I hope that the work environment goes back to the way it was when I first started the job, but that would be a useless statement as that place simply doesn't exist. Hopefully, changes in moving forward will move back towards greatness. I wish people have worked through with me through the years Best of luck and love, as I'm a firm believer in quitting the job and not the people. And trust me, I quit the job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and I think that's a good. Do we have an applaud? I don't even want to use the button. We're using all of it. I feel like that was an appropriate response why would you ask for this?
Speaker 2:I don't understand.
Speaker 1:Could you send us an email letting us know how you feel?
Speaker 2:The concept If you say, all right, you're leaving the company, you're either going to get flamed out.
Speaker 1:It's like a narc list too.
Speaker 2:That's what I said, though Listen to me now Going back to what I said a minute ago. This is, I feel, like an HR propaganda tool. I really do feel like an HR propaganda tool yeah. I really do feel like it is, because it's setting the person leaving. You're giving the false equivalency of a mic to speak your piece.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like this is what went well. I mean, this is you done, pluses and deltas and any place that you went through any type of training?
Speaker 1:How many?
Speaker 2:well training. What went well, what could have went better?
Speaker 1:How many people that feel it out are honest, because if you want to come back, if you ever want to come back, You're going to lie If you ever think you're going to come back. You're not going to tell the truth, You're going to lie. And why would you?
Speaker 2:You're going to tell them what you think they want to hear.
Speaker 1:The same thing is and we did an episode on this and it's the same thing as. This is the application stuff. If you see your buddy walk under the ladder, are you going to rat on him? What do you want me to say, yes or no? I'm going to say yes, that's what you want me to say.
Speaker 2:I'm going to do whatever you need me to do to secure the position. What do you need to?
Speaker 1:hear from me right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the next interview interview is would you, it depends ever work here again so that's the mindset like kind of we said we alluded to a little while ago. Do you want to burn the bridge or do you want to maintain the bridge? Do you want to maintain that return traffic to be able to come back into that place of business? If so, you're not going to tell any type of truth, you're not going to give any type of. It's going to be purely anecdotal.
Speaker 1:Anything you say is going to be anecdotal my I I done one because I gave a notice at, uh, my last job and left on good terms and I could probably go back if I ever needed to. I don't know what sort of terrible life circumstance would happen, for I need to go back there. I mean, I guess I'd lose my job, quit your job, um. But I remember the exit interview and you remember who my boss was and I remember her being like are you going to take this serious? And they've been like how the fuck could I take this serious? And she was like I know, I'm just going to fill it out for you. This is what I think it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was like yeah, that sounds good. Can we call her softball mom 45 or something like that. Is that who it is? No, oh, it's the other one. Smalls, oh, biggie Smalls.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I love both of them. Yeah, both good people.
Speaker 1:I'm seeing Zoom through the kitchen, my orange cat flying through the kitchen. My whole family's asleep. We're recording late at night, in the middle of the week. There's no school, but everybody's crashed. Is your family sleeping? You left?
Speaker 2:no, no, just my dog pissed in the bed. Your dog, yeah.
Speaker 1:So my wife was mad can I ask you a question? Yes about the dog. I thought it was dead it's a different dog.
Speaker 2:Okay, remember we got two dogs. The other dog got over and got killed I was like man, I forgot you had two dogs but I was like, my dog's name is not church. I was like are we? I forgot you had two dogs. But I was like are we not? Even my dog's name is not.
Speaker 1:Church. I was like are we not going to talk about it?
Speaker 2:What's going on? No, that was tragic. Oh, I'm sorry. Like I told y'all, like you don't understand the perfect storm of shit that's literally hit both of us over the last couple months. It's been rough.
Speaker 1:Well, I didn't talk to you for like a week and then, and then when you, when I sent you, the message was like what's going on? And you and you said all the shit and you're like, oh, and my dog died. And I was like what the fuck man?
Speaker 2:like literally while he was messaging me, I was digging a hole.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were like oh and I'm, and I'm buried my dog like it's fine.
Speaker 1:Tears rolling down my face, everything's falling apart, my house is on fire, it's okay yeah, um, but now we're here, look at us and um kind of exit interview I wanted to talk about with that is we're seeing like this string of call centers opening in the area and people are going, like people are leaving and going places like call center hopping, yeah, and it always, it always reminds me that the grass is not greener when you think it is. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like a lot of places, it okay so you're going from point a to point b, but not much is changing in my case it ended up beneficial for me because I ended up in it right.
Speaker 2:But when you're going from call center to call center and I've done that too or not even call center, like grocery stores, you know, gas stations, anything, well, the the equivalency for all of us that when we left gamestop, if you go back and look at most of the store managers that I was partners with in the district, they all went to mobile phone sales.
Speaker 1:Really? Oh, because it's very relatable. It's a very relatable field, Very relatable. So a lot of them went to AT&T T-Mobile US.
Speaker 2:Cellular See, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Most of us did. Same because it's still the same format. It's service sales on the floor. Attachment on the fly attach, attach, attach, attach.
Speaker 1:Oh, you want to buy a phone. Okay, or do?
Speaker 2:you want this insurance? Do you want this OtterBox? Boom, boom, boom, boom boom. You're trying to get as much UPT units per transaction that you can on every single thing so naturally these phone sales companies are looking at GameStop managers and GameStop employees and saying we don't want to trade these people.
Speaker 1:They're already trained.
Speaker 2:They've been trained for years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't have to do nothing with them.
Speaker 2:When, naturally, everything went digital which I mean, like you said, grass is not always greener Like looking back and I have such fond memories of GameStop and I go back in these GameStops now and they are just a freaking relic of the past. Man, oh dude, it's just not the same thing, man, like I know, probably most of our listener base has probably got an affinity for video games and things like that. I mean, if we're telling you to quit your job, you're probably at home stone playing Destiny 2 or some shit.
Speaker 2:You're probably stone playing Destiny, yeah, so mean let's be real, we're probably hitting that demographic, so to speak. But you go into these stores now and most of y'all know exactly what we're talking about. It's a desolate wasteland, and by that I mean it's just Fallout Pops.
Speaker 1:Dude it's.
Speaker 2:Fallout Pops and discount toys. So I go in there and try to make money off discount T-shirts toys and like I.
Speaker 1:So I go in there and try to make money off discount shirts and it I feel abused by the, by the worker, because he's just fucking like I'm the only person he's seen all day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he's like, so he's like a tracking me down yeah, that's been dropped off on top of a mountain with no food, and they're just like love me, give me attention, me attention, did I?
Speaker 1:Was I.
Speaker 2:Let me show you shit.
Speaker 1:Did we record? I can't remember if I said this on the wrestling podcast, but about GameStop negotiating with me.
Speaker 2:No. So, Over a prize. Oh no, I mean, you had that conversation. They were haggling with you over a prize, right? Yeah, and I've never seen it. That's because it doesn't exist. Yeah, it shouldn't right? No, it does not exist like there is.
Speaker 1:It's not freaking furniture sales they're not able to like go in and say this is the price, this is if I said this on unpaid lunch, I apologize, but I do not think I talked about it on paid lunch so I was buying. They had discount like wrestling figures, like aw figures, like AW figures and there's some exclusive like the Street Fighter AW figures and some exclusive Luchador figures and I knew that just from forums and stuff that GameStop had been discounting those like drastically, like dropping them to pennies, getting rid of them. Well, I went in and Dead merchandise.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he had four on the shelf and two of them. I went in and it's dead merchandise, yeah, and he had four on the shelf and two of them I didn't have. And the only way I was going to buy the other two if I was going to be able to resell them and get them enough price to resell them, because you know, just make room there to get something else.
Speaker 2:It's a game-changer with a profit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I didn't make any, I got. Yeah, I got the first one. And like I got the first one, I was like, can you check the price on this? And he was. He told me how much it was and I was like, ah, that's, that's okay, I'll get that one. I was like I'm gonna get that one, but if the other ones are the full price, I'm just gonna wait on those. If they're like, it was like 15, I want them for seven and because that's how much that one was. And he was like, uh, I could probably do like eight on them if you want them now.
Speaker 2:And I was like, like it's a flea market, like I fucking yeah.
Speaker 1:I looked around. There's nobody else in the store. I looked around and was like what do you mean? And he was like I could just price them down to eight and I was like, all right, it's like bet. I was like, what about this one? And I picked up a totally different figure from a whole different line.
Speaker 1:It's it's like bet, I was like what about this one and I picked up a totally different figure from a whole different line. It's it's super seven. It's not even the same line, it's not even a main line, probably supposed to be still full price yeah and he was like yeah, I could probably do 10 on that. I was like all right, man, this is fucking awesome.
Speaker 2:Well, the problem is I mean, this could change drastically but everything that is action figure, loot t-shirts, etc, etc.
Speaker 1:It's almost like a 55 profit margin on this oh sure like if it's 10 bucks, they pay 450 well, and it empties the peg on something that's not sailing, I mean, and everything they have is point of sale anyway.
Speaker 2:So when you sell something it zeros it out in the system. It's something they ain't got to worry about in the inventory yeah especially the inventory's coming up. They want to free this all that, shit is just nothing, all the worst thing ever in the world was the drop ships that came during the holiday season. Oh yeah, like when they bring in a drop ship freaking and you can't get rid of that cardboard cutout that's got 65 freaking afterglow controllers on it.
Speaker 2:Those things were a freaking nightmare because, a they didn't sell, b they were the highest theft area in the entire store yeah they just were, or if you sold it nine percent like there'd be like wired controllers, they come back in three days broken. Yeah, I don't know why we ever sold that shit.
Speaker 1:Um, and they're right in the front of the fucking store like walk in the door, take one, leave interview there huh, I didn't get an exit interview there really, and you quit on good terms, didn't on good terms do you think there's?
Speaker 2:do they not do them? They may not do. It may not be general practice there, we don't deal hr you left there for your current job yes, yes, that was god seven years ago you're something there, you're something else. Well, I mean, the writing was on the wall. Yeah, no I mean it's a good thing that you left. Obviously you go from five, six, 700 people to Call of Duty Midnight Launch to 125. Your job's going away. Oh yeah, your job is slowly going away. Open your eyes.
Speaker 1:Well, turns out, you'd still have it.
Speaker 2:I wonder what they get paid now I don't know, but I know they don't work anymore. Oh man, like the hours of operation at GameStop is absurd.
Speaker 1:now. They're not even real.
Speaker 2:No, they're not even like we're open at 3 pm to 7 pm today.
Speaker 1:Come by they're scheduled from noon to 8. Yeah, right, noon to 8. To eight yeah, right, noon to eight.
Speaker 2:So they're only open eight hours. Yep, okay, so you need three employees if you're open eight hours. I would say three is the top end, because I mean you could make it with two.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but if someone goes on vacation you're fine yeah, I think, I think three, you could have four. You could have a part-timer somewhere. You know what I mean to split.
Speaker 2:So you used to, you would do like non-keyholder positions. I don't think. Yeah, that probably doesn't even exist now.
Speaker 1:Especially not if they're only open eight hours.
Speaker 2:Everyone has to be a keyholder.
Speaker 1:And what I was going to say is they're not actually even open eight hours. You go over there at two o'clock and he has a sign up. So let me tell you what the dumbest sign people can put up the dumbest sign people can put up ever is be back in 10 minutes. Yeah, it's 45. Bitch. Let me tell you why. I don't know when you fucking left. No, that don't make any sense to me. It could have been four fucking hours to go. You could be dead. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I need a time. I think it was two minutes ago. Can you put time on there? You know what we need. I'll be back in 10 minutes. Be back at 1257.
Speaker 1:Old school clothes signs that had the fucking little clock on it, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:You like spin.
Speaker 1:Every pharmacy ever has them. But yeah, there's some people leaving. The grass is greener shit. There's some people that are. I heard rumblings that there's like a larger call center company that's going to be laying people off Not either of our companies. Really. Yeah, I don't know if I can say any more than that, because I don't know how real it is and some of it involves some people I know. I'll tell you how real it is and some of it involves some people I know, so I'll tell you later what it is. It's like kind of who you work for, but kind of not.
Speaker 2:Hmm.
Speaker 1:Like the people have left your place. A few people have left your place to work for it, but Ah, but um, ah but uh.
Speaker 2:so what just happened was me writing down the sick company on a whiteboard.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but if that happens, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2:I can see that happening.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we'll talk about it. And uh, we lost some people to there, so I'd say yeah, I'd say they'll be coming back A lot, yeah, we were talking.
Speaker 2:Grass is brown now and brown like shit. But I mean, it is what it is, I don't blame them, take off. I mean you got to do what you got to do. You at the end of the day, listen, guys, gals, everyone, people.
Speaker 1:Well, you know we're not going to get too deeply into it, but God, inflation is fucking killing all of us bro, I was thinking about, I made, I was thinking about when I worked at double quick in 2006 and I made thousand six, seven and eight and I made nine, 15 hour and it was awesome, you were living comfortably it was so much money.
Speaker 2:Listen, between me and my wife, if you lump our hourly salaries together, it's probably around $40, $45 an hour. You know, 10 years ago, if you said you had a family, one person was making, like, say, $20 an hour, the other one was making $20 to to 25, that's healthy income.
Speaker 1:And what you guys make is great money. That's great money.
Speaker 2:It was.
Speaker 1:It's not now it should be.
Speaker 2:It is not now. No, that table this. This is an episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we will Like the cost of working, because even working I spend so much money going it's not cost of living, it's cost of working I spend so much money going to work. It's crazy.
Speaker 2:Look that, just worked out the name of it. So cost of work, god, look at us living just had to get us back in here, baby.
Speaker 1:That's all you had to do. Um, we're gonna have nick on nick johnson. I've been talking to Nick a lot lately and he's back in the work flow, the great Montana wonder. He's been.
Speaker 2:Was it Montana or Iowa, I can't remember. He's been, he's been harassing us over Jeopardy is what he's been doing.
Speaker 1:He's been on a tire. Oh yeah, Wants us to go play Trios Jeopardy with him. I feel like he's going to be disappointed in us.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:We played Trio's Jeopardy, he would know more than we do. Oh, 100%. Or is it football or movie related? We cannot help you. I also think me and you do a lot of good things together, but I don't think trivia would be really good together, because we know the same shit. Yeah, we don't know different shit.
Speaker 2:We don't accentuate each other's weaknesses. Yeah, it would not be good.
Speaker 1:It's like history.
Speaker 2:questions One bald fat guy and one fat guy with a ponytail.
Speaker 1:I can only answer history questions if there was a movie directly related to them. You know what I mean. I can tell you what happened.
Speaker 2:It's got to be some type of movie, video game, TV show-driven anecdote. It's got to be some type of movie, video game, TV show-driven anecdote.
Speaker 1:I can tell you what happened during the Civil War or the Revolutionary War to a specific family you know. I can tell you the Patriot.
Speaker 2:I don't even think that's real though.
Speaker 1:No, I know, but in history If Mel Gibson directed it, it has to be real. It's just as real as fucking history books. I ain't seen none of that shit. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Any movie that has Lucius Malfoy with a sword.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I'm here for it. I miss.
Speaker 1:Toe Glad you know it.
Speaker 2:We need Toe back.
Speaker 1:Toe is still on that wagon that he doesn't think people want to hear him. He can get over that shit. I hope he ends up coaching football and he wants me to help him.
Speaker 2:We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1:And we know that won't get there. So it is one in the morning.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's not one in the morning yet. We're rolling through it and the grass is greener.
Speaker 2:Uh, grass is greener until you get an exit interview.
Speaker 1:The grass is greener until you get an exit interview and I like how those rolled so good together and I'm hoping that I don't ever have to do any more exit interviews ever in my life. But I think I would, uh, but I think at this point in my life I'm probably too honest to do one. Yeah, I feel like when I left my lap the last place I was not in that, that mental state no, I agree with you.
Speaker 2:Um, so, let's, let's do it right here. We're closing out this episode.
Speaker 1:Let's do an exit interview here I'm just kidding, I don't want to ask questions because I feel like HR is going to be up my ass. Have you been satisfied with your time here?
Speaker 2:I have been satisfied with my time here, unsatisfied with my time away. We need to figure out how to make it to where we can call each other remote, make this work out. I'm not going to say anything else because I may need this job later. Love you, bye.
Speaker 1:Love you. Bye, Don't let the door hit you on the way out. This is the point of the show where we would ask everybody else in the studio if they have anything else other than just us. But nobody's here and we don't have anything else because, um, we're gonna go to bed bedtime hey, remember that nobody's stopping you quitting your job, but you show and color podcast. Uh, in studio with rhino. Um, it's just me and him, wes and Wynone Claybo's here, but he's asleep. What is this show? Where am I?
Speaker 1:at it's the other room. Ryan's here To talk wrestling Because we've just recorded Unpaid Lunch and we're hanging out Feeling alright, yeah, ready to record some stuff. And he wants to talk about AEW, because his favorite thing On earth is AEW.
Speaker 2:Listen, I mean, I'm all like y'all. Do whatever you need to do. If you need to have your Ford and your Chevy and wrestling promotions, you do whatever you need to do.
Speaker 1:But let me, let me pause you.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:The new episode, the episode I just edited, the episode coming out tonight, may 30th. Okay, right, I mentioned you.
Speaker 1:I don't mention you specifically oh shit okay but we go over aw double or nothing, like we predict it, and we literally talk about it for like two minutes because we don't give a fuck about it. Yeah, and I was like we're over it. I was like I, I said specifically that you wouldn't come on the podcast because you didn't want to talk about aw, I mean, and and I said I know, I know, I know, I get it. That was more of a joke. But then I said I'm starting to come around to it, like I'm starting to come around to it I think competition is amazing.
Speaker 2:Let's be honest Until AEW came around, wwe was floundering, was it not? Oh, yeah, it was putting out very subpar performances. I mean, you had things like New Japan and all these other. You know what I would consider ad hoc. They're almost territories. They're territories and I won't piss off some New Japan loyalists and things like that and I apologize up front. It's just not something I follow.
Speaker 1:It's not for everybody. That's why you don't love AEW.
Speaker 2:So I'll be up front. I'll explain why I don't like AEW. I'm a bitch. I like my wrestling to have plot. Yeah, I don't think that makes you a bitch. I like to imagine that the Coen brothers are directing my wrestling.
Speaker 1:We like soap operas baby.
Speaker 2:I want my male soap opera right. So I can have a male soap opera, or I can have the Looney Tunes where they just bash each other over the top of the head with sticks of acne dynamite for 15 minutes. It looks cool, a lot of explosions. It's like a michael bay movie a lot of shit blowing up and going on. It's a spot fest to me. That's just to me personally. I like the slow burn like I like all right cool.
Speaker 2:You fucking love the bloodline morning, oh god I was literally getting ready to talk about sammy. So I'm here for sammy getting embarrassed, getting freaking, clamped down in a gigantic, oversized mousetrap by johnny knoxville, then all of a sudden realizing oh my god, my career is shit. What do I do? I hitch my wagon to roman reigns and then, all of a sudden, we have literally a storyline that's been going on for two and a half years yeah, and still kind of like shows up sometimes still relevant.
Speaker 2:He still slides in the ring and beats up you know he still pops in, but how much longer does that happen? I'm telling you right now. Man's gonna make a return. He's gonna be throwing that one up in the air by the end of this year oh, I think he'll be back.
Speaker 1:I think he'll be back at um, I'm not about roman oh, I'm not about sammy.
Speaker 2:oh, you think sammy talking about Sammy? Oh, you think Sammy back with him. I think by the end of this year Sammy will be in War Games On the good side. On the good side, yeah, I think On face Roman Reigns side.
Speaker 1:I think War Games this year is bloodline versus bloodline. I think so Again, good versus bad 100%. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think With Cody and Sammy, good versus bad 100. Yeah, I think with cody and sammy and and what I mean you kind of talked about here in a second and we'll probably, you know, transition into this. We were talking about summer slam, but it's all part of the great grand picture, right? And then this is just me and him drinking, musing over yeah, I feel great, I feel pretty good right now. So this is just bullshitting, but all right, let's talk about survivor series, so war games. In my opinion, you're gonna have tamatanga, you're gonna have solo, you're gonna have the other tanga, because I've drank too much. I can't remember what's right now. Whatever that, I can't say his name. And then who's the fourth?
Speaker 1:uh, it's the rock, yeah, it's the rock, it's the rock.
Speaker 2:The rock is the travel chief it's 100% the rock the rock is the travel chief, so he's gonna be the head of the table, essentially.
Speaker 1:I absolutely, I absolutely agree with you. Can I ask you this, this yeah, do you think Paul Heyman will be with them at that point?
Speaker 2:No, I think Paul Heyman will help transition to the other side.
Speaker 1:Really, you want me to tell you where I think Paul Heyman's going to be. Where do you think he's going to be Bron?
Speaker 2:Breaker yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah probably. I think Pierce Bron Breaker is Brock Les Braun.
Speaker 2:I think and we'll come back to me bitching about AEW here- Remind me to come back to Work or Shoot.
Speaker 1:I want to do a Work or Shoot segment with you.
Speaker 2:So let me ask you this On AEW, who would be the perfect Paul Heyman guy? And then we'll transition back to War Games.
Speaker 1:Who would be the perfect? Paul Heyman guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Braun Breaker to war games. Who'd be perfect bohemian guy. Yeah, braun breaker on aw, oh aw, it's mjf. Oh, dude, fuck. Oh, my god, that makes me that gets me off.
Speaker 2:So this is the part that I hate. I mean, let's be honest, mjf is aw cm punk, but post cm punk right yeah, he likes to hear himself talk he comes out in a blue jean jacket trying to say oh to triple h. You can't tell me that wasn't planned to wear the Triple H blue jean jacket. Dude, he knew. So here's the thing. Is WWE talking about AEW? Fuck, no, don't care, that's when you know you're king. I'm just saying Call me a mark. That's when you know you're king.
Speaker 1:What's the travel tattoo? Lifted truck saying that they say all the time is that lions don't uh, um, lions don't concern themselves with the oh, with the opinions of opinions of sheep yep yeah, travel tattoo lifted truck. Yep, tiny penis yep, tiny penis.
Speaker 2:Uh, what was? Uh, don't tread on me no step on snack yep, there we got it. But like I know I'm I'm detracting, I'm kind of bouncing off it's not you, it's captain but it's just. Yeah, it's the captain. But I mean, if you really think about it, it's like every single thing that everyone's like woo aw is, it's a jab at wwe and it's because someone's got their feelings hurt. So, yeah, I just sorry.
Speaker 2:Aw fans, fuck off anywho like I said, I've not been on this show. I don't know if this show is ready for me yet. But back to war games. Who do you see on the other side taking on the tama tonga twins whatever you want to freaking call them um so?
Speaker 1:who did you say on the bad side?
Speaker 2:Rock Tonga, tonga Solo, okay. Roman.
Speaker 1:Usos who's?
Speaker 2:going to be the fourth.
Speaker 1:See, I don't think so though. Here's what has to happen, though Jacob is somewhere in the mix Because he signed. We think he signed Because he signed doesn't mean he's coming. Yeah, that's true. Okay, so if Jacob doesn't show up, it's Sammy, it's Sammy.
Speaker 2:But here's the thing If Jacob shows up, what's going to have a more vital impact to WWE fandom? Another Random Apologize. This is going to sound Incense to Another random Samoan that we don't really know much about. Or seeing Sammy come back Into the fold as the honorary Oos. The honorary Oos Is going to get the bigger pop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think a lot of stuff Depends on it, right? I guess it depends on what Cody's doing, because you know, but it would make sense For me. On what Cody's doing because you know, but it would make sense for me if it's Roman and the Usos to be seen.
Speaker 2:The worst thing they could do is be Roman and the Usos and throw Cody into it. Don't do that, yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 1:If it was five people, you'd have Cody. Don't do that.
Speaker 2:That would be so freaking bad.
Speaker 1:Of course, we don't know where that's going to be.
Speaker 2:We don't know.
Speaker 1:Where Gunther's going to be he can do whatever he wants.
Speaker 2:I think that's a good transition to SummerSlam. We're at the point now where King and Queen of the Ring is done. We do know that Gunther is going to get his King.
Speaker 2:General. We knew right off the bat, you know, I know, we all know it wasn't going to get his general. And we knew right off the bat you know, I know, we all know it wasn't gonna be cody. Right, if it was going to be cody, randy would have won, yeah. So I think that right up front, when I was watching, you know, king of the ring, I said, all right, we're going to tell right now what the plan is for summer slam, whether it be Randy or Gunda. So with that happening, now you've got Damien Priest, drew man I don't see Drew coming out of. Give your Damien, take my Damien take. I think Damien drops at.
Speaker 1:Clash, I really do.
Speaker 2:And here's the sole reason for this Every time we go to a foreign property, we go into a foreign place, dignitary, whatever you want to call it, they pander to one person.
Speaker 1:It's true.
Speaker 2:I mean like we went to Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1:It'd be crazy for Drew not to win.
Speaker 2:Sammy wasn't even the main act on the card, but he always shows out at Saudi Arabia when he's able to go there. Going to Per, there, going to Perth I mean it was all about Rhea. Perth was awesome. I mean, france was just France. The starring actor in France was France.
Speaker 1:Hey, listen, that show sucked without them.
Speaker 2:I agree 100%. Like I said, King and Queen of the Ring, that was like a 6 out of 10 for me.
Speaker 1:I was not a fan. I recently did the review of that. It was okay. It wasn't great.
Speaker 2:That's about how we felt the IC match. You know that was my favorite match on the card, but everything else didn't do much for me.
Speaker 1:That's how we felt too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, man, it's going into SummerSlam. It all is going to be fully predicated on. How is CM Punk's injury?
Speaker 1:So I forget about Punk being relevant, like who he's going to find out in Scotland whether Punk is injured or not. What?
Speaker 2:I mean, is he will cost Drew the title If?
Speaker 1:Drew wins, then that means he's going to Punk ain't ready. See, I disagree.
Speaker 2:I'm the other way around.
Speaker 1:Really, I'm the other way around. I think they're setting up.
Speaker 2:We've already had Drew Gunta. How many times now?
Speaker 1:Well, I think Drew Punk is the next match that we're going to see Punk in, but it kind of sucks Gunther, Gunther, Gunther, Gunther.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it sucks too.
Speaker 1:I like hearing them say Gunther, samantha doing it. I think it sucks. I think it would suck seeing CM Punk come back in his first match as a title match.
Speaker 2:I don't think it needs to be a title match.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm going with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so let's say we go to Scotland and then once again Punk cost him the title, right? You let at that that point. Damien walk out, you get the Damien Gunther Build to SummerSlam. Cm Punk and Drew has been Built now for months. It was basically the card, it was basically the agenda that was built to replace Seth Rollins.
Speaker 1:Punk's so good that he can just have heat all the time.
Speaker 2:There was no one else to replace the Seth Rollins heat going into that head-to-head combat other than Drew. The whole entire Drew t-shirt cost you your WrestleMania moment. All of that, that should be SummerSlam. Me personally, and like you said, it's all predicated on the fact of whether or not he's healthy or not. Let's say he is healthy. I think you have Drew CM Punk at SummerSlam.
Speaker 1:No title.
Speaker 2:No title, not two main events. Now, if CM Punk is not healthy, would not be surprised to see a triple threat? Oh, be surprised to see a triple threat. Oh yeah, I think a triple threat happens.
Speaker 1:You know that triple threat at King and Queen, the Sammy and Gable and Godzilla. Yeah, big Bronson Reed, that was a great match. It was the best match of the car yeah it was a very good match so I'll watch a good triple threat. Problem with the triple threat is they usually put somebody in who's going to sit outside the ring most of the time, uh-huh. But I think when triple threats are rushed they end up in better matches. I know that sounds crazy when there's not much stalling, I think if it becomes elongated.
Speaker 2:It's hard to have three dudes fighting each other. That's why Fatal 4-Way is just simply better than Triple Threat in my opinion. That's why I don't like Triple Threat for a title On that card. Let's say, we go into full-blown SummerSlam prediction. That'll be our theme here.
Speaker 1:And it's two. No, it's one night this year. It's one night this year.
Speaker 2:It's one night this year, this year's one night, next year's when it goes to two. Now, that is I think 2026,.
Speaker 1:I think 2026,?
Speaker 2:yep, you're right. So before we even get into, let's say SummerSlam, let's have some drunken musings and see if we can try to predict SummerSlam card Before we get there, like you just said big statement big announcement Are you ready? From Daddy Paul Is in 2020. I know, come on, paul Triple H Levesque. If we get to 2026 and the world doesn't end by that point, we are getting basically a summer WrestleMania, a lot of people hate it.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's more wrestling. Why would you not? I think it's been needed for quite some time. Yeah, you have one every six months, one big, huge, all-weekend pay-per-view.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know why people wouldn't be for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'd be great.
Speaker 2:I mean, the big four is not the big four anymore. Yeah, let's be honest, it's not the big four anymore.
Speaker 1:No, the big big four anymore. No for ples no, it's just mania and summer slam, I mean it's really mania and royal rumble, royal rumble.
Speaker 2:Yeah, preceded summer slam, I agree survivor series has taken the back seat to all of them uh, which is funny, because survivor series used to be awesome survivor series was phenomenal in the 90s. Yeah, it just had a weird crisis of um there's nothing to do with it. There's not. It's because it's a faction war that anymore they build it out before in the past is like hey, let's throw a hodgepodge. Random amalgamation of people in together like them start wrestling each other and dusty roads.
Speaker 2:That has some random fucking ass team. You know. You didn't know what you were working with or working against. Um. Freaking ted db, I would see, you know, obviously brings in the undertaker. So a lot has changed. Um, but now is purely just a way to eradicate a faction war. That they build up between you know whatever like this feels that way too.
Speaker 1:War games always feels that way too yeah that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:But War Games is a faction war. Now, that's all it is. So what you'll probably end up having once you get to War Games is some damage control. It's going to probably be damage control again, because it's the only faction that's got four or five people. I'm sick of damage control. I hate them.
Speaker 1:I'm so done with them.
Speaker 2:I'm so done with them. I'm so done with them.
Speaker 1:And you know what? Individually, I don't hate them. No, I don't. I like Kairi Sane, I think she's a good wrestler.
Speaker 2:I think her moves are good.
Speaker 1:I think her finisher's fucking awesome. I think her gimmick is good. Yep, get out of that fucking group. Oscar Hall of Famer Yep, get out of that fucking group. That group's ruining everybody.
Speaker 2:You pull Bayley out. Bayley's getting the pops of all pops now.
Speaker 1:I get really confused because Bayley gets the pops and they don't put her on TV.
Speaker 2:She's aware of it though.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You've seen her kind of come out and be very, very disgruntled with how her character's proposed yeah, and be very, very disgruntled with how her character is proposed yeah, she's never there. She's never there. So let's see. How many matches do you want to say?
Speaker 1:I don't know how many matches are there.
Speaker 2:I mean we can't say there's more than five a night Summer Slam. Let's say six, six a night. Well, right now, like we said before, we got sidetracked. 2026 SummerSlam is going to two nights?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, fuck, hold on, we're not predicting two nights.
Speaker 2:We're not predicting two nights.
Speaker 1:We're predicting one night.
Speaker 2:Five hours, which is huge because we're getting basically summer WrestleMania.
Speaker 1:Five hours, six matches eight matches, yep.
Speaker 2:So right now we're looking at, let's say, three. Three and a half hours is what you're going to get for SummerSlam.
Speaker 1:I think it's going to be five, five hours. I think it'd be four, four and a half, something like that.
Speaker 2:It never runs that long.
Speaker 1:I think it will this year.
Speaker 2:Let's split the gap and say four.
Speaker 1:It's usually about three and a half yeah it's usually about three and a half, three and a quarter.
Speaker 2:Let's say four.
Speaker 1:And keep in mind. Building up to that, we have Clash at the Castle At least five matches.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna throw. There has to be six, right.
Speaker 1:There has to be six matches.
Speaker 2:Let's say six matches. I think six, six matches.
Speaker 1:Remember that time your pen didn't work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not working, but I know I'm right down Because I'm drunk. Okay, I'm gonna shake up this Freaking marker and it's going to work.
Speaker 1:It is going to work.
Speaker 2:It works better than nothing, alright, sweet, there you go. Sweet, let's do it. Six matches. How many title matches do we have?
Speaker 1:here. You can't have a SummerSlam without Cody Cody's going to have the title.
Speaker 2:Here's the kicker Cody's. Not even that important and here's the reason why I say that Bubby SummerSlam's in Cleveland. Yeah, logan's hometown.
Speaker 1:So that's why I don't understand why the Paul Cody match wasn't safe for SummerSlam. That seemed like to me. Well, because I guess they're going to try to give Knight the title somewhere, because Logan is a multimedia superstar. Yeah, that's his hometown. He's going to be in it, for sure.
Speaker 2:Yep, so let's do your predictions. We'll do my predictions. How about we do that? We'll say yours and then we'll say mine.
Speaker 1:I think SummerSlam. I think Logan Paul drops the title to LA Knight at SummerSlam.
Speaker 2:So Logan Paul versus LA Knight for the US title. Okay, what else we got? I like that matchup. I feel like we've been building towards LA Knight and Logan Rhea's not going to be back. I don't, that might be where Rhea is. I don't think she's back, but I think she shows up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Kind of like Ronda, or not Ronda, lord Becks a few years ago, whenever she showed up against Bianca and turned heel. I think you could see something like that. I don't see Liv dropping the title prior to. Liv probably wouldn't have had much interaction, in my opinion, at Clash of the Castle because of all the stuff that's going on with Becky right now. Yeah, the behind the scenes of is her contract valid? Is it not valid? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think Finn Balor Demon is going to be at SummerSlam Demon Finn versus who? What doesn't make sense to me, I guess, is if the McIntyre-Priest, if McIntyre and Priest continues the way it is, then there's no reason for Finn to have that matchup. But I don't know how that's going to work, but I'm always feeling like Finn Damien. Maybe it's not even for a title.
Speaker 2:So you feel like at that point we've seen full-on Judgment Day implosion. I think so Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because then I think you're going to have the shit with that match, could have the shit with see that, don't I?
Speaker 2:just have a hard time. Have you weighed time or implication, or do you think at this point there's an implosion? Finn's cost, damien the time.
Speaker 1:I just have a hard time with that, because who's the heel in Damon Finn versus Damien?
Speaker 2:I think it's Damon Finn.
Speaker 1:Has Damon Finn ever been a heel?
Speaker 2:I mean he's too fucking cool to be a heel that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:You want him to win. Didn't he win the title as Damon? Yeah Right, he was hurt.
Speaker 2:He lost to Edge as Damon, though yeah, he was hurt. He lost to Edge as Demon, though yeah.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But he did lose to Edge as.
Speaker 1:Demon and Edge being the babyface.
Speaker 2:No, you gotta remember Edge split his wig. Edge was a heel. I, edge, was considered the babyface in that match.
Speaker 1:Okay, Might work then, because that's kind of where my head was.
Speaker 2:It was still Judgment Day, and this was post-Exodus Edge. Leaving Judgment Day, they both went to their dark place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the dark place Going through. I don't know there's got to be a women's match Bayley's title. I don't even know there's got to be a women's match Bayley's title Because I don't know who Liv's going to lose. I think Bayley's not going to have the title by SummerSlam. I think Nia's going to be the champion by SummerSlam.
Speaker 2:Well, nia, that's when Nia gets her title chance.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's SummerSlam, so it's Nia, so it's.
Speaker 2:Nia.
Speaker 1:So you want to say Nia. It doesn't make sense for her to choose Bayley, so it's probably Leah.
Speaker 2:She's on SmackDown, oh so Bayley.
Speaker 1:Nia's on SmackDown.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it will be Bayley in my opinion I agree. So, far, that's the only one I agree with you on Gunther.
Speaker 1:I mean it has to be Gunther versus Cody.
Speaker 2:Right, probably Goonther Versus.
Speaker 1:Drew, if Drew's the title. That's what I'm saying, because my two and three, if you, have Finn and Damien.
Speaker 2:Likelihood is Damien's. Dropped the title.
Speaker 1:Damien's dropped the title, so Goonther, goonther, drew makes sense.
Speaker 2:Drew For the heavyweight title.
Speaker 1:Because everybody wants To see that anyway. I know we've seen it, but everybody wants to see it again Because it was great.
Speaker 2:I mean been banger after banger. Banger after banger. So now I'm Bailey for title match. And tag champs there's got to be a tag.
Speaker 1:Austin Tree's not going to have it by the end. I think Down Under.
Speaker 2:A-Town Down Under.
Speaker 1:Yeah, drops it to DIY. Okay, that make sense, mm-hmm. And it has to be a women's tag. It has to be the last match has to be a women's tag. It has to be the last match has to be a women's tag. I think it's stupid that Bianca and Jade have the titles anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what this is going to culminate to.
Speaker 1:Zoe and Shayna.
Speaker 2:You think it's versus Zoe and Shayna?
Speaker 1:Zoe and Shayna, with Sonya Deville as a manager Okay, cause she's playing Big manager games Right now. That's my predictions and I'm Sticking to them.
Speaker 2:That's all folks. Okay, the only one that I agree with. Yeah, I'm going to give you Nye versus Bailey, the only one that I agree with yeah. I'm going to give you Nia versus Bayley.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the easy one.
Speaker 2:I'm going to give you Nia Bayley. I'm going to say Gunther Versus Damien.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like that. How far off is.
Speaker 2:SummerSlam Two months. Well, do some building by then. Three you realize you just put a SummerSlam card out without Cody Rhodes. I'm just throwing that out there, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 2:I'm just throwing it out there.
Speaker 1:I know that, just making sure.
Speaker 2:That's why I got lost in Demon Finn.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say Cody versus Rock, that's dirty, I'm going to say Cody Rock. God, it's going to happen quick.
Speaker 2:I think it's going to happen quick, but I don't think the end game is what we all anticipate. Cody's going to beat the Rock. In my opinion, that's what's going to sit us on the downward spiral to war games. Yeah, I think SummerSlam is when you see a return of Roman. I think it's when we finally see Roman. Yeah, I can see that. I think that's going to be a catalyst for seeing Roman.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't have any main event Jey Uso in there.
Speaker 2:You ain't got no Uso. I got no Bloodline, so there's going to be Bloodline, yeah. So in my opinion, I think that's Clash of the.
Speaker 1:Castles, how's fantasy booking?
Speaker 2:It's fantasy booking's fine, you're going to get my fantasy booking here in just a second, but I think Cody and Rock starts us on the spiral towards War Games, which is inevitably going to set us down the path towards rock Roman at Mania. I mean, let's get real, it's going to be rock Roman at Mania. We know what we're getting.
Speaker 1:We're going to arrive there.
Speaker 2:At some point we have to start that narrative that gets us from point A to point B. I think that starts at SummerSlam. Okay, do you want fantasy booking now, or do you want me to save that for six?
Speaker 1:Just save it, save it. I think it's a six.
Speaker 2:We'll save it for six. I think it's going to be hot. The Bianca Jade versus Zoe Shayna. I think that happens at Clash.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could see that happening at Clash.
Speaker 2:I don't think we'll get a women's tag title match.
Speaker 1:Well, I think they're going to drop it. Then they'll drop them to them at Clash. I think Zoe will win it. I don't know why.
Speaker 2:There's going to have to be some type of program with Liv. Yeah, did you see that thing? Just bleed.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that chalk marker. There it was. It came out to you.
Speaker 2:Liv, liv. Hmm, I'm going to come back to that, but Liv's going to have a program.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she has to do something. Like I said, it's all stemming on what happens the next two months if Rhea comes back.
Speaker 2:I think that's what's going on. We're going to have Rhea.
Speaker 1:You know it could be a custody match for Dom, a ladder match.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say Drew. I'm going to say Punk's healthy. Drew versus Punk, that'd be fucking awesome.
Speaker 1:You gave me a chub.
Speaker 2:Who could we pair Liv off with? Who's even that relevant right now? Because you got Bianca and Jade together.
Speaker 1:Well, if they drop them, Bianca and jade are not going to be together. If they drop them at, if they drop the titles that they're not going to be together.
Speaker 2:But if they're not together, they're going to be facing each other yeah, let's be honest the way those two drop the title that's what everybody wants.
Speaker 1:There's a heel turn. That's what everybody wants. Um, not even necessarily even a heel turn. Just you know, like them a feud.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a feud, but naturally one of them is going to happen.
Speaker 1:God, look at this thing Storm as a what is going on with this person? Storm as a Not like dark jade cargill.
Speaker 2:That would be fucking dope. I mean it's going to be jade. I mean yeah, I mean it's going to be Jade I mean, yeah, bianca's never had a hill run. That's why I would kind of like to see her have the hill run. Who do we feed to live? Because?
Speaker 1:we're going to be feeding someone to live. It's got to be something related to somebody coming back.
Speaker 2:That's big. I'm just going to put Liv. I do believe there's a match, but right now I don't know who we're feeding to her. Now here's our fantasy booking. You ready for this?
Speaker 1:Do it.
Speaker 2:Who's hometown are we in? Oh yeah, paul, I meant to put Paul on my list. You got Logan in LA now Because you're number one. I'm going to say Logan versus Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you said that the other night.
Speaker 2:I don't think Pat's going to wrestle. I'm calling it. I'm calling it right now.
Speaker 1:But somebody's celebrity's got to be there.
Speaker 2:I'm calling it right now, man, I just don't think he's going to. I'm calling Pat McAfee, and here's the reason why I state this. There was way too much ignition going on between Cole and Logan. Yeah, that's true, that's true. There's a lot of cannon fodder there going on, that's true. And I think what's going to happen is it's going to come to a blow.
Speaker 2:That's true, logan's going to have words with Cole and's going to stay up in the middle of it. I'm calling it Pat and Logan feud. Multimedia superstar versus multimedia superstar at SummerSlam.
Speaker 1:I think that would like if we were booking. If this was like boxing, that match would promote itself why do you not put it at SummerSlam?
Speaker 2:yeah, you're right. Why do you not put that at SummerSlam?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2:Why do you not put that at SummerSlam? I'm telling you right now I'm calling it, that's my fantasy booking.
Speaker 1:I don't think it'll be a good match.
Speaker 2:It won't be a good match, but nobody cares Logan's good man. You think that Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson fight's going to be good?
Speaker 1:No, but that's the only.
Speaker 2:Thing we're talking about right now.
Speaker 1:Listen man, Logan Paul's good.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's phenomenal, he's so good, he's a top four talent right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In my opinion, and his figure awesome.
Speaker 1:If you combine the ability with figure.
Speaker 2:I know you're probably talking about his actual figure.
Speaker 1:I'm definitely talking about his toy. I'm talking about his actual physique.
Speaker 2:Yeah, physique, yeah you're gay, you I mean, it is what it is. You got to fit the mode. But logan, with his physique, his persona, his ability on the mic, his ability in the ring, he's probably a top four, top five talent right now, honestly in the wwe oh, I definitely think that's why he's got a title in terms of high flyers, which I would really probably consider him right now yeah, he flies. Ability-wise. The only person I put ahead of him is Ricochet. See, the problem is, the only problem, is Ricochet can't talk.
Speaker 1:Yeah God, he's so fucking bad on the mic. He's so bad on the mic, it doesn't matter, he's so good on the mic and everybody just knows that he's Samantha's bitch. He flies, though he's Samantha's bitch. She fucks him hard.
Speaker 2:She's Samantha's or he's, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1:He's the submissive Logan still choreographs his matches, though, and you can tell that they're choreographed. The Cody match was like that was planned.
Speaker 2:What gave that away? I mean everything's planned. I mean all matches are planned. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:They're not choreographed, though is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:When Logan gave that away was the Ray match. Yeah, I agree, when he caught Ray, when Ray missed his spot, that's when you could tell plain as day A, b, c, d, e. It's bullet points.
Speaker 1:Which is how he reacts, because that's how he makes his videos. You know what I mean. So that's how he works.
Speaker 2:I mean, good speakers don't speak in paragraph form, they speak off of bullet points. Yep, the man knows his shit. So there's that Recapping. I think Nye versus Bayley is going to happen. Obviously, Gunther and Nye that's the only things that we know for certain is going to happen.
Speaker 1:It's going to happen, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know Cody's going to have a match. You know Logan's going to have a match. You know Logan's going to have a match. Now, from that point on, it just depends on how many matches are actually on the card. I wish they would have just said fuck it, screw it. Who cares about Minnesota in two years?
Speaker 1:Let's just go ahead and do two days now.
Speaker 2:I would say that they can't, because I would say those places are booked on Sunday. They're booked a year and a half in advance. But it makes sense for SummerSlam, for anyone that's nice here and saying, hey, we don't need another two-day event. If it's going to be a two-day event, it needs to be that one, because you're not in the heart of the NFL season. You just got to make sure you're tailored.
Speaker 1:I listened to a few different wrestling content you know makers on youtube and various places and one of them says all the time that you just remove the hate, like not hating something, like everybody likes something different, like aw is for a lot of people right what we talked about was some people like.
Speaker 2:What we talked about was Some people like spot fans, some people like big, huge, explosive moments and what we talked about the other night was if you like matches and you just want matches, aew is your game.
Speaker 1:Is that because they had 12 matches at Double or Nothing?
Speaker 2:Boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1:And WWE's pay-per-view was an hour hour longer and had five. Yeah, you know what I mean. So the so aw is going to be for you if you just want to watch wrestling and, and probably if you're casual, aw is your shit, because you don't care about the story, you don't need to, just pick it up and go right, their storylines are a week long.
Speaker 2:It's a battle royale video game. Their storylines are a week long and that's what they do, and that's fine.
Speaker 1:Like I said, wrestling right now is at its peak and at its prime because there is competition. It is the same as it was in the wars, regardless if AEW sucks or not. There is the option to do other things, which benefits wrestlers. What is Becky going to do? Is Becky going to go to AEW? Is she going to retire? Is she going to re-sign with WWE? You?
Speaker 2:know what I mean.
Speaker 1:If she goes to re-sign with WWE. You know what I mean. She does AEW. That's a hell of a feud with Monet. I could see her coming in as big-time Becky as a heel. Big-time Beck would get a pop. 150 people in the building would cheer. The other 12 people are getting hot dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They're 162 gate.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But it's sold out. Yeah, sold out 162. With that strategic camera.
Speaker 2:That's the only seat they had Was 162, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, that's our predictions.
Speaker 2:I the one, I you have one that you stand by, like you're saying Lying, to saying I'm saying this is gonna happen.
Speaker 1:No, fuck, I feel pretty good. I'm saying this is going to happen. No, fuck, I feel pretty good. I feel pretty good about man I know, the Logan Paul. I feel pretty good about Logan Paul.
Speaker 2:I'm going to lie and sit on my Logan prediction. That's funny, logan Pat.
Speaker 1:So something else that's going to change, though the Wyatt family is going to show up.
Speaker 2:That was the other piece that I was going to ask At some point.
Speaker 1:This could be Alexa Bliss. This could be Liv versus Alexa Bliss Not yet. Or Nikki Cross. It could be somebody. I just don't.
Speaker 2:Before we even get into that, do you feel like Not yet? Or Nikki Cross, it could be somebody, I just don't.
Speaker 1:Before we even get into that, do you feel like your QR codes and stuff is dragging out now. Oh for sure, they're selling it right.
Speaker 2:Because they're putting dates on. I don't think they're selling it now. I think to the point now they're overselling it. I think it needs to happen now, yeah no Like soon.
Speaker 1:That's funny. We yeah no Like a suit. That's funny. We talked about this exact thing. We talked about this exact thing yesterday, but what we said, though? So I ordered Clay a shirt from Fanatics. It wasn't even on WWEcom. I found it on Fanatics and it's the. He probably won't hear this for a while, so I'll just say it it's the bird from the. You know what I'm? The bird from the cave bird, the cave raven, or whatever. That's the shirt with static behind it. Sick dude, it's an awesome shirt. I've seen it. It's sharp, but it comes out the week of Clash of the Castle.
Speaker 2:I think that's what it means to have.
Speaker 1:The shirt's come out that week, dude, that's not a coincidence.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:That they don't ship.
Speaker 2:It said ships June 25th. Bray was revealed at the back end last year of what I would consider a B-tier PLA. It wasn't a big PLA. It was a B-tier PLA. Saudi Arabia, to the point now, is big enough to where I don't consider it's no longer considered B-tier.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I mean, it is a major profit driver.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they like it.
Speaker 2:They love it. I want some more of it. Now. Clash I mean, you've got Drew to drive that. But beyond that and this is the thing that I hate so much about WWE, because it used to be like me and you were talking this was at War Games, I don't know if you remember this we were like man, that was a hell of a War Games. We didn't get Punk, we got Randy. I looked down at the clock, I messaged you. I said we've got eight minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you said what do you mean? I said they don't ever end shit early. We've got eight minutes and they'd already ran the fucking and the watermark comes up and I was like maybe we were wrong. And then the music goes off. Everybody lost their freaking shit, the wildest fucking, the random ass, freaking dude screaming Chicago, chicago. That dude's got a freaking TikTok channel. He freaking dude screaming Chicago, chicago. That dude's got a freaking TikTok channel. He's blowing up now, but there was eight minutes.
Speaker 1:They literally done eight minutes of him standing there.
Speaker 2:I think WWE's figured that out. Yeah, because at the end of Saudi Arabia I looked at my wife and said we got eight minutes. Same thing again. We got eight minutes and all of a sudden the camera kind of twitches. I'm like, oh, here we go, and it goes to a eight minute recap of the whole entire pla yes and then water marks. I was like you, dirty sons of bitches.
Speaker 1:You figured it out, so you think they'll do howdy eight minutes I. I think they're gonna do like the rocking chair.
Speaker 2:I think it's going to be just like Bray.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How they issue it, how they bring it in. You remember how Bray last year zoomed in on each of the Firefly.
Speaker 1:You think it has something to do with J as far as him bringing the Fireflies in?
Speaker 2:That would give him a program, and right now he doesn't really have a program.
Speaker 1:Those.
Speaker 2:Fireflies are mine he needs. That would give him a program, and right now he doesn't really have a program. Those fireflies are mine. He needs a program to get him back into the bloodline. Yep, I mean, he's too hot right now you cannot include him.
Speaker 1:Rowan or Howdy. They're saying Rowan is going to be like the front, like Howdy's not going to be, like Howdy's going to be running the show.
Speaker 2:He's not going to wrestle Like Bo you know whatever. So Bo Dallas is going to be a puppet master.
Speaker 1:Rowan is going to be his pusher, because Rowan was part of that original crew.
Speaker 2:And Dexter.
Speaker 1:Loomis looks badass.
Speaker 2:40 minutes yeah 40 minutes because I don't want to go off on another tangent. So we'll start this. We've done our SummerSlam predictions and now what we're going to see in. Let's call this a faction finale here. When we have the Wyatt Six, you will effectively see the demise of the Judgment Day.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because it will become a raw faction. There's not enough room for both. Oh oh, I agree. So that's just my personal opinion. It's final testament on roll.
Speaker 1:They're on smackdown, if I believe I don't think they're going anywhere either I think people want them to go anywhere. But I think they're going to put the titles on the acolytes at some point. They're not the acolytes, but they're AOP.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Acolytes of protection. Aop's solid. They don't need everything else.
Speaker 1:No, I agree, Like AOP's good, with Paul Elling, da-da-da-da Elling. And uh, karrion Kross is scary by himself.
Speaker 2:Like but Listen. The only reason anybody watches Carrion Cross is Scarlet and if they lie, they're lying. I mean they say they're not, they're lying. You right, you right that entrance him coming in her coming in with her freaking muse, her trance, and obviously him coming in screaming. That's the only thing cool about his shtick, yeah you're right, let's just be honest, he sucks.
Speaker 2:You're right, I'm not a Carrion fan. I'm with you. Yeah, you don't want to be, because he's kind of like the undertaker. He I mean, he's trying to fill that void and now that void's gonna be rendered useless once you get, yeah, air quotations coming back, um, but I I'm a firm believer that once that comes in, it's going to come in piggybacking off of the demise of the judgment day.
Speaker 1:Day yeah.
Speaker 2:So if it happens at Clash, I think Damien's lost the title.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then you'll start seeing a program where the Judgment Day is systematically imploding from the inside out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can see it.
Speaker 2:While the Wyatt Six is coming to fruition. That's just my opinion, that's my hot take and I think, in all honesty, that is going to. I mean, the Judgment Days have their spat and their feuds and things like that, with the main baby faces on Raw Jey Uso, sammy KO, when he was there. Yeah, cody, yeah, I think that's going to be replaced with Jey. Yeah, like you said, that gives Jey a program until we can get two and three SummerSlam.
Speaker 2:I can absolutely see it, but at that point, right now, right now we don't have Jimmy Jimmy's on a hiatus. So once we get Jimmy, back.
Speaker 1:I think they're holding Jimmy, they're holding Jimmy, they're holding everything they're smart.
Speaker 2:They're building the same way. They done everything with Becky and Rhea last year.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They sent Becky down to freaking. Nxt to literally purposely and intently keep Rhea and Becky apart. That's going to happen at some point. But at some point we're going to have a reunitement of Jimmy and Jay. They're going to get the freaking titles back, yep. But it's going to be a face turn 16 times or some shit I. I will say this, and I keep watching this interview clip of him and my man you know me, I've always been a hill guy.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know man like triple h is my god, like I love rainy. I love rainy right now where he is personally, but I like I want to see see Randy snap somebody's neck at any given second. I never thought I'd miss Roman as much as what I'm missing yeah.
Speaker 1:Fucking acknowledge him.
Speaker 2:I miss Roman so fucking bad right now, man, it's cause that's what's missing. Though it's what's missing, I mean.
Speaker 1:I got a hot take about Randy. I don't think he's going to do anything in WWE.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I think he's a jobber Well.
Speaker 2:Randy has said that. Yeah, randy has said his full intent was to come back healthy. But when he came back healthy he wanted to pass the torch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, because everybody was talking about like Randy needs to win King of the Ring and he need to have the Grand Slam. He needs the US, the US or some shit. Yeah, I think they might do that, like for a split second to get him the Grand Slam.
Speaker 2:I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't either. I'm trying to be optimistic, like for Randy, to see him get it.
Speaker 2:I think we've already seen what you're going to get out of.
Speaker 1:Randy, yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 2:And what I'm saying by that. I mean you're going to get RKO.
Speaker 1:You're going to have.
Speaker 2:Randy and KO. I think they're perfect together. Oh, they're fucking awesome together and KO's such a fanboy, you may have a tag team title right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 2:Maybe that, like you were talking about A-Town Down Under against DOIY, maybe that's A-Town Down Under against KO and Randy, ko and Randy. I could see that that sells. I watch that. That would be a big, phenomenal matchup.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of tag team mouths to feed New Day, I think. Kofi's last run, I think, is an Xavier Woods heel turn.
Speaker 2:And it's Kofi versus Xavier, because they're best friends.
Speaker 1:I think Kofi's going to go heel. Kofi could go heel, that's fine, because he needs that too right? I think New Day's stale and it needs a heel. I think Kofi is the most underrated wrestler in WWE because I think he is a legend and still moves like he's not a legend. He's in better shape than all the legends. He's Randy's age you know what I mean and he moves like he's not.
Speaker 2:I think Randy and I, I think you're going to see a rendition of I mean, look how popular RK-Bro was. Yeah yeah, I think you give Randy, because right now KO's just kind of floating in the ether. I agree there's not a title reign for him to push him towards if there was. You would have gave him the US title over Logan. You would have already done it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Logan's got too much heat, right now, oh God Fucking all the heat You're going to have the program obviously for Liv, you're going to have to put a big title on him at some point, you're going to have to.
Speaker 2:You know, Liv Dom, Rhea, that's going to happen, but Rhea has got so big now. I keep seeing that name cracks me up. It's like the little baby Dom from the. Eddie, match Perfect. I honestly think Rhea has surpassed the need for the Judgment Day.
Speaker 1:Well, a lot of people think Rhea is going to be the face of the company and not the face of the female part of the company. A lot of people think Rhea is going to be like cody rhodes, in like three or four years yeah, she's going to be should be the star? Yeah, because she's better than everybody else. She's so much better than the women, than all the other women, that they can't find anybody wrestler. You know she's that much better work.
Speaker 2:Physical ability dude. She's stronger than most of the men yeah like she, like, she has the athleticism that backs it, we're with it.
Speaker 1:Man, we're all about mommy on this show, oh my God.
Speaker 2:But I mean it's going to come to a point where I'm going to be honest with you. I don't think there's a future for Becky.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think so either.
Speaker 2:I think she knows that.
Speaker 1:I think R it too. Her best days are behind her Great matches, Great wrestler, everything's great.
Speaker 2:I had a hot take. I think she sucks on the mic.
Speaker 1:Her mic works. Okay, I do think the shit All she does is yell in Irish the shit, was that Irish? Was that supposed to be Irish? I can't do Irish, but it is what it is the shit where Nye was talking about how she made her. If it wasn't for her, she wouldn't.
Speaker 2:If it's not for the broken nose, I agree that's probably true.
Speaker 1:The blood was a good look.
Speaker 2:It was a good look. So here's another thing. Actually, this might be smart. I mean, you ain't thinking about this, LL? How close are we to a Charlotte return?
Speaker 1:Oh fuck.
Speaker 2:How close are we to a Charlotte return?
Speaker 1:Look how close Got goosebumps Because you want to talk about I love me some Charlotte.
Speaker 2:Listen, she's Woo, no pun intended. She's the queen.
Speaker 1:Nothing like it.
Speaker 2:Everyone tries to compare them for hey man Top three greatest matches in the last 10 years is Rhea Charlotte. Yeah, but they try to compare them, for Bayley is okay. She's incredibly average. Becky got made by a broken face. If you want to talk about the four horsewomen, dude, I would have killed to have Sasha Banks back.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Give me Sasha Banks back. Give me Charlotte, because that's where the money was.
Speaker 1:Sasha. She's a shell of herself, though she's not like AEW, does not? She's a corporate sellout. Now Did she win? Did she win the title?
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure I've seen pictures of her crying and holding it. God knows, I don't watch that shit. Quick, google, google.
Speaker 1:It's on the other podcast, yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought she won.
Speaker 1:What the fuck she didn't wrestle. That was her first match in AEW.
Speaker 2:Give her a title First match.
Speaker 1:First program it's Okada, it's okay, it's WCW.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of people in AEW that I would love to see in wwe, but I don't think they can handle the mic work osprey I've watched osprey talk and he looks like he's he can't get there, baby, and let me tell you, if osprey could do it, he'd already be there. He'd already be there yeah, he's like I'm better than everyone over there. Triple h couldn't suck a dick and triple h is. I'm glad I didn't sign you, piece of shit.
Speaker 1:So glad when you get Seth on the fucking mic or go through, listen that bit where Seth went off.
Speaker 2:I'm the only one uniquely suited to be your shield. I was there, dude, it's like freaking biblical. I was there. Biblical, yeah, you was there for that.
Speaker 1:When he just cut that promo, I was telling Clay, I was like Clay Mark this. I said this is one of the best promos of all time. He was like I know right and I was like no it is Little.
Speaker 2:Did you know that it was literally the linchpin dialogue moment for Roman to lose the title?
Speaker 1:Because when he said the words shield, be your shield, everybody fucking went crazy.
Speaker 2:And literally it was written into the finale Ambrose should have been there.
Speaker 1:Fuck Ambrose, you're not a Moxley fan.
Speaker 2:I don't hate Moxley. He's incredibly overrated.
Speaker 1:Same with Danielson. This was supposed to be a segment we were going to add into an episode and we talked for 50 minutes about wrestling, so it's going to be a complete episode.
Speaker 2:Fuck it, launch it.
Speaker 1:Bonus. Alright, y'all try not to be marked too bad today. Thank you you.