0:02

This is. Introducing

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your host from New

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York, Here is Sam

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Liberals. Are

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you guys got me all?

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You guys got me wrapped

0:20

around your little bankers. Wow.

0:23

Good do a special not

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cm wrestling or was not

0:28

going do I had job

0:30

I had no choice here.

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We are once again. We.

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Almost made it. Through. An entire

0:38

week, but it was never. I don't think it was

0:40

ever going to happen. No.

0:42

Matter how much is going on in my

0:44

life, it is never going to happen. Though

0:46

we don't have one of these. We

0:49

need we need that they

0:51

were. Would my integrity be?

0:53

And the siren didn't come

0:56

out after. Everything that we

0:58

saw. At. The

1:00

Wrestlemania Kick Press Event. Which

1:02

by the way, every press

1:04

event should have an arena

1:06

full of vans. I think

1:08

it really adds. To. Everything

1:10

that's going on. So here we

1:12

are: Wrestlemania kick off the Road

1:14

to Wrestlemania. Technically depressive and we

1:16

didn't get the official word. we

1:18

were left with more questions than

1:20

answers until the graphic was posted.

1:23

Triple. H posted the graphic and if

1:25

you you been listening to this pod

1:27

kids have you been watching this podcast

1:29

for any length of time? You should

1:31

know. That. For me. It.

1:33

Ain't official until I see a graphic

1:35

and I saw one in the graphics

1:38

said that The main event Wrestlemania Forty.

1:40

Is. Roman Reigns vs Cody Rhodes. Now

1:42

I'm going to talk about this

1:44

very much in depth on Monday

1:47

morning and I'm sure throughout the

1:49

week but this is. Of

1:51

course. An emotional support.

1:54

pod. Guess we have to get our feelings

1:56

out if we keep them bottled up inside.

1:59

They'll. Do terrible things to our bodies So that's

2:01

what we're to do today. So we'll talk about

2:03

the whole press event on the Monday by guess.

2:05

But let's just get the meat and potatoes of

2:07

this. Let's just get into what we saw and

2:10

what we need to get off our test. Roman

2:13

Reigns in Seth Rollins come out. They had their

2:15

back and forth. Roman. Reigns

2:18

as. Because. Cody.

2:21

Missed. His moment. He

2:23

gets to now pick the main event for

2:25

Wrestlemania. I'm sitting there going. I don't understand

2:27

how that happens. have somebody could just miss

2:29

their moments. And the beauty of it is

2:32

that Seth Rollins said the same thing as

2:34

I How Works Do think it's Do that

2:36

man or care of my Got bows or

2:38

my shoes You just decide it's your time.

2:41

To. Pick the main event of Wrestlemania because

2:44

you the tribal seat because you're that of the table.

2:46

Those aren't the rules. Those. Aren't the

2:48

day the the rules of engagement the

2:50

we agreed do before this battle. Ah

2:52

no Rahman said yeah yeah they are.

2:55

That's the area that we're living in right now.

2:58

And I'm in a decided the main event for

3:00

Wrestlemania is The Rock Now look. I

3:04

guides I said when this all

3:06

this controversy broke the key here.

3:09

Is. You gotta let them cook. You.

3:11

Have to and why does it was always

3:13

the plants or whether this was a plan

3:15

they developed than the last five days had

3:17

sauce. Have you figured out. All.

3:20

Of these moves within the last

3:22

five days. You. Have I

3:24

hell of a group of people that know how

3:26

to work in a pressure cooker and of this

3:28

was something that was planned out well in advance.

3:31

Then. My. God. Do. You

3:33

have some naret tours on your

3:35

staff. Either way, We

3:38

come on. Out Of this. I.

3:40

Feel like everybody smells like roses to an extent.

3:43

Anyway, let's let's talk about it right? You.

3:45

Gotta let him cook. And now the

3:47

food all the sudden smells good. People said this, they

3:49

said. You. Say let him cook.

3:52

The food smells like shit. I got it

3:54

because it's raw. You're not letting it cook.

3:56

Now the food smells pretty good, I think,

3:59

right? So. Everyone

4:01

gas. And a

4:03

reason that this is another example. Of

4:06

rule number three, everything counts isn't Seth

4:08

Rollins said that's not how it works

4:10

because we at home or saying that's

4:12

not how it works. Our

4:15

voice. Is. A part of

4:17

the story. Our. Interpretation of what

4:19

we're seeing is a part of the

4:22

stories. The fact that for the last

4:24

six days. The

4:26

internet as been in an

4:28

absolute frenzy. Out

4:30

of of of of

4:32

who knows some a

4:35

tax. On. Anyone. Who.

4:37

Believes that the Rock should face Roman Reigns

4:39

at Wrestlemania. Tells you everything you need to

4:41

know. the fate of the Cody cry babies

4:44

are real thing and some of it were

4:46

that crybaby badge like a badge of honor.

4:50

The. Fact They did that. That's happening

4:52

and not being ignored. Means.

4:54

That everything counts are roaming comes out needles. I

4:56

pick the rock. The rock comes out by the

4:58

way. the rock didn't get. Laid

5:00

out with booze, eating it rained out with

5:02

tears Either There were booze there. But.

5:04

He did the the internet would have you believe. That.

5:07

The Rock is not going to be able

5:09

to step foot into a building without getting

5:11

booed into smithereens. but he did. I can

5:13

boot into Smithereens. The abboud, but

5:15

not into smithereens is the point. And

5:18

he comes out me and ease of

5:21

doing as rock Saying people just excited

5:23

he's a big star. The rock is

5:25

their knees are using the rocks. Going

5:27

to be Roman Reigns. Using Roman Reigns

5:29

going to beat the rock in. There's

5:31

something about this that seems contrived. Something.

5:33

About it that seems cheesy. When.

5:36

You're watching gone like oh, this is. This.

5:39

A spoon fed professional wrestling is what

5:42

this feels like. And.

5:45

The. Rock as a big mess the

5:47

history Ww Ii and it's like again.

5:50

On. Paper Yet On paper?

5:52

Yes, it is. But.

5:55

When we look at it in front of us with

5:57

all the ingredients as they've been laid out. In.

6:00

No longer feel that way. Because.

6:02

Of the time the it's it's happening

6:05

in and because of the story that

6:07

got us to where we are. And

6:09

so you go? Is it? And

6:12

then the rock. Thanks the press for being

6:14

there. And I go. What

6:16

kind of shill? What?

6:18

Can our Hollywood still thinks

6:20

the press. For being an

6:23

oppressive it puts the press he think that

6:25

every time you universe rethink the press first

6:27

a big the press twice. And

6:30

then he said if you don't want to see The Rock

6:32

and Roman Reigns Wrestlemania as a matter what you think I

6:34

said okay or. A small ways Gaga now.

6:37

And then the rock puts up this graphic

6:39

and says you gotta respect this and is

6:41

a really well made graphic right? If it

6:43

were a bad graphic you'd go. I know

6:45

where this is going. This a storyline is

6:47

a great graphics. And

6:49

is laying out the whole family tree. And

6:52

it's true there is no family. Hindrance.

6:55

The history of professional Wrestling. Like

6:57

the in while he. Samoan.

6:59

Dynasty bloodline family. It's

7:02

an unbelievable story that will have to

7:04

get into at a certain point. But.

7:08

Then he says this. You

7:12

have to look at the as he says. And

7:14

understand that there really is only one.

7:18

Powerful, Royal

7:20

family. In wrestling. Not.

7:24

Only one royal family I had heard this song is that

7:26

there's more than one royal family the know. That's.

7:29

When Cody Rhodes comes out is is

7:31

is is Bs. he uses the B

7:33

S word. Any comes

7:35

out need. Any says you know.

7:37

He talked to the rock and a great conversation. He

7:40

talked to a lot of people. He.

7:42

Says oh you know. Roman.

7:45

You talk about your family. Or

7:48

not your family? their lackeys, There's

7:51

no family loyalty. They're just following

7:53

a bread winner. Matter. Of

7:55

fact, The. Hygiene Peter My

7:57

via your grandfather The Rock both. Will.

8:00

Be disappointed in what they see.

8:02

That's what he said. And

8:05

he says roman, I challenge you. At

8:08

Wrestlemania and at this point now

8:10

see here Key Key Key. Is.

8:15

It as Cody was saying this before he even said

8:17

the families of from the moment that he came out.

8:20

The. Shifted positions on the stage.

8:23

So. That the rock. And. Roman

8:25

Reigns were on the same side looking

8:27

at Cody Rhodes. This

8:29

was in a trifecta. There was no. And

8:33

when the Rock started defending his family like

8:35

that. It

8:37

didn't feel like. The

8:41

Rock All of a sudden decided Roman and

8:43

I have a common enemy. It

8:45

felt more like Cody Rhodes come out

8:47

and spoiled the rocks plans. My.

8:51

Question last week on the pie.

8:53

Guess was why did Cody. League

8:56

out in Cody go back to the main

8:58

event of Wrestlemania is he said he wasn't

9:00

a do at Wrestlemania after he talked to

9:02

the Rock. With.

9:05

The one email or said he could just say that he

9:07

lied or whatever and it's like know he can't say that

9:09

he lied but. If

9:12

the rock didn't just decided that moment. Oh

9:14

now, Cody Rhodes is an enemy. Then.

9:19

What was going to the rocks? mind?

9:21

Was. Clearly going to the rocks mind was.

9:24

The bigger than any other family

9:26

in wrestling. Bigger than

9:28

the W W even. Is.

9:31

His family. That. Roman Reigns is

9:33

a part of. This.

9:36

Was always just about putting on the

9:38

biggest match. In the history of Debbie

9:41

to Abuse and why was it the biggest match in

9:43

the history of the Ww Ii? Because.

9:45

It was about his. Family.

9:48

This. Whole time. His

9:51

full time. He

9:53

was about the rock and Roman reigns

9:55

making sure. That. The main event

9:58

of the biggest Wrestlemania of all time. With.

10:01

All about the bloodline. He. Was

10:03

all about their family. And

10:07

into Iraq. Manipulated.

10:09

Cody. Kinda. Thinking that that's not

10:11

what it was about into thinking that know we have

10:13

the take away the power from Roman reigns. Know we

10:15

have to take away the tribal chief from Roman reigns

10:17

when in reality. The. Rock.

10:21

And Rome and both just wanted to make

10:23

sure the bloodline headline Wrestlemania on the the

10:25

biggest stage that the debate of you he

10:27

has ever had in the codey finally saw

10:29

through that. After

10:31

a week of of of tweets, And

10:35

are listening to The Rock I'm Pat

10:37

Mcafee show. Tagamet The Cody Cry Babies

10:39

Without was just Pat Mcafee show right?

10:41

Know everything counts. I thought I told

10:43

you that everything gowns, even our emergency

10:45

buy gifts. Everything counts. None.

10:48

Are now. They.

10:51

Take my cody cry babies! Why?

10:53

Because fans want to see me the main event of

10:56

Wrestlemania. Will. Maybe

10:58

maybe your family. Isn't.

11:03

The. Nucleus, The We all kind

11:05

of revolve around. Maybe

11:08

your family is just one story. That

11:12

has to do with the debbie to you

11:14

he had. My story is just as important

11:16

as yours is and in twenty twenty four.

11:19

My. Stories more important. Than

11:21

yours is. And.

11:24

Now we get the real right, right? This

11:26

character they did the represents the real right

11:28

now. This rock that we've heard about on

11:30

the internet. This guy's it. Is. Selfish.

11:33

This guy's it. When he signed up

11:35

to be a member the board of

11:37

directors for T K O part of

11:39

the deal, I read this in, In

11:41

in in in Ah oh oh. Wrestling

11:45

newsletters of importance. The.

11:48

People give us the scoops. They

11:50

told us. In a legitimate way.

11:53

None and when the Rock signed up to be on

11:55

the board of Tk, our part of it was he

11:57

was going to get the main event of Wrestlemania. And

12:00

it's me and we don't like that. that's selfish rock.

12:03

That's. Not bad for business, right? That's best for

12:05

rock rock. We. Don't like that at

12:07

all. And

12:09

that's the guy that came out on television. That's.

12:11

The guy. Who started yelling

12:13

at Cody Rhodes? It i keeping his family's name and

12:15

his mouth. Actually getting slapped.

12:18

Coherence. And

12:20

I don't think it was all biggest. Cody

12:22

Rhodes disrespected the and A why he dynasty.

12:25

Isaac was also because Cody Rhodes decided

12:27

stand up for himself and spoiled the

12:29

plans of The Rock and Roman Reigns.

12:33

And to me, my favorite part of a whole

12:35

thing. Of the whole thing.

12:38

Was. When Rock and Roman Reigns are

12:40

are are walking off. And

12:42

they passed by Triple H who's doing

12:45

an interview. And the Rock

12:47

is telling Triple H to fix it. You.

12:49

Know let him run his mouth like that.

12:51

That's Bs. Hey. Hey

12:53

hey hey Six it. Probably.

12:56

Chose your Adeline and you know you're out

12:58

of Iraq was not enough. Fix it. now.

13:01

We're. Looking at a storyline yet? But

13:04

we're also looking at a member of

13:06

the board of directors of T. Geico.

13:10

Acting in self interest against the

13:12

head of creative in Ww Ii.

13:15

The rock. Is the

13:18

corporate heal. And

13:20

Triple H is the guy. It's just

13:22

trying to give fans the product that

13:25

they want. And we

13:27

are off to the races! For.

13:29

Wrestlemania. I

13:31

mean. I.

13:35

I don't know. Seth.

13:39

Rollins as the video. Somewhere in this, right?

13:42

It feels like at some point and media will

13:45

be in Perth. We're.

13:48

Going to get Rollins and Cody teaming

13:50

up against Rock and Rains. I

13:52

think that's a big possibility. At one point I go

13:54

where we go and are we going to do. A

13:57

real you. Cody.

14:00

Cody versus Rock, Night One. Cody

14:03

versus Roman, Night Two. All these

14:05

Night One, Night Two things, nobody ever

14:07

really suggested Cody versus Rock and

14:09

then Cody versus Roman because we were so

14:12

fixed on Rock versus Roman. But

14:17

when the Rock, as a member of the board of directors,

14:20

is telling Triple H, he needs to fix it, and

14:23

he's walking out with Paul Heyman, with

14:25

Roman Reigns. You

14:28

know what makes the bloodline even

14:31

bigger than doing Roman Reigns

14:33

versus the Rock? If

14:36

the Rock is aligned with the bloodline, what

14:41

about that? What

14:43

if on this road to WrestleMania, the Rock is

14:45

actually aligned with the bloodline? How did none of

14:48

us go, yeah, that's

14:50

exactly where they should go, just lean all the

14:52

way in and not worry about

14:54

doing Rock versus Roman Reigns anymore? And

14:58

now we've got this poster that says it's

15:00

Cody Rhodes versus Roman

15:02

Reigns at WrestleMania. I

15:05

don't know that we'll ever know exactly how we got

15:07

here. I don't know

15:09

that we'll ever know the whole truth, and I don't know that we have

15:11

to. Because

15:17

you've got all these questions, right? You

15:20

go, well, clearly they didn't expect

15:22

everybody to turn on the Rock like that, so they

15:24

had to pivot. I never want to hear that word

15:26

pivot again, by the way. There's two things I don't

15:28

want to hear anymore. Accusations

15:30

of pivoting, as if it's a good or a bad thing,

15:33

everybody should always pivot. Figure

15:37

out what's going on. Read the room. Pivot.

15:40

It's good stuff. Always

15:43

pivot. So,

15:47

this description of pivoting like it's a bad thing

15:50

is absurd. And

15:52

the idea of asking if a storyline, are we

15:54

getting worked by this storyline? Yeah,

15:57

of course. It's a storyline. Yeah. But

16:04

was this something

16:06

a pivot,

16:10

or was this always a plan? Well

16:13

I read everywhere that Roman Reigns versus The

16:15

Rock was cemented. Oh

16:18

it's happening. Oh it's happening.

16:20

Oh it's happening. And

16:23

you go, okay, there's a huge possibility that

16:26

in the last six days The Rock was very

16:28

aware of the way the public is responding to

16:30

him, went like, well we got to do something

16:32

else, this isn't going to work. That's

16:35

very, very possible. And

16:37

it makes sense, except it

16:39

doesn't answer why Cody won the Royal Rumble. If

16:43

this wasn't always the

16:45

plan, then why did Cody win the Royal Rumble? Because there

16:47

are so many questions there, I don't think we'll ever know.

16:49

And you know what? I don't think we

16:52

ever have to know. I don't think it ever matters.

16:54

What difference does it make? The

16:58

fact is that fans

17:01

and the way they're

17:03

responding to what's going on

17:05

are going to dictate stories as

17:07

they should. Because everything

17:10

counts. And the

17:12

way the fans react, count

17:14

towards the story. Whether

17:19

that's intentional or not, it's

17:22

cohesive. And

17:24

that to me is what you need

17:26

on a wrestling show. Cohesion. What

17:28

we saw at the kickoff

17:30

press event was

17:33

a cohesive way to get to a place

17:35

where I think most fans are

17:38

happy. I'm going to give it a few days.

17:41

I'm going to fully unpack it. These are my

17:43

feelings coming off of it. Adored

17:46

the way it all went down. I

17:49

love Bloodline, Corporate

17:51

Rock. Not

17:54

getting along with head

17:57

of content, chief content officer. Triple

18:01

H. And

18:03

you can tap into all those sort

18:05

of internet rumors of the fact that these guys didn't

18:07

get along back in the Attitude Era. These guys, I

18:09

mean, there's so much here

18:13

and we're getting it all. And I

18:15

absolutely love it. I can't wait

18:17

to talk more about it. By the way, I

18:20

know that we didn't have like a ton

18:22

of emergency podcast this week, but I also

18:24

hosted The Bump. The Bump was kind of

18:26

like an emergency podcast too, okay?

18:28

So that counts. I

18:30

think it counts. Appreciate you all.

18:32

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