SRTU Turns 14 Years Old and Elimination Chamber Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #732 – 2/22/24

0:00 It's still leaving living all right, Let's complain to see the faith tells people lost the song back thanks to see he leaves Basbee Young Girl said that N said, I don't tell, Gety tell, Jill, Jimmy. Welcome, everybody, Welcome. So this week's edition this No Real, No Show Episomber seven or thirty two for February twenty second, twenty twenty four. This year at we Elimination Chamber BREVI and Predictions edition of as r TE you I am one after the show, I am Jeff Pack, joined every single week by my homes going only, Doctor Prey, Franklin, Doctor Trey. Happy fourteenth anniversary of SRTU. My friend. Yeah, I know we can legally.

1:34 We can legally almost buy beer on the show. We're getting closed. I mean, we can almost legally vote. We can almost legally drive right now. I'm just impressed that we've both hit SRTU. Puberty and NONI of our voices are cracking. That is true. That is true. You know, I thought about throwing up the first episode with with myself and Eric Ardullo, throw up the first episode with you and I because it's always fun to like listen back and hear how our voices sounded back then, Oh, the torture would be real because I think, like even on the first episode I called in on, my voice was cracking. So I was nervous. By the way, I don't ever I told you I was so nervous to call in to you guys that first night that was the you're talking about the Bower showtime, right, No, I mean like when you like the when you guys went live and a blog talk live calls yep, yep. I was so nervous to call in because you know, Eric had the impressive resume, and at that point I was just, you know, this dumb, lonely, fat guy that loved wrestling in the north North Carolina. I didn't have anything on my resume. It kind of brought myself up when it came to wrestling, So I was I was really nervous that Eric would just basically because Eric knew that you and I were friends, and you know, there's that little bit of jealousy that kind of comes into play when you're competing for the attention of a Velvettne voice podcaster, and I was afraid that ar would like just be super dismissive and if anything I ever had to say so, I was kind of completely terrified of Eric Garzulo that first time I called in. Yeah,

3:07 shout out to Eric. I haven't spoken to him in a really long time. For those who may not know, Eric was the original co host of SRTU. He was on the show for about like two years with me. The first two years of SRTU, it was always like that preview prediction special heading into WrestleMania twenty eight that I always remember, the one in Miami where Doctor Trey joined, and that was the beginning of Doctor Trey and I doing the show together for a really long time. Eric popped in every now and again, like in that first year that Doctor Trey had taken over as the full time co host of SRTU, but he hasn't been on in a really long time. Eric is a good dude. He used to hold a host of a show called Pro Wrestling Radio. He was the original voice, the very first commentator for Ring of Honors first show, and he was with cz W for a really long time. I actually saw a clip the other day of a young Kevin Owens then known as Kevin Stein or his real name Kevin Stein in a match with Elgenerica. I think it was their CZW debut, and Eric was doing commentary for the match, and I was like, holy shit, there's Eric, and yeah, him and I are still Facebook friends, but I have not spoken Eric in a really long time. I hope he's doing well. He had left the show because he had just gotten married, and yeah, he was a busy guy at that point. I think he's basically not doing anything with professional arrests anymore because his old blog, caml Clutch Blog, I don't think it exists anymore. Yeah, and at

4:38 one point, that was one of the biggest, you know, websites for wrestling information and opinions in a lot of time. Emember talking to you and you're talking about like, hey, I got an article, I got a post up on Gamba Clutch and I was always kind of envious of that of that stuff. But no, Eric is fantastic. Funny you mentioned Facebook friends a couple of people from uh, you know, the Old Wrestling Show, the old on the Trivia Show, Like, are still friends with those guys on Facebook? So ea game show? Who are you friends with? Stell Zach Oliver? Okay? Eighty eight Del junior fan eighty eight Dale junior fan. Uh you know who I remember roasting pretty badly on one of the episodes, what about why MoU Whymu I'm still friends with on Facebook and also Pokemon go okay wow wow. Yeah. And then the guy that Bauer used to do the show with was his name, the skinny guy, Eric Gray.

5:42 Eric Gray, I'm still friends with on one of my face on one of my Facebook accounts with Eric Gray as well. Yeah, it's uh, it's a wild ride. I mean, we launched the show back in February twentieth, twenty ten, so I'll be actually coming up on my fifteenth year of podcasting here relatively soon, which is insane. And the world that we had built from that Wheelhouse podcast that launched into this podcast and everything else in between, wrestle chat Net and various other forms Camic Clutch Blog that that we were all part of it was. It's definitely shedded away a lot over the years. There's not many people left hanging around. You know. The Wheelhouse is no longer a podcast, The Bower Shows no longer a podcast, Camic Clutch Blog no longer exists. Pro Wrestling Radio with Eric Cardruilo no longer exists, Rust, Chattnet is all gone. It's like everything that we were all tied to, and we're like the sole survivors here, Doctor Trey. Are we the last Blockbuster? I think? So we're that blockbuster Blockbuster and what Oregon?

6:46 Yeah, it's actually uh my my old cameraman Lauren Lauren Campbell for uh Raga City actually lives in Bend, Organ where the last Blockbuster is. Does he have a membership? I actually so, I went about five years ago up to do a job up there, and you didn't have to me, you didn't have to have the membership card to get in. But I think in one of my old storageingits because I don't know if you remember this, that I actually managed a Blockbuster at one point. Oh yeah, remember And when our store closed down, I took the uh the new arrival sign up that they used to have the all the new all the new movies and new releases I used. I took that sign I took the Blockbuster a little log book they had that you had to sign in on when you first got there, and I took a bunch of the racks that the movies were on, and I actually did my living room with a lot of I had all my DVDs on Blockbuster racks in my living room at one points. I think they're actually a storage and I were in North Carolina. Still, that's pretty cool.

7:46 Yeah, I mean we're getting a little nostalgic here because uh yeah, Doctor Trey. I mean the amount of times we've We've mentioned it every now and again on the show, but like literally I think we've done this show every hour in the day. Like legitimately, there have been times that we did the show at midnight into one am. When I was working for ESPN Radio and Bristol, Connecticut, we literally were doing shows at like four am Eastern Standard time, and we were doing that because I was coming off of work. Doctor Trey was getting ready to go into work, and that was like legitimately the only time that him and I could record the podcast and keep it going. And we were doing that at like four four am, five am talking professional wrestling. I mean, we've done it like anytime any place anywhere, it's it's it's apropos. Doctor Trey's recording the podcast this week sitting in his car, which was a huge studio location for you. Most of the time in the beginning stages of the show Doctor Trey. One of these days, I'm gonna sit down and actually do the math on how many states I've actually recorded the podcast in, because I'm pretty sure I've done the podcast in basically, I would say over half the states in this country. I think that would be a fair assumptionect because for a while, I mean, I think if you're coming up on fifteen years, I'm probably coming up on close to eleven. And for a good chunk of that, for probably good seven years I was traveling. Yeah. So remember when I used to always

9:18 we would do the intro and I would be like, where in the world is doctor tre Franklin this week? Yeah? So I mean if I sit down, I actually do the math and think about, like, you know, the place I've stayed in more than a week, I would say I've probably done the show in at least twenty five to thirty different states. Wow. Yeah, no, I believe it. And you and I have done the show probably at least now maybe five hundred and fifty to six hundred episodes, and so subtract two years, which would be one hundred and roughly one hundred and four episodes. Yeah, something like that, right, Yeah, so, and I think the only time that you and I have ever recorded a podcast in the same room was the very first year that I started, when you came up to New York City. It was like my second podcast of all time, starting with Bower. Yeah, we've never done this show together. Yeah, we were ahead of the technological curve when it came to being able to record the show wherever, whenever, and now like Zoom and Google Meet and what have you have taken over, and we continued to be able to host a show in different parts of the country away from each other and still do it like it's we're in the same room with one another.

10:35 Yeah. I mean it's funny. As much technology has progressed, we're still in like twenty eleven, so we're still doing on Skype with no video for anybody to watch. What was the most memorable times for you in SRT Usually like obviously the episodes when people have passed away, so like you know, most recently the Bray White episode, the Luke harpress. I remember the Dusty Rhodes episode was hard for me because there were certain people I like. Once I got into wrestling, there were certain people I wanted to meet, and then it was just like a rush of them passing away. Roddy Piper, you know, Dusty, Like just a bunch of guys that were on the indies had passed, and I was just like, damn, is this another one my hero's going down? Let's see the you know me getting stopped by the police episode is up there I have, which apparently I think you told me a couple weeks ago that that is no longer your favorite episode where something happens to me. It's the Sammy hitting me with a feign object episodes now your favorite one. Yes. When I came to with some of my favorite sound bites of all time, it was like you were doing something all of a sudden you got hit with a bull by Sammy just out of nowhere, the old RKO out of nowhere, the some of the ones I did.

11:54 There was a a we did like three or four weeks in a row when I was working overnights that we record the show at like one o'clock in the morning, and I was literally behind a store, like in a random shopping center, sitting out back on the basically the little lonely area recording the show, like one o'clock in the morning and you're like, who's in the store with you? I'm like, nobody's just me by myself at one o'clock in the morning putting beauty supplies on the shelf. So those are some good old days. And then you know, most recently, like you know, you getting married was a great episode for me because I just I was I always felt like it's like I knew you and Kim were going to catch up to me at some point because I was just like, I think I've been hounding you for about seven years about getting there. Yeah, so it just took a little while, just took some browbeating to beat it into you a little bit. But uh, you know, like seeing you go from the young man that was kind of like just just happy to be there and be a part of broadcasting to where you've progressed you now, like I'm so proud of it. I've seeing how far you've come this. Yeah, I appreciate that, man, I appreciate that a lot. Like when I think about some podcasts too, that stood out to me. I just think of like the pandemic era all the time now, like that was that was almost forty years ago, and I just remember we had like nothing to do, and we were doing watch along shows. Remember we interviewed Dave Willis, the guy who said it's still real to me, damn it, who just reached out to

13:24 me a few weeks ago. Really, he just randomly reached out to you. Well, what happened was I think somebody had posted a clip of the whole you know, It's still real to me, damn it. And it was somebody I knew, and I tagged him in the post. It just you know, made a nice little compliment what a nice you know, how gracious and nice Dave was. I think I said, you know, that's actually where our show got our name from. Dave came on the show, was super nice and gracious, and he messaged me He's like, hey, I just want to say, really appreciate it. Still revery on the show. Its great time, Thank you guys so much. Yeah, yeah, he was. He was a lot of fun. I remember where he just like would start talking about stuff like in depth wrestling that he grew up on.

14:07 But yeah, that pandemic era was wild because we were just basically we had nothing to do. I remember like watching WrestleMania, like it was the most insane thing of all time. That entire time period was really really wild and insane. It's also got a lot of creative juices going in professional wrestling. You about to say something, Doctor Tryck, Yeah, doesn't like the Thunderdome era. It's just kind of feel like a fever dream. Yeah, it feels like it wasn't that long ago, but it's coming upon four years and I think the farther we get away from the better off feel. Yeah. It. What's weird is like they actually have that in one of the WWE games. I think it might be two K twenty two, they actually have the screens up around the ring and there's like random faces popping up.

14:52 I'm like sitting there like it's almost like a weird dream that that whole time period didn't happen in a sense, but it's like, yeah, like it's a constant mind, but like it was all like you and I try to stay so positive, but in reality it was like doom and gloom everywhere. It was just like, look, we have to do the show just because A we owe it to our we owe it to the audience, and then b we owe it to ourselves to like just have an hour to two hours a week where we can just like not think about, you know, the calamity crashing down around us, and just talk about wrestling. And even though wrestling wasn't really good, it was still something different that other than just what we were hearing on the news and from everybody else. Yeah, yeah, that was It was a time period, man, it was really real wild.

15:39 Cheers to everybody who's been in there supporting us involved for fourteen years of the Still Realta Show. So we're proud of obviously seven hundred thirty two straight episodes. We have not missed a week and we continue to give you, guys, professional wrestling from two wrestling fans who just love watching wrestling each and every week. So thank you all for the support for teen years of srt UGH Getting nostalgic here, Doctor Trey seems aproposen fitting because on Friday's edition to SmackDown, I got really nostalgic as the Rock came out and it was throwback rock, full blown heel rock, and I got admit, Doctor Trey, I loved every second of it. What were your thoughts as the Rock came out this past Friday and aligned himself officially with the bloodline. I mean, it was it was funny because it's been so long since the Rock has actually been a heel character in WWE THATWT you almost forget how good he is at just kind of flipping the script. And I had just came across a clip of Rock Hogan after Wrestlemany eighteen when they when Rock had gone heel and Hogan was a babyface, and I forgot that, Like I just for a moment forgot how good he was in the mic in those moments, and we got a taste of it on SmackDown. And it does it feels weird? I will say, is it? Does? You know? Rock's you know, right around fifty now, maybe fifty one, and he's standing in the ring and there's Solo and there's Jimmy and there's Roman, and I don't want to

17:11 say he feels out of place, but it does kind of feel like Romans. I don't say Roman's dead. It feels like the you know, the big uncle stepped in the room, you know and just shut the kid's table down a little bit. So I right now I kind of feel like Rock is going to overshadow Roman for a little while. That might be the storyline they go with to get to where they want to go at some point, But it just it's a different energy and a different vibe. And I don't I don't know how to say it's just but vintage rock being a heel though like he's I will say that there are times I feel like he sounds a little cornyish or a little bit of a pair, like a little bit of a self. And I don't try to think it wasn't it a Parody's like he's almost like a parody of himself at times. But I think it's just because it's getting the Like we talked about ring rust, I think there's also a little a thing called probo rust. If you haven't kind of good probo in a while. I mean, I gotta admit I loved the line where he's like, uh, where were they this past week? Utah? Like Salt Lake City, Utah? Yeah, Like, listen, I want to congratulate you. First off, I want to congratulate you all that you have set an attendance record and the crowd starts cheering and crowd, you know, going nuts, and an indoor attendance record for the most pieces of trailer park trash I've ever seen. I thought that was a great line. Ironically enough, Salt Lake City was actually the last Dynamite before the pandemic hits. Oh yeah, well, good times, very good times. According to Wrestling Observer

18:41 newsletter, Dwayne the Rock Johnson over the weekend following his appearance on SmackDown where Cody Rhoads removed himself from the match put Rock in there, said it was best to be out of the Roman Reigns match and put Cody Rhads in, which by that point everyone conceded by Rock, who then pitched the heel turn and the idea of the Reins and Rock versus Roads and Rollins match for Wrestlemting nine one that is still not official, so maybe things could potentially change. But according to reports, Rock was the one who pitched the He'll turn and I mean doctor Trey, he turns heel and then turns babyface in like the same segment because the fan base ate it up and loved it. Rock from ninety seven to ninety nine, just before in even a little bit up further on worry he turned Babyface was probably some of his best work as the Rock and why he got so over like nineteen ninety eight is a huge year for the Rock into ninety nine, and I love that he came out and he was wearing the five hundred dollars shirt which was a vest, Like, I love that throwback. The stuff that he was saying was very reminiscent of that time period as well. He still needs to throw in a little bit of Rudy Pooh candy asses in there, but it was like, man, this is this is great, this is awesome, this is fun. This was the right move, and it's very well possible because he was getting such a good reaction in Salt Lake City that rockets cheered no matter who he's across the

20:14 ring of. In Philadelphia at WRESTLEMANI forty, I loved it. I thought it was great, right turn. But it's like he went from babyface to heel and then heel to babyface all in the span of two weeks. Amongst the fans' eyes. I just can't see fans hating on the Rock right now. They're gonna eat this up like him trash talking them yes and so on a much smart scale. There there have been times in my career like I've bounced back at fourteen heel and babyface, but I'm a way better heel than I have a baby face. And I have had fans come up to me after the show and like have been yelling at me, booing me, cussing me out during the show, and then come up to me after the show and go, I just want to say, what a great job you got, Like, what a great job you did. That was fantastic. I loved every minute of it. And I'm like, and I kind of get that same vibe from the rock where we are happy to be booing him, like it makes us feel good because he's doing his job so well. It's a little bit like you know, when the miss is really when the miss is really you know, killing it as a heel, you and I say, here, go, he's doing such a great job, Like I want to punch him in the face. He's doing such a great job. It's like this weird admiration because we know what you're like, what you're doing.

21:37 We admire the work in it, but we also love the fact that our emotions get taken for the ride with him. So I just think a back a couple weeks ago, when you know the Rock was on Pat mcabee's show and he's basically tell everybody to like shut their mouths and enjoy the ride. This is what he was talking about. And I think it's it's part of it too, is like they love them to saw jact like it's so cool and it's not something we saw just figured that he would come back out the way that he was at the kickoff special for WrestleMania and that would be it. But for him to go throw back, it's like, oh man, this is this is gonna be fun, this is gonna be good, and I'm I'm happy to be part of the ride and people are gonna cheer him and eat it up. I think the other thing is to Doctor Trey, is the vibe around this entire thing is that Rock will probably be turning on him within the next eight weeks Roman reigns. I still think Roman solo.

22:27 Would Jimmy turn on him? Really yes, because like if he turns on Roman, yeah, the crowd will eat it up and they'll cheer him. But if he gets beat down by them, then he gets the sympathy behind it too. And Babyfaces need to overcome obstacles and Rock against the rest of the bloodline is an obstacle, where if Rock just turns on him straight up, it's not as much of his obstacle. I think you need a little bit of a factor. But what's a bigger What do you think is a bigger pop him getting beat down by Jimmy Solo and Roman at Wrestling and forty Maybe they take an l on the tag team match, or Rock costs Roman or helps cost Roman the WE Championship against Cody Rhodes. I think it's Cody.

23:15 I think it's him helping Cody somehow Cody, but I still don't see. And this is also I love it, like how like fancy Bookie. I like the slow builds. I kind of want to see Rock and Roman be kind of like a dominant thing on SmackDown for a little bit and then get the Summer Slam or get to wrestleming a forty one with the payoff of Rock and Roman. But that's me. I like the long, slow builds. But I can see it. I can see them shotgunning it, and you know, Rock costing Roman the match. I mean, there's all those little subtle innuendos that people are picking up like easter eggs in a Deadpool three trailer. You know, Oh he didn't do the one correctly. He made an L and he was talking, he was looking at Roman while he was talking to and all those little innuendo things like that. I can see them pull the trigger earlier. But me, I'd like to see this play out a little bit like what the two man ego trip of Austin In Triple A or Austin Triple H was supposed to be before Triple H got hurt, that it was gonna play out and they were gonna run rough shot over the company for a while, until their egos got too big and they blew up, you know, mega powers explode things like that. Like I like seeing those two big egos try to work together for a while and then explode. I'm with you, I just don't think that works because of the Rock schedule.

24:30 I'm in total agreement with you. If I thought Rock was gonna be around from like now to August Summer Slam, I would say, let it play out, let this grow, let them continue to work together. But because of Rock schedule, I just feel like it's going to be heel until Mania turns babyface, and then that takes us into like Rock returning at SummerSlam or whatever at that point. Well, I just I don't know what his schedule is now that he's actually on the board and is trying to be a part of all this. I mean, that's that's the one thing that nobody's really said, is what's his schedule? Like, I mean, honestly, his last couple of movies haven't been huge successes. The us the XFL and the USFL merged. I know he's still part of that organization. Yeah, he's like the face of it basically. I mean, he's got seven other companies.

25:19 I love. I love when Tyler Braings always mentions every single company that Rock runs on their up, up, Down Down show. But you know, you really don't know what his schedule is. So I mean they him and Rome could almost sync up schedules, and I still think we would kind of eat that up if it got us to a big Summer Slam or WRESTLINGIA forty one payoff match. All right, last question, or Doctor Trey, was this character change for the Rock everything that you saw on Friday SmackDown the right move and are you excited for what's coming forward? I think it is the right move. Because what it does is it sets up obstacles for Cody to overcome, which you need to become a big baby face star. And if you're building the company around Cody, you don't need Cody being overshadowed by the Rock. So if Rock came in to fight Roman, Cody's gonna get overshadowed until he finally gets his own breakout moment. So this kind of appeases the masses and still gets people to tune into WrestleMania, So you're kind of getting the best of both worlds here, Greed, Greed, I think it's really exciting. I love the segment, love the character change, and I'm pumped to see where things go for the Rock moving forward into WrestleMania season.

26:33 Doctor Trey. Something I've noticed on WE programming lately has been the changes with the way that they deliver programming on WWE as of late, whether it be these walk ups into the arena where it's always like one twenty two Eastern time or two twenty two Pacific Standard time, whether they're showing Cody Rhoades or Ridea Ripley entering a stadium, little subtle things. I really am digging that and enjoy in it. If you go within the arena, you're seeing graphics now which aren't so busy as they used to be, Like around the barricades and the ring apron themselves, it's just a simple black background with the raw logo w E logo. You got that around the arena as well. The lights now are no longer the colors of the show, whether it be red or blue. Red for Raw, blue for SmackDown. It's back to that clear coloring that we all kind of grew up. In the attitude area. You could see the crowd a lot better. It's it's these subtle things since Kevin Doune left that are very noticeable with the graphics, the production, the way things are promoted on television that I'm really digging lately, and I've really enjoyed this turn that w W has taken with their with their programming as of late.

27:48 Have you noticed it and is it noticeable to you where it's it's in a good way per se. Yeah, I've noticed it that in like the busyness of it, Like they're not graphics flashing up all the time. It's not constant movement going around when it times time for matches, it's we focus on the entering stuff. We focus on you know, the promotions or stuff like that when we're doing the backstage show, on the walk ups and things like that, Like the little things like that. And it's one of those things I try to teach when i'm you know, teaching guys in marketing and sales is sometimes you know, less is more, simple is better. You want to keep things as simple and as easy for people to understand and not divert their attention in three or four different ways, like keep it straight to the message. And I think that's what they're delivering now, is you're giving it a little bit more of an authentic vibe with it still being a wrestling promotion. A lot of it is you're seeing a lot of the throwback to what black and NXT Black and Gold was or why it was successful and why you know, a lot of diehard wrestling fans fond over it. It was a little bit of the realism mixed in with you know, the storytelling that is WW He's also what made you know, Nitro great back in the day, was you kind of blurred these lines sometimes between what's real and you know, what's a shoot and what's the work and those walk ups, those things like that is part of that. I just always think it's funnyhen I see guys walking up at like one o'clock in the bell time seven, because then independent wrestling at the bell time seven guys are showing up at like six fifteen.

29:21 So it's a little bit different in the independent world as opposed to wrestling, but they're actually showing up six hours before bell time. Yeah, there's a little bit more of a sport to what we're seeing, Like it's more of a sports presentation for professional wrestling then it has been in years past. And it's been very It started subtle and it's starting to grow where you're starting to see people online really start to notice it. And it's been enjoyable. It's been an enjoyable watch. It's not as busy, it's just straightforward and it is what it is and I'm digging it and I hope it continues moving forward here in we because it's been a nice change. And all of that is doing part to Kevin Dunn retiring. Base From all accounts is these changes are happening because Kevin Dunn is no longer in charge of WA programming. And what you see on television each week for the last twenty five to thirty years, and I'm digging it. I'm digging the change. It's noticeable. Thumbs up all around world wrestling Entertainment switching gears our weekly segment here heading into Wrestlemanning the Wrestlemaning forty Card roundup. Nothing was confirmed this past week. We're still sitting on Eosky and Bailey and Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes. Some rumored expected matches that we saw potentially progress forward. I think the easiest one here Doctor Trey is Jay us versus Jimmy USO is Jimmy cost Jay the Intercontinental Championship on Monday's Raw. It's clearly now showing that we're going to be getting Jimmy and Jay at Wrestle Many. A lot of the camera shots that they took place, going back to the way that the show is being filmed, was a lot of motions towards the big WrestleMania logo that sits up over in the top

30:57 of the arena during every show, Jay Jimmy pointing to it at one point. It seemed like a lot of the shots were meant for the package that will eventually air heading into their match at WRESTLEMANI forty. Like the wrestle Mania of forty log was kind of like the thought bubble that they used to have in the comic books and stuff like that. It's like, uh huh, yeah, you want to fight, And then the slow turned towards the WrestleMania sign. It's like, oh, there's the thought bubble. But yeah, it does feel like they were heading that way, and it's it's fantastic. I mean, we've we've had father and son. Now we're gonna get twins going at it. I mean, and if the Bellas cann't pull this off, I don't know who else can except for Jimmy and Jay. So there you go. The other thing is here is gunther right. I don't know what they're gonna do with Guntherer. Because the rumor has been Brock listener, it was basically confirmed that Brock and Gunthroer we're going to be having a match of Wrestleman of forty. Up until Brock was dragged into the vincick Man allegations.

31:55 I thought that maybe bron Breaker could be the person meant to take on Guntherer but then he signed with SmackDown. I saw the exchange with Pat McAfee going crazy for Jay Usso's theme song, putting his hands up in the air and Gun They're looking at him and then calling him a stooge on Twitter. I'm like, can they be doing Pat McAfee versus Gun through Wrestumani, which I would not be down for whatsoever? And then the wave they're building the New Day right now makes me wonder, could we see all three members of Imperium take on all three members of the New Day and Big Eye returns to save his brothers of the New Day. You know, there's a lot of rumors out there he may never wrestle again, his career may be over.

32:40 But there's three of them, there's two of them. I'm like, could they be going that direction? I guess that's really the only other thing from a potential Wrestum and he forty card perspective. I wanted to bring up this week, Doctor Trace because there's a little bit of a cloud right now on what they're gonna do with the Intercontinental Championship. Maybe it's Sammy's name, Maybe it's a three on three with Imperium and Day with Biggie returning. I don't know, but there's a lot of question marks right now. I've since Braun signed with SmackDown Friday Night, I've been leaning kind of Sammy's aying, just because we need something for Sammy to do, I've been trying to figure out. Usually when you have a match like the Elimation Chamber and that's coming up, and Gunther's in that match, but for all intentsive purposes, once again, what if it might be gunp it still might end up being Gunther in seth you know and the how. But isn't Gunther in the Chamber match?

33:32 No? No, he's not. Oh that's my mistake. I thought he was in. He confused the shit out of me. I was like, how are you? How do you see this taking place? I'm interested? So yeah, I've been trying to figure out then, like where do they go from here with with Gunther? Because I'm with you, I thought I was gonna be bron breaker. You know, he signs with SmackDown, so that kind of takes him off off the menu, so to speak. You know, Sammy Zay, you know, maybe it's a John Cena match at WrestleMania. Maybe we go that route. But once again, like, I don't think he brings Sena back to fight Gunther after he just you know, kind of took the ass kick against Solo not too long ago. So yeah, it's really up in the air. I don't know if we're gonna do some kind of crazy, weird gauntlet match or you know, elimination match.

34:22 You know, got me out after Chamber to pick his opponent. But I'd be on board and bring it back to Chad Gable stuff because Gable's still super over, so I'd be fine with circling Gable back around. Yeah, Gable was a lot of fun. He got a big win over IVR on Monday's Raw as well, so that'd be pretty cool. So that's really it for me, Doctor trey On on the RUSTLMANI forty card stuff. I obviously will have a clearer picture on next week's edition in the podcast, But is there anything that you saw from programming this past week that I may be missing. I'm still like the I still kind of think it's gonna Becky winning the Chamber and getting the real Ripley match because of the interactionally Becky, Naya and Rhea. But the yeah, we might do it they might do a three way at Wressell, Jamesween and all three of those ladies. That would be interesting.

35:05 Yeah, yeah, that would that would be interesting. But I think with doing the elimination chairing match, I'm not really too keen on just adding another person in there that maybe not was not in the match. This upcoming Saturday, well, I mean, maybe there's some kind of weird finish with Rhea and Naya. Naya comes out and complains about the finish and blames it being in Australia. Becky's won the chamber if Nya, If Nya blamed it on Australia, I would be like, but you knew where you were wrestling, but she didn't get to pick it. But yeah, she just woke up and all of a sudden was in Australia. That'd be a trip, you know. But then you know, Nya is tied to the Bloodline stuff, and it wouldn't surprise me if she gets factored into, you know, a main event women's title match, you know, with you know, her cousin kind of helping run the company right now, or being on the board directors with the company. Yeah, okay, that would be interesting. I mean she's tied to that behind the scenes. We haven't seen that play out too much on television evers, but that would be pretty cool. Or maybe uh Ava throws herself into the match just because the GM's backdown in the rocks to Dad. Yeah, I'm sure fans wouldn't revolt at all on that.

36:07 No. Forget, she did have interaction with Paul Hayman on NXT a couple months ago. As she mentioned it when she got the position that a wise man told her blah blah blah blah. Sure it all right, let's switch gears to w W Elimination Chamber Premium live event. This is our previeum predictions this Saturday from Uptus Stadium in Burstwood, Western Australia, Australia. Uh, it'll be airing five am here for me, four am for Doctor Trey Dot Trey. Will you be watching live? Uh? If I am, that means the wife and I have got a huge fight and I'm sleeping on the couch. Okay, fair enough, Yeah, I I probably am not.

36:50 Maybe I catch half of half of the show and I wake up on Saturday, because I do wake up pretty early. Yeah. The only way I'm watching it is if I find out Billy K will on the show, and then I might tune in to see Billy K because I do love some Billy K. Yeah, little Peyton Royce as well. Peyton and you know Sean Spears are having kids and doing all that stuff. But uh, you know Billy, Billy's free to roam around. Billy just had a kid, Doctor Trey. Well, then there you go. So maybe uh we just do like a big daycare thing with all the misses kids and the daycare match kids, and yeah, we just have a baby rumble and that's how Dominic wins. Dominic wins match. All right, let's get into it here. The Judgment Day defend the undisputed WA Tag Team Championship against the newly known New Catch Republic Pete Dunn and Tyler Bate Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this match? Well, I want to take the I'm gonna take the Judgment Day just because I hate the name. I hate the name because they have the No Catch quarter crew in NXT. Yes, doesn't they get confusing? I was literally like, this is confusing to me, So I'm taking. I'm taking. Well then again, Judgment Day is named after an no old pay per view. So these horrible names, they really need to hire somebody come up better names. But I'll think Judgment Day Getty Way. I'm going to take the Judgment Day to retain as well. Next match is Rhea Ripley defending the WA Women's World CHAMPIONIP against Naya Jacks. I've really enjoyed this bill that they have done a fantastic job of making Naya Jacks the first real competitor to

38:22 take it to Rhea Ripley, who continues to beat up Rhea Ripley each and every week. We have not seen that during this title run, not at all since this dominance of her in the last near two years. They've done a really good good job of making this a believable opponent for Ria Ripley on Saturday. But nonetheless, you don't let the hometown girl lose in her hometown. She is going to get a Heroes welcome, probably the biggest pop of the night. I would even make a case that this should be the match that closes out the show, but I don't think it will, being that the elimination chamber is on the card. With that said, of course, I'm taking Ria Ripley in this one, Doctor Trey, we don't let the hometown girl lose, but we had Drew McIntyre lose to Roman Reigns at Cardiff.

39:05 Well, unless she's taken on Roman, I don't think that's gonna happen. Well, she's taken on Roman's family, Jeff, No, it's if this is the Vince big Man era. There's part of me that would pick Niage because that'd be a Vince move to let the hometown girl lose. Yeah, he would like insult in like ten seconds. Yeah, he'd make her join the Kiss My Ass Club after the match. But New World that we live in. Ria is being booked as the baby face in this angle heading into Australia, so I'm taking to Rea to retain as well. All right, next match, here's the Women's Elimination Chamber match winner gets a w Women's World Champion match at Restraining forty. They will take on either Ria Ripley or Naya Jackson. There's Becky Lynch, Bianca bell Air, Live, Morgan, Tiffany Stratton, Naomi and ra Kel Rodriguez in this match, Doctor Trey, who do you like in this one man where Kel Rodriguez came out of nowhere.

39:53 Uh totally almost forgot about her. But that being said, this is heading into Mania, you look for who your biggest draw is going to be. I'm taking Becky Lynch get the win because we haven't had Becky Henria yet, so I will take Becky Lynch getting the win. Yeah. I think they alluded to it at the Kickoff Special a couple of weeks back, with Becky Lynch confronting Mary Ripley. So I'm gonna be taking Becky Lynch as well to win this match and then the next match here is the Man's Elimination Chamber match for a w W World aweight champion match against Seth Freakin Rollins. At Wrestlminging forty, You've got Drew McIntyre, Randy Orton, Bobby Lashley, La Night, Kevin Owens, and Logan Paul. Up until Monday, I thought that I was gonna be picking Randy Orton for this match, and then Drew McIntyre defeated Cody Rhodes semi clean on Monday's raw. I don't think you give Drew McIntyre that win if you're not going to be putting him into a championship match. At WrestleMania. Drew's run as this tween er heel has been a lot of fun. It's been very entertaining. He seems refreshed in this role as well. And I'm going to be taking Drew McIntyre to win this match.

40:55 Doctor Trey. I am too, because I think this is how you get the Damien Priese cash in at WrestleMania's because we've seen Drew and Seth go at it. If they do at wrestlemands be the third third pay per view they've headlined in the last six months, So I think that's where you get the cash in for Damian Priest. So I will take Drew McIntire getting to win as well. So there you go. There is our Elimination Chamber preview and predictions. We will recap it on next week's edition of the podcast, which will be February the twenty eighth last show of the month heading into March Madness of this Wonderful World of twenty twenty four. With that said, let's get a couple plugs and sponsors out of the way. You can down the show every Thursday or Friday at realguid Radio dot com, Russell Chattnet on X and The Stowe Realta show iTunes feed, don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to help us come the charts. On iTunes. You can follow us individually on X for myself at SRTU Jeff and for Doctor Trey Franklin at The Doctor Trey. And of course don't forget to follow a show on X at SRTU podcast. With that being said, what's going on the Ononerful World of doct Trey Franklin this week? Well, like Jeff said, you can find me on X at the Doctor Trey. You can also find me on Facebook and Instagram Doctor Trey Franklin. When you're on Facebook, be sure check out Rocket City Championship Wrestling, Spartan Championship Wrestling. And honestly, I don't know the name of the show I'm working this Saturday. Look cool? Yeah, so I will be another show, but I'll let you guys know next week what the name of the show was. But you can check all that stuff out Facebook, Rocket Stay Championship Wrestling, Spartan Championship Wrestling, and then just

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43:15 At that point, all the main event title matches will be pretty much clear at that point, I would assume. And then we'll also preview and predict aw Revolution which will be taking place the following weekend. So it is a very busy time in the world of professional wrestling, and we are here for you all each and every week. Like we have for the last fourteen years. So once again, thank you again for downloading, thank you for all your support, and until next week for doctor Trey Franklin. I'm Jeff Peck. This is still with a show