The 2024 Thanksgiving Special! | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #772 – 11/28/24

0:00 It's still. Welcome. Everybody, Welcome to this week's edition is Still Real Does Show Episode number seven seventy two for November twenty eight, twenty twenty four. This is your aw full gear recap and we Survivor Series, Wargames Weekly and Predictions Edition Up ass our team you. I am one alf of the show. I am Jeff Pack, joined every single week by my co host, the one only doctor Trey Franklin. Doctor Trey. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend Happy Thanksgiving.

0:50 This is got what are twelve Thanksgiving together? So we're at this point. We are family. So I I'm always as always thankful for you than for everybody. But I'm excited because this is my favorite, one of my favorite, not favorite, but top two, top three holidays because just the gluttonous nature of humanity now kind of caters to this. And I've already checked with the family to make sure that it's not just turkey. We got to, like, I have to have ham on Thanksgiving, So grandma and mother in law are making sure that there is a ham in the oven for me while everybody else engulfs the turkey.

1:30 So it's funny, and we've probably had this discussion every year we talk about this show and talk about the holiday on this show. I feel like it switches at some point, maybe like in my early twenties for me, and I am still to this day a big Christmas guy. Literally behind me as I record the show. We put our Christmas tree up this week. But at some point, as you get older, you switch from Christmas to Thanksgiving, or at least I did. Were you the same way because Thanksgiving? Like I'm super hyped for Thanksgiving right now because I love Thursday. I love the food. We typically play a football game, not sure if we're going to be able to do that yet because of the weather forecast it's going to be hitting us in the area.

2:16 And then I just watch football all day. My packers are playing on Sunday or Thursday night, which I'm excited about. But this at some point, Doctor Trey, unless you always were a Thanksgiving guy, I feel like for most people, like the older you get, this becomes the holiday. For most of us, it shifts back and forth, especially when. You have kids. Because good point. Like when I was younger, when I was you know, a kid, and even to my early teens, I love Christmas. And then you know, once you get a certain age, your parents have no idea what to get you anymore. It kind of loses that luster a little bit, so you kind of drift over to Thanksgiving because as a teenager, dear God, I can just eat a ton of food and not really gain any weight from it. And it kind of stayed that way until the kids came along, and then you kind of get that joy of Christmas back with the kids. But like right now, like it's funny as you bring that up, Like my nephew looked at his grandma yesterday and goes, Grandma, I don't like Thanksgiving because it's all about adults eating and talking and that's it. And I was like, no, that's literally what Thanksgiving is. Just hang out with some people that you that you moderately to actually like tell stories, eat a bunch of food, and hopefully pass out at home and not at somebody else's house, which actually does harken back to your teenage years.

3:42 Yes, very very true. This is the holiday that has it's like you have a day for the holiday itself and then you have a day to recover and just it's an immediate four day weekend. Every other holiday unless it falls like the day before a weekend. On a weekend, you, I think Christmas is a Wednesday this year, So Christmas is on a Wednesday, then I think, I think Thursday. I mean, I'm working, it's it's a slow day. But it's like you only get one day in the middle of the week. Like it's always that the super Bowl debate. They've always said where on super Bowl Sunday should be a national holiday and the day after the super Bowl should be a day off for most people. So I guess it's like you got the main event and then you got a day to recover. It's I don't think that there is a better holiday, and I agree with you.

4:39 It probably will change for me when like my son gets older, But right now, I'm I'm still I'm still all about Thanksgiving. Yeah. My issue is with the business I'm in and being involved in retail. I don't get the Friday off because of. Black Friday boom I have I have folks Now, Luckily, you don't have to be in store when the store is open, because look, nobody's gonna want to stop and talk to us about gutters first thing in the morning. We got to wait till that ten o'clock eleven o'clock. We got wait for the people that have already hit like three or four stores and they're just like, oh, yeah, we gotta get. Some stuff to fix some stuff at the house. Yeah, they got the Furbie the Cabbage Patch kid in their hand and they come to you.

5:20 Yeah, they've already done that stuff. So for us, it's kind of like I still gotta be out there. Luckily right now, like you and I were talking about here, I'm having to rebuild the division, so I only have a couple of people that are gonna be on the field on that day. So I just have to be the good manager and make sure they know I am out there too and not sitting at home relaxing. But you know, for for most folks, like you know. My uh, the guy who took over for me in my old district, he's taken a four day I mean, we built that team up, he's taking the whole four days off. He's taken off from Wednesday until Sunday, well one, two, three, four, five days off, So he's going away for the entire time and going out of town. I'm like, yeah, yeah, if the other thing is I don't really have anywhere else to go. I could go to North Carolina, but really for me is like this is.

6:05 Kind of my home. But look, I gotta get back to work and get on the grind and kind of rebuild this thing. But for those folks to get to take the four days, the five days, the six days, whatever it is. Man, God bless you, and good luck dealing with airports and travel. Right now, so you mentioned the ham before you've already asked your mother in law to make a ham. Is there any other like food traditions or just overall traditions on Thanksgiving that that you it's a must have to either eat or do on Thanksgiving each year. My three favorite dishes and it's ham. I need stuffing, slash dressing, whatever you want to call it, depending on what part of the country you're in. And I love devil diggs so and if I have to make the devil eggs out, that's fine because I'll make a bunch for everybody who's coming to the thing, and then I'll make another plate just to keep it home.

6:57 But those are my three goes go tos. It's funny that back when I was traveling and I would go to the Northeast, my friend Jordan. I would sometimes be stuck in Massachusetts Rhode Island on Thanksgiving and he would always invite me over to his family's house and his mother made this like sausage onion stuffing and it was the best thing I was having, and I used to this day. I'll text him like, I know your mom's still alive, So I'm not going to ask for the family recipe yet, but just just reminder I need that recipe at some point to make it down here. I don't know if it's their family is Ukrainian, I believe, so I don't know if it's something that came over from from that part of the world. But oh my god, like I don't know if it maybe just the way she made it, don't. I mean, it's just crazy. It's just how crazy, how good it was. That was the first time.

7:54 Okay, I'm sorry, it's crazy good. I'm mean. By the way, this is another great thing about having a five year old. If you say certain words, they will tell you not to say those certain words anymore. Fair enough, Hey, listen, somebody, it's the holdest accountable right yeah. So yeah, so yep, Thanksgiving this Thursday, we're obviously releasing the show a little bit early. We're hoping it will be dropped by Wednesday. At this point, we're recording earlier this week to settle up and joy some time with friends and family and get away for a little bit recap what's been going on the world professional rest in the last couple of days. Look forward to this Saturday, Survivor Series war Games. There's some other stuff that we'll talk about here as well as part of our regular Thanksgiving special that we do each and every year. This is the fourteenth year we've been doing Thanksgiving Special twelve with Doctor Trey. Let's get into it. Doctor Trey AW full gear recap review this Saturday from this past Saturday from the Potential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The first pre show match was and A j defeating Diana Parrazzo.

8:53 We did not predict this one. Just a couple of notes from this one. And A Jay's really came into our own as an entering worker, and Dianna's AW run has been surprisingly disappointing. Your thoughts on this one, Doctor. Trey sounds just about like every other person they brought it from outside the company that their run has been slightly disappointing. I like, I like Anna j I like how far she's come, But for one, she should have never won. This match just matches in Deanna Pross's backyard, So let Deanna win by some screwjob. Don't like you're having the person the new babyface from Georgia come in and when I get it, she just lost to Mariah May so you're trying to build her back up. But Deanna's the better wrestler right now, so it's okay to let the better wrestler win the match in her backyard on a pay per view when she has another person at ringside backing Euroupe, which, by the way, that spot where Ti of speared aa Jay and the referee saw it and they're like they had to cover up by saying it's the referees discretion to disqualify people. That that was such a out. Uh but yeah, just it was.

10:02 It was an okay match, but it just it doesn't make sense in the grand scheme of things. There's gonna be I feel like a lot of that when it comes to this edition of aw Full Gear. Next match year was Buddy Matthews defeating Dante Martin Commander and the Beast Mortals in a fatal four way match. We did not predict this one. This is a fast paced, smooth and fun four way match that made a case of being on the main card in my opinion, Doctor Trey and I kind of if you look back at it, this entire card, I feel like this was one of at least the top five matches from full gear. Yeah, this was just I mean, this was It was just a fun match. And sometimes these little four ways when there's no real rivalry, there's no real stories, Like all right, I just got to watch this for the action. It had all the action you needed, and you had, you know, contrasting styles there.

10:53 You had two high flyers. You had to you know, Buddy Murphy's just like I think they said it a few times on the commentary team of the best pure athletes in aw and then Mortos in himself is an anomaly. By the way, when you ddt a guy, I don't think we heard this. He took the DDT on his horns. I don't think I've ever heard that phrase mentioned before. But yeah, it was a really really fun match and probably should have been on the main show. But at least I'll tell them this much. At least, the matches on the main show all had a little bit a story leading into it for the most part, this one didn't, so I kind of get why it was on the pre show. Next match here is Big boom Aj defe thing q T Marshall. We both had Big boom Aj game and victory here. I never thought I would see the day where AW would have this type of match, let alone on a pre show of a pay per view, as it doesn't really fit the vision I think most restling fans have Slash had for the AW product, where it's a TikTok star getting ample time in the ring. Granted he had professional wrestling background to get a little publicity for all Lee wrestling. With that said, the crowd seemed into it and it was a fun presentation. I truly cannot hate on it. And then days later come to find out Big boom Aj broke his foot earlier in the day. I don't know what he was doing, maybe running the ropes, and then still did the match. He didn't want to dissid discipline anybody. All the reports back on these guys have been very, very positive. I do know them from being a fan of Barstool Sports. I

12:25 know doctor Trey was not accustomed to the Costco Guy universe, whatever you want to call it, Doctor Trey, your thoughts on this one is big Boom AJ against the victory. I didn't hate it. I like, to me, I was sitting there going I had no idea who these people were. I didn't know what a rizzler was. I didn't know what a big Justice was. I didn't know what a big Boom AJ was. QT Marshall had the worst spray tand I have seen since Donald Trump comes out of Florida, like nothing about it, like appearance wise, I'm like, this is going to be got off. And then the crowd when AJ came out, that crowd pop was huge and I was just like kind of blown away, And I'm like, if the crowd's popping like this for these guys and you're trying to build an audience for AW, why's on the pre show.

13:17 It should be on the main show. If these guys have millions and millions of followers on TikTok, put them on the main show, get people to buy the pay per view. And then the match itself was good. It was some good storytelling. These guys have a history. I could have done with less cuts to the Rizzler doing the same face over and over again. Yeah, what what did you think of the wristler face? Is it something you forget you can do? I mean I can touch my beard. I mean that's what I do that all the time. Like, but I just I'm just not a cute That kid, which I will say, is the Wrizzler actually the son of I know Justice is the son of AJ is the Rizzler.

13:58 The son of AJ is the Rizal midget. I don't know the thing. He is not the son of AJ, nor is he? Uh they stole a kid. I don't know. I don't know the full background. I believe he's like seven years old, like legitimately seven years old. Like, how do you find a kid in Costco who's seven to put on your TikTok to? I mean that's usually how you end up in jail most likely. I don't know the background. Have everybody, how everybody met? I would assume that in like two years, when Big Justice, who is probably like in his early teens, develops a drug habit and ends up in like celebrity rehab on VH one, maybe we hear about all this because they seem to be very level headed and grounded. But it just like anything, like at some point something happens, right like you and.

14:46 I talked about it. It's the Andy Milanakas syndrome coming into play here. I guess who was older than he looked on television. He had he had a medical condition. But correct me if I'm wrong, if if, if you would, I are running a promotion and we get a I'm air quoting here, you can't. See it a celebrity. Yeah, yeah, that has millions of followers and the crowd gets a reaction like that because they're in the guys's backyard. Why are you not putting that on the main show? I understand. I don't think they want to. I mean typically, I would have thought wrestling fans would have shot on this typically. And then they had taped Rampage after Dynamite last week in Albany and the videos I saw that they did that way in on Rampage they got booed when they came out, and in New Jersey it was the complete opposite. I mean, they got a heroes welcome, they got some of the biggest pops of the night, and it shocked me. I would have thought the aw audience would have crapped all over this.

15:50 I literally I think I was kind of I was kind of keeping track, like, once I heard that pop for those guys. You thought Steve Austin was coming out, Well, I. Was like, let me just see the rest of the show. Is that an lod pop for Big boom Age. I was kind of like, I just want to see if anybody else got a louder pop than that. And I think they had the second or third Lattice pop on their entrance, and then in the way I think maybe Garcia's popp might it jumped up over theirs when Garcia won later on, but just off initial entrance, I was like, Okay, these guys are are already kind of over with the crowd. So it was just I didn't hate the match. I mean, it's nice when you get a guy. Yeah. Does he look like every single overweight indie guy I've met out there?

16:33 Yeah? Oh, this is a mid to late two thousand's Italian guido from New Jersey being like put into a wrestling ring like he And again, all things considered, from everything I'm reading and everything that i'm hearing, and you know how the wrestling world is. These guys were very humble, They were very nice, cordial, and everybody liked them. And I think it does come off the screen and that it is an infectious personality. They seem genuine. That's one of the things that you and I talk about, we've been talking about for fourteen years, is that when guys are having fun, we feel it and kind of response. And those guys were having fun. I mean, that was Aja's dream right there. I mean, obviously being an independent wrestler back in the early two thousands, never getting the big break.

17:22 Dude, he did the Brett Hart walk down slapping everybody's hands. An ex caliber was like, this is quite the introduction. Here he went behind the announced table. He was soaking it off. You could see it in his eyes legitimately. Like he was appreciative for the environment he was in, like he knew if he never gets another job, this. Is his thing. And by the way, that song does get kind of catchy. Oh yeah, back this after a while, like I hated it when you play for me last week, And then by the five minute mark of their entrance, I was like, Okay, too bad. It's kind of catchy. At least it's a good wrestling theme as well.

18:03 Oh it's crazy. My hope is is that you after the show, you sit young Sammy Franklin down and you introduce him to the Costco metaverse. I actually think I might because he's a big There's a lot of other shows out there on between YouTube and stuff like that he'll watch that have way worse theme songs and more annoying people than that, So I will definitely introduce them to this. I can't. We have spent more time talking about this match than I would ever think, but it's it was a very noteworthy item, and yeah, check the shit out of me. Main car here, Doctor Trey, let's get into a private party defeat the outrunners Kings of the Black Throne and the Acclaim in a four way tag team match to retain the aw World Tag Team Championship. We both had private party in this one. My notes from this I thought it was a sloppy match. I had questionable spots in it, like the Acclaim pinning one another and commentary not leading up to the fact that they were both the legal men prior to that. I don't remember anybody on commentary saying that Bowen's and Caster are illegal right now. By the way, for those wrestling historians out there, that is an old spot from the New Age Outlaws back in the day, like on an old episode of Raw, like ninety seven ninety eight, And it would have been nice if it was mentioned like, oh, this is a playbook out of Billy Gunn or out of the page out of Billy Gunn's playbook, but they didn't even do that either. It was not a match that accomplished spotlighting this new era of tag team wrestling aw and that was disappointing to see. The biggest takeaway was the issues between the acclaimed in this match. Max Caster is a guy that is going to be a

19:35 very good natural heel, and it certainly seems like he's laying into that right now, and I thought that was the biggest story from the entire match. Your thoughts on this one, Doctor Trey, Yeah. I figured out by watching this show that outside of the Outrunners, if you have a shitty mustache, that means you're a heel, because remember Roderick had one, and then for this match he shaved his off later on, so didn't he didn't have it? Later on. Sometimes it's like, why are the tag belts not on the Kings of the Black Throne, Like they're super everybody. The fans love Brody King, they love Malachi Black. Look. I like Private Party. They are deserving. They've been there since day one. They deserve it. But the fact that Kings of the Black Throat have not had the tag belts yet it baffles me. And it's always weird to me at the AW that a team gets hot and then they don't make the move for the tag belts, and then when the team cools off, that's when they give them the tag belts.

20:29 We'll look at the Outrunners right now. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like the Outrunner is the most over tag team in AAW. They're not getting the belts. Private Party that which was super over five years ago, four years ago and then cooled off, and then it took this last little storyline with Moxley and the Bucks to get him back up there. You know, it's like they they should pull the trigger on Private Party four years ago. It's just they they're. They're timing on, you know, putting guys over is weird, and then the acclaimed it is weird when you have a tag team like Private Party, which is kind of the Street Profits, then you have the Acclaimed, which is kind of the New Day, and both those tag teams are having problems at the same time. It's just kind of weird that. They'll say, oh ww copies AW and AW copies WWE, and then you see it play out on your TV.

21:14 It is kind of funny to actually watch it in real life. Next Mett year is MJF defeating roder Strong both at MGF and this one. I can't seem to put my finger on the direction of this MJF Adam Cole, roder Strong, Kyle o' riley's stuff yet and if I like it or if I'm confused by it. The fans seem to be more into MGF wrestling again rather than supporting roder Strong, which makes sense because why should I all of a sudden be supporting the Undisputed Kingdom after what they initially did to MGF at the Closer World's End last year. It was nice to see MGF back in the ring after Strong twenty twenty twenty three, and I wonder if he'll be back as a regular contributor on AW television each week. That's sure your thoughts on this one.

21:56 Yeah, I hated the booking eating in this matchup because it was two months ago. You know, the unspeaker Kingdom was trying to take out Taz, I mean trying to take out Hook and they had that rivalry. And then they hugged him, remember. And then it was like a handshake and hug it. And I remember on the show going I hate that stuff because that now because you show the respect, now we have to like you like I don't get it. And then I don't know. I love MGF being back in the ring. I thought the promo he put out, I think it was it was a dynamite on rampay or on collision with the Roddy's mom. Anyway, he's in the parking lot sitting on the hood of a of a transamin from a trailer. I camera what it was. I thought that was not one of his better promos.

22:41 So I really don't know if I like this because we're trying to get to Adam calling MJF again, but it just feels so disjointed right now and kind of out of place. I'm just I'm happy to see all of these guys in the ring because they're all my favorites. But right now it just kind of feels like I have a puzzle. I'm looking at and none of the piece is fit. To make the picture to come into site. Yeah, I don't know what to make of it yet. It's it's all very, very strange. The MGF booking in twenty twenty four has been confusing in all honesty. Next match here is Mercedes Monet defeating Chris Statlander to retain the AWTBS Championship. We both had Mercedes Monee in this one.

23:23 I thought this was a great match, Doctor Trey. Some of the near falls were a bit much, but it got the crowd involved and helped the match reach its climax to reach the end there. I think Mercedes being the AWTBS Champion Champion has been a detriment to the aw Women's World Championship, and I think this could have been a good spot to drop the title to the Statlander some Mercedes and get involved in the world Tider picture at some point. I really really enjoyed this match, Doctor Trey. I know you're a Mercedes not the biggest Mercedes fan in the world, and I trashed her on last week's show, but you got to give credit where credit is due, and Monette and stat Lander brought it on Saturday night. You don't hear me say this very often, but I love this match. This was a great match and they told stories, they played into injuries they like. Not only were the workers on point, but commentary was really good in this match too, that some of the near falls were great. It was also and maybe listen, I'm an old guy. Some people knocking for this. It was a WWE tempo match. They'd hit big moves, they sold it.

24:26 It gave it time to digest before they went to the next thing like it was. The pacing was really good. So for somebody who has criticized the entire Mercedes Monet run in aw and I've been saying since she got the title, like this, it makes the Women's world title feel inferior because everybody she's fighting is a bigger star than what's in the world title picture. Like, I don't know, and we will probably cover I don't know half the people that are challenging Mariah May, but I know everybody that's challenging Mercedes Mone So it does kind of feel like it's convoluting the tie the women's picture, but that aside, this was a fantastic match, So I give those girls a ton of credits for pulling together something that maybe didn't have a great storyline and didn't have a lot of great bill to it as far as the technicalities and stuff, but they pulled it off at this match.

25:18 Next match is j White defeating Hagman Adam Page. We both had Adam Paige and this one the finish was really good. After a match that I felt dragged down a little bit, I really enjoyed their Wrestl Dream matches was my match of the night last month. This seemed to focus on Hangman Page really dominating Jay White and focusing on White's injured ankle, only to be caught by the Blade Runner for the one two three. The loss makes sense for Hangman's character since he's been off his hinges for most twenty twenty four, and this helps him continue to spiral. Moving along in aw Dot to tray your thoughts on this one, as Jy got the victory. Yeah, I like the match, not as much as Wressel Dream, but I liked it. I love that they both sold leg leg injuries, which you don't very see very often. Is like it's two one legged man in an ass kicking contest. So it's the but the finish that boot caught it into the blade Runner was really cleverly done.

26:07 I liked it because, you know, with the with the knee injury, he can't really go for the buck shot, so he's having to used dead eye and it you know, three dead eyes can't put away Jay White, but one blade Runner can put away Hangman Page, So I didn't. You know, it wasn't as good as Wrestle Dream, but it was still a pretty solid match. I didn't think it drugged too much because of they were once again selling injury. They were actually selling in this match, which I'll criticize a match later on for not doing it. But overall I liked it. I just didn't like the postmatch stuff. I know, Hangman's unhinged, but are you are you by hitting Jay White momentarily and then Chris ra Daniel's breaking it up and then hitting Christopher Daniels. Are we selling this for match seven in their series or they're going their separate ways?

26:50 I was. I was kind of confused by the postmatch stuff, but overall like the match itself I thought was was pretty good, but not as good as wrestled Dream. And then of course we got all this stuff that closed out the show in regards to hanging man out a page and j White, which we will get too later on here. Next match is Kyle Fletcher defeating will Ospray. We both had will Ospray in this one. The result was surprising, the match was great. The sky is officially the limit for Kyle Fletcher after a huge win over will Ospray on pay per view. Clearly AW sees a lot of promise in Fletcher, and rightfully so. This felt like a case where Osprey wanted to be the guy to help elevate Fletcher to the next level. I think AW should really hype up that Fletcher is the next guy in the lineage of Don Kallis managing wrestlers from Kenny Omega to will Ospray and now Kyle Fletcher. On the Will Osprey side of things, I'm disappointing this result as I want to see Osprey vie for the AW World Championship, but that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon, at least in the short term. The only thing I didn't like was the jumping pile driver onto steel step spot because that should have ended the match with Osprey being carried out rather than continuing to wrestle. Either don't do that spot during the match, and wait until after the match is over to really capitalize the things and execute that spot and have Osprey get taken out via ambulance, or don't do that spot at all, because it made no sense to me, douch Trey. Osprey should not have been walking after the tombstone pile driver jumping tombstone pile driver onto the steel steps on the outside. Your thoughts

28:21 on this one is Kyle Fletcher defeats Will Ospray. So I liked this match if it was a video game good. There was just too much stuff and I don't know none of because you got me like everybody's ready to talk about the tombstone spot on the stairs. Ospray hit a tombstone on the floor to Kyle Fletcher, and Kyle Fletcher is not selling any kind of neck injury the entire match after that, So I hated that because that's just what restling is supposed to be. I didn't mind the jumping tombstone onto the steps. If you go for the fit right after it.

29:01 The fact that the finish came four or five minutes after that spot didn't make sense. I'm also a little confused about Kyle Fletcher getting a clean, decisive victory over will Ospray, Like there was no chack henery, there was no tricks, there was no Don Challis involvement, there's no screwdriver, there's no Don Kallis family, nothing like that. It's Kyle Fletcher beating Will Ospray straight up. So what do you do with Ospray now? Like you have to book Kyle Fletcher like he's the second coming, you know, of the greatest wrestler of all time in order to re elevate Ospray. So I'm kind of confused by that. I don't mind Fletcher getting the win, is just so clean and so decisive. And then postmatch, you know, once again, like you said, he's selling this traumatic neck injury from not only the Tombstone but the top brainbuster, and the docs aren't in the ring checking his neck to make sure you can move them. Like if you got a neck injury, Mark Davis, you're not supposed to pick up your buddy and try to carry him out. So I mean, that's literally what we've learned from wrestling commentary for the last twenty years is you can't move the neck.

30:10 You got to stabilize it. You got put the. Back borderneath there, otherwise you could paralyze your friends. So maybe Mark Davis is kind of an asshole and he does have the crappy mustache. Who knows. Yeah, it was just that was a very disappointing spot, and I know a lot of people were kind of trash, and especially after what w WE did recently where Kevin Owens used a ban move the pile driver on Randy Orton. So I don't know if it overshadowed the match per se, but it was definitely a big talking point. Nonetheless, Kyle Fletcher gets a massive, massive victory over will Ospray and like you, Doctor Trey, I want to see will Ospray Viy for the AW World Championship and I don't understand the delay right now. Again, this goes back to your point about the tag team wrestlers. It just feels like w or AW has a wasted opportunity here having will ost Bran. The roster people were behind them and they did not put the championship on them, which is something that they typically did. They would usually immediately strap the rocket ship to somebody if there's a lot of buzz, and they got away for that for some reason. Next segment, here was Maria May and Mina Sherkaga having a champagne toast for Mariah. Turned on Mina, but Mina walked away, leaving Mariah. Lane got try any thoughts on that segment for Mena and Mariah.

31:24 Mina is really pretty, but this was just a god awful segment. Like, it was so bad. I mean, it was, Jeff, I've never used this in the history of doing this show. It was porno acting bad. That's how bad it was. I mean, I get it Mina doesn't speak the language very well, but like, nothing about that said these are top stars and these are the two women you now have going for your women's heavyweight championship, like or women's title. It it was just bad across the board. The only thing that I thought was kind of cool was Mina licking Mariah, like after the table spot.

32:07 And the blood on there. Outside of that, everything else was just atrocious. Yeah, it was not a good segment at all, not at all. Next match, here is Daniy Garcia defeating Jack Perry to win the AWT and T Championship. With both at Jack Perry and this one, Daniel Garcia winning a single title and aw is longer for due. I've been very happy for him. This match had a really good build, despite me not being the biggest fan of the character Jack Perry's portraying on television. My only issue here was they really didn't let Dany Garcia celebrate the title victory like I thought he should have doctory point out early in the show, he got one of the biggest pops of the night. Maybe they were short on time and need to get through the rest of the card. It felt like a big celebration should have been taking place, especially with his mom, and that was a miss moment.

32:52 I felt like Daniel Garcia is the new AWT and T Champion. Doctor Trey. Yeah. They were more piled ves on this show than a Jerry Lawler Memphis event. Like there was like two pile drivers in this match. We had all the tombstones in the other matches. I're like, dear guys, like we got one tombstone in ten years or we got one pile driver in WWE in like fifteen years and eight was like, oh my beer, we'll do like five tonight. So it's just crazy. But like the postmatch stuff and I'm getting little Jack Perry stuff here, and just say the postmatch stuff was weird to because it's like he won the belt and then I don't know if they told him, hey, we're short on time, so keep your celebrated short or if he just did that, because it looked like the ref kept trying to get him to turn around on the ramp and he just didn't want to do it. He just got the belt, did the little stand on the on the security railing, and then just like left and nothing.

33:47 Jack Perry's entrance is fantastic for a guy who doesn't look like a malnourished raven like, it's just he comes out like he's Kane and he looks like mini Kane. It's just I just I don't know. I don't get the goat head is too big for his body. He looks like a bobblehead coming down the ramp. And he's got all this cool music, the cool graphics, the cool fire, and I'm just like, you're expecting a huge star and you get a guy who looks like he should be on the playground, but beating up kids for lunch money. Like he's just not a big enough guy for that entrance, Like the Hollywood Jack was a much better fit for him than this gimmick. And it's just it's so it's just so bad. It's distracting at times. And you know, everybody told me what a great restler was. I watched this match and Garcia's wrestling circles around him in this match, and I'm like, I don't get it.

34:46 Does does heat? Did he get leverage on Tony Kahan to get back in the good graces ors? I don't know what it is, but uh, Jack Perry is now my new Sosher Banks. That's just how I look at it right now. Yeah, if they did the NEPO baby like rich kid Jack Perry like that, would people be eating that help as a heel not. I don't like this malnourished raven as you said, just. Just I mean, and he's even doing the arms out thing, like I guess. I've always been against it. I mean, I mentioned it a couple months ago. I think we were covering all out and I'm like this this character just does not fit him. I don't believe it at all. No. I mean, you could be the rich kid and play like a Menendez brother gimmick and you know, tap into your Hollywood like your upbringing. But because of that, now you're being black ball and that. I think you could combine the two and get a good character out of it.

35:42 But this whole like twisted metal type gimmick he's doing with the bus and the mask and everything else, I'm like, oh my god, Samoa Joe sign off on this. I don't I don't get it at all. And I know he's the scapegoat for cmpunk like leaving Awn b suspend it, all that shit, But he's not. He's not a scapegoat like the kid is. Would he be in this position if his name wasn't last name wasn't Perry. Yeah, I mean he would have, because I mean he got over on the indies with people only kind of knowing that he was the son of Luke Perry because he didn't really advertise it was. I blame JR. For all the Jack Perry stuff because JR hyped it up because JR knows, Hey, we can get this kid over by his lineage, because hell he did in WWE for years and just give him a decent gimmick and then like, just right now, this gimmick doesn't It's almost as bad as Chavo Guer being Kerwin White.

36:37 Yeah, I would almost say it's as bad as Nicholas and Matthew Jackson's. Well, I'm not a big fan of that Young Bucks gimmick. As the EVPs, it's almost like they've they've gone too far up to eleven and cranked it up there. But this, this, to me, the Jack Perry character is the out of all the professional wrestling This one does not fit person at all. This is the ultimate indie gimmick because on the indies, little guys always want to act like they're big, tough guys, and the big guys want to do lucha moves. This is like, I remember when I first broke into the business, I saw a guy, Jack Perry size telling me his finisher was an attitude adjustment at an F five, and I was like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

37:20 And I lived at the time. I live in Alabama, so I've heard a lot of dumb stuff. But this is what indie guys do. They try to act like there's somebody completely different from what the fans see them as, and it's like, yeah, is Jack Perry and ahole and give be escapegoat for stuff? Absolutely, but he is not like was the what was the bludgeon brother? He's not a bludgeon brother for crying out out stop it. It's just just bad. Next mon years, can I also hit Takashka defeating Ricochet to retain the AW International Championship. We did not predict this one, as was announced after we recorded last week's show. A lot of near falls in this one. I like seeming takash could get some wins under his belt and continue to grow as a star in AW, but I also don't like seeing it at the expense of Ricochet, who has had an underwhelming start in AW thus far.

38:10 Has anything really changed for Ricochet since leaving w WE other than a really bad catchphrase like Ricochet is out of this world? Doctor Trey, what say you? That's so bad? It's terrible. It's so bad. I mean your name's by the way. I was listening to a couple of podcasts in the last couple weeks, and I love when people call it it was otis I heard Otis on the Chris Van Ballet Show and he kept calling Ricochet Ricky. Yeah, he loves it. He calls him pretty Ricky. Pretty Ricky. I love it, And that was always the joke. Have you ever went irish? He used to be rick Okay, But to me, it's one of the things like you have a pay per view and your two biggest signings of two or your three biggest signings in twenty twenty five probably are Osprey, Gocatta and Ricochet once not on the show and touring losses, and you really haven't elevated anybody any higher than they were when they came into the company.

39:06 Like we literally say, this is a. Chance for Ricochet to get a big breakout, aw to show the world we can do. He's showing the world exactly what he did in WWE for six years, seven years, Like nothing's changed, And yeah, you're probably getting a better payday and you're getting more time off than you were previously, but really, at the end of the day, you're not any higher on the food chain. But I love Takeshka and I love that they're trying to create some of their own stars. But at the same time, like you got fifteen titles on your show, and right now you don't have. Ospreaders to have a title. Ricochet doesn't have the title, like the Malachi Black and Brodie King don't have Like there's a lot of guys that should be champions in this company who are suffering for the sake of trying to build up guys like Jack Perry.

39:50 Yeah, it's not been a good run so far for Rickochet in AW. That's good. I like the match, by the way, I just want to say, ID enjoy the match. I love Takeshka, I love don Kallis. I like Ricochet a lot. This is a really fun match. It's just the booking of some of these guys makes zero sense. Yeah, that's the thing. It's just I don't know. Ricochet comes over to AW and it's like nothing's changed other than a shitty catchphrase, Like it's like, how's that happen? Meanwhile, other people, like the next match here are booked extremely well, which is Bobby Lashley defeating Swerve Strickland, and we both had Bobby Lashley this one. I think letting Bobby Lashley MVP and Shelton Bedmin walk from w and not reforming the hert business slash syndicate at some point maybe one of Triple H's biggest mistakes after taking over Creative. So far, Lashley is super over with the fans despite being a heel, and I hope his career continues to send an AW.

40:43 I'm a fan of big Bobby defeating the top established awstr likes swerve of Strickland in your AW pay per view debut is the way you introduce a big name into your promotion, Doctor stre We just talked about Ricochet and his underwhelming start. Bobby Lashley starting out of the gate with a huge victory over one of the biggest names aw in s Strickland. Your thoughts on. This one, Yeah, and you know, like this was a really good match. I really enjoyed it. It's both these guys are favorites of mine. It is good, Like I I wish there was The short builds are fine, but like I'm really trying to establish Bobby Lashley. I want some I want some swerve hangman animosity leading into this first match. I want to make it feel like a big fight. And it felt like a good fight. It just didn't feel like it didn't feel like a main event caliber.

41:37 Match, which is what this should be. So that was on this point, but the match itself was good, and you're right, I mean, right now, could you imagine Hurt Business going up against the Wyat six once they're done with you know, Final Testament, and and the fact that Bobby was scheduled to be Bray White's next opponent when bray got sick, and like how good that would be. Like they're so much storytelling involved in that that just almost rites hisself. But yeah, it sucks, We're not gonna get that. But look, this is a chance for Bobby Lashley Shell and Benjamin MVP and whoever else they bring in to show the world what they're capable of, because WWW did drop the ball with these guys, you know, at the end of their run, and that's Bobby that should be a multi time champion. Still does not feel like he got the credit or the respect he deserved from his time in WWE.

42:28 I totally agree. I can't believe they let him walk. I really thought he was one of the top guys in the company. He was one of the top guys in the company, and he may have been somebody that Vince liked a little bit more than triple h But it's like people loved Bobby Lashley when they tried to make the Pride in w WE heel it did not work. People were chairing him in the street profits on, and then here he is an AW when he's getting the same reaction. People love Bobby Lashley, and I can't believe they let them walk The main event here doctor Trey John Moxley defeating Orange Cassidy'd retain the AW World Championship. We've both had mox in this one. I thought the build up for this match was good until I watched the countdown of Full Gear Special where they mentioned basically all the top stars are tied up with other stuff rather than defending AW from the death Riders, so Orange cast seed it is. I could not believe that was the reason why why they put that in there in that show. I was like shocked with it. They were like Osprey, Swerve and Hanging Manner. They're all j white, They're involved with other stuff. So I guess Orange Cassidy works.

43:33 The death Rider's angle has been kind of boring and need some more to it, which we may be getting from the ending of Full Gear. As Hangman page Christian Cage, Jay White, and Darby Allen all got involved to close the show, which once again I thought was a disservice to Orange Cassidy. He was basically an afterthought. Shortly after the match, Doctor Trey, I did not love the match. I did not love what they did to Orange Cassidy. Your thoughts here is mox retains. Their match a year ago is better. This match was lackluster at best, especially on the heels of Lashley and Swerve, Like that match was better than this one. And this is your main event. And this is also why I figure out Tony why Tony Kahn has not blocked me on Twitter or on Hex or anything like that, because listen is the freaking show, Jeff, because some of the stuff that we say.

44:24 I literally said that verbatim a couple. Of weeks ago, which was I'm a little I'm a little bummed that's Orange, because I mean, you got all these other guys who are probably bigger stars, but these guys are trying to take over your company, and it's Orange to the rescue. And Darby, Now, mind you, Darby, who three months ago lost a casket match to Jack Perry, is your next saving grace, Like I get it, you're trying to build some guys out of this, but I mean, I mean Jack, I mean Darby Allen crashed a car into nothing. You have a guy who's crashing a car and apparently no stunt double in this. He's crashing a car for the sake of your company. But it's like it just doesn't feel right. And then you got Christian Cage, who's the most despicable character in all of AW and he's out there like maybe trying to cash in, maybe not.

45:16 And I don't understand the contract because apparently there has to be a signature is involved in this thing. Like I'm completely confused by how that contract works, how this whole thing plays out. Why Hangman's out there because Hangman is kind of friend with with the Bucks. And they left. I don't really It's it's all over the place and nothing is sticking. And that's what worries me about this whole angle is because this could be and should be the biggest thing going on in AW, which is why is the main event. And I was more into Swerving Lashly, I mean I was more into hate say, I was more into Mercedes and Statlander than I was this match it just did not have I never felt like mox was in danger of losing his title on this show, and that is a disservice to Orange Cassidy in your main event.

46:08 Yeah, it was the clothes was fine, the Darby stuff we talked about in the last week's show too. He gets his ass kicked by Claudio Casa and Noli headed into the pay per view, So like, why would I think he can defend aw's honor to John Moxley. It's I don't know. The booking is so freaking bad at times, and this is a case of it. It's just the death writer's angle. I'm watching the match, I'm watching the end of the show into the show kind of like got me interested, but I'm like, man. This angle is bad. It's boring. The death Writers are coming off is very boring on television right now. There's nothing about them or the Moxley character presently that I'm like interested in. And I'm a huge fan of mox I'm a huge fan of Pak and Wheeler, Juda and Claudio Marina Shafirra all of a sudden, randomly speaking Russian, not a big fan of but writers like these are guys that I like, and they have found a way to make them incredibly boring for me and just it's not enjoyable. They got to do something here to make this very interesting soon, doctor try.

47:13 The way to make this work is I hate to say this because both the wrestling fans will get mad at me, is literally go watch nineteen ninety four ninety five WCW. With the nWo, the fact that they need to be attacking everybody. You need your attacks need to form allegiances against you, you know, And honestly, once they start doing that, they need to add a couple of people into the mix. They need to add a couple more people onto the Death Writers because right now, like you should feel like with a name for one with a name like the Death Writers and you have the world title in your hands, you need to have your group feel like oncoming doom. Like if you remember back when the nWo launched and you start seeing those attacks and then Hogan joined, and then you just kind of felt like this wave and who's going to stay end up against this way that's about to come crashing down on the entire company.

48:04 That's how you need to set this up. You need to set it up to make it feel like the death writers are the biggest risk to the sanctity of AEW and right now they feel like the biggest threat. To the mid cart of AAW. And that's a disservice to everybody involved because this should be your biggest storyline in your biggest bills. So you need to start getting your bigger stars involved. Like you remember, early on the NBO it was like, who's going to stand up against them? And you know, and in to being sting and Luger, and even then at times you felt like that it doesn't match up. But it also goes back that you don't want two guys holding off your entire roster like halla Ashton on one episode. But you need this group to feel like they're coming in to take out everybody, and it doesn't feel like that yet.

48:48 And that's kind of what's lacking in this angle. They need to feel like they're a threat to ae W and right now they just don't feel like that. Yeah, and the other stuff too, is you know, it's like this is their vision of AW. Then Big Boom a JSON the pre show, it's like, okay, so this is your vision for AW. Yeah, you know, it makes sense in. Yeah, John Moxy has a death rider on the Wrizzler. Yeah yeah. He just says some random, weird promo that's hard to follow, and the Wrizzler just does the Wrizzler face in his face. So and then and then the Wrizzler and Poker eyed Eye and battle in and out all in one shot. It's it's it was weird, very very weird. Nonetheless, let's match the night vent rating. I'll start here, doctor Trey. I gave aw Full Gear a three point four out of five, and my match the night was Mercedes Money and Chris Statlander.

49:47 What say you okay? This? By the way, guys, this was not rahears. I had a three point four also, uh and my imagine, I just purely out of the fact that I could never give Mercedes Money. The match of the night was lastly in so last year's Serve match night, Mercedes in stat later on and Aussie was basically an equal match to me those two, so I just I gave it to Swerve. And lastly, just because I still Mercedes Money hasn't won me over yet to actually say that ever about her. All right, doctor Trey. So there you go, A w full gears in the books and let's start to prepredict w Survivor Series war games. It comes to us this Saturday from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

50:28 The first match on the card here is La Night. Oh I'm sorry, I didn't even do the pay per view prediction record, so both of us were six and three coming out of this pay per view. I'm one thirty nine and thirty nine. Doctor Trey's one twenty six to fifty two. Now to Survivor Series. La Night versus Shinsk for the w W United States Championship. The returning Chitinsk happy to see him back, but I'm gonna take La Night in this one, Doctor Trey. Man, I really want to keep I really want to take shins K, but I don't think they've built this up enough, and plus he keeps getting the upper hands, so I'm gonna take La Knights to retain as well. X match is bron Breaker defending the Intercontinental Championship in a triple threat match against Seamus and Ludwig Kaiser. I actually there's gonna be a title change here, and I'm going to go with Seamus. Finally completing the Grand Slam of becoming an Intercontinental champion.

51:15 Yeah, it kind of feels like Bron's the guy they're going to kind of hot shot the title on and off for a little bit, like he'll lose it, get it back, lose it, get it back. He might get five reigns within a year with this interconnent title. But I was doing the same thing, like, if you're gonna ever pull the trigger on Seamus getting the Grand Slam, it's gonna be now. And he's lost the way, he looks way better than he did when he came back. So I'm gonna give Seamus getting the win by taking out Kaiser and then setting up breaker seamous rematch. At Royal Rumble, Gunner defends the World have Aweight Championship against Damian Priest. I am going to take guntherro in this one, Doctor Trey. You know it's funny. I was on another podcast earlier this week and there's four people in the show and two of them took Damian Priest and the other two to Gunther. So I still feel like they have Goldberg in the can for Gunther and I still say Johnsena and Gunther at WrestleMania is a great match to go to if you want to get that Ivan Drago Rocky kind of feel. So I'm taking Gunther to Retain to possibly set those two matches up.

52:17 Do Trent, do you want to promote this show that people go out can go out and listen to them. I'll save it for the close also spots at the end. Next match year is Ria Ripley, Bianca Bella, are Naomi Eo, Sky and Bailey replacing the injured the real really injured, uh Jade Cargill against liv Morgan, rock Cal Rodriguez, Nijack, Tiffany Stratton, cannicel Right. In a women's wargame match, I'm gonna go with Ria, Bianca, Naomi Eo and Bailey Doctor Trey Oh good. We get to disagree on one, so I'm taking Live, Nya Tiffany because uh, it just feels like I said their show like, it feels like NYA and Live are placeholders for their titles, so they need a big win. So I'm gonna take them getting the win in Survivor series.

52:58 And then the men's wargame actually got Roman Range, ja Uso, Jimmy Usso, Sammy Zain and the Fifth Man Ce m Punk taking on Solo so CoA, Jacob Fatou, Tomatung Ktungalow, and Broughton Red in a men's wargame match. Doc Trey, I'm going to take the OG bloodline and see him Punk. Yeah, that's with another match that we talked about on that show, and I'm taking the OG bloodline as well. I think you can't put rains in Punk on the same team and have them lose. But I do think that there will be a post match beat down and possibly the reveal of some New Bloodline new members and possibly do you think we see the final Boss at Survivor series. I think he may be there. I think he may be there, So I kind of.

53:39 Feel like this is where the reveal comes that he's in charge of the New Bloodline to start setting up Solo and Roman and then eventually Rock and Roman. So that's I kind of feel like we're gonna get that reveal. Suit It may not happen at this show, but it might happen right after Unraw. I just feel like it's coming soon to start setting up for Rumble. Not sure one we're gonna be able to talk about this, but the CM Punk I loved the booking on this Doctor Trey because it makes so much sense. Because Seth Ronds wants Bronson Reid Punk. He is going to enter this match and supersede Seth Ronalds, who could have potentially taken the spot. He said he wanted to take the spot even though he wants Bronson. Reid Punk will be in the cage with Bronson and then the other members of the Bloodline. He is defending Paul Hayman's honor in this, which makes a ton of sense. I thought this was really good, creative, smart booking.

54:27 Oh, it was fantastic because this is that long term storytelling we talked about in WDB where they do stuff four or five months ago and it doesn't make sense to us, like why'd that happen? And then it makes sense later on if you go back to that CM Punk in Chicago, Solo comes out to make him acknowledge him, but Paul's in the ring and he's like, Paul, what do you want? He's like, take me with you. Oh, that was so good. And then Paul Hayman wearing almost the exact same outfits Solo was wearing when they put him through the table, like such good little intricacies in the storytelling and all this. I I'm actually this, this actually got me e cyper Survivors because I wasn't. I mean, I was kind of feeling it, but I need to see the fifth member was this has got me kind of feeling the Survivor series.

55:08 Yeah, that was really really good booking. Talking of cmpunk, Doctor Trey, it is now one year later of cm punk and w w WW has released a very very fun less than ten minutes documentary on YouTube that I highly recommend everybody checking out with the return of cmpunk behind the scenes in w WI Whinning Returns Survivers series last year. Here we are one year later. What do you think so far of Cmpunk's first year back in World Wrestling Entertainment. I think it's been good. It's not great, but it's been a good. Part of that was the injury. The injury kept them out for a little while, but they were able to keep some storytelling going and keep them to keep the fans engaged in this whole thing.

55:53 He's been on his best behavior. We haven't heard of anybody any complaints. We haven't heard of any you know, backstage rifts. He seems like he's having fun. They're using him in good spots. And here's the crazy thing, Jeff, it's been a year and Cody, I mean we see him. Punk has not faced Seth or Cody in this entire time, and those are two people that we thought he was definitely gonna face when he came back. He hasn't fought Cody or Seth, and he's teaming with Roman Reigns. So it's crazy how this year's played out. It's basically him and Drew McIntyre and that's it. But don't forget he had the interaction with with Gunther, so that's still in the pipeline. The face to face with the Roman coming up this Friday on Smackdowns on the pipeline. So the year one's been good, but man, year two can be fantastic.

56:41 Punk was injured for about seven months this year and it never felt like it, Doctor Try. That's what's crazy. He may have one of the best feuds of this year with Drew McIntyre. Like you said, you would have figured by this point he would have a match with Seth, Rahm's Cody Rhodes, Roman Rains, Damien Pray's Gunther, whomever. He hasn't basically his only matches with Drew McIntyre and now he's seen him with the LG Bloodline to defend Paul Hayman's honor. He looks revitalized, he looks refreshed, he looks like he's having fun. I think everybody went into this with optimism and pessimism as well, potentially of him returning to w WII and working with Triple H again. So far, so good, Doc Tray, and I hope it continues that way because the people that are benefiting from it are us. Yeah.

57:31 I mean, he spent all that time and Drew McIntyre over a bracelet, and now he's jumping into the bloodline feed over a necklace. So apparently every kiss begins with CM punk Yeah. No, it is the Christmas season, so maybe he has some Black Friday deals that he has a zion and he needs to get that stuff back for a j Lee. Let's wrap up the show here, Doctor Trey with of course it is Thanksgiving. What is the one thing we are thankful for in professional wrestling? Right now? Now? I start with you, Doctor Trey. Oh, what am I thankful in professional wrestling? That we have two shows that combined or We have two brands that combined give you everything in the world of wrestling you can possibly want. You have one show that has really good matches and some great storytelling. You have another show that has storytelling but some fantastic matches. There really isn't a whole lot if you look at the grand scheme of wrestling where we're at in.

58:29 Twenty twenty four heading into twenty. Twenty five, that you can really complain about, especially compared to some of the years past that we've been covering the show. Wrestling's in a really, really good spot. It's getting notoriety, it's getting public buzz. This has been the most fun in wrestling I have had in probably ten years at least. So I'm just happy for the health of professional wrestling right now. Doctor Trey mentioned early on, we did not plan these things. Doctor Trey did not know I was going to ask this question until I literally asked it. And my one thing is very similar to yours, and it's just the overall it's the health of profession wrestler right now. It's in a very very good spot. It's a lot of things that you just said. We've been doing this podcast in February We'll have been doing this podcast now for fifteen years, doctor Trey full time for thirteen, but he has been part of it since like the first I think he was in the first ten episodes of SRTU.

59:26 So for fifteen years we've been covering wrestling here in SRTU nearly and this has been one of the most fun times I've ever had. I mean, WWE is really good right now. Aw has a lot to work on, but we know it can be good based on things that they've done in the past. People are entertained by wrestling. People are having fun watching wrestling, people are going out to shows for wrestling, people are talking about wrestling. You see wrestling back out there. I always refer back to the golden era of my time in my lifetime wrestling fan was the late nineties. It's very similar to that. I don't think it's fully there yet, but it's a time where people are paying attention to what's going on.

1:00:10 And twenty twenty four, when I look back at it, for professional wrestling, maybe one of the most fun years we've ever had covering it because a lot of twists and turns, a lot of things they could have crashed and burned and they didn't. And you know, in the instance Seth, the Seth Rollins, Cody Roads, Robin Rains Rock storyline heading in the Wrestlemaning could have kept crash and burned severely, and WA did a complete one eighty reverse course, salvaged it and probably made it better than what was originally planned and made it extremely entertaining and fun to watch as if you were at home. It's just fun right now. It's a fun time to be a wrestling fan. And that is what I'm most thankful for. And I'm thankful that we still get to do this stuff and still have fun talking wrestling each and every week, and thankful that we get an opportunity for fourteen years to sit here on Thanksgiving and top professional wrestling and have folks around the world download the show on a holiday to get away from people for a little bit, some family for a little bit. Let me pop in Doctor Train and Jeff Peck for over an hour talk of professional wrestling. Listen to these guys just kind of shoot the breeze about everything that they like dislike about professional wrestling.

1:01:17 So thanks for everybody who has supported the show over the years, and thank you for downloading as always, and feel free to feel free to chime in for what you were most thankful for in regards to professional wrestling at SRTU podcast on xoor, Facebook dot com slash the Still Real to Us Show. The last thing I'll bring up here is our holiday programming schedule has been released. It all begins on episode number seven hundred and seventy five on December nineteenth, twenty twenty four, so it's about three episodes from now, folks, and that will be our twenty twenty four wrestling recap special. On episode number seven hundred and seventy six on December twenty six, twenty twenty four, will be our twenty twenty four SRTU Award Show Special, and then we kick off the new year on jan Nuary second, twenty twenty five, with episode number seven hundred and seventy seven with our twenty twenty five wrestling Preview special.

1:02:07 We'll probably sprinkle in some stuff for aw World's end and potentially we Saturday Night's main event. But this is the time to hear that Doctor Trey and I usually like to check out for a little bit and regroup and get you ready for the new year, because the road to WrestleMania forty two is upon us, which is just wild to think. Excuse me, WrestleMania forty one is upon us. With that said, let's get a couple of plugs and sponsors out of the way. You can download show every Thursday or Friday at Real Guy Radio dot com, wrestle chat neet on X and this tell of the Show iTunes feed, don't forget to rate for you and subscribe telp us kind of charts on iTunes. You can follow us individual 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 is going on in the one for world of dot Trey Franklin this week?

1:02:59 Well, like Jeff said, you follow me on X at the Doctor Trey. You can find me on Facebook and Instagram Doctor Trey Franklin. When you're on. Facebook, obviously go check out Rockets Sage Championship Wrestling as we are getting closer and closer to the nine year anniversary show for Rocket ste Championship Wrestling, and then shortly after that is the Rocket City Rumble, which is my favorite event that we do. The building gets packed out. We have like four people for that show. It's my favorite time of the year. So I'm excited for that. And if you want more Doctor Trey, like I mentioned earlier, you can catch me on the Rejects podcast. So just go to Facebook dot com slash the Rejects podcast or search them mat you can find me there. Jeff, it was an hour and a half. Some great guys one of my old wrestling Coharts, that's his show.

1:03:44 He runs it. They do a great job. And not to mention it's on it's a livestream podcast. It's like you literally see my face for an hour and a half, which we don't do because I love you guys and I don't want to burden with you at that site. So where people where can people check that out? It's the REGI if you go to Facebook dot com slash the Rejects podcast, I believe and if that, if that's not the actual link, you can just search on Facebook the regis Rejects Podcasts. It's the first thing that comes up and you'll see my my happy face for like an hour and a half. It's crazy. It's just it was a good time we got to It's it's a They do a similar type thing to us. They do a lot of talk about the wrestling world and recapping some stuff, but uh, they do a lot more deep dives into certain areas that we do. Uh, and more fancy booking than we do, because, as you can tell by our predictions, my fancy booking skills are atrocious.

1:04:40 So off the I just got the Rejects. It was like a movie podcast, the Rejects podcast. I will find it and post it on our Facebook page. Yeah, please do. Let's give them some love so that way. It's easier to find because I don't know there you are l. Fair enough, fair enough? Yeah, Doctor Trap will post it up on our sr to you page for everybody to check out. Maybe up there by the time you download and listen to the show doc tre before we close up shop here. Any thoughts on the upcoming holiday programming schedule. No, I'm super excited for it. It's amazing that it just so happens that the first episode of the year is seven seven seven, which was who you Were in Atlantic City. That'd be a really good number to have. I'm excited because twenty twenty four has been so good. I am stoked to see what twenty twenty five brings us, and I can't there are years in the past you and I know this that we couldn't say that heading into the new year, about how real like we had to be optimistic and cautiously optimistic and hopeful. Dude, I am downright giddy about how good twenty twenty five might. I mean we're gonna I mean, not only is wrestling coming to Netflix, wrestling is also coming to Max. So I mean the fact that you're gonna have two different streaming services showing wrestling, that you can literally cut the cord and watch wrestling on this your streaming stuff like, and that gives it a little more openness to what content thinking show.

1:06:05 Dude. I am just so excited for twenty twenty five that I have said dude so many times the last five minutes. Yeah, no, I'm with you, dude. So it's a good time for professional wrestling. More importantly, to those who celebrate enjoy Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Thank you for making us part of your Thanksgiving week. Thank you for making us part of your week each and every week. Thank you for supporting the Still Realta Show and until next week for doc Strife Franklin, I am Jeff Pack. This has been the Still Real US show.