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Unlimited slows. He
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walked across a ladder bridge to squeeze Jack Perry's
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nibbles which was funny but still saw him and
20:04
Martin take horrible falls. Rush dove through a ladder
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to take out Takesha. Mark went for another mad
20:09
jump when he was made to land on the
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table but instead hit the side of the thing
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and it actually had a meltdown because I thought
20:15
he was dead but apparently he's fine. Takesha hit
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a power bomb on Leo Rush through another ladder.
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He also took ELP and hit the
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least devastating move in all of sports
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entertainment. The blue thunder bomb threw a
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bunch of tables. I've had people messaging
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me going haha Simon it's not the
20:31
least devastating move anymore is it? And
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I respond saying well no it is because did
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it win? No it never does. There is a
20:38
reason for this though because Briscoe grabbed Takesha and
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gave him a trade driller through another ladder as
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I started to just cry because I couldn't believe
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what they were doing. When Jack Perry
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was here he was like I have all the weapons
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and I'm going to hit all of you very hard.
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He was then able to climb the damn thing and
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become the TNT champion which was the right result because
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now the elite hold all the gold. But
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if you have 20 or so minutes today just
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go and watch it. And in terms of ladder
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matches over the last few years I think this
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may be right up there because not only did
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it have major stakes these guys wanted to win
21:07
that belt but it was also so dangerous and
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that should be the idea of the ladder match
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as long as everybody is okay. This was pretty
21:13
damn fantastic and it is getting an up. It
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wasn't for the main event it would probably get
21:17
the golden up but people have asked me to
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keep golden up to win a show so I
21:22
like to listen. But it was Mercedes Monet vs
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Stephanie Vakare for both the NJPW Women's Strong title
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and the TBS title and honestly Stephanie is going
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to have to go out there and get a
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massive truck because that cash is coming. The first
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thing she did was headbutt Mercedes when we got
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to angry arm drags and pin attempts. Honestly it
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took about 10 seconds for my brain to go
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wow they both really want to win. Monet went
21:41
for the bank statement if we can call it
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that but Vakare had no interest so they went
21:46
to the outside. It's when she grabbed Mercedes and
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essentially threw it into the side of the ring
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which is technically the ring apron but also technically
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not but I bet your ass it was still
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hard. She was here cross body from the top
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because this thing was flying and even when Mercedes
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went for the three amigos. And the last one
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for care was like, well, no, I don't want
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this to happen to me. So I'm going to
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get instant revenge. Because basically she grabbed Monet's head
22:07
with her legs and just smashed it into the
22:09
ring canvas over again. And this is where we
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got the big old change. Because I think the
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New York fans went, oh, wow, we like this
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for care. Also, Mercedes from Boston. So they started
22:18
to boo her and chant the Celtic suck, which
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is very niche, but I very much enjoyed it.
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So I just love madness like this. It makes
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wrestling really fun. Mercedes didn't care. She hit the
22:27
double knees. She hit the DDT, and she almost
22:29
got a three. That rhymes. There's also
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a one, two, oh. After a missed pile driver,
22:33
two both women just clashed into each other when
22:35
they did double kip-ups, which is always going to
22:37
get a pop. Which then led to a strike
22:39
battle when Mercedes was able to apply the face
22:41
of the crosses. Once again, all the fans were
22:43
like, boo, boo. And they weren't saying the words.
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Monet didn't care though, so she hit all the
22:48
backstabbers to the point where it has to be
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sold out. And poor Stephanie the Care's back is
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probably never going to work again. She also went
22:54
for the frog of the splashes, but she totally
22:56
missed. That's when we did a little bit of
22:58
a tease. Because in revenge, Stephanie hit the most
23:00
violent dragon screw you've ever seen. And you know
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it must have connected with the fans, because it
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was just a dragon screw. But every single one
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of this 11,000 crowd went, oh my gosh, that's
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disgusting. Monet was in a panic though, so she
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was able to apply the submission again. But when
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that didn't work, she went for the Monet maker.
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When they were flipping around the face, when Mercedes
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finally hit the Monet maker, actually transitioned right into
23:21
the cross face. By this point, Stephanie the Care
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was like, well, I have nowhere else to go.
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I might as well go home. She tapped out. She
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is going to do all right though, because she is a great wrestler.
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This built something super huge. Because not
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only is Mercedes-Benz now a double champion,
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but as we kind of celebrated a
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little bit too long, which was the
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point, Brit Baker's music hit, and the
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DMD is back. She got an absolutely
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huge response too, and I don't think
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we've seen her for over a year.
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And this probably means we are going
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right into Brit Baker versus Mercedes-Benz. And
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you damn right. Let's not stand on
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ceremony here, Mr. Wayne. I'm going to
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be dead one day, and
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give me all the good stuff. This was a really good last
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five minutes. Let's get it up. When expectations did whip
24:01
our ass a little bit. It
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happens. I haven't said this for a
24:05
while but I think it's the best way to sum
24:07
it up. And sometimes you do just write a match
24:09
on a curve. Because yeah, you do have certain expectations.
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And even if people do have a good match, if
24:14
it doesn't feel like your expectations have been hit, you
24:16
feel a bit disappointed. That doesn't make
24:18
any sense but it's true. But it was your
24:20
Moxie vs Naito for the IWGP Championship. And listen,
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it is a more than fine match. You'll have
24:25
a good time. But given what I thought
24:27
it was going to be, I don't know. You
24:29
swing and you miss and things don't click. That's
24:31
kind of what happened here. I also just think it
24:33
comes down to the fact that Naito was given so
24:35
much to pro wrestling over the years. He is slowing
24:38
down. Again, Father Time is going to kick off our
24:40
asses. Although saying that, he did walk up to John
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Moxie and went hok poo. And he spat on his
24:44
face. I mean, you know, he gave him the hok
24:46
toy. Jim Ross was also on commentary during this which
24:49
I thought was wonderful because he hasn't been going through
24:51
health woes recently so I hope he is okay. And
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Moxie was so mad that he had been hok-toward. He
24:55
started to throw a bunch of chairs in the ring
24:58
when red shoes was the reference. Like, why do you do
25:00
this to me? Now I've got to get rid of him.
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This is when Naito did it again. Say,
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you must really enjoy that meme. This is where
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Moxie decided right. I'm now going to break your
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bones. That's what he tried to do. He was
25:10
going to snap him. He also hit a power
25:12
driver as he told Naito to slap him. Which
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Naito did. And then Moxie was mad.
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So funny. It was like this. Simon,
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my dear boy, what do you want for your birthday? I
25:22
really love a wrestling belt. Haha, here you go. How dare
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you, you piece of shit. Mox didn't rate Naito's
25:26
back, which I'm always a big fan of because the game bring back
25:28
the 80's move. And they went to
25:30
the outside and they smashed through Barricade. And they
25:32
were doing neck breakers. As always, they want to
25:34
break people's necks. In revenge, Mox then tried to
25:36
choke this guy out, but he hit a Destino.
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And when he went for another Destino, that didn't
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work. And he got paradigm shifted instead. At that
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point, everybody was down. Another thing
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that happened a lot on this pay-per-view. Mox then hit this
25:47
huge lariat though and did get the paradigm shift for a
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very good 1-2-oo. And given
25:51
it didn't work, he just went back to his original
25:53
plan. It's like, screw it, I'm getting a chair. Don't
25:55
choose their face palm because you already told him about
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this. And even though he was going to do that move in.
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into a chair as the red one was getting
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rid of it, kind of Naito hit a modified
26:04
Destino, and they got back up to their feet,
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hit a brain buster when he hit a proper
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Destino, and he got the one, two, three. And
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that does make him the brand new IWGP
26:13
champion, but the finish was just a
26:16
little bit strange and I don't know why. Now it
26:18
does make sense, because with the G1 coming up, you
26:20
want the champion involved, which is usually the way, and
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this was just all right. It wasn't bad by any
26:24
stretch of the imagination, but it puts me in a
26:26
very interesting position. I'd like to give it like a
26:28
finger in the middle, because like I say, I enjoyed
26:31
the match, but there was something missing from it, so
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I'm gonna do what I always do. I
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am going to wuss out, giving it up, and I'm giving
26:37
it down. But sometimes, if that's the
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way my tush feels, what am I meant to
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do? Who are we yelling at,
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it? Let's just move on. You can forget about
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all of that though, because we did get to
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the main event, and as I've already hinted at,
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good grief, this was incredible. But it was Swerve
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Strickland versus Will Osprey for the AEW World title,
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and just take it from your board friend, you
26:56
need to go and see this. Osprey also dedicated
26:58
this match to his grandma, who had recently passed
27:00
away, so thoughts with his friends and family. And
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as soon as the bell went ding, ding, ding,
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it just went so fast, 100 miles an hour, and
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it was you hitting me and I hit you, and I could barely
27:10
keep up with the thing in a good way. So
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in about two minutes, I was totally invested.
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When they both realized they were at Stelmate
27:17
2, they did the whole Stair Town thing.
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Everybody went crazy. 7.24
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stars in the Tokyo Dolls. We've been wrestling tennis for
27:23
a little bit of while, as we did go back
27:25
and forth, and just as Swerve was about to get
27:28
the upper hand, or he had the upper hand, Will
27:30
went nope, and he hit the most absurd hurricane randy
27:32
you've ever seen. He followed up with a stun gun
27:34
when Strickland came back with a big boot and a
27:36
backbreaker. I was like, what the flub is
27:38
gonna happen now? It was like this the entire time too,
27:40
because Will missed the hidden blade and Swerve missed the house
27:42
call. But man, when Osprey went for the
27:45
Oz cutter, Strickland cut him off in midair
27:47
with this Swerve stomp, that was utterly ridiculous.
27:49
You then saw Daniel Garcia watching from a
27:51
crowd, and why wouldn't you want to be
27:53
observing this? When they did a bar driver,
27:56
I went to Barry Barricade, in terms of
27:58
people assaulting Barry on these pay-per-view. This
28:00
could have been the worst one. This all
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then led to some one-two ooze as Will
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hit not one Ozcutter buck too. When it
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all went off again, moves were being blocked
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and even though Swerve was gonna snap Williams
28:10
arm somehow Osprey avoided it. There was then
28:13
more Ozcutters and a Stormbreaker that Swerve Strickland
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kicked out of and go and listen to
28:17
the fan reaction. To that, they couldn't believe
28:19
it. They then saw MGF watching on as
28:21
well as we started stealing maneuvers because Swerve
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Strickland hit the most brutal hidden blade you've
28:25
ever seen. And that pissed off William because
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he went to return fire and
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he hit the ref instead. Whoops! Almost instantly
28:31
Don Callis right now. He was trying to
28:33
give a screwdriver to Osprey. So bring down
28:35
the crime counter and add a one because
28:37
you can't do that. This is when Prince
28:39
Nala got involved and he pushed Don Callis
28:41
down. Everybody cheered but William must still be
28:43
in love with Don because he got him
28:45
Prince Nala face. He was gonna drive a
28:47
him with the screw when he realized, wait
28:49
a minute, I'm a good guy and he
28:51
didn't. I should have mentioned too before all
28:53
of this, Will, Osprey did actually have the
28:55
match won. But again, that referee was down.
28:57
But it just meant in the interim Swerve
28:59
was able to take his Phoenix down. And
29:01
when Osprey got back in the squared circle,
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he hit him with the most brutal house
29:05
call I've ever seen. And I'm pretty sure
29:07
I just said that. So within seconds he'd
29:09
outdone himself. And if Will's head has fallen
29:11
off, I would totally believe it. And when
29:14
Swerve hit the Swerve stomp and only got
29:16
a one-two-oo, honestly, it's one of the best
29:18
near-fours I've seen in ages. It's basically because
29:20
afterwards Will got to his feet. He was
29:22
all woozy-goosy and he went to hit the
29:24
hidden blade and he just fell into Strickland's
29:26
arms. Don't you tell me again that AW
29:28
don't tell no stories. Osprey was essentially toast
29:30
here though, so it was time to butter
29:32
him up. And after he'd been hit with
29:34
another house call, Strickland hit this devastating big
29:36
pressure. And that's right. He beat Will Osprey
29:38
for the one-two-three. And even though there were
29:40
some shenanigans, my word, it made Swerve come
29:42
across like he was the greatest champion ever.
29:44
This was bloody fantastic. It's the same with
29:46
Will as well who just isn't human when
29:48
it comes to wrestling. And we made sure
29:50
to see Carl Fletcher out there comforting the
29:52
man. So that's gonna head in a certain
29:54
direction, but you've already figured it out. I've
29:56
already told you. It doesn't just get up.
29:58
It gets a golden up.
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