1973 Podcast
1973 Podcast Episode 71
I give you some children with boys and girls, children of all ages. Here we go. I am burnt out, long ride, a lot of hockey, and said I can see a mess, so let's get this thing rolling. Tied us hell like another 14-hour ride tomorrow, so here we go. Let's start with two quick passings this week. We'll talk a little bit entertainment, we'll talk a little bit sports, but let's start with the passing of Donald Sutherland. My memories of Donald Sutherland was the scene in Animal House, where he goes to reach out and get the coffee can out of the talk of the show and his bare ass shows. That's what I think of when I think Donald Sutherland, great movie, one of my favorite examples, plenty of admirable references from that movie, and thoughts on the passing of Hawkeye. P.S. The original Hawkeye. Well, I was going to say, it was a great lead-in, thank you, sir. First and foremost, I remember him from watch and mash because the TV show in the movie, a lot more, let's just say, we defend a lot more people if you watch the original mash in the movie compared to the TV show. I remember from there, I remember where he got his big break, just doing some research back with the Dirty Dozen, probably one of my most favorite characters of all time when he was oddball on Kelly's Heroes. I mean, he was just, he just did a wonderful job, and he really kind of just sunk into the characters and that type of thing. Sorry, it was very sad to hear of his passing, so just, and then the Animal House referencing it, I mean, that's pretty funny, I mean, it's an all-time classic, you know? There were blanks in the gun, you know, just off the cuff one that doesn't have anything to do with his scene when he's a bare-ass villain in the kitchen, reaching for the coffee. But he really was a great actor and to have it go for such a long time, I did watch the 60 Minutes interview of him, and his mother told him that he was ugly when he was growing up. That was pretty, I mean, she didn't say it, just like that, but she pretty much, he asked my mom, my ugly, and she's like, and I forget exactly what she said, but he went in his room for about a day because he was really, and then he turned into a sex symbol and he dated Jane Fonda, so, you know, pretty interesting, dude. Yeah, Brad, thoughts on the passing of all someone. And I'm an amateur movie buff, I don't get deep into it, I don't care about directors and who made what movie, but I am a little bit of a movie buff. And Donald Southern, this one kind of sucks, man, like if you go look at his IMDB, it is extensive, but this man made movies and great movies at that, the Dirty Dozen, one of my favorite, all-time favorite war movies. If you had not seen that, you mentioned Animal House, and he played a character in Animal House that was kind of out of his wheelhouse of what, you know, Donald Sutherland for. He was actually the 90s film Buffy the Vampire Slayer way before the TV show took a skyrocketed to cult classic stardom, and most notably, I think if we have any younger people watching, he was snow in the Hunger Games movies and the Hunger Games franchise, and I think those might be his last like, you know, really big films that he did, but Donald Southern, man, like, they don't make them like that anymore, I don't know what else to say. That was a true, what's the word for people that act, thespians? That's what he was, man, that one, this one kind of sucks, man, but we talk about it every week, like we're getting into that age range, man. The thing, bi-entry level into Donald Southern movies, the first movie I saw him in, "Vasion of the Body Snatchers." The reading, see, he made some films, man, like classics in every category, man. Yeah, yeah, and let's say you would mention one more passing icon, an icon in the world of baseball, but say, hey, kid, Willie Mase, arguably, from my father's generation, you had these about five guys that were like, who was your favorite, baseball player was Willie Mase? It was Ted Williams, it was Mickey Manel, it was all those guys, Ernie Banks, there's like five of them that they would always argue back then, who was better and whatever, and Willie Mase, famous catch in the World Series, the say, hey, kid, Ed, thoughts on Willie Mase? You know, you never realized how, how really awesome he was as a baseball player, you know, what, 3,000 hits, let's say 300 home runs, let's see, over, and then what, 300 stolen bases, his first pitch that he hit, I believe was off of Warren Spahn, and he hit, and it was a, it was a home run, I mean, and just to kind of, I watched the, the Sports Century program on him from ESPN, just to kind of look at it from a different perspective, from a different point of view, you know, he, he took two years off, like a lot of the superstars like Ted Williams did for the Korean War, he didn't wind up over there, you know, he really, there were some certain things that got brought up, you know, he kind of became a recluse when he was, when he, when they moved to San Francisco, and you know, he just kind of, you know, pretty much just went to the ballpark and went to room service, you know, and he, and I forget who the manager was, but he never really held really accountable allowed him to experience life and kind of grow and that type of thing. So it was, it was, it was really sad. I mean, just to, a lot of those guys back in those days, you know, the late 40s, early 50s is before our time, but just those numbers at that, because I mean, they were swinging, you know, basically oak trees, you know, and to, and against 90 mile an hour fastballs and to, to understand how hard that is, you know, pick up one old school bat, and you'll see how heavy, how heavy one of those things is to come around like that. Yeah, don't you get those like uniforms for that heavy material to that held the sweat and held the water was like running around with like a pea coat on our something like that there were, there were different, it was definitely a different time. Brad thoughts on the state. Hey kid. Yeah, man HBO has a really cool documentary about Willie Mays on there. If you guys get a chance to watch that, but just looking back at old clips and old photos of Willie Mays, like he was genetically way ahead of his time. When you talk about his physical attributes, man, like the pictures of him is biceps are ripped. He's just like completely jacked. And I'm like, at what point they're in that era, did they have like the science or this know how to go and get that ripped? Like it was it had to have been like a genetic advantage. He just had good genes, um, but the way the talking about that on the sports entry about it, that the doctor said when it came out, they talked about how big his hands were. And I mean, yeah, and I agree with you. I mean, there was a shot of him when he was 17 and he was like, rip a fire hydrant out of the ground. So yeah, sorry, just watch him like how he holds the bat, how he just wraps his hands around the bat. The bat just looks like, I mean, it looks like a twig or a toothpick in his hands and just a pure swing, um, extremely fast. I mean, by any measure of athletic standards, even today, he would be considered, you know, a premier elite athlete though, that is fast to seek a run. Um, and to be able to hit the ball like that and run that still the bases like that, man, this one sucks too. Guys, like it's, we're in that, we're in that era, man. So protect the great ones at all costs, man. Yeah. Triple's go to die. That was one of, that was one of the things that they spread about them is that where triples go to die. I mean, it's, it's incredible to hear something like that, you know, master of the basket catch, right? Yeah. If you have a, uh, look at the, uh, the first sports collectible figures that they made were called hot land figures. They were in my father's generation. They were collectible. They were like statues. They're probably, you know, maybe about 10 inches high. Go back and look at the hot land wiki, Willie May's figure. It's him making the basket catch. And I had it, uh, at one time and it's, it's really cool. If you're into super into baseball and you like vintage stuff, like those hot land figures, they don't lose their value and definitely worth checking out because some of the guys that they made, there's some deep dives in there. Um, so let's move on. Let's get to this week's email. The good one. I think it's the first one we've had that's been directed at the 10 foil hat and take it away. Well, this, this email is brought to you by Goongard. Goongard.com. Check them out. Use the discount code 1973, rate mouthguards. And I wonder if you, if you, if you started to use down in the, in the tackle lack of, uh, at the tournaments, the same. All right. This one comes straight from Ben from Carlton, Oregon. All right. Hey, 1933. If you can ask Brad, what is the military conspiracy that he has seen aliens in person, et cetera? Well, I just want to go to this legal council. Um, let's be careful here with Brad because, you know, um, you know, we don't brat want Brad to lose his pension or, or, or his military clearance. Yeah. We want Brad to be permanently canceled. Yeah. Jackie Gleason, pick up Brad one time in, uh, late at night and taken to see, uh, aliens. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, um, I didn't have the type of job that got me into areas like that. Um, yeah. But what, what was the root of the question? Again, Ed. Well, if the root of the question was, um, did you just, what military secrets did you see? That's pretty much what he's. Did you see anything like outlandish? I worked with a guy one time that he was over in Iraq. He, uh, had done a couple tours of duty and he was out, uh, doing maneuvering. So I don't know what the proper terminology is. And he swears that he saw something that moved like a stealth bomber, but when it flew over them, he could see Egyptian writing on the bottom. What looked like a Egyptian writing. So he stuck to the story. This was long before a lot of stuff came out and I was just enamored by the story and I was asking him questions. He's like, that's all I remember seeing. And then I would ask him again. I mean, you know, so Brad, I don't mean to cut you off. Go ahead. No, I mean, that's a great, great, you know, observation. I don't think I ever saw anything wacky like that. Um, obviously we had our stories about haunted hangers and, you know, haunted buildings and stuff like that. But there was that one video circulating on, uh, around the web, not too long ago of that, uh, alien type of jellyfish thing that was like floating through cities of like Iraq or something like that that was sent in from like soldiers who who caught it on infrared and there's just no explanation for what it is. Um, I just anything like that. I mean, if we, if we want to be more boring with it, I think one of the biggest, uh, eye openers for me is just like the gross negligence and waste of money that that, uh, you know, people, you know, you pay your taxes and you expect to see, um, improvements and stuff or, uh, investments downrange and like why are, why are these Afghanis building this sidewalk for the 10th time this year? Like, who's paying for this shit? So we're sending, you know, millions and millions of dollars over here and I'm like, can we not build this goddamn sidewalk? And they're like, oh, no, we have to, uh, we forgot to lay this piping and I'm like, well, why would you pour this cement before you laid the piping? I'd, it's like, I'm not connecting the dots. So then they would rip up the whole fucking sidewalk and lay this piping and report the cement. And then a couple of weeks later, they were like, Oh, we forgot to put this fiber optic cable down. So I was like, let me guess we're ripping up this fucking sidewalk again. Got it. Um, and that was just on a small level, man. That, that kind of bullshit was going on over there. And you know, the, the Pentagon has lost trillions of dollars in their audit year over year. And the thing is it gets washed and laundered and passed from person to person about time it gets over there. Nobody knows where that shit's going. That's why I took them 10 tries to build this. I was in Afghanistan for six months. It took them 10 times to build that damn sidewalk, man. You know, like there, there was just all kinds of shit like that going on, man. And whether it was a building or a sidewalk or a road or vehicles, like, holy shit, the, the department of defense burned a shit ton of money in, in vehicles. And then we just let we left them there. You know, so I don't know why taxpayers aren't more, um, up in arms or the waste of money in both those conflicts than Iraq and Afghanistan, man. And, and I would say if there is like one big conspiracy to just kind of put a pin in for that whole situation, um, we never found weapons of mass destruction. And being in Iraq several times, it wasn't even on our, our list of things to do. And like, it wasn't, you know, nobody was looking for weapons of mass destruction. We were, we were trying not to, you know, take a round or a rocket or a mortar. We were just, you know, um, but it's never briefed. It's never talked about nobody. Nobody ever talks about it anymore. It's just buried. There were no WMDs. There was, I don't know why we went into that country. That's maybe I've heard that. I think there's more credibility, more evidence to us going in Iraq for the Stargate and old ancient artifacts from, uh, you know, the Anunnaki and some of these old ancient cultures. I think there's more evidence for that than there is for weapons of mass destruction. So let's segue this email into this week's tinfoil hat. So tinfoil hat is always brought to you by our web store. I'm not going to read it. That's the professor's job. But this week, if you use promo code 1973 podcast, you'll get 10% off any t-shirt at the store. So Bradford, the floor is yours. I have a good one here. 10 year anniversary. We're off by a couple of months, but there's been a lot of chatter on the web about Malaysian flight 370. So real quick recap, for those who don't know, Malaysia flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur in March of 2014. It was headed to Beijing. Lost contact roughly an hour after takeoff. The, the, and there's a lot of really wild, interesting tidbits about the disappearance of this plane. The transponder and black box were both shut off and which makes makes it essentially invisible on on commercial radar. At some point, it disappeared off radar and it turned west, southwest and flew back through Malaysia and out towards like in the Indian Ocean. There was a flight 30 minutes ahead who was able to contact them, but all they got was static and mumbling. And so nothing really coherent that they could build anything off of. And then it disappeared. Military radar caught it briefly going again, like west southwest into the Indian Ocean. And then it was just gone. This one's weird because we lost a Boeing 777. That is a huge aircraft. There was over 230 people on it. Nobody was ever found no luggage, no remnants. They have found plain parts. And I'll get into that because it's really sketchy the stuff that they found. But the plane essentially for all intents and purposes just vanished. And it's odd because in the history of aircraft, usually they find evidence, the black box. There's some GPS coordinates, they'll find bodies, they'll find survivors. There's something to say, hey, here's where that plane went and we got it. So this is where it gets weird. After it disappeared several days after, this other website called Tom Nots is basically like a collective of civilian, just like a geocaching type of people who have access to satellite images and Google Earth and stuff like that. They kind of put it out there like, hey, Tom Nots, let's find this aircraft. One woman actually found pictures in the South China Sea of what looked like to be a downed aircraft. She found tons and tons of pictures. She screenshotted it. She shared it. She reported Tom Nots. Nothing ever happened. They ghosted her. They never sent it up. They got ghosted. Never made the news. You don't know about it until you watch the Netflix documentary. It's three episodes. Check it out. It goes really in depth. That's where I got most of my stuff here. So anyway, they found a bunch of wreckage on Tom Nots, but nobody ever reported it. Additionally, there's an oil rig out there in the South China Sea, an oil rig worker said he actually saw like a flaming fireball coming through the air and the news, nobody ever picked that up. Nobody ever ran with it. Nobody ever investigated it. And on top of that, a satellite company called Inmar Sat, they had equipment on the plane. And this kind of like sketchy, like what equipment was on this plane that they were tracking? They were tracking this plane and the equipment. They're the ones that went through their data and they found that the plane had traveled south, like way south into the Indian Ocean, like towards Australia, like way out to like a really remote part of the ocean. Turns out Inmar Sat had a lot of government contracts with US, Russia, and China, the military government contractors. So why did they have equipment? What are they doing? Why was their stuff on a commercial airline? Big question here, big red flag. So that was the Inmar Sat thing. Then several years after all this stuff goes down, this philanthropist, like Indiana Jones millionaire type looking as dude named Brian Gibson comes forward. Brian Gibson's like, hey, I've been out here around Madagascar and like out here in like the middle of nowhere on some remote island. Like I found some plane wreckage. I think it's from Malaysia flight 370. Turns out this dude, Brian Gibson winds up being like this guru of finding Malaysia 370 flight parts. Like he's just finding wreckage. He shows up on the beach and within 30 minutes, he has a piece of debris and he's like, oh, it's off the airplane. And everybody's like, why do you have? Why do you have such an end? Why do you have? Why are you the only person? We're talking Australia, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, the US, all these countries have been looking for wreckage. And one man, you just happen to pop up on a beach and you found a bunch of wreckage. Oh, really weird. Turns out he has a lot of ties to Russia. A lot of business connects that are kind of seedy and kind of shady. He's also the only guy who's ever found wreckage by himself. Multiple countries looking Brian Gibson is the only one who's found the wreckage. Malaysia did find one wing fragment off of Reunion Island. And this is really odd. It's just a cut out of a wing. And so on airplanes, there's ID plates that are stamped and like riveted into the side of the plane. That a D plate was missing, convenient enough. And they were like, well, based off the fact that we lost a plane and we found a wing fragment, we're just going to say that's 370 and it crashed here. Now case closed, right? Wrong. Turns out they only remove those ID plates when the plane gets decommissioned and is sent to the graveyard. So the fact that like a plane crash and getting tossed around in the ocean, those things are riveted glued and secured and welded on like ID plates not going to get removed from ocean currents and wreckage. Somebody removed it. So people are starting to say Brian Gibson is planting evidence on Madagascar. They're saying that wing fragment was planted by somebody to cover up what happened to flight 370. Now for the super weird electronic slash technological cargo of some sort was loaded onto that plane. It wasn't scanned in or processed correctly on the manifest. It was kind of like ghost cargo, if you will. So people are trying to figure out what was on this plane. Why was it loaded correctly? Why wasn't it manifested? Like what are they trying to hide? Were they trying to cover up? They basically proved it was impossible for the pilots to shut off the transponder in the black box. That was big. That was a big thing. The pilots were accused of kind of hijacking it themselves. Well, you can't turn off the transponder unless you leave the cockpit of the plane. There's a panel on the floor. You have to lift it go underneath until the inner workings of the plane and then have the know how to go find it to switch it off. It's a little bit of a job. Your average pilot isn't really versed in that. Then the US FBI got involved and they well, the Malaysian government conveniently raided the pilots home a few weeks after the crash or the disappearance and our FBI for some reason got a hold of the hard drives and conveniently released like years later that they found out the pilot had a flight simulator and on his hard drive they found the exact path of disappearance. The exact time this dude had a flight sim to go west off his course turned south and fly six hours till he ran out of fuel. I'm not a pilot, but I don't think I need a flight simulator to practice that. He didn't make a bunch of stops. He literally flew west turned south and flew until he ran out of fuel. Anyway, really odd the FBI released that. Then there's the conspiracy that the US was conducting military exercises in the South China Sea. Whatever that electronic secret cargo was, our AWACS came in, jammed the signal, which is why it disappeared off of radar and that the AWACS commanded this plane to go land somewhere. Now Diego Garcia is out in the middle of the ocean out there within proximity to the disappearance of this plane. If they had something secret on there that our government wanted, they could have very easily diverted it to Diego Garcia. Kind of wacky, kind of outlandish, but it's a possibility. Then there's the idea that the Russians got involved and I only say that because two months after Malaysia 370 disappeared, another Malaysian plane was flying over Ukraine and Crimea and the Russians shot that mug down. So they already kind of have this history of shooting down Malaysian airlines, right? And then another conspiracy is that the prime minister was at that time was spending a lot of money trying to impress his wife, buying like $500,000 handbags and jewelry and all this whatnot and that he may have contributed to the disappearance or at least withheld information of the disappearance to prolong the search efforts because he was basically monitoring money through the search efforts to go and like, you know, get all the shit for his wife. And then of course, there's aliens, you know, could have been aliens, but I want to screen share real quick just so I can host disabled. Oh, buddy, never mind then we won't share it, but I was going to show like a map of the crash, the flight path and everything like that, but it's not a big deal with it. Oh, I'll work on that. Go ahead. Oh, but yeah, so like there's a lot of a lot of a lot of there's too many steps and conspiracies. And I think one of the biggest issues that they had with ever finding this aircraft was there were so many different multinational countries involved and nobody was talking to each other and they're all these different, you know, language barriers and cultural barriers that kind of worked against ever finding anything for this aircraft or their families. All right, so let me share this. Can y'all see it? Yep. So here we go. So they took off here Kuala Lumpur lost radar contact here. It actually flew this way. And this is where military radar had it and then lost it. And then in March that said they tracked it all the way down to here. Now here's another thing, right? This is post 9/11. If you have a rogue aircraft who's supposed to fly north into Beijing, disappears off radar, turns west and then south. Why weren't military aircraft scrambled to go after this? Like 9/11 changed the way planes flew forever worldwide. If there is a rogue aircraft, why didn't anybody go? Well, we're military scrambled to go look for this aircraft and intercept it. It's super weird. Reunion Island. This is where they found that wing fragment. Madagascar's were more debris was found by Brian Gibson and Diego Garcia is out here somewhere in this area. So you can see if they were to fly from Malaysia to Diego Garcia, that's pretty possible. But now they're saying where this little search area swath is, right off the coast of Perth, there is like a tsunami indicator like microphone in the water that picks up vibrations and explosions, basically any like disturbance in the ocean. And it picked up on the date that this plane disappeared, a pretty sizable ping. And so that has re concentrated efforts. So they're actually out looking for this plane again in this area right here, which I think is pretty neat 10 years later. Maybe they'll find something and put this all to rest. And that concludes my report on Boeing. Malaysia flight. Oh, my own personal conspiracy. It's a Boeing aircraft. Maybe this mug went down because Boeing sucks. And this has just been a 10 year cover up from Boeing. And rebuttal. Oh, there's no rebuttal. I just I believe that there were four. I think that there were four scientists on board that plane as well that had certain patents that had military application. And if it was just about ready to be approved and however, if something happens to the people that had the names on the patent, the patent goes directly back to the defense contracting company that they worked for. Oh, well, isn't that suspicious? There's so much with this airplane. There's so much. And the more you go into it, it's overwhelming. You know, and I mean, my thing is, is that, you know, military radar is, you know, if you're dealing with, it's fairly sensitive, I would assume. And I would also say that it's very suspicious that the Malaysian government didn't scramble their jets. You have you have an aircraft that's curdling at you at 550 miles an hour. And you don't put a bird in the sky. That sounds suspicious to me. But, you know, I'm not military and never been and never will be. But that sounds suspicious to me. I mean, as soon as it disappeared from radar, why weren't jets scrambled? Why weren't they launching search attempts? It was almost like they saw it disappear. Nobody acted on it. They waited till it was way off course. They still didn't act on it. And after it allegedly turned south. And now they're like, Hey, we don't know. You're good with 10 full a half this week? I think it was pretty good. I actually, I actually watched the CNN version of it, Brad. And I watched a couple other things. And so it's pretty interesting to see how, you know, playing that pig that's pretty much like the size of a skyscraper. Yeah, pretty much disappears. I find that very interesting. Without a trace. You want to mention the Netflix documentary on that? I don't know. Yeah, there's just, I don't even remember what it's called. I think it's called MH370. It's three episodes. It's really good. And if you want to take another route of predictive programming, there's a show on Netflix where a whole plane of people disappears, came out after this shit happened. And then they all show up randomly because it was like some alien time travel portable shit. But again, hey, if that's what happened to them, predictive programming, we've seen it. There you go. And 10 full half of this week. Great one. Another great one. Could talk about that stuff for a lot. I, uh, begin over for our two basketball fans out there. We'll have to mention end title number 18 for the Boston Celtics, NBA world champions for 2024. Can they add anything to that? Celtics won. That's awesome. That's great. Very happy for them. They basically are what they lose. Two games through the whole thing. There was a big hubbubble loop on sports radio saying are they the greatest team ever or whatnot. I don't think that they could have hung with the Lakers or the Celtics or the Bulls or the Pistons. Just those four teams right there when I'm off the floor with them. But, you know, it's today's basketball. I'm, you know, so being serious, really happy that the Celtics won. Another hanging, another one in the rafters. And, you know, it's kind of different because, you know, the events don't have six or she's a dust on the ones at the, uh, at the new Boston guard, like the old ones did. Correct. Brad, anything to add to that NBA championship? I don't think this team is like a dominant force. I think they waltzed into the finals. Everybody they played had injuries, had issues. Then they got the mabs that were panged up and just tired and exhausted because they just went to a straight war to get through the West. I have seen a lot of chatter that this was probably the worst finals in a long time. But they say that almost every year anyway. As a mediocre and moderate enthusiast of the NBA, I would say this finals was right up there. Not the worst for me, but pretty close. The worst for me was the bubble finals. I thought that shit was dumb. Why they even had a season. I thought it was stupid. But this was right up there for that finals. And now if Boston repeats, I'll give them their dude, right? If they can run it back next year, or maybe miss next year and run it back the year after. If they, if this team turns into a dynasty, I'll give them their dude. If not, the East is easy. It's historically been the easiest conference, the easiest side of the NBA. My thing is why haven't they been winning championships? Like LeBron went west, has struggled. Why hasn't Boston been an absolute dominant force for the last six or eight years? Let's talk about that. We'll have to save them for somebody then. Oh, no. That's a very good question, Brad. Moving on to the next one. And to go old sales guy, Brad, I'm gonna have to get back to you on that. Speaking of bad finals to good finals, tomorrow night or Monday night is game seven. We're going for a possible reverse sweep. Something that you'll never been done in any time that I've been watching the NHL. What a story. There's been two ladies that have gone viral, one for a certain same and one for a flash. And the girl, since that happened, she has been nothing but blowing up the internet. She just did a shoot for Playboy. She brought Edmonton the most luck that they have had since she did that. So it's sometimes all takes a little fan support, ladies. So get on. Don't be afraid, root for your favorite team. You never know you might go viral. And thoughts on the game seven. Well, it's been it's been very exciting. And Edmonton is the last past three games. They look like they are the better team. They look like they have Florida running around. It's they are playing such a puck possession game and keeping the puck away from from the Panthers. And the Panthers are still out hitting him, but they're trying to get the puck. But you know, that move that McDavid did when he skated through what all five of the of the Panthers, I mean, if anybody questions if he is the greatest hockey player of today, you're not watching what everybody else is watching because he's fantastic. You know, I just and it just like last night, I thought it was a little tiki tach that in Edmonton called that, you know, the review on the off sides on that goal. I thought that that was pretty tiki tach. I really didn't like that. I really feel like that, you know, I mean, if you looked at it like nine out of 10 waves, he wasn't off sides. And there was that and then there was the 10% that I use off sides. And they called it. And I really think that that because that was only 10 seconds after Edmonton scored, it really seemed like that it kind of led a lot of the air out of the Panthers. And the Panthers are looking tired. Edmonton looks like they've gotten their legs back again for some reason because the Panthers are just chasing the puck and like quite a few times last night, you know, they're, you know, they're, you know, this game of five on five and they're they're in a diamond. They're not attacking the puck. So I don't know what's going on. And you know, game seven Monday, I mean, it's it's anybody's game. And I mean, I think Andy and myself, we both called game seven. And I think I picked the Panthers and I don't remember which one you got, but it's going to be a great game no matter what. And I hope it's I hope it's a war. And it should be. I mean, if every kid that that plays, I know this is a cliche to say, but when you're outside shoot around, it's game seven Stanley Cup finals, he's got the puck on his deck. The whole deal. So I mean, if any part of that plays into this, the kid in here that wants to watch one hockey game, this is the one you want to watch. It's the end of the season. Somebody's going home crying. And it should be everything should come out in this game. It should be fast paced, hard hitting, a lot of scrums, that whole thing about leaving it all out there. This is the game you're going to get. And man, if if like I said, if you're not a hockey fan and you're going to watch one game, this is the one to watch, because it's going to be high drama. And you never know. He makes you a set of boobs. Who knows? I'll tune in for that. She may be there because she was at the game last night. She was she was with the she was in the bar stool sports guys and they were acting up. So if yeah, if ever there was something to watch on Monday night, I know that that's wrestling night for some people, but I have to put that one on the old DVR and watch something live and watch the other one on tape delay, kind of like nitro and raw. So are you going to wrestle let's get into it. I told Brad, I booked it. Sam Punk, the screw job. If the fans were hot, they didn't get what they wanted. Sam Punk got some heat. You don't know what kind of who's the heel? Who's the baby face? Maybe it's one of those Brett and Sean kind of things internationally. Sam Punk's a heel in the US. He's a he's a face. I like that they could run with that. That that never gets old. It's an international company officially now. So they'll they'll they'll travel back to Europe and maybe they'll be a heel over there. You know, it's almost like MJF in Long Island. He's only a baby face in Long Island. So you know, this the possibility for the WWE is going in the direction that I had talked about a couple of months ago. Cody got the blade out during clash at the castle. AJ Styles got the blade out when it matters. It's not overdone, like on AEW. It's to, you know, it's main event. It's a bridge match. It's a it's used when it needs to be. So a lot to talk about and NXT has now passed AEW in the readings. More people are watching NXT because you never know who's got to show up. They kind of leave it like a little bit. You never know what could have happened. I like that. The thing I did like about Cody Road showing up on NXT, they're waiting for something to do this for the longest time. If you go back to watch those old TBS shows when somebody was on and they had a title, it was always folded and they held it under their arm like this. The way I used to do it, totally used to do it. They all used to not over the shoulder. They didn't wear it in interviews. They would always hold it like this. And Cody was walking around backstage, old school holding the belt like that with a suit on. It just for me, it just looked right. So Brad thoughts on clash at the castle, thoughts on hope. They finally got my boy Jacob Batu. The guys are absolute beast. He's a fucking menace. A lot of all this moments. That's the guy that I wanted them to bring in for the longest time. He's had histories of criminal background. That's why nobody really wanted to deal with him. But that's what you want. You want the danger? Bradford or Josh? Man, I've been chomping at the bit waiting for this segment all week. Because look, clash of the castle, arguably and easily the worst PLE they put on in a long time. Not because of the screw job. I was, was I pissed at the screw job? Yeah, that's, you're supposed to be mad. But then I love the way they did it. And I was looking forward to what happened this week. 100%. Yes, absolutely. The thing that made the PLE also so bad, the Cody AJ Styles match was whack. It was, it was a five star match up until the end. The end was dumb. AJ Styles would never just scream, I quit. But I did love the fact that Cody hit him with the steel steps. Anyway, the match was over. He looked at his mom, should I? She said, yeah, he hit him. I think that's leading up to the Cody heel turn. That's what I'll, I'll say it. I'm going to stamp it, make it official. I think it's leading up to, probably not going to see it for a while, but eventually. And then at the end of the match, you saw the bloodline came out, they started fighting and shit. Randy Orton came out and Randy Orton was just like eyeballing the title. Like, I think there's a little bit of foreshadow in there and I would love to see Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton just have a match, dude. Like friend versus friend. Total respect. I think that would be a five star match. Obviously, Cody would win it. Then I can give Randy Orton the title or nothing like that. It doesn't fit into the story, but that would be incredible. The other parts with the PLE that sucked is there were so many botches and it was from big name stars. Damien Priest had the botch and the ropes and he could have possibly really jacked his knee up. If I'm, if we're being honest, he probably might have really actually heard himself. But Jade Kargill watching her wrestle in watching her in the ring. It's like watching white people dance. It is awkward and it is offbeat. And you just want to tell him to sit the sit the hell down, like stop doing this, man. You're not made for it. Go sit down. She's getting a push because Mark Henry founder. He's got some connects with Triple H. She's a, she is an athlete. I don't think wrestling is her thing. She can go be a fitness model. She can go do bodybuilding competitions. I don't think in ring is her thing. And I'm saying that as a, I'm a huge Jade Kargill fan. She was one of the, I was like, this chick is awesome. I'm going to watch AEW for her. She disappeared. Came back to WWE, but they buried her because they, they put her in the put where they were putting her through some training because they were like, hey, you kind of suck. And now they paired her up with Bianca Belair because she sucks. And I think that's actually holding Bianca Belair back. That's whatever the money and I raw Seth Rollins made his return. It was incredible. Huge pop. When we heard his entrance music, nobody expect I had had no idea he was supposed to come back. I thought he was gone at least till SummerSlam. So when he came out, we, we were up off the, off the couch. We were cheering. Absolutely incredible. I want to save the white six for the end if we can. That's a huge thing. I definitely want to talk about SmackDown sold out. They were a WWE. So first off, I'm fan of AEW, huge fan. WWE has been absolutely cooking this past week. They sold out, they have been selling out every show before WrestleMania, the road to WrestleMania and after they've been selling out their shows. SmackDown was a sell out show. Seeing Punk came back. Jacob Fat 2 came back. It was absolutely incredible. I was so excited just for this injection of like energy into the program that we've been, we've been missing for so long. They're building up this awesome feud between the bloodline and Cody and CM Punk and all this other stuff. The way Paul Heyman's character came out and went and hugged CM Punk and asked him to take him with him. And the crowd went absolutely bananas. And then Heyman said CM Punk has always been protected. The Roman Reigns always understood that. And then the crowd was saying we want Roman Reigns to come back. Absolutely incredible man. And then NXT real quick had the most viewed moment on WWE social media since WrestleMania. It eclipsed WrestleMania views. And that was when my boy, Joe Hendry made his debut at NXT. And if you guys don't know who Joe Hendry is, I shared his entrance song in the group chat. Go watch it. I apologize if you sing that song in your sleep. It is so damn catchy. It was number one on iTunes and Europe for crying out loud. The dude is a star him and I love that Triple H is doing is having stars from TNA pop up here and there. They don't get a lot of action, a lot of push because they're from another program. I understand it, but having them on there is incredible. I loved it. Joe Hendry is just hilarious. He's a great athlete. The Wyatt six Andy. What do you think about that? We finally got him. The reveal was awesome. I enjoyed it. It was very theatrical. It was very Bray Wyatt WWE. My question is, how are they going to book this shit? Is that going to be a weekly thing? The death and the blood and the hammers and how are they going to book these matches? So if you're going, there's a couple of ways you can hit this. You hit that from what I like to call sports based presentation because with all that stuff going on backstage and people getting laid out and where are the cops? How come the cops didn't show up and break that up? If you're trying to put an actual real life perspective on it, that happened in the UFC and somebody was getting a shit kicked out of them. My six guys, my guy backstage, they would be some kind of melee. They just wouldn't be a real cameraman going around the back like it's the shower scene. It's like, the presentation is great. I'd like the original Wyatt family that they brought up, the swan, Charles Manson kind of culty thing. That was awesome. The supernatural thing, I'm kind of all set with. I'm kind of all set with that with that mom do match that they had at WrestleMania a couple of years ago with Bray Wyatt, where everybody had the neon pain and he got pushed off the thing and Uncle Howdy wasn't all set with that stuff. That stuff is I get a little time for that stuff. Giving me, you want to give me evil characters like the other take. Okay, right on the cusp of being hokey. Make it believable. Is he dead? Is he alive? You know, goofy, ball bearer? I get it. But you can't keep doing the same thing. Just once a color and book is colored, you can't go back and color it again. It's kind of the same thing. So if you're going to do it to a right, make those guys kind of an attraction. You don't really going to put belts on them because how are you going to take it off them? That kind of thing. It's it's a feud or mid-pod. I don't see it being made of vent, lower, lower mid-pod kind of status. None of them is going to win the icy bell. Don't put the tag belts on them. Just have them come in and give you a quick three minute match where they're setting up some kind of angle or feud with guys that you don't really have nothing to do with. Maybe to get guys over. They're going to go after Cody and Roman Reigns. I don't see that. But I mean, the presentation was good. I just hate when WWE is 293, 94-ish with Duke the Dumpster Drosey and Rad Radford and this guy's a fireman and this guy's a you know, he works at the DMV and this guy does your taxes and this guy is a fireman and this guy takes you garbage. But you know, I'm all set with that stuff. Thoughts on the riots? I mean, like I said, I liked the presentation and they actually like showed Chad Gable like busted up and like bloody and then they took him out of his money in the bank qualifying match. So I was like, oh, so this is how they're going to run with this. If they catch a backstage, that affects you in real time, real life matches. But then Adam Pierce came out and was like, no, Gable's fine. He's cleared. He'll be in the match. I'm like, what? No. Like, that's like you're messing up. Like if that's how you're going to book this, do it. Like make it believable, make it a thing. Otherwise, what's the point of getting them backstage if it's not even going to affect their match? That's pointless. Now it's like, oh, somebody has a target on their back, but we know that target is meaningless. So I don't know. We'll see how it goes. Yeah, speaking of, you know, I mentioned the undertaker, sorry, he's been all over doing different things, different podcasts and whatever. And they were asking about the Cody Rhodes run. And he was a bash number, whatever. He said that he's a he's a fan, but he thinks he would make a fantastic heel. Yes. So when he did the New Japan stuff, and he was solo for a little while there, he was a ring of honor as a heel. He was in Japan as a heel. So he has it in him. It's just, you know, they wanted him to turn a heel in a w he wouldn't do it. And that was the whole, you know, I won't turn type of thing. And so I think his run's going to be a decent memorable, but when he gets beat, it'll be, it'll be storyline based. It'll be something there. He won't just lose it because they want to take the belt off of them. They'll, I'm sure they have something planned for him. And like credit to Triple H, you know, ding dong. That's a man's no longer in the pitch, when you get the blood, because the time that, uh, Patista did it, because now it come from Patista, the story that he told was he thought that the psychology of the match, it called for it. And he got the blade out and he did it and they changed him $250,000. But he played when it was, you know, outlawed. So they've been using the term for wrestling during WWE shows. They're, they're expanding into other avenues with you never know who might show up, which I like, because they have that, that still little end of the day group that's out there with like, uh, kind of something. What was his name? He was head of Funkadelics and back in the day was his name. He used to come up with Naomi and the other one dancing. Anyways, he's the NWH champion for a little while. Okay. EC3 is there. I think the champion now. So there's a cusp of guys that they could, you know, bring in and surprise, you know, nothing that, and somebody's not going to show up and win the whole thing. But, you know, it's nice to have a little bit of variety to pull from, rather than be in and have a WWE bubble with nothing else and wrestling exists outside of that. But that's great to, uh, you know, have in the queue to pull from, just, you know, especially when you're trying to hotshot a show like NXT and give that because nobody really cares about them for been doing. Nobody wants to see new Japan wrestlers that they, they have no inkling who they are and they can't get over on American TV because they, they just, they don't have the personality to cut a promo and all the managers, uh, a lane that they put them with. And the only good manager out there that would do well is Don Callis. He's really good as a heel manager. And he was great when he was the jackal in ECW and WWF back in the day. Speaking of, let's, let's take away and talk about, uh, what we've been talking about, uh, the last, you know, while the, uh, who killed WCW? And speaking of WWF in the late 90s, Vince Russo shows up and listened to him talk. And the quote that I got, uh, that was, I had to pull myself in the picture because I realized I was better than 80% of the roster. Yeah. And we haven't been in the wrestling talk much. So I want you to take on this episode three of who killed WCW. Well, it basically sounds like it's a bunch of five-year-old tindergarten girls saying who did what and everything like that and passing the buck. Nobody's holding anything. And Vince Russo, like, I remember seeing that host that I remember seeing that with him getting in there and through the cage by Goldberg. And I was like, this is stupid. And then I was like, this is dumb. And the whole David, our tech shenanigans. Like, I was like, that was dumb. Like, why is this going down? Like, and like, I remember that, that night with Hogan, and I was like, that's stupid. Like, why are we, like, why is it going down? And to hear him talk, you know, he's another self-promoter. You know, I never did anything wrong. It was Bischoff's fault. And then you have Bischoff on to put a rebuttal and Bischoff's like, well, you know, they kicked me out, then they brought me back. And I was told that I'm supposed to oversee, you know, Vince and all this other stuff. And then Vince comes out out and bring that night with Hogan and says you'll never see him with the belt on again. It really just basically what's going on is just to kind of segue it and tie it back and I'll kick it to you guys. It's exactly what the 80W is doing now. And they're doing the same exact playbook by the highly destroying wrestling company by doing exactly what WCW did. And I'm not impressed with Bischoff. I'm not impressed with Vince. They both suck. And then here, and then the whole, like, the whole thing from Kevin Nash, I mean, it's almost like one of those things. It was like, if Kevin just would just be quiet, he'd still have like that status of being pretty badass. And he's kind of getting let out into a different light now. It's kind of like, you're kind of like a bigger and taller version of Hogan. And you know, I don't like that because I was like big sexy. I thought it was awesome. You know, when they first came in and took over, I mean, man, it was like, you could not like watch more Monday night, like with with those guys. It just, it's just that whole, the whole faction and Conan seems like he's about the only person that wants to tell the truth. Everybody else is self-serving. So I think if before we get to Brad, my thought is, when you have something as good going as Monday night show, and the AEW had dynamite, why do you want to add another show, or more than one show? Make that one show epic. And then if you're not on the show, it means you're not good enough to be on the show. That's just how it goes. And then trim your roster from there that way you have room. If somebody's available, you bring in somebody else that fits right in as, you know, good for that two hours, two hours. If your skits not good enough to get on TV, you're not getting on TV to your point, right? Why did they have to have the thunder that just they have breath, huh? They look at the creative collision to keep CM Punk away from the guys in the elite. That became their thunder. That's a recipe for disaster. You don't create another show that appears another side. You make everybody play ball on the main show that you're going on Wednesday night. You have no competition. Now you you think way shows into Saturday night or Friday night, nobody watches that stuff. They barely watch a main show. You're killing your own product from within. Just because you don't want to please three guys that never stepped foot into WWF, E-F-G-H-I-N-O. The box have been free agents before. They don't want nothing to do with them because they know they're a pain in the ass. And with Cody, they're now, they're definitely not getting it. Omega, he's all banged up. Then he's never been there, really. He was in the developmental way back in the day and he couldn't cut it back. So if you haven't, if you kicked out the biggest style you ever had, the guy that plopped, the most sales you've ever had, your highest rated show was that first CM Punk show back. You're doing everything like, "Cookie, come to what WCW did." And you don't, everybody gets it. But the guy that's running the company, and you're on the same network, that's the worst spot for us on the show. Man, I wish I could sit down with Tony Kong and watch who killed WCW with him. Like take notes. What the fuck are you doing? Just in this last episode, I mean, everything Ed said, a spot on man. Nobody's taking ownership. The more I hear Kevin Nash talk, the more I hear Brett Hart talk, the more I don't like those guys. It has to be a huge Brett, the hitman, Hart fan, but they're so cynical now. But anyway, yeah, man, this last episode especially, and the whole time I'm watching it, I'm like, "Dang it, AEW. Please watch this one episode, especially." They had the blood thing with Kevin Nash, which AEW just tried to repeat, and it didn't go over either time. And then the thing that I caught out of this episode that was the most damning for what killed WCW is they had all these old superstars from WWE, Hogan, Nash. You know, Sting was the original, right? The flare was the original, but these guys were back and forth between brains. But those old guys, you know, they're on a time limit. They're on, they have a shelf life, right? They're mid-card talent. That's where you develop those dudes to be the future stars of the brain. And the WWE has NXT. AEW doesn't have that. They have a lot of these old heads from WWE that gave creative talent to another mistake that WCW did, and we're seeing the repeats all down the road here. But what happened to WCW? They had their mid-card talent, the Benoit, Eddie, Saturn, that whole faction jump shit in the middle of like this peak. WCW was kind of on the ledge that had all that mid-card talent jump to WWE. They were mid-carters in WCW, but became superstars in WWE, because they had that potential. What's that? Rey Mysterio. Rey Mysterio. There's a whole list of them. And we're seeing, and now it hasn't developed as much, what's that? Stone Cold. Stone Cold. But it hasn't developed that much currently in WWE, but we're seeing a lot of mid-card talent from AEW, Andrade came back, Ethan Page. We're seeing all these dudes coming over, and they're starting to get a push in WWE. Not to mention they lost Cody Rhodes, Nancy and Punk within like a year or two of each other. So God dang, man. And I want AEW to succeed so badly because a monopoly on any brand is not good. And I don't want WWE to have a monopoly over wrestling. I don't want it. TNA needs this to succeed. Hopefully they can inject some money and some interest into that by pulling their stars into WWE. And maybe that's why they're doing that. All those ECW days when they were doing the same thing. But hopefully, maybe a big star will jump from WWE to AEW. We haven't seen that in a while. Who was the last one, Edge? He's made passes prime. You're not going to throw a splash of banks something and say, no, no. I also saw the biggest insight on the episode was about Goldberg and how stiff he was. And the big push that he got and everything like that. And all of a sudden, it just, and he has that feud going with Bret Hart. And I think Bret, I think he's got, I mean, he really was a great talent. And they basically, it was at $2.8 million that gave him to put him on a TV show. And you're telling me that he couldn't work with Hogan, even if he doesn't like him. You're telling me he couldn't work with any of those first-tier guys that were in there. You're telling me that the old boy's club of flair and staying in that whole group in there, that he couldn't work with them? Come on now. That's just ridiculous. And you can see that, you know, even Kevin Sullivan has, you can tell that he has a hard time kind of like saying like what was really going on. You know, it was just, I don't know. It was a great, it's a great episode. And it's kind of nice to hear something a little bit different. But it's the same thing. I mean, it's just, you can see that there's a reason why they think, you know, the upper level executives had no idea what was going on. They had no idea about wrestling. They wanted, you know, they just wanted to go after, hey, we want, you know, we want TBS or TNT to be USA. That's all we can care about. So is there only three episodes? Four. Yes. I think the one the show is lacking. If I could critique the show itself is there's so many guys that are not on the show that I think would have made the show even better, even if they had just had small parts of an interview with them. Tony Shawani should have been on it. The reason why I say that is Tony was there all the way from stock 883 all the way till the very end. So I'm sure his point, whether you like it or you don't, it was valid. He could have told some really good stories. People probably going to like that. I thought it was a shame that Flair wasn't on. Whether you like him or you don't, he should have been on it. Stings should have been on it. They missed out with Stings, Flair, Tony Shawani, and probably if they could have got him, Hogan would have been great on the end of fireups and BS and tell some stories. So those four, I think, would have really and with the rock being involved, I'm sure if the rock had reached out, he probably could have done most of them. So my opinion doesn't matter, but it does on this podcast. So I think that they dropped the ball a little bit with the talking heads and it's unfortunate the stocks got all down the way. So I think he would have added to it if they got an answer on it either. He could have probably told some really good stories too. So yeah, so I think Jericho used to narrate those episodes. So they missed about a maybe a dozen guys that they could have reached out to that. With the rock being involved that he had called, I'm sure he could have got some really good points from the guys that were in there and see how the stories jive or see how he was lying and even more Hogan probably one of them. But so is that it for the wrestling talk this week? And we can stop winding down Brad, maybe got something? No, that's it, man. I just want to highlight Drew McIntyre quit showed up on SmackDown, literally beat CM Punk to a bloody pulp on regular TV, bloody face, had to wheel him out on a stretcher. So like, we're back, baby. We're back. So hopefully we didn't mention we're missing a couple of that guys on the goon squad this week. Been a long week. Let's just say that we'll be we're gonna do a reset with a couple of things. Episode 71, we're gonna do a new segment. I hopefully I can drop it in somewhere around here. Chris has a cooking thing with recipes that he wants to do. He said it's going to be very comedic. So hopefully it can get that to me by the time I put this into production. So it's looking like this might drop one day when I get back home and kind of get settled and hopefully have it up. I want to be home in time to watch game seven. So let's do some shout outs and we'll put this one to bed. So some way you can finally relax because I've been up since 5.30 this morning. And what do you got for a shout out? I like to know who Pookie is. That's what that's my shout out. I want to know who Pookie is. Okay. We all know what I'm talking about. Brandon, what do you got for a shout out this week? I don't I've no idea what I just talking about. Should I? Andy, can you elaborate on that? Yeah, hop to it, girl. Oh, that girl. Would you call her? Oh, yeah, we all want to know. My shout out is to you, Andy, burning both ends of the candle, picking the kids down. Get out of the second best out of the year. You know, I still hold that title, but I'll give you second best dad. But also first best podcast entrepreneur, mediator, producer, director, whatever you boss, whatever you want to call it. Because these I get you made them the long drives, the kids sports, man, that's a lot of work. You don't let your kids down. We're like your second family, your second kids. You don't let us down. I'm into the league. Ironman. Yeah, go get some sleep, buddy. Well, let me say the shout out goes to everybody. I mean, it was a long car ride, long days. Friday was long. Today was long. Thursday was long. Got another one day ahead of me to borrow. Probably won't get to relax until Monday. But I do it to serve multiple purposes. And we've touched on that good, bad, different. It's all it's all culminates in one big positive vibe. It's it's but it's a plethora serves a lot of purpose. Peace of mind. Bullshit with your buddies about like minded stuff, yucking it up, bringing some tension, having some laughs, doing some stuff and talking about just the stuff that like I said, if we're all sitting around just hanging out watching a game or just hanging around busting balls did. If there was not the world we live in, this podcast would be a thousand times funnier than what it actually is. So we we we color within those lines, you know, I want to use it's like I say this all the time. I want to use the 64 box of crayons with the shop now around the back. They only give me the hate. So with that being said, I want to just thank everybody and we don't have the professor. We don't have phantom. We don't have Chris, but we're gonna get everybody back in episode 75. We're hoping to get everybody back in one big one big love fest and yuck it up some more. So from the Grace theta, South Carolina, the beautiful city of Charleston. That's episode 71 fellas. The whole way out. Check you out, drive safe.