McMahon family

Mm-hmm.

Like, and that, and that was one thing I did remember about like the McMahons.

They didn't buy each other like stuff of, uh, expensive nature.

They would buy things that like money couldn't buy.

Yeah, and I mean, I don't, not to take us too off track or anything, but I, when I got back into it, I was trying to catch up, and so I started listening to podcasts, listening to yours of course, and I heard a lot of negativity.

Like, a lot of people complaining just about the McMahons or just about the direction that it's going or all these, all these negative things.

And I'm thinking to myself, "But you're still fans, you're still watching, so why do you, why do you have to focus on the bad things?" Like, that's like me as a Patriots fan getting bummed out, um, when the Eagles beat us two Super Bowls ago.

It's like, wait a minute, our team is still in the Super Bowl.

I think he's funny.

I would be the person that if he came out on stage with the microphone and started insulting me and my city, like I would be clapping and laughing because I think the guy's hilarious and he's not totally wrong.

What people say is that he's the voice box for the McMahons and that they're hating on the fans because we complain too much.

And what I say is possibly it's Sami Zayn's own feelings about the fans.

have a job in there.

Yeah, you got to keep the McMahons, dude, because if we lose Triple H, we lost Stephanie, we lost the possibility of fucking Shane McMahon ever coming back.

Like, we got to keep the McMahons in the family and...

We'll see what happens, but time will tell.

I'll finally get my cinematic storylines.

They were all future opponents of Strangler Lewis, right? And Toots Montz would train them how to be different than each other, how to have different styles from each other, okay? And because these people were always together, they could start doing stories together.

versus like this guy that's kind of just a dick and that's why he's a heel or he's from another country and that's why he's a heel so storylines in pro wrestling go way way back all the way back to the 20s late 20s early 30s and tootamont ended up founding wwwf with vincent Jay McMahon, okay? That's how deep the McMahons are in all this shit.

In the 40s, there's two characters that come to life in a way that nobody had ever brought them to life before.

Gorgeous George, and we will delve into the gorgeous George archetype another time, and the nature boy, Buddy Rogers.

I-

And it's been no secret that the McMahons have been tied to Republican shit in the last 20, 30 years.

Yeah.

I get it.

Now we're gonna have some fun.

Next segment we go to is from the Raw on June 26th, where we s- set up to see the McMahons versus DX.

The McMahons come out to make their entrance, or so we think, as it's actually Triple H dressed up like Vince.

[laughs]

Yes.

So this obviously pisses him off.

Vince and Shane McMahon come out with the Spirit Squad and say they're going to beat the crap out of them, and it's a funny choice of words, because after saying that, a porta potty is lowered down from the ceiling.

This, of course, confuses Vince and us all, but is quickly explained when Triple H says, "Well, that's because you're full of crap." And then literal shit starts falling from the ceiling onto the Spirit Squad and the McMahons.

I got to tell you, too, it makes me question the Trump administration at this point, too.

I figured they would have been a little bit angry with the McMahons being that's what was the final outcome of that match.

But again, guys, it's just pro wrestling.

I don't want to blow it.

Ernie Land did get fired.

And I mean, he stayed really close with the McMahons.

I'm sure it was just, you know, you know, there's no such thing as a happy firing.

And maybe he just said, you know, you're just not a good fit or whatever.

Go out there and do it." And then we got to that phase where, where back when we were starting this job, where it was just every single week, Raw kicked off with either a 40-minute promo-

With the McMahons

... or with the McMahons, or a six-man tag that went on for about 20 minutes, and it was just, it was just so repetitive that at that point it was just end it, just end tag wrestling.

[laughs]

Yeah.