Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast. I'm your host Tommy Dreamer talking everything Monday Night Raw from good old Grand Rapids, Michigan, and talking about the debut of Austin Theory, kind of in the vision, as well as a man whose vision is that somebody is a bitch and that's

Gunther and I'm going to talk about it right now.

This is the busted open podcast.

With the unveiling of who I thought was the new member of the vision, but A-N, not so fast.

He's not really a member yet, and that would be the whole Austin Theory unmasking last week.

I don't know if it got the reaction it wanted just because of the look, being in the crowd. It was a lot, but got

people talking, which is always what you want when you're doing episodic television. The follow-up,

of course, they're going to show you what happened last week on Monday Night Raw. And then

the opening shots of people walking into the building. It's cold in

Graham Rapids and they're drinking coffees and you can see their breath. And everyone's

dressed nice and warm. Here comes the vision. And then Paul Heyman stops and he sees Austin Theory and he's,

what are you doing?

And it felt like such a real conversation.

And Austin Theory kind of like straight up said, like he's not really a member of the vision

yet, but he's doing stuff.

Gave his really what happened to him in his career.

Got sidetrack, got injured, wasn't taken seriously, and now he's on a new mission,

and he did what he did to get noticed, which, hey, good for you, young man.

Paul's like, we'll see.

They have a nice thread throughout the show to set up the main event of C.M. Punk and Ray Mysterio versus Austin Theory and Bronson Reed.

I liked a thread that they had and, you know, even vision members,

you got to always put over Paul Heyman in situations like that. The opening segment,

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