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Yes indeed hello again everybody Slobberknocker Audio is on the air I am Jim Ross thank you very much for being with us and thanks for downloading our program

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If you're interested in finding out more about that organization how they help wrestlers in need families in need of wrestlers then it's cauliflower alley club org for those that might want to look it up it's great organization you can become a life member like myself you can you can be a member by the annually just one year to time but know that every dime of everything that comes in goes to help wrestlers and their families who are in need of assistance

And that's never been made a big public thing because it can be embarrassing when somebody find out that you know if you were find out that you know Joe blow is blown all his money you don't have any cash right now and his kid can't go to get their go to high school can get to college or whatever we've helped a lot of people so cauliflower alley club dot org the bank with some Wednesday night for that matter and but they're total nonprofit organization nobody gets paid nobody gets their expenses

paid is it's completely voluntarily structured and so I mentioned Vegas and I'm here at the studios of x1075 with my friend poly cover poly is only air folks in Las Vegas if you're passing through or you can check him out on the radio radio dot com app I'm told so poly how you doing buddy doing well thank you J.R. for having me on I'm glad you're here thanks for facilitating our request

according today and before we went on the started I have my thoughts on the greatest royal rumble in Saudi Arabia you said you watched it I'd love to know overall what you think of the presentation on TV

well it's unique to wake up on a Friday morning 8 a.m. and watch some WWE so that first of all was something special in itself and it looked like a WrestleMania so for what people are calling a glorified house show it was not

what do you think people are seemingly is it just a trend we're in is it this the is it a millennial thing poly because you're not younger age group I don't detect that you're that way but is it just a simple fact that people had rather invest their creativity in negative issues as opposed to finding the glass being half full seem like it's always half empty and I I predicted the jury law and I were flying over to Saudi

and I said you know no matter what we do people go to bitch there was a time when the guys my age during the attitude arrow would read the dirt sheets when that became a big thing on the internet and so everybody would discuss everything and come up with their own booking for every show and their story was the best story so everything else is crap pretty much and I believe that my stupid generation of fans taught the next generation that what you do is bitch and that has become the normal bitch yeah

yeah it's it's a it's a it's a stressing at times but I and I'll talk about my experiences there too in Saudi because I like a lot of people that are podcasting about the event they weren't there they just set their fat ass on an airplane for 36 total hours around trip and it was a challenging travel say the very least as challenging as I've ever encountered my entire career just the distance time you could

make that travel easy no way so but did what what stood out on the card to you what did you what what what will you take a what do you take away from that event as far as in ring stuff well we saw a championship crown with the tag team championship I'm really into what's happening with

with Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy I'm giving them some time and seeing how WWE takes on this broken woken character and how Bray Wyatt will be incorporated so I was happy for them to get their moment most of all though the rumble itself that was what really stood out the 50 men how long it took I we were timing it out I don't think every entrance was 90 seconds a piece but but but it was really good time I have my experience Paulie is that in these Royal Rumble matches that as the

as the match progresses the entry time lessons yes and it's generally a completely a facet of the timing of the show we're running heavy it's a little bit long we got to cut some time so that didn't surprise me there and I

in fact I didn't even notice it I was watching the show from a locker room they called the TV L TV locker room where they do some interviews and the camera guys are able to hang out so far so we we were in there watching it I didn't even notice the interval time to be honest with you I just kept looking all I know some I brought I look at these shows like a broadcaster are like a broadcasting it and I wish I was broadcasting that the Rumble match I had a chance to do that but not to be

but you know you have a different story to tell every 60 seconds or every 90 seconds or whatever the hell it is and that's why that that match for a broadcaster can be challenging because the stories change every blank whatever minute 90 seconds or it may be so I was more involved in that or watching that process and seeing how they

announcers how well they maximize their minutes their time on the interest is because you got to be strategic on your interest is because that's about the only time you can

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