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Welcome in pro wrestling fans. Welcome in busted open nation here on a Tuesday. Happy holidays very Christmas.

I'm Ryan McKinnell in for Dave LaGrecca got Tommy Dreamer here on a Tuesday and we are diving into the weekend that was in professional wrestling.

We are talking about 20 years into business for one Shelton Benjamin. We give Shelton his flowers here on this episode.

We also talk about the holiday drama of the Mysterio family. Give us more or in this case in professional wrestling feed us more.

And also as we talk about the year that was in 2022. Let's talk about some of the best story lines that we saw in this business. So sit back, relax, click play. Let's get it going. It's me Tommy on a Tuesday.

Dominic Mysterio and Rio Ripley once again invading the holiday happenings the holiday happenings the holiday parties the holiday gatherings of his pops of his mom of his family.

Tommy, Dom and Rio showing up once again in the Mysterios trying to ruin a family dinner.

I friggin love the Mysterios. I think I want to be over a race house for the holidays. What's the next one coming up? Maybe New Year's Eve. We can have an hour. He's a Dominic will be in jail.

Keep going because it's enjoyable. And it's a story line. That's not really a storyline.

You know, good it is. It showed up on my Twitter feed over the weekend. I was like, yes, I forgot that this happened for Thanksgiving. I'm so glad they brought this back. Now I need Easter invasions. Right. I need Columbus Day invasions. I need I need presence day invasions. I don't give a shit every single holiday.

We got holidays for everything right. We got like national sandwich day, national spaghetti day. I need all of that. I need this story to happen every single time we can get any even an inkling of a reason why we could write this into television or social media Tommy. I'm so here for it.

I also like to raise mom just showing up at the tail end of it, like a real concerned family member would and all the drama, man, that's something that happened in my house a long time ago. I'll share that story in a second.

So I love it. And it's really, really funny because of how it does somewhat, you know, there's always some sort of drama not to the fact, well, I mean, some people I've read on social media that they did have cops called.

Sure, it's America, maybe the holiday season. And it was just it's entertaining, man, it really, really is. And I love like that raise wife gets involved. And like I said, those really are, you know, it's raised dad and raised mom there. And it just looks really so authentic and so real. And I loved it.

I think of so authentic and so real little dime out there being like mommy get me out like to call fit and freeze. I'm not going to make it in jail. Yes.

That was so that was so good. Tommy, you know, you talk about the family's reaction to, can I just say this.

Mom's showing up later, you know, like coming in concert, but how about grandpa, Mysterio and meeting Dom at the door, you know, grandpa's lived a life. He don't got time for this drama. He comes up immediately and embraces Dom like the family grandpa who's seen it all and been through all the drama.

He didn't give a shit. He's there. And he gives Dom love right off the rip. I love the way that played out. I did too. I'm going to tell you a funny story because it just reminds me of all this.

Okay, real life story in the house of my life. Okay. I'm growing up Tommy or like adult Tommy. This is I'm still not an adult. Okay.

This is 20 something year old Tommy dreamer. My grandfather legit dies. And I'm sorry. I'm laughing too.

When he died, he died like at the day, like, or he died. My grandfather dies. We did an angle with it on ECW television.

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