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Slack.com slash dhq. Hey, friendos, Steve here. And Larson. And like a lot of you today,

both me and Larson have been glued with horror at our TVs and Twitter feeds with what's

been going on in the world in Washington, DC specifically. And like we both fully understand

that reporting on the world of pro wrestling might seem a bit trivial given what's going

on out there. But it's kind of what we do. And it's the basis of the going in our community.

So maybe for some of you, it might come as like, you know, a small respite for what's going

on in the real world. So there you go. Feels weird to be reporting on this stuff, given

what's happening. But it's our jobs. And then we can all get back to the real world after

this, I guess. Larson, what's first in the news? Oh, first the news. So apparently there

was an ex-teat town that was almost called up for this Friday's Smackdown. That's

according to wrestle votes. This is what wrestle votes had to say, quote, just heard an interesting

story. An ex-teat talent was slayed to be called up the Smackdown last week as of showtime

was written into the main event segment with Reigns, Uso and KO said talent is on tonight's

big NXT cars. So curious to see if it was pushed weak or scrapped all together.

Gee, I wonder who it could be. I think it's probably been increased. You know, part of me

was hoping that that oh, and would call in reinforcements. Yeah, that could have been

cool. Yeah, I mean, the whole timing of Damien Priest taking on carry and cross. I, you

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