RAW ON NETFLIX or MCDONAGH BUMPERS (Wrestling Soup 1.28.25)

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4.4 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Wrestling Soup, hosts Anthony Thomas and Josephine Numbers discuss their reactions to Monday's WWE Raw episode leading up to the Royal Rumble. The conversation covers the unpredictable weather, the unusual structure of the Raw episode, the thrilling matches, and vibrant discussions about wrestlers like JD McDonough, Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, Drew McIntyre, and many more. They also touch on the significant moments from CM Punk and Cody Rhodes' deep, intimate promos. Highlights also include humorous critiques of WWE's presentation, celebrity appearances, and ongoing storylines, while light-heartedly jabbing at some elements of popular culture.
00:00 Wrestling Soup Introduction
00:05 Weather Talk and Small Talk
01:15 Wrestling Event Recap
02:52 JD McDonough's Injury and Selling Techniques
03:47 Commentary and Announcer Dynamics
19:17 Seth Rollins and Royal Rumble Build-Up
24:52 Celebrity Appearances and Dave Meltzer's Critique
34:18 Pat McAfee and Michael Cole's Chemistry
39:52 Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston Segment
41:27 Xavier Woods and Little Yachty: A Hilarious Encounter
42:20 Optics and Backup: A Wrestling Analysis
44:01 Jay Uso and Quavo: A Simple Promo
45:17 Bianca Belair and Naomi vs. Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez
50:45 Bailey Interrupts Rhea Ripley
52:51 Paul Heyman and Drew McIntyre: WWE 2K25 Reveal
01:02:51 Drew McIntyre vs. Sammy Zane
01:04:08 Cody Rhodes and CM Punk: A Deep Conversation
01:08:32 Royal Rumble Hype and NFL Rant

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0:00.0	Wrestling soup for a mature audience.
0:05.0	Wagon on.
0:07.0	Wrestling soup, I am Anthony Thomas, joined along with the Josephine numbers.
0:12.0	Beautiful fucking day out, 50 degrees here. It's wonderful.
0:16.0	Wow, I hope that's coming for us. I really do.
0:19.0	I think tomorrow's going to be even a little bit warmer here.
0:21.6	It's what is it right now? I'm 47, 48 degrees. It's 50. How excited have you been? I'm sure you guys
0:28.4	get a little bit more than us. That it's not dark at fucking four o'clock. Yeah, no, I'm actually
0:33.8	surprised there's still a sun above the horizon. See, I've gotten to that point now where people go like, oh, it's cold.
0:40.0	And I'm like, yeah, you know, it sucks, but whatever.
0:42.2	Yeah, but 50 is not cold.
0:43.9	50 is fucking comfortable.
0:45.8	But I, yeah.
0:46.4	I just mean, like, around these months or people like, it's cold.
0:49.1	I'm like, yeah, you know, it's not, I mean, it's not the best. Last week it was in the negatives.
0:57.0	And then we have that fucking wind chill on top of it.
0:58.8	And now it's warm again.
1:00.5	It's not dark at 345.
1:01.7	I'm fine.
1:03.4	That's how I see it at this point. Like if it's, if it's not dark 90% of the time, I am okay.
1:09.7	Yeah, you can keep that Canadian son to yourself
1:12.1	you know 72 hours of darkness it's like dark darkness up here the dark darkness in the
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