Roman Reigns Wins the Royal Rumble After Waiting for Someone to Step Up and Take the Ball

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Sports, Wrestling

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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COLD OPEN QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Which decision was worse: having Roman Reigns win the Royal Rumble or having LED lights (0:39)? David and Kaz kick off the show by discussing Roman Reigns’s Royal Rumble win and the reason why he is the most important WWE star today (2:24). They also discuss the following: Who else could have won if not Roman (20:30)? Liv Morgan wins the Women’s Royal Rumble, and Brie Bella makes a shocking return (34:16) Drew McIntyre defeats Sami Zayn (55:27) Gunther ends AJ Styles's WWE career (59:00) Be sure to check out our videos on⁠ BlueSky⁠,⁠ TikTok⁠,⁠ Instagram Threads⁠, and⁠ X⁠. Hosts: David Shoemaker, Kazeem Famuyide, and Brian H. Waters Producer: Brian H. Waters Additional Production Support: Ben Cruz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A wise man once said in this world, nothing can be certain except death taxes and your boy Johnny Bananas.
0:07.2	Welcome to the brand new Death Taxes and Bananas channel where we'll be recapping season 41 of the challenge every week with all your favorite cast members.
0:15.6	I'm going to dive deep into the drama, get every side of every story, and tell stories about behind the scenes on set
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0:28.3	or subscribe to YouTube.com at Death Taxes Bananas on YouTube.
0:36.4	Cold open question of the week, Kaz.
0:39.2	What up, shoes?
0:40.3	What was a worst decision?
0:43.7	Having Roman Reins win the Royal Rumble or putting weird LED lights on the back of every chair in the audience so that the whole place looks empty the whole show?
0:52.9	LED lights far and away up until one specific moment.
0:58.3	What was that?
1:00.2	Brie Bella's return.
1:01.4	Only because when Brie Bella came out, it looked like she spawned 25,000 fans out of nowhere.
1:08.5	It was like a bunch of call of duty spawns just happened out of nowhere. It was like, like a bunch of call of duty spawns just happened out of nowhere.
1:13.2	It was like, oh, there are the fans.
1:14.9	Like, yeah.
1:16.0	Those LED lights were so distracting.
1:19.0	I mean, very cool to look at with like the logos and stuff like that, but definitely
1:23.3	gave me Thunderdome vibe for a minute.
1:25.9	I'm like, are they just,
1:27.6	are they just out there wrestling for the nobody?
1:29.4	What's going on?
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