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Oh my goodness, listen, people happy Tuesday, Mac, media, podcast, back, we still in the building man. Oh my goodness. I got my fellas with me. See, I got flowbedo.com. I got real Jack

former and back by poppy demand. I popularly demanded a producer extraordinaire. All right, Trepplet producer Brian H. water's what's going on?

All right, listen, listen, when you hear his name, like you just know he's a brother though, like you say Brian and you're like, here, water's I'm like, oh, he

yeah, good morning, good morning. Oh, guys, it's been, it's been a very, very interesting time in wrestling. It's one of the most interesting times that I can remember in my life for many different reasons, you know, and social media is a big part of that before I get down to the nitty gritty forget down the brass

tax. I want to give a little shout out to Brian Danielson, Menoros Suzuki, putting on a banger of a match. I'm talking about if you like good old fashion, collaring elbow, you like the way things

done traditionally, we like legends versus legends, you like this kind of stuff, y'all, if you are wrestling purist, Brian Danielson, Menoros Suzuki, I got to

because I miss you very much. I didn't want to talk about how amazing it was Jack Farmer. That was, that was absolutely a great match, but of all the shenanigans and hoop loss

already named past weekends, wrestling, this is what really fascinated me the most because obviously anyone who knows these two knew it would be an

exceptional wrestling match, but that was kind of the rub anyone who knows these two and a lot of ink has been spilled out forbidden doors, and I've always believed

that W was what they were doing was trying to earn the trust of New Japan pro wrestling. I think they did that, but now this match, in my opinion, was going to show if it was worth it. Suzuki's not a household name in the United States, and I was fascinated to see whether he was going to bring in an audience. I looked at the YouTube views as of now as a recording, just shy about a million. I think they had where like 600,000 first 24 hours, and to me that shows that, yes,

a quote unknown superstar from Japan could be a draw for AW, and I think down the line, that means this could pay off really big, all that stuff with impact and everything they've done before, I think this to me showed that they might be able to do some really cool things that will be good business wise and as a fan.

Japanese wrestling has its own niche, Japanese wrestling is its own entity, Japanese wrestling has a lot of tradition, you know, the great Walter talk about the mad is sacred, Japanese wrestling is sacred as well, and there are people that follow it, and it's been around, and you hear people like the Finn Bowers of the world, and so many professional wrestlers of the world talk about how hard it is to get through the Japanese strong style, and how much they attribute their career and get props of their career for progressing after going to Japan.

And it really is just a great thing to see that representation, because flowbow representation matters.

Oh, absolutely, man, here's a match that we, as wrestling fans in general, we complain about hot shotting stuff, and I won't say this match was hot shot, but it was put together fairly quickly, so I had concerns about whether that was giving it away with it was too much, but to your saying about breaking through Japanese talent, that's kind of been the x factor of the commentary to this caliber specifically, right?

So here's somebody who could produce it with a little bit more of that intelligence, you know, I'm saying, and it may be a little bit off putting for casual fans, but over time, it's like, here's why this person's important.

And so once you have a good opportunity to get Suzuki through the door, or the forbidden door, or whatever, the forbidden swing indoor of the saloon, then there's ever more people that come through, so it was winter everybody.

Bryan Waters, a lot of people don't understand this one when they hear you and jealous voice.

I believe I caught you say one of the meetings we had, because we have all these meetings, y'all, we had these meetings talk about, so they make sure Mac Mania ain't shitty, so we have meetings to make sure this broadcast ain't do do.

So I appreciate you, Bryan Waters, he like casually dropped it, Bryan, this is his favorite wrestler of all time.

Did I hear that correctly?

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