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last night's NXT I think NXT

Bleep B B B B Broo get out of the bloody roadblock

well I don't think anyone ever said it

Pulling the old Curtainsky back here

Phil Chambers has just delivered a very interesting

work-based presentation about how we can keep you guys

on the hook forever and some of that was about like, like, changing, like, viewer habits. Sort of changing, like, habits within the video that, like, the view was like, oh, interesting. And I'm thinking, oh, like, our intro's the same every time, is it? Like, this guy, like, straight in. Always keeping them on their terms. Always keeping them guessing. Honestly, that's why there's a, you know, you might think it's a deranged rambling. As is someone desperate to get a pop and desperate to make things different. But our ladies night feature. It's science. It's algorithmic science. You've got to tune in every time.

It's going to be different.

That's it.

It is one of those ones where even like when I'm doing the outro, I'm like, this might not be the end.

On every podcast, I'm like, doesn't necessarily mean this is the end.

To your point, nobody did to call it Robloch.

I feel like...

They definitely advertised it as Robloch, didn't they?

Oh, 100%. I feel like this ties into something I was trying to articulate yesterday about how you can't underestimate what lifting, stand, the liver away from wrestling mini weekend has done to NXT. You really can't. Like, you can feel it in the motivation of the wrestlers, I think. You can see it in their eyes. Like, they had, they don't have takeovers anymore in the old sense, despite Gargs desperately trying to keep the past alive. But like, they don't, they're gone. They're gone. You don't get one every quarter. Dead. They are dead. Where you get a hot building, hotter than the main roster show the next night. that's gone. You get one night, one proper

night. I know it tours around it, it's hard here, but like you get one night and in 2026 you get non-nights. And it's like, it permeates through all of this. It really does. Like, the booking can be a bit lazier, forgetting that you branded a show roadblock. It's just fine, whatever. like the title matches don't feel anyone here is prestigious because it's like, well, if you don't win here, it's not like, it's got that like, this is happening the day of WrestleMania. This could be the end of somebody's NXT career. There was, they'd created stakes and a little idea of things that you could fantasy book and all that. There's a couple of matches I'm looking forward to. I am so excited for stand and deliver.

And we know why you're excited for standing deliver. But there were so many points on the show where they just couldn't work me. They couldn't sort of make me believe that like this is the end of the world. This is the dance. Yeah. It isn't. Stand of the liver is not the dance. like no matter how many wresters say they are going to stand and deliver, should be won, by the way, terrible agent. And right on the board, Joe Hendry is saying, stand, and deliver so you can't and you can't, they're not standing, they're not delivering, they're not dancing. Sorry, Wilburne. I don't, don't affect me. I'm buzzing. I'll be a moment lie. Yeah, that's all a complete lie.

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