Hello and welcome to the raw preview on Michael Siddrick and the absence of Adam Wilborn

who you will again miss and I am joined by fellow dadley boy Michael Hamfleur to preview

everything that's in store for us on Monday night, or tonight. But before we get into it,

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With Hamfleur, it's Watanade. What point do we say? You're excited for tonight's show,

like Fissard, you know, but the novelty is not worn off of crowds just yet. The return of crowds

was looking like it was going to be so staggered that there was original dreams in the darkest

days of March, April, 2020, where we just imagined it would like a switch and we'd get them all

back. They were seen then lost to the socialists and the trust on Mania, to the crowd's

in New Japan, etc. And then it did sort of happen like that, didn't it? I went back to

Thunderone for a bit, went back to MD Daily's place and then all of a sudden, right, yeah,

pandemic's done and we're good to go. So, double the release specifically, I think, because it

doesn't really apply to either of you, has used this as a reset button. Last week's Raw was such,

and I look like, I know we've learned from bits and off on these podcasts as it is, I would

recommend anybody go back to listen to you last week's Raw to find, not just the giddy thrill,

the three toss pots, getting the jollies off a show, like booking itself off a cliff,

but genuinely having things that they wanted to talk about after so many weeks in the

doldrums. Watanade Raw was becoming this drain on everybody's energy. It seemed like it was

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