Hello, and welcome to the raw review. I'm Adam Wilborn from WhatCulture joined by the

dadly boys of WhatCulture, Michael Hampton, and Michael Sijvic here to review everything

that happened on last night's episode of Man in Hour Owl. But before we get into it,

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on a wrestling culture. As I said, joined by Hampton City to review Monday Night Raw less than

two weeks to go to wrestle, mania hamplets. What did you make of this week's show?

Such a weird one. Like, I got there, I got the feeling on this episode more than a lot of the ones

recently that they were actually attempting to take wrestle mania seriously. That big sign,

that hangs over the ring, that hangs over all the wrestlers, sort of damacles that it is the most

of them, that they're trying to take the show seriously, but it's too little too late for one.

You cannot just all of a sudden take everything seriously with two weeks to go, and you should have

been doing that the entire time. You should do it the entire calendar year if it is indeed

the big annual payoff that you pretend it is, and I don't know, all of WWE is still such a cartoon

now that even when the wrestlers try and be earnest and serious, and I'm discounting the opening

segment, which I genuinely can't wait to talk about. I'm talking about the rest of the show and all

of the other angles. Even when they're trying to be serious, they are made such cartoon characters

all the year round. So much of what they do is so irrelevant. It feels phony, and it feels

forced, and none of the serious stuff, none of the big time stuff, none of the important stuff

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