Hello and welcome to their SmackDown preview, I'm Adam Wilborn from WhatCulture joined by

one of the dadly boys, Michael Hanflip from WhatCulture to look ahead to tonight's episode

of Friday Night SmackDown.

But before we get into it, if you're a fan of this sort of thing, make sure you subscribe

to WhatCulture Wrestling on either iTunes, Spotify, or ever get your podcasts from for

a daily wrestling podcast where we not only review SmackDown, but also Raw NXT 2.0.

We know you don't know my A to B, Rampage, pay per views, bloody premium live events,

whatever they're called nowadays.

We have interviews around table discussions and a round-up of the week completes, with

a bunch of quiz, of course, on WrestleCulture.

As I said, join by Michael Hanflip to look ahead to SmackDown tonight as show, with literally

one thing advertised.

Yeah, if there's one thing I've learned, Wilborn, in the last 24 hours specifically, it's

that it turns out that the people do not want earnest, critical analysis.

And it's a good, good job, because SmackDown couldn't give us it for trying, could they?

We are out, it seems, of the era of SmackDown in the most broadest of brush strokes, bothering,

being considered like the peak wrestling show of the week that it exists in some sort

of tier, separate, not just from WWE's output, but from wrestling's output at large.

And I feel like these previews of late have maybe spoken to that.

It is a fun part of our job to be able to talk about these wrestling shows, but it is

a helpful part of WWE's to give us things to talk about.

We do the bullets, we do the prep beforehand, you do the bullets, I should say.

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