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The Grandad of them all and in case, the day before the Grand Daddy of them all,

we've got now what's become a kind of traditional edition of SmackDown, is that fair to say?

I was just thinking there about how we can even preview one thing without having seats

to slide back into.

But they at least sort of put one big match on this along with the match that has sort of been lifted off WrestleMania in previous years. And I mean, we're excited to watch it in like a specific place to show. Tell them where we're going to be. We are going to be at Beer House in New York, New York, on Friday night from 4pm, I believe. We're going to do a watch along there. We're doing a live show. We're doing meet and greets.

We're doing ups and downs.

We'll be doing all the good stuff, basically. If you want to join us for that, all the details are at whatculture.com forward slash live, of course. But yeah, I haven't really got a chance to get your thoughts on last week's smackdown leading into this one. Basically, what are your thoughts about Pat McAfee?

Pat McAfee has missed the point, if you asked me, at WrestleMania season,

because he has got himself

in the mix for the second most important title around WrestleMania weekend. And I am not

talking about Roman Rangers, Sam, Punk's world heavyweight title. I'm definitely not talking

about the WWE title. I'm talking about the Luxor title belt available for one weekend only at the title belt bar. It's full of booze. Mr. Booze. Yeah, you buy this $85. Yes, we're in Plug City, but that's all right, you know. Like they're going to be, there's what, like a limited release, something like a thousand on sale. When they're gone, they're gone. If you're watching this and you're in Las Vegas, Vegas for one come and see us for this smackdown watch along at new york new york in beer house but for two get yourself along to luxor get one of these belts from the title belt bar because anything is possible in the pyramid and the bar staff will put just about anything in this i'm not going to be walking by the time we get to the end of this review i can't wait. But yeah, in terms of Pat McAfee, there's a load of people going past on a shop and trolley, basically, there. In terms of Pat McAfee, more of him tonight? Would you need any more of him? I mean, saw Cody Road smashed up his studio the other day. Here in Vegas, Pat McAfee is like splashed across the, uh, the Allegiance Stadium. He's on television. He's kind of like made himself the feature player in this WrestleMania night one main event. I would be amazed if he's not on Smackdown tonight. To be fair at WWE and like I don't normally say that. But here in Las Vegas, I kind of get what they've done. Macafee is everywhere. He is absolutely everywhere. I, even like, I know that he does his daily shows and all that kind of stuff, but even I was surprised that just so much Pat McAfee, like, I've encountered without wanting to encounter. So I kind of get this of all Smackdowns, why he would, like, be present at least. He's going to, he's been been in the mix he's been part of it now i'm not saying i'm kind of like justifying it or supporting it or anything like that but he's a key part of the story he's on the rap on the legionst stadium next to uh to randy orton i would like assume he's going to be there will the key question is will jelly rule be there like to be confirmed sorry but like that's where we're at now. Will he be confirmed as like, Cody's friend? Because like, he does sort of need one against a sort of counteract the Pat McAfee problem. Are they going to do anything to sort of change the direction of this world title match or is it? Are they just stuck in their ways now? Because we're chatting to the wonderful Scott Carlson of whatcourtjordshire.com for ups and downs earlier

and he reminded us, as everyone is aware of, of course, that there's quite a lot history between Cody Rhodes and Randiore and they should probably lean on a little bit more. Nah, like, it's Pat McAfee. He's a guy in sunglasses that is kind of a big deal, not as big a deal as he thinks he is, but it's quite a big deal. And again, here in Las Vegas, I've been acutely aware of the McAfee of it all. I would be astonished tonight if they backpedal at this point. We know that there's an R. Emanuel, uh, triple H sort of rivalry going on here, but I don't think that's changing on this night. on this night. To be absolutely fair, this time last year we would have been previewing the same problems

with Cody Rhodes and John Sina and they nailed it on the Go Home SmackDown. They got it right. If there was every night where they were going to get this sort of Bobbins like sort of on point right at the death, it would be tonight. In terms of the world titles as well, Obviously you've got Jay Coggle and Ria Ripley battling for the Smackdown women's title.

At time of record at least, still... tonight. In terms of the world titles as well, obviously you've got Jay Coggle and Ria Ripley battling

for the Smackdown women's title.

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