Hello and welcome to the SmackDown review. I'm Michael Hammford fromockculture and I'm

joined by Michael Sidrick fromockculture to discuss everything that happened on Friday's

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Culture, Sidrick. Just me and the SmackDown today, show with a week as well, one would typically

say, this wasn't that for me. I didn't hear all of it, but this had some pretty significant

failings that you in particular have been looking forward to diving into with. We had a

little bit of a chat of the desks this morning, but I sensed it was the kind of one where

we held back so that we could put it in front of the microphones rather than blowing it.

Well, blowing our wads too early. Yeah, blowing our goddamn beans up on Woff, that and

all.

Remember about, well I didn't know, maybe about six months ago, there's a matter, there

was a period on AW programming where there was a wrestler cutting a promo backstage when

they were interviewed by one of the broadcast personnel. And yes, I'm going to start this

WWE criticism with a criticism of AW to keep it balanced. And the rest load out the interview

and then someone's come and interrupted them. And in the face of creeping criticism, the

wrestler who got interrupted would say something to the effective. Guess I'm getting interrupted

happens every goddamn week. And I said, in criticism of this AEW thing, a hamflit, I would

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