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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:10 Welcome to the Monday Night War.
00:24 I am Luke Owen, DAD, representing Monday Night Raw.
00:27 >> I am Pete Quinnell representing Monday Night SmackDown.
00:30 >> And I'm Dan Layton representing NXT Truth.0.
00:34 >> And we are back.
00:35 This is the first episode of season four of the Monday Night War and
00:40 we are playing WWE 2K24's My GM mode.
00:44 >> And a massive thank you to this video's sponsor, WWE 2K24.
00:48 You can get your copy of the game by clicking the link in the description down
00:50 below and play My GM with your friends.
00:54 You can have just as good a time as we're going to have in this season.
00:57 >> I would argue a better time.
00:59 >> Why? >> Because they wouldn't have you two
01:01 in both ears.
01:02 >> But that's how you make it a better time.
01:04 It's how you make it a good time.
01:05 Like if you're playing it with your friends.
01:06 >> I've been laboring under misapprehension.
01:08 >> Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:09 >> Yeah, no, no.
01:10 You've been playing this very wrong.
01:11 >> Yeah. >> So right,
01:11 should we get into this then?
01:13 >> Let's.
01:14 >> If you haven't checked out our draft episode as well, by the way,
01:15 go check that out and you can see who we have drafted for our brands.
01:19 >> Humberto Carrillo.
01:20 [MUSIC]
01:23 >> Dan, it's the first time ever we've got to do dual music.
01:26 >> Yeah.
01:27 >> But we're not- >> Well, what a time.
01:29 >> I was tempted to not watch music and listen to music and
01:31 just watch Instagram reels.
01:32 >> You can't have that.
01:33 >> That sounds nice. >> Because then you might hear me sometimes.
01:35 Whenever there's gaps in reels or you can listen to a quiet reel,
01:37 we can't be having that.
01:38 That's crazy.
01:39 >> Hey, Dan, I was just thinking then, what a fun gimmick could be that whenever
01:42 Pete's doing anything, we could listen to the same song.
01:44 >> No. >> Okay.
01:45 >> [LAUGH] >> Well, [BLEEP] me, I guess.
01:47 >> Because then I have to listen to the music you pick.
01:49 >> Well, yeah, but we get to pick each other's songs.
01:51 Sometimes it'd be, well, [BLEEP] me, I guess.
01:54 That's fine.
01:54 >> [LAUGH] >> I'll listen to my own songs,
01:56 thank you very much.
01:57 >> Have fun.
01:58 >> I'm going to listen to Sesame Road.
01:59 >> There you go, Dan.
02:00 So immediately, I am not a 12-year-old boy.
02:03 >> Well, go [BLEEP] yourself.
02:04 I'm just going to listen to my own [BLEEP]
02:06 >> Who are you listening to, Dan?
02:07 >> I don't know, I haven't decided.
02:08 I'll just, maybe Miley Cyrus.
02:10 >> Great.
02:12 >> Has she got new stuff?
02:13 >> Yeah.
02:13 >> Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of her on Instagram, I guess.
02:15 >> I can be a doctor.
02:16 That's how that goes.
02:17 >> Is it? What's it called?
02:18 >> It's called Doctor, brackets, work it out.
02:20 >> I'll add it to the queue.
02:21 >> So, to go through some other stuff here,
02:24 we're together to the Hall of Fame,
02:26 get Hall of Fame trophies through the season.
02:28 That's the same as last time.
02:29 >> Yeah.
02:29 >> And we're at Houston, Texas, four weeks until Hell in a Cell.
02:33 Here we go with emails and stuff.
02:35 So here we go.
02:36 I need to get the timer ready.
02:37 I'm out of practice.
02:38 >> Come on.
02:39 >> Seven minutes.
02:39 >> Here we go, it's episode one.
02:42 >> My goodness, okay.
02:42 >> You let me know when I can press play.
02:44 >> All right, you press play now.
02:45 You just get your [BLEEP] going.
02:47 Those who don't know, every time we book a show,
02:49 we have seven minutes to do so while the other two people will be listening to
02:53 music so they can't hear us do our booking.
02:56 So I've got plans.
02:58 I've got things I need to do.
03:00 Got my notebook.
03:01 I have seven minutes on the clock.
03:03 Starting in three, two, one, go.
03:07 Okay.
03:08 Hello, Triple H.
03:09 Quenell, good to talk to you.
03:10 Spackner's ready.
03:11 I'll try not to let you down, Trips.
03:13 Goal.
03:13 All right, I need to pick champions.
03:15 We are going to have Randall Keith as my world champ.
03:19 We're going to have mid card belt is going to be
03:26 Humberto Carrillo and tag champs.
03:29 Don't know if I'll use this just yet, but I will have Braun and Chad Gable.
03:37 And for women's division, world champ is going to be Shayna Baszler.
03:44 And women's tag champs, oh dear, is going to be Nikki Cross and Zoe Stark.
03:53 Confirm.
03:56 Yes.
03:57 Wonderful. I got a special.
03:58 Holy.
03:59 That's a good one to get right off the bat.
04:03 And back alley crew set to poison brands who must use a tier one crew
04:06 logistic during next week's show.
04:08 That's huge.
04:11 That's what she said.
04:12 That's what she said.
04:12 That's what she said.
04:14 Okay.
04:14 It's all the Humberto Carrillo fights this week.
04:16 Obviously trips.
04:17 Of course I'm going to do that.
04:18 And I get culture negotiation.
04:20 Okey dokey.
04:21 Show logistics.
04:22 We can book stuff here.
04:23 Now this is different.
04:24 I've got 211 grand to play with.
04:26 It costs me two assets.
04:28 We assets are a new thing in this game.
04:30 This season.
04:32 It cost me two assets and a hundred grand to get the concert hall,
04:35 which I believe I'm going to get.
04:37 It also unlocks me a submission match, which is cool.
04:41 This one unlocks me a force count anywhere.
04:42 This one unlocks me a steel cage and this one unlocks me a tornado tag.
04:45 For now, I'm going to get the concert hall.
04:47 I'm going to be looking to get the steel cage one next though,
04:49 because steel cage is going to be important for the season.
04:51 But for now I will get the concert hall and we have got that locked in.
04:56 I now have zero assets, so I cannot do that for the rest of the thing.
04:59 Let's check the seasonal challenge.
05:00 What do I got to do?
05:01 10 tag matches.
05:02 300K in the bank.
05:04 Resolve five rivalries with a title match.
05:05 Cool.
05:06 100K or more on shows.
05:08 1000K or more on shows.
05:09 So 1000K.
05:11 A million.
05:12 Book 10 shows with a call out promo.
05:14 Use 50 time scouts.
05:15 As fast as possible, 100K in the bank.
05:17 Three superstars in your rank.
05:18 10 shows with a charity promo.
05:19 10 shows with a gym interference.
05:19 Okay, I can do some of those.
05:21 Not bad.
05:22 Let's book some stuff.
05:24 Randy Orton versus...
05:27 These guys are having a great time.
05:28 Jinder Mahal.
05:31 I can't see what he's done.
05:32 World title match.
05:33 We're going to have this be a tables match because he's good at those.
05:39 Opening match.
05:40 We're going to have Shayna Baszler take on Cora Jade.
05:46 Bruiser fighter.
05:47 We're going to have that be a title match.
05:50 We're going to have a mid card feud here
05:55 with Humberto Carrillo and Braun Strowman over the mid card belt.
06:02 Braun Strowman also a tag champ, but I'm not doing tag stuff yet.
06:06 I'll wait on that.
06:08 That makes the most sense.
06:11 Yeah.
06:12 Okay.
06:14 That's fine.
06:14 And also I want to have another women's feud between Nikki Cross and Valhalla.
06:22 Solid stuff.
06:24 We have got other stuff to do.
06:27 Advertising is good.
06:30 Who's good at promos?
06:31 Absolutely no one.
06:32 Love that.
06:34 Rich Holland.
06:36 You can do some advertising.
06:38 Thank you.
06:40 What about a little...
06:43 Who could I train up here?
06:45 Okay.
06:46 So for training, we've got Chad.
06:50 I'll get him some experience here.
06:52 Solid.
06:53 And a charity promo from Drew Gulak.
07:00 Yeah, sure.
07:00 Why not?
07:01 I don't have any tag matches, but I can do that next time.
07:05 Any power cards that I want to do.
07:06 I might as well get some popularity here.
07:09 Why not?
07:10 600 superstars have the popularity increased by six.
07:12 Let's do that now.
07:13 Valhalla, Randy Orton, Chad Gable, Zoe Stark, Rich Holland, and Braun Strowman.
07:17 A mixed bag.
07:18 Randy Orton and Braun Strowman's great.
07:20 Others, not so.
07:22 Set the superstar on your roster to immediately gain five ring XP.
07:25 I might buy that for 10 grand.
07:28 And I might do that now because Chad Gable is about to be doing some training,
07:33 so I'll get him some XP as well.
07:35 Why not?
07:37 Cool.
07:38 That's pretty much it, I think.
07:40 Talent scout, so I want to see if I can sign some people.
07:42 How much time do I have here?
07:44 Two minutes.
07:47 Quinn B, amazing.
07:49 Eddie Pop, Karen Compactor, and Cindy Fluff.
07:52 Great names.
07:54 I am looking for something to fill out the men's tag team,
07:57 so I'm looking for maybe a heel giant.
08:01 Who's the tag champions right now?
08:04 It is Braun and it is Chad.
08:07 So I'm looking for a heel to be paired with Drew Gulak.
08:10 So it could be a specialist, it could be a cruiser.
08:17 Either of those work.
08:19 So we're looking for people who are established.
08:21 We're looking for male.
08:24 We're looking for a heel, and we're looking for a cruiser.
08:29 Search.
08:30 Yes, use talent scouts.
08:31 Screebs.
08:32 Love that man.
08:33 Okay.
08:35 Could get him.
08:37 He's good at Iron Man matches.
08:38 There's Dirty Dom.
08:40 (scratching)
08:42 Let's get Screebs for five weeks.
08:45 Why not?
08:46 Sign talent.
08:47 Thanks, Scritz.
08:50 He's in, and I'll book him next week.
08:54 I think we're good.
08:55 We spent a fair bit of money on that one,
08:56 but that's mostly down to buying the logistics.
09:00 So I think we are good.
09:04 Let's book that show.
09:05 (humming)
09:10 Let me just double check.
09:11 Logistics here, tier two, got that.
09:13 Nice, great, great, great.
09:14 Okay, sweet.
09:16 Let's confirm that booking.
09:18 How much time do I have left?
09:19 26 seconds, loads of time.
09:20 Let's confirm that booking.
09:23 Ooh, he's in it.
09:28 I am done.
09:29 Can I still listen to my music?
09:30 'Cause it's not my turn yet.
09:31 Yeah.
09:32 How did it go, though?
09:33 If you want to talk, how was your week, et cetera?
09:34 You know how the show works, right?
09:36 Sorry, mate.
09:37 You went silent for a while.
09:38 I was like, is he waiting for me to do something?
09:39 No.
09:40 Well, I suppose you were.
09:41 I was just gonna make some notes and stuff
09:42 and just say that, yeah, it was a solid week.
09:44 Everything went to plan.
09:46 Yeah, it was good stuff.
09:47 Commissioner guy was all good.
09:48 Yeah, it was a good week.
09:50 A solid start.
09:51 Did you do scouting?
09:52 I did.
09:53 I did do a little scouting as well.
09:54 Sign anyone in?
09:55 I did.
09:56 Just someone little, you know.
09:58 Do any logistics?
09:59 I did do logistics, yeah.
10:00 Ooh.
10:01 Yeah.
10:01 I did lots of stuff this week.
10:02 Again, a solid start.
10:04 Right, well.
10:05 Right, but Dan, you're up.
10:06 And I'll see you.
10:06 I need to get my music ready.
10:08 Now, I know that everyone's been waiting to hear,
10:11 'cause I know everyone has been eagerly anticipating
10:14 what my gimmick's gonna be for this season.
10:17 What music am I gonna be listening to?
10:18 And what I thought I'd do is just listen
10:22 to some of my favorite cover artists.
10:26 I've done a few of them in the past,
10:27 in previous seasons of things.
10:29 There are other songs I wanted to listen to
10:30 that aren't on Spotify, so I can't ruin the gimmick,
10:32 'cause we've got a Spotify playlist
10:33 and we need to update that.
10:35 So I am going to be listening
10:37 to some of my favorite cover artists,
10:39 mainly metal, from video game soundtrack and stuff.
10:43 And today, what we're gonna start with.
10:45 Let's go with.
10:47 God, it's such a dynamic segment.
10:48 A metal cover of the "Perfect Self" theme
10:51 from "Dragon Ball" by Falcone.
10:54 Falcone?
10:54 Falcone.
10:55 There used to be periods of times
10:56 where people like editor Adam Whitney
10:58 would fast forward through me.
11:00 Yeah.
11:00 But I didn't take half this time.
11:02 I'm explaining my gimmick for the whole season, Luke.
11:05 This is an important episode, okay?
11:06 Oh, this is, I feel tense.
11:11 I feel suddenly sprightly and nervous.
11:13 All right, three, two, one.
11:16 Seven minutes on the clock.
11:18 Triple H says, "Time for a new season."
11:20 Great, I'm gonna destroy him.
11:22 How exciting, thank you very much.
11:24 "Select my world champion."
11:25 I mean, so here's the thing.
11:27 I thought about, it feels like it's gotta be Cody,
11:30 but Kofi's right there as well.
11:31 And I could start a sort of die-jack Kofi situation.
11:36 I'm gonna do, I'm gonna be bold here.
11:38 I'm gonna make it die-jack.
11:40 "Select your 2.0 tag champs."
11:42 Oh, geez.
11:44 I don't know if I wanna.
11:45 No, I've changed my mind.
11:50 Can I change my mind?
11:52 Yeah.
11:53 Because it's gonna be die-jack and Waller as the, wait.
11:58 I'm trying to, I'm trying to.
12:03 Ah, I see.
12:05 I need to do them separately.
12:06 Oh, and they only get plus five popularity.
12:08 That's an interesting note.
12:09 And the North American champion in this instance
12:15 is going to be Uncle Howdy to start things off.
12:18 That's a nice balance.
12:21 They're both heels.
12:22 Yeah, good women's champs.
12:24 Gonna start, I think,
12:28 with Liv Morgan and Maxine and Fallon
12:36 are gonna be my women's tag champs too.
12:39 I'm happy with those.
12:40 Let's go.
12:41 Okay, so we've got best offense.
12:42 "Prevent the effect of the first power card
12:44 "played on you next week."
12:45 Ooh, that's fun.
12:46 Oh, I've got two of them.
12:48 Amazing.
12:49 Okay, great.
12:51 Let's go straight over there and see those.
12:53 Yeah, two of the best offense.
12:54 I've got a legend whisperer card.
12:55 I've got a fresh meat card.
12:57 Health spot, I know a guy.
12:58 Two talent-scouting points.
12:59 Oh, that's fun.
13:01 Right, so show logistics.
13:03 I have 153 to play with.
13:06 I think the first thing's first, though.
13:07 I'm gonna start by booking a show.
13:10 And my instant plan was to do a...
13:14 I'll tell you what.
13:21 We'll do a tag team match
13:23 to try and get on a tag team feud.
13:25 Karl Anderson and Kofi.
13:29 That was the plan.
13:31 So we'll do that.
13:31 What was my commissioner goal?
13:33 "Ensure you're least popular available cruiser
13:34 "in the match of the week."
13:35 And that fulfills it.
13:36 Okay, fantastic.
13:37 So I'll put you in the opener
13:39 because who is my most popular star?
13:42 Liv Morgan and Bailey.
13:43 We'll try and kick on a feud
13:45 and we'll have a tables match.
13:49 Mid-card wise, Uncle Howdy and Logan Paul
13:52 can have a match together.
13:54 Hang on, how much stamina have they got?
13:59 80s, 80s.
14:00 Okay, in that case,
14:02 I'm gonna give you guys extreme rules.
14:04 And I'm gonna give you guys a tables match.
14:07 Oh, but you've got an extreme rules specialism.
14:11 So maybe I'll give you guys a tables match in that case.
14:18 Um,
14:18 and we'll do, let's, okay, let's see then.
14:24 Because I was gonna put
14:26 Cody in a promo,
14:31 but now that I'm gonna make him the champion,
14:34 maybe it's best to do that elsewhere.
14:36 Oh my God, how are we down to half the time already?
14:39 - Goodness gracious.
14:40 - How good are you at doing a promo?
14:42 All right, that's fine.
14:43 Maxine can do a promo.
14:44 She's gonna do a little advertising promo for me.
14:47 Thank you, Maxine Dupree.
14:48 And let's get a talent scout.
14:52 I want someone for Cody.
14:54 I can change the level, can't I?
14:59 That's true.
15:00 Okay, we're gonna get a renowned star of the male gender,
15:06 who is a baby face.
15:11 Okay, that feels good.
15:14 And that's gonna take how much money?
15:15 10,000?
15:17 Search.
15:19 Yes.
15:20 I've never, oh!
15:21 And they've done it in a minute.
15:22 I thought I had to wait a week.
15:24 Oh, that's interesting.
15:25 Okay, so we've got Dawkins,
15:28 who's got good stamina.
15:30 I think I'm gonna go with Angela Dawkins, you know?
15:32 61 popularity.
15:34 Yeah, mate.
15:35 Thank you.
15:36 For five weeks?
15:39 Yeah, we'll do him for a five week contract at 80,000.
15:45 (imitates clock ticking)
15:48 Although I thought that said 60.
15:50 That's me reading badly.
15:51 I'm gonna do it.
15:58 It's more important to have him there for purpose, I think.
16:03 In that case, yeah.
16:14 Yeah, we'll do that.
16:15 Right, what are these training promos?
16:21 Training.
16:23 5,000.
16:26 Do it on Piper Niven.
16:28 Have I got time?
16:29 I don't know how they work, so I wanna see how that goes.
16:34 And logistics-wise,
16:35 what's going on here?
16:39 So,
16:40 I could buy,
16:43 the budget is much lower now because I signed a talent.
16:47 I think I might just have to leave it be.
16:51 And then hope that, hang on, how good is Fallon's?
16:59 Oh, she's in two on the mic.
17:00 I could have Piper and Fallon.
17:04 Yeah, I'll do that.
17:05 I'm gonna have Piper take on Fallon.
17:08 It's just gonna be a match so that it doesn't go.
17:11 And I'll do another advertising promo from Cody
17:15 'cause he's very good on the mic.
17:16 And I will have Angelo call out Cody.
17:21 And I think that is a balanced show.
17:23 I've met my commissioner goal.
17:24 Can I have a look at the...
17:27 Okay, I can't look at my seasonal goals.
17:31 Is that true?
17:35 Commissioner goal is gonna get me bad publicity.
17:38 Oh, I like that card.
17:40 All right.
17:41 Um...
17:41 Okay.
17:46 So with 30 seconds left,
17:48 I can't look at the seasonal challenge trophies yet.
17:51 I don't know why.
17:52 Maybe they'll change next week.
17:55 Logistics, do I have to book it?
17:57 It's active, so that's already gonna happen.
17:59 I think that means, so yeah, okay, right.
18:06 We've made the decision unless I just want to do it
18:10 and see what happens next week.
18:12 We're at four seconds left, can't do it.
18:13 Can't do it.
18:14 Gonna have to just stick with it.
18:14 Confirm booking.
18:16 Silence!
18:16 ♪ Sweetness is the taste from your lips ♪
18:19 I've made my decision.
18:22 Bring back my girls.
18:24 - What's your decision?
18:25 - To let Luke have a go.
18:27 - Oh, okay, cool.
18:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that checks out.
18:29 - How was your first week?
18:31 - Well, it was interesting because I,
18:32 a lot of it was feeling out what's going on.
18:34 I feel like I've got a decent show.
18:36 I feel like I've made a big choice.
18:40 It meant that I couldn't make a different big choice.
18:43 And as a result, I may be putting myself on the back foot.
18:46 - But on a scale of one to 10?
18:47 - First week, 6.5.
18:50 Room to grow.
18:52 But I'm happy with where we're at.
18:53 Positive, that's fine, 'cause mine was a seven, so.
18:56 Oh, shut up.
18:57 - Right.
18:58 - My next one's gonna be
18:59 "The World Revolving by Family Jewels."
19:00 And yes, I will be doing two songs every single week.
19:02 I'm on Katy Perry now.
19:03 I've got a taste, I don't know what to tell you.
19:04 - Yeah, all right.
19:05 - You got this.
19:09 2K believes in you.
19:10 I'm sure your wife believes in you.
19:12 Adam Whitney, I think, believes in me.
19:15 - Yes.
19:16 - Does, that's good.
19:17 Here we go.
19:18 Three, two, one, let's-a-go.
19:21 Okay, just wanted to let me know.
19:23 Fully expect, mm-mm.
19:26 I'll just say that, I'll play it safe.
19:28 Cool.
19:29 Right, world champion, I think, is going to be
19:32 Beej.
19:36 My tag team champions, I'm gonna do another time.
19:40 And I'm gonna make Kira Dezawa my men's.
19:44 Women's is going to be Scarlett.
19:47 And let's make the party girls my women's tag champions.
19:52 My men's I'm doing a different time
19:53 because I've gotta turn Trick Heel first.
19:56 So let's just save that for now, confirm.
19:59 Okie-cokie.
20:00 Schengelar, run in.
20:01 Oh, you absolute (beep)
20:03 Oh, it's a Vito Starr as well.
20:06 Christmas Day, I probably want that.
20:08 You absolute (beep)
20:12 Balls.
20:15 Well, I can't afford the concert halls, that's fine.
20:18 Let's book a show and then we'll come to that.
20:21 You absolute piece of, who is my most popular person?
20:24 Is it Beej?
20:25 Home.
20:31 On your most popular available star this week.
20:34 I think that is Beej.
20:35 (clicks tongue)
20:38 Crisps, that's not.
20:39 Okay, ah, I can do this then.
20:43 If I do Beej versus,
20:45 is that right?
20:50 Bruiser and Specialist.
20:52 Joe Coffey.
20:57 That's Bruiser and Bruiser,
20:58 I don't wanna do that, I wanna fight it, don't I?
21:01 So maybe it is
21:03 Damon Kemp and the Specialist
21:06 with interference by Nakamura on Beej.
21:13 Yeah, that's fine.
21:17 That does that, 'cause I do wanna get that Vito Starr.
21:19 And it's not the main event I wanted to do,
21:21 but it's the main event I think I will have to do,
21:24 which does now rule out one of the matches
21:26 I was going to do.
21:27 So that is an absolute dumpster fire of annoyance.
21:32 Make that a normal match for now.
21:35 You're going to be a tag team normal match
21:38 with Party Girls versus Tiffany and Blair Davenport.
21:43 Titles are on the line there.
21:46 Because, so I need to do
21:49 a role change of Trick Williams turning heel.
21:55 That cost me 10 grand.
21:57 And I wanted to have call outs.
22:02 So that would now be
22:03 Joe Coffey calling out Akira Tozawa.
22:09 So my original plan was to do a triple threat
22:15 with Butch, Bait, and Kemp.
22:19 I can't do that now.
22:21 'Cause Butch and Bait versus Kemp and Trick
22:24 is going to be my tag feud.
22:26 So, talent scouts.
22:30 Al, Alcitraz.
22:36 He's a heel fighter.
22:40 Which does at least fulfill the thing I want to do.
22:45 Who else I got there?
22:48 Rich is also a heel fighter.
22:53 There's a heel bruiser.
22:55 Right, I've got three and a half minutes more or less.
22:58 I mean, Precious Silver feels like someone
23:00 I should just get for the gimmick.
23:03 Because of the silver bros.
23:04 And she's a giant, which actually might be good.
23:07 I can always turn her heel.
23:10 Right, before I do that, power cards.
23:16 Oh yeah, that's a good one to get, isn't it?
23:19 And then, in the present three,
23:20 randomly subsized book cannot be used
23:22 the week before a pay per use.
23:23 So I want to do that sort of next week.
23:25 So I don't want to do that now.
23:27 And set the superstar on immediately,
23:31 set the superstar on your roster
23:32 to immediately increase their level to 20
23:34 and become legendary.
23:35 Ooh, nice.
23:36 Righty-ho.
23:39 I want to do one of those at some point.
23:45 But I need to figure this bit out first.
23:47 So let's do that.
23:48 I'm going to have to do this.
23:51 Get in, like an owl.
23:55 Owl.
23:56 Yeah, let's get an owl.
23:57 And then book show as a triple threat normal match
24:05 between Butch, Tyler, Tyler Bate, and Alex Traz.
24:11 And then I can just leave that as,
24:15 like I've got a Curator's Hour,
24:17 so I could do advertising promo with Curator's Hour.
24:21 Oops, I didn't save that.
24:23 Advertising with Curator's Hour.
24:27 Do I want to do a training?
24:31 Hmm.
24:35 No, I need the money.
24:38 Advertising it is.
24:39 Okay, so that's fine.
24:41 Show is booked.
24:42 And I've got 95 grand.
24:47 So let's get one of these logistics things in here.
24:48 Do I want to get the backstage crew?
24:50 'Cause what I really want to do is that,
24:53 but I can't afford that.
24:54 So do I do backstage crew?
24:58 Do I do the fog effects?
25:00 Or do I do an email campaign?
25:02 They just, they both increase by 5%, so it's not massive.
25:08 And I can only get one of them,
25:09 'cause I need the assets as well.
25:16 Let's do, I don't think it makes too much of a difference.
25:21 It's sort of a much of a much.
25:22 I get like different matches, I guess.
25:24 But let's do the email campaign.
25:30 Why not, eh?
25:31 That's, I've got tornado tags.
25:34 Lovely, so I've now got that.
25:36 Hmm, maybe I'll make that as a tornado tag.
25:43 (soft music)
25:45 Do you know what?
25:49 You're gonna be a tables match.
25:51 Okay, safe match.
25:55 Tornado tag, let's actually save that.
26:01 Tornado tag, it's not opener.
26:04 Tables, yeah, okay.
26:08 I think that is good.
26:11 I think we're all grand.
26:14 Yeah, cool, great, done, confirmed.
26:19 Oh, I'm over budget.
26:20 Already.
26:26 No, it's fine.
26:27 Hello, lads.
26:31 What's up?
26:32 What happened?
26:33 Yeah, what's up?
26:34 The time, we heard the time.
26:36 I heard the time went off.
26:36 Excuse you, mate.
26:37 Did your timer go off?
26:38 I think your time went off.
26:39 It was about five seconds, yeah.
26:41 (gasps)
26:42 In week one, Luke.
26:44 Yeah.
26:45 Oh, now.
26:47 Wow.
26:48 Now, now, now, now.
26:50 I would like to push back on this one.
26:52 I bet that you would.
26:53 But unfortunately, the rules are rules
26:56 and you went over time.
26:58 Which is fair.
26:59 Any pushback on that?
27:00 No, it's fine.
27:01 What was your pushback gonna be out of interest?
27:03 Can you give me a gimme?
27:05 (laughs)
27:07 No.
27:08 So now the question becomes,
27:09 because in previous seasons,
27:10 what we've done is,
27:11 the opposing player,
27:12 when there was only two of us,
27:13 got a power card that allowed us
27:15 to reduce your booking time by one minute
27:17 at a time when the other person chose.
27:20 There's now two people.
27:21 Rock, paper, scissors.
27:22 That was gonna be my thing.
27:23 Flip a coin, rock, paper, scissors for something
27:24 and the winner gets the card.
27:26 Yeah.
27:27 I can play it at some point.
27:27 So go one, two, three, and then go.
27:28 Obviously.
27:29 I'm just clarifying for the camera, okay?
27:32 Right.
27:33 One, two, three.
27:34 One, two, three.
27:35 Okay.
27:38 Dan gets the power card.
27:40 So Dan, at any point,
27:41 you can play the power card against Luke
27:43 to reduce his booking time by one minute.
27:45 Anti-Luke.
27:47 The anti-Luke card.
27:49 That's fair.
27:49 That is absolutely fair.
27:50 That was a last minute decision I'd made as well.
27:52 Was it?
27:53 Yeah.
27:54 It's 'cause I'd unlocked tornado tag.
27:56 So I just then made a tornado tag.
27:59 Right.
27:59 And then I was like,
28:00 "Oh, now I'm like five grand over."
28:02 Yeah.
28:02 Yeah, it's unfortunate.
28:03 (dramatic music)
28:06 We start.
28:07 It's a lovely screen.
28:08 Look at that.
28:09 It's nice and clean, isn't it?
28:10 Yeah.
28:10 We have my world champion, Shayna Baszler.
28:12 Yeah.
28:13 Taking on Corrid Jade, bruiser fighter.
28:15 Do you wanna try and elevate Corrid Jade up with this?
28:17 Big time.
28:18 I mean, that is a massive popularity gulf.
28:19 It is, yes.
28:21 So hopefully Corrid Jade can get better.
28:24 Shayna's up!
28:24 That'll do!
28:25 Holy crap!
28:26 There's no rivalry though.
28:28 No, no rivalry.
28:29 And it does get a carry.
28:30 Well, you know, that's fine.
28:31 Yeah.
28:32 You know.
28:33 Well, you gotta hope this mid-card match
28:34 don't outperform it, by the way.
28:35 Yeah, fingers crossed.
28:36 Rich Holland doing some advertising.
28:37 Thanks, mate.
28:38 Good for you.
28:39 Yeah.
28:40 9,500.
28:41 You know, that's fine.
28:42 On a promo skill of two.
28:42 Yeah.
28:43 That's actually pretty impressive.
28:44 Not bad.
28:45 It's a good promo.
28:46 We then have for the mid-card,
28:47 about the intercontinental belt,
28:48 Humberto Carrillo, our champ,
28:49 defending against one half of the tag team champions,
28:52 Braun Strowman.
28:54 Because, yeah.
28:55 I'm not doing tag stuff yet.
28:57 But we're gonna get into this.
28:58 Oh, so I've just seen it's all the same type
29:00 of singles match, is it?
29:02 No, actually.
29:03 In fact, if you see the main event,
29:04 it's actually not a normal match.
29:04 Yeah, but they're all single.
29:06 You didn't want variety.
29:07 No, no, no, no, no.
29:08 Okay.
29:08 Not for this week.
29:09 You don't come to SmackDown for that.
29:10 We're establishing stuff here.
29:11 Humberto Carrillo retains.
29:14 And the Gravery rose.
29:14 And it does outperform the opener.
29:17 It does outperform the opener.
29:17 That is unfortunate.
29:19 What a knob.
29:21 I would have thought that the world title
29:23 would have maybe elevated that match up a little bit more.
29:25 But regardless.
29:26 Turns out they suck.
29:27 But regardless, a level one Gravery, not bad.
29:30 Chad Gable with a bit of training here.
29:32 Seven.
29:33 Seven XP.
29:34 Yeah, now I don't,
29:35 this is one that I didn't understand.
29:36 Training Promo does what?
29:37 It gains them XP.
29:38 Right.
29:39 So that's how you get them up into the-
29:40 Experience to get them up to levels.
29:41 I see.
29:42 So Chad Gable is a level 10 on my roster.
29:43 But you're looking to get him to a level,
29:45 how many XP do you need for that?
29:46 10 to get him up to another level.
29:48 To get him to one level,
29:49 so he'll get to level 11.
29:50 Oh, okay.
29:51 But also he will now actually get to another level
29:53 because I played a power card
29:54 to increase it by another five.
29:55 Yay.
29:56 So he now has 12 from this week,
29:57 which means he's now level 11.
29:59 Love that for me.
30:00 Good stuff, Chad Gable.
30:02 Mid-card batches.
30:03 We're gonna start a few between Nikki Cross,
30:04 one half of the women's tag champs,
30:05 and Valhalla.
30:07 They're good types against each other.
30:09 Sure are.
30:10 Valhalla wins.
30:10 That is a rivalry.
30:13 You love to see it.
30:14 It is.
30:14 It is a mediocre rivalry.
30:16 Sure is.
30:17 Charity Promo from Drew Gulak.
30:19 Thanks, Drew.
30:20 Oh, look at that.
30:21 That's a bad five.
30:22 That's pretty good.
30:23 That's a good promo as well.
30:24 Good stuff, Drew Gulak.
30:26 And the main event in a tables match
30:27 because Orton's good at that.
30:28 Oh yeah, run it back.
30:30 Run it back, Queen.
30:31 Absolutely, that big 48 popularity.
30:33 Jinder's gonna absolutely blow the roof off this place.
30:35 It's gonna be great.
30:36 Big time.
30:37 Orton also got, I played my power card
30:38 where I got the increased,
30:40 six people get an extra six popularity,
30:42 and Orton was one of the people,
30:43 and he was already like my most popular guy,
30:45 and it was like, oh, now he's just even better.
30:47 Anyway, here we go with the world title tables match.
30:50 Orton retains.
30:51 Democracy manifest.
30:52 Hey, three and a half stars.
30:54 It's not bad.
30:55 And it's the same.
30:56 And people want to see more grovery.
30:57 You know, apart from the match order,
30:58 that's a pretty good week.
30:58 It is a pretty decent show.
30:59 You've done well there.
31:01 Now you said you bought logistics.
31:02 I did.
31:03 What was that?
31:04 The arena.
31:04 You bought the arena.
31:05 I did.
31:06 What did you get?
31:07 Didn't.
31:08 Didn't get anything?
31:09 Nope.
31:09 You didn't get anything?
31:10 'Cause I spent money elsewhere.
31:11 Moving on, that's a solid week for me.
31:12 Moving on to NXT 2.0.
31:13 What you got?
31:14 So we're kicking off with an Extreme Rules tag team title.
31:15 Holy (beep)
31:16 That's where we spent the money.
31:16 You spent money elsewhere.
31:17 I spent money.
31:18 You weren't kidding.
31:19 No, I did.
31:20 So it is our tag team champions are Grayson Waller
31:22 and Dijak against Karl Anderson and Kofi Kingston.
31:25 Double, I was gonna say double K,
31:27 and then I realized it was an extra one,
31:29 so we probably will avoid that.
31:30 (laughing)
31:32 Grayjack versus the other two.
31:37 Okay, so simulate the match.
31:39 Who will win?
31:40 Dig up, stupid.
31:41 There is also a match speciality on this.
31:43 So it was all in a rivalry.
31:45 That's a good kickoff.
31:46 Right, we'll write that down.
31:47 Not bad.
31:47 Tag.
31:48 And a three and a half star opener as well.
31:50 That's pretty solid.
31:51 One.
31:52 Nice.
31:53 Good.
31:54 Okay.
31:55 Advertising promo.
31:56 Maxine Dupree's kicking it with a little advertising promo.
31:56 9,000.
31:57 And she's done, yeah, with only losing one popularity.
31:58 Excellent promo.
31:59 Thank you very much, Maxine.
32:00 Promo skill of four.
32:01 Crazy.
32:02 She knows what she's doing.
32:03 Yeah.
32:03 She knows what she's doing.
32:04 Uncle Howdy, our North American champion,
32:05 will be taking on Logan Paul in a normal match to follow up.
32:09 Hoping to start a little rivalry on this.
32:10 It is not a title match.
32:11 It is just a match.
32:13 It is disappointing, but a rivalry has begun.
32:17 It sure has.
32:18 The rivalry rose.
32:19 Howdy Paul.
32:20 Won.
32:22 Cody, our world champion.
32:24 I made him finish the story.
32:25 Four, eight and a half grand.
32:26 That's what we were hoping for.
32:27 Thank you very much, Cody.
32:28 For that.
32:29 Excellent promo.
32:30 Because as you'll see momentarily, I spent some money.
32:32 Oh, I've just seen you.
32:33 Oh, hello.
32:34 So we have just a match to go on.
32:36 This is for no reason other than I needed to fill a slot.
32:40 That's what she said.
32:42 I didn't want it to outweigh the main event.
32:44 Giant versus a bruiser, so not complementary classes.
32:47 I mean, it's given me a rivalry.
32:49 And one and a half star match.
32:49 You have stuck with them.
32:50 Yeah.
32:51 Not necessarily.
32:52 I could just always close it off at some point.
32:53 You could.
32:54 You could just let it die.
32:55 I could release one of them.
32:56 Yeah.
32:57 Who knows?
32:58 By the way, it's not submission matches that end future.
33:00 It's still cage now, isn't it?
33:01 Yeah.
33:02 I mean, that's fine.
33:03 I didn't need it to be a rivalry, but I'll take it.
33:06 I could always play with triple threat matches.
33:07 You know, it's all good.
33:08 Three matches, three rivalries.
33:10 I know.
33:10 So it leaves me to be worried for my main event.
33:12 I went and did some talent scouting.
33:14 It hasn't worked.
33:15 It hasn't worked.
33:16 Not at all.
33:16 I needed an opponent for Cody.
33:18 And I didn't really have anyone on the agenda.
33:21 Right.
33:22 So I went hunting and I picked out Angelo Dawkins.
33:25 And yeah, it hasn't worked.
33:28 No, it's not.
33:29 No, yeah.
33:29 That's not a rivalry.
33:30 No, no.
33:31 Which is, in fact, the sole purpose of that promo slot.
33:34 It's actually the only thing that it's used for.
33:36 Yeah, literally the only thing.
33:37 Yeah.
33:38 But hey, you know, that's fine.
33:39 Thanks, Angelo.
33:40 I'm glad to have you on the show.
33:42 Our main event, however, is Liv Morgan
33:44 versus Bailey Ford, the women's NXT championship
33:47 match in a tables match.
33:48 Originally, they were going to have the extreme rules,
33:50 because they have loads of stamina.
33:51 But someone up there has got a specialty, so I switched it.
33:55 I would love it if this did well.
33:56 I would love it.
33:58 Bailey, the champion.
33:59 Bailey, my champ.
34:00 Hey!
34:01 Perfect.
34:02 Three and a half stars, new rivalry.
34:03 Four matches, four rivalries.
34:04 Crazy.
34:05 Bailey.
34:06 It's lovely.
34:07 I don't know why you guys have been worried so much.
34:09 It's easy to row a rivalry.
34:11 That is a good--
34:12 Look at you guys giving me the one rivalry
34:14 that didn't pan out.
34:15 Yeah.
34:16 I obviously could not afford the new arena,
34:18 because it's 100 grand.
34:20 So I bought the emails.
34:23 OK, yeah.
34:24 So you've won one of the 50 grand ones.
34:25 I won one of the 50 grand ones.
34:26 That's what unlocked me the tornado tag, which
34:28 would have been my second thing.
34:30 Unfortunately, 'tis what it is.
34:31 But yeah, opening things up here.
34:33 Scarlet as the champ.
34:34 As, yep, to boost that popularity.
34:36 Scarlet Charlotte.
34:37 Charlotte's the new champ.
34:39 Charlotte wins, lol.
34:40 No rivalry.
34:40 No rivalry.
34:41 But still, three and a half stars.
34:43 I was going to write something down.
34:44 It's really lame, but it's fun to see the new belts.
34:45 Nothing to write down.
34:46 It's cool, isn't it?
34:47 Yeah.
34:47 I think the screen looks really nice.
34:49 Roll change.
34:49 Tariq Williams is a heel now.
34:50 Tariq Williams is a heel now.
34:52 OK.
34:52 And this card, it's your tag team.
34:54 Oh, yeah, she did the party people.
34:55 Party girls versus Tiffany and Blair.
34:58 Yeah, that works.
35:01 And we've got new tag champs.
35:02 Stratton and Blair.
35:03 And a rivalry.
35:04 And a rivalry.
35:04 And a two-star match.
35:05 And it did not outperform Key.
35:08 Nice.
35:08 So that is par-tay.
35:11 Par-tay.
35:12 What should we call them?
35:13 What's Stratton and Blair Davenport?
35:15 Party girls versus the mean girls.
35:16 Tiff-dav.
35:17 Yep, much better.
35:18 Tiff-dav.
35:19 Tiff-dav.
35:20 Yeah.
35:20 It's like the mobile phone network.
35:22 [LAUGHTER]
35:24 Insane.
35:25 Call-out promo.
35:26 It worked.
35:27 Stars in the Euro 3.
35:28 Lovely stuff.
35:28 Joe Coffey and Akira Tozawa.
35:30 It's coffee time.
35:31 Coffey.
35:32 Akira.
35:33 Coff-tas.
35:34 One.
35:34 Coff-tas.
35:35 He was in WWE in the mid-2000s, wasn't he?
35:38 [LAUGHTER]
35:41 Mid-card match.
35:42 A little trick or treat here.
35:43 Get it with Alcatraz.
35:44 Al-C-traz.
35:45 Alcatraz.
35:46 That's very good.
35:47 Butch gets the win.
35:49 Doll.
35:49 [LAUGHTER]
35:52 [CLAPPING]
35:54 Good gracious.
35:56 Perfect.
35:57 Well, OK.
35:57 So also, my plans had to change.
35:59 This was not the match I was originally going to do.
36:02 It was originally going to be Butch, Bate, and Damon Kemp
36:06 in a triple threat.
36:07 However-- I want to just add a little bit of advertising here.
36:10 9 grand.
36:10 Thank you very much.
36:11 Oh, that's minus 3.
36:12 I thought it was a minus 8.
36:14 My commissioner goal was to have a run-in
36:17 on my most popular star.
36:20 So it was originally going to be Bij and Nakamura,
36:22 with Damon Kemp in the triple threat.
36:24 But I had to schedule the run-in instead.
36:28 And it all makes sense.
36:29 He was specialist.
36:30 It all works.
36:31 You just had a dull match because of it.
36:34 And Bij gets the win.
36:35 And it does the thing you need to do.
36:37 Yeah.
36:38 It does what it needs to do.
36:39 Did that help?
36:40 Because I found often run-ins are a really fickle mistress.
36:43 Yes.
36:44 They sure are.
36:45 And actually, I didn't want any rivalries coming out
36:47 of that triple threat.
36:47 So that's OK.
36:48 And also, because there's only two stars,
36:50 it didn't outperform.
36:51 It outperformed your mid-card.
36:52 Very good.
36:53 Yeah, very good.
36:54 There you go.
36:54 That is me for the week.
36:57 Poor opening.
36:59 No rivalries there.
37:00 But a level 1 here, level 1 here, level 1 here,
37:02 and some stuff happening over here.
37:04 That is uneventful, but fun.
37:07 NEC 2.0.
37:09 Good booking.
37:09 A little level 1, a little level 1,
37:13 and another little level 1, and a fourth little level 1.
37:15 Very nice.
37:16 But nothing there.
37:17 That's fine.
37:18 A solid week for you.
37:19 And for Raw, there's nothing here, but one here, nothing
37:22 there, and one there.
37:23 So two rivalries-- three rivalries.
37:25 Three rivalries on that one.
37:26 So we had 3-4-3 in terms of rivalries
37:29 coming out of this week.
37:30 That's a pretty decent showing for us, actually.
37:31 It is a good, solid first week for all of us,
37:33 I think, for different reasons.
37:35 I think we all had a good show.
37:36 Let's see what that does for the fans, though, shall we?
37:40 42,000 fans for me.
37:41 OK, 42 is the benchmark.
37:42 And money.
37:43 Good, good, good money.
37:45 Very few on the social media.
37:47 Very few.
37:48 She does.
37:48 Like what Drew Gulak did in that promo.
37:51 Ridge Holland's trying to sell us stuff.
37:53 At least it was fairly entertaining.
37:54 Solid contest between Orton and Mahal.
37:56 Love it when contrasting classes mesh like this.
37:58 Can't believe Cora's the new champion.
38:00 Me neither.
38:02 Let's move on to NXT.
38:04 See what you have on the fans.
38:05 42,717.
38:07 It's 42 to beat, Dan.
38:09 That's fine.
38:10 I don't expect it, but we'll see.
38:12 Oh.
38:13 Oh.
38:13 Oh.
38:14 Oh!
38:15 42,169.
38:16 So I'm ahead by 300 fans.
38:19 Die Jack and Waller.
38:21 Ooh.
38:22 Worked very well.
38:22 It's very well.
38:23 Look at that.
38:24 And you made a bit more money than I did.
38:26 Very nice.
38:26 Good.
38:27 Team-- so what is the--
38:28 OK, good, because that's pushed me over budget for--
38:30 For the arena.
38:30 I do need some logistics.
38:32 You will not have enough assets next week to buy it.
38:35 What's asset?
38:36 Because we didn't buy anything.
38:37 Oh, you didn't buy anything.
38:38 You will have assets.
38:39 You're fine.
38:40 What are assets?
38:40 You just get an asset every week.
38:42 Yeah.
38:42 Oh.
38:43 You said you need the money and you
38:44 need the assets to buy things.
38:46 What is an asset?
38:47 You do a show for it.
38:47 It's just a thing.
38:48 It's just a thing that you have.
38:49 It's like a little--
38:50 I guess I'll find out next week.
38:50 It's a little box icon in the corner that says assets.
38:53 It's all right.
38:53 I'm fine.
38:53 I'm chill about it.
38:54 Cody says, you talk a good game, Angelo.
38:55 Apparently not.
38:56 But my fish are going to do the talking next week.
38:58 All right.
38:58 Well, good.
38:59 That's what my plan was.
39:00 And then the one says, Rose was called out by Dawkins.
39:02 Really looking forward to them settling things in the ring.
39:04 But there's no rivalry.
39:05 Yeah, do something about it then.
39:06 Promo by Rose was actually pretty good.
39:08 Yeah, he's the best of all time.
39:09 I don't know what's wrong with you.
39:10 He's a goat.
39:10 Can't believe Bailey's the new champion.
39:12 About time.
39:12 She's been looking stronger than Liv for weeks.
39:14 Here's a little note for you.
39:15 Maybe you want to write this one down.
39:16 Dapper Contender Ultra says, I liked every match in this week's
39:19 NXT 2.0.
39:20 I felt different from the last one.
39:21 Kept me interested.
39:22 Who's got more fans, Dan?
39:24 Also, they're royal--
39:25 Me.
39:25 Me.
39:26 300.
39:26 Painful to watch.
39:27 Piper Niven versus Fallon Henley.
39:29 Yeah, that one.
39:29 And the ones above that as well.
39:31 That one was really good.
39:31 Karl Anderson and Code Kingston have no chemistry.
39:33 That's fine.
39:34 We'll move on.
39:35 We'll move on.
39:35 Very nice.
39:36 Right, so that's 42.
39:36 A solid week.
39:37 42 and 42.
39:39 I'm expecting about a 40-ish.
39:41 38.
39:42 Yep, 38.
39:42 That's more or less what I was thinking.
39:45 Little bit of money.
39:46 Little bit of money.
39:46 That's what I actually needed.
39:48 Yep.
39:48 So Nakamura attacked Big E during the match.
39:50 They're about to go there.
39:52 Where did Alcatraz cover?
39:53 Lol.
39:54 Yep.
39:54 Blair Downey Hortick and Tryan, that's an incredible tag team.
39:57 There you go.
39:57 That's good to know.
39:58 Nice.
39:59 Tricklin's a bad guy.
40:00 Keep bringing him out while you can.
40:02 Da da da da da.
40:03 New champion, Charlotte Blair.
40:05 Cool.
40:05 Big E's a pathetic cheater.
40:08 Lovely.
40:09 Cool.
40:09 Nice.
40:09 Great.
40:10 Solid stuff.
40:11 Solid stuff.
40:12 I got contract negotiation two.
40:14 Lovely.
40:14 For your commissioning goal.
40:15 What was your commissioning goal?
40:16 Make sure that Humberto Carrillo has a match.
40:18 Great.
40:18 I got bad publicity three.
40:20 This is a brand new one.
40:21 Select a brand and steal 10% of their fans
40:23 for their next week's show.
40:24 What?
40:25 That's [BLEEP] crazy.
40:25 That is nuts.
40:27 That's wild.
40:28 10% of their--
40:29 10%.
40:30 What was your commissioning goal?
40:31 My commissioning goal was to book my least popular cruiser,
40:34 which was Coca-Cola Kingston.
40:36 That on a pay-per-view?
40:38 You get like 150,000 fans, you just go 15,000 fans.
40:42 Thank you very much.
40:43 Yoink.
40:43 And--
40:46 Oh, come on.
40:47 Wow.
40:47 And that's why I went out of my way to do my commissioning goal.
40:50 And it worked for you as well.
40:51 It did work out.
40:52 I didn't get the best main event out of it,
40:54 but I was like, I wanted to have--
40:55 So the fun thing about that one is
40:57 that it could be either of us.
40:59 Yeah, but you don't know who he's going to play it against.
41:01 No.
41:01 There you are.
41:02 Number one.
41:03 One, two, and as we all thought, number three.
41:07 Last place there.
41:09 So currently--
41:10 300 fans in it.
41:10 300 fans in it.
41:12 I have more money than both of you.
41:15 Yep.
41:15 But we're quite close together.
41:17 Very close.
41:18 Still all to play for, shockingly.
41:19 Shockingly, after week one, it's still all to play for.
41:22 There are 24 weeks to go.
41:24 I'm quite pleased with that, given
41:25 I didn't buy any logistics.
41:27 Yeah, considering you didn't buy any, that's wild.
41:29 Yeah.
41:29 I think overall, actually quite disastrous for me,
41:32 because not only am I third, one of you's
41:34 have got a power card on me.
41:35 Yeah, that's true.
41:35 Because I'm five seconds over.
41:37 So actually, really, when you put everything into a column,
41:40 not a great first week.
41:41 I will say, you had an OK first week,
41:44 and we had a good first week.
41:45 It wasn't that yours was disastrous,
41:47 but it was worse than ours.
41:48 I don't know, was that really a dull match he had?
41:49 There was a dull match.
41:50 And he went over.
41:51 He did.
41:52 But he did get a Veto star power card, though.
41:53 He did, ultimately.
41:54 Which is pretty good.
41:55 Yeah, I'll take that.
41:56 So that could really screw us up.
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41:59 I'm guessing you're not going to be happy about this,
42:01 but the weather has wrecked my travel arrangements.
42:03 It looks like I won't be able to--
42:05 oh.
42:05 Transport's a nightmare at the moment.
42:06 It looks like I won't be able to make it to this week's Smackdown
42:08 performance.
42:08 I'm really sorry.
42:09 Please make sure you're here for next week's show.
42:11 I do understand, but I hope you understand
42:12 I'll have to fine you a week.
42:14 I'm not that mean.
42:15 I could just terminate him and get 270 grand.
42:17 Who would do that?
42:18 Yeah, sorry, Nex.
42:19 I've done it now.
42:20 I've done it now.
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