Episode 8 - What Did We Miss?

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Yeah, we slowed it down a little bit. It's time for episode eight. As we getting better. We just getting better, baby. Speed it up a little bit. [00:00:22] Speaker B: I think I started something. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Welcome to episode eight. We got music intros now. That's what we do now. Hold on, hold on. And we got the DJ mix working now. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. Yeah, that's what we did. We got a good show today. The headphones, the headphones are screaming. I don't want to scream too loud, but this is one of the greatest songs ever made. She really wanted to be a dentist. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's slow down. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Smoking anyway. She said don't let the high go to waste. [00:01:34] Speaker A: Put it down. [00:01:36] Speaker B: But can you taste? Little taste. [00:01:41] Speaker A: Shout out, shout out, shout out. Episode 8. The intros are going. [00:01:47] Speaker B: Baby, I want you oh, me good, me long, me numb Love me now When I'm gone Love me none Love. [00:01:56] Speaker A: Me not Love me now Let it the chorus. Welcome, y'. All. It is now episode 8, episode 8 of the Joshua Capillan Show. We got some more things coming, man. You guys don't understand about the things I had to do. Well, not had to do. I had to do a lot of things, but there's a lot coming. And before, I was just saying that, you know, the new additions we just been put in, you see the new logo. There's a lot more in the tank right now. I also like doing this at 3 o'. Clock, 3pm I do like doing at 3pm I had some things to do earlier, but, man, we got some things in the tuck. Okay. When it comes to topics today, I'll tell you right now, really ain't much shit went on last weekend. There's one specific thing. We gonna get to it. We gonna get to it first. We might get to that shit first. That's what we're gonna do. We gonna get to that shit, do we? We. We are doing music today first. Wrestling is gonna be probably at the back. Look, we got topics. This is not. Now the topics is not gonna be like news, news topics. This is like topics. More of the thoughts and you're gonna get more into it because we. I started putting in more topics as opposed to just only like, what's going on now. Let's do more topics as of, like, later. Later we're gonna talk about. We're gonna leave wrestling to the last segment this time, right? We're gonna talk about like the best championship runs in the last five years. We're going to talk about what what makes a great baby face? What makes a great heel. Like, topics like that. This time we're not just gonna do like, what topics are. I would talk about the, like Evolution 2 and All in and I. Because we're gonna do predictions on those, but not today. We're gonna do predictions on those starting Wednesday. So the Thursday, the. The. The Thursday episode, we're gonna do it for that, right? So we got things happening, man. We got things happening. Let's have a good show today. Let's get into some topics, right? Because of course, you guys know the full show is now only on Patreon. The clips are going to be on YouTube if you want. The full show is on Patreon is on the lowest tier. Of course, if you're watching this now, if you're seeing this, you know, it's only on Patreon now. I'll probably just put this clip there. And the reason is only on Patreon, like I said, is one, we get to play music like that in the intro. There's a lot more freedom we have on our Patreon that we. That we can do, right? So, yeah, so let's get. Let's kind of jump into some topics, man. Let's jump in. We're gonna start off with music. We are going to start off with music where. That's what we're gonna do. We're starting off with music first. Oh, man, I should need to open this again. Hold on. Because honestly, we did the wrestling topics we can kind of put in and depending on, like, how the episode I feel like doing it, sometimes it'll happen like that. Sometimes we'll start with gaming. Sometimes we'll start with whatever we feel like we feel like we should do. But, man, we are going to start. We. This is what we should start off with, bro. Because this is what's happening right now. Actually. Give me a quick second. Let's see. So I honestly have to open this up and there's gonna be the. The first portion of this is probably going to be only Patreon exclusive. And then the. The later portion is going to be different. So let's. We got to start off with this. Let's go, let's go, let's go. This is the first time we're gonna start off with. Come on, come on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Give me a quick second. Now this is what we're gonna start off with. Pretend I never did anything like. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Look at Spot. Look at, look at Title. That's kind of. Kind of plain, too. I didn't even press play on that song. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I pressed. I was pressing play on this. [00:06:25] Speaker B: I don't give a if you love me. I don't give a if you like me. Asking me how did it feel? Can't say it didn't surprise me. Last time I looked to my right, you were standing beside me. How can some people I love hang around Pussies who try me? Let's go. [00:06:43] Speaker A: New Drake. New Drake. [00:06:44] Speaker B: What did I miss? The beat is what did I miss? [00:06:49] Speaker A: It reminds me of that trophy feat. [00:06:52] Speaker B: What did I miss? What did I miss? Let's go. Let's go. I'm whipping around on like 600 acres. Let's go, let's go, let's go. You niggas just better not ask for no favor. Let's go, let's go, let's go. It's love for my brothers and death to a traitor. Let's go. She might decide to say no to me now but say no estimate later. Let's go. O pass is all natty like Florida Gator. Let's go. Okay, you switch on the guys and supported a hater. [00:07:19] Speaker A: Let's go. Who we talking about? [00:07:21] Speaker B: What's the get back for? Is tbd. I look at this like a BTC could be down this week and I'm up next week. I don't give a if you love me. I don't give a if you like me. Asking me how did it feel? Can't say it didn't surprise me. Last time I look to my right, you was standing beside me. How can some people hang around who try me? Let's go. [00:07:45] Speaker A: That beat is tough, bro. [00:07:46] Speaker B: What did I miss? What did I miss? What did I miss? [00:07:54] Speaker A: Start off with that strong beat. [00:07:55] Speaker B: What did I miss? [00:07:56] Speaker A: I heard this before, but let's look at this. This transition, bro. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Let's go. Let's go. [00:08:03] Speaker A: Hey, hey. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Let's go, let's go. [00:08:06] Speaker A: I. I do like these transition like tracks when they transition to be like this, it's hard. Let's listen. Let's listen. [00:08:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Get punched in the face of some TLC on a dead guy. Some tlc. Cause my, you gonna need a chili ice pack for your left eye. [00:08:22] Speaker A: Hold on. All right. Stop it right there, bro. Stop it right there. All right? We talked about this before, and that was still foul. That Rick Ross went up to that dude's country and got snuffed in his face, bro. I'm gonna tell you right now, Rick Ross ain't been the same since, bro. He ain't hit the same sense since he got punch in his eye, bro. He ain't been the same since, bro. He ain't been to say, I used to love Ross, bro. I still like Ross music. But that is not hidden when you got punched in your eye like that, bro. It's not you left your man's to get jumped. It's just not hitting like it used to. This is slick. It's slick that he said this like this. Let's continue, bro. Continue that. [00:09:15] Speaker B: I'm back in your city tonight Walking around my head high I saw, bro. And the Pop out with Denver, Vin Dip Ryan. Gangsters, hairlines. [00:09:23] Speaker A: Who is he talking about right there? Who's he talking about? Who's been dick riding gang says headlines. There's a lot of people, a lot of people at that Pop out show. A lot of people with dick riding says headlines. They was. They was. We saw them. We saw them live in the Pop out show, and we saw them real time when they were dig right into his headlines, bro. Damn, bro. [00:09:50] Speaker B: Look, it feels like nobody's there until you start giving out two tones. And nobody cares until they in front of your tombstone. [00:09:58] Speaker A: Damn. [00:09:59] Speaker B: Y' all been on that type of timing for too long. Iceman, Tiffany, Blue Stones. I done made plenty right at a two wrong. Let's go. [00:10:05] Speaker A: Okay, let's go. This beat is tough, bro. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Let's go, let's go. Hey, yeah. Let's go, let's go. Yeah, yeah. Let's go. Yeah. [00:10:17] Speaker A: Let's go, let's go. [00:10:19] Speaker B: What did I miss when I was looking at y' all and cooking with y' all and giving out verses and bookings to y', all? Making sure wise with Hit Man. What did I miss? [00:10:28] Speaker A: Damn. [00:10:29] Speaker B: When you was all in my career, looking hoes word for word at all of the shows, y' all always felt like this, man. What did I miss? [00:10:42] Speaker A: This beat a softball. Okay, so here's my thoughts on that record, bro. That was a good record. It's a great record, bro. It's a great record. Is that memorable record. Look, I'm gonna tell you right now, the record is great. It's a great record. It sounds hard. This is a good record right now. People are liking it because it's the only thing he's kind of dropped right now. Do I think this is hit of the summer? No. Do I think this is gonna go? It's going right now. But this, I. I don't Think this is the first single off the album, which I don't think it should be, but I think this was a warm up track. This was a track that you play. You let, you. You release out there to let them know you coming, bro. This is that type of song. I don't think they should put too much motion into this song. It's a cool song. It's decent. The beat is good. I don't. It's a great song, bro. But this is not the song you go with. This is a song that you put out there and you're like, yo, I'm coming. This is the I'm coming song. I'm coming with some heat. I'm coming with some shit. That's what I like now. I like the song. I like the song a lot, bro. I really do. I think the song is great. I love the beat. I told you throughout the song. We just listened to. We just listened to it. If this gets clipped up, it goes on YouTube. Remember that? The Patreon. We just heard it. So sign up to the Patreon because this is a good song. I like the subs. I like that. He told Ross, why you got punched in the face like that, bro? I like that. Ross. My slap back and it's good. Ross does, but somebody got to address that. But other than that is a good song, bro. But is this song of the summer right now? No, this shouldn't. This, this. This shouldn't be a single. This should be a song that you put. Look at getting. Feed the streets a little bit. Feed the music. You know, people said, get, get, get people to know the pen is working, bro. I know people keep saying, oh, he's got ghostwriters. He knows how to write, bro. You can have all the ghostwriters in the world. If you write better than the ghost, it don't matter. Look, the track is good. The track is cool. I like the song a lot. I don't mind listening to it. I don't mind putting it, blasting it through my car. I don't mind that at all. I like listening to the song. Is this the song of the summer? No. This is the song you put out now. He had this, bro. This is other song, bro, that was playing during that stream. It went like super Max or something, right? And it sounded good. That's the. That's not song of Summer, E. That sounds like the. I want to hear that. Super. You think? I wonder if we can find it. I wonder if we can find it. That super Max song, bro. We'll Play it later because we don't want to play. And then. And then things get shut down. Right. But other than that, that. What did I miss? I. Right now it's like number one and everything. It's number one on, on these Spotify charts and the streaming charts. Is it going to be number one on the Billboards? I don't know. We'll take a look. But is a cool song. Is good. I'm glad Drake is coming back on his, on his, on his macho touch and because he's been putting out bangers the last few. Like the last year he did a lot of people and that always happens. A lot of people, you know, they don't. They don't catch this on their radar. That's always happened. But he put out some good music and this is good music right now. I can't wait for this Iceman album to drop. I'm really excited. I want to hear this track. I want. Not just track. I want to hear the album. I don't know if I want to hear this track on the album, unless it fits. But I do believe we got. He's cooking some right now. He's cooking. I can tell he's cooking. I'm hoping we get like a real good album. A real good solid hip hop with a little bit of that, A little bit of his. Of his kind of R B ish Cronin bag, bro. I like that because the R B tracks are my bro. I love the R B songs. I know you guys are saying, oh, he not hip hop. First of all, he is hip hop to me. Second of all, I. I more always like those R B type hits. Not even his. Those songs. Those album cuts. The album cuts. Always the best part of the songs, right? The hits. People like know the hits. Everything but the album cuts were always the best parts. So shout out to Drake, bro. I'm glad. I'm glad this track is coming out. I'm glad he's got some cooking. Yeah, and I'm glad he's got some cooking, bro. I want to talk about that song first. Let's see something real quick. I want to take a look at something. Let's see if we can see for the, For. For the, for the Patreon homies, bro. Let's see if we can find that Super Max song, bro. Let's see if we can find that Super Max Drake song. I know somebody got it, bro. They got, they got. Somebody got it. Got it already. They have to, bro. If we can't find it, then we Go. We just gonna move on, bro. But I'm really excited for the album. Iceman. Yeah, I don't like those album names are never the best, bro. Ever since like nothing was the same was still a weird album title too. But those out after take care just like the album titles just kind of like fell off. Let's see. Let's see. Is this it? Let's see. Please just hear me. Oh my God. No. I have. I have a. I have an ad list. YouTube, bro. Let this shine. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Normally only feels like a riddle to affiliates that thought that they were safe because they played the middle. Losing all these friends really got to me. I was talking to Taylor over drinks and it was getting deep. Not everyone can handle this pressure and in this city you're the national treasure. That's what she said to me. [00:16:50] Speaker A: Let's go. [00:16:51] Speaker B: Put me in a box with the red leather My body will ride My name will live forever I'm fool to believe we could do it together. It's still Heartbreak Drake But I glued it together. Do not come around the guys playing Peace my maker they snake me for now but we'll see. [00:17:06] Speaker A: That's yo. This is going to be a good song. I'm going to like this song a lot. Put it up. Put it up. [00:17:11] Speaker B: And this summer I'm staying so focused Somebody could say the weather changed and I wouldn't notice. [00:17:16] Speaker A: Put it up. [00:17:16] Speaker B: The company I keep is getting smaller while my other companies are all growing. They're overflowing. Family only feels like a riddle to affiliates that thought that they were safe because they played the middle. [00:17:26] Speaker A: That still us and all these friends. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Really got to me. I was talking to Taylor over drinks and it was getting deep. [00:17:31] Speaker A: That's the type of music I like to hear. [00:17:33] Speaker B: City national treasure. That's what she said to me. Only time that put me in a box is with a red leather My body will ride my name will live forever. I was a fool to believe we could do it together. Still Heartbreak Drake. But I glued it together. [00:17:46] Speaker A: He did glue it together. [00:17:47] Speaker B: Do not come around the guys playing peacemaker they snake me for now but we'll see later. They snake me for now but we will see later. Your boy got his head busting side in one spot and we were still laughing about that like a week later. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Damn. [00:17:59] Speaker B: The only guarantee I know is more paper free paper. Green paper. Yeah, yeah, green paper. Look. Super Max. Super Max. For what I got going on I'm too relaxed. [00:18:11] Speaker A: Damn. [00:18:12] Speaker B: The truth is not in your phone. You're too attached. I really look in the streets like Google maps Supermax super max for what I got going on I'm too relaxed the truth is not in your phone, you're too attached this is how I really look in the streets like Google. [00:18:26] Speaker A: Maps Damn, Super Max deals See, I like this type. I like this. [00:18:38] Speaker B: Super Max deals. The raps. I'm more impressed by your acting skills. I'm big for real. You boys ready? Crack the shield? I'm big tired of fake love like track the wheels this is trauma that getting back on my masters hit Los Angeles Love like Phil Jackson and Shag o' Neal oh, yeah, Super Max news, Super max deals. [00:19:02] Speaker A: So that's the song I like the most. That's the one song I'm more excited for. That super Max track. I want to hear that in full. High quality. I think that shit's gonna smack. I think that is gonna go. I have a feeling on it. So that's the song I'm ready for. I'm ready for that type of vibe, right? So that is what that. That's what it is, man. That's what it is right now. So, yeah, shout out to Drake. I can't wait for the album. That's what it is now. We were listening to those lyrics, bro. We'll listen that. Especially that super Max song, right? That super Max song seems a very lyrical, like, it's more of a lyrical vibe, right? Where you can listen to it. You can sit down a little and just listen to it. One of my topics, I want to talk about. A lot of people, people were asking this, so I want to hear. They were saying, is lyrical content still important in mainstream rap now? I used to say no, and I used to say yes. So let's go back a little bit. Main street rap around 2016 to 2000, probably 2016 to 2020, most likely. Probably a little bit more. Probably 2021. I would say lyrical rap wasn't important. I think now the lyrical. Lyrical rap has become a little bit more mainstream. And people are gonna say because of last year, because of the. Of just like the battle thing that's happening. I. Yeah, I think for certain artists, they've always had that. They've always had that. That, like, attention to any of their music with that Main street with lyrical rap. But when I were talking about, like, up and comers, right, like up and come musicians who have lyrical, like, are more bar heavy lyrical music and that make it into mainstream. Now that I really think about it, I. I think it's more production. I think we're still in the production era, because in the. In the era of like 20, I think 2018, production was mainly the big key. Right? Because you want to get the vibe more than just listening to things a lot of people are saying because of the battle last year. Yes, lyrical content is mainstream rep. But that's all coming off the energy of battle rap. That's what it is. It's. It's that. That's why that type of rap is mainstream right now, if you want to call it. But if you really look at it, we looked at it the other day, and there's not really that much things on. Like when we look at the billboards and everything, there's not really much lyrical rap or hip hop in general on those charts, man. And I think in general, just mainstream rap, it's probably just falling a little bit. Unless this, like, this next album that comes out. Because look, look, you have Iceman coming out. And Iceman, depending how it goes, is it could be a very lyrical vibe. And I remember when. What's it called? The. The other. The other album. The album for all the Dogs Depot, like a deluxe. Drake put like a deluxe. And most people still didn't listen to that deluxe version. Like the way he's just non stop rapping. And that's the biggest artist in the world. And they didn't get much attention for that lyrical version of the album. Of course you have people. You also have the clips album coming out. That all depends. But mainly a lot of that's coming from the Pharrell production. A lot of praise is coming from the Pharrell production or the shots being sent. And people aren't really gravitating to. We are gravitating. I love the songs, bro. I love Ace Trumpets, Ice Trump is really good. And. But we're still. It's all a production this. But we were like the Pharrell produce production going on, right? So, yeah, is. Is lyrical content like, dead? Yes and no. There's still a niche audience for these things. Like, I'm the niche audience that listens to, like, still rap. Like, I listen still. I listen to, like Uncle Murder. I listen to. We're gonna talk about the Jit album a little later. I'm gonna listen to the clips album. I listen to. I always talked about it. The other day I listened to the Fine Dining with Dave east and Young Chris. You know, that's. That still has me in hooked. And the thing is, as people like me, like, who does content and really like those albums, that's what's going to push it more main forward. So lyrical content doesn't. Is not really in mainstream because not covered as much, right? So you have. You have places like. You have places like these music, like music podcasts or music radio stations. They're not really pushing these album reviews on these albums. And it's like back in the day, it was like, I. Dave east is going on Funk Master Flex, he's putting an album, and everybody in New York is talking about the album. Nowadays it's just like, hey, if it doesn't get a lot of clicks on the Internet, it's not mainstream and we're not gonna care for it. And that's why it's not pushing up to mainstream, because there's not a lot of talks for it. You have. You see, that's kind of what I want to change. I want to. We need to do more album reviews for like, people who are coming up. We need to do more of those things, right? And that was the problem. We're not putting a lot of enough album reviews for these type of lyrical raps. Of course you got like Eminem, but Eminem's already been big because Eminem's got hits. So when you've got hits and then you put a lyrical album, a lyrical song out, you're gonna get praised for it because you have hits. And nowadays it seems like you have to get a hit, then the lyrical content could come so you can make it to mainstream rap. When it's not really lyrical content per se itself, pushing it to mainstream rap. Nowadays you have, like, you have. So you have lyrics, right? You have lyrics, but it's more of a bop, right? Because you listen to Big X, the plug. Yeah, he's killing it, bro. But that is that delivery, right? The delivery is being more of the, like, bars aren't really cutting it to mainstream, but bars are cutting it to respect of other older, like, rappers. Like, respect from, you know, the, the. The greatest rappers of all. Like the greatest rappers, right? Like, let's say I'm. I'm a new rap. I'm coming up, bro. Let's say I'm coming up, right? I decide to just put out some music and put out some heat. And I'm just spitting, bro. I'm just spitting. And it gets big, right? Not get big, but I guess some notoriety. I'm gonna get noticed by like, people of like, let's say like Fat Joe and Jadakiss and people who could rap, bro. You get that respect from. From the. From like your elders, from these legends than the mainstream of the radio stations. Because nowadays the radio stations don't have people like that. Everyone like that is all there. They're. They're all on podcasts right now. So you guys have. You guys. You have, like, guys like Joe who. He'll. He'll. You know, he'll put to display lyrical rap, right? And that's good. And you. Because he's a big platform. You. You listen to the breakfast club. You're not really hearing shit like that, right? You're hearing more gossip. So. And that's kind of what they. You know, what they've been for a while. But you don't have like a station like, yeah, Fuckmaster flex is where everyone goes, you know, to spit their rhymes. And you get those good freestyles. You have, like, off the radar too. You have those lyrical rap, but those freestyles are going viral, but not like the songs. And the thing is, is not even. It's not even that. It's just people. People aren't lyrically killing it on. Like, you have the clips album. The clips album is amazing, you know, not. It's sounding like it's gonna probably be amazing because you have these lyrical artists that are putting like master class. Master class lyrics together on a pharrell beat. And that's the kind of marriage you want. You want like those lyrical. Like that big lyrical. How do I say this? Like, you have like that lyrical vibe. Like that. You know, like that bop with a good beat. And I feel like that's what's happening nowadays. Nowadays you either have a track with a good beat and the lyrics are just like whatever, or you have these crazy lyrical songs, but the beat is just not kicking. That's why you're not getting a hit. I think that's what's missing Nowadays you need that. Marriage is like. It's like that, like, for, you know, like that cliffs album sounding fantastic, bro. Because you have like, Pharrell, who's a kind of a mainstream producer, and you have, you know, the Clips who are legends and they're putting their things together. Coming back, we were talking about Iceman the other day. Ice, not another day. Like a few minutes ago. Iceman, you got. It seems like drake is tapping 40 on the shoulder and like, hey, yo, dude, let's. Let's get. Let's get this beautiful marriage of music that we usually put together, right? So you have that people paying attention to lyrics, but the beat is just flowing with it. Nowadays. It's just the beats hard and the rapper's. Not. All the rappers spin some hard but the beat's not. It all seems to be going on. That's what it is. Of course, when it comes to, like, you have, like, Kendrick Lamar, right? He's going. He. He's got those. He's got. Those beats are going. They're going in. And he's also got this. These lyrical bars is going hard. So you got that perfect marriage there. That's what GNX is. A decent album. Good album. Good album. Same thing with Cole. Cole. Cole. Cole's in a. For me. For personally me. I think Cole's in. He's going to that realm where it's too more lyrical and the beats just, like, not cutting it. They're not sticking. They're not pushing into mainstream rap. Like, he's going crazy with these lyrical content, but the beat is not kicking in. I did like that song he had where he flipped the Dead Presidents. Was it Poor Port Austino? Poor Audrey? Oh, something like that. I like that song a lot. I like that song a lot. I thought that the lyrics and the beat was a perfect marriage, too. And that's what's happening, I think, nowadays is, like, the lyrical content isn't connecting with the beat and the producers nowadays. It's not. It's not connecting too much. They feel like the producers is making a beat and people are just rapping over it and they're just not marrying together. But you have. But now I feel like lyrical content is coming into rap a lot better nowadays. So I think. I think. Will it come back? Yeah, I think. I think it will be coming back. I think depending how what happens after the end of this summer, we'll see what happens. So, yeah, that's my take on mainstream rap on lyrical content. And. Yeah, so good topic. It's a good topic. I like. I like talking like this. I like when we talk about topics like this. I. I do. I do another one for music. Like I said, we're gonna do the wrestling and the gaming things after because a lot of these are gonna be like, topics like this. Right? So it is a good episode. I like. I like this a lot. When we talk about lyrical content, why it's so weak in mainstream rap. I think it has to do with this. So one of the topics here I have written down is mixtapes versus studio albums. Now we got to talk about this. Because the reason I think mainstream rap and lyrical content is slacking is because of mixtapes, bro. The death of mixtapes will probably is what kind of destroyed the lyrical bars in mainstream rap. I'm gonna tell you so remixes back in the day, remixes, freestyles on other people's beats. Was it, bro, if you were around the. Just, you know, probably from the beginning of rap, but like especially like in the late 1990s, middle 1990et, I'm 90, I was 193. So you know, I have. It probably started like in the early 95 because I was able to listen to fucking music since I was three. So anything from 96 and up, I remember like my brain was functioning like I remember anything before that is okay, it's kind of fuzzy. I still, I. I was like 2 years old around like 1995. And I still remember decently because I was in the Bronx, I was in New York and. And you know, I was listening to music non stop, bro. So that's what it is. And everything was good. Everything was good because you have these artists and these rappers and all they want to do is they're putting all their lyrical content killing everyone else's beats. Let's say go a little further. Let's go. Let's say when Hov jumped on, jumped on, pumped it up, pump it up. We could talk about Joe earlier when, When Hovtov jumped on pump it up, it's like, all right, you have this, you have. The rappers are jumping on the beast and they're killing people's songs and everything. And then you have other things. Like let's say, let's talk about the Wayne era. Wayne was jumping on all these other songs and making all these mixtapes and it's just non stop. Other people's beats. But he's killing them all. The droughts. The droughts, the no ceilings, the drought series. The drought is over. Like all these mixtapes is just him jumping on other people's beats. And it was just fantastic. And it's just, yo, the beat is fire because we know what it is. And then the lyrics is what you're paying attention to more, right? Because the lyrics are different than the actual song. And you want to see, damn, he's killing this fucking remix. That's a lot of things with remixes, Remixes. Back in the day, people would put. Make remixes and put it on mixtapes and these remixes or these, these freestyles on these other people's songs or this newer version of other people's songs with these beats that we knew well, that's kind of pushing that artist to go more to mainstream rap. So it comes to, if you really think about it, it comes to like, let's say like Wayne, Wayne was like number one on that Right. Probably most likely he's jumping on other people's beats. He's killing them. He's going crazy. He's hearing remixes to them. Like he's just going nuts. Like, like when he jumped on that It's Me remix with Swizz Beats, he went nuts when everyone like it's. It's so many different remixes that people were jumping on where it was pushing lyrical content forward. Then out of nowhere, even, even we would talk about Drake again. Even Drake when he started, we was hearing the mixtapes and he was jumping on people's songs. He's jumping on a pop records, he's jumping on Coldplay records and doing remixes and that's what Wayne was doing too. And that kind of push it more forward. First time I heard Nicki was on the best I ever had remix. And you see those are the times when people were showing their lyrics and lyrics. Lyrical content was kind of like pushing to that mainstream rap. And I think the mixtapes was. Was doing that now studio albums you had. Alright, I heard this guy on a mixtape, let's see what he could do with a song. So now he's making. You're making a track, you're making a song. It's looking nice, it's sounding good and people are like, yo, he killed it on this song. And I want to hear what the studio album is going to be like. So the mixtape was kind of like the precursor to the album because it's like I is going crazy. I want to hear lyrics like this. I want to hear bars like this. Let's take it further. First time I started listening to Royce the Five Nine. Royce the Five Nine. I was hearing the bar exams, bro. I was a kid, I was like, I was like, you know, 14, not 14 history. It's like 12, 13, 14. Yeah, yeah. Around that area. And I'm listening to these bar exams because I'm going to these websites. Like back when hot new hip hop was just putting out like music just like people's remixes and music and everything. That's kind of why I heard. I heard Tory Lanez at first too. Like a lot of these musicians, right? We were hearing them on the come up. We were hearing on the mixtapes. I heard the. I was speaking of Tory Lanez. I was listening to Chicks tapes back in the day before he got famous, right? And they were all majority with those remixes. Which is why Chicks Tape 5 was amazing because like it went back to that kind of remixing mixtape sound album and then. And that's the thing about Studio albums now they. Studio albums. You. You're just listening, and you're not hearing the bars because you're listening how the song sounds. That's what usually studio albums are nowadays. They're not nowadays, but that's how they were before. You want to hear all the. All the lyrics, all the bars. You want to hear everyone get all their shit off on the mixtapes. And then the studio albums is where you want to hear just the music, the sounds, the songs. You want to hear what's going to be on the radio. You want to hear. You want to make those classics. And I bring up Trey Songz. I was listening to Let Me hold that Beat mixtape. Yeah, most people don't know about that. I was listening to Trey Songz. Kill them mixtapes. I listen to Chris Brown kill those mixtapes. They were rapping, bro. They were rapping, rapping. And then, you know, the studio albums, you'll see. Okay, I'm listening. I. I want to hear Trey songs. I want to hear Trey songs on the singing vibe, right? I want to hear Chris Brown, the singing, but I want to hear what this music is going, right? So. Yeah, man, I. Mixtapes were just so impactful back in the day, Especially a lot of people. I love that Piff. That Piff had all the. Had all the. With the. All. Definitely the Wayne. The Wayne premieres were always on that Piff. And then you know that the dedication mixtapes were nuts. You can't go. You cannot talk about mixtape without mentioning Wayne. You can't go. Even the. The old. Like I said, the old. The Drake albums were all mixtapes back in the day. We heard Beam Me Up, Scotty. We had the Nicki Minaj ones even go bad. We have mood music. I listen to most of the mood music. Mixtapes by Joe. I had a. Dude, we used to listen so much mixtapes, bro. And DJ Clue mixtapes. We had all the diss tracks. All the diss tracks were on the mixtapes. Listen, bro, 50 Cent had a hit in New York before in the club, bro. And it was that Sean Paul, bro. That Sean Paul and 50 Cent Song Shorty Not Ready. That was the hit was on a mixtape. And that's when we like, yo, we gotta hear what's next. This is a hit. Sometimes the hits came off mixtapes. I'm telling you, bro, you had. The mixtapes were just so impactful nowadays. The reason hip hop's not as impactful, I'm gonna tell you right now. I. Impactful, yes. But I'm talking about, like, majority of new, new artists. They don't have mixtapes, bro. Nobody wants to hear half the. You have. I know the baby just put out like a type of mixtape thing and he killed it. He killed it. It was a good. It was a good vibe, it was a good listen. But you know, come on, you have Fab. Fab. Fab's mixtapes are crazy, bro. Fat the soul tape. Mixtapes are good. All the DJ Clue shit was good, which he was always killing with those remixes. All the. The Locks, Jada Kisses mixtapes. Come on, bro. Mixtapes were too impactful for hip hop, bro. Nowadays, the. You know how we were just talking about their lyrical content? Mixtapes. No one's got mixtapes anymore, bro. Put those mixtapes. Of course they had. Then it came to an era of like everybody putting their mixtapes on SoundCloud. But. But once streaming came out and people started getting sued for using beats and it just became too political, bro. Like, let me use this fucking beat and make a fucking classic, bro. And don't get in your feelings, bro. I just killed you on your own song. I'm sorry, bro. I killed your beat. And now you feel in some sort of way you want to sue. What? That's killed hip hop, bro. Mixtapes, mixtapes. Mixtapes was hip hop to its core, bro. You got studio album. Studio albums was like, alright. Yeah, studio albums is, you know, you can. You can find good music. It's just good music. It. But the thing is it doesn't have that. It just. I always thought the studio albums were to make good songs and you can rap on them, rap them good, rap the good, good music songs, rap. You know what it is? You want to make the studio album like a classic. And now the mixtape. And then back in the day, the mixtape is like you're just barring going crazy. You're barring the fuck out. You don't even got to use another person's beat. You put. You put your bars right in that mixtape and just let that shit play, bro. Nowadays people are calling studio albums mixtapes. Like, this is not a studio album. This is a mixtape, bro. This is a fucking album. It's not a mixtape. Stop that. I'm getting a little tired of that shit too. Like, stop calling these studio albums nowadays mixtapes. That's that young shit. I'm young, bro. I'm 32 years old, but young is there calling mixtapes these albums, mixtapes, bro. No, that's not a mixtape, bro. You. You didn't kill anyone's beat on this and not Even that you didn't. It's not in the streets. I don't. I'm finding your mix if I'm finding your mixtape. A streaming album on a streaming platform, you're selling that. Mixtapes were free, bro. Mixtapes were free. I find that shit on that pit for free. Nah, this ain't a studio. This ain't. This is A Student is an album. You were in the studio when you made this. Probably not. Some people, they make album, they just make it. But I don't think it's a mixtape, bro. And that's the thing. I think mixtapes were impact, were so impactful in hip hop. And that's the reason like lyrical content is not pushed as far, because none of these people got fucking mixtapes like that, bro. Remember the we. We could take it to 2013. Kevin Gates mixtape was crazy. We had, bro. Meek Mill, the Dream Chain, Dream Chases was mixtapes, bro. It's crazy. It's crazy, bro. Big Sean Detroit. That shit's a mixtape, bro. Best. His best project to date. And I'm telling you, bro, all the. Don't get me started on J. Cole, Autumn J. Cole. All those J. Cole mixtapes sounded great, bro. They sounded great. And on top of that, this is on, on mixtapes, you were able to get all your samples off, bro. I'm. I can't get no one to clear this sample because Whitney Houston's not letting me clear this album. This, this sample of I'll always love you. But guess what? My dude from YouTube made a fucking crazy beat and he mixed that shit, sampled that. Let me, let me get on that, bro. Let me make this fuck. Let me put on my mixtape. I ain't selling it, but listen to me rap on this crazy ass sample. A lot of people did that shit. Come on Purple Haze by cam'. Ron. That shit is fantastic, bro. The. I guess me mad thinking about how good we had it with mixtapes, how good we had music, especially hip hop. Back then we had so much good music and most of them were on mixtapes. Now you pull out a studio album, it's just like, aight, album. Like let's talk about the call to six. I think the call to six. If Wayne would have put out a crazy mixtape before the call to six, we would have ate and then people would have looked at the album like, ah, this is for the songs. He was trying to make these songs. But we got the mixtape where he's going crazy on these bars. That's what should have happened, but that's what it Is, man, that's the impact. That's just the impact on mixtapes and studio albums, bro. Mixtapes have way crazier impact. The studio albums, especially hip hop. I don't care what nobody says they did, they did. It just did did, man. All the good. We had the best remixes come that a mixtape. We had the best bars come out of mixtapes. We had some of the best songs come out of mixtapes. We had everyone, all the top. All the top, like hip hop artists, especially musicians. Not musicians, rappers. They all came from the mixtape era where everyone was just spitting crazy. All the goats, all the greats of all times, man. But it is what it is, man. We, you know, people calling their studio mixtapes, and that's as close as we're gonna get. So. Yeah, that's. That's my thoughts on that. Yeah, that was pretty good, man. About 45 minutes, 46 minutes of music topics. So we're gonna do more like that. We're gonna do more like that, right? We're gonna have a lot more topics that are gonna be like that where it's not really things going on. It's just my thoughts in my brain. So I like that. Do we have anything more in music? Listen the album later. I'll do the. The JIT album review and the Kesha album review. Because I. I look, look, look, look, look. Look at y'. All. Look at y'. All. Oh, he's go. Listen, bro. I like all types of music, bro. So I'm gonna listen to. Oh, I'm gonna hear some of the Kesha album and I'm gonna listen to some of that Jed ep. We'll listen JIT EP first in the Cash album and we'll see what's going on. And I'll give my predictions. I don't care. I don't give a. I like music. I like all of it. Let's keep continuing, man. So I told you we're gonna. We're gonna talk about wrestling at the end. Let's jump into gaming. Let's jump into gaming. Let's jump into gaming. Let's jump into gaming. So let's hit on some gaming topics. Let's tell some topics of gaming is the same thing I want to do like we did in music, where we're talking about pretty much the whole episode is going to be like, this ain't really nothing that happened in gaming as well. No news, nothing to really talk about like that other than just like, some topics I want to get off and same thing with, like, majority of, like, the rest of the episode, right? There's one thing in film that kind of happened and we're going to talk about it. But when it comes to gaming, got three topics. Let's jump on the first one, right? The first one is the importance of narrative versus gameplay. We got to talk about this because, look, I'm going to give you my thoughts first. So let's do this. I think narrative is very important in gameplay nowadays. Nowadays. Nowadays. I'm going to tell you why I think engagement on these new AAA games have to have a good narrative for me to really, to keep playing, right? Because nowadays I think like every gameplay there's. There's another game that plays just like it. There's a clone of it, right? It's not like back in the day. So back in the day, let's say Super Mario 64 comes out. Ain't nothing else like it. So I don't got to be a fucking narrative. I was like, all right. This gameplay is just very unique. Smash Brothers don't got a narrative. This gameplay is really cool. Halo, the gameplay on Halo, I mean, it was a shooter. But Leo, this is really cool. The narrative got better because a lot of things started coming out with. With a lot of shooters started coming out with narratives. So then it's like, alright, now the narratives got to be good because it kind of separates you from all these other same type of games nowadays. People are. There's a lot of like online, like a lot of online servers games. That is just mainly the gameplay. Some of that. To me it just feels a little boring when a narrator is. No narrative there. I'll give an example. Like Final Fantasy 14 had like a narrative going into these online games. So this online game, so it did feel fun. It felt fresh. Everyone, we feel like something new is coming because they had a narrative. Same thing with kind of like, same thing with like Destiny. It did have like a narrative and it kept you more engaging and playing. But listen, bro, there's some games that just. The narrative is completely trash. And I'm like, man, I can't continue to play it because it's not fun to me. So let's talk about, let's talk about a good example of a good narrative game with a. Okay, so let's talk about the Last of Us. You know, you know, that's my favorite thing to talk about. But let's talk about like the core game mechanics, right? You're, you're just, you're just playing a zombie game. Is that playing a zombie apocalypse game? That's what you're doing, you're playing some zombie apocalypse game. Just like Dead island, just like a whole bunch of Manhunters, like a bunch of games that came out that were just like it. What stood out was the narrative. The narrative of the story is what made the game a classic. That is why narrative is very important for games like that, right? There's a lot of zombie games and the narrative has to be strong. Now let's give a. Let's give. Let's get something out different, right? I'll give Monster Hunter. I'll give Monster Hunter. Monster Hunter is a very, very good game for his gameplay because Monster Hunter has always been that game where you're just fighting big monsters and then they put narrative later on. But the majority core of the game is, hey, I'm fucking. I'm being the shit out of this big ass monster. Now nowadays, like I played Monster Hunter. What I have monster on a wilds. The. The narrative is garbage. I hated the story, but the gameplay is fantastic. And that's because there's no other game that's really like that. So it has a. Has a specific niche on gameplay that a lot of things don't. Doesn't have. You can play, let's say Grand Theft Auto. The narrator has to be decent, but the gameplay of Grand Theft Auto is what, you know, you go out there, you play. Some people just play online. They even play the. They didn't even play the story. And because there's no other really game like it or his game so strong that, you know, the gameplay is fun. Let's talk about shooters. It's a lot of shooters. Every fucking Call of Duty is a shooter that is. Feels like the same thing. You have to have a good story. Well, if I'm playing Black Ops and Modern Warfare, they're the same gameplay. What's different? It's got to be the narrative. The narrative is different. The narrative is good. This is why the importance of a narrative is more important than gameplay. Because a lot of things can be the same gameplay. Me and my girlfriend were playing was it called It Takes Two. It's just a platformer, but the narrative of the game is what keeps me intrigued. I'm playing it. Let's talk about some gameplay. Like, let's go back. Like. Like Legend of Zelda, right? Zelda has always had this specific gameplay that nothing was like it. Right. Then a lot of things started copying like the Zelda format. So then it became. Then Zelda started. Zelda always had a. Like the Legend of Zelda. Always had a narrative. It was a. It was pretty. It's a pretty good narrative honestly. If you really read up on and really play the game and like read in, read into it. But most people play for the games. They got the fighting monsters, you know, bosses and everything. Then a lot of games took from that formula and which they should. And then more things like, like Dark Souls came out and everything like that, that game, that sort of gameplay like that narrative is needed later because now you have to separate the. Between the two or characters narrative. It's more along the lines of hey, if this, if there's another game that's like this, then why am I not playing the other game? The other games got a better story as opposed to like my two example I gave Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls. Dark Souls essentially like the old like Ocarina, he's got like the Ocarina of Time ish type gameplay. But Dark Souls is extremely difficult as opposed to Zelda is not an extremely difficult game. So now you have, you have those separations, right? You have like all right, this is, you don't really need a narrative for this because the challenge of the game is what's keeping it strong and Legend of Zelda. If I keep playing every game that's like this, I'm gonna go to Legend Zelda because A, the characters already gone and B, I've already been following the narrative of all these timelines for a while. So this narrative I'm gonna keep on playing. Now if you have. This is the crazy part, alright, so you have things like you have those, those knockoffs, right? Like you have, you have like seen like Super Lucky's Tale on Xbox game pass and it's like trying to be in Super Mario world. Super Mario 64. Like, like this platform, like Super Mario. We already know the Mario Mario doesn't have a narrative, but he kind of does. Like if you play Sunshine, you know, narrative is he goes to jail, he's on probation, you got to wash things or whatever you. He's got to save the princess. Odyssey's got like a narrative. There's a little narrative there that I'm going to follow the narrative I've been following then play a random game. I don't give a fuck about when I have the same gameplay here. So gameplay and narrative are very important but distinguishes of what you're gonna play. My final fantasy, a lot of turn based plays games I want to play a turn based game. This is the turn based final fantasies. If I want to play a turn based Game in general, I can play any other turn based. Especially back in the day where it's like you had Chrono Trigger, you had all these other. And they're both from the same company, but you have all these other games that will turn based. But the difference is of course the character, but difference is the narrative. Like, why am I playing Chrono Trigger and I'm not playing Final Fantasy. Why am I not playing. Was Expedition 33 and I'm not playing Persona? Because the narratives are different. They both. The gameplay is similar because there's a lot of turn based things you got to know. Of course Persona uses monsters and you have your, you have your Persona like pieces, you know, I don't know what they are. They're monsters or something. I guess they're monsters like Persona fucking Ghost behind you. But as opposed to Expedition 33, the gameplay is very similar, but you're. You have. You're not using the characters like that because the narrative is gonna drive you more. So yes, like the importance of narrative is very important because I can put out a game that's just a clone of this and it'll work just as well. Same thing. Like let's say Bayonetta and Dante's the Devil May Cry, they got similar gameplay. But the reason I'm playing Bayonetta is for the narrative. The reason I'm playing Dante almost said Dante Inferno, Devil May Cry is because the narrative. So that's why narrative is very important. It distinguishes from the. Because a lot of gameplays can be the same. There's a lot of games that play the exact same no matter what. There's a lot of games that play the exact same and it's all about the narrative. Right? And there's a lot of things with. Well, like, like I said earlier, like I'm playing Halo, I play Halo. What's distinguishing me from playing Haze, remember Haze back in the day? What's distinguishing me from playing Destiny 2? What is the narrative is what I'm following. Sometimes the story mode matters. The story mode matters. Of course you have different things like, okay, you have these different weapons. There's a lot, there's a lot things that go into. But this is, this is. This topic is more along the lines of narratives versus gameplay. And the story mode matters to me a lot. At least to me it does matter to me a lot. Story mode of a game, especially after I'd say 2006, it's got. It's got a matter. Back then, 2005, it didn't really matter. Much back then was like, hey, the game, everything was coming out so almost the gameplay is always so new. Well, not really because let's say I'm playing Ratchet and Clank and I'm not playing Jak and Daxter. Honestly, they have different gameplay mechanics in there. But they're both platformers. Right? But the narratives are what distinguishes them. Now you have these things where the narratives are kind of similar, right? You have these games that have similar narratives and that's when the gameplay has got to come in. Well, this is a better game than this one. Well, this narrative kind of this like let's say Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy. Well, these narratives are kind of like they're not all the same. All right, let's say, let's say that's a best kind of a little bad example. But let me, let me tell, let me talk about that because it's like, alright, do I want to play turn base or do I want to play real time, right? So it's like Final Fantasy 7 versus Final Fantasy 7 remake. The narrative is gonna be the same, but the gameplay is different. One is hack and slash, real time combat. The other one is term based because it's older. Right? But the narratives are similar. They're the same. Do I really have to play remake if I already know the story of Final Fantasy 7? Not really. But they did add more to narrative. That's one thing. So it keeps me what it wants. It keeps me wanted to play it again and the game plays different. So now when I play it again, it's new. So yeah, that's more along the lines. Let's say, let's give another example. What's coming out? Oh, let's say, let's say the Pokemon games, right? I play that play Emerald version and I'm also playing Fire Red and Leaf Green. The gameplay is all the same. All the Pokemon games have the same gameplay. Other than the gimmicks. Right? Again, that's only mainly for competitive play where the gimmicks really count and matter. But the gameplay for all of them, they're all the same. But the narrative is a little different, right? The narrator ain't good, ain't best, but the narrative is a little different. Unless you're playing Arceus. Arceus? Yeah, Arceus. And regular and regular mainline games, they're gonna be different. So that's where it comes down to. But that's where it comes out. That's the importance. That's why I think narrative is very important, because it distinguishes from the gameplay. But Then also the gameplay, like Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy Remake, the gameplay is really. Is gonna be the. The meat of the matter. So that's what it is there. That's my thoughts on that. I want to bring this a little bit back. Okay, bring it a little bit back. Bring the camera a little bit back. Whatever. We can leave it like that. We got two more topics in gaming. I like, I like this. I like when I got. When I get to get topics. Whoever listens to this, if, if you guys have questions, put in the comment section. Hey, talk about this and I'll talk about it. I will, I will. I really will talk about it. So we're going to talk about how difficulty impacts players engagement. We don't have to go too long on this because I'll tell you right now, if the game's too hard, I don't really feel like playing, bro. If the game's too hard, I don't feel like playing. Look, a lot of people play Dark Souls. They play all those from software games. I don't find enjoyment if I get too stressed. Yeah, yeah. I gotta get good. And I could beat it. I could get good. I just don't want to, bro. I just don't want. I get frustrated, I guess. Not fun. I got so many other games to play where they don't frustrate me. Now do I feel like sometimes I can go to a little bit more challenging games? Yes. Do I want to put every game on hard mode? No. Sometimes I just want to. When I play, I play to ease my mind, right? There's a lot of stressful things that go out and they go on lives, right? But I go to. I go to play some games to escape. I don't want to stress too much. If I'm playing like a competitive game online, then yeah, like if I'm playing like, like a fighting game and I'm getting my ass kick 800 times, I'm gonna fucking stress, right? But that, that's not. I don't think that's really difficulty, that thing. That's just skill level. And especially if you're. We'll say talking about earlier, was it if you play like Pokemon vgc, they'll get me started on what RNG plays a factor in distress levels of that. But when it comes to like difficulties. Am I playing, let's say I'm gonna play Spider Man 2. Do I feel like putting Spider Man 2 on a hard mode the first time I play? No. I might play later if I really like the game. I'm gonna play later. I'll put on hard mode, but really play for the story. Damn, I should have used that in the narrative video. But the gameplay, if it's normal enough for me to just continue, I don't want things to be too easy. I don't want things to be frustratingly hard. I want the middle. Like, I. It's possible. I don't have to stop what I'm doing and go grind and then come back. Some games I do like. So we'll talk about, like I said, like, most of the fromsoftware games I can get to them. I'll be like, alright, I'll play them later as a challenge. But at the moment, there's a lot of things going on around that I don't feel like adding more frustrations, especially to the place that when I come to get my piece at, I don't want to be frustrated at. So you got to be in a very good state of mind to be like, all right. There's no other stressful things happening around in life where I'm like, all right, now I can just play this. I got things to do. We all got things to do right now. So, like, it is a lot of life challenges. So it's like, man, I'm gonna make the game hard and my life hard. Nah. So that's where that's. That's how it kind of impacts my engagement. But let's say I was playing it the other day. I was playing Kingdom Hearts 3, and the game was fairly easy the first time I played. Right? But I've been playing Kingdom Hearts since the beginning and I was wanting critical mode. So when they brought out Critical Mode, the game got harder and I'm like, all right, I like this type of challenge because I'm already. I've already mastered the last two games. Let me master the third one. And that's how it kind of seems like in most other games. I'll give an example for God of War as well. But let me finish with this KH example. I played Critical Mode. I beat it in Critical Mode. And then I got the DLC. And now the DLC, you have to fight all these ball, all the 12, the 13 darknesses, and they're all extremely fucking difficult. Now, I'm gonna tell you right now, back in 2019 or 2020, when this came out, I beat them. I don't know how in Critical Mode, I beat them all. And I think it was because it was during a pandemic and I had nothing else to do other than Try to look for work or the small amount of work. It was pandemic. We all remember, so we. I just. I don't know, I grind. It must have been like. It's different now where I have, like, a life, right? I have a life outside of, like, just playing games. So I don't have the time to really stick there and battle a boss for 24 hours who's extremely difficult and then come back later. Especially me. I have to, like, win. So, like, if I don't beat the boss, I feel like I have to beat him that day or I can't move on. So it's like, all right, I have to. I have to beat him or I'm gonna be frustrated and mad the entire day night until I beat it again. And this is. I was. When I was playing a Final Fantasy 7 remake. The last ending fight. I won't spoil anything. I got frustrated as shit, and I couldn't. It was on normal mode, right? But that's kind of what happened. I. I had to stop. I had to stop playing because I had to figure out how to win. Of course I figured it out. I beat. I beat. Not remake, Rebirth. I beat at the end, and then I moved on. But I feel like I wasn't complete until I finish it. So that's how the. The difficulty of a game. It's just like, I. If I can't beat this part, beat this boss right now, I'm gonna think about it the entire day, and I'm not gonna have fun. It's gonna be turned into a challenge. Instead of my engagement is gonna be kind of, like, blown off a little bit. So it's like I'm gonna say the God of War. I play God of War. I'll play God of War 1, then that one. I'll play God of War 4, which is God of War for PS4. I played it on normal mode. I still thought it was pretty challenging, right? It was still a decent challenge. I tried to play on hard mode, and I was playing it, but some of the fights, I was like, man, I have to stick here and die so many times. And I hate watching my character die so many times. And I'm like, if I can beat this, right, I can be. I can keep continuing beating it, which I ended up doing. But then later on, like, man, that took a lot of me out of me. And now I don't really care for it. So I stopped playing it. I did beat the game, of course, but I'm talking about the normal mode. I beat the Game, the hard mode. I was just like, I'm not doing this anymore. Then you have games like Fallout 4. Fallout 4 has a survival mode. I love survival mode. I love survival so much. And the thing is, because that all depends on the. It's not the difficulty of the game itself because the game is pretty difficult on survival mode. Absolutely difficult. It's just the choices you have to make. And there's ways to make things easier if you make the right decisions. And I feel like that's more along with life. So it's like, all right. In survival mode, if you play. Fallout 4 is one of my favorite games ever made. And if you play survival mode, you're playing it. You have to feed your character. You have to drink water. You. The character has to do a lot. Like, it's a very. It's in. Every time I play it. When I. Every time I play it again, it always feels fresh and new because it feels like you're, You're. You gotta, you know, you gotta feed your character. You got to do all these characters. That's my. I love that sort of difficulty. That is. But when I'm fighting a boss and he one shots me every single time and I have to find. I have to like, find like the path this boss goes through so I can get the hit. And then it takes so much time, I feel like the engagement just drops. Sometimes I like to just beat the shit out of the boss until he's dead and then do a couple dodges and do. I like that fast track. And it's like, all right, I'm about to die. My health is low. I got hit a couple times. Let me heal as opposed to. I got one shotted. I just did all that. I got one shot and died. So, yeah, so my engagement, me as a player, my engagement just drops. But a lot of other people out there, you know, they like that challenge. And that's what they do. They don't like games being too easy. They don't like. They play games that challenge themselves. Themselves. And I, I respect that. I do respect that. 100 and that's. That's on them. That's not me. I play games to enjoy the story and then to enjoy the gameplay. If I'm especially able to hack and slash, learn some new moves, do some cool flashy hits, I like that. So, yeah, so that's my. That's my thoughts on that. One more topic. In gaming, are graphics overrated in modern games? Yes, yes, yes. You make. You can make the greatest looking game ever if the Gameplay sucks. It doesn't matter. Um, I was playing Forspoken. Forspoken looked. It looked great. It looked good. It looked like a good game. Um, this gameplay kind of sucked. Well, it might be the other way around. I think for spoken the gameplay was better than graphics look weird was. It may have been something. Let me use a different example. Let's say this. Let's say this. I can't. What can I think of Fallout Fallout 4 ain't the best graphics, but the gameplay is really fun. So do I care about the graphics? No. A lot of the Pokemon games nowadays, it's got a lot. The graphics don't matter. The gameplay is fun. I don't care if they look like modern graphics. Now some triple A games if they should have better graphics, right? Like if you're making Game of the Year, like Jeff's Game of the Year, right, You want to make a death stranding to Death stranding to the gameplay. The gameplay of Death Stranding 1 was okay, but the graphics look amazing. Sometimes you want to see. You want to play something is as good to look at. If you're trying to go for something like that, then yeah, focus on graphics. Focus on those things looking nice. But the gameplay is what really matters the most. You could have the most beautiful graphics in the world. The game sucks. Game sucks. The game sucks. The game sucks. That's just what it is. What's a game that had a lot of over graphics Overrated. I can't think of any. I can't think of. Well, that is a game that came out that is like a. Oh, Mind's Eye, I think Mind's Eye. The game. Oh, that might be. That might be the other way around too. But in general, the gravity, I mean, you can't have things look super choppy, right? You can't have a game that looks like it was made like for a PS2 and. And like try to play it now. Like I'm. It's too outdated. So you can't play too much outdated graphics, right? But the game could. I remember back in the day when Anthem came out, Anthem came out against them. Looked like a beautiful game. But what happened was the game itself sucked. So I could. I don't care how good the game looks, I'm not gonna play it. I don't care for it whatsoever. So the one. One thing that. Yeah, the graphics can be amazing. Make sure the bugs. There's no bugs. Make sure the game is playable. There's a lot. What's that game thing? It was Death Loop Deathloop looked good. It was one of the. Is one of those games that it was one of. I think it was like a launch title or something, almost a launch title. It looked great, but I didn't really care much for the game. And that's the thing. And also we got to remember that when. When games are coming out, especially when, when the new consoles coming out, there's like a few games that look good and they're very. They're pushing those graphics. And then like when you play the game, it either A, doesn't look like the trailer, B, it's only good for people who play and completely forget to forget the game existed. I'll give example order 1863. It was. It came out for a PlayStation 4, I believe. And the game looked beautiful for its time, but the gameplay and the narrative sucked and it was so short. So the graphics didn't matter. It was all about how much fun you have. Right. So that's what it is. And you have games like Minecraft that they don't focus too much on graphics. Of course, the graphics on Minecraft were just, you know, it's Minecraft, so people didn't care. That's the highest selling game ever. And you know why? Because the gameplay was fun. So that's the thing about that. Graphics don't matter. Graphics really don't matter. They kind of do. They do in a sense, like, hey, all right, so I'm saying that. But let's say, let's say I think frame rate is what matters the most. I'll tell you that right now. I play most of my. So most of these games, especially nowadays, they have a. Do you want to play on performance mode or you want to play on. Was it presentation mode or something? It's like performance. And the other one is presentation or something. Yes, I'm playing on performance. I want to see things run at 60 frames a second. I don't care if it's running beautifully, if it looks gorgeous on 30 frames per second. No, I want 60 frames per second running games. It could the graphics take a hit. I don't care if the graphics take a hit. I want the game to run at 60 frames per second. So that's where it comes down to. I think graphics are overrated. Yes. You have games that have horrible graphics that are still good. I always gave one earlier and it was just like we gave a couple earlier. But it's just what it is, man. The graphics don't got to be great, especially modern games. I think the games got to Be good. I think things can find their niche and graphics are a little overrated, but they can't be too outdated. But performance, performance is the number one key. So, yeah, that's my topics. But that's it in gaming. That's it in gaming. Yeah, that's what we do. That's what we have. So that's it in gaming there. And next, let's jump into. We'll jump into film right after these messages. And we're back. And when it comes to film, the only one thing I want to talk about, I had a bunch of topics, but we're gonna save those because I do want to get to wrestling. The one thing I want to talk about, and this is kind of sad, and this is, apparently they put a disclaimer on Rush Hour talking about how anything, any of the jokes are outdated and that if anyone's offended by any of the old comedy jokes, that's what the movie is going to contain and they're sorry. There's two things I got to say about that one. Rush Hour should not be telling anybody that they are apologetic for offending people because that is a great movie. That is one of the best, funniest movies ever made. The nerve of these people to not get the time where these jokes were hilarious. They were funny. We all laughed. We didn't care. We knew it wasn't malicious. That's the audacity to these people. Now, I don't care what fucking snowflake listens to this right now. At a certain time, before the Internet, before there was so many fucking sensitive pussies in the world, there were people who can take a joke. I'm so tired of this generation. And I'm gonna tell you one thing. It's not even this generation. It's also the last generation. And I don't care. Flame me for it. Because anything, any era, any thing with the word gen in it, Gen Z and Gen X, they're the ones crying about this. Millennials don't cry about this much. And if they do, their pussies. I'll tell you that right now. I don't care. I don't care. That offends me that we have to put a disclaimer on Rush Hour because, oh, these got some jokes. Jokes sometimes are offensive. That's what makes it funny, bro. Don't watch it. I don't know. I'm so. I'm so tired of these. Like back in the day, right? Back in the day, these jokes were, okay, this is a multi million dollar movie. So this Movie is everywhere. They played this movie on national television. They played this movie in the movie theaters. They like this movie was out more, was in more places than the actual Internet. Rush hour, water Rush hour, all the rush hours, bro. A lot. You know how many millions of people watch this movie and there was no backlash back in the day, back when it was in the movie theaters where there's millions of people watching, everyone's laughing, everyone's having a good fucking time watching this movie. There is. Nobody's going crazy. There's no. Oh, my God. There's offensive words being said, offensive jokes being said. We need to take the movie off the movie theater, take the movie off of shelves off. I. It's the difference in the people nowadays. Because humans were still humans back then. Offensive. Was still offensive back then. But not everybody was offended by everything. People just want to make. I'm telling you, people just want to make a headline. It's all about headline. There's nothing else in the world going on at certain times, so they need to make a headline. These are all articles. Just making these things known. I'm going to tell you how this works, all right? Article firm WW I'm a snowflake.com is need something. They need a story. They need a story. They have nothing else. Editor pants McGee watches. Goes on Netflix and watches Rush Hour mag. McGee is possibly 23 years old, right? Because he's 23, 24. Why not 24, 23, 25, at least. Hell, he's 27, right? A lot of fucking. This is what happens. And then on top of that, he watches it or she. He or she. Either one of them watches it, says, oh, my God, that's pretty fucked up what they said. Or that's pretty fucked up what they said. Or that's pretty fucked up what they said, man. I'm gonna write about this. That's a good story. I can write about this. That's probably what fucking happened. So now fucking. There's a story on. Is Rush Hour too offensive? Let's put it on Twitter. Now some fucking snowflake sees it and says, yeah, now that you think of it, I want to tell. I feel a little bit offended. I want attention. I want attention, too. So they decided to fucking write a comment. And now you guys, guys like me, they're saying, bro, stop being a fucking pussy. Or chick, stop being so fucking goddamn sensitive. And like, oh, my God, no, because this and this and this and. Or this and this. You know, you have those snowflakes of people that just take offense to everything. And now you have a whole conversation, a whole war of people talking their thoughts, right? So this wasn't happening back in the day because there was no Twitter, there was no social media. Let me say this. There was no Twitter. So now it gets word to Netflix possibly, and because somebody on the Netflix team is on there too. And he's like, yeah, man, this is pretty offensive. I was born in fucking. I was born 20 years ago, man. I was a. My brain started working at 15 in 2011, 2012. I think that's pretty offensive. Back then, we fucking laughed at jokes, bro. Was just a joke, bro. It was funny. We weren't saying it as a complete offensive. We'll saying it as a joke. People were saying jokes. Those jokes that are said there. Look, bro, half of the joke, it pisses me off. It's in me off. Yes, they say a lot of jokes in the movie, bro. And it's like, listen, dude, this is like I said on the disclaimer. Disclaimer said, this was a time, it was a different time. And that's pretty crazy that we have to say things like that. Where it's like, oh, it's different times. It's different times. The only thing that's really changed in times is the Internet. Humans are still humans. We still have three legs, which I understand. Look, there's always been like racist people in the world, right? There's always been those type of people that they look at you like. Yeah, it's always been right. If you really want to go really, we won't have this topic here. We'll have. We'll have this topic on like a real Patreon episode where everybody in the world, every single human in the world is racist. But we're not going to talk about that now. That's. You got to pay for that conversation. But for this one, we'll give you for the free, bro. Stop being sensitive, pussies. Take a joke. If it's a joke and it's not offensive, it's good. It's funny. And that movie was hilarious back in the day. I know some people are like, well, I didn't find a hilarious with this joke. Get over it, bro. Are you harmed or does it hurt you? Are you. Are you disintegrating as you speak? Did you just get harmed on your, like, on somewhere in your body? No, the only thing I got harm in your body is your bro. I'm talking to the men. Women. I'm sorry, I'm not talking about the women. Right there. The snowflake women, I'll give you more of a lenient of a pass because I'll give you more of a pass because it's just the way society has grown, right? If you can find too much things offensive, finds offensive, right? You guys have your thoughts? I'm not gonna go more into a thing. I, I hearing it from, hearing from a dude different, like saying, bro, fucking toughen up, bro. That's how the like, like some of the jokes, right? But even now, fuck that, bro. Anybody, bro? Anybody? Stop being pussies. Stop, stop. I don't care. I don't care. It's not about, oh, fucking. I know. People will be like, oh, well, pussies take more of a beating that. Nah, I'm not talking about, like, in general of like, women and men. Like, I'm talking about, stop being such pussies, bro. At my time, you can call anybody a pussy. And you know what that would mean. That means they're scared little snowflake pricks. So stop being little snowflakes. It's a joke. Don't feel offended. It's a movie. When this movie was in millions of millions of people's households, no one found it offensive like that, to a point where there was articles being written. And if there is it, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are still good. They're the jokes that were being said. There was people over there and it was flying and no one felt offended there. But nowadays you got to put disclaimers on old movies that said jokes like that. I understand. It's different time. I understand. Like, there's some things you can't say because different times. Yes, I understand. And I'm not really attacking. Well, yes, I am attacking people, but I'm also saying, like, hey, if something comes out around times now, it's different, right? Because it's like, all right, there's some things that you can feel offended for, bro. There's some things that you can feel offended for. This. There's way different things you could feel offended for. Look, bro, as a grown man back in the day in New York, we said shit. We had different ways of communicating. I don't want to say that anymore because it just doesn't feel professional. Some things that don't feel professional that you do want to say, but if I got to crash out, crash out. But I understand some things when they're offensive. But a movie that came out years ago, you're going to say, hey, I feel offended now. Tough log, bro. If a movie comes out now and you're like, all Right. That's pretty fucking offensive. You're straight, bro. That jokes were a little bit. Took it too far. I'll understand. I still think you're a fucking snowflake, because I can call you that. But I'll understand. I'll call you Snowflake until Snowflake is fucked up. Snowflake is going to be an offensive word later on, and they're probably gonna find this video and be like, oh, it's offensive. I don't give a, bro. I don't give a. I don't. I don't. Later, I will. Yeah. At that time, like, oh, man. It. Yeah, I was wallowing out years ago. I'm gonna say that. I don't give a. Yeah, I mean, say that, bro. I'll. Because I. This is how I feel now. But I guess you could address it like that, right? Because that's kind of was saying the same thing. Like, but it's a movie, man. Honestly. Now, I won't say. I'd be like, yo, bro, get over it. But same thing. Like, don't adjust. Don't apologize for comedy. Don't apologize for comedy from years ago. Because that was jokes. We were laughing. That's what it is. Okay. Yeah, that's what I believe. I. I say my word. This is what it is. I don't give a. Crash out on me if you want. The comment section is right there. That's what it is. So that's all I kind of got to say in. In TV and film. I have a lot more topics for that, but we're gonna leave that till later. Jump to wrestling. Let's jump to wrestling topics. I'm not. Okay, so we. I am gonna watch all in this weekend. I think it's this weekend. Yeah, I'm gonna watch all in this weekend. So we're gonna talk about. So we can talk about aw later. And we could talk about Evolution, because I want to watch Evolution too, but. And Saturday event. I'm gonna watch all of them. But I think. What's it called? I don't watch Aw Live. I just. I'm more intrigued in AEW card than anything. And we'll talk about the card and our predictions on the next episode. Because I think. Because tonight's Monday Night Raw. I'm recording some Monday, and I want to know what happens then before someone gets injured and my video becomes completely outdated because something happened to, like, Trish Stratus or something. Like she doesn't feel like doing the match anymore or something. Right. So not anything bad. Like. Like something like that. So. And same thing all in card can completely change. So let's wait until right. Go a little bit closer to the thing. Let's talk about some topics, man. First of all, we're gonna talk about what this WWE Unreal is supposed to be. We're gonna talk about that. I think it's the stupidest thing ever. I think it's the stupidest thing ever. Looking behind the curtain of wrestling. When we were younger, our hearts already broke when we found out that wrestling is fake. Now you want to rub it in our faces? Let's show them how much more fake it is. And it's not fake. Okay? The wrestling is not fake. It's just predetermined. And it. It, it. It's not fake. It's not fake. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say fake. It's really disrespectful. That's disrespectful. Like, that's. That's. That's offensive. That's real offense. Like, I'm sorry for that. But I don't like this Unreal, I'll tell you that. I just don't like the WWE Unreal. You're going to back and just see the story lines, what the storyline should have been. I think the magic of wrestling is how everyone is playing their character very well. And if they start exposing people's characters, it gets a little bit harder. So things like this, like, let's say WWE Unreal, it's something like, like, I. I don't want to see. Let's see. I don't. CM Punk's a character, but CM Punk's also himself as a character. Kind of like Phil Brooks kind of always feels like they're the same person. But now we got to see CM Punk holding a script. I don't think he holds a script, but I'm using an example. Someone, a wrestler holding a script and like, practicing their lines. I don't want to see that because next time I watch Raw, I mean, as a person who criticizes wrestling and critiques wrestling. Yes. I'm always talking about how good a person's work is. Like, that. I understand. But the. For the people who don't view it like that, it's kind of like destroying a little bit of their experience. And the thing is, I could understand. The thing is this WWE Unreal tots things, thoughts. It feels. I think it's going on Netflix if I'm not. And Netflix is a big. It's not like A E. It's not like going On A E where there's a niche audience that watch it. It's going on Netflix. So a lot of people don't have nothing to watch. They'll be like, oh, I might as well just watch Unreal. And it's gonna hit a bigger audience where it can just ruin, like, the perception of wrestling is. Yes, it's predetermined. Yes. I think they want you to know that. I think they want you more to know that. But that's not why I used to, like. I like. I like my kayfabe to just be real. I like my realistic kayfabe type things. Right? So a lot of. A lot of. A lot of. A lot of OGs in. In the wrestling space not liking it. I know Jake the Snake Roberts went crazy. He crashed out on it. When Paul Heyman. When they. Even. Even if you remember the Pat McAfee, when he was asking Paul Heyman about it, Paul Heyman's like, listen, man, they want to do it, they gonna do it. I. You know, even Paul Heyman was like, man, I'm not. I'm not really feeling this like that. I can only. I can only imagine what Jim's gonna say this. There's just so much things that should still not be like, I don't like that at all, man. I don't like it. I don't like that. They're gonna show the writers who. I don't give a. About Jimmy from the writer's room. Keep him back there. I know Triple H Books. I know Triple H is head of creative. I don't want to see him be head of creative. I don't. I want to hear that he's head of creative. I want to know what he's thinking. I don't want to see him writing nothing down. I don't want to see those things. But they don't care. They're gonna still put it out. They're still gonna show you. So let's see what happens. Like, I. I like, you know, things like. Like, let's say the podcast, like the Cody Rhodes podcast. I like seeing things like that because it doesn't really take away from the Cody Rhodes character. But it's not scripted. I don't want to see the script. That's what it is. I don't want to see the script. I don't want to see behind the scenes unless I'm really looking for it. Don't throw it in my face. Then again, I could just not press play, right? There's a couple people that just don't care about the wrestling space and they're going to watch it. I'm not all the way against it. If you don't give two shits about wrestling, watch it. I'll tell you that right now. Whoever doesn't care what about wrestling, watch that show as a person, as a guy, as a fucking mark who watch has been watching wrestling for almost 30 years now. I do not want to see that. But I'm gonna watch it. I don't want to watch it, but I'm going to. I'm gonna give my thoughts. Okay, listen, I'm gonna watch the first episode and probably be like, I can't take this no more. Then we're gonna come here and crash out about it. So that's just my thoughts on it, man. I don't, I don't like seeing things like that. I don't like the. What they say. I don't like them exposing the business. I don't like expo. I don't like the exposure like that. I don't like it. I just don't. But they're gonna do what they want to do. So am I mad at it? No, but I don't want to see, I don't want to see them in the boardroom talking about, hey, this is what we should do for SummerSlam. But nah, what about this? We should do this storyline. Let's, let's come up with this thing. They're probably gonna talk about that John Cena rock heel turn shit. Like, I want to see the magic there. I don't. Or if you're gonna tell me about it, tell me about it years later. Don't tell me about something I just saw. I don't want to see that because now I'm gonna look at this Cody Rhodes feud and John Cena feud and be like, damn, man, it feels so manufactured now. And I know it is. We all know in the back of our minds it is. But don't, don't show us. But it is what it is. They're gonna show us anyway. So they do their thing. They do what they want. They do what they want. Last thing I want to talk about, because I did have another topic, but we're running short on time and we'll just tackle that next week or next episode. Let's talk about what the championship runs of the last five years. So I'm kind of counting the end of 2019 to 2025. So five and a half year, like five years, right? And this is mainly. I'm going to talk about mainly between WWE and aew. Right. So we have. I have a little list there and we'll be. I want to just explain and give my thoughts not too long, just quickly on all these title runs. All right. So I'm not going to come up with, which I think is my favorite one. So let's see. Let's. Let's start. Aw, we started wwe. Is there a way? Because I did follow most of these runs. Even though I stopped watching like recently, I. I do follow the run. I did. I. I can't give my thoughts on them. So let's take a look. So five years and five years of WWE and pretty much the beginning only World Champions. We'll do like. We'll do like Mid Cards Championship and Tag Team Champions another day. But I'm talking about just the World Championship. So. So right now, let's see. Chris Jericho was the first AEW champion. I thought that was a fun, very fun run for the small amount that it was there for. I thought it was. I think that run needed to be a little longer. When he brung in the inner circle, I thought it was. It did end too fast. It was in August when it started now October. I thought, oh, well, he wanted it all in, all out. All out, all out. The first all out. So it was. He had it from all out and then he like lost it in February, which I think the TV started in October. And I think he was really starting to get some motion going. But then he lost it to Jon Moxley, the exact. Which was at Revolution. And also John Moxley. I think John. The first John Moxley reign. I think Jon Moxley took it too soon. I know Moxley was real red hot at the time and they put it on him because he was just red hot and. But I do think Chris Jericho should have had a little longer with that title. So that's. That there. Jon Moxley did win a revolution and then he lost to Kenny Omega, which I think my favorite aw. World Championship run was the Kenny Omega run. He had it from almost a year. It was almost a year. It was like from December all the way to like November. And he had the. He was the belt collector. And I thought that was an amazing run. I thought I had a lot of fun. He had the Don Callis. He turned heel at the time. It was a very, very, very good run. I think that was my favorite. That has to be my favorite AEW title run. We're gonna go down the list a little bit more and see if it is. But I think that was my favorite One he had, he had some good man. He had the good match with John Moxley, had great match with Daniel Bryan at the time. That was a fantastic match. When they had it at Grand Slam, he had a good triple threat match. I think it was with. With Cassidy. I forgot the guy's name. Orange Cassidy. There you go. Orange Cassidy. And I think it was Pac. It was. It was a triple threat. It was really fun to watch. He did win the TNA title as well. He then lost it to Christian. But he was like the belt. He had all the bells. I think he had the. He had the TNA World bell. He had like the AAA Champion belt that was. He had like the bell collector gimmick. And it was. I, I thought it was very fun. It was fun tv. He had Don Callis there. It. I think so far that might have been my favorite AEW World Championship run. We're going down the list a little bit more. Adam. Adam Page, hangman. Adam Page did take it from Kenny Omega. I thought the story was built very well. And Adam Robert Page had to win that match. He wanted full gear 20, 21. And I did like. I like that. Love the match. I love the boy build. I love the storyteller. I love. I loved it. I did wish Kenny did have it a little longer and a personal favorite, but I don't think. I think Adam Page took it at. I think it was the right person to put it on. I just think it should have. Kenny Omega should have had it a little longer. Even though. Even though almost, almost a year. I think he should have won a full year. I don't know if he won a full year. I can't remember. But Adam Page, Adam Page, then, then Punk because Punk had come back and then Punk won it from Adam Page. The thing is, the Adam Page run sucked. I think that's when it really declined. Aw. Really started like declining with Adam Page as the world champion. Now I do like that he was world champion. He took it from Kenny Omega, but I didn't like his run. I think he had like a fight with Adam Cole and then he had another. He had another. Had another feud and then the CM Punk feud. And you know that, you know what happened. You, you, you know what happened in that feud. You know where everything stemmed from this feud. And then Punk won it. Punk beat him at double or nothing for the title. But then Punk got injured. So that run was that. That run didn't go anywhere. Moxley then became the champion. He became like the. He was like the champion. The inner. I I hate the word. The interim champion or something. And he was like the champion to the champion came back. I hate that. But whatever it is, whatever they can say, go ahead. Then he became like the world champion. He beat CM Punk. He beat CM Punk and then I'm pretty sure he. Okay, so he beat CM Punk for the title because Punk came back and Punk lost. Like the whole thing was that Punk came back and then Jon Moxley still beat him for the title. And then I get. They had another match and then Punk won that match. But then Punk at all out Brawl out happened and then Punk got stripped of the title. If I remember. I'm pretty sure that's how I went. So then they put it back on Moxley and Moxley had it again. And Moxley was. This was Moxley's second and third reign. But I con. I honestly called it just the second reign because he's technically a four time champion. But I do consider him as to say that second time champion. Then later that. Later that year, MJF took the title. MJF is running was interesting because I did like MJF as a champion. I do not like. So I kind of like the Adam Cole thing. Then he turned baby face. I think it was a big mistake. I think they should have just had him be a heel the entire time. And then a baby face beat him. But he did. Yeah, he had. He had it for like he had it for over a year, right? He had it for like a year and a year. Okay. Says here November 19, 2022 to December 30, 2023. The thing is he had that feud. He had the feud brewing with Adam Cole and he. They won the tag. They won some tag title I think the RH tag titles. And then they had their match at. At all in the big all and the Wembley Stadium all end well. They're all. Two of them were at Wembley Stadium but all in the. The. The big one and they had that as a main event. He's no one turned. I remember no one turning. And then MJF was just a baby face and I didn't. I'm glad they had MJF do some babyface things because a lot of people were reacting to him. But then I do wish he could have stood being a heel and that run would have been a lot better. I hated when. The one thing I hate is when he versed Kenny Omega. There was no build to that match because Kenny Omega had like the record. And then Kenny Omega tried to stop the record. But there was no build. There was no build to that match. I can't the. I can't remember much of the MJF title defenses. I know the. He had to. He had a great one with Daniel Bryan, he had a fantastic match with Daniel Bryan and I can't remember Jon Moxley's reign before that. The MJF one. I'm pretty sure MJF took it and I can't remember much of the matches, but MJF and Daniel Bryan was fantastic. They had like that amazing Iron man match. There's not much memorable ones. I really remember they had an Adam Cole one. The Adam Cole title defense was good. It was a good match. It was great matches, by the way, and. But I just can't remember much of the ones. Then Some More Joe beat him and I was glad that Some More Joe was a champion. I really like just Samoa Joe being champ because he started coming up and he had like the TNT title, he had like the Ring of Honor title and he was really good. And then he started coming up. Then when I saw, when I saw Samoa Joe bmjf, I was like, about time again. Because I remember MJ was being. Was a little injured at the time, but everybody wanted it on Swerve Strickland. Swerve should have won the title, but before Samoa Joe. I think you could have pushed a button on Swerve Strickland a little sooner, but then Swerve Strickland ended up beating Samoa Joe and he ended up winning the title. So I can't remember so much of Samoa Joe's matches either. I remember he did face. Who'd he face? He faced Adam Cole like some people. I can't remember the run that much. He had it from December to April, so he had a four. He had it for like four, four or five months. Woody Verse. I. I can't remember. I really can't generally remember. And that's the thing, that's the thing about these title runs. S sorv had it another one. I think they pushed a button too late on Swerve Strickland. He did have an amazing match with Will Ospreay at the time and Osprey came back and everyone thought Osprey should have won. I thought Osprey should have won. But it was the right move to not have Ospreay win. So I get it. It was a good move. I still think Osprey is the star of aew and if you want to rocket that company, you put that world title on. On Will Ospreay. And I'M telling you the they I will talk about the all in card next week. Later this week Daniel Bryan did beat Swerve Strickland. I thought that match was amazing. I remember everyone was. It was Daniel Bryan was retiring the word had gotten out and yeah he just decided to what's called he. They. They put it on the belt on him and he won at all in at London. It was a great match. It was a great match with Swerve Strickland. I I remember Swerve have a the Swerve had to the title match with with Adam Page. I think they had all their fights before he got the title but I can't much. I can't remember much of Swerve Strickland's title matches either. Daniel Bryan he did lose it to Jon Moxley. I think he said he wanted John Moxley he wanted to put Jon Moxley over. It was a big moment. He wanted it all in. I remember how big of a moment it was. Jon Moxley's on his third reign which is currently now he won it back in October of last year and it's wasn't they July so he had it for November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July. So he had it for almost 10 months. So it's a decent run. I don't think is connected more than it should. Here's what I think. I think the idea was good. I just don't think the executed it well. He's been holding on to that title for a little minute and I think because Jon Moxley has had the title three times I think that kind of hurts the like the gimmick right now that like the the storyline. But I do. It's not the worst. It ain't the worst storyline ever. But I do think that they probably should have done the storyline with someone else or. Because I. I think Jon Moxley should have been like the stone cold like stone cold Steve Austin of aew. Like I think I seen a lot of I you know I'm not talking about the work, I'm talking about what they could have done. So I know the this thing that he bleeds a lot as his gimmick but his attitude he could like when he first came in red hot the people were looking him like hey man. He's like. He's like. He can be this. He's like the star of aew which kind of like in a sense he is a star. He is a star of aew but he could have been rocketed to like I said of course I'm not talking about his work. I'm talking about like the, his, his heat, like the street, like the amount of, of star power he had when he came in. He had a lot of star power when he came in. So I think they could have rocket that to the moon. But they didn't. He didn't, of course, because he had so much all. Most of his matches were always hardcore and I think that did hurt it because it became like something we see every day and it wasn't special. Even though all those matches are like, all those matches he had were always like, I'm going to say, like they, they always talked about, they always talked about. So, you know, in a sense he was always in the spotlight, but he won it. He would, he went, he went it out. Yeah, he went. A wrestle dream from Daniel Bryan. So that's what it is there. So at all the champions there that we just read. I think I go more with the Kenny Omega run. The Kenny Omega run was so fun. I think that was a really, really, really fun run. Like I did, first of all, AW was like @ its peak around that time and it was just, I really enjoyed Kenny Omega as AW champion, as a heel, AW World champion. And that's it. That's, that's mostly I gotta say. I, I, so I did like Chris Jericho as a champion when they first had it, but I don't think his run was long enough. I think the gimmick was amazing. And then the, the Kenny Omega one was probably the most interesting. I'd probably go third with the mjf and that's it. Everyone didn't really have that much of an impactful reign other than those three in my opinion. But you know, but I didn't really watch this Jon Moxley one much. So maybe people do like it more than I then. I think they do. And that's gonna be it right now. I was gonna jump into the WWE runs, but we're having a little bit technical difficulty right now and I gotta address it so that, you know, moving forward we can be a lot better. So we'll save the one, the WWE run for next week and that'd be a good topic to go on to night. I would just leave you guys with the AEW1, especially with all incoming. I think the AW1 should get its own video. And that's it, guys. Um, glad we did this episode. We have a lot of topics that we kind of brush down on and it's not only just news headline topics, it was just actually a good conversation. But as we're still growing, everything is still. We're still getting more things. As you can see, each episode has gotten better with the production has gotten better with just things in general. So next episode, always be better and just in general. Everything's gonna be good. So peace out, guys. That is what it is. We will see you Thursday, you'll see this Thursday you'll see the other one. So that means around you'll see this probably tomorrow or to Newell, you see this tonight. But Tuesday should be up complete for everything. And that's it. And then we'll talk about raw and everything, what happens later on. So that is what it is. We can see what it is. And I'll see you guys next time. But hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We ain't. We. Don't you think we're just gonna leave like that? Well, we don't just leave like that. Come on. We don't just leave like that. We don't just leave like that. Come on. Yeah. Movie with some music. And that's the end of this show. 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