3. Big Dreams Mania

On this episode of The Big Dreams Show,  BD reflects on entrepreneurship, current events, and Chris Brown and Usher announcing a joint tour. He also shares some shout outs and hot takes, before getting into a WrestleMania preview geared towards non-wrestling fans. 

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And just like that, we are back for another episode of the Big Dream Show. I'm your host, Jordan BDJ Taylor. My friends call me BD though. Well, some of them call me Jordan, but that's beside the point. But yo, hello, welcome. I hope all is well. I hope that you had a good week. I hope that you enjoy episode one and two of the show. Again, just thankful. I'm grateful for the success as of now. We got 126 total downloads between two episodes in the past week. So I I feel good about that. I feel good about 126 people feeling like they want to hear what this guy got to say. Um as always, we're gonna get into the ground rules before we really get into the show. But before we get into the ground rules, just want to give a little programming note. I ran out of allergy medicine yesterday, so if I start sounding crazy at some point during this episode, you know why, you understand why. Um I could make a big metaphorical statement about how you gotta handle the basics in life, take your vitamins, your medicine to make sure you're good. Because if you're not good in one area of your life, it impacts other areas in your life, so on and so forth. But I don't feel like doing all that shit. I feel like y'all get that. And if you got allergies, you know damn well better than I can ever tell you that it's important to take that medicine. So again, bear with me. If my brain gets foggy, if I get uh if my voice changes or any kind of things happen as a result of the onslaught of pound outside and me running out, just bear with me. Alright. So, a lot of things to talk about this episode. It's gonna be kind of a mixed a mixed bag episode. I feel like the first two have been mixed bags, but I think this one will be an even mixer bag. Just a whole bunch of different topics and different things going on. But before we get into it, I want to talk about the ground rules. I want to go through those. If you if you're new here, stick around. It's just uh it's just like table setting, how we how we get down here, how the space operates. If you're been here before, you're a regular, you already know what I'm about to say. So we fast forward the 30, 45 seconds to hear more. Alright. Yo, next, I'm actually gonna start pre-recording this. I'm not about to be recording this every single time. Matter of fact, I'm about to start pre-recording this. So this is the last time I'm doing these live. I'm saying that now. This is the last time I'm doing these on an episode. I'm gonna so I can make a template and just insert it the same way the intro gets inserted. But all that side, ground rules. Rule number one: these thoughts are strictly my own and do not reflect the views of any family, friends, partners, affiliates, or associates. Don't tell nobody about those shit you heard on here, because it's me saying it. I take full responsibility for blame. It's not a reflection of nobody else, none of my partners, none of my homies, so on and so forth. Number two, as you heard in the introduction, um said by the late great Bernie Mack, we cuss here. We say bad words. So if you're in a work setting, you're in a public setting, you're around kids, family, elders, whoever it may be, and you think that they will benefit from not hearing some vulgar language, then this probably is something you should put on your headphones or wait to listen to later. Number three, follow me. Not from a literal sense, like you can follow me too at Big Dreams Jordan on all platforms. But follow me as in it's just me in this booth talking for real. So sometimes it gets uh into train of thought. Sometimes it's me taking an idea somewhere and then bringing it somewhere else and then bringing it back. But right now we're in a time that's conditioned to be overstimulated. We're in a time where you can get away with not focusing and not focusing intently. So if you have listened, you want to halfway take it with a message. Number four. Tell me if I'm tripping. I'm a human just like you. So if I say something on the mic that's incorrect, that's ignorant, that's just rubber the wrong way. Or it could not either. But if you feel like I'm tripping, you feel like I say something that needs to be corrected or needs to be addressed, please let me know. I'm not that guy to brush off concern and criticism. So and last but not least, help this thing grow. Like, rate, subscribe, review, write a review, post it on social media, and tag me, tell your homies, tell your teachers, tell your enemies, I don't care. But help this thing grow. Help this thing grow. I feel like it's something special. It's already something special that we build in here. And I do say we, because it ain't just me. But I feel like it's something special that we build in here. So let's continue to put the gas behind it and help it to grow. Alright. You got it? Good, good, good, good. So let's get into it. Over the weekend, I had the pleasure on behalf of the Grave School of Business and Masters at Borgia State University to attend the CDI 2020 2026 annual conference. Um CDI's community, I want to say community development um investment. I thought I had it written in my notes, but I don't. And I I'm in the studio, so I don't got the program and stuff in front of me. But this organization is mainly focused on bridging the racial wealth gap by encouraging entrepreneurship with uh black people. So, what does that mean, BDJ? You you just said a lot of terms. I I heard some of them, I didn't hear some of them. What does that mean? So let me put it this way. When you look it up statistically and you look at the amount of businesses, the amount of black people that are active entrepreneurs and active in business, the number has room to grow. When you also look at that in reference to the amount of businesses that close, um, the amount of successful businesses that close, let me put it that way. Because I don't know how how well-versed y'all are in business shit, but the stat is always that most businesses close within like a year or two. I think it's five years, actually. Most cli most businesses close within five years. And I think that we often have the misconception that these businesses are closing due to mismanagement, due to um no market demand, due to being run poorly, when in reality there are a lot of reasons that businesses close. Um, sometimes the owner wants to move, sometimes the owner is retiring, sometimes the the business just merges with another business, so on and so forth. When they get an offer they can't refuse. But all that to say that there is opportunity that exists for us as black people to move into these businesses before they are um, you know, before they shut up forever, especially successful businesses. So that's what the conference was all about. I want to give a shout out to Reed Towston. I think I said your name right. I hope I did, Reed. And RT Jones, coach, the big homie. Um, these guys were speakers at the conference. Shout out to also all the other other HPCs in attendance. Shout out to the ETA Club at Graves, the homies over there. But it was it was powerful. It was powerful because it was such a a fresh perspective. And I sat through two days of conferences and panels, so I'm not gonna be able to dispel all of that or two uh podcasts where I have what 45 minutes to an hour to capture y'all time and attention. But I will say one of the most poignant takeaways that I've had is they they threw this phrase out there. I think it was Archie, matter of fact, but I could be mistaken. But the phrase was entrepreneurship is the new home ownership. So if you listen to previous episodes, I think episode one particularly, I talked about feeling like the world that we were raised and trained for, or the world that I specifically was trained and raised for, doesn't exist. And a part of that equation was, you know, you get your house. Um with the price of housing as well as the price of the not the price of wages, but with the price of housing and the state of wages not growing in conjunction to the standard of living, it's tough. It's tough. A lot of our our parents either had ambitions by now or already had their homes. So entrepreneurship as a way to bridge that gap, as well as I look at entrepreneurship as uncapped potential, because yeah, you can get a salary, you can get a big salary, you can get a six figure salary, but there's always going to be a cap on that. While when you whereas when you work for yourself, you can run it up as far as you want to. So yeah, and that really lit the fire under me. But the takeaway here, the takeaway that I want to bring to this show isn't necessarily that you should seek to get into entrepreneurship through acquisition. I think it's a great idea, and I think it's a I think it's a lick, to be honest with you. When I heard about it and I was learning about it, to me, it sounded like the most, it sounded like the most uh logical path to wealth outside of you know real estate, investing, and so on and so forth. Like all these things work in conjunction with each other. But the conversation that I'm here to have with y'all right now is just about entrepreneurship in general, because I think that we need to reframe kind of how we think of ourselves as entrepreneurs. So when I say entrepreneurship, you probably think of somebody selling shirts or pies or you know, some kind of some kind of material good. But what about the goods and services that we have? What about the intellectual power that we have? For example, I was in, I worked in nonprofits for six years straight. I also did school groups where I was in front of uh where I was in front of high schoolers and middle schoolers, giving them education, giving them curriculum for I think five or six years at this point, too. I didn't think of that necessarily as entrepreneurship though. I thought of it as hustling, I thought of it as me getting a contract to go talk to some folks. But if I change my mindset to I have this God-given skill that people are willing to pay me for, that then makes me an entrepreneur. So the point being, you have something. I don't know what it is, I don't know what you do, I don't know what you enjoy, I don't know what you went to school for. I don't I don't I don't know you like that. But I do know you have something, whether it be experience, whether it be um you just give a fuck about something in a different kind of way, so you took the time to research and learn about it. Whether it be you just come from a family of whoever shoemakers and you took it for granted, but you know how to work shoe how to make shoes because you worked at the family business over the summer. Whatever that that thing is, try to find a way to get a bag off of it. Of course, it's a thin line because I'm saying this, but I'm also an artist. I'm making this is art right here, this podcast is art. So it's always a thin line between what you make from uh art and a creative perspective versus what you do from a monetary perspective to to bring money in. But I encourage you to try to find that thing. And if it's not something in your wheelhouse, learn that skill that will be valuable because we talk all the time about it. The economy ain't in the best shape, the country ain't in the best shape, the job market ain't in the best shape. So it's imperative, especially now in this day and age, that we have ways to make money and ways to sustain ourselves outside of traditional employment. And entrepreneurship is for me the it makes the most sense. No, no uh shade to the gig economy out there, but again, you're peddling somebody else's product, you're peddling somebody else's name, you're taking a cut off your percentage. Why not why not trying to own that whole thing and then leverage that into something else? You dig what I'm saying? So even hypothetically speaking, say you say you are a DoorDash driver, and you save up your money, and then you buy a car, and then you rent that car out for people to use for a DoorDash. Now, I'm not telling you to do that. I don't even know if that's legal. I'm sure it's not legal and violates the terms of car insurance or DoorDash or somebody, somebody gonna hate on it. But just the thought of how do I take this thing, how do I scale it, get some equity out of it, some money out of it, and have that be able to sustain my lifestyle, be able to sustain my creative endeavors, my creative pursuits. So yeah, a lot to definitely a lot to unpack. And and both of the both of the men I mentioned earlier also also wrote books. So, excuse me. Over the next few weeks, I'll be uh digging into those books to get some gems, learn some games, because it's my ambition. I I I plan to buy a business. I plan to buy a business. I always wanted to, I've always had an entrepreneur spirit to where I wanted to have different businesses, like the Big Dreams boutique, where it's consignment and it's my clothes, and it's other clothing designers, and all our shit is in there together. The Big Dreams Diner, where it's just a place for family and friends to hang out, no pressure, say space, not gonna get hit over the head. Probably got some arcade games, some fun stuff like that. Big Dreams co-working space, you feel me? Like this is this is where my mind goes when I'm not in school, when I'm not uh when I'm not working, when I'm not doing some creative shit. This is where my mind goes. How do I, again, that idea of how do I bring forth the world that I want to see? How do I bring forth these spaces that I want to see? How do I make a world that where people that that look like me, that that think like me, that feel like me can exist and thrive. So that's what it's all about, man. That's what it's all about. Transitioning. We could we could talk about politics. We could, but it's not really anything too too new. And I the fear for me, I'm recording this on Thursday April 16th. The fear for me always with talking about politics is that our administration is currently so erratic that I could record this show on Thursday and release it to y'all on Friday. And by the time I release it, the information might be drastically different. But where we stand right now is there's still contention around uh uh ceasefire on on the uh war in Iran. The Strait of Hormous is still closed. Um the president also has beef with the Pope for some reason. Um Yeah, that's a choice. He posted himself like like Jesus, for real. And then when people said, Why are you posting yourself like Jesus? That's blasphemy, he said, Oh, I thought it was a doctor. I paused for dramatic effect to really let that one sink in. I said, I'm gonna take a swing of water and say it, I'm gonna say it again, take a swig of water. He said, Oh, I didn't know that's what that was, I thought it was a doctor. Just like you thought Michelle and Barack Obama being monkeys was the Lion King. He's also talking about instigating conflict with Cuba. Sounds like a terrible idea. We have a currently the United States is is having a blockade on Cuba, so we're we're we're really we're really doing them dirty. Messing with their electrical infrastructure, messing with their ability to receive goods and and things like that. Just just a just uh just a disgusting use of resources. But again, when we talk about America, when we talk about the military industrial complex, when you talk about there's a speech I want y'all to look up. Um two speeches, actually. It's two speeches. I'm sorry, I'm giving y'all a little bit of homework. But one of them is by Smedley Butler, and it's about the military industrial complex. And another one is I want to say it's by Dwight Eisenhower. I'm I'm kind of far from the laptop. When I get an intern, bro, I swear this show is gonna, we're gonna really take off. But um, the other was about Dwight was by Dwight Eisenhower, if I'm not mistaken. And Eisenhower, it was a similar idea of like, and this is in like 1940-something, saying that if we don't curb our appetite for destruction, if we don't curb this military-industrial complex to where the United States makes money off war. So in order to keep making money off war, you need war. You get what I'm saying? It's like a snake eating its tail, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If my biggest driver is war, then if there are no wars, then I'm not gonna make no money. So in order for me to always make money, there gotta always be wars. Now in real life, we just like, nah, it's other it gets to a point, man. It gets to a point where it's just so un unfathomable. And I think we're at that point or reaching critical mass on that point. Always a fun time. Let's talk about Chris Brown and Usher. Let's let's just make a a hard a hard pivot to Chris Brown and Usher. What do y'all think? I would like to know. This is where I wish I had a call in, because I really want to know y'all's thoughts on this. I think that it's cool. I think it's cool. I think it's gonna be one of the biggest, if not the biggest tour of a generation. I don't know. Because Taylor Swift also broke every record imaginable, and then Beyonce broke the records, then Taylor Swift came and broke the record, so I don't know what the records are. But uh Yeah, I think it's cool. I think it's cool, and I think it's it's also interesting. I was actually talking to my mom. We were having a conversation about it because she asked me what I thought. And my first thought was it's gonna be a great show because Usher is coming off of his residency and Chris Brown is coming off of the Breezy Bowls where he was selling out stadiums. So they're both kind of primed and in the peak of what of they're in the peak of knowing what their best show could look like. And now they're getting to combine it. Um so that's cool. I also wonder though, and it it ties back to the to the earlier topic of entrepreneurship as well as of politics. I wonder if it's a recession indicator. I know we've been hearing that a lot too. I know y'all are probably sick of hearing that. I I I say it a lot uh rhetorically or facetiously, but is it a recession indicator that these two guys, Usher coming off of Residency, Chris Brown coming off of sold-out stadium shows, that they going back on tour so fast. Is that a recession indicator? Jay-Z popping out with four performances. Hey man. It always looks like, and and shout out to um shout out to Ian Dunlap from uh Red Panda and Market Mondays and Blackout and all that stuff. But he he always brings up look at what the people at the highest level are doing. They're working, they're not taking breaks, they're not taking vacations, they're working 20-hour days. Like, that's the level of urgency that we're in right now. So when I think of that, and then I see something like this, or something like Jay-Z popping out for the first time since 444, or I'm sure there'll be more people that announce tours that we're not expecting, but it seemed like everybody trying to hit their lick and bounce. And bounce might be out in the country, bounce might just be back to the island or whatever, but it seemed like everybody's trying to hit their lick. Everybody's trying to get that payout, get that cash out, and then do what they gotta do because they see, like we see, that things are going downhill. Oh man. Well shout out to shout out to the guys. We also spoke last week about we all make um you know, we all make exceptions for people and things. Usher and Chris Brown don't necessarily have the the cleanest of paths past. Damn, I can't talk. Usher and Chris Brown don't necessarily have the cleanest of past, but you know, when people love you and support you, you kinda are I don't want to say infallible, because you you can do wrong. Like you can fuck up, but you kind of insulate it, or you have a higher sit a higher floor, I guess. You have a lower drop when people love you and they they rock with you, unless you just flat out do some crazy shit, but I don't know, man. When uh when the Boston Marathon man blew up the Boston Marathon, it was women saying that he was cute and fucking trying to bail him out of jail. Same shit with serial killers, like stab me, Ted Bundy. Like it's it gets wild. It gets wild when we think about um fandom slash cultum, because a lot of a lot of the things we subscribe to take cues from cults. We can talk further on that later or look further into that if you want to, but yeah, I think it's gonna be a spectacle. I think it's gonna be something. That was my backpack falling, if y'all heard that in the background. But don't worry. All is well. We good. Alright, what else we got? Speaking of hitting a lick and bouncing. Speaking of hitting a lick, shout out to WNBA. Shout out to those women with their new collective bargaining agreement. Shout out to them for timing free agency with the expiration of their previous collective bargaining agreement so they can all hit their lick. They can all cash out. If you don't know what the term hit a lick means, it just means to it means to come up. It means to to make a play that will yield great benefit for you monetarily or um in other ways. So yeah, WNBA they hit their lick. Salute to them. And with how good the with how good the NCAA tournament was on the women's side, aside from uh the Gino Oriema, he is sucker, but the Gino Oriema Don Staley controversy. It's a really good crop of of women. So the WNBA is positioned well right now with the stars that they currently have, but they're also positioned for the future with these women that are coming up. And again, there are women, they're girls right now that are growing up watching uh watching uh Asia Wilson, watching uh uh Juju Watkins, and thinking I could do that. Shit, I could be there, I could, I could hoop like that, and knowing that they can do that and not have to hoop overseas and not have to work in a grocery store in the offseason. So shout out to the WNBA, man. I I love that. On the flip side, early hold your head, early hold your head, Clippers, the Los Angeles Clippers, y'all boys was up. Y'all was up on the play-in, beating the shit out of the Warriors, and what the Warriors do, they came back on y'all. It looked like Doc Rivers was still in that seat. Shout out to Doc Rivers. Because Doc Rivers said, Y'all need to check my resume. I checked your resume, Doc. You got the most blown fourth quarter leagues in NBA history. And Doc Rivers has been dismissed as the coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. Hey man. As long as the Bulls don't hire him. But I don't know. I'm a I hate to say it, but I'm a I'm a Doc Rivers hater, man. I'm a Doc Rivers hater. I feel like I feel like he got he did his thing in Boston because he had three Hall of Famers. Maybe four if you count Ronda. But he did his thing in Boston many years ago, and I feel like he was able to ride off of that success while not being able to capitalize on some great Clippers teams. And then still getting chance at the chance, whether it be the the Bucks, whether it be the 76ers. Like I just Yeah, I don't I don't get that one. I don't get that one. But that's that's an M NBA John Hard bar right there. Also uh a good old hold your head to and you watch Invincible and you ain't watched that new episode Just go ahead and skip past this part. But but quick hold your head to everyone that had to go against Thrag. Everyone that had to go against Thrag and got their ass beat, boy. He man, he knocked the the trailer, he he knocked his head clean off his shoulders. But hot take, I think Invincible got it. I think Invincible got it. Um I'm not gonna say it's the best action show, best action cartoon, because they still gotta finish out, but they after after the run that they've been on for the last couple years, they up there with the with the best shows I've watched. Not just cartoons either, they up there with the best shows, period. I'm talking yeah, yeah, man. God damn. God damn. That episode was crazy. That episode was nuts, bro. Thrag, man. That's somebody you would not want to run into. Alright. That's the hold your heads. We'll do some homie shout-outs later. Um let's talk a little bit about wrestling. Let's talk a little wrestling. It's WrestleMania week. I want to do a preview for na wrestling fans, but I'm gonna kinda I'm gonna kinda speed through it, no, no pun intended, because I show speed is wrestling, but I'm gonna give y'all what y'all need to know. Whether you are a wrestling fan who maybe you're a less wrestling fan than where you used to be a big fan back in the day, and you stopped watching, but you saw it's gonna be on ESPN, so you want to pick it back up. Whether you are someone that watched uh a documentary on Netflix and was like, huh, I kind of understand this a little better now. Let me check it out. Or you're somebody just like I want to see what was going on and why people give a fuck about this. Have no fear, because the BD is here, and I'm gonna walk you through it. So what you need to know, WrestleMania is two nights. It begins at 6 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday and 6 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday. The first hour is gonna be on ESPN, the second hour is on the ESPN streaming app. Well, ESPN 2, night one, ESPN, ESPN OG, ESPN, ESPN 1. ESPN numero uno for the second night. Uh it's a lot of it's a lot of matches on the card, because it's two nights, but yeah, let's just get into it. So on night one, we have Logan Paul, Austin Thierry, and iShow Speed versus the Usos and LA Knight. What you need to know is Logan Paul. Yes, that Logan Paul, the streamer, is actually uh a pretty good wrestler, all things considered. His tag partner, Arson Theri, was considered for a long time to be a really critical up-and-comer in the sport. His momentum is kind of falling off a little bit, but he's looking to get back right. Still a very solid wrestler. And I show speed is I show speed. I know speed, so he's gonna be in a match versus the Usos in LA Knight. What you need to know about the Usos are that they are Samoans, they're one of the greatest tag teams in WWE history. Um Jay Uso has been nicknamed main event J Uso because after being in a tag team, he went out, did his own thing, had a solo run. Now he's reunited with his brother and LA Knight, who is a fan favorite, crowd favorite. You'll you'll know LA Knight when he comes out. You'll hear people go like, yeah, like that's that's his shit. LA Knight be like, Yeah. Yeah, I know, I know. Um prediction. I think that the bad guys win this match, because I think it's just funnier. It's just a funnier outcome to see I show speed looking victorious at the end of that night. Um, these are just predictions at on a Thursday morning, so don't take them to FanDuel or or DraftKings or your homie in the back who do the parlays on paper. So that's what you need to know. And in terms of watching wrestling, right? Because I think that this is a question that comes up to people are like, how do you watch wrestling? Like, what am I watching? What am I seeing? For wrestling, my best advice for any anyone that's watching wrestling is to take note of the momentum. Who has the momentum, who doesn't have the momentum, what story are they telling in the ring? Um, there are heels and faces, heels are bad guys, faces are good guys. So usually in a wrestling match, at least in WE style, the heel will be dominant to create sympathy for the baby face, then the babyface will make a comeback. Um in a tag team match like this will probably see LA Knight or one of the Usos getting beat down for a little bit, and then someone will make a tag, and another um a freshman will come in and have a comeback, which is called a rally, a comeback, get the crowd involved, and then they just go from there. So watch for the momentum. Also, you hear people say that someone is a good wrestler versus someone can't wrestle. It's all about how smooth they look, how realistic they look, how clean they look. If someone looks like some shit is obviously fake or some shit is obviously scripted, then that's a mark against them versus a guy like uh Kurt Angle, a Bret Hart, uh even Kevin Owens, people that make things look and feel like it's a real fight and it's real tension and real stakes that you're watching. So moving on, we got Jacob Fly 2 versus Drew McIntyre. Jacob Fly 2, like the Usos previously mentioned, is a member of the Samoan bloodline, like in real life, not not on the show. There are a lot of Samoans in wrestling. They it's it's actually interesting. I wonder, I wonder if you did the breakdown of like by industry, like Samoans per industry, if they would have the most in wrestling. I don't even know. Maybe that's like a G GBT Gemini question, but Jacob Fatu, all you need to know about him is he's wild. His nickname is the Samoan werewolf. He's like Marshawn Lynch. He's if Marshawn Lynch was a wrestler, he'd be Jacob Fatu. He wears fronts and he's big, but he does flips. Pretty entertaining. Drew McIntyre is nicknamed the Scottish Psychopath. He's a former world champion. He's a big motherfucker, carries a sword, real, real asshole. One of my favorite characters for sure. One of my favorite, I'm not gonna say characters, one of my favorite wrestlers. Uh very entertaining. And this is an unsanctioned match, so there are no rules. My prediction for this one, I think that Fatu wins it to keep his momentum going, because he's kind of wanting to come up. Next, we got the women's world champion, Stephanie Vacare versus Liv Morgan. Alright, what you need to know about this match. Stephanie Vacare is the champion. Liv Morgan is the challenger. Liv Morgan, um, I think she won a Royal Rumble, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I think she won a Royal Rumble to earn a title shot. What's the Royal Rumble? That's a whole nother thing. Just know it's a big ass match with 30 people in it. And if you win, you get a championship match at WrestleMania, this show that's coming up, which is the biggest show of the year. So 75 Kira, she came up um for the independent scene, been doing a thing with WWE. Really, really quick ascent from being in what's the independent league, the come-up league to become a world champion. And Liv Morgan might be outside of Rea Ripley. I'd say Argley Liv Morgan is the most popular woman in wrestling right now. So I expect Liv to walk out with the title for sure. I think it's gonna be uh entertaining match. We also have after that the women's intercontinental championship. That's gonna be AJ Lee versus Becky Lynch. What you need to know about that match. AJ Lee is coming back to this is her first WrestleMania. She was gone from wrestling for like 10 years, some shit like that. She was gone for a long time. She was a fan favorite, but she wrestled in an era when women's wrestling wasn't as respected. They didn't really get as much time, they didn't get as much effort, they get didn't get as much love for real. They kind of had to make do with what they had. Versus now, where there's a emphasis on promoting these women or making sure that they get an equal spot on the card and really get to show off how far they've come as wrestlers, as characters, so on and so forth. So AJ Lee is the women's intercontinental champion. That's a step below the world championship. It gets confusing with championships, but just just watch. She's going against Becky Lynch. Becky Lynch is called by some the greatest women's wrestler of all time. She definitely has a case. She's winding down kind of on the back end of her career, but had some high highs. She was one of the first women to main event of WrestleMania. Her, Charlotte, and Rhonda Rousey main event of a triple threat. Was that the main event? No, I'm tripping. Bianca and Sot. I don't remember. It's early. I ain't had no I had no breakfast, allergies. I'm I'm doing all this off the dough, man. So go go hit up your nerd, your nerdier wrestling friends than than me, if y'all want the the real facts and facts and statistics. But I can tell you, Becky Lynch is the shit. She can still wrestle. So Becky Lynch and AJ Lee. I predict AJ Lee walks out with the title. Um just because why not? It's a fail-good moment. Women's Tag Team Championship. Alright, more names, more names, more names. I'm not going to go through all of these names just because there's so many people in this match, but I will spotlight, I guess, the teams themselves instead of going one by one through each person. So we have Naya, Naya Jackson, Last Legend, the tag team champions versus Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss versus Bailey and Lyra Valkyria versus Nikki and Bree Bella. Now there are rumors that this match may not be happening because one of the Bella twins is injured. If you uh watched E back in the day, you might know the Bellas from Total Divas and Total Bellas, those reality shows that um WWE was were putting out to try to get a different demographic involved in watching the program. Similar to what they're doing now with Netflix, but you know, a little more a little more poignant. The demographics of the e-network and the demographics of Netflix, I'm sure there's some overlap, but E is a lot more niche. All that aside, right? Pay attention to Lash Legend. Lash Legend is a superstar. Um yeah, you'll know when she's seeing when you see her. Tall, former basketball player, athletic, makes that shit look real. Looks like she's really beating you the fuck up. Like, big Lash Legend fan. Um Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss. Charlotte Flair is the daughter of Ric Flair, who is called by some the greatest of all time. If you're not a wrestling fan or you're a younger wrestling fan, you might know Ric Flair more for his antics and seemingly wanting to die. Uh but yeah, shout out to Ric Flair, you know? Shout out to Charlotte too. Alexa Bliss, not really much for me to say on Alexa Bliss. She's cool. She's cool, been around for a long time. Probably a future Hall of Famer, but ain't really my cup of tea. Bailey, uh great women's wrestler. Um, same cohort, if you will, as Charlotte Flair previously mentioned and Becky Lynch previously mentioned. Becky was always like the glue, the one that's consistent day in, day out, week in and week out. May not have received the same level of love and um acclaim, but nah, Bailey's great. Lyra Valkyrie is her protege. Hey, they've been rocking together for a while. So excited to see that. And then Nikki and Bree Bella, like they that's you know, you gotta, it's a it's a business at the end of the day, so you gotta put names on the marquee that's gonna sell tickets. My prediction is I think Nikki and Bree though. I think Nikki and Bree are my prediction because the way I see it, they were also in a time similar to when I spoke about AJ Lee of women's wrestling looking different in the company. So Nikki and Bree Bella are twins, and they were never the tag team champions because there were no tag team championships when they wrestled uh full time. So the fact that you have a twin tag team that's already in the WWE Hall of Fame, and now they're in a tag team championship match, I think that they use that opportunity to put the belts on them. Alright. You still with me? You still rocking? Don't worry, it's not a whole bunch. We got two more matches on night one, and then we're gonna go to night two. So we got Seth Rollins, Seth Freaking Rollins is what some call him, versus Gunther, the ring general. Um Gunther is notable because he has retired over the past couple months. He was the one that retired John Cena. He retired AJ Styles. If you know AJ Styles, he was a AJ Styles was kind of like the independent contemporary to John Cena. While John Cena was doing his thing in WWE, becoming a box office superstar. AJ Styles make his name in other wrestling promotions and finally ended up in WWE in around like what 20 2015? 2015-ish, 2016-ish. Um, I'm not looking it up. But yeah, Gulder got all of them out the way. And Seth Rollins is one of the biggest stars in the company, former WrestleMania main inventor, multiple-time world champion, married to Becky Lynch. None. Whatever there is to do in professional wrestling, I can confidently say Seth Rollins has done it. So this is a big time match. It wasn't expected because it was expected that both of these men would be going in different directions, period. People thought after Gunther um retired John Cena that he would be involved in a championship fight. And Seth Rollins has been feuding with Seth Rollins is in a group. The group broke up. Seth Rollins got hurt, the group broke up. They thought Seth Rollins, we thought Seth Rollins would come back and feud with the group, but instead, due to injuries all across the board, we got Seth Rollins versus Gunther. I think Gunther takes it home. Um I just don't I don't see I don't see them squandering his momentum. You beat two living legends, and then you're facing the third. I don't I don't see him losing that. And then finally, we have the main event of night one, Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orton. What do you need to know about this match? What do you need to know about these men? They used to be so many, many years ago, um around the late 2000s, Randy Orton was actually Cody Rhodes' big homie. So they were in a group together, it was called Legacy. Um they did Cody Rose bidding. They also are notable because these are two people who have pedigree at wrestling. Cody Rhodes' father was Dusty Rhodes, who was a famous world champion for WCW Jim Crockett promotions, and he had a running Day Day E, but wasn't really as as fruitful as his other work. And then Randy Orton, his father was cowboy Bob Orton, and then his No, yeah, it was it was Cowboy Bob Orton, and then his grandfather was Bob Orton Sr. So Randy Orton is actually a third generation wrestling Nepo baby, not wrestling superstar, uh not Neppo baby, but um yeah, this match is with all of that gravity, this match is it was kind of a layup to just say, hey, these two guys are going against each other, mentor versus student, to see who's the best. But for some reason, WWE felt they need to involve Pat McAfee from the Pat McAfee show and and Jelly Roll, the singer, into this. And a lot of fans are feeling the way because last year during the main event of WrestleMania, we had John Cena versus Cody Rhodes, and Travis Scott came out in the middle of the match, and John Cena cheated to win the championship, so yeah, it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths to be like, alright, this is the big the biggest event of the year, and we got a celebrity that doesn't really have shit to do with anything involved in this. So it's deja vu a little bit. Hopefully they stick the landing a little better this year. Uh and Pat McAfee and Jelly Fold jellyfold shit. Jelly Rolls involvement are kept to a minimum. But we'll see. Hoping for the best. My prediction though, I think that Randy Orton beats Cody Rhodes. I think Randy Orton will become the undisputed WWE champion at the end of night one of WrestleMania. Alright. So let's take a quick break, reset, and then move on to night two. Alright, y'all. Night two. We got six matches. We about to fly through them. First match we got on ESPN. So that's what they're gonna see on ESBN at six o'clock. Oba Femi versus Brock Lesnar. So for my non-wrestling fans, Brock Lesnar was like Shaq. We'll call him Shaq. He came in the game like 2003, athletic, but also trained as a as a real um like a like a trained professional wrestler. Um Meteoric Rise beat the Rock for his work first world title like within a year of debuting, if not in the same year. Um Superstar left WWE, went to UFC for a couple years, became a star in UFC, came back to WWE, where he's just been kind of an attraction. He's notable, his his notable accomplishment outside of title reigns and championships and things like that, is that he, the Undertaker, who was a legendary wrestler, was 21-0 at WrestleMania. For 21 years, he never lost, and Brock Lesnar was the first person to defeat him at WrestleMania 30. So he was the one in 21 and 1. So that was his claim to fame, as well as just being a badass. Oba Femi. Oba Femi is the modern day equivalent to Brock Lesnar. Maybe not with the wrestling background, but in terms of this is a big bad motherfucker who you don't want to fuck with, who we can position as when he comes through, he's gonna shut shit down for the next 10 years. That's what spot Oba Femi is in. So really excited for this match. Hopefully, Oba Femi goes over, Oba Femi wins and gets established as a legitimate threat to the whole roster. Since Bart Lesnar is also on his way out, Bright Lesnar is also in the middle of some controversy right now, stemming from um the lawsuit against Miss McMahon for his improper relationship with a former staff member. So I wonder if that will play into Brock Lesnar, and I wonder if that'll play into how Bart Lesnar is used for the remainder of this year or the remainder of his contract. But at the same time, I would think that the parent company, TKO, Group Entertainment, I don't think they really care that much about shit like that. So, yeah, we'll see. But Obafemi is my pick. Alright. We have the Intercontinental Championship, which is a step below the world championship. We have the world, we have the champion Penta versus Javon Evans versus Dragon Lee versus JD McDonough versus Rusev versus Rey Mysterio and a ladder match. So this should be a lot of fun. Ladder matches. Have a really dope history at WrestleMania. There were some matches in the 90s and 2000s with uh Hardy Boys, Dudley Boys, Edge and Christian, TLC matches, tables let tables, ladders, and chairs that kind of put it on the map. Uh in the mid-2000s and 2010s, you had what's called the Money in the Bank ladder match, where the winner would get a title shot that they can cash in at any time they chose. So it's cool to see. And also, I'm sorry, it was an Intercontinental ladder match at WrestleMania 31. That was pretty good. So check that out if you haven't. But it's cool to see that tradition of ladder matches coming back to WrestleMania. Because they're exciting, their car crashes, there's a whole bunch of people jumping off of shit. For the contenders, we got Penta, who is probably the dopest Lucidor out right now. Really, really uh spent a long time grinding in different companies all around the world, building his name, building his craft, building his style, and now he's the champion in WWE E. So that's cool to see. Fan favorite, really cool entrance. There's a clip of uh Kevin Garnett talking about when he does that walk. Like, if you ever seen a wrestler with a mask on, just doing a little smooth walk, like it's it's probably Penta. Javon Evans, the young OG. I think Javon Evans is like 21, 22 years old, so he got the world in front of him. Real bright future, very talented, can jump out the motherfucking gym. One of my favorite guys to watch right now. Um Yeah, I don't I don't think this is the match where he where he gets it, but it'll be cool to see. Dragon Lee, another luchador. Um Dragon Lee has been Dragon Lee's been doing his thing. I'm not gonna hate on Dragon Lee. Dragon Lee's a very, a very good wrestler. I think the issue with Dragon Lee was character work um for a while. Him coming across as not just another masked wrestler, but really, really building his own. But I I feel through his the work that he's been doing lately, as well as just the general the general uh fuck, what phrase am I looking for? You know how they say uh uh rising tide lifts all boats? I feel like it was one point where it was Dragon Lee and he was be being positioned as the next Rey Mysterio, Rey Mysterio, who's a legendary luchador, also in the match, multiple time world champion, Hall of Famer, all that. But when there was a gap when it was just Dragon Lee and Rey Mysterio, but since Pinta has come into the company, since Rey Phoenix has come into the company, since WWE has done more work in Mexico with a promotion called AAA, it's kind of raised Dragon Lee's stock because he's been able to find different pockets that suit him better. Um JD McDonough, JD McDonough is also a hooper. I'm a fan of JD. Um my prediction is JD is gonna be the one thrown through a table or thrown off a ladder, or whatever crazy shit is gonna happen in this match, it's probably gonna happen to JD McDonough. So keep an eye out for that. Rusev was in JWE for a while. He left to go to AEW, came back. Um a guy just failed to launch, I would say. Um he was positioned early in his career, his position as a as a big bad guy as a threat, but he lost a high profile match at WrestleMania to John Cena, which kind of halted his momentum. And then, yeah, it just never it just never really took off. But he's a badass. He's he's he's booked as somebody that can beat up anybody at any time. So you gotta have when you got a match like this with a lot of little guys that are gonna be flying around, jumping off of shit, you need a big guy like Russo to catch him, slam him, hurt him real bad. And last we got Rey Mysterio, like I said, Legend. Even if you never watch wrestling, you probably know Rey Mysterio or have seen a Rey Mysterio mask. If you think of a Lucha mask, it probably is Rey Mysterio's. So the OG is getting up there in years for sure. Can see him being a sneaky, a sneaky contender to win the match. I can see him, I can see Rey Mysterio winning this match. Getting one last run with the Intercontinental Championship. I definitely can see that. I think that's my prediction. I think I'm gonna go Rey Mysterio. Women's championship match. We have Jay Cargill versus Rhea Ripley. What do you need to know about this match? Jay Cargill and Rhea Ripley have been beefing online, they've been beefing on TV. Jade is. The knocker question around Jade is always her her ring work. So we spoke earlier about believability, about um smoothness, things like that. Those have been some of the criticisms levied against Jay Cargill, just because she hasn't she hasn't been wrestling as long as some of the other folks in the in the company, some of her peers. I think this is like her fourth or fifth year as a professional wrestler. And while that's one way to do it, there are also folks who've been wrestling 10, 12 years before they ever even make it to the big time. So I believe in Jay. I enjoy her work. I think she's had some good matches since she's been in WWE. And Rhea Ripley, Rhea Ripley is a superstar. When I said earlier that Lev Morgan is arguably the most popular women's wrestler, I had to say arguably, because Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair are right in those conversations. Bianca's been absent for a while dealing with the injury, but Rhea has been right there front and center from championship matches to tag teams to now going for another women's championship. I think that Rhea goes over here. I think that Rhea beats Jay Cargill for the women's championship. I think that they want to put I think that so this is this is me thinking business is me thinking from that perspective. Because I think that WWE would want to have Rhea Ripley on the show. She would be alright. This is so fucking complicated and convoluted to say. But the thing about the reason why there are so many titles is because there's a show on Monday and there's a show on Friday. The show on Monday has a roster, the show on Friday has a has a roster. On Monday, you compete for the Monday titles, the Monday night raw titles, on Fridays you compete for the Friday night SmackDown titles. So Jay Cargill is the women's champion of SmackDown. I think that strategically they're going to get Rhea Ripley. Alright. Moving past that. I think they're going to put Rhea Ripley on SmackDown because of the result of the main event that we'll get to later. But I think that they're I think that a talent is gonna switch a major talent is gonna switch from SmackDown to Raw by winning a championship. So I think that Rhea Ripley will remain on SmackDown to help cover up that talent uh deficit. Alright. Two more matches. The United States, three more matches, I'm sorry. United States Championship match. We got Sami Zayn versus Trick Williams. Trick Williams might be my favorite superstar of the day. He got the entrance. Whoop that trick. Whoop that trick. Whoop, that trick. The crowd goes wild. He's unapologetically black. He's yeah, man. Trick Williams is tough. Trick Williams is tough. He uh he gets comparisons to The Rock. And I don't I don't hear a lot of people get comparisons to The Rock for their ability to talk. Also, someone that has stepped their game up and ring over recent years. Like, Trick is dope. Going against Sami Zayn, who for a long time was the people champion. Sami Zayn actually formerly made events at WrestleMania with his best friend Kevin Owens, and they won the tag team champions from the Usos at WrestleMania 39. Sami Zayn is dope, one of the best in the business. Smooth, believable, good baby face. For this match, I think that so Sami Zayn is the good guy, Trick Williams is the bad guy, but I think that we actually are going to see in this match. I think we're gonna see Sami Zayn and Trick Williams switch roles. I think we see uh heel turn from Sami Zayn and a face turn from Trick Williams. Yeah, what is that hum? That little hum. Hopefully the AI uh mastering takes it out. But that little it's a little hum that keeps popping up from this speaker right next to where I'm recording that. Alright. Moving along, moving along, because I'm running out of time, too. We got Finn Balor versus Dominic Mysterio. What you need to know about Finn Balor is Finn Balor is a legend. Finn Balor is one of the most influential wrestlers of this generation, just due to um the people that were able to come up around him, the people that were taken under his wing, under his tool list, the people that copied his style, the people that were just influenced him. He's very influential. Um Dominic Mysterio is the son of Rey Mysterio, who I mentioned earlier. Dirty Dom is what they call him. Another one of my favorite, one of my favorite wrestlers, a great character, underrated wrestler in my opinion. I think Dom can do a lot of moves and doesn't necessarily get the credit that he deserves for being as talented as he is, but Dom is the man. I think that Finn Balor. Did I mention Finn Balor wears face paint and dresses up like a demon? Did I mention that part? So Finn Balor got this shit called The Demon. I don't know if I mentioned that. I think I would have remembered it, but Finn Balor got this shit he does with when he's like going to war called the Demon, where he puts face paint on and he's looked like Venom in the past from Marvel Comics. He's looked like Carnage in the past. Uh yeah, it's it's pretty cool. Uh yeah, so he's bringing the demon out. He ain't brought a demon out in some years. So he really only brought the demon out for big matches. So Fender versus Dom with the Demon. I think that Demon Finn Balor takes the win. And then last but not least, we have the main event of WrestleMania 42. Oh man, CM Punk versus Roman Reigns. CM Punk is currently the champion. I got Roman Reigns winning. Like I said earlier when I was talking about the J. Cargill and Rhea Ripley match. God damn. I'm fucking hungry, bro. When I said, like I said earlier about the CM Punk and Roman Reigns match, I think that Roman Reigns wins, but Roman Reigns is currently on Raw, so Roman Reigns will then move to, well, other way around. Roman Reigns on SmackDown, so he'll move to Raw and become the champion over there. Um Yeah, I just think I think that because the championship that he's competing for is one that he hasn't held before, I think that WWE want to capitalize on we can get one of our biggest stars holding a piece of merchandise that we're trying to build lineage for. And, you know, create a moment there. So that is your non-wrestling fans guide to WrestleMania. That's all you need to know. All you need to watch. Don't take it too seriously. If you're gonna watch it, you know, get some brewski or or some some drink or a little herb, whatever, whatever you partake in, just sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. And John Cena is hosting with WrestleMania, there's always a lot of pomp and circumstance, a bunch of fucking fireworks displays and celebrities in the crowd, unexpected shit that I was about to say unexpected shit that you don't expect, but that's that's redundant, clearly. Like what unexpected shit do you expect? But all that aside, man, looking forward to a great show. I'm running low on time, so hopefully they don't kick me out. But real quick, we're gonna give some shoutouts to the homies. The homie, uh, well well overdue. Shout out to my cousin Cam. I meant to shout you out episode one, maybe before episode one, because Cam actually is a producer and he is the producer of the intro track that y'all hear. I put in all the audio clips myself, but he made that beat, and when I told him I was starting a podcast about a year or two ago. It was last year, it wasn't about a year or two ago. When I told him I was starting a podcast last year, he was like, hey, if you need intro music, you know I got beats on tech. So shout out to my cousin Cam. I'm not sure. I don't think he's on social media no more or nothing like that. But if you are trying to get in contact with him for some production needs, you let me know, and I I'll definitely pass that along. Also, a long overdue shout-out. Want to shout out uh Naya Christina. Uh Naya Christie J on Instagram. That's our graphic design page. She actually is the creator, the designer of the Big Dreams logo that I use and utilize and I'm wearing on my chest right now. So I want to give her a shout-out too. Dope graphic designer, doesn't just do logos, can do all kinds of shit, map out all kinds of shit, willing to work with you, be patient and figure it out. So, shout out to the homies still working on that jingle. If y'all hearing this and those fall into your wheel view, your wheelhouse wheel view. That's not a thing. And those fall in your wheelhouse, make sure you holla at them. And yeah, I think that we did everything we need to do with this one. Again, I'm racing through it because my studio time is technically up. I'm waiting for somebody to come down here and knock on the door, like, alright, Mr. Taylor, we need you out of here. But let me just check my docket real quick to make sure I ain't miss nothing. We talked, we shout out, we shout out the homies. We had people hold their heads, we talked about big topics, talked about entrepreneurship being important, talked about Invincible might being the best fucking cartoon of all time. Uh yeah. I think we good. So yeah. Until next time, y'all enjoy your week, enjoy your weekend. Whenever you listen to this, enjoy the time after that. As always, it's your host, uh, the honorable BDJ, the great BD Ski, and so on and so forth. And we out. You what?