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Episode 473: Gambling On Wrestling

Released Monday, 13th March 2023
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Episode 473: Gambling On Wrestling

Episode 473: Gambling On Wrestling

Episode 473: Gambling On Wrestling

Episode 473: Gambling On Wrestling

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0:09

Jesus. Jesus.

0:32

On lunches in your shithole bars.

0:35

Keep buying a comfy dressers too.

0:38

James Eve. Get

0:48

your chest hands on my team's screen.

0:53

He's had another mark to stop stop

0:56

saying four

1:04

books sake. I love you, tag. It's lot of

1:06

fucking room. Steams.

1:10

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the

1:12

Jim Cornette experience where today will

1:14

cover the week in wrestling much like a

1:16

cat covering up a turd in its litter

1:18

box. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's a

1:20

show full. Of apropos analogies

1:23

to anal explosions, and

1:25

joining me. Hawaiian Brian, the

1:27

podcasting line, the king of the Arcadia and

1:29

Vanguard podcast network mister

1:31

cohost to you, if I'm number

1:33

one, then he has to be number two.

1:36

The great Brian last everybody.

1:38

Oh, hi, Jim. A pleasure to be here once

1:40

again. Number two to number one.

1:42

Here on the number

1:44

one. And of course, number two would be the

1:46

drive thru. But

1:48

we've got both We're filled of one and two.

1:50

Yeah.

1:50

We're filled of one and 211

1:53

of us is number one and one of us is

1:55

number two. And sometime it rotates back

1:58

and forth. Oh,

2:00

my god. You know, I

2:03

have come to the conclusion, young brine

2:05

before we start today's program, that

2:08

again, the WWE and AEW

2:10

have different strategies

2:14

Here in the in the the year twenty twenty

2:16

three, the WWE is

2:19

trying to bore us to death

2:21

for an hour and fifty minutes out of

2:23

a two hour program. So within the ten minutes

2:25

where something actually does happen, worse

2:29

ish, we've missed it because it went

2:31

away. We're so starved for the side

2:33

of some real action that we just

2:35

overly fucking Commit

2:37

ourselves to it. And on the other hand,

2:41

AEW is firmly

2:43

convinced that the idea is to just

2:46

do as much shit

2:48

as humanly fucking possible

2:51

with as many people as possible

2:54

in random fucking order with the thought

2:56

that people are gonna stay tuned to see somebody

2:59

either get paralyzed or

3:01

fucking saw it in half

3:03

with a chainsaw. And

3:06

and there can be no middle ground.

3:09

No middle ground between light and shadow

3:11

between science and superstition. And

3:14

it's definitely lying in the pit of my

3:16

stomach. One

3:20

show I can take a bunch of notes on

3:22

on everything they're not to fucking do.

3:24

The other show I'm far and asleep with

3:27

the pin in my hand trying to fucking find

3:29

something to write.

3:31

They're not really doing anything wrong,

3:34

but they're not doing that much right?

3:38

You know what this means? What does this

3:40

mean? We need another billionaire. We

3:44

don't need another billion.

3:48

We just need the motherfuckers that

3:50

have the billions already to do the shit wrong.

3:53

That's exactly right.

3:55

We thought AEW was gonna be the alternative

3:57

to WWE and For

3:59

a while, it was alternative WWE, and

4:02

now they've kind of established Tony Conn's

4:05

brand of wrestling. We need

4:07

and I've said this for a while, we need a third company

4:09

that could actually just be the same one

4:12

and go down the lane of doing everything logical

4:14

and Let's see what happens

4:17

with

4:17

a budget, with

4:18

a billionaire, with a with a with a

4:20

budget, with a billion dollar budget,

4:23

Can you build Gates? Hey,

4:27

what about Mark Cuban? He

4:30

likes the wrestling. He's busy. He's

4:32

he's actually a hands on guy with a

4:34

lot of his stuff, so he's

4:35

busy. Well,

4:37

obey enough. Then he's gonna wanna get hands on with

4:39

Wesley. Then he's gonna wanna get hands on with Rhett.

4:41

Hey, I got an idea. Hey, you know what? I met

4:43

a guy downstairs And this guy's filled

4:45

with great ideas. Just sit out and talk with

4:47

him. No. He's not gonna be involved with our company.

4:53

Alright, man.

4:55

You know, even Spectrum, even our

4:57

fine friends at Spectrum Cable

5:00

are trying to help me with my wrestling

5:02

predicament. I've happened to watch all

5:04

these programs. You know what they did to

5:06

me this week?

5:07

No. It's a god day. It's a it's a concerted

5:09

effort now. And remember,

5:12

we've had the evidence. The evidence

5:14

bay bay bay had been right in front of our nose

5:16

at all. Remember, I saw the Spectrum truck.

5:19

And suddenly I had speeds of

5:21

four hundred and something pigs.

5:24

And then that guy was up in that tree for

5:26

two weeks with that telescope.

5:28

And then the truck comes back. And

5:30

I see the ladder of the bucket going up and

5:32

then the guy's gone out of the tree

5:35

and my speeds back to a hundred and something

5:37

megs. They took all the megs

5:39

with them. That was bizarre because

5:41

it happened

5:43

Remember, when you spotted

5:44

him the second time up there, yes,

5:46

I could see the reflection. You could

5:48

see the reflection in my computer

5:50

screen out my window of

5:52

this fucking orange

5:54

bucket.

5:56

And as big as a bucket, it was I

5:58

mean, nevertheless. It

5:59

was an old poem from Ricky Morton.

6:02

But the thing is then just

6:04

a few days ago as we're sitting here right

6:06

here right now speaking to you. The cult

6:09

of gordon out to people out there as we're speaking

6:11

to you. I

6:13

go into we got two DBRs in

6:15

the house and I record all the various programs

6:18

on because sometimes

6:20

I may wanna be in the TV room, sometimes

6:22

I may wanna be in little bit more

6:24

comfort and be on the the beautiful

6:26

Helix sleep mattress in the in the bedroom

6:30

and lay down to take the strain

6:32

off of me to watch some of this stuff, whatever

6:34

the case, and I enter so many

6:35

things, multiple channels. So I

6:37

got it all fucking programmed

6:39

up. I go into

6:41

a bedroom, turn TV on,

6:44

I don't know what your cable

6:47

screen or whatever is laid out like.

6:49

Brian. But when you

6:51

hit the the dealios,

6:54

the the guide thing,

6:56

it pops up On the left hand

6:58

side, there's the list of functions.

7:01

You've got your program guide

7:04

and you've got the on demand service

7:07

and you've got the DVR and

7:09

you've got special functions

7:11

and whatever this list is on the left hand

7:14

side. Right? And you just click on whichever

7:16

thing you wanna go to. If I made

7:18

that clear, I

7:21

don't know if I would call that clear, but I understand.

7:23

Alright. Well, as clear as it's gonna

7:26

get. I look the

7:28

goddamn the DVR

7:30

function is not there. It's

7:33

not on the screen. You can't click on it.

7:36

I'm like, how do I get to my DVR to watch

7:38

my programs? And I've

7:40

Fucking. I'm looking at this remote and

7:42

there's no actual button that says

7:44

DVR because

7:47

it's on the screen and you can just select

7:49

it. And I've got dozens

7:52

of programs on this thing. And

7:54

then I said, well, wait a minute. And I try to you know,

7:57

with the with the DVR. You can pause

7:59

the programming or you could rewind it

8:01

or you could record what I

8:03

I press pause the little light lights

8:05

up on the on the cable box

8:07

down there, but nothing happens. Or

8:10

reverse or fast forward or hit

8:12

record. No. When I go to the cable

8:15

guide, and

8:17

I click on a program and and where

8:19

it normally says, you wanna watch this,

8:21

you wanna reminder, you wanna record. I don't

8:23

have the option to board it. It's like they

8:25

have slipped in from the insides of

8:27

my walls and

8:29

disabled every part

8:32

of the DVR feature that was there

8:34

the day before in

8:36

the same fucking box. That

8:40

is now mysteriously vanished without

8:42

a trace. But

8:44

down in the TV room, The

8:47

DVR function is still on the

8:49

screen. Everything works as normal. All the

8:51

programs are there with the same kind of goddamn

8:53

box and the same kind of goddamn

8:55

remote. Riddle

8:59

me that Batman. They're

9:01

digging in. They're making us personal now.

9:03

They've heard the comments I've made about him.

9:06

They've heard all those public service announcements

9:08

where I've said, do not under

9:10

any circumstances deal. With

9:13

these shysters, these flem flowers,

9:15

these con men, these snake oil

9:17

salesman. They will take twice

9:19

the money for half the service.

9:23

And now they're digging into getting personal.

9:26

I'm gonna take an ax when we get finished

9:29

with this program. I'm gonna

9:31

take an axe to the interior

9:33

of every single one of my walls

9:35

until I find that son of a bitch. And

9:38

I'm a pull my goddamn DVR

9:41

back from his grip and

9:43

plug it back into wherever the fuck it plugs

9:45

into this thing.

9:48

It just paid completely vanished.

9:50

The funny part is, as soon as you said, I would pick up

9:52

an ax. I I didn't react. I was like,

9:55

yeah, you know, it's it's about what I expect

9:57

them to do. I thought you're gonna say you're gonna

9:59

chop the TV or the

10:00

box, but no was the walls. I didn't

10:02

think, no. I'm gonna

10:03

find that. See, he's got my DVR stuff

10:05

in there somewhere.

10:07

I just pulled it out of the box.

10:08

How does that happen to just disappear

10:11

off the same goddamn but from one day to

10:13

the next. Did it update?

10:15

Did the box update? I

10:17

don't know what it did. I wasn't watching it

10:19

the whole goddamn day. I was going about

10:21

my business. It was sitting in the same place

10:23

when I got

10:23

back. I don't know whether it went out on a date or not.

10:26

The remote Yeah.

10:29

You said it was a different remote. It's the same remote.

10:31

Right?

10:31

That's the same remote.

10:32

Okay. Did you try to say that the one down?

10:35

Have the same remote. Like, there was some kinda

10:36

No. It's the same exact

10:39

brand. It's the same exact thing

10:41

in both places. And one

10:44

continues function as it did the previous

10:46

day and one has totally

10:49

quit doing all the things related to the DVR

10:51

and it's not even

10:53

available function that you can select

10:55

on their screen of death.

10:59

Maybe there's a wrestling fan that controls

11:01

it. Let me

11:02

try to try to shut you down.

11:04

Well, no. Maybe they're trying to help me, so I won't

11:06

have to watch these fucking program. Yeah. So

11:11

The answer to a question you asked off

11:13

the air about, oh, we've not yet

11:15

watched the China biography. We might

11:17

not be able to. I don't

11:19

I've got to dig into that further and see where

11:21

else it might be available because I think it was

11:23

on that one. But

11:26

I want to jump back to last week for

11:28

a second because I'm still afraid

11:30

I felt bad all week. Meaning.

11:34

Stop it. Stop

11:37

it. Did I meet.

11:41

That I may have offended

11:44

or injured the feelings

11:46

of the very least Regis parents much

11:48

less any cart lovers out there.

11:51

And again, it was because we had I

11:53

can't even remember now because that overshadowed

11:56

everything. But we were in some depressing

11:59

topic or some

12:01

downer type of buzz killing moment

12:03

that you probably precipitated there,

12:05

fella.

12:06

We were talking about coach Crum. You precipitated

12:08

it. Well, no. Well, I was talking

12:10

about hell. He couldn't be

12:13

at his e six birthday party because

12:15

he's been written as beloved figure.

12:17

And I said, well, let's go to

12:19

the emails to to

12:21

cheer us up or to get to something

12:24

more uplifting or in a more

12:26

entertaining fashion.

12:28

And I had said it top of the program,

12:30

but I didn't have a chance because it's hectic

12:32

around here that way hectic. And

12:35

I I didn't have chance to organize as I

12:37

usually do. We don't script this program,

12:39

obviously. But I do

12:41

usually have an order of events. Well, I'll read

12:43

these first and that second or whatever, and

12:46

I just had the stack. And immediately went

12:48

to the cat with lymphoma.

12:51

And it just struck me wrong.

12:52

Rejji. His name is Rejji. And yes.

12:55

Poor Rejji.

12:58

And then in in in a

13:01

way so

13:03

what I did last week.

13:05

I apologize. But now I'm

13:08

prepared for because we are animal

13:10

lovers here on the program, and we do

13:12

encourage to coke members to have their

13:15

beloved pets recognized. So

13:17

I'm gonna do this at a respectful tone.

13:19

I'll have you know. I

13:22

had no goddamn meowing.

13:25

Are you setting it up like you run through the towns

13:27

for West Shore Home? I wanna say, are you gonna do this?

13:30

No. Just I don't want you.

13:32

And this is about a a puppy anyway.

13:35

And this is for both of us, dear

13:37

Jim and Brian. My name is Dan.

13:40

And I live in a small town near Boston, Massachusetts.

13:43

My fourteen year old dog Daisy

13:46

has been with my family since I was four

13:48

years old and sadly the friend who I

13:50

saw grow up beside me has

13:52

grown old and is soon to be put down.

13:55

And I wanted to thank you for the laughs and entertainment

13:57

you've provided me during these hard times

13:59

as I deal with the upcoming loss of my

14:01

beloved dog, as well as working

14:04

nights after school to finish out my senior

14:06

year of high school, so we're getting

14:08

them young too there, Brian. As

14:11

I try to pay for college next year

14:13

and industrious and educated,

14:15

that's our audience. I

14:18

often listen to the podcast during school and

14:20

work so some days you guys will get me through full

14:22

ten to twelve hours of bullshit. Well,

14:25

thank you, Dan, and we're sorry to hear

14:27

about Daisy.

14:29

Yeah. That sucks. That breaks my heart when you hear

14:31

this. As a dog owner, it's like, you know

14:33

but you hate to hear about it because we all love

14:35

our

14:35

pets, and that

14:37

stinks. Well, and and It's

14:40

not funny like Reggie. It no.

14:42

It did not quit. And also, I

14:44

don't know me and Harley. We I she

14:46

has better medical care than I do.

14:49

I'm I'm trying to keep her around as long

14:51

as I'm around. So if if hopefully,

14:54

we'll split the difference and go at the same time

14:56

in about twenty years. You said fourteen years.

14:58

That's That's a pretty good run. That's that's

15:00

a pretty the first dog

15:02

I had, which was actually my father's

15:05

dog, Joc, was a cockerspaniel. And

15:08

he lived to be sixteen and a half.

15:11

And finally, we had to have him put sleep

15:13

or I didn't. I was you know, six

15:16

or whatever at the time, but that

15:18

dog survived getting

15:21

backed over by a car, got a pin put in

15:23

his hip, Fellow

15:25

in the neighbor's fish pond in the wintertime,

15:27

froze stiff. They had to throw him out in front of the fireplace,

15:30

got attacked by I've

15:32

told that story before. The

15:35

the neighbor's dog that killed my beagle

15:37

a few years earlier had attacked joc,

15:41

and he'd made it through that. That's

15:43

the one that my mother ran out of

15:45

the neighborhood at gunpoint. And

15:48

he also had had tetanus and loch

15:50

jaw, and finally was

15:53

blind and couldn't hear. But

15:56

what a tough fucking dog? He was like the Mick

15:58

Foley of dogs. Anyway

16:02

Always creeping up on the dealers. Say

16:04

again? Nothing. Nothing. I I did not

16:06

I did not hear you

16:07

legitimately. I'm sorry if I stepped on the line,

16:09

it might have been funny accidentally by you.

16:12

Always creeping up on the divas. Oh,

16:14

come on now for heaven's

16:16

sake. But that is not terrible.

16:19

And here's this is actually a letter,

16:21

and I wanted to read this because it's a

16:23

fucking letter. That

16:26

this young lady named Amy from

16:29

down in South Carolina wrote and

16:31

sent to the post office box that

16:33

I have here for in

16:36

Addressed to both of us, Brian, to both

16:38

of us because we both do that. And it's to the Cornette

16:40

drive through, so it's even your show. Hello,

16:42

Amy? But she

16:46

she not only wrote an actual letter,

16:48

it's actually written in by hand. So

16:50

I wanted to recognize this and it's very

16:52

nice. Dear Jim

16:54

and Brian, thank you so much for the podcast.

16:57

And the much needed comic relief, YouTube

17:00

have really helped me to smile more this past

17:02

month. Recently, the

17:04

most beloved person in my life, my granny

17:06

passed away. She went through a

17:08

rapid decline, and I've never been so

17:11

heartbroken and lost in my whole life.

17:13

She was the only person in my family I

17:15

had or I'm sorry, the only person

17:17

in my family I had an amazing

17:19

and loving relationship with, so that makes

17:21

it especially devastating. And

17:23

she actually Amy said a picture of her

17:26

her granny and also her and her puppy

17:28

dog. Your podcast

17:30

has helped me a lot. You guys helped me to smile

17:33

and take my mind off of my loss with the

17:36

humor and commentary. I

17:38

do hate to hear about Brian's father.

17:40

However, it makes me feel like someone else genuinely

17:43

understands the grief that I'm experiencing

17:45

too. So thank you guys for sharing

17:47

that. And, Amy, thank

17:49

you for sharing that in the picture of you and your

17:52

Grammy, and this letter,

17:54

and it it meant a lot you actually wrote it and

17:56

put a stamp on it, mailed it, which almost

17:58

nobody does anymore. That's

18:00

very nice. But

18:02

anyway, I wanted to recognize before

18:04

we just this show completely degenerates

18:07

into

18:08

Chaos.

18:09

Did I get a handkerchief? What's the next story?

18:11

No. No. I'm saying I wanted to

18:13

get those two out of the way before you start

18:15

fuck it with me and I would break up or laugh

18:18

or do something inappropriate. Because now

18:20

I wanna go back now to the

18:22

next email is something that we were talking

18:24

about. Here not

18:26

long ago, remember John

18:28

fell. I

18:30

remember John fell from Baltimore.

18:32

Yes that he got back up and then he wrote

18:34

the email saying that he reminded us

18:36

that sugar

18:38

sugar by the Archie's is the

18:41

song that that replaced Huggies

18:44

Talk Women by The Rolling Stones is

18:46

a number one song. Would it hit number

18:48

one in nineteen sixty nine. So

18:50

the Archie's bumped the rolling

18:54

stones out of the number one spot and

18:57

which I remember by the way, I wasn't

18:59

actually a rolling stones fan because I was

19:01

fucking eight. But

19:03

I have all the Archie's out albums and watched

19:05

the cartoon show and goddamn, you

19:08

know, that was just the the greatest music

19:10

in the whole world. But then

19:12

we were talking about the Archie said, I couldn't

19:14

remember Reggie's name. Reggie's last name. Reggie's

19:17

last name. He always goes back to Reggie.

19:19

Well, no. It's unbelievable with this guy.

19:21

This has been nice. Stop it.

19:23

Would you quit this? That

19:26

was completely an unrelated issue

19:29

or time pick that just happened to have

19:31

the same name and the god damn both of them,

19:33

and I wasn't even but anyway, it was

19:35

reggie mantle according to Lucas.

19:38

From wherever the fuck. He doesn't

19:40

say where he's from, but Lucas wrote in.

19:44

Reggie mantle was the egotistical rival

19:46

to Archie Andrews, and no, not the

19:48

cat. So it was Archie

19:50

Andrews, Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper,

19:53

and Reggie Mantel. And

19:55

of course, Jughead Jones. And

19:57

and Brian asked what was Jughead's

20:00

given Christian first name?

20:04

Juggage, Jerome. No.

20:06

I don't know. Foresight.

20:10

That

20:10

was my next guess. Four scythe

20:12

p Jones.

20:15

And that one of those times where jughead's

20:17

the better name. Well, in

20:19

in actuality, you know, it's kinda like,

20:22

you know, some of the guys that have changed the crusher

20:24

was probably a a better wrestling

20:26

name than Rejji Lusowski,

20:28

but Could a wrestler pull off jughead?

20:30

Could a serious heel be jughead?

20:33

No. Jugg

20:33

head? Something. Jugg head, Andrew's.

20:36

Well, now you're now you're just

20:38

ripping off a goddamn Archie's.

20:41

Did your jug had Andrews? What the No.

20:44

You can't have a a heel named

20:46

jughead, a heel stooge, maybe

20:48

the big maybe if if

20:50

when cowboy Fraser was fucking

20:52

lawler's bodyguard, he could have called him

20:55

Jughead and got away with it, but I don't know.

20:57

But, though you can't have a heel

20:59

named Jughead. Did you like the Bazooka

21:01

Jug comics that came with the gum? No.

21:04

Because I wasn't a gum fan. I

21:07

was I'd never liked gum that much when

21:09

I was a

21:10

kid. And my mom I

21:11

just hated joy. I hated joy.

21:13

Well, no. No. Stop it. Well,

21:15

what's fun about chewing up? Because

21:17

here's the thing. First of all,

21:19

my mother's gum of choice was

21:21

didn't mean because she thought you ought

21:23

to get something out of it. Right? The fresh breath

21:26

or the fucking this thin teen because

21:28

the word dent is in it. And

21:30

so is dentistry. Somehow it was good for

21:32

your teeth. I don't know. And

21:34

I want a ginteen fan

21:37

and and if

21:39

you chew a goddamn piece

21:42

of Rigley's fucking

21:44

juicy fruit or whatever. Well, for about

21:46

the first twenty seven seconds, you got some

21:48

flavor there, and then you're chewing a goddamn

21:51

piece of fucking

21:52

rubber. In your mouth. But I'm

21:54

talking about bubblegum, Bazooka, they

21:56

had their comics, and then double bubble had their

21:58

rip off Bazooka comics.

22:01

Should I admit something, bubblicious?

22:04

Yes. Exactly. I've

22:08

never blown a bubble

22:10

with bubble gum. And

22:12

I don't know that I know how

22:14

to blow a I can't blow up

22:16

balloons or or

22:19

bubbles of the I don't know how it works.

22:22

I don't know. It doesn't work. I've

22:24

always had to have my balloons professionally

22:26

inflated because I'll sit there and go

22:29

I don't know what

22:29

the fuck. What the whole box? These are two separate

22:32

things altogether. And and blowing a

22:34

goddamn. I don't understand how you

22:36

would do that. To blow a bubble out of

22:38

gum. And what motion

22:40

you would make or how you would purse

22:42

and form your

22:43

lips? That's almost

22:45

understandable because you don't like gum. You already

22:48

said it. You're not a

22:48

gum fan, so you

22:49

don't have

22:50

any practice or expertise. Yeah.

22:52

You can't blow the balloon. What's that

22:54

about? Never been able to oh, god. I almost

22:57

had a fucking stroke. It's

22:59

the Alamo Plaza hotel in Shreveport

23:02

the night before that goddamn party

23:03

celebration for

23:06

the midnight express where they smashed my face

23:08

the cake and we did the anger with Watts.

23:11

I was trying to blow up post goddamn balloons

23:14

and almost had a stroke and was

23:16

needed an oxygen tank trying to I had, like,

23:18

two or three balloons. I had to get up early the

23:20

next morning and go

23:22

over to a back camera when fucking

23:25

store it was, grocery store and go

23:27

in and have them blow me up some fucking

23:29

balloons.

23:31

This is I'd never I mean, this is astounding

23:34

to I don't even know what to say or what to

23:36

ask. Well, we weren't even

23:38

supposed to be talking about balloons. Did this

23:40

start? It's just like a wavey to get out of blown up

23:42

balloons, and then it just became like a

23:44

thing where you just keep going. I can't get

23:46

in I can't make it. I see other people

23:48

just go, when these things just get big

23:50

and I'm like, I don't know what the technique

23:52

is. I'm sorry. So

23:55

I have professional balloons done technique.

23:58

I was going back to, well, there's a there's a

24:00

fucking art to it apparently.

24:02

Oh, apparently. A technique of

24:04

some description. How do you are you talking about

24:06

any balloon or like a balloon animal long

24:08

thin one?

24:10

Are you talking? Just like any balloon? Like a loose

24:12

balloon? Balloon. Yes. Any balloon.

24:15

I'd you know, I

24:17

I don't know how they make the fucking balloon

24:19

animals, but I assume most people can't

24:21

do that where they twist them into a goddamn

24:23

replica of a pelican and a goddamn

24:25

ocelot. I don't

24:27

understand that whole business either. Well, these

24:29

are harder to blow up sometimes than the regular

24:33

oval balloon. I don't know what to call

24:34

it. The normal shit balloon

24:37

thing. It I can I can get it up? I can get

24:39

it looking like a fucking cat

24:41

of a soggy orange or whatever,

24:44

maybe even up to a fucking

24:46

mid level fucking mushy grapefruit, and

24:48

then they just don't go too much

24:49

further. This

24:51

is such a fascinating thing. Alright. Well,

24:53

I'm glad you're fascinated, but where I was

24:55

going, you see, I was gonna tie the discussion

24:58

I was having about the Archie's. This

25:00

video will be Jim Cornett on gum and

25:02

balloons.

25:04

Well, that's You've now you've doomed it

25:06

to only get forty or fifty thousand views.

25:10

But what I was going to make an analogy,

25:13

draw a similarly, a comparison, if you

25:15

will, The arches

25:19

and the monkeys, is

25:21

that what we've got with wrestling these days

25:23

or we're about to have with wrestling these days

25:25

especially with the WWE if if what

25:27

we're gonna talk about about

25:30

them later on comes to pass. Don

25:33

Kircher just said, you know what? These fucking

25:35

rock stars. They're too goddamn hard to

25:37

deal with. I'm just gonna make my own band.

25:40

And then when he made his

25:42

own band, but they got hard to deal

25:44

with, he said fuck it. I'm

25:47

just gonna make them all cartoon characters. And

25:49

then I can draw them into doing whatever I

25:51

want to and he got a number one fucking record

25:54

out of a fucking cartoon band.

25:58

Is that what the end

26:01

goal of the WWE

26:04

is especially now just

26:07

get some fucking people to voice

26:09

these characters. If they can if

26:11

they're we're gonna talk about the betting later

26:14

on. If they can do that and they can figure out

26:16

a way to computer generate these son of a bitches.

26:19

Then it then wrestling is gonna be the equivalent

26:21

of the Archie's in nineteen sixty

26:23

nine. The real human

26:25

beings were too

26:27

hard to deal with and we couldn't minimize

26:31

their involvement enough. So now we

26:33

have just taken them out of it and we're

26:35

gonna create our own fucking

26:36

wrestlers. You know, with

26:39

Don Kirschner, he came out of the bro building.

26:42

He was there before

26:44

the Beatles. He was there after

26:46

the Beatles. This is that period of

26:48

time. The end of the Beatles after the

26:50

Beatles. So again, here's a guy

26:52

whose business as

26:54

a

26:55

publisher was getting his songs published.

26:57

The singer songwriter.

27:00

The bands writing their own songs were

27:02

a problem.

27:03

Yeah. Some of them still covered stuff, but

27:05

It was something that was

27:07

decreasing. And

27:09

when you have a manufactured band,

27:13

You're guaranteed that they'll play your

27:15

songs. And then when they rebel against

27:17

you, you just have them drawn. I mean, that's what

27:19

it is. Or

27:23

redrawn as the

27:25

case may be. And

27:27

and that's I think that's what

27:29

they're going for at least in the WWE

27:32

now because, I

27:34

mean, have you ever seen a time where

27:37

there was There

27:39

in in the WWE in history, from the

27:41

territory day sixty, seventy's, Vince

27:43

taken over in the eighties, attitude era of

27:45

the nineties, even two thousands, where

27:49

there were only a couple of legitimate main

27:52

event guys and everybody else

27:54

was on the same par with each other and

27:56

just kind of Fucking

27:58

taken turns wrestling each other every week.

28:03

That's why So I think, you know and and

28:05

And the stars that they have made

28:07

are aging rapidly. So

28:10

do we, you know, do we expect sugar,

28:13

sugar in in the next eight years.

28:16

The new champion here he is. We've just

28:18

created him. He's your computer generated

28:21

hero. You know,

28:23

that's something too, like, you know, again, taking

28:25

your thoughts or feelings about him

28:27

as a person or a performer out of it,

28:29

with Kenny Omega, former AEW

28:32

champion. Let's say WWE does

28:34

sign him. He's not a kid.

28:37

This isn't someone you could look at like, yeah, this

28:39

is a great future

28:39

investment. This is an investment

28:42

in right now hopefully for

28:44

a little bit. He just took nine

28:46

months off having multiple surgeries

28:49

to correct previous injuries,

28:51

and he's almost forty. So

28:54

at this point and I'm

28:56

not even saying this to knock him, but

28:59

the WWE a if

29:01

he was not in a prominent position

29:03

on the other gas program, wouldn't offer him contract

29:06

because of they've turned down people younger

29:08

and in better shape because of agent injuries.

29:10

Previous injuries. But

29:13

they will offer him a contract because

29:15

he's on the other program so they can do

29:17

some damage to them. At this point,

29:19

In the days where Vince had to personally

29:23

approve the amount of money

29:25

that each wrestler got and in

29:28

those days are not that long ago.

29:32

No. There's no way that they would have

29:35

you know, offered him big money

29:37

at this stage in his life, but now

29:39

that the that the money doesn't

29:41

really matter because it's not big money anymore

29:44

in their overall multibillion dollar

29:46

scheme of things, they'll

29:48

offer him probably offering

29:51

a significant amount of money for

29:53

three years to

29:56

take him away from the other guys and

29:58

to ensure that by the time he would

30:00

ever go back to the other guys, if

30:03

they're still around at that point, he'd

30:05

be almost in his mid

30:07

forties and certainly in

30:10

not better physical condition

30:12

than he is now after taking three more years

30:15

of any kind of bumps. So

30:17

that's it. When they

30:19

used to have to watch out for what

30:22

they spent in terms of talent,

30:25

payments, talent salaries, they

30:29

might not have been so gung ho to

30:31

to get him because it wouldn't have been worth it

30:33

in the long run. It would have at other people in the

30:35

locker room. But now that it's

30:37

not a it's a negligible amount

30:40

of money to them, You

30:43

know, then there's every yeah. We'll just take

30:45

him out of that equation and see how they do.

30:48

Don't even have to use him. They don't have to justify

30:50

the sound. We used to have to I've

30:53

heard the phrase from

30:55

Vance Andor Jim Ross. Directed

30:58

at anybody on the creative team just

31:00

file a salary. They don't

31:03

have to anymore. They can just leave them, set

31:05

them a check, and they don't even

31:06

notice. And

31:08

with Omega, like I said, this, to your point,

31:10

is it's about developing stars in the Earth

31:12

thin at the top and everyone's getting older, that's the

31:14

case of if you sign someone who is a star

31:16

to a portion of the audience, their

31:19

old say you really can't make it long term investment

31:21

more than likely other than

31:23

MJF. Who knows

31:26

if he'll ever leave AEW? And

31:28

I hate to play that game because that game's gonna be going

31:30

on over and over again for a while. So other than

31:32

him, Is there anyone

31:34

under thirty? That would

31:36

actually be an impactful signing from

31:40

WWE or by WWE. When

31:43

Chris Yaracos signed there, I

31:45

don't even think he was thirty yet. You

31:48

know, so he had a good run-in

31:50

WWE. I love this run-in WWE, and then

31:52

he had a long run-in WWE,

31:55

and he came back several times He

31:57

was young enough that he was able to do that. Is there

31:59

anyone they actually could sign

32:01

under thirty that

32:03

they wouldn't just throwing NXT and treat like crap

32:05

for a few

32:06

years. I can actually come up there.

32:08

Oh, okay. Now you put a qualifier in

32:11

that drastically even reduces that number.

32:13

Maybe I shouldn't have. Yeah. Well, that's

32:15

my question. Well, there's

32:18

there's almost nobody anywhere

32:21

that they could just sign

32:24

and bring to straight to the main roster

32:27

without NXT except well,

32:29

and right now, again, you

32:31

don't wanna play game with MJF, but

32:33

they couldn't sign him right now because he's the

32:35

champion he's under contract. Whether

32:39

in next year, twenty twenty four, whatever,

32:42

he'd still under thirty, and

32:44

they could still you know, he would I

32:48

certainly to God would have

32:50

hoped that they wouldn't send him to

32:53

NXT because you've got the chance

32:55

there to

32:57

you know, have a guy that's the been

33:00

the world champion from another

33:02

other company. The only other company fleet.

33:04

No. There's no way. They would bring him up and he'd be an

33:06

impact player on the main

33:07

roster. You couldn't well, I mean, you know,

33:10

stupid things happen all the time. But, yeah, you

33:12

you would have to think that crossover because they're getting

33:14

a guy that's so that

33:17

really doesn't need to be taught anything. They need

33:19

to learn some things from him. But otherwise than

33:21

that, I was gonna how old his Hobbs. But

33:24

he needs to go to NXT. Anybody

33:28

under thirty in AEW With

33:30

the exception of MJF, would

33:32

need would it would be a disservice

33:35

not to send them to NXT because

33:38

they've gotten Sir,

33:42

varying degrees of training and whatever

33:44

endies they've come from And

33:46

maybe they've had some good influences, but

33:49

the they would certainly

33:51

have to learn how a professional Organization

33:54

is booked and and the TV is presented

33:57

if nothing else. Hobbes

34:00

is thirty two. Yeah.

34:04

Well, but it matters not. He I

34:07

mean, we could sit here and go through the list, but

34:09

I can't think of anybody off top of my head that

34:12

from AEW under thirty that shouldn't

34:14

go to NXT. Anyway,

34:22

so that but you know, I'm gonna

34:24

I was gonna read this, but fuck it.

34:26

Now that you've made mockery of me for other

34:28

things, I'm gonna save this for next week. Well,

34:30

what's that? Hold on. What is that? No. No.

34:33

No. Because I've had a bad

34:35

week. I've had a tough week, a

34:37

rough week, a hard week for heaven's

34:39

sake. I got the cameos done.

34:42

haven't even told you about all of this.

34:47

Obviously, Hodgkin's put the the

34:49

cameos on sale last

34:52

Saturday, and it was another success. And

34:54

thank you guys very much. And I'm sorry for you by

34:56

it missed out. I said we're gonna be doing it a

34:58

few I'll get to the spring

35:00

news in a minute. We'll do

35:02

them again in a few months when things slow down,

35:04

but We we split

35:07

it up over two days and the second

35:09

day of day, oh, this will be easy. We got the

35:11

first half knocked out. And

35:13

this was on Thursday. Okay. And I'm

35:16

looking out the window to see when Hotchkiss is

35:18

pulling up, and here comes a thirty

35:20

foot fucking tanker

35:22

truck from my

35:25

the people that do my fertilization

35:27

of my trees. And

35:29

it just happens that that's the day that it's falling

35:32

on. I'm saying, oh, god. Well, well, he pulls

35:34

up in the driveway. He's backed up sideways.

35:36

He's got this tube and his hose and his running

35:38

this motor, and he's doing the

35:40

fertilization. And

35:42

then I think Hachkus is coming up and

35:44

here comes my contractor because that was

35:46

the one day we've got some polishes on

35:49

some of the woodwork and

35:51

they were installing a few other things and then we're

35:53

almost done. We have cabinet, and

35:55

countertop to be assembled, etcetera,

35:58

but main part of those rooms is

36:00

done. Here comes four

36:02

contractors and their associates

36:04

in three different vehicles,

36:07

and they're parked by the side of the goddamn driveway.

36:10

And then Hodges gets here And

36:13

I'm trying to shoot it, but now I'm looking at the

36:15

traffic out in my driveway. And

36:18

then here comes Brian. My

36:21

new yard crew, the the

36:23

fine folks that replaced Landon

36:26

the idiot, Four

36:29

guys, two trucks, and a giant

36:31

trailer that's so wide, it almost doesn't

36:33

fit through my front gate. And

36:36

I had all these people trying to do circles

36:38

in my backyard and or back out and

36:41

or back around while I was finishing the cameos.

36:44

But we got

36:46

it done by Cracking except for

36:48

one. And I told

36:50

you about this, and you got a snicker

36:52

out of. There was one cameo request,

36:55

and it's the only one I've ever refunded.

36:58

I just I can't fill this.

37:01

The guy wanted me well, the

37:03

instruction was Jim,

37:07

please be the announcer

37:10

and call the match between me

37:14

and a wrestler you make

37:16

up, call it from in

37:18

music and entrance to introductions

37:21

to finish. How?

37:25

And how? And there's

37:27

no way I mean, on so

37:29

many levels, for

37:33

video, especially that this

37:35

would be awkward. Besides

37:38

the fact that you can't actually send

37:40

through the cameo process. Maybe in

37:42

future iterations of this. You can't actually

37:44

send a picture of who you are.

37:47

So I know what you look like. Or

37:49

how or whether you'd be using a bear hug

37:51

or a drop kick. And

37:53

also, wrestler I make up, does that

37:55

mean that's the best Does that

37:57

mean an existing wrestler that I don't

37:59

pick or one that I make up

38:02

from scratch like, you know, Crotchey

38:04

Mcgrabington. And

38:07

then the introductions will

38:09

where are you from? And how much do you

38:11

weigh? And what

38:14

the fuck? And then how

38:17

would the how would the

38:19

camera be focused here? Because, like,

38:21

what if if I'm the announcer, am

38:23

I looking at the camera or am I looking

38:25

at a monitor that has nothing on

38:27

it? Calling

38:32

something that I'm imagining seeing.

38:35

And and then and you

38:37

brought up. Should I do the the old time

38:40

radio announcer, but the Gary Owens bit

38:42

and cut my ear. Oh,

38:44

where we are, ladies and gentlemen. I

38:47

mean, it it and I said,

38:50

I just look I said, I and he paid

38:52

a, you know, a good sum of money for this.

38:54

And was like, I can't take

38:56

your money because I think this will be

38:58

direct. So I and he graciously,

39:02

you know, reply don't don't hard feelings.

39:04

I understand. And we'll try to get

39:06

next time, but I'll give something

39:08

easy instead. Just cut a promo on me.

39:11

Well, that that

39:14

was another several of them is I

39:16

would get the instruction that Oh,

39:18

my husband loves you and he listens to your

39:21

shows all the time. Cut a vicious

39:23

promo on him. For

39:25

for two minutes over that, what you

39:27

know, is there anything wrong with him? Does

39:29

this fucking paint

39:31

smell? Give me something to work with.

39:33

Right? But

39:35

but that but that would be that would

39:37

be a bit awkward. Hi. It's

39:39

Jim Cornette. By the way, your wife tells me

39:42

Oh, I've done that. You're the chain smell.

39:44

Yeah. I've done a few of those.

39:47

Tell and family members they need to lose

39:50

weight or their ass or whatever.

39:53

I've done few of those. But anyway,

39:56

so thank you again to everybody who participated

40:00

in the the big cameo of

40:02

of extravaganza, but now

40:05

we're moving on to the burrito. It's almost spring,

40:08

Brian. And I said there was big

40:10

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40:13

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I would love to hear about this. Well,

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I'm glad you said that because I'll tell you

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42:53

pay the the shipping from England or

42:55

gosh. It takes so long. Well, now,

42:58

It will be available personally autographed

43:00

right here limited to one thousand copies.

43:02

They made a special run for me.

43:05

And send them over so they are

43:07

uncirculated. But there'll

43:10

be a thousand copies. They can be personally

43:12

autographed. And all these things

43:14

I'm gonna talk about are gonna go on sale on

43:16

Saturday, April the eighth at jim Cornette

43:19

dot com. So again, Whole

43:21

forty eight page full color magazine personally

43:24

autographed, a thousand copies

43:26

will go on sale on April the eighth at

43:28

noon. And as well, Brian,

43:30

you will recall that Kenny

43:33

and inside the ropes are the ones that brought

43:36

me over to England back

43:38

in twenty sixteen to do

43:41

a a live sit down show

43:43

in London. We

43:46

call it a sit down show because both of us were

43:48

old and didn't wanna stand up. Me

43:50

and Jim Ross, on the rise of the attitude

43:53

era, that was my Last

43:55

London appearance back in twenty sixteen,

43:59

and the DVD of

44:01

that incredible night A

44:03

little over two hours of Jim

44:05

Ross and myself on stage with

44:07

Young Kenny, sometimes he kept us to

44:09

the format. Oftentimes we branched

44:12

off. But the

44:14

entire conversation there as well

44:16

as the surprise run-in

44:18

by Brett Hart And

44:20

for the last, I think, twenty, twenty five minutes

44:22

of the program, and he jumped

44:25

in on the conversation. This DVD has

44:27

never been on sale before, and

44:30

It will be on sale now at jim Cornette

44:32

dot com, Saturday, April the eighth at noon,

44:34

eastern, with an autograph cover.

44:37

By myself. Jim

44:39

Jim Cornette in case you're wondering. Jim

44:41

Jim Jim Jim Jim Cordett and

44:44

Jim Jim Jim. Autograph

44:46

by me, by cracking. Oh,

44:50

shut up. I'm old. Anyway,

44:53

and Finally, wait a minute. Hold on

44:55

here. Where's my dang

44:57

gum? Oh, that was

44:59

the wrong drum. What the hell was that? Here.

45:02

Here's my drum. But

45:10

the PEACE deResistance, the

45:12

third item on sale Saturday, April

45:14

eighth, the jim Cornette dot com, and that's noon

45:16

eastern, my latest

45:18

action figure Brian laughs

45:21

and I'll have you know that

45:23

while all this time in my life,

45:25

I've been a heel. I'm deciding I'm switching

45:27

babyface on this one. This

45:30

is my first babyface figure

45:32

because it's going to be for

45:34

a good cause. You know, I've

45:37

worn every kind of color in the world.

45:40

Right? So when we think about the

45:42

designs, well, we had my raw

45:44

debut. And we had my the

45:46

bloody variant, whereas we're in the white

45:49

jacket, you know, when Paulie cracked me with the

45:51

phone and had the original one

45:53

which was my red and

45:55

yellow Oscar Meyer Hot Dog outfit

45:57

that was so popular. Blah blah. When we're doing

45:59

these designs, we're thinking of ideas because

46:01

I've worn everything. And

46:05

this idea actually germinated with

46:07

Stacey because she just was because you

46:09

know the lead time on these things and and how

46:12

long we have to plan ahead because they gotta

46:14

be handmade, come over on a boat,

46:16

blah blah blah. And

46:18

she had seen me in an old another

46:21

pink jacket, a darker pink than the

46:23

raw debut at a picture, and At

46:26

the same time, she had this was almost

46:28

three years ago now. She had

46:30

the pink and

46:32

black breast cancer license

46:34

plate on her car she had been. And

46:38

she was thinking about Donna Eton because

46:40

Donna This before she

46:42

passed away was was sick, had breast

46:44

cancer, and she was thinking about my mom,

46:47

who had had breast cancer, and She

46:50

said, why don't you do that

46:53

kind of that I don't know what the

46:55

exact shade

46:57

or whatever the technical term is

47:00

at Fusia. But

47:02

she said, do the breast cancer pink, like on

47:04

my license plate for your mom and for

47:06

Donna and vets, etcetera, etcetera, we've known

47:08

a number of people. And

47:10

as okay, So

47:13

we got those in the pipeline and

47:15

those are here and

47:17

there's gonna be a thousand of them And

47:20

what we're gonna do is each

47:22

one and and there's only gonna be one figure

47:24

this time. This is the only one being released

47:26

last time we did a doubleheader, but this when

47:28

it's deal. We've done

47:32

fundraisers for the crusade

47:34

for children before for various things. And,

47:36

of course, The American Cancer

47:38

Society we've done, and Jeremy

47:40

Baglins made the OG

47:42

Coke guys have helped with those. And last year,

47:45

we did Nami, the

47:47

National Alliance on Middle illness, this

47:50

one, a thousand pink

47:52

and black, breast cancer, pink and black,

47:55

Jim action figures, autographed

47:58

personally if you wish, and

48:01

we're doing ten dollars off of each

48:03

figure sold to the Susan

48:05

G. Coleman Foundation, to

48:07

fight breast cancer. And

48:09

it's not a gimmick who were not

48:11

like doing the increase in price deal

48:14

and jacketed up ten bucks from what it usually

48:16

is and give them the ten dollars away, which

48:18

as an old friend of mine you say, like, giving away

48:20

the sleeves on your vest, No

48:23

increase in price on the figure, but

48:25

we're donating ten dollars

48:27

each so the goal is to raise ten thousand dollars

48:29

for breast cancer. So,

48:33

again, that is the spring spectacular sale.

48:36

At jim cornhead dot com, Saturday,

48:39

April eighth, and you

48:41

can go now or you better be

48:43

able to or else Elsewise Hachkus will be

48:45

in trouble again, You can go

48:47

to jim court dot com and there'll be banners

48:50

on the front page with pictures of all this

48:52

stuff and explaining what I

48:54

just explained. But

48:57

we got our we got our work cut out for us in

48:59

April. The feather bottoms are gonna be activated.

49:04

How many can we put you down for Brian?

49:06

I won. I don't wanna take anything away from

49:08

me. People out there who trying to get their hands

49:10

on

49:10

them. You don't wanna be greedy. No.

49:13

Well, good. Well, that's that's

49:15

mighty admirable of you. Where is

49:17

it on your website? I'm looking on your website now. I

49:19

don't see it. Not now. Now

49:22

when the people hear this, not

49:25

now as we're saying it, See,

49:29

now you've you've you've blown the k phase

49:31

on a on a feather bottoms deal. So you're gonna

49:34

be in a pink and

49:34

black, so if anyone ever wanted you

49:36

to manage The figure of Jim Cornette

49:38

manage the figure of Brett Hart. This

49:40

is Richard. There you go. Yeah.

49:42

And and and and

49:44

in nightheart and The heart foundation

49:46

was heart foundations. Yeah. Interesting.

49:49

See, in an alternate universe,

49:51

what if Watts had picked Jimmy

49:53

Hart? Would you have

49:55

been happy wearing the same color

49:57

scheme every night for at least

49:59

two years?

50:01

No. Well,

50:04

if it was integral to my

50:06

success, I wouldn't have minded it, but there

50:08

would have been a pain in the ass having to get, like,

50:10

fucking fifteen of the same jacket

50:12

and fifteen, the same pants, fifteen, the same

50:15

ties, fifty, or whatever the case. Because

50:19

you can't wear the same thing every fucking

50:21

day. Can't live like savage.

50:23

If you had managed the heart foundation knowing

50:26

how Vince

50:26

is. He had brought the hitman

50:28

heart, gym the Anvil night

50:30

heart, their manager was the mouth

50:33

of the South Jimmy Heart,

50:34

You would have needed something to tie you into heart.

50:37

So Jim, something cornet.

50:40

How about heartless? Jim,

50:45

heartless Cornette. I

50:48

don't but that you

50:50

know, I haven't even thought about that forever,

50:52

but that would have well, I wonder what would have happened.

50:55

Well, he wouldn't let him have him. And

50:57

Jimmy wouldn't have gone. I was gonna say

50:59

what we've watched one at Jimmy Hardisty to

51:01

me, and I was the one that stayed in Memphis. But

51:04

Jimmy lived in Memphis. He was from Memphis.

51:07

By that point, he was past

51:09

forty, and he wasn't gonna go

51:12

fight those fucking fans in Louisiana, I

51:14

don't think. Whereas,

51:17

you know, I'm like, y'all do any fucking thing

51:19

because they didn't do anything with me here. And,

51:23

yes, Jimmy took the New York job because

51:25

they're my god. Then, you

51:27

know, also at the time, you

51:31

know, he got into obviously doing their music.

51:33

I know everybody thinks of Jim Johnston, but Jimmy

51:35

Hart had a lot to do with

51:38

the early days of WWF

51:40

music because besides Cindy

51:43

Loper and Dave Wolfy was the only guy that

51:45

was there at the time

51:47

that it actually legitimately been in the music

51:49

business. So

51:52

I don't think it would have worked at good for

51:54

either one of us if it hadn't happened that

51:56

way. Just

51:57

imagine Jim Cornett on the wrestling album.

52:01

Two to forty. Two

52:04

to forty. No. No.

52:06

No. No. Did that. You couldn't have taken that from

52:08

Jean. I was about to say, know,

52:10

I couldn't have deprived the populace

52:13

of Jean Oakland's performance in

52:15

that classic. Anyway,

52:20

and and I have you

52:22

educated yourself on what happened

52:24

to poor old crew, Ella Deville, yet?

52:27

I haven't because I had so much fun talking

52:29

to you about this realizing I knew very little about

52:31

it that I figured I would wait till we got on the air.

52:34

Okay. Well, and you

52:36

brought it up to me on a phone

52:38

conversation here yesterday because

52:41

This happened a couple of weeks ago, and we've been

52:43

talking about five hundred things

52:45

lately with all the programs and the biographies

52:48

and the pay per views and the strike and the

52:50

chaos, and the turmoil, and the blood, and the mud,

52:52

and the sweat, the tears. But

52:54

Sonya Deville got arrested

53:00

I guess it's been a couple weeks ago now. I

53:02

don't have the date and

53:04

charged with temporarily charged

53:06

with. I get they're either gonna be dropped

53:09

or soon to be whatever, possession of

53:11

a firearm. And

53:14

you brought this up to me say, you know what? We

53:16

didn't talk about this. And I said, well, you know she

53:18

got She got horn

53:20

swaddled, bamboozled, flim

53:22

flammed. Who's, Steven?

53:25

And you didn't know the particulars. You

53:27

thought the apparently that she was taken down

53:30

by members of

53:32

fucking a SWAT Team while she was waving

53:34

an AK forty seven around fucking crowded

53:37

shopping mall or something. didn't think it

53:39

was that. Well, you

53:41

you didn't know what in her fault and

53:43

that she would she was wrongfully

53:46

wrongfully subject to fucking persecution

53:49

and prosecution. So that sound like

53:51

Stephen p knew warming up. Hey, Sonya.

53:54

We give you the business on the program here,

53:56

but if you want somebody to take somebody

53:59

to

53:59

court, steven p new new law office

54:01

dot com, 886928084.

54:04

And that

54:05

wasn't when I was saying it all, but continue.

54:07

But nevertheless, so

54:10

if if you didn't you didn't look it

54:12

up because you want me to tell you. You want

54:14

me to be the bearer of this news to you

54:16

is what you're saying. I'm thinking about your

54:18

future. Jim Cornette, crime

54:20

reporter, has

54:22

a nice ring to it. Well,

54:25

here is what this is the story that

54:28

was reported from sources that I

54:30

believe. As I said, I

54:32

do not remember the exact date, and the

54:34

only thing that another thing I'm sketchy

54:36

on is I'm pretty sure she was

54:39

at this place because of just as a

54:41

private citizen, I don't think it was

54:43

related to a WWE event.

54:46

And she's not she's from New Jersey,

54:49

I believe. And what

54:51

what? Yes. Yes. So I'm

54:53

just saying, but it I mean, it she could have

54:55

been at an event in town, but it wasn't

54:57

at this particular location. But

54:59

I otherwise, she may have just been on personal

55:02

trip. But nevertheless, So

55:06

apparently, she

55:08

Valet parks her car at this hotel

55:11

casino where the fuck she's at, in

55:13

New Jersey. And when

55:15

she goes to get her car, as

55:18

sometimes happened, she can't find the

55:20

valet ticket. And

55:23

you know, at that point, if you

55:25

can identify your, you know, your

55:27

car or whatever, usually there's okay

55:29

and blah blah blah blah and go, whatever, but

55:32

This is the valet parking attendant,

55:34

since they didn't have the ticket,

55:38

went looking in the glove compartment

55:40

of the car to see what he could

55:42

determine, I didn't know

55:44

that they let the valet parking attendant

55:46

just rifle through your goddamn car

55:50

Even whether he had your ticket or not, but nevertheless,

55:53

he owns glove compartment, sees a

55:55

gun in it. And

55:57

then goes and calls the

56:00

hotel security who

56:02

apparently are tasked

56:04

with the job of doing

56:07

the security for this place and making

56:09

sure that everybody's only up and up. So

56:12

apparently, again, instead of going to

56:14

Sonya Deville and doing

56:17

any kind of preliminary investigation

56:20

on this, they determined they're gonna call

56:22

the real police. Who who's come?

56:27

And because she's got a permit to

56:29

carry the gun, but she lives in Florida,

56:31

but she's from, as you said, New Jersey.

56:34

So she's not in the state she

56:36

has the permit to carry it. They

56:38

arrest her. And

56:41

I and I know a lot of people are gonna

56:43

be So the ones screaming

56:45

around, oh, they shouldn't have all these good. No. Okay.

56:47

Numb nuts. Here's a good list in

56:50

context. This,

56:53

at any point, could have

56:55

been slowed down to a crawl.

56:58

If even the hotel security and others

57:00

say, excuse me, ma'am, you have a gun in your

57:04

car. Why do you ever and she

57:06

would have been allowed to say, well,

57:08

Don't you know who I am? I'm

57:11

Sonya Deville. I'm

57:13

on national television on the WWE.

57:17

And there's a guy in prison or

57:19

in a rubber room at the puzzle factory

57:21

somewhere right now because

57:23

he broke it in my home, tried to kidnap

57:25

me. And I have

57:27

a permit to carry this when I'm

57:30

out and about because I'm an attractive woman

57:32

on national TV. That

57:34

could somehow

57:36

my appearance provoked some of these fucking

57:39

middle cases It

57:41

should come after me with duct tape and

57:43

zip ties. That's

57:46

the perfect example of

57:49

why somebody should be allowed to

57:51

carry a handgun. If

57:55

if you need an AK forty seven to

57:57

fight off the goddamn stalkers and maybe

57:59

you're in the wrong lot of work. No,

58:02

I don't believe she's stockpiling ammunition

58:06

or joining a militia, and

58:09

I don't think that she is

58:11

probably gonna be a thee god damned next

58:14

attempted Trump overthrow of the federal

58:16

government. I

58:18

think it's okay for Sonya

58:20

DeVille to have a handgun in her car

58:22

when she's traveling either alone

58:25

or probably with her girlfriend

58:28

or fiance, now I guess, they she

58:30

proposed or whatever that was on Twitter

58:33

the other day. So

58:36

here's two women, one whom have

58:38

been the subject

58:40

of a fucking attempted

58:42

kidnapping that have legally

58:46

fulfilled requirements to carry a gun

58:48

at in in the state they live in,

58:50

but now they're somewhere else. They gotta be

58:52

arrested for that. Instead,

58:55

you know, and and if you go

58:57

to New Jersey for heaven's sake with the

58:59

type of people you'll find On

59:02

the streets there, you probably should have

59:04

some projection. Project break. But

59:06

nevertheless, that's the poster

59:08

girl This is the poster

59:10

girl for someone who should be allowed

59:12

to carry a gun places because there has been

59:14

a threat specifically to her

59:17

because of who she is and she's a recognizable

59:19

public figure, and

59:22

she didn't do anything to instigate it. And

59:24

she's gone through proper legal steps.

59:27

That's why they should be there. You wanna

59:29

fucking AK forty seven because you're overrun

59:31

with goddamn ground squirrels fuck you.

59:34

Or you're afraid that you and you got goddamn

59:36

delusional fucking fantasies, then

59:38

one of these days you're gonna have tell the government

59:41

fuck off and Do things right,

59:43

fuck you. But

59:45

Dysport has to go through all of this

59:47

because somebody along that process couldn't

59:50

figure out that, well, maybe we don't need to call the

59:52

cops. I mean, do do

59:55

Sonya Deville or her fiance?

59:57

Do they look like goddamn shook night?

1:00:01

Oh, Jesus cry. Or maybe they they

1:00:03

brought in a fucking twenty

1:00:05

kilos of cocaine strapped to

1:00:07

the goddamn underneath of the engine of

1:00:09

this car because of the

1:00:11

they they were obviously Pablo

1:00:14

Escobar's fucking, you know,

1:00:16

sisters. What the fuck? Nobody

1:00:19

could just say, hey, who are you guys? What's

1:00:21

going on here before

1:00:23

that? That's my issue with

1:00:25

the whole fucking thing.

1:00:28

Well, you shouldn't I mean, you know,

1:00:30

again, you do need to have your gun

1:00:32

license wherever you have it. I do think that's a good

1:00:34

thing. With that said, I think

1:00:37

if you are a celebrity that's constantly

1:00:39

on the

1:00:40

road, there probably

1:00:42

does need to be something there, especially if

1:00:44

you've had stalkers Some

1:00:46

kind of interstate law so that you can carry.

1:00:48

I would think if anyone's gonna be able to carry,

1:00:50

that's the person.

1:00:51

Yeah. And and it then again, she

1:00:53

didn't even have it in her purse, like, because she's

1:00:56

been in the public place. And I this I

1:00:58

don't know what time of day this was, but she's been

1:01:00

in the public place where she didn't feel

1:01:02

she needed it, because she's around a

1:01:04

fucking general public. But

1:01:07

she's keeping it to rental cars if she's driving

1:01:09

around at night or whatever the fuck. And

1:01:12

that's again, not

1:01:14

one of these fucking lunatic. You know?

1:01:18

The good guy with a gun group

1:01:20

that's always, oh, we need all these guns

1:01:23

because then we'll save the day when something

1:01:25

happens. They tweeted another one this past

1:01:28

week. This guy

1:01:30

walks up. It's a I don't know

1:01:32

what country it was in. They were not speaking English.

1:01:36

But it's just a random video. There's

1:01:38

bunch of people on the street. This

1:01:40

guy walks up with a gun and points it at

1:01:43

some woman I'm apparently

1:01:45

saying, give me whatever the fuck. And

1:01:48

this other woman pulls a gun out

1:01:50

It just shoots the guy. And

1:01:54

boom down he goes, pulls it out

1:01:56

of her purse. And everybody

1:01:58

said, see, that guy learned to listen.

1:02:01

Yeah. And the fucking like five

1:02:03

year old child that was standing two or

1:02:05

three feet to the fucking diagonal right

1:02:07

of this guy when he got shot, if

1:02:10

his rib cage hadn't to block the bullet,

1:02:12

she'd got a good little lesson too. And

1:02:14

the mother that was on to drag this child

1:02:16

away running where she

1:02:18

came her back of her head was lined up in

1:02:20

a good close proximity. You

1:02:23

fucking idiots. This is where, oh,

1:02:25

that guy's got a gun. So let's all fucking pull

1:02:27

a gun and shoot at him and half

1:02:29

the goddamn community. No.

1:02:32

If there's a legitimate reason and this certainly

1:02:34

sounds like it and she was being responsible

1:02:37

and that's what I understand there's no

1:02:39

heat on her from the office

1:02:41

because, you know, what fuck?

1:02:44

What gives I mean, but unless she said

1:02:47

You can identify the card by something

1:02:49

I have in the glove compartment. Why was why

1:02:51

were they going through the glove compartment? I

1:02:54

have no idea. And

1:02:57

because I've

1:02:58

I know that it happens regularly that

1:03:01

the valley Parkers will probably,

1:03:03

you know, sniff through whatever

1:03:05

the fuck they've got time to look

1:03:06

at, but it's not usually officially

1:03:09

validated and admitted

1:03:13

I went looking for a person. I found a gun.

1:03:15

Yeah. We

1:03:19

wish you good luck, Cruella, idiot.

1:03:21

And she plus she's so recognizable. She's

1:03:24

got such a striking look. Right?

1:03:27

She can't fucking hide. But

1:03:29

you know what the moral of this story is? Don't you,

1:03:31

Brian? Oh, no. I don't

1:03:33

know. The moral of this story is

1:03:35

stay away from these hotels sleep

1:03:37

at home. That's

1:03:40

you ain't gonna get any trouble if you're if

1:03:42

you're at home and if you

1:03:44

you ain't gonna lose your car because you're not

1:03:46

valet parking it. It's in your garage.

1:03:49

You know where it is. And

1:03:51

if you need to go to sleep, you know what kind

1:03:53

of mattress you're gonna lay your head down on.

1:03:55

You know, Back the last year that

1:03:57

I was on the road with ring of honor, you

1:04:00

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of bed bugs and earwigs and

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things that infest you,

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should we talk about AEW's television

1:10:31

program this past Wednesday night?

1:10:32

Was wondering where you were going with that. Yes, we

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could do that. Well, the world of AEW

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and I guess and I apparently a

1:10:39

trending again as we're talking

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now because of something that I was

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not even involved

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in, but the AEW fans just hate

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me to begin with. It's been about

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a day or so, and yes, you are trending. You have

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been trending you. Continue to

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trend. You're a very trendy guy. Trendy

1:10:56

McTrenderson, so Rehaut

1:10:59

has

1:11:00

gotten off a Twitter.

1:11:04

I'd never tweeted her that I'm aware

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of, and I didn't follow

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her, so I didn't know about this, but I read

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about it. From people tweeting

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me saying, well, it's your fault. So

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how did I how was I responsible for

1:11:17

Rehaut getting off of Twitter? From

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the best of my knowledge, what happened was

1:11:23

Rejo deactivated her Twitter account?

1:11:27

And people right away or shouldn't

1:11:29

say people. A subsect

1:11:31

of fans

1:11:33

ran right away with the idea that she's

1:11:35

being harassed. Jim Cornett's

1:11:37

fans.

1:11:39

And they came to his conclusion because Rio

1:11:41

said nothing. They

1:11:43

came to his conclusion because in the past

1:11:45

Kenny Omega has complained about

1:11:48

fans in North America,

1:11:51

being vocal on Twitter with Oh,

1:11:53

the ones they broadcast their television program

1:11:55

too. The fans in North America where

1:11:57

their company is

1:11:58

located. That's right. So Rehaut deactivated

1:12:01

her to Twitter and people jumped to the conclusion

1:12:03

that it was because of you

1:12:06

and I've not seen

1:12:08

anything explicitly say that Riho

1:12:11

quit Twitter because English speaking

1:12:13

fans were harassing her. So

1:12:15

I hate to just jump the conclusions like

1:12:17

that. Unfortunately,

1:12:19

a lot of people did.

1:12:22

And again, this is so

1:12:25

someone that they have never met

1:12:28

gets off a Twitter. And

1:12:30

this is a reason for them to

1:12:34

have violent fantasies of my immediate

1:12:37

death. The one that The one

1:12:39

got tweeted, and then some people reported

1:12:41

him, I guess, it it took it down or it violated

1:12:44

policies or whatever. I hope Jim Cornett and

1:12:46

all of his family die a horrible Grizzly

1:12:48

death. Oh, no. It was all the

1:12:49

listeners. It was anyone who's a

1:12:51

fan of all

1:12:51

his listeners. We should all perish

1:12:54

because -- Oh. -- Rehaut got off Twitter.

1:12:56

Because she got a gun.

1:12:59

She got off Twitter. She got off Twitter.

1:13:01

She's going to twitch maybe because she's gonna

1:13:03

twitch instead of Twitter. Who gives a

1:13:05

shit? Are you

1:13:07

serious? She is a grown

1:13:10

woman. Have we established she's in her

1:13:12

thirties? She's

1:13:13

not in her certain how old did you say

1:13:16

that? We say that she's like thirty, thirty one,

1:13:18

thirty two. Is she how old is

1:13:19

she? Hold

1:13:20

on. No. I think she's in her twenties. Riho

1:13:22

is twenty five years old. Okay. She's

1:13:24

twenty five years old then. She just she's

1:13:26

got miles on her.

1:13:28

She is If if the

1:13:31

headline was Ruho has

1:13:33

been deprived of food or

1:13:37

Ruho is Ibetic, and then

1:13:39

this her insulin is being withheld.

1:13:41

Or RIIO is in the middle of heat

1:13:43

wave and has no electricity. That

1:13:47

and and it's all the fault of those

1:13:49

Cornette fans. Well, you might have something

1:13:52

to hang your hat on there. But

1:13:54

she got off Twitter. She's

1:13:56

an adult with

1:13:59

a high paying job that she's not particularly

1:14:01

good at. I think she'll

1:14:04

be just fine. And

1:14:06

as we mentioned last week on the program, it's

1:14:09

at this point, not

1:14:11

even her fault. It's

1:14:13

theirs for thinking

1:14:16

that this would get over for

1:14:18

telling her that she's a great professional

1:14:20

wrestler because of the culture

1:14:23

they have in Japan that has these

1:14:26

young girl doing all these weird

1:14:28

things that they got no business doing because it

1:14:30

looks ridiculous when they do it. So

1:14:36

And and it's not like it's not did I

1:14:38

invent this line of

1:14:40

thinking that If I'm watching professional

1:14:42

wrestling, why do I want to see a

1:14:45

four foot ten ninety pound

1:14:47

girl dressed in Taffeta?

1:14:50

No. But if anyone says something

1:14:52

that you may have said at any point on any

1:14:54

show at any point in history,

1:14:56

It gets sent back to you. They're repeating Jim

1:14:58

Cornette, so obviously Jim Cornett's the blame

1:15:01

for all of this. Is it my

1:15:04

fault just because I'm the only person anybody

1:15:06

knows? Well, it is a

1:15:08

very popular series of shows we do here,

1:15:10

but a couple things. One, You know what

1:15:12

I heard this news, I

1:15:14

had two thoughts. One was

1:15:16

of course Hana Chemura

1:15:18

who passed away

1:15:20

via suicide after being harassed

1:15:22

by Japanese

1:15:24

I don't

1:15:24

even think it was wrestling fan. Was it wrestling fans

1:15:26

or just Japanese fans of reality TV?

1:15:29

It was the but here's the thing

1:15:31

they have, not to get

1:15:33

on a soapbox here.

1:15:35

But they have these girls not only do they

1:15:37

do the wrestling thing with the Joe Xi's,

1:15:39

with the little small girls, and the underage

1:15:42

girls, with the rest that we've seen, the

1:15:45

video footage. But they

1:15:47

also have the what do they call them the idol

1:15:49

bands? Where they have them sing

1:15:53

and make pop stars out of them.

1:15:55

We were talking about the monkeys a little while ago.

1:15:58

It's not necessarily that they have musical

1:16:00

talent, but that they're cute. Young

1:16:03

girls. That's she was on a reality show,

1:16:05

Hana Kumar. That's what Yes. And

1:16:07

and then they have reality TV

1:16:09

shows where they put these either the

1:16:11

pop vitals or the whatever on the and

1:16:14

she did some innocuous thing

1:16:17

to anybody in the American culture

1:16:19

or whatever, but it was

1:16:22

something that they thought badly

1:16:24

of over there and harassed

1:16:27

her about it. The fans this reality show

1:16:29

on Twitter and she committed suicide, which

1:16:32

is horrible. And that's again,

1:16:34

that's why I

1:16:36

maintain that some people do

1:16:38

not should not

1:16:40

be public figures, and

1:16:43

it doesn't just it If

1:16:47

rehoes a twenty five year old adult

1:16:49

making six figures literally

1:16:51

working part time, for

1:16:54

AEW plus whatever the fuck else.

1:16:58

And she has to get off Twitter. It's

1:17:00

not like giving up food. Or

1:17:02

fucking or or or goddamn

1:17:05

or, you know, dialysis. But

1:17:07

at the same time, some people

1:17:10

don't if they you

1:17:12

can't be a public figure and

1:17:15

expect everybody to love you and say good

1:17:17

things. And as we've known with Twitter, This

1:17:20

has been the opportunity for every

1:17:22

asshole that's ever existed now to be able

1:17:24

to say shit to people that

1:17:26

they would have never been able to even talk to or

1:17:28

get near before And you

1:17:30

gotta expect that. And if

1:17:32

you don't want to block them. I

1:17:35

love to block people. Because

1:17:38

it's it's a less effort than wiping

1:17:40

dog shit off my shoe. You say something

1:17:42

smart aleck to me. You're gonna get blocked if

1:17:44

I see it in a nap time. But

1:17:47

some people can't be public

1:17:49

personalities.

1:17:51

But again, even you now are doing what other

1:17:53

people are doing, you're assuming the reason

1:17:56

why this person who gave no reason

1:17:58

deactivated

1:17:59

No. I was talking about I was talking about

1:18:01

Hana Kameura. Hana Kimura.

1:18:03

Hana Kimura. Goddamn it. I can't say it

1:18:05

now. But yes. But in in I'm

1:18:08

not of whatever rio. So she got off

1:18:10

Twitter. The people are mad that

1:18:13

she had to get off Twitter. Like, that is depriving

1:18:16

her of some major portion of her fucking

1:18:18

life. And why why

1:18:20

would she be upset about it? If

1:18:22

she didn't wanna put up with people fucking

1:18:25

saying shit about her on Twitter than she got

1:18:27

off of Twitter or for whatever reason

1:18:29

she got off of

1:18:29

Twitter. Yeah. What's her home

1:18:32

life like? For anyone wants to jump

1:18:34

to assumptions. Is real allowed to leave the house

1:18:36

when she's in America? Is real allowed

1:18:38

to just talk to anyone backstage? Without

1:18:41

Kenny's permission? So before

1:18:43

anyone jumps to conclusions about why RIIO

1:18:46

may have gotten on Twitter, let's examine everything.

1:18:49

But let me go back a step, Jim. I

1:18:52

don't think anyone should be harassing ReHo

1:18:54

or anyone on Twitter. If someone

1:18:56

gives you a problem, Give them

1:18:58

a problem back and give them a problem a

1:19:00

lot harder. But if no one's giving me a

1:19:02

problem, mind your own business. That doesn't

1:19:04

mean you can't critique something on TV, that

1:19:07

you're watching. You can.

1:19:10

But no one should be harassing ReHo or

1:19:13

anyone

1:19:13

else. But for these fans

1:19:16

and again, it's a small subset of fans.

1:19:19

They're harassing me. That's

1:19:21

what I'm about to say. There's a mini

1:19:23

wrestling audience. They're

1:19:25

straight, they're gay, they're employed,

1:19:27

they live in a basement, there's a mini

1:19:29

audience that

1:19:32

are miserable and are just looking to

1:19:34

take things down and take things out on other

1:19:36

things. And you're obviously a big

1:19:38

target for AEW fans. With

1:19:40

this rehaut thing, listen,

1:19:43

I don't know what kind of again,

1:19:45

from English speaking fans, I don't know what she's reading

1:19:47

on English speaking Twitter. I just literally

1:19:49

don't know. And I don't know

1:19:51

what kind of harassment she is or isn't getting

1:19:53

on there. Jim and I both

1:19:56

get Lots of things from

1:19:58

people who declare themselves AW fans

1:20:01

wishing us death, wishing

1:20:03

harm to our families, In this

1:20:05

case that you talked about

1:20:06

earlier, wishing harm to the listeners,

1:20:09

we

1:20:09

get this all the time. But you know what

1:20:11

happens? We get the time. And you know, like,

1:20:14

that it just stop what bothers me because it's

1:20:16

like, if Jim Cornette, I said this in

1:20:18

the Culture Cornett Facebook group. If

1:20:20

Jim Cornett, deactivated

1:20:22

his Twitter tomorrow

1:20:24

because of the most recent

1:20:26

I don't even know you called a death threatening wish

1:20:28

of harm, that came in,

1:20:31

which just came in this morning. If that

1:20:33

caused him to deactivate his Twitter, would

1:20:36

this conversation be flipped the other way?

1:20:38

That AEW fans are out of control. That

1:20:40

AEW is at responsibility for

1:20:42

these nutcase fans that

1:20:44

can't take criticism of their product. It's

1:20:47

a double standard. It's

1:20:49

ridiculous. And again, until

1:20:51

Rio comes out and says

1:20:53

something, don't assume anything.

1:20:56

Well, besides that, I've never tweeted RIIO

1:20:59

to begin with. I've never told anybody

1:21:01

to tweet RIIO to begin with.

1:21:04

And honestly, I could

1:21:06

see where you would come off like an asshole if

1:21:09

Johnny dipshit in Des Moines Said

1:21:12

the same thing about Rehaut's wrestling that

1:21:14

I do, because Johnny

1:21:16

dipshit and Des Moines is not

1:21:18

a fucking Nearly goddamn

1:21:21

forty five year fucking veteran of

1:21:23

being involved in this business or one of

1:21:25

the most successful track records at almost

1:21:27

everything in it. So I get an opinion

1:21:29

about her wrestling. Is she a good

1:21:31

cook? I don't fucking know. Not

1:21:33

my goddamn wheelhouse as

1:21:35

they say. I don't know anything

1:21:37

else about her personal life or what her

1:21:39

interests are, hobbies, or talents, but

1:21:43

her wrestling ain't gonna cut it. And

1:21:45

that's what I'm qualified to comment on.

1:21:50

But that's the thing. It's like the idea that

1:21:52

you're not allowed And again, I think there probably

1:21:54

are because there are for us. I'm basing

1:21:56

it on what we see, the feedback we see, and you see

1:21:58

it a lot worse than me. There

1:22:01

are crazy fans who are

1:22:03

gonna say crazy things and act in crazy ways

1:22:05

and you block them, you move on with your life. If

1:22:07

it gets crazy enough, you turn it over to the

1:22:09

police. That's it. Watch a hands

1:22:11

of it. No one should be harassing

1:22:14

Rehoe But if

1:22:16

that's really the reason she deactivated Twitter,

1:22:18

I wanna hear that because everyone's

1:22:20

jumping to the assumption that it's Jim Cornette fans.

1:22:23

And trust me, whether it's fans of

1:22:26

AEW or fans of these individual wrestlers,

1:22:28

we get it. We get it as bad

1:22:30

as anyone could get

1:22:31

it. So give me a break. Well, and besides

1:22:33

that again, it's I know I'm

1:22:35

the most well known personality involved

1:22:38

in wrestling podcasting today.

1:22:41

So everybody just naturally assumes

1:22:44

that I come up with everything

1:22:46

first, but it's not a stretch

1:22:48

to think that many wrestling fans,

1:22:50

especially fans

1:22:52

of the territories and or

1:22:56

Legitimate professional wrestling would

1:22:58

have the same basic

1:23:01

impression of miss

1:23:03

Rivo that I have. And the

1:23:05

whole joshy

1:23:07

fetish that Kenny has foisted off

1:23:09

on that company and wasted millions of dollars

1:23:12

of their money and payroll and trans rotation

1:23:14

over a period of time. But as far as anybody who

1:23:16

wishes me any harm, you

1:23:18

know what mama quartet

1:23:20

used to say, Oh, no. Wish

1:23:23

it in one hand and shit in the other one and

1:23:25

see which one fills up

1:23:26

first. You know what

1:23:29

else mama used to say? What's

1:23:31

that? Get a job, get off the computer, and

1:23:33

get your Dick

1:23:34

sucked. I don't remember

1:23:36

her ever say she's that

1:23:37

wasn't actually

1:23:39

She never even had to say the

1:23:41

first one because I had a job by the time

1:23:44

I was legally old enough to

1:23:45

have a job. Then with you, it was you're working

1:23:47

too much. Actually, she did

1:23:49

say that couple times, but nevertheless, that

1:23:52

was an industrious teenager. Let's get

1:23:54

into the program. Because I'm

1:23:57

gonna try to help some people, some

1:23:59

innocent victims that

1:24:03

appeared on this program, I'm gonna give some

1:24:05

advice to them, the wrestlers, the

1:24:07

poor beleaguered wrestlers, that maybe they

1:24:09

can take under

1:24:11

advisement since this program's not doing

1:24:13

anything for him. And I'm gonna

1:24:16

I'm gonna try not to just Scream

1:24:19

and chewed nails for two hours. So

1:24:22

I will say at the top of the program. That

1:24:26

this is a commentary and then I

1:24:28

will move on as quickly as possible and

1:24:30

not beat the dead horse. But

1:24:33

this is weeks now that

1:24:35

Tony Khan has started the program.

1:24:39

With an a and p championship match

1:24:41

involving the company mascot, our

1:24:44

little puppy pockets. Because

1:24:48

one time, he did

1:24:50

one good rating on a show.

1:24:55

Despite every evidence to the contrary

1:24:57

of every other program, they kept the

1:24:59

rating through one fucking Television

1:25:02

program with pockets on first, so he

1:25:04

gives it to us a month straight. Why

1:25:06

didn't he learn anything from all the viewers

1:25:09

that the EVPs lost every

1:25:11

week for two months. He

1:25:15

didn't adjust because of those numbers,

1:25:17

but he adjust because he gets a fluke.

1:25:19

So The

1:25:22

opening match was pockets in j lethal

1:25:24

and it's not just sad. It's a shame.

1:25:27

That Jay lethal with the talent

1:25:30

and experience, the

1:25:33

qualities that he brings to

1:25:35

the table as a wrestler, as an employee,

1:25:37

as a person, that

1:25:40

he doesn't have the WWE after

1:25:42

him for big contract, the I

1:25:45

was surprised we were able to sign him

1:25:47

in Ring of Honor in twenty twelve. TNA

1:25:49

was fucking foolish enough to let his contract

1:25:52

go. And I couldn't believe they didn't want

1:25:54

him then. And

1:25:56

I'm it's a shame the only other

1:25:59

national TV option is

1:26:02

a company that has no idea how to

1:26:04

use him and he's reduced to having to

1:26:06

cooperate with and getting stuck up

1:26:08

by The company mascot.

1:26:13

It's embarrassing to the wrestling business

1:26:15

in general, Tony's fixation with

1:26:17

this fucking guy. But

1:26:19

now it's criminal misuse of good talent

1:26:22

that has to go along with this. And

1:26:25

you know Jay has to be frustrated rated. He's

1:26:27

capable of and deserves better

1:26:29

than this. But that's, you

1:26:32

know, I'm

1:26:36

just I'm at a loss for words. And

1:26:38

and that's why I say if you're a young wrestler,

1:26:41

Who has it mentally and you think

1:26:43

you've got talent and believe you got a shot

1:26:46

your serious match business? Do

1:26:48

you want to take a chance now Vince

1:26:51

is gone supposedly from creative

1:26:53

at least, but do you wanna take a chance on

1:26:56

triple h, making you look like a goof

1:26:58

in NXT? Or AEW,

1:27:01

if you might be humiliated on national

1:27:04

television having to put over the puppy.

1:27:08

And again,

1:27:10

you know, and

1:27:10

there's wonders for Adam Cole.

1:27:13

Boom. God. Well, he'll

1:27:15

be fantastically over. When

1:27:18

he comes back, Adam Cole, because of

1:27:20

his triumph over the concussion issue,

1:27:23

If he hadn't had a concussion issue right

1:27:25

now, he wouldn't be able to sell pussy

1:27:27

on a troop train much less a wrestling ticket

1:27:29

because the way he was going. And

1:27:34

again, with Jay here, it just it's

1:27:37

but it's not at this point, Even

1:27:40

though goofball here was trying,

1:27:43

he wrestled this week for the most

1:27:45

part, You

1:27:47

know, what that tells you is anybody can

1:27:49

do this? He he comes out and the

1:27:51

Putin gang comes out with him from the start.

1:27:54

It looks like a fucking Saturday

1:27:56

Night Live parity. He

1:27:59

comes out with his fucking outfit,

1:28:02

and there's muff and top and

1:28:05

cupcake, whoever the fuck of the pudding

1:28:07

gang, and Dan How's it made

1:28:09

up? And then

1:28:11

they wish him well and go to the back. How

1:28:13

do you think that Trenton muffin top feel

1:28:16

when the biggest joke wrestler in the business

1:28:18

is on TV and their careers are so

1:28:21

More abundant that they're

1:28:23

just the clowns that seem often and go back

1:28:25

to the back? Or they like the checks?

1:28:28

But, anyway, and lethal comes

1:28:30

out and he's got Jeff and

1:28:33

Sanjay and Zippy and the referee's come out

1:28:35

to send them back. And did you see Aubrey

1:28:37

dead. Shoving guys

1:28:39

and pointing wildly and sticking

1:28:41

her ass out for emphasis. And

1:28:44

I was afraid she was gonna trample somebody.

1:28:48

And so she's showing off. And

1:28:50

then they made sure to remind us it's one

1:28:52

and one. This is their third match,

1:28:54

lethal and pockets. And so

1:28:56

they remind us that already pockets

1:29:00

his beating this guy. And

1:29:03

the announcer By the way,

1:29:05

did you hear when the announcer audio got piped

1:29:07

into the arena and everybody would ship themselves?

1:29:10

And all the way out with the

1:29:11

puck,

1:29:11

it was the highlight of the show. You didn't hear that.

1:29:13

That was the best part of this entire program.

1:29:16

So pockets is twenty two and

1:29:18

one. In AEW

1:29:20

and fourteen wins straight. Can

1:29:24

you imagine if a talent was

1:29:26

given that push? And

1:29:30

so anyway, they that's a thing. In

1:29:32

in this one, pockets tried to wrestle because,

1:29:35

you know, he used to do it in Chikara. If

1:29:39

he doesn't wrestle, it's the

1:29:41

phony gimmick that makes business look

1:29:43

like shit. And if he does

1:29:45

wrestle, then it proves that any bland,

1:29:47

unimpressive skinny goofball in

1:29:50

BlueJeans can do this so it devalues

1:29:52

the business. This

1:29:55

guy would never this guy would never

1:29:58

be looked at seriously in any

1:30:00

type of major promotion I

1:30:02

don't know that we would have accepted him in the

1:30:04

OVW training program. And

1:30:06

Tony thinks he's cute. So

1:30:12

they have the match. It went on too long.

1:30:16

And then finally, pockets

1:30:19

hit Roman Reigns' finish, 123,

1:30:21

and beat Jay lethal except he didn't hit it

1:30:23

because the punch missed. For

1:30:27

one thing, but then he

1:30:30

beat jade lethal 123

1:30:32

on national television. God

1:30:35

damn it. And then Jeff Jerrod

1:30:37

jumped in from behind and laid pockets out

1:30:39

with the stroke and broke the guitar over

1:30:41

his knee and got a ton of heat because

1:30:43

people in the building, they

1:30:45

love this fucking clown. But

1:30:49

we were twenty two minutes into this program

1:30:51

by the time that was done. And

1:30:53

Unfortunately, it will be announced later

1:30:56

on that next week, and

1:30:59

we'll get to what Tony

1:31:01

said in how he said it, but next week,

1:31:03

it's gonna be Jeff versus pockets.

1:31:07

Except I

1:31:09

believes I smell a title change

1:31:13

because I believes that I smell that

1:31:15

Jeff Jarrett wouldn't work with his motherfucker if

1:31:17

he was gonna do a job for him. Now

1:31:21

that I've said that -- Yes, he would. -- yes, he would.

1:31:23

He he would do anything. No.

1:31:27

This is why I believe that

1:31:29

they've given The

1:31:32

clown, three or four weeks, wins

1:31:34

on television, because

1:31:36

some way or another, Jeff sees

1:31:38

a way to get

1:31:40

some fucking heat off this guy and

1:31:43

work with somebody that means something. That's

1:31:46

what I'm thinking. And he has pitched it

1:31:48

to Tony who was probably

1:31:50

impressed that he actually had a wrestling

1:31:52

angle pitched to him that went three weeks

1:31:54

and ended up with being able to

1:31:56

use the fucking goofball

1:31:59

for some productive reason. But, anyway,

1:32:01

I I don't see Jeff Jarrett doing

1:32:03

a job

1:32:05

this early as he's coming to company for

1:32:07

this fucking guy. We'll

1:32:09

see what happens. As where Jeff's

1:32:11

positioned on these shows, he's not anything special.

1:32:14

I could see him doing the job

1:32:15

there. Tony will Well, then

1:32:17

then they completely lost their fucking

1:32:19

minds then because then that would be what five

1:32:22

weeks in a row that we've had to suffer through this

1:32:24

for no payoff. Just stroking

1:32:26

his guys dick, putting him over,

1:32:29

he'll and he'll never go anywhere and he'll never

1:32:31

mean anything. This

1:32:35

I promise you, the only people that

1:32:38

wanna see this fucking guy are the people that

1:32:40

are already watching. He will not

1:32:42

bring you a goddamn soul to

1:32:44

the table that's not already there.

1:32:48

Nevertheless, speaking of people that aren't

1:32:50

already there, So

1:32:54

Wardlow got his fucking rental car

1:32:56

broken into and all of his gear, including

1:32:59

the title belt stolen. He's the

1:33:01

TNT champion. Right? That's his.

1:33:04

Right? I'm actually

1:33:06

I'm trying to confirm that. Yes. I can't

1:33:08

remember one title from another cursor,

1:33:10

so many of them. So they've

1:33:13

covered that as why he's can't

1:33:15

be dressed and there's no belt later in the program.

1:33:19

And then Hobbes was with Renee

1:33:21

and He's got a

1:33:23

good delivery. He needs a little bit of bass

1:33:25

in his voice. I'm talking about conviction,

1:33:27

a little bit more conventional, maybe a little deeper

1:33:30

too, but little bit more conviction. Little

1:33:32

bit more confidence there,

1:33:34

but he's got, again,

1:33:37

all the tools. So

1:33:39

then here comes Ricky Starks.

1:33:41

Brian, here's a question. The

1:33:43

people love him. The

1:33:46

people are bringing a house down when he comes

1:33:48

out. The same thing

1:33:50

as they do for pockets, But

1:33:53

this guy has a chance to actually bring

1:33:55

normal people into watching this program.

1:33:59

Why isn't he twenty two and one

1:34:01

with fourteen straight?

1:34:05

I've seen Ricky Starks get beat like

1:34:07

a government mule over the past six months

1:34:09

because

1:34:09

he wasn't Tony's favorite.

1:34:11

He didn't you know what I mean? Because Tony didn't dress

1:34:13

up like Ricky Starks for Halloween. That's

1:34:16

the difference between getting beat

1:34:18

like a red headed step child every week

1:34:20

and be in twenty two and one

1:34:22

with fourteen straight? So

1:34:27

he says, what's next after Jericho?

1:34:31

That's what everybody's asking, and that's what

1:34:33

everybody's talking about. And

1:34:35

then he says, I'm

1:34:38

not sure. And

1:34:40

the only other thing he's able to get

1:34:43

out is It's not

1:34:45

necessarily what I'm gonna do next,

1:34:47

but where I'm gonna go next. And

1:34:51

then Music interrupting,

1:34:53

but let's unpack this for a second

1:34:55

before we get to the next part of this fiasco.

1:34:59

Why would you have a baby face

1:35:01

come out after he's beat Chris Jericho

1:35:03

now twice? And they still

1:35:05

kinda worked it to where I

1:35:08

don't know if he's better off for it.

1:35:11

But even what's next? I'm not sure.

1:35:14

And then say it's not where I'm gonna

1:35:16

go, but what I'm gonna do, but where I'm gonna

1:35:18

go, which everybody thinks that means he's

1:35:21

gonna leave AEW.

1:35:24

That would be the only reason you would drop that

1:35:26

hint or that say that line

1:35:29

and enough of

1:35:29

that. You can't keep doing that.

1:35:32

Oh, wait.

1:35:32

You're such a big star here. I'm gonna

1:35:34

leave. Yeah. Because it's it's

1:35:36

and it's because it's happened, and it probably

1:35:38

happened again.

1:35:41

But why would that be why

1:35:44

would he be I don't understand,

1:35:46

and I know somebody's gonna say, well, wait till a story

1:35:48

play at. No. You get the impression from

1:35:50

this guy that he's not happy

1:35:52

where he asked he was to get the fuck out. And

1:35:55

maybe they don't see the TV in two or three

1:35:57

weeks or the YouTube episode where you

1:35:59

played nurse, but are they playing up the

1:36:01

idea that he was caught with Cody at the Royal Rumble?

1:36:04

Who knows? But then

1:36:06

but then most people don't know that.

1:36:10

So

1:36:11

is this is this the worst

1:36:14

I mean, that's I shouldn't say that because it takes it

1:36:16

a lot. But for AW, Have they ever done

1:36:18

a worse job of following up a pay per view

1:36:20

with a dynamite? For everyone

1:36:22

that was involved with that pay per view, Dynamite

1:36:25

did nothing to help

1:36:26

anyone. They they blur

1:36:28

in my mind, but, I mean, this has to be

1:36:30

one of the stellar examples

1:36:33

of not. But

1:36:35

as soon as he said that, which had only been

1:36:37

thirty seconds or whatever, music and

1:36:39

the bullet club logo showed

1:36:41

up on the screen. And

1:36:44

then, into the ring from behind

1:36:46

and attacking Ricky Starks is the

1:36:48

incomparable juice Robinson. Who

1:36:52

we have seen? Whoa.

1:36:55

It's three times on TV about

1:36:57

six or eight months

1:36:58

ago? Was it last

1:37:00

summer? We

1:37:01

may have seen him three or four times over

1:37:04

two years, including last

1:37:06

We

1:37:06

had an army to ever three or four times.

1:37:09

Yeah.

1:37:10

And some and he hits in street clothes

1:37:12

and, like, everybody in the world is supposed

1:37:14

to know who this fucking guy is. And they announced,

1:37:16

oh, it's Hughes Robinson. We haven't seen I think

1:37:18

they even said we haven't seen him in a while.

1:37:20

Thank God, accused the guy with a big image

1:37:22

on the screen. So

1:37:25

it was it was

1:37:27

the same angle as ten minutes

1:37:29

beforehand where a guy jumps the ring

1:37:31

and fucking, you know, gets jumped.

1:37:34

And from behind and

1:37:38

he hits a reverse DDT

1:37:40

on Starks that looked got a wicked

1:37:43

and stood over him. So Stark's got

1:37:45

a thirty second promo and

1:37:48

then was laid out by a guy that

1:37:50

most people have no fucking clue the

1:37:52

fuck he is. Unless

1:37:55

you watch New Japan, which

1:37:58

I believe their ratings on access

1:38:00

were what? You know, ninety or a hundred thousand

1:38:02

people as opposed to six or seven

1:38:05

or eight hundred thousand. I don't even think it was

1:38:07

that high. And he's been

1:38:09

on again, he's been off TV

1:38:11

for six months. Suddenly, he comes

1:38:12

in, ladies fucking gay. You

1:38:14

know what, though? You know what, couple of things I thought about

1:38:16

here. One, as soon as you see that bullet club

1:38:19

sign, just grown. They

1:38:21

were kind of lame for years,

1:38:23

but especially now no one wants to

1:38:25

see that. Secondly, last

1:38:29

year, you know, things were kinda

1:38:31

looking alright. Not great, but

1:38:33

punk segments were good. Danielsen was

1:38:36

Just coming off pretty good interesting

1:38:38

period of time, FDR, things

1:38:41

were happening. Then the TV

1:38:43

went to complete shit because they were building up

1:38:45

that new Japan crossover event, Forbidden

1:38:47

Door. That's

1:38:48

right. Even before the all out scrum,

1:38:50

TV for month or six weeks was

1:38:53

dismal. Didn't that start in the spring? Is

1:38:55

that gonna start again? I mean, the TV's been awful

1:38:57

now, so TV's worse now than it was a year

1:38:59

ago. Are they gonna now insert all this

1:39:01

new Japan stuff into the show again? Well,

1:39:05

they're inserting as much as they can possibly

1:39:07

insert. This looks like a gate fetish

1:39:10

video. For wrestling with

1:39:12

all the insertions there. So

1:39:15

speaking of being inserted, They

1:39:18

go back to Tony Shmani with Wardlow

1:39:22

who was making fun of losing

1:39:24

his gearies wearing FTR shirt But

1:39:27

again, he's

1:39:30

got he had decent delivery

1:39:32

here, but the material He

1:39:34

challenged hub. They're already working.

1:39:37

He is already wrestling powerhouse hubs

1:39:39

for the title in the main

1:39:41

event of the television program

1:39:44

But now he challenges

1:39:47

him to make it a false count

1:39:49

anywhere anything goes

1:39:51

match. Lazy

1:39:54

booking. Why?

1:39:56

How about the reasoning

1:39:57

though? Since I have no clothes

1:39:59

that someone stole my ear, why don't we just make a

1:40:01

false card? Yeah. I can't And

1:40:04

then it would be how about a street fight?

1:40:06

Come dressed as you are, and it would happen

1:40:08

in the red that doesn't oh my god.

1:40:13

So now, he's handicapped these

1:40:15

poor young fellows. And this is a good

1:40:17

thing, by the

1:40:18

way. Tony will get another belt. Tony probably

1:40:20

has seven other belts already there to

1:40:22

Oh, no. He said he said he does.

1:40:24

Yeah. He did an interview saying that he's

1:40:26

already had other belts made. He's waiting

1:40:28

for the chance to introduce him.

1:40:30

Yeah. So that and then remember Wardwell

1:40:32

wore that Swimsuit out glittered

1:40:34

at the pay per

1:40:35

view. Whatever causes him to get new gear,

1:40:37

I'm all for that. Alright.

1:40:41

But moving on, because

1:40:43

you know the question in everybody's mind, the

1:40:45

burning question of the day. Why, Ruby?

1:40:48

Why? Renee

1:40:51

Moxley Good was in the ring with

1:40:53

Ruby Soso and by Sariah and

1:40:55

Storm now they're doing a deal where they come out

1:40:57

to the entrance for moral support also

1:40:59

and then see her off. And then now,

1:41:02

obviously, they come out

1:41:04

for the entrance if she gets in trouble or

1:41:06

after to the match, you know you're gonna see him.

1:41:11

So Ruby's promo, you

1:41:13

all created this monster. I thought Hobbes

1:41:16

was using that three months

1:41:17

ago.

1:41:20

It it looks better on I know Ruby

1:41:23

When she first gets up in the morning before makeup,

1:41:25

she may look like a monster,

1:41:27

but Hobbs looks like a fucking monster.

1:41:30

I'm not scared of Ruby so so.

1:41:34

But her story is that people

1:41:36

booed her against Brit

1:41:39

Baker, and then against Chris Stacklander,

1:41:41

how long ago was that?

1:41:44

Because she's been out injured again for six

1:41:47

months. But a great way to tease

1:41:49

her come back, just randomly bring up her name.

1:41:51

She got to pop too, randomly bring up her name

1:41:53

in the middle of a

1:41:54

promo. Well, also, she's from they're still in

1:41:56

California. They can't AEW,

1:41:59

the whole roster is still in California. They can't afford

1:42:01

the bus fare. You get to fuck out. They

1:42:03

can't get as far as goddamn needles.

1:42:07

So she got boot against stratlander last

1:42:09

year, I guess. And then

1:42:11

they boot her when Hater Hater because

1:42:13

that's when Hater was getting to be really

1:42:16

popular and they oh,

1:42:18

fuck it. They lost the opportunity turn her on

1:42:20

Brit. And then Ruby says

1:42:22

the fat mouth breathing neck beard

1:42:25

trolls turned on

1:42:26

Sariah.

1:42:29

Well, she got a point there. Well,

1:42:31

no. But she didn't she say that they really wanted Sarai

1:42:33

to make a comeback? Who did? I didn't

1:42:35

want any of this on the

1:42:36

show. I didn't want this promo on the show.

1:42:40

These are the sitoffs that kill the show

1:42:42

in all honesty. In all

1:42:44

honesty, Ruby Soso

1:42:47

did a hell of a promo here

1:42:49

even but the whole story is a fucking

1:42:51

mess. She did A

1:42:54

great job with crap material

1:42:56

and nobody cares, but

1:42:58

she did she did a good job with it.

1:43:02

Now take that for, you know,

1:43:04

what it's worth. Because I wrote

1:43:06

Ruby is doing a heck of a promo even though

1:43:08

this whole thing is a fucking mess. And

1:43:11

then she called out her opponent blue

1:43:13

sky, and here came blue sky. Sky

1:43:16

blue. That's what I said.

1:43:19

And they had a match, and Ruby beat her up,

1:43:21

and it went through a break, and then it

1:43:23

came back as she won. And

1:43:25

then Storm and Sariah came back down

1:43:28

to paint. Sky Blue,

1:43:30

green. Orange,

1:43:33

you glad I said that? And

1:43:36

then here comes Come on.

1:43:38

Here comes Willo Nightingale out

1:43:41

by herself. There's three heels

1:43:43

in a ring. She hits the ring by herself page

1:43:45

and or page Sariah and

1:43:47

Storm bailout. And

1:43:50

Willow's talking to Ruby because they used to

1:43:52

be friends. And then the heels that

1:43:54

bailed out, walked around the ring, and just

1:43:56

came in behind. So they

1:43:58

jumped willow from behind. Three

1:44:01

jumped from behind three matches in a row,

1:44:04

and then they painted both of them. But I

1:44:06

did they didn't They just kind of

1:44:08

painted lines on them. Didn't they did they

1:44:10

paint letters or did one get the down stroke

1:44:12

of l and the other one got the

1:44:14

sideways? Yeah. I mean, it's an l, so it's easy

1:44:16

to do.

1:44:18

Did you understand or or

1:44:21

was there a reason why this needed to

1:44:23

take up what seemed like between fifteen and

1:44:25

twenty minutes television

1:44:26

time. There's no reason why any of this should be on

1:44:28

the show. There's no reason why Tony should have given

1:44:30

Sarrea that contract. There's no reason why the women's

1:44:33

division should be getting the time it's getting considering

1:44:35

state of it right now. And there's no reason

1:44:37

that if you're gonna use any of these women and

1:44:39

try to do something serious, it should have bad

1:44:41

angles and bad series of

1:44:43

angles and then bad embarrassing matches

1:44:45

on TV. I just don't think they have

1:44:47

any idea what they're doing right now. The fans don't

1:44:50

wanna see Saraiya. It's not that they've turned on Saraiya.

1:44:52

They've said, please leave. There

1:44:54

are people on this show that even

1:44:57

the most die hard AEW fans are

1:44:59

like, come on. We wanna see something

1:45:01

else. There's never been any

1:45:03

reason for me to

1:45:05

think about

1:45:06

you. I

1:45:07

don't think anyone my life. I'm going

1:45:09

down for the last time.

1:45:11

What was the name of the head east album that

1:45:14

that immortal hit was --

1:45:15

Oh. -- no idea. I don't know this. What is the

1:45:17

pancake, baby?

1:45:19

Well, so is the audience reaction to

1:45:21

a lot of these segments, but

1:45:23

now this is not good.

1:45:24

Yeah. Well, it's saying they're out there.

1:45:27

You know, they've either got the the

1:45:29

false count anywhere match or the fake

1:45:31

Texas death match where they're setting up

1:45:33

tables and chairs and ladders and

1:45:35

propping stuff up on each

1:45:37

other shop class projects or

1:45:40

they they got the girls here where they got the

1:45:42

spray paint can and one of them One

1:45:45

of them has some wood putty and the other one's got

1:45:47

a thing, a cock. Now I bet you one of

1:45:49

those girls gonna cock the other one before

1:45:51

the the time's up. I'm telling you it looks

1:45:53

like a a raging

1:45:56

band of ofmitigate home

1:45:58

improvers. Just running

1:46:00

around trying to Yeah. They're trying

1:46:03

to build things, paint people. They're trying

1:46:05

to make new gimmicks and fix

1:46:07

these broken down old wrestlers

1:46:09

up. But they're they just don't

1:46:11

have the experience of the professionals, Brian.

1:46:16

You

1:46:16

know the whole thing? Improvement professionals. Yes,

1:46:18

of course.

1:46:19

Now you see where where I'm going here.

1:46:21

Well,

1:46:21

kind of No. No. No. You'd if No.

1:46:23

Let me let me explain something,

1:46:26

folks. If you want your home improved,

1:46:28

you don't want these off brand

1:46:30

shade tree carpenters coming in,

1:46:32

lean and ladders up to they're gonna

1:46:34

break and then have referees run-in to hold

1:46:37

and and and using sledgehammers

1:46:39

that they can't even break a guess go

1:46:42

with how they're gonna break up that old

1:46:44

concrete and much less

1:46:46

with these girls with the cans of spray paint

1:46:48

that they just Well, boy,

1:46:50

howdy. They can't hit the broad side of a

1:46:52

barn with that paint much less. A

1:46:54

home improvement project. You want

1:46:56

the professionals. In charge of

1:46:58

making your home look better, and we've talked

1:47:01

about it for several weeks now,

1:47:03

the folks at West Shore

1:47:05

Home They're the fastest growing

1:47:07

shower and bath remodeling company in

1:47:09

the United States, and they will

1:47:11

stop you From having

1:47:14

that nasty you know,

1:47:15

Brian, you've had it many times when your bathtub

1:47:17

gets old and it's growing the mold and the

1:47:19

mildew and the organisms. I've not had

1:47:22

the back nateria and the

1:47:23

fungus and all the little

1:47:25

and all the little furry things that

1:47:27

when you look into under the microscope, you

1:47:30

see these things. They've got five eyes

1:47:32

and six legs and ten ears

1:47:34

and they're chewing on you. Every time you get

1:47:36

in your your rotten mold

1:47:39

riddled bathtub, Or

1:47:42

if you get your rotten mold riddled

1:47:44

shower with all the grotting, that's the

1:47:46

rotten grout, all that grotting down

1:47:49

there, Well, then you're getting a fungus

1:47:51

that attaches itself to your feet. Then

1:47:53

you walk from your shower

1:47:56

to your bedroom and you get in bed and

1:47:58

you put your air feet in the bed, and then

1:48:00

the fungus is in the bed with your naked

1:48:02

dangly bits. You'll get flesh

1:48:04

eating bacteria on your penis.

1:48:07

As a result of having a dirty shower.

1:48:09

What are you talking about? And you don't want

1:48:11

that to happen. No. You don't. don't know why

1:48:13

you're talking about it. Oh. Like, do you know

1:48:15

how many people that their

1:48:17

penis is annually in the United States

1:48:20

alone right off because of dirty showers

1:48:22

and

1:48:22

bathtubs?

1:48:25

You don't know, do you? You

1:48:26

don't know either. There's no way you know this either.

1:48:28

It's a

1:48:28

lot. It's a

1:48:29

predator to know that. Based

1:48:31

on what? What do you think of the same

1:48:34

conversations I've had with people I've talked

1:48:36

to? It makes that I've heard

1:48:38

of the police officers. Where? Yes.

1:48:40

So in line at the post office, I'll

1:48:43

I kept my ears open, and I'll tell you something

1:48:45

else. When you're sitting in an old dirty

1:48:47

bathtub, that impermeable

1:48:49

green ring around about your belly

1:48:52

button area that you can't wash off that's

1:48:54

coming from that dirty water. So

1:48:56

you need clean showers

1:48:58

and bathtubs to promote general

1:49:00

health and welfare and the pursuit of

1:49:02

domestic tranquility. And that's what

1:49:05

the folks at West Shore Home are doing. They're

1:49:07

gonna fully replace your old shower bathtub

1:49:09

with their modern showers or baths in just

1:49:11

one day. Because it's all part

1:49:14

of their their plan, their scheduling plan.

1:49:16

First, they send out an expert,

1:49:19

a home remodeling design consultant

1:49:22

and they'll send them out mornings, afternoons,

1:49:24

evening weekends Cornette until

1:49:27

you open the door. Now, whenever

1:49:29

you want them, they'll be there. Oh,

1:49:31

yes. And together

1:49:33

with them, you will design and build

1:49:36

basically in your in your dreams. Your

1:49:38

dream shower or bath just the

1:49:41

way you want it. They've got the designs, the laser

1:49:43

etch stuff built in seats. You know, I've got a seat

1:49:45

in the corner of my shower. Brian,

1:49:47

in the office, in case I get tired walking

1:49:49

across it, They've got the shelves,

1:49:52

the doors, the windows, magnetic shower

1:49:54

heads, Maggie. You can trick this thing out

1:49:56

like the Daigum space shuttle if

1:49:58

you want to. And then a couple

1:50:01

of days later after you design it, the remodeling

1:50:03

professionals come in. One

1:50:05

day Bath replaced. They will knock

1:50:08

your old bathtub or shower, they'll just take

1:50:10

that thing right out the back of your house, the whole

1:50:12

wall and everything, be out in the backyard, and

1:50:15

they'll fix it up nice for you, and it'll

1:50:17

be ready for dinner. And

1:50:19

I still think that it's very rude if

1:50:21

you don't invite the

1:50:24

professionals, the workers for

1:50:26

dinner in your brand new bathroom. You

1:50:29

don't have to eat dinner in your bathroom. You can

1:50:31

eat at the table, but serve that, you

1:50:33

know, just flop the toilet lid down. Put

1:50:35

the plate on the toilet

1:50:37

lid. Give the guy a fucking he can sit on

1:50:39

the edge of the tub. And reward

1:50:41

him for his hard work, but it'll be

1:50:43

ready to use before dinner. That's

1:50:45

in in case also you're dirty and you wanna

1:50:48

wash up before you eat. That's always recommended.

1:50:51

You have no work in this. As

1:50:53

the consumer, you are merely sitting

1:50:55

back watching the magic happen

1:50:58

by the West Shore Home Professionals. And

1:51:02

they do windows and doors, and you can

1:51:04

check out their website, which of

1:51:06

course is west shore home dot com,

1:51:08

You can check that out to see which locations

1:51:11

you can request the free window and door

1:51:13

remodeling preview. It's

1:51:15

quite they actually have the windows and doors

1:51:18

Come out one at time to music and

1:51:21

walk down a runway so

1:51:23

that you can take a look and see which ones you

1:51:25

like. At

1:51:25

this point, I can't even walk any of these back.

1:51:28

It's so ridiculous.

1:51:29

Well, folks, it's not ridiculous about

1:51:31

the quest. It's amazing now.

1:51:32

Doors. Yeah. No. The wallet. I didn't

1:51:35

say they were dancing. They just walked. They walked

1:51:37

down the catwalk. They walked down

1:51:39

the catwalk. Alright.

1:51:41

Right. So because they're they're they're

1:51:44

just sexy enough for your home. Anyway,

1:51:46

yes, folks. You can get a brand

1:51:49

new bathroom, shower, tub,

1:51:51

windows, doors. They've

1:51:54

I don't know. They might even branch out into roofs

1:51:56

pretty soon. They're making a lot of money off our

1:51:58

sponsorships. So, folks,

1:52:01

again, if you live in any of the magic

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boats, planes, trains. I don't know what the

1:52:58

fuck all they got on there, but Go there

1:53:00

and put the slash gym on and they'll take good

1:53:02

care of you. That's right.

1:53:04

What's your home?

1:53:08

Alright. Alright. What

1:53:10

else did you like that beat I did you behind

1:53:12

you? Yeah. I was I was afraid that you

1:53:14

were having stroke and you were trying

1:53:16

to signal for help over there. No, that

1:53:18

was actually Tony Atlas getting stomped. I thought

1:53:20

it would sound interesting. I wanted to see if you went longer

1:53:22

than he did getting stomped.

1:53:26

Well, I've always been able to last longer than

1:53:28

Tony when he stopped getting stomped. But nevertheless,

1:53:30

So the

1:53:34

next part of the AEW program, can

1:53:36

you answer this question

1:53:38

for me? Why After

1:53:41

what happened at the pay per view, would

1:53:44

they assign hang

1:53:46

nail Adam Page to be interviewed

1:53:49

by Renee Moxley Good, his

1:53:51

opponent plumber Moxley's

1:53:53

wife. There

1:53:55

was so many awkward Rename

1:53:58

Moxley Good promo segments

1:54:00

in the last few weeks, mostly with Adam

1:54:02

Page. But even the thing with Don Callis,

1:54:04

like I told you in the pre show where All

1:54:06

of a sudden, she's talking about her husband.

1:54:09

And it just creates this weird awkward

1:54:11

dynamic and why is it still

1:54:13

happening? I don't know.

1:54:15

But why after the paper, you after we

1:54:17

thought they finished everything, I don't know.

1:54:19

Oh, boy. To find out. But yeah. But

1:54:22

Why would she wanna I know somebody well,

1:54:24

they're professional that are assigned to, no, you

1:54:26

dumb shit. It makes business look like fucking

1:54:29

shit. If after what they did they were

1:54:31

hitting each other in the head with

1:54:33

bricks. They weren't selling

1:54:35

it, but they were doing it. Why

1:54:38

wouldn't she say, I'm not gonna talk to that

1:54:40

guy? Why wouldn't he say fuck

1:54:42

that guy in his fucking wife? I'm not talking

1:54:44

to her. He's out here again. They're

1:54:47

trying to do this This is apparently

1:54:50

I don't know. WWE wants to do wrestling

1:54:53

as a Nickelodeon Kids fucking

1:54:56

Touring Show or Yo Gabba Gabar

1:54:58

or whatever, and

1:55:01

AEW wants to do wrestling

1:55:04

for and by socially awkward

1:55:07

misfits, and Neither

1:55:12

production is particularly appealing because

1:55:14

of that. But he's out

1:55:16

there trying to do this. Oh, I didn't wanna be

1:55:18

so dark and go to a dark place,

1:55:20

a dark phony place. It

1:55:23

would have been a dark place if we'd have believed

1:55:25

any of it, but since it was so preposterous and

1:55:28

stupid, we didn't. But

1:55:31

he I didn't wanna go to a dark place,

1:55:33

but I've proved now if you try

1:55:35

me, I'll take you to hell.

1:55:38

I'll rip off your flesh. I'll

1:55:40

choke you until life all but leaves

1:55:42

your body. That's an exact

1:55:45

quote from Hang Nails page. And that was

1:55:47

said -- What about as convincing? -- in

1:55:49

the most unemotional, unconvincing,

1:55:52

nerdy sounding way possible. Like

1:55:54

a teenager talking tough on twitch.

1:55:58

And then they have the interplay where

1:56:01

he apologies as to Renee for

1:56:03

what he did Sunday, but I'm

1:56:05

done with Moxley now. That's thank

1:56:07

fucking God is what I

1:56:08

said. But as we'll find out,

1:56:11

he's a liar. And

1:56:13

how many times are we gonna see that? Would you say Ricky

1:56:15

Stark's gonna not there a couple weeks ago? I'm done with

1:56:17

Jericho. I'm moving on.

1:56:19

And then he wasn't done with him. I'm done with

1:56:22

Moxley. No, you're not. No one's ever

1:56:24

done with anything here. No. But I I'm

1:56:26

I'm about to be done, but also Who

1:56:29

did they think this appeals to?

1:56:31

When he's I don't

1:56:33

wanna go to this dark place,

1:56:35

but I'll e rip off your

1:56:37

flesh. I'll choke you until life. And he's

1:56:39

standing there. A mush mouth

1:56:42

pussy is what he is. We've established he's

1:56:44

not a fucking cowboy. This is not Stan Hanson.

1:56:47

This is howdy fucking duty. And

1:56:51

and and he gives

1:56:53

his feelings. He had a chance to fight a

1:56:55

punk he wouldn't fucking do it? Because

1:56:59

the fight with Moxley is fake where they're not

1:57:01

really hitting each other over there with those bricks.

1:57:05

Hey. He'll he'll fucking take that one

1:57:07

and chew the flesh and eat the

1:57:09

blood and drink the bones or whatever, but

1:57:13

He could've fucking told, hey, don't talk

1:57:15

to me like that. If you're mad at something I

1:57:17

did, let's fucking go out here. He chose to

1:57:19

decline from that one.

1:57:21

Well,

1:57:22

again, that's real life as opposed to.

1:57:24

Yes. Well,

1:57:26

and it's obvious that this is not real

1:57:28

life. They make it more and more obvious all the time.

1:57:30

Anyway, speaking of real life, something

1:57:34

they actually can't control. Another

1:57:38

entity on Tony Khan's

1:57:40

roster has gotten themselves over.

1:57:43

With their hard work and their talent and

1:57:45

their determination and their matches in

1:57:47

every other promotion but is. FTR.

1:57:52

Despite the rotten lousy booking

1:57:54

and the Bucks ghosting them on that

1:57:56

third match where they would have all the belts

1:57:58

so they could go play with their friends and not

1:58:01

have to do that job

1:58:03

and the ridiculous other shit they've been

1:58:05

at, which cash listed in

1:58:07

the promo, all the losses that

1:58:09

they had had And

1:58:12

and you know they lost all those other companies

1:58:15

belts because the goddamn promise

1:58:17

that those other companies were made that

1:58:19

the AEW World

1:58:21

Champions would also have all of their belts

1:58:23

that never came to fruition. So

1:58:26

they got everything taken away from because Tony

1:58:28

Kahn didn't know how to book them and

1:58:31

the EVPs didn't want them booked.

1:58:35

But they come out and do a in ring interview

1:58:37

with Tony Shibani and the people are standing

1:58:39

up and cheering and chanting for them.

1:58:41

So loud, they say, you gotta

1:58:43

speak up, Tony. We can't hear you.

1:58:47

Because they were missed, because they went

1:58:49

away, and they didn't go away on purpose.

1:58:53

Regardless, what day? They wanna wake up, what the

1:58:55

fuck? How many times can you show up every

1:58:57

week and be humiliated and beat down on

1:58:59

national television before you finally say, you

1:59:01

know what? We'll

1:59:03

back up and nurse few injuries here.

1:59:07

They did a great baby faced promo.

1:59:10

They talked about all they've lost, but somehow

1:59:12

they made it into a positive because

1:59:16

the people the fans

1:59:18

have sympathy for him because of the rotten

1:59:21

booking. This on a

1:59:23

much, much larger scale is

1:59:25

the midnight express in Philadelphia in nineteen

1:59:28

ninety. Or Baltimore, every

1:59:30

time we'd show up in the Northeast as those

1:59:32

towns got smart and we

1:59:34

were always doing the job and they knew that Heard

1:59:36

was fucking with us because of the early newsletters,

1:59:40

we were babyfaces. Because they

1:59:42

appreciated that they were giving us appreciation

1:59:44

for the talent since our own

1:59:46

company wasn't. Everywhere

1:59:50

on a mass national scale

1:59:53

with everybody being in on it now instead

1:59:55

of just five percent of the audience maybe,

1:59:58

that's what's happening to FTR. They

2:00:00

feel sorry for them because They

2:00:03

want to see more of them. They are the

2:00:05

best demon wrestling, and they've

2:00:07

been jacked around by the company they work for.

2:00:11

And then they, you know, basically cut the

2:00:13

promo where they say we can't, in all good

2:00:16

conscience, let the guns call themselves the best

2:00:18

team in the world and we're back to fix that.

2:00:21

And it was a breath of fresh air on this program

2:00:23

because not only a good promo to build

2:00:25

interest in something we care about

2:00:28

in a positive business fashion from

2:00:30

grown adult men who

2:00:32

got over on talent and

2:00:35

finished strong in the promo

2:00:37

without being cut off, jumped, or beat

2:00:40

down. It

2:00:42

was almost like it was a different

2:00:44

program altogether. Your

2:00:47

thoughts on the

2:00:49

the

2:00:51

the almost impossible hill they

2:00:53

have to climb of all the green teams they

2:00:55

have to

2:00:56

work with. We'll see what happens.

2:00:58

Good promo. I actually thought cash did

2:01:00

really well here.

2:01:02

He did both of them. And and we

2:01:04

hear that actually. We hear that

2:01:05

talk

2:01:06

a lot more in these promos. Cash didn't stand

2:01:08

out. Cash didn't really good here.

2:01:11

But I just I wish

2:01:13

they had somebody to fucking work with. And,

2:01:17

unfortunately, you

2:01:19

know, the briskos will not be engaging

2:01:21

in any more tag team matches. And

2:01:25

From that, who I

2:01:27

mean, the guns because they have the belts, but

2:01:29

and and the guns can learn from being in the

2:01:31

ring with FTR, but who is a great

2:01:33

tag team match that they can

2:01:36

work with. In AEW or Ring

2:01:38

of Honor is a tag team. Bennett

2:01:40

and Tavan

2:01:41

Jeff and lethal?

2:01:43

Can't

2:01:44

think of anybody else? Yeah. And I don't

2:01:46

know how many people are gonna wanna see, you know,

2:01:48

Jeff and lethal anymore. Are you hooked You like

2:01:50

it more than anyone else wants to

2:01:51

say. I'm just talking about a good quality wrestling

2:01:53

match. I'm not even talking about anything it'll

2:01:55

draw. Aussie open. Aussie open.

2:01:58

Actually. Oh, they're what? They

2:02:00

just showed a randomly for a battle roll for no

2:02:02

reason. They can't do a little mini program,

2:02:04

but FDR. There are no

2:02:05

other options. But but no. I mean, I mean, I'm

2:02:07

talking about a good tag team match

2:02:09

with a good team where you just have

2:02:11

a good match. Is there anyone? I'll give

2:02:14

you someone, although it wouldn't work perfect way

2:02:16

because FTR baby faces.

2:02:18

But if you need top flight to learn how

2:02:20

to be tag team,

2:02:23

That's who you put him in the ring with. Yeah.

2:02:26

But again, do we give up on these

2:02:28

guys? Again, is drawing money and just say,

2:02:31

well, let's just put him into fucking can teach

2:02:33

other teams how to

2:02:34

work. They're not

2:02:35

gonna draw money if they don't have anyone else in

2:02:37

the division. You have to start building up someone else

2:02:39

in the division. Yeah. But there's

2:02:42

difference between training and building. See,

2:02:45

the the the thing is you get you

2:02:49

always have a situation where you've got a

2:02:51

younger team that can benefit by

2:02:53

being in the ring with whoever the veterans

2:02:55

are, and whatever era

2:02:58

or roster or whatever. But

2:03:02

if you have a great tag team

2:03:04

you either have them working

2:03:07

with guys that need training and teaching

2:03:09

them something and going over them or

2:03:12

working to build a program with a

2:03:14

team that's already ready to be in a main event

2:03:16

program. You can't

2:03:19

do the on the job training and get him over

2:03:21

to to be legitimate main eventors

2:03:23

all at the same fucking time. Even

2:03:25

flare didn't do that with sting. Sting had

2:03:27

goddamn been working a

2:03:29

variety of people for, what,

2:03:31

three years at that point? It

2:03:34

was just a, you know, a three year overnight

2:03:36

assets at the clash of Champions, but you can't

2:03:38

do both at the same time. You

2:03:40

can either train the young guys and make them

2:03:43

look better after

2:03:45

you've wrestled him when you beat him and move on

2:03:47

to your program or you can

2:03:50

build work and build it with a team

2:03:52

for your program, but you can't do both

2:03:54

at the same time. Anyway,

2:03:58

and by the way, Jane Cargill is

2:04:01

fifty three and o. What

2:04:04

would they be saying about Wardlow right

2:04:06

now if he was fifty three and o?

2:04:09

I wonder. We'll get

2:04:11

to that in minute too. I'm I'm gonna bring

2:04:13

up something that maybe they could

2:04:15

have done instead of what they have done. But first,

2:04:17

we get the Six man tag

2:04:19

team match, Brian, what'd you think of Jericho

2:04:21

and Sammy and Garcia against top

2:04:24

flight and AR

2:04:25

fox? I don't

2:04:27

wanna talk too much about the match, but I

2:04:29

was intrigued by the post match.

2:04:32

Well, this was the top of the nine o'clock hour

2:04:34

segment. And

2:04:36

they went to the break after three minutes

2:04:38

of match at 902. So that

2:04:40

kinda defeats the purpose of having a top

2:04:43

of the fucking nine o'clock. Segment.

2:04:45

But this

2:04:48

wasn't this was neither star power

2:04:50

nor a gripping match that would keep

2:04:53

people and then they didn't even keep them to begin

2:04:55

with. They'd set them to break. But Hager

2:04:59

hit Darius

2:05:01

in the back with a bat, and then Jericho

2:05:03

hit the Jew to Sony 123.

2:05:06

And Hager looked even more nicholas

2:05:08

than ever and whatever the fuck he was wearing. Oh my

2:05:10

god. What a free rad this fucking guy's

2:05:13

got? Just Anyway,

2:05:16

then they all have to talk. Cool hand

2:05:19

Luke starts talking. And

2:05:21

that's why I realized they're still in California. By

2:05:23

the way, what is light the beam.

2:05:26

There were signs saying light the beam, and

2:05:28

he said, everybody's gonna light the beam,

2:05:30

and then they chanted light the beam.

2:05:33

What is the beam and why does it need lighting?

2:05:36

And then, Daddy Mac, he

2:05:38

yelled some. He sounds like Cindy

2:05:40

Lop but his voice is not quite as

2:05:43

deep, but with the New

2:05:45

New Jersey accent or whatever. And

2:05:49

they say that they're the number one contenders for

2:05:51

the six man tag team title and challenge

2:05:53

the House of Black. And then

2:05:56

The lights go out, but

2:05:59

Kansas music plays. And

2:06:03

You know, I really used to like Kansas. They're

2:06:07

they've ruined Kansas for me now. Here

2:06:10

come well, they don't come. They just they're out

2:06:12

there in the in conference way, Kenny,

2:06:15

and the buckaroos. And Kenny

2:06:18

does his usual douche bag

2:06:20

promo voice and zoo We've

2:06:23

avoided each other and stayed away

2:06:25

from your universe or whatever for like three

2:06:27

years, but these are our six man

2:06:29

belts. You bastards. No. He

2:06:31

actually That was more exciting than what

2:06:33

he did say. He just said, well, they're, you

2:06:36

know, they're laying claim to the six man belts.

2:06:39

And then to save it,

2:06:41

thank fuck. Have you ever

2:06:43

been happy to see Don Phallis before?

2:06:46

He runs out and jerks the microphone

2:06:49

out of Kenny's hand. People

2:06:51

stood up and applaud it. No. And he

2:06:53

sucks too. Don't pretend he doesn't suck. Well,

2:06:55

no. But there's there's levels, at

2:06:57

least. He he's

2:06:59

sucking right now because of the

2:07:02

the situation he's in the people he surrounded

2:07:04

himself with and the way that he's made himself

2:07:06

look, but at least he picked up the energy level

2:07:08

on a microphone from twinkle toes.

2:07:11

Any cut to promo on Jericho, knocking

2:07:14

him for being the second best wrestler ever

2:07:16

from Winnipeg. And

2:07:18

third, if he had a few months to get in shape,

2:07:20

I don't I thought Bulldog Bob

2:07:22

Brown was from Winnipeg. He's

2:07:25

better than Kenny, Anyway,

2:07:29

so Jericho challenges them right

2:07:31

here right now. Let's do it. And

2:07:33

then the lights go out again. There's that

2:07:36

he'll fucking lighting guy again. And

2:07:39

then this was where they jumped the shark.

2:07:44

The House of Black was on the screen,

2:07:47

and they're in their normal dark room

2:07:50

and they're obviously live

2:07:52

because they're referring to what

2:07:54

has just been happening. Hey

2:07:57

boys, you don't need to fight you don't need

2:07:59

to argue amongst each other. If

2:08:02

you want these and they held up

2:08:04

the six man belts and then the

2:08:06

lights went out again, And

2:08:09

then the lights come back on, and now

2:08:11

the House of Black is standing in the aisleway

2:08:14

in between The cheerico

2:08:16

appreciators in the ring and the fucking

2:08:19

buckaroos on a stage, and

2:08:21

he finishes his sentence. Come

2:08:23

get them. In

2:08:25

space of ten seconds. So

2:08:28

they they

2:08:30

expose their own business Just

2:08:34

to because I don't think anybody

2:08:36

believes that they legitimately teleported

2:08:39

themselves from that dark room through

2:08:41

space. To that spot

2:08:44

in ten seconds. So

2:08:46

they pre taped the

2:08:49

dark room where they were reacting

2:08:52

to shit that wasn't happening because

2:08:54

it hadn't happened yet. Just

2:08:58

to do a cool spot

2:09:01

that a bunch of people who do

2:09:03

not have female lips around

2:09:05

their dicks on a regular basis

2:09:07

would applaud for. And

2:09:12

then the

2:09:14

lights went out again. Him

2:09:17

when the lights came back on again, the House of

2:09:19

Black was gone, and Jericho

2:09:22

was screaming at the floor camera like a

2:09:24

maniac because he realized that they were being

2:09:26

stood left in the ring like a spare prick at the

2:09:28

wedding. And the buckaroos

2:09:31

because there used to be in spare pricks at a

2:09:33

wedding, they just fucking wandered off.

2:09:36

And this whole thing from entrances to

2:09:38

match to the end of promo and

2:09:41

then the poor man's David

2:09:44

Copperfield Chris Angel routine vanishing

2:09:46

in the darkness was over

2:09:49

twenty fucking minutes. Your

2:09:53

thoughts,

2:09:55

I initially wasn't intrigued.

2:09:57

Although I think it's ridiculous, you're gonna If

2:10:00

you're gonna do it run-in or confront someone, you should

2:10:02

be able to just do it without music playing,

2:10:04

without a big image. All

2:10:06

of these things Let alone,

2:10:08

not doing a run-in or anything. Just standing there

2:10:10

to do your pose. There's a time

2:10:13

and a place for all these things. I

2:10:15

was intrigued by the idea we

2:10:17

asked the other day what does Jericho do next? You know

2:10:19

what? Jericho and

2:10:21

Guevara And Garcia,

2:10:24

feuding with the elite? That

2:10:26

could be interesting. It'll be nuts. We'll have

2:10:29

lots to laugh about and complain

2:10:30

about. But I wonder

2:10:33

what's gonna happen there and then the spooky shit.

2:10:35

And it's

2:10:36

like fuck. Are you in a house

2:10:38

of black? If House of Black was

2:10:40

exactly who they are minus smoke

2:10:43

and teleporting, I

2:10:45

probably liked them a whole lot better.

2:10:47

But as soon as they do this shit, as soon as they show

2:10:49

that they have magical powers,

2:10:52

that takes me completely out of

2:10:53

it. They're doing this matching Winnipeg.

2:10:56

Three way six person

2:10:58

well, I guess

2:10:59

What's that? Three

2:10:59

way Trio's

2:11:00

story is attached. There's three yes.

2:11:02

There's nine of them. Nine of them in Winnipeg.

2:11:05

You don't think

2:11:05

he's gonna hotshot this belt.

2:11:07

In Winnipeg, do you consider you have Kenny

2:11:09

and you have Jericho? Well,

2:11:11

again, here's

2:11:14

the problem. It might

2:11:16

be interesting with their three of

2:11:18

Jericho's guys, and there's three of the House of

2:11:20

Black, and there's three of the Buckaroos.

2:11:25

So now that we know that they all

2:11:27

have a common goal of the Six

2:11:29

Man tag team title, then

2:11:32

Yeah. If they got into a program, well,

2:11:35

it might be interesting. But

2:11:38

now that we they're going to have the

2:11:41

three way match next week. So

2:11:43

they're either they're

2:11:45

either doing a seven day program or

2:11:48

they're doing as Tony usually does.

2:11:51

The program in reverse order in having

2:11:53

the blow off match first to

2:11:56

where that each succeeding match

2:11:58

will have less interest than

2:12:01

the previous one did, which is Tony's

2:12:03

normal pattern. Even

2:12:06

if you were gonna have these teams mattered

2:12:09

each other and worked toward each other. You

2:12:11

don't do the three ways the first fucking

2:12:13

match. It's a is

2:12:15

it you're an embassy. Speaking

2:12:20

of the MSO, he did

2:12:22

his own announcement this week, and he

2:12:25

he almost got through it without looking

2:12:27

like he'd fucking snorted half

2:12:29

a Peru before he came out. So

2:12:34

he announces that pockets once Jeff

2:12:36

Jared next week. So We've

2:12:39

just seen the final defense

2:12:41

of the A and P title in next

2:12:43

week for the very

2:12:45

good reason that we want

2:12:47

to support the release of Shazam,

2:12:50

the movie. We're

2:12:52

gonna change the title of or the

2:12:54

name of the A and P title to

2:12:56

the international title. Level

2:12:59

up. We're gonna level up. We're gonna

2:13:01

level up the what is that

2:13:03

like? Is that the subtitle of Shazam?

2:13:06

Is it Jazam, level up. What's video

2:13:08

game talk?

2:13:08

It's when video games you level up?

2:13:10

Seriously?

2:13:13

Yes. I

2:13:15

thought he just made some shit. We're gonna level

2:13:17

up the title. I thought what the fuck it's on

2:13:20

the level or I if that

2:13:22

was the subtitle of the movie or what the

2:13:24

fuck? I thought he just made some shit up, but

2:13:26

that's a video game term. So

2:13:29

he what is leveling up in a video

2:13:31

game? Making everything even

2:13:33

again or You go to the next

2:13:35

level, you get more

2:13:36

power, more, whatever.

2:13:39

You went from level four to level five,

2:13:41

and five is better than four. You could

2:13:43

do more. It depends on the

2:13:44

game. I answered nothing,

2:13:46

but I hope you enjoyed my answer. Oh my god.

2:13:49

So now you well, this title that met

2:13:51

nothing before and represented nobody

2:13:53

when it was the all Atlantic title.

2:13:57

Now we'll just make it the

2:13:59

international idle so it represents

2:14:01

even more phony fucking area that nobody

2:14:03

cares

2:14:04

about. And we're going to

2:14:06

do that because we see it done in video

2:14:08

games.

2:14:11

Well, no. He's using a term that comes

2:14:13

originally from our video.

2:14:15

What a title?

2:14:15

What the fuck? They he made up a title

2:14:17

and now he's changed the fucking name of it,

2:14:19

and they again,

2:14:22

then they went to clips of the movie,

2:14:24

Shazam, and AEW wrestlers,

2:14:27

interspersed. In

2:14:29

what way do they have anything

2:14:32

to do with young Billy Batson?

2:14:35

Why did Tony have to make this announcement

2:14:38

himself? At this point now,

2:14:40

he teased a big announcement that was a

2:14:42

major let down to just about everyone a few

2:14:44

weeks ago. Now it's another one. Now

2:14:46

he's made it so that the next time Tonycom makes

2:14:48

an announcement, are you gonna

2:14:49

shrug, are you gonna pay attention?

2:14:52

That's

2:14:52

what he's done because now he's just hotshotting himself,

2:14:55

on TV. Well,

2:14:57

he made an announcement that his

2:15:00

favorite wrestler is

2:15:02

gonna get an even bigger fake title

2:15:04

in a match next week and pitched

2:15:06

two clips of his wrestlers, interspersed

2:15:08

with a new movie for no reason. Why

2:15:11

don't you just name it the Shazam championship

2:15:13

then? If you're doing the latter of the movie,

2:15:15

name it the Shazam championship as

2:15:17

opposed to renaming it because, I guess,

2:15:19

This is his

2:15:20

way. This has to be his way of

2:15:22

admitting without saying it.

2:15:24

Yeah. It shouldn't have been called the All Atlantic

2:15:26

Championship considering some

2:15:29

of the flags on the belt. It was

2:15:31

sittering where I wanted to fended all of

2:15:33

these things. He picked the

2:15:35

wrong ocean. To mess up. I mean, when

2:15:37

I saw that, that's when I couldn't believe the show. He

2:15:39

didn't blink. He just stared at the

2:15:41

camera, and he didn't know how to end

2:15:43

what he was saying. And it was

2:15:45

so awkward. He got stuck in a loop at the

2:15:47

end where he said the same thing about three times because

2:15:49

he didn't know exactly where to quit

2:15:51

period. He shouldn't be doing this. This should be Tony

2:15:53

Shivani. Making official announcements

2:15:55

on AEW's behalf. Unless it's something

2:15:57

big like, hey, everyone. We've signed

2:15:59

Hulk Hogan. Then it shouldn't be

2:16:01

Tony comm to get any more announcements on camera.

2:16:05

Well, the next on camera

2:16:07

was Again,

2:16:10

you you go from

2:16:12

completely ridiculous to every once

2:16:14

in a while of amazing

2:16:17

display of the art

2:16:20

of whatever wrestling

2:16:22

is that we're displaying, verbal or physical

2:16:24

or whatever in this case. Brian Danielson

2:16:28

In the back after the iron man

2:16:30

matched from the pay per view, still

2:16:34

a sitting down, tired out, broke

2:16:36

down, talking about

2:16:38

the injuries and the effects of the match

2:16:41

and that he figured

2:16:43

he was putting himself before his family

2:16:47

When he couldn't feel his legs, he

2:16:49

was crying, and

2:16:51

he ends up a time for me to go home.

2:16:54

This was fucking incredible. He

2:16:57

made you feel it and believe it.

2:17:01

And You

2:17:03

know, and and after that match, you could

2:17:05

see in the the highlights and the b roll and

2:17:07

everything helped, but You

2:17:10

know that again,

2:17:13

he's got a couple of guys.

2:17:17

He's got Danielson. He's got MDF.

2:17:20

He had punk. He's got FTR.

2:17:24

That either verbally or physically

2:17:26

or both through their performances and

2:17:29

the way they structure their shit Cornette

2:17:32

take even these bat shit goofy

2:17:35

little group of fans that he's got that likes

2:17:37

the endy rific shit they

2:17:40

still respond to

2:17:42

the professional shit and

2:17:46

Other people might be interested in it

2:17:49

if they saw it, and if it wasn't

2:17:51

cluttered up amidst

2:17:53

all this indie outlaw, Gaga,

2:17:56

that they're so wrapped up in, that's

2:17:59

all that most of his roster has

2:18:01

known or can produce. And

2:18:03

it ain't getting him nowhere. And

2:18:07

it's been three years and he's

2:18:11

had time after time that either

2:18:13

the homegrown guy ward low or

2:18:15

somebody will get over or they wanna

2:18:18

they really want Hater to turn on Baker

2:18:20

or and we I we can't

2:18:22

even really use Sammy Guevara as

2:18:24

an example anymore because he sat ties

2:18:26

himself, letting people know that he was really a dick.

2:18:30

But they

2:18:32

wander into these every once in a while, and then

2:18:34

they drop the ball on

2:18:38

all of them. So Danielson

2:18:41

was that great heel at one point. Now he's

2:18:43

what a sympathetic baby face. But

2:18:46

if it's time for him to go home, will we remember

2:18:48

by the time he comes back, then

2:18:51

we really felt bad for him. But

2:18:55

I love this promo and it was like a minute

2:18:57

and a half. It's the best part of the show.

2:18:59

Great promo and this goes to The

2:19:01

kind of product we're always preaching for is something

2:19:03

that's serious that doesn't insult the audience, something

2:19:05

that makes you want more. This is what

2:19:07

wrestling could be in twenty twenty three.

2:19:10

Well guess what they made it next.

2:19:13

Moxley and Claudia

2:19:15

with useless in the corner against

2:19:17

the dork order, little brutus, it is

2:19:19

partner, Houdat. Because

2:19:22

I can never remember his fucking name, but I've

2:19:24

never made up a name for him, I think, so

2:19:26

he from now on his Houdat. And

2:19:29

of course, they rang the bell and Moxley and Claudia

2:19:32

jumped him and Moxley through his gout of the

2:19:34

floor. And took off after

2:19:36

him. He was lynched three days before

2:19:38

this television program. By

2:19:41

a supposed grown adult cowboy with

2:19:43

a fucking logging chain, He's

2:19:46

fine. He's doing good. No

2:19:49

lingering ill effects. Just

2:19:51

a flesh wound. And

2:19:54

this thing went through a break. And at this point,

2:19:56

they've made me not wanna see Claudia now

2:19:58

who I was so looking forward to when he

2:20:00

came to this company. But Now

2:20:02

he's he never speaks. He never

2:20:04

has a single match. He's joined at the hip with

2:20:06

moxley and useless. And

2:20:09

who gives a shit? And

2:20:11

now they've completely switched.

2:20:14

He also moxley

2:20:16

choked out who that and then

2:20:18

put it on him again after the bell and wouldn't

2:20:20

break it and little broodous

2:20:23

trash to stop and claudio gut reaches

2:20:25

him, it just throws him the top like a saggy

2:20:27

shit. That was great. Here comes

2:20:29

fat who knows every time he runs down the ramp,

2:20:31

his tits almost blocked both his eyes.

2:20:35

And basically, the BBC beats

2:20:37

up all the Dorks, and then here comes Page.

2:20:41

And he runs through the

2:20:44

ring and yelling and

2:20:46

I it was awkward and

2:20:48

then he just turned around and nailed claudio

2:20:51

And then all three Moxley

2:20:54

and Claudia and useless jumped

2:20:56

him, and they said the

2:20:58

referee's, and they had the chaos, and

2:21:00

the bell was ringing. And

2:21:02

and that they had everything and this beat

2:21:04

down, they had everything but talent. At

2:21:07

least they were doing the other things that we

2:21:09

have suggested. But so

2:21:11

now we've got all of them beat up fucking

2:21:13

we've again page and the darks.

2:21:16

Against the BBC? More?

2:21:22

You haven't learned that the reason why Adam

2:21:24

Page has been plate, nut or flop. Besides

2:21:28

the fact he has no personality is

2:21:30

because you paired him with job guys begin

2:21:32

with, You

2:21:35

haven't figured out that useless is now

2:21:37

exactly that. He's bet as

2:21:39

useless as set a tits

2:21:42

on a boar hog, and

2:21:46

and now we're gonna see more of this. Help

2:21:50

me, Brian.

2:21:52

I can't help you. John

2:21:55

I'm actually just one wrestler of the year from the

2:21:57

observer. He just got five ours in the

2:21:59

observer for the Adam cage match?

2:22:01

No. Yeah. The the Texas

2:22:03

death match that was a last

2:22:05

man standing match that was a

2:22:08

The example of everything not to

2:22:10

do and how to be completely unprofessional at

2:22:12

wrestling, Uncle Dave gave it five stars.

2:22:15

Mox is like the champion of the ninnie wrestling

2:22:17

fan. He's their domain guy. But

2:22:19

the people like me, he's the worst wrestler in the world,

2:22:21

his matches are terrible, sold nothing from the

2:22:23

match the other day. I wasn't

2:22:25

the biggest claudio fan, not gonna add anything against

2:22:28

him, but he was just to me like a middle of the road

2:22:30

kinda guy. Don't care about him

2:22:32

now. You to try to make a tough face

2:22:34

or an angry face or a mad face, whatever

2:22:36

he's doing, that doesn't work for me.

2:22:38

And then who are they working with? The dark order.

2:22:40

And then it hit me during this. Fuck. We used

2:22:43

to complain about everyone needing a faction.

2:22:45

Now everyone is in a trio's team.

2:22:47

Every single person on this show

2:22:49

has two other people with them at

2:22:51

all times. This isn't

2:22:54

good. I don't know who wants to see more Page

2:22:56

and Moxley ended fine.

2:23:00

It's over. I mean, that was it. That was the big

2:23:02

ending. After everything that happened, choked

2:23:04

them out. Now they're continuing it.

2:23:07

It goes on. For no reason,

2:23:10

terrible. The show's book terrible. This

2:23:12

was terrible. Moxie's terrible. I don't

2:23:14

wanna see any of this. It just

2:23:16

tubb. It just tubb.

2:23:19

Well, speed is terrible. But

2:23:22

I said I was gonna try to help some people.

2:23:25

I don't know. Maybe too late for these particular

2:23:27

people, but maybe Maybe

2:23:30

somebody's coming down a pipeline that could

2:23:32

benefit from this information. The main event

2:23:34

was for the TNT title Powerhouse

2:23:37

Hobbs against Wardlow, Falls

2:23:41

Anywhere, no d q, no

2:23:43

rules, lazy booking, They're

2:23:48

both green. We've talked about

2:23:50

this. And this handicaps them

2:23:52

even further and increases the

2:23:54

injury risk. They're

2:23:57

never gonna learn when you have them doing

2:23:59

nothing but garbage matches. And

2:24:04

again, yeah, Hobbes

2:24:06

has been there for three years, but let's

2:24:08

just say that Now

2:24:11

let's go crazy. Let's say six months ago,

2:24:14

they suddenly decided, oh my god,

2:24:16

we've got this fucking guy. Looks

2:24:19

like a million dollars, still in

2:24:21

his early thirties, obviously

2:24:24

motivated to be better great

2:24:27

backstory. Let's

2:24:29

use him. Right? Is it a

2:24:32

stretch to think that if you have a wrestling

2:24:34

company Regardless of

2:24:36

what kind of wrestling you like, if

2:24:38

you have a wrestling company and you got a guy

2:24:40

like Hobbs on the roster, The

2:24:43

Hobbs of six months ago, you would say,

2:24:45

yeah, let's try to develop him. Wouldn't you?

2:24:47

Is that controversial? No. I don't think

2:24:49

it's controversial. Okay. And

2:24:52

Wardlow, you've

2:24:54

got a guy like Wardlow

2:24:57

that already had gotten over by

2:24:59

six months ago. But to

2:25:02

a a big level, the people were loving the power

2:25:04

of Bob Symphony and loving his explosiveness.

2:25:07

It was being analogies or

2:25:09

similarities were being drawn to

2:25:11

Goldberg. He was the most overweight

2:25:13

he was the most over babyface in the company

2:25:15

for a time. Okay. So

2:25:18

it's not unreasonable to

2:25:20

think with the people screaming for this guy

2:25:23

that even though he's green and he's older than

2:25:25

he looks, that we should probably try

2:25:27

to spend some time and effort in developing

2:25:29

him. Right? That's not controversy. Not

2:25:32

at all. Okay.

2:25:36

Then now six months

2:25:38

later, instead

2:25:40

of doing what they've just done to

2:25:42

each of these guys, instead of Wardlow having

2:25:45

a goddamn long

2:25:47

running program with a fake lawyer and the

2:25:49

security, and then somehow,

2:25:51

Samoa Joe, becoming

2:25:53

his tag team partner for six weeks

2:25:55

so that he could turn heel on, even cut

2:25:58

his fucking hair off and emasculating. Meanwhile,

2:26:00

Hobbs is mad for

2:26:03

a variety of reasons that we're not completely

2:26:05

sure of all of them. At both of these

2:26:07

fucking guys and now they're

2:26:09

just beating each other up each week on television.

2:26:12

What if instead You

2:26:14

had said, okay. I've

2:26:17

got Hobbs and I've got Wardlow and it's six

2:26:19

months ago. So I'm

2:26:21

going to give them both

2:26:24

the same agent, the

2:26:26

same whatever they're agent producer, whatever

2:26:28

they're calling, These days,

2:26:30

one of the veterans that they have

2:26:33

supposedly agenting, producing, setting

2:26:35

up these matches. I've I've seen Pat

2:26:37

Buck on camera I've seen

2:26:39

Jerry Lynn on camera. I've

2:26:41

said who else have I seen b j Whitmer,

2:26:44

a Steel? Oh, well,

2:26:47

a stealing ain't there no more, unfortunately.

2:26:51

Point being some I

2:26:53

of those names that I mentioned, I don't know their

2:26:55

whole roster, but I would pick Jerry Lynn because

2:26:57

he got thirty five years of experience. And

2:27:00

Jerry Lynn was a brilliant

2:27:03

underdog kind of baby faced

2:27:05

smaller guy fight from underneath blah blah

2:27:07

blah. He would know how a big guy works.

2:27:10

So you give Jerry Lynn Hobbs and

2:27:13

Wardlow to teach

2:27:15

them how big men work

2:27:18

you would teach Hobbs the

2:27:20

aggression and how to stay on guys

2:27:22

and how to make all of your shit look

2:27:24

good. I will illustrate here in second with some

2:27:26

things that he's doing that he's taking

2:27:28

shortcuts. You would with

2:27:31

Wardlow as a babe, Hobbs and Be a heel,

2:27:34

obviously. So you're teaching him aggression and

2:27:36

stay it on guys, but how to work

2:27:38

with a guy to his level. In

2:27:40

other words, if you're with a job guy, you give him

2:27:42

almost nothing. If you're with a middle level guy,

2:27:44

you give him a little something. If you're top guy

2:27:46

you give them the most. Psychology

2:27:50

things. You would work

2:27:52

on Cornette, like they started

2:27:54

doing, did one. You made the monster him

2:27:56

working out. He saw his

2:27:58

brother murdered in front of

2:28:00

me. Maybe he's anti social. Let's

2:28:02

flesh that out. You would have that producer

2:28:05

in charge of his vignettes,

2:28:07

his matches, and his training,

2:28:11

and you would put this guy on TV

2:28:14

twice a month once every three weeks.

2:28:17

For six months, getting

2:28:20

wins in four to five minutes convincingly

2:28:23

with his finish And on

2:28:25

weeks, he wasn't. On television,

2:28:28

you might have forty five seconds to a minute

2:28:30

of him speaking. He's not

2:28:32

in a program he doesn't need to be

2:28:34

because he's establishing his

2:28:37

presence in the company

2:28:40

and talking about what he wants to achieve

2:28:42

while he's beaten people. With

2:28:45

Wardlow, it's different but still the

2:28:47

same concept. He's a baby face.

2:28:50

His producer would teach him not to

2:28:52

do these flips

2:28:54

and these outrageous athletic

2:28:57

movements that he does against

2:29:00

job guys, or for no

2:29:02

reason or out of nowhere, you would build

2:29:04

to it. It would be done in pay per view matches

2:29:06

or in bigger matches or guess

2:29:08

more important opponents or just every

2:29:11

once in a while. But

2:29:13

more important, you would concentrate on

2:29:15

him going on the

2:29:17

wind streak with the power

2:29:19

bomb symphony. Every

2:29:23

two or three weeks for six months

2:29:25

he would be on television winning

2:29:28

in a minute With the

2:29:30

power bomb symphony over everybody

2:29:32

that's put in front of him, if he shouldn't beat him

2:29:34

in a minute, they ain't put in front of him.

2:29:37

But he's at the same

2:29:39

time training mentally and

2:29:41

psychologically on when

2:29:44

to do his big athletic moves

2:29:46

and win just to be a dominant physical

2:29:48

beast. And he's the one who

2:29:50

gets pockets his win streak or maybe Jane

2:29:52

Cargill's win streak. Because

2:29:56

Goldberg was fifty something and zero

2:29:58

before they even started fucking gimmick

2:30:00

in it and killing that off because people do it

2:30:02

one real. So then you're

2:30:04

talking about my God. Everybody

2:30:07

wants to see Wardlow against bigger and

2:30:09

better competition. We can't find opponents

2:30:11

for Wardlow. Nobody

2:30:14

wants to go in there and take a chance

2:30:16

on, you know, being a

2:30:18

part of the power bomb symphony. He's

2:30:21

he's not an established name, ladies

2:30:23

and gentlemen, so the champions and the veterans,

2:30:26

they don't wanna get in there and be beat by

2:30:29

relative newcomer unknown. So

2:30:31

we're having a hard time getting people in the ring

2:30:33

with this motherfucker. That's

2:30:36

the way you sell that. And

2:30:39

then eventually,

2:30:43

both of them getting over, one's a

2:30:45

face and one's a heel. And

2:30:47

they neither one have a titled belt because

2:30:49

neither one needs it. And you

2:30:51

do that and you make

2:30:54

sure that in their training, they're understanding

2:30:56

that this is the way to get them over, but

2:30:58

then they are training to have competitive

2:31:01

matches where they still take care of themselves

2:31:04

and their personas and their gimmick, and

2:31:06

then When it's finally

2:31:09

time six months later, then you have

2:31:11

the irresistible force and the immovable

2:31:13

object that one of them ends up with a title

2:31:15

belt. That the other one wants,

2:31:18

and then they've never

2:31:20

touched. They've never even

2:31:22

been in the same universe until it's

2:31:24

time. And then

2:31:26

you have them work out behind the scenes together

2:31:28

for a week or two before their first

2:31:31

match or first long or

2:31:34

substantive physical confrontation

2:31:39

so that they know exactly what they're gonna

2:31:41

do when to make the fucking point and

2:31:45

then you might have a program or

2:31:48

you can do this. You

2:31:50

can book the fucking first match

2:31:53

to be for the title, and

2:31:56

make it street fight, no d q,

2:31:58

no time limit, falls down anywhere,

2:32:00

anything goes no rules. And

2:32:04

they started the match in the parking garage.

2:32:07

Where they were trying to slam each other's heads

2:32:09

in the car doors. And Hobbs

2:32:11

took a backdrop through windshield legitimately.

2:32:15

Before the bell even rang, and then they rang

2:32:18

the bell right before a vertical duplex

2:32:20

on a fucking car hood. And

2:32:24

if they do ninety

2:32:26

seconds of action in

2:32:29

the parking garage and the brakes

2:32:31

spot is Wardlow. After

2:32:33

a backdrop through a windshield and a duplex

2:32:36

on a car hood, Wardlow

2:32:38

hits Hobbs with a plastic drink palette.

2:32:41

And they go to the break and

2:32:45

they made these guys street fight

2:32:48

through the break, in

2:32:50

the back of the building, in a picture and

2:32:52

picture box, it's only eighteen inches

2:32:55

diagon along my seventy two inch

2:32:57

screen. And no

2:32:59

audio. So

2:33:01

for most people watching a television, then

2:33:04

the little box with the audio of all

2:33:06

get your fucking condoms

2:33:09

and goddamn anal lube today

2:33:11

at Walgreens? And

2:33:14

when they come back to the

2:33:16

full program, they're

2:33:18

doing the deal where they hold each other lightly

2:33:20

and power walk through the arena to get to

2:33:22

the ring. Like, the bruiser brody and Abdullah

2:33:25

in Japan in eighty eight. They'll just walk.

2:33:27

They'll just lay hands on each other and

2:33:29

walk through the crowd. And

2:33:31

both of them immediately get in the fucking

2:33:34

ring and no sell each other's spine

2:33:36

busters. Well, that was fucking brilliant. What

2:33:40

did you either one of you hope to accomplish

2:33:42

by that and who was the goddamn agent

2:33:45

Maybe you didn't tell him you were gonna do it.

2:33:48

I don't know. But

2:33:51

that's brilliant too. To

2:33:53

not sell either guy's spine buster,

2:33:57

it doesn't make you look big and bad.

2:33:59

It makes the other guy look fucking

2:34:01

shitty, both of you. Because

2:34:05

anything that you either one of you

2:34:07

the way you look due to the other guy

2:34:10

he should register, he should sell, it

2:34:12

should hurt. I don't care how big he is.

2:34:14

We're talking about fucking trains colliding

2:34:17

here. There's gonna be some fucking damage.

2:34:21

And then they do the one two in the ring and

2:34:23

Wardlow's punches are shit. And

2:34:26

their trade was blah. It needs to

2:34:28

be big. They were

2:34:30

trading like like weights. It was too

2:34:32

fast. There was no registering and selling.

2:34:34

There was no body language. You draw

2:34:37

back and you swing from the fences and

2:34:39

you swing for the fences Bam. Any

2:34:41

other guy fucking registers it

2:34:43

and rocks back and comes back from downtown

2:34:45

Bam. Oh, shit. Any

2:34:48

thing these guys do needs to

2:34:50

be bigger, not the

2:34:52

same, or smaller. And

2:34:54

at that point, the fans there was no

2:34:56

pop when when Wardlow

2:34:59

also the

2:35:01

f ten don't

2:35:03

rip off the name of your Finnish, especially

2:35:06

if you're a babyface from the biggest goddamn

2:35:08

star in business because then that just

2:35:10

calls attention to him. Wardlow

2:35:13

hits his f ten and gets a two

2:35:15

count and there's no pop. Because

2:35:17

they're by no s not to finish. They didn't sell

2:35:19

a spinebuster or whatever the fuck. And

2:35:22

then the fans started chanting, we want

2:35:24

tables, so there's two supposed top

2:35:26

stars in the ring, and the fans

2:35:28

are chanting for the furniture. Because

2:35:33

all they're looking at is a stunt show. This was

2:35:36

not made to mean anything. It

2:35:38

was a disservice to these guys. And

2:35:40

these guys are both so green, they

2:35:42

may not even realize that this booking is

2:35:45

goddamn rotten and abysmal. And

2:35:47

that they don't know what they're doing and nobody's

2:35:49

apparently telling them. If they are

2:35:51

telling them and nobody's listening, So

2:35:55

then Hobbs, Wardlow

2:35:59

goes to powerbombing. And

2:36:02

Hobbs slips out by going over

2:36:04

Wardlow's back. But instead of landing

2:36:06

on his feet, he stumbles and goes down to

2:36:08

his knees because he's three hundred fucking

2:36:10

pounds. Any

2:36:13

awkwardly went into the spot they were trying?

2:36:15

They should have worked the whole match on can

2:36:18

Wardlow get Hobbs up to power

2:36:20

bombing. Because

2:36:22

it's not just the weight, it's weight that's

2:36:24

fighting back. And

2:36:28

instead, not only did

2:36:30

they establish they can spine buster each other

2:36:32

with no problem and neither one's gonna fucking

2:36:34

be hurt by it, but then

2:36:38

Wardlow establishes that he can pick

2:36:40

Hobbs up for the power bomb anytime he wants,

2:36:42

but Hobbs Doing array ministerial

2:36:45

spot goes over his back and slips down to his feet

2:36:47

and falls and looks like a stumble bomb, because they shouldn't

2:36:49

have been doing that to begin with. That's for hundred

2:36:51

eighty pound people. And

2:36:54

then Hobbs

2:36:57

the spot was that Hobbs gonna shove

2:37:00

ward low off into the ropes just a double

2:37:02

hand shove, and he caught him

2:37:04

coming off with a spine buster again.

2:37:06

A, why it didn't phase him before?

2:37:10

And b, you're gonna

2:37:12

drop behind the guy, turn around, do

2:37:14

a double handed shove. This other three

2:37:17

hundred pound guy is gonna fly backwards.

2:37:19

Ten feet come back off the ropes and

2:37:21

into your spine buster because he's out of control

2:37:23

from that. What

2:37:26

the fuck these guys need to be in goddamn

2:37:28

class? And he and

2:37:31

then he fucking followed

2:37:33

the second spine buster up that by the

2:37:35

way, they sold

2:37:37

that one. Wardlow sold

2:37:40

that one. And then

2:37:42

he grabbed Wardlow's leg and

2:37:44

rolled him over and pushed him to the ropes again,

2:37:46

double hand shove and get him a second spine

2:37:48

buster. It's fuck it. It's

2:37:51

not even laziness. He's not trying to be

2:37:53

lazy. It's just lost opportunity.

2:37:55

Hobbs. You're wasting

2:37:58

the idea. Don't

2:38:00

just lack it basically pushing backwards

2:38:02

into the rope if you're gonna do and

2:38:05

if you're gonna do two spine busters, especially

2:38:07

after motherfucker didn't sell your first one,

2:38:10

do three in a row. The three amigos.

2:38:13

And if you're gonna do a series, make

2:38:16

it count. You either

2:38:18

shoot him off to the ropes hard with all

2:38:20

you've got or you reverse an arm whip

2:38:22

and you shoot him off hard and you catch him

2:38:24

and you plant him with the spine buster

2:38:26

and then you pop up and grab that

2:38:28

leg and roll him up by the leg. And

2:38:31

grab the fucking left arm and

2:38:33

shoot him off hard from the middle

2:38:35

of the ring. Don't back him up. Keep him going.

2:38:37

He's off balance. And you hit him with

2:38:39

the second one. Boom. And

2:38:41

he lands and he turns over in his hands and

2:38:43

knees. He's holding his ribs and there you can hook

2:38:46

him in a front face lock and pull him up to

2:38:48

his feet. And shoot him again

2:38:50

by his arm hard, but five or six

2:38:52

feet to the ropes, where you don't even have

2:38:54

to let go of him and jerking back into your

2:38:56

fucking bearhood. And hit a third

2:38:58

spine buster. Boom.

2:39:01

And then you go for the fucking cover,

2:39:03

hook the one leg, one, two,

2:39:05

and he either kicks out if

2:39:07

he's goddamn still should

2:39:10

be in that good a condition or he

2:39:12

gets his leg on the fucking ropes and

2:39:15

breaks the fucking but that's

2:39:18

explosiveness and aggression

2:39:20

and physicality that

2:39:23

you could have uncorked and done

2:39:25

the same thing you just did by wandering

2:39:27

through it and being awkward and shoving

2:39:30

guys around that they shouldn't go where you're

2:39:32

fucking shoving them. And

2:39:37

then they went to the floor. And

2:39:40

Hobbes pulls a table out. And

2:39:42

while he's setting it up and

2:39:44

finding the table, setting it up put in the right

2:39:46

place, he lets Wardlow recover for no

2:39:48

apparent reason. Because he could

2:39:50

have just kept on the fucking guy that he was beaten

2:39:53

up, but instead he let him go so he could go find

2:39:55

a table. Because the people are chatting

2:39:57

for furniture anyway. Furniture's most important

2:39:59

talent on the roster. And

2:40:02

then he puts Hobbs or

2:40:05

no. I'm sorry. Wardlow obviously

2:40:07

recovers and puts Hobbs on the table that

2:40:09

Hobbs just set up and

2:40:11

got on the top rope and did a swanton

2:40:14

and swan toned Hobbs threw

2:40:16

the table off the top rope through

2:40:18

to the floor for a

2:40:21

two Jesus,

2:40:23

but it looked great. It

2:40:26

looked great. So why do it

2:40:28

and then go two more minutes and lose?

2:40:31

You moron. So

2:40:41

it wasn't to finish or it wasn't the thing

2:40:43

that foiled the baby face. It

2:40:45

was just a spot High

2:40:48

injury risk and nobody will give a shit

2:40:50

because it didn't play part in the decision

2:40:52

of the match. So

2:40:56

then Wardlow power bombs, Hobbs on

2:40:58

the floor, and both

2:41:00

of them were down for and then they get

2:41:03

up and go up to the stage. And

2:41:05

Wardlow's gonna try to power bomb Hobbs

2:41:07

off the stage. By the way, Wardlow, the babyface.

2:41:11

And suddenly, QT Marshall

2:41:13

shows up and hits Wardlow in

2:41:15

the back with a chair, and Wardlow no

2:41:18

sells it. Turns around

2:41:20

and grabs him by the guzzle pipe, and

2:41:23

in QT kicks Wardlow into balls,

2:41:25

and down he drops. And

2:41:28

QT has a chair and wardlows there

2:41:30

holding his nuts, looking at him and he fucking

2:41:32

hits him, whacks him with the chair. And

2:41:35

I don't think he hit him a second time. And

2:41:38

then QT goes over and picks Hobbs up

2:41:40

because the Hobbs is just a piece of shit laying around.

2:41:43

Picks him up, and then thanks to QT,

2:41:45

they both power bomb Wardlow off

2:41:47

the stage into the crash pad pit.

2:41:50

Which, by the way,

2:41:52

they've changed their structure.

2:41:55

It didn't go poof. It

2:41:57

was covered up with Bolsa wood instead

2:41:59

of a sheet, and I don't think

2:42:01

it was air inflated. I believe they moved

2:42:03

up styrofoam. If I had to guess.

2:42:07

And then Wardlow was counted down for

2:42:09

the ten count and a false count anywhere

2:42:11

match. And

2:42:13

Hobbs is the new champion because

2:42:16

of q t, Marshall. Who

2:42:19

has been presented as a fekless

2:42:21

in effect actual comedy job

2:42:23

figure for the entire run of

2:42:25

the promotion, and

2:42:28

suddenly comes out there and single

2:42:30

handedly helps his little buddy Powerhouse

2:42:33

Hobbs beat the big

2:42:35

bad war low for the belt. This

2:42:37

was the worst way possible to

2:42:40

put the belt on Hobbs or to have

2:42:42

Hobbs fucking win

2:42:45

and you can't tell me that

2:42:48

they couldn't have made some something out

2:42:50

of Wardlow missing that goddamn

2:42:52

swanton through

2:42:54

the table and Hobbes pen and him there

2:42:58

and give Wardlow an out instead of

2:43:00

just this Disgusting

2:43:03

heat kind of finish that gets heat on the promotion

2:43:05

for its goofiness, and nobody

2:43:07

gives a shit about QT, and this coming from

2:43:09

somebody who saw a bright

2:43:12

future for him about

2:43:14

fifteen years ago. And

2:43:19

at Hobbs, it just becomes a fucking

2:43:21

funky. You is

2:43:25

is this is he now gonna be Hobbes's

2:43:27

manager? So

2:43:30

they think that that is I

2:43:33

I don't I honestly

2:43:35

don't know how the fuck unless

2:43:37

QT Marshall had pictures

2:43:41

or documentation that Tony on

2:43:43

has been doing business with the sand

2:43:45

and eastern terrorists

2:43:48

that this would be allowed to happen.

2:43:51

Your thoughts? I

2:43:53

mean, there's so much to talk about here. Again,

2:43:55

this was a horrible follow-up to the pay per

2:43:57

view. The paper he was the first

2:44:00

positive thing to happen award low in a

2:44:02

while. That's out the window

2:44:04

now. He's lost again. Oh,

2:44:07

someone cheated the hell hops. Yeah. But it was q

2:44:09

t, Marshall.

2:44:11

You said he's been treated like a job figure since

2:44:13

the beginning. No. He was also treated like a philanthropist

2:44:15

for a few weeks, and then his wife

2:44:18

was on TV. Remember that? That's

2:44:20

right. He was a philanthropist or philanthropist.

2:44:23

Foladolist or whatever. But he had the

2:44:25

faction oh, not the faction. What were their names?

2:44:28

The fact no. The factory. The factory. They

2:44:30

were the factory. He had the factory.

2:44:33

They tried to do things with Cody and

2:44:35

Agogo. That's years ago

2:44:37

at this point. Nothing's been going

2:44:39

on. We've seen QT do plenty of promos.

2:44:43

He's fine for a Mark Sterling. He's

2:44:46

not someone should be the mouthpiece for a

2:44:49

will habs

2:44:50

or whoever the monster heal that they're

2:44:52

trying to do something with Soon as

2:44:54

you have QT's the manager, the monster

2:44:57

loses steam. We've seen

2:44:59

him on TV. We know who he is. Ward

2:45:02

looks like a jerk off. That advice

2:45:04

you gave him months ago about calling

2:45:06

WWE. 203,

2:45:08

the stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Actually,

2:45:10

I I can't I can't give him Lauren Titus's

2:45:13

number anymore.

2:45:14

But the point is, that isn't

2:45:16

even a joke anymore. And I don't even know if they

2:45:18

would see him the same way they saw months ago. Look

2:45:20

at the way all this has been handled. This

2:45:23

is how this show ended. For no

2:45:25

good reason, a street fight. After

2:45:28

the TNT champion allegedly had his gear

2:45:30

and his belt stolen, there's a brand new

2:45:32

belt there ready to go, days

2:45:34

later, and then

2:45:38

a street fight with a bad crash pet.

2:45:40

You didn't even talk about how bad it looked. It

2:45:42

was it it was more obvious to

2:45:44

me. think I think Bolsa would over

2:45:46

styrofoam sounds kinda like a fucking

2:45:49

Micky mouse

2:45:50

operation. I'm sorry didn't do it justice.

2:45:52

It was worse than the Jericho crash pad.

2:45:55

I'll put it that way. And there was no high

2:45:57

distance to come from. So I I don't know.

2:45:59

I think I think it's worse when they bounce

2:46:02

and and the thing goes poof and they

2:46:04

bounce rather than when just You

2:46:06

know, it's obviously forgot about the type

2:46:08

of cushioned material. I forgot about the

2:46:10

bounce. Yeah. The bounce he

2:46:12

has. This was a horrible end to a horrible show

2:46:14

they treated Wardlow. They booked Wardlow

2:46:16

into the ground because Tony doesn't know how

2:46:19

to book. They have

2:46:21

misused Hobbs for a long time because Tony

2:46:23

doesn't know how to book. QT

2:46:25

is back on the show because

2:46:27

Tony likes him and Tony doesn't

2:46:29

know how to book. The show's

2:46:31

been falling apart lately because Tony doesn't

2:46:33

know how to

2:46:34

book. More and more

2:46:35

people. What do you think the real reason

2:46:38

for their dire situation is?

2:46:40

The real reason for the dire situation is

2:46:42

Tony Kahn thinks he could book.

2:46:44

And Tony Kahn thinks he's good at this.

2:46:46

Tony Kahn thinks he has this. And

2:46:52

I have a tough time believing that anyone

2:46:54

who deals with him on a regular basis and I know

2:46:56

a few. Thinks

2:46:58

that he is good at this. He's

2:47:01

got the money to do it, but he is

2:47:03

showing on a weekly basis that

2:47:05

he does not know how to format or

2:47:08

how to put together a good wrestling

2:47:10

television show. Again, there's

2:47:12

a mini audience They just

2:47:14

want to see their favorites have matches, where

2:47:17

nothing matches. Did you say a mini

2:47:19

audience or a mini audience? A

2:47:21

mini audience. There may be mini audience

2:47:23

too that wants that kind of wrestling.

2:47:26

But if that's what you're catering to, you see what you're

2:47:28

gonna get. And This is another

2:47:31

miserable show.

2:47:33

Well, how many people watch this miserable

2:47:36

program, Brian?

2:47:39

This week's AEW Show,

2:47:42

March eighth, was viewed

2:47:44

by eight hundred and fifty eight thousand

2:47:46

viewers. Now that

2:47:48

sounds shitty, but that's about twenty thousand

2:47:50

better than last week, isn't it? That's right. I think

2:47:52

last week was eight thirty three or somewhere around

2:47:54

there? So what was the

2:47:56

the process of

2:47:57

elimination? Who who ran

2:48:00

them off the quickest this week?

2:48:02

Well, let's go to these quarter hour breakdowns.

2:48:04

These were compiled by Brandon Thurston,

2:48:06

WrestleManiaX. Eight

2:48:08

to eight fifteen, segment one, Orange

2:48:10

Cassidy versus J. Lethal with picture

2:48:12

and picture, nine

2:48:14

hundred and sixty three thousand viewers.

2:48:17

So, sums

2:48:19

going on, they're not even starting over

2:48:21

a million anymore. Are the big bangers

2:48:24

letting us down or if people kind of

2:48:26

Realize that it's gonna go downhill

2:48:29

quick these days and just skipping it entirely.

2:48:31

What is it a month straight? You started the show with

2:48:34

Orange Cassidy? Yeah. Well,

2:48:37

I just answered my own question, didn't it? Okay.

2:48:39

Go ahead. You've seen the same thing from him

2:48:41

for month straight. Segment two,

2:48:43

eight fifteen to eight

2:48:44

thirty, the last four minutes

2:48:46

of Orange Cassidy versus Jay lethal, the

2:48:49

post match with Jeff Jarrod. And

2:48:52

the best friends. The powerhouse

2:48:54

Hobbs backstage promo, as

2:48:57

well as Ricky Starks' live promo,

2:48:59

which is Robinson running in. Nine

2:49:02

hundred and sixty two thousand viewers.

2:49:07

So they they lost a thousand

2:49:09

Sun of a bitch. Maybe

2:49:12

Tony's sent

2:49:14

out people to fucking snatch the remote controls

2:49:17

away from the

2:49:19

the people's hands. So the

2:49:22

ones that started, they were invested in

2:49:24

old fucking dip shit.

2:49:26

And let's see if they stuck around from there.

2:49:28

Segment three, eight

2:49:31

thirty to eight forty five PM. Ruby

2:49:34

SoHo's live promo as

2:49:36

well as Ruby SoHo versus Sky Blue

2:49:38

with picture and picture The

2:49:40

post match angle with Saraya,

2:49:43

Tony Storm, spray paint, and

2:49:45

Willow

2:49:46

Nightingale, as well as Adam

2:49:48

Page's backstage promo were named Moxley

2:49:50

Good. Good. Lord, a lot of busy fifteen

2:49:52

minutes. Nine hundred and fifty

2:49:54

seven thousand viewers. Okay.

2:49:58

And they're only down another

2:50:00

five

2:50:00

thousand. Where does the cliff

2:50:02

come? Because this ain't

2:50:04

adding up to be good for the last couple

2:50:06

of segments. Segment four,

2:50:09

eight forty five to nine PM. MJP's

2:50:13

backstage promo, FTR's

2:50:16

live promo,

2:50:18

J. Cargill's backstage promo,

2:50:20

And the beginning of AR

2:50:22

Fox in top flight versus the Jericho

2:50:24

Appreciation Society, eight

2:50:27

hundred and eighty four thousand viewers.

2:50:30

Alright. That's sixty

2:50:34

they lost seventy

2:50:36

five thousand people are thereabouts going

2:50:39

into the

2:50:40

nine o'clock hour. Segment

2:50:42

five, nine PM to nine fifteen PM,

2:50:45

The continuation of AR fox and top flight

2:50:48

versus the Jericho Appreciation Society with

2:50:50

picture and

2:50:50

picture, and remember they went to

2:50:52

break like

2:50:53

two minutes after the top of the hour.

2:50:55

As well as the post match angle with

2:50:57

the elite and the House of Black,

2:51:00

eight hundred and thirty eight thousand viewers.

2:51:03

Good. Okay. So they lost another

2:51:06

forty six thousand there.

2:51:08

So between the

2:51:10

eight thirty to eight forty five, and

2:51:14

nine o'clock to nine fifteen time

2:51:16

slot. They've lost a hundred and twenty thousand people.

2:51:18

Segment six,

2:51:21

nine fifteen and nine thirty PM. Tony

2:51:25

Kahn's backstage announcement Brian

2:51:28

Danielsons promo and

2:51:30

the beginning of the Dark Order versus

2:51:32

the Blackpool Combat Club Seven

2:51:35

hundred and seventy eight thousand viewers.

2:51:38

Jesus. Alright.

2:51:40

There I can't do math this big. Wait a minute.

2:51:42

Twenty two. There

2:51:44

is another sixty thousand

2:51:47

people they lost. So they are now down

2:51:50

from the quarter three to

2:51:52

quarter six A

2:51:54

hundred and eighty thousand people.

2:51:56

Go ahead. Quarter seven.

2:51:59

Nine thirty to nine forty five.

2:52:02

The dark order versus the Blackpool Combat

2:52:04

Club continued with picture and picture,

2:52:07

as well as the post match angle with Adam Page,

2:52:10

The acclaimed Anjero appreciation Society

2:52:12

Backstage Angle,

2:52:15

seven hundred and twenty eight thousand viewers.

2:52:17

Ouch. And I I must have zipped

2:52:19

through some of that too, but so did fifty

2:52:22

thousand other people, we are now

2:52:24

From the start of the program

2:52:26

down a hundred and thirty five,

2:52:28

no. Two hundred. Two

2:52:31

hundred and thirty five thousand people

2:52:33

from the start of the

2:52:34

program. Hey, you bring up the acclaim

2:52:36

that I had to mention this to you. was watching CBS

2:52:38

News the other day in the morning. That

2:52:40

a commercial for PC

2:52:41

Richard. Do you know PC Richard? It's a

2:52:44

electronics chain up here in

2:52:45

the northeast? I think I've seen billboards

2:52:47

when I've been up that way. If a commercial

2:52:50

for who's in the middle of commercial is like one of the

2:52:52

happy salespeople or happy PC Richard's

2:52:54

people. Anthony Bowen's. He

2:52:57

must have filmed this a while back, but all of a sudden I

2:52:59

wanted it. Like, is that Anthony Bowen? And then it came

2:53:01

on again later. I was like, that is Anthony Bowen. And

2:53:03

I looked it up. It was Anthony Bowen's.

2:53:06

Did he really work there or was he just in the

2:53:08

commercial? I think he was just an actor and they needed

2:53:11

people to be smiling, happy,

2:53:13

nice, p c Richard's employees and

2:53:16

They found him and they didn't want to

2:53:18

take him titles. So

2:53:20

let's get back to the ratings the final quarter

2:53:22

hour nine forty five to ten PM.

2:53:25

Ward low versus powerhouse Hobbs?

2:53:28

Falls anywhere for the TNT championship.

2:53:31

Seven hundred and fifty six thousand

2:53:34

viewers. So they

2:53:36

managed to get back twenty eight thousand

2:53:38

to see Hobbs

2:53:41

and Wardlow, and they had to

2:53:43

see what they saw.

2:53:46

And it it hurt both guys. It

2:53:48

hurt both guys. Could you and

2:53:50

the key dumb for the record, the key demo,

2:53:52

know people some people hate hearing about it, but it's a

2:53:54

reality. It's a real thing. They began

2:53:57

at three eighty five. They

2:53:59

peaked early in show at four thirty six by

2:54:01

the end of it, it was a three fifteen that's

2:54:03

below the usual trend line for where

2:54:05

that is even.

2:54:08

Well, anyway.

2:54:11

So they managed in an hour and

2:54:15

Basically, in an hour and thirty minutes, they

2:54:17

ran off two hundred and

2:54:20

thirty five thousand people and

2:54:22

for the last fifteen minutes managed to get twenty

2:54:24

eight thousand thousand of them back.

2:54:26

Laurie

2:54:28

Hallumut. Can a booker who's completely lost?

2:54:32

Hear voices

2:54:35

that are saying things to

2:54:37

improve his product? Or are they convinced that

2:54:39

they've got

2:54:39

it? From

2:54:40

your experience. I mean, you were around

2:54:43

I mean, you've always pointed at the positives of

2:54:45

dusty stuff even when people pointed at negatives

2:54:47

like eighty eight.

2:54:49

But when a black when a black doesn't

2:54:51

have late late eighty seven was

2:54:53

worse than early eighty eight. Late

2:54:56

eighty seven and first three months of eighty

2:54:58

eight were not good, but still

2:55:01

I've never been around number

2:55:04

one, I've never been around a booker who had

2:55:06

never booked before and had

2:55:08

never been in the wrestling business. There never

2:55:10

has been a booker who started booking

2:55:12

when he had never ever been in the wrestling business

2:55:14

in any capacity before. And

2:55:17

I've never been around a situation where anybody

2:55:19

would have been able to do this for so long

2:55:21

without somebody firing them. Because

2:55:25

a crocket would have fired dusty if it had got

2:55:27

that bad, I've

2:55:29

never I mean, I know I've I've

2:55:31

heard stories of When

2:55:34

territories fell apart, Buck

2:55:36

Robly was on the shit or, you

2:55:38

know, things just weren't

2:55:41

happening and and you know, it

2:55:43

was a mess and the territory was soon

2:55:45

to go out of business. I've never been involved in

2:55:48

a situation like that where the booker

2:55:50

just completely lost track what the fuck

2:55:53

or they couldn't get any talent. But,

2:55:56

you know, there's

2:55:59

never been a situation where

2:56:01

any booker, writer, creative team

2:56:03

or whatever was

2:56:05

not at

2:56:07

risk of getting fired if they

2:56:10

didn't do the right thing

2:56:12

or decent business or kept doing stupid

2:56:14

shit or whatever. And this is the case now because

2:56:18

Tony's also the boss. Even

2:56:20

Vince wasn't even the only Vince

2:56:22

was never the booker booker. Pat

2:56:25

Patterson was the booker. Advance had creative

2:56:27

teams. He was the final say, but he wasn't doing

2:56:29

it all himself, and he could be

2:56:31

reasoned with in some instances. This

2:56:35

is a guy who if he does

2:56:37

listen to anybody, it's for the

2:56:40

circle that he will listen to to

2:56:43

here their self indulgent

2:56:45

ideas pitched that, you know,

2:56:47

which is doesn't fit the rest of the program.

2:56:49

Anyway, it is usually the shits too.

2:56:53

The older ones ever really come in and

2:56:55

called his own shots for any length of time and

2:56:57

had all been good was punk. So

2:57:01

this is a situation that's never happened

2:57:04

before in wrestling at this scale.

2:57:07

You've had indie promoters that would promote

2:57:10

indie shows that insisted on

2:57:13

doing their booking and wrestling and being

2:57:15

their own champion and popping cord and whatever

2:57:17

the fuck, and it didn't make any difference because nobody

2:57:19

knew they were there. But this is

2:57:21

goddamn out in front of everybody. And

2:57:24

it needs see, it needs to be

2:57:26

putting a plain brown wrapper.

2:57:29

Anyway, Well, the big question,

2:57:31

Brian, is, what in the world is going on

2:57:34

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WWE does bad. They've got a bit

2:59:31

of we're gonna talk about SmackDown in a second.

2:59:34

Won't take long for the good stuff.

2:59:36

But as

2:59:38

usual, with the WWE, they're

2:59:41

making more news

2:59:44

and more people are talking about what's

2:59:46

going on in the office, the corporate

2:59:49

leadership behind the scenes or whatever.

2:59:52

And this topic came

2:59:54

up couple of days ago. It was reported in the

2:59:56

news. Actually, this Article

2:59:58

was sent to me first by a listener

3:00:00

Stacey from downstairs who

3:00:03

sent this off CNBC

3:00:06

dot com and then other people have followed since

3:00:08

then. The WWE talking

3:00:11

was state gambling regulators to

3:00:14

legalize betting on high

3:00:16

profile matches. Oh

3:00:20

my god, so much is wrong with this.

3:00:23

How do we know where to start? But

3:00:25

let's start with some of the article. Brian, have you

3:00:27

read this? Well well, we can we can

3:00:29

read it to the people anyway. I know you've kept

3:00:32

up with some of the CNBC. That's where your

3:00:34

man Barber works. Right?

3:00:36

That's where David Faber works. And I actually saw

3:00:38

this covered on the air. And then I also read

3:00:40

the article, so I'm pretty up to date

3:00:42

with at least their coverage of it. Well,

3:00:44

folks, it says WWE is working

3:00:46

with the accounting firm, e y.

3:00:49

I've wondered what Eric Young was doing these

3:00:51

days. To secure

3:00:53

scripted match results in hopes

3:00:55

it will convince regulators there's

3:00:57

no chance of results leaking to the public

3:01:00

said the people to people who

3:01:02

asked not to be named because

3:01:05

the discussions are private. Accounting

3:01:07

firms PWC and EY

3:01:10

also known as Ernst and Young have

3:01:12

historically worked with award shows including

3:01:15

the Academy Awards and the Emmys

3:01:18

to keep results a secret. And

3:01:20

I think they also worked with the Tonight Show

3:01:22

for the Cornette, the Magnificent Spotts.

3:01:24

Right? When they had the answers

3:01:26

in Funk and Waggles ports

3:01:30

in a mayonnaise jar. Anyway,

3:01:36

Again, WWE executives

3:01:39

have cited the Oscars betting as

3:01:41

a template to convince regulators, gambling

3:01:45

on scripted matches is safe.

3:01:48

And still why that says, well, Academy Awards

3:01:51

voting results are known by a select few before

3:01:53

they're announced publicly, they

3:01:55

aren't scripted by writers. Even

3:01:58

if regulators allow gambling, betting

3:02:00

companies would have to decide if they're willing

3:02:02

to place odds on WWE matches

3:02:04

even if it's legalized. And

3:02:07

apparently, they've already applied in Indiana. This

3:02:09

was a deal on the news here because we're right across

3:02:11

the river, but they're targeting

3:02:14

Michigan, Colorado, and Indiana as

3:02:16

potential states to pursue legalization.

3:02:20

And the bottom line of this

3:02:22

whole thing is, it

3:02:25

says, if WWE succeeds

3:02:27

in its bid to legalize gambling on matches,

3:02:30

it could open the door for legalized betting

3:02:32

on other guarded secret scripted

3:02:34

events such as future

3:02:37

character deaths and TV series.

3:02:41

And it would alter how matches are produced

3:02:43

and how story lines are created.

3:02:46

WWE executives have

3:02:48

proposed that scripted results of matches

3:02:51

be locked in months ahead of time,

3:02:54

The wrestlers themselves wouldn't know whether

3:02:56

they were winning or losing until shortly before

3:02:59

match takes place. For

3:03:02

example, the WWE could lock the results

3:03:04

of WrestleMania's main event months ahead

3:03:06

of time. Based on a scripted

3:03:09

storyline that hinged to the winner of January's

3:03:11

royal rumble, betting on

3:03:13

the match could then take place between the end

3:03:15

of the royal rumble it up to days or even

3:03:17

hours before WrestleMania, when

3:03:20

the wrestlers and others in the show's

3:03:22

production would learn the

3:03:24

results. What

3:03:27

the fuck? For

3:03:30

one thing, how big

3:03:32

is that circle of trust Brian last?

3:03:36

Because before if it was just Vance, well

3:03:39

then I'd say that there's a

3:03:41

pretty good possibility that you could keep

3:03:43

that a secret because half the time he

3:03:45

would change his mind. Or

3:03:49

we need to get feedback from somebody to whine

3:03:51

them. I don't wanna do the job or, like, when

3:03:54

they just hit broadcaster, kick

3:03:56

one straight through the uprights, so

3:03:58

he wouldn't he would get disqualified and wouldn't

3:04:00

win, so he wouldn't be the one to work with

3:04:02

Bray Wyatt. I don't

3:04:04

think that one was planned out way in advance.

3:04:09

What about We just talked

3:04:11

about the rivals episode with Siena

3:04:13

and Rock. When

3:04:16

they decided to do that, that

3:04:20

deal was already in place. We're gonna promote

3:04:22

the first match for a year. You're gonna win

3:04:24

the when rock, you're gonna win the second

3:04:26

when Scena, and we're not gonna do

3:04:28

a third, and that way it's still even. That's

3:04:32

if you get a big money match in wrestling,

3:04:35

whether it's the territory

3:04:38

days or now, It

3:04:42

requires the cooperation and

3:04:44

willingness of the participants. When

3:04:48

it how many it's become a ribbed with

3:04:50

the hoe Coconut would say that don't work for me,

3:04:52

brother. What happens if there's an injury and you have

3:04:55

to call an audible? Or something

3:04:57

happens. The wrestler gets hit in the head with a coke

3:04:59

bottle, falls to the ground, and the guy has to

3:05:01

pin him. You know, he's just right there. But besides

3:05:03

that, I mean, it's it's

3:05:05

wrong from number one and and we can talk

3:05:08

about any of these. You wanna talk about in whatever order.

3:05:10

But it's not wrong from number one. The circle

3:05:12

of trust has to be bigger than

3:05:14

just one or two people and then

3:05:18

especially if it's the important matches

3:05:20

and if somebody's crazy enough to bet a large

3:05:22

amount of money, then you could literally be

3:05:25

crooked and make a fucking fortune in a short

3:05:27

period of time without anybody even knowing about

3:05:29

it. And then if they caught you, well, what the fuck?

3:05:31

You're going to live in Bolivia. So

3:05:34

how many people are gonna and secondly, to

3:05:37

not tell the talent That

3:05:39

was a training exercise I did

3:05:41

in OVW, where

3:05:43

we'd have the fans literally,

3:05:46

legitimately vote Amongst

3:05:49

six baby faces and six heels,

3:05:51

what matches do you wanna see? And I would

3:05:53

tell we'd count them up right

3:05:55

before the show started. This was at a church

3:05:58

gym show with a hundred and fifty votes.

3:06:01

And we would make the matches based on that,

3:06:03

and I would Send the match over

3:06:05

to the other locker room because the guys weren't together.

3:06:08

They'd be facing heels and I'd say, okay,

3:06:11

first matches. Brian versus Jim,

3:06:13

Brian over. Give me eight minutes. You

3:06:16

do that for practice. You

3:06:19

don't do that in the biggest promotion in the world.

3:06:21

The guys have to know. It's

3:06:24

and and and as I said, In

3:06:27

most eras of wrestling,

3:06:29

going back to the fucking twenties and thirties,

3:06:33

the made of it wrestler's input

3:06:35

and agreement in

3:06:38

the match and and matches how they're

3:06:40

gonna go what the finishes are

3:06:42

gonna be to lead to a rematch whatever

3:06:44

that's crucial. You can't not

3:06:46

tell the main event at

3:06:48

WrestleMania Who's gonna

3:06:50

win three hours before they go into ring?

3:06:53

Fucking morons. This is more

3:06:55

example of the

3:06:58

Nikon influence or the

3:07:01

corporate world influence, they think

3:07:03

that they can just do anything. And

3:07:05

that it's just wrestling and that,

3:07:08

you know, the guys follow instructions. Sometimes

3:07:11

they do and sometimes they don't. And

3:07:13

just because they follow more instructions

3:07:15

now than they've followed ever before in history

3:07:17

of wrestling, doesn't mean

3:07:20

that you're not gonna have some guy say,

3:07:22

you know what? No. I'm not doing

3:07:24

a fucking job right now. It makes no fucking

3:07:26

sense. And it'd probably be

3:07:28

right. You're talking about all the reasons

3:07:30

it wouldn't work. Let's just say they did it.

3:07:33

Let's talk about how it would negatively impact

3:07:35

professional wrestling booking going forward.

3:07:39

Well, it would be insane because okay.

3:07:42

For people coming up with the ideas, then

3:07:45

Are those ideas gonna be accepted? Are

3:07:47

they gonna be declined? Or are they

3:07:49

gonna be taken under advisement? And you

3:07:51

never tell the writer whether you're gonna do it

3:07:53

or not? But

3:07:55

then if you start doing it, he's

3:07:58

gonna kinda recognize it. He's

3:08:00

gonna, well, maybe they're Maybe they are gonna

3:08:02

do what I asked them to do or suggested they

3:08:05

do or whatever them. It's it's idiocy.

3:08:10

Because just because now they've

3:08:12

created an atmosphere where before

3:08:15

in the territory days, if a match

3:08:17

was booked, Three

3:08:19

people or four people might know the result,

3:08:21

the people involved in it, the booker and the promoter,

3:08:24

now it's hundreds, it's

3:08:28

still the guys have the

3:08:30

guys are the only important ones.

3:08:33

The guys and the bookerslashmaker

3:08:38

are the only ones that have to fucking know.

3:08:40

The promoter doesn't even really have to know

3:08:43

If he trusts his booker and

3:08:46

none of the other boys need to know, And,

3:08:50

you know, I know some people are gonna all work

3:08:52

for television. Well, we've created that.

3:08:55

We shot TV for years in wrestling

3:08:57

without every member of the crew,

3:08:59

knowing the finish of the match,

3:09:02

so that's just situation we've

3:09:04

created where they think everybody has to

3:09:06

know. If you give the

3:09:09

crew the proper music cues and

3:09:11

you've got a producer in the truck that's telling

3:09:13

the director what's going on, You're

3:09:16

mostly covered, but the most important

3:09:19

people involved that need know the

3:09:21

finishes, to know how to work

3:09:23

the matches. Are

3:09:25

the wrestlers? How

3:09:28

do I fucking know if I'm the heel and I'm

3:09:30

gonna set up a match with some baby face?

3:09:32

How do I know how much to give him or

3:09:34

what kind of match to have? If don't know who's

3:09:37

gonna win, that's

3:09:39

ridiculous. So

3:09:42

it's not like they well, I know

3:09:44

they do it now because nobody knows any

3:09:46

difference, but it's not like you just

3:09:48

go out have the same match you would have with

3:09:50

a guy in that building regardless of what the

3:09:52

finish is. Not if you know what you're doing.

3:09:57

So it's it's just it's

3:09:59

there's plenty of opportunities for

3:10:02

people to misuse information There's

3:10:06

plenty of opportunity for

3:10:08

this to completely sabotage the

3:10:11

quality of the whatever quality is left

3:10:13

existing of the program in the matches?

3:10:18

It's insane. But

3:10:21

they're they're gonna they're gonna again compromise

3:10:23

the the quality of their product to

3:10:27

try to make money in this

3:10:29

ridiculous method because they

3:10:32

think that anybody

3:10:34

can be wrestlers and anybody can do this. And

3:10:36

the way it's being done now, you're almost correct.

3:10:39

But what you aspire to? No, that's

3:10:42

not correct. I mean,

3:10:44

how many things do you see wrong with it? Well,

3:10:47

so they're going state by state. They're

3:10:49

trying to get it legalized so you can bet

3:10:52

on these predetermined finishes. Yes.

3:10:55

Each each state has a gaming commission

3:10:57

and if they can you

3:11:00

know, get some of them

3:11:03

in Indiana and Michigan are not gonna be

3:11:05

like trying to get Nevada If

3:11:08

they get some of them, they can start a

3:11:10

groundswell of some description, I believe.

3:11:13

They they figure. Would that open it

3:11:15

up for AW to allow betting two?

3:11:17

Like, well, not betting, I guess for AW

3:11:19

matches to be bet on. Right? If

3:11:21

WWE gets it legalized, then it opens

3:11:24

it up for can you bet on small independent

3:11:26

shows? Technically, that you would

3:11:28

be able to, I guess, if anybody

3:11:30

was willing or he was regulating Who's

3:11:33

regulating the finishes? Or

3:11:35

is it just WWE? That see, that's the

3:11:37

thing. But now well now, but here's the thing. If

3:11:39

they're applying to the gaming commission, they're

3:11:41

they're applying for themselves and not on

3:11:43

behalf of all of professional wrestling. So

3:11:46

that'll open up a canopies there, but

3:11:49

they're not trying to blaze

3:11:51

the trail for everybody in the wrestling business for

3:11:53

the love of the game. They just wanna soak the suckers

3:11:56

for money from their own production.

3:11:59

Explain what you see the benefit of this

3:12:02

for WWE as being. They're gonna

3:12:04

make make money on people stupid

3:12:06

enough to bet on shit that they've already decided

3:12:08

what's gonna happen. And question is, You're

3:12:11

not betting on the winner, you're betting on, do you

3:12:13

know what they're gonna do or not? But

3:12:17

it would seem like a regardless

3:12:21

of how few people know

3:12:24

ahead of time who's

3:12:27

making a sucker bet and who's making legitimate

3:12:29

bet, there is an opportunity for

3:12:31

somebody to make money

3:12:33

with information

3:12:36

and who can keep their mouth shut in

3:12:38

the wrestling business anymore. So

3:12:42

who would be in the circle of trust? How would

3:12:44

those people be determined? Would

3:12:46

it be every match or just the big matches?

3:12:49

And then, I'm

3:12:51

sorry. But if you're trying

3:12:55

to tell me that

3:12:57

two guys are gonna go into the main event

3:12:59

at WrestleMania and not know what the finish

3:13:01

is till that day. I'm calling bullshit. And

3:13:03

the referee? Well, the

3:13:05

referee no. It's in this day

3:13:08

and age, the referee's will do what they're told, but

3:13:10

You're telling me that you're gonna walk in and

3:13:13

and four o'clock on a day at WrestleMania and say,

3:13:15

Roman, I think we, you know, we're gonna have you drop

3:13:17

the title tonight. No.

3:13:19

It wouldn't be that. It wouldn't be that. It wouldn't be that. It wasn't

3:13:21

Roman. We haven't told you, but in this envelope,

3:13:23

which has been guarded for the last six months,

3:13:26

we wrote down the finish. And

3:13:28

here it that's what they should film. Here it is.

3:13:30

Here's what we wrote down six months ago.

3:13:33

That's what they're saying. Yeah. Well, that don't work

3:13:35

for me, brother. And

3:13:37

that's a thing. There is always

3:13:41

again, with the modern generation, they

3:13:43

just like to do what they're told except for

3:13:45

the broth. So that's why he draws a lot of money.

3:13:47

I haven't worked with Roman Reigns, don't know where

3:13:49

he sits. John Cena,

3:13:52

the rock, Brock, Steve

3:13:54

Austin, There would

3:13:56

have been negotiations going on

3:13:58

months beforehand if

3:14:01

they wanted any of those guys to do a job

3:14:03

at WrestleMania and they would be starting

3:14:05

to pitch them good reasons why

3:14:07

it was the right thing to do and

3:14:09

hope that some of those registered. It

3:14:12

wouldn't be a deal where the anybody

3:14:14

expected to walk in Austin

3:14:16

and Rock, WrestleMania. Okay, guys.

3:14:19

Match goes to ring two hours. Here's how we

3:14:21

want it. Fuck you. If

3:14:24

it's close to a group of people. That

3:14:28

doesn't include the wrestler. Is the

3:14:30

wrestler allowed to bet on the match? Could

3:14:35

a guy bet on himself or bet on his

3:14:37

opponent? Or against himself. Yeah. Theoretically,

3:14:40

possibly. That could happen at don't fucking

3:14:43

know because whole thing's crazy. But

3:14:45

again, it's insulting to the boys

3:14:48

to just assume that

3:14:50

if you have gotten to the point where you're a big enough

3:14:52

star to be the main event at WrestleMania and

3:14:54

that that before that match has

3:14:56

ever announced to the public, I'm

3:14:59

not talking about the finish as far as what so and

3:15:01

so is gonna take a fucking weed whacker and so

3:15:03

and so is gonna have brass nooks and they're gonna do this.

3:15:05

Now I'm talking about who's winning. And

3:15:08

if somebody dropping a fall, those

3:15:11

things are fucking known to

3:15:14

the talent, by the talent, sometimes

3:15:17

before they agree, to have the goddamn

3:15:19

match to begin with, and

3:15:21

the match that would have more interest is

3:15:24

not amongst yes. I'm sure Sami

3:15:27

is saying to do whatever he's asked to do.

3:15:29

And whoever that's not the matches

3:15:31

that gonna have the most interest, the match that would

3:15:33

have the most interest, is

3:15:36

if seen it was in main event or the rock

3:15:38

came back or Steve lost to was somehow

3:15:40

involved or whatever and those guys.

3:15:43

And if Brock sticks around long enough to do

3:15:45

another main event, You're

3:15:47

gonna have to convince them whoever's

3:15:50

losing before you announce the match because

3:15:52

you don't know whether they'll go for it or not.

3:16:00

Remember, I said for for not Not

3:16:02

for regional titles, but for for

3:16:05

world titles, important championships

3:16:07

in this business. The

3:16:09

guys always knew the date that they were losing

3:16:12

them because as a courtesy, if nothing

3:16:14

else, even if they had asked out of it. The

3:16:17

promoter told, okay. We're gonna take the

3:16:19

belt from you then in in

3:16:21

New York on the twenty fifth of February

3:16:24

blah blah blah Make

3:16:27

sure there's no issues, no problems before

3:16:29

they announce things to the public, and that's the way

3:16:31

it was done. If you were just Southern

3:16:33

tag team champions. Yeah. You walk in money. Yeah.

3:16:35

We're gonna drop the Switch's bells tonight. Okay.

3:16:38

Find whatever. But a a major

3:16:40

world champion any

3:16:42

type of legitimate, you

3:16:45

know, widely recognized title you

3:16:47

got everybody on same page

3:16:49

first. Do you think this

3:16:52

is something they really want or is this something

3:16:54

maybe more to show

3:16:56

a potential buyer And the story

3:16:58

is they're gonna meet with potential buyers for the first

3:17:00

time next month for a first round of

3:17:02

talks or bids Is

3:17:05

this something just to show, hey, look at some potential

3:17:08

future revenue? This company

3:17:10

can make we're already making inroads and

3:17:12

Indiana and another

3:17:14

places. Well,

3:17:17

again, Do

3:17:20

the sotties have a lot of

3:17:23

casinos? Are

3:17:26

they on the because here's the thing. Who are they

3:17:28

talking to? So

3:17:30

in in endeavor,

3:17:34

doesn't run casinos. They

3:17:36

got the UFC, Comcast, and

3:17:38

they've already taken themselves out of the bidding.

3:17:40

Well, yeah. But I'm just saying NBC, we've

3:17:42

talked about all these media companies, all

3:17:46

a bunch of companies, to

3:17:49

who is betting Attractive

3:17:52

too, would that be the casino

3:17:54

seems like a business societies would be involved

3:17:56

in? Maybe that's a

3:17:59

clue. And I mean, these shows, I

3:18:01

mean, both promotions actually. How

3:18:04

many DraftKings commercials do you see

3:18:06

during these shows? Talking specifically

3:18:09

about wrestling themed I

3:18:11

don't know what you would call it gambling options.

3:18:13

How does it say, well, I I

3:18:16

tune out DraftKings because I I didn't

3:18:18

know whether it was another video game or what

3:18:20

the fuck it is. I don't know anything about them.

3:18:22

And I tuned it out, but if it's betting

3:18:24

of some description, it's a gambling.

3:18:27

It's a gambling site. Yeah. Alright. But

3:18:29

are they gambling on AEW? Oh,

3:18:32

they're gonna bet pockets is gonna win

3:18:34

twenty five in a row? Oh,

3:18:37

no. It just it's the

3:18:39

chances for contamination

3:18:42

and corruption are

3:18:44

high it will

3:18:47

obviously have a detrimental effect

3:18:49

on the quality of the main matches and

3:18:52

promotion of the matches. If

3:18:55

the guys are in the dark about what's going on,

3:19:00

it's stupid. To begin

3:19:02

with because they're

3:19:04

talking about what

3:19:07

con game have you ever heard of that was successful

3:19:09

in the history of the world where they talked about it

3:19:11

being crooked to start out with. So

3:19:14

we're gonna start taking betting on crooked

3:19:16

shit. What the

3:19:21

I don't get it. Hey, just to wrap this up

3:19:23

for the record. So

3:19:25

this was from all out.

3:19:28

DraftKings had a sports book

3:19:30

pool, free twenty five thousand

3:19:33

dollars AW All Out Main Event

3:19:35

Pool. Pick the correct answers

3:19:37

by the start of the featured AEW All

3:19:40

Out Main Event Match. For a

3:19:42

shot to win, this guaranteed prize

3:19:44

pool. So,

3:19:46

I mean, they're already doing some kind of gambling right

3:19:48

there. What have you got? What

3:19:50

have you got to answer? Doesn't even

3:19:52

have the question here? See,

3:19:56

that's where they get you. You have answer the question,

3:19:58

but they never ask it. But it's twenty

3:20:00

five percent off that. Well,

3:20:06

we'll find out. You know what I'm betting

3:20:08

on? I'm betting on the nobody

3:20:11

liked this program they did. On

3:20:13

March the tenth, Friday night just hours

3:20:16

ago. Again,

3:20:21

We got the bloodline story and

3:20:23

bleh the bleh line story. And

3:20:26

I'm gonna zip through this fairly

3:20:29

briefly because there's I

3:20:31

don't even have any constructive criticism

3:20:33

for this anymore at this point. Like, you could

3:20:35

always pick out plenty of shit they should have done

3:20:37

in AEW, but here they should have just

3:20:40

torn a piece of paper up and started again.

3:20:42

All these programs look the

3:20:45

fucking. Same. The same thing happens.

3:20:47

The same things are said. With

3:20:51

with the exception of the Bloodline story,

3:20:54

you know, that's why I said they it's

3:20:56

almost like their motivation is. Let's

3:20:59

bore the fuck out of them like Johnny Ballantyne.

3:21:02

We'll bore the fuck at them for a half an hour, so

3:21:04

when we do something in last five minutes, they'll go

3:21:06

out of their minds. They

3:21:09

had a package again. Nobody does

3:21:11

packages like this company. The production

3:21:14

is incredible. The

3:21:16

turn of j iussaud when he came back

3:21:18

into the fold the other night. And

3:21:21

then Paul greets both

3:21:23

of them in the back coming in in their SUV

3:21:25

and Jay wants to know where Roman is.

3:21:28

Paul's telling him how proud he is ever now. I

3:21:30

wanna know if until Roman reigns, I'm here and

3:21:32

I'm gonna say what I need to say tonight in the ring.

3:21:36

Okay? And

3:21:38

then we immediately go to another

3:21:42

meaningless five way match

3:21:44

where the winner gets an intercontinental title

3:21:47

shot at WrestleMania. Somebody's

3:21:50

gonna say, well, that means it's not meaningless. No is

3:21:52

when there's just constantly multiple person

3:21:54

matches on this program

3:21:57

where they're gonna do moves to each other back

3:21:59

and forth and nobody's gonna remember

3:22:02

it the next day. That's meaningless.

3:22:05

Drew McEntire versus Carrying

3:22:07

Cross versus Xavier Woods versus

3:22:09

LA Night, or LA versus

3:22:12

Seamus. And

3:22:14

the whole thing is to get

3:22:16

Seamus and Drew in a at

3:22:19

cross purposes so they can have their elimination

3:22:21

match next week to determine

3:22:23

who's gonna face Gunther And

3:22:27

I gotta be honest with you, I think I'm probably looking

3:22:29

forward to Gunther and see us a little bit more,

3:22:31

but I think it'll be Gunther and Drew. They

3:22:33

were piping in because the fans

3:22:35

are standing up and was hearing this and I was watching

3:22:37

their lips. They were piping in triple threat.

3:22:40

Triple threat. But no one

3:22:42

was saying it. And

3:22:45

that tells you that tells you where the gambling

3:22:48

bookers or bookies, whatever you wanna call them at

3:22:50

this point. Consider what's happening in the United

3:22:52

States. If they piped it in, they they

3:22:55

didn't announce it. Well, maybe it's got

3:22:57

I don't know. Maybe it's what it's gonna be at WrestleMania

3:22:59

so they'll kill my Antis patient for Gunther's

3:23:02

match. Anyway, it was eleven

3:23:04

minutes into this program before the bell rang

3:23:06

and then it looked like half a battle royale

3:23:08

and the stories drew and see miss Will

3:23:10

they fight and they went a minute to the break. And

3:23:13

they came back and they did about another five minutes

3:23:16

and Imperium came out to watch and they went to

3:23:18

the break and they came back and

3:23:20

they went another four minutes or so

3:23:22

and basically I

3:23:24

figured at least maybe poor LA night won't

3:23:26

be the fall guy in this one. As

3:23:29

son of a gun wouldn't you know who won the pony, they

3:23:31

had to they had to beat two people

3:23:33

at the same time just so they could make sure to

3:23:35

beat LA Night. So Drew

3:23:38

and Seamus both hit kicks on

3:23:40

Woods in LA and pin both of them.

3:23:42

Even though same as seamuses, it

3:23:46

missed woods by at least a

3:23:48

foot. And

3:23:50

then they both pinned them at the same time and had

3:23:53

a log argument about who should be the

3:23:55

win the winner of the thing because

3:23:57

both of them won and who should

3:23:59

go on to WrestleMania. Hey.

3:24:03

Did I miss anything with that recap?

3:24:06

Just the piped in sound, at least I thought

3:24:08

it was piped in. Someone else could tell me I'm wrong, but

3:24:11

the piped in triple threat. Which

3:24:13

took away which like you just said took away my

3:24:16

hopes for a good Gunther match at Russell Brown.

3:24:18

I think somebody's on the pipe, whoever's

3:24:21

writing this, So then Paulie

3:24:23

was in the back with one of the girl interviewers, and

3:24:27

he does a promo about Cody. Who's

3:24:29

gotten involved in bloodline business. And

3:24:31

again, a great promo put Cody

3:24:33

over in his inimitable and

3:24:36

unique backhanded way But

3:24:38

he made you know, they're gonna smash Cody

3:24:41

with the truth, the emotional baggage.

3:24:43

He'll be a defeated opponent before he gets in

3:24:45

a ring. And I think they

3:24:47

just intersperse Paul throughout the show

3:24:49

so people have hope. Right? Keep

3:24:51

them listening for another few minutes.

3:24:54

Because Drew and Seamus were in the back

3:24:56

still screaming at each other. And

3:24:59

in the judgment day in the Lucha suits

3:25:01

and Ray Mosterio were still mad at each

3:25:03

other. And they did a

3:25:05

long in ring promo where they did

3:25:08

the standard WWE

3:25:11

Dramatic Scripting and

3:25:13

then that follows into the match, the

3:25:15

Lucha suits against the judgment day,

3:25:18

and then Dominic tried to get Ray

3:25:20

to fight him again and Ray wouldn't. And

3:25:24

this took a very long time, and

3:25:26

it seems like we've seen it all before.

3:25:30

Have you seen this before, Brian, whether

3:25:32

stretching it out till he get WrestleMania? Do

3:25:35

you want Do

3:25:37

you believe Dominic versus

3:25:40

Rae? Or is that the one thing that

3:25:42

maybe is the thing I don't believe about

3:25:44

Dominic? He's just a heat getting little

3:25:46

juvenile delinquent and

3:25:49

and, you know, is getting

3:25:52

thrilled, fucked by reriply. I

3:25:54

can believe all of that, but I don't believe

3:25:56

when he's he and his father are talking

3:25:59

mean about each other. And I

3:26:01

don't think anyone wants the necessary. Well, I

3:26:03

shouldn't say that. I don't wanna necessarily

3:26:05

see that match. No

3:26:07

one comes out of it looking better. Dominic

3:26:10

can't. Ray can't.

3:26:13

Nobody comes out of that looking better. Well,

3:26:16

let's if we can come out of this next one looking

3:26:18

better. Did you watch the Vikings versus

3:26:21

Brown strong man in ricochet? Not

3:26:23

really. No. Well, almost

3:26:26

nobody else did either because they started the match,

3:26:28

went a minute, went to the break, and

3:26:30

come back and did a little bit more, and then

3:26:34

Brown missed the chu chu. He

3:26:36

ran around the ring and body blocked the

3:26:38

shoulder tackled one of the vikings and

3:26:40

then ran to the other side of the ring and was gonna

3:26:43

tackle the other one and Val

3:26:46

Hallelu, the manager pulled

3:26:48

that viking out of the way and Brown went

3:26:50

straight over the fucking desk and was never

3:26:53

seen again. Even though he

3:26:55

just he took his own bump, he

3:26:57

just ran himself over the desk,

3:26:59

He landed on the other side of it and was

3:27:02

never seen again. I

3:27:04

think they were close enough to

3:27:06

the Florida coast that he landed in the Bermuda

3:27:08

Triangle. And disappeared yet

3:27:11

another train derailment. Another

3:27:14

another train derailment. What's

3:27:16

Pete Buttigieg gonna do about this one?

3:27:20

So, anyway, and then the

3:27:22

Vikings splashed ricochet and 123

3:27:24

and that was open. And

3:27:28

Gunther told Adam Pierce that he's doing

3:27:30

a shitty job. He was supposed pick a

3:27:32

challenger, not challengersers. And

3:27:36

Adam Pierce has lost all of his authority

3:27:38

and he should immediately go out back and be

3:27:40

put to sleep like an old mule. As

3:27:43

well Gunther approximately said that.

3:27:46

But Pierce had the solution next

3:27:49

week, Drew versus Seamus and the

3:27:51

winter challenges gone through at WrestleMania.

3:27:53

Okay. Alrighty.

3:27:58

Then Charlotte

3:28:00

and Schottsey. Now,

3:28:04

Brian, we have avoided watching

3:28:06

shots in the past from the day she was

3:28:08

in NXT because she would come out in a

3:28:10

tank with a helmet, fire

3:28:13

off a cannon, It

3:28:15

was a toy tank in NXT. Remember

3:28:17

the time she ran over the bad

3:28:19

heel manager that had down there? He acted

3:28:21

like he got his leg stuck under the

3:28:23

tank and couldn't get out. Oh, yeah. What happened to that

3:28:25

guy? Robert's stone. Well,

3:28:27

he got stoned and We saw

3:28:29

him get run over by two or three times. I he

3:28:33

he was a glutton for getting run over.

3:28:36

And then she got a big tank when she

3:28:38

moved up to the main roster. But

3:28:43

the gimmick is just all over the place and

3:28:45

the screaming and the howling with the helmet and

3:28:47

the tank and the multicolored hair

3:28:49

and the it's just all over the place.

3:28:52

But a lot of people have been blistering

3:28:54

her because She has a lot of

3:28:57

botches in her matches.

3:28:59

We don't normally watch botchy

3:29:02

shotsy to begin with. So it's she's

3:29:04

wrestling Charlotte. I'll watch

3:29:07

this. Right? Because

3:29:09

with Charlotte, how bad can it be? Well,

3:29:11

I got my answer. Charlotte

3:29:14

was trying hard in my professional opinion,

3:29:18

not even trying to Bully

3:29:21

anyone off Twitter or

3:29:23

cause anyone to be harassed. So

3:29:26

yeah, Brian Alvarez, you little fucking

3:29:29

jocke swinger. You

3:29:32

say our fans like to pair it what I

3:29:34

say. Well, next time you're blowing

3:29:36

the head cockatoo, let me know how that

3:29:38

tastes. But anyway,

3:29:43

here's my professional opinion. She's a

3:29:45

bit awkward. She's a step off. Or

3:29:47

a little herky jerky in most everything

3:29:49

she does because she's trying to do a lot of

3:29:52

complicated shit. That's

3:29:54

too complicated for instead of less complicated

3:29:56

shit. That she might be able to

3:29:59

pull off. And

3:30:01

Charlotte's trying to be there

3:30:03

for it, but It's hard

3:30:05

when when you can't

3:30:07

get in rhythm with an opponent because you

3:30:09

can't figure out because they have no rhythm.

3:30:12

And, you know, normally, if you see a

3:30:14

guy draw back and you've worked with him just

3:30:16

once, you know the pace

3:30:18

and angle in which the punch

3:30:21

or the kick or whatever's coming. You can time

3:30:23

it even if you don't feel it. That's the

3:30:25

optimum thing. Don't feel it, but sell

3:30:27

it. It won't look

3:30:29

bad because you've got the flow. Right?

3:30:32

I don't think this girl has a flow.

3:30:36

She was doing she

3:30:38

was half step off or one

3:30:41

stepped behind or just a little

3:30:44

slow in swinging something and it

3:30:46

just didn't come together. And

3:30:49

they went about two minutes? And

3:30:51

then music started playing and reriply

3:30:54

came out and the match continued, Charlotte

3:30:56

gave Schottzied German soup legs and

3:30:58

Michael Cole said SmackDown rolls on.

3:31:02

And they go to the break. And when they come back,

3:31:04

shots he gives Charlotte a hurricane

3:31:06

RADA off the top rope. Now I know

3:31:10

that Charlotte has probably taken numerous

3:31:13

hurricane ruanas off the top rope.

3:31:16

But she'd it was one of those

3:31:19

clump clump bumps. I

3:31:21

don't know whether they were off time on that

3:31:23

or whatever, but The

3:31:25

clump clump instead of the bam, the

3:31:28

clump clumps are the ones that hurt

3:31:30

because that'll jar your fucking ass.

3:31:34

So she gives her that and then

3:31:37

nothing else. She

3:31:39

goes to charge and misses going through the

3:31:41

ropes and Charlotte Kicks

3:31:43

are off the apron and goes to the floor after her,

3:31:45

and shots he throws a kick

3:31:48

towards Charlotte's head that Charlotte sees

3:31:50

coming and tries

3:31:53

to sell, but she didn't realize that

3:31:55

shots he was throwing the kick

3:31:57

from underneath was gonna go up over

3:31:59

her head and then back down. And

3:32:02

she fucking whipped her from, like, a foot and

3:32:04

a half away. Charlotte sold it even. This is

3:32:06

fucking horrible. And

3:32:11

I fast forwarded to the finish, which was

3:32:13

a figure eight. And

3:32:17

finally, Charlotte and Ria get in the ring

3:32:19

face to face. And again,

3:32:22

looking forward to the match at WrestleMania But

3:32:25

now this is an example of they're

3:32:27

not giving these girls the

3:32:30

chance to sit down and go, okay, here's

3:32:33

what ought to say about you. Here's what you ought to

3:32:35

say about me. Here's what blah blah blah

3:32:37

and work it out and be real because

3:32:40

they can both talk But

3:32:42

this was the standard WWE

3:32:46

scripted stuff that they had to

3:32:49

delivered to each other back and forth

3:32:52

while they were standing at that awkward two

3:32:54

third turn each to the camera. Instead

3:32:57

of facing each other and intimidating each

3:32:59

other, there was no emotion

3:33:01

here. There was no intimidation. There

3:33:03

was no aggression. They

3:33:06

were concentrating on delivering the material

3:33:08

that they were handed. And

3:33:10

Charlotte said, I'll outwork anyone

3:33:13

except Christian. You

3:33:15

know how well that worked out for him? So

3:33:18

there was no heat, no emotion, no oomph in

3:33:20

the promo because they were being told

3:33:22

what say it was obvious. I mean, nobody

3:33:25

if they're both in the wrestling business, neither one

3:33:27

of them would have come up with that shit to fucking say

3:33:29

to each other. Would they? No.

3:33:32

It was bad. It was unnecessarily bad.

3:33:35

I don't like Charlotte as a baby face maybe to

3:33:37

feel that the script her to make her a baby face

3:33:39

had overly script her. To make

3:33:41

her a a baby face. I don't know, but

3:33:43

I agree with you about the match, and I agree with you about

3:33:45

the promo. Well, and that

3:33:47

was our main event. Wrestling match,

3:33:50

folks, that's right. We had a five

3:33:52

way, a six man tag, the Vikings

3:33:54

in a tag match, and Charlotte and Schottsey.

3:33:58

And that was the program for wrestling

3:34:00

because the main event on SmackDown is

3:34:02

always the interview segment. And

3:34:05

in this instance, the

3:34:08

interview segment did not deliver

3:34:10

as a main event But the

3:34:12

goddamn afterbirth did, the

3:34:16

usos come to the ring. And

3:34:19

the question on everybody's mind, the burning

3:34:21

question is why, Jay, why,

3:34:23

why? And

3:34:27

Jay beat around the bush for little while.

3:34:29

He was trying to get his feelings out,

3:34:32

but the story was what would you do? This is

3:34:34

family. He's my blood, my twin.

3:34:37

I blame Sammy for all this. All he had

3:34:39

to do was fall in line. But

3:34:41

he didn't. We fixed him, but now our problem

3:34:43

is Cody Rhodes. And

3:34:47

the reason why I think that they were running

3:34:49

long is because they hadn't even finished Cody

3:34:51

Rhodes's last name at his music

3:34:53

hit. Here's the thing. He

3:34:56

they only had four maybe three minutes

3:34:58

left on the air. And as soon as they

3:35:00

mentioned Cody's name, they didn't get the roads

3:35:02

out, I said. And and The music

3:35:04

starts. Any comes

3:35:07

down the aisle and stops about halfway

3:35:09

and says, hey, instead of talking about me, watch

3:35:11

talk to me, to my fans don't wanna

3:35:13

see us talk. They wanna see us fight. This

3:35:15

is a common offer here lately.

3:35:19

And as soon as he starts taking off his

3:35:21

jacket and tie, Sammy

3:35:23

hits the ring from behind and

3:35:26

he goes to town on the Usos and then

3:35:28

Cody hits and joins and for the

3:35:30

next Ninety seconds

3:35:33

to two minutes, it was the best part of the program.

3:35:35

They had a fight. They went all over

3:35:37

ringside, out into people, blah blah

3:35:39

blah. The people were into

3:35:42

it. The action was exciting.

3:35:45

There was shit going on. And

3:35:48

finally, the USO's powder and Cody

3:35:50

raises Sammy's

3:35:52

hand. And that's

3:35:55

As we mentioned, they're not

3:35:57

booh and cody. There's

3:36:00

been no backlash whatsoever. The

3:36:02

way they've handled this They're cheering

3:36:04

Sammy, they're cheering Owens, and they're

3:36:06

cheering Cody. Now

3:36:09

we've seen Cody And

3:36:11

Sammy, stand

3:36:14

side by side, the

3:36:16

outlier is Owens, But

3:36:19

we still got a few weeks. So

3:36:22

they still have four people on the bloodline side.

3:36:25

Yes. So and

3:36:27

but that's you know, that's what this thing is coming

3:36:30

together fantastic, but that's what people

3:36:32

are interested in. And

3:36:34

but it it does take the star power

3:36:37

down when you don't

3:36:39

have Paul and you don't have Roman

3:36:41

and you've just got the usos even together

3:36:43

in the ring, but

3:36:46

they they the people listen to this because

3:36:48

it was part of the story and to see

3:36:50

Cody and Sammy. And then

3:36:52

did you see what at thirty seconds before

3:36:54

they went off the air, Cody ran and grabbed

3:36:57

Sammy's arm and raised it up for the

3:36:59

people. He was the one to say, cheers

3:37:01

Sammy. Smart. Very

3:37:04

smart because it'd been been the other way around.

3:37:06

A lot of people said, I'll see. They're telling

3:37:08

Sammy to try to make a suck

3:37:10

up to Cody. The

3:37:12

other way around, they you know. Yeah. Because again,

3:37:14

Roman's not there. This is all about these

3:37:16

guys just did this stuff to Sammy.

3:37:18

Cody recognized that. It's all about Sammy

3:37:20

still. Yeah. So

3:37:23

anyway, that, you know, it's

3:37:26

two hours of television to keep up

3:37:28

with the lab interviews that you care

3:37:30

about. It'd be amazing

3:37:33

if they actually, I don't know, had

3:37:35

matches that were made important and

3:37:38

talent that didn't seem all interchangeable and

3:37:40

just another COG in the wheel, just

3:37:42

another prawn in the game as people

3:37:45

say. You've

3:37:48

heard that that saying, haven't you? I

3:37:50

have. Yes. A prawn in the

3:37:52

game. A prawn

3:37:55

cocktail. Alright. Well,

3:37:57

that was smackdown. They smacked it

3:37:59

and down it went. And the

3:38:02

whole show is just forgettable nonsense,

3:38:04

the same people, the same stuff, the same words,

3:38:07

and then you get like you said two minutes, three

3:38:09

minutes, doesn't

3:38:11

make it all worth it, but it's the

3:38:13

most intriguing stuff in all wrestling. And

3:38:17

again, I continue

3:38:19

to be baffled at nobody

3:38:22

can get anywhere near the middle, where

3:38:24

something might the age

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