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Future. What's it

1:58

look like in the future? Are they

2:00

going to pick this shit up

2:02

a notch in the future

2:04

there? Great Brian Lass, Sears, soothsayer,

2:06

prognosticator and prognostician. And

2:09

for, we all know, practicing a,

2:12

a prevaricator. I

2:15

don't know who meant that the, who you're

2:17

talking about may be, but

2:19

I will say in terms of time travel,

2:21

AEW collision was very interesting this week because

2:23

it started with, I guess, a modern

2:26

futuristic kind of car crash match.

2:28

And it ended with wrestling before

2:30

Soddenberg. It's

2:32

an amazing travel back in time in

2:35

one two hour episode. Uh, a

2:37

lot of people were tripping

2:39

at some point in that program, tripping

2:41

and falling, tripping on something. We'll, we'll

2:43

talk about that, uh, you know,

2:46

here as we get

2:48

further into the program. But I was

2:50

trying to form a cogent simile, Brian,

2:54

as to the diametrically opposed

2:58

presentations of the two major

3:00

wrestling groups. And

3:02

I figured it's kind of like this.

3:05

Would you rather watch a two

3:07

hour compilation of highlights of

3:09

interstate highway car crashes involving

3:12

people you don't know in

3:14

places you've never been? Or

3:18

would you rather watch two hours

3:22

of people you love and

3:24

care about getting their hair

3:26

cut and having a discussion with their

3:28

barber? Who's

3:31

the barber? Just

3:34

some fucking guy. Not that regular

3:36

barber? Not

3:38

even the regular, just a new one. They got to start

3:40

from scratch. I like it a little bit above the ears.

3:42

Well, a star is a star. And you always wonder if

3:44

they have real hair or a wig. So I would probably

3:47

go with that one. Well,

3:49

that's what they're doing. Cause that's the

3:51

WWE approach. And meanwhile, over on the

3:53

other side of the street, they are

3:56

trying to kill some motherfuckers with the

3:58

most egg. aggravated

4:00

mayhem. I've been charged with that

4:02

before. Aggravated mayhem.

4:06

What other forms of mayhem can

4:09

they charge you with? Well, there's,

4:11

there's mayhem and there's aggravated mayhem

4:13

and goddamn it. Can

4:16

you be charged with just regular mayhem? We'd

4:18

yeah. Regular, regular mayhem is a thing. And

4:20

then there's aggravated mayhem. And then when you

4:22

go all the way to fucking assault

4:25

and mayhem with a deadly weapon, well,

4:28

you've, you're fucked then.

4:30

Yeah, one mayhem too far. Yeah. One

4:33

mayhem too far, but

4:36

nevertheless, uh, so that's what they're, they're

4:38

trying to do. And I'll tell you,

4:40

before we talk about the wrestling, I

4:43

have various things that I've written down.

4:45

I got to bring up. I got notes here.

4:47

I want to keep people up to date on

4:49

things. One, I have to make a

4:52

retraction or a correction. See, I do that

4:54

we get on uncle Dave and

4:57

some of these other people, if they don't do this, but

5:00

so when I emit wrong information or

5:02

give people an incorrect

5:07

idea or try to lead demonstrate, I corrected

5:10

as soon as I'm aware of this. So

5:13

I'm making that statement right now. Remember here

5:15

on, on your program a few

5:18

days ago, the drive-through, I

5:20

said, Brian, I'm watching this, this

5:23

TV show on the Netflix called

5:25

the watcher and boy, it's cool.

5:27

So far it's the people, a

5:29

family buys a house with weird

5:32

neighbors and spooky things ongoing and fucking

5:36

creepy shit. And boy, howdy and

5:38

there's masked figures behind the fucking

5:40

couch when they walk through the

5:42

room, all this shit, right? Remember

5:45

me telling you about this. Yeah.

5:48

I had never heard of it before. And you surprisingly

5:50

were introducing me to a Netflix show that

5:52

I still haven't watched or probably

5:55

won't be watching, but. Well, I

5:57

was about to go into that. Remember who I

5:59

told people. You ought to watch the watcher. Don't

6:02

fucking watch it. Do

6:05

not fucking watch that show. Do

6:07

not give it your, the time

6:09

of your life. Seven

6:11

hours of this fucking

6:14

bullshit. These people, whoever

6:16

is that Ryan Murphy

6:18

motherfucker, he's on my shit list

6:20

right now. I liked American horror. Stevie Nicks

6:22

was an American horror story. How could you

6:24

not like it? And some of them other

6:27

witches were in their

6:29

own way appealing as well, but nevertheless. What

6:31

happened that turned you off to the show so

6:34

bad? Ryan fucking Murphy and everybody involved in this

6:36

shit. You know the guy whose name I couldn't

6:38

remember from goddamn Boardwalk Empire. He

6:40

wasn't the star anyway. As a matter of

6:42

fact, the show probably would have been better

6:45

without him on that one either. Boardwalk Empire.

6:47

Fuck this guy. Fuck

6:49

whoever this fucking actress is that plays

6:51

his fucking fuck feet. What's his name?

6:54

Do you have a name? No, I

6:56

don't know. Look it up. The Watcher

6:58

on Netflix somewhere. Fuck Netflix. For

7:01

that matter. These as

7:04

mama cornet would say these sorry, no

7:06

good son of a bitches. What

7:09

happened? Remember I said

7:11

I was just, I was about to start.

7:14

Oh, Bobby Carval. Yeah. He was one of

7:16

the stars of the last couple of seasons

7:18

of Boardwalk Empire. And then he was, he

7:20

was on vinyl. Remember we talked about that

7:22

awful show vinyl that lasted one season and

7:25

HBO was like never again. Yeah. Well, fuck

7:27

Bobby fucking Cardinal or whatever his goddamn name

7:29

could be. Nothing no are. Carval. Well,

7:32

he can kind of my Val.

7:34

So fuck him too. Point being,

7:37

I'd watched the first four shows, I

7:39

believe when, when last we checked in.

7:43

And I think it was maybe it

7:45

was a wrong about the fifth show that

7:47

I was starting to go, you know, now,

7:49

wait a minute. Some of these people are

7:52

not reacting in a logical fashion

7:56

and I'm struggling

7:58

with some, some of the. developments here

8:00

but I'm sure that's just a momentary

8:02

diversion and they'll kick this thing into

8:04

high gear because they got I

8:07

figure in six and seven they got a lot of

8:09

spleen in to do because remember I said I'd

8:12

be upset if it was some cliffhanger and

8:15

goddamn then the show didn't

8:17

get renewed and you never found out right

8:20

I'm hoping this is a self-contained series well

8:22

I've watched all

8:24

seven of them now and I still don't

8:26

fucking know I don't

8:28

know shit I don't know shit from apple

8:30

butter I don't know whether this thing's gonna

8:32

continue I don't know whether that was a

8:34

cliffhanger I don't know whether that was the

8:36

end of the show in the series I

8:39

don't know who did what to who in

8:42

what fashion and why and how

8:46

they didn't explain shit this

8:49

by the end and when

8:51

six was over with I said okay again

8:54

we got what is this a two-hour finale

8:56

what the fuck how are they gonna get

8:58

to the bottom of this they didn't get to the bottom of

9:00

dick they didn't even fucking pop

9:03

the top off the dick they

9:06

explain nothing you

9:08

don't know how or why any of

9:10

this was done or by who and

9:14

some of the shit just doesn't make a lick

9:17

of goddamn sense and they just left it they

9:19

just left it they just fought off I

9:22

have Netflix here and it says it's a 2022 series it was premiered

9:24

October 2022 it's old I thought it

9:32

was new we just heard about it it is

9:34

loosely based on a 2018 article by Reeves Wiedemann

9:39

for New York magazine's website the

9:42

cut this I'll

9:44

agree it was loosely based

9:46

it was so loose it

9:48

was positively fucking flaccid but

9:50

go ahead despite being originally

9:52

conceived as a miniseries the

9:55

watcher was renewed for a second season

9:57

in November 2022 And

10:01

have they done it? I

10:04

don't see anything here about the production of the

10:06

second season. What

10:09

the fuck? Well,

10:13

if I'd have watched that thing when it first came

10:15

out, it's two years later, I'll still

10:17

be as mad as I

10:20

am now that I wasted my fucking seven hours

10:22

of my life. Stace was hot.

10:25

Harley was pissed. She had

10:27

to sit there in front of it too. Well,

10:29

she didn't have to sit there, but listen, you shouldn't

10:31

force the dog to watch these things. The

10:34

modern television show, This Happens, it really

10:36

started with the Sopranos with giant gaps

10:39

in between seasons. Years go

10:41

by. Game of Thrones 2. I

10:44

guess maybe the Watcher, they need

10:46

a lot of time to produce the next seven episodes. A

10:50

lot of time after that fucking last

10:53

episode, I can't

10:56

imagine anybody's going to give them any more

10:58

time. Maybe they all quietly slunk off

11:00

into the fucking darkness. Over

11:03

that- We have to

11:05

find out? Does he find out that Nora is watching?

11:08

Hey, how

11:10

do you know? I know Wikipedia

11:12

right here. Oh,

11:14

god damn it. I thought you said you hadn't

11:17

watched it, but you're cheating. I haven't watched it.

11:19

That's not cheating. You're cheating. I

11:21

told you I had this before. You're

11:23

just like that with the interwebs where

11:25

you can just pull up information. Theodora?

11:27

Who names their child Theodora nowadays? Well,

11:30

she's an older lady. Oh, that explains it.

11:34

Theodora was big in the 40s and 50s. And

11:38

there's a Karen? I see there's a Karen. You

11:40

have a Karen. Stiffler's mom is in

11:42

it. Oh, is she

11:44

Theodora? No, no. She

11:48

was- oh,

11:50

god damn. What was her- the real estate agent.

11:52

That woman can do anything she wants. She'll always

11:54

be referred to as Stiffler's mom. Well,

11:56

and she's still a- I'd say that in 99. She's

12:00

still a bucc some older lady, but but

12:02

anyway the whole thing just it

12:05

had a lot of potential So

12:07

I don't they based it on a newspaper article

12:09

It sounds like they based it on something somebody

12:11

scribbled on the stall wall at a truck stop

12:13

when they were taking a shit Because

12:16

there was no once they had the fucking Spooky

12:19

characters. There's no story no substance whatsoever

12:21

that has any kind of payoff Well,

12:24

I have an article here from the direct

12:27

comm Those

12:29

waiting for any sort of imminent release for

12:32

the watch or season two on Netflix just

12:34

got some bad news Uh-huh

12:36

Starring Naomi Watts and Bobby

12:38

Conavale This series was

12:41

given a second season order by Netflix in November

12:43

2022 mere

12:45

weeks after season ones

12:47

premiere given the

12:49

extended time since it Before

12:53

it had time to settle in with

12:55

people just exactly how bad this thing

12:57

stunk given the extended

12:59

time since its announcement Some

13:02

believe the show would be primed for a 2024 release

13:05

as part of the streamers tentpole lineup

13:09

According to a new report the watcher season two has been pushed

13:11

out of 2024 with

13:13

a 2025 release more

13:15

likely Fuck the hit

13:18

Netflix series appeared as part of

13:20

a list of projects from the

13:22

streamer that will skip alongside

13:28

Exo Kitty and the

13:30

recruits As

13:32

it stands it is currently unknown Exo

13:34

Kitty and the recruit is that like a

13:36

new ant man in the wasp? No, those

13:38

are two separate shows They are not combined

13:40

as well for units It

13:44

was a buddy flick I didn't and they

13:46

work better that way as it stands It

13:48

is currently unknown when the watcher will go

13:50

into production on its sophomore efforts I

13:54

know I think that this one and I

13:56

just watched was a very sophomore ish effort.

13:58

I series star Naomi watcher revealed to Entertainment

14:00

Weekly that she has not heard anything more about

14:02

the show. Quote,

14:05

I know they said yes to the next series,

14:07

but I haven't heard anything more. All

14:10

right. So maybe

14:12

one day, this is the frustration with a lot of these

14:14

shows. And a lot of great shows go after

14:17

the air after one season, like Freaks and Geeks. The

14:20

series ends- And back to that again, 30

14:22

years, you have not lost your goddamn- It's

14:24

the best show. It holds up.

14:26

Fascination. So the series ends with the girl

14:28

running off with other teenagers that joined the

14:31

Grateful Dead on the road. And

14:33

that's the end of the series. You never get to find

14:35

out what happens when her parents see her in

14:38

a few weeks. Well,

14:41

chances are they saw her again about

14:43

seven years when they pulled her lifeless

14:45

body out of a port of John

14:47

in the goddamn parking lot somewhere. The

14:50

Grateful Dead? The fucking Oakland Coliseum. Lifeless

14:52

bodies? What are you talking about? Well,

14:54

you know, these people that were just

14:57

infested with the drugs. The

14:59

drugs. You know, here, I

15:02

don't know that I have ever told

15:05

you or put on the podcast because I

15:07

just thought of it for the first time

15:09

in 20 years maybe

15:12

that I can recall a

15:14

Vince McMahon quote, Oh

15:16

no. Which again shows

15:20

how people can be so

15:24

bizarrely off moral center

15:26

in one area

15:28

of their life while being so

15:31

self-righteous about something else. Was that

15:33

something that I uttered just now

15:35

that you can understand? Oh, absolutely.

15:37

Yeah. He, we are driving, or

15:41

was this was, Anaheim, WrestleMania

15:43

96, right? And

15:47

we've got the rental Lincoln

15:49

Continental and it's Vince,

15:52

Jim Ross, Bruce, and myself. And we

15:54

are actually going to the building from

15:56

our hotel. We're going to the, what

15:58

was it? The pond. And

16:02

this would remember Luis Piccoli had been

16:04

Rad Radford. Yeah. And

16:08

I guess

16:10

his run came to an unceremonious end

16:13

sometime in what, late 95. I

16:15

can't recall the

16:17

particulars now. I'm

16:21

sure it's out there on YouTube or had

16:23

been in somebody's shoot interview or whatever the

16:25

case. But

16:27

for the purposes of this, it was just a point

16:30

that Luis was still

16:32

friends with Candido and Tammy, but he

16:35

was no longer with the company. But Luis also

16:37

lived in Southern California, so he got together

16:39

with Chris and Tammy as going to the

16:41

show to see it and visit

16:44

with him and probably try to politic

16:46

to get his job back, right?

16:50

And I've, there may have been substances

16:52

related to whatever the cause was.

16:54

But Vince

16:57

is in the fucking front passenger seat and me and Bruce

16:59

are in the back. I think

17:01

Jim Ross is driving. And I

17:03

just remember past them, I said, oh, there's Chris

17:05

and Tammy just idly. And I saw Piccoli then

17:07

was sitting in the seat and Vince saw him

17:10

at the same time and Vince just said, Piccoli,

17:13

that drug infested son of a

17:16

bitch. I'm like

17:18

Jesus Christ. Wow. You

17:20

know, I can understand flunking a fucking drug

17:22

test or if he had been the main

17:24

event of fucking pay-per-viewing flunked a drug test

17:26

and had to be taken off or in

17:28

some way made headlines

17:30

or whatever, right? But,

17:33

you know, Piccoli, not the first one of

17:35

the boys have made a mistake. And it was like

17:37

he had been the drug pusher

17:39

that OD'd Vince's grandchild or something

17:41

with that. I would just, I'd

17:44

hop back and look at Bruce and Bruce, of course, looks

17:46

down at his notes and we just drove on by. But

17:49

that's when I knew chances are probably, Piccoli wasn't

17:52

going to get his job back. And I don't

17:54

know what. Because I wasn't in

17:57

the office or in that car group

17:59

or whatever. whatever, too, for

18:02

that. It's about who was relaying stuff back to Vince

18:04

because everyone was partying and there were plenty of guys

18:06

getting fucked up on the same shit Luis Picoli was,

18:08

although he may have gone a little further than others.

18:10

Yeah. But who was telling Vince about

18:12

it? Well, and that's, see, that's

18:14

the thing. I was not privy to

18:17

all the day-to-day drama at the point that was

18:19

going on. I came in a couple months later

18:21

and so all of that, I was just like,

18:23

holy, cause I always liked Spicoli. And

18:26

I mean, yes, he, you know, made mistakes with

18:28

what we were just talking about, but loved

18:31

a business, good worker, had

18:33

some personality. When I, I

18:36

first saw him in the locker room in Continental

18:39

when we made, uh, we had

18:42

give our notice to WCW in 89,

18:44

right? And

18:47

when George Scott was Booker, and then as

18:50

we've told a million times, they fired him before we

18:52

finished up. We took two months off. We had already

18:54

booked some dates and then we came back and

18:57

a couple of them were in Continental Wrestling

18:59

Dundee was the Booker and

19:01

Spicoli, that was his first territory

19:04

and you know, they

19:06

were, they were about to close down anyway. So

19:08

we wouldn't be there long, but when

19:11

we went in the locker room, I said, my God,

19:13

you look like Bobby Eaton's little brother. And that's when

19:15

Bobby met him. We all met him for the first

19:17

time. And that

19:19

was, there

19:21

was some germ of idea in

19:23

my mind of a Smokey

19:26

Mountain wrestling or a territory or

19:28

whatever the fuck. And

19:31

I said, you know, I

19:33

would make you Bobby's little brother

19:35

and nobody fucking knew it, right?

19:38

And you had a different last name

19:40

cause Bobby's a star, but

19:43

then, you know, the big fucking reveal

19:45

happens when some fucking dastardly he opens

19:47

Louis, who was a rookie then he

19:49

was a job guy, you know, a

19:52

level or opening match

19:54

on how show level guy. But

19:57

so you couldn't, you know, just. be

20:00

ridiculous with it, but some

20:02

dastardly top heel fucking slayed

20:06

little Louis Spicoli would come to find out he

20:08

was a little Louis Eaton from Huntsville, Alabama and

20:10

Bobby would come in to fucking get

20:13

revenge for him or whatever. It's

20:15

always every time I saw Spicoli after

20:17

that I say, you're Bobby's little brother.

20:20

But then I could have got Bobby or I could have

20:22

got Bobby's little brother but I didn't have Bobby. Did

20:25

he work for you in Smoky Mountain? I'm

20:28

trying to think if he can. No, because he still lived

20:31

in California. I mean, he was

20:34

another guy, Candido at least could drive down and

20:37

both him and Tammy

20:39

could make some money. But when Spicoli was really

20:41

a valor and plus he did a lot of

20:44

stuff in Mexico with that period in Japan, he

20:46

had jobs

20:49

where he may have had to go

20:52

out of the country to make

20:54

the money but he made more than I

20:56

could have paid him and the

20:59

angle wasn't there anymore. But

21:03

anyway, can I give you

21:05

a television show that I'm

21:07

sure that you will like because I've already watched

21:10

all of them? No, this happened before. Can I

21:12

give you a show that you watch? No.

21:15

Well, let

21:17

me just tell you what it is and then you judge

21:19

me on that. I found

21:21

instead a four-part James

21:24

Brown documentary that

21:27

is wonderful and I think

21:30

it's on Vice as a matter of

21:32

fact and yes, I checked to make sure they

21:35

were still on the air because dark side

21:37

of the rings coming up and apparently

21:39

they're still broadcasting. Now, I understand they've

21:41

had some office furniture repossessed but the

21:43

broadcast tower and equipment still operating. At

21:46

any point, the signal may be taken over

21:48

by all American wrestling. Well,

21:50

either that or your max headroom

21:53

fucking logo but it's

21:56

a four-part document. James Brown say

21:58

it loud and they... have tons

22:00

of archival footage, as they

22:03

say, and just

22:05

amazing interview clips.

22:07

And I watched

22:10

it on the on-demand gimmick.

22:13

Uh, Stace has learned me all this newfangled

22:15

technology. So that's why I'm shady now on

22:17

the network. But well, you

22:20

can't find anything else to watch on television

22:23

these days. For

22:26

fuck's sake. You gotta, you gotta have a

22:28

thousand channels, be able to fill four hours

22:30

of viewing time per day. So

22:32

you're now more receptive to streaming different

22:35

services. The idea they have their own custom shows, they

22:37

have shows as good as the network shows. Well,

22:41

no, actually, well, Vice is on

22:43

my cable, but I watched it

22:45

on on-demand. I'm for long. Yeah. Well,

22:47

again, you know, as long as they

22:49

get the fucking 10 episodes of Dark

22:51

Side, you know, uh, out to the

22:53

public, if they disseminate that, then they

22:55

can. You know,

22:57

whatever. I mean, K-Sara-Sara, but anyway,

23:01

James Brown, say it loud, look

23:03

it up. Four-part documentary. You would

23:05

love that as a music industry

23:07

insider and a

23:09

critic and an experienced

23:11

reviewer, you would enjoy this, this television programming.

23:14

No, I definitely want to see it. There

23:16

was a really good James Brown documentary a

23:18

few years ago. I forget if it was

23:20

HBO or Showtime, but it

23:22

was tremendous. I want to say Mick Jagger may have

23:24

been the producer, the executive producer of it. Well,

23:27

yeah. And, and actually they've got, uh, the

23:29

comments from Mick Jagger that they may have

23:32

lifted via fair use from, from

23:35

that project or who knows whatever, but.

23:38

Yeah. I saw that when you're talking about too, and

23:40

I think it was HBO and this

23:42

is a, they've got his daughters on

23:44

this one, but they, you know, they've also got,

23:46

uh, Oh, God damn it. Do they show the

23:48

CNN thing where he was all fucked

23:51

up on the air live with. Who

23:53

was it? I forget who the host was, but

23:56

Oh, well, there are clips of the dark period.

23:58

They don't go into detail on that. one,

24:00

but I remember what you are

24:02

talking about and who was his fucking, who

24:05

was his partner in the band? Who's the guy

24:07

that started the band? Bobby, Bobby Bird, right? Is

24:10

that his name? I believe so. He's

24:13

all over this. He's a

24:15

feisty gentleman. But

24:17

anyway, you would enjoy the, or people

24:20

out there, I'm trying to redeem myself.

24:22

If anybody jumped on watching The Watcher

24:24

before... If anyone

24:27

started watching that show that's been out for a year and

24:29

a half because of my

24:31

recommendation. Well, I'd never heard of it.

24:33

Me, Soul Brother number two.

24:36

With the magnitude

24:38

of me, Brian, and the magnitude

24:40

of the numbers of our audience,

24:42

I probably just disseminated that pissy

24:45

ass putrid program to

24:48

more people that had heard of it up until

24:50

now. Hit Netflix

24:52

series. What's that mean? Four

24:56

fucking people with insomnia and two

24:58

cat burglars sitting

25:00

up watching this shit some night? Hey,

25:02

now that you're streaming, do you

25:04

have HBO max? Well, now it's just max. Max,

25:07

do you have max? I don't know. I just

25:09

have whatever Stace puts on the television if it's

25:11

not related to the cable and I know how

25:13

to work it. Because to me, the dream scenario,

25:15

because I think it will go over amazingly, is

25:18

you have to start watching Curb Your Enthusiasm. You've never

25:20

seen an episode of it and you

25:23

love Seinfeld and this takes

25:25

it to a whole other level. And

25:27

it's kind of more in line with the

25:29

Jim Cornette way of life than you

25:32

probably realize. Well, all right. I'm going

25:34

to write this down now. I'm going

25:36

to curb your requests by watching

25:39

some Curb Your Enthusiasm as soon as I have

25:41

a chance when I get finished. After the King

25:43

of Kong and Monster Squad. Um,

25:50

and I got to give another

25:53

update because remember, well,

25:55

you remember, obviously we talk constantly, God

25:57

damn it, but some of the folks out

25:59

there, the people. pulled the cult of Cornet may

26:01

remember a few months ago or several months now.

26:03

I've been talking about my cousin

26:05

Larry had health problems, got

26:07

that pneumonia lung infection, was

26:09

in the hospital in the

26:11

rehab facility, finally went home before

26:14

Christmas thankfully and has

26:17

still been trying to do in physical

26:19

therapy and trying to get feeling

26:22

better and he has been up and

26:24

about more independently and feeling better

26:27

and he decides, I was

26:30

last weekend now whenever this is, it was

26:32

seven to ten days ago or so, he

26:36

says to his wife, he said, I

26:38

feel like you know going out and doing

26:40

something he has not been out of the

26:42

house really except for doctor's appointments since he

26:44

got sick and it was summertime less than

26:46

six months and

26:49

so they get some friends of theirs and

26:52

they just said, well we'll just go right down the road

26:54

here, this restaurant we like and we'll go eat dinner with

26:56

them and so

26:59

he goes and has the first dinner in

27:01

six months out with his

27:04

friends and everything and they were able to

27:06

talk and all that stuff and he felt

27:08

really good about being

27:10

able to go out again and live

27:13

somewhat of a normal life, that's what

27:15

happened, that was on a Saturday

27:17

night. And guess

27:20

what happened on Monday morning? Oh

27:22

no, what happened? He tested positive for COVID

27:24

with 102 degree fever. Oh

27:27

no. So

27:29

that'll teach him to go out and I told him,

27:31

I said, that'll teach you to go out in public,

27:33

going out in public is highly overrated. I

27:36

mean, because his wife called me, she said,

27:39

Larry's got COVID, I said, what did he

27:41

get from the dog? How did he get

27:43

COVID? We went

27:45

out to dinner night before last. The

27:48

first time he's been again in a

27:51

public setting besides for a

27:53

doctor's office, where all the

27:56

sick people are, he's been

27:58

fine. He didn't get gave way to a.

28:00

restaurant, he got COVID and

28:02

ain't back in the fucking bed. For

28:06

all the people wondering if I will attend their,

28:09

their wedding bar mitzvah

28:11

or social function. And

28:14

I'm sorry, I'm not doing the bake sales

28:16

either. Although I've, I

28:18

may have to break down and do at

28:20

least one fish fry during the season here.

28:22

They keep plugging it on TV, but nevertheless,

28:27

huh, you

28:29

know, we got big television programs coming up

28:31

that we told people to

28:33

watch. And by the time

28:35

they see this, the A and E WWE presentations

28:39

will have begun. I guess we're going to talk

28:41

about those at some point the next time we

28:43

do a program, aren't we? Yay.

28:50

Well, I think the first biography is Orton.

28:52

Let's see how deep they get. It

28:55

is, it is rookie year. And

28:58

they get to the, they may have to switch to a

29:00

premium channel. Well, no, I'm talking

29:02

about just his, his wrestling training

29:04

and some of our,

29:07

some of our footage when we were in

29:09

a goddamn condemned warehouse. And, and, and again,

29:11

I said the other week on the show,

29:13

none of our, they killed

29:15

all the careers of the guys we

29:17

trained when we got our nice television

29:19

friendly facilities. And every time somebody sees

29:21

OVW, it's in a

29:23

brick fucking holding cell. It looks like it was

29:25

from World War II. They never

29:27

show Lashley when he was there. That was

29:29

the first time I saw Lashley blaster Lashley

29:31

in OVW. Yeah. And well, he, he

29:34

was green, but still, you would think they would,

29:36

you know, he did some, some

29:38

mighty impressive things. When,

29:41

can you, that has been

29:43

20 years ago. Can

29:46

you imagine what

29:48

he looks like now? And he's

29:50

looked the same way for 20

29:52

years. He's a genetic marvel. Because

29:56

I mean, musculature.

30:00

The, you know, his, his physique,

30:02

but his face, facially

30:04

the same. He doesn't have a goddamn scar

30:06

or a wrinkle that he didn't have fucking

30:09

20 years ago. You could walk, it's the

30:11

same. Take a picture of him. His driver's

30:13

license picture is from 2004. It's

30:15

the same fucking thing. I

30:18

want what he's on. I

30:20

bet, but you can't, there's no steroids

30:22

for your fucking face. Who

30:24

knows? You don't know that. You

30:27

don't know that. You're not a dermatologist. What do you know?

30:29

I think probably somebody before Bobby

30:32

Lashley would have found him and,

30:34

and publicized your face. That

30:36

would, that would do the opposite. I don't think that's what

30:38

he's using. That would give him like muscular, like big

30:41

cheeks. What is he

30:43

goddamn drinking? Jasha Gabor's blood.

30:45

What are you inferring here?

30:48

This is the adrenochrome straight from the

30:50

Gabor sisters. So you're saying you thought

30:52

the Gabor sisters looked very good later

30:54

in life. Well, I've said they, they

30:56

pretty much fucking got their face set for

30:58

the last 40 years they lived, right? You

31:01

could, once they got everything all on there

31:03

and together and the wigs and the harnesses

31:06

and trusses and apparatuses, you couldn't

31:08

tell them, you

31:10

know. Should Bobby start speaking in a

31:13

Slovakian accent? Well,

31:15

I'm doing promos. Then let me tell

31:17

you, darling. Darling. Yeah, tell me what

31:20

darling. Then let me

31:22

tell you, darling. So

31:27

the A and E programming will be

31:29

coming and also dark side of the

31:31

ring. Our friends over there at, at

31:33

these still operating, get it while it's

31:35

on the air vice TV, uh, the

31:38

clock is now ticking. If it lasts 10

31:41

more weeks, we're

31:43

going to get them all in. It's 10 episodes

31:45

this season and they start Tuesday night, March the

31:47

5th that, uh, what it's 10

31:49

o'clock Eastern. Cause this is late night. Adult

31:52

subject matter viewer discretion is

31:56

if not demanded, then

31:58

certainly advised. I say

32:00

something that's probably not popular real quick and then

32:02

we move on. Well, you do on a constant

32:04

basis. Everything you say is not popular. I say

32:06

the truth though. It could not be popular. That's

32:08

fine. I say the truth. Vice

32:12

is probably doing the right thing. I

32:14

know it sounds crazy. They're going to stop

32:17

publishing content on vice.com, but the idea

32:19

that the business

32:21

should be them producing

32:23

content with the vice brand and

32:25

their brand of news

32:27

reporting and distributing it in

32:29

different places, I think

32:32

that probably makes more sense. So it sucks that

32:34

everyone's losing their job, but it

32:37

was a business that should have been kept small. They

32:39

got pumped up and got out of hand and

32:41

now we'll get the master run. So

32:43

when you're saying that, that Colin

32:45

Thompson is a high ranking executive

32:47

and vice too. Oh,

32:50

no, no, no, no, no. And if it happened, it

32:52

would have to be like a secretive thing. They would,

32:54

Or did they just, they just stole his business model.

32:56

They may have stolen his business model. No, the

32:58

guy who everyone remembers as the face of vice

33:00

when they had the show at HBO, Shane Smith,

33:04

with all these announcements of all the layoffs and

33:06

everything coming, not a peep from him. I

33:09

even saw an article that said that like he's

33:11

nowhere to be found. What does that mean? You

33:13

can't find them. So

33:16

we'll see what happens. But yes, dark side of

33:18

the ring returns until black Tuesday

33:20

hits. Here's

33:22

a question. Who's looking for him? I

33:25

guess the reporters were. Well, I,

33:27

but no, but I mean, how qualified are,

33:30

well, how qualified are these? Have they have

33:32

what kind of effort are they putting in

33:34

when they said he can't be found? Well,

33:36

did they put the goddamn FBI on the

33:38

case? Did they put McGruff the crime dog?

33:41

Is there, are there

33:44

fucking, you know, malicious from

33:46

the national guard combing his

33:48

known haunts? How, what kind of manhunt is underway

33:50

for this guy? Or is he just not answering

33:53

the phone? And they say, Oh, he can't be

33:55

found. I don't know. I'd like to

33:57

know what kind of efforts going into it. Well, wait,

33:59

I can't. speak to the effort but he was

34:01

nowhere to be found. We'll see what happens and we'll

34:03

see what happens with Vice and of course that exciting

34:05

Randy Orton biography. Now I want the Bobby Lashley

34:07

biography they're not going to do but

34:10

it's your show. Well

34:12

yes it is and I'll tell you this

34:14

boy howdy I'm right where everybody can find

34:16

me. I am right

34:19

here visible not visibly, audibly where

34:22

everybody can hear me so that they know that

34:24

I've not made off with their money because the

34:27

fine folks out there who are listening to

34:29

the sound of my voice that have sent

34:31

in money for the Midnight Express and Heavenly

34:33

Body's tag team action figure sets are going

34:35

to be pleased as punch to know that

34:38

a mere two weeks after they've gone on sale

34:40

the first I believe 250 packages are going

34:45

out in the mail. I said well by the time you

34:47

hear this because the week is the week

34:50

is starting in 12 hours or

34:52

whatever. The first 250

34:54

packages including the autographed

34:57

photos and some of the books that

34:59

were ordered in those packages and etc

35:01

and then by next week an

35:04

equivalent number will be going out because now

35:06

me and the feather bottoms got this thing

35:08

flying and I would

35:11

say by the time the third

35:13

week rolls around everyone's packages will

35:15

be either delivered or in the

35:17

mail and we will

35:19

be caught up and still of course

35:21

ready to service the ongoing public because

35:23

you can order at any time with

35:25

complete impunity. Right now

35:27

at jimcornet.com, the Eaton

35:29

and Condrey action figure set, the Eaton

35:31

and Lane action figure set and the

35:34

Heavenly Body's that's outpacing everybody because it's

35:37

their first and last figure set and

35:40

limited to 500 is now in the last 200

35:45

left. So none of these are

35:47

gonna be remade as we've talked about or others

35:50

done in the future because I'm getting too old

35:52

for this shit but the final

35:55

chapter of the Midnight Express 40th anniversary

35:57

celebration is going out with a bang

35:59

with these in the wonderful

36:01

display boxes that look marvelous as

36:03

they sit on your library shelf

36:06

or whatever shelf you

36:09

have in whatever room in your house, they make

36:11

a shrine, light some

36:13

candles, maybe, I

36:15

don't know, ground up a bird and a

36:18

bird's bones and mix it with Eye of

36:20

Newt and draw a pentagram in front of

36:22

the action fan. They'll come to life and

36:24

begin speaking to you. They won't do that

36:26

and they won't stay away from fire. Only

36:29

if you drink the tea containing

36:32

the peyote that we eat, if you

36:34

order the deluxe pack. No, you're not

36:37

sending peyote. First of all, no. And

36:40

there is a recipe for the

36:43

tea, then you do the pentagram,

36:45

then you set it on fire right there

36:47

in your bedroom and as the flames leap

36:50

ever higher, the action figures come to

36:52

life and put it out in the

36:54

savior ass. Right

36:57

now at jimcornett.com. No. You

37:01

can just read the information there on

37:03

the website. It'll tell you basically everything

37:05

you need to know. The figures are

37:07

there, the fantasies of arson are in

37:09

your own head but Cornett's collectibles at

37:11

jimcornett.com. But the fantasies of arson, it's

37:13

a carefully, it's a controlled burn. It's

37:17

a fantasy of arson. It's

37:20

a controlled burn under

37:23

strictly fucking, you

37:26

know, scientific procedures. Witchcraft

37:28

is a recognized science.

37:31

Is it a coincidence that you're describing

37:33

the plot to... What

37:36

was it? I was a teenage monster? The

37:40

end in color? Yeah.

37:45

I could be stealing a bit.

37:47

We want to thank our friends over

37:49

at MeTV including the incomparable Svenguli himself,

37:52

the boss of the whole Rat

37:54

Pack over there and everybody because they

37:57

reran How to Make

38:00

monster last night as

38:02

we speak here and included with

38:04

their bonus footage, the footage

38:07

of me at Lisa Marie Varen

38:10

Victoria's late lamented

38:12

squared circle restaurant in Chicago. It's not

38:15

there anymore, unfortunately. She moved back to

38:17

California, but what a great place it

38:19

was. But I had a burger eating

38:21

challenge with Sven

38:23

Gulli up there and it aired... that's

38:26

probably been what? Seven years ago now. And

38:30

they re-ran it for... because now I

38:32

guess it... if they only run it

38:34

once every seven years, they get out of paying

38:37

me any royalties or any

38:39

kind of goddamn Union scale or anything.

38:41

It's probably why they're doing that. So

38:43

look for it again in 2031 with

38:46

Haley's Comet. Was she named after

38:48

Lisa Marie Presley? Just

38:50

because... was Lisa Marie a common name

38:52

before that point? Well,

38:55

okay. That's the first time that anybody has ever

38:57

asked me that question and I'm trying to think...

38:59

First time I've ever thought of it. Well,

39:04

no. I'm just... I was trying to

39:06

think... Lisa Marie is the daughter, right?

39:08

Every time you keep calling her Lisa

39:10

Marie, I'm thinking of Elvis saying Lisa

39:12

Marie. Okay, but still Lisa Marie Presley

39:14

would be still older than Lisa Marie

39:16

Varen, but no. There's

39:19

all kinds of Lisa Marie's down south.

39:22

I don't... I don't know if... Well, but

39:25

she was from California. Well, Lisa Marie Presley

39:27

wasn't the first Lisa Marie. Like

39:30

a Billy Goa, Bobby Joe and a Betty Joe.

39:32

Of course. But

39:34

I don't... you'd have to ask her parents.

39:38

I'm not sure if they'd divulge that kind of

39:40

information to somebody like you. Well,

39:42

we will find out on a future

39:44

episode. The investigation continues. Well,

39:47

never the last... but we would finish

39:49

thanking Svenguli. Thank you Sven for

39:51

showing that. It reminded me that

39:53

I... Unfortunately,

39:55

I lost the challenge due to the last-minute

39:57

commission ruling about the double order of fries.

40:00

And I still say that I was, I

40:02

was horn swaggled and bum-fuzzled.

40:06

There was high jinks and hoodwinks going on. You

40:08

know, I think it's time to mix up the

40:10

lineup a little bit with Sci-Fi Saturday nights on

40:13

MeTV. I would think, I

40:15

don't know, after a while you got to give a

40:18

cold shack arrest, because it's the same episodes over and

40:20

over again. There's only one season and

40:22

as much as I am a cold

40:24

shack and Darren McGavin Nightstalker fan, no,

40:26

some of them weren't it, dog. So

40:29

there has to be something else you could slide in there

40:31

after, cause it's perfect. It's like Svenguli, Batman,

40:34

Star Trek. So now we're just 1966 in color.

40:37

It's great. And then it goes to cold

40:39

shack. Time

40:43

tunnel. Well, time tunnel,

40:45

they can move up, uh, oh

40:47

my God, all of a sudden, lost in space. I can't

40:49

remember their names all of a sudden. Lost in space. They

40:51

have, uh, other shows they can move up and slide in.

40:54

Then here's the thing, cause

40:56

again, bless cold shacks, little pea picking hard.

40:59

But it's the same, what is there? I

41:01

think there's 20, is there 20 episodes,

41:04

but it was one season and it wasn't

41:06

a full season plus the movies plus

41:09

the, well, but I'm talking about an hour,

41:11

you know, in it to put

41:13

in that hour time slot, you've

41:15

already got lost in space. They got voyaged to the bottom

41:17

of the sea, right? Put

41:20

stick time tunnel in there. Get a

41:22

fucking Irwin Allen block going on overnight.

41:24

Like Petucino used to do with superstars

41:26

of wrestling, the super shows of Irwin

41:28

Allen, the invaders, even though

41:30

that is not an Irwin Allen show it, uh, you

41:33

know, it kind of fits that genre.

41:38

You know, just, just a thought to our

41:40

friends over there. Yeah, I'm with

41:42

you. I like cold shack, but it's time

41:45

for a break. And again, 1966, the first

41:47

shows that were like network prime time

41:49

in color, Batman, Star Trek, and then

41:51

you go to the seventies and like

41:53

the print of cold check sucks, so

41:55

it's like blur and blurry, but a

41:57

grainy, even though it's on HDTV.

42:00

And then you go to lost in space and you're back to

42:02

looking like beautiful TV, either black and white

42:04

or 1966. But

42:06

the pastels, the pastel, but

42:09

also, you know, to be honest though, the

42:11

black and white voyage to the bottom of

42:13

the seas, I think worked better because they

42:15

were not only like the black and white

42:17

lost in spaces, they were more serious. But

42:20

also you don't expect things to be colorful in

42:22

a submarine with a bunch of soldiers. And

42:25

it's going to be drab, right? All

42:30

right. Well, this is a turn. Well,

42:32

anyway, well, speaking of cold,

42:34

Jack, a an aging balding

42:36

newsman who has

42:39

lost his grip on

42:41

the pulse of America. And at the

42:43

same time is rapidly being pushed down

42:45

the list from major news service to

42:48

minor news service. Let's

42:50

talk about uncle Dave. What

42:53

now? Well, I

42:55

understand that they gave out some awards

42:57

of the year for wrestling over at

42:59

the, uh, the, the fine

43:01

folks that observe all this stuff, the

43:04

W O N awards. And,

43:08

uh, some of them I have understand to have,

43:10

have given new meaning and new weight

43:12

and new gravity to the word preposterous.

43:17

Well, we can find out the wrestling observer newsletter 2023 awards

43:19

are just published in the February 26, 2024 issue. Here's what

43:22

it says. The

43:28

following are the results of the 43rd

43:30

annual wrestling observer newsletter readership awards, along

43:34

with a listing of the previous winners in the various categories. On

43:38

a worldwide basis. These

43:40

are the most covered mainstream international pro wrestling awards. The

43:44

awards are based. Again, again, isn't that really like being the

43:46

nicest guy in prison? The

43:51

awards are based on the timeframe from January

43:53

1st, 2023 through December 31st, 2023. And

43:57

the readers are encouraged to send an email. their

44:00

comments on the results.

44:05

And the people that vote for

44:07

these awards are the people that

44:09

read Dave's publication,

44:11

right? Well, not

44:13

all of them. They are only open, I believe,

44:15

to subscribers. But for example, I am a subscriber.

44:17

I've been getting it since 1993. I

44:21

may have voted in the year-end awards five times.

44:23

Well, yes. But I'm saying, to vote

44:25

in his awards, you would have to

44:28

have knowledge of the awards in his

44:30

publication and read it on, if

44:32

not regularly, a somewhat regular

44:35

basis to want to vote in the fucking

44:37

thing to begin with, right? You

44:39

would think so, yes. Okay. So

44:42

the voting pool is

44:44

somewhat colored by... I

44:46

would think more people read

44:49

Uncle Dave's writing because they agree

44:51

with him than the ones that disagree with him

44:54

because all of us have thrown up our hands

44:56

and just gone, I can't take it anymore. Well,

44:59

these are the Category A awards. They

45:02

are determined by points on a five to

45:04

three to two basis. Okay. And

45:06

there has to be some kind of mathematical

45:09

formula. This is like the Electoral College of

45:11

Wrestling with Dave. Even if

45:13

you get all the votes, you got to have the right

45:15

kind of votes because some of them have more points than

45:17

the other kind of votes. First

45:19

place votes are in parentheses. Of

45:21

course they are. Me, what? The

45:25

lu... Second place... Second

45:28

place votes are in brackets. And

45:31

third place votes are in quotation marks.

45:34

The lu says slash Ric

45:36

Flair award for wrestler of

45:38

the year, the winner

45:41

with 302 first place votes

45:45

and a total of 1,814 points, will osprey. And

45:53

second place, 119 first place votes with 1,330 total points. Cody

46:01

Rhodes. Oh my,

46:03

if only if Cody puts his

46:06

nose to the grindstone and he

46:08

works real hard and

46:10

he dedicates himself to that

46:13

upward mobility, someday he can

46:15

dream of having

46:18

the career that Will Ostrich has. What?

46:50

Mr. Rollins. He's a... Wait

46:52

a minute. Mr. Rollins is out points or out

46:54

places or out ranks or shits

46:57

on Seth Rollins in the Wrestler of the

46:59

Year top 10. Well,

47:01

Mr. Rollins got 30. Now I'm going to do the first place

47:03

votes again. 34 first place votes to

47:05

Seth Rollins is 8. Oh,

47:08

well, there's it right there. You

47:11

can't come back from that. No, look at the points

47:13

here. 500 or 458 to 227. There's

47:16

just no contest here. Mr.

47:18

Rollins, we have Kazushka. Once he

47:21

lost Virginia, the tide turned. We

47:23

have Kazushka, Okada in 8th place

47:25

followed by Kento, Miyahara in 9th

47:28

place. What? 8th

47:30

and 9th place. You have a problem with that? Who

47:36

is Kento, Yamahara to

47:38

begin with? Even when we covered Dave's

47:40

Dribble, I've never heard that name written

47:43

out or

47:45

spoken before. Have you?

47:47

You know the O'Shea Jackson rule. O'Shea Jackson

47:49

Jr. Excuse me. You know the

47:51

rule. You're not allowed to ask who is this person when it comes

47:53

to anyone that you don't know. Just accept that they are there and

47:56

they are great and you're not with it. in

48:00

the world, apparently. And we have a tie

48:02

for 10th place with zero first place votes,

48:05

but 123 total points,

48:09

a tie between Tam Nakano and

48:11

Jon Moxley with

48:14

honorable mentions for Orange Cassidy,

48:17

Kenny Omega, and CM Punk.

48:22

CM Punk is an honorable mention.

48:25

Uh, and he's in the also

48:27

category with somebody actually voted for

48:31

Orange Cassidy. A hundred

48:33

and fifty points. For wrestler of the year wrote that

48:36

unironically, do you think? Is somebody

48:38

trolling Dave or

48:40

Pockets or both of them by just

48:43

saying, well, let's just write

48:45

down comedy shit and see if he takes it seriously.

48:47

I don't think it's trolling. If there was ever an

48:50

audience forum, it's the voting

48:52

body of the observer rewards by and

48:54

large, you would think, not necessarily all

48:56

the readership, but the people that are

48:59

very involved in being involved. Yeah. Cause

49:01

that body's in pretty bad shape and

49:03

may need to fucking paddles. Claire. Well,

49:06

here's what, uh, Dave wrote, will Osprey

49:08

30 ended up pretty

49:10

clear cut winner, especially as pertain

49:13

to first place votes in

49:16

a race that was- Is that one

49:18

of those automatic translations on fucking

49:20

Twitter where he's a translate this?

49:23

Well, I actually took out a word cause it just

49:25

says PT ended

49:28

up as a, ended up a

49:30

pretty clear cut winner, especially as

49:32

PT pertained to first place votes

49:36

in a race that was hardest to call for wrestler of

49:38

the year in many years. Unlike

49:41

with most years, Nick gooless

49:43

every week, low of a

49:45

wrench and fast Tuesday night, you stole one of

49:47

the biggest counts I've signed in many years. Unlike

49:50

with most years, when it's usually obvious

49:52

who was going to win the award. This

49:55

year, it was unclear with strong arguments for all

49:57

of the top four. and

50:00

he expected Roman Reigns as the

50:02

top guy in WWE. Yeah, thanks. Champion

50:04

all year and WWE

50:07

setting business records and his part

50:09

in major matches with Sami Zayn,

50:12

Cody Rhodes, and Jey Uso.

50:15

But he had a limited schedule. And

50:17

part of this award is having a lot of great

50:20

matches during the year as well as

50:22

value to the box

50:24

office and influence. Then why

50:26

were Moxley and Pockets even on it? How

50:29

were they in consideration when

50:31

they don't have great matches at any point in

50:33

the year and they have no value to the box

50:35

office? Well, to be fair, they got no first place

50:37

votes. So that means someone who voted, you're allowed to

50:40

vote for three people, they either got second place

50:42

or third place votes. No one said that they are

50:44

the very best, but it was like, yeah, I'll put

50:46

them on my list. Oh, well, they got in the

50:48

top 10 because they were third place on 17 people's

50:51

list. Well,

50:53

let's move on as a lot of awards here. I

50:55

will skip- Yeah, I think you can skip a few

50:57

of them. I'm going to skip the MMA ones for

51:00

sure. Is that okay with you? Well

51:02

that's okay because I wouldn't really grasp

51:05

the magnitude of the preposterosity of

51:07

the UFC or

51:09

MMA awards as we're not keeping close

51:12

track. The most

51:14

outstanding wrestler award in

51:16

first place with 548 first place votes and a total of

51:20

3,086 points will Osprey. Oh,

51:24

good lord. So AEW has got a real

51:27

winner now in their hands, wrestler

51:29

of the year and most outstanding wrestler.

51:32

And it's so coincidental that he's

51:34

the next wave of the guy

51:37

that Uncle Dave has been screaming

51:39

about that he's the greatest thing

51:41

that's ever happened since Kenny. And

51:45

now that Kenny has a

51:48

problem with his guts and can't

51:50

wrestle anymore, Uncle

51:52

Dave has to have a new champion, a

51:54

new hero, a new he-man. You

51:57

think he's got Ostrich's postery? He

52:00

unrolled it over the top of Kenny's and just

52:02

thumbtacked him right over on his wall across from

52:04

the foot of his bed. I think

52:06

that's a little crazy, but let's go through the rest

52:08

of the most outstanding- Have you seen the pictures of

52:10

his office? Maybe he's cleaned it.

52:13

I haven't seen anything recent. Those are all old

52:15

photos. I'm sure things have changed. Well, they didn't

52:17

have a lot of modern shit of Dahmer at

52:19

first. You know, they had to go back in

52:21

the files. Well, hold on. Dave's crazy a little

52:24

bit, but let's not compare him to Dahmer. Well,

52:26

I'm just saying a lot of people don't take

52:28

modern pictures, current pictures. The rest of the

52:30

top 10 for most outstanding, number two,

52:32

Bryan Danielson, number three, Kenny

52:35

Omega, number four, Zack

52:37

Sabre Jr., number

52:39

five, Kento Miyahara, number

52:42

six, Gunther, number

52:45

seven, Kazushka Okade, number

52:48

eight, Shingo Takagi, number

52:51

nine, Orange Cassidy, number

52:54

10, Mike Bailey, honorable mentions,

52:56

Jon Moxley, MJF, Seth Rollins,

52:59

and Eddie Kingston. Name's, name's, name's running through

53:01

my head. Who was the one shit on

53:03

a shingle? What?

53:06

Um, what? Shingle...

53:08

What happened? I don't know what just happened.

53:13

He just rattled off a

53:15

bunch of fucking alleged names.

53:17

Oh, Shingo Takagi. Ah!

53:20

One on a shingle. And

53:24

so go down a little

53:26

slower from the top down

53:29

and let's see

53:31

where these people's heads at. Once

53:33

again, this is most outstanding. Will

53:36

Osprey. Okay. Number two, Bryan

53:38

Danielson. Yeah. Number three, Kenny

53:40

Omega. Yeah. Number four, Zack

53:42

Sabre Jr. Yeah. Number

53:45

five, Kento Miyahara. I

53:47

don't have any idea. We'll pass.

53:49

Number six, Gunther. There you

53:51

go. Stop there. That's

53:54

what I'm saying. Gunther, As

53:56

most outstanding wrestler, not only

53:58

is perfect at... Presenting.

54:00

Himself, his matches are

54:03

always exciting and believable.

54:06

He's. A Logical: he knows how to put the

54:08

thing together, He knows how to get himself over

54:10

and knows how to put other guy should overdue

54:12

even when he's dealing with. Smaller.

54:15

Greener or fucking less

54:17

accomplished individuals. You'd. Never

54:19

see him have a staggered. he always gets

54:21

the most out of everything. And a fucking

54:23

guys over. And

54:25

he looks like he could kick the

54:27

shit out of all five of the

54:29

fucking people in front of a I'm.

54:32

At. The same time. Said.

54:34

Sabre Jr. looks like goddamn Q

54:37

tip. And Vulcans

54:39

a Danielson. Bless him He is

54:41

accomplished. Pro. One of the

54:43

smoothest and the best in the in the world

54:46

at one time. These. Bad to

54:48

retire and he hasn't had. The.

54:51

Greatest of matches over the last year because

54:53

didn't get hurt and to have like the

54:55

four of them. And

54:57

is and and these and again.

55:00

The. Flip the fucking

55:02

darling. Crash.

55:04

T V crowd or whatever

55:06

that. Goods

55:09

is more valuable. Then

55:12

you know of unread and am taken

55:14

Danielson out of this good. There's more

55:16

because of his name, his reputation in

55:19

Sadr, even though he's doing some screwing

55:21

things these days. But. Good there

55:23

is more valuable than all those other guys ahead

55:25

of him on the roster together as a name

55:27

on your card to. Attract people

55:29

are on your show. To attract

55:32

viewers is just goddamn business. And.

55:35

They can't. Average

55:37

air. I don't understand what's going

55:39

to. Tag team of the year Southern A Midnight

55:41

Express have one in the past. Tense.

55:44

Him as he were three As and forty four

55:47

first place votes and two thousand, three hundred and

55:49

forty one total points. As

55:51

tr. Eighty

55:53

Can't argue with the fact again

55:56

that F T Are are the

55:58

most accomplished tag team. in

56:00

the ring in the business

56:03

today. They've been presented like

56:05

complete shit and we'll talk about that later

56:07

on. But I think even

56:09

the AEW crowd has

56:14

to begrudgingly admit that

56:17

the guys that don't give them the flips

56:19

in this case are still that good but

56:21

it doesn't help them be presented any better.

56:24

But it's refreshing to see that

56:26

even this audience not

56:29

only recognizes that but apparently the love

56:31

affair with the kooka-monga kids is

56:33

over with because they didn't make top five this

56:36

year, did they? Well I'll go through the list

56:38

here and it really falls off quick and it

56:40

shows the sad state of tag team wrestling but

56:43

the Bucks didn't do much this year which makes

56:45

it stand out even more that they're even on

56:47

the list. One FTR, two Kevin Owens and Sami

56:49

Zayn. Three, they're broken

56:51

up. Hiroki Goto and Yoshi

56:54

Hashi. Okay. Four,

56:56

Takuyo Nomura. Oh come

56:58

on. And Fuminori Abe

57:01

I believe. Oh followed

57:05

by number five the Young Bucks. 42

57:07

first place votes. 42 first

57:10

place votes. So it's still

57:12

okay. Maybe I

57:14

was willing to give these people

57:16

too much benefit of the doubt. The

57:18

rest of the top ten Mark Davis and Kyle

57:21

Fletcher at six. Number

57:23

seven Francesco Akira

57:26

and TJP. Who are

57:28

these fucking people? Number

57:30

eight the Usos. Number

57:34

nine June and Ray Saito.

57:37

And number ten the acclaimed. With

57:39

11 first place votes.

57:41

Alright well the only two

57:44

out of the three we've heard

57:46

of the acclaimed obviously. The

57:48

other two tag teams in the top ten

57:50

that anybody ever fucking heard of. Sami

57:53

Zayn, Kevin Owens and the

57:55

Usos have been broken up. No

57:58

there are no tag teams in any. these

58:00

fucking companies that are over and

58:02

worth the shit, which is again,

58:04

you know, more of the tragedy of FTR

58:07

being the, you know,

58:11

do they feel like the last unicorn is there

58:14

any way for them to somehow inseminate

58:17

somebody with the grasp of, and

58:20

I mean, even they they're trying so hard,

58:22

but what the fuck

58:24

is the rest of that really seriously. And

58:27

we ought to be all ashamed of ourselves

58:29

as a collective wrestling industry, that

58:31

that's the state of tag team wrestling. Let's

58:34

talk about the state of interviews, best

58:36

on interviews, an award you previously won

58:38

four times or five times. Yeah. How

58:40

come awards get named after Luzez,

58:43

Ric Flair, Daddy Hodge,

58:45

Koichi Yoshizawa, Bruiser

58:49

Brody, but I don't get this

58:51

award named after me. Or

58:54

the, or either that, or the non-wrestling personality

58:57

renamed it from manager of the year, I'd

58:59

have one of these words named after me

59:01

after I won 12 or 13 of

59:04

them. Well, you are a

59:06

five time winner of best on interviews. Uh,

59:10

I don't know if anyone else has wanted

59:12

this, I'm going to call it the Jim

59:14

Cornette Memorial best on interviews. Well, wait, don't

59:16

call it Memorial. Well, Dave, maybe that's the

59:19

loophole. I don't want it yet. Oh, okay.

59:21

We'll go, but if he'll do the non-wrestling

59:23

personality slash manager of the year for that.

59:26

Well, best on interviews with 199. Watching

59:28

beef addictive and name it after Heyman. Well,

59:31

they're still friends. 199 first place votes. Eddie

59:35

Kingston, also 1483 points right on

59:37

his tail. Second

59:43

with 141st place votes and 1441 total points. So

59:50

just within, within reach MJF

59:55

number three, Kristin cage number

59:57

four, John Moxley. Oh, good.

1:00:00

Lord. Number five, Cody Rhodes. Wait

1:00:02

a minute. Wait a minute. You

1:00:04

can find somebody standing on a wooden

1:00:06

crate wearing a bathrobe in the middle

1:00:08

of Central Park that speaks as coherently

1:00:10

as Moxley does. And

1:00:12

if Tony Khan had a little bit of Jack Pfeffer in him,

1:00:14

they would get him on the show and make

1:00:17

him a star. But they haven't. Cody

1:00:20

Rhodes at five, six, Brian Danielson,

1:00:22

Will Osprey at seven, CM

1:00:25

Punk at eight, LA United 9,

1:00:27

and Don Callis, number 10. Wait

1:00:31

a minute. And who was top three again? Eddie

1:00:34

Kingston, MJF, and

1:00:36

Christian Cage. So

1:00:39

you've got people, and again,

1:00:41

this is not in

1:00:45

any way detrimental or insulting

1:00:47

trying to be to Eddie

1:00:49

Kingston, who's good

1:00:51

in short bursts with his

1:00:53

passion and his fervor

1:00:55

and whatever, but you

1:00:58

can't in any universe

1:01:00

explain to me how

1:01:02

someone could consider anyone

1:01:04

except potentially Cody Rhodes or

1:01:07

CM Punk, depending on your

1:01:09

tastes and preferences, as

1:01:12

the equivalent of a verbal

1:01:14

performer in wrestling or

1:01:16

any other genre as

1:01:18

MJF. It's just

1:01:21

ridiculous. A bunch of Eddie's friends

1:01:24

from the independents and

1:01:27

fans from the independents banded together to

1:01:29

do something nice for him, I think,

1:01:31

here because you can't objectively, and that's

1:01:35

no disrespect, Christian Cage. He's

1:01:37

good. He's not in the

1:01:39

level of Cody or Punk or MJF and nobody

1:01:41

else on this list is either. You're

1:01:44

not being objective. Yeah, he's got an incredibly

1:01:46

lame, which is, oh, your father's dead, or,

1:01:49

oh, your wife's horrible, whatever the fuck he

1:01:51

says. Yeah. And

1:01:54

sooner or later, everybody's going to end up dead. So

1:01:57

his gimmick is evergreen. The

1:02:00

problem is it's the green, it stinks. Well,

1:02:02

let's go Jim now to promotion of the

1:02:04

year. Uh-oh. Wait

1:02:07

a minute.

1:02:10

Hold on

1:02:12

here. There's

1:02:15

another one of those things that Tony Khan is

1:02:17

going to have to talk to his eventual therapist

1:02:19

about. With 406 first place votes and 2,359

1:02:21

total points. World

1:02:26

Wrestling Entertainment. Boom. In

1:02:30

second place, All

1:02:32

Elite Wrestling previously

1:02:34

won, let's see, in 2020, 2021, and 2022. So

1:02:38

previous three-time winner. Dthroned, here's

1:02:40

what Dave wrote. Help me finish the

1:02:42

top ten. New Japan Pro Wrestling in third. CMLL

1:02:45

fourth, UFC five. All

1:02:48

Japan six. Stardom seven. Impact

1:02:51

eight. And

1:02:53

Dragon Gate number nine. Goddamn,

1:02:56

Impact can't even beat Stardom. Impact

1:02:58

is the only promotion on this

1:03:00

list with no first place votes.

1:03:04

Oh, that's just like... Oh.

1:03:08

After a record-setting year when it came

1:03:10

to big show viewership and gates, and

1:03:13

being among the most consistent rating draws

1:03:15

in television, the WWE

1:03:18

captured this award over AEW, which

1:03:20

had won it the past three years. You

1:03:23

know it kills him to be rightness. WWE's

1:03:25

success with multiple stadium shows,

1:03:28

creating major matches throughout the year, and

1:03:31

pulling away from AEW after what at

1:03:33

times was a very competitive race. It

1:03:36

was the first time WWE had won

1:03:38

this award since the Attitude Era, a

1:03:41

combination of their turn around and

1:03:43

the struggles at the box office of AEW,

1:03:45

New Japan, and

1:03:48

Stardom. So

1:03:50

I'll stop there, but... Well,

1:03:53

even the choir that he's been

1:03:55

preaching to for

1:03:58

so long has figured out there is a...

1:04:00

ain't no invisible supreme

1:04:02

being in the sky.

1:04:04

It's just Tony and

1:04:06

his disorganized frazzled personality.

1:04:09

Well, speaking of just Tony, let's go to best

1:04:11

weekly TV show. First place with 430 total, wait,

1:04:14

I keep doing this. With

1:04:16

430 votes and 2,707 points, AEW

1:04:18

Dynamite, which has won it every year of its

1:04:26

existence going back to 2019, and second

1:04:29

place, AEW Collision. Wait,

1:04:32

wait, hold up, what? Followed

1:04:34

by SmackDown. No. Followed

1:04:36

by CMLL Super Viurnes or

1:04:38

V-V- what does this say?

1:04:42

Viurne- sorry, ladies and gentlemen, the observer

1:04:44

has small print. Followed by

1:04:46

NXT, followed by Raw,

1:04:48

followed by AEW Rampage, followed

1:04:51

by New Japan on Axis, followed

1:04:53

by Impact Wrestling with no first

1:04:56

place votes once again. Goddamn point,

1:04:58

Impact! Followed by We

1:05:00

Are Startup. Christ! Oh,

1:05:05

so I can understand

1:05:07

that they want their

1:05:09

thing, this thing of theirs to

1:05:11

be in the

1:05:13

first place, they vote for Dynamite,

1:05:15

but they're trying to actually say

1:05:17

with straight faces again that Collision

1:05:19

is a better show than SmackDown.

1:05:21

It's on network television doing two

1:05:23

and a half million people. Well,

1:05:27

Jim, the pro wrestling match of the

1:05:29

year, previously known, I believe as

1:05:31

match of the year, the winner

1:05:34

with 474 first place votes in 3,018 total points. Who

1:05:40

did Will Ostrich wrestle? Will

1:05:42

Ospreay versus Kenny Omega, January

1:05:44

4th in the Tokyo Dome.

1:05:48

The passing of Meltzer's Palace,

1:05:51

instead of a torch, they had a

1:05:54

big fucking dildo and

1:05:56

they wrote Dave's name on the side of

1:05:58

it. They

1:06:00

could only write Dave. They couldn't write Meltzer because they

1:06:02

didn't have enough room. And

1:06:05

Kenny handed it off to Willie. In

1:06:09

second place. They call it the hand

1:06:11

jive. Willie and the hand jive. In

1:06:13

second place from June

1:06:15

25th in Toronto, Kenny Omega

1:06:17

versus Will Osprey. In

1:06:22

third place, MJF versus Brian

1:06:24

Daniels in San Francisco, March 5th. Oh

1:06:27

yeah, that couldn't possibly compare to

1:06:29

the two leaping

1:06:32

Andretti brothers. Followed in fourth

1:06:34

place by Swerve Shrickland versus

1:06:36

Adam Page, November 18th

1:06:39

in Los Angeles. Oh good Lord.

1:06:41

That was the garbage match spectacular,

1:06:43

wasn't it? Followed by FCR versus

1:06:46

White and Robinson. Oh,

1:06:48

okay. The greatest tag team match

1:06:50

of modern times and all of

1:06:52

television history managed to

1:06:55

come in number five behind the

1:06:57

preening prancing primadonnas. Followed

1:06:59

by Brian Danielson versus Zack Saver Jr.

1:07:03

Followed by Ketsuhiku

1:07:05

Nakajima versus Kento

1:07:07

Miyahara. Fuck. July 15th. Followed

1:07:11

by Will Osprey versus Tetsuya Naito.

1:07:14

Followed by Queen's Quest versus

1:07:18

Odo Tai. What? June 25th in

1:07:20

Tokyo. Wait a

1:07:22

bit. What number of match of the year

1:07:25

is that on the list? That's number

1:07:27

nine with 19 first place votes and 189

1:07:29

total points. How

1:07:31

did fucking 19 people

1:07:34

see that match? Who are those

1:07:36

people? I couldn't

1:07:38

tell you. My first guess would be

1:07:40

we are stardom, but who knows? And

1:07:42

finally, number 10 on the list. Gunther

1:07:44

versus Sheamus versus Drew McIntyre. Well,

1:07:49

at least they squeaked in under the wire.

1:07:52

We will now go to the category B

1:07:54

awards. These are determined by

1:07:56

first place votes only. Lick, ladies and gentlemen,

1:07:58

these are even less. important. But

1:08:01

once again, these are determined by first place votes only. And

1:08:03

when you ask about who's voting on this, if

1:08:06

Dave has a few thousand

1:08:08

subscribers, let's say, you could

1:08:10

tell based on the first place votes, if you add them

1:08:12

up, just a general idea of what a

1:08:14

small percentage of his readership are

1:08:17

actually voting on these things. But

1:08:19

the United States and Canada MVP,

1:08:23

in first place, Cody

1:08:25

Rhodes with 268 votes,

1:08:29

followed by Bryan Danielson, MJF,

1:08:32

Roman Reigns, John

1:08:35

Moxley, Irish Cassidy,

1:08:37

Kenny Omega, CM

1:08:40

Punk, Seth Rollins, and Sami

1:08:42

Zane with an honorable mention for

1:08:44

Christian Cage. Oh,

1:08:47

how honorable can you be when

1:08:49

you can't even place in a top 10

1:08:51

with that crew? What do you think Cody

1:08:53

Rhodes, a US, Canada MVP? I

1:08:56

think that's fair to say. I

1:08:58

think that's something that's so obvious that you

1:09:00

can't really deny it, which is why he

1:09:02

won this thing with this skewed voting base.

1:09:06

And then they got to begrudgingly stick Roman

1:09:08

Reigns in there because he's the, you know,

1:09:11

on top of the biggest drawing shows in

1:09:13

the world. But again,

1:09:15

I think

1:09:18

if they are actually making new fans

1:09:21

that believe in some universe

1:09:23

that people like pockets and these

1:09:25

comedy figures that they place on

1:09:28

these lists or these just obscure

1:09:31

whoever's that they put

1:09:33

on these lists are over, I

1:09:35

think that's what's driving the

1:09:37

long time fans of wrestling away.

1:09:39

We have to look at shit

1:09:41

like this. Can they really be

1:09:44

important enough to these people? Or again,

1:09:46

is this just trolling

1:09:48

voting or what's

1:09:52

the, as the kids say, the ironic voting?

1:09:56

I can't see how anybody would put

1:09:58

these people on in that company. The.

1:10:00

In a logical universe. Or.

1:10:03

We now go to the Koichi

1:10:06

Yoshizawa Award for Japanese Mvp. Will.

1:10:09

Ah, spray slicer. Thirty four

1:10:11

votes. Did. Anybody from Japan actually

1:10:14

get to be an Mvp in Japan.

1:10:16

Hundred will so elisa know he's your

1:10:18

winters non japanese hall by Okada. Now

1:10:20

you tell me. Ahora! A

1:10:22

Yoga a D A yo a

1:10:24

a miata. Jozy

1:10:27

out about the name is

1:10:29

a yo Tam economy hello

1:10:31

to the goose guy Julio

1:10:34

Sonata, Chino and my you

1:10:36

know. You.

1:10:38

Can lose your ass. Play it as yet.

1:10:41

The. Mexico Mvp gym me sick

1:10:43

though me see go foul

1:10:45

by l he hotel by

1:10:47

to go up smoking romero.

1:10:50

Wait, A minute. Wait A minute. The.

1:10:52

State of Wrestling and Mexico

1:10:54

right now is so. More.

1:10:58

A Bond and. Putrid,

1:11:00

And has the stench of grizzly

1:11:02

death upon it so badly that

1:11:04

the second biggest star in Mexico

1:11:07

is L. He whole deal viking

1:11:09

know. We've. Seen him

1:11:11

he is the ships. Was.

1:11:15

Not as bad as commander of

1:11:17

around. We have the list Rocky

1:11:19

Ramiro, Volvo Door Junior and Pentagon

1:11:21

Jr the Europe Mvp Gym. Will.

1:11:24

Ah Spray would settlements of ecstasy for

1:11:26

votes up for how does he have

1:11:28

time? What is your no guns. Airline

1:11:31

where he couldn't fly backwards around

1:11:33

the world And dirtbag time. How

1:11:35

his kitty possibly be. The.

1:11:37

Greatest wrestler on. Man.

1:11:39

Continents around the world, Old same

1:11:42

time, The. Hodge Award.

1:11:44

For. Non heavyweight Mvp Will

1:11:46

Osprey the winner El Hilo

1:11:49

though vaccine go abroad with.

1:11:53

No Oh no. them

1:11:55

spiking words. no

1:11:59

idea Yeah, shouldn't it? Danny

1:12:01

Hodge would have his handgun

1:12:03

out at whoever compared him

1:12:05

to El Hejo del Vikingo.

1:12:08

Can you imagine a bigger insult

1:12:10

than a guy? Danny

1:12:12

Hodge was a national sports hero in

1:12:14

the United States before he ever turned

1:12:17

professional wrestler and he was one of

1:12:19

the most feared men ever to step

1:12:22

foot in a wrestling ring. And

1:12:24

the only reason people are afraid of Vikingo

1:12:26

is they're afraid they're going to have to

1:12:28

fucking watch him. Well,

1:12:30

for the record El Hejo del Vikingo

1:12:32

won last year, this award was created

1:12:34

in 2018, the first two years the

1:12:36

winner was Will Ospreay and

1:12:40

in between Hiromu Takahashi and

1:12:42

Darby Allen also won the award, but

1:12:44

this year, the top 10 after Vikingo,

1:12:48

Takahashi, Darby Allen,

1:12:50

Orange Cassidy, Mystico,

1:12:53

Titan and El Desperado are

1:12:56

tied, followed by Mike Bailey, Brian

1:12:59

Danielson and Rocky Romero. The

1:13:03

women's wrestling MVP, Rhea

1:13:05

Ripley with 359 first place votes.

1:13:09

Well, and is that another one you

1:13:11

just can't deny because it's, it

1:13:14

would be ridiculous and to think

1:13:16

otherwise and, and

1:13:18

they're not fucking trolling. I don't know, but

1:13:21

who else is on the list? But I

1:13:23

mean, is there anybody else deserving of being

1:13:25

on the list? Well, this is our first

1:13:27

time winning. Also on the list are Julia,

1:13:30

Athena, Tam Nakano, Becky Lynch, Tony Storm, Suzu

1:13:33

Suzuki, Miu

1:13:35

Yamashita, Mayu

1:13:37

Iwatani, and Sury. Or

1:13:41

Sury. I don't know exactly how you pronounce it. S-Y-U-R-I.

1:13:44

Sury. Sury.

1:13:48

It's something in there. Sury,

1:13:50

Sury, you S-Sury. All

1:13:56

right, Tobu Jiju here on the show today. Ladies

1:14:00

and gentlemen, we've got a really

1:14:02

big show. I hear you at Topo G Joe and

1:14:05

Siri. Um, so

1:14:07

basically Becky Lynch and Rhea

1:14:09

Ripley are pretty

1:14:12

much the biggest wrestling women's wrestling stars in

1:14:14

the world and they like Tony storm. Cause

1:14:16

she's on their favorite little outlaw program. And

1:14:18

I don't know who this fucking, well,

1:14:20

let's go to feud of the year. Again, this

1:14:22

is another award that you in the midnight express

1:14:24

previously won for your feud with the fantastic. So

1:14:27

do they have feuds anymore? Well, feud

1:14:29

of the year, Sammy Zane and Kevin Owens

1:14:31

versus the bloodline, which you forget it's

1:14:33

a while ago, but that wasn't pretty hot thing for

1:14:36

the first quarter of last year. Yeah. Yeah. Followed

1:14:39

by Adam Page versus Swerve Strickland. Kento

1:14:42

Miyahara versus Katsuhiku

1:14:45

Nakajima. Oh, come on. Followed

1:14:47

by Kenny Omega versus Will

1:14:50

Ospre. Followed by Adam

1:14:52

Page versus Jon Moxley. Oh, good.

1:14:54

Followed by elite versus DCC. Oh,

1:14:58

followed by Rocky Romero versus Volador

1:15:01

Jr. Followed by

1:15:03

Roman Reigns versus Jay Uso. Followed

1:15:06

by Cody Rhodes versus Brock Lesnar

1:15:08

and coming in 10th MJF versus

1:15:11

the devil. So

1:15:13

I was right. They don't have feuds anymore.

1:15:17

I bet. What, what can you

1:15:19

even say? God, that's

1:15:21

embarrassing. Most improved.

1:15:25

With 117 votes, Julia Hart, most improved. I'd

1:15:31

have to hear who she's rating over the

1:15:33

top of before I could buy

1:15:35

that statement. In

1:15:38

second place, Dominik Mysterio. In

1:15:41

third place, Mariah May tied with

1:15:43

Shota Umino. Wait a

1:15:45

minute. How can Mariah May have improved?

1:15:47

We never saw her until fucking six

1:15:49

weeks ago. Well, he wrestled more than

1:15:51

once. The observer reader saw her in

1:15:53

her most primitive of stages. And then

1:15:55

of course she became a star in

1:15:57

stardom and now she takes that stardom.

1:16:00

To America to be the backup in

1:16:02

the coming form. Where she becomes

1:16:05

a shooting star that turns

1:16:07

into a comet and

1:16:09

sooner or later craters out in New

1:16:11

Mexico somewhere. Well number five on the

1:16:13

list swerve Strickland followed by

1:16:16

Yoda Tsuji followed by

1:16:18

Trik Williams followed by a

1:16:20

tie with Big Bill and

1:16:23

Hikuleo followed by

1:16:25

the Gun Brothers. I

1:16:29

like the Gun Brothers, I can't really

1:16:31

tell whether or not

1:16:34

they've improved over the last

1:16:36

year because they're usually in something

1:16:38

we either on something we don't watch or in

1:16:40

something we don't want to see. And

1:16:45

I don't know who most of the people on

1:16:47

that list are but I'll tell you what, I

1:16:49

think of all the names you mentioned, I'd

1:16:51

go with Big Bill. He

1:16:54

is worlds above speaking

1:16:56

and in the ring what

1:16:59

he looked like when we first saw him whether that was a

1:17:01

year ago or a year and a half or however long it's

1:17:03

been. I'd go with Big Bill,

1:17:06

I don't notice a noticeable

1:17:08

difference in any of those other people if

1:17:10

I could pick him out of a police

1:17:12

lineup. Well Dominick's gotten better at the art

1:17:15

of being a heel swerve Strickland, I don't know if

1:17:17

he's gotten better, he's just used better. He's

1:17:19

just using him better than I used him. And

1:17:22

I forgot about Dominick being on it when

1:17:24

I zoned out with some of those names

1:17:26

but Dominick just by virtue of having a

1:17:28

year's more experience is better but

1:17:32

I don't know if it's a drastic light

1:17:36

bulb moment or whether he's just getting better and

1:17:38

better, whatever. I think Big Bill,

1:17:41

when I first saw him, wasn't worth a shit and

1:17:44

it was like a year and a half ago. Dominick

1:17:47

wasn't worth two shits, it was a baby face when

1:17:49

we first saw him but that was what

1:17:51

about three years ago now or more. charismatic

1:18:01

I'll go through this one quickly the

1:18:03

winner MJF followed

1:18:05

by Roman Reigns, Kento

1:18:07

Miyahara, Julia, Cody

1:18:10

Rhodes, Eddie Kingston, Orange

1:18:13

Cassidy and Simon Punker tied, Swirl

1:18:18

Strickland, LA

1:18:20

Knight and Dominic Mysterio rounding out the

1:18:22

top ten. What the fuck? That's like

1:18:26

from one extreme to the other you

1:18:28

have the punks and Roman

1:18:30

Reigns and Cody's that have all the

1:18:32

personality and the magnetism and the charisma

1:18:34

in the world and then you go

1:18:37

to the fucking goofiest

1:18:39

preliminary bullshit you can find.

1:18:41

I don't

1:18:43

understand. Well the Bryan

1:18:46

Danielson Award for Best Technical

1:18:48

Wrestler. There's another one's named. I'm

1:18:50

telling you I want the Best

1:18:53

Non-Wrestling Performer Award. Well

1:18:55

the Bryan Danielson Award goes to Bryan

1:18:57

Danielson in first place with

1:18:59

549 votes followed by

1:19:01

only two other people got votes, Zack Sabre Jr.

1:19:04

with 427 votes and Josh

1:19:07

Alexander with 17 votes. Well

1:19:10

really how can you argue with that? Who

1:19:13

else should win the Bryan

1:19:15

Danielson Award with Bryan Danielson? In

1:19:17

the years that Bryan Danielson didn't win when he was

1:19:19

retired Zack Sabre Jr. won the award. So the only

1:19:21

two people to win it since

1:19:23

it was named after him are him and Zack Sabre

1:19:25

Jr. The Bruiser

1:19:28

Brody Memorial Award for Best

1:19:30

Brawler. The winner with 383 votes. Jon

1:19:33

Moxley. Oh good lord. Followed

1:19:36

by Tomohiro Uzi. Oh no,

1:19:38

I can't take it. Followed

1:19:40

by Adam Page, Eddie Kingston,

1:19:42

Gunther, Rush, or

1:19:45

Ruch, Shingo Takagi,

1:19:48

Julia, and then tied

1:19:50

is Samoa Joe and Sheamus with

1:19:52

seven votes. The

1:19:55

best one... Oh go ahead. Hold on, they

1:19:57

don't even know what they're talking about or

1:19:59

what... or what the description

1:20:01

of the category is apparently,

1:20:03

because Gunther is not

1:20:06

only a wrestler

1:20:08

but a wrestling heel. He's

1:20:12

not a brawler

1:20:14

at all. That's his whole

1:20:16

gimmick is that he's a physical athletic

1:20:18

wrestling heel as they used to say

1:20:20

in the old days. And

1:20:23

what they're looking for is apparently is

1:20:25

people who do stupid garbage wrestling and

1:20:28

they don't care whether it looks phony

1:20:30

or not. In

1:20:32

that case, Moxley is your

1:20:34

man. But

1:20:37

this is a whole audience where this

1:20:39

stuff is not embarrassing

1:20:42

to them and it is

1:20:44

to people who

1:20:46

have enjoyed wrestling for a long time

1:20:48

and respected it, considered it an

1:20:50

art rather than a place

1:20:53

where people who bite the

1:20:56

heads off chickens go to retire.

1:21:00

You can still see the feathers coming out of

1:21:02

Moxley's mouth. Well Jim, we will

1:21:04

go to Best Flying Wrestler. The

1:21:07

winner with 595 votes, El

1:21:09

Hijo Del Vikingo, followed by

1:21:12

Will Ospre, Ray Phoenix,

1:21:15

Mascara Dorada, Commander,

1:21:19

Neon, Ninja

1:21:21

Mac, Mystico,

1:21:24

El Phantasmo, The

1:21:27

Starlight Kid, and Titan.

1:21:31

To show you just

1:21:33

how badly the

1:21:37

knowledge of wrestling of the Observer

1:21:39

readers has eroded in the last

1:21:41

30 or 35

1:21:43

years since it's started

1:21:45

being published, you

1:21:49

know Bobby Eaton won Best Flying Wrestler

1:21:51

one year. And

1:21:55

just like Bruiser Brody would be embarrassed

1:21:57

to get in the ring with fucking

1:21:59

Jon Moxley, Bobby

1:22:01

would be embarrassed that these glorified

1:22:05

fucking B-level flunk out fucking

1:22:07

high school gymnast would be

1:22:11

in the running for any kind

1:22:14

of award in the wrestling business.

1:22:16

Their shit stinks. It looks phony.

1:22:18

It's contrived. It's fake. It's

1:22:21

horseshit. And it's

1:22:23

all interchangeable. That's

1:22:26

like picking the best fucking set

1:22:29

of legs on the 20 girl chorus line.

1:22:31

Who gives a shit? They're all fucking legs.

1:22:33

You can't tell them apart. It's

1:22:36

the stars you're looking at. I thought he

1:22:39

won that award too. He didn't. Bobby never

1:22:41

won best flying wrestler. He

1:22:43

won. I'm sorry. He did play

1:22:45

second. He won most, most underrated,

1:22:48

most underrated three times, three

1:22:50

separate times. Concurrently once, once or

1:22:52

twice when we were the world

1:22:55

tag team champions. Well, let's,

1:22:57

uh, we'll go to most underrated in a

1:22:59

moment. Most overrated number one, Sonata, followed

1:23:02

by Roman Reigns, CM

1:23:04

Punk, Tyrus,

1:23:08

MJF, Austin Theory,

1:23:10

Matt Jax, Chris Jericho,

1:23:12

LA Knight, and

1:23:15

Jake Lee. I

1:23:17

can understand them taking their venting

1:23:20

and frustration out on Punk because

1:23:22

he's successful despite their

1:23:24

best efforts. But why

1:23:26

are these people mad at MJF now? I

1:23:28

think he's overrated. Well, he

1:23:30

didn't have the best year, but

1:23:33

a lot of that was because of what he was working, who

1:23:36

he was working with in the feud and everything else, but most

1:23:39

underrated. Chad Gable

1:23:42

with 84 votes, followed

1:23:44

by Konosuke Takesta,

1:23:47

Daniel Garcia, Mike Bailey,

1:23:51

Yoda Tsuji, Ricochet,

1:23:54

Roosh, Commander,

1:23:58

Britt Baker, and Anna. page.

1:24:01

Where's gravity? He's

1:24:04

not underrated, he's rated just right.

1:24:08

Rookie of the year Jim, the winner,

1:24:10

I'm sure you already sang it in

1:24:12

your head, Yuma Anzai! Yuma

1:24:16

Anzai followed by

1:24:18

Action Andretti! Oh

1:24:21

come on!

1:24:26

Well that was number two, number three, Megan

1:24:28

Bain, number four,

1:24:31

Oleg Bolton, number five,

1:24:33

Kehlani Jordan, number

1:24:35

six, Oba Femi. Oh who

1:24:38

what? Number seven, Billy Starks. I've

1:24:40

heard of her. Hey who? Oba

1:24:42

Femi-nen. Oba Femi, O-B-A, and

1:24:45

then the last name is F-E-M-I.

1:24:47

Obie? Oba Femi. Obie Femi? Oba

1:24:49

Femi, I misspoke. Right before Oba

1:24:51

is Oleg Bolton. So Oleg Bolton,

1:24:53

Kehlani Jordan, Oba Femi. Wait a

1:24:55

minute, that was me.

1:24:57

Michael Bolton and Oleg Tatarov had a fucking

1:24:59

kid? Oleg Tatarov, very impressive that that'd be

1:25:02

the person you mentioned. I don't believe that

1:25:04

this is the spawn of them. How

1:25:07

about Oleg Cassini? I don't know why you think the

1:25:09

spawn of them would just take each of their name

1:25:11

and combine it together. I don't know which one of

1:25:13

them you think might have gotten

1:25:19

pregnant if what I was saying

1:25:21

had any basis in reality. Number

1:25:23

seven, Billy Starks, number eight, Santana

1:25:26

Jackson, tied with Futuro. That is

1:25:28

how you say that. And number ten, Wakana

1:25:31

Urahara for

1:25:33

Rookie of the Year. Best non-bre- What

1:25:36

was Bron Breaker was last year, right?

1:25:38

Bron Breaker won it last year. So

1:25:40

we go from Bron Breaker to that

1:25:43

fucking list, is there a future for

1:25:45

the wrestling business? What bunch

1:25:47

of fucking nobodies? Where is the last

1:25:50

five years? 2018 Rookie of the Year

1:25:52

Ronda Rousey? 2019 Jungle Boy Jack

1:25:56

Perry? 2020 Pat McAfee? Twenty

1:26:00

Twenty One Jade Cargill. And.

1:26:02

Twenty Twenty two. Brown Breaker. That.

1:26:05

A lot about rookie The or To me, Jade, it's almost

1:26:07

like she's a rookie again. You know. But.

1:26:10

It's the same point. at least you

1:26:12

know everybody there except for. The.

1:26:16

Odd duck in the middle who was

1:26:18

that middle one didn't fit scapegoat, Just

1:26:20

Perry. Georgia Perry that didn't work out

1:26:23

well. Ah, but. You

1:26:25

don't' you? Should. Go from

1:26:27

at least the potential of all those

1:26:29

other names, weather and. Car.

1:26:32

Your case has been realized are not.

1:26:35

To. Put. A

1:26:37

foot. There's nobody there. Who.

1:26:39

A bad year for grown crops.

1:26:41

Speaking of, there's nobody there. Best

1:26:44

known wrestler Now this used to be

1:26:46

manager of the year. He

1:26:48

account those coronets down air at

1:26:51

Schwab Am. I'm lobbying to have

1:26:53

this the Gym Coronet Award for

1:26:55

best non wrestling personality because I

1:26:58

have one. That. Award more

1:27:00

times than anybody else is what any

1:27:02

of these a war will genders recognizes

1:27:04

mans her the year which existed from

1:27:06

Nineteen Eighty Three, The Ninety Ninety Six

1:27:08

you wanted. One. Two

1:27:10

three four, five, six,

1:27:12

Seven. Sorry. Martell

1:27:14

Eight nine, ten, eleven,

1:27:17

twelve times. The. Only

1:27:19

people who wanted another been on t go

1:27:21

one further ahead, did not pick up another

1:27:23

one will then we became best known wrestler

1:27:26

you want again in two thousand and six

1:27:28

Yeah best man Rustler and they took some

1:27:30

years off and by the way Sherry One

1:27:32

and bless her but that's the year that

1:27:35

I was though took off while I was

1:27:37

started smoking amount wrestling so I was not

1:27:39

in the running while the winter this year

1:27:41

with two hundred and sixty six votes. Don.

1:27:44

Talus. Followed

1:27:47

by Paul Heyman. Okay,

1:27:50

All right, And

1:27:53

without even being in any

1:27:55

way. Over. vivid

1:27:57

less than complementary

1:28:00

to my old buddy Don. There's

1:28:03

no way on

1:28:05

earth where anybody can objectively

1:28:08

look at that

1:28:10

and say that Paul Heyman

1:28:12

is being outperformed in his

1:28:14

chosen profession by Don Callis

1:28:16

or almost anybody else. It's

1:28:19

just not possible to objectively say

1:28:22

that. Well,

1:28:24

let's go through the rest of the list. Paul

1:28:26

Heyman number two, number three, Prince Nana, number

1:28:28

four Rene Paquette,

1:28:31

number five. Hold on a second.

1:28:34

Now we've got where I used

1:28:37

to have some stiff competition that I had to elbow

1:28:39

out of the way on his son of a bitch.

1:28:43

We are talking and think of all the great

1:28:46

managers that I had to contend with the

1:28:48

JJ Dylans and the Gary Harts and the

1:28:51

Oliver Humberdinks of the world and

1:28:54

the Jimmy Harts, much

1:28:56

less the Gary Harts.

1:28:58

Nana, love him to death but

1:29:01

he never speaks, he dances and Rene

1:29:04

Moxley Goode is

1:29:06

a fucking interviewer. Not

1:29:10

even an interviewer that does anything different than

1:29:12

all the other interviewers. She

1:29:14

just has a bigger wardrobe. That's

1:29:17

the top four non-wrestling personalities

1:29:20

in. I

1:29:22

mean, maybe Marvez hadn't broken into his

1:29:24

secret closet at home. He might have

1:29:26

stuff that puts hers to shame

1:29:28

but... Well, number

1:29:31

five on the list, RJ City

1:29:33

tied with Nick Aldis followed by

1:29:35

Nigel McGinnis followed

1:29:37

by Samantha Irvin. So

1:29:41

what was manager of the year now has interviewers

1:29:44

and ring announcers. Okay, and

1:29:46

again, Nick Aldis has been remarkable and

1:29:48

is being used in a prominent position

1:29:50

that he's done well at in a

1:29:52

fucking major company on television. So is

1:29:54

Adam Pearce, he belongs on that list,

1:29:58

over one of their fucking ringing... announcers?

1:30:01

How much ad-libbing is the ring announcer allowed

1:30:03

to do? What are the

1:30:06

skill level

1:30:08

involved in being a fucking ring

1:30:10

announcer, for God's sake? If

1:30:13

you can speak in public and read the card

1:30:15

and have any kind of

1:30:17

personality... Well, speaking

1:30:22

of personality, best television announcer,

1:30:25

this is an esteemed award previously won by

1:30:27

people like Gordon Sully, Lance Russell, Jim Ross,

1:30:29

and Mike Tenet. Joey Stiles had

1:30:31

a little run there too. The

1:30:34

winner this year, once again, Excalibur!

1:30:36

183 votes, right behind him,

1:30:40

139 votes. Ian Riccobani, followed

1:30:42

by Kevin Kelly, Nigel McGinnis,

1:30:45

Chris Charlton, Michael Cole, Tony

1:30:47

Schiavone, Taz, Jim Ross,

1:30:49

and Jay Church. Jay

1:30:52

Church? I don't know who

1:30:54

Jay may be. Well, going back to

1:30:56

the top of that list, I

1:30:59

will admit that JR had

1:31:01

more energy in his youth.

1:31:04

Michael Cole, even though he's professional

1:31:06

and polished and on

1:31:08

the big program, he's not the

1:31:10

most wrestling fan-friendly announcer because of

1:31:13

his Vince and Kevin Dunn

1:31:15

training. But

1:31:17

what's the fuck again? It's the matter with

1:31:19

people that can't tell the difference between Ian

1:31:21

Riccobani, who's a guy

1:31:25

that's trying to do a professional fucking

1:31:27

job and inject some

1:31:29

personality into it from this basement,

1:31:32

pop-tart eating fucking

1:31:34

masked mark that

1:31:37

is just screaming endless Japanese

1:31:39

words and phrases to his

1:31:41

fucking VHS trading buddies from

1:31:43

25 years ago, even

1:31:45

though he's a middle-aged man who, after

1:31:48

I've seen a picture of him without that sock

1:31:50

on his face, I understand why he wears it.

1:31:52

He's an ugly, ugly man. He is

1:31:54

not a good-looking man. There's

1:31:58

a number of things wrong with his

1:32:00

face that surgery would need

1:32:02

to repair and implants and

1:32:05

sometimes something in parts of it some

1:32:07

stuff needs to be taken out as

1:32:10

well as other parts needs to be put in. But

1:32:13

what the fuck? Seriously? Well

1:32:15

the worst television announcer in first

1:32:18

place was Booker T followed by

1:32:20

Kevin Patrick the panting announcer followed

1:32:23

by Jim Ross, Michael Cole,

1:32:26

Corey Graves, Kevin Kelly,

1:32:28

Chris Jericho, Matt

1:32:30

Stryker, Vic Joseph and

1:32:34

Tony Schiavone. I don't

1:32:36

see why anybody would vote for Kevin Kelly

1:32:38

as the worst over some of the rogues

1:32:40

gallery of names that were just listed and

1:32:43

to vote. For

1:32:45

Jim Ross being the worst announcer when he's

1:32:47

72 years old and he's had fucking multiple

1:32:49

surgeries and health issues just don't put his

1:32:52

name down. Don't vote for him for anything

1:32:54

out of a little common respect. And there

1:32:56

are fans who voted for Schiavone as one

1:32:58

of the announcers of the year so this

1:33:01

certainly just a whack fanbase that doesn't understand

1:33:03

what professional wrestling commentary is supposed to do

1:33:05

and how effective it should be. But

1:33:08

Jim the best major wrestling show

1:33:10

in first place AEW

1:33:13

Revolution March 5th in

1:33:15

San Francisco 188 votes followed by Forbidden

1:33:19

Door in Toronto, AEW All

1:33:21

In in London, WrestleMania

1:33:24

Night One, AEW All Out

1:33:26

Chicago, Stardom All

1:33:28

Star Queendom, New Japan Pro

1:33:31

Wrestling Wrestle Kingdom, Ring of

1:33:33

Honor, Kiji Muto's Last Love,

1:33:36

what? AEW Wrestle... Wait a minute

1:33:38

Kiji Muto did a porn flick

1:33:40

and Ring of Honor? Well apparently the

1:33:43

event at the Tokyo Dome says

1:33:45

Ring of Honor. It was a Ring

1:33:47

of Honor show? It says ROH Kiji

1:33:49

Muto's Last Love. I think there's... Dave...

1:33:53

Dave skips his medicine every once in

1:33:55

a while because of his memory. The

1:33:57

thing is pressing on the prefrontal lobe.

1:34:00

Well, let's go to the worst major wrestling

1:34:02

show. Wait, that was just gibberish? I don't

1:34:04

remember what matches were on those fucking shows.

1:34:06

No. That's just

1:34:08

gibberish. I don't know what the fuck

1:34:11

that was. The worst major wrestling show,

1:34:13

WWE Crown Jewel, November 4th in Saudi

1:34:15

Arabia. Followed by NWA Samhain.

1:34:17

I think I was going for cocaine and

1:34:19

shit. Haha. You

1:34:22

know, the fact that nobody

1:34:24

saw that thing and it still made

1:34:26

such an impression indicates that it must

1:34:28

have been fucking rotten. Followed by AEW

1:34:30

World's End, December 30th in Uniondale. I

1:34:34

remember that stunk. That was the worst

1:34:36

AEW show maybe ever. Worst AEW pay-per-view.

1:34:38

Followed by WWE Fastlane, AAA TripleMania.

1:34:43

I was about to say eight and a half. It was on August 12th

1:34:45

here. NWA

1:34:48

75th Anniversary Show, WWE

1:34:51

WrestleMania Night 2, SummerSlam,

1:34:54

WWE Payback, and NWA Nuff Said.

1:34:59

NWA not really winning over fans it seems

1:35:01

like. The best wrestling

1:35:03

maneuver, Jim. The

1:35:05

Will Osprey Hidden Blade. Is

1:35:09

that that shitty looking fucking knee where the people

1:35:11

are on their knees to begin with and he

1:35:13

hits them from behind and they got no bump

1:35:15

to take? I'm not actually

1:35:17

sure but we'll find out shortly. God, that's

1:35:19

fucking right. Is on TV in second place

1:35:22

is Will Osprey with The Stormbreaker.

1:35:26

Followed by The One-Wing Angel by

1:35:28

Kenny Omega. Of course it is.

1:35:30

The El Hijo Del Vikingo's Second

1:35:32

Rope Step-Up 630. What

1:35:35

the f- Followed by The Commander

1:35:37

Rope Walk Shooting Star. Followed

1:35:40

by The Adam Page Buckshot Lariat. Neon's

1:35:43

Ramp Run Double Springboard

1:35:45

Fosberry. What the fuck?

1:35:49

Ilya Dragunov's H-bomb. H-bomb.

1:35:53

Leon Flader's 450 Swanton. And

1:35:58

Okada's Rainmaker. You

1:36:01

know what the best move in wrestling

1:36:03

is? The RKO. Because it's

1:36:05

the only one that nobody kicks out of.

1:36:09

Well, no one keeps out of the one-way danger. I

1:36:11

don't know if we can compare the RKO to the

1:36:13

one-way danger. But okay, the only one that nobody kicks

1:36:15

out of and a man's actually delivering it. Let's

1:36:19

now go to one of the most

1:36:21

interesting ones every year, most disgusting promotional

1:36:23

tactic. I'm going to

1:36:25

go to number one, but then when I do the top

1:36:27

10, see if one of them stands out to

1:36:29

you as being, okay, that doesn't really seem disgusting

1:36:32

in any way. Number

1:36:34

one, WWE enabling Vince

1:36:36

McMahon and him being back in

1:36:38

power slash TKO keeping him

1:36:41

in a position of power with

1:36:43

197 votes. Any

1:36:46

problem with that being number one? I think that's probably the

1:36:48

big one. That's been the big one. I think that would

1:36:50

have had to have won. Number two,

1:36:52

the WWE's continued relationship with

1:36:54

Saudi Arabia. Number

1:36:57

three, the NWA cocaine spot

1:36:59

on pay-per-view. Number

1:37:01

four, I can't even say this anymore. We're not thinking

1:37:03

of you saying it. Power slap.

1:37:06

I mean, continuing on TV

1:37:08

after Dana White slapped his

1:37:10

wife. Come here, honey. Power

1:37:14

slap. Number five, AEW signing

1:37:16

Ric Flair. Number

1:37:19

six, AEW Juice Robinson uses roll

1:37:21

of quarters after the Hamas terrorist

1:37:24

attack and doing an

1:37:26

anti-Semitic angle. Number

1:37:28

seven, TKO ignoring Vince

1:37:30

McMahon and Dana White's transgressions.

1:37:34

Number eight, Colby Colvington

1:37:36

using the death of Leon Edwards's

1:37:39

father to promote a fight. Number

1:37:43

nine, WWE hiring CM Punk.

1:37:46

And number 10, Shawn Strickland

1:37:49

openly homophobic comments with no repercussions

1:37:51

from UFC or TKO.

1:37:54

Honorable mention for Adam Page drinking

1:37:56

Swerve Strickland's blood. on

1:38:01

that list of sexual

1:38:03

perversion and blood

1:38:05

drinking and violence and desecration

1:38:07

of corpses is and

1:38:11

they gave punk a job

1:38:13

hiring cm punk is the

1:38:15

most disgusting promotional package voted

1:38:17

for that that's what's crazy

1:38:19

ah

1:38:22

again does he

1:38:26

have the list of winners in years

1:38:28

past oh yeah this is a

1:38:30

big this award well now but think about this

1:38:32

we just had a list of again perversion

1:38:35

and harassment and you

1:38:38

know double dealing and just

1:38:41

a horrible activity all the

1:38:43

way around from people right what

1:38:45

was 19 was it 1981 read 1981's winner for most disgusting

1:38:50

promotional tactic I'll do the first couple

1:38:53

here 1981 LaBelle promotions

1:38:55

usage of the monster claiming

1:38:58

he was built in a laboratory yes

1:39:00

the fans called that the most disgusting

1:39:03

thing that had happened in a wrestling

1:39:05

promotion all year because they actually said

1:39:07

on TV that it wasn't a guy

1:39:10

in a fucking monster costume that

1:39:12

it really was a fucking monster

1:39:15

built in a laboratory they were about

1:39:17

to go out of business obviously but

1:39:20

that was the worst thing that any promotion

1:39:22

came up with to do that year that

1:39:24

people could vote on my

1:39:26

favorite is 1982 the most disgusting promotional

1:39:28

tack again this year is Vince McMahon's

1:39:30

involvement with the power of WWE and

1:39:32

TKO 1982 Bob backland

1:39:35

is WWF champion yeah

1:39:39

that was the most disgusting thing in

1:39:41

wrestling that whole year the smart

1:39:43

fans hated Bob backland

1:39:46

this smart fans despised

1:39:48

Bob back 1983 WWF

1:39:51

pretending Eddie Gilbert had re-broken his neck after

1:39:54

original legit injury in an auto accident today

1:39:56

is an interesting one they try to use

1:39:58

something legit in an angle And

1:40:01

the small amount of fans then in the know

1:40:04

were offended that they would use the real thing in

1:40:06

an angle? How does that work? Yes,

1:40:08

because, well, here's

1:40:11

nothing to be honest. Eddie was one of the

1:40:13

first guys to get in

1:40:15

the business to recognize the underground

1:40:17

network of the newsletters and the

1:40:20

sheets and the traders and the

1:40:23

not only the tape traders but the program

1:40:25

traders, all that. They could support him and

1:40:28

he was getting publicity out. Remember he cooperated

1:40:31

forever and ever with Terry Justice on the

1:40:33

fan club and all that stuff. And so

1:40:36

a lot of that community

1:40:40

considered Eddie a friend. They'd known him since he

1:40:42

was teenager before he started wrestling when he's going

1:40:45

to the fan club conventions and stuff and doing

1:40:47

a photography. So they were

1:40:49

pissed off that

1:40:51

how dare they try to... He broke his neck

1:40:53

for real in that car wreck and it could

1:40:55

have ended his career and now they're making

1:40:59

light of it I guess. That was a weird

1:41:02

thing with the fans then were

1:41:04

so protective. The smart

1:41:06

fans were

1:41:09

more protective of the integrity of the

1:41:11

business than the goddamn promoters

1:41:13

are now or were then for that

1:41:15

matter. Well Jim, let's go

1:41:17

now to worst television show in

1:41:20

first place with 194 votes, NWA Power followed by

1:41:22

WWE Raw, NXT, Power Slap,

1:41:28

Road to the Title,

1:41:31

AEW Rampage, WWE

1:41:33

Smackdown, AEW Dynamite and Ring of

1:41:35

Honor. This is worst television show.

1:41:37

Well almost every show is on that list

1:41:41

and almost every show at one point

1:41:44

or another is rotten so you can't

1:41:46

really argue at this point but you

1:41:48

know. wrestler,

1:42:00

worst manager, aka

1:42:03

the Mr. Fuji Award. It

1:42:06

was Mr. Fuji every year except it was

1:42:08

Paul Jones and then eventually Sonny Ono took

1:42:10

over the award. Worst match of

1:42:12

the year, Bray Wyatt

1:42:14

versus L.A. Knight at the Royal Rumble. Well,

1:42:18

I mean I don't argue with the concept

1:42:21

because it did stink but there was obviously,

1:42:23

and I know

1:42:25

this audience sees everything, there was two

1:42:27

guys in a fucking converted goddamn paint

1:42:29

and body shop in front of 72

1:42:32

people that I'm sure had a worse match than that

1:42:34

but it didn't get any votes.

1:42:36

Although some of these other people get votes doing

1:42:38

the same thing but I

1:42:40

can agree

1:42:43

with worst major show match of the

1:42:45

year. Real quick,

1:42:47

anything else stands out, Tyrus versus

1:42:49

EC3, Shane McMahon and Snoop Dogg

1:42:51

versus The Miz, Baron

1:42:56

Corbin versus Gable Steeveson,

1:43:00

or Gabe Sapolsky. I

1:43:02

thought it was gonna be some kind of

1:43:04

goddamn showdown there. It'll be sold out at

1:43:06

the curtain, that one. Ronda Rousey

1:43:08

versus Shayna Baszler, Roman Reigns versus

1:43:10

J. Uso, Adam Cole versus Chris

1:43:12

Jericho, Jeff Jarrett versus Jeff Hardy,

1:43:15

Julia Hart versus Abaddon and Adam

1:43:17

Cole versus MJF. Worst

1:43:20

feud of the year, MJF

1:43:23

versus the devil. 167 votes and

1:43:25

there were a lot of bad

1:43:29

ones but I guess maybe because of the amount of

1:43:31

time and the amount of the

1:43:34

amount of time they gave that thing. The

1:43:36

time per show, the length of time that

1:43:39

it stretched on and on, the people that

1:43:41

were involved in it, the amount

1:43:44

of letdown that happened

1:43:46

with the whole thing, all of that

1:43:48

even the AEW faithful couldn't fucking disguise

1:43:50

that. The rest of the top

1:43:53

10 for worst feud of the year, the

1:43:55

outcast versus AEW Originals, Tyrus

1:43:57

versus EC3. Oh good lord. Wanda

1:44:00

Rousey vs. Shayna Baszler Can't

1:44:03

argue with that Adam Cole vs. Chris

1:44:05

Jericho Ooo Keith Lee

1:44:07

vs. Swerve Strickland Ha! Did they ever have

1:44:10

a match or did they just talk nasty

1:44:12

to each other once every few months? Is

1:44:14

it worst feud because it never became a

1:44:16

feud? Is

1:44:18

that something that should make it worse feud? Because

1:44:20

it should have been a feud and it just

1:44:22

never was a feud. That should fucking land in

1:44:24

the best and worst Booker category. Number

1:44:27

7, Evil vs. Sonata Tied

1:44:29

with Bully Ray vs. Scott DeMoor

1:44:32

Here's one we missed Number 9,

1:44:35

Seth Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

1:44:38

And number 10, another guy that real quick had turned into

1:44:40

whatever to him. Where is he again? Miro

1:44:42

vs. CJ Perry Versus

1:44:46

his wife Yeah and

1:44:48

they're gone again! She's

1:44:52

hot, flexible and missing! Ah,

1:44:56

worst promotion of the year. A

1:44:58

runaway this year with 456 votes to NWA! Good

1:45:02

lord! What have they done? Billy

1:45:05

Corgan better hire some private security with

1:45:07

this amount of heat. Second

1:45:09

place triple A followed by WWE. Control

1:45:12

your narrative! MLW,

1:45:16

GCW, ROH,

1:45:18

Pro Wrestling Noah and finally AEW. So

1:45:23

even this audience obviously

1:45:25

has to vote for everybody else

1:45:28

before AEW in worst

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promotion. Best Booker Now

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this is another award that you previously won

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a couple times. Yeah,

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but you know. Actually three times now that

1:45:40

I see it. Yeah, but we know who

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was really accounting on this, who lives

1:45:45

and breathes this type of thing. In

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first place with 360 votes, Paul Leveque Followed

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in second place with 146 votes

1:45:57

by the man who won the previous three

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years, Tony Khan, followed

1:46:08

by Juan Manuel Marr, Shuji

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Ishikawa, Rossi

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Ogawa, Ghetto, Shawn

1:46:20

Michaels, Andy

1:46:22

Quinlan, or Quilden,

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whoever he may be, and Scott

1:46:29

DeMoor with 16 votes,

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that big TNA voting

1:46:34

block, 16 votes for Scott DeMoor for

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Best Booker. You know, isn't

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it a shame there aren't but

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