Jim Cornette Experience - Episode 590: Jim Reviews WWE's Roster, K to Z

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

This week on the Experience, Jim reviews WWE's roster, K to Z! Plus Jim reviews AEW Dynamite, and looks at his TNA stooge test for Terry Taylor! Also, Jim talks about Cowboy Bob Ellis, ratings, deer, Dragnet, and more! Thanks to our episode sponsors: BEAM:  Visit shopbeam.com/JCE and use code JCE  to get our exclusive discount of up to 40% off CHEF IQ SENSE:  Get 15% off now during their flash sale at chefiq.com using promo code JCE SHOPIFY:  Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com/jce Follow Jim and Brian on Twitter: @TheJimCornette @GreatBrianLast Join Jim Cornette's College Of Wrestling Knowledge on Patreon to access the archives & more! https://www.patreon.com/Cornette Subscribe to the Official Jim Cornette channel on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialJimCornette Visit Jim's official site at www.JimCornette.com for merch, live dates, commentaries and more! You can listen to Brian on the 6:05 Superpodcast at 605pod.com or wherever you find your favorite podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Like the midnight and the rock and roll. He's in a fight for wrestling soul using a racket and some mind control. He's Jim Cornett. The keys to the future. Hell by Annette. The addition late of the Jim Coronet experience, it's an inside joke, folks. You'll just have to grin and bear it. Today, we play a game of Find the Stoge.

A.E.W. makes Stooges out of their only stars, and will continue to separate the stars from the Stooges on the WWE roster. And joining me for all this and so much more, Hawaiian Brian the podcasting line, the King of the Arcadian Vanguard podcast network, Mr. Co-host to you, more popular than Joe Besser and Joe Dorita combined. Be great, Brian Last, everybody.

Aloha, Jim, a pleasure to be here once again. I guess firmly in Shemp position for this mother of an episode. we should have a good time here today, I think, I hope, maybe. We can cross our fingers and see what happens. Very shimpish of you. Speaking of mamas, my mama dear, no, no, I'm telling you now, my mama dear, the deer family that has come now to the estate, Mama dear has two, not little babies, they're not a little,

but they're growing up, they're growing fast. Sooner later, they're going to be leaving for, college, who knows what kind of activity they're going to be participating in. But they're just in the mornings usually, although it's been so fucking hot. I don't blame them for sneaking around at night, but in the evening time, you can see them grazing in the feed that I've left out for them underneath the ash tree. And Mama feels comfy since we're all friends here. So she leaves the little ones laying underneath Harley's Redbud tree in the back while she

goes off and does the adult deer things and they wait for her to come back and get them. So we've got them trained. What are the adult deer things? Fucking in the woods? Well, they had to get born some kind of way. I don't know. The, I've told you this before. Have you not listened before to my dissertations on the deer?

The mama deer will leave the babies in a particular place like under a tree or next to some landmark, not just out in the middle of the yard. And then we'll go off and do whatever they do, looking for food or attending to goddamn other needs. And then they come back and get them. Because I got nervous a couple seasons ago when one of the little bitty babies was just laying there under the tree forever.

And I'm like, oh, as mama got lost or is what is, but no, they just stay there until they know somehow. They may wander around a little bit around the area, but they stay in the general vicinity. You didn't know this. No, I did. I mean, it's not really a hidden knowledge or anything about what dears do or deer do. Well, I was just, what a deer do? Well, you're all the time wondering what did he do.

So I like to wonder what the deer do. No, there is video evidence. We know what did he did. Well, but he ain't going to be, didn't it no more. Not for a while, at least. For a little while. And then it's going to be, I think he's going to go just off the chain now. Now it's just going to be fucking baby oil.

Everywhere he goes, he should just get out of the car spraying baby oil in the air. I know. He needs his own baby oil. It's just the chains are off now. He can just act out in public. Good heavens. I don't care. He ain't going to go quietly.

That's the other eye. He's either going to go crazy or he's going to go quiet? Well, what would be the matter was quietly crazy? yeah, I guess that works. Howard Hughes? Yes, he can just grow his fingernails out, sit in the penthouse, and there you hitchhike with Mormons.

That's the Howard Hughes trivia a bit. Anyway, I'm going to go out in public, I'll have you know, in a very short period of time for something that we will be reporting on here on the program later on after it happens. We can't really report on it beforehand, can we? And so to prepare for this, like a good citizen, like a responsible adult, I went out and got my vaccination booster yesterday for the COVID and also got my RSV, which I have neglected to have done.

Brian, you don't have to RSVP, the RSV, yet, because you're not a senior citizen. But have you heard of this RSV they got going on now? I've heard a little bit about it, yeah. Did you get taken care of your HPV also? Now, that is the, what the hell is the, I've heard of the HPV. What is the HPV? I just thought maybe it was something you would have to deal with. I think that's a homeowner's administration I was thinking, the HOA.

But nevertheless, but back to the RSVP. So if you're over 60 or whatever, you could get the RASV. V virus and this could be the end for little corno. Because you're an old person and shit's falling apart anyway. You get this and it's respiratory and then you have no respiration. And as Dream Machine would say, they're ready to have some sad singing and slow walking. And then I got my COVID booster because I just told you about this right before we went on the air, Brian. You had not heard of this, but it's been on the, again, responsible.

legitimate worldwide news that normal people listen to, that the new variation of COVID is being called razor blade throat, where it's uncomfortable for some period of days, even to swallow your own saliva and your tremendous pain. I got it from Vince. Yeah, the gargling razor blade. And then you sound like Vince in his withering ears. for the rest of your life.

Did Vince give it to Laurenitis or did Laurenitis give it to Vince? No, I think probably animal probably kicked Laurenitis in a neck when they were kids for being a goddamn goof. But nevertheless, this razor blade throat, I went to the pharmacist who deals with these types of things and these vaccinations and these boosters and these medications and keeps up on the latest medical bulletins. And I said, I've seen this about the razor blade. throat. And she said, well, yes, that's what they're terming it on television, but it is

one of the predominant forms in certain places. And, but the point is, any and all, COVID infections don't go down in the summertime. They're going up for the summer, because people, for some reason, decide they want to gather in groups and breathe and or sweat or slobber or whatever they do. and the rates are going up so now would be a good time it's not like the flu season in the wintertime that you think of in the summer time

you'll get COVID and die you better get a shot but hey there you get Mungo Jerry he'd be here today but he died no he's alive yeah he's dead unfortunately

but he would wholeheartedly agree with that but the point is for all the rest of you fuckers they won't have eat roadkill and swim in raw sewage like the black sheep of the Kennedy family, I say to you, safe a day. I got too many things going on to me all right.

Brian, I got the echoy squishy ear again. I got that happening. Whenever I try to blow my nose and clear myself from the humidity that this tropical summertime we're having over here is, I got a painful callous, a come and go pain. a callous on my right big toe that I even soaked and scraped with Stacy's help

because I can't bend that far anymore in a lot of cases to get rid of about a month ago sometimes it's fine I'm walking around minding my own business and other times it's like somebody's holding a goddamn lit torch

underneath my big toe so I got I'm falling apart here. And I've told you about the vibration I got going on in the front tooth. The one that has the giant post in it that has been knocked out four or five times. I'm just leaving it alone right now. So I can't afford any more goddamn of infections or defections. Defects.

Well, possibly defect. I can't have anything else defecting from full power here. I'm getting old. I have more wisdom to impart to the people. Full power. Anyway, I got somebody said something to you. Who's this now? I got somebody said something to you.

That's an Oscar Gamble line. I got a card. You know, we just had the 400th episode of the drive-thru. Your show. Some people actually listen to that one too, as well as this one. The people who just can't get enough. and 400 you know

you were kind of say it's not really a monumental it's not like 500 right even 250 sounds better than 400 400 is just kind of in the middle there but I got a card from Joni Aries out to northwest our friend Johnny

not the serial killer Jodi Arius again Brian was a serial killer serial killer. But she says, hello, Jim, because she's, you know what she did for a drive-thru 400, don't you? She made you a cake again? She sent me a cake.

Filled with who knows what? And she says, no, it's filled with goodness. Psycho fans, sending a weird baked shit. Why would you eat that? No, she is, she, I'm telling you, she baked it with love at the store she works at. She sneaks in at night, like that fucking, A genuine legitimate imitation of Louis Vuitton shit, I got from Jeremy Borash. It was a legitimate material.

They just snuck in at night when they were closed and made it and sold it. Nevertheless. Hello, Jim. Brian may not think 400 is a monumental number, but it is and thus deserves cake. Congratulations. I know the drive-through is his show. But since he's previously stated that my cake probably tastes like crap or something along those lines, he will continue to get none of it.

All right, I accept that. Perhaps someday a cupcake will come his way. But until then, Mr. Cornett, enjoy your Northwest Cake lady, Joni. Thank you, Joni. and no cake for you. That's all right. All right, and I got to thank. Remember, I told you,

I didn't tell you, I read it on the air, I'm just, but he was, Richard Hunter sent in, this is some time, I'd been a couple years ago now, I might have, I don't know, the greatest piece of email, he was the guy, or the greatest piece of fan mail, he was the guy that not only

had a dog that had been rescued from that face of shit Michael Vicks dogfighting enterprise or whatever but he was the guy that gave the first first aid to NBA Lamar Odom the NBA player at the horror house in Nevada when he overduxed. So that are you saying it the first first aid? Well it's not like that he was just happened to be

a goddamn trained outfitted paramedic like on fucking emergency all in gear when the guy fucking dropped over from taking 18 million Viagra's or whatever the fuck. He gave first aid until the emergency medical people could get on the scene. Do this in shifts. I'll go first.

Well, you know, hey, he was a basketball player. They couldn't reach from one end to the other to push and fucking pull in the right. Anyway, he was that, do you remember that piece that letter that I read, the description of all those things. And I sent him a picture, sign thanks for the greatest, you know, fan letter we've ever had, whatever. And he not only, he and his girlfriend, Jennifer,

not only sent a picture of that picture framed and sitting on, guess what that he has in his, in his possession, I don't know what room in his house it is, Dusty Hills Roadcase you know the big fucking trunks that they open up like a book and there's the drawers and there's the costume hanging stuff and the mirror and the

he's got done and it's got all the stickers so he's got me sitting on top of Dusty Hills Roadcase but they sent a they had commission because they heard the show when we talked about it and they had commissioned from this artist in Nashville, the most beautiful painting of Harley Quinn you've ever seen in your life.

Stace just melted as soon as she saw it. It's just like she's looking at you. And they sent us that, and a picture of their puppies. They lost one recently. Well, not if she was a senior dog, but you know what I mean. And I just wanted to say thank you to Richard and Jennifer for that. And also, Brian, as you may remember, not a, it was a couple weeks ago, I ventured out into the great public domain to go to Outback Steakhouse for Stacey's mother's birthday dinner. And I was talking about the Outback and the ice cream we had and all the blooming chicken and say, you know, good day, mate, and all that stuff.

and we got an email that was not so complimentary of Outback Steakhouse. And I just, well, it seems like that they're not, they're not trying to work their gimmick. And I'm hearing this now from a number of people that they're not working their gimmick anymore. It's just, you know, they're slacking off on this. But this is from, from Gibb, like as in Barry Robin and Maurice, even Andy. Gibb. Hi, Jim and Brian, in 2002, I moved to the U.S. from Australia. My wife and I moved to Salem, Oregon, where my wife's grandparents told me I should see about getting a job at the local outback. I'd get a lot of tips. So as I fresh off the boat, Aussie, I walked into the restaurant and asked for an application. I filled it out and returned it with my resume. Upon that, the manager asked if I could talk, and I said, no worries in the most Aussie. I'll see. I said, no worries. And the most Aussie. accent possible.

We proceed to have a 20-minute conversation about me applying for a job. Then she told me, since you only have had cooking experience and you're applying to be a server or bartender, you don't have the experience needed for those positions, and they won't be offering me a job there. And I replied, well, couldn't you train me for those positions? As I have one thing you cannot teach your other staff, and that's being an actual Australian. should having me being out on the floor would have more of a positive impact than having me cooking in the back

since your company's whole gimmick is to sell my culture. I've been living in the U.S. for 20 plus years now. I can honestly say I've been in one Outback Steakhouse since. So I've got any chance management from the Salem, Oregon Outback Steakhouse in the early 2000s is listening. Fuck you. I wonder if we've narrowed it down to the point where none of our listeners would qualify for that particular position in that era. Do you think that's an easy hire or do you think it's, you know, he's overreacting.

The idea that he is Australian, and yes, that is their whole gimmick, but he can't cook, he doesn't have any experience doing anything there. I mean, he just wanted to be a server. No, he could cook, but he wanted to be a bartender or a server because, A, they make more tips and B, he's fucking Australian. So I would have said, well, we got a legitimate one here. Let's, let's fucking trade him for something. We can fucking make fun of him, if nothing else. But yeah, I'm saying they're dropping, everybody's dropping.

Have you said cracker barrel now is apparently toning down the old country store aspect and just less cracker? Well, no, less barrel. It's more cracker. It's less barrel. and they're just they're not working their gimmicks anymore it's like Wendy's when they gave up the the Tiffany lamps and the old newspapers

on the Formica tabletops and the carpeting and the ambiance you know after we talked about it on the air a bunch of people sent in the 80s and McDonald's in the 80s and then you know the early 2000s and then now and it once looked like a fun hamburger play Yeah.

And now it just looks like cold and almost like it's on the wrong side of the wall. It looks like the building. Yeah, when you're crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada, and they tell you, I'll pull over there and go in that building. That's where it looks like. Jesus Christ. Anyhow, you know what? You're never going to fucking have to worry about, Brian.

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All right, someone's been watching his Seinfeld reruns. Um, well, you know what's weird? Go ahead. We have Seinfeld on here on Channel 11 at 11 p.m. every night. Um, well, he's Monday to Friday. And you get an hour of Seinfeld, but they're not consecutive. So it'll be like the first half hour is an episode from season two. Ah.

And then the second half hour is an episode from season six. That's bullshit. Yeah, they're great, but it's just like, come on. I'm in the zone of season two, and then you got to where it gets all wacky when Larry David left. No, well, it's on daytimes on the comedy, whatever the comedy network, Comedy Central, whatever they're calling themselves these days,

and or, you know, they do the strip with the Me TV programming where they're playing them in order. It can be done. your station is just playing willy-nilly with the with the facts and children could children could grow up and not know the fucking timeline of Seinfeld if this is their first exposure they'll be all confused what kind of citizens are we turning out you see me TV has drag net back in the rotation well it's never well as i was mad to say it's never been out of the rotation, but actually I think it was on antenna television.

So see, I was still being exposed to Officer Friday, you know, regardless of what network it may be on. What kind of career with Jack Webb? I mean, it's all his programming. What kind of career would he have had if he had a high-pitched voice? Well, no, if he had come along, I mean, Dan Aykroyd in the movie was excellent at grasping it, but if he would have been. willing, if he had come along about 10 or 20 years later and been willing to parody himself,

he would have been in every goddamn comedy movie of the 80s. Because the other night, the young professional couple gets stoned and leave the baby in the bathtub episode. Oh, that's the classic. Where he gives them the speech about what this poison, the marijuana is going to, and it leads to this and that and the other goddamn. thing and your fallopian tubes fall out. Not it has the most goddamn dramatic

rendition. And that's what the audience that he was playing to in 1967 wanted to hear, but could you imagine if he'd have been just when did he die? Look that up. When did? Because he seemed like he came out of the womb 40 years

old. But just his, the tone it would have been perfect for airplane type humor 20 years later. He died in December 82. And he was probably 62 years old.

Only, what? When in 1980? He was born in 1920. Good God. Good God in that in 1960s. He was 47 years old. Wow. Except for the dyed jet black hair, you would think of his

demeanor. He was from the goddamn, you know, Reagan administration in an 80 or 90 years. years old. How do you date someone that talks like that? I'll pick him for dinner and date. Because he was the executive producer of the series also.

Adam 12 and a few shows. Oh yeah, but he had approval over the method of the acting. He directed some of them. He insisted that they do the bland matter-of-fact delivery. He wanted it to be documentary style because that's how they actually talked. the goddamn documentaries in the late 40s. And it was like just, it was starting to get old even in the 60s, but it's goddamn hilarious now. Anyway.

It's amazing how many of the things became big parts of the culture and they're kind of going away now because I mean, it's not like the kids are watching it, but just the whole intro music, the George Feneman intro, like so many different things became a big part of the culture. And again, it's kind of going away now. But, you know, it's on Me TV. Someone new will discover Dragnet. Dumb, da, damn.

Well, we have been doing some segments here over the last several weeks on the program, Brian, about from my files, from, you know, shit that I've been pulling out of the drawers here at the castle and my voluminous paperwork. And we've been focusing on the T&A agent reports that I was instructed to give and praise to the heavens for over some of the TNA TV and pay-per-view and the TV tapings in, what was in September of August of 2009,

leading into September. And then last week, we finally got up to the punchline is where I did everything they asked me to do and did they call me up in fire. And it has come to find out because, you know, and we call him Rousseau, so we don't confuse. anybody.

But our friend Schittstein had talked Dixie into bringing in Ed Ferrar. And then they slandered me on the internet from an unnamed source. And then I asked our friend Terry Taylor, your

friend of mine, for clarification on that, that it was untrue. And then an uncredited insider said, no, it's not true. And I said, okay, I'll have start to fit in myself but that's where we left it last week

and you know I gotta be honest so many people have been sitting as comments and stuff on this and just enjoying it because even though some of the people are saying even though we heard the story before it's you know we're hearing new stuff with you reading the agent reports or whatever

but it's more fun than the current stuff and this is 15 years ago. Some of the people listening to us, Brian, may not have been concentrating on all this shit 15 years ago I've come to find out. I'm like, oh, everybody knows that. But not me, sir.

I was six. Have you started to experience that that people are starting to be too young to know the things that you think that everybody knows? Well, I definitely think there's been a influx of a new fan base over the last 10 years. You've had a lot of people enter the wrestling fandom world.

The cult. Yeah, I mean, you've had a lot of people who don't know wrestling before a certain point, or they only know WWE before a certain point, and even that's limited. But again, a lot of this stuff, it feels like it's yesterday, but it's a long time. I mean, we're 25 years into the century for your life. It feels like yesterday, but it was long ago. Jane, it was lovely. She was the queen of mine.

I'm sorry. It's 25 years into the century. a century and sometimes it doesn't feel like it. Holy shit. We still have an artney better along than this. Boy, this one's going to be a fugging waste, but nevertheless. So anyway, we were at the point where, okay, here we go. And a lot of people I've referred to it and people have heard the stories from shoot interviews

or whatever, but the letter that I said to the email, I should say, using correct terminology that I said to Terry Taylor as a stooge test that led to getting a very testy response from TNA's legal team of the moment. I don't know who the fuck they were. We'll find

out out here in a second. Can I jump in real quick? Yeah. You bring up that there's a lot of stuff that the fans, newer fans may not know. A lot of them may not understand or know what a stooge test is. You may have to explain that. Well, I will as we get there. but in general a stooge a stooge in wrestling is a little

kind of the same thing as a stooge in show business the three stooge started out as Ted Healy's fucking guys that stupid idiots that tagged around with him got slapped right and they figured out he was a drunk and they could do it without him but a stooge is also somebody who will go in stooge on you to the office

they will tell her they're tattletails They're tattletails. And that's what a stooge is. That's why some people traditionally kept positions in various offices, regional or national, that some people didn't understand why that they were keeping because they were stooge's.

Paul Jones. Well, you know, and sometimes, you know, in some cases, especially with Vince, people were actually paid to be, stooge's and it was understood, but there was an element of professionalism that they would conduct their stoogeiness with, and they wouldn't go out of their way to fuck with the boys. And others potentially would. Anyhow, so I should, again, make the point that that was that I did some interviews,

and I was in Ring of Honor and getting, you know, some interviews with websites. So I made a point of clarifying that it all became things. clear what happened. And they, you know, and they had to slander me and plan a phony story so that they wouldn't be called idiots on the internet when everybody figured out what actually happened. So I've grabbed the file because here's the thing I remembered. Hold on. Ah, there we go. That's the letter.

I'm sorry. I remembered that I had gotten. this letter, obviously, because that was one of the most fun things ever of my life, was getting a letter from a law firm telling me that Vince Rousseau experienced extreme fear because of me. So, you know, I had this right here in the file. But I didn't remember I got a couple of other emails before we get to this point. and I wanted to read these just, I don't think that this gentleman would mind being quoted because the last time that I heard he had departed from TNA because they offended him

with the hard work that he had put in in the way that they treated him. Now, maybe that was certainly under the previous administration and the Canadian folks, but I don't know where Dave Sahadhi is these days. but this was the director of the television show. The Monday, I'm sorry, the Monday morning after the Sunday night that I didn't show up at the pay-per-view, I believe this was, and they found out I wasn't there, and guess who was, Ed Ferrar. Dave Sahati said, hi, Jim, let me get right to the point. I miss you. I'm not sure what the reasons are for your release, but damn, you were such a tremendous asset to me and everyone in the production truck. I have so much professional respect for you and always admired both your passion and your expertise. You were, are a great teacher. There's a void in the truck caused by your

absence. So the producer, or I'm sorry, the director of the program was clearly ready to get rid of me, right? What the fuck? We've talked about that, that I was trying to And see, this is, this is what they were doing because they were on national television, but it's still, even then, Dixie's daddy didn't have nowhere near the amount of money Tony's daddy do. And they were still trying to save money. Dave Sahadi, for the people who might not know who he is, Brian, the best thing I can think of is in the 90s in the attitude era, the WWF paper views.

when they started having those cold opens with the dramatic voiceover and kind of an NFL type of delivery, NFL films, and the really intricate video pieces and packages that they showed, you remember those, right? Of course. Well, Dave Sahadhi is the one. He wrote the voiceovers. He produced the pieces. He did, I'm going to shortchange.

but like every goddamn job in the television production department in studio in Stanford shooting stuff on location, whatever. And then he had left there and they were lucky enough to get him because Jeff had, you know, had a relationship with him when he was up there, et cetera. And he did great work for them. But then because they were, they were still budget conscious at that point because of, you know, the creative causing the pay-per-views never to make any money.

So they had a director named Tim Walbert, who would do the show part of the year, but he had to take off because he didn't major league baseball. He was actually doing him a favor, you know, by doing their show because he liked wrestling. But they couldn't pay like major league baseball. So what did they tell fucking Sahadi? Okay, we want you to direct.

The one thing he's never done in this production world field is actually sitting in a director's chair. So that's why the producer of the match, ideally will be sitting a short distance behind. I know you can communicate in people's ears, but it's goddamn better if you're talking to somebody. instead of the IFB if you're actually speaking to somebody. The match producer is trying to make sure the director doesn't miss anything

it's going to happen in the match. In our truck, Dutch might be a couple of rows back behind me. He's watching the monitor, listening to the commentary that we're laying down live, and he's feeding shit to Mike Tenei and Don West. Don't forget to, the guy lost his leg in Seg 1, he's pissed about it, whatever. and I was able to help David when he first started directing because either I would have had the match and know where it was going or it would have been told to me or in some cases. You know, like if I knew if they were doing what they had called to do in the match, then I could say, Dave, watch out, dipshit's going to do a dive out of the ring, camera left in about 15 seconds. he knows where he's going

he's going. He's going to just dive out of there for no fucking reason, but at least the goddamn director can shoot it. Over other times, I just, okay, they're on their own, which meant they're just doing shit that nobody talked about, but then

I would just watch the hard camera ISO on the monitor in the truck where I could see everybody and I would know about what they were doing and just knowing what wrestling looked like, if somebody was climbing to the top rope on the other side of the ring, they were set something up so I could help call it for him.

And he appreciated that, right? So I'm just, we established that there was no problems with me and the production end. I think we've established that, right? But people might be wondering, what about the regular office? and or people on the talent roster. Because this guy, I'm not even called his name because I haven't heard it in a long time, but I might be burying him.

He might be doing something somewhere. But he was one of the referees and also worked doing office stuff, paperwork, and some with television. And he wrote me an email that I printed out. Please allow me to extend to you my deepest regrets and my utter disgust about your recent termination. I won't pretend to say that I fully understand the situation, but I believe the T&A will be forever diminished by your absence. For my point of view, you always stood for what was right for the product.

Your agenda was to advance the company, not yourself, and no TNA agent has ever put forth the time and effort into doing the job the way it needs to be done like you have. You have the respect of the locker room and the production crew. So it wasn't a locker room, it wasn't a production crew, and it wasn't really anybody else in the office. It was this one cancerous boil that would not leave things alone. And Brian, I left out one thing.

I said, do you have any comments about this before I drone on further? No, and obviously it wasn't the office in terms of Terry Taylor, because after you sent in your last report, he told you it was terrific. It was great. It was exactly what they needed. Awesome, awesome, awesome. We need to hear things like this, right?

There's one cancerous boil. And that's the kind of communication I got from everybody else. And I had also forgot to mention last week, what I was talking about situation with the last day's production meeting, that was the day. that I actually beforehand spoke to him in a private personal setting in a hallway for like two minutes for the first time in three years.

And I said to him, look, you and me, we've had this thing and everybody knows, and it's never going to change. But we don't have to be best friends. The team is in need. Jeff is gone, Dutch is gone. We don't need to let this thing go belly up. I will help you.

That's an exact quote. I will help you. And for the first time and the only time in three years, I shook his hand. And ever that day and that taping session, I've never seen his son of a bitch again. But so that is the preface to the final letter that I sent to Terry Taylor. Oh, no, I'm sorry, it's not. I forgot. I found this one, too. I apologize for giving you false hope, Brian.

No, no apologies necessary. But this, because you know Tommy Fierro. Yeah, of course. Okay. Well, Tommy Fierro knew a guy. They knew it, you know, because he's from Jersey. That sounds just like Tommy Fierro that I remember. I was like, I know a fucking guy. But the Sun newspaper website, and boy,

we've been getting an email said, a fucking son over there. it's got the reputation of the National Enquirer. But Tommy knew one of the wrestling fan people that worked with or at wrote for the sun. And I haven't heard that. He used to do a website, not a website, but an online newsletter also hadn't heard his name in years.

Mike Aldrin. Sorry if I'm burying you here, Mike. But basically, he says Tommy everything I'm about to tell you is off the record but this was 2009 I trust both of you enough to keep it that way

but me too well sorry Mike as of Sunday night I stopped writing for the sun and they actually had a blow up at the sun possibly because of this because the decision was made from high above that their pro wrestling section would now be interviews, photos and

DVD reviews only, no news and gossip. WW and TNA were pissed off with leaks and threatened to withdraw interview access, photos, free tickets, DVDs, and all expenses paid overseas trips to pay-per-views. Whoa. They were bringing some stooge from both companies, from the Sun, because this was early on in this internet publicity thing, and it's the Sun. had some type of name recognition over here from being around for a while as a British newspaper, right? So, anyway, he says, regarding the Jim Cornett story, this was the deal, which I understand Jim is keen to get to the bottom of.

I love the way the British phrase thing. 24 hours before the story broke, and without doubt before Terry Taylor called Jim, it was, I was t-off by someone inside t-na that jim was going to be let go they didn't say why but indicated that all would become clear at the paper view the story broke and jim became headline news we received an email from the quote senior industry source claiming jim was a raving a lunatic and went all jack torrance on rousseau over the eric young deal so sounding plausible and based on this source giving us accurate information in the past again they did a good job of picking the you know we ran that story quoting said source senior industry source TNA were aware but nobody from the office refuted the story at that time and before I'd written a letter to Terry that I've read last week and folks if you're at this point going what the fuck I should have caught up it's all on the YouTube channel if you don't want to take the time to listen to the previous podcast. So a day or two later, T&A called and refuted the story. Stephen Godfrey, I haven't heard that name in ages.

He was one of these little, that Dixie would hire these just out of college kids with these 14-year-old faces and put them in public relations or event promotion or marketing and I had people when I promoted Louisville one of her promotions people from the office in Nashville and fucking got to building who said what is that a 12 year old girl

what it's just anyway Stephen Godfrey sent us a statement which I understand came from Terry Taylor and approved by Dixie Carter but remember neither one of those people put their name on it then that was TNA and C, cider. And then he says, finally, Ed Ferrara showed up at the pay-per-view and all became clear.

So what happened to my understanding of Russo had talked Dixie to giving Ferrar a job and to make that happen? Certain people had to be removed from the picture. So anyway, that's the setup for the next letter I wrote to Terry Taylor. I will take a small drink of Sprite while you comment on same as to whether or not that I've bored everyone or set a tantalizing precedent for what's about to come. It's just amazing to here we are 10 years after all the problems that WCW had from a creative standpoint directly due to Ferrara and Russo. And he somehow sold Dixie. Again, no one's there to run interference.

You were the last barrier. But he sold around the idea that I'm assuming what will make things better, what will turn things around, what will give us the show we need, will be this guy working with me again. That's crazy. And that's why I was a bit tepid for a while even at Jeff, because Jeff's the one that called me, said, don't let him go too far.

So I actually break down finally and shake hands with the son of a bitch. It's like, I'll work with you. I'll help you. And all for naught, because I'm trying to do Jeff a fucking favor. So anyway, the reason I said this was a stew, test. It's nothing official. You can just do things in different ways to find out whether somebody is on your side or on somebody else's side or just caught in the middle and he is a victim of circumstance. And I've done this with a couple of people a couple of times and always with the results

I kind of thought I was going to get. But in this case, I was, I just gotten, as I said, My website and just started doing email in 2009. And this was March 20th of 2010. I had been trying to find something on this new fancy Dan email thing that I was doing. And I came across Terry's last email to me. And you remember what, James E, you're one of my favorite. Oh, this was after they sent me a check for the tapings I was booked on the following weekend that they, that they fired before.

They graciously sent me a check for that, so I acknowledge that I got it. James E, you're one of my favorite people. I already miss you and the French fries. Because every day after the production meeting, when I went over and got the cheese steak and the French fries, Terry Taylor, who was on a diet, but would eat a few of my French fries.

As always, please give the lovely sin my fondest regards and let's stay in touch. I'm certain we'll work together again, and I'm looking forward to it. your friend Terry, who actually, come to, this is 2010, 27 years before that Terry Taylor, I'd let sleep on my couch in Georgia for a couple days.

But he was a young aspiring rookie wrestler, and I was a young, actually, he wasn't even a rookie. I was a rookie. He'd been in a business for like five years at that point. I had the apartment he's sleeping on my couch. anyhow. So I read that email and I said, you know what? Here's the thing. I now know that Terry could have at any time. It just come out and said to me in a personal conversation without Dixie on the phone, look, you know what's happening or I try to tell Dixie or I can't tell Dixie or anything, much less actually stand up and say this shit didn't happen and put his name on it. right? He doesn't have to sacrifice his career, but he can at least tell me. But he wouldn't. He's a weasel. And the only two that I'm mad at, actually, I was still a little,

little warm at Jeff, but otherwise it was Terry Taylor and our friend Vince Rousseau. and I say, you know what, I bet I could write something right now that would tell me either Terry might get some entertainment out of this if he don't like the son of a bitch by this point now either or elsewise he might go, boy, Cornyad hates that son of a bitch or whatever. But I bet you he'll fucking tell him. He might even show it to it.

And this is a way that I can just ruin, because I know Rousseau, I can just ruin his fucking day. And maybe several days in the future if he starts thinking about it again, right? So this was, but since I had some time, this was what I decided to do. And, Brad, have you ever done something where you just, you, you write somebody you're mad at, but you're nice to them? So, because if I started saying, hey, Terry, you know what, you were a weasel. Well, then he's not going to read the rest of it.

But as a Terry, always, it's like you. Always liked you. We've known each other so long, but here's this other someday. Then he'll be into it, right? You see where I'm going with this? I get it. And also, it's the old thing that I learned from Jerry Jarrett. If you're going to try to work somebody, make it as believable as you can.

Tell them as much as you can that is they know to be true. so that when you're working them a little bit, they really can't tell the difference instead of just making some bullshit up out of your ass, right? So I decided really I can tell pretty much the truth here and just fib that I have no ill will toward Terry. Everything else I can fucking have loose at and I'll really fucking be behind it.

So anyway, would you like me to go through this thing? Because this, and it was on my website all those years ago, the first one I had, but I've gone through some websites. So I'm thinking this may be new to some people. So this is the famous Stoge test email? Yes. You are correct, sir. Terry, I was going through and deleting a bunch of old emails and found this last one from you.

I don't mean to stir anything up, but I felt like I had to run. write and get some things off my chest. I've always liked you, and we've never had a problem. I'm sure you've heard some of my many commentaries on TNA, and I wanted to make sure that you knew that I wish you no ill will, nor do I wish anyone in TNA ill, including talent, TV crew, and office staff. If the incident hadn't happened when it did, I would acquit anyway a month later when the news broke that Hogan and Bischoff were taken over. The only reason I was ever there was I thought that TNA would be the promotion to keep Vince from having a monopoly and be an alternative to to this bullshit sports entertainment.

Obviously, with the new regime, that is not of the plans. But taking that out of the equation, I was glad I worked for TNA, it's just frustrating and disappointing to me. It couldn't have turned out better. If not for one thing, I could move on with no hard feelings, but that one thing is big. It is in danger of consuming my life if I don't just come out and see. say it. You know what? This sounds like one of those fucking promos that the kids on AEW come up with, doesn't it? He bought it. Back to the email. I will say it because

I'm trying to quell the burning in my heart. I hate Vince Rousseau. I despise Vince Rousseau. I want Vince Rousseau to die. If I can figure out a way to murder him without going to prison, I would consider it the greatest accomplishment of my life. See, now you can put passion behind things you really believe. I hate him for the money he's cost me. I hate him for what he's done to the business. I hate him for keeping T&A from being competitive to WWE. I hate him for the careers, even the lives he's ruined with his shitty booking

and the irreparable damage he's done to every promotion he's been involved with. I regularly wake up from dreams in which I am in the act of murdering him. him. See, I'm working now. Not regularly. It has happened. Stace will tell you about that period of time, it happened a couple times, but it was, I can't say regular. I literally burn whenever I think of him. I've sworn to myself that I will willingly go to jail if I ever see him in person again, and he had better pray to his fictitious, invisible man in the sky that that day never comes. It actually never has. so this may impart have worked. I intend to make it my life's work and mission to fuck with him

and anything he has ever had anything to do with in a wrestling business. Why am I writing you this? One, I got the irresistible urge to explain to you the depth of my abhorrence for this abominable prick. What a sentence. Oh, my God. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Oh, God, I'm hurting myself now. Oh, and now I'm going to start baby-faced again. And two, I want to make sure that you and anyone you care to share this with knows that I truly and genuinely wanted T&A to succeed and liked working with all of you. I'm no longer a supporter of T&A as a company. I hope it goes under quickly and painfully because of this. Because of the stupidity, Dixie is exhibited and employing Rousseau,

and apparently I'll see my wishes come true with this new direction, but I really did want to see it succeed. I still like everyone there. I'm only mad at a few people, Jeff, for talking me into coexisting with that miserable waste of human flesh for three years to the point where I have trouble looking at myself in the mirror and not a day goes by that I'm not ashamed of myself for abandoning every principal I ever had

and speaking to the motherfucker. And Dixie, not just for employing that useless twat, but for lying to me about the reasons for my firing and lying about me, letting some Russo-stude spread rumors I was fired for acting unprofessionally toward him, then not putting her name on the retraction

while knowing it wasn't true. I mean, he might talk a dick. I like everyone there. I wish their hard work could be rewarded and they could all make millions, but they won't. Because of a lack of competence

and judgment in their leadership. I will never again have to occupy the same arena or even city with Vince fucking Russo, but I still feel bad for everyone else who has labored long and hard in vain because of what he's done of the company's chances. I like you, I like Tenei and West

and Keith Mitchell and Dave the Hattie and Bob Ryder and the talent and the crew, even Pinser. See, now he had to know you were lying. Now, why did he know it was a work now? No, because me and Pinser used to fucking joust and have fun, right? And I don't want you or any of them to take it personally when I verbally roast T&A every chance I get. But as far as I'm concerned, Jeff should have way known better than to hire that asshole. Now I know actually he did.

and Dixie as clueless as she may be about wrestling should have been more careful in whom she entrusted her father's money and more perceptive when it came to spotting imbecils. I wish you all good luck. I'm sorry if anything I say or do. Causes you any problems. I hope one day I'd be in charge of a wrestling company with the funds to hire all of you.

But here you go. But just so you know I will fuck with any company Vince Russo is involved with until I draw my last breath. And if there is an afterlife, I would return to haunt his miserable ass. either that or a will myself to live long enough to piss on his fucking tombstone and hey hatred is a hell of a motivator and so amazing i'm i'm thinking you know i can i can do this and either terry will see it and god fucking and move on about his day and you know it'll be the end of it or he might show it to the son of a bitch right and he that will ruin

his mood for sure. And I can say, because see, remember in 2000, what was it? 2000, it had to be 2000. It couldn't have been 2001 because WCW was out of business and he had been fired before that. In 2000, Kevin Kelly and Bruce Pritchard were down here at an OVW show looking at the developmental talent and I'm driving them to the airport and they had just been in Atlanta for a taping or whatever.

and they say, yeah, you have believed Rousseau texted us. Hey, guys. See, you're going to be in town. Like, he'd fucking walked off and said, fuck you to them too, basically, without a word. When he left. So, I said, you got that fucking guy's number? Because they got the cell phones.

Now, this is 2,000. They were up on all the big devices. We're in the car. You got that motherfucker's number? I think it was Bruce's phone. It might have been Kevin Kelly's, but nobody was trying to rest it away from me. they called him and when he answered

I started telling him what I'd always wanted to fucking tell him but I thought of him that everybody was always don't do that while we work together and then somehow he's never where I ever see him after I no longer work with him right?

So I started telling him and he fucking I don't know at what point he hung up on me but it was like you miserable backstabbing son of a bitch I've always wanted to tell you what a no good cock sucker you are etc etc. So then he, by the time that Bruce and Kevin got back to Stanford, the next day he had called human relations in the, not human,

talent, human resources. Yes, well, you never know up there in the WWE. It called and stooged on, because he had to call her ID, whoever's fucking phone it was, and saying that I had threatened his family and was going to, you know, hurt his children or some shit and tried to get them in trouble

for handing me the fucking phone. When he was working in WCW. Anyway, so that's why I said, okay, you know, this, and I knew once if he got to see it, he couldn't stop reading, right? It's Rousseau.

It's about him. He has to see. He would be absorbed, and he would absorb every bit of this. So, and I didn't hear anything about it for this was March the 20th I sent that and then this next letter is dated April 9th but it came in a Federal Express gimmick so I guess probably April 10th is when I got it but it's from Davis Shapiro lewitt and Hayes LLP of New York and Beverly Hills

was this the one that I looked them up and they were entertaining lawyers because one time they sent me something legal and they were entertainment lawyers. Of course they are. I don't know. Huh? That would have been in my first guess. That is just some entertainment lawyer, but yeah. Well, because Dixie knew some of these people in her public relations business.

Anyway, this, oh, this was via certified mail, it says up at the top, return receipt requested. I had to sign for this. It was worth every penny. Well, it didn't cost me a penny, but it was worth every piece of ink of it. So I open this thing up and there's two documents. There's a printout of the email that I sent to Terry Taylor, but it's not a printout of the email that I sent to Terry Taylor from him. It's original message from Terry Taylor to Vince Rousseau,

where he had forwarded it to Vince Rousseau. So I sent that at like midnight, on Saturday or whatever, Monday at midnight, March 22nd, 2010, he had forwarded the whole thing to Vince Russo. Oh, my God. So that worked perfectly, but never did I believe in a million years

that it would get even better than that because the letter from the attorneys said, would you like to hear this? Oh, yeah. The subject is email threats communicated to Terry Taylor on March 192010. Mr. Cornett, this firm represents TNA Entertainment LLC. TNA has recently intercepted a shocking and appalling email communication,

a copy of which is enclosed, which was sent from your email address to the attention of TNA's talent coordinator, Terry Taylor, at his TNA email address. Upon review of the content of said email, T&A was so concerned that they have turned the email over to this firm to take appropriate action in order to protect the safety and welfare of TNA's staff and talent. Your email reads in part, and this is where I hate him, I want him to die, if I could figure out of way to murder him, I wake up dreams.

He better pray, I'd ever see him again. It is our view that the foregoing statements constitute terroristic threats under virtually every jurisdiction in the country, including the U.S. Code 18 U.S.C. Squiggle Mark 875 and Kentucky state law KRS 508.080, generally under both federal and state law, a person will be guilty of having made terroristic threats if such person willfully threatens to commit a crime

which would result in death or great bodily injury to the victim and demonstrate specific intent to communicate such threat to the victim or to a third party who the perpetrator believes will convey such threat to the intended victim. Apparently, I didn't even think of this fucking idea. They've already had enough of it going on. They've had to write it down. Your email satisfies all of the foregoing elements

and it is irrelevant whether you intended to actually carry out such threat or not. Nonetheless, we must assume the worst. Indeed, the language of the email is so specific, unequivocal and unconditional. You know, I always strive for clarity, Brian. So specific, unequivocal, and unconditional, that Vince Rousseau, a T&A employee, has understandably experienced extreme fear for himself and his family.

See, it's on paper. T&A management shares his concern not only for Vince, but for all of its employees, staff members, and talent, some of whom were specifically named in your email as being targets of your anger. Who was that? I said, I'm also kind of mad at Jeff for employing the dips yet. Oh, come on. Oh, come on.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wait, wait, wait, you give me a, hold on, hold on here. Accordingly, be advised that we have taken action to notify all applicable federal and state law enforcement agencies and have provided them with a copy of the email together with your personal information, including your home address, social security number, and other pertinent information, which would facilitate their efforts to investigate any violent acts taken against T&A employees, staff members, talent, or any of their property. Any further threats or similar attempts to contact Vince Rousseau or any other T&A personnel

directly or indirectly shall be viewed as acts in further of such threats and she'll be pursued and prosecuted accordingly. He is regularly taking out paperwork so that I won't cut a promo on him somewhere. On a related note, and listen to this, now after they've, okay, you're a fucking terrorist and we've reported you to the federal government, right? Listen to what they're going to hit me with next. They saved the big one for last. Are you ready for this?

Yeah. On a related note, it is our understanding that you were recently employed by T&A as an independent contractor and talented, as such, you had access to confidential proprietary business information relating to T&A. Your email contained certain statements which discussed internal T&A management decisions and the circumstances surrounding your departure from TNA. Those matters constitute confidential information. Like the story that I've been telling of how I got shafted, right? Accordingly, we are taking this opportunity to remind you that the confidential information is proprietary and is not to be revealed except as expressly permitted by T&A in writing. As a former talent of T&A, you continue

to be bound by your legal obligations and duties to maintain the confidentiality of such confidential information in accordance with the terms of your various talent agreements, you cannot share confidential information with anyone in capitals, anyone, including current or former TNA talent, and TNA will vigorously enforce its rights in this regard. Sincerely, Guy S. Blake Esquire, they sent copies to Dixie Carter, Dean Broadhead of TNA, Steve Campbell Esquire, which means he's a lawyer,

Vince Russo and Terry Taylor, and they also, because I was working for a ring of honor. And so they sent copies to Kerry Silken and the lawyers that represented HDNet, see if they get me fired up there for stirring something up. So, Brian, you know, I ain't no big time legal mind. I'm just a small town bird lawyer. And by the wording of this, you know, being reported to the federal government and especially the confidentiality of the confidential stuff that I was confidentially not supposed to confide in.

That was some troubling verbiage, right, of what they could do to me. Sounds like you're in trouble. Yeah. Big trouble. So you would think if you were, if I was you or you were me or however this applies to this fucking statement. You'd want a second opinion, right? I think so, probably, yes. Well, so I wanted more than one.

So what I did was I took the letter, the email that I sent to Terry Taylor verbatim, exactly what they were upset about. And then I took their letter to me talking about the reporting me to the government and that I'm not supposed to talk to anybody about anything. and I got a bunch of opinions. I put them both verbatim word for word on my fucking website and started fucking telling people if you want to see this exchange, go there and read it.

And then I believe there was a caption above and says, hey, T and A, here's what I think about your fucking confidentiality. And then, and see, if he hadn't written me, well, he didn't write me back, But if Terry had not sent this to Rousseau, and Rousseau hadn't gone squealing like a little dickless bitch like he always does, and then Dixie, being a goddamn mark to begin with, actually, how long you think it took a lawyer to come up with that letter? I'd say she paid for two hours, so this cost her, hold on, New York and Beverly Hills,

this cost her almost $1,000 to have sent to me. the fucking goofy twat and they all did this and then I was able to have a reason to say okay fuck you again and put it all up on the internet so everybody in public could see exactly what I thought of Russo and he was embarrassed again

instead of just being burned up and pissed off and scared it is own fucking home at midnight from an email that his stooge buddy sent him he pitched a further bitch and got embarrassed in front of the fucking world. And guess how many letters I got about the confidentiality

after I put that on the goddamn website? Letters from their lawyer? How many? Letters from anybody related to them. I'm still waiting for the first one. Because Dutch Mantell went in the office. Dutch did tell me afterwards one time. He said, he went in the office. What the fuck did you think was going to happen?

See, you said, you didn't just, he said, None of you just thought just leave that alone? He really did. He said, none of you just thought to leave that alone? What the fuck did you think was going to happen? It's Jimmy. But anyways. So you weren't really, I mean, it's a stooge test,

but I guess the point of the stooge test to go back to that was you weren't actually surprised that Terry Taylor was a stooge in the situation. No, I was thinking that there was a good chance that if I laid it on thick enough and poured it out that he probably wouldn't be able to resist showing it to Russo who probably would then it would as I said ruin his day or his night or his mood or what it just just make him unhappy is which is you know been my fucking hobby for years and years I knew that then that way

he'd have to fucking he can't hang up on me he can't interrupt me bro no bro bro bro bro he and he can't stop reading because it's about him so he would get a comprehensive summation of what the fuck I think about him as a human being thanks to his good friend Terry Taylor but the lawyers and the rest of it that was just icing

that was fucking great anyhow this is years before the restraining order which also was available on the website yes and he raised what was it how many thousands of dollars was it for the crusade for children with that well I raised it but it was the only thing

he ever wrote to Drew Money. But yeah, that was because he had to go and open his yap on the internet about something else and try to get creative and thinks he's a writer. And so I cut a promo on him that was accompanied by a little stooge test that I gave to somebody else that I used to know and associate with. And they did what I thought they were going to do. And as a result, he was fucking crying and shaking like a dog shit and peach seeds and going to goddamn court again.

because I cut a promo on him on a podcast and it scared him because I'm good at what I do. But yeah, don't anybody think that it's a gimmick that I'm working with the way I feel about him, but I have in the past worked other people to fucking make him as uncomfortable as possible because he's a goddamn mark and an idiot too. Hey, quick question.

Obviously, we're at the end of your run here in TNA. We're past that point, actually. But actually, I found preexisting paperwork from earlier in the previous three years. So we'll just go in the wayback machine sometime and we'll jump into that too. I was just curious in terms of other things for the future. Are there any or was there much back and forth

an email between you and Greg the office boy or any Ring of Honor stuff we could eventually get on here? Yeah, there is Ring of Honor paperwork. Any email communication directly between me and Greg the office boy is I was is terse short to the point something about somebody's

expenses possibly mine and not in any way pithy but some of the things I have written to other because we had no I didn't like to speak to it much less fucking getting a writing back and forth with the fucking guy

but there's there's some documents of some of the other shit going on and again you know that's hate said but that's why i had to bid a due in my life to gutless gary jester because he bailed on me it wasn't it wouldn't quite as weasily as terry but when everybody in the company hated the fucking guy including me and Charlie Haas was going to knock him out and fucking everybody else was like this fucking guy. But everybody was scared because he was Jo Koff's handpicked accounting fellow that nobody would fucking say anything except me.

And so finally as Gary, you as an even more grown adult man, he's 10 years older than me and is 15 years ago, whatever, we need to both go. and tell Joe Koff is another grown adult man that this little 26-year-old hatchet-headed fucking prick is pissing everybody off and somebody one of these days, possibly me, is going to grab him around a fucking throat

unless he tells him as a senior executive to a little dip shit to quit the attitude, stop being a know-it-all, stop talking down to people, don't tell everybody what to fucking do like he's goddamn Napoleon. And Gary was like,

ah, he's his boy, it's okay, it'll be all right. Well, that's the first thing I said to Gary after I was at the back of the building that night, when Mark Davis, the fucking head of Sinclair production, said, watch you, I don't say anything around. He's pointed a guy. That guy, he's a stooge.

He works at the office. He'll tell everybody what you say. Good. I started screaming, I'm going to choke Greg Gilliland. I will drag his carcass across the front parking lot of the station. And I told Gary, I said, now, months, I've been saying let's just go and have a fucking conversation. And instead, there you go.

Now, y'all can take care of this thing. Well, as Jim said in the future, we have more segments about bad executives and bad decisions and lots of emails and correspondence to go through. Correspondents to come. And if those correspondents don't come, then they'll go and we'll get some more who will. But I'll tell you what, folks, you don't know anymore about whether you're, you just, don't know anymore. You just don't know for sure what's going on. It extends to the food, Brian, that you eat, and we've got a new friend that can help you out that I am, honestly, I'm amazed by, you know me, I don't know about some of the modern technology.

I don't know that these things exist, but Stacey jumped right on it. Our friends over at Chef IQ and the Chef IQ sense, the sense, because it gives you not only a sense, but a sensor that goes into whatever you're cooking. And I hesitate to say that it's a meat thermometer because that sounds too mundane and ordinary. Again, Brian, you know me and everybody else does too with the highfalutin interweb witchery and things, but as soon as I take this thing out of the box

and I see that it talks to your phone, I say, Stacey, Stace, And she comes in and starts doing cartwheels and roundoffs and actually almost did a moonsault off the top of the kitchen stove. Because this thing, you know, Brian, are you a good barbecuer? Dee, come on, admit it. Are you, every man wants to say they're a great barbecuer, but are you really a good barbecue? Or do you get distracted sometimes? Or you can't tell if you're using charcoal what the heat is, or if you're using the propane, or if you're using the propane,

it might get too fucking hot. I mean, you're talking about of it. Alcohol might be involved and you forget to check. And then, or somebody says, well, Sam, just cut that thing. Just cut it in the middle and see if it's not done. It needs more time. Whether you check it two or three times, whether you've tortured the goddamn cow to death.

But if you don't check it, then you're going to end up with anything between me and shoe soul. So what the chef IQ says, gimmick does is whether it's steaks or chicken or fish or whether you're grilling or whether you're in the oven in the oven of the stove or whether you want well done or medium or medium rare or whatever you stick this thing in there and you put it on the grill or you put it in the oven or you stick it up a goose's ass i don't know wherever you're going to cook this thing not there and when it's ready it calls your phone

and just, yeah, your shit's done. So you don't have to check and you don't have to guess and you don't have to poke it or cut it. And, you know, I don't know how it works. But I think you said Suzanne was just over the moon about it. Yeah, when I got here, I was like, oh, this is cool. And then she's like, oh, my God. And she started really raving about it.

She downloaded the app right away. And, yeah, we're using it. She loves it. She thinks it's amazing. And I'm sure when I run the grill, over the weekend, I may feel the same. Well, you need to have her stick it in and then you can grill from there

because I don't understand how that this can... How does it not melt? It stands up to like a thousand degrees. What the fuck is? How does it stand up to a thousand degrees? Well, that's proprietary information. We can't give that. Again, how is the signal that it's... And it's just, it's a small thing. There's actually, there's a few of them, the skewers of things, depending on what you're doing, but it just looks like a ballpoint pen and you stick it in and it

call from the inside of the oven, it calls your phone? How does the signal go through? Are they in the walls, Brian? They're not in the walls. Again, there's a lot with technology you may not necessarily understand. We're talking infrared. We're talking Wi-Fi. There's lots of ways, CB band. There's lots of ways to communicate. And of course, this wonderful product, this sensor, will communicate with your phone. And it's great. You don't have to hang around the grill. You don't have to cinch your eyebrows.

You can just go off and have a fun time until the meat is ready. Well, yeah, the humidity now. It's a goddamn tropical rainforest out there. And without the rain, and you don't want to stand over the grill with the smoke in the face and everything. So you stick it in, you put it on,

and boom, and you go inside the house and watch TV, and then it calls you. Anyway, it's amazing. And there is, again, a couple of different applicators or whatever thermometers for the various things and it works for

everything and it's got all of the instruction. I couldn't even open the box. The box started blinking. Holy, this is some high tech shit. I'll tell you what, don't think you can get away with like carrying this through the fucking airport. I would think this has to be checked in your...

Let's not make any declarations about any travel situation. with this fine chef IQ sensor. Playing on hypodermic needles. They could, you know, maybe bones is given shots with these things. You can cook smarter with IQ sense. You can find out exactly what your meat's temperature is. They have different sensors on the actual thing,

so you get different, how much it's, how much, how hot is it here versus how hot is it here? It's great. And how about here? And you know what, there's a special little hammer that you can hit your steak and like on the knee at the doctor's office and conduct a reflex to see if there is no such thing but this is a great deal one of those great deals we get for the listeners it's barbecue season jim how can the listeners get this wonderful product at a great price well

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Well, Brian, speaking of a cooked goose, Unfortunately, we have sad news to relate to all the fans out there, but don't get too broke up over it because it apparently happened a while ago. But, you know, every once in a while, Uncle Dave, in his newsletter, he'll mention who the oldest living wrestling personalities are around the world. And, you know, I think there's a fellow in Mexico that's like a 102-year-old. years old and Bob Caudill bless him is like 95 this year I think and he's just a wonderful human being but the oldest American wrestling personality for the last number of years living

has been listed by Uncle Dave as cowboy Bob Ellis who this year whenever his birthday would would turn 96 and you know every time I've read that, I've said, you know, you haven't seen Bob Ellis in ages. You haven't said decades, I don't think. I don't know that we've heard anything about him, a picture of him. He never went to fan fest. I, you know, that's just, that's odd. Everybody else from his generation made some kind of appearance, a poor fella. Hopefully he's not incapacitated some kind of way. Brian, we just found out a couple of days ago. He's been dead for like seven years. Nobody knows. new surprise

sets how they in the internet age and I saw some of the kids on on Twitter you know well you know who knows who Bob

Cowboy Bob Ellis was one of the biggest baby face boxoffs attractions in the business in the early 60s we know who Buddy Rogers was we know Dick the Bruiser Bob Ellis and the bruiser

in Indianapolis and fucking that's why when I first started watching bruiser's TV Brian I love Bobby Heenan and I loved you know Dick the Bruiser and the Crusher and Sam Minnaker right the announcer and all of the Brewzer brought in the Crusher as his partner or had Wilbur Snyder's his partner had Bruno for a while as his partner and the tag teams like Ernie Ladd and Baron Von Rashkey

Valiant brothers. But then it was almost like an alternate universe because they shot the TVs at the Expo Center in Indianapolis at the house show. And they'd have three preliminaries in a main event. And the main event may or may not, the finish may not be shown on TV, is what I'm trying to say. And on the week that it wasn't something involving Bruiser and the tag teams,

because it would be Cowboy Bob Ellis and Baron Von Rasky for what seemed like ever. And they would rerun shows because if if somebody was on top coming up, they'd put new interviews in, but they'd rerun a show featuring somebody that was on top. And I saw one Bob Ellis and Baron von Rasky match. It must have been 15 times.

And at this point in time, Bob Ellis was now. we come to find out he was like 45 years old at that point but in his and it apparently he was never a good worker but in his younger days because he was the real cowboy he was the you know the the good looking aw shucks well folks man howdy ma'am guy he drew money with all the big heels and he was huge at madison square garden or you know the Midwest for bar or anywhere that he went. And then he pretty much kind of rode on that fame in Indiana for Bruiser,

primarily in the 70s at the end of his career because he was a household name there, but great, you know, it wasn't pretty by that time. But God damn. And the wig was off by that point, right? well that's the thing is he lost he lost hair he was starting to lose his hair and he worked Tennessee in 1977 I have pictures I took of him I met him he and jimmy garvin with a southern tag team champions for like three weeks imagine that pairing but jimmy garvin before he was gorgeous and bob ellis after he was young but he still had a tan and he had the fucking presence right and

he was tall. But the point is the hair, he tried to have the wig, and that didn't work, but also because of all those years as a baby face, he getting juice for the chic and bruiser and, you know, whoever else he was on top with. And one of his things was you'd hit him with a chair, you'd bust him open, or whatever, he'd roll out, and he would do a death walk through the people

so that they could see that he was disoriented and they could see up close, he was really bleeding. And he didn't know what was going on. And he builds the concern. And then he turns and he looks. And he starts heading back to the ring. And he gets in a ring and makes his comeback.

Now, the comeback, probably the least exciting part of that, but people were jumping up and down before him getting back in a ring, right? So anyway, after 20 years of doing that, the story that I was told, I didn't hear it from him personally, personally, but he had the derm abrasion done to his head because his head, all the gig marks, right? His whole forehead was scarred up. And he had the plastic surgery where they flattened it out or smooth it over or whatever they do to it. And he would like two years from retiring and guess where he fucking went?

Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico and turned heel on Carlos. No blood needed for that feud. So he's a little early with that surgery. But anyway, point being one of the biggest baby face stars of that generation, everybody else has been accounted for a name of that magnitude that was on top for so long in the business. Everybody's been kept track of how the fuck did this just happen and nobody got it? Was he in a federal witness protection program?

I don't believe so. And Alan Blackstock, Alan Cheapshot on Twitter, was the person I saw who got it out there to everyone. And it was surprising because, you know, like you said, it's been a discussion going back a little while, at least, every few years, who's the oldest living wrestler? I remember it popping up like around, I guess, 2016 or so, when Ed Francis died and Lord James Bleers died the same year.

And they were both in their 90s. And it was like, wow, there was something about Hawaii that kept these guys going. Yeah, think. But who else is in their 90s? Like, that was the discussion. And Bob Ellis was always on that list. And again, he was a major star. You know, I don't know about Fan Fest.

Everyone has their preferences, but to go completely radio silent was surprising, I guess. Well, and I guess he was, was he 88 or 89? He almost made it. But this was in 2018. We just found out. So everybody has moved up a spot without. or they always actually were up a spot without knowing it. I'm sure that gives comfort to Bob Caudill.

You think some knuckleheads are going to call Bob, say, would you like to comment on being the oldest American wrestling personality? He'll hold the phone like it's floating away. Fans, we've got to go. And so this from now on, is this going to be like a reverse? Generally, Simo Francisco Franco is still dead. Every once in a while do we announce, lady and gentlemen, cowboy Bob Ellis.

is still alive. Ladies a gentleman, Dory Dixon has returned from the dead. I don't know. You know, he's still around? No, he's one of them,

isn't he? I thought so, and then I started thinking to myself, he must have died, I missed it. But hold on, I'll check. Let me check.

I think you can probably Google quicker than, than I can imagine, but, you're right. He's still alive, 90 years old, born February 1,

1935, Dory Dixon. Is it in Jamaica? Hawaii? Oh, I want to take you to who's from Bermuda, Bahama, or has a pretty mama? Something about the tropics. He's from Jamaica, but he ended up staying in Mexico. He's in Mexico now, I believe, isn't he?

Well, it's still warm down there. Says here he's a pastor for the Seventh-day Adventist Church preaching about religion and physical health all over Mexico. Well, and at 90 years, old. Travel must be difficult for the poor thing. All right, well, watch out Dory Dixon, but I will

be... Jesus Christ, we're not trying to curse anybody or anything. There's a few people in their 60s. I'd like to see leave first, but anyway, I saw Dory Dixon wrestle

on TV also. Where? He worked, he was partners with Bobo Brazil. Well, in the early 70s, it worked Gullis TV. Believe it or not. Along with the original Amazing Zuma, who was just a little squat, short job fellow at that point.

I think I may have said this to you off air. You know, there's the famous photos, one of the most famous photos in wrestling history, if you really think about it, because it got into a lot of newspapers, of Antonina Raka doing a split, like jumping in mid-air and touching his toes. Yes.

And then because Zuma was a rip-off of Raka, although they ended up working together. They did the same pose with him, and it looks ridiculous because he's a little chubber, he's got the mustache, he's losing his hair, doesn't have any confidence in his face. And his head also, do you believe his head, is this the way you feel, that his head was a little bit larger than it should have been for his body? There was something going on, and it becomes even more amazing when you realize for a brief time he was a draw, like at Madison Square Garden.

He wasn't drawn the Northeast. You know, at the same time, Pfeffer was doing all of his things when Raka was there, and then they all worked together. But there's another guy I just recently found in the Wrestling News Archive. I forget his name. I'll find it. I'll post it.

Same thing. He's doing the pose. And he looks ridiculous because it's another rip-off of a rip-off of Raka. Well, and to be honest, Zuma, it was capitalizing on the Raka craze. a guy that does shit like Rocca. Let's, oh, let's keep an eye on him, and then they built to

the matches eventually, and they sold out a couple times, but Rocca was, but 10 years into that run, Zuma was zoomed in and zoomed out. It's when you are literally copying the photos. Like, what can we do? Let's show them exactly.

You know, that's where it gets a little weird. That's like Crispin Glover, not being in the movie, but you get a replacement guy. I don't know. I got a picture of Tony Charles doing that, jumping up and touching his toes. No one will mistake him for. Well, no, he doesn't look like any one. No, he was warming up one night in Louisville.

And back there was jumping up and doing that. And this, he was in his mid-40s, just an athletic son of a gun in incredible shape. I said, let me see if I can get that. He did it three more times because you have to catch it, you know, you have to be quick on the trigger finger. but I got one. And he, uh, he actually was spread out a little bit more than, well, he was an old slut anyway, Tony Charles.

Nevertheless. All righty then. On that note, would you like to talk about a little bit of AEW from this past Wednesday night? A little bit being the, the key operative phrase there. Well, it's a big show. It's the go home show for All In.

I wish they would have gone home. July 9th is what we're talking about, folks. And again, I don't know what they think over there is catch it. They've got a stadium. People are going to this show because it's in a stadium. And they've made, and they had sold, what, 15,000 tickets six months ago, and now they've got 22,000 sold or whatever. do you think are a lot of people like ah shit well we had the tickets for a year it's a happening we should go but is anybody

thrilled about what they have put together here and what they're promoting or trying to promote on this is a ewe there's always a bunch of people think this is the best pay-per-view of all time before it happens i think that maybe they listen maybe they'll be a walk-up maybe they'll get another thousand people in walk-up who knows but they've got over 20 allegedly distributed, I should say. Yeah. You know, for a stadium show out of nowhere. It wasn't like there was a match that needed the stadium show.

It's like, all right, we booked a stadium. Now we, you know, now we have to put together this show. They don't have the match. And I know some of their fans think Adam Page and Moxley is, but, you know, Adam Page beating Moxley isn't Sting Celebrating beating Rick Flair, you know? Like, it's not... And that's a...

he wins. Well, and they've got a few people that are over that one would think that they could put them in a feature position and, you know, it would be attractive, but they've, the people they're paired with,

I'd say if this Mercedes Mone beats poor Tony Storm, then I think just put the do-rag and the blonde Fu Manchu on her permanently brother. the people like Tony Storm, you can tell she's over with this audience, even though when these two get together, which this was the first segment of the show,

face to face, in the ring, it was 10 minutes of audition for an off-Broadway production. They're, you know, they want both of them want to be actresses. Go ahead. That's what made it really interesting, because Mercedes-Money is so unbelievable in this character that she's concocted in her head. It's such a performance. And the first thing Tony Storm says is, cut the performative shit.

And you believe her. And here's timeless Tony Storm and black and white, a ridiculous character. And you're like, man, that's an honest character. Because it's true. She at least seems more believable

as ridiculous as that sounds. She's more believably performative. Yeah. I don't. I coined a new term insufferably. fake when having to listen to Mercedes. And honestly, the thing with Tony Storm,

bless them that they like it, but Jesus Christ, they want to be actresses, and they're out there on a wrestling show with an unlimited wardrobe budget. But they skipped all the acting training and the auditioning and the part in the chorus, and they've just had some nut, say you guys are horrible actresses. Let me put you on national TV. And why is it that the majority of people,

God damn, we'll talk about this a little bit later on also, they want to just beat me about the head and face because hit Fierry O Sky, or he doesn't like the girls. I can understand if the fans of the female wrestling were the females, as, hey, you're representing us. Now we get to see people like us on the card, but it's predominantly men. Men now want to see wrestling, quote unquote,

where these women dress up in spangles and pretend to be mad at each other. This would have started a riot or emptied an arena at one point in the wrestling history line. And instead, they're like, yes, Mercedes. What? I'm sorry. I just, I don't understand. Do you understand? I don't understand. I mean, I haven't heard anyone say she's a good promo, but she's a horrible promo. And again, when you're in there where timeless Tony Storm was at a complete gimmick, and somehow she's down to earth compared to you. And it just

seems more believable. It seems more believable that she would believe that she's timeless, then that Mercedes Monet would believe anything about this character. She can't talk. That she's the CEO. You know, I say she can't talk. She can talk in the sense that, like, she has whatever she concocted in her head figured out and she knows what she wants to say, but it's all performance and it, you know, it's not effective, I don't think.

People like Tony Storm. People like Mercedes in the ring. But, man, she sucks as a promo. Horrible. I have not seen the the in ring either but nevertheless and Tony Strow called her

I couldn't believe she called her out stop with the performative shit I'm like mad she just said what I'm thinking on the but again people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw machine guns

or whatever that because the whole show is people being performative Well, you know what I'm saying. Don't you? You ought to. The whole show is performative. They're all pretending.

It moxley rambled in a dark room. I don't know. Moving on. Bandito teamed with Brody King against Kyle Feltcher and Take a Shit. Is Bandito now one of the hound dogs from hell? Or the hell hounds of the the Delta or Howlin Wolf

What are they? I don't think the hounds are officially together until the other hound returns before he finishes out his contract and goes to where he wants to go. I don't know. Is he, is the other hound at the vet?

Or is he just, Tony ain't boogging him? Well, he had that bad injury. Remember? We saw it on TV. I can't remember all these fucking various different. All righty.

On fast forward, it looked like they did lots of shit in this match. But let's get to the meat of the matter. Hey, this fucking finish. It's a tag team match, but they're in a four way with two in the ring

and two on the floor fighting simultaneously forever with Aubrey Ed's standing there, you know, not doing anything as usual. And not only are you distracting with that law, you're distracting

attention, but then Kyle and Brody ended up out on the floor, not even involved in the finish. They did a big move to take them out. So, oh, fucking what you call it, comes off the top. Bandito with, he, I'm trying to figure out how to describe this.

He climbed to the top, take a shit's in the middle of the ring. Bandito climbs to the top buckle faced away from him and dives off and does a twisting, turning, corkscrew backflip and the idea was that take a shit was supposed to catch him with a big forearm

in midair, right? Did you even see this to know what I'm talking about? I did. It was one of two stupid forearm spots on this show. Well, well, can you call it a forearm spot if his forearm was not in even nearly in the vicinity of where

it was supposed to be? Or could it just be a failed spot because fucking Bandito just flew right past him and crashed and burned on the mat. The elbow strike completely missed all of him. Not even a spinning appendage got clipped. And the people went, they thought he just fucking committed suicide or something.

And then the Degaset picks him up and suplexes him, one, two, three. What was the other failed forearm spot? that I'm trying to think of... Claudio coming in. That's four. I'm European uppercut. Excuse me. Well, honestly,

that's one of those things that I just buzzed right past as Claudio. See, now you're watching Claudio and I'm skipping him. Well, no, he ran in. He was a surprise run and they did a spot. I mean, this wasn't a main stuff. I thought you would have seen this, with Adam Page.

Maybe I did. It just doesn't read. They all run in. They all run in and beat everybody up everywhere. I don't know what these. fucking notes say? I watched it goddamn a day ago.

We'll find out. It wasn't a forearm at all. Oh, fuck. I don't know. Anyway, the next match was Rickache versus Blake Christian. And again,

you know, Rickashay is, they're paying him a lot of money, I guess. And he's a heel and people don't like, but he goes out and has the

these organ grinders monkey matches with fucking every underneath job guy that can do spots. And Blake Krisha, they put a promo up from him in the box during the entrances or whatever. It makes Michael Jackson sound like Lou Rawls. It's fucking, it looks like that he has some kind of facial hair that looks phony. It looks like they put a fucking mustache on a goddamn eight-year-old child.

So we've seen them as a baby face and we've seen them as a heel in the eliminated appearances on this show, I think. Well, yeah, because, but again, small, pale, nondescript, can't talk, bleh, and he tries to do his stupid shit to make up for it and he fucks it up, which we'll talk about. Because this one, I just, I don't even like that. ricochet, right? As a talent or a person, apparently. But if you're going to fucking use him and pay him, why are you doing this to him into booking?

Is five or six minutes into this thing? There comes Bishop Kahn and Tia Leone. They have he's putting together a faction so everybody that's not do anything right now can hang out with ricochet.

But they come out when the child has just given ricochet a 450 splash and got a two count. So now that he's got to have, Rick O'Shea needs help because this job guy. With the heels on the floor in full view, by the way, of the corpse ref, Rick Knox. But did you hear what Rick Knox has been accused of now? No.

Rick Knox goes to Max Shrek's family reunions and fits right in. He's been accused of this. he's been accused of it they haven't they haven't kicked him out yet so Blake Christian is trying to avoid the heels

that are going after him but it's right in front of the referee so it makes no sense he dives on one heel he ducks another one he grabs one of them's hands and they do an alley-oop cheerleading spot to get up on the barricade where as soon as Christian is up on the barricade,

both the heels bent over, lined up and bent over and braced themselves. And the idea was going to be that he was going to step on one's back and then step on the other's back and to walk right to the apron. Baring by it looked as you imagine it did when they just bent over in a straight line and stood there. and then his foot slipped off number two and he almost fell off the apron but ricochet now draws the referee's attention

and the heels beat the baby face up on the floor then ricochet dove on him threw him back in, hit him with a clothesline and some move where he dropped him on his head, one, two, three. And I'm thinking he didn't need an axe. A child, he's, needed two heels to help him by beating the guy up with multiple blows, then he hit him with

fucking three moves. Jesus, age, no wonder nobody gets over. And they think that this is what they're supposed to be fucking doing. They genuinely believe it because they've been trained by people doing indie shows. And, well, Rickettsay had the opportunity at a higher education. apparently and flunked out of that. So then the heels double power bomb the job guy.

Why? It's meaningless. Nobody cares about him anyway. You already took too much effort to fucking beat him. Now you're going to power by. Is somebody going to come over the rail with a knife or a fucking gun? Try to kill you because you power bomb the job guy?

It just next time you do, it or if you ever do it with somebody that means something, you've just devalued that. Well, that's what they do to everybody. What purpose did that serve? Amateurs? Your thoughts? Can't add too much to what you said. Again, it went a while, but, you know, that's what they want to do.

And, you know, the problem is also the promos. I don't know if you saw it. I'll bring it up here. Because Blake Christian's like another reminder of the guys. they put time in and try to make on TV. And that's what TV time is. Even if you lose every week in Tony's mind, he's building you up.

And Daniel Garcia, I just saw some clip from Collision, he ran out on someone, and he was calling them out for whatever they said about him. He goes, you said you beat Daniel Garcia, big deal. Everyone beats Daniel Garcia.

And I'm like, this fucking guy, Daniel Garcia said that. Daniel Garcia said that it's a big deal to beat him because everyone beats him. Sarcastically, it's a big deal. I'm like, what the fuck? This comes after he ran out there with the crowbar and said, I wish I could do something.

If I only had some type of blunt instrument in my hand that could be used as some type of offensive weapon in order to... Talent development's a problem over there. But yeah, that's that. And ricochet's stable. is very interesting. We'll see what happens.

Very unstable. All right. Well, here was the set piece of the night. This thing went on and on and on as it just continued to evolve in worse ways. So MJF and a Hertz syndicate were in the back. They're cutting a promo, just a brief promo. And then as MJF continues to speak, the Hertz go around the corner. because they're going to get ready to do whatever they're going to do.

And oh, my God, what the fuck? And the camera goes around a corner, and they discover a note on the black, well, not on the blackboard, actually the white board, the white drawing board thing. JetSpeed have taken the tag team belts. They've left them a note and said, hey, we went ahead and took the belts because I pinned Shelton on collision,

but then it was signed JetBlue. speed so I don't know who I and then the plural would be but one of these numn nuts is beat Shelton Benjamin apparently on collision so this is beginning in the end here and then the Hertz lead because they want to go find jet speed with the tag team belts so already the Hertz syndicate has joined the the land of Lilliput. the lollipop guild type of angles they were serious

they looked like stars they beat they heard people they got over now I'm sorry all you can call them is job guys because that's what they ought to be doing

right now a small underneath talent that has not been developed and in Hong Kong's fooey's case never can be is now being put in a position

to fucking make stumble bums out of some of the only stars that they have on the roster. So, but now it's time because while the Hertz go looking for their belts, MJF has to go to the ring to meet Mark Briscoe for the in-ring talky-talk. And boy, as soon as they started and they were looking at each other and you see the, not despair, the contrast between MJF and Mark Briscoe

and both these guys, there's an element of legitimacy to both of their gimmicks. there's there's potential here to begin with this is probably the most interesting thing going on because both guys can talk, both guys can work, and you've got a baby face that despite the booking people still care about.

But God, all I could think was if Mark Briscoe had been presented properly for the past two years and I guess you can say the same thing about that for MJF too, this would have been the pay-per-view main event that it would have drawn some legitimate money. I truly believe that. If they could have, instead of trying to please

the fucking weirdo audience, it's going to buy this shit no matter what, if they had tried to make shit make sense with talent that can get over and make people care about them instead of their fucking monkey moves, this could be punk at MJF level type of thing. Anyway, MJF blistered the crowd

it just shut the fuck up have you noticed they bleep like later on I think maybe a goddamn or something but they just said they've quit trying to bleep shut the fuck up from the crowd and you know MJF was good with the hey take a walk take a walkie walk back to your meth lab in the dumpster fire Delaware but Mark Briscoe

he's got the he's got the gimmick he's got the talk he's proud to be a country boy he's worked hard i've got riches too my family and my friends you're bankrupt that's the word of the day morally bankrupt you have no soul and he said you know and i didn't really like the way that they led into this where mark said you're going to talk some dumb shit about my brother and try to piss me off but it won't work let's not tell him what he's going to do what he's going to do it but MJ have put Jay over and the fans applauded and chanted Jay and everything. But then he hits Mark with the thing, I pity Jay because he's got to see what you've become.

And he's rolling and is censored to see what you've become. Goddamn grave, maybe if I'm a lip reader. And if Jay was here, he'd say, chicken, it shouldn't have been me, it should have been you. And that's when Mark gets on him. and they have the big fight. And okay, now we've got a goddamn personal issue going. Imagine that.

Between two guys that can talk and work and people are into it. And then we got to let, here comes the dancing bears and all the rest of the clowns and the acrobats in the circus. The herd syndicate music plays. And here comes Bobby and Shelton and MVP and they get to the ring where they're still on the floor, but Briscoe is covered. And then here comes Kevin Knight

and spitball. And they come from behind and jump Lashley and Benjamin and they've got the belts and it looked horrible. They can't do this shit. It's not... Briscoe chased MJF through the crowd. He got to fuck out of there.

But then, again, an extended period of time, that Kevin Knight and our friend Hong Kong Fooey with the whitest teeth that anyone has ever come across have got all three members of the herd syndicate that any one individual one could take the other two apart. They've got all three down selling on the floor and they were beating them up.

But he wouldn't stop, but their shit looked horrible because they didn't know what to do. So they were just awkwardly trying to throw them around. and I couldn't believe it. They finally decided to have baby faces kick some ass and it's not swerve, it's not Paige, it's not Kenny, it's not Osprey.

It's these two. And then here comes Christian Cage and his children. Pip Sabian and Nick Plain and Mama Plain. And they beat on the Hurt Syndicate and they can chairtoed

Lashley's leg three times. times. Brian, God damn it, tell me that it's insane that they, what they're doing to their own goddamn move, Christian, that stupid thing that I've always hated when anybody does it, the concerto, but if you put a guy's leg on a chair and you take another chair and you whack it as hard as you can three times should the announcers be saying well this may hamper him when he wrestles in three days what the fuck oh yeah that's going to hurt him this weekend at all in why ain't he going to the hospital you befucking foons so then fooey tried a fooey kick on Shelton and almost missed him and then Kevin Knight splashed him off the top rope.

And then Christian's kids stared at the other kids while the grown adult stars were laid out in the ring selling. And some idiots were on Twitter saying, well, at least after last week they put some interest back in the match, what the fuck is the matter with people? What are they looking at? it's the worst bill to imagine history and I'm I'm thinking the Hurt syndicates appeal may not recover from this. Let's see from now on how people react to them versus how they've been reacting to them and see whether this was the shark jumping or the straw camel breaking or whatever point.

Now that you saw all this, what do you think is going over at All In? I think you're right. I think one of the kids is going to beat the other team of kids, and there's going to be the hurt syndicate, not the champions anymore with nobody to fucking work with and looking like idiots. Because Tony can't figure out a way to utilize stars when he accidentally comes across them.

If they start getting over on their own, he can't keep them that way because it wasn't his idea and he doesn't know why it's happening. If he gets them from someplace else, he brings them in and diminishes him with the book or if they salvage themselves from his booking, then they're still handicapped by the children that they're forced to get in the ring with,

that don't know what they're doing on a mainstream level. And in this case, the Hertz had avoided the bad booking for the most part, but we had been talking about the fact that there's nobody for him to work with to draw any money. Some idiots are going to say, well, that's why they're trying to get night and fooie on. over. What the fuck?

Go get two crackheads out from under a goddamn overpass. You'll have same opportunity at getting them over. It's not about just getting

somebody over. It's about getting the right people over that are also stars of which they have none. We'll see what happens at all in. Obviously a very

interesting build to the tag title match, now a three-way match and the MJF Briscoe stuff. And typically this has been the highlight of the show. I bet.

you that they said Tony or somebody said to the Hurtsle, why don't you put the belts on these guys? They're getting over so good and they laughed. And that's why they stuck the other team in so that they can play amongst themselves. And Shelton and Bobby's professional reputations will not be damaged. They'll just, they won't be over anymore, but they're going to make the same amount of money.

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Did you see the big four-way match between Megan Brain versus Thecla versus Waiyatta versus Ty Mello Yellow? I did. It was too intriguing considering everyone's work level not to watch this. Let's just see what would happen. Well, give me a succinct wrap up for me and the people who forgot to care. They're putting Megan Bain over Strong. Also, Tecla or a Thetla or I guess it was Tecla.

She and Queen Amanata. still don't like each other and really slug each other very hard they did after the match as well. Apparently Queen Amanata, her place in this whole feud, is replacing Jamie Hater who got injured.

She just came back from an injury, didn't she? Now she gets to come back again with maybe a new gimmick. Maybe she can come back with a new hairdo. What is the injury now? Again, I can't keep track of all of these. I actually don't know. I'll see what I can find out.

Well, I don't know that anybody's burning desire to hear it. Are you going to watch the women's casino gauntlet match? I see who wins. How about that? No, what do you mean you'll see who wins? You got to actually watch how they get there. Oh, come on. Maybe a big surprise will come out.

Then I'll see them on fast forward and I'll stop. But it's a four and a half hour should probably five hours. They're in a stadium for God's sake. They don't judge by the size of the crowd. They judge the length that's show by the size of the building. A stadium show, there's going to be five hours long,

30 minutes of multiple women running in. Do you hear Tony Storm's comment at the beginning of the night? She goes, you know, Mercedes, Texas is known for two things, and I'm one of them. The women's division heating up in AEW. Hating up. All righty. Anyway, Samoa Joe versus Wheeler useless.

And they actually take the time for this shaggy curtain jerker to do the boer horseman entrance he's all by himself he's walking through the crowd it's him Samoa Joe

they ought to be playing the goddamn music from jaws have him walk through the crowd and put this buttle fuck in the ring and everybody be going oh shit that guy's going to eat him alive but the other way around what is the tension

we're expected to buy this as competitive like Joe has something to worry about. And the fans were chanting, get a haircut. Ed O' Wheeler. If they had real heat, that's when you would see a fan do something because they probably think,

well, Moxley may be tough and Claudio may be tough and Marina may be tough, but I could take him. Yeah, yeah. They'd like to take him, take him out of the fucking show. So Joe won the thing in eight minutes

with a choke, but then Gabe Kidd remember him, He's the one that looks like the great value Josh Alexander. He's supposedly one of these brilliant prodigies from Japan that is one of the greatest wrestlers in the world. And now he's signed here and he runs in and jumps on people. So he came in and hit Joe with the belt and then Hobbs and Shepoopi ran out and made the

save for Joe because they're going to wrestle in the next multiple man, eight-man tag team match bullshit going on. But before we get there, Joe versus Wheeler, Joe won. Any surprise there? No. And then they had to go right into the main event.

Page and Osprey and Hobbs and Shepoopee versus the Hardley Boys, Claudio and Dick the Boozer himself. It's the same thing I was dealing with 15 years ago. Mark Booking. Let's load everybody in all the top matches up in multiple tag team matches last week. We read the agent reports it was a 20-man gauntlet match in a cage to promote the upcoming pay-per-view where they were going to have a 20-man match and nobody was going to be in a fucking cage. That's what you're supposed to pay for.

people just stare now when the buckaroos come out it's like they're putting up with it as everybody apparently is they they finally again you would think if they're going to have baby faces kick anybody's ass instead of having a a Saturday morning cartoon reject who's also the world's biggest fucking nerd kicked the shit out of two legitimate internationally known athletes. You'd think maybe Hobbs could be a baby face could kick some ass, right? He got power bomb through a table. He was a non-figure in the finish and then Moxley choked out Shapoopy. And Bell.

And then we get the afterbirth, but before that, What, again, even their own fans have to be sick of this fucking balding, boring bumpkin. Just choking everybody out like he's goddamn hoist gracie, don't they? I think the AEW fans have been ready for a Moxley replacement, a Death Rider's replacement for a while. Pack is the smart one. He got to hurt and got to fuck out of there. All right, so then, after they beat the baby faces, then they start beating them up some more. And here comes Wheeler,

and here comes Gabe Kidd. And I don't really know what they were going to. Moxley got a logging chain, and the heels were getting some sloppy, fake-looking heat, and it looked like maybe he was going to do something with the chain. But then the buccaroos pull out plastic bags and they shake them out and tease that they're going to put the bags over the baby faces,

heads, but suddenly on the screen, there's swerp, a close-up of swerve, sitting on, looks like maybe a bulldozer, a forklift or something, but it's a close-up. And he's doing a promo kind of calmly, and they just all stopped what they were doing, and nobody even tried to get away or anything. While they're listening to swerve,

calmly cuts the promo and then the camera pulls out and he's on one of those earth digger machines and he's in front of the buckaroo's stretch limo that they've pulled up in at the beginning of the night and I swear to God somebody's been boning up on their 1999 Steve Austin they had the fucking earth moving machine flattened the limousine Brian how much fucking money do you think that shot cost to do ever? absolutely nothing, nothing, didn't change one goddamn ticket being bought. It was just Marx being able to do a spot

from their favorite television show when they were kids. Well, that's what a lot of this is. It's like attitude error for kids. That's what it is. They established a limo, what, a week ago? And they drove it here to this town so they could do this. It's bad comedy.

It's bad, it's, again, they stopped the beat down to watch the video, but that happens everywhere. You can't really blame just these guys for it. Everyone does that, but. Then the bucks run to the back, and they're shooting them seeing the limousine and having a big fake flip out about it that you can tell they're not really upset

and they're just, they're not even trying. Well, in the arena, the fight is continuing. and Joe and the other baby faces were out of they made a big comeback and Osprey did a fucking flip and they kept going with the fight and then Paige and Moxley ended up standing and looking at each other in the middle of the ring and they just stood there and looked at each other forever until I guess Schaefer remembered oh shit and she ran and grabbed Moxley and pulled him out and then after that we go back to the parking lot and there again the mayors of munchkin land are standing in front of their limousine

and all pissed off and everything and faking being mad and then they looked to their left camera left camera right and swerved jumped off the earth digger and gave them a double stomp like they couldn't see this motherfucker 10 feet away from them did you hear what they said when they got out there they go oh look at the limo we'll be financially ruined what yeah Yeah. They can't even try. They can't even try. So, yeah, this promotes, what are these matches again?

Anarchy in the arena. No, they just did that. But they tell you 15 times during the course of the show what all the matches are, but because they tell you what all the matches are for every goddamn show, and then you have multiple manned shit like this, what the fuck is going? I think it's Moxley v. Page. versus Osprey and Swerve, maybe the ops versus Gabe Kidd

and the BCC front, or not BCC, Death Riders. And the three teams in the... Yeah, that one. That'll be a big... Plus surprises. I mean, who knows? Maybe Sting will come down from the rafters.

Last week, we talked about the Von Erics and somebody just tweeted out. Today, I wonder if the Von Erics apparently they have a title in Ring of Honor, the Von Erics, have some kind of belts in Ring of Honor. I didn't know that. They haven't been advertised for this show in Dallas, Texas. Kevin, they just put out on the internet.

Kevin signed some kind of legends deal like a week or so ago with AEW. They haven't announced Kevin Von Erick will be in Dallas, Texas. What do you want to bet he's a surprise? to himself. They got an 80,000 seat stadium, but it's set up for 25,000. So if they sell 2,500 more tickets, they'll be sold out.

I wouldn't just book them. I'd say, invite your friends. Exactly. And his friends would sell more tickets. God damn, advertise Brian Adidas is going to show up. Anyhow. AEW Dynamite, another banner episode of AEW Dynamite.

And of course, that was the go home show for the big pay-per-view extravaganza. coming up this weekend, as we are recording, all in Texas. But, as we do every week, Jim, how do we talk about these big ratings? The big ratings. The big ratings, AEW Dynamite on Wednesday, July 9th, 2025, from 8 to 10.08 p.m., on average,

watched by 637,000 viewers. Okay, so, that sounds to me like the... that's better than last week, but worse than the week before. Am I just misremembering this? I don't remember two weeks ago. Last week was $5.84. They're still in the pocket. Yeah, the four week average is $632.

Yeah, so this is the same people. But where did they start and where'd they end up? That's always the thing that tells the story. Well, let's go to the story. This was compiled by WrestleMania Breakdown, a quarter hour breakdown. quarter one, 8 to 8.15 p.m., the Mercedes Monet, Tony's Storm Live angle, the John Moxley promo. Every one of these promos where he wants to sound like whatever he's trying to do, he always has a second camera there. Have you noticed that? It's Moxley. Yes. There's always like a camera off to the side filming it too, for no good reason.

That's an artistic treatment that they're doing these days with television shows. Is this the character that should have artistic, you know, Cinematography and his promos? I don't think so. Also, the Young Bucks angle. 732,000 viewers. Okay, that's better than some of their lead-ins or their opening quarters here lately, not what it used to be, but respectable, but of course they've got plenty of room to

fall. We go to quarter two, 815, 8.30 p.m. Bandito! And Brody King, the team is listed here as proto-sheita, the team of the prototype, I think it is. I see the prototype, he's something, Proto-Star, Kyle Fletcher, and Takesha with picture-in-picture. 643,000 viewers. Ouch, okay. Now, again, we're starting, I was disregarding it as, you know, just an anomaly for

a while there, but whereas before they started with a big number in the first quarter and then steadily dropped through the show to end up in a toilet, now they're starting with a smaller number and they still lose a lot in the first 15 minutes, but sometimes it's so much that it goes back up later in the program. So they're fluctuating with this smaller audience. They pick and choose what they want. They can't keep dropping like that. that's 6 to 89,000 people in one quarter, they won't make their average.

Well, we go to quarter of 3, 830 to 845 p.m. The Outrunner's backstage promo, an ad break, FTR and Stokely Hathaway, and the Patriarchy's backstage angle. I skipped all this. Followed by the start of Rickashay versus Blake Christian with Picture and Picture, 604,000 viewers. Okay. RICOche does a number on 40, I'm sorry, 39,000 more people.

So now they're down about 128,000 from the start of the show, and we're only 45 minutes in. They've got to come back up almost. We go to quarter four, 845 to 9 p.m. The end of Rickashay versus Blake Christian, the post match with the Gates of Agony. The Hertz Syndicates backstage angle, looking for their belts.

Kazushka Okada and Kenny Omega Video an ad break and the start of the MJF Mark Vriscolli promo 622,000 viewers There's plus 18,000 and coincidentally the Hertz syndicate and MJF show up Let's see, what's the top of the hour when we're into the Hertz? How badly were they hurt?

We go to the big 9 o'clock hour quarter 5, 9 to 9.15 p.m. the Hertz Syndicate Mark Briscoe Jet Speed Patriarchy live angle coming out of that previous segment and the start of Megan Bain versus Ty Mello

versus Tecla versus Queen Amanata with picture and picture 678 000 viewers There you go They get 50 What is that

670 56,000 at the top of the hour and because the stars are on the program. But now the question is, after they've seen that fiasco, did they want to stick around? We go to quarter six, 915 to 9.30 p.m. Megan Bain, oh, the continuation of that match, I'm not going to list everyone again. The post-match, backstage angle with Tecla and Queen Aminata, Mark Briscoe's backstage promo, and the start of Samoa Joe versus Wheeler Yuda,

620,000 viewers. And they lost almost exactly the same amount they gained. 2,000 more. We go to quarter 7, 9.30 to 9.45 p.m. The continuation of Joe versus Yuda, the post match with the Death Riders and the ops, and an ad break. Do a picture and picture during the match.

596,000 viewers. And there's nothing to hang around for at this point, so are we going to limp out like a... like a whipped dog? Well, we got a quarter eight, I remind you... Whip him like a dog. A quarter eight, I remind you of an eight-minute overrun. Quarter eight, nine-forty-five to ten p.m.

Adam Page, the ops, and Will Osprey, versus Death Riders and the Young Bucks with picture and picture 606,000 viewers also 10,000 people from Rancho Cucamonga

dropped in. Eight-minute overrun, the post-match including Swerp Strickland, Gabe Kidd, Nana, and a limousine, 620,000 viewers. And poor

modern family fans wandering in hoping that this will be over soon. So you get a highest quarter hour besides the open, which always is, it's for the top of the second hour when they had MJF and the Hurt syndicate out. And otherwise, everybody's, eh, and then they start dropping off at the end because they know that the cause is lost. Although the buckaroos, they didn't get the lowest segment, they just about tied for it, 604 and 606. That's good for them. It says something that the Hurt syndicate stuff still gets the most interest.

And we've seen this play out for a while now. But let's see how long that continues. Let's see what the reactions are and the buildings going forward. And let's see what the numbers are on the ratings. Did you see any of that ridiculous online chatter this weekend? I think it may have been a wrestler, an indie wrestler or something that started it. And it was like, for those who think that it's crazy, that Mike Bailey would be in there

Bobby Lashley Mike Bailey is a fourth degree black belt he would be able to take Bobby Lashley easily Oh good God what And then other people like Out of your fucking mind And other people would say

Yeah Mike Bailey is a legitimate Fourth degree black belt And other people say yeah Bobby Lashley did MMA He trained in the military So was my cousin Larry He is a goddamn Yes

50 years ago or whatever But you can do that in karate school. Bobby Lashley wrestled in the fucking armed services. He was nationally ranked as an amateur. He's fought MMA. Look at the fuck of him. What kind of moron thinks this?

Is that the same one that thinks Moxley's amateur level jujitsu tournament stretchings in Newport somehow qualify him as goddamn Randy Couture? I don't know. You know what? The most dangerous fans are the fans who just know enough about real sports to be dangerous. Because they will say any goddamn stupid thing. Anyway, I'll put some money.

If anybody wants to arrange that, if we call up Dana White and he'd get Trump's dick out of his mouth. Or if anybody wants to set that MVP, he could make some money on it. I'll put up 100 grand on Bobby Lashley against Hong Kong Fooey just to fucking see it And I've seen now Who apparently started

Apparently Jelly Nitello was fighting with fans And he said Mike Bailey's a fourth-degree Black Belt He would have a real shot At beating Bobby Lashley In a real fight If he kicked him in the jaw

And then that was double down By cheeseburger You know what? You know, wait a minute Hold on I'd have a hell of a shot of knocking Mike Tyson out If I hit him in head

With a sledgehammer Yeah Is he supposed to just stand there and wait on it? And then the wrestler known as Cheeseburger chimed in and said Speedball could legitimately kill 90% of the people in pro wrestling. Oh, Christ. And likely 100% of the people that complain about wrestling on the internet. Thankfully, he's a nice guy.

Do you think Mike Bailey could kill 90% of the wrestlers of the business? Oh, please, hello. But we're all, thankfully, we have been saved the horror of if Spitball, Hong, Kong fuy had a bad temperament. Imagine the chaos and the carnage he could reek across the land. Thankfully, he's a nice guy. Because none of these guys have athletic backgrounds. So when somebody can say, yeah, I'm a fourth degree black belt from fucking so-and-so

karate school into strip mall and fucking Englewood or whatever, oh, wow, don't fuck with him. Jesus, what do you think Kurt Angle would have said if he'd come up and say, I'm a fourth degree black belt. Well, good. Take it, wrap it around your neck and tie it to my bumper because I'm going to drag you along through this. How fast do you think, Lashley, or Shelton, or even fucking MVP?

Sheldon. MVP's a black belt. Well, yeah, but MVP walking with a fucking cane right now. I'd hate for him to have to hurt himself killing fucking spitball. But Shelton. again i'm sorry i've personally witnessed friendly skirmishes between shell lez shelton benjamin of brock lester in training situations and no no no it's a whole different fucking level that these that's again that's why they they don't even consider themselves professional athletes they're entertainers

that's why when somebody has the slightest modicum of a legitimate athletic background they're like oh wow the fuck I hope Dan Severn doesn't ever piss spitball off poor Dan has take to think what Fooey would do to I saw someone use him in an argument the other day too they're like

Kenny Omega really did MMA look he even fought Dan Severin and it's like well I hate to break it to you but not all those fights were fights. Dan Severn's worked more MMA than he has fucking pro wrestling. I think now that since he's retired from competition, I can fucking say that without hurting him or anything. But what the fuck? It's just, it's ridiculous.

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They can power yours. One more time, Jim. Yes, Shopify, cha-ching.com slash J-C-E. All right, well, before we go today, we are going to continue our project. I don't know how much farther we're going to get. I'm looking at the sheets that we did the other day,

but we've been looking at the WWE roster. As we did the AEW roster, we dumped some people, we kept some people. I've got that list. for AEW. We're going to polish that up at some point. But first, we are doing the same thing, separating the stooges from the stars, as they say,

in the WW. We've kept a lot more than we kept in AEW. But of course, they have people like Gunther and fucking punk and fucking Drew and blah, blah, blah, and on and on, Bronn Breaker and on and on. But I know a lot of people, people and you made me put down E.O. Sky. We kept E.O. Sky. Good Lord. She does have a lot of fans. And they're all men. I'm wondering what, but nevertheless, another thing. Well, people are

like tweaking. Well, God damn, you're not keeping any of the NXT people. You say you haven't seen them. Yeah, we haven't seen them on a main roster. We are not making a list of every goddamn potential possible good wrestler in the world. We're going with the WWF roster, who I would keep, who I don't particularly want to keep, and let's leave developmental alone because we have to have new talent to come in later on and replace somebody. So there's 300 fucking people.

I'm saying if somebody has potential fine, I'm not saying they should all be shot off in a rocket ship to the moon, but we don't, we're not keeping them right now. Does that make any sense to anybody? Well, the two biggest complaints I heard were Jim is wiping out the midcard, and that Jim doesn't watch enough

and that complaint is never about anyone from Raw's Smackdown it's exclusively about NXT Yeah well yeah and wiping out the mid they're not on the mid card yet but if we're wiping out the mid card I have Alex Shelley

I have Apollo Cruz I have hold on here old Chris Sabin I have Dexter Loomis I have Eric and Ivar the Raiders I have Ailea I have Javon Evans that you say, oh, we got to keep him.

Jordan Grace. There's a number of names that I would term midcard at this point. Well, everyone has their favorites, and some people have their pom-poms out in full effect. But let's get back to this list. Of course, the first time, Jim, we went based on www.com slash superstars from the champions, and then A to J. and that's as far as we got. So I guess

there's a lot of NXT names here. Should I skip the names or should I least give you the names? See what you think of the name. Well, no, read the names and we will just again. We're not making a list of every goddamn promising wrestler in the world. We've got a WWE roster and an AEW roster. What can we do with each one of them? It doesn't mean there has to be,

have people forgotten that it was not a common thing for there to be more than 40 wrestlers or so working for a promotion, you know, 50 in the days of the Crockett's running three towns a night or Vince or whatever, but 200 people on a roster is just because they've got so much money now they don't know what to do with it. And there's no place else for anybody to work. Well, Jim, what would you do with Kyrie Seine? Kairi Seine. Is everybody going to get mad at me when I say, we got Oscar, we got Karis Seine, we got goddamn

Eoske, we have... You got rid of Oskah for the record. You made me choose between Oskia and Eoskai. It was some kind of weird Sophie's choice kind of thing. Well, it's because they both look the same, do the same shit. They dress the same. They're the same size. They do the same shit.

There's a few other men around here that I'm going to fucking pair down to that are the same size, do the same shit. We'll see which one we need. What about Kyrie's sane? Oh, Jesus. Christ. Are you going to get mad at me? I'm not. I'm not. I think she's fine. But, you know, I'm not invested

in her being on the roster or not. Well, let's then put her over on the roster that's leaving. Jim? Yes. I'm assuming NXT. Kale Dixon. And here's another thing. I'll fire them until they come back

with a real person's name. So Kale Dixon doesn't pass the name test. No, give me Ricky Gibson. What about? Carmen Petrovich. Oh, seriously. Carmen with a K.

Carmen Petrovich. Okay, no. How about Carrying Cross? Boy, what... He looked like he had potential when he was bald and him and Scarlett was blonde and now she's dark-headed

and his hair is as long as hers is and there was a period of time there where it was just completely fucking putrid. and then he started to talk and people are more interested in him, but the matches are still the same with the extra component of now watching

how many times he takes a bump. Let's keep him over here and see what we can work out with him for later. Would you consider changing his name back to his pre-WWE name, Killer Cross? I don't see why not. I think at this point, I don't know that anybody's going to believe

he's really going to kill anybody. Now, here's some NXT names, I presume. I've seen this young lady, very pretty. Kalani Jordan. Okay, let's not. Because I think I've seen her too, and I think she's one of the girls that's about 4'11. You think every girl's 4'11. She's not 4.

I think she's one of the taller ones, actually. Well, and I'm thinking of another one. What about Kelly? What is? If I ain't thinking about her, I don't care. It's, again, NXT and fake names, and we're trying to to put together a major league national international promotion roster. Kalani's got all the time in the world. What about NXT announcer, Kelly Kincaid?

Who did she used to be? Is that her name or is she just? I have no idea. I don't know. Kelly Kincaid, let's not keep it. We have the girl I like. What's her name? The good one.

Jackie Redmond. That's right. Jackie Redmond. We got her. How about Kendall Gray? A man or woman? It is a young lady. Okay, let's not have her.

Kevin Owens. We obviously, hold on, we will keep Kevin Owens because he is a star. He appears to be slightly less annoying than he used to be. He's injured. We hope he gets better, but yes, we would use him on the roster. If he wasn't as big a pain in he is as he used, to be. I think money changes people.

Money changes everything. I presume NXT, Kiana James. I've heard that name, and I wish her good luck in her future endeavors with it. We could just let these people keep their names, their fake names, to kind of soften the blow. You already gave your ruling on the team of pretty deadly Kit Wilson.

I presume gone as well. Well, yeah, did I write both of them down at the same time? I can't. What's the other one's name? Elton Prince. Elton Prince. I didn't write down. So what's this one, Kit Parker?

Kit Wilson, not Kit Parker. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to slander Kit Parker. Don't do that. He's a nice guy. How about Kofi Kingston? I think is the New Day thing so just old and worn out now, but they switched he old. and it was going to be interesting,

but then they're still wearing the same shit. There might be something to do with Kofi Kings. Let's keep him around for a little while. He's been around a long while, but next on the list here. Somebody over. I'm not trying to tear up the mid card. Next on the list here, Jim. L.A. night.

Got to keep some L.A. night, without doubt. and hopefully start doing something good with him before he loses all the goodwillies aren't. How about Lash Legend? Oh, good Lord, that's that girl from NXT from what, five years ago when we watched it for a little while, right?

She was rotten then. She had a talk show. It's like that fucking, what's her name that's goddamn locked up in an asylum now? There was a daytime talk show host. Wendy Williams. Wendy Williams, yeah, they got her locked up now. No, I think she got out of the asylum or wherever she was.

Now, I don't know if it was an asylum. Well, no, she was crazy as a rainbow trout and a car wash. They had her locked up in a rubber room at the puzzle factory. Yeah, what was that name? You just said, Lash Legend. Lash legend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she'll be a legend. She had size.

No, she had size and a look. Yeah, and I remember the work, too. If, after five years, if she was any better, we'd have seen her on the name roster. Lexus King, formerly Brian Pilman Jr. Pilman Jr. Let's keep him before he's too old

to goddamn go anywhere. Get something going with that guy. Ring announcer, Lillian Garcia. Oh, geez. Does anybody see, she's got just a wonderful smile.

She can sing. Does anybody see any correlation between her ring announcing and that of Howard Finkl or Jimmy Lennon or any of the greats of modern times? Or Jimmy Lennon, Jr. Even Jimmy Lennon, the third. No, we don't need.

But she's better than the girl with the fucking ridiculous Martian hairdo. Live Morgan. We're keeping Live Morgan. She's over. She's a personality. The people are accustomed to her. She's a money-drenren.

drawing female talent. Logan Paul. You got to keep Logan Paul. What a fucking dick. I mean, he may be the only fucking healing. Well, think about it. He's the only real heel in the business because everybody knows he's a fucking dick.

What a fucking dick, I believe, is also why Tony Kahn keeps Shelton Benjamin around. Hey! Well, let's go. Now, I kid. That's mere rumor. Only started by everybody that's ever been in a locker room with me. Let's go now back to the list from NXT, I presume, Lola Vice. Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets, but in this case, it's the unemployment line.

Does that pass the name? Do you like the name? Oh, that was my question. I love the name. Really? I hope that one day she'll be good enough that we'll actually want to book her. From NXT, Luca Crucifino. Oh, I don't even know how to spell that. L-U-C-A-L-U-C-A-L-C-A-L-A-D-A-N-F-A-N-F-A-N-F-A-N-F-W-A-W-W-A-L-U-C-A-N-W-A-N-W-A-N-B-A-W-N-D-G-E-N-G-E-K-N-G-E-K-K-E-K-K-E-K-N-E-K-L-E-K-L-E-K-R-L-E-

they weren't just fake, made-up names that are supposed to be normal human's names, but nobody actually has. Ludwig Kaiser. I'd keep him in a heartbeat. There's a guy you can do all kinds of shit with. Would you do anything different with him right now? Well, yeah, I'd put him back on TV. We haven't seen him in fucking ages.

I guess he showed up the other day. We haven't been paying attention to last couple of years. Little burnout, a little overload. A little bit of him, a little bit of us. I actually. No, yeah, but yeah, no, with him, I would fucking let him go like they were doing for a while and show that he can fucking work and that attitude he's got.

And he's still, he's got some size, but he's still small enough that he can take bumps for the big guys, whatever. He's an all-around utility guy. Lyra Valkyria. That's, I'm sorry, I can't. change my impression. She's not ready for this. She might be some time, but she just has no personality. There's no oomph to it. It's the goofy name, the wings on the costume, her scared face. She's not a happy, cheerful person or doesn't have, she doesn't have the Chelsea Green entrance

or the Rio Ripley entrance or the goddamn Liv Morgan entrance or any, she just comes out flapping him fucking wings. Lyric. We're going to just make that an instrumental. I presume NXT, Malick Blade. What is it even? What is that?

It is a man. It sounds like a goddamn, you know, registered trademark for a knife set they're going to sell on home shopping. Apparently, according to the bio, here he's taken NXT and NXT level up by Storm. All right.

to be determined. No, he's gone. He's gone. He's cut. Blade is cut. How about Mark Nash? I think he's a ring announcer. Is he related to Kevin?

He is the Smackdown ring announcer. Is he the guy with the ridiculous Beavis and Budhead hairdo? It doesn't look like it, no. Well, let's get rid of him anyway. All right. He reminds me of the guy that has the bad hair. I mean, I guess now that I look at it, now I see a little bit. of it, but I don't think that was there before you mentioned it.

Maurice. Who the fuck is that? The wife of the Ms. Oh, I thought Maurice like Maurice Chevalier or Maurice Gibb. Maurice. Maurice Chevalier, that's what you thought it was. Well, that's the most famous Maurice. If a knighting, yes, of course, Maurice, the wife of the Ms.

Very ample bosom, and I didn't know she was on the roster. No, Ms. is flat chested as shit. He's like an ironing board. No, we don't need her. Maxine Dupree. Oh, good Lord, model girl. You know, the only thing, the hard thing about firing her

for being the shits is that she'd get that face where it looks like her feelings are hurt. I presume an NXT mic holder, Megan Morant. I mean, you know, we've got a column for announcers and things. I don't, she, Megan Morant,

kind of sounds like a decent name. Is she any good? Do we care? I have no idea. What about Michael Cole? Well, let's put her over there. Michael Cole. We got to keep Michael Cole because he's almost ready to retire anyway,

so why would we do that to it? We can keep him because he's, you know, what is he now? He'll be 72 in March. You should see what WWE did do him. This picture they used, he looks insane. You got to see this. No, Michael, I bet Michael. I bet Michael's maybe only same age as me.

So he's got another year or two in him, and then it's off to the home. Meachan. We'll keep me a yam. I don't know what Meachan is, but we'll keep me a yam. Because again, you've got to have some underneath girls. Let me rephrase that. Got to have some girls on the card to put your stars over,

and she's a very solid worker tries hard. I presume another ring announcer, Mike Rome. He's the one with the weird hair. Oh, let me click this. I mean, I guess I could see, I mean, I guess I could see a Beavis and Butthead-ish hairdo. As I say this, this face is growing longer and longer looking at it. I don't know, I see it more as I think about it.

Your face is melting. All right. Mike Rome, let him roam free. We already did Montez Ford Street Profits. What about from NXT? Mr. Stone. We saw him. He was, was it Robert Stone?

Oh, my God, no. The fake, he's the AEW version of Sterling, the fake underneath job guy manager. Yeah, no, he was doing a bunch of comedy while, back, so his chance to be taking seriously is kind of over. How about Miles Bourne? I'm thinking, who is he? NXT, I presume.

They've got a lot of NXT fucking people on this list. I was thinking I might have heard the name, but then I might be thinking of Matt Born. Evan Bourne. Tough Tony Born. Well, let's get rid of Mike Bourne. It's too confusing. Naomi.

You know, with a new gimmick and as a heel, I'm saying, let's keep her. Natalia. Natalia, again, you want, because she's going to be an in-ring trainer and transitioning to working as a producer with girls, and she's got all kinds of experience. So you want her on a card to help get some of the green horns over. Nathan Frazier. Oh, good Lord, he's the. crackhead looking one with the little guy with the mask on, right?

This is like a crackhead? Where the hell did that come from? He's got that nobody long hair looks like a guy working over at fucking Ken Towery Auto. I mean, I don't know what to say, but he's very athletic. Fraxium, right? Him and the little fucking guy with the mask on. He is the frah and fraxium.

Yes, that's when I first saw them. I said, my God, I can't believe. this was, Vince was still there. I said his standards have really fallen. That he would let two guys that indie looking on fucking television. So I presume you're giving

him a chance. No. Nia Jacks. Can we find a conveyance that will carry her out of town or do we have to keep her just because nobody can transport her? What about Nick Aldus?

Oh, what are you laughing about Nick Aldous for? I'm not laughing about Nick Elders. I'm laughing about... He says nothing funny about him. Yeah, of course we're going to keep Nick Alders. Nikki Cross. Oh, good Lord. No, the girl with the Wyat's.

Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Maybe my favorite of all your nicknames because it's so dumb, yet it just makes you laugh, Nikki ass, which... You know, it's good. That's pretty much, you know, what the whiff you got when she was in the ring before she started with the whole Wyatt thing. And then we had to see more of her.

Speaking of the whiff of ass, Jim, what about Nikita Lyons? What? She's still in NXT. Well, she was out for like a year, I think, or something with a knee, right? Yeah, that's why I've said. She's been hurt a couple times, the ACL, I think it was the big one. she's got a lot of oomph if she can she could ever keep it consistently oomfy

let's keep her until we see what's going on they have tried to present her to us in the past she keeps getting hurt all right we have a bunch of uh nxte people here now miko vans how many but there are more people in nxte god damn you should have heard the squealing from the office when i would turn in a goddamn statement to be reimbursed 200 bucks or whatever in the old days.

Now they employ 700 people. You should have married Stephanie. I'll stick with poverty. Nico Vance. I, I, I, you know. Nome Dar. What? Nome, Alaska. I don't know.

Nome. Well, here's one you know. Almost. Oh, good. Lord, they've still Yeah, now let's let him do something. This is going to sound crazy, but I think

like they sent them to all Japan. What are they mad at all Japan for? I don't think that's why they sent him there, but another name from NXT, Osiris Griffin. Osiris Griffin? What about

Deuteronomy Skaggs? Is he on the roster? I need another piece. paper Osiris Griffin he's he's gone for a while what about Otis he's gone I mean that

they got they had it where the people liked him and they wanted to see him and Gable and then they never did it for I don't know why and now who cares Pat McAfee you got to keep McAfee because he's a big star people know who he is he gets attention

I'd try to get him off the caffeine within two hours of showtime. Paul Heyman. Oh, I think we can probably find something for Heyman to do. Away from catering. Penta! They've still got Felix, right? We haven't gotten to him yet, but I believe he should be on this list.

Okay, then let's get rid of Penta. Whoa! Whoa! He just got there and he's over and he's selling merch. Yeah, but the other one's better. He does all the same shit. Well, eventually they could team up and you have a tag team. well then if they do let's bring penta back where's he going to go home gee I didn't realize you're just going to get rid of him

because of Ray Phoenix's brother you're creating family drama what I'm doing is I'm getting a distinct star Penta is sloppy his shit don't make sense I see him grabbing shit from the right side all the time and people try to shoot him off and it just it's a fucking mess Felix was better in the when we saw him in this environment being produced than Penta and his two guys doing the same kind of shit.

You only want one unless they're a team and then you want both up. So can they be a team? I'll put both of them down over here. But if they're not, I'll take Felix. Very interesting. We'll keep moving on here. Well, I mean, you know, we can here. Here I'll put him over here on the side, Penta if team.

What about Pete Dunn? Oh, good Lord. Poor Butch. I think he's homesick. He looks homesick to me. All right. What about Piper Niven? She's part of the Chelsea Green,

uh, Gream. Chelsea Green contingent. Chelsea Green, the Beam Green. You know what? Keep Piper Niven and Chelsea over here. I'm not sure about the

did we we kept Chelsea before I think didn't we I think so yes yeah we kept Chelsea keep Piper not sold on the other skinny girl with them but Piper was the stooge with the suit on and everything and then she lowers the boom on people with her enormous gigantic body weight

I can get into that game our truth yeah got to keep the truth, baby, even if they can't handle it. Now that he's, six months ago, I'd have said, oh, Jesus Christ, enough's enough. But now they got something. Randy Orton. Oh, God damn it.

I just realized, I've fired so many people. I'm on a different page, but now I've started writing down people I'm keeping. And even though I've got room on this other pages. Oh, well, of course we're keeping Randy Orton, since he's one of the biggest stars in God, damn. Well, we already did Raquel Rodriguez, and it sounds like you already committed to Ray Phoenix being on your roster, correct? Oh, Felix. Felix will be here. Ray Mysterio. Of course you keep Ray Mysterio.

I have to think about that. Ria Ripley. Well, I don't know, Brian. What do you think? I mean, she hasn't worn at her welcome, anything has she. Maybe if she put on a little weight and grew a couple of inches. Yeah, we'll keep her. Jim from NXT, Ricky Saints.

Well, obviously, we know who Ricky Saints is and I don't know why they're keeping him in NXT when, you know, they could freshen up the main roster, but we'll keep Ricky Saints. Ridge Holland Now he is the short squat fellow from across the pond Well not short and squat but he's a big thick fellow He's not short and squat He's not short but he's squat He's big and thick

He might be six feet tall but he's big and thick He's the guy that tore his leg when he was catching a guy on a dive I believe While back Yeah and then yeah He had a couple of things happen There's something to do with that Let's keep Ridge Holland.

As I recall, unless he's crippled himself by now. Now, this name's on the WWR roster page. I don't know that he's active. And if he has done anything recently, I just, because I don't watch NXT, I haven't seen it. Robert Rood. I get he's one of their producers or whatever, but maybe they have him on a talent contract. I mean, I don't know how old Bobby is these days, but God damn it, he's one of the guys that I was screaming at him to fucking feature better in TNA 15 years ago. go.

But instead they were, you know, holding a, running a retirement home for ex-WWF talent. But if Bobby Rude is able to work and is in good shape and whatever, then yes, he's instantly on the rust. Roman Raines. I think we can find something for him to do, even part-time.

Roxanne Perez. Oh, God damn it. if I fire Roxanne, Stacey will get mad at me. Oh, Stacey likes Roxanne. Stacey likes Roxanne. Roxanne. Let's keep Roxanne Perez. Rusev.

What have they been doing with him lately? Because, I mean, we haven't paid attention for two weeks, but I haven't seen him in a while since then. He had a good match. I enjoyed it. I watched it. It went a while a couple weeks ago. Him and Seamus had a good match.

That's right, him and Seamus. That's the last time we said. Okay, yeah, we'll keep Rusev, as long as he can refrain from coming all over people like God's wrath. Sammy Zane. Got to keep Sammy Zane. He is very popular and all around friend of furry woodland creatures. Santos Escobar. Oh, good Lord. Can we get rid of all of all of them? the people in the lucha heels and the lucha baby faces that fight the lucha against each other endlessly well now that they have a piece of triple a there's a place to there's a place to send

them there you go yeah you don't have to get rid of them from nxte i presume i may get this wrong Sackwan sugars. Shuggers. I don't even know what I'm writing there. Nobody has ever heard that name before, so we're not even going to put it on the list and just act like it doesn't happen. I believe this is another one of the announcers

or microphone holders for NXT. Sarah Schreiber. Sarah Schreiber. How many microphone holders we got? We got Byron Saxton. We got Jackston. we got Jackie Redmond. We get it.

Do you want to keep Megan Morant or Sarah Schreiber? Let's take Sarah Schreiber. Okay. And I'll put Sarah Schreiber over here. Jim, what about Scarlett? Well, if you're going to keep Cross, you've got to keep Scarlet, but I would bleach your hair again quickly. Where is she? Where's Cross? Cross with Scarlet.

There we go. Scarlet. This is one of the... there are commentators or announcers that we don't really see, but he's a local New York sports guy. Scott Stanford. Nope. Somebody beat me to it. He just left. He announced on Twitter.

He was done with the company. Oh. Well, there you go. He's a radio guy in New York, apparently. What about Seth Rollins? I think we can keep Seth. We can figure out a place for him. Yeah, we may have to talk about it on the drive-thru.

We're getting more and more feedback from people sick of him. It's something to keep an eye on. Well, the thing is, with the, you know, weird cackling promos, he gets old. But when he's, his matches are good and when he's serious about something, as he was the personal issue with punk, the promos aren't bad. But now that Heyman's with him, maybe we can hear a little more from Paul and a little less from Seth, and it'll help the familiarity breeding contempt problem he's having. we'll see. Again, this is their roster from their website.

Shane McMahon. Do you think they're just putting, I'm sure Shane probably still has a talent contract that's running in some fashion. I would be surprised, actually, if he had a talent contract that was active right now. I didn't know that. Well, no, no, because think about this. What was the Royal Rumble the last time he was there, and when Vince got mad at him and set him home for fucking up the Rumble,

that was what, three years ago? they signed him to a five-year talent contract. And they're not going to, goddamn, you know, who knows, depending on, and I'm not saying I know this for a fact, but depending on whether he's compensated a minimum, or he's compensated if he works, he ain't going to work anymore, are they going to say, well, if his minimums a couple of hundred grand, are we going to make the headlines for firing Shane,

when he's really done nothing wrong. Are we just going to ride that out? But I'm surprised if there is existing paperwork on him, still with everything's gone on, they put him on the website, which may have been a lower level website guy in the office going, oh, these are all the people on contract, and nobody's noticed.

Who knows? I don't know. But no, we're not keeping Shane, but he don't want to be kept. From NXT, Sean Spears. Oh, good Lord. Him still. The chairman.

The chairman, yeah. Let's see if he can find his seat without us. What about Seamus? He's just so visually off-putting. And I don't, you know, the get-up that he wears like the street urchin from, you know, the home country in the fucking 1870s or whatever and he doesn't really dress like that anymore it's more of like a like a cab driver

I saw him the other night on the show and he had the goddamn outfit on and carried his shalely stick or whatever the fuck it was it just looks so vincish it looks so cartoony but I mean when you're that pale there's an element of cartoon to begin with he's an okay worker

when you're just having a fucking fight. But I, you know, I honestly, I think it'd be unfair to him because I don't really have any ideas for what I would do with a guy like that. So it might be more fair to him to just let him be free. Jim, what about Shinska Nakamura? Oh, please. How quickly can we get him a first class ticket back home? First class.

That's pretty nice. Well, I fear that's the least we can do for his years of contribution. Jesus Christ, he's been horrible for years. I don't remember if we mentioned this young woman with the champion. She's holding a belt. Saul Rucker. Yes, we did. Yeah, we did.

And I think people got mad at me because I fired her, but only because, again, I don't know what the fuck's going on here. And it's developmental. We'll worry about that later. What about Solo Sacoa? we already kept solo because he was in the champions list so now they're duplicating oh okay yeah i've got him down up here he was in sight or just because he was on to i don't know he came up what about stephan oh good lord i believe that i would go forever see here's the thing you

triple h is in the family but he's his own star. He's also important to creative and he's the experienced executive. I don't know that I want more people reminding folks that the McMahon family used to have anything to do with this. And Stephanie, she's not indispensable in creative. She's not indispensable on television. She's not indispensable in the office. She's not indispensable. She's just now getting wormed in because they want to rehabilitate her image and separate her from her dad, but we don't need her.

Nobody's calling for her. That's right. How about Stephanie Vacquer, Vacquer, Vakur, Vacker, one of the other. Lacker. I know everybody thinks she, what does everybody think she's so great about?

She's another one-dimensional kind of facial expression with a mean, badass look, and, you know, and there you go. That's kind of it. So what are you saying? She is pretty good. You're not going to take her? Well, let's keep her. Fans are into her.

We'll keep her. I presume NXT for the next one. Stevie Turner, it's a girl. Uh, yeah. I think she used to be a production assistant for TNA. Jim, what about Tomatanga? Well, you got to keep Tomatanga because of the whole bloodline deal that he's in. But if he wasn't a member of the family, he might be looked at a little more closely.

Again, this is their roster, Tamina. Oh, yeah, let's not do that anymore. She's just been there for a while because because. Here's the tank from Hankin Tank, Tank Ledger. I think we already Is he related to Heath? I don't think so. We haven't seen the tank or the Hank.

Did we dump Hank before? I don't remember. There was a Hank that we Let's see, F, G, H, I don't. Well, we don't need tank or, no, we already, we got rid of tank. And we got rid of Hank and tank at the same time. What about Tatum Paxley?

It's a girl. Let's move on. From NXT, I presume, Tavian Heights. Set a suburb of Pacific Palisades? I think we all know your answer to that one. The Miz. Oh, good Lord. I have been so sick to death of him and his frog face and various antics.

But he's over and he's been around. for a while. I'm not going to just discard him right now. Let's see if we can do something. Wow. Something, something. Maybe, well, hold on. Because maybe he is an obnoxious

manager that very seldom wrestles except for when somebody wants to see him get the shit kicked out of him. And with him having that obnoxious personality and being able to talk, you might get something out of it.

As a wrestler, it's goddamn, it's ridiculous. Jim, again from NXT, I presume, Thea Hall. Oh, no, excuse me, hail, Theo, Theo, Hale. Well, hell now, get it straight. Hail, hail, and farewell. We did Tiffany Stratton already.

What about? Well, I said, now you just go ahead and brag. I'm not going to admit to anything. I believe the next one is an ambassador, for the company, not active, Titus O'Neill. Yeah, I, it, what foreign country is he opened up relations with? I don't know. I don't know what he's doing, actually.

You know, I don't know, well, if he does commentary or whatever on some of these pregame shows, I have nothing against him, but I'm not sure what he's doing because I don't watch pregame shows. Let's put him over in the announcers section. What about Tomaso Champa? I'd keep Tomaso. Maybe we could get him away for. from that goddamn street urchin partner of his

and let him show what he can do. He's older, he's had injuries, he can't work a full schedule, but he's still, he's an amazing athlete. His work was good, and you could believe him. You could do something on a limited basis there that wouldn't, you know, you don't want to put him in the main event,

he could blow a knee again. And there's millions of dollars on pay-per-view, but there's something you can do with him. Can you do something with Tonga? Lil'a. Yeah, do a blood test to make sure that he's a member of the family. If he is, we'll keep him. If not, we can get rid of it.

That may be a good segment in the blood test on TV. Tony DeAngelo. Quickly, go away. It was cartoony and NXT. Remember, he's the gangster. That's right. I believe now he's a good guy, though. He's a gangster with a heart.

Yeah. Jim, what about Trick Williams? He's one of their champions there. Trick Williams. We haven't seen him in ages. There was, you know what? I'd put him down to keep for a second.

There was, he was, had something, some athleticism. I haven't seen him in a while, but put him down there. Somebody's got to open a show, if nothing else.

Triple H is listed here on this list. Well, no, you're not going to put him on the roster, but we're not going to fire him. Tyler Bate. Oh. Yeah, no. He's the

small fellow from across the pond. Very talented, but very, very small, yeah. Yeah, very small. Again, these, I presume, are N-X-T participants. Wait, wait, wait, wait, ABC, D, F, J-H-H-H-H-H-A,

element of P, QR-S-T, U-V-W-X-Y-Z. Okay, we're almost there. We're almost there. This is the home stretch. Tireik-I-G-W-E. What? Now, what? I'm trying here. T-Y-R-I-E-E-E-E-E-K. I-E-K. I-E-K.

How do you spell something? T-R-Y-R-R-E-R-E-K? That's his first name. Then the second name, Igley. Wait a minute. What is his first name? T-Y-R-E-K. I-E-K.

That's his first name. And his last name is IGWE. He was partners in the Columbus territory with Yingwi Mouscombe. No, I'll just put a line here on the paper saying that we fired somebody. What about Tyson DuPont? What the fuck was he? He was a member of the DuPont family, right? made all their

fortune in fucking was it oil or shipping? I can't remember. Maybe it was diamonds. No, we don't want him. What's his name? Tyson DuPont. Yeah, you're trying my patience.

Uncle howdy. How quickly can we move that son of a bitch out of here, never to be heard from again. That's the most embarrassing, failed, flopped gimmick in the history of wrestling. What about your Ryan Connors? only if his manager's name is Uriah Heep. I believe the next person here we heard was released,

or at least they weren't going to renew. I forget exactly what, Valhalla. That's right. She moved here to Louisville to become a golf course down the road. It's where they have the PGA tournament. It's where they arrested Scotty Schifler. Oh, yeah, I remember that, yeah. Yeah, the big Valhalla Golf Club.

she's successful now. What about the NXT commentator of Vic Joseph? Have we ever heard him? I guess we have at some point. He's not terrible for WWE. Well, let's keep him. Somebody's got to do the job.

What about Wade Barrett? You know, he looks good in a suit and he's got a deep voice. We'll keep him. He may need to be produced a little bit more. But that... And it's nothing wrong with that. Well, here's one of your favorites from a few years ago, Wendy Chu.

Oh, my God. Still, they will keep people way, just like Tony, way past the point where you would think, my God, have you learned nothing? Because they don't have to worry about the money they spend. She was actually in a sleeping bag going to sleep in the middle of the matches, as I recall. Yeah, how quick can we get rid of her? Also from NXT, Wesley.

Which one is he? Wesley. He was doing something the last time we watched and I don't remember. Well, he must have made an impression. Let's not keep him. William Regal. Well, again, he's neither on the talent roster as a wrestler, but he's not an authority figure anymore.

Does he even appear on television? is he specifically behind the scenes? He may appear on. I mean, I'm not, I'm not saying fire him. You know, he's, he's apologized enough for that AEW fiasco. Uh, but we'll keep him over here with the announcers and the office people and the morticians and things. From NXT, Ren Sinclair. Kick him and Stimpy out.

It's a girl. It's a, uh, a very pretty young. woman. Well, good for her. Maybe she'll be able to find other work. See, this is what gets people upset. You just fire the NXT people. You don't give a shit about anything. Well, again, we're not dealing with developmental. We've already got on these three pages. We have 75. Hold on us. Three page. I've kept 80 fucking people for goddamn one wrestling company. You can fill in the fucking blanks later on. What about Xavier Woods from the New Day?

I kept Kofi, didn't I? You know, I like, Xavier Woods was consequences consequences. In T&A, he's a nice young man. That gimmick has just been fucking bloody rotten with the pancakes and the unicorns and the fucking cereal and the trombones and all that bullshit for so long. it's tainted my appraisal of the humans but we could

what's his name over here again now Xavier Xavier Woods we'll keep Xavier Woods and just get him a new wardrobe I assume NXT it's a woman here Zaria

sorry Zaria Zaria Zalina Vega you know she seems to be a very nice young girl, but she's painfully small. She's the ones got a good backstory. Her father was in

the Twin Towers on 9-11, right? She's the one, I believe. Yeah, that's right. You know, let's keep her down here for some baby face purpose for a while. You know, I always thought, even though I'm sure she loves being a wrestler, and I'm sure they may like it better, too. I thought her as a heel manager was actually the best use of her. Oh, that's right.

Remember she didn't that too? And that was when we first saw Andrade in WWE. Finally, Jim, the final name here on the list. And again, there's a picture of Mr. Aguana here and he wasn't on the list. So there's other names involved. Zoe Stark. Well, she's

poor thing. We'll keep her because we can't fire the poor thing when she's hurt. She just hurt herself. But she ain't going to be wrestling for us for a while. And that is the, final name on www.com's superstars list of all their talent. I mean, seriously, I have said there's 26 lines to a notebook pad.

So I have kept about 85 people and we have dumped, 25, we've, good Lord, we've dumped over 100. And it's still got 80 something. It's just, it's too much. Oh, well. The only argument, I guess, someone could make would be because of what WWE did to become WWE, they have to have their own ecosystem

where they have to have wrestlers just doing something somewhere, whether it's an exterior or TNA. But that's why I'm saying, I'm not saying don't have developmental, but I'm not going to take all these miscellaneous fake phony, made up names, a bunch of green talent, and put them in this goddamn roster when we're, we've still got 80-something people that you could put on two television shows a week.

And that doesn't mean that everybody is horrible. Some of them are. But also you don't want every goddamn wrestler in the world working for you all at one time or who you're going to bring in to replace anybody. What I was doing was I was looking at, okay, who are the professionals that have half a chance? They've got something going for them. size, look, talent, potential, whatever, in AEW, and that was about maybe, what, 30 or 40 out of 100 and fucking something.

And the same thing here, it's about 80 out of 100 and fuck, 200 and something. But good Lord. Sorry. Well, there it is the WWE roster of K through Z. And that is now, if you see K, I started thinking of that old joke, It is now time to spell thank you, fuck you by, isn't it? So the program is over. But we're coming back on a drive-thru.

We got Saturday night's main event and Saturday afternoon's amateur hour. So we're going to be talking about both of those things next week as well as a host of other. Do you have nice plans for us on your show, Brian? There's so much stuff we have to watch. Let's just see what we have to do. And then we have a whole bunch of programs and a bunch of classic wrestling content. We're going to keep bringing people. they've been enjoying what we've been giving them the last few weeks.

There you go. If you don't like the new stuff, we'll give you some more old stuff. And until then, in parting, thank you, fuck you. Bye, bye, everybody.