Jim Cornette Experience - Episode 624: We Forgot How To Speak English

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

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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 in Kornet. The keys to the future. Hell by Nets. Wrestling, people arguing, people quitting their jobs. Too bad none of it was on the air. But we are.

And joining me for all this and more Hawaiian Brian the podcasting Lion, the King of the Arcadian Vanguard podcast network, Mr. Co-host to you, he's Danhausen's favorite podcaster, the great Brian Lasthausen. Aloha, Jim. A pleasure to be here once again. It sounds like someone has changed their tunehausen on Danhausen. We'll find out what you have to say here today.

No, I think everybody's out of tune about tune, Danhausen. Damn that Danhausen. That ought to be on Comedy Central. Damn that, Danhausen. He just comes around and creates chaos. Damn that Danhausen. And on the topic of horror show hosts, even though he isn't one, he should be. But I just saw pictures of Gwen Gouli outside of her Gwonguli makeup.

My God, what a good-looking woman. Well, what is like you're saying that she's ugly in herself up when she's Gwen Gouli? I thought she was a very, a very comely lass. Well, indeed she is. You know, that's a phrase you don't hear enough anymore. No, you never hear it anywhere. She's a, as my grandmother, Coco would have said, she's a very comely lass. My grandmother was born in 1886, I believe, either 85 or 86.

And so when I was a little kid, I got a florid vocabulary from a previous era. Anyhow, speaking of a previous era, you know, the week started off, Brad. We've had five days this week from Monday through Friday. that's the normal number. Monday morning we had freezing rain and snow flurries. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, it's poured rain like pouring piss out of a boot. And today, Friday, it is going to be at least 81 degrees,

the all-time record high, with another heavy round of rainstorms to come tomorrow. And again next week. But to pour people up and Seymour, Indiana, went from three inches of snow, on Monday morning to a record high temperature on Friday afternoon. I turned the air conditioning on, though. It is a landmark day in the year when I, this is the first day of air conditioning.

How are you doing up there? Have you melted yet? There's still some snow on the ground, but it rained. It rained. Yeah, I guess that is what you say. It rained all day yesterday. It says what did you normally say about? It sounded weird.

Sometimes you say a normal word, and it sounds weird. A past tense rain event is rained. Well, in the moment, it was raining in the present time, but now we are here after that, so we're traveling through time and space as normal here, but most of it's gone. We're rambling. There's lots of fog. Lots of fog in the brain fog is moving in off the coach. All right, I want to make a confirmation on something that we said that I said, I believe that to be true.

on one of the shows we just did, like we do every goddamn day, the fellow, the fellow that I knew that went to the Smackdown event in Louisville last week, the Friday night of the last Friday of February, second row ringside $700 each, each. And another comment was a lot of downtime. And another comment was, a lot of downtime.

And another comment. comment was when everybody was standing up even on a second row, because I said he took his son, right? On a second row, if people are standing up, the kid can't see he's tried, because they stand now. I remember, do you remember, are you old enough, Brian, when you went to big league wrestling events and major buildings, when people were all standing, they got on the PA and said, set the fuck down. You're getting people's way.

Sit down. Please return to your seats. Never that. But at the Nassau Coliseum, they always had. these off-duty cops that would come over and get you back to your seats right away. Well, no, this was, well, I was no megaphone. No megaphone. Well, not with a megaphone.

I'm talking about the PA system. I've, in the 70s, the PA announcer had to please return your seats. And people are crowding the ring going to fucking set fire to it or whatever. But anyway, so they were too close to see the screens over their heads, right? Which is like being in the front row of a drive-in fucking theater. And at the same time, they couldn't look to the left and really get a real clear view of the big entrance screen because all the people keep standing up on the entrances. And then basically there's a lot of time in between. So there's a 700 time.

For fucking, wait a minute, I'm trying to do the math here. $5.50. For $250, you could see, you could sit on. the front row of every one of 52 yearly events at the Louisville Gardens when I was a kid and see the you could get blood on you, you were so close, and see the greatest fucking wildest ass wrestling you've ever seen all year. Now it's three times what it used to be in a year just to go to the show and sit on the second row and watch people talk to each other. You can just take that money and get the best TV you could find,

and it'll be a better experience for you, get your own food and go to the bathroom and stuff. But the big question is, if someone pays that amount of money for a seat in a second row, how likely are they to come back? Even if it was a great night, just because of the price, if WW returns that at town one year later, does that person say, I have to go again?

Or does that person say, you know, I spent a thousand bucks last month. time between parking and food and beer and seats. I can't do that again. You know, this was almost more in the category of like a bucket list thing that he wanted to do with his son because of his fond memories of days gone by and he didn't exactly let his wife know how much money he spent type of thing. But beyond him.

This is not something that he would ever do regular. But I'm saying beyond him. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. in this test case, you know, see, we're doing one of these double blind studies. Did I mention he's blind? Also, so he really couldn't see very well anyway. But it was in this double blind study where we sent both of these blind people to the show,

that's an example. That's a reason why they spent that much money. There's not a lot of people that can spend that much money just every goddamn old time. And again, you know, if he did it now, but even if he liked it, It was the first time in ever that he'd done it. The next year, we'd only be the first time in a year for maybe the same amount of money. See, that's where I'm going with that. And it's another thing, maybe the same amount of money.

It's not going to be the same amount of money. It's going to go up. There's been no signs at ticket prices. I don't fucking see how it can. Then they're going to start doing shows for the 500 richest fans they've got in a 20,000-seat building. My God, you'd have to turn to crime if it gets any more expensive. And some people may have already contemplated turned out. I think potentially the company selling the tickets has turned to crime

because this is fucking highway robbery. It's going to be interesting. Again, you know, and we'll probably talk about it maybe on a future show. Just the comparisons of when they return to a market. I know WrestleMania has done a bunch of reports about it. You know, WWE, there are some places they're up, but they're down in a lot of places, it seems like. And again, I'm not saying, oh, my God, poor WWE,

they're going to go out of business. they're making so much money, and that's what people say, why just shut up, they're making so much money. Yeah, I get it. I mean, it sucks right now, but I get that they're making all this money, but they're burning out their fan base in every way,

in every conceivable way. This is not, oh, we're just trying to find something to pick on. This is a major story of how they are getting these obscene grosses for, basically, for the product that they are currently offering and or the excitement level of same.

And it's part of a giant multi-billion dollar machine and they've taken over the global combat sports industry. We're not just trying to find something to pick on them about, though. It just, you know, it almost sounds like when you describe, you know, the waiting around and you get some cool moments, you get to see big stars, even though it's raw and it's a live broadcast, it's almost like you're describing the old four-hour. five-hour monthly tapings for challenge and superstars. Yeah, they consider it even at those prices.

Even at those prices live, they still consider it a television event and it's all geared toward television. And I mentioned it the other week, but having even to somebody the level of seeing punk, and I'm not, again, I'm not glazing, as the kids say, glazing, glazing pump, but it could be the level of him presented in the company, or a Drew, or a Cody, or someone of that level, making their entrance, we'll be right back, folks, and then they go to a break, and then they come back and they got a backstage thing, and then they got a travelogue, and they got a drone shot, and then they come to the ring,

and the fucking, one of the biggest stars to company has been standing there with his dick in his hand, whistling nixie for five minutes and then they get to start i told stay so the day i said i would have either have gotten so goddamn mad i fucking walked to the back and said fuck y'all i'm gone or i would have started a riot on a microphone one of the other because that's got to be excruciating as a performer to go out there and god and they just have to stand there are they done yet and I hate that and I'm not justifying it but it was one thing doing that

when you were on broadcast TV and you were trying to time the commercials to make sure you didn't lose audience it's a different way of losing audience on Netflix they don't need to have the commercials or the breaks where they do you can now have a guy's music hit and you can go to the ring and you can start the thing

you don't have to put the commercial there because it's not like you're just changing a channel when you're on Netflix well and even if it was under control where they could get a two-minute break-in while one of their biggest stars is, you know, circling around the fucking ring, shaking hands or whatever. But it's all geared to television and a live audience.

I guess they think it's their pleasure to sit there and watch the TV show that they've got to watch it on for free just because they're there in person. Which then, because they're there in person, they're doing a service for the WWE because they've got a big, large, enthusiastic audience to make everything look good. So thank you for coming and paying to do us a favor

of making our show look fucking great. We've all done television tapings at house shows. They did it in the Crockett days. I'm not just talking about taking one camera, like in Memphis or some of the other. and shooting what's going on at the house show. I'm talking about the full-fledged TV tapings. And the people still didn't have to sit there.

We were live to tape and we, well, you've seen the Flair Windham matches or the Flair Garvin matches or the Midnight Express Fantastics matches where we might go 30 minutes or whatever and they would have commercial breaks, but the match was still continuing. you weren't here what Rick Flair wasn't coming to the ring for an interview and then

taking a two minute break and while Rick Flair stood there and did the helicopter and then come back and he starts talking it there was you were able to capture both what you needed on television and not make it suck for the crowd that was in Baltimore or where the fuck it wasn't a big building we're doing a TV tape I do not mean to go on about this, but God damn, I'd be pissed. I'm like, Jesus Christ. Paid all this money and I have to sit here and watch them stand around. Yeah, I got a penneth in my ass, as Dusty Rhodes once said, to a poor unsuspecting fellow.

Anyway, let me, a couple things here real quick. And I got paperwork. I wanted to recognize some people since I'm backed up on emails and acknowledging a few folks, not Roman Raines, but we got an email right, both of us from Matthew, who is one of the listeners, his wife Melissa lost her father back in late January.

And she's become a fan, obviously through osmosis through him, but then listening to us, make fun of AEW, he said, and listen to me, make fun of President Pig shit. So she's got good taste. So Melissa, we're sorry to hear about that. And also from Donald, who lost his cat Morris and Donald, even if that is an unoriginal name for a cat, we feel your pain. Brian from Scranton, what the hell was that? He did his family. What? Even though that wasn't. original. Why did you put down the cat? I didn't put down the cat. I put down Donald. Donald was

his name. The cat's name was Morris. I put down Donald for naming the cat Morris. What do you think the cat came up with his own fucking name? Why do you have a problem with the name Morris? Call me Morris. Is Morris a common name? There are a lot of cats named Morris. You made it sound like it's something he's just copying. Of course. Yes. Are you not Morris the cat? What a wait about it's back up here before I go. Who the hell's naming their cat? Morris in 2026, Jim. Apparently, God damn Donald. Donald, we're sorry for your loss, Donald.

It would have been, would have been an over, that would have, a trend would have come to it in. Morris the cat. You'd say, did you know about Morris? Are you familiar with Morris? I'm not too familiar with Morris the cat, no. Oh, cry, no. Brian, I'm begging you.

I'm begging, I'm pleading with you, baby. I'm down on my knee. Just from the commercials? Oh, get the hell out of you. Morris the cat. Yeah, I don't... I forgot all about these commercials like the rest of society.

What they got... Oh, apparently Morris the cat's still active. Wait, he's, how old is he? I don't know if it's the same one, but it's been appearing in packaging on commercials since the 70s. Makes it sound like it's still active today. Well, I guess they have to take care of that fucking cat.

He's worth a lot of money. See if he could afford the best vets and, you know, anything going to happen. In 2006, Morris was depicted as adopting a kitten Lil Moe from a Los Angeles animal shelter representing the first adoptee in a campaign known as Morris's Million Cat Rescue. Well, that was sweet, but Lil Moe? What was Lil Al-Avassur fucking already adopted?

This is from Wikipedia. He was quoted... He was quoted at the... I got you with that one, didn't I? He was quoted at the 1993 end of the year edition of People magazine, which noted deaths of 1993, to which he was quoted a simple meow in honor of the death of his friend, fellow advertising mascot,

the dog Spuds McKenzie. I remember Spuds McKenzie. Well, of course you do. He was cooler than Morris, the cat. Well, but Morris was a more, or main screen. Not the, not Donald's Morris the cat, the real Morris the cat.

You know, I'm not the original Morris the cat. They were both real. They both existed. The celebrity Morris DeKat. Morris was loved by small children and their grandparents, whereas Spuds McKenzie, you had to be a goddamn pre-adolescent reprobate. You just had to turn on the TV

and see a commercial in the middle of the Mets game. That's all you needed. A bunch of fucking slovenly drunken dogs, carousing round, give all the canines a bad name with their irresponsibility and bad behavior. And y'all have you know that canine DUIs were up 40% during the Spuds McKenzie era. I think the point is our condolences to Donald. All right. Yes, Donald.

Brian from Scranton, now you know, this is a somber occasion here. He and his family lost their dog Snickers, who was 10 years old. 20 pounds of twisted steel and puppy appeal. And it would mean a lot to them if we could give him a small mention. And do you have any pictures of a doing bodybuilder poses and tights? Maybe we could put out a memorial at the Humane Society. You okay with Snickers? You have any problem with naming your cat Snickers?

No, it's a dog. Naming your dog Snickers? You have any problem with naming your dogs? No, because there's no famous dog named Snickers. If it was lassie, I'd have said the same goddamn thing I said to Donald. Oh, god damn. So you think once a dog's name is famous, it's retired, like you can never name another dog or cat, that name?

Well, it just seems that. Who names their kids Elvis? Huh? In Mexico. In Mexico, they may. Well, now we don't have any control over what they do in international fucking waters. Does Elvis Costello? That's not his real name.

but there's Elves. Remember Elves? No, I don't. So I'm as dark in the dark about him as I was. You were about fucking Morris the cat. I-Lard Pillam, the Swedish Elvis Presley, but... I'llard Pillam. But I guess the question that you're trying to avoid the answer to, is once a celebrity animal is out there,

is that name retired from ever being used for another... I thought I answered another canine or feline, and I believe I answered it that in the over-egregious case of a morris the cat or an elvis the person or of a lassie may qualify as well a goofy goofy the dog that would be kind of you know but again there's a few a few of these things you ought to just retire was goofy high i mean the idea that pluto was a traditional dog and goofy is goofy in an arrow and goofy man, hey, this guy went behind the building and had some of those goofy cigarettes. No, it's, they were making fun of the, of the, of the, of the, of the, of the,

mentally challenged as, you know, you would say now, but before he was just, he was stupid is what he was. Can you name a dog Pluto? Wait a minute. Did I lose you? I, I think, yeah, huh? Did I lose you? Did you go in or how? What, what just happened? I'm talking to you. I, I, I said, and I was thinking, and then you scared me. Oh, okay. No, there was such a long break there. I thought the internet went out. Well, no, because I'm trying to think if he's into public domain yet, was he in steamboat Willie? Guof, uh, no. No. Ditto didn't come along until later. That's right. As soon as he enters the public domain, then it's okay. Like there are plenty of people get rabbits and name them bugs, right? Well, rabbits don't count. The hell does that mean? Well, you, you can have all the

famous rabbit you want. Well, Brian was sorry for your loss, you and your family. And anyway, and one more thing. Hold on, wait a minute. What have I done? I put the other things right. Here we go. We have an update from one of the topics that we previously spoke about here on the program.

The incident in Mullenburg County with the man and the deer on the side of the road, Brian, is I don't want to just. Oh, this update. You know, come out and, especially in the first 45 seconds of this clip and just say what was happening. But the man was arrested for fornication with a deceased deer carcass on the side of the road. The evidence against him was pretty strong because the cop caught him with blood and fur all over him. And we,

well, you, see, I'm not just, I'm not even getting to them. To the update yet. I know you're convinced that the blood and the fur was from the dead animal he was having fornication with or whatever you want to call it. Engaging in the act of fornication would be the way you'd term me. I guess so, but I like to imagine him kind of crawling up like Mantar, like with the big thing on already. Like he wants to fit in with the...

No, I'm telling you, no. Obviously, this guy didn't think things through far enough to maybe come up with that plan. But anyway, we got a message from... or an email rather from John and he that Jim and Brian about the man fucking the dead deer in Mullenburg County he was from Owensboro which is over in Davies County and I heard this from several people Brian that they were offended while the incident happened in Mullenburg County in actual the guy that perpetrated the deed was from over to next county in Davis County and John continues, the people over here in Mullenberg County were surprised and grossed out that it happened just as much as the rest of the world.

Never in a million years would I expect the county to be world news for something like this, which is unfortunate because Mullenberg County isn't known for much other than the Everly Brothers being from Central City. James Best, who played Roscoe P. Coltrane, was from Powderley, Kentucky, and Mullenburg County itself is mentioned in the John Prine song, which I sang a few lines from, as a matter of fact. And thumb-picking legend, Merle-Travs is also from Mullenburg County. So musically, the area is rich in history,

but for the rest of the world, sadly, it will only be remembered. for that guy's actions. Oh, dear. That was from John. Well played there at the end. Well played. You like the Everly brothers? You like the Everly brothers?

Do you have the Everly brothers? Do you have the Edelbloth? What? What did you say to me? I said, do you like the Everly brothers? I never met either one of. of them. So I can't tell you whether I liked them or not, but they had a few good tunes. I know that much. And, you know, but I still think it was a goddamn flimsy excuse at best, Susie.

We know what you're up to and now you ain't going out again at night with that son of a bitch. Fucking whore. All right. This took a turn. Well, you know, they try to get away with these things, the kids, the young, the teeny twatters and boppers and things. Song came out in 58, Jim. I'm sorry, I had take a drink there, drink, sip there, swallow my, the bile that I had for Susan. I mentioned I'm selling my clothing for, take it off. It's come to this, folks. I'm selling my clothing.

This is going so well today. How much for this shirt? See, things haven't been going real well. I've overextended myself in the Dalmatian breeding market. And now I'm selling my clothing. No, as I mentioned last on your program, I think, or one of these programs, Brian. I've got to the stage where I've been able to clean out my wardrobe.

And with ring-worn things, the Hulk Hogan boot selling for a million dollars, all right, fuck, you know, maybe I can get a nickel 95 for my stuff. But also, I've had this stuff out for a while. I'm moving things around and storing things in the castle. And now is the time. And I have tasked Mr. Featherbottom

with coming up with a nice listing for, everything and putting it up on the website starting i believe march 21st which is a saturday you can say what i've done with the wardrobe basically all the dress clothes i've ever had in my life i wore on television or to the ring and you you can attest to this about me have you ever seen me in anything with a collar or belt loops if i wasn't on fucking cameras or at a show more than likely not. So at any rate, I have taken the last

five or six jackets that I bought and five or six pair of pants, about eight or ten shirts that I bought like seven or eight years ago when I first lost weight and needed some shit that fit, which is the last clothing I bought or ever will buy.

And I've set that aside just in case I ever need it. You never know when I might have to go to court sometime. And I've cleaned out the closet it and whether it be the last of my whacking rackets, because I've retired from hitting people over the head, so I have several rackets that have in various stages of curvature due to being used to whack big wrestlers

and two or three pair of eyeglasses that I've used. Obviously, if you've seen me on television or at a show with my glasses on, these are some of them, because I didn't have, like personal glasses and show glasses. They were just, they were the glasses. Ring worn shirts, pants, suits,

jackets, a couple of combos. I'm still checking on this, but I have, Brian, not only my T&A trading card, but I have the tie that I was wearing in the picture of the T&A trading card. You could make a nice little set of that. I don't know whether

I'll frame it or not. I was framed when I went to T and A. But there's all kinds of, and my tuxedo shoes from when I inducted the Rock and Roll Express at the Hall of Fame and all kinds of cool stuff that we're going to be putting up.

The listings are going to go up on March 21st at Jimcornet.com so that you guys can see everything because obviously due to the nature of it, everything listed is one of a kind. So we don't want everybody just, you know, all six people that are going to be fighting each other when they go on sale, we don't want to panic here. So you get a couple weeks to look at everything and spy if you like something. Couple weeks.

And then everything. Well, you know, a couple weeks. Man, those rackets are going to go in two minutes. Everyone's going to jump all over those. Then the glasses will go right away right after that. No, that's what I'm, listen to me, what I'm, hear me what I'm telling you. because they're going to have a couple weeks to look at everything, so they decide what they want to go for.

And then on Saturday, April 4th at noon, everything goes on sale, and they already can think of a personalization, or they've seen the policy on the personalization. Because I can't write a goddamn manuscript on the back of a cloth shirt. So some of these are going to be limited. But they get nice little handwritten letters with each item. indicating that they are personal and legitimate and things like that.

So I want everybody to have a chance to look at it, see what they want to go for, instead of just being mad panic and everybody getting all fucked up. And just wait until you see how nicely the feather bottoms will be packaging all these items. They are working now on folding classes. They've gone over, because nobody goes to the mall anymore, so they've just gone over to one of those department stores and said,

you show me how to fold shit. those Those tuxedo shoes because I don't remember if it would have been rehearsal or afterwards were you wearing those shoes the last time you ever saw Kevin Dunn?

I guess it was yes and I wish I could say that there was still a little of his brain matter on the pointy toes but no those were yes those were the shoes that I was standing in when I walked by the Kevin Dunn on

purpose the last time that I ever saw as he as he turned away from me and then huddled in a deep conversation over in the corner so he couldn't see me and I continued by that was our interaction but yeah so you can you know you can see the world through my eyes on my eyeglasses or walk a mile in my shoes if don't try to walk a mile in tuxedo shoes that's why I bought these things instead of renting them because of my extraordinarily flat feet. Now, I don't want to be fucking miserable. But now I'm not, I do not imagine anyone will ever see me in a tuxedo again. Can you see what would call for that to happen?

Some Saudi prince says, hey, I want you to come to my wedding. I don't know any Saudi princes or their daughter, princess daughters that would be any of, any of, of the prince or princesses is this is that their offspring that would be getting married. The episode where we forgot

how to speak English is upon us today. Are you ready to talk about some rassling? Yeah. Road dog. Brian James, the former roadie

and road dog, a DX member, close friend and confidant of Triple H has apparently quit the WWE. And that's all I heard at first. And then upon further examination of trying to find out what people are saying, nobody knows the facts, but a lot of people saying,

that he recently was given his annual review, I guess they do that now, because everybody's an employee or something or other. And some people are saying it wasn't related to that, but other people are saying after he was given his annual review, apparently they might have said something him. He didn't fucking like. Because the Armstrongs get to a point where they decide they've had enough

and then they just go, they go home to Pensacola. But what do you know about this, young Brian? Not too much. You know, the first thing, I heard was just he was out, not whether he quit or whether he was fired, just he was out. And then the performance review stuff started going around, and that's where it kind of gets a little muddy, I guess. Did he hear something he didn't like and just say, fuck you, I'm going home? And they said, okay.

Well, and but now sometimes, sometimes when people say, I'm going home, they're hard to argue with right at that point. and there's also the potential that they might not want it to but there's also the potential that he just fed up enough of whatever the fuck what was the famous line from Betty Davis to another actress in the 40s whose husband was messing around on her she said darling is the fucking you'll getting with the fucking you'll getting is he just reached a mirror cracked moment his brother Steve Armstrong I told you this off the

but I'll say it, fuck it. Because it's fucking classic. Steve Armstrong went up there to work in, I think, 1992. And they made him Lance Cassidy, the singing cowboy or whatever the fuggie was. And he got on the, they put him on one of those trips on the road where he hadn't been home in three weeks or whatever. And he told me, because he came to work for me and Smoggy Mountain finally after that. And he said, I got up one morning like the Super 8 hotel and went in the bathroom and the mirror cracked.

He just packed his shit up and came home, went home to fucking Pensacola and was just as happy for it. He just, so, I mean, Road Dog has obviously lasted a lot longer, but at some point, he may, he may have felt disrespect. by something they said. Or on the unreal episodes, Brian, he did sometimes look a little disgruntled like, well, fuck. But the story is not going around that they gave him a bad review and then they let him go. It's that he went in and quit after they gave him a review.

So I don't know what to think otherwise. And he's like, well, fuck it then. which is to me is hilarious because he's one of the last remnants of the wrestling business nobody and none of the other writers on the goddamn team you ever hear about so well fuck it

I just go home it used to happen all the time you know and Smackdown hasn't been good or at least enjoyable but then again neither has Raw by and large there are moments and matches but the entire experience is not a pleasurable one as a viewer and as a wrestling fan, and there are weeks where you could just skip it.

So you don't know how much of SmackDown is the responsibility of the headwriter of Smackdown, because being the head writer of Smackdown doesn't mean like everything I pick gets on Smackdown, it means he's delivering the script to the next person, to the next person to get up to Triple-H. So wasn't there some kind of chain of command listed with this other writer, which I'll get to at a second. They got a new raw writer, raw writer. But I'm going to make this blanket state, but which covers everybody, even the knuckleheads on the fucking creative team. the fact that they have 10 or 15 of these writers apparently on each show means that you can't judge anybody

on this creative team by what the fucking creative is because you've either got a couple people who really know what they're doing that's getting out voted or out politic or you've got a couple people who really know what they're doing that's trying to do shit but the couple people that really don't know what they're doing on the other end of the spectrum are dragging them down in the middle or somebody in the middle of that

has a favorite that has managed to make just enough of a little change that it didn't come off like it should so you can't judge anybody. The only way you could judge a Booker on the creative team is if they were the only one. The only one that fairly gets to be judged as the Booker is Triple H because he gets the final decision. But you don't know what anybody on the team has contributed, except when you see it on Unreal. Does that make sense, Brian? Is Brian James or anyone in the headwriter position, do they ever submit the show they want to submit? or are they submitting a show that they think will get past Bruce Pritchard to Triple H?

You know what I mean? It's like submitting something for Vince's approval. You're not writing the show you want to write. You're writing something that this guy wants to be in charge of everything will want on the show. And again, I'm not trying to take whatever bad creative or good creative the road dog has. It's not even about that. We don't know because it's someone else's show. and go ahead i'm sorry well it's you've you've got an element of something there but it's not necessarily

as cut and dried a reason or as simple as that in that even if you're the head writer of a show within this company structure you have a structure in the company where okay we've got these guys they have to be pushed they have to be figured in blah blah blah okay i'm going to write for them but now also will these other people and the other creative teams are voting for these other people to be featured and so you're sometimes turning in a format

to the guy above you with like you might agree with 60% of the shit on there just because the other people have to have their goddamn input and then you give your thoughts but when that guy delays the information

as Reggie Be Fine would say one time on TV to the next person up they may be putting more passion into the pitches for their fucking particulars and it just it's it's it's goddamn Jesus Christ is worse than the Hollywood studio system and in terms of more steps you have to follow and more input at least they'd have a script writer or two and the producer would try to tell a director what to do and then you were done But post-Vince McMahon, I still don't understand why they want this system, why it's still in place. The system Vince McMahon built where he has to have a giant writing team and they have to fly around and they have to submit shows up to the last second and stay up all night.

Why does they need to be a team? Professional wrestling never needed that until Vince McMahon decided he wanted that. And then everyone was like, well, that's what we need. We need writers. And again, somebody, I'm going to cut off the comments. that some people are going to make by saying, well, it's so much bigger now than it was then. And that is correct.

There is so many more people involved in so much more bullshit because they have made it to the point where every single goddamn thing has to be written. Okay, here's the schedule for fucking Tazawa, to fart this afternoon. at 3, 345 and 430, tell him don't eat beans for lunch. Everything's scripted, and then there's so many promos, so many commercials, and so many blah, blah, blah.

You got 18 million people run around with a fucking, well, used to be with a pad and paper, and now it's with a goddamn some type of device, said, okay, I'm producing this. But at the creative, level, they make work for themselves. There should be a lot of producing minions for all the ancillary video and spots and promos they have to do, but deciding nuts and bolts of the cards, the wins, the losses,

and the TV formats for the major shows, three people. three fucking people that live, breathe, and eat to wrestling business. And there you have it. Well, we'll see what happens with Brian James. Of course, like you said, a new head writer on Raw. Her name is Alexandra Williams. Well, yes, because I was going to now here on the other side of the coin, which I've never met Alexandra.

I've no, not only road dog, but many members of his family, even though in all fairness I have not talked to the road dog in years and years this last time I've seen anybody in person. But at least I have met him. And I'd like to think that he just, you know what? Fuck it. I'm pissed off. I'm going home. I'm fucking old.

But this woman, Alexandra Williams, who is now, she announced on LinkedIn. This went out on the wrestling news sites. so I'm not like prying into her social media. But I guess LinkedIn is a place where people brag about their jobs. Why did she put her own press release out? It's where, you know, professional. It's like a social media site for business professionals. And some people use it for networking.

Some people use it to find jobs. And, you know, some people are very, very active on there for who knows what reason. Well, she's got a job, but she seems to be very happy with, but what's to brag about. so I don't know what the fuck she's crowing about. But anyway, she's got her chest all poofed out, as Aunt Lola might have said. She announced on LinkedIn she's been promoted to lead writer of Monday Night Raw and is now a vice president of VP for the company.

On her account, Williams wrote as VP and lead writer for WWWE's flagship live program, I oversee all creative development for Monday Night Raw, one of television's longest running and highest rated weekly shows. I pitch to and collaborate with executive leadership and a cross-functional writing team to conceptualize and execute week-to-week storylines, character arcs, premium live event buildups,

including WrestleMania and Survivor series. I I helped drive the full creative process from episode rundowns to long-form narrative strategy developing, I need oxygen, developing complex characters and compelling feuds

that deepen audience engagement across live broadcast digital platforms and social media. My work is informed by an analytical approach tracking segment performance audience trends and viewership data to make real time and long-term programming decisions.

Fuck off. In partnership with talent producers and brand leadership, I've contributed to record-setting live attendance and revenue growth or live event attendance and revenue growth helping position raw as the cornerstone. of WWE's content ecosystem

under the TKO umbrella. Brian, I have never actually seen somebody come out in public and snort an entire line of their own shit. Well, apparently she likes her own shit, and apparently she thinks she's a big part of the big machine, and obviously she's the mastermind behind everything we've seen on Raw that we've liked over the last few years. It must all be hers.

I can't explain that. I'm looking right here. I just Googled her. And here's the thing. The greatest booker in the history of residence, let's say you went up to Eddie Graham and said, Eddie, what is your job? And he would have said,

I manipulate people's emotions to sell tickets. And that would have been the end of his phone. fucking statement. Oh, Christ, on a cracker, this insufferable way in the world do they, they're huffing, literally huffing, I bet they're farting jars and taking it into the meetings to fucking pass around and sniff each other's. Because she's presenting herself because WWE won't last forever and she'll have to get another job somewhere else in entertainment and this will sound really impressive and

wherever that is, you probably don't have to worry about shoot interviews and people saying, yeah, she was fucking Ed Koski or whatever. to fuck. You know what I mean? Like she's ready for her future in the real entertainment industry. But you, the first fucking glimmer of knowledge you had this woman

existed was when I was reading to you what she wrote in her own words and you had said, oh fuck you three quarters the way in. Well, again, it's ridiculous. So how is this supposed to fucking make her look good? Can you imagine too, like,

you know, I'm sure this is not how it played out, but let's just imagine Brian James is in there for his review and all of a sudden she wants and by the way meet the new

head writer of Raw what the fuck according to the wrestling observer she reports to Ed Koski who reports to Bruce Pritchard who reports to

Pauloveck there are multiple chains up the lab I mean just it's so ridiculous she's the head writer of Raw so again

I think none of this is needed We don't need writing teams. It has not helped the product. And based on the way a lot of people are doing their promos, it may not be overnight, but I think it would help everyone and everything if people started sounding more natural.

And we're going through a period where no one's sounding natural again. They might not have too many people. What they have is too many people on the creative team. And like I said, if they had three people on the creative, team that told the other 27 or whatever, this is what we're doing rather than inviting the input from those other 27,

then you'd have a little sharper fucking program. Or the boys and girls could just go into business for themselves, Brian. Are we hearing that our beloved Ria Ripley and Jade Cargill have gone into business, business for themselves? Is this part of a carefully contrived plot? Did, is this something that they, they turned from a semi shoot into a full bled work, bledged work?

It's a full bledged one, yeah. Is it a full bledged work? And also did poor Piper niven just get in the middle and say, well, you know what, fuck you, you bitch, without realizing she was in the middle of something when she's out of their goddamn picture. Yeah. No one had thought of do drop in a minute.

All of a sudden, she's in this feud. Well, that's, I think she was coming to fire back thinking that it was a shoot

and she's going, now listen, one minute, you fucking whore, a type of tone and didn't realize that she, that's like when they were

fake arresting me in Spartanburg, and I didn't know it, but Baby Doll did as they dragged me past her, she's giggling. And I'm like, what are you laughing at,

you fat fucking bitch? I mean, I did it. he's straightened up real quick rib or not she wasn't smiling in but i didn't know she thought she was laughing at me being taken a fucking jail so what i'm thinking is that god damn did old piper just come into this because she's like hey hey you take it i'm taking up from my friend what that will help me understand this because they were trying to argue

snidly. I can't I can't pick up Twitter arguments unless it's a clear, hey, fuck you, pal and here's why type of thing instead of them trying to be all all snidly. That still, by the way, is my favorite story. You getting fake arrested and

everyone around knowing it was a Ribble's laughing and you honed in on the one person who you were about to work. No, no, that's a, no, everybody else wasn't laughing. That's nothing. They fucking, they were working. They kept it straight. And it was like, I was looking from, they were fucking, like, oh, looking, oh, shit.

Because I was playing, I was saying, somebody gets, get David Crockett, get somebody named Crockett. Don't worry, Jim, that type of thing. And then there's baby doll just fucking curled up laughing. I'm like, you fucking, hey. Then what happened? Like, did it end right there? They keep walking you? What happened after you cursed her out?

Well, no, that's what they took me. It's hard to explain the lay out of. the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium, but they took me out the door instead of going left where I would have been immediately in the arena, they turned me right where you would go out the back door, where the James boys were carrying me to lynch me behind the truck, that fucking door there. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. And right before I would go out again in the back where the people were, I think at first, they may have been going to take me and put me in the car.

They put other people in a car to really fucking, really, really. rub it in, but there was fans out there that they stopped me at the back door. They said, read this, read this warrant we've got. And I'm like, make sure you see, it's been signed, and I looked down and that's what I realized it'd been signed by Big Daddy Jimmy

Crockett. And then they started laughing. Because I think they, although now that I think about it, the way that I was, all indications were that if they let me get out that back door, I may have made a run for it.

And back in those, it was 40 years ago. They didn't want to run up that fucking hill to catch me. It just gets better and better. You would have run up the hill? Well, they might have thought I would, and I don't know. If I saw a fucking blue sky and sidewalk, when I think I'm going to jail in Spartanburg, and again, this was 40 years ago.

I was a lot lighter. And before I blew my knees. So these fucking cops were older and fucking heavier. So they exposed the rib to you outside. What happens when you go back inside? When do you see baby doll again? I think she was avoiding me for a while. I think about it.

We never actually, we just continued it. Because that's one of the only places that I would see doll when we were working the program with each other because there was no even like regular room that could be used for the lady. She was the only girl on the roster to change. you know that so she just had to sit in the middle when you went in this door to the right was the heel locker room to the left was the baby face locker room and

she dressed in the hallway in the middle where the monitor sat so that it was cramped quarters but we you know then we went back to just working and not speaking for a while well i guess it's a good thing you guys didn't have twitter is the point well yes because what that's the point is what in the world, am I hearing about all the stuff going on between Ria Ripley and Jade Cargill and other people started getting

involved and how did this begin? Well, again, I have here, there's a whole bunch of things. As soon as this happened, people start sending it over saying, I can't wait to hear Jim talk about this. Well, I don't know what, I can't understand when I'm seeing bits and pieces off of Twitter of who instigated

what. Let me go to what the observer wrote up. Oh boy. He's, we know he's on Twitter constantly. It was basically, it was basically the two building their match by trying to be inside with Cargill talking about how Ripley was the second option. And Dave says he's not sure if she was referring to Bianca Bel Air, who, as we know, was supposed to be in the main event at WrestleMania if the injury hadn't happened, or Liv Morgan, who won the match to get a title shot. Ripley said that, All you seem to do is talk, and that's literally it.

Cargo wrote back, Talk? Like the hours you spend talking too creative? Oh, good Lord. Ripley wrote back. You're funny. That's funny. Now we know you really do the talking out of your ass, because everything you say is bullshit. Don't spread lies on my name, you dumb bee. Okay, I don't think anybody's mad if they call somebody a dumb bee.

Yeah, this is Twitter, you gotta be able to spell that out. Cargirl rope pack? Oh, God, another victim. Will you girls lighten up and stop crying? We haven't even started yet. Chelsea Green and Piper Niven ended up jumping into this. Green said that, Ria, this is a quote, Ria is proof that you can be kind, respectful,

and the most talented wrestler in the world. That's just, and the sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar. How is that an inflammatory statement? She's just praising someone without commenting on anybody else. Well, again, Jade wasn't mentioned, but Jade then wrote, It's no point to even go and embarrass yourself on this app.

you always have something to say about everything and then Niven jumped in with who T.F. Who the fuck even said anything about you to Cargill? Contrary to your belief the world doesn't actually revolve around you. No point to even embarrass yourself on this app give you enough ring time and you'll do it yourself.

Oh Jesus Christ, that's what I hear cook Piper I love her. I want to contribute to her goddamn medical fund to get her back as quick as possible. The other girls, the first two, are jousting back and forth with each other, we think, to promote their event, and Chelsea jumps in,

because that's a thing she does, but she didn't say anything inflammatory. But goddamn, as soon as Piper thought that Jade was on Chelsea, she's like, hey! Fuck you, hold up. Pump the brakes. And she went right to the goddamn meat of the matter.

That's fucking great. Well, Cargill responded, that's above your pay grade, Piper. Relax. Yeah, vicious comeback. Oh, excuse me. Excuse me, I actually missed this one before that. Cargill then wrote back,

Hey, Piper, I hope you're healing okay. Can't wait to give you some ring time. to which Niven wrote back, yeah, maybe by the time you're back from your many vacations, I'll finally be recovered. Lick my ring ya boot. That's the way it's written here in the Observer.

And then cargo, right? And we don't know whether it's Dave having a stroke or that's some kind of slang from over there in the UK. But that's above your pay grade, Piper. Relax. So again, you know, the girls are working and sounded like, and Piper hears something negative.

Like, hey, what the fuck? She didn't know. Oh, that's fucking great. See, the issue may be that beyond this, whatever is playing out on social media with Ria and Jade, there may be some talent there that don't like Jake Gargill. So they wait for like, oh, shit, there's an opening now. Go, go, go, go.

Well, I mean, you can tell that there has been some pent-up opinions. But here's the thing. we've seen this now it's been five or six years or whatever since the experiment began and Jade Cargill got into this business

in a completely unique and bizarre way that nobody beforehand or ever male or female has ever had this path in the business some people are they they pushed Lugar before he was ready or the, no, this is literally they found this girl

that had a unique look and said, we're going to teach her out of wrestle. And they did to the extent that they did and put her on TV with her own belt that she defended against other girls. And as you called it one time, Brian, I think this like this alternate. universe where these are the people that interact with jade cargill and she was never she she was not only was never defeated but more importantly than that she was just featured into a match to beat someone or to do interviews and sometimes given minions to have around her but she was never put in a big pay-per-view match or really

integrated into the full fucking world of the AEW roster, it was just like her own little thing. And she'd never had to lose until she was leaving. And then when she goes to the WWE, now, once it had been a couple of years in, obviously they've realized they've got what they've got in the ring. She ain't going to get any better. We can examine why she might not.

That's the point. is it because of the way she was brought in or just a natural not being able to do this or grasp this? Is it, if she had started in NXT or at any wrestling school or wanted to be a wrestler, or ever contemplated it before AEW, she would have not only been taught how to do moves and have matches and whatever, but how to think about the business and how to work with other people when it's not all about you, because it is a team effort at heart, sometimes with not all good intentions. And fundamentally, how to take care of yourself, but at the same time do things for other people or whatever, or just the, I mean, Tom McGee facet. At some point, does somebody,

looked great but hit their level of that's as far as they can go and they can't go no farther. But mentally, she was not prepared for anything other than being a featured superstar on a national TV show. And not only did Tony Kahn pay her well, but I'm sure the WWE's paying her well. But remember, didn't we say she's got a professional? athlete that she's married to that I assume has a couple of dollars to rub together. Yeah, Brandon Phillips. He was a really good second baseman. So she's doing this at this point to be a performer on television

and because she has fun being that bitch. But she's never been taught how to exist in the world of wrestling, when she's not that bitch. And sometimes other people get to be that bitch. And most of the time, whoever that bitch is, had to earn being that bitch instead of just saying it.

She's got the character down and the attitude down and the aura down. The psychology, the mentality, I don't know. You know, again, I say mentality just because of this Twitter shit. I mean, you have to wonder what the fuck you're doing if, unless it's all just a work, but why would Piper, why would Piper Nibbitt? Yeah. Piper was the one that didn't know that they were working as like, I'll tell you what I fucking think.

Fucking douchebag. I thought that's great. Oh, she got over with me there. I mean, I hate to say that we had Ria Ripley's name attached to this. She didn't do anything. It seemed like Ria Ripley shouldn't even be involved. us. Well, but that's the thing is because people were believing that Ria and Jade were sniping. And, you know, and they were anxiously hanging on this, but it seems like to me, at least it was a work.

But then when Piper came in with a fucking sledgehammer, and that was just unforeseen and poor thing, she's not even off the injured list yet. but she bought it. So somebody else had to buy it too, didn't they? Well, I wish we had gotten Bianca and Jade. That was the thing they were building up from the moment Jade got there, and unfortunately it didn't work out. And here I'll say one more thing, and then possibly people want to give me the finger.

But God damn it, poor Bianca Belair, but she's been out of action since last WrestleMania, which is almost a year now for a fucking for her finger and it's caused her that much pain and she came straight at some point if Brian how bad would you need your index finger if you couldn't work for a year and it was given you constant fucking pain and multiple operations how bad do you need it I mean I use it a lot what do you mean needed I don't know how to answer that is there some point would you just take the fucking thing off no I don't think I would You're advocating for Bianca Bellin and have her finger removed?

Well, I'm like the poor thing. She's put up the videos of how she's having this painful physical therapy and multiple surgeries. It's the pain and she hadn't been able to work in a year and it's just stress and oh, it's horrible. I'm like, at some point, how much are you worth my fucking finger? Fuck you. If it was a good, now a leg or an arm, we're going to,

I'm going to put up with a lot more goddamn aggravation. But there comes a point. I was ready with my big toe before they told me it was curable and has been alleviated. I was like, well, fuck, if I had to, I don't need that son of a bitch. I'd rather if I was going to have it take it off, it'd be the one with the bunion on it, but that's the other foot. But there's no reason to go into that now. No, no, there isn't.

But that was the Twitter news of the show, Ria and J. But yes, Ria and Jade and Bianca's finger. So you still maintain that you need all your fingers and toes. I don't think she's at the point yet where she would say remove my finger. It's not like it's rotten. It's just it's not healing correctly. Well, it's being awful stubborn. Anyway, you know what they all need, whether it's Ria or it's Jail.

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we've got to talk a little bit about the TV wrestling from this last week, and of course, Raw, a few days ago, March the 2nd was from Indianapolis, and again, it's three hours, and there's a lot of downtime.

So I wanted to recognize a couple of things, because they are adding to these stories they are trying to build for WrestleMania, but they opened the thing. With Paul E. and Logan Paul and Austin Theory, the remaining ambulatory members of the vision. And Paul E. again, great, you know, promo.

But he's vowing revenge on Seth. And Theory, got a little promo time. He's got a little more comfortable, it looks like, on a mic. And in Logan, Paul, they just hate him. And he makes the statement, they're calling Seth Rollins out, we won't leave until he comes out here. And of course, Adam Pierce comes out, said, leave. And then here come the masked men.

One masked man comes out and the security with Adam Pierce chases him away. And another masked man comes out and Logan Paul chase him out of the building. And then another one comes out and Austin Theory chases him out of the building. And then Paul realizes he's alone. And he starts getting the, you can tell because his cheeks start trembling. And like shaking up and down. And he's nervous.

And another mass man appears. And while Paul is begging from him, the real mass man who is behind Paul. So how many was that one, two, three, four, five, this was number six. But anyway, as Paul is begging off from the last fake one, the real old mass man pops his hood, and it's Seth, and he gets a big pop,

and then he comes in and he hits Paul in the back with a chair, and that poor chair. God damn. Whoop, it sounded like he was hitting a fucking helix sleep mattress, and down went, down goes Heyman. Down goes Heyman. and he was selling like he was swimming and a pool with no water in it. Because he was laying on his belly

so the rest of him couldn't really reach the ground. So his arms and legs were kind of almost suspended. All right. All right. Let's get back to what actually happened here and not exaggerate anything about. Report on the incidents. And then he got up in the right place

and Seth milked it, gave him a stomp and got a big pop. And then, and as Paul was laying there and quivering, Seth ran out through the crowd, and you see the EMTs coming out to check on him, and oh, if we go to the break, oh, what's happening to Heyman?

And when we come back, they've already got him in the back of the ambulance and he's got a gimmick, bloody nose, like his face has been bashed in. And suddenly, as they've loaded him in this ambulance, Jimmy Uso pulls up in a truck or a SUV, and starts beating up Austin theory who is trying to attend to Paul.

And then he walked up to the ambulance and L.A. Knight was driving an ambulance. And he pulled out. Not in a sexual way. But it was very Austinish, but they went to the trouble of Haman doesn't take bumps very often. They hit him with a chair and they stomp him

and he's got the gimmick nosebleed. and then they turned it into the attitude era, ha-ha, with one of the baby faces driving the ambulance. What were your thoughts? Like much of modern WWE, there were little bits I liked in the midst of a giant sea of, why did they do that?

This doesn't make sense, whatever. The masked guy thing. Is it ever going to be explained? Are we just going to think that Seth Rollins had this crew of, guys who can run around and act like, you know, fucking cat burglarers. They got special forces background because they're staging on the attack and the timing on the infiltration, perfect.

Yeah, how'd they get in the building? Are they part of the crew? Are we figuring out who they are because they would need time in the building to have an exit strategy to know where to have everyone chase you? The L.A. Knight thing in the back I thought was too much. Whether it's attitude error or, you know, you think it's over, you're in the and Freddie Krueger's driving, whatever it is. You know, I could see what they're trying to do, but it almost is like, you know,

hey, Rousseau's booking again. I didn't like that. I think everybody thinks of Austin when something like that happens. And that's a reason to just leave it to Austin because you're constantly going to be compared to it. Anyway, that will continue on later on. with the vision sagas, but Gunther had a match with Dragon Lee,

and I'm saying it's not the match I want to talk about, but just what they did in it, because it felt like trying to watch AEW. At this garden gnome went 15 minutes competitively with Gunther, but he's as big as one leg. But what they did was they, again, it was competitive, that was why it was not my cup of tea.

But at the end, Gunther gets behind him and rips his mask off and puts a big sleeper on him, covering up his face, but he's got the sleeper, and old Dragon Lee tapped out because he wanted to get out of there because he didn't want anybody to see his face.

And then Gunther held it a little extra after because he's a heel and a blah, blah, blah. But it became a controversy see. I think Uncle Dave was on the side of defending Lucillebrae, but it was a controversy because somebody put up a fucking screenshot

of the split second you saw this guy's face. And some people were, and you can imagine which ones, were up in arms, oh my God, they're pissing all over Lucia Libre. It's a dishonor to see the game that. Yeah. I'm

thinking the guy's probably honored that he's got this high paying of a fucking job, and that was the finish, and they aired it on television. They didn't expect people to fucking analyze it like the Zapruder film, but they don't care. They should have.

This is pro wrestling. That's exactly how wrestling fans do it. Well, but they don't care either because that's part of the fucking deal in Luccia Libre is when the guy gets denuded, is it demasced that any covers up his face that that often causes him

to fucking lose and he'd rather that than reveal his face and it also this guy's got the you know the teenage bout with leprosy which caused severe disfigurement anyway but the point is

it was part of the fucking angle they don't care because it's not like seeing Mill Moscarus at one time or El Santo is Dragon fucking Lee is anybody you remember what he looks like next week

but I mean we're this controversy do you think they're making too much out of it like I do or is this some kind of legitimate fucking gripe you're talking about the people mad at WWE for doing it or the people made at the people who posted images of it on Twitter

I'm talking about the people it's mad at the people for getting mad at those people so I'm talking about yeah because I think anyone mad at people who have posted images of it WWE had it on TV It's their fault. They should have not shown that so you can see his face for a split second. And then they knew what to do.

They pulled all the way back. I've never seen a WWE raw shot like that for the last couple minutes of it. You know, you obviously have a lot of bad memories of the way Eric Bischoff treated Lucha Libre, specifically Ray Mysterio being told to get rid of the mask. Which I think most people, you know, I always. talking to you around that period of time. Most people would have thought that was insane. The idea you have this incredibly marketable star,

and you want to change that. They didn't say he's not going to wear his mask again. He was wearing makeup around his eyes, as a lot of these guys do in the masks. It's not like there's a clear image of him. There's a blurry image of him getting choked out for a split second. I'm not against the finish or anything.

No, I think that's fine. but, you know, I guess the controversy I saw was just about the image of a luchador without his mask getting out there and how it's disrespectful to Luchin Luey. And that's just, it's ridiculous. That again, it's not a earth-shaking revelation unless somebody could match him up facially

with one of the AI things with a goddamn noted bank robber in San Paulo or something. Then we'd have a story here. You know, I mean, the other thing is it has happened, and I don't know if Mysterio's the best one to point, too, but before he went off the rails, so to speak, Alberto Del Rio, where you had a mask guy who when the promoters saw him without the mask, they're like, oh, my God, you're a good looking person, I could use that, I could sell that. Unless they saw Dragon, we would have at the mask and, you know, and said, you know, Dragon or Mr. Lee, we think we have another way forward. you can make lots of merch money. I don't know. Anyhow.

Does that mean we're going to get more of this, though? I guess that's the other question. Are we going to get more Gunther and Dragon Lee? Because now he has to get revenge for this? I hope not. I really hadn't contemplated that. Now you've just brought me all the way down. Because no, I don't want to...

Gunther is a... What is he doing at WrestleMania? He's a main event fucking guy, and he's playing with the children. Anyhow. Speaking of... children. Were you going to ask me a question?

I was just going to say they should bring in Mill Mosquirus. So I get revenge for all the luchadors against Gunther and then Guuther retires him. I don't think, not even Gunther. I don't think Carl Gatch could retire fucking Mosqueras. But speaking of children of people who had children, one of the Uso's, Jimmy Uso, faced Austin Theory. And I wanted to again watch Austin Theory,

he see his improvement. I like the new gear. It looks good. He had such a great physique. He looked fine in tights, but now this gives him the personality and the little edge to him. But he's getting more confident

in what he's doing. And again, I know some people are going to say, oh, he loves Austin Theory. Osset Theory is so boring. If that's the same thing that I see him is the same thing that Heyman sees, same thing that everybody else sees, is that his athletic talent, and probably to be getting these chances,

his personal effort behind the scenes and whatever the fuck, we're seeing what he can do as he's a puppy with big paws and he's growing. And unfortunately, this was with an Uso brother because that presents stumbling blocks. But he's got animated. bumping. He seems to always be in the right place. He doesn't rush at the same speed, but he bursts into things and at the payoff, he'll slow down and react. He's got facials and body language for working like a heel. He's, you can tell he's clearly working hard for the

opportunity because I'm not talking about the number of moves he's making, which is immaterial to anything. He's on the whole time he's out. He's out. He's on the whole time he's out there, which again, doesn't mean doing 100 moves. It means being Austin theory, facially, body language, reacting to your environment the whole time that he's out there, whatever he's visible, not just going through the motions when he's performing something complicated athletically and then laying there like a fucking dead fish after he's done something that would kill people. it's more natural with him but then jimmy uso cleaned off the desk and put theory on top of it and went to

the top rope but logan paul came in the ring so uso dove on him and theory got on uso and they got disqualified and got like 7.2 seconds of heat and j usos music played and jay so who remember they took him out in an ambulance last week, right? And this is the dastardly, who done it, right, Brian? That's right. They took him out on Smackdown. Well, he came in from the backside with a pair of crutches, but he's goddamn ambulatory.

He was showing no ill effects of anything. And he gave one crutch to brother, and he kept the other one, and they beat up the fucking heels. So how was this? It was a thing that kept him out of the elimination chamber that he recovered from in seven days good as he ever was. Same as it ever was. They just need, they obviously needed to get him.

We knew that, but could they make it any more obvious on their programming? We had to get this unplanned for a motherfucker out of the elimination chamber. I'm just saying. It's going to suck when we get the vision versus the Uso's at WrestleMania. Speaking of the vision, did you hear what Corey Graves said, right at the end of this thing when the heels had been routed by the fucking, you know, hospital of patrol. No, I actually skipped a segment.

I have a Uso rule I've put into effect. Ah, well, Corey Graves said, he said, what's that word going around about the vision, Cole, snake bit? I guess, a lot of people, I guess, have been using that term. snake bit for the vision. But again, I will just say that theory is in the upper percentage of natural workers. He picks up on shit, he's got to feel for it. And I would suggest that he keep doing exactly what he's doing right now and listening to

everybody that he's listening to. and but his timing and shit for how to react to things is something that you just can't teach some people but this kind of environment with this level of talent and this level of production is what poor old Kyle Fletcher needs to ever get better mentally and that way he would get better physically but he's just he's stuck over in Indyland

which is why Brian, we're recording this, right? This will live on for a few years. We pay our storage fee on the fucking cloud or whatever, right? We're all paid up, yes. Over the next five years, Austin Theory will become a much larger star in the pro wrestling business than Kyle Fletcher will unless Kyle Fletcher comes to the same company that Austin Theory is currently at.

And even then, I stand by that prediction. So March 2031, you're saying on that date, Austin Theory will be a big star, or at least bigger than Kyle Fletcher. I'm saying over the next five years, Austin Theory will be a clearly delineated bigger star, barring injuries or a safe falling on somebody's head. Either side, Austin Theory will be a bigger, more major, more marketable, and more well-used, recognizable star in a professional wrestling industry. then Kyle Fletcher will be.

Unless Kyle Fletcher gets out of where he is and gets some learning in him. So you know already. There's nothing that, like, gets some of the listeners riled up and even some of the wrestlers who listed riled up, like your praise for Austin Theory. There's people who completely don't see anything

and think that this is where you and Heyman are crazy. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with anybody that doesn't see anything. I can understand having a learned discussion like, does he have the base in his voice to sound authoritative enough? Or, you know, is he going to really develop an over-the-top personality that we can snatch on to or, you know, debates on fine points like that, but to think that he's not in the upper echelon of guys in the ring right now,

just as an athletic performer, at that young of an age, your complete fucking imbecile in the wrestling business is what you are. Did I insult anybody there? I didn't mean to. I mean, I'm okay with what you're saying, but like I said. I meant to royal you. The feedback we get, this is one of those things that divides people. There are people who think you're crazy and there's people like, yeah, I see it too.

But a lot of people are not with it. Well, as Frank Spaceman Hickey would say, not with it. Not with it. You need to get with it. if you're not with it, you're out of it. Yeah, because if you're with it, if you're not with it, you're without it. With or without you? Oh, no, let's not.

Let's go back to the review. WWE Raw. We got, you know, Danhausen, let me just say that, Danhausen, Danhausen, Danhausen, does that work where he pops up and does something if you say that name? He was back. This was his second appearance and, Brian, I can't. I again tell you how many, well, you know, because you see it more than I do. That people are like, well, the first night bombed at the pay-per-view,

the box expected that threw everybody off. He bombed the first night, but the second night, wow, it was easy. He knocked it out of the park. I'll tell you one thing. I'm going to say some good things about this kid in a minute. And I like that he has got this appeal for some. of some kind for some reason that people want to see him succeed and get over. The segment of the audience that knows who he is and has become enamored of what he does,

they're in his corner rooting for him harder than most people, or that most people get people rooting for him. But here's the thing. This was like a skit in two parts. and the first part was great, and the finish was flattered in four o'clock, flattered the plate full of piss. So let's talk about the good stuff.

He does a thing with Adam Pierce, and Pierce is a perfect straight man. And he knows not to derail Danhausen's momentum, but he's just there to do the fill. What are we doing here? And Danhausen does his thing, and he reacts. And Danhausen does his thing, and he reacts. You see what I'm saying.

Pierce knows how to do it. He's got good timing. He's fucking quick. Danhausen has a list of demands. He wants his own blimp. He wants a Hall of Fame induction. He wants a personal assistant. He wants his face on the trucks.

And he gives Pierce the list, which is soggy, because it fell into toilet. Eddogne Gras and Pierce drops it. Okay, it's childish. It's juvenile, but they made it work, right? That's what this whole thing actually kind of is. to begin with. You know, Dan Housen's very entertaining and very funny,

but Pierce kind of made this part work because his reactions were perfect. That's the thing is this, that's what I'm going to try to tell everybody, including anybody that's listening that has a vested interest such as one of the performers in this, if you happen to be listening, take note, if he's got somebody to play off of,

it works a lot better. And when he doesn't, And then Pierce did it. I can understand the writers thinking, oh, and then this will be funny. It's what we used to do with people at the gardens, right? Well, I'll get them and talk to Ronnie Ellie good. Pierce says, hey, judgment day, have you met Danhausen?

And now we're going from the quick, the snappy patter and the little, and it's up. And now there's Finn and J.D. and Dominic. Dominic could be a, you know, can do a little comedy, a little funny, a little ha-ha. but Finn and J.D. are just stone-faced and they're not natural comedians. They don't necessarily have the timing to go back and forth with this particular gimmick. So it went from a little energy and a little witty banter with, in a juvenile fashion,

with peers to, they're just staring at each other. There was no material there. They said a few things. but there was no funny lines. And then he just died. Danhausen cursed Dominic. And then when they turned around, he's disappeared. The first half was great. That's what they need to do if they're going to do Danhausen.

The second half was flat and didn't make anybody look good. And I mean, did you feel the same energy? Yes and no. to me the biggest problem was just him disappearing at the end because literally one of the guys was facing in the direction Danhausen was Dominic turned around the other guys didn't and then he's just gone Dominic's reaction to that was good I like what JD said

I think he said after Dan Houss had disappeared he's a Batman like that's a thing I mean that was my biggest I actually didn't mind it wasn't as good as the pure stuff the material wasn't as good but it was fun to get to see

the new characters interact with each other. I think, here's what I think they need to do with Dan Housen. Because this is his gimmick. And he needs to stand or fall with it. I think if I was, they've got him here. They've made the investment. It might not be my cup of tea wrestling wise. But if I was in charge, entrusted with booking him,

I would say, okay, Danhausen, give me 45 seconds between you and so and so that you can, give me the material. Tell me what you would have all of y'all say. This is your gimmick. Do you do a weird fucking sleight of hand trick or shock someone in some fashion or have some witty banter or whatever? What is your fucking thing? give it to me tell me what it is and then i might have some ideas input on well let's let's turn it this way so the camera gets it better or change of work whatever the fuck but i would let the guy stand or fall on his own fucking material and if this is his gimmick and they're making this

investment let him write these little backstage goddamn wingdings and if it's just if it's ludicrous you've still got the the ixnay factor the veto but otherwise give him four or six weeks and let him do some of this backstage shit and him and Pierce

come up well not just him and Pierce but him and people that have an aptitude like Pierce for working with a quirky character in a 45 second to one minute glib exchange

let him write his shit and see at the end of six weeks if anybody still wants to buy his shit or if he's moreover or less over and then you'll know but I would I would let him I'd let him do his own shit and see what his shit is you know after that debut at Elimination Chamber and we did the review and we didn't say anything bad

about Danhausen we ripped on the segment we actually said I think he's a very nice man is what we said The thing. Well, yeah, but also I think it made some people mad because he can't wrestle because they just, they're used to the comedic mascot wrestling matches. But the next day after Ron, after we put up the clip of the review of the Illimination Chamber segment, people are like, oh, you guys were too quick, you see, it's all better now.

He was on for a minute. Yeah. A minute on a three-hour show. Backstage. I hope they use him well. He's funny. I hate, I don't want them to lean into the ridiculous side of it, like magic and teleportation or anything,

but he's a funny guy. And I enjoyed him and Peter, Pierce's reaction to the soggy paper was great. That made me know enough that I want more of that. It looked like, yeah, well, hey now, pissy paper. It looked like he was holding up something that he'd found in the fucking toilet at the ECW. arena at a ring of honor taping.

But nevertheless, I don't want to give anything away here, although we're not going to do a lengthy dissertation of it, but Dominic then goes out after he's cursed Dominic and loses the intercontinental title. So, and a lot of people are, oh, ha, see, already. Well, are they, I guess Danhausen's going to say, see, I cursed you. But I don't think that everybody, the announcers, that all the talent was beating it to death.

But if they were going to do that, I'll say this, then we'll move on. If they were going to do that with it, then shouldn't he, they have the opportunity, Danhausen, to do four to six weeks of the backstage stuff? And he's getting himself and his shit over and letting people know what the fuck's going on with him. But one guy doesn't take it kindly and is offended by it. and fucking does something to push him around or fucking bully him, as the kids say or whatever.

And that's the guy he curses. And then the guy goes out and he's on the verge of winning the thing and he stands up on the top rope and the goddamn rope breaks. And he falls a boom and he gets covered because he's knocked out. And then you make something of that.

But it could have happened anyway. It has before. But, golly awful coincidental but are we just this second day in the company curses the guy out of a belt what what's happening here that was one of the funny lines too where Dominic has the belt and goes ooh this can I have this

can I have this no you know I like Danhausen I really if if I could I would right now produce a regular television show starring Danhausen and Gwen Gouli and Harley Cameron and just find a way to make it all work. But we'll see where they go. They're selling a lot of merch.

Every independent toy company that had any Danhausen project that they were getting ready for. They were launching that right way. So, I mean, you know, he's making a lot of people a lot of money. Including that contract he signed with Adam and Eve is really going to come in handy.

Well, I don't know about that kind of toy, but we'll see where they go with that Danhausen, but people certainly like them a whole lot better night two than they did night one. I'm telling you, that's the reality show damn that danhausen but the thing is brian if danhausen is going to wrestle in a w w he's going to have to gain some weight he's going to have to start eating better i think don't you believe that that he would have to start getting on a better diet eating better he would

be rather slight in w w e yes he would probably he's just starting eating more and maybe maybe it's because he's too busy he's running around from coffin to coffin cursing people he's too busy to prepare a big gourmet meal with all the lean proteins and the colorful veggies and the whole food ingredients, the quality and functional type of things that you enjoy in a nice, reputable dietitian approved, chef prepared type of thing. He's just probably eating fast food. He doesn't know about our friends at Factor. And I think it would be easy to fatten him up because, he's probably a picky eater and he's eating the fast food. He's just getting poor nutrition and not much of it.

Well, again, I don't know anything about what Dan How's it ingest, but I never look at him and go, that fast food maniac, well, no, he's eating like a bird, but it's all unhealthy. That's why he's got TB. You know, he was diagnosed with TB. TB? Twin bellies. Oh, come on now. And he's got the furniture disease.

His chest is in his drawers. But right now. my, let's be nice. He could eat quality food, a healthy diet, build his muscle, reduce his fat, batten down his hatches with our friends and factor. The meals are always fresh and never frozen. They're ready at about two minutes, no prep, no stress. So he can go on about his busy day without having to eat garbage and pick at it like a bird. And of course, then he's allergic to garlic, being the vampire that he is. So, they've got all kinds of options, 100 rotating weekly meals, high protein, calorie smart, Mediterranean diet, GLP1 support,

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I like the fillet with the creamy parmesan shrimp, which you can dip the filet around in the creamy parmesan, and it's just swell. I'll put my terriaki salmon up against your wimpy little filet any day of the week, buddy. Well, I'll tell you what. See, that's a thing that Danhausen can't have a either one of those because they got garlic in him. He'll melt before your very eyes. But he...

Hold on. That's an interesting question. The Mediterranean diet may work for him. Does Danhausen have the attributes, the qualities of a typical vampire? Where garlic would affect him like a vampire? Well, he's got the cape. And the pale face. The pale face should be a sign of

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Hey Jim, I swear to God, I've seen this actor on three different episodes of the Rifleman in the last week and a half. You know the guy with the goofy eyes? Tall looks kind of like goofy from the cartoon? Well, wait a minute. Hold on now. He's on the Mark Twain episode right now, but yesterday... Goofy eyes. Now, you're not talking Jack Elam.

You're talking about the tall, skinny guy with the weak chin also. Yeah, he was in the, again, the Mark Twain episode is on now, and yesterday it was the one where Lucas's old friends from the theater show up and they're playing chess, but they want to kill each other. I've seen this guy on multiple episodes in the last week. Different character every time. Are you upset that he got so much work when he was young?

No, he's great. He's old now. He can't be alive now. Well, you're just going to kill him with no fucking... No fucking thought. What, think of his, if his family is listening right now. It's the first time they've heard about it. The Rifleman Mark Twain, what is this guy's name?

I've seen him in so many episodes just recently. This is from 1961. This is interesting stuff, ladies and gentlemen. Jack Eam! That is what I'm talking about. Jack Eelham. Yeah, so I was Jack Eelam. Yeah.

Well, he didn't look like Goofy. He had a wide face. Goofy had a tall sloping face. Well, he, the way his body was built. I thought you were talking about somebody like K-Qater. I've seen this got multiple episodes the last week. I've said that multiple times. Let's go back to the multiple W.W.E. Raw segments we still have remaining here on the show.

Well, there was one thing. I want to comment on this just for just a minute, just to not let it go by. Ria Ripley. They have lost the plot on how to present her and what people want to see from her and what makes her different. They got Jackie Redmond out there. by the way, I did like the see-through top she was wearing, Redmond, that is. But she introduces Ria to talk about the elimination chamber,

but she comes out with EO. And does the promo, oh, losing the tag team championship was, you know, it was a big deal to her, right? Eio's her best friend, and she hugged Eio and thanked her. It's the thank you for pulling me out of a dark situation. and then E.O. turned into a grinning six-year-old, hopping up and down, and then speaking gibberish and grinning telling Ria to win the title. And Ria's, I'm going to do it for you, E.O.

I'm going to see Jade at WrestleMania. Again, between the, they make E.O. Sky act like she's fucking mentally six years old. The literal grinning and hopping and down and just gibberish, speaking, Ria Ripley's out there saying, I was in a dark place. I was it. You pulled me out of it. The fuck.

People want to see Ria Ripley come out, put that big foot in the air and fucking stomp and beat the shit out of the other girls and be the eliminator or the eradicator or the fornicator, whatever the fucker goddamn phrase is. Instead of being out there hugging this little child and being all teary and it's like they were having a fucking slumber party in the 60s on a comedy show. Am I taking this too personally?

Well, she's your favorite, so I don't think so. But, I mean, is that the way to present Ria Ripley? Well, again, I think we're about to hopefully get a sea change. That's why they're doing this. They broke up the tag team and now this. I don't know if she's going to turn heel. I'm not saying that. but I think they're going to hopefully put the fucking belt on her

but even if they don't she's back in the title picture as a single but nevertheless she doesn't have to bring Eio out there and fucking fawn all over she's the and I'd like to wish Eio Sky my former partner all the best or future fucking endeavors and anyway just this simpering fucking soft emotional horse shit on my wrestling they need to give Ria Ripley some kind of big fucking stick to just come out just beat that shit out of people with to rehabilitate her for having to team up with that

fall fall fall child that small child since last fall and then they beat dominic for the intercontinental title with penta and i it was a long match i like dominic i've seen all the penta that i want to see because i've seen everything he can do I had just written down that I wish they would get Dominic in some interesting singles programs again with a good old baby face. And then they beat him. But they beat him because Finn stopped JD from interfering because he said he was going to do it by himself. Let him do it by himself. So Finn is continuing his baby face turned because he's found honor.

and Penta gave the destroyer to Dominic one, two, three, and new champion. Well, shit, is what I wrote. Well, shit. That's what A. Lola would have said. Well, shit. What'd you say?

I said, let's go to the main event, the segment, after this match. All righty then. I'm telling you what, if you need two guys to talk them in the building and get a fucking match over, I think they found the two. This is a Roman Rains and C.M. Punk is a great combination.

I have not particularly been electrified. I think I've told you, Brian, by anything Roman Raines really done since the bloodline thing because the bloodline was interesting, Romans kind of, yeah, to me, without it. he's got him a little edge again. He's a different kind of promo than punk. Punk can go into more detail

in the ways that he can tear you up verbally. But Roman shit because of his attitude and his delivery, he can say fewer words and still get to the same bone. Do you see what I'm saying? I guess so. at first Roman he milked it like he usually does he's walking around the ring acknowledge me and that's all he gets to say before punk interrupts him but he comes out grinning and shaking hands and taking his time

and the longer he's doing that and he's laughing he's looking up at punk or at Roman the more that that he does that he can tell it's getting under Roman skin you can tell it's getting under Roman skin because he's portraying that in a subtle way and he's staring a hole through punk and the fans are channed for punk now they chanted OTC for Roman now they're chanted for punk's like why are you mean mugging me

he's taking a sarcastic tone to get under this fucking in his mind probably self-important fucking guy's skin and Roman's the one that tells punk, well, you're the one with the thin skin. And punk said, well, great, I got bags under my eyes because for seven weeks,

I got to carry your bullshit to WrestleMania. And they argued over who brought who to the dance because in Indianapolis, it was the Shields debut. Punk said, I brought you to the dance. No, you brought the other two. And they just, again, It's two guys that can talk and in different ways. And it's not as egregious as when recently the example is MJF and Adam Page,

where one guy has to stand there just absorbing it and bearing up under it and suffering through it while the other guy just says every goddamn horrible thing for five minutes, this is a back and forth. This is a contest, if not an argument. You can't call it an argument because they're not just jumping in and interrupting each other over and over and yelling, but they are having a contest with each other verbally

back and forth. It feels more natural that they're really saying these things that they really mean rather than having memorize some kind of dramatic script and Roman, Roman kept calling him, oh, Phil, Phil, we,

we brought you back to entertain the 40-year-old virgins living with mom and dad, maybe sell a few t-shirts, maybe draw a house in Chicago, but being champion, that's too much responsibility for you. He's just belittling a guy that normally doesn't get belittled verbally.

but he said we can't trust you you're a liar you're not happy you're not smiling whatever the fuck you know we'll put you on a scene a retirement tour and send you to nxte to train guys that i can smash and then roman tried to walk off from him but punk caught him he's like we you got samoan goblins in your pocket you got no shield you got no bloodline you're chasing me this is my show i run things here you can't get things done by yourself and hate or love me you won't disrespect me retire me you went from getting beat to getting buried and then you he says somehow worked it in when i bury you you won't get me alone anymore i'm going to bury you next to your father and he dropped the mic on him and walked off and he walked off

and left Roman standing there and it was so quick it was like, what the fuck these 80s gone? But the way they worked it was perfect that Roman didn't have the chance to grab him

and then was trying to fight whether he was going to lose it or not. So anyway, this is, it's a personal issue. Imagine that. Yeah, and they have a dynamic with each other. It's good.

I personally think it's ridiculous there weren't agents in between them. Because also beyond the logic of these guys not just punching each other in the face because there are agents there, it makes it look bigger and better and more heated as opposed to get right in each other's face and say the worst thing they could think of and then take a step back. And then the other guy gets... I don't like that and I don't think it's necessary.

And I agree with you there. And again, the problem is that we've just been conditioned that this is the way it's going to happen. But yes, imagine if that had been Austin and Brett or somebody arguing with each other, who would have slaughtered and those guys would have been in there trying to just be background foddered, trying to calm it down without getting in the way of what anybody was saying or doing, but acting like they were trying to. but we've lost that, you know, element of wrestling along with everything else. We see them run out for other things. Just get every agent slash producer, whatever they are who used to be a wrestler out there to stand in between them and act as agents of the company.

It makes it better as opposed to, you know, is it a debate battle? What exactly is it? No one touches anybody. With that said, CM Punk was really good here. Roman Raines at first I thought he was getting too into the actory Roman Rain's fake bullshit way of talking but he kind of got out of that and it's a great dynamic and you want to see a promo battle either in different segments on the same show or one-on-one

but I'd be okay with having them battle like this until WrestleMania but you need people in between them. It can't just be face-to-face confrontation without any fisticuffs without anything. Just I will let you leave now. No, they're done with the face-to-face without any repercussion after Pug said he was going to bury Roman

next to Sika, then now shit's on, as Gary Hart would have said, shit's on, brother. So they won't be doing that again, or are they better not? But, yeah, I mean, that's what you pointed out is what we've lost about

wrestling even from the company that used to do the same exact thing we've just talked about, they don't do anymore. Send guys out there to be, remember the confrontation between Tyson and Austin, right? It was like you were seeing one of these things at a UFC event get out of hand. And they have lost that, but if they could, when they have guys that can deliver like this verbally, if they would provide the proper fill and atmosphere, it would be wonderful.

The proper fill, as opposed to Sam Punk? Well, you know what, the proper fill like a Keith Richards Phil is what I'm trying to say. I got you. The fill. Or like a Charlie Watts Phil. Yeah, that was wrong. Well, Brian, let's cross the street now and see what they had to say for themselves over at AEW this past week, which was the dynamite for March the 4th, Wednesday night.

They were at El Paso. As I walked down the streets of El Paso, I saw several thousand weirdly dressed wrestling fans. They had a decent house it looked like. Or have they figured out a way to CGI these fans? I thought it looked decent, and again, a hot crowd for AEW, a crowd that's really, as I said last time, they're doing a better job now and making their fans happy

than they have in a very long time. They must have had a Guerrero on the card. You can't run El Paso without a member of the Guerrero family. It's sacrilegious. But anyway, they opened up with the world title match with Kevin Knight and MJF. And I know they had explained in the challenge and blah, blah, blah, blah.

I would have had the match, but I don't know why they made it for the title right in front of the pay-per-view, even to where the announcers, well, they're showing the graphic for the pay-per-view. It's a world title, MJF and Page. Zab says if if MJF retains here, which everybody knew he was going to, but the idea was, to me, when I heard the match was announced, was to give MJF a good solid win over a credible opponent going into defending the

world title on the pay-per-view, right? This is not revolutionary wrestling law. logic. Right. And if I had been agenting or producing or booking or whatever term the match, I would have said, MJF, 10 minutes bell to bell, have a competitive match, but don't go crazy. You're the champion going into the pay-per-view.

Make him look good. And then don't cheat to beat him, but cheat right before you beat him. Maybe as he's got his momentum on. to come back, stick a thumb and the eye on a fucking over the referee's shoulder and then hit your finish. And you had to cheat a little bit, but you still, you come out strong to defend the title on a pay-per-view. And Kevin Knight still had an excellent match with you.

He's a fine upper middle card young baby face on the upswing. And instead, and I know this was MJF's match to live. lay out. You could tell that. But it wasn't I'm trying to, I wrote that, ah, 17 minutes before all the fall to all afterwards.

You can't just have a goddamn match like I just described over 17 minutes. He had to do, and he still, this was probably Kevin Knight's best match in AEW. And I like him and I like

the look of him. That's why I actually sat down and watched this and wrote down things to say about it. Kevin Knight looks good. He's in shape. He's got a peel. He's got charisma, like his outfit. I don't think he's going to grow as a single because he's saddled with a,

you know, a 10-year-old girl from a Canadian girl school as a tag team partner. And all the goofiness that he's in the middle of this group that has belts and there's more belts and blah, blah, blah. But nevertheless, you can do something with this guy and he can obviously follow direction. They actually opened up with wrestling. And guess what?

The heel got out wrestled by the baby face. They traded arm drags, and Kevin Knight gave him three arm drags. And multiple shoulder tackles. The baby face was out wrestling the heel. there was one time where MJF was selling and Kevin Knight was going to go to the top and miss the splash for M.JF to take over.

But Kevin Knight took too much time going to the top. And I know somebody's going to say, well, that's because he's going to miss it. Exactly. And it makes it look like the baby face's fault. He took too much time. He wasn't fucking thinking. It would have been better if he'd have gone right up there

and fucking MJF got out in the nick of time. Then he made every effort to do it right, the baby face, but the heel just barely escaped. You can tell guys what to do, but not exactly what their timing is or how to do it on the fly. Again, every time that MJF would heal him and stop him, he'd get some heat, he'd give Kevin Knight a hope spot,

but MJF would also take his time and heal the fans too. And now there was one point. I just criticized Kevin Knight. I'll criticize MJF. Kevin Knight came out with a big clothesline and MJF got leveled and sold it like he was dead. And Kevin Knight was kind of starting to get up,

but he wasn't making a lot of progress. But here's the thing. They both got up at the same time. if the heel is not moving, he should be selling, he should be disoriented, but moving, even crawling away,

trying to reach for the rope to get up, because if the heel is down selling motionless, while the baby face is starting to get up, there's not as much tension. If the heel's dead, the fans feel like the baby face has more time. There's less urgency. So boom, when he leveled him like that, and now the baby face has an opening,

the heel can create space, get to the other side of the ring, but get up on his feet and fucking dust himself off and goddamn gather himself and start stalking back before you know that the baby face is going to actually make it back up to his feet. Does that make any sense, Brian? It makes a lot of sense. Well, good. I needed a simple water.

So anyway, then Kevin Knight got a couple of his big dives in, but MJF was trying to roll out of the way and stop him. And at about 10 minutes in, I wrote, okay, should be about time to go, let's go, we've had enough. Well, then MJF stopped him, gave him a big move, two count. Both of them sold forever. I'm like, beat him MJF. Kevin Knight got a number of false finishes and two counts and another dive and they were both down on the floor and they went to the break.

I'm like, what the fuck? Okay, it's still not a rotten match, but, you know, they need to go. And when they came back, they were fighting on the floor and Kevin Knight was in charge. He went up to the top and MJF crotched him and went for a superplex and Kevin Knight hung up. MJF in the tree of woe and did the coast to coast drop kick. And then Kevin Knight goes to the top again, and here's where they shit to bed. MJF is on his back, and Kevin Knight's going to the top rope, so the referee is standing there. And M.JF reached out with one foot and, like, kicked the referee in the thigh,

and the referee spun around in an exaggerated way and flew into the ropes, turning his back on everything and selling his shoulder. I'm like, what the f f f f is like he was goddamn hit with an invisible fucking car. And then Kevin Knight hit the splash and while the referee was overselling, he came in and if the guy's supposed to be hurt and counting slow, he did the most exaggerated, energetic Tommy Young bounce count one and then fucking sold like he was dead and then bounced off the mat again too

with all this vim and vigor in the world and sold like he was dead and MJF kicked out so he had gotten a visual pin on the world champion because of an obviously phony looking referee bump and then the way that the referee counted that I've never said.

Do you see what I was saying that he was coming back to life with an over-exaggerated, animated count and then selling in between? And then he would die again. Yeah. Like he'd die in between. And he obviously took some hell of a beating that we can't see. Or some hell of a drug that I'd like to have some of. And then Kevin Knight went to the top again and went for the splash,

but MJF raised his knees and hit the heat seeker one, two, three. that was actually a nice finish if they'd eliminated the referee horse shit. If a few minutes before that or a short time before that when Kevin Knight had gone to the top, instead of MJF kicking the leg of the referee, raised the legs, boom, heat seeker, boom. The guy just done the coast-to-coast drop kick. That was the best-looking thing he's going to do all night. The referee thing just brought it down. But they started to get into which one are we pushing territory,

but they didn't, it was still a very good match until the fake-looking, horrible acting by the referee, you know, kill that. But it was a bit much for Kevin Knight because he had the world champion pinned 10 days before the world title match on a pay-per-view with somebody else. This would be this finish is the match you have if the rematch between these two is on the pay-per-view. And you bring it back with two referees or special referee or the referee was the problem the first time as to why the baby face didn't win. So we will rectify that in this rematch. But that's not the kind of match you're supposed to have when you're prepping your world champion.

to wrestle somebody else. Whoever figured this finish for these two at this particular moment is a crazy person. But before we talk about how much worse it's about to get, Brian, what did you think of the match? I was going to say, you're doing all this complaining about, you know, what the next thing is. It's going to be him in speedball, it seems.

I mean, that is pretty apparent. Well, no, I mean, just the next thing they did. I don't know if that's the next match he's going to have. I think they're going to have MJF against speedball. That's what I'm saying. well i mean i and even if they do that will be effluvia for another day but what they continue to do here well what they basically did was as soon as mjf wins he shit cans the referee but adam page appears in the entrance way so while mjf is standing staring at page

spitball comes in hits mjf with one of those fucking goofy kicks and he bumped to the floor and sold like oh my god i'm i'm done So now the champion is bumping for the fifth grader that used to get picked on in gym class. And not only did it take him 17 minutes to beat the other guy, but then this fucking wimp comes in and just knocks him out. But before anybody thinks that I'm upset about how they're treating MJF when we get to it, I'm going to think they're just as crazy for the way of what they've done to Adam Page in this show. And when he's going to be the challenger for the world title.

And again, he came out here with his six-man tag title on for his confrontation from the runway with MJF. Good match. Probably went too long, I agree with you. I don't know why Kevin Knight would have gone to the top rope the second time after the first one. You kind of knew MJF will get his legs up, and he did. And not looking forward to him against speedball,

which will be probably the most enjoyable speedball match we see. I don't think it's possible. It's MJF making this little guy look like a champion. I think they just did this because somebody said, well, shoot, oh, oh, Mike, oh, Mike Bailey's going to get his feelings hurt if he doesn't get out there and do something. I can't imagine MJF would write and produce his own movie just to take time off to get away from working with this little fucking douche. But nevertheless, Brian, that's what I want to know how good he really is. as a karate practitioner.

I put him in there with MVP, who we know is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Now, there's no reason to get racial about it. I'm not getting racial. That is his rank, I believe, from the last I heard. I'd like to see what happens there. You know what I mean? Put him in, make it like UFC,

like Mike Bailey versus every tough guy you could think of and let's see what happens. Whatever, we need Ron Slinker. Remember the dimmation. Oh. The dimmalie. expert Ron Slinker. Well, he was the first one I ever saw do a live in-person karate demonstration.

He had the cheapest look. Like, I don't care how good at karate he was. He did not look like a wrestler. There was no way. He wasn't that good at karate either. I got news like that. I may be the last living person that watched Ron Slinker do a karate demonstration. Well, you know, Brian, the thing is they got to quit these bad habits they got over there.

They got bad habits with the way that they booked their finishes, the way they treat their champion, the way they constructify their big main event matches for paper. They're bad habits all the way around, bad habits in the ring, bad habits out of the ring. We've got to do something this year about breaking these bad habits, Brian. People have bad habits in wrestling and in business

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Yes, yes, we should get back to the show. I was going to say, suck on this. We got more dynamite to go. Oh, God. There's a habit I'd like to break. I broke the habit that I don't have of not watching any pockets matches. I put a double negative in there, but the next match was Pockets and Darby Allen against Gabe Kidd and Chuck Connors.

And I obviously skip this except for the end. apparently there was a debut here. We'll get to that in a second. But remember, when we thought Darby Allen, they might make him the next world champion. He's over as a baby face, and they like his weirdness and public stupidity. I don't know what, you know, at this point, what they like.

Maybe that's because this was a while back when he was that over, and now he's teaming up with the mascot. But now he's partners with the mascot and he's fighting two indie guys that we still don't really know what the fuck their purpose is. And they started with a four-way on the floor and broke a table and then the referee rang the bell so that I skipped the match.

But the baby faces won and then Brian, this is what I was surprised about. A guy jumps in the ring and starts, beating up the baby faces with his cane, and I wouldn't have known who it was, but the announcers told me, thankfully, David Finley, Fit Finley's son. And he comes in and beats up the baby faces with his cane. And so they debuted, not only did they debut Fit Finley's son as another faction with some random middle card heels, but he's not in the

W.W.E. And one would think if he certainly they looked at him, why would they turn down the son of Finley if he had anything? Well, he's been in New Japan, and in New Japan he was aligned with Gabe Kidd and Clark Connors, I believe,

and all three of them have now signed with AEW. Well, but I'll ask the question I asked that you answer to a different one here in a second, but I'll ask this question now. I don't know why they have not signed him or I assume they looked at him because they look at everyone, but I don't know. But also, again, who gives a shit what they did in Japan? When somebody came into the fucking Carolinas, did Dusty say, oh, because you guys were tag team partners in

Dallas where you've got to be together even though I'd rather do something else with you. I don't understand why they think that of all but the smallest audience knows what they've done and New Japan was on television on access or whatever a few years back. Did they ever crack 100,000 views

or the ratings that were reported? It wasn't there's more people watching AEW by far by multiple times than watch New Japan on TV or are watching New Japan right now from the United States.

So why doesn't Tony just, if he sees a talent that he likes, bring it in and do his own shit? Does that make sense? Because Tony's a fan for what he has seen of them in Japan and he wants to keep that together he doesn't look at it the way

you do or I would or he should where here's someone every director every director that makes a movie because well I love the movie that these particular actors did so I'm going to hire the entire

crew to make my movie too or do you find the story of A.W. That's the entire story of A.W. you, Tony saw all these guys' movies and said, I want to be the producer of this movie. But it's, then you've got a fucking dramatic action comedy musical. So anyway, and again,

this may be Tony's La La Land. I don't know what to tell you. If, if young Mr. Finley had the qualifications, one would have thought that he would be in that program, or was he in the program and they didn't keep him in a program? Who's with the program here?

I don't know. I don't know. Again, his father had a history of working internationally, Germany, Japan, before he ever got to the States. I don't know if he's trying to follow his father's footsteps and take a... Well, he's certainly working in another fucking country right now if he's in AEW. He's working in the fucking land of Lala. I haven't seen too much of him and he was in a suit,

which was nice to see someone wearing his suit. But he had a good look. You know, I hate that he's going to be involved with pockets or whatever they're doing here, but, you know, I was intrigued enough by him much more than Clark Connors and Gabe Kidd. Did you see him come out there, like crawling? He was like crawling out of the entrance way. Like, I don't know, a demon trying to crawl out of hell.

I don't know what he was going for there. No, actually, they... It looks silly. They sent pockets out first, and so by the... then I wasn't paying any attention. Oh, next time Gabe Kid has a match, watch his entrance, see if he crawls out again.

But it was, uh, I was laughing. And ladies and gentlemen, his opponent crawling down the aisle. That's it. All righty, moving along. Uh,

Jamie Hater and Alex Mountbatten, Windsor fought the inspiration, who are two twin blonde girls with accents trying to act funny. And they did lots of dancing. And I haven't heard such fucking silence since Bruno got beaten the garden in 71. People just sitting on their

hands. So that was that. You know, they were like a tag team in WWE. I think we saw some of their stuff years ago. They were a tag team there and then they got released, I believe. And then they were in TNA. who used them as a top women's tag team for whatever that's worth,

based on their WWE TV time, and Tony brought them in and squashed them two minutes. Tony brought them in and just squash them right away. Well, but at the same point, did anybody know who the fuck they were? Because the response was absolutely nonexistent. It wasn't like, oh, look, here's these stars that we've seen, and then, boom, they'd be.

them. It was like, credit, I don't know. You know, again, AW, it could be that or it could be A.W. fans rejecting them. I don't know how much of it's their knowledge of them.

It's a double-edged sword. If they know of them from their previous work, they may hate them, so I don't know. You know what somebody, they ought to come up with sometime, because I guess these girls, they look like twins. I know, they got to be sisters.

I don't know what fuck's going on. They're not related at all, I don't believe. Well, they look identity. maybe that's the problem. You can't tell one from another. But if they got, the bella should have done this. They should try sometimes,

some set of twin girls should try to get fucking signed by two different companies. And if they worked it right, then they could fucking actually, God damn, get paid four times. Think about this. Because they could just keep showing up in different places to fucking work.

Just don't tell anybody there's two of them. It's a fascinating idea you have here. Yeah. And then you just go around collecting, Kyle, we'll sign this one. Oh, I got that one over there. And then they just keep showing up in different places. You're not sure which one's which. I don't know.

There's something there. Does it help or hurt matters if it's triplets? Oh, well, then you're cleaning up. Are you or do you have too much inventory? No, because you got, it's like when Nick Goulis had a mass team over, the interns or the mighty Yankees or whatever. He would send the real ones to the town with the best advance, and he'd send job guys with fucking hoods to the other town or two.

Anyway. Hey, before we move on, just real quick, because for whatever reason this has popped up and a bunch of people keep asking us, so I'm going to ask you so they'll stop. What is the Kentucky meat shower? There, oh, God damn it. I'm trying to remember the detail.

Google it. and I will introduce it. There was a period of time years ago in a certain location in Kentucky where inexplicably for some short period of time, meat, like just raw meat fell from the sky

over a certain area. I'm not making that up. The Kentucky meat shower, according to Wikipedia, was an incident that occurred. for a period of several minutes between 11 a.m. and 12 noon on March 3rd, 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100 by 50-yard area near Olympia Springs and Bath County, Kentucky. There exists several explanations from blood rain to to vulture ejecta

as to how this occurred and what the meat was although the exact type of meat was never identified various reports suggested it was beef, lamb, deer, bear or a horse and that pretty much covers it, folks Yeah, well see, you were looking for your red meat because they could tell that.

See, in 1876, there was no DNA. And so they were looking for the red meats because, you know, they could at least tell that by sight, except for poor old Ulysses Jones that was colorblind, who was the first one to spot it. But he just thought it was just chunks of shit. But anyway, it would be hard, one would assume, for even a,

number of vultures to have gotten onto a carcass and took enough of it in the fucking air that it would rain meat noticeably over that large of a space on the ground where people would pick up on it to the naked eye and see the goddamn you know the obvious remains laying around that'd have to be a lot of a lot of vultures that nobody saw and you know that's the thing is that They don't go high enough that you would, you know, they're not like, they were just regular fucking propeller vultures back then. They didn't have jet vultures.

So this, these chunks of meat just, and they didn't have the DNA, as I mentioned, so they couldn't narrow it down. But nobody, nobody blew up in a fucking airplane in 1876. So it's somewhat confounded people when the meat fell from the fucking sky. All right, well, we will stay on top of the story for every concerned person who sent in a email about it. But back to dynam. Well, there is about every 150 years or so, there is a goddamn, you know, resurgence of interest. Anyway, what they did next on AEW is Adam Page beat some unknown guy in 10 seconds with his finish.

And at this point, I was like, my God, imagine that. they've actually done the right thing with the challenger to the world title at the pay-per-view in the main event. He's come out and beating a fucking guy with his finish in 10 seconds and stands tall over him as tall as page can muster.

And that's what MGF needs is not a squash in 10 seconds, but he needs a squash in four or five minutes. He needs an old-fashioned Jerry Lawler squash, or fucking a top, a cocky top heels

of race Steven squash where he'd spend more time working to people and being more entertaining and get him himself over and then he'd beat up the fucking guy. And that's what MJF needs more of on TV

instead of, you know, 17 minute title matches with middle card guys and blah, blah, blah. But there's more show to go, Brian. Before. I said, at least they did the right thing with Page, but they couldn't leave that alone. He gets on the microphone and does another promo,

and that never really helps his cause. It is a phony, boring, whatever. MJF comes out again, and he's cutting a promo. And as he's talking to fucking Paige, Okada and Davis and Kyle jumped Paige in the ring, and start beating him up.

But then there's three heels beating him up, but when Kevin Knight and Hong Kong Fooey come out, the three heels run from the two little baby faces. Yes, they've got chairs, but Jesus Christ, but this is all happening within seconds. And then Don Falice and Lance Archer comes out, and MJF is completely gone. And we're in a different angle with the same fucking challenger to the world title.

So then Don is cutting a promo to the three baby faces, Paige and fucking dipshits. I shouldn't slander Kevin Knight. And he's challenging for two more titles. He wants their six-man titles that they've got. that but no wait a minute what he's saying is that those three guys want the six man tag titles that page and fooie and knight have but kevin knight and hong kong phooey shouldn't be challenging for the two more titles that is in his group because kyle is the one kind of champion

and fucking Okada's the other kind of champion Davis is the fucking competitive eating champion and Paige wants the world to what the fuck is going on here they want a six man tag title match and they'll get one later today because wouldn't you know it they need a main event

this far into the show they still have time and if I only had time and that's what that was was setting up there and MJF disappeared, like you said. Yes, MJ was completely on, and now we have the world,

the guy that's challenging for the World Heavyweight title that already has the six-man tag title. Like, yeah, yeah, Jack-me, Jack-me-Blow you. And then they're going to be challenged by these three guys, two of whom are already singles champions. So why the fuck would they want the six-man

tag title. But that's tonight. Where, you know what, I'm sure it was loaded with comedy material, but Moxley went almost 20 minutes with and I just, I know. So then we got to Brody King.

And Brody King was in the ring telling swerve that he's the most dangerous man in AEW. and he got in there, actually got on a microphone, sounded like he meant it, said, I'm the most dangerous man, come on out here if you want to fight and prove it. Brody King is stepping up a bit. I have to give the fat tattooed man his credit where it's due.

He sounded better. And then Nana comes out. Are you sure about this? Brody King, yes, I want to have. Okay. Here's the real most dangerous. man, swerve Strickland. And they played the music and Nana's waving, come on, come on.

And I guess they had to do that until swerve actually did legitimately get to the fucking ring. But it went so long that you could tell that he was not coming out from that direction, right? You knew. And then, I mean, if you're watching from home, you knew also because of the way they shot Brody King to get the surprise shot of swerve. But it went on for so long that you knew someone. was not coming from that way.

If I've watched wrestling at all, I know, turn around, there may be someone the other way. As Dutch Mantel would say, it's the old misdirection play. So swerve comes in the ring from behind and blast in some fashion because they had the close-up on Brody, like you said, so you couldn't see them coming in

and blow the surprise anyway. But boom, he suddenly gets hit near Swerve. And Swerve has got this giant 10 foot fucking big old toe chain or logging chain or whatever all wrapped up and he's acting and I use that term loosely

he's acting like he's just bashing it into Brody King's back but he's obviously pulling it to the point where why are you even doing that? Yeah, it looked really bad. Because now you've just you've shit your own bed why just blast him and stomp on him?

And, but, well, but then, did you see the neck wrapping? Because the idea was that he then takes the chain or wraps it around Brody King's neck. And then somehow, on the other end of it, there were handcuffs, and he cuffed it to the top rope. But then instead of hanging Brody over the top rope, he got out. and drug Brody there were, this was the most awkward hanging I've ever seen in wrestling. And the way that he ended up,

Swerve was on the outside with the chain over the top rope. It was around Brody King's neck barely. You could see when he put it around and Brody had just crawled over there. And Brody, the only way that Brody is being chubes is because he's hanging down from the rope.

If he had just raised his head, it would have relieved the pressure on his neck and prevented him from choking out. Does that the way you saw it? I mean, what you're saying makes sense, sure. But that's the way he had him. So I don't, did they walk through that? Ahead of time and decide this is the,

best way that we can illustrate that I'm choking this guy out than this awkward rude Rube Goldberg fucking whole contraption here and then so Brody's hanging himself there's no tension on any of the chain except the tension around his neck for the top that he himself is putting on it and swerve cuts the promo to Brody's face as I'm the most dangerous man to fuck you all he had to do was stand up What is he like, 6-8? Yes. He's literally leaning forward, stretching the fucking rope from the top rope to where it's around his neck as much as possible.

If he just raised up, it would release pressure. People like the concept of them and some of the big matches for people who are sickos and into that kind of stuff, but the creative is always weak. Whose house? What? Did you expect me to say that? No, I just, that's how he ends his sentences, so I'm going to do it when I review his crappy segments. Who's house?

Whose house? Dead silence. All righty then. I'm sure that Thecla and Thunderosa for the women's title was just swell. Then, Tomaso Champa came out. Okay, I'm interested in Champa. And he's doing a promo with Rename Oxley Good. talking about Kyle and the TNT title is a good promo

he looks and speaks like a grown-up and then the FTR music hits and I'm like what what the fuck and out comes FTR with Stokely in the chair and Dax who's taken to wearing glasses on camera which makes him look like a slightly pudgy but studious fucking middle-aged soccer dad what the fuck is that choice about he said

Dax comes up and hugs Champa and I'm here to welcome an old friend and he started kind of making an offer to join them like he got to come with the top guys is like an olive branch and olive branch from what they've never interacted I'm thinking what is going on here NXT

exactly again you can acknowledge history amongst people when it was memorable history. But this is from NXT from 10 years ago, is what they said. It must be, yeah, it must be. Again, Tomaso said, I hated you 10 years ago and I hate you today.

And he insulted Stokely and Dax got mad and a little shove, shove, and then Tomaso slapped Dax. And then Dax said, okay, I'm not mad. See you Saturday on collision. What the, he can't do his own shit. Or you can't even, once you bring these guys into the same company, you can't do some history packages on one or the other that instantly mentions their past and or talk about it for a few weeks

before they just run up on each other and well, fuck you from 10 years ago that many of these people did not see. Was NXT on television 10 years ago? It may have been on WWE network and then they had their big events which were still streaming but they were big events. It made NXT popular with the crowd

that became the AEW crowd. That was a long way around your elbow to get to your wrist to say they weren't even on TV 10 years. I don't think they were. I mean, I'm not saying it definitively, but I don't think they were. Team DIY versus FTR was before FTR got to the main roster, I think.

So I don't think so. All right, anyway. We're time for the main event, Brian. I know you've been waiting with baited breath. So this is, and it's all in the overrun. So anybody that again records the show, they're just, you know, fuck it, unless they've done their due diligence. Six-man title, Davis, Kyle, and O'Boring against Page and Kevin Knight and Fooey.

And they started this with a sloppy six-way on the floor. And I thought, well, it actually wrote this down. I said the only way that you could have worse books. on a single television program is if the baby faces lose the belts here. And in the end, MJF pulled Page out to the floor and nailed him. And then the fucking heels double-teamed Kevin Knight right in front of that useless Rick Knox motherfucker and beat him one, two, three, and became the new champions. So, you know, that,

They say that Tony Khan, and he's exhibited it, he doesn't think it hurts to lose. So oftentimes, if he brings you in and beats you, that's a sign that he likes you and he's going to use you well. What does it say if he beats you twice on the same episode? At the beginning and the end of the same episode. And, I mean, let's go down the line here. So MJF, the world champion, takes almost 20 minutes to beat a potential filled, but right now midcard baby face guy, Kevin Knight.

And actually has to rely on, you know, a number of flukes and et cetera as we covered that to do it. and then Paige comes out and gets a 10-second squash match, but then is drug into a goddamn undercard six-man title match where he's on the losing team right before he challenges for the fucking world title at the pay-per-view. And the guy that gets beat in that match is the one that almost beat, the guy that he's wrestling in the pay-per-view, who's the only one that has any goddamn potential

on that whole team. We've seen the best of page, and it ain't been good, and it ain't ever going to get any better. And spitball is offensive to any goddamn legitimate wrestling fan just because of the phoniness and the stupidity of him. But Kevin Knight's got something, so he's the one that everybody,

he's beating. They're beating him like a rented mule. Meanwhile, now you've got two of these fucking guys already have belts, the heels, Kyle and oh, boring,

and now they've got more belts. What the well, that's what I thought. Well, a big title change there to end dynamite. New trios, tag team. champions, Okada, Fletcher, and Davis, and everyone has belts.

It defeats the purpose because it makes the other belts not seem as important when everyone just has some other belt, but I guess at least they got one of the belts off page before he's going for the other belt. So now the other belt could be the priority, not the previous belt. And that was dynamite. But, you know, that's the thing is they're just, you know, they're hitting people below the belt. Well, before we talk about

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I lose my voice a little bit more each time I do that. You know, all the people now are saying, don't tease us with a good time, Brian. Hey, that's not nice. That's not nice. So what are the big matches for this big revolutionary pay-per-view revolution that AEW is going to have imminently, like in what, in, well, just a few days by the time the folks hear this?

Well, Jim, I have it here on Wikipedia. A.W. Revolution, March 15th, 2026, Los Angeles, California at the world-famous crypto.com arena. Here's the card. What did that used to be to make it world-famous? What was the crypto.com area? Is that Los Angeles was at the, well, the forum was in Englewood. Is that the Staples Center? It was previously the Staples Center.

Okay. Let's X out of this. We'll go back to where we were. Jim, A.E.W. Revolution, here is what is announced so far. To be announced for the pre-show, a Big Boom AJ match, but we're not there yet. What? Wait a minute now. Hold on. Let me stop you here, just a second.

Now, what was this been a year or so ago now, that Big Boom and the other little Boomer and Boomer Asiason and the Bang Bang? fucking kid and all the people that eat donuts. I don't know what their deal is at Costco. But they were social media sensations and they got to guest star and do a dark match and then whatever the fuck on the pre-show.

Are they still like mega social media stars getting them all this publicity? Or is this now just a goddamn favor because they like the guy? I don't know. Do you see this guy anywhere else? I personally don't.

I haven't heard anything else about him. I don't know what he's doing, but it's not really my kind of scene. I will say his pre-show matches, at least get the fans there into it, sometimes more than other things. Well, that's why I'm wondering is what else does this fucking guy do, except boom? And is he ongoingly doing boom, or is he just still over because he used to do boom? Somebody give us a goddamn, send us a letter in on this. All right, go ahead. Let's move on here.

Yeah. Jim, a Trio's match for the AEW World Trio's Championship. The Champions, the Callis family of Kazushka Okada, Kyle Fletcher, and Mark Davis, versus Mystico and Jet Speed. The Jet Kevin Knight and Speedball Mike Bailey. So, it's Los Angeles. I'm sure that there will be a. an audience that is there for Mystico

why stick him in this fucking mess why not give Mystico fucking either his own opponent that he wants to bring or a suitable guy on the roster and give him 10 or 12 minutes to go out there and show everybody that he's there in person and it's Mystico

the two smallest guys on the show probably are Mistico and Speedball Bailey and they're against the three tallest guys in the company Okada, Kyle Fletcher and Mesteadico and Mark Davis. And again, that's, obviously, I wish nothing for Okada except a quick trip back home

and retirement because he's the shits and he doesn't care and he doesn't try. And it's the most ridiculous thing that he's making any kind of money, everybody else on the roster out of mutiny. And Davis is good. We were hoping for him and his partner. But if Kyle, if they're wanting to,

and Kyle's already got a singles championship. Why is he in this six-man bullshit? If you want to make him a top guy and again, is everyone blind, deaf, and dumb that wants to employ

Mike Bailey? I think so. So this is just, is that the pre-show? I don't know if that's a pre-show. It's one of the matches for the main show, I believe. Oh, Christ. We'll find out. Jim for the AEW Women's World Championship two out of three falls

Tecla Oh no Tecla the champion versus versus Chris Statlander Oh Christ on a cracker Can they just agree to split to first two falls

in the locker room and just give us the third one in front of the people Come on you're not intrigued You don't want to see two out of three falls Statlander versus Tecla What could that be? What can it be?

What can it be? Can it be now? What can it be on my TV screen? I don't understand they're being so mean. Do you think Statlander will regain the championship? I would hope so. But I don't know. Jim Brody King versus swerve Strickland.

Well, they've obviously, they've got a good baby face in Brody King. And Swerve has just turned heel. I would think it would see because these things don't follow the normal patterns of things to where these people should be individually now. I wouldn't want to beat

Brody King right now because he's still on the way up except then Swerve looks like a complete fugget idiot. If he just turns heel and loses his first time so swerve has to win but normally I'd say I hope they protect Brody but then that may mean

that they bring a bazook out and fucking shoot swerve in the head so who knows or Omega but I would what if Omega cost swerve the match what no because still he he can't just

turn heel and do this heinous thing to this fucking guy and then just lose the first one at this point because where they all are now. Well, Jim, another match. Andrade L. Edelow versus Bandito.

My prediction? I'm being serious. It'll probably be the best match on the show. You see, with Bandito and Andale, Andale, Andale Arriba, what did they call him the other day when they messed up his fucking name? Andradele.

Andradele. Yeah, and Andradele. Well, I mean, that goes back to my old comment to flare that time on the clash with him and Lugar that the rest of it stunk. I say, you stole the show, but it was petty theft. Is this really going to be an accomplishment? But it, I just, I'm annoyed by bandito's lack of basics, rotten timing and goofy fucking suplex and other goofy moves that people have to

just ridiculously cooperate for. Maybe André will just beat him up. All right, Jim, well, the next match is a no time limit match for the Continental Championship. Jesus Christ, don't give these people any more encouragement. Give them a time limit for fuck's sake. The champion John Moxley versus Kenoske Takesha.

Oh, boy. Well, does he have to go over? Does the Keshe has to go over here? Well, but here's the thing. It's going to put Moxley in his, you know, wet dream land already because he's going to be against a Japanese guy and he can make it strong style and be Japanese and do all the stuff that nobody sells

and kick people in the fucking throat and all that shit. moxley is way too garbage of a worker to showcase tekehhta's strengths as an agile athletic fairly well-versed technical in-ring performer that has you know youth and oomph to him instead of this whatever the fuck this thing moxley has to him so i mean max moxley's matches are normally bad, but at least with guys who

English is a first language and they learned to work in America and potentially know that Moxley is the shits and they are going to try to compensate for it, they can come out better than I believe our boy Take is going to do everything that Moxley wants him to, so this is going to be a shitty match. And I would love to see Moxley put him over, but who knows?

Is he back to the Moxley that never loses or is he the Moxley from a few months ago and just everybody and her brother was beating him? Who knows with his fucking clown? All right, we shall see. Will it be Rocky 2 or Rocky 4? Jim for the tag team championship, the champions FTR, Cash and Dax with Stokely

versus the Young Bucks Matt and Mick and they're receding hairlines. And boy, have you, I didn't even mention a pre-tape that was on the show that they were sitting in a boardroom and the Jackson boys, they're trying to act mad

and like, oh, to come over with this desk right now and, and do what? And do what? That was what I said when I watched that. Yeah. And do what? I frightened more people in a fucking room for real what I told Kevin Dunn's the same thing.

And I was already standing up. And they're fucking acting like this goddamn. I mean, who knows again? It's whatever that the little buckaroos think will give them the most favored outlook from the fans. Do they want to be selfless and put these guys over? Or do they want to be egomaniacs and protect their legacy as 18-time Dave Meltzer fantasy of the year?

whatever. But does anybody give a shit at this point? At least at one time, it was a bit of a big deal who would a match between these two teams and who would win, and now they're just doing it because nobody gives a shit what the buckaroos are doing. They're playing with their friends so now they can have a feature match.

And who knows if they want the tag team titles because then that would put... They do. more well wouldn't that put more attention on them that nobody gives a shit about them if they were also the tag team champions and no i think they still continue to not give a shit about them i think they have a reality distortion field where they pretend like what's happening isn't happening i mean again next to kenny omega they've won dave melts her fantasy of the year as you put it more times than anyone so there's a segment of the crowd that they want to listen

to that doesn't think their shit stinks, and then everyone else has seen this over and over and over again. And everything they do outside of the rank, won't even get into their matches and the layouts and everything that has to happen because they can't just wrestle a tag team match. Has to be their referee who knows, stand over there and do nothing because we're going to ignore every rule of tag team wrestling because we have to, otherwise we can't do all the things that pop us.

but I just don't think it's really it doesn't seem to work but the outside of the ring stuff the skits anything they do in the back anything they do talking anytime Matt Jackson is on a mic it comes across as cringy and bad

and the problem is they're surrounded by people who actually back up their bad instincts I mean you saw Brandon Cutler in that scene you know reasoning as a job as these guys but it's always been just like really lame shit. Like even when all the indie fans 10 years ago we're going crazy over the bucks

and their social media content, it was never good, it was always just lame. And now it's even lame. I tried a time or two to watch, why are people watching this YouTube thing, channel show, being the elite or whatever? And it just... It was awful.

It was garbage. It was a series of them having random conversations and doing stage skits with their friends who weren't natural entertainers either. So that's what I think about that, but I think the Bucks will win the belts, that would be my prediction. Good Lord.

And Jim, finally, the main event, a last chance Texas death match for the AEW World Championship. If Page loses, he will never be able to challenge for the World Championship again. The champion MJF versus hangman Adam Page. And you know, again, because they

they would legitimately expect Paige to stick to this stipulation for the rest of his life. Not only the fans of this company, but the people in the company, it wouldn't be anything like, well, we can keep him away from it for a couple years because he's had it enough already. And then somebody will do something so heinous

that people will demand it to blah, blah, blah. They probably intend to stick to this because they're fucking marks. But at the same time, what the fuck would they be thinking to put the bell back on page, Mr. Charisma, Mr. Warmth, again, when MJF just got it, New Year's, has defended it like once or twice just barely, you would damage again a guy that at least moves numbers and or whatever the fuck, even more than he already has been damaged.

So it does make it hard to call, but hopefully sanity will prevail and they have realized that over the next couple of years, they don't need Page to be the champion again anyway. and he'll get fucked by whoever wants to be the world's most dangerous man or the most dangerous or Dick the bruiser will come back

and whoever you know what I'm saying I mean since since none of this has to make any sense because it usually doesn't you can't do what's logical or surmise what's logical or sensible for business because that doesn't have any bearing on AEW finishes. And it would be a great he'll move down the road

if somehow he does get a title shot and he turns. He can say he's drinking again or something. And there he is, he got a title shot. Either that or all the fans have started drinking because he was the champion. Well, there it is. A.E.W. Revolution from Los Angeles, California, coming up this next weekend, actually, as we are recording.

back to you Jim that's right Brian we're going to uh what we're going to do right now is before we end the show we're going to take a short break and travel through time because we have smelled something might be going on tonight on smackdown it's cody versus drew for one of their world titles and uh that's going to decide who goes into the main event at russomania so we're going to take a brief time travel and come back and let everybody know which one it's going to be. We're in the future. I told you to change the oil in that son of a bitch.

I've lost one of my legs. It didn't materialize again. Son of a bitch and I've got to scratch my toe. Oh, it's coming in slowly. All right. Would you take that thing over to Valvaline? Anyway. Everything's fine.

We are here in the future. We would like to congratulate. the victor of the made event on Smackdown on March the 6th for the WWE title. They made a major world title match after the pay-per-view on the post-game show between Cody and Drew and obviously advertising for Smackdown. That's a pretty big fucking match for Smackdown. And we felt like something was up. let's just say.

So the one thing this show, oh, my God, it's three hours. Just fast forwarding through it to get to this goddamn point was boring. But they started the history package between these two guys at like 10, 25 Eastern time. And after the entrances and the introductions and the breaks and all, et cetera,

the bell rang at 20 minutes till. kill 15 minutes for that. But this was one of the better, obviously, TV matches, not only that they've had lately, not only from a work standpoint, but from an import standpoint. And except for, you know what I, I'll tell you what I wrote and then tell me, Brian,

when I wrote it, what spot came next? I said, no silliness. nothing preposterous, didn't bury the referees, serious, clear heel and baby face. Both guys over, no stupid furniture. What did they do?

Get the tables. They had a good match. Cody was all over Drew. They did a jump start on the floor which was called for here. It's a grudge match. And Cody was all over him and then Drew got some heat.

but Cody made it come back and as Drew was bailing out he posted Cody's arm and started working the arm and these guys are both pros they they know what they're doing they're serious about it shit wasn't as I said neither bearing the referee or looking fucking phony and then they go outside Cody hit a big dive and Cody clears off the desk and they're going to do a deal where he tries the crossroads on the desk, and I guess Drew was going to reverse it for something, and the desk

collapsed under them. And then the fans start chanting, we want tables, so they go just stop their match and go start looking under the ring for fucking tables. It's come to this that the fans

are mad, even during good matches, if you don't break furniture. And I blame them they didn't need to do a move on the fucking announced desk. And if they haven't gone out to the announced desk, then they wouldn't have to stop everything and go under the ring and get a table. And Cody was the one that found the table and pulled it out and then drew Powerbomb Cody through it. So your baby face is an idiot.

But nevertheless, it was unnecessary to go out and do anything with either table. They were doing just fine. But then they got back in the ring. and then boom, boom, boom, Drew hit a crossroads. It got a two count. And then Drew went for the Claymore and Cody fucking blocked it

and Cody hit a Claymore. And then they teased hitting, Charles Robinson was the referee. And they teased one time with one guy picked the other guy up and he swung him around and little nache Charles ducked the the feet and then the next time Drew almost charged into him in the corner

and then Drew pulled a referee in front of him for Croathe's Croaties cross body off the ropes and like a crow Cody yeah like a crow and then he just kind of grazed him but Charles Robinson went down and was down for five minutes here's my thought is that the referee bump is best when it's out of nowhere. No pun intended to the RKO.

If you tease it, now they're looking for it. And then you tease it twice, and then you actually do it, what are the chances that something can accidentally happen after it's almost accidentally happened twice in a span of 45 seconds? The referee bump is better, when it comes out of nowhere

and it doesn't look like he was waiting for it and you can't get too fancy not only are the referees not trained usually to the extent of most of the wrestlers but Charles Robinson's 60 fucking years old so don't do something that you to make it look good either timing would have had to been perfect

or you got to legitimately wipe him out squash him in the corner double knockout with a shoulder tackle. Somebody splash or drop elbow accident, whatever the fuck. But nevertheless. So Charles gets grazed by Cody and we've seen the last time for the next four or five minutes. There's a back and forth and Cody hits crossroads, but the referee's down.

So Cody's calling for the ref and a new ref. And Drew hits a kick and referee number two. Rudy Charles comes in, cover one, two, Cody kicks out. And Drew is mad and he's, you know, menacing the referee. But then Drew posts Cody like twice and then turns around and headbutts referee number two. Wouldn't that be a disqualification, Brian? I was going to say he didn't hit him from behind. He hit him right to his face.

Yes. Why wouldn't that be a deep? him. Yeah. Either referee got a real good look at fucking Drew's face right before it smashed into his head. So if it's got a, the logic has to continue. Dusty's finish was always a second referee comes in, counts fucking pin, but the first

referee revives and has seen the disqualification. This would have just been the opposite. But the point is, why? Why? If he's headbutted the referee, now he should have been disqualified. But now that referee's out of the way. So Drew goes out and gets a chair, draws back, is going to hit Cody, and fatu's on the apron, and grabs the chair away suddenly,

and snatches it. And then Charles Robinson's back in. And the match goes on. and then Drew misses a kick and Cody hits the cutter off the top and hits crossroads one, two, three. And Cody is once again

the champion going into WrestleMania but... At exactly 11 p.m. It, well, at exactly, no, I think they went two minutes over. I think they were, because my DVR said, it said three, three minutes or three minutes, I wish, three hours and two minutes or whatever. But did we need all the Zabedai with the referee, which just I thought was distracting and

odd and unless they're going to make a big deal out of Drew screaming, why didn't, why wasn't out as qualified when I headbutted a referee? And, but it seems like that. would have been explained and been started. Somebody said, oh, they should have disqualified him. But now it's Cody and Orton for Rasselmania. I said they were going to do it sooner or later, and I guess they decided with all the other problems they've had,

sooner is better than later. Let's see what they do. I mean, the potential's there, the background's there. Let's see if the angles are there and the promos are there. Randy did a promo earlier in the show, and it was just to me an average Randy Orton promo. the kind of promo he's been doing under Vince McMahon for years, nothing yet to really amp things up.

But if there was ever a time to let Randy Orton loose a little bit and just not have him seem so programmed at times, this would be the time. Switch him heel and let him be himself. I don't want to feel like he's practiced which words to use. And sometimes it feels like he's doing a WWE promo. You know, like here? Yeah.

Do a WWE promo for me as opposed to, you know, sell me on Randy Orton versus Cody Rhodes. But there's still time. There's still time. But you know what? There's no time left for, Brian? What's that? Any more of this fucking show. We've gone too long already.

What are we coming back with? Are you going to do something again or have you quit? We have the drive-thru in a few days. We will have a bunch of stuff probably guest to program, probably some fast food news, maybe the rest of Smackdown, if Jim watched any of that, as well as questions and fun and so much more history

and fun. Fun is the big word. Fun, fun, fun, as opposed to Foon. No, not Fume, fume. No, Fune. Fune. I'm not talking about our friends over at Fume.

I'm talking about having Fune. All right, well, let's have some. some food. How do we get out of here? I'll tell you how. I'll tell you how you're all dismissed, ladies gentlemen. Thank you. You. Fuck you. Bye, bye, bye, everybody.