Jim Cornette Experience - Episode 652: Birthday

Episode Date: September 23, 2026

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The midnight and the rock and roll He's in a fight for wrestling soul Using a racket and some mind control He's Jim Cornet The Keys to the Future After my birthday episode of the Jim Cornett Experience and the promotions didn't give me the gift To good wrestling so we're going to talk about what they did give us

And more And joining me for all this And who knows what the hell we're going to do Hawaiian Brian the podcasting line the King of the Arcadian Vanguard Podcast Network, Mr. Co-host to you, he helped me blow out my candles before it caused a forest fire. Be great, Brian, last, everybody. Aloha, Jim, happy birthday.

It's great to be here on the Hangover Edition after your birthday. I don't have a hangover. Well, no, the world does. The world does from the celebration. Well, yes, there were people partying in the streets, but that was before that the false rumor of my demise was clarified. but I don't have a hangover because this program is brought to you by Willys. By golly, we'll talk more about that later on.

No hangover, no guilty feelings, no regret. I'll tell you what I did for my 65th birthday, ladies gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I did not venture outside my house because we're still in the middle of this ridiculous heat wave where the heat index is 100 degrees or more every day. And I did not feel the need to subject myself to that. I got up early and I gathered my loved ones around me, which would basically be Stacey and Buddy and Alfie. And I played with my puppies.

You may have seen the picture, Brian, that I tweeted that Stacy took of Buddy sleeping in my arms like a baby while Alfie guarded us on the couch. and we and she put on the one thing the streaming business is good for is they have an all Alfred Hitchcock's Presents Hitchcocks Alfred Hitchcock's. He was a single Hitchcocked him. He was well see that's that's after he lost weight. He was still fat here as he was Hitchcock's

but they've got an all Alfred channel with the old Alfred Hitchcock's I can't say it any other way. You got something on your mind there. a bunch of Resents channel. I watched a bunch of Alfred while I was playing with buddy and Alfred

and Stacy then grubbed us a fine dinner that I picked out from Gustavo's Mexican Grill, which is my favorite place here down the road. And I, we had these surf and turf

fajitas, which is a steak and a crab meat fajita. along with the mummy shrimp. These, oh my golly, I could just sit there. If they had an all-you-can-eat-all-you-can-eat-mummy shrimp on the menu, I would put them out of business. Have you ever had the mummy shrimp from Gustavo?

No, I love shrimp. What's mummy shrimp? Mummy shrimp is they take this big old, fat old shrimp, and they somehow or another, they insert a little bit of a jalapeno... the green jalapeno pepper, just a little slice of it, give it a little oomph, and they wrap it in a nice strip of bacon that is then broiled in some fashion to where it's a grilled shrimp with crispy bacon on the outside of it and a little pepper

on the inside, and they've got a, a, the, the Chapotlet, nobody ever heard that word before 17 years ago. A Chipotle sauce, it gives it some oompe, you'd, it in the mummy shrimp. Now that right there, your tongue will slap your brains out. And then I played more with the puppies. And I'll have you know the celebration is continuing into, because Saturday night, living it up, oh yeah, Saturday night.

Svenguli in my honor of this big milestone, guess what Spenguli is showing just because of me in my honor this week? Guess what movie? The German goo girls and Dumbo, is a donkey style? One of your favorites? No, Spingool. And he's never even seen movies like that.

The only donkeys he's ever seen in movies were from Disney. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Ah, fitting. You think I'm kidding. He tweeted me and said, In Your Honor, this week, here's what we're showing. So it's it's the celebration continues around the world. Next week to celebrate Jim Hurd's birthday.

It'll be the man with no brain. You know what? He ought to tie something in like that every week. A fitting fucking subject like that. And for the Japanese market, it'll be Shabada. But anyway, thank you to everyone. He has a brain. It was returned to him.

It was returned to him. Thank you to everybody with the, there were tweets of a plenty. Do you know, I trended my birthday. You told me about this and I saw it. Somehow my birthday trended on Twitter or whatever the thing is where it said, wrestling legend Jim Cornett celebrates birthday with fans and pups. Because I tweeted the picture of me and buddy and Alfie, you know, I don't know how that works. What I saw said fans and dogs, but it made it sound like you had to be.

this big party for fans and dogs. Oh, fans and dogs. Yeah, it was fans that celebrates birthday with fans and dogs. But thank you. And I got some cards and nice presents and everything also. But I just, I want to read this. This was the card that Stace got me. And I just, because the poetry is so apropos, I wanted to read it.

It's the, the card here that she got me. And, uh, hmm. A fart can be quiet, a fart can be loud. Some leave a powerful, poisonous cloud. A fart can be short or a fart can be long. Some farts have been known to sound just like a song. A fart can create a most curious medley. A fart can be harmless or silent but deadly.

A fart might not smell while others are vile. A fart may pass quickly or linger a while. A fart can occur in a number of places. and leave everyone with strange looks on their faces. From wide open prairie to small elevator, a fart will find all of us sooner or later. But not all farts are bad. This is simply not true.

We mustn't forget, dear sweet old farts like you. That's pretty good. Good to see Lanny Pafo still in business. And actually it's on the back of it, it says, licensed exclusively by Lanny Pafo to American Greetings. So we've got that. But anyway, thank you, Stace.

I love you too. She captures the essence of me, is what she does. You old fart. But I'm an old fart that's full of piss and vinegar, and I'm all out of vinegar. That's scary. That means when you fart,

the piss and vinegar may just come flying out at this age. Well, yeah, at this, you know, I have a lot of secretions at this point. You know, you'll find out. Anyway, we got things to do today. We got, we got viewer mail. We got a lot of people have written in about various things. And this, you sent me this, so you shouldn't get upset at me for publicly acknowledging it.

But this is from Allen down in Tennessee. And he wrote this back a week or two ago. But he says, hi, Jim and Brian, a week or two ago, someone wrote in from him. Cotton Town, Tennessee, and Jim had a hard time recalling where it was. It is actually in Sumner County near Gallatin, Tennessee. Eddie went on to say, and this popped me because I have had no idea. And when you sent this to me, it includes a picture of the sign. So this is legitimate.

He says, in fact, Tommy Marlin Highway runs through the outskirts of Cotton Town. As Jim knows, and I did know this, Tommy Marlin was the brother of Eddie Marlin. He dabbled in wrestling and later went on to a career in the military and local politics. After his death, the state honored him with a segment of Highway 109 that runs from Gallatin to Portland. And there's the picture. And Gallatin, Tennessee now, I guess, is starting to be like Hendersonville, Tennessee was back in the 60s, maybe into the 80s, where it's suburban. in Nashville. When you lived in Hendersonville in the old days, there was where you lived out in the country. You had maybe larger property of the

country music stars lived around Old Hickory Lake. That's when Jerry Jared had bought George Jones and Tammy Wynette's old house and lived across the lake from Johnny Cash, blah, blah, blah. And then now Hendersonville, the last time I was down here a few years ago, is a goddamn sprawling massive suburban city now and you've got to go out to Gallatin farther out the same road

and then you get a little bit of the suburbs but I got to correct Alan on one thing he didn't dabble in wrestling and then go into the military and it was military military wrestling and in politics and the wrestling and the politics

was going on at the same time do you Brian do you remember when I read the souvenir ticket of a spot show they did in the late 70s in Hendersonville where Tommy and Eddie Marlin worked with Buddy and Ken Wayne and they had all the local politicians and county judges and sheriffs and deputies and bailers and things and such of that as seconds and everything and advertised them on a ticket, right? Do you remember that? I think so, yeah well Tommy Marlin somehow or another and this was concurrent with when he was wrestling in the 70s had gotten into local politics by that point he was easily 50 years old so that's why

I say the military is probably previously right before I knew him but he was in local politics and became a county judge at one point and was still everyone was still was still reference refereeing definitely, but as a wrestler every once in a while, he would come back and do the special referee is wrestling deal. Like when Jerry Calhoun didn't make the Louisville end of the territory, he was in Memphis. So when it was Bill Dundee and Jerry Calhoun against me and Adrian Street and Linda, in Louisville it was Thomas Marlin because it had just had to be the referee for the deal that we were doing. And I've got to tell you that in 19, 1882, Eddie was middle 50s.

Thomas would have somewhere around the same, they were only a couple of years apart. He was the stiffest, strongest. Every time he touched you, it hurt. When he grabbed you, it was like he was trying to contain a fucking murderer. And when he hit you with that goddamn broad arm across the chest, it hurt your back. I would have hated

I wouldn't have fought him for any amount of money in the world I'd rather work with goddamn anybody else on a card and he wasn't being a prick he was a raw bone rough old son of a bitch right that's the way they worked back then I guess but what they had done is when

Eddie Marlin who had been in and around wrestling you know since the late 40s obviously Jerry not only saw something and in Eddie and gave him a push as a baby face and he became one of the iconic baby faces of the late 60s and early 70s in a territory. And then later Eddie became Jerry's father-in-law. But they started Tommy refereeing as Bobby Thomas so that it wouldn't be the giveaway. He was a

Marlon brother. And he did that for, he was the referee for the first scaffold match with Jerry Jared and Don Green in Louisville, Bobby Thomas. And then they had to do a fucking angle. Where are the heels, you know, Tommy had to reveal he was his brother, and it was Tommy and Eddie Marlin against whoever for a couple of years there. And by then, you know, he was fucking closing in on 50 and just started refereeing. And he refereed every Tuesday night in Louisville for years and years.

and he would only go to Memphis when the NWA title was on the line so he'd get to referee in a main event because he was a glory and the most glory happy fucking referee he was never about to be any kind of a fucking heel but uh but now he has a highway more glory happy than David Manning yes yes how is that possible because Thomas like I said being a stiff old cock sucker like that way in 225 pounds or whatever he could enforce being a fucking baby face in the ring

more than David Manning could he would he would fucking fight to heal to keep from not seeing something anything in the email but the Johnny Marlin ditch you can sore with Johnny Eagles or you can scratch with the chickens

but anyway so that's good to know that they're taking care of the local legends down there and that's all there was in Sumner County back in the day was country music stars and pro wrestlers. You know, it'd be really cool. It'd be really cool if at some point we had like a, and I hate to use the word Memphis because it was bigger than Memphis,

but we all just think of it as Memphis Wrestling, but a Memphis Wrestling Encyclopedia with a picture who everyone is and just a brief bio, but just one of every, because there's so many characters in and out that, you know, I'm always intrigued when you still introduce people. people I've never heard of or stories I haven't heard and there's still so much. Well, I had just, I saw, and I think it was Alan Cheapshot on Twitter, tweeted a picture

and I had seen newspaper ads with the names but had never seen the fucking picture. There was a team very briefly. Yeah. Very briefly in the Tennessee territory working for Nick Goulis in the mid-60s, the masked big heads. And there was a picture. Apparently they took what looked to be like the outer

bladders of medicine balls or something had fucking cut eye holes in them and stuck them on their fucking heads. And they were just giant round big heads. It didn't look real. I've never really heard anything about this before. And the image, I almost thought like it has to be AI

because I didn't, I'd never hear that. No. No. Nicholas did this. that was legitimate because it was so fucking shit and here's the thing it probably wasn't even these were two guys that have probably been bugging nick and roy somebody book us in on some of these shows and they came up with some ridiculous thing and and that's when somebody nick or roy or was lynn rossy the booker of nick's end in the 60s because

they weren't work in memphis uh but whatever since we thought it was a knee-slapper and they lasted long enough to have pictures taken and then they fucking had them do jobs and leave. I mean, shit like that happened all the time because they were running. We've talked about it. That whole

booking office out of Nashville was either running or responsible for talent for shows that were running four and five shows a night in a lot of places in those days. Across Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi,

eastern Kentucky, blah, blah, so all kinds of shit got through. Anyhow, real quick, I don't want to

bring us down while we're up, but I do want to respond to Zep's email because he said he lost his best boy Rocco,

a Jack Russell Terrier mix, that he had adopted 14 years, 14 years ago, yes, in 2012, that's been 14 years. And they were longtime listeners of the show from Arkansas,

and he said it'd mean the world if Rocco could get a shout out. But he wanted everybody know how much he loved Rocco. And Zep, I can only imagine. I sympathize. And so we're sorry for your loss. And also, sorry that you live in Arkansas in these trying times. But that's neither here nor there. But on an upbeat note, Brian,

there's more birthdays going on hold on trying to pick this up here ever since the boys chewed the earpieces on my glasses i can't see properly uh this is from stacey who is the wife of darrell and possibly her other husband darrell i don't know but he says or she says or possibly i don't know what her origin story is. Hitchcocks. Right? They're all over the place. Hello, Jim and Brian.

My husband is a huge fan of yours. In fact, he is part of the club that listens to your podcast every night as he falls asleep. You've been part of his life through many changes. His birthday is coming up on September 26th. I have purchased Jim's newest book and a T-shirt for him and bless you for being such a thoughtful and considerate wife and homemaker and

breadwinner and whatever else you do. I was wondering if you might be able to give him a birthday shout out on your show. I know it's a long shot. See, that's where you got to sign up for prize picks. Stacey, you'd have been in the fucking clover there.

But it would be such a cool experience for him. Thanks for being you. So, Brian, she thanks you for being you. Oh. And she thanks me for being me. And I think we'd both be miserable if I was you and you were me. Yeah. And if we were we, but then we

were all together. So Stacey, cuckoo-cuchoo to Daryl. Actually, cuckoo-cucho is Mrs. Robinson. The egg man was Gugoo-goo-Goo-Goo-Goo-Goo-Goo-Goo-Goo-Goo-Coo. Well, Coochee-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo-C-C-C-W was Charros. So Stacey used to be Charo.

As before she changed her name. Oh, I'm a big fan. Hello, Stacey. I want to say thank you also to Stewart over in Cambridgeshire, the United Kingdom. And I wanted to recognize him on the air and just read this paragraph from his, because he sent me a letter accompanying some programs from the United Kingdom, from haven't even checked for dates and et cetera yet, but early mid-7. you know, some of the names that you would imagine,

and Adrian Street involved in some of them, and he thought that I might like to have them for my collection, and he said that the podcast helps him get through his working day and any shit's going on because he said, I lost my father in November, my cat Schrodinger passed away in March, my father-in-law has terminal cancer, and my mother-in-law has Parkinson's and dementia.

So distractions from real life, has been welcome in the podcast, bring a smile on a dark day. A P.S. Fuck Vince Rousseau and fuck Dave Meltzer. I thought I'd end on an up note, but Stuart, we, I appreciate, you know, you said it and there are cool programs in the middle of all of this stuff you got going on, that's dedication above and beyond. But we wish you the best and also as your mother and father-in-law.

And thought, well, you're in there. Yeah, yeah. their various situations also. But fuck Vince Rousseau and Dave Meltzer. I don't know how I feel about Dave being aligned with Rousseau. Yeah, I feel like it's two separate things. I feel like it would be the first time in so long, though. I don't know if Dave should be in the same sentence as Rousseau.

I feel like that's two separate things. Oh, I agree there. That is two separate things. But I'm giving Stewart some slack because of all that he's gone through. All right. I will say this later on in the program. I have learned something from Uncle Dave Meltzer that I didn't know before. See, that's a tease.

I'm guessing it's not about hygiene. No, that is not one of the things that that is. Hold on now. Now you got me out. Oh, I got to bring up, hold on. I've got a piece here from on the, news desk from one of the reporting sites that we engage with to keep up on activities. Have you heard about the hearing?

One of the drunken incompetent stooges that has been placed in an important position of power and responsibility by our current administration headed up by Donald Schindler himself is the director of the FBI cash position. tell. And right there from a guy who says Barack Hussein Obama every third sentence

to pick a guy who's obviously of a Middle Eastern descent of some description to head the FBI is a questionable except he was a stooge and a Fox

News embassy. But did you hear about the hearing they had to determine whether this guy is in any way competent to run this organization and some of the things that the FBI has been doing. Did you hear about the hearing? I heard about the hearing. I heard there was a hearing, but I didn't follow it at all. You heard about the hearing. You heard there was a hearing, but you didn't hear what was heard at the hearing.

One of, I'm just one of the questions just caught some attention around the country and the world because this is, the point that we've got to here, that this is so absurd. The FBI, well, I'll just, I'll just read the opening paragraph here. That'll say it. FBI director Cash Patel on Tuesday was forced to answer why his agency is no longer automatically disqualifying applicants who engaged in bestiality. They have dropped their hiring standards, Brian, where they've got. dropped the automatic, according to a memo from June, they've dropped automatic disqualifications for applicants who have stolen from their employers, paid for sex, or engaged in bestiality. In July, they claimed Patel did, that the FBI was losing too many qualified

candidates to the rigors of requirements from yesteryear. You know, again, just like the Rousseau-Melzer thing, I don't think those things go together. The idea that the FBI is putting bestiality or not limiting it at the same time as the other things,

I think are all different things. I can't believe that that would even, that's insane. But I wouldn't, you know, guys paying for sex, I'm sure plenty of FBI agents have paid for sex. So I don't know.

Well, that, that does tend to come into the do as I say, not as I do, if they're going to be arresting people for sex trafficking, though, so you can see where the intent may be. However, bestiality is a step beyond. I just said, you know, we just, we couldn't find enough qualified people, so we're going to drop, how about stolen from your employer? Yeah.

I wouldn't think they're talking about office supplies. I think they would be talking about embezzlement or some, some high degree of goddamn criminally actionable fucking theft, right? Which again, the FBI, maybe a little higher standard here, please? But even that, I wouldn't even think that would be such a giant pool of people, let alone a giant pool of people who had been turned down for the FBI. Like, where is everyone else that this is also how they got the ICE agents, not

too strenuous with the background checks and fucking let's not worry about too much training because this is the kind of people that these people are having applied but nevertheless just a couple of exchanges here the question was asked director Patel do you believe those who have previously stolen from employers solicited sex or engaged in

bestiality or qualified candidates that the FBI is losing. What we did was we did not want to punish victims of bestiality. Victims who were trafficked. Patel replied, failing to clarify that the FBI

was not in fact making it easier to hire people who had sex with animals. Well, hold on. You already threw me off. You already lost me a little bit. The victims of beastiality, he's not talking about the animals, though, being the victims of Well, let's go to Republican Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, who he's as bad as all of them because he's a Republican and he won't come out and tell all the truth about Trump, but he's got the most entertaining way of doing things. He cuts a good problem. He's from Louisiana and you're going to get some flowery language.

The quote, what about the bestiality, Kennedy said, genuinely confused? It automatically discreet. any individual who participated on either side of it, Patel replied. Either side of what? The bestiality? Yes. So you disqualified the animal? Patel said, well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them. And Kennedy said, he was trying to make a joke.

Kennedy said, I'm trying to understand. why you did this and I understand the game people try to make you look bad we do the same thing when the other party's in office Kennedy continued why would you even get into bestiality? Patel said we are not into beastiality

Ed Kennedy Ed Kennedy said I know you're not but you change the qualifications and mentioned bestiality if if Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal, but as the human. Don't you think he ought to be disqualified?

Kennedy Ray is still confused. If he voluntarily did it, sure. But if he was trafficked into it, how do you involuntarily do it? So he's saying there are people, and I'm sure, considering how sick and perverse people there are out there, maybe there are people that use trafficked sex victims in bestiality whatever

but how many of them apply for the FBI? Yeah yeah I'm saying it's just it's such a weird if Joe what and besides that this would have to be if you're a minor once you become an adult your record is is not expunged but clarified, whatever the point is, if you as an adult male, they could probably make,

as an adult male, if you've engaged in bestiality, you should not be allowed to apply to the FBI. One would think. Have you ever been a communist? No. Have you ever embezzled money? No.

Have you ever engaged in bestiality? One time, but I was in my early 20s. But it wasn't by choice. My girlfriend wanted to see. it. No, it should be the answer the answer that Lawler gave the time that they gave him and Jim Ross a hard time to try to get across the fucking border.

And they, it took into Canada to go to a raw in Montreal. And that was right after Lawler had had the misunderstanding, the unpleasantness in Louisville. And the guy said, have you ever been arrested? And Lawler said, ever? Just have you ever engaged in

bestiality? Ever? Anyway, so yeah, so that's what's going on at the FBI. Who's going to be the first FBI agent to get some press, you know, this person overcame their bestiality pass to stop al-Qaeda?

Well, if Springer, if Springer was still around, I'm sure we'd find out quickly. But see, it went from their eating the dogs and cats to their fucking the dogs and cats. But involuntarily, again, what a weird defense. Only in some cases now. You know, there's still, it goes both ways. We don't want to disqualify them if they're the victim. It seems like an easy thing to kind of say, yeah, that's stupid and walk it back.

And you're right, Senator, I'll work with your office after the fact we'll fix this. the defense of it raises the question why why this specific are there certain candidates they have in mind like all right give us all the dog fuckers that'll be our next group

we have to clear the runway for the new staff we're bringing in let's just clarify tighten up a few loopholes hide your cows the FBI's coming to town hide hide the cows outside hell I ain't a

afraid of no cows. See, that's the punchline to an old joke. It takes about 10 minutes to tell, so I saved you 10 minutes. Speaking of jokes, I've got to tell you, remember when I told you the story of how that I discovered that unscrupulous people were selling my autographed trading cards on the eBay for up to hundreds of dollars or whatever ridiculous amount of money it was. Yeah. Do you remember this, Brian? I do, yeah. Because just to bring everybody up to date briefly, for years,

I had honored, people wrote in, because I did the same thing when I was a kid. And that's how I got Johnny Weissmuller's autographed picture, right? Was I wrote him a fan letter. But people would write and they would say, would you please sign my index card or my, you know, my picture here. They might have a picture actually. you know, of me from somewhere or they might just clip something out of a magazine

or whatever, a lot of kids or, you know, fans, whatever. Do you please sign this? Here's self-dressed stamped envelope. Yeah, because Christine Jarrett, if she found out that a baby face was turning down trying to sign autograph for a fan where she would have just thought horribly of me. That's why I used to not charge people to take pictures

when that became a thing with their phone. and I'll sell you a picture that I have printed and it's nice here, but you're just taking a picture of me with your camera. We were never in the back in the day. It wasn't expected that a baby face would want to charge money to have the picture taken. Of course, then I started thinking, Christine Jared was also an astute, astute businesswoman. And if she found out that I still wasn't charging for it at these fan fest,

what everybody else was, she'd probably give me the pinch. So I started charging for them. But nevertheless, I found, then suddenly I began noticing a lot of people are sending the same like my trading cards. That became a big thing, or a certain one of two or three different pictures that they had printed off the internet. And it got suspicious to me,

and that's when I was looking up how prices were on shit, and I saw my trading cards. that I know I'd signed to these people in the mail, and I said, well, I've been hoodwinked, hornswoggled, bumfuzzled, shenanigans are going on. And I said, well, these people ruin it for everybody, right? And that's where we left it at last time. I'm like, fuck you now, you fucking people.

That's the last I had brought everybody up to date on it, wasn't it, Brian? I think so, yeah. Well, I know some things that I haven't told people. yet because people see it had got to the one time there i don't know whether i mentioned this what i talked about it because i was wait to see what happened but i was getting these things these requests with cards and or specific things same things over and over from different addresses but i got a just a flood of them there for a short period of time it's like i was advertising that i was doing this service, right?

I was on some kind of list. So I started instituting a little goddamn mental, based on the mental notes that I'd made from all this, I've instituted a few rules that need to be passed or bars that need to be cleared, however you phrase it, to where I think you're legitimate

or one of these goddamn criminal-ass shysters trying to make a living off other people on eBay. and I ain't going to tell what any of those goddamn parameters that I've set are, but if you pass my shit detection test, then I will sign the item that's been enclosed and I will send it back. But if you don't, I will keep said item. And you might remember here a few months ago, I found some more of my trading cards and put them on sale on the website.

well nanny boo-boo send me shit trying to fucking screw me around and expect to get it back fuck you and I'll have you know that Brian Piss some people have continued to send me

trading cards and some of them have got them back and long about next February some of them will be for sale on the website when I've collected enough to make it worthwhile to put them up but what brought this up

and no if I'm just going to say I'm pretty much been able to tell who's a real fucking per and some people started sending me a gratuity enclosed therein for my time and effort which is appreciated and I will always

honor those type of things but I've been able to weed out a lot of the shysters but here's a couple of letters I just got when I checked the box right for my birthday and I just wanted to read these two in one of them in part. This is a

typewritten letter but has been copied in some fashion because it's in red ink in the type and it's big typewritten type. Dear Jim Cornett, and by the way

this was, they had enclosed some cards to sign for what you'll hear. Dear Mr. Jim Cornett, my kids and I are huge fans of yours. We love all that you have done for the great sport of basketball. We know you're very busy, but if you get time, do you mind signing these cards for my kids and I for our collection? We enclosed a prepaid return shipping envelope for your convenience.

Thanks, your fans, Melissa and family. That's very nice. What have I done for basketball? ball. Well, I think, you know, the Louisville Cardinals is certainly one of their most high profile fans who never attends any games. Yes. And constantly maligned them for years when they had fallen in a hole because of bad management and coaching and etc. You've always put over the ABA. You've always said good things about the Globetrotters. It wasn't the Kentucky Globetrotters. It was the goddamn Kentucky Colonels were in the ABA. But you've talked to about various homes on their Harlem Globet Trotters that you were a fan of us. Yes. Well, they didn't get their cards back. How many cards?

I can't remember now. The cards was in the letter. There was two, three, four, something like that. Well, hold on here a second. Let me go to the next letter. But are they all the same card? Are they five different cards? No, sometimes they're all the same card. And then other times it's you know, well, hold on, let me give you a little more information from this next. letter. This was in the same batch of mail. Mr. Cornyn, and this is handwritten. But see, this now, instead of just somebody who's

just blatantly mimeographing, as the kids used to say, these letters and sending them out and not even bother to change all of the keywords in the cut and paste or whatever, this guy, he knows exactly what he wants, and he's

going to spend some time to write and tell me what he wants. I hope this letter finds you well. My name is so-and-so, and I'm a senior at high school. I'm also an aspiring professional wrestler. I'm 5'10 and 170 pounds. I played basketball and football, but I'm not in any sports now.

I work out and do cardio four days a week. I like to think I'm a solid athlete. It would mean a lot to me if you'd please answer my questions, as you are a legend in the business. I enjoy listening to the Jim Corvette experience. Then you'll hear this name withheld. number one what general professional wrestling advice can you give me number two what matches that you're involved in do you recommend i watch and study number three what was the hardest lesson

you had to learn in the business number four what would you tell yourself before you got in the business if you could go back in time see back arrow i would also love to get your autograph please sign the custom cards i made as follows please sign on the fronts two of the forge Jim Cornett, WWF cards, two of the four Jim Cornett NWA cards. Please personalize one of each to me. The rest of the cards, the rest of the cards, there was one more of each, are for you. I hope you like them. And if you'd like more, let me know.

He said he made them. It says copyright 20 fucking 16 rookies limited or something, St. Louis. So by the way, I'm going to be, it's my images on it. So I'm going to be checking these people out. but if he made him, he made him 10 years ago and then he moved to fucking Arkansas or wherever. So basically he wants me to answer four essay questions and send him four free autographs on bootleg cards exactly as he specifies they need to be signed. See, that's for a self-addressed stamped envelope.

that I think is passing the fan podcaster or fan wrestler or fan whatever the case may be a barrier a little bit too far on my side of the fence don't you think again he's demanding a lot but at least you know he put in the time the thought and he's telling you what's up as opposed to he's in no sports right now and apparently doesn't have a job

because he's got time to write me this long letter demanding that I do things for him for free or you could come back and argue the point or possibly you've rolled over and acquiesced that he's a loser geez all right what other fans we're going to put down today

no I don't know I'm just I'm just saying that's a little it's a little presumptive that's a good word for it presumptive I think the nicest thing you should expect or could expect is here's one thing can you please autograph it

the idea that it'll be a self-addressed stamped envelope that's fantastic, but you know, probably you probably only appreciate that if they actually know who you are and what you've done as opposed to talking about your basketball career. Do you know who I am? Do you know what I've done?

I know who you are and I saw what you did. That's an underrated William Castle flick. Mama Cornett loved that when it was on late at night on WLKY on the weekends. But see that, Brian, I'm telling you, that is how you don't come at me for the merchandise. You come at me for the merchandise like you come at the soup Nazi

with your money in your hand and a demure look on your face, and you go to Jimcornet.com, and you basically, you submit your money and you get valuable, valuable merchandise in return. There will only accrue in value that's been carefully crafted for your fine enjoyment for years, and years now. Wouldn't you say that's a more correct way to look at it? Don't try to buy this bootleg stuff on YouTube. Who knows where it came from?

Might have come from up a fucking donkey's ass. Instead, get it right from the donkey's mouth at Jimcornette.com. And right now, by the time you hear this, that is, and actually right now, you're going to see most of it. But by the time you hear this, if you go to Jimcornet.com, you're going to get all the sale information on our holiday sale that starts Saturday, October 3rd. We've talked about the portfolios that are available, 11 beautiful color, 8 by 10 photos on high quality photo paper digitally remastered from the original negatives of great wrestling superstars. They're limited additions. They may go fast. You can see what's going on there on the website right now, as well as Hooker.

by Lou Thess, his autobiography updated and annotated by the author, Kit Bauman, or the co-author, as well as the publisher of Crowbar Press, Scott Teal. We've only got 500 of those for the holidays, but if you want a book from a first-hand source on the formation of the modern wrestling industry, that's the one you want, and all kinds of sale prices, but I want to say two things. Number one, Brian on the portfolios, I saw, Hotchkka's got the listings up a day early. So if anybody saw them before Saturday the 19th, when we talk to, one of the professional photographers that we talk to about this negative project, get some advice on things, he said, well, you know, you don't want to put, when you sell these photos, you don't want to put quality images up on your website that these unscrupulous people. and we know that there are some from the discussion we just had,

they'll be able to take them down and just do what they will with them because they can steal them off your website. You know you should watermark them on the website and, you know, do this and that and the other thing. So I looked at it and I told Hotchkiss I wanted people to be able to see. It don't make them too big. Or if they're small, then it's hard to steal them. Do you know what I'm talking about?

here, the the number of pixels. Is this making any sense to you? When you say small, you mean the actual dimensions of the photo, not just, you know, make it small. And of course, yeah, there are guys on eBay that seemingly rip off every wrestling photo they can and just make copies of them and sell them to suckers.

Well, and, you know, when we don't want to give them any more fodder, right? So when I looked at the listing, and besides the fact that Hushkes and made these things goddamn minute, right? All the pictures, you go, I think it's like

one of those, the old key chains that you would look in. That was the picture you would see. When you click on it to see it bigger, he had watermarked like copyright Jim Cornette

40 times across each picture. I said, Jesus Christ, Hodgekes, it looks like I'm looking at it through a bowl of oatmeal. I said, can we back up on that a little bit?

Just make a big, cop through the middle of the thing one line or whatever rather than all these little tiny lines so I think he's updating that so if you saw it before September 19th you might want to go back and look at it after we've wiped all the snot off of it

I think it's standard industry protocol for a situation like this you put right across the middle photo by real lano at aOL.com Either photo by Lano or photo by Pat Malone one way or another. That's right. Even if it's not yours,

you still put photo by Lano. That's apparently what Lano did. But anyway, and also I said on our previous show that we had the last, the final, Bobby Eaton autographs, and I will explain that again,

in that basically we have, I think there are seven things that Bobby signed. and let me preface it by saying normally we make everything inexpensive and affordable, but prices on this stuff are considerate for what they are and that there can be no more, but all the money is going to be split up again for Christmas amongst the Midnight Express this year, and especially Teresa Condry and Bobby's kids and grandkids.

But we have the, what did I call it, the display photos. that were, we used at fan fest going through 2019 where the boys had signed like one of each of these pictures. And I'd put them in a stack and we hadn't been to a fan fest since. Found them quite sometime back, but was saving him for a Christmas sale. And I've also got three magazines that Bobby had signed, or I think probably in Charlotte in 2019, which was the last time that I'd seen him except for his tribute event that they did in East Tennessee that December.

And so there are three magazines, like four pictures, and an 11 by 17 All-Star Wrestling poster when we were inducted in the All-Star Wrestling Hall of Fame. And we had each signed a number of posters, and I kept one for my collection. shipping it in for this occasion, once again for money for the midnight. And that's what we've got that Bob Eaton signed. And the biggest piece is for anybody who's wanted a Midnight Express four-pack action figure set, one of the collector's editions in the display box with the 28-page full-color book and the certificate of authenticity

and a picture of all four of us signed by all four of us. We never sold one of those packages because, as everybody knows, Bobby passed before the figures came out, and he passed in August when we were making tentative plans to get together everybody in Tennessee and that October and sign a bunch of shit. So one,

of those packages will actually officially be offered for sale. And all this stuff can be personalized by me. So it's your last chance to get any of these things personalized with all of the signatures applicable, except if you found it on eBay and somebody else had your name. And the four-pack is going to be $500 because somebody in the world wants that. and the money's going to a good place. So if they don't buy it, I don't care.

Otherwise, you can look at all the information on the Christmas sale, now at Jim Cornett.com. That's right, Jimcornett.com. All right, Brian. Well, now that we have covered a lot of miscellaneous business from around the world, we've got to center in more on the combat sports, the mixed martial arts, the wrestling-related item. I guess this this thing exists in the stratospheres of those things.

Power shlapp had another event. And one of the power slap participants again was our friend Jake Hager, who apparently had no sense to begin with to have it slapped out of him last time because he decided to do this again. And he just got knocked out last. time. That's all. Just brain damage. This time it may be a little more complicated. And I, we haven't got a medical report yet, but I'll let you chime in on what you thought of the

visual of it, Brian, but basically for the people who haven't seen it, run, do not walk to somewhere. They're going to get a lot of attention with old power slap until they're fucking brought down as a criminal enterprise. This shit can't last. But go see this people, because this moron stands there and lets this other moron haul off and slap him not in the appropriate place,

which is like kind of on the jaw line and the cheek and everything is where they're trying to get you to go. He slapped him right. on the cheek and in the eye. And the descriptions were, I'll tell you what I think happened, but the descriptions were that Jake Hager was crying blood. And it's not too far off from what was happening.

I mean, he just got knocked out the first time, but this time, if what's wrong with him, I think, he may have permanent damage this time. But what was your assessment, Brian? Yeah, and we won't know exactly what damage was already there for a long time. But, you know, you wonder about CTE with someone like this who makes bad decisions, whatever. This was gruesome. You know, seeing someone get knocked out, there's still something that's entertaining about it when you know the person will get up and live, even if they will get brain damage.

But this was, you know, it was kind of like a look away kind of thing. it's just, oh, what happened? You don't even want to think about what could have happened. Is it, I explode? Well, no, but here's the thing is that we talked about, we made fun about this whole thing, and it deserves to, because, and Dana White's whole deal is, let's appeal to fucking morons.

And the UFC has gone maggot, and he's got power slap for the real moron maggot. And that's all he's doing. And he's giving. morons, pittances of money to stand there and make fools of themselves. There's nothing about it

that's a sport because there's no talent involved. It's not about being tough. It's about being stupid because tough guys are people who are tough and fearless and can thrash you, right? It's the fake tough

from the hillbillies and the goofs where they think tough is just standing there and letting somebody haul off and hit you as hard as they can without doing anything to stop them so there's no sport to it it's an entertainment for morons and he pays a pittance to these morons that think that they can do it and prove that they're tough when he's literally betting six figures on fucking poker hands in las vegas and he's given these guys five or ten grand to start maybe to fucking slap shit out of each other. Last time, like we said,

Hager got knocked out and it put him down this time. He didn't bend over. It didn't knock him down, but it did worse damage because one thing that we didn't talk about before was these motherfuckers don't have good aim either. They're not supposed to slap in the fucking ear because there's the thing if you slap at that velocity with that much force and use the butt of your hand and it's against the fucking guy's ear. Not only to shatter his eardrum, give him permanent vertigo, but could do a brain bleed that would kill you. So that's not where they're supposed to hit, where they're supposed to hit.

but this fucking moron that moron was getting slapped by slapped him up on the upper cheek and in the eye socket area which is also where they're not supposed to slap slapped but goddamn if these people had perfect aim

this would be the fucking billiards championship wouldn't it? They're just hauling off and swinging at this dupus lending his fucking bucket head to the occasion. Occasionally maybe they're off. You get highly trained pro wrestlers that are trying to throw punches

within a millisecond of a goddamn tolerance and failing often. You think these motherfuckers are going to, oh shit, I don't want to hit his ear. No, I want to win this fucking 10 grand they're going to give me for being in a side show thing. If you want to participate in something whose sole existence is for people to laugh at you and say,

look at what a dumb fuck you are, then that's your prerogative, but it's still not able to be controlled to be what it's supposed to be. So one of these days, they're going to have some motherfucker just swings and misses and hits the goddamn bridge of the guy's nose. It goes into his fucking brain. and he'll be dead before his knees to hit the fore.

But nevertheless, in Jake's case, he slapped him in the eye, I believe, among whatever else damage that we will find out, he ruptured his tear duct. He blew his tear ducked up to the point where his eye was uncontrollably watering because it wasn't pure blood coming out of his eye. it was eye fluid that was red because it was mixed with the blood of the damage from whatever the

fuck else that he did behind to get his fucking eye. And I would think that things could have been detached by a blow like that. Retinus, you've heard of detached retinas? I don't, what the fuck? And he's going, my eye, he ain't me in the eye. K's in my eye. And they're the blotting his. So he was fully conscious in tremendous pain and possibly now going to be blind as a fucking pirate on a fucking pirate ship. Well, we don't know exactly what it is. The only thing we know is that his team right now

is saying that they think it's Tony Kahn. But we'll have to wait and see. I have some audio here. Dana White, did he not call it the worst injury they had ever had in Power Shlapp? Here's a video going around Dana White talking to someone named Nina Drama. I don't know if she's, uh, well, she's holding a UFC microphone, so maybe she works for them. But here's what Dana White had to say about this.

Not good. That's probably the worst injury we've had in fucking UFC power slap, anything. What happened? It looks like it's teed duck ruptured. Something like that. Something crazy, but I don't give a fuck if we got. to fly a doctor in from fucking, you know, Germany. We're going to get this guy taking care.

Yes. The doctors have said they've never seen it before. Oh, he's never. Wow. Adelaidea and Tony Wheats. I wouldn't even let our guys replay. I'm a replay fucking lunatic. I'm like, yeah.

Everybody needs to see that. Yeah, exactly. Nobody needs to see that replay. Well, there it is. All right. I have a couple questions. Number one, I just diagnosed a fucking condition

that their doctors have never seen before. But they haven't brought in the noted eye doctors from Germany yet. Well, that's because I studied it at the Institute in Stuttgart. I didn't know that they were giving me exclusive information over there. It was done during the war, these experiments.

What the fuck? I, no, no, he, And he would have replayed because he's the lawsuit or bad publicity or they're going to want to ban us or whatever the fuck because of shit like that. No, that's what the fuck that just happened. What do you think about the idea that that's the worst injury in the history of UFC or obviously power slap, but that sounds pretty crazy? Well, I mean, if this long-term effect. his sight in any fashion or see because the thing

ruptured tear duct how do you fix that is he going to have to put drops in his eyes every 30 minutes for the rest of his fucking life or else why's he's going to feel like he's got sandpaper in his fucking eyes I mean how what's the remedy for this

you can't just put a cast on it like you can't have broken legs so how are you if you're quantifying horrible injuries nobody's ever been blinded. It definitely seemed like he was trying to get ahead of a lawsuit. We'll pay for any doctors.

I don't care what he needs from wherever. Also, we're not going to replay it. The noted German physicians that we're going to bring in and also, yeah, we're never going to see this again. We're scrubbing this off the fucking history. He's flabberg. He does it. He has just heard some shit that he didn't want to hear

and he doesn't know what to say about it. while still trying to be the blustery, Dana, that he normally is. I don't know the answer to this, and I don't even know that they would want him, I presume they would, but how much does Eric Bischoff's thing, the RAF, how much does that pay versus like power slap? Because you would think Jake Hager, with a legitimate wrestling background, would have been a perfect fit for that, more than, you know, standing there, like, and I hate to say, you'll watch him, like grimacing like a goof before he's hit,

You're like, why are you doing this, man? Are you this desperate? Like, why are you doing this? Could it possibly be that he doesn't need to be doing kind of because real American freestyle or whatever, they haven't started working yet, have they? I haven't been paying attention because maybe Jake Hager doesn't need to be competing at these, at this point in their eyes. When you say working, you mean, has it become a work yet?

Has it become a work? Yes. I haven't heard anything about that. Well, in that case, maybe they say he's, what is he 40? Or did we establish that? We were talking about his options before. I don't know. Maybe he can wear that purple hat just a little lower.

He ain't going to be doing the bump no more for a while with any big fat women. What? I'm just telling you. I don't care whether it's real American wrestling, real American slapping, real American. He ain't going to be, nobody is going to. of possibly ever. I don't know what the healing process or period, if there

is one might be for this. He might not be able to take blows to the head anymore, ever, period, end of story. Goodbye. See you. Yeah, I mean, I would think no matter what this is, power slap's done, because there's no way he could ever be slapped again on that side of the face, let alone on even on the other side of the face of that. No! Shit!

Brian, listen, have Jace and editing, cut the tape. This is just you and me talking now, so nobody hears about this. just hit on the fucking deal. We can jack Dana White for millions on that idea. He can launch it by next spring, left-handed power slap. Think about that. The lefty division. The lefty division. That way, Jake can come back. He's got at least one more fucking show in him because they can slap the other side. All right, put us back on the air now. So anyway, we wish Jake all the best in

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Well, just then we're going to have to call Stephen P. New and get the brunt exemption put into power slap. Because folks, if you want to protect your various appendages, you go to bruntworkware.com. you're going to see how to do it. And of course, there's nothing more protective and more comfortable and more useful and more life-saving, even, I dare say, than the brunt work boots that we have talked about that I still, to this day, every time that I get out in my yard after a flood-type condition, if there's muck and mire, or in the middle of the summer when it's dry and there's the heat of the desert, or when I'm wanting to climb and walk up hills and walk across stones and retain my footing.

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And that's why I'm telling you about these, because I'm charitable. Brian, you know yourself besides the charitable actions that we take here on the program that every year I write checks for hundreds of thousands of. of dollars to charities around the world. People don't hear about it because I want to remain anonymous. That's why I never signed the checks. But folks, if you go to bruntworkware.com right now and use the promo code JCE, it's as good as us sending you a check because you're going to save, you're going to save money,

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They have other things. We love the boots. Jim loves him. He said that earlier, but I feel like it's a good idea to reiterate that. And also, Jim, we have a promo code. Yeah. Can you imagine if the Mongolian stomper could have worn these boots, my God, he'd have been deadly. He'd have been in prison. They'd have put him in jail. They would have strung him up, up above the jail. He would have just all those boots to the midsection. Holy mackerel, with a brunt, it would have been deadly. You could have been on power stomp. Power stomp. Bruntworkware.com promo code JCE. Brunt! all right Brian well we got to update another thing we've been talking about lately

our friend jeff sharky sent an email and we've been talking about the old radio clip where the riot with cliff gustavson and sandor zabo was described from they were in minnesota and just you know we've had several discussions on how far back did wrestling go on experimental television then how far back was wrestling on the radio, blah, blah, blah. Well, listen to this one. There's always a way to go further back.

He says, hi, Jim and Brian, on the heels of your segment, on the 1947 Minneapolis riot match between Gustafin and Zabo. I found this clipping promoting about with Ed Strangler Lewis and Alan Eustis from Wichita, Kansas on July 4, 1922. It's interesting to see how this new advancement in technology is being explained. Extending the invitation to tour the WAAAP facility was likely an opportunity for radio stations and manufacturers alike to benefit from potential new listeners and customers. This is wrestling on the radio when radio was new. And the article out of the newspaper, well, first, the point being,

Brian, I don't know if you just know off the top of your head, but commercial radio in 1922 was still new in some places, still some places probably weren't within range of being able to be involved, but you kind of had to be like the old hi-fi stereo fan. You had to be kind of dedicated to be listening to the radio regularly at that point, didn't you? I forget what the stuff. stat is, and I, you know, don't know what off top

my head, but it was a similar thing with TV, where with radio, it was kind of there, and there were some sales, and then one year there was a giant jump. And all of a sudden it went from, like, some people had radios that everyone needed a radio in their house. And, yeah, I don't know if I answered the question or not.

Yes, I was just trailing off into the, into the ether, into the radio waves. But here's the article. Yeah, Yardosphere. Headline, Wichita's big radio plant to broadcast wrestling bout. Radio fans within a radius of 1,500 miles of Wichita. Tune up your receiving sets tonight the night of July 4. Let's stop there for a second.

Within 1,500 miles in the early days of radio, and we would have to research this. but was every station, did they just have the permission before an FCC to just beam their signal of the old 50,000 watt clear channel, fuck it, let's do 500,000 watts like they had across the river from Del Rio, Texas. If a station in Wichita could be heard for 1,500 miles, there was no regulation because there was so few stations to encounter interruption, right?

Anyway, the new Wichita Radio Broadcasting Station, WAAAP, will send forth on ethereal waves detailed reports of the World's Championship Wrestling match between Ed Strangler-Lewis champion and Alan Eustace, the Kansas Challenger. The match will be held at the forum and will be to a finish. At the ringside will be the Eagles Sporting Editor and his assistance with a telehealth phone in front of him. He will communicate the wrestling bout hold by hold to the WAAAP radio station on North Roosevelt Avenue, Wichita, and from there, the detailed account of the match will be sent broadcast. This radio station, one of the six most powerful stations in the United States, is owned

by the United Electric Company and operated by Otto W. Taylor of the Taylor Electric Company. Radio programs and service for it will be supplied by the Wichita Eagle. So the event tonight is an Eagle United Taylor Affair. Listen to this terminology. Operator Taylor informs radio folk to tune in their instruments at 360 meters. The WAAAP station will start broadcasting at 8 o'clock tuning in by means of a record played by an Edison machine, supplied by. Supplied by Ennis Cosgrove, Wichita music dealers. Following the tuning in,

so they're playing music to give you something to tune in on because it's the only station, I guess, you can get. And then following the tuning in record, there'll be announcements of news importance and bulletins on the preliminaries to the big wrestling bout.

The new station, which looms up on the hill like tall masts of an ocean going windjammer, is being completed this week. The big generators in place and the delicate parts of the plant are being tested out now. Broadcasting in the wrestling match the night of July 4th will be not only the first time the plant is operated, but it will be in the nature of a revolution in broadcasting in the West as the plant is the largest in the West. On Friday night, there will be a grand opening with the public invited.

come look at the radio plant this event will not only be social but entertaining and will include an inspection of the plant by all who desire to attend receiving sets will be set about the field so the crowd may hear what is being broadcast big doings there in Wichita Brian I'm telling you and again if they were doing that there

what were they doing in New York what were they doing in Los Angeles what were they doing in other parts of the country You know, I don't have a specific example, but I'm sure you've seen this too, where sometimes you look back at old photos, like really old photos, and you'll notice like someone with a microphone at a table, or you'll notice a video camera, but a movie camera. Yeah.

You'll notice something and you just go, where is that? Where was that going and what exists today? and the uncovering of the Gustafson Sandar Zabba World Title Change, again, I always say, what else is out there? There's still plenty out there, and we never really hone in on radio broadcast. It would be nice to find out what still exists,

especially any of the early stuff that was almost test broadcast. Well, there was a... When I was a kid, these people were, older, so you can imagine. But there was an old-time radio subculture. Even before comic books where

especially the big fans would have reel-to-reel tape recorders and there were bulletins. I caught the tail end of it because when I was a kid, the local WFPL Free Public Library had a radio station, FM station,

and they would broadcast Inner Sanctum or the shadow or some of the old radio detective dramas, et cetera, old radio from the 30s and 40s. And of course, and I got my first tape recorded, I'd tape some of those, still got the cassettes. But there was a subculture that saved old radio, and it didn't just, it wasn't just limited to the entertainment programs, but sports and news and people. at the time, some of them had reel-to-reel tape recorders, some of them, who knows where they found this shit? But it was like, who knows where some of the wrestling people find this shit?

So there hasn't been, to my knowledge, extensive cross-pollinization of the any existing old radio people that are left with these archives of tapes and the wrestling crowd. but it might be interesting. Like I have some old reels, not this old, but I got reels maybe from the 50s and 60s, maybe 70s too, that are wrestling audio, it's impossible to find places

to get them converted. Of all the formats, that's one of the hardest ones that when you try to buy an old machine, like sometimes the best case scenario is has all the parts. Yeah. Not even like, I've tested it,

just it has, stuff. But yeah, I mean, you got to wonder what else is still out there. That's why there was a forgotten format in a lot of ways. My dad was going to real to reel. That's the thing is there was a lot of, again, I don't know if the word is cross-pollinization, but there was crossover between some of the hi-fi fans and some of the electronics expert that fixed, you know, the primitive audio and video machines and people who collected the blah, blah, because they could fix their shit. So,

anyway, you're always learning something, you're always finding something. Brian, I learned something this past week. See, you can teach an old dog do tricks. And I learned something from

Uncle Dave Meltzer. Would you like to know what that something was? You're not dyeing your hair, are you? No, no. It's too the cat is out of the bag and the follicles are out of the scalp. But Uncle Dave, because, you know, lately the,

Mexico City is the center of the wrestling world, and they're drawn the big crowds at every promotion had run there in one week, and they just had all these shows. I think he said they had 76,000 fans over six shows in four days, attend pro wrestling in Mexico City. But, The highlight of this was two different promotions drew more than 10,000 fans in the same city to shows at the same time. That has happened very rarely in history that anybody has records of.

And one good thing about Uncle Dave, spending all his time, you know, with these records, because most of his old friends won't talk to him, he's got, he's got, he's got the things at his fingertips. And I found out something about a show that I was on that I did not know until now and it's been 40 years ago. Because there were two times during the

1980s war between the WWF and Jim Crockett promotions where we were both in the same town, both companies on the same night and drew more than 10,000 people. And I knew about one of them, but I didn't know about out to the other one. And we tried our best to help them out in Cincinnati that one night in

March of 86. We had 12,000, but Hope could only get 70-something hundred at Riverfront. So we felt bad for them, being the B team. At Riverfront Stadium? It was a Riverfront Coliseum. Oh, okay. No, they didn't run River. We ran it once. Yes, but we didn't have 12,000 people in it we ran the stadium but we did when we sold out Cincinnati Gardens. Anyway, it was two nights in Philadelphia. As a matter of fact, back-to-back Philadelphia shows, December 86th and January 87. And I knew about the December one. That was the WWF, December 13, 1986 in Philly at the spectrum.

It was Hogan and Orndorf in the cage match for the W. WF title and they did 14,132. And Crockett was at the Civic Center. It was Flair against Nikita for the NWA title and the Road Warriors and Dusty against the midnight and Bubba. And we did 10,215 people. So that was, because we thought we were going to sell out. But we got down and found out.

they're down the road. Oh, shit. But that's 24,000 something tickets sold in the same town. And Brian, you probably know the geography better than me. How far was the spectrum from the Civic Center? Oh, not too far at all. I mean, again, it's the same city and

not too far at all. But I mean, it's, it's, the spectrum was near the stadium area when you go across the bridge, right? Right, when you get across the bridge, the Walt Women Bridge. So that was, we would drive, 10 minutes through the town and city traffic and be at the civic center. So it had to be like five miles as a grow flight.

There may be no better example as to there being two different audiences for the two different companies than those two Philadelphia shows. The fact that they drew that those kind of crowds for both companies. Well, but he got bigger. And I should say that since I have the gate information for the Crockett show, we could extrapolate the WWF, but Crockett, 10,215 people, the gate was $110,000. So that was about an $11 ticket average.

So you were looking at probably 15, 12, and 10, or 15, 12, and 8, whatever the fuck it was. So even if we got a $10 average, WWF did 14,000 people, so they did 140, 50 grand. So that's over $250,000 in tickets purchased in the same town, the same night for two events. And if you go to the inflation calculator, it's a dollar then was $2.95 today. So let's say $3. That's $750,000 being spent on 24,000 fucking tickets. That's how hot wrestling was in Philly. but January 10th, here's what I didn't know.

I never knew this until I can't remember knowing this until now, or I would have crowed about it. On January 10th, 1987, WWF at the Spectrum was Savage and Steamboat in the main event for the Intercontinental title and did 14,067, but that's also the night where, again, Flair and Nikita with the NWA title rematch and the main event, Road Warriors and Midnight in the Scappled match, we sold out the Civic Center.

And Dave has 13,000. Actually, it was 12,000 and change, whatever. I don't think it was quite 13. But nevertheless, that's 27,000 tickets in the same city. And we did 161 grand. because I've always mentioned that we had the record the biggest gate that Crockett ever

did in Philadelphia the slap dab sellout of the Civic Center and it raised prices 161 grand and so if you assume that the WWF even with a $10 average which they beat

$300,000 between the two shows that's almost a million dollars and we were both running to town every fucking month. That's how hot wrestling was in Philadelphia in that period of time. So, WW is about to run head-to-head with AEW all out in Chicago.

I guess it's still not determined if worlds collide, the AAA-W-E show will be televised or broadcast or distributed live, which is fascinating, I guess. But they're still, you know, I guess that's kind of a modern example. Not that AEW is the modern Crockett crowd, but just the idea in that one town, those are clearly two different fan bases. Yeah. WWE, well, specifically Lucha, and the AEW audience,

which they've kind of defined who their Chicago AEW audience is. And the thing is, the economics, have changed to the point where they will, I'm sure, equal or exceed, well, obviously they'll exceed a million dollars in a total gate

for the shows, but do you think they're going to sell 27,000 tickets? No. Just a fucking flash back to the old days. Well, I guess, Brian, before we go any further, I understand we've got a medical update, the

Dr. Gupta, Swifti Gupta, our medical correspondent, has sent something in on one of our injured competitors in the wrestling world? I don't know about the doctor, but we have a statement that was put out by the patient, as it turns out. This is from Instagram. Has he lost his patients? From Cota Ibushi, who we've had various other statements about his medical condition released by him in the past that often led us to scratch our head and wonder what was actually happening and his foot almost fell off, I think, at one point. At one point, you know, have you noticed that the old saying birds of a feather flocked

together, can you think of two weirder individuals than Kenny and Cota there to find each other and become friends? Well, I guess Kenny's probably hoping this all doesn't happen to him because Cota has been just in a series of breakdowns, physical breakdowns over the last, if not a decade close to it, it's getting to that point. But here's the statement he put out on Instagram. Well, because he had the broken femur. Femba in the morning and it's still broken in the night he broke his femur.

And again, in his prime, he was someone that, if not on steroids, certainly had a physique, was a high flyer. He had a physique that pudgy little dope. Bowie blob of biscuit dough that we watched, hurt various things, and his few appearances in AEW once had a physique. Well, when he came to AEW, he had no physique, and he seemingly couldn't work anymore, and everything he did looked bad, and those were fans that were dying to cheer for him, and they couldn't, but let's go to his latest statement from Instagram.

Regarding this surgery, this is the first thought that came to mind. Maybe it's only because of where I am right now, but I feel I need to write it down. It's the first time I've felt like giving up, like I'm about to lose to myself. I don't know what the future holds, but I'm grateful that I was able to wrestle professionally for 22 years.

Setting aside whether I'll make a comeback or not, the first question is whether I can even become a normal person again. Okay. For the past year, or so, I've been living on medication typically prescribed to cancer patients. Good Lord. That means my condition isn't normal. Normals in quotes there, as it was before.

My specialists urged me to have another surgery as soon as possible, which led to this procedure. Given my age, I want some time to think things through, but I'm going to try to face the reality of my situation head on. surprisingly I was able to get out of the wheelchair in just one day I still can't move very well but I've managed to start using crutches I would like this to be my last surgery so I ask for your understanding in this matter

and that is the statement for what what does our understanding got to do with anything yes I understand you'd like it to be your last surgery but we have nothing to do with it none of us. That's up to your bones, them dry bones. That's ridiculous. Do these people not see what they are doing to themselves? And when somebody does something like this, they don't all think, you know, what the fuck am I doing back flipping off a goddamn top rope or lighting grid on the

fucking stooges that are allegedly supposed to catch me or diving off this or falling through furniture or doing all that shit that he apparently did for 22 years. I wouldn't, you know, I don't wish this on him and it sounds like he's having a quite miserable time, but Jesus Christ, what do they all expect is going to happen? This was not what to pro wrestling business was supposed to be. And if they had created an offshoot, did we've said this a few times? What did we say they wanted to call it aggressive parkour or, you know, acrobatic stunt fighting on tour or whatever?

That's one thing. But wrestlers should not be in a condition like this when they're 40-something instead of 80-something. Yeah, only old timers, you know, with the Luth is with his knuckles the size of golf balls and shit like that. But what the fuck? I just, I don't get it. Yeah, you shouldn't need medication for pain that's prescribed the cancer patients. I don't know if that's oxy-contin or what that is.

And it's, how long ago did he do that? That was a year ago or more he broke it, right? the second time or the second round of things maybe it may have been a little longer than that well no not the when he broke the femur when the the move remember was whatch call it josh alexander oh that's right he was on the top rope that's right trying to give him the fucking death valley driver off of the top turnbuckle or whatever and remember but i i don't want to indict Alexander for it because I remember at the time that he was trying to get Abushi up and Abushi looked like a sack of fucking potatoes, just giving him no help

whatsoever. And then they all just came tumbling down. You know, we hear a lot about the modern style. You know, it's one of Dave Meltzer's big defenses when talking about, you know, how much he loves the modern style and that if we're not a big supporter of it or a fan of it, we're not with the modern style. Thinking about the style and thinking about what it does to people,

before Mick Foley, I can't think of too many wrestlers of anyone who intentionally fuck themselves up. The business wasn't about that. Chris Cole, because he was already fucked up in a different way. Yeah, he was high in the ring, seeing spiders attack him in the cage, but wrestlers,

wrestling wasn't about messing yourself up in the name of performance. After McFoly and I guess the next round was Saboo and that led into ECW where lots of guys were hurting themselves regularly.

I guess you could talk about. That's why I have, you know, called into question some of Pauli's fucking scruples in the past, but go ahead. But, you know, now we're in a style that it's less about the hardcore shit, even though people still

I just saw Mickey Knuckles apparently got burned in some match. She's in a hospital now. Oh, yeah, they set her on fire. Yes. I saw them. It's not really newsworthy anymore when somebody gets set on fire, but apparently she got set on fire real good. And what is she a 45 or whatever year old pudgy woman who, why would you be?

It's not good. Yeah, it's, there's no reason for it. It's not good. And it's awful that she had that happen to her. But that's garbage wrestling. the problem now is the modern style to circle back to that the modern style that's championed by a lot of the wrestlers and a lot of the people that parrot what they hear from the wrestlers they're reporting on is this ultra physical style that in a lot of ways because we're dealing with a lot of people that are not big physical guys it hits even harder than you know the physical style of all japan in the 90s or anything because You know, you know what happened to Masawa, but besides that, these guys are all just landing on their head, landing on their neck, just jumping nonstop.

It's a miracle Randy Savage didn't have his legs fall off. The amount of times he jumped from the top rope to the floor with no padding. But everyone's just back flipping to the floor. And it's crazy. Well, remember, eventually, because of that and the elbow off the top, his knees were so bad, he was landing on guys with the elbow. And that's what we broke Charles Robinson's ribs. But back to, I don't even agree with physical style. I agree with what you said.

But I want to name it something different because, yes, the physical style in all Japan and the 90s just crippled a bunch of guys. But the better wrestling styles in the bigger territories in the territory days were very physical. they hit hard in safe places they knew how to work they you would be black and blue you would never go to the hospital that type of shit and you can't even say that guys never intentionally fucked themselves up because in a controlled way they did hard ways or even blade jobs for business to draw money not because oh this would be cool let Ron Wright hit me with the fucking chisel. That'll be fun. But again, there's a difference between

a hard way and landing on your head. I mean, one example I think of is the cinder block actually did fuck up a Mongolian stomper. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying is in the territory days of the traditional business, it was all done by agreement beforehand in a controlled way and still to make things more believable as you were in a fight rather than believable you were in a fucking car rack and you didn't have to be thrown off the goddamn balcony and you didn't have to the endless furniture the announced desk even if you pull the pins and it fucking collapses that's a goddamn jolt and the thing is we would Fargo use tables in the rig in the 60s but he'd throw it in a rig and lead it up in the quarter and run guys into it what the

it's there's that's the point is we've lost complete track of let's have a wild fight and make people believe it, want to see it, and buy a ticket to it to let's do a live action stunt show where we're going to be having surgery or hurt as often as we work, which is why, even if they did still run 300 days a year, none of these guys could do it because they'd be crippled in four months if they were working six nights a week. But that's why, I mean, the art has been lost. It's just a goddamn cluster fuck of stunts.

And they've trained the people that that's what they're waiting for. So I tip my hat to you, people. You've fucked it all to hell. And look, you don't want the injuries at all. But there's also a difference between getting injured doing the biggest move in the biggest match right before the finish. Not that there's many examples of that. And, you know, ruining your career in a match on collision. Doing something in a match where it doesn't match, at the end of the day, it's another match on another show. In the middle of another multi-man match on the show,

you're another guy doing the same flips everyone else is doing to minimal reaction. You've got a spot show match, you've got a TV match, you've got a house show match, you've got a big show match. That's the way it used to be. And people could judge the risk to reward ratio that they felt they were going to get accordingly and adapt. And now everybody, again,

and it doesn't mean to go out and lay it a headlock or to lay on your ass. That means keep moving in a less dangerous fashion. Jesus Christ. Well, that's the medical update from Kota Abushi. obviously one of the pillars of the high end, as Dave Meltzer put it, style of wrestling. Well, the pillars are crumbling.

And the walls come tamily down. Okay. Speaking of pillars, I needed a pillar to go to sleep on. It's what I needed on Smackdown this week. They shocked us. They shocked the system last week in Mexico, and then they came back. and well, they just kind of gave us a nice little sleeping pill.

There was one match on here I would have liked to have seen if there had not been so many commercials in the middle of it. And basically they're continuing the Sammy and Kevin and punk business, which all in all I don't have a complaint with except it just again, there was a long show here with a little bit of stuff in it. Guada Gargano. And that. They were in Corpus Christi, by the way. The Holiday Inn used to have great room service right there on the water side, beach side,

whatever they call it there, on the main drag right up from the Coliseum, which I'm sure has been torn down now. But anyway, they started the thing out last week, Sammy beat punk for the belt, Holy shit. Recap that. Then Aldous was in the ring and reluctantly introduced Sammy. And he made his entrance and he's a full heel now. He got booze and he's got.

And it's great. He's, he kind of can be himself no matter whether he's a baby face or a heel because he was the weasily kind of whiny, snippety guy that got endearing in the bloodline, and that's why he was a baby face, and he does have some nice friends, and then at the same time, he can get his nose out of joint and get in a snoot, be a whiny, bitchy complainer, and he's right back in the heel category. But somebody brought something up on the internet I saw that I didn't think of.

I don't know whether you mentioned this, but since they switched the bell to Sammy, it prevents them from having to have punk against rains in Saudi Arabia in November where it's supposed to be champion versus champion. Oh, I didn't even think of that. Yeah. Well, see there? So they must be thin and a head up there. So you get Sammy versus Roman and Saudi Arabia if they go to Saudi Arabia,

which I'm going to assume they know. Well, we'll talk about that in a second. But that way that, yeah, they don't have to waste the money match on the show that they're getting an exorbitant amount of money for anyway, they can give them

the champions would be Roman and Sammy. You think they can have a but anyway? Do you think they'll have Sammy

go over Roman in Saudi Arabia? I know. I don't think they'll go that far. I don't know. And I don't know whether that

would work for Roman, brother. The money. Well, lots of money. In that case, if early in the show you see Roman

Raines just walk out in the building, walk around the ring and go back to the locker room, you'll know that he's asked for a fucking extra of million dollars to go out. The Saudis got that Ted DiBiase philosophy. Everybody's got a price. Whatever it is, they can meet it. Well, in that case, he might walk around a building twice like Jeff Jarrett did.

Anyway, so Sammy was blister and all this. You know, it must kill you that I'm the champion. And justice for Sammy was. justice for all, even those of you booing me. And now you've got a champion with a sense of morality. And he was venting until all of they played music and it was that little fucking goblin gargana. And I'm, fuck me.

And he comes out with candy. Even Michael Cole called her by the wrong name. Did you hear that? No, I did not. He called her Candace Michelle. I missed that. With his wife, Candace Michelle, I've seen a picture of Candace Michelle. I think she could whip both of them.

Anyway, Johnny wanted his title shot, and Sammy was like, well, I never said that. You said that. And I don't, you know, and then they started arguing. And then Johnny wanted the shot tonight, but Aldous said, look, Sammy doesn't make the title matches. I do. And Aldous revealed that as far as he's concerned, punt. is next in line, but he's not here tonight.

And then all of a sudden, Owen's music played. I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ, at least we don't get Gargano. And, but now we've, here we've got, I said, here we go, because we got, they love it. Owens and Sammy. They will be

senior citizen 70 years old having a match in their backyard for their grandkids. And Owen said he deserved the shot. And then Candy jumped in and said, Now, Johnny's next. So Owens turned around and stuttered Johnny, and he bumped out and stayed there. And then Aldous and Owens argued about the title shot until Owens was kind of almost getting

him to reconsider it. And Sammy got hot and snatched Nick up by the jacket. And Nick said, get your hands off me. I make the matches and I've decided it's you and Owens tonight. I'd got a big pot. Plus, Aldous could take Sammy. well Aldus could take everybody they better be glad he controls his temper

and then of course Sammy argued with Aldus all the way to the back as Sammy standing there all for climped the music plays here comes Orton he passes but looks at him like a little kid shines a belt up and walks off of the smirk on his face and that ended that segment before we go any further Brian your thoughts on this verbal confrontation I thought

Sammy was really good here. I'm not a fan of Gargano and Candice all of a sudden being in this. It just seems weird that these two people that have not necessarily been booked well or that the fans really had a clamoring to see much of. Or that have any fucking charisma or talent whatsoever. It just seems a little weird that they're in this spot right now out of everyone there on the roster and people they could elevate. I don't know if I'd be elevating Johnny Wrestling right now.

He was like half a foot smaller than Sammy, who I don't think of as being a really big guy. I mean, so, I mean, just it stood out. With that said, I thought Owen's stuttering him and getting him out of there right away was a pretty good way of doing it. I was afraid that they were going to set up a multi-man match. Thank God they didn't.

I'm so sick of, you know, the show begins as a promo, music hits someone else comes out, and more music hits, someone else comes out. There's got to be a better. way to do that that's not so tiresome. I hate to use the Kevin Dunn word. It applies here. But yeah, I mean, it's every episode of every one of their shows at this point. AEW at least begins with 20 people in the ring having a random match. WV.E has 20 people come out to theme music one after another after another. But I thought this is good and

it's set up a pretty big main event. I mean, what should be a pretty big main event, we needed to see a lot of it, but it should have been a pretty big main event. Well, and basically I'll skip over a couple things, and we'll go to that because Orton was on his way to the ring because another one of these endless three ways to fill TV time, money into bank qualifier. And it was Orton and Trick and Phoenix. And technically, it's three baby faces, but Orton was there to make people think that it was a big match. and credibility basically

and Phoenix was there to do a job for trick and that's what they do they'll put a star in this fucking thing so it looks important and then the star will evaporate and somebody will beat the other guy and

because the people know that well fuck the money in the bank Orton could get a title match anytime he wants so that that was that shaky Nakamura has a new friend from Japan wearing a fucking

Ronald McDonald outfit and they wrestled the panda bears the sit down with Cody and Michael Cole then my I knew they had you and your attention Brian when they started out Michael Cole said well you you weren't able to pull the trigger your favorite phraseology stupidest thing

but and they did make the nice point that when Cody won the title they had the picture of everybody came in the ring and celebrated with him and they've all stabbed him in the back. But this was done to be so dramatic and somber and serious that I went to fucking sleep. I don't know what the rest of the shit was they said and I don't care. Did I miss anything? Dusty Rhodes could come out, command the attention of the entire room, whether it was a fucking arena or a room full of wrestlers because he was doing a pre-tape

and in three minutes gets you hyped up to want to see something. He didn't need to fucking sit down and goddamn contemplate. How much contemplating were they doing? I don't think Cody comes across well in these kind of settings. I think Cody needs to be fired up in the ring. If it's not that, his promo skills or his mic skills, I don't think he's relatable. Well, I'm not related to him, but some people are related to him.

Are you saying his relative should disown him? yes that's what i was saying okay all right well i'll keep that in mind anyway and then we had to sit through the other money in the bank qualifier Alexa and jane wayne gasey and jade jane way gay and you ever notice she looks like margaret hamilton no but now i'll never not see it i can't not see every time she comes out there trying to look all sexy i'm like she was like the wicked witch i double dog dare somebody to put her entrance over the top of I'll get you my pretty

and your little table too. So then we got what, and I've been watching these matches for 15 years, so I know they certainly know each other well and can tear the house down. Sammy Zane and Kevin Owens. And basically they jumpstarted it. Kevin lit into him and beat him up

and Sammy bailed and they went to the break in 30 seconds. And I'm like, okay, well, they come back after about three minutes. And Sammy stopped Kevin and we're getting some heat. And they don't take as many stupid bumps as they used to back in 2010. They work smarter. So they got that going for them. But they got a couple of two counts and then went to break in another four minutes. So we've seen four and a half minutes.

match and we come back from that break with like six minutes left on the air. And suddenly, Owens gets a two count and here comes Gargano and draws the referee. And I swear to God, candy comes off the turnbuckles and tornado DDTs Owens. I was like, Jesus Christ. And then Sammy hits the kick and gets a two count. And then Owens. hits a pop-up power bomb and a stunner and covers him, and old Johnny's same face put Sammy's foot on the ropes,

break the count. So Kevin went out and beat up Johnny and picked Sammy up and dropped him through the announce desk. But then Johnny got the belt and came into the ring while I think Candy had the referee, I believe it was. But then Owen stuttered. and he dropped the belt, but suddenly at ringside, CM Punk appeared.

And CM Punk got the belt and rolled in and didn't roll in, got up on the apron and whacked Owens over the head. But Sammy ran and kicked Punk off the apron. So there's Owens there unconscious. Sammy turns around and covers him and the referee. And I'm going to try to help me if I don't describe this properly, Brian, because this was the biggest cluster fuck here for the next 30 seconds I've ever seen.

The referee counted one and two, and you could hear his hand slap the mat on the microphone, on the audio, and the people are one, two, and then he slapped the mat three, but he didn't slap it hard enough that it even made any noise, but he immediately raised his his hand and called for the bell, made the bell motion. At which point, Sam, there was no pop from the people because they heard the bam, bam, and then just nothing, but then the call for the bell and they start to pop, but then Sammy looks up,

confused at the referee, and if you notice, if you go back, anybody wants to, if you're bored in fucking, solitary confinement or whatever. At the same time, Sammy looks up confused at the referee. He has slipped his left hand underneath Steen's left shoulder and is kind of

slowly, imperceptibly lifted it off the mat, like maybe nobody will notice. Michael Cole immediately said, I think Steen got a shoulder up. Then Sammy gets up and starts arguing with the referee. And he's arguing, with the referee that just counted the three and called for the bell

with him being the winner. So I'm not sure what his bone of contention was, except that what he was really doing was telling the referee what to tell fucking Stain to do. Where then this referee, this fucking

slop-faced referee, he just blank. He just standing there like, I don't know what the fuck he's done in this whole thing. he goes over after Sammy has argued with him about winning and tells Steen to get up and get in the corner and Steen gets up and gets in the corner

and Sammy runs over and hits the Huluva kick and covers him one, two, three. And then punk comes in and beats up Sammy and hits the GTS and then gives one to Owens. But the people knew that the finish was fucked and they were all kind of like, I don't know what exactly went wrong, but it was a lot. Yeah, I don't know what to say about that.

It was really noticeable. The clip went around right away. It's embarrassing when that shit happens. Was Owen's just completely unaware of what was going on? Well, here's the thing. Since Sammy was going to win anyway, and I don't know what the problem was, is what I'm saying to you. Because it doesn't look like Owens didn't try to kick out.

And based on the finish that they were doing, he shouldn't have tried to kick out. And the referee did make a visual three count, and called for the bell. But on the third one, for whatever reason, you couldn't hear it. So did they, did Sammy, did they, the wrestlers not realize he had counted three

and thought he'd fucked up? And because he's just a blank fucking slate, black hole of charisma, he stood there dumbfounded instead of telling him, I counted three, you're the fucking winner. I don't know, but this was one of the most awkward things I've ever seen. And again, there was,

there was no fuck up of a finish in terms of the wrong guy winning. And it didn't make any sense for Owens to kick out at that point. So why he didn't count to three with vehemence and I don't know. And then afterwards, why did he just say, I counted the three and you won and hold his hand up? I don't know what the fuck was happening. But at first, even before everybody got confused, when I heard the one, two, and then didn't hear the three but saw it, I thought my audio had gone out on my television.

But then I realized that I realized I don't know what the fuck they were doing. But they didn't either, apparently. And that was that. Yeah, I mean, I think it would have enjoyed it a lot more without all those commercials in the main event. It kind of took me out of the match. It was waiting for it. What we actually saw of match.

I think six and a half or seven minutes around the commercials. Yeah, you were just waiting for whatever the angle was going to be at the end. Yeah. Again, Triple H must love him some Johnny Garcana with Candace LaRae. It's amazing, isn't it? It's inexplicable. They got that big push in NXT with Austin Theory and Indy Hartwell as their stooges where they were doing like segments in their apartment,

got brought up to the main roster, got the be on TV, in a coma for a year or whatever it was? I think he's been on TV at a coma for 10 years or however long he's been on TV. They let Champa leave, but they're like, we got to hold on to Gargano. I don't get it.

I don't get it. You know what the problem was? Everybody was on edge, Brian, in the match. Everybody was nervous. Everybody was hebie-jee-jeebies. Everybody was jumpy. They just needed to relax and calm down and just smooth themselves out

be able to think and, you know, maybe just to kick back and socialize about to finish for a second and a nice headlock. You know, that's what they ought to do. They ought to get a bottle of Willys. You know Willys, ladies gentlemen, the premium THC infused social tonic crafted by the legendary Willie Nelson. And they ought to just get a bottle of that and they ought to maybe take a paper cup or some kind of arena cup.

to the ring with them so that it's not obvious and just have a sip of that every once in while when they're freaking out because they've forgotten what fuck's going on. See, that might work, don't you think, Brian? Just take a sip of Willys. Take a sip of Willys. You will know what's going on.

You'll just enjoy it a little more. You'll enjoy it with that Willie's spirit. Well, yeah, it might be able to make them calm down and actually see what's going on around them. Because there's no alcohol in Willys. Oh, no, no, no. There's going to be no hangovers, there's going to be no drunkenness, there's going to be no horrible side effects with your blood pressure

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Well, they may need to take a couple extra of bottles of willies over to Saudi Arabia in November because I don't know for sure if they will be allowed to come back. There may be a new regime

by then or they may all be blown up by the budding hydrogen bomb war taking place over there or whatever. They have made Saudi Arabia has now got a travel restriction from the United States. Our government, as incompetent as it currently is,

is still saying, oh, you don't want to go over there. And this is six weeks from their $50 million, you know, party in under the stars. What are they going to fucking do? And again, right after that, WrestleMania next year is supposed to be in Saudi Arabia. Oh, shit. That's the real big one. you know if I were them I'd get started

I'd buy some land in Montana and build a stadium just as a backup with WrestleMania dependent on these people and their various politics over there and what's going on do you think that just real quick as an aside do you think that concept could ever work if W.W.E bought land in the middle of nowhere but enough land that they could build themselves

a customized stadium that could seat however many they want, and they say going forward, WrestleMania or SummerSlam, whatever, will be here. Do you think they can get people to fly to the middle of nowhere to go to their arena a few times a year? No. That's a short version. And here's the thing, if they're also in the middle of nowhere, where all those people

go to fucking stay? Where are they going to get a car? Well, you can then build your own hotels and make money all that. Just build roads. Just make WWE. We land. Weeland is for you and me, ladies and gentlemen. Weeland, formerly the whiff.

Vince always wanted to be Walt Disney. Instead of Epcot, they could make Weeland. Disney wanted that to be an actual city where people lived and worked and played and blah, blah, blah. It was going to be the experimental prototype city of tomorrow. Epcot. Exactly. And by the way, if you ever see the original designs, because what Epcot became is not what Walt Disney's original vision was when he was trying to get that land in Florida. There's a video out there of him presenting what his plans for Disney World were to whatever board in Florida that he needed the votes from.

And Epcot literally was going to be a city with a unique city plan. Yeah, the hub thing and the whole nine yards, right? And free-flowing transportation. and etc. Monter. Yeah, that's right. But anyway, instead, Florida, being Florida,

they just decided we don't want the monorail, we'll just have the mono. But the point being, no, they wouldn't be able to do that because you can't motivate that many people to go somewhere where it's not equipped for that kind of tourism.

If they got a stadium, or if they built a stadium in a major metropolitan area, like a New York or a Los Angeles or whatever, I'd say they might have a shot at, but there's no way to make building something like that cost feasible to only use it a couple times a year for big shows. And if I were them, I'd try to buy,

since they've got more money to federal government, I'd try to buy an existing arena in the four or five largest market. and save myself that rent and rent a son of a bitch out and have it managed like normal, but you own it, you don't need to pay rent. That might be something now that they can just piss away hundreds of millions of dollars they ought to look at. If one of their regular arenas was up for sale, should they consider buying it? Well, that's what, depending on the market and the arena and the price, yes, I think, again if it's someplace that like a major market that they wanted to run twice a year

for a TV taping or some kind of big show for the next foreseeable future they don't have to just open the building twice a year what I'm saying they could buy the fucking thing they could then operate the arena as it's been operating and rent it to all the other tenants and make money I assume the arena would be making money already why would that come to an end and they wouldn't have to pay rent on the goddamn thing when they came there? Are you surprised Vince McMahon

hasn't bought a bunch of arenas with his spare time now that he can't get back into the day-to-day functionality of wrestling? I think somebody ought to tell him the fucking idea that Terry Funk and Jerry Jared had where they'd just go on Thanksgiving Day when every promoter in the country wanted to run their biggest show of the year

they'd find out that Jerry Jarrett and Terry Funk had put holes on renting all of their arenas and they'd have to rent the arenas from Terry and Jerry. And then they realized, well, wait a minute, what if they just, these sorry some bitches just decide not to run, then we'd have to pay all those rents. Well, back to Saudi Arabia. Well, you don't have any of these problems with rent. Yeah, well, back to Saudi Arabia is what we might not be able to do because the travel

restriction is either a three or a four, depending on what part of Saudi Arabia, the country. Out of one. But a three is, you know, exercise extreme car. We advise you don't do this, but do it if you're goddamn gonna. And four is like, don't fucking do this. Is that the way I'm basically understanding it? Is it a five star scale?

Does it go up to five or is it go up to ten? No, well, once Dave gets finished, you know, six will be, oh, goddamn, apologize immediately for thinking about going here. Five would have been a big terroristic thing. years ago, but with all the high-end stuff nowadays, six. Yeah, it's just, it's really expanded. But no, that's from the State Department, because I read the deal because of the risk of terrorism, crime,

drone attacks from Iran. It said crime. I didn't see it. I mean, the other things I think are reasonable right now, crime? Well, as far as if you're a fucking American or a foreign person and somebody decides to kidnap you or fuck you, around because you're on the other side. That's crime. It's not like they're saying

you're going to be pickpocketed if you're a fucking citizen. Forgive me. For whatever reason, I was thinking just exclusively WWE not realizing this was a statement actually for all citizens to be careful over there. Yes. No, this is the State Department telling citizens of the

United States of America that they might better not go there. But yet the highest profile citizens of the United States that are going to visit Saudi Arabia this year in terms of fucking their faces are plastered all over television globally and they're advertising us for this big stadium well they'd be attention getters for drones or kidnappings or terrorist activities

or whatever the case Jesus Christ yeah you know that that's the thing it's not even just, obviously I don't think you should go over there right now for tourism. It doesn't seem like a bright idea. But if you are a movie star, you know, making an appearance unannounced, maybe is one thing. But this is a big thing, something that's going to be built up, something that they're going to either build an arena for again in the parking lot or have something. And it's going to be a known location.

Right now, I mean, there have been problems in the middle of the middle of the middle of the at least forever, but there been problems the last several years with, you know, the risk of life just flying over certain areas. But right now, Saudi Arabia themselves are engaged in it. It's probably never been more dangerous. I shouldn't say never. In the last several years, it hasn't been more dangerous to be in Saudi Arabia than it is right now. Well, remember out to 40 years ago, just when we were in Dallas, I told you that among the reasons, not only, the Texas stadium payoff and the fucking fact we never got a match with the von erics but they had announced oh we're all going to israel you have good fucking luck have a wonderful time don't pull up no chairs

because we can't stay because we don't want to go to fucking israel i could see the because we were the number one television program in israel and that's a shoot folks in 1985 for whatever reason world class championship wrestling it was on the documentary. People know I'm not making this up. And I'm thinking, what the fucking headlines noted American tag team kidnapped by terrorists that locked in a closet and pissed on. Fuck you, we were going to Charlotte.

And we started in Charlotte in July and they went to Israel, I think, in September. And that's when Mike Van Arick got hurt. Yes. And they also had armed people of some military description. with machine guns in the hallway outside the guys' doors at the hotel, just for security. And you weren't even aware of the issue. At that point,

I don't think you would have been the issues they had had in the WWF in that same year, 1985, where they went over for a big Middle East tour, and Jimmy Snooka became a major problem where you tried to kill people on the airplane. It was just a major meltdown. No, we had no idea that that had happened then. That's, you know, later on when Snooka story, began emerging. But I would just

I would just say, me and Dennis Condry and Bobby, neither one signed up to go to Israel when we said we'd wrestle in Dallas. And I'm sure there's wonderful people in Israel and it's a wonderful country, but we were young

southern boys who didn't feel like going into goddamn places that were in wars going on with people. And that would have been pretty much all you would have seen on TV here is another bus blown up today. Yes. Yes. That's my impression of, you know, of the place at the time. So anyway, I mean, I know they take all these guys to the beach

and show them just frolicing and having fun and the sand and the sun. But does everybody do you think, does all the talent really want to go to do this? They just don't want to lose their job because these people are paying the corporate overlords hundreds of millions of dollars. Well, at a minimum, it seems like a perfect time for any talent who is willing to go over there to say that they're not just to get more money out of it. Because they'll cut your salary the first chance they get. So why do you use this as a chance to hold them up for more money? That would be my first thing.

But here's the thing. There's two sides of the tipping point on that scale. What if it's a guy that doesn't want to go there, but he's also like if I go say I don't want to go, they'll say good, you don't have to go anywhere. you can go home see that's the that's the problem is a lot of these I would assume that the lower paid individuals

are also the guys that have less pull and they're also the people that have less incentive to go over there and risk getting blown out of the sky or fucking the victim of a drone attack but what are they going to do as again do you think it would be negative how bad do you think the negative publicity

against WWE and TKO would be and Ari Emanuel's memoir is about to come out, so he's doing a lot of media. If they suspended or fined or fired, and it would get out right away, any wrestlers who had a problem with Saudi Arabia are going over there right now. Well, they might not suspend or fire them.

They might just say, well, all right, fuck you. You're going to go in a coma on TV, except you're going to get your minimum and we're going to beat you like a drum if we use you at all. Somebody else can, can, the understudy can play your part. And I got a quote here. I'm just trying to see where is this exactly from. I guess it's from Zoe Stark, the former Zoe Stark. She's Zoe Serrano on Twitter,

and she's answering fan questions, it appears. She was asked about how much she was paid. Listen to this quote. I've wrestled for a long time, guys, 14 years this year. Started off in the Indies, and I got signed to WWE. back on the Indies while I'm signed at T&A The least I have ever gotten paid Zero Was paid absolutely nothing In fact I got a handshake and a hot dog

A lot of the times they didn't even give me the hot dog Just a handshake The most I have ever made It was in Saudi Arabia Shocker, I know right Saudi Arabia It was me Shana, Ria

Raquel Fatal Fourway in Saudi Arabia Arabia at Crown Jewel 2023. And guys, that was hands down the most money I have ever made. I don't even know if I'll ever make that much again. It was like insane. I need a figure.

She doesn't give a figure, but it's an insane amount. Okay, it's an insane amount to her. I need a theory of relativity here. I need the thermometer. What is an insane amount of money to Zoe Stark? Do the women get a bonus for covering up? I would think it would work in the opposite direction, if anything. Maybe under Vince, but I'm talking about all the women have to wear body suits in Saudi Arabia.

Is that like a bonus? I don't know that that would be a, it would be a payoff for the show, which is a bigger grossing show than most any other show. But I don't know if they're specifically giving a clothing bonus. But the point is, is it 25 grand? Is it 50 grand? Is it 100 grand? Because if you ask me, if you paid four girls in a girls' four-way, more than 50 grand apiece, that would be insane. Somebody needs to be committed. A big show or not.

But I need to know what, because the definition of insane money for a payoff is different if you're The Rock or if you're Tony Falk. And now here's the other end of it. What happens if WWE says we can't do this or we won't do this, but it'll probably be we can't? It'll probably, you know, I mean, if anything, they could use the government warning as a shield in some sense. But then what happens? What happens in terms of the shows? I think there's something contractually where they can make up dates if they have to lose it.

But again, they got WrestleMania around the corner and the Saudi Arabian royal family are paying I mean, tens of millions, if not over that now that they got WrestleMania a year for these shows, what happens if WWE just doesn't do it? Which I can't imagine. I can't imagine they're not going to do the show, to be honest with you right now, because of money on the table. Well, yeah. And again, because they think that, well, you don't hear about Desari Emmanuel or Nick Con. I get Nick Con might even go to these shows, or do you think he does?

Does he? What do you think? He seems to be in a lot of these shows. Well, son of a bitch, if he's going, then I guess he's crazy too. But, you know, they're sending people into a controversial atmosphere is all I wouldn't want to do.

When I got in the business, you know what the best part about it was? I knew for a fact that if I lived in Nashville, I was going to work Nashville 52 times a year, Louisville 52 times a year, Memphis 52 times a year Lexington 12 times a year

Jackson Tennessee 12 times a year and about 125 spot shows and none of them would be farther than 300 miles from my home what you didn't want to be booked in Beirut no I didn't want to be booked in Beirut or even fucking crotch rot I just wanted to be right

in the territory there no if this had happened if this had been happening or was a practice when I started watching wrestling, well, if it was this kind of wrestling, I wouldn't have watched it very long, but if it was the same kind of wrestling, but you had to fucking travel from coast to coast

and continent to continent every week just to do it, I would have stayed a viewer. It was just ridiculous. But I think the young people like it. That's why I was never young. I'm just telling, I don't know I had some of the kids in OBW tell me one time

oh we'll move on to the next topic after I say this but they oh yeah I got booked on a week's long tour a week long tour of Australia I said wow who did that oh so and so or such such it was a good money

I got $700 you got $700 to go to fucking Australia for a week and work four or five shows and yeah but they paid for the plane ticket and the hotel and I got to see Australia. Oh, fuck. A trip around the world used to cost less back in my day,

but it wasn't a fucking deal you got into wrestling business. That you tried to hold out for some money for. Would you go to Australia for a week for $700? To work? Yes. That's what this situation was. I would never. Well, I have heard, Brian, somebody has told me it's apparently made the news that there was more than $700 involved.

There's been another one of these fraudulent identity theft. What is the catfishing operation where some innocent imbecile has been parted from a significant portion of their money. by somebody that they thought was a famous person, and in this case, it was Ria Ripley. This is what I'm hearing. Do you have details on this? I believe you said there was some type of article. There's some stuff out there, not too much in the details, but a general idea.

I have an article here from ABC 27, Pennsylvania News. Scammer impersonating WWE superstar steals 42. thousand from Pennsylvania Man by Jared Weaver Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. A scammer... Wait a minute. Automatically, I'm smelling

possibly a rural area when they have to identify the county instead of the actual town. This is Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Was this guy some kind of fucking sheep farmer that lives way out in the hinterlands or whatever? Yeah, he's over there. in the other county.

A scammer impersonating a WWE superstar was able to steal tens of thousands of dollars from a Pennsylvania man, state police said Monday. The scammer made themselves seem like they were a professional wrestler to steal $42,700 in March from the 64-year-old man. You were 64 in March. From the 64-year-old man who lives in North Buffalo's township, Armstrong County, according to Pennsylvania State Police. So now that's even worse when you have to, when you give the name of the town and still

have to identify what county it's in. North Buffalo Township, which implies that there is a South Buffalo Township or just a regular Buffalo Township. The wrestler, the scammer impersonated, was Ria Ripley, State Police said. No arrests have been. announced since Thursday and Trooper said that the victim does not want to cooperate.

Ripley was... Well, then how the fuck did they find out about it? Ripley was recently... No, think about it. How did they... If he doesn't want to cooperate, what did he go and tell the police, hey, somebody just fucked me out of 42 grand, but I don't want to do anything about it, so don't fucking bug me about it, but I'm telling you... Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how... It says here, Ripley

was recently stripped of the WWE Women's Champion title, and she has reportedly been recovering from a torn meniscus in her right knee. She last competed in May. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office website provides tips on how not to fall for scams and lists what red flags to look out for

by getting a DM from Rea Ripley. Like having to pay an unusual method, in an unusual method, being told about having to do it in secret, and to look out for any suspicious links. Man, this is how do these warnings? This is exactly what Layla Gray told me was going to happen when she was DMing me last night and asking for my friend.

No, uh, well, what do you think about this? How do these, how do these helpful hints need to be made? Now, I know there's, here's the thing, I know there's some really created. scammers out there that prey on senior citizens where it's like the IRS or it's the local police authority of some you're in some kind of trouble or you know your shit's about to get repossessed or do this now there's a sense of urgency about your well-being or maybe they even now are apparently impersonating people's family members it. if they can get, you know, information and so-and-so needs you to wire money or whatever.

I can understand, kind of, if it's an old person, not aware of how a lot of this stuff works, possibly more trusting or even confused, scared under those circumstances. Because something bad's going to happen to them, the FBI, the IRS, the CIA, the goddamn sheriff's office, whatever. but how in the fuck does anybody convince a grown adult who is able to live on their own without supervision

that they are not only a celebrity talking to them specifically despite never having met or been introduced or having any common friends but a celebrity that needs money unless the celebrity came to the house in person to perform

a mutually agreed upon service for that fucking money and it better take quite a while several weeks to perform that much service for that money. How the fuck do you convince anybody I'm a celebrity? You've never seen me or talked to me before

but I'm typing you now. Send me $42,000. I don't know. Now, I do have another article here. Although this at times, the reputation is a disreputable site, I'll go to this article from ringside news. W.W.E. Fan comes forward claiming Liv Morgan impersonators took him for $35,500. Let me go down here a little bit. Is that a business net? Live Morgan impersonators? Is that like the Elvis impersonators? This wasn't just somebody stealing a profile picture in

sending one dumb message. The man says he was pulled into a three-year mess involving multiple accounts, phone numbers, payment demands, fake promises, supposed meet and greets, tickets, and merchandise that never showed up. For three years? For me, here's a quote, I lost over $35,000, $35,500. And I haven't received no tickets, no money. merchandise, no nothing.

And he didn't come to us empty-handed. He provided ringside news with screenshots showing a wire account using the name Liv and the handle at Live Morgan 209, along with messages from people claiming he had been selected for private access to Morgan. One message congratulated him on supposedly landing a private meet-and-greet. The same conversation told him, What is this, is this private access? Does he get to go in through the back door, is what you're saying?

The same conversation told him he needed to pay $1,500 to lock the supposed meeting down. Here's a quote from that message. Congratulations. You have been chosen for a private meet-and-grit session with our client. Yes, it is official. To finalize your booking, $1,500 fee is required. Let us know how you want to make your payment. That wasn't the end of it.

In another WhatsApp exchange, sent directly to Ringside News, the person on the other end leaned hard into romance, calling him baby and my love, while repeatedly pushing him to go to a store and get a card. One message didn't bother dressing it up. Here's a quote, make sure you went to the store in the morning and get the card. I don't know what that's a payment card or what that is.

Yeah, we are one of those prepaid card things that, yeah. Here's another quote from the man. They've been working on me for about three years. It's definitely multiple people in different countries, also some with America. Not some in America, some with America. They've been hired by the firm. Yeah, they've been with the firm for over 10 years now. Well, again, it goes on from here, but it sounds.

It sounds like they seek out the best and brightest on social media who appear to be in good relationships and not having any companionship issues and go to them. Or maybe it's the opposite where they find lonely people online who unfortunately grasp on these dreams of theirs that are all bullshit and people take advantage of them. It's horrible. This is like, you know, the GWF all over again. Well, but, you know, at some point, once again, unless someone is. assigned a caretaker by the state government. They ought to be able to fucking cut this off for it,

it goes this far. Shut that shit down is what I'm saying before it gets that far. But the guys say he got no meet and greet. He got no tickets. He got no nothing. Yeah, no, he did get something. He got bupkus. And bupkis is a lot of nothing and that's what you get from me. Bupkis. All right.

They just, how would you have reacted? How would you have reacted when you were a teenager? There was no internet, but if you one day went to the PO box and you got a letter and it said, you know, save me, I need $2,000, sign Joyce Grable. Hi, Jim. I know we haven't met, but I'd like to meet you. Send me $1,500 to mule away. No, I met Joyce Grable by the time I was at home.

So, uh, but no, no, no. No. I just, I don't, I don't get that because I knew that I was nobody, that anybody would reasonably want to borrow money from me or that a celebrity is what I'm saying, would want to borrow money from me, maybe some schmucked down the street, but not a celebrity who would be contacting me and definitely not speaking of me in a romantic fashion if we've never fucking met. Oh, come on. Have you got some DMs from Ria Ripley tomorrow saying, hey, Jim, I really love you.

Can you send me some money? You wouldn't be sending her some money? No, because that ain't going to happen. Because I talk to the real Ria Ripley on the phone every goddamn week, and she only wanted 20 grand. And she, you know, she drops the Australian accent, though, when she's not on TV. She sounds like she's from Hoboken. Hoboken. I don't know if that's the real Rio Ripley, Jim.

Oh, come on. We've just found out that the fake Rio Ripley's are fucking this other 64-year-old guy out of money. Not me. I got the real one fucking me out of money. Hoboken. It's a thing. It's focus and concentration, Brian. That's what a lot of people are not paying attention to where they're,

that's why these people on their cell phones fall into water fountains at the mall. Because they're not focused. Right. they're not tuned into their surroundings or the world around them and that's what they ought to be doing you know a lot of people they try to focus with the caffeine or the nicotine and that's no good for you we've established that every doctor says that the nicotine is no good for you it clogs up your your passages your veins and your arteries and the caffeine well that'll as we've said before the scientist you've seen the footage on on YouTube and Twitter where caffeine will eventually make your arteries blow up like stopped up garden hoses and just burst and you just, you become just an instant glob of protoplasm soaked in blood because you don't want the caffeine and the nicotine. But you want to be able to focus. You want some energy.

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That's why I'm so brilliant because I've been living in the new tropics. And vitamin B6 and B12, the B12 is there because if the B6 doesn't work, well, you're twice as safe. That's not how that works. And yes, keep going. Yes, and that's how that worse. See, that's why they give them numbers because they double in potency. and whether you're fasting or on a diet you know the ultra pouches may help kill your appetite or cravings

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because Lord knows focusing and concentrating is not necessarily what Tony's doing these days. The show is now literally, just all multiple man matches where he just teams people up at various combinations against other people in various combinations because that way they can do more tricks.

And go forever. And go forever. And or in some cases try to cover up the an eight man tag match is like one of those cholesterol medications. as my doctor he said it covers up a lot of sins

they put Stephen Borden Stephen did you hear Tony Chavani the other week he went it's Stephen like he used to go it's sting it's Claude

I don't know what the fight it's Percy Can't they do a good hospitalization angle or something with Chavani at this point Oh, he's awful. I'm not sure it would be an angle. If he'd try to take a bump at his age, he'd turn to powder. All right. I'm all for it.

They were in Norfolk, Virginia. So it was a place that would be sympathetic to, nostalgic for it, offspring of the fruit of the fruit of stings, loins, as Dusty would have said. But as an eight-man tag, Edge and Christian K. and Darby Allen and Stephen against FTR and Kevin Knight and Kyle. And again, it's another eight-man tag team match with unaffiliated heel groups with different managers teaming together to face a couple of baby-face teams.

And obviously, the only focus, but probably the main focus of this, was to expose Stephen Borden, and get him, you know, over as best they could. But, God, it, again, he's got so many positives, but he doesn't need to be on national TV making mistakes. Even with Dax was in there most of, a lot of this eight-man tag match was just the other guys

taking bumps to the floor and lay in there watching so that Dax could work with Stephen. and, you know, and do the stuff they're doing in training. Yeah, it was the guys who helped train him in this match. Yes, and I'm not saying this in a derogatory fashion. That's what you do on the church gym show or the fucking county fair or whatever.

You don't do it on national TV. Again, it's not fair to Stephen. And the only question I still have is what he has been doing. as a profession for a living whatever until he's 34 that he can just quit and say, fuck it, I'm going to wrestle. Even if he has got a guy

giving him a contract now for a lot of money, he's 34. I don't think he's going to retire on this particular thing. Apparently he was hanging on the rafters, just waiting for the right moment. But I'm serious because people wrote in when we talked about it last time. and said, oh, they say he didn't really get the wrestling bug

until he participated in Sting's retirement. Well, fuck, then I've just got to wonder what kind of responsible adult has he been that his father was a famous actor, but he never even thought about trying to do a TV commercial until he was in his mid-30s, and went to the set with his dad. Does that then sound like a responsible career choice?

Well, I guess it just sounds better than he decided to become a wrestler when he was unemployed. I don't know, but we don't know what he was. That's what I'm saying. I need more information. But it's ridiculous to think he dropped anything for this right now. Yes, and then they can't come out and say, well, you may be wondering why he waited at Lee was 30 fucking four years

because he doesn't look at, but he is. Does he need face paint? Does he need face paint? They needed a more well-thought-out way to, for the first two years of Steve Borden, Sting's career of how not, and not saying that you couldn't change anything based on circumstances. But we're going to fucking keep this as. quiet as we can and let him work on under a hood and some shows in a carolina that nobody knows happen that dax could easily get hooked up and cash and then we'll you know we'll let him do

some ring of honor house shows or whatever way to get it worth something that's not going to be taped or broadcast but it's in front of people and then I I I I just don't know how you obviously couldn't have debuted him with face paint because then it would have been a complete rip-off. But they're almost twins except staying was a little shorter and a little thicker. But if he hadn't been wearing makeup and had black hair instead of blonde at this, or when he was young, they would look identical. So I think you would have really had to have had him almost debut under another name and then do the big angle

even if people knew they'd have a bride Christopher Jerry Lawler situation where most everybody knew but they wouldn't admit it but to people were waiting for them to admit it so when they did admit it it worked except they admitted it on somebody else's show but

do a big reveal angle and you know that might have but that would be a two-year progression now he's he's got a great leapfrog and a great drop kick and he can't hit a hip toss and that's what dachs tried the spot and he's great leapfrog great drop kick fucking missed the guy's arm on the hip toss he's green and he's awkward and it's not his fault he needs more time not national TV he's got luger punches the wet rag swing. He needs oomfin his shoulder. He's still feeling his way out with that. But a lot of this was Dax and Stephen, and then the whole bunch would get in and do some spots

so they could bring it up again and then powder out. And the fans, a lot of times, were sitting and staring. And then, you know, finally the baby faces win when Stephen and Darby double team Dax, one, two, three. But it's just a odd eight-man tag with important people in your company, such as Kyle the second coming of goddamn Jesus in their eyes, as well as Edge and Christian are the champions. And I know you have to intermix him with the top talent,

but this would have been a great house show match to get Steve to learn some things. Did you say how long it went? It was like 25 minutes, wasn't it? It was very long. I didn't time any of this because it was, I didn't watch any of this on my birthday. I watched this this morning.

So you're not going to get a lot of fucking detailed introspection. But just my thoughts on, I'm interested in Sting's son. he's got a lot of attributes and a lot of positives. He's got a lot of negatives, and a lot of the negatives are not his fault. It's going to be interesting to see how, if it took him this long to get the bug, whether going out there and fuck it up at a 40 or 50% rate,

because you're still learning this shit, but people are seeing it all over the world, cures him of the bug before he gets the house. of it. You think they should have said he was sting, that he found the time machine. That way you get past the name issues and you can kind of hide what he could do and not do, put him in a body suit so no one knows, paint his face. And now, see, if, again, if the kid had this size, looks like this, has this athleticism,

didn't do this 10 years ago and would have already had several multimillion dollar years. I mean, maybe he is he independently wealthy? He started a successful business. He didn't need to do this. And now it's a fluke. And the joke would be on all of us. But I believe if this kid had started this 10 years ago, he would have got a big time contract with either of these companies by now

and have made millions of dollars to be thinking about retiring. Right now, in this industry, environment to learn from scratch. He'll still make money from Tony, but I don't know whether they'll ever be particularly a bidding war or anything. If I could add one more thing about this match, they did it here, they did it later on with Jericho, and I just mentioned on the drive-through how sick of it I am,

the playing the music and then dropping the music and purposely giving like another 30 seconds that are fans to keep singing and it's not as loud as it used to be. So it stands out when the music drops out, and it feels like they're forcing this moment as opposed to a real genuine moment happening. But enough already. A.W.

NW.A. It's not even just an AEW thing. Enough already. Well, yeah. It is the singing. And that's a good point that Uncle Dave did make when he was talking about the folks down in Mexico also is the people there. The fans are still into the matches rather than a lot of times just into themselves and wanting to make noise for the sake of it. The fans in Mexico were still reacting to the matches and what's actually going on in

the show they came to see. It's revolutionary, I know. But speaking of Jericho, our friend, formerly known as Chris Jericho against Nick Wayne, boy, Nick Wayne must have heard me call him Nick Plain. and now you could see he they would use him to light up a runway if the power was out at the airport. Did you see the video game character costume he's got, he looks like a goddamn space age Mayan

from the planet Zambodia that just landed? Ah, a Roger Corman film. I saw and I actually like Nick Wayne. I think Nick Wayne's all right. To me, he wasn't the issue with any of the issues in this match. well but the thing is he's another one here I still think that apparently

Kyle is dressing like he's a video game character because elsewise he just came in a spaceship is this like an earthwind and fire stage show that's got to be a video game or elsewise they're all aliens from outer space and these fucking outfits Nick has gone out and got him a costume

designer and is still the thickness of a drinking straw. We haven't seen him in two years. And they went a while. And Jericho's on the, the kick, as Mama Cornett used to say, showing that he can really elevate the young kids with these competitive matches and put people over where necessary. In this case, he won. But Nick Wayne beat him up afterwards, including the fakest chair

shot ever because Nick Wayne just drew the chair back over his fucking head while Jericho was on his knees on the mat in front of Nick Wayne and then Jericho looked up and saw

the chair as like how the fuck you're going to hit me here unless you hit me over the head and he tried to kind of put his arms up to cushion a blow and then Nick Wayne tapped him on his back from the side with the he went up like Paul Bunyan

fucking came down like Mrs. Paul. What do you think of Jericho in there? Do you watch enough to see Jericho's work? His punches in the corner? Well, he's just more econ. I've watched a little bit not enough to fully, I can understand what you're saying, not enough to fully criticize point A and point B,

but the general, the speed of everything is slowing down, the number of steps that he, takes on a trip across the ring, whether it be a shootoff or a reversal, or the amount of time or distance that he needs to travel from one place to another, everything is being very economical because he's otherwise going to blow the fuck up, trying to keep up with this guy that's 30 years younger than he is. Well, the first Hurricane Rono off the top rope that he did, it looked like he landed on his

head, and then he went to the other side and did it again. maybe at 55 or years old or whatever the fuck it is that we determined he is, that he doesn't need to be flipping, tumbling over and revolutions through the air anymore. But now he's some way or another. It did not come to fruition that he could return to the WWE to a couple pay-per-view matches, go in a Hall of Fame and get a hell of a merchandise contract, and instead he went to his fallback plan and he's signed comfortably with Tony,

but now he's got to fucking wrestle. And now he's got to do shit to justify why he's wrestling. So therefore he is doing these things that often allegedly, sometimes inadvertently elevate the young talent. And that's what we're doing right there. That's right. He did wonders for Big Bill. well but now to be fair merlin the magician would have had issues do anything with big billy cass big cassie bill what about why wouldn't they call him big billy cass anyway the nine o'clock hour nine o'clock hour the big headline matchup a six man tag brodie king and bandito and hangnail page against pockets roderick strong

and Kyle O'Reilly. And again, I know that three, well, I'm about to say three baby faces. It's a baby face six-man tag. Brian, how long had you been watching wrestling before you saw a six-man tag team match between two baby-face teams? Geez, I never thought about this before.

Uh-huh. I don't even remember the first one. I mean, it would have stood out, so it must have been, I mean, name a famous match in a territory, a six-man tag team match between two teams of baby faces.

There you go. And it has to be between their six-man champions and again, they've booked Roderick Strong and Kyle O'Reilly who are two legitimate athletes who could work and have exciting matches.

They weren't going to fucking sell multi-million paper on pay-per-view in the major companies, but they were quality talent, and they booked them into complete obscurity and stick them with the fucking mascot

that makes the whole thing a joke. And henceforth, you also, regardless what I think about bandito and especially page, Brody King was as a single there for about three weeks. I saw something. They took that away. But they're using,

as top guys. Why are they working with this fucking idiot? It's just all comedy. And it was a long match. And guess who won, Brian? The Baby Faces. Man, I am sick of this six-man tag division. I hate to say it. I mean, not that I'm blaming the new level, but since they arrived, I guess now that there's such a focus on the Trio's division, it's just been nonstop. I do not care about this division. Orange Cassidy's been in multiple matches. Oh, well, well, now, don't worry about the new, new day. We're going to get to them in a second, and you won't have to worry about it. They're not going to mean anything in the next two weeks, so we'll not have to worry about these six-mans for long.

Because I'll skip over, Tomaso, beating Joe Nobody in five seconds with a knee lift. Tony Chivani introduced Swerve and the new, new day to come out for a promo. Now, they're the six-man champions. Page and Bandito, and they were the six-man champions. Correct, yes. Or are they the six-man ring of honor champions? Uh, oh. Are there still ring-o? I forgot all about that. I may be. Because I think there's Ring of Honor. See, that's the point, folks. But nevertheless, swerve and new, new day. Don't make it to the ring. Ricochet and his stooges come out and attack them in the aisleway and beat the shit out of them for a long and boring time and then when one of them fired up again they'd get him back down

again and it just went on and left all three of them laying there flat of their faces in the middle of the ring. Kofy Kingston and Austin Creed and swerves Strickland again, I've said this, you could use him because people have heard his name. I don't think he's a main event talent, but you could put him in that, especially at a free TV match, and it wouldn't be egregious. His two stooges ain't over and go get over. They never speak. When they did speak, I think a time or two.

It wasn't thrilling. They're plodding and blah. Smaller ones got a better shot than the big one. but they're just no so they've taken their former AEW world champion and one of the highest paid guys to company swerve Strickland

and two guys who were hotter than they'd be in any other situation because they just came from the WWE and I know he's paying him some money at a fucking garden gnome and his two Samoan henchman

just left them laying. So they got that going for them. Now, I put it three weeks and, because they've been here three weeks. What did I say in six weeks? There'll be another couple members of the roster in three more weeks. I don't see anything special about the new day.

Well, we'll see what happens when they get their revenge on Rickashay and the gates of agony. Maybe they'll be the men to close the gates. Well, speaking of closing the gates, they had a girls match. So I closed the door, went in the other room. And I came back for the main event, which I guarantee you I'm going to discuss here in the next two to three minutes.

Because it was the plumber and Pac and Gabe Kidd who, for all the OVW fans out there from a few years ago, to me looks like a fleshy Adam revolver. They wrestled Andrade Francesca Akira and Will Osprey. Their world heavyweight champion that just won the biggest match of all time is in a six-man tag, teamed up with a child-sized jobber who happens to be a friend of his, and a guy that takes selfies against another endless combination of the boer horse. and they went 15 minutes into the overrun for Moxley choked the jobber out of Francisco

and then kept beating him up and then Andre fired up and made a little comeback but Connors and Finley who were in another heel group came in and kicked the shit out of him. Well they were in the dogs and the dogs I guess are aligned with Gabe Kid even though Gabe kids aligned with the death riders. They're fucking the dogs and cats. See, even, even, even, even, even, even if you have fucked the dogs in a wrestling match, you can still get a job with the FBI. And then all the heels stood there while Moxley was telling kid to put a chair on Akira's

neck and pilmanize him. And an Osprey jumped in and gave his goofy elbow to everybody. And they all left. people were kind of eh. And I don't know what to say about it except that. It's the same shit over and over. There's a lot of guys wrestling these matches on this show. Every match is multi-man now and just other people running around.

Moxley did a promo earlier in the back with Gabe Kidd and Pack. It was awful. It was like he rehearsed something to try out for a role. It was so bad But I don't know I feel like they had a lot of really good momentum Going into the Wembley thing And even right after it

But man This was an unenthusiastic, uninspired show This episode of Dynamo Everybody on this show now They've weeded out Most of the professional talent And almost everybody on this show Is indie-minded guys

They say edge and cage and to Jericho. They're at the point in their career where, say again. Senior minded. Well, no, they're at the point in their career where they're getting paid a lot of fucking money and they still get to do what they enjoy

and they put up with it. And everybody else on this, at least on this television show, it came from an indie-minded fucking perspective on things and that's exactly what we're looking at is indie fucking wrestling on national TV well there it is another episode a bad episode of AEW Dynamite well folks if any of you are still left out there listening to this program after we've inundated you with this AEW nonsense Brian we're going to be back in a couple of days with

your program the drive-through and we'll be back here in another week on the Jim Coronet experience do you have any closing thoughts or Or in the words of the highway patrolman to Vince McMahon, if you have no more questions, you're free to go. We'll see on the drive-thru with lots more fun. The drive-thru for more fun. Fun, fun, fun. Till...

Well, nobody can take our shit away. We're our own daddies now. So, thank you, fuck you, and bye-bye, everybody.