Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru - Episode 349

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

This week on the Drive Thru, Jim reviews AEW Dynamite & last week's WWE Raw! Plus Jim talks about Shane McMahon & AEW, ratings, Hawk Tuah, Uncle Howdy, and much more! Also, Jim does a watch-along of the abysmal BCC vs. LIJ match from Dynamite! Send in your question for the Drive-Thru to: [e-mail]  Follow Jim and Brian on Twitter: @TheJimCornette @GreatBrianLast Join Jim Cornette's College Of Wrestling Knowledge on Patreon to access the archives & more! https://www.patreon.com/Cornette Subscribe to the Official Jim Cornette channel on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialJimCornette Visit Jim's official site at www.JimCornette.com for merch, live dates, commentaries and more! You can listen to Brian on the 6:05 Superpodcast at 605pod.com or wherever you find your favorite podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello again, friends! And you are our friends, and welcome back to another edition of Jim Coronet's Drive-Thru, the top-rated Jim Coronet's Drive-Thru, another week right here, wherever you may be and wherever we are. It's summertime here in the Northeast, as well as in Louisville, Kentucky, where our star is right now. Of course, I'm your host, the great Brian last. And here's the aforementioned star, Mr. Jim Coronet. Good Lord, you went around your elbow. get to your wrist with that one, didn't you?

I'm trying to exercise more. All the wordiness was starting to put me to sleep, but that was probably easy because I am a tired, but happy man, Brian last. I got the energy of a sloth on somas today because I've had a hectic few days. A lot of personal business caught up with around Castle Cornett with workmen coming to do various projects and designing things,

as well as one of those pesky TV crews. It was back here at the castle yesterday for about a 10-hour session because I am the darling of cable television whenever dark side of the ring season comes around, and there will be another one. The rumors of its demise are basically came from, from Dave Meltzer and he's been, I remember that. Did he say that they weren't coming back? Remember, that was last year.

He said, oh, yeah, Dark Side of the Rings is not coming back, but they're going to do another series. Well, they did another series and Dark Side of the Rings coming back, Pismo. But he doesn't bother to check with anybody. It might know anything. Are they doing an episode on Leah, My Via this season? I don't know if Leah is making the cut or not. I'm not sure.

I'm sworn to secrecy so far. Everyone always says they're running out of things, like they've run through a lot of the dark stuff. Now they're kind of going to some of the stuff that us fringe fans like, but even that they're running out of. Here's one they haven't touched yet. Rocky Johnson.

No. Rocky Johnson got busted for rape at 87, got in trouble for asking a 12-year-old girl that play strip poker in, what, 2002? All sorts of things in between, all sorts of illegitimate kids all over the place in multiple countries? Canada and America?

Why haven't they tackled that one yet? And you could tie the Liam I-Via angle right into it. You know, you are just feeding the, the twitterers that say, my God, what did the rock do to Swami? Well, no, no. I'm... Where you have this level of venom.

What did the rock do to Dark Side? Why aren't they doing an episode of Rocky Johnson? Well, we don't know. We don't know yet. You can interview Tony Atlas? Come on, it's always fun. Well, Tony was right there for much of the, of the, of the, uh, action and excitement.

But nevertheless, what I was about to say, what about buddy? They're doing a buddy episode? That's, I swear to God, now you're reading my, but first you've tirade against the rocks progeny and, and fucking ancestors. And then you goddamn, you just want to do this show.

I'm tired anyway. What is my show? The point I was trying to me is I pitched that Buddy Landell, no show Budrow. At, at one point, one of the most, responsible people you'd ever meet and at the other point of complete maniac who was his own

worst enemy and we loved him through almost all of it but we don't know about that yet but I'm sworn to secrecy there was no episode there's no episode they could do where you would get more talking heads telling crazy stories while smiling or laughing than Buddy Landau. Yeah and

even if it was a story about how he'd somehow negatively affected you you'd be laughing about it. But anyway, what I was trying to say is I'd like to thank many of the members of the cult of Cornett because it turns out, I'll have you know, that the Chris Colt episode, which was suggested and or instigated by our programming here

and all the stories that we have told, was one of the highest rated episodes of the season. And that was the network was a little trepidatious because they were like, who is this guy? And they were like, wait, wait, do you hear the story? But it was, it was one of the higher episodes. So we approve many of the cult of Cornette, I'm sure, tuned in. Because who else has been talking about Chris Colt?

You know what, though? I think actually of all the stories they have, you know, at least the last season, as crazy as it sounds, that's the story that may appeal the most to non-wrestling fans because it's so wacky, just in a trailer form. you know the guy was doing this the guy was doing that I've never heard of him I think it's more appealing than you know some of the you know what did Jake Roberts do now

or whatever the hell they're doing you know well yeah and that's the the appeal of the series to me is that on the A&E shows we've talked about it when we you can't even keep up with them anymore ever the you know fucking James Dudley will be a two hour biography next week and the biographies

and the rivals and the legends and the feuds and the heels and the they cross-pollinate the talking head segments. They're still using mine from seven years ago. It's the same story that they have to back up and tell that they just told it a previous show to set up the people in the story they're going to, and it's same, same, same.

And these guys are doing at least some different topics. And, oh, by the way, did you hear about the final tally? on the they had a contest vice had a contest this didn't have anything to do with poor Evan and Jason but vice had a contest for people to guess how many times that Vince Rousseau said the word

bro in a four hour interview do you know what the final tally was I saw this I saw this from a lot of people 353 bros in four hour. That is somebody smarter than me did the math. That's 1.74 Bros. Per minute.

Although it turns out if you watch it in reverse, he's telling some mystical story of hidden orbs. Orb, orb, orb, orb. Boy, you know, boy, Vice has really fallen, haven't they? This is what they're doing? They're taking polls and how many ties you think Vince Russo said, bro? Well, no, because it was actually a tie. It's the only thing, people are interested in him about anymore.

Why does he keep saying that? And why does he draw out everyone? Television. So that's my favorite. That's my favorite. And again, vindication. Hallelujah. All these years, people thought,

he can't be serious. He's exaggerating. He's making this up. And now they're seeing it on fucking video. You know, one of my favorite things you ever said years and years ago in an old shoot interview is you made me think of it the other day because you were talking about how Russo pretended I get Ferrar was Patty Chiafsky. And we wrote Duck Man.

Years ago, you did an interview like, I don't know if he was Duckman, I don't know if he wrote Duck Man. He may have been fucking Duck Man. That was his claim to fame, Duck Man. I'm not, I don't, I'm glad he reminded me of him. that because I don't remember saying it, but I still don't know. But anyway, but nevertheless, so that's coming up in a future, but I've had, as I said, a long couple of days, but in literal terms, the drought is over, Brian. I'm just an oaky from Muskogee.

My personal grapes of wrath weather spell is over. Now I know how the people felt out in the dust bowl. and when they saw the tumble weeds blowing across and then suddenly it rained for the first time in four years or whatever it was, I planted these goddamn trees as I've been telling everybody on every program on June the 3rd and as of June the 25th it had not rained a goddamn drop

and then suddenly between Tuesday night Tuesday night, Saksian night at the Louisville Garden. Between Tuesday night and Wednesday, we got like almost three inches of rain on this fucking yard here, according to the TV news. And thankfully, for two days,

and now I'm going to take a day off, I haven't had to go out there with that hose for an hour in the oppressive humidity and heat. It was going to give a poor old man like me a stroke, I'm going to be like Ron Wright. I'm going to be a poor old man with a stroke slinging my big long hose all around my front yard. That'll cause you to have some kind of aneurism, won't it?

Swinging your hose. You sit on the ground. You ain't swinging anything. Well, no, I'm pulling it from tree to tree. You try pulling a 200-foot hose full of fucking water from one tree to another tree and see how... There has to be a better way. There has to be a better way to do this.

Well, I'm open to suggestions. I don't have the better way. I just say there has to be one. There's got to be a better way. Or else why is Cornett's going to pay? He's going to have a stroke. And then people will joke that he pissed his life away. I thought you're going to say you were going to pay the Monroe's to do it.

But, well, no, actually, here's the, The problem is, is that I think they get bored with it and don't get, because I had them do a couple of times, but I think they get bored with it and they don't, they, a lick and a promise, as Mama Cornette, you say, hit it just one lick and promise to do better tomorrow. So I'm personally giving these, my botany project, the proper amount of sustenance. but at least the sky it poured it deluged it torrented it downpoured it rained as Mama Cornette used to say

like a tall cow pissing on a flat rock because the ground was so hard and the rain was coming down so hard it was just flying everywhere but now we got some so what's up with you this is an exciting show so far not much we got another patch

show we got a review or two and uh at least two actually only two reviews and then we'll see how much time we have for the rest of the nonsense someone i'm sorry a little distracted someone on twitter tagged me like an anna j thing and now i'm just like down the rabbit hole of because all you're down to you're down who's hole no someone posts now pictures of like all these you'd be amazed how many women in wrestling have whose holes well there's pictures of what just about every woman in wrestling in their underwear here but let's go back to uh talking about the serious. What kind of goddamn hidden camera of fucking Porky's bullshit's going on that they've got

pictures of all these women in their underwear? No, it appears they're taking the pictures. Well, here's, uh, ooh, here's Clara Mortensen. Ooh, hello. Clara Mortensen. Are you fucking, all right, and nobody else knows. Nobody goddamn knows why that popped me so. Clara Mortensen, ladies and gentlemen.

many think that Mildred Burke was the first women's world wrestling champion. She was the first widely really recognized and exercised one. But Clara Mortensen, what, in the 1920s or 30s, was the one of like three lady wrestlers in the United States? And she was the champion. What was Clara's era? It was, you know, that's a good guy. I found something you don't know fucking right out of your ass. I would say 30s, right, 1930s?

Well, it has to be the 30s. I'm going to say 20s because Mildred Burke was active by 19, what, 37? Yeah. I think Clara Morton, Google Clara Mortensen. Let's see where this, let's see where this old hag started. Is she still alive? Can you hear me? She's 107 years old.

But doing well. doing well. She was born in 1917. Hold on. I guess she wasn't working in the 20s then. This is actually about her acting. She was a large draw in the later 1930s and early 1940s. Women's World Light Heavyweight Champion retired in 51 and became an advisor and actor. What? And an advisor to who? I don't know. She starred in the movie Racquet Girls, a 1950s wrestling exploitation film.

I'm not familiar with that one. You know, I don't believe I've ever seen it. Somebody send us a DVD of Rackett Girls. The wrestling one, not the whatever the pornographic version, I'm sure is. Here it is, Rackett Girls. Who else was in this? Rita Martinez, as Rita Martinez, champion of Mexico. Peaches Page is Peaches Page.

A lot of people play themselves. Real live wrestlers, Peaches Page, and Rita Martinez, as well as former world champion Clara Mortensen, play fictional versions of themselves. I've got to check this movie out. Starring Timothy Farrell as Umberto Scali. This is really an awful episode of the drive-thru so far, ladies and gentlemen. Well, I mean, you're talking.

I'm listening. Hall of Famer Jimmy Lennon Sr. is in this film. Oh, well, there you go. So you know we shot at the Olympic. That's basically all that says right there. Yeah. And he wasn't even Jimmy Lemon. He wasn't Jimmy Lemon.

You're right. That's what I always tell people. He wasn't Jimmy Lennon Sr. yet because there was no Jimmy Lennon Jr. I told you I was tired. I don't know why Jimmy Lemon got. All right, well, listen, ladies and gentlemen, on that note, speaking of lemons, there are none available at Cornett's collectibles. Everything is a good collectible. Oh, I'm glad you brought that up. We're working now on the last about 100, 100, 125 orders. As I mentioned, it's been hectic that we have outstanding, but everything that has been ordered over the last 27 days since June the 1st should be going out to the

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Well, you'll wait for a while. It's not just going to materialize on your goddamn doorstep. You will wait sometime, no matter what you do. You wait for an ambulance. And they're coming as quick as they can. So don't goddamn argue with me about you.

I was waiting. You said there was no waiting. Well, fuck you. how about that take your goddamn money back then motherfucker i don't need your goddamn business if you're gonna sit here and fucking bullshit with me about well i was waiting when you said there was no no reasonable waiting a normal reasonable person would goddamn have just assumed that but no it's got to be like you well i waited well fuck your waiting and fuck your money don't ever lose my number don't ever call me again it's escalating or order any of my merchandise.

But the rest of you, thank you. All right, ladies and gentlemen, Cornets Collectibles at Jimcornett.com. Back to the topic of lemons. What do you want to talk about? Well, I kind of don't want to talk about Raw, but we kind of have to talk about Raw because I know you watched it

and otherwise you'll be mad that you watched it for no reason. So why don't we talk about Raw? Now, I will say going into it, we've seen more disagreement with you and me from the listeners and the comments on YouTube and on various social media platforms, although a lot of people agree with us, more people than we've seen for anything in a while who are either into the Uncle Howdy stuff or wanting to give it a chance or don't understand why we don't see it as brilliant. And I guess I'll just say that here at the top of the show because that's how we ended last week's show, The Murder. of the entire crew of Monday Night Raw, whatever the fuck happened. Fortunately, they were able to find another production crew and, you know, restaffed guerrilla, but go ahead.

But yeah, that's the lead into Monday Night Raw this past week, another sellout, I believe, just like every other Monday. Well, let me say first about the people who, because we have had more people that normally disagree with us on anything, disagree with us on the Wyats. and let me say that after weighing everything carefully, pro and con, listening to some of the feedback from the cult of cornet listeners and carefully considering everything,

I've got to admit that I don't care. I don't give two French-fried titty fucks. I don't like it. And here's why. And don't come at me with the goddamn, see, I'm going to be cranky today, even though it rained. Don't come at me with an undertone. and Kane had the supernatural...

I was never in favor of Undertaker ascending to heaven. I believe I've told the story of how I hid behind the ringpost rather than get on camera for that because he was literally dying and going to heaven on screen in front of our eyes. I wasn't in favor of either one of them being able to throw lightning bolts magically from the ceiling. But I love the gimmicks that were the wrestling gimmicks.

Kevin Sullivan's band of weirdos, and oddities in Florida. As we've told a story when Kevin's been on the program several years ago, the people, the fans believed that they were legitimately some type of devil

worshippers, even though they never said devil or Satan, they thought they were, they, you know, they burned their fucking fans' one time. Remember the story about the weirdos that were following them around because they thought they were weird too? The other fans burned their goddamn van. But they thought they weren't

teleporting themselves anywhere. The other people in the promotion and the other wrestlers weren't cooperating with it. Obviously, the whole production just didn't stop so that they could wander through like zombies to ominous music playing over the PA system. I don't have a problem with spooky gimmicks or horror-inspired

bullshit. I don't have a problem with the goddamn guy in a fucking horror movie mask, right in the ring, a big fucking guy kicking his shit out of it, whatever the fuck. But not when it defies believability and that other people and the entire promotion and production are

cooperating with it. Then it's bullshit. That's not what wrestling is about. Do live horror movie shows, plays, things, whatever that would be. But it would be the same thing as if the gimmick was that Samantha Stevens, the new girl champion, is a witch, and she twitches her nose and shit appears in the ring. No. So that's why I don't like it because it's not what wrestling is in any way, shape, or form, whether modern or territory days or the days of Strangler Lewis, for fuck's sake. Does that make any sense, Brian? It makes sense, and I'll agree with it, and I'll talk a little bit more about it here instead of later on when we talk about the segment.

But, you know, my feelings are the same as it was with the Bray Wyatt segments. clearly creative, clearly someone influenced by whatever, the ring, clearly something that someone should go to Hollywood and work on. Shouldn't be on a wrestling show. It doesn't make sense. Explain how it exists. You can't. And then people go, well, you just got to give into it. That's what people said when Bray Wyatt came back last time.

Just go with it. And it got worse and worse and worse. I know a lot of people were raving about the Bo Dallas interview, him interviewing himself. I said it on Twitter, you'll get it. It was like a Mike Lano video. It rewound itself and the tracking issues would come and go, then perfect quality. And Mike Lano is interviewing a person who then Mike Lano is writing the responses of that person. That's exactly right.

But one other thought about this, and I saw some other people jump on it. And I got to admit, it is a, it is interesting. All the members of the Wyatt six, all six of them, wherever they went to after the show last week, Arby's or whatever, they took a picture of some fan. So it is some fan with all six of these monsters out of characters smiling, eating their roast beef. At Arbys.

I don't remember it was Arby's. Maybe it was Applebee's. Oh, like there's five rackss left in the goddamn country. I don't know where they were, but it was all of them out of character with a smiling happy fan. Dexter Loomis and some other guys. who was probably an NXT and someone else and Nikki Cross. And before somebody says,

oh, well, everybody really believes they're zombies, which is the point, by the way, when do you remember pictures of Undertaker with a goddamn fan in the first six months of his career when he's supposed to be the dead man and he's at McDonald's hoisting a burger with some fucking kid. When did that ever surface?

It didn't. It didn't. That's why it's so shocking now when you see The Undertaker and he's like, he's such a happy, jovial, storytelling, nice guy. He didn't say fucking boo.

I was around him at fan events, like WWF sanctioned fan events in like 92, 93. Yeah. He didn't say anything to anyone. He stayed in character the entire time. Didn't break at all. and I think it was like that on the road too with Percy

yes and that's that's how he is still an icon 30 years later whatever the fact but nevertheless so that's our feelings on the Wyatt family of their their somebody said now the Wyatt six

but who's sick I thought there was five. Is there five or six? Somebody said there was only five. Do they still have one to go? Who are these people? I don't know. Hold on. I'm pulling up the photo right now. There's a pig and a goat and a rabbit and the ugly girl that crawls around and Uncle Howdy. Well, to be fair, there's no roast beef sandwich. I'm looking at the photo now. There are indeed five of them. and Bo Dallas is holding up a super-sized drink from whatever this establishment is

and Eric Rowan is sitting in a chair like you would see at a McDonald's or something. Is he the rabbit? I don't know, he used to be the red beard. Well, he is the red beard. He still was a red beard in this photo. Yes, but he may be the did the kill the Wabit, they killed the Wabit. All right, so the point is there six or is there five or what's going on here?

There's five. I don't know Bray Wyatt. spiritually is the sixth, or if there's a sixth puppet come to life that we're waiting for, I also don't know why anyone cares, but that's me, lifelong wrestling fan. All righty, not afraid of burning in hell. Have you seen that commercial? Ron Reagan, Jr.? Ron Reagan, Jr. My man, my man, the son of the conservative vegetable brain is a lifelong atheist. He does the commercial and he says, Ron Reagan,

lifelong atheist, not afraid of burning in hell. Yeah, it's easy to say that until you start dropping into a fiery pit. Then you're like, I'm fucking afraid! Ah, fire! Sure, it changes then.

In the meantime, and in between times, let's go back to Indianapolis. They had 12,269 fans in attendance there. I believe that was a sellout or was it for their setup. The building may be a bit bigger.

But before we talk about this show, should we talk for a second about the deal that they have done with Indianapolis? Indianapolis, out of nowhere, with an RKO, fuck you, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Fort Walton Beach.

Pampa, Texas, fuck all of you major metropolis is. They're getting, what is it, a Royal Rumble, a WrestleMania and... SummerSlam. And a SummerSlam.

Not in the same calendar year. We have to mention that. That's factually, it's upcoming over a period of, did they say how long? I'm not sure how long. It starts with Royal Rumble in February, February 1st, 2025.

And they did not commit to everything being over a calendar year, and they can't because I think 2025, is that the one they promised SummerSlam to Minneapolis? Well, yeah, but it would be insane to do all three of their major events in the same place, any place.

It's not Vegas, it's Indianapolis. Well, it'd be insane to do it in Vegas. You know, just think about that. WrestleMania, two nights, you're looking at, they're wanting to have 100,000 people or theirabouts, give or take. And SummerSlam this year is going to have, 50,000.

So there's 150. And Royal Rumble, what did they, I've forgotten where they even were now. Well, they've done stadiums in the past with Royal Rumble and there's no reason why they couldn't in the future and couldn't run this one stadium they're going to have access to. But the point is they'd have to,

if it did it all in the same calendar year, in any market, you're talking about selling 200,000 tickets in the same place. I mean, let's come back to reality. But Indian average. It's centrally located. Two hours from Louisville, what, three hours from Chicago.

You get next to all the cities in Ohio, blah, blah, blah, St. Louis. You can get there from a lot of the eastern half the country fairly easily. But boy, howdy. That's a lot of heavy shows going into the same market like that. Because apparently did they say that's the largest. site fee or rights fee or what a largest payoff that they're ever getting for a WrestleMania from a locality?

I believe so. And it says a lot about whatever kind of investment Indianapolis is making in their future, what they think this will do to attract people and business and the businesses that they think will build up between event one and the final event on the deal. And of course, pay-per-view is all, also probably includes the Raw, the Smackdown, the NXT, the Hall of Fame, whatever it may be around that.

So it's a big, it's an interesting move for a town like Indianapolis to put down a lot of money and try to hope that this does something to, because again, you wouldn't really think of that as being the place to do this. So it's an interesting move from them. It'll be, you know, it'll play out well or it'll lose them money and WW will be fine either way. well and that's the thing is and this isn't even taking into account any UFC shows that might go to Indianapolis but um the new ownership again they're like boy they're just flat out horrors there's yes pay us we'll come there pay us more money they're jacking these places for rights fees they are jacking

the ticket prices up and getting it and they've got 11. now because it's not even when it was still Vince even a publicly traded company it was just the WWE by itself and even though it was a 4 billion 5 billion whatever is worth

back in the old days it is still you know we call hey Indianapolis give us X million dollars and we'll do our show there and charge a charge admission for all your citizens and they don't fuck you

but now these are major Hollywood muckety mucks and they know every fucking body and they're dealing in multiple hundreds of millions of dollars for shit so I mean it's this is a goddamn blowout and for I have to think

what the fuck is another goddamn more major and not even New York or Los Angeles, I'm pretty sure they don't need the help. I'm joshing. But, you know, what is a more major city than Indianapolis going to try to counter with to get this business in the future? It's not just cities, it's countries. Australia is in the mix.

England wants WrestleMania. And the mayor of London. Yeah. who's related to the cons and still wants WrestleMania. Well, no, he's his own con. He's a con. He's a con of his own. That's right.

Well, anyway, speaking of these kinds, here's another con at the top of the raw program on June 24th. Pat McAfee was not there. And Michael Cole said, and I quote, I wouldn't read too much into that. So did you hear that Uncle Dave read a lot into it? I saw something, and again, I didn't hear the original report, but I guess it's been intimated at Dave Meltzer, or at least reporting on his site. I don't know exactly how what happened, said that he was getting over the Wyatt Six stuff, I believe, because they had just, when we were actually recording the last show, they had invaded Pat McAfee's show.

That's how it went off the air. Yeah, well, I saw a tweet where it was like, I think the words from Uncle Dave was, it's 100% storyline with. the whites. Oh. Yes. And the point is, come to find out, Pat McAfee's father-in-law passed away.

And not, he's not selling an angle. And that's, it's where he lives, Indianapolis. But he was suddenly called away because it was not an expected thing that apparently that happened.

But yeah, that's a lot of people were tweeted, Dave, what the fuck? Oh, yeah. selling the A. He went so far to sell the angle, he killed his father-in-law. Anyway, so the show starts,

and Cole is there, and they brought Ms. out after a while, but I tuned that out, but they're doing the false pitch to last week to explain what happened when everybody was murdered, and all of a sudden, Drew McIntyre just walks right past the camera

and into the ring. and this is what this show we started in the penthouse and ended up in the outhouse immediately the people are chanting seeing him punk and he calls Drew calls for a replay what happened last way I can't do the accent

I sound more like Bill Dundee what happened last meet mate when he beat this shit out of punk and carried him in the building and threw him down and it looked like it almost broke his arm when he chucked him off his back and Drew said, I prayed for this, and the big man made it happen.

Me. And I am just, I'm loving this every time he does an interview. I want to listen to this shit. And it's not just the material, it's the delivery and the attitude. It's perfect. And he says he's done with all of you, see him, punk chanters, because he complained about everything. everything had been done to him and all the fans still chance to see him punk well you're dead to me

and then he told punk he said i hope you're uncomfortable in pain and being fed through a straw oh hold on one second brian i i must fan myself i believe i'm getting the vapors oh will you stop oh how so then and this is it now i'm getting goosebumps it's This is great. The bracelet that he pulled off, I meant to mention it. I don't remember if I did or not when we talked about it. I think I did, but he pulled a bracelet off, but it wasn't made a big deal at the time, and we didn't really know what it was.

And I knew it was going to be something, but this is, he held the bracelet up, and it says it's one of the, make your own with the little help me. where you have children and people who make things what is that bracelet describe it for the people it's a friendship bracelet everyone knows what that is see it's a friendship bracelet there's a problem i've never had a friendship so anyway he holds the friendship bracelet it's got the little blocks that have the the letters

and you string it and it spells out names or things and it says Larry and AJ and he apparently a fan and this is a story he's telling it's great. A fan made this almost like when they tore up the fucking fantastics jackets or the fan club president's cake

got destroyed by the heel giving it to the baby face or whatever but a fan made the bracelet, gave it to see him punk and he trends treasures it wears it every time he leaves the house because he has his family with him. Yeah, Larry and AJ, you, your wife and your stupid dog, and the fans started chanting Larry. Larry, Larry.

The WWE is getting people to chant for the boys' dogs. And the God, an AEW can't give people to chant anything except for a refund. so now they're chandelary larry and drew enters the money in the bank match and he's he intends on entering it and he's going to win it while punk is alone and miserable and he puts the bracelet on and he says i'm not alone because i've got your wife and dog in my corner now this is some fucking shakespeare right here fella don't you think McIntyre's been on a roll We said he had to do something

A punk as punk's gotten him a few times Somehow we did something and escalated things and not too far Now you can't wait to see what punk's gonna do because he has to do something It's gonna be a nice fun road I think between now and SummerSlam You just know he's gonna do something about that

And see that's what I said They apparently are confident that they can put this match on at at SummerSlam because that's why I said you wouldn't want to do something to punk without having some type of clear date that he may be,

that he'll be clear that he could return, that you could actually promote the match too far out and people it would wear off. But SummerSlam is what, six weeks or whatever the fuck it is, which that's just lovely because he just got beat up he's got to get well from that too

but Drew McIntyre is my new verbal hero because he just and I think he means all of this shit I really do I think he's entirely shooting and he would probably if he could get away with it

he could probably poison half these people and not think twice about it and then they did the video of the the Wyatt's attacking, the slaughtering. Did we ever get an explanation as to the state or status of the rest of the miscellaneous bodies laying around from last week, or was it, and Gable, the one we got a good, clear look at, made sure we knew who that was, he pulls up in an SUV hiding his face from the camera

with a goddamn band-aid on his head. And he's wrestling tonight and did quite a yeoman's job for himself, as I recall. We'll get to that in a minute. Yeah, what happened to the guy that had the R-Budge-Wire blood splatter behind his head? Oh, on! Where's that guy?

Wait a minute. No, don't do that. That's so distasteful. No, the boom goes the dynamite with R-Bud-D-W-D-W-Y-E-R, I believe. Google it. Kids. Don't Google it, kids. That reference will make Brian go to Hades or Mephistophiles or

at least have him have fleas. But anyway, so there was a guy with a blood splatter behind. I mean, that's my point. There was blood splatter. Where's everyone else? Did the entire production crew just heal up and come back the next week? Did anyone die? The workman's comp laws are stricter where they were last week.

where's the fire commissioner there's smoke everywhere you know what by the way ladies and gentlemen if you happen to go to a wwee event and the wyatt six show up and the spooky smoke starts rolling in out of the graveyard and that steam and that smoke starts billowing across the floor and it rises two or three or four feet up, you better start holding your breath because who knows whether that stuff is carcinogenic, or even not a Johnny Carson fan, but a carcinogenic.

Carcinogenic? You can get cancer from that badass shit. And if you do, then you need to get on a telephone and call this man. Call Steve. M. P. News. A show for two.

Those are the rest. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, and a tea time movie listeners, you can be poisoned by this type of stuff if you take a big, strong huff of that stuff. Huff of that stuff. When it wafts across the floor, when those wyats are approaching you,

you will undoubtedly die of asshole cancer within the next three to six years. So right now, if this has already happened to you, or if you want to go to an event and huff some, then just call 87750 Steve or go to new lawoffice.com because Stephen P.Noo can get you compensated. He will make them buy you a brand new pair of lungs. I'll tell you, Stephen Pino, he's fixing to rip the lungs out of somebody

for using them to lie too much, and he can easily get somebody to pay for you a new cell. of lungs, if you have been poisoned. That's what happened back there at the guerrilla position. Was all those people, they passed out from breathing those fumes off of that spooky atmospheric smoke.

And then they just bludgeoned them and exploded their brains all over the wall while they were already passed out, Brian. But anyway, if, I don't know if Stephen can help you if zombies bludgeon your brains out,

but if you huff some bad zombie smoke, or if you're damaged or harmed in any other way, folks, call 87750, Steve. You'll be glad you did. He answers the phone personally, I understand, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. That's Eastern time. All right, bad zombie smoke. Get even with Stephen, new law office.com, 87750, Steve. I swear one of these entrepreneurs out in California now,

that listens to our program is going to have a strain. They're selling at the dispensary, a bad zombie smoke. Hey, you know, speaking of, you know, real quick before we get back to Ross, speaking of things that have recently taken off, the person had the trademark and copyright,

or they're in the process of doing it, have you been following the fascination just over the last couple weeks with Hoc2 girl? I don't know how, I'm not going to make the spitting sound, but almost like, you know, as Shiki used to say, say, Hacaputu.

But yeah, I have seen this because it's been all over Twitter, and I saw it unfortunately, now can't unsee it. And it's been everywhere. Well, I'll play some audio here. Oh, I wish you wouldn't. Here is from the Tim and D TV YouTube channel, the original, where this originally comes from. They're interviewing people on the street in Nashville.

Let's go to this. Explain. Oh, this is her friend, I guess. I'm waiting for the other girl to come over. I can. That guy has called her now. Leave a message to your last body. I love you, pookie.

They must have been doing the right thing. What can I say? Okay. Bit the car would have left to say. Are you supposed to do it in for? I'll let me stop it there for a second. Any initial thoughts on the conversation happening here on the street, Nashville? Are,

I swear I didn't hear you said where it was maybe beforehand, but I was going to say, are they in Tennessee or maybe Upper Alabama? As soon as I heard that girl talk. They're in Nashville, and for the record, it appears the woman's name. I just saw it here before. I'll go looking for her. Is she, what is she on Cameo now, or she's being booked on television? Her name is Haley Welch.

Haley, is she related, you think, or maybe no relation? Tennessee, the Welch's. Every Welch in the state of Tennessee has to somehow be related, right? You would almost think so, yes. Roy, he got around, but... Well, she's a shooter, just like her uncle her. Let's go back to this. You know, Roy Welch once had two wives at the same time in different cities in the same

state and didn't even have any trouble over it? Man, they really were making good money back then. Hold on. Let's go back to a Haktua girl. Waitin. Come on. She'll be back. Like, I don't know how to answer those. All right.

All right. Now he's talking to the other bubblehead here. Let me, uh, here comes the other girl back. Here she is. What makes her wiping material? That bad. Pearl turnaround. Let me see.

He's fucking lying. I'm trying to find the actual part because they're unbearable. Jace, do your, do your worst. They're all unbearable. Hold on. Let's see this. Oh. This is for her.

What? You got into this, you got it. What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time? Oh, you got to give him that huck to and spit on that thing. You get me? I don't get you. I think you got to. I'll be stopping there.

So she's... Spit on that thing. I mean, you can almost pinpoint her zip code with that accent. Go ahead. Well, that's the thing I was going to ask you. When you first see this, it's so exaggerated. Do you think that's her real... accent or do you think she's putting anything on?

No, I think she's put on about fucking eight double vodkas, but that's the only thing she's put on. No, that's the way she's talking to her friends. And her advice, uh, for a good time is a salty blowjob, apparently. Yes, that's a couple of bubble-headed white girls drunk down there on Broadway. Well, apparently now, she is taking advantage of the situation. I have an article from the New York Post. Okay, now I knew this was coming now. Okay. viral Hoctula girl

sells more than $65,000 in merch in wake of not safe for work social media fame A false rumor also went around that she had been fired from her job as a kindergarten teacher That it turns out How old, ho pump the break

It turns out that's fake And everyone should have known it was fake I was going to say she was barely out of kindergarten Well preschool not kindergarten preschool but here's why you should have known it was fake Here's the quote from the story We have kids spitting on each other and everything else.

They really look up to her as a role model and imitate the things that she does. We love her, but unfortunately we cannot allow this type of behavior from one of our own faculty members. So the kids in the preschool saw the video and started spitting in the play. That's what I was like, this is a fake story. How's anyone believing this? But here she is. Young girl drunk night out.

She's made 65 grand on merchandise. So far, she's apparently trying to... Imagine if she was selling Hock Pituas. If she... She could make a lot more on Hock Pituas than she could on T-shirts, can she? Welch, who was initially rumored to have signed with Hollywood's United Talent Agency,

is also working on trademarking her now infamous phase... Faze. Maybe it is a phase. Her infamous phrase. So this may be something that turns her into a multi-millionaire, her... Her late night, honest rambles. Getting drunk and admitting you spit on dicks has just made this young lady only in America.

Only in America, ladies and gentlemen, land of the free and the home of the stupid. Can you make those, those English words have never been put together in that order before. You realize that, don't you, Brian? I do. You know, it's the accent, too, that I think really puts it over. the top where, hold on, let's go back to this one more time. I'm going to answer this, you got it. What's one move in bed that makes a mango crazy every time?

Oh, you got to give him that hook to and spit on that thing. You get me? You get me. She was looking for someone to be like, yeah, yeah, all right. Yeah. All righty then. Well, there it is, the blowjob break from Raw. Where did that come from?

Now, here I was trying to, I don't have a hat, I threw my pen down on the desk in frustration at you because I'm trying to praise something about the grappling. No, sounds like she really knows her stuff. I would praise this too. I'm sure she gets a lot of praise. Well, I'm sure she gets a lot of business. But nevertheless, back to the raw.

You're going to wear that hat? You're going to wear that shirt? Oh, you're a fan of dick spitting. And then they'll do the union shirts like Dick Spitters, Local 69. Local Dick Spitters. Hey, here you go. What's her name again? Did you lose her name?

Haley Welch. She's going to change it to Hawk Tua anyway. We're giving you free ideas here. Yeah, Dick Spitter's Local number 69. Oh, she's made up one of those hats I see here, like for, I had to have like the two candidates for president. You know, Cornette last, we've seen that one. Hawk, Tua, 24, spit on that thing.

I miss Tennessee. But let's go back to Raw. All right. So anyway, to recap, so far, Drew McIntyre was brilliant. And then they VTRed the Wyatt attack from last week. And then Gable pulled up in an SUV. And I've seen people goddamn selling a fucking tooth pulling, worse than this guy was selling his attempted homicide

last week. And besides for the Wyatt thing and at least it was only in package form Raw was going good and here comes Bronbreaker and Ludwig Kaiser. And Kaiser does a promo beforehand and he has got

great mannerisms as a pompous, a snooty arrogant heel, he's got the facials and the attitude and he's very prissy and proper at the same time.

He's blossoming here. He's blooming in front of our very eyes. His parents must have fucked in a flower bed because he's a blooming idiot. He's not. I just, I wanted to use that line. And you know what? Again, I was saying, now we go straight into Braun Breaker. And

this show is moving. Normally you have to shoot it with time lapse photography. It's so fucking long. But they're cooking here, right? And Braun was getting the crowd, even though he's a heel also, but he's the kind of heel that they're always going to cheer against another heel, a big tough badass.

And Kaiser is the heel they're always going to boo against another heel. because he's a pussy. Right? That's, I mean, this is wrestling psychology. I'm not making this shit up. So, as Stacy said that Kaiser looks like every member of Depeche Mode with the fucking hair and the whole, apparently you're not a Depeche Mode fan.

Eh, I mean, you know, not really. The early stuff is kind of all right, but then it gets really dark, and I'm not really into, like, you know, heroin pop like that, whatever the fuck you want to call, the heroin synth pop. Not for me. Well, Depeche Mode did that classic hit, um, uh... Which one?

Yeah, what, uh... Just can't get enough? Possibly. That was one of their early songs, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, anyway. But no, but Kaiser, the one thing I did notice when he was coming out to, his trunks are like, really, like...

Is he on the fucking swim team? Get a pair of real wrestling trunks. What is that? No, he, see, he's signed up with the same talent agency that represents Speedos. And it's, I'm, it's heat. It's for you can't, it's heat. I guess. I think, I think they ought to get smaller.

I think he ought to be out there to goddamn jockstrap. That would be, he would, oh my God. Once they get on Netflix, I'm telling you. The new attitude ever, ladies and gentlemen. A black leather jockstrap with fucking rhinestones. Anyway, so again, Kaiser the pussy heel. the eyes and that's how he gets the heat on Braun or he cheats in some fashion

and Braun was selling here because he to have a match logically you have to have a save and if they're both heels you got to have the sympathetic bigger and etc and the people are going to like him so boom and he did the leap again

where he jumps off the apron and clotheslines the guy over the announced desk who's standing in front of it boom and doesn't do it like diving, but does it leaping and then his feet go over first. Did I describe that properly? Yeah.

Where he catches him going over the side. I slow-mowed that. It was perfect. I mean, there's safer things you could do. You could, you know, go to sleep in bed, and it's not risky. But this was as safe as you can do this. He nailed that fucking thing.

And he nailed his, a dagum deal again the leaping Frankensteiner so it was just a bobble with you know

Seamus must have been sweating profusely under his armpits on the top rope last week or whatever but nevertheless boom they had a good match Kaiser is really

he's being allowed to blossom now instead of being henchman number three in a fucking Batman episode right his own guy. And the problem was, on a belly to belly from Steiner,

Kaiser landed on his arm because he got over-rotated or over-rotated one or the other. It looked like he might have got over-rotated. And have we heard anything other than he was being checked out? He may have been, had an arm injury. I have not heard anything yet. have you talked to the medical staff up there we've exchanged messages have you so that they you have reached out for comment to the executive director of medical terminology at the wwe i reached out i don't know about comment i had a splinter i needed some help well well in that

case we'll we'll report back but hopefully he's okay anyway boom boom boom as they say Braun belly to belly him over the top Kaiser dodged the spear Kaiser went for a kick and ran right into Seamus's kick. He appeared. So now they must have a trap door close to the goddamn ring. But anyway, he went for the power bomb on Kaiser

and they timed it out so that Braun speared Seamus out from under Kaiser when Kaiser was up to be power bombed on the death. And then Braun ends up being the guy walking away and left and disgust. And this is great shit. This is some dusty roads level shit to get a fucking guy like Bronbreaker over. Did I say Steiner a few minutes ago? You did.

Well, everybody knows what we're talking about here. But this was great too. I loved the whole thing. What did you think of the whole thing? I thought it was really good. I've enjoyed the string of matches with Braun Breaker and a string of things. And again, Kaiser needs a pair of real trunks. I don't know what.

It's like he's in a club in Germany. I don't know what the hell's going on there, but good match. And I like the promo. You talked a little bit about that. The promo was the most serious we've ever heard Kaiser before. Yes. And he's doing a good job with it. But maybe so what you're saying is the only, he's missing something like the Alex

Wright dangly leather jacket type of thing. Alex is right. And the dancing? No, his trunks were not as skimpy as Kaiser Wilhelms. Or is that his name or is it? No, Ludwig Kaiser. Ludwig. He graduated.

He used to be Kaiser Wilhelm when he was a stooge, but now he's Ludwig Kaiser. And speaking of ludicrous, we go to the Judgment Day Clubhouse where all of them are enjoying the gifts that Liv Morgan has given them, except for Damien Priest, who's giving them the advice in stern terms that they need to quit all this bullshit. playing games and video games and tells Dom drop that live Morgan, this is going to be trouble. Get rid of Braun Strongman or Brown Stromah, whatever his fucking name is.

Braun Stroman is indeed his name. Well, and that's basically what we've got, the judgment day in the clubhouse, and the whole thing would live, and that's going on. And, but then, hold on, go ahead. No, no, maybe I'm jumping the shark, because I don't know what else you're going to talk about

with the judgment day and live. Well, just that was the thing. There's more on that later, but that was where that was. And then they go back to Braun Breaker, who's in the back bitching out Adam Pierce about interference in his business. And Sammy Zane comes in and says,

well, you want to match for the intercontinental title. Well, you can have it anytime, any place anywhere. And boy, if I was Sammy Zane, I was looking at Bronberger, I wouldn't say that. But he's a feisty young chap. That should be a whole of them, man. match. Yes, it's going to be.

And I'm looking, that's, I'm looking forward to that. And it's, he says money in the bank and Sammy agrees to it. So we've got that. That should be a hell of a match. I'm actually really interested to see him work with Sammy one-on-one. That should be good. I'm wondering if they're going to put it on him. Huh.

I mean, we originally said that he was our guy to beat Gunther. And as of now, him coming in as a heel and doing all this, it was the right move that didn't do that. They put it on Sammy. Sammy's run has really been used to kind of elevate Gable. Bronson-Reed's been in like 45 three-way matches, never won a goddamn thing. Right? He's always in a three-way back for a intercombedel title and he never wins.

Had 45 three-ways and never won a goddamn thing is the new equivalent of broke whatever and never won a goddamn, or drew a goddamn dime. Sammy's been showing a little bit of a harder edge or I don't know how you want to phrase it. putting the belt on Braun and it may be a good thing for Sammy to kind of freshen him up a little bit and it doesn't hurt to have a guy like Braun hold a belt if he's not going to lose it for a while it'll just add to the credibility of the belt and the credibility of Braun Breaker. Well, I'll have you know it was 40 minutes into the show.

The only thing that I had been fast forwarding was commercials. But then that string was broken with Carrie Sane versus Basler versus Lyric a valedictorian. But then we got to the 9 o'clock hour and here came Liv Morgan and Zelina

and Dominic and Liv Morgan sounds like Moon Zappa except Moon Zappa is bigger and tougher and I skip anything to do with Liv Morgan just for my sanity this week because I was running low on time.

Was there anything pithy that I missed? I'm enjoying the live Morgan stuff with Dominic. It is very interesting, not trying to read too much into it, but considering the things that happened with Vince McMahon and WWEs being involved in the case, I mean, they're a party, that they're doing some kind of thing where one of the female wrestlers is sending nude photos of herself to everyone and trying to seduce the wrestler to get what she wants. I mean, maybe I'm reading too much into it.

has a history at least under Vince McMahon of taking real-life shit and for their own perverse purposes putting it on TV in some weird way. It is interesting. I get a kick out of it. I think Liv's doing a good job with it and we'll see where it goes.

Does it end up with her with Finn Baller? How does it end up? And Ria Ripley has to come back. Ria Ripley, again, pictures on social media, she just got married. So everyone knows she's married to something. Not everyone, but a good portion of the fans know she's not married to Dom or going to me.

Well, we didn't want to say anything, but, you know, now that that has gone public, Ria and I privately decided to end our relationship a few months ago. And what? I don't, I don't blame her for on the rebound, you know, leaping into the arms of buddy. Speaking of on the rebound, that was one of your first Netflix moments on the show when Zalina said that lives after Ria's sloppy seconds and then the audience started chanting sloppy seconds. Oh, I missed that. But yeah, that probably needs to go on Netflix too. They're usually more bleep happy on the WW programming, especially on Fox, than they are on the AEW programming.

Were they trying to bleep sloppy seconds or was the guy asleep at the button? He was sloppy. No, they didn't bleep it. He was running a sloppy second shop? Yeah. Maybe he was watching the video of the girl talking in Nashville about her sloppy seconds. I really don't know.

Well, they were bleeping cucks over on TVS the other night. What was that? But not prick. Prick is okay. Cuck is not. Why did they bleep cuck? I mean, because they kept doing it. And then I'm thinking, like, why are they calling them that if it's going to keep getting bleeped?

But why would they think that would be bleep? Or do you think Matt and Nick really didn't like it? And they're saying, oh, fuck. Did the guy TBS think they were saying cock, not cuck? Well, that's for a long time what I thought the insult was to begin with. I thought people just couldn't spell. But anyway. But I like to live stuff and there's no cock and, well.

All right, Monday Night, I'm pretty sure on Netflix we're going to get fucking on Monday Night Raw at some point, but let's go back to Raw. Well, that's better than every week right now when we get fucked by Monday, Night Raw. No, but then Brown Strong Man and Bronson Reed and Chad Gable had a three-way, and it's not as sexy or dirty as it sounds they were wrestling. But when Gable came out, he cut to promo, and he was trying to explain on his way to the ring how he was, you know, in the state he was in last week after the attack, and now he said, I was left for dead by monsters last week.

Kind of almost tongue in cheek and blood, but I can't be killed. Look how resilient I am. And meanwhile, the people are wotting him to death. But why did they even do that if then he was going to, no, you know what,

I'm okay. Just a flesh wound. Nothing more to see her. Return to your homes. No reason to be mad at the zombies. I'm just fine. Why would they, why did they do it then? Are you speaking to me on any kind of feud? I don't have an answer.

I don't have an answer why they did that zombie thing and then anyone ever appeared on the show ever again, including the zombies. But anyway, I swear to God they started this match and in the first 30 seconds, old strong man almost fell out of the ring by accident. Did you see that? I did. Jeez. And finally...

Gable is crouched on the top rope. He's climbed up on the top. He's going to do his moonsault, and they flap the ropes, and boom, he crotches himself. And he sits there for like the next 45 seconds. You're waiting for this other shit to go on. And Brown power slams Bronson Reed on the floor. And then the Judgment Day attack Brown,

because it's no disqualification. lazy booking shirts still on sale and he fights back but there's too many of them and they beat him up in the entryway and Gable is still on top selling his crotch and finally he just gets up and moonsaults Bronson Reed

one two three and then suddenly the lights go out Brian would you like to comment on anything in that three-way match before we continue on. No, I was almost hopeful that nothing would happen with the spooky people, but I was shit out of luck.

I will say, as you go to review that part, right when it began, you literally saw the smoke begin in the corner of the ring. So they hit the smoke machine too early, because now it looks completely preposterous. But anyway, go to the other preposterous part. Well, to get to the heights of preposterosity, the smoke fills up the ring and then the spooky girl crawls in comes out from under the ring

and crawls in toward Gable and Gable turns around and sees her and falls down on his ass in fear and rolls out that was and he leave that was his exit

at least they didn't involve him any further in this but why would you fall down in fear. You get the fuck out of the ring. Anyway, it's a grown man and it's a tiny, deformed woman. Kick her in the face.

I mean, seriously. She's crawling. Yes. I had my best success against this big 12-year-old bully. Used to live next door to me when I was about nine by kicking her right in the face when she was down on her hands and knees like that. She didn't mess with me anymore. You had a 12-year-old bully?

Yeah, she lived next door. she beat you up what was going on well and they cut my toe on her braces too i'll have you know because i was barefoot what's what are you laughing about but jim cornet the childhood years is the most fascinating part of you i think and i think we could do a tv show out of it well i'll get back with you on my demands but anyway the girl crawls out of the ring and gives a box to michael cole and now i should mention and i've been been reticent, or not reticent, but just laps in not mentioning, that they had extra security because what happened last week everywhere? Well, there was two security guards behind the

commentary desk where Michael Cole was. As the girl crawls out of the rig and goes over to Michael Cole to give him the box, you see the extra security guys are just bent over the fucking announced desk unconscious, just face first. but still kind of on their feet and just laying there. And Michael Cole, you've never heard Michael Cole say anything like, oh my God, who are you attacking these men? He just says, well, our security has been disabled or some shit by that. What the fuck?

What is this nerve gas? Is that not smuggler? 87750, Steve. if you are paralyzed by nerve gas whenever the Wyatt 6 show up along with old little Annie Fanny Wyatt here or whatever her name is

I get gas from the nerve of them Oh She crawls in the ring slowly He stands there the whole time The ring's filling up with smoke He stands there You saw the smoke machine start in the corner of the ring And then she just slowly walks out of the building

And she hands in this tape, no one stops her. We can get into the idea where did she get a blank VHS cassette, but that's a whole other story. Well, they were in Indianapolis, you know, they had to drive all the way down here to get the tape and the player. To who? Apparently 100 miles. I'm the closest guy that had both.

But anyway, so, and she walks to the back of the arena slowly. And while, ding, ding. ding the one guy is there the one note is being played on the pie annie and so they go to the break and they come back it has to be so anticlimactic to be her and doing that and then you're walking out no one does anything you know there's no heat or anything oh there were a bunch of people farting in her general direction people just stare and then you walk out of there it's not like coming back from a match like yeah all right what a great performance you

You walked wonderfully and handled, handed like a true pro. Okay, I guess I did that. What's next? How do you end that? But, well, that's what the thing is, we still don't what the fuck the box? That's the tease through the break and they come back and they recap it again. And then Michael Cole is at the desk. With new security guy, well, we got new security.

And there's two guys standing there well, conscious. But what happened to the two bodies? Why are they not still getting medical attention? How did they just switch these motherfuckers out? What the... That's why I don't like this shit. It's preposterous. And then he opens the box.

It gets out of VHS tape. The label says, play me. And I saw that. It was a vivid video release in 1982. And I don't think they could show much of that. Not till they get to Netflix. comments. 82 is pretty early for Vivid, but other than that...

It was one of there earlier. It was a lower budget feature, so many of the girls had acne. Yeah, not what I like on my wrestling show, and they're not doing anything to make me think otherwise. Well, and then they had a girls tag team match, player. But the problem is, after seeing something like that, you may be... scared you may say you know i've had enough of wrestling it's time to pack it in for the night it's time to get a good night's sleep forget about all this start over and we know exactly who they

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But we had Damian Priest doing an in-ring promo with Seth Franklin Rollins coming out. And I have to admit to you that I did not watch this because they talked and sang and got sang to and et cetera for 12 minutes until Gunther started walking out. And then I started watching. But did I miss anything in that 12 minutes? because it looked like a lot of long WWE-style dramatic rimditions. And that's kind of what it was. And to Rollins' credit, he survives that stuff better than most, mainly because he can, at any point, just close his eyes and fans will start singing.

It's a wonderful way to get around a promo if you're like, forget a word or something. Just close your eyes and let them sing. Priest is just not doing it for me at all on the mic. He doesn't feel like a world champion. And every time he talks, I just see it less and less. You think he needs some kind of confidence to kick it in. Just something needs to be done differently. And I don't know exactly what.

And you throw Gunther in this now. I mean, Guzor better win that fucking title. You know, this is not like, I think Drew should win. Guzher, I mean, that's a world champion. And, you know, Rollins is coming off an injury and the injury looked bad, or at least the after effects that we saw look bad, unless you're going to try to use this to keep everything on Priest and make them again, I don't know.

I think they got to find something else to do a priest. He's the world champion. I'm saying you got to find something else to do a priest right now. I'm saying it, it's ridiculous. He's the world champion. What about working in a soup kitchen? Would that be suitable in your eyes? No, I think he's better than soup,

but what about nuts what kind of nuts what kind of nuts what kind of nuts well pistachios yeah I could do without pistachio a good walnut though a good walnut then let me ask you this

you know what you got you know what you've got when you got nuts on the wall what's that walnuts you know what you got when you got nuts on your chest chestnuts

chest nuts you know what you got when you got nuts on your chin What's that? A dick in your mouth, but nevertheless. Haktu. Haktui. Why doesn't it the estate of the Iron Sheiks step up right now and say, wait a minute, girl.

Hey, it could be known as the Great Spitting Ward. I spit on you. I spit on you. One spit over America. One spit over a dick. Whose side do you take? Dick spitting and flag spitting. All right, nevertheless.

So apparently, we'll sum up what happened with Priest and Seth in 12 minutes. Their match at money in the bank, if Priest loses, he has to leave the judgment day. And Priest made the comment that the judgment day needs me more than I need them. Ooh. And then Gunther came out. And Goonther basically said, I understand a lot is on the line. Good luck to you both. I cannot wait.

Now I sound like a Super Mario. No, this is pretty good. You're doing a pretty good Goonther, I have to say. You were until you decided to become Mario. Well, yeah. I can't wait to see the match. Made a better man win. Now it's Bellew.

Now it's Bellin. Now sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger. But no mistake. It's SummerSlam. Now I sound like Zero Mustel. The better of you will be lesser to me, and he left. Yeah, so, yeah, Gunther better win this thing at SummerSlam. I don't care who else is.

And you know what? I said they got to do something else with Priest. I'm sorry to say for him that losing the belt may be part of it, but the bigger thing is what they hit on there. We're at the point. He has to be away from Judgment Day probably to really be something more. but nevertheless unfortunately they found a VHS machine

and it was Uncle Howdy who we are led to believe by the backstage sources is Bo Dallas right and he was interviewing Bo Dallas with the spooky video and the altered voices and the

various altered sources and the various altered states of mind that writes this stuff. And yeah, Bo Dallas did a good promo. Without all the supernatural hocus pocus mumbo jumbo, the production effects, the smoke

machines and everything. They got their grandfather's acting ability. Yeah, what would it have been like if he came out and did this promo like a human being? How did it feel when your brother died like the most important thing in my life was taken away. I'm not exploiting his legacy. I always wanted to be my brother.

I looked up to him. I idolized him and I wanted to carry it up. We were going to rule together. And now, you know, he's gone. They wanted to forget about all of us. Well, we made him all remember. But as a human fucking being. I don't, and do they need the post production to put that together?

It looks like that some of them, as you said, got Blackjack's promo ability. Like, I was dubbing tapes, like, all the time. You know what I mean? That's like, it's weird to watch, like, them pretend to have a dub tape in 2024. Because what is this? And again, there's always production value. It's really well done. He's a good actor like his brother.

And like I said, his grandfather, Black Jack Mulligan could make up a story and have you believe it in two seconds. and he's got it, he can act. And these are really creative little horror flick things that go nowhere. They never go anywhere. But yeah, I mean, that's kind of the world we're stuck in now. And it doesn't explain how everyone got murdered last week. Of course not, because how can you? But there's a point you just made, is this going to go somewhere?

Or is it going to be like the other Bray Wyatt stuff where it was, spookiness that you never got a resolution of whatever the fuck it was, so you figured out what everything meant all along, right? The end of the movie. Once these five people start squashing wrestlers that the fans care about, it's going to be a problem again.

Because that's what it is. No one could, Bray Wyatt killed Babyface's dead. With the exception to L.A. Knight, who, you know, work out. Actually, no, no, honestly, he killed L.A. Knight so dead that the fans felt sorry for him and resurrected him. You know what, that is true? Because I remember I was thinking, like, what the hell is going on here? Why are they booking this? And it backfired.

Yeah. We'll see. I mean, the other thing is the height of, if you could say that, the height of the Bray Wyatt stuff was during a pandemic where they were doing those cinematic, remember him and Braun Strowman in the swamp and he drowned him. at the end. And then, of course, he had his match where he was burned. He was burned. It was the one with him and Sina, where, you know.

Fire and water. What's next? He's blown away in a tornado. That's the thing I worry about there. There are people who think it's cool. And look, I love David Lynch. I think David, I love Twin Peaks. But at a certain point, you're like, man, this is...

I'd rather see Becky Lynch's Twin Peaks, but that's... That came out of nowhere. We're not even talking about Becky Lynch. But my point is I like Twin Peaks, even I can admit, it's still cool when he brought it back, but it went nowhere. It goes nowhere. It just goes nowhere. And it's fine if you're a filmmaker making your little films.

I'm not saying little films to despair. You're making your little films over there, David Lynch. But this is a segment in a professional wrestling show. This is not a standalone show. So I just feel like wrestling should kind of have one uniform universe that exists in. It should be a universe where, these crazy people and these crazy things happen in a world of K-Fabe,

which means everything that's happening in the real world is happening here. It's just all of this is supposed to be real too. As opposed to, you know, now it's time for the science fiction portion of the show. Let's start to smoke machines. Smoke machine. I mean, God damn it, they're using smoke machines. It's like a bar mitzvah.

As what I was saying earlier, if it can't possibly happened by the laws that we live under of gravity and physics and, you know, time and space, then just don't do it. Anyway, that's what happened. Carrying Cross wrestled Coffey Kingston. They recapped Jacob Fatu's debut. Wherwolves of Samoa.

He's a hairy-handed gent, you know. Your werewolf stinks. Well, have you ever tried to give a werewolf a bath? Anything about that? That's another thing for you to think about. And then we're going to get a six-man tag match at Money in the Bank. Coincidentally and conveniently, as I mentioned on the previous program, Orton and Owens got bumped out of their three-way triple threat whatever's to getting the money in the bank.

So, well, they'll just have to team with the world champion Cody against the blood, line, but which three of the bloodline? They had a picture of all of them. If I had the guess, it has to be Jacob Fatu, Solo, and Tamatanga. I think Tonga Loa is the one that probably would do best in a suit on the outside of the ring for that match. Or, because this is money in the bank, and it's a six-man, and where are they from? What country this time?

They're from Tonga. And some of them are from Samoa. No, I'm saying where is the show emanating from is what I'm saying to you. Money in the bank. Money in the bank will be coming to you from July 6th, 2024. God damn it. Money in the bank will be coming to you from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Scotty Bank Arena. I'm wondering if they don't have the Tongas and Solo, and they do it,

job in the end to make the people happy in that respect to the baby faces. And then Jacob Fatu goes just a teetotal craze and beats up some more people and does that springboard moonsault or another one of his repertoire of ridiculously physical athletic things. How long would you wait before he actually wrestles a match? Well, we've got to, we got to hear the story first, really of why he. not why he's been brought in, but I've been broadly, but I mean, his backstory a little bit and what Solo brought him here to do

and what is, he's not the right-hand man, he's not the infamous guy, what is he going to be, establish his position, who he reports to, et cetera, and then let him be explosive a little while longer. Before we see him wrestle, that's what I do, but, I mean, you know, he's impressive no matter what. and then we had the tag team title match with the Miz and Truth against Finn and J.D. And Brown Strongman interfered and chased Carlito and Dominic out of the place.

And a bunch of more shit happened and Liv interfered and cranked old Truth's neck over the ropes. And Finn hit his finish on him, one, two, three, and they're the new champion. So Liv has helped Finn and J.D. win the... and J.D. McFundco is now a tag team champion. All right. He's good in the ring. I like him. He's good in the ring, but I'm just saying as when people are presented as flunkies,

i.e. Ludwig Kaiser, you've got to concentrate a little bit on them as individuals. And poor J.D. has been the flunkiest of the flunkies. He had to grovel to get into this fucking group, right? Well, let's see if things. are about to change. Because if priest is going to leave, maybe, potentially, if Liv Morgan's going to be involved somehow replacing Ria until Ria comes back, you know, beyond getting marriage, he's also injured. That's really why she's gone. We'll see. I think they need to get JD some monkey hormones or something. Or get him a shin extension, making about six inches

taller, 40 pounds heavier. Maybe they could, maybe they could take some of the weight from his head and put it into his chest and shoulders. Will you leave the guy alone? The guy's doing a good job. Well, that's what he ought to be doing his job. No, I'm kidding. He's working hard. All right, all right.

He's working very hard. New tag team champions, that was raw. Boy, was it. It was actually pretty goddamn rough when it went in. Well, that was raw. Let me write down the time of death here. Well, let's move on here with this show, Jim, and before we get to anything else,

I want to bring up to you a story that's been making the rounds. Apparently, Jim Ross recently had some comments about Shane McMahon, that he'd been calling around asking around about AEW. We have a quote here from a Sports Illustrated column by Justin Barrasso, a.k.a. the safe landing. Tony Kahn. I heard the rumor he might be interested.

I've never met Shane, but we have a lot of mutual friends. I have a lot of respect for him as an executive and as a professional wrestler. Shane is always welcome in AEW. What are your thought? We've talked about in the past way back,

again, before all the scandals and after it. Could you ever see Shane ending up in AEW? And it was always a ridiculous concept. Any thoughts on it now? Yes, it's still a ridiculous concept. And with the Jim Ross comments, and I have not heard exactly what he said. I haven't heard the clip.

I would need to hear the tone of voice or whatever, because I would think that maybe JR would have been, well, I wouldn't be surprised. You know, strange things have happened that type of thing. just to not bury Tony and the company that he's working for, but at the same point, no, Shane,

at 50 whatever years old he is now, the way he went out last time, if he's going to wrestle, it would be for the WWE because still, without... If they would have him, that's not a foregone conclusion. And say,

well, no, but see, that's the thing. If they wouldn't have him, he doesn't, he's not going, to do it if they wouldn't have him. He's not going to do it for another company,

for a smaller company. I mean, Shane was whole, I've always said I like Shane. And I've talked to Shane more just, you know, on purpose than most of the rest of the McMahon family. But he always had the same outlook kind of as Vince as they were the major league.

And he was even more than, you know, WCW, at the height still to Shane was not comparable to the WWF. So it's not like he's going to say, I've got to have one more match and redeem myself. So I'll call Tony Khan and go to AEW. He's a multi, multi-millionaire.

He's got a bunch of kids, nice family. And no, he would think it was a step down for him. It would be something that his, what? Tony said executive. too. So again, if Tony was making an offer for Shane, it wouldn't maybe just be an on-air character, maybe it would be something behind the scenes. No, no. Again, because Shane McMahon does not need to be an executive of a wrestling company owned and operated by a fucking son of another billionaire that's goofier than a pet coon. No, he would not want to do that, especially at this time of his life. and to get into all of that drama and ha ha.

When he was 30 and he was in every department in Titan, that's because he thought he was going to take over the company one day. And that didn't happen, but he doesn't have a burning need to go work in somebody else's wrestling company. And far from needing the money, it would probably be a minor annoyance to him to have to add it to his goddamn income tax. So no

Again I appreciate that people You know take J.R's word for all There must be something to it I think he was probably being nice I will you know if somebody wants to read the quote to me But And somebody said that Shane had called AEW talent No I'm sure he talks to some of those guys

Potentially maybe Brian Danielson or Edge or one or two other guys that actually worked in that company. Maybe Jericho. Maybe Jericho fucking pitched it and Shane was trying to blow him off. And oh yeah. You know, I ought to do that.

So you know, boy, yeah. Maybe Shane realized how do I get back to WWE? I know. I'll leak this. No, I think that that would work against him even in that with the new regime. They probably say, well, fucking let him. Last time he went out on a stretcher on one of our big shows.

But no, I just, I'm sorry, it's not going to happen. I'll, I will fucking jump up and down and scream like a chicken and admit I'm an idiot if Shane McMahon shows up in AEW. How's that? You know, I'm reading some more of the Tony Con quotes in this article. This is why you can't take them seriously. If Shaq is ever interested in returning to the ring, Kong, shared that he has a home in AEW. Here's a quote.

I would love to have Shaq back in AEW anytime he's available. He's one of the greatest basketball players of all time and he's extremely talented on air in a number of roles. Shaq is also the greatest celebrity wrestler in wrestling history.

Oh my God. But what people didn't see is what happened backstage. When he wrestled in AEW, he went around backstage and showed respect to all the wrestlers. He told the wrestlers, I want to make you look good. It was unbelievable. That's the most recognizable athlete on the planet doing that. Well, he only worked with a couple of people and then he took an ambulance ride to nowhere. The greatest celebrity wrestler in

wrestling history. I mean, well, everything to Tony is great. He just had a great conversation again with David Zaislov and his team. And it's great. productive and everything's great everybody's great and I'm sure that he believes that as long as somebody is not pointing a finger in his face saying you stupid motherfucker maybe that wouldn't be great

that's why he feared for his life from CM Punk but otherwise do you think I mean privately does he know that many things aren't great or is he just completely delusional or putting on a not very convincing front because we know everything, everything can't be great for anybody? That's what it is.

Everything's great. Nothing is ever wrong. Nothing is ever bad. They're never in the middle of a bad run. Everything's great. Everything around them is great. Great conversations. How can you trust someone who says that about everything no matter what?

It just sounds like they want to make sure that's what people believe. and I think there's been a lot of that since the beginning of AEW specifically with certain people out there where AEW forged relationships to make sure that what they want people to believe was what was disseminated and we'll see how things work out in the next year but back to Raw.

No, we're done with Raw. Oh, thank God. Raw is over. Well, Jim, Raw is over and after Raw, you may want to hear some tunes. You may want to go for a run and listen to some tunes. you may want to, I mean, it's late at night. I don't know what, it's good to work at night.

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in the midst of a very interesting run of shows aired last night on TBS as we are recording and they had a good house for them I think it was over four well they announced that over 4,000 tickets distributed but there were some reports that may have been a little bit less I think some of the people were balling those tickets up and throwing them in a ring at the end of the show.

Apparently free tickets were offered to employees of local sporting teams as well. But Jim, AEW Dynamite in Buffalo, New York. Also giving out a daycare centers and every Speedway gas station. You set a run of very interesting shows. We'll talk about one of these matches in excruciating detail later on, but especially just as a whole, what the fuck is going on?

Is it possible for a television show to have a nervous breakdown? It looks like that's what's happening. They've lost complete control of what the fuck is even going on on this thing, haven't they? I mean, yes, they've lost sight of what's good what's not completely. You could argue when they've had it and who

had what. But it appears to be company-wide right now. You know, there are people who say, oh, they don't have any stories, they don't have any stories. All their stories just aren't working and aren't good and the reactions are bad and the booking is bad

and the formatting sucks. And just nothing, nobody you like is doing anything you want them to do. There you go. that's a good one uh they were in buffalo which is apparently the hometown of danny garcia but and they lead no introduction no open straight into mjf's entrance because they say well let's desperately cling on to the big bangers with uh with another big banger and as soon as mjf gets in a ring and

He says, Buffalo, New York, boom. He's interrupted by Danny Garcia's music. And yes, I know, Danny Garcia, I know because they told me, Danny Garcia is from Buffalo, New York. He's a hometown guy. Daniel Garcia, just to make sure people know it's not the production partner ex-wife of the rock. Well, MJF was calling him Danny. Well, if MJF doesn't, I guess you could do it.

I think he's got a better chance of marrying the rock than he does of fucking drawing money as a main inventor. So let's keep our options open. Well, she's jacked, but anyway. Well, I know. It looks like she could kick the fucking shit out of the other Danny Garcia. But they should have let MJF hook them by speaking to them first because now we already don't care. Because anybody from Buffalo or anybody not from Buffalo, don't give a fuck that he's a hometown. guy in Buffalo, and most of people in Buffalo don't even know who

the fuck he is. We got 4,000 people or less in this building that know who... But let MJF talk a little bit and hook him. And then he comes out, but then they have a love fest for a while where Garcia thanks MJF for saving him last week, and he's going to say nice things about MJF, and they're both standing there in leather jackets. They look like the board of directors of an S&M club. And

Garcia does a decent promo, but it took a while. But it was talking about, I say a decent promo because he was well spoken. But he talked about how MJF motivated him to not just not be a pillar, but a backbone, a workhorse, and a foundation.

When did MJF, the epitome of I only wrestle when I make a lot of money and fucking the rest of these, assholes wrestle every week. And that was his gimmick. I'm not saying that he was, that was his attitude behind the scene.

He inspired this guy to become a workhorse. And and the MJF responded with energy. And he said, you know, so, I mean, he's got the energy, you know, but he's got to say this shit that's not MJF. He said, thank you back.

And he shook Garcia's hand. He did a promo trying to get this guy over that he's not. He's not that over, and he's not going to get that over. It devalues MJF's word to have to say these ridiculously over-the-top good things about fucking Daniel Garcia, including, he said, nobody in the back deserves my spot, but one guy is getting closer. And he didn't have said, Danny, you remind me of myself. God damn it, what, a fucking

moot-faced fucking guy with very little personality and a standard fucking body. What? You know, if you squinted, because they were both wearing their black leather outfits, I don't know why they both wore in the same kind of outfit out there

kind of, I don't know. Yes. But if you squinted, it looked like Andrew Dice Clay and George Michael were having a big meeting in 1988. well which one was going to be the first one to go to the public restroom George Michael historically and chronologically George Michael will be the answer well then hopefully MJF then becomes dice but this took forever and as I said I think MJF is blowing his credibility

by putting this obvious mid-card kid at this point maybe he'll get great whatever but he's putting him over like he's Steve Austin it was too overboard unless it's it's revealed that it's to butter him up so he can stab him in the back or fuck him in the ass or become a heel again and in MJF offered Garcia the match with him at Wembley Stadium

out of nowhere I think I ought to wrestle you at the stadium and people are kind of like what? For the people who think it's nuts I'm wrestling hedge a chair on pay-per-view watch this. Yes. This is even wackier

but as soon as he says that they play ostrich's music here comes Willie Boy and now it's three baby faces in the ring challenging each other to this and that and then Will turns his back on MJF and talks to Garcia and said I heard you want

a shot at the Intercontinental title Bruv and then he puts Garcia over and it's like this guy paid these people to come out and do cameos for him putting him over, right? And all elite Scooby-Doo. But he put Garcia over and told Garcia, you can have a title shot next week on TV for the Intercontinental Title. But even better, brov, how about I put the world title on the line next week as well?

Now, I don't know whether he just, I don't know how the, what he was supposed to say. No, he meant what he said. The world, if he wins the world title at the pay-per-view, it'll be on the line. No, but he didn't say if he wins it. That's the thing. He said, how about if I, like a definite thing, how about if I put the world title,

the announcers had to come back afterwards and go, well, now that's potentially if he wins it on, but he offered to put a title up next week on TV that he does, win until Sunday. If you take, if you took it, the words that were coming out of his mouth. I like this as a new gimmick.

He's just offer up all sorts of things he can't deliver. And the, and the fans didn't really react because they're like, what the fuck? He doesn't have that title. And then Will and Garcia shake hands and Will walks out without speaking to MGAF and MGF looks unhappy.

And he just, the announcers are using the word, he was upstaged by all this. He's not used to that. And MGF just curtly and abruptly tells old Danny, you concentrate on your title match next week. That's the most important thing. And he leaves.

And then we go to the back and here's another baby face to be heard from. Swerve Strickland, the world champion, who with Nana is watching the monitor. And he cuts promo on ostrich for putting up a title that he hadn't won yet. and he's a but he's a baby face these are four baby faces and mjf still may be the most popular guy if not it's ostrich swerve was short time ago and i don't think garcia hey but when's that war games match it's like an afterthought i forgot all about it as you're talking about i'm like man all the baby faces are feuding with each other because all the heels are feuding with luchadors and i was like well no not all the he's

The elite, they're not few with luchinors. Well, but no, that's on free TV next month, isn't it? It is, yeah, I guess so. Yes, yes. That'll be a completely different thing. But anyway, so all these baby faces are fighting over shit, and the two guys that are wrestling for the world title are going to be a tag team tonight on the show against two job guys.

All righty, any final? Yes. A couple of final things. it had moments that were okay. But AEW over the last few years has spent a lot of time trying to elevate Will or Yuda and Daniel Garcia. A lot of time.

And I personally think Garcia is a lot further along than Will or Yuda. Oh, well, God, yes. I mean, Mother Nature beat him all to that. He just, it looks like a grown fucking adult. You see, you had to say something and now he got me. Well, I'm just telling you.

But Garcia's, you know, again, they're spending a lot of TV time to get this guy over. MJF, you know, was doing stuff with Cody. Jericho latched onto him forever. The CM Punk stuff's the best stuff in AW history. Little things here and there. Derby, Pilman Jr. Ever since that moment where they started putting it out there before it even happened, he should be a baby face. He needs to be a baby face.

It's like he's constantly doing stuff on TV. You're like, why, why? Just why? Who, who didn't say no? Who didn't say, let's rethink this? It's just constantly mixing with the wrong people and using MJF's credibility and capital to try to get them over and then it doesn't happen because the booking falls apart. Look at Jay White, case and point. Jay White pinned MJF. Oh my God, I forgot about that.

That's right. He forgot about it because they didn't do anything for anyone, except hurt MJF a little bit more, another chink in the armor. You know, he's going for a new thing right now. You've got to think this is the setup of a heel turn, because otherwise... One would hope, you know, what the hell would this be?

But that means we have to wait till Wembley maybe for the heel turn, but we'll see what happens. Well, no, they can't have MJF and Garcia. at Wembley. No, it has to be M.J.F. and Osprey. Yes. So, I think he has to pretty much fuck Garcia next week.

But that's the, there's the problem. There's trying to make someone and there's trying to make the wrong person. And I'm not a Daniel Garcia. I hate the dance. I think it's stupid. And it looks like he toned it down a little bit. Now he just teases lifting the arms up. He just didn't want to do it in front of his mother. But the personality, the charisma, the promo, and then just what he looks like in the ring versus a lot of the other wrestlers. I'm not saying it can't happen in the future, but I'm saying

now's not the time. And you need to spend every second a TV time you can take an advantage of what's working and finding the right guys to elevate. And they spent, what, 15 minutes here with the two top stars in the company right now. The biggest star is, and a company MJF and the emerging talent who has not really fucked up yet and the bookings kind of not screwed him up too much yet, Will Osprey, you have them trying to get him over. It seems like if you really wanted to try to justify doing it, you could, but it's poorly thought out and it shouldn't be done. Not now. That's what... And possibly not ever. And then, speaking of things that should never, ever be done again.

the six-man tag team match. And Brian, this was, well, I wasn't going to, but I ended up being captivated by the introduction of it. And there you have it. And I've gone back and watched it. We may go back here and watch it again in a minute.

Because it was, I will set it up for the people who may not have seen this. I never do this, but I'm going to endorse you. Get a tape. Get a DVD. Get a story.

stream. If you've got it on your DVR, watch the AEW program, and this is again June 26th out of Buffalo. The BBC, Moxley and Claudio and Wheeler useless against their opponents. Because this was the example of the biggest bunch of amateur hour bullshit that I have ever seen on a big budget television. program. I've seen worse shit, but it's been in fucking rec centers and high school gyms and on videotape from

cow pastures. But this was the biggest conglomeration of reasons why that they are a floundering fucking ship that I've ever seen. From booking to announcing to actual work in the ring, this was the epitome

of Drek on all parts nothing about this was any good it was humorous in its goddamn badness and I don't know what they're looking at

that some more than one person in this match was not reprimanded if not taken off the booking sheets and their usefulness rethought but I get just they have no standards in anything works here.

This was embarrassing to watch if you were a halfway dedicated wrestling fan. What were your thoughts before we talk about this thing? Just in overall in... You know, it was a... What are they looking at? It was a weird night because I was planning on watching Dynamite this morning because the Mets versus Yankees, which is a big game, the Subway Series was last night.

The Mets are playing great. There was a big rain delay. We had a big storm in this area. And I got to watch a lot of dynamite because of the rain delay. I didn't see the first few moments of the walk to the ring. So I only saw Moxley and Claudio. It was a big surprise to me when Yuda jumped the rail too. I was like, who's that little guy?

It was Yuda. And then we have had a version of La Faxione ignobrales or whatever the fuck it is on this show in the past, right? Like Preston Vance and all that. That was part of that, I think. I think. Yes. This was that.

But they got a branch office opened up in Japan now. Yeah. And I'll just say this. I was in the middle of watching this match. And it was We were Uda in the ring specifically working with the other guys. And I said to myself, I'm going to email Jim that he can't skip this match. He needs to watch it. Like, this match deserves a breakdown.

And the gods were listening independently, independent of me, doing that, you had the same realization. Well, what drew me to it was when, because again, with the crew had just left and the TV was on, and it was recording, I was going to do the same thing, which I did watch it in its entirety this morning. But I heard, as we were trying to get something to eat,

sock face, bringing the opposing team of the BBC to the ring with a rundown of who they are and everything they've ever done and a court stenographer couldn't have kept up with it and nobody not only could pronounce but gives a shit to try to pronounce

any of the fucking words that came out of his fucking sock the Los Fuckers and Goobers of Japan branch division of Los Fuckers and Goebers of Mexico I couldn't understand their fucking, Shingo Takagi, his name was on the screen.

So I got that. When Smiley Roberts introduced him, I couldn't tell what the other two fucking names were. I couldn't tell it apart from all the other words that I've never heard before. When Sok Face said it. And I'm looking at two Japanese guys that look like henchmen and a Raymond Chow production and a masked guy that's coming to the ring. holding another mask in his hand that doesn't look like he's five feet tall,

three more inches, he's a mini. And this is a match that's going to go 15 fucking minutes. And remember I've said before that whenever anybody either wrestles against or even teams with mox,

whatever Moxley is in a match, even talent looks worse. I think that they just forget how to work. It just, it falls apart. I think this is the worst example of that I've ever seen. I, I, I, I had a length. At least they gave it length to really flesh out.

Because I had that moment, the epiphany early in the match, like, I have to see where this is going to go. And then everyone's work, even Claudio, I know you like the European uppercuts, but. No, that's the thing. Even Claudio. who in the past I have seen witnessed with my own eyes have wonderful matches.

This was the fakesest looking most embarrassing bullshit from everybody that I've ever seen. That's why I'm saying it's catching. When Moxley's involved everybody sucks. I don't know how otherwise to explain it.

I completely agree. So what we are going to do is we're going to change things up a little bit. We're going to try this and see if this tickles anybody's taint, Brian, because it's almost impossible to describe to people who didn't see this what went on and it was impossible to write down notes that quickly on what all was fucking up.

And it just has to be seen to be believed. So what we are going to do is we are going to do a watch along of this fucking match that they presented on national television that was an embarrassment to the wrestling business and if you all out there in podcast land

or YouTube land or internet land would like to watch along then I think that's the only way that this match would ever be remotely in any way entertaining well I think it's a good idea Like I said before while I was watching this match, the BCC versus the LIJ,

while I was watching this match and thinking of all the other letters I can incorporate into a match, I did say to myself, I would love to hear Jim do commentary because it was such a mess. And sometimes you skip past that stuff, sometimes you go, and it was garbage, and I fast. But this one was so bad, I always wanted you to break it down. I would have normally skipped this, but luckily, I somehow got sucked into this vortex. But anyway, explain to the people the technical part, since this is your program of how we're going to do this thing there, where they can watch this on the tape and listen to us on the, on the RACONs or whatever. Right. Well, here's what we're going to do.

We have access to AEW Dynamite from last night, of course, last night as we are recording, was June 26, 2024. And it's a six-man match, the BCC versus the LIJ. and we're going to start your review of this, Jim, when the bell actually rings. So there isn't a jumpstart. The two teams are in their two corners. Right. And remember, folks, again, you have to listen to what Sokface says

when the Japanese version of the Los Fuckers and Goobers are on their way to the ring, because this is the biggest line of gibberish, made-up words, and unintelligible caca that I've ever heard in my life while he's trying to get these fucking guys over. Well, we won't be playing that audio here because... No, because you've got to listen to that.

Then you're going to listen to us while you watch the visual part of the shitty stuff. Plus, we have a no excalibur rule. That guy completely sucks. But Jim, let's now go to this video, or at least let's watch this video. Everyone can watch along. BCC versus L-I-J.

starting when the bell rings. We're going to start when the bell rings. Countdown from five, and then I'll actually say press play now. Five, four, three, two, one. Press play now. Boom, and there's the bell. And now watch these.

Watch this. I got to get this fucking volume out of my ear. There we go. It's like Claudio is afraid he's going to hurt this guy. Because, and I actually, I would be too, because is this another one of these 50-year-old broken-down ex-Japanese? Look at the headlock. He's like, ooh, I don't want to hurt your neck.

Watch when he shoots Claudio off. His head just pops out of the thing before he even. Now watch the forearms. They're hitting air. They are not touching each other. Look. It's not even close. They're hitting air in front of each other.

each other. Takagi's 41 years old. Oh, good Lord. And the second European uppercut actually made some noise. But again, Takagi, is he able to bend over? Or is that kind of,

you know, gone past him? Because look, he's standing straight up on a hip toss. But what, why do they do the forearm shit? That's the worst I've ever seen, but we'll see many more examples in this match

and it all sucks. And now who we got useless and who's this? Takahashi. I will get his name for you in a moment, but we'll you. They're doing square dancing into a fucking kung fu movie at 100 miles an hour

and again, they're running 100 miles an hour, but when they hit each other they're barely touching. And then now watch, they will not know which way to shoot Wheeler off here. Look, they can't figure out which way to, what, the back front. Oh, here we go. And he just turns around.

Yeah, he just turned around for them so they can figure it out. You know, you say people are small. He really is, he has no frame for a wrestler when you watch them. Oh, watch this. Watch this. Wait a minute. The Mexican guy is going to do a close line and fall out of the ring and bust his ass on the floor. And there he goes, right?

Oh, shit. Did anybody see me fall down? No, I'll just climb back in real quick. I'll come off the top rope. Boom and do, well, what the fuck? Can they slow down? Just roll. So that anybody could goddamn recognize what's going on here?

That's Titan, by the way. Look, look. He dove out of the ring on the fucking guy. And look, Yuda took his own bump. He threw him back in. so fast that the Japanese referee is from New Japan pro wrestling he's apparently

almost as tall as the top rope and it's just a video game bunch of bullshit with these guys at a hundred miles an hour and nobody can process and you brought up that people should hear the commentary Danielson's on commentary with all the charisma of Bruno Sam Martino in the late 80s on commentary oh boy and uh

Bruno was a living legend but not as a broadcaster. Now look at this fucking guy. Pipp, pip, pip, chirio. Claudio just said, fuck it, I'll just stagger. And then he fucking skins the cat onto the top rope. Claudio turns, but he ain't got his balance yet. So

Claudia has to stagger. Now he jumps, but thankfully he only weighs 116 pounds, so Claudio caught him. And by the way, who are the baby faces and who are the heels? The hometown BBC, the people

cheer them or are they just cheering the trogs? Are they cheering wild thing? Or are they cheering the BBC? Because they're the baby faces. These other guys are supposed to be the heels. But now the goddamn, they're going to get fucking heat on the goddamn heels. And then the fucking heels are going to have a comeback here. And I don't know what they're doing. By the way, this is the commercial break for folks in the United States, so immediately Moxley, it's picture and pictures, so I've seen it. But Moxley takes the guy out and puts him in a chair and just starts punching him. And now everybody's just walking around outside the ring, not doing any goddamn thing. What's the referee doing?

Why isn't he counting? Considering what the finish is, why is any of this happening? Because they're in the commercial break. So for these 4,000 people in this building where they can. can't usually sell that many tickets, they're just jacking off. And Moxley's trying to take the fucking Mexican guy's mask off or whatever. But again, this is all in the commercial break in the States, and they're just killing time beating up this child size Mexican mini.

And in a minute, when they come back, you'll see that immediately they'll kick up a notch with their pace, and I understand grabbing a hole during a commercial break, but just wandering around outside for no reason and just jacking off when they're in the state they're in with selling tickets to these live people.

This is just brutal. Now they're doing old fucking wishbone spots and a chin lock. It goes from 100 miles an hour, where to fuck, let's bore them out of the building. But meanwhile, the baby faces are getting heat on the heels instead of the other way around. I don't know what the fuck. Who is supposed to be the heels here?

That's a question for you. I can't answer that. I cannot answer that. And look now this guy is. Claudio at least can still do the big swing. but again not hard when you've got a child in your arms youda on the apron looks like a fan won a contest well yes because I mean he was out for quite a while

he had the opportunity to drink some milkshakes or something gain some weight so nevertheless we're we're still watching this I hope that everybody is enjoying the picture and picture because this is what was the point of this, what the fuck, the people are sitting there like they're in a library

and it, just staring at what's going on. Okay, now, I believe, yes, they did, they just came back from commercial in America, so naturally Moxley throws the guy to the floor. Eddie throws him kind of half-ass over the railing and then walks off.

What the fucks off? fuck was that for? And then the mini is going to stop Moxley here and make a hot tag to one of the other heels here in a second. Oh, first he's got to stop Claudio and fall on his fucking

ass. Try to do the double stump off of fucking Claudio's back. Now, the baby faces stop the heels from making a hot tag. I can't believe I'm saying these words. I don't think they're the heels. You can't call

the heels. Whoa. And did you see that? But he did the back then to duck Moxley's clothesline and suddenly was frozen there and Moxley stared at him dumbfounded. Okay, the hot tag by the heels. And the other guy comes in. Is this Takagi again?

This is Takagi. Okay. And he makes a big comeback. And he's again, fake forearms. What the fuck? Why are they doing that over and over? is it now Takagi's going to be he's going to beat up Claudio and there's Moxley and boom and now watch this Three Stooges spot i can't even describe it but moxley and claudio run into each other

and that he clotheslines both of them they don't sell it so he drops both up on her head this unknown fat fucking Japanese guy is beating up two of their top stars and now there's useless in and the same thing oh shingo there's kicking a shit out of of everybody. We'll see him Sunday and then hopefully and probably never again, but he looks better than all the homegrown talent. And now watch this. And we heard from people in the building that said the crowd was dead for L.I.J.

Well, look at here. Twelve fake forearms that neither one of them sells traded back and forth. Then here comes a couple clotheslines that they don't sell either. And then the first time that Shingo sells something is going to be a goddamn nosebobie. Look, close line. Pop up. Close line the other guy. Pop up.

Close line the other guy. Finally, mocked the out, bite his nose. What the fuck is going? And then he don't sell that. And what the fuck is this docy dope? I'm laughing because you can't call this. You can't call it.

And then I think simultaneous cold tags are coming up. Yes, we'll have simultaneous. cold tags to useless and the other Japanese fellow who are going to come in and exchange 14 more forearms that nobody sells and then some more shit

that doesn't work on either guy, just back and forth. Look at what the fuck. Let hate him in the face six times and now they're just running back and forth at 100 miles an hour. It looks like the worst wrestling school tryout fucking match that's ever been held

where you start teaching them what not to fucking do oh my god is we about to put old Wheeler away here because of course he is the weak link on the team and I believe that this is we're almost done with this by the way it looks like

yeah here we go the Japanese guys about to put Wheeler away in Moxley Babyface brings in a chair and fucking cracks the guy disqualification. Now they have a sloppy, look at these punches in this fight. Did you see the mask guy

almost tackled Aubrey out of the ring trying to grab Claudio and then jumped up on Claudio's back? Claudio doesn't notice. And now they're all swinging at each other and nobody's connected with anything. One guy's front face locked useless, it looks like just to slow him down. Was that? Oh, I thought it was

Aubrey. It's a Japanese reference. that failed out. I'm saying it looked like Aubrey. Well, now we have a big surprise, obviously. Oh, but now, yes. Now, while they're still fighting, here comes a video with music of, this guy is Naido, right?

He is, Naito. Okay, well, why was he trying to pry his right eye open when he comes out? Is he? His bad contact lenses. And by the way, there's still people fighting at ringside. This guy is slow to come out.

But yes, look, he's trying to, pry. I mean, the viewers are trying to pry their eyes open with toothpicks. But why is he trying to pry? Is he a fucking, is he got a monocle? We can't see? So now Naido's starting to take his clothes off

and Moxley's going to run to him and Brian, I just want you to watch as soon as they tackle each other they're going to start trading fake forearms. What is the fascinating? with this, that it looks so bad, so embarrassing.

By the way, how old is this guy? 56. Do you have any idea what is his age, or is he just been in bad car wrecks? 42. Look at they're not even, they're hitting each other's biceps. And they're going to fight off. And you don't see them anymore because the other guy in the ring is going to beat up Wheeler.

So goodbye to them. you all later and the fight is now contend, but we never find out what happened to Claudio or the little Mexican fellow. Where did they go? They've disappeared because these are the only two left. So that's why Danielson has to leave color to come down here and go face to face with shingo here. This is the worst.

This is what I hate to. The elbow almost near the neck is supposed to be to the jaw. I don't know what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to tear your rotator cuff of your shoulder, I guess. I don't know when you're delivering it, not when you're getting hit with it. So where did Claudio go? I don't know, but now Danielson's in the ring. And they're, you know what they're going to do?

Nothing. They're going to talk mean to each other and gesticulate and make faces. It's an amazing career move. Danielson left WWE and said, How do I become the least commercial version of myself? And that's what we got now. Danielson versus Shingo Takagi as part of the Owen Hart tournament at Forbidden Door. When I talk about a lot of this amateur, fake-looking bullshit and nonsensical match psychology and construction,

an example of almost everything that we ever talk about was right there in that one fucking match. You know, your closing thoughts. closing thoughts, it's beyond the match. Because when matches like that happen and they happen frequently in AEW, whether it's a Moxley match, whether it's a random six-man match, whether it's a

multi-man match with people who have never appeared on the show before, all in front of a dead crowd, it does nothing to help the show. You have these long competitive squash matches that don't cause anyone to be interested in any

No one came out of this and goes, man, I really can't wait for Moxley versus Naido. Nobody came out of this. I can't remember which one Naido is. He's the one who fought off with Moxley. That's the point. They're the ones wrestling at the pay-per-view. This big grudge match. The man who makes you want to close your eyes versus the man who tries to open his eye.

From the, you know, the hairdo era of New Japan pro wrestling. Yeah, what is with everybody's hair? And at least conditioner would be their friend. also, at least. You go look at New Japan. Look, I know you can't go back and make things what they were, but go look at New Japan

in the 80s or the 90s. And then look at the Americanized or almost want to be Americanized version of it now, and it's just, you know, the looks of the wrestlers and just what it's trying to be. But anyway, this match

was extraordinarily bad, but it's not unique. But it kills the show because we keep getting more and more things like this and they don't recognize it's the problem. We or Yuta should not be getting

any focus on this show. I'm sorry. It's ridiculous. Put them in Ring of Honor. You really believe in them that much. So, yeah, those are my closing thoughts. Awful match. But entertaining because of it. Well, anyway, hopefully that was a learning moment, teaching lesson.

Teaching moment. What does the kids say? Hopefully you learn something. If you watch that and listen to us at the same time, what not to do. kids and fellow aspiring wrestlers out there. Anyway, had another Owen Hart tournament match with Light Switch White against Felix,

White 1-123, and the heels were in the ring because you had gin and juice, and you had the guns. They're all celebrating and music plays, and I swear to God, Christian Cage, and Dino Dush, and Nick Plain and Nick plane's mom, walk menacingly down the ramp, and they are staring at each other, and the gang-bang-gang

dares them to get in the ring, but they don't, and they walked off, and nothing happened. And now in the first segment, you had four baby faces mad at each other. Now you've got eight heels mad at each other. What? Help. again who even amongst the biggest

fans of the people involved in this said I'd like to see these guys all involved in a feud together no one I mean it's just the show gets worse and worse and just no everyone's feuding with the wrong person

or the wrong faction it's extraordinarily bad the dynamites on a run of some of the worst shows ever produced for professional wrestling ever, not just since the beginning, but for the last few months. It's just an extraordinarily bad run. And you hear people say, oh, Dynamite was great.

I'm surprised the rating was bad. They had great matches. No one gives a fuck. It's a bad show. And I don't, I'm not even seeing the great matches. I'm sorry, I'm a professional. And I, you know, am offended by this amateur hour production. So I'm not seeing great matches.

I'm seeing overindulving. indie bullshit, but... Yeah, and at the end, like, they have all these belts. They're, like, draping each other and all the belts, and I'm like, they're like, oh, they have all the gold. I'm like, yeah, this is why your belts mean fucking nothing. They literally have excess belts. They don't know what to do with.

Nobody has all the gold. Nobody's strong enough to pick all those fucking belts up. Well, Santo Gold has all the gold, but let's continue on with this dynamite. All righty, well, we're getting to the Hardley Boys segment, because they did a promo in the back, and next week, they're going to... to insert a wild card in the Owen Hart tournament. It's going to win the whole

thing and then they ended it with some unfunny comedy. I was hoping that would be all that we would see of them on this program, but it was not to be. Because I don't know why they're doing this, but they sent the acclaimed and Billy

Gunn to the ring and then went to break but they didn't wrap. Castor didn't wrap. They come back from the break. It's the top of the 9 o'clock. hour. They want, apparently, they thought that the acclaims appeal that they may still have left with the fans would counteract the Buccaroos's go-away heat to where they might stay even or gain a bit at the top of the hour. But the acclaimed has dovetailed in popularity. They lightly chanted Cizzer Me Daddy when they first started the promo. But Max Castor do it a

promo with no music. It didn't and they, that's where I was there, we mentioned earlier in the, in the show, they tried to bleep young cucks and they, they bleeped it twice, but they let pricks go by. So I don't know what's going on. But the whole thing is they, the acclaimed beat the Buccaroos last week to earn a title shot. Now they've got to beat them one more time. And they're going to win the belts.

And then Bowens did a promo that was better than casters. It said, all we need to do is beat you in a manozles one more time. And they start to scissor, but then, of course, here come the lollipop guild and O'Cody, and they interrupt it so that the people don't get to see the scissoring. And they have O'Code say, as sizzam me, bitch, there went several million dollars so that you can have an unimpressive, goofy-looking fucking guy in an ill-fitting suit

come out and say bitch in a foreign accent. Was that a good investment, you think, Brian? No. Turns out and I don't think it wasn't. Even if Okada was booked well, I don't know if it would be a good investment right now just because of a variety of factors. Because he can't do anything, such as he's the shits.

That's the first thing. and by the way, I watched that match with Ultimo Guerrero. Oh, the one where the met, apparently he showed up not knowing he needed a mask. Yes. And then they had to sew him one together quickly. A masked wrestler from Mexico showed up not knowing he needed a mask to wrestle in. And they made him one and it didn't fit.

And that's what, no, the, what was O'Code's excuse? The guy with the ill-fitting mask looked better than O'Brien? Cody. He can't move. His body sucks. His haircut is stupid. His promos are silly. His work is the shits. He has no emotion. And he looks broken down physically on top of the pale flabby physique. Good Lord. What is everybody else looking at? So anyway. His resume. That's the problem. Everyone's treating him like he's the wrestler he was eight years ago and he's not

the match was a disaster and apparently it was taped so they edited it a great deal to get it on air. If what they showed was what they could consider airing, what did they cut out? Yeah, not good. He has not looked impressive at all

and we've seen a string of guys right now the last few years come out of Japan broken down and beaten down from the style and the schedule from Abushi who immediately had both legs snapper amputated

He's gonna come back Look like Cotton Hill There were people talking about him When he was coming in Like this will shut you guys up Wayne do you see the real Abushi He came in He didn't give a shit

Looked like he had to work out in years And just worked the What we're seeing this like soft Safe And again it's supposed to all be safe But it's supposed to look at it It's not supposed to look phony. Yeah, just everything's looking soft and...

Okada, to go back to him, has not looked very good in AEW. Ibushi came in to sign a contract to take care of him while he went and had everything he had operated on. What he obviously did. So then, again, the Buccaroos, they're being booed out of the building by the fans, but not in the good money-drawing way, but in a like, oh, please, shut. the fuck up. We don't want.

And they challenge the acclaimed and Billy Gunn for forbidden door. But Billy Gunn got on a microphone and actually saved it with a little bit of energy, but then say,

I know some important people. I'd like to kick your ass right now and he would be able to if he wanted to. But I'm a step aside because we've got another partner that's going to be the acclaims partner. I know a president.

And most normal people be saying, what, he's going to fucking get Joe Biden? But no, the video pops up on the screen of Tanahashi. And for all of the, what if, 46,000 people in a country of 350 million that watched New Japan Pro Wrestling on Access somewhere, they know Tanahashi's the president of New Japan. but his promo plays with subtitles he's going to be the third guy

against the elite and that was it what the f promos with subtitles now we're getting multiple times on does anybody nobody reads anymore do you think they want to read to be sold a fucking pay-per-view match

I think at a certain point more than almost anything else in AEW this is where Tony needs to let go of his fandom, the build up the forbidden door every year is becoming a disaster. And it's just constantly... Another surprise. Who is it? Oh, it's another New Japan wrestler you saw last year do the exact same fucking thing right before this pay-per-view.

Now it's stardom. Now it's CMLL. And you're just loading this show where no one's over with lots of people who aren't over because they've never been seen. I didn't ever have been out of shot. And now we get this. Another match added to Forbidden Door.

Because that's what we wanted when we ran down the nine-match card away that was. Another match. Is the jury in or out on whether we're watching that fucking thing or not? I want to see a few matches, so I have to, you know, I'm going to watch it out. What about a truncated version of where just the two or three things, if they have that many, that involving somebody that we know and have heard of that people may be interested in discussing. See, I'm okay with that unless it's one of those things

where it's like a match like the BCC versus Lij. Well, you've just got to express consternation that it was allowed to be shown. Like, I don't think you'd want to watch Moxley versus Naido. However, if we hear that it's like extra Moxleyish, that may be worth a review. MJF versus Hecichiro, I'm watching that. Swerve versus Osprey.

that's the no-brainer, right? Yeah. Morbid curiosity for MJF and Hachia-Chi-Chi-C-Ira in home. I mean, that's MJF's home, too. That's Long Island. So it's a hometown show with MJF versus Hetchichero. And there are other match, I mean, I kind of want to see the Mercedes-Mone match

to see if it's any good. And I kind of want to see the Mina Chiricala match just because she's got her boobs out on display for everyone and she doesn't seem to mind anyone talking about it. Well, before we get there to the booby match, Mark Briscoe, Kyle O'Reilly, and Pockets, were in the back doing the interview with Reney Moxley Good. And Mark Briscoe is a great promo

and did one who was completely wasted here and in this company, massive talent and what he could have been. And then Kyle O'Reilly Busted out a great promo imitating Mark Briscoe. They could have done something with him because at least he's different. They hadn't brought him back looking like a homeless bum.

It just fell off a fucking freight train and then beat him. And then the jerk jackoff just stood there. So whatever. Then we got to the booby match. Explain to me Tony Storm Maria May and Mitsu Arakawa

versus Anna J. Saraya and Harley Cameroon. Mina Shirakawa Harley Cameron, the illegitimate daughter of Dave Cameron. You said that wasn't true. Now you're admitting it? Well, nevertheless, didn't they just do the same thing that the guys and girls are teeming with people

that they're wrestling on the pay-per-view this Sunday in the same television show? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. You got a problem? Well, the first 30 seconds of this match looked like strippers at the mouse's ear

trying to play wrestler. Did you see the part where Mina and Mariah, I don't even know what to say, stuck their chest out and just shook? Yes. And they were shaking. Snobes.

in their fingers. See, that's the thing that gets me for the people that try to justify all this shit, especially the AEW women's division. It's not just tits and ass. They're real athletes. Shaking their tits and ass. You have them out there. Other than them, it's like a wedgy contest amongst the women every single week

because if you don't have a wedgey, you're not going to get over. Because it's, you know, this is the era of ass ever since J-Lo in 99, I guess. Oh, trust me. As an older man, I can tell you, ass has always been around. No, I feel like everything was kind of centered around the breast until the late 90, until like J-Lo and then like the fucking Kardashians exploded. It was all about ass. It wasn't about tits anymore. It was just all ass.

And there's nothing wrong with that at all. But back to what I was saying. What were you saying? Here these two women are shaking their stuff on TV. I asked this every time, who is this for? Last week with that record low number, it's interesting because. because the audience that tuned it out were the older men. Like, not the key demo.

It was the people outside of the key demo, they're like, enough of this and they turned it off. And that was a big enough portion of the audience that affected everything. Do you think men over the age of 49 watch this and not just think, I'd like to fuck her? They're watching this for any other reason when this is how it's being presented to them?

do you think men 18 to 49 that's a big fucking age range what do you think they're thinking when they watch this well I'm very happy about women's equality I'm glad these women have a chance to go out there and wear as little as possible no because here's the thing

there's no female audience so none of this is being marketed or pushed to females which would be the only justification well you don't understand this is female entertainment this is what females would like who is this for Who is this supposed to connect to?

What audience and what demo? If they're 18 to 49 year old men, they know very well that they can get a variety of the most disgusting porn available in the world for free on the internet. They don't need to watch these girls covering their shit up and shaking it while it's covered. And if there are men 49 and over, they don't want to fuck these 20-year-old fucking air-headed bimboes. They want somebody with some experience that are goddamn dig in and show them some shit. shit. But again, sometimes people don't go the extra mile. People are lazy. I remember a few years before he died, there were photos on like some tablet of Glenn Frye buying porno magazines. Magazines. It was like, wow, he's still going to that. Well, maybe he had a long car trip or something.

I don't know, but that's my big point. All kidding aside and all honesty aside, who is this division for? Who, you know, if you're behind this division, if you're in this division, if you stop and you say, our key audience for the women's division segments is blank. Who is it? Because I don't think it exists. So then it's just, you gotta call it what it is. It's a little TNA show,

no pun intended to the bad wrestling promotion. It's a little TNA show in the middle of the wrestling card. And that's why I like me to Shirakawa. She doesn't pretend. She comes out and says exactly what it is and she shows you exactly what it is. Most honest female wrestler in the business. But other than that, that's the thing.

You know, like MJF trying to elevate Garcia with Osprey in there, there's something, I'm not saying it's right or how I would have done it, but there's something there you could almost kind of understand and relate to if you're a guy and you're watching this or anyone watching this. This stuff with the women's division, who is this supposed to connect to and who's supposed to get behind it? Well, can you just even explain to me what this finish was or the afterbirth, because Tony Storm's team won

and then Maria May got the champagne for Tony and Mitsu Arakawa so that they could toast each other and drink the champagne and then Maria hugs Mitsu but then

Tony Storm gets Maria and starts dancing with her so Mitsu gets the bottle of champagne Mina Whichever, Miss Erikawa Mina gets the bottle of champagne

and goes behind to hit Tony Storm but she ducks and Miss Erikawa breaks the bottle of champagne over Maria's head. And then both of Tony and Miss Erikewa check on Maria while her side by side and then they stand up and yell at each other.

and then the referee said oh don't fight and there's maria may laid out why was she going to hit her from she went from handing or drinking a toast to trying to hit the girl over the head with the bottle just suddenly and if you broke a bottle over one of the top guys heads in an angle in a major match you might actually draw some money but this is just bullshit but it to fuck Oh, my God. That's the thing, like Bianca Bel Air, Jade. I'll use them as an example. You watch them in their stuff, even when Jade's not wrestling all that great. They're believable and they're not like, you can get into it. It's like they're wrestlers, wrestling, not a bunch of people performing bad skids. W.W. Women's, the whole division is just a complete disaster.

The people involved in this, most of them need to be wrestling in jello in a kid's blow-up pool. And then speaking of kids and, well, there's no blowup pool involved in this, but Mercedes Moon and Stephanie Vacker are going to have the match, and they had a package on that, and then Mercedes was in the back. And all I've got to say, I don't know what she said, I'm not going to try to recap it. It just went by, it was a scripted heel promo delivered in again a fake and stilted way. And what the baby face, by the way, I think. No, this was a heel promo through and through.

No, nobody could mistake there. You'd have to be a complete fucking idiot to let a baby face say a promo like this in this fashion. Are you calling somebody a complete idiot? You know, at this point, who knows who's a baby face and who's a heel all over that show. Anyway, I know who a heel. is Jericho, Big Bill and Brian Keith for making us watch this. How did they hurt Brian Keith already? His arm is in a sling.

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure. But it somehow happened recently and, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, he didn't last long. So Big Bill now his promos are as bad and as phony as Jericho's. Remember when we thought, wow, he's really coming on a few months ago before this whole thing started? and Jericho said, well, don't worry about the six-man tag against who the fuck are they wrestling at the pay-per-view?

Lord. Oh, Samoa Joe Hook and Shabana. Oh, Joe Hook and Shapoopee. That's right, because they're about to come out. Selva said, don't worry about six-man tag because we got another partner. I'm going to play a video of who we got that we haven't even watched it yet. We're going to watch it for the first time with all of y'all. Jesus Christ.

They would have had to watch it in the production truck to time the fucking thing. This is so fake. And of course they set that up. And he introduced, so here he is, fellow wrestling observer newsletter Hall of Famer Minoru Suzuki. And here's another promo on the screen in subtitles. But now they've set that up, obviously. Minoru Suzuki.

says, I don't know what the learning tree and all that bullshit is. I don't want to be any part of that. I don't want to team with Jericho. I want to wrestle him one-on-one. Oh, joy. So what's Suzuki? Now, 60?

We've established he's a fucking Faberge egg. They don't want to hurt him because they're afraid he'll stretch him. But he looks like shit and wrestles worse. Against Jericho, will the combined age be over 110. 56 is Suzuki. He's 56.

How old is Jericho? We're going to be close here. We're going to be under, I think. Huh? Hold on. That's a map of Jericho Long Island. Chris Jericho. A map of Jericho Long Island.

53. 50. Okay. God damn it. 109. When's their birthdays? Between now and Sunday? Uh,

Yeah, I just closed the windows. I didn't check. I didn't... But never mind. There's a chance. There's a chance. And then after that plays and Jericho's all upset, then here comes Samoa Joe and Hook and Shepoopee out.

And Joe is trying. He really is trying on the promo. He always gives it his all, but this is... And I think he knows. He cut the promo on Jericho and company, but then he pitched to two Shepoopee. And Shepo, Shepo. Poopi's phone to tell Jericho that they suck.

And then Jericho slapped Joe and Joe headbutted Jericho and they had a five-second fight and the heels bailed out. So then who is the match? Is it Joe and Hook and Shepoopee against... Who the... What is going on here? Is it a six-man? Is it a single match?

Who's Shepoopi going to fucking wrestle? According to the AEW website, let me refresh this. that match and others are not listed on the website hold on me go to wikipedia oh good lord wow it was now 13 matches oh gee oh come on we just did a preview the other day there were nine matches oh no a pre-show match statlander and momo watanbi what whatonbi what's it was he the prime minister of uganda after edie i mean chris statlander and momo watanabe with I'm telling you he was a cannibal. But Stokely Hathaway versus Willa Nightingale and Tam Nakano,

Mariah May with her crew versus Saraya, and then the Lucha Brothers and Mistico versus L.I.J, who we just saw in Dynamite in a big match. And finally, uh... Have we seen Mistico at all? Was his name mentioned? Uh, no, he, and he's one of the big, biggest stars and literally pray history.

So, of course, they didn't bill him for being a part of any of this. It still has here on Wikipedia, The Learning Tree, and Jeff Cobb versus Samoa Joe Hook and Shabbata. Wasn't it Jeff Cobb versus someone else the last time we looked at this? I don't know, but nobody mentioned Jeff Cobb's name on this fucking program, including the people that are teaming with him. And Suzuki made it sound like he's going into a singles match with Jericho. Yeah.

All right, well, let's let's move along here. You know, if they don't know who the matches are, then we shouldn't be, you know, penalized for not knowing. They had Kyle O'Reilly versus Saber the Q-Tip, and it was a technical Matt wrestling match of the, it was so dry you had to watch it in the rain it was very matte-based and technical it was executed mostly very well from what I saw as I was zipping through

but that's again that's the problem is that it looks like two kids at you know junior high recess trying to imitate Billy Robinson and Tony Charles at some points was this the match where they had orange Cassidy on commentary? Well I was about to say and then they had pockets on color mumbling and acting like

that they're all still in some barn in Cuckamunga putting this thing on VHS. It's not professional. They shouldn't have this type of bogus horse shit on a national cable television program.

He said something like, yeah, those guys are They're doing a lot of moves I can't do. Jesus fucking. So then they wrestled for a while and then Q-Tip got an arm bar and O'Reilly tapped out. That was pretty much that.

But then Roderick Strong and Taven and Bennett were in the front row and Roddy was arguing with some guy next to him. They said was named Gabe Kidd. Have we ever seen this fucking guy before? I don't think we've ever seen him on this show. If we have, I'm not sure. but he's one of the biggest stars right now in New Japan.

Oh, good Lord. Yeah. He looked like that Zicky Dice guy that was on NWA for a while. So Roddy was arguing with that guy. Does Wardlow still work here? That's a good question. I don't know. He was in this group.

He was. Did he excommunicate them? So was Adam Cole, who we're told was healthy enough to come to these shows a and then all of a sudden he's gone again. Well, did you ever get the feeling that you wanted to stay? Did you ever get the feeling that you had to go? Wanted to stay? Had to go.

Ah, cha-cha-cha. The schna. Jimmy Durante was an underrated talent. So, Pockets goes to check on O'Reilly, but Roddy and Company push him back away from Kyle so they can check on O'Reilly. But then Q-Tip and Pockets go face to face with each other in a confrontational way when suddenly what I thought were two fans in baseball caps,

but apparently our friends of Q-tips, roll in the ring and they face off with pockets, three against one of the, but then music plays, and I swear to God, here comes, this guy looks like he could quixie. This guy looks like he could qualify for disability payments from the state. He stands next to pockets.

What are you laughing at? I never heard of that before. He could file. I'm telling you, show a picture of him, watch him walk. That's a pretty slam dunk case. But he stands next to pockets, and there's still two, against three, but then Gabe Kidd jumps up on the apron yelling at everybody.

And the fans are kind of staring at this, and then nothing happens and everybody leaves. So what? Is there a match coming out of this? Pockets versus Zach Say, Virginia, at the pay-per-view. What are you doing? Pairing some of that shit up. That's a lot of paper, it sounds like.

Well, there's only one page. I wanted to make sure that nobody could read it. So then, the main event started at four minutes until 10. The end of the show comes at 10 o'clock normally, schedule-wise. They always run over, obviously. But they can't even now time it to where they could legitimately. start a match that they're just next week they're going to start the main event in the overrun is what i'm trying to say they started the main event which wasn't worthy of being a main event

but at four minutes until 10 so they went two minutes and then went to a break and they were still in the break at the goddamn top of the hour and my DVR froze before they came back but it just so if somebody was switching around at the top of the hour they saw a commercial for fucking Ovalteen? What, what? The heels jump started, the baby faces took over. They teased dissension. The heels took back over.

They went to the break. My DVR froze. I didn't even care enough to find out what happened. Did someone turn on someone and sodomize them with a red hot crowbar? I don't know about that. That seems like a step too far. But at the very end, swerve kicked off the way. You shouldn't heat them up.

I've seen pictures where they just, they don't heat them up. They just use the crowbar and it's much easier. I don't know what's going on over there. But swerve kicked Osprey in the head at the very end of the match, at the very end of the segment. Well, there you got. Ain't that a kick in the head? So swerve technically, I guess, is a heel now. Ain't that a hole in the boat?

But here's the thing. Does that make him a heel now? Or does that make him a bigger baby face? Because the people started liking him when he was terrorizing infant. babies and breaking into people's homes doing home invasions. So since now they don't like him anymore, because all he does get his ass kicked, maybe if he kicked this other motherfucker in the head,

they'll like him again. And you can kick ostrich in the head all you want. You can't tell when he talks whether there's any damage or not. Well, that was, uh, AEW dynamite once again. certainly was. I'm so sorry, ladies and gentlemen, this show is review heavy today

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Last week's ratings caused a panic amongst AEW friends and family and defenders. This week, you have to figure, has to recover. But before we get there... Yeah, yes, yeah. You know, there's going to be some... It can't get much worse, but go ahead. Well, it's just briefly because we've been mentioning it

the last few weeks in comparison. NXT on June 25th this past week, 8 to 10.05 p.m. was watched by 611,000 viewers on average. So that's down from 724 last week. So what do they attribute the drop to? Or do they attribute the drop to anything? Well, according to Ruraltomics,

NXT was number four in primetime on cable in the key demo behind Fox Sports One's coverage of the Copa America and history channels and history channels the secret of Skin Walker Ranch I think I mean

Skywalker Ranch was George Lucas's home is there a Skin Walker Ranch? Yes I mean it's right across the street from the Bunny Ranch and they've got a special if you're an NBA player

with drugs you get in two for one all right well that's NXT XT it's 611 okay Well, they still, they beat last week's AEW mark, but let's see what AEW did this week. AEW this past week, Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 8 to 1008 p.m. on TBS.

On average, Jim, 680,000 viewers. Okay, well, they bounced. I don't know if it was a bounce or just kind of a sideways wobble. Maybe they need a little more air in their ball, but they bounced back. somewhat from $502,000, but with their regular lead-in and

no sports tournaments or playoffs or whatever they still only did $680,000 Well, let's see what the quarters tell us. The story will come out. This is compiled by WrestleMania NOMICS.

AEW Dynamite on TBS, June 26, 2024. Quarter 1, 8 to 815, p.m. The MJF Daniel Garcia Will Osprey live promo 846,000 viewers.

Ouch, okay. They're back to a normal handoff from the big bangers and with their average, I can only assume that there is going to be a massive break in an elevator cable and this thing is going to plummet to a fucking fiery finish.

We got a quarter 2, 815, 8.30 p.m. Swerve Strickland's backstage promo. Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi, and Titan. I swear to fucking God. Versus Claudio Castigdoli? John Moxley and Wheeler Yuda. With picture and picture, 76,000 viewers. Oh!

It snapped early. 140,000 people right off the bat said, oh, this would not be for me. And we've always said, quarter two is the true number. The true starting number for this show is probably quarter two, and there it is.

Quarter three, 830 to 8.45 p.m., the continuation of that big six-man match, the post-match with Tetsuya Naido and Brian Danielson, an ad break, and the start of Ray Phoenix versus Jay White, 631,000 viewers. Oh, good Lord, so that six-man tag did wonders for him.

In 45 minutes, they have lost 215,000 people. They almost have to come up somewhere at this point to make their average, don't they? Well, we got a quarter 4, 845 to 9 p.m. The continuation of Ray Phoenix versus Jay White with picture and picture. The post match with the Bang Bang Gang. and the patriarchy, the Young Buck's backstage promo, and an ad break, 613,000 viewers. Well, apparently they don't have to go back up too soon. There went another rubber tree plant. They've got high hopes. There went, so they are down 233,000 from the start in the first hour.

Well, we go now to the big nine o'clock hour, quarter five. 9 to 9.15 p.m. The acclaimed in Billy Gunn and the Elites Live confrontation. Mark Briscoe, Kyle O'Reilly, and Orange Cassidy's backstage promo. Anna J., Harley Cameron, and Soraya, versus Mariah May. Did I say that already? I know, everyone's name sounds like that. Maria, Saraya.

Mina Shirakawa, Ed Todi Storm with Picture and Picture. 707,000 viewers. Holy shit, so. The perves come alive at 9 p.m. The perves come out. 9 o'clock, the Lollipop Guild for once didn't run people off because they put vagina immediately following them,

something that the Buccaroos have never had anything to do with. So you've got a variety. It's a variety show now. Well, Jim. They haven't seen one since they came out of it. The variety continues in quarter six, nine, 15, and 9.30 p.m. The continuation of the six-woman match, the post-match, the Stephanie Vacour video, the Mercedes-Money promo, the Learning Tree, Minoru Suzuki, Samoa Joe live promo, and Angle with Hook and Shabbata.

717,000 viewers Good Lord, they actually got 10,000 more for that Well, bless their little peepick and hearts But do you remember what happened the last couple times When they had Jericho at the end of a segment for a little while? Yeah, I do, yeah, I do Now imagine that natural reaction from viewers Combined with Quarters 7, 9.30, 9.45 p.m.

An ad break? Kyle O'Reilly versus Zach Saber Jr. with picture and picture. 637,000 viewers. Okay, so there went another 80,000 people, so they're still now 209,000 from where they

started from. They're up from their low of 613,000 people. Go ahead. We go to quarter eight, Jim. I remind you, there is a seven-minute overrun. Quarter 8, 9.45 to 10 p.m. Kyle O'Reilly v. Zach Saber Jr. continued. The postmatch with TMDK, Undisputed Kingdom,

Gabe Kidd and Tomohiro Ishii... An ad break. And the start of Swerve Strickland and Will Osprey versus the Gates of Agony. Picture and picture. 615,000 viewers. seven-minute overrun, the continuation of the match and the post-match, 617,000 viewers. Gee, that's just...

Bathroom break fluctuation. Go ahead. The average, not counting the first quarter or the overrun, is 660. Yeah. So they artificially inflated only 20,000 people with their manipulation, and it still didn't. But that's... Start to finish. 230,000 people, 31 or 30 or whatever the fuck.

That was, wait a minute, what is, what is 200 and what percentage, and I've asked you these things before, what percentage is 230,000 of 846,000? How do you do that? Hold on, give me a second here.

What is? What percentage of 846,000 is 230,000. Give me the first number again? 840. 846 is where they started. 846.0. 230 is what they lost. What percentage did they lose? 230. Carry the three. 27.18%. Quarter of their audience.

Almost a third. Closer to a... Yeah, actually, you're right. Yeah. Well, there you go. Well, Jim, as we wrap things up, we'll see what happens with a forbidden door. Those are the ratings. Tony Kahn's making the rounds,

doing the media call earlier. And I don't know, I got to make sure this is a real image. Apparently, there's an image going around. Tony Kahn was on Fox Business. The quote here in the cry on, Tony Kahn, all elite wrestling CEO,

500 million plus people attended 110 live AWE events in 2024. You know, I take everything bad I've ever said about him back. Obviously, he's much more successful than I ever realized.

Than I ever realized. That's not even mathematically possible, is it? Can that be a gimmick? Chiron that somebody is manufactured? He couldn't have said that. Wouldn't they... Well, it's Fox.

They don't fax check anything. But... what would that be if 500 million for a hundred and whatever live events what what's the math on that per per capita per event i'm doing it right now that would mean on a on average you know again wembley was a big show so it kind of skews the average up on average aEW would have a live attendance of approximately 4.5 million people per show that's why question. Could this be a real image? Could he have actually said that?

Did he give him one of these fucking bullshit statistics that the WWE comes up with all the time where they've had 17 billion social media engagements and that Fox just fucked it up somehow and how could that be? Again, how could that be? Did they have 500 million viewers?

I mean, I'm just, I haven't never thought about the exact that you couldn't. There can't be 500 million of anything except maybe empty seats in the buildings they've run. Now that might, we could tally that up and take a while, but what in the world? Should he be the one promoting the pay-per-views? I don't think so. On business channels? I don't think he, no, I don't think he ought to be on a business channel.

What does the wrestling business look like when this crazy-haired, wide-eyed fucking guy is, oh, it's great, it's great, 500 million people? Anyway, if anybody has a, can forward us a clip of the Fox Business News appearance by Tony, so we can verify these things. That's, that's insane. All right, ladies and gentlemen, this has been the drive-thru. It's out of tune. Just like us. We'll be back on the experience in a few days. That'll be more fun, more exciting death of WC...

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