Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru - Episode 357

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

This week on the Drive Thru, Jim reviews AEW Dynamite & WWE Raw! Plus Jim talks about ratings, trees, Strangler Lewis, Chris Candidio, PWInsider's Dave Scherer being a vagina, and much more!  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, brubs! And you are, my friends. And welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornedge Drive-Thru right here on another day with another batch of shows to talk about, and who knows what else. I'm your host, The Great Brian Last, and, of course, the star of the drive-thru, Mr. Jim Cornett. I'm back, baby. All the great sound effects that you've come to know and love, great. all of them are back again because Hotchkka's feather bottom has been over here

and fixed this issue and what it was was the Skype people had tried to suppress my noise they had tried to suppress my free speech and by gum Hotchkis turned that switch off you were on the line when he did it it was some what was it a noise filter a background

filter, noise filtering device that they had updated the Skype with? What was it, Brian, the technical term? Skype had upgraded automatically on your end, and with that had come a noise filter that was turned on, it was toggled on, and because of that... Toggled! We heard your voice and nothing else. Nothing. You couldn't hear the classic...

See, you couldn't hear that. Clap your hands. See there? I got to clap. Yes, you did. I'll clap back on the show, thanks to the brilliance of Hotchkiss Featherbottom. He popped up screens on here. I didn't even know we had.

They were unscreened screens, Brian. What does that mean? They were open and you didn't know they were open or he was just opening things? No, he opened them. He just opened these things that I didn't know were there and went to these controls and what were they? Clicked this and, well, they were, they set your controls for the heart of the sun. They were, they were all kinds of, they were.

toggle switches and on and off things and well this should be raised and that should be lowered and now my sound is pristine again to be determined we see how things work out and uh this is a happy talk to be determined to be determined you need more proof well we need to finish a show we need to finish five minutes of a show have i ever sounded better have i ever sounded better have i ever sounded better. There was that one episode you were a horse. Well, that was when I was interviewing

Aubrey Ed. She was sick that day and we were both a little horse. Remember one year we did WrestleMania? You were like at WrestleMania, not there, but like in the town and you called in. You actually called in the show. Yes, and also I'd been doing commentary and my voice was shot

and I'd had no sleep for five days. I don't do that anymore and thank fucking God. If there is indeed a God, he has prevented me from doing damage to my health anymore by depriving myself of sleep and proper food and the rest that an old person like myself needs. Somebody called me the other day that shall remain nameless that I had not spoken to in 30 years, didn't even know this person was still alive. And he left me a message, hey, Jim, give me a call.

I might have a booking for you. What the fuck? When did they stop calling Thess? How old did he have to get before they say, well, no, we did. Might have a booking for you. I think they called till the end, actually. Well, but not for him to wrestle. Well, in Japan, maybe.

Well, that's true, pretty close. All right, maybe a poor example. Did you think Dori Funk Jr. just went over there to work a tour? Or worked a show? No, no, he did not. How, is Dory 80, what would he be, 82, 3? Oh, yes, maybe, hold on, Dori Funk, let me see if it says he's actually working. But you're not talking about wrestling.

I can see he would, he would, the Funks were gods and fan of wrestling, so I could see he would appear. Apparently he'll be in a tag team match, teaming with Osamu Nishamura against Onita. Oh, Jesus Christ. And so on. Obviously, it'll be Greco-Roman rules, I would assume. Anyway, so the sound effects are back. At least we got that going for us.

Brian, the last two days we set a record here in Louisville, Kentucky. Or at least a record for the last week. It has been 20 years since we had two days in August in a row where the high did not reach 80 degrees. You know, it's the coldest that's been here in August in a long time. It's freezing in the morning. And this morning, I woke up like, man, well, it is September. It's not September.

What am I saying? It's August. Well, I was about saying, don't get insulted and don't get used to it. Because it's coming your way, too. I have a feeling because the next week, the low temperature, a couple of days, will be higher than the high temperature was the last couple of days. And the high during the day will be 97, 99. with a heat index of 100 fucking 5.

But at least we had a couple of days. A couple of days for the tree crew to get out here. One more thing before I let you have your show. The poplar tree that's been laying in my backyard for two weeks now, right? I didn't want to pay the emergency rates because it couldn't fall any further. I didn't think. So you saw the pictures I tweeted, right? Did you see the size of this locomotive size?

tree laid in my yard? I did, yes. Okay, well, they come over yesterday with the wood chipper that you like to throw people into and the truck that's pulling that and they get that down there and they got the big truck up here that has some equipment and they got the, it's not a fork lift, but imagine a fork lift but on the front of it instead of the fork is the thing that lifts the big pieces of trunk wood that you can't throw in a wood chipper, right? And they've got to use that to bring it up the hill to the driveway where the big truck is because they can't put 10,000 pounds of wood in a fucking truck and then drive up the hill out of my backyard, which would probably create more chaos.

So they're ferrying... Well, first they throw everything into wood chipper, and that was two truckloads. They had to go to the dump, half an hour each way to dump this. this giant truckload of wood chipping before they got down to the part where they had to saw up and make logs, right? And you couldn't make like a six foot log out of this because the fucking thing's so big around.

So they're cutting it like one foot wide chunks and then the forklift brings it up to goddamn hill. So you saw the size of the roots and the sod and the dirt, even had a big spot of grass, everything. The size of the sod. The size of the sod. was an old sod.

Fifteen feet high off the ground, right? Was that whole big root business and everything, and there was a big hole underneath it. Well, as they today, continuing their work from yesterday, they finally got down, imagine they're chopping it from the top and they're going down to the trunk, right? In the left to right, as it's laying there,

I guess it could have been the other way if it's laying there. Whatever the fuck. They're going at the top to the trunk. Why are you laughing at me? This is such a wonderfully descriptive story. It's almost like I'm there. Yes, I wish you were. I got a big hole in my backyard I can put you in.

Hey, watch out. I got that wood shipper. So they get about 10 or 15 feet from where the ground is on the... Because the trunk is sideways, so the ground is up in the air. See, now we're completely going against Newton's law of theoretics or motion or whatever or who discovered gravity when the apple was falling from the tree

Sir Isaac Newton Newton that's right the theory of relativity Sir Isaac Newton so the ground is up in the air and the trunk is sideways but when they cut one more chunk off about 10 or 15 feet before they got to the bottom

that son of a bitch stood straight up it overbalanced itself they took enough weight off the top and the whole thing fell back into the goddamn hole and so now it's standing straight up 15 feet and when they cut it down to the ground

now they've got thousands of pounds of roots and stump and fucking dirt connected that has fallen back in this hole that there's no way to pry under it and get it back over, and they can't chainsaw into the dirt, and nobody brought a stump grinder because there wasn't a stump to grind.

So now they got to call and they got to get the stump grinding crew to come over here and get this fucking plug back out of the ground where it was standing up straight upright to begin with. And there were some startled faces, apparently. I was not there on a scene, but when that fucking thing stood up it was like a goddamn corpse standing up out of a coffin only much larger

it's like what the fuck so I believe they always make sure your roots are disconnected before you get too close to the fucking stump this has been tree time you're on the drive-through maybe would you imagine a thing like that would happen

hey speaking of Kentucky did you see that program I posted the other day the Strangler-Lewis program when he won the world title from Joe Stecker? Yes, I did. Because it mentions he's from Kentucky right on the cover, although now living in San Jose. Well, you didn't even know he wasn't really from Kentucky. No, he was, oh my God, now am I going to Nebraska, right?

But what was some small town that he was born in, in Nebraska, correct? Not humble. That's not Nebraska. No, that's Iowa. Yeah, that's not even Nebraska. You're way off. You're way off.

But anyway, the... Somehow part of the mythology of Strangler Lewis was that he was somehow a standout wrestler at the University of Kentucky or some kind of standout. But the, well, you know this because you've read my wonderful book on the subject. But the first time that Strangler Lewis was called Strangler Lewis was in Louisville, Kentucky. and he had apparently he had been booked the previous week under his own name

Robert Friedrich or whatever name the spelling's very that he was using at that point and he didn't show up the train was late whatever the fuck right so they sent another guy out

and just used that name so they didn't have to check because nobody knew he was anyway and they didn't want to change the card and make people think they were swerving him right So then he does show up the next week. Well, we can't call you that.

They just saw Robert Friedrich or whatever. So Ed Strangler-Lewis became an homage to Evan Strangler-Lewis that had been a big-time wrestler like 20 years before that in the 1890s. But it was right here in Louisville that the legend of the Strangler was born, 1913. It is crazy, though, even though, even though, obviously there's a difference between Ed and Evan. just the complete copy of the name Strangler Lewis. If you were old enough and people died younger back then, but if you were old enough that you were, you know, 20 years earlier.

If you lived out of your 30s. Yeah, I mean, if you had been going to the matches. The cholera was big back then. The cholera and the fucking jaundice. But if you had been going to the matches, you had seen or potentially heard about or read about the first Strangler Lewis, all of a sudden is that a second guy with the same name. Well, there's stone called Stan Austin.

Exactly. Look, here he comes, man. Wonder if he's going to give anybody the stammer. Well, that would be like, though, if they called Stan Austin just Stone Cold Austin. Because after a while, it's just Strangler Lewis. It wasn't always Ed Strangler Lewis. Well, but think about this. 20 years was a long time back in those days because imagine this.

There's not only no internet, there's no television, there's no radio. And who keeps newspapers for 20 years? And so people could still remember the guy, but they probably didn't even have a picture of him. It wasn't like an iconic image. It was a name from the past all the way 20 years ago before the Spanish-American War. John Hulk Hogan. And that's the other thing. When you think of time, it's a little crazy, especially if you go back and look at programs,

newspapers, whatever it may be from back then, that's all they had. There was no television and radio was really just getting going. But if you go back and look, you could really see the difference in 20 years. If you look at today and say, look at wrestling 20 years ago, 2004, there are differences, but by and large, it doesn't feel radically different. If you tuned in the raw, other than the recent production changes, it's not a radically different show than it was 20 years ago. Right. AEW kind of fits into what you imagine WCW would have looked like if it had lived. Oh, come on.

Keep putting the boots to the corpse of WC. No, seriously, the Turner production, just the look of it and everything. It looks kind of the same as it would have looked 20 years ago. If you go from like that point 20 years back to the mid-80s or from that point 20 years back to the 60s, let alone 20 years back from that to the advent of television, everything looks completely different from one era to the next. You have a good point there, sir. Because it was,

there was some continuing evolution. And not talking about, yes, more people were getting smart. That's the bad part of it. But we're not talking about, oh, we must all learn and grow. And we're just talking about it. No, seriously. The rings got different. Yeah.

the announcing styles got different because these were periods where people were inventing this shit there had been no television announcing until 1948 for wrestling 47 maybe the early experimental airings and so they had to purr the manager

barely existed and was more of a corner man or a second and then the promos there was constantly something evolving and then you know the 80s opened up everything to where we got so

successful and notorious that big business found out they could make money in wrestling and screwed the whole thing up but yes every 20 years you could see evolution from from 20 years would have been the

last gotcha and hacking Schmidt match to Londos being the world champion which is completely different fucking style. Yeah. So now we're just stuck with it because in those days I think

the common denominator was the people controlling the business and the people in the ring drawn to money in the business had not been fans of fucking silly children doing flips. They had been fans of making money by beating their, each other's asses in a believable way.

Yeah, and again, you know, the John Langmead book, Ballyhoo, ties it all back or ties it together with boxing. And if you look at the promotion of professional wrestling, you know, until television, really, in a lot of cases, well, I shouldn't say that. But at least until the 20s, it was promoted very similar to how boxing was. Well, and there were still buccos of similarities. until television and even after that. But then, you know, also during that period of time,

certain places it started getting more gimmicky than it had been before, but not everywhere. But certain places at boxing started getting more gimmicky than they had before. See Jess Willard to Primo Carnara. Yeah. Well, that's a deep cut for the boxing fans going back to Jess Willard.

And an NWA champion in Primo Carnara. Yeah. Or an NW, well, was it NWA? No, he was a champion. being in the NWA in California at that point, wasn't here? Were they in the NWA? He was a world champion of the lineage of what the NWA later claimed was part of its lineage. Well, no, I got to, no.

No? No? Hold on. No, he's not. Now there I must call foul, or else why as I lose my expert card. No, you're the expert. I think you're probably right. Let me just check.

Oh, so you think I'm probably right, but you're going to take every fucking, you can to make me look bad. See, the fact-checking on this show is more entertaining than most people's podcast, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know why they flock to us. Canara's greatest victory took place December 7, 1947 when he defeated former world champion Ed Strangler Lewis. Oh! Oh, boy, that must have, even at that age, that must have been a bitter pill for Lewis to

swallow. You're right, you know what? I'm just thinking of boxing. I guess. I was thinking to him as a world champion for some reason before. No, but he was a world boxing champion. That he was. Which calls into question either the legitimacy or just the state of boxing at the time. He was one of the names that Charles Van Duren

knew on 21 for the boxing champions. Charles Van Duren, not Van Duren. I pronounce it my way. You can pronounce it however you want. Is that just your New Jersey accent coming to the before museum? No, museum? That's a whole new way to say it there that I haven't heard before. Museum?

And Chris and Tammy used to sweat in. Oh, we're really sweating. We're so hot tonight. We're sweating. There's no way they said it like that. Well, it sounded like it down to us, people who had no accent in the hills of East Tennessee. You know, it's funny. The other day I was, for whatever reason, I was thinking about Chris Candido.

Because I used to talk to him on the phone every now and then. you know, just get like, not in a funny way, but like he had a funny little voice that no one else had. Yes. Like no one has that voice. No one has that funny little voice he had. Well, and the delivery also. With the accent, yeah, yeah.

With the accent and the whole thing. We're not making fun of him like he sounded like fucking squeaky or something. He was unique. He was unique. No one else, I've never heard anyone else sound the way he sounded. And on promos, he would project a little more than when he was just talking to you in person,

but the greatest delivery of, of anything that may have ever heard was they came in one night in Barberville, Kentucky, Knox Central Alaskul in the Hill locker room. And hey, blah, blah, blah. It was our first, it was like Friday, so we hadn't seen each other for a few days, everybody.

And he said, Chris, what did y'all do? Well, we went and saw a movie. What'd you see? Carlito's Way. And somebody said, well, there you go. Somebody said, well, what's it about? And Candido said, it's about this guy named Carlito and the way he does things. And that was it.

So we got to see that movie. Anyway, you got to do this show, don't you? Mr. Thais, I just want to say hello. If you don't mind zipping up, I'm the NWA champion. He just had his dick in his hand. Okay, we've left some people behind. I apologize. you've heard this one before, but

Chris Candido has just won the NWA World title that Primo Carnara never held. Because after Paulie and Shane Douglas screwed Dennis Corluzo at the NWA title tournament and blah, blah, blah,

they have another tournament. They put the belt on Candido while he's working for me and Spoky Mountain Wrestling, and I cleared the dates because there weren't that many, but so that they could do that. and so Candido's flying back from somewhere and he's in the airport bathroom and he looks over at another one of the troughs

and there's Lou Thess who's going back to Norfolk, Virginia, where he lived at the time and this is 1994 so Thes is what, he's in his mid-70s probably and Candido's, I got to meet him. I got to, so he goes up to Thess, and I'm sure he waited for him to put all of his apparatus together. But he said, Mr. Thes, excuse me,

I'm Chris Candido, I just wanted to shake your hand. I'm so glad to meet you, that type of thing. And, because Candido's got the blonde hair and he's so thick, right? You can tell he's one of the boys, but, you know, he kind of sheepishly went into it. He said, you know, I wrestle. Oh, oh, he.

And Lou is, you know, very accommodating to him, and he gives him. When you shook hands with Lou Thess, it was like shaking hands with, like several pairs of pliers with some fucking plastic wrapped around them. I don't know how to explain it. Everywhere that there could be a bone in his hand, like a joint, like the knuckles and the, I guess the part of your hand with your thumb

and even where you would get calluses. there were giant calcified gross where they'd been broken so many times, right? So he's shaking hands with Chris and Chris said I'm a wrestler and finally Chris decided to come out with it because he was like sheepish but he's like, yes I, sir, I just won

the NWA World Heavyweight title. Can you imagine having to say that to Lou Fass? Oh my God. And fucking Lou Lien in, big of the conspiratorial voice that the boys used to use, and said, kid, as you're traveling around these territories, just be careful of a double cross. And the greatest thing is that he just got the title because there had been a legitimate fucking double cross.

That's true, Shane Douglas, that's right? Yes. But it never happened in the ring anymore. It only happened on promos when nobody could get stretched for it. It wasn't like fucking Slattin trying to take the belt away from race and Harley walking over and slapping him around and taking it back. It was, you know, they just, okay, now it's all over. Everybody's gone. Let's do this promo.

Anyway. Well, this has been wrestling history from Strangler Lewis to Luthes. A Chris Vanito. That's right. And Primo Carnara and many others. But Jim, let's get some of these reviews out of the way. Let's start with the beginning of the week. and we may be switching up the schedule of recording a little bit in the coming weeks and months

to try to get Raw out a little sooner, but let's talk about WWRWA. You sound like Nick Goulis now, and this is the biggest caught-up sign in the past weeks and months. Yeah, and we're trying to figure out how to make everybody happy, including our beleaguered editor, Jay Shark Nato, who's left the country. He's about to leave the country because we've driven him insane. He's going to follow the fucking yellow brick road around the world or whatever. But we're trying to get these not only audio issues. We're going to upgrade the equipment is what you're threatening now.

I just wanted to drop a little nugget there. I don't make threats. And what I'm saying is there will be a concerted effort organization-wide for a major upgrade in the latter half of 2024 into 2025. Which is basically a nice way of. of saying that Hotchkiss is going to come over here and get another goddamn computer hooked up for me that is just purely for recording this program, where now I've got to look at two of these fucking things, and we potentially have to find somebody with Spectrum that knows how to give

me the internet speed that I've been paying for for the last two or three years. We've determined the best way to keep things going is to have a computer for every single function Jim would need, so we're going to have five computers all around him, one for email, one for general fun, whatever that means, one for the show recording and two others that are not yet applied to any specific task. Well, you know, the websites I visit are dropping like flies anyway. Nevertheless, we're going back to Raw. We're going back to Raw.

We're going back. We're going back. Get back to where you once belong in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that is, where they had a big house on hand. again, while I talk about this, could you find out how many fucking people in Fort Lauderdale?

Why are you cursing about that? Is this getting ridiculous? You mad about it? Why these fucking people? I'm starting to get pissed. Let somebody else make some fucking money. For heaven, say, this is, this ought to be unconstitutional

now for these people to make this fucking money. Hey, before we get going too much further on that topic and not taking away any of the problems that are self-induced that AEW has, is there anything to the idea that WWE is so hot, no one else can make money? Or is it just because...

If the other company was doing well and producing something like WWE, in terms of connection with an audience, they'd still be able to do both good. They'd still be able to do both good. Keep that in. I put that on the Christmas reel. Um, no, it's fucking ridiculous because if you...

This... This is not a promotional war anymore. This is A.W is trying to do whatever they're doing, but it's not a viable contender. Whereas you might have thought one time a few years ago that maybe they could do something to get a, it still weren't going to fucking beat the WWE for God's sake, but could they get 25 or 30% of the market? Well, you know, whatever. Think how big that is. But no, not now.

No, that's a fallacy because think about this. in every promotional war, whether territorial or national, where it was actually a fucking fight, both businesses prospered. Indianapolis and Detroit, we've talked about before in 1972 through 74. Sheik didn't come to Indianapolis, but Bruiser went to Detroit, but not only did Sheik start selling out because he was bringing in incredible amounts of talent to fucking be the big show,

but Bruiser was still doing, they started out doing, I think, eight or 10,000 people for a couple of shows, but Bruiser would do four or five, six thousand people at the Olympia Stadium against the same night, the Sheik doing 10,000 in a Kobo.

There was the time, for a national example, with Crockett and, the WWF in 1986, there was a night that they were at the Riverfront Coliseum, and we were at the Cincinnati Gardens. Hogan was at Riverfront, Flair and Dusty were on top, well, and Midnight and Rock and Roll, during our first hot run at the Gardens,

and we sold out, which the Gardens was, what, 11,000 something, say 12,000 people, and they had 6,000 or so 7,000 at Riverfront. That's almost 20,000 fucking people. people in Cincinnati, same night. But it has to be, and the attitude era, look it up, kids. They were fucking printing money, both companies, for two years, which is about how long it takes, under normal circumstances,

for one of these things to play out when it's a dog fight. With Jerry Jarrett and Nick Goulis, it was six weeks. So the point is, it has to be a competition, and then both companies for a while, we'll do good against each other, even night to night, or, you know, same night. But if it's not, then it, yes, it hurts the B team badly when the other guys are around. Anyway. Well, I have the attendance here an estimate. They don't have a full number, but as of 7.30 p.m. the day of, so a half hour before

the show, there were a little over 220 tickets available, and over 11,500. tickets distributed. Okay, so point is, it looks great. And I'm going to make the point again when they play Randy Orton's music and he comes out, the fans are singing the words to the song, The voices in my head, they bring me mad, they kill me dead.

I don't know what the fuck it is. And all he has to do is stand in the ring and let him sing to him and cheer and whatever. and then he just sets it up. Gunther's made it personal, talking about my father and grandfather, so I R. K-O'd him, and they play Gunther's music.

And then the announcers get to fucking talk Gunther to the ring and sell, sell, sell. And get people over and whatever, while the fans are just booing the shit out of him. Well, he talked from the entrance, but on these things, the

long entrances of everybody in these talking segments, gives the announcers chance to set to shit up, and these guys are so over they can milk the singing and the... So what you would normally

format for a six or seven minute interview exchange, now on this show, you can 15 or 20 minutes because that's what it's going to take unless you step on to people. Do you see where I'm going with this?

I think so. They don't need any material now. They just have to go out there and mention the other guy and he comes out and they milk the shit out of it because Gunther they're booing the piss out of him and they're screaming

and they're chanting. And finally, Orton has the best line, you're going to have a real uncomfortable flight to Berlin with a size 15 boot up your ass, triple wide or whatever the fuck. And they square off and Kaiser jumps

from behind and Orton dumps him and goes to Gunther and Kaiser clips Orton's leg and Gunther levels him and there you go well by God I'll see you in Berlin

and that's but this is on the territory television or potentially a television of a company that's not necessarily got 12,000 screaming fucking people in the building. There is about five minutes of fucking content here.

But they don't need anymore. I'm trying to rationalize how we've got this far that the biggest stars are over for doing the least amount on television. I guess technically that's the way it's supposed to be if everything works. No matter what year, right? Yes. Yes, it just, it now with... with what they do see finally when they pay for it.

It used to have to be a little more extensive, but they'd get away with that too. Anyway, your thoughts on this segment, if you have any? It was fine. I mean, I'm not really excited about the match or anything, and I don't know, I'm not really that into it, but it was fine. Oh, come a fine. I'm anxious to see it because I think that it,

not only with Orton being the most accomplished old-fashioned worker that there is there left and Gunther being timeless, that we're going to see an athletic fucking exhibition of drama and pathos and all that other type of shit. But Gunther has to beat him, and that's going to be a big deal for Gunther to beat him, to beat Randy Orton 1, 2, 3 somehow. I don't know. But at the same time,

how can they have Gunther's Kaiser do a blatant heel fuck in Berlin? Right. Do you think it's guaranteeing Guthr's the baby face in Berlin? I think, see, here's the thing. It's not necessarily that he's from Germany,

but he's there or that he's, I know he's from Austria or where the fuck it is it, Vienna? Austria. Yeah. Is Vienna and Austria? Yes. Well, one of those, maybe he's in Liederhausen. I don't fucking know.

I don't know that much German, right? My German is limited to Hogan's heroes when I was in Sergeant Schultz. Uh, ein, three, three, vir. I can go that far. But the point is he's not just from there, but he's somebody they can be proud of. I mean, they can be proud of. the personality that he's presenting, but the

the W.W.E. Paperview big event crowds are the smartest groups of those crowds, and you, the smart fans have to be somewhat enamored of Gunther because he's so fucking good. So if it was

maybe, you know, the Logan Paul in Cleveland, you know, yeah, but it's Gunther in Germany. It's springtime for Gunther in Germany. I'm going to guess that won't be his theme song, but we're all rolls on. All right then. Shamis beat Pete Dunn.

I know you're upset about that, but it happened. What do you think of the idea there, you know, he's not Butch anymore, he's mad about the whole Butch time? He's not bitching. He's really femme. He's really fem. No, that's not what I'm saying. He's no longer butch.

He's no longer named Butch. He had to give away all of his black leather and the spikes went away. Apparently he just had to give up Ridge Holland.

I don't know what happened to him. Oh God, the ridging or the edging? That's not what I'm saying. Again, you're going way too far but he gave up being butch. I can't say it now.

I can't, I just can't say it. This man is no longer Butch. And what do you think of, what do you think of anything? What do you think? Oh, I, Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Yeah, I don't care. You know, maybe he should go away and learn a new hold, Pete Dunn, and come back when we don't remember that he was wearing the little street urchin cap and looked like a fucking Charles Dickens character. I don't really care, right? I don't care that he and Seamus were in the same social circle before. Seamus. Whatever. He ought to be ashamed of himself,

beating up on this little Pete Dunn. And especially if the guy is not going to be butch anymore, then why is he hanging around with another guy that's going to give him banger after banger after banger? So later on on this program. Well, he's not hanging out with him anymore, actually. It works in cave. Now that I think about the disgusting remarks that you're making, it works because he gave up being butch, so he's no longer interested in bangor after bangor after banger.

Well, there you go. there you go I'm glad we've resolved that for all of their sakes maybe now their families can find some peace so they're setting up more of why that Xavier Woods is upset

and you know the new day oh Jesus Christ the trombones and the fruit loops and the whatever the fuck's going on we just can't stand it for a long time but they're actually telling some type of story here Woods is upset because Kofi didn't ask him before he, Kofi asked Odyssey to join the new day

because he doesn't want to replace Big E. But Kofi says, no, no, you and I, we're family, but we're just, we're trying to help a rookie like we wish that they would have done to us or whatever the fuck when we were mere children. And then Odyssey Jones comes in and he just fucking hugs the shit. shit out of Woods and he's very exuberant to the point of yeah oh Jesus Christ's fucking guy according to Woods so so that's where they're going with that you know I'm kind of on woods aside we're a team you can't just show up with some new guy and beg hey here's your new friend what's that well you know now that you put it that way fuck this fucking guy cofi

and fuck odyssey well you don't have to go too far odyssey's just a young guy trying to break in Well, no, I think Woods ought to crack both of them over the head with a fucking Bodor. You know, like I said to you last week. Why don't they ever use a Bodor? Even on, they're in Corpus Christi

or Galveston, oh, Galveston, and nobody brings in a Bodor. How many great movie murder scenes have occurred with a Bodor? There's been a few. I don't know how many great scenes

there have been with a murder scenes Excuse me, murder scenes, go back in the fucking Academy Award archives and find that best boat or murder.

Well, they're not going to murder anyone on Raw, so what are you saying? They're going to pull out this. Well, they can try. And you know what? There's nothing ridiculous

about it being under the ring because everything's under the ring. Well, yeah, especially in a fishing town. They leave their fishing equipment under the ring. Yeah, you go. Because you never know

and you might need to go catch some trout just for the halibut. What do you think of the potential of Xavier Woods as a heel? The problem is he... Were you around him before he was in WWE? Yes, yes. In TNA, Consequences Creed. No, he's a nice young man. I'm not knocking...

I hate this whole new day thing, and I'm sure they've made a bunch of money with it, but good Lord, the trombones and again, etc. But a very nice young man, very smart and studious and etc. So I'm not knocking him, but how is he going to turn heel on his partner who's the same size as him? And his partner's new friend, it's 400 fucking pounds. Doesn't he need some help?

I don't... He's doing it in the name of Big E. Well, Big E ain't going to come back and team up with him. Yeah, if you're coming back from a neck injury working with Odyssey Jones may not be the way to go. You got to get this guy over. We don't know he's going to come back from a neck injury, do we? Have we heard that? No, I mean, he's been hosting their pregame shows, but there's been no indication he's coming back.

Well, yes, so the point is, Woods needs to find a friend, right? He needs to get on the friend-finding site and find him a friend. Or else was, he's out fucking gunned here, isn't he? Oh, he's on the way. Well, he's on the way. Anyway, model girl tried to wrestle Ivy Nile. Did you see that? Did you see any of that?

I did watch this because I was intrigued by what it would be. Well, it was kept short, and that's not a surprise. But again, you can see her heart beating and she's the only person I've ever seen. You don't need an x-ray. You just need a Kodak to see whether her bones are broken. You can see that she's a skeletal structure of a woman who is, it looks like a fucking awkward newborn fawn trying to find its way up an icy hill. Is that descriptive enough for you?

I don't know if it's, I wouldn't say that's for me, but I would say it's descriptive, and she is very, you know, I mean, that's one of the things I think we've seen with men, but with the women, it really stands out more when they don't have the traditional frame of someone who will be taking a lot of bumps. She makes Stacey Keebler look like steamboats. I'm just, so then the lights went out. Stacey Steamboat? You know that if only Ricky had adopted her

to be his ward or something like the Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson type of deal and then she could have been Stacy Steamboat and the world would have been her oyster. But then the lights went out as I had mentioned and the spooky piano played. Don't feel like you have to accompany this now with fondling your organ over there. And the fog began rolling in from San Francisco Bay. And model girl just disappeared. And now they're presenting, I guess they're trying here.

Maybe they've heard some of our programs. I'm sure they've heard some of our programs. Because now the announcers are saying, well, it's Nikki Cross. who believes she's Abby the Witch. Have they been doing that before? Can I just not hear it because I'm so stunned at what I'm seeing? Well, I noticed they started doing it with the Wyatt Six match, where it wasn't like, you know, here's the pig-faced man.

It was, you know, here's... Dexter Loomis has grown his hair out. What's wrong with him? Like, that was what it was. And with this, you know, again, she gets in the ring, dressed like some kind of horror creature, slowly walking and acting like a horror creature and Ivy Nile standing there

all I'm thinking is why doesn't she go Nikki ass is that you and then drop kicker or something? Yeah well that's another because Ivy Nile is standing there mortified like she's seeing the visage of grizzly death appear before her instead of just okay if it's a Nikki cross I'm going to kick her in a crotch

and run or something it's it's like they have been been endowed with the power to inspire fear amongst people where they just paralyzed and they can't run or go anywhere. So it's a little theatrical is what we're trying to say

but there's Rowan and Loomis and Gasey sounds like a fucking law firm in Cleveland and they attack Chad Gable and the Creed's who obviously were in support of Ivy Nile

and cross tackles Ivy and the fans I believe were well they were chanting you fucked up but was this the part because there was a part where they chanted you fucked up and they were trying to bleep it in this show and then there was another part where I don't think they caught it in time but anyway and then Captain Howdy is there and gives-

Uncle Howdy. What? He's not a captain, he's an uncle. Uncle Howell, I'm sorry. Well, he could be a captain. captain and an uncle. One of my uncles was a captain. Captain what? No, he was a colonel. Is a captain more important than a colonel or a colonel more important than a captain? What arm of the military are we talking about?

Well, he flew planes in World War II. For what arm of the military? For what, for no, ours. Not goddamn somebody, he was on our side. The fuck do you think I am? What is the matter with you? I said, what arm? I said, what arm of the military, not what military?

I thought you said what army. Was he on Japan side? Is that why you have hard feelings of the Japanese wrestlers? I thought you said, what army, you son of a bitch? What arm of... Well, I guess he was in the Air Force. I'd have to go down and check the newspaper clippings. But it seems to me that all the pictures are in black and white.

So, you know, you can't really tell by that. But what you're saying is he wouldn't have been a. afraid of Nikki Cross. No, I didn't say, I don't know where you, I'm trying to what you're fucking talking about. I'm trying to bring it back to the review. Well, why was I talking about my uncle? I don't know.

Well, you made me forget. I had a point. Did I make it? You made a point about your uncle? Sounds like a wonderful man who was in some army and some arm of, some arm of some army somewhere. Arm of the, and you know where he kept his army and his sleevey. He was a frog man for Canada.

I don't know what he was doing. No, that's only in the, that's only in Quebec. See, that's awful. Well, see. They're mad about that. I didn't even think of that. Oh, they're mad about everything.

The Quebecers, for fuck's sake, they live to be mad. You can't even get ice in your fucking drinks up there just to piss you off. But we were saying an uncle can be a captain, and whether it's captain, howdy your uncle, howdy. He could easily be one and not the other,

or he could be both, but he gave his finish to Chad Gable and the end. They faded to black, and then you see a friend of ours walking down the hallway, but give me your thoughts, first of all, on, this started as a bad wrestling match, and poor Ivy now, she was trying, but this woman, skeletal being

It just ain't going to happen But it started as a wrestling match And ended as Plan 9 from outer space Your thoughts You know Plan 9 has its charm Unlike this I don't like it at all I mean now they're trying to make it less

Mystery-based And they're trying to make it These are real people who have real issues And they're getting through these issues By dressing like They're like furries I don't know what their deal is actually and I listen to the reaction.

The fans are reacting when the piano hits because they know, you know, it's a good time to pick someone's wallet. The lights will be out. I don't know, but they react to it. I don't know. I would have been thinking about at least fucking feeling somebody up, but that's a, see, you're all about a profit,

and I'm all about to fucking fun. Yeah, that's not really fun. That's called being a pervert. But I was saying something and you made me think of my uncle. What are you, what's going on here? What I was saying, ladies and gentlemen, is the one good thing is all this stuff, and again, the fans there react to it, not at the same level of main event stuff, but they react to it. It's in this zone.

Like, it's mixed in with the Alpha Academy and the people like this, where there's nothing that you are supposed to take too seriously. The problem I have is this is not the first time where either something serious, is right before or right after it. And I think it's been with punk a couple of times, where they follow the monster segment with a segment with lights on with CM Punk. And it's a...

Speaking to people in a real legitimate fashion. It's a stark contrast, because in this case here, it happened right away. Yes, yes, it did. Those are... I'm Brian last, and those are my thoughts. You are correct, sir. Well, thank you.

You're supposed to say over. So, I agree with you, because as soon as we faded to black from the zombies, and not even the ones who made the fucking cool records, but just these zombies, it's the 9 o'clock hour, and like a Mussolini, following the zombies, he dug himself out of a grave. Oh, he's a survivor of A.E.W. Oh, God.

Well, and think about this. You're singing? No, let's not. Let's move on to something else. Let's not and say we didn't. No, it's let's not and say we did. No, in this case, let's not and say we didn't. Ah.

So you're jealous. See? But anyway. That's your takeaway. Well, yes, if I say, you know, well, I just call a turd a turd there. But anyway, now I had something I was going to say, oh, I'll tell you what I was going to say. You have an uncle. He was in the Army.

No, no, no. We've done that on the previous segment. The punk is the point I'm trying to make. is, I think, unique among professional wrestlers now in that three specific weasily-faced fucking people. I'm not saying that only three, but three specifically, specific weasily-faced people were putting a mouth on him, as Dennis Corleuzo used to say,

and he was able to punch one repeatedly in the face. I think he clocked the other one, too, and he front face-locked the third stooge and then exits a company where he was obviously miserable and then goes to the biggest company in the world and is doing some of the best promos, I think, of his career

and obviously making more money than he was in La La Land over there. But he actually got to fucking dot everybody in the face on the way out. I think that's commendable, don't you? Commendable? I don't know. I mean, obviously, I think some people still need to be hit. What was the question? There's some people that still need to go down.

But what was your question? Most of the time, when you leave somewhere, you don't get to fucking pickle the fucking guy that you want to pickle on the way out. And I admire him for his perspicacity and been able to do that, is what I'm saying. Well, he did it twice. technically he did it once and he got sent home for a while

and then he came back he did his second time well the second the second pickle wasn't as hard as the first though well he's a little pickle it's a little hairy pickle oh he's not even a deal he's just a bread and butter that's right

anyway so punk comes out with the strap around his neck and he the promo he congratulates the Panthers which are the local team down there that does the thing that that team does? Is it hockey or

who is it? What do they do there, the Panthers? Are they affiliated with college sports? I don't fucking know. It's hockey. Indeed hockey. Well, they like them down there and he congratulated them and he got the people fired up.

And he tells them stories and he talks to them and it's meaningful shit. And he was to tell you he was at Fanatics Fest. Why is the WWE on a hot streak? Because it's you people, the fans.

He met a cancer survivor, and he talked about his friends with cancer. And he met a girl that flew 15 hours to meet him. I missed you guys for 10 years, so I get excited to do this again. And there's the bracelets that the fans have made. So, okay, I'm Taylor Swift for men. Hi, he's doing, he's not doing stand-up comedy, and he's not doing a prepared dramatic scene, he is speaking to people and telling him something

in a verbose fashion that they can listen to and get into or whatever the fuck. And then he tied the bracelets into the one that Drew McIntyre took and in seamlessly pre's promoing Drew. Well, and I got some news for everybody. I made Drew a bracelet and he holds the fucking strap up and he announces in Berlin it's going to be a strap match

what sense does that make just because Drew tried to whip him with his belt but Punk took the belt away from Drew and whipped him with it and now they're going to have a strap match well that doesn't make any sense ha ha ha ha this shit's logical

they have reasons for the things that they're doing of what did we say on the last program that you and I did 48 hours ago or whatever it fucking was, I talked to you goddamn constantly. Your pearly tones excite me, Brian. I said the heel has to steal or fuck up something that means something to the baby face,

whether it is a championship or money or a car or a personal item or, whatever the fuck. Personal issues draw money. This is wrestling at the root of it inside this you know goddamn

overblown production that it's become you know these days but at the root of it this is fucking wrestling and he explains the stipulation. You got to fucking drag your opponent to all four corners to win the match and he says

I'm going to whip this bitch and take my bracelet back. And baboom Drew, but first your comments on punk. My comments on punk? Oh, his hair look wonderful. What do you want to hear? No, no, no.

I mean, what do you think of? The things I've said about his promo, do you see, I see a difference in what he does and what a lot of other people do in talking at giving them this overblown, grandiose, prepared. They're trying to all be goddamn Shakespeare, fear eloquently, instead of just talking to people.

He does a better job of saying a lot and getting people to listen without getting bored than most people can or do. Yes. Because he goes on for a while and you don't really get bored with it. There's always intrigue in what's coming, what's next, what's he going to say? He's shown that he'll say things. What's he going to say? I thought this was an okay promo.

You know, my big disappointment, and I know I'm in the minority here on this call, I'm not a big fan of strap matches. So that deflates me a little bit. I've never been a fan of strap matches. And never been a fan on what usually ends up being the finish in almost every strap match I've ever seen. But playing devil's advocate, when's the last time that you saw a strap match?

Oh, Sting Invader, 92. No, I don't remember the last one I've seen, so I can't quote this, specific. Civic last one, but just not one of those matches I've enjoyed. Now, let's see what these guys could bring to it here that'll change my mind, but, you know, it's not like a stipulation. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is the one. Well, what I'm thinking is that, and I can see, because you've been watching them for 30 years, a lot of those finishes were in the territories. I don't remember, there's been a large chunk of

modern wrestling that I have not watched. If they've done the finish that you're talking about in the modern era and some of the listeners can, I'll be glad to be not corrected on this because I'm saying I don't know. You can't really correct that, but enlighten me, have they done the finish?

Anybody that knows it will know what I'm talking about to the four-quarter strap match in the modern era on major pay-per-view, but I still don't think they're going to do that. So, and again, the finish works good in some places and in other places it doesn't. It depends on the people, depends on how it's done. But typically in these matches, after a while, you may see it coming.

You used it very effectively in 1993 without giving details because you're hiding this. So I'm going to say it too much. All right, no, I'll go ahead and tell them because you're going to praise me. But actually, you know, if you remember, it was kind of fucked up, but it worked because the people thought they were really seeing a fucking struggle. That's right. But the deal is, is that the finally, the baby face, makes a big comeback, but then gets stopped, and the heel wraps the strap around his neck or somehow, and he's dragging the guy to all four corners, but as the heel touches the corner

and moves to the next corner, the baby face touches the turnbuckle behind him, so they're one and one, then two and two, then three and three, and then the baby face puts the brakes on, and as the heel jerks trying to get to the last corner, the baby face, gets jerked over the top of him and touches first. But I don't think they're going to do that because I just said it out loud, but also because a lot of people probably have seen that, but also I don't think it's what they're going for here. I don't think it is a finish that would be a logical progression in this story.

I think what they're going for and see if I've come out right is if, people were disappointed because they didn't see violence with the Seth Rylans referee involvement, I think we're going to see some fucking violence. I think people are going to be red, white, and blue from that strap, and they're going to have some creative shit going on. And I believe most probably they will fucking end up doing some type of finish to continue the program but that doesn't mean either guy

necessarily has to win although I would think that they would return the favor from what was the last pay-per-view to SummerSlam but that's just me

but well Drew came out right there so we've gotten off on a tangent here is this where we were talking about my uncle flying planes no no that was a different

tangent than a different arm of the show a different arm of the show that's right it was a different arm of the show.

Well, let me give it a leg up here now. So as soon as he, punk said he was going to take his bracelet back, Drew's music played and he comes to the entranceway with the microphone. And again, he not only does a great heel promo, but it's because of his attitude and delivery, as Finkel would say, demeanor.

But his delivery puts it over the top and the, the accent works for him because he still has a man's voice and doesn't sound like he's gargling marbles and he sounds like a movie star instead of a goddamn rugby thug or whatever but he's is very unique with his verbal skills now that he's unleashed himself

but also his delivery and just the whole package puts it over the top and he agrees to the strap match but he wants a teaser right now and he tells punk lose the strap and let's fight and punk said I'll give you the strap if you give me the bracelet and then Drew milks it and says

no actually he said no that's kind of more like him isn't it you know he has the best facial expressions during promos when someone else is talking and they show him, he sells everything perfectly with his face. And it doesn't have to change that much on him

because you can tell it. He can go from being just smug to fucking pissed. Yeah. Just with the eyebrows and the fucking... Lifting the mustache a little. Yeah. That's it. But finally, punk says it's not about me attached to you.

It's you going to be attached to me. And that's all they had to do. and there you go and again you know a lot of that was it just a conversation but they built it and got to a point and so the issue

that's that's my point that I got to well I took a drink that is the point you got to I'd put a period on the end of the sentence so I thought it pardon me for taking air and liquid no I'm okay with the air and liquid Swami was barking as soon as you took your break, so I was trying to prevent... Oh, so you were distracted by the dog barking.

I wasn't distracted. Again, thinking of the listener and the listener experience, I didn't want just a random dog to appear in the middle of the track. I thought that would throw people off. People are driving down the road over, so just like looking over to their shoulder, thinking there's a dog attacking him. All right, well, then you've got to have Swami music. What's that going to be?

I don't know. You got to have stuff. What does that mean? Music for him, like entrance music? Yes, and every time that... And I'll do the same thing for Harley over here when she sits with me and she has one of her coffin spells or whatever. You don't have any instruments, do you? Well, I'll find something and we have to play it so that way we identify.

As soon as you hear the dog in the background, we play the dog's intro music. So the people know that the dog is here. And then the dog becomes part of the show and then that way it's not an unexplained character. This is such a fun idea. What sound should I apply to swanee? Hold on. Oh, good Lord. I meant like real music.

Swami's on the loose. Oh, and the music's not stopping. Let's go. Well, whether it's Swami or Harley or Larry, bringing it back to this, who's on the bracelet. What did you think of Drew saying, put down the strap and I'll fight you right now?

Because that's, again, it ties to what punk says in return, but that's a very baby-faced kind of line. Well, actually, not really. because when you think about it who else ever ever even gives it that much legitimacy to even say put down that fucking flame thrower and I'll fight you right now

but no it's a heelish it came off as a heelish thing because of his deal well put the strap down and and you know I'll fight you right now because he already tried to fucking whip punk he knows punk wants to whip his ass I don't know I think that was

that was fine Well you know Jim Knowing there's a strap match Coming up And knowing that this show Is just rambling Yes Yes

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Thank you, Mr. Energy. Well, Jim, like the Energizer Bunny, Raw, rolls on or stomps on or marches on, energizes on. It's, it's, it's, wait a minute, do I have drums here? of drums and we... Well, that's not really it. That's a drum roll. Remember the...

That's a lot of energy. That's Buddy Rich. A lot of energy there. The Energizer Bunny had the drum and it was beating the drum as it walked along. The little stuffed bunny, the cute bunny. The Energizer Bunny was no Gene Krupa. That's what I always say. Well, they didn't have time in those short commercials to really go into a fucking

buddy rich kind of thing. You know, it was clang, clang, clang. But they're good batteries. The Energizer batteries. diehards actually, there was a place in Chicago, I used to know, that would hook various parts of your body up to a Sears diehard battery for a small fee. Do people get to watch? Is it a show where you pay a ticket to watch this person stupidly electrocute themselves, or is this just for the personal gratification of the batteryized? I don't know, there was a mirror on the wall, and there was stadium seating on the other side of it. That's what I'm talking about, yeah. I'm not sure of what, but anyway, Rawroll rolled on,

and we got to see the not the culmination, but the match where New Day and OJ, Odyssey Jones had to work as a cohesive unit and of course Odyssey Jones as we talked about earlier is not Xavier Woods' favorite guy

even though Kofi likes him and so we got this whole thing who's going to get kicked out of the clubhouse? Oh, the judgment day of club. Maybe this is a, what is this? A boys club, a tree house, a goddamn quilting bee. I don't know what the fuck they're joining here, but it's, you don't like my, this is almost an AEW angle, I'm thinking now. You don't like my friend. I'm not friends with your friend. But somebody who's nobody's friend,

Carian Cross and the AOP were their opponents in the six man, you know what AOP stands for, awfully overpushed at this point. And they're barely pushed, so that's really saying something. The fact that they're on television is a push that should be pulled. But anyway, Odyssey Jones won a six-man tag team match, and Xavier Woods has to be kind of reluctantly applauding him and et cetera. Then we went to the invisible camera. I'm glad that who was it, Alexander Pepper Day.

Pepper Day brought the invisible camera phrase or nom de plume out into the open because that's what it is. When Damien Priest and Ria Ripley were having the deep heart-to-heart talk in the back, six feet away from a buggy TV camera, the invisible camera. I don't like the priest. I don't like the priest. I don't like. But those nuns are all right. well hey

you know they they kind of take anything they can get you know because it's not like getting a lot of fucking attention in those areas anyway nevertheless the point is

priest or Ria the calm the heart to heart talks the kind of conversation the thing we have noted before blah I want to see Ria go out there and fucking be

Of course, that sounds more like Moms Mably. It sounded nothing like Moms Mably anyway. Well, it sounded more like Moms Mably than it did like Ria Ripley. Ray of Blurley, Ripley! That sounded like Vince introducing Aretha Franklin at WrestleMania 3. What did Aretha think? No one's ever asked her. What did you think when you heard this maniac?

And now that's a question that will go unanswered forever. What did you think of the Mesa? maniac that introduced you in front all those people at the wrestling thing. You know what my favorite part of Aretha Franklin's involvement with WrestleMania 3 is, that the negotiation to get her there with, I guess it would have been Arista Records, led to the montage video at the end over the credits being who zooming who, which is an underrated late, you know, Aretha Franklin hit, because she didn't really have any hits after that.

So you get to watch, you know, Billy Jack Haynes all bloodied up by her. Hercules, hitting them with the chain to who's zoom and who and all the other great moments. You'll never see it again because it's edited off the network because whatever deal they had ended that day. But, yeah, if you go watch the pay-per-view when it first aired or had it on VHS, who's zoom and who. See, that's the reason to keep your VHS's kids. That's right. But anyway, the no-d-Q match between Bronson Reed and the Miz.

Brian, did you peruse this or skip to the finish like I did? Yeah, you know, again, it's a three-hour show. There's so much going on. I like Bronson Reed, though. I like everything they're doing with him. I was surprised that they did this match with the Miz this week. But whatever gets Bronson Reed over, they're doing a better job than anything they've done since he's been up there. Well, yeah, and that's why I wanted to see the finish.

Obviously, I wanted to make sure they hadn't gone out of their minds. But the match was the tables, the chairs, the kendo sticks, the garbage cans, the kaka. And that, you know, so we get to the point. Bronson Reed won with the splash, which is over as fuck now because of what they've done. Imagine that. Stretcher some people out and give them some internal injuries with a simple fucking move, and simple move becomes over. And in this case, he goes for a second one, and they play music, and here comes Brown Strongman.

And they have a big face off, and then they just cut to a promo in the back with Seamus. But I don't want to see Strongman anywhere around Bronson Reed right now let him keep squashing fucking gibronies and peons and or other mid-level talent

he can't put a main eventer out every week. However, what if this leads to him doing what he's done to the giant Bronz Stroman because this is to build up you got to think everything is to kind of build up Seth Rollins eventually returning and fighting a Bronson Reed that reads

a Bronson Reed that reads, a Bronson read that means so much more now than he did a few months ago. So it's not, you know, the long term isn't for him to lose to Bronch Stromen, it's to lose to Seth Rollins, is Bronz someone that makes him a little stronger to get past to get the Rollins? Only if he just splashes him

and nothing else, because if they have a match first, it will be detrimental. because... Does it hurt him if someone does power moves to him right now? Well, especially when the guy's a foot taller than he is and fucking

50 or 60 pounds heavier. Everybody always used to try to book the road warriors against other big warlord and barbarian or powers of pain. Well, they were the powers of pain, but you know what I'm saying. They wanted to see him against the big

monsters they thought. But then, as you look back in retrospect, in hindsight, the road warriors drew more money against the tullies and arns and the Midnight Expresses the little heels with a lot of heat that could take bumps for the big guys.

Because then when, you know, I don't think that Bronson Reed versus Mr. Strong with Strohman, Strohman, whatever the fuck his name is, is going to be any kind of a good match

to showcase how big of a fucking monster beast that Bronson Reed is. Even if he splashes him at the end, then just splash him. Don't have the fucking match. I think that would help Bronson read more. All right. Well, back to Smackdown. No, this is wrong.

That's right. That's right. At 10 o'clock, we had Priest and Domit. That was the big match. But, as one would imagine, the judgment day was there as soon as Priest is coming out in the aisleway, boom, there's Carlito and Finn and J.D. Funco.

And Priest beats all three of them up. And then has a face off with Dominic in the ring. And then they did the deal where Rhea came in the ring behind Dominic. And he realizes somebody, he turns around, oh shit she headbutts him and then priest grabs Dominic

and shit cans him telling her to clear off the desk and Ria grabs him and she's going to give him the riptide through the desk when there's Liv Morgan with a chair, boom and nails Ria and remember we were just talking about

she doesn't have to wait till the pay-per-view to get her hands on Dominic right she uh remember i said you can do something where she gets him and gets some element of satisfaction but then get stopped before the big thing that would take the heat off of him and you can put more on him so this was an example of that she got to strike the fucking blow then she got to grab him for the finish and the intent was there but that fucking l' bargain that's the idea this is fucking perfect

and then all of the guys jump priest and Liv beats Ria up on the desk and then they hold Priest and make him watch while Liv runs Ria's bad shoulder into the post and throws her over the desk and into the stairs and another post and then Finn gives that double stomp to Priest and Liv hits her finisher on Ria Ripley and then Dom, Daddy Dom, gives Priest the Frog Splash. all of this was fucking perfect.

There's one thing wrong with it, and possibly the young folks today don't even notice or care. Nobody was trying to stop any of this. And clearly the fans thought someone was because they were chanting yeat because it's been established that Rhea and Jay Uso got along. I think fans were expecting that,

but that's not the direction they went. Well, but even there was a, there was, there was, should have been a referee in the ring because it was supposed to be a match. There are no referees, no security. They establish security will come out when guys are signing a contract instantly if somebody turns a table over when they want them to,

but nobody's coming when this goes on for so long. So if you had structured it, to where there's five judgment day felons. They're not felons. Hold on. They're not felons. There are no convictions. These criminals, these misfits, there's five of them.

Thugs. Thugs. Miscreants. Hooligans. So when they're starting to, when they attack in the aisleway, couldn't we have two or three referees? They come, oh shit, and they get shoved and they get, you know, flung away, not power. driven or whatever.

And then once that the baby faces look like they've got Dominic, well, then maybe security could come out but not even fucking jump in because what fuck nobody's doing anything and then it breaks loose again. Well, now you've got the fucking, as Ria's going for the thing on the floor, you've got security people trying to come in. But no, there's live with the chairs. They go to them. But there's four of the fucking heel guys.

And they throw them away. and then they do the shit they're doing and then send a couple of agents and send a few people in staggering times that not just 20 people that are going to overwhelm the thing but it looks like somebody's realizing this shit's happening in real time and coming out trying to do something

and gets wiped out or fucking shoved away or packed into a large box whatever the fucking case but otherwise great fucking performance by everybody but what did did you notice that until I brought it up I mean I noticed that no one came out to save them but you break it down better than everyone but you don't have to even stop them

just have somebody look like they're trying and let them get away with what they're supposed to get away with and you know anyway and then they they did a promo in the back did you see the judgment day they were gloating over what they just done but it was a camera with a dirty lens. Did you notice that? I did notice that.

It stood out. You don't usually see that. Yes. The first thing you have is, is it me? And then it's like, it can't be me. What the hell? How could it be me? I bet they had shot something back in the back maybe and flung some, I don't know, goddamn,

you know, something from the concession stand or whatever on a lens and nobody forgot, remembered to wipe it or something. But it was like, what the fuck? It was like they were shooting it through a dirty wheel. window was shit dripping off of it. Anyway, speaking of looking at something through a dirty window was shit dripping off of it, the next match was a girls' triple threat tag team match, player.

So then Michael Cole bid adieu for now, so long for now, down the highways and byways until we see you again, to Pat McAfee who's going to be off raw for the football season. Can you imagine how much money McAfee is making when he's going from football to the WW to whatever the fuck it else he does? He's in demand and they played the Pat McAfee highlight video. Which way, he stands on the desk a lot, doesn't he? Yeah, a lot, a lot.

Screams a lot, waves his arms around a lot, stands on a desk a lot. A lot of screaming, but mostly screaming. The screaming is, no, Pat's good. We like Pat. Come on. Poor old Pat.

At least he's got enthusiasm. He's a very enthusiastic fucking salesman for the show here. And then we got to Randy Orton and Ludwig Kaiser. And, you know, again, excellent work from both guys. I like that they're, because they're both excellent workers. I like that they've made Kaiser more serious as a threat as,

you know, as himself rather than just Gunther Stoge. And Orton's a perfect guy to be able to stay over, but still make another guy, you know, look more effective, blah, blah, blah. And I was thinking, Kaiser is thin for this roster bodily.

You know, he's in great shape, but he's thin. But next to the AEW guys, I think he might look like Lex Lugar. Because at least he's got something there. He can fill out a little bit. Orton would look like Andre, though. But anyway, you know, they had a good match, but what can you say?

This is the prelude to getting Randy together with Gunther. And so Orton came back. with his belly backs onto the desk and they did a bit of back and forth and and in Orton hit him a superplex, a DDT and an RKO it took to put the man away. Not that he was kicking out of all of those things. He hit him with three things in a row and beat him, so that's the way to do it. And then Gunther slides in and they go to Fifth City as we go off the air. And that was the big finish of Rob, but they don't need anything else.

The building in Berlin, I assume, is sold out, right? I don't know. I could check, but I would assume. I would have think. I would have think. That's the wrong accent. It's Ivan think. I don't know if that's the way they talk over there anymore.

David B. sold out. Well, that's the way Major Hockstetter talk to Colonel Klink. Right. Like I said, I don't think that's the way they talk over there now. Are you saying that a guy named Werner Kempler wasn't German? that's not what I'm saying well as far as I'm concerned German people sounds like Colonel Kling

Sounds like someone on TV 50 years ago Well it was portraying someone in real life years earlier Actually it was almost 60 now But who's counting But nevertheless I assume they're sold out in Berlin in the arena And we know they're getting Just a large amount of money

from the people over at the cock to put this thing on the air and one would assume that the pay-per-view around the world is sold out, you can't order any more of the pay-per-views. They won't take any more of your money. They feel badly about it. So they don't really need to do any bigger of an angle than this, do they? Not really. I mean, I think they do, like you said, they do enough.

They do what they have to do. And you get through these shows, and every now and then you get one. You're like, man, that's a great episode. They had one just recently. and then sometimes you're just happy if you get a good segment or two and there's a lot of things slowly moving until next week. Slowly, slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch, I crept up on the pay-per-view. What do are Ream Priest need to do?

A guy and a girl against a gang of four guys. Well, with live, and live, so that equals. Well, and, no, four people at a woman is what you're saying. What would I say? What was four people in a woman? And also it was four people of Paul Heyman once, I believe. Yeah, yeah. One time it was.

But we know what you're trying to say. What I'm trying to say is something very poor. No, what I'm trying to say is do they get a new recruit? Do they just team up with another existing baby face? What do you do right now with this? Is this a chance to bring someone in and elevate them? What do you see? For this particular match coming up, you know, I'm thinking,

the baby faces should go over, but that doesn't mean that's the end of the program. They can get heat after or they can do something or whatever. But I think, you know, it's going to be somewhat of a, this is Ria's big return. I'm not worried about Priest as much, but this is Ria's big return from her injury, Correa, the first big show she's been on.

Am I missing something? Have I had a brain tumor? Well, Ria's at she wrestled at SummerSlam. She lost to Liv Morgan. Oh, God, that's right. Dominic revealed himself as being a swine. Yes, okay, that I do have a brain tumor. Thank you for bringing that.

But, well, then in that case, yeah, Ria needs to win something here pretty soon. So I think they could probably, and... You know, speaking of brain tumors, I don't know if you remember earlier we were talking about you signing over some stuff to an LLC I've created in Wyoming. Yes, yes. but I've decided instead to go down to Calabasasas County. And I've received some good legal advice that there's a sucker that can be plumbed over there. But anyway, so the point is, Ria is coming back from all of this

of the injury, the loss. I would think that the mixed tag team match, you might want to make the people happy in the finish, but then it's somehow either then or the raw the night after, whatever the case, you know, continue with some heat on the heels to your question about all of the guys. I don't think they need another.

They got the bloodline A and B, or type O and typo negative, whatever the fuck it is. Do they need to have gang wars? Isn't that an AEW thing? Ria and Damien are friends and you can have a mixed tag, but that doesn't mean that Damien is going to suddenly you know, start being a mixed tag team wrestler only.

Ria wants the singles title. These people are intertwined for now, but I don't think they need to go packing Priest and Ripley's side with a bunch of people rather than in some way or another. I would think Finn and JD would be the tag team that they'd be looking toward for the future. but at the same time, Priest and Finn have to finish their

conflict somewhere maybe they just maybe they just say two of them didn't make their fucking plane because they're not booked or whatever. And hopefully we don't have like you said, four guys running in on a guy and a girl, even if it's Ria. Although I would bet on Ria at least against

two of the fucking, yeah, there you go. All right, well, there you go, and that was Raw. And I believe this is still in some way my show. I apologize for any noise. It's coming from somewhere. Oh, God. We don't know where.

I'm not blaming. I'm not pointing any fingers or placing any blame. Except that it's in the air somewhere. I am currently... That's what it is. It's a current. I hear some sort of occurrence. I'm currently in an empty room.

Hold on. I'm taking my headphones off. They put you back in the room? I'm in an empty room. there's not even a fan going and my air conditioning is on but it's going to stay on because it's in the 80s outside today.

See, it's something over here and it's either something in the air or my tinnitus. I just checked. Do you have a tinnitus checker? No, I checked the I took my headphones off. That was my big check. I took the headphones off. I was like, oh, I hear it still.

So you were off the hook. Well, you know, if you take a standard food thermometer and stick it in the ear with tinnitus, then if you get a temperature between 94 and 96, then that means you need to go see a doctor. You know, the last time you told me to do that, the doctor told me I did everything wrong. Well, that's because you were using one of those rectal thermometers.

I'm talking about a food thermometer. Anyway, where would you like to go from here with your show, pal? I don't know. We've gone, this was the surreal moment of the show. I don't know what we're doing. We're killing time because there's dynamite. And it was... I want to talk about it. I want to talk about it.

But we can talk about some of our other friends first. Would you like to talk about some of our other friends? It's up to you. We've got some great friends. Tell me about your friends. Well, what about our friends over at Draft Kings? That's right. You know, because we haven't mentioned that they're back.

They're friends with us again. If you asked me to wager on what friend you were talking about, that wasn't the one I was thinking of. But thank you for taking us. are to talk about our good friends at Draft Kings. Well, it happened to be up on my screen at the time because this email screens keep getting larger and larger. But apparently, college football is coming back. Were you aware of this, Brian?

Of course I'm aware of it. Everyone's aware of it. Well, apparently, a lot of the colleges had fun doing it last year, so they've got together amongst themselves and said they're going to do it again this year. And now, apparently, it's starting again. it's week one, and there's a big matchup in Atlanta, I'm told, here, between the preseason number one and number 16. Now, does that seem fair to you, Brian?

That number one would fight number 16. Wouldn't number one fight number two or three or four? Let's 16 fight 14 or 15 and make it more even. It's a bunch of big fucking bullies. Who are these number one motherfuckers going around picking on these little guys? Well, the season's just starting, so number 16 could become number one if they kick the shit out of number one and a couple of other teams, too. Well, if they could kick the shit out of number one, they wouldn't be number 16, would they? They haven't had a chance yet.

We have to get the season. That's what we're talking about, the start of the season, the college football season. How are they just arbitrarily assigning people these numbers if they haven't even fought yet? Well, it's based on projections, based on thoughts, based on all sorts of diagrams and statistics. Of course, analytics. We can't forget about all these things. Have any of the people on these teams? actually had a fight and see who's tougher?

I mean, they fight sometimes, I mean, the members of the actual team fight, not like the two different teams fight each other. Well, I think before the season starts, they ought to send a bunch of these teams out and let this guy, or this team fight this team, any other team fight the other team, and whoever kicks the shit out of who, they ought to be number one. And then they shouldn't have number one fighting number 16, because that's not fair. They would smear the earth with them. You know what?

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is that where they have more chance to give each other brain contusions? Well, again, you're going down a road that, if you're a fan of football, you may not want to think about these things that will be happening to the brains of the stars that you love. If you're expanding these playoffs, they're going to have more games

where they're going to run head first into each other like a bunch of fucking, those news, aren't that the G-N-U-S up there? Aren't they the news that have the horns and ram into each other? Possibly I'm thinking of Newfoundlands. But anyway, they're going to have a heck of a time running at each other head first this season in colleges all over the world. They're going to teach them during the day,

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Do they have disqualifications, countouts? Well, I mean, it could be a weather-related stoppage. Well, that's an act of God, then. Wouldn't you get your money back? Who? You. Me? Yeah.

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How would you lose unless there's a weather-related issue? Well, that's God. Then draft kings would ask God for their money back, wouldn't they? Oh, God's good of collecting. He's not really good at handing it out. He's, well, he can't handle money. That's the thing. But nevertheless, folks,

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That's impressive, man. Well, it's your show. Well, all right, let's move on here with the show, and I assume the next thing we'll be talking about is the wonderful ride to England that was, or to Wales, excuse me, that was AEW Dynamite. That's what the heels

were trying to do to get heat, calling them England. I bet the Welsh people, the Fullers nor the Welch's, like that kind of talk. And this is where, was this where Tom Jones was from,

or where Engelbert Humperdink was from? I keep getting that confused. Tom Jones Oh you don't know off the top of your head I think I'm double checking but this is said Oh I wrote tonne excuse me I'm gonna go Tom Okay

Some other guy came up and says He worked outlaw Some other guy came up and says Clinton Jones, an actor I don't know who this guy is Sorry Clinton But I meant to say Tom Jones Tom Jones

He is from United Kingdom He's from What but is he Is he from Wales? It says here. Actually, no, it does say he's from Traforest Wales. Well, I thought that was the case.

He didn't say that on the other page. Englebird Humperdink is an American name. I should have known that. Whereas Tom Jones, you can tell right away he's one of them. But anyway, the people of Wales, they're a proud people. They had Tom Jones, they had Tony Charles. They had Adrian Street. So, you know, there's three people I can think of, right?

Can you think of any more famous walesman? Welshman. Either, them either. I feel like we're forgetting someone. I didn't say that was all I knew. I just asked you to come up with one. I can't think off the top of my head, no. Well, you can see why the people over there are so proud.

so anyway they I'm sorry I'm not trying to alienate you folks just for the sake of the humor in the bit they had a decent crowd it was a mid-sized arena probably looked like a hockey arena type of set up and if they weren't full

they made it look respectable it wasn't a 20,000 seat NBA arena where they you know had to cordon off seven-eights of it and these people because we've talked to these people. But the people over there that don't see as many TV tapings or TV broadcasts or don't see

as many pay-per-views or don't see as many shows in general from the quote-unquote American promotions. They're especially more hardcore, online-oriented people. So they were willing to either like all this stuff or just be polite and not say anything. Would you categorize that as the crowd for the evening? You know, I was wondering what to expect as we've seen all these singing European crowds all across the continent and even on the island of England and, of course, all their friends in over here now. And Madagascar, don't forget them. That's right.

We've seen all these singing fan bases and there were times here and certain specific people that really seem to get the crowd going. but it's kind of the same thing that's plagued AEW here in America where the crowds get deadly silent for a lot of the show. I think they were being polite rather than rolling their eyes verbally. But I mean, when we get to the ratings, you'll tell me because I have no foreknowledge yet.

But Jesus, to start this thing out, if Britt Baker and Mercedes Moon are your two big stars that you want to start your national television program and go home show for the Wembley Stadium event with these two you're in trouble

um they they've agreed by the way Brian when they come out for the contract signing for the is going to take place in four days. They've been advertising for a month. We'll ignore all of these loop because the WWE does the same thing.

One would think they'd have these things locked down, right? But they've agreed to no physicality. So that's all it takes. Just okay guys, promise. They're picking and choosing

later on MJF and Osprey have been forced to agree to no physicality or elsewise they'll be fine but here they've just agreed to no physicality so they're going to honor their work do you see the inconsistencies

yes and then sometimes they know apparently don't have to agree because they always beat the shit out of each other and still nothing bad happens to them so I don't know but anyway they need to get these two to talk to each other and you can tell that

Mercedes genuinely believes that she's a big star. Somebody put a quote up on Twitter the other day from an interview she'd done with a podcast or whatever where she's, oh, it's so hectic doing all this press. See, that's the way she talks. It sounds just like her, doesn't it? Oh, yeah. Oh, it's so hectic doing all this press that sometimes I don't even have time to go home and pack.

so I just send one of my team to a local mall to get the necessities. What the fuck? So anyway, in the attitude era, there were 10 million people watching the rock and stone cold Steve Austin trash talk each other and beat a shit out of each other. And now it's 600,000 people watching two girls have a 10-minute scripted argument about whose initials are more important. And Britt was a great heel promo because she was obnoxiously bitchy in a productive for the business way

rather than Mercedes who apparently is just obnoxiously bitchy. I don't fucking know. But this sounded, when she's a baby face, it sounded like she was running for office and speaking at the Rotary Club. And I was a foundation. of Pellan, yes, you paved the way for girls

like me to want to dream. I was the fuck. God damn it. And while Brits doing that, the other thing, she's Meryl's fucking Streep. And so

was, anyway, I'll get to the point of the thing, and then I'll open the floor to you, Brian, but Brit said, well, I agree. I wasn't going to hit Mercedes but Camille is standing there who has done

absolutely fuck all of nothing to anybody, right? Right. She has not even looked I don't know if she looked sideways at anybody but she hadn't touched it wasn't threatening anybody. So she says I promise I wouldn't

hit you Mercedes but this bitch is getting on my nerves. It bobs her in the head with a microphone. Well now Camille is wearing high-heel shoes with heels so high and so thin that it looks like she's a stilt walker

in that padded ring that bounces a bit I don't know how she was standing up straight to begin with in a ring in these shoes but the point is for the spot that they're about to do boy it sounded great in rehearsal when they either talked about it or they actually did it, but people weren't wearing fucking shoes. I don't know what the fuck.

But, Camille, I love Camille. She's got a great look. She's wonderful. She's fabulous. She's excellent. Do not wear high heels, even if you look a little shorter, if you have to do physical shit in the ring. Either it will look like this, or you'll break your fucking ankle.

But when Britt bops Camille, she's got to stagger, but she's trying to stagger in high heels. And then Britt throws the contract folder at Mercedes, and she has to do the flummox thing. Oh, I can't see. And then Britt bounces Camille's head off the desk, and Camille has to kind of back up and sit in Mercedes's lap. And now they're both in the comfortable office chair.

that they put in for the contract signing. And Brits deal is she's going to get up on the table, the desk, whatever, and dive off and cross-body both of them in the chair, and it'll look lovely because they'll go over backwards and wow, right? But no, because for one thing, certainly to God they can't have walked through this. For one thing, if they were going to do that spot,

they needed to have, for some reason, that they could have easily done with a little set dressing of a fucking, you know, sign placard holder or something, they needed to have the table a little further than plum in the middle. Because not only is Camille on stilts trying to fucking awkwardly sit down on Mercedes, but Mercedes also reacted when the thing was thrown at her and the chair is on wheels.

It's not like a folding chair where you can go over backwards and it's going to go because it's got wheels and there's a bigger base so they needed more room. But when Mercedes went back, then Camille sat on her and then Britt dives off,

Brit's momentum caused the wheels to just continue going backward. There was no tipping point over. because they'd hit the ropes and they all just fell in a goddamn heap. Did that describe what you saw adequately? Somewhat, I mean adequately? I don't know if I would apply that word to any of this here. Well, I have the description.

If they'd have had a little more room and if Camille could have sat down and had a chance to lean back a little bit because both of them needed to push off with their feet when Britt was coming from a higher angle rather than straight on, and then they could have tipped the thing, but it didn't, it didn't work. And sometimes these things don't work. But the heels made Camille look klutzy and otherwise, you know, this was lengthy. Your thoughts? This was lengthy.

Again, I hate when people all of a sudden go to the you inspired me thing, especially when it's someone who doesn't, look like they're much older than you are. If they are even older, I don't even know how old Sasha Banks is compared to Britt Baker. Well, finish your thought and then look it up. But that thing, you know, you're not the person you used to be. I looked up to you when I was 20. When did she look up to her exactly? How old was she when she was looking up to her? So that stuff sucks. Brit Baker trying to be more and more like Stone Cold Steve

Austin every week is a bit ridiculous. You know, she's like, it's like a countdown to her next injury. And when Camille, when Britt Baker was clearly setting up that something was about to happen, she guaranteed she wouldn't hit Sasha and Mercedes-Money, Camille was like leaning in waiting for it. Well, she was examining the signature on the contract. You know, they put it here at the front of the show. This isn't the first time where they put the women where they traditionally have the most audience, both because of Big Bang Theory and just grace. You know, if you're going to check out the show, even if you're not going to watch it, you may check it out at 8 o'clock and see what it is. They're trying to get this shit over.

I'll give Tony credit, because that's the only way you could justify any of these salaries. They're trying, but, you know, and you know what? I am intrigued to see what the match will be. I actually am intrigued. Is it going to be like the Tony Storm Saraya debacle on this show? What is this going to be? This is not the WWE. This is AEW.

What will this women's match be? I'm intrigued. and you know, Brit Baker doesn't need Jamie Hater. She'll beat up everyone by herself. Well, now, come on. Sooner or later, you know, if they get another five or six girls on the other side, then Britt might need help. But, and speaking of needing help,

I've never met this young man that we're about to talk about. And I hate that I have to say the things I have to say. But God damn, Chris Jericho, they're in card. of Wales and he's wrestling Tommy Billington the dynamite kid and I know many people out there who didn't see this show were saying to themselves

what the fuck apparently this young man is legitimately and you can tell facially this young man is the nephew of Tommy Billington the Dynamite Kid and so he is wrestling as Tommy Billington

the dynamite kid and he's wearing the jacket and the trunks of the Union Jack, right? On the on the trunks. That's what they, the name for the flag over there, correct?

The Union Jack? The Union Jack. Yes, that's what I'm saying. He's got the flag there. He's doing the moves. He's trying to do the moves. Why would you do that? It's like calling yourself Robert Plant and trying to go out and sing all the fucking Led Zeppelin leads, isn't it?

But you're bald. But, I mean, or Freddie Mercury. Hey, I'll be Freddie Mercury. The thing is, there is a resemblance to Dynamite Kid. And he is in the family of the Dynamite Kid. The problem is the resemblance is Dynamite Kid, like before he left England, the 1976. Well, no, not even that. No, because now be fair here.

Before he got the Calgary Dynamite Kid. No, never dynamite. Because here's the thing. I don't know how old this young man is, but he's got a receding hair line. And I know dynamite got a bit thin too, but it don't look good on this guy. But nobody looks like the dynamite kid physically, even when he was thin, he was he was toned. but think about, I'm not talking about the the 1984

you know, jacked up, juiced up WWF Dynamite Kid, I'm talking about 1981 and Tiger Mask because he was, what, was he 5 foot 90? Was he 200 pounds? But my God, he looked like he could physically run from here to fucking Cleveland. He was in,

and you could tell his physique. He was incredible. and his cardio and the snap he had and everything. This was live wrestling karaoke. The kid has no physique and the receding hairline on a guy who without dynamite's aura and personality and intensity,

it looked like a kid being dynamite for Halloween. Am I being too harsh on this? The other problem, and again, I've not seen him too much. I heard rave reviews about a match he had with Daxe Harwood. I want to say in Calgary. I didn't see it, but I heard a lot of good things about it. I saw it.

Well, God damn. With Dax Harwood. Exactly. Rave reviews about a fucking plumber that wandered in, maybe too close to the bone there, Moxley. Some fucking accountant could wander in and have a match with Dax, but go ahead. The other problem was, you know, notwithstanding whatever talent he has or doesn't have or whatever he'll be with some more conditioning and

training or whatever it may be, Jericho looked like a giant next to him. Yes. And because of that, some of the back and forth shit look ridiculous, because it's one thing if he's working with a Jack Perry or a Darby Island, one of the slighter wrestlers, Jericho looked like a giant next to him. It was ridiculous. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure dynamite was 5, 9, 510. This, obviously Jericho's, I think.

I would guess 5'6, 57 maybe. No, he was the same height. Davey, wasn't he? I think he was a little shorter than Davey. Was he? Well, nevertheless, he carried it well. This kid looked like, I don't know. The real dynamite kid would have been appalled at him throwing the whiff punches.

But that's the thing. You can't do. Nobody, Benoit, could work like Dynamite Kid in many ways. In some fashions, his shit looked. comparable. Has anybody else ever really gotten close enough to it's not an insult or it's not something that's going to make people laugh at you to call

yourself the dynamite kid? Whether you're in a family or not. Jesus. Anyway, the finish, of course, the kid's going to go to the top for the diving headbutt, but then suddenly just dove off on Brian Keith, who I don't think had done a guy. damn thing.

But it's a cool spot. It looked good. He wiped him out. It looked good. Yeah. Of course, it made no sense. He could have won the match. But then he goes back to the top rope without doing anything to Jericho.

So apparently he thought he had some time. Maybe he could have pinned the guy. But nevertheless, he dives off on Brian Keith. He goes up to the top rope again. But he's in a different corner. And Jericho's laying there. And as he sees the guy starting to climb the wrong corner, you see his right arm. He sticks his fucking index finger out and points like over there.

And I saw him, but Dynamite Kid didn't. Jericho then has to squirm on his back like an upturned turtle to fucking turn around so that Dynamite Kid can come off that fucking top rope. And Jericho jumped up and caught him with the code breaker, kind of, because it looked more like he just jumped up and the other guy landed on him and they both fell in a fucking heap, but they called it the codebreaker, one, two, three.

And I wrote, Jesus, but no. I mean, I put it in music terms. I'll put it in fucking wrestling terms. If you're going to call your,

if you were David Flair and you had decided, no, I'm going to call myself nature boy Rick Flair you would have to expect if you can't pull it off and nobody in the business today can pull off dynamite kids shit without it being

a bad homage, as we'll see later on with another top talent. Don't do that. Be his nephew. Use the, you know, hey, there's Eddie Billington. And be the fucking, the English bulldog. I don't fucking know. Don't let Harry Smith fucking kick your ass, whatever. But you see what I'm saying. Should they team him up with Harry Smith?

I don't think Harry Smith would want to team with this fucking guy. You would have two different sized bulldogs for kids to meet. Jesus, Craig, you'd have a bulldog and a chihuahua. Come on. Apparently, according to Wikipedia, Dynamite kids' nephews, Thomas and Mark have become professional wrestlers trained by Marty Jones. They were the Billington Bulldogs. How old are they? They don't have their own Wikipedia page as of now, so there's no way to determine that.

Well, if he's not in his 30s, then he's not very well preserved at all. Should they book him against Tatsumi Fujimami? Well, how old would Fujimami be now? About 70? Somewhere in there. It might be even. I don't know. I think Fujianami still might have a little edge on him. But I mean, no, it just dynamite for anything, anybody can say good, bad, or indifferent about him as a human being was one of the most unique, intense, incredible physical talents that was ever in wrestling. And I just, you just can't follow that.

You can't call yourself that. He was a game changer. And I guess that's the issue. If you are a member of his family and you do want to get into the wrestling business and you do look like him, what do you do? because, I mean, you don't want it to be like a brawn breaker kind of thing where he's like, I'm not Tom Billington, I'm, you know, Tom Steele, whatever to fuck. Well, no, like I said, use Billington, but be, what's his name, Tom, what, Tom, or, no, Tommy Billington. Tommy Billington.

Well, then change your fucking first name. Acknowledge the connection, but don't do a karaoke tribute act where it's his style specifically and nothing that he didn't do. and because you don't do any of those things as well as he did. Not that anybody could, but this kid is not doing a lot of the things even passably. If he did his own shit, maybe he would look better. Well, that's the thing. We've heard that in the past unfairly applied to people, like I think even FTR, where people say, oh, they're a tribute act to the old tag teams.

I don't think it really applies. No. This. That was incorrect because they were doing tag team moves from throughout the ages, but they were doing them as good or better. And that's, you know, research and adaptation. But go ahead. But in this case, it literally did look like a tribute act because he's wearing the same trunks.

He's trying to do the same moves, even though he's not the same. He doesn't have the same build or anything. So, you know, I don't know what they do with that. Well, no, I'm pretty sure they're not going to do anything with it from now on, at least in AEW, because he worked the show, I would imagine, because he lives there. Oh, I thought they signed him. What? Hold on. Tommy Billington. Oh, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Hold on. What the hell? Hold on. You got to give me a hat so I can throw it on the ground. I have a report here. Hold on. Let's see what this is. According to Fightful, this is recently, the talent we spoke to also claimed there was NXT interest in the 23-year-old Billington. 23. Jesus Christ. We asked about the whereabouts of Mark Billington and were told that he was injured in December

during a match for dungeon wrestling. All elite wrestling has not confirmed the signing, and we have not heard if the deal is full-time or a tiered per-appearance deal that apparently was reported by fightful. So some sort of deal with AEW. Well, I'm just going to say this, and we will move on because... They have the images here of the two other matches.

I guess he's had there, him against Dax and him against Takeshita, and in each one of them he's wearing different trunks, and they're the same trunks that dynamite wore in New Japan. You would recognize them right away. The purple one with the star on the ass and the white racing strip, and then the red one with their white racing strip. The same trunk. So I've seen them wear three different pairs of trugs, and they were all dynamites.

I'm just going to say this, and like I said, the segment's not over yet. The match was, but not the segment. But I had 20 guys. in Ohio Valley Wrestling at one time that didn't have WWE developmental contracts that were more physically impressive in better physical shape and cardio shape, more cosmetically pleasing,

whether it be oiled or tanned or just young-looking of proper fucking size that could outwork this fucking guy and call it in the goddamn ring. And that is partially to make the OVW class look special because they were, but also to illustrate that no, there's nothing right now that I'm seeing there that they could not find plentifully, domestically, without having to fucking hire this guy and fly him across the goddamn ocean. What the fuck? All righty. And it's embarrassing for him. I feel bad for him because people are.

sitting there going, oh, bullshit. You know, I'm always critical of Jericho's work. In this case, like, that wasn't the... I was just blown away by how much bigger he was then. And then when you see them competing with each other, it wasn't... You know, I'm not saying a small guy... Jericho's a small guy. It's funny saying that about someone against him, but I'm not saying a small guy can't compete with a bigger wrestler, but it has to be...

It can't be like, we're just equals doing equal shit to each other. And you happen to kick out, and I didn't. Well, besides that, if it was the same height as Jericho, it had that same pale, fishy, white fucking body and looked like a goddamn corpse floating in the fucking river, Jericho could still beat him up. It let Jericho's goddamn skin has turned to leather, but at least it's tanned.

And why did he do the splash onto Brian Keith? Why at that moment did he decide? You know, the guy was not interfering. Let me get him. Some indie-minded fucking guy said, Hey, it'd be a cool spot if I'd do the dive, or he does the dive off the top and blisters that guy and then does the dive and gets caught and not thinking of it made no goddamn sense whatsoever.

So what you do is right before you're going to do that, you set up a spot where Brian Keith popped up and got foiled and nailed off or whatever the case trying to interfere and then he's there. Or perhaps even might have succeeded in interfering, but then he's there. Whatever. but he just dove because it's cool. Anyway, so then Jericho starts

cut a promo on Hook and Hook's music plays and Hook comes out with the mummy wrap on half of his head and covering his eye and the same stupid stocking cap on

just so we know it's not serious you know because it looks stupid and he gets in the ring and goes face to face with Jericho and Big Bill, who has been there up until a few minutes previous when Jericho started talking to somewhere he fucked off,

comes back and glom's hook from behind and gives him a choke slam and his whole head wrapping fell off. And there's the, where he was burned in the eye with no scar or discoloration or patch or makeup. It popped off. He got the chock slam and it just popped off the mat.

Yeah, so but yeah, and again, for one thing, if it's a legitimate eye injury, they're going to have a round gauze or whatever the material is, patched there.

There would also one would hope be then the wrapping on top of that and potentially if you had an injury bad enough to be wrapped up like goddamn Eminhotep, then there would be some

scarring or trace possibly of disinfectant or do they make iodine anymore? Something, but not just, no, he's just his heads wrapped up and there's not a goddamn blemish on him. He didn't even have a teenage pimple.

By the way, what did he think he was going to do? There was three of them. Well, no, the other two had got out of the ring and hid somewhere. They were there. They were at ringside the whole match. Yeah, but then they were gone and then they were back. See, he's over there now. So anyway, that happened. At least it wasn't his head that popped off from the choke slam.

That would have gotten ratings. And then we came to another tribute. You know, these AEW wrestlers, they love to do tributes to back in the old days those who came before them. We just saw the dynamite kid. Now, here came Johnny Saint. Except playing

the part of Johnny Saint was, what other, would have been Tony Storm or would have been Soraya? I guess Tony Storm was Saint and Soraya was Mark Rocco, or perhaps Marty Jones. And

all of them are rolling over in their grave and fucking Marty Jones isn't even dead yet. This was, I mean, it was bad because it was the girls' match and Soraya's Rotten. But it also made Twitter the next day

because they tried to do the homage to the world of sports style with an old bit of Johnny Saint business that as a matter of fact, people then tweeted Johnny Saint doing similar shit. But it looked like two baby deer on a frozen pond. And in one point, Tony Storm just

jumped up near, tried a leapfrog page from behind and just sat right down on her fucking back with her big ass and they just fell and rolled around and things. What? I was trying to start writing down what they were doing, but you couldn't really verbally say it. And then they did an awkward ass finish

that I couldn't really write down, it ended up with Tony Storm winning with a kiss and a pile driver. I don't know that those two things have ever been combined like that before in wrestling. But what the fad? They thought they were Billy Robinson and Tony Charles. Help me explain the humorousness of this. I think reanimated Tony Charles and Billy Robinson would have been a lot smoother than this.

This was bad. This was sloppy. It looked amateur. And Tony Storm's, better than this. Saraya, you know, we have not seen since she came back from her injury a display of athleticism or anything, you know, like she, I guess, maybe had when she was younger and everyone said she had so much potential. She's not been good in the ring. And, you know, early on, we heard that there were people didn't want to work with her because they were afraid

she would get hurt. And, you know, you can't blame just one party. It was both of them, but it was that one thing you always say at times it was like they were wrestling underwater they were just going at opace you don't see things go at unless people are trying to do it in unison together really really not good

in the crowd while into the personality of a Tony Storm they were dead silent during a lot of this and then also even on Twitter the fans were saying it looked like they were working it out or it looked like they were doing it in wrestling school or whatever. It wasn't, if you can't do something and you're on national TV and in front of for what is them a big crowd, just don't fucking do it. A degree of difficulty of five

execution of ten, not the other way around. And I, but anyway, like I said, Tony Storm won and then Maria May came in and knocked Tony Storm out with a shoe. So there are people in this company sat on fire with flame throwers and fucking hit by forklifts and they're not down as long as this fucking high-eel shoe but she knocked her out with a shoe she kissed her and then she laid down in the ring and made snow angels then I'm not making that up

am I did you see it well I mean they weren't perfect snow angels they were um they were kind of sideways side strokes no angels but how else would you have described it to where the people that might not have seen it would have gotten a picture. I guess the problem is I resent having to describe it. Now, this was so bad. This was so bad.

She came out there with Harley Cameron, and I was like, you know, this is interesting. Let's see what this could be, and it was not good. And, you know, I feel bad saying that. Because whatever you want to say, Saraya is someone whose whole family is in the business. And, you know, it appears there are things she just can't do anymore. Boy, I'll tell you. And there was a backstage interview with Renee Moxley Good with Mark Briscoe. Here's the group here.

Mark Briscoe, Kyle O'Reilly, Willow Nightingale, Pockets, and Ishii? And thankfully, Mark did most of the talking, but he's just floating around. Now you see him, now you don't. Kyle O'Reilly at one point, fine young talent. He came back looking like a homeless bum. is, and that was the peak. And Willow, poor Willow, poor Willow, poor Willow,

and pockets in the fucking Japanese potato who gives a shit. And it's just a mess. You know, the problem is Mark Briscoe is finally showing the personality on dynamite that would help get him over as a single. But they've always got him in these promos surrounded by people who drag him down. Orange Cassidy drags down the person he's with, despite how the most ardent AEW fan who loves him.

That's a fact. And Kyle O'Reilly acting all silly just takes away from the guy acting all silly. You don't need that, and it doesn't help Kyle. It's not, nothing's helping Kyle right now. No. And he, she, I guess, is on his annual tour of AEW. That's why he's in the mixed tag match on the police show. I don't know why.

But Mark Briscoe doing this and having Renee Piquette, react to him would be a whole lot more effective to building a single star than Mark Briscoe and the band of weirdos while Renee is bouncing around looking at everyone reacting to everyone it doesn't have the impact it has no impact it belongs on impact you can't see the forest for the weeds basically but anyway then speaking of speaking a weed certainly you had to take a break in the next segment. You holding? What are you saying?

You got something? You had to take a break in the next segment. I can't imagine that you could have gone. What was it? I don't even remember. Will Osprey and MJF? Oh, you know, I actually was planning on going outside around this time, but I saw this was starting.

I said, let me go after this. And it went for a good while. And I was regretting that decision after a good while. Well, they went commercial free and full of piss and vinegar for 25 fucking minutes on his segment. And I, yeah, I'm sorry, but, you know, everybody, everybody has one. So now MJF has had his. God damn, this was interminable. And Osprey comes out and, of course, he gets the big.

ovation and lots of ole oh le oh le oh le oley oley oley anderson was fucking popping up out of his grave they've sang it so long however he called them all pieces of shit well that's true and said fuck you and your wife linda that's right and then he went back but yeah but yes osprey gets a big ovation and he's the home country hero or a home god damn he's not he's not from wales is he he he's not from wales is he He's from England. So he's the home... From London. Well, he's the home UK fellow guy.

Whatever. He's the baby face. And an MJF comes out. And of course, there's more Ole singing. And it's good. This is the closest they have come to replicating some of the atmosphere they've had in the WWE lately with everybody's song getting sung and their shit being over.

But can you understand? to us when he's screaming, not only with the accent, but with the foghorn voice, the tonal quality, it's like trying to understand somebody trying to talk through a ball gag. I just... It sounds like he's hoarse, but then he also has the accent. So it's my most love, first, brov. And even with the bad, well, not even, especially with what is always the bad AEW audio, at least the way it comes across now on multiple TVs here at this.

office, it's hard to make out exactly what he's saying at all times. And he talks a lot. Oh, yes. Very quickly. Also, when MJF would speak, it cut through that extra noise. You could hear, but I don't know, but Osprey did a long promo about how he wrestled in the church halls and tenement walls over there in Wales. And, you know, and this, by the way, they.

will be fined or suspended if they fight here, as opposed to the girls who just had a promise apparently, I don't know. And MJF did the promo. He was begged to come back early from injury and clean up Osprey's mess. Well, the problem is Osprey hadn't hardly been here. But a couple months, right? Wouldn't it have been somebody else's mess? I mean, the whole promo and really this whole...

whole program is kind of geared toward the internet mark so that they can kind of talk about the rotten booking. Did you get that part? Yeah, I think this was all really misguided. And, you know, I won't say the whole feud because it hasn't been to this level, although this is the, you know, what this was was the explanation for bad feelings. It doesn't, it doesn't resonate with a big audience, I don't think. And I think the longer they went on and the longer they were talking about this, the more it was like, what do they even fucking fight? What are they mad about? Yes. Yes. And goddamn, is it worth all this effort to talk about it, whatever it is?

By the way, it sounds like you guys could just talk it out. Maybe you don't need the match. Just keep doing this. Because Osprey said Tony Kahn asked him to put on a good wrestling match because he couldn't rely on his world champion to do it about MJF. Again, this is for the fucking internet fan who's already there in the audience, not all of them. You know, they ain't all in AEW's audience anymore, but they're all marks.

And the people wanted to sing some more, Ola, Ola, Ola, Ola, and they were 15 minutes into this at the 9 o'clock hour. And it wasn't done yet. MJF called him all red coat terrorists, but there he is in the red, white, and blue, the American hero. And I don't know. I don't believe they've got another revolutionary war started here.

Because then MJF had to tell Osprey again at length what's wrong with him and that he wasn't man enough to tiger driver him. And then Osprey went off, well, his history. History books can be rewritten. How? It's history. It pretty much happened. If you change it, that means you're lying.

But he said, history books can be rewritten, but what can't be is how people feel. Yeah, what was that line? Punk is trying to get a bracelet with his wife and dog's name on it that was stolen by the man he hates more than anybody on the face of the earth. And Osprey is talking about it. well, I'm going to make people feel good. And then he named every country in the world that will say that he's the greatest wrestler,

Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, America. Could he get recognized on the street in any of those countries? If you were not at a wrestling event, if he was just walking down a fucking street, is he going to draw a crowd anywhere in the world? See, there's another thing that went on way too long. I don't know. I mean, I don't know what it would be if he went on the subway in Japan or if he, you know, went to a special bar in Spain.

I don't know where the reaction will be everywhere. But it goes from the, I'm, the company's been hurt because of you. No, it was because of you to, I'm the best. How could you say you're the best? I'm the best. No, ask anyone. I mean, it was just going on forever and they were arguing about shit that isn't money. You know, it's just, it's not, I think you're a pretty.

I don't need you out of my way. I want my belt back. You fucking up my friendship. It was just like, here's a whole bunch of superfluous stuff. And then, you know, a wopper at the end. Well, and actually, there was a diamond sitting in the top of the cowpine.

The segment that was good, when Osprey was talking about MJF and the fans that say, he said, they used to love you, but not anymore. And MJF blurted out, they love me till you showed up and ruined it. And then he realized what he said. That was good.

If that had been in the middle of fucking nine or eleven minutes, it might have been really good, but it was in the middle of 25 fucking minutes. And then MJF gathered himself up and started putting Osprey over more. And then somehow out of... Have they mentioned

Will Osprey's wife or family situation on a television program ever? I don't want to say for certain because they may have mentioned that he's going back to England to be with his family or something. I don't... But also the announcers are so unbearable, we often don't listen. That's right, so I can't say. Okay, MJF just blurts out, by the way, I got to spend time with your wife today. Well, how would he have done that?

Did he go to his fucking house? Where does Osprey live? Does he live in fucking whales? Or if Osprey brought his wife with him, did he say, okay, I'm going to the gym, honey, if you need anybody to come over for the next couple hours, wink, wink, what the fuck? Why would that bother you if you knew,

well, I mean, it would bother you. Well, why would it bother you to that point if you knew he was just lying? Like, it would bother you that he's lying, but, you know, if he's coming up with this whole story, you know it's not true, and you stand there and listen to it. But he has, or of apparently,

was it supposedly, true that MJF could have really talked to his wife and why would Will Osprey's wife talk to MJF if Osprey's wife was alone by herself away from Osprey to begin blah blah blah. Not even talking with her, fucking her, because he said that

she may have his kid. Well, that could be insinuation. But the fucking point of the whole thing is it's ridiculous. Either whether she lives in Wales or she came with him, if she came with Osprey,

She wasn't at the fucking hotel with MJF, whatever. But it was just, MJF said, I got to spend time with your wife and your so-called kid. And then he says, oh, I'm putting you over. Because apparently Osprey's wife had a previous relationship and had a kid, and the kid is not Ospreys, but he's raising some other guy's kid as his own,

which is commendable. And after, this is what MJF was saying, after talking with his wife, the next kid that she has won't be yours either. But again, how did this come as some type of believable enraging incident to Will Osprey is what I'm saying to you. And what you're saying to me. Yeah, I mean, and then also Will on the way here, I visited your mom. And I had a few things to say to her. And then I found her old teacher. I mean, just that's the thing.

At the very end of this promo, after all of this going back and forth about feelings and who's the best. If he, if he did, give me, can you match how much better to benefit a lead with? I have fucked your wife this afternoon. Yeah. You know where I was today? I was fucking your wife. No one's ever started a promo like that. That would have been big.

You know what that is true. God damn it. That's got to be the way that somebody on TV gives their. notice. So just go out there and take the microphone and the first thing they say is, and you know what, I fucked your wife this afternoon. How about that? But anyway, they're not done yet because Osprey then turns and asks Tony Chivani,

hey, you got Tony Kahn in your ear? Well, of course he does, except when we need him, he's always there. Right. How come it was this easy just to be, hey, you must have Tony Kahn right? Now, of course you do. Yes. Well, what would the fine be for hitting MJF? And Tony says, 100,000 pounds or $127,000, just for our bilingual audience here.

Pound Sterling. Pound Sterling. Well, I tell you what, I used to pound sterling all the time. Oh, that poor man. Well, you know, he retired from his job as the Birmingham television commentator. Sterling Brewer. Have you ever known anybody? His real name was Sterling.

First name was Sterling. It wasn't like Sterling Golden. It wasn't a made-up thing. Sterling Morrison, the fantastic underrated guitar player from the Velvet Underground. All right. Anyway, so then Osprey tackles MJF because he's willing to pay the 100. You know what?

They missed a classic opportunity to at least get Tony over somehow. If Tony Kahn, that is, if, Tony Chivani and said, I'm hearing from Tony Kahn that the fine he had in mind was 100,000 pounds, but considering what MJF said, he's marking it down to

995, get him. Boom! The big pop, right? Eh, fuck, anyway. So the big tackle and a big pull apart, MJF nails Osprey with the ring, and then they've established now they got all this security, but

they got to do an angle. So MJF nails like five security guards with the ring, a couple of them with gut shots, and they all rolled out and just laid on the floor and disappeared. And meanwhile, Ospreys got his fucking sword out, and

he manages to get a pap smear on his head off the fucking ring. And then MJF hits him with a brainbuster and covers him for his own three count. And then he goes For the Tiger Driver that he says that Osprey's not man enough to pull the trigger on, but security revives suddenly all it.

You know, it's funny. When you get hit with different types of punches, you're unconscious for the same amount of time. You know, it's kind of like that thing you see sometimes in movies. You hit the lead alien or something, and they all go down. They're subservient to the main one. Yes. So maybe the main security guard went down and they all went down. Or what about when, especially, you know who was noted?

for this, James West on the Wild Wild West, he'll have a fight with five guys and he'll run them all into walls and fucking hit him with chairs and they'll be laying there selling and he'll just run through the archway into the next room and down a hallway

and then suddenly he stops running because nobody's going to get up and chase him. It's like he's five miles away. You know what I thought the most problematic part of all this here at the end was? When MJF went for the Tiger Driver, there was no reaction. The fans didn't react. There was no ooh, there was no, oh, there was no, there was nothing.

Well, it's just, and everything's based around getting, everything's based around this move being the deadly move that Osprey's afraid to use. They haven't gotten the move over. People still aren't even sure exactly what it is. They did one video for it and it was good. And it was buried, I don't, it wasn't, it wasn't on this show, was it? It wasn't on this show. I didn't see it. So I don't even remember, it may have been on collision.

But they've got to do more to actually. get, they don't have enough time now, but that was the thing. MJF went for the Tiger Driver, teased it, and that's what security woke up, and the fans didn't even react. Well, now, there's something to be said for the fact that they've not only been talking for over 20 minutes, but now they're fighting. Now, he's given the guy the brainbuster, he's covered him for his own three count, and now he's going to pick him up and do something else.

I'm like, fuck, can you just goddamn get it over with? and but also with the tiger driver I'm sorry but normal people don't understand and would scoff or laugh at the idea that oh this gist wrestler who's been especially if he's a baby face and he's been wronged by a heel who's talking about fucking his wife

and fathering his fucking children or whatever the fuck but he won't pig him up and drop him on his head fuck this fucking pussy right Oh, I don't want to do the Tiger Driver anymore. Well, fuck you then. Don't beat him. Well, Jim, history could be rewritten, but feelings are forever.

Oh, Christ. Speaking of feelings. Oh, oh, oh, feelings. Nothing more than feelings. I got a feeling of gas in my rectum. When Renée Moxley Good was in the back with Hangnail Page, who had been asked to leave the building after an altercation. We didn't see an altercation.

they just came up with a cool premise of why he's got his fucking bag and he's headed out the door. And besides that, I didn't see Jack Perry laying unconscious gasping for breath anywhere. And he's the only one that they ever really can beat up backstage. So, well, think about it. I was wondering where you were going. I'm like, okay, what does John Perry have to do with this? Some of the other guys might actually fight back. That's right.

Well, what's he going to fucking do? But then, Paige says, I did what I had to do in whatever this altercation was, and I'm in the casino gauntlet on Sunday. What the fuck? And then suddenly, apropos of nothing, and they're on TV, Pizzeria Uno of the Dork Order, the fat guy in the shark mask. He just walks by the shot. He's wearing a white shirt and he's tight.

tying his tie. He's got that goofy outlaw mask on. And for whatever reason, since Page is in the gauntlet match, he hits his former friend with a chair and screams at the camera in a growly type of manner. The fuck. And again, they took this guy to Wales, the fat guy in a fucking mask. for what can you get a fat gown of street in wales and put a mask on him are there fat people in wales i went to wales when i was over there there are fat people everywhere no there are fat people

are there any whales in wales well then then they could have saved they could have told somebody instead of buying a twenty dollar ticket we'll trade you just put a fucking mask on and let this idiot hit you with a chair and then you could have a free ticket You know, with that said, I think was Adam Page's best promo in a while. And I guess the question is, do you think he interferes in the swerve match? That way swerve drops the belt and the heat doesn't go to Brian Danielson, the hero who wins the belt. It goes to the guy who cost him the belt or costs him. Well, only if you do it the right way, otherwise everybody gets something on him.

But, good Lord, I don't know. I don't see how, unless Danielson then said, well, I've got a fucking fight page to restore my honor because he gave me help I didn't ask for. But then since he's apparently going to have his neck operated on, Danielson by the end of the year, he might need drop the belt if he wins it pretty quick. Is he going to put it back on page?

So why would he be the one? See where I'm going with this? You smell what I'm laying down? I would if it was normal wrestling, we're talking about, but they already established with Sting. You could retire with a championship, and Tony loves tournaments and battle royals and gauntlets and casino matches and all that. So, we'll see what they do, but after all of this and at this point in the show,

I felt like it was time for a nap. Yo, you did, huh? I do right now, and I did them. Well, I'll tell you, I felt like it was time for a full night's sleep. And, folks, if you're not getting a full night's sleep, that's because, you're not sleeping on the right shit. You know, some people are out there. They've got, they're going through these,

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Oh. And also, there's the, you should sleep on a bag of, used barbed wire and rusty nails because then it feels so good when you get back into your substandard mattress. But that's led a lot of people to have tetanus. But there's all these sleep fads, but you can only really count on a good night's sleep in one place from one particular people. One particular people, because there's more than one.

So how many actually, how would you say that? One particular company, which is. made up of millions and millions of people. No, no, no, no, no, we don't know how many people work for this company. Let's not, uh, making any things. Over at Helix, they're the largest employer in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Where? Woonsocket.

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What's that promo code one more time, Jim? J.C.E. That's right, Helix Sleep and Jim, it's not time for a complete night's sleep yet, just a little nap. We're back with Dynamite. Oh, no. If you went to sleep, you probably thought you had a nightmare. But actually, it was just the Intercontinental Title Match between Claudio Castignoli and our friend, O'Code. and I continue to watch this guy,

to see the first time that he does something that looks like he's actually trying to have a match better than a wrestling school student with three months training. Something that's exciting, something that's impressive. He'll uncork a nice standing drop kick once during a match. And I made notes on this match. Here's one, nothing is happening. And then I wrote Claudio looks like the star, and O'Cody's shit couldn't break an egg.

Then they trade fake forearms. They've gone through two breaks. This is interminable and in slow motion. Badly obvious fake fighting on the top turnbuckle. Has O'Code been using the elbow drop off the top rope? as part of his repertoire for a while, or did he just uncork that one was the first one he ever did?

No, I think I've seen him do it before. Well, it looked like a goddamn disconnected bucket of body parts being flung off the top turnbuckle. I don't know what part of his body landed on fucking Claudio. And then more forearms. Oh, I forgot he flipped the bird to the camera after that. They liked that in Japan.

You see all of the... pictures of Japanese photographers take of all the guys who's back to the 80s, even the 70s, given the finger. They don't really like that on TV in this country. Can you testify to that, Brian? Well, not that you've done it personally, but you've seen

people they try to blur it or they try to not shoot it or whatever at it. We used to have problem with Austin back in the day. Not problems with Steve, but problems with the network, not wanting him to flip the finger.

Anyway, and the giant swing got a pop, and then they did a one minute remaining call, and then it was a 20-minute draw. So, I love Claudio, but a guy they never used goes to a 20-minute draw with their new multimillion dollar

toy for the EVPs group. What the fuck is going on here? Oh, I don't know. This match was not for me, and it wasn't just Okada, it was Claudio 2. I don't matter. I can't remember the last good, exciting Claudio match that was for my sensibilities. Claudio and Hero the Kings of Wrestling Against the Briscoes in Toronto in the summertime of, I believe, 2012.

2012? I was going to say, it's a long time ago. Well, it's the best match they all ever had, but nevertheless. But yeah, no, this was not for me. well then the Buccaroos and Jungle Jackoff came out and Maddie did the thing where well all you fans like five minutes more well it's not going to happen

and then he's droning on and finally they're telling Claudio get out of the ring or we'll remove you but just regardless of what you think of his work look at Claudio and look at these three what the fuck and with he should be able to kill all of them yeah Yes.

Pump beat the shit out of them. Anyway, suddenly Darby's music plays, and I wrote, Will this ever end? And as Darby's coming down there, they started ring introductions. They went straight,

The Hardley Boys and Jungle Jackoff and O'Code are threatening Claudio, and then suddenly here comes Darby, and then they say, start ring introductions, and then here comes FTR, and then all the baby faces hit the ring, and

Claudio and O'Cody just fight off, and you never see them again, any other six fight around ringside, and then they start the match. FTR and Darby against the Hartley boys and old Jack, and if you'd told me a year ago, I would be

skipping FTR matches, I would have thought you were crazy, but I can't, at that point, this will deep in the program suffer the Lollipop Guild. So the finish of it was finally they superplexed, splashed and coffin dropped little Maddie 1, 2, 3. So the baby faces win beating the evil EVPs. But then here comes the acclaimed and Billy Gunn.

And they're starting to cut a promo on FTR and the Bucks. And I'm like, who are the baby faces here? Bickett, did the acclaimed turn heel on collision because Castor was being an asshole? And Bowens had a hernia screaming at them. And there's more baby faces in this thing than there are heels to be mad at. What's going on? Well, they're having a three-way match at Wembley Stadium for the tag titles. The Bucks defending against FTR on the acclaim.

The acclaimed have had a harder edge lately. which they've needed, and Billy Gunn's super over. Billy Gunn's most popular one in this whole fucking thing now, but should the acclaim come out and try to make people think that they're assholes in order to get an edge, or just win once in a while? I don't know. Max Castor acting an asshole in the mic is kind of the thing that got them over, and then they went really too cute with everything, I think.

I think that was the problem. I don't know. I think all of the problem is all of these cereal boxes have been opened and everything started to get stale before it got all eat up. And that's just kind of, nah. Dax looked really good in there. The problem was the same thing like with Jericho and Tommy Billington.

Just Jack Perry doesn't look realistic. Trading blows with FTR. It works fine with Darby. But he's so slight that it's completely unbelievable. He's so slight. He's slight. I mean, what else do you see? say he's slight. He could wear

a small. Like, I don't know what else to say. Is that a kid's size small or an adult small? I don't know. It's been a long time since I wore a small. I don't know that I ever wore a small. I think I was medium when I was small.

Well, I don't know if it was medium or mid or what this was, but that was that. Well, it's about over with. And in the back, Osprey was getting his head treated, looked at, examined. They found nothing. Danielson came in and gave him a pep talk consisting of, I saw what happened.

Look at me. Do it. I mean it. Do it. And walked off. So that was their way of saying that Danielson is giving this putts here permission to drop the heel on his fucking head. God damn it.

No Fletcher or Don Callis since the match. well that would just make some kind of sense wouldn't it they've been off the show they've been off the show since fletcher got the biggest match he's ever had on tv and the thing you get don could couldn't don callus come out and explain anything he's done or any of the people in his group that they've done for the last six months just let us know what the fuck's going on with this that'd be nice anyway nigel McGinnis was in the ring, and because he's another one that's from over there, and he introduced Swarv, Strickland, and they started the interview with Swerve right at 10 o'clock, 10 o'clock, right at 10 p.m. Eastern, but did you notice, well, I don't know about your cable guide, but I had an overrun scheduled for five minutes on the cable guide there. Oh, I didn't notice actually. That's interesting.

It was scheduled and, of course, then they went 10 minutes over. But I got it. I got it because I'm used to it now. They're just their idiots. But they scheduled a five-minute overrun and they went 10 minutes old. They finally scheduled five minutes. They went 10 minutes. Yes.

So, but it was the modern family pilot that was after. I wanted to see that anyway. So Swerve talked. And then Nigel is knocking Danielson in favor and Swerve, because Nigel and Danielson is still kind of working their thing they had in Ring of Honor. And Swerve talked about all the people that he's beaten, and Danielson's going to be next,

and it was a heel promo. But at this point, I think everybody's trying too hard because there are no real issues. Everything seems the same, and these guys are just having to go out and make shit up on their own because they've got no guidance. and it's all guys that truthfully didn't do a lot of television

because they were all in the Indies. I'm not talking about Danielson, I'm talking about Swerve in this case, talking about a lot of these guys that don't have anything to fucking talk about because their Booker has let them down. And then it looked for a while like Nigel was trying to cut him off,

but he wouldn't let him. And I'm thinking they're telling Nigel, hey, we're over our over. so at right past 10.05, when it would cut off if you devoured it and you wouldn't see it, Danielson's music plays, and he just runs in and gives swerve the knee, and swerve bailed, and Danielson got the microphone, and he was, this was the high point of the show because people were with him, and he had some energy, and he said he's the best fucking wrestler in the world.

he bleeped, but he got the fans live and did a fired up promo about Wembley, which was probably the best one of the night, and got to people going, yes, yes, yes, to close the thing. But, good Lord. That's what happened there. That certainly did, and that was AWW Dynamite.

The build to Danielson versus Swerve has left a lot to be desired, and unfortunately, and we'll talk about the ratings momentarily, a lot of what they've done has been during the lowest rated part of the show recently. Well, and, you know, just again, what are these, I'm the best, no, I'm the best. Well, yes, in theory, everybody wants to be the best wrestler in the world, but you do that by winning the world title, not by just going out and everybody cut in the same fucking promo. It's either, I'm the best in the world, or I looked at, up to you, but you're not the same person anymore, or why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends?

Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? Because our booking sucks and it has no end. Well, that was the story of AEW Dynamites. You know, you should all just take it and put it right together in a big box and mail it somewhere. That's right. And while it's been rather quick since the last we told you that something you could do. We'll do it one last time here today. Well, I'd like to tell you people what you can do. And one thing that you need to do real quick is go to our friends at boxofawsome.com and get your box of awesome started because they'll send you a box of awesomness every month right when you need it. As a matter of fact, they are tracking you. It's like tracking you by satellite to determine when you are the downest, when you're the

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Well, Jim, let's get away from the awesome boxes and let's get to the awesome ratings or what could be awesome ratings. We will find out, AEW Dynamite for August 21st. the Democratic National Convention, so big competition. Isn't there always something happening on a Wednesday night in America? It just so happens that the biggest things happen on Wednesday nights. Used to be church night. That's why the Tennessee Territory didn't run a big town on Wednesdays.

People went to church for some reason on Wednesday nights in the small towns. Did they play bingo? Is it bingo night? I don't know. It could have been B.I. NG Owen Bingo was his name, O? All right, this is taking a turn. A.W. Time of My Gym on August 21st, 20204 from 8 to 10.05 p.m. On average, watched by 698,000 viewers. Oh, boy, so they're back below 700.

They popped up a little bit last week, didn't they? Wasn't it last week? They had a few more? Yes, 703 last week. Yeah, they've lost another 5,000 people. The trailing four weeks, the average is 680. Ooh. Well, I guess this was better than average if that's their average.

That's a pretty fucking rotten average. Well, again, there is strong competition, as they say, but let's see what story the quarter hours tell us. These were compiled by WrestleManiaomics. Quarter one, 8 to 8.15 p.m., the Britt Baker, Mercedes Monet Live promo, end angle with Camille, and the Chris Jericho backstage promo

840,000 viewers. Ooh, okay, well, they started strong, and that means that they are apparently going to finish week, according to their average. Go ahead. They started at 338, by the way, in the key demo, and they stayed over 300 until the overrun, so fairly consistent and with the trend line for that, going to the quarter hours again, quarter two,

8.15.8.30 p.m. Chris Jericho versus Tommy Billington. The Picture and Picture ads. The Learning Tree and Hook Live Angle. And the ad break. And Prince Carus's head popping off. See, at least he has enough hair to cover his eye. You know, if he was like a short-haired wrestler on the ground,

you would have really been fucked. 734,000 viewers. Oh, good Lord. So, 106,000 people said, ah, we're, But the Big Bang Theory is done? Shit, let's get out of here. Well, the banging continues into quarter 3, 830 to 845 p.m. Tony Storm versus Saraya with picture and picture ads in the Johnny St. Tribute match. The post match with Mariah May.

The Conglomerations backstage promo. And then ad break. 683,000 viewers. Oh, good Lord. Well, they... They have to come back at this point somewhat just to make their average, but that's a hundred and... Fifty-seven thousand people in 45 minutes. That's the women's segment, into Jericho, into another women's segment.

But we go now at a quarter four, eight-45 to nine p.m., the Will Osprey, MJF Live face-to-face promo. Seven hundred and two thousand viewers. Okay, well, so 19,000 people found their way back. once they were sure it was safe and the girls' match was over with. But there was strong competition. You know, one of the Dixie Chicks blew her nose at the Democratic Convention at that exact moment when this match happened. I saw that.

And she was tackled by the Secret Service. They thought her nose was loaded. We go now to the big nine o'clock hour, the loaded nine o'clock hour, the big nine o'clock hour, nine to nine, 15 p.m. Which, by the way, this was, this was, was it not Osprey and MJF? Yeah, I said they were 15 minutes into this thing at 9 o'clock. Well, maybe so that's why some of these people came back. They saw Osprey and MJF.

Did they hang with them? Well, they continued into quarter five here at 9 o'clock, MJF and Osprey's live angle, an ad break. The Adam Page, Evil Uno backstage confrontation, 701,000 viewers. Okay, they held the audience. That's about as close to being held as you can. You can come.

They were gripped very tightly. Well, they kept coming into quarter six, 915, and 9.30 p.m. Kazushka Okada versus Claudio Castagnoli. Ah. With picture and picture twice, 706,000 viewers. That is a miracle.

That they could actually get 5,000 extra people to sit through that. All righty. Well, that match continued into quarter seven. 930 to 945 p.m. The continuation of Claudio versus Ocada, the postmatch with the Young Bucks, Darby Allen, and FTA, well, actually, no, that's actually the postmatch

continuing into the match. Darby Allen and FTR versus the Young Bucks and Jack Perry with picture and picture ads. 683,000 viewers. Okay, so they didn't actually sit through the whole thing. Another 17, 23,000 said, no, we can't take it anymore. Well, they took it a little more.

In quarter eight here, 9.45 to 10 p.m. I remind you there's an overrun. It says nine minutes. The continuation of Allen and FTR versus the elite. The post-match with the acclaimed and Billy Gunn. The Osprey Brian Danielson motivational angle in the back. And an ad break. 619,000 viewers.

Oh, good God. Nine minute overrun for the Swerve Strickland Brian Danielson Live promo with Nigel, 564,000 viewers. Jesus, even the pilot of modern family couldn't bring the people in in droves. So, again, it used to be that the overrun

bumped them up, but now the overrun, I think, has taken them down. They've killed the following program. If you take out the first quarter, which we usually do, because that's obviously bullshit, they lost 106,000. people immediately. The whole program, they were between 683 and 734.

It's about a 50,000 person swing there. And then they just lost 75,000 people in the last quarter. And then another 35,000 on top of that. The true average is 689. Good Lord. So, but again, from start to finish, they lost 200. And let's say, wait a 24, I'm trying to do, 276,000 viewers from the start of the program to the finish of the program. You know, the key demo is the interesting thing here.

It starts at 338, 318, 307, 325, 308, 317, 309, 304, 293, 203, fairly consistent. That seems to be who Tony's booking for. that 300,000 people. Well, bless him. If he's that happy with that many people, then bless him because, and again, what's the wrong with those people? They just not got nothing better to do?

Well, that was AW Dynamite, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, boy. Jim, if you don't mind, I have something to say here. Recently, there's been a little bit of a back-and-forth on Twitter with myself and someone, who, most of you probably don't know, his name's Dave Shearer. He is a guy who used to have a newsletter. He was an ECW fan in the bleachers. He then started a website in the early 2000s and seemingly never worked on it ever again after that. Started a website back then and

has been really riding the coattails of the fantastic reporting of Mike Johnson, who does a very good job and seems to be rather diligent in what he does. Problem is, he works for a guy named Dave Shear. Dave Shearer, I knew a little bit in the 90s. He's made this into a little bit of a big deal that I claim I knew him and he doesn't know me. Someone else told me a similar story about him too. But in the 90s, when I was a teenage fan going to different things, I got to know lots of different people. And not only did I know Dave Shearer, not only did I sit next to him in the ECW arena, not only was he in my hotel room making phony phone calls. And he was he in my hotel room making phony phone calls with us, you could ask

Devin Storm about that. But when I made my famous Bubba Must Die sign that I held up when Bubba Ray Dudley was a baby face in ECW arena with my bed sheet from the hotel room and Red Marker, he was one of the people who helped

me hold it up because he knew I had the sign because I brought it because he was scared to do anything. Because it was hanging out with Shear and everyone and hearing how everyone hated Bubba Ray Dudley for real, not because because he was a baby face. They didn't like him. Everyone was afraid to do anything, but they wanted to send a message to Heyman. I did something. Well, and I remember that caused quite a stir.

And I did something. And Shearer's in the video holding it up with me. But again, a long time ago, I kind of did other things. Shearer kept doing what he was doing. Did some stuff with Bob Ryder, I know. So all these years later, he has this PW Insider website, which is one of the many wrestling news websites. It has a paywall where you subscribe and you get access to, I guess, their content without just an endless stream of suspicious looking ads. I don't know what the fuck is happening on that website. You can get stuck on that website. I tried to look at the basic one again and I'm like, what the fuck is going on here? It could cause epilepsy. It's just a fucking flash mob of fucking weirdo ads. But anyway,

that's what he does. We do this. I do my thing. In case anyone hasn't noticed, I just do my thing. I don't fuck with other people. I do my thing. But if you take a jab at me, I'm going to fucking take out my oozy

and I'm going to spray the room over and over and over again. So we have nothing to do with Dave Shear. You always said very nice things about his website and of course Mike Johnson's reporting. Because Mike Johnson's, is the nicest man in the world. And yes, we've always said nice things about the elite site. Let's make it plain. Right. And at various points, they gave me a comp because they wanted us to talk about, you know, the website over there and give them free publicity, which we did for, you know,

a little while when talking about stories that they wrote or Mike Johnson wrote. And we were happy to do it. So somewhere along the way, Dave Shear thought he should send me his thoughts on the stock market. It was, let me pull up the email here, because it was like I heard that you like investing. Let me get the exact quote because it's the one that I started laughing about with people. Hold on. If I remember correctly, you have done very well financially. I have two, thanks to indirectly, Meltzer, and more so investing.

Are you an investor? I don't do day trading, so I miss out on the Robin Hood stuff. but I love to invest and watch wealth grow. Look, at this point I was like, I don't want to fucking talk financial shit with this fucking schlubby boob. I know Dave Shearer. I know who he is.

He's a moron. I would never, nor would I think anyone else should ever take financial advice from him or share financial advice or never do anything in that realm with him. So again, knowing that you have a good relationship with them, I try to be courteous, and I just say,

done fairly well. I'm an investor, not a trader. I'm not a fan of the Robin Hood like companies. Then he sends me a whole other thing about his thoughts on the stock market. Then he sends me some fucking newsletter he wants me to subscribe to because he gets his stock tips from there. At that point

I stopped responding. Yes, because we had things going to I can't remember you were telling me this concurrently that it was going on. Was that when your dad was sick or you were moving the house or whatever? You don't have time. This is just unsolicited, why is he sending me this? Why is this guy who I don't have anything to do with sending me

his financial advice and wanting me to get this new, like, what the fuck is this? So I just, that's that. I drop it, move on. Just drop it, move on. So then all of a sudden, a while later, an email comes to you and me and Mike Johnson from Dave Shearer. It's an email entitled Quick Favor. Can I take over for a second here? Because I want to read it. Certainly. I want to read that particular email. This is from Dave Sherer. This was back in the middle of June, June 19th. Hey, all, hope you're doing well.

I have had a number of people ask me, if you guys are taking a shot at PW Insider.com, when you talk about your site and say that nothing is behind a paywall, he's talking about the wrestling news, daily free podcast, 10-minute fucking wrestling news report, it that the tagline of the advertising, Brian, tell me if I misquote this, is no clickbait, no paywall, just the wrestling news. That's right, and I think it's a rather effective line, if I say so myself.

It's kind of succinct and says it. Well, Dave Shearer continues, I know you aren't, obviously, and I write each person that asks me that back and say that we love you guys that have a great relationship. Like there's this plethora of emails coming in his fucking demented mind, as we will find out here shortly. Like he's Santa. Like, I got it right back to all these kids. Yeah, I've got to write back to all these children. And he goes on further.

He says, to make my life easier, could you drop that line from your promos? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. So when this email comes in, we were recording that day. and you said, did you see this fucking email? And I said, yes, I do. I am gobsmacked that, A, that he would even think and that obviously nobody was asking. If they were, they were trying to stir up shit.

You ought to know that too. Well, hey, of all, Brian, how many websites are there in the world you think has a paywall? Oh, I mean, there's tons of websites with paywalls. And endless amount plus Patreon, Patreon technically is a paywall. Yeah, so you think 20 million, 40 million, whatever the fuck. This 10-minute daily wrestling newscast is going to be confused as taking a shot at his entire goddamn site that has an elite section or whatever the fuck. And just change your advertising, Brian. Even though we don't say anything like that.

Yeah, just do be a quick favor. You haven't heard from me since the fucking random stock thoughts. Just to change everything about your business because I think you should. What? Get the fuck out of here. So that was your reaction. and I said, look, I don't want to make Dave mad because we like Mike Johnson and he'll get caught, whatever.

You know, I'll answer him, right? Because he didn't want to read the email that you were going to fucking write. Yeah, no, if I would have answered him, he would have jumped off a fucking bridge, trust me. Well, but also, that's when I was busy and I had shit going on. So two and a half days later, he writes back, did you guys get this? If you want to keep up the paywall comments, just let me know so I could answer the question once on the site and be done with it. If you haven't heard from us, that means, no, we're not going to change our advertising,

or your advertiser, whoever's advertising. But why does he need to answer the question that nobody gives a shit about, except him? Well, there's the other issue. And I will say by this point in time, you know, this whole email exchange, I had heard from people the thought that seems to be a consensus amongst many that Dave Shearer, I guess he does like a column on his own website where he answers questions, the thought is he writes the questions and answers them. There's never a name attributed, there's never a hometown or a website or a screen name or

nothing. It's basically Dave answering questions that are written like Dave would write him, answering questions that he wants to answer. So you're saying he's pulling the old Mike Laino. And I think that's an apt analogy. He's answering questions that he wants to fucking answer. Because he has started, if you've, well, you don't read them. But he has started having a fucking gimmick where he says, I don't worry about these people

because they don't mean anything to me. As you're going to find out, ladies and gentlemen, this motherfucker obsesses over some shit. So he wrote, did you guys get this? Blah, blah, blah. So I wrote back, hi, Dave, sorry for the late reply. And I wrote back that same day that he wrote the second one. We're both having a hectic week. I think someone is fucking with you.

You guys are literally the only news site we ever quote, reference, or put over, and we do it by name constantly telling people to trust PW Insider. So I think this may be some kookamonga kids starting a campaign to get eight between us. Do answer the question on the site and flame the people for making up obvious horseshit where none exists, just like they're journalistic, hero. Or just admit you made up the whole thing about getting tons of fucking things that you have to respond to everyone one by one and explain that, oh no, we're great friends. What? Well, hold on. He writes me back that same day. Jim, I heard your voice in my head when I read that and I

laughed out loud. You're probably right on the money there. There are so many trolls out there. Uncle Dave, man, what a fall for that guy. All good here. Hope the same for you. And then he can't, he can't fucking leave it alone. So I'm going to read one more email and then my response and then you can tell people, Brian, what he then did. Well, again, we thought that kind of, okay, that defused, he realized he's being a fool and we'd all move on now. We can move on. Then he writes me back three days later, hey Jim, parenthetically, and I guess Brian, Because you had not answered him yet because of aforementioned reasons why.

Yeah, because I was going to tell him what I thought of him and his wife and everyone else around him. I was going to really fucking let him have it. But I was a nice guy, so I stayed back. Don't say anything about his dog. I won't stand for that. Anyway, so Dave says, I got another question about it today. It specifically asked about Brian saying no paywalls and mentioned that the slogan is on his site too. imagine that Brian, your advertising slogan is on your website as well as in your podcast.

Shocking. Since Brian didn't answer here, I can't really say anything publicly other than Brian didn't answer when I asked and he didn't answer me. I guess my body odor makes it all the way to wherever he lives. Seriously, I don't want to make this into something. You're the only one making it into something. You're the only one, you motherfucker. You fucking fat-headed piece of shit.

It gives me more goddamn shit to worry about when I got shit going on already. So he said, seriously, I don't want to make this into something. So I'll just respond to elite subscribers in email and ignore the free site readers that ask. There's nobody asking. It's stupid. And he finishes whatever the case, if there is no issue, cool. If there is an issue, well, that paywall is the reason Mike and I can pay our bills. I will never apologize for making sure Mike.

can I get paid for our hard work? Nobody's asking you two, moron. Imbecile. So I wrote back to him. Hi, Dave. Brian and I were on the phone when I answered you before,

so I told him I was replying to you. Nothing to do with your stunning B.O. There is no issue. It's an advertising line. Send us the names of everyone who's asked this question, and we'll cuss about in public on our next show. This is ridiculous for these people to be bugging you

with their bullshit. I'm still trying to, like he's a goddamn Alzheimer's patient locked up in a home and I'm still trying to humor him that there's somebody asking this. It's his friend George Glass. And I thought, no. Wait a minute.

He actually wrote me back on this one. Trust me, the dope's out there. there bug me with sillier bullshit than this. There are a lot of freaks out there in the world. I don't keep a list of the losers. See, it's his gimmick. He's already... He has to fucking...

But the latest good one was named Billy Walkerwitz. Feel free to bury him, because given some of the other emails he has sent me, he seems like the product of a brother and sister banging in the woodshed. So that's the way he thinks about the listeners. But nevertheless, we put it to bed. We thought it was done.

We thought it was over with. So he does a Q&A, and Brian, what does he say? Apparently, because it was sent to me, because I don't pay for that fucking site. It was sent to me. He had a bunch of nasty things to say about me, about how worthless I am as a co-host and how Cornette would do better with random people from his website that you've never heard of. He has never heard of it. He doesn't know you.

He never heard of you. You're a nobody and anybody could do your job. job. Jim Cornett's great so anybody could do your job. I've done things with other people than you. They weren't great. No, I'm the best at this. Well, but nevertheless, but instead of just, look, we're trying to tell you, motherfucker, we're not changing this goddamn advertising. Brian's not changing, it's not even my advertising. Brian's not changing this advertising, but we're trying to be nice to you and you keep harping on this. And now you're pissed off because people don't email. you back, because you wouldn't want to read the goddamn answer.

We're trying to be nice. And he makes an issue where none exists and goes on his site and calls you a nobody that anybody can do your job and blah, blah, blah. And then is wondering why you have made sideways comments on occasion about him since then. Well, not on occasion. On air, I've made two. One wasn't him, it was the website. Making a joke about getting stuck on his website.

You see, his website is a fucking embarrassing. mess and anyone who visits it will have a really awful experience. It's almost like someone who pretends he's successful really isn't and doesn't put a dime of any alleged success into said product to fix it, make it better, make it more accessible, make more money. It's almost like he doesn't understand how to make money. We'll talk more about that in a bit. All right, but anyway, I'm not going to read because that was, well, that was June

last year as this went on. and and i didn't say a word until we did the same thing about it because why because it's stupid but he has continued i'm not even going to read them all but i've gone back here to april this is when he wrote 10 paragraphs because what i'm about to tell you one time a couple years ago i'd said oh we're going to reference this article on pw insider and you just tried to pop up the website and went to the free one instead of the pay one. And it froze your fucking computer because things are popping and flashing and it looks like goddamn a slot machine.

And I laughed at you because you were cussing and fucking, god damn it, and it held up our recording. So then back in April, we were talking about one of those Hindu websites that we got stuck on or you got stuck on and couldn't get out of it. That's right. Yeah. And then you said it's like being on PW Insight. and laugh and we went on.

He wrote me a goddamn 10 paragraph email. Oh my God. Say, I'll tell you who didn't pop for it. Because he wrote me first, what the fuck? And I said, it was a joke and this is what happened before. And then he said, well, my wife didn't pop for it. She now hates Brian Lasz guts now that he cares because you said, I was stuck on the website. well fuck this guy she's a listener right this is news to me she walked in the room he said when i

played the clip good timing and he's ranting and raving about this and again he's the one and fucking started it listen to i'm deeply offended and pissed off about the knife you let last put in our backs he's a drama fucking queen there's no hours so anyway oh yeah we were stabble and Mike Johnson in the back too. So anyway, then, when we were talking about Uncle Dave, the other day, Uncle Dave Meltzer, as opposed

to Uncle Dave Shearer, and you let loose with that he's always been jealous of Dave Meltzer, and I could give a shit less, but you made the comment and now not only is he fucking mad at you, but he's mad at me because I must agree with

him that I've always hated him and he's always been a piece of shit, but I was just just suckering him like a mark to use him for publicity. Oh, fucking hell. And he's a goddamn mental case. And he will not stop now. He is emailing back and forth and back and forth. Hold on.

I got to, oh, let me go to the bottom of this fucking thing. Yeah, and just for the record, I said what I said for a reason, because it's fucking true. I was talking about the people that, you know, Jim and Dave, knew each other and the issues they had stem from that and I saw it. Dave Shearer has personal issues with Dave Meltzer because he's jealous of him. He now denies that he was friends with Meltzer. We've literally heard from people already that were like, oh yeah, I went to the ECW Arena with Meltzer, and he introduced me to Dave Shearer,

and we all sat together and had a great time. It was surprising to me that he doesn't know who I am. We're not going to mention anybody's name in public, but he would recognize, old Dave Shearer would recognize some of these names, but nevertheless he wrote, again, as I told you before, and you vehemently denied for some issue I don't know about Last has a major hard on for me. I don't even know the guy.

Blah, blah, blah. So at least tell the truth. The issues are one side of it. I don't know the guy, so I don't care about him. That's his big fucking line. Apparently he cares about a lot of fucking people. You care a lot. I'm in your head, baby.

I'm in your head, baby. I turned the other cheek once on this and what happened? You let your employee punch me in the face again. and I again then he sends me a screenshot of you guys going back and forth on Twitter and say hey Jim either you lied to me or you or Brian lied to you I told you all along the guy had an issue so I wrote him back and here's what I wrote him back because I'm not having a goddamn good week Dave I was trying to stay out of this ridiculous bullshit but I'm having a bad day you emailed us asking Brian to change his advertising on his wrestling news podcast because

because of some bullshit reason you had to have made up that people were thinking no paywall was a shot at you. I emailed you back in a friendly way to try to point out how ridiculous that was. Brian didn't email you back because it struck him wrong and you wouldn't have wanted to read it. Even when I replied a second time that I had emailed for both of us because we were talking when we read your email, you got pissed at Brian didn't email you back and you exhorted that you would have to address this pressing issue

that no one gave two fucks about in your Q&A. Then you say in your Q&A that I'm great, but you don't know who Brian is. He's nobody and anybody could do his job. At that point, it was game over with Brian and I don't blame him. The whole thing came out of you sending an email asking a stupid thing and then apparently getting pissed because Brian didn't email you back to tell you how stupid it was.

Now I'm in the middle of this childish bullshit for no reason other than because I always tried to help your site and I like you guys. But I have to go through you publicly burying my co-host because of the advertising line you don't like. That had nothing to do with your business. Whether you like it or not, that's Brian's issue. It started there and apparently yours did too, and neither one of you is over it. And it's ridiculous. It's gotten this far. And now you're sending me screenshots of tweets like a demented school girl.

and I don't give a shit. And he had called you on Twitter, pay to play Brian, like you pay me to do this show. Yeah, and that's the other thing. After I made that brief comment at the end of the Dave Meltzer segment, he then started tweeting about me.

That's when I said, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Here's some batting practice with this fucking knucklehead. Well, and that's, I said, what is the pay to play? Like, he's paying me? I will say that he is, and this is true. and I'll come out and say this.

You, being my partner, you have made me more money with this podcast over the last several years than I made working for Vince McMahon and Jim Crockett combined. So, again, I told him, I said, just leave me the fuck alone if I'm not the one yelling at you. But he can't leave anything alone. Because he has to say,

you call me, and this is the excerpt of his next email, you call me demented? Fuck you, Jim. He's the one who says he's known me since 1995, which is utter bullshit. That is some crazy shit right there, but if he's paying you, keep on fleecing him.

What the fuck? Like, we're all carnies and marks. You're not paying me. We make money with our product, unlike Dave Scherer. Yeah, we make money, Dave. Why don't you try that sometime with your fucking bullshit website?

But also, by the way, he cut me off the elite subscription that they had given me. They comped me of fucking 995s, for while he cut me off about that. And he, again, he's, you clearly don't give a fuck about what he says about me, so I don't give a fuck about you either.

We have achieved tranquility. And I wrote him back one more time. He's fucking nuts. I wrote him back one more time and he replied to this, but Dave, Shearer, again, seek some fucking help. You have successfully made a giant mountain out of a fucking mole hill. You won't leave anything alone

and you have to have the last goddamn word. You were holding up signs with Brian and ECW 30 years ago. He doesn't claim to be your BFF or speak to you weekly, but you've been emailing him. He didn't have any fucking issue with you until the no-paywall horseshit. If you're going to have the nerve and gall to ask somebody to change the advertising on their fucking unrelated project to make your life easier, quote, then natter on back and forth with me with your panties in a twist

because Brian wouldn't email you back to tell you fuck you, because I asked him not to. then knock him in your column so the entire world knows that there's a fucking issue when otherwise nobody would have a shit expect a fucking shot every now and then which again was much lighter than he wanted to because I asked him not to

and I said also you're a fucking mental case his quotes are I was a worker duping the gullible mark in his email because I was never his friend I just wanted publicity or whatever keep on fleecing him. Who talks like this?

And then he also said, I'm your employee. You have to pick which way it is. Am I your employee or am I your money mark? Yeah, or at one point I asked you to calm your monkey down. You're my monkey. Hey, that's not nice. I said, Brian and I are apparently both carnies fleecing each other somehow and you too. What the fuck is the matter with you?

We're partners and do a successful show because we're the only honest people we know. and we don't obsess like a spurn twat over people that don't email us back. Check the dates of your emails and call them on Brian and any sideways remark about you or your site from us and get back to me. Wait, don't get back to me. Leave me a fucking loan. Guess what he did? He got back to me.

Oh my God. He said, you can have the last word and you did. I was done after I sent my last email. Nothing more to say for me. Okay, one last one last. thing. Is this real? Is this real what he said?

This is real. You said Brian and I are partners and do a successful show because we're the only honest people we know and don't obsess like a spurn twat over people and don't email us back. I'll say one last thing. You know Mike Johnson. And there isn't a more honest person who doesn't obsess in the whole world than Mike. No shit, Sherlock.

What the fuck? He's bringing Mike into it. Now we're knocking Mike in his fucking. demented, possibly drug-addled brain. Do they have drugs for dementia? Because Dave's too old to take fun drugs. But wait a minute, and his last line on the email, our paths will never cross again.

I've seen this fucking guy in 25 years to begin with. Like it's gun smoke. And I saw that line was in the honeymooners when they kicked Ralph Cramden out of the fucking raccoon lodge. Oh no, wait a minute. It was fucking Laurel and Hardy. when they were excommunicated from the Sons of the Desert.

What the fuck? If you had just shut up when we asked you nicely to just don't worry about it, there's no problem. We're not going to change the advertising because it doesn't have anything to do with you. And then he's got to go on a fucking tirade in his column,

and then he expects when he gets a few shots, he's emailed me numerous times over the fucking I got stuck on PW Insider comment. There was a throwaway fucking joke. He goes on and on. And finally, I didn't, for Mike's sake, I didn't want to fucking make the guy mad

because who knows with this level of goddamn imbalance he has what he might do, but after a while, what the fuck? And he's yelling at me for something you said, but I didn't disagree with you and derail the top of, because we were in another direction just to goddamn take up

for him. Fuck you, Dave Sherer. Who the fuck do you think you are to be goddamn browbeaten me on these emails because you had the gall and the nerve and the audacity to ask a stupid question of somebody that had nothing to do

with any of your fucking business. Fuck you up the ass. You fucking prick. I'm sick and tired of hearing from a lot of fucking people. And I don't have time to get back to the people I want to get back to. So I'll do this publicly here. Fuck you, motherfucker. Come over here to Louisville and our paths will cross and I'll stick my foot up your ass. God damn it. I'm sorry to take your mad away, but this goddamn has lit me

the fuck up. Because you saw it. I'm like, you know how I am. My attitude is live and let live. Everyone should get along, laugh at life. But if someone comes and takes a shot at you, that can't stand. Like that can't stand. And I let it stand for a while. And because the Meltzer thing was happening, and because people had sent me, Dave Shearer's unhinged tweets about Meltzer.

And I wanted people to know in that moment, there are people who have an agenda, there are people who make money off all this, and there are some people who literally are just jealous of Dave. Like Dave Shearer has always been. The lariat, he denies now, he lost, his mind denying that Meltzer was his friend. He used to be on the phone with Meltzer every week, giving him Locher reports. He was sending Meltzer tapes. He was with Meltzer at the ECW Arena when

Dave came, and all of that didn't happen. He now denies it. Obviously, you could hear from just some of the things that Jim read. This guy's fucking deranged. He's fucking messed up. And I think a lot of it is he truly believed he was better than Dave Meltzer, and he was never able to surpass him. And look at him now. He's a guy that everyone jokes about. He had to show. He had to show off his comments on Twitter because he doesn't want to see some of the comments he'll be getting on Twitter. I didn't even know you could do that. Yeah, that's right.

You can only, if he mentions you or tags you or whatever, you can reply to him. And, you know, he keeps wanting to get the last word. He's now claiming that I'm lying, and I guess you're lying too, about him threatening to write the hit piece. He just, we just read it. I will have to address this in my column. Yeah. And no, you don't have to address anything because you were making it up.

You got something stuck in your fucking. fucking craw. You decided you wanted somebody else to change their advertising. You're offended because people don't email you back because that makes you feel less important because apparently that's a big deal with Dave. And then he's going to send me all this bullshit that I got time to read. Fuck you again, you fat fuck. Yeah, you know, you say Brian's trying to take money out of our mouths. I don't want to take anything out of Mike Johnson about. Maybe you can go without a few meals, Dave Shearer. I don't want to take anything out of Dave Shear's mouth. I don't have to boil it. And you know, on that topic real quick, I've never dealt with Mike Johnson.

If we interacted in the 90s, I don't remember. But I've never had a interaction with him, a bad experience. I've always thought he does a good job of reporting. He seems to be a real hustler. You admire the work that he does trying to get the truth out there. That's the only value there. As I tweeted to him when he was acting like a bitch on Twitter, you should just rebrand. Your brand is worthless. People think of poisonous ads on their computer. You should rebrand as Mike Johnson reports while Dave Shearer tries to justify his existence. And on that topic, you know, he accused me of being both your employee and your boss, which is a nifty trick I could do here in my time machine.

It's some kind of tax dodge, I think. Some kind of tax. Well, no, it's not. For the record, ladies and gentlemen, there is no tax dodge. There's no dodging of the taxes. No, we support a couple of third world countries with our taxes. But I was stunned in this whole process. us to learn that Mike Johnson's not the managing partner over there.

Because he's the only asset PW Insider has. The name PW Insiders doesn't mean shit. Mike Johnson reports means something. What the fuck does he get out of Dave Shearer collecting the money? And then distributing the money for a website that looks like shit, functions like shit, people laugh at, and no one wants to go to unless it's Mike Johnson's reporting. And most of that stuff, there's better ways to do it than that. So, you know, that's the saddest thing, I think.

Mike Johnson does a good job. and because he's it's not even partnered up because he's working for at the mercy of because he's working for a fucking sissy who is insecure about everything

and needs to get publicly spank because of it it holds him back and I hope at some point I hope Mike Johnson wakes up someone after this started sent me a tweet that Dave Sheer had sent out I guess it's sometime previous

when people were saying hey what does Mike Johnson get out of this relationship he said one day I will induce time turn the website over to Mike Johnson. I just want to say it's valueless real estate. Mike, if you're ever going to have to do it on your own, start now. Start now. You'll be fine. You'll make more money than you're making now. And you won't have the embarrassing dead weight

of this fucking mustache weirdo at in Vegas or wherever the fuck he is. Pretending like he's a big success. But now here's the thing. One of these days. One of these days, my boy, all this will be yours. How much older does Mike have to fucking get? Yeah, really? You know, he's not a kid anymore either now that I think about it. No, he's not a kid anymore. You're going to give him something? Sounds like, yeah, one of these days, kid.

Sounds like you're being stringed along. Sounds like, you know, hey, anything you ever want to do, Mike Johnson, I'm not saying you have to come work for me. I'm saying anything you ever want to do if you need our help, if you need my help specifically, you got it. But get rid of Dave Shearer, dead weight, worthless weight, worthless website. Your reporting is the only asset. It's the loan asset, a PW Insider.

The brand means nothing. You can't even call it PWI. That's Pro Wrestling Illustrated. PW Insider. So I think that's part of the issue. Dave Shearer knows he has a dying website, and he's not capable of keeping up with everything that's happening in this changing world of wrestling media or just media.

And unfortunately, it holds Mike Johnson back. And I mean, I've never had a bad dealing with him. He may not be happy with me about all this. I know Mike well, and he's a wonderful person. and one of the most inoffensive people ever and takes his job seriously and does work hard, as you said, and deserves better than to be a

fucking field hand for this fucking fat weirdo that obsesses over fucking tweets like he's a goddamn swifty. And Mike, if you're going to continue working there, why aren't you 65% owner? Why aren't you the major principal owner of that website? Without you, there's nothing. No one is reading it to see Dave Shearer

answer questions that he wrote himself. No one is going there for that. They're going there to hear the stories or read the stories that you break. So, ridiculous. Dave Sherry wants to act like a fucking big shot. He's a putts. No one takes him seriously. He wants, that's the problem.

He wants everyone to take him seriously. He's a putts. I can't believe, from these emails, I can't believe this guy is my age. How does he have this much free time? What the fuck? I'll cuss somebody out and be done with it if they've done something legitimate. it, but goddamn on and on at length. Just because somebody didn't email you back and change their advertising.

And I encourage you, Uncle Dave Shearer, since you're as demented as your California cousin, find us saying something good or bad about you, for that matter, but find us saying anything bad about your website or anything else related before you decided to go on this fucking tangent about the advertising line and fuck this whole thing up. Sunshine, you fuck the whole thing up. That's right. And one other thing. If he did this to me, and again, we read the emails,

if he came out and said, you will do what I want right here or I'm going to have to write this, who else has he done that to? You know, he rails against Tony Khan. Did Tony Khan fucking snub him? Like, seriously, if it's going to be a transactional thing, I have to write this unless you just happen to change your tagline. If it's going to be that transactional, where does that start and end? Mike Johnson has a lot of credibility. There's no credibility with those kind of practices.

There's no credibility with those kind of practices. So where does that start and end? Who else has paid for positive coverage in one way or another from Dave Shearer? That's a question based on his emails, I think needs to be asked right now. but no one's going to ask you because no one gives a fuck about him. I hope Mike Johnson gets away from Dave Shear. Dave's a fucking loser holding you back, Mike.

If you need any help, just let me know. I'm sure there's plenty of other people who would help you. In case you don't know, and I know you already do, most people think Dave is a cunt. And yeah, we're going to have to fucking bleep that on YouTube, but it is. Do we have to bleep that he's a see you next Tuesday on YouTube?

We will have to bleep that on YouTube, yes. Oh, well, shucks. Well, Dave, you're a vaginal orifice. That's right. But, uh, all right, let's get a song. But it's your show. Let's get a song before we get out there. Uh, if you want the wrestling news each and every day without fucking pop-up ads or anything else.

Yeah, no clickbait, no paywall. Yeah, that's right. The wrestling news.com, wherever you find your favorite podcast, you got the audio now. Print is coming. Stay tuned. Jim, let's get a song or two. They have started coming in again. these fine songs by these fine members

and Google is taking a little moment here to refresh and here they are. We have the new contestants here. This one was sent to corny drive-thru at gmail.com. It is a brand new original song entitled Corny Unleashed by Crazy Jimmy D in Charlotte, North Carolina. Let's go to this.

Crazy Jimmy D. The racket and the sharpest tongue been racing hell since the days when wrestling was young. He's got a mouth. that's hotter than a summer night and if you cross him boy you're in for a fight from movie bill to the big time scene Jim Cronin's

the boss and he's always mean he's got a list of grudges a mile long but love him or hate him you'll sing his song Cornet unleashed watch out now he's gonna tear the whole place down the rest of the choir Cornet Unleashed he won't back down

he'll take you to task and run you out of town he's a legend you love The one you fear When when it speaks You better steer clear And all the jokes As a business he loved Is going up in smoke

He's got a podcast Where he lets it fly Dropping truth bombs While the marks just cry From the old school days The blood and guts To the new school That droughts him nuts

He's seen it all Done even more And when he rants It's a guaranteed score Watch out now He's gonna tell the whole Like the loudest man And

The one you've When Cornette speaks, you better steer clear. Voice of the voice was the king of the burns. And when he's on a roll, man, you'll never learn. He's got opinions like a loaded gun. And when he pulls the trigger, there's nowhere to run. So if you're looking for trouble or just some fun, just tune into Cornett, because he's number one.

Watch out now. He's gonna tear the whole race down. With a racket in hand and a mouth full of fire, he's the loudest man in the wrestling choir. acquire corned unleash he won't back down they'll take you to task and run you out of town he's a legend you love the one you fear when cornette speaks you better steer clear grant till he's out of breath he's the master of mayhem the solvent ass and when he's done talking you'll know you've been freshed holy shit there's more there's more

you out of town he's the legend you love the one you feed till he's out of breath he's the master of mayhem the sultan of sass and when he's done talking you'll know you've been

still going? I think this is the end this is the very end and that is the end Oh, okay well it clocks in at 13 seconds shorter than in a god of divita

and has more false finishes than an Eddie Graham world title match but holy shit That was amazing. Yeah, what is going on? We're getting really good stuff. The energy, the musicianship, the the verbiage, the lyrics.

That needs to be a, do we have themes for all of our shows? Do we need a new show that has another theme? We could always use another show, but we could always find something for this. This was sent by Crazy Jimmy D in Charlotte, the name of the song, What Else? Corny Unleashed. Put an asterisk by that. Hang it on the hook next to the door. We'll come back to that sometime.

All right. We're going to put that over here. Great job. This is two weeks in roll. We've had great songs. One last song before we get out of here again. Send in your submissions, and they're coming in. Corny Drive-Thru at gmail.com.

Not like the letters that Dave Shears says he's going to read. These are real emails that come in. And I would like to say real songs, but this one may test that. This was sent by Galaxy Records Plus. Oh, I know these guys up in Michigan. Are you serious? Are you, you know what this is? Yes.

This is... And, uh... God damn. Aden's... What's his father's name? Help me. Who signed this? No, Tragel.

No. It's a different... There's more than one Aiden in the whole world. Well, they don't have a name on here, but what it says is this, here's a song composed by A.I. Based on custom lyrics, genre and mood options. So it sounds like they typed in lyrics, said, give me a song that sounds like this, and put it in this kind of mood. And we'll hear what it is.

Here's Cornese Drive-Thru. Look out! Cornice Drive-Doo! Pass a step in for one ball. They'll take our questions and review modern wrestling shows. The bell begged for the bottomies and shelf pencils up that knows. It's the drive-thru. Cornice Drive-Thru, we're acting like nobody knew.

We heard it on the drive-thru. That's Jim Cornett Drive-Roo. hailing from Long Island It's the great Brian last He's down with the mothership And everything wrestling Past His tag team partner is from Louisville

And he's called James E. Cornet He'll hand out some from the woodbass and he'll barely break a sweat It's the drive-thru But he's drive-through We heard it on the drive-thru That's Jim Cornette's drive-thru

So let me stop this for a moment here What are your thoughts on the idea that he wrote these lyrics apparently, whoever Galaxy Records Plus is, but that AI, the computer, instantly generated this beat, this music, this melody. What are your thoughts on this? Well, that, the voice. Who is the voice? It's AI generated.

Don't they have to have somebody with a real voice to copy off of? Because it's good. I don't know what it's based on, but yeah, it's, I mean, it's not a real voice. but I don't know if it's originally from a specific real voice. But it, but it's, it sounds like a very poppy early 80s type of thing, lack-a-lack. Like a lack. This sounds like a good plan too if you don't want to pay the bass player, but hold on, let's go back to this. Yes.

243-year-old for one ball. Gray-Alasin' Chip Cornet. Take our questions and review modern wrestling shows. The bell dig from the body leads and show pencils up their nose. Hold on what does he say we will beg for lobotomies and show pencils up our nose? Apparently because of the wrestling we have to watch. Okay. One would think, I guess.

It's the drive-thru. Cornie's drive-thru. We've had it like nobody knew. We heard it on the drive-thru. That's Jim Cornett's drive-thru. All right, now it's starting to repeat itself, and it's not a real person, so I don't feel bad about cutting it all. There are no feelings to take it to consider it. here, folks. Hey, history books can be rewritten, but how people feel is what counts.

What are your thoughts on this? Your long-awaited career as a songwriter could finally take off? Well, you know, actually, I've had many oral exploits in my time where I was writing and singing my own songs. So now with the music behind it, if you can make the music artificial, then I could have my art spread around the world. And you could even pick what kind of music. I mean, a lot of people are always surprised when they find out that you love earth, wind, and fire, so you could finally put out the funk record that you always wanted. I could be Philip Bailey. The reasons, the reasons that we're here.

The real feelings won't disappear. That ain't bad. That's your range. You found your range. You found your key. That works. Should I do it all up here like this? Can you do Easy Lover?

Easy Lover. Oh, Jesus. That's like the BGs. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, stay alive, stay alive. Ha, ha, ha, ha, stay alive. Well, whoever wants to cut that up, there's our next submission. But there it is, Jim. Our song submissions, a bonus one from you or bonus songs from you.

And I must say we have found your range. I won't even complain about that. There we go. Thoughts on the songs. Oh, yeah, again, well, I can play these again now. Hold on here. Yes. Well, that's still the old machine. It sounds like an FFA meeting. But very good, guys. Very good on everybody's part. Well, with that, the drive-thru is closed. We have reached tranquility.

Ladies and gentlemen. And our paths will never cross again. You don't sound so tranquil when you're saying all this. Ladies and gentlemen, you'll hear more on the Jim Cornett experience wherever you find your favorite podcast in a few days. Remember, there's a lot of big shows coming up, big reviews, as well as upcoming omnibus specials. the official Jim Cornyn... Well, not the official Jim Cornyn, but stay too there, but the Jim Cornett experience.

And, of course, next week right back here on the drive-through, on the topic of the official Jim Cornett YouTube channel, go, subscribe, just go to YouTube and search for Jim Cornett. It'll come right up. Full episodes, clips of the episodes, omnibus collections, all with the very popular Travis Heckel artwork, the official Jim Cornett YouTube channel. Go back through the archives, patreon.com slash cornet.

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