Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru - Episode 358

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

This week on the Drive Thru, Jim talks about the passing of Sid, and reviews AEW Dynamite & last week's WWE Raw! Plus Jim talks about ratings, Swerve's new contract, Netflix's Vince McMahon documentary, Guess The Program, chicken parmesan, AI music, Tessa Blanchard, 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, friends! And that sounded like crap, but we're going to keep pushing on through. Welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-through, the White Noise Edition. There's all sorts of things buzzing in the background. I'm your host of Great Brian Last, and the man who usually creates all the buzz, the leader of the cult of Cornett, Mr. Jim Cornett. That's right, you cats and kittens. It's Jim Cornett, coming to you from Castle, Cornad.

I'm live and that ain't no news. jive loud and proud here radio broadcasted on 50,000 watts to you people out there in radio land you see the speed Brian the snappiness of my new internet the one guy

good old Jason from Spectrum that knows how their equipment operates I'll have you know that my speed tests are off the charts infinity and beyond. I got a 941. And they're in the 600s and the seven. It's insane.

I have perfect internet broadcasting to the people. The sound couldn't be better. Why, the power of this thing, you can pick me up now on the fillings in people's teeth. Well, if you remember, you had an issue where sounds weren't being picked up and you did something to your computer and caused that. No, no, no, that was an automatic update.

I didn't do anything. Hotchkis said they was not on my shoulders. The burden was not mine to bear. That was one of those automatic framistats that they put it through the oscillator and it came up red. Well, since that time, Hotchkis fiddled around with your microphone and now you're picking up sounds that aren't even there. You're picking up sounds like you could turn off the fan and close the door.

You could shut off the refrigerator. or anything you're doing, it doesn't matter. There's new noise. That sounded like a song. Turn off the fan and shut the door. That's right, cats and kittens. And we won't hear that noise no more. I'm just, what it is, Brian, it's your fault.

It's your fault. What is? What is? Because what you're hearing is what you've been supposed to be hearing all along. The reality. The reality of the world, see, I've been, I've been throttled down. my internet's been throttled down so you're only hearing part of me.

Now you're hearing all of me. Why don't you hear all of me? And there's some background noise to be had. This is a very sensitive high dollar microphone. I got going on over here. It's all the best equipment. So this is reality.

When you walk down the street, don't you hear all kinds of background noise? When you walk down the street, What do you mean? You don't hear white noise like this, no. If you're out in the world, you're going to hear some noise. It sounds different than a microphone that's hypersensitive that's picking up all sorts of sounds that the normal ear wouldn't hear.

Would you like to pick up this sound? How about that sound? Was that clear enough for you? That wasn't. That wasn't your machine. What was that? That was me. To you.

Homemade? I've made one for you special right here at home. Hey! Ooh. and abrupt ending on that one that can't be you yeah anyway so we're going to do a program here

and any noise that the people here will be overcome and overbalanced and compensated for by the wisdom the knowledge the entertainment the fun the frivolity the frolic frolicery is that a word the frolicing

the frolicing would be frolicery parts of it are a word that's for certain why did i dangle my participle i don't know what you did exactly i've got i got a lot of notes here but did you hear breaking news in the real world before we went on the air i didn't even have time to mention this to you did you hear about the big labor dispute at the u.s. mint they've they've got a work stoppage going on all the employees went on strike because the workers didn't want to make any more money all right we go what we got our johnny carson joke book out today? It takes a second.

You have to think about that. It's going on here. You have to think about that. No, I can't. What is the matter? Well, we had a good time yesterday. It was Stacy's birthday as we sit here yesterday. I don't know when the people are going to hear this or listen to it.

You can do that at any point, I guess. It's a free country. But at her request, I made my world-famous spaghetti chicken parmesan. have you ever heard of this? Apparently you're dumbfounded. I was eating a piece of watermelon. Have I ever heard of... Watermelon?

Watermelon. I like to have fruit near me when I record. Do people in the North eat watermelon? I think people all over the world eat watermelon. It is a tasty fruit, but nevertheless. And it's water. That's right. It keeps you hydrated.

Yes, it keeps you hydrated. Except my family always salted the watermelon, which will shrivel you up. I guess we were coming out even. Is that a thing? I never heard of that. You salt watermelon? What? You eat watermelon without the...

Oh my, that's horrible. No, after you finish grilling burgers. They cut the watermelon. They chop it in the little bits. You eat it. What are you talking about? No, in the summertime, in the summertime, when the weather is right, after you've cooked out burgers or whatever on the grill.

Mungo Jimmy. You take a watermelon mungo jerry, very good. And you slice that thing and big old slice that thing. in big old slices where it's like a half of pie and you're holding it in both hands. And then you take the salt shaker and you salt both sides of it real good so it's evenly distributed

and you go to mowing on that. That's the way that we all did it when I was a kid. And they didn't have the seedless watermelon's back in those days. So that was a pain in the ass trying to pick out or spit out or fucking... My grandpa, John, my mother's... father was 85 years old and I don't think he had teeth, but he could take a slice of watermelon and he could dagum just mow it like a typewriter back and forth and work the dagum seeds at

one side of his mouth while he was chewing to watermelon with the other side. Of course all this happened outdoors. Of course. You could just lean over, but you don't salt your watermelon up there. No, I bought a thing of watermelon chunks from ShopRite, and they didn't say anything about salting their fruit. It's in the produce section. It doesn't say added salt anywhere for any of the fruit. Well, no, you have, never mind.

Anyway, the chicken spaghetti parmesan. Oh, okay. Well, what were you going to say hey about? Are you going to try to defend yourself more about this watermelon situation? Indirectly, yes. Do you eat strawberries? Yes. How do you wash them?

normally with the goddamn lufa and some dowel body wash like everybody else. I can't go, Riley. What are you doing over there? No, what I mean is Suzanne all of a sudden started leaving them in like a bucket of vinegar. Or not a bucket, a bowl of vinegar. And I'm like, what are you doing? She goes, you're supposed to wash them like this? I'm like, I'm not eating that.

You ruin my strawberries. Well, yeah, that kind of is the opposite of a strawberry as a vinegar taste. But no, it depends on, because I eat a lot of strawberry stuff, but whether strawberries in ice cream or strawberries in cake or strawberry puree or strawberries at various times or chocolate-covered strawberries, or whatever the case. You've been following the boar's head controversy? Well, one goddamn food situation at a time.

Well, produce is right next to the deli section. But most of the time, if we're, I don't wash the strawberries at all, because if we're going to be eating something that is involving freshly prepared strawberries, the fruit is Stacey's department, so I really don't handle a lot of that. I'm more of the fry daddy. And as far, so far, I've ducked the boar's head curse, but I think somebody said the biggest part of it was liver worst. And if you eat that, you deserve what you get. I think it's the worst.

And it's liver. You have a headline here in New York Times, Boar's Head Plant tied to nine deaths, had mold, leaky pipes, and flies. Federal inspectors cited... Wait a minute now. That's where they make just the liver worst, or do they make some of my Black Forest Ham or Pistrami as well? Well, Federal Inspector cited continuing problems

at a deli meat plant in Virginia that was linked to an outbreak of Listeria. Records indicate. And this is the Virginia Boershead Deli Meat Plant. it's been linked to nine deaths the alarm rang after people like Gunter Morganstein Oh for God's shit

A hairstylist renowned in coastal Virginia fell gravely hair Wait wait a minute, wait a minute I thought he was going to be the whistleblower over at the plant But Gunter Morganstein was a noted hairstylist where In coastal Virginia Well they style a lot of hair over there

as Mr. Morganstein, an active 88-year-old known as Garshone. I'm sorry to laugh. Please, is he still alive at least? Is this going to come out well? No, he grew frail at the hospital in early July. His family racked their brains thinking of everything he had eaten in recent weeks. And it turns out it was Boar's Head Liverworths bought at a store, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

I don't know how much prevention they're doing. I'm not sure they're into control either. More like fucking post-op investigation. Liverworth's from the Jarrett's Boar's Head Plant was first recalled on July 25th, and then they expanded the recall on July 29th to include all the meat process there. Trying to see if there's like a thing that lists the dates. Oh, here's a picture of Gershon. Gosh.

What are you, is he, you never did tell me for sure. still alive, is he around? What happened to him? Oh, he died last month at the age of he's dead. He's dead. Well, but, all right. He had a fondness for a liverwurst, a boar's head deli meat link to the outbreak. And you were laughing when you saw the picture of him because was he wearing a liver worst on his head? What is the, the caption? I look right away at the captioner. It says, Gunter-Morganstein, known as Garshone of Newport. Like, why did you have to put his nickname there? Well, that's how everybody knew him. He apparently wasn't known by his.

That is a long name for the marquee. Maybe just Garshone's place was easier than Gunter Habadashery or whatever. We send our deepest condolences out to his fans, his friends, and his family, and everybody that's involved in the Liverworths community. Can I tell you about the... Sad.

Oh. What? What? Mr. Morgensstein's family says he was fond of Boershead Liverwurst as a comfort food eaten on a plain bagel. It reminded him of his childhood in Germany, which he fled as a child to escape Nazi rule. Oh, good Lord. Oh. A receipt from Harris Teeter provided by his family's attorney shows he made the Liverwurst purchase on June 30th.

What? What? God damn it. He survived. and escaped the Nazis. The goddamn boar's head tracked him down. It was the liver worst. The liver worst.

I've never even eaten liver worst. I don't know what it tastes like. I couldn't have. Well, it's, it's sound, it's two things that are disgusting in and of themselves, liver and worst. If it's the worst,

do you ever, give me the worst food you have. Like, I'm not going past like corn beef. Like, that's my limit right there. Anything past that, I'm not going.

And, well, and I'm not sure about what they, how they, determined to call that a corning process to begin with, but that's neither here to there. But he escaped the Nazis,

but he couldn't get past the liver worst. A boar's head. All right, I'm going to tell you about the dinner I cook now. Oh yeah, you asked me if I ever heard of that. Yes, I've heard of having spaghetti with chicken parmesan.

I don't know what part I wouldn't have heard. No, but here's the this is this is what makes it special because Stace picked which birthday dinner that she would like me to cook and at first she said my world famous spaghetti and meat sauce

with garlic bread and then she's wait a minute let's change that to chicken parmesan and I said okay good thinking but then I said but you still want my sauce the same way don't you oh yes so we had the spaghetti and meat sauce and chicken parmesan with the chicken parmesan covered with the meat sauce

so we had it was kind of like the not surf and turf, but the turf and fly type of thing. And there's like two and a half pounds of ground beef in the spaghetti sauce alone, the batch I whip up. And then the

lightly fried seasoned chicken breast. And then the tremendous glop of spaghetti on the plate there. You just smear it all. It's wonderful. actually I'm describing the one that I ate. Hers was a little bit more demure. But, and a strawberry cupcake for, I'm sorry, raspberry.

I did, I gave the wrong berry. It wasn't, it wasn't Chuck. It was his uncle Marvin. Did you wash it in vinegar? Oh, but no, getting back to that. That's what started this whole guy. Well, no, that's what started this being derailed from me telling you. Then we had a wonderful goddamn.

dinner for Stacy's birthday and she wants to thank everybody for all the Twitter wishes and the Facebooks and various things that are on the internet but why is is are you sure this is not a fucking shit has she been watching Hitchcock movies

No she's been watching TikTok She's been watching TikTok or so I don't know what she's been watching She's been trying to disguise the taste of something else She's putting them strawberries It's going to affect you slowly but surely Like I said you're supposed to wash them with water She goes I do that after I do this this kills off whatever's on him.

I'm like, what's on him? I'm alive. I've been eating strawberries forever. God damn, what about a potato that grows in the ground? I wash the dirt off of it, but it's not like we're bleaching that son of a bitch. You know how many magic mushrooms I ate when I was younger? Those were grown in cow shit. I mean, come on.

Should you at least put them in a strainer and run the fucking water over him a little bit, though? I mean, it was, it was a lot going on. I can't really talk about details. Well, nevertheless, I don't know about the vinegar for the strawberry. But no, vinegar is supposed to kill off germs of some sort. Yeah, and most of the people they are currently inhabiting, too. Do you only use tomato sauce that you make, or do you buy any specific store kind at any point? Not for this meal, but during the year.

I'm not going to reveal the entire secret. I think I talked about it before on the show. If you didn't write it down, then everybody can search through the goddamn many clips to find the answer. But I'm not going to reveal that today. We're actually working on a food omnibus, so maybe the secret will be in there. Ooh, magic bus? We ought to get one of the listeners to do a confusingly similar version of magic bus for our omnibus theme. Can we talk about right now here at the start of the drive-thru, something we've been doing at the end of the drive-thru?

the songs. Well, it's your program. So I guess we can just jolly well talk about anything you want. So it's a bit of a controversy. I got to get your thoughts on it because it's all about you and you'll get all the blame and I'll run over here. But we had two songs last week that were both impressive. The second one declared itself as being an AI song. Yes. A ton of people got in touch with us. Facebook, email, corny drythruit at gmail.com, Twitter. to say that the first song was AI too. They recognized the voice. No.

From other AI songs. So... Well, I just remember we said, Holy shit, that was good. I didn't realize he literally reincarnated Jimmy Hendrix to play on it. So the computer is now a better musician than the people. In some cases, at least here. You've got empirical evidence.

In seconds, yeah. Huh. Well, I mean, should there be, because there, there should be another category, one would think, where, you know, if a human being is concocting the, the idea of, let's do a song about Joe's Crab Shack or whatever the fuck, and does it with AI, is it, is that going to be the same every time

or if another human has a better idea can he make it better? And then you would be able to grade that but you would have to know which was AI and which was just you. I have right now one of the AI song simulators pulled up

give me an example of what you would like to hear. I'm going to play it on the other computers so I don't mess with the recording here. I don't know. Oh, now you're going to ask me do some shit. I just want to say what the fuck you're doing. No, like give me a top of the other computer. No, like, give me a topic.

Name a topic that you like. Car batteries. Car batteries. Give me a style of music that you like. Bluegrass. Okay. A bluegrass. I drop something.

Song. That's not how you spell song. Song about car batteries. Name something you like car batteries. This is the worst episode of Family Few. No. Survey says no. I'm going to press create.

You didn't say I'd have to make it easy for the son of a bitch. And two songs are generating now. Let me make the volume on this computer a little louder. I don't know how this is going to be. Blueberry, blueberry. Bluegrass acoustic. The first song is Battery Blues. Can I play it yet? It's generating right now.

Here, let's go to Battery Blues. Let me know if you could hear this. I woke up this morning and dead as my car. spark no fire can't get very far It's a rusty old beast Won't roar with me Flat as a pancake ain't away Got my tool box ready

Gonna take a look Manual in one hand and a greasy hook Trucker down the road Said it's all dead weight Need a new heart to set it all straight Now the same song as here it put up two different versions let's go to this

my car no spark no fire can't get very far it's a rusty old beast won't roar with me flat as a pancake ain't no energy got my toolbox

all I'll stop it there I can think it gives you a little bit of an example no no keep going to buy one here the battery blues when it's gonna take a love manual in one hand Now that was made in seconds. What do you think of that?

I guarantee you that that is better than fucking 85% of the human race could probably fucking come up with if they sat down thought about it for the afternoon. How the fuck does that happen? But anyway, yeah, there has to be... But now, again, if somebody right now in... Cambodia, typed in car battery bluegrass. Would they get the exact same song or would it do something else? It would do something brand new just for them.

That's the... Oh, goddamn. Well, why didn't you tell me to buy stockin this son of a bitch? Hey, one last one. Were you able to hear any of that okay? Yes. Let's go to this. It sounded better to your organ.

Hey, now, wait a minute now. This is the real thing. Real person, real fingers. So it's not compared to you. Yeah, yeah. Well, here again. Can you see this finger? Here I got two of them.

There's a lot of people that would pay a lot of money to learn how to do this. There's a lot of people that pay a lot of money to give you those two fingers. Hey, come on now. Let's go to this. This is a rap about Tony Kahn. I'm running game like a chess board. AEW Kingpin stocking chips, no discord. Wrestlers flipping making moves on a tightrope.

Got the crowd buzzing filling arenas with pure hope. Rich kid with a vision climbing top ropes. No, that the wisdom and sight just dope shows and quotes. Booking matches like a wizard cast, this fellows. Putting on a spectacle, ringing all the bells. Tony gone, mastermind, full his strings in the ring, got the talent on lock, making the haters sing, bring you wrestling back to the golden every swing.

Every Wednesday night, the fans cheer and cling. Well, okay, maybe that one on the other side of the spectrum. About 85% of the human race could have done a better job. It's listed as the genre of humorous hip-hop high energy. Whatever that. Yeah, I'll agree with high. Well, there's the future. There's a little shot of the future.

But that's the problem. What do we do now if the people submitting songs are basically... Can I... Since that bluegrass, bluegrass version of battery blues was brought on by me, can I now copyright that and sell it as a record? I don't see why not. I bet I don't know the rules, to be honest. You better check what Steve...

Oh, now, see, boy, talk about a fucking back paddle. hit the goddamn brakes. I got to call Dolph Ramsor because you were about to get me sued. I would call Dolf and then call Stephen and then call Dolf back. Well, why can't I have Stephen called off? Dahl's a nice guy. You don't want him to get yelled at?

Well, no, he's not involved in this in a fucking yelling target fucking Hey, Stephen causes people to run out of the room into the street stripping off their clothes. Let's not compare the two things what he does at a

deposition this man. In this case, Dolf would be one of ours. We're going to him to consult for advice, not that he has wronged us in any way. So Stephen would take him under his voluminous wing and the cone of justice and protect him from all harm.

Well, then he can keep his clothes. At least most of them. I've got an email. I know this is your show, but this centers around you or part of you, potentially. can I can I tell you some of this yeah which part my foot well no no it's what it's what's in between no not your left knee not your right knee not even your weenie it's what's in between

your ears there pal your voluminous wrestling knowledge okay thank you as constant that big giant bucket head of you but in recently and well anyway I got this email that's not nice and this is not only one of the most, it looks like a resume like you would submit to a, you know, a fine firm to be hired and it's typed in all the right ways. And it's from John AAU.

Have you, do you know, he's from Flushing, Michigan, John AAU. Do you know him? I'm not sure if I know him at all because I'm not exactly sure what the hell you're saying. How do you pronounce? How do you spell the last name? Well, it's John, as in John, a, period, as in a, A-U-E, John A-U-E.

John A-A-U-E. You know, now that you're saying, now that you spell it out, you were saying it right. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, you know, type any to James E. Cornett, CEO of Cornett's collectibles to the post office box. dated 8 August 2024 and he's from Michigan not one of those weirdos over there across the pond and backs the

fucking dates up backwards the wrong way and he thanked us for keeping the history of wrestling alive enjoying the look back at Mid-South 1984 we're going to do another one of those very shortly the discussions of wrestling territory history that come out of guess the program are fascinating my favorite part of the programs

which we do it often on this fine drive-through. And John said that he, since it's his favorite segment, guest program, he decided to pitch in. He says, I have a rather small collection, but the hours of enjoyment you and Brian have provided parting with this program is the least I could do. And he said, I do not think this program will stump Brian. but we shall find out because now ladies and gentlemen

because Jim was given the answers. That's right, Brian, you're on the spot. We're going to play one round of guest the program with the program I'm going to ask you the questions and you're going to answer them from John A.A.U. Emerging wrestling historian, John, John A. Do you think that when John met his wife or his significant other or his beautiful blushing bride.

Do you think she was saying, John A.A. You when I'm calling you. Hopefully not in that key. Well, that's the key thing. I was a keynote speaker one time. And I hit the note then. Anyway, don't delay or defray the obvious here.

Have you ever watched strawberries and vinegar? Didn't we just say something about that? It derailed the last conversation so well. I was trying to do it again now. Yeah, well, you're going to have to face the music here, pal. I'm going to give you for the new listeners out there. Usually it's Brian Quiz and me. But I'm going to give you the program

fucking sit-in submitted by John A. And you're going to Brian try to tell me what the city was and what the year was. Have I succinctly got that across to the viewing public? I think all the readers have heard you, loud and clear. Okay, and I'll give you one clue as to where this might be, because the person that owned this originally had marked the, you know, like the fans used to a lot, they'd check mark the winner or X, the loser, or circle or whatever.

make little notes, right, of who won and who lost of what happened. And when it says all bouts under the supervision of the State Athletic Commission, it names the chairman and the guy is written underneath it, Blind Man. I guess he was sitting there and introduced to the people and he was just waving in the air because he was a blind man, and they decided to make note of this. I've never seen that before. obviously Leroy McGurk was not the chairman of the state athletic commission But anyway, are you ready for the opening match Brian?

You got your notepad out, you're ready to go That's a great thing that no one's ever done on wrestling TV The head of the referees is here and he's blind Yes, and he's blind. Who's that blind man? It's the house detective at the Grand Hotel. All right, let's go. Let's do this.

All right, the opening match, El Bracero, from Mexico City versus the wild man from parts unknown. The second event, Billy Red Lions from Canada versus Jay York from Alaska. The third event, George the Animal Steel from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, versus Thunderbolt Patterson, from Los Angeles, California. Okay, this could still technically be where I thought it may be. George steals a little bit of a surprise there for where I was thinking at first, but keep going. And we're following with a tag team match player, which pits Don Fargo from Chicago, Illinois,

at least that's what they claimed at the time, and Renee Goulet, who was billed from Mexico. That's a twist? I've never heard that before. I think that's obviously a fucking... Noted Luchador, René Guley. Noted Luchador, Frenchman Rene Goulet versus the team of Pepper Gomez from Monterey, Mexico, and the Mighty Igor from Poland.

See, there we go again, okay. Then the next match. And wait a way to you hear this one. That's why I think somebody is fucking... drunk or forgot to change some things. Killer Carl Cox from Omaha, Nebraska versus Pistol Pez-Watley from Mexico. What?

Yeah, by way of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Anyway, but yes, Killer Carl Cox versus Pez-Watley. Then we have another tag team match. The team of Baron von Krupp. from Monheim, Germany and his partner, Ox Baker from Kansas City, taking on Big Tex-McKenzie from you'll never guess, Texas, and his partner from the jungles of South America, Pampito Fuppo. And, oh, okay.

I was about to, and finally, the main event for a championship that will be named later, Abdullah the butcher the madman from the Sudan versus Reno Nevada's own Dick the Bruiser Okay This is tougher Because I'm fucking with my

In my head it's There's a lot going on in my head Is what I'm trying to say There are two Apparently it won't come out of your mouth There are two places that seem like the obvious One place seems obvious but one place seems like it could be a possibility until the very end.

It sounds like it could be an early 70s Texas show. Houston, Fort Worth. However, there's a ton of matches there for the time, which reeks of the cobo, or at least reeks of Detroit. Dick DeBruiser makes sense in Detroit. Was Dick the Brewser making any trips to Texas and 70? Well, Pez-Watley's on the show. Anytime after 73?

Rene Goulets from Mexico. I don't know too much about his his time in Guadalajara. I think somebody at the printer got stuck on Mexico. But there's a lot of names there that, you know, worked in Texas, Pepper Gomez. There's also, I mean, again, a lot of Detroit names, Mighty Igor. Pamparoferpo being in the main event, there is a,

but he worked Texas too around that period of time. It's not crazy. This man was, John AAU was from Michigan, I believe, correct? Oh, yes, he was, wasn't he? So I'm going to go with Detroit, Michigan. I'm going to say... It's Pez Whatley that's fucking throwing me off, actually. I did not expect that.

Who was it, Abdullah the Butcher Against Who? Dick the Bruiser, in the main event for the United States Heavyweight Championship. No chic on the show, which is interesting. And you gave away the title there, so it sounds like I got Detroit, Michigan, right? Yeah, I'm not going to jack you around. I think it's a little later than I would think. 1975. God damn you. Sunday, February 23rd, 1975.

If I had not said that John A. was from flushing Michigan, that would have flushed your chances. No, that's... I would have gone with Texas, but Dick the Bruiser was what pulled me back to... It has to be Detroit. The thing is, with Texas, all of, almost a good portion of this card

at one time or another was a name in the Dallas-Fort Worth territory for Fritz especially, but they were not ever all there together. And you started with El Brissero. That was like the thing that right away put me in the mind of Texas. Well, but I'll hold on here one second, and I'm on fill you in on something you might not know. The thing that was the throw-off right, the curveball right at the end was Dick the Bruiser. Because, and I bet you the reason why a bruiser was main-eventing the COVID, in 1975 was because the Sheik couldn't be on the car.

And that's when they had settled the issues, so they were working together. And that's the El Bracero was Jose Martinez, and he was working for Bruiser. And he lived in Indianapolis at the time. The Sheik always used guys like Billy Red Lines, George Steele when he was available, Thunderbolt Patterson at that point. Renee Goulet and Don Fargo Think about this In 1975 they were the Legionnaires Working for Bruiser

So they came from Indianapolis also But the way they're not called the Legionnaires here Because they weren't working the territory People knew the individual names Gomez was working for Bruiser But he was about to go to Tennessee And work for Goulas for several months that summer So a lot of

of Pez Watley had just broken in for Nick Goulos and they were sending him around to just do a job for killer Carl Cox but just to get him some experience and Ox and Carl von Krupe were working for Bruiser that summer

also in Indianapolis as the heel tag team Tex and Furpo and Abdullah were already working for Sheik in Detroit to begin with So when they had settled the promotional war Sheek was making more use of

Bruiser's talent than Bruiser was making of Sheiks probably because Sheik felt more like the aggrieved party since Bruiser actually ran Detroit so fuck it, send me some fucking talent. So there's, you know, all kinds of fucking major names on this show for the time. And when did Bobby Heenan lead Bruiser? 74.

So right before this, too, that's interesting. Well, it was right. The reason why he left was the payoff when Bruiser and Sheik settled things, and Heenan managed the Sheik at Market Square Arena in front of a sellout, and Bruiser gave him $700 or whatever it was, and that's when he said, well, fuck. And he called Vern because he was so insulted by that. Anyway, that's guess. the program that Brian last won.

Yeah. Very easily, you know, Dick the Bruiser, but also now that I think about it, Don Fargo. Although, again, he wasn't working there. He was working for Bruiser at the time, not for the Sheik, but still, you know, you can picture, I picture him in Michigan more than I do, Texas at that point. But he had been in, in, um, he'd been in Dallas on and off for years as one of the Dalton gang. What was that tag team match with Tex-McKennie?

Oh, God damn it. Hold on. I just put it down here. I'm picking it back up here. It was Oxen von Krupp against Pampiro Furpo and Tex McKenzie. Now you got to, you know... Poor Furpo. No, I'll tell you what. No, Carl Krupp, in 19... I saw him in 81. He could still fucking bump when it called for it. He wasn't bad. in 75

I watched this I watched them on TV when they were working for bruiser he was it was fucking cool I love the killer let's focus on the parts of the match that were Tex McKenzie versus Ox Baker

okay let's not do that I have to imagine what that must have been Lord almighty was Ox Baker ever good once he became a deal because at least with the baby like the goofy baby face there was some charm to like not being able

the work. But no, the thing is his look and his voice and his promo and his promo and his size were all in the, if you do a one to ten range on talent or whatever, they were all ten. So his in-ring work was a

one and a half and it still, he still came out with a goddamn 41 and a half. or whatever. Yeah, think about it. They brought him to Allentown and Hamburg in like 1980 to do it around the tapings, and he was so bad they never used them. And they used everyone.

They used everyone. They didn't use him against Bob Backlin because it was that scary what the match could be. Oh, boy. Yeah, him and Backland's space. But also at that point, it was like when Joe LaDuke, people tweeted clips of Joe LaDuke when he was the headbanger in WWF and what was that, 1984?

No, 88. Or 8. Oh, shit, even worse, 88. Okay. Ten years before that, Joe Leduc would have been able to convince people in about six weeks that he could fucking eat alive every member of the WWF. But not then. And with Ox, after 76 or 7-ish, it got to the point where it was not a pretty sight that unless it was a territory where he was all.

already over and people had seen him before and knew the name, then it wasn't going to happen. Because they've aged caught up with what they could do to begin with. I shouldn't even say that with LaDucke, he was incredible. But he was also, in 1988, he was almost 50, and I think I found out severely diabetic, I believe, or something like that. Also, I needed the right opponent. You could see how he really wouldn't fit in well with the late 80s WWF style.

Yeah, no, no, because it was just, he had, he had an incredible aura about him. But, I mean, like, again, in 1975, 78, he could do a drop kick, at 280 pounds, six feet tall with that frame and as good as anybody, right? but I saw these clips in 88 and it was just he had slowed down so much his shit wasn't crisp and he was just trying to maul people

because that's you know what he was noted for but he wasn't he was neither as big physically size wise as some of the giants they had then and he wasn't as impressive body wise

because he was just so thick and he looked like a fucking lumberjack could he probably at his day have you know we have outlifted much of the roster just because he was just freaky strong probably but it wasn't his day anymore so it just it didn't happen

it threw me off as a kid seeing his name in the magazines I'm like who's Joss La Duke? Yes because that's that was the he first became known to the magazines and sort of a North American audience obviously in Montreal and all over Quebec and Canada, and that's JOS is the French spelling, right? And then when he moved down here, he worked years.

He lived in Knoxville for quite some time. He worked Memphis and the southeastern territory in Knoxville and Georgia and Florida for a long time, and think how to run in Texas. And he would go back to those places because he always got over. I have like, you know, 20 years afterwards in Memphis, if you still ask people,

who are Lawler's greatest, you know, rivals or whatever, it would be a Jimmy Valiant, Joe LaDuke, Austin Idol, some of the first, you know, names that get mentioned. And I mean, obviously Dundee, but I mean, he'll rivals. So, you know, but where were we going with that? That was guest to program. Oh, it certainly was. That's a lot of.

This is a good show today. I'm glad this is your show. Guess whose program this is? God damn it. It's mine. It's me. It was you all along last. As Antichristo would say,

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And I'm just, I'm your willing servant and merely a vessel for you to carry wherever you want. All right, vessel. Well, why don't we, before we get to? George Vessel. Before we get to WWRWA this past week, of course they had an announcement on the show, but it had broken a few days earlier and we were recording so we didn't get a chance to talk about it.

So why don't we talk about the passing of Sid Udi, aka Sid Vicious, Sid Justice, Psycho Sid with a very unique spelling, all to himself? What do you think? Obviously someone you were around since almost the beginning of his career, and with the news of his passing, one of the clips people love sending around

is when he was revealed to be the partner of Ahmed Johnson and Sean Michaels in split screen, and you had a little bit of a meltdown. Yes, and actually that was the... If you can imagine the state of the WWF at that point in time when Sid was the more stable alternative to the ultimate warrior who had just gotten fired and was supposed to be in that spot, right?

And the thing ever since this happened, because we've told so many stories about Sid on the show at various points over the years. And the problem is, in this instance, possibly some of those might not be in good taste because the biggest stories about Sid were him no-showing or holding somebody up or getting in heat with the office. But then when you saw Twitter with the outpouring of the clips and the people talking about him, the fans, it was two different worlds. If you had to work with him in a promotional or office, administrative, creative,

booking production, you know, type of scenario, it was fucking bloody murder. but the fans loved him and he got over pretty much instantly whenever he started appearing somewhere because of the look and the intensity and the athleticism so the fans loved him but at the same time all of the industry stories center around you know the softball sid thing and it said so how do we

carry on with this today and discuss him. I think we can look at it from both perspectives. You from the person who had to deal with him as a wrestling executive and as a coworker. And me as someone who, when I discovered the NWA, one of the first guys I was a mark for was Sid Vicious. He had the coolest entrance music. If he wrestled, sometimes Spivey wouldn't get into ring.

Yeah. He had an aura. I mean, I know it's such a corny word to use, but he had an aura around him that not too many other people did. he also did things that heels didn't typically do in terms of almost asking the crowd to cheer. You know, he would make those little hand movements and the crowd would go nuts for him. Because here's a guy six foot nine doing all these big power moves, killing everyone, and then turning to the crowd to celebrate.

Yeah, and he's built like a Greek god, you know, with that physique and the same time he can do a nip-up. Because, you know, I'll give you an example. I'm nine years old, right? Right now or at one time? Maybe mentally. But in 1989, and at the bash it's the skyscrapers against the dynamic dudes. Yes, that's what I was going to bring up, but go ahead. And they're almost cool to a nine-year-old, you know? They've got surfboards and they're wearing neon.

You know, like that's what's supposed to hit with a kid. You would almost want to root for them. How are you going to root for them against Sid Vicious? Yes. and the Baltimore fans I mean that was kind of the reaction a lot of wrestling fans had the Sid despite limitations in the ring

and problems dealing with them that was the kind of reaction he always got and the thing is they would boo Spivey when Spivey was in a ray of boo they wanted to see Sid when Spivey got in a red Sid and then he'd tag and they'd fucking blow and the dudes were

goddamn burnt toast but that was the thing remember they had to edit the WWF, you know your New York history better than I do. What was the pay-per-view? Well, it was the Royal Rumble, but what year where... 92?

Hulk eliminated... No, Sid eliminated Hulk, and then Hulk held on to Sid and pulled him out and they booed Hulk. It's the year Rick Flair won. Maybe the greatest rumble ever. The last three are Flair, Sid, and Hogan. And if you're a fan of WCW or the NWA, you know there's a little bit of a history with the two former horsemen,

but they don't really talk about that there. But it's intriguing. Sid eliminates Hogan, the fans cheer. That was the big moment where finally it showed that people were kind of sick of Hogan's act because it had gotten really, you know, corporatized. It was just, you know, when at the very beginning and, you know, he was kind of like a big wild steroid man. And then he all of a sudden he was just, he was a bullshit artist to a lot of kids.

and Sid eliminates Hogan, the fans cheer, and then Hogan from the outside of the ring just grabs on the Sid and starts pulling at him, which is a total heel move. Yeah, sore loser. Yeah. And then Flair, the true heel, gets behind Sid and dumps sit out of the ring

while Hogan is doing that. And Sid's mad at Hogan. By the time that aired on TV, they edited it so that the fans were cheering Hogan for some unknown reason. In that or a deal, there was no reason to cheer him. But, you know, that's, again, he could, make an impact like that.

And he's another guy that, you know, he hit at the right time, you know, with the explosion and television and et cetera of that period. And, you know, everybody had video. His career really, what was it, 13 years, 14 years between his first matches in Memphis and the leg injury. And, I mean, wrestled a few times after that, way after that. but everybody thinks he's always been oh psycho Sid or Sid Vicious

and there were so many breaks in between when he would just go home but yet they would kept giving him chances and he would go in and get over but then he would do something to get himself under with the company and he'd be gone again and so that's why it was the you know the difference between trying to work

with him in the ring where they're cheering the wrong people and or he you know, it doesn't want to sell whatever or he doesn't want to, you know, do this or that except when he did, or working with him as the promoter of the booker where you're trying to make plans and what the fuck, you know, when are they playing softball?

But the fans every time that he would go out there and do his shit, they fucking loved it. Can you imagine how good he must have been at softball? He's like Aaron Judge. He's gigantic. He would just be bopping him all over the place. I don't know what was, I never saw him play softball, but I heard about it all the time. Did Lawler?

Oh, I'm sure that Lawler's seen him play. I don't know if he's played him or had him on his team or whatever, but I'm sure there had to be conversation between the king and sit on softball. But that was the thing in WCW, I guess in early 91, they heard, signed him to a new deal, had to have him, and what Sid had asked for was, I think, 400 grand a year guaranteed, which, what's that from 1991 now, you know, maybe a million in today's money, but 400 grand a year, he wanted the world title and he went softball season off. and they gave him the money and the world title.

They just didn't give him softball season off. And I... They didn't give him the world title. I thought they did. He didn't get it until years later. Oh, that's right. That's right. Because he didn't make it on that deal long enough, I don't think, to softball season.

Or was that when he quit for softball season? That's when he ends up going to sign with the WWF in 1991, and the last match he has for WZW is a stretcher. match against Elhigante. Oh, where he didn't go out on the stretcher. Yeah, he just walked out. He didn't go out on the stretcher. That was his goodbye to WCW, that match.

And that's, you know, that's one of those early examples. And again, I'm not saying he was Tiger Mask or anything. But fans like me were into Sid because he had that aura and that personality that not too many other guys had. He's one of the first examples of someone, although people look back on the Sid Justice run now, and they like you. it, I think it's one of the early examples of Vince not getting how to

use someone right out of the gate who came over from WCW actually. Yeah. Yeah. And I agree with you there. And how long did Sid, how long did Sid last? The name, the whole Well, he started, he was there at

SummerSlam, but I think maybe the month before. So let's say July, June, July 91. And then he left, he quit right when he was about to work the big program with him and the Ultimate Warrior, which of amazing coming out of WrestleMania 8, let's say May of 92.

Oh, it just seems shorter. But yeah, I mean, see, here we are. We're talking, yeah, he did this and then he quit or he did this and he got hurt and then he did this, he quit, and he left and went to the other place, but he didn't like,

and I've told the story before. I apologize if everybody's memorized the entire catalog of the YouTube channel, but at that time in San Antonio when they brought him back in 97, when they Well, no, it was that 96 when they fired the warrior.

Whatever the case. It was the goddamn San Antonio, the Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum, because I remember I was so hot that I was ill and almost threw up by the time I got back to the hotel room. It was like 110 in San Antonio that day. And Vince had insisted he come.

He'd been off because he was injured. and Vince had me call him. And I called and got his wife because he was out. He was playing softball. He took the softball team to Oceola or somewhere in Arkansas. And I said, Vince wants him. You know, at Raw Monday night, he doesn't have to wrestle. He knows he's hurt, but he's got to make an interview appearance

and do part of this deal, right? Oh, he's not going to like that. he hasn't had time to train lately he doesn't feel... Well, I said he's not wrestling. How bad could he look in a fucking month? I'm thinking to myself. We haven't said him in a fucking month.

What could he have deteriorated to? And she said, you know, Cid's often said that he thought he might be happier if he went back to selling farm chemicals. I don't know whether she's trying to just pour her heart out to me or negotiate with me on his behalf. like, you better give him more money.

He might go back to selling farm chemicals. And I said, nevertheless, Vince wants in there. He's sent him to plane ticket. Monday, San Antonio, he's going to do this interview thing, right? So he shows up. And I can't even remember the particulars, but the four top baby faces. Whoever they were at this point in time, is Michaels, is whoever the fuck, they all come out on the stage.

and confront the group of heels in the ring and Sid is one of them and he didn't take his shirt off he's dressed his street glows he didn't take his shirt off because he felt like he hadn't tanned like Jesus Christ and then they were supposed to come back

at the top of the hour, Seg 7 and that was when Raw was a two-hour show and do some kind of run in and whatever and pay the thing off and we started looking around where's Sid? It asked Bruno, you know, R.V. Whippelman,

downtown Bruno, because they went back to the Memphis days. And that was his manager of Sid Justice. Yes. And we said, where's Sid? Oh, he came up to me. He said he felt like he was having a heart attack. I said, where'd you take him? I took him back to the hotel. What? The

holiday end for a heart attack? He said, he just wanted to go back to the hotel is so hot. Yeah. But I'm going to What the fuck? Oh, geez. And he didn't make that segment. And that's when, oh, God, damn it, was it him that Vince said, I'm going to pro-rate your appearances or was it Warrior? Maybe it might have been both of them.

Both these things may be true. But I don't know. He wasn't around long again after that. You know, that's sad to hear that. I didn't even put two and two together about him selling farm chemicals. because I guess one of the things that they're attributing was passing to is the exposure to roundup. Oh, good, are you kidding?

No, I read that. So I thought it was just from, you know, again, I missed it. Okay, I had not read that, so I wouldn't try to be flippant, as they say. Yeah. Wow. Well, who would have thought he got out of wrestling and it killed him? You know, he's an underrated promo. You may not like his style, but he was, and I don't know if he always made sense.

but there was an intent again no one had this intensity he had certain intangibles that no one else had and he made it work for him he no he was a perfect promo except if he had to go too long or explain one of the guys there's a lot of guys like this if they have to go too long or explain too much detail it it robs them of their intensity because they get lost or they just get hesitant as i just was. And that's why if you have the little manager to fill in the details and do the fucking

bridges amongst this monster having short, violent verbal outbursts like he could do tremendous, that's your key there. One time again on one of the promos, it didn't

even matter like you said whether it made sense because it sounded so real that he was saying it, he actually, he did a promo and I can't remember what it was, but some way or another, he told the people in some twisted syntax that he was half as smart and half as big as his opponent or whatever. In WCW, yeah, it caused Scott Hall to start laughing at him in the middle of the ring. Yes.

But, you know, but again, it's fucking Sid and everybody thought he was goofy and out of his mind. And because he part of he was goofy and out of his mind. He went from screaming to whispering better than anyone. You know, he was able to, ah, ma, and I'll tell you. And then he would all of a sudden become Jake Roberts and lean in and you would see his eyes and, you know, it worked. What was up with Vince's spelling of psycho? I think it was something he wanted to try to trademark or just to, you know, have some alliteration there with the SS.

psychosid, not SS in terms of connotation of Germany, but just alliteration on his logo. Let me tell you about my favorite Gestapo. Well, now, that may have come later, but yeah, it was just the alliteration, and so they could trademark the, you know, action figures and et cetera, et cetera. But that partially came from, because I, you know, when I heard from Vince and Bruce, say, I was ringing Sid. I said, he's fucking, he's a psycho because of the thing that had happened with Arn. And Vince comes, you know, change the spelling, whatever.

Oh, he almost died, you say. How can I use this? Yes, how can I, yeah, so, e-e-e-h. I'm surprised they didn't license that music from fucking Bernard Herman. Now, I'm thinking about his music, did his music have, like, a fake psycho sound at the beginning? Yes, yes. I never even thought about that before. Wow. Yes, that's the goddamn deal, but they should have just gone all the way with it.

Like I played the theme from Halloween for the Mongolian stomper. Play the fucking shower music. I like Sid better in the mid-90s when he returned to the look without the mullet that he had when he first hit in 1989. I didn't like him with long hair as much. Well, and it made him look taller when he had shorter hair. That's right. I like them with Sean Michaels.

You know, everyone talks about Sean Michaels and Diesel. I thought he was really good at show Michael's bodyguard. Well, and again, that formula works when, you know, when both guys do their thing, but that's why Vince McMahon was so sold on Sid multiple times because he looked so good. And Vince knew he could just, like Donald Pleasance and Halloween, if he could just reach him. You know, but he found out that those eyes were soulless. He couldn't keep him under control from blowing up, from having issues, whatever, to fully monetize him. And that's the thing.

They threw from 1989 through 1998 through 1998 or nine with WCW. A little bit after that, yeah. A little bit or 2000. They threw money at him. He'd quit, leave, go home. mutual split, whatever the fuck, all the incidents, get fired for the thing with Arne. And he'd sit at home for a while and when the heat was off the other side

because there was something there. They would get him. And then some would happen again. So he could have been much bigger and for a longer period of time because there were so many breaks in that period of time. That's a sad transition right there. What I was going to say is, you know, when he passed a couple of the matches that came to my mind were the dudes match, and I posted the link to the Lee Scott match, which is just amazing to see.

Because the crowd starts coming alive with each destruction of Lee Scott. And the match with Sean at the Garden for Survivor Series at 96, where the fans turned on Sean. Yeah. Sid became the biggest baby face in the world that night. Unfortunately, one of the memories a lot of people have, and I try not to think about it, to be Honestly, it makes me sick the image of it. Sid Vicious breaking his leg in WCW. What was your reaction when it happened?

What did you think when you heard or saw it? Well, I wasn't watching live, but heard about it and then saw the tape and that is just, but and he had said later on and ended up suing WCW because they said do this. But at the same time, why would you tell this guy to do that? the one thing about Sid, the entire massive body, he had kind of some bird legs down below there. But that was nothing that he had ever done. It wasn't important, as I remember, just coming off the second rope with a kick to a guy, how can that be an integral part of a finish?

So I don't know if he ever won any money because could he prove that they insisted he do that? said, no, I can't do that kind of stuff. Did he get a big settlement? Was this reported? I actually don't know. I do know that most people who sued WCW ended up happy in the end, but I don't know. Well, WCW wasn't given out happy endings. When I worked for them, I might have stuck around. They were given out settlements. You sue them. They didn't want to, I mean, how many people sued just because they knew they would get a settlement out of WCW? No, I know, I know, but they certainly weren't giving out any happy endings. Oh, no, no. Well, you don't know what Jim Hurd and Jim Ross were doing late at the bar.

Hey, now, come on. You don't, you weren't there. Or the bourbon for Hurd. Well, uh... But anyway, but nevertheless, but yeah, that when that injury, leg injury to Sid pretty much ended his full-time career, and he came back long after that to do just a, you know, few matches. But, but, but yeah, I didn't ever understand that deal from either side, why that they would insist. And here's the thing we could get Sid to agree to come to work. We were paying him half million dollars a year.

Why would he agree to jump off the fucking ropes on one leg for somebody? What the fuck was going on there? Well, that was our look at the life of Sid. I can't even say it because of the way you ended up. Well, no, but I mean, not even being disrespectful, but he picks then to agree to do something? I don't know. but again a memorable character from the 1990s, one of the more memorable wrestlers of the decade in a lot of ways

because he was in both companies on various occasions and had big runs at the top and often just disappeared or was fired or was sent home for, I mean, it was a variety of things. Well, and he would go back to Memphis and work for Lawler. Because he lived in West Memphis, Arkansas, and that's where he started. Lord Humongous was...

At first it was Mike Stark a long time ago in Memphis, and then Jeff Van Camp. He broke in here. He played football for the University of Louisville. And then, you know, when they wanted to bring the gimmick back, they put it on Sid, and he was the most impressive looking of the bunch. And then when the people found out it was him, point is, whenever he would be gone from WCW or WWF,

but he'd show up in Memphis. And those people would say this, international star for the next three weeks. weeks and then he'd go somewhere else. Do you think it was worth maybe looking into, like, having like a tour, not the Lex Express, but like Sid going town by town, whatever town he's going to wrestle in, he takes on your softball team during a day. If you know you have this guy that can hit bombs, put him in there against every schlub in town to promote the wrestling event.

Yeah, but, you know, it might have ended up like George Goulis when he had the the wrestlers formed the basketball team so he could be the captain and they would go and play the local high school team in the school that they were having the matches in that night. They'd have a ball game

and they'd set up the ring during intermission and then they'd have the wrestling. But one night in Rabbit Ridge, Kentucky, the fucking high school team beat to wrestlers and George got so mad he canceled the matches. Are you serious?

I never heard that before. Bobby Eden told me that one. Get the fuck out of here. It's amazing. Yeah, he said they cheated. There was some referee call or whatever that he felt they had been wrong. Did he know? No, take the ring back.

We're not doing it. Daddy, they cheated. That's nuts. I never heard that story before. But there you go, but Sid. That was it, the life of Sid. And of course, they mentioned him this week. They mentioned Sid Udy, Sid Vicious, Sid just, I don't know what to call him.

Psycho Sid. was mentioned on WWRWA this past week. And why don't we talk about what you saw of Raw? Well, as you mentioned, we did have some DVR problems, but actually it was probably a blessing in disguise because this was one of those snoozers this week. Can you concur with me on that? There was highlights in a sea of tranquility.

It's the end of summer. It's back to school. This is when you hit him with a few dull weeks. It's like being a hit over the day. head with a dull hammer. There was stuff I like, though. Still hurts. No, there was good stuff in the middle of this.

It just took a while to shuffle through it. The New Judgment Day, I know you like them. Dominic and Liv are a heat machine. I'll agree with you there. They would fit in world class. That's the ultimate compliment. They're good. She's so good in this role.

They're great, yeah. You know what? Sunshine ought to come back as Liv Morgan's aunt or something. But a... Celebrate French has her great end. Yes. Color the French kiss. But Finn and J.D. and Carlito and Dominic and live.

I don't see the star in the group, the leader in the group. The veteran is Finn Baller, but he's not even, I think he's second or third biggest person in a group. And it just, they... It seems to be a collection of people rather than, there's always got to be a star in the band, doesn't there? The front man, the lead singer, something help me.

I think it's unfair what you're saying, because these people have all been established together for a while. Also, a collection of people is every promo on AEW TV. This is not a collection of people, because they've established that they all hang out in the clubhouse together for months now. Well, no, I don't mean a couple. Well, now, over there, who's curating that collection? I mean, that's just a conglomeration, as Mark Briscoe says.

It's just, it's random groupings. I know there are a group here, but I want to see the big star in the group that everybody kind of can bond or at least priest had the towering presence. I'm not trying to be critical. I'm just trying to criticize it. But anyway, they, they, they. They have the promo with every one of them gets to speak. They still booed Dominic out of the building every time he tries talk.

Ray Mysterio and the baby-face Lucha has come out. And Ray tells Dominic off and they get in a fight and they go to the break. When they come back, they got an eight-man tag. And it's a judgment day against the Lucha faces. And by the time that Liv interfered and Dominic pinned Ray, and then the heels started getting heat. But Ria Ripley and Damien Priest came. out, that's when it

got good, and we were half an hour in his show at that point. And Ria got a hold to live, and the crowd went bat shit, and Dominic was going to come off the top of the post, and there's priest under him, so he got stuck, like he was a cat that had been

treed, and then finally live, save Dominic, but the faces cleared the ring and gave J.D. and Carlito their finishes. But now we were 35 minutes into the show, for a great fucking two and a half minutes there. Liv Morgan in this thing was so good because Ria gets her.

And then as soon as Ria turns around, lives back of the rig and jumps on her back. She doesn't like try to punch with her. That'd be ridiculous. It's Ria Ripley. That's why I say she would fit in with World Clash. She jumps on her back. That's exactly what she should have done.

Her and Dominic are perfect together. I don't even mind the rest of the judgment day. They're kind of figuring out their way as they do this. but JD and Finn are obviously kind of together, and Carlito's their lackey. So, good segment, though. Good segment. Now, why are you just calling Carlito a lackey?

Well, that's how he got established with the Judgment Day. He was kind of in the Our Truth role. And then... So just a wacky-lucky. Yeah, now he's the wacky-lacky. He's got some size. He'll throw some punches. But he ain't going to, you know, get any wins.

Well, speaking of not getting any wins. The wacky-lucky. The wacky-lucky. I don't know who the winners are besides the Wyatt family deal in this. They're getting paid to do whatever they're doing. But did you... Don't even want to discuss it at length because I won't understand it anyway, but they did another Uncle Howdy, Bo Dallas VHS interview.

And I can understand he's talking about Chad Gable, but it's fucking... Does it mean anything? Is this gibberish? I recognize the English words, but not put together in that order. I had it on the background on mute. I'm not going to, you know, pay too much attention to the Uncle Howdy segments.

All right, let's get to the meat of the matter. The 9 o'clock hour, because that's pretty much all that happened. Oh, and there was a girls tag team match, player. But the 9 o'clock hour, Drew McIntyre comes to the ring, live promo, they're chanting see him punk, and Drew cuts a smart-ass promo. He does punk's opening line. Isn't it great to be alive and well in...

Where were they, Pota, Oklahoma? Where were they at? Oh, I don't know. I will have to find out. Well, it's not really pertinent. It just, that's what he said. But I forgot where they were. Because it's like I'm on this tour with them.

It's just these cities are a blur every time I turn the TV on there in another city. Anyway, he sat cross-legged like punk, and he mocked him, and he called the fans enablers because when they chant for him, then he gets a big head and does stupid things like challenging Drew McIntyre to a scrap match. Providence Rhode Island. Providence, Rhode Island. In a scrap match. In a scrap match.

In the territories, it was known as a strap match. if they scrapped that idea. Anyway, so the point is, he said, every scar is going to be your fault that I inflict on this man. And then suddenly, Punk's music plays, and Drew McIntyre is ready to face him when he comes out, and punk is in the ring from behind with a strap.

How are they shuffling all these people to the ring in these giant arenas? Apparently, punk was live on Instagram. under the ring. And if you were following him on Instagram, you saw that he was somewhere, and maybe you figured out it was under the ring, and then you saw him come out,

put his phone on the apron, and then you don't really see anything. You just hear a bunch of noise, and he grabs the phone again at the end. Oh, that's brilliant. See, I don't know about the Instagram. I'm still trying to get my last telegram, so I didn't know that, but that's lovely.

That's wonderful. And basically, he took, takes that strap and he starts wailing on Drew McIntyre and then they go to the floor and Drew takes over but he gets back dropped on the desk and then punk whips the shit out of him and security comes out for a pull apart and punk beats up some of the security guys and it was wild and it was quick and the people were into it and they're having a strap match this weekend on pay-per-view imagine that so this was nice and to the point of the matter and again McIntyre

God, what a He's just again What a difference in two years from Two years from ago Two years ago And now what a difference from then until now Is what I'm saying to you I agree two years from ago

He wasn't what he is today No no he was He should have We were wanting him to a go-go back then No this is the feud of the year, I think. You know, the bloodline story is big, but it's not really a single, concise feud.

This has been the best story and the best feud all year. Well, that was pretty much, there was a triple threat. Apparently, they're going to have triple threat matches to determine the contenders in a fatal four-way, to determine the number of one contender for the Intercontinental title.

Jesus Christ. And then my DVR fucked up. And it skipped from an hour and a half into the show to the last four minutes of the show, but the last four minutes were probably the next pertinent thing that happened. Was it not?

Well, there was also the Bronson Reed, Braun Stromen. Oh, that's right. I'm sorry, but I got the clip of that. As it was on a different pad. because I couldn't watch that on the DVR, but I had to see it because we talked about it. Well, we talked about what could this match be? Why are they doing this match?

Well, yes, last week we said, oh, God, I was very trepidacious that this match would be bowling shoe ugly, as Jim Ross would say. And so, hold on, I have now the proper pad, and went back and watched that on the YouTube, Bronson Reed and Brown, strong man, what did I say was going to happen?

Or what did I say I was a feared would happen, Brian? That Bronson Reed would have to take too many bumps off the guy while they're building them up? No, just that they would, the idea that they would have to have the match before they do the angle. Remember I said, I'm right

there with them if they'll just do the angle and not have the match, but God, if they have to have the match before they do the angle, well, they had the match for they did the angle. So you liked it? No. Well, I liked the angle. The match was another story.

Do you see what I mean now? What I was afraid would happen would be that match that they had? Again, you know, the fans were kind of into it, but it didn't really benefit Bronson Reed to have that kind of exposure to Bronchrome kicking his ass before. But again, it built into, I guess, that he was so frustrated he couldn't really hurt him is why he attacked him at the garbage can as soon as he came back

I've seen more motion in a paralysis ward there's fucking paraplegics that are more nimble than because it it accentuated the negatives for both guys without being able to accentuate

any of their strengths the big overpowering monster that's bigger than the guy he's wrestling except when they're both supposedly irresistible force and immovable object it's kind of meats in the middle I mean Brown opened with the drop kick to the nuts

Did you see? He could get his feet three feet off fucking ground And then it was just meat chopping Well one guy would back the other guy in the corner And that guy would be immobile While the other guy chopped meat As they used to say in the business And I mean it was

Closlines squash in a corner headbutt type of stuff shoulders in the corner they both did a cross body which was kind of impressive for each and then finally Bronson Reed getting slammed off the top

but then there was another clothesline and some staggering and I wrote this is brutal and it went like that basically until you know they fought to the back and they ran each other into the video screen

a couple of times and I wrote the pace as glacial and then Bronson Reed is trying to walk out through guerrilla he's not even running because the other guy was blown up he couldn't run to catch him if the fucking guy did run and they fight in the back of the arena at the trash can

and beat up security and go to the parking lot and then they find the car to do the angle. He knocks Bronson Reed over, choke slams him on a car hood and knocks him over another car, but then they're fighting on the equipment cases, and Bronson Reed climbs to the top of the wall, and Brown's strong man is laying there on the hood,

not the hood, but the top of the car, roof of the car. And it's about six feet. so maybe extra foot above the top rope, but it looks great because it's a concrete wall. And he splashed him and caved in the car roof some, and here comes Pierce and the referees, and there's chaos, and they go right to break. That was great. Great splash on the car hood. But God damn, that match was brutal.

And it's not their fault. They can't really do anything else with each other. there has to be some one side of the match that can move and I know people are going to say Bronson Reed can move but he can't necessarily move Brown Strong Man around Do you see what I'm saying? What match was better?

This one or Adam Page versus Tomohiro Ishii? Well, this one. Because they were very similar in a lot of ways. What? Jesus Christ. A giant of a man again. this morning. No, no, well, at least, I mean, this, this stuff just looked ugly. It didn't look silly. So we got that going for it. So again, yes, that. Well, I, sorry to interrupt. I was just going to say this again, you know, again, it was a great angle at the end, but I don't think the match did anybody any favors getting there. But your, your thoughts. We had the Seth Rollins injury angle, the multiple weeks of splashing the Ms. although he still appears to be breathing. And then,

of course, now this angle where Braunstrave got splashed on the roof of a car, are they doing a good job rebuilding or finally building Bronson Reed? Yes, and his finish, which is equally important. You know, when people think of the glory days, you know, Jake Roberts, the DDT or Sergeant Slaughter, the Cobra Hold, or whatever,

every, Hulk Hogan a leg drop. But every great star had their finish. And if this guy can do that to the names he's done it to, he can injure anybody with it. And it is dangerous and it's exciting to see and a blah, blah, blah. So that's not only pushing the guy, but it's giving him a major tool to use to get over even more. And something that people will buy if he does it to, you know, the main thing. of it fucking guys. If he does it to Roman Rains, people would buy it.

So that's what you've got to do also and they're doing a wonderful job there. And how long does Brown get off now after this? He was off for what a long fucking time and then suddenly pop back up

and then perhaps he's sitting. Can that be a new verb or something? I don't know. Maybe too soon. But you said you saw the final few minutes of Ross, so why don't we conclude with that? Well, yes, it was

Chad Gable against Boy Howdy. The leader of the he's the leader of the clan that's made for you and me. And it was, again, I don't know, with the gray hair sewn into

the mask, does that have a little bit of a ridiculous look? But finally, the Creed's jump Howdy and beat him up and the rest of the Wyatt's jump them and beat them up and they have a fight in the arena and howdy gives Gable his finish

you know one two three and I don't I'm not getting the appeal again you know Rowan looks like something he's the big one with the red beard right yeah he's the one I think a couple people were actually

hanging off him because he's so big yeah look good Well, the girl that's with the creeds jumped on his back and he was walking around beating up the guy without hurting her but just walking with, you know, but he looks like something, I don't, the whole group of, I don't know what the fuck, but I don't see them. The people love when the lights go out and the entrance happens and or the incomprehensible videos play, but I don't know that their matches tear the house down. No, no, no. And Gacy just looks like an independent fuck. Is it too much of an outright tribute act? I mean, you know, I hate to even call it that, but obviously it was his brother,

and he was a part of the creative process with him on these ideas. But it's all, you know, the same way, like AEW, a lot of their stuff, you can't get past punk, they were still referencing it. Not to say you want to get past Bray Wyatt, but I don't know. It doesn't... Well, would it have been something to bring in, Bo Dallas, Uncle Howdy, and then have him slowly introduce a few people

instead of just bringing them all back, all at the same time. And it's hard to get any sympathy on them. They've got everybody outnumbered. I just, I, I, I, I, I, I don't know, I guess the question is, there are people who really like those videos, right? We don't.

But if they had come back and just done promos in the ring, explaining their cause, would they have been less over? Because people were going to listen to what Bo Dallas had to say right now, and if he could say the right thing and not go too long and hold the audience and introduce these people, would that be more effective than these videos actually are? Can they actually tell what the story is and explain it, where people, or is the whole point of the thing that they're just talking about shit that sounds cool, but it doesn't actually apply to anything, or you can't figure out how to put it together,

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And let's get to A.E.W. Dynamite. And then we'll talk about some of the things happening in wrestling. A.W. Dynamite. We've done that. We were done with Raw. W. Aren't we? We are done with Raw. So we're going to get to A.E.

dynamite, which took place from Chicago or Champaign, Illinois, coming out of... Oh, yeah, no. Hey, champagne, not Chicago. Champagne, Illinois is not Chicago. And I've... I don't know

if everybody in Champaign, Illinois was in the building, and they still only had 2,000 people, maybe. They couldn't sell out of men's room of giving away free condoms. Oh, come on. It was a respectable crowd for a Wednesday night in

Oh, come on, the regular crowd shuffles in. There's an old man sitting next to me. Making love to Tony's billions of dollars. How big is that building that they were in and how many people did they have if you're going to make statements like that? Let me find out. Let me find out. Let me find out. It looked like a

piss hole in a snowbank. Let me find out. They had the lights turned out. It looked like they were given the fans of massage. They had the lights turned so low. Uh, the pause, I guess, is you waiting for me to have you. I'm looking. I'm looking. I'm Wait for the answer. You have this shit at your fingertip. According to Russell Ticks, the estimate is 2,053 tickets distributed.

The State Farm Center. Let's look this up. By the way, market-to-market comparison. And you know, you heard what happened afterwards after the TV taping was over with. State Farm told Tony Kahn to find a new neighbor. All right. We stop it. The capacity is 15,500.

15,000 people in 15-5. capacity and 2000 in a building. Hello, Mary Lou. Goodbye, heart. Well, Mr. Jean Pitney? No, that was Ricky Nelson. Who wrote it? Well, that's up for debate.

Gene Pitney. Well, apparently that's not up for debate. Do you like Ricky Nelson? Did he live in a town without pity? Let's take another one of those turns, ladies and gentlemen. A.E.W. Dynamite in Champaign. It's better than... the turn that they took, I think somebody's been back on to champagne because out came

Plummer John Moxley. And I want you to try to, I will tell you what I saw and then you try to tell me what it meant. Moxley comes out to brand new music. It's not wild thing. It's not in any way particularly peppy or easy to dance to. And he walks out his street clothes. He looked like a normal person for once but he was just moping around the, wandering around the arena no wild

thing, nothing to pump people up, the announcers are trying to verbally shit themselves over how unexpected and different this is than we've seen Moxley before and as he wanders into the ring

Tony Chivani gets in and tries to to say something and ends up and say, well, how are you doing, buddy? Everything okay? Like he just found his best friend crying on the couch because his wife left him. How you doing, buddy?

What a surprise. John Moxley's here. He just came in the building. John, what do you have to say? Not, hey, how you doing? Are you okay? What is that? And Moxley stared at him like everybody else because they were dumbfounded

at Tony saying that. But Moxley stared at him. And then, apparently they're saying on Twitter now, I don't know if you've heard this, that he is ripping off a gimmick or a character or apparently even this whole promo from some goofy underground movie from 30 years ago. Well, we have the audio. Well, I wrote down a quote, I'll say this first, when Moxley is looking at Chivani. his story basically is he's been doing a lot of thinking about things

that need to get done and he's looking for somebody to have a conversation with and this man is nothing like me but everything like me and then he says it's Darby Allen and it's about time Darby that you

and I had a talk I won't be hard to find okay they've never had any interaction have these two ever? Can you think of it? I don't recall any, no. And then Moxley stares at Tony and looks at him and says, this is not your company anymore. And Tony Chivani acts stunned,

and the fan's reaction is silence and puzzlement. And you said you had some audio. So can you augment what I've just said, so that we can try to get to the bottom of this, which is apparently where it came from, from somebody's bottom. This was tweeted at us a few times by people. This is from an account called Video Damned,

or video of the damned, and the at is at Video Damned. Wild reference last night by John Moxley on AEW show, the Australian cult classic romper stomper in 1992 channeling Russell Crow's breakthrough performance as Hando. Let me play a little audio.

You'll hear it to go back and forth between Russell Crow in the movie and John Moxley with Tony Chivani. Russell Crow kind of has a John Moxley look in this film as well. I'm going to tell you something. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to tell you something. Okay? I want you to listen to me.

This is not your country. This is not your company anymore. So there it is. What do you think? I think that only AEW could figure out a way to blatantly steal something and steal the worst shit that you could possibly find. And how is this in any way going to apply to anything that John Moxley has anything to do with? or John Moxley's personality or history or whatever the fuck. Or did he just see a cool movie while he was sitting home drinking a bit of the bubbly

and said, oh, I had to do that. That'd be, that'd be, that'd be, that'd be, that'd be, that'd be, that'd be, that'd be, what is it, he says, badass. Bad ass. Dope. Dope. You should always think of the word dope when you think of Moxley. Dope on a rope. Let me ask you this about all this. stuff here with Moxley. Did you, before we go forward, because I know you fast forward through parts at various points, did you see the segment with him later on in the back?

Yes, yes. What was it he did? Help me. I remember. Well, he walked upon two of the security guards. Oh, yes, yes, the security people. And then, oh, his new friend also, yes. I remember that.

Well, I wasn't going to spoil it for the people. Okay. Oh, I just spoil. People have seen it already, but. Oh, it's already spoiled. I just wanted to make sure you saw it. It was left out in the sun a long time before we started talking about it. This is not your company anymore.

No references or insignia on his outfit of the Blackpool Combat Club. A lot of rumors that fans are stirring up or a lot of people at least talking about it so that it was trending a little bit. The idea of this could be the intro of Shane McMahon, leading a stable of, I guess, raw after dark competitors. What was it? What was the Raw Fight Club segment? It was, yes, it was the underground shotgun.

Raw, under the ground. Again, the idea this is not your company, all of a sudden Marina Shafir and Moxley are Moxley's latest MMA themed group or whatever this is. Any thoughts on the idea this could be Shane McMahon entering the picture as, and, you know, is that something to do? The idea of having Shane McMahon doing some kind of invasion angle,

is that the best thing to do for Buzz right now for AEW, if you can get it? Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Well, this doesn't have anything to do with Shane fucking McMahon. And again, it's, I guarantee you, it Moxley watched a fucking movie while he's been off for the last two months doing who knows what with who, who knows where. And that's, and now he's got some brilliant fucking idea of how to translate this from the silver screen to the porcelain throne of AEW. and Shane McMahon is not going to be involved in this. There would be a completely different preamble if Shane was going to be involved,

which he's not going to be. Jesus Christ, people. You know, I thought it was Moxley's best promo because he was serious and it was quick and to the point, even though there was no point, until I realized he was literally doing the exact same word for word. Yes. Performance even. I mean, just the same grabbing Tony Chavis.

the same way. And it wasn't Tony Shavani's company to begin with. Unless Tony's the secret owner. What was Tony's way of saying hello to him? That was so weird. Hey, wait a bit, hold on. I wrote it down. It was, hey, how you doing, buddy?

Everything okay? Like he was talking to a wounded dog. You should have punched him. Yeah, you okay now, Tony? Anyway, let's get over some backstage bullshit. Hang-nail Adam Page versus Ishi. You know I counted, Brian.

Go ahead ask me. How many were there? How many times did they do the forearm? At the bell, they stood in the middle of the ring and exchanged 85 fake forearms that didn't land and neither one sold. Now, I'm not saying there might been a couple of potatoes in there by accident, Just by odds, you have to land something, but this was the most... And then they did 18 chops the same way and went to the commercial break.

What in the actual fucker all these guys thinking? Can't anybody say to them, why are you doing this? It looks like shit. It's phony as fuck. Even if it did look good, you're doing the same shit that everybody else does. What the fuck is the matter with you? Well, the other thing, too, specifically with the men involved in this, and notwithstanding what they did in the promo afterwards,

if you're trying to build up Adam Page, why's he going through multiple commercial breaks with Ishii? 17 minutes! 17 minutes! Just for this match, the entrances and the match, and through two commercial breaks with this, again, odd-looking little man from Japan. And then he beats him with a buckshot lariat.

What the fuck? And then we're not out of the woods yet. Because then now Paige has beaten this fucking guy. And then here comes swerve and nana. And they have a long stare-down, followed by a long discourse, who the fuck is the heel here? What is... Swerve is mad

that Paige got involved in his match at all in but he didn't do anything. Did I miss something? He came over the rail, security, grabbed him kicking and screaming away. He didn't hit anybody, did he? No, I mean, he was fired up, he jumped the rail, they got him away,

and then the next time we saw him, he wrestled for 17 minutes against E. Shee. So Swerve is mad. You got involved in the match. And Swerve is calling Paige a petulant little child, which he is through his temper tantrums.

But they are applauding Swarves Strickland and Channing Swerve's house and agreeing with things he said about Paige, wasn't he just a heel on Saturday? I think technically he's in some bizarre way a heel here, but I'm not sure, but

I thought around this point of time, Adam Page better say something and better really fire up at him, because he's getting his balls cut off. This can't happen again. And I'll let you finish telling him what happened. Well, he

fired up. He screamed at him. You're a piece of shit. You broke into my home. You couldn't beat me on your own three times in a row. You need Nana. Then you needed Nana and Cage. Then this, but he got the fans with him though. That's the

thing. If it ended with the Page promo, yes. It would have been one thing, but he got his balls cut off again. Well, that's the thing. He fired up and with page, a lot of it with the screaming. It's too much because it's like he's trying too hard.

He's having a heel fit, but he got the people with him. And he said he wanted Swerve just one on one. And then Swerve said, oh, so not and only, you want to lock them out? No, he never said those words. That's a very odd thing to say.

Well, in that case, let's have a steel cage match. They just instantly made that leap. Instead of saying, I want to get, let page build it up, I want to get you in a spot where these other stooges can't interfere. but Swerve brought up the cage So I don't know maybe page forgot I don't know what's going on But like you said

If it had ended there But then Swerve went back And started giving a A very calm history lesson Of their issues And then I said You know I went back to your house

And I saw you taking your pregnant wife To the hospital What and he told this story, you can't win anything because you're so focused on me. And it went so long and sounded like a conversation in a library. And then he fucking just, you know, told Paige off again,

like he said, cut his nuts off again. And Paige just walked out without saying anything. Yeah. But that was another eight. minutes of bleh so we had almost a half an hour of hangnail and his various issue with match and promo jeanity christ yeah they had the moment there so he could walk away strong for once and instead he just every time i saw your wife just everything is yeah cuts to the bone and then the baby

face or the heel or whatever he just slunk out just walked away but who is the who is the who Who are we supposed to like? Anyway, I know who you like Jamie Hater versus Harley Cameron. I think Jamie Hatter is very talented, yes. What happened to Ruby Soho? Did she run away? She got pregnant. Oh, that's right.

Who do they suspect? They know, well, I mean, she knows. It's, what's his name? Well, apparently you don't know. Cool hand, Angelo Parker. Oh, good Lord. So they lose one of their top girls from a job guy's insemination process. You'll be nice.

Why are you saying anything? What made you even bring her up here? What is the problem? Because they used to be in the group. What group? Right? They were saying that Jamie Hater was in the thing with, well, it was Jamie and Britt. But Paige was outcast with Ruby.

And Tony. Well, see, all these girls are interconnected in some kind of way. But anyway, the best thing about this match, where there was two things. Number one, the big sign that said Meltzer Fears Cornette across from the hard camera. And number two, it was short. Jamie Hater won with the clothesline. You want to flesh that out, any? There's really no fleshing out.

I like the way, still, it happens again when Jamie Hater comes out. Her hair bounces with her robe. It's kind of nice. but other than that, she's one of the most talented women in the company, so hopefully they do right by her. And, yeah, that's that. Her hair bounces because she uses Prell, gives her extra body. Let's see.

Okay, at 8.51 p.m., I'm going to skip over Jericho speaking to Roddy in a brutally fake fashion. But at 8.51 p.m. here comes MJF. And I'm thinking, how are they going to stretch this to 9 o'clock to get the boost, right? Because they're hauling out the big guns here. So MJF comes out. He's in a suit. He's somber. He's in pain. He says, I've got a headache. My neck hurts. Shut up.

Or I'm going to beat up every single one of you. And I think he could. He had them outnumbered. But he's lost his ring. He's lost his title. He's got two herniated discs in his neck, and none of you had my back. That's what he's. So he denounces his American citizenship, except for Plainview, Long Island. The rest of it sucks.

And he denounced the fans all he's done for them and this company. And, you know, called Osprey a circus act. there wasn't really enough people to make a lot of noise, but he was trying, right? And he said, it's not over with Osprey. And then he switched to Daniel fucking Garcia. And he starts screaming, If you ever show your face and Garcia comes from behind and gets all over him and got a front face lock on him and choked him out.

It's just like it's an insult to the Brooklyn Brawler to say this but if like the Brooklyn Brawler came out and gave Steve Austin a fucking stunner and then he went to pile drive him but dropped him and thought better of it

and took him to the corner and put him on the top turnbuckle and MJF is just having to sell this fucking nobody like he's goddamn death and he puts him on the top and he's going for a super pile driver. And security hits the ring. Did you see Daniel Garcia jump down and fight security?

I did. It was a fight all right. If I'd have been two of those guys, I believe I'd have had words with his son of a bitch in a locker room. There were five security guys. And Garcia was trying to punch each one of them as they came in the ring. the punches for so wild out of the first four

his fist missed the guy's face or head twice and on number five he pated the guy in the face with his forearm trying to throw a punch go back watching the slow motion

I was mesmerized named for the great Anton mesmer are we seeing too many schlobby looking well I shouldn't even say that just clearly indie wrestler security guards on these shows really. Like way too many. And if you go to any goddamn other event in the world,

you either see jacked up security guards or you see elderly security guards or you see some fucking guy that looks like you don't give a shit looking like fucking Jack Albertson and Chico and the man security guy. You don't see these young 22-year-old reasonably fit guys that suddenly know how to be thrown over the top rope. But it's in every segment now. First, never had any of them. Then it's in every

segment, but five of them can get beat up by one woman. And they're always pleading. They always have their hands out. No, no, no, no, please. No. No. What security guard does that? Every security guard that I've ever seen attempting to handle a situation was a little more fucking firm about it. They were almost rude in some cases. But anyway... That wasn't the end of this after they... No, it certainly wasn't because then MJF gets Daniel Garcia from behind and tries to punch him but Garcia

he's on his back and he's covered up he's got his hands over his fucking head you can't hit anything so they all look fake all the fucking guys are doing this the heels try to get heat on you and they're moving and they're flinching and they're covering up

and so they're just windmilling in the direction of the fucking guy if you did that to many of the top heels in the territory days they would grab you hold your spread your fucking hands out and punch you as hard as they could in a goddamn face for covering up on their shit which is a telling them that they're rotten workers and be not giving them an opportunity to do shit that looks good to get their shit over but that's just me and then

MJF gets heat on Garcia and all the five of the security guards took one punch each from Garcia and have been knocked out I know one of them for real, yes I know and then suddenly as MJF is going to fucking

put Garcia up on top or whatever Garcia makes a comeback on him and tries another power driver off the top, and now security and Chris Daniels stop him. And they pull MJF away. And I wish I could say that was the end. But Garcia got the microphone. They're letting him speak.

And he said he pawned the ring for a ticket to London, and he tried to do a promo, he wants to ruin MJF's life, it's his fetish. and he wants MJF at all out, which might be renamed Awful at this point. And he also wants to break MJF's mic, or MJF's mic, MJF's neck, and he threw the mic at him. That would really hurt him if he broke his mic. Broke his mic.

That would be a deadly fatal illness. And there was more pulling apart, and MJF agreed to the match and then left and Garcia runs to the back after him and the security guards follow and as they're going in the tunnel one of them trips over his own feet

and falls flat on his fucking face and almost trips Chris Daniels on the way back and also wait for them to leave yes and did it didda da da da da da da da da da da and they were all done

at exactly 9 p.m. So I'm thinking well what now are they going to start at the top of the hour? But let's go back and think about this. Fuck. MJF and Garcia? Danny fucking Garcia? Isn't that

again booking malpractice trying to use again some of the only guy, or some of the only guy? One of the only guy that's got some value on your whole roster as far as ratings and main event match potential

and you're trying to use him to get a hopeless cause. Oh, if you took a tank of helium and shoved a tube up Garcia's ass, you ain't going to get him over. Not right now. Sorry. What the fuck are they doing here? And the rumor is that maybe he re-signed the contract. WWE was after him, and I hate to do a throwback to this,

and we'll talk more about it later with another contract, but kind of what you said, maybe WVE is offering everything. Oh, Garcia's contract is coming up for renewal. What do we want to offer him? Because fuck, it's monopoly money to us at this point. So what do we want Tony to have to pay to keep him? I'm just telling you. Well, we'll see.

But, you know, I think the problem is they want to elevate him. They need to elevate somebody. He's had time off. He doesn't look like he's picked up. He actually shouldn't say that. He looked at the shoulders were a little bigger. so he picked up a little size, but the promo isn't there, I don't think, and

you know, again, I'm kind of sick of of MJF being used to make other people. And at some point, I mean, he's not Merlin the magician, is all I'm saying. But anyway, speaking of magic tricks, to make people watch this next thing, you would have had to use some type of magic. An eight-man tag team match

pockets and Mark Briscoe and Kyle O'Reilly and Hook against Jericho, Big Bill, Little Brian, and Roddy Strong at 9 o'clock. And they did multiple entrances, Hook, and then Pockets and Briscoe and Kyle and Roddy and the Jericho goofs. I'm thinking they're trying to kill 9 o'clock. And this went through two breaks. And it was every, indie wrestler's wet dream of a match where everybody got to do everything and then hook choked out Roddy for the finish and then they all fought but Taven and Bennett came out and beat up Hook and then security came out. They're having a busy night. They barely had time to get the smelling salts from when Garcia knocked them out with one punch each. What'd you think?

It went forever. Hook got beat up again. You know, I think there are certain people that don't help the show grow, whether fair or not. Jericho's been proven that he's a net negative right now on this show, and it's just so lame, it's awful. Roddy Strong, I think, has, I think people are kind of sick of him. He's been all over this show and, I don't know. I just, an Orange Cassidy, I think everyone's sick of him except for the 2,000 people in Champaign, like that kind of thing, the most devoted. Mark Briscoe's being, you know, and then we said it before. Mark Briscoe does these promos and he's surrounded by all these other random people.

It doesn't help him. It's not like Jimmy Valiant going in there and doing promos with other people. Everyone was over. When Jimmy Valiant showed up in the middle of a Rick Flair promo, Rick Flair was over. They were both over. Mark Briscoe needs to be over because that's a guy who could have a good singles run outside of the Ring of Honor Championship, whatever that means now. But they constantly have him surrounded by Kyle O'Reilly. And Arge Cassidy.

Yeah. Men and women, just anyone. Random multi-man matches, you can't again take anything seriously with the mascot involved. His promos have become the pay-per-view pre-show of Wednesday night. Just get everyone in there. Everyone who needs some time get in there for that promo. And Renee Paquette is just hamming it up and has like six different people.

She has to react to all at once. Just focus on Mark Briscoe. That's a safe shot. every time. But speaking of shots, I think I need one. Some type of inoculation after watching the next segment. Were they bordering on the lewd and the vulgar here

with this Mercedes-Mone segment? Well, again, we criticize her acting and her fake personality, and this was all of that on display and so much more, clearly written by the Emmy Award-winning Jennifer Pepper Day This was awful

Alexander Pepper Day Was that it? I forget what it was But this was awful I remember what this was This was awful So Mercedes is in the back Having a party for herself

Apparently with Camille there And two other random people That we don't know who the fuck they might be And Camille looks fantastic I feel so sorry for her She's stuck in the middle of this shit So there's literally there's a party room set up and there's four people on fucking camera and then

private party come in and say well you can't have a party without private party and one of them tries to hit on her by say I and if this is the way that he talks to women in real life apparently he's never done this before and who are the baby faces here you've got this obnoxious self-inflated important egotistical bitch with her bodyguard and here come these two assholes in and one of them is making all kinds of lewd comments about her red dress would look good on top of him or whatever and then camille gets in that guy's face and shoves him back but here comes oh cody with that random fucking belt he's got. Apparently they pay him millions of dollars a year just to stand around in the back and look stupid, that blank look on his face. He comes in and he's going to take up for fucking Mercedes and faces off with private party and he tells her how to say, bye-bye bitches in Japanese, which apparently is Sionara bitches.

Who are we supposed to like here? What is going just with this segment? Why would any of this be a good idea? Yeah, what a private party thinking? Obviously, with Okada and Mercedes in there, this is the We-Flease Tony party. They don't have contracts like that. What the hell are they doing over there? No, they're lucky to be employed if they are fucking mowing Tony's lawn on Saturdays.

Seriously, we're talking about contracts, Mercedes and Okada. Here they are in the same segment, a terrible... segment, a Vince McMahon WWRWAesque segment. Yeah. That doesn't feel like it belongs in 2024. And these two are making, you know,

more than almost any wrestler in that company. So it's crazy. Well, speaking of crazy, let's see, just real briefly, Maria May decided she wasn't going to do her title celebration in this crummy town. And in the parking garage, the grizzly veterans and the Buccaroos argued with each other.

Oh my God, did you watch this? Yes. Okay, good. And the promo afterwards? Well, afterwards, I've written down Rikishay and Feltcher. Did I miss something afterwards? No, they show the video of the Bucks and the Grizzled young veterans interacting backstage at Wembley, and then they cut to a new promo with the Grizzled young veterans.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes. Where it's... Where they say the same... catchphrase that doesn't sound good twice. Yes, but also, well, that's the least of their problems. First of all, you got the buckaroos.

They're the highest paid tag team in the history of wrestling from what they've said from their own chicken lips, and all they do is show up to natter at people backstage for about a minute and a half and a pre-tape. And secondly,

the grizzly veterans look like goddamn homeless people. If you took a picture of them, their faces, and they weren't in wrestling gear, they're just t-shirts and sweatpants, and you put it on the local 6 o'clock news and said two homeless people arrested for living in a box under the overpass, nobody knew the difference. It wouldn't look out of place. And they're...

Did you get their catchphrase? What was it? I didn't write it down. This is what made me laugh. They say it when they walk away from the bucks, and then they cut to them and, I guess, what's supposed to be real time when they say it again, and it doesn't work either time. If you see us, grit your teeth. That's the worst catchphrase I've ever.

Well, and they did it twice. And that's the thing. It was confusing because there was no real identification of the pre-taped from last week versus the then they're coming back to comment again nevertheless what the fuck right just what the fuck and I get that's so

the Buccaroos can have somebody to beat up from now on I guess is that why they're bringing them in or they're going to work with FTR remember they attacked FTR well that was just that was just to get the Buccaro's attention I'm sure

anyway the main event not the last segment, but the main event of this program was the TV debut, not pay-per-view, but the TV debut of Rick O'Shea and AEW against Kyle Feltcher with his manager Don Fowles. And I've got to say again, Kyle is trying.

You can tell he's put an effort in. Conditioning, his body looks better, his gear is clean, got an outfit, he's trying the new fancier haircut, he's got a tan, he's trying. But they keep beating him. And then didn't he just switch baby face into deal with Osprey and MJF? Just two weeks ago or whatever it was, right? Well, kind of.

He was presented as the baby face, but Don Callis is still his manager. Well, but Don Callis is a baby face. because every time somebody asked to be out of his group, he benevolently agrees. But he also has a screwdriver that he stabs people with. No, he hands it to other people so they can decide whether to stab them or not. So he's an accomplice. But anyway, yeah, I get your point. Okay, so Kyle switched baby face a couple weeks ago, got shit kicked out of him in Osprey's fucking stead.

That's my best friend there, mate. And now he's a heel against the new hot baby face that they've signed for who knows how many millions of dollars, let's just be honest now. Cats out of the bag, Tony's giving these guys a fucking fortune. So Rickashay's a baby face, and now Kyle is a heel with a heel manager,

but he still never wins, and I wrote at the top he's going to get smashed again here because it's Rickashay's TV debut. Well, that was incorrect. Rickishay won this by the skin of his fucking teeth. And again, this one went a while too. Oh, God, yes. And again, both of these things can be true.

Kyle can be a wonderful young talent that you want to bring along and give a little push to, and ricochet can be the big new signing and needs to make a splash on television. Just don't book this match this week. If you can't give ricochet, somebody that he can beat definitively, it is first appearance on television in eight minutes, you're a fucking lunatic. And that should have been the instruction to the guy. Go out there, do some of your shit,

let the guy cut you off, get a little steam on you, make a comeback, beat him with your finish. Give me seven or eight minutes. That's all you needed. Don't make it the main event. It's the first time he's been on television for you. it doesn't have to be the main event. If you want to take care of Kyle,

don't book him with a guy that needs to beat somebody clean and eight fucking minutes. And both guys are in shape. They're both athletic. It was aggressive parkour very quickly. But at least they're crisp with it. It's not the awkward just indie bullshit that they're high-level athletes doing phony wrestling. But I couldn't tell which one they were. pushing.

And finally, Rickusay makes a comeback, and he made his comeback, and then didn't beat him, Felcher took back over. And then there was some more flipping, and then Rickashay hit a dive on the

floor, and then they had to talk to each other, and then the fans were silent, and then Rickash went for a splash, and Kyle raised his boots, and gave Rikoshae a brainbuster and got a two-count. They've changed the goddamn momentum again.

What the fuck at his debut? And then Kyle beat him up some more. And then Rikoschet fought back, hit a Death Valley driver two count. I mean, what the fuck? And then he hit some kind of goddamn move, one, two, three. So I don't know how that they've been allowed to convince themselves that that's the way you debut a new star on television. against a guy who, to my knowledge, has not won a match on television.

Has he? I'm willing to be corrected. Is he won one? Felcher? I don't recall if we've seen him get a pinfall on TV or anything. So then Osprey came out, and he's about to talk when suddenly PAC runs out from behind and gives him a reverse Hurricane Ron a headfirst on the fucking stage and knocks him out

colder than a banker's heart. And then PAC cuts a heel promo and says that Osprey belongs to him so Rickashay should not I don't know who he's telling to do

what to who. Just Rickash should stay out. RICOchet should stay out of the way okay. He wasn't getting in the way. I don't know. But now PAC is partners as the six-man tag team champions

with Claudio and useless who are baby faces because they were wrestling other heels. But PAC is a heel that hates Osprey who's a baby face, whose best friends with Felcher that's a heel, who just got beat by the new baby face

that Pack is telling to stay out of his way. you got that all right well let's uh we still had uh more that was the main event but that was not the final segment on this and no it was we got two more things to happen and you're gonna have to help me on one of them but in the back suddenly we see the plumber moxley still hanging around an hour and a half after we saw him he sees a couple of guys the security guys or whatever sitting there. And I couldn't understand what he mumbled something to them.

And then a girl came in, you saw from the back, and beat them up, these two security guys and another security guard sees her. And comes up, ma'am, you're going to, and gets judo throat. Well, it's

Marina Schaefer. And then just to make sure we know not to take it seriously, another guard runs around and looks up and says, hey, you guys are going to up. Never mind. And turns around and runs away. And then she shoved the cameraman down with the handheld camera.

And it was fake as shit. And then she and Moxley walk out together. So who was the girl in the movie that he's ripping off? I don't know. But it's like he looked at his previous gimmick. It was like, how could I become more badass? Just what we have to beat up security guards with Marina Shafir. They don't know her.

Well, but she's going to have to do some of the lines from the movie, right? Who else is going to join? Where's Dabo Cato? If Shane McMahon's going to be involved in this, we'll know because Dabo Cato will be there. Why did people tie Shane McMahon to the plumber and Marina Schaefer? I think they tied him to the plumber. Well, John Moxley, because of the promo saying this is not your company anymore before they realized he was just stealing.

it from a movie, thinking, you know, it's kind of like Scott Hall showing up on Nitro and saying that things are going to change. Yeah. You know, it's not exactly. Only it's not like that in any way because that drew money. But also... He walked through a full house to get to the ring that night. Yes.

And besides that... He didn't wear green pants. Well, is the guy in the... The guy in the movie, did he take over somebody's company? purchased something? What did he do? What can we expect from this angle based on, well, you've never seen the movie. Folks, if you've seen this rotten fucking outlaw movie that Moxley's trying to steal from now, what was it, Humpty Dumpty? That's what I'm trying to look up, because I remember it was like a shifty wifty or something along. Romper room. Romper Stomper.

Rompter, if you've seen this movie, just tell us what Moxley's going to be doing for an angle for the next couple of months or whatever. If, you know, what did this guy in the movie do? And who is Marina Schaefer playing? Romp or stomper? Let's see what this movie is real quick. Rompers Stomp.

You're going to Google it? It's a 1992 Australian drama film. It tells the story of the exploits and downfall of a neo-Nazi group in blue-collar suburban Melbourne. Oh, well, that'll get over good once they figure out that he's doing a neo-fucking Nazi? What? What? I know what will make me the ultimate

badass. Renee, you're blonde. It'll work. So he's the synopsis continues. Oh, well, that was just the opening the plot. A gang of violent young neo-Nazi skinheads attacked three

Vietnamese Australian teams. teenagers in a tunnel, brutally beating two of them. The gang is led by Hando, that's the Russell Crow character, Handjob, a violent, reckless, and unpredictable psychopath, with strong white nationalist beliefs and homicidal tendencies. Well, there's either something that Moxley imagines himself to be, fantasizes himself to be, all except the, I don't know about the neo-Nazi part, but he fantasizes himself. as violent and badass and tough and homicidal and suicidal and...

With his friend... Pesticidal. His friend and second in command the quiet, reserved but similarly violent, Davy, at their local pub, Hando and Davy meet Gabrielle. Uh-oh! Who suffers from poorly controlled epilepsy.

The day after her sexually abusive, affluent father Martin has her junkie boyfriend arrested. Good Lord, what a... These are Moxley's kind of people. Where is Nick Gage going to pop in sometime soon? Gabrielle begins a romantic relationship with Hando, which despite a strong start quickly becomes dysfunctional as he becomes... You know, I thought those kids were going to make it. Do you want me to go to the end or do you want me to leave it there?

Sure, go to the end. Let me go to the very end. Oh, the morning after, what led to the agitated... Oh, the morning after? What was the night before? Agitated by Gabrielle... criticism of the poor outcome of the robbery and their living conditions, Hando abruptly hits, berates, dumps, and then a vixer.

Davy, unable... Well, fuck, hey, Marina, watch out. That's your future. Davy, unable to tolerate the excess violence and Hando's cruel and unpredictable nature any further, declares his departure from the gang, and gives Gabrielle his German grandmother's address, where he will be able to be. be staying. So you're saying Davey wasn't even there. Gabrielle informs the police of the gang's location and spends the night with Davy,

where they confess their feelings for one another. Davy also reveals his doubts about his violent lifestyle. Okay, I've had enough for reading this, but if this is where we're going, this is not good. And we already saw that they're willing to just take shit out of movies with the Mariah and A, Tony Storm stuff. Why would you take something out of this movie? And what is he going to do the, the, the, neo-Nazi light where he's violent and homicidal and crazy, but just not, he's just not a Nazi.

I'm Neo-Moxley. I am the Neo-Moxley. Tell them, Marina, you're good on the mic. And she would say, I don't know you. Well, listen, these crazy kids, when they're not beating up the people in the back, they obviously may not. be ingesting the best things. Maybe they need some of the right things to ingest, some of the right ingredients, some of the right, what exactly do we say? Some of the right seed, I guess we should say.

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and it was the big main event or the big final segment. The big final segment and it was the new AEW world champion Brian Danielson going to the ring to tumultuous applause from how many people were there in that giant cavernous arena. But he woke him up and they like him and they chant you deserve it and yes and the whole thing

and he starts real baby face and he said you know my daughter said daddy this was the best day of my life when he won the title and then my DVR froze I forgot to record modern family and we were at 10 o'clock and I have no idea because yesterday was Stacy's birthday and I did not seek out the information.

What he said or did after that, can you help fill in the blanks? He kind of said what we thought, what we talked about as an option during the review of the pay-per-view match. He is going to retire as a full-time wrestler. He's right now working without a contract. But he's not going to give up the championship.

So he's going to wrestle until someone actually defeats him for the championship and then he's going to go home to his kids who had such a great time that they still want him to come home as soon as he can. Yeah, it was the greatest day of her life, but don't do that anymore. We both, his day too.

He thinks that it was the best day of his life too. So two members of the family had the same reaction. It both said, all right, it's time to end this. I guess you'll leave on top, very much like Seinfeld or the Beatles. but at that point on the video screen, his next challenger appeared, Jack Perry. Oh, God, damn it. And Jack Perry was giving a very performance-based performance.

I don't know what do you say? A very actory performance, a very, I don't believe you performance, a very, this is ridiculous performance. A very self-aggrandizing, dramatic portrayal of a wrestler, but not actually being one. Yeah, very much like, you know, why Tony are you still doing this? And then while the video is going on, he shows up in the ring behind Danielson and attacks Danielson. Well, we've never seen that before. So that's our next thing for All Out, apparently.

It will be Brian Danielson versus Jack Perry. Bryce on a cracker. Well, and I can't unsee it now, someone wrote that he has T-Rex arms. And I know he's not a big overall, but now I can't unsee it. I can't take him seriously at all. Well, also, a birdie won't, it looks like she's not going to get Daddy home as early as she thought, because Jack Perry ain't winning that title two weeks later.

So, good God. What are your thoughts on, and we've seen examples of it before, or it was supposed to be that way before? I remember Rick Flair and WWF the idea that I'm going to keep wrestling until I lose. Do you think it's a strong thing to use? as a promotional tool, as a booking tool? Well, yet now they're trying to make something out of what everybody already knows to be true, so that's not bad in that Brian Danielson is going to retire at some point imminently,

that he does have a bad neck, that his family wants him to come home, but now he's got the title. So every match theoretically would be important because this could be. it, the jig could be up, but Jack fucking Perry, to start out with, isn't that it's kind of like a fucking gimmie? They wouldn't be that stupid, would they? To do all this just for Jack fucking Perry?

We don't know what direction they're going and past this point, but we're talking about a pay-per-view in two weeks. Now, although the Hangman Adam Page swerve thing has a long backstory, if you were going to do kind of a rush program just to have a pay-per-view main event, Would that justify this? At this point, why risk Danielson's tenuous health for a match that is not going to really sell any extra tickets? Because he really, if it was a work, fine, but he really is kind of fucked up.

So why take any chances just for... I'm sure he wants to have a wonderful match with Jungle Jackoff and elevate him in the eyes of the beholders. And by the way, it may not happen. It shouldn't happen. I don't think it'll happen. But don't think it's too crazy for Tony to put the belt on someone like Jack Perry. He took a beating from Jack Perry. And Jack Perry, nothing ever happened.

That was, he beat up the boss at a company, and that was it. There was no comeuppance. And then he lost war games by someone else giving up for him. The comeuppance may be when they get the year-in financial statement. But so again, I, you know. The world champion is wrestling Jack Perry. The biggest proven ratings draw in the company, MJF, is wrestling Danny Garcia. Yes, you should pick young wrestlers to push them and get them over and put them in main event spots,

but not ones that are obviously for different, but pretty much apparent reasons, not ready for it, or not going to be able to carry the ball if you hand it to them. While you gloss over many over the past five years that maybe could have done something if they had half of a legitimate chance. So it's just... But who's friends with the Buccaroos? Well, that was AEW Dynamite from champagne. Maybe they were drinking the champagne.

But Jim, let's talk about some ratings. As Mama Cornett used to say, they've got a champagne taste and a beer pocketbook. But in this case, it's the other way around. They got the money to buy all the champagne they want, but they're just chugging this cheap beer. All right, hold on while I pull this up because apparently there was an update to the numbers.

Uh-oh, wait a minute. Is it like hotel points now where Tony's able to buy some with his credit card points? I don't think it's that, but we have something here from WrestleMania, an update. Due to a Nielsen reporting error, the viewership data for this episode of Dynamite has been corrected, the error occurred because Warner Brothers' discovery mistakenly designated

that Dynamite ended at 109 p.m. Instead of its actual time of 10.06 p.m. As a result, viewership data for the three minutes of modern family that followed dynamite was incorrectly included in Dynamite's average. The corrected, slightly higher viewership figures are as follows, and Jim AEW Dynamite, August 28th on TBS, 8 to 10.06 p.m. On average, it was watched by 697,000 viewers. Wait a minute, that was corrected upward? It was previously reported at 691. Jeez, oh, Pete. All right. Well, you know, it seems like every year they get in a groove where they do numbers similar pretty much every week, but every year

the beginning number drops one. They used to do 800 and something thousand and the next year they did 7,000 something thousand. Now they're doing 600 and something thousand. But where did we start and where did we wind up?

Well, we'll go to this. This was compiled by Russellnomics. Quarter 1, 8 to 8.15 p.m. The John Moxley live promo, the conglomeration Willow Nightingale hook backstage promo and the start of Tomohiro Eishi versus Hangman Adam Page with picture and picture

765,000 viewers Ouch, okay, they started much lower than normal so this would indicate that they're not going to lose the percentage of their audience they did last week because they're starting at a lower spot to begin with Well, we go to quarter 2, 815, 8.30 p.m. The continuation of E. Shee v. Page with picture and picture ads, and the post match with Swerve Strickland. 712,000 viewers.

Okay, so they only lost 53,000. Last week, it was in triple digits. These people are, they should have sent these people over the Oregon Trail. They're a hardy breed that stuck around for that thing. Well, we continued down that trail into quarter three, 830, and a, B. 8.30 to 8.45 p.m. Hangman Adam Page and Swarves Strickland's live promo continued an ad break, and Jamie Hader versus Harley Cameron, 7606,000 viewers. Oh, that's within, you know, a normal fluctuation, only six more thousand people. They ought to consider that a gift. We're going to add a quarter four, 845 to 9 p.m. The Learning Tree Roderick-strong backstage promo

an ad break, the All-In Recap, and the MJF Daniel Garcia live angle, 687,000 viewers. Oh, and said they, that's what I'm saying,

there's MJF doing his deal, and they put it right behind Jericho and that mess who had run off another 19,000 people. So, and then at 9 o'clock, they go through ridiculous parade of entrances of bleh talent.

Where did they go at 9 o'clock? Up or down? Well, the big 9 o'clock hour, quarter 5, 9 to 9.15 p.m. The ricochet video, Roderick Strong and the Learning Tree versus Hook in the Conglomeration with picture and picture, 698,000 viewers. Okay, so they got 11,000 back at the top of the hour. And that means that so far, for the first time that I can ever remember, we're five quarters in, and MJF has been in the lowest rated quarter because of where he was placed. Well, we go now to quarter six, 915 to 9.30 p.m.

The continuation of that giant match with picture and picture ads. The post-match, with the Undisputed Kingdom, the Mercedes Monet private party, Camille Kazushka Okada backstage party, and an ad break 671,000 viewers. And there went 27,000 after they'd gained 11, and looking at the average,

I believe we're coming up on the edge of a fucking cliff, aren't we? I don't know about a cliff this week, quarter 7, 930 to 9.45 p.m. The Mariah May ramp promo, The Grizzle Young Veterans Young Buck's Backstage Angle, the Grizzled Young Veterans Backstage Promo An ad break

A Konoske Takeshta video And Rikosha versus Kyle Fletcher The Start at least 64,000 viewers Well, not as bad as I thought I'm just trying to look and see what they'd have to do in this last one to make their average And

they might stay steady reveal the secret. Quarter eight, and I remind you there's an overrun, although these overrun numbers may not be exactly accurate based on what I just read, but let's just do the quarter eight here. 940, the quarter eight,

945 to 10 p.m. The continuation of Rickettsay versus Kyle Fletcher with picture and picture adds, the post match with Will Osprey, and PAC, the John Moxley, Marina Shafir backstage angle, and the start of

Brian Danielson Live promo, 683,000 viewers. Good Lord, okay. They actually came back up to where ricochets, the bulk of his debut was only on the third lowest quarter hour of the show, the way they formatted this thing. And for the record, the overrun listed here, which was still a

nine-minute overrun, 10-109, but the show ended at 10.06, so this is not accurate. the Brian Danielson, Jack Perry, live angle, 629,000 viewers. Ouch, that would be hopefully not accurate. It was on the way down there, but that wasn't as far as it actually went for AW. So, taking that out, let's just go to the end of quarter 8. They only lost 82,000 people this week. So it was much more consistent than the last few weeks where they were

down the hill, the slalom. Well, I guess it's the small victories, huh? I mean, you just look for any signs of growth. That's the only thing you're not seeing. You're seeing signs of being able to maintain the base, but you're not seeing signs of growth. But we shall see what happens. That's AEW Dynamite, or at least the ratings of them.

It certainly is and was. Well, Jim, moving on from Dynamite, let's stay on the topic of AEW, because some people have sent this over to us now, and I have here the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer newsletter. This is the, what issue is this? This is the September 1st issue, I believe. Yes, that is indeed what it is. Yes, yes, it's about that time. Another major story of the week was the announcement that swerve Strickland that signed a new deal. Based on what we've been told,

this deal locks him up through September 2029. It was well known that WWE tried to make a play for the Strickland and Prince Nana act. The deal... And by the way, have I ever mentioned I despise when he phrases things like that? Yeah, this act, like it's a vaudeville crew. The deal was reportedly agreed to... Where's the juggling fucking monkeys?

The deal, the AEW deal was reportedly agreed to a few weeks back, but they saved the announcement for here. People were talking about how Swerve has become a rich man with the new deal. and it's believed to be among the biggest deals in pro wrestling although would be well below the Roman reigns Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton level

Oh wow It's probably in the range of the Kazushka Okada and Mercedes Monet range Based on what were hinted about regarding those deals Which are lower numbers than have been reported elsewhere This deal is not at the numbers Puntuation would be his friend

This deal is not at the numbers of what was reported for either of those two deals. The deal and the offer to Daniel Garcia were told to us by someone on the WWE side for Garcia and more than one on Strickland as being bad for the sport because they are so far over what WWE would perceive the market value being for both with the idea he's spending more than he needs to and race. raising salaries. Let's stop there. And Dave does note here correctly,

the reality is WWE can afford anything. What are your thoughts on Swerve's new contract? The purported price range, I guess his value to AEW and how much they do need, whatever they need. And also, is it bad for the business that's different than are they sitting there laughing at how much he's going to offer them?

That's an argument. He's hurting the business because he's raising the salaries of everyone. Well, first things, first, Bravo to swerve for getting the money because you can't feel any empathy or sympathy or any kind of these for Tony at this point when he's just throwing out

these millions of dollars ludicrously. And a swerve is not... I mean, let's face it, Mercedes is embarrassing that she's being paid millions of dollars for whatever she's doing on public, or in public on this program. And, O'Codee, to me is the same thing. It's embarrassing. It's this broken-down, bland, boring fuck is getting millions of dollars when there are guys

in that company that are working their asses off at least. They don't get any help from the office. don't get any help from booking but their talent and they're working, boom. Swerve's not embarrassing. He's working hard. He's trying to do shit.

They just have no direction and there's no creative, cohesive creative. So bless him for getting the money. Having said that, yes, there's a difference between, okay, let's make it offer for so-and-so

and see if Tony'll top it just as sports. and Tony not even topping but just blowing the doors off any other offer because then it does get ridiculous for the pay structure of the business in general not saying that the W.W.E. Pays the guys, the percentage of their income that, or percentage of the gross, I should say, that they should get, that other sports athletes get. That's a different story.

but to just randomly pay millions of dollars for talent that is nowhere near worth that, you know, then you've got guys choosing, am I going to sign with this lunatic asylum for five years and get all this money and retire and never work again? Who gives a shit whether I'm any good or not, whether I do good or whether anything happens, I'll be fine? or is a 25-year-old that thinks I can make big money in this business for 15 years with the WWE if I do it right that's, you know, that's going to be about the only reason not to just go take this sucker's money.

Looking at it from the AEW perspective, not justifying any of the contracts of anyone. Swerve, would you agree that swerve is more valuable than Mercedes-Money and Okada? oh good God, yes. And see, both of these things can be true. He is better, more valuable, has more upside, is younger than, or at least looks younger than O'Cody, and is not anything like Mercedes. But does that mean that if Tony paid him $50 million, would that be worth it just because he's the best of the bunch?

No. and by any metric that you can examine swerve strickland has not added that much revenue to the company and I'm not sure that anybody else would pass that scrutiny on the roster either he just Tony at this point anybody that comes up for renewal he's going to give them more money to stay just because he'll be embarrassed if he loses them. And I think a lot of them know that. And for him, you know, we always talk about how it's a drop in the bucket, specifically when it comes to a big raise or a contract like that,

you know, giving someone a half a million dollar or $750,000 raise, that's not much to him. You know, it's different than, you know, a real company. And that's, you know, despite whatever you think of AEW, it's just different than a real company. He has unlimited capital. He could do whatever the hell he wants. And like you just said, he's got to lock guys up.

Now, Swerve, you could understand. And MJF, you can understand. What about RICOCHAY? How much money did RICOCHAY just get? Yeah. For how many years, five years? For how many years? And how many weeks is it going to be before RICOCHAY is one of the boys,

like everybody else that comes in there and doesn't make a difference in the ratings or the Zabada. and the match quality for those who like that kind of thing, I'm sure will be off the charts and it'll be the same number of people it's watching those matches as it is right now.

And even if they get a star that draws money, they don't draw money in AEW because they're nullified pretty quickly. So millions of dollars to just make sure that every time that one of his existing talent contract comes up, those people are motivated to ask for more money.

The fuck. And again, you can understand swerve, you know, what kind of raise did Daniel Garcia get to keep him from WWE? But again, to keep him from going to NXT, do you think Danny Garcia is going to walk onto the main roster? Did Tony need to, did Tony need to pay him that at all? Did he need to pay him that much? is it, point being, just with what has been reported, if you made a list of who in wrestling

should be amongst the highest earners in the business, not just one company, I don't think Mercedes or Swerve or most of these guys would be there to begin with in terms of what they're producing in the place that they currently work. Well, that was the AEW contract talk, and perhaps, uh, how do I do a good transition here? Perhaps someone wants to sell used gear online. Perhaps some of these people need something to fall back on. Yes. Just in case, because in five years, what happens if, if Daddy Shad yanks a knot in Tony's tail

and Tony the Tiger becomes Tony the timid in three years, are they going to get all paid off? They're going to have AEW to declare bankruptcy? You don't know what's going to go on because you're not in charge, ladies and gentlemen. And I'll tell you what, you got to be in charge of your business. You got to keep on top of your business. And nobody keeps on top of your business better than Shopify, the home of the number one checkout on the planet, the shop pay that boosts conversions up to 50% whatever the hell that means. And most importantly, Brian, way less carts are going abandoned

and way more sales are going... Because, yeah, I've seen it on the news, these abandoned shopping carts in various places around the country. On a windy day, especially, they'll blow right through the parking lot and into the side of your car. It's causing all kinds of damage. You do not want people abandoning these cars.

carts and Shopify will not let them. Whenever they get on your shopping cart there, Shopify instantly performs an internet handcuffing procedure unless they buy something, their computer is frozen. They can't get out of it. That is how they have managed to raise sales 48% in the first quarter. Did you hear about this? I don't know how much any of this is true, and I haven't seen any news reports about shopping carts flying through the parking lot. I don't know where you're seeing that either. Well, yes, but now you've got to admit that it's a good idea that they've got your computer rigged to where if these people try to get out of your cart without buying something, well, they'll just freeze their computer up. And a big sign will come

up on the screen. Shopify says you have to buy something or we won't let you go. And that gets your profits up in a heartbeat, just like that. So if you're into growing your business, folks, your commerce platform better be ready to sell wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling. See how they do that there? Scrolling and strolling. On the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere in between. They're scrolling and a strolling.

Strollin and a scrolling. Stroll. Like that Billy Squire song. I'm spitballing here. That's a Billy Squire song? Stroll. Well, of the stroke. That's not stroll.

The stroll. Now, everybody, have you heard? If you're in business, then a stroll's the word. You want to sell where your customers are strolling. Or if they're scrolling, you get your Shopify going, and your bank roll will be rolling. I'm working on this. Yeah.

This is the Rock Me Tonight. This is more like Rock Me Tonight part of his career. well but you got to do the fancy dance and again folks businesses that sell more sell on shopify did i do that before they like it when i do that so you can upgrade your business and get the the the features of the folks at shopify and all you got to do is go to shopify dot com slash cornet that's a new one now just for the drive-thru here shopify dot com slash cornet all lowercase and you get a $1 a month trial period a dollar a measly you can go roll a bum in a street and take his tin can and get a dollar you shouldn't do that let's not even talk about that leave the bum alone

let's not call him a bum let's give them some dignity god damn it no bums aren't people what bums aren't people they're just out there getting in the way we got to get them out of the way so we can do big business with Shopify. We need to get them in the way of the right track and get them going and maybe they'll start a Shopify store and they can pick their life back up and shave. Time to the railroad track then.

Watch the fucking body parts just fly when the train comes by. No, this is... Come on the right track or the left track. No, how about just the... No, no. And let's tell everyone that... I don't know how to recover this one, folks.

Let's tell everyone Shopify is where you're going to make some money see that's why I do this when I do that it means money and you're not a bum and you will live folks that's what we're trying to say well yeah I'm not a bum and you people out there aren't bums if you were bums you wouldn't be to listen to the podcast because you wouldn't have enough money to have something to listen to it on it's only people that have no money in possessions that are worthless to society we don't say that that's not true it's a matter of what you are inside who you are your character

Well, then find a bum and gut him and turn him inside out and see what he looks like. Leave the bummers alone with Shopify. Leave the bums alone. Folks, right now, go to Shopify.com slash cornet. That's all lowercase to upgrade your selling. Boy, a lot of people in the wrestling business need to do that, too. Integrate Shopify, Chiching, SFX. Oh, that's, that was a stage direction.

I love Lamp. Shopify.com slash cornet a dollar a month how can you beat it it's just impossible all right well it's impossible

to end the show on that note so we're going to get a few questions in here Jim or a few topics at least that people have been sending in I have several different articles here I have one

this from earlier in the weekend I think it's apropos to talk about it because it's a follow-up on something from several years back Uh-oh. Long-term storytelling. I have an article from the Wrestling Observer newsletter website. The headline,

Tessa Blancher details past mental health struggles. Chelsea Green responds. What is Chelsea Green knocking her about her mental health struggles, or what's going on there? I believe in the past, when we talked about the previous issues, not the purported toilet video, but the actual issues that caused Tessa Blancher to be shh. from mainstream women's wrestling in the States. It was a bunch of women coming out,

and it's been a few years. We may recognize the names now. I've got to go back and see. We'll find out in a moment saying that she said racist things, or she did this or she did that. So according to this previously, one of the people was Chelsea Green. You've consistently put down, bullied,

and belittled countless female coworkers, including me. Is that support? because remember it started where she put out some kind of quote that you should also all the ones should support each other women's wrestling yes and then everyone said you're an asshole you're the least supportive person and so she was racist to Chelsea just because poor Chelsea is Canadian well I don't remember if that's how it was uh Allison K another wrestler remember when you spat in a black woman's face and called her the N word in

Japan was that you supporting women the odd Audacity of this tweet. Audacity, all in caps. I remember that one now. Islodon. She's one of the WWE tag team champions, right? Yeah, apparently. As someone who experienced your bullying firsthand,

received regular verbal abuse, was spat on, had rumors spread about me, dealt with multiple attempts by you to blacklist me from other companies, plus more... Jesus Christ. Sorry to laugh at that,

but just plus more guys. Probably. Yeah, plus more. Now with tomato. I just pray you now follow your own advice. Blanchard, who now works a full-time schedule with CMLL in Mexico, says she would not change anything about her career as it made her the wrestler and person she is today. Here's a few quotes. I wouldn't change anything about the peaks, the valleys, the way my career has been. I wouldn't change anything because I'm very proud of the woman that I am now, and the wrestler than I am today and where my career is. Don't you think she would say, but you know, I really wish I could wrestle in the United States

instead of being stuck in Mexico? If anything would have been different, I might be in a different place. I might be a different person. Like the United States. My ego might be through the roof. Who knows? Blanchard said what happened to her in early 2020 led to struggles with her mental health. The quote,

when everything happened to me, it was even a tough topic to even talk about. I remember I was living in Tijuana at the time, and I remember some days I would wake up, I didn't even have the strength to live that day. So I would just go back to bed, and I would be in my bed all day long. There were days where I was tired about life

just because my identity was wrestling. I didn't know who I was without it, and in a matter of less than 24 hours, it was like from here to nothing. From contract offers from the biggest companies, more money than I'd ever seen in my life, to nothing. This whole storyline we had built for eight or nine months

to me begging the TNA office that day, like, I don't want to win it, I don't want to do this. And after I didn't go home, I went on a 20... Wait, you're losing me around the far turn there. She's lost me a little bit about that, but I guess she's talking about, let's stop right there

and get your thoughts on what she's saying here apparently about her mental health struggles dealing with... Well, I was waiting to... Because still nobody has said... She hasn't either said, I didn't do this, it's all a bunch of bullshit what these girls say, or I apologize for doing this. Now, saying she wouldn't change anything

indicates that she doesn't believe she's done anything wrong, but she's not saying that out clearly. She's not saying that clearly. but at the same time she's not saying she didn't do it. What is she saying here? Well, she's not really saying, I think she's saying that she personally felt

after everything fell apart quickly in 24 hours that she felt very, you know, she was obviously very upset about that. Well, yes, well, if somebody is wrongly convicted of crime and goes to prison, they feel rotten about it too, but also if somebody gets caught robbing a bank and goes to prison, they feel rotten about it too. So I want more clarity on is she defending herself or just said, well, I did it then, but I've changed. I don't know what's going on here.

Well, Fightful had tweeted out an article, Tessa Blanchard details personal struggles after TNA title win and TNA release. And Chelsea Green responded to that. I don't wish self-harm or thoughts of suicide on anyone, and I hope she has found peace. However, a simple, I am sorry goes a long way. We haven't heard that yet. Accountability matters, and a redemption tour of interviews won't erase the actions of an egotistical bully. Well, so again, we don't know what happened, but several women had these things, and like you just said, she didn't really say much about either, I'm sorry, or this is all bullshit. And Chelsea Green

came right out and said, you didn't even say, I'm sorry. It's hard for me to say I'm sorry. I just want you to know. After all that we've been through, I'm stuck in Tijuana. Oh, come on. Any other, any closing thoughts on, uh, the point of Tessa Blanchard? I met her one time in Charlotte at one of the fan fest and reunions.

Very pretty attractive girl, very nice to me. I've seen her wrestle on video several times a few years back, and I thought she was probably at least one of, if not the best in-ring female wrestler at the time in the business. It was before Rhea Ripley, but I wasn't comparing anyone to Ria at that point. But something has to be wrong as to why you wouldn't use a talent like that unless everybody else was carrying pitchforks and torches for her. Well, let's go to one last story here today, Jim.

This one broke yesterday, I believe. I have an article here in Variety. Vince McMahon docu series set Netflix premiere date, or sets Netflix premiere date, excuse me. Sticks, Knicks, Hicks, picks. The series titled Mr. McMahon will debut on September 25th and will consist of six one-hour episodes. Oh boy, howdy.

That's a birthday present for me, baby. September 17th is my birthday, but September 25th is going to be a red-letter day. Because remember that Vince McMahon special that we wanted to be something and it was just caca on Vice, yeah. Vice did. It wasn't the Darkside crew. It was Vice just going into business for themselves, apparently.

Brian Solomon was good on. that talking about like the early stuff and then they just you know went off in a whole another direction yeah straight down and we didn't you know they were talking about a movie but that the script for that was so laughable they didn't make that thankfully but this is actually a documentary series we get six hours of it and they're not they're not beholden to vince's whims on Netflix is going to be carrying WW programming, but they don't have to inflate Vince anymore. Now, if this was a hit piece on Nick Con or Ari Emanuel or something,

there might be a problem. But now, what kind of trouble are they going to get in if they fucking tell a little bit more of the truth? It should be fascinating, especially with the interviews that I understand they've done, the length of the interviews and the number of interviews with all kinds of people in and around Vince's periphery for a long time. The thing that worries me is Bill Simmons.

He's done some great stuff, 30 for 30 on ESPN. There are some amazing episodes I love. But he has proven with his wrestling work, specifically the Andre the Giant documentary. He has an in-house wrestling historian, David Shoemaker, I believe is his name. I think he's been on a couple of the A&E's, Edny. Well, he's on any of Bill Simmons's one.

because Bill Simmons is his employer, I believe. But he's an historian who makes things up. He said that Andre the Giant was a touring heel attraction throughout the territories in an Andre the Giant documentary that is categorically false in every sense of the word. So that's the only thing that worries me is, I'm sure they got great interview footage, but you can't have people like that who will just make shit up and don't have any understanding of the history of wrestling.

You can't have that and this kind of thing. This should be, if done right, this should be a major achievement, and there's a story to tell. You got to make sure you don't have people like that. They get a song, they're going to sing, and they're going to sing it. What do you expect of coming out of this? Again, WWE, this is coming out September, WWE's Netflix deal right around the corner.

It's interesting. This is a way to wash your hands of vints right before the deal. They'll be into November before the deal. The series is up and then they debut in January, but I'm hoping again we get a lot more clarity on his early life and the people and his confusing family dynamics and some more element of the early stuff to explain how he was formed and scarred so mentally that he has the piccadillos that he does in business and life. and hating the, you know, the Southern way of life and everything because he was stuck in a trailer park in North Carolina and all that other stuff. Let's see if they can tell us who and why as well as the good stuff. If Vince won't appear, don't you think you should send Bruce in his stead? I don't know if Bruce wants to take a swing at this one.

You know, you can, you can commentate on Vince's reasonings for doing things with specific. civic talent, but when you try to get into psychoanalyzing Vince, if you want him to stay on your side, you don't want to take a swing at that at all. You want to drop out of the batting order on that one, I bet you. Well, we will see what happens. Mr. McMahon, only on Netflix, September 25th, a Netflix documentary series. Now I got to figure out how to watch the Netflix. Oh, come on. You could do that. Stacey's got me on the 2B-TV. T-U-B-I, 2-TV.

They have classic Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, all kinds of old TV shows. Not a lot of new stuff to clutter things up. I like that. All right. Well, we will figure out how to get you there. Perhaps over the years of some of the people

who had a problem with Vince McMahon, if they had had the right lawyer, perhaps they would have been able to get something done. Well, that's right, because if they had a man who would sit a son of a bitch down at a table and question him into tears, then they would have been able to just do all kinds of things. And here's that man that I'm talking about right now. Play the music.

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That's right. Get even with Stephen new lawoffice.com. Jim, we get out of here. Let's try one song. There's a chance this one may not be AI. Well, I swear, is it going to be, is this a real human being or is it Memorex? I'm not exactly sure. But this one is from somebody...

We should have known when that song was so fucking good. Well, this one was, is from some... someone who has sent in a song before, Aaron D. Donato, aka Captain Corum from Wilmington, Delaware. Fellow cult members may remember me better as Captain Scrodom, thanks to your custom brand of fan appreciation. Well, hello, Captain Scrodom. Welcome back to the show.

Hello, it's good to see you still hanging around. All right, let's see. We have two versions of the song here. This one and this one, I don't know what the difference is. The other one's over there. Let's go to this one. This is a cover song for you, a parody cover song. This is a song for Jim.

Yesterday, all my troubles came piling down on top of my head like a big bunch of diary up from a giraffe. I went in to Sherwin Williams. and talk to Sherwin. He had his name right there on his shirt. He happened to be in that day. But his paint friend the same. And I said, do you mean to tell me they have better Sherwin-Lewan Williams paint at Lozen in the Sherwin-William store?

And he said, Hamana, how-ah, how-mana, how-m-m----------- I said that paint's wrong now I long for them. I had such an easy fence to paint Now I need to drive further And I wanted yesterday Because his And I said, do you mean to tell me they have better Shero Williams paint at Lowe's And in the Sher William's store?

And he said, haman, ha hama, hama, hama, I said, Fuck this store And went home without our my pain yesterday. I had such an easy fence to paint. Now I need to drive further away yesterday. Clearly that was AI of the Beatles. I guarantee you that was not artificial intelligence or possibly any other kind of intelligence,

but it was funny as shit. Oh, great job there. Captain Corum, Aaron D. Donato, that is two times. He has sent in a good submission. So keep it up. Great job there. And we're not going to top that. And we know it's a human being.

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