Episode 368
00:02Hello again, friends.And you are our friends and welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett Try-Thru.Right here on another fine professional day.We're going to have a professional show, no laughter, just a serious look at professional wrestling.I'm your host, the great Brian last, and here he is, a man who has been seriously looking at professional wrestling for a very long time, Mr. Jim Cornett.And I'm serious about it, too, and I'll tell you one thing right now.There'll be no laughter.There'll be no merriment, no frivolity.
00:37Everybody, it's winter is coming.You've got to take the heaters out of your cars.We want no joking around, no kidding around.This is going to be a professional environment.Who are the professionals that are coming in to do this thing now?How long do we have to be here before they show up?Are they late?Let me get your professional opinion.
00:55What do you prefer?The usual one?That sound or what I just did here?Well, honestly, that has a little bit more of an evangelical vibe, Brian Lass,and I'll tell you this, that if I was going to stand up at the pulpit,and I was going to preach to the assembled throng,I would want an organ of that kind behind meas I asked the people to lay their hands on their mobile devices
01:27and give us 10% of your income.All right, let me turn off this one,because this is going to make noise throughout the hole.Yeah, it's already making sense.some noise.Well,Yeah, it's your professional program.The professionalism continues here.
01:41Would you like my professional opinion of yourprofessional program?Maybe after the time limit runs out, but rightnow we have a lot of show to do and a lot ofthings to talk about. You're sayingthere's still a chance that this could turn outgood. Yes, there's still a chance.We haven't gone so far deep into it
01:57that there's no turning back or upward.That's right. And we're only a few minutes in,so upward is the only waywe could really go at this point.Well, speaking of upward, when things go up in the air, generally, what goes up must come down, right?That's the way that generally falls bounces.Yeah, gravity.Well, I'll tell you what, did you hear the big news in Louisville, Kentucky this week?
02:19Did you hear about this?Read about this?I did.And unfortunately, when any of these things happen, I always wonder, was Jim near it or was Jim involved in it?No, no, I have no culpability whatsoever, nor any.nearness to this thing. It was a ways down the road from me. It's in the same town.But a food coloring factory exploded. And let me say that actually, if you heard the news headlineexplosion at the food coloring factory, that underplays it. This fucking play, the food coloring factory
02:56blew the fuck up. Just boom up and then down all over the neighborhood. Pieces of food coloringfactory.We're all over,they heard theblast and feltthe shockwaves for a milein every direction and people have blownout windows and
03:14besides the stuffin various degrees ofwholeness layingaround their yards and on top of theirhouses and cars and things.They blew their windows out.This womanhere, her light fixtures came off
03:31the ceilings. It popped screws outthe drywall. I mean,what's a food color?I didn't even know it was there, because honestly,I've lived here muchof my life, but I've never been in the marketfor bulk food coloring.So I never had to go straight to
03:48the factory. The great mudas fucked.Well, yeah, coincidentally,apparently the food coloringindustryis based all out of Switzerland.They got the chocolate and the foodcoloring, because thisIt's a plant.
04:05It's been here for some time in Louisville, Kentucky,but the corporate office was slow to comment on this matter of their fucking plant blow.And I have two people got killed, Lem's sent to the hospital.But they're parent companies in Switzerland.Why would you be a food coloring company in Switzerland and say,I'm going to make this shit in Louisville, Kentucky?Is it that way or is it the other way around?It's an American company that does the majority.
04:33their business in Switzerland.No, this is a, this is not an American company because the name of it, no newscasterin this market has pronounced it to say it twice.Juvenin?Givunin?I don't know what fuck.I don't know what they're speaking over there.But nevertheless, so this play, Blue Up did all kinds of damage and, you know, chaos going on.
04:57It said fatalities.And apparently, one of the, well,current employees, actually ex-employees, there's no place to go to work.But she was interviewed and had footage on her phone of it.She said she had lodged complaints and gone to management and said the shit was breaking down.And there was footage on her phone of just some kind of steam coming out of one of the fucking big boilers in this place.and the neighbors said that they had had an issue last yearwith their houses and cars and fences being covered in dripping food coloring.
05:41It is like nobody did anything.And this is the whole fucking, what are they using in the food colorand it can blow a goddamn factory all over the neighborhood?And why are we ingesting it?It's the commies.Well, that's, you know what?we did the fuckingor who did the beepers
06:01did we do no Israel did the beepersthe greatest strategic hit of all timewell we're we're on their sideso we they did the beepersand now the commies are doing the food coloringwas it red was it redwell what I saw video of it looked likewhen it was dripping from the from last year
06:22it was like orange food coloring all over everyfucking body or everybody'sshit. Everyone was the orangefrom the explosion?It just, it was dripping on thiswoman's fence and it just looked likeorange shit dripping from thelike it landed and began
06:40running.But anyway, soas any of these things happen, my first two thoughtsare, is Jim okay? Is Travis Hekelokay? And every time it'sanything, you're both like, yeah, we're okayand then you laugh about it. Well, I mean,and again, people were injured.
06:55It's not, but it's just so preposterous.of this whole situation thatright under anybody'snose they'vegot this factory that could blow upat any time and there's obviouslythere's the issue of the mayor isvowing to get. He says
07:11they have scheduled to speakto these corporatepeople and they're going to bevery transparentand hopes that the corporate people willas well so they're going to get to the bottom of thisand what they were cooking up there in the goddamnmuda mist section.
07:27You know, Gary Hart warned us.Oh, you know, when you blow the black, brother, the shit's on.And the weather here is frightful.I just want you to know.Also, you have a problem with the weather.You're so dry now they're having wildfires in New Jersey.Is this correct?There are now wildfires on both sides of the country.
07:49It's pretty frightening.Well, in the middle, it's getting soggy.And see, here's the formula you need to go by.I told you about this this summer and now proved it again.You can control the weather.Whatever is most inconvenient for you, if you are cursed such as I am,because remember I said this summer at the beginning of the June,beginning of the June,
08:14I love to sing about the moon and the juna and the springa.At the beginning of June, I planted 15 trees in my front yard,and it didn't rain again for three and a half weeks.I had to be out there with a fucking hose,watering these things, they wouldn't die.And then it would alternatebetween torrential downpoursand damaging winds and thunderstorms.
08:36It would knock the big trees downand periods of two and three weeks of droughtwhere not a sweat off a frog's ballswouldn't drop from the sky.And so then I remember I updated you a couple weeks agothat my tree guy had smartened me upthat I didn't knowthat if you plant trees, a tree, if you plant trees, a tree, multiple trees, whatever,
09:01in a late fall, early winter like this, you get them in the ground, you water them good,and then it's wintertime, and then you don't need to water them again.Because I said, I'd put more trees in, but I couldn't water them all,so we ought to do it now, blah, blah, blah.So I'll have you know the brine that it wasn't even two weeks ago.I put 15 new trees in the backyardand it hasn't stopped fucking raining.It rained two inches yesterday
09:31to go along with the inch and a half the day beforeor was it the other way around.But nevertheless, it's goddamn,it's just fucking raining all over the place.When the trees don't need the rain,the rain comes.That sounds like a Credence Clearwater Revival song.All right, well, until...
09:51So there's...That's the weather.Until Saul Zanz takes us, takes the show away from us.I guess we will continue on.Yeah, I'm sorry, trademark, Saul's Ants.Did you see that the good guys won one?I don't know which, I don't know who you're talking about or what they won.The good guys won one, the Onion bought the Info Wars website at bankruptcy court with
10:16contributions or help from or partnership from or whatever, the Sandy Hook families.And they are putting a gun safety site on InfoWraud.wars asAlex Jones is blubbering and bankrupt.And they own all the old content, right?They own everything.It's not just the website I'm saying it's the content that he created over 20, 30 years, whatever.Well, much of that stuff should have never seen the light of day the first time around,
10:44but they can feel free to use it in debunking him and making mockery of him and whateverthe fuck, you know, I suppose.But also just the irony.And not even in an Alanis-Morissette way, but in a American Heritage Dictionary way, the irony of the, because, yeah, I mean, even remotely removed from normal people's politics or whatever, you've got to be a special championship level flaming asshole to lie about children that got murdered just because some wacky portion.of your audiencedoesn't want to believe it happened.And they took him to courtand he,
11:32if he gets a jobmowing lawns from now,he owes them like a billion dollars.Becausereasonable jurorsin a court said thisfucking slime ball.And he'll be
11:48paying him for the rest of his life.And there was an articlethe other day onwell, I've actuallyclicked on it because it was on Twitter, so I can't remember what the origination was, but it wasa valid place. It didn't just have a tagline. It said news. The rise of this AM talk radiohorseshit led directly to the rise of the belief in all these things that these people believein, whether it be space aliens or whatever. See, one of the things that, you know, because I know
12:24people that were listening to Alex Jones like, geez, at this point maybe 15 years ago.And I watched it a few times and listened to him a few times.Because the way they saw it at first was this guy's so entertaining.You got to watch him just screaming about all this stuff.And then slowly they started to not realize what I realized, which was he's a worker.He's working.Like, he understands who his audience is.And now everything is a work.
12:53and he has to further these thingsbecause this is how he makes his money.The sponsor, or at least the first one that I remember on the showI heard again years ago, was for seeds.You know, the world is coming to an end.You need seeds to plant on the ground and grow your own new nutrient.And the world is still here and whoever has those seeds.Wait a minute, ladies gentlemen,
13:17unlike our oftentimes sponsor seedthat promotes digestive health.Oh yeah, no, it was like a brand of seeds.I don't even know what anything was.Yeah, it was like, plant this shitbecause you're going to need to grow your own garden.Like, it wouldn't be radioactive anyway.Earth's a real promise, or whatever the fuck it was.
13:36I don't know.But that was the whole gimmick was preaching thisapocalyptic view of thingsand just without having any knowledge of really,any deep knowledge beyond the knowledgeanyone who reads the newspaper or watches anything on the right or the left would havejust jumping on crazy shit and riding it because it was content and this was his job he was aworker like a carnival barker like a corrupt evangelist like a professional wrestler it was all
14:07a work and it got so far away as one of those things in my former past i must i'm sorry butwhere do you cross the line between giving people entertainment for $5,which is kind of like shooting a movie and just telling them it's a documentary,and lying about murdered children.Right.See, that's where it completely crosses the line.And then he doubled down and tripled down and he didn't get away from it.And, you know, he started living the gimmick.
14:41And it got him in the end.And it's good that it did.It got him in the end.in the endhe's going to get it from both endsa spit roast of Alex Jonesis happening right nowand so that was a good thing
14:56andthe onionis probably going tobe what the most accurate news sitehere in the next several monthsif everybody else gets cracked down onfor telling the truthanyway it's nice to see
15:15that somebody pays penalties for lying and bullshitting peopleabout stuff that does damage.But you know what doesn't do any damage, Brian last?No, I do not know what that is.It doesn't do any damage to purchase a nice Christmas presentfor the wrestling fan in your life, social circle, business environment,or neighborhood.If you see somebody walking down the street with a wrestling shirt on,
15:42get them something from Jimcornet.com for Christmas.and you'll never get rid of them.And right now, I'll have you knowthat I mentioned this on the previous programThe Experience, but I will let the people in.We've been having these November sales,these weekly sales, where every week from Friday to Friday,another item goes on, say,
16:04for a deep discount as part of Hotchkis Featherbottom's revolutionaryNovember to Remember concept, right?So, I'm giving you a heads up,that we've got a special super duper,not just a week but 10-day sale for the final one,the Midnight Express Action Figure 4-pack collectible box setwith book and certificate and autographed photois going to be on sale at Jimcornett.com.
16:34$40 off from Friday, November 22nd at noonall the way until Tuesday, December 3rd,so we hit Thanksgiving,Friday, Cyber Monday, and Titty Tuesday.I just threw that one in there because I thought that it might incite the people to go to the website,but there are no titties right now at Jim Hornett.com.But hurry for Christmas also, folks, because I'm still, we have caught up.I've signed everything that's been ordered through November 1st, which is like two weeks ago as we sit here.
17:12and over the coming three or four days,I'm going to have that knocked down to November 7th.So we're running a couple weeks behind.If you get this in on this big end of the month's sale,then we're trying desperately to get everything out for you before Christmas.And that's all I got to say about that, Jimcornet.com.All right, Jimcoronet.com.Well, Raw was this week, and I know you watch.
17:37What about Titty Tuesday?Were you wanting to get involved in that until I...Well, unfortunately,we have to go back to Marose Monday because you watched Raw this week,and because of that, we have to talk about Raw this week.But there were a few segments that went viral,one specifically reminiscent of the early days of AEW,and one, just a continuation of this weird kidnapping swerve,
18:00not Swirc Strickland, a classic swerve, I guess.Is that Swir.WWE Raw this past week.They swerve when they write.Yeah, they swerve when they write.Yeah, they swerve when they're.they write the show.Just another
18:16manic Monday.It was very, it was depressing.The people there were happy.But I was on my couchand I was like, oh boy, howdy.Raw on November 11th, from Grand Rapids,Michigan.Just another
18:34garden spot of America hosting Monday NightRaw.And they're making moneyhand over Fiscigan.I said I told you right before we went on the air.I said, we're not going to spend a lot of time on this,because except for the stuff to make fun of,it's not like this wasn't like an unprofessional show.
18:52It looks great.Everybody's a star.The fans again is like they get cue sheets.They see minimal excitement, and they're chanting.And what are they putting in the goddamn soft rakes?Do they have some type of additive, possibly of ICO prothat's left over from the warehouse,they're shooting it in the goddamn
19:15caramel and a Coca-Cola mixesin these buildings, because these peopleare just going out of their mindswatching some people speak to each other.Am I overstating this?Am I being hyperbolic?You're not becauseif you haven't noticed I've been somewhat
19:33dismissive the last several weeks of these raw reviews.Because I don't like the show.It's not... I appreciate how successful they are,And I want to see the big things play out,but there's a whole lot of nothingI have to sit through on Raw.And even some of the talking segments ain't all that.It's like, you know, if you, if when you were a kid
19:53in the territory days, the reason you liked wrestlingand you would be a wrestler, you wanted to just watch this,because they're, oh, these are like superheroes,these are like, you know, badasses.And these are, well, this is wild shit.And now it's like, if you want to be an archaeologist,that's more of the temperament where you're taking one of those boxes with the screen on the bottomand you're taking an hour to sift through some cow shit from 700 AD
20:20to find out if there's a turd in a punch bowl or whatever.That's the patience that you've got to display.But real briefly, before we get to the, I don't know what to call it,the opening promo with Gunther and Damien Priest.it'sGunther walks outand says I'm stillthe world heavyweight champion
20:45and who's my next challengeof Damian Priestand they play Priestthat's all he saidand they play priest musicand he comes the ring and saysif you got to say something about mesay it to my face
20:55so for the next10 minutes or sothat's what they didthey fucking talk to each otherand attemptedin asomewhat half-hearted fashionto provoke each other
21:08but I mean remember whenon a wrestling show Brianan argument could escalate fromzero to 60 at about 45 secondsit usually didand then you'd want to see it play out as soon as you couldtell you know what the arena isbut I understand they got a two-hour show here
21:30and it used to be three but holy mackerelanywayfinally it ended up withhey Gunther you want toa swing at me, take it.And here came Ludwig Kaiser.And he was the most aggressivefucker in this thing because
21:49he was promo and Damian Priest for doubtingthe ring, general.And you need to get out of the ring right nowand save yourself. And he could have promo on him.And Guelther stopped him and started telling him off.And like, don't do this. And thenKaiser said, I'm not.gonna let this street trash talk to you like that and priest knocked Kaiser out and then
22:15Gunther and Priest just had a fucking face off and Gunther got out of the ring and gatheredKaiser up and they left what kind of friend if if some if if some guy and you or have some guyand you is that proper grammar if you and some sounds like a website sounds like a dating websitesome guy and you uh if you and another gentlemanare having an argument, not a violent one, but a disagreement on the street.And a friend of yours comes up and says, I'm not going to let this fat fuck talk to you like that.And the guy decks your friend?Are you, are he's, well, shit.
22:57And now they're illustrating somehow there's some tension between Gunther and Kaiserbecause Gunther is more honorable or he doesn't want Kaiser to be a loud mouth or I don't know.What's going on here?Yeah, what's going to happen?Is Kaiser turning baby face?Is it going to be that they hope the fans eventually won him?They get Guntor and just hit him one time?Well,
23:17because they do have a baby face named Kaiser Wilhelm or whatever his name is.Well, we had a baby face in Texas named Fritz von Erick,so these things can work.But, I mean, not if they continue to portray Kaiser after they were giving him some oomph,and now he just, he gets knocked out with one shot,no rebuttal, and his friend doesn't even take up for him.but anyway, I noticed thatand then
23:42it camethe match whereKofi Kingston was wrestlingButchwho don't want to be called Butch anymoreis too late now that's all we can think ofwe see that moop facePete Dunn
23:58what ishe could play a caveman in a movie with no makeuphe's got an odd featuredfucking face doesn't heI don't know what that means.With the contours of hismuch less the shadow of his smile.An odd featured face.
24:17And it doesn't match his bodywhich is short and squatbut his face is longand there's potentially more roombetween his chin and his fucking top of his headthan there ought to be to make ityou know proportion and correct.I don't know.
24:35I don't know.He's a fucking midget cavemanwith a little Dickensy and impish twist.I don't know what's going on with this fucking guy.I mean, that's the other thing.I know that they make it that he hates Butch.Butch was the better character than the caveman character.Well, we hated the name, Butch, but he, you know, he looked, I don't.
24:54I hated the way he looked like some little kid you would see on the streets of London.That's like selling newspapers or throwing rocks or doing something bad, you know.Or being flipped a crown to go by the biggest Christmas goose in the window.God, this is a fairly smart fucking show, isn't it?For the wrestling genre at least.So, nevertheless, they're having this match,and nobody really cares about the...And Kofi's having the problems with Woods,
25:23who's getting an attitude and has been for a long time.Talk about a slow-cooking fucking goose.But then finally, they do somethingwhere Butch gets on top of Kofiand in the manner of a ground and pound,he starts pounding the shit out of the matnext to Kofi's head in plain sightthe worst I've ever seen
25:49worse than thatat least the uhwell yeah but there was 12 guys in the ringat that time I'm not excusing doing itbut it was harder to see because there was so much more going onbecause they were 12 guys fighting all over the fucking placebut this was a single match there wasn't anything else to shootbecause I saw somebody
26:08on Twitter so what's the cameraman'sfault? What do you wantPete to do? Give him Kofi a concussion?No, just learn to fucking work.Isn't this guy supposed to be this great workerfrom the British Isles or whatever the fuck?How's it the cameraman's fault?He should have, some of these...
26:31Should have shot the suing.Yeah, what the fuck?Well, no, some of these marks, and I do not use that termwith endearment, because they are, the modern marks,think that it's done with camera angles.And that, you know, you've got to expectthat the live show, you're going to be able to see through itbecause they don't hide it with the camera angle, you fucking morons.
26:53We had live shows for 100 fucking years.Nobody did this shit.Point being, he was pounding the shit out of the matand what he was going for,and I don't know what was going through his mind when he was doing it,but what he was going for was he was trying to look like he was bringing his elbowdown at the base of who's he, what's he, Kofi's Neck.And it would look like, and I'm using the air finger quotation marks,
27:27it would look like that he was really hammering the elbow into the back of the guy's neckand he's really stopping himself by punching the mat,but he tried to,he did it like a dozen times,just boom, boom, boom, boom.And the longer he did it,the worse it lookedand the less care
27:47he was taken with it, so by the last couple,he was just punching the mat straight down.And we just had a talk, Brian,on whatever show we did last about guysthrowing a punch,last couple of shows.instead of punching a guy six times in the facewhile you're backing him up to the ropes to shoot him off
28:10and he can run so you can do a big moveand you're talking to him while you're punching himand he's listening to you instead of selling himthat's just cacaand the same thing applies hereif you want it you can'tif you can do something like thisand work at prop where it doesn't look
28:32see-through, then bless you.But instead of doing ita dozen timesin a row, draw back, followthrough, and land it, boom,and let the guy register, draw back,follow through, and land it, boom, let the guyregister. Dick Murdoch was a master at that
28:50where every partof him was involved in something,if he was going to punch you in a face, if hegrabbed your hair with his left hand and bent your headback so your face was exposed,and meantime he's with his right handdrawing back behind him and making a fist so the people can see itand he's crocking his right leg behind him
29:13so that when he leans back you can tell he's really winding up for this thingand when he would throw it boom with one snapright a millimeter in front of your fucking headand if you sold it boomand you would rock and you would go downInstead of this phony-looking bullshit that's just people are just scoffing at or overlooking because you're nobody anyway.So why do they don't care?But which is the better option?
29:43Make people remember one thing you did for positive because it looks so good.Or make people remember the dozen things you did that were so fucking phony.But that was the viral part of the program.And it certainly gave me a little bit of the...rocking pneumonia and the boogie-wogie flu.So he could do all the moves, you know,he can go in there and have a really good match with a,who was it, Tyler Bate, I think, way back we saw those matches.
30:13And he could do all the moves and keep up with all the modern guys,but when someone can't do something like that,is that bad training?Is that just not caring enough about something that should be an important partof a wrestler, of a wrestler's repertoire, the punch?Well, not even a punch, but just your work to not be so see-through.it's not bad training because I'm pretty sure in wrestling schoolthey never covered a spot okay get the guy down on his fucking belly
30:41face down and just starthammering him like you're hammering him with elbows to the base of hisfucking spine over and over they probably never got to that one in wrestling schoolthis was something that he had come up with in his mindhe's trying to be creative not saying he should becast off into the sun on a rocket shipbut goddamn it was embarrassing if you care about the businessbut in his mind he was thinking it will look like
31:10that I'm doing this if I do thisand it didn't remotely but you ought to be able to seeor tell if you have that much experienceif you've been in the ring that longyou ought to be able to cut something like thatI mean when you're when you're being given a big bumpand it looks like shitand somebody's flinging you sometimes when
31:33you're upside down in the air or whatever like that,you can't really tell how it looks.But if you're delivering blows to someone,you should be able to tell how it fucking looks,is what I'm saying.And somebody needs to maybe mention to him,and I bet you they did.Take that one out unless, you know,
31:57workshop it in practice or whatever,but take it out off a television.And see, that's another thing that...Don't work for the...cameras work for the arena?Well, yeah, we'll work for both.See, that's the thing. If you're working forthe arena, the cameras will pick it up.
32:15And you have to, but you knowat the same time that the cameras are closerthan most of people in the arena.And see, that's the thing. On house shows,yeah, don't, you know,don't split the hair right down tothe, to the infinitive and take a chance ongiving a guy a black eye because it needs
32:34to look so good, right? On thehouse shows.These guys are used to working in big buildings in front of a lot of people now.And you can't tell at some distance away.But on television, you need to tighten it up.It's not about the camera angles.That's what the previous production staff under Buckey Beaver was, remember,the camera would cut with every move when it was supposedly landing.
33:03Either that or would zoom in and out.Yes, because that was supposed to either make it look more franticor you wouldn't be able to tell if they missed.And I know some guys, when they started doing that in the early days,they were insulted if they did it in their matches.Like, motherfucker, like, my shit don't look good.You got to cut the camera, let the people see what I'm fucking doing.There was some resentment in some quarters.
33:27But no, the cameramen are not going to cover shit that whiffs and misseswith their camera anglesbecause this is a live actionone taketheater and around productionand they can'tthey plan their camera anglesfor the entrances and the looks
33:49over the shoulders and the guy comes upbehind the other guy that type of thingbut not every goddamn stepof the fucking match that would be impossibleso neverthelesswould you like to go now to whereapparently you're right Brianlast. You are correct, sir. You have called something that is unfolding in front of our eyes,
34:14and it's being denied. That's why we know it's going to happen. You know what I'm talking about?Something to do with the panties? No, we're not talking about that on the air.Bronson Reed and Seth Franklin Rollins. Being added to the war games, number five and number five.you called this before we saw thisprogram the other day, didn't you? Or did you?I said something, but I don't want to take credit for it.Well, I don't know. I can't keep track of the times.All these days are but a blur,
34:49taking away the moments that make up a dull day,frittering and wasting the hours in an offhand way.But at 9 o'clock...Panties.The witching hour. Pandy, what do you have to...Brunson Reed.came out to the ring and did a promoabout Seth.
35:09And if Seth, if you want your revenge,I'm here in the ring right now.My God, again, it's the samepattern as the same thing.Once an hour, somebody comes out to the ring,mentions somebody's name, or calls them out,they instantly appear, and here we go.And the buildings are packed,
35:30and these people are making a fortune.They're printing money.Printing and minting.And here comes Seth, and he hits the ring and they have a fight,and they're going to do the desk thing.But Seth dives on Reed before Reed can splash on Seth,and security comes out for a big pull apart,and Bronson Reed does a dive through the ropes that Seth dodges
35:55and he takes out security like a bowling ball through bowling pins.And here comes Pierce, and we go to the break.and we come back from the break and Rollins, I want Bronson Reed.And Adam Pierce is fine. I'm sick of you, people.Next week, you're going to have Bronson Reed, and he walks off.And then Sammy comes in.And he makes the pitch.He's a very reasonable fellow is Sammy Zane, very calm and level-headed,
36:26and tries to appeal to your better angels.And he tells Seth why that he should be the fifth.guy on their war games teambecause of the family bond betweenSeth and Romannobody else can do thisyou're our fifth guyand Seth says
36:47you're out of your fucking mindI'm going to have nothing to do with RomanRaines or building him back up I don't want todiscuss this any further good day to yousir so now you knowit's going to happen rightyeahyep
37:04I know it's going to happenAnd you know what?Let's talk about it thoughUnder the idea that it's going to happenand Reed and Rollins will be added to the two sides in war gamesAnd we'll talk about the rest of the show or you willIs it the right move?If you need five guys and
37:22You kind of do I mean there have been four on four war gamesBut five on five is really war gamesAre these the right two guys to add to the matchConsidering the kind of feud they've hadwell yes i thinkSeth works because of the roman thingand thethe checkered pass they've had
37:43and reedlooks vaguelySamoan because he's fromAustralia with i assume someislandblood of that type over thereI don't know what all the fucking strains areyou can stop but i don't know
38:03it could be the Andromeda strainbut here's the thingand yes there is because it's a hot anglenow that they're in this thing where it's a hot anglebut I don't I wouldn't have been bothered by four on fourbecause this is the four people rightit's like you're not evenevening up a dinner party by inviting the
38:32a girl for the odd guy or vice versa, you're making it an odd number.There's four members of the original faction and four current members of this factionunless they were going to introduce a fifth member of the heel groupto where the baby faces had to search for someone outside the current party,then I think they could have gone four on four and just kept it,more focused and done something with Seth andand readmore individually.
39:09I know, and I know they've done those,but they're obviously, they're going to do more.And we've heard, like, time after time,there must be two or three times now every few months.They've signed another member of the family.There was Hicolayo, the giant.There's another one of theAnawai family.
39:25I don't know who. There's another fatu out there.And we keep hearing there signing one after another,but we don't see them.up here, so we'll see...Well, but at the same time, you gotta be careful about...Is this Hayman's return?It has to be Hayman's return, right?Why? He escorts these guys at a cage?
39:42No.You don't think so?This is not... I don't think it's a big enough deal.Hmm.I don't...No, and not a multiple person...Or the Rock.The Rock might pop up to, you know, come out and pose or be involved, whatever.
39:58But with...One at a time there, Cowboy, what I'm with Hayman...that's that's some type of major singles match involving romanuh i don't know whether it's royal rumble it might even berussomani they don't need it right now i mean he's still there behind the scenes it'snot like he's been exiled but they don't need him on television because they're stillbuilding wherever this is going but i don't think he would show back up for a10-man war games, whatever the case may be.
40:33And I don't think he'll show back up until somebody does something fairly heinousto Roman Raines to begin with.But that's just me.Speaking of heinous.Oh, go ahead.I was going to say maybe he needs to get on a phone and call Roman Raines with Mint Mobile.Well, you know, that's where Hayman's been, actually.He's on the road right now.
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43:04You've been hanging out with Hotchkiss again, haven't you?Well, he clued me in on it because he used to work for the phone company.Actually, he was one of the people,he was one of the people that came and fucking stuck the polesinto ground. But anyway, so that's what it is.But these towers are big, folks. I'm telling you,they tower over everything. If, if they're not bolted to the groundproperly. They can turn over and take out a swath, a half a mile of downtown. But
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46:13Speaking of any assholeHey, fuck youWell, I was talking about meOh, hey, don't talk about yourself like thatThat's not niceWell, fuck youHey, that's not nice eitherYou know what else wasn't nice
46:26the Ms.Oh, boy.So there's beenthe Carrying Cross and Companysounds like a goddamn jeweler at this point.They kidnappedCome to Cross and Companyfor her on Valentine's Day.
46:47They kidnapped Ms. last week,and we're going to dismember himand do the Reservoir Dogs thing on him.They had just started playingstuck in the middle with you,by Steelers' wheel.They didn't kidnap him.The Wyatt's did.
47:01Or the Wyatt's right.No, the Wyatt's kidnapped him.That's right.That's what I'm trying to say.Well, see, he's scared of theWyat's.That's when Carrion Cross and companysaw Ms. in the back,
47:16he's scared of the Wyattsbecause he's petrifiedbecause they kidnapped him.It's what I'm trying to say.And he's done with this whole thingand he's asking for a leave ofabsence. He's going in.He said, I'm just, apparently
47:30he was mentally impaired bythis, just traumatized.And he wants... Makes two of us.Yeah, all the viewersmakes a couple million of us.And he wouldn't tell Crosswhat happened with the Wyatts and whythey let him go.
47:46And he tells Christ,you just need to move on.So because ofthey have the two fatguys grab theMs. and they're going to take him out into the arenawith the following handheld camera shotwhere they just drag him straight out through the entrance way
48:04and into the arena into the ring.And somehow, and Ms. is begging,no, please, no, please no.But somehow just grabbing himand roughly like giving him the bouncer walkout to the fucking bar doorbecause he's had one too many,they busted his eye open.
48:23his fucking eye by the timehis thing's over with his eyes juiceed downhis fucking his eye lid evenwhich was very close to shityou don't want to be cut open and bleedingdid you I couldn'tI couldn't even see how they did it I tried to seeand did somebody just thumb him in the fucking eye
48:41I'm not sure because I didn't see what it happenedand by the time I noticed that he was bleeding all over the placeyeah I guess you could say thatwell I mean from you knowit wouldn't have been a great juice job if you cut your foreheadbut if somebody is fucking hard-wade your eyelid,it was enough blood to concern me.Like, hey, motherfucker,
49:00so these guys can't look at you sideways, apparently.I don't know.But they busted him openand crosses screaming,where are the Wyets, where are the way,and then the blackout and the piano music.And it wasn't piano man.It was just plink, plink, plank, plank.
49:19And the Wyatt's all come to the ringand have a face off.with Cross and his minions,and the Miz suddenly takes a chair and hits...What's the big Wyatt Harper?Yeah, Lou Carper.Lou Carper.Wait, is that his name?
49:38Is that his name?Or is it...No, I think I was Brody Lee.That was Luke Harper.Oh, God, well, and I...Why did you say that?Yeah, well, because they were partners in the...Right?
49:49Wyatt Six.Who is that guy's name?Rowan.Eric Rowan.The guy with the red beard.Red beard.And they were partners, right?Him and Brody Lee.
50:01So I'm not completely out of my mind.No, just tiny, tiny a little bit.Just a little, just one toke over the line, Brewer and Shipley.So anyway, Ms. takes a chair and just clocks him across the back and knocks him goofy.And Uncle Howdy,laughs about that and they all start fighting.And while all the rest of themare paired off four on four or whatever it was,
50:28Ms. is taking a fucking chairto the big guy, just wearing himout. And I'm what in the world ishappening?And the fans barelycared. They're just sitting therego, what the fuck is happening?And the wets are laid out.
50:44And then crosshugs Ms.And the heels are walking out of the buildingand as all the whites are laying therehad their ass handed to them.Uncle Howdy's still laughingabout it.If I was the rest of these people, I'd have a serioustalk with my uncle howdy.
51:02If my own unclehowdy, who wasAunt Lola's first husband,is always laughingwhen I'm getting a shit kicked out of me.What kind of fucking uncle is he?At leastthey put them all together.
51:21Is this theJimmy Boogie Wogie Man Valiant versus PaulJones's army of 2024.Yeah, of the WWR roster right now.That's exactly what this is, yeah.And other words.But we're at that point where the mightyWilbur has joined the picture.
51:38You know what I mean? Like, it's past,it's due date, this whole thing.I, you know,but that's, so that'swhere we're at now is that, uh,but Paul Ellering is off sellingthe attack that it was,his furniture, his house.
51:55Oh, you're so, God.He's selling his house.He's having a getting out of the business sale.But he's selling the one move that he was given like a month and a half ago.Whatever, I don't know.Otherwise, than that, Seth Franklin reiterated that he is never going to fucking team up with Roman Reigns,but he's also blown Solo offbecause Solo made the pitch
52:28join our team and you can get hold to Romanand saysnext time I'm in the ring with RomanI'm going to stomp him but I will neverteam with you a wannabeRoman Rainesand he walked so you just knowSolo's going to have to do something about that
52:44and then otherwise than thatit was also did the women's tag team titlematch that they promoted through the whole showJade and Bianca versus Liveand Rochelle Rochellethe bell rang with 10 minutes left on the airand they went to a commercial break in that timeso they didn't have time to get from Milan to Minsk
53:06and oh my Godhere came Tiffyand the refrigerator and Tiffy drew the refereeand the refrigerator gave a shitty Samoan drop on the apronthat was one of those things was more devastating in constantand then Rochelle,Rochelle did the elbow drop and Bianca savedand Naomi tackled Tiffy and Liv stopped Naomi
53:34and Jade stopped Livand Bianca hit her finish on Live one, two, threeand then the refrigerator beat up all three of the baby facesbut thankfully E.O. Sky was in the back dressedand for whatever reason because the show was overso I don't know why she hadn't got the hint,she wasn't needed, butshe was there luckily and came down
53:59and made a horrible comebackand all four of the baby facesbeat up the refrigerator.And that was sort of an encapsulationof what the last 10 minutes of the program was like.I like the fact that she went fromRaquel Gonzalez to Raquel Rodriguezto you just calling her Rachel
54:16to now she's Rochelle, Rochelle.Well, it's easier for me to rememberbecause they kept changing it so often.couldn't remember what it was, so now I've just...This way you can't make any mistakes.Well, I guess you can't make any mistakes when nothing happens.That was raw.They're making a fortune.
54:39They're making a fortune.And if you believe what we hear from Dave Meltzer, so is Tony Con.And let's now go to the wonderful world of Tony Con and AEW Dynamite.Who, boy.You know, I may set a record here today.I may be speechless.I don't know what to say.I have voluminous notes.
55:04Part of the reason,the opposite situation from the WWE in every way,they're making money hand over fistand the people are chanting and cheeringand they're going crazy for almost nothing.You cannot, I'm writing this shit downjust to be able to explain what happenedbecause it's so convoluted
55:25involving so many people it runs togetherthat are doing the same.basic things over and over that it's almost impossible to decipher what's going on unlessyou do take voluminous copious notes and and even then you don't really understandyou can convey what happened but trying to you used a word before we went on the air the showis fascinating now because it's in the wrong one.way, but yeah.Well, yeah, it's fascinating to watch this and that they don't, they not only don't have
56:05any idea, apparently what the problem is, but they're doing more of it, of the problem.And it's like he's just letting everybody come up with their own shit and they do it independentof the rest of the show and what may be going on.And I mean, you know, there's multiple vehicular homicide attempts orwhatever the fuck in every segment with different people.How does anything register?It doesn't.That's the problem.
56:35They were in Bridgeport, Connecticut,and that will be important later on, ladies gentlemen.At Bridgeport, when I lived there in the late 90s,up in that area of Connecticut,Bridgeport was not a well-thought-of neighborhood.Remember the opening of Monday Night Raw when they hadthey looked like bombed out buildings and the chain link fences with the dogs barkingand the vicious wild dogs on the other side and all that type of thing on the video of
57:09the open of raw do you remember that of course they shot that in bridgeport without staginganything they just went to fucking bridgeport so now they got this big arena but the peopleI see are still afraid to go out at night apparently either of thatWas this the surliest bunch of fans?They were like, my God, they had come in for shelter from a hurricane or something,and this stuff unfolded in front of them.What we heard directly from people who went there was that the crowd were AEW fanswho were upset with the product and had no problem just shitting on it or sitting there
57:53and being dead.The atmosphere was dead.there were a couple matcheswhere they kind of came up a little bittowards the finishbut we heard it was a dead crowdand it was their and it was their fansit wasn't like you know
58:10interlopers came in and you knowit wasn't our real people it was their fansand they just weren't feeling any of this shitthey weren't smelling what was being cookedin front of them but if Rick Flairhad not gonewhew whitty chopped peoplethe decibel level on this show
58:26would have gone down about 75% wouldn't it?Because that was, in a lot of cases, that's what they had.But it just, it's odd.I'll try to explain what happened, folks,and then maybe you can ascertain or assign a descriptionto this fever dream.The first tag team match was Christian Cage and Hangnail Pageagainst our old friends, Jen and Juice.
58:53We finally got to see Juice wrestle.And boy, he's the only one I'd like to see more of.And they use him like the WWE used to use Kaiser,a complete stooge sidekick who just,you can't take seriously.He's the one they cut off.He's the one they bump around.You see where I'm going with this.
59:17And when they tagged him in this match,he got in and threw five punches and they cut him off.and at this point this is the first match and these guys are they're pushed they've been used rightthe crowd looked like a painting it looked a still life of a eW crowd by whistler's mother or whateverand they got a long set of heat on juice who is not barely established as a baby face andwhen he was a heelthe people kind of liked him because of his lookand his personality and that he was a heel
01:00:01now that he andlight switch or baby facesfor the flimsiest of reasonsthe same appeal is not thereplus he's a flunkyat one pointold Nick Plain and Christian's grouptried to interfere on the floor and hoop just ran up
01:00:22out of the crowd behind himand put him in a chokeand drug him over the railand they fought offand you never saw either one of them again.You didn't even see flashing lights,a police report being filed outside.He never came back in to go,
01:00:38Mama, mama!I saw somebody on Twitter posted thatthe clip of that video and saidwhoever dropped their children off at the arena,please come pick them up,they're disrupting the wrestling show.And when they fought off,by the way,
01:00:54Brian, did you notice they went, here is,Hook is wailing,Hook who came in in a hoodie, right?And he's in street clothes.Nobody would have known who he washad the announcers not identified him.And he's wailing a shit out of Nick,and they're running through the entranceway
01:01:17and the building security.Some old women are just laughingand standing still and kind of smirkingor one of them turned their backlike, oh, don't hit me accidentally as you go bythey're not trying to move out of the 50-year-old fucking womennot trying to move out of the way.Real quick, I'll bring it up here
01:01:40because I've noticed it a lot lately.Maybe, actually, I don't even think it has anything to dowith the dead crowds.I think it's just the way they're doing it.That one security guard, the big guy with the bald head.Yes.You see him in everything.He's running with the heels.
01:01:53He needs to like lay backa little bit, I think.Well, no, because here's the thing, these,here I go again,these indie-minded guys thatthe only experience they've had in their careersand the crowds has been in the rec centersand the indie shows where they, it's, oh, it's such a,
01:02:14a big boost to everything if we fight all over the building.Now that they're working for a fucking billionaireand they're on national television,I am sure that the insuranceyou know what now that I think about itit'd be a tickle to knowif Tony Kahn's insurance companyknows what kind of shit they do out in their crowds
01:02:34but topotentially hopefully eliminateto liabilityof is somebody getting involvedor more likely at this pointsince they have no heatand everybody's laughing at themthem accidentally back in somebody
01:02:51knocking granny's dentures outthey've got to have that guybut here's another ideadon't do all this shitevery fucking showevery segmentthere was one matchthey never got in the ring
01:03:05we're going to get to it in a secondbut thatso they're gonewe'll be back in the arena morehere coming upbut Juicetagged whiteand he made a
01:03:22come back onPage by trading forearms and chops.AndJay White punched Adam Page six times in the headand went to shoot him off and Adam Page reversed it.What were we just talking about here a little while ago?But the heel didn't take one bump for the baby facescomeback and finally Jay White got a leg drag and took him down that way.
01:03:51Adam Page is fucking right.he was a better baby face that he is a heelbecause at least he had a heel to somewhat call a fucking matchbut either that or he just says fuck Jay Whitethis guy's a jobberhe gets the tag he comes inthey trade evenlyand then Jay White punches him and he adds six times
01:04:13and he reverses him and never takes one goddamn bumpfor the guy's comebackso then finallyafter all the momentum was lost.Old Jay White got a couple of DDTs and tagged Juice in,and then the baby faces beat up the heel,two on one with three or four big moveswhile the referee stood and gawked at him.
01:04:39And then Jay White gave a brainbuster to Pageand Juice covered him,and the referee dropped down to, instead of tell it,Jay left on his own instead of the referee said,Jay, you've got to get out of here.He just dropped down and count.And it was a two count.So now you have two heel,
01:04:59two baby faces beating up one heelin front of the fucking refereeand they still can't beat him.And then Paige beat up both of the baby faces by himself.And then they got to the spotwhere Paige and Juice triedto both get on the top ropeso they could do the flying wingy dingy
01:05:19and asit's impossible for both guysto get all their feet on the top ropeand hold on to anything but each otherwhich looks so phony to begin with rightit's just they're trying to teeter totter up therewith this guy that's trying to do them damage oh herelet me let me balance up here to help you so you can fling me
01:05:43off this thing on my headI wouldn't want you to drop me before you kill meand Ju slips offbut not all the wayhe just his feet slippedso he climbed back upinto Paige's armsso Paige could give him
01:06:01the fucking SOSsack of shit slam off the top ropeto countand then they did a back and forthwith all four of them while the refereewhoever he may bewho stood there and stared some moreand then Juice had Cage beat, but Nick's mom drew the referee
01:06:22so that Pip Sabian could hit Juice in the head with the contract case apparatusand he fell into Page's dead eye, one, two, three.So a bad finish was sloppy execution and they beat the only guy that we really are interested in.What are your thoughts in this fiasco?You know, I think there's the problem with AEW.here you have two of the, I guess you could say the top heels in the company, Adam Page andChristian Cage.Not all the wrestlers names rhyme, folks.
01:06:54But you have Adam Page and Christian Cage.Then you have Jay White has been pushed to that level and it really hasn't worked.And Juice Robinson, who, it's that thing where we could say how much we like him over and overagain.After a while, they keep booking him like this and beating him.He's the job guy on the team.You know, after a while, you don't want to see him.anymore.
01:07:16If that's the way they're going to book them.Well, book him, Dan, oh.They're booking him out of the reasons people like him.Yes, exactly.We can't have anybody actually appealing to the audience.Let's, if I can confuse that issue.But, Brian, that was just a prelude to the more insanity that's going to come a lot.We have come now to the time in our program where Tony Kahn needs to hire a
01:07:47construction company.Because the people he's got doing his handy, I can loan him the Monroe's.I'm laying him off early this year because of the impending downturn in the UnitedStates and eventually the global economy, so I'm cutting elective spending.I could give Tony the Monroe's.If he can't find competent construction professionals, did you see the fake wall?I did, but for AEW standards, this was a good.fake wall. We've seen really, really bad ones. I think this was maybe the best of the
01:08:22two, three, four. How many times does this happen? Well, well, I'm, but I see every time theykeep trying to follow my suggestions on how to make it not look so fucking phony, but they still,they're, I'm going to have to give them some more because they've, once again, they've droppedthe ball here. And, well, first off, by the way, let the people know, Renee Moxley-Goodwas in the back with Mercedes, Mone, and Camille.And now, Camille's Christmas goose has been cooked before Thanksgiving.She is dead in the water, as the boys used to say.Because they've completely fucked it up now.
01:09:00Now, Camille has her arm in a sling, but she's still carrying Mercedes's shit,and Mercedes is barking orders at her, and, oh, you dumb shit.And so the whole cool bodyguard thing is dead, the whole fucking.and striking giantathletic woman is now reducedto being a fucking stoogeand the only waythey were ever going to get any value
01:09:27whatsoever out of thisuntalentedshell of a human beingMercedes-Monewas to have some of thisdichotomy with Camille and get her overand they've killed itand
01:09:42Mercedes sent Camilleinto the locker roomYeah, you get on in there and clean my toilet or whatever, I don't know.And then she droned on doing a promo about Chris Stantlander until Stantlander shows up behind her in the hallway.And as Mercedes turns around, she starts yelling for Camille.And Camille comes out and Stalander just runs Camille into the fucking wall without even stopping walking.Just grabbed her a bump and down goes Camille and she's still moving.And she gets a fight with Mercedes.
01:10:21And Camille tries to get back in and help Mercedes,and Stalander tackles Mercedes and Camille through another fake wall.And they tried this time, they shot it tighter,so you couldn't see off the edges,and there was nobody jumping out of the fake room behind it this time,like there was last time.But Brian, for one thing,there was four feet between the studs,
01:10:52and I've done a lot of remodeling projectsover the last few years.18 inches is the law.You got to have a stud every 18 inches.Or in Mercedes case, possibly more often.We don't know, but at least every 18 inches.And they just went through a sheet of drywallthat was four feet fucking.
01:11:12They walled off a hallway.and they shot it tight.But then when they went through the drywall, Brian,how many rooms do you know that only have a wall on one side?Not too many rooms.Because they only went through one sheet of drywall.And you saw the two befores that they put up and they went through,or didn't go through, they went past.
01:11:36But there was no drywall on the other side.And it opened up into a roomthat apparently was four feet wide and eight feet wide.feet long with no furniture in it and a real door on the other end.They just walled up the L curve in a goddamn hallway.Just so they could go through the...What is their fascination with people going through walls?So that was the wall.
01:12:09Just another brick in the wall. Just another prick in the wall.So when I told you off air before that the show's becoming utterly fascinating,this is a great example of itbecause it kind of feels likea little bit of WCW at the enda little bit of TNA at all sorts of pointsbut it has a certain feelingand then everything is wrong
01:12:35just everything here's an examplewe've talked about beforeDiesel Sid Viciousin your caseHercules Hernandez and Big Bubba RogersKiller Kyle too I guess technicallytechnically.You know, we've seen the big bodyguard.
01:12:51We've never seen the Clutz big bodyguard until Camille.That's when I decided to have the Clutz bodyguard character.How many times have we seen Camille grab her arm and yell ow in the last few weeks?About as many times I've grabbed my head and said, ow.And how many weeks of TV did they not, did they just do all these things like in the back one day?or is this something they're doing on the road these segments?I don't know.I expect them next week they'll be putting itching powder in Camille's fucking trunks
01:13:29and, you know, she'll be...It's fascinating.You watch it unfold and you're like, where?Where is this going up?It went right there.It's going to be so, and it's gone.So, but I got to get to the next one.I got to get it.
01:13:46because this was Tony Chivani calls out.Well, doesn't call out.He didn't want to fight.Tony's past the point of fighting,but he introduces to speak to the world,Will Osprey.And, boy, remember when the people were going bat shit?And even a few weeks ago in certain places.
01:14:09And a couple months ago, especially,in Osprey, Osprey.And he came out and they were like, yeah, he's here.he started talking and the crowd didn't care.They started chanting where they were saying,O'le, O'le, O'le, O'le, O'le. And yes, that's the, we know that's the chant from acrossthe pond and it pertains to him, but he was speaking at the time about something thathe wanted them to listen to and they just went into business for themselves.
01:14:41This wasn't on cue. This wasn't at the spot they're trying to incite it at.just, yeah, because he, and he wouldn't shut up and milk it, he just kept going.And he kicked Tony out of the ring, and he called out Kyle Feltcher so they could have a talk,their old friends.And they play the music, and now out comes Kyle, and now he's dressed all in black,and he's got more tattoos on his art.Remember his last new look lasted like six weeks with the boy band blonde hair,and all the colors.
01:15:20And now he looks likea fucking...Randy Orton.He looks like a bootlegRandy Orton now.I don't know.I was thinkingteenage skinhead
01:15:27from Sydney.But, you know...Hey, where can I rent that film?He'll steal it.He'll steal all the material.AndKyle talked his way down the aisle.And as he was getting in the ring
01:15:45and the people were booing,but I don't knowwhether there was the dog.Dominic Mysterio booing, or just booing for real, like, oh, Christ, he's going to talk.But then they couldn't even be serious at the start.When he gets in the ring, Osprey says, well, before, you know, we do anything, I've been inDon Callis's meetings, and I want you to drop whatever's in your back pocket.And Cal pulls a screwdriver out, a neon yellow screwdriver,
01:16:17and dispenses with it.Godd is anybody ever going to actually stab somebody with that fucking thing?Well, it did land in a way that I've never seen anyone.It was like a perfect landing.It stuck right into the ground.Well, yeah, when Osprey flung it down, it stuck into the mat.But again, that illustrates that every time they hit somebody with it,they hit them with the handle.
01:16:44Anyhow, they had a good long talk.did Kyle and Osprey about how they lived together and were great friends and partners andOsprey helped Kyle come there and everything was great but now with what's going on hereKyle you know where where I live you know where I work out you've been to my son's schooland it scares the crap out of me and my wife he's trying to make this fucking teenagetwink sound like Max Cady.And what theI'm scared, bro. I'm scared, you know
01:17:26where the school is. How isit escalated to that point thathe thinks this guy is going to kidnap hischild? Hey, who's that new handyman at the school?The guy with the screwdriver. Oh, no!Oh, it's a Phillips head.And then Kyle tells Osprey, I know you're nevergoing to believe this, Brian, but he said, you didn't do all that for me.
01:17:50You did it for yourself because you were jealous and selfish and you wanted to keep me down.Has that not been the bone of contention of every former friend in AEW land?It's like the AEW form of hazing.It's booking hazing for AEW wrestlers.But now here, I'm going to say something good about it.I'm going to say something good about it here.Hold on.Osprey fired up and he cut a promo on Kyle that...
01:18:22I can't say the promo was good, but he answered him...If this material wasn't shit, his delivery and emotion...might have gotten something over here.But they're still talking about nonsense.Nobody gives a shit, right?And then...But finally, remember I said,somebody needs to produce him for an American audience.
01:18:43Osprey askedKyle said, I've done thisand I've done that, what have you done?And then he said, sawdall ladand people are like,readip, readip, readie, speak American, mate.What do you think the percentage of the peoplein Bridgeport, Connecticut that understood
01:19:02the phrase sawdall lad was?I shan't have a guess you, wanker.I would say five to seven percent of the peoplein that building.and that's a small number.And by the way, if you want to look uphow many people they had in this goddamnairplane hanger
01:19:19because, boy,and it again was a surly bunch.But so now that they're doing,saw it all lad, you haven't done nothing.That's like you haven't done nothing.So Kyle says,I'm going to surpass your every accomplishmentand I want to prove it at full gear.
01:19:42they're challenging for the matchthe shows in 10 days from the fuckingdate of the television programandhe challenges Ospreyand Osprey agrees since he'sMr. Paperviewand then he goes into a story
01:19:58this is going a while friendshe goes into the storythat he was watchingKyle shave his head and have a meltdownwhen he was sitting on the couchholding his son's handbut then he looked down and he realizedthat he couldn't feel his hand
01:20:13and he couldn't feel his son holding his handbecause he was numb.From the Tiger Driver 91,they've always got to say thatas opposed to any other previous year's version,whatever the fuck.And he's going to get back at Kyle for that at full gearbecause he's taken that away from him
01:20:32that he can't feel his son's hand or whatever the fuck.But the point is at least he ended it, right?Oh, no.because Kyle couldn't stop.Kyle could, he had to answer that back,sounding like a pissed off Roddy McDowell.Every bit is physically intimidating too.Cornelius.
01:20:54And he killed the oomph that Osprey hadby making his own statement.And then,and if they've already prefaced this,they didn't trust that either one of them was coming alone.They said, well, I've got friends.Well, I've got friends too.so then Brian Cage and Lance Archer pop in
01:21:13but Osprey's not worried because I've got friends to ithere comes Powerhouse Hobbs and Mark Davishow did Hobbs get stuck with thisfirst he comes back last weekand doesn't even get the attention put on himhe's just an afterthought and nowwhat and Mark Daviscould he look any more like
01:21:39you know, Dan Tuckerjust fucking just a regularfucking sodladand he's a sad ladI'll tell you thatand they got in a big six waybut Davis wouldn't hit Felcher
01:21:59and thenseriously folks this is we're not talking aboutand then after commercial breakthis is all happeningjust on and onWhat a description?This is all happening.This is all happening just one thing after another.
01:22:16All six of these guys fought off and left the arena in seconds,except for Lance Archer,who for some reason didn't feel motivated to leave the ringuntil they started playing Roderick Strong's music.And then Archer goes to the entranceway,so he's going to cut Roderick Strong off when he comes outbecause now they're supposed to havea falls count anywhere match.
01:22:43Do you want to make any comments on,because this, again, we haven't gone to commercial,but this is going to take a dramatic right turn.Do you have any comments on Osprey and Feltcherand their efforts here?Let me just say this isn't the first timein recent weeks at AEW.It's just gone from like one of these big angles
01:22:59into the next match, like as everything's happening.So this is like a new thing for them.I thought there were points of Fletcher and Osprey.where they were actually good.And you had to deal a lot,you had to deal with a lot with that crowdbecause they didn't give a shit.And, you know,
01:23:19I would almost rather them cat-call the wrestlersthan just sit there silently,like they're watching a play.And there were moments it was good,but it went way too long.To the point where you're like,why are you two still talking?And again, this guy almost killed him, you know?
01:23:36He almost killed me. Come out, talk to me.What?Yeah.Let's sit down and go over this point by point.I know you have a screwdriver, take it out.Well, is that a screwdriver in your pocket or did you come to talk to me?And also, you mentioned cat calling, we'll get there.We will get there.
01:23:55Oh, yeah.Oh, yeah.Kool-Aid.My kind of cats.But first, we've got Lance Archer standing at the entryway waiting on Roderick Strong.When Roddy comes out of the tunnel on the other side and wax him in the back with a kendo,stick. And as he did, he waxed him in the back and he slipped on that ramp surface and felldown and then starts after him with the fucking stick. And the corpse referee is out there. So we know
01:24:26it's going to be, this is going to be all the way garbage wrestling. And again, they've been,the other segment they've all fought off and they talked us to death. So now they figure,well, we'll give them action. So the action, so the action,they give us is they fight back through the other entrance tunnel into the backstagewhat one would think is the gorilla area except gorilla's not even there it was just thebackstage area it was pitch black there were no lights on and they were taking bumps butyou couldn't see anything and sock face was calling oh my god a choke slam on the table becausehe was in the meeting.
01:25:08So he was having, for the viewers who can't see the blind viewers,I'm going to narrate for you what's happening.How was he able to see it on his monitor?So finally, after they've done a choke slam and something else,and you can see a little light coming through the curtain,so by the way, they've smartened people up that their two entrance tunnelscompletely meet 10 feet apart in the back.but finally somebody
01:25:38turns like oneyou knowlike one of thosepark hand TV lights or a handheldspotlight on or somethingso you can see part of thisand the crowd in the arenawhich is just on the other side of the curtain
01:25:55and you know they're watching this on the screendeathly silentthey're like what the fuckand then they went to a commercial breakand in picture and picture nowbecause there's noyou know with the commercial breakwith the picture and you've got the audio of the commercial
01:26:15so all you see is the pictureof what's going on in the arenaand theythey fought into the arenaand I say foughtthey made some half-hearted attemptsat fighting in between staggering aroundto move from place to place right
01:26:30and they got a fewtwo counts on the concreteand every time you would see the camerathe fans behind them are laughing at them.And they're holding their phones up,either taking a picture or shooting videoor pointing to the person next to them,go, look at these goofballs.
01:26:48Nobody's even worried about catching a stray back swing.They must think, well, this shit's so phony,I can't possibly be heard.And then when they come back from the breakto the full screenand normal audio,the building is deathly quietLance Archer is up in the camera screaming
01:27:11trying to steal a promoand behind him nothingnothingand that's why rightcan't they all see that they've done thisover and over and nobody caresit's not new anymorethere's a reason why indie wrestling
01:27:30got over with indie crowdsbecause it wasn't on televisionand you saw it twice a year.Am I lying?Well, I think the modern indie fan may go more than two times a year,but there's a difference between the stuff that gets overwith big audiences and the stuff that is micro-booked to a micro-audience.Ring of Viner ran Chicago three times a year if they were lucky.
01:27:59And New York got four.Everything else got fucking two.You know, any kind of indie promotion with a budget,they're not running a market more than a few times a year.What, two, three, four, five, six, maybe.Unless they're drawing a crowd of 150 people,in which case you're not really fighting in a crowd, are you?But it's nonstop.
01:28:25So then suddenly in the middle of this...It's nonstop with people that aren't in a positionwhere you want to see them.Like, Randy Orton and Kevin Owens,to use a modern example, like as of this,moment. If there was a Falls Count Anywhere match, you could understand it because of look at what'shappening in this thing. Yes. Or Bronson Reed and Seth Rollins. Bronson Reed and Seth Rollins.Have we seen a single match between Lance Archer and Roddy Strong ever? So the first time we see
01:28:55them, I guess it's because it's the only way it's believable that Roddy would be able to beatLance Archer. Well, but think about this also. You don't see Falls Count Anywhere matches in theWWE or just constant fighting through the arena in theWWE.They don't want to get sued.And so if it does happen,it stands out.Oh shit.
01:29:18You know, we don't see this.They must be mad.Whatever.This is just, you can't remember all the people that have done this.And then, so they're supposed to be having a match,even if it's falls count anywhere and suddenly Brian Cage comes out and just startsbeating a shit.out of Roddy. And then Taven and Bennett come out and start beating a shit out of Archer and Cage.
01:29:40And again, they were fighting three feet in front of fans who were laughing at him and takingpictures and nobody's scared or backing up, like, give him some room. And then Archer grabs Tavenand Archer, because he's got great balance for a big guy. So he steps up on one of the railings,one of the barricades around the floor area.It's like, what, six inches wide, maybe.But he pulls Taven up and Taven steps up with himand stands there motionless,not trying to get away or to foil the attempts
01:30:19that this madman archer is making to do harm to him.And finally, 14 seconds, I counted.And Archer chokeslams him onto a bunch of security guardswho just ran up thereand then we're never seen again.And then Roddy is fighting Archer again.Now they're back to a matchand Roddy jumps off the rail with a knee lift
01:30:42and covers him on the floor, one, two, three.So now Roddy got his three winsso he's going into the match at full gear with MJFand you would think Adam Colewho has his third match later on.So now they're going to make it a three-waywhere they were saying, well, what the fuck?And they inserted at that point,
01:31:09they inserted, you know,we've been seeing MJF watching,allegedly watching a TV monitorfrom some mansion in Scarsdale somewhere, right?And sipping a glass of wineand reacting to what's going, well, they...Scarsdale.Wherever it may be.
01:31:27We don't know where...It would be on Long Island, I would have to.Yes, it's MJF.His whole thing is...Well, I don't know where that's, well, I know that Scarsdale...The Gold Coast.Scarsdale is where the polo ponies roam free, according to Hayman.But anyway, they insert like a three-second long shot of MJF sitting there in his mansion watching and smiling enigmatically.
01:31:50And it's so obviously doesn't fit the...It looks like Bella Lagosie's scenes in Plan 9 from outer space.Doesn't have any goddamn relation.That's exactly what it is.So, and then Roddy gets on the microphone.It's not over, folks.Roddy gets on the microphone and goes, Max, Max,at full gear, this all ends,
01:32:20and I'm going to finish your ass.And he throws the microphone down,and when he does, there's take a shit from behindand just gloms Roddy and knocks a bejesus out of him.And he gets on Roddy,and starts hammering him.But Adam Cole's music plays.And Adam Cole comes out and takes his jacket off
01:32:40and starts walking to the ring.I'm like, motherfucker, I hope nobody comes to save me like that.But when Adam Cole slides in,the referee already had Roddy on the floor.And now Adam Cole and take a shit.Started trading forearms.And another referee slid inand called for the bell to start another.
01:33:02match.Jesus Christ, it won't end.It will not end.They're not giving anybody a chance to think about anything.Who said I know how we'll stop the viewers from leaving?We'll have nothing end.It's like a Monty Python thing, or it's Mr.show, I guess, a better example.
01:33:21One thing goes right into the next.Well, and they went right into the next thing.Punches and forearms that looked like shit,and nobody sold any of them.And then for whatever reason, old take just staggered backwards to the rope and stood there,holding on the top rope, waiting about five seconds for Adam Cole to close line him overbackwards.And they're still playing Adam's music as this fight is going on.
01:33:48And so as Take a Shed has taken the bump,Adam Cole gets to do his boom thing and then his circle and Babeay.And then they resume the match.And I think we're only 45 minutes into this show.and this thing, it's like, my God.And thentheir break spot wastake, just knocking Cole
01:34:11senseless with a big punch andstanding on his face with one foot.They went to the break, but whenthey came back, Adam Cole was in control.And they fucked up a blue thunder bomband the paceslowed down and the people are justdead
01:34:29andlot of fake forearms from Adam Cole, which to be to his credit take didn't sell but but he wouldthrow one at Adam Cole and it'd knock him down and out and groveling I've never seen such goddamnineffective baby faces and again but then you can't Adam Cole he can he can be knocked down with onehalf-hearted forearm but then take a shit.foils the Panama Sunrise,hits some kind of reverse stylesclash thing, and a
01:35:08wheelbarrow suplex and aclothesline, and gets atwo count on him. But thenhe's killing Adam, he's just beatinga shit out of Adam Coleuntil finallyCole hits the super kick and the Panamasunrise
01:35:25and take rolls out to the floorand reaches under the ring and pulls the diamondring out from under the apron of the ring.wouldn't you think that he might have thoughtan easier place to put a goddamn ringis in your trunks?How did he know he was going to get the opportunityto go under the anyway?
01:35:46So this is where they doanother one of these finishesthat just buries everybody involved.Adam Cole sees take a shitthere on the floor right next to the ringhe's going to walk past the refereeto get to him when he walks past the refereehe slightly shoves the ref
01:36:04and the refereewalks all the way across the ringin the other direction and does doubleand triple takes back and forthobviously not lookingbehind him until take a shitnails Adam Cole with the ringand rolls in and covers him
01:36:21one two threeso now it's notRoddyand Adam Coleversus MJF it's RoderickStrong versus MJF, which again, the fans actually got more behind Roddy in this earlier thanthey did, Adam Cole here.Yeah, they weren't behind Adam Cole at all.
01:36:45No, the whole thing is uninteresting and death warmed over.But just, if JF is going to be on a paper view and he's wrestling Roderick Strong the waythat he has been presented in this sense.Well, the other thing is, one of the few things I think right now would cause the AW fans torevolt would be the idea of Takeshita taking a pin from Adam Cole.Because everyone sees what everyone sees.Then don't book the match.I completely agree. Don't book this feud. Let's go a step further.
01:37:14It's that MJF's coming back from apparently making an Adam Sandler film,so there'll be some money behind that thing,to wrestle Roddy Strong? I'm sure it'll be a great match.But MJF better not do a job to Roddy Strong,and then if Roddy Strong is just going to be wrestling a great matchwith someone he's going to lose to,and it's apparent that's what it is,I don't know.
01:37:36Well, but it's not over.It ain't over, Brian.This is still going on.Because now that they've establishedthat it's Roddy versus MJF,they get a shot of MJF back at the mansion,and he's laughing.And then Roderick Strong attacks
01:37:56take a shitand starts wailing on himand take turns out of him,and Take turns around and kicks him right in the balls.And down he goes.And then Take puts the ring back onand goes to hit Roddy,but here comes Kyle O'Reilly
01:38:10and chases him out with a chair.And Take goes to the entrancewaywhere he can be safe,except here comes Ricochet.What is happening?Ricochet super kicks Takeand Take goes ass over T-Cept.and jumps up and runs off and leaves his belt behind.
01:38:32What is his title again?Is that the continental classic?That's a good question.Or the North American or the...Is it the international?International.Whatever belt he's got, he left it and Rickashay picked it upand started to hold it up,
01:38:50but they cut the camera back to the ringwhere Kyle was helping Roddy upand dusted him off,but Adam Cole offered to shake hands with Kyle O'Rour.And Kyle wouldn't take it and left the ring.And he announced they're going, look at these three back in the ring.You know what this means?Yeah, it means what you kind of should have done at the start.
01:39:10It's too late now.And that was, again, another, how many people were involved in that?Depends on when you want to say the start was.You tell them, is the start of that whole thing, the Osprey promo?I did.That was the start of it, wasn't it?It was the Osprey promo with Fletcher into the run.Roddy Strong versus Lance Archer match,
01:39:34which went right into Adam ColverStakesha. It's Mr. Show with Bob and David.One thing right into the next.Well, it was 9 o'clock on the East Coast.All of that had happened in the first hour.So they've apparently never heardof the old saying,less is more.
01:39:55And by the way, all throughout the night, they're advertising,or advertising, they're mentioning,you know, Mox takes over,Superstation TBS.Yes.Which sounds like a real badtakeover if everyone knows about itand they're advertising it in an event.
01:40:08It was like, the NWO's taking overtonight.Intelligence ferreted out the information.But speaking of the takeover, by the way,Les is more, and you, you've heard that old saying.Here lies Lester Moore,shot in the chest by a 44, no less, no more.I have not heard that, no.
01:40:29Well, in the back at 9 o'clock, Renee Moxley Good was talking to the Hurt Syndicate and the MVP said,where did you get your journalism degree? And then he put Bobby Lashley over and interviewed him by himself and et cetera.It's the only thing you can pretty much count on, their segment. And they're kind of mocking the amateur cast of community theater participants they're being surrounded with.but anyway then they go to the entrancewaydangerous place to be here tonightand suddenly a fat gray-haired job guyit looked like he was 50 years oldhe looked like john hitchcock ran parts unknown
01:41:13the comic store in greensboro he still runs itwell he doesn't look that way anymore no john's five or ten years older than thisguy now well maybe a few years more than that this guy's a wrestlerdidn't he wasn't very active herehe was just getting a shit kicked out.They threw him out the tunnel,and here comes Claudio and Wheeler Useless,and they're beating him with a chair.
01:41:36And then the music starts for the death riders.And the music is playing in the arena,but the entrance video is on the screen,and two members are beating up a job guyfor no reason with a chair on the entrancewaywhen the camera cuts to the curtainat one of the breezewaysand you can see around the curtain
01:41:59where Marina Schaefer's elbowthey're just standing there waiting for the queuestock still and suddenlythe queue comes and here comesthe plumber out of the curtain and Schaeferbehind himand every single one of them are dressedlike they're ready to go out and do yard work
01:42:15and as they come to the ring and they get in the ringthe fans are sitting there talking to each otherthe people next to themand it doesn't get any betterbecause even if anybody was going to buy this Moxley promo businesshe's talking about Orange Cassidyand somebody again needs to give them thethe brutal but fair tough love talking to
01:42:47that just because Tony's fascinated with this clowndoesn't mean that anybody wants to see him in meaningful main event shitespecially after all this timewe've seen what there is to seebut Moxley is cutting a promo on himas it's like anybody would careand he's going to make an exampleof Orange Cassidy
01:43:10he's going to brutalize him and mutilate himand the fans are basically groaningwhen he says that and then the guythe room is so quietit's likeI don't know it's like maybeIt's a FFA convention, the future farmers of America for you people up in New Jersey.And there's a speaker that they're not particularly interested in,
01:43:35so they're kind of murmuring to each other slowly, but they're lowly rather,but they're not making any noise that they can make on purpose.And suddenly one guy yells, go back to Roman.And you get it, it was like, out of boy, Luther.it was like it was put into the goddamn soundtrack on purpose.It was perfect.I couldn't.And then so they're cat calling the baddest man on the planet.
01:44:12And then Pockets his music plays.And here he comes.And he comes out to the entranceway, the company mascot,followed by poor Mark Briscoe and Rocky Ramon.uh or rocky no rocky romero i'm sorry don't disparage rocky romano like well no they're so close and and then rocky raccoon was out in the car with the motor running and i swear to god they are now letting the fucking mascot talk and he cut one of the most lackluster promos ever in the wrestling business the delivery it's the delivery hey hey uh hey jim yeah it's uh good to see you hereand I guess we're going to wrestle.I guess there'll be a match.I guess so.
01:45:02Yeah.What is that?He sounded like Ned Nebbish at a fantasy camp for wrestling.It's one of the fans, gets to come out on the set and cut a wrestling promo, but this guy is some kind of fucking CPA that's, you know, only had sex with his right hand, and he just doesn't have any personality.That's his personality.That's his gimmick that he's chosen for himself.Can you imagine what it would be like to try to talk to this motherfucker in personif that's the way he acts on television?
01:45:35Well, do remember.And never forget.Never forget.At one point when there was some communication between,at one point word got back to us that Tony Kahn wanted it to be known to you thatif you would just talk to Jim, you would love him.Not you being Jim, but him being Jim, Orange Cassidy.If you would just talk to him, you would love him.
01:45:58Yeah.Hey, I understand you have a collection stuff.Oh, yeah, wow.If they would put him somewhere where he can only communicate via phoneand not be on television that I might like him better.But anyway, so he answers Moxley that he's going to stand up for all that's right in the world.and also challenged useless for next week on TVand made some chess references.
01:46:32And Moxley answered him by saying on November 23rd,Abandon All Hope.Like this guy is goddamn, you know,Mephistopheles himself.Queen takes battleship.And then they played music and they left.And I was like, wait a minute,that was taken over TBS.
01:46:52it's a live in-ring promowhen they beat up a gray-haired fat job guy.But then...I remember what Gene O'Kerland used to take over TBS like this.Yes, and you had to call the hotline to find out why.But then as the heels are leaving,Darby Allen appears on the top of the bleachersover the breezeway and dives off onto the heels
01:47:13and everybody gets in a fight and Moxley runs off.And then the camera goes to the back of the buildingand Moxley and Marina Schaeferget in the truck.But neither one of them apparently thought to get in the driver's seat.Claudio has to drive.So Claudio jumps in and they're pulling out without a wheeler.But then Darby comes running from the side as the truck is moving and dives into the back
01:47:40of the pickup truck.So Claudio stops it and gets out and they get in a fight and Claudio big swings Darbyinto a garage door and jumps.back in the truck and then Wheelerruns and jumps into the truck just in time and the heelspulled out.Jesus Christ!What in the...
01:48:06They think somehow that somebodysomewhere is going to be interested in what happens between PlummerMoxley and Pockets.And the only people that even knowthe one guy exists on the planet arealready watching this show and they're going to be the last ones to leave.Because if you're a fan of Orange Cassidy, A, your standards are very low and B, you're one ofthe diehard, indie rific wrestling fans that are going to watch an outlaw mud show above
01:48:42anything else till the bitter end. And that's what the end of this show will be is bitter.Brian, your comments on this unfolding situation.This was the big thing. It was like a classic.MSG show, the main event right in the middle of the show.Mox takes over TBS.If you tuned in to see that,the way it was Bill, you're disappointed.If you tuned in to hear
01:49:07Moxley finally explain anything,you were disappointed.No PAC.Did he go home again?I don't know where PAC was.Maybe he missed the truck on the way down,like Wheeler missed it on the way back.I guess, or maybe he was driving.
01:49:25That's a great way to write off someone who's not there that week.Oh, he's behind the wheel.No, I was Claudio, because Claudio had to stop the truck to get out to fight the fuckingrat, chase the cat.This whole thing is fucking awful.It's death.That's why the death riders, it's death.We're going to ride death straight to death.
01:49:44You know what?They misspelled it.It's death writers.Is that what it is?They are riding the death of the, they better be glad they got some guaranteed money.You know what their TV show has becomethe world's biggest budgeted fair show?When you sold a fucking fair show
01:50:04to the county fair board,you guaranteed the money you knew exactly how much you were going to getand you could just go and have fun and jack offand didn't have to try to sell any tickets.It was all up to them.This is going to really be big when Omega and the Bucksreturned to save AEW from Moxley and the crewthat isn't over.
01:50:25We heard from people there.It was flat.That was the word use, flat.The crowd didn't give a shit.I don't know if it was this match or match.This segment or somewhere else,but the fans were chanting OTC during this show.You asked about the attendance earlier.
01:50:44Yes, I did, didn't I?As of the morning of the show, Wednesday, November 13th,according to Russell Ticks, 2,643 tickets distributed,their last time in the market, November 16, 2022 for dynamite, 3,141.At that time, we're distributed.Well, and again, that's distributed.And I'm starting to wonder, because a lot of these people aren't reacting in some of these locations,like they've got a lot of skin in the game.
01:51:15I'd like to know at some point what they're actually selling to peoplethat are coming intentionally to try to have a good time.and the people that are coming to do whatever they're coming to do.And maybe just get some rest, get a good night's sleep since it's so quiet in the building.Well, that's right.And, of course, this was only about halfway or a little more than halfway through dynamite.But for a lot of people, in certain parts of the country and the world, it was time for sleep.And you need a good mattress for a good night's sleep.
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01:56:41slash JCPWell, there's a dot-com in the middle there, but I guess that goes without saying.All right, we continue on with this fun dynamite review.Of course, that was the main part of the show, but it's both uphill and downhill from here.Well, that wasn't even the main part of the show.We've still got some big stuff to go now, because they're still going to break some more rules.We had an intermission.Britt Baker wrestled Penelope Pitstop.
01:57:14Remember when Britt Baker was all.over.You could hear a mouse pissing on cottonduring this match, and it was 10 minutes longbell to bell.And then nobodygot beat up afterwards, but whenBritt Baker won, then
01:57:32Serena Deeb came out carrying her flagto the entranceway, and they stared at each other.So there was some involvement here. And wheredid Deanna Parazo go?She was drinking wine in somesegment the last time I saw her. Serenagot a flag.She was, but Deanna
01:57:49Parrazo was everywhere and I just rememberedshe suddenly disappeared and Serenahas been gone but now she's backbut anyway.But again, to my steady criticism of the women'sdivision that I think people need tolook past that they don't want to hear itand pay attention,
01:58:07no one gets better working under thesekind of conditions.These women are not going to get betterat doing this.wrestling in front of a crowd thatacts like they don't want to see the match.They would rather see their mother hooked up to a machine.They don't react.
01:58:24That's a negative audience reaction.If you're the bathroom break match every time,if you're the cause of the ratings going down every time,if people don't react at all.I mean, it's frighteningly silent.And then you talk to people there and they're like,oh, yeah, it was really awkward.There's a problem.
01:58:44There's a problem.Women's wrestling has a place,but just jamming it into these showswhere no one's over alreadyis not helping anything.Because it's not like Brick Baker's fucking Charlotte Flairor even Mercedes-Money,like she doesn't have like a track record
01:59:04of being able to work matches in the ring.Like she's had a few matches like,you know, the wild brawls that people kind of liked.But she also got hurt a lot.She doesn't seem to know a lot of the basics.She needs work, too, but they just throw everyone out there for 10 minutes.In front of a crowd that doesn't give a shit.But that wasn't the women's segment that made more people comment or interact or whatever on the social interwebs.
01:59:36It was the interview that followed this presentation with, again, the only interviewer, apparently they have now,Rene Moxley Goodwho at some pointanybody could just come up to her and saywhat the fuck is your husband talking aboutHey Tonyfire herthis guy's so out of control
02:00:00why are you rewarding him by hiring his wifefire herlet's even the playing field a little bitbut maybe he's told Tonyhey I gotta get away from this lunaticplease let me keep my jobI don't have any control over himI don't know what he's fucking talking about
02:00:14just let me keep my check so I can get a little apartment over in Newportbut anyway Renee was in the backwith old Mitsu Erikawa who wasdressed in aoh thank God you saw this segment well yes yes I had toI was gonna fast forward it but when I saw some of what was fast forwarding I had toback it up and see how they got to that pointMina Shirakawa she deserves to have her name said
02:00:44Oh, this microphone just fell down.Maybe Shirokawa.She deserves it.Say her name.Apparently your boom is drooping over there.It's a new mic.She's wearing a tight top that accentuates her bosom.You got the cleavage out there, and she does a promo that I couldn't understand.
02:01:08And then Harley Cameron popped in and grabbed me.Mitsu Eriawa's champagne glass and drank her champagneand then apparently choked on it.I don't fucking know what.She put the glass in her mouth and took the big swing.She put the whole glass in her mouth.Yes.Well, some people can put five ping pong balls in their mouth.
02:01:32But she put the whole glass in and turned it back and choked herself.Anyway, then she spoke and she is, she's not acting like Tony Storm now.it's even farther over the top than that.It's like she was doing Agnes Moorhead in a stage play.Well, she was never acting like Tony Storm.Well, it's the overacting.She's acting on you and all the excentuation and the...Well, no, clearly Harley Cameron wants to be a comedic performer.
02:02:06Well, whatever, she's never done that before,but suddenly she's doing that.And she wants to fight...Mitsu on collisiontit for titrack them upand may the breast woman winand then they boast
02:02:22Now for the record that was therethat was what they saidnot what you saidThat's a quoteShe said I want to fight you on collisiontit for titrack them up and may the breast woman winand then they're standing on either side of
02:02:37Renee and they both start shaking their titsfrom side to side in their cleavage revealing apparelin a dueling tit-shaking frenzy.Which Mina won, because Mina's are natural,so they have a natural swing.Oh, good Lord.So I give the title to Mina.New world champion.
02:03:01What does this have to do with the goddamn wrestling show?And if they're going to do that,we can watch Showtime,and they don't have to have a top on.Wouldn't that be more entertaining?I was watching this live and I couldn't, you know, it's one of those things.Again, I'm fascinated.I can't look away, but I could recognize, you know, just like Gene O'Kerlin talking to
02:03:23like Chuck Palumbo or something.Like, this is not like, this is WCW at the end kind of stuff.But when they both started shaking their tits to the camera and they call them tits,so I'm going to call them tits.Yes.Was tits not or tit or tits?I don't know if it's plural, not one of the seven.seven deadly words.
02:03:41So the seven words you can't say on television,you can say it now, apparently.Well, again, they start shaking their tits to the camera,and it goes on for a little while.Like, there's like a, Renee stops talking,so then it's just shaking.Both women, like, competing against each other,shaking for the camera.
02:04:00This is what AEW has become.Is this the progressive...Hey, it's honest.It's honest.It's the most honest.women's stuff in wrestling right now if you want to be fair about it what happened to the women'sequality and the women's revolution and mercedes moan helped propel the women to it so now shecould work for the company where they have tit shaked titty shaking contest going on and and if somebody
02:04:28said on twitter if the w w e had done that these people be all over them and and again rightfully sobecause it's i don't care if it's demeaning to women it's stupid to wrestling but they did itWhat?So you want to go on to the next match?I do, but I'm curious to see what happens with that match.Did it happen?I don't even know.Did it happen yet?
02:04:56Where does it happen?It's on collision.Oh, boy.Great.They haven't collided yet.Apparently, is collision going to become the Titty Show where they have the Tittyface?Hey, listen, you want the ratings to go up?
02:05:10Be honest about it and make it the Titty Show.And then what about when the one?girl comes out and she's president of theItty Bitty Titty Committee, does she get sympathybecause the other girl can easily bounce her around with herpneumatic protuberances? See, now you've taken it a step too far.This is why you can't be a part of the writing teamover at Big Titty Wrestling.
02:05:29Well, I'll tell you what, there's a lot of,there's over a million stories in the Big Titty,and this is just one of them.Well, let's get from Titsomania back to A.W. Dynamite.Do you like boobs a lot, boobs, like, boobs, like?So swerve Stricklandwith hisI would say manager, even friend
02:05:50but now I'm not surethe way they presented him here, Prince Nana,against Leo Rush.Can I say something?Please do.This was a star-making performancefor Leo Rush.I watched this and I'm like,
02:06:03Leo Rush is fucking amazing.This swerve guy sucks.Leo Rush rules.What a performance.This matchwas the best match on the showwhich makes it the worst match on the showbecause it killed off swerp fucking Strickland
02:06:25he is they are just they're wiping their feet on himand Nanaand for one Leo Rush a baby face two weeks agowe saw him do something sometimeI want to say yeah I don't remember what he did but I think he was a babyface. I think you're right. Did he wrestle Shelton? That's right. That's what it was. Yes. And we saidthis was an exemplary match because Shelton gave him a few openings because he's a quick littlething. He's not quick. He's sudden, as Gordon Soli would say. And then he manhandled him because
02:07:00he's twice his size and he beat him convincingly. And it was a great piece of business. That's right. Now Leogot his heat back against Swar's Strickland. Well, I was about it. So two weeks ago, Leo was a baby face.And now he comes out and he's a fucking healing and swervewho is going to be wrestling Bobby Lashleyon pay-per-view coming up in 10 days.And he's going to have a warm-up match on TVagainst a guy that would need a stepstoolto clear a speed bump.
02:07:36And Leo Rush kicked the shit out of swerve Stricklandfor a long, long time.they had fake promos on this show fake matches fake walls fake bookingswerve couldn't handle leo leo leo like you said it looked like the one they were pushingand the fans got into it yes but we'll never see leo again or if we do is somebody will beathim next week but when lashley gets a hold of a guy who can't beat a sixth graderI fear for Swerve's safetyAnd again the fans were into it
02:08:16Because it was so preposterousThey started wanting LeoTo fucking winAnd finally Swerve gave himSome kind of fucked up moveOne two threeAfter and that wasEverything that he had in him
02:08:32To beat Leo RushIs there nobody there to produce this guyI would have fired Swerve strictlyfor letting Leo Rush do that match.But again, what the fuckwill Lashley doto this poor fellow?And in Swerve gets on
02:08:52the microphone and cuts apromoandcalled the town of Bridgeport, Connecticut,Stanford, Connecticut.Right here in Stanford, Connecticut.And they let him hear it.The people booed to shit out of him.
02:09:10and then he called out Bobby Lashleyand here comes MVP and Bobby Lashley out in suitsand Lashley is a gianthe's Andrenext to this rosterand MVP is trying to ask himif he wants a fight just ask meand he's starting to cut a promo but the fans are still chanting
02:09:35this is Bridgeportand they're not listening toMVP, did swerve, was he trying to, was he trying to do some kind of inside shoot interview,or did he really believe they were in Stanford, which is 20 or 30 miles at a completelydifferent city?Yeah, is it one of those things where he thinks like Stanford's the big city and theyjust associate with the bigger city that's nearby?I would think he'd be able to tell when there ain't no goddamn giant sports arena in
02:10:06Stanford like the one he's in in Bridgeport.Well, they made up for it for the rest of it.that a night they made sure to say Bridgeport over and over and over again.Oh my God.So anyway, the fans aren't listed in the MVP because they're cat calling the baby face for notknowing the name of their fucking town.And I mean, it's a comedy of errors on this show.And then Bobby takes his jacket off and MVP says, well, Bobby's ready to fight, but swerve,
02:10:32you ought to learn their strength and numbers.And Shelton's in the ring from behind any level swerve.And then again, Nana.had to stand in the corner and do nothing.He's just stood in the turnbuckles, backed up, scared.He's a baby face now.And two weeks ago, or however long ago,you did a promo where he said, I used to be a wrestler.
02:10:58Yes, well, that don't look fucking particularly accurate either at this point.Because Bobby then is beaten up swerve on the floor,Shelton has just backed Nonna in the cornerand Nana's doing that kind ofdon't hurt me type of thing and Shelton's juststanding there.If you're going to be a baby facemanager, yes, the idea
02:11:22is the heel manageris a coward and a chicken shitand can't whip anybodyand is physically ineffectualunless he's got aweapon or a club or he's behindthe guy or whatever.When you become a baby face
02:11:38you have to change slightlythe psychology in thatmaybe the heel should say if you punch themor you kick them or they should sell you a little bit morethan they would have if you were a heelbut you're still not a badass or an ass kickerbut you have to tryyour guys are your friends
02:11:59and you have as a grown adult manyou have to try to do something and failbut at least you tried to stop the abuse of youryour guy.And when they're walking through thisor they're talking over it or they're in some kind offinish meeting or however they're doingthings over there
02:12:18I can't understand whyNana doesn't bring it up and I can't understandwhy the producers, if they exist, don'tbring it up. Let himtry to do something, be wipedout, take a bump and sell it. But thenyou have made the peoplefeel somewhat sorry for Nana
02:12:35because at least he tried. Nowit looks like Nana is aa coward and doesn't give a shit about swerve enough to even take a swingat a guy that's kicking a shit out of him.And then at one point,they got Bobby back in the ring.Nana started to just get out and leave and leave his guy thereand MVP grabbed him and pulled him back in and choked him with the cane
02:12:58because MVP realizes what it's like to be a manager.And he's trying to help, keep him occupied, give him something.And there are MVP's an exception to the rule.that a former wrestlerwho becomes a managerdoesn't have to becompletely physicallyineffectual because they've seen
02:13:19that he can take care of himself and he can do shitbut even thatwhen that former wrestleris a heelhe is still not able toone-on-one kick the shitout of the baby-face wrestler but hecan certainly
02:13:35use a gimmick on a baby-facemanager. There's a pecking organization. There's a peckingorder here that makes sense. You don't buryanybody. Or the fanssay, well, fuck Nana.He won't even try to help.So thenSheldon and Bobby beat up
02:13:53swerve and Bobby hurtlocked himand put him out.And while the heel isputting the baby face outwith the goddamn hurtlock, the fans arechanting Bridgeport, Bridgeport.And finally,Lashley did grab Nana
02:14:11and they scheduled him apparently to take a bump,and he ran him through the turnbuckles to the floor,and it was kind of an odd bump.He got hung a little bit on one foot,but it looked awkward,but in a painful way.But in the meantime,they scheduled that the manager bump in this instance
02:14:35doesn't come last.You do that,and then you put the main event for,ex-world champion baby face out with the fuck of your finish hold and that's the point you leavewith it just everything's backwards and upside down and and they're cheering the heels and booingthe baby faces and chanting the name of their town while the baby face is getting you knowprison sodomized and that was almost and that was almost YouTube ofso I commend you for that, sir.
02:15:15Well, thank you.Leo Rush is a star.I always say he's one of my favorite guys.He shows up and then he disappearslike those classic guys when you were a tape trader.Like, oh, any footage I can get to this guy.He's never around too long.That's him.
02:15:31And he can do promos and he can get heatand he can work an entertaining matchthat makes sense for a little guy.And Swarbooks like shit again.Yeah.Nana is like a non entityHe's like Paul Ellering is a managerHe's a nonentant
02:15:46No Elering took a bumpI shouldn't sayYeahWell anywayYeahI mean the fans still thinkBobby Lashley's a starYou just got to get more fans
02:15:57Into these buildingsAndYou know if theyIf you get people inIf you're giving out free ticketsTo peopleTo sell them on your productAnd then this is
02:16:07Overall show widetaping wide, what you give them,don't be surprised by the reaction you're getting.You know, normally these days, with the world the way it is,people come into an arena, they go through a metal detector.Do you think they ought to have somebody checking the AEW crowdfor rotten vegetables?We're getting to that point.
02:16:29Another 20-minute Osprey FletcherShakespearean scene.I lived with you.You know when my child goes to school.What?What's he going to do to your kid?You know that...Or the school!
02:16:44Except for the fact that Osprey mentioned his wife,the same verbiage could have been usedthrough that whole promo for a romantic relationship gone wrong.Well...But anyway, yes...That was dynamite, I was going to say.No, no, it wasn't.We're not done yet.
02:17:02Oh, really?Because remember the mini-movie?Oh!But Julia Hart!Yeah, I did see that.I was fast-forwarding through a break,and I thought this was a commercialand about halfway through it,
02:17:13I again recognized it was Julia Hart,so I went back.And they're doing a promowith Jamie Haterand suddenly it cuts off just in mid-sentenceand then a video of Julia Hart in bed.Unfortunately, she was dressed,but she wakes up and there's blood on her shirt.
02:17:37And then the phone rings beside the bed.And she picks it up.That was the front cover of Please Kill Me, the blood over the chest like that.Please kill me.What is that?The book, the famous fantastic oral history of punk.Oh, I thought it was actually just Please Kill Meso I don't have to watch the rest of this TV show.
02:17:57Oh, no, no, that's different.Well, she sits up in bed and she answers the phone,which is an old-fashioned rotary dial phone,and a voice says, Julia, it's time to come home.and she says, Brody?I guess it's Brody King.But then she sees that the phone court is cut,and there's no way that somebody could have called her,
02:18:21and she hangs up real scared.Now, this is reminiscent of one of thosebad teen horror movies from the late 70scalled Don't Answer the Phone,about the babysitters in the house,and the phone calls start coming.Don't Answer the Phone was also knownis don't see the movie.
02:18:41Because it was rotten.Well, sheruns into the bathroomand looks in the mirrorand screams and talks to herselfand a red lightcomes on from behind herbehind a door and she opens
02:18:57the door and someonehands her her hatand it goes to black.Do all of these eggheadsthink that they're the next Tarantinoand just because they can do all this fuckinghigh-deaf video quality shit with their phonemeans that it also is content is good too?
02:19:22What the fuck is this horseshit?I don't like it. I never like it, no matter what company does it,and this specifically is just ridiculous.It's a scene.And every time you think the House of the Black,the House of Black gets passed themselves enoughto kind of work.Like they've been on the show
02:19:43and haven't done anything too spooky.Then this?Then this just happens to be a cameraman,the fearless cameraman, back again.And this...Well, hey, I wouldn't be scared of being in JuliaHearts bedroom while she was asleep in bedin the dark.
02:19:59If she had blood on her, I might, you know...She had blood over her heart, like someone stabbed her in the chest.What the hell was going on there?Well, I'd be more than happy to suck the poison out.because that was the photo it's a photo of the band the heartbreakersand it was supposed to be that their heart like explodedthat was the photo what age group group group what age group i don't knowage grief what age group would you have to be to know what you just said because i've
02:20:25never heard of any of this that book was a was a very good selleri don't think so was a goddamn house of the seven gables at 1872 or whateverbut how many who would be the audience that would know thisreference, this obscure reference.I think we have a big audience. Or do they want anybody toknow it? They want people to think they invented it.Well, no, I don't think they want anyone to recognizethe influence of where it came from, but
02:20:48I'm just bringing it up to you becauseI'm here to inform you.Because you know. Because I know.And knowing is half the battle.So then, speaking of half the battle,we get Malachi Black and Brody Kingin a tag team match withoutBuddy Matthews. They were
02:21:07referred to as the Kingof the Black throne.So has theHouse of Blackopened a subsidiaryto where they're all in the House of Blackbut these two are the Kings of the Black throneor are they just changing that whole gimmick?
02:21:24I think they've done this beforewhen these two team up, that's their name.But they're still members of that.They honor the House of Blackwith their...Well, they honored us with their presencein the main event against FTRwith private parties.
02:21:41watching in the entranceway.Remember when FTR's entrancesbrought the house down?People heard the music and they poppedand they stood up and they really cheered for these guysbecause they had great matcheswith the Briscoe brothersand with gin and juice,
02:21:58the best tag team match on televisionof modern times andthey just outper, they were with punk,they were outperforming everybody.He had something.And then that got botched,like everything else.And now they wander out.
02:22:15And the house,the entrance used to bring the house downand this entrance brought the house down.And it had already flatlined to begin with.He used to bring the house down.There used to be a house.Well, yeah, there was something erect for you to.But nevertheless, so the winner of this match
02:22:39is going to face private party and the outrunners.and some other team that they're going to determine later onin a four-way at the pay-per-view to determine who gets a shot at the Puppet de-T-Pae.So, again, FTR, most talented in-ring wrestlers on the show,they've been booked into oblivion,and they were out there doing arm-dragsand having a wrestling match after the fans had seen 17 attempted murdersand a couple of episodes of aggravated mayhem.
02:23:13and then they went to a break.Again, every facet of this program.It just something is off from the fake walls to the booking, to the talent, to the...They went to break at two minutes until 10 o'clock.So when 10 o'clock came in and people theoretically would tune in for the next programand they have an overrun they try to get a bounce off of,the people had tuned in at 10 o'clock saw a commercialwith a picture and picture box
02:23:44of some kind of random wrestling with no audio.They couldn't havegone to breaktwo minutes earlier, one minute earlier?When we go over the ratings,let's see what 10 o'clock did.And then they came backand Malachi black tagged
02:24:05Brody King, and Brody Kingmade what looked like a comeback.And I'm saying, who are the fucking heels here?And then Brody King islike they cloned every fat tattooed indie guy in the businessand he's doing all the same movesand so finally I fast forward at about five minutesbecause at this I couldn't take it anymore
02:24:27this whole showfinally the finish was FTR Spike PiledroveMalachi Black on the apron of the ringbut then Brody King dove through the ropes on both of themhe closed line Dax and got a two countclose lined him again and got a two-countgot a two count.So then he just grabbed him in the sleeper
02:24:48and choked him out standing up.God damn it.Can the finish just get any worse?And then Malachi Black, the guy thathad just been spike pile driven on the apronof the ring, got up and walked into the ringto get his hand raised while the two guys who gave himthe pile driver were laying there up flat of their fucking ass.
02:25:10And thenwho I thought was the heelspull FTR up to their feetand they all shake handsand that was the end of the processso we saw mayhem and carnagefor two hours and ten minutesand then finally at the end of the thing
02:25:30they just beat these guys as flat as you can beat anybodyand thenkindly pull them up and shake their handswhatI'm over the showBrianwrap it up.Hey, listen, it's a bad show.
02:25:49And this was quite the choice of finish here.I guess they want to get the Kings of the Black Throne overto that next level, that private party level.I'm not exactly sure.But, yeah, an FTR have lost all their luster.And it was predictable, but it happened.And, you know, the tag team division remains what it has been.But this show continues to travel down some kind of weird pathway
02:26:23to where everybody just gets to do their ownthey're all making their own movie in their head.But instead of trying to convince people that they're mad at somebodyand they're going to have a fight,they're all actors, they're all cinematographers,they're all directors, they're all performers,and Artisand...
02:26:46With a friendly finance...Financier...A friendly financier.A friendly financier.A friendly fiancé?Financier?And I mean, it's just...It's Drek.
02:26:57There's nobody to stop them and say,what the fuck are you people doing over here?And again, all of the...All of the people are...They're all jealous because they're making so much moneybecause Uncle Dave says they're going to make $250 million.I'm not saying they're...they're not getting paid for the show.
02:27:15I'm saying the show is not any fucking good.And it's going to get worse if they don't do something.Yeah, the last thing you want is the story to become,well, they got all this money for that deal,and the ratings keep going down.There's no audience.McDonald's is worth $40 billion,and they make a fucking fortune.
02:27:37Go try to eat one of their chicken nuggets.Is it any good?Fuck no.You don't like chicken McNuggets?not anymore i don't all of the fast food places have gone to hell but you finding a goodmcdonalds is like trying to find fucking good booking in the middle of a w dynamite they're fewand far between these days it depends on your individual franchisee and who they hire as themanager because there's a wide range as a matter of fact do you know where the best wendy's
02:28:07restaurant in the united states of america used to be located uh somewhere in kentucky let me guessMiddlesboro, Kentucky.I never would have guessed.Right on Highway 23 as you're going from Tennessee across the Kentucky state lineis on the left-hand side, and I would starve myself until I could get there if I knewI was going past that.It was the best Wendy's, the most efficient drive-through, the hottest food, the most incredibleservice, everything was perfect.
02:28:40Middlesbrough and think how many Wendy's I've done.and think how many Wendy's I've been toall across the country.What was it?What was it that, what was the intangibleor intangibles that made it?I think that they founda manager there at that location
02:28:55that decided he was going to be the next Dave Thomasand he just went the extra mile.And they even had, they had,oh, and when Wendy's, this was1992, three, four, five, that era,when they just had regular plain buns,this place had the big puffy bakery bunsthat held all of the triple cheese
02:29:17goodness in even betterso you could eat it in the car easierand they were always toasted just righttriple cheese extra cheese mayonnaisepickle onion large fryand a big old spriteright there in Middlesboro that would get you on to thehow far was that from you
02:29:36it was to go well I went therea lot because that was the way, that was the route to go to either Pikeville or Paintsvilleor all of those towns in eastern Kentucky. It was about two hours to get up there, but you weregoing through there all the time. So you haven't been there in a long time, you don't know if it'sstill the... Oh, I'm sure it's gone to complete shit now. The pride of the Wendy's chain. Yeah, no,because, well, and unless they've completely flouted all tradition and all instructions from thecorporate office and not done thesehorrible fucking non-smashed burgers now
02:30:12and changed the pickles and changed everythingabout and the horrible French friesif they've gone against all of thatand just did what they were doing 30 years agothey'd be fine but I'm sure they haven'tnow you had to get me in a bad moodyou know that buddy Matthews looks like Wendywhat
02:30:31no red hair no no nowellI guess it's time.We can't delay it any longer.Did anybody watch this off-brandAEW program that wasinsulting to our eyes and earsthat was held on November 13th?
02:30:48We're going to talk about the ratings,but we mentioned that earlierin the middle of the show,you may have felt the urge to go to bed.It's a long show.It's a long two hours.It's one of those very long two-hour shows.It's long.
02:30:59You can grow a beard.In the time it takes to watch this thing.Hey, if you went to bedaround the 9 o'clock hour,you woke up from your nap around 10, you may say,hey, I need to shave, I need to look fresh for the night.Fresh for the night?Well, you're fresh for the morning and get a jump on it.
02:31:17Folks, there's never anything wrong with being prepared.Maybe at some point somebody's going to be screaming at you first thing in the morningand roused you out of bed and tell you to get to fucking workand you're not going to have time to shave.So take care of it the night before.But I'll tell you what you can do now that Harry's,holiday season and our friends over at Harry's that we've been talking about so lovinglythat produce the fine quality shaving equipment and shaving supplies and shaving experiences
02:31:49all the way around.They don't just have the trial set on sale at a ridiculously low price now.They have a gift set.And it's for the holidays, but it's for you or anybody that you let's say you're a man.Let's just pretend that, Brian.You're a man.And you want to shave your face.And you don't want to shave your face with one of these cheap plastic disposable things
02:32:17that the blades pull every whisker out individually to your everlasting dismayand scarf up your face and you get the road rash and you look like you got the heartbreak of psoriasis all over your face.That's using cheap stuff.now cheap and inexpensive are two different things because harry's is inexpensive but it ain't cheapbaby because they've got german engineered blades made in harry's own factory he installed it inhis basement he's down there every morning they stay sharp longer for a smooth shave every timeand the ergonomically designed razor handle that is also weighted so brian you get exercisewhile you're shaving. Every time you're shaving with that 17-pound weighted razor handle,
02:33:07you're doing curls. Just make sure that you shave equally with your left arm and your right armor elsewise you'll look like Quagmire after he discovered internet porn.If you were a man, you'd be working out like a man.Well, you can work out like a man while smelling like a woman.And that's another thing that Harry's has.That was an old commercial for a deodorant.Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.But Harry's has richly lathering, skin-soffening, body wash,
02:33:38and scents like redwood, wildlands, and stone,and also old farm field.No, no.Dead goat carcass.No, and why would anyone even want that?No.Well, it comes with the farm.Boy, they've got extra strength,
02:33:55high-quality, amazing, smelling deodorantthat's very inexpensive as well,but basically, if you're a little...a woman that wants to make sure that the man in your life doesn't have all this swampfoliage all over his face where every time he eats chicken noodle soup, there's bits ofcarrot falling out for three or four days out of his hair strainer.You want to get that shit right down to the bone there and make it nice and slick so he cango boom down there.
02:34:22Or if you're a man that wants to give a gift.Yeah, what?Keep going.Give a gift for yourself or anyone else.give the gift of a smooth face.Harry's has a holiday...No, keep going, keep going.Well, some people like to have a smooth face on their significant other.
02:34:44Oh, you know what that means?Harry wants you to get to the point.Yes, get to the point.Harry's has a holiday craft set.It includes one of the craft handles,the ergonomically designed handle.two extra blades, your choice of foaming shave gel or shave cream, a travel blade cover,and you don't have to gift wrap it because the set comes in a rich, sleek, green gift box
02:35:12that will stand out. People will be walking down the street saying,what's that big green thing? And you can personalize the razor with the available engravingoptions. I chose them to engrave one of those, well, the gargoyles that you, you know, the gargoyles thatyou see on those Victorian buildings,they engraved one of them on my blade handle,but you can get whatever you want engraved.There's a variety of available options.And it's 100% money-back guarantee,
02:35:42and if you order by December 12th,you're going to get your holiday craft set by Christmas,which is what we're all hoping for.So you can do it and get 50% off, half price.Again, the craft set,the custom green gift box,free handle engraving.And maybe it's, you want a nude woman, they'll carve it right in there.
02:36:07Harries.com slash JCE.Harries.com slash JCE, 50% off Harry's holiday craft set in the green box.And it's a pleasing green.Did you get your green box yet?I have not received my green box from Harry's yet, no.well you betterfucking call before December 12thyou're not going to get it before Christmas
02:36:35well I will do thatthat's Harry's one more timewhat is that promo code what is thatwebsite addresswhat uh hello ladywhat are we talking about herewell we're talking about getting your shit shaved offby harries.com slash
02:36:49jcee 50% off the holiday craft setcontaining the razorthe handle the the headsthe blades the shave gel the shave creammight be some whipped cream in there alsomight curdle on the way to youand also the engraving.You got that going for you.
02:37:10But do not leave this razorwhere you commit a crime with it.If you cut somebody's throat with it,don't leave it laying around.Do not, well, there's...We're at the end of the goddamn spot.Why do you have to take it too far?You're not going to go too far.
02:37:22You're going to go right to the line with Harry's.Your initials are on it, so you're leaving evidence.So don't leave this.laying around if you commit a crime.No, this is not a flick knife, but once again,Harry's, harries, harries.com slashJCE slash your way through, uh...Yeah, slash your way through life, Harry!
02:37:42Well, let's get, uh, from the holiday craft to the holiday crap.Let's go to the AEW Dynamite ratings here, Jim.How low can you go?Uh, just because we've been mentioning it lately,although NXT was back on their normal night.NXT on Tuesday, November 12th, 8 to 10 p.m. CW.631,000 viewers.A.W. Dynamite.
02:38:08Very comparable to last week. I'm sorry.A.W. Dynamite, Wednesday, November 14th, TBS, 8 to 1009 p.m.On average, watched by 666,000 viewers.Woo!The Mark of the Beast!and they have gotten a big, a big boost, a big comeback?For what?Think about what you're saying.
02:38:36You're saying 666 is a big comeback.Well, last week it was 500 and whatever the fuck, wasn't it?Yeah, last week was 523.Yeah.Actually, this is a big one.The trailing four-week average is 605.Yeah.They've made a big comeback here to,
02:38:55The level that NXT was at when they were laughing at NXT for having putrid ratings and they were beaten them.Well, let's go to the quarter hours.These were compiled by WrestleMania.Quarter 1, 8 to 8.8.15 p.m.Jay White and Juice Robinson versus Christian Cage and Hangman Adam Page.775,000 viewers.Okay, this is intriguing because I was thinking that they were,They were going to start out with a massive number and then drop like a stone from there,
02:39:31but they're not really that massive at the end.So to make this average, is this another one of those programs where, for the kind of peoplewho like that kind of thing, that's the kind of thing these people liked?Well, we shall find out, quarter to 815, 8.30 p.m.The Mercedes Monet Camille Chris Statlander backstage angle with a fake wall, an ad break,and the start of Will Osprey and Kyle Fletcher's live promo,649,000 viewers.Oh, good Lord.
02:40:06So that's 126,000 people,and they've got to go up or they can't go down consistently from there.They won't make their average.Well, quarter three, 830 to 8.45 p.m.The continuation of the Osprey Fletcher promo,now including Mark Davis, Powerhouse Hobbs,Lance Archer and Brian Cage, which leads into Roderick Strong v. Lance Archer,no holds barred or whatever it was.
02:40:33Follows count anywhere.With picture and picture ads.Followed by Konoske Takesha's live angle, followed by Adam Cole versus Takeshita,683,000 viewers.Okay, so they just, they had to make sure that they were safe from the Mercedes effectbefore they came back, and they gained 30,000.34,000.We got a quarter four now, 845, the 9 p.m.
02:41:01Adam Cole versus Konoske Takesh,with picture and picture ads.The postmatch with Roderick Strongand Kyle O'Reilly and Rikishay.The Death Rider's backstage angle,an ad break,MVP Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin'sbackstage angle. What was it backstage angle?
02:41:23It's a promo.and that's another thing.By the way, I don't mean to go off on a tangent here.And I understand that everybody gets the terminology they see on the internet,but it's not an angle if you just have a promoor even if somebody comes into your promo and says something to you.That's not a fucking angle.An angle is a happening or an instance that is designed to heat up a goddamn rivalry
02:41:51or bad feelings between.two entities and it's not just every goddamn interview that ever takes place go ahead well we gowhere were we i don't even know quarter four we were about to find out what that was665 000 viewers okay and they went back down there went another 18 thousand we go now to quarterfive the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine 15 p.m. the deadDeath riders, J.D. Drake ramp angle.Orange Cassidy and John...They throw a rampant where they throw a guy that we never see
02:42:35and probably won't see ever again out on the fucking stageand hit him four or five times with a chair. That's not an angle.The Orange Cassidy John Moxley Live confrontation,an angle with the death riders and the conglomeration and Darby Allen.Oh, and you skip the next thing, one of the worst things I've seen.followed by the Learning Treesbackstage promoOh shit, I forgot about that
02:42:57Did we skip over that?I must have flipped the page719,000 viewersHoly shitHow did they doTop of the second hourButI take over TBS
02:43:10Movies for guys who like MoxleySo the people believedHe was going to doSome kind of major thingAnd they tune in to see itHe does a live interviewhe runs out of the field.I'm taking over.
02:43:24I'm gonna go crazy.Hey, where's that Joe Bob Briggs?I like him.So they started at 775.They went in the 600s for the rest of the first hour.Now they're back up to 719 for the top of the second hour.Where do they go from here?They go to quarter six, 915, and 9.30 p.m.
02:43:46The Britt Baker-Panelope Ford match with picture and picture ads.The post-match with Serena Dieb.The Mina Shurikawa Harley Cameron backstage angle.Angle, that's an angle.That's an angle.Right.Hold on.That was the most ridiculous thing ever.
02:44:10I'm surprised somebody didn't get a black eye off of that fucking thing.Followed by Leo Rush versus Swerve Strickland, or the start of it,678,000 viewers.And they're back to, you know, about where they were in the middle of quarter or hour one.So this has not been a train wreck as far as starting big and dropping precipitously.It's just a smaller audience overall than they used to have.Well, we continue to quarter 7, 930 to 9.45 p.m.The Leo Rush Swarbr Strickland match continues with picture and picture and full screen ads.
02:44:49I hope swerve's going to be okay.That was a hell of an ass kicking.match angle with Swerve Strickland MVPBobby Lashley and SheltonBenjamin621,000viewersthat's another 57,000
02:45:06that's a low point of the show and you can tell thatthere is some fatigue beginning toset in fromjust how much more can they see?You know it's one of those things just a real quick break herebefore we get to the end with Swirriff Stricklandyou know when people make abig deal out of his contract and how much money
02:45:22he's gettingthat's one of the things you look at.He never...I mean, it's stuff with Danielson.We talked about it a lotwhen talking about Danielson,but swerves involved,the numbers go down,
02:45:34they're not going up.Well, we can rememberthe people started liking him on their ownwhen he was a dastardlyhome-invading heeland started cheering himand chanting for himand just carrying him out of the building
02:45:46on their shoulders.And as soon as they went with that,they beat him and made him look like a feckless putts,for so long that I think now besides the cool thingwho's house swerve's houseyou know they'll do that if it's in front of them butthey don't want to spend a lot of money to go to swerve's housewell we go to quarter eight I remind you we have an overrun
02:46:08945 to 10 p.m.The Jamie Hater promointo the Julia Hart videoan ad breakthe beginning of FTR versus the House of Blackwith picture and picture ads597,000 viewers9-minute overrun
02:46:30Continuation of FTR versus House of BlackPost-Mash with Private Party567,000 viewersWell, and rememberI mentioned that they were at 10 o'clock, top of the hourThey were in break, so they lost 30,000 people for the overrunSo that negatively affected them rather than positively.So they started at 775 and they ended up at 567, which is 208,000 viewers,
02:47:02but that's not as big a percentage as they usually lose.So this program would have to be deemed a rating success by their standards.Just an artistic abomination.Well, there it is.The abomination known as dynamite.And we've been going a while.So some of the things we were going to talk about todaywill get pushed to the experience.
02:47:25We're going to talk about tomorrow.Well, people don't understand how late in the day it is right now.The moon is out.Oh, it's late.It's the moon.Do you hear that?Even a man who is pure and hardand says his prayers by night
02:47:40has to end his podcast when the moon is full and bright.But like I said, we're going to have some of the thingswe were going to do here on the experience,including the rock and his GQ puff piece.as well as the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame and Duckies.Oh, this is hot off the press here.This has just been announced.We need to actually have time to go over this ourselves and examine the state-of-the-art voting.
02:48:11Well, we will get to all of that on the experience, but like you said, this is my show.Ladies and gentlemen, we ran longer than I thought we were going to because, you know, these hilarious shows get long reviews because it's all really fun.funny.It's a, how can you possibly convey what is going on on this program or ask people for helpand trying to help them help us figure out what is going on without going into thisdetail because it's just, it's nonstop.And again, we have a lot more on the experience.And of course, want to remind everyone the official Jim Cornett YouTube channel, all the clips,
02:48:47the full episodes, the omnibus collections, and go through the archive at patreon.comslash cornet.I feel like there was something else I was going to say.Now I can't remember what it was.Good night, Gracie?No, it wasn't that yet.The law of says Stephen Pinoe 877-5-0, Steve.Tell the people about Steve Jim.
02:49:06Well, he's a guy that lives in West Virginiaand he likes to help people get justicewherever they liveand wherever they can find it.And we're not talking about the former governor of West Virginiawho he's kicked his ass.We're talking about justice for the people.Stephen P.new at new law office.com
02:49:2587750 Steve.And of course, Cornett's collectibles at Jimcornett.com.Tell them about Jimcornet.com, Jim.I already did it at the first part of the program.And if you've signed up for our email blasts from the feather bottoms,you'll know what's going on, so it's not our fault if you're not up to date.Jim cornet.com.That's right.
02:49:45And one last thing in terms of scheduling, we have received a new flood of questions.and we're going to get to them.We're going to do some extra recording in the next few weeksto make sure we can get as many questions as possible on the show.Once again, if you're a member of the official Facebook group,there'll be a new post at some point in the future,but we have a lot there.And of course, corny drive-thru at gmail.com
02:50:05to submit your questions or your music, preferably not AI.Or any nude photos that you would like to for.Brian will keep all the guys and send me on girls.No, I will not keep all the guys.No, give me a break.I'll send you other guys.Well, we got to split the work up evenly.It's not fair for me to make you do everything.
02:50:23I'll keep the women.You can take the guys.You took all those Bill and D photos.You know what it's like.But anyway, he had a pillow over his putts.Yeah, well, let's get the pucks out of here.For Jim Cornett, I'm the great Brian last.Telly-ho!
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