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He's Jim Cornish.

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Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Jim Cornette Experience.

It's a noise-free edition today.

The WWE has bashed Berlin, and we've got the full report here.

Plus, we're going to talk about snakes and clucks and Sonny King and so much more.

And joining me, Hawaii and Brian, the podcasting lion, the king of the Arcadian Vanguard Podcast Network, Mr.

Co-host of you.

He's the Sergeant Schultz to my Colonel Clink, the great Brian Last, everybody.

Aloha, Jim.

I don't know if I would be on that side, but it's a pleasure to be here once again for another packed episode.

We're going to Berlin today, and we're staying in Berlin today, I guess.

That's really the end of the show, isn't it?

Well,

we're in Berlin.

And we can't get across the wall through the gate, whatever the case.

But

another record gate.

Another record gate.

Another record gate.

It's like the third time this year they announced the biggest gate in history.

And

that's, again,

it's the biggest gate in the country.

It's the biggest gate in history.

It's the biggest gate in the world.

It's the biggest gate in the universe.

And the people cheer.

Think about this, Brian.

Somebody said this on Twitter.

I don't know who it was, or I would credit them.

They are getting...

The people who had to pay the most money ever to cheer that they had to pay the most money ever to see this fucking show.

Now think about that.

You know, it's crazy.

I mean, it really does change wrestling.

It was always kind of a working-class ticket buyer.

And that's not the case anymore.

Part of it is they're priced out, but part of it is the people with the money are willing to pay.

Well, and that's the thing is that now,

you know, the WWE going around the world and not only being able to draw these crowds in these major megalopolises and get the payments from the state governments or country governments or province, whatever.

Before it was about repetition,

in your territory, you

develop a fan base and get people watching your TV and you give them shows every week or every two weeks or every month at the arena.

And you keep them coming back and even more on the big shows buy tickets.

And you had to make them affordable, the tickets, because people were paying anywhere from 12 to 52 times a year

to see your shows in that particular town.

But now they can

just go all over the world.

So now it's like Ringling Brothers.

You know, it's a big day.

They come to town.

They, you know.

No, it's bigger than that because Ringling Brothers was never able to upscale their ticket prices the way WWE does.

Well, that's true because they wanted the little children to come.

Right.

And

they were willing to mistreat the elephants to get them to come in.

Well, why do you have to make this a downer of a segment?

Well, that's a good conversation here.

Well, hey, some of them.

Some of them elephants deserved it.

Fucking pricks.

That's not what I meant either.

But no, and actually the circus in those days was like, if they had a circus these days, you know, maybe Cirque d'Isole.

But it was the same kind of thing is that you wanted the kids and the families to come and that way they'd come every year just instead of you know every week or whatever but

but now you got to mortgage your house there has to be at least like one elephant's like please don't send me back to the jungle please let me keep doing oh yeah no there's some of them are lazy and they they get used to domestic living and they don't want to go back to the jungle and and fight the the white hunters with the lightning sticks that come to take their tusks

all right this has been happy talk

well anyway no i bet you started this.

Were you talking about elephants?

What were you talking about?

Record Gates.

Record Gates and how, you know, this is Vince McMahon.

Then why were we talking about ivory hunting?

Well, you brought up Ringling Brothers and everyone always compared what Vince McMahon was trying to do to Ringling Brothers as opposed to the weekly territories like you talked about.

Come into town a few times a year, but scoop up the entire audience to see the biggest show on earth.

Yeah, well, and now it's more like the Rolling Stones.

Well, they're doing it better than Vince.

Do you think Vince could appreciate that?

Do you think he could sit back and realize they're doing it better than I could?

Boy,

I think he's probably, he realizes that they are,

but at the same time, he's thinking, well, if I'd have stuck around, I would have.

I don't know.

I don't know if he can bring himself to.

to say, wow, I should have got out of the way before I did.

I don't know if that thought will ever hit him.

Has it ever seemed so well-tuned?

Well, no, and part of this is these people are used to the people that run movie studios and, you know,

these major goddamn deals, it was still at heart, even though he found

wonderful people to work in the office and et cetera, et cetera, as we've talked about, it was still

kind of rooted in a wrestling company and Vince's didn't want to do international pay-per-views.

Didn't, you know, the time difference,

the meltdown mentally that he had about just going off the beam with these goofy gimmicks over the last 10 years, all that stuff.

Now they're like, fuck, we can maximize everything

and we don't have to worry about the billionaire coming in and wanting somebody to bark like a dog.

So, but I don't know whether he will ever be able to come to terms with, yeah, geez, I may have the last few years,

I was holding them back.

You could definitely say the combination of Paul Lavec and Nick Kahn is just, you know, the best thing that company could have asked for post-Vince.

Well, yeah, because Triple H has the wrestling mind even more than Vince, because he was a

fan of and student of things that Vince scoffed at.

And so he's more wrestling, but at the same time, these people are more

big business.

They're used to paying people millions of dollars to do shit, but they figure out a way to make a profit on it.

So and they don't care about on the pay-per-view, which we'll get to later on,

they were talking about,

you know, Revolution Pro and Westside Extreme Wrestling in Germany.

Vince, wouldn't they, what the fuck?

No, but they're giving these people's backgrounds.

Before they came here to the biggest show on earth, they had excelled in other places.

They even mentioned,

Punk won his first Ohio Valley Wrestling title in a strap match.

They even mentioned that for fuck's sake.

So it's,

you know, again, they don't give it.

They know they're so far ahead that there's no reason not to acknowledge

85 or 90% of the fucking wrestling in the world.

Maybe with

one glaring exception.

Hey, you know, I got the rodeo on in the background on CBS right now.

You know what sucks if you're a big rodeo fan?

You can never be the hat fan.

Now, what now?

You can never be like, hey, hat guy's here.

You can never be that guy because everyone has a hat on.

Well, then you need to be the guy that comes in with a hat on a hat.

I see now it works.

I guess it works in that case.

And it would work in that.

Anyway, but nevertheless, we're going to talk about bashing Berlin later on, and we're going to talk about ticket prices later on.

But I've got some news from right here in River City, the metropolitan Louisville area.

Did you hear about this on the news?

Is this the story everyone's been sending me?

Well, I don't know because I haven't even brought it up yet.

What story have they been sending you?

I have an article here from WDRB.

That's Gilbert Corsi's channel.

That's where Mark Weinberg tells us the weather.

Police looking for person who

police looking for person who's allegedly been pooping on a porch in old Louisville.

Is that the story you were going to talk about?

That's not the story, but give me more details because I haven't even heard about this one.

The Louisville Metro Police Department is looking for someone who's accused of repeatedly pooping on the same person's porch.

The person has allegedly been pooping on a porch in old Louisville.

There are at least two reports filed from the person who lives in the area.

Another was taken by an officer Wednesday.

It's unknown at this time what the suspect looks

what the suspects

what the suspect looks like.

But they do know what he's been eating.

Roderick Dowell lives across the street and saw it happen.

Here's a quote.

Old Louisville, man, you're going to see some You see everything out here.

I just happened to be outside and a white guy walked up.

He was looking around.

He looked like he was going into the apartment.

He looked at the window.

He looked out

and he started crapping.

It happened early Tuesday morning.

The guy is wearing a t-shirt, gray basketball shorts, and socks on the front porch.

He appears to look around, do his business.

walk away, and then come back and do it again.

And the second time he rang the doorbell,

back to Mr.

Dowell with a quote, literally started crapping like boom.

And I was getting, he got up, walked off, and went back down the street.

The homeowner did not want to speak with WDRB on camera, but shared the video with us.

And of course, anyone with information is asked to call Crime Tip, oh, excuse me, the anonymous Crime Tip line, 502-574-LMPD.

Actually, they have a special number.

It's 1-800-POOPERS.

So this isn't the story?

I thought it was a good idea.

No, this was a story.

Maybe it was you.

What?

Be the homeowner or the crapper?

The crapper.

Well,

everybody should know that couldn't possibly be me.

My knees are so bad, I can't fucking squat and shit.

There's a guy across the street watching.

I watched a whole thing happen.

Yes, I saw the whole thing, officer.

I didn't say it failed.

I didn't say, get out of here.

I didn't say anything.

You you know, you would think that a cross-the-street neighbor, not a next door neighbor, but across the street neighbor, at least say, hey, quit shitting on my neighbor's porch.

I would do that for the people next door to me.

Remember, and Hank next door, bless him, he's gone now.

Who used to come over and shit on my walk all the time?

I would just grab him by the collar and take him back over, cross through the fence.

Oh, here's the video.

Yep.

Oh, they've got the video.

Is it graphic video, viewer discretion advisor?

It's a man pulling down his pants and squatting down, and they put the blurred circle over his ass while he's shooting.

Poop.

How do you feel about poop being the official word used and pooping and pooper all over this story?

Like, that's the official.

That's what the news uses.

That's the thing.

You couldn't have done that 30 years ago.

They wouldn't allow you to say poop on the news, I don't think on television in general, at least local television.

The networks might have been able to get away with it every now and then.

But no,

you never heard anybody say poop on TV.

The defecator.

The defecator got away.

Yes.

If that story had been done

back in the 70s by Mort Krim.

on WHAS Television News,

it would have said police are looking for a man who left excrement on a man's front porch earlier today

and you know and there would have been no no double entendres no giggles no eye rolls he would have read it straight police are still looking for the defecator prime suspect vince mcmahon

oh now you gotta bring everything back

I thought we would there was a pause on that.

While they paused the lawsuit and paused everything for the federal investigation, we're pausing

puns.

That doesn't pause the defecation.

No, no, he's constipated too.

They say you can't take a dump

until this fucking federal investigation is, and then we can all go back to our normal habits.

But anyway, no, there was another news story that involved the Louisville Metro Police Department today that I heard about that I wanted to tell you about.

A woman,

apparently,

this woman was

somewhere out by the Bluegrass Parkway south of town here earlier this morning.

And a woman comes up to her and tries to carjack her car

while her kid is inside.

And

apparently the police were called and intervened and arrested this attempted carjacker.

in some fashion.

I don't think there was a chase.

I don't think she got away with it, but nevertheless.

Did she get in the car?

Well, I just saw the brief clip that there was an attempt made.

Perhaps, you know, she was partially in and partially out, and who knows what?

But the cops nabbed her.

And in the course of arresting her,

the question came up: why did you try to carjack this woman's car and her kid?

And the perpetrator said, Kanye West told her to do it.

Is it RoccoCon?

No.

And it actually wasn't even Kanye West in person.

Because,

and this is a quote from

the arrest report:

Kanye West told her to do it telegraphically.

All right.

No, yeah, that's fucking hilarious.

That's the Louisville education system for you, folks.

Oh, no, come on.

We don't know that she was born born here.

Yeah, pooping there.

Is that well?

They're jacking and pooping like they were in San Diego, but no, telegraphically.

Telegraphically, not.

That's hilarious.

Do you think the pooper should use the same argument?

Kanye West told me to do it.

Do it through mental telegraphically.

Mental telegraphically.

All right.

Wow.

Well, I'm glad the lady.

Well, I thought it was funny.

I'm glad the lady and her kid are safe.

That's the most important thing.

I'll have you know, also, you should not be making

mockery of me anyway.

Shut up now.

Don't be doing Jerry Lewis.

This is a serious topic I'm going into here because I survived another home invasion yesterday.

I had a near-death experience,

was in danger and fear for my life.

And fortunately, I was able to subdue the

interloper and dispose of him in quick fashion.

But you're not even worried about me and this heroic thing that I did?

Well, explain more.

This is news to me, and it's certainly an interesting story.

Let's hear more about it.

Well, I like to have the air filter, the furnace filters, air conditioning filters, same difference.

Like to have them changed every 60 days here at the castle because it's the allergy capital of the world,

as you can tell.

And so yesterday,

being nigh upon the first of the month, it's time to change the furnace filters.

And I go down, and the very first one I'm going to change is in the utility room off the bar downstairs.

And that's where the, you know, the furnace is there, the water heater, the water softener,

various things that make the place run.

And I go in there

and I start to lean over and change the filter.

And I look in the corner underneath the

carpet shampooer, and there's a fucking snake.

And what the fuck?

Like a little tiny snake?

Well, what do you call a little tiny snake?

Like a little, like a little kind of little snake.

I don't know what to say.

Well, this son of a bitch, if I had allowed him to stretch all the way out, it was probably 18 to 24 inches.

And that's too big to be in the house.

And so I said, oh, shit.

And I got my sock feet on.

You could have said on an axe?

Well, hold on.

I got no axe.

I got my sock feet on is what I did, Brian.

I had socks on.

I was in my sock feet, as my mother used to say.

And I've got a goddamn air filter in my hand, and I'm looking around for a weapon.

And I look, and around the corner is the fireplace, a fireplace poker, but goddamn it, that's awful blunt.

You got to be precise.

And what if he decides to fucking scurry?

And then he gets under something.

I can't get to him.

I'll have to sell the fucking house.

There's a snake in the house.

So

I do the Peter Griffin.

I back out slowly

and he's not moving.

He's just laying there.

And then I sprint up the stairs and through the kitchen and the TV room and out into the garage.

And I grab a pointed shovel

and then I run back down.

And as I come around a corner, I peek around, and there the son of a bitch still is.

And I sneaked up on him.

Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch, I crept up on him.

And right as he started to look up at me,

boom down I come with the shovel

and I missed him with the point of it and took a big chunk out of the concrete floor and the fucking

thing

starts fucking curling and going and I whoa and I got a boom the second one I got I went with the side of it and I got him right in the middle and both ends are squirming

And I'm a sawing and he's a squirming and I'm a bam, bam, a little bit in the middle.

And that's, I cut the son of a bitch in half and both ends was still moving around.

Which scientifically they will tell you is muscular contractions because that's all a snake is a big long muscle.

So Jake keeps going.

Exactly.

But in this instance, it was freaky because I'm trying to kill this thing.

And now there's two of them.

And then I began to fucking hit him with the shovel as a blunt instrument.

And then it started flattening him out and et cetera, et cetera.

And

it was about as big around as my little finger, I'll have you know.

And now I got a, then I've, I got tongs and picked him up and put him in a garbage and carted him off.

But now I've got to, because we were used to mice, every once in a while,

you'll get a mouse interloper in the crawl space, which is right where he was next to there.

You know, but I've had my crawl space cleaned and vapor locked, and now I'm going to have it goddamn spray foam insulated.

Because I think he got through

where

the heating and air gentlemen vented my new

furnace when last they replaced it.

And there's a place there if you haven't sealed it up just properly, there could be

a goddamn hole big enough for something like that to happen.

I was not pleased about that.

Have you ever had a snake in your house?

You're not, you should be going, oh my God, I can't imagine what it would be like to have a snake in my house or something like that.

Yeah, we've had a few small ones.

Actually, the pest control professional was just recently here and he took one out of one of the traps in the garage.

But last year, one of the crazy, I don't even know if I ever talked about it on the air.

There was a snake.

They got caught in like a spider web in the garage in the corner.

Oh, good lord.

And for weeks the spider was killing the snake and the snake wouldn't die it was insane the you left it there for weeks for weeks i had to see how this was going to turn out i didn't want to end it and then i have no conclusion because then just one day it was all gone like one day one day

and i think it was like a weird thing where like ready refresh right here to give me a new case of water And all of a sudden it was gone.

Like they may have politely cleaned it out.

I don't know.

But I never got a conclusive answer but after three and a half weeks the snake was still alive stuck in a web off the ground

hasn't been eating anything that i could see you came home to that house every day from whoever you were out harassing what in your in your daily life and there was a snake and a giant fucking mutant spider in the corner of the goddamn garage and you just looked at it left it there i wouldn't have been able to sleep a fucking wink spider and snake it wasn't an abnormally large spider well i don't care there's a snake there too that magnifies it and then sometimes you'd see the snake and again it's a small snake and you lean in to look and its mouth would be open and then the tongue would come out like it's still alive how is this happening you're leaning in to look what if that had been a goddamn

what is those with the the the viper one of those yeah well one of those whatever where the tongue comes out and gives the pump and it gives you the poison and you're paralyzed.

And then those spiders

wasn't a viper.

Gee, fuck.

We don't get vipers in the garages here in New Jersey.

No.

I'm telling you what, my next step would have been an explosive if I couldn't have fucking got that some bitch and he'd have got under the guy back in the crawl space.

I would have had to call the police.

or some goddamn wildlife expert to come out here because there's no way I could coexist knowing that it was there.

Well, I had some comfort that the snake had it.

I mean, that the spider had him, and the spider wasn't going to let go.

And then one day it was all gone.

And I was so pissed.

I'm pretty sure that your water people probably say, oh my God,

we'll save these people's lives because this fucking crackpot that lives here obviously is not

in control of his faculties.

It has left these dangerous wildlife vermin to fucking prosper here in his garage.

Spiders are our friends.

They help us.

This is a great situation.

This is a great example of spiders helping people.

Well, how do you know that the snake wasn't even

trying to protect you from the spider?

The spider was so preoccupied with the snake for weeks and he couldn't give up.

He kept having to create like new webs because the snake would slither around, but it was off the ground.

So it was moving violently when it could.

And the spider would just have to make the web tighter and tighter and tighter.

It was extraordinary.

So what's what's your

ending?

There was no ending to it.

Two criminal entities

were trying to invade your home and were engaged in a battle to the death to see which one would survive to enter your home and kill you and your family.

And

you were excited about watching this procedure.

That's not what I'm saying.

I don't even know how you got there.

There are no criminal entities involved in this.

Well, there certainly was

involved on on behalf of the spider and the snake the snake is going to bite you because it's a snake and the spider's going to bite you because it's a spider and if it's the if it's the poisonous brown recluse spider well your days have come to an end

isn't this the perfect example of what you would want in your garage the kind of protection you want if a snake gets in Before it gets too deep, the spider grabs them.

That's it.

What if the spider has no snakes?

What if the snakes hear about this through the snake grapevine and say, fuck, stay away from his house?

Then the spider's got nothing to do and it starts looking upstairs to those warm-blooded entities.

The spider ain't going upstairs.

That ain't happening.

But how it started either.

Like, was the spider looking for food and a snake?

No, was the snake looking for food and the spider grabbed them?

Or

why are we still talking about this?

Let me ask you what this sounds like.

What do you, what?

Can you hear this?

105 p.m.

What was that?

No, what was that?

You know what you want to hear it again?

Yes, please.

Hold on.

105 p.m.

What the hell is that?

1.05 p.m., my new clock.

Remember, I told you.

It's 104.

It's not even correct.

Well, that's just because there's a see you're farther east than I am.

At minute, it'll show up over here eventually.

No, you're saying you have it before I do.

Oh, well, it's going the other way.

See, it's west to east.

I forgot.

But no, the other day I told you that my clock on my desk, it was flummoxing, it was malfunctioning, and I couldn't tell what time it was because part of the LED display was not displaying the LEDs.

And so it, it...

If it was 1241, it might look like 12.11, and I wouldn't know the fucking difference.

So

Chad, Chad Keeney from Fayetteville, West Virginia came to my rescue because he had ordered a digital clock for his desk for the same reason because the old one was

fucking up.

And they accidentally sent him two clocks.

And when he registered this issue with the company, they said, well, it was our mistake, so keep it.

So instead of keeping it for his own greedy self, he forwarded over to me.

And I had the reason why it's the talking clock

is because I'll have you know, I've interacted with Chad before, done a cameo for him back a couple of years ago.

He is the first blind entrepreneur to take over the rest areas in West Virginia as the,

as they say down south, the Soda Pop distributor.

He's a Pepsi

representative, so he can't get the Sprite Zero, but they have Starry Zero,

which is, of course, the

Pepsi brand equivalent, apparently.

I've not heard of the Starry Zero.

I've never heard of Starry before.

Well, we got to try that.

Well, you do.

But, well, oh, for heaven's sake, now, you could certainly take a sip and let me know whether or not I'm not a sprite official.

I add nothing to this.

Well, anyway,

I wanted to thank Chad from Fayetteville, West Virginia

for his

gift to me so that now

I can see and hear what time it is around here.

That's one of the greatest lines that W.C.

Fields

fucking talking to his stooge.

He's maligning his son-in-law.

And he says, ah, that guy, he's so stupid, he doesn't know what time it is.

And then the other guy says, what time is it?

I don't know.

Anyway,

we want to thank Chad for that.

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Speaking of ticket prices, as we were earlier, we got sent an email.

Who is this from Adam?

I'm a Australian.

See, they even type with an accent.

Hey, I'm an Australian.

He's the where, what date is this, Brian?

That the type is so tiny.

I'm trying to click on this, but they're coming to Australia.

It's February, right?

I don't see a date on it, but that's their big event.

February, correct?

Is this their big stadium event?

That is their Australian stadium event, Grand Slam, correct.

Okay, can you, since you're better at it than I am, can you Google Phi how much an Australian dollar equals in

American dollars so that we can give our United States listeners some frame of reference for this, what we're going to talk about here?

The Australian dollar, one Australian dollar is equal to 68 United States dollars.

Wait, that can't work that.

What?

No.

68 cents.

So 68.

68 cents equals $1, Australian.

Okay, that's about what Canada and the U.S.

used to be back in the early 90s when they would pay us from the Toronto office.

So every time we worked a Canadian event, we'd get paid in Canadian dollars and it was worth like

two-thirds of an American dollar, which conversely is why the Hart family were living like fucking kings and farting through silk because they earned most of their money in America and they would get paid in American dollars, and it was like a dollar thirty for every dollar when they went home to Calgary.

But, nevertheless, so help me do the math here.

If the Australian dollar is worth about two-thirds,

then we're going to deduct

approximately 30%

off of these

ticket prices for the American mind to comprehend, right?

So, the all-elite front-row VIP package.

Would you like to know what you get when you buy this one, Brian?

Yeah, what do you get?

You get one seat in the first row, it's first-row ticket,

and your own AEW branded folding chair to take home.

You also get an exclusive inside the ring chat from AEW personalities and photo opportunities with an AEW star.

And there's already an asterisk.

Talent is subject to change and not announced in advance.

Kipsh Sabian and the dark order, everyone.

Come in and chat with fucking, yeah.

Ishi E.

And you get in the pre-show function with a one-hour beverage package and light refreshments.

So apparently they're going to put it

there's probably

depending on their ringside setup, there's 20 to 25 seats in the front row on each side.

So you're talking 80 to 100 people.

And they get in a, you know, some room where they've set up the fucking iron brew or whatever they've got over there.

Exclusive pre-show ring walk and a once-in-a-lifetime selfie photo next to the ring.

What's a ring walk?

You have to actually walk in the ring?

They're going to let the people come early and

walk down the aisle to the ring and then have their picture taken with their own fucking phone next to the ring.

I never heard that phrase before, a ring walk.

Well, that's because I don't know that anybody's ever done this before because they're thinking, these fucking people in Australia, we've never been there.

We're going to milk them for everything we can get, right?

You get a $50 merchandise voucher or merchandise item,

which is valid in all merchandise retail outlets within the venue on the day of the event.

A commemorative event lanyard.

We used to make those at Camp Mountain Lake.

Lanyards, the fucking thing around your neck and hard card.

So they're making up the little pass, right?

And with a string around this stuff, okay, a lanyard within a bag of them, that's 25 cents.

Get the fucking thing laminated.

You might have 50 cents in that.

Letting them walk to the ring is free.

They're taking the picture with their own phone.

They've got a dollar in that.

Pre-show function, they rented the goddamn function room in the stadium, and they're going to go to

buy some soft drinks.

Yeah, it said beverage package, and then it also said, what, soft refreshments.

So that doesn't really.

Well, a one-hour beverage package and light refreshments.

I don't know what a one, all you can drink in an hour.

What is a one-hour?

And if it's light refreshments, is it all you could drink soda?

I don't know.

But early entry into the venue and merchandise stand access.

So you could be the first one in line to spend more money with us.

Before we sell out of all the limited merch we brought, you get to go and buy it.

On-site VIP host to assist you with event day queries,

some production stooge that we're paying already anyway.

So they have the

chat with the personality and a photo opportunity, they have nothing in this, right?

They've rented the party room.

Otherwise, they've got a dollar besides the ticket in this.

It's all just taking people around where they're already going to be.

$1,199.90

Australian.

Give me that one more time.

$1,199.90

is equal to $811.73 in America.

Well, there you go.

So the front row tickets are $800 apiece,

and I got to give it to them because they've the $50 merchandise voucher or merchandise item,

that's just, it's a loss leader

to try to get you to spend more money at the merchandise stand when they let you into it early.

So they figured out a way that

we'll goddamn give these people shit that it doesn't cost us anything.

All t-shirts are $40.

Here's a $20 gift certificate.

You have to spend money one way or another.

Yeah.

Well, because think of it,

$50,

you take 30% off of that.

So it's really like you're giving them 35 bucks American.

All right.

So then

they also, this is out of order.

Ah,

then the next level down is reserved seat.

Oh, and

you're taking home a folding chair.

I'm sorry.

Yes, also in that.

Since they've bought hundreds of those cushions to go in those chairs,

and they, what can the chairs be?

20 bucks if you're buying 500?

Maybe?

Anyway,

rows two through four

is the premium reserved, and you get the chat,

but apparently not the photo op.

You get a pre-show function with a drink on arrival, light refreshments, and access to a private cash bar.

Here, here's your own line that you can give us more money.

It's like Russia.

What is that?

You take your hard-earned money, we give you a place to spend it, and then you spend more, and we give you more, more ways to spend your money on us.

It's ridiculous.

$50 merchandise voucher, commemorative event, Lanyard, hard card, early entry to the merchandise stand, and on-site VIP access

or host

to assist you.

And that

is $999.90.

So we're talking what about

$676.43.

That's exactly what I was going to say.

Where's the party with Tony option?

Well, wait, well, maybe we're getting there.

We're getting there because we've still got more VIP.

So

rows 5 through 8, you get the chair, an event, Lanyard, and card, and the same production stooge to assist you.

That's it

for $749.90.

You know, I'm starting to think that

that front row ain't too bad of a deal because now you're in row eight for what?

$507.31.

You're in the eighth row for $500.

You get to take home the chair and a fucking lanyard.

So I'm thinking the front row is probably the way to go here.

And then the premium fan VIP package

is you get a premium reserved seat in sections 324 to 319,

early entry into the merchandise stand, $50 voucher,

and commemorative lanyard and VIP bar lanes.

Get drunk quicker.

Now, here's what they've done here.

That is $499.90.

The people that are buying rows five through eight and ringside for $749.90, they don't even get the $50 voucher.

This is $338.18.

Jesus Christ.

All righty.

And

yeah, and I think that's the bottom that they've got talked about right.

No, no, no.

There's an add-on package.

$439.80.

You get entry to the meet and greet and backstage tour on Saturday morning.

Snap a photo with some of your favorite AEW superstars.

Behind the scenes tour.

Ambush them at the hotel.

What is this?

But no, behind the scenes tour around the video, around the video, around the venue.

This print is so small.

So for another

439.80, whatever that works out to, you can go to the meet and greet and snap a photo of some of your favorite superstars.

Talent is subject to change and not announced in advance

and have a tour of whatever around the venue.

How much is that one?

$439.80.

You can add it on to these other things you've bought.

That's a $297.52 add-on.

Woo!

VIP packages are a way a lot of musicians make a killing on the road.

A lot of companies like Live Nation make a killing on the road.

Wrestling doing them, WWE does stuff like that.

They've been doing giveaway chairs since like WrestleMania 10.

That's the right thing to do.

AEW is a challenger brand, as they always remind us.

It shouldn't be the same things.

It should be get fucked up with Tony Khan, $5,000 ringside ticket.

Wander around with Moxley.

A thousand dollar.

It should be higher prices and crazier perks.

But good perks.

perks that make the company different.

I mean,

I'm not even joking.

It should be like when they had like, win a date, a party with Van Halen.

That's what it should be.

Spend the night with Tony Kahn.

No, I agree with you, but that's the thing is you mentioned it earlier.

Who's it going to be?

Get your picture with a AEW superstar.

Hey, meet Kip Sabian.

They're not

guaranteeing anyone or anything.

And the things that they are telling you they'll give you cost them absolutely nothing.

And like I said, it turned out the front row is probably the best deal.

Because you're in fuck up in the goddamn bleachers for $500, $600 if you added on the meet and greet.

I think they should jack the prices up and make it more unique.

Like be the referee for one match on the show.

The referees are terrible.

You wouldn't lose anything.

You create a wonderful fan experience.

Maybe they can find somebody better to replace Knox.

Well, there you go.

It can't be worse than that.

That's the point.

Any wrestling fan who watches wrestling can do better than that.

But that's...

You know what?

That may be their saving grape.

Make themselves a fantasy camp for

where the fans can come and interact with the supposed wrestlers, because then the problem is you wouldn't be able to tell many of them apart.

Who would they send out at the end of the thing?

They might lose half their talent roster.

Are you one of the fans?

Where are you from?

No, I'm the TNT champion.

What are you talking about?

You know, I would like to see if anyone has it, just for comparison's sake, what did WWE charge in Germany, France, wherever it may be?

What are their VIP packages and what are the costs?

Well, and I'm sure that, especially in France, because it was an indoor arena, and I think, or not France, but Germany just now, what I'm trying to say, it was an indoor arena.

And they had 13,000 people and it was sold out.

So they were obviously high prices per head.

But Tony

and his merry band of pranksters are trying to run a stadium in Australia, which, as we said, then, you know, traffic from across the border is limited in Australia to air travel.

So, you know,

you're trying to draw from that specific population, which yes, it is the first time ever, but we've also heard their television is not super strong in Australia.

So, the point is: wouldn't you be trying to find a balance between, since he's not concerned about making a huge profit, it doesn't seem like anywhere else,

find

a balance between

what they'll pay and what's kind of fair to get the most number of people in the building?

And or then,

are the people right in the section above the VIP premium

section 324 fans going to be paying $24.95 by the time that showtime comes around?

And then isn't that going to cause some ill feelings?

That's the conundrum.

You want to be able to sell high-priced tickets to people with money.

Everyone does that who tours, every sort of form of entertainment.

But again, what we were talking about earlier, wrestling in a lot of ways is priced out the working class.

And you don't see that anymore.

So if AEW, for instance, goes to a town and they have situations like these Australian prices, if they can get people to sell out ringside with that,

you know, you still have to worry about getting more people in there than that.

And that's where you have to wonder about the ticket prices and the marketing.

WWE doesn't have to worry about getting a family.

They just have to worry about getting people with disposable income.

Well, and there's so many of them

because they're the worldwide,

what was Vincent said, the worldwide leader in sports entertainment.

They're the worldwide brand now that's kind of acknowledged, and

they're tied into the UFC, which has already been doing,

you know, what, international shit for years and years.

And again,

you know, they're

owned and operated by Hollywood now.

So they're going to be able to get away with almost anything.

But I'm just saying,

when do the tickets go on sale?

These are advertised, but we have, I didn't see that the tickets are on sale date.

When will we know what is going to...

That's a good question.

Let me see if I can find out.

Because I, hold on.

I lost my

place here.

But I was, because it's screenshots is what I'm seeing of

the fellow trying to buy these tickets, and it doesn't show me an on-sale on-sale date.

According to the AEW website, the date is February 15, 2025 for Grand Slam Australia.

On-sale date coming soon.

So marinate on this for a while, and we'll tell you when you can buy them shortly for these prices.

I would have,

if I'm telling people

what that I'm selling and what they're going to have to pay, I want to be able to tell them exactly when they're going to be able to buy them at the same time.

Or

sometimes that people's

first blush changes.

You see what I'm saying?

They're going to be in Australia.

They just have break dancers at Will Ospreay.

Should they book Ray Gun?

You know, here's another.

Well, there's another example of, would you be able to tell

whether Ray Gunn was, you know, came into the fucking prison and was just leaving?

You don't know whether she was one of the show or one one of the inmates.

I can't believe they're not saying here, and they will be on sale at such and such date at such and such specific time.

And here's what we got because

then you know how to make a decision.

Whereas if they're giving these, because the guy that emailed us was going like, Jesus Christ, I'd have to rob a bank to go here.

You know,

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that gets people kind of rumbling in a bad way, doesn't it?

It could.

Well, anyway,

that's how much it's going to cost you, ladies and gentlemen.

Brian, are you saving up for that now?

Are you going to start a Christmas, like Christmas account like they used to in the old days at the bank, bank, put in two bucks a week?

No, well, it would be a Hanukkah account for me, but no, I don't think this will be something I'll be saving up for.

I don't plan to go to Australia for AEW, but I'll be watching it on TV.

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Well, before we talk about the invasion of Germany, we have to mention that I just heard this, gosh, this morning on the internet, Sonny King passed away, 79 years old.

And we'll talk about that in a second.

That surprises me.

But

is this, again, is this part of a curse with our show?

Every time we tell a story about somebody, something bad happens to them.

Well, again, this is a little different.

I forget what even brought it up recently.

We talked about it.

It was talking about Buddy Landell and Mid-South.

And then, you know, it naturally went into the problems that they had.

But and that was the tail end of his career.

And that's important to note because.

No, that was the end of his career.

That 84 was his last year.

Yeah, I think that may have been the last place he worked, actually.

And that's why I was saying, because that's 40 years ago.

That means he was 39 years old.

Sonny King.

Wow.

Exactly.

He never changed appearance.

And he had such an intimidating look and and demeanor to him when he wanted to, that

you didn't really have an age for him, but

his career was over, as in part with what we'll talk about, the attack that he suffered in North Carolina.

But he was only 39 years old and he was done.

But he

had had a

lengthy career before that and was on top in all kinds of places.

It was 1971 that he and Jay Strongbow were the WWWF tag team champions, right?

That's right.

And he worked on top in the Carolinas in the early 70s.

Go ahead, what were you going to say?

I was just going to say, you never think of him as a Northeast wrestler.

And there he is.

Well, and I'm not sure truthfully and honestly how he broke in, who trained him, you know, what his early career was like, but that was

the first time that people in the magazines or people reading the magazines, you know, would have heard of Sonny King.

But then, as I said,

he worked in the Carolinas on top.

He made evented with Johnny Valentine when Valentine came into territory.

He was big in

the Louisiana part of Leroy McGurk's territory before it became mid-South.

And he was in and out of

Memphis territory because he got to be

Jerry Jarrett thought the world of him and they got to be good friends.

And he was, I guess,

from 1978 until 1982 would have been his last run here, only four years, but he was here a lot of that period of time, both as a

heel wrestler and a heel kind of wrestler manager for Joe LeDuc and Jean-Louis,

who was the hangman, Neil Guay.

That's always my favorite name.

Jean-Louis.

Well, no, specifically Lance Russell, like Joe LeDuc and Jean Louis.

It's just that.

Yeah, and

they

spelled it because at first they were spelling it like L-O-U-I-S, like you would in French, right?

But then all the fans were reading it in the newspaper ad and started calling him John Lewis.

So then

they started spelling it John Louis, L-O-U-I-E, like Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

And here's this giant 325-pound bearded guy.

Well, there's there's John Louie.

So it just, but that was French to the fans in Tennessee, you know.

But anyway, he was a manager for them, and then he came back

a while later as a babyface.

And he worked a lot as partners with Ricky Morton.

Ricky Morton loved him because,

you know, we've talked about especially the last couple years of Sonny's career and

how, you know, physically and in the ring, he was difficult to work with, not attitude-wise, but just his style was very unorthodox, and he had lost a few steps by that point.

But he was a very intelligent guy, and he'd been in the business and worked on top in a variety of places.

So he taught Ricky a lot about

psychology and how things worked in other territory, things like that.

And

the reason why

Jarrett wanted them as partners was he had high hopes for Ricky Morton and he wanted him to be able to learn.

So he would team him up with guys like Sonny King.

And then Tojo had a part play early in Ricky's career.

And then

Ken Lucas, because the veteran could teach.

And, but anyway, Ricky loves Sonny.

Wasn't it that angle when

Ricky was teaming with Big Red?

Because I always felt so bad for Big Red.

It was such a sympathetic thing where they just like knock him to the ground and just tie him so he can't get up.

Yeah.

And then just beat the crap out of Ricky Morning with Sunny King and Tojo.

Yes, yes.

And there's Big Red was all if he was down without being tied up, he was almost immobile, right?

So he couldn't get up when he was tied like a, with a shoestring or whatever.

But that was, I spent the day with Sonny and Ricky in Memphis one time after TV.

Just taking pictures.

I have great pictures of them with the

bridge over the river and behind them and on Beale Street and all kind of shit that we just did for the the magazine but that that was the thing

Sonny as I said he worked on top most places he went for the first 10 years of his career

and it in his in the 70s he was a better athlete

but I think honestly it was he had a boxing background too, so he would, you know, incorporate that, but

it was just a very unorthodox style that he had.

And I think his literate low-key promo

and just his demeanor and look, and he looked like Isaac fucking Hayes,

and that didn't hurt in the 70s.

I think that's what got him over in a lot of places.

And he was, what, six foot three and 250.

And, you know, in shape at a time when that

was not as commonplace as it is today.

When you see him in Mid-South in 84, if you had told me he was 45 years old, I would have said, okay, I believe that easily.

Yeah, because

and how he'd been in, like I said, in 1971, he's already in the magazines, WWWF champion.

So 13 years later, and

he always looked like a grown adult.

And he shaved in 84, so he looked like, somehow that made him look older than when he had a shadow.

Yeah.

And we're not talking about a shaved head.

He was always bald, but the beard,

he had a beard for a while.

And like you said, it made him look older when he shaved his beard off.

But anyway, I guess the thing we talked about the incident or mentioned a minute ago,

and we've talked about this before, you tried to find the promo on YouTube.

And of course, of all things, it's not there.

But the best promo that Sonny ever did came off, again, of a real life thing.

And this is pretty much what finished his career and him being that young, because when he tried to come back, it wasn't the same.

As I said, Sonny had worked in North Carolina and he was visiting there.

I'm trying to remember.

I think he, was he working here or had he

just gone somewhere else?

He spent some time in Florida too, but that was earlier in the 70s.

He definitely wasn't working there in mid-Atlantic when it happened.

Well, no, but I'm saying, was he working here?

I'm trying to think.

But the point is, he had gone to the Carolinas to visit just on a vacation or for some reason.

And there was a show in Charlotte at the old Coliseum, and he went to visit some of the boys, right?

And I've talked about how that,

you know, especially a big crowd or whatever,

the back door of the Coliseum, the guys had to go right to the side parking lot and get in their car.

And if the fans were out there, you

needed cops, whatever, and they would come to the back door also.

The fans try to get in.

And so there was one,

you know, I can picture the classic old security guard at the Charlotte Coliseum, but there was one guard at one of the back doors, and some drunk guys were trying to push their way in and get in free, and he was trying to hold them back.

And Sonny's just standing back there, watching the fucking matches, and sees this and goes to help the guard.

And one of these guys ends up having a knife and stabbing him.

I don't know how many fucking times, but one of them actually pierced his heart, right?

So obviously, this became a big news story amongst in the wrestling business.

And I don't know, I can't even remember the date of that.

I don't know how long he was out, but it was months and months and months.

And,

you know,

that's kind of, you know, fan interaction you had in the Carolinas back in those days.

But anyway, finally,

the best angle they ever did, as I said, Sonny was good friends with Jerry Jarrett, and Jerry brought him back

as a babyface, and this was

probably spring 82-ish.

Am I close?

I think that's about right, yeah.

And

basically, had Sonny come out and do an interview and tell the story

of how that he got stabbed and it punctured his heart.

And

this sounds like a melts or

deal, but this was the truth.

And it actually can happen.

They did open heart surgery on him and

the scar was like, Jesus Christ, it was all the way down his chest and stomach.

And they actually, the doctor held his heart in his hand and massaged it as they were repairing and doing whatever the fuck they needed to do.

And he tells this whole story in that accent he's got.

He was from Louisiana.

and he had kind of

that accent and also that

matter-of-fact voice.

And then he said the reason why that he was coming back to wrestling was for his son Larry.

Because he did have a son named Larry and he would be a nice kid.

He'd probably be 45 years old now or whatever.

But he used to bring him to the matches sometime.

And Sonny's license plate back when nobody had a vanity plate back in those those days was Larry.

And he did this promo about how he wanted his son to see him wrestle again and blah, blah, blah.

So he's coming back and he's doing this for Larry.

And

that registered, right?

And I mean, it didn't sell out to Mid-South Coliseum,

but

it was the best,

one of the best usages of a real-life tragedy that wasn't in bad taste that I've ever seen in wrestling.

And, you know, but

the problem is at that point, just I don't know how else it might have affected him, but

his in ring was,

it just, it wasn't there anymore.

And then the

reason why he got spot in Louisiana

was not only because Dog had left and they were trying, they tried everybody else, right, as we've talked about.

But Sonny was from Louisiana, I'm pretty sure was living there at the time, and Dundee was was booking, and Dundee knew him from Memphis and thought, well, let's try and see if,

you know, if Sonny can do anything anymore.

And

it didn't work.

But yeah, it's amazing that he was only 39 years old at that time.

Well, there it is, Sonny King.

Again, shocking about how young he was.

You say that about someone who dies in their 70s, but still, you would have thought he was a lot older.

Well, yeah, because it was, so he was on on top in Madison Square Garden in 1971, 72.

That would, he would, that's 52.

He would have been 26, 27.

So that is, you know,

amazing and something you don't think about.

And because of that incident, his career ended right about the time

of home video really exploding.

And then 1984 comes and boom, boom, boom.

And,

you know, by that time, he's done.

The The other thing is, everyone looks younger now.

Everyone dresses younger.

You know, it used to be like you grew up and then you started dressing like an adult.

And like the rock stars got to wear whatever they want.

Well, but what about people's faces?

I mean, they weren't back in those days, people weren't taking a stick to other people's faces.

Just here, ugly you up.

Boom, boom, boom.

And they looked more mature and

older and,

you know, more stentorian-looking type of

visages.

I'm using large words and phrases, but now everybody looks like they're fucking 12.

You have a brain surgeon who looks like a goddamn Boy Scout.

The fuck.

My new doctor is a little too energetic, I think, for his own good.

Why do you say that?

Well, he just, he's always happy.

I don't want happy die.

I want serious doctors.

Anyway, but whatever happened to Sonny, we send our condolences out.

I guess we should wrap that up.

But anyway, I want to make a plea here before we go any further.

I want, and Brian, you can help me out.

What do the kids call them?

If you email me, but you don't want your

real name to be read on the air, send it from your burner account.

Is that the thing the kids say?

No, they don't say that.

They say send $50.

No, no, no.

I want people.

No, here's the thing.

I want, and they can send it to,

well, if they send it to Corney,

what's that drive-through email?

Because I'll never see them.

Corney drive-through at gmail.com.

All right, corny drive-through at gmail.com.

And then you'll see them and you'll send them to me.

And you don't have to

reveal your real name.

I want working industry professionals.

What is happening?

What are you talking about?

No,

I'm putting out a plea, a public plea here.

Email

that Corney drive-through, whatever the fuck that Brian just said.

At gmail.com.

There you go.

And that's C-O-R-N-Y.

There's no E in Corney,

right?

You didn't put an E in there, did you?

Of course not.

Not supposed to be.

No.

Well, I didn't know whether you were on the same page or not.

If you're a professional wrestler right now in this goddamn business,

I want to make up an assumed email address or

express VP

or whatever you need to do.

Or be a man.

Well, if you want to have your name read and attached to your goddamn opinion, then you can say that too, and we'll, by God, tell them how you feel.

But I want somebody to tell, to explain to me

how these people are thinking about the forearm exchange, because I talked to

recently an industry professional who is noted for training talents.

And I'm not going to mention his name because he still trains talents.

And I don't want to get any heat on him.

Is it Johnny Rodds?

No, Johnny and I haven't spoken in several months.

But I said, what do when the kids come to you or the young people come to you or whatever these aspiring wrestlers or existing indie wrestlers that are are trying to get better

what

how do they explain why they're doing the fake forearm exchange class in class in point case in point

the other night in aew and hangdale page and ishi

did 85 forearms back and forth to each other to start the fucking match They all look fake.

If they connect, it's one of those deals where it looks like shit and it hurts.

They don't sell them.

It's repetitive.

It's what everybody does.

So you're violating tons of cardinal rules.

It looks like phony shit in a wrestling match, so that's bullshit there.

It's what everybody else is doing, so it doesn't stand out.

It's so fucking tired.

Why?

What are they seeing when they do this and they watch their

match back on video

and they're not embarrassed, and they're not cringing, and they're not, oh my god, I did that in front of people.

And he can't explain it.

He said, Because they did it in Japan,

but when they did it in Japan, they were really pounding the fuck out of each other.

And besides, it was in Japan, which is a whole different goddamn culture.

And so, I would like if you, any

industry insiders out there, want to email us and tell us

what is it that they, when they come back through the curtain and they've got a smile on their face because they have either forearmed each other

87 times and didn't sell it and it all looked phony or they chopped each other 114 times and all they did was blister each other's chest and stood there and let each other.

What are they fucking seeing in their minds?

Or if you're one of these people

that does this shit, tell us what you're seeing in your fucking mind.

And we'll read the best submissions on the air that can try to explain this

mass hysteria?

What is it, Brian?

The forearms, I think, are the biggest culprit, but it's been the chops.

It's been European uppercuts back and forth.

It's guys standing there and doing these things back and forth, and they're doing them pretty quickly, and in doing so, barely touching touching the person they're doing them to.

It's obvious to the viewer.

And I think it does come from Japan.

And, like you said, when you go watch Kentakabashi and Masawa and Kawata, they were really kicking the shit out of each other in those matches.

They're feeling it today.

The ones who are alive are feeling it today.

So I'm not saying you should go in there and lay that stuff in.

I'm saying just don't do any of that.

Because as a viewer, I hate it.

That Adam Page Ishii match was awful.

And there are fans who thought it was great.

In what way was it great?

Like, you get away with that thing like once.

Like, Kenta Kabashi versus Samoa Joe was a unique moment and time.

You know what I mean?

Like, because Kabashi did one thing, he chopped him.

That's the only thing he did the whole match, really.

But it worked.

It worked there because it was a special attraction making his debut in the States.

But I hate it.

And Moxley's been a big offender.

Claudio, Ishii E, Adam Page now.

Everyone.

everyone does it no matter what size you are.

They just stand there and trade forearms.

And here, while I'm on that plea, and then we'll move on,

if you are a professional wrestler by trade, and you can also explain to me why everybody is trying to block everything.

Why every time you...

Somebody gets on top of somebody and they're trying to punch them, that person on the ground is covering up, is throwing their hands up in the way is fucking, and they're just, so they're windmilling around the person's head and upper torso without landing on anything.

Looking like a goddamn girl fight.

Is that a case you think of people thinking that Vince McMahon was right for some reason?

Because that's a Vince thing, isn't it?

No, Vince's thing was in the corner.

If you back a guy in a corner and he grabs the top rope, as you see people do, and holds it with both hands while he's being choked or he's being punched, then Vince would have a fucking epileptic fit says god damn it look how phony that is because the guy's still holding the rope and waiting to be shot off or whatever he wanted you to try to grab the hands around the throat he wanted you to try to fucking pull it pull them off if it was a choke or if the guy hits you in the gut you sell your gut by holding it and then he hits you in the fucking face

Oh my gosh, you sell that.

He kicks you in the gut again.

So he's opening you up and you're opening yourself up to him.

But you're still reacting to it.

But no, this is, well, and that same thing with

every time they,

if you can't throw something in a working way so a guy that knows what he's doing can take it without trying to block it or and or getting potatoed, then don't do that move.

But they're always putting their hands up on kicks and things.

We were always instructed back in the days before electricity.

And I got a lot of this from Bobby Eaton because he hated when people covered up for his shit because there was so little margin for error that he would potato you.

If you threw your hand up, he'd punch your hand into your face, right?

Or if you tried to cover up or flinch on an elbow drop or a leg off the top, it would drive your own arm into your own face under his leg because he had you, right?

So when you open up and a guy can throw shit at you, at your head, he's got your hair in his left hand and he's punching you in the face because he's sitting on your arms,

then

if he potatoes you, it's his fault because you're open up for him.

But if you're flinching and covering up and everything, then your shit looks like shit

and

so does his.

You see what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So tell me, why the fuck is everybody just goddamn curling up in a ball these days?

So they're just windmilling around the general area of a motherfucker you're trying to be kicking a shit out of while you're at it.

Tell me the reasoning behind that.

And if you want to do MMA, go do MMA.

What the fuck has MMA got to do with this?

I think a lot of these guys see MMA and think they have to incorporate that kind of stuff into pro wrestling.

Well, goddamn.

There's a time when you should be fighting for your life, yes, but there's a time when you need to let the fucking heel get some heat on you.

So you look, you, that is part of the art.

You're not just standing there daring a guy to punch you in the face and over and over again.

You are actively trying and failing to cover yourself up while a fucking guy is kicking the shit out of you.

That's the fucking point.

You need to look like you're trying to avoid it while opening yourself up at the same fucking time

instead of just whatever.

Anyway, don't get me started.

You know why you shouldn't get me started, Brian?

Because you'll never finish?

No, well, that's part of the reason.

It gives me the sour belches.

It gives me an upset stomach.

Granny's got the sour belches.

It gives me an upset stomach.

I start burping and percolating.

And it's all because, you know, it gets in my gut, sticks in my craw, as Mama Cornette used to say.

And when you got bad gut health, well, that's just screwing your whole body up.

Do you know that good gut health can not only help with digestion and regularity, but it makes your skin look better.

You'll have that glow.

People will think you're pregnant.

All because of good gut health.

Well, again, not necessarily, but let's talk about, let's focus on the inside, the gut, the gut health.

Your gut has 38 trillion different bacteria or bacterii

that live in

and or on you, actually all over you, all over your body.

38 trillion bacteria, but most of them are in your gut.

And apparently, many of these are essential to whole body health.

And that's why our friends over at SEED.

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I mean, this is not stuff.

It's not like they've poured coffee grounds into something that you got to take six spoonfuls of.

You just pop these pills.

Most of our audience is familiar with popping pills.

No, no, no, let's not say that.

Let's not.

I don't know if you can

say such a thing.

Many of them are on medication to regulate something or other that they've got going on.

So there's what is many.

Let's not say many.

Let's say there are certainly, certainly, because of the size of the audience, some people out there who, you know, may have the need for help.

Maybe taking medicine on a regular basis.

Oh, let's say, yeah, let's say 90% or whatever.

Let's not say that.

That's ridiculous.

No, no.

But I'll tell you what, you don't know how many trillion of those bacteria you got in your gut are turning on you right now.

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And

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It gets rid of all of the effluvia

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See, you don't even know how your septic tank works, do you?

I don't think anyone's saying any of these things that you say that people are saying.

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How does that work?

How does that even tie into this?

It's just a statistic that they gave me.

But I'll tell you what you can do right now, folks.

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That's another thing.

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That's another statistic that is not here that has just come out of Jim Cornette's ass.

I don't know where that's come from.

No, no, that came straight from the Department of Fecophiliacs in Zurich, Switzerland.

The projectile diarrhea?

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Yeah, that's just to weed out all of the fucking

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They want you to get down to the meat of the matter with all these codes.

Not the meat of the matter, the seed of the matter.

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Alrighty, then.

Should we talk about SmackDown?

That'll take about three to five minutes.

Should we or will we?

Well, we will just so everybody will understand what went on on Saturday when they bashed Berlin in.

Again, they're in the same building two nights in a row.

And they've got,

they didn't actually say they were sold out for SmackDown on August 29th in Berlin.

They said 12,000 plus.

And I think

the place held 13,000.

So they

point is they sold 25,000 tickets in the same city in two days.

Plus, you know, got paid, as we're now understanding.

It happens for these premium events from the German government in some fashion, fashion, the tourism, because they have great drone aerial shots of Berlin, boy.

I'll tell you what,

you wouldn't think that the place had been bombed in the last century.

But they're charging people's firstborn sons for tickets.

How much money do you think they made just at the gate and merchandise in two nights in Berlin?

The way those people were singing and dancing, they were happy to be there.

I know they were jumping up and down

to the point where,

and this is actually, this is a wrestler's dream when you go into,

they used to call it virgin territory, where wrestling had been dark for a while and there'd been no live events.

And then the fans get to come back out.

And if you got a good show, they'd go bat shit because they hadn't seen anything in so long.

Well, these people see shit on TV, but they don't get to see it live that often.

And they went bat shit.

And even the TV audience pretty much saved a lot of this because it was a go-home show where they were already sold out and

money's guaranteed mostly anyway.

And people have made up their minds.

So they're filling fucking time.

But because of the crowd, they could fill the time.

By, you know, watching the crowd react to, you know, simple shit.

And LA LA Night was the first one out, got a huge pop.

And huge LA Night chant, had a big pop for a let me talk to you.

And all he had to say was, hey, it's been 27 years since the last time we did TV in Berlin and then milked the chants.

And then he

mentioned that he won the U.S.

title and they cut him off again.

He wouldn't let him get his promo out.

They were chanting, you deserve it.

So this was like, you know, he just mentioned the topic and they would chant or sing about it.

Am I over-exaggerating this?

No.

And again, we've seen this from these international crowds.

They're so excited to be there for WWE that it's non-stop.

The singing, the dancing, the chanting.

And the most

flimsy reason for he's decided since he defended in the U.S.

Capitol last week, he's going to defend the U.S.

title in Germany's capital this week.

And he calls out anybody.

And here comes Ludwig Kaiser.

And now I'm fucking interested

because now they're blowing again.

He's a fucking, he's a home country.

I mean, I'm not generalizing Germany into one town, but he's from Germany and he's part of.

Gunther's deal, who's in the main event.

They love him.

So this is now

they're fucking going bat shit who normally would be a job guy coming out or somebody we don't give a shit about.

And he speaks German to them and gets a bigger pop.

And then puts himself over and cuts a hell of a promo.

And they start chanting, Ludwig Kaiser.

They chant with an accent.

And then L.A.

Knight.

cut a hell of a promo and they chanted L.A.

Knight, yeah.

So they just, like, yes, yes, they're all going to fight.

And they have a match and for the U.S.

title.

And

they cheered,

especially at the start, most everything that L.A.

Knight did, but they were also, it was the dueling chance and the Ludwig Kaiser chance.

And

both these guys can work.

So the match was good, but the crowd was making it better.

And even at one point, instead of

la knight i think figured out he's got to kind of be the heel instead of doing the yeah heads on the table at that point he cut him off with a belly to back on the apron

and then

every time ludwig kaiser would

you know would do something they would blow and

at one point they were sing chanting

something because it's in German.

I don't know what the fuck.

But they again, the dueling Ludwig Kaiser chance and L.A.

Knight did the yeah heads into the table and still got over.

And they go back and forth at the

going into the finish.

I love the name.

Ludwig Kaiser did the thing where he does the fireman's carry and then does a forward flip and looks like it potatoes the fuck out of your stomach.

And they call it the Kaiser roll.

Apparently you didn't share the same fucking enthusiasm for that that I did I mean he's a heel you're naming his move after a

after

after a succulent bun yeah

uh but anyway

at that point

boom when they hit when he hit the Kaiser roll and covered

it was a two count but they were Einste drei

They were counting with it and it got a big pop and then LA Knight hit a move and they booed.

And then when he hit the BFT, they groaned

and they counted Einst dread

and applauded calmly.

If Kaiser had a one, they would have blown the fucking roof off.

But they still, they didn't want to boo

LA Knight.

So they kind of, okay, yeah, we guess we knew he was going to win all the time, but we had hope for a minute.

Is that sound more like Sweden?

You and these accents, you're not good at this.

Well, Sweden's right next to Germany, isn't it?

You're not good at geography either.

Well,

why do they both wear short pants?

In what, movies?

Yeah, you got the German guy in the short pants and the Swedish guy in the short pants.

Jim, it's not always Oktoberfest.

Well, whatever festival they have, if they're not next door to each other, why have they adopted that same fashion?

The Otto Vons look?

Yes.

With the suspenders, too.

A little schoolboy.

I'm a little schoolboy that weighs 424 pounds.

But anyway, that was the first match on SmackDown.

And would you care to comment on it for your own?

I don't really think there's too much to add to that.

It was fine for what it was, a fine open to the show.

Really, the story was the location and the fans.

And we're going to skip most of the

ble

because there was some ble.

In the Bloodline video,

they had kind of a history package with Solo's dirty deeds talking about taking out Jay, my brother, and Paul, the wise man, and Roman Reigns.

It was Jimmy, his brother.

Or Jimmy, his brother.

Well, they're twins.

But he didn't take out Jay.

He took out Jimmy.

Well, how do we know?

Could be like with Nikki and Bree.

Are they Swizz-itches?

Again, stop with this.

No, but they have different haircuts.

They have different haircuts.

Well, they could have a stylist back there changing things.

We don't know for sure.

No one will ever know for sure.

But taking out Jimmy and taking out Paul and taking out Roman.

He dates around.

And then they've, he said he wants either Cody or Owens, the solo, whoever wins this thing in Berlin.

And that's basically the bloodline update.

And then at the nine o'clock hour,

they had Aldous in the ring and pitching to the European tour video.

I think that was probably part of the

tourism package that they got.

Holy shit.

But it made the guys look like big stars.

They're all over the world.

And then

basically, Aldous introduces Owens and Cody and says, okay, gentlemen, the floor is yours.

And hands up the microphone and gets the fuck out of the ring.

Which

what he's doing a good job it's not as chaotic as Adam Pierce's raw

oh now what are you taking Aldous's side now against Adam Pierce like you got a dog in the hunt here I think when you look at who's running a more orderly show Nick Aldous is the winner I'm just I'm saying it's a bit awkward okay well now that I've called you guys out of here here you take over and just why they nevertheless it's it's

then Owens and Cody had their thing, and honestly, I thought, boy, this is going to be boring or whatever the fuck.

This was one of the better things they've done.

And I'll tell you why I say that so you can be jotting down all the reasons you can disagree with me.

Owens

started out with, well, so Cody, what do you want to talk about?

And Cody was firing the people up, but Owens had kind of a pissy attitude for a babyface, but you can't really tell the difference in working in real life with him having a pissy attitude for a baby face.

But Owens brought up:

well, do you want to talk about what happened to your knee on the tour?

What are you talking about?

I wanted to talk about if you meant to hit me with the

belt last week, like some people said that they thought you might be gunning.

And Owens couldn't, I can't believe you'd think that of me.

But then

they vaguely alluded for the really

deep-cut fan out there, they vaguely alluded to Owens being the one that hooked Cody up with the buckaroos for their temporary friendship to start AEW.

But then Cody got the fans to cheer for Owens, and Owens again said, I know you're hurt.

So if you're not 100%,

I don't want to win that way, kind of like was his,

and Cody started to get pricklish.

What do you mean you're going to win that way?

And Cody said, my knee is fine.

Well, how come you didn't take a knee on your entrance?

He heard that Cody was in a trainer's room for a long time.

And Owen said, when I won eight years ago, my win was tainted.

And

so therefore, when I beat you tomorrow, and Cody finally is a little pissed when you beat me.

And in Cody, this is what I love.

I love two things about this.

They introduced the knee thing to at least give us something to, as Jim Ross used to say, hang our hat on.

Is this going to come into play, or this is how he's going to turn on him, or what will happen with Cody, blah, blah, blah.

And secondly, Cody cut a hell of a promo on Owens

while at the end of it, saying, I love you, dude.

It was a great babyface promo.

So

then finally, and I'll open the floor for you to tear it up.

Cody said, when it's over, will we still be friends?

And Owens dropped the microphone and whispered something to Cody and walked out on him.

And again, I'm interested more than I was in this babyface match because they gave me a little something to

sweeten it up a bit.

What'd you think?

I thought it was just fine.

Again, a little bit more backstory and the knee thing played into the match.

So that was a nice little thing.

On this topic, let me ask you.

I thought you'd tear it up because Cody got

dramatic and Shakespearean in his.

He always does.

You got to pick your spots.

All right.

But let me ask you this.

Word has a rumor is going around that Kevin Owens' contract is coming up again.

I think it's about three years ago or so that we talked about the last time he signed with WWE.

How much money is Tony Kong going to throw at him if that's that's true?

Oh, good lord.

He'll never work again.

He'll retire on what Tony will give him this time.

And well, hold on now.

Because he needs WWE stars, not WWE veterans or anything.

Well, but is the offer going to be before or after the new TV deal is announced?

Because that could play a part.

You never know.

in how much money Tony's throwing around.

But with

Owens being friends with the Buckaroos from way back, and

yes, he is a guy that the WWE has been using on top,

but you know where his mental sentiments lie with the Indy Riff crowd, and that's his brand of wrestling that he'd be doing if he had his brothers.

So, yeah, for five or six million.

And I'll be first one to tell you that right now, Kevin Steen would be more valuable to AEW and a more entertaining asset to the television than Okada, Mercedes,

and fucking two or three other recent acquisitions, not named Osprey,

together.

He wouldn't be able to be Kevin Owens anymore.

He would have to go back.

Yeah, that's why I said Kevin Steen.

Yeah.

But it's not like anybody's going to mistake who the nobody else looks like that.

It's the goddamn blinding flab alone.

Should he just be Kevin?

No.

No, he shouldn't.

No, he shouldn't.

Here's Kevin.

Kevin!

But anyway, but and,

you know,

that's all they needed to get a little

interest going in this thing because

it's been unorthodox, but they made it work.

And as we'll get to when we get to the bash itself,

I'll save it for for that because i'm going to talk about the psychology that this this match though i will preface with this and then later on we'll come back

this match illustrated what i try to talk about and possibly don't articulate as well as i could

about why that their

babyface versus babyface matches in aew

are fucking stupid and do neither side any good involved in it because of the psychology that they don't use versus the psychology that Owens and Cody used.

But we'll save that for the bash here in a minute.

But otherwise, on SmackDown, Andre wrestled Carmelo for a very long time.

And to be quite honest, young Harley Quinn came up to me

and wanted to go out.

And I forgot to hit pause.

And I wasn't sufficiently engrossed in it to fucking come back, go backwards and start again when I came back in and realized my error.

Did I miss anything?

Lucha action.

No, you didn't.

No, you didn't miss anything.

Lucha!

And then the main event was Mia Yim

versus refrigerator jacks in a street fight,

weapons galore, anything goes, lazy booking.

And when I saw Mia wheeling a shopping cart filled up with a garbage can, a kendo stick,

and a chair to the ring, I said, oh, hell no.

And I terminated my viewing of this program.

Did I make the right choice?

Yeah, I think you're fine.

And that was SmackDown.

There you go.

Well, I'll tell you what.

Well, yes, one last thing.

I was kind of surprised.

I'm forgetting the date now.

It may be the 18th or something.

I was surprised they're moving to USA like right now.

It snuck up on me how quick we're there, but they're like in the last episode or two on Fox.

They're doing to what, who now?

SmackDown.

They're going to USA.

Oh, shit, that's right.

Like right now, like in the next couple of weeks, I think.

Oh, shit.

Well, can we Google find that?

Because I need to.

They just gave me a new DVR box in the bedroom, but I need to change the TV room also.

Because that

well, no,

this is September innocent.

The goddamn year is almost over.

Wow, September 13th, 2024 is the first SmackDown on USA Network.

Friday the 13th.

My mama done told me.

Friday that they better hope they're not superstitious.

Or actually, they better not.

But they better not be superstitious.

They shouldn't hope they're not superstitious because

if they're not superstitious, they wouldn't have to hope that, would they?

They're superstitious, they could license the Stevie Wonder song or maybe even the Jeff Beck song.

Well, the 13-month-old baby who broke the looking glass means that

they're going to be on USA for seven years.

Is that what you're saying now?

Did I say that?

Starting September 30th.

Well, seven years of bad luck.

Oh, I guess so.

Well, that's SmackDown.

Well, now, hold on now.

So let's recap this

because I got to figure out how I'm going to be watching all this shit.

Now,

SmackDown is just switching over to USA on September 13th, right?

That's just, that's a clean, that's where they're going to be for a while.

It's just a clean jump.

That means the next episode is the last Fox episode.

Oh, boy, I bet they'll bleep everything.

But Raw, well,

NXT is going to CW

instead of being on USA.

I think that's October.

That's in October.

And I want to check out the first few episodes of that to see what they do because they're taking them on the road.

I know they're in Chicago with Punk and then St.

Louis with Randy Orton.

Yes.

I want to see what the tone of the show is going to be.

Well, and also, one would think you'll have that atmosphere with Punk in Chicago and St.

Louis.

Besides Randy Orton, all they can claim is Emo's Pizza.

So

NXT to CW in October on the 1st, and

Raw

is going to Netflix

in January.

But where's it fucking?

Somebody said, where's it going

between now and January?

Is it staying where it is?

I think they got an extension with USA Network.

They got an extension.

Okay, so we're going to have wrestling on USA on the Mondays and the Fridays.

And the the CW on the Tuesdays.

And the TBS on the Wednesdays.

And the TBS on the Friday.

And the TBS on a Saturday.

No, TNT on Saturday.

Or TNT on a Saturday.

Jesus Christ.

I'm surprised that people have time to go to work.

Well, that's the thing.

Well, you know what?

You know what?

Here's the thing is now, that's why most people are working from home these days, Brian, because they don't have time to go to work.

They wouldn't have time to watch all the wrestling programs.

There's a lot.

And so that's why people have decided to just make themselves their own business.

It's easy, folks.

All you got to do is come up with an idea or a product or a service that you would like to.

perform or provide

and then you just sell that to everybody in the world and you say well is it that easy and i'm here to say yes it is because we know people at shopify

see every time that somebody says the word shopify

not only does an angel get its wings but some poor sap out there makes some more money

and you don't even have to be very smart folks i'm talking to the stupid people out there right now

You don't even have to really have anything worth anything.

If you could just figure out a good line of bullshit, Shopify is such a worldwide business platform that they'll be able to sell your bullshit.

They could probably sell ice cubes to Eskimos.

Well, you could sell it using their wonderful platform.

Well, yeah, because their platform is so big and from that bully pulpit, they can pummel the average customer into submission.

They will actually,

they're so big, they send bullying emails and computer pulses out to the consumer saying, you better buy these products or elsewhere we're going to come over and beat you up.

And so instantly, when you've got these people, it's like working for Al Capone's mob in Chicago.

It's

not with these people.

You're not connected with anyone.

It's nothing like that.

Well, you're going to be connected with Shopify because they're the number one checkout on the planet.

And they have Shop Pay that boosts conversions up to 50%.

That's another way of saying they're going to shake the marks down.

And less carts are going abandoned and way more sales are going

because people are scared to abandon those carts because they know that Shopify will track them down and exact revenge.

So, folks, if you're into growing your business, your commerce platform, better be ready to sell wherever your customers are, whether they're scrolling or strolling or on the web, in your store, in their fields.

I'm sorry, in their feed.

French is very small.

Everywhere.

I'm telling you, they're omnipresent.

The platform that Shopify will give you is going to invade people's lives at random.

And like a virus, there's nothing they can do to get them out of it.

That's not a way to look at it.

That's not the way we're going to look at it.

It is a wonderful service.

Bring your products to a wide audience and sell them very easily with Shopify.

Yes, they will be broadcast to the most incredibly wide audience.

As a matter of fact, it's like the old TV show, The Prisoner.

There was the guy.

He was in the town and he couldn't escape.

He couldn't get away.

You'll never be able to get away from Shopify telling people about your stuff.

Well, no, no, it's enabled that way.

That's no.

And they'll put a virtual website hammer lock on these people and make them tap out their money to your store.

They will simply help you sell your goods online and they will do it well.

That's the Shopify way.

That's right.

It's called the strong arm method.

So, folks, upgrade your business.

Not that method.

Right now.

Upgrade your business.

Sign up for your $1 a month trial period at shopify.com slash Cornette.

All lowercase is Cornette, even though I'm a big deal.

It's in lowercase.

Shopify.com/slash Cornet to upgrade your selling today with our friends at shopify.com because nobody does selling better than Shopify.

What about Ricky Morton?

Well, now they're going to start talking about he's selling like Shopify

because Ricky Morton has been replaced.

Well,

Shopify, that's right.

Kaching.

See, you can hear that again.

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I can't even talk about mothership.

Oh, boy, I'll tell you, you know, I have a feeling that your children have been having to explain your behavior around the neighborhood for quite some time.

So don't.

What have you heard?

Well, there's rumors going around the town that they don't want you around.

Really?

But speaking of Berlin, as we were, and the bash in Berlin.

On August 31st, at red letter day, when the first big premium live event comes to

the capital of Germany, soon to be coming to the capital of your country, apparently.

They're going crazy with this now.

And again, this was, it was one o'clock in the afternoon here in America, but it doesn't matter because it's on the cock and you can watch it anytime you want.

And they were in the same building that they were Friday night for SmackDown, had 12,000 people Friday.

This time they said 13,149.

And

I assumed, are they exaggerating?

Because it looked fucking gigantic.

I mean, the way they shot this building, it was kind of an odd shape, a very oval thing.

And you could see almost everybody from their

high camera with the fisheye lens or whatever.

Is it still a fisheye lens these days, Brian?

Why wouldn't it be?

Well, I don't know if they've changed the terminology of everything else.

I thought maybe the fish fucking lobby would have got upset.

It's not our fault we have those eyes.

The people who fuck fish?

No, there's actually a fish fucking story.

Actually, did you see that somewhere this

no, this woman was arrested here recently

for

having some type of sexual relations with a trout on her OnlyFans.

And I don't have any more details on exactly.

That was on your news?

You You saw that on TV?

That was on TV somewhere.

I'm trying to remember where I saw that.

Well, hopefully, the fish fucking lobby can get to her and help her out.

Well, no, it was just the fish rights lobby.

I was thinking more about it.

You know,

fish are unable to do anything about the fact that they have fish eyes.

They just stare at those bulbous fish eyes.

So that could be considered a goddamn

you can't say the word handicap anymore.

It could be a disability to have the fish eyes.

So the fish lobby would say, don't dare you ever call those lenses fish eye lenses again because it's not the fish's fault and makes them feel bad.

Maybe so.

Maybe so.

Maybe so.

They have some kind of post-traumatic casting disorder.

It's the most ridiculous thing you've ever talked about, ever.

I used to go fishing with my mom.

When I was a kid, I was a very good caster.

You cast the line out there in the middle of the, I like to just see how far I could throw it.

I didn't want to even catch anything.

I just wanted to throw the.

So you were a max caster?

Yes, I was a maximum caster.

Anyhow, let's get back to Berlin.

Let's not.

See, I was trying to get us out of Berlin.

Well,

this is not no longer World War II.

We don't have to escape Berlin.

The WWE title match was up first

with Kevin Owens and Cody Rhodes.

And

I alluded to this earlier.

We talked about their promo on SmackDown.

Both guys were over when they came out.

It's a babyface match.

I think Cody probably, especially because of his, he still has the luster of his newness and his, you know, story being finished and et cetera, he's, he's more popular, one would think, but these people were happy to see everybody.

But he didn't take the knee on the entrance again, so the announcers could speculate on what Owens had brought

Is his knee injured or not?

He keeps denying it.

And that's a great detail they put in.

And then

they had dueling.

They shook hands like a babyface match at the start, but they were chanting in German.

They were cheering.

They were chanting Kevin Owens, Cody Rhodes.

And

here's what I was going to talk about about the psychology of the match.

And I'm not even trying to knock Owens

Having an old-style world championship match with

no bullshit per se, and especially not to the standards of the modern era, and doing athletic spots and hitting the ropes and things, it's not Owens's strong point.

He's not the, you know, he's very athletic for that shape, but doing one tackle, drop-down, hip-tos, kickoff, arm drag, briscoe and funk stuff, that's not his forte.

So he was trying here

because Cody was trying to have

a world title match with no bullshit with another wrestler where neither guy was cheating.

Neither guy was the heel per se.

If this had been American crowd and they picked one side or the other,

They still would have done basically the same thing.

One guy may have decided to be a little subtle heel.

But

when I talk about the matches in AEW, where suddenly two babyfaces are put together with no hard feelings between them,

and within five minutes, they're out there trying to pile drive a motherfucker through a table or chokeslam him onto the goddamn steel stairs and break his neck and end his career.

And I'm like, why?

What the fuck?

Because

they approach this as a show.

Indie guys approach it as a show

to do moves to each other so the people will pop and then you know say this is awesome when they're at a rec center.

And

you know, it's all about the show, the performance that they're putting on.

But this was approached as what would we do if we were really who we were purported to be?

If we really claim we're friends, Cody's an honorable guy, but Owens is trying to be an honorable guy.

We have no personal grudge against each other that's been,

you know,

fucking, no angle's been shot, no grudge has been drudged up.

It's for the belt.

So we're going to try to win.

We're going to punch our friend in the face, but we're not going to try to break his leg and hospitalize him.

And that's the way they worked this match.

They were trying to do their moves to each other, and they did,

but they weren't trying to break necks or end careers.

They weren't doing stuff behind the referee's back.

One guy wasn't just hauling off and kicking the other guy into balls every chance he got.

That's what the psychology.

And they had the fans chanting, this is awesome.

And they had the fucking people popping on the two counts.

And,

you know, and they sold things when

cody foiled a stunner and hit the crossroads and got a two count

but it wasn't just immediately covering it was a struggle to cover owens hit a suplex off the top rope and struggled to cover and then got a two count

they were hitting their moves

but they weren't cheating to do it They were not violating

the logic of who Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens were supposed supposed to be.

Have I said that correctly?

I think so, and that was a big part of the match, the whole tease of will he do something to the knee.

And that's why finally, as they were going into it, they did a big back and forth.

And then Cody leaped to the top like he's going to do the disaster kick, Cody cutter, whatever, and his knee buckle.

And as he's selling it, Owens went like he's going to go for the chop block, but he stopped.

He's like,

because he had said, I don't want to win that way if it's going to be tainted again.

And then Cody rolled out of the floor and they're checking me.

He's like, I'm okay.

And he's fighting back.

So Owen says, well, fuck it.

Then I'll kick the leg.

And then he went to powerbomb him on the apron,

but he wouldn't do it.

He said, ah, fuck it.

And again, somebody's going to say, well, Cornette,

you hate it when so-and-so wouldn't give the

fucking Bengal Tiger driver

25-25 to so-and-so.

And because context, again, is key.

When you have a baby face

being conflicted and not, when he has the chance, not delivering on a heel who has fucked with him and fucked with his possessions and said bad things about his family.

and is generally a prick to everybody and the people want to see him get dropped on his head.

When a babyface doesn't do that, he's a pussy.

But in this case, Owens is wrestling a friend of his who, if he beats him, he didn't want to beat him if he was fucking hurt because then it would be cheap.

And Owens is a babyface too.

There is where you can

can show,

can show conflicted emotions.

About what because Cody's done nothing to fucking Owens to deserve revenge,

right?

Over and above the Call of Duty.

So he rolls Cody in and he hits him with a stunner and gets a two count.

They go back and forth again.

He hits him with another stunner, gets another two count.

And then Owens, I believe, missed a swanton and Cody

hit the fucking crossroads.

One, two, three.

As a matter of fact, Cody raised his knees

and Owens Swantoned his bad knee and his good knee.

And then Cody hit the crossroads one, two, three.

But this was actually better than I expected it to be in terms of being exciting and gripping back and forth.

But it was a good babyface match.

And then they shook and hugged.

I don't know.

Did they kiss?

I'm not sure they kissed, but they shook hands and they hugged.

There's nothing else really to say.

I mean, it was fine, right?

I mean, I don't know what there is to say.

It was a good match between two baby faces, no turn.

Do you see that as a goodbye to Kevin Owens, or do you see that as,

you know, on then something new?

And do you think this is just going to be the continuing storyline with Cody Rhodes?

Every friend he has, he'll wrestle.

And will it be honorable or not?

Well, I don't think it's going to be a continuing storyline where he wrestles a lot of his friends because then that will make it normal and not special.

I think

if Owens' contract is up, then they got this job out of him, and it was probably one of the best ones, if not the best one, they could have got because it will mean more the way they did this if they're saying Sayonara.

But also,

this was brilliant

if they're if Orton is going to turn on Cody at some point for a WrestleMania or a SummerSlam or something at a stadium,

then now they've done it where you thought Steen was going to,

Owens, whatever, and he didn't.

So now will they be able to get away with the milk again?

But this time Orton would do it.

See, that's what I'm saying.

They can look back and say, well, we thought the same thing about Owens, but he was okay.

So it's just,

I think it's great on a number of levels.

But

it's very hard to do something like that and keep it exciting whether or not you've got the rabid crowd.

And I thought they did a good job of this.

But yeah, just hitting the ropes and doing fucking extended high spots and not necessarily Owens' forte, but he was trying.

He was trying.

But it was the story, Brian, the story that carried us through.

To the next match.

To the next match.

And what was the story in the women's tag team title match between Jade Cargill and Bianca Bel Air and Albafire and Isla Dawn?

The story was, how little can Jade actually work in the ring?

How long can Jade's legs hold up while she's standing on the apron?

Well, I skipped over this because I was running low on time, ladies and gentlemen.

Because I was in the middle of a fucking snake disposal.

Can I say one thing, not to say Jade Cargill is, you know, Ric Flair, because she isn't.

But it really wasn't that.

It was more watching her with Bianca.

Which one is the dark-haired one, Isla or Isla?

That's the same person.

Whichever one, the dark-haired one, I thought she was working really

AEW level almost, like really sloppy.

So that was my impression.

Well,

and basically, they're still hiding

Jade as they should be

until they pull the trigger on whatever they're doing with these two.

But

anywho, I skipped over that so that I could have a fresh drink,

nice ice-cold Sprite Zero,

sat down to watch the strap match.

Because we've been waiting on this one.

Both men fastened together, left wrist to left wrist with a leather strap,

and Drew McIntyre, he made his entrance,

all the pomp and pageantry, and then

Luck Mussolini

in Germany.

I'm wondering if it gets over in Germany or does it hit a nerve when they say, like Mussolini?

Very interesting.

I hadn't thought of that point.

I'm wondering if they enjoy that part of the song.

What happens when they go to Italy?

Well, I bet they'd enjoy it even less when they.

Well, all these people,

they probably don't really remember Mussolini personally.

Maybe they've seen the photos.

Well, he was in all the papers.

But I'm wondering if maybe grandma or grandpa might not appreciate mentions of

Mr.

Mussolini.

Nevertheless,

again,

they're a big, it's clobbering time.

Punk's over.

They're cheering.

That's where Michael Cole mentioned that, you know, he's never lost a strap match.

Punk, he won the OVW title in a strap match.

So they've opened up on references.

And also, I heard several times people being referred to as professional wrestlers by the announcers, for whatever that's worth.

But anyway,

on this strap match, as soon as Punk gets up on the apron and he's not even gotten a ring yet, McIntyre, boom, from behind, knocks him to the floor and jump-starts it

and drops him on the German desk and gets some heat in the ring and gets the strap and starts whipping Punk.

And then Drew put the strap on himself and punk.

And the only,

I guess that's the way they do it these days, but the only detail, the referee didn't actually hook them up at one point.

The referee didn't actually hook them or strap them in, so to speak.

They could let go of the strap.

It used to be there was a buckle and you could buckle it on, but nevertheless,

Drew put the strap on himself and punk and started started whipping the shit out of him again.

And

here's where they,

what did you think about the lights in the corners?

It was nice for a visual, I guess.

Each corner had a red light and a green light.

So McIntyre was red, Punk was green.

If they touched the corner, it would light up as a visual illustration to people.

But

I guess in a building that big, you almost do need something for the the people way in the back because they wouldn't have been able to see the

touching behind the back things and all the other stuff.

But they count along.

I thought it was a nice visual.

Nothing wrong with it.

But somebody needed to be a little quicker on the switch before they got the hang of it.

Because they weren't

right at the start, there was a little delay on the thing.

But anyway, so boom, boom, boom.

He's kicking his shit out of punk, and out of nowhere, punk hits the GTS and starts whipping McIntyre.

And then they went back and forth.

And

again, a spot I love is when

Punk tries to pull out a table, and McIntyre stops him and puts the table back under the ring.

I love taking the table away from people as a heel move because they just.

Anyway, at one point, I guess it looked like Punk got hardweighed.

over the left eye a little bit, and McIntyre worked on it.

And then they went back and forth again with the old strap spots.

If one guy was in charge and the other guy got a chance to pull him into the ring post or whatever,

they would do it.

And then, you know, Punk pulled the table out again and set it up, but McIntyre hit the claymore.

And then he was sold and finally got up and hit three turnbuckles, but Punk drug him into a chair that he had set up in the corner.

And they're chanting CM Punk.

Punk.

And so finally that

at least if they were going to do it,

this is a new one for the table.

The table's sitting there at ringside and they're in the ring and Punk goes for his bulldog and McIntyre just scoops him up and drops him over the top rope through that table.

So at least you didn't see that come until the end.

I haven't seen that one before.

Have you?

I don't think so.

And it makes more sense than this other shit where they're hanging on and teeter-tottering, but nevertheless,

then they started doing the spot

where McIntyre picked Punk up over his back and he would touch a buckle, but as he turned, Punk would touch it.

And so both the lights would go on.

And they did the second buckle the same and then the third buckle the same.

And then they started fighting to the fourth buckle.

And I don't, how closely were you listening to the commentary where they explained the rules?

I can't say I was listening terribly close to the commentary about the rules.

Well, I mean, when they were breaking the count or whatever, because I saw a couple people on Twitter were confused, like, what the fuck?

I mean, they definitely, I think, indicate, well, actually, now that I think about it, they may not have said that you're allowed to do something to the downed opponent and not lose your place because you're the person in charge at that moment.

Well, and or they may have said it like that where nobody would fucking be able to figure out what it meant.

Exactly.

Yes, but the way we always explained it was

if your opponent strikes an offensive blow, it stops your count.

So in other words, if I pickle you and you're down and I go and I touch one buckle and two buckles and three buckles, and I can come over and kick you in the head and go to the fourth buckle, but if I come over and you punch me in the stomach, that clears my fucking turnbuckles.

See what I'm saying?

Offensive move clears the fucking count of the guy that has has the count going.

So

when they were struggling to number four and they started fighting again, it reset everything,

which we were saying they weren't going to do that finish, but we didn't say they weren't going to do it as a fucking spot.

So then they had a big staggering one-two hockey fight type of thing, double kick.

Punk got the sharpshooter and McIntyre both tapped out and grabbed the ropes, but neither one counted.

So when McIntyre passed out, Punk got two turnbuckles, but McIntyre stopped him.

And then McIntyre pulled the bracelet out of his tights and the AJ and Larry bracelet and put it on his wrist and hit a Claymore

and got three turnbuckles, but Punk pulled him into a GTS.

And then

Punk started to go to a buckle, but saw the goddamn bracelet and said, ah, fuck it, and picked him up and gave him another one.

And then he got two turnbuckles and then went back and gave him another go-to-sleep, and then the third buckle and another go-to-sleep,

and then took his bracelet off and went back and touched the fourth turnbuckle with the bracelet.

And that's why the count did not stop in between those because it was the guy in charge

doing the offensive blows to his opponent rather than the guy that's down stopping him.

So it was, I thought it was great that,

what is that?

One, two, three, four.

He hit him with his finish four times, one time pretty much for every fucking buckle.

So McIntyre's got an out,

and at the same time,

Punk goes over, which he kind of needed to there because of the,

you know, the, the amount of, they said that was the first WWE match he's won in 10 years.

So, and

he's got to do one.

He's got to win one every 10 years, I think, at this point, doesn't he?

Well, I think he'll win another one before then.

My biggest problem, I like the match, but I thought it was too drawn out

in between each turnbuckle.

And

a couple times, I think Punk had more slack than he wanted to at that moment.

so he had to almost make it look like he didn't.

Yeah, kind of, oh, golly, I'm straining, and there's not a lot of strain in the thing.

That's my only complaint, but I think it told a good story.

And I mean, the only thing is, it almost looked like the end of the story.

But I guess, Drew, if he wants to,

I mean, Drew can't let that go, he'll have to do something.

So, well, see, that's the thing.

We don't know yet what's going to happen on Monday Night Raw because it ain't Monday night yet.

But

again, you can't think that Drew McIntyre is going to to let this go.

But at the same time, if he had fucked Punk in this instance, then you start taking more out of Punk's bank account as far as goodwill and over, his over account,

then you really want to.

He had to come back and show that he was going to do something.

Whether that was the...

The exclamation point on it or not remains to be seen.

But I thought it was a heck of a strap match considering the modern-day

standards that we are living with these days for everything.

But you know, Brian, there's one modern-day standard that we all can live with and be proud of: digital porn.

Well, okay, two.

The one I was going to mention was the fact that even for a very little amount of money, you can have the great artists of all music in your head at all times, where you can hear Beethoven and Brahms and Bach

and Bachmann-Turner Overdrive and everybody in between.

That's probably what Punk was doing all the way to Berlin on the plane was listening to motivational music on his Raycon everyday wireless earbuds.

I bet you he's got some because he's a man who likes the finer things in life, but he's also he remembers his humble beginnings and he doesn't want to spend a lot of money if he doesn't have to.

Don't you think that these would be perfect for a man of the sensibilities of CM Punk?

I think this would be a fine addition for him and even his enemies.

Maybe this could be a way to bring them together.

He can gift Drew McIntyre a nice, brand new pair of it, Raycon earbuds in English.

A nice, brand new pair of Raycon earbuds.

Or he could just leave you completely out of it and I'll take over from here.

Because, folks, right now, the Raycon upgraded everyday earbuds, you get get active noise cancellation, ergonomic design, multi-point connectivity.

You can pair with two devices at once.

And normally, you can only do that in an adult theater after midnight.

They're available in a

vibrant supply of colors, a variety of vibrant new colors to complement any and all skin tones.

I was not even aware.

that they had come up with new skin tones.

But now Raycon's on top of it.

If you're one of the purple people,

if you're one of the purple people from Panama.

Purple people.

Well, they sent new skin tones, new colors to complement any and all skin tones.

They're talking about new colors of headphones.

Yeah, no, it's.

It's a compliment, not to directly copy.

There aren't purple.

Well, what?

I thought they were trying to camouflage them.

Like, if it looks like your skin, like a band-aid.

See, you know, and a lot of the minorities got screwed on band-aids.

Because not only couldn't you hide them, it wasn't flesh colored, it stood right out.

And everybody knew if you had a fucking zit or whatever.

Use a band-aid for a zit?

Use a band-aid for a zit?

Well, if you want to cover it up.

On your face?

Well, maybe it's on your finger and you don't want your girlfriend to go, hey, you got zits on your fingers?

But, well, you never know what can happen when you're young.

But besides that, I thought the idea of having earbuds and skin tones was so you could put them in your ears and nobody would know that you're listening to your earbuds, so they would just think that you're goddamn ignoring them.

It's a compliment, the same way, like the right color shoes could compliment your shirt.

I didn't, I didn't know that anybody would notice what color shoes you're wearing if your shirt is nice enough.

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And we're going to go back to Germany.

Back to Germany.

When I'm calling you.

and we had the real quick, as we are recording, before we get back to Germany, just because what you just did reminded me of it, something's going around right now on Twitter.

Tomohiro Ishii has posted a picture on his blog of flying on Tony Khan's private jet after Capital Collision

alongside Leo Rush.

So Tony's taking all the boys up in his jet now.

When was Capital, what was Capital Collision?

I have no idea.

Well, they were in Washington last, so it was last week's dynamite, is what it was.

And

Leo Rush and Ishii made the fucking.

Are you sure he wasn't using them for like his stewardesses?

I don't know about that, but let's go back to Germany.

All righty.

The mixed tag team matched Dominic Mysterio and Liv Morgan against Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley.

And I tell you what,

again, I love this one too.

Because remember, we were talking about how much is too much, how much can Rhea get her hands on Dominic before the match, and they teased it and then it got a little bit and then had the big one taken away, and et cetera.

And they did a great job in this one also of

keeping it moving and not paying everything off till the end.

But at the same time, Dominic was still able to take plenty of bumps, even a few for Rhea.

And

the crowd,

whereas in

the other matches, some of the other, like Ludwig Kaiser and L.A.

Knight from SmackDown, they cheered both guys.

And Gunther and Orton, we'll hear later on, you know, they loved both guys.

Owens and Cody, oh, yeah, cheer for both guys.

They booed the shit out of Dominic Mysterio and Liv Morgan.

And they wanted to see Priest and Ripley.

And this is probably the most over Priest has been just because he was standing next to Rhea, you think?

And I told you the other day, the ultimate compliment, Liv Morgan could be a valet in world class.

Her and Dominic together are great.

And even though Rhea and Priest are both significantly larger than both of their opponents, it worked.

Rhea may have gotten her hands on Dominic more than Liv.

Well, and see, that's the thing is

at the start, they shine the baby baby faces priest beat the shit out of dom and he has to right because

they had that's who they would be and the fans chanted we want mommy so then that they do the rules where supposed when a girl tags in the other girl has to tag in

so rhea beat the shit out of liv and the fans loved that

and then liv tagged dominic and priest pulled him in and beat the shit out of him again

But then Liv

was the distraction.

And she also, during during the heat, she'd interfere like the heel manager.

But she distracted Priest and Dominic stopped him.

And they got enough heat on Priest

to where he could make a tag to Rhea, although

I'll say this now, and it goes for the next tag also.

Somebody, please work with these poor people on hot tags.

It could have...

They just go over and tag when it's time with the other guy down in the ring and not trying to stop anybody.

If they could build their hot tags, they would blow the roof off these fucking places.

But anyway, Priest cold tagged Ria,

and Rhea made a comeback on live, and she's got all the fire in the world.

I'm not saying that people booed or that they didn't cheer, but it's just a cold tag is when you do nothing to fucking build to a goddamn pop.

Just air, boom.

I've said this a million times, though.

I've illustrated that.

Can they go to the YouTube channel and hear Jim Cornette on hot tags, I wonder?

I don't know, actually.

Well, goddammit, fix it so they can if they can't.

You're in charge of these things.

Tell somebody what to do.

I will work with AI Cornette tonight on it.

How about that asshole Sharknado or Kippleman or somebody?

Well, we need the clip before we can just add it there.

I don't know if there's a clip is the point.

Well, I've said this a bunch of times.

It's out there somewhere floating in the ether.

Out of how many episodes, when was the last time?

Well, there's all, we've only, what have we done?

A thousand of these?

Maybe.

This is episode 548 of The Experience.

Well, it might have been on the drive-through.

So there's 300 and something of those.

Well,

yeah, go.

It's less than a thousand, so it shouldn't be that hard.

They're only what, three, four hours apiece?

All right.

All right.

Anyway, so then Rhea sees Dominic and Dominic, homina, homina, hominin.

And Dominic says, oh, give me a hug, mommy.

And Rhea clotheslines the shit out of him and gets a leg choke on him in the corner and bumps Liv and goes for the riptide on Dominic and Liv saves him in the nick of time.

And then they beat up Rhea for a minute and she cold tagged Priest.

Just there was no way anybody could stop her.

Just boom.

And Priest made a comeback.

And it broke into a big four-way.

And then

Priest and Rhea did double razors' edges on both the heels, and Priest was going to choke slam Dominic.

And here comes Carlito and JD,

and a babyface to stop them, but Finn comes in

and nails Priest, and Dominic hits a big 619 in a splash and gets a two count.

And then the girls come back in.

And Priest and Finn and Dom are fighting on the floor.

And Dom

ran at Priest on the top of the desk.

They had the two desks side by side, but Priest clotheslined him, and Dominic took a flip bump on the fucking desk.

And then Rhea head-butted Liv and gave her the riptide.

Boom!

Eins dwei dre.

And that was the end of that.

Boom.

They had to win.

There was no, and

I didn't know that they would beat Liv.

I kind of wish that they had had Liv or Rhea beat Dominic

and let the referee count it anyway.

That would have been a little fucking extra out for the heels.

But

Rhea needed to win this because she's the biggest babyface star.

And I don't know that it hurts Dominic and Liv to lose because they're just such.

annoying heels in that vein.

They don't need to be dominant in the win-loss category.

But I like this fucking thing, too.

I thought it was really good.

I'm a big fan of Liv and Dom together as sneaky chicken shit heels

who don't stop.

Like, Liv Morgan goes down and then get up and jump on someone's back.

And I thought this was really good, and I really liked it.

And I think that they don't lose any heat.

They lost the match, and they can come back on Raw and pick up all their heat.

Pick it up in a purdy basket.

But now it's time, Brian.

Time for the world title to be on the line.

I know the world title was just on the line four matches ago, but it's another world title.

It's another world.

Did you ever watch another world or was that still on when you were a kid?

I never really watched it, no.

You struck me as being a soap opera fan when you'd be about seven, eight, nine.

No, I was watching cartoons.

See, that surprises me.

I thought you'd have been tied into all the latest goings-on at General Hospital.

That's what's missing today for kids, kids, especially boys.

There's no Thundercats, soap operas, Thundercats, G.I.

Joe, He-Man, Transformers, Voltron, just all these great cartoons.

I thought you meant General Hospital and One Life to Live.

No, apparently, some of those are still around.

Well, we got one more match to go, if not One Life to Live, for the world title Randy Orton versus Gunther.

And this was the

ultimate example of this crowd going absolutely berserk.

Because Orton's been in the WWF for 20 years or more,

and he's over, and he's an icon, and Gunther

is

the

most well-known German wrestler in the United States since Fritz von Erich, and he's better known

in Germany than Fritz von Erich was because Fritz von Erich wasn't really German.

Neither is he.

He's Austrian.

Well, same thing.

It's not the same thing.

These people were going nuts for him.

Germany invaded Austria.

Okay.

Well, wait a minute.

What do they speak in Germany?

What language?

Okay, what language do they speak in Austria?

Austrian?

See, you hate to give up a point, don't you?

Well, just, I mean, I don't know what

they speak German, but again, that doesn't dispel anything about the fact that Germany invaded Austria.

If all of a sudden the Austrians are speaking German, they taught them a goddamn lesson, too, didn't they?

Because they still loved the Austrians in Germany because they loved Gunther.

Well, yeah, let's get back.

Let's get away from World War II and let's get back to World War III.

I'm just saying he's closer than St.

Louis to a hometown hero is Gunther.

And that's the way that they were taking him.

So

I think that your...

Problem with the people of Austria is

old-fashioned.

I don't have a problem with the people of Austria.

Well, anyway, the people liked everybody here.

They sang Orton's song, which they played over and over and over.

He got the world record for milking the fucking crowd just standing there in the spotlight.

And then they played Gunther's music and they're singing his.

I've never heard anybody sing Gunther's song.

But they were singing his song too.

And on the ring introductions, Orton gets the big pop from

our girl Samantha, her introduction, and then

Han comes in the screen, and there's Ludwig, our boy Ludwig Kaiser.

And he demanded the microphone, and they cheered that.

And then he spoke German, and they cheered that.

And then English, and he introduced Gunther, and they cheered the shit out of Gunther.

And then they tried to ring the bell.

Well, they did, but more singing broke out.

And then

they had a bit of a wrestling match.

They did a couple of headlock takeovers, and the crowd wouldn't stop chanting and screaming whether they were doing anything or not.

So they just stopped and stared at each other and let the crowd scream and yell, and the people are batshit.

And then they started doing the wave.

And so Orton waited for it to go around and then fucking joined the wave and the place went batshit about that.

I mean, this is literally every professional wrestler's dream.

Just go out and stand in the ring and have the people jumping up and down, having a fucking manic fit, and then lock up.

Anyhow,

did you notice it was an old-style ring?

They didn't have the LED posts.

I didn't notice that, no.

Okay, well, it's all

you're looking for it, so I didn't pay attention.

Well, when they were out fighting on the floor, it was refreshing to see actual metal ring posts again rather than all this fancy shit.

And it's good.

It's suitable because Gunther and Orton are an old-fashioned couple of workers.

That's why this was as good of a match as it was.

Gunther was going to be

the hero in this thing to the German crowd.

But they, again, same thing as with Cody and Owens.

They didn't want to just boo the shit out of Orton.

And they worked it this way.

And Orton can be a little more heelish than Cody because it's in his nature.

It's Randy Orton's personality.

And so, but again, Orton wasn't cheating, pulling out foreign objects, doing things behind a referee's back, taking a cheap shot, capitalizing, but he got heat.

on Gunther's right arm that Gunther does the chops with.

And that's smart, not heelish, but the crowd didn't like it

because they want to see Gunther, their boy, chop.

And

Gunther,

without switching babyface and just doing a Ricky Morton and mouthing help me to the crowd, was fighting from underneath.

And

when he would chop, he would sell the arm like, oh, shit, I shouldn't have done that.

But it's like Gunther was the very subtle babyface figure in a lot of this when he was fighting from underneath and Orton was cranking on that arm.

And then they're back and forth with the stiff shots.

It was a selling class

on guys staggering and registering and/or outright taking a bump and the varying degrees of it in

fighting each other.

At one point,

Gunther threw a bunch of kicks, and Orton just reached up and poked him in the eye.

And the crowd booed that.

But that got more response than on a lot of shows or in some other WWE matches when the fucking heel takes a goddamn hockey stick and hits the guy in the fucking dick with it.

And but then as soon as Randy hit the draping DDT, the crowd was chanting RKO, RKO, because they wanted to see that.

And then when he tried it, Gunther ducked and German suplexed him and dropkicked him, splash off the top and got a two count.

And on the splash, Gunther hooked Orton's leg with his left arm,

still selling the right arm.

And now the people are chanting, this is awesome.

And they go back and forth with some more false finishes.

And then finally, Orton had set

the metal stairs up

next to the desk, and he bounced Gunther off of them over and over, and then gave him the big drop onto the announce desk that he does, and the desk collapsed.

So, Orton drags Gunther to the ring, try to beat him, and goes for the RKO, and Gunther slips it and gets the sleeper.

And then Orton breaks it, but Gunther gets it back.

And then

Gunther gives him the elbows, and another sleeper.

And Orton picks him up on his shoulders and falls backwards and breaks it, but Gunther gets it back and more elbows.

And then finally, Orton passes out, out and the referee rings the bell.

Great match.

I hate these stationary finishes.

And I know they were still fighting for it and everything,

but that's another one of these modern

tropes, as they say,

that

it just, when you're in that...

that same place in that same general position for that long,

and there is some element of it being a foregone conclusion, and it's not,

it doesn't give people the exhilaration of an incredible one, two, three

that they didn't expect or were waiting to see, and suddenly it's right in front of them, and they got three seconds to register it.

Does that make sense to you?

It makes sense to me.

And I know typically you always, I'm not put down, but you're not a fan of submission finishers.

Well, submission, yes, when it doesn't,

they were there for a while.

Put the fucking hold on the guy and they go, oh, shit, any

fights and he can't and he taps or whatever.

But going back to it, going back to it, I see what they're doing, but it's just still, there's no big bump.

There's no big moment.

There's no big revealing

whatever.

There's no big anticipation.

Oh, it's, you know.

What did you think of them shaking hands after the bout?

Well, I hadn't got there yet,

but I will now.

As they got up and regathered their wits about them,

then they and by the way, they shook left hands because Gunther was still selling his right arm behind him.

But they shook left hands and Orton acknowledged Gunther.

And I think some of the lip readers said that Orton said, You're the fucking man,

which is probably what he did.

And

I think it's great there.

I think if they'd been in Cleveland, maybe not.

But because they were in Germany, I think it was the right thing to do.

Because it does paint Gunther as somewhat of an honorable character.

But he should be at that point, and also he won.

It was a good match, and that was the main event.

Did you watch any of the coverage after the matches?

Well, I got the pay-per-view, so mine went to

thank you for ordering this pay-per-view.

No, they're doing like a really good job of treating it like a sport in the post-production where they have the, or in the post-show, I should say, they have that Jackie Redmond with Big E, and I forget who was with him.

And then they kept going back to different places.

They went back to the announce desk, talked to them, had an interview with Punk.

You know, they were all around, and it was actually a really good job, I think they did.

Well, and the primary reason for that is not the pay-per-view where the buyer has already purchased what he wanted to see and seen it, but it's to keep them on peacock, right?

Now that they're engaged on peacock, well, let's keep them for another hour with this post-show wrap-up and et cetera.

And then they went to the media scrum, and Cody Rhodes spoke first, and he kind of spoke in place of Triple H, who wasn't there.

His daughter was going to college this weekend.

So no Triple H.

She can go through college in one weekend.

She's got to be a smart little whippet there.

Or maybe they made a donation to the university.

So she enrolls on Thursday, goes to class on Friday.

She got her diploma by Monday.

I don't think that's how it worked, but

a successful, another record-breaking WWE event.

And

you can get away with this when you have an audience like these that they're getting, especially internationally, that are

so rabid to see

these people in these matches and what's going to go on.

And, like we talked about earlier with the AEW folks,

you know, yes, Australia may be rabid, but at those prices and with that many tickets to sell, the problem that I have is when

AEW goes to

the regular towns now

in this country,

it's library-like silence in a lot of the matches because the people now are kind of going out of duty because this is what they have been supporting and wanted to support for so long.

That's why the

numbers are dropping because, you know, slowly they're like, well, fuck.

It's about stars, too.

It's about stars being presented like what are we getting out of this at this point besides supporting this company we wanted to support?

Why are we supporting this company?

Yeah.

But, you know, you can't can't charge incredible prices when the people are not coming there ready to jump out of their fucking chairs anyway.

So that's the difference: the WWE is getting away with this because these people are having a fine old fucking time.

But a lot of the AEW audiences, nobody's, I know this is an extreme case, but actually, it's not extreme.

France, Puerto Rico,

the goddamn reactions they're getting at their big major events in this country.

SummerSlam, the 60-something thousand people or whatever were hopping up and down.

And just imagine how much higher the bidding for WrestleMania is going to get in coming years

as more of these events keep happening with sellouts in different parts of the world.

They're about to have a year with Cena.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

So, I mean, the WrestleMania bidding is a big deal now.

Imagine how much more it's going to be in a few years.

So, this

gap is widening.

I think the biggest gap is the space between Tony Kahn's ears, but nevertheless, that

can we come back home from Berlin?

Yes, please.

Yes, now, yes.

Well, let's hop on the transport.

And, folks, we will be back to drive through another episode of Brian's program in the next few days, and then back here next week with, my God,

next week's another AEW pay-per-view on the experience, isn't it?

All out.

Boy, I sure am.

All out of patience.

So we're going to get out of here to get ready for that, folks, until we see you and hear you and feel you up and fondle you again.

Thank you.

Fuck you.

And bye-bye, everybody.