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Hello again, friends,

and you are our friends, and welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-thru on another fine day.

There's a warm breeze in the air, leaves being blown all over the place, and we are here to blow your minds with scintillating wrestling talk and the ability to not give a shit and get through hours and hours of talk.

I'm your host, the great Brian Last, and here he is, the king of not giving a shit, Mr.

Jim Cornett.

Well, you had to just open that with

giving our critics the line about the hot air blowing in the wind as soon as we start the program.

You had to start that way.

But I'm proud to announce, Brian,

that if the folks heard the last program, it was the last program, was the experience.

That's my show.

They know that

I was listening to you in one ear.

What you said went in one ear and out the other because my headphones,

suddenly one side of them died, and it was the side that broadcasted to my, the only one working was broadcasting to my bad ear.

So I had to turn them around

and it was inconvenient.

I could barely hear you.

I only really like it.

I like it either if I can hear you full up or not hear you at all.

That last one may be a little bit more preferable, but one or the other, but not in the middle where I can barely hear you.

Can you hear this?

Good.

Use your imagination.

Yeah,

I thought you were going to play me something on your Xylamaker.

Playing you something.

One finger up in the air.

Yeah.

Well, you know what they say?

When you point one finger up in the air, you got three more pointing back down at the top of your head.

Or something like that, that Lanny Popo used to say.

But anyway, but now I can hear you in both sides because you sent me

a brand new set of headphones, and now I can hear from both of them.

And the only problem now is this morning I blew my nose because it finally rained yesterday, by the way.

It was going to, it was on record

or on pace to be the driest month in the history of Louisville, Kentucky.

All October, we got five one-hundredths of an inch of rain.

And then at 2 o'clock on the 31st, it fucking poured rain.

But

when I tried to blow my nose because of all the dry, leafy, dusty, pollen-y type of thing that was being stirred up, now

I've plugged my right ear up.

So I'm still screaming at you, aren't I?

Because it can't fucking ear.

Some things never change.

Well, but I don't mean to do it with anger.

With anger.

You don't even know what you're like off the air.

Brian, where's my fucking pen?

Just non-stop.

No, I don't do that.

My pen!

Ah!

Fuck you!

I wait, what did I do?

It's only when the computer decides to act up that I

get anything, because I'm telling you, boy, the day I retire, this thing's going off the deck.

We filmed that for the channel?

There will be no channel when I retire.

I'll take it all with me.

You're saying there's going to be a big finale now and no one's going to see it?

There's going to be a big finale, baby.

and then and i'm going to have it and i'm going to red skelton this this the whole thing oh

not only am i going to retire and you never see me again but i'm putting i'm getting all my video and my audio and i'm putting it in a vault somewhere and nobody could ever do you you know he did that right no i don't know about this

red skeleton for you when he was still alive

for years and years, had his

old TV shows and all of his stuff that he owned because he became one of the richest producers in television, locked up and wouldn't release it.

And at one point, he had said he wanted to set fire to all of it and just be done with it, but

apparently he didn't.

And then after he died, that's why you see some of this stuff now because saner heads may have

Google Red Skelton while I'm telling you what else is going on over here.

And see if we did, did he break before he died or was it after he died?

Because there's stuff out there now.

Or you may have just gone to sleep.

But nevertheless.

Well, it takes a second to look him up and then find the specific section about his video collection.

I thought you would have right there Red Skeleton on speed dial

on your Mint Mobile plan or whatever.

But anyway, the point is, what was the point?

Oh, the point was I can hear you now except for my bad ear.

And then you got me started thinking about my happy retirement one of these days when I throw this fucking computer off the deck.

And before that, I was going to talk about

it.

Did I recently give you,

did we talk about on the show the revelation?

Huh?

No, what?

No, quit, stop.

I'm talking, did I, did I give to you the revelation that I got from my tree guy about when to plant trees?

You gave me the revelation.

Yes.

Yes, father.

Because I'm a revolutionary and a visionary

and an an arborist.

Did I tell you that what

the fucking tree guy told me?

I don't know.

Well, remember back in June, I said I planted 15 trees in the front yard, right?

And then it didn't rain for three weeks, and I had to get out there in that fucking heat and that humidity and that misery

and water them with a hose every goddamn day.

And

I've always heard and they always say on the news here in Louisville, don't plant before Derby.

Because we always,

not always, but often get a hard freeze or at least the frost of a couple of days in a row or whatever before Derby that will kill your plants.

So don't plant before Derby.

So

this year,

I got behind because I was busy.

And I didn't call the guy quick enough.

And he didn't get it.

Derby was the first week of May, but he didn't get out here till june because by the time i called him and by the time that he got the

the trees and everything and by the way did you find red skeleton yet no he's dead he's still dead

i didn't know you were looking for him that badly no i mean i did you're really losing it aren't you Did you look up the whole goddamn story that I was telling you to confirm that what I was saying to you was the truth?

See, because you were staring at me.

I could tell you were staring at me like I had turds hanging out of my mouth when I was telling you that.

Well, it was more the scent that was driving me to look that way.

But anyway, what I found here on the internet was a couple things.

The Red Skeleton Vault is a collection of episodes from the television show, The Red Skeleton Show, that were never broadcast on DVD until recently.

The vault includes episodes from the early years of the show from 1951 to 1955.

The collection features many classic characters from the show, such as Clem Caddy Hopper.

Clem Caddy Hopper.

I'm trying to read this quickly.

You don't really see this.

It's Clem Cadidalhopper.

Yeah, how did I fuck that up?

Yeah, of course.

Cauliflower McPug.

Yeah, the boxer.

Willie Lumplump.

And Freddy the Freeloader.

I've heard of him.

I've met him a few times.

Well, I thought his name was David, but nevertheless.

The show also includes appearances from many Hollywood legends, including Jackie Gleason, Johnny Carson, Diane Carroll, and John Wayne.

Listen to that wind, the mighty wind outside right now, folks.

Red Skelton refused to have his shows put into syndication.

So most of the episodes in the vault were only broadcast on their original air date.

The collection was selected exclusively by Timeless Media Group and is available from Shout Factory.

And I have here Shout Factory's website, only six left in stock.

Oh, well, I'm not asking for a goddamn commercial plug for it.

I'm just saying you were doubting me.

On the Instagram page for the Red Skeleton Museum, they have

it says sorting the vault collection, and it's just a pile of, you would, you would recognize what these look like right away.

It's a pile of two-inch reels, like in boxes.

Oh, yeah.

And then also some one-inch stuff, but it looks like a lot of two-inch full-length stuff.

Well, there you go.

So, anyway, but that's that's red situation.

But back to planting before Derby.

So from red to dead.

This past year, as I said, or this past spring and summer, I planted the trees in June.

So then I had the

tree guy that I have plant my trees over here a few weeks ago because I wanted to not only have him do some mulch beds for me, but also

I said I want to get a plan together for the spring so we can get quicker this time.

So I'm not out there with that fucking hose and the heat and blah, blah, blah.

We'll have everything all ready to go.

He said, well, why don't we do it now?

I said, well, now

it's wintertime.

I said, but besides that, I wouldn't be able to water them because I haven't got time.

I've got the big action figure sale going on and Brian Last takes up all of my time.

And he said, no.

He said, if you plant them this time of year, then just water them once real good when you put them in and then you don't have to water them.

I said, Well, wait a minute.

Nobody told me that.

You mean I could have fucking done and I wouldn't have had to have been out there?

He said, Yeah.

I said, Well, God damn it.

I said, Well, wait a minute.

I said, They say on the news, don't plant before Derby

because it might freeze.

I said, Well, it's going to freeze here shortly sooner or later.

And he said, Well, no, that's not for trees.

That's just for plants and flowers.

He said, this is my favorite time of year to plant trees because the ground isn't that hard and the homeowner doesn't need to water them.

And we can get them right in.

And then boom, and there you go.

And in the springtime, you got the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees.

And I said, well, son of a bitch, did you know that, Brian?

No, I'm not really an arborist, so I didn't know this.

You're another word I can think of that begins with an A, but

so I got him to come over here.

I was more thinking of another a numb de plume for sphincter.

Oh, that's not.

But I got him to come over here and plant me 15 trees in the backyard now.

And I don't have to water a goddamn one of them.

So what do you think about them apples?

I can't wait for the rant when this doesn't work out.

And no, no, it's being a bunch of dead trees, motherfucker.

What's you, Brian?

Fuck you, fair.

I'm just telling you, that's it's just they look lovely out there.

And

got a couple of weeping willows and a couple of redbud trees and about a half a dozen oak trees.

And

they're just, they're just lovely.

So it's your program.

It is.

You know, I would almost forget that because you're doing so well leading the show here today.

I would hate to stop you.

In fact, if you're feeling the groove, well, you know, normally,

basically, I just lead this thing down whatever path it goes anyway, don't I?

I was trying to be polite and let you take over the hostifying.

All right.

Well, let's hostify a little bit.

There are some topics, and as always, we have questions and things we want to get to.

But with time being tight, let's start with AEW Dynamite because then we know how much time we have left.

And there were,

this is another one of those episodes of Dynamite where, as I'm watching it, I laugh.

I, you know, cover my eyes at times, but I laugh a lot.

And I just wonder, what is Jim going to say about this?

Because so much of it's undefendable.

I,

to quote Thunderbolt Patterson,

if I only had time.

I mean, I don't, you know, people say, well, you kind of gloss over the WWE a lot of times, but you go into detail on AEW.

That's because,

for one thing, you have to

explain the inexplicable

in

the way that they try to explain it, and that takes a little time.

And then, secondly, you have to identify what's wrong with it, and that takes a lot more time.

And then also in some cases, I just don't know what to fucking say.

Should we start at the beginning?

Much like their commentators.

You have no idea what to say.

And again, Sockface continues to.

I think he tried.

Did he try to call private party private potty at one point?

There were several points again where he lost control of his mouth and he couldn't speak coherently.

You know what Mama Cornette would say?

I have no idea.

His tongue got lopped over his eye teeth and he couldn't see what he was saying.

There's an expression you don't hear too often nowadays.

You don't hear it as much as you used to.

But anyway, so they started out with the spooky cold open of the Moxley bunch.

We got to come up with a name for that group because they're not the Blackpool gangbangers anymore or whatever the fuck are they?

Apparently he has filed for a trademark because Tony...

You know, being a nice guy and doing something that WWE would never do is letting the wrestlers trademark their own things and then bring them in.

Moxley has trademarked Death Riders.

Oh, well, that's it.

To which I responded, the full name is Ratings Death Riders.

What?

That makes sense.

Maybe he's a big Ghost Rider fan.

Or, you know, Riders on the Storm or Ghost Riders in the Sky, Death Rider.

It sounds so cool.

Is Death Jitsu the official fighting form of Death Riders?

Yes, and they they will sponsor the pickup truck.

You're going to see Death Jitsu wrapped around the side of the pickup truck.

Eater breaks and shocks at death.

I'll tell you where to send them.

When's he going to start doing commercials?

Well, commercials for death.

I mean, what is he going to...

Hey, he has a hard enough time selling wrestling tickets.

He might as well sell people on popularity of death.

Folks, death is for you.

That's why we ride all over the country telling you about it.

But they had the cold open with last week or whatever, and then they went to the arena and they're in Cleveland, Ohio.

And my God, the poor people of Cleveland have put up with enough abuse already, but here came to the ring

with no music, not even his music, not even anything to make this motherfucker exciting.

Well, he cut off the Claudio video when Claudio is ranting.

You know, apparently the most fearless guy there is the fucking cameraman.

He's following these guys everywhere with no problem.

Like there was a video.

Claudio was yelling at the camera and all of a sudden you hear, cut that off.

It's enough.

And you're like, who the hell is that?

We never hear that voice.

Well, yeah, and there's a reason why we're about to find out.

But yeah, here comes the company mascot, Little Puppy Pockets, Orange Cassidy,

to the ring with no music, no charisma, no talent.

He's had all he can stands, and he can't stands no more.

And he gets in the ring and starts cutting a live promo.

And he said he doesn't do this normally, talking about speaking.

I wish he wouldn't do it at all.

He had a good streak going there.

But after last week, when he watched his best friend's neck, that's Muffin Top Taylor, for those of you who mercifully missed that,

my best friend's Nick got crushed by a steel chair, and I was surrounded by the future of AEW, all the young wrestling stars, and they

have no idea of the danger that they're in.

So now this fucking moron

that nobody can take seriously to begin with and looks like he could whip cream with an outboard motor

is standing there saying that I'm the only one that realizes how dangerous he's got to come out and put Moxley over as being a badass.

I'm the only one who realizes how dangerous Moxley is to the ratings.

But these other guys,

they got no idea of the danger they're in.

So I know what I need to do.

If we don't stop Moxley, there will be no future of AEW.

And then he actually said, without AEW, I don't exist.

I owe everything to you.

Yes, because nobody else would have ever put you on fucking television.

You goddamn sad-looking son of a bitch.

He's just sad.

He's a sorry-looking, sorry-looking.

You know, I actually got sued for saying that one time.

What?

Because I got in a ring in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to introduce the Midnight Express in 1984.

And I looked at the people.

I said, you got to be the sorriest looking bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.

And then on the way back to the locker room, that's when that guy tried a little dive over the fucking guardrail and tried to punch me.

And I ducked it and whacked him with the racket.

And then Dundee, watching from the back, who was the booker, not wrestling at the time, he got on him and punched the guy in the face about five times.

And when I was trying to hit him again, I drew back and I hit the cop in the head.

And the guy ended up suing in the newspaper article.

When asked why that,

you know, he made a run for her.

He did this.

He said, well, he called, he called us all sad.

Sad, sorry, whatever.

He called us all sad.

A very inflammatory remark in those days.

You better watch out.

Arch Cassidy may come after you.

Yeah, well, you're a sad son of a bitch.

And I'll tell you, I'm sorry, little fella.

I don't pick on people

that much smaller than me.

So, but anyway, without AEW, he doesn't exist.

So he needs to stop this.

He needs to cut the head off the snake.

Talking about Moxley.

And he's going to do it alone.

He doesn't want these other guys to help him.

He's going to do it alone.

And then this fucking bunch of

mayhem-causing rabble-rousers rabble-rousers in this used pickup truck have been beating the shit out of the entire roster.

And this little fucking

scrawny pencil-necked son of a bitch, I'll just cut this fucking,

I challenge you for an AEW World title match, pal.

And he finished it up and said, Because I'm Orange Cassidy and I still don't need a catchphrase.

Can you imagine, Brian, a regular

WWE viewer, of which there are millions, as we're aware,

babe,

I'll turn on this other wrestling program or, you know, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, I like them.

They were just, I'll turn on this program, and this is what they fucking see.

And they're horse laughing, and

that's the end of that experiment.

Can you imagine if you had turned on WWF-TV in 1994 and Doink the Clown came out and says, I don't normally do this, but without WWE, I'm nothing.

I'll do it myself.

No, actually, that's not really an apt comparison because they use Doink on top.

You know, it's not an apt comparison, too, because that was only a couple years into Doink.

Orange Cassie, this is five years now,

and nothing is moving up.

And they're just doubling down on everyone that drove everything down.

There are little glimmers of hope,

but they're doubling down, tripling down on everything

that has caused the free fall in

fan enthusiasm.

It's not just because WWE's hot.

It's because AEW is putting on a stale product.

No matter how many times you see a flip that you like.

It doesn't change that.

It's a stale product.

So now Orange Cassidy is getting into the main event.

I told you years ago,

I said, Tony is going to find a way to get the world title in Orange Cassidy.

I'm not saying this is it,

but this is the road to it.

And

again, when you need to improve your company, and you are bringing people with

size, if you walk into a restaurant, you see a Shelton Benjamin, let alone a Bobby Lashley, or an MVP, you're like, man, that's a big motherfucker.

Jesus.

I don't want to fight Rick Ross.

I don't want to fight this guy.

This is a big, scary guy.

You see Arange Cassidy, like, I could take him.

And you could.

And that's the problem.

So, I mean, he's out here.

He's going to lead this.

Meanwhile, again, MVP Lashley and Shelton, why don't they do something next week to end all this?

Where Tony just says, I'll pay you guys.

Clean up my dressing room.

Well, yeah, and we're going to get there at the end of this program.

But I mean, that's pretty obvious.

Just if

you're not going to see the Moxley minions

cross-pollinating with MVP Shelton and Lashley because that wouldn't work out very well.

And they're doing the

whole hurt business thing right.

It's amazing

this again has become a schizophrenic program where you have this childish indie nonsense over,

you know, a guy that fucking plays pocket pool is going to get revenge for his friend Muffin Top.

And nobody gives a fuck about these people except their own little indie bubble.

But there's the other problem right there.

When you hear the audience reaction, or in a lot of cases, in most cases on this show, this week and most weeks, the lack of reaction, what does that tell you?

They're not even that enthusiastic about it.

And at the same time,

They've established a brand new top heel group.

It's so badass that the people are cheering them already.

They just got there.

It's because they're

doing wrestling, grown men doing wrestling angles that imagine this look somewhat convincing.

Well, the other thing, too, is who's the babyface in AEW that isn't a sappy babyface?

Like, when you really think about it, like, who have they put out there as the babyface side against Moxley?

Not counting the Bucks who ran away, but Darby.

Dork Order.

Darby, Dork Order, Orange Cassidy, Daniel Garcia.

How many of those guys have done a promo about how grateful they are to be there, how much they love it there, how they're mad at MJF or other people for not loving it enough there?

Like, this is the problem.

That's not the future of the company.

And they're acting like this is the future of the company.

You forgot about Action Andretti.

None of the, well, you know what?

He at least hasn't done that promo.

They don't give him promo time.

Yeah, he never gets the token all.

But no, seriously, right?

Every single one of them, you want to get behind him, and it just turns into this sappy promo that's as cheesy as like a babyface talking to kids in the early 80s.

Like it's just cheesy and it doesn't work.

It makes people less.

It makes them more friendly and less someone you want to cheer.

Well, yes.

And also, let's be honest.

Even if they had...

material written by Roy Shire himself,

they're not gonna these they're kids that nobody cares about because they've been interchangeable and they've done the same shit over and over for the last however many years.

And

again,

in one of these brawls they had, one of the dork order guys, what's it?

Is that Reynolds?

Alex Reynolds.

He's the one with the long hair, right?

And he has the ribs taped up.

Yeah.

I said, what the fuck?

When he first came in and somebody grabbed him and dropped him on the railing crotch first, I said, who is it?

Who is that chick in a tube top?

I was like, who is that?

Just came out of nowhere.

It looked like a girl in a tube top.

Alex Reynolds with his fucking rib tape on.

And

it's just these guys have been job guys and or willy-nilly, wishy-washy, interchangeable, indie wrestlers.

And nobody's produced them out of it.

And nobody's booked them out of it.

And now that's what's running in to fucking save the company again

shelton and lashley could

you know just step in and and easily take care of the situation instead of these dozen guys

anyway moving on

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The long-awaited showdown

between Adam Cole and Buddy Matthews, where Buddy Matthews last week said, I'm going to show everybody you're fragile

or fragile, whichever way you pronounce that.

And

visually, this was kind of ridiculous.

Buddy looks like he's got 100 pounds on Adam Cole.

This looked like the paperboy had,

you know, jumped into the fucking ring against goddamn Lex Luger.

With a fake tan.

If the paperboy got a really, really bad orange fake tan, that's what I'm saying.

Well, Well,

that's another part of the problem is that we've said before, you know, if Adam had a tan, maybe he'd look a little more tone.

But they gave him some kind of...

Did they use Pam spray?

That fucking cooking spray?

Between the fake spray.

Well, it wasn't bronze.

It was fucking...

Between the fake spray tan and the flabby thighs, he looked like a Simpsons character.

It was just,

I don't know what's happened.

And is there some way that he he cannot wrestle in

swim trunks and maybe long tights or a goddamn wetsuit?

He loves the ocean, a wetsuit.

Anything.

He dreams of being an astronaut.

Something a little more baggy.

Could he, you know,

I don't know.

But

they had a match, and

it was like if you overlooked,

I mean, Adam can work if you overlook what he's become physically and

what Buddy Matthews looks like.

But the break spot was

Adam took a bump to the floor and he's just leaning on the apron and he's ignoring where Buddy is until Buddy runs down the apron and throws a kick and missed him

by a fucking foot if you go back on the slow-mo if you dvr'd it

and you could tell it missed and adam sold it like he'd been shot with a cannon

and down he went and they went to the break

did you notice that the fans were cheering buddy

even though adam cole's been brought in and they've tried to reestablish him now as a babyface again

they were all cheering for buddy and i think a lot of it was because of the appearance when you see them in there together, it's ridiculous.

Well, and also they cheered Adam coming back because he returned from a long absence from an injury that always gets you cheered unless you're, you know, a dastardly heel,

which he wasn't.

But then now that they've heard the explanation that he's explained for why all these things went on a year ago, that it doesn't make any sense, I think they've all rolled their eyes, haven't they?

Yeah.

So, anyway, you know, it's like I said to you, I think the way he was booked from the moment he got there, it began with the MJF stuff.

I didn't like it, but it got over with those fans.

And then that all went haywire.

And then he's been a babyface and a heel and back to a babyface three times, like without having a match.

Just it happened over a couple years.

And again, the appearance thing, it's part of the story.

I hate to say it, but it is.

Well, and then

again,

Buddy Matthews, look at the way he looks.

And we've talked about he's the one in the house of blech

that can work.

But they come back from the break.

Immediately, Buddy gives Cole a superplex

and

they just roll through.

And Adam Cole just picked...

Buddy up and suplexed him after being superplexed.

And then Buddy's working on Adam's bad ankle.

And so he goes to the floor, and the doctor just comes up and starts checking the leg.

And the referee is there

letting the doctor check the leg and telling Buddy Matthews, get back.

The doctor is checking the leg while Adam Cole is on the floor.

Didn't that used to be a count out?

Yes.

When you got thrown from the ring or fell from the ring and could not get back in by the count of 10

that's a count out they never

they never said that the doctor is allowed if the doctor stands up and says oh now wait a minute unlike all the phony shit you've been looking at this guy's really hurt now so we're stopping everything

until i would then fucking count him the fuck out

If the doctor needs to look at a motherfucker, chances are he's not going to be back in the ring by the 10 count.

Count his ass out.

But the other part of the problem is the

psychologically, I don't think any of this left the audience wanting to see Adam Cole come back and win.

I think everyone kind of wanted Buddy to win.

They felt sorry.

Well, they felt sorry for him, if anything.

Like, can you get that poor little thing out of there before he gets hurt?

But then when they do an injury angle in the middle of the match,

then it becomes even more offensive when he comes back and kicks out of everything and somehow wins.

Well, yeah, because

the fans did the referees count count for him.

They counted out loud to 10.

You heard them.

6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

They're doing it for.

And still the referee didn't pick up on it.

They counted out the baby face.

Yes.

And then the doctor starts helping Adam Cole to the back, and Adam's like, oh, I'll hobble to the back with you.

And buddy microphone, buddy microphone.

Buddy microphone.

That could be his new gimmick.

You know what?

We said he needs needs a better fucking gimmick.

So there's Buddy microphone.

Buddy Matthews got on a microphone

and goaded him coming back and called him a little bitch, which he was because he's being helped out limping from this match that Buddy should have won already by count out.

But now that he's goading him and calls him a little bitch, then Adam limps back and the doctor says, okay.

And then they start going back and forth.

And

Buddy tries to get Adam Cole to throw the towel in, and Adam throws it at Buddy and kicks him five or six times.

And

knee lifts him and gets a two count.

And then Buddy gets a buckle bomb and a curb stomp and gets a one count on this guy that was being carried out by the fucking doctor a couple minutes ago.

And then

Adam Cole just, oh, fuck it, he's mad now.

Hits him with a Panama Sunrise.

Buddy falls to the floor, gives him a Panama Sunrise on the floor, which looks like it hurts the fucking give-er more than the givee, doesn't it?

Yes, very much so.

And then he rolled him back in the ring and hit him with a knee to the back of the head.

One, two, three.

So after all that, not only was it a rotten finish, but they just beat him flat.

And SS, as I said, the match was

okay when they were working.

working if you,

you know, accept the visual ridiculousness or ridiculosity of it.

But then, you know, the doctor thing and the whole thing and the blah, blah, blah.

And then he beats Buddy flat.

Then he gets on the microphone, Adam does,

and says,

buddy, you reminded me of who the real Adam Cole is.

Thank you.

And they shake hands.

Why was the the goddamn pleasure thank you yeah the heel was like well finally I've been recognized for my good works

does the second member of the house of black to have a weird baby face turn well yeah because but here's the thing

they shake hands and the lights go out

And when the lights come back on, Adam Cole is standing there shaking hands with Malachi Black and Buddy is watching him.

So somehow Adam Adam Cole didn't realize

that a motherfucker let go of his hand in the dark.

And

what's the

he couldn't tell the guy let go of his hand because the lights went out.

And he's surprised and Malachi Black looks at him.

And Adam Cole rolls out and walks off.

He also has respect for Adam Cole.

Again, the House of Black Darby,

Brody King, who had beaten the shit out of Darby apparently for years, inside and outside the ring, like they've done angles and stuff.

They had record stores.

He was concerned about Darby's well-being

and that he would die if he went to the mountain.

And here...

The heel, who was getting cheered the entire match to the point where the fans counted out the babyface while the doctors were checking on him

he did it just to earn or not even to earn just to

to prove that he has respect already for adam

explain it he can't right

i don't i don't know

how long did you write did you

i can't speak did you write down how long the match went how long did it go well we are 30 minutes into the show and all we've seen so far is

the

interview with the mascot and this match.

So, yeah, lengthy.

But you see, there it is again, Adam Cole, like I said, with Orange Cassidy.

The can I take him test.

You look at Adam Cole and you're like, How come Buddy Matthews is having such a hard time with this guy?

I kill him.

It's the same thing.

Buddy Matthews looks like he would fit in with the Lashleys,

with the Shelton Benjamins, with the main eventers,

with the people who are like wrestlers.

Not the, again, just started the vision.

You know, the bad thing about Buddy is he can work too rather than just looking good.

Started the vision for just 160-pound men.

Do it.

Just put the money.

Now, wait a minute.

Now, hold on.

Drop that last qualifier.

They started the division for 160-pounders.

Well, then again, you're going to stand Connor McGregor next to Adam Cole.

Like, ah, five.

That's true.

That's true.

How about wrestlers that go to the gym versus wrestlers that don't?

Well, and we're not done actually here now,

you know, with this whole angle because once they went to the break and they went back to the back and to the locker room where there's Adam Cole, Matt Tavin, Mike Bennett, and Roderick Strong, four

sterling white meat babyfaces.

And Adam Cole, because what have we said about Adam Cole primarily from day one?

That his strongest point is that he can cut a convincing promo that he has inflection and he has delivery.

And

you

technically tend to believe that Adam Cole means every word that he's saying here with this delivery.

And that

means that you have to think that Adam Cole is the biggest bullshit artist in the world because what he's saying

makes no sense.

He's still trying to make MJF the heel.

That's why we had to fucking strike first and we had to be this because we weren't going to, I wasn't going to sit around and let MJF do to me what he did to everybody else.

Does that explain why when Adam Cole was in a scooter and a walking boot from a severe ankle break that Roddy and Tavin and Bennett were making him do their yard work?

How does that fit into this whole goddamn thing?

What?

I forgot about that.

Yeah, see, that's what none of this.

Where's Wardlow?

Where's Wardlow?

Where's Wardlow?

And he even mentioned his name.

He said, I'm not going to let MGF do to me what he did to Wardlow.

Well, then, why did you find Wardlow and say, hey, you're the last motherfucker to beat this guy.

Why don't you come in here instead of these three womb bats I've got behind me?

Who made me do yard work work when I was in a walking boot and a fucking serious injury.

And they're out there making me sweat, fucking cut the goddamn grass.

Because of why we never figured out why, because they were bros.

He was bro chachos with MJF.

Well, if they were making him cut the,

if MJF and Adam Cole were a

a unit of friends and bro chachos and this tag team, but Adam Cole was secretly working with Roderick Strong and Matt Tavin and Mike Bennett to lull MJF into a false sense of security and strike like they did.

Then, if MJF was already brochachos with Adam Cole, why did they have to go over and above to prove to MJF that Adam Cole was not like Roddy and Tavin and Bennett by having Roddy and Tavin and Bennett mistreat Adam Cole?

What the flying fuck?

Sometimes there are no answers.

So, speaking of no answers,

here came Don Fallace, the leader of the Fallus family, and he brought out,

oh, the bald-headed geek.

Remember those Jimmy Valiant promos from 1986?

Paul Jones, you're going to be a bald-headed geek.

Baby, whoo, masse.

He brought out bald-headed Kyle Felcher.

Do you know how If that was done today, the bald-headed community would be protesting against AEW?

No, it just, I don't think there would be protests.

I just think that nobody gives a shit anymore because all these dimwits fucking shave their heads on purpose.

So,

you know, they somehow have gotten the idea because

three people in the world looked bald, Steve Austin being one of them.

Now every wrestler has to be bald.

I saw a bald woman on TV the other day,

and I think it was on purpose.

I'm not saying she had been through treatments or something.

I'm thinking this was a choice she made,

and somebody in her family should have intervened.

Maybe she joined the Nightmare Collective.

No, that girl's hair has had time to grow back.

It's been three years since we've seen her.

You know, I used to think that was the BG song:

Bald-headed woman, bald-headed woman to me.

See, the AM radio back in those days, it wasn't like the Raycons.

But if you stop and think about it, why would they be singing the song?

Well, exactly.

That's why I wondered about them for so long.

Meanwhile, they're cutting hair.

Yeah, see, that's why I figured maybe it's some kind of goddamn deal they've got.

They're the ones that want the hair, and

if you don't have hair, they're not going to be there or whatever the case.

So where were we going?

Well, we're talking about Kyle Felcher being baldheaded.

And they called out Will Osprey.

And Will Osprey didn't come out.

So Kyle started talking again.

And suddenly music played.

And out came.

The announcers identified him as Mark Davis.

And nobody in that building knew who the fuck this was.

And Tony Schivati had, well, listen to the ovation for the return of Mark Davis.

Nobody had, they were playing music.

That was the ovation.

The fans were going,

and he was dressed like he had been changing his oil on a Sunday afternoon in his driveway.

And somebody said, hey, go down to the wrestling show.

And Mark Davis is upset at what Kyle did.

And

I just wrote, this is insane.

I'm watching a fucking wrestler have an argument with some stagehand at this point.

I mean,

and, you know, Mark said, we used to have an empire.

The fuck, that was the name of your team.

How about if I, if you and me, Brian, go as the 12-inch dicks?

Does that mean we've got 12-inch dicks?

Or is that just what we decided to call ourselves?

That means you're riding my coattails.

Hey!

I'll tell you what.

Wait, where's the we in this conversation?

We wouldn't have a total of 24 inches without my three and a half.

So anyway,

Kyle told

Davis that you'll always have a spot in the family, but you better make your decision pretty quick and make it right.

And Mark Davis said, we had a whole empire, not just a family.

And you destroyed it.

And

he walked off away.

And

Mark Davis versus Kyle Felcher.

I don't know if WrestleMania is big enough for that one.

Do you?

You know, it was disappointing on two ends.

It was disappointing.

The fans had no idea who he was or what any of this was about.

Everything with Kyle Fletcher.

since Mark Davis got hurt has been to get him away from the whole Aussie Open

thing.

He dyed his hair.

They put him with Callus.

Got a bunch of high-profile losses on TV.

Then they started doing the thing with him and Osprey.

It's a few months now.

They even involved MJF in it at one point.

So now they're bringing back Mark Davis.

Now, none of those fans know who he is.

And on the other side of the coin, if you're a fan of Aussie Open, this is the Aussie Open breakup.

This was horrible from both ends, from both ends of it.

From both ends.

Right?

Think about it.

If you're a fan of these guys and you've been watching them in New Japan or Australia or wherever for years, this was the big breakup.

Well, those 17 people are going to be fucking pissed off, I'll tell you that.

But no, again,

they're in a building.

They played music and put up the United Empire logo and they have Mark Davis walk out, again, looking like some guy just wandered in.

He'd been to Popeyes down the street, and they wouldn't let him walk up to the drive-thru.

Somebody said, here's a free wrestling ticket.

What are the people supposed to do when they can't tell who the fuck this is that it's even a wrestler and it's a guy that looks like they've never seen him before?

You know what he should have done?

He should have done that old thing where he comes out and he says, it's me.

I'm back.

Joe Stevens and get a reaction.

I lied.

I'm Mark Davis.

See, none of you even know who I am.

You know what?

They used to do that back in the Tennessee Territory in the 60s.

When they would unmask a fucking masked wrestler, they just give some some gimmick name.

I've got it in my notes somewhere, but I can't, but when they unmasked the mummy

in Louisville, they gave his name as some fucking bullsh, some guy I've never heard from, and or never heard from.

No, we broke up, and I've never heard again.

No, I never heard of that.

Great pen pal as the mummy, and we lost that.

But anyway, nevertheless, that was that.

So I hate to see the United Empire come to this

because they were united and an empire and now they're ununited

and they're very unempirical.

So

I guess that means Osprey, by the way, is a little bit of a sabbatical in England.

Is that the only way to take it?

Well, I don't know.

Maybe he just...

Maybe he couldn't drive.

He couldn't get to the fucking building.

He had nobody to drive him because he got no driver's license.

We established that.

Remember he said he'd never driven in the United States before.

That was was a while back.

That was when they cut his tires for his car.

Yeah, when he was about to attempt to drive to the hotel

and found his tires were cut, and they made the whole spot about barbarity.

Say, have you ever driven to the United States?

No.

Where were we going from here?

Is there more of this?

You know what?

We were going to go and we were going to talk about more of this.

But, you know, sometimes in the middle of these shows, Jim, sometimes you just need a break from the action.

Sometimes you need something else.

Sometimes

you may want to go and just do some shopping.

Or maybe you want to load up some items for your business and sell them to other people.

There are so many options and so many things to do.

All of them will probably be better than AEW's merch operation.

But

ah, you finally struck on something I can run with there.

I found something.

After playing whack-a-mole with every goddamn thing you could, I'll tell you what they ought to be doing over there at AEW, selling their merchandise.

They ought to have Shopify taking care of it for them.

That's what they ought to be doing.

Because as we all know, folks, nobody does selling better than Shopify.

They're the home of the number one checkout on the planet.

And they also have a not-so-secret secret.

As a matter of fact,

as I remember from an interview one time from a wrestler, he said, it's a very well-known secret.

And this is a well-known secret too, shop pay

boosts conversions up to 50%.

So boy, I'll tell you, if your conversion needs a boost or a leg up, 50%,

it's going to be just that quick.

Does it mean that they're 50% quicker or 50% bigger?

Or no, they're just 50%

better.

And

way less carts go abandoned with Shopify, and way more of the sales, the money, the De Niro, the Mulah,

way more of that goes

right in your pocket where you can shake hands with Malachi Black, who has his hand in everything.

But it won't be his hand.

It will be someone else's hand.

Well, that's only when you draw it out of your pocket.

If you're into growing your business, folks, your commerce platform better be ready to sell wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling.

So if it's on the web, in the store, in their feed, out on the street, you know, Shopify employs a troop of people that just go up to people at random on the street, especially in Times Square and say, hey,

you want to buy some of Hotchkiss's goods?

They certainly don't say that.

No one says that.

I've got some of Aunt Emily's merchandise right here, and they will make these people buy something so they can walk past.

So right there,

there's more money in your pocket.

Right there, that's not happening in Times Square.

That's not the way Shopify does business.

They do business for you, with you, to help you.

Yes.

Let's talk about that.

It's all about making you money.

That's why other people have money and you want it, and they're going to get it for you.

So, whether you, it doesn't matter what you're selling, you could be selling

freezers to Eskimos or pussy on a troop train.

It doesn't matter.

One way or the other, they'll make people buy it with Shopify because businesses that sell more sell on Shopify.

It's no secret.

Businesses that want to grow grow with Shopify.

They sell and they grow.

They're like the blob

of

online commerce.

All they do is instead of eat and grow, they just sell and grow.

Every time they sell, they grow.

Sooner or later, they roll over a small town in Kansas and absorb it.

That's not the way it works.

They are there to help you.

They can work with you.

Have you ever seen The Blob in person?

No, you mean the stage play?

No, they have like, it's like a canister with like just this goo inside to say, here's the actual blob from the movie The Blob.

And it's just a bunch of crap in a fucking caster.

Well,

and you expected it to be what?

Spam?

Not as good as Shopify.

Not as good as Shopify.

Folks, upgrade your business.

Get the same checkout that all of the big boys use.

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

And that JCE, of course, is in lowercase, shopify.com

slash JCE.

And you're going to get a $1 a month trial period so that you can see that Shopify will collect and or extort all kinds of money from the shopping public in in order to keep you happy and farting through silk no extortion involved or necessary shopify's there to help you

only if they push people no they'll be push them no

push may not come the shove when it comes to legal matters shopify is there to legally help you i don't know why we have to talk about the legalities of this well you know what they're there for you to shopify so give shopify a big push and they'll push you right to the to the bank if you have products you you need to sell, you need Shopify to work with you to sell them.

How can they get hooked up with this, Jim?

Shopify.com/slash J-C-E in the lowercase area of the keyboard.

We'll get you the $1 a month trial period where you get to go like that.

Well, that's right, Jim.

That's the kind of deal you can get with Shopify.

We encourage everyone to check that out.

And that was some slick selling on your part.

I don't know how much slick selling there was on Dynamite.

Let's get get back to Dynamite.

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Well, there wasn't a lot of selling coming up because it was time for Moxley's clown car to pull up and come to the ring through.

They showed him before the break coming out of a room in the arena

and then showed him walking into the arena on the other side of the break.

But they can't,

they just can't be brought to associate with the riffraff over there in the locker room.

They've now established he has a locker room of his own.

He still chooses to walk through the arena.

And

okay, here comes Moxley, and he has he's trying to do something with that decrepit physical appearance of his.

And Claudio's a fucking giant.

And old Pac, well, he's just ripped and shredded.

And Marina Schaefer, she's the toughest one of the bunch.

And then here comes Yuda.

He looks like, you know, this fucking street gang brought their weed dealer with them.

Well, look at him.

What?

It's like

at least here's this guy.

Okay, he can kick somebody's ass.

That guy's fucking huge.

And that guy's jacked up.

And look at she's a badass from the jiu-jitsu world.

And there's

Ronnie he can come along for the ride.

Yeah, you know, Ronnie, did you bring the stuff?

Maybe it's weed or Yuda.

But then again, weed dealer Yuda.

Here we go.

Even if this

whole deal already wasn't confusing and the whole nine yards with it, what in the fuck is Moxley talking about in his audition reel for the indie movies, the whole nine yards?

How can anybody take him seriously as the world champion or as a badass if he's either wrestling or talking about the biggest

joke wrestler on a roster of jokey wrestlers?

Think about it.

Here's their world champion, and he's beaten everybody up on the fucking roster.

And he's got this whole group with him.

And he's cutting a promo about orange fucking Cassidy.

And then

after he does the promo where he's ranting and raving

in the circles that he talks in about our little puppy pockets,

I didn't, you didn't challenge me.

I challenged you, which I think he did last week.

But then suddenly they grab Wheeler, their boy Wheeler, and they jerk him down and they put a chair around his neck, and they're going to fucking break his neck.

But then Pockets slides in and tackles Moxley, and they all jump him and

they let Wheeler go and he gets up and starts kicking Pockets.

why did pockets come to save you to

because

why was that the moment that would have triggered him for them to beat up one of their own there are they all used to be friends and they just know that maybe one of these days one of their friends will see the light and i don't fucking know

And then here comes the dork order in, and the heels no-sold him and just beat him up.

And that's where I mentioned that Reynolds guy with his ribs taped up looked like a girl in a tube top.

And

they got pockets down and they were about to break his neck

when here comes Darby from the ceiling.

I'm not ribbing.

And

he drops down, but at least the fans woke up there because until this point, it was like, oh, fucking come on.

But when they see Darby, okay, somebody's finally over.

And boom.

And they start cheering, but now he's hooked to the thing.

And even Shivani references, well, so-and-so has to come over and help Darby get undisconnected.

I'm like, what the fuck?

And then here comes

Darby's beating up Claudio and some more job guys come out.

There's Garcia.

There's Private Party.

And everybody goes over the rail and fights into the arena,

except Private Party stays in the ring.

And then

the Buckaroos music starts playing because they're scheduled to face Private Party.

So they're coming into

the arena down the entranceway while these other guys have gotten up in the stands.

And you just see them just kind of put their arm on each other's shoulders and just walk out instead of continuing to fight.

And

now they're ready ready for the World Tag Title match.

Brian, your thoughts.

Is there a difference between they fought off and they fought out?

No,

fought out and fought off would technically mean the same thing, but the word fight is

too strenuous a word for what they were doing here.

They walk fought.

I mean, there's so much to say about this.

The stomps from Wheeler Yuda when he was heel again

after Orange Cassidy foolishly ran in there, however many people on one to save Wheel Or Yuda.

That was something.

Maybe I'm alone on this,

but I don't care how safe it is.

If your company has a partnership with Dr.

Martha Hart, I'm not doing anyone dropping from the ceiling.

And you know, one of the reasons it worked so well for Sting

in the loosey-goosey 90s was because he was able to unhook himself and get to the action.

Maybe he shouldn't have.

Maybe it should have been a technician to help him with that.

And if that's what Darby has to do, then he shouldn't be dropping from the ceiling if he needs to be in a brawl.

Exactly.

And then the whole Moxley thing, nothing is explained.

Still, nothing's explained.

They're with Moxley, his gang, because he built AEW with his own hands.

And he doesn't like what it's become while he's been there the entire time.

And if you think this is bad now, wait until the Bucs return with Kenny to be the heroes to stop Moxley.

Oh, well, but now wait a minute.

They must have scratched that because according to what I just saw just coming up here shortly in this program, they're going in the opposite direction.

Well,

as you said,

the Moxley-Darby angle ended, but the next match began instantly as all of this was wrapping up.

Well, yes, because you can't grieve forever.

But now it was nine o'clock.

Time to get the party started.

Private party versus the Hardley Boys for the World Tag Team title.

And I don't, we'll talk about the ratings shortly, but

boy, they give these guys

every week.

They give them some important quarter that they can fuck up.

And I mean, this match, again, you can't seriously critique it as a wrestling match.

The cartwheeling and cheerleading began in earnest immediately.

They've got their hand-picked referee, the desiccated corpse himself, Rick Knox.

So

there's going to be no tags.

There's going to be no sense of logic or order or

credibility.

They managed to work a spot where the babyfaces look like complete idiots, where

one of the heels ducked and one of private Party hit his own partner with the ring bell.

And that was the way that the guy got color.

And of course,

it looked like he tried to pop a pimple.

That's how much blood he had.

But still, so

the baby faces are busting

each other open now.

Then they drug one member of Private Party to the stage and left him there.

So that O Cody could come out

and give him what may be the fakest tombstone pile driver I've ever seen on the stage.

Would you call that a tombstone pile driver, Brian, or would you call it picking somebody up and gently bending to your knees to let them down?

Yeah, Okada just kind of went down.

He got less air than Geno Moore doing a big splash.

He just didn't even leave the ground.

He just went right down

very gingerly.

Yes.

To tombstone pile driver, the baby face to make sure he can.

I mean, the tombstone pile driver on the entrance stage did nothing to stop the baby face.

But anyway.

Well, no, because he was up and back in the ring a couple minutes later.

But the point is, we're not saying break the guy's neck.

We're saying if you can't do something that looks good and professional, then just don't fucking do it.

And this guy can't do anything that looks good or professional.

So then, and then he just left.

Oh, Cody just left again.

And they beat up the other private party fellow forever,

two-on-one for minutes at a time, in front of the most useless referee in the history of wrestling.

And then the other private party came back that had been tombstone pile drived.

And they had a continuous four-way until they hit a double-team move on

little Nikki, the younger brother,

and covered him one, two, three.

Big pop.

Fans happy.

Yeah, well, the fans loved the idea of the Buckaroos not being the champions anymore.

And then as the people popped and private parties got the belts, the Buckaroos jerk the belts away and then they look at each other

and then they handed them back to them and patted them on the shoulder and left.

See, babyface turn.

And then they're about to run out of the goddamn building with their tails between their legs like cowards.

But in the meantime, this match would have gotten everybody involved in it expelled from wrestling school.

And it took 20 minutes.

The right result, but boy, it was brutal to get there.

I mean, the right result, we'll see who private party has to work with going forward.

But definitely need some kind of change in that TACUM division.

And you definitely need the Bucs.

I mean, how many times have the Bucks had to go away

at this point?

And they have to do it again.

See, they go away well the the part that they can't master is the coming back is the groan from the audience when the opening notes of their music hits again in a couple months yeah that's what they can't avoid well but we're going to get to that we we need to keep chronologically so we're going to get to their exit from the building in a minute but

then there was the segment that uh i don't know why they didn't do this in the back because they had these three

dimwits just come out and stand there in front of the people with their backs to the people.

But Jericho,

Big Bill, and Brian Keith did a promo

in the fashion they've been doing it.

And

at the top of it, I jotted down real quick, how did he convince anybody to let him do this bullshit on television?

I'm just talking about the overall gimmick.

I'm talking about the tone in his voice that he never had before.

And the

fact that he's dragging Big Bill down with him.

And I mean, Brian Keith, lucky to be there.

Everybody obviously see that.

But just the

without even talking about the content,

the delivery, the goofy delivery.

This hasn't gotten any heat per se.

This hasn't increased ratings.

This hasn't

increased buy rates.

This hasn't increased ticket sales.

This hasn't increased interest.

It's Jericho doing another thing that Jericho does to just annoy people and stay on television.

Am I mischaracterizing the cheesiness of this whole persona that he's adopted?

Well, again, let's take everyone a step back.

Jericho started getting an incredibly negative reaction from AEW fans, starting, I think, in New York when it came out that he went after Stephen P.

New

and said, I, you know, never signed an NDA.

And then it was brought up that how many people have signed NDAs because of him.

And then that kind of shut Jericho up, but the fans remembered it and he started getting booed.

He started getting the please retire chance.

And of course, it's moments like that that lead to reinvention and more importantly, ways to convince Tony Khan that you can reinvent yourself with your bad ideas.

And the problem with Chris Jericho is there's never someone to put him in check and say, no, Chris, this is all really bad.

You're not good at this.

You're not an ideas guy.

You're a bad ideas guy, but you're not an ideas guy.

And that leads us to this point where a play on, quite frankly, a play on what we make fun of here on the show.

The thanks guys,

led to hi guys.

I mean, it's really just a big, you know, he's kissing, he's blowing a kiss to us with this whole thing.

He's blowing somebody else, though.

Unfortunately, it seemed like with this promo, maybe

it's gotten to him a little bit.

Well, and here's the thing.

And I know Uncle Dave, because he mentioned, you know, Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer newsletter gave my ladder match with Mark Briscoe four stars.

And then in this

week's edition of the Wrestling Observer newsletter,

Uncle Dave says that, well, Jericho then cut a promo

about

directly to the naysayers, to the people who have criticized AEW and criticized him and said they wouldn't get this TV deal or that because Jericho's out there saying,

if you underestimated Chris Jericho,

then you don't know how wrestling or television works.

And so Dave has taken that

as Jericho is out there defending

AEW and what they've done and what he's done and now Ring of Honor and blah, blah, blah,

because

they're trying to shop around

or already have shopped around and believe they may have found a sucker, I mean a buyer,

for a Ring of Honor TV show with True TV, right?

Which is one of the minions in the WBD canon, arsenal, whatever.

Yeah, Jericho's acting like he's still a demo god or that he really helps the show or the ratings or anything.

No, this is exactly where we thought he would end up on True TV with 300,000 viewers.

Well, yes, that's the thing.

While Uncle Dave is saying that Jericho is cutting a promo sniping at all the naysayers who have criticized AEW, no,

he's cutting a promo, basically said, I underestimated me being able to sucker this fucking billionaire into giving me my own show.

where I can be the world champion.

I can be all over the fucking thing.

And I don't have to interact with these fuckers over here anymore.

With all the people that don't want to work with him anymore.

That's the other thing.

It's not like the comments we had about Chris Jericho and his work over the last several years weren't heard by the locker room.

He was able to sucker some guys in, that he was helping them, that he had advice for them.

Who has come out for the better for that?

No one.

MJF had to get as far away from all that as he could.

And now he's going to have a show because who's going to work with him amongst the the top people in AEW right now?

Well, the Moxley Group, no.

But here's the thing, also, what they're saying

is that, well, it was more important for Ring of Honor to have a name like Jericho as the world champion instead of Mark Briscoe or any of the other guys because of his name value.

Well,

yes, name value is important.

We've talked about it in five years ago.

When Jericho was the only name there, he was pretty important at the start of the program.

But now that we've seen him for five years and he's five years older,

and the whole idea of Ring of Honor

is not to have a mid-50s

champion that does bad fucking promos as a gimmick.

And

if you wanted a name,

if you were just going to say, fuck the the style of Ring of Honor or the idea that Ring of Honor is for the younger talent.

It's kind of like the cool underground record label vibe or whatever.

Then you've just signed Bobby Lashley.

Why wouldn't you make Bobby Lashley the world champion of Ring of Honor if you wanted a name off of the other television to be strong, et cetera?

No, and Jericho went to, oh, Tony, I'll get this thing over for you.

So he's got his own show, his own bunch of stooges, his own world title,

and he can do whatever the fuck he wants over there

anyway

you know i mean again it all comes back to the same thing

jericho found the biggest jericho fan and has gotten away with murder for millions of dollars for several years now chris jericho chris jericho is possibly the most successful hitman in history He's been paid millions of dollars to kill a bunch of towns.

Go ahead.

And the other thing is, he hurts everyone who gets involved, but Big Bill is actually one of the few exceptions so far.

But, you know, you got to think Big Bill is just trying to get back to WWE.

But with Ring of Honor, they have such a difficult time promoting and marketing AEW.

So if this gets picked up on True TV, let's say, another Warner Brothers Discovery channel, or anywhere else.

That means you would think they're going to start promoting with Jericho's the world champion.

They're going to start promoting the brand a whole lot more.

That's going to create a little bit of confusion in the marketplace, isn't it?

jericho's the world champion he's the world champion of aew no that's a different world champion are they going to rebrand ring of honor aew ring of honor like how's it going to work or is it going to be like tna to wwe or i guess that's not is it going to be like nxt to w to a ring of honor we don't know

it's very confusing is what it's going to be and they can't focus on anything to begin with and they're going to have more stuff to talk about so i i can't i just can't wait

And Tony thinks these guys are his friends.

That's a good thing.

Well, of course he does.

They're his highly, highly prized, highly priced, and highly paid friends.

And speaking of some of the highest ones,

they go to the back where Garcia snatches old Jungle Jack,

throws him up against the wall at his custody.

You can do something about this and blah, blah, blah.

And then Jungle Jack goes into the Buckaroos locker room and they are packing their shit and putting papers in the shredder and saying, We got to go, we got to get out of here.

We're leaving.

And again, they can't do anything that's not funny and not believable.

They can't do anything to get something over serious.

That's why they're in the position they're in

because they think that people were just going to

enjoy for 10 years them playing with themselves.

And it got old.

But they're shredding the papers and they're looking like they're bailing out before the goddamn feds come to file a search warrant or whatever.

And we get out of that.

And more on that in a minute.

Or should we do more on it now?

Let's keep it together.

Let's keep it together.

Well, I wish I could keep it together.

So they have the next match, which we'll talk about in a minute.

And then

they go to the back again, and now the buckaroos are bailing from the building.

They're running to the parking lot like somebody's chasing them.

And Chris Daniels tries to stop them and go, no, we need you.

We need you.

Don't leave.

And

one of the little buckaroos is like, well, this place is too chaotic.

And we told you, but nobody would listen to us.

And now I'm going to be working from home.

And Daniel's again, we need you, but they drive off.

But they've left Brandon Cutlett, who was coming with their box of shit and he had shredded stuff.

And suddenly, as he's there standing there, like, don't you?

Tell me sneakers.

No, you say box of shit.

It was also sneakers.

Was that what it was?

Sneakers and shit.

Yeah, tons and tons of sneakers.

Yeah.

Yeah, just because they're children.

That's the most important thing to them.

I remember

when I found other things to play with, I didn't worry about my tennis shoes when I was a kid.

Anyway,

Moxley and his band of Merry Misfits appear

and they

slap the box of sneakers down.

And now, Daniel's prefer moccasins.

Hold on.

God damn it.

moccasins try the veal

so

chris daniels an ex-pro wrestler a member of management who

a while back tony kahn made his spokesman right when they before they forgot about all that well he was made the spokesman after the bucks and jack perry beat up tony kahn yes yes

well now moxley just put his arm around daniels and held him immobile like a small small child, not exhibiting much effort to do it.

And there was Daniels going, no, no, no, no, no because Moxley's hand is over his mouth.

And while he's holding Daniels,

Marina Schaefer

puts, what the fuck, what's his name?

Cutlett.

Brandon Cutlett's hand on a forklift, and Claudio has a ball peen hammer.

And Claudio picks the hammer up

and hits the forklift beside the guy's hand.

And the guy didn't sell it right away because it missed, and he didn't realize.

And then, instead of jerking his hand back, or even an instantaneous, oh shit,

like when you drop something on your toe, oh, shit,

he went,

and and then they untied.

She had a chain around his wrist.

She untied the little chain, and he was selling his hand.

That again, it missed by six inches.

High hand visible that it did.

I mean, it's not like it missed, and you have to go back and check.

You went back and checked, like, yeah, I think I just saw what I saw.

Yeah, well, and then also because the guy didn't know when to sell it because it never touched him.

So, audio's not good with tools,

it's better with books.

I saw casino this weekend so i did the hammer scene i've heard the saying a poor worker blames his tools but i've never

now you're gonna have to carry shoes with your left hand

uh but i mean this what in the world

again like who gives a about

the stooge of the evps that are heels and nobody gives a shit about them to begin with

and now we're gonna

so that in two weeks in a row, they've beaten up Chuck fucking Taylor.

And now they had to go aways, but they found the only person less important to the company or to the fans than Chuck Taylor.

And they beat him up.

Well, again, too, they're the big heels in the tanking division, so big that the fans just don't want to watch when they're on TV.

And they respectfully handed over the belts

after losing babyface move.

move.

However,

then we were told by commentary, by Excalibur, that they were shredding documents in the back.

No, we saw it.

We saw it when they opened the door.

You know what?

I didn't see it when they opened the door.

I saw the sneakers and Cutler.

I never saw the documents, but we were told over and over.

No, Cutler was, he was feeding them in the fucking shredder.

Well, the

first couple seconds of the scene.

So then they're shredding documents.

That seems like a heel move.

And then running.

And then they flee.

That's a heel move.

But now their friend has been attacked with a hammer.

A hammer that's so strong.

It's like Thor's hammer.

You don't even have to hit the body part.

You have to be near it.

You hit the pole next to it and the vibrations caused the injury.

You got to figure they're going to come back and save their stooge.

That's a baby face move.

Here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

Even if they do come back to save their friends, so now they've established that those are the pussies that ran off when they were afraid of these guys, but their friend gets hurt.

So now they're coming back to try to do something.

Should I support them?

Because

they didn't want to help the company.

They didn't want to help the fans.

They just, whenever their friend got hurt, then they came back from running.

Otherwise, they were content to be pussies

up to that point.

How does that gain support for a babyface?

And by the way, Christopher Daniels, I said it from the beginning.

He's like a bootleg

Adam Page.

Adam Pierce.

Adam Pierce has never been made to look as weak as Christopher A.

Daniels has since almost the very beginning.

And what's the point of him in that role?

Well, and again, to just

hold him.

Just like here, little fellow, just stay there.

So, anyway, that was that.

You want to go back to the match we skipped?

The match that we are speaking of, that we had skipped earlier, was Camille versus Chris Statlander.

And

again, I thought, well, here's a chance we can evaluate Camille.

And

there wasn't anything the matter with the match, but boy, howdy did the booking get in the way.

First of all, remember,

well, yeah, it was like they kind of just made it up as they went along, but

the booking, if you can call it that, of this thing is completely,

again, they've wardlowed Camille

already.

I will not get ahead of myself.

The point is, Statlander was from Alpha Centauri.

No.

Andromeda.

The Andromeda Galaxy.

That's right.

Yes.

In Suffolk County.

And then she

actually became a real person after she had a couple of injuries, as I recall.

And of late,

When we've had a chance to see her, she had kind of the jeans thing going on.

She had a youngish type of look.

She was a baby face.

She's got good size.

She can do shit.

We're like,

why don't they do something with her instead of this fucking Mercedes moon?

And now she came out and she looks like she moved back to outer space.

And the gimmick is.

It's a complete departure.

And all these people show up.

There used to be a rule in the WWF, you couldn't get a fucking tattoo tattoo without office approval.

You couldn't get a new set of tights made that was radically different from anything you've been wearing without approval because your publicity, your pictures, the way you're being written for, your gimmick,

you don't just get to,

oh, fuck it, I'm going to be a ballet dancer this week.

But now she's back to tights.

She's got face paint on.

It looked outlawed.

It looked like she's trying to be from outer space again.

Suddenly,

for no reason, no explanation.

So they had a match.

They were serious.

They were fairly stiff.

It was a big girl match.

Who's the most powerful?

Camille hit a great leg Lariat.

You know, the old David Schultz thing.

She jumped up, stuck her leg out, and sat on the fucking guy.

Or on the girl, I should say.

Well, Schultz usually did it to a guy.

Nevertheless,

and then they went back and forth a little bit.

And then Camille went for a tombstone, and Stedlander reversed it and tombstoned her.

One, two, three.

They beat Camille.

I was like, what the fuck?

And Shivati's like, well, my God, this is a big upset.

Camille was 5-0.

Big fucking deal.

She just got there.

They beat her already?

It's.

Well, you had to know they were going to beat her when they were using her as a setup for the Mercedes-Monet match for Statlander.

That's the exact problem.

Is Mercedes is attached to this.

And the only way

I think it's safe to say you can't disagree that for the money that they have paid, especially if what we are told is even remotely true,

that Mercedes Moon has been the biggest bomb

in the biggest turkey, as Jackie Gleason would say, well, you ate an egg with that one

that there's ever been.

But now they bring Camille in.

They could have gotten heat on Mercedes with Camille.

If Camille is established as the

diesel, the bodyguard, or Big Bubba.

Instead of Big Bubba Rogers, she's Big Bubba Gump.

It's already over.

Camille.

But she's got great shrimp.

And you know what?

She's standing next to the shrimp, Mercedes.

But Camille could have won this with Mercedes reaching in and goddamn doing something and interfering and Camille gets a win.

But the heat still goes to Mercedes and Statlander, but nobody wants to see Mercedes do any fucking thing or wrestle anybody.

But if they were going to try to put some heat on her,

then Camille could have propped her up.

But now they're beating, and then she beats Camille to Statlander.

And then Mercedes knocks Statlander out from behind with one shot with a belt.

She's going to lay there for the next two minutes.

Mercedes gets gets the microphone and yells at Camille, get to the back now,

like a whipped puppy.

And then Mercedes says, if you want something done right, do it yourself.

She's already burying the bodyguard.

And then she,

to do something herself, she pulled Statlander's head up.

showed her the belt and then dropped it.

And then the music played and she stood there doing nothing,

which is what she's good at.

But again,

Camille 5-0.

Well, goddamn, until she was 25 or 30-0, then they shouldn't have a goddamn match with her and somebody they don't want her to beat.

Do you have any idea how many and oh, guys, and girls used to be

in the wrestling business when they brought them in and put them on television to get them over?

No, and again, they're doing some of of the things now that you would see

maybe with like a sean and diesel after a couple of years they've been together for weeks yes

and they're already doing all these things diesel didn't lose for a long time diesel wasn't just losing matches to set up people for sean

right away or china

so it's ridiculous that

i mean they took all the Whatever Camille was supposed to bring, they kind of took all of that away because of the way they booked her.

So now she's just a big girl standing there at Mercedes.

She's not a threat.

She can lose matches.

And Scotland Under was as big as she was.

And Mercedes.

After Queen Almanada, it's two weeks in a row.

They put Camille in there with women that were as big, if not taller, than her.

And

also, Mercedes is not even particularly confident in her now.

You know, telling her off.

So, and remember, I said then the job girls have been pushing her around.

So

that was a chance to make something out of Mercedes because it's

if she, if she wasn't coming off as such an entitled bitch that actually believes she's over, I would feel embarrassed for her at how over she's not.

But, my God, and

she's got nothing but problems, Mercedes, for all that money she got paid from Tony.

Did you hear about her financial issues?

I don't have any idea what you're talking about.

No.

She overdrew her account at the sperm bank.

Anyway, so

we're going to move on now.

That's a good idea.

So it's real.

Thank you.

Let's move on from the sperm bank.

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Well, boy, I'll tell you what, some testosterone, thankfully.

We got the main event with Swerve Strickland with Prince Nana against Shelton Benjamin with MVP.

And this was not only one of the better swerve matches I've seen, but the only thing actually worth watching on this television program.

And again, except

I'm not happy about the timing of the booking with what they did with the finish here.

And they do actual rotten finishes, not in terms of who's winning or losing, but how it happens.

But

it appears for most of this that once again, Shelton and MVP are

agenting, producing their own stuff here because

this was a wrestling match followed by a wrestling angle,

which is out of place on this show and it was perpetrated by grown adult men.

And Swerve, as I predicted, was kept away from his

worst instincts, and his

leaping and athletics and et cetera, didn't get too fancy for the sake of being cute,

but instead was a response to a more physical guy that was dominating him.

So he had to use his speed and his inventiveness.

And that's when this shit works.

And again, Shelton, he out-wrestles the guy, so Swerve has to be a little quicker.

And Shelton gives him a belly-to-belly over the top rope to the floor, but Swerve gets an arm lock and scissors it around the ring post.

And when Shelton opens up and starts manhandling Swerve,

finally,

he'll get hope spots.

Swerve will from underneath, but then he'll get suplexed on his ass again.

And then

10 o'clock came.

They were almost in break.

They came back from the break right at 10 o'clock.

Of course, they're going overtime.

And again,

I don't know why they're putting the best thing on the show at the end of the show where the fewest people will see it.

But nevertheless, that's what they did.

When Swerve made his comeback, did you notice that he didn't have the people with his comeback?

Do you know why?

Well, I actually thought they had a problem getting the people into the match or at least getting them to make noise throughout the whole match, but why here?

Well,

if anybody wants to go back and look at it, when Swerve finally opened up with his comeback, I mean, he hit a kind of a missile dropkick off the fucking top rope to the back of Shelton's head, and he did some other stuff.

But what he does is not a good babyface comeback.

It's a good series of moves to do in the match.

But

a babyface comeback needs momentum.

It needs him to be cooking.

It needs to kick it into high gear.

This is where the heel becomes a ping-pong ball and starts bumping.

And

everything that Swerve did, he was doing a fancy move, but it took a little bit to set it up.

Like he's got to do something to Shelton where Shelton is sitting there,

and then Swerve has to run to the buckle and then jump off and hit him with an elbow in the back of the head.

But Swerve is taking the big bumps.

Everything he did in the comeback either took a couple of seconds to set up

or

gave Shelton no bump to take.

So because the babyface was doing the pretty stuff.

In the comeback,

the ideal babyface comeback is he stands in the middle of the ring and the heel feeds him and the heel bumps the fuck out of

him.

And the momentum,

you know, I see guys

When they

They'll make a tag and they'll punch a guy two or three times to back him up into the ropes and they'll shoot him off and the guy will reverse it and shoot the baby face off and they'll duck and do bullshit.

You're wasting fucking time.

When a baby face gets a tag in a tag match or just starts a comeback because the heel has missed something, the people want to see him cook.

They want to see him punch the guy in the face and him take a bump.

Punch him in the face.

He takes another bump.

Now back him up, shoot him off, hit him with a fucking dropkick.

He takes another bump or give him a body slam.

He takes nothing, what it bump this motherfucker and do it ba-bing, ba-bing, ba-bing, and then hit him with a big one.

The guy can sell.

The baby face can fire up the people.

And then you go into your false finishes.

But this is inside the ring and outside the ring and this fancy thing.

And there was no momentum and there wasn't a heel bumping, bumping, bumping.

And then

Swerve tried to get.

At first, I thought he was trying to get a full nail snot and Shelton was fighting it.

But then it looked like that he was trying to get some kind of abdominal stretch and couldn't figure it out.

And then it just looked like that Shelton was looking behind him like, are you going to put a hold on me or what?

And finally, it would nothing, none of these things transpired,

Shelton double wristlocked him and took him down

and had the double wrist lock, but then Shelton was on a bottom and Shelton had him float over and get a two count.

And he had him float over.

Shelton stuck his own leg in the middle of Swerve's legs and kicked it up a little bit, like, come over here

to get him to cover him.

And then

Shelton took over again.

So I.

I don't know whether Swerve was trying to put a hold on that he didn't know what the fuck, or, but anyway,

thankfully, Shelton is an experienced professional.

And then they went back and forth and they hit the big moves.

And then suddenly, Swerve got a sit-down power bomb, did the double stomp off the top rope, cover one, two, three.

Again, seriously.

I know they're setting up what we're about to talk about, but not even a manager spot to give Shelton an out.

What about if MVP had come up the goddamn bullshit over something and Nana fucking

got on him and Shelton went over to fucking save his goddamn manager, boom, and nails Nana and then turns around and gets the fucking boot or whatever.

But again, all they do is flat finishes.

It's, I'm sorry, at this point, it was too soon to beat Shelton.

He's just got there.

But they're trying to set up the introduction that they're they're about to do.

But you can still figure a finish to give the guy an out

so that you've not damaged your one commodity to introduce your next commodity.

And

I've never seen so many people, baby faces and heels,

just get beaten

with no outs, no bitches, no gripes, no slip-ups, no making a mistake or no capitalizing on a mistake.

They just do moves until somebody wins with one.

And that's a rotten way to do finishes.

The fuck.

Especially to someone you just brought in.

Especially somebody you just brought in that's looked better than everybody else on the roster.

So anyway,

the point is one, two, three, swerve wins.

And MVP gets on the phone at ringside.

I'm not saying there's a payphone at ringside.

I mean, he gets on his phone, but he's at ringside.

And suddenly, as he's talking,

the lights go out and there's a big pop from the people.

And then the lights come back on again.

And come to find out it was an accident.

And the fucking crowd went, whoa!

And when the lights came back on again, you know,

now everybody's standing around.

And then suddenly,

music starts playing.

Most of the lights go out again.

Then the lights go out again, but there's still a light over the ring because it's Bobby Lashley.

And the production crew got their fucking

I's dotted and their T's crossed in the wrong fashion.

But now here came Lashley and he got a big pop.

But I'm thinking, who did MVP call on the phone?

Did he call the light guy or the sound guy?

think about that how did he call

if it's one thing for paul heyman to call roman reigns on his cell phone when roman ain't there to report on the that's going on right

but did he call bobby lashley who's standing at gorilla said okay mvp says it's time to play my music no turn the lights back on the music first

what's going on back there yeah where was lashley that i mean was he near a monitor because i mean he got out there pretty quickly all things considered well yes and that's what I

so anyway.

If MVP had been for weeks

calling somebody on the phone,

all right, nevertheless,

they have ideas and they just go, oh, let's do that.

But nevertheless, Lashley comes to the ring, gives MVP a big hug,

has a face-off with Swerve.

The people chant, holy shit.

Remember, didn't somebody say,

oh, they don't want Lashley.

He's too WWE or whatever the fuck.

They like any name that shows up.

No, they treated him like a star, those fans.

And then when Shelton popped up on the April of the Ring and diverted Swerve's attention, MVP, or MVP, Lashley clotheslined him.

and started kicking the shit out of Swerve.

And finally, MVP

stopped Prince Nana.

He hit him with the cane and then put the cane around his neck and was choking him with it.

Because remember before, they've just let Nana stand there with his dick in his hand doing nothing.

And MVP was too smart for that.

So they held MVP down and then Shelton gave him a super kick or whatever.

And Lashley chokeslammed Swerve and put the hurt lock on him.

And here comes the referees and the security, but the heels were doing the king of the hill the right way.

The manager's got a blunt instrument he's hitting people with.

And while Lashley's on swerve, Shelton is kicking the security guys and top roping them.

It was chaos.

The babyfaces were in jeopardy.

The heel group, in a believable way, kicked the shit out of everybody.

And there was momentum to it.

And then

MVP takes the microphone and all he has to say as he's standing there with Shelton and Lashley is, guess guess who's back in business and the people cheered like crazy

because this is this is something

this is men doing wrestling

it was better than Moxley's bunch eight weeks of TV in one fucking segment well the other thing too is people forget That right when WWE started getting really hot again, the hurt business was still on top.

Lashley was still one of the world champions.

Right when things started to, you know, bubble up and everything with the Bloodline took off.

That's why for so long we wanted Bloodline versus Hurt Business, and it never really happened.

And I think the fans treated them like they were the stars.

You know, one of the things,

you know, it was pretty quiet, so you could hear stuff.

The, you know, the AEW, great job of micing the audience, as always.

Yeah, you could hear a mouse pissing on cotton and building that empty.

Bachamania, I think it was, put up a video where, you know, they played that and you could hear the referees as they're running out, just like running out, 90 seconds.

30 seconds.

Well, it doesn't help when they're screaming 90 seconds.

And one of the guys in the ring says, what'd you say?

And the guy in the third row said, he said 90 seconds.

No, you know, the fans have treated them like...

you know, especially here, treated them like main event stars, and that's exactly what you want.

Don't fuck it up.

You know, it's gonna be weird with them coexisting as badasses while Moxley's uh driving around town or whatever he's doing with his little gang,

hanging out by the gas station.

What do you think Moxley and them do when they're not at the arena?

Hang out over by the 7-Eleven and get some soda.

What do you think they're doing?

Maybe playing ski ball.

And again, as you mentioned earlier in the program, why would Tony Khan have to call

the Jackson boys, those little

delicate little things who just ran like cowards, or Jungle Jack, who is the most effete bearded man I've ever seen,

and their broken down Japanese paraplegic friend.

Oh, you're forgetting the big friend.

That's who it's going to be.

It's going to be led by Kenny Omega.

Oh, I forgot.

And gutless Kenny.

No, he has guts.

They fixed his guts.

They put his guts back in.

I think so, right?

They don't remove his gut.

They didn't remove anything.

They just fixed his guts.

They just took him and set him out to the side.

It's like when you're doing one of those recipes where it says mix these ingredients, set to the side.

It's like one of those brain surgeries I read about in the Observer.

Yeah, they take the brain out and they set it aside.

But why would you need to call those?

I will give Kenny his...

credit.

He's the only one of the bunch that looks like he could whip any grown adult man, professional athlete or otherwise.

But why would you call them when you just say, hey, MVP, Lashley, Shelton, can you go stretch these stupid motherfuckers for me?

Miro, I'll let you out of your contract.

Just take out these men.

That's what he should do.

He should call in Miro and Wardlow and Hobbs, all the big scary guys.

And be like, look, whoever takes out Moxley gets out of their contract at once.

And then it becomes like a mad race every week.

Who's going to take out Moxley?

Meanwhile, they're all fighting each other to try to get to Moxley.

You're saying it's a wrestling version of it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

Yes, it's a king of the mountain where the winner gets to leave.

Boy, in that case, there'd be some goddamn people stabbing each other in the guts to get

takeover from that.

You know what?

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I think it could really be something.

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AEW Dynamite, the ratings, October 30th, a Wednesday night as always.

I'm waiting to hear the

reveal here.

I know nothing so far about the numbers.

On TBS, 8 to 10, 11 p.m.,

strong competition, the World Series on Fox, of course, and basketball.

And also, there was news.

There was news that day?

Shit, most days go by without any news.

And we all focus so much on the different TV shows that are causing the AEW rating not to go up or to continue to go down.

What about the written word?

What about the quality and the amount, the quantity of books that have come out just this year alone about a number of subjects?

So I think AEW...

That's true.

You know, we don't even talk enough about that that people could be just deciding to read a good book.

Well, let's find out what happened on this Wednesday night, October 30th,

8 to 10:11 p.m.

On average, AEW is watched by 628,000 viewers.

Ooh, for Fright Night.

And they were scared when they saw the ratings.

That's down from last week, what,

10,000, 20,000 somewhere in that ballpark?

Last week, according to WrestleNomics, was 637,000.

So this is down 1%.

And it's also 3% off the trailing four-week average of $650,000.

Well, their average does trail quite often.

Where did we start and where did we finish, oh guru of ratings?

And just for the record too, according to WrestleTicks, the final numbers for AEW Dynamite Fight Night at the Wallstein Center at CSU, Cleveland, Ohio,

3,681 tickets distributed.

Holy shit.

Last time in the area was September 9th, 2023 for collision at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.

3,181 tickets.

So they were up 500 in number of tickets distributed.

That's right.

You think that means they learned their lesson last time and they gave 500 more away this time?

Well, that's going out of the quarter.

And by the way,

at least they got out of Iowa.

Did you hear Cedar Rapids Saturday night for Collision?

1,600 people.

Actually, 1,600 tickets.

It's not a guarantee everybody showed up.

Why do they keep going back to Iowa?

It seems like they go there a lot, doesn't it?

I think they're hoping for Frank Gotch to turn things around when they sign sign him next week.

Well, it's going out of the quarter-hour breakdown.

This was compiled by WrestleNomics.

Quarter won 8 to 8:15 p.m.

A recap video, the Orange Cassidy live promo, the Mercedes-Monet backstage promo, and the start of Adam Cole versus Buddy Matthews,

708,000 viewers.

Ooh, okay, so the Big Bangers had other things to do this this week.

They didn't come out in numbers.

And again, the World Series game would have started around 8 o'clock.

Quarter 2, 8.15 to 8:30 p.m.

The continuation of Cole vs.

Matthews, the post-match with Malachi Black, Christopher Daniels and Private Party Backstage Promo,

647,000.

Jesus.

Well,

there went

61,000 people after they got finished looking at pockets.

But

the good news here is mathematically, they can't plummet off a precipice because they wouldn't be able to make their average.

So this is going to be kind of a slow drip, right?

Well, that's one of the good things, if you want to look at it that way.

That's one of the good things about losing their audience, is that now the dips are never as big as they're...

as they would have been in the past because there are less people to chase off.

So you're saying that it's better to not have people to begin with and lose them than never to have had them at all.

Now they can only impress people with a big number, like 700,000.

If you go the other way, every time the ratings come out, you're like, ooh, let's see what it is this week.

Oh, no, look what it is.

Let's go to quarter three: 8:30 to 8:45 p.m.

An ad break, Adam Cole's backstage promo,

the Kyle Fletcher confrontation with Mark Davis on the ramp,

the Hangman Adam Page backstage promo, and an ad break,

651,000 viewers.

So they gained 4,000 back,

effectively

margin of error, I guess.

We go now to quarter four, 8:45 to 9 p.m.

The Jon Moxley live promo and angle with the Blackpool combo.

Well, I guess they're not that anymore, but with them, Orange Cassidy, the Dark Order, Action Andretti, Leo Rush,

Private Party, Darby Allen.

Forgot about him.

He was out there.

Just think of everyone's size as I say them here again.

Yeah.

Orange Cassidy, Dark Order, you know, minus the girth of Evil Uno.

Action Andretti, Leo Rush, Private Party, Darby Allen, the Young Bucks.

Well, the Young Bucks are next, but

Young Bucks versus Private Party, also.

649,000 viewers.

And they lost two of the four they got.

And,

well, they might pick some up at the top of the hour because you usually do that.

Or because the Buckaroos are in the ring, they might lose more.

It's a toss-up.

Well, we go now to the big 9 o'clock hour, quarter five, 9 to 9.15 p.m.

The continuation of the Young Bucks versus Private Party.

But picture and picture.

590,000 viewers.

Oh, good lord.

They lost 59,000 people as soon as it became obvious that the Buckaroos were going to be in action.

The Death Riders rode off with the ratings.

We now go to quarters 6, 9.15, and 9.30 p.m.

The continuation of the Bucks vs.

Private Party.

The post-match.

The Jamie Hayter Penelope Ford backstage angle.

An ad break.

The Learning Tree Ramp promo

and a Mariah Mae backstage promo

594,000 viewers.

And same thing, fluctuation, 4,000 people.

We go now to quarter seven, 9:30 to 9:45 p.m.

The Jack Perry Daniel Garcia Elite Backstage Angle.

Camille vs.

Chris Statlander with picture-in-picture and full-screen ads.

The post-match with Mercedes-Monet.

The Patriarchy's backstage promo, and an ad break,

six hundred and three thousand viewers.

Jim, we go now to quarter eight.

I remind you we have an eleven minute overrun.

How could I forget?

Quarter eight, nine forty five to ten P.M.

The Conglomerations backstage promo.

The elite Christopher Daniels Blackpool Combat Club backstage angle.

and the start of Shelton Benjamin versus Swerve Strickland with Picture and Picture,

595,000 viewers.

And they were right back down to where they were the quarter before they went up above 600 again.

11-minute overrun,

10 to a 10, 10 to 10, 11 p.m.

Continuation of Benjamin versus Strickland post-match with MVP.

And the debut of Bobby Lashley,

615,000 viewers.

Well,

so they actually picked 20 back up at the end.

The overruns have been dying even further.

So

at least,

hold up.

The Bucks obviously had the lowest-rated quarter hour of the program.

That was right in the middle of the show at the nine o'clock hour, quarter five.

And

everything else in

the second hour stayed between 590 and 603 until the overrun at least bumped up to 615.

So

the angle introducing Lashley was seen more than anything else in the second hour, but still

it wasn't a lot of people compared to where they started from.

So they didn't wait because they didn't want to sit through all that shit.

Hey, you know, I saw something.

Let me see if I can pull this up.

I think I saw it on Brandon Thurston's Twitter.

Okay, here it is.

According to WrestleNomics, the Lashley face-to-face with Swer from Dynamite surpassed 1 million views on AEW's YouTube within 24 hours.

Two other AEW YouTube videos this year reached a million views within seven days.

The debut of Mercedes-Monet

and the highlights of Adam Copeland vs.

Christian IQuit match.

So two matches, right?

In 2023, nine of AEW's YouTube videos reached a million views within seven days, including Darby Allen dethroning the king of television in his hometown, CM Punk Returns,

Ric Flair and AEW, Sting, Adam Copeland, the usual names you would imagine of stars.

So that was what?

Two this year, nine last year.

2022, there were 32 videos.

Jesus.

And he has a whole whole big list here of all the videos.

So if you're going based on YouTube, because for anyone who says, oh, well, people consume wrestling in different ways,

their YouTube numbers are not what they used to be.

But this performed well there.

It's because Lashley is a star.

He's been presented like a star.

Now they could just mess it up.

Yeah, the question is: who's he going to work with on that roster where it's not just

ridiculous?

But that was them there.

That was them there.

Jim, as we move on, and that went pretty long today, but we had a good time with that.

But we'll see how much more we can get in here today.

Rhea Ripley

apparently hurt again.

And they did an angle on NXT that was rather brief, but

they did something there.

First, let me get your thoughts on next.

I know you saw that rather brief clip, but Rhea Ripley hurt again.

I'm just.

It was a freak thing before.

Remember when she had the shoulder injury?

It wasn't that the opponent injured her in a match or in an angle.

It's that when Liv Morgan

went to run her into the locker or whatever it was, and she ran her own self into it

hard enough and with the point of her shoulder that it separated her shoulder.

Okay, these things happen.

But now,

apparently,

the story is that she

has broken her orbital socket by giving one of those freestanding headbutts to either Liv Morgan or Rachel

Raquel, Rachel, Rachel, Rachel, Rachel, Rachel.

I forgot about Raquel as you're saying that.

I'm like, who's Rachel?

Well, Raquel, Rachel, Gonzalez-Rodriguez, whatever, the headbutt.

She drove her own face into somebody and broke her own orbital socket.

And

what the fuck?

Can we just have a moment's peace without the best female wrestler in the business getting hurt all the time, doing shit to herself?

Nobody else can hurt her.

But she's beating the shit out of her own self.

And that freestanding headbutt again.

Ronnie Garvin, you remember Ronnie Garvin used to do those things where he would, he'd stiffen his body up and he would jump up in the air and he would throw his head forward without his hands at all.

And

he looked like Flipper coming out of the fucking water.

And he would hit you instead of with his dolphin snout with his fucking forehead.

And I've never seen anybody else do that like that because it's, there is no margin for error.

And it is very hard to get it over.

With these,

they're leaning in and they're

because she's not the only one that does it.

That's why I say they.

I don't believe that Rhea is multiple people.

But the freestanding headbutts now, they're leaning into and head-butting the pocket by the neck, like the right, the jaw and the

neck area.

Where, especially with the girls, when they have the long hair and they snap their head and the hair flies, you can't tell

that it wasn't forehead to

whatever.

But the problem is,

with some of these girls moving,

it's going to be not forehead to whatever, it's going to be eye to shoulder bone

or eye to collarbone or

eye to jawbone or nose to jawbone.

And that's what apparently happened here.

So she ran her own face into somebody and broke her own fucking eye.

I'm not happy, Brian.

Well, before we get to the angle they did on NXT,

in general, what are your thoughts about headbutts?

And there are lots of different ways to do them.

And just about every single way, someone's been hurt at one point or another.

Yes.

Shibata's brain had to be removed, remember?

I believe due to a headbutt.

You know, all of a sudden it's swelling.

Well, yeah, because they were doing fucking shoot headbutts to each other as hard as they could.

And his fucking brain swelled up.

His head was going to blow up.

Danielson and Nigel McGinnis, I mean, that's some of the stuff you remember from their matches back in the day.

Benoit, unfortunately.

Yeah.

Harley race, the diving headbutt.

Junkyard Dog, the crawling headbutt.

What are your thoughts on these?

Oh, come on.

I would, I'd let JYD hit me with that crawling headbutt every day.

You're not going to get hurt that way.

Especially when he had the fro.

The fro kind of protects you, I would think.

Yeah.

The Harley race diving headbutt,

and

even when Benoit did it

that was more damage to the person doing it in terms of their their neck their cervical alignment harley race especially was not potatoing anybody

uh you know with the diving headbutt but landing like that on your stomach from a high height and it it's throwing your alignment off i think that was more damage there and Benoit, from what I always saw, put it in the pocket of the neck or the chest or whatever, again, basically damaging himself more.

But as a move entirely, the headbutt, great for the fucking Samoans.

I encourage the Samoans to use a good headbut, except for Jacob Fatu, who, as I've said,

fucking relies on it too much.

It's his

nervous tick thing.

Because the Samoans can legitimately fuck you up with a fucking headbutt.

For other people,

I mean, you know, sometimes it can be a desperation thing where you can headbutt a son bitch and get him off of you or whatever.

But when I see people just trading headbutts or doing them back and forth,

I mean, Terry Funk had a way of making it entertaining.

And even he didn't go back and forth multiple times and bing, bing, bing, because you're running your fucking head into somebody else's head.

So really, a lot of times it should be a desperation thing from a guy fighting back.

Both people should sell it, but one should sell it more than the other.

The guy that gave it shouldn't sell it as much as the guy that took it, but he should still register what's going on.

But it's just, it's more of this,

they think of wrestling, everybody in the business now, they think of wrestling as fantasy in their minds when they're putting a match together.

And that's their first mistake and last mistake.

That's the whole mistake.

We never

put a match together thinking about how cool the moves would be,

but it was a complete fantasy.

We put a match together based on can we do this

and make it look halfway reasonable that we would actually do it.

And they've so now they're just fucking doing they're head-butting everything and doing everything else.

And they only sell it whatever it was called for in the finish meeting.

But now you sell it that time.

And I'll sell it this time or whatever.

I digress.

Oh, you digress and you send it back to me.

I digress.

Therefore, I quit digressing.

The NXT angle that they did to explain what's happened to Rhea, because obviously we didn't pick up on the injury when it first happened.

So they had to explain something.

That wasn't really an angle as much as a, you know, 30-second video clip.

You see referees running out of the building into the parking lot, which is a very dangerous place.

And the camera is following them, and you see Liv and Rachel

walking past the camera with a baseball bat.

And they ran, there's Rhea behind the car

with her face all bruised and bloodied up and blood coming from her mouth.

She's apparently been hit in the face with a baseball bat.

And that indicates to me that they think she's going to be out for a while.

Although

the broken orbital socket, remember when Animal of the Road Warriors worked with a face mask in 88, that period of time?

Yeah.

He had a broken orbital socket.

And he took like, I think, were they off a week, maybe two

to sell the injury.

It happened during the

the Warlord and barbarian angle with the bench press contest.

And some way or another,

Animal really got, well, either he got his face run into the barbells, or the barbells got run into his face,

but one way or another, it a broken orbital socket.

So

they put that into the fucking angle, and he wore a mask.

With Riggie Morton that time, I think it was a broken nose.

But

so this is not something

that you have to be out for months and months and months over, but these days they're more concerned with frivolous things like the wrestler's health and safety than trying to fulfill everybody's bookings.

So she may be out for a while.

Well, that's the second injury linked to this program.

So it works in that sense.

I don't know who live and

Raquel is going to work with.

I mean, I know they're working with Naya at Saudi Arabia, but I thought that was kind of a one-time thing, and then they're getting past that.

It better be.

And the thing, and next time, Liv needs to hurt herself because Rhea's got to get even here.

She's too down to this little blonde bimbo.

Should Rhea stop doing the headbutts?

Probably.

Is that a tough conversation to have with talent or is that an easy conversation to have?

Well, it depends on the talent.

I mean, it should be an easy conversation.

If the booker walks up and says, you know what, it ain't worth it.

Don't do the headbutt anymore.

Oh, I'd love to do the headbutt.

Don't do the fucking headbutt.

That ought to be the end of it.

Again,

when did the booker's

instructions become the booker's suggestions?

I'm not saying they're going to tell her to stop doing the headbutt, but it probably

might be a good idea till her face heals up.

But no, if the

If the booker comes up to you and tells you not to stop taking a shit in the morning, only take it at night,

then it shouldn't be a discussion.

It should be, oh, well, that's disappointing to me.

I like to shit in the morning, but since I work here and you're the boss,

unless I want to get my notice and work in another territory, I guess I'll stop doing taking a shit in the morning.

It's not that fucking hard.

Well, we will stay on top of the injury beat and the Rhea Ripley beat.

And we'll see what else we can find out, Jim.

And other news this week.

Other news.

i remind you last week we talked about the story that came out in rolling stone about the writer's room under vince mcmahon yes and then we had the lawsuit that was filed by the ringboys against vince linda wwe and tko we talked about that

this week comes reports that vince mcmahon And we had heard rumblings of this,

that Vince McMahon is starting up or trying to start up a new company consisting of,

if not entirely, predominantly people that were either let go from WWE

or chose to leave suddenly in the last several months.

The word is that he's not looking at wrestling projects.

Well, yeah, and that was the big thing is that, no, it's not wrestlers.

It's a bunch of these office people that

were loyal to him that he's now taking with him to this new venture.

To the venture that will be, for lack of a better term, a production company.

At least the way it's being described publicly, the idea that it would be Vince McMahon using his billions of dollars to fund movies and television projects.

The issue being, no one in 2024 wants to see Vince McMahon's wrestling product.

It was all the shit he did outside of wrestling that bombed worse than anything he ever did in wrestling.

So the idea that he would suddenly get behind projects, let alone alone who's going to work with him outside of his bubble of people.

What are your thoughts on any of this?

Well, but Basazette, why?

Why?

He's 80 years old.

In addition to the money he already had, he just over the last couple of years got $2 billion

from the sale of all this stock.

Why?

Why do anything?

Why not?

You can afford to live anywhere you want, live on the beach, live in the mountains, live in a penthouse.

You can afford to go anywhere you want.

If you want to go somewhere, even though you're fucking 80 years old, you probably shouldn't get far away from a toilet.

Go there.

Maybe stay away from the penthouse.

Well, from the penthouse to the outhouse.

Help some people.

Get a dog.

Play with a cute little puppy.

From Turks and Gegos.

Contribute to some charities.

Do some public work.

Whatever the, why does he want to start another company?

Did I mention he's fucking 80?

I'm 63 and I'm about finished with all y'all son of a bitches.

I don't understand this.

I'm not fucking 80.

I fuck 30.

He, it, it just, I don't understand this.

And

besides that, he's going to have to wait till he gets cleared before anybody,

he believes he's going to be cleared, apparently.

apparently but he'll have to be cleared before anybody will do any kind of serious business with him will he not and even after if he were cleared

how bad would the negative publicity about any streaming service working with him be

you know it would be a real problem he would have to start up another wwe network the vince mcmah network for vince mcmahonsions and where's kevin dunn he'll be there soon and that's part of the thing no you know what no they say he they he has not been been publicly

touted, Kevin Dunn, as somebody that's being involved.

I think he probably just wants to go home and say, fuck it, right?

Because he's older than me.

We'll see.

We'll see where he ends up.

We'll see where Bruce ends up.

But

the idea that Vince wants to do,

wants to fund and produce projects and develop projects outside of wrestling.

Again, we'll talk about some of the projects that have never worked out outside of wrestling.

But do you have a tough time believing that he's completely giving up on the idea of wrestling?

I.

It's not like he was a cinema file.

It's like, oh, now I can show everyone my love of the cinema.

Like, that's not a problem.

He just wants to be in some kind of entertainment, in some kind of content

creation or production or whatever.

The executives that he's got that were

formerly with the WWE until they just got sacked that are loyal to him are in that field.

I think he realizes that chronologically, just scientifically, mathematically,

he's not going to live long enough to do another wrestling promotion because all the top talent is tied down to contracts.

And I don't think you would ever be able to talk Vince into doing something

on any kind of small or regional or territorial scale.

So

maybe he intends, oh,

if I start this production company and I maybe get some of the ex-wrestlers or former wrestlers or people that are celebrities or whatever,

some spots, undertake, whatever, that are still loyal to me, then maybe that's a way to stay in the business and start

building some kind of infrastructure of something.

And then see in three years or five years, he'll imagine he's going to live to be 150.

If enough guys were ever become available or contracts were coming up, and he had already started a company where he could nose around with TV networks and see if there was any interest, then maybe, but

you know, it's going to be a while.

And is he realistically going to live that long just because he thinks he'll never die?

See, again, what does it say?

I said this when everything went down.

He doesn't doesn't give up.

He doesn't just walk away.

That's why I'm not going to presume he's done with wrestling or trying to do something with wrestling.

Because even now,

the federal government's looking after him, which caused the stay on the actual lawsuit.

Looking after him?

I don't know if they're going to be looking after him.

They're looking into him, which caused the stay of the stay.

Into is better than after.

Well, this caused the stay of the lawsuit from Janelle Grant.

The Ringboy lawsuits now.

We never really got a full story of what the WWE internal investigation found out about him.

You know, that's going to leak at some point.

And he's still not giving up.

He's 80 and he's got all this money and he loves going to Turks and Kegos and rescuing cats and dogs.

But he wants to get back involved with all the people he was already working with.

So, no, I don't think he's done with wrestling

until he's dead.

Because that's going to be the easiest road of entry for him.

That's the saddest thing about the wrestling business.

He may not be able to get the talent right away, which could create amazing reviews for us.

If all of a sudden it's Vince getting anyone he could find and giving them, you know, old man Vince gimmicks.

But I'm not, you know, again, he's still,

he's starting up a new company with all the people from his old company, from the office of the old company.

He's trying to do something.

We'll see.

But who's going to work with him?

Who's going to work with him?

Billion dollars will buy a lot of fucking employees.

Well, we'll buy any partners.

I guess that's the question.

I don't think he wants partners anymore because that didn't do any good last time.

You know, when people can actually

not just suggest to him, but tell him things to do, he doesn't like it well.

So.

Hey, real question, without getting into too much of a rant about everything.

If Trump wins the election, does Vince get a pardon?

Well, of course.

Because what he's doing trying to set up a company, obviously, if he thinks he has a chance of getting a pardon, then he kind of is up and running in one respect right away.

Well, it's not like the lawsuits.

He's already up and running.

I mean, it's all he gets stopped.

Well, but that's the thing is the, you know, you can't

whitewash the PR, but he will not be in any legal trouble from the federal government.

If they're going to put Trump in jail,

then I'm sure Trump will take care of Vince in that respect.

Because again, billionaires love money and stick together.

But

no, I think that's why they all want that.

He wants better taxes.

He wants all the little people to pay more taxes.

That's why they want Trump.

Or they want their party.

Trump's talking about pardoning people who

tried to take over the Capitol on January 6th, committed insurrection, and a thousand of them have gone to jail already.

He wants to pardon them.

Think he won't pardon Vince for whatever the government has figured out Vince did?

They'll probably have a pardon store

where they've got price tiers for what your offense is versus how much the pardon cost.

Make check payable Donald Trump.

Vince will write it out and off they'll go.

We're going to find out he's starting a wrestling company.

He has Shane going around as his fucking agent, as his producer, secretly having conversations with everyone, Steve Taylor style.

There you go.

And he has pictures taken with everybody just to prove that he was there to the old man.

We'll see what happens there.

Jim, another story this past week I did want to mention here on the show,

and I must admit, I don't know too much about this wrestler.

I've heard the name Chris Bay

apparently was injured, works for TNA Impact, and was on one of their shows in a tag match against the Hardys, who are now back in Impact,

where he was somehow hurt.

And apparently,

and by the way, remember, boy, nobody knows how to hold a grudge anymore.

Remember when Matt Hardy was suing these same people

because they wouldn't let go of his broken gimmick?

And his wife was cussing him.

And they were suing him.

And

boy, howdy, there was.

And now they're back there.

Can nobody hold a fucking grudge anymore?

Well, he's got bills to pay.

God damn it, that makes you madder.

Makes you better able to hold a grudge.

Motherfucker thinks I'm going to go back to work for him.

I'll goddamn turn to crime.

Well, the last few years, usually in the Hardys matches that we've seen, it's them getting hurt.

In this case, Chris Bay, unfortunately, got hurt.

It seems like it was rather serious from what I've read and reports I've seen.

Any thoughts on this?

What do you know about this?

Do you know who this is?

Have you seen it?

Well, no, I'm like you.

At first, I thought it was Turhan Bay.

Then I realized I've been watching too many mummy movies for Halloween.

But no, we don't want Chris Bay to be hurt.

I don't know who Chris Bay is and I haven't seen him work.

But apparently, he was coming off the top rope and supposed to be caught in a Cody cutter type of thing or whatever,

flying twist of fate.

And he fucked his neck up.

And

he went down and didn't get up.

And

apparently they not only called the ambulance took him to the hospital, but they did emergency surgery on him that night,

which is unusual, even in these cases where people get carried out.

And now he's staying in

where were they in Canada?

Oh, actually, I don't know.

Wherever they were at, he's staying there.

I was trying to find, I had notes here on this.

Now he's in Detroit.

God damn, that's almost as bad as being in Canada.

Yeah.

But he's begun rehab and he's, you know, there in Detroit and they've started to GoFundMe and people are contributing.

But

family, I guess, by his side or the notes that.

So anyway, that's not good, obviously.

And

it ain't ballet and things happen.

But we talked about the diving headbutt a little earlier.

That does more damage to the person giving it than the person taking it because I mentioned not only if you go head-to-head with somebody, but more importantly, the

neck and the back compression and bending somebody backwards and that motion.

If he was trying to do the same move and

landed, you know, did his head snap back?

In which case, you know, what kind of conditioner is vertebrae in?

Blah, blah, blah.

They're doing that a lot.

Everybody does that move now.

And Orton's got it over, and he doesn't have,

you know, he doesn't have to fucking run and jump off the rope and fly into it.

Cody's got it over where he does have to jump off the rope and fly into it, but the guys taking it

are as important as the guy giving it.

And you can fuck it up, and things can happen.

And it can.

And we remember we saw Orton the other night on an NXT show that he guest starred on.

The guy missed him entirely

so there's a lot of margin for error on this thing and it's another one of those things that people haven't been paying any attention to because they think it's safe but no it none of this

safe you can make it safer

but with as many people as doing this

In as many different matches, sooner or later, it was going to fucking happen.

And I guess it just happened.

Well, again, I've already said here that he's hurt.

He has a GoFundMe that apparently the wrestling business has really gotten behind.

I think about $80,000 has been raised.

And let's hope it helps and he can get back in the ring at some point.

Jim?

Brian?

I can't really transition to him needing to sue.

I don't know who he would sue.

But perhaps someone needs to sue.

And we know someone who's for you if you need to sue.

And

if not, we know all the words to Sue City Sue.

And it is sung by the vocal stylings of this man.

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If you've never heard the vocal stylings of Stephen P.

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But I'll tell you what, you'll be living large and in charge like Marge on a barge when you are represented in open court by Stephen P.

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because he will represent you to the promised land, to the pay window, to compensation, to recompense, to revenge, vengeance, and getting even.

You know, a lot of people don't place the proper emphasis and importance, Brian, on a good old-fashioned case of revenge anymore.

You hear most people saying to live and let live.

Let's tolerate everybody.

No, goddamn revenge is what the world

makes it go around.

And if you've got somebody you want revenge on, as long as you can prove they did something at least halfway illegal, just tag in Stephen P.

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By the time he gets finishes with it, it'll be all the way illegal.

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You were about to make a comment?

I was about to say, no, it won't be all the way illegal.

Stephen P.

New is the man for you.

Well, no,

he can take something that's only halfway illegal and he can figure out a way to make it all the way illegal to your benefit.

He is a man of the law.

He is a man of the cloth and a man of the law because he wears cloth every time he goes into a courtroom.

He is never once given a final argument naked as a jaybird.

Once again, Stephen P.

New.

Jim.

Yes.

A bunch of the listeners have been sending this in.

We talked about a couple weeks ago.

It was news in the middle of our recording that Samantha Irvin leaving WWE or left WWE, left Raw.

This has been sent.

Apparently,

a user with a name I cannot read on the air on Instagram said, I can't prove it, but I know Ricochet is behind this because he couldn't stay in the big league.

And Samantha Irvin replied,

i don't like announcing i'm serious announcing was only supposed to be my way in i wanted to manage maybe even become general manager one day oh god but wwe saw no other future for me besides announcer i love watching the action but i don't love being an announcer

so

like i said a lot of listeners have sent this over boy boy boy okay

um and we like her ring announcing, and she's very good at it.

And she's a personable young thing.

She's full of pluck and spunk and

all the things that young girls are full of.

But did she really think she was going to be it?

Well,

I started to say, did she really think she was going to be a general manager?

But look at what they did with Ava.

But did Samantha Irvin

Really think she was going to be a general manager without being the daughter of the biggest star in the wrestling

You know, this is probably not a perfect comparison, but it's kind of like what happened to Brandy Rhodes

because she went to, I don't even remember if it was NXT yet, I don't think it was,

but she wanted to do something in wrestling.

They were hiring.

Oh, yeah, yeah, she wanted to wrestle.

Yeah.

And they made her the ring announcer, and that was it.

That was the way they saw her forever.

And,

you know, she did a little bit, obviously, when she left,

they were never going to let her do anything except

then when she went to aew we saw her wrestle we proved that that they were right

maybe so there's that and that's what i'm saying here is we love samantha's ring announcing and she's a very personable young lady but a general manager

and now now she did say remember previously we had audio where she said that she was a big fan of yours that you inspired her You were so outrageous at ringside.

Perhaps this is more of that inspiration.

Perhaps she's thinking about you.

She wanted to, hell, I'm sure a lot of women think about me the last thing they do before they close their eyes to go to sleep at night.

I have that effect on people.

However,

she thought she was going to be a manager.

Again, look at the fucking roster.

There's one manager in the WWE, Paul Heyman.

Right?

Is there another manager?

Am I...

Well, yeah, Scarlett Bordeaux or Scarlett.

She doesn't have a last name anymore.

Well, fuck.

She's just fucking hanging around.

She doesn't speak.

You know,

Samantha would get more television time being the ring announcer than just wandering around like Scarlett.

Paul Ellering?

What?

I mean,

there's not a job there.

They have general managers.

She's not equipped to be one.

They don't have managers.

And she probably wouldn't be a good one either.

Because unless she's cutting heel promos, why do we need another good-looking girl wandering to the ring with another guy for no reason?

So

maybe that was a case of

it wasn't fun to her anymore because it wasn't what she wanted to do.

But I don't see how in the world that the WWE as a company would have wanted to do what she wanted to do with her doing it.

You see?

I do.

And you kind of feel bad.

You know, you could tell, you know, I guess it must be tough if you do want to do something in wrestling and you're a lifelong fan and you get your way in,

and then you're told, this is it.

You're not doing anything else but this.

But you know what?

I'm sorry, but you can also look at it this way.

Brian Hildebrand was a lifelong wrestling fan, and it was his dream.

to be a wrestler.

And he was a great worker, but he was 5'6 and 140 pounds.

So

that was completely disqualifying in the days of logic and reason.

So what did he do?

He tried to be a manager, and he was great at ringside and doing the physical stuff, but he couldn't cut the promo.

But then when he became a referee,

he was the best referee in the business.

Because he was younger and more athletic than Earl Hebner.

And he was definitely,

I'm sorry, Nick Patrick was bigger than the boys.

He was, in terms of being a referee that could also help with finishes, take bumps, and help green guys in the ring, he was the best in the business.

It wasn't his original

choice, but it was what he could do better than anybody else to be in the business he wanted to be in.

And Tommy Young was the same.

Tommy Young started out as a a wrestler in Michigan in 1974.

And he didn't get very far or go very long.

But they had him referee and he had a talent for it.

And then he refereed for the next 25 years, 20 years until Tommy Rich couldn't wait till after the fucking match for a sociable cocktail and fucking hurt his neck.

But it's not always what you want to do if you want to be in the wrestling business.

Find what you're good at.

Wow, that would have been great if I could have main invented the fucking Mid-South Coliseum against Jerry Lawler.

But unlike all the fucking talent on the AEW roster, I know when I don't look like somebody that fits that fucking part.

So I was a manager and I was the best in the world at it.

If you want to be in a field of endeavor,

you can't pick the field and pick your spot unless you're a genetic Marvel and all the bricks go your way.

You want to be in a business, figure out what you can do better than what other people can do and do that.

The other thing, too, is that even if there were managers

or more managers in WWE right now,

there's very little room for anything other than mid-card managers because if half the top guys are the bloodline and Heyman's going to probably be with Roman, but there's no manager for the heels right now.

You know, who's, who's managing who and how would they be anywhere near the main event?

I don't know.

Gunther doesn't need a manager.

Cody doesn't need a manager.

Punk doesn't need a manager.

And I'm not saying this applies to Samantha, but in a lot of cases, especially now with guaranteed money, we're...

We're going to make this deal with you.

And no matter how good you are or bad you are, no matter how great you are or how much you suck, you're going to get the same amount of money.

A lot of people just want to do

what they have fun doing,

they don't want to be in the main event and be on top and make more money because they won't make more money early anyway.

Well, in the WWE, they do sometimes.

In AEW, they're not, they're already making too much money.

But people now would rather

do what they want to do

and be in the middle of the fucking card instead of adapt and be in the main event.

And the guaranteed contracts have caused that.

When,

if you weren't in the fucking main event, you weren't making the most money you could make.

It gave you more incentive to fucking work harder to get in the main event.

All right, Jimmy, a few questions before we get out of here.

This was sent to Courtney DriveThru at gmail.com from Zach.

Do you think Dominic Mysterio is capable capable of pulling off a world title run in his current state?

I think he would smack it out of the park if you threw it in his lap.

Especially with Liv, Raquel, and the Irish dudes backing him up.

But I'm not an expert, so I'm curious what your opinion is, Jim.

There's also Carlot,

or Carlito, as he's known in English.

Carlott, Carlott?

Carlot, consider him.

Love, Jim, and Harley.

No, that needs to be what Carlito says when he comes out on the print.

Instead of acknowledge me, consider me.

Dominic, knock it out of the park.

Oh my God.

No,

no, because it would devalue the world title and it would take heat off of Dominic, not put it on him.

It would put heat on the promotion.

Because

Dominic is right now, he's in a tremendous spot where he is a chicken shit heel that can lose, can get beat up.

And as long as he continues to do the thing with the girl and the group and the blah, blah, blah, and because of who he is and how he's worked this thing, they'll continue to boo him and continue to fucking

catcall him and continue to hate him.

He'll have heat.

If he started actually winning shit on his own, much less, even if he had help from the rest of the the group and won the world title.

Then people would say, oh, that's fucking horseshit.

And they would, it would be more heat on the promotion because that's too far.

That's too much.

And it might potentially, like I said, take heat off of him instead of put heat on him

to make him the world champion.

That is totally not

what they have built this that he has more heat now

doing what he's doing than if he was

a singles main event champion.

And then

you'd have to have

all the other guys either change the way they work with him to make him more credible or work with him the same way and then just do a fuck finish every time where he went over.

And

it would mess with

a thing they've got going very well right now.

I don't see why they would do that.

Does that make any sense, Brian?

It does.

And I think you could probably understand why fans, not professionals like you, think that if you put the world title on him with the current configuration, with him having muscle behind him and the girl and her muscle, that he'd be a heat machine.

But you're saying that's not the role for the world champion.

That's not really necessary.

And it would probably backfire.

No, it would vary.

Well, obviously, it'd have to be the world title rather than the universal title or whatever that they would put on him.

They're not going to beat Cody for that.

And then it would devalue the world title that they've just been trying to put over based on the top main event guys holding it or fighting for it.

And it would just confuse the issue on the thing they've got going with Dom that works.

Nobody's going to buy him as suddenly as a...

legitimate world champion.

And

if they all helped him

in holding the world title or retaining the world title, it'd be AEW-like.

It'd be like indie wrestling for kids.

Well, Jim, one more question before we get out of here on the topic of AEW.

This was sent to CorneyDrive-Thru at gmail.com from Jesse in Memphis.

Greetings,

Jesse!

Loyal Cult of Coronet member here with an interesting tidbit I found in an interview recently given by Brian Danielson.

It was a lengthy interview that covered many topics, including Danielson's thoughts about why he loves wrestling.

He had this to say,

the quote,

the reality that I've come to is that I've always done wrestling that isn't necessarily for fans, but kind of for myself because I love to do this.

I love the act of wrestling.

Jim has said many times that there are many more marks in the ring in AEW than there are in the stands.

I would say that this comment proves it, but I would like to hear Jim's thoughts on this one.

Well, I kind of agree with Jesse there.

Here's the thing.

If you can have both, it's great.

I always,

when I was managing the Midnight Express, I liked the style of wrestling that they performed.

It was the most fun for me to participate in as a manager.

And at the same time, it worked for them

and we drew a tremendous amount of money with it.

And we were always used on top in the main events because of it.

And nobody that we were working for,

Dusty Rhodes or Bill Watts or fucking whoever.

Nobody said, we don't like this, change it.

So that was

serendipitous that what we did best was also what we enjoyed doing and what drew the most money.

But

if you're in another position where

what you do best and what draws money is not necessarily what you like doing the most.

Well, that's unfortunate, but you instead of doing what you like to do rather than what the fans like to do or what draws the money sells tickets or whatever.

If you don't start doing that instead of what you like to do, at some point, the people that you work for would say, Hey, don't do any more of this.

Do some more of that because that draws money and sells tickets.

You're having a wonderful time.

Nobody gives a shit.

So that's again,

it's great if you become an actor and you never get a part that you don't particularly like.

But sometimes you're going to, does that mean that you, against the wishes of the director or the producer, change the part

to do more of the shit you do like

instead of that pesky accent that you're supposed to be doing?

That's what I'm saying.

If you're doing this for fun, quit your job with a real company and go do indies.

But if you're on national tv

do what you're supposed to do to draw money

see that's the feeling i had during the last several danielson matches over the last couple years

the pacing of it felt like it was more for him than it was the pacing that the fans were at or needed to be at

i think it was just him doing what he wanted to do and what he enjoyed doing but

You know, again, Danielson's AEW run could be looked at as a lot of things.

I don't know about a big success.

No, there were great bright spots.

And, I mean, he's over with the people.

They like him.

They genuinely like Brian Danielson as a person.

Not even talking about as a wrestler.

The fans like Mick Foley, like a few other people.

And that's why Brian has been able to get away with doing a lot of what he likes to do.

Because the fans like him.

He does.

Whatever it is he does, he does it well.

It's somewhat unique.

And the fans like him as a person,

and so he gets a pass, and they're willing to put up with a lot of stuff.

But the matches themselves, as you said, are the long, the goofy, the Japanese-style

stuff that, you know,

when I say goofy, I don't mean goofy like he's out there with a lampshade on his head, just the goofy shit the Japanese matches do, that people in America don't give a shit about and don't understand.

He does a lot of that, but because it's him, he gets by with it.

But if he was concentrating on,

okay, I've got a bad neck and I've got these injuries and I'm, you know, nearing the end of my career.

So let's go out and let's do 10 or 12 minutes of tears the fucking house down and yay, and sell some tickets and not put any stress on my body.

That's the kind of fun I want to have.

Then that'd be great.

But instead, he's still doing 30 minutes and getting dropped on his head every five seconds because that's what he likes to do.

Well,

that was that.

And that was what do you like to do?

I like to wrap things up rather quickly.

Uh, no song today, but you know, I do want to try something.

Hold on, I'm gonna go across the room.

I got an electric thumb piano.

Hold on, you got well,

I've got an electric middle finger for you.

You want me to plug mine in first?

Let's see if this will work.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I hope.

The screw is closed.

That sounds like the same thing you were doing last time, but now with more wind chime.

Hold on, I'm coming back.

I'm on my way.

I'm almost there.

I'm there.

You didn't hear what I said just now?

No, what did you say?

I said how great that was, and we all liked it and wanted to hear some more of it.

Oh, hold hold on

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Corny.

You created nothing.

Corny drive-thru is nothing.

You live in the sewer.

That's right.

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He lived in the sewer and he died in the sewer.

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And I won't even tell you this week because by the time you hear it, it'll be next week's and I'll be wrong.

But you missed it.

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