Jim Cornette Experience Special - AEW Dynamite Ratings Omnibus, Volume 3

Hello again friends, the great Brian last here, you there. It is omnibus season and here we are with another big omnibus. Volume three of Jim Cornette's look at AEW's ratings going back to 2024 when there were ratings. And of course here he is, the man who covered it as it happened, the leader of the cult of Cornette, Mr. Jim Cornette. Well, but now Brian, you're sort of the Ralph Kramden on this thing because you're the base of knowledge here that holds the whole thing together. And yes, we used to have ratings and so did AEW. They've lost a lot more of theirs than we have of ours. But the point is we enjoyed checking in weekly with the ratings to see who was the winners and who was the losers. And of course in modern times we're not getting as much information. So we go back and compile the origination of the downfall and bring us up to closer to the downfall. That's exactly right. Volumes one and two are on YouTube right now. But here we go. Volume three, Jim Cornette's look at AEW Dynamite ratings, January to June of 2024. Let's get going. Jim, I have them right here. The AEW Dynamite ratings on TBS Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024. On average was watched by 801,000 viewers. Oh, so usually it's 840 something or 820 something or maybe even 860 something. And now it's just eight. So where did we start? Where do we wind up? So we started with quarter one. These were compiled by Wrestlenomix. A recap of Samoa Joe winning the championship and a promo interspiced in. The Adam Cole and the undisputed Kingdom live promo and their angle with Bullet Club Gold and the acclaimed 1,063,000 viewers. Holy gee, Hosefat. So they're up over a million to start. But wait, their average is 250,000 less. Where the fuck is this going? And I actually do want to say something because I watched this live and then I went back to watch certain things after the fact on my DVR. The first minute of my DVR at eight o'clock is the final minute of the Big Bang Theory. Well, you know, I always see the same thing and I just as soon as it picks up, I just fast forward till they get into the AEW show. But you're right, they are lagging a bit across the top of the hour with the Big Bangers. Are you suggesting Skull Duggery is here manipulation behind the scenes of these numbers? Well, I'm suggesting I don't think 150,000 viewers jumped off when they saw the first thing on the show. I think it started 150,000 viewers less than 1,063,000 viewers. That was the last minute of the Big Bang Theory. And then those viewers gonna do whatever they do at their night. What else? What else makes sense that that many people every week or not every week, but specifically this week immediately tune out? They don't even know what the show is going to be yet. They're not there for the show. They're there for the other show that goes one minute long into the next show. So what is the formula these days for getting credit for a quarter hour? Because back in the old days, back 20 or 30 years ago, it used to have to be a certain number of minutes before you got credit for the whole quarter. I guess also, well, no one I was going to say the question will be what happens if you DVR the Big Bang Theory, but it's in reruns. I mean, I don't know who's DVRing it right now. I think you could probably find out the finish fairly easily. The other question will get to the rest of these ratings in a moment, Jim. How much more successful do you think A.W. would be if Seinfeld was the lead in? You know, or the office is what? Because I love Seinfeld. I don't not interested in the Big Bang Theory. I've tried to watch it. I've been getting in love Seinfeld to death. What was the other one you mentioned? The office. The office. The office grew on me, even though I didn't see it from the start. And now I love that. But they've been shown over and over and over. I'm astonished that reruns of the Big Bang Theory can get a million people when it's constant. And I don't know. I don't know what the numbers are on the office or on Seinfeld. Seinfeld's now on comedy central, I believe, or is that the office? And where's Seinfeld's on something else? But they they air constantly. How can each individual episode to people just like potato chips? I guess I do the same thing. I just put it on. Well, let's go to quarter two and see what the rest of this show. What the story it tells is quarter to eight, 15, eight, 30 p.m. The Eddie Kingston video, the Daniel Garcia promo and the start of orange Cassidy versus Dante Martin with picture and picture. Eight hundred and fifty eight thousand viewers. So again, there's two hundred and five thousand. Viewers in 15 minutes. So it's the same thing. This is just a more egregious case this week. Quarter three, eight, 30 to eight, 45 p.m. The continuation of pockets versus Martin, the post match with private party. Tony Storm's promo and Adbreak House of Blacks promo and Swarm Strickland and Prince Nana's promo. Eight hundred and eight thousand viewers at another fifty thousand. And there goes two hundred and fifty five thousand in the first forty five minutes. But that the first number, as we said, has to be artificial, because then we come down to the eight hundreds that they normally place in each week for an average. Go ahead. And by the way, boy, howdy, even if they didn't, if they did care about what Adam Cole had to say, none of it had a bearing on whether they stuck around. Did it? Well, we got a quarter four, eight forty five to nine p.m. Mariah May versus Queen Aminata with picture and picture ads and the post match with Mariah May and Diana Parazzo. Seven hundred and eighty thousand viewers. That's kind of a gift to only lose twenty eight thousand when they didn't know who almost anybody involved was. And it wasn't very captivating. Again, what got on this show this week is questionable. The big nine o'clock. The top of the hour. Remember, they were in break for a minute. That's right. The big nine o'clock hour nine to nine fifteen p.m. Quarter five. An ad break. Christian Cage and his family live promo. Saraya Ruby Soho and Harley Cameron's promo. And the start of Kino's gate to Kesta versus Darby Allen. Seven hundred and seventy seven thousand viewers. I have about say they lost three thousand. That's about the same. But this is not going in a good direction, is it? No, it is not. We got a quarter six, nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m. The continuation of the Kesta versus Darby Allen with picture and picture ads and ad break and the Don Callis family promo. Seven hundred and thirty three thousand viewers. Forty three thousand more. No, forty four thousand. I'm sorry. Um, it Darby and and take was, you know, had a lot of potential, but it wasn't anything different than anything they normally do. And these people are not caring about this program in general. Well, we got a quarter seven, nine thirty to nine forty five p.m. Tremperetta versus Brian Keith. Good. Versus Brian Cage versus he held Elvai Kingo. Good Lord. With picture and picture ads and the post match with Eddie Kingston and Matt Menard. Adam Page's promo. Oh, this is a whole. This is the other segment. Adam Page's promo. Also seven hundred and twenty nine thousand viewers. I was going to say if they stayed over seven hundred thousand, I was going to say they should be doing cartwheels. Um, so they're officially down. Three hundred and thirty four thousand people from the start of quarter one. Where do we go in the final chapter? Well, the final chapter also has a five minute overrun. Five minute Koda. Nine forty five to ten p.m. quarter eight. An ad break. Daniel Garcia versus Swarve Strickland with picture and picture ads. Six hundred and ninety thousand viewers. Wow. And finally, the five minute overrun. Ten to ten or five Garcia versus Strickland continued with Adam Page coming out. Seven hundred and thirteen thousand viewers. And we can obviously throw that out like we do every week because it twenty three thousand people didn't just go, oh my god, they've only got three minutes of their match left. We've got to watch instantly. That eight oh one is misleading. Yeah, well, if you do what we started doing last week and you take out the first quarter and you take out the overrun, they still went from eight hundred and fifty eight thousand to six hundred and ninety thousand. But there there are a million people in the first quarter artificially inflates them to an average of over eight hundred thousand. But good Lord, if you take the people that were legitimately trying to watch this show, they still lost, like I said, one hundred and sixty thousand people. And if you take the first number seriously, by the end of the regularly scheduled time period, they had lost three hundred and seventy five thousand people. Well, Jim, on average, taking out quarter one and quarter, well, not quarter, but the overrun. So quarters two through eight, the average was seven hundred and sixty seven thousand viewers. Yeah. And that sounds about more like it. And there are people defending it. There are people saying there's always strong competition. There are people saying, hey, they were still number two on the night. Hey, the network is still happy. You hear all these things. How much of a decline do you need to continue to see? Both in terms of what's on TV, but in terms of data, you can't dispute. People tune out the show. They see what's on or what's next and they say enough and they leave. They're not going anywhere. They're home. It's Wednesday. It's not Thursday or Friday or Saturday. It's Wednesday. People are home. It's Wednesday. And you know what that means. I mean, these numbers are awful and there's no star power. There's no star power. That's what I was going to ask you is, I know MJF is hurt and they have other injuries, but where did everybody suddenly go that we would give a shit about watching? Am I missing? So who am I not thinking about? Brian Danielson is someone we've considered a top guy. I don't know if he's going to really pop anything right now. I mean, I guess he's done good in his main event matches on collision, but that's still a smaller number. Moxley's probably been overexposed. The Young Bucks are away for a reason. Omega's on the DL. Abushi's on the DL. Osprey signed. And then said he signed so we could spend more time at home with his family in England. So I really don't know. So I really don't know exactly what's happening. He's a billionaire's money, so I wouldn't have to go to Japan and actually work for it. FTR or a tag team in their main event on collision. And again, Osprey is going to, unless they build him, nobody knows who the fuck he is except people that are already watching this show. And not all of them, to be honest. They could build him or they could build anybody. If they tried, they don't know how to do that. So Osprey is not going to be a solution to the ratings malaise if he's treated like every other shrub in his company. I have some friends of mine that were in Newark for the show. They were there alive. They all said that the crowd treats Swerve Strickland like the biggest star there. Well, then they need to give him some kind of focus and direction and support. And stop trying to, they're fighting against the tide. They're bailing water back into the sinking ship. If he's that popular and they keep making him an outright heal. Steve Austin wasn't an outright heal. He wasn't fucking people for the fun of it and terrorizing babies. He was standing up for himself at the expense of people who were trying to fucking. So, again, have somebody try to fuck Swerve around that the people are supposed to be on his side and let him do something about it. Instead of having him do all these heinous acts to cripple people and scare children, is it just there, are they just cheering him because it's so preposterous? They like his little baby. Is it just there? Are they just cheering him because it's so preposterous? They like his in ring moves and they like his attitude and his coat. Maybe I don't know, not as dancing, but he's the most over guy there in a company of a bunch of people that aren't over or people that used to be over and aren't over as much people that were over with their crowd that aren't over as much people that were over and then Tony booked them. They're not over. He's over. So move over over. Hey, that's somebody else. Take over. That's from bitch slap. I know bitch slap. Well, those are the A.W. Dynamite ratings for the third of January. It can only go up from here. On the topic of what have you done, Jim, let's talk about A.W. Dynamite's ratings this past week, January 10th, 2024. Are they are okay? What have they done for us lately? Well, you know, I just want to mention some things. I just recently saw it again for the first time in a little while. It's on my mind. One of my daughters was watching Freaks and Geeks, a show I loved when it was originally on, never on the same time slot, but I loved it. I've always had it around. I always liked it. My kids now watching it. The last episode, two of the kids, one who's kind of getting into punk, the other one who's kind of getting into comedy. They go to the local bowling alley where they're having disco night. And this is the, I think 1980 maybe, 81 it takes place. And at the back of the bowling alley, there's a little dance floor and there's a DJ playing some music and there's a few couples dressed like you would think. Dancing disco style. And the two guys come in, they yell, disco sucks. And the DJ says, rock and roll sucks. Disco is alive. It's alive. And one of the guys points out to him, he says, this place is empty. We've been saying for a while that you could love a lot of these guys that you're putting on this show and they keep putting them on the show, but they're not getting new fans. They're not getting a lot of people into the buildings in a lot of cases. They're not getting their fans to stay around. Jim, A.W. Dynamite's ratings this past week. TBS 8 to 10, 04 p.m. 797,000 viewers on average. Ouch. And I have a feeling there's going to be even more to this story from the glee that I hear in your voice. It's not glee in my voice, but it's just, you know, what point do you acknowledge reality instead of doubling down over and over again on everything that's wrong? And I know there was strong competition. Trump was on one channel, the Republican debate was on another channel. Oh yeah, a lot of the A.E.W. fans are going to be watching President Pig's shit and the rest of his fucking criminal flock. But on the other hand, there was a new moon about to happen, so there wasn't really anything to see in the sky. So a lot of people were inside not watching the stars. Jim, 8 to 8, 15 p.m. quarter one. These were compiled by Wrestlenomics. Claudio Castagnoli versus Adam Page with picture in picture. 1 million. 1,000 viewers. Okay, so they open again over a million and now I see from their average that things are about to get bumpy. Well, and once again, I paid attention this week, the first minute of the show, not just on my DVR, but at actual 8 o'clock when every other network at 8 o'clock went to their other shows, I still had one more minute of Big Bang Theory. Quarter two, 8, 15, 8, 30 p.m. Claudio Castagnoli versus Adam Page continued an ad break and the start of Adam Copeland, Dustin Rhodes, Orange Cassidy and Preston Vance versus Lance Archer and the mogul embassy, 895,000 viewers. I had to quote the late great Percy Pringle. Oh, sweet Jesus. And again, coming off quarter one, which was a minute of the Big Bang Theory, you have to think the starting crowd may have been somewhere in the 900s for AEW, just to see what it was going to be. Yeah, one would think. Quarter three, 8, 30, 8, 45 p.m. The continuation of that eight man tag, I'm not listing all them again, with picture in picture and an ad break, 795,000 viewers. Another hundred thousand people in another 15 minutes. So now they're 206,000 down from the top of the hour. The last minute of the Big Bang Theory, they've lost 206,000 people. I don't know if any of this data is out there, so I'm just going to throw it out there in case one of the listeners hears this and get back to us. In terms of the type of matches, singles match tag match, six man tag, eight man tag, men or women. Is there a study that shows in the last few years which match drove off more viewers off these shows? It's got to be the multiple eight man's battle royals. That has to be the. I would think to read her. That's why I want to see if there's any actual data there because you would think so too. But let's go back to this quarter for 845 to 9 p.m. The Bullet Club gold and acclaimed and Billy Gunn backstage angle. Samoa Joe's confrontation and promo or comp promo and confrontation, I should say, with Swerve Strickland and Adam Page, the angle with Hook and Samoa Joe and Tony Storm's timeless backstage promo. 915,000 viewers. Wait, what? Also the high point in the key demo. It jumped from 380 to 465. Now, how have they ever done a quarter hour where they gained 120,000 viewers? Samoa Joe. Confrontation with Swerve Strickland. I don't think it was the acclaimed and Bullet Club gold thing and I don't think it was Tony Storm's brief promo. It was Samoa Joe. People are more intrigued by what Samoa Joe is going to do coming out of that main event at Adam Cole. I'll put it that way. So are these people just clicking back and forth every once in a while, hiding and watching to see when somebody actually shows up they want to see? Now again, there was competition. I think it is important to note this week. But the big nine o'clock hour, Jim, quarter five, nine to nine, 15 p.m. Ricky Starks versus Sammy Guevara with picture and picture and the post match with Big Bill, Chris Jericho and his music and an ad break, 774,000 viewers. Jesus Christ! They lost 26, there's 141,000. After quarter four was over with at the top of the hour, they said, well, okay, fuck it. So now they're at their low point right after the, really the high point. But wait, there's more. Okay. Quarter six, nine, 15 to nine, 30 p.m. Anna J, Chris Stathlander, Thunder Rosa, and Willow Nightingale versus Julia Hart, the outcasts and Sky Blue with picture and picture, with picture and picture, 689,000 viewers. Oh no. All right, there went another 75,000 people. So now we're from the second quarter, which is a more legitimate number, we're down 206,000 people. And from the point that they started at the top of the hour at the last minute, the Big Bang were down 312,000. Well, Jim, we go to quarter seven, 930 to 945 p.m. Wheeler Yuta's video, Roderick Strong versus Brian Keith and the Adam Cole and undisputed Kingdom Live promo, Deanna Parazzo, confrontation with Red Velvet and an ad break. Oh, that's what that was. And an ad break, 702,000 viewers. Good Lord, that's kind of insulting that a quarter filled with jobbers actually picked up 13,000 people. Well, we're going out of quarter eight and I remind you, we have a four minute overrun. Quarter eight, nine, 45 to 10 p.m. Darby Allen and Sting versus Kenosuke Takeshda and Powerhouse Hobbs with picture and picture, 636,000 viewers with a four minute overrun, including the return of the Young Bucks to challenge without words, Sting and Darby Allen, 688,000 viewers. Good, with menacing glances. So they finished up at 636, which is 365,000 people below where they started. And then the four minute overrun was basically a bunch of people stared at each other and that was whatever they were tuning in for the following program. So good Lord, did we do an average for the actual numbers, quarters two through eight? Oh, no, hold on, let's get the old calculator out here. So we are going to start with quarter two, 895. You don't have to be so aggressive on those numbers. Oh, no, I hit the wrong number. He distracted me. I hit the wrong number. Oh, it's my fault. Okay. Sing or something while I'm doing this. No one wants to hear this sound. Well, you don't know what you got. To Lids Gone, they paid Paradise and put up a park in lot. Tony Khan's about 15 minutes away from becoming a parking attendant if things keep going this way. The average without the first quarter and without the overrun was 772,000 viewers. Ouch. So they picked up, well really they only picked up 25,000 and their overall average by fudging the numbers. So they go through all that trouble just to get an extra 20,000 people. Once again, no star power. I mean, no real star power, no Moxley for AEW, no MJF. Jericho wasn't announced and he showed up and maybe a falling star, shooting star at this point, I'm not sure. Well, yeah, we were you to in a video, I'm looking at the line up here. Sting and Darby in the main event did nothing. They've done nothing to build up the Kesha and Hobbs that wouldn't just appeal to AEW's hardcore fans. Doesn't make sense to anyone else. And they were plugging that match with Sting and Darby and they still wouldn't hang around for it through the rest of that brutal program. You know, again, I've said this in the past and I'll say it again and I thought about it again this week. Don't diminish the problem that is the commentary and how the same way Michael Cole in a lot of ways was detrimental to everyone, his style, the way he was being produced and the way he does things was detrimental to everyone except Vince and Kevin Dunn. Excalibur and Shivani and Taz gets dragged right into it. It's not an effective group. They aren't commentators you could stand unless you're like, you know, again, really deep inside with AEW and loving it. Well, that's a struggle with goofball sock face. He's like one of these really dedicated tape trading marks of the 90s doing commentary on, you know, outrageous indie matches in his basement. Because imagine this, that's way started. And you people are not going to listen to that shit. And he's not a good broadcaster and he's not. He can't tell a fucking dramatic story without using 15 Japanese move names. He's not a communicator to a mass amount of people. And Tony is just yelling how great and funny everything is. He's not. He's not doing anything. Because what's he going to fucking do with this shit in front of him? And he's he's he's certainly not going to suddenly turn into Jim Ross or Bill Watts or Lance Russell or Gordon Soli or whatever the fuck. And you can't analyze as a legitimate sports announcer. You can't analyze most this shit anyway. Bad commentators make it tough to care. That's my point. When you have bad commentators, it makes it tough to care about the show. Makes it tough to listen to the show and want to hear what's going on and want to hear explanations. When shit's going down and these three are just laughing about who they're popping each other like during like hardcore matches and shit. Yeah, or you know, on a crazy bump, they're laughing like, oh shit, oh, look at that. There's so many problems there. And again, you blame the two guys in the corner yelling disco sucks. You say it's alive. It's empty. It's empty. They'll get a bump next week because they won't be a Republican debate and you'll maybe get moxley or someone back. But they're not picking anyone up. They're losing people. And this isn't the first time they've had big competition. They're not holding up at all. Now if there's any competition, they're losing more people. And you have the cable universe is shrinking. And think about this. How fucking miserable was this program when people would actually think I'll switch this off and go watch fucking Trump or a bunch of fucking Republicans talk? Do you think Tony would have thought that because of those programs being on, which would you would think zap a portion of at least your over 50 audience for wrestling? If you know you have competition like that? Is that the reason why you have? I mean, get two eight men or eight person tags. Claudio versus Adam Page, which doesn't mean anything right now. No, I think he still thinks this shit's good. Starks versus Gavaras at the nine o'clock hour. He thought that was okay. I think Tony's doing the best he can. And I don't think that, you know, he was thinking about having competition. And once again, the over 50 audience, anybody over 50 watching this television program that's ever been a wrestling fan and not not getting paid to watch it or making money somehow watching it ought to be ashamed of themselves. This should be for fucking juvenile delinquents and people with some type of personality disorders under the age of 25 or 28. And that main event with Sting is going to be interesting because I've seen feedback already from people who they want to support the event because of what they remember Sting as being years ago, even surfers Sting put in the young bucks in that match did nothing to make that audience happy. It's the exact opposite. It's, you know, someone getting stuffed into a situation you don't want them in. Sort of like when the buckaroos were growing up getting stuffed in lockers and now they're lashing out because they've got a billionaire at their beck and call. Let's stop talking about eating and let's talk about digesting and digesting these ratings. They eat W dynamite for January 17th on TBS 8 to 10 04 p.m. All right. And then and this is where we're going to find out what were they what were they trying to watch on this program that the number should be up. And that number on average was 891,000 viewers, which is up what 40 or 50,000 for it's always 800 to something except that one week it was 700 or whatever. But this is up 50 or 60,000 from their norm lately, isn't it? Well, according to the Wrestlenomics here, this is the highest audience since October 18th, the highest in the key demos since September 20th. Last week was 797. So this is up 12 percent. Well, there you 12 whole percent. What were they interested in? And 11 what was the 11 percent, by the way, above the trailing four week average? Well, you know, that trailing four week average, if you if you get enough supplements in you and some vitamins, you can start moving that thing without having to drag it. Well, Jim, once again, these were compiled by Wrestlenomics, patreon.com slash Wrestlenomics quarter one, eight to eight 15 p.m. Samoa Joe and hook video and the start of Christian Cage versus Dustin Rhodes with picture and picture plus an ad break. One million, seven thousand viewers. So up over a million again from the Big Bang Theory and Big Bang apparently does over a million viewers. So a rerun of a situation comedy beats their first run program. But that's where we normally start. Where are we going? And again, the key demo, they started at 467. The second quarter, eight 15, 830 p.m. Continuation to Cage versus Dustin, the Swarov Strickland backstage promo and ad break. And then the Chris Jericho, Matt Seidel backstage angle. 997,000 viewers. Okay. And that's something that never happens. They only drop 10,000 viewers. And would you turn off Christian Cage and Dustin? No, if you're already watching it, it was good. Dustin has not been featured on a regular basis. But it's not like one of these other matches where it was just repetitious shit over and over. So I can see if you were watching that, you might see what the fuck happened. And again, they stayed pretty steady in the key demo. I went to 461. That's why I brought it up before just because at least that was steady this week. Quarter three, eight, three. This is the first time I can remember where there wasn't a major loss coming out of quarter one to quarter two. So they've already got that going for. Well, they ended quarter two at Chris Jericho's backstage angle. Usually that affects the next quarter quarter three, eight, 30 to 845 p.m. Commander and Penta El Zero Miedo versus Orange Cassidy and Tremperetta and the post match with the undisputed kingdom. 897,000 viewers. Oh boy, just exactly 100,000. Okay, so I mean, my God, that was a gift to them though, because take it on its own. Almost 900,000 people watch that rotten, stinking match with jobbers. That's a gift. Well, I guess so. We got a quarter four, eight, 45 to 9 p.m. The Adam Page backstage promo, the Mark Brisco ramp promo, the J Brisco video and ad break and the Young Bucks backstage promo or backstage interview, I should say. 907,000 viewers. And they came back up 10,000. Boy, that's the first quarter to second quarter. They dropped 10,000. Then they dropped 100,000 and then they gained 10,000. These are awfully fucking even numbers. Well, the next quarter, the big nine o'clock hour, nine to nine, 15 after the buckaroos. Where do we go from here after the buckaroos, the big nine o'clock hour, nine to nine, 15 p.m. quarter five, the mogul embassy versus bullet club gold with picture and picture, the post match with the acclaimed and Billy gun, the Adam Cole Wardlow promo and then and break. 833,000 viewers. Okay, so they lost 74,000, but still they're, they've just now got to where they normally are in quarter two after they lose 100 and something thousand people. They're down 833,000, but this has been an excellent pattern so far. And we want to apologize for any technical difficulties. Any of you listeners here that some issues on the line due to the weather, but back to this, Jim. Am I having issues again? Slightly, but we want to make sure in case they are a little worse than we anticipate or just even if they're there, we want to let the listeners know that we know about it and we're on it and we're gonna do nothing, but we know about it. Well, let's go to quarter, speaking of do nothing, let's go to quarter six, nine. I shouldn't say that's rude. I didn't even look to see what was in here. 915 to 930 p.m. Deanna Parazzo versus Anna Jay with picture and picture and the post match with Tony Storm and an ad break 795,000 viewers. Honestly, not again. They're almost at 800,000 for what you just described. That's, that's a blessing. The blessing continues in quarters seven, 930 to 945 p.m. Top flight versus private party with picture and picture 754,000 viewers. Okay, there went another 41,000. So now we are down 253,000 people from where they started and 243,000 people from quarter two. This was also the low point in the key demo, 398,000 viewers. You would think almost something like this would boost it because of the high flying nature of it, but down in the key demo quarter eight and we have an overrun 945 to 10 p.m. The Sting and Darby Allen video and the start of Samoa Joe versus Hook 869,000 viewers. Wow. And 451,000 in the key demo. So the younger viewers, if you call 49 young came back. So 115,000 people, they were interested to see what they were going to do with Joe and Hook. They never, when was the last main event that they presented on this program anytime that gained over 100,000 viewers last quarter? I don't recall to be honest. Yeah, I don't think it's happened. And finally the four minute overrun, the finish of the match in the post match with Adam Page and Swerve Strickland, 931,000 viewers. So, so if they'd have kept the buckaroos and the the little amateur gymnastics class with top flight and private party and the girls match out of there, they might have, they would have averaged over 900,000. And you can see immediately after the bucks, they dropped 70,000. Immediately when the people see the the trampoline exhibition with top flight and private party, they're at their lowest point of the show. It's not like these things are unusual. It happens all the time. No, Jericho lost them 100,000 people. The young bucks lost them a big chunk. Samoa Joe that people are interested in. And again, like I said, not a conventional build for the match with Hook, but it worked like a hook. You know, hook line and sinker, people were interested to see what would happen. So much of wrestling used to be about what would happen as opposed to how will they work? Yeah, what will happen? I wonder if they'll do a hurrican runoff the top rope. No, it was I wonder who's going to win will so and so get the belt. Oh, well, they got one a good number this week for once. We should give them some applause. Where's my plauder thing? Yeah, there you go. Sounds like an FFA meeting over at the ballroom at the Holiday Inn. All right, well, with that, it's my show and I say game over. Did anybody watch this thing? Well, let's go. I'm dropping stuff all over the place here. Let's talk about the ratings this week, Jim. Talk about dropping. Well, let's talk about dropping. Let's talk about the AEW Dynamite ratings for this past week, January 24, 8 to 10. Oh, 5 p.m. AEW Dynamite was watched on average by 837,000 viewers. The same people, the same numbers. It's but the only question is how high do they start and how low do they go? Limba limba. Well, quarter one, 8 to 8 15 p.m. These were compiled by Wrestlenomics. Samoa Joe's live confrontation with Hook, leading to him going to commentary for Penta El Zeromeo versus Adam Page. One million, seven thousand viewers. That was almost identical to last week, wasn't it? Well, you know, the Big Bang Theory has a good run of shows going right now. Yeah. Listen, it's every week now because I've been paying attention to the first minute of Dynamite. Technically, 8 to 8 0 1 is the Big Bang Theory ending. Yeah. Anyone who's watching that show is staying and that's boosting that number for that first quarter every week. Quarter two. 8 15 8 30 p.m. The continuation of Hangman versus Penta with picture and picture. Orange Cassidy backstage promo and an ad break. 907,000 viewers. So right off the bat, there goes 100,000. That's not as bad a drop as normal. Well, quarter three, Jim, 8 30 8 45 p.m. The Young Bucks backstage promo. Tremperetta versus Wardlow with picture and picture. The post match with Orange Cassidy. Chuck Taylor and the undisputed Kingdom. Followed by an Adam Copeland video. 903,000 viewers. That's a gift that they only lost 4000 on that. I mean, they the fans said we want a who's who of wrestling and they gave them a who's that. Well, the who's that continues in the quarter for 8 45 to 9 p.m. The Deanna Parazzo Tony Storm ramp promo slash angle. An ad break. The Johnny TV tie of Valkyrie backstage promo. And that's it. 841,000 viewers. Ouch. Another 62,000. So now we are 200 and 66,000 down from our starting point halfway through the show. That's not a good sign. Well, we're at the big nine o'clock hour 9 to 9 15 p.m. quarter five. Jeff Hardy versus swerve Strickland with picture and picture. And an ad break. 793,000 viewers. Oh, the the Hardy effect worked in reverse. That's 48,000 more people. 48,000 more people. 48,000 more viewers left from to quarter five than quarter four. You mean less viewers. Well, 48,000 more departed. They left. They bailed. They got the fuck out of dodge is what I'm saying. Yes, there were 48,000 more survivors that escaped. All right, well, let's see who else escapes will go to quarter six 9 15. Who else gets to the top of the bottom of the Poseidon adventure? Before traffic gets bad in Savannah 9 15 and 9 30 p.m. quarter six. Six. The Adam Page swerve Strickland backstage angle and Thunder Rosa versus Red Velvet with picture and picture. 754,000 viewers. Ouch. And that was all in that 15 minutes. No wonder. There goes another. 39 39,000. Yes, 39,000. We go to quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m. The Darby Allen and Sting live promo an ad break Billy Gunn and the acclaimed versus the mogul embassy with picture and picture. 729,000 viewers. All right, now we are at the low point of the show and 278,000 down from the start of the program. And finally quarter eight and we have an overrun to go boy quarter eight 9 45 to 10 p.m. The continuation of the previous six man tag match. Adam Copeland versus Minoru Suzuki. 737,000 viewers. Five minute overrun. The continuation of the match no commercials by the way. And then an Adam Copeland live promo. 705,000 viewers. Oh my god. So they got 8,000 people in the last quarter for the main event of the show and with edge. And then the last it the overrun always does better than quarter eight because you get all the people that were already watching plus the people who were tuning in for the next program. This is the first time I can ever remember. They lost 32,000 people in the overrun. A lot of it's the trend of the show and what was interesting people and what wasn't a lot of it. I think unfortunately a lot of the overruns we see were people that are featured regularly on this TV show. Edge versus Minoru Suzuki may not be what holds an audience. Even the key demo. Well, I mean, if you looked at the first seven minutes of it, you sure didn't want to see any more of it. But I figured for most people that were already there by that point, they'd stick it out. But oh, so they actually were down 302,000 viewers from the start of the program. And 302,000 that mean basically they lost 30%. They started with a million and they ended up with 700,000. Let's say so they lost 30% of the audience from the start to finish. Well, that was dynamite. That was Tony's show and this is your show. And it's my show and it's over. You have some information because before we just talk about the WWE, which is now for good or bad, it's like they're hogging all the spotlight from poor Tony. Tony had his, you know, minor meltdown on Twitter last month or whatever and Jericho got a little trouble and then suddenly the WWE comes in with fucking steam rollers and dump trucks full of good news and bad news. We're going to hit you all with it. Bam, bam, bam, bam. And they've just knocked everybody off the front page, just taking all the oxygen out of the room. But the one thing that we have not talked about in AEW was the ratings for last Wednesday night's dynamite program. We reviewed it on your show, The Drive Through, but we had, that was so quickly after the fact that the ratings people hadn't even caught up with us yet. And we continue to marvel every week that anybody watches this thing at this point and that they're narrow casting to such a minute niche audience. But where'd they start and where'd they finish and what happened to Mr. Inbetween, Brian? What date was this even? Seems like a century ago. It was a month ago or last month, January 31st, 2024. Well, that's what's happened. It's a month has gone by. Or a few days. It was last month, not necessarily a month ago I misspoke, but AEW Dynamite was last month. It was last month and not a month ago. It was January 31st. Well, it's February now. Well, on the 31st. It was a month ago because January is month 4th, February. From 8 to 10, 06 p.m. on the 31st, AEW Dynamite did 818,000 viewers. Well, I've lost my pin now here. Hold on. I got to keep track of this. I want to make sure I know exactly what's going on. 818,000 said they lost about 15,000 of their faithfuls. And you have to say here at the top, with everything happening in WW, like you said, it's easy for that to just swallow up all the wrestling news and everything. Before that, you had Tony's meltdown, you had Jericho's stupidity. But there's no buzz. There's no buzz about anything with AEW right now. It's kind of not concerning, but it's amazing. There's no buzz about anything there. It's a sound. It's not really a buzz. It's more like a beep. Well, let's see where the heartbeat started. Beep. Well, hold on. They didn't follow yet, sir. Oh, and by the way, I read in some, one of the industry publications. I can't remember. Of course, I peruse all the finest documentation in the world today on the ratings. But the Big Bang Theory is doing about 1.2 million people are there about a lot of times. That before, in the time slot before AEW. So they're being handed more often than not even more people than their opening quarter reflex. It's just those people are the ones who go, oh, fuck no. And they're gone like that. But go ahead. Well, let's go to quarter one, 8 to 815 p.m. These were compiled by Wrestlenomics. The last minute of the Big Bang Theory, I'm going to put that in there because that is the first thing that you see when you tune in at eight o'clock, followed by John Moxley versus Jeff Hardy with picture in picture 981,000 viewers. Okay, so they're up there almost a million. Lately, they've been getting right at about a million people to start. Well, quarter two, 815, 830 p.m. The continuation of Moxley versus Hardy, the post match with Mystico, Hetchichero. Now, wait, what? I'm not terribly familiar with him, to be honest with you. Hector Guerrero, is it what you said? Hetchichero, I think is how you pronounce it. Hetchicero. H-E-C-H-I-C-E-R-O. C, C-C-R-I-D, I don't know. Well, him, Mascara Dorado, Volador Jr., Matt Seidel, Matt Menard, Angelo Parker, and Christopher Daniels. And a patry hitch in a pear tree. Followed by an ad break. And the beginning of Adam Page versus Total Leon, uh, Lenoa. That's what I'm saying. Linolium? His name is Total. Total. Total. Total. Linolium. Total. Well, it's Toa Linola. I keep thinking of Talioni because of you, 836,000 viewers. Oh, sweet Jesus, as Percy Pringle would say. So right there, one 145,000 people, which one might be able to attribute to Moxley and Hardy, uh, going through that quarter hour milestone. Continue on. The milestones continue quarter three, 830, 830 to 845 p.m. The continuation of Page versus Linolium with picture and picture ads. And the Young Bucks backstage angle, 799,000 viewers. Oh, she so there went another 37, but is that the first time you can remember they've gone below 800,000 in the first quarter or first hour? You know, I can't remember the last time it happened. I'm sure it has, but maybe the first time in a while. Yelch. Alrighty. Well, quarter four, 845 to 9 p.m. Wardlow versus Commander. The post match with the undisputed kingdom, Orange Cassidy, Tramparetta and Rocky Romero and Adbreak and the sit down interview with big bill, Ricky Starks, Sting and Darby Allen, 798,000 viewers. Okay. So I was going to say, well, maybe they just saw the, the Buckaroos, Matthew and Nicholas in the previous quarter and said, fuck it would come back, but no, they didn't even come back for Darby Allen and staying here. Well, we next have the big nine o'clock hour, 9 to 9, 15 p.m. quarter five, Chris Jericho versus Kyle Fletcher with picture and picture ads, 786,000 viewers. Ouch. And they put Jericho on, even if it was Kyle Feltcher. Jericho is the only thing well, one of the only things they have passing for a name and they put him at the top of nine o'clock hour in a match and lose 12,000 people. That's not a good sign either. He's been off WWE TV for a long time at this point and they haven't really been doing anything good with him and ever. So, uh, not a big surprise there, but quarter six, nine, 15 to 9, 30 p.m. The continuation of Jericho versus Fletcher, the Deanna Parazzo video and the acclaimed Billy Gunn, Bullet Club Gold Live promo and Ad Break and the start of Ty Avalcary versus Deanna Parazzo, 795,000 viewers. Oh, good Lord. The fucking potpourri segment gained over Jericho at the top of the hour. That's interesting. Hey. Hey, what? What was that? Fonzie? No, I'm doing. Hey. Hey. Hey. They got 9,000. Cunningham in my office. Hey, no, come on. Well, we go down a quarter. What is this now? Quarter seven. I don't know, Tom Bosley. You tell me. 9, 30. They sit on a potsey. 9, 30 to 9, 45 p.m. The continuation of Ty Avalcary versus Deanna Parazzo. I'm laughing because I'm fucking happy to eat. With picture and picture ads. You look more like Anson Williams. So a post match and the Darby Allen Young Bucks backstage confrontation, another ad break and the Samoa Joe entrance. Hold on. Wait a minute. The Bucca Roo's were in this quarter two. I'm going to say this is going to be the lowest quarter in a show so far. And you would be correct. 759,000 viewers. Oh, boy. So they have just by random chance, they are in quarters three and seven. They have been in the lowest quarter hour of the program to that point in time that that appearance took place. Yeah. Again, it's a harsh reality that a lot of people who love the Bucs and have for a long time have to face about who they are in 2024. They're doing such important and excellent work and they're saying such profound things in these backstage pre-tapes that they phone in for their seven figures a year from Richie Rich. CM Punk will generate more income for WWE over the next nine months that he's injured than they will in AEW. Think about that. We go now to quarter eight and I remind you we have an overrun. Can we hurt both of them? See if they can make it a contest? We have the Adam Page backstage promo and the beginning of Rob Van Dam versus Swerve Strickland with picture in picture. 792,000 viewers and the six minute overrun. The continuation of the match and Adam Page confronting Swerve. 820,000 viewers. Okay. And again, do we take that at the end out like we usually do because what the fuck? But at least it shows some there was some curiosity not only for who the opponent was going to be at its Van Dam and he's a legend but also Swerve is now he's the one that moves some kind of rating especially toward the end of the program. If they put anybody else they just plummet off the precipice. The plummet off the precipice. Well, if you take out the first quarter in the overrun, the key demo peaks with Swerve versus Rob Van Dam in quarter eight with 348,000. It's 393 for the first quarter but that's big bang theory so I'm not counting that. It bottomed out for the nine o'clock hour. 311,000 for Jericho versus Fletcher. Well, you know what? If you take out the the first quarter and you take out the overrun, you also you start with 836,000 and you end with 792,000 and the lowest you went the whole time was 759. So really of the real fans they have probably watching this program or usually most of their programs, it's around 75,000 that they have a range there of 750 to 830 or whatever. Yeah, it's 800,000 people every week who are looking forward to dynamite and give it a chance and they come in and they go out and who knows where they are but it's around that number. It's not the 900,000 one million number that the big bang theory gets. It's about 800,000. And you know then on some memorable occasions they plummet even further at the end from that when they've had these real stinkers but the base people they're trying to give it a chance but you can tell where even they zone out in the middle or toward the end. And this week it just happened to be around the buckaroos. Listen, other than swerve who has always moved numbers for the most part and people are into and he seems like he has something going on and that picked up at the end of the show. Moxley versus Jeff Hardy, the women's stuff, Paige versus Toa Leoni or whatever his name was, Linolium, the Wardwell Commander match, the Orange Cassidy crew being involved in stuff, Jericho versus Fletcher. There's nothing on the show to excite anyone. I'm not sure I could die hard AEW fan, like the most I hard. These are bad shows. These are bad lineups and bad shows. Well, you know, we've just, we've talked about it. They've kind of run out of stuff besides Tony's, you know, incessant matchmaking, which just writing down matches and dream matches and oh, we can't wait to see this guy that has never wrestled here before come in and wrestle of the same fucking match that the last five guys that came in have never wrestled here before had. It's because nobody knows who the fuck they are and we can't tell the difference. Well, they have a big show this Wednesday, big crowd expected in Arizona. Tony Khan has a major announcement, some big matches, swerve versus Adam Page. So I expect this week's number has to be significantly up, but we'll see. Well, we'll see. But the point, what's going to happen with Paige? Okay, besides fact that he drank swerve's blood, swerve is beating him every time. But does anybody want to see Paige win this and get a title match with Samoa Joe instead of swerve? Does anybody want to see a three-way with Paige involved to get in the way and be a fucking distraction in the third wheel? Does anyone truly see Adam Page as a main event or not just an upper midcard guy? And that's not an insult. That's the reality of who he is. And so, you know, but Tony hates dirt anybody's feelings, so we'll find out about that. But you know, he's coming off the drubbing of the 300,000 people who watched Collision on his national cable network. And, you know, he does the same number on Wednesday nights, give or take. And there's nobody buying tickets to the live events except for the guy that's going to retire. So he won't be there to sell tickets to the rematch. So if I was Tony, I would be looking for something to do. And by the way, I'd like, since we're talking about numbers, Brian, just if I could, just for a second, if I can toot my own horn. Well, it's closest to him. But okay. We want to thank everybody out there. This was the same week calendar week here. We hit 400,000 subscribers on the official Jim Cornett YouTube channel and 500 million downloads. Views or views or whatever the fuck, however the whatever the terminology is 500 million of those in the same week. That that ain't but wait a minute, we're doing audio. How can they be views on the audio? The Travis Echo artwork, they find guest artists that we have on the channel. Everyone loves that stuff. Well, that's true. They're just listening to us in the background where they're staring into those for the fucking meaning of life that's hidden down deep in the fucking duck's ass or whatever. Those pieces of art, those are 4k. So people blow them up on their screen when they listen to the show and it looks great. Well, there you go. They're they're 4k whether for you for you to look at. That's even better than being 4k, but it's not as good as being for me. We shall see. This was a big show and they spent a lot of time building it up. How do you think it did? Well, I've got to just say my comment on what you just said before we go to the ratings is boy, howdy. I'll tell you what, I don't think Tony got enough oxygen when he was a fetus is all I've got to say, but nevertheless, thank you for jumping in with that expert analysis. Yes. It's that kind of analysis you only find here on the Jim Cornette experience. I don't know. I don't know how they could possibly have had as many people watch this program as they did last week's program. It's got to be got to be getting to them sooner or later. I mean, this was a big thing they promoted for quite a while, but it was rotten. Start they I'm sure they started strong and tapered off. It's a very interesting rating story this week. AEW Dynamite, February 7th, 2024 on TBS, 8 to 10.04 PM on average was watched by 805,000 viewers. Ouch. Okay, so that's about 30 or 40 down from what they've been doing regularly, which indicates to me people maybe have said, well, we've seen this shit before, but go ahead. According to the Wrestlenomics, it is down 2% from last week, which was 818 and it is down 4% from the trailing four week average, which is 836. Well, now we know why their average is trailing. I would almost say trickling. Once again, these ratings were compiled by Wrestlenomics quarter one, 8 to 8, 15 PM, Adam Page versus Swerve Strickland, 878,000 viewers. Oh my God, what what happened to the Big Bang Theory? I don't know. Did the balloon pop on the Big Bang? Maybe it's an episode everyone hates. Okay, that was my case. Well, that was the lowest handoff in the history of this program, I think. Well, we handed off the quarter to 815, 830 PM, the continuation of Swerve versus Hangman with picture in picture, 780,000 viewers. Ouch. Okay, they lost 98,000 on that marathon dreariness with Swerve and Page. And I don't see unless something stabilizes how they're even going to make their average. Go ahead. The silver dome just emptied out and everyone walked out of there. Quarter three, 838, 45 PM, the continuation of Swerve versus Adam Page with the post match and ad break and the Samoa Joe promo, 838,000 viewers. Okay, so as soon as the all clear was sounded on Swerve and Page 58,000 came back. Good Lord, that doesn't say much for... Well, Swerve with a better opponent, you know, you could say something for him, but wow, okay. Well, we got a quarter four, 845 to 9 PM, red velvet versus Tony Storm with picture in picture, the post match with Deanna Parazzo, the Trent Pareda Orange Cassidy Rocky Romero promo, an ad break and the BCC entrance, 833,000 viewers. And within 5000 kind of pretty much the same. But at the top of the nine o'clock hour, I can't see how they'll gain on a match with complete unknowns. Well, it is indeed the nine o'clock hour, quarter five, the big nine o'clock hour, nine to nine 15 PM, Daniel Sinclaude and Moxley versus Hachicero, mascara Dorada and Volador Jr. with picture in picture, 826,000 viewers. Okay, they only lost 7,000. That was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Nothing to brag about, but they dodged a bullet there. Well, let's find out where that magic bullet goes in quarter six, nine 15 to 9 30 PM. Thank you, Dr. Erlich. The post match angle, the undisputed kingdom Chuck Taylor backstage, whatever it was, an ad break, the big Tony Khan announcement and the start of Chris Jericho versus Kenosuke Tekejta, 771,000 viewers. Well, there goes 29, 40 to 55,000 more. And I bet you this becomes a trend. Well, there goes thinking Tony's big announcement is a draw anymore. Well, they've seen through that. It's a meme now, isn't it? Even with their faithful audience? Well, Jim, let's see what they mean to do here in the seventh quarter of 9 30 to 9 45 PM. Chris Jericho versus Kenosuke Tekejta with picture in picture ads and an ad break, 723,000 viewers. Mr. Jericho wanders in and loses another 48,000. That's over 100,002 quarters. The best thing for Chris Jericho is not booking him strongly. It's getting him off TV right now. And finally quarter eight and we have an overrun 9 45 to 10 PM. Darby Allen and staying versus big bill and Ricky Starks with picture in picture. 787,000 viewers. Five minute overrun with the young bucks. 820,000 viewers. Well, at least again, staying. He picked up 64,000. Because they knew that was the main event they'd been advertising it. People must have come back. I said, I will fucking come back when that starts. And then, you know, and they get the artificial overrun from people. I can't believe 20 33,000 people just hopped on the last four minutes of that. They were tuning in to see fucking Mighty Mouse or whatever was after. But, you know, you've got. You've got basically the faithful there for some reason. They didn't get the big number at the beginning. And so therefore they didn't lose as much of a percentage of their audience as they normally do. But still, you've got some of the most featured people who produced some of the least impressive numbers. And whether it be, you know, 100,000 people bailing on the middle of the marathon with hangnail or whether it be, you know, the Jericho Takeshda debacle at the end, which was the lowest point of the program, practically. It was the lowest point of the program. Jericho is not going to hold people anymore, especially when you put him against someone who we really like and is really talented, but you've done nothing good with. He's not booked weekly, but he's not booked well. Oh, yes, he is. You know what I mean? He's not out there. He's not out there losing every week. It's just he's booked like shit nonstop. He's booked very limply. But that was another limp episode of A. W. Dynamite. One that their fans were raving about. Dave gave four and a half stars to a few of the matches there. Dave gave Dave gave four and a half stars to the lowest rated segment of the program and said Jericho should win more. Yeah, that would have saved it. See, all those people tuned out because they got a fucking premonition Jericho was going to lose. The thing that's hurting A. W. is Chris Jericho not being presented strongly enough. That's of all the things that's hurting A. W. right now. You want to talk about the ratings? Yes. I got it. If my faith in humanity could be restored if quarter eight went to 17 people. Well, we shall find out A. W. Dynamite on TBS Wednesday, February 14th, 2024, 8 to 10. 05 PM. 811,000 viewers on average. I thought that was last week. No, that's this week. Last week was last week was 8 0 5. Oh, they found 6000 people this week. Okay. But the more important question is, as always, where did they start and where'd they finish? Well, these were compiled by Wrestlenomix, Jim quarter one, 8 to 8, 15 PM. John Moxley versus Dax Harwood with picture and picture. 944,000 viewers. So is the bloom off the Big Bang Rose lately? They've been feeding them over a million people at the start, which is how they've been able to artificially inflate this average for quite some time. But the last couple of weeks, they're not even getting a million. Are the Big Bang viewers turning off the show a minute early because they've smartened up to that thing and they don't want to be in any way involved with the wrestling program or are people less interested in the Big Bang these days? Well, again, it's another year that it's in reruns on the network. I'm sure that the ratings may not stay the same as they were, but we'll see what we can do by finding those Big Bang theory numbers. Again, this was Valentine's Day, but you would think maybe the audience going out for Valentine's Day is not the audience watching the Big Bang theory. Yeah. Well, do you seriously think that any of the AEW fans are getting any pussy? Let's go to quarter two, 8, 15, 8, 30 PM. The continuation of Mox versus Dax, the post-match beatdown with the Blackpool Combat Club, Don Callis' backstage promo, Barrett Brown versus Wardlow. Oh, that was who it was. And a Young Bucks video, 905,000 viewers. Also the high point in the key demo, 18 to 49 year old men, 431,000 viewers. Now that is shocking. That is much less of a drop. They usually experience 100,000 people bailing pretty quick. Is this a tribute to Dax's ability to keep something even with the plumber interesting because his shit always loses? Moxley lost 100,000 people last week, didn't he? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if we're prepared to call Dax Hardwood a ratings draw yet, but we'll see. Well, I'm saying did he make Moxley palatable? I don't know. You know, he can't dismiss that Moxley has fans too. But quarter three, 830 to 845 p.m. An ad break and Adam Copeland versus Daniel Garcia, 762,000 viewers. Oh, Jesus Christ. Okay. Maybe people were just feeling the cold and the arthritis and they were a little slow to get up because they lost 39,000 from quarter one to quarter two and then they lost 143,000 from two to three. 143,000 lovers. I mean, if you make a 9 p.m. dinner appointment for Valentine's Day, you're leaving in quarter three. Who's waiting till nine o'clock to eat dinner on Valentine's Day? You wouldn't be getting to the good stuff till 11, 30. The working man, they've been out working all day. They got to go to dinner before they have to go to sleep to wake up to get up the next day and jump on the Long Island Railroad and deal with the deal. They're thinking about getting home that night and jumping on their wife. Well, let's jump on to quarter four. The Long Island Railroad. I've been working on the railroad. How many fucking railroad? What somebody's choking or stoking the fucking fire there and the other guys, the conductor? How many railroad employees you think watching the goddamn wrestling show? I wasn't talking necessarily about the employees of the railroad. I would say that the working man would use the railroad as transport to get to the working place. Oh, I thought you meant they were the engineers and the the coal burners and things and such of that nature. Well, no, and not that those aren't working men too, but I don't know their schedules. Let's get back to the schedule of quarter four here, Jim. 8.45 to 9 p.m. The continuation of Adam Copeland versus Daniel Garcia. The post match with Christian Cage, Nick Wayne and Kill Switch. An ad break and the Samoa Joe promo. 792,000 viewers. How the fuck did they manage to get 30,000 to come back for that? That's what I'd like to know. They left at the end of quarter two, which affected quarter three. The end of quarter two was the word low match in the Young Bucks video. Quarter three is Adam Copeland versus Daniel Garcia. If you tune back in at a certain point, that's how you get people back. Oh, edges on. I'll check it out. See what's happening. We go to the big nine o'clock hour quarter five, nine to nine, 15 p.m. The Samoa Joe swerve Shriklin Adam Page live promo. The Tony Storm video. The Deanna Parazzo backstage promo and the Young Bucks versus Top Flight. 838,000 viewers. Well, for once, they got a bump at the top of the hour. They added another 36,000 people. So that brought them up to about their normal average. But since obviously their normal average, they didn't reach this week, they're going to be dropping. I still maintain that quarter eight will be the worst quarter in the history of the television program because how can it not be? You might as well show Mighty Mouse rerun. Well, for the record, I don't have the record of what is the previous worst quarter in the history of the show. But let's keep going here. Quarter, where are we? Quarter six, six, nine, 15 to nine, 30 p.m. The continuation of Top Flight versus the Young Bucks picture and picture ads. The Young Bucks live promo and Darby Allen's promo to the Young Bucks. 785,000 viewers. So again, with the exception of quarter three, these two little douchebags put up the lowest numbers of the show so far with the various things that they're involved in because nobody gives a shit. It's kids cosplaying. It's every single quarter that they're the last thing that's in that quarter. It kills the next quarter. It's every single time. But let's see how they recover here. Quarter seven, nine, 30 to nine, 45 p.m. An ad break. Bullet Club Gold, the acclaimed and Billy Gunn's backstage promo. Willow Nightingale versus Sky Blue with picture and picture. 741,000 viewers. And it begins. So there are down 203,000 people from the start and that is the lowest point of the program. And now drum roll please. Wait a minute. Oh, hold on. What? I got a new thing. Hold on. What? I got a new thing. I got a brand new bag. I got a new cajon. Oh, I have to reveal the radio. That sounds like you're just taking your fucking sneakers and rubbing them on the desk. See, it's a cajon, but it has a snare. If I take off the snare. A cajon. Listen, wait a minute. This is what no snare. This is the snare and then I can open up the airway here. If I was over there, I'd close your airway up. What do you talk cajon? I thought you were supposed to have two cajones anyway. What is a cajon? You're speaking of the huevos. I'm talking about this cajon right here. It's a percussion tool instrument, some might say. I have a variety of them in various places all over the manner. So I can just stop anytime, anywhere I am and just start making some music. Well, I'm thinking of a certain kind of tool right now. So why don't we have that tool provide us with the quarter eight numbers. Quarter eight, nine forty five to ten p.m. The continuation of Willow Nightingale versus Sky Blue and Ad Break and Orange Cassidy versus Matt Taven with picture in picture. Seven hundred and twenty five thousand viewers with a five minute overrun. Sure. Bring it to seven hundred and eighty five thousand viewers. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. In the last five minutes, people, sixty thousand people were desperate to see the finish of Matt Taven and Pockets. So again, the main event draws the lowest number of the entire show because of the fact that an idiot and somebody that's never been used before was in it. And I thought because they were in Texas, a Texas death match would be just lovely. And then they get an artificial bump from going five minutes over for the people that were tuning into the following program. And now as we find out from the other numbers, nine hundred and forty four was still at least fucking fifty thousand or sixty thousand of the big bangers to start out. So they did an eight hundred eleven thousand viewer average with an artificially inflated beginning and end. It continues to trickle down and drip away. On that topic is Wrestlenomics on their chart has the 90 day trend line. It is well below the 90 day trend line. Well, that's because Tony's fucking brains are below his waistline. They're in his ass. All right. Well, that was dynamite. Did anybody watch this fiasco this week? I believe some people did. Let me pull up the numbers here. We'll run through their numbers quickly and then just again, they did have a collision and we want to try to give you a couple of instances of what they did on national television on Saturday night. And as their I guess answer to what the WWE did on Saturday morning, which was have a stadium show in front of fifty thousand people. But go ahead. We're still on the ratings for Wednesday. We are on the ratings. A.W. Dynamite on TBS Wednesday, February 21st, 2024, eight to 10.05 p.m. These were compiled by Wrestlenomics. The overall number, Jim, eight hundred and twenty eight thousand viewers on average. And it's up to two percent from last week, which was eight hundred and eleven thousand. I was about to say, they, you know, they've made a slight comeback from almost dropping below eight hundred thousand last week. But we're still writing that pocket there, writing that range. They they better hope that all these people are in good health. Well, again, let's go to the quarterly breakdown because this tells the real story. And again, this is the same story every single week, quarter one, eight to eight, fifteen p.m. FTR versus Claudio and Moxley, nine hundred and ninety six thousand viewers. And the Big Bang has been well under a million here the past few weeks. So this is a little bit of an increase. They're getting handed as a gift. Well, the gift continues into quarter two, eight, fifteen, eight, thirty p.m. The continuation of that big tag match with picture and picture ads and the post match and the orange Cassidy backstage angle, followed by another ad break, eight hundred and seventy thousand viewers. Ouch. So one hundred and twenty six thousand automatically said, we cannot watch the plumber. Well, quarter three, eight, thirty, eight, forty five p.m. A recap of something it doesn't say what a recap. FTR, Claudio and Moxley backstage angle and orange Cassidy versus Mike Bennett with picture and picture ads, seven hundred and ninety nine thousand viewers. Good Lord. So they're below eight hundred thousand. It's only forty five minutes into the show. I since by their average, they almost have to pull out of their normal tailspin pattern. But lead me on. We got a quarter four, eight forty five to nine p.m. The post match of orange Cassidy versus Mike Bennett with the Undisputed Kingdom and Jake Hager, the Ruby Soho, Angelo Parker date set up. The biggest thing since Ralph Malfoy out with Leather Tuscadero, Rick Flair's backstage arrival and ad break. Flair and the Bucks backstage angle, I guess part two of the arrival and Daniel Garcia's live promo and confrontation with the Christian Cage Bunch, eight hundred and nineteen thousand viewers. So whatever that mess was that you just described got twenty thousand back. Well, let's see where those people can go. Nine p.m. The big nine o'clock hour. We can tell him where to go, but quarter five, nine to nine, fifteen p.m. The continuation of the Garcia Christian Gang promo confrontation. Adam Page, Hook and RVD's backstage promo. Tony Storm versus Sydney, Sydney, Sydney. Yes, it is Sydney. Sydney, Winnelli or not Winnelli, just Winnell. There's a semi call in there. I thought it was an I. Sydney, Winnell and Madison Rain versus Deanna Parazzo of Picture in Picture ads. Eight hundred and twenty nine thousand viewers. Good Lord. They actually picked up ten thousand. Was that just the top of the hour or was there anything in there that people might have wanted to see? That's a great question. Maybe the next quarter will answer part of it. Nine fifteen to nine thirty p.m. quarter six. The continuation of Madison Rain versus Deanna Parazzo. Ouch. Including post match concussion, including post match with Tony Storm and the Darby Allen and Sting Tape promo and ad break and the Wardlow live promo. Seven hundred and eighty nine thousand viewers. Yeah, I have a feeling it might be downhill from here, but there goes another forty thousand. We're going at a quarter seven, nine thirty to nine forty five p.m. The Bang Bang Scissor Gang backstage promo and ad break. The Don Callis group backstage promo and the start of Samoa Joe, Brian Cage and swerve Strickland versus Adam Page, Hook and Rob Van Dam. Seven hundred and seventy seven thousand viewers. Well, it's only another twelve thousand. It could be worse. It could get worse. Well, we go to quarter eight. I remind you it is a five minute overrun. Quarter eight, nine forty five to ten p.m. The continuation of that big six man match with picture and picture ads. Seven hundred and fifty six thousand viewers. Ouch. Five minute overrun. Eight hundred and five thousand viewers. OK, yeah. Yeah, for that last five minutes on purpose, forty four forty nine thousand people are going to sell. We got to see the finish. So they started at nine hundred and ninety six thousand and they finished at ten p.m. Eastern with seven hundred and fifty six thousand. That means they lost two hundred and forty thousand, which was twenty five percent, almost exactly of the audience they started with. Whoo. Watch out. That was a really bad episode, I thought. But the numbers may tell a different story. Let's see what the numbers say, Jim. Eight hundred and what thousand this past week, AEW Dynamite on TBS Wednesday, February 28th, eight to ten o two p.m. On average, eight hundred and twenty two thousand viewers. Boy, they minus one percent minus one percent from last week. They still stay in that pocket. These people would eat the Elmer's glue and thank you for the ice cream. They will tolerate anything. Well, Jim, we'll see how much they tolerated on this night. So, AEW Dynamite, these were compiled by Wrestlenomics quarter one, eight to eight fifteen p.m. Adam Page, Samu. I was about to combine a couple names there. Swarm, Strickland and Samoa Joe's live promo. Samu and the Young Bucks backstage arrival promo. Nine hundred and eighty three thousand viewers. Wow. So again, they start with almost a million thanks to our friend Sheldon. Well, that's right. What are they going to do with them? Well, we're going to do with them. We're going to take them to quarter two, eight fifteen, eight thirty p.m. and ad break. The beginning of Eddie Kingston and FTR versus Brian Danielson and Claudio Castignoli and John Moxley with picture and picture ads. Eight hundred and four thousand viewers. Oh, Jesus. All right. So we're back to normalcy. Remember last week for whatever reason they held some people, but now we've lost a hundred and seventy nine thousand people in fifteen minutes. That's a big drop quickly. Again, you know what? They're going to have to come back. They're going to have to come back at some point in the show to make their average. So I'm interested to see where that is. And again, that first minute being the Big Bang Theory, it's going to prove every single week the average audience is in a range of eight hundred thousand viewers minus that. Yeah, maybe even lower quarter three. The continuation of the six man tag match eight thirty to eight forty five p.m. Seven hundred and ninety nine thousand viewers. Oh, by the way, picture picture ads. I should. OK, well, I'm surprised only five thousand people said, my God, there has to be more meaning to life than watching this. Well, the meaning of life was still being searched for in quarter four. How's that for a rhyme? There you go. Eight forty five to nine p.m. An Atlantis video, a Lionheart Chris Jericho backstage promo, an ad break, Will Osprey and Don Callis's family's live promo and then the Young Bucks backstage confrontation with Eddie Kingston. Eight hundred and thirty five thousand viewers. Well, got thirty six thousand back. And I can't imagine out of that list, you just read what they'd want to see. But good for them. Well, good for them. Let's see if the goodness continues into quarter four or quarter five, the big nine o'clock hour, nine o'clock hour, the big top of the hour, top of the hour, nine to nine fifteen p.m. Orange Cassidy versus Nick Wayne with picture and picture ads. Two hundred and forty two thousand. What the why would you do that? I mean, even if you're not offended by just the presence of pockets, why would you put him against this fucking bland mope face teenager at the nine o'clock hour? Oh, this will this will draw him in like flies. Well, mopeiness is in the eye of the beholder, but the number, Jim, is seven hundred and ninety nine thousand viewers. Wow. So they they picked up thirty six thousand from three to four and those same thirty six thousand said, oh, we've made a drastic error and left. Okay. We now go to what is known as quarter six. Nine in some circles nine fifteen to nine thirty p.m. The finish of the aforementioned match, the post match with the undisputed kingdom, tremporeta and Rocky Romero and ad break, the bang bang scissor gangs backstage promo and the start of Chris Stathland versus Sky Blue with picture and picture ads. Seven hundred and sixty seven thousand viewers. Ouch. And that's another thirty two thousand. So now we've gone from nine eighty three to seven sixty seven. We got two quarters to go. That's right. Quarter seven nine forty five to ten p.m. No, excuse me. Nine thirty to nine forty five. Yeah. Chris Stathland versus Sky Blue continued with a post match with Julia Hart and Willow Nightingale and Stokely Hathaway. The young bucks backstage finding Sting's room of bats and ad break and the start of Chris Jericho versus Atlantis Jr. with picture and picture ads. Seven hundred and sixty six thousand viewers. So Jericho managed to run another thousand off. He's not the ratings draw that pockets is now. They don't really call him the demo god anymore, do they? Boy, unless you're talking about demolition, he's demolishing the ratings. Hey, demolition were awesome. Let's not compare. I'm not talking about the team. I'm talking about the act underrated. One of the great tag teams. But let's go now, Jim, to quarter eight nine forty five to ten p.m. I remind you, we have an overrun and bad people had to think there was something going to go on with Sting and something going to go on with these two weasels looking for him. And one would think that they would have wanted to see Sting. Certainly to God, they had to come back somewhat. Well, Chris Jericho versus Atlantis Jr. continued with the post match celebration with Atlantis and they all hug. Followed by the young bucks confrontation with Darby Allen, Ric Flair and Sting's appearance. Eight hundred and ten thousand viewers. Wow. Two minute overrun. Eight hundred and ninety one thousand viewers. Okay, all right. For two minutes, suddenly eighty one thousand people said, Oh my God, we're almost missing it. Ric Flair and Sting in a segment and eight hundred and ten thousand. At least they got thirty forty four back. But you got your Calcumilator over there, Brian. Do what we did before. Add up quarters two through eight. Leave off quarter one and the overrun and see what the average is when it's just all AEW all through the quarter. I'm doing that right now. Let me restart now that you threw me off. You got to be able to multitask. Oh, come on. Seven ninety nine plus eight thirty five plus seven ninety nine plus seven sixty seven plus seven sixty six plus eight ten plus. Oh, that's it. That's it. Divided by seven seven equals seven hundred and ninety seven thousand viewers. Seven hundred ninety seven thousand people. Take out the first quarter that's artificially inflated every week that we know and take out the overrun that's ridiculous and that they're fudging the numbers for. And you get seven hundred ninety seven thousand people this time, which is lower than the last time we did this exercise. And out of seven quarters, only three of them were above eight hundred thousand in the body of the show. And it's always worse because the show is getting worse and nobody can tell him because he won't listen. The trend lines show it for the overall audience. They hold pretty steady with the key demo right now, but the key demo is starting to be it's starting to get to the point where it's going to be the bigger audience pretty soon. But eight hundred thousand give or take. And literally in this case seven ninety seven eight hundred thousand is the audience that's going to watch them on TV. And they're locked in kind of at that number. And it seems like they every now and then get a nice little burst, but then they lose a little more breath and they go a little bit fall. They fall a little bit further and the trend lines start showing that they're not doing a great job of building anything. They may think they have good builds, but they're going to get the same people to buy the pair. I know Dave Meltzer did some kind of study where, you know, all the paper you buy as A.W. has it was actually like 90. No, I shouldn't give a percentage because I don't remember it, but it was like the majority of it were different people, never the same people buying the paper. Views all different people. You know why that is, don't you? Because once that people go on record is buying one of these paper views with the cable company, they change their name. They're ashamed. They're embarrassed to be grouped in that category. So they're trying to hide their identities. Well, maybe people aren't rich and you have to find a rich friend that will buy the A.W. paper view, but you may not be able to get him to buy a second one. So you got to find another rich friend. Yeah, because, you know, poor people typically don't like A.W. according to Dave Meltzer. But I was saying something and I don't even remember what it was actually. Well, neither does Tony. I guess that was the point. The paper views, it's the same audience. Like they're going to do in a the range of 140,000 to 110,000. Ring of Honor being a little different. And they're about to introduce more paper views. It'll be very interesting because they're $50 a pop minimum. At what point do their most devoted fans have to go out and take a second job to afford all the paper views? You know, and again, the storylines and everything, nothing's getting better. There's just, there's more of it. Yes. It's not good and it's not getting any better, but there's so much more of it. Well, that was dynamite. The Go Home episode for the Revolution paper. Again, I don't know the ebbs and the flows, the ups and the downs, but I know enough and you're going to tell us the rest, but I know enough to emit a correction here on the program. I've been wrong. And I, whenever I'm proven wrong, I acknowledge that. I think I've set that track record. And I have been proven wrong. Again, I'm going to acknowledge it. I made the statement that there were 800,000 people in this country that were going to watch that television program no matter how bad it sucked. And I was wrong. And I apologize. Brian, what were the ratings for this episode of AEW Dynamite from, I believe, March the 6th? March the 6th on TBS AEW Dynamite, 8 to 10 PM. Although it went to 10.07. Hold on, let me just make sure this is the most updated version here. Yeah, 8 to 10 PM. This is from Wrestlenomics. 779,000 viewers on average. Ouch. That is down 5% from last week. The pay per view after the pay per view, the television after the pay per view, for the people who didn't get it, what's going to be said, what's the tag titles changed hands, staying retired. This guy did that. Not only no interest bump, but an interest dip after the pay per view. And again, they have a big episode coming up this next week from Boston, big business, the debut of Mercedes-Monet. And with AEW, a lot of the issue isn't just getting a number for someone's debut. It's finding a way to maintain any of it. But let's go to this. Once again, these were compiled by Wrestlenomics. Quarter one, 8 to 8, 15 PM. The swerve Shrikland, Samoa Joe, Adam Cole live promo. 930,000 viewers. Oh boy. So the something's gonna, the bottom is going to fall out of the market very soon, folks. Strap in. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Again, a minute at least of the Big Bang Theory to start that off. Quarter two, 8, 15, 8, 30 PM. Samoa Joe and swerve Shrikland versus Matt Taven and Mike Bennett with picture and picture ads. The Chris Jericho hook backstage angle, an ad break, a recap, and the Young Bucks backstage promo. 785,000 viewers. Okay. And see, that's why because when you start with a number like that and considering the overall average, it had to plummet. And boy, howdy did it with 145,000 people in 15 minutes. That, hey, where are we going from here? Again, no star power. Jericho star power is gone. They've zapped that thanks to him. Let's go from there. 830 to 845 PM. Quarter three, hook versus Brian Cage with picture and picture ads, a post match with the Mogul Embassy and Jericho a recap. The orange Cassidy best friends backstage promo. 792,000 viewers. Fluctuation amongst people getting up to go to the bathroom or coming back from getting a sandwich. So we got 7,000 back. Quarter four, 845 to 9 PM. Matt Menard versus Kill Switch, the post match with Nick Wayne, Christian Cage, Adam Copeland, Nick Wayne's mom on the ramp, the Kyle O'Reilly backstage promo, an ad break and a sting video. 779,000 viewers. So we've already, the quarter that featured Edge, one of the major WWE stars of the modern era, lost 13,000 viewers from the pissy quarter hour that featured a bunch of these generic Jabber indie guys. Well, to be fair, the fans didn't know that Edge was going to be there. He was a surprise. I was a surprise to Christian. Well, that's true. They thought they, they thought they were just seeing the dinosaur and fucking dipshit. But there were other surprises. The big nine o'clock hour, 9 to 9, 15 PM, quarter five, the Young Bucks live promo, their confrontation with Eddie Kingston, the debut of Okada and the start of Rio versus Statlander, 865,000 viewers. Also the high point in the key demo, 411,000. So taking everything into account and they haven't lately been doing a bump at the top of the nine o'clock hour. But in this case, they added, on the 20, 86,000 people is that they knew the announcement was going to be Okada because we knew Okada was signing or is, was that the fault? In other words, did, because they brought Okada out as a surprise, but then they kept going in that quarter. I'm wondering if it can, if the people suddenly called around to their friends, Okada's out there. I think a lot of, a lot of it too is I tried this show for a few minutes. I'll come back after the show I went to instead ends. It ends at nine o'clock. You go see what's going on on the other channel. More of the normal audience may have just said, well, it's, it's, you know, we'll check back in. Well, never, but nevertheless, that's, you know, it's pretty obvious they wanted to see what was going to go on with Okada. If that is indeed the problem, the situation, we go from there to quarter six, nine, 15 and nine, 30 PM. The continuation of Rio versus Statlander with picture and picture, the Tony Storm, Mariah May backstage promo and ad break and willow nightingale's backstage promo, 726,000 viewers. Oh geez. And then 139,000 people said, fuck, we missed Okada. Oh my God, Joe mighty. They lost everybody that they got plus another fucking 50 something thousand. They came back at the nine o'clock hour to see what was there to hold them. And it didn't come. It didn't happen. We go from there to quarter seven, nine, 30 to nine, 45 PM. The Darby Allen promo and confrontation with J. White, the Julia Hart backstage promo. The wind is blowing in the background. I don't know if anyone could hear that. Oh boy. The house of that house of back the house of blacks backstage promo. Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my, there was an ad break and also the Mark Briscoe Jay Lethal backstage angle 747,000 viewers. Good Lord. They actually aimed aimed. They actually added people for backstage malarkey. And finally, Jim quarter eight. I remind you, we have a seven minute overrun quarter eight, nine 45 to 10 PM will Osprey versus Kyle Fletcher with picture and picture twice. 654,000 viewers. Oh, seven minute overrun, including post match confrontation with Brian Danielson. 676,000 viewers. Final quarter to 306 in a key demo. They drove away those fans too. Oh, boy. It was a match for no reason with nobody. If you didn't want to see guys do moves, then they gave you no other reason to watch it. And they think they're delivering good stories. That's the sickness, the sickness. That's the problem. They think they're delivering good stories to people who defend them will say, I could just say they have no stories. The stories are great. The story suck and no one gives a shit. People tune out. This kid that dresses up like a guy in this video game is going to fight that kid dressed up like the guy in that video game. And boy, you ought to see the way that they catch each other's foot and boost each other up in the air so they can land on their feet. What the? Let's do our exercise. Hey, one other thing on this before we wrap things up, because several listeners sent this in. So let's just address this quickly. Okay. Will Osprey tweeted out March 8th. When is the eighth? That was Friday. And thus my first tour under the AEW banner has come to an end. Thank you so much for such an overwhelming response to everyone backstage. Thank you so much for allowing me into the home you've built. What? I will cherish this place and treat it as my own. I'm banged up bad, but my foot is still on the gas pedal. But now I'm going to get on this flight home to my beautiful misses and stepson and enjoy the fruits of my labor. I believe in AEW. Oh my God. By the way, for the record after this caused a bit of an outcry, he had to tweet out later on, also guys, I'll be back Tuesday for work. Don't worry. Because people were afraid that he wasn't coming back. And that's the thing is, what he was here from fucking Saturday till goddamn Wednesday. Now my tour, my first tour is over. It was a cold winter. I feared at one point the Tories may have been able to emerge triumphant. But fortunately, as we dug into the trenches, the cannons arrived from General Farquhar. My first tour also known as Two Days in Duluth. I'm serious. It's he was at the pay-per-view and the goddamn TV taping on Wednesday, right? And Thursday. Oh, they did one Thursday. I think so, yeah. So they didn't tape all of the collision stuff within on the Wednesday night taping with 3000 people there. They came back the next night with less people. Let's see. They taped dynamite. I don't have anything here for collision. They taped dynamite and rampage. But collision was taped the next day. How many people did they have? Oh, we already said that. That was a... No, no. There was two nights. They had 3200 or whatever Wednesday night for dynamite. What about for collision on Thursday night? Well, collision the next night. Same gas area. Gas South Arena, Duluth, Georgia. It's a gassy area. There's a lot of waffle houses. Where the gas South Gang? You better watch out. At that point in time, I don't know if these are the final numbers, but tickets distributed were 2166. Oh, good Lord. All right. And for the record, that building, the gas South Arena, capacity is listed as 13,000. But I don't know if that's for basketball or not. So that changes things. Well, no, that capacity for an arena will always be listed as the amount of permanent seats. And if you put ringside or for concerts on the floor, that's extra. Then there's a capacity for fire. You know, you can't have over such and such people in a building, but they generally list an arena capacity by the permanent seats for a show with nothing on the floor, but a court or whatever. But nevertheless, that's a fucking very small number of people for a very big building for two nights in a row. The capacity, the tickets distributed were 5000 over the two nights and the capacity of the building twice is almost 30,000. So you can add up both nights. It still isn't even Smackdown. It's not even halfway. There you go. There you go. But never let's do one thing. Let's do the exercise and then move on from these ratings. Take the ratings and drop the first quarter and drop the overrun that are artificial numbers and take the seven in between quarters and see what the fuck the average is now. We're the only people that do this honest to God real factoring in of things. Divided by seven. Yeah, carry the two 764,000 viewers 700. So they got an artificial bump of 15,000 on their total by having the overrun and the artificial first quarter with the big bang. All right, it's a quick trap. A trap trip. Not trap. It's a trap. It's a quick trip to the future here just to get caught up on things. No wonder. No wonder that the time travel always takes so long. You're trying to figure out how to get your mouth in position to formulate a coherent sentence. That is correct. A quick trap here to the future. We've been talking about AEW Dynamite, a barn burner of a show. Try as we might. We could not dawdle about long enough for the ratings to come out. So we took a little break just so because we couldn't leave the people hanging on this one, hanging on the edge of the cliff. Well, we'll find out about cliffs in this episode here. AEW Dynamite on TBS AEW Big Business, I believe it was Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 8 to 10, 06 PM on average, not counting the overrun, which Nielsen, according to Wrestlenomics, the reporting of Wrestlenomics, overrun not included due to Nielsen error, 801,000 viewers. Ouch. So it worked in the newest Game Changers hometown, but it didn't play in Peoria, as they used to say in show business. Because this was, again, on the lower end of what they've been doing, and I think was it up 10,000? They didn't the sevens last week, didn't they? Or did they? Last week was 779. So it's a 3% from that. It's it, they got back to almost what they've been doing before they signed the the $6 million woman. But but anyway, there's another story to be told here. And everybody's got to finish their story in a wrestling business. But there's another story to be told. So if the listeners out there would strap their seat belts in, we're about to go on a bobsled run. Are we not? Well, it'll be a very interesting story here. I do want to ask you one thing, though, knowing this is the overall number, we're not knowing the rest of the story here. Did A.W. do it right or wrong going for the CM Punk model of not announcing her, but teasing her enough that if you paid attention, you may know? But if you're someone who only knows you're a Sasha Banks, you may not. Did they do the right thing? Was this the best case scenario? Because that's just where her popularity is? Or even if that's the case, could this have been a bigger thing? What do you think? Here without being involved in the contract negotiations with this company, you never know, was there something screwy going on that they couldn't announce her? What were all the eyes dotted in the tease crossed? I mean, it seems like they were because not only did they strongly insinuate and name the show after her and without naming it after her, you know what I'm saying? All of the hints and clues that were dropped, it didn't take Colombo to figure it out. And up to and including her friends talking about on Twitter that day that they were there to support her in her debut, but the company officially never said yes. The artist formerly known as Sasha Banks, now fucking, now I've lost her goddamn new name. Mercedes Monae. Monae, not Mon. Mercedes Mon. As a matter of fact, that's what people are doing probably now, Moning. But they did everything but say she was going to be there, and she was there. So if the point I'm making is unless there was some bizarre reason that we are not aware of that they couldn't officially say this and I can't imagine what that reason would be, yes, they shit the bed. Because I'm trying to, there was some back, the first time Punk made his debut, not the redebut. The first time in Chicago, the first dance. The first time in Chicago. There was still, it was a fluid situation until shortly before that as I remember, and then, but they had the hold on the building and blah, blah, blah, and it kind of organically grew. And it was a comeback after seven years away of somebody who had, you know, regardless what you think of Punk, a big star who had said, I'm never going to do this again. And now, oh shit. And it, the conditions were right. It was like the thunderstorms. The conditions were right. But with this, if you knew she was going to be there, if you had your deal made in time, for the last month on television, talk about it. In her hometown or the legendary New Boston Garden, the former, whatever they can get away with saying, you know who she was. She's going to debut in AEW because she didn't goddamn really do anything. You couldn't have, it wasn't like a surprise angle where she comes from under the ring and fucks over, tears the door off the cage and tombstones the undertaker. So yes, say for a month she's going to be, well, she's going to debut. What's she going to, is she going to talk, is she going to wrestle? And you don't have to say that. She will be here live from her hometown, but she will let everybody know what her condition is after her injury and what her plans are for AEW. And then you could have her, if she's from that town, I assume the 9,000 people that were in the garden know that, you know, that's what their attraction was. But can she get media in Boston? She's been with the WWE, send her to fucking Boston to do the morning radio show to it. They could have held more. They could have sold more tickets if they tried hard. So yeah, but not only for your ratings, maybe the build some anticipation, whatever that, whatever the anticipation of the addition of Mercedes, Moane will be. Ney. Well, yeah, or Ney, either one. Moane, not yeah or Ney, Moane. Well, Moane, Moane. Fuckin' and I think. Tommy James and the Chandels, that's right. Tommy, great band. I think I'm going to be alone here if you don't quit chiming in. That's what I'm saying. Use it for ratings if she's got some cashier in the industry. Use it for publicity to sell some tickets to this fucking off brand show you're producing. Yeah, blanket the world with it because why not? There was nothing that was of a surprise element. Then she ran into the last match, which you knew was going to happen, which I believe we said earlier before the ratings came in and the previous part of the program, they put her on first and the smart fans would know she's there to run in with Willow and whatever the fuck is going to go on there. But it wasn't like you were told they couldn't advertise. Yeah, she's going to run in at the end of the show and interfere. But so the casual, fuck you, there is no casual person watching this fucking fiasco. But that's the point. That's why because most people, well, it's over. And as a matter of fact, many of these goddamn people, it's over. It's over. It's over. It's over, but they're not over. But let's get back to the crystal blue persuasion that is AEW Dynamite here. Very good. A very good story. Of course, it's very good. I know more about him than you do. AEW Dynamite. Goddamn just because he's from New Jersey. He's not from New Jersey. Well, he ought to be. He looks like it. Go ahead. He may look like it. Hey, W Dynamite on TBS March 13th, 2024, as reported by Wrestlenomics, quarter one, eight to eight, 15 p.m. The Mercedes-Monet live promo and the Samoa Joe backstage promo. One million viewers with in the key demo, 423,000 viewers. So they have started out and nobody they didn't say she was going to be on first. But this is the, you know, the range. It's been 900 and something. So we got a million, maybe people tuning in early. Well, you're exactly right because Wrestlenomics has a trend line here. And I'll say it in advance, quarter one and quarter two are almost directly in line with the 90 day trend line. Well, there you go. And everybody knows it's more it's more important to trend good than to feel good. But they start out with one million people. To get hooked into this, uh, the Mercedes mania that's going on. It's sweeping the streets like wildfire, brother. Look at those fucking 12 inch pythons on her. And although we don't have the overrun, we always say it's really quarter two. That tells the true story of where the audience is starting. And quarter two is the Adam Cole video, 8, 15, 8, 30 p.m. I should say and Samoa Joe versus Wardlow with picture in picture. 899,000 viewers. Okay. So now we, but actually they drop oftentimes, oftentimes more than 100,000 after the first quarter. So this is 101,000. So within the trend line, we're within the, the, the trendy McTrinderson line. We dip slightly below that trend line in quarter three, eight, 30 to 845 p.m. The post match of Wardlow versus Samoa Joe with Swerve Strickland and the Young Bucks and Ocata's backstage antics with Alex Marvez. An ad break. That was cable access, by the way. And the start of the elite with Ocata now versus Pac, Penta El Cerro Miedo and Eddie Kingston. The odd triple. 815,000 viewers. Out. So the, the multimillion dollar man over here, Ocata is not only on the screen talking in a, in some fashion, communicating through his mouthful orifice and starting to wrestle and they lost 84,000 people. Well, the real story may be the next quarter because that was just the start of the match. Quarter four, 845 to 9 p.m. The elite versus death triangle and Eddie Kingston continued with picture and picture ads. The post match, an ad break, and the Christian Cage, Adam Copeland video. 737,000 viewers. Oh Jesus. The trend line has been destroyed now. The trend line, there was a sinkhole under the trend line, ladies and gentlemen. That is, let me try to do this math, 63, 70, 78,000 more people from the time that Ocata and his new delinquent friends that he met at, you know, fucking Cucamonga Hills 90210. From the time that they came on the screen, they've gone from 899,000 people, 737,000 people. Hey, he's not a game changer, he's a channel changer. They put him with the channel changers so that he never even got a chance to show you if he could be a game changer or not. They put him right with them and he got dragged right down with them. We go now to quarter four or quarter five, the big nine o'clock hour. The big one. 9 to 9, 15 p.m. Will Osprey's live from- That should not feel like we're Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. You are correct, sir. Where was I? Will Osprey's live promo? Well, there he was. Deanna Parazzo's backstage promo and the start of Jay White versus Darby Allen, 798,000 viewers. So wait a minute, potentially, Ostrich, maybe he's worth the flight from here to Heathrow and back every goddamn week because of all of the- BoA C, bub. Yes, stuff like that that he says. Of all of the new game changers, he's the only one that actually changed the fucking numbers in a positive direction so far. So they got 61,000 back as soon as they got rid of the buckaroos and the rest of the lollipop guild. That segment was also the high point in closed captioning. We don't have that stat, unfortunately, but we go now, Jim, they're quarter six. Start measuring that. I swear to God. It could be a contest between him and Dusty. Try to close caption to see how close you can get, either one of these guys. Quarter six, 9.15 to 9.30 p.m. The continuation of Jay White versus Darby Allen with picture and picture ads. The post match, including the amazing angle with the guns, the bang bang scissor dang, the acclaimed, a chair, and then an ad break. Darby's Everest dreams may have been crashed into the Sherpas in the valley. 799,000 viewers. So they held every single one of them and picked up a thousand people. I bet you know what? 200 of them were probably from the guy's hometowns. And then you spread the other 800 across the United States. And that's that's entirely doable. We now go to quarter seven, 9.30 to 9.45 p.m. The gates of agony versus the fences of fear. No, versus Chris Jericho and Hook. Chris Jericho was teaming up with Kenny Omega. Kenny got hurt. Then they put it with Sammy. Sammy got suspended. Now he's with Hook, ladies and gentlemen, with picture and picture ads. If you're walking down the street up there in New York City, keep an eye above your head in case there's a safe hanging over you. Also the Kyle O'Reilly, Roderick Strong and Kingdom backstage angle. No, that you can't call that an angle. It ended with a hug. Wrestle Nomics called it an angle. It certainly wasn't an angle. I'll have a strong word with them here soon. 732,000 viewers. Bam. There we went right back down to Porcelain Throne. 5,000 farther than the Bucca Roo's had left us on last flush. So they've lost all their gains back and another 5,000 on top of that. And by the way, for everyone who always says it doesn't matter the overall number, it's only about what the advertisers care about the key demo, the advertising demo. The two points that have fucking disappeared into the dirt were the Young Bucs match, which was quarter four, went down to 316. It was 348 here for the Jerrahook match. But we now go to the main event. And I remind you, Jim, we have no overrun number, so maybe this really picked up big in the overrun. Those six minutes could have been powerful. It could have been gripping. Sounds like a war of the world type of fucking spontaneous mania. A Willow Nightingale video. Rijo and Mercedes Moniz backstage meeting. An ad break. Jericho and Hook's backstage. Says he had an angle. Now I doubt what he refers to as an angle. Followed by the main event, Rijo versus Nightingale, the start of it, with picture in picture ads. 627,000 viewers. And 285,000 in the key demo. Wow. No more about Rijo being a draw, ladies and gentlemen. I don't want to hear that nonsense, which was always nonsense, ever again. Never, ever, never again. And I don't want to bring up any. You don't even have to research this, but I heard it on the internet recently that apparently Japan, whatever's happening over there, that society, with matters like this, they just recently maybe closed a loophole and raised the age of consent to 16 from 13. I don't know how long ago this was. What? What I was reading, it seemed to be a recent development, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was a few years ago or whenever. But yeah, I don't know what's happening over there with these things, but I wish that they would not enable this poor girl to either paralyze herself or torture the viewers or poison the wrestling business on national TV anymore after this scoring. We'll get on with any of that has to do with the age of consent in Japan. Just what in the world is that? Whether it's Tony or Kenny or Billy or Susie or Bobby or Tommy or whoever the fuck it is. What is their fixation with having this now adult woman chronologically the size of a small child and dressed as a small schoolgoing girl in the... She's 26. She's 26. Okay, she looks fucking nine. I mean seriously, what the fuck? And they're trying to make people believe she's a wrestler because everybody that works with her lets her do the moves to them. She was like, she was like, dracalesnar in that match. She's awesome. Did you see it? She was suplex and will all over the place. Eminence strength, just unbelievable strength. Eminence strength? Is that like eminent domain? That's right. She's incredibly powerful. Well, to the core. I'm just somebody needs to report somebody somewhere to something about this whole thing. I can't... Well, okay, you go... I don't get it. I don't get the direction you go. You were speaking... What is she... Let's put her and let's get her to do some high steel work. High steel. Outfitter with the outfitter like those construction workers in New York City, you see up there on him skyscrapers all the time with the tool belts and the outfits and the big heavy helmets and she can go up there and smoke cigars with them and hammer fucking steel in. No, she can't. Unless she isn't in with the union, no, she can't. Well, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And I'm not going to fucking challenge Olga Corbett for her dominance on the balance beam either. Can we have some goddamn perspective on what people are being allowed to do for a living? Well, beyond just it being Rio and your issues with Rio and the people that brought her to the country apparently, beyond that. And the boat. The bigger issue. I want somebody needs... Somebody needs to dry dock that boat that brought her over here too. I believe there was a plane involved, maybe two, depending on if she had to switch planes anywhere. Well, ground the son of a bitch till it's inspected. What does this say about... What is this in any way a broader indictment of AEW's women's division, the way women are used in wrestling or overused, the insistence on putting them in positions like the main event of this show when there really isn't a clamoring for it or the main... Like it's... Again, Mercedes Moniz, one of the biggest stars you would think of modern times in women's wrestling. You know, unless there's a big audience that had no idea she was there and it probably is, to an extent. I'm sure there is. Yes, because there's a bigger audience for the program she used to be on. That's who they should have been trying to hit with constantly advertising it on television and having her do media that will be picked up. But go ahead. And I don't know if you can recapture that. The idea that you're going to get that kind of attention once she's there versus the idea she's announcing her debut somewhere new. There's unlimited promotional possibilities for that if you have like a month or two to build into it. But who knows? Tony may have things figured out. Well, you were starting to frame that in the form of a question and you... Yeah, what does this say? It goes off all the goddamn... No, here's the question you were asking. What does this say about the women's division? That's right. You have Riho and Willow in the main event here. Willow's been used, you know, the thing with her and Stathlander and Stokely. I'm aware of it because it's been on TV a bunch lately. Riho just popped back up again every now and then she pops back up and the numbers pop back down. I mean, it's just keeps happening. But the Tony Storm stuff. Pop goes the Riho. Tony Storm won Best Gimmick in the Observer Awards. The segments aren't really lighting anything on fire. The matches, the match with Deanna Parazzo. Well, now we know what the Wrestling Observer Awards voting audience is like to begin with. But I'm saying, is this a bigger indictment of the AEW women's division and the way women are currently being used in wrestling overall? This specifically is not. This is an indictment of we don't want to see fucking Riho versus Willow. And that's not even knocking Willow. Willow ain't there yet, but Willow has potential. Maybe nobody has potential to rise in this company, but she has potential as a performer somewhere. And she was doing all the heavy lifting in this match, but they haven't gotten her to the point where they don't get her to a point or any her to a point. They bring in Paige, who was big before she got there. They bring in Mercedes, who was big before she got there. And I'm sure there's others, but you get the point and they get smaller. They get smaller as they stay there, as you mentioned, to become part of the roster. But in this case, people just did, as I said, they couldn't guarantee or run in. So people thought Mercedes was done. And they hear a main event of Riho versus Willow. Well, fuck, it's a goddamn school night, whatever, right? It's just meaningless because, as you said, Riho only pops up every once a while and it's preposterous and that rib has run its course, even with much of this audience. And it's disturbing visually and it's just distasteful. So in this case, now, if they had, hey, instead of a high school commencement speech or a prepared award ceremony acceptance speech, if Mercedes, at the top of that thing, after she finished thanking everybody and talking about how she, you know, oh, she's just happy to be there, whatever the fuck. If she had turned to a little more sternly to Willow, instead of just mentioning that they have unfinished business, if she had said, and Willow, I see you're going to be facing Riho tonight in the main event. And I just want to let you know the last time we were together at the same place, she beat her, dropped her on her head, talk about whatever the finish was. You dropped me on my head or kicked me on my head or whatever the fuck you did. And I'm going to be sitting right here at ringside because I want to see if you can do that to Riho. I think she's a lovely young lady and I just want to make sure it's fair and square, some ominous dramatic foreshadowing. But you know, you got none of that because she was too busy taking her clothes off and doing the stripper dance. But you're in a sting retirement in this debut. Is this the new thing, having wrestlers come to support you when you're coming and going? Apparently. I guess. I don't. I don't know. We never actually had any of our friends when we would switch territories come for our first night in Dallas or whatever. They were too busy working. Jim, we have some breaking news. The quarter, not the quarter, but the overrun rating is now in. Oh, hellfire and damnation, as Mama Cornette would say. What was that number? Now again, quarter eight was 627. The overrun six minutes, 10 to 10 or 6 p.m. Rio versus Willow Nightingale and the post match, including Julia Hart, Sky Blue and Mercedes Monet. Sounds like a 50s women's prison movie. 733,000 viewers. Oh, okay. Come on now. Come on now. They really popped the audience to the other low of the episode. But what was the what was the program after? Because normally the overrun is not 105,000 people and Mercedes didn't show up until three minutes before they were off the air or whatever. So the point is, what was the program afterwards that people thought they were tuning in for? That's what I'm like. They knew leave it to Beaver. Well, in that case, they were very hard on the Beaver this the other night and on Tony Kahn too. So doing as we normally do. And by the way, 627,000 at the end of regulation, starting with a million, that is one of the bigger percentages because that would mean they would, since it's millions around number, they lost 37.3% of the audience from start to regulation finish. Is that is that what you would get? I got an even number for once. I think I know how to do it. I'm going to trust your math in this instance and not do my own. Well, but you got to do some math. Because you know what I got to do here all the time, all the all day every day. Well, all day. This is my break from math. I do the greatest math. It's huge. It's big. Amazing math. Amazing math. I'm math like no one else. The maths don't know what hit them. So what? What I'd like you to do. Here's a weird headline you never see on the news right now. Pierce Brosnan pleads guilty to walking in Yellowstone thermal area. What? I don't know anything else about this story, nor do I care, but there's a headline you don't see. Was he cold? Was he trying to warm up? Was that is that a heating thing they've got? If you get frostbite out there, they have a thermal thing that warms you up. I deeply regret that. What's happening here? He's apologizing. I guess it was some kind of environmental statement that led to his arrest. Well, I hate to it. Was he was he pissing on something? He pissed on the goddamn hot spring and put it out. He pissed on the roll of James Bond. No, I don't know what he was pissing on, but again, back to the ratings or did we finish the ratings? Here's what we need to do. We need to do what we usually do and take out the first quarter that they inherit from the Big Bang and take out the overrun that they sap off of the next program and do two quarters, two through eight and figure out what their true audience average is. That nobody else bothers to do this. Well, I'm going to do this. Why don't you talk to the listeners for a moment while I add this up? Well, I just like to say that once again, ladies and gentlemen, we appreciate you joining us here while we do this broadcast. We come to you weekly here at the Cornies Drive-Thru and we are broadcasting live as you hear in the background from our newsroom where many times we are on top of breaking news and as everyone knows. And now, of course, we have we've just got a new correspondent to we've fired the last one that couldn't do simple math. But we just want you to remember that when news breaks, we take it back for a refund. And now I believe we were coming up to a full accounting of quarters two through eight on the previous Dynamite episode this past Wednesday night. 772,000 viewers. 772,000. That's what we're saying is the real average number of people that watched that program this week, which is again, it's like a slinky. It's easy for this program to go down the stairs, but it's a lot harder for this program to go up the stairs. Slinky Tony. Jim, speaking of entertaining television. Well, I thought we were going to do the AEW ratings first. Well, I was going to talk about me TV. No, but speaking of entertaining television, AEW Dynamite this past week was a three hour block with rampage on TBS March 20, 2024. Which, by the way, did you see according to what my Twitter folks were telling me, Uncle Dave's headline was, Collision ratings flat rampage up big. Of course, because the people that would watch, the only people that would ever want to watch rampage are already sitting there watching fucking Dynamite. You didn't give them a break. So yes, put it back on its own. It's going to wither on the vine again. But I love how he frames the dynamic here. Well, Jim, speaking of dynamic, we will talk about the dynamic dynamite of this past week. And let's give it this was a big episode. They've been plugging this Toronto, Canada. They had the big 9000 people and the big showdown of this epic feud that we had kind of thought was over with already. Tween Edge and Christian. So they had something to sell and the million dollar babies, Mercedes, Money, and Will Ostrich and our friend Mr. Okada. And so this heavily hyped episode, my God, are we off the charts here this week? Are we blowing the scale? Well, again, we have to tell the story is the three hour block. A.W. Dynamite from 8 to 10 p.m. on average did 800,000 viewers and A.W. Rampage from 10 to 11 p.m. Although like the first several minutes at least were the finish of the previous show. Right. 541,000 viewers. The highest rampage since the last episode. Since January 6, 2023. And in the key demo since April 22, 2022. Well, yes, because when it's its own program, everybody is already known for quite some time that it sucks and it's on Friday night and why bother? But if it's attached to this program, so now Tony will be pitched and will give us all three hours. But anyway, go ahead. You got a lot of numbers of Mr. First Name Bunch of Numbers. Well, we start with quarter one. These are from Wrestlenomix put together by Wrestlenomix quarter one 8 to 8 15 p.m. The Mercedes Monet Live promo and angle with Julia Hart, Sky Blue, Will O' Nightingale and Chris Stathlander. The Young Bucks Kazushka Okada Backstage Angle 900 and a little bit of a 111,000 viewers. So They got a million In the first quarter last week, but of course, that's Big Bang Theory. So the Big Bangers have let them down somewhat and The million dollar princess, but nobody had any idea when she was going to be on would they have had time yet? That's why we mentioned earlier Before we traveled through time Put her in quarter three and let's see we'll we'll know then whether anybody's going out of their way or not But anyway, go go out of your way to go ahead. Well before we get to quarter three quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m Eddie Kingston versus Kazushka Okada with picture in picture ads 838,000 viewers Yeah, so there's the Six million dollar man or however many millions and We just lost uh 73,000 people when he hit the screen And and let's bear in mind that we have not expected and I don't think by the numbers we're probably going to see Uh a drastic fall off like when Rio main events this thing because It's still to recognize names that they've been Plugging and they know it's the main event. So We are somewhat more consistent. I would believe this week Well, we got a quarter three the continuation of Kingston versus Okada the post match with pack Swarovsk Rickland's backstage promo an ad break The nightingale statlander mone stokely half the way backstage angle That's way that sounds like Some kind of goddamn weird law firm say all those names again nightingale statlander mone and stokely half the way Are you either out of maybe a wall street investment firm? And the start of chris jericho versus hook 791,000 viewers. Oh Jesus christ. All right, so Jericho I get his pay now may be being dwarfed by Tony's newest toys, but he's got the big 10 year deal so So Much less the other two bonus babies. He comes on the screen and drops it below 800. It's that's good to know Well, we got a quarter four 845 to 9 p.m The continuation of jericho versus hook with picture and picture ads Adam calls rocking chair promo whatever that was an ad break and jericho's backstage promo 735,000 viewers. Holy christ. I thought they'd be somewhat more consistent here, but So since we forgot our first look at jericho to the last look they've lost 103,000 people Well, we go to the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine 15 p.m. quarter five Will osprey's live promo the adam copeland christian cage video and deanna perazo and tony storm versus mariah may and tony Ono a Yeah, that's what it says here. What the hell says the auto parazo and tony storm versus mariah man tony storm It was thunder Thunder and storm were opposite each other with picture and picture ads 758,000 viewers So the third of tony's faberge eggs will ostrich comes on the air at the Top of the nine o'clock hour and get some 23,000 people Okay Now again, I'll point out what aaw fans are pointing at and some of the wrestling reporters are strong competition A lot of what well, there's nc. Double a basketball. There's a lot of things happening in the world of sports But okay, but they started When things are really hot when things are really hot was was there always a big hit if other things were happening? Well, yeah, it yes, it depends on obviously the final four or the Tournament if it was on against raw which a monday night it probably was or you know, whatever the fuck or major shit, but What i'm saying to you is it's the if somebody is going to tune into this show because they want to see something and in every segment another person That tony kahn has paid A millions of dollars to is coming out and people continue to turn it off increasing numbers One right after the other it doesn't matter what the competition is does it you had them there to begin with you couldn't keep them They weren't fucking interested What is going on in the tournament at 845 that wasn't going on at 830? Is what i'm asking and we brought it up earlier talking about the ratings before they came out Last week things nosedived things didn't pick up for mercedes monay, and they nosedived during the alcata in the young bucks And the re-home ain't event and jericho did nothing to help and look at this week It just went straight down until jericho was off the screen till all those guys were done Because alcata has been linked with the bucks and that's not going to help them. But anyway quarter six six 9 15 and 9 30 p.m The continuation of paraza and rosa versus may and storm an ad break swerve strickland versus the butcher And the swerve strickland samoa joe live confrontation 765 thousand viewers Uh now they're just kind of treading water Well the tread continues in the quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m continuation of swerve and joe and now don callous's live confrontation an ad break And the start Of adam copeland versus christian cage. I quit match with picture and picture ads 789 thousand viewers And they picked up a little bit more for What should have been you know equivalent in their universe to a pay-per-view match edge and christian Should have been a pay-per-view match. It should have been probably well considering what else they put on there Did they finish in any way? Picking up strongly though because they went so long crashing through so much in repetitive fashion Well again overrun aside it goes into rampage this week. So we'll talk about all this quarter eight 9 45 to 10 p.m The continuation of cage versus copeland with picture and picture ads 788 thousand viewers Oh good lord. I thought I thought when I heard it was you know the the same number as last week, but they It started so much lower with the big bang audience that I thought that at least Edge and christian would be above 800 thousand for that, you know main event Uh, that's that's disheartening for them. Well, we now go to 10 to 10 15 p.m Which is the first quarter of rampage now the first six minutes of this are the finish of christian cage versus adam copeland Then the post match Then a bang bang gang promo And then the acclaimed ramp promo 776 thousand viewers Oh, and they lost people at the top of the hour when they were going home after beating themselves up with all that shit And then for the record here's rampage 10 15 to 10 30 p.m orange Cassidy and trempareta versus kyle fletcher and powerhouse hobs picture and picture ads and an ad break 558 thousand viewers Oh, that's 218 thousand people said fuck it Well again, they can't take any more you're looking on the dark side This is a record episode of rampage more people saw this in any other episode in a long time Quarter two for rampage or I guess it would technically be three Shabata versus kevin matthews a Copeland I heard i heard matthews brained him A stop it a copeland cassidy best friends matt sidale top flight action andretti Daniel garcia backstage angle The fuck loud noises and words what I I don't know what any of this is so it's taken me by surprise too rocky remaro versus canoske to keshda with picture and picture ads 454 thousand viewers. Oh boy Followed by 1045 to 11 p.m. Romero versus tekesh to continue to an ad break A video and the start of statlander and nightingale versus heart and sky blue street fight with picture and picture ads 485 thousand viewers six minute overrun 11 to 11 oh, are you are you ribbon 11 to 11 oh 6 p.m 6 minute overrun for the continuation the finish of statlander and nightingale versus heart and blue 543 thousand viewers. Oh, what was scheduled to come on at 11 o'clock? I believe I to put that on at 10 Jesus Christ so they they get a three hour block of primetime national cable television they start with 911 thousand viewers and end up with 185 thousand Jumping shit with it when we used to do two hour specials on wbki here locally inluable for ovw we would still our main events would do the best Numbers or equal the best numbers of the program from 8 to 10 o'clock. It's not like Adults are going to sleep at 10 o'clock. They're the program is putting them to sleep and This pattern Every single person that he has paid A large amount of money to or And or made an executive vice president Every time they came on the screen the show lost fucking viewers until finally the only people that Gained anything appreciable were edged in christian for the first part of their match and by the time that they went so long and Broke so much they'd lost 10,000 of those people 12,000 whatever And I mean now that's normal fluctuation at that point, but you know they kept them at the end But nobody else could keep them to get there Huh well that was a w big house in toronto Previous week a big house in boston the television viewers are not there like they used to be But again, there's a lot of competition and people are getting rid of cable and No, there's all night gas station aw is doing just fine All right, that didn't go exactly how I thought it would but we are here There was almost a note there, but it turned into a suicide note. Oh come on stop that. It wasn't that bad And I didn't mean I was wasn't paying attention. I was getting ready to land here with the ratings After we talked to aw dynamite I gotta say by the way we took the break the ratings have come into you I have no knowledge of forethought Of what's gonna go on here or what these ratings are. So I want you to surprise me aw dynamite March 27th, 2024 on tbs from 8 to 10 o 5 p.m As reported by wrestlenomics on average 747 000 viewers. Oh jesus. This is the lowest overall rating Since april 7th, 2021 And this is the lowest and the key demo since june 24th 2020 Oh and Okay, they had competition. We're in the basketball tournament Where were they playing games on wednesday, but they have that tournament every year Don't they they would have had it in 22 23 Well, this may have been more about the nba than the final four the nba is doing things too And there's that all night gas station opened down the street. How are you going to compete with that? Well, the nba has some good angles Oh, so 747 which is not a jumbo of a number for those bowing fans out there and Before we get into the quarters Are we going to have to come up with a formula where we figure out? At this point with all these new multi-million dollar signings and everything How many dollars per viewer that it cost tony to To do a television show for is it like You're closing it on six dollars a viewer You know, I don't know how anyone could be surprised the lineup was underwhelming and And the people that they're bringing in to seemingly give big pushes to They're just doing what everyone else is doing will osprey Didn't need a 20 minute match to start this show with shabata who For all intents and purposes is an unknown factor to wrestling fans in america If you were if osprey had been here for two years and been outstanding that whole time and a main event guy and everything And then shabata shows up nobody knows who the fuck he is But then he has a 20 minute match with this main event guy then you've made shabata But you can't make osprey And make shabata at the same time. There are two different recipes, but Speaking of the first event, where did we start on the road to where we finished? Well quarter one once again, these were reported by wrestle nomics quarter one eighth eight fifteen p.m Katzuyo could see yori that what hold on i never say i never say his first name Yori be katsu yori. I said katsu yori katsu yori shabata shoo poopy shoo poopy versus will osprey with picture and picture ads 939 thousand viewers Oh boy howdy Me thinks this might get interesting toward the Later stages of this if they started out at the same place that they normally do Basically nine hundred and something to a million. Well, they started out lower than that. This is below the trend line Well, I know but they're usually 949 50 to a million their bouts at the start. This is on the lower end of that Well quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m. The continuation of shabata versus osprey The brian danielson video and the young buck's backstage promo and then an ad break 802 thousand viewers. Oh I don't know if you should call that a continuation of the match or a prolonging of the match but 137 thousand people so that was Again, they get a bunch of folks from the big bang and the people then they see oh Not this and they go away And we've been saying it the last few weeks Mercedes hasn't helped with the numbers Osprey hasn't Boosted things much the bucks have lost audience which has caused okada to lose audience Jericho has the women have Jim quarter three eight thirty the last time that a high price talent gained Tony significant amounts of viewers it was uh see him punk Well quarter three eight thirty to eight forty five p.m The okada angle Which I guess is just him arriving at the building in his car Yeah, he arrives and and the bucks tell us that he's gonna watch their match on the monitor That was his involvement and the young bucks versus private party with picture and picture ads 711 thousand viewers Oh I can't do math with numbers this big another 91 thousand people said so so they have lost 228 thousand viewers in 45 minutes Well, it's a new uh to new record for a w we go to quarter four eight forty five to nine p.m The continuation of the bucks versus the private party well the private party the president Versus there's there's so private. They didn't even invite an audience That's what gary heartway called them if he was managing against them the private party. They'd fight the sting Then we have swerve stricklin and canoske to kestah's video an ad break Darby allen and tony hawks video and chris jericho propositioning hook backstage That's a good way to put it since he's gonna fuck him 776 thousand viewers Oh, now wait a minute. We bounced back here 65 000 people and that was What was that for again? I zoned out that was for the end of the bucks private party match Which was all of the previous segment And then the swerve and to kestah video the darby and tony hawk video an ad break And jericho and hook backstage So swerve and darby and hook i wonder how much they're getting paid as opposed to These other people that are losing the viewers, but anyway, go ahead We go to quarter five the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine fifteen p.m Willow nightingale versus chris statlander versus the gorgeous anajay versus sky blue With picture and picture ads with the moaning of mone On the uh on the color the post match with julia hart and mercedes mone Also the dustin roads butcher backstage confrontation I forgot i kind of zoomed past that setting up a big match for uh rampage i think Yeah, maybe collision who knows 771 thousand viewers oh So they come to the top of the hour and send mercedes out there to moan at people and it loses him 5000 viewers Hello, okay, doge. Well, we okey-doke over to quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m A tony storm promo video that was her and ben mankowitz of uh turner classic movies Yeah, he boy they must be paying him a lot of money to get him to I'm talking about the people at turner classic to to cross promote in this fashion where he's even said All right, say my catchphrase chin up chin up Tits out i'm not going to say that and watch the shoe and he said i don't even know what that means He was really pleased to be there didn't he yeah, this is one of those forced Cross promotional deals like robocop only he's the one that's offended rather than the wrestling folks Well that an ad break A swerve stricklin video Matt taven and mike bennett versus orange cassidy and tremperetta with picture and picture ads 672 thousand viewers. Oh my goodness gracious. That's not very pee-picking good. That's at 99 99 Missed it by that much 99 People tuned out the the butt buddies or best friends or whatever the fuck they are Well, jim we go from quarter six to what else quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m The continuation of the undisputed kingdom versus the best friends as well as the post match with the young bucks Kylo Riley's backstage promo This week in a clean t-shirt An ad break an adam copeland video and the entrances for the main event 654 thousand viewers Okay I'm not had no no comment. Let's see where this thing slides in well. We slide into quarter eight And uh, there's a five minute overrun. I remind you 9 45 to 10 p.m swerve strickland versus kanosuke tekeshta with picture and picture ads 658 thousand viewers Five minute overrun Including samoa joe backstage doing a promo 724 thousand viewers Yeah, suddenly all those people appeared, um You get You get uh 50 let's see 50 60 66 000 people that are tuning in to watch, you know the the fucking Best of goddamn whatever the fuck the next program Hey minus the first quarter and minus the overrun 720 thousand. That's what I was going to say They started out with 939 that was artificially inflated by the big bang They do the five minute overrun so they can catch those 60 or 75 thousand people that are wanting to watch whatever the fuck is on following And that helps them Bring up two through eight that's in the middle that Again, there's your average 720 thousand of what actually occurs in the middle of the fucking program At a ho and if you want to take their Number as legitimate that they started 939 thousand people Then By the time they got to the low point which was quarter seven in this whole thing They had lost 200 40 wait a minute. God damn it again these large numbers They had lost What's 300 minus 15 they'd lost 285 thousand people That is 30 percent or maybe 32 or 33 percent of what they started with Because no what the fuck it's just endless the guy's doing the same shit over and over It all looks the same. It's constant matches of people doing things that don't really seem to have any effect and then you see more of it with different people And all the stars are either hurt fired Gone or in a bad mood and don't want to show up for work. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you No, like I said, no one should be surprised Will osprey comes in you thinking okay, they're gonna pivot from him being a heel in a heel faction Go with him as a top baby face They put him in a long competitive match he didn't need It may have made some of the smart fans happy But the same people raving about the matches Are gonna be the only people left at this point And for anyone saying oh, they still did good. They were you know, I see they're here. They were number three on cable They're hemorrhaging viewers every week. You can predict Which wrestlers and which segments will do it more than others and almost always be right It's not about the time as much as the people very often But we're still supposed to pretend like these are they're better than they what what they could be Because they could be lower But they used to be higher when we used to do the average A few weeks ago Just a few weeks ago It'll be like any 800s now we're here And the tv's not getting better and it's appealing to people It's not appealing to the big audience. It's appealing to the smallest of the small audience And you need a new booker and the bookings terrible and the bookings a problem Good matchmaker if you like those matches horrible booker And the whole company is owned by the booker So you're screwed. That's the frustration with aaw and trust me the wrestlers feel it too The wrestlers feel it too You know what Dennis Connery would say, don't you? I'm afraid no screwed, blew and tattooed dicked by the dangled dong of destiny He said this often Often every time somebody got what was coming to him Now again the NBA is on and uh You know the weather is getting nicer Oh for god's they're doing something Or something's happening every day of the year somewhere in the world the point is this is not as It's continuing to go down instead of up. They spend millions of dollars To sign people and the ratings go down and the ticket sales go down. Have we forgotten that edge is there now? I'm not convinced he was ever a big ticket mover, but that's another story. Well, but I mean he was a big star on the other tv He had never been involved in anything at of a You know below a million people or whatever. Tony's tweet was at one time Oh until he Nobody came with him if they did they they turned around and went back because look at this show that edge is on we feel sorry for him it's that you've got to acknowledge that when the again the only signing The only thing that he's that Tony has done that moved every metric whether it was pay per view Although they do wonderful. They do the same audience on pay per view within 40 or 50,000 either way on everyone because that's their dedicated audience, right? but The only one that moved the ratings the only one to move ticket sales the only one that really you could tell made a difference in their first Whatever million dollar pay per view was punk Because he was able to come out and do his shit and be him and avoid getting Any of this other shit on him involved with these goofballs or interacting with Amateurish talent on screen or whatever But everybody else they've signed for however many million dollars or hundred thousand dollars or whatever from the wwe or from japan or from kukamanga They've been doing Tony's shit like everybody else does in the same way as everybody else does and nobody gives a shit about that And that's why it doesn't move any numbers they go down Because the stars do not bring this show up This show brings the stars down to earth I don't know why it's it's hard to figure out Nobody is better off when they go there If they've been a star before then they were before they went there And the only reason that the guys who weren't stars before are better off is at least they're on fucking tv But that may not be good because of the way that they're being fucking exposed In the most brutal sense of the word they're being exposed all their worst weaknesses are being exploited And their strengths are being hidden So who who is this tv program getting over? No one in aw was ever over more Than they were the week before never Mercedes mone already Whatever bump she gave them and she didn't really give them one in terms of the ratings, but Does she already just not seem as special as she did a few weeks ago? She didn't really do anything yet Will osprey same thing tekeshta squandered If you're someone who loves omega and the bucks Have they been used? Well Has anyone been used? Well hobs how many restarts has there been for hobs? How many restarts for wardlow? Who knows what's going to happen when mjf comes back? Because the company's in much worse shape today than it was when he got hurt Moxley is moxley Even what he was in 2020 right now And for the people that mark out for the brian danielson stuff The bigger audience doesn't And that's the problem and You know at a certain point and danielson's retiring anyway at a certain point tna could have thrown any amount of money at anyone They weren't going to get past certain barriers that they kind of set for themselves once they didn't make it past certain points previously Starting to feel like aw is hitting that point That there is no game changer Because you know what the game is no matter who's there raw feels fresh raw has a lot of older guys doing promos yelling at each other And it feels like the young fresh show aw the crowd is dead They'll react at times and for near falls. They sit there silent And they get smaller. They've had a few big shows lately and give them credit for that But no one's over they need top guys and they can't they tony can't establish anyone Tony is not good at booking and instead of certain people Who tony listens to who know he's not good at booking coming out and saying tony shouldn't be booking They're trying to make excuses or give advice or well, no tony should you know, you have to do things like this No, you shouldn't book you shouldn't book You shouldn't book even if you think fans can book tony's had a five-year run. Look at how things are now He shouldn't be doing this And anyone who doesn't command say that isn't doing him any favors. You're pretending You're just making him happy by pretending And it's sad. Oh I'm the great pretender Here's another song for you tony every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time plans that either come to nought or half a page of scribbled lines You need to turn over the book to someone before time runs out Someone who is not a new japan fan. They get appreciated But someone who understands how to do angle driven exciting wrestling not wrestling based around long Matches where every guy does the exact same thing And every guy kicks out of the exact same thing And they trade the exact same chops back and forth Something different because this is getting stale quick and and also it it helps that The other channel has stars super stars Celebrities in every because their announcers are fucking stars in their own goddamn environment Uh, the they've got movie stars. They've got fucking UFC stars. They've got wrestling stars. They get all the stars As Barnett would say look at all my beautiful stars And then over here you got a bunch of people who the fans are looking at like The average fan would look in remember when the Jericho NBA Cross over on twitter happened They were surprised that Jericho was still wrestling and look at him. He's in the fucking minor league now That's it's it's starting to get that fucking sniff to it Let's talk about farm to table gruel aew dynamite in worcester, massachusetts Worcester by the way, do we have before we get to the numbers? Do we have a crowd? Did anybody ever was there a crowd there? Actually, I do have something here And this is uh, was this the uh, worcester was this the what's the name of the building there? DCU center the DCU center is what it says. That's one of those new places They've built in the last 40 or 50 years. I haven't seen those Well, I have information here from wrestlenomics as well as wrestle ticks and the last three shows in the market for both companies april 15 2022 smackdown 6738 7 20 7 22 for dynamite 6143 comparable october 2022 for smackdown once again 6261 That's the same thing they'd done before And eight w dynamite april third 2024 3252 All in the same building About half of what they did before Yeah Oh, g'doggy. Well, what what's the numbers certainly they're they're up this week with the appearance of Will Ostrich and mersades moan and Who's uh, oh, oh kata went back to japan. So he's collecting Whatever if he's a couple million dollars, he's collecting 50 or 100 grand a week to Stay home Well, you can't blame him. That was the that was the offer that Tony said he goes I can go work with wwe and move to florida or tonio. Give me all this money. I got fly to japan for a month Jim and as a truck or something in the background will pass a w dynamite on tbs wednesday april third 2024 8 to 10 05 p.m. On average 752,000 viewers. Oh boy howdy what? What happened there? And for the record this is up 1% from last week which was 747,000 And it is 4% under the trailing four-week average of 781 Everything is trending down the crowds the ratings everything. So that was not an anomaly last week It's the it's the start of a fashion trend Let's not watch aew. Well, jim. Let's go to these trends right here Did they start lower? Did they start significant? Did the did the air come out of the big bang? I would have to double check I almost think it may have been around where they started last week But you may remember better quarter one 8 to 8 15 p.m. These are compiled by wrestlenomics The adam copeland live rah rah promo Followed by powerhouse hops versus will osprey 933,000 viewers That's about where they started. That's about where they've started numerous weeks and still stayed above 8 Quarter two 8 15 8 30 p.m. The continuation of hops versus osprey with picture and picture ads And the post match with don callus followed by an ad break 761,000 viewers. Oh, there's what's gonna happen That's not normal. Um I can't do this math 130 160 wait a minute uh 139 and 33 is 172 172,000 people after the first 15 minutes You have to think even if you were tuning in That edge speech may have run some people off just because what it went on for a while and what was it? It went nowhere. It was frantic almost kind of Panicked, please don't pay attention to the burning deck of the ship It almost was like a plead for people to please come on. Come on. I'm here. You like me That's I'm just I'm telling you so that and and will osprey Uh And by the way, tony con was asked today on the media call for the uh for for something or other About the cn pun comments. He won't comment on it. So he can't comment on the comments So he can comment. Tony is scared to comment on anything that doesn't portray everything in a glowing light and it's hard to do that when someone else was telling the truth Jim quarter three 8 30 to 8 45 p.m. Brian Danielson versus lance archer with picture and picture 756,000 viewers. Oh at Brian Danielson's one of their big names, but no, he's not Well, he used to be he should be they booked him like shit and now he's meaningless Now he just works long competitive matches with everyone So Brian Danielson means less than he ever did before in a w as far as being a draw Because you've seen it already remember when he was given those great live interviews in the ring and we were like, oh, that's and You'd never hear him speak unless it's a pre-tape or you know He did those great interviews for a few weeks and then he disappeared and then he was a baby face And then he put him with the blackpool combat club and that was it He's just been in limbo ever since nothing happening quarter four 8 45 to 9 p.m The ending of Danielson versus archer an ad break the chris jericho hook ramp promo The shane taylor promotions backstage promo And the start of billy gun versus j white 743 000 viewers ooh so we've What we've done here is we've lost a hundred and 90 right 933 to 743 190 000 people in one hour That's right. And again a lot of people are telling tony that nothing's being done wrong Ratings are down for everyone. Don't worry about it. They're not helping tony They're denying the reality which is he's doing a horrible job as being a promoter in a booker right now quarter five the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine fifteen p.m The continuation of gun versus white It was that was that a continuation or was it a fucking evisceration? I've never seen a motherfucker get beat so bad. He was beaten like he owed billy gun trans Well, and also I picture and picture ads and then a post match with the guns. They acclaimed Uh, or just that the guns in the acclaimed the young buck's best friend's backstage angle Followed by willow nightingale's ramp promo, you know, I thankfully I believe I zipped through that I saw them and didn't bother to watch it. Yeah, I must have missed that too. I don't remember what that is But then the the beginning of the nightingale promo on the ramp 780 000 viewers So okay, so they picked up 37 000 at the top of the hour Brand new shot at retaining these people new viewers. Let's see what they What they do from here and how would you run off the audience if you had if someone said jim run off the audience As quick as you can you put the women and the young bucks out there And that's what they did quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m the continuation and the uh appearance of mersedes moneyd during the nightingale's stokely halfway statlander ramp promo an ad break and the start of the young bucks versus orange castity and tremporeta with picture in picture 697 000 viewers. Oh my god You know I mean, it's hard to deny that the buckaroos are a ratings drop and it's hard to deny that the general women's Segment and the second part of the show is a ratings drop. But when you put those two factors together They're unstoppable I mean people can't see you you could tie people to the fucking television. They wouldn't stay This is only gonna get worse Those who don't realize that the more you put the bucks out there They're not gonna ever cause more people to tune in they chase people away the women's division the same thing Jim quarter seven nine thirty to nine forty five p.m The continuation of the young bucks versus castity and tremporeta The post match with chuck taylor an ad break and the start of thunder rosa versus mariah may 711 000 viewers So they got back 14 000 So, you know, should we give them a round of applause for that? There they're they're 220 000 down for the show But wait there's more Quarter eight and I remind you we have a five. Uh, it says here six minutes to set up before five but a six minute overrun quarter eight nine forty five to ten p.m The continuation of rosa versus may with picture and picture ads pentah el zero meados backstage promo and the start Of the swerve strickland samoa joe live contract signing For the main event of the upcoming pay-per-view 655 000 viewers as well as the low in the key demo of 278 000 viewers Six minute overrun continuation of the angle 708 000 viewers Oh boy howdy so In regulation not counting overtime they lost 278 000 viewers from the start Is that what did I do that math right? Well taking out the first quarter in the overrun 729 000 is the average so that's their new uh their new base audience this week is 729 taking out the artificial insemination of the beginning and the and the overrun at the end You know one or two things because it's not You know just two things being equal because of the differences in the shows and differences in the audiences, but nxt is one or two things away from passing aw dynamite the ratings you know, they're always in the sixes aw is coming there to meet them aw dynamites ratings are coming to meet rampage and collision You know what that is actually a wonderful olive branch for aw offer. Hey, we'll meet you in the middle If you can't get any more viewers we'll run some of ours off that way. It's more competitive. Listen no star power I think will osprey Who I've enjoyed in the ring and I think the fans like him on the promos I think he can be a star. He has not been presented well as a star at aw so far adam copeland Again, he returned to wwe. They thought we have another main eventer coming back an edge The fans really didn't see him that way and now he's an aw The enthusiasm is obviously down and he gave just a rambling Sweaty, you know almost like you know, he's he couldn't think of what to say and the mic started going dead Just that segment was death. Danielson means nothing right now The bcc and the booking have killed Danielson. Billy gun versus j white Was the nine o'clock hour Someone just said that was a nine o'clock hour was the biggest quarter Number except for the the open it was to see billy gun beat the complete t total shit out of Chris jericho's dead on arrival right now. They're gonna drag hook right down with them There's nothing they could do that will repair that the women's division They spend whatever amount of money on mercedes mone mone mernal mernal mercedes mermade fw mernal's third wife mersades mermade and uh They spent all this money people are like, oh, they'll give more time to the women's division now. Why would you? Why would you why would you put more time into something that always makes people leave the tv? Well, she can't fill two minutes of time without Going blank uh speaking. Why would you give her more time? How far is boston from orster? Oh god, nothing is far from uh, is it is that the one that's like a springfield is 50 miles or whatever? Well, it's not that far nothing's that far up there Just because it is in normal state they drew that good house in boston for her debut They're in massachusetts you would think there'd be some kind of Roll over or something well well four weeks ago Well, but wait a minute that was her debut and it was in her hometown If you've been boston traffic not a lot of people in boston are going to wooster to see their goddamn kids graduate college much less to see mursadis come out and moan again but uh So i don't expect a lot of crossover there, but what reason i bet people in boston accept if they don't watch the tv They didn't even know the show was taking place because of their Promotional efforts or lack thereof for the live event portion of these things Then you got the bucks versus best friends the bucks are dead the bucks drive viewers away The bucks cause people not to want to watch the show now wait a minute Do not single them out when everything you just said applies to the puddin gang too. Well, you know what? I don't even think fair. I don't think it applies to the puddin gang because I think they're not entities orange Cassidy is different than the rest of them because he's been pushed all over the tv the other two are just bodies that are there orange Cassidy even if you're a fan of his I'll give it to you even if you're a fan of his the law of diminishing returns Why would anyone after five years still want to see this guy? They don't the women's match And then swerve and samoa joe's angle Swerve was the hottest babyface in the company a few weeks ago Does it still feel that way? Does it still feel that way to you that he's the hottest babyface and the one person there was something happening Something going on. I love the idea of doing an angle at the contract signing to heat up the pay-per-view main event, but At the same time again, like we said earlier when he gets beat up and bloodied And then gets up defiant signs contracted his in his own blood And then the heel comes in and just lays him out again They went one step too far That's how they cool people off and that's a w-dynamic. So where's the star power that's going to help them? Where john moxley's been off tv for a while. He'll probably reappear after the tournament That's not going to help anymore those days of moxley really being a help and a mover are done mjf If done right And mjf return can mean a lot Here's the problem. Who's he gonna work with? Who? You got adam cole. He's still getting ready to come back Nobody wants to see adam cole ever again at this point in time. It's that's a tragedy how they presented him in that whole black scorpion fiasco Kenny omega they brought up his name on the last several episodes Kenny omega is one of their top guys in the history of their company And now we're hearing that he is probably gonna have an operation on his intestines. He ain't coming back anytime soon Abushi he's been a non-entity in aw can't wait a minute. No No, remember he's comfortably laid up with double ankle surgery Right, I was gonna be out for at least a year. Well, he's not gonna be there for a long time But even before that my point was he was a non-entity they signed him and made a big deal out of him He looked awful in the ring and the fans didn't care Tony's now saying He's gonna be In there with every free agent that becomes available All he could do is throw money at them because If you want to be treated seriously if you want good booking if you want structure If you want the ability to rise up momentum to be captured What show do you want to be on right now? You know, there are two ships that go in different ways Uh, you know It didn't it didn't have to be this way all he had to do was recognize that You can finance whatever you want and be a hero If you don't sabotage it at the same time by doing Multiple things that you don't have the experience or the capability for there's a difference on it and impressing your friends with your e-fed booking and Doing a national tv show in an nba arena. Fuck How did anybody not see this from the god? That's That is what I saw from the start And nobody believed me And 150 million dollars or so will delay the inevitable for some time, but it's still A guy that won't listen because he thinks he's an expert and has never done this before and shows no Capability to learn if anybody's there to teach him Or if he gets to be petulant if anybody Criticizes it or just if he doesn't listen see that's the problem right there The people that tony turns to the people that he wants to hear advice from the people that he's been reading for a long time That he turns to to hear what they say None of them have helped him because again if you're pretending That tony could fix things and that the problems aren't tony If you can't acknowledge all the real issues You're part of the problem and these are the people tony turns to tony Wants to hear what melzer is gonna say or how melzer is gonna word things or all these things And then he runs with it meanwhile Look at the observer. He wants him to add a touch The observer is a dying thing People don't talk about it. People don't subscribe to it the same way they used to Well, and it it's it's dave has to blame himself because of his behavior over the last few years and just this Ridiculousness of defending You know Defending the person he has access to that's what it is That's what it is. It's dishonest and it's been wrong and tony's problems are his own fault But it's also the fault of the people that he's been listening to who won't just tell him that he's not good at this Ratings aew dynamite april 10th on tbs eight to ten o'clock p.m. With the stars c.m. Punk With the star with the stars c.m. Punk. Well the overall rating on average 819,000 viewers Huge that is the highest number since february 28th But but they've all sucked since february 28, so that's like being the uh, i'm sorry if i overuse this Nicest guy in prison, isn't it it is also the highest in the 18 the 49 key demos since january 17th and it is 9 percent above last week and 6 percent above the trailing four weeks that's for This big c.m. Punk reveal so before we get to the quarterly breakdowns Almost like the Mercedes monee debut and there was nothing does this number tell you anything? Well, they they were preaching to the choir to begin with because we couldn't even mention his name. So the only people That knew what they were going to see were the people who already knew what they were going to see Which is the same audience that has been watching this program give or take dribbles and drabs dravas and drams back and forth uh for months and months and months and months and months and so And even that we'll we'll see when we get to the quarters whether Just by insinuation that uh people actually tuned in to see see him punk choke jack perry, uh, but It's the same people he punks on a whole another level now like the kids say and he's on a program where Better than half of those people probably don't know that this incident was going on or happened. It's a whole another world Well, I'm sure the aew fans are nostalgic For when they could turn the tv on and watch their show with the two biggest stars in wrestling that just Weren't the biggest stars in wrestling while they were there that were chased away by tony kahn Let's never forget that all the drama backstage all the issues with the bucks in their camp Whoever started whoever's doing it. That's one thing The person who allowed everything to fester the person who allowed kodi to leave The person who allowed all these things is tony kahn tony kahn has put out a tweet gym Oh, no Just got the great news from tbs Last night wednesday night dynamite Up 29 percent from last week wait what and up 17 percent Prior six week average wait a minute of 29 percent. How could that be possible? 30 percent let's say of 800,000 people would be a goddamn a couple hundred thousand people Well, where's his numbers coming from thank you all for watching aew wednesdays See you at a stacked tv s wrestling show wednesday in indy and rampaging and colliding This weekend on tnt you you didn't answer my question there berford. Yeah, I don't know Tony may have his own special stats alternative stats He's a statistician isn't it doesn't then his dad giving money to the open up a Company so that he could do stats and I don't know whether he's a stat statistician or a presbyterian, but that doesn't have any Bearing on this How could it be up? You just said it was up 9 or something or 7 and he says 29 percent Let me go back to the number here. This is according to wrestlenomics An independent party in this whole Saga this week's episode again 819,000 on average and we'll do the real average later on. Yeah last week was 752 according to this So that is a 9 increase Yeah, that's that kind of works out Mathematically doesn't it Tony Tony 29 percent. Oh, well, it's up 30 percent in the key demo versus oh good lord well What about in nursery school? How are we doing in the nursery school students? Are we up or down in that fucking? demographic also All right, what where'd they start? Well, they started quarter one eight to eight fifteen p.m Samoa Joe and Suarez Strickland's ramp angle followed by Adam Copeland versus penta el zero miado a picture in picture 981 thousand viewers So thank sheldon the big bangers have delivered them Another almost a million people and I see by the average it might trend downward But uh, where do where do we stand? Yeah, and according to the trend line here This is kind of it for the most part remarkably in line with the 90-day trend, but quarter two 815 830 p.m The continuation of Copeland versus penta with picture in picture 857 thousand viewers ouch, all right And it's also important to note that was during this match that The clock went up to announce that the young bucks will be appearing Although I was later told that the time was wrong. So they had a ticker for when they would appear and it was off well most of their tickers are off over there, but they lost a hundred and 20 i'm doing them 124 000 people On the strength of the biggest x wwe name that was on this program and Promising that they were going to have footage of something, but we don't know what and we can't really say who's in it Right and that was of course in quarter three 830 to 845 p.m The post match of the previous match with brodie king julia heart willow nightingale And that was it and then the lion hook And shabbata backstage promo Sheep poopy sheep poopy sheep poopy an ad break and then the poopy continues mark briscoe eddie kingston Copeland Willow nightingale and stokely half the ways backstage promo slant They set up a mixed tag team match in that thing and then the young bucks serious backstage promo A very serious young bucks today on the afterschool special and the all-in security video 880 000 viewers and 449 and 18 the 49 the key demo So they actually got 23 000 extra extra people Based on appealing to the pool of people that knew what the fuck that they were going to see before they saw it because they couldn't tell them and he's still Managed to except for the opening Salvo the opening quarter he drew what I assume is the highest quarter hour in the in the program And then it's back to his stars 845 to 9 p.m. Quarter 4 FTR's live promo an ad break a brian danielson video and will osprey's ramp promo 822 000 viewers Okay, so there went about 60 508 if you want to be precise and said well, we've we've seen it now We then go to the big nine o'clock hour quarter five nine to nine 15 p.m a julia heart video And then lion hook and shabata versus shane taylor promotions with picture and picture ads 767 000 viewers Jim and nelly shelly Jim and nelly shelly Jim and nelly shelly That's Dean Malinko's nickname. Did you know that? I did not I wasn't aware of that. Yeah, Jim and nelly shelly Uh, so they lost on the on the back of chris jericho and his associated cohorts 55 000 people at the top of the hour And they are now down more than 200 and 14 000 from the start of the program We then go to quarter six quarter seven excuse me nine 15 no no and is it be six? Is it uh, oh yeah, it's at the top of the hour. There's no overrun here, so I'm throwing off from what I'm usually looking at Yeah, they accidentally ended on time this week nine 15 and 9 30 p.m The dustin roads backstage promo the okada versus christiano argen Argento excuse me match Christina applegate she could have hit harder with the post match with pack the young bucks and ftr the bullet club gold backstage promo an ad break And then the tony storm thunderosa diana parazo ramp angle 765 000 viewers Well, think about this now they got not only the evps But also one of the new million dollar men okada And all of that so they only lost 2000 viewers in the 15 minutes We call that progress quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m The beautiful anna j versus mariah may With picture and picture ads mariah may I the post match with Mina shirakawa And the mercedes mone backstage promo backstage promo an acting seminar with alex marvez Hosted by alexandra pepperday 759 000 viewers Well So this high priced acquisition only lost them 6000 more viewers in the course of her contribution to the program That's good to know And finally jim quarter eight no overrun this week. Thank god. Since then nothing but hurt this company An ad break on 9 45 to 10 p.m. Excuse me an ad break Samoa joe versus dustin roads With picture and picture and the post match with swerve strickland 723 000 viewers So by the time their top guy gets their champion gets in the ring and and people probably figure that their top baby face swerve Will be involved in some fashion They said no, we can't take any more. So that's another 36 000 bringing the total from start to finish to 200 and 50 wait a minute 250 yeah 258 000 people which is Over 25 of the audience that they started out with minus quarter one jim, which we know is the big bang theory 796 000 viewers is the average Well, maybe they ought to air more of the ring camera footage of normal people subdivisions that have more action going on than what they They have on their security cameras Hi, hi, hi This is a company that continues to shoot themselves in the foot swerve strickland And Samoa joe opened and closed the show There was no one there at the end the audience had gone away by the end of it. That's for the world heavyweight title So they're not even sitting there for that stuff They came to see what would the bucks were gonna say a little more than usual And then when they saw it everyone left the way they usually do Yeah, the people that were in the building When the bucks and okada, they didn't have they didn't have any choice They locked the doors when they came in when the bucks and okada were getting their heat on ftr and pack They either sat there silently giving them no heat or chanted see them punk This is an amazing misfire and the fact that tony con of the young bucks didn't know better is stunning And and from the point where the security camera Video showed to the end of the program. They lost a hundred and well 157 000 people from there Well, don't worry. They're coming a little bit soon. So I'm sure that'll be the week they pick things up No, no, look at here. No I keep hearing that they it's highland heights, kentucky. Oh, yeah I have a tweet from tony right here. I think it's somewhere around Cincinnati, I don't recognize it around here. I've never heard of an arena in this goddamn place I don't know where they're going actually and I live in the state Tony con has done another one of his promotional tweets a little earlier. What a week bcc don callus family Danielson and claudio versus hobs and fletcher saturday aew collision Cincinnati louisville Highland heights What the claudio versus will osprey wednesday dynamite indianapolis Danielson versus osprey dynasty Sunday St. Louis he is so bad at twitter And he thinks he's good at it. That's the other amazing. What does he think that? Cincinnati and louisville is like miniapolis and st. paul. It's a hundred fucking miles From one to the other How that's It's an emerging market. It's an emerging. It's the same distance as it is from philadelphia to fucking new york Is that like the same market? Well, you know the big philadelphia long island market It's it's easier to get from louisville to Cincinnati than it is up there, but it's you know That'd be like booking a show in trinton and saying new york philadelphia come on out Well, those are the ratings All right, my stroom I'm ready to get out of the ship now We have come back to where we uh, we actually know where we're forward from where we were right back Where we started from Well, you could say that about some of these ratings maybe but awd dynamite ratings are in jim All right, now hold on a second There's two ways of looking at this one It has to be lower than low There's two ways of looking at this one. It has to be lower than last week because There was nothing on this program either advertised or that actually occurred That would make the aew faithful's audience more salivatory Their mouth water than seeing that security footage last week. So there there was nothing this so it has to be down or Did seeing the flop Footage last week caused this week to go down because it stunk so bad in the overall scheme of things Or Are they up this week because people didn't want to see that foolishness to begin with last week? I think it's got to be one of the first two. Don't you? Well Jim the ratings you know, so you don't have to think I have it in front of me and you got to remember there was strong Competition on this night very strong competition and another all night gas station. I'm sure that after nba After the nba, excuse me after nba the sting after the nba ends their season The dynamite ratings will shoot right back up. I just know it they'll shoot right up through the sky awd dynamite on tbs wednesday april 17 2024 8 to 10 o 9 p.m So you missed nine minutes. Oh boy 762,000 viewers on average. Oh What was last week eight last week was 819 down 7 from that So, yeah 38 for about 57,000 people. Well that That's just that's that's misfortunate Where'd they start? They started with the big bang theory. No, they started these were compiled by wrestle nomics 8 to 8 15 p.m john moxley's live promo mercedes moneys backstage promo willing willing Nightingale, I bet she is willing willow nightingale after a drink or two her backstage angle leading into adam copeland and nightingale versus brody king and julia hart 917,000 viewers Okay now to be fair That is less than they've been starting with for the past few weeks, isn't it? Aren't they usually up in the higher nines coming off the big bang? It is below the trend So Right there the big bangers let them down However, almost hitting perfectly with the trend is quarter two 8 15 8 30 p.m The continuation of copeland and nightingale versus king and hart with picture and picture The post match with mercedes money or money And the sick head said out a straight face money money money money money and samoa joe's backstage interview followed by another ad break 865,000 viewers Okay, so miraculously possibly due to the popularity that edge once possessed they didn't lose their ass like they usually do from one to two They only lost 35 45 52,000 people Well again one's lower than normal and two is about where two usually is so we always say take the first quarter out of the equation Because the big bang theory in terms of looking at the real number Second quarter and the trend line kind of bears that out There you go Quarter three jim 8 30 8 45 The young bucks backstage promo Oh boy leading into their big six-man tag match the young bucks and kazushka okada versus daniel garcia pack and penta el zero miado with picture and picture ads 725,000 viewers Oh Well Not only did they lose 140,000 people for their evps and their okodi But now by this They can't continue to drop it anywhere near that pace so they won't make their average That indicates to me that a lot of people said fuck it. I'm just turning this thing off as long as these jokers are on Well, we go to quarter four 8 45 to 9 p.m. The jokers match continues the elite versus garcia pack and penta the post match an ad break And the chris jericho hook live promo segment or the start of it 744,000 viewers So 19,000 brave souls returned Possibly when the all-clear notice was sounded Well, the all-clear notice may have been the nine o'clock hour nine to nine 15 p.m. The big nine o'clock hour quarter five Jericho and hook and taz's live angle swerve strickland's backstage interview And diana perazo versus mariah may with picture and picture ads 748,000 viewers So they got 4,000 more They're only 117,000 below quarter two now they're cutting they're making a comeback Well, we now go to quarter. This is six six I always lose my place around the same quarter every show 9 15 30 p.m perazo versus may continued with the post match with under Rosa and tony storm And tony storm The bullet club gold backstage promo an ad break Billy gun and the acclaims backstage promo Yeah, skip though all that stuff and the start of orange Cassidy versus shane taylor with picture and picture Oh boy, this could be ugly 685,000 viewers Oh So tony's favorite son his halloween buddy and compadre mascot and favorite house pet Sent him down another uh 15 40 50 63,000 people But don't forget about the women's division well, and they they'd started the trend there, but They still had over seven it wasn't till pockets got in there full fledged that they dropped below that Well, we going out of quarter seven nine thirty to nine forty five p.m. The continuation of pockets versus taylor With the post match with taylor promotions or shane taylor promotions christopher daniels matt matzidel trend barretta Oh good lord Hey, you missed all that the rodrick strong video An ad break and the start of will osprey versus claudio casignoli 707,000 viewers So of all of his new high priced Acquisitions the only one on this program that has shown their face and actually increased the numbers even by 22,000 people is ostrich 140,000 bailed for okodi and from the time that mona was on first until she was on last was uh the 52,000 down so Yay will Well that continues into quarter eight and i remind you there's an overrun 945 to 10 p.m the continuation of osprey versus claudio with picture and picture ads and the post match with the don callus family and john moxley 742,000 viewers Well, there you go. He did hold on here my boy Wonderful willy he's the first one that has actually meant some movement of the needle in a positive direction Well, we then go to the six minute overrun although it said nine minutes before but this is 10 to 10 o six swerve strickland's live promo and his angle with samoa joe 665,000 viewers Oh Jesus cry what was What was on after my mother the car? That not only was there nobody tuning in for the show afterwards, but they fuck it. Well, they probably like me. They said fuck it That's the end of the show 42 35 70 77,000 people it usually goes up artificially it went down Taking out the first quarter and the overrun the average is 745 And see that's the thing now. They're still mostly in the pocket of what they always do It's just that normally they would start strong and they would lose steadily pretty much through the whole thing and end up at the at the bottom but now Even their own faithful audience of 800,000 people every week that they've had forever Is seeing some of these jackoffs come on and go well fuck I can do something else for 15 minutes And so they're losing them Well, those are the ratings and again, uh, they were apparently uh, they did the best on cable In the key demo other than the nba games that everyone must have been watching All right All right, we are here in the pleasant future It's ratings time everyone's favorite weekly game show I've right here Got my pads My paper my pen Ready to write these numbers down very important numbers for the big After the pay-per-view extravaganza television program that nobody could hear and it was painful to watch Now a few notes before we give these ratings obviously strong competition and What are they still doing the final four? Well, the west coast was live So there were are they are they usually dead? What's the matter with the people on the west coast? Well, I guess usually they would get it at 8 p.m Pacific not 8 p.m. Eastern standard. Well, why did they get it? At a different time this week. I think because of the hockey game if I the guess maybe Oh Because they wanted the hockey game in a time slot where people out there would watch unlike this program That's right. And uh, according to Apparently what dave melzer wrote they were down 8 percent due There's an 8 percent due specifically to the west coast being live So 8 percent that's that means they we add 8 percent on to this number to make them even That's what david somebody on twitter said david melzer would like to be able to kiss aew on the mouth Well, we don't know for sure if he has or has not done that before But jim awd dynamite wednesday april 24th jacksonville florida 8 to 10 p.m. Sharp On average was watched by 683 000 views It is the lowest rating for a dynamite ever excluding preemptions Excluding when it didn't air Excluding when it did not air This is the worst. It's the least good. It's ever done Oh Mike what was last week 700 and something thousand we said oh shit the bottom's falling out Lastly was the disaster 2 7 62. This is 18 off that So they were down 10 even without the people in fucking, origan washington and california And for anybody that happens to be in montana or wherever the fuck that is in time's own category Well, let's see how they came in these were compiled by wrestlenomics 8 to 8 15 p.m. Quarter one The elite and jack perry It says angle was that just when they were they arrived they walked out of the suv and Said shit. So the elite and jack perry arrived with bad audio The tren peretta orange cassidy chuck taylor live promo an angle john moxley's muted backstage promo Followed by the beginning of swerve strickland versus kyle fletcher 792 000 viewers. Oh Jesus christ on a ritz cracker 316 000 in the key demo That's the lowest they've ever stood. What happened to the big bang. Was it the big bust this week? Did they preempt the bangers? Maybe on the west coast people are not watching the big bang theory A lot was it even one of the shows that again if this aired alive there that means their Schedule on the west coast may have been a little bit differently. Does that account for 200 000 fucking people? 150 000 people that they normally more start this And again, we always talk about the fact that whatever they start with that's not the real number because that's a minute of the big bang theory This is without that minute apparently for some people but quarter two 8 15 8 30 p.m The continuation of strickland versus fletcher with picture and picture ads The thunder rosa diana parazo backstage angle and an ad break 716 000 viewers oh, okay, so 76 000 76 000 people said, uh, we can't do this anymore We'll be going the quarter three eight thirty to eight forty five p.m Mina shirakawa versus anna j with picture and picture and the post match with mariah may and tony storm 709 000 viewers That's a miracle that they only lost 7 000 Well, we then go to 8 45 to 9 p.m. Quarter four serena deeb's muted ramp promo an ad break The willow nightingale celebration with mercedes mone the jack perry and matt jackson backstage promo i guess that's when they went to tony's locker room 694 a thousand years And again, you know, they're holding up quite well for the content that they're providing but now they're down Uh, well made 98 000 people in one hour from the lowest start ever Well, we now go to the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine 15 p.m. Quarter five The aew international title number one contendership gauntlet match with picture and picture twice 629 000 viewers oh So they lost another 65 000 people at the top of the hour and that's where The will osprey Uh, bonus baby signing is placed in this dreck so everybody is losing numbers that has cost him any amount of money We then go to quarters six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m. The continuation of the gauntlet match the post match with will osprey and rogerick strong an ad break And that chris jericho big bill live promo 659 000 viewers Well To what do you attribute 30 000 people come at the finish of the big match? I think it's it's the match and whoever was in it what was happening because I think the jericho thing would have more of an effect On the next quarter based afterwards. Yeah, yes, so What was that quarter seven brian? Uh quarter seven no over on this week quarter seven nine thirty nine forty five p.m The osprey don callage don callish Don callus kyle fletcher backstage angle and ad break and the beginning of moxley versus hobs with picture in picture 607 000 viewers So That's the jericho effect That's the jericho effect kills numbers every time But drum roll, please everybody Everybody's been waiting with bated breath The the guys that are come back gonna come back and change the world and save us all and tony con's big debut on television We now go to the final quarter quarter eight nine forty five to ten p.m I'll also give the key demo number here the continuation of moxley versus hobs the post match ronate pickets interview with katsu yori shabata The backstage. Oh no, it says backstage angle. There was no angles in the interview and finally the jack perry tony con elite angle and uh Not hospitalization. He walked out. I just saw the video before you mentioned. Yeah. Yeah 657 000 viewers And 330 in the key demo that is the high point of the show Holy crap ola so they actually got 50 000 people to tune in To this thing to see tony get dropped on his head Or there were people waiting for the hockey game Or there were people waiting for the hockey game You know again, it's or it's a different kind of night because of that and how it screws things up But there are people who are tuning into that channel just waiting for the game But the there's still even if you account for the fact that yes, some people had to tune in Expecting the game. They're still down for their big main event and for their Big angle 100 and 35 000 people from where they started which was the lowest ever So How it what what's the 8% on top of this? What if we're and again, it's far below the trend line So even with the 8% that's I think based on what I'm seeing here. Yeah, it'll be below the trend line what's 8% of Some other they if they'd have done another 79 000 people from where they started that would be 10% and that's still only put them at 850 000 or so And that was one of the highest rated quarter not the whole fucking show So I don't Poor uncle dave Anyway, I will say this now. This is what's happening Five years ago, what was the reason for aew? Vince McMahon was running the evil empire. He was a heel owner He had been for years and people knew that he really did Mistreat their favorite wrestlers and fire them and not make them do stupid things not give them respect and they didn't like the creative and They were mad at the company because they were mad at the guy that they were mad at And then along comes tony con And he's go pro wrestler and pro fan and for the sport and blah blah blah And it's all going to be great But then five years later not only has the wwe completely eradicated Vince McMahon And they're changing his style of booking and they're making stars and the company is babyface And triple h is a hero to people And they love the company now because the evil Machiavellian fucking McMahon is out of there But meanwhile over here despite what you want to say about the booking or the talent or anything else Tony con has got himself into a situation where Is two EVPs that work for him Are douchebag heels be an asshole's to everybody and fucking people around Sometimes while he sits there next to him and nods and smiles and then A guy that was suspended For some reason that we kind of sort of found out about a week or two ago But not really because they couldn't tell us and they couldn't mention the other guy's name But he comes back and screws the The rightful winners of the tag team title Out of the goddamn thing and gives it to the douchebag EVPs But yet when this fucking prick Asked the boss to come out and just says Reinstate me and we'll change the world together The boss hugs him And does everything but kisses him And So how is Tony? And if these guys are heels and they're in on the fucking office and Tony's not doing anything about it Then why am I as a viewer supposed to give a fuck what happens this guy or his company? Does that not make sense to what i'm what i'm saying to you? That makes sense what aew does doesn't make sense and they keep doubling down on all those stupid things and they keep listening to the people that say Oh, they're doing great. The complaints are invalid. They were number three on cable and everything's fine They've reversed their situation the people love the the wwe office now And the fucking aw is a bunch of goddamn heels screwing people around and words gotten around the Chaos and the childishness And the drama that was always there It all finally got out and people saw what a shit show it was and they Decided to counter that by putting on the worst television shows they've ever done Which they are most hardcore fans say you're great They can't acknowledge the bad shit's bad. Wait a minute. What do they say they are? great I just didn't want to disappoint anybody keep going and that's really it. I mean we always say it I always say it. It's only gonna get worse. It's only gonna get worse from here There's nothing that's shown you the booking is gonna get better. There isn't an influx of talent that could be Hired To change things you have people there with talent who you could do things with if there was a booker And if the booking in one segment had anything to do with the rest of the show They have an overrun they do except for this week They've an overrun they do that drives people away. No one ever comes back for it They Whatever everything what is working? I'm I'm swarming. It was hotter two months ago and a month ago And it got cooler and cooler now. He's the champion. It doesn't matter moxley's on there with another championship now Osprey's getting over Naturally, he's in a heel stable the bucks are not over and he's about to he's about to win a mid card belt or a preliminary belt The bucks aren't over And jack perry's only over because cm punk slapped them around And they're gonna go with this pro wrestling gorilla amateur hour type thing Where this is the lead heel stable Okada jungle boy and the young bucks Horrible this promotion is at a hand They're horrible right now That doesn't mean will osprey won't have a good match But that means that that good match does nothing to negate all the other shit That's the point Well, and and don't forget now, you know if tony kahn recovers from this brutal beating He's gonna have to do something about this because if he fired the biggest star They've ever had because he yelled at him because he was scared for his life when that happened Then by The logic he has presented on his own television program. What's he gonna do to these motherfuckers? Huh By the way, a tweet I just saw the mayor of london has tweeted out something london england or london ontario london england sadeek kahn The mayor of london is an election next week London is already the sporting capital of the world If i'm reelected next thursday Will go even further Will look to bring in wrestlemania Super bowl and the nb8 of london and put together another bid for the 2040 olympics He did say we'll have a dw Holy shit well and and boy and being tony's father and everything and still saying he's gonna bring wrestlemania to london No, no, this is a different con. This is a different is not a member of the family. This is you say you said shad kahn I said sadeek kahn I thought that was his full given name and shad was just a nickname a shad gonna start cutting promos He probably already has susie get back to the locker room you fucking idiot. What the fuck are you thinking? Where's my fucking money? Where's the checkbook? The checkbook you're out of the will But again big week coming off the pay-per-view That people were raving about the matches on coming off You know they knew they had to do something on this show and they announced stuff in the middle of the show even though that bad audio It's another disaster week for aw despite how some of the People who love aw want to spin it. It's another disaster week for aw Well and again, I'm just I'm saying that they're shooting themselves in the foot because not only are they presenting an amateurish production on Several different levels when the other company is looking bigger and bolder and brighter and more expensive than it ever has And at the same time they're they're doing this thing with tony where they're going to turn Even their fans against the company because they're going to make him or he's going to Make himself just by exposing himself on television Such a clueless putz that he deserves what he gets They were in the they were in his corner and all these guys corners when they were fighting the big Evil corporation and they were they were the wrestlers all in We're going to do it ourselves. That was the spirit of the thing now It's his guy's a fucking mark. He's bungled all this shit. Half the people are hurt Everybody dislikes everybody else the booking is shite and The fucking office is now heels. What the Well, the other thing too is and I'll end with this And they've done this before with different things with different situations, but if you knew you're going to do this big angle You didn't know that you're going to have audio issues But you knew you were going to have these viewership issues because of the time zone and the game There'd be some sort of hit You knew that Why do this angle on this show if that's the case? If you know, you're going to have more than likely if everything goes well A smaller audience than usual Why do the angle on this episode? You know what? How often have we heard that shad con was actually In the building at the show Maybe he was at wimbley, right? Maybe did we hear that? It's been a while since we've heard he's at show. He's been at various shows Jacksonville I guess is the place we've maybe heard heard about it the most Because that's what that's what but then also they're there for the big nfl draft where he makes some of his real money So that he can give it to tony Maybe they came up with this to pitch it to tony and look your dad will be here. He can see you take this bump Because that's all it is. They're just feeding tony's fantasies now To stay in the position they're in that they don't deserve and or to Continue to get him to whip out his wallet And to ignore the fact that the numbers are going down When he involves the people that make the numbers go down So I thought you can take a bump in front of your dad. It'll be so cool I don't know if I would call that a bump or well, you did take a bump. I guess it was just the wrong bump Yeah I mean, I mean anyway, that's I think that's where we are now All kidding aside have the comparisons that Dixie Carter ever been more apropos No, but Dixie was better on television And until you actually, you know talk to her for a little while she was very pretty lady um But she wasn't no she was a a talented amateur on television. Tony is Awkward in every way an unfit for broadcast and it makes the company look Like a fucking loony bin that this is would be the guy in charge of this and That anybody would suggest to him that he'd be on television Much less More importantly not try to talk him out of it at all costs indicates that they're fucking taking him for a ride Because there should have been people going Tony. You can't do this Tony. You're not a television personality Tony do not Do you're not athletic whatever the fuck he's not and there was many of those Somebody should have been saying that But instead they Tony You could take the melzer driver They will give it five stars. Why else would you do this? This is insanity We saw it in the early days of aew. I mean It's rather benign, but remember there was a thing after the show with kody. I remember obry edwards going crazy ridiculously over the top where Tony gave shan spears a stunner Yes, and it was all about in the dark Well, that was in front of the fans. It wasn't on tv. It wasn't on tv at least it was just you know It was the origins of this get him out there. Let him feel the fans Let them pop for him. Everyone make him look good It was the start of this And now we have Tony seemingly as a character on the show, but All right. Well, those are the ratings Let's go back to the other nonsense time travel begins, right? Why don't we talk about these ratings? awdynamite and rampage on tbs may 1st 2024 jim dynamite on average was watched by 703,000 viewers Oh boy, howdy That's worse than last week, isn't it? Or what no wait last week was worse 683. Lastly was 683. The west coast was live But the west coast was live so they should have gained 8% Uh, so this is worse than last week with the west coast being live, but it's definitely worse than than week before last week Holy shi- okay, but wait just start reading it off. I predict a steady plummet Well, let's go to these numbers here. These were compiled by wrestlenomics quarter one eight to eight fifteen p.m The Tony con show opened to be interrupted by the young bucks swerve Strickland's live promo and his confrontation with Christian cage and the wanes and kill switch 794,000 viewers Okay, either the big bangers are not performing for them like they have in the past or else why The big bang fans are getting smart to this and Skipping the last couple of minutes of their program so they don't get any on them here And again as some people will point out competition. There were basketball games baseball season has started They do that every year, don't they they do Uh, they're usually the ratings aren't usually this low every year. So we're bringing it up this year Bring it up for quarter two quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m Adam Copeland versus buddy Matthews with picture in picture 693,000 viewers. Oh 101 101 dalmatians Well, the match continued into quarter three eight thirty eight forty five p.m And what a dog Copeland versus Matthews continued with picture in picture ads The post match with the house of black and an ad break Once again 693,000 viewers Well, that's a that's an accomplishment. They kept what they had Not not better not worse come see come saw Well, cosy cos saw let's go to the next quarter. It's a wonderful world la la la eight forty five to nine p.m quarter four Samoa Joe versus isaac acety sky balloons promo an ad break the Trent orange Cassidy live promo Uh end angle with chris statlander don callus 662,000 viewers Okay, well and the only surprise is that they only lost 31,000 people but i'm I'm starting to look uh, they may do a comeback here at some point To get to their average at this uh at this juncture. What's the the big nine o'clock hour where we saw the buckaroos again? The big nine o'clock hour quarter five nine to nine fifteen p.m The young bucks jack perry backstage promo and the start of chris jericho versus katsu yori shabata Shippoopy shippoopy with picture in picture ads 732,000 viewers well so at the top of the hour Maybe a fresh audience people wanting to give them a chance. They picked up 386 to 70,000 people And if there was ever a match to say what the fuck is happening This may have been the match because that was my reaction Alley, i'm not sure they're gonna keep them with that match quarter five nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m The continuation of jericho versus shabata The post match with big bill Willow nightingale stokely half the way and chris statlander's backstage promo An ad break and the start of brian cage versus claudio castignoli 746,000 viewers holy shit. They picked up 14,000 for that segment. Is that an anomaly? I think if you were flipping through the channels and you saw that jericho shabata match You kind of wanted to see what the fuck it was. It was such a train wreck You couldn't take your eyes off it. There's a guy wandering around in the ring with a garbage can on his head Let's see where this goes. Is that chris jericho? Oh my god. I mean there's so many different things But then they ended the it used to be jericho Well, they ended the segment of brian cage versus claudio, which is the way quarter seven nine thirty nine forty five began with picture and picture ads an ad break rocky rameros backstage promo and the start of serena d versus mariah may 643,000 viewers Oh, okay. So once the garbage can came off 103,000 people left again. We're at the low point of the program. You know, I think in this case This is one of those weeks where the jericho match helped and it was brian cage versus claudio that drove people off, but You may be right. I may be crazy But it just might be a lunatic we're looking for or booking for I'm not sure we go now to quarter eight I remind you there's an overrun and rampage quarter eight nine forty five to ten p.m The continuation of deeb versus may with picture and picture the post match with tony storm adam copeland and kylo riley's backstage confrontation and the start of kenny omegas live promo 668,000 viewers so They got they got 25,000 back before the end of regulation, but they're Ken barely over 650,000 and it was 292,000 in the key demo, which is just 2000 off the low Oh, no, excuse me. The low of the show was 285. So it's just a little bit off the low of the show. So even The demo the network cares about They're not there for these big angles at the end of the show, but it continued in the rampage gym Quarter one a rampage 10 to 10 15 p.m. Which is the end of dynamite The continuation of the omega elite confrontation and backstage angle and the best the best promo that kenny Olivier has ever done in his wrestling career. Unfortunately in the middle of all of this Once again 668,000 viewers and the key demo went up from 292 to 326 Wait a minute. How can there be no change whatsoever in the overall viewership, but suddenly 20 something thousand people in this fucking Particular demo, there's more of them than there was a minute ago And it was suddenly it was people over 55 at 10 o'clock. They had a hard bedtime. How does that work? I'm not exactly sure and for the record. Here's the rest of rampage 10 15 to 10 30 p.m Jay white versus dante martin picture and picture bullet club gold post match diana perazo promo 459,000 viewers ouch Next quarter ad break. This is 10 30 to 10 45 Roosh did a promo big bill and chris jericho backstage angle Swarov strickland backstage promo rocky remaro versus kylo riley with picture and picture 404,000 viewers Then we get 10 45 to 11 p.m continuation of remaro versus o'riley sarah And harley cameron's backstage promo. She's still there an ad break The undisputed kingdoms backstage promo and the start of stat and not statlander Excuse me the start of willow nightingale versus sky blue a picture and picture 399,000 viewers And finally the seven minute overrun They got an overrun for that. Well, they got seven minutes extra for dynamite So I guess that pushed it. I don't know how this worked or why they ever need an overrun. It's not helping them in any way nightingale versus sky blue continue with the post match with statlander and stokely 11 to 11 o'7 p.m 408,000 viewers 172,000 in the key demo So they went in three hours from 794,000 viewers to 408,000 they lost 50 of the audience over three hours in network prime time. How is that? Going to set them up for a ball buster of a rights renewal When they get three hours of prime time on the network and they lose 50 of the audience from start to the finish I I mean just objectively explain that to me If you want to argue that it's worth it for a cable network or anyone Because of the key demo number, you know, the argument when aw started Was stop looking at the total overall audience only look at the key demo because that's the only number at all That the network cares about because that's what the advertisers care about Which has always been a stupid argument if you know anyone who works in television there's a lot more that goes into it And the big number keeps going down The key demo even that's going down now. Okay. What what was the key demo in quarter one? And what was the key demo in the overrun at quarter 13 or whatever quarter one was 320 quarter two, which is sometimes the real true number 307 Here's the entirety of rampage starting with the overrun 326 203 180 177 172 So they started at 320 and ended at 172 that they've lost Fucking half of that too right They can't hold an audience and you know, you see the smackdown numbers. It's crazy how consistent it is from beginning to end raw is a different animal Raw is probably the better thing to compare a dynamite to just because a cable and Even a raw is three hours. But still it's a three hour program where we figured out what they lose if they lose 300,000 viewers that is Maybe 10 or 12 percent of their audience whereas in aws case. It's 35 or 40 If you want to give aw a chance And you keep giving it a chance every little while the booking never gets better You know, right now they're counting on the fact that they have a bunch of guys who they're gonna Be able to bring back on this show return to the roster get healthy They're still gonna run into tony's booking And tony can't acknowledge that his booking isn't good tony truly thinks he understands this tony thinks That he has a deep understanding of how wrestling works And he doesn't He's a fan Who has lots of his dad's money And it's okay to say that it's not an insult It's reality He thinks he can book he can't and many of the wrestlers that he has signed up are fans who think they have good ideas Everyone wants to do their own thing and Nothing seems to get better at a certain point You look at your business if everything is going down Pay per view is going down ratings going down Live attendance going down Every time they return to the attendance is down Nothing is going up Guys get over they lose their steam immediately And a certain one you got to acknowledge what the problem is We'll always have wimbley though, won't we? Well, we're gonna have it again in a few months and we'll see how it looks texas stadium 85 The next year will be texas stadium 86 Let's see how many people are there The problem with aw Everything Everything Is the law of diminishing returns Always We just try to point these things out. We don't revel in it. We don't Glory in it. We don't roll around and root around in it like a hog and slop We just report the facts and that's why they get mad at us because their Their emperor is not wearing a jock strap and their their favorite wrestlers. Aren't they fucking good? Let's end with the ratings here of this week jim Well, jim, let's go to these ratings aw dynamite on tbs may 8th 2024 from 8 to 10 o 8 p.m On average was watched by 711 thousand viewers Remember it was just a couple of months ago that I would always say okay. What's the number 800 and what thousand? It was a big deal. Maybe a year a year and a half ago when they dropped below 900 And now i'm saying okay. What is it 700 and what thousand so here we are at 7 7 11, baby Box cars big pennies. That's an old ebb and costello routine But again a lot of competition and i'm a great example this week because I would have watched the aw show live But they chased me off with their bad show and I went to watch the nick game So we always hear about the strength of the nba How many of those people or people that were going to watch the nba no matter what and how many were people that Were wrestling fans gonna give the wrestling show a chance. They're like nah, fuck this I'm going they did they do the nba playoffs every year. We made that comment, but also for the first time almost ever I didn't watch the thing live. I waited till about 8 30 so I could still zip through commercials and Fucking slow spots, but I watched it on Wednesday night as I mentioned so I could Have a pleasant thursday morning, but nevertheless we got 7 11 is the main number. Where'd we start and where'd we finish? You do the dirty work here. You read it. I don't want to do your dirty work No more All right, there was no reason to sing but we have these numbers. These were compiled by wrestle nomics 8 to 8 15 p.m. Quarter 1 the adam copeland backstage promo and orange Cassidy versus tren parenna with picture in picture 768 thousand viewers and that's what I said they've They've killed the big bang theories ratings They used to get a million they used to get 900 thousand They at least had some amount of people handed off to him now the fucking big bangers have said fuck it We're gonna tune out 30 minutes early just so we don't accidentally see any of that wrestling program Well quarter 2 8 15 8 30 p.m. More of that wrestling program the continuation of Cassidy versus barretta The post match with don callus and chris statlander the elites angle or Arrival whatever it was a jack perry promo an ad break Kenny omegas hospital promo and the start of serena deep on the ramp 696 thousand viewers Okay, so we asked that question earlier. How much can you stand of old pockets after 15 minutes of pockets and then The buckaroo show up they lose 60 70 2000 people Well, we got a quarter 3 8 30 to 8 45 p.m. The continuation of the deep ramp promo and the confrontation with tony storm The beginning of mariah may versus harley cameron with picture and picture 731 thousand viewers Holy so he really did run them off. That's the point That's a he really not only ran them off, but when when they thought the coast was clear they came back For serena deep on the ramp. Yes The worst thing they could have come back for 31 to 35 thousand of them came back half of what they had lost so how many people Made it through the serena deep To address to the to the nation quarter 4 8 45 to 9 p.m The finish of may versus cameron with the post match with sarea and minash Mina shirakawa. That's how you say it kiss kissy girl pack and the bullet club gold's backstage angle malachi blacks video an ad break a recap and swerve schricklin's live promo begins 724 thousand viewers So they stayed about flat. They only lost 7 000 not bad is To get to their average they they they uh apparently there's going to be a precipice here shortly, but uh Well, what did the top of the nine o'clock hour do with the new world champion in the ring? The big nine o'clock hour quarter five. I'm going to tell you this in advance both the Overworld number and the key demo number are both Inline or slightly above the trend line for this quarter 9 to 9 15 p.m swerve schricklin's confrontation with christian cage and the mogul embassy turning on him willow nightingale's backstage promo And rocky remaro versus j white with picture and picture 787 thousand viewers And 300 369 thousand in the key demo. That's the high point of the key demo And that's also the high point of the show yes And to see swerve get his ass kicked to see swerve To see swerve emasculated neutered his testicles Sliced from him and shoved in his own fucking mouth Well, it's good to know they they they they got a big number when it counted. Oh my god. All right We got a quarter six. Let's see how much more counts quarter six nine 15 to 9 30 p.m The continuation of remaro versus white the post match with the gun club and pack Samoa joe's video an ad break And the big bill and chris jericho match starts 718 thousand viewers So again now they're they're down another 69 thousand after their high point and they are That's the second lowest number so far in the program Well, the chris jericho match continued into the next quarter I have a feeling that record's about to be broken quarter seven nine 30 to 9 45 p.m The continuation of the big bill chris jericho tag match Jericho's live promo An ad break and the start of adam copeland versus brody king with picture in picture 665 thousand viewers Oh, and we have a new low and they just lost another 53 thousand people making it 122 thousand over the course of 30 minutes and edge is in the the the biggest Mainstream star they currently now have On the on the roster And he's got the low point so far. Yeah, I don't know. He's kind of been exposed to quarter eight We have an overrun also 9 45 to 10 p.m continuation of copeland versus brody king with picture and picture on the post match with kylo riley 628 thousand viewers 266 In the key demo and finally eight minute overrun mersades monaylai promo The elite jack perry promo and competition with ftr eddie kingston and brian danielson 654 thousand viewers and that was basically uh, what 20 26 000 people that were expecting modern family Wow, all right, so well it show why it show wide You know the beginning of the show you have orange cassities feud with the best friends. That's not resonating with their people That's not working Then you have the women's stuff that actually recovered a little bit from the orange cassidy stuff. Yeah swerve swerve This right now is the time they have to figure out what they're gonna do because he's about to become a big missed opportunity The fans chose swerve swerve has something That he's quickly losing week by week But they came back for that jay white jay white causes people to turn off their tv Chris jericho in 2024 causes people to turn the channel Sometimes it causes people to sell their television. I think that may be the the cause of the drop in in television viewership not cutting the cord or streaming but chris jericho adam copeland versus brodie king You can put adam copeland against moses right now. Nobody wants to see adam copeland. He's exhausted everyone Moses has been booked strong though. He's still a fucking name. Yeah, no, he's a bigger name adam copeland I think has made people sick of his matches these long exhausting matches where the crowds go silent and It's not working and edge was a big star in wwe Edge is not a big star in atw or Adam copeland's not a big star now I don't know how you want to say it, but it's not working and then finally mercedes mone that's bombing And then the elite's big angle with team aew because when you think of aew the first names you think of her FTR eddie kingston and brian danielson That's got no one no one said you know what I got to see what's going on with this game Let me turn back for a few minutes just to see how they're gonna resolve any of this nobody does You're not to compare anything to vince and austin But if they were doing something with the owner of the company and a top heel They would probably make it so that you kind of had to tune back in to see something Yeah, aew doesn't do that. You never have to tune back in to see anything And those are the ratings All right, I know jim's excited we are in the future that sounds like you'd be a hit the who in the head with a brick That was mama orielly Right there that I just played but ladies and gentlemen, we are here with bad jokes and the aew yes and call O'Reilly wants a word with you also and so does baba well speaking of bad jokes the awd dynamite ratings are right here Oh boy jim wednesday. What what what was it last week? How many how many did they have last but they were down in the sevens weren't they last week was seven 711 thousand viewers on average. That's a 7 11. Well, Did they get box cars this week or of what happened on on? Wednesday may 15 and actually let me just say this because uh, it has some stats here from wrestle nomics We'll give them in a second wednesday may 15th awd dynamite on tbs 8 to 12 12 8 to 10 12 p.m On average 672 thousand viewers Oh to quote The late great paul bearer. Oh sweet jesus. That is the lowest overall rating Since january 6 2021 That is the look the I wonder why that nobody was watching anything else on television on january 6 2021 You know, I didn't even realize that that's a very good point and the key demo We could we could even give aew a pass on that day but go ahead and the key demo Which was a 0.23 is the lowest key demo, which of course is 18 to 49 year old males the lowest key demo number In english since june 24th 2020 I don't know what happened on june 24 2020 so A lot a lot of people were intubated around that time It was number six among cable telecast for wednesday with the nba dominating the night versus last week obviously minus 5% Versus the trailing four week average, which is 715 minus 6% Versus Last year at the same is this last year at the same time though. That's quarter to quarter I wanted to see if we had last year's number for the same week, but Let's go to these quarterly. Well, you know and here's something to put give the the cult of cornet listeners some homework all of you mathematical geniuses and statisticians out there They do the nba playoffs every year. We keep saying that right so this happens every year But this don't happen to their numbers every year is the nba suddenly Overperforming what they've done the last few years since aew has been in existence against them Or is it just that the same amount of people are watching the nba give or take and People are just jumping off the aew ship That's a good thing to ponder. There are people still making excuses For what has been for us obvious for a very long time and now the chickens are coming home the roost It's a bad wrestling tv show. It's poorly booked It's poorly done. It's not a good american wrestling television show I don't I don't know if it's a good quedorian television wrestling show But you hear the excuses it's the nba playoffs and they're a big deal It's a very big deal and you also hear the excuse that there are people dropping cable. There's a drop rate So it's affecting every channel in every show. However What that conveniently ignores Is that aew's decline in viewership is outpacing all of those things It's not just people getting rid of cable. So all right, I will consume my aew in another way It's people dropping aew And people need to recognize that Jim the quarterly numbers supplied by wrestlenomics quarter one eight to eight fifteen p.m Jeff cob and kyle fletcher versus brian danielson and john moxley with picture in picture 753 thousand viewers Oh Oh, that is the lowest start point In quite some time even like I think they've killed the big bang theories ratings Just uh, people don't want to watch that last big bang theory on the On the off chance the risk That they might Lead into the wrestling program and not be able to cut it off in time I always mentioned to you that wrestlenomics has a trend line in the chart here And if anyone wants to ever see it just go check out their patreon But this is 753 It doesn't have an exact number, but the 90 day trend is over 900,000 to start. So this is way off Way off you're way off Quarter two the continuation of that match the post match with kanosuke tekeshita Who just did an interview in japan complaining about the booking? And claudio castignoli A recap of some sort Oh, that was the recap of swervin and christian, I believe adam copeland and the house of blacks live angle and the elite and jack perry backstage promo followed by an ad break 692,000 viewers Well on the plus side looking at the bright side of things that's not as many as they usually lose because they didn't start as many With as many to begin with but they only lost uh, that is a 61,000 usually it's over Six figures well if there's anyone who consistently loses viewers on this show It's the young buck. So let's go to quarter three eight 30 to 8 45 p.m the fr backstage promo christopher daniels and matt sideow versus the young bucks with picture and picture and the post match 656,000 viewers boom. Well, they did what they normally do And there goes another 36,000. So now we're down. Oh We're still only down about 97,000 from the start and this the 285,000 and 18 to 49 year old males Which is the low point of the show Oh, so that audience is not accepting the young bucks right now Well, because think about it, you know people want to see you know like people like them on television and If the men 18 to 49 Don't want to see the bucks that's Entirely understandable the bucks would need to be men ages 18 to 49 before those people would want to see them We got a quarter four eight 45 to 9 p.m Tony Storms backstage promo an ad break Malachi blacks backstage promo hook versus Sebastian wolf Oh boy hook and chris jericho's live promo an angle with big bill and shabata And the swerve strickland backstage promo 692,000 viewers And the high point in the key demo 312,000 So as soon as the buckaroos got off the fucking screen people came back and they equalled what they did in quarter two I expect that trend will continue in the weeks ahead the number out for the for that quarter that you just read people came back Can you imagine how much they didn't want to see what came before? For the top angle in the company, but let's go now to the world champion quarter five the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine 15 p.m Brian cage versus swerve strickland with picture and picture 652,000 viewers Oh, and they lost another 40 at the top of the hour And they're now that's the lowest point in the show, but I guess not the lowest point in the key demo No, the lowest point was the young buck segment But now again looking at the thing on the positive side. They've only lost 101,000 people total from where they started They've usually lost at least 150 or more by now Maybe 200 Well, we go now to quarter six nine 15 and 9 30 p.m The continuation of strickland versus cage the post match with christian and his friends the ad break The hook shabbat a backstage angle with samoa joe and the beginning of tony storm versus harley cameron 678,000 viewers Well At least they're gaining They're right in the pocket here Well the pocket Uh, he can't does it have a hole in the bottom? I was gonna say it can't say the pocket continues That wouldn't make any sense, but the pocket is here again in quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m The continuation of tony storm versus harley cameron with picture and picture The will osprey rogerick strong backstage confrontation Willow nightingale and mercedes moneys live contract signing the start of that 663,000 viewers Oh, so As soon as another one of the high priced acquisitions gets on a screen people start tuning out We then go to quarter eight and I remind you we have an overrun here But yes quarter eight nine it would be more like run over quarter eight nine 45 to 10 p.m The continuation of the contract signing an ad break and the start of kazushka okada versus dax harwood with picture and picture 622,000 viewers And the overrun 10 to 10 12 p.m. So almost a full quarter The continuation of harwood versus okada and the post match with the young bucks jack perry cash wheeler brian danielson Darby allen and you 634,000 viewers So Mercedes only ran off 15,000 people, but as soon as they got a look at okodi 41,000 said oh hell no And then we had another 12,000 Stragal in in the overrun looking for the start of modern family It's every quarter you can do just a complete analysis and understand why the show doesn't pick up steam Why the show doesn't pick up viewers why people don't come back again The numbers will likely go up after the nba playoffs. Are they going to go back to where they were? I don't know about that jeff cob and kyle fletcher versus daniel sin and moxley jeff cob is someone you never see on this show kyle fletcher is someone who's never want to match on this show against daniel sin and moxley moxley who means Actually, I shouldn't it's hard to say moxley still means a lot to the hardcore aaw fan But that isn't really growing anymore and daniel sin is just kind of coasting right now It seems like then you get more of that tekesha is involved again complaining about the booking now Claudio is involved no one cares about claudio right now the adam copeland house of black stuff is awful Every baby face on the show gets destroyed jack perry's backstage promo jack perry can't pull this off He looks like he's selling dime bags. He doesn't seem believable in any way FTR is promo ftr is dead Daniels and cydall versus the young bucks the young bucks are dead No one has seen daniels on this show and forever even has thought about him Matt cydall's never want to match on this show. Tony storms backstage promo. Hey, at least they present her like a star I may not like it, but at least they present her like a star malachi blacks back in the fucking spooky corner with a ring How did he get there from the ring? He's doing his promo the hook match You know what people like hook there you go and then you drag jericho and big billon to this and it turned it into a Shit show swerve strickland versus brian cage swerve strickland's the world heavyweight champion He's been made to look like a fucking bitch on this show Three weeks straight since winning the title and it didn't really do him any favors before he won the title after that We got what Tony storm versus harley cameron the woman who had her first match on the show last week has a long match with Tony storm here Of course, Dave melzer and brian albert's got to a giant fight over who the heel was here So the objective of whatever they were trying to have is their goal there probably didn't get achieved Then we have what roger strung and will osprey backstage Will osprey cuts a good promo and it was a pre-tape backstage with a stable That was the led by the devil that took down the aew world champion And now are jerk offs on this show that you never even think about so that's happening And then we get willow and mercedes monay willow nightingale Needs practice and and maybe coaching about how to talk, but she's got a lot. She's got something going on Mercedes monay has been a complete disaster a bust a bomb The aew fans aren't into her. She's coming across awful on these shows She's coming across like she's on nxt on these shows just terrible and then okada versus harwood Okada, can you go wrong there? Okada has been Lost in the shuffle if they really gave him a lot of money He hasn't meant it so far. He's just another guy on that show and he's tagged Or he's put with the jerk off stable that the fans don't believe in the young bucks and jack perry versus that's horrible He looks like a fibromyalgia patient versus dax harwood who never wins a match against anyone important. So This is the main have we seen him win against anyone Well against the dynamite he only puts stars over Yeah, and this is the main event on this show There's a reason why people dive off this show. There's nothing there The booking is awful And everyone wants to pretend it's something else, but you left out the biggest question You're supposed to say what what's the biggest question. Where's nana? Well, that is a very good question Will he be written off the show or will he ever appear dancing again? Will he turn on swerve and go with the moguls, which would be so stupid But everything on this show the commentators are useless It's not just that I don't like Excalibur and shavani is that they're useless as lead commentators They don't do anything to help the show at all they're useless Eliminator matches There's something no one needs to hear ever again. Here's an eliminator match It sounds great in tony's head It sucks and it doesn't make anyone join the show or care about this the overrun sucks It does nothing but make people say, okay. I can leave the show Everything is a disaster and everyone wants to pretend like oh everything's all right And tony will do a press scrum after the next pay-per-view and say everything's great We've had a great string of great shows. I think these are the best shows we've ever done. Everything's wonderful The show's awful right now They are lucky the number's not lower than it is Because it's a bad show. It's a bad Produced it's a badly produced and badly booked Wrestling show they're lucky the number isn't a lot lower Well, brun. I've got to tell you I'm I'm extremely disappointed in you and your negative attitude I think we need to give these people some leeway. They're still new. They're finding their way I'm always one to to look on the bright side of things and give people a second chance and not take them to task when they're They're they're given their best effort I just I just don't know where this animosity from you is coming from You're cracked. You've cracked. You finally snapped. It's just terrible. There's still fans pretending. This isn't terrible And you know you want to fix this it can't be tony tony doesn't recognize that tony's the problem and you have people like dav melzer who tony parrots Who don't understand what the problem is? We've been telling you this was coming for a long time for a long time And here it is They don't have anyone on this show who could fucking draw They don't have cm punk. They don't have mjf the two biggest draws they had for everything company-wide across the board one's injured And fans of his are hoping he stays injured and doesn't come back and goes to wwe And the other one was chased out of the company by the people who are driving the ratings into the toilet This company's a joke this company's a joke. They don't draw and they don't draw fans anywhere The pay per views are down. Everything is down and everything was preventable. Let me bring you up one more topic They got nobody left to sign either do they? There's no more game changers. There's no more superstar free agents. There's no more Are there any more indie darlings? Have they burned through everybody that they could get that is supposedly would make a difference There's always people that we don't know of that are out there, but primarily People that we don't know of there. They're not going to be game changers. Are they you wouldn't think so, but primarily They have milked the indies dry. They have sucked the roster dry of new japan They have taken a lot of wwe castoffs that were not necessary on this show There's a lot still being paid. They aren't even on this show. Where's miro? He's in bogaria. That's right. I mean, it's just it's how do you take this seriously? Who are they gonna sign? What are they gonna do? Are they gonna wait for a wwe star to become a free agent? Tony doesn't do himself any favors for anyone thinks just money solves anything You're gonna make a lot of money if you're a star in wwe Do you really want more money? To be a part of the chaos factory It's not worth it. Who's gonna take that deal someone at polo vack in nikon don't want that's who Well, seriously, would you sign there if you cared about your career and wanted to do something? Would you sign other than money? Because now we've got a track record The only talent that they didn't kill off Barry diminish make less than they were before when he came in to the company with c.m. Punk and they ran him off outright Everybody else has been made Marginal immaterial less than they were before hasn't panned out have been booked into oblivion from okody and mersades and ostrich and Edge and on and on and on All of the page where's page saraya? Whatever they call her these days Nobody knows what you're doing the business. That is what they call her these days in fact. Yes, so You know if they if they did that to recognize You know pretty big names in the business When they start going to these indie darlings Where you know, what are they going to do to them make them more meaningless? Here's the other thing too. Just go into the overall booking and no matter what wrestlers you want to put into the young bucks are complete failures at this right now But it could be them or could be anybody They did an angle Where the promoter got beat up In front of his billionaire dad Then an evp who is arguably one of the biggest stars in the company kenny's up there kenny Actually is someone who has been able to be a draw in that company That's one of the reasons he can't work anymore because of the way he worked He broke himself down And he gets beat up put in the hospital They followed it up with all this It means nothing they decided to do this They know when the nba playoffs are they decided to do this string of angles When they were almost guaranteed the lowest viewership Barring the booking continuing to drive people away that they would have all year All things being equal the nba playoffs kill them unless vanderpump moves back to wednesdays So why would they book any of this? In the middle of this Why wouldn't you wait till the week after the nba playoffs? Do you think if somebody is interested in real sports, they're going to be watching aew? Even if they're interested in wwe They're they don't even i'm sure the buck ruse don't even consider the nba playoffs competition because none of their You know goofy indie marks that love them Would be caught dead at anything besides a fucking wrestling match. They don't watch basketball They don't watch football. They don't watch wrestling if it looks real. They only watch silly cartoon shit So that's not your sports audience And then swerve swerve wins the belt and then they put him in this feud with christian which sucks so bad And christian's just so fucking annoying as this fucking character because that's what it is. It's a character. Why wasn't swerve Put into this young bucks thing That would have made perfect sense. Who's on team aew? How about the world champion? The guy who the young bucks a couple weeks ago. Yeah, we're fucking with but then unfortunately Then he'd have to work with the young bucks and people wouldn't revolt and droves. He's dead either way You know team aew is darby danielson and ftr Well not to be fair. I didn't know kingston was gonna get hurt apparently broke his leg Is that what it is? I don't know apparently he had a match in new japan uh at that showing california and Because they did some kind of gimmick match for this new japan show in america He hit both of his legs on the barricade apparently And broke one of his legs and We saw the clips of the angle with the young bucks and jack perry and him on the show They had to wait apparently a while for him to be able to get into the ring They didn't know if they were going to be able to do the angle because he was so messed up But they had time luckily they had lots of time Well at least he has time now off to give birth to that a hippopotamus that he's been expecting Oh, will you stop it? Why do you got to mess with the guy? He's hurt right now Well because because he's had what four years now to lose a little weight or get a little tan to cover up some of it Fat looks better brown and white or just stop taking his fucking straps down You know what's said too this one match this anarchy and the arena match is the match he fits in perfectly for You know, he was in one before he would have been perfect in that match and now he's Another guy injured although ricky starks was on that injured list and he's saying he's not injured He just doesn't know why he's being used and sammy gabara reportedly says the same thing I don't know why about being called back. Well, no, he's suspended because he's suspended what two months ago He hurt somebody else and then Yeah, and then picked him up and dropped him on his head again, but I don't What about uh Instead of suspending the fucking guy for that Why don't you stand him and for up in front of the rest of the roster and say Stupid stupid do not be like stupid and point at him. We've been saying this was all coming for a long time You're now seeing it from aw fans. You're now seeing it from the observer fans Even they recognize that they can't pretend anymore Tony's the problem the show's awful the promotion's being run really poorly nobody's over And that's that and any of the wrestlers who want to get on social media and try to defend the company you look like a fucking boob Everyone knows why you're doing it Nobody believes you you gotta get an idiot anyone who wants to try to defend everything that's happening here You're gonna get an idiot. You know, it looks like they're telling the truth to kesta ricky starks The guys who have no idea what's going on the guys who get ghosted the guys who get over and then are just off tv Atrocious and it's all tony con's fault Well now next week for dynamite, they're gonna be out in the the lollipop guild's home area, right? The fucking uh, well, they're on a west coast swing. I guess because they were just in washington Then they did portland for collision and now they're gonna be coming down to california Hollywood swing wherever your homeless are you will find a w for the next few weeks Well, but they're in bakersfield and we've mentioned bakersfield the home of the buck Owen's sound right And that's right near The buck arous is hometown And that's you know where all their friends are you think they're gonna sell out or they in a big building there? I heard maybe their advance wasn't too good You know as a matter of fact they're at the mechanics bank arena. I have this information here in front of me They're at the mechanics bank arena Here's what I don't know brun. What's the capacity of that arena if you're actually using it as an arena Let me let me get a piss hole in a snow bank. I will look that up right now But in the mechanics bank arena for Well, this uh, this is from yesterday. So let's say uh, six days out They have distributed 1530 tickets now. That's not sold. That's distributed that counts comps and whatever And they're set up for 2300 people in this arena capacity 10,000 10,000 So They're running a 10,000 seat building. They've set it up for 2300 and they got 1500 out six days before the national television broadcast In their home area I'm surprised that Maddie and nicky weren't out on the sidewalk, you know Passed out flyers and drum it up support Yeah, you guys could brag about having mansions in the desert. You got it by ripping off a billionaire You guys ain't worth it. You guys can't draw. You guys ain't moving mercs at any real level. Nobody cares to watch you on this show It's over and neither one of you afforded yet Good job. Great job Fucking idiots Wait a minute. What did you say? What kind of job was it? I said it was a great job All right groovy here we are in the future Yeah, this is either groovy or sermanet as the bobby the brain might say Well, it's cornet sermanet here on the uh on the mount on the mount. We're on the mounted you Well, are you gonna mount these ratings? That's the question. Well, depending on how fucked they are. They might get mounted too Uh The punchline of that old joke. Well, son, I guess this just ain't your day Fill in the joke in front of it folks. I can't tell it on the air Well, we are on the air and we talked about dynamite and we're back with the ratings. I mentioned that There was no real strong nbh uh shows NBH show They didn't have a big season premiere. No, there were no big games. No big competition up against it Actually, there was the mavericks versus timber wolves Uh final game of the conference timber wolves timber wolves timber wolves They drew six Point eight million viewers. Well boy. Howdy on tnt I haven't heard numbers like that since the last time wrestling did them and the rangers and the panthers the hockey game 1.9 million viewers But now you're setting us up here, but let me say this at the at the outset. I know nothing I know nothing. I see nothing I don't know these numbers yet. We took the break. I've stayed away from the internet the social medias And i'm thinking in my head this trying to predict this could go either way now could could the people be continuing to fall off the edge of the cliff because they're mind numbed to the Constant array of mayhem the the violence for violence's sake the lack of cohesive and coherent storytelling the incredible logic gaps and holes and the personally offensive Characters that inhabit this program and they're just like throwing up their hands like fuck it. No I can't take no more I've had all I can stands or on the other hand did the freak show aspect the The giant 8 foot 600 pound monster versus beloved brian danielson Or have you ever seen A baby face saved with a flamethrower although I guess they wouldn't have known about that. They'd had to already been watching but Just the goddamn Incoherent babbling spectacular Of the thing may have drawn people back It could go either way come see come saw I have no idea what kind of come it was But you're gonna tell us and and for this brian I have consumed half I've Day drinking I've consumed it's the night time now by the time these goddamn numbers came out Fuck it's dark in some parts of the goddamn world I've consumed half a snappy pappy waiting on these goddamn numbers to find out Exactly who can suffer through this besides us the folks who get paid for it So start Start reeling off them numbers And I've got word here that tonicon plans to consume a snappy pappy next week on air Whatever that means But jim the tv ratings I have a feeling he's gonna he's almost consumed his own pappy He's he's gonna get snappy when he's seen yes, pappy's getting snappy when he sees his goddamn net worth statement this quarter Aew dynamite we're having fun here tonight ladies and gentlemen Aew dynamite Aew dynamite on tv s Pappy pappy wednesday may 22nd 2024 8 to 10 o 3 p.m On average jim. Yes 713 thousand viewers. Oh boy Alrighty what was last week because we used to I used to say again every week 800 and what thousand And in the last few weeks, I've had to say 700 and what thousand last week was it 600 and some thousand Last week was 672 thousand this episode versus the trailing four week average according to wrestlenomics 692 thousand was the four week average coming into this So this is actually up from what they they've been doing just not from what they Historically did before the the the sky fell chicken little the old lows of the new highs and uh and the old The old high yeah, yeah, whatever you said, what did you say? So I'm going to get out of this uh words and uh a crash in a bang and There's no sounds and phrases loud noises. What where did they start? awd dynamite Hey, hey, pappy Let's not get so snappy awd dynamite on tv s may 22nd 2024 quarter one eight to eight 15 p.m. Once again these were compiled by wrestlenomics Roderick strong and trempareta versus orange Cassidy and will osprey With picture and picture ads 794 thousand viewers okay, this is interesting to me and They used to start with 100 and something thousand And we said all along it was artificial. That was what they were being fed by the big bang Has the the appeal of the big bang somewhat worn off. I mean it created all life, but still you know everything has a shelf life Or is it the the sporting events that are taking viewers away from the big bang as well because It or else wise as I've said last week on a program or whenever have they killed the ratings of the lead in the program is so bad Well, we will find out as soon as the nba games stop interfering with the But no nevertheless, it was a weekly it was a weekly occurrence They would start with 900 something thousand and then lose In 15 minutes 100 150 thousand people that you could understand because the lead in was Given them that audience and they weren't retaining it right now. They're they're down to Under 800,000 to start and so they're not losing The giant percentage from start to finish but as we said all along That was an artificial bump to begin with which is why we were Doing our average rating not including the first quarter now. They've lost that advantage. I'm sorry go ahead No, but that's why we always said the second quarter was really what was the true The true number the true number they were starting at was kind of what would be there in the second quarter We're not seeing that now. We're seeing the first quarter to be more reflective of Where they're starting out the true arbiter of interest Quarter two 8 15 8 30 p.m. The continuation of strong and pareda versus Cassidy and osprey Including the post match with the undisputed kingdom The young bucks and sanjay dot play footsie backstage The jay white live promo and angle with pack Who wrote this shit the gun club and the lucha brothers? followed by an ad break 786 thousand viewers Good lord, that is a gift from the heavens manna from above How could they ret- when the people in the building are screaming who wrote this shit and otherwise silent? And they only lost 8 000 people Boy, they ought to be down on their knees with their fucking Prayers up and their hands in the air and their mouths open and whatever else you do when you're on your knees quarter three 8 30 8 45 p.m katsuhori shabbat versus brian keith versus hook with chitra be chipoo be chipoo be with picture and picture ads and chris jarrico on commentary And then a post match with chris jarrico and the willow nightingale mercedes monnet video 706 thousand viewers Well now it begins, but i'm I'm surprised they're still that high, but they lost 80 000 people and and 86 that Yeah, no 88 000 from the start of the episode Well that goes into quarter four 8 45 to 9 p.m an ad break kanosuke tekeshta's video Matt sidel versus tekeshta the post match with big mean john moxley And swerve strickland versus nick wane or at least the start of it 710 000 viewers And they got 4 000 back. I mean this is you know Piss break fucking fluctuation at this point 4 000 people and that goes into the big nine o'clock hour quarter five nine nine the nine the nine nine to nine 15 p.m Nana's coming back later So no no no no no no no no no we're glad that you came back Sore strickland versus nick wane continued with picture and picture ads and the post match with christian and his wacky weird friends 698 000 viewers also 333 000 in the key demo that's the high point of the key demo But it says something This is a low point of the show so far Says something that the gap between the overall number and the key demo is getting smaller and smaller So even if the network loves the key demo if the overall number Is just slightly above it, which is kind of where we may end up in a few months May change things but has the has the has there ever been a situation where the only audience at all was the key demo We may find out soon enough Jim quarter six nine 15, you know a lot of people over 50 are saying life is too short To devote to this fucking thing but go ahead. No, they specifically said that in quarter three Oh, okay. That was the first life is too short for this shit But we go into quarters six nine 15 and 9 30 p.m Malachi black versus kyle o'reilly with picture and picture ads and the post match with adam copeland and a bunch of blood shot out of a cannon 688 thousand viewers And they only lost another 10,000 i'm i'm gonna hold my comment till the end anything could happen, but uh Go ahead. They're they're they're in the pocket well 9 30 to 9 45 p.m quarter seven an ad break mariah may and tony storm versus harley cameron and soraya With picture and picture ads thought it was soraya 631 thousand viewers Okay, well there's a hole in the pocket and the low point in the key demo 287 thousand viewers But now the difference in the low point in the high point is only 46,000 people Well son of a gun that's a that's a tight pocket there too old tight pockets I got one hand in my pocket and the other is stroking my penis That stroking continues into quarter eight Well, we're stroking here and there. We're stroking everywhere Quarter eight nine 45 to 10 p.m. I remind you we have an overrun The continuation of may and it was if only three minutes. It's more like a dribble or a leak The continuation of may and storm versus cameron and soraya The post match with serena deeb the bullet club gold backstage promo brian danielson versus satinham sing and the post match with sanjay dutt jeff jarrett jay lethal and the young bucks 693 thousand viewers Okay, so the freak show aspect Of the size difference and the preposterosity of the whole thing brought back 62,000 people that ain't bad three minute overrun 702,000 and that's just 9,000 people wandering in wondered where modern family is but Here's what I was gonna say and quarter seven almost ruined it, but they came back Is that before we were looking at a program that was starting in the 900 thousands And often finishing in the sevens and occasionally a six because There were people wanting to give it a chance, but it just kept More of the same or just blah just people that wasn't ready for fucking television And they would lose steadily What did we at one point it was 35 percent of the audience they started with right now They seem to have settled into a pattern where This is all the I don't know they're gonna go much lower until I don't know somebody drops down just takes a shit in the in the ring on the air And I don't know if that would do it because these are the people In the entire country Of 350 million people or more there's 700,000 That will watch this shit just either hoping it's gonna be good or they really do think it's good And everybody else has said What the fuck is going on here? so If you take out As we were doing even the first quarter And you take out the overrun They still only lost less than a hundred people seven hundred eight or hundred people 100,000 is seven hundred eighty six thousand to six hundred ninety three thousand This has to be The number of people that will watch this shit no matter what? But the the problem is That ain't the number of people that they goddamn had when they got what they got so how do they think they're going to get more? When they ain't got what to head And again their viewership losses outpace the losses of People using cable television the people dropping off that I think it outpaces the fucking people using food Well, it's not the end they say women and children first and the young bucks are still there We got a ways to go There you go Well, that was the review of awdynamite. We hope you all enjoyed it. Thank you all for joining us here today Let's go back to where we were so we can get to where we need to go. 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They got a big jump off their pay per view. They're up like 70,000 people this week Again less competition, but also it's important to note the highest overall number since april 10th The highest key demo number since april 17th And according to wrestle nomics It is up 10% off last week's show, which was 7 13 12 off the traveling four-week average of 700,000 again It's not over 800,000 But we're starting to get back to the point we were before the playoffs Well, or is it we're starting to get back to the point where they just completely went in the shitter about three or four weeks ago and This is an anomaly We shall see again everything shall see everything's been downhill since the punk video aired But awdynamite may 29th compiled by wrestle nomics here are the quarter hours Jim quarter one 8 to 8 15 p.m Mercedes monays live promo an angle with sky blue a double or nothing recap And the start of kill switch versus swerve strickland with picture and picture 931,000 viewers. Okay. Well, did this have anything to do? They started much higher than they have been also They've been down in the in the eights and sevens lately or the the big bang theory is making a resurgence well again Once the playoff started and once the feed started airing live on the west coast There was a slight hit or a significant hit You have to think that's starting to get back to where it was now. It's not as high as it was But it's level now maybe well and speaking of level we always hit the true numbers quarter two quarter two eight fifteen eight 30 p.m the continuation a kill switch versus strickland with the post match an ad break and john moxley's backstage promo 739,000 viewers. Oh sweet. Jesus 192,000 people. Well Well now this is This isn't even going to get them on average unless they get some of those people back and they have to what the fuck happened there Very very interesting quarter three eight thirty eight forty five p.m chris jericho and big bill in the um The tv time learning tree segment i guess with brian keith hook and samoa joe stefanie vacor video And then a rocky romero. Oh no then the start of rocky romero. Did you say stefanie that horror video? I did not say that in any way. I said stefanie vacor if that is indeed how you pronounce her name. I think it's vacker Well, she had a video followed by the start of moxley versus rocky romero with picture in picture 787,000 viewers All right, they just wanted to get out of segment two no matter what happened. So they got uh, 48,000 back. They're only a hundred and 44,000 below where they started And not counting the opening segment because that's an inflated number and not counting the overrun This was also the high point in the key demo 347,018 the 49 year old males We go to quarter four 845 to 9 p.m The continuation of moxley versus romero The samoa joe and hook promo An ad break and the start of the don callus orange casady live contract segment 689,000 viewers. What also the low point in the key demo 287,000 good lord, so They lost a hundred ninety eight thousand everybody's well say a hundred and and yeah, uh, all right But they've got to come back up again just to meet their their average at this point Well, we go to the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine fifteen p.m quarter five The continuation of callus and casady and trend and statlander and stokeley's live angle Daniel garcia and matt minards backstage promo I missed that and the start of mercedes-mone versus sky blue So they gave her the top of the show and the top of the nine o'clock hour by the way Or very near the top of the nine o'clock hour with picture and picture 779,000 viewers so That is a plus 79 89 at 90,000 people The question is was it mercedes or was at the top of the hour? Well, it can't or both the match continued into the next quarter quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m continuation of mone versus blue the post match with the core and half away And oh no, excuse me. This is separate a half away and statlander backstage promo An ad break an mjf video And the beginning of the elites live promo 791,000 viewers So they not only held them But they got an extra 12,000 you could argue that she got another 12,000 people to check that out But we ended the segment with the elite That's how we start quarter seven nine thirty to nine forty five p.m The elites confrontation with christopher daniels and the acclaimed and billy gun The swerve strickland backstage promo an ad break rush's backstage promo And the start of the gauntlet match which began with pack versus j white 778,000 viewers That's better than I thought it was going to be they only lost uh, Toilet was at to 13,000 so they're holding steady in The second hour seven 79 791 778 While we go now to quarter eight. I remind you there is an overrun the continuation of the gauntlet match with two picture-in-pictures consisting of white versus pack versus mistico versus claudio castignoli versus orange cassidy versus will osprey versus hechichero versus leo rush What versus shodo umino? Oh boy, and that continued into the next quarter as I said quarter eight 772,000 viewers What the fuck overrun 10 to 10.07 it says here wrestle nomics 850,000 viewers Okay, well again kudos to them they managed to keep between 772 and 791 for the entire second hour that has that ever happened before The last quarter not you know minus the overrun was slightly down, but they had a raw. Well, no, well Actually, that was down off the one there was no rise really I guess It was it was but it was relatively consistent for the Yes, within a range of 19,000 people over an hour, which is you know pretty much normal fluctuation. I would imagine it so Again that for that show They just decided they were going to stick except for quarter four a lot of people said no fuck this But otherwise because they they were within because it was moxley and was moxley against someone who the fans I mean other than him running out there with Trent the fans watching to show don't know who rocky romero is Yeah, take that quarter out and they were between seven 739 And 791 For the whole rest of the show take the first quarter out in the overrun obviously Does that set them up nicely for next week with mjfs return? Well, I think they're gonna None of these shows sets anything up for anybody nicely um But I think they're gonna get probably their biggest quarter that they've gotten in a while to see You know what he's gonna say and do and whatever And whether they can keep it as as flat as they did uh This show or whether it's gonna continue to drop off the cliff like the normal shows do we will find out a dynamite this past week jim Let's talk about these numbers aw dynamite on tbs June 5th 2024 8 to 10 o 6 p.m These were compiled by wrestle nomics the overall number on average 790 000 viewers Oh, so they are up again very slightly. What was last week? It was 780 something last week was 787 because there are 3 000 more people But at least it's going in the right direction But now the question is what direction does this take? from start to finish in comparison with the nxt program that we were just discussing aw dynamite june 5th 2024 quarter 1 8 to 8 15 p.m the mjf rush live promo and the rodrick strong video 976 000 viewers 424 key demo Oh Okay, not only does this not bode well for the rest of the program after having heard the average But they've got there nearly a million people And and I God do we have the big bang lead in for this particular week? I do not no I would ban somebody out there and and thirst and howl if you're listening or anybody that's got the information email it to brian at What is our adress right through gmail.com would probably be the easiest one? Okay corny drive through gmail.com I wonder how many people they picked up that that over at above the big bang Did people tune in for the anticipation of seeing mjf? Why is it suddenly? Bigger than it's been in quite some time was the big bang up or did they get a tune in factor on aw? That would be interesting to know and like I said the earlier we heard a lot of feedback That people watched last week thinking mjf would be there So whatever that number was there's a large segment of or at least a segment of it that were people expecting mjf that never got them So the point is as we talked about way earlier in the program Now that they've got them or they got him Right out of the gate nine o'clock. This was going to be the highest quarter Rated quarter hour of the show because it always is So it's not it's not like I'm making an inflammatory statement. It's factually correct So we don't know whether he drew them to it But did after they'd seen him and knew they probably weren't going to see him again Did they stick around? Well, we've got a quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m Jay lethal versus orange Cassidy versus kyle o'reilly versus ray phoenix with picture and picture And the post match with don callus tremperetta Chris statlander stokely half away and willow nightingale Plus christ jaricho brian keith and big bill start walking around 835 thousand viewers 141 thousand people said to see you later And we always say the second quarter is the best real barometer of what the first quarter would be without the one minute over on a big bang theory I believe that would still put the second quarter above most weeks second quarter in a long time Oh, yeah, they didn't for a few weeks. They didn't do an 800 and some thousand quarter Well, we go to quarter three eight thirty eight forty five p.m an ad break Willow nightingales promo Christopher daniels ramp promo and the start of mark brisco versus brian cage with picture and picture 754 thousand viewers. Okay. Well, they've remedied that problem. I just mentioned They said if I we need to shed another 35 79 thousand people to get us comfortably under the 800 thousand mark And they're almost to the point now where they have to fluctuate a little bit and go back up just to hit their average, don't they? Well, we shall see we go now to quarter four eight forty five to nine p.m the continuation of cage versus brisco The jack perry promo Samoa Joe and hooks confrontation with the premier athletes An ad break more Jericho nonsense The young bucks cut off the acclaimed where was tony kahn? And swerve strickland's backstage promo 761 thousand viewers Oh, yeah, well, they're trading why they got 7 000 back. So they're they're paddling upstream at this point We going out of the big nine o'clock hour quarter five nine to nine fifteen p.m the mercedes monnaise stefanie vacor video and the start of s finch mad If that's how you pronounce what is his name s finch es f in g e Es finj, I guess if you wanted to make it like jackay es finj Magnus rugido And volador junior. I remember his dad versus the blackpool combat club with picture in picture 780 thousand viewers So they picked up 19 000 at the top of the hour But now is that I've said that and I'm looking at that It's time for him to start shedding Because hell they've still got to make their overall average as they got to go down from here Just think what your reaction would be if you watched this match quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m the continuation of es finj Magnus rugido And volador junior versus the bcc more jericho bullshit The daniel garcia video The young bucks acclaimed gun backstage angle an ad break The young bucks in christian and his pals backstage angle and the start of mariah versus saraya 714 thousand viewers I mean they're lucky to get that because that match was long and then look what you just read off That followed it that followed it. Yeah And I don't see a lot of fucking bright spots coming up well quarter seven nine thirty nine forty five p.m The continuation of mariah versus saraya The post match with tony storm and mina shirakawa more jericho nonsense backstage this time a private party an ad break And brian danielson's backstage promo 731 thousand viewers Again, I got a hand it to them there to pick up 17 000 people on What they had just done there the girls killed this rating every week they pick people up from the bcc versus the luchadors What does that say Well, we go now jim to quarter eight. I remind you there's a six minute overrun quarter eight nine forty five to ten p.m The aw world champion swerve schricklin versus rogerick strong with picture and picture 768 thousand viewers Now that's that's surprising 362 in the key demo overrun 792 So tuning in for modern family Yes, they got another 37 000 people for that main event which is surprising since I mean, I know swerve's popular, but I'm you know the way it was presented etc. So I must applaud them for that And they figured out a way not to fucking go into 600 000 territory anymore, which uh, they did several weeks in a row there on some of these segments but I think we we I'm not saying that mjf was responsible for 976 000 people at the start because it's always the highest rated segment But when you immediately lose 140 and then lose Another 80 on top of that and then it's kind of steady from there on with almost no fluctuation It kind of means they got mjf and they knew they weren't going to get any more of it, doesn't it? I think there are people that probably just tuned in for mjf If you're a fan of will ospreys when featured as a star on this show, he wasn't there We know already we've seen what happens The bucks drive people away The women's division drives people away Jericho and this awful shit is about to drive a lot of people away even more than he already has but swerve Has in the past been a ratings mover Maybe more significantly than now because they've killed him with the booking even though he's the world champion But swerve is someone the fans took to mjf and osprey And I think they're gonna have to sprinkle those three guys throughout the show to try to hold this rating Sprinkle is right more like a golden shower Jesus Christ That's the the the problem that they've got themselves in through attrition and bad management And all the other problems that we've documented is that they've got tons of guys on the roster and very few mean anything And the ones that used to we've seen We've seen we've seen their shit moxley seen his shit jericho seen his shit Danielson, what is this shit anymore? It some guys were big fucking names and and now it's just And I would go ahead. Do you think tony's gonna have an epic meltdown if nxt starts beating them in the ratings? Well, they'll figure out some way to work it out and the that in the Demo of south polynesian lesbian nuns their way ahead or whatever But it ain't gonna help his fragile mental state. Tony's i'm talking about and they were 22,000 off here so Son of a gun, but the problem is the other program Kept almost every single bit of their audience all the way through it while his Bled what they got at the start into where that their average was What it was with whoop you can focus on living better for longer Understand your sleep optimize your training and build habits that support your well-being Whoop gives you personalized insights into your sleep your recovery Your strain and the patterns that may influence how you feel with more clarity and consistency You can create routines that support you throughout the year add more life to every moment discover whoop at whoop.com All right That get you the moon let that be a lesson to her if she doesn't do it right next time we'll do that again I feel like this is the way human speech is heard by tony conan his head these kind of sounds the peanuts parents. That's right Only if it's not complimentary He hears the compliments just fine. Well, we are in the future. We will We will or will not have some compliments here in this segment. We're talking about awd ratings for june 12 2024 on tbs 8 to 10 o 6 p.m jim overall I well, you always say that the pitch jim the overall number on average On average 681,000 viewers Oh See again, I I had no Previous knowledge of these numbers and that uh, that ain't a good number And that's way down from last week according to wrestle nomics. It is the lowest overall number since may 15th And it is the lowest in the key demo. That's males 18 to 49 Since june 24th 2020 Oh Well They can't say we didn't warn them Co-foot it. What do you expect when you're putting on shows with nobodies doing stupid shit? And let the wwe's draw into audiences by putting on stars doing boring shit But you can't draw any kind of a number putting on nobodies doing stupid shit Because nobody cares about nobody Nobody cares for me. Nobody I ain't got no D's that's what tony's singing Nobody's in my building in the arena in those chairs. Oh, yeah What's the quarter hour I was taking a sip of coffee hold on we'll go to the quarter hours here jim And before we get there just for the record The nba finals are on broadcast tv Here are the numbers the last four years Well, I was about to say because they they keep saying that well, they do They're against the nba finals. They do these things every year all of these things that they're against they do them every year Do they not and again these numbers that that is true and again these numbers are going around We have not fact checked them ourselves, but uh, we'll put them out there No one else is saying they're wrong. I'm looking frivolously frivolous. Well, nobody's yelling about them in 2021 1,025,000 viewers Oh, okay in 2022 939,000 viewers Okay, this against the nba finals. That's right in 2023 903,000 viewers Okay 2024 681,000 viewers Okay, well it it was dropping but not precipitously They only lost about 122,000 from year one to year three and then they've lost from year three to year four 222,000 people Oh Must have been a good game Well, let's go to the quarter hours gym. These were compiled by wrestlenomics quarter one eight to eight fifteen p.m The swerve strickland confrontation with the elite the swerve strickland swerve strickland's confrontation with the elite and christopher daniels is promo dustin roads versus jack perry with picture and picture 785,000 viewers. Wow. Okay. They they didn't get their their big bang big bump No, and no one shows them over The game At all it appears we got a quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m continuation of dustin versus perry orange cassidy mark briscoe backstage promo ruche versus deon rustman and the post match with mjf 702,000 viewers ooh so They started low and then they still had a big 83,000 person drop from quarter one to quarter two But it seems like with the average of the good news is at least they can't just fall off a cliff because they're already halfway down Well, here's another question So two weeks ago after the pay-per-view mjf Was not on the show and people expected him to be Right and then last week they announced him and he was there He was unannounced, right? They didn't announce he was going to be on this episode. Did they? No, I don't think he just he came out. He wasn't in a match. He wasn't in a scheduled interview. He came out In a fit of consternation over what Old rush boy had done to the job guy a surprise appearance in demoine To confront ruche Quarter three Goddamn when you just put you put it that way quarter three said he was worth the fucking plane ticket 8 30 to 8 45 p.m an ad break rogerick strong Can uh, is this the man? Yeah rogerick strong to a kesta. I can't speak rogerick strong to kesta and kyle flecher Versus kyle o'reilly mark briscoe and orange cassidy Jesus 687 thousand viewers And the only surprise is it didn't lose any more than that What? Well, the match continued into the next quarter quarter four eight forty five to nine p.m And then the post match with tremporeta chris statlander Stokely hathaway what and willow nightingale. Oh good lord an ad break And ray phoenix's backstage angle He did an angle. He did an angle I don't remember 600 and they 699 thousand viewers. Oh, so they got 12,000 back Some people must have been Out of their cars wouldn't start. I don't know Oh All right, go ahead nine o'clock hour the big nine o'clock hour A shingo takagi video Oh Christopher daniels is backstage promo. Hey guys, I'm back. That's what you want your commissioner to say Yeah, remember we were just talking about I didn't think about old shingo shingle shingo takagi Yeah, I didn't think about him because I zipped through that and then the nine o'clock hour is this guy followed by Chris daniels backstage followed by more gaga with nobody hook and samoa joe versus the premier athletes Followed by the beginning of mercedes mone versus zeusus with picture and picture 692 thousand viewers why they dropped But again, not precipitously. There's not that much further to go but you I'm amazed that people hung on through that That is one of the most amazing Here's what we're gonna put on the show at nine o'clock displays ever a takagi video into christopher daniels into joe and hook backstage We go to quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m. The continuation of mercedes mone versus zeusus They had they had to come back for zuccy Mina shirakawa's Mina shirakawa and mariah may's video I still say more people know who mitzuh era cow is the know who Mina shirakawa is Tony storms black and white promo when mariah may And then if you needed something to get people to Leave quickly Well, we'll see what happens The christ jaricho big bill brian keith private party episode of tv time With the learning tree at the end of the segment here or ended a quarter 671 thousand viewers There went another 21 000 What happens when christ jaricho appears on the screen people run So well, but the question is did they come back or did they run for good? We go now to quarter seven nine thirty to nine forty five p.m john moxley and tetsuya naido's video an ad break The bullet club gold backstage promo nick comorato Versus daniel garcia Will osprey's backstage promo an ad break and pax promo 618 thousand viewers. Are we gonna finish this thing up below 600 grand? Good lord, that's People are that jericho thing at the end of that previous segment and turn it off the show That's what that is more than anything more than even the women's stuff is the jericho stuff Even the eight w fans are saying it We going out of quarter eight. I remind you there's a six minute overrun Will osprey versus ray phoenix with two picture in picture breaks 626 thousand viewers Six minute overrun Including confrontation with the world champion swerve strickland 608 thousand viewers Oh they've They've killed modern family now. They killed the big bang theory lead in they've killed modern theory modern theory modern family on the uh They've killed modern booking. I don't know my mom's theory They've killed modern booking And the greatest wrestler in the world that they just signed for millions of dollars Brought them the two lowest well, no Two of the three lowest quarters or numbers of the night. Oh good lord And again the one person who they've done some damage to with the booking But still means more than everyone else there in terms of what he's been able to prove What there are tangible results for his mjf and he appeared unannounced on this show In quarter two or whatever it was was a quarter and that was and yes And that was still the second highest rated quarter was the only other one besides the open it was over 700 thousand people And they didn't even know he was coming to Des Moines To settle things with rush the Des Moines surprise. They're calling it ladies and gentlemen But um, jim those are the dynamite ratings again. Are they making excuses? Everyone's making excuses everyone who's Everyone who can't face the facts about the booking and the talent and the feel of the show and the formatting of the show and the commentators on the show the messaging on the show Across the board the people who can't come to grips with the fact that how can you? pretend at this point Nobody nobody knows who most of these people are and they're doing shit that doesn't make any sense And you can't fucking follow it because they The most important thing in wrestling is the fans have to know Who's mad at who and who's on whose side and they have no fucking idea over there themselves You know, I never thought it was a great idea ever The idea of a reboot like wcw tried it a few times when they were alive And then when bischoff was originally going to buy them they were gonna, you know shut down and reboot. I never Believed in that because I think it just it does damage. You can't repair from you can't come back from With that said it feels like I'm not saying they should but it feels like aw needs a reboot it just all feels lost at sea and Nothing's holding viewers Their world champion doesn't feel like a world champion because of the way they've booked them MJF They're gonna take away everything he has that has helped the company because of the way they're booking him and everything that's being booked around him The crowd energy is gone You see sometimes someone will put up a clip Of the same wrestlers that are there now Three years ago four years ago even Hot crowd the pandemic even hot crowd They had people and that was from a fever. They had people really into stuff now everything is like Broadway boxing on Madison Square Garden it's dark You can't see how many people are there because They don't want you to see how many people are there Silence have you ever heard as much? Silence idol chatter in the crowd I used to watch global every day from the sport atrium at 4 p.m. On espn There was no one there. There was no one there And it was noisier than everything happening with more people in the building for dynamite It's a rough show to get through and there are people who want to pretend there people want to pretend that the talent's good enough We're all not seeing it They're not seeing it. You know what part of the problem is is that Like a reboot and I'll I'll make this comment We'll move on but if you like you said a reboot if they tried to do that the announcement they need to make Is that ladies and gentlemen we have hired? somebody to replace tony con To run this organization and restore it to its former glory But because that would be what it would take but the problem is For the people that are still there they like tony and his shit Because they're the sickos just like him the the last ones left And and for the people who have left and or the people who never watched begin with they don't give a shit if you replace tony Because they're like what the fuck they just want to see a good wrestling show Well, the other thing is and you kind of hit on it there The people there don't want anything to change with tony in terms of him being Moved aside that's the game where I always say that people need to face up to the facts. He can't do it It can't be let's surround him with people who could fix him That ain't gonna happen. He thinks he knows more about wrestling than everyone else And he doesn't And he certainly doesn't know about classic wrestling or classic booking or understand it Or have an ability to apply it Or reasonable booking and have an ability to It doesn't seem like he's ever had a reasonable connection to fucking logic and common sense But the problem is he's there And the people that work for him love him and why wouldn't you he's the most wonderful generous human being on the planet And i'm not like saying that facetiously by all he is. He's a great guy by all accounts. He's a wonderful human being and he'll Use his money his family's money to help people He's a good guy And that's why no one wants that to change because Where in life do you have a boss who doesn't care about making a profit? But it has no problem just giving everyone endless things to help them. I mean, it's again, it's a wonderful thing You will end that it In the words of kerry silken to me like 15 years ago. What am I running here make a wish? Tony really is he was then the answer should have been yes, kari. That's exactly what you're ready You did fly 40 people to fucking phoenix arizona for no reason um, but this is this is make a wish with you know a major budget It and if you're wrestling dreams can come true if no matter whether you have talent or not if you got a Funny costume that tickles a few people on indie shows and you do some good cartwheels and flippy dudes Then you can fit right in and tony will love you and make you his friend and then he flies you places on his plane And he fucking pays for this and that and the other thing and If you don't want to work you don't have to I But the the the the show ain't gonna get any better like that But i'm sure it's a wonderful place to work and I don't know what could have helped it Right now. I don't know what could help the system What could help the creative and the booking right now because when you hear things like brian danielson is next to the line That's a scary thought the people who know And have seen certain things on these shows could be a fan of his wrestling There are plenty people who I really enjoy his wrestlers who I wouldn't want to book and he's one of them and Tony's not gonna let go of this even if you try to come up with a scenario where he could save face because that's a large part of it and take a step back To work on other projects to spend time with his family. I'll still be chairman of the board and president But someone else will be taking over as head of creative as general manager running day-to-day operations I can't see him doing it I can't see him dropping anything else either and he you know, it's it's And you know and again with the tv rights renewal around the corner One way or another something's gonna have to happen pretty soon If he if he gets a good deal it Certainly justifies in his head that he's doing a great job and he continues doing what he's doing If he doesn't get a great deal, he'll spin it as being a positive And in some ways if he can get the right thing it may be If aw went to a purely streaming model It's not the craziest thing in the world if it got a lot of money And one of these streaming services threw a lot of money at them just to have this constant streaming content and wrestling fans But it's a scary thing to make that jump And you know, it's obviously It's a bigger deal still to be on television, but Well, yes, and and they're all young folks over there. They might think oh, wow, we're ahead of the curve We'll just be all on streaming. Well See of how many superstars you make over on the stream Ah Well sounds like rod serling's funeral dirge Welcome to uh the twilight zone of uh this episode the dynamite ratings review This is a we're we're later than normal We're reviewing the ratings. We're recapping and and we're re not recanting the ratings. We're re relaying the ratings And later than normal because it was a holiday Before the the program So they were late after the pro we don't understand but but here we are we believe that's the reason actually we're not even exactly certain but We are here and here I sit waiting for you to reveal this information to me much like karnak the magnificent in his questions I have no knowledge No knowledge. We yes, that's correct. Hey, what don't put a period there. That was a comma. Oh, shit I have no no. Well. Oh shit. That's an exclamation point but I have no knowledge of forethought of what you're about to reveal to me and we're going to go through this and and all you've You have an element of glee in your voice is all I can tell why I was eating popcorn That's what you maybe just hear the popcorn in my teeth. It's stolen my teeth And oh that so it wasn't you being gleeful your mouth was just popping. That's right. I was uh randomly I decided to eat popcorn in advance of this review jim Before we get to awdynamite just because we've talked about it the last few weeks important to note here nxt on the usa network june 18th 2024 724 000 viewers on average And that ain't bad for uh nxt is on a little roll here They are on quite a roll. They're well above their trend line the last three weeks have all been high Who is on this episode joe hendry? He's a nice young man. I'm glad to see he's doing well Well, I know that they're good on social media But in terms of bouncing the number he was in the opening thing here a lot of the women who just Run around with the fakest names of all time It's like they're working on a lot. I thought you've been a lot of the women were watching the show because joe hendry He is quite a looker ladies I'm talking about the lady. I don't know what you're on with joe. Uh, I was just saying joe nathan uh, joe Joe nameth no not joe nameth That's his new gimmick broadway joe hendry. He's moved from the united kingdom to the united states And now he's a new yorker broadway joe hendry Ethan page was again on the show trick williams and the usual stars. So this says something Again, no strong competition like vander pump or actually, I think vander pump is on tuesdays, but I don't know Nothing really big. Maybe he ain't pumping as hard as he used to but nxt on a bit of a role and like we said previously they've reversed position-wise look wise feel wise Where they were and where aew was and I think You kind of have to put them together still from the very beginning the wednesday night war nxt left to become a brand new nxt And look at it now So that's the nxt number 724 000 that is correct gym aew dynamite on tbs wednesday june 19th 8 to 10 o 8 p.m on average 502 000 viewers Oh good lord have mercy christ on a cracker Now I am already hearing from people inside the company quite frankly saying well look the big bank theory wasn't the lead in Well wait, wait a whole come on Wait, it was only black panther. It was only one of the biggest movies of all time for marvel It wasn't the big bank theory The empty seventh airing of a sitcom from 10 or 12 years however many years ago Was not our lead in instead. It was a blockbuster hollywood movie. So it cost us 2,000 people. What the hello? mcfly And also now they've said the nba finals the last few weeks has had Some impact what what else was on on the other channel wednesday night the fucking super bowl I believe there was hockey. There was baseball on there was a kendrick lomar streaming concert online So there were other things for anyone who was looking for any reason not to watch aew 500 are you sure well 500 and 2000 viewers on average According to brandon thurston wrestle nomics New record low for a non preempted episode New record low in the key demo for a non preempted episode And then it says note. I've confirmed independently the rating measurement is not an error Because everyone had the same reaction. Whoa We said they were gonna catch up the rampage. I didn't think was gonna happen the next week Well, where did they start and where did they finish and who were the people involved in the program that really ran people away? Who are the The raids kills fans dead In this episode Well, we go now 8 to 8 15 p.m. Quarter one ruche versus mjf 586,000 viewers. Oh what in the world? No big bang worry. It says a lot about what the big bank theory means aw we joke about it a lot A lot we joke about it. It's true She'll put the biggest draw on aw But what I mean, it's it's a fucking it's reruns of a situation comedy that has been on before A number of times how can this Be and then if they're watching a big bang theory, why don't we know that a hundred thousand of them? tune out normally but not What the fuck It begs the question too how much of the big bang theory viewership is real versus dvr, but Again, I don't know enough about how these are broken down to figure that out quarter two And by the way, why does anybody watch that fucking show? The big bang theory. It's the worst show ever who likes any of those fucking stupid people I want to see a triple threat the Seinfeld cast versus the always sunny cast versus the big bang theory cast And then I want Seinfeld and always sunny to just gang up on those assholes and just kick the bloody shit out of them Yeah, I like always sunny, but I think I'm on team Seinfeld here Well, I didn't that's why I said they'll just team up and kick the shit out of the other assholes Cop out what kind of book are you? What kind of ending to it is that that's all? Well, that says standard triple threat fucking match. It doesn't have to make any sense Speaking of not making any sense. Where'd they go in quartered? They can't fall much further. They won't hit their fucking average quarter two eight 15 to 8 30 p.m ruche versus mjf continued The post match with the cage of agony They were the cage of agony now they're called the cage of agony the cage of agony and hatchet chero Hatchet chero hatchet chitia Orange Cassidy and mark briscoe and friends backstage promo and ad break Will osprey and swerve strickland's live confrontation 542 thousand viewers So they put enough dreck in the middle of their two biggest three biggest stars mjf swerve and Will That they still lost 44,000 people off of the worst start ever Weird question before we go any more forward here But you may know How often does nielsen change the homes? That it looks to right because if you're a nielsen home, you're not necessarily that forever. Are you? No, and actually on a local level We used to be able to tell With the ov doti numbers when they switched homes because suddenly we'd be on a String of 1.2 1.3 1.4 and suddenly it'd be like point bug in six. What the fuck? and it was I don't know period of several months and they but But generally with the national Samplings and etc etc That I mean it's still imperfect, but that does somewhat correct itself, but no it Think about this how If this was if it was a result of just switching the the people that are being measured It would happen more than once every four or five fucking years So They've been chugging right along and it's suddenly pew And that that that ain't just change it. Pew By the way, someone tweeted out On this day, we remember the time that tim horner suggested increasing ratings for smoky mount wrestling by going to the local electronic store and yes, all the tv's to smoky mount yes Yes, and for the benefit of those of you who have not heard the story firsthand me and tim horner and sandy scott are sitting there talking to each other the week before that our show debuts on Fox 43 in noxville on sunday morning And I made the comment Well, we're gonna hope that every tv station in noxville is tuned to fox 43 on sunday morning And horners said You know, we ought to sneak down there to I can't remember what to fuck the name of the goddamn television store But we ought to sneak down there to joe's tv store and put all the goddamn tv's on channel 43 The sneaking down there is an underrated part of the story. We should sneak down. Yeah sneak in there Having all the tv's what's going on? Is it a ghost? And sandy and I looked at him waiting for him to laugh and he didn't and then He looked at us looking at him like he had turds hanging out of his mouth and then it dawned on him that it probably They wouldn't be able to tell anyway, would they? Anyway quarter three quarter three eight thirty to eight forty five p.m. continuation of osprey strickland and prince nana The don callus family backstage promo Who is it? Who's even in that family and do they speak to each other? Where's hobbs? Half of don callus's segments are what people outside of his family now An ad break Roger extra on kanosuke tekeshta kyle fletcher and kyle sabre junior versus dante martin kyle o'reilly mark briscoe and orange Cassidy wait a minute. How many kiles with picture and picture How many kiles was in that eight-man tag team match now that you've just rattled that off? Kyle fletcher and kyle o'reilly And and kiles you said kyle sabre junior What's his name? What is zack's xc? I was gonna go with it. I was oh and kyle sabre junior was in it Well, why not why not the american the american audience don't know who he is anyway. It doesn't matter 496 000 viewers. Oh Sweet jesus says persie prengle would say Well, there went another 46 000 people They've got to come back up. They can't keep dropping mathematically We're going out of quarter four eight forty five to nine p.m The continuation of the giant match that I listed off before With more picture and picture ads and a mercedes-monnais video 489 000 viewers and 194 000 in the key demo And again, so they broke 200 on dynamite in the key demo. Wow This program is on every wednesday night in this time slot If people were watching it on purpose They wouldn't care whether the big bang theory was on beforehand or not and they would have figured out That they were missing something that they normally enjoy by about nine o'clock or so an hour in wouldn't you think? And what what is it is the big bang theory audience a bunch of paraplegics that don't have the steven hawking thing on their tv remote where they can blow into it and change the channel They're just stuck with it I can't speak to their audience. I'm not one of them Jim we go now to the big nine o'clock hour quarter five nine to nine fifteen p.m Roosh and Don callous's backstage angle The acclaimed and okada's ramp angle A ramp bang Now they pulled that old chestnut out of vaudeville the ramp angle brandon thurston does a very good job Compiling the statistics. He does a very bad job of labeling. What is an angle and what isn't he's not sure of the exact terminology, but we love thurston howl the third and young bucks versus the acclaimed with picture in picture 492 000 viewers So at the top of the nine o'clock hour they stayed even with They're they're they're big guns there the big boys the big stars Well, we go from that to quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m Samoa Joe and hooks backstage angle Tony storm Mina shirakawa Her bosom Mariah may live promo angle with saraya Now with saraya yes starring saraya Harley-Cabrin Adajay an ad break a claudio castignoli and pack video 523 000 viewers Well, there you go. You got 20 to 31 000 fans of tits An ass don't forget the ass an ass. There's some ass there. It's a fucking it's ass everywhere in adw It smells like ass every time the ratings come out, but we go now to quarter seven nine thirty to nine forty five p.m Nila rose versus chris statlander with picture in picture The post match with stokely hathaway willow nightingale And that's it and willow nightingale You know what more people know who the actors are in the commercials in the ad breaks than know who a lot of these fucking people are But go ahead a recap Private party chris jericho big bill and brian keith's backstage angle Which i'm guessing is so jericho didn't have to show up for work and ret titus versus daniel garcia 498 000 viewers Well, at least they didn't lose all that they gained. They only lost Well out of the 31 000 they only lost 25 000 I remind you there's an eight minute overrun. Oh, of course there is quarter eight nine forty They literally announced it in the billboard where they show the matches and the images of the rest was the last one was overrun Maybe maybe they should term it overstay as in overstaying your welcome Well, we'll find out 945 to 10 p.m. Quarter eight The post match of garcia versus titus with matman ard The cage of agony Hetchett shero mjf Will osprey and an ad break also Osprey and cage's backstage angle and the start of claudio castignoli versus pack with picture in picture 431 thousand viewers. Oh my god overrun 423 000 Viewers oh gee they lost me they drove away viewers that tuned in to see the next program Oh so On the positive side, they didn't lose as big a percentage of their overall audience as the audience they started with as they usually do They only went from 586 000 to 423 000 They've done quarter hours that have lost more people than that That's only 163 000 people But the problem was when they were losing people that many people in a quarter they started with like 900 grand What could this be I mean again The show's been bad. We haven't been surprised the ratings keep going down even with competition or without it I'm not surprised they end up with these numbers. I'm surprised that happened this week What do you think I mean again no big bang theory and obviously We had no idea just how important that lead in was to this show Work again if if they didn't want to watch the show when they watch the big bang theory every week If they don't want to watch the show that's on after it Then they could just change the channel Is that the only they was well we might as well sit here and watch this wrestling show for a while Even though it's not something we really want to But when big bang theory isn't on they don't miss it So again, we're looking at outside forces a concert streaming sports on other channels The nba finals didn't fucking hurt them. It's that was over. This was not against the nba finals, correct No, the nba finals are over. I mean, it's hockey. There's hockey still happening in baseball Oh, there's hockey all there's goddamn badminton too And I bet you they're I don't think they get in prime time badminton for the record. They're playing a mean game of croquet somewhere again, not prime time But unless there's a specific channel the croquet channel But we're looking at all these outside things it could be Let's look at let's look at it if people were just outside But do they just go outside? No, we don't want to watch television. I like ruche You haven't but even with me liking him. He hasn't been used. Well, he doesn't mean much to the casual viewer Whatever that may mean to whoever it may mean it to He's in the opening thing with mjf leading to mjf starting a feud with hechichero Again another name no one no one knows Orange Cassidy, I've been saying it if not warning people for a long time. You've been saying it It's not just what you think of him It's this is five years of this He's not a net positive for the show And he drags everyone else in every segment down with him Swordsman booked into oblivion already People like osprey Unfortunately, you're at the point now you're waiting for them to fuck it up You had a bunch of people in an eight man tag Out of nowhere just an eight man tag to drive off another 50,000 viewers Why why why are you dedicating your tv time just to get a bunch of people out there? And then it keeps going jericho wasn't even on with this stupid segment on this show You have the women's segments which drive people off regularly the young bucks who regularly drive people off are in one of the main things There's no one that actually interests people on this show How much money do they spend for o kodi to sit there and say bitch in a bad accent? Once a week and toniel say everything's great. We're all wrong It doesn't matter how many years you've been watching wrestling or how much you know your stuff. You're wrong. Tony's right This is good stuff. Good run of tv shows Everything's great What do you think tbs thinks what what did you say? Oh, no, everything's great Well, there it is everything's great A good run and i'm sorry good run while it lasted Claudio versus pac in the main event if you wanted that to mean anything to any fans it should have happened like six years ago I think it did an nxt way back But that's my point like what is this show? Where are the main eventers? Where are the stars? Where are the interesting things happening? You can't wait to see what's gonna happen next Who's on whose side? Who's mad at who and why in a logical? fashion just simple shit like that Boy, I gotta i'm dying to know what the story is with this rating Again, there's a lot of things that go together the bad booking the lack of star power the lack of big banging It but this is extra. I mean this is extraordinarily low to quote jerry jaret to robert fuller in 1979 robert it can't get much worse And to quote robert fuller to jerry jaret right back at him. Oh, yes, it can According to wrestle nomics in terms of competition dynamite was outranked in the key demo On cable by the college world series on espn And by expedition unknown on discovery Wait, so people watched the show where they were taking a trip to somewhere they didn't even know where they were going And that was viewed by more people Well, remember when we laughed when tna was on destination america and in pop tv And we were laughing at some of the programs that were on those various Networks apparently maybe now those would outrate this fine show We got we got to see what next week and next week's got to be up It certainly will be I mean just because it can't go but it can't go much lower. It can't oh, yes It can't right now. I don't think it will I would be stunned. Yeah, I would be stunned 0.16 in the key demo I mean that's the one thing people always hold up. Well, they did good in the key demo They got killed in the key demo. It's right up there with a charity telethon, isn't it? Well jim on the topic of running your own shop and starting up your own shop That's what tony kahn did a few years ago just a little guy with A few billion dollars that he has access to because his dad said sure And he started up the little engine that could that is aw last week's ratings caused a panic amongst aw friends and family and defenders This week you have to figure has to recover But before we get there. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, you know, there's gonna be some it can't get much worse But go ahead Well, it's just briefly because we've been mentioning it the last few weeks in comparison nxt on june 25th this past week 8 to 10 o 5 p.m Was watched by 611 thousand viewers on average So that's down from 7 24 last week so What do they attribute the the drop to? Or do they attribute the drop to anything well according to muslimomics nxt was number four in prime time on cable in the key demo Behind fox sports ones coverage of the copa america and history channel and history channels the secret of skin walker ranch I think I mean Skywalker ranch was george lucas's home. Is there a skin walker ranch? Yes of it. It's right across the street from the bunny ranch and They've got a special if you're an nba player with drugs you get in two for one All right. Well, that's nxt. Let's get it at 611. Okay. Well, they still they beat Last week's aew mark. Uh, but let's see what aew did this week aew this past week wednesday june 26 2024 8 to 10 o 8 p.m on tbs On average jim 680 thousand viewers Okay, well they They bounced I don't know if it was a bouncer just kind of a sideways wobble Maybe they need a little more air in their ball, but they bounced back somewhat from 502 thousand but With their regular lead in and no sports tournaments or play-offs or whatever They still only did 680 thousand Well, let's see what the quarters tell us the story will come out. This is compiled by wrestlenomics awdynamite on tbs june 26 2024 quarter one 8 to 8 15 p.m The mjf daniel garcia will osprey live promo 846 thousand viewers Ouch, okay, they're back to a normal handoff from the big bangers And with their average I can only assume that there is going to be a massive break in an elevator cable And this thing is going to plummet to a fucking fiery finish We've got a quarter two 8 15 8 30 p.m swerve strickland's backstage promo Hiromu takahashi shingo takagi and titan I swear to fucking god versus claudio castigdoli John moxley and wheeler yuda with picture in picture 706 thousand viewers It snapped early 140 thousand people right off the bat said oh, this would not be for me And we've always said quarter two is the true number the true starting number for this show is probably quarter two and there it is quarter three 8 30 8 45 p.m The continuation of that big six man match the post match with tetsuya naido and brian danielson an ad break and the start of ray phoenix versus j white 631 thousand viewers Oh good lord So that six man tag did wonders for him in 45 minutes. They have lost 215 thousand people they They almost have to come up somewhere at this point to make their average don't they well we got a quarter four 8 45 to 9 p.m The continuation of ray phoenix versus j white with picture in picture The post match with the bang bang gang and the patriarchy The young bucks backstage promo and an ad break 613 thousand viewers well apparently they don't have to go back up too soon there went another rubber tree plant uh, they've got high hopes there went so they are down 233 thousand from the start in the first hour Well, we go now to the big nine o'clock hour quarter five 9 to 9 15 p.m The acclaimed and billy gun and the elites live confrontation Mark briscoe kylo riley and orange castities backstage promo Anna j harley cameron and saraya Versus mariah may they say that already I don't know everyone's names I Mariah saraya Mina shirokawa ed tody storm with picture in picture 707 thousand viewers Holy shit. So the pervs come alive at 9 p.m The the pervs come out at 9 o'clock the lollypop guild for once didn't run people off because they put vagina Immediately following them something that the buckaroos have never had anything to do with so you got variety It's a variety show now Well, jim they haven't seen one since they came out of it The variety continues in quarter six nine 15 and 9 30 p.m the continuation of the six woman match the post match The stefanie vacor video The mercedes mone promo The learning tree minoru sezuki samoa joe live promo and angle with hook and shabata 717 thousand viewers Good lord. They actually got 10 000 more for that. Well, bless their little pee picking hearts But do you remember what happened the last couple times when it had jericho at the end of a segment for a little while? Yeah, I do. Yeah, I do now imagine That natural reaction from viewers Combined with quarters seven nine thirty nine forty five p.m. An ad break Kyle O'Reilly versus zack sabre jr. With picture in picture 637 thousand viewers Okay, so there went another 80 thousand people so They're still now 200 and 9 000 from where they started from They're up from their low of 613 thousand people Go ahead. Well, we go to quarter eight jim. I remind you there is a seven minute overrun quarter eight nine 45 to 10 p.m Kyle O'Reilly, rzack sabre jr. Continued the post match with tmdk undisputed kingdom Gabe kid and tomohiro ishii And ad break And the start of swerve strickland and will osprey versus the gates of agony with picture and picture 615 thousand viewers Seven minute overrun The continuation of the match and the post match 617 thousand viewers gee that's just By the bathroom break fluctuation go ahead the ad break Average not counting the first quarter or the overrun is 660 Yeah So they they artificially inflated only 20 000 people with their manipulation and it still didn't but that's Start to finish 230 thousand people 30 31 or 30 or whatever the fuck That was um Wait a minute. What is What is 200 and what percentage and i'll be i've asked you these things before what percentage is 230 000 of 846 thousand How do you do that all right hold on give me a second here what is What percentage of 846 thousand is 230 000 give me the first number again 840 846 is where they started 846 230 is what they lost what percentage did they lose 230 Carry the three 27.18 percent Quarter of their audience Almost a third closer to a yeah, actually you're right. Yeah Well, there you go Well, there it is jim a historical look at historical ratings Forget about where we are today or where we were before then this specific period of time That sounds like some fucking strawberry alarm clock lyrics Yeah, forget where we are now because we were where we were then Come together right now You know what they should call them hysterical instead of historical ratings, but we that's uh What we've done there and we've committed it to posterity And there ought to be some people committed over this whole thing to begin with that's right We hope you enjoyed volume three there will be a volume four in the future stay tuned for that But until then for jim cornet i'm the great brian last tell you With whoop you can focus on living better for longer Understand your sleep optimize your training and build habits that support your well-being Whoop gives you personalized insights into your sleep your recovery Your strain and the patterns that may influence how you feel with more clarity and consistency You can create routines that support you throughout the year add more life to every moment Discover whoop at whoop.com