Jim Cornette Experience Special - AEW Dynamite Ratings Omnibus, Volume 2

Hello again friends! And you are our friends, the Great Brian Last here, you there, we are back on the bus, Omnibus season, volume 2 of what was a popular Omnibus, what is a popular weekly segment, as times are changing and streaming is entering the picture, Jim Cornette's AEW ratings Omnibus volume 2. And of course here's the man who breaks down these ratings each and every week, the leader of the Cult of Cornette. Mr. Jim Cornette. Well I don't know Brian, if you could say I break them down, I think the company itself is doing a pretty good job of breaking them down and putting the boots to them, we just report them here and you've got every bit as much of your hand in this as I do, reading these numbers such as you do, you know you're like Vanna White, you gotta be able to read these numbers or else you're very integral to the show. Did you see one time they said, well you know Vanna White was saying in her defense because everybody said she was an air-headed blonde, she said well I have to be able to turn the fucking letters around, I have to know what the letters are, they light up, she had a distinguished light from darkness, but she's now 65 years old or whatever, she's still out there doing that. Usually when I think of AEW ratings I think here's a chance to put down Vanna White. Here's a chance to just eviscerate Vanna White, but no this is a very integral period, you know we've been talking about the ratings since they went on the air, but every year, every month, every week it seems like it's gotten more and more important to focus on these things. This omnibus, number two, covers the period of May through December of 2023, our contemporaneous accounts of what was going on, and boy howdy, in hindsight this is kind of a very interesting period because this is where in the present day they are currently on, you know, all kinds of antibiotics and machines because of the infections they've gotten from the self-inflicted wounds that they gave themselves in the period of May to December 2023, where Tony again proved that he couldn't figure out who to hire and who to fire and who not to fire and which one was which, and they've made decisions that they still are suffering from today, so we can see them now as we talked about them then and the fact that this wasn't going to be good and it ain't been. Well these ratings may not be great, but we now call them the glory days of AEW ratings. Let's take this look back, volume one of course is already available, let's go to volume two, Jim Cornette's look at AEW ratings, omnibus volume two. All right, now I know the number, I've gotten a heads up on the numbers that again they're no better or worse than they usually are, but the people actually wanted to see this basically two guys dropping down and taking a shit in the middle of the ring, so they did better at the end of the program, but what are the exact statistics this week? This week's AEW Dynamite, May 10th on TBS, was watched by on average 877,000 viewers. And over the past several weeks it's been 860, 830, 830, 860, 860, so we're in the bout in the range. Well the show opened up and these were compiled by WrestleNomics, the show opened up 8-8 to 15 PM segment one, Claudio Castagnoli versus Ray Phoenix with picture in picture, 866,000 viewers. And again, we gotta have somebody find out for us if the business, the Big Bang Theory business, the bottoms dropping out of it, because they were always over a million at start, now they're not even over 900 at the start and that's the Big Bang. Well again, what they're handing off. A lot of things happening on TV right now specifically with the NBA, so that may play a part of it, but segment two, 815, 830 PM, Miro backstage, the MJF video, the Blackpool Combat Club and Elite video, FTR Mark Briscoe, Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Sanjay Dutt, Satnam angle and Chris Jericho and Roddy Strong's backstage angle, 859,000 viewers. So they only lost 7,000, that ain't as bad as normal, so every once in a while it's 100,000. Well they started so much lower here, but segment three, 830 to 845 PM, Thunder Rosa showing up backstage, the Sammy Guevara video, Tony Khan's backstage announcement of a future announcement, and Orange Cassidy versus Daniel Garcia, 880,000 viewers. Can you believe that? They got 21,000 back, actually more than back, they didn't have them to begin with. I do believe that because I also think unless you knew the main event was on last and if you wanted to see it, you'd probably start tuning in closer to 9 o'clock thinking it could be them. Very true, continue. Segment four, the continuation of Orange Cassidy versus Daniel Garcia with Picture in Picture, as well as an outcast and Hecaru Sheeta video and Christian Cage's promo, 878,000 viewers. And they only lost two, so they're flat again. So apparently in this particular week, everybody that started out with this program said, okay, we want to watch this tonight. They've given us the pay-per-view level lineup, so we're going to stick with it. This is the least variation they've had. They've been down seven and up 14 from the start, the whole fucking show through so far. Segment five, the nine o'clock hour, 9 to 9.15 PM. Barbie Allen's video, as well as Anna J versus Julia Hart with Picture in Picture, Falls Count Anywhere or No Holds Bar, I think that's what it was. Yes. 877,000 viewers. So they only lost a thousand more. If they didn't run them off with Anna J and Julia Hart, they ain't going anywhere. Segment six, 9.15 to 9.30 PM. Orange Cassidy and the Best Friends promo, as well as the House of Black versus Bandito and the Best Friends with Picture in Picture, 842,000 viewers. Ouch, okay, I'm sorry. Anna J and Julia Hart didn't run them off, but Pockets did. There's 35,000. They just wanted to get away from him. They promised they'd come back. Segment seven, 9.30 to 9.45 PM. Kyle Fletcher is attacking Orange Cassidy backstage. Jack Perry's video, Ricky Starks' video, and the beginning of Kenny Omega versus John Moxley, 880,000 viewers. And Son of a Bitch, they came right back as soon as they cut Pockets off the screen. And finally, segment eight, 9.45 to 10 PM. John Moxley versus Kenny Omega in a cage with Picture in Picture, as well as the post-match angle with Don Callis, 937,000 viewers. And that is amazing that they picked up another 57,000 people in the last segment that they never grow in, that they hemorrhage viewers in, and that can you remember another AEW program where the last 15 minutes was the highest rated quarter in the whole program? I don't think there's ever been one. I'm looking for it now. I don't know about highest rated quarter, but I think the last time I remember a rise, I got a check here, may have been the Kenny Omega versus El Jijo del Vikingo match, which again goes into something about if Kenny Omega is the guy who at the very beginning of AEW, a lot of fans were pumped up to see, and then AEW, they made him the world champion, but you can argue about how well he's been booked or not booked. People still want to see him as a single star, I think more than they want to see every other way they've been using him. And again, there may be physical limitations because of his injuries. Well, but I think you're right because think about it, the best of seven series where people had to watch him and the Buccaroos and the Six Man's, they lost six figures of viewers at the end of every program. And every time he's in another one of these multi-person things with his little friends, it loses viewers. But then of course this was a cage match, but still as a single for whatever reason, people want to see this douchebag. So I have to admit that. I found it right here AEW Dynamite March 22nd. The show opened for the record, 1,016,000 viewers that was Darby and Orange Cassidy and Sting versus the Butcher to Blake and Kipsavion. But segment three, which was the factory video in Tony Storm versus Sky Blue was 9-11. And then it went up to 9-65 and 9-69 for the final two, which was Kenny Omega versus El Jijo de Vikingo. So not a huge rise, but certainly over segment six, there was a rise. Well, I tell you what, if it had been my television program, I'd have liked Jesus Christ, almost a million people watched the last 15 minutes for the first time and they have to see that. It was just, I don't care whether people watched or not, it was embarrassing. And you may have liked it as a fan, but if you're in the wrestling business, again, I draw the analogy does a fucking the star of the metropolitan opera get offended when they hear Millie Vanilly selling records. It's the shits. It's embarrassing. And I don't know that you should want to root for people to watch this kind of stuff because then it makes people want to do more of this kind of shit. And then we're where we are today because that's all they've done now for the past 20 years and do more of that shit. Ha. The problem is the moxley stuff specifically, Tony lets him do anything he wants to do and his ideas are really, really bad. Brock Lesnar experience that years ago. Other people in that company may have experienced that too. Moxley has bad ideas that he's convinced are really good and he wants to do them and he only wants to do them. And to me, it's just as lame as it could be. It was just a manufactured group that he put together. He declared they were dope. They're feuding with the elite. We really don't even know why Danielson couldn't even comprehensively explain or coherently explain why last week. We're doing this because we want to make you better and we want people to be better and you're amateur. Where is this coming from? It always improved me when somebody would correct me by stabbing me in the face with a screwdriver. Not very good. But there people seem to like it and that was AEW. Jim, did you see the ratings for this week's show? No, I haven't. And we've been on a path for the last several weeks where they are starting lower than they used to, but they're keeping more of their audience. So they're not having the high highs or the low lows. They're kind of just in the mid-mid. Is that trend continuing this week or are we seeing a change in pattern? Well, we'll see what you think of this. The average rating for AEW Dynamite on May 17th was 814,000 viewers. Ouch, okay. That's in the 800s that they've been doing, but the lower range of them. There was some strong competition. The NBA playoffs were actually the finals are on TNT. Also Vanderpump Rules, which is a big hit. What the f- Who is Vanderpump? I know. Who is Vanderpump and what are his rules? Is this a sporting show? Is this what is this show about? And who's this guy Vanderpump? I have no idea. Why? Why is he made his own rules? Holy shit. You want to hear something else? That's pretty funny. I'm looking at this. I got these were compiled by Wrestlenomics, by the way. Are they in the Vanderpump business too? Dynamite did worse than the premiere of Rich and Shame was featuring Hulk Hogan and Gawker on TNT, which had 854,000 viewers. Where they lost to Hulk Hogan on this night. And now were they opposite or was it a different time? It says they were also outranked by the Hulk Hogan Gawker premiere. But that was on like 11 o'clock at night. Okay, so maybe I'm wrong there. Maybe I'm wrong. So more people at 11 o'clock at night, if that's the case, watch that. Then Dynamite, but let's go to the ratings here. See what story they tell. Segment one, eight to eight 15 p.m. The Wardlow Christian Cage Luchasaurus promo and angle. Darby Allen and Orange Cassidy versus Big Bill and Lee Mariarty with picture in picture. 908,000 viewers. Okay, and that's not showing a good sign considering their average for what's going to happen from here. But go ahead. Segment two, the continuation of Darby Allen and Orange Cassidy versus Big Bill and Lee Mariarty as well as the Young Bucks Blackpool Combat Club backstage angle and Wardlow and Arn Anderson's backstage promo. We didn't talk about that. Well we did. That's where he challenged them to the ladder match. Arn said nothing of interest. As well as Sammy Guevara versus Optimus Prime. 876,000 viewers. Okay, so there went 32,000 in the first 15 minutes. Against strong competition, of course. Segment three. What would you have to have to not be strong competition to Big Bill and Lee Mariarty against Pockets and fucking Pussy as partner? I don't know who these people are. Let me stop the ratings real quick. You and I both have no awareness of the show. I see some of the names of the people on it in the New York Post every now and then, but I don't know anything about it. What do you think Vander Prump rules is? I've just told you I have no idea who this guy is or what his rules are or what his occupation is or what the whole concept of this thing is about. All right, well that was the competition for this segment three. I thought you were going to tell me. I don't know. I'm trying to figure that out. I can look that up after I get the ratings here. Well we got to do the ratings. Segment three. 838, 45 PM. Big of Aura's live promo as well as the FTR Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Sanjay Dutt, Satnam Singh, Karen Jarrett Angle, Darby Allen's promo and the start of Ruby Soho and Tony Storm vs. Akara Sita and Britt Baker, 832,000 viewers. Ouch, okay. Now we've bled another 44,000 so that means we're down 76,000 from the start of the program. But again, Vanderpump may have been just ruling all over the place by this point in time. We don't know. Segment four, 845 to 9 PM. The continuation of Soho and Storm vs. Sita and Baker with Picture in Picture, Orange Cassidy's promo, Tony Khan's big announcement, 762,000 viewers. Jesus, age Christ on a cracker. So that's another 38, 68, 70,000 people bringing the total in the first hour. They started at 9.08 and ended at 762. That is 146,000 people they lost in an hour. Hey, listen, that's Segment. I'm sorry. The women's match, Orange Cassidy who, if you're not already an Orange Cassidy fan, you're sick of them and Tony Khan's announcement, which the first one I popped a number. And since that time he's on was every week making an announcement, that's why you have that number there for that quarter. But coming out of that, the big nine o'clock hour, Segment five, it's got to go up. Roddy Strong vs. Chris Jericho, Falls Count Anywhere with Picture in Picture and Adam Cole. 816,000 viewers. Okay, so they got 30, 40, 54,000 back of the 146,000 they're down. Segment five. No, Segment six. Excuse me. Rouge vs. Jack Perry with Picture in Picture and the post-match angle with Sammy Gamar, Darby Allen, Preston Vance and the assistant guy. 799,000 viewers. Boy, they should have wished that suddenly they had a blackout on the east coast on that segment, but they're down again another 17. Segment seven. 930 to 945 p.m. MJF's promo, as well as J. White vs. Ricky Starks with Picture in Picture, 753,000 viewers. Jesus. So that's another 46, I got to work on my math. 36,000 they've lost. So good Lord. Again, now they're in the worst spot they've been. They're down 155,000 people from the start of the program. And finally, Segment eight. 945 to 10 p.m. The continuation of J. White vs. Ricky Starks. Don Callis's live promo and the angle with the elite in Blackpool Combat Club in the return of Hangman Adam Page. 769,000 viewers. So 16,000 back at the end. So they started at 908 and finished at 769. That's a total attrition from start to finish of 100 and 30, 140, 139,000 people. Can I say something for everyone? I want to get your opinion on this for everyone who's talking about the strong competition. And again, not to take anything away from the NBA finals or whatever's happening in the world of Vanderpump. But they did a big angle last week. They did a pretty big angle. We're going to finally get some answers we would think from Don Callis here after that big angle last week. They couldn't pop anything for that. They couldn't get someone who just wanted to see some resolution. Well, I think it's how hard do you need to make somebody to work to get there after what they had previously seen? They're like, well, you know, I don't care as much as I did at the start of this thing. They're going to sit around and just wait through this. Is the idea that wrestling can never beat or never do a better number on a night where there's an NBA finals or a Vanderpump? Or if it was something the audience was really captivated with, would they say, you know what, I got to tune out and check out that other thing for 15 minutes? That's the thing. No one, there was no audience that was like, I got to hear what Don Callis says after that turn. I don't, you know, again, from years back, the wrestling fans watched the wrestling program. If there was goddamn chaos going on outside their home and fires in the streets, they didn't miss the wrestling show because they wanted to see it. They had to see it. And that's not the case anymore because it all looks the same. And if you didn't see somebody drawn and quartered and eviscerated and they're fat sold for soap in Seg six, you'll see it again in Seg nine or next week, they'll do it again. So I think we've just, you know, now that nobody's really the people that are there for anything are paying the close attention and everybody else is like, what the fuck's going on here? But again, that's, you know, when you make something so forgettable and disposable, people don't care that much anymore. Well, that was dynamite and I don't care that much anymore. Speaking of not caring, would you like to move on across the street to smack down? No, I really wouldn't. Can we talk about more animal deaths or something? So the question is how many people ignored this television program last Wednesday night? Let me pull that up right here. I have some ratings information. This was compiled by Wrestlenomix. AEW Dynamite for the 24th of May was watched on TBS by 846,000 viewers on average. Do you have the last several weeks? I would have to pull them up. Give me, you'd have to give me a couple of minutes. Yeah. Well, we'll go through this. It doesn't even need to be read because it can be said. Over the last six weeks, have they not had, they've had five of them that were somewhere between the 820 and 860 range and then they had the 1,900 outlier, but they're spinning in the same place. There's not any more wide variations. They don't have big shows that do over a million anymore and then it settles down like they were for a while and they don't have, honestly, they don't have the big numbers that to start with that they used to, but they start and finish somewhere within a range of the same thing every fucking week. I have the numbers here. Here's February. 901, 899, 827, 1,028,000. Here's March. 833, 858, 852, 954, 833. Here's April. 877, 866, 830, 863, and finally May, which we're in the middle of. Or towards the end of 776, 877, 814, and now 846. Okay. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. In the last 13 weeks since they popped that one million, whatever, at the end of February, they've had one audience in the 900s and one in the 700s and everything else has been in the middle of 800. That's pretty flat. Go ahead. Well, this episode May 24th, the first segment, 8 to 815 p.m., Orange Cassidy versus Kyle Fletcher with picture in picture, 906,000 viewers. All right. That's what they start with from the Big Bang and how many of those people were around for the last five minutes of that fucking fiasco 15 minutes later? Well, again, after the Big Bang, it took a while for the planets to end up where they were going to end up and things to start to grow. But segment two, 815, 830 p.m., the continuation of Pockets versus Kyle Fletcher, Ricky Starks' Backstage Promo, Jungle Boys Promo, and the FTR Mark Briscoe Jarrett and Friends live promo segment, 923,000 viewers. What? How did they manage to pick up 17,000 people for that 15 minutes of dreck? Was it the announcement? Are they tuning in to hear the announcement? No way. Well, I shouldn't comment on anything else. We're going to the ratings one. Segment three, 830 to 845 p.m., the Sammy Guevara promo, the House of Black versus A.R. Fox Metallique, Metalik, excuse me, and Blake Christian with picture in picture, 919,000 viewers. OK, so they're back down four, but they're 13,000 ahead of the first quarter hour, which they never do. And this is telling me that we are soon to find the precipice off of which the lemmings are about to drop. And before the Blackpool Combat Club promo, MJF and Darby Allen's live in ring confrontation and then the promo, excuse me, the angle after that, 873,000 viewers. OK, so unfortunately, because of. I think they mistimed it. I think that was supposed to be up at nine o'clock and it was up at eight fifty two or whatever the four pillars, but they've dropped twice at forty six thousand people. The nine o'clock hour, segment five, nine to nine fifteen p.m. The Wardlow video, Tya Valkyrie versus Lady Frost. Oh boy, here it comes. And Tony Khan's big announcement, eight hundred and forty seven thousand viewers. OK, so they lost twenty six thousand from the last quarter of the first hour, but they got the announcement. And if that is indeed what was keeping. People through the rest of this crummy fucking program now that are through the first part of this crummy program, now that the announcement has been done. Is this where gravity takes over? Segment five nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m. The Adam Page promo, the Adam Cole, Chris Jericho contract signing and a Tony Storm video. Eight hundred and forty six thousand viewers. They lost one thousand. Oh, where the where the fuck are these people going to go? Where is this average going to go? Segment seven nine thirty to nine forty five p.m. Daniel Garcia versus Roger Strong with picture in picture. Seven hundred and thirty three thousand viewers. That's OK. But wait a minute, that was the only thing listed for that quarter that didn't go fifteen minutes. That's the only thing listed here for this quarter with picture in picture. Good Lord, it didn't seem like that. But well, the final quarter. So well, wait a minute. So the point is there went a hundred and thirteen thousand people. And I've got to think the eight forty six. In seg six after the announcement is people were waiting around. There's going to be something else said, right? One would think what about punk? Are we going to get a card? Anything else? And then they got tired of it. Also, you realize there's not a mention of punk. And then after that Jericho segment, if you sat through that and saw Sabu, the next thing you see is Garcia just wandering around ringside waiting for his match. It was kind of awkward. Everyone else left. But the final segment segment eight nine forty five to ten p.m. the Lucha Brothers versus Claudio Castagnoli and Will Arruda and the post match angle with the Blackpool Combat Club and the Young Bucks seven hundred and eighteen thousand viewers. Good Lord. OK. So. They kept everything. I mean, you you can't argue with the first hour at all. Nine oh six nine twenty three nine nineteen and eight seventy three. But then they got their announcement. Eight forty seven eight forty six seven thirty three and seven eighteen. They end up a hundred and eighty. What is that? Eight thousand people down from the start, which is. Over 20 percent of the fucking starting audience in two hours. Now that Tony has CM punk back in the fold, but seeing how these ratings are playing out, do you think Tony should sign Vanderpump to go against CM punk? If we could just figure out who this fucking Vanderpump guy is and what his finish is. It would be great because I still don't know. But what were the ratings on this fiasco? Let me get comfortable before I hear these things. I'm stretching my hip out. Oh, I'm stretching. OK, I'm getting comfortable. All right. What's the story? The story this week, May 31st, A.W. Dynamite on TBS was nine hundred and twenty three thousand viewers. Oh, now what was different about this program as opposed to the ones that have been getting eight hundred and something thousand? It wasn't certainly any better in quality. One must think that something was teased. A possible carrot was dangled on the proverbial stick as to people might hear something that they wanted to hear. Well, we'll see how the ratings play out. But the show opens segment one eight to eight fifteen p.m. Claudio Castignoli, John Moxley and Will are you to versus Bandito and the Lucha Brothers with and a two minute suplex with picture and picture. One million forty thousand viewers. Oh, now that's the first time in quite a while that they have started at their previous over million level since we began to question the popularity, the Big Bang Theory. So that's a good start. Segment two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m. The continuation of the previous match, the Young Bucks Adam Page and the Dork Order backstage, the Juice Robinson J. White FTR, Ricky Starks lie promo. Nine hundred and ninety nine thousand viewers. OK, so apparently forty one thousand of those were just the people that tripped getting up to change after the Big Bang went off. Segment three, Tony Khan announces C.M. Punks return along with Trump or rather versus Big Bill versus versus Swarovski. I can't say that. But I'd be in. No, even even if a fuck's sake, even if he's if he's good, if he's the shits, you know, he's working hard. He's whatever the fuck, give him a last name at Lee, Big Bill, Dromo for fuck's sake, Junior, I don't care. But just Big Bill is the most nondescript, generic, bland, great value, as they say. How is he? How are you going to market that? There's Big Bill. All right, go ahead. Versus Swarovski Strickland with picture in picture. Nine hundred and ninety one thousand viewers. So again, they only lost eight thousand. That was the announcement was in that quarter hour that they wanted to hear. But where do they go from here now that all the children have grown up? And how do we face our lives knowing nobody gives us a chance? We go to segment four, a 45, the 9 p.m. The Chris Stathlander promo video, the acclaims promo on the ramp, as well as Don Callis and to catch this live promo. Nine hundred and six thousand viewers. Oh, OK. Many people apparently have heard what they wanted to hear. That's a drop of eighty five thousand more. So we are now down. One hundred and thirty four thousand since the start of the episode. And by the way, I should say these were compiled by Wrestlenomics. Oh, that's right. We got to give credit where credit's due. Thirst and how the third is on top of all of the wrestling business and the various companies these days, all the statistics, the things that people need to know. Well, let's go to segment five here, the big nine o'clock hour, nine to nine 15 p.m. Darby Allen and Orange Cassidy versus the Gates of Agony with picture and picture as well as the post match with Sting, Brian Cage and Swerve. Eight hundred and eighty eight thousand viewers. Oh, OK. So we've dropped another eighteen thousand. Segment six, nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m. The M.J.F. video hook, pressed in vans and. Dralistico Dralisto. Do we know him? That was the guy in the lucha mask. Well, him as well as a jungle and a suit. Well, there was only now there. The lucha suits over in the WWE aren't using the gimmick anymore. So now all the lucha guys in the A.W. are wearing the suits. Well, that segment as well as the outcast backstage promo and Chris Statlander versus Nyla Rose, eight hundred and sixty six thousand viewers. There went another twenty two thousand. Segment seven, nine thirty to nine forty five p.m. Chris Statlander versus Nyla Rose continued with picture and picture and a recap video, I believe of the pay-per-view, eight hundred and fifty four thousand viewers. So we've got down now to about where they have been over the last what, several weeks or however many weeks where we said this is about the number of people. That are that are going to watch eight, eight, fifty somewhere around there. And finally, segment eight, the main event, nine forty five to ten p.m. Adam Cole and Britt Baker versus Chris Jericho and Saraya. Now, what I thought that might have some interest, maybe more interest than the Falls Count anywhere single match between Cole and Jericho would have had, because at least it's different instead of something that's, you know, is going to look like the same thing they always do with everybody. Did anybody tune in to see that on free television after they shot the angle on pay-per-view? With picture and picture. Eight hundred and thirty nine thousand viewers. And the answer is no, they've turned fifteen thousand away and not in a good way of a sold out arena. But like, no, we turn away when we see that. OK, so. That's what happened. A bunch of people tuned in to have their question answered. That was the one thing that they were up in the air about over the last week was is punk going to be part of collision or not. They start with a million forty thousand. And by the announcement, they had only lost forty nine thousand of those people. And most of them, as we said, probably the big bangers. After the announcement, they lost another hundred and fifty two thousand people. To finish up starting two hundred and one thousand down from where they began. Considering the mixed reaction to see him punk. You know, I thought the audience would have been like, OK, we heard the news we want. We don't need to watch anymore. Do you think any of the audience said we heard the news we didn't want to hear? We don't want to watch anymore. Well, no, because why would you not want to watch the rest of the program that you know that he's not on because they announced he'll be on a program that you just keep watching Wednesday if you don't want to see Saturday. But it did satisfy the curiosity of a lot of the people. But then there was nothing else to hang around for because look at the state of all that. So, you know, again, they only they only lost a certain amount until the announcement in nine hundred and ninety one thousand. And then they lost another hundred and sixty thousand off of that. That's not. A.W.s faithful fans tuning out. That's people said, OK, is he coming back? OK, he's coming back. Well, we'll come back when he comes back. And or they just didn't give a shit about to rest the program. Well, I think that's part of the problem. That's part of it, too. There's a lot of people on this show that have been on the show a lot and they're not doing anything special. We've talked about the orange Cassidy issues where he started off so many shows. Here he is at the nine o'clock hour, didn't hold anyone from the announcement. They still kept leaving. You had some women's segments. Statenlander hasn't been around in a while. Nyla Rose hasn't been around in a while. No one gives a crap about the outcast and Britt Baker stuff. M.J.F. It was a throwaway not throwaway, but it was a backstage promo segment as opposed to anything live. They front loaded the top of the show with BCC, the elite, Tony Khan's announcement. Even if you're a hardcore A.W. fan, what's the motivation to stay around? To see that Jericho match? So what you're saying is they didn't hold the viewers. The viewers held their noses and turned away. I think they risk people getting sick of a lot of people they've been using regularly because of how they've been used and also just because they've been used regularly forever. Well, but see, here's the problem. Somebody with the attention span of Tony and or his ilk over there will take that statement and go, OK, that means we should only put somebody on TV once every six weeks. And they can't. Nobody can find the fucking middle ground between light and shadow or science and superstition. You get your top guys, your top guys you push, you hear from them or see them or refer to them or show video of them every week. And they're winning more, a lot more than they're losing. And then when you he has talent, he has roster depth, if not talent depth. So then. The fucking peons that he thinks are cute, that that nobody really wants to fucking look at. And they just look past those are the ones that should be seen sparingly and hurt even less. But those are the ones that he is continually, whether it be the mascot or the ridiculous, the green girls, they're all in green. How apropos or just anybody that he is done to death over the last few years, because he gets it in his bonnet. That's what people get sick and tired of, and it looks all the same. And especially the chaos in the matches, because there's nobody to oversee the matches with not only the knowledge, but the authority. So that's the problem. You you want your top guys on TV every week. You just want to make sure that you pick the right top guys. Hey, another note here. This was Dynamite's highest total viewership since March 22. However, down 11 percent in 18 to 49, whatever that says. I don't even care. You know, what's done is done and the network wanted what they wanted. But how beneficial do you think it would have been to A.W. for collision to be a one hour show as opposed to a two hour show? It would have probably been easier to start off with and make the you know, by popular demand announcement months later or however long later, because that way they wouldn't have to. Again, he's got a plethora of people. But not deep on real talent that can draw a mainstream television audience past the. The bubble-ish audience they got that doesn't grow because it's. And, you know, again, the mixed reaction in San Diego, that was California. It'd be overwhelmingly positive in Chicago. It would be probably six, one half dozen, the other in a number of markets. It's going to vary across the country, depending on the fan base, because every A.W. fan from every state and union is not the same. But again, they're they're carving up. A small pie. They're they're they're turning parts of their audience against parts of their roster. They're putting different talent so as we are led to believe, at least in some part on their Wednesday night and Saturday night TV shows, not because of a business strategy, but because of fucking. Mwah. So they're diluting the talent roster. They're diluting the the fact that A.W. is now on one of those networks, five hours a week, counting rampage that nobody watches. It's all getting not only the fan base is getting watered down and overexposed, but the talent roster and the television time and everything else. And since all their shit looks the same anyway, because all of these. Fresh faced, perky young talents were raised on the outlaw mud shows. How are they going to make it look different besides punk segment? What's going to fucking be different about Saturday than Wednesday? And if Saturday don't look any different than Wednesday for the people to watch both, they'll get tired of Wednesday. Because they're seeing twice as much of it. So, Brian, I'm going to be a prognosticator. I'm going to turn into Nostra dumbass here for once, because I don't know what the numbers were, but I'm betting that it was worse than last week, but better than the week before. In other words, about the same thing as they've been doing. Well, Jim, the ratings for AEW Dynamite on TBS June 7th, a Wednesday, as always. 903,000 viewers on average. So that was a little down from last week and a little up from the week before about what they've been doing. Well, the show open quarter one, eight to eight 15 p.m. Orange Cassidy versus Swerve Strickland with picture in picture. 962,000 viewers. The big bangers must love old pockets by now. But now the the debate here is going to be as usual. Where do they fall off the cliff? For an average of 903 to start out at 962. Looks to me like they're going to be strong for the first part of the program before they hit the fucking bottomless pit. Go ahead. Segment two, eight 15, eight 30 p.m. The final four minutes of Cassidy versus Strickland, the post match with the Mogul Embassy, Darby Allen and Sting. The Mogul Embassy is what we're calling it now. That's what a Wrestlenomics called it. These, uh, this data was pulled by Wrestlenomics here. Did Lovie do this one or is Thurston Hall off for vacation this week? Or there was a J White video as well as a Brian Daniels in Kazushka Okada video. 924,000 viewers. So pockets only drove the 38,000 off this week. Segment three, eight 30 to 845 p.m. Chaos versus Blackpool Combat Club with picture and picture chaos. The best friends and their other friend. That is that what they call them now? Well, the Japanese faction with Rocky Romero is chaos. So now I thought I thought he became a best friend when he was with the other two. Isn't it two out of three rules? It's two best friends and one chaotic guy. So if you're in a group called chaos, do you feel like a moron if you're wrestling the Blackpool Combat Club? We're chaos. Look at these fucking guys. Well, what did, uh, so basically what did best chaos and the other two guys do here? Well, also the Hungbuck's promo backstage. 895,000 viewers. OK, so that they're dueling. Let's see 24 and 520. They only drove off 29,000. So they're not as good as pockets. Segment four, 845 to 9 p.m. The Kenny Omega Will Osprey video. The Kenny Omega Will Osprey video. MJF and Adam Cole's live confrontation in ring. Nine hundred and fifty five thousand viewers. Wow. So we have not seen a bump like that in a while. That's unusual. And that's the 845 to 9 p.m. So they apparently wanted to see MJF and Adam Cole talk because that was what, 12 out of this 15 minutes? That is they're up 60,000 from the previous quarter. Have you been watching the first and they overlapped into five at the top of the hour? So we'll see what that is. Go ahead. I'm sorry. And if you've been watching the first 45 to 50 minutes, MJF is a breath of fresh air at this point on this program. Yeah. There there must be some kind of concerted effort for people to text their friends or whatever. He's on. Well, say back on. Well, segment five, the big nine o'clock hour, nine to nine, 15 p.m. The final two minutes of the MJF, Coli promo, as well as the Hardee's, Isaiah Cassidy and Ethan Page's backstage comedy promo and Lafaxion ignober. Yeah, in in gobernale. Hey, the Goobers, the Goobers versus Jungle Hook. Shorten it. The Goobers. What did the Goobers do? Well, the faction of Goobers versus Jungle Hook with picture and picture. Nine hundred and twenty nine thousand. If you were so, the Goobers, one can assume. One can assume that nobody turned off the last three or four minutes or whatever it was of Adam Cole and MJF so we can give the other guys credit for running off 26000 people. You know what, even I wasn't crazy about the entirety of the Adam Cole, MJF promo, one, at least wanted to see where it was going. You want to see where it's going. And you know what, at least it didn't end with just a brawl like everything else does, like whatever you think of it, they're still room for more. As opposed to they didn't do the whole goddamn thing. Exactly. Segment six. Nine fifteen and nine thirty PM. The finish of the Goober faction versus Jungle Hook. Canos, Kate, T'Keshto versus friend, take versus demon, ace, oh, Damon, ace, excuse me, not demon, Damon, ace, the Dodd, Callis and T'Keshto live promo. Christian Cage's backstage promo and the beginning of Chris Stathlander versus Anna J. Eight hundred and sixty three thousand viewers. Ouch. So there we found it because now they've dropped another thirty seven sixty six thousand. So that they've they've lost almost one hundred thousand in the past 30 minutes. Well, Segment seven, nine thirty to nine forty five PM. Chris Stathlander versus Anna J. continued and the outcast backstage promo. Eight hundred and forty seven thousand viewers. And by by two three sixteen more thousand of you. And finally, nine forty five to ten PM. Segment eight, Ricky Starks versus J. White with picture and picture and the post match with the guns and Juice Robinson. Eight hundred and forty five thousand viewers. Gee, Manelli, they couldn't even pick up anything. They lost two more thousand people for the main event. It's not a bad number to end up with considering where they've been in the past. But they're still. But they're still. But look at the. They lost one hundred twenty thousand from start to finish. You know, look at the end of the show, though. Stathlander versus Anna J. I would have to go back and check. I'm looking at the trend line here. Didn't drop as much as most of the women's segments at the end of the show, you usually do. And although Ricky Starks has had a good following and people have been into him and him and MJF now months ago was great on TV. It's him against J. White. J. White has not been established enough to pull a number from main eventing this show. So the fact that it was only eight forty five that that it didn't drop off further, I actually think it's pretty good. It's the it's the little things, Brian. It's the small victories. Meanwhile, and again, you know, somebody asked me on Twitter, why don't you go through the Smackdown ratings or the raw ratings like this minutely? Well, number one, the raw ratings is twelve quarters. It's ridiculous. And you know what it's going to be. First hour is OK. Second hour is usually the biggest one. Third hour drops off because what the fuck? And with Smackdown, as as we saw last week, and I think we forgot to mention it on the last program, last week's Smackdown number was enormous for modern times. And the final quarter with the bloodline Roman Reigns, thousand day ceremony was two point nine million viewers. And, you know, honestly, to be quite honest, the bloodline thing is has to be what's carrying the whole deal because there's not that much interesting going on. Otherwise, but good Lord, the people are liking that. And that was the end. My point to be made, the end of the two hour program was the highest rated segment of the program because people wanted to see that they weren't watching a show that they were say, OK, good God, we know what's coming up and we don't give a shit. And that's the difference. You know, they're pretty consistent. They do not lose the WWE does not lose 20 to 25 percent of their audience from start to finish on a show usually unless it's the three hour raw. And then actually, they don't lose that percentage. They lose more viewers because they start out with many more, but they don't lose that much. This show, you can't watch the whole goddamn thing because it's just endless. Same chaos, violence, not even violence, just wreckage. They're not really mad. You can tell that, but they're just hurting each other. But they're cooperating when they do it. Anyway. And those are the numbers there. What you brought up the SmackDown numbers last week, which was the 1000 day celebration for the record, the show started with 2.45 million viewers that ended with 2.9 million viewers. They they they picked up what's 450,000 to two and a half million. That's they picked up almost 20 percent, didn't they? They picked up almost 20 percent, didn't they? And the key demo is interesting, too. Starts at 860,000 viewers ends at 1.13 million. So the advertisers in the network love that. And again, that's what I'm saying is that all there's not there's not anything interesting on the WWE program except the bloodline. So when the bloodline does something to people, fucking love it because they're starved. And over on the other channel, you can't get fucking hungry because they won't stop feeding you. So it's complete polar opposites. But the one seems to be working the starvation. Hey, you lock somebody up in the fucking closet and you only pitch them a sandwich every couple of days. They're going to love the fucking sandwich, right? That's what the experience I've usually had with people that's been in my closet. What about you, Brian? I have not had that experience. People don't get hungry in your closet. I don't lock people in my closet. How many people have you locked in your closet? I'm not allowed at Liberty right now to enumerate. Have you been locked in the closet? No, I got to key. Before you had a key, no one just pushed you in and locked the door and ran away. No, no, I had the closet built. There are other closets, Jim. Hotchkiss didn't invent the closet. No, this is a good closet. You can't get out of this closet. You can get out of a lot of closets. But no, I got a brand new built-in closet and I got the only key. I just want everybody to know what the ratings were because I peaked this time, but I don't know the exact quarters, but I know where they started and where they finished. So why don't we elucidate the people before we move on to the second half of their week? Well, this week's AEW Dynamite for June 14th, Wednesday night, was watched by 832,000 people. And that is significantly, unfortunately, for them down from the overall number they had last week. But if I'm not mistaken, I think they started as strong or maybe a little stronger, didn't they? I would have to pull up last week's numbers. I don't have them in front of me if you do that may help. But let's start with where they did start off naturally. Segment one, 8 to 8.15 p.m., Adam Cole versus MJF, 918,000 viewers. Okay, they started off down. They were a little bit down from last week where they started, as I recall, but still 918,000, they know that's usually their highest point because they get the Big Bang people. So they put something in that one would think would retain pretty much everybody that was there to watch AEW rather than just hanging over from the Big Bang theory would keep tuned to MJF and Adam Cole. So whatever they did in the second quarter, that's the number of people that wanted to watch AEW that night on purpose, I would think. So what is the second quarter? Segment two, the continuation of Adam Cole versus MJF with picture in picture, 889,000 viewers. Okay, so they lost 29,000 people between the first quarter and the second quarter and one would think that that then as I said, nobody that wanted to watch AEW is going to turn that match off. So therefore, they had 30,000 Big Bangers that said, ah, we're not going to stick with it this time. And it should be pointed out here because we do want to talk about a little bit what the network cares about the key demo. Adam Cole versus MJF started at 415, segment two went to 429. So while the overall number came slightly down, the key demo number, which where the advertising is based off went up. So that's an important thing there. And that is the difference in viewers was 29,000. The difference in the demo was 14,000. So basically, they lost 29,000 people, but they picked up 14,000 of a more attractive demo. That ain't too bad. Segment three, a continuation of this match, the final six minutes of Cole versus MJF with the post match, as well as the CM Punk video and the Sammy Guevara, Darby Allen live promo, no Chris Jericho yet, 890,000 viewers. And they kept everybody and added a thousand going into that finish. By the way, let me mention these stats were pulled by Wrestle Nomics. Thirst and howl the third strikes again. Segment four, 845, the 9pm continuation of Sammy Guevara's confrontation with Darby Allen, with Chris Jericho added to the mix and then Sting, the Sonata video. There goes Swami, Darby Allen, Sting Keafley and Orange Cassidy versus the Mogul Associates, Mogul Embassy, excuse me, with picture and picture. Jesus Christ. 865,000 viewers. That's better than I thought it was going to be. So they only lost 25,000 for that whole mess. Segment five, the big nine o'clock hour, 9 to 9, 15pm, the final six minutes of the eight man tag match previously mentioned, the guns backstage promo and the beginning of Ward Low versus Jake Hager with picture and picture, 857,000 viewers. And again, I've got to say only 8,000 more. That's better than they're hanging with it better than the content that they're being given would indicate. So they ought to be proud of this so far. But this is the point in the show where you know if you're anywhere near a regular viewer, if the front of the show has been loaded with the people you want to see, the rest of the show is not going to have that. Segment six. Yes, that is in fact segment six. Segment six, 9, 15 to 9, 30pm, the end of Warlow versus Hager with the post match Christian Cage, which is source, Arne Anderson angle, Tana Hash's video, MJF's backstage promo, Cassidy Daniel Garcia, Zach Sabre Jr.'s backstage angle and the beginning of Tony Storm versus Sky Blue with picture and picture, 792,000 viewers. Okay, at that point, they say, yeah, there's eight 65,000 more people. They are now down a hundred, wait, seven ninety, 97,000 from quarter to and 126,000 from the start of the program. And this is also where we talked about the key demo earlier. This is where the key demo starts diving off to segment seven, the final three minutes of Tony Storm versus Sky Blue, the post match with Ruby Soho and Willow Nightingale. Jack Perry's exciting backstage promo. Missed that. FTR's backstage promo. I missed that. I missed that too, actually. And the beginning of the elite versus the Blackpool Combat Club, 745,000. Okay, and they have advertised not only did angles for this and been building this for weeks, but they advertised this main event match. It wasn't a surprise. So leading into that, 15565, 173,000 people from the start of the program said, we don't want to see any of that. And finally, segment eight, 945 to 10 p.m. The elite versus Blackpool Combat Club continued with picture in picture and the big post match with Eddie Kingston, Kenosuke Tekejta, Kenny Omega, Will Osprey, Brian Danielson, Con Edison, Bank of America, Home Depot, 699,000 viewers. And there you have it. The BBC and the elite managed to run off 219,000 people from the start of the program, which is about 25% approximately of where they started. And what was the what was the number in the key demo? Yeah, I want to say we got to point that out. It started at 415. When as high as 429 for segment two of MJF versus Cole, it ended at 325. Jesus. So nobody likes these jackoffs. No. So I mean, that's the other thing. Anyone who thinks that there's like a big youth fan base for the bucks in Omega, even if there was seven years ago, how old are those people now? They lost 219,000 off the total viewership. They lost 104,000 in the key demo from its height. But yet they're the EVPs, main event guys, the plumbers allowed to do whatever he wants. Tony has no control over these people. All they do is run off viewers and and and talent. They ran off. They not only ran off more viewers than anybody in wrestling history, but they ran off a bigger star than anybody else in wrestling history. Well, there you have it. AEW doing a fine job there. Let's talk before we get into collision because of our strange wrestling recording schedule, strange wrestling, strange recording schedule this past week. We didn't have the ratings for dynamite from this past Wednesday when we reviewed the program. Do you have that information at your fingertips now, Brian? I do. This past week's AEW dynamite, June 21st on TNT, was watched by 902,000 viewers on average. How in the flying fuck did they get 902,000 people to stick with that stinker? And what is the pattern when they do something on Wednesday night that's remotely acceptable to the viewer that one would think people would be interested in? They're down at 800. But when they have something that pretty much stinks from top to bottom, it boasts them about it is our people watching for the car crash mentality. This is this is so rotten we can't believe it. More people must see this and give us their opinion. What's going on here? There may be some examples of that here. Let's go to the numbers. These were compiled by Wrestlenomics. Quarter one, eight to eight, 15 p.m. The Guns versus the Hardys with the post match of CM Punk, FTR, Ricky Starks, the Guns and Bullet Club Gold running in, 932,000 viewers. And that's better than normal to start out with. Let's see if they kept them to quarter two. To your earlier theory, quarter two, eight, 15, 8, 30 p.m. Jeff Jarrett versus Mark Briscoe concession stand brawl with picture and picture and the Blackpool Combat Club promo 976,000 viewers. Jesus Christ! When's the last time that they gained over 40,000 people in a second quarter instead of lost some? Ever? Again, a lot of different things could play into that. I personally think that if you were someone not watching and you heard CM Punk appeared, you may have thought he could appear again and that didn't happen or you may have tuned in because you heard he just was there. But also, you know, these concession stand matches and arena matches, whatever AEW does, I would think without knowing for sure, those lend themselves better to picture and picture than regular matches just because if you're flipping through, what the fuck is that? What's happening there? So I wonder if that lends itself to the rating too. I have no idea, but Mark Briscoe should be a ratings draw, but he's not been presented as one and Jeff Jarrett has not so far scored anything like that. So let's move on, see where we go from here. Quarter 3, 8.30 to 8.45 p.m. A recap of collision as well as Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki and Sammy Guevara versus A.R. Fox, Action And Ready and Darius Martin with picture and picture, 926,000 viewers. Okay, well it's going in the direction that I would imagine that match would go in. They lost 50,000 but they still got such a big number, that's insane. Quarter 4, 8.45 to 9 p.m. The end of the previously said six man tag match, the Chris Jericho Sting Live promo confrontation, the elite, it just says the elite, I don't know, oh, the elite Eddie Kingston promo in the back and Adam Cole's live promo, 965,000 viewers. What the f***? And they're back up another 40. What is different about this show than any other show they've ever done? Besides much of it was the shits. Well, that's not really different. Again, we also don't know, although it's a small audience that watches New Japan wrestling on TV in America, we know that for a fact. We also don't know what percentage of the New Japan fans who don't watch AEW tuned in specifically to see any of their guys knowing it's the lead up to the pay-per-view. Again, who knows, but I don't buy it. It didn't happen last year. No, it didn't. And that was awful TV all around that event last year. But let's go to the big nine o'clock hour, segment five, nine to nine, 15 p.m. Adam Cole and MJF Live promo and then Orange Cassidy and Shibata versus Daniel Garcia and Zach Saber Jr. with picture in picture. Okay, that is a test. 962,000 views. They lost 3,000. No, well, again, who lost the 3,000? Not to spoil anything, but let's go right into segment six. That's what I'm saying. It should have been when you got that fucking pockets debacle for 20 something minutes, they've got to be, you've got to be, what, restrained to the chair, tied down so you can't reach the remote? Well, segment six, nine, 15 to 930, the continuation of Cassidy and Shibata versus Garcia and Saber Jr. with picture in picture, 833,000 viewers. Okay, that makes more sense. 130,000. So that's where everybody said, okay, fuck it. We've seen MJF. We've seen CM Punk. Show's over. That's it. This is again, this is the most bizarre. They start ahead of where they usually start. They never gain in the second quarter and they do. They lose in the third quarter, but they gained the same thing back in the fourth quarter. Stay steady at the top of the hour and then pockets drives off 130,000 people. This is a wild, show, wild, weird, wacky show. And again, if we're going based on trends and who knows what percentage of an audience tunes in just to see if CM Punk's going to show up here. And then he did and how many people tuned in right after he did. But MJF and Adam Cole, whatever we think about it, it's been working as far as ratings. Their segments have been popping the number. So it is bad placement of that Shibata orange Cassidy match right after that. But I have to wonder after MJF and Adam Cole appear and you pretty much know they're not going to be back on the show, the rest of the show. How many people said the show's over? Yeah, maybe it's 100,000 people here. Who knows. But segment seven, 930 to 945 p.m. The Will Osprey, Don Callis backstage confrontation. Tony Storm, yes, Tony Storm Willow Nightingale video and Tya Valkyrie versus Chris Statlander with picture in picture. 804,000 viewers. Okay, I mean, it could have been worse with that 15 minutes, but they only lost another 29,000 people. So they in in a space of two quarters, they've shed 158,000 people. And finally, segment eight, 945 to 10 p.m. continuation of Statlander versus Valkyrie. The live promo with Eddie Kingston, John Moxley, and then the introduction of Tomohiro Ishii and then Brian Danielson calling out Okada and the appearance of Okada, 818,000 viewers. Okay, so people came back to see if there was going to be a main event they found out there wasn't. Alrighty then. Do you think, well, I mean, we're about to talk about collision. Do you think Tony saw these numbers? And unfortunately, as it happens every now and then got a little bit over zealous about the numbers and that led to what was collision this week. It's possible because their first hour of dynamite would be a nice respectable television program if they had cut it off there. But the second hour brought them to an untamely end. But because according to the ratings, nobody wanted to see this thing. Or if they had wanted to see the main event, they were discouraged by the two hours of treachery, deceit, and torture that came before it. You're saying it. Let's go to the ratings quickly. And then we will move ahead to smack down. The ratings, AEW Dynamite June 28, Wednesday night, 809,000 viewers on average. And it's the lowest total viewership since May 3rd. And it's the lowest in the key demo 18 to 49 since June 24, 2020. Three years ago. Well, it's it's but it was their anniversary. Did they have a rotten show three years ago this week? I am not exactly sure. Now the NHL draft was on the same night. All right, you got that all night gas station opened up down the road. How are you going to compete with that? Well, let's go to the quarter hours. Here they are. Once again, June 28, AEW Dynamite on TBS. 8 to 815 p.m. quarter one. These are compiled by Wrestlenomics. Tomohiro ECE versus John Moxley with picture in picture. 943,000 viewers. Okay, they started at 943. Let's see where they finish up and let's see how many people this thing ran off in the first 15 minutes. Segment two, 815 to 830 p.m. continuation of ECE versus Moxley with Eddie Kingston. Yeah, that's what it says with Eddie Kingston's involvement. MJF and Adam Cole's backstage angle. Moxley and Kingston and Renee's backstage angle and a Will Osprey Kenny Omega video. 9909,000 viewers. Well, that is considerably better than I thought they do. They only lost 34,000. But wait, there's more. 830 to 845 p.m. quarter three. El Hijo del Vykingo. Oh boy. And Keith Lee. Oh boy. And Orange Cassidy versus Daniel Garcia. Matt Menard and Angelo Parker with picture in picture. 835,000 viewers. Okay, now we start seeing the Exodus, the Limmings dropping off the cliff. There's another 74,000 people. Now they've lost in the first 45 minutes, 108,000 viewers. But again, the NHL draft was on and that's a big night for all those hockey loving wrestling fans. Segment four, 845 to 9 p.m. The finish of the previous six man tag match, the elite's backstage angle with the Dark Order, Chris Jericho's promo, and the beginning of the elite versus the Dark Order, 808,000 viewers. And off go another 27,000, bringing our total that we've lost now to 135,000 people. And they're going to the top of the hour with that shitty buckaroos match. But wait, there's more. Top of the hour at a big nine o'clock hour, 9 to 9 15 p.m. Continuation of the elite versus Dark Order with picture in picture, and the post match angle with the Blackpool Combat Club in Eddie Kingston, 783,000 viewers. So they lost at the top of the hour, 17,000, 25,000 more people with who are allegedly some of their main event individuals in the ring competing. Segment five, nine, uh, no, segment six, excuse me. That's right, this is overrun. Segment six, 915 to 930 p.m. John Moxley's live promo, Samoa Joe, Dustin Rhodes and Ricky Starks's videos, MJF Cole and Roderick Strong's backstage confrontation, and Jungle Boys promo with Hook running out, 762,000 viewers. Geez, another 21,000. They are down now, 181,000. Segment seven, 930 to 945 p.m. Sammy Guevara's entrance with picture in picture, Ruby Soho versus Alexia Nicole, Ruby's live promo, and QTV's backstage promo, 711,000 viewers. Oh, and 51,000 more people just said, fuck this, I'm out of here. And finally, and I remind you we have overrun numbers, and finally 945 to 10 p.m., Darby Allen and Sting versus Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara with picture in picture, 720,000 viewers, two minute overrun, 810,000 viewers. Ha, ha, ha. So 90,000 people came to see what else was on. What program normally starts at 10 o'clock? I am not sure. Well, it must have a devoted audience, but basically they could with Sting and Jericho in the ring, they could only get 9,000 people back of the 120, no, I'm sorry, in Segment seven, they had lost 132,000, and Jericho and Sting got 9,000 of them back. And then suddenly 90,000 other people showed up at 10 o'clock. Boy, howdy. But you can't say that was unexpected. Look at that program and look at the, it's starting to be a cumulative effect at this point also because the shows the last several weeks have been stinkers on Wednesday nights. You know, this is going to start affecting both shows too, because for the most part, only thing collision has going for it is that CM Punk is going to be there, Wednesday nights falling apart because look at what it is. This is why the brand split, whatever you want to call it, doesn't work for AEW. You need all hands on deck to make these shows acceptable because they're bad. And even then, if, if Wednesday sucks, why do people, why should they suspect that Saturday will be better if they've been seeing this from this company? You know, yes, the punk fans will check it out, but everybody else is going to ask, going to be more of the same. And, you know, meanwhile, the WWE runs away with the viewers with one interesting thing in fucking two or three hours. And that's different in terms of how you establish, you know, Roman will be on Smackdown whenever he's there. He's going to be there unless they announce he's on Raw. If you're a casual AEW fan, whatever that means, I guess one of the, you know, 700,000 people that don't buy the pay-per-views. I guess that would maybe be a casual fan. What do you know about punk? Do you know that punk's only going to be on one show? Are you tuning in frustrated every week expecting punk on Dynamite? There's no punk. Because it's not really said he's only available on Saturdays. Nothing's being said. They're handling that wrong too. And they've taken so much off punk already and it just continues. Yeah, they managed to, it's like I said about shit stain a long time ago. They don't get people over. They get people under. They managed to take people that the fans are interested in and diminish or devalue or damage them to the point where that they're not as interested as they used to be. Or the matches or the stipulations. How many times can you sell? We're going to cut this guy's head off with a chainsaw. Well, that's great to first few times, not for the guy whose head is being cut off, but for the people watching. But after you've seen a guy get his head cut off with a chainsaw about seven or eight times, ain't that many different ways you can do it? No. Well, that was AEW Dynamite, another horrid episode, one of the worst episodes ever, just worthless. How'd you really feel? I liked it. Okay. Do you want to find out how special it was this week? I am almost willing to say that I will whistle Dixie out my ass if people watch this program. This was abysmal. But I'm scared because, you know, the AEW fans are just one step above the Germans that like to have their balls nailed to a step stool. So I don't know. So just to confirm, you will or will not whistle Dixie at your ass? I said I'm almost willing to. Okay. Well, let's see what happens. That may have been the right decision. This past week, AEW Dynamite, Wednesday, July 5th on TBS, on average, was watched by 855,000 viewers. Good Lord. So again, they can't run them off. The 800 to 850 or 860 that of every Wednesday night, they can run them off over the course of the two hours, but they will come back the next week and start again. That's right. That's indeed how the show began. They started again this week. Segment one quarter one, eight to eight, 15 p.m. compiled by Wrestlenomix here. Darby Allen and Keith Lee's backstage angle. And then Lee and Swerve versus Darby and Pockets with Picture and Picture, 906,000 viewers. Alrighty, let's see where they go from there. And I believe and I don't have anything in front of me. Someone told me for the record that this week specifically was up off the Big Bang Theory. So they actually began higher than the Big Bang Theory for whatever that's worth. Good Lord. Segment two, the continuation of Lee and Strickland versus Darby Allen and Pockets with the post match, the Nick Wayne video, Jack Perry and Hook's backstage confrontation and the MJF Adam Cole video, 829,000 viewers. Jesus Christ on a cracker. They lost 77,000 people in 15 minutes. And with that average, they've got to go back up somewhere. Segment three, 830 to 845 p.m. Billy Gunn and the acclaimed versus the Blade and the Bollywood boys with Picture and Picture, the post match with the QTV girl, Eddie Kingston and John Moxley's promo and video. And then RJ City announcing that Matt Hardy has to team with Jeff Jarrett. 835,000 viewers. Well, they got 6000 of them back. Segment four, the Chris Jericho Don Callis live promo, excuse me, 845 to 9 p.m. And the CM Punk Samoa Joe video. 898,000 viewers. Okay, that is again 60. Wait a minute. Yeah, 63,000 more. So they're almost back to where they started from. Imagine that punk being in that quarter. The nine o'clock hour. Segment five, Roderick Strong and Adam Cole's backstage angle, followed by Adam Cole and MJF versus the Butcher and Matt Menard with Picture and Picture, 879,000 viewers. Back down 2019, but again, that has to be people curious about MJF and Cole, right? One can only assume because what else would you watch that? It's not the match. And I mean, there is something to be said here about show wide star power where you have someone who's been presented as a star or someone who's a company star versus people who may not be, you know, it's like a squash match in the old days, but segments. So what is this now? Segment five, segment six. That was, yeah. Excuse me, the overrun threw me off here again. That happened last week. Segment six, the MJF, Adam Cole live promo post match, Britt Baker's backstage promo, the Jericho Garcia and Guevara backstage promo, and the beginning of Ruby Soho versus Britt Baker, 859,000 viewers. So they only lost 20,000 on that and boy, that's where they usually start hemorrhaging. So the last two quarters could tell the interesting tale. So quarter seven, 930 to 945 p.m. The continuation of Ruby Soho versus Britt Baker with picture in picture, the outcast and sky blue confrontation, and the beginning of Kenny Omega versus Wheeler, Yuda 837,000 viewers. Okay, now people are getting the idea. There goes another 22,000. So we started at 906. We got we dropped to 829 second quarter, unbelievably enough, the worst so far that usually doesn't happen. Orange Cassidy. Well, there you go. It came back up almost to where they started and they've lost another 61,000 since then. How many weeks have they had people tune in? You see orange Cassidy and you go, I'll come back later. Come back later. But finally, and I'll do the overrun here too, quarter eight, 945 to 10 p.m. Kenny Omega versus Wheeler, Yuda continued with picture in picture, 804,000 viewers and 10 p.m. Well, hold on, I'm just going to say they held up better for that main event. They held up better than I would have thought. They only they only lost 100,000 or so period. Only about 10%. And finally, the two minute overrun 10 to 10, oh, 2 p.m. The finish of the match and the post match brawl with the elite in the blackpool folks and to Kesta, 804,000 viewers. Same exact thing. In two minutes, you can't you can't get credit for the quarter hour number for only two minutes. I forget exactly how they quantify it. But unless you at least back in the Attitude Era, when we were starting to pay attention to that, unless something went like seven minutes or the majority of the quarter or something like that, you couldn't take credit for that number. I think they just did owed because it was only two minutes because they they didn't do it on purpose. They just needed the extra time. And that was this past week's A.W. Dynamite. Well, I got a hand it to them. They kept a lot of their audience to on this rotten program. So Wednesday night is starting to shape up as being the night that people watch a rotten wrestling program. And Saturday night, they watch a good logical wrestling program. And the fight amongst them is who's going to lose less of the audience that we start with? Who's going to run off fewer fucking viewers? And you know what? Whatever we want to say about the MJF and Adam Cole stuff, the viewers have reacted to it so far. I mean, this isn't the first week where it did an all right number. Yeah, like the number. And this is them against two guys that you knew weren't going to win the match that you didn't even care about. You'd have to think about who are the opponents in that match. It would be hard to remember. It didn't matter. It was all about the Cole MJF dynamic. So whatever we think about it, the A.W. fans have really started to react to it. Yeah, well, no. And honestly, as I said earlier, listening to MJF do something, anything, even silliness is more entertaining than most of the rest of this program. So I can see that. Well, we're going to find out. We haven't even seen collision yet. We're by the end of this program will have seen that too. We're doing a pause for more programming here later on. But again, in the meantime, the WWE audiences or viewership ratings with the whole bloodline thing has gone through the roof and they are the highest quarter hours of the shows and they involve almost no wrestling most of the time. But they're doing better than over here where they're trying to wrestle us to death in various ways. And that's pretty much exactly what they're doing. And they can't keep an audience because it all looks a fucking saying. So it's interesting, WWE has the bloodline, which is such a rating smash right now at the same time that they're negotiating their new TV rights deal. And they're and they're not hot shotting it. They're drawing it out. Well, because they know the consistent numbers for a longer period of time is more important to the TV stations than, oh, that boy, that one show did a great number in the next week. It was a shits. That's what the WWE wants to do. And they're not going to. They don't have to be in a hurry. But it just, you know, goddamn, with all these wrestling shows, it seems like there'd be one that could actually just give us a wrestling show. But we've got the kids and chaos, the kids in the hall and we've got over here the fucking wrestling show equivalent of C-Span with a talk segment that draws all the viewers. So I'm impressed. Anybody watched this program? This program was watched by people. In fact, it was watched a dynamite on July 12, 2023 on TBS. It was watched by 825,000 people 825. So they're they're still barely struggling above 800. But that's where they've been in that range for some time now. But the question as always is what was the attrition factor? How did they start and who hopped off the boat? Well, the show began. These were compiled by Wrestlenomix, quarter one, eight to eight, 15 p.m. Chris Jericho versus Commander with picture and picture. If you are one of the listeners from outside of the States, when I say that, it refers to here in the States at times, there are commercials with a very small screen with the wrestling still playing while the commercial explain it. Go ahead and explain it to them the way that AEW is thinking. They're thinking that our fans that watch us on TV want to see this program so bad that even when we go to commercial, if we put up a small postage stamp size screen in the corner with the commercial audio playing and the commercial taking up most of the screen, people will sit on their couch, grab their binoculars, and try to look at that little picture in picture just to see the rest hold that is occurring at that moment. And I bring it up because we have heard from a lot of listeners who keep saying, I don't know what Brian is referring to, why he keeps saying picture and picture. But Jericho versus Commander picture and picture, 896,000 viewers. Okay, not a good sign for their quarter eight, but we shall contend. Again, they've been starting lower. The Big Bang, I guess, has lost its appeal, but they've been starting lower and keeping more of their audience. They haven't been doing the starting with a million and ending with 600 and something thousand here lately, but that's not a good place to start if they're going to do an 825 average. Go ahead. Segment two, excuse me, quarter two, 815, 830 p.m. The finish of Jericho versus Commander, the promo with Jericho and Don Callis, Jungle Boy running from Hook, Callis's backstage promo, and the first two minutes of the MJF item called Buddy Segment, 821,000 viewers. Oh boy. And 75,000 people in the first 15 minutes went away because Chris Jericho versus Ignatz McGee been the same thing. Quarter three, 830 to 845 p.m. The final two minutes of the MJF Adam Cole video and Orange Cassidy and Darby Allen versus Sammy Guevara and Daniel Garcia with picture and picture, 780,000 viewers. Oh, good Lord. Okay. That's pockets. That's pockets. That yeah, that's because it's every week now. Again, that was a hold on. Where's my notes? That was after we got finished with MJF and Adam Cole. People knew, okay, MJF has been on the program and here comes this sack of shit. Let's do something else. So they have lost 116,000 people in the first 45 minutes. And if you watch this show every week, you're sick of Orange Cassidy, unless you're one of the super in the bubble AEW fans. People were sick of Orange Cassidy when they watched him the first time. But now you've been trained to know that his matches are going to go probably 15 minutes ish. So you know, you can kind of go to the bathroom or go to the kitchen or wherever during that. How long does it take you to shit? Well, maybe I went outside the smoke of joint. I mean, I don't know. But quarter four, 845 to 9 p.m. The final five minutes of Cassidy and Allen versus Guevara and Garcia, the Nick Wayne video, the Adam Cole, Roderick Strong backstage confrontation and the entrances for the tag team match, 803,000 viewers. Okay, they got 23,000 back because now we're going to have the match with MJF and Adam Cole. And that's what we get at the big nine o'clock hour. Quarter five, 9 to 9, 15 p.m. MJF and Adam Cole versus Brian Cage and Big Bill with picture and picture and the post match promo from Cole and MJF, 883,000 viewers. Wow. At the top of the nine o'clock hour with the big star in the ring, and they know that some furtherance of the issue will go on, they pick up 80,000 people at the top of the hour. Quarter six, 9, 15 to 9, 30 p.m. The Jake Hager-Christjareko backstage confrontation and Ruby Soho versus Sky Blue with picture and picture, 802,000 viewers. Right back. And they went right back where they were lost an extra thousand. Quarter seven, 9, 30 to 9, 45 p.m. The Owen Hart Cup recap and Swerve Strickland versus Nick Wayne with picture and picture, 783,000 viewers. And well, and now they're trickling out trying to find something else to do because they know that they've basically they've seen what they want to see. And there's nothing more to see here. Well, there was a little bit more to see. And that was quarter eight, 9, 45 to 10 p.m. The final five minutes of Strickland versus Wayne and the promo and angle featuring Don Callis, Kenny Omega, the Blackpool Combat Club, John Moxley, the elite, Tekecha, Ibushi on video and much, much more. 831,000 viewers. Oh, son of a gun. Well, I hold on here a second. Let me give them a small smattering of applause. Where is it? I keep trying to find it. You could have just used your hands and it's a small smattering of applause. Well, that was recorded live at the Future Farmers of America Association Convention. So they picked up 48,000 for their announcement at the end. I doubt very seriously if it was anything else that was going on. I told you the last few weeks because I wasn't crazy about it. This week I love the match, but MJF and Cole was resonating with the fans. And, you know, you've got to this was a different rating pattern than they have been doing normally because normally they start high and there may be some fluctuation in the middle, but they have dropped off horribly by the end as we've talked about, they lose 20% or 25% of what they start with. In this case, they lost 15% of what they started with at two different places in the middle of the program, but finished strong enough to where they only were down. Good God, about 5% to 7%. So that they were all over the page, but people were checking back in to see if anything would actually happen. So bravo for that. We still have to talk before we move on to the world of the bloodline. We have to talk about the ratings that Tefiasco that AEW presented last Wednesday night for Blood and Guts scored. Okay, they had every goddamn major alleged star that they have dedicated the Wednesday night television program to for weeks and weeks, weeks and weeks and weeks. The BBC, the Bucca Roo's and their pals, the Blood and Gut, the two ring, guaranteed carnage chaos and vivisection match. And one would think that they would have done the largest rating that they have done in recent weeks or months for something like that. One would suppose it's been built up and promoted. And also one would think that this week, they would have broken their usual tradition of hemorrhaging viewers as the show goes on because the big Blood and Guts match where they gave all the Blood and Guts was on last. And people should have hung around to see that theoretically. Now, I do not know because of the thing that I believe I mentioned earlier in this program before we did a little time traveling. And I've had much sleep over the last few days. I've been working on a fucking project. So you are going to enlighten me now, Brian Last, as to what the ratings were for this past Wednesday night without me ever having any predetermined knowledge of this important bullshit that we're about to talk about. Well, this important bullshit was AEW Dynamite Blood and Guts July 19th. The email from WrestleMomics is Blood and Guys. I think he has some mispronouncing here. Blood and Guts July 19th. TVS was watched on average by 953,000 viewers. 953,000. So they did. They hopped themselves up on their Blood and their Guts, their plasma and their uterine samples. 100,000 people more than normal. Well, the show opened quarter one, eight to eight, 15 p.m. Jack Perry's tryout for Breaking Bad followed by Hook versus Jack Perry with Picture in Picture. 952,000 viewers. Aha. So this indicates that they are going to keep and indeed possibly gain some of these people. Well, quarter two, eight, 15, 8, 30 p.m. The continuation of Hook versus Perry, the Adam Cole MJF Buddy video, an ad break, Don Callis and Chris Jericho captured in a restaurant by Alex Marvez and Kayla Sparks versus Britt Baker, 915,000 viewers. OK, so they lost 37,000 on that because that was a great variety of not very gripping television. Quarter three, 8, 30 to 8, 45 p.m. Adam Cole, MJF and Roderick Strong's backstage angle and the beginning of Adam Cole and MJF versus Daniel Garcia and Sammy Guevara with Picture in Picture, 977,000 viewers. So handed off to MJF and Mr. Cole for their continuing saga and they get 62,000 back. Not even back, but they're 37,000 they lost and another 25,000. The next quarter, quarter four, 8, 45 to 9 p.m. The continuation of Cole and MJF versus Garcia and Guevara with the post match with Chris Jericho and Garcia and Guevara. FTR, just as FTR, I don't remember what it was, did it do a promo or whatever it was? FTR and an ad break, 967,000 viewers and also the high point during the scheduled two hours for the key demo, 464,000. So they lost 10,000 at that point. That's bathroom breakage material, if that. But again, like we've said, the Cole MJF stuff, I'm not really happy about it. However, the fans are reacting to it and more than importantly, it's popping the youth number in terms of their viewers. Well, it's it's MJF performing anything at this point. I think he could you know, fart in their general direction and pick up viewers. Quarter five, the big nine o'clock hour, 9 to 9, 15 p.m. The best friends, Orange Cassidy, Chris Statlander, Darby Allen, Nick Wayne backstage angle. The Blackpool. I think I managed to fast forward all the way through that. The Blackpool Combat Club, Golden Elite Video entrances and ad break and the beginning of Blood and Guts, the Blackpool Combat Club with Takeshita and Pac versus the Golden Elite, 957,000 viewers. Jesus Christ, they lost 10,000 at the top of the hour for the start of the fucking into the world. All right, that's surprising. I mean, that's that's still I just call 10,000 people a bathroom breakage, but that's fluctuation and what was already going on. This is the start of. All right, never, nevertheless, well, quarter six, the continuation of the Blood and Guts match with picture in picture twice. This is the high point of the two hour scheduled show, 980,000 viewers. Okay, so they picked up another 23,000 there. Quarter seven, 930 to 945 p.m. Once again, the continuation of Blood and Guts with picture in picture 945,000 viewers. Jesus Christ. Okay, maybe they're proving our point. And finally, and there's going to be an overrun here, I tell you to quarter eight, 945 to 10 p.m. The conclusion of Blood and Guts with picture in picture, 928,000 viewers and the overrun from 10 to 10, oh, 3 p.m. 980,000 viewers. And but how long was the overrun three minutes? Okay, so no, you don't get you don't get the credit three of the three minutes of the 15 minutes. It's only if it goes past seven and a half, right? Do you really get the credit for they're doing this a lot lately, though, with overruns, with AEW trying to, I don't know if they're doing it to try to increase the number or whatever the reason is. It's an artificial inflation. If that's if they're averaging 953 and factoring that in. Because no, suddenly on a declining on a declining ratings pattern over 45 minutes from quarter six, seven, or yes, quarter six, seven and eight, yeah, they you don't suddenly get credit for a three minute overrun that people are tuning into the scheduled program that suddenly boosts you 52,000 for three minutes. No, especially since every other top of the quarter, they had been fucking tuning out since that thing started. That's they kept the majority of their audience on this program. If you look at the top of the show to the bottom of the show, but if you take the blood and guts one hour and look at it by itself, they still over the course of that match with those people lost viewers. If they and from their high point to the finish of the main event of the most important match in the history of blah, blah, blah, they lost 52,000 people. Still not the major percentage that they normally do to be quite fair. And they managed to not even lose 5% or so from the start to the finish of the thing. And they got an extra 100,000 people from what they do every week. So kudos to them. But the nearly the high point came the high point in the first hour came when MJF and Adam Cole got together. And the high point in the second half came. And pretty much the first goddamn 15 minutes of that cage fiasco. And as the longer it went, the more people tuned out. What does that say to you considering the amount of TV time that's been spent on the elite versus Blackpool Combat Club feud that Poland MJF who are at this point doing comedy. And just the other guys are falling in broken glass and thumbtacks and slicing their heads with razor blades and they can't get to fucking viewership of a dance. Olson and Johnson. Maybe they could maybe they could come out and do Mac and Moran. It would work. It shows that they promoted this this television show, this big event, this night of chaos and mayhem and comedy. And people tuned in for it. And they loved MJF and Adam Cole and they were kind of hanging around to wait to see the you know, the the blood and guts thing. And as the blood and guts thing went on and on and on, people got less and less interested and stood up more and more. Wasn't it? I mean, forgive me if I'm wrong. But last week, over the course of an hour on Saturday night, didn't FTR and Jen and Juice actually pick up people interested in what was going on when they heard about it? Yes, they did. Well, this was the opposite effect. Because as we all know, from going to grade school, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. They put on a good match and people tuned in. They put on a stinky match and people said, fuck it and started tuning out. Well, a rather weak edition of AEW Dynamite and that was it. How weak were the ratings and did did anybody did they give up hope when the first match was AR Fox and fucking pockets for 20 minutes? Or did they wait until they found out they were getting Putin gang in the main event to fucking bail en masse? AEW Dynamite July 26 on TBS was watched by 898,000 viewers. So my God, they were down from blood and guts, but up about 50 or 60,000 from what they've been doing on this fucking crummy president. They ought to thank their lucky stars that this got a rating. Well, Jim, let's go to the breakdown of the different quarters. Of course, these were pulled by Russell Nomics quarter one, eight to eight 15 p.m. The Darby Allen AR Fox video and orange Cassidy versus AR Fox with picture in picture. 985,000 viewers. Much better start. I can't remember last week. Last week was the big blood and guts, but much better start than they have been doing. And apparently by the overall average, they didn't keep all up. Well, quarter two, eight 15, eight 30 p.m. The final five minutes of Cassidy versus Fox, the post match with Darby Allen and John Moxley, a recap of blood and guts. The Chris Jericho Don Callis promo with Renee and an ad break. Good Lord. 975,000 viewers. Good God. They kept all but 10,000 through that misery. Sometimes you either have to wonder about the Nielsen services or the average American public or misery. But quarter three, 830 to 845 p.m. The Claudio Castignoli wheeler you to promo interrupted by John Moxley. The Jack Perry in ring promo interrupted by Jerry Lynn. The Brit Baker promo and the beginning of pack versus gravity. 997,000 viewers. And the high point 441 in the key demo. Good Lord. Wait a minute. So tell me again what was in that quarter. Okay, it was the Claudio Castignoli and wheeler you to promo interrupted by John Moxley. It was the Jack Perry in ring promo interrupted by Jerry Lynn. It was the Brit Baker promo and the beginning of pack versus gravity. And more people watched that 15 minutes than watched any portion of their blood and guts match last week that they hyped for weeks and weeks. How the fuck does that make any sense? I don't know, but let's go forward and see how this works out. And apparently we're coming to a cliff. Well, that cliff 845 to 9 p.m. The continuation of pack versus gravity with picture in picture. The MJF Adam Cole promo and ad break and the FTR promo 863,000 viewers. Ouch. Okay, there's 134,000 that they were they waiting to hear something? Did they tune in for some reason? Was it MJF and Adam Cole? And they said, okay, they've been on, you know what? Sometimes I wonder if you're someone who's just a casual viewer who likes wrestling and you watch AEW when you see it. And the show opens with orange Cassidy, whatever we think of them, you recognize them, you know who he is, you may watch Darby Allen, same thing, Moxley, same thing, pack versus gravity. All of a sudden you have pack against a guy you've never seen on his television show ever before. It looks like a generic guy. So I think that's part of who knows. And you know, and I've said in the past that the Nielsen ratings, especially years ago for local television were fucking bullshit. I found that out 25 years ago with OVW when the infamous test pattern quarter was the highest rated quarter of the show. But that's local television. If three people go on vacation, your program can die. But this is national numbers and modern times. They got to be they got to be on the ball. Jesus Christ. Alrighty. So they got up to a million for a Dreck segment and then lost 135,000 in 15 minutes. Where are we going from here? We return with quarter five, the big nine o'clock hour, nine to nine 15 p.m. Swarov, Strickland versus Darby Allen with picture and picture, 911,000 viewers. And then suddenly they gained 47,000, 58,000 back and for Darby and swerve. Again, this ain't holding out a lot of hope for the pudding gang, but keep going. Quarter six, nine 15 to 9 30 p.m. The post match angle with Nick Wayne, A.R. Fox and of course, Swarov, Strickland and Darby Allen. The Jericho Appreciation Society confrontation backstage and ad break and Tyah Valkyrie versus Britt Baker with picture in picture, 855,000 viewers. And they lost those 58,000. They gained back in another 8,000 on top of that. So people tuning in at the top of the nine o'clock hour to see what's going on. They see Darby and swerve and then they ain't sticking. Quarter seven, nine 30 to nine 45 p.m. The final five minutes of Tyah Valkyrie versus Britt Baker, various pre tape promos and ad break and the entrances and beginning of the match for the three way main event, 815,000 viewers. And another 40,000 and we're down 170,000 from the start of the program. And finally quarter eight, nine 45 to 10 p.m. The Lucha Brothers versus John Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli versus best friends with picture in picture, 781,000 viewers. And that's what I figured. And we there go another 19, 20 and 34,000 people and they ended up 204,000 down from where they started or by my math about 21.5% of their viewing audience is what they lost from start to finish, which is about normal. But they started with more and they kept more early, but they still lost the same amount by the end. And now regardless of whatever we say about these shows, Brian, there have been shows that I will readily recommend readily admit and or recommend that were much better than this show that they've done. And we still didn't like them. And they didn't do anywhere near this viewership. Why did this many people watch this crummy show? I don't know what the competition was at night, but usually that plays a big part of it. There's no Vanderpump. There's no NBA championships. A lot of the things that have thrown things off in the past are not there right now. And we'll see how long this continues. Again, they got a lot of people in there. Beyond that, it was not a great episode to get them to want to come back. Or even to stay. But yeah, but they ought to again, they ought to be turning cartwheels. They got that number for this program. But again, the main event was what glared at me. I mean, you know, we're used to crummy segments in the Wednesday night program on a regular basis, but why did they think that anybody wanted to see that main event? As a question that people will be asking themselves for many years, but that was AEW Dynamite. Before we move on, we got to we got to jump back to last week. We got to wrap up a loose end from the drive through. We did not have the dynamite ratings for last Wednesday. We reviewed that program. Boy, howdy did we. And but we didn't know how many people watched it. And my thought was if there was any justice in the world, this program would get the first ever rating of seven as in seven fucking people. Because this thing stunk. But the AEW fans know that going in. There is a high percentage of the AEW fan that knows and expects and is looking forward to having a big whiff of shit. There's a lot of people looking forward to seeing what's going on with MJF and Adam Cole. But this week's AEW Dynamite August 2nd, Wednesday night on TBS was watched on average by 894,000 viewers. Okay, so again, they're in their sweet spot. They didn't do as good as Blood and Guts, but they didn't do as bad as they did the week before, I believe, Blood and Guts. It's in them. It's 800 and something again. That's right. And these numbers were compiled by Wrestlenomics. Thurston Hall, the third. That's almost his name. Quarter one. Financial Wizard. Quarter one, eight to eight, 15 p.m. Chris Jericho and Tekecha. Take a shit. Versus Daniel Garcia and Sammy Guevara with picture and picture ads. 919,000 viewers. Well, that ain't bad. And now if you are telling me that the overall was 894,000, they're going to have to go up from here, which is unusual to get because I know they're going to go down somewhere. So where we go from here? We got a quarter two, eight, 15, eight, 30 p.m. The finish of the previous tag match, a video, an ad break, Jericho being confronted by Matt Menard backstage, Jack Perry being confronted by Jerry Lynn and Rob Van Dam and Hikaru Sheeta's backstage promo. 903,000 viewers. Well, that's pretty much normal fluctuation when you get to those numbers, 16,000, but I don't see how we're going to get to 894 unless something happens to bring these people into the tent. Quarter three, Trent Beretta versus John Moxley versus Penta El Zero Miado with picture and picture ads. Certainly to God it can't be this. 917,000 viewers. Okay, they basically went back to where they were in quarter one. Okay. Quarter four, 845 to 9 p.m. The finish of the previous mention match, the post match with Black Pool Combat Club, Best Friends, oh, that's it, Black Pool Combat Club and the Best Friends, an ad break, RVD's backstage promo and the beginning of MJF's promo, 945,000 viewers. Okay, so that's 28,000 and one would have to think that I don't know if the ad break or the promo did it. I think they're tuning in for MJF. Well, the big nine o'clock hour, quarter five, nine to nine, 15 p.m. The MJF and Adam Cole live promo, Roderick Strong's temper tantrum backstage. That was funny. The kingdom confronting Roderick Strong or talking to him, Jay Lethal, Jeff Jared and Satinam Singh versus Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks with picture and picture, 964,000 viewers and also this segment was the high point for the key demo, 441,000 viewers. And one would have to, and that's the high point for the show so far, and one would have to credit that with MJF and Adam Cole or again, they're the new Rocka and Perez. They're doing it on every show. They pop the number on collision and they're doing it with the key demo too. Segment six, 915 and 930 p.m. The last four minutes of Lethal Jared and Singh versus Omega and the Bucks. Oh boy. The Kenny Omega and Adam Page live promo. And that was a thriller. And then Swarov, Strickland and A.R. Fox breaking multiple laws and attacking Nick Wayne in his home plus an ad break, 863,000 viewers. Wow. Thank you, Elite. The highly paid recently re-signed Elite loses 101,000 viewers in 15 minutes. Boy, there's something there. But quarter seven, 930 to 945 p.m. Aussie Open versus El Hijo de Vikingo and Commander with picture and picture and an ad break, 835,000 viewers. I was about to say I didn't think they were going to come back in droves there. There goes another 28,000. And finally, and I'll give you the overrun here too, quarter eight, 945 to 10 p.m. Tony Storm versus Ikaru Shida with picture and picture and a title change, 807,000 viewers and the two minute post run, 852,000 viewers. Yeah, we're not given the extra 40, what is it, 45,000 people for two minutes. We're not going to do that. Well, this one's interesting because they don't normally peak in the middle. They normally peak at the beginning, but in this case, they stayed fairly steady until MJF and Cole showed up. They popped in big for that. And then they ran off in droves for the Elite and continued migrating away for migrating away for the rest of the programming afterwards. So they only ended up 112,000 down from where they started, but they ended up 157,000 down from where their peak was. Very interesting. Another show where this Adam Cole MJF stuff gets the highest rating, gets the highest key demo. It hasn't just been on Wednesday. They did it on Saturday. What does this tell you? I mean, this is clearly the hottest thing in the company by far. And it's selling merch too. It may be their bloodline. And MJF is flawless with everything in terms of just he can perform anything and in any emotions or whatever. Adam Cole has been a little, but with this, he sunk his teeth into it. It's silly for me, a bit of the tone of being silly. I wish they'd tried to make it a little bit more believable with the cinematic like vignettes, but it's more fun to watch than most anything else on his fucking program. Considering the business they are doing and they continue to do with what the network wants, which is the key demo, with the overall number, with merchandise, with crowd reactions, everything we could look at. If there was a plan to turn one of them on the other one, do you reconsider it? Or do you say that I could take how hot this is and make it hotter? But having these guys continue to work with each other, just not as friends. Without knowing what their plot is. And I mean, this could be the greatest build up to the worst idea ever, or it could be a great build up to a, wow, that was a great idea. But without knowing what that is, it's hard to say definitely. But I would at least have the thought of, you know, they've already booked the match in Wimbly. So it seems like they're going to have to do something. But I would have had the thought at this point, God damn, if I can still do the same thing in three months, maybe I don't need to do it right now. Because once that you've, unless again, they've mastered an intricate bloodline-like scenario where they can pull the trigger on the next thing and still leave questions. And still, you know, people want to see what's going to happen next, or they've answered everything, and that is what it is. You know, I might try to stretch it out a little bit. But now they've if they book the match and what they're doing in the match brings this to a conclusion, then they're, they can't, they can't do an hour of Broadway and shake hands. So somebody's going to have to do something. Or is it a deal where fucking they have a great match and then Roddy's not happy with MJF, so he comes out and tries to fuck MJF and Adam super kicks Roddy and MJF schoolboys Adam, because he didn't see that in one, two, three. And then they still shake hands. I don't fucking know. But Kylo Riley shows up wearing his, uh, Vib from the young ones outfit that he was wearing in NXT, a way he'll fit in with the British fans and he does something to help her hurt someone. Well, but then, yeah, I don't know. Bobby Fish is outside selling autographs. Bobby Fish can't get in the country at all. But anyway, it's going to be, it's going to be interesting. And I think that's why everybody's interested. But I would, if I could think about it, I'd try to stretch this out a little bit longer, but they may be headed toward a drop dead date. Well, that was the rate that that was, those were the ratings for AEW Dynamite. And of course, we'll talk about collision after we travel through time a little bit later. Anyway, I guess we should talk about some of the wrestling now, shouldn't we? Can we talk more about Colin Thompson? No, we got to talk about other weasels. The, uh, we covered on the drive through the Dynamite episode for Wednesday night, August the ninth, but as we recorded that, God, it seems like it's two months ago. It was like four days ago. They didn't have the ratings out. Well, now the ratings have come out. And we were again saying that boy, howdy. I mean, there's, there's a lot of people out there with tolerance for watching whatever the fuck, because you can't imagine the rating would be seven for some of these shows. But there were certain points in this program where we, we anticipated a cliff being fallen off of. And so now we get to go over it and find out where that came, if it came, and who was responsible. Brian, do you have the documentation there? I have the documentation here, AEW Dynamite for August 9th on TBS. On average was viewed by 846,000 viewers. They, they do 800 to something thousand. They'll hot shot a program like Blood and Guts or War Games, whatever they're doing. And they'll get up to nine. And then the next week, they'll drop back into the high eights and then they're back where they started from. Is this again, the range of that we could expect going hither to for forever? Possibly. And again, you know, with declining viewers on traditional television and going to the internet or other means, it definitely is going to be a declining number, I would think. But also, I think a story that maybe we should look at maybe on the drive through, not today. NXT, the last four weeks, I think they had Rhea Ripley and Dominic Mysterio on the show and they've been almost what, just over 700,000 every single week. Well, those were the averages, the Dominic title win. I believe it was that one got 800. Basically, this viewership on Wednesday night got 800 and something thousand for the title match of NXT that week. So they're not head to head. And of course, main roster people are being sent down there, but all of a sudden NXT is popping the ratings while dynamite's doing dynamite things. But AW Dynamite on TBS August 9, 2023, these were compiled by Wrestlenomics, quarter one, eight to eight 15 p.m. The Jericho Appreciation Society live breakup with Chris Jericho and an ad break, 892,000 viewers. Okay, we've got to that's, I don't know, they used to start much higher, but that's been going off or that's been going on. It's been a while. It's been a while. It's not been going on for a while is what I'm trying to say. But that's a healthy number. Yeah, they're not coming a million out of Big Bang Theory anymore, like they used to. Well, I guess the 47th airing of each Big Bang episode has something to do with it. And considering they're awful, the first airing, who knows about the 47th, but quarter two, eight 15, 8 30 p.m. The Chris Jericho Don Callis backstage promo and the Hardy Boys versus the Hardly Boys with picture in picture. 839,000 viewers. Ouch. Okay, so was it the Jericho Society segment that just made people go, oh, fuck, let's just get out of this. Or did they have to wait to see that they were going to be seeing the Hardly's and Hardly's? And then they said, oh, fuck, either way, 53,000 people said, Sionara. The Hardly's don't mean much anymore. And the Bucks have never, I mean, especially right now, Kenny Omega, Kappa number with the right opponent or even an off-beat opponent. The Bucks are driving away viewers every time we see that, unless they're involved in like a John Moxley cage match that goes five segments, they're losing viewers. Quarter three, 8 30, date 45 p.m. The FTR confrontation with the Young Bucks. Adam Cole, just as Adam Cole, I don't know what he did. Adam Cole, excuse me, Adam Cole, MJF video, an ad break, and Blackpool Combat Club's backstage promo, 805,000 viewers. Ouch. Now, they got to go back up according to the average number, but now they've lost 87,000 people from the start of the program in only the first 45 minutes. Well, there's a reason stars of the past are still around today. Quarter four, Jack Perry versus Rob Van Dam with picture and picture, as well as a Lucha Brothers backstage promo, 861,000 viewers. Okay, well, I think we can attribute that extra 56,000 people to the Lucha Brothers backstage promo. Maybe, maybe that's Rob Van Dam hadn't been on national TV in a while. Boom. There we go. I can see that happening. Quarter five, the big nine o'clock hour. And this story continues this week, 9 to 9, 15 p.m. The Adam Cole MJF entering promo with Roderick Strong coming out to yell at them and the Blackpool Combat Club entrance through picture and picture ads, 889,000 viewers, which is the high point, as well as the high point in the key demo, 425,000 viewers. No, it's 3000 below where they started. Oh, shit. You're right. Was it not? Not the high point quarter, but it may be the high point of the demo. It's the high point of the demo by far. But once again, let's just stop real quick. Every week, MJF and Cole, wherever they are, collision dynamite, they're popping the number. And quite honestly, the 861 and quarter four can partially be attributed probably to people tuning in, what, six, seven, eight minutes early for the top of the hour where they would see and probably figured they'd see MJF and Adam Cole. Quarter six, 9, 15 and 9, 30 p.m. The Lucha Brothers versus Claudio Castagnoli and John Moxley with picture and picture, 844,000 viewers. And as soon as MJF and Cole are finished, we have dropped 44,000, 45,000. Quarter seven, 9, 30 to 9, 45 p.m. The finish of the previous match, the post match, the Kenny Omega being confronted by Alex Marvez backstage, the ad break, and then Swerve Strickland and his crew being confronted by Darby Allen and Sting, 850,000 viewers. Good. Okay, that surprises me because they picked up an extra 6,000 for a potpourri quarter, but it were, what was the main event? I've forgotten. That's not a good sign. So were they tuning in early for the main event? Quarter eight, the main event, 945 to 10 p.m. An ad break followed by Hikaru Shida versus Anna Jay. Okay, I remember that. With picture and picture, 790,000 viewers. Well, boy, they lucked out because that wasn't long enough where more people had the chance to change the channel. But yeah, that's where I, but looking at it, I can't believe that the third quarter hour did only 15,000 people more than the last segment there because one would have figured that they, well, maybe people were just asleep on the couch at that point. If this show didn't have MJF and Adam Cole, it would be a straight nose dive from the beginning to the end. Yeah, pretty much. And it's been like that several weeks in a row now. So whatever we want to say about the goofiness and I don't like the bro segments, I like the in-ring stuff, either the in-ring promos mostly or the matches minus the dance segment. Yeah. But whatever we say, that is resonating with the AEW fans more than anything else company wide right now. What do you think it says about the AEW talent roster, the AEW office staff, the AEW fans, every affiliated party around AEW that the biggest things that resonate with those people are, are you going to be my friend or are you going to be his friend? I want you to be my friend, but you came to you like him instead of me. It's always that, isn't it? And I mean, I know wrestling has always been about friends betraying each other and backstabbing and jealousy or whatever, but it seemed like it was nobody ever complained about you were my friend. Just taking it to these simplistic childish components. Well, Jimmy Valiant was kind of upset at Pez. Now that you think about it, that's true. I mean, they were friends. They were friends. And then suddenly Pez became Shaska and you know, he got his head shaved. And if the young bucks and Adam Page, I'm not even going to leave out mega out of this. If they had been booked by someone other than themselves from the beginning of AEW. And if we haven't had four plus years of a fucking rack store cowboy, having emotional issues and worrying about who his friends are and the bucks worrying about who's friends, every single thing they do is about who's friends with who. That's why people think it's all stupid because they're stupid. But yeah, we got way too much of that. Never like you tried to fuck my wife. You want to make something realistic nowadays? You fucking Instagram something on my wife. Nothing like that. Instead, it's like, oh, you don't want to hang out with us anymore. Why do? Remember when Page took the job guys on a ride on his new lawnmower? Yeah, that helped. But he's trying to have a career to fall back on. As a landscaper? As a landscaper. I would only has its its seasons. Anyway, that was dynamite, wasn't it? That sure was. Alrighty, well, I guess we ought to move forward from the good old days where the business depended on ticket sales and people being interested in the money you made to modern times where it's all about the ratings, Brian. It's all about the TV viewership. It's all about the metrics. It's all about the key demo and AEW perpetrated a nightmarish dream of the Welsh rare bit fiend on last Wednesday's program. Look, Google it, kids. It'll be hilarious if you fucking understand it. If you have any context on that line. It was bad. It was fucking Timothy Leary guest book this edition. And we were wondering, you and I, where the cliff was going to come that people said I've had all I can stands. I can't stands no more because there was so many opportunities. So now the time has come. We have the documentation from Thurston Howell, the third over at Wrestle Economics or whatever. Wrestle Nomics, I believe is the name. Well, he actually he was a home economics teacher before he switched professions. Thurston was that's not his name's not even well, his name is Thurston. But what else? See, then don't try to call this guy by some other name that he doesn't have because that'd be disrespectful. So what did Thurston have to say about the ratings for dynamite last Wednesday night, which was the 16th or so. AEW dynamite August 16th on TBS was watched by 874 viewers on average. Excuse me. 874,000 viewers on average. Okay, again, that they're in the range they've been in. I don't it's a fucking gift. I don't know how they can coerce people to watch this fucking thing. The state of it. But where did they start and where'd they finish? Well, they started with this Windsor McKay produced edition of AEW dynamite. Little Nemo. That's right, quarter one eight to eight 15 p.m. Orange Cassidy versus Wheeler Yuta with picture and picture ads. Christ, 946,000 viewers. All right, well, that's their starting point. Quarter two, eight 15 8 30 p.m. The post match with the Blackpool Combat Club beat down and then the best friends and then the Lucha Brothers and then Eddie Kingston all run in. Kenny Omega's sit down interview with Jim Ross followed by his attack by Don Callis and the bullet club gold and Tekecha followed by Jim Ross. If he had heat vision, all of them would have burst into flames followed by Adam Page outside of the hospital followed by Don Callis and Chris Jericho starting their live promo. 943,000 viewers. Jesus Christ. They stuck around through all of that. Hey, that's right. The patients that these people have. Hey, hey, quarter three was a 30 to 845 p.m. The continuation of Don Callis and Chris Jericho's dramatic oil painting segment, the Jack Perry video and Darby Allen and Nick Wayne versus the Gates of Agony. They're each a gate, I guess. 900. Did they swing both ways? 943,000 viewers. What? Wait a minute. What? They're not losing anything for this show, for these nobodies, for this dreck, this effluvia? How can this be? Was the Nielsen people where they stuck on freeze frame? I was going to tune out, but cash wheeler stuck a gun in my face. Hey, come on now. That's not right. He said you better watch this show. Quarter four. It was just a white male with a beard for all you know. It was just a bearded white guy. 845 to 9 p.m. The final two minutes of Nick Wayne and Darby Allen versus the Gates of Agony. The post match with Swarov Strickland, A.R. Fox and Sting, the MJF Adam Cole Kangaroo Outback Steakhouse segment with Tony Khan making an appearance. And then the beginning of the Adam Cole MJF Live promo in the ring. Now they usually people stick or come back for MJF and Adam Cole. What happened here? 903,000 viewers. Ooh, okay. They lost 40. Is that the first time that MJF and Cole have lost instead of gaining or at least keeping? It is the first time, I believe, in quite a while. Now they did 434 in the key demo, which is a little bit off the high, which was quarter two. You have to wonder how much of the craziness on the show may have run anyone off. Well, I was about to say there was a lot of provocation before this for people to leave, but still that's a I can't believe they've only lost 43,000 people since the show started for the first hour. That could be a record for AEW. Well, get ready for the big nine o'clock hour, quarter five, nine to nine, 15 p.m. The continuation of Adam Cole and MJF Live promo. They get attacked by Aussie Open and Chris Jericho licks his blood in the back. 898,000 viewers. Okay, they've stayed mostly flat. That's normal fluctuation, but the average, they have not even gone down to the average yet. So what is left to happen in the next 45 minutes? The fun begins. Okay. Quarter six, nine, 15 to 9 30 p.m. I can't even say this without smiling. Jeff Hardy versus Jeff Jarrett. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre match. Uh oh. Through Picture and Picture and an ad break. 822,000 viewers. Okay, 77,000 people said, Oh, this is too much. And they they got a hundred thousand dollar sponsorship for the video game or movie or whatever the fucking thing is these days. The hundred thousand dollars is almost a dollar per person that tuned out in some fashion is what I'm trying to say. Well, quarter seven, let's see if the trend continues 9 30 to 9 45 p.m. The bunny versus Britt Baker. Oh boy. With Picture and Picture and Acclaimed Video and the Acclaimed or Attack by the House of Black who steal boots, I believe this time. The boots. 800,000 viewers. 22,000 more. So now we're down 146,000 from the start of the program. But what was what was the main event? I can't even remember now. The main event quarter eight 9 45 to 10 p.m. An ad break followed by the young bucks versus the guns. That's right. With Picture and Picture and a post match featuring Bullet Club Gold and FTR. 738,000 viewers. Oh. Oh. 62,000 more people said all we've got left is the buckaroos. Fuck this. And it was the low point in the key demo as well. 358,000 viewers. A low point by far. And the low point in everything. And they lost 208,000 people from the start of the thing, which is of 946 208 460. What does that 22 23% of the audience from start to finish? Whoo. Glad they got those new contracts, the buckaroos for that high salary Tonys paid them because they're doing these kind of numbers. And that was the build up to all in. I mean, I was FTR confronting them in the ring. That's the build up to the pay per view, which is right around the corner. And I got the lowest amount of viewers the entire show. Did it deserve to have any more viewers? No, but I don't know the formatting of the show certainly raises a lot of questions. I'll tell you what, the luck of the luck of fools that they held those numbers through that first hour, because if they had done what they normally do, their average would have been even worse. Well, that was a dynamite for August 16th, 2023. We're going to talk ratings, I believe. Oh, are we back on the air now? A dynamite on TBS August 23 2023. Jim, the overall number. I'm going to write this down on TBS. A dynamite was watched by 870,000 viewers on average. Is that within like what, two or 3000 of the previous week? And it's the, how, in a way, it's almost amazing that they're getting almost the exact same number every week now. Number one, it's amazing because how do they talk 870,000 people even into starting this program? And secondly, how just does nobody even go on vacation anymore? It's the same number of people every fucking week. Okay, 870,000 for this thing, that was a fucking gift. But the question is, where'd they start and where'd they end up? Well, they started at eight o'clock, eight to eight 15pm quarter one, Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks. It's not even a match. And the guns and Juice Robinson and J. White and Tekecha and FTR all brawl all around. And MJF sit down interview with Renee Moxley Good, 961,000 viewers. Geez, oh Pete, that's a bigger number than they've been starting with. Curiosity for Wimbledon Stadium, potentially. Why would, was there something interesting advertised for this program and they just didn't do it? Or why would they get a good tune in number? Who knows? What was on beforehand? How's the big bang doing these days? I'm not sure. Again, the big news in wrestling was Terry Funk coming into this, but I don't know how many people would tune in just to see if any mention was made of Terry Funk. And they did have a graphic up on the screen. But quarter to Jim, eight 15, eight 30pm, John Moxley's entrance through picture and picture ads and John Moxley versus Ray Phoenix. Once again, with picture and picture. 865,000 viewers. Ouch. So that is atypical and unlike the last few weeks where again, we said, you know, for the first hour or so, they were pretty, pretty static, pretty standard. And then they started dropping, but a hundred thousand in the first 15 minutes, not a good choice of a mess to have, you know, in your first opening segment. So they lost 96,000 to be precise. How many fans did the Young Bucks drive off last week at the end of the show? They was about 200,000, wasn't it? Well, in that one quarter, it was, it was, they were 200,000 lower than when they started in one quarter. It was six figures, but not. Yeah, I think it was pretty much similar to this was about a hundred thousand people, which is telling. And also, I think with MJF people, I think the viewership may appreciate the in-ring stuff with a live audience more than the sit down stuff. But that's just my two cents. Segment three or quarter three, eight 30 to 845 PM. The post match of Moxley versus Phoenix with the Blackpool Combat Club, Eddie Kingston, the best friends, Orange Cassidy, Ortiz, Mike Santana, Penta, then as an ad break, and then Phoenix is loaded into the ambulance. And then a Sammy Guevara promo interrupted by the appreciators, 915,000 viewers. Holy shit. So you mean to tell me that another 50,000 people came back just they said, fuck it, let's just make sure that the the buckaroos are not on anymore. And it's safe to come back. What between the first segment being a mess and then segment two with all of the things that you mentioned being just, you know, Moxley and the rest of the Gaga. Okay. So they they bumped back up 50,000. It's safe to go back in the pool. And by the way, these were compiled by Wrestle Nomics quarter four, 845 to 9 PM. The Chris Jericho will Osprey contract signing an ad break and the Adam Cole sit down interview with Renee Moxley good. 899,000 viewers. And they dropped back 16,000 not that major of a change, but not going in the right direction. Quarter five, the big nine o'clock hour. Darby Allen and Nick Wayne versus a our Fox and swerve Strickland with picture and picture. 886,000 viewers. Again, just dropping 13,000 not bad in and of itself, but now they're down 30,000 from the quarter three increase they got. And from their average, it looks like this is not telling a good tale for the last 45 minutes of the program. Quarter six, 915 to 930 PM. The post match with Brian Cage, Christian Cage. Hey, it's the Cage Brothers. Luchasaurus. And that's it. And then the Young Bucks FTR sit down interview. An ad break. The Britt Baker, Tony Storm, Hikaru, Sheeta video. I forgot there was something like that in there. And a Ruby Soho inset. 855,000 viewers. Okay, so the buckaroos came back and people said, oh, shit, we thought we were done with it. And here went another 31,000 people. Now they've lost there 44, they've lost 60,000 people in three quarters. And again, the average tells me that we've got further to fall. And I remind you, we also have a five minute overrun. So we'll get to that as well. Quarter seven, 930 to 945 PM. Ruby Soho versus Sky Blue with picture and picture. The Roderick Strong and Kingdom promo. And then the acclaimed and the House of Black have their confrontation leading to the return of Billy Gunn. 848,000 viewers. You know, I'm not, I'm surprised that I'm not more surprised because they only lost another 7,000. That's staying remarkably consistent throughout the program at that level for this quality or lack thereof of a television show. Well, finally, the main event. Quarter eight, 945 to 10 PM with an overrun. The Hardee's entrance and ad break. And then the Hardee's versus Aussie open with picture and picture. 759,000 viewers. Huge. That's where it comes. Five minute overrun with MJF and Adam Cole coming out for the post match. 776. So that was 90,000 people. That's 89. On top of the Jesus Christ. So I'm trying to do this math in my head. They started with a bigger number than normal. They managed to keep halfway consistent throughout the program and even gain a little bit in quarter three, even though it was a downward trend after that. But then people got to the last 15 minutes and said, fuck it. And they ended up 202,000 down from where they started by the end of the two hour time period, which is over 20% again. Because how much of that can you sit through? I am shocked and amazed that the second hour doesn't tank worse than it does on these programs the last few weeks. And I guess we've figured out now that the AEW audience on Wednesday nights that can, that will be interested in this is somewhere around 900,000. And a few big bangers are hanging on. But they're mostly at 800 something through the program. And then if the buckaroos or something as lame as this are on the last segment or two, they're going to finish up in the 700s and they've lost 20% of their audience. Or you go to Saturday night and they're not going to start with a big number. But they're probably going to hold the number that they've got. And sometimes they increase in the middle depending on where punk is placed. But they don't, while they don't lose any viewers and sometimes gained by the end of the program, they start out and generally finish up 300,000 below Wednesday night because the difference in Wednesday and Saturday. So could God somehow, some way you could take the talent rosters of collision and dynamite and the time slots and you could get rid of half the shit and make the other half actually good if you tried hard enough, I bet. The question is what part needs to go? Well, that is a question we will answer. Not now. When? If we'll answer it, then that means that we know more than everybody else because nobody can figure that out. How do you fucking do something acceptable with they've got, they've got dreck and they've got talent. They've got attributes and they've got detriments. There's good and bad. And if they could just do more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff, they may be able to put something together on one night of the week that would please everybody, that would get numbers, ratings, that would have actual legitimate talent having matches. But instead, they've got three weekly programs, one of which nobody's going to watch that watch the people that like Wednesday and the people that are on that probably don't want to watch Saturday and vice versa. And nobody remembers that Friday is even a thing still. So there you go. Travel us through some time so we can, I can go back and crib up on SmackDown. Speaking of Moxley and speaking of AEW, Jim, we have the ratings. These probably won't be as gracious and kind as Dave's were. These are from the Nielsen people, right? I believe that is who is still doing these. That's right. Nielsen's ratings for AEW Dynamite August 30th on TBS. Art Nielsen and his brother Stan, right? Not those Nielsen's. This one, not this one, this show, this dynamite was watched one over here. This one was watched this one was watched by 871,000 viewers. The same fucking people every week. It's becoming a bright joke. It is the same number every what are the does it have the last do you have the column of the last five or six numbers or whatever? I would have to. Well, don't don't don't do any work. But last week, last week, the total viewership was 870,000 viewers. So okay, so they're they're growing by leaps and bounds. 870 to 871. Where where did they start? And where did the exodus begin this week? These are the ratings as compiled by Wrestlenomics. Quarter one, 8 to 8, 15 p.m. John Moxley versus commander with picture and picture. 957,000 viewers. Wow. Okay. And by the way, I have clarified the Big Bang theory. Apparently is no longer doing the big numbers that it was doing what a year or two years ago or whenever the fuck it was where they'd start with over a million people. Apparently, even the big bangers have seen those reruns enough times that the bloom is off the rose. So that's why they're starting. But still 957,000 ain't a bad number to start with. But from their average, I have a feeling it won't last quarter to 815, 830 p.m. The Orange Cassidy backstage promo, the Young Bucks FTR Bullet Club goal backstage angle, the Tony Storm backstage promo. And Chris Jericho's live promo, the beginning of it, 913,000 viewers. So as we suspected immediately, 44,000 people saw Plummer and Commander and said, all right, they're going to do this again. Quarter three, 830 to 845 p.m. The continuation of Chris Jericho's promo, which is a confrontation with Sammy Guevara of sorts. The John Moxley and what are their names? I was going to say Bullet Club. Blackpools. The BBC. Their promo backstage, as well as Eddie Kingston versus We Were You To A Picture In Picture, 925,000 viewers. That is surprising that people would come back for anything that you just mentioned. But so they picked up 12 back. I think the Jericho Sammy thing may have gotten some people into it, but at least it was in the ring. At least it was just shit going on in the back. Quarter four, 845 to 9 p.m. The continuation of Kingston versus Youda, the MJF Adam Cole backstage locker room promo, an ad break, Sammy Guevara and Don Callis's backstage confrontation and the beginning of Adam Cole having a confrontation with Roddy Strong, Mike Bennett and Matt Taven, 909,000 viewers. And the 12,000 they picked up and three more thousand said fuck it. Quarter five, the big nine o'clock hour, 9 to 9, 15 p.m. Continuation of Adam Cole's confrontation with Strong, Bennett and Taven, Pentel Zero, Miedo's backstage promo, Emmy Sakura, Marina Shafir and Nila Rose versus Britt Baker, Hikaru Sheeta and Chris Stathlander. Ding ding ding, I think we found the cliff. With picture in picture, 910,000 viewers. What? Well again, it's the continuation of the Adam Cole angle. All right, okay, I see. So they stayed to see what the fuck that was all about. And then they saw the girls. So what happens next? Quarter six, 915 to 930 p.m. The continuation of Sakura Shafir and Rose versus Baker, Sheeta and Stathlander. The post match with Ruby Soho, the Konozka Takeshka Don Cowes backstage promo, an ad break. And the beginning, is it the beginning or the whole thing? The whole thing of the acclaimed and Billy Gunn's ribbon cutting ceremony for their new scissor themed championship belts. 828,000 viewers. Okay, so they that's 72, 82,000. Decided that women's six man was not to be tolerated. Well, not woman's six man, six woman. Oh, that's right. Well, the six men are the champions and they're women. You kidding me? Quarter seven, 930 to 945 p.m. The entrances with picture in picture for Orange Cassidy versus Penta El Cerro Miado. And then there was an ad break. 763,000 viewers. Okay, now it makes sense because let's face it, they got a gift that they were able to stay above 900,000 people for this rotten, stinking, smelly program that they aired for an entire hour before people smartened up that this is all we're going to get. We ain't going to get nothing else but this. And then in the final hour, they started at 910,000 went to 828,000 went to 763,000. And now that they've got a good whiff of pockets, where did they go in the last quarter? The final quarter plus there's an over run 945 to 10 p.m. Orange Cassidy versus Penta El Cerro Miado with picture in picture and Orange Cassidy's live promo. He did a promo. Oh yeah. Oh good Lord. 769,000 viewers with an overrun of 784 for the one minute of John Moxley and Orange Cassidy squaring off. Yeah, we don't buy that. I can't believe that it didn't drop in the final quarter. But I guess maybe somebody was tuning in thinking certainly to God this is not the main event. There's going to be something else going on. You know with Wrestle Nomics when they do the ratings, they have a bar that shows the 90 day trend and it's starting to show a little bit more effect each time you see it for the big drop-off that happens at 915. And it goes to the end of the show. I mean this is the last, I mean we said they've been having around the same number the last few weeks. They've been having the same drop-off. Yeah. Around that period of time right after 8,000. 200,000. Yeah. This was, well this was, hold on, this was only 188,000. Last week it was 200 and something thousand. But that's, yeah, they start with an audience they're handed and those people slowly leave. I will give them credit for this over the last three weeks or so they've kept up the first hour remarkably well for what's been presented. And maybe like you said that's they're waiting once they determine what MJF and Adam Cole's involvement is going to be then they're done. But every week they lose between 20 and 25% of the audience they start with by the end of the program which is an anomaly from every other wrestling program that we're aware of right? Even collision. It's not doing as well on Saturday night but they keep the audience they get to begin with. They keep the audience that's there. You know the issue too is with this women's six-person match, the trio's match I guess. The six-man women's match. The six man women's match. There's no way you could write that on paper not think that would cause people to say you know I've seen enough I'll turn the channel. There's lots of baseball on. There's lots of other things that he wrote down moxley versus commander and he wrote down pockets versus penthouse and didn't think the same thing. How about the fact that the international champion had to defeat penta to get the opportunity to defend his championship against moxley? Isn't that kind of backwards booking? No they think it's a privilege to get in the ring with the plumber because then they're going to look so much better because even pockets next to the plumber looks like a human being. Those were the AEW dynamite ratings for this past week. What did the viewers think of this program because as I said earlier I still don't know what the fucking ratings were but I assumed they had to be abysmal. Can you help me out on this? Yeah last week's AEW dynamite ratings from TBS and this was for September whatever the fuck September whatever the fuck known as September 6th in the calendar the Gregorian calendar. Those people again September 6th AEW dynamite was watched by 887,000 viewers on average. Good lord they I'll tell you what now whatever season that was conflicting with them is over. They're keeping this audience at least on average 800 and something thousand every week. I don't see how with these fucking programs but go ahead. Well quarter one and these were compiled by Wrestlenomics 8 to 8 15 p.m. Orange Cassidy's live promo and John Moxley versus AR Fox through an ad break 982,000 viewers. Good okay I see what helped the average is that's a significantly larger lead in than they've been getting lately, isn't it? I think that may be. They haven't been close to a million in a while. No that's the largest number in a while and I'm looking at the trend line here that Wrestlenomics has and it's significantly above that but quarter 2 8 15 8 30 p.m. the finish of Moxley versus AR Fox the post match with Darby Allen Nick Wayne Christian Cage Luchasaurus and an ad break Chris Statland versus Emmy Sakura. Oh good lord. And Roderick Strong and the Kingdoms Therapy video 889,000 viewers. Jesus okay um almost 100,093 yeah 93,000 said. So a silver dome full of fans turned off the show. Quarter three 8 30 8 45 p.m. Aussie open versus Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara with picture and picture ads and the post match angle 938,000 viewers. Okay now do you think and the high point in the key demo 440,000. Do you think even their fans now are starting to just pick and choose like let me check back every 15 minutes or whatever that's awful big fluctuation for those numbers. I think there are fans who wait for an MJF segment and I think the ratings have shown that that there are fans who kind of are in and out and then once MJF is doing an angle or a promo against someone they stay for a while and then they get driven away. That's we've seen that though in the ratings multiple times. Quarter four quarter four 845 to 9 p.m. Ricky Starks backstage promo an ad break Don Callis's backstage promo and the beginning of the MJF Samoa Joe live promo 912,000 viewers. All righty so that is the end of the first hour and MJF's just gotten a ring. Do we go up or do we go down? Well the big nine o'clock hour quarter five nine to nine 15 p.m. the MJF Samoa Joe live promo and confrontation an angle with Adam Cole running out and an ad break 949,000 viewers. Oh so they popped up another 37,000 and that is the second highest quarter so far of the show next to the start. That's right quarter six 915 and 930 p.m. Roderick Strong versus Trent Beretta with picture and picture ads the post match with the kingdom. Tony Storm's backstage promo and an ad break 845,000 viewers. Ouch okay and then there you go 104,000 people said we've seen MJF time to go. Quarter seven 930 to 945 p.m. the Adam Page swerve Strickland live promo and confrontation with the mogul embassy running out. You'd have to have been a hardy soul to fucking sit through that whole thing. Hardy souls over a catering 858,000 viewers. Son of a gun apparently there was 13,000 extra extra hardy souls. Well then this does not bode tremendously well for the final 15 minutes of the program as I'm looking at this average. And there's also a two minute overrun I'll give you that separately but here we go 945 to 10 p.m. quarter eight Darby Allen versus Nick Wayne with picture and picture ads twice 730,000 viewers. Eww. With an overrun of 835 for two minutes so I don't know how much that can really be looked at. So that's 128,000 that's one of the bigger one quarter drives you had to know because why would anybody want to see that even if they like those guys if they like them why they want to see them fight each other and then it was a shits. But so they were down 252,000 from the start of the program and I think that may be a new record percentage wise because that's what 26 27% of the initial audience was not there at the end. I would think if you were going to do the little buddy angle. Usually it means you introduce the character on TV people start to get to know them they associate that person with the star they're aligned with because they've been there a while they have fans right start to maybe do some tag matches then he finally gets the big singles opportunity against someone and he gets a win not you do all that and he gets his big singles opportunity against his buddy acts like a dick in the match and then all is forgiven and they move on as a team like why do that like there's so many weird like Dax Harwood they keep putting them in these singles matches and he loses and you know he's gonna lose he's won one singles match it was against cash wheeler like it's just the weirdest booking decisions when it comes to what to do with people that are a team or friends are aligned with each other nick wane despite what AEW thinks internally or the most hardcore fans think he's not yet established you're just doing that so when you put him in that spot you're kind of setting yourself up for failure. Let's go back to the dynamite for a second because they did a rating we got to put them over we got to give them some applause they actually got over 900,000 for the first time in ages ages and eons with their big arthur ash stadium extravaganza and this time they had a main event that people actually would want to see and be interested in so i'm wondering did they keep their audience through the rest of this fiasco to get there or did it do the same thing as it does every week when they have the the gymnast the play wrestlers the trampoline cowboys and the kookamunga kids in the last spot well this week's AEW dynamite september 20th on tbs grand slam did 984,000 viewers on average so they picked up pretty much exactly a hundred thousand people from where they've been stuck at the last several weeks how did the did they make the most of it these were compiled by wrestlenomics quarter one eight to eight fifteen p.m claudio castignoli versus eddie kingston with picture in picture 982,000 viewers okay in this case then it sounds to me like they may be going to keep some audience segment two 815 830 p.m the continuation of kingston versus castignoli the post match the kingdom roddy strong adam coal hospital segment should that have been later in the show did they mess up the order of the things should that have been after coal left mjf well whatever an ad break in christian cage's backstage promo one million four thousand viewers geez okay they picked up 22,000 in the second quarter that usually does not happen and that's the first time they've seen seven figures in a while quarter three 830 to 845 p.m christ jericho versus sammy gavara with picture in picture 989,000 viewers and 1115,000 normal fluctuation at this point it's pretty much the same audience segment four quarter four excuse me 845 to 9 p.m the continuation of jericho versus gavara with the post match heel turn and don callus the mjf backstage promo an ad break and the start of john moxley versus phoenix one million 17,000 viewers okay so now 1128,000 so they have been in a range of 1835,000 from the for the entire first hour that's very good for aw and against normal trends the big nine o'clock hour quarter five nine to nine 15 p.m moxley versus phoenix continued phoenix it is phoenix excuse me you've got me confused moxley versus phoenix continued i know what his name is with picture in picture and samoa joe's backstage promo and an ad break 960,000 viewers okay that's where they they tuned in maybe the extra ones at the top of the hour and they saw enough of the plumber and they said well 57,000 of us will take off but there's the option to come back for the main event that we might want to see and this is usually where everything starts trending downwards quarter six 9 15 and 9 30 p.m the kingdom the righteous video that's what it says the kingdom oh i guess the kingdom is you know when you call the other team the righteous and the other one's the kingdom you can't tell what's going it just says the kingdom the righteous the kingdom video the good the bad the ugly the righteous video saraya versus tony storm with picture in picture and the post match 938,000 viewers not as bad as it could have been only another 22,000 and it's the girl spot and it's the death spot in the normal program where they start leaving quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m it says video i don't know what the video is but video ad break and mjf versus samoa joe 954,000 viewers and there they get um 16,000 back and hopefully can finish strong the majority well the entirety of the last quarter hour was all them so would we finish up at and we have a little bit of an overrun and this may be an example where we should look at the overrun here because i think wasn't it was about five minutes wasn't it it's a four-minute overrun plus as this is going up the key demo is going up but anyway quarter eight 945 to 10 p.m the continuation of samoa joe versus mjf with picture in picture 1,000,000 14,000 viewers 489,000 in the key demo the high point not counting the four-minute overrun which is 1,048,000 viewers son of a so and because of the trend upwards that's not one of these examples of people just tuning in for the next show i don't think yeah it's not just wednesday night it's it's what they put on on wednesday night the 200,000 viewers or more don't have to bail out on wednesday night you just got to put a match in the main event spot that they actually want to see instead of the self-indulgent evps and the the flippers and floppers and they've seen the an entire program of that horseshit this time there was a match that was a destination that they wanted to see they knew it was going to be good they didn't know what was going to happen and they were interested and not only did they hold the audience but for the first time ever or certainly in recent memory on a wednesday night they had more people at the end of the show than they did at the start so they ought to be kissing mjf and samoa joe's asses they may have done a better job of promoting grand slam than they have anything else in a while especially like i said i can only base the local media stuff based on what i've seen and mjf was all over the place but that wouldn't mean an extra few thousand well hundred thousand people watching the tv show well actually think about this the size of the new york market if he instigated 5000 people with the last minute publicity to come and buy a ticket to go to the event in person all those people that saw it it wasn't either like i'm going to go buy a ticket and go in person or i don't give a shit about this and i never want to think about it again they may have said well fuck i'll just watch it on tv you could 40 or 50 000 viewers in the new york television market with those numbers is not a god damn significant portion of the audience so that could have been part of the the issue should mjf insist on being the highest paid person in that company now the punk's gone he should seriously is there anyone else who should be in the conversation i don't see who you've got an unprofessional fucking idiot that gets dropped on his head and drops unscheduled belts and goes to rehab at various points in time and flips fingers on your show and says fuck puts fuck on his shirt looks like a piece of shit and can't work is a joke or you got jericho who's nearing 60 he's closer to 60 than he is to 40 isn't he well yeah i guess so okay math don't lie baby and where you got mjf and if i'm wwe mjf's the one guy in that company i want more than anyone else i want him more than a sick man wants penicillin because he's young and you got all that time and he doesn't have to be a wrestler and in the wwe it's more of more important than anywhere else that you have all the outside the ring skills he could be an announcer he could be a manager he could be a fucking personality he could be a god damn movie star he could be the minrose calling me to get paid all right well with that i guess uh we can keep going or we could jump in the time machine it's up to you i think you better jump the time machines do anybody watch that program that we talked about here a few minutes ago on wednesday night the awd dynamite anybody watch it this week oh yeah a bunch of people watched it awd dynamite on september 27th was watched by 855 thousand viewers so have they got the exact same people every week chained to their barca loungers it's the same number everywhere and then they get the extra hundred thousand if they do the the big uh uh spectacular event at a stadium it's the same thing every week that it is well somewhat the same thing but i mean there used to be variation fluctuation smackdown is going from 2.1 million to 2.7 or 8 million depending on the rock or sena and other programs fluctuate from week to week they're right there all right go ahead let's try to do this and again remember i'm under the weather so i'm gonna do my best actually read any of this eight to eight 15 p.m segment one quarter one i'm already messing up ray phoenix versus jeff jarrett with picture in picture obviously they were messing up to yeah 923 thousand viewers okay starting out like that unless they go drastically upwards they shouldn't lose an incredible amount according to their average go ahead quarter two eight 15 8 30 p.m the mjf adam called big show boat segment an ad break calla sammy and tequesta live promo with tokyo footage and ricky starks we are you to confrontation 843 thousand viewers ouch okay so they they got to go back up they just didn't like what they saw there 80 000 people in the first 15 minutes go ahead quarter three 8 30 to 8 45 p.m nick jackson versus brian cage versus claudio castignoli with picture in picture and a video for the righteous 907 000 viewers okay so should the people in in quarter two take that personally fuck that we'll come back in 15 minutes i think quarter two is usually a reflection a quarter one and i think that's a large part of it because mjf usually doesn't drag things down even if he's doing his comedy segments but quarter four 8 45 to 9 p.m an ad break an mjf and adam cole and roddy strong's live promo going into mjf and j white beginning their live promo 904 000 viewers okay so again the so far the lowest rated quarter hour has been the comedy buddy video they did rather than their live appearance mjf and adam cole quarter five the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine 15 p.m continuation of mjf and adam cole adam cole mjf and j whites live promo as well as the christian darby allen promo with jim ross in the back you didn't even mention that one 943 000 viewers holy shit well there you go the magic of everything and they were talking and talking and talking so people are just going to wait to see what mjf is going to do apparently that's what it seems like and then we'll see what they do after that i was about to say now we appear to be headed for the precipice with these numbers quarter six nine 15 and 9 30 p.m orange cassidy versus austin gun versus matt jackson versus penta el zero meado we may have found the precipice with picture and picture twice 813 000 viewers ouch 130 000 people said okay we're done here check please yeah and also by the way quarter five the high point that was also the high point in the key demo and then that dropped off a bit going into this quarter but quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m an ad break julia hart versus willow nightingale with picture and picture and the post match angle of chris statlander 759 000 viewers ouch okay there went another 454 so that means in from quarter five to quarter seven they lost 184 000 people and finally quarter eight and by the way i should mention these were compiled by wrestle nomics quarter eight 9 45 to 10 p.m an ad break and the swerve strickland adam page contract signing 753 000 viewers oh and 6 000 more so basic 190 000 they lost if we're 6 8 they lost 21 22 percent of what they started with and if you want to go with the high point which was mgf in in quarter five they lost goddamn almost 25 percent of the audience from quarter five to quarter eight oh well there you have it oh there you have it a w dynamite but anyway speaking of who watched it who didn't before we close the chapter on the the low point in dynamite tv history yes and the apologists were already saying well it would have done a better number if it hadn't been all for the problems the question is of the people who did find the program through all of that and having the biggest star they've signed in the past couple of years in the main event or in the last spot did they keep the audience this week whatever audience they were able to get well this past week show a dw dynamite on tbs october 4 2023 on average was watched by 800 000 viewers even even well okay that's down 50 to 75 000 from what they've been doing every week and they had uh extra 100 000 for their arthur ash episode a few weeks ago but obviously this had some effect the question is what effect did the continuing developing rottenness have from where they started to where they ended up with the biggest angle they've done in a while with the biggest star in actually quarter nine fuck jesus yeah and a few notes here these were compiled by wrestlenomics and this was the lowest total viewership since may 3rd for dynamite also for the record there were uh majorly baseball wild card games on espn and espn 2 head to head with dynamite wild card bitches that's what i ended up watching actually and i went back to this after the fact because i couldn't do it anymore so competition and also whatever these dbr issues are and there was the all night gas station opened down the road and how can you compete with that hey on long island 24 hour bagels are the best but quarter one eight to eight 15 p.m christ jarrico kenny omega and adam copeland's backstage run in and the beginning of ray phoenix versus nick jackson with picture in picture 804 000 viewers okay well in that case if they started there and they have that average they had to go up was it a case of people finding the show that was listed or whatever because they can't go much farther down or they wouldn't have that average well quarter two eight 15 8 30 p.m the continuation of ray phoenix versus nick jackson adam call roddy strung in the kingdom's home video or video at home i guess and war glow versus griff garrison with an ad break 788 000 viewers okay so they lost 16 000 but they're still right in the pocket and again that was the segment with the audio issues quarter three 8 30 to 8 45 p.m the don callus backstage angle the replay with sound this time of the coal strong kingdom video and billy gun in the acclaimed versus the butcher the baker and kip sabian with picture in picture oh and the tony storm video 715 000 viewers jesus age christ okay that can't be dbr related no they lost 73 000 people in a quarter and they're gonna have to go up or this this average doesn't work so what's what's going on here and again that audio issue no one wanted to see that video a second time and then they played it quarter four 8 45 to 9 p.m an ad break a wrestle dream recap and the beginning of the juice robinson and the guns promo calling out mjf and the angle with j white 796 000 viewers so that that mj or adam coal and roddy video in that quarter three just a bunch of people said fuck it we'll do anything else but watch this so they're back up to within 8 000 where they started from after losing 89 000 in 45 minutes quarter five the big nine o'clock hour the continuation of the j white mjf live promo and beatdown orange casady and hooks backstage angle christ jericho and kenny omega versus tecesta and kyle fletcher with picture and picture 849 000 viewers good lord okay a much bigger jump than normal 53 000 folks for the top of the nine o'clock hour and they had their main event guys in there but as we mentioned that was kind of a long burdensome thing to watch so where'd they go from there quarter six nine 15 and 9 30 p.m the continuation of the previous tag match the post match beatdown from powerhouse halbs on kenny omega 819 000 viewers so back down 30 000 and they're starting to there it looks like they're gonna they're gonna finish about the same place they started after having a couple of peaks in a valley quarter seven nine 30 to 9 45 p.m mjf in the training room being massaged by max castor the samoa joe video and the beginning of tony storm versus sky blue with picture and picture 795 000 viewers and they're back down around that 800 000 mark that was 24 000 at bit the dust quarter eight and once again we do have an overrun here quarter eight 9 45 to 10 p.m the finish of tony storm versus sky blue stokely half a ways backstage promo oh i forgot he's on the board of directors of a ring of honor apparently somehow a heel manager got on the board of directors go ahead an ad break and the beginning of adam copeland's live promo 809 000 viewers and i'll give you the overrun here well hold on just that's another 14 000 but basically they they did they didn't hold the audience they lost a lot of the audience then they gained more of the audience then they lost that audience and now they're finishing up about where they started from and finally eight minutes and eight minute overrun 10 to 10 0 8 p.m adam copeland's confrontation with christian 852 000 viewers okay but now was that the program wasn't even listed to be on so wait what exactly was the dvr problem so it's not that your dvr recorded a different show in the time slot it just recorded a different time slot for a different show yeah it it listed a w is being on from 4 to 6 p.m so it recorded whatever was on tbs from 4 to 6 p.m and then young shelden was listed four episodes from 8 to 10 p.m so you wouldn't have got that but for the people that tune in anyway and don't worry about dvr in it the show was in the correct time period but what i'm asking here is that how would suddenly 43 000 people switch over into that ninth quarter hour when edge was already in the ring he'd already called christian out was suddenly people it wasn't a case of i got a turnover now that it's 10 o'clock to see what's on the last segment of aew was supposed to be over so how did they get that was it tuning in for the next show or people just realized i that's an odd pattern i can't remember we've been covered these ratings for a couple of years they've never done their show low in the third quarter quarter but they had a a major star in the ninth quarter and that's where they usually do the the lowest number of the dynamite show is eighth quarter or the overrun and they did the highest so i don't know what the fuck's going on here and either today that was awd dynamite all right jim well let's go from comfortable clothing to maybe uncomfortable ratings i'm not exactly sure this past week tuesday night october 10th the ratings head to head dynamite versus nxt any thoughts before we say the numbers yeah well i think we ought to lay this out it's a little different than what we normally do let's give the as we go quarter by quarter let's give the aew number and what was on and then the corresponding nxt number and what was on so we can compare them side by side okay let me pull up everything and for this past week october 10th nxt on usa network was watched by 921 000 viewers on average including an average of 396 000 in the key demo awd dynamite on tbs also 8 p.m was watched by 609 000 viewers on average including 346 000 in the key demo just the the fact that they were able to come that close in the key demo while getting trounced in every other category is i guess a small victory but missed it by that much all right now i'm pulling up the ratings and the head to head numbers these were compiled by wrestlenomics who did a great job with these this week so if we are going i gotta see if i gotta blow this up a little bit quarter one eight to eight 15 p.m on aew christians promo and the beginning of ryan danielson versus swerve strickland on nxt kody roads ilia dominic mysterio and ria rippley's live promo aew 731 000 viewers nxt 991 000 viewers ouch so right off the bat that's a difference of 260 000 people and it looks like from from those numbers that neither show is going to keep that steadily they've got to lose something somewhere because that's significantly higher than both of their averages what do you think of nxt opening with kody against aew well i've they opened with kody because it was the perfect spot because he was going to be the general manager i don't think they were counter programming you know let's get the the biggest name we got from aew to put in that spot he fit it to begin with i think that just happens to be kawin kadenkle quarter two eight 15 8 30 p.m on aew dynamite the continuation of danielson versus swerve strickland and christ jericho versus powerhouse hobs no picture in picture by the way commercial free both shows for the first half hour right nxt oska versus roxanne pares and tyler bait and ridge holland versus gallus wait that was it oh the tyler bait butchard ridge holland it seemed like there were 18 people in there there were only three people on that team yeah and that was the pub rules thing so this should have been a massive swing to aew at least they had a good match going on and some name value while there was beh on nxt but go ahead aew 655 000 viewers ouch nxt 956 000 viewers okay so at that point forty five seventy six thousand people gave up on aew and 35 000 gave up on nxt maybe everybody just had to take a shit at the same time well quarter three eight thirty eight 45 p.m on aew dynamite the final three minutes of jericho versus hobs and the adam coal rogerick strong kingdom video as well as the beginning of orange cassidy versus ray phoenix on nxt the continuation of the pub battle now with picture and picture ads and becky lynch lyra valkyrie is that her name i don't know lyra valkyrie video for aew 673 000 viewers for nxt 861 000 viewers ouch so again nxt drops 85 000 people and they're down 130 000 from the start but meanwhile aew picked up 18 000 but they're still down 98 000 from the start so there's still about 200 000 in between quarter four 845 to 9 p.m on aew the end of phoenix versus orange cassidy tony storms video and then the picture in picture silent movie wardlow versus matt sidale jericho garcia and minard backstage and the beginning of j white versus adam page with picture in picture on nxt an ad break and john sena in the ring with brawn breaker followed by another ad break aew 589 000 viewers oh ho ho nxt 909 000 viewers okay so sena gets in the ring bookended by commercials and picks his show up 48 000 and the other guys lose 73 84 000 it's a mix between sena being on the other show and the adam coles segment followed by orange cassidy who the fans watching on tv i think have been more sick of than the fans who attend the shows or tony conhamself yeah and you can't even say the sena took all the viewers away because he only got half of them the other half just said a quarter five the big nine o'clock hour on aew the continuation of j white versus adam page with picture in picture and the beginning of the post match with mjflide promo on nxt de angelo lorenzo and cody rode's backstage baron corbin's promo and the start of ilia draganoff versus dominic mysterio with la night as a referee and picture in picture for aew 549 000 viewers oh for nxt 958 000 jesus christ now they're 409 000 people apart and obviously at nine o'clock everybody looked at what was on one channel and said they lost 40 000 from the end of the first hour and meanwhile nxt picks up 50 all right where are we going from here quarter five nine the nine uh excuse me quarter five no quarter six the hell am i saying 9 15 to 9 30 p.m on aew the continuation of mjf's confrontation with j white and juice robinson followed by another tony storm video with picture in picture ads on nxt the final three minutes of draganoff versus dominic mysterio sena trick williams carmel o hayes backstage and ad break jade cargill arrives cody and corbin backstage dominic rippley and frazier backstage and danie pomer versus lola vice for aew 557 000 viewers for nxt 914 000 my god and that plethora of crap they only lost 44 000 and meanwhile aew is flat over there with the faithful they got left quarter seven nine 30 to 9 45 p.m for aew hecaro ushita versus saraya with picture in picture and don callus and tekesh to backstage promo for nxt the continuation of pomer versus vice the chase you segment heyman and brawn it chased me off heyman and brawn breaker backstage sena and hayes entering an ad break and the lexus king video for aew 558 000 viewers for nxt 887 000 and again aew they've got the people left that are just going to watch no matter what and nxt dropped a few because the the star power decreased a bit but we're about to get to the main event quarter eight and i'm going to do the overrun separately this time because it's a considerable period of time they went both shows right for aew picture in picture and full screen i guess finishing the callus tekesh to promo mj fanny acclaimed backstage christian cage's live promo and the beginning of adam copeland versus luchas oris on nxt oska and tiffany stratton backstage and the start of carmelo hayes with john sena versus brawn breaker with paul hayman with picture in picture ads for aew 559 000 viewers for nxt 866 000 and again the entire nine o'clock hour aew did 549 557 558 and 559 that was just those people were like chained to the television they're never going to change the channel and nxt did 958 914 887 and 866 i'm surprised the 866 went down with sena brawn etc i assume they're going to do something about that in the overrun and potentially aew might come out of their fucking slumber as well what what do we do in quarter nine quarter nine the overrun for aew from 10 to 10 14 p.m adam copeland versus luchas oris with picture in picture the post match with christian and nick wane as well as danielson castignoli yuda the gates of agony swerve strickland oh good adam page see i saw none of this because they went four minutes over their own overrun and on nxt from 10 to 10 08 p.m the continuation of hayes versus breaker and the post match with the undertaker for aew 606 000 viewers for nxt 960 000 viewers wow okay so the battle of the overrun was won by nxt by the total of 354 000 people they more than they had more than half as many again people watching their show as aew did by the time the thing was over with and the only quarter in which aew won the key demo number 18 to 49 year old males was quarter three which was the pub match up against jericho versus hobbs the last three minutes into the adam coal video in the orange castity versus phoenix that is the only quarter they won the key demo but look they got crushed everywhere else the the thing is for all that nxt stacked up all of the the big stars right sena and undertaker and la night and blah blah blah you would aew normally has been doing 850 000 this time they did 600 basically 609 nxt has been doing around 800 000 or more they did 921 the point i'm saying is is that you would have thought that if nxt was taken away 250 000 people from aew they would have even done a bigger number how does this work out because nxt only did 100 000 more maybe than what they've been doing as an average a little bit more in some of the quarters but aew lost 250 000 off the top and did the lowest quarters three times in a row that i can or four times in a row that i can remember a wednesday night show doing so they didn't all start watching nxt or is there a bunch more crossover than we thought is it the all the aew fans are not fed up with wwe and hate the evil empire how did this work where did aew's 250 000 people go unless some of them many of them are part of the normal nxt audience to begin with yeah i can't explain it obviously there are people who dvr it and you had to make a choice if you're going to watch it live what you were going to watch live but you know really not a good number for aew you would hope that it would have been a little better even though and that's the thing if it was just all of the fans of the viewers of raw and smackdown coming over to nxt because well then they've got two and a half million of them seems like they would have got a bigger bump but basically it was just a bunch of aew fans saying fuck aew i'm going to watch nxt tonight like i usually do apparently but yeah 300 on the average is 312 000 people difference which is more than half of the total audience of aew but those go ahead i was just gonna say and it's not like this was unexpected except by tony and his mind and maybe that's what led to some wires coming loose well some wires certainly came loose those were the ratings for aew versus nxt on tuesday night we'll see if we ever get another head to head so did anybody watch this thing we know they did a good number but it had to tank at the end certainly well hold on one second i'm pulling up the number this is compiled by wrestlenomics the overall number on average awd dynamite on october 18th was watched by 902 000 viewers that is to me honestly incredible that they have put on these nonsensical programs for the last few weeks and still managed to muster was it what was the tease was enough of the word out there about what sting was going to do that they wanted to see that was there something else that we missed that was important here or they were just unopposed again and a lot of people skipped it last week and felt bad like they had cheated on their their spouse well i guess the bigger question is what was the lead in that and did anything happen there that would cause this number to be up because jim quarter one eight eight fifteen p.m pentel zero meado versus j white with picture and picture one million whoa one thousand viewers wait a bit one million one thousand i can't write that one comma zero zero one all righty so they hit their magic million mark i bet they had they had a million magic marks is what they had where did we go from here well that's what i said that all the children have grown up and how do we spend our time no one nobody gives us a damn and that is the highest i remember the opening number being in quite a while oh yeah quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m the continuation of penta versus j white bullet club gold's live promo mjf and the acclaimed backstage an ad break in the beginning of emi sakura versus hikaru hikaru versus hikaru shita nine hundred and thirty one thousand viewers okay we're starting to get back to more realistic numbers here but uh 70 000 but for that my god you would have thought they'd run off more go ahead quarter three eight thirty eight forty five p.m the continuation of emi sakura now your question is not now i can't say anyone's name emi sakura or sakura whatever name freddy mercury versus hikaru shita with picture and picture adam koplan's backstage confession with rena moxley good it's my backstage confession when i tell the world that i love you and speaking of grassroots wardlow versus ryan nemyth and the post match promo nine hundred and twenty four thousand viewers ouch they lost people for edge they lost people they lost people for emi sakura versus hikaru shita yeah that's true and again a poor edge was just caught in the crossfire hey listen edge has so far as far as youtube numbers he's caused a big spike in his videos for aew his segments have done okay but until you know there's only so much slack they're gonna give you before you do something and it can't be the acting segments you want to do it has to be what's right we'll see that that makes sense though because the youtube segments that's just edge and people can seek it out and the wwe fans who liked edge don't obviously want to or have to watch the rest of this outlaw program they can just see the guy they like on the youtube clips so that makes sense yeah and the thumbnail will feature him who's just been on their tv show so he's easily recognizable even to younger fans quarter four eight forty five to nine p.m kenny omegas backstage confrontation with mjf an ad break adam coal and rogerick strongs continuing circus the don callus powerhouse hobs kyle fletcher live promo nine hundred and thirty four thousand viewers so they've gone nine thirty one nine twenty four and nine thirty four so they're kind of plateaued there after the initial flurry at the beginning what about the top of the nine o'clock hour quarter five the big nine o'clock hour kenny omega versus kyle fletcher with picture in picture and a danhausen video oh forgot about that apparently that's going to be some kind of ongoing segment love that danhausen so we'll have more silliness to make fun of imagine if they did that before he debuted everyone gets like these packages after they have been there forever but nine to nine fifteen p.m nine hundred and twenty nine thousand viewers as so they lost five thousand off the but again nine thirty one nine twenty four nine thirty four nine twenty nine are they waiting for staying quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m an ad break lance archer versus barrett brown that was his name swerve strickland and prince nanas backstage promo and stings live promo eight hundred and ninety two thousand viewers oh god now apparently they weren't waiting for staying as they bailed out before he got there so all right i'm looking at the average and they started with a million people and they spent one tooth of four quarters between nine twenty four and nine thirty four now they've dropped eight ninety two there's a little bit more dropping to go to get to that average what happened in the last two in quarters seven nine thirty to nine forty five p.m tony storm and rj cities silent film with picture and well during picture and picture ads nick wane and nick wane's mom interviewed by jim ross and then christian cage comes in in the brawl with darby allen and everything else that was happening orange tassity and chris statlander's backstage promo askip that and an ad break eight hundred and sixty one thousand viewers okay so apparently the was it the uh which segment was the max well silver hammer here that conked the viewers on the head was it indeed the puddin gang with statlander or was it indeed some of this other foolishness well finally quarter eight and we do have a overrun i'll give you that too with this quarter eight the only reason we got an overrun is because they can't get their shit in in the regular run nine forty five to ten p.m the dynamite diamond ring battle royal with picture and picture ads seven hundred and sixty two thousand viewers wow and five minute overrun eight hundred and thirty six thousand viewers okay and i think we've established that also the overrun was people tuning into whatever was scheduled next because how can a match who loses a hundred thousand viewers when the people see oh that's on we watching that but suddenly it gets the last four minutes they're going to pick up another seventy four thousand no i think not so they started the program with a million viewers and ended with seven hundred and sixty two thousand hmm and that was aew dynamite and congratulations to them that the people that were watching this thing had the patience they did before they dove off the cliff at the last half hour because there was nothing there to reward their their interest or their patience you'll never guess jim but once again we are in the future help me help me suddenly i have the head of a fly or is it the head of a guy and the body of a fly i'm a fly guy all right well there's no uh easy transition from fly guy to anything else but why don't we fly along and i'll tell you what there's no easy transition for tony to life after wrestling after the ratings this week huh again there's a bunch of stories happening at once it's the television show quality now you could say it's the television show ratings it's the amount of people buying or not buying tickets to their shows but hey the head wembley let's never forget that we'll always remember wembley jim aew dynamite tony storm is going to be making movies about wembley here pretty soon and they'll be silent jim aew dynamite that we just reviewed from october 25th wednesday night on tbs was watched on average by 774 000 viewers ouch boom goes the dynamite the chickens come home to poop isn't that an old saying well it's something like that i think it's the the poop comes home the roost that's it that's it well let's see what this rooster poop did quarter by quarter quarter one eight to eight fifteen p.m these were compiled by wrestlenomics mjf rogerick strong and the kingdom backstage during their promo and the beginning of juice robinson versus mjf with picture in picture 982 000 viewers boom so they and you said the average was 774 that is correct was there a massive power blackout on the east coast maybe voluntarily possibly well let's let's go from here and see where the journey takes us quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m the continuation of juice robinson versus mjf bullet club gold mjf and the acclaimed and billy guns live angle and then mjf and kenny omegas ramp confrontation 936 000 viewers and also the high point in the key demo 394 000 so they couldn't even with all that mjf that they were spreading around the first half hour they couldn't keep people there well whatever they started from the big bang must have been popular that evening maybe they just lost 50 000 of the big bangers that didn't like the the bang gang banger ganger clangers should there be a crossover event with the bang bang gang and the big bang club what is it the big bang theory everybody could get banged it could be a big fucking deal bang they could call it the big bang start all over again well let's see uh how they started for segment three 8 30 date 45 p.m an ad break a war to a video that may have been the high point of the demo now go ahead the wardlow video hook and rob van dam versus alex reynolds and john silver of the dark order with picture in picture 752 000 viewers oh my god that's 100 and i can't do this math 184 000 people in 15 minutes said fuck you what did the the super bowl start on the other channel and for the record the key demo went from 394 the high point to 286 yeah i'm looking right now at a cable guy can i get it from two days ago let me see one day back october 25th so we're talking 8 30 p.m approximately there was celebrity jeopardy on abc there was survivor on cbs solvans crossing on cw whatever that is the nba the seltix versus the nix on espn but that game started i believe 7 30 certainly before eight o'clock did somebody was there like a triple lindy fucking four point goal or a double dunk and somebody got their brains bashed out or something they would switch over in the middle no they would just go to twitter and see the clip of that uh there was nothing like that though it was it was just a a game i mean it's the beginning of the season but nothing big at that point at 8 30 that would cause people other than the fact that mjf was no longer on the screen to jump off that show all righty quarter 4 845 to 9 p.m the tony storm video with picture in picture and a full screen ad break and then sting receives the gift of rick flair as well as christian cage's live promo 756 000 viewers they only got 4 000 more for rick flair walking out again rick flair in 2023 isn't what rick flair was in previous years but he's still rick flair for good or for bad is that something you want as a surprise or is that something that should be announced considering his history as a ratings mover is that something that should have been announced ahead of time well again if he's going to be around if he's if he didn't book himself and that's the arrangement where he's going to be here a lot then i can understand him making a surprise the first time because like anything going to happen you know there's some cash a you can earn sometimes with that but i did then what did the next quarter do because rick flair showing up on twitter should get 4 000 people in the fucking united states to switch over in a couple of minutes right they did oh rick flair just showed up and well you're not too far off when you said 4 000 quarter five nine to nine 15 p.m the continuation of sting rick flair darby allen and christian cage's confrontation the christ jericho backstage promo at renae adam page and the young bucks versus isaic hasty and the hardies with picture in picture 764 000 viewers uh well no there's 8 000 i know i said you were close i said you were close i was close yeah four gizinda eight uh boy howdy okay well at least we know where the overall average is coming from but i think they've still got a bit more plummeting to do don't they well quarters when you put it like that it's nothing but funny well at quarter six nine 15 to 9 30 p.m the continuation of the bucks and page versus castity and the hardies with the post match with swerve strickland and prince nana breaking in the adam page's home and terrorizing his baby also his invisible baby an ad break adam copeland's confrontation with sting and darby allen and the beginning of hikaru shita versus ruby soho 726 000 viewers and there goes another 38 000 of and again is this now going to be called the evp effect if this was science fiction i think it is science fiction if you look at it fairly without any personal feelings or anything involved when was the last time the young bucks had a positive impact on aew programming or events i get the only time i can remember them drawing an above average quarter hour was when they went on first which is kind of a gimme and maybe a couple times when they were tied to omega who people actually do want to see no matter what you want to say they want to see him a lot more than they do the young bucks yeah when they're out there by themselves or with hangnail because yeah exactly you know my god he's like a fucking i can't form a cogent simile he he's like a charisma vacuum in that it's just nothing happens around him it's just whininess go ahead quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m the continuation of that incredible sheet of versus ruby soho match with picture in picture as well as a post match with tony storm coming out mjf's backstage confrontation with samoa joe another ad break and the beginning of the entrances for the main event 643 000 viewers oh good lord now once again there was the mavericks and the spurs started at 9 p.m so even if you want to say that game affected the 9 p.m hour this is 9 30 we're talking about now and well they've lost 764 643 121 000 people since the top of the hour by quarter seven young bucks followed by the women's division is going to kill an audience every single time but there's one thing that could finish it off and that's quarter eight 9 45 to 10 p.m okada and orange cassidy versus brian danielson the unknown and the unwanted versus brian danielson and claudio castignoli with picture in picture there's also an overrun the concussed and the confused 646 000 viewers three-minute overrun 716 000 yeah and i don't think those extra 70 000 people showed up just to see the last three minutes of this grip remember the last three minutes you tried to explain to me was a lot of people standing around so that that extra 70 000 was probably whoever was waiting for the start of the program they wanted to watch right the other option is someone was watching another show and it was 10 o'clock and the show ended and like hey i wonder if wrestling if they're just still on like maybe they messed up the time and they'd still be on and it turns out they did and they were but that's uh that's how you feel and why didn't get a didn't get any audience gain but yeah but the last three minutes that so yeah they got one guy there that matters and that's mjf and they're doing what they can it seems like to kill everything he has going for him but he's the one guy they have that actually people tune in to see what's going on with them wait a minute from start to finish they lost 336 000 viewers right right and 336 gizinda 982 at least let's see see they lost almost 40 percent of the viewers they started with by the end of the program is that some kind of record it just may be it just may be and i mean look it was a bad show and i said to you when we were talking about it during the review there were times they do these bad shows and you're like Jesus they actually popped a number somehow but this was really bad and sloppy and unfunny and uncreative and poor and there's no one who's a star anywhere okada is a great wrestler i'm a fan of his you put him in there with someone i wouldn't watch him with but let's go to the fans who have no idea who he is which is the vast majority of the viewing audience you gave them nothing to tune into you gave them nothing that women's division at this point it really is just like the women's token match on the show and they kill the ratings spot and the problem is they put the women in that spot and then they bomb shita versus soha was awful it was embarrassing it wasn't ready for television and then you take a step back it wasn't even ready for radio the young bucks who make a lot of money do they earn it do they earn it how much merch are they moving now how many times have they ever popped a number or at least in the last two and a half three years is there anyone you want to see them in the ring with do you feel like you've seen all you can see from them does anyone want to see adam page this swerve stuff it's like one step forward three steps back every time it's like wow he did a good promo or wow he had a good match oh now he's committing oh now he's committing some sort of fucking felony on camera with nana nana some queens he should be he should know better than to participate in stuff like this i know nana he would never allow himself to be evidenced they put sting on the mic again it didn't do anything to help they brought out rick flare with no prior announcement got a lot of negative feedback from aaw fans if you're gonna do it at least try to get something out of it other than just youtube video uh the youtube numbers for that clipper great it's better than everything else on the show that no one wanted to watch that was aaw dynamite however we do indeed now that we have uh gone into the future we have ratings oh boy aaw dynamite no november i wish i wish they had the ratings just for louisville kentucky how many people in louisville watch that show because we know that that i but you know actually it would probably be more worth their life than watching in this market probably to be honest on on cable on television and that ain't saying much does not say much aaw dynamite on tbs november first 2023 on average did 832 000 viewers so they have apparently chained these people to their barka loungers it's the same every week and they ain't gonna let them go i i presume so that's a statement that i made i think it's gonna stay like that until more people start dropping tv's that's gonna be the big thing and that's the future is more people dropping tv's dropping having cable but they're not gonna have to throw their tv out the window are they that'd be awesome i love the open of sctv the phone the tv's out the window i like the idea well that's because you're a a reincarnated rock star from the 60s anyway how did it go from from big to small like usual it's because i like good canadian comedy which is why i hate so much of aw but aw's ratings november first 2023 quarter one these were compiled by wrestlenomics if you're into ratings check out their patreon support them quarter one eight to eight 15 p.m the recap video mjf and adam kohl on the screen the kingdom and roddy strong come screaming in orange cassidy versus claudio castignoli with picture in picture 985 000 viewers wow so that'll be the high point we can pretty much tell that already well quarter two eight 15 to 8 30 p.m the continuation of orange cassidy versus claudio castignoli including the post match with john moxley mjf and christ jericho's confrontation leading to war below choking mjf and then he acclaimed the billy gun hanging out 896 000 okay so immediately 89 000 people said what the fuck is going on here here and chose to leave that was not unexpected per our discussion earlier about the merits or lack thereof of fucking pockets the mascot quarter three an ad break oh 8 30 date 45 p.m excuse me an ad break john moxley's backstage promo adam page and the young bucks versus the mogul embassy with picture in picture 793 000 oh jesus christ what's up another 103 thou they lost two no not two 100 and i can't do this math 90 something thousand people in the first 45 minutes well they got to bring some of them back or they're not going to make this average are they well again they had the world series up against them so you had as much action as was happening in that game if you were going to hold any baseball fans the quarter four 845 to 9 p.m the post match with the angry young bucks mjf and the acclaimed and billy gun backstage adam copeland and christian cage's live promo an angle also featuring luchas orris nick wane sting darby allen and the big tony con and nigel mcginnis announcement 836 000 viewers okay so i would have to think that that's the adam copeland effect there because nothing else sounded particularly gripping so they got back 36 and 743 000 people and because of where it goes the next quarter let me just say this too they had whatever tony thinks he has finally burned out his audience on caring about his big announcements well now but we it was brought up on twitter today i saw people discussing it that maybe we had uh the wrong expectations because he's got a variety of announcements there's big announcements there's major announcements there's important announcements there's game changing announcements so maybe we just weren't on the terminology we were expecting too much i like how it's now how do we get tony so that he gets his fix of being on camera but it puts him in a better role it's put him with a buddy the adam coal nigel man do we have a buddy that speaks english well put a bit adam coal put a bit natural begin this we'll see who's next quarter five the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine fifteen p.m angelo parker and matt minard versus christ jericho and kenny omega with picture in picture and the big post match with the big show or he's not allowed to be called that paul white and the callous family 779 000 viewers okay we're going back in the opposite direction another 36 to a 57 000 people and we are at show low already at the top of the nine o'clock hour so far quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m an ad break in the kenny omega young bucks locker room with drama with chris jericho hikaru shita versus willow nightingale through picture and picture ads 762 000 viewers there goes another 17 thousand whoops there goes another rubber tree plant all right well quarters seven what are you never saying when you were a kid in school i never sang that what song is that oh what was the first part of it um he's got high hopes he's got high hopes he's got high apple pie in the sky hopes that's what you were singing in school when you were a kid well we didn't have many songs back then they hadn't written a lot yet all right back to this quarter seven quarter seven a new low here on this show as well as a new low rating in quarter six quarter seven the continuation of the car is she never says well nightingale including the post match with tony storm and the magic of julia heart and sky blue the magic of mjf and the acclaimed backstage the illusions of julia heart and and further illusions in the next segment with a mjf the acclaimed the guns jeff charrott sondja everyone backstage willing to be mjf's partner an ad break and then the entrances for the main event 821 000 viewers so poor mjf still even in these contrived and maligned circumstances can pull it into 38 59 000 people and get them for the first time in the second hour above 800 000 viewers and we have a two-minute overrun but finally quarter eight nine 45 to 10 p.m billy gun mjf and the acclaimed versus bullet club gold with picture in picture ads 792 000 viewers and the two-minute overrun 790 000 viewers oh jesus uh so poor mjf wasn't enough to keep 21 8 29 000 of those that he brought back and they dipped below they came up just short of dropping 200 000 from the first quarter to the last quarter they they did it in the middle but they at least weren't down they were only down at the end 193 000 and the overrun lost him this apparently the program it was scheduled afterward kind of sucked too let me ask you this because obviously i brought up before how they killed the tony con special announcement it means nothing now mjf has been someone proven to move the ratings since day one almost he's the world champion you want your world champion to have a big presence on the show there's multiple people chasing after him that's the thing but having multiple people chase after him is one thing having him threaded throughout the program is another when you have someone that hot what do you do what why say someone that hot he's the hottest thing to have an aew right right well when you have someone like that what do you do so you don't burn out the audience because you're not getting what used to be one really big awesome mjf segment that you knew to tune in for now he's threaded throughout the program and then finally the main event doesn't even pop a number steve austin was threaded throughout the program also right you can be threaded throughout the price what you're doing down while you're dangling from that thread throughout the program and i mean we've said it but mjf has now become a fucking nerd a friendless nerd he didn't need friends before he had stooge's he didn't need friends but now he's portrayed as someone who has to go and fucking tuck his tail between his legs to some of these people but yet he still doesn't want to deal with some of them because he has some pride but now he's with these fucking nitwits and it's great for the world champion to be the focus of multiple people in the promotion but do you remember rick flair being the focus of laser tron you know it they have to be main event people that in the promotion that that are focusing on mjf and and like we've said before he got over as that cunning heel that actually did outsmart a lot of fucking baby faces which is hard on the baby faces but it worked for mjf so keep doing as much of that as possible while making him vulnerable to the really good heels that can get heat on him and and they're doing none of this and now he's wandering around with a fucking notepad try it with a list of people that may potentially be his friends what the fuck is going on here and he's too happy and he's too buddy buddy with adam coal which this whole thing's been preposterous and phony anyway and he's taken it seriously not in terms of his he's not taken it seriously in terms of his work he's taking the preposterous scenario that he's been put in and mjf the personality inside the wrestling universe there is taking this seriously and that makes him look like a fucking idiot because nobody else that's watching it is because they shouldn't with the the roddy in the wheelchair and the neck brace and the gown and the fucking giraffe and the goddamn adam coal was at the guy's house for two weeks with no cell service instead of getting surgery and what the fuck is so they are minimizing and now they're overdoing it because he's in the show multiple times doing stupid shit just because he's there just because they'll watch him still but not in as big a numbers as maybe last year and that's diminishing so the fuck the mjf in a match didn't used to be one of the one two two three lowest quarter hours in the fucking show regardless of where it was placed but in this match he was and he should have been because it's fucking stupid you would have probably run into this more from working with vince on raw than anything with smokey mound or anything probably even with ovw well i guess maybe football but when you know in advance that you're up against more than likely unless it's a sweep in four games you're up against a world series game an nba championship game a big football game whatever it may be do you change the way you're going to book the show knowing that you're up against that whether you can keep your audience or not and well the thing is they didn't keep anymore they didn't lose any more of the audience against the world series and they lose against god damn wednesday night every week did they saw this is 20 or 25 percent i think the biggest thing that's ever hit that show was remember vander pump rules remember that was the big thing that was yeah and we never did find out who that fucking vander pump guy was or what he was the ruler of but but the point is is that this is pretty much the people every week that sometimes try and and sometimes succeed and sometimes fail to find something about aew they want to watch you can't tell me this completely to every people every five a week this is almost the same number in the same pattern so i don't think the world series i don't think that the average person who really enjoys watching aew wrestling is a fucking sports fan how could you be like you know watching people barbecue and dalmatians if you're an animal lover so this to me this was not well this was not due to the world series because it's the same god damn thing every week they start with the biggest number they drop fairly quickly at the start and then kind of maintain and then drop at the end and end up with losing 20 to 30 of their audience they did the same thing gets a world series that they do against god damn family guy reruns it's always the same thing because the show sucks and even all the people that start out want to see it can't fucking sit through it pick that apart it's gonna be an interesting uh next couple of years i'll say that especially with the people tony surrounded oh jeez don't say it like that we gotta keep track of this shit for the next couple of years we've been there since the beginning i think we have to go at least until tony's nervous breakdown all right when tony gets institutionalized we can we can take a break from that's right and then we will return from when he returns from his hiatus but jim why don't we go over the ratings here this is a dw dynamite for november 8th 2023 on tbs on average a dw dynamite was watched by 804 000 viewers okay on the low end of their range every fucking week and let's go to the quarterly breakdowns these were compiled by wrestlenomics quarter one eight to eight 15 p.m mj of sly promo and confrontation or discussion with adam kohl daniel garcia matt minard angelo parker rogerick strong and the kingdom followed by the beginning of mjf versus daniel garcia with picture in picture 892 000 viewers okay that's uh i think it's less than they started out with last week but with the average in they should they will probably hold and then fall off a cliff if i'm looking at the average and the starting point appropriately well quarter two eight 15 8 30 p.m the continuation of mjf versus daniel garcia the post match with matt minard angelo parker uh oh and then an ad break i was going to say ad break is their partner and then an ad break he was ad san tell's partner a mark briscoe video very good and then the beginning or no the entirety of daniel daniel i can't talk darby allen and sting versus the outrunners and that post match 827 000 viewers ouch okay they they they got a whole steady from here well quarter three eight 30 to 8 45 p.m the tony storm hikaru shita sit down in black and white promo and the beginning of penta el zero miado versus swerve strickland with picture in picture 814 000 viewers Jesus so that's uh 40 70 78 000 viewers in the first 45 minutes have departed but they're getting rapidly close to the to their average so they've got a they either got to pick something up or stabilize pretty soon quarter four eight 45 to 9 p.m the continuation of penta el zero miado versus swerve strickland the post match with adam page and his chair j whites backstage promo kenny omega video an ad break christ jericho and kenny omega confronted by the young bucks backstage 818 thousand viewers and so they pretty much stayed steady there 4 000 difference and we're coming into the nine o'clock hour which as we mentioned was samoa joe and that young whippersnapper keith lee the big nine o'clock hour samoa joe versus bear cat keith lee with picture in picture followed by a joe promo and the orange cassidy's promo 866 000 viewers okay so they did pick up 48 000 people at the top of the hour now the question is according to what i'm looking at from their overall average and the quarters they've done is it going to be quarter six seven or eight that falls off a fucking cliff because they got to go back down quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m the guns versus the bollywood boys followed by a guns promo followed by a moxley backstage promo followed by an ad break and then the start of red velvet versus julia hart with picture in picture 769 000 viewers there you go uh 97 000 people said sayonara quarter seven nine thirty to nine 45 p.m the continuation of red velvet versus julia hart the post match with willow nightingale sky blue and chris statlander rj city talks with mariah may and ad break and the start of mark briscoe versus j white 696 000 viewers oh good lord okay there went another six seventy three thousand people they lost 169 000 viewers in 45 minutes and finally quarter eight nine 45 to 10 p.m the continuation of mark briscoe versus j white picture in picture ads and the post match with mjf and the bullet club gold 750 000 viewers so the mjf factor gets them back 54 000 people at the end to see what might happen probably amongst them you know all with that yeah mark briscoe was talented and they've done nothing to establish him on this show against j white who they're pushing as hard as they can well in their own way against mjf including giving him a victory having them punk mjf out stealing his belt and no one is going to tune in to watch him there's the problem they pushed someone into the main event that no one was ready for at least amongst domesticated domesticated domestic domesticated domesticated and domestic wrestling fans who are they paper trained as long as they don't watch new japan already they're probably not going to accept j white in this role as he's been presented so the low point on the show was 196 000 viewers below where they started and the end of the show which was the second lowest point was 142 000 below what they started but that's still not as big a percentage as they normally lose so this was a victory the other week they lost about 30 didn't they this would only be uh let me see if there's a less than 20 percent oh just wait until vanderpump returns you know that guy's pissing me off he makes all these rules we don't even know who he is or what he looks like and he draws all these big ratings you're not going to watch the rest of uh dynamite you want to do the ratings well yeah let's talk about that for a minute because honestly i'm wondering whether somebody may have gotten some instructions wrong because i think they wanted a padded cell but they got a cardboard room because i think tony has completely lost his mind at this point somebody needs to check on him if he thinks this shit is good even if uncle dave is telling him that to keep his goddamn subscriber base happy somebody's got to be honest about doing an evaluation on tony at this point don't they who's going to do it the only person that could step in as his dad because everyone else is just going to tell him what he wants to hear and if you're going to be the person that doesn't tell him that who's going to back you up you know there's been rumors there's been rumors about a sit down with various talents in him to talk about the problems the show just keeps getting worse and they're doubling down on the bad shit now they're starting to incorporate the bucks back into it the bucks who aren't over the bucks who are making more money than the under bucks they're making more money than any tag team in history and they're not over they don't even sell merch anymore so nothing but as far as sitting somebody down with him i would have said maybe i don't know the head legal officer of the company but i understand now that old megan has been transferred away from a lot of aew duties over the past few months is concentrating on other things hadn't been as close to the the wrestlers and the wrestling as she once was somebody else is handling a lot of that well he's not as close to the wrestling but yeah the reports came out that she's been focusing on other areas of the con family business from the jackson vill offices and you know i think we could say we heard rumors a little while back and we still don't know if they're true or not but the rumor we heard from someone in the know was that she was suspended but now we have to question whether she was suspended or just moved completely away from aw because for everyone who said jim was making stuff up and jim's gonna get sued when jim alluded to the idea that she had relationships with wrestlers and with talent that was lauren nidusian what how'd you put it lauren nidus it was very lauren nidusish that's what it was yes well it turns out that may have been right well at least i ain't been served yet so we'll see what happens there we'll see what happens there any other thoughts on mega leaving aw no i was just saying you know somebody that could sit down with tony that maybe he'd listen to but you know if if she's been transferred over to where she's handling some other field of endeavor entirely because she obviously you know you don't often move people away from shit they've done a bang up job at it's just one thing i was thinking but nevertheless what were the ratings you also don't want executives that want to party with the wrestlers that's not what you want i don't care what wrestling company you are you don't want executives that want to party with the wrestlers unless it's eddie murphy and rick james because they like to party all the time but you've made several references recently to that song i've had that song running through my head i like to party all the time eddie murphy couldn't sing he couldn't carry a tune if it had a handles on it must be contagious but you put rick it put rick james in the background of anything it sounds funky and that's what he did he just did some background singing for his friend eddie and got him a hit there drowned him out as a matter of fact also well jim let's talk about uh what's been happening with the ratings here aewd dynamite on tbs november 15th 2023 the overall rating for the show was 823 000 viewers is you know this has got to be some kind of i don't know if it's a record or a streak or whatever has there ever been any television program ever that had did the same rating within 50 000 people plus or minus for god damn like five months six months at a time it's all it's the same people isn't it and how many of them are going to give up and jump ship before the f***ing journey through hysteria is through well we shall find out these numbers were compiled by wrestlenomics quarter one the recap of last week's events including the made up room with the mystery window and no door followed by john moxley and wheeler yuda versus hook and orange Cassidy with picture and picture 966 000 viewers jesus christ again they get handed a million people every week and they can't f***ing keep them to save their life because it's this dreck with these children and and as you're reading these things you're going to see why we're not watching the rest of this show and pockets on first again and the plumber that's not foreboding well for the rest of the program go ahead no and i wish i hadn't watched it if i knew you weren't going to watch it but quarter well i was going to watch it until i watched this f***ing the bicycle races quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m the continuation of moxley and yuda versus hook and cassidy an ad break and the swerve strickland adam page live promo which may have been the one other thing on this episode i probably thought you should have watched but that segment 842 000 viewers jesus christ on a cracker 124 000 people said f*** it pockets pockets and the young bucks you know most of the time are the things that the next segment either the continuation of segment one or just the next segment after them there's a big drop you lose people and the women pockets the bucks and the women yeah i thought you meant you lost the women but they don't have any of those to begin with they lost those a long time ago so by the average they can't they can't really go too much further can they will go ahead well quarter three eight thirty date forty five p.m the rogerick strong adam coal backstage conversation on the monitor once again they went to the monitor by just pressing a button on the phone as quickly as possible plus the beginning or i guess the entirety of sky blue versus red velvet with picture in picture 813 000 viewers well there goes another 29 000 quarter four eight 45 to 9 p.m a mirror video an ad break mariah may meeting tony storm backstage in both color and black and white samoa joe versus joe cruise and tony con and brian danielson backstage for tony con announcing was this what he made the announcement or is this just a recap of that but the upcoming round robin g1 style tournament that's coming to a oh good lord you they're gonna champions carnival depending on what you prefer that's gonna confuse the fuck out of everybody that hasn't watched japanese wrestling for 30 years straight it's gonna be very interesting especially who's gonna be in these brackets but we'll get there and and that is very intricately booked going back to the days of baba in the 80s right it is tony up to something like that or is he just gonna you know put matches together and and it's not gonna fucking come come out right with rare exceptions like when uh hara had to leave all japan due to his gambling issues and koata filled in with tenru and they got to the finals other than something like that or jimmy snooker and bruise abroad he just walking off the train and not coming back to new japan usually i believe these were all planned out well in advance with the idea of whatever happens there furthering other things in the company going forward oh yeah tony will be all over this okay go ahead quarter four quarter four that was quarter four 808 thousand viewers five more that so they're they they've stopped some of the momentum that they're dropping yet but they're still dropping now they're at the top of the nine o'clock hour where do we go from here quarter five the big nine o'clock hour the young bucks oh boy versus commander and penta el zero miado yeah that's another reason why we ain't watching this shit with picture in picture and their family in the front row 812 thousand viewers so a big bump for the nine o'clock hour with the bucks a big bump of plus 4 000 people for the nine o'clock hour and these guys in their hometown well we now go to quarter i believe they're i believe they got a little further to fall don't they quarter six the big nine fifteen hour young bucks a kenny omega backstage followed by the guns versus jacoby wyatt and peter avalon followed by a wardlow video and the first three minutes of the dragon guiding street fight match or whatever it was 804 thousand viewers jesus so the bucks effect is in full effect the bucks show up on the screen they lose viewers they basically lost twice as many as they gained at the top of the hour 8 000 so now we're at our official lowest point in the show in an hour and a half they've lost 162 000 viewers well we were now going to quarter seven 9 30 and 9 45 p.m the big 9 45 quarter kota abushi paul white chris jericho and kenny omega versus brian cage canos gate tequesta kyle flutcher and powerhouse hobs the continuation of that match with picture in picture twice 783 thousand viewers main event garbage match people risking their fucking health doing a bunch of phony looking shit loses them another 21 000 people with all their main event talent in this fucking thing and their new signe and finally quarter eight then we do have an overrun here i'll get to quarter eight the conclusion of the big eight man tag guiding street fight an ad break and mjf's live promo in confrontation with j white leading to the overrun of one minute of the bullet club gold attacking and beating down mjf oh Jesus so he gets laid out again this week well to end the show but again if you have a dvr you may have missed it 764 000 for quarter eight and for the one minute overrun 759 000 oh my god the people now that want to watch the fucking program that follows aeww or tune in five minutes late so they don't have to see any of it turn the time good lores so they ended up they lost that match as it was going on and even with mjf afterwards they lost another 19 000 people and the overrun put them 207 000 below where they started the program which is more than 20 percent i know you didn't watch but i didn't see any mention or uh any actual physical bottles of rick flair's energy drink i didn't i didn't hear it mentioned during the bicycle races and you would think that you could you know drink some of those alien spore mushrooms and it would help you ride the bicycle better maybe that's what old kota's problem was he hadn't stocked up on any goddamn rick flair drip before he went out there or is is that his drip or is his drink or that's his that's his bullshit weed uh brand that his drink is not a drip his drip is his weed and his drink is mushrooms well they announced they what does he sell with harrowing in it well they announced they had a deal with rick flair and then they announced they had a sponsorship deal with his energy drink and then we have not seen or heard either on tv again since all the fans raised a stick but i mean if they signed the deal is they're gonna have to do it unless they didn't sign the deal and what'd you say brine if you got a deal with no deal that's not a deal a deal without a deal isn't a deal that's right well those were the dynamite ratings another banner week for aew speaking of hammer time we don't have the ratings yet for collision against survivor series do we no no those are uh the holy grail of ratings right now those are coming up but we do have last week's dynamite that's finally been revealed to the public it had to be these ratings had to be put out in a plain brown wrapper for those of you old enough to remember when you had to order your smut through the mail i got intended it how much all right go ahead i'm sorry hold on how much smut did you order through the mail i know where you were living there was a variety of smut that got ordered through the mail back in those days before you had just the the unlimited smut machine called the internet and that's why they they sent it to you at a plain brown wrapper that's how everybody knew when you got a plain brown envelope you were ordering fucking diddle material all right well let's talk about tony kahn's diddling sometimes when you went to school back in those days you stuck a plain brown wrapper in your in with your school books so the other kids would think you were cool all right when i was in second grade one of the kids came in with these pens that if you turn them upside down the girl in the bikini the bikini like the ink in the bikini just like it goes away yes i have a vintage one of those from the fifties with it it looks like gypsy rose lee but i could be wrong yeah this was vintage doing then the teacher took it and sent him well god damn her she could that's worth a lot of money these days well she wasn't a collector but of course tony kahn is a collector of wrestlers awd dynamite gym this past week wednesday november 22nd on tbs you're laughing already i'm having fun we're having fun just like aw we're having fun everyone should have a good time give me a number 845 000 viewers on average and uh Jesus do they have these same people strapped to a chair every week it's 835 it's 825 it's 845 they they're consistent i'll give them that but where'd they start where'd they wind up well let me make a note here according to wrestle nomics this was dynamite's highest total viewership since october 18th but in the key demo 18 to 49 viewership was the lowest since october 25th okay so they're they're running off the the they're whether running off uncle dave's group the young kids and children the 18 to 49ers the the the hip cats that swing and groove and jive paint their hair red paint their hair different colors it doesn't have to be red could be one color one day and one color the next day well jim let's go to the ratings right now these were compile my wrestle sometime when the light catches it it fucking it just it looks like a kaleidoscope she's like a rainbow oh the colors of her hair they're everywhere it's like an old woman suddenly decided to look younger well let's see if toni came in colors this week ha ha ha it's because when he ejaculified he blew a blood vessel once again these were compiled by wrestle nomics oh they were quarter one eight to eight fifteen p.m once again november 22nd on tbs j lethal versus swerve strecklin with picture in picture 971 thousand viewers jesus mary and joseph radna camel if they started there the big bangers are coming back around there the big bang must be doing a heck of a number but they started there and their average is 845 we are about to is this going to be a slalom is it going to plummet straight down or would he take any twists and turns first we shall find out here's quarter two eight fifteen eight 30 p.m the continuation of lethal versus strecklin the wheeler you to confrontation with orange castany hook and shabada shabada shabada shabada the man whose brain returned also mjf and adam coal begin their confrontation with samoa joe how did it find its way back i wonder on its own they removed it i guess well they had to remove it from the cord but anyway so somebody was still in charge of it they didn't just leave it to wander around 948 thousand viewers okay that is a shocking surprise because one would have thought that they would have lost about 100 000 those right off the bat and let me just say that's also the high point in the key demo 382 thousand viewers and i think that may be the swerve strickland effect and again you know they never keep a large number like that through the second quarter when they get it handed to them they always plummet so bravo swerve oh well let's go to quarter three i know more swerve oh swerve is done now let's go from swerve oh to swerve lee the continuation of the mjf adam coal samoa joe live promo oh boy an ad break jake hager matt minard and angelo parker versus hook shabada the man with the return brain and orange castany with picture in picture ads 862 thousand viewers okay again i have to be completely honest i would have thought that after mjf and coal they would have lost more than that maybe we're starting to see that erosion but again with 971 948 and 862 and an average of 845 it sounds like that's entertainment is headed toward the end of the program go ahead well speaking of 845 quarter 845 to 9 p.m the continuation of the six-man tag match that i'm not gonna name all the participants of again yeah the coal roddy strong kingdom backstage angle an ad break and the beginning of the christian cage ceremony her live promo whatever it was 859 thousand viewers okay apparently now what's coming up is either a plague of locus or a goddamn existential crisis like an asteroid hitting the earth well there was a big asteroid that night i can't believe i can't believe they're they're this far up in that first hour well quarter five the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine fifteen p.m the continuation of christian cages promo with nick wane luchasaurus nick wane's mom and eventually adam copeland and then the metmonard angelo parker j kager anna j backstage angle leading into ruche versus j white 920 thousand viewers wait what okay massive power failure on the east coast is coming up i don't know how in the world they gained for that but this ain't adding up where we go three more three more quarter hours what the hell is going on here end and overrun end and overrun quarter six jim 915 and 930 p.m the continuation of ruche versus j white with picture and picture ads and then an ad break 799 thousand viewers oh okay so 121 thousand people all of a sudden said fuck j white and rush i mean but still they've got they've still got 800 000 people watching this rotten program and the first five quarters were better than they had any right to be so if they can then keep around 800 thousand but i'm still having a problem doing this this math where are they going from here they're going to quarter seven i believe 930 to 945 p.m the ricky stark's big bill christ jericho backstage angle the tony storm ceremony whatever that was and then the beginning of ruby soho versus anna j versus sky blue with picture and picture ads i don't mean to laugh but what do you expect here 746 000 viewers okay well again this is not as bad as i would contemplated it would be because that they only lost another 53 000 that brings it to 100 and wait a minute i can't do that much math in my head 174 000 people left in a half an hour they've done that before once again we have an overrun here about quarter eight 945 to 10 p.m the continuation of ruby soho versus anna j versus sky blue and the post match the ward low ar fox backstage confrontation i forgot to watch that by the way and then the beginning of mark brisco versus john moxley with picture and picture ads 733 000 viewers the moxley effect seven-minute overrun jim 10 to 10 oh 7 p.m mark brisco versus john moxley now hold on now the overrun is always higher than the last quarter of their show because it's people tuning in to watch the program they think is coming on at that point in time and generally that's you know a larger number apparently so this should be larger i guess right well again it's a seven-minute overrun 688 000 viewers oh jesus 12 45 000 more people said fuck moxley their main event guy their big time tough guy that drinks bones and eats blood so as six now get get your calculator out there brian don't start this again come on well if they started with 971 000 and they ended up with 688 000 that is a loss of 283 000 people and what's 283 times four 283 times four three million no it's god damn no no no 1 132 1 132 so that would be one million one is so they lost somewhere around 22 percent or so or thereabouts of their original audience i guess i don't know how to do that math but g many again what other program does this what smackdown doesn't do it raw loses that many people but not that percentage because they're starting with so many more and it's three hours he goes to 11 o'clock at night but it and we've talked about in days gone by back when wrestling was supposed to be so boring according to these people the main event the last match gained viewers didn't lose you gained more you ended up with more than you started with and that was raw in the attitude era blah blah blah and that this was a gift that they got the first five quarters they got until people said well fuck is this what's going to be the you know the rest of the night good lord you know what the saddest thing is i mean it's all again it's all self-induced it's all tony's own fault tony thought he knew better than everyone i can't see anything right now to fix all this because of the problem being where you know it's at the top well and and remember i said that uh and and jj dylan wrote about this when he wrote his book and said that he was you know privy to the fact that flair and the horseman asked him to go because he was also working as dusty's assistant booker but he was their manager he was in the office he was experienced go to jimmy crocket and basically say we think we we need to win more we need to get more heat because if we lose this thing it's harder to get back than it is to maintain it and i said that's with wrestling it's harder to get something back once you've lost it than it is to maintain it you know and and the more you hot shot or the more in tony's case you just go i i can't call this hot shotting i don't know what it is weird shotting you're just losing more of it and losing more of it and it's not it's not easy to get it back sometimes you don't and this this may be his point at this juncture we know the audience that will watch for free is what this is and it hasn't grown it's shrunk somewhat slightly since the start they're selling fewer tickets i don't know what kind of pay-per-view attraction they've got but sooner or later these people are gonna you know how many times can we spend $50 but the just the who's he got to sign who's he got to get he just signed edge and and we're talking about the end of the fucking end times of the company he signs edge and they debut or redebut orton and punk in the same night and you know and we're we're trending talking about something the the guy that he fired did that got tons more attention than us talking about it i just can't get over how long people ignored what we said because you were funny or said things they didn't like about wrestlers they love and the excuses were the video game is going to save the company were the company's worth a billion dollars or tony's gonna be able to get a television ride steal that's going to be so astronomical it'll make it all worth it or they're gonna beat raw in the ratings and it was not a quick thing but if you were paying attention objectively you saw this all happening and now we're at this point where we're questioning how could they save their company it's gonna exist i don't mean to like save it from going out of business unless tony's dad says enough and i don't think he's going to right now this is gonna keep going even if it's on you know some online platform television deal it's gonna keep it's gonna keep going the direction is yet to be determined but i don't know it's just it's a w is such a disappointment because of that because of what you know you all you said it early on and i think it becomes more and more apparent as time goes on it was the opportunity this was the opportunity we may never get it again God was tony gone he was the wrong person to be in charge of this yeah he was the right person to pay for it and the absolute wrong person to give the fucking keys to and let him drive and you know that's it's why i didn't take it seriously from the start because i heard him talk to me and i listened to the words he said as it does god doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and he doesn't realize it and a hundred million dollars apparently will buy you a lot of fucking smoking mirrors but at some point when everything starts falling apart because you haven't put any fucking curbs or guardrails on it and you don't know how you got there really anyway and it was kind of haphazard to begin with and now shit how do i get out of all this mess and meanwhile the you know the uranus corporation over over there that's where tens of billions of dollars is just pummeling you with stars and fucking professionalism you know that's one of the things too we've gone through a lot of audio recently jay snacarato or jay sharknado as he's known incognito has especially just for omni where is cognito and how often is he there it's in ontario and he's been going through a lot of the stuff for omni bus season you know so many of the things we both said in the early days you know i thought what was going to do mayew was without even knowing too much about what tony con was going to do so rich kid being given unlimited funds there's no serious management in place and that look look at the problems that have happened since but a lot of people wanted to turn the other way they wanted the will tony to success they wanted to will their favorite wrestlers to getting american time to work their favorite style of matches no one's happy now even the aew fans are now split no one's happy now and how do we end this show on a happy note uh have a something well it's it's it's my show so all the way here's the thing here's who's happy punk is happy instead of being on a show on saturday night that didn't get as many viewers as our clip talking about what he did on saturday night god he's getting millions and millions of youtube views for walking out and waving to people and that's when he does something people talk about it he and then people talk about the people that are talking about it and they're goddamn going back and forth he everything triple h said he gets attention he makes people talk he starts conversations he creates debates and that's what you want if you're in goddamn any type of professional sport or entertainment business where you sell tickets or get people to watch television and that's what tony couldn't figure out is he finally got one of them things one of them ratings people that he always wanted and he couldn't see that his fucking hand chosen evps that he had fallen for because he had fallen into that bubble didn't want the guy around because they he showed him up and so they fucked with him and pushed his buttons and he's not a person that likes that and then created all a gaga and then tony was so afraid of a confrontation of any kind where he has to be the boss and somebody might not be his friend because he's mean to him he let it go completely out of control and then finally when the guy punk said fuck you i'm in a front face lock the jungle jack off and yelled at tony is a little romper room contingent one see you gotta get rid of him so he fires him keeps the rest of them and now you've got one guy suspended jack perry he's not even on the television and nobody gives a fuck if he comes back the two other evps that got in the original dressing room dust up are so not over now and people are subboard with them that they're having to take time away and come back with a new gimmick and a faction because nobody gives a shit and and all of their friends still have jobs where we have to look at them on television just because they went to school with the buckaroos and they do no ratings this is what tony got and this is the people that tony was telling me that he was going to be in business with when i talked to him in 2018 and i knew this day would come i just didn't realize how long a hundred million dollars would bluff you do we do we know how many people watch this episode have 800 and what thousand people watch this television show and did they lose 20 percent 25 or 30 percent of the audience they start with well we do have the ratings jim for awd dynamite on tbs november 29th a wednesday of course it was awd dynamite on tbs was watched on average by 858 thousand viewers very it's it's got to have an eight in front of it these days were down to the to the most ardent admirers they were up two percent compared the last week's total viewership of 845 thousand viewers well bless their little pee picking hearts word they start what these ratings were compiled by wrestle nomics quarter one eight to eight fifteen p.m. jay lethal versus john moxley with picture in picture 969 thousand viewers huge again the big bangers they come in but they don't stay well quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m. the stay of lethal versus moxley and then an eddie kinkston promo backstage that was the one where his giant beach ball stomach was stuck out and the angle they shot no i'm it's the production people that they allowed that camera angle and they allowed that tape to air it's their fault it's not his fault for having a big stomach it's their fault for fucking accentuating it followed by an ad break followed by sting and rick flair's backstage promo 894 thousand viewers okay so the moxley effect loses them 75 thousand people before they can show everybody rick flair and sting and then we go to quarter three eight thirty to eight 45 p.m. a match in the continental classic tournament mark brisco versus ruche with picture in picture ads and tony storms backstage segment 876 thousand viewers and that lost another 18 thousand not bad considering what was involved we are now involved with quarter four mjf's live promo with samoa joe and the devil's involvement an ad break and the beginning of ar fox versus war blow 882 thousand viewers so therein lies the mjf effect which we once talked about as it would be the highest rated quarter of the show and now he gains 6 000 viewers that's what this mjf is doing to the reputation of the old mjf and by the way nine o'clock while we're in the middle of ar fox and wardlow where do they go at nine up or down well the big nine o'clock hour jim nine to nine 15 p.m quarter five the finish of ar fox versus war blow brother zay and the harties versus action andretti on top flight with picture in picture ads 834 thousand viewers jesus cried they lose 48 000 on a quarter involving matt and jeff hartie but with their presentation as we've discussed many times these days not sprazing so now the nine o'clock hour is the low point of the program so far and they've lost 135 000 viewers from the start but wait there's more okay quarter six nine 15 and 9 30 p.m an ad break top flight and the lucha brothers and el he held though viking goes backstage angle it was viking go julia hart versus emmy sakura with picture in picture ads and mariah mays backstage segment good lord 789 000 viewers no i'll hold on they got a gift there that is 34 45 000 people they lost for that segment that's a fucking gift that should have been below 600 well we then go to quarter seven nine 30 to 9 45 p.m the endless christian cage live promo an angle with adam copeland as well as an ad break 832 000 viewers okay so christian and and edge get back 43 000 of the 45 000 the previous clowns lost but they're in lies a problem now they know they've seen mjf they've seen edge they've seen christian we got two heels wrestling why would we emotionally want to see either one of them win that is a meaningless match i predict doom and gloom for the eighth quarter well we have the eighth quarter 9 45 to 10 p.m as well as a three minute overrun in the continental classic jim swerve strickland versus j white with picture in picture ads 790 000 viewers and for the three minute overrun 826 000 viewers okay 790 again is a gift that means they only lost 42 000 and i can't believe that many people stuck with it at the end the overrun is the other there's the next program's audience that they didn't know that they were going to see three minutes of this wrestling match and so you can't really say that suddenly 36 000 extra people switched over to watch the last three minutes of this so maybe now we know why tony's doing it and not scheduling it because that extra 36 000 people in some way increased their average did it not i would think so we would actually have to sit here and do the math which i know how to do the math but so do you is he doing this without telling the viewers because that way that gives him an artificial bump at the end because from start to finish of the scheduled program they lost 179 000 people remember davis said the plan and i'm doing air quotes the plan from aew was to not ask for an allotted extra 10 minutes to just ask the network as they go that they need an extra few minutes that's interesting if it is a concerted effort by tony kahn to artificially boost the number because he could clearly wrap the show up before then if you wanted to and why why do something that you're going to do on television you want people to see and then not tell anybody that you're where they might miss it but who's timing out the show whose job is at the time at the show who not qt marcelle just quit so maybe it's in the hands of you know fucking ben who's who's on the clock ben ben's at gorilla whatever the fun listen alvarez said it in that clip wasn't always perfect every now and then something happened but for four years they got it right with at least ending the show on time now they can't do it any week or announcing when they would be commercial free and or when they would have an overrun but the point is they lost 179 000 from the start to the finish 179 000 out of 969 000 is uh 20 percent is more than 20 percent right or maybe not well nevertheless i don't know how to do the math but it's somewhere around there it's less than 20 percent it's about 20 percent are you trying to figure this out i'm looking to see if there's anything in uh wrestle nomics is data here but i'm quickly scrolling through through things i don't even know what i'm looking at well not just get your calculator and punch in 179 000 divided by 969 000 and the answer will come to you but that was dynamite so what were the extensively bad ratings for the dynamite of december the sixth a famous man's birthday who will soon be a national holiday a dw dynamite for december 6 2023 on tbs from 8 to 10 o 2 p.m. ha ha two minutes they're just two minutes and they could have got it in did 823 000 viewers on average okay it's it's literally the same people 823 835 852 this is who they can't run off at this point i think that would be maybe a way to look at it a dw can't run these people off but this is gonna be an interesting well they get they can they can run them off through the course of the show but they will still come back next week to give them another chance if there was ever an episode to run people off this may have been one of them the show opened and these were compiled by wrestle nomics 8 to 8 15 p.m. quarter one john moxley versus rush with picture and picture ads 983 000 viewers wow okay they're they're going to they're gonna lose a lot of people on this program but we shall see quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m. the continuation of moxley versus rush the match that would not end followed by the promo that would not add roddy strong and the kingdom's ramp promo and an ad break 878 000 viewers oh Jesus okay 105 000 people and that honestly as bad as that match was that that ain't bad well we got a quarter three eight thirty to eight forty five p.m. the adam page mjf confrontation in the back and the beginning of mark brisco versus swerve strickland with picture and picture ads 835 000 viewers okay another 43 000 people and that makes it 148 000 in 45 minutes have jumped ship they've almost at this point they've almost got to come back somewhere for the average that they got well we will see where they come in quarter four where they come we'll see who comes in quarter four quarter four eight forty five to nine p.m. the last six minutes of swerve versus brisco the mariah may promo samoa joe's live i i skipped that by the way sorry he didn't miss nothing samoa joe's live angle which is what it says here which is where the devil's associates surrounded the ring and there was a big disco with the lights going out and the lights going on and mjf was hurt followed by moxley's promo 794 000 oh good lord uh another 35 45 41 000 people bringing our total that we have lost from the start of the program to the end of the first hour to 189 000 fans but wait there's more quarter five the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine fifteen p.m. the ben mankiewicz introduction for tony storm versus sky blue with picture and picture ads 791 000 viewers and three more thousand okay now they've lost 192 and i'm trying to figure out how they're going to make their average we go to quarter six nine fifteen and nine thirty p.m. an ad break christian and adam k a adam cage a christian cage adam copeland video and the start of jay lethal versus jay white with picture and picture ads 723 000 viewers that's 260 000 viewers and obviously the low point of the program and what's next well next is quarter seven nine thirty to nine forty five p.m. the final three minutes of lethal versus white an ad break and the start of edge versus christian 765 000 viewers okay here we go and people just said fuck this let me know when edge and christian is on now they've gained 42 000 back and i would imagine quarter eight will be higher still and we got a quarter eight and also we have a two minute overrun edge versus christian with picture and picture ads 945 to 10 p.m. 807 000 viewers and the two minute overrun 860 000 viewers okay well i don't believe 53 000 people switched on specifically because nick wain's mom popped up on the screen so that was whatever the fuck was going to happen with the following program uh and you know some people said well well the following program didn't get 800 000 people watching it no dumb shits but if even 53 000 people tune in thinking they're going to see that that would account for this we already had 807 000 to begin with at that they lost 260 000 at the worst of it they ended up 123 and i'm sorry they ended the regular program 176 000 below where they started and the only reason that they came back from the depths of despair in the last two quarters was because they had two of the only big stars they got left having a match for the first time in people's memory imagine if they just held an audience throughout the show i mean that's the thing they can't do you start the show with some optimism what's it gonna be this week you give the first match a little bit of a chance what's it gonna be what else is on this show when you quickly start realizing what it is again unless you're like a super hardcore fan who wants to see jay white versus jay lethal right now no one no one for 20 fucking minutes or whatever it's gonna be in all these tournament match but then that's another thing with the time management edge and christian wasn't a tournament match and they had plenty of time they could have done that two minutes earlier toni's thinking that he's getting credit i guess for this fucking overrun he's artificially inflating his fucking number at the expense of people who miss the the anger and it's not that it won't look like a real sport if it doesn't if if it suddenly goes off the air right at the right time if you'll recall and there's been many times on raw which was a live program or when smackdown became live that the anger the finish and the angle would happen five or six minutes beforehand because before the end of the show because vince always wanted time for the react to get the reaction of the person who was wronged and the person who was who got away with it and to replay the treacherous incident and for the announcers to talk about what this means in the overall scheme of things and then you're going to see a shot of the doctor at ringside if necessary and then folks we're out of time we direct you to next week to tune in and see what's going to happen that makes it more important and reinforces what you've just done in people's minds so you could end a little early and do that on an angle but don't run your angles over to where either the DVR crowd didn't go to see him or whatever the fuck just because you're getting an artificial bump in a ratings loophole and that's the only reason this could be you know the problem is the person who from day one bragged about being the one to write the tv is the one writing the tv and right now he's doing worse than he ever has before and even the best bookers would have burned out by now probably or at least needed a extended time out and if they owned the company would have been easy to do that yeah but he's burned out and didn't have good shit to begin with and now it's shit he's done before and or his worst instincts and who watched this fiasco with these wonderful tournament matches that mean nothing to their business let's go to the numbers here the aw rating 800 and what thousand aw dynamite for december 13th these were compiled by wrestle nomics aw dynamite on average was watched by 845 thousand viewers there you go does it have the last several weeks on the on your graph there i don't want you to go looking it doesn't have it in front of me i okay but it's 835 it's 825 it's 845 it's 8 it's it's you gotta say one thing about them they're consistent they do an 800 and something average they start out with almost a million he end up with barely 700 000 every week keep that number in mind 845 because it's a very interesting story here this week okay let me start by telling you because wrestle nomics has this the big bang theory at 730 averaged 1 million 157 thousand viewers so the big bang theory which is reruns of a situation comedy from years ago in non prime time a time slot in a prime time adjacent time slot does almost 1.2 million viewers but the first run program that they air in their entire well all two hours of their three hour prime time block averages 300 over 300 000 less than that that doesn't look good to me right there but go ahead quarter one eight to eight 15 p.m the Samoa Joe Adam Page Roderick Strong live promo and angle followed by the beginning of Roddy Strong versus Adam Page with picture in picture 1.098.000 viewers oh my god okay so for the first time in a long time they start out with over a million viewers and they've still lost 59 000 from the big bang but there's a bunch of big bangers still there where do we go from here now that all the children have grown up we bang on to quarter two eight 15 8 30 p.m the continuation of strong versus page an ad break and the start of Andrade el italo versus brody king 868 000 viewers oh that's um that's 230 000 in 15 minutes okay so maybe there was a something in the water on the eastern seaboard that paralyzed people's legs at eight o'clock and prevented them from standing up and leaving the room or something and jim at this point let me give you this number that wrestlenomics provided excluding the first quarter hour the one million you know that's all the way over the top there the total viewership would be 810 000 compared to 840 000 so in terms of how much that first quarter and whatever is left over from the big bang helps help by 30 000 in the average there yeah you know again when you're looking at aw where they are there's a lot of artificial things that somehow boost the number up a little bit but if you get past that it's not a pretty picture let's go back to quarter three the continuation of andrade el italo versus brody king with picture in picture 874 000 viewers well they got 6000 back out of the 230 we now go to 845 to 9 p.m quarter four the kevin and ross and marshal von erich confrontation with orange cassidy trent barretta and dan housing an ad break and christ jericho and kenny omega the winnipeg jets confrontation with big billy starks 888 000 viewers uh and the second highest in the key demo but 888 000 viewers so they're basically biggest name x wwe star and their biggest elite fellow team up and get an extra 14 000 viewers and the question is where do they go from here because it was so bad did anybody sit through this well everyone wanted to see what was going to happen at the big nine o'clock hour nine to nine 15 p.m quarter five a recap followed by reho versus ruby soho oh here we go and the people are about to go with picture in picture and they post match with timeless tony storm followed by a war duo video and another ad break 804 000 viewers all right so 84 000 people said we've seen enough and as i'm looking at their average with these numbers i have a feeling that the the attrition is beginning to start in earnest well it continues in earnest in quarters six nine 15 to 9 30 p.m j lethal versus ruche a sorgh strickland john moxley video and mark brisco versus j white 771 000 viewers not as bad as i was afraid that's only another 33 000 well we go from there to quarter seven nine 30 i see they've got more room to fall well 9 30 to 9 45 quarter seven mark brisco versus j white continued with picture in picture ads an ad break a final battle video and main event entrances for the next match 725 000 viewers and there went another 46 000 now they have since the top of the nine o'clock hour they've gone from 804 000 to 725 000 but that's not as bad as the first hour where they lost 210 000 total viewers from where they started so and they're down 373 000 from the start of the program well we go to quarter eight and we also have a five minute overrun oh yeah 9 45 to 10 p.m john moxley versus sorgh strickland with picture in picture 755 000 viewers five minute overrun the conclusion of the match and adam page attacked by the devil's friends 772 000 viewers and again did 17 000 people just show up for the to watch the last four minutes of that match or they thought they were going to see something else and that's the i'm not saying that all 700 something thousand tuned into the there was enough people tuning into the next program that it made a difference of 17 000 people but if they keep this up they're going to be averaging under set under 800 000 pretty soon not counting the first quarter's artificial bump if you take quarter two is a real number instead of the where they started they still lost 98 000 people but they didn't lose 300 and fucking what i say it was uh 25 000 or whatever from the start of the program to the end like they did in this fucking deal so i am no mjf well i mean is is that a difference maker these days he's just somewhat but not like it was because he'd be a difference maker at nine o'clock over reho doing 804 well sure but anybody would have made a difference over reho are you going to tell the people why we traveled through time we made it all that way and we had to we had to take a break because we couldn't leave the people the cult of cornet our faithful listeners all the way through the holidays we knew they wouldn't be merry we knew they wouldn't be jolly we then knew they wouldn't be happy or sleepy or dopey or doc or any of the other ones we knew unless they knew the ratings for that fiasco we described here a short time ago so we took a break and we hopped through time and now we have the ratings the ratings my good sir once again another big week of the continental classic gym the ratings for awd dynamite by the way somebody who was it on twitter that says a continental classic is something that it sounds like a hooker gives you behind a truck stop oh see i saw breakfast on the road that's all that one too at a diner yeah well does it sound like a wrestling tournament wrestling tournament that is the question awd dynamite on tv s december 20th 2023 on average watched by 782 000 viewers ouch ouch ouch so they proved us wrong they finally after all this time brine proved us wrong because we've been saying 800 and what thousand they have the the faithful there the the sick the shut in the people that are chained to a table tied to a chair cannot reach the remote whatever the case but now we've lost some of those was there a any type of a plague or a mass extinction incident in any of the awd hotbeds over the past week yes it's called the continental classic okay okay well we began and i do not have the big bang theory numbers here if that we are able to get them we will time travel once again or we will not we'll see a quarter one gym i think the big bang theory is all about time travel why can't we have their fucking numbers on time well these were compiled by wrestlenomics gym quarter one eight eight fifteen p.m ruche versus swerve strickland with picture in picture 964 000 viewers okay this does not bode well for their average uh as as starting at that level and having an average in the sevens but continue on my boy quarter two eight fifteen eight thirty p.m the continuation of ruche versus swerve strickland a collision recap an ad break christ jericho's emotional backstage promo and the start of j lethal versus mark brisco 803 000 viewers oh good lord so 161 000 people at the start of it so fuck all right quarter three eight thirty date 45 p.m the continuation of lethal versus briscoe in the continental classic with picture in picture ads the post match and mjf's video 795 000 viewers well at least they slowed it down to a crawl on the viewer erosion and dropped another 8 000 now that they gotta almost stay there somewhat don't they to even get to this average well we got a quarter four 845 to 9 p.m an ad break the wardlow video the samoa joe mjf live promo and attacked by the devils many many many friends the orange Cassidy chris statlander rocky romero trend barretta backstage angle whatever that was i'm i think i've zipped through that thinking it was a commercial for uterine repair 779 000 viewers 779 000 well that's another that's another 16 16 why are you laughing because you hit me with it i these fucking viewers are falling they're dropping like flies this is not anything to to laugh about make merriment over well we have the big nine o'clock hour and we call it the big nine o'clock hour for a reason jim the big nine o'clock hour quarter five didn't that involve re-ho nine to nine 15 p.m so rea versus re-ho with picture in picture you you have a little rattle apparently you you were not raised by a family of yodlers because you had a rattle in there you didn't get the the clear re-ho re-ho i'm under the weather a little hey where are we post match i like you sound like you're under the tune picture in picture with post match and tony storm yes post match that should be somebody's fucking name post let's get 227 pounds from demoy in iowa here he is folks post match well this quarter and the post match in it did 782 000 viewers oh good gravy good gravy mama mama good gravy so they they gained 3000 viewers at the top of the the all important nine o'clock hour by featuring well we then go to give me a rickola can you do that we'd now go to quarter six nine 15 to 9 30 p.m we're taking a real serious this week folks an ad break mjf well that's gonna put the butts in seats mj break mjf samoa joe backstage running into a mask on the floor and mjf and swerve strickland's backstage uh talk followed by rogerick strong versus commander the start of it 745 000 viewers oh so there went 37 000 we are now 200 and to 219 000 down from where they started well we got a quarter seven 9 30 to 9 45 p.m that red hot rogerick strong versus commander match with picture and picture ads and roddy strong's live promo followed by an ad break 700 000 viewers oh good well at least it's an even number um so we're now down 264 000 it's what you're trying to tell me is about the math that i'm doing well what i'm saying is here comes the star power and the overrun i don't have to hit you here in a second with the how do we do the average of this again because that's that's just well that's just rotten go ahead well here is quarter eight jim and the overrun in the continental classic john moxley versus jay white picture and picture ads oh i should say at 9 45 to 10 p.m 709 000 viewers screen with a five minute overrun and the post match with swerve strickland coming out to say hello 721 000 viewers so so the big bang theory is giving them an artificial first quarter every single week and we should just kind of look past that yeah well and also that before we bury the lead here the plumber and his cohort there the main event of the evening gained a whopping 9 000 viewers in a program that had lost well if you talk about from quarter two they still lost almost 100 that they'd lost over 100 000 until easy a who's came out and then they picked up 9 000 and the overrun what's what's what's a matter it's just it's hysterical i mean more people watch rio than moxley versus slingshot over there slingshot jay white that's it from now somebody write that down remember remind me of that later on yes uh rio beat the main event by 82 000 people and uh or 71 000 whatever the fuck and again last week and then let's talk about the first quarter but last week we said omit the overrun number because that's probably 10 000 people had fucking wandered in trying to find it's a wonderful life or whatever was airing after the goddamn program was over with so taking out the 964 000 in the first quarter how would we do this and taking out the end of it what would we we would we would add two three four five six seven and eight right and get a total on that and then find the percentage like you did on your goddamn deal before or what no that would be completely incorrect we'd add these up and then we divide it is what we do division division is the key brian all right the the seven quarters minus the first quarter minus the overrun yes added up and divided by seven is 759 000 viewers you did that already i was doing it while you you were filibustering for a while there buddy oh god damn it's trying to sound like i had to do that loud i'm you know hey i thought i was doing great can't do it for yourself what what is that you can't do it to yourself i've been doing it to myself for years so what was that then what was that number of viewers 759 000 viewers 759 000 so that's the real number there instead of 782 yeah it's like the ticket count at wembley this is the turnstile count this is the turnstile viewers how many people actually came through the door like some other people were caught in there from the previous show they hadn't exited yet we can't count them they had they had come to wembley to see the rolling stones or whatever and they just got lost in the bathroom and never found their way out yet the three biggest stars in aw history or cm punk codie roads and sheldon from the big man's here hey how is that by the way i'm just thinking would that be another way they could measure wembley did we just stumble onto that instead of next year instead of doing the turnstile count on how many people come in they fucking measure how many people leave that's funny yeah they could they could claim that as a record more people left this wrestling show than have ever left another wrestling show ever you know technically you could say that about his wembley show probably more people paid to leave more people paid and left here than any other show ever yes not only did more people pay to see it but more people left it than any other wrestling show you thought they're not doing enough to maximize their the news they're making and the records are setting they could they could look i have a whole new way of looking at this thing so they've set a i don't have the number in front of me but you know for anyone saying well it's a tough time a year to draw a number i think they did like 930 something thousand last year for their similar themed show this time of year this week last year it would that was have a holly jolly blade job uh last year they're special right after winter is blowing but for all the fans that are really into japanese wrestling who wanted this here in the states it's killing their numbers wouldn't it too be fair it's not necessarily an indictment of the entire tournament system it's just an indictment of the way tony decided to do it i mean at somebody at some point with talent that is over and with issues and rivalries between them that have been maybe carrying on for a while and then they're all all 10 12 however many are put in this fucking situation where they're going to wrestle a number of different rivals that they've had over the last 18 to 24 months and one guy decides well i'll tell you what if i get mathematically eliminated i know i'm going to fuck so and so up and match four just so he can't go on i don't care what happens and you really put a lot of time and effort and attention into the your 10 top guys competing in such a way that you don't have to completely blow somebody out of the goddamn water and beat them like a fucking rented mule every night and throw a couple of fucking assholes like i just described in there and make it babyface versus heel matches by the luck of the draw in the first round and except for one of them in the fucking other time and god to die then you've got something but this no you know 20 minute bangers with guys who lose every week isn't going to do it or with guys who would just appeal to what would classically be called newsletter readers not to say they're not talented in their own way but how they're being presented what's being presented this tournament's a bomb and then around that you have the devil running around turning off the lights you can when you have technical problems you don't know if it's real or the devil and and the only authority figures to stop it are tony and his pirate friend yeah or tony his pirate friend and shavani to read the statements like the fucking press officer from iraq but he had a clothespin on his nose when he was doing it he almost literally reached up and grabbed his nose and to the fake disgust that he has right for you oh my god they're chasing away their audience for anyone who says oh well people watching different ways really are they're getting a big boost in their youtube numbers and by the way where's the fucking follow-up for christian cage and adam copeland the biggest two stars you could argue on this show for at least the last couple months at least how they've been presented nothing well that was tony statement what we've read it from christian cage because they didn't want to come to work on a holiday week what the fuck they're old and they deserve their rest i identify with that this yeah is the audience gonna be there when they come back if things are falling apart you gotta ask people to maybe help out a little bit more but yeah i guess you also have to say to yourself things are falling apart you have to be able to recognize that not things are great best shows we've ever done everything's great who's who's bad faith arguing about aew aew themselves or people like us there are no other people like us and i want to apologize to jace knockerado for any banging i'm doing as i got you i'm so fired up about these fucking see i get this i get all the time i get what are you banging on what are you touching what are you clumping what are you clicking what are you are you spitting about what are you doing i'm when i get vehement and start rattling things and whatever and now you're the one that's doing the goddamn speech you're fine on the desk but it's ridiculous it's amazing there are still people who won't come out and just say tony's not good at this tony needs help the people tony's has surrounded himself with are not the help and tony needs to stop listening to a lot of the people he's been listening to whether they work there or not because look at what's going on do you think it's because he's not listening to anybody or because he's listening to everybody at the same time at least when you had the jelly netellas and all these people running around this show you knew not to listen to them it wasn't boring it was never boring it was never just like uh i gotta watch this it didn't feel as dark half the matches on this show i mean it sounds like a silly thing the ring's dark the buildings are dark this was the best lit building they've had in a while because they got a crowd there the wrestlers were all wearing dark trunks i said before it feels like nxt remember when it was nxt versus them i always said it felt too dark i mean that was a really small room and they kept it dark well then they fixed that they had the unicorn throw up on nxt who says they don't listen but you got your way and it went too far yeah so aws is quiet dark product now i'm telling they've lost they've completely lost the plot and they barely had a hold of it from the beginning and kody held on to half of it so i don't even know what to say anymore but people are going to pretend that the solution is tony needs to do this tony needs to get the f*** out of the way or just say this is my hobby don't treat it seriously but if tony gets out of the way the problem is who he's going to hand off to because he's bingo he's picked winners so far in almost every aspect of who he surrounds himself with or listens to or does business with to begin with or whatever so you know remember we always said can't get worse could it get worse yes the bucks are not there right now the bucks can return the dark order can be put all over the show the hardy party whatever the f*** that is could show up and do whatever they do on this show there are multiple people that drag this show down that they can insert at any time but who can they insert in the show that brings this show up mjf although that's starting to fake because of how he's been used swerve let's see how he's used who else moxley's not drawing anyone anymore moxley was always one of their tv draws yeah but how how often can you see that that same that over and over it's that's done like where are the hot angles where are the hot angles to get anyone interested in anyone beyond like oh i like the way they work like there's never any like f***ing uh it's horrible the show is horrible and they're good blood viewed well no don't say that don't say that with moxley he'll take that to heart well you know what in the old manner of speaking the blood feud where i hate him deep down in my blood type of thing where you could have matches that would make it so that it's so completely illogical for you to stop in the middle or at the end of the match and slow things down to trade things back and forth you should hate the person you're wrestling and never want to give them that opportunity for any reason to prove anything to anyone who in all honesty was mjf the last and maybe one of the only heels they've had were the people genuinely popped and got excited when the babyface made his comeback and was kicking a s*** out of him rather than just oh we're cheering these moves now no get him get him kick his ass that type of thing well the answer is yes but the other problem is who else has been a great heel like that even when terrico was a heel he was never a heel and no because he had the wonderful music and the people could sing and dance and just articulate about but that's what i'm saying is that the whole the whole logic universe of pro wrestling is built on no matter how you get there no matter who it is no matter what they do no matter how long it takes weeks months years one day whatever the f*** it is the ultimate thing about pro wrestling is the bad guy finally gets his ass kicked and the people jump up and down and cheer when it happens and they've paid to see it everything else is negotiable right you can think of five million different things that have been done in wrestling but what is the classic wrestling moment that everybody would see in their mind or remember and or the payoff the blow off the goddamn big house the end of the blood feud whatever the case the heel gets his ass kicked that's what the goal of wrestling has been no matter when it where it was presented it's just how you get there they can't get there they cannot get there because there's nobody to get there on their heels are more popular than their baby faces and so nobody is going to cheer any of those heels getting their ass kicked i know i'm starting to regret a few things well on that note jim i'm trying to pull up the f***ing dynamite numbers hold on a w dynamite that we just reviewed a e w dynamite without a f***ing in there for youtube but a e w dynamite ladies and gentlemen from wednesday december 27 2023 on tv s on average watched by 843 000 viewers wait a minute isn't that what they did two weeks ago this week versus the trailing four weeks the trailing four week average was 827 000 last week was 782 i know but then the week before that was 823 years say it's like it's like the the house in baton rouge because of jimmy killshaw the local promoter it's all 10 6 10 600 there'd be a thousand people there 10 6 there'd be 3000 people at 10 6 well let's see what you think of these numbers again this was the go home show for the pay per view jim 8 to 850 i don't know why i said jim there 8 to 8 15 p.m these were compiled by wrestlenomics quarter one john moxley versus swerve striklin versus j white with picture in picture 983 000 viewers Jesus so sheldon again hands it off sheldon with the tag you got a million people there what are you gonna do with them well what we're gonna do is go to quarter two 8 15 8 30 p.m the continuation because that thing was still going on that match yeah throughout the entire quarter two 8 15 8 30 with picture in picture 869 000 viewers ouch so a hundred and 14 000 people so that's that's where the the real number starts right basically that's what it seems like quarter three 8 30 to 8 45 p.m danielson and eddie kinkston's video an ad break swerve and prince nana backstage promo the mariah may ramp promo and then the live angle with rio and tony storm plus the backstage confrontation between action and ready and top flight and tremporeta orange cassidy and rocky remerow yeah skip that i skipped that on purpose the other guy on the show wearing an ipatch and then an ad break 839 000 viewers ouch so another 30 000 so that now we're 144 000 down it's only been 45 minutes they started with danielson that quarter they ended with rocky remerow two guys with an ipatch in the same segment they're the same quarter what is the matter with rocky remerow's eye i think he just is a pirate supporter an enthusiast a pirate enthusiast we're gonna sail off the quarter four is anything like a turd burglar maybe so 8 45 to 9 p.m the endless don callus samigavara callus family live promo and then the angle of christ jaricho ricky stark's big bill and sting followed by roger strong and the kingdom's backstage angle 867 000 viewers so they managed to muster back up 28 000 of them and and again now this has been fairly steady i've taken out the first quarter because that was artificial 869 839 867 they can't keep this up all day well we have the big nine o'clock hour 9 to 9 15 p.m quarter 5 brian danielson versus eddie kingston with picture in picture 792 000 viewers ouch okay danielson and kingston because it's a tournament match they're both technically nominally baby faces and why do people want to sit there and watch them kick shit out of each other for 15 minutes for no reason and 8 uh 6 75 000 people agreed well the match continues into quarter six 9 15 and 9 30 p.m with picture in picture ads and then the post match with john moxley 832 000 viewers also the high point in the key demo 433 000 between 18 and 49 and what in the world do we attribute to 8 uh 40 000 of them coming back was it the remarkable backhand slap finish or i think the callous angle drove them away before the nine o'clock hour and then nine o'clock hour comes on and it's danielson versus kingston having this match i think that match came back some of them came back for that that's what i think well you may be right i forgot about the phallus effect we will continue things here with quarter seven 9 30 and 9 45 p.m john moxley and eddie kingston's live promo an ad break the christian cage adam copeland backstage angle and the beginning of statland versus sky blue with picture in picture 794 000 viewers and they're back uh under eight but again 869 839 867 792 832 794 they this is remarkable they have kept much of their audience for the first time in what months they're only down again you got to take the first quarter out of it because they're down almost 200 000 from the first quarter but they're not even down uh 80 000 from the second quarter well let's go to the final quarter with an overrun 9 45 to 10 p.m quarter eight statland versus sky blue continued the post match with julia hart willow nightingale and abaddon the ruby soho saraya and i forgot about abaddon the ruby soho saraya and a j backstage angle and an ad break 781 000 viewers well that's a gift that that didn't lose any more than it did 13 000 that's the low point of the show but it was the on screen low point of the show and finally 10 to 10 0 6 p.m the overrun the samoa joe backstage angle where him and mjf take on the devil's masked men and then his promo 807 000 viewers so 26 000 people showed up thinking they were going to watch gardening or whatever comes on after that and like what the fuck is this i don't think it's gardening on the tbs after dynamite okay we've got to get to the the root of the matter here from now on we got to start disincluding the overrun and the artificially inflated first quarter and do an averages based on what they really fucking get for a viewership for this program quarters two through eight and i've the average would probably be significantly lower well they're about to be helped i just saw the add that vander pump rules is coming back but it's going to be on tuesdays well how's that going to help them it's not going to be on wednesdays against them oh i thought you meant for a lead in no i meant to destroy them why can't they figure it out where they can have this vander pump fellow lead right into aw and then they'd get the vander pumpers and the big bangers god damn it sounds like a fucking roman orgy you know all kidding aside if you know that vander pump is the one show destroying you and the ratings why not throw a bunch of money at one of those idiots and get them on your show and try to get some publicity out of it and ruin their show in the process either that or just fucking brad vander pump say move over to fucking thursday what's it gonna hurt you well there it is jim cornetz look at the aw ratings volume two a popular weekly segment that in one form or another one way or another will be changing soon with the introduction of streaming or a simulcast i guess i should say a streaming simulcast of aw dynamite jim final thoughts on these ratings simulcast i don't know that people are really clamoring for it to air one place and now it's going to air more than one but we will uh and we still got another omnibus coming up here in the near future because we got to cover 2024 where it all starts falling apart right before they get more money than anybody's ever seen to produce a television program that fewer and fewer people are ever seeing so this is going to really be uh i think an interesting feature going forward that's right and uh we'll see what happens we'll see what toni and jericho and moxley and the whole gang of braniacs bring us in the years to come but until then for jim cornet i'm the great brian last tally ho