Episode 628: Scintillating Conversation
202 min
•Apr 9, 202619 days agoSummary
Jim Cornette and Hawaiian Brian discuss the creative failures of WWE SmackDown's build to WrestleMania, including poorly executed segments with Cody Rhodes, Pat McAfee's heel turn, and Dan Housen's overused magic gimmick. They also critique AEW's decision to rent Wembley Stadium with poor ticket sales, Chris Jericho's return to AEW, and broader issues with modern wrestling's reliance on celebrities and convoluted storytelling.
Insights
- WWE's creative team is undermining its own product by having characters explicitly state the show is failing, which contradicts efforts to sell premium-priced WrestleMania tickets and damages audience confidence
- Overreliance on celebrity appearances and meta-commentary about wrestling's problems alienates casual fans while failing to excite hardcore fans who already know these issues
- Modern wrestling's high-impact style is causing more frequent injuries among younger wrestlers, creating a vicious cycle where creative must scramble to fill main event spots with hastily-booked matches
- AEW's financial mismanagement (renting a 95,000-seat stadium for 22,000 fans) and Tony Khan's indie-minded booking philosophy prevents talented wrestlers from reaching their full potential
- The absence of clear authority figures and logical consequences in wrestling segments (refs not enforcing rules, heels escaping without comeuppance) breaks the fundamental contract between performers and audience
Trends
Blurring of heel/face dynamics where audiences cheer heels and boo babyfaces due to poor booking, creating confusion rather than engagementOveruse of supernatural/magical elements (Dan Housen's curse) in mainstream wrestling, diluting wrestling's core appeal and mimicking failed indie tropesCelebrity integration in wrestling shifting from special attraction to constant presence, fragmenting focus from actual wrestlers and storylinesWrestleMania ticket sales struggling despite premium pricing, indicating market saturation and audience fatigue with repetitive Las Vegas venue choiceInjury crisis among top wrestlers forcing creative to pivot away from planned main events, exposing lack of contingency planning in bookingMeta-commentary and shoot-style promos becoming default storytelling tool, suggesting creative bankruptcy and inability to construct traditional narrativesTag team divisions being used primarily for comedy segments rather than meaningful title programs, devaluing the divisionReferee authority being ignored or undermined in matches, removing logical consequences from wrestling action
Topics
WWE SmackDown creative direction and booking decisionsWrestleMania 42 build and ticket sales performanceCody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton storyline executionPat McAfee's unexpected heel turn and commentary roleDan Housen's supernatural curse gimmick overuseAEW's Wembley Stadium financial mismanagementChris Jericho's return to AEW after WWE negotiationsModern wrestling injury rates and style-related damageCelebrity integration in professional wrestlingReferee authority and match logic in WWE programmingTag team division devaluation through comedy bookingSammy Zayn's unintentional heel turn with fansTrick Williams and Lil Yachty chemistry as teamLas Vegas tourism decline affecting WrestleMania attendanceCreative team accountability in WWE programming
Companies
WWE
Primary focus of criticism regarding SmackDown creative decisions, WrestleMania booking, and overall product quality ...
AEW (All Elite Wrestling)
Criticized for renting oversized Wembley Stadium with poor ticket sales and Tony Khan's indie-minded creative philoso...
TNA Wrestling
Referenced in historical context regarding payment methods (check incident with Great O) and past wrestling business ...
Netflix
Mentioned as platform for 'Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom' documentary featuring cult member Richard Hunter
TKO Group
Parent company of WWE making strategic decisions about celebrity integration and WrestleMania venue selection
People
Jim Cornette
Host analyzing WWE and AEW creative decisions with critical perspective on modern wrestling booking
Hawaiian Brian
Co-host engaging in discussion about wrestling creative, providing counterpoints and observations
Cody Rhodes
WWE Champion whose build to WrestleMania main event against Randy Orton is criticized as poorly executed and emascula...
Randy Orton
Challenger in WrestleMania main event; praised for promo work but criticized for being used in illogical storyline wi...
Pat McAfee
Turned heel unexpectedly to interfere in Cody-Orton feud; criticized for bad promo work and illogical storyline place...
Chris Jericho
Returned to AEW after failed WWE negotiations; criticized for choosing secondary company over retirement tour opportu...
Tony Khan
AEW owner criticized for indie-minded booking philosophy and financial mismanagement of Wembley Stadium event
Dan Housen
Supernatural character whose curse gimmick is overused with repetitive camera work and magic teleportation effects
Trick Williams
Praised as one of the few bright spots on SmackDown with good chemistry with Lil Yachty
Sammy Zayn
US Champion being unintentionally turned heel by fans due to poor booking and unsportsmanlike finish against Carmelo ...
Lil Yachty
Praised as one of few positive elements on SmackDown for his chemistry with Trick Williams as manager
Richard Hunter
Cult of Cornette member featured in Netflix's Lamar Odom documentary as first responder at overdose incident
Paul Levesque
Head of creative team held responsible for SmackDown's poor storytelling and illogical booking decisions
Stephanie McMahon
Appeared on Raw in segment with Cody Rhodes that was criticized as emasculating and counterproductive to his character
Kyle O'Reilly
TNT Champion injured during AEW Collision match due to poor positioning and lack of safety consideration in spot exec...
MJF
AEW World Champion stuck in company despite better opportunities; criticized for accepting poor creative direction
Quotes
"How could he fuck this up? That's a tailor made deal which we've been saying for the past couple years. Chris comes in, he gets a year on TV and a fucking hall of fame and boom and that would generate money for everybody."
Jim Cornette•Chris Jericho discussion
"They're just making a lot of this shit up as they go and they don't always think everything through from a standpoint when there's other people involved in the ring."
Jim Cornette•Kyle O'Reilly injury discussion
"This whole concept of the host of WrestleMania is one of the stupid Vince McMahon ideas during the years of desperation."
Jim Cornette•John Cena WrestleMania hosting announcement
"The creative team is creatively bankrupt right now. They don't know what to do. They don't know how to get out of their own way."
Hawaiian Brian•WWE SmackDown analysis
"They've just made Cody look like a complete idiot made their company look completely ineffective. They just peeped people off in the in the wrong way about this whole thing."
Jim Cornette•Cody Rhodes vs Pat McAfee segment
Full Transcript
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A pleasure to be here again for a happy and fun edition of The Experience. And this is your show. Well, I'm glad you were able to testify in such lengthy detail about how happy and cheerful you are. It's Apple Blossom time, Brian. I'll be with you in Apple Blossom time. My ears. I'm telling you, the dogwoods are in bloom. The red buds are just out purple and just bright. About a month ahead of schedule is the weirdest spring already. Record high temperatures here in Louisville, Kentucky. It's 20 degrees warmer every day than it's supposed to be. We went from record cold in February to record heat in March, and now the plants and the animals and the mammals and the mammaries, none of them know what to do. They're just sprouting out all over there. You've seen the mammaries sprouting out all over the place. Uh, no. Well, you need to keep a better eye out for them. But anyway, and again, the pollen, the pollen, Brian, it's terrible. My eyes, my eyes are shaking and my knees are weak. My weasel are neat. I'm just, I'm suffering the effects of an early spring on my poor head and my squishy ear. Going back to the doctor telling me these goddamn antihistamines that he gave me ain't done shit. Made my mouth a little dry. Didn't clear my ear up. What's that you said? Kate, Kate, area. All right, we're going to talk about some things today. Are you cheerful? I hope so. I hope so. Do you have a pulse over there? I'm feeling good. Oh, okay. See, jolly and happy. I'm waiting for you to bring it. It's your show. You got to bring it. I want to keep it. I'm staying home with it. You got to share it. I just recognizing a couple of the people, the cult of corned out there. I got an email from Jesse from Boston who lost Monroe or as his full name was Monroe, he's a very obvious dealer schmoop. But it was his 12 year old puppy dog and he's been listening to the show to keep himself distracted from that. But he was a clumber spaniel. And he sent a picture of a cute little baby. But anyway, he says that he likes our reviews much better than the actual wrestling is at least that's entertaining. So it's keeping his mind off of it. But our, our sympathies for, for schmoop. And also, I got an email from Alex from Manchester over at United Kingdom who said a lot of nice things about me. And actually, you too, Brian kind of, you know, by extent. And I'm not going to read what he said because then it would just be self serving and lacking in humility of me. But I wanted to tell him that I thanked him for saying thank you to me for saying things that he heard me say. Thank you, Alex. And I thought that's clear. Now that that's cleared up. All right. Brian, I know you're just dying to jump in on this with this is an email to both of us. And this actually goes into some detail on something that we spoke about here on the program. Just recently. And remember when we talked about poor great oh getting paid by a drawing of a check on a piece of paper. By TNA wrestling and they sent it to him over in Scotland and he, he took it to the bank because he thought it was some weird American thing. And we did read the other day on on your program, I think possibly I can't remember an email from great oh who's doing well and stars and everything that is ever staged in the United Kingdom. But this is from Callum, who is a both a Scotsman and a bank branch employee. So therefore he's, he can officially testify in two different areas of expertise Brian as to what the fuck goes on over there with the checks and shit correct. I presume possibly so maybe possibly maybe well we'll see if he sounds like a person to be trifled with. Jim was not ignorant first of all to assume that great oh was British when he's Scottish because he is technically both. Scotland is a constituent country within both the United Kingdom and Great Britain. It is a common misconception around the world that Scotland and Britain are separate. But just for clarification, Great Britain is an island made up of England, Scotland and Wales, and the United Kingdom contains England, Scotland, Wales and also includes Northern Ireland. Therefore, great oh is both Scottish and British. So that son of a bitch is double dipping Brian. I don't think that's what you would call that. It's not double double dipping exactly. Well he's got two different goddamn like home countries he can do welcome home great oh shows and two different fucking whole countries. And do you think he gets like two different so security checks or two days he's got some he's got the benefits of citizenship of two different fine upstanding well established countries that ought to be illegal. Well I don't know how upstanding but yeah I mean I guess there's something in what you said I don't know what exactly they stand up a lot better than we do these days over there. And secondly, and possibly more importantly a couple more points to note around the great oh check incident as a bank cashier I can confirm that in the United Kingdom. It is very rare for anyone to be paid by check. The vast majority of the time payments are automatically transferred into the employees bank account. And on the occasions where they are not. It is usually because the employee is working some kind of manual job which pays cash in hand checks are quite simply an inefficient method of salary payment over here. They do exist in the UK, but they are more often issued an instances such as refunds from companies or as gifts between family members. And he said international checks which I assume great oh received from TNA are a nightmare to process in our banks because UK checks are different to American ones, and our banking systems are not designed to process them. Okay this explains part of what that I was talking about a week or two ago Brian when we got comments on the incident to begin with. But there's people saying commenting. We haven't seen a check in 30 years, which insinuates to me. That's not the proper usage of that word. But it does that they don't write checks either I can understand okay if you work for a business or a company, you're an employee they just direct deposit your check. That's a thing that people do these days I don't like it but I know it's done. But how do you pay the fucking electric bill you're still writing a fucking check. Or you got a damn credit card bill. Do you pay your credit card bill put it on my credit card. How the fuck I mean most people just do direct debit. You know it's pretty simple. But that's ridiculous. Then you've just given control of all your finances over to some fucking nameless bot. And a lot of these bots ain't worth the paper they're printed on. Well again the good thing is in America you do have the option of writing a check sending a check what do you think about hearing that it's not like this was recently phased out but from all the feedback and we got a lot of feedback more than I thought we would about this. It seems that these were phased out checks these pronouns pal checks were phased out like 35 years ago or so. Yeah. I guess you know if they gave me a alternative. Well here you go. Here's your bill. Fine. Here's a check. Oh we can't take that. Well and you can't get paid. I don't know how I would have existed in such an environment. Just willy nilly going around telling people your fucking bank account information all over the place with things have been any different. Like let's say in 1984 the end of the territory days if instead of you know I can mid south instead of the check system they had if it was we will deposit it right into your bank account every few weeks. How would that change things. Well for one thing you would have still had to have given the the guy the piece of paper assuming that everything else in 1984 is the same we still don't have the Internet right etc. We're just direct depositing the checks or what's what's your fantasy. I think in that fantasy is just that it's just it's somehow a direct deposit right into your bank account and electronic check pre electronic checks I don't know how you would say it. Okay. So basically you'd still have to hand the guy a piece of paper at interviews or a TV later that day every fucking two weeks on a Wednesday. Telling that guy what he made for each town and what has been deposited in his account. And then he would have to go home and immediately check to make sure that you weren't just bullshitting him. And that the money really was there before he decided where he's come back to work the next day. That would be one thing because that's what in mid south for example I've said the guys the main talent that was at interviews on Wednesdays every Wednesday that's where you'd get your check and they paid every two weeks. And that would have the breakdown of the towns that you worked in that the check pair. Well I'm sorry. Let me try this again. You got to check every week. But it was for two weeks before that because what's held back the week you see what I'm saying. Because he wanted to make sure if you left the territory you knew you were leaving weeks pay behind so point me we got to check every week at TV. And it was for two weeks previous and it contained all that information and the guys immediately ran. I've told this story to the bank to cash the fucking check and get the cash. And then later on maybe or maybe not they would deposit it in a bank account if they had one. Because some of the guys didn't have a goddamn checking account. Maybe most people sometimes their wife or it may have been in their fucking girlfriends name if they had an apartment and they had you know the girlfriend signed a lease whatever the fuck it was. It was not just like it is today with the young you know generation. Literally some of the guys had to go to the bank and that in Shreveport that the Mid-South account was at that they knew the guys were coming every Wednesday afternoon. They could cash those checks without having a bank account of their own. But but no there would have been a mass fucking riot slash exodus if you because some guys again didn't have a bank account some guys wouldn't have trusted it. You were on the road to the boat there was no way that you could just get online and find out whether money was in your bank account or not you'd have to wait till a two or three days later maybe when you were back home in Alexandria or Bat Rouge go to the bank and I had to wait until a two or three days later maybe when you were back home. In Alexandria or Bat Rouge go to the bank and ask them how much money you had you see where I'm going with you know and it's crazy that Grado would teach us something about America that we didn't know. Think of how many instances in the past where a promoter didn't have their checkbook on them conveniently. Imagine if you had the knowledge OK draw me a check right now. What do you mean just draw me a check I will take it to the bank and take my chances just dropped. It would have worked. No one knew that. I saw kind of the opposite that time with Gordon Scissori. I knew it. He had a pack of checks with no register just in his hand a pack of checks and as the guys were standing there he's just writing them checks for what they told him they believed that they were owed for either what they'd already done or for extra work they were going to do or for inconvenience or whatever. The fuck and he was just writing checks and handing them to people not even writing down how much it was. Anyhow so that clears that up. But Brian let me ask you this you may know where I'm going with this because I recorded something that had been broadcast on television a week or two ago whenever but I just got the chance to watch it. If I was to say to you that Humphrey Bogart starred in a wrestling movie would you be able to call the name of the movie right off the top of the bat. I would not know. I got you with one. I've been trying to fucking see this movie again. I saw this thing 40 years ago on TV. I know not where somewhere around the country right. And I've never seen it again and it was on Turter Classic Movies here recently. Swing your lady. Does that ring any bells. It does not. Okay Humphrey Bogart plays a wrestling manager in 1937. This is the year the movie was released and he's barnstorming across the country in a car with his wrestler that he manages trying to. Drum up big matches for him as they actually did back in those days in some cases right. And the wrestler is played by Nat Pendleton who I know you will recognize. Yeah I know that name. Nat Pendleton was a actually an Olympic wrestler for the United States in the 20s same decade as Johnny Weissmueller was a swimmer. And then it turned pro and was a professional wrestler you know of some note during that time period the 30s but would go on to be. I guess he was the first wrestler that went Hollywood right because he started getting parts in movies and ended up transitioning to acting full time he was in. He was in the 50s television. Abbot and Costello movies he was even into 50s television. He was the tall fucking grumpy police sergeant or the drill instructor or whatever the fuck. And Nat Pendleton is the wrestler and they get stuck in the in the Ozarks back in the backwoods and they can't find any opponent for. And that Pendleton to wrestle and they come up on the idea of pitting him in a match against the lady blacksmith in town who's this big strapping woman. And maybe we can get some interest in this and they're trying to sell this match when the lady blacksmith's boyfriend shows up. And he wants to take the fucking match at its whisker savage. And although he's billed in the credits as Daniel Boone savage which is the gimmick that he was doing in the 30s but he was. Then I think maybe just a year or two away from the start of a big run in Houston in Houston wrestling is Whiskers savage. He was a hillbilly with the pig and the blah blah blah. And he's a real legitimate. It would be the same thing at that point as like you know give me a star from today so many names running through my mind. If suddenly fucking well all the guys are in movies but if suddenly one of the top guys of today ends up in a you know a movie. Ah it was early in the in the wrestling business for that to happen back then. So point being you get a chance to see at a couple of the scenes. You get a chance to see because this was a lighthearted movie. What was probably a bunch of spot show spots they were doing in the 30s and two legitimate top guys working even a Hollywood match. But the fucking style of what wrestling was then at least from a lighthearted standpoint like I said you know the spot show spots but it's kind of fascinating. Because we've seen the wrestling scene in Night in the City with Zabisco and Misserke where they were both from the 30s and Zabisco before that and working that. The old stiff snug we want these people to believe kind of shit because it was a dramatic movie. And now you get to see these two guys doing the 30s Gaga that they were probably doing in the fucking Hattiesburg Mississippi National Guard Armory. So it's just it's fun but that that movie is almost never seen which is why probably you've never seen it. I've never seen it. I looked it up on Wikipedia. I'm going to see by getting a copy of it. Humphrey Bogart was apparently becoming very disenchanted with the film roles that Warner Brothers was offering him at this stage of his career. The following year he appeared in his only horror sci-fi film The Return of Dr. X. And these were the two roles he never liked talking about when he became a major film star several years later. He considered his performance in Swing Your Lady the worst of his career and Swing Your Lady is listed in the 1978 book The 50 Worst Films of All Time. Wow. I got to see this just because of the whole thing interests me and I love films from that era but footage of Whiskers Savage. I got to see that. Yeah. And I mean he's got you can see why he got over because he just got that fucking the face the look. It's a classic. He could be the Hillbilly the caveman the fucking gimmick and and I think he may he might have made a few more movies also after that. So I don't think most of those people are watching just for the wrestling scenes. I think they were actually expecting acting and plot and shit. What's the name of the producer Samuel Bischoff. Oh no. That's right. Is that the first case of a member of the Bischoff family managing a bomb in a wrestling business. That's the first time a Bischoff was involved in a wrestling film that made the list of the worst films of all time. Well anyway folks swing your lady with Humphrey Bogart and Nat Pendleton and Whiskers Savage. And did you know Brian that right now as we speak and I found out completely by accident about this but as we are sitting here right here right now. A member of the cult of Cornette that we speak of on occasion is starring in a goddamn big time Netflix television program. Have you heard about this. You talking about the new John Felton Baltimore documentary. No no no that's that's being released by the German goo girls set up the goo girl really. They're adopting an offshoot where they're doing home family reality. But nevertheless no I'm serious a big cult of Cornette member is in a big time TV show on Netflix right now and we haven't even called anybody's attention to it didn't even know it. I have no idea what you're talking about. No there is a program right now on Netflix called untold the death and life of Lamar Odom. Have you seen this program advertised I have seen an advertise I have not watched it. And one of the actually the star of the show. I mean he steals the show was the appearance of our friend Richard Hunter who has been a member of the cult of Cornette who we've talked about later I just mentioned him here a few months ago a letter from him who sent a couple of really nice gifts he and his lovely better half. Listen to the program we've exchanged letters back and forth and various packages and things over the past couple years and he had said and I had read from the thing that he had said. This was last year before that he was the guy that administered the first first aid CPR etc to Lamar Odom when he spazs out in the whorehouse of which Richard Hunter was the. I got think his official title was the manager of the establishment he's at the Hollywood museum say again or monger the the one official whoreman. Richard Hunter but he's now at the Hollywood horror museum in Las Vegas there. He's a well he's a horror monger but but also they got the room the people who own the horror museum that he is managing now got the room from the brothel. That Lamar Odom O. D. did and set it set it up there in the museum so he had to go and look at. Every day he was like what the fuck but nevertheless he tells the story he could they take him to the site of the the former whorehouse in question. And you know he's telling the story explaining and they does a very good job of. Adequately being some kind of sane voice in the middle of this whole thing but basically Lamar Odom. Odom started out as a nice young kid that could play basketball with a nice girlfriend and a couple of kids and then. Got in the NBA and made money and started fucking doing cocaine and met a Kardashian and went completely off his shit. And O. D. in a whorehouse in the desert. And had to and here's the goddamn deal. If we're after that he did this and he was brain dead and whatever the fuck. Oh Chloe Kardashian was was about ready to break up with him anyway and then this happened and she stayed by him and helped him. He had to learn to talk again. He had to learn to walk again. He was like a vegetable for however many fucking months whatever the case. And he gets through all of this and he gets back on his own two feet or whatever. And she comes in the house one day and he's smoking crack again. And she said fuck it and she went out and filed for divorce the next day. And then I went to sleep on the last bit of the program. I don't actually know what fucking happened to him because. I knew Richard was his part was done and and and I was sleepy. But Richard Hunter famed cult of Cornette member is starring in this program right now. He should combine his two interests because I don't know too much about the whorehouses but you never hear anything about like themed whorehouses. How about horror whores and they could all be dressed as monsters or spooky or you know Elvira. Now wait a minute. Do you want the monsters dressed as whores or the whores dressed as monster. I think you have to start with the whores and work your way the other way. You have the whores and now it's about what can we do to attract these nutty horror fans who have lots of money I guess and nothing to do. Well let's spitball that or brainstorm their workshop that. How about speedball. Let's speedball that. No no. That's what that's what old Lamar. That's where he got into trouble. All right I've got an update on a news story and folks it's not as bad as it sounds when I start this but the news came out a couple of days ago. Jonathan the world's oldest land mammal the hundred and ninety four year old giant tortoise had died on the island of St. Helena. Have you heard about Jonathan. I've not heard anything about is this what we're replacing the a W dynamite reviews. Because this is interesting. National Geographic. You didn't hear about the Jonathan controversy. It's a controversy. It was his vet announced that he'd put out on Twitter. He said I am the veterinarian of Jonathan the hundred ninety four year old giant tortoise the land world's oldest land mammal. And I have cared for him and have the privilege to know him and his wisdom. For for low these many years now and I have seen his the eyes that reflect a mirror of the world and society that's gone through the first photograph and the first phone call and the first light bulb and the first plane flight and the landing on the moon. And this great and majestic creature has left this world right and everybody just hit the news everywhere. God damn. Come to find out. That the veterinarian that announced that was really the. He it was the name of Jonathan's veterinarian but it was an imposter Brian. It was a scammer that had stolen the identity of the veterinarian of Jonathan the hundred ninety four year old giant tortoise. And he had made a fake announcement from Brazil trying to sell cryptocurrency. And Jonathan is still alive and well at the age of one hundred ninety four. He's he's beat old Uncle Elijah who as we all know is still alive at one hundred and five. But can you believe that they made a goddamn. A cryptocurrency scam tied to the fake death of this poor majestic creature. I got a bunch of messages a couple of weeks ago from Missy Hyatt. She must have been hacked. It was all cryptos. Oh like how good I did with this crypto. I have seen more tweets from people saying that Missy Hyatt's account was attacked was hacked. And here's her new account because the old account is she's not selling cryptocurrency. How does that happen that you can't go to any responsible party at this dog and pony show they call Twitter these days and say obviously this this has happened to restore me my. What would be the matter with some idiot that would set up some kind of business Brian. Where you couldn't just contact people to make things right immediately. Well again I don't know. Can't even imagine. I don't know if it's the same person that hit Missy Hyatt that hit the doctor of Jonathan. So Jonathan's still alive and well. Jonathan is alive and he'll soon be a hundred ninety five. How soon. Next year. When. I don't know. I mean it makes it sound like it'll be within months. Are you just making it up. You acted like you were. Currently a hundred ninety four. So on his next birthday he'll be a hundred ninety five. I don't know what more to tell you. It's estimated anyway because they assigned him. Hundred and whatever years ago an arbitrary birthday date said that they can celebrate. The article said but that they have been estimated because they don't. They didn't see when he was born. They just know that he's been around a long fucking time. So they started counting. So he could be two hundred. And we just don't know. It is within the realm of possibility. He might be only a hundred ninety one and be trying to fool everybody. Work some kind of AARP scam. I don't know. You should start an only fans. I'm sure plenty of people would like to watch a live stream of the hundred ninety five year old turtle. Tortoise excuse me tortoise not to you know that's a slur in the turtle and tortoise community. I guess so. Yeah you confuse the two but. Well speaking of only fans to be honest this is kind of the next piece of news that we have in current events it kind of goes within that genre. Have you heard about the the gnome family saga Brian we got to take just a second to acknowledge this my my long time close personal friend crusty gnome. And and her family drama that's been playing and if you watch the news at all Brian have you functioned over the last few days. I believe crusty gnome was Lord Littlebrooks nickname if we're going to be correct. No I I've seen this story unfortunately the new the new papers the newspapers really want you to see the image of this fucking guy with his fake tits. It's the weirdest fucking thing ever. And making kissy face and here's the I don't even know how to describe this and it would probably be brutal if I did to the people around the world who don't have to put up with this foolishness but if you just if you just want to Google it they found out. And here's the irony in the situation by this is irony in a situation used properly. They're saying that it may have been an illegal immigrant that released this information to get even with crusty gnome for being the head of this fucking fiasco. How did they get it. Well I feel they might have very well been on the same goddamn websites that that her husband was see apparently for people around the world. Christy gnome who was the ice Barbie in charge of Shetler's private Gestapo that would admit to nothing and have another one of the plastic surgery faces that all the women in his orbit have to have to hide their ghoulish nature. They're probably snake people. She's while she's been campaigning across the country including spending $200 million in taxpayer by regardless of whatever you think about the ice operations. She got a campaign of over $200 million for TV commercials and media depicting her riding the horse and wearing the costumes and deporting the people as the face of the Department of Homeland Security. $200 million of our money to make ice Barbie fulfill her fantasies of being a goddamn showgirl or whatever. Her husband was home spending five grand on a video hooker to look at him dressed up as a woman with gigantic fake boobs underneath his shirt. And the nipples were crooked. And the nipples were crooked but he was doing the best he could with homemade material. But the thing that blew up the internet and the news was not that this douchebag, this heartless blood sucking ghoul spent $200 million of taxpayers money to finger herself in public cosplaying is all the things she fantasized about being. While she was having an affair on said husband at home with another one of those dipshits that's been orbiting the Trump criminal regime Corey Lewandowski. I don't remember what his official title is besides, you know, assistant dick sucker. But while the thing that broke the internet was the husband spending five grand of his own money on the video hooker and dressing up. Which nobody gives a shit. I don't care whether he dresses up or dresses at all. I don't know him. I'll live next to him. I'll never have seen. And it's none of my business what he wants to dress up as or what he wants to do while he's dressed up, or even how he wants to spend his personal fucking funds. But it's this that blew up the fucking internet instead of the other shit because if only seven trans kids in a country of 350 million people didn't want to play high school volleyball, we wouldn't have had to suffer under the Trump administration. But because they did, we do. Because that's what they were all trying to say. The trans people, the gay people, those other people. They're going to molest your children. They're going to give junior a sex change operation in third grade biology when you pick him up. He's a girl. What do the kids call it? Brian projection. The only people. That they are persecuting is the people they know deep down that they are and they don't like it. And there was another guy that Trump pardoned for January 6th. They just brought him back in for more issues with children, which makes several of varying degrees and different types of offenses. I was going to say, didn't a bunch of people that got pardoned for January 6th get arrested again for a variety of heinous things? Yes, they did. Who could have predicted that? And so and some of these things happened after they got out where they wouldn't have been out. They wouldn't have got them. So the point is the the call is coming from within the house with these fucking maggots. That everything that they say these other people are going to do is the shit they're doing. And especially where children are concerned. I've just seen again within the past week, three different pieces of news from the various local newscasts of somebody either beating their kids, mistreating their kids or whatever with kids and they're all fucking white people. They're not immigrants. They're not transgender people. They don't appear to be gay people. I'm not going to pry that closely. It is a regular old stupid fucking white people. Just like is still a majority in this country. Stupid fucking white people. But anyway, that it's just I hate it. But anyway, that it's just I had Christy Noem. Once privacy during the for her family during this time, you know whose family I bet would like some privacy. Renee Goods and Alex Pretties. You fucking bitch. While they want some privacy, you were on television slandering them, calling them domestic terrorists after your fucking people murdered them. So fuck you and your privacy. I think people ought to put a picture of your fucking husband and his big titties up on billboards. Well, to be fair, she's going through a lot. Imagine what you'd feel if you went into your bedroom and found your husband wearing your brazier. Imagine what I would feel if I went into my bedroom and found my husband. I'd be going, what the fuck's going on here? Those pictures are so disturbing. Again, everyone like what you like as long as you don't hurt people. But for God's sakes, don't let the photos get out. How's anyone get to ever see this guy any other way again than wearing this gigantic, ridiculous fake chest? I don't know. But anyway, speaking of gigantic fake chest, Chris Jericho came back to AEW. No, I shouldn't. He's he's looking in good shape. But Brian. Try to explain to me how in the world that he managed to fuck this up to where that the WWE said fuck it will pass. Could he have hit him with a ridiculous amount of money that he wanted guaranteed? I know the story is out that they wanted him for a retirement tour and a Hall of Fame deal. What would he think else they wanted him for? And how could he not see that if he and they both played it right that he would make millions of dollars from a few days at work and not have to fucking swim in the pools and the water. There's a lot of questions there. There's a lot of questions there. And there are different answers for everything. Never forget that Chris Jericho to this day may still be the most successful manipulator of Tony come to this day. And if Chris Jericho went to WWE, there wasn't a chance in hell they wanted to hear his creative ideas. Not that their creative is stellar. But it's better than Chris Jericho's. And Chris Jericho sees himself as an artist in and outside of the ring and thinks that his ideas are the ones that he should do. And a lot of us have been calling him creatively bankrupt since I don't know around 2020 at least. Maybe before them, but he had a brief period early days of AEW where he was actually all right. WWE wasn't going to do that. WWE just wanted to retire him and your career here. They didn't see 55 year old Chris Jericho as someone worth signing for multiple years, nor should they. Based on what we saw of him in the ring during his last AEW run where he didn't mean anything for the business. AEW fans are not going to be able to see Chris Jericho's face in the ring. They wanted him off TV. Funny enough, they started to like their product again a lot more when he wasn't there and his ideas weren't on that show. That's all about the change. And you've seen an about face from a lot of people who have been on TV for a long time. And I think that's the reason why he's so popular. And I think that's the reason why he's so popular. And I think that's the reason why he's so popular. And I think that's the reason why he's so popular. And I think that's the reason why he's so popular. And I think that's the reason why he wasn't there and his ideas weren't on that show. That's all about the change. And you've seen an about face from a lot of AEW fans on social media. All of a sudden now they love Jericho again because the narrative is he chose AEW. I think the quote was he will end his career in AEW. It's the only place he wants to work. Actually, you could have switched that around as AEW ended his career. But I think to conclude two things. One, there's no way WWE could justify an inflated salary for a 55 year old Chris Jericho who wants to do more than they would ever want him to do. Secondly, I'm not altogether convinced. I mean, he never left the AEW roster page. And we heard that he had time on his contract extended because of injury or missed, you know, period time off, whatever it is. He's never not been under AEW contract. I'm not 100 percent convinced that he's not still working under the exact same deal he had. And this was all to get people talking. And people did talk for about a day before he came back. There was an article in one of these mock web mock news websites like the onion, but it wasn't that one. It was a different one about the horror that he was going to continue making music. And then all of a sudden some of the usual sources like Dave Meltzer, who has a pretty good source when it comes to Jericho stuff, started saying he chose AEW. WWE would have only wanted this. And now Jericho is back. We could talk about even though we're not reviewing Dynamite. I know you saw his return appearance. But I think that's what it is. It didn't make any sense for WWE to sign him unless he was just going to do a retirement tour and he was going to bend to their creative. And he has made a fantastic amount of money in his life. He doesn't have to do any of this. He clearly wants to do his stuff. And the only place he's going to be able to do most of that is with Tony Khan, who will give him more money still than WWE would. Again, if there ever was a lapse in the contract and I'm not convinced that there is until I see something, then Tony Khan would be paying him more than anyone else was bidding against him. So there are elements of this that don't make sense. But Chris Jericho is at 55 years old or whatever is back in AEW. Well, and I agree with you, depending on the contract thing, what doesn't make sense to me is it. Okay, let's say Tony did extend it. He's still under contract, but I just failed to see how that you would be able to extend it that far. Then we're going to hold him for another two years that they would say in the WWE. We don't think he's coming in for a long time, if ever. If this was just a short term thing or whatever, did he lie to them about, you know, the term of his contract? Because remember we said it before when everybody was talking about it coming to an end in 2025. Didn't he say at a 10 year contract fucking five years ago? But the point is, if he's played somebody against somebody else just to get more fucking money, then congratulations to him. But if he was free, clear and able to go and he didn't take the chance and the opportunity of doing anything with the WWE in terms of a retirement year and a fucking Hall of Fame deal, two or three big matches, handful of appearances that can generate millions. If he didn't do that and he had the option to ease a fucking idiot. Because even the AEW fans ain't going to want to see him wrestle in AEW. As you said, most of his shit is fucking bad. And he's going to have to at least travel more, if not also work harder for Tony's inflated payment to him. And after, as you said, he's made tons of money in his life. Wouldn't you want to go out on an up note that while you can still do it a couple times in a year and a lot of people will see it and you get the Hall of Fame thing and the big time videos and the merchandise sales that'll come with the last J. J. J. J. Or whatever the fuck they do. Or just do bad TV in a fucking indie minded company. That a quarter of the people are going to fucking see for a ton of money. For more money than WWE would give you because it's an unreasonable amount for the value you have to the wrestling business right now. If you were Chris Jericho and in your head, you still have more to give. You still have more you want to do. Maybe that's the better way to say it. Then somebody should tell him look in the mirror and look at yourself. But if you talk to WWE and even if you agree, yeah, I'm going to have a retirement year. Let's do something special. If they told you right at the beginning, we only want you to lose the goonther. Basically, we only want you to come back so that he can retire you. Would you have a problem with that? Well, but what does that mean? Come back and just have a match with goonther and boom and he retires you or be brought back. Do shit during the course of the year. The culminating program is goonther and he fucking chokes you out. Well, then yes, that's a wrestling fucking deal. I'll come in. I'll get over you. Give me some guy boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom. And I'll put the guy over. That's not unreasonable. And at this stage of the game again, is there a difference of $3 million over the course of that with all of the millions of dollars that Chris has already made? And I'm sure he's a spin thrift and he's careful with his money. Why would you want to do shit for the next two or three years or whatever the fuck in the secondary company? When you can go out on top in mainstream matches on the strongest television program in the world and get in the fucking hall of fame in the whole nine yards, which comes with merchandising and marketing, etc. That you will benefit from and also be hooked up with these goddamn Hollywood agents and or record company people that run. TKO instead of just Jericho want to be a trainer for the Jacksonville Jaguars. That's who Tony's connections are. Why wouldn't he want to be with the WWE? And unless the world's the world's only unknown 60 year old wrestling rock singer. What again, unless WWE either did not want him. I think they would want I think they wanted him. I think he fucked it up. I think he like you said, if this even came to if it even came to talks, he had too high opinion of himself wouldn't too much money or wouldn't realistic. And that's why I said, how could he fuck this up? That's a tailor made deal which we've been saying for the past couple years. Chris comes in, he gets a year on TV and a fucking hall of fame and boom and that would generate money for everybody. Or he can continue just to be one of the boys and do shit nobody wants to see. And they did have several teasers. The various people made comments on TV like CM Punk, I think made a reference one day just little things that made people think they're teasing Jericho. People thought Jericho was going to be in the rumble. People thought Jericho was going to be the masked man. People thought Jericho may be announced at some point on the road to WrestleMania. The whole time he was still on the AEW roster page, never left the roster page at all. If he was negotiating for an extension because he wasn't up and he was able to tell Tony, hey WWE, I'm talking to them, they're interested to get more money. That's one thing. But I'm not saying this is the Bryan Pillman situation, but if he was still under contract for a while, it kind of doesn't matter what he wanted to do if he couldn't leave until at least the summer. So I don't know what to think of this whole thing. I think AEW fans are going to really regret this on their TV very, very soon. But yeah, what are your closing thoughts on this? Well, yeah, well, and basically what he did, I guess we should finish with that. What he did on the television program. They're in Winnipeg. And yes, I did because I don't mind watching AEW for five minutes to watch a guy walk to the ring and wave at people and then continue waving at people till it becomes humorous. And that's what happened. They've been the wave back. They're in Winnipeg is his original hometown. And golly, who could have thought who could have known anything when his fucking parents were sitting in the front row. Did you did you pick up on this that maybe most people wouldn't have thought but in Winnipeg they know who Ted Irvine is. He was goddamn professional hockey player, great, lauded, recognized player. He's sitting on the front row. How could you possibly imagine his son might be on the show? Did anybody even bring this up? I didn't see Ted Irvine until after towards the end when he was hugging people around ringside. So yeah, he's 80 years old. He sure didn't get out there in fucking three and a half minutes. Jericho walked right out and there he was in the front row. And he's singing the fucking song. That's what I'm saying. They Tony Shavani is in the ring for the bogus contract signing whatever they're going to do. And the power goes off apparently either inadvertently or in an odd order because he wasn't it threw him off. He wasn't ready for whatever was going on. He's supposed to be interrupted by the music and etc, which he finally is. And it out comes Jericho and the people pop because it's Jericho and he's back and it's his hometown. And the music and they like to sing the song. I do again. I can't imagine that it was a surprise to a lot of people in the building because Chris Jericho's father was sitting on the front row. That he was going to be there. But then you could tell he was trying to make it like punk in Chicago. And it wouldn't punk in Chicago that they they cheered because again he's a surprise that he's a name and it's his hometown and they're clapping. And he gets to the ring and when the music comes down they don't have anything to sing. Okay. And he kept exhorting them stand up make noise he's walking around the ring as stand up stand up motion. Make noise he's milking it and again they try to work with him a little and it got old and he was thinking it was going to be this continuous river the punk thing where punk came out in Chicago. And not just him we've seen it a few times recently I think AJ Styles a few people where the crowd really really wanted to show them appreciation and didn't stop. But they did hear they stopped. Yeah, they stopped. And he didn't he walked around and he held the ear to the ear to his hand. That's a problem with leprosy. He held the hand to his ear. And then he's made the dramatic statement. Winnipeg. I'm home and then left. An immediate about face from a W fans online who suddenly love Chris Jericho again. The narrative being shifted to Chris Jericho chose a W may not be entirely accurate. And it was underwhelming. Again it was awkward to just the way the fireworks went off when Shavani was talking. Yeah, I'm thinking somebody misfired something because that was just odd. Right or because that couldn't be like this is the sign Jericho is coming back before anything just scare Shavani with the fire. Yeah, just scare Tony into fucking forgetting his own home address. He looked annoyed. He looked like what the fuck. Because it like threw him off. And Jericho came out there. He appears to be in good shape. His face looked thinner than we've seen him in a long time. But he was expecting like a big hometown thing that wasn't there. And I don't know if it's because the surprise got out a little bit beforehand that people were expecting him there. Or if it's because it's Chris Jericho and it's 2026. I don't know. Well, and to be fair, here's another thing that just because it's his hometown doesn't mean it's his hometown. How long has it been since Chris Jericho lived in Winnipeg? The again the big hometown heroes who you think not just punk in Chicago, but they know he lives there. The hardies in North Carolina have that vibe where they can, you know, or at least for a while there. I don't know about a late league. You know, the big fucking pop in North Carolina. It's they know that Jericho now lives in Tampa or Florida or wherever the guys go to avoid paying state tax. And it's not like he's around town all the time being a fucking member of the community. So it's not like the Hart family in Calgary where there was still you see what I'm saying. They were all still there. They were part of the thing like me and Louisville. That's what I'm saying. So well, Chris Jericho's big return. I don't know what he's going to do. I mean, if you look at the main event picture, assuming I'm not assuming he'd be in the main event picture, I can't imagine him again at this stage. MJF. We never need to see that again. Kenny Omega. I don't know if that would be the matchup for 2026 him and 2026 Jericho swerve. I don't know about that. Adam Page Osprey. That'd be a waste of Osprey. There aren't a lot of things you'd really want to see Chris Jericho to eat, not even just people who don't like AEW or problems with the way things are done there. But if you actually just look at it objectively, where would you even slot Chris Jericho or want to see him slotted? A bicycle rack in back of the building. Sticking right in there. That way he can't do any harm to himself or others. I mean, no, no, that's that's that's the thing is that again in WWE, you get two or three. You know, matches of some legitimate profile over the course of the year with maybe a mixture of people that he has had some animosity with in the past or maybe a dream that he's never had been in ring with this guy and then have his big last match. And it would be new and fresh and interesting. Now it's just, oh Jesus Christ, he's going to be around doing whatever with these whatever's on this whatever program regularly. Beggars can't be choosers. Welcome back to AEW Chris Jericho and this should be interesting. You know what it makes me want to do? It makes me want to block out the outside world, Brian. It makes me want to block out the outside world and just listen to things that make me happy, happy, happy. And that's why I am proud to say flowers everywhere flowers everywhere. Something was in her hair in her hair could have been sperm. I'm not sure what's in. But that's why I'm a wasn't have a song. Jim, in the park in the park. I changed the ending in the park, but folks, I'll tell you what else has been changed. And that's the the offer from Ray Con our friends over at Ray Con because they've been talking about the the open earbuds. Now they brought back with a new improved renewed push the everyday earbuds classics just in time for Mother's Day. My favorites. They're the ones that you stick right in there and they just block out everything and give you clear, immersive sound, a go to for everyday listening, active noise cancellation blocks out the background noise. You're just going to send mom on a trip. What you do is you bake some some brownies at home or potentially grow some mushrooms in the backyard. Okay, let's give them to mom for Mother's Day. You put these earbuds in her ears and then you you either hit the fucking outlaws greatest hit CD green grass and high tides forever. Maybe if you don't want her to climb up on the roof, just play some Pink Floyd and she'll be writhing around on the floor. Okay, stop right there. First of all, those are horrible suggestions of someone was tripping. You want to say Screamadelica, maybe forever changes by love. You don't want to suggest any of the things you just suggested. Oh, for heaven's sake. You don't want to say that mom all kidding and joking aside because we wouldn't do anything like that to mom and that was just a funny portion of this spot. At least not to our own moms, but somebody else's mother. Mom needs all moms need to listen to good music and to drown out some of this unnecessary chatter. And of course, Raycom the great thing about the Raycon earbuds and I love them. I have my pair. And of course, my family is still on all my other pairs and Jim, I know they're very popular in your house. Personal endorsement. There it is. Well, Raycon, I can I can think of no other unless you've got them in swamis ears to it. Actually, have you tried the new dog earbuds? There's no dog ear, but don't make up models. They've talked to us. Well, but see the dogs don't care what color they are because the humans, they got new colors available, blush, violet, cool mint. Yeah, you know, I would think the older people would want like silver gray, so it blend in with their hair. But then they won't be able to find them. They'll be stuck in their hair like that bird poop and sperm from the song. Okay, that wasn't in the sperm now in the song. Oh, well, because they're in the park. Hello, but they in the park. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know what you take when you go out in nature, you take these risks, Brian. 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But mostly kind of the self serving this that that they don't want to have to watch this shit that's what they want to foist it upon us is kind of has been a response so far when you say. I mean we've seen a lot of response and a lot of people who have said good it's about time. What took so long. And then other people said I used to watch it. Now I let you guys watch it. I look forward to it and then there were other people that. You know they really love and wait for the reviews and it's one of the highlights of their weekend that resonates with me when people say like oh it's one of the things I look forward to on my commute. Like I know what that's like to be in the car and have a favorite show you listen to and. Well change jobs and get a shorter trip. How about that. The point is it's a split reaction from the audience. Well we will continue to monitor the situation because I told you I said if anybody either has projectile diarrhea in the middle of the ring or. Accidentally does something really good let me know and actually I guess Jericho was the first example of the projectile diarrhea theory. But also something happened here I guess just a few days ago whatever the fuck it was on a show that we never watched to begin with collision now Kyle. Our friend Kyle Feltcher is injured now from what I'm hearing and I've seen this clip. Did we know what body part yet. I have not heard what body part I only heard that he was in a walking boot. So that could be you know it could be anything on his low well. Well then to me that takes it into an ankle of some description because what happened again the clip is going around on Twitter. Him and Mark Davis are wrestling these two little whoever they are. And to show how big and powerful they are when it will talk about whether cows game ought to be a power wrestler or not a minute but. Davis has the power and the weight and the gravitational pull of that big giant ass behind him. But they pick him up and they slam them into each other in the middle of the ring and then they turn and they're going to give them the belly to belly kind of overhead throw suplex business to the two guys after they've rammed them together. And. They figured out the part about we need to throw these guys in opposite directions so they don't land on each other they got that part right. But they forgot about what was going to happen to their own legs because they were so close together when they threw them overhead and fell backwards. And. The way that Davis the way he threw his guy. He was up in the air and the way that Kyle through his guy. He was on the way but his leg was underneath Davis and when Davis came down. Kyle's leg was folded up underneath him and to me I can't believe it wasn't a catastrophic knee injury rather than a something ankle in a walking boot. Because Davis is all of his weight came down on the top of. Kyle's thigh while his leg was folded up underneath him. And that at the very least should have snapped the posterior cruciate ligament but. They just they come up with this shit that they well we're strong enough to do this and we. You know we know how to execute this move and. Again they're just making a lot of this shit up as they go and they don't. Always do they tell the producers of their matches to the producers know any better some. Have traditionally in the past and not been listened to. But they don't think everything through. From a standpoint when there's other people involved in the ring whatever you see what I'm saying Brian. I do. I mean when I watched it I didn't see it as much of a day I mean I have to watch it again I guess I thought it was just the way Kyle landed I didn't really. I didn't realize Davis played a part in the way he landed but let me go back and watch it again. It was both of it they needed to be farther apart to do something like that. Yeah it was everyone jammed in together. That's you know there's things that like the old deal that Bobby and. The other guy the other partner picks the guy up like the old atomic drop position but sets him on the lap of the guy in the on the turnbuckle so we can do the power slap right you see you remember what I'm saying. Yeah guys used to try to copy that. But they didn't think they would take the guy right over I've seen I saw this happen on like a Kansas City TV I don't know the rock and roll RPMs or something they've been trying to do this. They take the guy over and when they pick him up to put him on the fucking lap the guy is like a rock and roll RPMs or something they've been trying to do this. They take the guy over and when they pick him up to put him on the fucking lap the guys feet fly up and kicks the guy is sitting on a turnbuckle underneath the fucking chin. When we were doing this shit especially with the job guys but even you know was some of the the regular guys when we would get in programs with them we'd explain to them exactly who they were. What the midnight we're going to do and how to take it and where to be so nobody got hurt but you know especially with the job guys on television. Like I said the other day when we were talking about Dennis one time is one guy got potatoed because we said all you have to do is stand up straight and look at Bobby and he stood up sideways and looked at the ground so he got potatoed but you have to think of the things that can happen. When there's two people doing two different things at the same time and where they come together and you need more separation or you need to think about just little. Twenty degree changes in what we would always do is pick the guy up at a twenty degree angle from the guy sitting on the fucking turnbuckle and then turn him while his feet are already up shit like that. But I so a point being it's just they're trying to do all this shit on the fly and they're making it up and it's positioning you've got to create more space for yourself to do shit like that. And now who knows how long Kyle's going to be hurt at this point. Maybe they will need Jericho after all Brian and Kyle's the TNT champion. Also so well with the whole company will fall apart if that lineage is disrupted but I. But again you know unfortunately we're in an age where injuries happen more frequently than ever before and a lot of it's based on the style or in this case just based on the positioning I'm watching a video yeah it hits into Davis and then he rolls out of the ring. Boom. But you know the other issue is because of the style and because of the rate of injuries and the realistic the thing you always have to be conscious of that that someone may get hurt in every single match now and I mean it's always been a thing of wrestling but especially now. Why is the TNT champion wrestling with Davis against the Rascals on collision. But again that's maybe a bigger question. But if Kyle's out for any significant period of time right now you really get asked why is this happening. But there's a reckoning coming for a lot of guys with the style they're working because the guys who are younger are getting more and more injured. And the guys who have been wrestling this style like Omega for a while are a shell of themselves right now so. That you keep explaining to me that that's Ocata's problem instead of just he's a lazy somnambulistic comatose walking around in a stupor motherfucker. And he's better off than a lot of them. Look at a bushy. People were raving about a bushy 10 years ago. And if you watched his stuff in a vacuum it was impressive. Now I would argue that there was some sort of weird detachment between him and it just seemed like a guy doing a lot of moves or kicking out of stuff and this guy who could do a lot of interesting things as opposed to a captivating wrestling character. But he can't walk. He can't walk and every time we've heard about him attempt to come back or seen it. The best case scenario is he works really really slow. But he's shot. Ishii he may look like Mr. Miyagi but he's not that old. He's shot. He's shot. There's a whole generation of New Japan guys and some of the Americans that worked on top with them where these guys are shot and they're not that old. And this is the style that these guys are one to emulate. Yeah. You know it's it's you know everyone thought that the guys who copied Mick Foley would be the ones who really suffered but you know it still goes back to the guys who copied Dynamite Kid and that style and he did it better than anyone. I'm not trying to compare Dynamite Kid to some of these modern guys but he couldn't walk. I mean he lost a leg eventually but he was a cripple in his 20s. So you really have to wonder about the reckoning that will especially for AEW where it's all about match quality. That's all it's about. Well I don't know if I'd say the term match quality as much as match. 20 minutes. They're busy. 20 minutes do everything you can pop the audience as much as you can. You got to do something crazier than the last time you did it. And then kick out of everything. And I should I should bring up also since we're talking about people that actually we're talking about people that are injured or have been injured. Now we can just reference somebody that should have been injured but miraculously wasn't because we're not just picking on AEW. E.O. Sky you sent me the clip of her just diving out of the ring on her head. And again I don't know how many people saw this with this was a fan cam shot. I don't know what the television shot looked like but she was this raw or Smackdown helped me. I believe it was raw at the garden. Okay she is running and she's going to dive through the ropes onto the opponents and she dove and the middle rope caught her thigh just enough to slow her down and change the trajectory and she went straight to the ground. She got her hands down first but it didn't look in even slow motion you could not see through this as anything other than a just an instant paralysis right in front of you. Head first on the ground boom. Right over back set up stood up talk to her partner and rolled back in the ring. Again you could have got money in Vegas saying this woman is paralyzed we agree with you whatever. And it's not so it's not just AEW although it happens there more often because again of the lack of supervision and adequate training. But it also shows that you don't know what the fuck. What the fuck. This is my point about wrestling and has been all along the other day they stopped a main event between the guys because the guy super kicked the other guy and knocked him into Neptune. And it looked like a nice super kick but didn't look like anything that would even be a potato is just one of those things it was but it didn't appear visually abnormal in any way. This girl dives through the ropes lands on her head on a padded yes but still concrete surface and gets right up and goes on. So you never know what the real shot looks like and what really can do damage which goes back to what I've always said unless we tell them if something looks tight enough to be legitimate but doesn't have to be legitimate and you sell it. Anything could fucking be it. Do you see what I'm saying Brian you can't you really can't tell when it's real. So if you know who knows what a vertical suplex feels like in walking around in public. No one knows what the goddamn any move feels like in a wrestling ring unless you tell them by getting right up because it didn't hurt you at all. That's my point. Again the injuries are more frequent the EOS guy thing was pretty scary and was on a dive that didn't mean anything because that's what dives are now I saw a clip the other day and again you can't go back in time. But you can still acknowledge stuff. It was Tiger mask versus Mr. Saeto I believe WWF TV. Thing late 82. And it was the first time anyone in that building and more than likely anyone watching that show at home. Saw someone run from one side of the ropes to the other and dive over the top rope. Yeah with a cross body and Tiger mask had a way of doing it where it looked. It looked dangerous or it didn't look smooth. His feet were like behind him. You know never look. Yes smooth. It looked like man this could go a lot of different ways. People jumped out of their seats. They went crazy. I don't know if Tiger mask did that move again when he wrestled on WWF TV because he had more than one match. I'm not saying you can go back in time to a point where no one had ever seen anything before. But when there are dives in every match all the time and sometimes often times they don't even look good. It looks like someone just went through the ropes and pushed someone a little bit. Yeah that doesn't even look good. So a lot of things now that are unnecessarily cornered around because no one will miss it if it's not there are the things that are going to cause the injuries. That EOS sky injury. It's not I can't say injury bump where the fan you say it was fan cam footage the fan was saying oh no oh no oh my god oh no because it looked like a broken neck and we don't know what damage if any was you know caused there or happened there but it's a scary time. You're going to see a lot more just freak injuries all the time I think now. But anyway see we saw all that stuff and didn't have to sit through two and a half hours of goddamn misery for AEW's. Benefit. Did you hear about the main event of dynamite. Oh good Lord yes. And here's another MJF versus spitball Bailey was the main event and again is AEW being an entity as Uncle Dave always says well it's good for the wrestling business because they'll drive the salaries up and the boys get more money so it's good for the wrestling business. Is it good for the wrestling business or is it good for those guys business. Is it good for the guys whether it be the WWE guys or the AEW guys that get paid more money because if they're worth the shit the WWE wants to keep them. And if the billionaire wants to add them to the toy chest he's going to bid it up but it's still going to be a finite group of guys in the entire wrestling business. And is what does that mean for the fans. So it's good for the guys business but it's not good for the wrestling business. And again with them Jam said it's the same principle. As Jericho could have done the retirement tour with a couple of matches and the Hall of Fame thing and the WWE and gone back to the scene of his greatest triumphs and the most people would have seen it and it made made a bunch of money. With merchandise and the pay-per-views of the premium live events and blah blah blah. Or he could stay and just be on a bad television show doing bad shit himself on a regular basis for a few million dollars more from the mark. In the same thing we're losing potential talent as fans and as the business as an entirety when MJF is now apparently stuck there forever and we've said after the pay-per-view obviously gobble gobble one of us one of us. I said at the time I said he doesn't have enough pull in the company to just flat out say I'm not doing the syringe spot. He doesn't have the pull here to say I'm just not going to lower myself as your world champion to have a competitive match with this fucking rib on national television. He's one of them he's going to do it he's going to take the money and then he's going to go to Hollywood or just go home because Tony Lopate millions of millions of dollars. But the wrestling business lost a talent that could have prospered at an even greater pace not financially possibly but because he's been stuck there. Kyle. Kyle is now he's hurt but even before he was hurt I've mentioned this before. He's wasting so much potential the longer he's in that in the minded group where he doesn't learn how to put a match together that makes sense and just spams moves as the kids say. And the longer he's not in an environment where there's there's a professional booking process even if it may not always be great at least there's there's a process there and he could understand things and learn and expand. He's going to be there doing tag team matches on collision having fat guys land on his fucking body parts. The business and the fans enjoyment of it will not prosper in the long run because one of the companies is that has major distribution is owned by an indie minded fucking guy that thinks he's a booker. But it'll drive the salaries up for the boys involved but it won't be good for the business because talent like MJF and Kyle and other people will not ever see their full potential. Does this make sense to you that nobody's talking about. Well I mean I think it's obviously a choice to stay with a W. It says a lot about the wrestler who makes that choice. You know it's not like W.W. like you said it's not an even. Oh yeah they're offering the same amount of money W.W. will come in less and tell you about opportunities still. But you know I don't know it's hard to with MJF it's hard to defend all the stuff we've seen and just say. You know he doesn't have the pull to do it sometimes you at some point you got to say maybe he wants to do it. Maybe that's what that's what I'm saying. He wants to wrestle speedball. You can't tell me that he couldn't have stood up if he wanted to. But that's the thing if you're already fully formed you've been a star you've been at the top of the fucking business and you want to come as a retirement plan and take Tony's money. Fine and dandy. But I think it hurts the overall wrestling business when young guys get stuck there making a ton of money and never learning anything or getting as good as they could be or contributing to the fans and the overall businesses. Fucking enjoyment and pleasure just and not accomplishing shit that they could accomplish in their personal lives because they're having this ridiculous amount of money dangled in front of them that no other person place or thing would ever pay them or has ever paid them before would ever pay them again. I can understand why that's a. You know but if you get into like a sport in the Olympics. And you have the drive to succeed or even if you want to be the best rock star or the best actor in Hollywood or whatever. If you have the drive to be the best if somebody comes and says well tell you what. We'll give you a hundred grand to be the best in the world or we'll give you two million dollars to be the fifth best. I don't know. Well MJ have towered over speedball so at least he got to be the big man in the match and. You know speedball looks ridiculous. I know it's ridiculous when he tries to come out there and deepen his voice and intimidate people isn't it. And he's so nerdy in the process that nobody ever would actually speak that way except him in his head. Well promos may not be his strong suit. But also you know again going back to the thing even if he really was the biggest badass of all time which I don't buy. But even if he was he's five foot six he's a hundred and fifty pounds it doesn't work to their fans they like it but you know look at all the bad shit their fans have liked over the last several years they still defend orange Cassidy. But speedball to you know to me I think sometimes I think there have been times you've been too hard on people but this one I can't find any disagreement with you if there was a junior junior. Heavyweight division I'd be OK with it. If it needs to be a junior missed division either way if it was other people that size I'd be OK with it. There are no other people that size. But again to pass him off as being this kung fu expert even if he was it doesn't look right it doesn't pass the eye test. Well you know something else I'm looking at. Brian you sent me some information and this it looks like an eye chart. It's a map of Wimbledon Stadium with a dot where every seat that's been sold is and I think I need I need some ocular help because I don't see very many. They have we have we speculated on this last week when we talked about the number of tickets they sold on the first day and how it compared with previous years events there in the building. I said how why why are they undertaking this massive expense to run this building that they know that they were not going to they they did it once the first time and that was great. And then they did it again and they're OK and why would you do this and why would you spend this money it's not necessary. They do you know what the capacity the total number of seats in Wimbledon Stadium is for a wrestling setup. I guess if you opened everything up Brian take a take a guess at the number. 85000 93000 556. Do you know what they set the stadium up for for this wrestling event when they put the tickets on sale. 78000 36000 777. Before they even knew how many tickets they were going to sell they rented a 95000 seat stadium and set it up to hold 37000 people. And then as we mentioned they sold 19000 some on the first day now. In the last I guess what week or 10 days it's been or whatever they're at 21000 896. So based there at 22000 for a 30 of setup of 36000 in a stadium that holds almost 94000. And somebody brought up that Tony's dad Shad Shad the dad Shad the dad. My dad Shad. They have a stadium that their their football over there the European football team plays in that holds like 35000 people. And they could have just had it at their fucking stadium. But he had to rent Wimbledon Stadium because it's a very small stadium. Your thoughts if any. I don't know if you Tony why don't you just go higher the hottest like band that sells tickets right now for like one night and make it rockin wrestling. Get a full house. Maybe we'll just sold three of those tickets. Maybe we'll sold three of those tickets. Maybe we'll sold three of those tickets. Maybe we'll sold three of those tickets. Maybe we'll sold three of those tickets. The Great American Bash. But with a budget. But in the great English Bash, the Great British Bash. I wonder what Dobert McClinton and David Allen Coe are doing these days. I bet he can get them real easy. She put great. And apparently, great. Oh, draws better in England than he does. Or the hydro in Scotland. And let's be fair, it's nothing to sneeze at selling 21,000 advanced tickets for your show. That is no accomplishment. But obviously, it doesn't have the enthusiasm behind it that it had. Either the two previous times or was it Texas last year? Or was it the last Wembley? It may have been Texas where they actually did have a big walk up and they got to around 30. Am I thinking of the right thing? Yes, because that because they didn't do it was all in Texas last year because they didn't do all in Wembley. All in London, whatever the fuck it is. All empty. That the point is, no, it's nothing. It's nothing to sneeze at to sell 22,000 tickets, except when you've rented a 95,000 seat building. And from as we illustrated the other day from history, from just comparing the previous events. Based on the amount of tickets sold the first week and the first day versus the rest of the lead up time. They they ain't going to get to 30,000 paid. Just by the percentages of previous. Shows and what, you know, it's it's one of the biggest stadiums in the world. It's going to look like a piss hole in a snow bank. And why would you spend that money? Just this is like a goddamn Paul Alperstein type of deal. Remember the AWF? Were you old enough? Oh, I used to watch it every week on CBS. It was awful. That when they started their tapings, it was a rib because he. Did him in Chicago with some kind of studio there and he paid a thousand people, 20 bucks each to come in and be the audience to cheer and boo in the right places. And we were because that was the first time in history that anything like that had ever been done where you paid people to come. But we said it was the first negative twenty thousand dollar house in pro wrestling history. Is it it's just all it's just just paying to be in a building. Just paying extra money to be in a building. Should Tony do a WrestleMania seven and announce that due to the ongoing war seemingly everywhere on the planet right now that he has security concerns can't be at Wembley Stadium. It'll be at Wembley Arena. It can't be at Royal Albert Hall. It'll be at the Royal Albert Mall. I think it might be at the Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey Mall. Very good. I I think I crossed my face. Yeah. Hands and hands in my dad's pockets. Hands in my dad's pockets. Pockets. Hands across this. Any house. Is that all now see it gets better. After it sinks in on you. Tweedle little little if see you. All right. He wants to spend it all around. We're being silly. But that's so that's going to be a big pay per view too. So don't worry the pay per view will pay the extra rent. I told you and you disagree to me. This is best album and this is from Ram and you talked about there were silly songs on Ram. I guess you could technically consider this a silly song. But fuck the hooks. It's like nonstop. He just has a hooks. Well, that's where you got that scar on his cheek. He had an itch and forgot about the hook. No, that was the that's the second Paul. The first Paul didn't have any scars. It was after they switched Paul's. Well, that's an old pirate joke. You know where a pirate keeps his buccaneers. Where is that under his buckin hat? It has an old Norman Frederick Charles, the third joke. So so anyway, so that's how they're doing over there at Wimbly for all of the. Well, that was dynamite. Yeah, and that was dynamite. It was we got rid of that. Hey, did you see the photo of a Sargent in Arms of the Cult of Cornet? Nick Barrett with Mercedes Monet. Yes. He did the photo up there. He's wearing the Cult of Cornet Barrett, the white sash. He has a pin on the and a and a saber and a saber. Somehow they let him walk the streets with that. And it says today I spend some times with Mercedes. Vernado, that's her Twitter handle and her name, walking the halls of the Manitoba Museum. We spoke on many topics and I wished her luck in her battle tonight versus Jody Threat. She didn't like some of my advice, but handled it in a professional manner. And you know what? She posed for these two photos. So I got to give her credits. We heard from that one listener who went to an Orange Cassidy photo op and Orange Cassidy was a complete prick to him. Yeah, those are the Jim Cornet T-shirt and she give her credit. She went. We've seen photos of her where she's five feet away from the people who paid to take photos with her. Yeah, she went right up to give me the thumbs down, though. Oh, but she went right to the man with the saber. How do they let him walk the halls of? See, that's the thing. He looks so official because the the outfit does have the balance has the ambiance. You've got the official looking saber or a beret rather. You have the beret and the sash and it's so bright and it's obvious that white stands for good. So you're some type of militia person on the side of good. And then the saber just kind of completes it and you don't really question it. It looks so authoritative. Did he change his last name to Nick Beret? Maybe he did. Well, it's still winding its way through the courts. Well, that's the news of Mercedes Monet's personal appearances. I don't know if a photo of her and Nick will be in Mercedes. Will be in Monet Mag. But Jim, a lot of the listeners are wondering and I'll admit I am too. Are we watching the AWP of you event that's coming up that obviously they're building up on this show that you're no longer watching. Well, I didn't know what what's coming up now. It's dynasty. Oh, another of my ideas that he stole. Remember in 1982 when I had the dynasty of champions and 1983 to the dynasty of champions. Many find internationally known names. The exotic Adrian Street, the angel, Frank Morel, the bounty hunter Jerry Novak. Norman, Norman Frederick Charles III, Jesse Barr, Apocalypse, the soldier of fortune, household names were in the dynasty of champions. When is this thing? This thing will be Sunday, April 12th. Yeah, Christ. In Vancouver, British Columbia at the Rogers Arena. You know, Vancouver is a lovely town. It's my favorite place in Canada. If it wasn't so far and it wasn't Canada, I would go back there. But I've always enjoyed being there when I was there before, never to return. What are they going to do this time that they didn't do last time? People were electrocuted. A guy was impaled. There were numerous examples of severe blood loss. A bunch of people broke a bunch of things. What are they? Are they advertising a live disembowelment on this program? What is trying to entice us to watch this? Hours and hours of repetitive horseshit. And I remind you, we are as we are recording more than a week away from the event. And Tony likes to add a lot of matches in the last day or two, sometimes the last hours leading into the show. So we don't have everything. But so far. For the pre show, Marina Shafir versus Alex Windsor. That's Alex Mountbatten Windsor to you. Show some respect. Well, do you think she'll Mount Marina here? I don't know if she can make it over the hump. I would suggest that possibly one would top the other. But then it just depends on. Who wants to engage in some reverse cowgirl? I can't think of any more double entendre puns. So I'll just go straight to naming sexual positions. See, this is the pre show. So the answer to our question is easy. We don't have to watch this because we never do. Jim and a match for the Tag Team Championship, the champions, FTR versus Cope and Cage. What on the? No, this is not the pre show. No, this is now the main show. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Cope and cage or Cope and Seed. Oh, my God, are you past it? Are you over it? And I mean, I again, appreciate what Dax did. With the GoFundMe for Teresa and etc. And I'm not talking about anybody personally here, but. They shot an angle for this six months ago and then the baby faces just went away, even though they weren't the injured ones. And in the meantime. And in between time, does anybody give a shit about FTR and their fake manager anymore? No, so it's in Vancouver. I for it's in Canada, so this will be the match of the night. All right, we'll see if Vancouver likes some Toronto boys. Jim. Oh, by the way, prediction. Do you have a prediction for that match? No, I don't know what the fuck they're going to do. And they probably all don't either. Who knows? And if it's up to the whims of Tony, it may be. You know, what is Adderall dosage is that particular day? Jim, for the Continental Championship, the champion John Moxley versus Will Ospreay. Oh, God. Two of their top baby faces, except that the one baby face was a heel until it became a baby face. But then when they remembered that their other baby face that was coming back from injury had to get even with the guy that hurt him, who was also a baby face. So he just became a heel again for no reason. Yeah. What titles it for? The Continental Championship that. Ah, nobody is going to interfere. If nobody's going to interfere, then if Ospreay doesn't win this fucking match, then they're all out of their fucking minds. How about that? Well, Jim. In a match where if Darby Allen wins, he receives a future World Championship match, Darby Allen versus Andrade L. Edelow. Oh, boy, I don't honestly care again. Darby, I was going to say it might be. A worthwhile stipulation. If if Darby loses, they commit him to some type of involuntary psychiatric analysis. That I could get behind. But otherwise, eh. For the women's championship, Jim, the champion, Tekla versus Jamie Hader. Hader. No, she remember when she was kind of good once before she. Became the transgender love child of Ronald McDonald. Oh, I don't know if that's a fair thing. I don't know what's happening over there, but. Yeah, I don't care. All right, finally, Jim, for the World's Championship. M.J.F. the champion versus Kenny Omega. Well, let's see. We've got a world champion. Who. Apparently by the description and length of the match that night on television, it took everything that he could to beat a. Fucking fifth grade karate class kid. But Kenny. Is a broken down shell of a human being with that who's. I mean, all of his internal organs, his bladder is spleen, his kidneys is uterus. They could all fall out his asshole at any minute. So. I think M.J.F. will retain. And basically, we all know where this is going. So Osprey can win the title in Wimbley. And if it ain't going there, then again, they're all fucking nuts. Well, that's the fucking nuts. A.W. Dynasty coming on Sunday, April 12th on pay-per-view or wherever you stream or whatever it is you do. Are we watching? I know. I'd like to stream on some of their pay-per-view. M.J.F. and Omega is a big match. Are we watching it? Let's see what happens. What needs to happen to change your mind from whatever it is right now? I don't know. Some goddamn horrible newsmaking thing like the ring lights fall in the middle of the fucking finish and just crush the ring and everybody in it. I'll talk about that. But will you watch it? Will you order it? That's you know, that almost happened in Chattanooga one night at the old Memorial Auditorium about 10 minutes before they were going to ring the bell. The fucking cable broke and the ring lights just fell right in the ring. Oh, my God. Boom went the ring. When was that? Back in the Nick Gulles days, early 70s. Nobody was in the ring yet, but it was only by about 10 or 12 minutes. Did you ever get to see someone kick out a light bulb on a backdrop? Actually, I'm trying to think if I'm early on, probably in a place in Arkansas or some small spot show in the Memphis territory, I remember a guy kicking the fucking apparatus that the ring lights were. And I can't remember who it was. And I think Ricky Gibson used to. Used to get some of them on the southern end of the territory with his backdrops because his feet went straight up. But the Sputnik Monroe backdrop contest was a work because after Sputnik bet the rest of the locker room in Shreveport that night that none of them could kick the ring lights. He was in the main event and that was the old Shreveport Memorial Auditorium. There was a stage hand there. He went and gave the guy 20 bucks to fucking during intermission for his match, lower the fucking deal like three or four feet. He went out there and kicked it on the first try and won everybody's money. Well, they be getting your money. One last chance here. Well, no, I don't know. I'm not convinced. I may keep my money. I may not fucking give them money. You know what I may do with my money, Brian? I may put my money in my brand new Ridge wallet. That's what I may do with my money because that way it's going to be safe. And that way also they can't pull any of this electronic space age technology mumbo jumbo on me and try to penetrate and and and orchestrate into my wallet and get all of my information like thieves in the night with these electronic means because the Ridge wallets also have RFID blocking technology. That means rotten fucking individuals. And D. They're blocking those. That's not what that means. I don't know what that I don't know where you came up with that. Or if I do blocking technology because they can't. 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There's nothing wrong with that except you look kind of stupid wearing a hat these days. Jim, there's a great deal. Great promo code. Let's do it. JCE at Ridge.com. All right. Well, speaking of people's wallets, Brian, everybody ought to be reaching into theirs right now because you know what's going on. We're in that that odd timing phase where we are recording this immediately before the ring worn merchandise goes on sale at Jim Cornette.com that we've been talking about for the past few weeks. So I can't give you an update even though you're not going to hear about this until afterwards. Just go to Jim Cornette.com and click on collectibles to I've cleaned the closet out besides the the jackets and the shirts and the pants. You know, I don't dress up too much anymore, Brian. Now that I'm I used to be a man of the road, a hobo by name. I didn't seek entertainment, just poultry and game. And somebody else that could kick the shit out of Speedball Bailey is fucking Leo Seyer. But anyway, now you're pushing it. Now you're pushing. No, I think I think he gouged the eye. He gouged the eye. They are the same size. Funny enough, they are the same size. Yes, but Seyer's hair was more entertaining. Nevertheless, I don't need the suits and the jackets and things like I used to because I'm not on the road anymore as well as the last remaining few rackets and my Hall of Fame. 2017 WWF Hall of Fame induct or shoes and a variety of eyeglasses. You can see the world through my eyes. Finally, I'm hammering on the desk again. Aren't I see because I'm a very animated son of a bitch Jean Krupa Cornette. There you go. Well, at least I'm not buddy rich that prick. But nevertheless, big teeth. If you go to Jim Cornette.com right now, you'll see what what remains of these things and like I said, a couple of sets of I glad all of my eyeglasses. I've now realized when I laid them out all together, the ones that I've had, I never changed the frames, but one time. Otherwise, I've had the exact same looking glasses for 40 years. Have you noticed this or have you ever paid any that have you just stared at my face ever? Not to this extent, but I mean, now that I think about it, I can't imagine you. I mean, I think maybe a couple of times I saw you in sunglasses on TV, but yeah, like gimmick glasses is dip. But I mean, actually for me to be able to to see. Why don't you change it up? Why don't you go for like the John Lennon look? No, Stacy had me get a pair one to have the frame, the frames around the lenses were like much smaller than the ones that I've always had always. And I got them as a second pair and I put those things on twice. I could see all the way around them and it it it put me off so bad. I put I don't even know where they are now. I might have tossed them. I fucking hated it. She said, well, they look good on you. I can't know. I can't I need to see. But one time I changed in. Well, the the incident happened in 1985. So I would assume that I got them in probably late 84 because I didn't have them long. But I've always got same frames, like I said, but this time I was I was getting new glasses and I saw these and they looked cool. They had the frame on the top of the glasses, right? To the earpieces. And then you could see no frame. It was just like the the lens had no bottom on it. And it looked cool to me at the time. I didn't think it through properly. There was a little fishing line that went around a little nylon or plastic or whatever the cord was in a groove in the lens. And it just went right to the nosepiece there and boom. So it was a nice look, right? I got these fucking things. And I didn't have a there is in Dallas. I got them in Dallas. The fancy Dan. I'm a young man about town in Dallas, right? The fucking I'm going to get I'm going to get different glasses. That's what it was because I didn't have these things three months probably until the first time we went to St. Louis. Where we got booked out to do that thing from Dallas. And I was in there in the keel auditorium and bang. What are those things popped into God damn my lens just fell in the floor. And I'm like what the fuck. And now I'd fixed them before where if the frame got loose you could tighten the little screw right. But how the fuck I can't. I don't have any fishing line. What am I going to do I'm blind right. And I'm thinking how the fuck am I going to get home. Because once that you know I mean out at the ring is one thing. But actually to function in daily society I can't fucking see. And guess who came to my rescue Brian a St. Louis wrestling personality. Personality in Dallas. And I remember I was in Dallas but we got booked in the St. Louis is first time I'm in the keel auditorium. So it's a St. Louis wrestling personality. And I was in Dallas war the same glasses as you Harry White. No. Oh really you are incorrect Linda Ruffa. Oh Linda Ruffa Linda Ruffa the lovely ringside photographer in St. Louis that her stuff was published in the Japanese magazines and after used her and she went everywhere if you see any footage from the 80s and 90s with a good looking woman shooting photos and you're like where did that come from. She was an anomaly in the wrestling business because all of the other photographers were ugly male individuals like me and Heyman and fucking after and everybody else and she was not only a female photographer but she looked like a cross between a female. Oh Mick Jagger and Steve Perry kind of like it was it was it was amazing at all work to just gorgeous I don't know. Not now but when they were young Stephen Tyler or Stephen Tyler I'm sorry not Steve Perry. Stephen Tyler and Mick Jagger type but she was gorgeous. And she had some type of fake fingernail glue and she said oh let me see. And she stuck the lens in there and put the plastic thing around it and put this fingernail glue on it. And it got me back to Dallas so I could go get a proper pair of fucking glasses again. And that's that's the only time I've ever changed my glasses in. So the difference in the ones on sale is basically the amount of green from where my sweat. It turned the goddamn finish green around the edges. That's the only difference Linda Ruffa. Hey boy she turned me green around the edges every once in a while to still hiding from Dr. Mike Lano. Are we going to be in green around the edges? Good Lord what I would whatever happened to Linda Ruffa she doesn't it hasn't been to the fan fest that or the reunions or things and such in modern times that I've seen. No she hasn't I mean I don't know respectfully I don't know if anyone I mean maybe actually if you built it up I don't I was gonna say I don't know who would want her autograph but maybe actually. I don't need to come as I mean to just I see a lot of I've seen a lot of photographers and miscellaneous ringside personnel come to fan fest without having to be the center of attention and being paid to sign autographs but you never you never see her here from Linda Ruffa these days maybe she's hiding from Dr. Mike Lano. I mean maybe hiding from the whole goddamn wrestling business which we may have to also hide from the whole goddamn business I picked the wrong week to quit AEW. No night. You know WWE is not doing themselves any favors before we get to Smackdown I mean this is your show we could do whatever you want. Well I'm open to suggestions. Have you heard the news about I mean it's not a big deal but they announced John Cena will be the host of WrestleMania this year. John Cena who just went away. Who hasn't had enough time to go away. He hasn't even got to got there where he was going yet he's back. What do you think about the idea that he'd be hosting WrestleMania this year. And what is anyone going to buy a ticket for that reason. No really nobody's going to buy a ticket right now except people that are pretty goddamn close to Las Vegas. They are not. They are suffering the the chickens coming home to roost of some of the weird decisions they've made in a variety of places over the last year. And one of them is going back to the same goddamn place whether Las Vegas is a big deal to them or not. And I them I'm talking about the TKO Brain Trust and all of the top Muckety Mucks. It's in the middle of the fucking desert. And you just were there last year. And you combine that with people having to mortgage their children and their gold fillings to buy a ticket to see this crap. And then you combine that with. I don't know that the wrestling fans want to see 18 goddamn celebrities in the ring and on the TV shows on a daily basis. And you combine that with what the fuck are they thinking just on the on the entire booking of the blah blah blah. And then you add that there's snake bit on people being injured and or out of commission and the key building periods. And so now they're doing everything they can do to sell these tickets. And there's nothing wrong with I'm about to answer your question. There's nothing wrong with John Cena being the host of WrestleMania. But you've just there you've used another you've you've fired another warning shot in the air and you're running out of bullets when the fucking invaders are coming up to drive. It's not going to help. And you could have saved it for something else because he just fucking left. He just left. And that's the thing. This whole concept of the host of WrestleMania is one of the stupid Vince McMahon ideas during the years of desperation. I think the rock may have been like the first or one of the first like host of WrestleMania to get him out there. So what's Cena going to do mere months after retiring to incredible fanfare. He's just going to come out dressed like John Cena and run to the ring and do a promo for 15 minutes to start the show. Or have a funny interaction with Steve Austin or Dan housing or whatever it may be. It's desperation. And it's not a good idea. I did want to mention you independent of WWE and WWE ticket prices, let alone WrestleMania prices. Wrote an article in The New York Times the other day. I'll just read you the headline. A downturn in Las Vegas could signal tough times for the nation. I forgot to mention the whole Las Vegas thing falling in a hole. So go ahead. The high rollers may still be crowding the tables, but high prices and pinched discretionary incomes are driving a sharp drop off in visitors to Las Vegas as Nevada's governor runs for reelection. So WrestleMania aside, Vegas itself is struggling right now more than it has at least 20 years, maybe longer. And what country also since we're piling this on and all these different reasons why they should have gone to goddamn New Orleans or whatever. How what country does the WWE have more fans in than anywhere except the United States off the top of your head. I would say Canada off the top of my head, but I don't know. You there. I guess who don't want to go to goddamn the United States. Canadians. Big drop off in tourism from Canada. That's right. I think that they said 20% in Vegas and or was that 20% in nationwide that Canadian tourism is down because of shittler and the things he said about them. And then you combine that now with no and nobody ain't going to Las Vegas as we sit here for shows two weeks away when once again shittler has started a war to distract from his other discretions and gasoline is over $4 a gallon for no fucking apparent reason, except that. And the airlines are charging surcharge and blah, blah, blah. Who's going to say I'm going to go to Las Vegas. Do you want to fly anywhere? I mean, I know you don't want to fly. But now I don't want to get anywhere near an airport. Well, yes, because also that you have to invest six hours of standing in a line in the major airports because of shittler. I mean, could I go on? Do you think they should call him and say, hey, dip shit. Now you're hurting our business and we're your maggot friends. But it's all I mean, this is it's a miracle that they have as many tickets sold as they've got with all of the shitty creative and the shitty conditions and the repetitious nature of the goddamn Las Vegas and the line up and any actual matches that they apparently been building up other than Brock and oba. Nothing has that level of buzz. Punk and Romans all right. But even that punk and Roman is pretty strong based on the promos people want to see that oba and Brock I think has the most. Ooh, shivers. And but Orton and Rhodes that they have saved all this time that should be overshadowing everything based on the mentor pupil relationship, the the families, my how many video tapes do they have of Cody's father kicking a shit out of Randy's father. And I don't know actually, I don't know if there'd be that many now that I think they got to they got Florida fucking the Florida library. But how often would Dusty and Bob Orton, Jr. I don't know that's actually a great question. Dusty would have kicked a shit out of Bob Orton, Jr. a number of times in the late 70s in Florida. But point being the story they could tell for 15 fucking years and and the whole nine yards is is and there's more than one royal family and professional wrestling is it named Maca Fee. Well, we'll get the smack down and I know we're going to get to it. But point I'm making is that they've just made Cody and Orton less attractive to I think to a lot of people. I so I think that's one of the big things you've seen from everyone. And I guess this is turned less about John Cena hosting mania just about the build of WrestleMania. Everyone kind of agrees it was a natural storyline that was there. It didn't have to be and it shouldn't have been complicated. For months or maybe over a year, I've been saying whenever they get to Cody and Orton, that's right. And they've got to it and somebody else got to it. So they're lucky they've got what they've sold for WrestleMania and they ought to just fucking end. I can't imagine that they they are not trying to figure out a backup plan for next year and they better not go back to Las Vegas. I don't think they can and I don't know if they're going to be able to go to Saudi Arabia if things don't rapidly improve in the Middle East. So there may be another story next year about WrestleMania. But here's what here's the way if things don't rapidly improve in the middle. I don't care if everything calms down by July. As it would you as a famous American, a television star in America want to attend a highly publicized event or be a part of a highly publicized event in a major stadium anywhere close to God damn Iran for quite some time to come. And they actually got a missile into Riyadh, I believe or close by not too long ago. So, you know, I wouldn't. I would have a problem realistically right now being a major star doing a stadium show anywhere. And that's just my nerves because of what's going on. But no way I'm doing it over there. And I don't know if there could be a mutiny and enough people could say we're not doing it. But WWE is going to have to deal with that issue very soon because if you do move WrestleMania. Where are you going to bring it you can't go back to Vegas a third year is no way. No way, no way. But but they better they better call New Orleans or whatever because again, I'm sorry but fuck you. I don't care how much money I'm making at any job. We have just pissed off the most fanatical revenge wanting son of a bitches on the planet by just bombing the fuck out of them and killing half of their goddamn main religious fanatics and they're probably going to want to get even for about 100 more years to come. Those things last over there quite a while. Those Middle East grudges Brian you've read about them in the papers. 100 years would be a short one. Yeah, that would be just a fucking quick one in and out like the fucking. So anyway, that is the build of WrestleMania. Why don't we get the WWE Smackdown an interesting addition coming off a raw which had a lot of big moments although some that were questionable like the Cody Stephanie segment and this was one of the more astounding episodes of Smackdown I've ever seen. And if I was someone really into WWE, I'd be very worried right now about the creative decisions that are being made. Well, it was an outstanding episode as they used to say it should have been outstanding in the highway waiting for a car to run over. I don't know what the fuck they they're doing but I like I said earlier I picked poor week to quit watching AEW because honestly we would have made the same decision maybe and I still may be open to it maybe they'll just never do this again. But this this was so horrific in tone. This was one of the more trivial observations I had for the Smackdown on April 3rd tornado day. It was a big bag of wind. Is it mandatory for all the talent to walk in hold a cup of coffee and rolling their fucking suitcase. That's the these are the most caffeinated motherfuckers. Why doesn't anyone put their hand up like they're blocking the camera like they don't want to be seen or turn around like why doesn't anyone play it up like instead of just yeah walk it and let you fill me. Well they're animated and they're having this conversation and they've got their cups and their. They should have shot us when we walked into goddamn building about 40 years ago they didn't have suitcases with wheels. I had shit hanging over my shoulders carrying those goddamn heavy Nikita Mokovic tag team belts and the boys were all fucking. The struggle haired and been in the car for five hours and we're limping into a goddamn place sweating like whores and churches. Anyhow. So they recapped the thing with Cody and Stephanie on Raw where she emasculated him and he thanked her for it and the people boot him. And then here comes Randy Orton in St. Louis 11,620 people in his hometown. Big Pop Randy Randy. And this was this was close to a Roman Reigns because it was about four minutes until he spoke. St. Louis what do you want to talk about. And the one thing about this is Orton has been speaking brilliantly. He's fucking great. Because he's just being Randy Orton he said this is my hometown I still call it home. And the next time you see me I've got number 15 around my waist. Yay baby but I'm not doing it for you I'm doing it for me. And and and that was great and now he's being a heel kind of like right and I'm doing it for my family. They pop for I'm doing it for me they pop for that too. Well they pop for that but I thought he's good for me for my family I'm thinking he's going to get a little greedy here. He said my real home but then he says the six people in the front row and they're in the front they shoot him is his wife and kids. What a fucking heel. The darling little children and I guess he's a prolific son of a gun. And so then he says Cody Rhodes is going to go home empty handed after WrestleMania and they cheer it. And again I even said last show I think we were talking about this. I think they knew they were going to cheer Randy and probably boo Cody just because they want the WrestleMania the fans want the WrestleMania moment they want to see the title change or they just Randy's the the fucking darling the icon Cody is be the icon in five years 10 year whatever. So they weren't worried about that because it was a money match. They should have been more worried about people thinking that the whole thing was stupid and didn't make sense of what they wanted to see rather than whether somebody was going to get cheered or not. Because again Randy here at this place still he's he's still being Randy Orton it's not personal. Cody said I could be the viper he said I could listen to the voices Stephanie told him that he can't beat me. And I mean he really did a fired up promo he meant it he felt it. And then Cody's music plays and he comes out in a suit with the belt never they but he drops the belt he takes off the jacket and tie and gets in and boy and they have a fight. And Cody takes over in the corner and starts kicking a shit out of Orton and the play starts booing him. But then he had to kick shit out of it for a while in the corner because McAfee had McAfee was coming in the ring from the other side. And as Cody turns and sees him he's like well what are you doing here McAfee kicks him in the balls. And he's wearing an RKO shirt and he starts kicking Cody. And the fans at first were kind of booing but they were kind of confused booing. They were they were not mad booing they were confused booing like what what's happening here we don't we don't know. And then for the next five minutes or whatever they just made Cody look like a complete idiot made their company look completely the authority figure of the smack down look completely ineffective They just peeped people off in the in the wrong way about this whole thing and slander their own product. Do you before I go into the way they did all these things prior to you have any comments to make so far. I don't even know what I could add so far this was one of the worst segments most counterproductive segments I've ever seen. It was astounding in getting everything wrong. And then I see the baby face when Cody came out there and started punching him. It reminded me of Cody and Malachi and a W white suit versus black suit. And all of a sudden right away Cody wasn't cool at all. All the fans went with Malachi even though Cody is the traditional baby face Cody has not been booked well the segment on Monday with Stephanie was awful. Again even if it leads to a heel turn and at this point with this angle we can discuss whether that could even happen. But that angle did nothing to help anyone get excited for this match did nothing to help Cody not look like a pussy. And then this. McAfee gets in there. Didn't get a really big reaction. Didn't seem like people wanted this. I'm not a McAfee fan. I was at the barber shop recently and his show was on. Nobody in that shop was a McAfee fan. Nobody likes softball talk. But he was best used as a baby face. Whatever you want to say about him. He has enthusiasm. He has a love and energy for the product and the fans like and WWE fans like that him standing on his desk doing the USO shit. Again not for me. But that's the best usage of him. All of a sudden now he turns heel to no reaction and he gives a promo which on its face is a bad idea. Saying everything is awful on the show out of nowhere. He hasn't even been on the show in forever. He's the guy Randy Orton was talking to on the phone and he says the show is awful. The ratings are the worst it's ever been. Apparently he wasn't even talking TV ratings. He was talking cage match. The ratings for the show that apparently that's what someone told me. It was about the fan ratings of SmackDown. And then he brings up the attitude era. I mean, when you did your stuff in the 90s talking about how much better things were in the past. That was probably 10 years earlier. Things were better 10 years ago. Well, but if you noticed even when I did that, I didn't ever say things used to be better. I pointed out the things that were not good. And it seems that the wrestling fans would like the traditional things instead of the thing like this and that and the other thing. And I say now, you know, but again, they're talking 25 years, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. The attitude era. Because think about neither of them were there for the attitude era. Exactly. But think about back if he was a fan and Orton was a teenager, but think about me while they're doing all these things that we're going to mention they're doing. What is Cody doing? They he kicked him into balls or they kicked him into balls, right? Pat did. And then everyone's while Randy grabbed a chair and would hit him as McAfee has started to cut this promo and defaming the St. Louis sports teams and all this and the officials through for them come out. But they just stand on the floor. Stand there. They don't even reach it and pull Cody out. Cody's writhing there and or an ordeal go over and choke him with a chair or he'll whack him again or he'll kick him. But Cody's just laying there and nobody's even bothered to try to physically intervene with two guys for fuck's sake. In a company where we know they got 20 security guards on on call for anything but point being then the promo. That's that's the thing that they they were burying Cody visually in front of the entire arena by just keeping him immobile and ineffectual. While McAfee said the WWE product has been shit and they bleeped it. And the business is going wrong. And he did Austin and rock impressions. And he said he was sick of having to watch two five foot five inch guys do 45 minute Iron Man matches 10 weeks in a row while Randy Orton is here. Then he's been watching the wrong television show. Where was that? What show was that on? That's over on Dynamite. He mixed them up. And he turns on Netflix and he sees all of the gorilla position circle jerking while Randy Orton is around and the people are cheering these points he's making. But then he says he goes too far with it. And then he says why are Wrestlemania tickets still available. Smackdowns having its worst ratings ever. They were they don't really care at this point now. But Orton would continue to beat up Cody but not like continuously like pummeling him but everyone's well boom. While all this and the agent stood on the floor and McAfee was telling everybody that the business of Cody led was terrible. Randy Orton was going to save the fucking business. And they bleep fucking but he wouldn't have said fucking if some high muckity muck hadn't said say fuck. So they really thought this was going to get over enough to bring out all the the the tools in the toolkit. And in McAfee admitted he was on the phone with Randy and then both of the heels left as the fans were chanting Randy Randy. And then all this and the four other ex wrestler grown adult men get in the ring and sit Cody up and people start booing him. And it. It. Again. Orton and Cody and they've got 20 years of history from the time that Cody broke in. And the family history of the fathers on opposite sides of many great confrontations and the the history they've got in the WWE alone is the mentor pupil and the. They've Orton preceded Cody and OVW they've got all kinds of footage of. And that McAfee is in this somehow what the fuck. Why would Pat why would Randy Orton listen to Pat McAfee's advice on the phone unless Orton was trying to fucking bet on a football game. Or is a 15 time world champion McAfee's had five matches. Whatever the I just how many ways does this not make any sense Brian. It doesn't make any sense in any way if you try to figure it out that's part of the problem. It could have been anyone with a wrestling last name. I think everyone feels kind of deflated that it's Pat McAfee. Nobody's like oh man big heel run for Pat McAfee no one wants this right now. The feud was there the match was there. They've over complicated everything for no reason other than they like to jam packed celebrities into everything. This is a week off jelly roll being in almost every segment on SmackDown. And I'm not going to say anything bad about Lil Yachty he was one of the highlights of this episode to be quite honest with you. But beyond any of this too much celebrities that mean something to Ari Emanuel and don't mean something to wrestling fans Pat McAfee has in the past. But this ain't it. Coming out here doing the bad impression like it was just it wasn't a good promo. The messaging behind it was bad. Imagine in the mid 90s if Conan O'Brien showed up and said things were better when New York wrestling wasn't televised like it just doesn't make any fucking sense to say let's go back to the attitude error. This is just before Randy Orton was even a wrestler. That's how long ago it is. This whole show this whole show is bad this opening segment. This is two straight Cody Rhodes opening segments that do nothing but hurt Cody Rhodes even if they turn them heel. And how do you turn them heel after this even a Randy got cheered. He was the heel here. They started putting down St. Louis. Yeah. The creative is lost at sea. And there's nothing bringing it back right now because what are the other options. Brian Gowertz comes in and saves it. Oh that ain't happening. He comes in shit. They didn't even need the rock this year to fuck up WrestleMania. They did it themselves. This is extraordinary. But it's such if they're talking to smart fans. It's like a Vince Russo or a Tony Khan where so we got to talk to the smart fans about it. What or or just talk to the to the ex communicated attitude era fans that it was better. Anything was better than this practically it was certainly more real not so fake and silly and boring. But to come out and are they doing a Burger King. Is this the Burger King where a lot of shit. Yeah we we fucked up. You have to be a baby face to do that. The CEO Burger King is a baby face in that spot. The heel is the king that they fired. That's true. Then they're oh my god. They're the people are cheering the bad guys for saying that the product sucks because it does and they're reminding. And I'm not the biggest Randy Orton fan but I agree with what you said earlier too. He's doing some of the best promos he's done. He doesn't need a mouthpiece. Why would you do this for him now. They have muddied up this whole build. They've muddied up the story. They have destroyed Cody Rhodes. Almost every single thing in creative has been a long term miss since the John Cena comeback. And it's kind of crazy even and we'll talk about Dan housing I'm sure even the Dan housing stuff to me is starting to wear off quick. And there's a lot of bad stuff that is completely at fault of the creative team and specifically Paul Levec who's in charge of it. You can have all these girls that he hires to write wrestling TV if he approves it. It's his responsibility and the TV is awful. And it doesn't seem like it's just hardcore fans saying it. It seems like it's a lot of WWE fans are getting frustrated because when you see a layup and someone's like I'm going to get a run around the basketball court a few times and shoot it from the middle. Why you could have just gone up there and gotten the two points and WWE right now is missing all the two point shots because they're going for the half court shots are just missing left and right. They're getting too cute. You one or two brief segments of cheetah in the Tarzan movie was fine. Nobody wanted to see cheetah star in the movie and save Tarzan who was in a cameo. And they have ha ha this thing up bad. Possibly because again besides triple H a lot of these other people Nick cons and Ari Emanuels and all these other people. They may have plenty of years experience in business but they don't have all the experience in the business. And I mean is this triple H suddenly or is this now he's got to have a quota of fucking celebrities. I don't know whatever the fuck and by the way fuck WWE unreal. Because I almost feel like some of this is done more for that show than it is for this show. I mean they got an Emmy nomination but none of this is working out well here on SmackDown a Raw and we're right before WrestleMania and this is just terrible stuff. Well you know what it is Brian I'll tell you what it is it's hard to fucking swallow. It's just hard to swallow this type of stuff. I mean you can try you can chew it and you can try to wash it down with a cold beverage but it's still it just tastes like cock-a. But I'll tell you something that isn't hard to swallow and I bet you're going to guess what I'm saying here. Our friends at Factor are easy to swallow. A lot of times you don't even have to chew it just shove it down your neck it's so tender. 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You can create routines that support you throughout the year. Add more life to every moment. Discover we at who.com. Okay, then we had real Ripley against me a year and we had Uncle Howdy against a Tongan of some description. Did you follow any of that? That was one again, I paid maybe too much attention to some of this stuff knowing you wouldn't watch it, but the endless why it's versus Tongans feud or solo feud over the lantern and then Tonga, Loa or Toma Tonga and solo sort of fighting over returning the lantern. This was some of the worst stuff I've ever seen. Well, that's why I didn't see it see, but I'm just assuming that everybody knows that anything involving these two entities the Tongans and the Howdyans is wrought. Wrought. Ifluvia. I like words like that that kind of convey the despicable and repugnant nature of something. Well, then we got to nine o'clock. Trick Williams was in the ring with his friend little Yachty. Now, do you know as little Yachty is a person that you have heard of before that you know or aware of as a celebrity of some description. I know of him because he's been on wrestling before. And we've had this discussion about him. I'm just saying here. The amount of celebrities and the lack of meaningful payoff to their involvement has become a problem. I enjoyed the shit out of Lil Yachty in a second. He was perfect with trick here. Those two together was great. This is the thing. I don't care if he's a celebrity. If if if he's within their budget. This is part of tricks gimmick. They worked perfectly together. He was like just doing the little fucking hotel. While it trick was doing his promo and they had obviously not only did they work something out obviously they did just do that on top of their head. But they they have chemistry. It wasn't like shit. It was good. They worked well together. I've again. They've trained anybody. If they trained that fat fucking. Jelly Roll fucking to wrestle. They ought to train this fucking guy to be the manager and make them a team. I think they're fucking great together because it made it accentuated trick as a star to have his backup guy there. I thought it was great. And again here's trick way was another guy. I think he's technically a heel. Who's going to boo him. Nobody. But I think they're taking advantage of that because they're either they're turning Sammy heel or again now either one of these may be true. They're turning Sammy heel or they're insane but we've already established they're insane. But Sammy Zane is turning heel or there's no other explanation. So they might as well do that here because they're cheering trick to begin with. So and then Carmelo Hayes is just stuck in there for reasons I have no idea. I would rather see just Sammy and trick but Hayes gets in the way. But maybe they beat him and got rid of him now. But nevertheless trick and little Yachty. We're great together doing this fucking tag team promo is that we're not going to take a lip off a gingerbread man. And then of course obviously Sammy comes out and the people are picking up on that whatever. Hopefully this has been intentional because there's been a subtle shift in Sammy's attitude the way he's been presented the way he's talking this whole backstage thing where he was trying to. Give various pep talks to Orton and Cody and things just kept coming out wrong. So anyway, Sammy did the promo pageant three's never been my thing. But all of this none of this is going to help you I'm going to humble your ass at WrestleMania. And then the fan start chant whoop that trick whoop that trick. And tricks gripe obviously is that Sammy is there he's the reason that Sammy's the champion to begin with after what they did with Carmelo and of course here comes Carmelo. And he's mad at both and he's getting away and they had this going but then I was just going to say even Hayes got cheered at some points over Sammy go ahead. I'm going to say the fans reacted really well to Carmelo and when Carmelo said something that in a way you would think if there was ever a time for them to boom it's this comment when he said he carried SmackDown. Yeah, whatever period of time it was months. They cheered. The fans were actually behind him. And I agree with you Sammy has to turn heel after all this because I don't think he's getting cheered for a while. And that's the thing is that even now Carmelo is getting cheered for I am for being a braggadocious little prick because they're they're turning on Sammy here they realize what's going on. So basically the this thing continued though that's the only thing is after without trick and yachty. It got a little long winded trick was and was even looking at his watch like Jesus Christ. And trick is said yeah give Carmelo is rematch that he wants go ahead and Sammy was a little long winded there but. Okay, I'll give it to you tonight. And then tricks said well that took forever you could have saved us five minutes which was true and then Sammy clothes lining over the top rope and the people booed Sammy for clothes lining him. Over the top rope. So I get. I feel like it's deja vu all over again remember just a few weeks back Brian when I was saying boy this is the most popular bunch of heels I've ever seen. And the most unpopular baby faces I've ever seen and I was talking about a w. Now this is the most the most popular bunch of heels I've ever seen the most unpopular budget baby faces I've ever seen in the wwe. Yeah, a w's baby faces are weak but the fans cheer them. And the fans boo the heels here the heels of the baby faces now by the way they should be Randy Orton's cooler than Cody's been booked better trick Williams is as cool as it gets right now. So I mean it's an interesting dynamic where I hate to say because they brought it up earlier it's almost attitude era ask where the heels of the baby faces and the baby faces of the heels. Except the attitude era didn't have this many quasi celebrities actually having wrestling matches. Yeah, and thanks. Okay. Continuing on with smack down we had Cardona wrestled Malachi black. And that was where all the lights went out did you notice that because since there was two black holes of charisma in the ring together they sucked all the light. Into themselves from the and you could see nothing for like 10 minutes. And it did tons of backstage bullshit and then they had Charlotte and Alexa against Bailey and lyric. And we were past 10 o'clock is we're two hours in with what we've just talked about. And in the back. This begins a whole a whole sorted thing Brian. And the Ms and kit Wilson Mr toxic guy. And Ms is saying hey this whole curse thing from Dan housing is a myth that's it's just it's bullshit. And Dan housing suddenly appears behind them of course. They're making it so obvious now isn't it a little annoying that somebody in the Dan housing skit has to turn away from Dan housing and there has to be an unnatural zoom in of a close up on that person for no reason so they can zoom out and he's gone is it. There are a multi billion dollar publicly traded company. There are effects. There's a little kid. There's I'm not talking about CGI but goddamn there's a few other camera moves that you could do to kind of fucking. Anyway, Dan housing shows up behind him with a jar of teeth. And he'll come to the ring with them and help them out and everything they're going to win a tag team titles and kit Wilson said you are toxic. But then Dan houses says I'll undo the curse if you let me come to the ring with you and miss as you take your curse and shove it. And then Dan housing disappears again after another close up on myths. And again, they're not doing David Copperfield style magic in the round. If they could just do you see what I'm saying? If they could bail a different in a different effect. We've seen the same intro and the same disappearance. Now on both shows going back a month or so. And I get a kick out of Dan housing stuff but that has to be changed. Because like you said, it's every time now. Cameron is a close up of the guy all of a sudden Dan house is there. Cameron does the second close up. Dan housing ducks out of the picture and disappears. And that's your again you're not doing the the live magic in the round to where this needs to be. Like legitimate to everybody in the fucking picture and etc. You're doing pre tapes in the back that can be alright. So then they have the tag team title match and Jesus Christ Brian we skip a week or two of these people and Damien priest and our truth or the tag team champions. You remember this happening. I did not watch this I have not seen these recent developments in the tag team division. Well there they were and again couple Fridays ago was rotten and we skipped it but that's. You can almost tell in priest work it seems like he slowed down about a revolution and he's they've given up on him. He's in a tag team with the comedy guy that. And he's working with another comedy guy. So the real priest and truth against Miss and Wilson and they have this match and I didn't care about the match so that's not the point but here is the finish. I got to be honest with you I think Tony Khan would have been offended by this is being too fake if somebody pitched it to him. Priest and Wilson are on the floor and priest clothesline Wilson. And then they both just go down and priest stays down for no reason he's the one that just did that but they just lay on the floor. Because they got to be out of the picture for the next couple minutes. Meanwhile there's thousands of people in the building watching them just lay there on the fucking floor. So Ms. and truth have a double knock out in the middle of the ring and Dan house and music plays and he makes his entrance down the aisle and coast of the ring and I mean it's not like he's running. And he gets up on the ring apron to take the tag. And Ms. and truth meanwhile through his whole entrance have been motionless in the ring like priest and Wilson outside the ring. So then Ms. looks up and he's either he's just gobsmacked of the gall of this guy or he's thinking about it or whatever but he looks at him for a while with Dan house and said tag me tag me. And he says get out of here. And then Ms. goes in the corner and argues with the referee for ever. While truth slowly turns over and looks and milks once he finally started milking it they get the people got with it but it took a second more than a second. So finally as he's milked the people truth he tags Dan house and and then Dan has and gets in the ring and Ms. turns around and sees even tells him get the fuck out of there. And Dan house and winds up to curse Ms. but Ms. pulls the referee. My poor old friend Rudy Charles in the in the front of him. And Dan house and accidentally curses the referee. So then he has to apologize to the rest of the I didn't mean to do that like he's just is set him on fire is Dan house and reaction oh my God I didn't mean. And then Ms. grabs a full Nelson on Dan house and but the lights go out. And when the lights come back on Ms. is standing with empty arms in the ring and Dan house and is at the entryway scurrying off. He's running you see him running away I don't know if that was intentional or not you supposed to see him. Cut to the shot. I guess. To a shot of Dan house and in the entryway scurrying away. You know this is one of those things we killed the Indies for and early days of A. W. some of the stuff we saw. You know the invisible man that kind of stuff on the Indies. I don't like this. Yeah. Again this episode I like trick Williams and Lil Yachty and I didn't like a single other thing on this episode. And this seems like a major step backwards. Imagine this a three hour show and the only thing good I've said is they ought to hire of some rapper that I've never heard of before. But nevertheless the match is still going on now because now. If fucking Dan house and his scurried away. And fucking Ms. was. You know, God smack that here comes truth. And now, meanwhile again priest and fucking dipshit have been down forever. So priest and Ms. do a little thing boom boom boom and. Ms. hits his finish on truth. And the referee goes to count one to. And then screams in pain and grabs his right arm and can't count and is all my God he's an agony. Because he's been cursed. And then in the middle of all of this truth tags priest and priest hits his finish. On Ms. and the referee counted with his left hand. But Ms. was like what are you doing and he's oh I can't oh it hurts. I actually wrote now I have to quit watching SmackDown. If I'm complying the same fucking logic should we give them. One week grace period to try to come out of this stupor. I think we got to give them at least until WrestleMania just because we're a couple weeks away. Is actually am interested in a couple of things at WrestleMania. Unlike almost everything else that anybody ever does ever anymore. And they're feeding me this shit now the segment's not over yet. But your thoughts on the cursed referee. Do you think maybe Dan hasn't put a curse on the creative team. And that's what's causing all this. No I don't like it again. It's been fun some of the Dan house and stuff. And cutesy and I don't mind him going out there throwing t-shirts to the crowd. Or getting a pop for a backstage segment although like we said before they got to mix it up a little bit. But to me this is a step too far. Once magic is introduced that's right there with teleportation for me. Yeah I don't like it at all. Referee did a good job. I mean for whatever it's worth the referee did a good job of selling that magic has stopped him from being able to count the pin because of magic pain. But yes this is in pro wrestling this is lucha underground or this is a mockery of wrestling when Dan Housins used like this. Well and then they went to replays but the segment wasn't over because when they come back from the replays of this fiasco as if we needed to be reminded of what we'd just seen. Cody comes out hits the ring and just gives poor old kid a crossroads in the middle of the ring like wipes his feet on this guy. And then takes the microphone and cuts another promo on Orton and McAfee. And there was a. It again this was so odd like he called McAfee a stoner grifter Logan Paul without muscles human hat rack I mean there was some good shit. But the promo was. It was supposed to be appealing again to inside smart fans or smart marg or whatever the phrase is just stuff that neither one of these guys naturally is ever going to be. And then the grifter had historically said in promos. Cody said this after this reveal McAfee it's like if the third man after Holland Nash was disco inferno instead of Hulk Hogan. No reaction. Well yeah because they could be like why do you. And. Then. At the same time. This was an inside shoot promo because Cody made the. He specifically used the verbiage you and everybody who represents you can kiss my ass. Fire me it worked out for you great the last time didn't it. But there was. There looked like there was enough vehemence in it. That I think that on some level Cody is pissed. And. He was really enjoying saying that does that make any sense to you. It does I guess he was having a meltdown on a couple of different levels that I'm not sure everybody got I'm not sure that the fans got the. They didn't get any of this. Exactly. That's what I'm saying I'm not sure that the fans got the point of the whole thing. Besides the insult to McAfee but also. I think maybe somebody. In creative or whoever is representing who I think he's. Not pleased with them either he knows this is. Shite. It was very heartfelt is what I'm saying. If there was ever a week where you tried to convince me Vince Russo is writing for WWE again this may have been the week. There you go. They have not done any favors for Cody I'm not a fan of the. Work shoot promos. Because even the crowd you're trying to appeal to with that they see through it. You know you can't get away with that right now with this. No one's going to buy that this is anything other than what it is. And what it is right now is a bad build for a main event match at WrestleMania. If I was Cody Rhodes I would be pissed off. I mean comes out there's like Stephanie McMahon who I respect so much why are you saying that. Who is this promo for you guys have lost the plot. They succeeded in getting everyone behind Cody and now they've succeeded in running. All of those fans off it's astounding. You are pounding on the desk there pal. I threw something and then I put my fist down but. Again see I'm accused of being all the you know active over demonstrative over here and it's got you fired up to do and then he finally he had to defend the business that he had done I've done the bed that was sold out and. I'm finally hearing the voices in my head and you don't want to know what they say but he's there they're. Trying to have Cody defend the business that he's done as champion, which the fans are really going to give a shit about except for the fucking people like us that. Comment on all these inside things that ain't gonna fill the fucking stadium. If the average fan watches Smackdown and Raw and then watches again the next week. These thoughts that the WWE put in their head this week are not thoughts that the average fan has like. The ratings for last week show where the all time worst. Where things have been awful. I wish things can go back to. The way they were 30 years ago almost 30 years ago. These weren't thoughts that their base fan were having. Not the people that they run those people off the people like me they've run them off because those regular folks don't get paid to watch this stuff so the people that felt that way are listening to us because they've run them off but. They don't need to tell their current audience the truth about everything that's wrong with their show do they. Everyone will Oscar did that promo you want to talk about what sucks about a what was it the line it was like you want to talk about what makes a w awful you're what's making a big say w awful you're the reason it's awful. It doesn't help. 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S. title, Sammy Zane had promised Carmelo Hayes that he would indeed get his rematch and they had a match and they worked a deal where Carmelo did a dive and, you know, hurt his knee or his leg or whatever the case, he was selling his knee there. And then that way, you know, he could sell that through the whole thing. And then finally they work another spot where boom, he comes off the rope do a deal. Sammy gets out of the way and he lands on his feet and he goes down and he's hurt his leg. He's backed up in the corner and the referee backs Sammy up. So no, I'm checking on him. And then he goes to check on Carmelo. Carmelo. Carmelo. Why? Why? Who? What Carmela am I thinking about? There used to be a car. It used to be a valet car. Mella, she was there and a wrestler. I shouldn't say ballet. She was a wrestler and she got a, I think injuries forced her to retire. She's married. No, I mean, there was an old time person in wrestling back the way it used to be and the way we liked it named Carmela, not like a wrestler, just a wrestling. Oh, Joe Goodheart. The woman who did the show, Joe Goodheart. Carmela. That's right with Joe Goodheart. Panthel. Carmela Panthel. I hope she's doing okay now that we've invoked her name. Usually when I mentioned people these days, something bad has happened to him. Anyway, Carmelo is in the corner of the referee's checking him. He's got the bad legs. Sammy backs up in the corner and charges and he's in the corner. He's got the bad legs. Sammy backs up in the corner and charges and hits the Haluba kick in the corner on the unsuspecting injured man and covered him. But here's the problem. One, two, three, just like that. I understand they want Sammy to again. It's not like he's just, you know, disemboweled this guy with a rusty fishing knife, but it is unsportsmanlike while the referee was checking on the injured guy to run and give him your finish when he's not expecting it. That's the point they're trying to make. But they should have closed the loophole. The referee had told Sammy to back up so I can check him. When Sammy fucking hits him with the kick and goes down and covers him, the referee just counts. And of course the fans booed because that was a healish thing to do. But why did the referee not say, what the fuck are you doing? I told you to back up. I'm checking that. Hey, count it, count it and make the referee get down and just a little thing. Right. I don't anyway. Sammy won and then trick and his friend jumped back in a little yachty and started insulting Sammy and then jumped him from behind. And my DVR froze. Now, are they doing an overrun on Smackdown 2 or was it just they were that tight? They were that tight. I think it was right at the end because that's where my DVR ended too. And I don't think they ran over with that. Well, and basically I think right before the finish of the referee was all over one or both of these guys in the words, in the, not all over them in trying to tell them something. Like, I think there was he was saying, we're running out of time. So they were probably, but anyway, they beat up Sammy, but I'm sure they got cheered for that. In the building, you know, for beating up Sammy after he just fucked the other guy than they. Sammy, at least with Sammy, they're wanting this and with trick, they're wanting this. But with all the other stuff, it's just it's all odd. And that was Smackdown. And that was Smackdown. Again, the weird build to WrestleMania continues. The apparent upcoming heel turn of Sammy Zane, although they're already booing him. They're in the car metal. They love trick Williams. Referee was cursed. We'll see if his hand is okay in the future. Will the curse continue? The tag team division obviously on Smackdown now is a complete joke. What else? Randy Orton and Pat McAfee's heel turn. I know there's some there's some fans that like it. I saw some people that thought I was being too critical and they said, I loved what Pat said or I agreed with what Pat said. That misses the point altogether. It's not even about what he said. Yeah, we're we're supposed to say shit like the show sucks because we have no financial interest either way, but they're not really supposed to tell us that their show sucks on their own show when it sucks. Or just just make it not suck. Don't call attention to that it does suck. Don't send someone out there to do a speech by how bad things are at the same time you're raising the ticket prices. Because what does that say about your mentality? Let's raise the rates again. They're idiots go out there and tell them how stupid they are. They're lost. If they're if they're trying to get the attitude era people back right like yeah, this is what we want to see the attitude. Well, then Trump put bringing back attitude era ticket prices. Yeah, let's see some titties. There you go might as well. Go all the way. Come on. If you're going to do it do it attitude era broke box office records. You're going to be up to become a publicly traded company made Vince McMahon a billionaire. Let's see what this is impossible to follow for 25 years. And they finally know seriously to 20 almost 25 years later they finally hit another hot run and sell the fucking company to an even bigger goddamn. And then they proceed to give us less than they ever have practically for more than they've ever charged. And again, a lot of the problems go right to the creative team. Even if you think that Paul Avec or his team are being overruled by anyone above them. It's not for every single thing on these shows. These shows are not really good right now. They're not building up anything right. And this one had less shit in the middle of it. But who cares about the why it's in the soul of the cola bunch fighting over a lantern. Nobody. So they need a real change creatively at the top. And I just don't know what that could be or who it would be or how it even would be possible. They just named another female head writer of raw a few weeks ago. We talked about who had no experience at wrestling whatsoever. She just writes TV. She'll be able to write nice little funny segments where the guys pretend the cameras aren't there because that's what we did in the attitude era. They had moved on. They had successfully moved on. They had the bloodline. They had Cody Rhodes. They had wrestlers that weren't yet at the top that people were excited about. And they still are. Oh, but things did. But things did seem more fresh. When they when they changed Kevin Dunn out. That's right. Leaf fitting coming in. Leaf fitting and the new production that felt new and good. And they had that going and the box office records and the etc. But I know they can't. The only thing that they have been unable to control that we talked about earlier in the program. It was all of their problems with WrestleMania and all their problems in general is the injuries. Everything else has been somewhat self inflicted. That's a great example right there. Obviously they didn't want nor expect Bronbreaker and Bronson Reed to go down. Or Seth Rollins to go down. And all of these things in the last six months or so have changed the booking plans they had clearly. So you can't say that everything's been easy and they could have easily just done things. They had to be creative and come up with something. Instead they came up with a bunch of masked guys hitting the ring and scurrying around. Like this is where their minds are going to. It's like okay we have these problems. It creates an opportunity to do something good or special. Instead they're going to bad wrestling ideas. I can't explain the deficiencies in this creative team or why they think this is what it should be. But the creative team, Ed Koski, Bruce Prichard, the other random generic people throw Heyman in there. Although Heyman's stuff still is better than everyone else's. But especially Paul Levec, the creative team is creatively bankrupt right now. They don't know what to do. They don't know how to get out of their own way. And they rely on boring old tropes of the Vince McMahon era that are dead. Well and see with so many people being involved now with the Danhousen thing. Coming out and taking the tag in the tag match or whatever all the things that we talked about they did. There's a semblance of an old wrestling angle in that in that if you had. A tag team, a heel team that had wiped out one of the members of the babyface team and there was this poor babyface in the ring that was getting just beat to death because they were just tagging in and out on him and he was all alone his partner had got hurt. But he didn't want to give up and then you send the other top babyface out to jump on the apron and reach for the tag and the people are up and the referee looks like okay I'll okay this and blah blah blah he gets the hot tag that type and it's and then you do an angle and it's coming back for a big match or whatever but just. That was the only old wrestling part about it was there with Danhousen gets on the apron to try to take the tag everything around it was completely. Show biz and goofball and implausible. And just done on an underneath level with underneath guys for comedy sake. This was one of the sillier. WWE television programs in a while probably the worst one I can think of that I've seen in a while. But it's almost like. That you know the. The fucking. Trampoline cowboy mentality somehow penetrated. The WWE offices and it's just it's all done for comedy and let's get anybody involved and. This is complete show biz parody of wrestling and mixed with we just want to do shit to shock people whether it makes any sense or not. All of the worst parts of modern wrestling. Were what we got in this three hour extravaganza that's just the point that I make. Well that was smack down. Who show is this. It is yours thankful is it over with it is yours. Well in that case I believe we are done here ladies and gentlemen but. There will be another fantastic program for you to listen to in just a few days because. Brian last will host the gym cornets drive through and. Have tons of questions and entertaining things and. Hilarity and fun and possibly some skits dramatic readings and poetry. I guarantee it will be better than Ron Smackdown and dynamite ladies and gentlemen. 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