Wednesday Night Fake Fights; A Dynamite Debut

Episode 1 June 28, 2025 01:15:14
Wednesday Night Fake Fights; A Dynamite Debut
Monday Night Fake Fights
Wednesday Night Fake Fights; A Dynamite Debut

Jun 28 2025 | 01:15:14

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Hosted By

Garak Tailor

Show Notes

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Wednesday Night Fake Fights! Piper Willow (it/she), Erika Warrens (she/they), and Gef the Toking Mongoose (he/him) have duct taped "Schillionaire" Garak Tailor (she/they) to a chair and have taken over the recording studio to discuss the June 25th edition of AEW Dynamite!

The road to All In Texas is entering the final stretch as the battlelines come more clearly into focus. The Young Bucks throw a curveball at Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland as the stakes for their feud are raised to new heights. Kota Ibushi makes his return to AEW television, but did he leave with all his ankles intact? Meanwhile, the number one entrant for both the men's and women's Casino Gauntlet Battle Royale was decided in two exciting four-way matches and everyone's favorite cowboy battled everyone's favorite lawyer/minotaur in the main event.

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[00:00:01] Speaker A: Well, I told the chat, the other chat, that I have prepared a cold opening, if you don't mind. So I just thought I'd bring a scripture passage to mark this occasion. So, in the beginning, the earth was a dark, formless void. But then God spoke and said, let there be wrestling. And with that, there was Monday. And wrestling happened on Monday. And God looked upon her works and said, holy shit, that's a lot of racism in video packages. On the second day, God got depressed. And lo, did she post about it on the DVD VR forums. And with that, there was Tuesday. On the third day, God said, let there be Wednesday. And lo, did the people reply unto her. We know what that means. The people rejoice. And under the blue sky reveled in their fake fights. And again, the Lord spoke. I shall send among thee a puppy girl, a functional alcoholic, and a Tokim mongoose. And from them, they shall tell you the good news about the Wednesday night fake fights. And the people cried out. No one actually asked for this, but God didn't listen because she's kind of a bitch like that. Amen. [00:01:25] Speaker B: Amen. And lo, here we are. Garrick, you've got something to say. [00:01:32] Speaker C: All women, too. [00:01:36] Speaker A: Okay, shut up. [00:01:39] Speaker C: That was beautiful, Erica. [00:01:41] Speaker A: Thank you. I can't believe that's in the Bible. [00:01:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Was that new king, New King James. [00:01:49] Speaker C: Or new Queen James? [00:01:52] Speaker B: New Queen James. Got it, got it, got it. I get them mixed up. [00:01:55] Speaker A: I think they called it the Book of Hobbs, but that didn't really last very long. [00:01:59] Speaker B: It's a regional thing. [00:02:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:03] Speaker B: But, folks, here it is. Wrapping up the end of pride once this year. Monday night fake fights started last year at the beginning. Here we are at the end, a year later. Welcome to Wendy Wednesday night fake fights. Here we are, boggling as tradition. How y' all doing? [00:02:32] Speaker C: I say I'm doing fantastic. I'm so happy to be able to talk to you all about wrestling. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:02:37] Speaker C: Hey, things in the world. [00:02:39] Speaker B: Who are you? [00:02:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think anybody knows at this point, but I am the mysterious third mongoose man. [00:02:47] Speaker B: A little inside baseball. Jeff, I've never talked to you and I've never podcasted with you, and it's gonna be exciting. I love the vibes already, and I'm looking forward to talk about dynamite this week and going forward. [00:03:03] Speaker C: Very same. As I say, it should be a lot of fun. Piper. [00:03:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I'm Piper Willow. She it. And the third woman of the Friday night oddcast. As it is. [00:03:19] Speaker A: The womang. [00:03:22] Speaker B: There you Go. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Is Scott hollered up? Oh, yeah. Yes. I'm Erica. I'll use my. My shoot. Not my shoot name, my fake name. Kayfabe last name. I'm Erica Warrens. That's the one I picked for myself. She. They. And I'm happy to be here. This has been a very. I've been freaking out about this for, like, the last three weeks. [00:03:45] Speaker C: It's been heavily on my mind. [00:03:48] Speaker A: I. I hope it shows. I hope it comes across, and I hope that everybody greatly appreciates it. [00:03:53] Speaker B: You've had me fold as one of the other minds that has put this together. [00:03:59] Speaker C: Cool as a cucumber. [00:04:01] Speaker A: Well, that's the thing. Like, trans people are good at foreign. Yeah. [00:04:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. There were signs, but I figure we will just kind of get right into it. Yes, Garrick. [00:04:20] Speaker C: That's gimmick infringement, sister. All right, let's be careful. [00:04:25] Speaker B: We'll take it to Restless Court. Take it back in the corner. Yeah. We're still figuring all this out, figuring out format and everything, but we've all watched Dynamite for the week. It opened, dare I say, explosively. [00:04:40] Speaker C: I was gonna say with very loud pyro. That completely drowned Excalibur out. [00:04:45] Speaker B: Okay. That wasn't just the totally above board broadcast I was watching. [00:04:50] Speaker C: No. Unless it was awesome. I. Totally above board broadcast. [00:04:54] Speaker A: I think that's just how it always is. He's always sounds drowned out, but, like, it's not. It's not an aw broadcast without some audio issues. Right. [00:05:02] Speaker C: I was gonna say that's part of the tradition from when it started. If the audio doesn't fuck up, it's not Wednesday night. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:05:11] Speaker C: We love Excalibur, though. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Oh, God, yes. Toni Storm and Luther open the show. Are walking out. And immediately jumped by Mercedes Mone in. [00:05:26] Speaker C: A great little cowboy outfit, too. [00:05:28] Speaker B: A very noisy outfit. [00:05:30] Speaker C: It was. That's an attention grabber for sure. [00:05:35] Speaker B: Seemed a little out of place and out of character for her, if I may say. I could be wrong. [00:05:40] Speaker A: I think they're just turning up the intensity on it. [00:05:43] Speaker B: Okay. [00:05:43] Speaker C: Which I felt the segment did have for sure. [00:05:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, because Tony had come out on Collision and said, you have to kill me. So Mercedes obliged her. [00:05:54] Speaker C: Yeah. Mercedes came off genuinely very mean during the. I mean, to me, I thought it was a good beat down. It got a lot of heat. Even her just little tagline of. Was it the let the games begin? Just that little single line of whipping the mic at her. I was like, that worked. That's getting me. You know, I'm already invested in the Match, but it's building well to it. [00:06:13] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. [00:06:14] Speaker C: Mercedes, I think has come together very well lately. I think over the last like, I don't know, six months or so. Basically when she started wrestling Josie or Joshi, however you say it, it's like, okay, starting to click for me. [00:06:26] Speaker A: She has come on like, basically. I mean she's been fine since last year, but like since January she's been on another level. [00:06:37] Speaker C: Yeah. To me it was the Izumi match. After that it's just been like through the roof. [00:06:42] Speaker A: Yep. [00:06:42] Speaker B: Toni Storm's friend, partner, close associate. Close associate. [00:06:52] Speaker A: That was how they classified it. [00:06:54] Speaker B: Okay. Mina Shirakawa comes out, makes the save. Very worried about Tony, as we all are indeed. [00:07:02] Speaker C: And also I've loved Tony's little camera. Carmen San Diego. [00:07:08] Speaker B: So good. [00:07:09] Speaker C: It's like he would. She manages to reinvent this gimmick so much while still staying in that like kind of old timey movie star vibe. And it never gets dull. She keeps it fresh, coming up with like these new little angles and looks that it's just like you never get tired of seeing her. [00:07:24] Speaker B: It's, it's pivoted into this, this gumshoes. [00:07:28] Speaker C: Kind of thing 100%. [00:07:31] Speaker A: I don't, I don't think any wrestler in AEW has like the presentation that Tony does. Like that's, it's like completely locked. Know when you see her that you are seeing her. [00:07:44] Speaker C: I think she, in my opinion, I'll probably, I'm. Well, we do this podcast. I'm going to be incredibly hyperbolic all the time because it's. I love wrestling so much. I always do. But I think she's the best actress in professional wrestling right now in terms of character work. The promos like I. She just creates this believability while still being entertaining. That just carries it. [00:08:06] Speaker B: I think I can, I think I'd second that from, from what I've seen and what I'm watching. [00:08:12] Speaker C: And I mean she's no Mariah Blake. [00:08:15] Speaker A: But I don't know who that is. [00:08:18] Speaker C: It's. What's her name? Oh, wow, that's bad. Mariah May in nxt. [00:08:25] Speaker A: Oh, that's what they called her. Oh, no, no. [00:08:29] Speaker C: Or Blake Monroe or something like that. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:08:33] Speaker B: Just pulling names out of a hat. [00:08:36] Speaker C: Yeah. As you go. Old Hollywood, because she is Toni Storm now. [00:08:41] Speaker B: But followed up by that, we've got a nice Young Bucks promo talking about how, hey, we've got, you know, Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland in a tag match scheduled for hour two of Dynamite tonight. Actually, no, it's right now. And immediately cut to about two minutes of Will Ospreay's music before he stumbles out. [00:09:09] Speaker A: This was awesome. This was so good. [00:09:11] Speaker C: I like it. I like. They're using the Bucks, you know, abusing their authority, too, to kind of add some stakes to this match. [00:09:18] Speaker B: Mm. [00:09:19] Speaker A: It's been a while since they've done EVP shenanigans, but, like, this one came off really well. And, like, you see later in the show that it was like. [00:09:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:28] Speaker A: The whole really, really big payoff. [00:09:31] Speaker C: Yeah. It's given some actual stakes and meaning to the match. Besides just a dream match between, you know, Swerve Ospreay and the Bucks. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Match ended up being against a Blake Christian and Lee Johnson, who I've seen a couple times on the last few weeks. [00:09:49] Speaker C: I like him. [00:09:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I know Lee Johnson from. From the. The shoddy Lee Johnson days of earlier aew. Blake Christian as questionable gear. [00:10:00] Speaker C: Indeed. He's been killing it as a lower card heel for a little while now. [00:10:04] Speaker B: I'm very impressed with. With what he is, like, physically able to do. [00:10:09] Speaker A: He's. He's really talented. Like, I won't say, like, he's not athletic and all that, but, like, no, indeed, he. He leans into the whole vanilla baby gimmick and, like. [00:10:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:19] Speaker A: Does, like, look like a child who has grown his first mustache. [00:10:24] Speaker C: That is very true. [00:10:26] Speaker B: That's the gimmick. [00:10:28] Speaker C: Well, it came from if it was his GCW stuff of. He was like, the. They hated him because he was the vanilla baby face who did all the flippy poppy. So he kind of leaned super into it to a sarcastic level, to the point where in my, you know, I'm not a big GCW guy. I watch a lot of indies as much as Japanese and American stuff, but it got obnoxious after all. But he's found a good, like, medium for it on AEW and roh. [00:10:55] Speaker A: It could work. He's like, he's. He's very. He's athletic, but he's kind of like that indie athletic, you know, like. [00:11:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll do. A lot of people hate him. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Yes. A lot of people don't like him. I. I'm. I'm probably in the don't like him camp. [00:11:11] Speaker C: That's fair. [00:11:12] Speaker A: I'm very, like. I don't. I don't want to change the channel when he's on. [00:11:16] Speaker C: Yeah. And that's where I feel like. Aw. Struck a good balance with him, where he's not there. He's, you know, not Getting squashed. But he's putting on these short, little competitive matches that are letting the bigger stars show out against him while still getting some good shine for himself. But they're not putting him too high. They're not. They're not giving huge wins or anything. And he pisses people off. [00:11:37] Speaker B: What more can you ask for? [00:11:39] Speaker C: And I like Lee Johnson, too. I always thought he was just a solid fan. [00:11:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:42] Speaker A: He had some really good matches in Ring of Honor recently. [00:11:45] Speaker C: Oh, indeed. [00:11:47] Speaker B: But unfortunately, they were not able to get the win over Swerve and Ospreay. [00:11:53] Speaker A: I was shocked. I was just shocked. They had. They had no time to prep. [00:12:00] Speaker C: They had the distraction by the Bucks, too. [00:12:02] Speaker B: That too. Yep. I shouldn't say that I'm surprised at how well those two worked together, but for being a kind of slapdash team. Oh, yeah. I think their chemistry and, like, the kind of combination and like, their flow in the ring was really, really impressive. [00:12:24] Speaker C: Yeah. The spot at the end where Swerve does the, like, fake out matrix and Osprey does the hidden blade over him. Yeah, that I was like, that's genuinely something I've never seen before. That was very cool. [00:12:38] Speaker A: Yeah. The whole closing sequence. Because they did. He ducked out of the way of the hidden blade. And then what? Swerve got up. I don't know who he got up. He got the guy up. [00:12:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:51] Speaker A: And then they did Chasing the Dragon, and then Swerve Stomp. And that was the win. [00:12:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Oh, Blake Christian. That's who they did it to. [00:12:58] Speaker C: That was Blake. Yeah. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Good job, Blake. [00:12:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Very. Just very smooth stuff. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, we were talking about putting some stakes on the match against the Bucks. Probably no higher stakes for the Bucks than putting their EVP titles on the line against the match against Swerve and Ospreay. [00:13:17] Speaker A: Payoff. [00:13:18] Speaker C: Yeah. And I was a little confused at first. If it means is Swerve. Are Swerve and Ospreay going to become EVPs, or the Bucks just could be stripped? [00:13:26] Speaker B: I understood as they would become EVPs, but I guess we'll kind of find out in the weeks to come. [00:13:32] Speaker A: I think they'll become the EVPs. [00:13:35] Speaker C: Okay. Which I almost feel like if they do that, they should just be like, well, we're wrestler and just drop and not have wrestler EVPs anymore. I mean, they could do, like, maybe a fun week or two of Osprey and Swerve, like, as authority figures, like, doing fun stuff. But I don't think it has legs, to be honest. [00:13:54] Speaker B: No. [00:13:55] Speaker A: No. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Neither of those guys fit that Role from either a face or heel perspective. [00:14:03] Speaker C: Yeah. You'd have to do some massive turns. And babyface authority figures are just kind of whack usually. Yeah. [00:14:09] Speaker B: And those guys, I think, are better off served and better utilized as in rank performance. [00:14:16] Speaker C: The real victory for them is ending the reign of terror. [00:14:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:20] Speaker C: Bucks more so than gaining that power themselves. Jumping back. One thing, though, I was it here where Swerve did the stomp on the security guards and that. [00:14:31] Speaker A: Ah, yeah. [00:14:32] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:14:33] Speaker A: He did the AOE stomp. [00:14:35] Speaker C: Yeah. And then the Bucks suspended him for a week, which is why he doesn't come out and save, you know, down at the end of the episode. [00:14:43] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't even think of that. [00:14:45] Speaker A: Yeah, that becomes important later on. [00:14:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Because he laid his hands on the. [00:14:49] Speaker C: Officials, so he's suspended. So that's why at the, you know, big beat down at the end of the episode, I think they're saving him coming back and helping out Hangman for all in and which will be a big moment. [00:15:03] Speaker A: That. [00:15:04] Speaker B: That makes a lot of sense. I don't think anybody can blame me for being excited that Kota Ibushi is here in aew. [00:15:11] Speaker C: Oh, I was so excited. [00:15:13] Speaker A: That whole promo in the back was exciting because it had. It had. It had lots of layers of lore to it because you had Rocky Romero coming out and be like, hey, remember when we were chaos? So that I think now makes the don calls family by proxy members of chaos. [00:15:31] Speaker C: Chaos doesn't exist anymore. Chaos got accept. Got absorbed by Hantai. [00:15:36] Speaker A: They did. [00:15:37] Speaker C: Yeah. No, in New Japan, there's like Bullet Club, House of Torture, Hanai and yeah, they hunt. I absorb just four guys, too. So it's just them and tmdk now. [00:15:48] Speaker A: Okay. So maybe they're. Maybe they're chaos. Maybe they're just chaos and Aw. Then they can just be chaos. [00:15:55] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:15:55] Speaker A: They can just be chaos. That's fine. [00:15:57] Speaker C: It's fine. It's wrestling factions. They're very mercurial. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Who cares? They can be chaos gold. [00:16:04] Speaker C: Chaos gold. What do you all think about Roppongi or RPG Vice 3k? Now? How are we feeling about Heel Rocky and Heel Trend? [00:16:19] Speaker B: I think it's fun. I think those are two guys that can kind of flip flop between heel and babyface kind of on a dime and just be great at either. [00:16:33] Speaker C: And I'm always happy to see Rocky Romero on my TV more. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. [00:16:38] Speaker A: I like the presentation because it's not. They're not just. They're not hungy Vice. They're RPG Vice and they're not just RPG Vice. They're Don Callis presents RPG Vice 100%. [00:16:51] Speaker C: It's a good vibe. But yeah, and also they had the little Okada Takeshita back and forth there too. Oh, yeah, they're building to that. To catch the face turn. [00:17:01] Speaker A: I'm rubbing my hands. I'm rubbing my hands. They have sat on that at least a year. I forget when Okada and Takeshita had a stare down in a match and they've just been sitting on that. [00:17:15] Speaker C: I mean, really, Tony Khan is loading AEW up with some, like, crazy great, just Japanese talent. [00:17:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:22] Speaker C: Like, I'm in my mind, I really am wondering if Naito is gonna show up there so that he can be like, he has a company that has Okada, Ibushi, Takeshita, and Naito all in. [00:17:32] Speaker A: It just so he could say he could do it. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:17:37] Speaker C: He's an end. He's like a, you know, prime. Mid 2010s NJPW mark. I just. Yeah, like, it's. That's pretty much. That's one of the main places AEW came from. [00:17:47] Speaker B: That being really, like, one of the only periods of New Japan that, like, I watched or paid any attention to. [00:17:54] Speaker C: Yeah. I still follow, but it's. That's the prime. [00:17:58] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's, it's. It's cool being like, oh, hey, I know all these guys and I saw like, all the incredible stuff they did, you know, about 10 years ago. [00:18:10] Speaker C: So it's before all their bodies broke into pieces. [00:18:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Which came up in the following match quite a bit between. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:18:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Like a. A 32nd, like to a minute span. Ian Riccabani is basically like, yeah, you know, getting dropped on your neck's a problem. And, you know, necks are delicate, but Ibuchi's just worse. [00:18:39] Speaker C: Yeah. Takes a huge neck bump on the apron. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Oh, God. Yeah. Like, Commentary is like spending like the entire time just being like, Ibushi's held together with spit and prayers. This man is fragile. He's broke, broken. Oh, my God. It's not our fault. Whatever happens next. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Oh, by the way, so is Trent. [00:18:58] Speaker C: Yeah, it's true. They both just been fucked up for the last few years. [00:19:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, you forget about that. They definitely work. They definitely worked. Like, they been injured a lot recently. [00:19:09] Speaker C: But they made it. There was a desperation to it that I felt really, like, pulled together. [00:19:14] Speaker B: I wrote in my notes, I was like, I. I don't like those guys dropping each other on their necks, but God damn, do I love those guys dropping each other on their necks. [00:19:25] Speaker C: Yep. That was basically like the Ibushi Naito matches where it's just like, let's see if we can kill each other tonight. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:19:33] Speaker A: Like, remember those old All Japan matches from the 80s and 90s? Let's do worse than that. [00:19:38] Speaker C: But I feel that was the big theme of this match was like, let's show Ibushi can do this. Even if it's not quite to that level of like precision and speed that he used to be able to. He's closer to that than what he's ever been. And I think it succeeded. [00:19:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it. [00:19:55] Speaker A: Yeah, they had him. They had him. No, sell that German. [00:19:58] Speaker C: He had some funny facial expressions going when he did that like drop kick into the senton on the Trent and he just got like a very goofy look. I was like, that's my Ibushi right there. I missed you. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's my boy. [00:20:11] Speaker C: And Trent is a great guy for a match like that. He's that perfect like hand who can really like, you know, show up saying. [00:20:17] Speaker B: With him and Rocky of like, they can just kind of be whatever you need and like do it well and reliably. [00:20:28] Speaker A: I thought, I don't, I don't know how well it's going to work long term, but I thought they did a very good job of doing a slow paced match that gave you just enough. [00:20:39] Speaker C: What can he do? [00:20:40] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of thing. [00:20:42] Speaker C: He was hitting some like great near fall. Like those New Japan where it's like 2.999. Yeah. [00:20:48] Speaker B: The fire Pro. [00:20:49] Speaker A: Oh yeah. Oh God. That near fall. Absolutely no reason for that near fall to be in that match. [00:20:56] Speaker C: But he's showing out again. He's showing. I'm not the guy who fell apart in Noah. I'm not the one who's been just working like weird Japanese indies that kind of just not where he needed to be. Like they, I appreciate they waited till where he, he was at like the level of healthiness and ability that he could do it the way I'm sure he wants to. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Right. I'm glad that he had the patience to not come back too soon. [00:21:21] Speaker C: No, exactly. And he did his stuff on the, you know, smaller scale. So he's still out there. But I don't, I think they knew the aew, they didn't want to rush that. [00:21:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:29] Speaker C: And his abs look great. Those are back. [00:21:31] Speaker A: Yep. [00:21:32] Speaker B: Yeah. I think both him and Trent like physically. Trent. [00:21:39] Speaker C: Trent. Yeah. [00:21:40] Speaker B: The traps on that man are scary. [00:21:42] Speaker A: For, for how old is he? [00:21:44] Speaker C: Because like he's gotta be early 40s. Probably because he came up with like. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Taylor and keep guessing and I'll find out. [00:21:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I would say 41, 42, 43, 38. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Okay. [00:21:56] Speaker C: Yeah, me too. [00:21:57] Speaker A: He's 38. He's a year younger than me. [00:21:59] Speaker B: 39 Klu and nine years older than me. [00:22:03] Speaker C: You're the baby. [00:22:05] Speaker B: I am the perennial baby of this podcast network. [00:22:11] Speaker C: But no, he looks fantastic. Especially he loves seeing somebody be able to come back after an injury that. [00:22:16] Speaker B: Bad and recover physically and he takes the win against Trent here on that show and who comes out but Okada. [00:22:28] Speaker A: They'Re like really just going for it right away, huh? [00:22:32] Speaker B: Yeah, they're like Ibushi is here. And also it's dynamite 300 next week. And also it's Ibushi versus Okada next week. [00:22:41] Speaker A: What the fuck. [00:22:43] Speaker C: Yeah, gonna throw one of our biggest possible, you know, dream rematches together for you on a Wednesday night. [00:22:49] Speaker B: Yeah. So we picked a great time to start start talking about AEW apparently. [00:22:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Even like the collision that's on, you know, tonight while we're recording. This was pretty stacked. Like they. Yeah going all. They're going all out for all in. I need to get a little. But no, I do. As I say I think I'm hoping Okada is really going to show out for Ibushi next week too. Yeah, we all. There's big match Okada and there's like TV tour match Okada but I think with the history between him and Ibushi he's really going to pull like something to like that speedball match he had. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I hope so. Japanese wrestlers especially when they get really big like there's a reason why the tour schedule is nothing but tag matches because you want them to be saved. [00:23:47] Speaker C: For to go out, you know, do that 45 minute epic amazing and like what kind. [00:23:54] Speaker A: I I feel like that was kind of the theme for tonight is like all of the wrestlers who are in important matches we are putting in bubble wrap as much as possible so that we don't this up. [00:24:05] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a road. It is a road to show like in New Japan where it's like their little build up ones but they're really. Everything still worked very well. I found everything pretty much every match delivered for me. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:19] Speaker B: We get another promo in a random stairwell with Jon Moxley talking about his disdain for for Hangman Page and how afraid Hangman is and how sick he. [00:24:32] Speaker C: Makes Moxley about all about his potential and stuff like that. [00:24:37] Speaker B: I thought it was a really interesting and like uniquely kind of shot. I don't know if they were going for like this like back and forth between Moxley and himself with like the different camera angles. [00:24:52] Speaker C: Kind of alternate the side view in the front. Yeah, yeah. I thought that they'd look really good. [00:24:57] Speaker A: Yeah. It's Moxley doing his Terry Funk impression and he does it very well. Like, he's very, very. He's very good at this. I don't. I know a lot of people, like, just cannot stand Death Riders. [00:25:10] Speaker C: I think it's come together. [00:25:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it really has come together. [00:25:13] Speaker C: There was a period like at right after the Danielson betrayal and winning the bell. It was okay at first, and then it just really felt like it was spinning its wheels for its. For a while there. But they pulled some good stuff out the last couple weeks. [00:25:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd seen single any individual one of them come out to do something, you're just like, okay, this is gonna, this is gonna kick ass. And then like just the whole group of them kind of swarms in and, you know, just kind of on pins and needles, like, all right, what's gonna happen now? They're gonna do something which we will see later as they do just that. [00:25:48] Speaker A: Like they have the menace back. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:51] Speaker A: Like, they're kind of scary. They're scary again. It's not just like, here comes the run in. It's like, here comes the running and owner. [00:25:59] Speaker C: Here comes the death Rider. [00:26:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, they. They fit the name again. [00:26:05] Speaker C: Wheeler. You as hair though, is just kidding. [00:26:09] Speaker B: I w. I watched a. I watched episode maybe two or three weeks ago with my sister who is familiar with wrestling but hasn't kept up. And Wheeler Yuta comes out with Death Riders and she goes, who is that? And I'm like, it's Wheeler Yuta. And she's like, no, it's not. And I was like, yeah, yeah, it is. [00:26:31] Speaker C: It's true though. [00:26:33] Speaker B: He's got like a Ramones level, like bowl cut to him. [00:26:37] Speaker A: He's a. He's a literal Muppet. [00:26:39] Speaker C: Yeah, he's the shaggy dog is what I like those long haired dogs with the all down their face. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You're like, I don't. I haven't seen his. I haven't seen his eyes. [00:26:49] Speaker C: No, exactly, exactly. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Underneath he's just sad and crying at what he's done, but he can't express it to anybody because he's hidden behind this mask of hair. [00:27:03] Speaker A: And if he wasn't. If he wasn't there to be like the bitch boy of the group, it would be like, what's wrong with this guy? But like, he's there to just kind of be picked on. A lot of times he's young boy. [00:27:13] Speaker C: And it's still perfect. [00:27:14] Speaker A: This is perfect. [00:27:16] Speaker B: Oh, the Wheeler Yuta haircut face turn is. Well, the literal face turn is going to be amazing. [00:27:24] Speaker C: We can actually see your face turn. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:27] Speaker A: I feel like my grandmother yelling at him, like, oh, you should cut your hair. You have such beautiful eyes. Cut your hair. [00:27:37] Speaker B: After Jon Moxley's little speech, backstage interview between Renee and AR Fox, which immediately gets interrupted by Ricochet. [00:27:51] Speaker A: It's kind of like, holy. AR Fox is getting a promo. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Who proposes a team up against Speedball. Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight. AR agrees to this team up a little reluctantly, or rather Ricochet agrees for him. [00:28:11] Speaker C: Yeah. Which I love AR Fox, but I do sometimes where he gets pulled into this orbit of just being like the side act for these guys sometimes. Like, I don't know if he's ever really gonna get that soul push that I hope he does. [00:28:23] Speaker A: He really deserves it. I get that. He's not probably ever. I mean, he could become world champion. He never say. Never say never. That's what all the people say about wrestling. Like, he's perfect for like, tnt. [00:28:38] Speaker C: Give us some mid card stuff. [00:28:39] Speaker A: He literally has a great match with everyone. Like, he's. [00:28:42] Speaker B: He's your. [00:28:42] Speaker A: He's your workhorse. [00:28:44] Speaker C: Yeah. And he always. He's always over. He. People react great to him. [00:28:50] Speaker B: And he had a great match with. Teaming with Ricochet against Speedball and Kevin Knight, aka JetSpeed. I kept. I kept typing in my notes, Jet Stream. And I keep writing Jet Ball. Ricochet comes out and Taz makes a bald joke. Which is funny because Bald joke Jones over there doesn't really have any room to talk. [00:29:18] Speaker A: No. It's kind of like ball on ball, crying. That's not cool. I'm pretty sure people have pointed. What. What? [00:29:29] Speaker B: Do you have something to say about the bald jokes? [00:29:32] Speaker C: He's such a stupid bald motherfucker. [00:29:35] Speaker B: I love it. [00:29:35] Speaker C: So. [00:29:39] Speaker B: Okay, this is a perfect time to. To bring up on. I don't know if we are still doing it weekly on Monday night fake fights. But I still try and point them out. The sign of the week. [00:29:51] Speaker C: Oh, that's been dead for a while. But I definitely pull. Pull the ones that I can think of. [00:29:56] Speaker B: I still try and get them in there. [00:29:58] Speaker C: Good for you. [00:29:59] Speaker B: I propose for Wednesday night, fake fights. Name pending. The Taz of the week. [00:30:05] Speaker C: Hey. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Oh. [00:30:08] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I like it because there's always a Bobby Heenan line of the week. [00:30:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:14] Speaker C: Always is Always the best Bobby line. I already even have a Taz one for this week. [00:30:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:20] Speaker C: Without even thinking about this. We might have the same one. Oh, I got it. [00:30:23] Speaker B: We might. [00:30:24] Speaker C: I. I know, I know. That Taz is dead to me. So you might need to put. Yeah, no, no. So if you don't want me to go off on that right now, you should probably. But I digress. [00:30:39] Speaker B: Yes, we all digress. [00:30:41] Speaker A: Digression Jones. [00:30:46] Speaker B: Yeah. All four of these guys put on, I think, a solid. A solid little match. Can you believe it? That Ricochet left AR Fox hanging in the middle of this match. [00:31:00] Speaker A: I was shocked. I thought they had something. [00:31:02] Speaker B: The chemistry was there. And that Ricochet Shay guy is a real jerk. [00:31:10] Speaker A: He is a real doo doo head who's bald. I don't like him. [00:31:20] Speaker B: Left AR Fox to lose to. To Jet Ball and pretty, like, easily. [00:31:26] Speaker C: They weren't even getting beat that bad. He's just like, no, I'm done. [00:31:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I understand why. Yeah. [00:31:32] Speaker A: They were winning. Yeah. [00:31:34] Speaker B: But some miscommunications and some questionable chemistry apparently wasn't what Ricochet was looking for for his little band of thieves or whatever he's putting together. [00:31:45] Speaker A: It was a really interesting match. [00:31:47] Speaker C: It was fun. All four of them are really great. Just in ring, guys. I mean. [00:31:51] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know if I've seen an AR Fox match in a little while. I've been tepid on aew probably in the last year or so leading up to this. But hey, I'm watching every week now. [00:32:04] Speaker C: Yeah. He's usually more on, like, collision and stuff too. [00:32:07] Speaker B: Yeah. But, like, was really, you know, impressed by him as well. He did that, like, seated springboard, like, Spanish fly in the corner, which is. [00:32:17] Speaker C: The low main pain. [00:32:18] Speaker B: Okay. [00:32:19] Speaker C: It makes me hungry every time. [00:32:21] Speaker B: I didn't catch what they called it, but yeah, that ruled. [00:32:24] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. And he has this spot where, like, the guy's on the apron and he does this, like, run up flip over the ropes into a stomp and then launches into a senton off the guy on the apron. Yes. Gary Peel. God damn. That's all I got. You could do whatever you need to, I guess. Fine. Fuck it. Repeal. It's. [00:32:52] Speaker B: It's good, pal. [00:32:53] Speaker C: Oh, and I am such a fan of Kevin Knight's UFO Splash. Yeah, that thing is incredible looking every time, and especially this one, like, AR Fox was like three quarters of the way across the ring and he still. [00:33:08] Speaker B: Like, cleared that with ease and spinned in the middle of it. [00:33:12] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Like, he. He actually did the thing that guys have been Trying to do for years, which is try and one up the five star frog splash. [00:33:21] Speaker C: Yeah, It's a great variation. [00:33:23] Speaker A: And he kind of has done it. Yeah. [00:33:26] Speaker C: Yeah. They got. He has just unreal, you know, hops like just. I. Yeah. Nobody should be able to jump like that. [00:33:33] Speaker B: And those hops won Jet ball the match and got them a nice little talk with Tony Schiavone up on the ramp. They want to go after the tag champs at all in and said tag champs. Hurt syndicate come out and. [00:33:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:53] Speaker A: Beat the shit out of them. Beat the shit out of them. [00:33:59] Speaker C: Yeah. There wasn't even any, like, back and forth or anything. [00:34:01] Speaker A: They kind of had to. Because Knight was singing MVPs. Old WWE theme. [00:34:06] Speaker C: Yeah, that was a good long touch. [00:34:08] Speaker A: You gotta do that before the Lord. Yeah, before the. [00:34:10] Speaker C: Tony's in back and get him. [00:34:16] Speaker B: They bring a table out, which led to my Taz of the week, which he says, I'm thinking, that table's not for snacks. And a little meatloaf. [00:34:29] Speaker C: That's not mine. Mine's later. Okay. [00:34:31] Speaker B: Okay. I thought the little meatloaf was great. And then her syndicate put the little boys through the meat love table, which did look great. [00:34:42] Speaker C: I mean, putting was. I think they had Kevin on there. And then slammed into Kevin breaking it. Yeah. It looked devastating. [00:34:49] Speaker B: Whenever you hit a motherfucker with another motherfucker, it's always gonna. It's always gonna be cool. [00:34:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:55] Speaker C: And that, to me, that's like what Bobby Lashley is for. He is a monster. He's like. He should be tossing people around like toys because he can. [00:35:04] Speaker B: And those are the perfect guys to do that with. [00:35:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Yeah. That's been so much. That's why the Hurt Syndicate has kind of just been so much fun on their own. It's just like. They got like. They say they hurt people. They go in and then they hurt people. [00:35:18] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:35:19] Speaker C: It's right on the can. And they look great doing it. I mean, that's. I love the suits. I have my own opinions on the MJF aspect of their storyline, but as a whole, I'm very. And it's not. Not necessarily, like, bad, but I kind of go. I'm wishy washy on it. [00:35:36] Speaker B: I think. I think it's been all right. [00:35:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:41] Speaker B: I mean, it's always. [00:35:42] Speaker A: Parts are. [00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:43] Speaker A: Some things have been all right tonight. I don't think it was terribly all right, but it was. I don't know, because, I mean, I guess we can just talk about it because it's. This was actually a really cool like series of segments because they all sort of. [00:35:57] Speaker C: Yeah, that's like, when I'm looking through my notes, I don't really have any. Normally I try and like, break them up by match, by segment, but a lot of these mentally keeps going because they really just get. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Yeah, this, this one especially, like from the tag match into them getting beat up, into MJF announcing he's, you know, in a qualifying match for the upcoming Casino Gauntlet Battle Royale. Afterwards, tries to leave. Hits their music, but it's not their music that hits them. [00:36:27] Speaker C: Boys. [00:36:28] Speaker B: Reach for the sky. [00:36:31] Speaker C: And I love Mark Briscoe, but I feel like that envy. They could have stopped that, her syndicate segment right before he came out. It would have been perfect length. [00:36:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it, it, that was weird. That was weird to, to have Briscoe come out and, and interact and talk through all that. It just felt long and unnecessary. [00:36:56] Speaker A: I mean, I get. They want to give it. [00:36:57] Speaker B: Yes. Merrick. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:36:59] Speaker C: The word of the day is empathy. That was great. That was awesome. It was anti fascist. As I love the word of the weeks. [00:37:12] Speaker A: Here'S how I want to caveat this whole segment is that Mark Briscoe's a very good talker. [00:37:18] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:37:20] Speaker A: He's like the best TV wrestler for a guy who's only been doing it for like two or three years at this point. And like, he. I'm always happy to see him on tv and he cut a really, really, really good promo and he did the empathy thing. It's awesome to crowd it into it and then he has to like, talk about MJF's dick. [00:37:40] Speaker C: The thing. Okay, if I put the date back on, I'm wrong, but. Yeah, it just, it went on past where I needed to, though. It was funny seeing Bobby Lashley crack up at that. But, yeah, it just, it felt wildly unnecessary. [00:37:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:56] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like. It's like, okay, fine. Like, I'm not gonna get terribly upset if they're gonna, you know, say you have a small penis on tv. Like, whatever, but don't bit. But it's just like, that's not really. That's like. That's a very not Mark Briscoe kind of thing to say. Mark Briscoe is the kind of guy who's like, a man is gonna whip another. [00:38:16] Speaker C: It felt like an MJF bit for Mark Bris. [00:38:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it's held out of place. [00:38:22] Speaker C: Yeah. But I love Mark Briscoe so much. It'll obviously it'll get a pass. And it led into, you know. [00:38:28] Speaker B: Yeah, led right into the match. That he was coming out and ready for where they said he was going to lose against Bandito. Roderick Strong and Takeshita. [00:38:38] Speaker C: What a stacked four way, by the way. [00:38:41] Speaker A: Holy. Yeah. [00:38:42] Speaker B: What a great four way. [00:38:44] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, it was fantastic. I. I mean, that's not surprisingly. Look who's at in it. And it's just like, okay, there's no way this can't rule. Which I'm. I'm a huge Roderick Strong booster as much as I, you know, I don't think you should ever be, you know, world champ or anything, but. God, he's a great guy to have on your roster. [00:39:02] Speaker A: Roddy's awesome. [00:39:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:04] Speaker A: I mean, this was. This kicked ass. I confess I missed like the first half of it before the commercial break, but like the second half was when they took the gloves off. [00:39:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:16] Speaker C: And I guess Bandito is like the coolest looking wrestler, like with the all Black look. The man, his little hat. I love that. [00:39:26] Speaker B: I love his little hat. [00:39:27] Speaker C: It's fantastic. It's aura. [00:39:29] Speaker B: It really is. It really is. [00:39:31] Speaker C: Yeah. I say I saw him wrestle at a GCW show against Joey Janela. And just like, just like he. Yeah, he was out in the crowd. Yeah. For the two GCW shows, I watched Joey Janela wrestle bandido at one and commander at the other. For some reason, all my favorite lucha guys, I watch Russell, Joey Janela, take. [00:39:51] Speaker B: What you can get. [00:39:52] Speaker C: I guess they were fine. I'm not an anti Janela guy as much as some people. Yeah, he's got his thing now and it works for him. Yeah. Bandido. Just at the end of that match, he was literally walked through the crowd high fiving every. Like he's a guy who knows how to connect with people and like, it's what gets him over so well. Like, he is beloved. Those reactions he had in Mexico were crazy. [00:40:18] Speaker B: Yeah. The. The 42 Plex, as they called it from Takeshita, was rad. [00:40:26] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:40:27] Speaker C: He the best German suplex. [00:40:29] Speaker A: That was nuts. That was nuts. I can't wait for them to do Bandido versus Tesh. [00:40:35] Speaker C: Yeah. They announced it for. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's for Supercard for the title. [00:40:39] Speaker A: Oh, did. Yeah, they did. [00:40:40] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Just today. [00:40:41] Speaker A: Yes. [00:40:42] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, so many times when you see that, like double German suplex, like, it looks like one. You know, he's just kind of falling back. Takeshita, literally, it looked like he was lifting them. [00:40:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:52] Speaker C: Like, they did a side view of it and it just. It looked like it defied physics. [00:40:56] Speaker B: Mm. But despite hitting that, was not able to take it Home. And despite being told he wouldn't, Briscoe manages to. To win it, which I was cool. [00:41:10] Speaker C: I like that. And yeah, I don't think. [00:41:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's a good number one. [00:41:15] Speaker C: I don't think he's gonna win the casino gone, but he's exactly the kind of guy you want in a match like that from the start. It's that number one position in the rumble guy who is just gonna, like, carry this through the entire time, make sure the work rate keeps up. [00:41:28] Speaker B: Yep. I think this is my match of the night. For sure. [00:41:32] Speaker C: I would have to agree. [00:41:33] Speaker A: Yes. [00:41:34] Speaker B: Yeah. We have a quick open challenge offer from Adam Cole with an asterisk. It's an open challenge to anybody in the Don Callis family, which is like 19 people, so. [00:41:46] Speaker C: Yeah. But still cracked open challenge. It's not all the way. [00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Ends up being Josh Alexander, which I. I don't care. [00:41:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a solid. It's a collision match. I mean, it's. [00:42:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:01] Speaker A: I frequently feel like Adam Cole is, like, on a different wrestling show. [00:42:07] Speaker C: That's very accurate. [00:42:08] Speaker A: Yeah, like. Yeah, it's like he's like. He's just like. It's not like he's just mainly on collision. [00:42:14] Speaker C: Yeah, he's like, oh, it's Paragon and Adam Cole. [00:42:17] Speaker A: Sometimes he's. Yeah, the very good. [00:42:20] Speaker C: Exactly. By the way, I. I hate the name Paragon. I really. It's just. Does not click for me. It's so generic sounding. [00:42:29] Speaker A: It sounds huge. [00:42:30] Speaker C: Which honestly to me is not. No, I think they're do. They're still trying to get Adam Cole over as a white me baby face. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Which to me has never really worked, you know. [00:42:42] Speaker A: Yeah, he is at his. [00:42:45] Speaker C: Yeah, he's at his best as a dickish tweener, like, where he's just a smarmy. Yeah, he's popping people during matches, doing cool moves and stuff, but he's a dick. You still boo him when he. [00:42:57] Speaker A: Right. Like, he wants to be Shawn Michaels. Let him be Shawn Michaels. [00:43:01] Speaker C: And it's like, he's a very handsome guy. I'm sure he seems very likable. All the streaming and everything. I can see why the instinct is to try him as a face, but they've been doing it for years, and nothing compares to, like, that 2018, 2019 undisputed era in, you know, NXT, where, yeah, he was, you know, getting over, but mostly he was just an. To everybody. [00:43:22] Speaker A: People just really like chanting, oh, let him do that. [00:43:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:26] Speaker A: Wrestling promoters are just gonna have to Deal with it. [00:43:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, you can. Yeah, you can. You can still say boom. And champ, baby, and have him in heel like. [00:43:34] Speaker C: You can do the New Age Outlaws intro along with them and then still boom when Road Dog humps. [00:43:39] Speaker B: Exactly. Exactly. As everybody should. [00:43:44] Speaker C: Everybody should boo Rio Dog every chance they can. [00:43:48] Speaker B: Yes. [00:43:49] Speaker A: This is a very biased podcast in case anybody had any. [00:43:55] Speaker C: Yeah, this is where we land on the political spectrum of wrestling. I think we can establish we have. [00:44:01] Speaker B: A pivotal political spectrum in general. [00:44:04] Speaker C: Yes, very true. [00:44:06] Speaker B: But after that Fatal four way, we have yet another one between Kris Statlander, Athena, Willow Nightingale, and Thunder Rosa. I have not seen Athena in a long time. [00:44:20] Speaker C: Yeah, she's. I mean, she runs an roh. [00:44:23] Speaker B: That's what I've gathered. [00:44:26] Speaker C: Yeah, she was. And she was in the Owen. [00:44:28] Speaker A: What title? [00:44:30] Speaker C: Yeah, she did the Owen tournament. [00:44:31] Speaker A: Yeah, she was in the Owen. That's right. She was on Dynamite five. [00:44:36] Speaker C: No, three is next week. [00:44:37] Speaker A: Yeah, the fifth year. The fifth year anniversary. [00:44:39] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. They've had every other Dynamite is like a. Named Special Dynamite. [00:44:43] Speaker B: Yeah. It's so hard to keep up with. [00:44:45] Speaker C: Yeah. It's Summer Blockbuster into Beach Break into Grand Slam Mexico, which, you know, it's cool. I appreciate them trying to differentiate and make them special and stuff like that. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Well, we're gonna. We're gonna break it down and make sense of it here. [00:44:57] Speaker A: We're gonna. [00:44:58] Speaker B: We're gonna. [00:44:58] Speaker A: We're gonna. [00:44:59] Speaker C: We're gonna. [00:45:01] Speaker B: Thank you for. For curbing expectations. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Temper expectations. [00:45:09] Speaker C: This match is where my Taz moment of the week came in, where they're trying to encourage Ian Riccabani to. Well, not encourage. They're trying. They yell at Ian Riccabani for trying to rap over Willow Nightingale's entrance. [00:45:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:45:22] Speaker C: Which called back to them like, it was like two or three years ago on Dynamite. Excalibur and Taz got into it talking about how much they hated Riccabonti's rapping. You know, all in good fun, obviously. So it was nice seeing that, like, called back over. And Taz and Riccabani, to me, have great chemistry. There's this. That goofy nice guy and the guy who gets pissed at him. [00:45:42] Speaker B: I think the whole table works really well together. [00:45:47] Speaker C: Yep. I love Tony Schiavone, but it's been nice to mix it up. [00:45:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:51] Speaker A: Yeah. I guess they want to save Tony's voice as much as possible because he is getting up there. [00:45:57] Speaker C: Well, what I heard is when they're doing double tapings like this where it's stuffed together, then they have Ian come in so Tony can just kind of focus on interviews like he's. And rest, you know, that's. Exert himself as much. I'm always happy to hear Ian Rukh. Bonnie. He's not. He might be my favorite play by play guy in wrestling. [00:46:14] Speaker A: He's been really good. I'm glad that they've been able to get him on more frequently. I know there was like a period where he had said that, like he's just not able to be on the road. [00:46:25] Speaker C: Yeah. So he wants to spend time with his kids like during the week. He wants to be there for his kids while they're in school and stuff. [00:46:31] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:46:32] Speaker A: He's like in local government in his county. [00:46:35] Speaker C: He's on a school board in Pennsylvania. [00:46:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:38] Speaker C: Like I follow him on Blue sky and he seems just like a very genuinely decent human being. Yep. You like to see that. [00:46:46] Speaker A: That was actually my. It wasn't really a Taz ism of the week, but it was when he and Ian got into it about how many. [00:46:54] Speaker C: That was so funny. [00:46:57] Speaker A: We're just arguing about the number of kids. Counties. [00:46:59] Speaker C: Well, when Ian actually had said how many there were in Pennsylvania. Task goes 65. Yeah. Yeah. T just goes. Oh, that killed me. [00:47:09] Speaker B: Which I didn't realize we had that many counties here. I knew we had a lot. I just forget how. Yeah, yeah, gotcha. I forget how much north there is for the rest of that. [00:47:20] Speaker C: It's big country up there. [00:47:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:24] Speaker C: Lots of trees. [00:47:25] Speaker B: I'm in the southern part of Pennsylvania. I forget that the rest of Pennsylvan out there sometimes. [00:47:31] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:47:32] Speaker A: Well, then you have Pittsburgh as well. [00:47:34] Speaker B: Yes, yes, yes. That's. That's the. The left. Most of the. Of the points. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Philly West. [00:47:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:47:41] Speaker A: Somebody will. Somebody will kill me. [00:47:44] Speaker C: This podcast get canceled before it starts. Come on. [00:47:49] Speaker B: We had a good run. [00:47:52] Speaker C: We didn't even get to the final match. [00:48:02] Speaker B: But I thought this was another. Another good four way match. [00:48:07] Speaker C: Yeah. Good people in it. I mean, you really can't go wrong with Willow Nightingale. She's pure entertainment. And to me, I. You know, again, I. Going back to how I said I have a lot of hyperbole, but I think Athena's might be the best women's wrestler in the company. Like just in terms of what she can do in the ring. [00:48:26] Speaker A: In ring. [00:48:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:27] Speaker A: I would agree. [00:48:28] Speaker C: Yep. And Thunder Rosa was there, trying to. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Think if anybody comes close. And Thunder Rosa was there. Thunder Rosa. [00:48:34] Speaker B: I like Thunder Rosa. [00:48:35] Speaker C: I like Thunder Rosa. Yes. I think. [00:48:38] Speaker A: I think she's like a little bit upper mid card. Yeah. I don't want to say, like, she's bad, but, like, she's kind of like, well, I was. [00:48:49] Speaker C: Even in this match, there were a couple awkward moments and, like, weird little exchanges that seem to happen usually with her involved. But I do, I think she's an entertaining character and she's good, don't get me wrong. But I almost just felt she was a little over, you know, overshadowed by the other three in this match. [00:49:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I've noticed at least in matches like this, she kind of like goes a little bit too fast sometimes. [00:49:14] Speaker C: No. Yeah. Like, there was one bit with her and Athena where they, like, it seemed like they missed like an arm drag or something. They recovered from it. You know, it's live. Pro wrestling. Stuff is going to happen no matter what. It's not an indictment of somebody's entire ability. I wasn't trying to be negative. I promise. [00:49:30] Speaker A: I'm definitely not going to knock anybody. [00:49:32] Speaker C: No, it was still a very, very. [00:49:33] Speaker A: Oh, you screwed up at wrestling. Yeah, says the person that, you know, sits on their ass. [00:49:40] Speaker C: It's like when I'm watching cookie shows, eating ramen, being like, you messed up the Bashamel. [00:49:46] Speaker A: Oh, my God, you didn't. Julianne, the potatoes. [00:49:50] Speaker C: We're gonna pour some time in this. [00:49:51] Speaker A: Now, you complete moron. [00:49:55] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. I'm just, you know, I'm nitpicking. You know, I'm trying to look at the matches critically and those were little bits I noticed. But I'm still, I'm very Pro Thunder. [00:50:05] Speaker A: I think it's. Honestly, honestly, I think it's a little bit fair to kind of look at stuff like that because AEW is such an in ring heavy promotion. [00:50:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:13] Speaker A: It's trying to be just like, oh, they had a little bit of a. They had a little bit of a thing. [00:50:17] Speaker C: And not everything's going to be 10 out of 10. I mean, there's stuff that's going to pop up that we're going to have to be critical of as much as we, you know, like I said, I love the company, but. [00:50:27] Speaker A: And I mean, like, seriously, we've been, we've been watching 90s. [00:50:31] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:50:31] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, everything's a tree compared to that. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Like, you think that's like, it's like, oh, that was the worst match I've ever seen. Really? Have you fucking seen Isaac Yankin wrestling? Yeah, exactly. Have you seen the 80th version of the nasty boys versus public enemy? Have you? No. Shut the fuck up. [00:50:50] Speaker B: Seeing that tag match that opened the show and, like, just how how much more there was to it and how much like, more room there was to breathe in it as opposed to like Fire and Ice versus the Steiners. As a tag match was. [00:51:11] Speaker A: It was like, like the opening tag match was very condensed. It wasn't very long, but it did a lot. They did a lot in it. [00:51:21] Speaker C: Yeah. We're living in. We are in a very golden age for this kind of stuff, which is wrestling. [00:51:28] Speaker A: We are spoiled absolutely what we are with a. [00:51:31] Speaker C: Like I said, that's why it's nitpicking. But it's stuff that I'm gonna notice. [00:51:35] Speaker A: It is a first world problem. If a TV match gets three and a half stars. [00:51:39] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:51:42] Speaker B: Would you give this match three and a half stars? [00:51:43] Speaker C: I think that's about fair. [00:51:45] Speaker A: Would I give this match. I think I would not give it any stars. I don't do stuff. [00:51:50] Speaker C: Okay. [00:51:50] Speaker B: All right. [00:51:51] Speaker C: I'd give it three and a half galaxies. [00:51:53] Speaker B: Whoa. That's a lot of stars. [00:51:56] Speaker C: It is. Add them up. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Statlander wins this one. Which it was a. I think it was. The finish was on Willow Nightingale. [00:52:08] Speaker C: Well, and it's. It was Death Rider stuff going back. [00:52:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:13] Speaker C: Yeah. Yoda took that bounce, but Judah took that bounce. Great. That was amazing. [00:52:19] Speaker A: Yuta knows his job so well. He's like, I have to go look like the biggest dork on the plane. Oh, he pulls it out and get launched by this pounce. [00:52:28] Speaker C: And I'm liking the. The Chris Death writers little story they got going. Death Lander, Deathlander as they. I've heard rumor that Shayna's Baszler is probably coming aboard again. You know, random Internet talk where it's all kind of going to be leading towards Willow and stat versus Shayna and Marina. Which of ex WWE people coming over. Shayna would be high on my list of ones I'd be cool with. I've been a big booster of her for a long time. [00:53:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And I think she would fit kind of right in there with. [00:53:03] Speaker C: And if they are doing the women's tag stuff they've been talking about, they apparently have belts at the ready. They just haven't used them yet. Her and Marina would be a solid unit. [00:53:12] Speaker B: Yeah, There you go. But going from the women's match to the patriarchy. Did Christian. Did Christian adopt that boy? [00:53:25] Speaker A: Yeah, he's his dad. What are you talking about? [00:53:27] Speaker B: Okay. I missed that episode. [00:53:31] Speaker A: No, that happened. [00:53:31] Speaker C: Yeah. Biological. [00:53:33] Speaker B: Good. [00:53:34] Speaker C: You can see the resemblance. Yeah. [00:53:36] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, now that you mention it, I can. [00:53:40] Speaker C: Nobody. Nobody gave birth to Kip Sabian, though. He just appeared. [00:53:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:46] Speaker C: He just kind of came out of the mist. [00:53:48] Speaker B: He just kind of spawns like. [00:53:51] Speaker A: No, I think Kip Sabian is like a cyberpunk test tube. Like, I. I can't. I'm just saying, like, I can't remember any time I've seen his belly button. And that's usually the sign somebody's in that room. [00:54:07] Speaker B: There's a closet full of them in the back that, like, if he gets hurt, they just take it. They send the ninth one out and. [00:54:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that's why he wore that bag all those times. [00:54:17] Speaker C: That was reconstructed. [00:54:19] Speaker B: That was one of the ones that didn't quite turn out right. [00:54:24] Speaker A: It was like. It was like it was the beta. [00:54:27] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. The clones. It was a close slog. Yeah. Halfway there. But I do. I'm. I'm a patriarchy fan. I love Christian. [00:54:40] Speaker A: Can't be a patriarchy podcast. What are you talking about? [00:54:45] Speaker C: All right. I'm a fan of Mama Wayne only. [00:54:48] Speaker B: That's better. [00:54:50] Speaker A: And Kip, I do, as a heel stable. I do like the pitch. [00:54:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:56] Speaker A: And I do. [00:54:57] Speaker C: They do their job. They have their role. [00:54:59] Speaker A: Find another fatherless child soon, I think, because it's been a long time. [00:55:03] Speaker B: Maybe he'll adopt. [00:55:04] Speaker A: He's like pointed out. It's like, hey, hey, did you know that your father's dead? [00:55:09] Speaker C: I think, I think the move is he's gonna finish this story out with Nick, have Nick turn face, and then I imagine he's gonna reunite with Copeland or Edge. Whatever you want. Cope, I don't know anymore because that's gotta be the end game with those two. You don't have them back without having one more kagra and let them be heels. Edge is a great heel. Cope is a great heel. Edit however you want, but I really thought they. [00:55:35] Speaker A: They'd turn them face and then do FTR versus emc. [00:55:39] Speaker C: Yeah. I could have seen that. [00:55:42] Speaker A: Like, that would be. That would be a perfect all in match. But I guess that's not. [00:55:46] Speaker C: I feel like Baby Face Cope is starting to run as, like, we're a little thin at this point. Like, it's been a great run. I really, I genuinely have enjoyed coping AEW quite a bit, but I just feel like that magic of him. Yeah. Coming over and have everyone behind him, it's just not there anymore. Yeah. Let him be a dick with Christian, who's amazing as a heel. [00:56:09] Speaker B: Yeah. But speaking of ftr, they have a little promo with big Stoke there alongside them. When did that happen? [00:56:20] Speaker C: It was a month ago. Maybe Stoke. [00:56:23] Speaker B: Okay. [00:56:24] Speaker A: That was. Stoke joined them at. [00:56:29] Speaker C: Was it at the heel tournament, shortly after the heel turn. [00:56:33] Speaker A: I think it was after the heel turn. I can't remember if he was on that show or not. When they turned on Copeland. [00:56:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:39] Speaker A: But he's been. They've been killing it. [00:56:42] Speaker C: It's a lot of fun. It's what FDR needed. I mean, so, like, a hundred percent, like, that's another one where that face run was just getting it. The shine was off of it, and they knew when to turn and they did it in the exact right way. [00:56:57] Speaker A: Yep. [00:56:57] Speaker B: And then I think stoke fits right in there and is a great mouthpiece in general, but for them as well. [00:57:06] Speaker C: I'm always happy for more. Stokely Hathaway, too. I think he's one of the most entertaining men in wrestling. [00:57:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:11] Speaker A: Just keep him on TV as long as possible. [00:57:13] Speaker C: Y. [00:57:14] Speaker B: Whatever he is doing every second, have. [00:57:16] Speaker C: Him in the background. Like. [00:57:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:18] Speaker B: He didn't even have to talk. Just let him emote. [00:57:21] Speaker C: I am a little tired of FTR versus the outrunners at this point, though. I feel like that's running its course a little bit. [00:57:28] Speaker A: This is gonna be heresy. But, like, I'm really not that into the outrunners. Cool. Fine. But it's like, there's. [00:57:35] Speaker C: They're. [00:57:36] Speaker A: The gimmicks only got so. Got so. Got so much. [00:57:39] Speaker C: Yeah. The legs aren't legs there. Yeah, exactly. They're fine. [00:57:43] Speaker A: Like, they got absolutely. They got absolutely killed by the Hurt Syndicate on pay per view. Like, that kind of, like, establishes where they are. [00:57:49] Speaker C: They should be the face level of Blake Christian and Lee Johnson. They going out putting on good little matches, putting over higher people up in the card. Like, you don't need them having competitive stuff with ftr who are legit, like, you know, the cornerstones of AEW Tag team wrestling. [00:58:08] Speaker B: Yep. [00:58:08] Speaker A: Like, pop the crowd. Make him happy. [00:58:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:12] Speaker A: But, like, I don't. I don't need to see him at, like, you know, on pay per view. [00:58:15] Speaker C: Exactly. Yeah. Just unnecessary. [00:58:18] Speaker B: But what was necessary. Main event of the evening. Hangman v. Mortos was so happy when this was announced. [00:58:25] Speaker C: Yeah. Two of my favorites. [00:58:28] Speaker B: I don't. I think I've maybe seen Mordos in one or two things here or there, but I've never, like, sat and watched a match. Yo, that guy, like, I. Yes, yes. [00:58:41] Speaker C: Out of this world. [00:58:42] Speaker B: Yes, yes. I. I just. Just my notes. Yo, Mordos can move. And his size is kind of funny. [00:58:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:54] Speaker B: Like. [00:58:54] Speaker C: Yeah. For having. For being a masked bull character. He's very emotes. Yeah. You. [00:59:00] Speaker A: You've missed the. If you if you think he was had moments in this match, you missed his whole like, romance with Harley Cameron. Yeah. [00:59:08] Speaker C: And Frank. Yeah. Frank Mordos, attorney at law with the disputed kingdom. [00:59:14] Speaker B: That's amazing. [00:59:15] Speaker A: He is a lawyer. [00:59:16] Speaker C: Yeah, he is actually. He's a shoot lawyer. He just passed his exam. Yeah. Yeah, he. I actually, I. When I was in Las Vegas for WrestleMania weekend, I went to the Deadlock show down there and he went. He was walking in and went to the wrong entrance. He went to like the entrance where all people were. And without a map. He is incredibly handsome. That is like a dude. [00:59:40] Speaker B: I can believe that this man posts. [00:59:43] Speaker A: Thirst traps on like Instagram. His fucking face blurred out. [00:59:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:48] Speaker B: It's just good for him. [00:59:49] Speaker A: Cut me off a piece of that. [00:59:50] Speaker C: Good for him. But I mean, and like all the success he's getting is because he is incredible too. He is genuinely like one of the best wrestlers. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And like the match that, that they had, like, I just like a. A slew of spots in a row that like, I just wrote down with increasing question marks where it's just like, you've got a huge ass moonsault that whiffs from. From Hangman into that body spin. [01:00:16] Speaker C: Planchet the tornado. He has that spinning tornado. Yeah. No sense. I love that spin. [01:00:22] Speaker B: Yes. [01:00:22] Speaker C: It's. [01:00:23] Speaker B: It's. It's like Osprey's flash kick. Somebody shouldn't be able to move like that. [01:00:29] Speaker C: It does. Yeah. So it's a cheat code. [01:00:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:32] Speaker C: And I. I could watch Beast Morto's headbutt people all day. Like, it gets every time. It's such a satisfying sound. He delivers it like out of nowhere. It just looks fantastic. And you know, not to sell Hangman Shore. He was very much carrying his item. [01:00:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Like, there's. You got like the popup Samoan. You've got that tombstone roll up. You've got the Poison Rana from Hanger. [01:00:54] Speaker C: You've got pulling that poison. Ran out. [01:00:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:58] Speaker C: You went to Mexico. He's like, I'm doing it. [01:01:00] Speaker B: Uhhuh. [01:01:01] Speaker C: That's. [01:01:02] Speaker A: That's a move that Hangman does a lot. And I'm just like, why do you do that? Like, it's cool. Like, a poison run is cool. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. [01:01:11] Speaker B: You answered your question. [01:01:12] Speaker A: It's cool, right? I'm not gonna do the 2010 things. Like the, like, people hated the Poison Rana like in like 2015, 2019. Like, oh, why would you. Do you have an opinion on the Poison Ra team? [01:01:28] Speaker C: Who the people are. I wasn't watching in 2015. Why would anyone hate the poison? Rana, I don't get it. It was just people who hate spots stuff. It was the same people who hated the. The young bucks doing super kicks over and over again. [01:01:42] Speaker A: It kind of. It kind of like people who hate psychology sense. It's weird and kind of doesn't make sense. But it looks so cool. Like. [01:01:48] Speaker C: No, those lack whimsy. Okay, that's fine. Tape me. That's all I got. It was. It was. It was the killing the business people. Okay. Okay. Sorry, that was a little deep. Hold back. Thanks. Okay. There we go. Yeah, No, I thought it was a very fun match, those two. We finally got cowboy versus bull, which, you know, thematically fantastic. [01:02:11] Speaker B: Oh, I even think about that. [01:02:13] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't think of that. [01:02:14] Speaker C: Yeah, Y natural right there. Yeah, they didn't. They did not do a branding spot, which, you know, opportunities were missed. [01:02:20] Speaker A: But still, he didn't do a castration spot either. [01:02:24] Speaker C: Some opportunities were not missed. [01:02:26] Speaker B: Well, save it for next time. [01:02:29] Speaker C: Yeah, they gotta save something for the pay per view. [01:02:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Gotta start for the pay per view. Oh, my God. What's he doing with that strip of. [01:02:36] Speaker C: Morto's testicles on a pole. Match allowed. Oh. [01:02:44] Speaker B: Bro, I got a. I got an awesome idea, bro. We're gonna put them up there and they're gonna hang down like the back of a truck. [01:02:52] Speaker C: Security guess. You're so out of here. [01:02:55] Speaker A: We're gonna cauterize his balls on. [01:03:00] Speaker B: Sign me up. [01:03:02] Speaker C: That was way too good of a Vince for yourself. The hanger gets the win like he should have. [01:03:11] Speaker B: Yep. Buckshot takes it home as usual. 1, 2, 3. He wins. Lights drop. Who could it be? The bucks got him. [01:03:24] Speaker C: Yeah. Our founding fathers. [01:03:25] Speaker B: Out of nowhere, EVP Trigger for the second, third, fourth, fifth. I've lost track. Death Riders come out. [01:03:33] Speaker C: Yeah, somebody's got to come out of the crowd over and over again. [01:03:36] Speaker B: Yeah, why not make it them? [01:03:38] Speaker A: This is only the second appearance. I mean. [01:03:45] Speaker C: Yeah, that was bad. Yeah, that was bad. That's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. [01:03:48] Speaker B: Two and a half. [01:03:49] Speaker A: Then it was in Mox's stairwell. [01:03:51] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. His cave. Yeah, they go all at him, choke. [01:03:56] Speaker B: The out of him. [01:03:57] Speaker C: Yep. Get that. [01:03:59] Speaker A: God, they took the shit out of him. [01:04:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I know it's. I know it's a work kayfabe, pal, but man, they choked him for a long ass time. [01:04:08] Speaker C: Yeah. And Hangman sold it great. I mean, he looked like he was dead. [01:04:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Mox having like the chain wrapped around like under his foot and then just pulling on it. Like, just look nasty. [01:04:21] Speaker C: That's. You know, Max always looks dangerous. Yeah, he always looks like. It's like, okay, this is playing good. This is kind of up. [01:04:30] Speaker A: I saw somebody point out that this was how Hanger beat him in the Texas Death match. Was. [01:04:35] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. He choked him with the chain. Yeah. Callbacks Tony Khan. You son of a. [01:04:43] Speaker B: This wrestling thing has layers, layers on layers. [01:04:47] Speaker C: But no, that's one thing. I. I'm think this is a great, you know, main event for all and probably main event, world title match. There's the history between them. I mean, their last big match was a Texas death match, and now they're kind of, you know, quote unquote, finishing the story in Texas. [01:05:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:05] Speaker C: Yeah. And Cody's gonna run out and save everybody. [01:05:08] Speaker A: My head would explode. [01:05:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:11] Speaker C: Just rises up in the throne. The American. [01:05:13] Speaker A: I'd probably boo. That's what I would do. [01:05:17] Speaker B: He did not. He did not come out to save him tonight, though. That was the Ops. [01:05:24] Speaker C: Yep. [01:05:25] Speaker B: Who come out. [01:05:25] Speaker C: I'm always happy to see them. [01:05:26] Speaker B: And Death Riders and Buck's Powder Osprey comes out. [01:05:32] Speaker C: And to my point earlier, no Swerve because he was suspended. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't. I didn't even think about that. [01:05:39] Speaker A: Explain why I took. It doesn't explain how it took Osprey so long to get out there, though. [01:05:43] Speaker C: He was constantly changing his clothes in the back. Yeah. Every time he's in the back, he's changing in and out of clothes. It's just an Osprey thing he does. [01:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah, he'd, like. He'd, like, showered and was, like, getting dressed again. And then. Ah, Hangman's in trouble. [01:05:55] Speaker C: Got a. Okay, get the boots. Come on. But I mean, I do love this alliance. Top of the card faces of Hangman. Swerve, Osprey. It's cool seeing them all come together. The Ops are great for kind of rounding it out. There's no time. I don't want to see Samoa. [01:06:13] Speaker B: Yeah, those. Those are just three. Three scary dudes. And putting them all together on paper, I don't think makes sense. And then you see the three work and you're just like, yeah. [01:06:27] Speaker A: Oh, no, they're really. [01:06:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I get it. [01:06:29] Speaker C: Yeah. It's one of those. Like, two or three years ago, if you told me that was a faction, I'd be like, oh, okay. But now, like, oh, I see. I'm just like, yeah, those are the Ops. [01:06:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [01:06:40] Speaker A: The one I would never believe is Shibata, because it's just like. [01:06:43] Speaker C: But he's like, the Best. I mean, he just. He fits in. He's so cool. [01:06:47] Speaker A: He's awesome. No, yeah, he's. He's like, really just like the silent guy who goes in. [01:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:52] Speaker C: Yeah. I really like those. The vignettes they used to do with when Hook was still somewhere. But, you know, with Shibata filming and Hook and Samoa Joe going backstage to attack people and just riffing like it was Pulp Fiction. [01:07:05] Speaker B: Did they do anything? Speaking of Hook, was there anything because he came out at the last pay per view and, like. [01:07:15] Speaker C: Yeah, but then they teased dissension where it was like Samoa Joe, like, went for, like, a hug or handshake, and Hook, like, shrugged at him and walked away. [01:07:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:23] Speaker C: Has. [01:07:24] Speaker B: Have they touched on that anymore since? I don't remember. [01:07:28] Speaker C: I. I think he's. Hook's doing an acting job right now. [01:07:31] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. [01:07:34] Speaker C: So I imagine the plan is when he comes back, actually turn him heel and have him probably go against Joe. Maybe have Joe put him over to try and, like, you know, build up that new star. That'll be fun, because I like book, but it. Something needs to be done with them. They're gonna get above that level. He is. [01:07:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:51] Speaker A: I mean, being with Joe has definitely helped him, like. [01:07:53] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:07:53] Speaker A: He seemed to, like. He. He hit, like, another level when they did Hook versus Joe for the. [01:07:58] Speaker C: That was a great one. Yeah, that was a genuine. That might be my favorite Hook match. Probably. He just needs to get back with Action Bronson. [01:08:06] Speaker A: Absolutely. No, Absolutely. [01:08:08] Speaker C: We need more rappers back in. Aw. Get Rick Ross back out there swearing every night. Speaking of swearing. Yes. Garrett. Housing. Okay. All right. I'm fine. I'm fine. Fine. [01:08:24] Speaker B: No swearing. [01:08:25] Speaker C: All right. Dan housing. Viper housing. [01:08:27] Speaker B: Pip housing. Yes. Thank you. And that's it. [01:08:32] Speaker C: That's not a mine that gets us to the end of the show. I thought. [01:08:36] Speaker A: Wait, wait, hold on, hold on. I want to bring up one thing. I want to bring up one thing, because apparently they post this on Twitter and they don't post it on Blue sky, but, like, people bring it over from police Guy, but they did an after show promo where they. They were helping hanger to the back afterwards, and he's like, all past that, breathing heavy, and he grabs a roll on the collar. He's like, he's gonna have to kill me. [01:08:59] Speaker B: I like that. [01:09:00] Speaker A: So I think they're doing. I. I think they're doing Texas Death for All In. [01:09:04] Speaker C: That's. I think they should. [01:09:06] Speaker A: I. [01:09:06] Speaker C: For it's Texas and it's those two guys. Even if they've already done A Texas Death match. Run it back. Yeah, it's, you know, also apparently say. [01:09:14] Speaker A: You have to kill. [01:09:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. You can't do a single fall three count finish with that. [01:09:20] Speaker B: Nope. [01:09:20] Speaker C: And also there's going to be interference. The ops are going to be involved. Bryan Danielson's going to run out and do a psycho knee. Like. Yeah, why not just let it be a free for all. [01:09:29] Speaker A: Bryan Danielson will run out, do a bu. Psycho knee and then lay on the mat twitching. [01:09:35] Speaker C: Yeah. Sell a seizure for the next hour. [01:09:37] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:09:38] Speaker C: Oh, I was gonna say, I guess actually at the end of the collision taping, they did a Max Caster open challenge and Bryan Danielson came out and Adam Cole super kicked Max and then Danielson tapped him out with the yes lock. So there's still. [01:09:54] Speaker A: He's hanging around. [01:09:55] Speaker C: Yeah, he. [01:10:00] Speaker A: Yep, yep. He helped Blue Panther out. [01:10:02] Speaker C: Yeah. There. [01:10:03] Speaker A: That was just on. [01:10:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. That was the RO Tonight, I think. [01:10:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:08] Speaker C: Y. [01:10:09] Speaker B: And what a better place to announce a Texas Death match than Dynamite 300 next week is that gonna be. Did they say if there's any like extended three hour special banana or anything? [01:10:23] Speaker C: I think it's. I think it's a standard two hour Dynamite, which means it's going to go for two hours and ten minutes. [01:10:28] Speaker B: Okay, perfect. I can do. [01:10:30] Speaker A: Yeah, that'll definitely have an overrun. [01:10:31] Speaker C: It has been. Every show is an overrun now. I can't remember the last one that actually ended at 10 o' clock. [01:10:38] Speaker A: I'm gonna admit to being a bad fan. I did not watch a 24 hour. [01:10:43] Speaker C: I was. [01:10:45] Speaker B: That's a lot. That's a lot. [01:10:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:10:47] Speaker A: I'm an EP girl. [01:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah. But if they do another one, I. [01:10:52] Speaker C: Have work in the morning. [01:10:53] Speaker A: Oh, God. If they do another one, we're gonna be obligated. [01:10:55] Speaker B: Absolutely. And we will watch it and we will do it because that is what we are here for at Wednesday night Fake Fights. That new yes. [01:11:04] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:11:05] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:11:07] Speaker C: What a blast. [01:11:08] Speaker A: I guess that's. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:09] Speaker C: Any just final thoughts on the episode? I mean, overall, very. Oh, yeah. Pleasant. [01:11:14] Speaker A: I did, I did. I did tease on Blue sky that this was the only way you would find out what I thought about the show. [01:11:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:11:19] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Please tell the people I teased it. [01:11:22] Speaker C: That's how we build interest. So. [01:11:23] Speaker A: I know, I know, I know. Everybody was waiting on bated breath for this, but it was all right. [01:11:32] Speaker C: All right now. [01:11:33] Speaker A: I was like, all right. So, like, like to get like deeper into it. It was like. It was a solid story. Building Dynamite. I don't think it had any like, really blow away matches necessarily. But it set the stage for next week. You got. Mercedes and Mina are wrestling for the TBS title. You got. And they. So it was. It was pretty good. And like, again, like I said, like, they're trying to, like, keep everybody in bubble wrap. Yeah. Nothing. None of their big matches get messed up. So, like, it. That kind of felt like it was the case on the show, but it did not suffer for it. [01:12:12] Speaker C: No, indeed. Yeah. It felt like a good building show. Nice little road, too. Kept all the stories moving, added stakes. Yeah. Nothing offensively bad like. No Jericho. [01:12:21] Speaker A: Last week was the work. Last week was the work. Rachel. [01:12:24] Speaker B: Like, this was aside from a promo too long here and there. I think it was. [01:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:31] Speaker B: A pretty well paced. A well paced episode. [01:12:35] Speaker C: Yeah. Little. Little flubs, but you really. Nothing to hurt the enjoyment. [01:12:39] Speaker B: No. At all. [01:12:41] Speaker C: Yep. 7.5 stars out of a billion. [01:12:46] Speaker B: That's really bad. [01:12:48] Speaker C: Yeah, that's really low. No, take that back. [01:12:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that's terrible. [01:12:50] Speaker C: All right, reverse that. [01:12:52] Speaker A: Worst Dynamite. [01:12:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll figure out. We'll figure out ours. [01:12:56] Speaker C: It was upper mid. Upper mid rate. Yeah, we got it. Still hash that. [01:13:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Episode two. We're gonna have it nailed. Don't even worry about it. Tune into that next week for Dynamite 300. Tune into Monday night Fake fights for the old and Garrick. Do you want to. Do you want to say something nice about it before I trash it? [01:13:22] Speaker C: You want to be unpeeled real quick? Nwo, brother. New World Order. It's happening. Get in, get on. Whether you like it or you don't. [01:13:32] Speaker A: Oh, hey, New World Organization. [01:13:34] Speaker C: Okay, well, you know, they didn't get it right in the first episode either, so it's okay. And on that note, I'm just so proud of my horse, people. And Jeff. [01:13:52] Speaker A: All right, put the tape back on. Put the tape back on. [01:13:53] Speaker C: How many? You're going down. [01:13:55] Speaker A: Sentimental crap is gonna make me puke. He's got up. [01:13:59] Speaker C: He's gonna puke. That's a good closing note. [01:14:04] Speaker B: We hope this episode didn't make you puke. Thank you, everybody.

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