WNFF: George C. Scott is All Elite

[00:00:06] Speaker A: 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 Mondays. 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. [00:00:55] Speaker B: And welcome back to another week of Wednesday night fake fights where we talk all things aew. Once again, I am one of your hosts, Jeff the tokimangoose. And I'm here with my cadre of awesome associates, pumped full of girl juice. [00:01:10] Speaker C: And ready to pod. It's Piper Willow. [00:01:12] Speaker B: She. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Is I, the queen of old school. Old school. Queen of old school. Erica Warren. Does she they. I am full of beer. [00:01:27] Speaker D: Choking on the ECW arena smoke. It is I, Ella Taylor with cheese and the hers and the high. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Ella Van Dam. [00:01:37] Speaker D: Ella Van Damme. The whole show. No, now I'm mostly gonna hit mute and play with my kitty. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Smoking show is a good one. [00:01:52] Speaker D: The whole smoking show? Oh, no, the Bowl. [00:01:56] Speaker C: The Bowl Smoking show. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Well, higher than RVD and fly in a super Fly, but never murdered anybody. As far as we. [00:02:05] Speaker A: As far as we. Allegedly. [00:02:08] Speaker D: Allegedly. [00:02:09] Speaker B: Yeah. We are still a very extreme place this week. We are still at the 2300 Arena. Is there. What is it? They got one more collision, one more dynamite or I believe so. How long is this going to be? [00:02:23] Speaker A: There's a dynamite. They'll do collision and then next week there's a dynamite and collision and then. [00:02:29] Speaker B: Another collision and then done with the residency. [00:02:32] Speaker A: So, like. Yeah, next week is the last week for both shows. [00:02:35] Speaker C: Yep, for sure. [00:02:35] Speaker D: Well, I'll tell you one thing for free. They could just live there and I'd be fine. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's been a great venue. Holy. [00:02:43] Speaker D: It's the vibe. [00:02:46] Speaker B: I love the residencies too. You really get this, like, built up association with the audience. Like the same thing they did down at Esports in Texas where they debuted Hologram and like, really kind of set him off. They did. Yeah. Just these little. And you know, Daily's place is obviously classic. [00:03:00] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:03:01] Speaker B: So that was more because of tragedy. [00:03:03] Speaker C: Yes. [00:03:06] Speaker A: Well, from the news I've heard we might have more opportunity for pandemic shows and tragedy, so. Yeah, especially in Florida, the real world. It sucks. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Speaking of tragedy, Gabe Kidd is here. It seems like a transition. [00:03:27] Speaker D: Is he trying to take trans people's guns. [00:03:30] Speaker B: Anyway, he is from England. We don't know. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Talk. Dabby Allen. Tick tock. [00:03:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Gabe interrupts Excalibur running the card down. He comes out to call out Darby. Basically, they're still working this whole Darby Mox thing, and Gabe is the mercenary and not doing anything in New Japan anymore. [00:03:53] Speaker C: Whenever he's not on screen, everyone should be asking, where's Darby? [00:03:57] Speaker A: It's a good question. He kind of just shows up and chloroforms people now. So it's like. Yeah, you need eyes on that little. [00:04:05] Speaker B: The chemical. Chemical substance, please. [00:04:08] Speaker D: Chemical substance. Funky Dar. Dar's juice is what I'm calling it. [00:04:17] Speaker A: That's. [00:04:18] Speaker D: Feel free to be. [00:04:19] Speaker B: Oh, that might be a little. Yeah, that could be a little. [00:04:21] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:04:24] Speaker A: I didn't say it this time. [00:04:27] Speaker D: All of y' all that do the editing do. By all means, feel free to censor me however you see fit. The funnier the better. [00:04:36] Speaker B: Doing the editing. Just missed out on it, so it's gonna slip through. [00:04:43] Speaker C: What did I miss? [00:04:44] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, no. [00:04:47] Speaker D: You'll find out. Are you editing this week? You'll find out. [00:04:52] Speaker C: Yeah, probably. [00:04:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Last time I got the. The. What do they call it? The. The roofy rag that got through. And somebody on Blue sky had been like, erica, what the. [00:05:08] Speaker B: But, yeah, so Darby is here, and he jumps Gabe from behind, and they fight along the outside and they brawl and they brawl. And it's still just kind of this thing. They've been running back with Darby and the death runners. They do some cool stuff, though. Darby hits some crazy coffin drops. They fight around some more, and Yuta comes out, and Darby gets out. Old gimmick. The old skateboard with the thumbtacks. [00:05:33] Speaker A: It's pretty cool. [00:05:34] Speaker B: Yeah, he's bringing back all the classics, like the body bag, the thumbtacks. [00:05:39] Speaker A: It's extreme. Extreme. Hey, hey. [00:05:45] Speaker B: He's in his natural environment here. [00:05:47] Speaker A: Yeah. I did enjoy Gabe Kidd taking the coffin drop on his head and neck. Like a true. [00:05:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Japanese wrestling star. [00:05:55] Speaker B: Nasty style with that. And I end up. Darby hits Yuta with the thumbtack board drop. And you see something, like, sticking out of there, too. Like, it was a pretty gnarly hit. [00:06:05] Speaker C: I figured it was just gonna be Gabe Kidd taking it because he had the sweatshirt on. And I was like, okay, yeah, no, block it. Yuda just took it full force. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Nope, it's Philly. So they're just gonna Utah up every chance they can. [00:06:18] Speaker C: Because I was like, okay. Yuta, he. He had a couple good moments on this Show. [00:06:24] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it was a highlight. He's been a highlight of this stay. [00:06:27] Speaker D: Like, I mean, well, he's local, I guess. [00:06:29] Speaker B: Yeah, he's been working again, forget. [00:06:31] Speaker D: He's a field guy. [00:06:32] Speaker A: He's. You might be the most over guy at the 2300 arena right now. Yeah, he's. He's up there. [00:06:37] Speaker B: He really. He gets probably consistently more like heat than probably anybody, but mjf. Like, he gets just constant in matches he's not even in. People just chant, you, Yuta. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Oh, Wheeler, you. [00:06:52] Speaker D: That is a banger. [00:06:53] Speaker B: That guy walks by. Yeah. Darby gets gave in the corner, and the rest of the Death Riders come out. It's dangerous, but what's this? The lights go out, the Hook symbol appears, and the cool music plays. [00:07:05] Speaker A: Tell the Dolls. [00:07:07] Speaker B: Yeah, the Hook symbol. The cool music. And Hook enters very slowly. He is stone terrain and not getting much of a pop, unfortunately. It's a gabby. Hard to get this back with, but. But they're trying. [00:07:28] Speaker C: Yeah, he hasn't done much of anything in the. The couple times we've seen him. He, like, beat up Wheeler, Yuta and got overshadowed by the ops in a beatdown. [00:07:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And which is pretty much what happens here. [00:07:41] Speaker A: I mean, he's been back for two weeks. [00:07:44] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, stuff to build. [00:07:46] Speaker A: Ah, he hasn't done anything. Well, he hasn't done anything because he doesn't. [00:07:49] Speaker B: But I mean, he's like an established guy, too. Like, there's. He used to be moral, but he was kind. [00:07:55] Speaker A: He kind of got a pop at Ring of Honor when he showed up to help Paul Walter Hauser. [00:08:01] Speaker B: That's true. Yeah. And I'm not trying to rag on it. I like Cook and would like him, you know, I want it to work, but I just don't, you know, feel like something's got to connect. But I'll get into it. We'll get into it later here. I like where they're going. [00:08:13] Speaker D: I have a theory, too. He came back for this residency basically, like. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:20] Speaker D: And he was at death before Dishonor. And like, he's. He's showed up a few times now. I. I think they're kind of like, you know, it's like. I think the shine might be a little bit off the apple from this crowd. [00:08:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true, too. Yeah. [00:08:40] Speaker D: Hitting it hard. [00:08:41] Speaker B: So, like, it has been there, like. [00:08:43] Speaker D: Every show, I'm saying. Yeah. So, like. Yeah, it's a little saturated. Maybe let him have a little bit of time in a different crow. Get, you know, get the. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Get the feel back in town. Yeah. [00:09:00] Speaker A: That'S actually what he should do. He should make out with some people. [00:09:02] Speaker D: This is true. [00:09:03] Speaker B: The mojo. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Just kiss. Kiss a bunch of guys, kiss a bunch of girls. [00:09:07] Speaker B: There's nothing gets you as over as kissing Samoa Joe. That is a fact. [00:09:10] Speaker A: I don't think anybody's tried. So. [00:09:12] Speaker D: Yeah, I just think someone should give joy. Swooches. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:18] Speaker A: Pinch his cheek a little bit. It's like, oh, who sounds like Will Arnet? [00:09:24] Speaker B: You do have a sweet tooth. [00:09:29] Speaker D: I see what you did there, and I don't like it, but I'll allow it. [00:09:33] Speaker A: Don't allow. This is our show. [00:09:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you're right. In the closet. Callback early episode. [00:09:41] Speaker D: You're right. You're right. Yeah. Okay, now I'll get back in the closet, but I'm taking this with me. [00:09:46] Speaker B: That's fair. [00:09:48] Speaker C: Tune into the secret video episode to find out what this is. Patreon.com Monday Night Fake Foot or whatever. [00:09:57] Speaker A: The silly URL is, are recording this. I would have, like, actually done something with my hair. [00:10:02] Speaker B: No, we're not. [00:10:03] Speaker A: No. [00:10:04] Speaker D: I've left hands. [00:10:08] Speaker A: Clues. [00:10:10] Speaker B: But now that Ella is out of the hot box. Wink, wink. Yeah. As much K, I guess. Yeah. The ops come out too. And Hook looks pissed off about it because they actually run while he was sauntering the entire way. You're stealing my kills like you aren't even over there. Willow comes out with him too, because for reasons just to, like, pick a fight with Marina. [00:10:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Which I appreciate and say they just brawl. Everybody brawls around. They go backstage. Gabe and D every year fighting back there. Gabe is just talking, like, the entire time. [00:10:44] Speaker A: I couldn't understand a single thing Gabe kid said. No, he was just like, oh, the angel of darkness and God hates me by. [00:10:58] Speaker C: He said something about wanting to see the lights, like, leave Darby Allen's eyes while he choked him out. [00:11:03] Speaker A: I want to do it on it. [00:11:05] Speaker B: Like he's storm front from the boys. [00:11:07] Speaker A: Like he's gonna do it on a Tuesday. [00:11:21] Speaker B: It's funny. Most of our listeners are international. [00:11:23] Speaker A: You're gonna piss off all our international friends. No. [00:11:26] Speaker B: Every episode we make fun of British people. [00:11:29] Speaker D: Yeah, I was gonna say. [00:11:30] Speaker B: I guess depending on the country, that could be a selling point. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Yeah. I feel like some of them, especially maybe some of the Brits would be like, yeah, you know Gabe kid. That's what he talks about. The. [00:11:41] Speaker C: The enemies of Wednesday night fake fights Busted open the Brits. [00:11:48] Speaker D: Other b things alkaline sometimes. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Yeah, you uncle Billy. [00:11:53] Speaker B: Wednesday night fake fight Stands with an independent Scotland. [00:11:58] Speaker A: That's right. [00:12:02] Speaker D: Whales. Do you want a kingdom? Is that a thing? Has that ever been a thing? I don't know. Anyways, wrestling. We're talking about wrestling. [00:12:11] Speaker B: Oh. Gabe gets himself a hammer and starts swinging it and missing it and smashing all kinds of stuff. [00:12:17] Speaker C: If I had a hammer kill Darby Allen. [00:12:26] Speaker A: It's Piper doing an impression of Gabe. [00:12:29] Speaker C: Boy, if I hit a hammer, I killed Darby Allen. [00:12:32] Speaker A: Now you just sound like you're from New Jersey. What's the difference? [00:12:37] Speaker B: They did get, like, a really cool, like, near shot, too. Like, Darby was on the steps and, like, barely moved out. [00:12:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:44] Speaker B: And then Darby gets the rag, and as Excalibur puts it, with its chemical substance, definitely not chloroform. [00:12:52] Speaker A: Darby grabbed it and said, you know what we call this, brother? A rag. [00:13:02] Speaker D: I'm not saying anything. I'm saying nothing. [00:13:06] Speaker B: I'm trying so hard to just get past Darby at this point. [00:13:10] Speaker A: I know, but, like, I can't. I couldn't. I couldn't get over Excalibur just going, he's got that rag. Oh, God. [00:13:19] Speaker B: The chemical substance. [00:13:22] Speaker D: I wanted to say, I do appreciate that everyone had, like, their little say. And then all of my pod children just kind of laid out in case I had something to say, you know? And in that moment, I was thinking, we're getting better at this. However, I'm. I got nothing that I can say. There's nothing that I should legally say into a microphone, so I'm just gonna not say anything. But, you know, I want y' all to notice. I appreciate it. I think we're. We're good podcasters. This is the talking about the show on the show episode of the show, everybody. [00:14:02] Speaker A: This is the everybody has a substance inside their body episode of the show. [00:14:07] Speaker D: I'm just very hydrated. [00:14:10] Speaker A: Darby got us with the rag. Now we are all a little bit goofy. [00:14:13] Speaker B: We all have our own chemical substance. Never gets Gabe in the body bag. And Taz calls it Body Bag Jones. Yeah. [00:14:22] Speaker A: Like, it was like dead silence for a second. Everybody was like, come on, say the line. [00:14:30] Speaker D: Body Bag Jones. I heard about him on last podcast on the left. That's a serial killer true crime joke for y'. [00:14:38] Speaker A: All. [00:14:40] Speaker D: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. [00:14:42] Speaker A: I know what it is. [00:14:42] Speaker D: Please feel free to cut that. I'm so sorry. [00:14:47] Speaker A: So my. My main thought about this segment was that the crowd was super hot for it. But then once they got to the back with Darby abducting Gabe kid, the crowd went dead silent. [00:14:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Darby does tie chain, like chains. The body Bag to the back of a giant pickup truck and drags Gabe Kid out into the streets of Philadelphia, presumably killing. [00:15:11] Speaker A: Yeah, he's dead. [00:15:12] Speaker C: One of these. I don't like that they're throwing up the random tweets up on the screen. However, there was a good one that popped up later in the night that was like, nah, Gabe Kid is done. Philly is full of potholes. [00:15:26] Speaker A: It really is. [00:15:27] Speaker B: Yeah. I wrote the same thing. Like, I. I don't like the tweets on screen, but I loved that. That cracked me up. Yeah, yeah. Tweets on screen remind me too much of like 2015 WWE. I'm like, I need. [00:15:39] Speaker D: I need him to get gimmicks that aren't historic hate crimes. [00:15:45] Speaker B: It would be enough. [00:15:49] Speaker D: Yeah. Against. Against sexes, races. Like, like just anything. [00:15:54] Speaker B: You're gonna burn a giant key on their yard for truth. Yeah. [00:15:58] Speaker D: I'm sure he's done something phobic against razor scooter enthusiasts. He just seems like that kind of skateboarder. [00:16:05] Speaker C: Backstage segment is like a bingo card of hate crimes. [00:16:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:09] Speaker A: Kind of between the two of them. Yeah, yeah. This. [00:16:13] Speaker D: Yo, what is this? Monday night fake fights? Jesus Christ. [00:16:17] Speaker C: Hey. [00:16:17] Speaker A: Oh. [00:16:19] Speaker B: You see Dub? You see Dub? You see Dub? [00:16:25] Speaker D: You nailed it though. That's what it is. [00:16:29] Speaker B: I mean, that was the whole like false count anywhere match, like they're trying to. They're going for. There's some angle stuff throughout these shows. Yeah. Excalibur also runs down the card and announces that all out is going to be available on HBO Max for. I don't know if they said it on Airbus. Could be like 10 bucks cheaper a month if you're a subscriber. It's 40 bucks if you get it through Max, which my sister and brother in law just stopped paying for the Max subscription, so. [00:16:54] Speaker C: Oops, that's a bummer. [00:16:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:58] Speaker D: The undisclosed person who helps me out with that is going to get some venmos. [00:17:03] Speaker B: I can't complain. I was gonna say they did it. They paid for it for a long time. Get it on Amazon. [00:17:08] Speaker C: While Excalibur explains this information and runs down the rest of the card, My Taz of the week occurred. Which was not a line from Taz, but it was him, like realizing he's on camera, sprucing himself up, fidgeting with his pocket square, not able to get his pocket square set up, taking it out and just throwing it on the desk. [00:17:29] Speaker B: That was a great open. [00:17:31] Speaker C: So funny. [00:17:31] Speaker B: I miss Taz. As much as I love having Ian on and like covering Taz, he's a heart and soul of AEW guy. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Yep. [00:17:38] Speaker B: So they do a little Windsor Mercedes video package, but that's too much of setting up to come and match. Yeah. [00:17:44] Speaker D: Very fun. All I was gonna say real quick is, like, just to agree that Taz. Taz had. It's the residency adcw. No, you had to have the. And it gets in. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:58] Speaker D: It leads to my Taz of the week. So go. Go on, Go on. [00:18:03] Speaker B: They jump from that video package to Mercedes Monet versus Alex Windsor for the TBS title match. I don't even. It's hard for me to say Windsor now. Like, the R doesn't come naturally. I didn't even mean to do that. It just automatically goes, ah. [00:18:18] Speaker C: Am I the only one that's over? [00:18:20] Speaker B: That bit I wrote down, like, they really are laying on the. In the entrance, she did it like, five times. [00:18:27] Speaker A: It was better when she did it herself. And it wasn't the opening thing for her song. [00:18:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Her entrance thing. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. No. Yeah. The sting at the start. [00:18:38] Speaker D: Yeah, the sting at the start might be a bit much. Yeah, yeah. [00:18:41] Speaker B: And I like it, like, during the match, like, every once in a while, like, throwing out as like, an exclamation book. Yeah. Like, that's. [00:18:48] Speaker A: And I. [00:18:49] Speaker B: We've been talking about Alex Windsor because I think she probably started around the time we started this podcast. Like, I think we. [00:18:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. She. They announced her right before all in and she debuted in the Women's Gauntlet. [00:19:06] Speaker B: Yeah. So essentially we did, like, one episode. She's been on AEW since we started doing this show, which, you know, leads to really a more analytical thing doing this show because we're paying way more attention and going through it. And I think, yeah, we all like Alex, but we've all kind of said there's got to be something to connect a little more beyond just this little gimmick. You don't want to be Jake Haggar in the hat. You need, like. [00:19:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:29] Speaker C: Because, like, everything else about her is so cool. Like, I love her look. I love her wrestling. [00:19:36] Speaker B: Yep. [00:19:37] Speaker D: Love her sharpshooter. [00:19:38] Speaker C: The sharpshooter is great. [00:19:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No. Best sharpshooter in AEW for a long time. [00:19:43] Speaker C: Something missing, and I don't know what it is, and it's not Windsor. [00:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah. It's hard to get personality across with. He really trying to find that gimmick is such a fine line. I said it's like something small can get over. Like, I said, you know, Jake Iger in the hat. But, like, you don't Want that to be all you have. Like, that can be a fun little thing that can get some pops, but you need to connect bass. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:07] Speaker B: But luckily she really does have that in ring to back as she showed tonight. Yeah. Even if I get a little tired of the Windsor thing, like, I love to watch this lady wrestle. Yeah. And Mercedes still has all of her belts strung up like laundry on the ropes. [00:20:22] Speaker A: It looks so cool. [00:20:24] Speaker C: Yeah, it's awesome. [00:20:26] Speaker B: It is. She makes her own background. Like, say, I thought this was a very, very fun match. [00:20:33] Speaker A: Yeah, this is a great match. I enjoyed it quite a bit. [00:20:37] Speaker D: I. I like continuing the getting on her about. About submitting and, like, smashing at the bug. Like, no, I was just trying to squash your body. [00:20:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:47] Speaker D: So, like, I like how that gave a little bit of psychology, if you will, to the match. [00:20:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And that comes out back, too, because later, like, almost at the end of the match, Alex has Mercedes in the ship, shooter out on the mat outside. And Mercedes taps again. So it's. Again, it's not a legitimate, you know, match ending tap out, but she did tap. So it still gives them, like, some back and forth. Yeah, there's some huge builds. Yeah, there's some huge Boston sucks chance throughout this. Philadelphia does not like Boston. I am learning well. Yeah, that seems like anyone likes Boston. Like, everywhere she goes, people chant, Boston sucks. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Big Boston sucks chant. Shout out to the save our SEPTA sign. [00:21:30] Speaker C: Yes. [00:21:31] Speaker A: Yes, please fix SEPTA so I can get to work on Wednesdays. [00:21:34] Speaker D: Yeah, Wednesday night job. [00:21:39] Speaker C: Yeah, Wednesday night job fight. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Yeah, Wednesday night job fights. [00:21:45] Speaker B: I don't my task of the week, but I don't. I didn't write context down around. It might not be my tabs, but it's one of them. He said they're divided like a wet ocean. Shivani. [00:21:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:21:57] Speaker B: I watch live, so I can't pause, and I'm like, taking these fast notes. [00:22:01] Speaker C: So it was a back and it was the back and forth, like, chance for Mercedes and Alex. [00:22:07] Speaker B: That's it. Yes. [00:22:09] Speaker C: Shivani's like, the crowd's divided is you here? And Taz is like, yeah, divided like a wet ocean. Shivani. He's like, yeah, I'm bringing my A. I'm bringing my A game tonight. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that. That killed me. [00:22:20] Speaker C: Excalibur is just like, can we get Taz to retire too? [00:22:24] Speaker A: Like, yeah, I seemed pretty happy that Tony was back this week. [00:22:29] Speaker B: Yeah, they had some back and forth. Like, there was a point earlier where Tony is talking, like, Taz up and says, like, yes, you got A bunch of legendary moments in this arena or something. Taz just goes, damn right, Shivani. [00:22:43] Speaker C: I also don't know what he meant by divided like a wet ocean. [00:22:48] Speaker B: I don't think he did Moses parting the Red Sea and it's divine. [00:22:52] Speaker D: I think he's trying to say the Red Sea, but it's Taz and he's has concussions. [00:22:57] Speaker B: I thought, I'm ready to hear your thoughts here. [00:22:59] Speaker C: So I thought about this. I thought about, like, parting the Red Sea. That they're very divided, but also it's an ocean ocean and it's wet and it. Everybody is cheering for everybody because they love both the wrestlers. And that's what he was getting across. I'm putting way too much thought in this, given the reactions of my cohorts here. [00:23:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. [00:23:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:20] Speaker B: I think it's just the Red Sea thing. I'm not gonna lie. [00:23:23] Speaker D: You put more thought into this than Taz did. [00:23:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So who knows? Honestly, yours probably could be much more likely, though. [00:23:31] Speaker A: Divided like a wet ocean. [00:23:35] Speaker B: It's a great laugh. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Hey, baby. You divided like a wet ocean. Are you happy to see me? Yeah. [00:23:42] Speaker D: Heavy, heavy editing on this episode indeed. [00:23:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:46] Speaker B: Yeah. They had some really cool spots through this I really like. The sharpshooter is kind of that centerpiece of the match, in my opinion. Alex gets it tied up in the ropes at one point. It looks super brutal. They do the, like, the leg trap spot where they're doing the sharpshooter, and then they kind of go flat and then they roll out of the ring together while their legs are still intertwined. I've seen that a few times and it always looks gnarly. Like, I don't know how. It doesn't seem like there's a good way to land that. [00:24:13] Speaker D: No. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Because they usually, like, land face first. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, sometimes. Yeah. Even you don't want to be on your side. That sucks. You don't want to. [00:24:22] Speaker A: But, like. Yeah, like, even if you take, like, the flat back bump, you can't. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Do a flat back bump because you're locked in with somebody else. [00:24:30] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. And you can't really plan how you're going to fall when the other person. You just kind of got to hope and pray, I imagine. [00:24:36] Speaker C: Yeah. It's a lot of great, like, reversal back and forth submissions as well. Between the. What is her. [00:24:43] Speaker B: The statement maker. [00:24:44] Speaker C: Statement maker. That's it. Between the statement maker and the sharpshooter. Like, just like going from one submission to the other as. As well as, like, Pulling that statement maker out of nowhere. [00:24:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Mercedes is so good at transitioning into that. [00:24:59] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. [00:25:00] Speaker B: I'm so glad they stopped using the, like, weird gory special, the monet maker like thing that all. [00:25:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:07] Speaker B: That always looked awkward. Like these guys are hit it. [00:25:09] Speaker D: Well, once I'm asked for months, I asked for like a year. I begged give her any other thing. And they finally was just, yeah, keep it. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Because this is. It's the same finish you used in WWE and NXT was the crossface stretch. Yeah. It was a bank statement. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And she does that like the back breaker into it. [00:25:30] Speaker D: Yeah. Like the roll through. Yeah. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Every time. Yeah. It was a crazy, like iconoclasm off what Alex is on the top rope to grab your hands and flips her over and like trans rolls into that. I was like, that was sick. [00:25:44] Speaker D: It's. It's such a great finishing sequence that it's almost like, I understand you want to try new things, but like, also don't with that, like, you really nail that. [00:25:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And Alex does some cool. She had to made in Japan at one point. I was like, holy jingo Windsor over here. [00:26:01] Speaker A: I've got that in all caps in my notes. Made in Japan for two. [00:26:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's like we're saying with the catchphrase and the personnel, like, it could still use some work. But once the match goes, I am just on board with Alex Windsor. So, like, I, you know, they'll get it. But like this, it just rules. [00:26:19] Speaker D: I have a theory. You know why I think. Why? I think it hits you wrong. [00:26:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:24] Speaker D: Awesome. It feels. [00:26:31] Speaker B: You assume I don't love the miss. [00:26:33] Speaker A: Get off this pod. [00:26:34] Speaker B: I'll crush it. Finale. [00:26:37] Speaker D: It's an audio medium. [00:26:38] Speaker A: You can't. [00:26:39] Speaker D: You couldn't see me do the 5:55. Come on now. Face into the. [00:26:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:45] Speaker D: Are you kidding? Kidding me. Jesus Christ. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Get out. [00:26:49] Speaker C: There was some stank on that side. [00:26:53] Speaker B: I was a Real World fan back in the day. [00:26:56] Speaker D: Get, get. I'm driving. Move. Give me the note. [00:27:02] Speaker B: But no, it's good match. Mercedes catches it into a rollup for the win. So again, Alex is still pretty protected in the finish here, but they keep the title on Mercedes like they definitely should have. [00:27:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:13] Speaker B: But. Oh, what is this? [00:27:15] Speaker C: Holyo who's back out of nowhere. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Yep. [00:27:22] Speaker A: Riho's back. [00:27:23] Speaker B: Giant pop. She heard Triple H was pulling some, so she had to come in and set things right. They're trying to counter program us. Rio's got to come and show them my. Right. [00:27:33] Speaker D: You don't counter program Riho, okay. You do not counter program. [00:27:37] Speaker A: She's my tribal chief. [00:27:48] Speaker B: She does kind of just come in to challenge for the bell and then disappears for like four months. So it's not the most inaccurate comparison. [00:27:56] Speaker D: And she is the otc. She's one tough cutie. [00:27:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. She hits a nasty double stomp on the Mercedes. Well, Mercedes says attacked Alex gets her out of the ring and grabs the belt. And I think they, they don't ask. Yeah. But a little later they are doing Mercedes versus Rio for the belt at all out. [00:28:15] Speaker A: Which, yeah, it's gonna be sick. [00:28:18] Speaker D: Riho's gonna lose. [00:28:19] Speaker A: But hell yeah, I love Mercedes. Like just sitting outside the rain, it's like, what the hell? What just happened. [00:28:29] Speaker C: In the ring holding the belt. Like, it's a nice looking belt. Be a shame if somebody took it. [00:28:34] Speaker B: Yeah. She's just kind of like expecting it a little. Yeah, yeah. Well, we all. I mean that's, I'm still. Rio's awesome. She's so good. Mercedes is great against Joshi. Like it'll probably be an amazing match, but yeah, they're gonna take it off for you. Mercedes needs those 10 belts in my. She's gotta be your ultimo down. [00:28:51] Speaker D: You're gonna do it? Oh, no, I'm good. I'm gonna. I, I should. Oh man, I would love for Rio. [00:29:00] Speaker B: To win, but I don't think they're going. [00:29:01] Speaker D: Folks, everyone who hears this, even though it's probably not gonna be time, join the Patreon. So I have money to make signs for this show. I'm going to so I can ask Ultimo. Dragon, are you like, are, are you pissed about this? Like you shark. [00:29:20] Speaker A: I just picture you standing there with a sign that just says are you pissed about this? [00:29:25] Speaker B: Question mark Ultimo context with no cont. No, no, I'm good. [00:29:31] Speaker D: No, I'm getting like a quizzical dog. No, no, no, because I'm gonna get a bunch of different colored sharpies and I'm gonna draw a little Monet. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Just like leaving it open ended about everything. [00:29:49] Speaker A: Put a picture of Monet with all the belts and say, how does this make you feel, Dragon boy? [00:29:58] Speaker B: That's, that's genuinely f. [00:30:02] Speaker D: Gaps money. [00:30:04] Speaker B: Oh yeah, you should make a post and try and get fundraise for that. [00:30:09] Speaker D: Folks, I already have a fundraiser going, but this became more important. [00:30:12] Speaker B: Look, this is important. [00:30:13] Speaker C: I need money to IRL post against. [00:30:17] Speaker A: How does this make you feel, Dragon boy? [00:30:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Next we go backstage with Renee, Joe and Hobbs. Renee's asking about hook and Hook slowly Walks up to them again. He says he's gonna fight his own battles. He doesn't need the Ops to back him up. He's pissed that they replaced him with powerhouse Hobbs before his body was even cold. And, yeah, Joe agrees. He says, we absolutely did that, but we had the opportunity, and cops stood up. And they're not fighting Hook's battles. They've got their own issues with the diamond. Says that Hook will someday need their help. The Ops have his back. And, yeah, they all love him. They still love him, but storms off. And I genuinely like this. I think this is some good story stuff for Hook. [00:31:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I like where it's going, but it did remind me that Hook is a kind of terrible promo. [00:31:10] Speaker B: Yeah, he's not much on the mic. There's a reason. All he did was eat chips. [00:31:14] Speaker A: So you left me alone. [00:31:18] Speaker B: That's why it was great when they had, like, him with Joe. Because Joe could talk. [00:31:22] Speaker A: Yeah, like, yeah, he's, like, talking, like. And then Joe's like, yo, come on, man. Like, I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm a TV actor. I'm Sweet tooth. [00:31:31] Speaker B: He makes it feel natural. Yeah, well. Or not. [00:31:34] Speaker C: You ever seen a greenhorn give a promo and iambic pentameter? Yeah. [00:31:39] Speaker D: What to tell you, kid. I'm Joe Bluth, you know. [00:31:42] Speaker A: You ever lip synced Will Arnett underneath a clown mask? [00:31:49] Speaker B: I have humped Anthony Mackie. You don't understand. Do some acting, too. I thought that was, like, part of why he was away is he had, like, a small movie role or something. [00:32:00] Speaker A: I'm guessing that the emphasis was on small. [00:32:03] Speaker D: If he. If he did. [00:32:05] Speaker B: I ain't seen it. Yeah, Maybe just kind of. Just kind of like standing in the background or something. I could be wrong, but. Yeah, but like I said, I do like this as a good story for this gives up. There's some cool kind of like, it's not just straight heel face. There's an actual little back and forth between them where they kind of both have points. And I don't know. I'd be cool with Hook joining back up with the Ops or facing off against them and doing his own thing. I hope something happens with it. [00:32:31] Speaker C: Yeah, I can kind of go either way at this point. [00:32:33] Speaker A: I think you will. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Eventually they're gonna reunite Hookhausen, and Danhausen's just been a work this whole time. [00:32:39] Speaker C: I hope so. [00:32:40] Speaker A: That was fun. [00:32:41] Speaker D: I may knew it. [00:32:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I like Danhausen, actually. Like, I have a lot of people rag on him. [00:32:46] Speaker A: He's not a. A good Wrestler. Oops. [00:32:52] Speaker B: That's fair. [00:32:53] Speaker C: He is a good character, though. [00:32:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's. It's. These are all I get. Why it didn't mash. It didn't work. And he wants to go hang out with cm. You know, if he can do that and make a bunch of money. [00:33:05] Speaker A: I think that if you want to be a good wrestler, you should be more than an Internet meme. That's my scorching hot take on. [00:33:15] Speaker B: I don't want to say Joe Henry or he'll appear. Yes. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:20] Speaker A: All right. Yeah. If you can just like that. If you can just be an Internet me. You don't need to actually wrestle. Well, you can just. You can just go get squashed by Randy Orton at WrestleMania and completely embarrass the company or the champion of. Congratulations, Joe. You stupid. [00:33:36] Speaker B: We're leaving this in utna. [00:33:38] Speaker C: Total non stop. [00:33:39] Speaker B: Fake Fleets don't mess up ass. [00:33:43] Speaker D: That awful Vince McMahon voice that lives in the back of my head because I was raised on that garbage. Wants to speak with you in his office. [00:33:55] Speaker B: Very small office. [00:33:57] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, it is. But it's like I. I don't like your. Your whole premise is flawed. In his mind. Yeah. Don't get it. In the meantime, I'm just over here looking for pictures of Mercedes with all nine of her belts for reasons, you know, we gotta worry about it. [00:34:14] Speaker B: Yeah. We jump backstage to a different part of the Backstage now with Ricochet and the Gates of Agony or I don't know if they're just going by GOA now. I can't tell. Yeah, it. Which looks pretty cool, actually. [00:34:29] Speaker D: I mean, I don't know. It's going nowhere in my mind. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Gates of Agony kind of sounds like. Like what a bunch of 13 year olds would make up for a metal band that they're never actually going to form. [00:34:39] Speaker A: Like, it's like. [00:34:40] Speaker D: Like real Wild Stallions vibes, bro. [00:34:44] Speaker B: We're gonna start Gates Agony and we're gonna tour in Norwegian. [00:34:46] Speaker A: Was that NXT tag team? The Authors of Pain? [00:34:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, exactly. [00:34:51] Speaker A: Authors of Pain. [00:34:53] Speaker B: The GOA just. I like, you know, acronyms and it's short to the point. Looks cool. Yeah. Yeah. Ricochet says that his problems with the hurts indicate pre day AEW all about. Oh yeah, talking, you know, shooting. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Pew, pew, pew. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Says it's for the Hurt Syndicate, that it's business, but for Ricoch in the goa, it is personal now. Even the Gates Agony get a little promo here. They say they cost the hurts and to get titles and other stuff that I don't recall, but they throw out a challenge for the hurts in the kit. All three of them, versus Ricochet and the goats. The goats. [00:35:31] Speaker A: The goats. [00:35:31] Speaker B: The Gates of. The Goats of Agony. They're very, very sore goats. Yeah. To challenge them at all. Out. So it's not a challenge, it's a demand, which. Yeah, I'm cool with that. [00:35:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I like that. Good promo. [00:35:47] Speaker B: Yeah, these three have worked, just gelled very, very well. [00:35:51] Speaker C: Yeah, they're. They've got a good look. I. I just hope I'm. I'm looking forward. Yeah, the vests look good. I'm looking forward to see them wrestle more. [00:36:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:04] Speaker A: I think Gates of Agony have really improved a lot since, what, they were Trios Champions with Brian Cage with. [00:36:13] Speaker B: Yeah. The ROH trio titles. [00:36:14] Speaker A: Yeah, they were ROH champions. And they were part of what, Mogul embassy with Swerve. They were swerves eaters. Like, they did great. [00:36:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:23] Speaker A: In that. And they've gotten better. [00:36:25] Speaker B: I was kind of worried they'd fall into, like, the lackey role with this Ricochet thing again, but they just feel relevant now. Actually feel like they're borrowed of. [00:36:34] Speaker C: They don't feel like lackeys. They feel like heaters, but not like in a derogatory way. [00:36:40] Speaker B: No. And they just feel like legit dudes. Like, then the time. We haven't seen them wrestle much lately, but every time they have, they absolutely delivered. [00:36:47] Speaker A: They were awesome in the tag tournament that they had last month. [00:36:51] Speaker B: Yeah, without a doubt. And also they mentioned that Taz has been inducted into the 2300 Arena hall of Fame. [00:36:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:59] Speaker B: Apparently Taz explicitly. They wanted to put it on tv, and Taz said no. He said he wants this to focus on the current wrestlers, that his times. He appreciated the accolades and all that, but he didn't want to take time away from the people wrestling today. That's some Fed integrity Jones over here. [00:37:16] Speaker A: This was. This was actually my Taz in the night was him on Twitter telling Dave, because Dave Meltzer was like, I can't believe they didn't put this on tv. And Tess is like, yeah, I asked them not to. And Melter's like, I disagree that you should have. And he's like, you disagree with my. You disagree with my personal wishes. So that's my. That's my task that night. Like, I was. I was. Yeah, I was doing that at work and laughing at it. [00:37:44] Speaker B: Really good. [00:37:45] Speaker D: That's amazing. [00:37:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Then out comes Mark Briscoe, where he talks about the 2300 Arena. It's where him and Jay fell in Love with wrestling. [00:37:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:54] Speaker B: Gets a big J chance, which was cool. So he's focused on Fletcher and he wants that PNT belt. But Don Callis has said that he has to go through some people first and all that. Well, has to talk to Don Gallus, which brings out big on Callous Chance. I think it was Tazer. Excalibur says, yeah, that said a lot backstage too. [00:38:16] Speaker D: Was the Excalibur said, they're saying that a lot in this arena. And then Taz goes, yeah, he's saying a lot backstage too. Like, write that one down. Like, I was like, that was my Taz of the Night. Burn Jones or whatever. [00:38:34] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:38:36] Speaker B: That works. [00:38:37] Speaker D: I might be checked out. I'm. I'm on something here. Yeah, don't worry about it. [00:38:43] Speaker B: Don Callis looks like Elton John dressed up like a prosthetic penis for Halloween. [00:38:49] Speaker A: That was. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Yeah, once he said I was like, oh, he kind of does. [00:38:54] Speaker A: I laughed at it. But like, that was like such a long insult. It's like, you look like it was like the Tropic Thunder. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:07] Speaker A: It's like, this is who dresses. Who gave him this line? [00:39:12] Speaker B: And you don't dress up as a prosthetic peen. Like, why would you dress up? Why is prosthetic in there? Like, yeah, that. Yeah, that's differentiate between dressing like a real penis and a prosthetic penis. [00:39:22] Speaker A: And it's not just he's dressed up as a prosthetic penis. He's dressed up. Is Elton John dress up. There's like too many layers on this. [00:39:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Don comes out and I'm just like, he does look like Elton John dressed up like a prosthetic penis. [00:39:39] Speaker C: I was like, you know. [00:39:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I kind of. [00:39:42] Speaker C: You put it that way. [00:39:43] Speaker A: And with that scar, we call him Dick Slit Jones. [00:39:47] Speaker B: It's like he doesn't have to lie. Yeah. Prosthetic penis does come out. And he's got Lance Archer and Rocky Romero with him. So as he's busy getting Kyle and Josh ready for the main. But sets up Mark Briscoe versus Takeshita for collision. Which. [00:40:08] Speaker A: We have to get this right, please. My husband, Konosuke Takeshita is ready. [00:40:14] Speaker B: Erica's husband. [00:40:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. [00:40:17] Speaker B: Erika's husband, Konosuke Takeshita comes out in very big pants. [00:40:21] Speaker A: Those are. Those are workman's pants. Those are workers pants. [00:40:23] Speaker B: Yeah, that's his fake wife's pants. Yukasuya Kazaki. [00:40:28] Speaker C: That's a good looking Boy, even, even, even. [00:40:31] Speaker A: Taz is just like. He looks so good. [00:40:33] Speaker B: Yeah. All the. All black, though. It's sick. Tony starts talking about how lean Takeshita. [00:40:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:40:41] Speaker D: What are you talking about? [00:40:42] Speaker B: He has a shirt on. He's tall. He's wearing black. And he's like. No, he looks great. [00:40:47] Speaker D: Trust me. Yeah, yeah. [00:40:50] Speaker A: Believe. Believe you me. I can't wait for a reunion in a couple months. [00:40:56] Speaker B: The man is just straight aura, though. Like, he comes out and it's just like, that Is. [00:41:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:01] Speaker B: Champion. Even if he doesn't have a belt. He looked like it. [00:41:04] Speaker A: He is a champion. He's the 20, 25 G1 Climax winner. [00:41:09] Speaker C: That is true. [00:41:09] Speaker B: And that's not a champion, though. That's a right to challenge for a championship. It's an accolade. [00:41:15] Speaker A: You get a trophy. [00:41:16] Speaker B: Trophy. I'll count that. That's fair. To me, it's. Champion is like, you know, never open the way. Like when he was that. You know, something he's defending. But I. He has this. He's amazing. [00:41:27] Speaker A: Don't disrespect my husband, Jeff. [00:41:28] Speaker B: No, and I'm not trying to. He would whoop the out of me. [00:41:33] Speaker A: He whipped the out of me, let me tell you. Yeah. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Sex under my bomb. [00:41:44] Speaker D: Tanahashi. [00:41:49] Speaker A: She wasn't here. Shut the up. [00:41:51] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [00:41:52] Speaker D: You start. You start doing goodfellas voice, and it's all done. I'm sorry. [00:41:59] Speaker C: It's only one place. [00:42:04] Speaker B: Marco says that Don likes to mess with Mark's head and evil whoop Takeshita's ass on Saturday. But he's ready to go right now. Came here to fight. [00:42:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:13] Speaker B: So Rocky Romero stances up, gets all posed up, but Don picks Lance Archer. [00:42:19] Speaker C: The murder guy, who is dressed in wrestling gear. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Surprise, surprise. Which I like Archer well enough. He does his job. He's nothing exceptional, in my opinion, but he can put on good matches. [00:42:33] Speaker A: I think he's a great wrestler. It's just very hard to take him seriously because when was the last time he won a match? [00:42:42] Speaker B: And he looks like a henchman In a 90s action film. Right? [00:42:45] Speaker A: But that's. That's his gimmick. [00:42:48] Speaker B: He's the pin eater for the Don Callis family. [00:42:50] Speaker D: Yes. [00:42:51] Speaker B: You gotta have the lower of the tears. Yeah. He goes in and Mark jumps him right on the ropes. Drop kicks him before he even gets in the ring. Rat books it out of nowhere too. It's like, okay. [00:43:06] Speaker C: It'S wrestle time now. [00:43:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. I mean, it was a pretty short little nothing match. They just. Archer gets heat On Mark. And Mark hits some cool spots. [00:43:16] Speaker A: Mark is bleeding. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Honestly, like one of the cooler spots was. I think it was during the commercial where there's somebody in the crowd who had a. Mark Briscoe was the man sign. And Lance Archer grabs it and tears it up in the camera and goes, you ain't. [00:43:29] Speaker A: That was great. [00:43:30] Speaker C: That was good. [00:43:31] Speaker A: I like that. I liked Tony Schiavone's brilliant commentary. He's like, lance Archer is just a man. Taz is like, yeah, he is a man. [00:43:44] Speaker B: Some point too where Tony says that Delaware is a great state, Taz. I'll tell you that. And Taz goes, yes, I love it. [00:43:50] Speaker A: And they said something about across the river. I do not believe you have to cross the river to get to that. [00:43:55] Speaker B: I don't think so. Yeah. I don't think they know, actually. [00:43:57] Speaker A: No, you don't have to. Have to cross the river to get to Delaware. I'm here to tell you right now, somebody who went to Delaware for high school for four years, geography Jones. It's like 20 minutes from where I'm sitting right now. [00:44:09] Speaker C: Yeah, you can get there hella quick. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I forget it's all small over there. [00:44:14] Speaker C: The Geography Jones line came after a. A pretty nasty chop that Taz goes. Yeah, they heard that one in Altoona. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that's it. Archer was lighting him up with chops for a minute there. They were loud. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, Archer hits, choke slams. Big ass chokeslam that Mark kicks out of. Mark gets the strikes and gets Archer up for a sunset flip power bomb that landed a little awkwardly. Archer got a hit to the side, it looked like. But Mark follows up with the froggy bow for the win. And yeah, he's ready to keep this to catch the stuff going on. [00:44:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:51] Speaker B: I assume this is all leading to him versus Fletcher at all out. It'll be a sick ass, man. [00:44:57] Speaker D: It'll be happening in the afternoon, so I'll see it without being. [00:45:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:45:02] Speaker A: Too. Depending on if I have work or not. Yes. [00:45:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:06] Speaker A: You get to watch my. Well, no, my husband's not wrestling in that match. Kyle Fletcher's not my husband. [00:45:11] Speaker B: Not yet. [00:45:11] Speaker C: But he might be on a different match. [00:45:12] Speaker B: Yay. [00:45:13] Speaker A: He might be on a different match. Yeah. [00:45:14] Speaker B: Yeah. They haven't filled the card out completely yet. [00:45:17] Speaker A: We might just be at home kissing. Yeah. [00:45:21] Speaker B: They jumped to a pre tape for Toni Storm where she talks about the 2300 arena as one of my favorite lines of the night where she promises to be the most batshitch to Piss in this sink. Yeah. [00:45:36] Speaker D: Look, he's a batshitch who used to play a lot of punk venues. I appreciate that sentiment, girl. That's exquisite. [00:45:45] Speaker B: Probably shouldn't be in sinks, though. [00:45:47] Speaker D: You don't know my life. You don't know my life. [00:45:50] Speaker C: That make do I know. [00:45:51] Speaker B: Who am I to judge? [00:45:52] Speaker A: If you can reach, go for it. [00:45:55] Speaker B: I think it's all. Maybe not kitchen sinks. [00:45:57] Speaker A: Any. No. In a storm. [00:45:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:59] Speaker A: As they. [00:46:00] Speaker D: Jesus Christ. Okay, this is gonna turn into discourse. Continue. [00:46:05] Speaker A: Tony Storm. [00:46:07] Speaker D: Ah, Jesus. [00:46:09] Speaker B: That's pretty good. Tony calls out anybody. He says, she wants to face the best in the world and everything in between and ends it on the line. I like quite a bit where she says, God doesn't judge. That's my job. [00:46:20] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, it was a banger. I. My exact thought at the end of this is, how. How is it that just every single week, she comes out and gives the promo of the year? [00:46:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:33] Speaker D: Like, every. [00:46:36] Speaker B: Like, I get wanting to get the belt offer at this point, but she's also still like, the best women's wrestler in the company. I understand why you want to keep her as the champion. [00:46:44] Speaker D: It's like, oh, it's been too long. I'm like, yeah, but have you considered that she's still like, that little guy in the video game? She's on fire. [00:46:51] Speaker B: Like, she's never gotten bad. [00:46:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, this is. This is. This is the kind of run that wrestlers dream of. And, yeah, honestly, you do not pull the plug until, like, you. You run the wheels off this. [00:47:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, Athena would have been cool, but, like, I'm very happy to see this. More Toni Storm on my TV is always. [00:47:11] Speaker A: Yeah. And the other thing you have to consider is, I assume they are looking for somebody to beat Tony, who. Beating her will make them. [00:47:22] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. I mean, they really will benefit off it. [00:47:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, Athena, she might like being on Ring of Honor, might be seen as a downgrade, but she's a made woman. Mercedes Monet. She's a woman. Total star. [00:47:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:38] Speaker A: Beating Tony could really elevate somebody. [00:47:40] Speaker C: We were talking about somebody who needs something earlier. [00:47:44] Speaker B: Hook. [00:47:45] Speaker C: Yes. [00:47:46] Speaker A: Hook is gonna take anybody. That's true. [00:47:53] Speaker D: Let's go. [00:47:54] Speaker B: But no, I think, like. Like Willow, for example, could really be. If she beat Tony, that would be like. [00:48:01] Speaker A: That would. That would be it. Yeah. Like Willows or Windsor. Very, very over. [00:48:05] Speaker C: That's who I was getting at. [00:48:07] Speaker A: Windsor. [00:48:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Would make sense, too. Yeah. Yeah. Like I say, keep it going. Rules. [00:48:12] Speaker A: I maintain that the play should be Willow versus Toni Storm, because that was something I Was looking forward to last year. Yeah. Last year, I thought Willow should have won, but we got the Mariah May Hollywood ending stuff, and, like, that's great. I'm happy with that. [00:48:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:31] Speaker B: You. [00:48:31] Speaker A: You knew better than me. [00:48:33] Speaker B: No, it was wonderful. But, yeah, I love Willow, though. I want Willow to get some, like. Yeah, yeah. They jump backstage to another part of the backstage where Renee is with Harley Cameron, and there's Statlander. Harley says that the mask she wears does nothing, that she still got busted open by the megasis, bled through it. Stat says the wrath is not in the mask, but in her. It rips the masks away. Cool moment. [00:49:00] Speaker D: Feel this. [00:49:02] Speaker A: She still has the kitty face paint, which is awesome. [00:49:04] Speaker C: Yes. [00:49:04] Speaker B: Yeah. That was fantastic. Yeah. They talk about what a great tag team they are, and Harley calls out Brodito, which was a very funny moment. Yes. That's Brodito. [00:49:15] Speaker D: They were, like. Renee was, like, about to, like, give her name and stats, like, please don't give us the name. She's like, brodino, we're coming for you. [00:49:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Stats like, no, let's just stick with fighting like the women we were taught. Let's stick with our plan for now. Yeah. See, Yuta comes out. Tell stat that the Death Riders have her back, and Harley says that they have each other, and that stat says that she got the message, which was, all right, yeah, I'm cool with the usa. But the best part was, oh, yeah, Marina was with Yuta, too. And after they leave, Harley goes. They seem fun. [00:49:53] Speaker A: It was a very weird. It was, like, an unusually light segment that had featured death writers in it because, like, Wheeler shows up, and he's like, hey. Harley's hissing at him. [00:50:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:04] Speaker A: And then Marina just appears, and Harley keeps hissing. [00:50:10] Speaker C: I think Yuta says, like, hey, claws away. [00:50:12] Speaker A: Like, yeah. And, like, they're like. There's just, like, the cat fight thing going on. And Wheeler's like, okay, I'm gonna go wrestle now. [00:50:21] Speaker B: Yep. Harley. [00:50:23] Speaker D: She continues to be my second favorite thing in. In the women's division is Harley. [00:50:28] Speaker C: Like, I thought you meant Yuta. [00:50:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:50:32] Speaker D: Give her time. Give her time. [00:50:34] Speaker B: It's really crazy, too, how Harley, like, came out of just being a. A side character on QTV out of nowhere. Like, I'd never heard of her before that. And then she's in QTV with QT Marshall, and then she's now, like, the most entertaining person in the company. Like, she just showed up so much in such a short amount. I'm exaggerating. Like, she just elevated so quick. [00:50:56] Speaker A: I mean, like, she really like. I don't think it's that much of an exaggeration. Like, she really like. It's not even just that she came out of nowhere, but like, she got really, really good, really, really fast. [00:51:07] Speaker B: And even just beyond the wrestling, she's just a. Entertaining. She's funny. She does the puppetry. She sings like she's just a. All around her, like talent. [00:51:17] Speaker A: She gets it. She gets it. She. She like. [00:51:21] Speaker B: And she embraces the campiness of wrestling. Like. [00:51:24] Speaker C: Yes. [00:51:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:25] Speaker D: He's Carney. Complimentary. [00:51:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. Thank you. Australia. [00:51:33] Speaker A: I believe, is it? [00:51:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:51:37] Speaker D: That's London with extra step. [00:51:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:40] Speaker C: Take that, Brits. You can't have her. [00:51:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:42] Speaker B: Just in case anybody in Australia is listening to us now, we're gonna make fun of you for. We're gonna get a free market here. [00:51:49] Speaker D: Well, thankfully, I don't think anyone heard me call Australian British with extra steps. [00:51:54] Speaker B: So. [00:51:56] Speaker C: Don'T worry, I'll. I'll fix it. [00:51:58] Speaker D: Post if you feel like. Do whatever you feel like. [00:52:02] Speaker B: Just all Australian accents and posts that I feel at home. Just hit the screen accent button. [00:52:06] Speaker C: Dollar filter. [00:52:11] Speaker B: Yeah. The Yuta is correct. He does have a match and it's a tag team title match. Him and Claudio versus Brodido, which again, I'm so happy with Brodido being the champions. Just put them on tv wrestling. [00:52:23] Speaker A: They need us. They need a real tag team name. I swear to God. [00:52:27] Speaker B: But it's. It's stuck now. [00:52:30] Speaker A: I don't care. I am the Frito Brodito. [00:52:38] Speaker D: Embrace the whimsy. [00:52:40] Speaker A: It's not whimsy. It's lazy Internet wrestling fan. [00:52:45] Speaker B: What do you think whimsy is? [00:52:47] Speaker A: That's. Whimsy is like unicorns and fun. This is just like. [00:52:52] Speaker C: What do we call them? [00:52:53] Speaker A: Let's mash their names together. [00:53:01] Speaker B: Guys. [00:53:01] Speaker C: They have on their Titan Tron. It's. It's whimsical. [00:53:04] Speaker A: I mean, they themselves are whimsy. I like their. Their gear and their merch. [00:53:09] Speaker B: I like that they're clearly friends. [00:53:13] Speaker A: I like them doing them doing friend gun pops at the side. [00:53:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:17] Speaker A: In their entrance. [00:53:18] Speaker B: I love Bandito doing the barks too. Like a lot of. Yeah. But you can tell they're genuinely like, go back. Like they've known each other a long time and they have just fantastic chemistry. [00:53:28] Speaker A: But like, bro Dido, like, it does. [00:53:31] Speaker B: Sound like a new Taco Bell item. [00:53:37] Speaker A: I would. [00:53:38] Speaker C: I would up the brodido hard. [00:53:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, I. Yeah. Brodito extra volcano sauce on that five. [00:53:45] Speaker D: Dollar brodido Lux box me Up. [00:53:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm there. [00:53:49] Speaker C: Diet Baja Blast, please. [00:53:51] Speaker B: I was gonna say. Yeah. Zero sugar. [00:53:52] Speaker A: Baja Blast on there with the brodido. [00:53:54] Speaker C: I'm trying to diet. [00:53:57] Speaker A: That's what I'm telling myself as I drink. Monster with the white monsters. [00:54:01] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's. That's healthy for you. [00:54:03] Speaker A: I hate to be a stereotype, but those things, oh, they're the best. [00:54:06] Speaker B: Awesome. [00:54:07] Speaker C: They sure do. And there's a reason I had to kick that habit, because every time I drank one, it was taking six months off my life. And when I was drinking at three a day. Probably time to change something. [00:54:17] Speaker B: It adds up, you know? [00:54:19] Speaker A: What's that? [00:54:20] Speaker C: Beer. [00:54:21] Speaker B: What? [00:54:22] Speaker C: Another white monster. [00:54:23] Speaker B: Go the other way. Thank you. [00:54:25] Speaker C: Yeah. So I sent y' all a video that I wanted to talk about, and it was Claudio's AEW Death Riders theme. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Holy. [00:54:37] Speaker C: We've gotten to hear it the last two weeks, and I didn't really take notice of how cool it was last week. I was just like, oh, yeah, this is good. And then, like, I listened to it, paused the episode of Dynamite and went and listened to it in full. The, like, mashup they do of, like, the 1812 Overture and the Moonlight Sonata in this weird, like, just minor, imposing, final boss ass souls ass sounding music that, like, Claudio comes out to is amazing. [00:55:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:55:04] Speaker B: Yep. It's very imperial sounding. Like. Okay. I don't know if it's. [00:55:09] Speaker A: It is actually funny you mentioned it. It's like. It's like soul. It's like a Dark Souls boss theme. Like, I would. I would fight Claudio over and over again. No matter. Killed me just like, keep listening. [00:55:20] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah, it's. It's one of those. And I was, like, really impressed. And we should get to hear that every week instead of the other Death Riders music. [00:55:29] Speaker B: Audio went up. The Rockets was like, make me 40k the song. [00:55:33] Speaker C: Yeah, pretty much. [00:55:35] Speaker A: He even has like a. He even has, like. It even has, like a second phase. [00:55:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:41] Speaker A: Key shift to it. I don't even know what his phase two would be. Is like, after he hits the giant swing and he goes into phase two. [00:55:50] Speaker C: He just whistles out, now I am. [00:55:53] Speaker A: Claudio Castagnoli, banker. [00:55:59] Speaker C: Claudio Castagnoli sounds like a Dark Souls or like a bloodborne ass. [00:56:03] Speaker A: Like Grant his eyes. [00:56:09] Speaker B: Like, Claudio shows out in this match, too. I want to see Claudio versus Bandito for the ROH title. Like, after this. That would be a. See. [00:56:20] Speaker C: I wanted to see Claudio and Brody King just have a big old horse fight. [00:56:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, no, without a doubt. [00:56:26] Speaker A: I know, but like, that. That Was one of the things I wrote down was like, as soon as Bandito gets in there with Claudio, I was like, ah, he's in his L, catching and throwing luchadors. [00:56:35] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's like, yeah, next roh pay per view have Claudio challenge for. I mean, they would Absolutely. [00:56:42] Speaker A: 100. Yeah. [00:56:44] Speaker B: There's some just like, crazy stuff between them. Like I said. I mean, it's. These guys just are all. It's four dudes, you know, are gonna put on a fantastic. [00:56:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:53] Speaker B: Like, you know, this is gonna be just work. Wait, work. Great work. [00:56:57] Speaker A: And like, that's kind of the thing. There wasn't a whole lot to this match. Like, it was kind of short as far as, like, title matches go, but. [00:57:07] Speaker C: It was jam packed. [00:57:09] Speaker A: It was so well done. It was like the perfect big guy, little guy, tag teams fighting each other. [00:57:15] Speaker B: There's one point where, like, Bandito goes for a poison ran on Claudio and Claudio catches it. But then Bandito flips it into that, like, turns into that Yoshi tonic, like, flip tile driver thing. I was like, yeah, like, I've seen Claudio doing that spot since, like, you know, the 2000 and tens with Mike Wackenbush back in the day. And it never ceases to amaze. Like, it's just. It's such a physics defying move to me. I don't understand how this happens. This is also where the. It's hella. I wrote down that tweet that popped up. It's hella potholes in Philly. Gabe might be cooked. [00:57:52] Speaker A: He really is. Really. It's like, yeah, it's. [00:57:55] Speaker B: I like to see the word hell I used. [00:57:57] Speaker A: It's. It's September and there's so many potholes out here. [00:58:01] Speaker C: It's awful. [00:58:04] Speaker D: And say hello without Ella. So I'm into it. [00:58:10] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:58:12] Speaker C: I do want to let you know you have found your Halloween blue sky name. It's just Hella Taylor. You're welcome. [00:58:22] Speaker A: I would have just said Elloween, but. [00:58:24] Speaker B: Okay, thank you. [00:58:26] Speaker D: That's where I was going. Yeah. [00:58:28] Speaker B: Halloween. Yeah. Yeah. The. This is the. Cool. I like the. Utah's still selling the thumbtacks from earlier. Like, you get tagged in. He's kind of like, ah, my neck. I don't know why it sounds like that. [00:58:41] Speaker A: Ah, my neck. [00:58:43] Speaker B: Ah, my groin. Yeah, I'm really Utah. That's what I sound like. [00:58:47] Speaker A: The part of Willy Utah will be played by Jack Balance. No. Oh, God. What was that guy's name? [00:58:53] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:58:54] Speaker A: Oh, I can't remember the character. [00:58:55] Speaker C: Ernest Work Knife. [00:58:56] Speaker A: No. [00:58:57] Speaker B: It wasn't. I'm just doing a old George, Scott and Wheeler heater. [00:59:01] Speaker A: Getting spiked by thumbtacks. [00:59:05] Speaker C: Give that man my groin. [00:59:08] Speaker B: Oh, my neck. There we go. [00:59:17] Speaker A: God, I hate myself. [00:59:20] Speaker B: Oh, no, that's. You figured out who I was doing. [00:59:22] Speaker A: That's per Georgie, Scott and Wheeler unit getting slammed. [00:59:26] Speaker B: If I'm doing voice, it can be traced back to a Simpsons bit on my neck. Yeah. They go for their crazy little flip finishers, but Maria's in there. Marina distracts the ref, and Moxley comes out attacking Brody. Yuta and Claudio hit a cool ass like, fastball special off the top. And ditto kicks out. They do that giant swing into the drop kick spot. That always looks cool. Darby comes out, Max Mox. Because you can't have one without the other, apparently, at this point. But the end is, I thought was really cool. Where I think it was. Yuta's going for a dive or something, and Brody pops up and just smashes him with the forearm. And you just left draped on the ropes leading to the 21. [01:00:26] Speaker C: Much less contrived than that move often is. [01:00:30] Speaker B: It was good setup. Yeah. Like, I. That's an awesome looking move, but the setup can take so long sometimes. And it takes out. But this was like, oh, there's a reason he's straight over. He just got his head mashed in. But yeah, no, I thought that was a great way to do it. Yeah. Cool ass match all around. [01:00:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I liked it. I do just especially just want to say I like that they called the fastball special. Fastball special. [01:00:52] Speaker B: Yes. [01:00:52] Speaker D: Appreciate that very much. [01:00:54] Speaker B: That's good match. Moved along. They have backstage, and we got Renee and Okada. Renee asked about the tension between Okada and Takeshita, and Okada says that he is the top dog in the Don Cal family. And then says the bitch. It's kind of like the Windsor thing where it's like, all right. Something beyond just saying the word. [01:01:16] Speaker D: The look on. The look on Renee's face, I feel like said it all was just like. Could you not have given him something else? [01:01:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:25] Speaker D: Other than it's funny when he says. [01:01:29] Speaker A: Here's the thing is like, he thinks it's funny when he does it. Like he's. [01:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:01:34] Speaker A: He's gonna do it until he gets bored of it. Because Okada is essentially a huge man child. Like, that's. [01:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He's a comedy wrestler who was born in the body of a big man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this guy's still a vocabulary. Could we get something. It was the same thing happened during the Swerve feud. Like there really wasn't much substance besides like I'm Okada. I'm really good. [01:02:00] Speaker A: I mean there's not really like, there's not really much you can say. But like this. The very, very slow build for Okada Takeshita is awesome. [01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's it's it's leading to that. I don't the build could be Okada pooping on a chair outside and if that mask I was stoked. [01:02:35] Speaker C: It's about this time that the ghost of George C. Scott managed to hear what talking we were doing about him and did try and fireball our humble little theater. But lo, he managed to miss and only hit our desk and damage our recorder and equipment. Any items related to any kind of cloning that may or may not be in said studio as well as said theater studio are all fine. But the rest of the recording was lost. It may or may not be up on the Patreon as well as the explanation is to why I'm suddenly a Western gentleman. But if you want to go find out why for yourself, head on over to patreon.com Monday night fake fights and hear just what happened. Thank you and good.