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We always have thousands of people watching live on Twitter, X, Twitch, Facebook, any number of other platforms. But I heard very shortly before the show and we included it in our scoops thread. There was a new theme coming to AEW Dynamite. And when I was told what it was, I didn't report it, Alex. Do you know why I didn't report it? Because there would be a high likelihood considering what song it was that you might be getting pumped. Exactly. I thought it was a rib, Alex. I thought that the person was sarcastically telling me they got the pointer sisters. I'm so excited for AEW Dynamite. I mean, the last time I remember the pointer sisters being used so prominently in a piece of media, it was when Hugh Grant danced to jump, jump for my love in love, actually. It's been a minute since I thought of the pointer sisters. And I want to say, I respect the pointer sisters for their contributions to music. But I was a big Beverly Hills cop guy and there was way too much of the pointer sisters in that series. I had my fill of the pointer sisters watching those. I don't know that I needed this. Now, I will say this, the brief glimmer of a moment of which I took this seriously as a theme song for hearing it, I thought, man, that's a terrible idea. I will say that seeing it in an execution, it was far less corny that I had anticipated. However, my expectations of corny-ness were so far off the charts, it was going to be difficult to live up to that. Yeah. Honestly, I feel like it could grow on me. There's a certain kind of vibe of excitement that you get from the pointer sisters. And to me, it's not well-dressed man stabs another fella in the forehead or a scissors. That's a different kind of excitement vibe than the pointer sisters are given out. Yeah, that was something. So let's talk about the music choices here. I am not saying we have to go back to the days of Lint Biscuit and saliva, although pretty good. Listen, they're in Vogue now. What's the union? What's the union underground doing? Like can we get those boys on the horn and figure out if they can cobble together something? I don't know. That was a pretty good song. It was. And I'm like, okay, when you and I were talking up the air, I'm like, Elton John, he's great. He's great. He's a legend. The song is about fighting, okay. But it's from how long ago? Right. A long time. Fifty years ago. Yeah. Yeah. I love November rain. It's a wonderful song. It's a very famous song. Yeah. I don't know if it necessarily fits. I mean, they were doing something with the dramatic, the overdramatic nature of the build, the pay-per-view. I let them get away with it. I thought it was. But like, but I wouldn't say that November rain should be the theme song for every week of Dynamite because some weeks it just won't fit. You know what I mean? To me, that was when I saw Ricochet with a pair of sisters, I was like, perhaps that the pointer sisters didn't realize what they were getting so excited for. Yes. And listen, if you are a if you're the pointer sisters, yeah. Obviously you're like, hell yeah. Run me that. Run me that coin. Friends. And I mean, usually one of the benefits of something like this is just you cultivated an entire new generation of fans. Listen, I don't think the pointer sisters are going to see their Spotify streams shoot up that much over this. Although I will say this, like, downstate made a career of it. Like, Alter Bridge were already successful and had, you know, some really brilliant musicians involved. But objectively, it cultivated a generation of fans for them as a result of their edge theme. I don't know. I don't know, man. Don't know how I feel about. Listen, it is a song that quite literally everybody is at least familiar with the terminology around, even if they haven't heard the song itself. I mean, it's a part of our lexicon, Jesse Spano even introduced it to a whole new generation of people. But that generation was 30 years ago, Alex. Yes, that's true. That when your song was introduced to a new generation and that generation was 30 years ago, perhaps the song is too old to be used now. Just maybe, maybe, I'm not saying definitively, but I'm like, man, royal blood is around. Like, you've got some good bands that are still out there. Yep. And if you're going to spend a ton of money, I'm like, my God, man, do some desire videos. That's what I think we should see more of. I want to see Hangman Page with Lil Nas X, Rodeo, or Rihanna Desperado, something like that. Like, videos like that. I think those would go a lot longer than somebody says, royal blood, really, Sean. Yeah, they're a great band, Eat My Ass. Yeah, like, they're, they're, yeah, yeah, leave a thumbs up. Beyond the theme song, see, Delgado says, best say by the bell crossover ever. And Thomas says, why was there no picture in picture ad breaks on Max? I don't have the answer to that. I mean, they went commercial free for about the first 30 minutes and something we had reported on Fightful Select, they had made it clear to AEW that they wanted the Cincinnati show in two weeks to be an important one. I think it's something advertising related. That's why they're doing the maximum carnage. That's why they're doing the world title match with, you know, in Moxley's hometown at that. But I'm not sure on the commercial things, but listen, if you're tired of commercials, hit that Nord VPN dot com slash Fightful, get a triller and then don't, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Somebody says, are you spending this much time talking about a song? Uh, yeah. Well, guess what? There, there's about, I don't know how many other AEW dynamite reviews if you don't like it. But yeah, we are spending this much time talking about a song. Yeah. And then we'll talk. I'm sorry, Arthur. Is that not excite you? Were you not able to maintain control? What I thought, what I thought, keep stepping buddy, Matty Nice says SRS. Why isn't number nine in the C P O T Y conversation? I don't know what you're talking about, Matty Nice college player, the college player of the year. I don't know who number nine is. Is this football? Is this football? I don't follow college football. Yeah. Lord Peter says nothing gets hardcore pro wrestling fans, Jack, like Elton John. Now the pointer sisters, who's lined up for shockwave, Cindy Loper, share, give my granny her record collection back, Tony. Um, though I miss, listen, right now shockwave is just a theory. It's a hypothetical. It's not a real thing. No. But I'll tell you something that was a real thing, the good and bad of production. And I wouldn't even say the bad, just some things that I noticed. First off, LED boards are back. I like that. I like that they've got a combination of them. They did away with them for a little bit because I know that like the wrestlers actually preferred going into the non led ones. They are not nearly as violent on them, but objectively, like on TV, it looks a lot more colorful, bright and vivid with the LEDs. They sort of have a compromise where in some spots, they had the originals and then they had the LEDs around the back. The apron doesn't have the LED anymore. But the lighting on this show, Alex, was 2019, 2020, ask and it's something that I bitch and moan about almost weekly. Show us that people are there. Let us see the wrestlers. This was the best looking dynamite I have seen in probably a few years. Yeah, I really liked the look of it. Like we've been talking about that the smaller venues really work for them. This felt like everyone was right on top of the action, a lot of fun. The Hammerstein stuff looked great. This looked really good. Let's keep it with this type of lighting in these size venues, and I think it's a lot of the people who in bad faith like to point out how cavernous and dark everything looks like. Not that they're wrong, just that they're doing it to score some kind of points. I prefer watching a show that doesn't look like it's that dark. Yeah. WWE has a neat little trick that you'll notice now whenever you watch it to avoid that cavernous look, even though they've got asses and seats. They will have like a board of sporadic lights that is up behind their LED board. That way it's not as just dark in the background. I think I think AEW should pick that up. And also, I've mentioned this about a hundred times. They need to pick up the blanket sound that WWE does. It's something that I know that WWE started to do around the pandemic because they applied it over their show for the Thunderdome. Shocker guys, your webcam microphone was not the audio that was being pulled or the Thunderdome. They had a blanket sound, and they just kept that blanket sound. And I think it's worked really well because you don't see things on WWE TV where you can hear a pin drop anymore. And I think that's important because there are those times on AEW, TNA, all these other companies you hear it all the time. I'm like, man, just take that from WWE, play the blanket sound, not, and somebody says, Sean, please know the blanket sound is awful. You know what's worse than that? When Bobby Fish comes out and becomes a fucking meme because nobody's making a noise. When undisputed music hits and everybody does this, yeah, that's worse. That's worse. Most people don't even know that there's a blanket sound. Most people have no idea of that. I'm not talking about laying an audio, no, no, not, not, no, not laying an audio over the top, just keeping a base sound underneath it almost sounds like white noise. It's just something there to fill the void. Yeah. Yes, but man, this is, I mean, this looked incredible, and the crowd was not nearly as loud as I had anticipated it. But overall, I think the show ended up good. And again, it looked like a million bucks. It looked incredible. Mattie Nice's burrow come back player of the year. Oh, that's what, yeah. Homeback player. Yeah, he could absolutely win come back player of the year. That would probably piss him off though, honestly. Patrick Rick says, speaking of Alterbridge, why not use the other side for a new Dynamite theme since Coaps former stable isn't using it anymore? Listen, I'll do respect. I can't think of anything in the song of theirs. I want to hear less right now. Yeah, not that, not that one than that. I would be happy if I never heard that song again in my life. That shimbles does great show to see live. Hope it was great for everyone else. I'm mostly bummed about Bryce, not reffing because he's the man. Zach, listen, I'll do respect to Bryce. I think you're the only one that's disappointed about that or that notice. He says, happy new year, Fightful, Omega next week. Let's go. Fightful Select did report that Omega is headed over to Japan already. Also, full disclosure, the other night I mentioned I was trying to push against raising the price of Fightful Select. Jimmy Vandy up yesterday and he said, hey, bud, we're raising it up to $6. Just the base tier, other tiers aren't going up. You can lock in $54 a year right now through the end of the month. We have more details over on Fightful Select.com, but we have the Death Riders promo, Alex. How do you feel about this one? I'm the only one still riding for the Death Riders. I am the ride or die for the Death Riders and not that I can't see where everybody has problems with it. I just feel like they're having too much of a problem with it. I'm still willing to let most of, because I know this is a long-term story. This is not a story where John Moxley attempts murder on Brian Danielson and then holds the belt for three months. You know what I mean? It's got to be a longer-term story. I just don't think they can keep this till May and then have Darby beat him only for Darby to lose it immediately to Christian Cage. They need to figure out what the story for everybody else is. I am in charge here. Are you? I can do things. And it's not him. I'm not blaming Moxley. I honestly feel like if there was any other wrestler I probably wouldn't trust him as much to fight for good story beats and something else, but there needs to be more. I'm frankly surprised we haven't seen the Death Riders expand at all. I for sure thought we were going to get Jack Perry joining them after Jack Perry lost the TNT title. I didn't get it all. I thought they haven't done anything with him, so I was like, "What do you do with Jack Perry?" Apparently the answer is nothing, but I thought the thing that they could do is put him there because we did see John Moxley interact with Jack Perry when the Death Riders were first forming saying, "I don't care what everybody says, I think you're a sweet kid." And I like the idea of him bringing him under his wing and we are you to getting jealous and there being stories within the Death Riders that actually propel the internal workings of it. There's a whole bunch of stuff here. The one thing I don't understand is why I'm not using his new name. Why Adam Copeland is the choice here because frankly, when I think of somebody coming to the bat for AEW, for the soul of AEW, a guy I don't that doesn't come to mind immediately is Adam Copeland. And so that doesn't make a lot of sense to me when there's a lot of other people you could be pushing in that direction. Frank says saliva click-click boom would work as an intro. It worked better than the Pointer Sisters, that's for damn sure. We get Kenny Omega video package in Ocata Venet. Ocata seems more annoyed with Kenny Omega than anything else. But listen, they are very clearly leaning into this for AEW all in Dallas. I don't know how they can start that build now and keep it until then. I think that is, I didn't like it when the Rock and John Cena teased it like a year ahead. So I definitely, I'm definitely not good with AEW doing the seven month thing unless they get real creative and let's hear some real great plan behind it. Any thoughts on this? I just think that Kenny Omega coming back like the Young Bucks are absent. Yeah. Young Bucks aren't there. Jack Perry is not there. The only guy from the elite that tried to murder Kenny Omega with his own diverticulitis, they were like kicking him in the gut over and over again. They dumped him off of a stretcher while he was dying. Like the one guy that is available for Kenny Omega to get physical revenge on is Kazuchka Ocata. I don't understand why he would wait seven months to do that. So it feels like that's got to come out of it sooner. The way you wrote Kenny Omega off of TV was incredibly violent and incredibly personal. He needs to get some kind of measure of revenge for that. Otherwise I just don't feel like it's pro wrestling. So I, I don't know what we're going to, how we're going to get that so late in the game. Needs to happen sooner to me. Shiteown Spurs says, I'll take pointer sisters over 2000s, Ozfest acts in 2025 any day of the week. I wouldn't. I wouldn't give me static acts. Give me drowning pool, literally anything, anything, this millennium. He likes city says, decent first episode on max, love where the storylines are headed. Not sure I feel about the theme song, maybe it'll grow on me. The look of the show, lighting cameras is vastly improved. SRS will max do picture in picture. So we didn't see that now. But again, I mean, I know that you also mentioned triller here. Triller didn't have anything to do with the, the look of it. It was an AW and WBD thing, but I, I would be surprised if they don't do picture in picture moving forward. But also this deal may have prevented that. I don't know. If I were them, I would want, if I were an advertiser, I'd want picture in picture. I think that would be very good for them. Luis says, bespoke theme idea used dynamite by the roots. Listen, I would love that. I love the roots. I also love this opening. Go ahead. Sorry. Now somebody, somebody mentioned AC DC dirty, these don't jerk sheep. And I was like, well, it's dynamite. What about TNT? Although it is on TV. Yes. Yeah. Son of a bitch. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, hangman page defeated orange Cassidy. I thought this was a great first match to open up the, the AW on max era. My God, man, I, I just think this is good and you need a guy like hangman page just winning a match sometimes, sometimes on your TV show. And that's what this was, a guy who is largely protected in orange Cassidy, or at least has been in recent years. And then quite frankly, the guy who has been the main character of AW dynamite since its inception. Yeah. Adam, hangman page. I loved everything about this. No, I, I loved it too. I actually, and I honestly love the way it played out and hangman getting the win. Like, he's, he's been kind of like in, in major singles matches since beating swerve. He has not had great success. So I like him getting the victory here over orange Cassidy. He was bulletproof and will always be. So I just don't know then what, what is, what is next for both of these guys. It seems like their J white is moving toward a rematch one on one with Moxley probably at that grand slam show in Australia, so close to New Zealand. But I don't know if it, maybe we just get this thing expanding this orange Cassidy doesn't let it, let it go with, with hangman who was all too happy to continue beating up orange Cassidy. I'm sure it's I think where both of these guys go. But they're incredibly prominent members of the, of the AW day one roster. And so they need to have something very important to do because although I do believe the arguments are all not necessarily in good faith, like it's all just ex w we guys doing everything. Like, wait, come on. And so I get that that is a perception and one of the ways to make sure that's not perceived anymore is to keep guys like hangman and J white and orange Cassidy near the top of the card. Hangman attacks Christopher Daniels after the match. Yeah. Cool. Christopher Daniels isn't an EVP anymore. Doesn't matter. Yeah. Ivan says, can he win the title from to cash to for revenge and goes after Okada or revenge and the goat status? Ivan, I actually think that happens. I think that Kenny will win the international title from to cash to and then we will see at all in a unification bout and one of those title belts will go away. I fully fully for Vicki as SRS had an idea, Beth goes after Marina. Do you think or maybe no? I pitched that. I mentioned that on Alex's show the other night. I think a quick way to end the death writers thing is one have Beth Phoenix neutralized Marina and I long pitched this as a thing for for MJF to be babyface but it won't work now. He's already been babyface but that Beth and FTR encourage Adam Copeland to recruit Christian cage and you may go, well, why would he do that? Well, because John Moxley is such a piece of shit that Adam Copeland relies on the only guy he knows that can out piece of shit John Moxler and you might say, well, why on earth would Christian cage do that? Because when on earth is Christian cage ever going to get to cash in that briefcase with death writers running around, they wouldn't let him cash in before Moxley had the title. It's less now that he does have it and I would love that and then what I would love is Adam Copeland to screw Christian cage out of his cash in. I think that would be a wonderful that would be excellent and could be really good. Van, oh, she also says, decided to give Kate all my love in 2025 since you hate Darby. My theme is dirty needs done dirt sheet by AC DC. I'm done with AC DC as an act, as a wrestling contingent thing. Like, listen, I don't want them to make a new theme. I don't want, I don't want them to, T and T, I don't want them to be like, it's TBS. I don't want to see any of that shit either. I'm done with them. I mean, something like, I don't know, if you want blood, you've got it would at least be more thematically appropriate than I'm so excited by the pointer sisters. And Jim and Hader says any update on Kevin Knight, yeah, he's deals up this week. He's defending the tag titles this weekend. They're in no danger of that. He's already in Japan, but I know he is keeping an open mind about things. I know that he had been discussed within AEW and pitched by a few people. He is a guy that I think that honestly, I think AEW and WWE should be interested in. I would be signing him if I were AEW or WWE tomorrow, I would be bringing him in. T and A obviously had interest in them as well. And he also says any predictions on when speedball debuts. I think next week in the casino gauntlet would be a really great opportunity. If he doesn't have to take a pin, he can get some shine. I think that'd be cool. So that's the same spot for it for sure. Yeah. Hurt syndicate defeated the acclaimed, but there was a segment before this that I loved where Max Castor is doing his greatest wrestler live and Anthony Bowen's cuts him off. And he's like, no, no, no, no, did you, did you mean to hit me when I almost had Jericho beat? And I loved Max Castor in this. He did the thing that wrestlers should have done a long time ago. He's like, why'd you wait till we were on camera? To ask me this. He's like, you've had days to ask me this. We literally prepped for this shot. You waited for that and Bowen's is like, don't change the subject. And I think that was Bowen's way of putting him on the spot, like he wanted a straight up answer. Yeah. But I love this interview. Yeah, I thought it was decent. I like this a lot. Just let's do it. No, no more like we are at the finish line. Let's break them up for God's sake. We're at the finish line. I don't need three more weeks of this. We'll just do it next week. I mean, even they should have done it today, honestly. But next week is good. If you don't do it next week, do it the week after that on an episode of collision I'd be fine with. You could do like a little thing exclusive to Max, a little backstage segment that's only shown on Max. Just get it done. Get Bowen separated from Max Kaster and I'll be happy. Yeah. And Anthony Bowens did leave him high and dry and let an ass with him happen. Now, it was referenced. He had to tag it himself in because he like, so Bowen's like, okay, fine, you want to wrestle so badly? Have Bobby Lashley all of yourself. And that got his ass whooped and MVP was asked about what happened with Max Kaster. The acclaimed and he's like, well, we gave the business card, but the guys said no. They said they don't, they don't want him in there. You don't want him. Yeah. Here's the other thing. I mean, this, I'm obviously, you know, kayfabe is kayfabe, but I feel like this is a special receipt. The vessel receipt being given to Max Kaster for the time Max Kaster played when a Bobby Lashley sisters. I feel like that's probably right. What that little, little Easter egg in there for me, Mercedes, kind of promo. It happened. It existed. It was a thing. Yeah. I liked it. And I really liked her video package of herself. I put it with the number four, number six and number one in the top 10 of women's matches. I'm glad that she said that she had a W do it because every other time it looks like a person is coming out to the ring to just like, run the video they made on Windows Movie Maker. No, or I got, I got on Fiverr.com and hired a video editor to make this for me. You know what I mean? But I was going to joke that they got Tyga style to do it, but he works for AEW now. So, like, I, I, I thought this was, I just, I liked everything. And then I, but I just, it was like, Oh, it's over. I fully expected there to be a somebody comes out and interrupts and says, I'm your next challenger and Camille or somebody, I thought somebody, somebody, somebody, yeah. They, I'm trying to find out what's up with that. 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Mr. Bandana Head says SRS, any news on more integration of AEW and Warner, the crossover potential is huge. By the way, SGS for life yesterday meant a lot to all of us. Thank you. Alex did a new year's stream last night. It was great. I dropped by Jeremy dropped by. We did an episode of Fightful Cribs where we looked at my, what is it, Herringbone floor? Herringbone pattern floor is very nice. Very nice. Herringbone pattern floor. Hendrix need your ceilings. Yeah. I got really high ceilings. Yeah. I got really high ceilings. I'm working to find out more of the integration between AEW and Warner. I mean, I'd be surprised if we don't see additional shows along the way, like reality shows and special events and stuff like that. We saw Julia Hart defeat Jamie Hader. This is one they planned on for quite a while. Meet Norma says Happy New Year's Brothers, more meet and women's wrestling, two LT photo ones in the book, Athena, the shelf presence once a continued statlander push, Marina, some AEW OGs, but Julia Hart, Jamie Hader, it was fine match, it was okay. Crowd wasn't quite as into it as I would have liked, but there's been something just missing a little bit since both of these women have returned, at least with interest crowd reaction, they both left effectively as either upon losing the titles, then came back and that magic wasn't quite there. Hopefully, this is a step towards regaining that, Alex. Yeah, I am, I don't know, I'm a sucker for Julia Hart, like she just does the character so damn well. That entrance is the best to me, like it's the song, the crowd singing along with it every time she comes out, just the way that the, the in silhouette and she raises the arms to the Christ pose as the house always where it's just brilliant, I love it. And so she comes in and she gets to do all of that stuff and be herself. And Jamie Hader, I think is kind of like, but I'm better than you. So I'm just, I'm going to beat you. You're very good. Don't get me wrong, but I'm better than you. And that's the way that she wrestles the match. And you know, Julia Hart has something up her sleeve. And eventually she, you know, drops her off the top rope in a very precarious position. The ribs hurt. And then she brings out an arrow. And I just, she was racing over her head like she was going to stab her with the arrow. And, and I just thought, get a bow, get a bow to why not, like, no, why not, why not get the bow to. Listen, hold on, you put audience members at risk at that point. Like that's the last thing we need. I'm not saying shoot it at her. She didn't actually stab her with the arrow, just, just, you know, back a little bit and then let it down. It was, it was a decoy to set up the mist. So like right now nobody knows that Julie is not crazy enough to stab them with an arrow. Like how many times did we see the berserker try to swing a sword at somebody? That's, that's true. Even Drew McIntyre, like swinging and missing with the sword over and over again. Yeah, I get it. At some point, why is there a good stab? I mean, somebody got stabbed tonight. It just, it just didn't, wasn't with a bow, it was, you know what, that's a fair point. That's a fair point. Robert Wildman says, said it before women need the casino gauntlet match to refresh number one contenders for the titles. I agree with that. I will say this, the casino gauntlet match that's being promoted for next week appears to be one of the more loaded ones and more important ones in a long time. It does, it does appear so, although we don't know how people are in it and it's very possible. It's like, you know, Evil Uno and the Butcher are in it too. You know what I mean? It's like, guys I like, but guys not near the top of the car. So we saw like Jay White, Swerve and Roddy Strong interviews with Alex Marvez, but Swerve says, you know why I've never been in a casino gauntlet and Alex Marvez like wisely answers and he goes, you were the champion and Swerve's like, that's right. And so he's in it and then, you know, we've got Jay White defeating Roderick Strong and Swerve, we're going to talk about just the match right now. Jay White winning this one, you got to keep Jay White strong. That is very, very important. Swerve is going to stay over. Now I'm not saying he should be out there eating pins like Will Osprey because I think at this point, Will Osprey should become AEW's Cody. He should almost never lose now. He's put those Ls under his belt. But I digress. Jay White winning I think is a good idea and it's this unique situation where you want to be number one in the casino gauntlet because you stand a better chance of winning if you can get somebody out of there really, really quickly. You always factor into the equation. You can't be excluded from the equation if you're number one of the casino gauntlet, which is, you know, a nice different approach compared to what we've seen for the last 35 years with the Royal Rumble where you work to be the last person in. Right, I need them to do a shock when three guys are in there, otherwise I don't buy it. Because I know the match is going to have nine or ten guys in it. So in kayfabe, yeah, you want to be the first guy. But I know for a fact that's not actually true. So book it sometime where you have a crazy shock victory when there's only two or three guys in there. I then cut backstage to a murderer's role of the top dudes in the AEW going, oh man, I didn't even get into this one. So I think they should do that. What they should do is one night they should impromptu announce a casino gauntlet. That way it's not like an advertised thing people are buying tickets for. And to your point, like, I feel like somebody wanted to think to happen. Either somebody so dominant, like for example, earlier we saw Hobbes when this incredible squash match, like he just runs through somebody or there's somebody scummy that does something really shitty to win it. And then that whole murderer's row has it out for that guy. Sure. That's the thing. And the story becomes like everybody's got it out for him now. That could be good, too. But the real thing that people are talking about is what happened after this because I compared Ricochet the other day, Alex to Jason Jordan, 2017, where Jason Jordan was working a whole lot of people. They were convinced that he sucked and that he was actually this cornball. And I'm like, well, that's the thing. Like Jason Jordan was this uber talented guy who was trying to be a Nepo baby, even though he was supremely talented. And he's like, oh, well, now I got shortcuts. Ricochet is this like supremely athletic talented guy who is being this cornball. And like I had long said, well, I'd love for him to be an RVD type where he knows how good he is. No, this works a lot better him being this absolute cheese ball and getting bullied and treated like one. And then it's like, well, no, actually he's Patrick Bateman. Actually he's a psychopath and he's going to show up in his high waters and glasses and stab you in the brain with a pair of scissors. This ruled Ricochet plated off so well in Swear Strickland sold it so well. Yeah. I don't think this could have went over better. Shiteown Spurs says Ricochet is Patrick Bateman is a brilliant idea. I thought this was a grand slam. He's Patrick Bateman's great. He's wearing Jeffrey Dahmer glasses like it's like he's like they've they've they showed us that man snap at at World's End they they him standing there with the toilet paper and then this the that happened to be a perfect perfect accident where somebody threw one and it landed so that part of it was like draped over his shoulders like it was a toilet paper scarf and it's just sticking to his sweat and he's just standing there and you can see that man going crazy behind his eyes and swerves out there like ha ha ha catch a trip and he has no idea that he's going to be murdered in a few days. But at that point, Ricochet knew the only thing about this that I that I wanted to pay off in some way is the scissors specifically like I wanted him to like the why the scissors and then he gets him into the ring and this is why I'm so funny so funny that I'm bald right snip a dread snip another fish full of dread snip him I got to know if swerves willing to do that but that would be an amazing thing to be like I lost my mind. You know what I mean? Man love that man loves his art. He loves his art. He does love his art if he thinks that will make art you never know I don't want to speak for him but Tom LaValle also says Jay White hits a blade runner one move done. You know what with all the kick out talk I have long pitched a thing where it's like you've got Jake Roberts. I would love to have a vignette where he's teaching someone not how to do a DDT how to do his DDT and I would love if a casino gauntlet just started with that person bam they saw a DDT and they're like oh fuck that's it okay wow like that we get that that move over again immediately and I think I convinced a good plain DDT like that can always get over as a finish Frank M says not gonna lie they'd hook me I thought ricochet with the scissors are gonna start cutting dreads off and they can bald because that's been sourcing listen to Frank M and Las Vegas in lockstep with you Alex nice I love it Frank good brilliant minds there. Marie Aqua says Sean and Alex Happy New Year's best six dollars and best sixty nine dollars a year it's actually gonna be sixty four dollars here but he says I can only assume watched on Max it was such an easy way to watch Dexter ricochet excited for 2025 and AEW after tonight it was a very good show it was a very good show I just thought this was a grand slam and I did enjoy I watched it on Max even though I do have triller with the Nord VPN thing I've got Max as well so yeah Tony Miller says distracting the ref with a giant red arrow is objectively hilarious though but it would work the ref is like okay hold on now we can't be doing this and calm down Katniss ever Dean this isn't your thing go back to district 12 and we'll talk about this yeah Jeff Jared is such a god damn carny um I love him but he teases this thing about his big announcement and his thing is listen he references TNA he references his family which is great but this is the most Dixie Carter thing he could have done I remember when she touted like this big announcement and then she goes I am thrilled to announce our new deal with 76 in India and we're like we don't care we don't care but at least this served a purpose like Jeff does you know he's he's tugged at some heartstrings since the Owen and this you know I don't know how long this contract's gonna be what if he signed a five-year deal like don't don't you threaten me with that man don't you do it but he signed a five-year deal oh my god he says that he signed his last talent contract and he's going after the world title and he puts his name in the gauntlet next week in Clarksville two L.T. photos is put another women's match here Shiles versus next yeah I finished finish yeah finish Shiles versus next week shows in Clarksville an hour out of Nashville we just cut an emotional promo about one in gold Jeff Jarrett is winning the gauntlet listen I adore Jeff Jarrett as a person I like him as a performer I will not be going to that Cincinnati show I mean listen if it if it was if it was a gauntlet match that he was declaring himself for that wasn't in Tennessee and the title match that he got for winning that wasn't the following week I would be a lot more confident in saying there's no way he's winning that gauntlet match but because it's in Tennessee and because there's you don't have to do a three or four or five week build for the title shot you just have him show up and do it and Cincinnati is I don't know how far from Nashville but not not crazy far so like it's in Seattle so like you know what I mean like I mean I'm just saying I don't want it to happen even to have hours I don't want it to happen either but I don't think Jay White is winning it because Jay White I think is getting the title shot in February yeah so if it's a thing there and he can say I want the world title I don't think he's getting it but he comes for the world title this would be the very best way for him to get a title shot in my opinion because it wouldn't be like six months of like I've got I'm gonna keep winning and if I if I can win the next 10 matches then you got to give me a title shot I don't want to see any of that crap just get it over and done yeah he went into that title because I mean that's the thing he's not winning the title no um Frank says no hey don't double Jay when we tolerated I mean listen I love him as a person I think he's a brilliant wrestling mind but yeah Jared versus Darby is the main event of all in for Alex no no no this is the thing obviously there's the salmon color jacket we saw a couple months ago we saw AJ Styles in the pale blue color jacket we couldn't get Jared in a mint green jacket something on the pastel family you know just to like make it obvious that you were not going to actually retire you got the boots and the guitar in the ring just for you to come out and do this whole self-serving speech and say there's hell no I may retire in all my goodness couldn't this have been an email I mean yeah N. Simmons says little rant I don't know what Tony is thinking not having any live promos outside of a pointless Jeff Jarrett when maybe it would have woke up the crowd more I mean it could have been shorter if it was the swerve he could say my family did an awful lot of stuff yeah it could have been a few minutes shorter he says uh the edge big bill joke would have hit better in the ring oh boy do I have things to say about that but uh that will that will come after this segment in Simmons the MJF promo where he says thank god we're done with the Adam Cole story he says what everybody's thinking uh he's like thank god we're done with that and then he says John Moxley's running around with my title one that I shouldn't have lost and he's hiding it I want to show it off he's like he can do whatever you want to the company but I want my title back but he does it in an accent that makes me think that he's about to sing greased lightning like I don't know why he why the accent but uh he's bloodied he wants his title back it's it's good it's a clear direction yeah and I I appreciate him like because obviously the death writers are a heel faction and obviously MJF is very much a heel but that shouldn't stop him from wanting the other heel's title so many times like like other heels don't even attempt to come after the title that a different heel has like MJF absolutely has a as a reason to be like I should never have lost that title look what happened since I lost it the whole company's in the toilet you know what I mean like he's got this whole thing that he could easily be saying as part of a heel promo I think it works I don't know when or if he's ever gonna get that title shot but um did he did he announce for the casino gauntlet I believe so I don't if he did great I don't I don't remember that but I mean if so it's looking like MJF JY right Copeland Cole O'Reilly maybe Swerve hangman uh like like some big names could be in there I think Ricochet and Swerve should be in there and it should be a real Randy Savage Jake Roberts Royal Rumble situation where Swerve is consumed by by what goes on Sure uh learning tree segment they confront rated FTR um this is not 2000 edge from edging Christian we're talking about here uh I think he said the big bill at a like he looked stupid he has a stupid face is that what it is yeah your your face is so stupid Alex yeah the constant reference is that those two look alike yeah people called him tedge as tall edge for a long time or well I've heard the tedge thing but I didn't think uh tall edge I thought they were saying he looked like test and edge were melded together and maybe that's what I thought maybe you know what it works either way I work either way get your super chats get your humper chats in because we have a name change to talk about the rated R superstar cope now listen Adam Copeland does sound very pedestrian I will it does it does Copeland is Copeland I just get this just me the last name I feel like we all know who that is cope just gets a verb that is often used on the internet you know what I mean I know like it's just a weird thing like here's well now it's going to be used in a meme like when people say cope they're just going to use him now if if he were to have a match against moxelian lose the there'll be a meme of him laid out this is cope you know what I mean now this this this definitely does seem right now like a Walter Goonter thing and where it's like I might not hate it as much down the line I don't mind the announcers referring to him as cope like that's his nickname that you know him as around the around the arena but like yeah but the rated R superstar cope doesn't make a lot of sense my my thing was if if if rated FTR really are going to go for the trio's titles then Dax and Cash need to change their name to match they need to be sieve and cry more like because if that's the thing that I see on the internet is cope sieve and cry more is what everyone says in the comments I think that that's now a trio I think that's also good luck with the SEO there I was watching that interview with Mustafa Ali with Chris Van Vliet and he said the reason that they took away his name was because crowds were chaining Mustafa and Ali and like well congrats you don't have the precedence on SEO of Ali or Mustafa for that example but together you do yeah I don't know I guess Adam Edgeland it doesn't work but rated FTR did defeat the Death Riders Maddie Nice says with cope in person God damn it people are already calling him cope it's working this is the WBD counter with Osprey and Harry Potter great show today oh Julie has missed turns Hader Dark happy new year I think Kip Savia should probably be in some Harry Potter contingent thing I think he's the big fan yeah Corey David says did Adam try to get the edge name back and that's why W.E. reclaimed it similar to Christian with Captain charisma well Christian can always use Christian Cage he just probably also wanted Captain charisma if he could have it um that meant to be fumbled and left the rated R superstar out there right and in Simmons says was edge Copeland not available with copyright no they couldn't do edge Copeland that was that is too much of an infringement but um yeah Frank M is not a fan of cope it sounds weird since I really enjoyed the show though nice lighting camera shots were great hard cam with new higher view I was a big fan of the higher view yeah and the different camera angles give me different camera angles all the time different one every week yeah Ray says why didn't they do Death Riders FTR for the trio's titles because pack wasn't there I believe he's home right now but that feels like something you can easily do you know coming you know in a few weeks or whatever but I fully expect rated FTR to be the next trio's champions it doesn't make a lot of sense for them not to be they should be because their titles have been pretty worthless right they've been just they've been hung up on the death writers because they're not defending the titles so you know it'd be nice to do that I honestly really liked how with all of the shenanigans that were present I thought they were all executed very very well with Jay White coming into the end and getting a um the switch the blade runner on on Yuda and then running away which caused Claudio to follow him which left Yuda alone after that mocks had been thrown through the barricade by Copeland I thought I thought this was actually well put together and executed pretty well with all the shenanigans they did do like city says guys I don't get the death riders hate feels like people work fantasy booked them into a corner thinking this is some secret planner secret puppet master like Shane just a stable of guys kicking ass defend the trio's titles though please well that's because Moxley implied there was somebody they were working with I think I think that may have been a thing that they were going to do and then they realized that that wasn't going to work so they just dropped it and forgetting that that wrestling fans hang on every word and will then if anybody forgets they'll remind other fans and then it then it becomes a thing that now you got to do it you know so get your super chess get your home for chats and we are heading down the home stretch here also leave your comments your questions in the comments section afterwards I've been coming through and answering those I mean yeah they they did that they talked about how they wanted to recreate a w they tried to murder people um they said they were going to seize the superstation which which Alex they well they did but it was two months later like they killed rampage they did not but that but that was on TNT that wasn't even the superstation they had they had they promoted seized the superstation for that friday rampage yeah yeah that would have made a whole lot of sense yep that's true uh Alex tell the people what you got going on uh well over on Fightful Select there's lots of stuff uh that we did um um we our last uh review of a movie was Santa's Little Helper starring the Miz and Saraya which was known as Paige at the time that was a lot of fun we do a Monday Night Raw reviews I guess I'm reviewing a three-hour SmackDown this Friday that'll be fun uh yeah and then um we we did a review of World's End we did one a few weeks ago of Santa's Way and Event so every time there's a pay-per-view we always do a review of Fightful Select there our next movie review for this is cinema our Sister Sour Grab's podcast will be Hell Comes to Frogtown starring Roddy Roddy Piper oh boy oh boy Andrew says I think it's likely FTR joins the Death Riders they have a similar outlooks on this business brother I hope not yeah I want the Death Riders to go listen I think that it is time or the BCC the Death Riders to go away I think it's time for them to no longer be a thing um I don't look forward to it anymore and these are three or 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having MVP but like well you're not a kiss ass anymore but frankly we think that you are better doing what you're doing by the way you're doing it great on your own and we'll be watching from afar but you go get them champ because they don't want no piece of this this dude stabbed people with scissors we don't want no piece of this yeah uh and I think that he's he on his own is going to be just fine now and a motivated ricochet I think is very interesting jordan scott says I hope from jeff jared speech mocks mocks takes offense makes the decision to put him out because he doesn't have a choice yeah I would love mocks to be like you think that decision is yours like I can decide if you retire at any point that I want that's right and then plastic bags his head and I could listen I could see john mocksley being john mocksley and being like doing it in tennessee to and being like listen I'm a compassionate man oh if I shoot a lot of it I shoot old yellow in the head I'm doing it in his own backyard I love it the way he can rest in peace where he where he can have have have uh have you did like handcuffed uh lethal backstage have claudio take out satnam sing by himself yeah radish if you're holding back we just see him swinging satnam sing in the parking lot just on a loop one of the things that I really think they should have done during the thunderdome era we should have went to a commercial yes with claudio doing a swing and came back with him doing a swing missed opportunity michal says static ex mentioned appreciation tip listen man i'm a big bled for days push it uh i'm with stupid loved static ex my first email address Alex with static ex power man at hotmail.com because i like power man 5000 as well wow how about that one how about that wow that is okay it's quite the bombshell as they say guys thank you all so much you all really uh showed up for this for this show with super chats humper chats uh show up with comments as well uh i would i would greatly 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