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Uh, am I booking AEW? In ring between MJF and Hangman was amazing and tells me that TK or someone there is still looking at this board. And somehow, probably because she has an impossible amount of talent, Toni Storm put on the promo of the night and probably the promo of the year. She even referenced Osama bin Laden. What a wild promo.

I always thought Walken was completely innocent in all of that. But who knows.

Much like wrestling, I have loved SNL for as long as I can remember. Despite having a somewhat abusive upbringing, my parents would let me stay up and watch shit like SNL every Saturday, along with Superstars and Rollergames, if I could stay up and not fall asleep. Even during down seasons, I still watch and have a deep admiration for SNL. My knowledge for SNL is probably as deep as it is for wrestling and stand-up comedy. I got very teary eyed multiple times, both for being sad and being happy, through the concert and the special. To me, it was phenomenal. Robyn doing Dancing On My Own with David Byrne and it looking like David Byrne could be Robyn's dad melted my heart. That may have been my favorite part of the concert. There was a bunch of other stuff that I dug from the concert, but for whatever reason that stood out the most for me. For the special, the video flashback segments really got me and for the ones I was old enough to remember, it instantly brought me back to where I was when I saw those sketches. I was howling at Eddie Murphy doing Tracy Morgan. I was howling just as much for the return of GOULET~! and tiny hands Kristen Wiig. When the Goulet sketch kicked things off I was like, oh yeah, this is the Will Ferrell character I love the most. DEEP THOUGHTS BY JACK HANDY~! YEEEEESSSSSSS~! Man, every mention of Norm destroyed me. I think it was Colin Jost, I think, but whoever mentioned that it's amazing that out of 900 and some odd guest hosts that only two were murderers. I instantly knew OJ was one of them, but my wife and I were trying to think of the other and her guess was Robert Blake. I thought there was no way it could have been Blake because he never seemed cool enough to host even in the early days. Sure enough, she was right. I was super, super, super bummed that Bill Hader "politely declined" to be part of the festivities on the heels of Stefon being voted fans favorite character of all time. I kept hoping and hoping we'd see Stefon, but the most we got was a quarter of a second picture of Stefon during a video montage. I wonder what was up with that, and maybe it's a coincidence, but Dan Aykroyd and Hader have the same agent and Aykroyd also politely declined to appear. Hader is still maybe my favorite cast member of the last, god, 20 years or so? He had so many memorable sketches and characters like Vinny Veddci/Italian Talk Show: Herb Welch: Keith Morrison/Dateline: And of course Stefon and so many others. As someone who has watched all of SNL, I thought he had the most potential of damn near anybody to have been on the show since Bill Murray or Eddie Murphy and I think the talent he showed through the making of Barry showed that off. No disrespect to Tina Fey, Wiig, Pohler, Ferrell, or anyone else, I just think Hader is the best. No Justin Timberlake was disappointing too as he's one of the most well-loved and regarded hosts by Lorne, the cast, and crew. All in all it was a tremendous celebration of 50 years. I hope it never stops.

I don't think I've had food from Burger King in...almost 20 years? I don't eat hamburger (makes me gag, but steak, pot roast, shredded beef, etc. is all good), I don't like chicken nuggets that are processed, and I don't think I ever liked their chicken sandwich. I'm kind of a picky eater I guess. There just isn't much in the way of good fried chicken chains that serve more than just tendies or restaurants that serve good fried chicken in general. Like, Metro, if anyone has one, is alright, the locally owned joints in town are good but they all have wild hours because they're locally owned and when they are open, they're all busy as hell and it's a 20 minute drive to get to one. So that leaves supermarket deli fried chicken and thankfully my local supermarket rules when it comes to that. Also, since locally owned restaurants had a boom here just before covid and all of those places received funding to remain open during that time, we're lucky to have some good non-BW3/Wingstop/Other wing chain places in town with some ridiculously good wings. Sadly, it all comes down to something my cousins and I all were talking about when we got together at one of those places for the National Championship game - "Remember when wings were $.59 each and you didn't have to pay $1 extra for all flappers or drums?" And that wasn't that long ago. 10 wings is like $14.99 now. The cheapest is if you catch a place doing wings for $1 each as a weekly special.

What in the fuck? That's fucking bizarre. They're making money hand over fist.

I used to just eat boneless wings, but bone in wings have less calories as long as they aren't breaded and I like bone in much more now. Flappers/flats or GTFO. Good lord. Wingstop has the worst fries. Just awful.

Rax is the probably the first place I ever had seasoned curly fries. I loved it so much, but it opened up here when I was a kid and it closed up when I was a kid.

I hate Popeyes. Except for the chicken sandwich as long as there is no mayo on it. The nicer non-Meijer/Walmart grocery store here that has a bunch of locations scattered across northern IN and southern MI has some awesome fried chicken. Good chicken pieces, really good tendies.

Where all promising players go to die.

Man, I liked BNW a lot. This was, “Trying Loose Ends Together: The Movie,” but it was really well done. Not only that, but it does an impressive job of cleaning up past messes and seeing the table moving forward. The real test will be Thunderbolts to see if we’re back on the same page or pace from, say, phase 1 or early phase 2. The best comp I could make in the pantheon of all of these movies is probably Thor. Not great, not bad, good to pretty good. Harrison Ford actually had his acting shoes on and was as good in this as he is in Shrinking. Him and Anthony Mackie play off of each other really well. I didn’t mind the slower pace, I didn’t mind this not having the characteristic MCU humor, and the action scenes are good. My biggest problem comes from a polish and filmmaking standpoint. There are many, many, many shots where shit is visibly fuzzy. And it’s not just CGI shots. I’m talking about just your standard shots. Here’s what it is like - remember when phone cameras first started adding artificial depth of field to pictures to try to make them look more professional or better than your standard photo, but the post processing would leave it looking grainy? It’s like that and that is really inexcusable. It’s not even an issue of it looking unfinished or rushed like She Hulk. Whoever shot and edited this did some of the worst work in all of the MCU from a technical standpoint. Anyway, my wife and I had a good time. $17 well spent.

Editing this because this has already been addressed multiple times. It is still fucking idiotic. I'm agreeing with Niners for fucks sake.

EVERYONE keeps going to the Superdome in New Orleans. Did I miss something where they made substantial improvements to the stadium, or is it just more affordable to run and the city gives WWE, NCAA, and the NFL a lot of money to run big events there?

That had been the rumored location for awhile. I'm guessing Indy gets WM in 2027 unless they pull the trigger on a London WM in 2027.

If Harley doesn't win that fucking championship...

Like, this show fucking ruled. Hangman and Harley are the best. HARLEY CAN ALSO SPEAK CHINESE. WHAT NOW JOHN CENA?!

HANGMAN MOTHERFUCKERS Best main character in pro wrestling.

The movie thing came from him and my friend working out at the same gym in the valley, where he was at presumably because CJ was filming some reality series there. They would chat a few times and Miro would always say he's filming a movie. That could have just been him being nice and not wanting to say, "I'm being buried and not used on tv" or he could have been in the process of auditioning and just making himself sound better by saying he was filming various roles. Obviously he just wasn't being used, was just working out to stay in shape, and then moved back to Bulgaria after he got divorced.

Ok. I just listened to half of Frantic. It still sucks. I forgot how garbage and cringey and edgelordy the lyrics are. "My lifestyle, determines my death style." Ok there rich guy. The drums still sound like shit. They're toned down, but I don't think there's anything you can do other than somehow get access to the master files to that album, scrub out all of Lars' "work," and redo the percussion yourself.

Woah. This is the first I've heard of it. I'd give it a listen if it meant not hearing Lars' shitty tinny drums with the treble maxed out.

I see my notes about Tony's style were read by Coach.

I swear this looks like a I Think You Should Leave sketch. Hell, this might be the I Think You Should Leave movie like how Wet Hot American Summer was The State movie.

Yeah, that would be the one. I mean, if Miro is loaded, living his best life in Bulgaria, and doesn't need to wrestle anymore then more power to him. Like most wrestlers though, he'll be back. I don't know if it will be WWE or TNA, but I could see him doing spots for Bloodsport or House of Bullshit in NJPW. Wrestling in 2025 isn't missing Miro though. Charlotte was out for a year or so and it feels like even that short amount of time was enough for the division to pass her by. Miro has been out even longer and is nowhere near the star Charlotte is. Why would I give a shit about Miro when Hobbs and Big Bill are killing each other each week, or Jacob Fatu is murking dudes left and right, or the War Raiders are allowed to be the War Raiders, and so on. The age of meat in 2025 doesn't need Miro and isn't missing him. Dude has all the ability in the world, but sadly, I think Vince being the fucking moron he is ruined Miro. If you want a huge What If, then it's what if Vince was gone years and years ago and the current regime ran with how popular Miro was in WWE.

He was booked to lose in the Owen and put over, someone, I forget who. When he turned that down, Joe was the one who was inserted into that spot and was subsequently awarded with a world title run.

There was time early on in AEW's history when they did the shows before they had Dynamite and even for the first few PPVs where Tony's hair was very, uh, styled and not unkempt looking. Then after about a year he turned into what's his name from the Mars Volta. I think it would do TK some good if he'd go back to that look. Yeah, it's a little too slick for a nerd like him, but it think it would help when he's at stuff like the Super Bowl.

Miro is back living in Bulgaria and supposedly has no interest in wrestling again since he made so much money off the stock market. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw him again, but I'm not expecting it.