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Random shit: Gotta disagree with @Nice Guy Eddie on how good that distraction was. It felt really contrived and took way too long. If this company wants to be less sports-entertainmenty and not take credibility from their refs, then loong distraction sports aren't how to do it The Inner Circle parody promo was amazing. I enjoyed everyone's title under their name, "Ruffian," "Street Thug," "The Big Hurt." Also loved everyone giving impassioned testimonials for Jericho except Hager, who just stares. Cody calls Jericho a "Carny Succubus" and Vince "never met a $5 word he didn't like" McMahon is like GOD DAMMIT BUY MORE THESAURUSES FOR OUR WRITERS I, too, enjoy Shanna for both her amazing in-ring talent and for other reasons more in line with @goodhelmet Between PAC and Jericho, someone in the back needs hide the spray tan. Dudes looking like Trump out there. I think @johnny law mentioned this but, yes, Evil Uno's new gear is a massive improvement. The Creepers also got shirts, so maybe it was a group discount. Stu Grayson continues to be Great Value Kratos, though. JR seems to have chilled out a bit on crapping on the product, but there was one point where he couldn't help but criticize the ref for not getting the wrestlers back in the ring. Props to Aubrey Edwards for catching a rope to the back on the head (she was leaning between the ropes counting when Omega hit the ropes) and continuing like nothing happened. Shawn Spears continues to be a boring, black hole of a wrestler Fans chanting "cowboy shit" like that really needs to ensure that Page doesn't go heel anytime soon. Related: loved Excalibur apologizing to standards and practices in Canada during that chant. Cody's lisp is some next level shit. His tongue is fighting to get out of his mouth so bad that Ortiz's tongue is like "dude, chill the fuck out."

Oh lord I still remember the commercial. HEY MAAAAN IS THAT FREEDOM ROCK MAAAAAAN? YES IT IS MAAAAAAN WELL THEN TURN IT UP MAAAAAAN I have no idea how I did it as a kid, probably begged my dad, but I bought Freedom Rock on cassette.

I appreciate the reply but they haven't made BOLA the final show of the year since 2009, when BOLA was in November.

I remember hearing someone, maybe Ventura, slip and call Gorilla "Gino Monsoon." On the name tip, we all should have known Seth Rollins was a douchebag when he took his initial gimmick name from Fight Club and Harry Potter.

I used bushes as an example. Your HOA would typically govern any "outside the house" changes you might make. It might seem limiting or draconian or whatever, but a good HOA will keep your neighbors from putting a chicken coop or cars on blocks in the front yard. Unless you're in West Virginia. Then the HOA mandates at least one car on blocks. Preferably two.

That would be cool. Only going as "Cody" makes him sound like a Final Fight character, germane to AEW's video game vibe though it may be. Also, the it drives the grammar/logic stickler in me up the wall when Cody teams with someone who does have a last name, and they announce Cody first, making it sound like they're related. IE "Cody....and Kenny Omega!"

I agree Proud and Powerful sounds like Dove's new line of feminine hygiene products working an empowerment gimmick like they've done in the past.

It's definitely weird. Meltzer will say on his podcast that Vince is not a bullshitter and will not accept those standard rasslin' promoter excuses ("the weather was too bad" "the weather was too good" "the circus was in town") but at the same time, he absolutely does engage in bullshit excuses himself. So who the hell knows what this guy is thinking from one second to the next?

I don't know, man. Vince seems to really love guys whose chief ability is to kiss ass with whatever their other abilities are a being a distant second. Dunn, Prichard, etc etc.

I gave up watching this company in January of 2016 with some specifics about when I might start watching again. Now I don't even think I'll watch again regardless. Truly a disgusting company in every sense of the word. Is this the same guy who was so friendly on F4D with Bryan like 11 years ago and even gave out his gamertag? Holy shit what a bootlicking shitgibbon.

Is your monthly mortgage much higher than what your rent was previously? I always tried to keep it similar both times I bought homes. Some other dubious nuggets of wisdom: Learn how to do shit: general plumbing or electrical is not hard at all. Painting walls or replacing a window screen aren't hard. Get some books or Youtube that shit. One example: your HVAC's capacitor costs $35 and can be replaced in 15 minutes. Your HVAC company will charge you around $200 for that. Learn to paint, caulk your tub, replace a light fixture, etc. Get some tools and get handy with them. BUT don't be afraid to hire a handyman for stuff that's way outside your comfort zone. If you have external spigots, find out where the shutoff for them is and definitely shut them off in the winter. A cracked pipe inside a wall just sucks and can be a pretty expensive repair. Find out how old your roof and HVAC are and figure out how you'd pay to replace them. Don't trust a dude going door to door who tells you "we're fixing your neighbor's roof and noticed some damage on yours. We can fix it for you and handle everything with your insurance company, all at zero cost to you." That's a scam that will get you a shitty roof and higher insurance rates. Find out what your HOA's guidelines are. Some HOAs don't care at all , some micromanage everything. With my first house, we took a rototiller to the whole front yard and changed everything. The new place? They have specifics about what bushes you can have and I'm scared to change shit. Anyway, changing something about your house and getting fined for it would suck, but it happens. Change the locks. You don't know how many copies the previous owners had or who they gave keys to. Swap incandescent bulbs/fixtures for LED ones. So much cheaper. Get a good plunger Rent or buy a powerwasher. Using a powerwasher is really, really fun. Hang on to your mortgage statement when it comes in the mail. Mortgage interest is tax deductible. I'm sure I'll think of more but essentially, all the shit you used to call your landlord for is now on you or someone you can hire.

Excellent episode. Thanks for the recommendation, @quackhell Are the "original" show and indie til infinity on the same feed?

At this point in my life, being in my 40s with a wife and a young child, a decent job, and no longer being such a cynical little shit, I'd rather watch Guardians of the Galaxy than Goodfellas. I'd rather watch a fun, positive, well made "theme park" than another cyncial "let's worship these bad people" type "piece of cinema." "Hurrr hurrr there's a guy bleeding out in the trunk and they're all casually eating gabagooo at Tommy's mom's place isn't that awesome?"

As always, random-ass stuff, good and bad...in no particular order and not trying to mention stuff already mentioned. The Moxley/Khan behind closed doors vignette was lame and it was rendered unnecessary by Moxley covering the exact same ground ( 1) the match is unsanctioned and 2) that pisses me off because I won't have an official win over Omega) that Moxley covered in his promo later. I do like Tony Khan only existing as a voice like Dr Claw, though I actually like the Inner Circle members not coming out or interfering in other members' matches too much. That's some lame ass NWO shit and it'll make it more impactful when it does happen I don't care about another possible Golden Lovers reunion. I want a Men of Low Moral Fiber reunion Still digging the shit out of the Okada zoom out for the big hug. Can someone please explain Cassidy's gimmick? I can never figure out if he's supposed to be hung over or just lazy I dug Excalibur putting over SCU as guys he wrestled 15 years ago who are somehow faster/better now Ortiz only screamed THE BEST into the camera twice tonight, so maybe someone took my "half a valium" suggestion to heart DVDVR friends, can we stop trying to make "WUM" happen when "troll" is right there? Ross dialed back the bitterness a smidge tonight but he's seriously got to shit the fuck up about double teaming. Cool double teams and spots are the house style. Calling out something that goes directly what has already been established as "this is what we do here" is just so counterproductive. There is no reason for the character of Jim Ross, AEW announcer, to be doing this. Again, Ross and Schiavone are night and day. Schiavone seems to enjoy it for what it is instead of shitting on it because it's not the one specific style he grew up with Rey Fenix is fucking amazing I loved the out of nowhere finish for the main I was all set to bitch them out for starting the main with 17 minutes left in the show until they announced that they'd have an overrun on social media if necessary. Schivone's gleeful "the hard drives are spinning!" was the best.

"Mr. Murphy didn't you try to save your daughter?" Yeah, I'm a man, see I tried to save her I turned the channels the shit didn't work. So I got the fuck out."

I wonder if/when PWG's next show is. Their last shows were BOLA, about a month and a half ago. I'm really curious what things will look like for them in this post-AEW world with so much talent locked up. Then again, looking at this year's BOLA, only four guys in the tournament are now under exclusive, can't work PWG contract elsewhere, so maybe I'm concerned over nothing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

God damn. All this is crazy. We were asked to participate in the whole Neilsen thing maybe 15 years ago and all we got was a cheap-ass paper diary to fill out.

Reminds me of Mel Gibson blaming alcoholism and going to rehab after that rant on that cop that pulled him over. Yeah, I've been drunk many times and it never made me call a woman "sweet tits" or rail against the Jew Conspiracy. Uh.....wut. I had a VCR in the 90s. If it was cable ready (most were), you just run the coax through it, then out to the TV. You could tape anything regardless of what channel you were watching. I would literally watch Raw, tape Nitro, then watch Nitro afterwards. I mean, YMMV, maybe you lived in a place where the addressable cable box was a necessity but if you didn't need a box, you could just rig that shit up.

Dude's way into fucking in the kitchen. Don't kink shame.

There's an entire generation who grew up on nothing but WWE in its shittiest period and thinks that's wrestling, there's no other way to do it, and everything they do is right. partners teaming up in segment 1, showing dissension at 9:30pm, then breaking up during the final segment might be too slow for these people. Someone needs to put out an APB on Jake Hager...this footage just turned up:

God damn, that salary. That's slightly lower than what I made in my first job in my current career, working a helpdesk, 20 years ago. And I didn't even have to worry about competing coworkers chop blocking me. Not too much, at least.

Schiavone and Ross are such polar opposites. Ross is so bitter and tired of all of it that we're probably 4 weeks away from him just shitting all over everything. Schiavone, meanwhile, is a guy who was locked in a time capsule in 2000 and came out 20 years later just fucking DELIGHTED at what wrestling has become. "I LOVE THE TOPE SUICIDA!" Wrestling needs more Schiavones and fewer Rosses. Ross should follow his bliss, quit and go call Sooner games at home into a tape recorder.

Just random-ass thoughts again. Trying to not repeat things everyone else has said already: I loved the show starting right in the ring Excalibur calling attention to Moxley wasting time when the limit was coming up was so great Wardlow looks like a doofus I still don't buy Dark Order. Stu Grayson was born and bred for fighting? He was a happy go lucky flippy goober last time I saw him. Maybe do a vignette telling me what happened to the SSB to make them so dark and brooding and EEEVIL. The ending of the show was flat but I think it helps educate the fans that time limit draws can happen. I didn't know about the "10 count to leave the ring" rule so it was cool for the announcers to highlight it Joey Janela has grown so much as a wrestler I love the Okada zoom-out when the Best Friends hug Kevin Nash participated in the fingerpoke of doom and he's complaining about exposing the business? You know what screams "it's work?" A middle aged guy with no knees winning matches in a combat sport. HE'S DONE THE DEAL! NOBODY KICKS OUT OF THE FALCON ARROW!

God damn. about the 6th time you watch it, you realize two things: This guy didn't go up for it; Steiner is just really strong and understands how to suplex dudes. I mean the guy's knees don't even bend. Only that sweet mullet, absorbing all the impact, saved him from certain death

I liked Far From Home but how did Nick Fury not run a background check that would unearth Quentin Beck: disgruntled ex Stark employee in like 2 minutes?