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The tournament wasn't for the Triple Crown. It was for the Continental Championship. Kingston threw the other two belts, that he already held, into the mix. So, it wasn't ever a unification thing. It was more akin to when Omega won a bunch of belts a couple years ago. It let Kingston have his Kawada moment, and now they're probably going to break them up.

I worked at a local video rental store. Still the best job I've ever had. After the store was closed, it wasn't unusual for those of us closing up to have a drink or smoke while shutting down. One night, the owner (a pretty eccentric dude) pulls up as we're closing. He drags in this big cooler full of beer. "You guys want this? I've been out on the lake all day and have a bunch left." We're all like, "Uh, we're not 21." He says, "Yeah, I know. I sign your paychecks. I know how old you all are. Do you want it or not?" Got hammered that night on him.

I got one of these for work and have been really happy with it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CDQSMC6Q/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Back to TV... I've been loving Shogun so far. Really looking forward to seeing where it goes knowing nothing of the story from the book or the original series.

Since McAfee was a punter, he should fall and flail all dramatically any time anyone even grazes him. He could claim anyone touching him was roughing and therefore illegal.

99% of fads could be described like that.

You've not heard of the Stanley craze? I have a 13-year-old daughter, so I'm all too aware.

I may be wrong, but I think Fenix got fairly lucky with that arm injury in that it was "just" a break. I don't think he had any tendon or muscle damage or anything like that. God, that looked bad when it happened, though.

Whoa! I had no idea there were Bluey episodes not on there! I need to find them.

There’s some heavy shit that sneaks its way into episodes very subtly, too. The one where Chilli’s friend visits and it’s heavily implied that she’s drifted away because she can’t have kids and it’s hard for her to be around the Heelers and see them so happy. There’s also a moment in the episode where the girls are putting on a show for their parents re-enacting how they met. Bingo is pretending to be pregnant with a balloon under her shirt. The balloon pops and Bandit quickly grabs Chilli’s hand and gives her a sad look. I took that as them having a miscarriage at some point. Tears me up every time. There’s some lighter, fun subtle stuff too, like the hungover episode. On one of the newer ones where they’re at the pharmacy and the kids are using the video screens to find their friend, the bulldog dad is buying protein powder and takes a hit of breath spray before talking to one of the moms.

Dazed and Confused came out when I was in high school and pretty much captured how we were still living then. In Southern Illinois, trends came a little slower, so not a lot had changed since the late 70’s. Most weekends consisted of driving around trying to see who was maybe up for partying. Super bad came out post-college for me, but really nailed my high school experience, too. Both it and Dazed really showed that feeling of wandering around trying to figure out what to do/who you are. It didn’t hurt that the scene where Cera’s character accidentally stumbles into the room with some fairly scary dudes doing coke happened to me once when I was first hitting the older kids’ parties. Luckily, I didn’t have to sing for them.

Hey, if a little gatekeeping can weed out the same old tired-ass talking points every week, then let’s keep some gates, baby! Strong Collision this week. They’re going to be near me next month right outside of Cincinnati. I’m thinking I’m going to need to go on the off chance that Danielson gets another dream match that week.

AEW should have a team called The Casuals and their gimmick is that they don’t know who anyone except former WWE-ers are and they call them by their WWE names.

AND if you end up being completely terrible at the job, I mean just a complete disaster, and it all fails and tons of people lose their jobs because of your total ineptitude, you still get millions of dollars!

I could see them taking it to the mat pretty hard and avoiding the headbutts.

Hoping this means we get Joey Janela in the Rumble next year making his entrance smoking a cig.

Unless we get insight into what Warner Discovery/TNT/TBS consider good ratings or a baseline bottom number that would cause them concern, then its all pointless speculation. Also:

Well, guess I better get ready to see some Flacco this year when Richardson inevitably gets hurt.

This show had vibes of “We might have some new eyes on us tonight, so let’s go hard.” Really fun show that moved at a great pace. There was an AEW commercial in the first PIP break that really showcased the new roster. AEW’s on another heater after this show and what they have scheduled for next week.

The nickname H2O for a guy with the last name Waterman is one of the most delightfully-stupid nicknames ever.

His record is terrible, but he came into a really bad situation. What decent prospect wanted to commit to Louisville when there were all these possible sanctions hanging over the program? But, yeah, even with that its been a really terrible couple of years.

So, who is it?

I'd pay good money to be in the same room with @Just Dave and @The Natural for the Penta & co. vs. Elite match tonight. It'd really make it fun if it was one of those rage rooms where they could break stuff as they match goes on. (Hope both fellas know I got nothing but love for them!)

But no one is wrecking fools left and right! I need to see some fools get wrecked!

Rocky has referred to Khan as a very close friend in multiple interviews.

I've never played this game and really know nothing at all about it, but this show looks good. Going to check it out for sure.