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Radrick currently holds my personal second-place ranking for "wrestlers who have a horrible look, but are really quite amazing". First place is, of course, Daniel Makabe.

I may be misremembering, but wasn't she at the PC for a while and hated it?

Starks/Bill is a combo that is not really all that obvious, but damn does it work. I hope they keep them together for a while. Pretty cool that Samoa Joe will be headlining Grand Slam. I think if he didn't have that time in TNA with the face dick and all, he might get more talk as an all-time great. Really, he should despite that time. He's been consistently great for pretty much a 20-year stretch.

I've always just gone with calling them records. I've never got the "vinyl" thing. We don't call CDs, "plastic". "Oh, I've got that one on plastic!" Even when CDs were my main physical media, I'd say a band had a new record out.

Yeah, I think I made it like two minutes into hearing Shoemaker talk about wrestling and gave up. There's some other writer at The Ringer they have doing wrestling stuff, and he was on some podcast I was listening to. When introducing him, the host threw out the question of what his dream wrestling match would be. Anyone, from any era, matching up. He said Shawn Michaels vs. AJ Styles and I was like Spongebob in the meme, I'm out. Other than Schneider, obviously, it seems most of their wrestling people have watched WWE, and only WWE, and have no frame of reference for any other type of wrestling.

The one talent that Simmons has is hiring really good writers. I mean, he put Phil Schneider on his payroll! He's a good curator, but I could do without his actual insight/opinions.

Simmons really is the ultimate example of the prototypical over-confident white male who will talk authoritatively on any subject no matter how little he really knows about it.

The only ones I’ve seen him smiling in are with RVD and Scott Steiner.

I've been sucked into record collecting. I use Spotify to sample, listen in the car, at work, etc. If something really grabs me, I'll buy the record. My collections is sitting at 1,206 releases right now (LPs, box sets, singles, 10" records, double LPs, all count as a "release"). I've listened to every record I own at least once. I don't keep anything sealed or buy multiple versions of the same release. I'm in it for the music, maaaaan. Luckily, my wife not only tolerates it, but encourages it. Both of my kids have started their own collections, too. My daughter's is mainly Taylor Swift. She does not adhere to my rule of not owning multiple versions of a record. My son just mainly wants Kiss records. I buy a mix of new and used stuff. I'd say my new stuff leans heavily into indie rock. With used stuff, I like to go down rabbit holes, especially when it's something I can get affordably. Like, a few years ago, I was on the lookout for any Mike Nesmith solo albums (or with the First National Band) that I could find. Right now, I'm all about Willie Nelson's 70s/80s output. The only single record I've ever spent $100 on was a used copy of The Blue Nile's "Hats". Of course, like a month after I ordered it, one of my local stores had it for like $60. I try to keep my stuff pretty organized. I have the majority of my collection in a 5x5 Ikea square shelving thing in our guest bedroom/office. Down in our tv room, where my record player is, I have this three-tier little vintage-looking display rack where I keep my current listening. We have a smaller record player in the living room where my wife/daughter do most of their listening, so there's always a few Swift records sitting there. Of course, I wish I had more time to sit and listen to records. Luckily, the whole family enjoys putting stuff on when we're eating, cooking, playing video games, or just hanging out, so I do get to do it pretty often. I've spent more than I'd like to know on records over the years, but I do love my collection. I used to joke that my kids could sell it as soon as I'm gone, but now I think it's more likely that they end up taking it themselves and continuing to grow it. That makes me happy.

Mox is still a fairly new dad. Probably just getting parenting advice from Christian.

As much as I love the prospect of having Danielson wrestle on my tv every week, I would not be too sad if he did one more year in AEW and then traveled the world picking and choosing his dream opponents.

Going by what Darby does in his free time when he's not wrestling, I really doubt he's too worried about this.

My Collision I went to was a weird one. It was the weekend before All In, so they did Collision, and also taped ROH and Rampage since they had to do the next week's Collision with Dynamite on that coming Wednesday. We didn't get out until 1am. But, my son was also not leaving a second early, so it was fine.

Dynamite is here in Louisville in November at the Yum Center. It’s right on the Ohio River. Quiver by the River?

How has no one mentioned Nigel making orgasmic sounds when Danielson named Sabre Jr as his challenge?

You could have your commissioner’s office set up at the Applebees nearest the arena every week.

The pronunciation of "DiBiase" was a great mystery to me until he debuted on WWF tv. I didn't get Mid South where I lived, but I'd see a ton about him in the wrestling magazines. So, I'd seen he name in print a million times before I ever heard it.

I think the first time I heard the term "straight edge" was in a NOFX song that I was probably really drunk when I first heard it.

If we ever find ourselves eating out together, can I please have your pickles?

Needs more mentions of Gideon and Charlemagne.

If Toni finally hits one of the interviewers with her shoe, it's going to be one of the biggest pops in AEW history.

Brad Armstrong, maybe?

It is for me, and it's weird why it is. I love that you can totally see the strings. He's playing a heel, playacting as a face. What I like about it is that it isn't the usual pro wrestling face turn where suddenly they're a good person. He's still that baseline "scumbag", but you can see that he's getting off on the crowd cheering his stuff, so he plays into it even more. I don't buy that he's actually turned over a new leaf. It plays like he's doing it to feed his own ego, but maybe in a more positive manner than running down the crowd every week.

Prince Nana being on a nationally-televised promotion in 2023 makes me very happy. I always think how funny it would be to talk to an ROH fan from like 2006 and tell them what's going on in wrestling right now. "Roderick Strong is being heavily featured in a major program right now, and it's because of his character work!"

Mox is also facing AR Fox in an "open challenge". I was just thinking how much fun that initial TNT championship open challenge that Cody did was. It was cool never knowing who might show up on a given Wednesday. It'd be fun to see Mox face a bunch of challengers from all over the place.