Technico Support

Funny thing about TNA is the war drums started week one, and never stopped, but somehow it's still around. I can't fathom a wrestling product that, for it's whole existence, mostly has been middling to outright horrible (with a few highs, to be sure) but has lasted this long. I'm leaning strongly toward money laundering. On the Dixie front, David Sahadi told a great story on Meltzer's show about Nash supremely bullshitting Dixie and Dixie eating it up. Essentially, Nash was at contract renewal time, so he went to the bar with Dixie, and he's just buttering her up like crazy. They're drinking wine and he leans in conspiratorially and says, "you know Dixie, what I really, really can't wait for?" And she's all wide eyed like "YES KEVIN, WHAT IS IT???" And he says, "I can't wait for us to kick Vince's ass!". And Dixie, bless her sub-orange tabby level intellect, was ecstatic.

The train one is awesome because they shot the every route four times, once in each season, then spliced it together. So you'd enter a tunnel in Winter and come out of it in Spring. Yes I'm a dork fuck off

It's just personal preference and YMMV and all that, but I can't stand that style. People crap on today's highspot style but that old "British style" of seamlessly floating in and out of holds with not just a total lack of struggle, but actual complete and obvious cooperation (shit, you can see TM literally pulling Wright up off the mat in those arm wringers) is, to me, even more showy and business-exposing. You can't call modern style like AEW "interpretive dance" while glazing this style in the same breath. I remember watching ZSJ (before he figured shit out) and Marty Scurll on a PWG show and it was awful. Just an exhibition of two guys exchanging and escaping the lightest holds you've ever seen, like "look how British we are!" It was terrible. Again, enjoy what you enjoy, this is just me giving on dude's dumbass opinion of overwrought British style.

Yeah, Pluto, Tubi, things like that.

Man oh man, my daughter and I used to love watching that when she was really young. Now you got me all misty eyed and nostalgic for first person train TV.

Reading more about it, it sounds like the FAST channel will only be on their service. Kind of counter intuitive. FAST channels should be on Pluto, etc as free advertising of your product. Can't link a pic...tiers of the service are here: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Faew-launches-a-streaming-platform-called-myaew-v0-x159qgy3o1og1.png%3Fwidth%3D1890%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1505950528b21bff3ca7aeb7923c6b584de0ee54

So from what I can tell, this is for live and PPV for viewers outside the US, essentially a Triller replacement, plus a FAST channel.

You're exactly right, and I should have connected the dots between ex-wrestlers and Sahadi both feeling the same way. The feeling among everyone who worked for WWF/E that Vince was the Walt Disney of wrestling who makes all his employees' dreams come true, while the underlings are the one who get the heat, was definitively the result of careful manipulation from the top down.

LOOOOOL I cut mine down to just a fu manchu and a soul patch once. I thought it looked good but I probably just looked like a mechanic in a porno.

Dave and Garrett had a pretty good interview with David Sahadi over the weekend (Sahadi is promoting his book). He told some good WWE stories and, to nobody's surprise, Kevin Dunn and John Gaburik are massive pieces of shit. Sahadi's view on Vince is rather problematic, though. Essentially, "He did awful things but it's difficult to judge him because I never saw that person, just the person who was really good to me." I think there's that deeper issue at play, too, where wrestlers always thought that Vince loved them but Ross/Dillon/etc were the ones with the problem. Like Vince was so charismatic that all the heat was easily passed to his underlings.

Random LFI thoughts They should bring back Jose the Assistant What happened to Sammy Guevara as part of LFI? What happened to Mortos as part of LFI?

That's actually a really good idea

Was it all just Jesse awkwardly carrying it while Ross moaned?

Speaking of finishers, Rosa should switch back to the Thunder Driver. That package powerbomb thing always looks awful, and if she's had back issues in the past, trying to hold another person out in front of her like that is just asking for trouble.

Episode date?

The best part of JR's carny bullshit was: Face Luger: 4.0 GPA with a bachelor's, All American football standout Heel Luger: thrown off the football team for disciplinary reasons Did Simmons and Williams ever cross paths with Ross calling the match? The commentary probably sounded like Emmanuelle.

Happy bday @The Natural! I'd say "one of the good ones" but you're one of the best ones. Hope it's a good one!

I read this as "the 4th person in Demolition will pass as a woman" and God damn I need more coffee.

Carnies gonna carny

Oh no, it's not a comedy at all. It might have a culture clash comedic scene here or there, but it's very much a serious, dark show from what I recall.

That or Jeff tries to get away but is caught in Yoko's gravitational pull.

I'm imagining every time Hayes and Prichard come back with new gimmick ideas, they get more and more racist. It's pretty much a Key & Peele sketch.

I'm hungry, let's get a taco

Word has it Prichard and Hayes brainstormed and came up with Bearcat Keyes, Shaska Keyes, Keyesmala the Ugandan Giant, and Akeyes the African Dream, and Hunter told them to take a month off and come back with something fresh.

I enjoyed the first season a lot; it was oddly poignant. Doing another season with a similar theme, but totally different characters, feels risky. But streamers need content, so...