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I did the Amazon route through the first four seasons of Better Call Saul. Paramount not getting their biggest show on the flagship is the kind of two step forward one step back I feel like WWE is in now. Which reminds me of their annual spring cleaning after WM.

I like this clip especially Sean doing some followups on topics discussed in their shoot interviews. I can dig wrestlers talking about virtually anything else. So this for me is just clips rather then whole podcasts which to be fair my intake of them on the whole is not as regular as it used to be.

The gimmick of The Beverly Brothers and The Genius remind me of Willy Loman’s sons and their neighbor, from Death of a Salesman.

I like Luger getting in. seems like a long shot for Rock this year. All I hope is that whenever it happens Kevin Hart inducts him.

This night rings pretty deep in Bret’s book. Said Kerry Von Erich came up and gave his condolences, saying that his brothers were looking over Dean. Some wanted Bret to go over but it was planned out for Ted to win to be in that match of survival gimmick (surprised they never revisited that), so instead we got the clinic as it was in the end of really solid work by both with that great ending where Bret looks up and says “fuck”, all but looking at the camera. In the back he said him and DiBiase embraced and had a good cry about it. I’d always known the story about Teds father dying in the ring but wasn’t until recently I learned that Harley Race, out of instinct tried to save his life. Bret said all he saw Vince and Pat do was just ignore him and engage in whatever hysterics they were in that night. Later on, learning that The Undertaker’s brother died the night before his last performance really puts the whole match in a new light for me. In addition to what I realized later, was the significance of Dusty “doing the honors” for a guy in his first major appearance in this classic character, in what it meant to guys who worked for him and ranged from silence in deference to what he had done for their careers, or in protest to the point which Arn and Tully left and others later in the shoot interview generation made their feelings fully known. Mostly a lot of love for him, and even from a young age in which he was done doing the grind and being a family man again, he still made the most of that tv time Turner and even Vince again later, gave him. Of all the sort of unspoken things about him I believe, is that Triple H is more entirely a disciple of Dusty then even his father-in-law.

Rock seems obvious because WM is in LA, but there are clearly other factors that have to come into play for it to happen. Namely if he feels it’s time to do it, and retire or just go on and end on a less bombastic note.

How many took place on April Fool’s Day? 6 I know but I think it has to have happened again since

Roman/Sami one night, Roman/Cody the next.

To me one of the funnier and moments I can relate to on Something to Wrestle With is when Bruce is asked about Hilbilly Jim’s music being overdubbed on the Network and he immediately says he hates it. The downside to the way music is used and overdubbed eventually is kind of a bummer to whatever nostalgia is happening. This is a topic I’m interested in exploring more directly with you guys since I’m guessing you’ve watched a lot more wrestling then I have. With AEW bringing in classic rock songs for some of its top talent was an encouraging sign to me that they are of the world rather than of their own universe so to speak. For me, and this shifts every so often but I’m still impressed at the ECW November to Remember videos using Guns n Roses’ “November Rain” as the hype package for the show.

Yeah I don’t sense him as a guy looking for that kind of attention

I haven’t cried this hard since Up

Timing of this sure is funny

Netflix ceased production on that doc awhile ago

They’re doing the whole out with the old in with the new thing next week, updating the look of the show somehow. That’s somehow a natural progression with wrestling companies that was catching on in the more competitive local territorial markets and the WWF itself finally when they moved their tv tapings into small arenas and out of the unorthodox-looking places they largely did their tv from in the 70’s and 80’s. This feels desperate on their part and this is the first time I felt this about the company.

The other night I watched a bit of WCW Fall Brawl 94, and was kind of taken aback at how good the picture on it looked on Peacock, even compared to the Network.

This is going to have a better approach to Montreal then Dark Side of the Ring

This actually isn’t that bad compared to something like The Jesse Ventura Story, the tv movie (which aired the same night Owen Hart was killed) made by NBC ironically enough, to capitalize on the hype created by his run for governor. Gorilla Monsoon has a goatee.

I just noticed that Peacock finally has content in 4K. It’s just movies now I suspect but will be interesting to see if WWE finally does stuff themselves in UHD.

If by any chance I missed another thread about this topic please let me know. Getting into wrestling in the 90’s, one rite of passage was waiting for the new magazines to arrive. The official WWF and WCW ones (when they were available anyway). I probably spent as much time in newsstands at the mall then the arcade or toy stores, because they had the more niche mags that I felt were a bit more fancy because they usually had more color pics. Learning about the history of the business in the way Bill and his “writers” (never quite sure what kind of staff he worked with really, I should check out his book soon) put it gave me more perspective on what I was watching on television. Grateful for that, especially when the PWI did their year end issues or the 500. Specifically when they started publishing almanacs at the end of the year, starting in 95 I believe.

I’m astonished and more than a little bit sad at watching him do the stuff he just does on his own with the bumps he takes. I feel like if he kept it all in the ring he’d be a good performer. I really hate to say this but after his match with Joe I am certain that one of these bumps, or the accumulation of what he’s taken already, will catch up to him.

Always wonder what would have happened if they got Savage first, then Hogan say in 95 or 96. Or even not at all. WCW where the worst thing we worry about is how much time Lanny gets jobbing out to Johnny B. Badd or managing High Voltage would have been nice.

I don’t want to say it sounded desperate but Starks’ promo had the feeling in it somehow that this was going to save his job, regardless or not if it was actually in jeopardy. For his part in it I like that Max doesn’t just steamroll over guys on the mic like some in his position would have before him. This match good as it will be, is surely to be forgotten by January, but the incremental effort to make everything seem big and important wins me over.

Linda and Kanye?

I wonder if Arn is next Indy showed AEW the love last night it was beautiful to watch really