With Kyle busy on a special project, Alasdair podcasts with a broomstick for a ridiculous 42 minutes of solo talking on Clash of Champions. He breaks down the title matches, including a lengthy discussion of the SmackDown women's division, whether Baron Corbin can continue his streak of shockingly good triple threat matches, how pretty much all the teams in the tag title match feel like fleshed-out people beyond how they function as faces or heels, and just what the story is with the Yep Movement and the show's authority figures. Also, let's just take a moment and recognize the brilliance of Roman Reigns and Cesaro. Don't worry, Kyle will be back soon.

With Kyle busy on a special project, Alasdair podcasts with a broomstick for a ridiculous 42 minutes of solo talking on Clash of Champions. He breaks down the title matches, including a lengthy discussion of the SmackDown women's division, whether Baron Corbin can continue his streak of shockingly good triple threat matches, how pretty much all the teams in the tag title match feel like fleshed-out people beyond how they function as faces or heels, and just what the story is with the Yep Movement and the show's authority figures. Also, let's just take a moment and recognize the brilliance of Roman Reigns and Cesaro. Don't worry, Kyle will be back soon.

We're back after a week off with plenty to talk about, thanks to another fantastic round of listener questions. We look at the two new women's factions on Raw and SmackDown and how they look in their first few weeks. We're optimistic about Absolution and think the Riott Squad could be good, but the general state of SmackDown's women's division is so weird it's hard to say for sure. We take a closer look at NXT stars Velveteen Dream and Kassius Ohno and consider what their potential is in WWE. And, of course, we take plenty of time to appreciate the woken brilliance of Matt Hardy.

Alasdair and Kyle look back on the many joys and occasional frustrations of NXT Takeover: War Games and Survivor Series. Wait, that's ambiguous: Takeover was just joys. The weirdness was all on Survivor Series, though we did legitimately have to struggle with which was the better show because both had some classic matches and stories. We start small with how the likes of Miz-Corbin were way better than they had any right to be, before talking about how Velveteen Dream-Aleister Black was pretty much perfect. We pay our respects to the next NXT champions coming out of Takeover, and we revel in the tag team glory of this week, with a special shout-out to the Bar and the Usos. Also, that War Games match... my goodness. And Brock Lesnar-AJ Styles... double my goodness.

Alasdair and Kyle look back on the many joys and occasional frustrations of NXT Takeover: War Games and Survivor Series. Wait, that's ambiguous: Takeover was just joys. The weirdness was all on Survivor Series, though we did legitimately have to struggle with which was the better show because both had some classic matches and stories. We start small with how the likes of Miz-Corbin were way better than they had any right to be, before talking about how Velveteen Dream-Aleister Black was pretty much perfect. We pay our respects to the next NXT champions coming out of Takeover, and we revel in the tag team glory of this week, with a special shout-out to the Bar and the Usos. Also, that War Games match... my goodness. And Brock Lesnar-AJ Styles... double my goodness.

It's a Big Four weekend, and Alasdair and Kyle are here to talk Survivor Series and -- thanks to a delay in editing -- preview an NXT Takeover that has already, you know, happened. Never mind, though, as the main focus is on Survivor Series and which matches have us most excited. There are at least four incredible-looking matches on the card, but we also consider the lesser lights of, say, the Miz vs. Baron Corbin and the trickiness of heel vs. heel storytelling. Then we devote the back half of the episode to three matches that offer a hint of what to expect from Brock Lesnar vs. AJ Styles, as we look at Brock's matches against Eddie Guerrero at No Way Out 2004, CM Punk at SummerSlam 2013, and Seth Rollins at Battleground 2015.

Happy Rusev Day, everyone! But before we get to the most gloriously ludicrous yet strangely perfect Rusev fantasy booking ever -- seriously, Kyle got chills from Alasdair's latest idea -- we talk about everything else that's happened this week. We consider how Chris Jericho built a feud with Kenny Omega for New Japan's Wrestle Kingdom 12. We talk about the storytelling in the match between A.J. Styles and Jinder Mahal, and after all these months we make as much of an effort as we are ever will to say nice things about Jinder. We try to talk friend of the show Jim DeCoyote off the proverbial WWE ledge. And then... again, happy Rusev Day, everyone.

Another amazing batch of questions means Alasdair and Kyle have plenty to talk about without even bothering to worry too much about what's been going on in WWE this week. We consider which wrestlers early in their careers could be huge breakout stars. We ponder managers and who could benefit most from having one. Special attention is paid to Sami Zayn, Samoa Joe, and Asuka, because they demand it. Plus Alasdair unleashes some truly bonkers booking to get Rusev, Tye Dillinger, and A.J. Styles (naturally) where they belong on the SmackDown card!

The best round of listener questions ever means we mostly spend this week's episode talking about what you all want us to talk about. We kick off with some general discussion of the two-match affair (apologies, Asuka-Emma) that was TLC, with Alasdair asking Kyle the all-important question about the bonkers main event. Alasdair is also finally willing to get on board with a Finn Balor main event push after that match with A.J. Styles, because Alasdair keeps finding new and creative ways to stan for A.J. Styles. Then we take listener questions about Sami Zayn's new direction, the hottest new tag team in NXT, the secret of a great heel turn, the recent mini-exodus of WWE talent, the best spot in WWE for indie sensation Ricochet, and a secondary women's belt. Most importantly, we spend a solid 10 minutes breaking down a gif (https://twitter.com/WWEtriviaTO/status/923619338992701441) of the newly formed Zo Train doing Enzo Amore's trademark dance, and Drew Gulak has never been more incredible in our eyes.

It's our landmark 50th episode, which Alasdair, in true WWE at WrestleMania 25 fashion, keeps wrongly calling the 50th anniversary show. Seriously, where to begin with this one? To mark the milestone, we asked original cohost and much cooler person LaToya Ferguson to make a one-off return, which she did! She talks about the book she's working on and the state of Impact Wrestling and helps us answer some questions about TLC. But that's the thing: We recorded the main episode before the last-minute reshuffling of the TLC card, so Kyle and Alasdair jumped back on to record a special prologue segment in which we discuss Kurt Angle's in-ring return and A.J. Styles taking on Finn Balor in a battle of the Bullet Club. You're getting a lot from this one, basically. Here's to 50 more!