It's another huge crossover event, as we welcome Marty DeRosa of Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling to the pod! He's a longtime wrestling fan so we got to pick his brain on topics like the appeal of FTR, what makes for a good belt storyline, his favorite wrestling moments, and then had a ball finding out about things like 1-900 wrestling hotlines of the past. We also got him playing our classic dating game, and discovered that he was an absolute natural. You'll come in thinking "Mark Henry and Ethan Page? There's no way," and go out thinking, "Wow, Marty's really convinced me they could have something real." 

So Long, Sweet Bucks Summer! It's Swerve in our Glory season now, and we're not mad about it! Orange Cassidy's still on his crusade to reward us for our weeks of patient desperation with banger match after banger match, blessings to him for that. Also we award 10,000 sweet kisses to his two ratboy managers as Trent and Chuck are on very different pages about how "cheating" works. Plus, Takeshita fights both Mox and Eddie, Christian's back on the dead dad beat, and Mercedes Martinez is fed up with Serena Deeb. Hey, join the club!

This week's Dynamite had a weird energy, but our energy? Flawless. Our patter? Naturalistic. Our imagines about Orange Cassidy going to summer fishing camp? Extended. It's another week on Tunnel Talk where we discuss important issues like: what exactly is a street fight? Why does Wardlow's hair look so stupid when he's wrestling, and what should he do about it? How activated were we by Matt Jackson thinking about making up with Hangman on BTE? Plus, we cover our problems with FTR, volume 1; how Billy Gunn needs to have a Summer of Love with the Acclaimed; and Lea tells us another classic story about how this time Marina Shafir has never known kindness!

Hey, big news in our neck of the woods: Chuck Taylor's back! We've never been happier to see our very favorite guy even if he did look absolutely deranged. Oh right, also Forbidden Door happened which was "technically" also big news. We saw LOTS of new men including Claudio who earned a high rating from 2/3s of the pod, and a "meets expectations" from one harder grading gal. Plus we get into it about Blood and Guts, The Acclaimed's non-paternal relationship to Billy Gunn, and Christian Cage's recreation of the 1993 animated classic We're Back!

 It’s the crossover event of the century!! Sarah Shockey from Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling joins the Tunnel Talk Girls for a freewheeling conversation on how she got into wrestling, what she prizes in a storyline and her opinion on the mysterious answer to What Women Want. Plus we made her play our very favorite dating game, and we came up with some truly amazing scenarios. Hangman and Abadon at Fright Fest? Hell yeah!

FYI: we found out after the show aired that Abadon uses they/them pronouns. We didn't know at the time of recording but will be using them going forward!

This week, we break down Christian Cage’s heel-turn promo on Dynamite in which he tells Jungle Boy what he really thinks. Then: Orange Cassidy was back in action and thrilled to be there, and we were thrilled to see him, even, or perhaps especially, teaming up with Roppongi Vice (vs Will Ospreay and Aussie Open). Next, Hangman fought Silas Young with Adam Cole on commentary. Willow Nightingale fought Jade Cargill, and we were the real winners, because we got to see Willow Nightingale. A slew of injury announcements; Marina Shafir vs Toni Storm; Mox vs Dante Martin. Also: good wrestling vs bad, some choice lines from this week’s recaps, and much more. 

This was a true crossover week on AEW, as torrents of New Japan men poured all over us — some of us ended up loving it while others of us less so, and that’s how you know we’re independent minded women who are NOT in a full-time echo chamber. The Young Bucks took the tag team titles off Jurassic Express in a match that slapped, followed by Christian Cage finally going full heel after experiencing a moment of pure disappointment in Jungle Boy; Jay White's not going to fight Hangman in the PPV, but he's not going to fight you either, Adam Cole; and it turns out the bottom of Sammy Guevara's face is disturbingly recognizable. Other important topics are Orange Cassidy's triumphant return, Miro's triumphant return, and AEW's muddled view of labor in the Wardlow storyline. We had a lot of fights in this one about who is the biggest weirdo re: horse mating, Will Ospreay, and Chris Jericho, so yeah,  there's some stuff for you to weigh in on. All this and more!

Hey Punk's gone! Probably forever. Wait, actually not forever. But for awhile. But maybe not that long. Is this confusing? We give up on figuring that out and instead try to make sense of the Chaos Battle Royale for the Interim Big Boy Belt with limited success. Trent Beretta continues to punish us for sins unknown by teaming with FTR,  and we ARE going to ground that young man as soon as we figure out how. Plus Our Beloved Bucks are the worst boys in their hometown, Adam Cole will NOT be ignored by Hangman and Julia Hart's eye somehow was mysteriously healed by her surrender to the darkness. Oh yeah, and that Marina Shafir promo absolutely took our knees out from under us. Happy Pride, gays, that one was for us!

It’s an extra-long episode to go with an extra-long PPV! (The PPV should’ve been shorter, but our episode? You decide!) First, MJF’s extracurricular activities and the MJF vs Wardlow match both certainly happened. And then we have no choice but to discuss the Double or Nothing main event: the Punk vs Hangman title match, plus Punk’s heel turn and character as a whole. And then there’s everything else, including some segments that did make us happy: Hookhausen, Samoa Joe vs Adam Cole, Ruby vs Britt, the Bucks and the Hardys, Athena’s debut, and much more. 

It's our Pre-PV episode and your dumbest girls make our very smartest predictions about how it's going to go down. Plus this week in wrestling: Hangman finally gave us the perfect promo we'd been begging him for, but how much of it was shooting on Punk's backstage behavior? Wardlow had his cage match with glistening Christmas Ham Shawn Spears, and MJF (shockingly) was NOT a very ethical ref. Mox and Eddie were back together, the Owen Hart Tournaments march on, and the Hardy Boyz bleated their way through the strangest promo we'd seen in awhile. In the words of Jungle Boy—what the f*ck?