It was PPV week, so we have an even more ungodly amount of content than usual to talk about! We rate some new men (Erick Redbeard, Swerve Strickland), then dig into the Eddie vs Jericho match and resulting beef and therapy session, the Hangman vs Adam Cole showstopper (including costume talk!), the tornado tag team match (fashion highlights!), and a very delightful ladder match! And then, thank god, it’s a good old fashioned dog-collar match for MJF and CM Punk, and it was everything we wanted. Plus much more, including yet another new man about whom we do not agree!

This week, we get the third installment of MJF and CM Punk’s soliloquies, and we remain big marks for our Shakespeare boys!  Sammy cruelly refuses to give us backstory for why he’s suddenly pals with Darby, so we invent some for him. Have you considered writing “Support the twink union as we try to keep out of Andrade’s Child Sweat Shops,” on some of those cards, Sammy?  Plus Top Flight’s back, and we’re DELIGHTED to see them!  Darius, please, make sense of your brother’s actions for us!  Join us for all that plus a few PPV predictions which I’m sure your very smart girls who know nothing will be proud of after Sunday night!

We start the episode by benchmarking our lives by when we learned to love our Brass City Bitch, and it just gets more normal from there! We get into the fantastic promos this week by Eddie Kingston and Chris Jericho, and CM Punk and MJF (who gets awarded Best Performance in a Leading Role), as well as Bryan Danielson's disappointingly appropriate match against Daniel Garcia. We also do a deep dive into wrestlers just doing moves versus digging into the psychology of their characters, which ends in us concluding that wrestlers should take up journaling, and you know what, we're RIGHT.  In other news, do Mox and Bryan Danielson want to co-menstruate, and is Adam Cole is going to lose his mind trying to keep the people he's actively gaslighting from tearing each other apart? Plus, with the help of some generous listeners we've become huge GoldenLoversheads. All this and more this week on Tunnel Talk!

The big news of the week is that Cody and Brandi Rhodes have left AEW, and there’s a shocking amount to say about it. From the crowd reactions he gets to his own brand of wrestling storytelling, how did Cody see his role in the company and where did the cracks form? We’ll speculate as informedly as ANYONE could! Then all the action from this week: Hangman vs Adam Cole cut a promo and the Elite are exploring some compelling storylines; the Bucks vs Roppongi Vice; Bryan Danielson and Lee Moriarty “wrestle”; Lea's Ladies, and much more! 

Wrestling was GREAT this week, and so is this episode!  The misery of the Inner Circle’s Mandatory Family Arbitration Session sent us into hysterics, and so did Andrade as he FINALLY got to meet Mister Sting.  Tony made us meet two MORE new men, but we LOVED Keith Lee and his meditative symphony of pain. We’re reserving judgment on Jay White so far, but to be fair, the Bucks seem to be, too.  We cover Hangman’s deathmatch, MJF’s celebration, and Lea’s ALL in on Mercedes Martinez.  Plus: Happy Valentine’s Day, tunnelheads! Producer Marjorie unmutes to assign us randomized pairs of wrestlers and your girls debate the success of their hypothetical relationship and plan their perfect date. Spoiler: we’re so all in on the last couple, we might never recover.

This week? Not our favorite. AEW took a fun little dive into the waters of sexism and misogyny and it was deeply trying. It's the dead of pandemic winter, the weather sucks, we're all depressed, and now we have to deal with this garbage without even being able to do some violence about it? Hangman knows what we're talking about. We cover the two (2) cursed Dan Lambert segments in this week's episode, plus a litany of other things that sorely tried us. Storylines that we have no idea where they're going, twink vs. twink violence, squash matches — just a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. But at least the Inner Circle is going to do some group therapy... oh god, is that really our highlight? Join us as we finally become real wrestling fans and bury the product! 

We're thrilled to all be back together this week! Also back is Mox, looking good and fighting Ethan Page. Next: a Nick Jackson v Trent singles match (ft. Matt and OC ringside) that raises some questions, like: where is the Trent storyline going? We don’t know but we have some ideas. Then OC and Adam Cole had their Lights Out match, and Danhausen debuted! Happy!!!! Plus: Jade Cargill v Anna Jay, Cody Rhodes and Sammy Guevera's ladder match, CM Punk and MJF's masterful promo craft, Inner Circle's tainted defeat of 2point0 and Danny Garcia, and everything else we could fit in a tight hour.

Anne is away this week, so we called upon some friends to serve as guest hosts for this week’s episode!  Anna and Josh aren’t wrestleheads but they got into the spirit of the thing, with Anna declaring herself a Darby girl right up front, and Josh bravely agreeing to offer a much needed man’s opinion on the events of the week.  Their takes on Mox’s return, Adam Cole’s kissing abilities and the hotness of Sam Punk alternately cracked us up and opened our third eyes even wider. All this and more this week on an EXTRA deranged episode of Tunnel Talk! 

Your favorite dummies from Tunnel Talk come roaring back from break with a lot to cover and more opinions than you can shake a stick at! All of them frankly concerning — we start with Lea worrying she’s going to get brainwashed into liking the Big Bang Theory and end with learning how Allie’s feelings for Kylo Riley are similar to the omicron surge, so your thoughts and prayers are deeply appreciated in these unprecedented times. In between we do manage to discuss what makes wrestlers have characters we can invest in, whether or not My Chemical Romance should enter the AEW-verse, what on earth Dante Martin thinks he's doing and why he refuses to tell us, plus do a dramatic reading of Andrade's beautiful turn into being a comedy boy, and rank all the new men as far as the eye can see. All this and so much more!

Longtime listeners won't be surprised by the length of our Young Bucks segment (came in at a cool nineteen minutes) but we were truly delighted by everything they did this week and literally couldn't help ourselves. We also got into it about the Sad Facepaint Clowns and debated why the Pinnacle doesn't just unionize against MJF.  Plus, we vote on what was the most unacceptable thing commentary said this week, and the contenders were strong!