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!

In our penultimate episode of the year, we discuss whether 60 minutes of wrestling without a winner is legal (Hangman vs Danielson), celebrate a women's trio's match (Nyla/Penelope/The Bunny vs Tay/Anna Jay/Ruby Soho) that tested the muscle memory of commentators who are used to talking about men, and finally get to talk about Hook's debut! Plus a special segment about the language of wrestling commentary, and? Much more.

As always, this pod is doing GREAT and has NO problems.  Anne reports back from her little trip to the world of indie wrestling, which she loved and she vows to return.  We're thrilled to expand our horizons out in that direction! Back on our home turf, we watched everyone visit the Bizarro World of Long Island where heels were faces, faces were heels, and nobody knew what the hell Dante Martin was up to.  And we all lost our minds for the Best Bucks feud featuring the long awaited and greatly enjoyed return of Bald Trent.  Thank you, Papa Tony! Plus we spin out our hopes and dreams for Malakai's possible new feud with the Varsity Blonds! Corpse Bride Julia Hart? Yes please.  Can we stay in Long Island every week? (The first time anyone's said that.)  

This week, the gang covers the nontraditional commentary team on Dynamite (including Hangman during Danielson vs Alan Angels and MJF during Punk vs Moriarty). And the even less traditional commentary of Adam Cole (did not do any commentary). Plus last Friday’s tag team matchup of Adam Cole & Bobby Fish vs OC & Wheeler Yuta, and the normal things Jericho said on commentary there. Promos: the one we need from Dante Martin, and the one we got from Miro! Also: Eddie Kingston vs Daniel Garcia, Kris vs Ruby, Billy & Colten Gunn vs Sting & Darby. And we end with a VERY challenging game of f***-marry-kill! 

In this post-Thanksgiving episode, Lea gets 2 pm drunk on Brandi Rhodes's vanity wine, which Lea tells us is "good" but is unable to describe further. Brandi, sponsor us! We also debut the Teacher's Pet of the Week award, which MJF and CM Punk took easily with their 30 minute deep psychological dive of a promo -- why can't the rest of you be more like Very Good Boys MJF and CM Punk??? We also contemplate profound philosophical questions, such as, "Is a man not his own boy?" and "If JR were asked to commentate on a porn, would he notice it wasn't wrestling?" P.S. Tony Khan, please sign Danhausen. All this and more, this week on Tunnel Talk!

It's our post-Full Gear pod!  Allie, in her capacity as an Unaccompanied Woman Attendee, reports back on everything she saw, heard and experienced. Plus, we review how we did at predicting the Full Gear outcomes, simp over our beautiful cowboy hunk champion, and as always, praise our teacher's pet Young Bucks for doing the best job at carrying a story.  This week was long and we had a LOT to cover, but don't you worry—we got into all of it in the strange, disturbing and probably factually incorrect way you've come to love!

Eddie Kingston brings a LOT to the table this week, including a very juicy CM Punk feud and a Players’ Tribune article that made us all cry. Daddy Tony punished The Acclaimed with a Bryan Danielson fight, and also Anthony Bowens fought Jungle Boy on Dynamite, and we get to have a (body) hair talk segment about that last part. Plus: our Young Bucks, earning our praise at every turn; and we visit Best Friends world for, most importantly, whatever is happening between Kris Statlander and Ruby Soho, but also joining Chaos (?) and how are sons are doing as fathers to their son, Yuta. And our thoughts about this weekend’s Rampage and Full Gear!