Waffly Bollox

Orange Cassidy got on the microphone and said “I hate this”, and you know what, we felt that. Chuck Taylor is never going to wrestle again and so we will never be happy again.

luckily we saved a couple of our games from last week so we had something to cheer us up at the end, but listener beware: this one gets real weepy in the middle.

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we’re sad girlies this week. Trent Beretta gave his Best Friend Chuck Taylor an ultimatum and then they made each other bleed about it in the parking lot at Daily’s Place. we are soft of heart and this was a lot to handle. (but there were light tubes, which is always nice!)

also this episode, we are big fans of piledriving billionaires, we’ve solved the Hangman problem, and we, um, played a game of going “do do do” to the tune of wrestling themes. it’s harder than it sounds.

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we’ve just had a pay-per-view, and you know what that means… HEART RATINGS™.

your girlies run down the AEW Dynasty card, from Zero Hour to the main event, dishing out infinite heart emojis as they go. the Bucks on ladders? new TBS champ Willow Nightingale? Adam Cole’s evilest face? and new world champion Swerve Strickland? SO MANY HEARTS.

we also tried to make Chuck Taylor a triple crown champ using AI. it goes about as well as you’d expect. in short? biiiiiiig gremlin energy.

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you know when we said last week we'd got all sensible? yeah, no, not so much this week. topics covered include: lipstick warfare, hair bobble violence, breaking the fourth wall with Matthew Jackson, and a variation on the trolley problem where we mostly concluded that we should never be put in charge of anything important.

much to think about. much to giggle at.

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well, the Bucks said they were gonna show backstage footage from All In, and boy did they.

the internet fully exploded as security camera footage of CM Punk’s violent altercation with Jack Perry behind the scenes of AEW’s biggest show ever was aired as part of this week’s episode of Dynamite. and if we’d recorded this episode on, say, Thursday, there might have been most unhinged cackling, but actually we’ve had some time to think about it and we’re being quite sensible.

other topics of discussion include how very sad Orange Cassidy is right now, how much we love a side of snogging with our graps, and cursed belts.

also, it’s very possible neither of us knows what happens on dates in 2024.

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oof, what a manic weekend! 

not that we watched, you know, that thing. instead, we’ve been gorging ourselves on indie wrestling courtesy of the GCW Collective, and then watching Supercard of Honor and having ALL THE EMOTIONS. every single one. did you know that we love Ring of Honor? because we do. 

we also believe in workers’ rights, keeping receipts, and the sacred love between a wrestler and his best friend who’s also a wrestler and just happens to be beating hte crap out of him. 

editing note: we had some serious technical problems with this episode and would have lost the whole thing were it not for our Zoom backup, so please forgive the reduced audio quality!

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our hearts are broken this week, and yes we know never to trust a wrestler, but there are definitely some wrestlers we thought would never hurt us, and yet… here we are. broken. bruised. (still very ready to give Chuck Taylor a big hug.)

this week’s Dynamite was an emotional one, but at least we had Toni Storm to pick us up. also, somehow we still managed to talk about Hangman for a bit this week? how? only one way to find out…

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if Hangman was a flavour of crisps, what flavour would he be?

honestly, we can’t promise you any kind of answer to that question.

this week, we’re just kind of all over the shop, but we did really love the two tag tournament matches on Dynamite this week, because we love our EVPs and we love our boys, and someone’s gonna win the big one so why not them?

this is a silly one. we’re not even going to apologise. 

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good news: we’ve solved one of wrestling’s great mysteries! how do you attract casual fans? show them Orange Cassidy and a hardcore match. you’re welcome!

this week Dynamite and Rampage were live back to back on Wednesday like a giant wrestling club sandwich, and that did throw us off our game a bit. how are we meant to know what day of the week it is if our shows move around?

it’s okay, though, we got it together enough to take a tour through every championship title in AEW and Ring of Honor, from the ones with exciting things going on around them through to the ones that might as well go straight in the bin. if you guessed we’re not really into the trios belts you can have a gold star.

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it’s annual review time! there’s a new CEO at AEW, and it’s time to assess everyone’s performance. Best Friends? you’re perfect, carry on. Wardlow? well… you’ve got some work to do.

yep, Mercedes Moné made her entrance at Big Bu$iness, so it seems like things are gonna change around here! ideally, starting with changing everyone’s contracts so that when they wanna leave the company they can just hand in their notice rather than doing nonsense on Twitter? that’d be great, we reckon.

meanwhile, over on Ring of Honor, it turns out Taya Valkyrie does know what Boys eat, while Maria Kanellis-Bennett is getting possessed by Serpentico’s green mask and Orange Cassidy has learned a new dance. is wrestling the greatest art form of our time? it might just be.

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