Rating: 77% - Worth Watching A lot of highs and lows this week - including one of what we’re now calling the AE Double Rainbow! That’s when there’s a thumb up, a thumb down, and a thumb in the middle. Y’know, like all the colors of the rainbow? And like that double rainbow viral vi- y’know what? You get it. Explaining it is already making it sound dumber. And explaining the explanation is making it worse. I should just stop now. This week’s podcast is almost as long as the show we’re recapping -...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 23 min
Rating: 80% - Must Watch Oh, man - this one’s a doozy. Sorry and you’re welcome.
Nov 05, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Rating: 64% Watch Segments What?! Is this the WORST episode of Dynamite that we’ve ever watched? It’s not a terrible episode, but it is eminently missable. High points include (according to Calder) Wardlow/Page, (according to Chan), Deeb/Hirsch, and (according to Theresa) Penta/Omega. Watch at your peril! Your spoooooooky peril!
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Rating: 82% Must Watch When we say the show is a “must watch”, we mean it. But this week we REALLY REALLY mean it. If you’ve managed to avoid spoilers, continue to do so and watch at least the Jericho/MJF dinner. You may love it, you may hate it, but we guarantee, you will not have predicted it. Stick around after the episode because, due to Spectrum being THE WORST INTERNET ON THE PLANET, Theresa didn’t get to see it, so we made her watch it on YouTube and recorded her doing it. Hear a mind get...
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Rating: 75% Worth Watching What’s going on, AEW? Huh? Our money not good enough for you? Theresa unleashes about her experience - or non-experience - with AEW’s Heels thing. Also, all manner of sartorial atrocities are discussed including That Jacket (the best!) and That Helmet (the worst!) and the Inception of picture-in-picture commercials.
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Rating: 81% Must Watch Look, Jericho could have got Obama and Trump to kiss on video and it STILL wouldn’t have been as mindblowing as the SNL closer. That’s just a fact.
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Rating: 83% Must Watch Look, there are a lot of important and entertaining things that happened on this show, but if you take away nothing else, let it be this: if you pronounce it like that, nobody will think of your legacy as strong like cement. They’ll think of semen all over your legacy AND NOBODY WANTS THAT.
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Rating: 92% Must Watch When Tony Khan ends up on the legends circuit hawking signed headshots for $25, hopefully he has the presence of mind to let people pay extra to throw money disdainfully at him like the Young Bucks after a superkick. That’s GOLD RIGHT THERE.
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 18 min
Rating: 86% Must Watch See? Look! There’s Matt Hardy! He’s totally fine! He didn’t have a concussion! That dizziness, vomiting, and passing out are totally normal things that people without concussions do!
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Rating: 90% Must Watch Most of you probably won’t understand, but please just try it. Use “manvantage” in your daily life. It’s a wonderful word and it deserves greater recognition.
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Rating: 90% Must Watch This episode has lawnmowers, sexy garbage, and the line “Big Andy plays guitar” - which is almost certainly a Jim Croce lyric. What more could you want?
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Rating: 91% Must Watch Genghis Khan, Castro, Napoleon … and now, Brodie Lee. History’s greatest heels!
Aug 23, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Rating: 78% Worth Watching Tag Team Appreciation Night, shockingly, ends with some tag teams not being adequately appreciated! The nerve! Also, if you’re not singing “Oh I’ve haaaad the time of my life!” after this, you’re dead inside.
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Rating: 85% Too many options to pick from for episode titles this week because Jericho dropped bomb after gloriously snarky bomb like the DEMO GOD he is! The Orange/Jericho debate was wonderful, yes - but so was the MJF campaign segment! And Samy and Hardy! And *two* Dark Order matches and we haven’t even made it to the transcendent massacre that was Mox vs. Darby Allin! Wall-to-wall entertainment, y’all. Wall. To. Wall.
Aug 06, 2020•1 hr 2 min
It's mayhem over there in Daily's Place! We've got styrofoam chests everywhere! There are skateboards with tacks! And ... is that ... CAT PEE, TONY! The Dark Order's running wild, brother! And so is MJF, whose pipe bomb promo is really more like one of those $49.99 packs of fireworks you get from that church stand on the corner? Not a lot of damage, but a delight to watch nonetheless. What more could you ask for?
Jul 30, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Rating: 83% - Must Watch THUMBTACKS! That’s a hell of a way to start a show and it’s not even the grossest part (Jericho’s been wearing that OJ-soaked jacket all week?!). MJF, the Inner Circle, Diamante vs. Ivelisse are all big standouts this week. One segment even got the rare spectrum vote - where one person votes thumbs up, one in the middle, and one down. Which is it? And why does it involve cutting meat?
Jul 23, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Rating: 79% - Worth Watching Fight For the Fallen is here, but I tell you what, I feel like I'm fallin' for the fightin'! [adjusts tie] [muffled cough from the otherwise silent audience] Aaaaanyway, there's tons of great stuff this episode - Sonny busts out so many splits, Cody must've thought he was in a Baskin-Robbins; FTR has car trouble; Ny- excuse me! - Nyl- EXCUSE ME! - Nyla rose gets the perfect mouthpiece; and Mox and Cage ends with a classic AEW finish and the return of the Wheeled One....
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Rating: 60% - Watch Segments Wow - disappointments galore! A COVID-depleted roster makes for a very bumpy second night of Fyter Fest. Still though, some fun segments - Taz gives us a little nostalgia fun, the 8-man tag offers all the flippy flippies you could ask for, Darby Allin takes a dive, and of course, Orange Cassidy and Jericho is everything you hoped it would be. Pop a squat and let’s discuss!
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Rating: 71% - Worth Watching It’s night one of Fyter Fest and … well … it’s okay? I guess? Jericho’s on commentary with his Canada Day blazer alone is worth the price of admission AND three whole s-words; the rest is fine, but not particularly memorable. Even though it's the lowest we've yet rated an AEW Dynamite, it's still pretty good. Let’s get into it!
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Rating: 82% - Must Watch It’s the go home show and we’ve got brawls! We’ve got grand theft auto! We’ve got hastily scrabbled together matches brought on by COVID and #SpeakingOut! And we’ve got an Orange going H.A.M. on a ham! Who could ask for anything more?
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Rating: 83% - Must Watch You are not ready for Abadon, y’all - let’s just get that out of the way first. But hopefully you’re ready for some MJF versus Billy (not Gunn!), the surprise return of Big Swole, and Absolute Ricky Starks of NWA fame taking on Cody!
Jun 18, 2020•54 min
Rating: 85% - Must Watch Oh the zebras are out tonight, my children! Thrill as Matt Hardy becomes Damascus before your very eyes! Quiver as Colt Cabana makes a perilous decision! Guffaw and Chris Jericho’s perfect color commentary! This one has it all, kids!
Jun 11, 2020•51 min
Rating: 83% - Must Watch It’s all dragon punches and cabbage rolls and hands in your non-existent pockets and one shit and hour up here in Daily’s Place! You want blood? We got that! You want Britt Baker rehabbing in slo-mo to inspirational elevator music? We got that! You need an inexplicably detailed recap of the show more than halfway through? We, uh … we have that, I guess? For some reason?
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 22 min
Rating: 89% Fallout from AEW Double or Nothing! Turns out, it was double and not nothing! The Rev- er, the team formerly known as the Revival and currently known as FTR debut! A battle royale - as Theresa insists on calling it - to determine who faces Cody next wee for the TV titl- er, the TNT Championship! And a pep rally gets ruined by Scary Santa!
May 28, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Rating: 87% Mox versus Ten! X? Hashmark hashmark hashmark hashmark slash hashmark hashmark hashmark hashmark slash? Arn and Jake mean girl each other! Will Shawn Spears murder Colin Jost and wear his skin? Possibly! (probably) And the Inner Circle try to get a jump on the Stadium Stampede, but the cavalry’s here!
May 28, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Rating: 91% - Must Watch A mediocre main event can’t keep down this episode just chock fulla bangers! Pineapple Pete! Five women and a kendo stick! MJF overcoming massive obstacles to eke out a (squash) win! The death of a beloved (inanimate) icon and the birth of a new one. This show has got it all!
May 14, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Rating: 79% - Worth Watching You can either power ahead with your shows pretending that nothing’s changed and look like idiots … or you can embrace change and get Lou goddamn Ferrigno to make you look like a million bucks. Guess which path All Elite went with?
Apr 30, 2020•58 min
Rating: 83% - Must Watch Welcome long-time AEW fans and newly converted WWE fans! This podcast was once a show about Raw - and now we’re experiencing AEW Dynamite for the first time! We are Robert Clarke-Chan, Calder Holbrook, and Theresa Gumprecht - three Los Angeles comedians trying to social distance while still enjoying fine sports entertainment. We give every match a thumbs up, thumbs down, or thumbs in the middle and this one was solid through and through. Won’t you join us as Calder attem...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Rating: 82% - Must Watch We’re still in the afterglow of Wrestlemania, which means another must watch episode! Calder is out this week, so we’ve got the kick-ass Erika Curry filling in. Who will qualify for the Moneybags match? What’s the Moneybags match? Listen to find out!
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Rating: 93% - Must Watch We're back! Corona tried to kick our ass - and managed to derail us for a couple weeks - but we made it! It’s the night after Wrestlemania - and we’ve got a flash recap of both nights to kick things off (spoiler: it’s Worth Watching)! Then it’s off to the races for the best Raw we’ve seen since this podcast started! Despite all the weirdness (and there’s PLENTY of weirdness), solid wrestling, intense promos, and a near 30-minute barnburner from Aleister Black and Apollo ...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 3 min
