November 17, 2021 - National Hobbs Joins Team Taz Day
Rating: 90% - Must Watch Wish Tony had swapped this episode with last week’s episode. It’s a much better starting point for new viewers. ANYHOO.
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 11 min
AE Double Back - The AEW Dynamite Recap Show
What do you do when the sports entertainment show you love is run by a maniac who works with oppressive governments, bribes government officials, and exposes his talent to unnecessary and unreasonable health risks?
Why, you start watching AEW Dynamite - a show from a promotion that gives a crap about its talent! Join us every Thursday morning as we recap the flagship show of All Elite Wrestling on TNT!
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Episodes
November 13, 2021 - If the Trunks Don’t Fit
Rating: 79% - Worth Watching Full Gear! Because Half Gear doesn’t inspire confidence!
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 16 min
November 10, 2021 REDUX
Big TK put out the call and you responded! Well, two of you did at any rate. When Tony Khan asked fans to bring in new people to try out Dynamite, we asked OUR fans and Dennis Kanenwisher did just that! We get his thoughts on this week’s Dynamite after not watching any wrestling for a couple of years. Did the show make sense? Did he like it? Will he watch the PPV? Listen to find out! Then we got an old friend, Matt Mazany, to join us and talk about the show! Matt has his own wrestling podcast, G...
Nov 13, 2021•1 hr 16 min
November 10, 2021 - Go Home Go Home Go Home with Bonnie Jean
Rating: 94% - Must Watch Tony Khan called his shot. Did they knock it out of the park? Well, with a show that starts with Bryan Danielson and ends with A MIRROR UNIVERSE GOATEE, how could they not? Stay tuned for a bonus episode (hopefully before the PPV drops Saturday?) where we talk to a couple of guests about their thoughts on the show!
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 2 min
November 3, 2021 - Learning Morse Code
Rating: 88% - Worth Watching We won’t apologize for the length of this week’s show because we HAVE to talk about Rampage this past week. Holy hell, can you remember a better hour of televised wrestling? We can’t! Not only was it great - it made parts of Dynamite great! Plus talk about cinematic spiders - because if we ever stayed on topic, we’d probably die.
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 24 min
October 27, 2021 - Which One’s Egon?
Rating: 95% - Must Watch Dynamite’s Halloween episode is glorious - just glorious. Stu’s Kratos! Silver’s Bambi! And clearly, as the funkiest member of the Elite, Adam Cole’s Winston!
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 19 min
October 23, 2021 - Peepers Out for Harambe
Rating: 89% - Worth Watching Boy, these Friday/Saturday nights back to back are KILLING us! I honestly don’t *know* what it means that it’s Saturday night, JR! Does it mean Turner loves hockey more than you? Does it mean I’m gonna have to stay up all night to catch up on Rampage? Does it mean you’re live from New York with myooooosical guest Bel Biv Devoe? What? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 31 min
October 16, 2021 - DC FanDome Presents: Los Super Ranas!
Rating: 85% - Worth Watching Is it weird to say an 85% rating feels low? There were so many AMAZING segments this week, it feels like we’re selling the show short. Come for Danielson/Fish, stay for cowboy shit and 40 year-old NYC metal scene references!
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr 22 min
October 6, 2021 - Fingerprints All Over It
Rating: 83% - Worth Watching Look, if you bookend your show with an 8-man tag and an 8-man ladder match with all your best wrestlers, we’re gonna thumb it up. Sorry not sorry.
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 17 min
September 29, 2021 - That Was a Valet, Arn!
Rating: 87% - Worth Watching Okay, let’s just get this out of the way - most of the hosts are no fan of “Spanish Food” Sammy Guevara. And if you agree with us, this episode’s gonna be rough on you. We recommend pouring yourself a stiff one, settling in, and letting us guide you though it.
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 12 min
September 22, 2021 - Bacteriophages Are the Real Heroes
Rating: 92% - Must Watch Two Must Watches in a row - it’s almost like AEW knows what it’s doing or something! Bookended by two AMAZING matches and only barely flagging in between, this is a hell of an episode from Arthur Ashe!
Sep 29, 2021•50 min
September 15, 2021 - Pill-Man and the Suzuki Incident
Rating: 92% Must Watch Is this the first Must Watch of the new scoring system? A slew of short, fun promos made for a great rating this week, but it’s Cole/Kazarian and Martin and Sydal/FTR match that’s the true backbone of this episode. Also, they book our dream match for next Rampage, so there’s that. Thanks for listening!
Sep 16, 2021•1 hr 13 min
September 8, 2021 - Deep Seats and Kick Fighting
Rating: 88% - Worth Watching So many mini-promos, so little time! AEW follows up its monster PPV with an exceedingly nimble show that bounces around like it forgot its ritalin. But that’s not a bad thing! Tons of face time for all sorts of people and enough solid in-ring work to make even the surliest cuss smile. Thanks for listening!
Sep 11, 2021•1 hr 23 min
September 5, 2021 - Did I Do That?
Rating: 89% - Worth Watching Well, the Monday Night Wars won’t TRULY be back until WWE gives us Fake Daniel Bryan and Fake CM Punk … but damnit, this is the next best thing. An absolute banger of a pay-per-view with not one, not two, but THREE major wrestler debuts to piggyback on the enormous get of Punk. Never gonna get tired of hearing those entrances…
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 27 min
September 1, 2021 - P in V
Rating: 83% - Worth Watching It’s the 100th episode of Dynamite, we’re heading into a PPV, and coronavirus means the women get to be on the main card! A mixed blessing to be sure, but nevertheless, there’s fun to be had. Not a lot of in-ring action this week (comparatively), but it’s all top-notch. FTR/Santana and Ortiz! Orange Cassidy and Jack Evans! Powerhouse and Brian Cage! Penelope and Tay! And a sick 8-man tag presaging all sorts of hijinks at All Out!...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 32 min
August 25, 2021 - I Want a Squish
Rating: 76% - Worth Watching So much thickness in this episode along with enough long entrances to drive Theresa absolutely batty! From the giggly joys of a Dan Lambert promo to the epic sincerity of a CM Punk promo to an absolutely Vince McMahon-style fumbling of the ball when it comes to Malakai Black - this show has it all! Literally!
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 22 min
August 18, 2021 - Pizzas and Proposals
Rating: 85% - Worth Watching We’re covering the first Rampage AND the new Little Caesars Crazy Calzony and all on so little sleep that it’s a tiny miracle every time we manage to stay on topic. Enjoy!
Aug 19, 2021•1 hr 30 min
August 11, 2021 - THERE ARE FOUR SWEARS
Rating: 84% - Worth Watching A gimmicked apple?!
Aug 13, 2021•56 min
August 4, 2021 - The Tale of Genji?
Rating: 89% - Worth Watching It’s been a hell of a week, y’all…
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 17 min
July 28, 2021 - I’m Not Here to Hurt Anybody Today
Rating: 83% - Worth Watching It’s Fight for the Fallen and we had an honest-to-goodness American-style deathmatch on TNT for the first time since … well, EVER! Couple that with two big deal NJPW faces, Thunder Rosa’s first Dynamite since signing with AEW, and KING HAKUUUUUUUU, it’s quite a sight to behold.
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 17 min
July 21, 2021 - Calder Thumdon
Rating: 79% - Worth Watching All they’d have to do was cut out three minutes of the show and it’d be a 90%+ Must Watch episode… *sigh* [thinks about what could have been] Of course, there’s still a hell of a lot to see on this second night of Fyter Fest - including one hell of a Texas Deathmatch between Mox and Lance Archer. Let’s thumb this bad boy!
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr 12 min
July 14, 2021 - Listen to My Thumbs
Rating: 84% Worth Watching This podcast is cursed! Probably our fault for recording over an ancient mammoth burial ground. Technical troubles led to a VERY loose (but also pretty fun) episode. Opinions were VERY divided - and we have a rare double rainbow episode. But night one of Fyter Fest still had more great matches than you can shake a stick at - The IWGP US Championship is on the line! The FTW title is on the line! Darby Allin's spine is WAY out of line! - so dive in and find out how it al...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 42 min
July 7, 2021 - Ankle Grabbers Anonymous
Rating: 84% - Worth Watching A slow start for this one, but they pull it back from the brink! You wanna see Don Callis call the audience insects? You wanna see an MMA guy get what’s coming to him? You wanna see what the mean streets of Rancho Cucamonga produced? You wanna see the surprise debut of a huge name that we all thought was still under a 90-day non-compete clause? This is the show for you! It’s also the show for you if you want to see a very, very plodding and unnecessary strap match. S...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min
June 30, 2021 - A Quarter Cosmoceratops on My Mother’s Side
Rating: 89% - Worth Watching The new rating system in place and appears to be working as intended! For those who don’t know, we tally up everyones thumbs each episode and render them as a percentage of possible thumbs for the show. The old system was calibrated to WWE Raw, which was a more … inconsistent product. But because Dynamite is consistently good, we had to make it harder! So here’s how it breaks down now: If the total is beneath 60%, we’ll tell you to skip the show entirely. If it’s bet...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 32 min
June 26, 2021 - A Lot of Arms and Punches and Whatever
Rating: 81% - Must Watch Is this a weird show? You be the judge! We’ve got our first double rainbow in a while (when all three hosts give a different thumb rating TWICE in an episode), so that’s weird. The Shiny Bun Boys (a moniker given by Theresa to her original WWE ship of Appollo Crews and Ricochet because of their glistening attire) might be back, and that’s weird. And we posit the existence of a “Theresa Do List” that someone in the AEW front office is surely compiling. Plus - do you think...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 21 min
June 18, 2021 - Three Kids in a Meat Trenchcoat
Rating: 85% - Must Watch Alternate titles for this week’s episode: Jericho’s Owie Arm The Tire Fires - Hook and Sammy Guevara Ughbarfsnooze There Is a Brutality to Cheerleading Don’t forget this week’s Dynamite airs SATURDAY and is back to its regular Wednesday night slot four days later!
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 13 min
June 11, 2021 - The Banana Bread Episode
Rating: 84% - Must Watch This Friday night schedule is madness! Everything is out of whack, but we’re still here to give you what you need! Or at least what you want. Possibly what you’re only indifferent to, but can’t be bothered to find a better substitute. Hopefully, you’re not being forced to listen to this podcast at gunpoint, but we still appreciate the downloads regardless. There are some real clunkers in this week’s Dynamite, but in our book, any show with a segment devoted to The Wingme...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 6 min
June 4, 2021 - Point, Counterpoint
Rating: 82% - Must Watch It’s Friday and our internal clocks are aaaaall messed up! The post PPV Dynamite brings the heat (mostly) including a big name castoff from WWE, a big win for a very middling feud, and 1,500 Big Macs. What more could you ask for?
Jun 05, 2021•1 hr 21 min
March 30, 2021 - All Double, No Nothing
We did what most people do once they've been vaccinated near the end of a pandemic: drive an hour out of town to watch the PPV at a plush Cinemark and do a podcast on the way back! This episode was recorded on the drive from Long Beach to Hollywood (then a stop-off at Fatburger, and another loop through WeHo and back up Sunset and Hollywood Blvd. because there was JUST TOO MUCH WRASSLIN to cover!) If you like crystal clear audio, then definitely skip this one. But it does improve significantly a...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 16 min
May 28, 2021 - Three Dudes Stapled Together
Rating: 83% - Must Watch It’s the go home show for Double or Nothing and we are crammed to the gills! World class competitors The Wingmen go up against some guy … Arby’s? Darpa? Whatevs. The Inner Circle preview Stadium Stampede to close the show and a whole heap of promos, run-ins, and the occasional Simpsons reference to keep it all fresh. Don’t forget, we’ll have a special On the Road podcast Monday morning and next week’s Dynamite is *also* Friday, so spend your Wednesday night with your lov...
May 29, 2021•1 hr 18 min
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