Happy PPV week to everyone out there! It's an extra long pod as we get into all the action on Revolution and the Revolution fallout, starting with the new buy-in format and ending with a little QT and Hobbs callback, as a treat. We talk fashion, from Ricky's pearls to Christian Cage's sleeveless turtleneck! We talk corporate synergy, with the International All-Atlantic Traveling Belt for Boys joining forces with TK to promote Shazam! Fury of the Gods! We honor the Mommy's Little Hams among us! W...
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Your girls committed a mutiny this week! We sped through the pay-per-view matches at a breakneck speed, covering such topics as Why The Elite Are Being Silenced, What's The Hell Is Going On With The Four Match, Where Does Eddie Think He's Going, and How Is Hangman/Mox The Only Reason We're Buying The PPV? It doesn't matter—none of it matters. Who cares! What's really important is that Producer Marjorie gave us nine random names, and out of them, we fashioned a Fellowship of The Ring. Is Dave Mel...
Mar 05, 2023•1 hr 10 min
We start off by talking about the week’s big announcements: the new reality show, AEW: All Access, premiering in March, and Adam Cole’s scheduled return on the same night. Next up is Mox and Evil Uno’s big main event match on Dynamite, and Hangman and the Bucks. Wheeler Yuta and Orange Cassidy had a confrontation and a match, and we’ll get into the family dynamics at play plus wrestling men’s reactions to OC in general. Also, Best Friends competed in the big Tag Battle Royale and actually stayed...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 9 min
It was a weird week in wrestling that we mostly felt lackluster about, but we cover the important topics of the day: Hangman eating Moxley's ass, whether Mox was wearing a woman's shirt (complimentary), Kenny Omega's shorts, Wardlow's dead dad hair, and whether Hook is going to start doing a Hamlet-esque play-within-a-play about the Elite suspensions. We also cover the build to Revolution, the good the bad and the ugly of the women's storylines, and debut the new name of the Gunn Fan Club, of wh...
Feb 19, 2023•1 hr 5 min
What a week in February this February week was! We start out with honoring our surprise new Tag Team Champions, Billy Gunn's Silly Sons! It's a move many in the community "hated" but your girls respect a little silliness. Then it's onto a discussion of the Elite's two matches, both of which we thought were an absolute blast. We check in with the new developments in the Outsiders vs Homegrowns feud, and whether we think LOSERS is an effective heel insult. Plus Allie finds out why she watched the ...
Feb 12, 2023•1 hr
The Elite are finally back on our TVs with an actual promo, so we’re here to lovingly dissect it in the manner you’ve come to expect from us. Hangman defeated Wheeler Yuta on Rampage last week, and then possibly the most sexual match we’ve ever seen: Hangman and Mox, doing things men should but don’t always do on our TVs. Next, we have a series of questions about the MJF/Bryan Danielson side of AEW. Also: Jamie Hayter and Emi Sakura fought in a banger of a match. Jade fought Red Velvet and won, ...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min
We’re back from our week off and ready to get into it with Anne freshly back from attending AEW’s show in Lexington, KY. She reports on how Best Friends’ bodies were looking, and we find out who knew there was a heel corner of the ring and who didn’t: the answer may surprise you! Other topics of debate were the Gunn Club’s comparative dirtbag hotness, whether FTR “did a great job” at “taking it from the Acclaimed”, what Bryan Danielson’s deal is right now and what kind of stories he tells (or do...
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Game 7 of the Best of 7 series was on Wednesday, and the girls aren't crying because it's over, they're smiling because it happened. We reflect on the success of the series as a whole, discuss the Elite's ineptness at ladder climbing, speculate about how a younger brother swap would go, and whether Kenny has become a disgruntled cat who vengefully pees in corners. Normal stuff! Plus we LUST over the Hangman/Mox match which was everything we dreamed it could be and more. You may not like to hear ...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min
This week on Tunnel Talk, we’re in a post-tunnel world but that won’t slow us down. As a special new year’s treat for us, we have a Best Friends storyline to discuss, but as always it could disappear at any moment! OC was eliminated from the trios contest by Kip, and Trent eliminated Kip so he wanted a title shot — leading to a heated OC vs Trent match that OC won, but we may not have heard the last of this. Or maybe we have! Next up: Bryan Danielson, MJF, human suitors, and an hour-long Iron Ma...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min
It's a Very Special Holiday Episode of Tunnel Talk, which means — that's right — we play that classic game, "Which Wrestler is Scrooge and Which Are the Ghosts." Heels, it's your time for supernaturally-induced repentance! But don't worry, we found time for plenty of regular wrestling talk too, and get into whether Renee should be more biased, if wrestling promos could be written by ChatGPT, the specific kind of shop-local hippie that Bryan Danielson is (misunderstood by his fellow wrestlers, pr...
Dec 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Beautiful Anne is a-traveling this week, so friend of the pod Sarah joins us again to help us review the week in wrestling. She brings her wild breadth of knowledge to the table and we force her to use it to discuss things like "is it sexual for MJF not to understand his changing body?" We have our fun! The girls get into it about whether the Elite would be good parents to Takeshita (no), our passion for Chris Jericho (as a wrestler only), Daniel Garcia's new accountabilabuddy (humiliating), and...
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 10 min
This week on Tunnel Talk: Darby Allin (and his sheer pantyhose); leg lamps; more outfit talk on the subject of Orange Cassidy’s lumberjack match against QT Marshall; the Dynamite Diamond Ring Battle Royale featuring every man on Earth but ending with a win for Ricky Starks, who can now challenge for the ring (and we spin a little yarn about how that could, but won’t, go). And then MJF and Ricky Starks duel verbally, and will fight at Winter Is Coming. We talk about Blackpool Combat Club and get ...
Dec 11, 2022•1 hr 6 min
We're back! Did you miss us? We missed you! We had a LOT to discuss--last week Regal gave a promo and said nothing, then this week MJF gave a promo and also said nothing. Strong work! Mox is done with both of them and moved on to issuing open challenges to any and all who might be listening. Cue our favorite cowboy showing up to do more kissing pose! Plus: it's Game 2&3 of Elite vs Death Triangle, and your girls are LOVING LIFE. We get into it about how they dealt with the Chicago crowd, the...
Dec 04, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Joy has finally returned to Mudville, because the Elite are BACK, baby! Not only did we see their bodies — which thankfully were as juicy as we could've hoped — but we also had a great time during the rest of the PPV and feel very optimistic about where things are headed! The Acclaimed premiered a delightful new music video; Swerve and Keith Lee did some great longterm storytelling; Jamie Hayter got the belt over her sadgirl ex-roommate Toni Storm, and if you didn't know what being a roommate me...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 34 min
This week, we start with our standard check-in on the status or non-status of the Elite and do a thought experiment about how their bodies might look after having been out of our vision for so long! We preview what we know is coming up at Full Gear, and Lea was at the live show this week so we have her on-the-ground reportage of all the excitement (and non-excitement). To start, the Acclaimed & FTR defeated Swerve In Our Glory & Gunn Club. Next up, we delve into the interconnected web of...
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Boom, boom, baby, AEW is BACK. Maybe. I mean, the Elite are still playing games with our hearts and there are still too many ROH men running around. But we're thrilled to speculate wildly about what Colt's return means for the soul of the company. Another thing thrilling us? Toni Storm and Jamie Hayter were pandemic ROOMMATES? And then Jamie ignored Toni when she saw her again? Baby, that's the plot of Grease! We're overheated at the very possibilities! In other sexy storytelling news, Brian Cag...
Nov 06, 2022•1 hr 7 min
The Elite are back, baby! Sort of. Kind of. Not quite, actually, and it's brought us to a place of frankly quite concerning energy. Are we happy they're coming back? Of course we are. Are we still struggling because we haven't yet seen their beautiful bodies? Absolutely. There's an extended metaphor where Private Party is cranberry juice, and we get in our dumbest fight yet, splitting hairs about whether it's that Nick Jackson can't or that he won't get big juicy naturals. We also somehow do man...
Oct 30, 2022•1 hr 9 min
We tricked Collective Crush of the Pod Trish Speirs (@trishspeirs48) into joining us for an extra special bonus episode! It's a long one folks, but it's not our fault as we were spellbound by everything Trish had to say. We got into it about Hangman's title run and the ways in which he succeeded and the ways in which he never got a chance. We also ask Trish about the AEW originals who have been devalued, the popularity of Sammy Guevara, why Dax Harwood is always yelling, and generalize wildly ab...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 53 min
First up this week at AEW, Mox & Claudio beat Butcher & Blade on Rampage. Then we cover the big news of the week: Hangman and Mox square off, but Hangman is injured during the match (he seems to be doing okay). Also: Danielson and Yuta do a sit-down interview with Renee. Ace Steel is officially let go. William Regal and MJF get some backstory, and we talk about MJF more generally. Jericho, Dalton Castle, and costume talk! And we got to see Best Friends fight! Support this podcast at — ht...
Oct 23, 2022•1 hr 7 min
This week, Mox and Hangman stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator to run back the world title fights the way they should have played out. Hangman gave an emotional promo that hit these girls where they live, not just because of the elite mention, but also because we're depressed, anxious and angry! We've always said it: Hangman is a relatable king. Elsewhere in AEW, OC won a belt! Hey guys, this time Lucy didn't take away the football! He really won it! But that wasn't the only bright spot in...
Oct 16, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Day 34. Still no Elite. Every day the sun is setting earlier but Tony Khan just lets us sink further into the depths of despair. We discuss what they could possibly be investigating at this point, and what obstacles TK must have to be fist-fighting through to find out the results. We also talk through the shoot fight between Sammy and Andrade (tedious), Mox and Hangman's beautiful titty-to-titty promo (sublime), whether the Batman movies include Time Out toddler justice (no), how bad everyone ap...
Oct 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min
It was a weird episode of Dynamite, but Lea was at the live show in Philadelphia so we have her on-the-ground reporting to help us break it down. This week, Sammy defeated Eddie in a match that we took quite personally. Then, Saraya gave her first AEW promo, and we have some feedback for all involved. Hangman defeated every other male wrestler in the company in a Battle Royale for a shot at the AEW World Championship, so we got to see him and Mox do a promo about it. Finally—something for us! Al...
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Day 20. Still No Elite. But we're doing fine, everyone says, and this episode definitely proves that. At least we have the Acclaimed, our light at the end of the tunnel. Or the middle of the tunnel. Or maybe a light that's leading us down a dead end side tunnel. Anyway, we're pretty happy Mox won the World Title, devastated that Orange Cassidy didn't win the Study Abroad title, and got to the bottom of what's happening in Paddington 2. Enjoy us! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/tu...
Sep 25, 2022•1 hr 5 min
It's been a weird week in AEW with almost no further news on fallout from The Scrum, and I think you'll find that we're handling it really, really well, emotionally. God gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers and the Tunnel Talk crew are the bravest girls in the world as we somehow manage to discuss Sammy Guevara and what he could do to try to redeem himself with the crowd; whether Danielson's madly in love with Moxley but neither of them will ever talk about it; the beautiful spec...
Sep 18, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Hey, it’s our All Out episode, and boy do we go all out in our coverage of the pay-per-view! The girls review it match by match—haha, just kidding. Can you even imagine? We talked about the scrum. Boy, did we discuss the scrum. Thank God Allie and Producer Marjorie are back because this was an episode that NEEDED a full team. We get into it about Punk’s muffin, The Superkicked Door, our Best Friends depressions, and our hero and savior, Chris Jericho. And as a chaser? Everyone really does love T...
Sep 11, 2022•1 hr 33 min
This week is another very special episode as Anne’s brother, Christopher, and his wife, Robin, join Anne and Lea on the pod to talk this week in AEW. We start off with the status of Punk vs Mox, including Punk signing a contract to fight Mox on this weekend’s PPV. In an upset this week, the Dark Order defeated House of Black, and it looks like Hangman will join the Dark Order to fight in the trios tournament vs Kenny and the Bucks, so our dreams of a Best Friends title are sadly dashed. We discu...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This week Allie missed a banger of a Dynamite episode by going to Australia, so Lea's legendary friend Sarah joined us instead to talk all things AEW! You wouldn't believe all the stuff that happened the week: Kenny came back to tag with the Young Bucks, Sonny Kiss came back to team with the... Trustbusters? CM Punk came out to call out... Hangman? Don't ever let anybody tell you that AEW can't surprise you. Join us as we discuss all this plus Bryan Danielson's aggressive play to recruit Daniel ...
Aug 21, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Allie returns from seeing Quake on a Lake, and while the Kennaisance Has Still Not Yet Been Televised, we make the best of it anyway. We discuss some of the new people we’ve seen this week, intelligently discourse on the topic of Jamie Hayter, and then GET INTO IT about the trios tournament bracket. There’s a lot of ways this thing could go, and we’re not fantasy booking, we’re fantasy betting on every horse we can find! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/tunnel-talk/donations Adver...
Aug 14, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This week on Dynamite, the Undisputed Elite return and Adam Cole betrays the Young Bucks, and who should come save them but Hangman. We get into what all this means for their relationship with Hangman and, potentially, one day, Kenny. Then, Best Friends & OC fought Jay Lethal, Satnam Singh & Sonjay Dutt on Rampage in a comedy match for the ages and OC fought Jay Lethal on Dynamite and lost, necessitating another rescue from Wardlow. The Acclaimed fought the Gunns in AEW’s first dumpster ...
Aug 07, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Lea got to see Dynamite in person this week because TK loves her more than us, but everybody had plenty of opinions to share about a very surprising and entertaining week in AEW! The big news of the week was that Jungle Boy leveled up his promo work and had learned some very adult new words, having it out with Christian while the specter of Dead Luke Perry, as always, loomed over everything. Will Hobbs was a very loving and supportive tag partner to Ricky Starks, right up until the moment of his...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 3 min
