Tables, Ladders, & Podcast - Current episode: #74 (October 22, 2014)

[Heisenberg]

Feel like a Hollywood Heisenberg with the special guest part time gimmick I have going on. I enjoyed covering RAW this week.

Shoutout to NWM, the man of lyrical comedic splendor, minus the HHH hating.

[XL]

Umaga

That was my first thought. Then I realised that he died.

[Heisenberg]

Poit needs to watch Zoolander, it is a good movie. I expect the backlash to reign on me, but Ferrell, Wilson, Stiller and Vaughn rule

[Emperor Smeat]

El Torito

[Heisenberg]

It would make sense since I think ppl following the buzzards might be code for going to Men's Warehouse after a horrendous beating would be Kofi Kingston and anyone that has suffered the Wyatt Family beatdowns.

That would surprise me, because most of the time making sense is surprising

[Nowhere Man]

Huh. Didn't realize I came across as harsh on Tyson Kidd as I did. Because I actually quite like and I'm glad he's back.

[Poit]

If we're not sure of your tone, we just assume "hatred of everything".

[Nowhere Man]

That's a fair assumption. And Afterlife......Conduit? Really? Fucking Conduit?

[loopydate]

Konnan.

1) He's had nothing but negative things to say about WWE for years.
2) He'd look really weird in a suit.
3) None of the current target demographic knows who he is.
4) Everyone else wouldn't care.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Konnan thinks he's Mexican when he's Cuban.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

If we're not sure of your tone, we just assume "hatred of everything".
That probably won't steer us wrong very often.

[Mr. Nerfect]

There are a few guys that would be intriguing choices to join The Authority. Even someone like Dean Ambrose wearing a suit and trying to "blend in," despite still being a member of The Shield is a development. There's also the potential sell-out role with Goldust or Cody Rhodes turning on the other. Zack Ryder selling his soul for a title opportunity against a babyface mid-card champion (which Big E. might be soon) would make sense as well.

[loopydate]

I'm excited to hear this week's episode. A Sword of Damocles reference and Punk FINALLY getting his hands on Heyman, all in one segment? TLP gold in the making!

[Innovator]

Big E, just for the amount of work some poor tailor will do to encompass that chest.

[Innovator]

BTW, is Big E the pectoral Shang Tsung? I think he goes around stealing other people's chests. Look what he did to Kofi.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

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Covering NXT, Impact, Smackdown, & Raw, with brief looks at Main Event & Xplosion.

Starring: Narcissus, Jabba, Afterlife, Poit, & Nowhere Man.

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Question Of The Week:

Who would you push as the next WWE Tag Champions and why?

[Mr. Nerfect]

I'd push The Real Americans as the next Tag Champions. They're both tremendous workers and have some size to them. Zeb Colter has got the talking down for them. Plus, if Colter's boys don't win some gold soon, then just how long can Colter keep backing them believably? The well will run dry unless they get a few solid hits in on some big players.

Even if they just traded the Tag Titles with The Rhodes Legacy a few times, I think it would go a long way to helping their credibility. Plus, with some many face teams in the WWE -- The Usos, The Prime Time Players, Los Matadores, etc. -- it just makes sense to have heel champions.

[James Steele]

Wade Barrett & William Regal

William Regal cuts a promo about his epic career and it sounds like a retirement speech until he slowly grows louder and angrier and goes on a rant about how he hasn't been World Champion and hasn't even sniffed a championship in ages. He decides that he is going to take a page out of the book of the man he mentored 20 years ago -- Triple H. William Regal is going to find the next great superstars and mold them to accomplish things he never quite did.

William Regal joins commentary on several random matches. He ends up watching a Wade Barrett vs Antonio Cesaro for the Intercontinental Championship. He helps screw Cesaro as Wade Barrett becomes IC Champion. Cue Goldust confronting him backstage about ruining the prestige of the IC Championship. Cue Rhodes Bros. vs Regal/Barrett. Regal/Barrett upset the Tag Team Champions. They have a "No Holds Barred Tornado Tag Team Elimination Match" at TLC for the Tag Team Championship. Regal/Barrett win after Kofi Kingston turns heel and interferes to join Regal/Barrett. William Regal gets a token shot at the World Heavyweight Championship at the Royal Rumble thanks to Triple H, but comes up short despite interference from Kofi and Barrett.

The trio have a good long run together helping re-establish Barrett and grooming him to take over Regal's role as the grizzled badass gentleman from Britain and Kofi gets a push. They keep the belts for months until they drop it, but they stay in the title picture. All the while, Barrett is also in the IC Title picture. The stable blows up when Kofi/Barrett finally implode during the 2015 Royal Rumble. Regal tries to talk sense into Barrett the next night on RAW, but gets a bullhammer elbow and the hell beaten out of him with a chair for it. It is announced he is injured badly.

Barrett earns a spot in the Elimination Chamber to earn a World Title shot at Mania. Regal runs down the ramp with brass knucks and beats the shit out of Wade Barrett while they unlock the chamber to let an eliminated person out. Then, at WrestleMania 31, Wade Barrett puts the Intercontinental Championship on the line against William Regal's career. Give them 20-30 minutes and William Regal's career ends with a spectacular midcard match that seems like a fitting end to his career while also helping Wade Barrett and Kofi Kingston re-establish themselves.

Fuck, I love me some Kofi Kingston and Wade Barrett.

#NoidPost

[Emperor Smeat]

Wyatt Family.

The dirtsheets have been teasing them as the next big team so it makes sense they'd likely be the ones to take the belts off of the Rhodes.

Make them into the heel version of "Team Hell No" in the sense the belts are treated as something really important and use that to build the next big face team such as maybe a face Real Americans or the Shield.

[FourFifty]

Question Of The Week:

Who would you push as the next WWE Tag Champions and why?

I'm going to say Team Air Boom.
Evan Bourne is slated to come back in the near future, right? If I recall he was over with the younger crowd. Also, Kofi is exciting to watch. It will give two guys whot could get lost in the shuffle very easily something to do, give a high flyer a title, and give a heel team a great chance to really get over when Team Air Boom drops the titles.
I could see The Rhodes breaking up over the title loss, which can turn into Goldust vs Cody at WM30. No one is left with nothing to do at the end of the day.

[Poit]

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Covering NXT, Impact, Smackdown, and Raw, plus a brief look at Main Event.

Starring: Narcissus, Jabba, Afterlife, Poit, and a very late Nowhere Man.

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Question Of The Week:

What would you have laid to rest in memoriam of Aces & Eights (in the casket)?

[XL]

Impact: I think the whole "Bro Mans don't know what a turkey sounds like" thing is nod to Arrested Development.

[James Steele]

I would have laid to rest TNA fanboys. This angle sucked balls after a the "Big Reveal" that BULLY RAY was behind the Aces and Eights.

[FourFifty]

Anything related to ECW. We have a casket, let's use it. We've had enough invasion angles, enough reunion shows, and enough compilation dvds. Bury it, let it rest in peace. We can remember how ECW was in it's prime instead of habitually digging up a rotting corpse. Let it rest. Let it die.


edit- if it has to be TNA related...
Whomever wrote the Aces & 8's angle to begin with. Seriously, I'm pretty sure we were about to see Sting announced as Head of Human Resources for Aces & 8's, Joseph Park announced as Vice President of Ice Cream Distribution for Ace's & 8's, and Mae Young as their biker mama. It was about as unbearable as when there were multiple versions of the nWo.

[Bad News Gertner]

Dealer's choice

[Heisenberg]

Garrett Bischoff's last remaining scepter of hope that had +20 Daddy Power on it and 5% chance to crit based off Hogan Shout.

[Innovator]

Eric Bischoff's one subject notebook with all of his booking ideas including, but not limited to: soulful guitar riffing, motorcycles, lesbian time traveling, cuckolding, gold clubs, love sponges, and motorcycles.

[owenbrown]

the phrase Yambag Yahtzee

[loopydate]

Eric Bischoff's one subject notebook with all of his booking ideas including, but not limited to: soulful guitar riffing, motorcycles, lesbian time traveling, cuckolding, gold clubs, love sponges, and motorcycles.

In that same vein, the binders labeled "Long-Term Plans For AJ Styles" and "Long-Term Plans For Samoa Joe," since they're just collecting dust anyway.

[Innovator]

Long term plans for AJ:

Future of company
Face of company
#1 pal to newest hire
Future of company
Face of company
#1 pal to newest hire
Future of company
Face of company
#1 pal to newest hire
Future of company
Face of company
#1 pal to newest hire
Goofball

[Innovator]

Just made a nice amazon purchase through the tlp link.

[Poit]

:y:

[Poit]

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Covering NXT, Impact, Smackdown, and Raw, plus a brief look at Main Event.

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Question Of The Week:

Which Slammy award would you add to the show, and who would win it? (Also feel free to list other nominees for the award)

[owenbrown]

I seem to be an enemy of the TLP Universe now :lol:

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Brooke Hogan's engagement ring that destroyed the kayfabe of the angle.

[XL]

I must have been the only person in the world who knew that was Gail Kim's husband with her. For some reason I'd looked Kim up on wiki last week.

[XL]

The Damian Sandow "Expand Your Vocab" Award.

WINNER: Abeyance.

[Emperor Smeat]

Not sponsored by Gillette - Beard of the Year:
Daniel Bryan - winner
Big Show
Mark Henry
The Wyatt Family
Damien Sandow


JBL's Catchphrase of the Year:
"Mrs. Fandango"
"We fight on Friday nights! MACKLE" - winner
"Mexico's greatest export"
"Fear the bull"

[XL]

"MACKLE".

[loopydate]

TLP Catchphrase of the Year - Presented by Heisenberg
"Oh, Come On!" - Poit
"...no, wait, that's Randy." - Nowhere Man
", everybody." - Narcissus
"Only [insert small number of] people will understand why that's funny." - Anyone
"LAdies and GENTlemen, WELcome to TABles, LADders, & PODcast." - Narcissus

Winner - "Up next is the rock-climbing sequence from [I]Lost Continent, no, wait, that's Randy."

[FourFifty]

Question Of The Week:

Which Slammy award would you add to the show, and who would win it? (Also feel free to list other nominees for the award)

Thank God You're Gone- This slammy goes to someone who stopped wrestling for WWE, and we're all the better for it.
This year, it goes to Ted DiBiase Jr. From what I recall he wanted to be a movie star but not live in a major hub for the business. This is the logical equivalent to wanting to set up a surf shop in the middle of Bonner Springs, Kansas. Not impossible, but not very practical. Best of luck to Ted, but we're all the better now that you're gone.

[KyleEmmott]

I would love to be on the show next week, there's probably a 60% chance I'll be backstage at TLC, but if not I'll be at the show regardless.

[Poit]

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Covering NXT, Impact, Smackdown, TLC, and Raw, plus a brief look at Main Event.

Starring: Narcissus, Jabba, Nowhere Man, Afterlife, and Poit, with special guest The Kyle Emmott.

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Question Of The Week:

What should be the name of the Tables, Ladders, & Podcast awards?
Names proposed on the podcast (though you can write-in a different one):

The Laddies
The Maggals
The Randys (Randies?)
The Yambags
The TLPeabodies

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

The Mackles (Maggals)

[Innovator]

The "Oh Come On" followed by Afterlife yelling "NO"s

[The Rogerer]

The Petulants

[loopydate]

Kyle was a delight. His backstage recap was one of my favorite TLP moments so far. Nice job!

[Nark Order]

We are proud of our little boy. He's all growed up.

[Emperor Smeat]

The Randys

[KyleEmmott]

Kyle was a delight. His backstage recap was one of my favorite TLP moments so far. Nice job!

Thank you! Thank you!

[KyleEmmott]

We are proud of our little boy. He's all growed up.

[James Steele]

The Casties

[The Rogerer]

The CastiesTerrible

[Poit]

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Covering NXT, Impact, and Smackdown, plus a brief look at Main Event. We'll cover Raw next week.

Starring: Narcissus, Jabba, Afterlife, and Poit.

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Question Of The Week:

What is your wrestling-related Christmas wish?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Do I have to pick just one wish? I may change my mind, but I'm going to go with Daniel Bryan vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXX. I'd also like wrestling outside of the WWE to get a bit better and give us something really interesting.

[The Rogerer]

I'm sorry, I was being deliberately obtuse with The Petulants.

My ultimate christmas wish would be returning to a two hour RAW. Failing that, a return of the women's title.

[owenbrown]

for Randy Orton to get his third strike.

[James Steele]

I wish that Yoshi Tatsu would make a return to the main shows and become a staple of the Intercontinental and U.S. Championship divisions.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I wish that Yoshi Tatsu would make a return to the main shows and become a staple of the Intercontinental and U.S. Championship divisions.

I was thinking about how much I'd like that just the other day. I am hoping that the reason Yoshi hasn't been seen on TV for a while is so we forget how his credibility was shot during his last run. He could also be working with some younger guys and getting them more crisp and polished before having a solid return.

[Anybody Thrilla]

This episode finally convinced me to watch NXT. I will be watching every week now.

[FourFifty]

This episode finally convinced me to watch NXT. I will be watching every week now.
Same here, mainly because I wanted to see the look on Bo Dallas' face when PAC jumped to the outside. This stuff is gold.

My wrestling wish would be the return of the hardcore title. With WWE's current landscape it can work. They can have the title change 4-5 times on the weekend as they announce it via social media, and put it back on someone right before RAW airs on Monday. They can also put it on NXT for a week or two.

[Kingofdaswing]

Same here, mainly because I wanted to see the look on Bo Dallas' face when PAC jumped to the outside. This stuff is gold.

My wrestling wish would be the return of the hardcore title. With WWE's current landscape it can work. They can have the title change 4-5 times on the weekend as they announce it via social media, and put it back on someone right before RAW airs on Monday. They can also put it on NXT for a week or two.

Hardcore title would not work in this era of wrestling. The chair shots are pointless, nothing to the head, just see a good example of a no DQ match, take a look at Miz vs Kofi at the last Ppv.

No one would buy a hardcore match with the current product.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Episodes of TLP to be like an hour and a half shorter. Less PBP of what happened on the shows.

[Nark Order]

Nope. We aren't going to do that. Plenty of podcasts are close to 3 hours. It is fairly easy to save your place on itunes, podbean, or any random podcasting app. I rarely listen to podcasts in one sitting. Also, we have our show broken down into parts. It would be fairly easy to skip a show if you really wanted to.

There's no rule that says you have to listen to every morsel of content. Enjoy the way you'd like to enjoy but the format probably isn't changing soon.

[James Steele]

Just cut out Afterlife and NM's incessant repetitive rants would cut the show in half.

[James Steele]

Love you two, but god damn, we get it already. #OrtonSucks #HunterIsSatan

[#1-norm-fan]

Do you really love Afterlife and NM? I'm not sure I believe that.

[Afterlife]

I'll stop reapeating "Orton sucks" when Orton stops repeating his suckage.

[#1-norm-fan]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nkc9lk7yEac/Uq7L6VRgmhI/AAAAAAAABGo/b0wf5-qNtmI/s1600/Randy+Orton.jpg

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

"I wonder if anybody is gonna eat that..."

[Innovator]

Two belts and no pants for them.

[Nowhere Man]

Just cut out Afterlife and NM's incessant repetitive rants would cut the show in half.

Funny thing is, I'm generally enjoying both of them now more than ever. Granted, it's still not very much, but what can ya do.

[Innovator]

Based off of NXT this last week, I would wish for Regal to get called up to the main roster as the color commentator for RAW, ousting Lawler. Then you can build up to the "old villian" going for the WWE title, the one thing that eluded him his entire career (Think Terry Funk in ECW).

[Anybody Thrilla]

Or Jerry Lawler v. The Miz

Actually, no, don't think that.

[owenbrown]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nkc9lk7yEac/Uq7L6VRgmhI/AAAAAAAABGo/b0wf5-qNtmI/s1600/Randy+Orton.jpg

"Is that a cart full of the WWE Divas' handbags?"

[Nark Order]

You can't introduce a hypothetical cart into the narrative of the photo. This is an outrage.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I wonder how William Regal and JBL would work together on commentary?

[Mr. Nerfect]

If JBL took time off to climb mountains or whatever, then I'd really be interested to see a team of Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler and William Regal. For some reason I think that would be really interesting.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I'd rather Regal did Main Event than The Miz or Alex Riley.

[owenbrown]

You can't introduce a hypothetical cart into the narrative of the photo. This is an outrage.

oh... I thought that photo was open for captions..... EXCUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! :roll:

[The Rogerer]

Do you publish in in stereo? There are other podcasts with great quality and half the comparable file size.

[Innovator]

http://www.wrestlenewz.com/ortongif.gif

[Nowhere Man]

If JBL took time off to climb mountains or whatever, then I'd really be interested to see a team of Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler and William Regal. For some reason I think that would be really interesting.


I'd be really interested in JBL climbing one of those mountains and accidentally falling to his death.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

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Covering Christmas Raw, NXT, Impact, Smackdown, & New Year Raw.

Starring: Narcissus, Jabba, Afterlife, Poit, & a sprinkling of Nowhere Man.

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Question Of The Week:

As a wrestling fan, what is your new year's resolution, for your viewing of wrestling in the coming year? (needlessly complicated wording, but you get the idea).

[Mr. Nerfect]

I hope that I get the chance to see more New Japan and follow some of the independent promotions around the place. Hopefully some of them become more interesting.

[FourFifty]

Watch more NXT!

[James Steele]

I hope to watch SmackDown! more regularly and become a semi-regular guest on Tables, Ladders, and Podcast. #PresentAllSidesOfAnArgumentYouFuckingHacks

[Afterlife]

Sah-cology.

[XL]

To be a guest on TLP.

[Emperor Smeat]

Watch more shows besides NXT and RAW.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Use Fast-forward less when watching Raw on DVR.

[Heisenberg]

Keep on convincing myself that Emma and Paige will grace the main roster and make Diva segments watchable again.

Appreciate Goldberg if he comes back for a match, same with Stone Cold

Cherish the choke slam and power bomb moves if they are seen.

[XL]

"OH, COME ON!!"

[Poit]

Stop steaming my gimmick.

[Mr. Nerfect]

http://www.wrestlenewz.com/ortongif.gif

Truly a great SmackDown moment.

[#1-norm-fan]

lol. Fucking loved when he did that. It only came out in small doses but "Fun-loving yet badass face" Orton is my favorite.

[Lock Jaw]

Actually listen to Tables, Ladders, & Podcast. I have a two and a half hour drive on Sunday that I must do, perhaps if I can figure out how to do it, I will take your soothing voices along with me to keep me company.

UPDATE: Figured out how to download the mp3 file... Should now theoretically be able to put that onto my phone.

[Afterlife]

My voice is the soothingest.

[Afterlife]

Fun-loving. :roll:

[Mr. Nerfect]

What I loved about it was that it was so random. It was out of character, but not in a bad way. That's what made it so great -- Orton just really enjoying beating up Mark Henry that night, and kind of freaked out Christian in the process.

[Mr. Nerfect]

On the topic of Orton, does anyone else feel that as a heel he seems far less credible than he did as a babyface? I thought the turn was well-executed and such, but he just seems to have lost that badass vibe about him. It comes out from time to time (like when he ruthlessly beat Cena at TLC), but he still feels more like 2002 Chris Jericho than 2000 Triple H to me.

[James Steele]

I think they are trying to blend his badass heel persona while bringing back more elements of his 2002-2005 arrogant/cocky heel gimmick. Orton's promos have been 1,000,000X better since his heel turn. I really enjoyed Orton from 02-06.

[James Steele]

My voice is the soothingest.

In the sense that I will end my life and the pains of this world will never be felt by me again.

[Innovator]

Steel, does XL know that you're sexual tension cheating on him with Afterlife?

[James Steele]

I'm a rage whore.

[#1-norm-fan]

On the topic of Orton, does anyone else feel that as a heel he seems far less credible than he did as a babyface? I thought the turn was well-executed and such, but he just seems to have lost that badass vibe about him.

Yes. Oddly enough, this. It's actually why I preferred face Orton. He had this way about him where he could get the crowd pumped just watching him beat someone's ass and seem to have a blast doing it. He didn't even need to be involved in anything major.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Most of the time as a babyface, he wasn't. Still one of the more over dudes on the roster though. I agree that his promos have gotten a lot better since the turn. I'm hoping that he actually goes over Cena clean at the Rumble. Their match doesn't need to close the show and a loss against Orton could actually be used to give Cena direction heading into WrestleMania. No matter who his opponent is, Cena can feel he has something "to prove" at WrestleMania XXX, which gives him a thing. Orton could be the champion and the guy to beat, but he needs to actually give off a world-beater vibe.

Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment in their WWE World Title match at the Rumble, but Orton kicks out. Cena locks in the STF, but Orton gets to the ropes. Michael Cole asks what Cena needs to do to put Orton away. Cena goes for another AA, but Orton counters mid-air into an RKO out of nowhere. Orton gets the pin and retains the title. CM Punk then wins the 2014 Royal Rumble Match. As Punk celebrates to close out the PPV, Orton appears on stage with both his championship belts and just smirks at Punk. WrestleMania main event set.

[loopydate]

I resolve to not watch a minute of televised wrestling, stop reading results online, and only get my wrestling news (and YouTube match recommendations) from TLP.

I'm actually not kidding.

[Afterlife]

You're a mad man.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I resolve to not watch a minute of televised wrestling, stop reading results online, and only get my wrestling news (and YouTube match recommendations) from TLP.

I'm actually not kidding.

Maybe you should film it too. It'll be like a "Super Size me" about wrestling podcasts.

[loopydate]

That's a fun idea. I may need to give that some thought.

[FourFifty]

If I were a guest on tlp, I would want less than 5 minutes.
4:50 with FourFifty.

[Heisenberg]

http://www.wwe.com/f/styles/superstar_badge/public/talent/shield/Randyorton_badge.png - Happy New Years Afterlife and the rest of my TLP fans

[Innovator]

Present to AL and Nowhere Man:

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[Heisenberg]

Present to AL and Nowhere Man:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiNi36UDJpn4QR61lWcRgJ8aaJd-9o4d07ZwjbVrnSrJZJZf7xnA

http://www.wwe.com/f/styles/superstar_badge/public/talent/shield/Randyorton_badge.png- I take selfies at the beach, it talks to me, it comforts me, I'm Randy man(to the tone of my theme song, heh, I rule)

[Innovator]

My resolution is to watch more New Japan stuff. Started getting back into it and am liking what I'm seeing.

[Afterlife]

Present to AL and Nowhere Man:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiNi36UDJpn4QR61lWcRgJ8aaJd-9o4d07ZwjbVrnSrJZJZf7xnA

"Hey, Randy, want me to take an awkwardly forced 'sexy pose' picture of you at the beach?"

"Actually, yes. Gimme juuuust a mooooment...to angle myself...so I can hold this pose...that is to say, so that the position in which I place my body...will ensure that I stare into the sun...with the sun in my eyes...in other words, so that my face contorts into an incredibly doofy expression because the light rays from our planet's nearest star are burning the retinas of my eyes."

"Got it."

"The eyes I use to see."

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

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Question Of The Week:

If you were booking Old School Raw, which legendary wrestler, team, or faction, would you bring back, and in what capacity?

[Anybody Thrilla]

No one person springs to mind, but I will say that I would NOT have any of the old school wrestlers get over on current talent, much like the New Age Outlaws and Sgt. Slaughter got their licks on the most recent Old School Raw.

[Poit]

The terrible image of Cena:

http://i.imgur.com/BrH5EEC.png

[Seth82]

I would like to have seen a few legends that aren't always trotted out year after year.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Like who, Seth?

[Anybody Thrilla]

I enjoy listening to these, but sometimes I feel like I'm watching a different show. Either that, or I just have an odd way of seeing things sometimes.

[#1-norm-fan]

Tito Santana. Los Matadores. El Torito. You can fill in the rest of the segment.

[James Steele]

I would have booked a Brood Reunion and have them make their sweet entrance and they start cutting their "quiet rage goth" promo only for Edge to break character and go "Wait...this is totally dorky. Let's do some old school awesomeness!". The best part would be when Gangrel joins E&C in a "5 Second Pose - Vintage Goth Edition" and they exit to the classic E&C theme. Later, you could have them interact with The Wyatt Family and have Gangrel do a spit take with his red liquid or something and have him say "Those guys are freaking weird." Then, you can book Christian vs Daniel Bryan for SmackDown!

[James Steele]

I love Gangrel.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I was really happy to have Scotty 2 Hotty on RAW. I'd have marked the fuck out for a "Mean" Gene Okerlund vs. Funaki battle of the backstage interviewers.

[Innovator]

Haku, who comes out and challenges Brock Lesnar.

Who wins? We do.

[owenbrown]

The terrible image of Cena:

http://i.imgur.com/BrH5EEC.png

and whoever made that still shot for Cena in the promos for this match needs to be fired because he looks like this

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/V4IO3kogMu0/hqdefault.jpg

[loopydate]

Damn right, I'm a hero!

I'd love to see a Demolition/Powers of Pain segment. Not really sure how you get there, but maybe something like the Shield beating somebody down and having Ax and Smash run in for the save to set up a tag match but Demolition gets laid out by Warlord and Barbarian. I don't know, needs work.

[XL]

Once, just once, I would like for them to not use Charles Wright as The Godfather. Can we please have a Papa Shango appearance?

Also, Right To Censor would be pretty sweet. Although quite what they'd be censoring in this era I'm not sure.

[XL]

Maybe they could censor Rowan's ass crack?

[James Steele]

You could easily do a segment with RTC interrupting CM Punk.

[XL]

Yes. Ok. Let's do that then.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

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Thought For The Year:

Which wrestlers do you think we'll be talking about at the end of 2014, as having great years?

[Afterlife]

Maybe they could censor Rowan's ass crack?

Or Langston's cock bulge.

[Emperor Smeat]

Wrestler - Razor Ramon/Scott Hall in a similar role to Ted DiBiase or Ron Simmons in the sense he says his "Hey Yo" catchphrase for a quick cheer.

Team - Bushwhackers and they either face 3MB for the comedic match or Real Americans after Zeb does some insults targeted towards the Old School non-American stars of the past.

Faction - The Corporation with Pat Paterson and Gerald Brisco acting as honorary stooges for the Authority that night.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Would love to see Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco as stooges again. Even if it's just for the occasional segment.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I've kind of been obsessed with the idea of a legend hosting a tournament lately. Even if it only took place on Superstars or Main Event as a trial. Originally it was Shawn Michaels hosting it in my mind, but then it became Arn Anderson. They'd invite the 8 competitors they wanted to see in it, and the winner would receive the official sponsorship of that legend.

[Nark Order]

We never presented the Yambag for Best Yambag.

[Nark Order]

Really do think Bray will be the biggest guy in the company in the next couple of years. Although, WWE really likes fucking things up because they hate making money and producing great television.

[Poit]

How did we forget about Vickie Guerrero for the bullying category?

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

Yes, for some reason we forgot Vickie and Ryback for that, but thankfully we picked the right winner.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I think Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Daniel Bryan will all have tremendous years, and CM Punk will of course be talked about. I think John Cena will continue to do his usual great work. I'm thinking Sami Zayn and Kalisto will make a stir when they get called up from developmental this year, as will Paige and Emma.

[Emperor Smeat]

Dean Ambrose.

Probably won't be near the same level of attention the WWE is giving to both Big E and Reigns but think he stands a good chance of having a great year in general or as the start of his rise towards something even greater in the near future.

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh I can sense the Randy Orton whining being at an all-time high here. I may need to get some popcorn before listening to this.

[#1-norm-fan]

As for the question, I honestly believe WWE will realize the license to print money that they have in Johnny Curtis and with or without the Fandango gimmick he'll find himself with a major face push.

[Nark Order]

I don't think we said much about Randy at all. He's not very good though.

[FourFifty]

I had to bag groceries at work today. Some hippie brought her own produce bags. I was giggling a little when I saw yams in them... Yambags....

[Maluco]

If they go old school they should do it properly, open the show with a 10 minute D.O.A vs Los Boricuas match!:drool:

Being serious though, would be cool to see some old school matches done in a fun way...like a Hardcore title match with fun weapons and lots of cameos from people like Hardcore Holly, Steve Blackman, Raven, Rhyno etc...

[#1-norm-fan]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nkc9lk7yEac/Uq7L6VRgmhI/AAAAAAAABGo/b0wf5-qNtmI/s1600/Randy+Orton.jpg

[Poit]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we complained about Gail Kim and Curtis Axel way more than Orton.

[#1-norm-fan]

So you complained about two people who I also don't care about? One of whom is actually shit and deserving of it? Well that's not as enticing...

[Poit]

Sorry for not making something you can gleefully hate.

[Afterlife]

We're not WWE, after all.

[James Steele]

Brad Maddox should have gotten Rookie of the Year.

[James Steele]

JBL is awesome. Fuck you.

[#1-norm-fan]

... How was Fandango not one of the seemingly hundreds of nominees for Rookie of the Year? I'm not so sure I can take these awards seriously anymore.

[James Steele]

What kind of man hates The Rock, dislikes JBL's commentary, and thinks the Bella Twins aren't that bad? A tortured soul, that's who.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

... How was Fandango not one of the seemingly hundreds of nominees for Rookie of the Year? I'm not so sure I can take these awards seriously anymore.

Johnny Curtis isn't a rookie, but theres plenty of reasons not to take these awards seriously.

Who voted? Who nominated?

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

... How was Fandango not one of the seemingly hundreds of nominees for Rookie of the Year?
Just an oversight, probably because he's been floating around not doing much lately.

[Poit]

Yeah, I don't think a gimmick change makes someone a rookie.

Nominations & voting were done among ourselves.

[#1-norm-fan]

I thought maybe that was it. But then I realized that like half of the nominees are just guys with new names and/or gimmicks.

[XL]

Nice work everybody. Already looking forward to the 2nd Anniversary of the Awards next year.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Antonio Cesaro is fucking amazing, so shut the fuck up everyone.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

I think Afterlife is the only one who currently dislikes him.

Most of us dislike his finisher, though, when he has so many better looking moves.

[Heisenberg]

Johnny Curtis isn't a rookie, but theres plenty of reasons not to take these awards seriously.

Who voted? Who nominated?

http://i.imgur.com/qVi2qn0.gif

[Anybody Thrilla]

Stephanie McMahon? Really?

[Anybody Thrilla]

Sami Zayn has done precisely nothing at all. You guys are NXT biased.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Ambrose is rookie of the year.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Good call on the tag team.

[Anybody Thrilla]

That was a lot of fun.

[XL]

Thrilla, do you watch NXT?

[Anybody Thrilla]

I've recently started watching NXT. The last four episodes or so.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Sami Zayn is really good, but Ambrose is still rookie of the year in terms of both performance and relevance.

[Innovator]

Zayn gets credit for being the only WWE babyface who acts like a babyface and not a colossal dick. He also accurately described Renee as a ray of sunshine.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

This was fun to do, so we'll probably try to do more "specials" during months that we have enough bandwidth.

[XL]

How about a play-by-play of Raw? Or a PPV might be easier what with no commercials and all. Pretty sure listening to Nowhere Man, Afterlife and Jabba call the action instead of Cole, JBL and King would improve the show.

[Poit]

Should I be offended I'm not on that list?

[Anybody Thrilla]

Yup.

Your inflection makes you sound unsure of everything you say. There's an upswing at the end of all your sentences. It's a standard white thing, I guess. Every statement sounds like a question.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

How about a play-by-play of Raw? Or a PPV might be easier what with no commercials and all. Pretty sure listening to Nowhere Man, Afterlife and Jabba call the action instead of Cole, JBL and King would improve the show.
That might be something we could do on the YouTube channel, LIVE.

[Poit]

I already don't like the way I sound. Thanks for making me feel even worse about it ABT. :(

[Anybody Thrilla]

I'm sorry. Give me a hug.

[Poit]

*hug*

[Heisenberg]

Yup.

Your inflection makes you sound unsure of everything you say. There's an upswing at the end of all your sentences. It's a standard white thing, I guess. Every statement sounds like a question.

I already don't like the way I sound. Thanks for making me feel even worse about it ABT. :(

I'm sorry. Give me a hug.

*hug*


http://i.imgur.com/hlH229K.gif

[Innovator]

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pinkman-kafkaesque.gif

[Anybody Thrilla]

Like Franz Kafka?

[Innovator]

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Jesse-Pinkman-Breaking-Bad-Drinking-Water.gif

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Yup.

Your inflection makes you sound unsure of everything you say. There's an upswing at the end of all your sentences. It's a standard white thing, I guess. Every statement sounds like a question.

You also seem to like everything which isn't great for their cynic-tone.

[Nowhere Man]

Poit's out-of-place positivity is the only thing (apart from distance) that keeps me and Afterlife from murdering each other.

[Innovator]

I don't like everyone calling Poit an optimistic valley girl.

[Anybody Thrilla]

I like when people like things. It makes more sense that they're podcasting about it.

[Anybody Thrilla]

I'm a Poit fan. I'm just saying.

[#1-norm-fan]

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[XL]

Should I be offended I'm not on that list?

Not at all. I figured Jabba's accent would help break up the booth a little. I'm not always sure who's talking when you bloody yanks get going.

[XL]

Also, you voted against me in the King of the Wrestling Forum gig.

#IStillRemember

[FourFifty]

Question Of The Week:

If you were booking Old School Raw, which legendary wrestler, team, or faction, would you bring back, and in what capacity?


Not sure if this is in time, but here's another answer.

I would love to see a "contract on a pole" match between two legends. Face legend vs Heel legend, so long as they can still work. Just make it a simple run for winner so they can put over a younger talent in the opening match of WrestleMania (or the following Raw).

[Poit]

Alas, we've already covered the question of the week.

[James Steele]

Not sure if this is in time, but here's another answer.

I would love to see a "contract on a pole" match between two legends. Face legend vs Heel legend, so long as they can still work. Just make it a simple run for winner so they can put over a younger talent in the opening match of WrestleMania (or the following Raw).

It'd be easy heel heat for The Authority too. Fire them after they lose their first match and such. Then, you can bring them back down the line for a "mystery tag partner" angle to get their comeuppance for a nice little moment to have on a RAW that still ties into storylines without taking up too much time.

[Poit]

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Question Of The Week:

Which faction in wrestling history would you like to spend two weeks with?

[James Steele]

Only Afterlife could shit all over Vince McMahon for giving us this wonderful gift of WWE Network for $9.99/month.

[James Steele]

Iron Shiek should get a nightly talk show on WWE Network. "Shieky Live!"

[FourFifty]

Any faction in history... hmmm...
<strike>I'm going to go with The Kliq.</strike>
EDIT- Forget factions, I'm going with Tyler Breeze.

[Afterlife]

Hey! I like things!

[Seth82]

I'd have to go with The Four Horsemen (Flair, Arn, Tully & Ole version)

[Anybody Thrilla]

Pretty Mean Sisters. I'll be their Meat, even though I'm not normally into black chicks.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Wait, no, make that The Beautiful People.

[XL]

That quip about feuding over who has a "stupid gigantic entrance", was that a reference to The Ascension or one of the more promiscuous Divas?

[Poit]

Probably the Ascension, but I like yours funnier.

[James Steele]

The Authority as they fuck the corpse of Daniel Bryan's career.

[Emperor Smeat]

Corporate Ministry

[loopydate]

nWo at its most bloated, like early '98 or so. Can you imagine the ridiculousness of spending a fortnight with Hall, Nash, Hogan, Bischoff, Syxx, Vincent, Liz, Dusty, Buff, Norton, Konnan, Hennig, Rude, Louie Spicolli, Adams, Brutus, and Big Poppa Pump?

[Gone Mad]

Good show, guys!

Gotta go with 3MB, because I am stupid.

[Nark Order]

I'd have to go with The Four Horsemen (Flair, Arn, Tully & Ole version)

This is the correct answer.

[#1-norm-fan]

I dunno...

The Beautiful People.

Seems like the pretty obvious answer for any heterosexual male.

[#1-norm-fan]

So if you meant it is the correct answer for Seth, I am inclined to agree.

[Afterlife]

There are no words for the blandness.

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh yeah. Afterlife, too.

[FourFifty]

Been keeping up with my new years resolution to watch NXT.
I'm pretty sure Tyler Breeze can sell a Chris Beniot highlights tape to Kevin Sullivan. Hit Breeze in the face and he sells that much.

[Innovator]

This is the correct answer.

Nah, I'd go with the horsemen with flair, arm, tully, and windham, ole is an asshole.

[Mr. Nerfect]

If we're talking male faction, it'd have to be the Four Horsemen. I'd also be tempted by The House of Truth because of Scarlett Bordeaux and Valerie Malone.

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Question Of The Week:

Which current diva/female wrestler do you believe could have the wrestling longevity of Mae Young?

[FourFifty]

No one said Evolution because of how much of an energy drain Randy is nowadays.

As of this week's answer... No. Just no. No one else is going to hit that level of legacy that Mae Young has hit.

[James Steele]

Stephanie McMahon because Triple H's penis is the fountain of youth. Proof: Look at Chyna before, during, and after copious amounts of Paul Levesque coitus.

[Emperor Smeat]

AJ.

[XL]

I don't think there's a man that can match the longevity of Mae. She wrestled/made appearances for pretty much 75 years. Flair would have to do another 20 years to match that, do you think he'll live to be 84!?

When was the last time a woman remained relevant for a decade let alone 7?

Stephanie is probably the safest bet for obvious reasons.

[Afterlife]

Stephanie is relevant? BAM.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I wouldn't compare anyone to Mae Young, but when you want to talk about a lasting impact on the business, I really do think that AJ Lee, Paige and Emma could all have long careers in the WWE, providing they keep their nose clean. Paige and Emma are not only two of the most talented girls on the WWE roster (perhaps the most talented two), but they are also babies. Emma is twelve years younger than Layla, for example, while Paige is fifteen years younger. That's a long time to make a splash once they connect with the WWE audience on the main roster.

As far as AJ Lee goes, I feel that she is one of the most important female characters the WWE has ever had, and she's only going to get more important if the Divas Division continues to be highlighted and they want to expand their female viewership. She's already achieved so much with the WWE and still has years left to achieve more. It's very likely she will compete at WrestleMania XXX this year, and it's very likely she will get a very good reaction and be able to ride a wave of momentum to an even better year than she had last year.

[XL]

Being so young now just means they'll be younger when they finish up with WWE - whether that's because they've expired their "shelf life" or get bored with the way they get booked.

What's the average life-span of a Diva? 6 years?

[Anybody Thrilla]

I think the closest thing to Mae was Trish Stratus, but she's all but forgotten now anyway. Currently, I guess AJ Lee, but that still feels like a serious stretch.

[loopydate]

Stephanie most likely.

I'd add Natalya to the discussion. She's not going to go down as an all-time great, because they book her pretty shittily, but she's got the family name and she seems to be well-liked, so I can see her showing up from time to time for a very long time to come, even if she'll never be an important part of the show.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I can see Nattie having a long WWE career.

[The Rogerer]

I tried to work out where they would have gotten the 62% in the last decade from, and the closest I got was 5/8 = 62.5%

[XL]

How did you get that? Let's see your working out, man!

[The Rogerer]

Five

Divided By

Eight

Equals

Zero Point Six Two Five

Expressed as a percentage

Is

Sixty Two Point Five Percent

I was just saying that was the numbers I came up with in order to get anywhere near 62%. I have no idea if those numbers match up to anything. I thought at first it might be over 9 years, because 'the decade' could include this year which hadn't been won yet, leaving you 9 years. Nothing would break into 9 years to give close to 62%, so I went to 8. God knows.

[XL]

An 8 year decade!?

Poit already explained in the podcast. The promo video was supposed to say "the last TWO decades". I worked it out in the Raw thread that they'd included 21 events in the last 2 decades. That gave you 61.9%.

[The Rogerer]

I don't think a decade is 8 years. I guessed that maybe they were counting 8 occurances in the space of a decade because that was the way to get close to 62% in a flipping decade. I am terribly sorry that I didn't hear poit definitively explain it.

[XL]

Oh, I see.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

Podbean is currently down, so the next episode will be up as soon as it's working again.

[FourFifty]

:(

[FourFifty]

This is unBOlieveable.

[James Steele]

GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, MAN!

[loopydate]

Hey, SOME of us are working overnight tonight and need the dulcet tones of TLP to get through to the morning.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

This is a killer episode, too.

Podbean is still being lame.

[The Rogerer]

I appear to have successfully downloaded it

[Heisenberg]

You guys are friggin pissed rn on the new cast. good lord

[FourFifty]

Listened to most of it, gonna finish it off when I get off work today. I just had to stop as I was damn near crying when I heard Jabba talk about little Timmy and his bike. Holy Hell, that was funny!

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

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What would've been a worse ending to the Royal Rumble?

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Here's the video of my dream, that was mentioned on the cast:

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[FourFifty]

If Cena would have made a comeback at number 30 and won it...
On second thought, that would be awesome. The fans would have KILLED him.

[loopydate]

10!
9!
8!
7!
6!
5!
4!
3!
2!
1!

The lights in the arena go out. A cryptic message appears on the screen. Who is this mysterious man entering at #30? Suddenly, a name begins to form...

S
T
I
N
G

The crowd erupts! Their joy is short-lived when - instead of the Gothic metal people have come to associate with the WCW icon - "Fragile" begins to play.

"Maggal! Sting is in the WWE! Multi-platinum Grammy Award winner Sting has arrived!"