The Earth Is On Fire
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AEW signing The Inspiration
Did you see the backlash to AEW signing The Inspiration? The embarrassing AEW tryhards on Blue Sky were like losing their minds. They're not good enough to be signed with AEW... you're telling me you don't think The Inspiration are as good at wrestling as Julia Hart or Sky Blue or Red Velvet?
If you're going to be developing your women's tag division further, it really does help to bring in a solidified tag team. Bringing them in as a codified legitimate long-standing tag team with a fan base that has followed them from promotion to promotion, that's just smart business.
Ring of Honor format change
Ring of Honor is not going to be taped before Dynamite and Collision anymore. It's going to be a studio show taped in Jacksonville and it seems like a great thing for them.
Ring of Honor brand identity
I feel like Tony Khan kind of tarnished the [ROH] brand a little bit by making it like his little brother type thing and now to see it just be hopefully almost like a brand split I think would be appropriate.
UWA Toronto launch
United Wrestling Alliance, a new promotion coming to Toronto in July, Black and Indigenous-owned. Their tickets are on sale for the first show right now. The number of women on this show is staggering.
Harley Cameron/Social media
I saw that Harley Cameron got bullied off Twitter which honestly babe, good for her.
Slamtown/Independent wrestling
If the government of Canada ever gets back to me with their stupid paperwork on how to change my name and get a new passport, then I swear to God, I'm going to Oakland, California, and I'm going to Slamtown.
Podcast hiatus
I will fully take the credit, blame, whatever, for us not being active this past month. It's no shock to regular listeners that I've been going through a lot. It's been a hard year.
Podcast industry/Social media
I ran into a wall trying to network on Instagram because unless somebody else follows you, I feel like any messages just get sent to this secret closed DMs folder that people don't check.
Podcast programming
We've got our annual women's wrestling draft that's every April, so that's going to be coming up soon.
