Episode 623: Whose Fault Is It Anyway?
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WBD/Paramount merger
Paramount for a staggering amount of money is getting all of WBD. I don't see how it's possible that they're even going to be able to make the debt service much less make a profit on this deal.
Nielsen ratings
As soon as they instituted that [new Nielsen rating method], all the wrestling programs fell off a fucking cliff... but then they finally decided well we're just gonna go back to the old way and immediately all the wrestling numbers are back in the same place they fucking were.
Teddy Hart
Teddy Hart just showed up and just wandered in... he starts making a scene to the point where people believe that he trying to get attention or start trouble... and they took him off to a goddamn mental institution.
Ted DiBiase Jr. trial
I've got some great friends in my life. I've never written any of them. It would be an honor to die for you, bro. What the fuck is that?
It's crazy watching the footage here on the video comparing it to, like, anything you see in New York or most big cities where if there's a big trial, you see the person walking down the street with their lawyers and you'll see media or just weird people who go to the courthouse to hang around. There's no one here.
Darby Allin Uber incident
It's clearly a bit. And I'm okay with that because you know what? Darby Allen has shown us that he goes the extra mile. He's the Forrest Gump of awkward social interactions where there's always something happening to him at some given point in public.
Wrestling business landscape
I miss the days when a regular person could become a multimillionaire wrestling promoter. Because now, to be a wrestling promoter, you already need to be a multimillionaire.
Ring of Honor studio tapings
Between the fact that none of those guys have ever done a studio show and probably few of them have ever been in a television station... there going to be some kind of fucking lawsuit. I don't see how they can possibly do what they do in an arena in a television studio.
Cody Rhodes
It was Cody Rhodes Day in Louisville, Kentucky. The mayor, Craig Greenberg himself, made the presentation to Cody of a plaque signifying it was Cody Rhodes Day in Louisville.
OVW business model
I'm trying to figure out how that anybody thought that this was something that they should invest money in based on having run it at the only time when it ever made money.
