Bonus Episode: AEW Revolution 2025

Brad calls in live from the AEW Revolution show at the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles, CA. He and Aaron discuss highlights from the night including Mariah May vs Toni Storm, MJF vs Hangman Adam Page, Kazuchika Okada vs Brody King, Will Ospreay vs Kyle Fletcher, Jon Moxley vs Adam Copeland, Kenny Omega vs Konosuke Takeshita, scary spots, bloody faces, and more. Oh what a long and violent night it was!

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Transcript

00:00.00
grapplecitypod
yes that able things

00:07.19
grapplecitypod
I'm telling you little bit tired.

00:30.33
grapplecitypod
I suppose we're exactly going to have sex. history i yeah i get

00:48.96
grapplecitypod
what happened

00:57.56
grapplecitypod
I'm trying to get a little bit more. I'm trying to get a little bit more.

01:20.93
grapplecitypod
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01:33.05
grapplecitypod
Thank you.

01:54.22
grapplecitypod
i positive ah

02:01.20
Aaron
Just now it says it's going for me.

02:04.60
grapplecitypod
All right, cool.

02:05.76
Aaron
Okay.

02:06.31
grapplecitypod
Hello, Aaron. Hello, everyone out there in Grapple City Rewind land. I'm here at the AEW show tonight, Los Angeles.

02:17.86
grapplecitypod
Revolution. And um I don't know, fucking ask me anything. i'm ah I'm on my way out. But I think Aaron watched it from the house. And how was it from where you're sitting?

02:26.91
Aaron
I did.

02:30.36
Aaron
It was fun. you know, it was a little long. I'm sure it was long for you too. You got there before it even started, right?

02:38.01
grapplecitypod
did i Yeah, I've been in downtown LA since 2 p.m. today. I think it's 9.30 now in Los Angeles. so

02:46.60
Aaron
Yeah.

02:47.40
grapplecitypod
It was cool. There were some fucking awesome matches. There was some stuff that could have been cut out, but I feel like ah you know there were some big pops, and it was maybe not always in the right spot.

02:58.63
grapplecitypod
you know as I feel like i feel like ah Kenny Omega was

03:02.85
Aaron
Yeah.

03:03.85
grapplecitypod
was giving a lot of

03:06.62
grapplecitypod
he was He was the first match of the night that had a lot of pops.

03:10.27
Aaron
hu

03:11.89
grapplecitypod
For me, it was like Tony Storm.

03:14.00
Aaron
yeah

03:14.08
grapplecitypod
Mariah May was like the beginning of the end. It was very fun, but it was like, how going top that, you know?

03:20.75
Aaron
Yeah, just so crazy and violent. Yeah, it was... I enjoyed the show overall as well. I felt like, for the most part, the crowd seemed like, on on my side of things, like they were into it. um So, you know, I felt like y'all did your part.

03:38.60
Aaron
But yeah, you know, I think in juxtaposition to like...

03:40.36
grapplecitypod
they Yeah.

03:43.55
Aaron
what we've been watching, it's pretty interesting how far how far away this is from old school wrestling.

03:45.91
grapplecitypod
yeah

03:51.55
Aaron
Just like, you know, and the pacing is kind of all over the place, but like it works most of the time. i feel like... The only match that reminded me of anything that we've watched so far was the last one.

04:01.77
grapplecitypod
well on ra

04:04.83
Aaron
And it was everyone is so quiet and tired that like nobody was even really getting into it until all the surprises and the run ins and the interference.

04:05.49
grapplecitypod
five i think sorry this one Yeah. I think when you have people here for like a Ring of Honor and all the preliminary shows and you have so much blood for so many episodes that when you finally get to like a couple like old legends, Hall of Famers, it's, you know, it's like, what are you go to do Bleed again?

04:33.24
grapplecitypod
you know, it's like that you have Jon Moxley not even bleeding at this, at this point.

04:34.50
Aaron
Yeah.

04:37.75
grapplecitypod
Yeah.

04:38.02
Aaron
Right.

04:38.25
grapplecitypod
for the for the main event. And it's like, um yeah, it was weird. I'm not trying to knock AEW because i I think what they do really well is our pay-per-views.

04:50.14
grapplecitypod
And I feel like i had a lot of fun.

04:50.100
Aaron
Mm-hmm.

04:52.98
grapplecitypod
But I also had, I would say, 50% of the show. I was meandering. I went up to the nosebleeds. I was sitting ringside. I went to the nosebleeds a lot and just to see different perspectives and like hang out and like meet people.

05:06.06
Aaron
Yeah.

05:06.62
grapplecitypod
And I was like, all right, a lot of this stuff, like, you know, you, you could have made it like a tie, like three hours and it would have been sick. But, um, there were some points that, you know, we didn't really need there.

05:19.06
grapplecitypod
think, uh, the, uh, uh, the sort of Rick is Rick is shame at this. Like it was really awesome.

05:27.15
Aaron
yeah

05:27.31
grapplecitypod
And, um, And the Mariah-Tony Storm match was pretty cool. It was like capping off a three-part series.

05:38.25
grapplecitypod
And oh that was you know it's a lot of fun. But I don't know how many crimson masks we can take for one night. Especially when you're like right up above it. You smell the fucking iron in the blood, you know?

05:46.86
Aaron
Yeah.

05:50.26
Aaron
ah Yeah, you were up there real close for sure.

05:52.93
grapplecitypod
Yeah.

05:53.15
Aaron
Yeah, you know, I mean, it's it it was a fun pay-per-view. I agree with you. AEW pay-per-views are pretty much always great. um You at least know that you're going to get amazing matches, crazy stuff happening in the ring.

06:07.39
Aaron
I think what I noticed the most was at the end when it was over, like on the one hand, there was a result that I didn't want, right? I didn't want... I didn't want Moxley to win because I'm tired of the Deathriders stuff.

06:22.04
Aaron
But also, yeah, no, for sure.

06:22.57
grapplecitypod
And the audience didn't want to hear. Yeah, but go ahead. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

06:25.83
Aaron
Yeah, no, the audience didn't want it either. I get that. I mean, I think it's just like... the The show ended and I was like, okay, well, nothing happened that really makes me want to like tune in to Dynamite on Wednesday.

06:39.98
Aaron
Whereas right now, leading up to WrestleMania, there's something on almost every show where I'm like, oh shit, I need to see what happens next week on this show because I'm interested

06:44.14
grapplecitypod
yeah

06:51.06
Aaron
in how this story will play out. And although the matches of a W were great, I don't know what's going to happen with the storylines moving forward based on what I saw tonight.

07:01.65
grapplecitypod
Right. I think, i think, um, aw doesn't really have big storylines that I've been following is although I watched them and, um, I think you and i

07:08.91
Aaron
Yeah. No, but they they do. They're just like... They're just... They kind of feel like they're... they're um they There's room for them to expand them, to flesh them out more.

07:23.92
grapplecitypod
Right.

07:25.16
Aaron
But they're there. I mean, like, the Swerve-Ricochet match had... months of buildup behind it. And there was story to that. They were feuding for a very specific reason.

07:33.84
grapplecitypod
Right.

07:35.72
Aaron
And and a lot of the the matches had that kind of a build. But I think for me, it was just like, you know, the one like, I don't know if all of these matches were what we would call a blow off match, right?

07:47.33
Aaron
Where like, once this is over, the feud is over.

07:47.83
grapplecitypod
Right.

07:50.06
Aaron
I don't know if that's the case, but it was kind of hard to tell.

07:52.00
grapplecitypod
Right.

07:53.95
Aaron
it kind of felt like they all were blow off matches.

07:57.24
grapplecitypod
Right, and and I don't mean to knock the storylines of AEW. It's just like, in general, it's just like right now I'm not really following, although I watch everything all the time, not really following ah storyline in which I'm i'm really like compelled to be like, I had to be there tonight.

08:14.65
grapplecitypod
I was here in the second row or whatever because I know AEW kills it with a live event.

08:14.82
Aaron
Yeah, yeah.

08:22.21
grapplecitypod
It's almost like the best indie wrestling you've ever imagined ever. Sorry, it's loud here. In your life. and And, you know, and they they did deliver, I think, as far as, like, indie matches generally are, like, show up, you see two good wrestlers, you don't know what the fuck's going on.

08:38.62
grapplecitypod
If there's a story, you see it

08:39.52
Aaron
yeah yeah

08:40.36
grapplecitypod
You see it from start to end right there in the ring. I think that's what they do pretty well, and I think that's kind what they did tonight, but I think when there's, like, you know, when you're doing all the dark matches and stuff, and there's, like, 12 fucking matches, and you're here from, like, you know...

08:56.24
grapplecitypod
for for seven, eight, nine hours or whatever.

08:58.60
Aaron
Yeah, so it's an investment.

08:58.96
grapplecitypod
It's like, even, even the, even the other people who paid like a ton of money, they're like, you know, they're like, there's like one guy's like from Japan next to me and he's here to see just the Japanese wrestlers.

09:10.38
grapplecitypod
He's fucking watching anime, literally on his phone for entire matches. Just like watching anime in the front row, which I don't know. I mean, i don't know if we all paid the same, but like I, you know, it's expensive to like just sit there and watch anime and like, um,

09:22.62
Aaron
yeah

09:26.57
grapplecitypod
You know, it's like that. It was very quiet for certain parts. It was very loud for Kenny Omega. I think, you know, it wasn't the best match of the night, Omega versus Takeshka, but, like... Oh, wait, no. I'm sorry.

09:38.90
grapplecitypod
Omega versus Okada.

09:41.12
Aaron
No, you were right. No, you were right.

09:42.71
grapplecitypod
Yeah.

09:42.88
Aaron
It was Takeshita.

09:43.40
grapplecitypod
Okay, Takeshka.

09:43.80
Aaron
Yeah, you're Okada versus Brody. Is that what you're thinking of?

09:47.28
grapplecitypod
Yeah, yeah. that one That one didn't really have anything going for anybody. I mean, Brody's from... the Valley 818. Some people were shouting like 818 and stuff.

09:58.48
Aaron
Yeah.

09:58.94
grapplecitypod
But yeah, the the Kenny Omega thing, it wasn't really like the Kenny Omega that I've to know. and um People were really like cheering hard for him, but I think it was more like just to see the champion pioneering like legend AEW.

10:18.18
grapplecitypod
like If AEW had a fucking Hall of Fame, Kenny Omega would probably...

10:18.20
Aaron
yeah

10:23.01
grapplecitypod
be the first one in it, and I think, you know, this wasn't, like, Kenny Omega versus, like, Will Ospreay in Japan, it was just, Kenny Omega showed up, and people were really excited just to see him, but, um, but I don't know, man, that fucking room when, uh, Mariah May and, and Tony, Tony Storm were going at it was, was like, what the fuck, it was pretty nuts, there were some moments, you know, but, um,

10:45.40
Aaron
Pretty hot. yeah was that the match of the night for you you think yeah yeah

10:51.42
grapplecitypod
I mean, yeah for me, it was. actually care. like actually care about their their story. So I was, like, pumped about it.

11:01.24
Aaron
mm-hmm

11:01.45
grapplecitypod
And um i feel like,

11:04.48
grapplecitypod
yeah, I feel like it led up and lived up to um to the hype. But what was your favorite match of the night?

11:13.17
Aaron
Um, it, you know, i think it probably was Tony Storm and Mariah May, but I don't know. i mean, that a lot of them were really solid.

11:24.06
Aaron
Uh, the, even though Kenny doesn't move the exact same way, doesn't do everything with as much ferocity since he's come back from his, um, diverticulitis, um,

11:24.68
grapplecitypod
right

11:36.44
grapplecitypod
right

11:36.44
Aaron
ah scare and surgery. I still think that that match with Takeshi was pretty great. um

11:41.66
grapplecitypod
right

11:43.18
Aaron
I liked the Osprey match with Kyle Fletcher too. You know, all the big matches that the crowd was super into, I was also into. I think probably match of the night for me was yeah was Tony Storm and Mariah May also just because it was super crazy.

11:51.87
grapplecitypod
house

11:55.42
grapplecitypod
okay best you want something

12:00.26
Aaron
They did the fucking glass fists from Kickboxer with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Yeah.

12:07.66
grapplecitypod
Dude, I mean, i fucking go to all the indie shows and be like, you know, oh, it's garbage matches, it's like crazy indie shit shows, but like, you know, you talk about GCW or or something like that,

12:24.11
grapplecitypod
Only do the blood at the end. You know, and yeah and just like AEW tonight, they have the luchadors come out in the and beginning.

12:27.65
Aaron
yeah

12:34.96
grapplecitypod
and Tonight it was the pre-show. was very cool, but it was like, you know, it's like the indie style, right? you're like You've seen it before.

12:40.67
Aaron
Yeah.

12:41.66
grapplecitypod
It's high spots, whatever. but um But, yeah, it's... ah tonight you got the Tony Storm thing. It's like, what else do you need? Let's go home. And then you have a bunch of dudes come out and bleed a bunch more.

12:51.15
Aaron
Yeah.

12:53.24
grapplecitypod
But I will say, um, it was great to see MJF and the hangman Adam page.

12:59.21
Aaron
Mm-hmm.

12:59.52
grapplecitypod
And that was cool. And, uh, you know, the heat of the hydrotechnics and everything in the venue was, was awesome. Um, Okada, when he came out and, um,

13:13.54
grapplecitypod
with the pyrotechnics and the the lights surrounding them and the smoke and the money.

13:15.45
Aaron
The money. Yeah.

13:18.22
grapplecitypod
I, I, I saw the money. The guy next to me had the money, the Okada bucks. It's got his fucking face on it. i was like, is it real?

13:24.80
Aaron
That's awesome.

13:25.77
grapplecitypod
Is it real? And and the guy next to me was so from Japan. And he was like, no, it's a Okada bucks. And I was like, is it Japanese?

13:32.96
Aaron
Okada Bucks.

13:34.27
grapplecitypod
Is it real? and Does it just have a space on it And he's like, He couldn't really like understand me. He's like, it's Okado bucks. Shaking his head, like, stop trying to get it. you know um but um But yeah, I mean, the MJF thing was was cool.

13:44.10
Aaron
yeah

13:50.04
grapplecitypod
I mean, I don't know. He's the star, right?

13:50.95
Aaron
yeah it was a good match uh

13:51.72
grapplecitypod
like When he landed on his face, I texted you, and i was I was really concerned, and I don't know if if it was, you know, if that's the work, if that's what you want it to look like, but But the people next to me, we were, like, starting to get into it early the night. And then um and then Hangman throws MJF right on his fucking face.

14:13.76
grapplecitypod
And a lot of us just stopped. We were, like, cheering and everything. and we're looking at each other like, fuck, dude, that doesn't look good, you know?

14:19.79
Aaron
Yeah.

14:19.84
grapplecitypod
And he's laying there and his chest is going up and down. And um I guess I love that about wrestling. You never know if it's a work or not. But, like, i I definitely don't want to, like, get too excited if like,

14:32.74
grapplecitypod
MJF just fucking broke his fucking neck and it seemed like he did and now it seems like he's fine. So ah good good good on them. It seems like everyone's safe tonight.

14:41.18
Aaron
Yeah.

14:42.44
grapplecitypod
you know

14:43.38
Aaron
Well, that was a thing, actually, that that is kind of worth bringing up is there were. several moments. I mean, maybe it wasn't as obvious from your vantage point, but there was almost a moment in every match where there was like a scary almost almost injury type thing like MJF getting getting suplexed on his face um when Mercedes was wrestling.

15:01.20
grapplecitypod
Yeah.

15:04.77
grapplecitypod
Interesting. Oh, yeah. Momo. And yeah, I mean.

15:10.24
grapplecitypod
okay

15:10.67
Aaron
oh gosh, i can't remember her name. Momo.

15:13.43
grapplecitypod
oh yeah

15:13.75
Aaron
Is that her name? Momo? Yeah.

15:15.72
grapplecitypod
momo and like

15:16.29
Aaron
Yeah. Yeah, so she Momo kicked Mercedes right in the face like real good one time.

15:17.86
grapplecitypod
yeah i mean

15:23.51
Aaron
i mean, Kenny, I think, took something scary, like landed on his head. Like there was just a lot of scary spots throughout the night. And and that's something that I noticed is like,

15:32.02
grapplecitypod
Right.

15:36.77
Aaron
when I, when, when we watch old school pay-per-views and when I watch current WWE stuff, there's very, very few spots, moves in moments in matches where I am like terrified because the person might've actually hurt themselves.

15:42.34
grapplecitypod
got

15:55.02
Aaron
You know, it's very few and far between.

15:56.04
grapplecitypod
right

15:57.72
Aaron
And I don't think that's something that you want, obviously. um

16:01.55
grapplecitypod
right

16:01.56
Aaron
It definitely like kind of took me out as well. And I could hear you guys in the audience, like worried as, as we all are when something like that happens, you know?

16:12.61
grapplecitypod
right like when we see a death match or something that's very bloody you know um it's kind of cool to see someone like overcome something that's like crazy that's planned but when when we see something that's that seems like maybe it's not planned.

16:26.62
grapplecitypod
Like, nobody wants to see that. And we obviously, as much as we've suspended our disbelief, we don't believe that ah human being can be dropped with 200 pounds or 150 pounds of body weight, you know, directly on their fucking neck.

16:29.18
Aaron
Yeah.

16:42.76
grapplecitypod
So, it's as impressive as as it is to me that everyone's okay tonight, um it's kind of, yeah, it's not fun.

16:43.49
Aaron
Yeah.

16:49.82
Aaron
gotta be safe.

16:50.44
grapplecitypod
Right.

16:50.52
Aaron
That's why you have to be safe.

16:52.54
grapplecitypod
And it's not fun for me to, like, if i If I ever think, you know, that someone's not safe, that's where the fun ends.

16:59.02
Aaron
Yeah, like, you know, like, right. what Basically what you're referring to is like, you know, in in the match that we're talking about, for those who didn't watch this pay-per-view, we've got MJF Maxwell Jacob Friedman. He's the bad guy facing Hangman Adam Page.

17:15.15
Aaron
Who's the good guy and hang man does a and a suplex where he basically ends up smacking MJF face first onto the canvas, the the ring, but the way that he landed, it was literally face first before the rest of his body.

17:19.45
grapplecitypod
Yeah.

17:32.52
Aaron
And it looked really scary. um And, you know, so and and so with all that context, I agree with you. Like, I know I'm supposed to cheer or I'm sorry.

17:39.60
grapplecitypod
yeah

17:43.33
Aaron
I know I'm supposed to boo, you know, when MJF does something good and I'm supposed to cheer when he gets attacked or gets a move done to him.

17:51.77
grapplecitypod
Right.

17:52.39
Aaron
But in that instance, even though I know I'm supposed to cheer, I don't want to because I'm worried. that the human being is injured. You know what I mean? Like it's it's tough, right?

18:00.84
grapplecitypod
Right.

18:01.70
Aaron
You can't do that too much because then it takes your audience out of the moment.

18:07.34
grapplecitypod
Yeah. No, i'm good, brother. Thank you. um And the other thing that... That was interesting to me, just just sitting ringside, which I've done for AEW and WWE.

18:18.20
grapplecitypod
And obviously, you know, we've had things in l LA that I've been there for where, like, people are drinking each other's blood and shit.

18:23.93
Aaron
Mm hmm.

18:26.57
grapplecitypod
But, like, the thing...

18:27.16
Aaron
I was there too.

18:29.27
grapplecitypod
but Yeah, we've both been there. And and but the thing, you know, with ah with the MJF thing, I was...

18:30.76
Aaron
Yeah.

18:36.18
grapplecitypod
You know, there's no like there's not a lot of videos that are very, like... manageable to like see, but I'm, but I'm close. So like if something turned away from me, i don't really see it, but the MJF like face was right in my face.

18:50.91
grapplecitypod
And that's why, and I swear to God, like it was just scary.

18:51.27
Aaron
Yeah.

18:54.74
grapplecitypod
Um, I guess we'll hear in the coming days if it was really anything at all or nothing to worry about. But, um, uh, uh, no, I forgot where I was going with that, but, but yeah, it's just, um,

19:07.28
Aaron
yeah it's scary just want everyone to be okay which I'm assuming they are I mean that oh my god the um speaking about the MJF match and MJF gave a hangman page a pile driver onto a a a seated chair that was crazy holy crap

19:08.72
grapplecitypod
Yeah, it's scary.

19:26.82
grapplecitypod
Yeah. Dude. There was so much good shit about this. But yeah, the Tony Storm thing... It wasn't egregious, right, to me.

19:37.71
grapplecitypod
It was the last match of their three-part series, and and there were tacks, and there was glass, and it was just like, it was a statement, like um like an end to it all, you know, and...

19:43.39
Aaron
Yeah.

19:52.53
Aaron
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the screen literally said the end. um Okay. So let's see.

19:56.68
grapplecitypod
Oh, did it?

19:57.58
Aaron
Let's see if we could wrap this up for the people who don't know. So we've got two female wrestlers, Tony Storm and Mariah may

20:02.17
grapplecitypod
Yeah. i

20:04.41
Aaron
ah Tony Storm has been in AEW longer than Mariah May.

20:06.77
grapplecitypod
background here topic

20:08.70
Aaron
When Mariah May came in, she formed a kinship with Tony Storm, kind of like a mentor-mentee role, but then eventually Mariah May turned on Tony Storm and became the women's champion, and they have been jockeying for that championship back and forth for almost, I think, a year, right?

20:19.64
grapplecitypod
yeah

20:27.22
Aaron
Wasn't this whole thing like close to 12 months long?

20:30.89
grapplecitypod
It's gotta be, man. Yeah, it's been a while.

20:31.92
Aaron
Yeah. So this was the third and final match.

20:33.62
grapplecitypod
Yeah.

20:35.89
Aaron
No ah rules, no disqualifications. of Pinfalls count anywhere in the arena. And yeah, there was a lot of blood. There were, there was broken glass. There was, what else was there? My God.

20:51.54
Aaron
um ah a shoe getting stabbed with a stiletto in the head over and over again.

20:56.59
grapplecitypod
yeah

20:57.73
Aaron
was pretty crazy. Yeah. And yeah, very, very cinematic as far as like the ending goes and the way they shot it.

21:00.67
grapplecitypod
Yeah.

21:03.95
grapplecitypod
heart

21:05.72
Aaron
You didn't see it, but you know, like all these sweeping shots and the lights and everything.

21:07.60
grapplecitypod
Yeah. ah i I'd love to see it. Yeah, I will definitely watch, i guess, at home. i You know, i think I've paid enough money that I don't really want to have to pay a again 50 bucks to watch it.

21:25.20
grapplecitypod
But yes, I hope it goes to HBO Max and and we can and I can see it in the future.

21:29.26
Aaron
Yeah.

21:32.75
grapplecitypod
um little little fun I guess that's it. I guess we can wrap it up. I mean, I just wanted to call in to a little bonus episode here.

21:40.95
Aaron
Yeah.

21:42.09
grapplecitypod
um Obviously, we'll be back soon with a with our normally scheduled program and we'll do... We'll do King in the Ring 1993, which is quite a contrast to what we saw it tonight, but that's why we love wrestling. It's always keeping us guessing. It's always evolving.

22:02.24
grapplecitypod
Um, next, yeah, next week.

22:03.31
Aaron
Different strokes for different folks. You know, everybody's got something to watch.

22:08.16
grapplecitypod
Yeah. Next week we'll do, um, we'll do another old school thing. Cause that's ah kind of our thing. And if there's anything current, we'll, uh, we'll be sure to touch on it. Um,

22:18.72
Aaron
Yep.

22:19.78
grapplecitypod
Yeah, man. So, uh, I'll cut this part out, but do you have anything else to, uh, throw in there?

22:27.44
Aaron
um

22:27.56
grapplecitypod
I'm sorry. I'm like, I'm just kind of like fucking, i'm here at the fucking show.

22:30.90
Aaron
Yeah, yeah. Shooting from the hip. I know, I know. No, you're good, dude. um I'm just looking at the AI like outline thing that you sent me.

22:42.23
Aaron
See if there's anything good from it.

22:43.05
grapplecitypod
yeah it wasn't bad like it came up with some good ideas and I'm like I'll try to do it you know you did touch on like versus now versus then and all that stuff

22:46.49
Aaron
hmm.

22:54.63
Aaron
Yeah. Yeah. I, uh,

22:57.20
grapplecitypod
plugging Oh, hold on. I'll say this real quick and we can, you can still chime in afterwards.

23:02.77
Aaron
okay.

23:02.94
grapplecitypod
And as always, you can find us at grapplecitypod.com or at grapplecity on Twitter, Instagram, X, whatever the kids are calling it these days. We're around 657, 626-657-SLAMM.

23:15.07
grapplecitypod
six five seven six two six six five seven slam If you want to call and let us know your highlights of AEW Revolution, we'll play it on the show and make sure we respond to your thoughts because we always want to hear what y'all are saying.

23:32.85
Aaron
Yes.

23:33.17
grapplecitypod
Okay, go ahead.

23:34.96
Aaron
ah I don't know. Let me see. um i could just like wrap it up, I guess, come up with a closing of sorts.

23:43.84
grapplecitypod
Yeah, if you want to close, and they're like I can always just I'll chop it up, make it sound all right, you know, tomorrow.

23:49.22
Aaron
Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah, you know, you might just want to leave as much of it as you can, because I feel like there's going to, your, your background tone is probably going to be like hard to, to cut around.

23:55.72
grapplecitypod
my go

24:04.23
Aaron
So if you feel like it's, if you feel like it's okay, just keep it going, you know?

24:04.62
grapplecitypod
Okay.

24:07.70
grapplecitypod
Yeah.

24:08.72
Aaron
And, um, or

24:08.72
grapplecitypod
Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah. I'll just cut out the sparks where I stopped and said we can cut this out. Yeah.

24:13.73
Aaron
yeah, yeah.

24:14.58
grapplecitypod
I won't chop it a lot. and yeah I think it was generally good. It's supposed to be like a bonus episode. So whatever.

24:19.52
Aaron
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And if you want, you could take some of the crowd stuff that you've recorded and kind of like weave that in to make your transitions. You know, if you want to like make it sort of artful.

24:30.74
grapplecitypod
Yeah. No, totally. I like that. i think, um, I think even if I open with a bunch of it, I should,

24:33.47
Aaron
Yeah.

24:37.47
grapplecitypod
turn it down, but like leave a bunch of it in and then like kind of have it in the background as we do our thing.

24:41.62
Aaron
Yeah. yeah Yeah. And you can use it to cut over any rough spots. Um,

24:47.08
grapplecitypod
By the way, some dude like came up to me when I was carrying this chair ah few minutes ago. I was like, he was old and like seemed disabled.

24:55.15
Aaron
He's like, Hey, you want to buy this chair

24:55.92
grapplecitypod
He's like, well, he's like, ah basically long story short, i traded my, I traded a large t-shirt for, um,

25:05.84
Aaron
for your chair?

25:07.01
grapplecitypod
first chair, which is not a good trade, but I took it because it's it's like el la Los Angeles is all elite t-shirt. And I was just like, all right, bro.

25:14.59
Aaron
huh.

25:16.82
grapplecitypod
like Honestly, it's easier to carry this than that. So um whatever. But it's kind of sad, but i whatever. Fuck it. That's my story. ah

25:27.27
Aaron
All right, let's see. I'll come up with something here. um

25:31.24
Aaron
Overall, I thought it was a really fun pay-per-view. A little long in the tooth for me. A little ah over the over the top on the blood, but that's okay. you know I'll take what I can get. I enjoy wrestling pay-per-views and we've certainly seen a lot crazier. so I think this will do it for our bonus episode. Thank you all for listening and we'll see you next time when we review King of the Ring 1993.

25:55.41
grapplecitypod
Thanks y'all. See you soon.

25:57.49
Aaron
Peace.

25:58.84
grapplecitypod
All right, dude. I'll let you have a good night and I'll start making my way back to the car.

26:04.48
Aaron
Okay, stop recording and let's make sure I can upload.