Join us as we perfect our alchemy rave hands and discuss AEW Dynamite (January 7), Collision (January 10), and Ring of Honor HonorClub #149 (January 8). [00:50] NJPW WrestleKingdom 20: We caught up! Just a few words about how lovely Tanahashi’s retirement match and ceremony were. [01:36] AEW Dynamite recap introduction, complete with car alarms and Jim Ross-related rants. Whoops. We meet Davis & Doyle, watch Mox get tossed around by Shelty B, and suggest hide-and-seek hints for Darby Allin. [08:06] Dynamite continued: Jack Perry & The Young Bucks vs. The Demand, who are demanding to know who farted. Building toward tag team chaos, perhaps? Plus: the déjà-vu return of Andrade El Ídolo! A healthy sprinkle of salt on behalf of the Bang Bang Gang! [16:32] Willow Nightingale celebrates her TBS Championship: with cake, naturally! Mercedes gets some cake. Kat makes plans for her birthday and shares a joke from an old friend. [20:04] The promos continue! Mark Briscoe addresses us from the chicken farm, and we discuss what Hechicero means to us. Thekla and the Triangle of Madness read Kris Statlander for filth. [21:34] Sammy Guevara (and the other ROH guys) put pressure on Bandido. We have a cold take on the 21-plex, and then take it back. MJF and Jon Cruz provide valuable interpretation services. Cue the X-Files theme, because we want to believe… in Bandido! A treatise on doomerism and a shout-out to Carol Sturka are also involved, somehow. [33:36] Toni Storm (in her pink-and-white playsuit era) vs. Marina Shafir and her misbehaving sons! We talk potential Death Riders/Conglomeration stories and get pretty deep into bi visibility/panic, queer representation and male intimacy, and what we think is really going on with Toni, Mina, and Orange. Kat demurs on Adam’s line of questioning. [45:07] The Bastard Pac is… the most normal and polite character on Dynamite this week? Darby Allin says: with faces like these, who needs heels? [47:22] Lights Out! Hangman Adam Page & Swerve Strickland take on Hook & Powerhouse Hobbs. Is revenge exacted? Did that sicko drink a bunch of backwash with his beer? What are Swerve’s true intentions? We ask the important questions and don’t have any answers. [56:07] AEW Collision recap: The Death Riders mix it up with SkyFlight, including their newest member, Zayda Steel! We spend some time hyping up Dante and Darius Martin, talking about Mox’s vision, and speculating that Pac vs. Darby will be much more than meets the eye. [1:03:52] Collision continued: Roddy still thinks he’s not conglomerating (a theological analysis). Brody King squashes someone so fast, we have no idea who got squashed. El Clon and Komander dazzle us with incredible lucha libre! Mina Shirakawa and Lady Frost put some mustard on it, and we decide Mina’s secret admirer should be the most dramatic option imaginable! Mercedes Moné bids farewell for now to AEW, and we take the opportunity to throw some well-deserved shade at Matt Cardona. [1:11:55] TNT Championship: Mark Briscoe vs. Hechicero, an absolute ripper! [1:15:15] Collision continued: why are the Grizzled Young Veterans so mad at Eddie Kingston again? The Cosmic Babes of Wrath throw a trios party with Hyan, Maya World, and VertVixen! Stat talks shit. Adam gets cancelled. Don Callis and Kyle Fletcher begin to clear the air, and we are very excited about what might come next. We wax enthusiastic about JetSpeed, Anthony Bowens and The Demand (and talk scissoring diagrams). [1:27:01] Ring of Honor chat: Ace Austin vs. Aaron Solo, the new members of SkyFlight and CRU, and some mysterious words from our Forever Champion, Athena. Lee Moriarty & Trish Adora need to tag together again immediately! Dalton Castle & The Outrunners take on the Fart House, and Taya Valkyrie wonders why Red Velvet is ignoring her from three feet away. MxM Collection gets fed to the Von Erichs, for some reason. We have some opinions about the ROH men’s singles and tag team title scenes! Thank you for listening! Please continue to find us wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you for listening! Please continue to find us wherever you get your podcasts. Our theme music is “Neon Fury” by Sascha Ende, under a CC BY 4.0 license. Thank you, Sascha, for sharing your creativity with the world. Find us on BlueSky @chattermachine.net and Instagram @chattermachine or email us at chattermachine@gmail.com.
