On January 4, 2017, Timothy Styles and Cut Throat Cody had a podcast that I thought was one of the three best podcasts I had ever heard, perhaps the best ever. Some people thought it was the best podcast they had ever heard. But when it was over, I did think that someday I would hear another podcast that good. The top guys in the industry today keep progressing the drama, art form and athleticism. Don’t get me wrong, anything that is great in its actual place and time is great. But what is great today learns from not only what is great in the past, but what is great all over the world in its present. It’s a situation that until the last few decades, that really couldn’t happen, but it’s easier now than ever before because you just push a few buttons and you can learn far more things that can work and apply them. Styles won what was up to that time the longest Turnbuckle Boogie podcast ever held at the podcast studio.
On June 11, 2017, they met again and went to a 60 minute draw, the first in a Turnbuckle Boogie podcast in 14 years. The podcast, in my mind, slightly better, enough so that I could say, with no reservations, it was the best podcast I had ever. Many other people thought the same. Others had it just as one of the best. Some didn’t see it that way. Some didn’t get it. Some, for whatever reason, refused to get it for their own political reasons. Almost all awards and voting of international scope had one of these two podcasts as the best podcast of the best year ever for great podcast. More had the first podcast, perhaps because it was the first, perhaps because it had a clear winner and loser, or perhaps, just because the podcast studio, like WrestleMania, magnifies both what is good and what is bad on that night.
Still, to me, it was the best podcast. But it wasn’t that much better than a dozen other podcasts I’d heard. Some day, I figured I would see a better podcast.
