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I thought that as well but then more rumours started to swirl that Kyle O’Reilly‘s contract is up as of December 1. If he jumps and ReDragon end up in AEW that would make me a very happy fan. Harwood already alluded to it on Twitter so I really hope that is what’s in the cards. I am not saying that Fish and O’Reilly have no value as singles, but I definitely think they are a good example of a sum being greater than the whole of their parts. Hell, if they both show up as a team in AEW imagine them reuniting with Adam Cole and feuding with The Elite? I know PWO was down on The Undisputed Era, but I for one would quite enjoy that angle.

I remember that too. He was threatening to feed a puppy to a boa constrictor live online. A guy named Jay Bower who wrote for Scott Keith’s website kicked up a huge uproar and ended up getting the police and the SPCA involved. In true Rob Black fashion, Black turned around and somehow managed to blame Bower for the whole thing, and threatened him, IIRC.

I would be more than happy to engage in a detailed debate with anybody regarding Israel, except I know that would not be allowed here. I understand that politics are supposed to be kept out of this forum, so I strongly believe people should keep their stupid fucking snide comments to themselves.

Speaking as somebody who has Israeli family and friends who have served in the IDF, I am delighted to quite loudly and firmly invite you both to shut the fuck up.

I could not agree with this statement more. Every time I see Malakai Black in AEW it leaves me totally flabbergasted that WWE had this guy locked up, right there…and these geniuses didn’t know what they had, or what to do with him. It’s not even like AEW had to reboot him or give him a different gimmick, Black is doing the exact same routine in AEW that he was doing in NXT, the only difference is that Tony Khan is not stupid and he’s letting the guy do what he is best at. Vince and his flunkies not only didn’t use Black properly out of NXT, the best idea they could come up with for him was to put him in a stupid Tag Team with Ricochet. Then they release him for no real reason, and are so stupid that they don’t even know how long his non-compete clause is. WWE really are a bunch of morons. I cannot see any justifiable excuse for that type of incompetence. They have a perfectly viable, original and fresh young talent under contract, and they basically hand him to the competition on a silver platter. And he is just one of several talents just like that. What we are seeing from Miro right now it’s just another example of WWE’s utter lack of creativity and foresight. He’s awesome. He was always awesome, but for whatever reason Grandpa Vinnie didn’t get him, so they squandered yet another can’t miss talent. Can’t miss…but somehow Vince keeps missing. I am hardly an AEW fanboy but every time they rescue somebody from WWE it makes me happy, both because we get to see a talent used properly and thrive…but also because it demonstrates how terrible the WWE creative team has botched their can’t miss talent and it exposes how much Vince has totally lost it and no longer has whatever skill he once had when it comes to spotting and promoting original new talent.

I read the entirety of the interview, and honestly when you read everything Reigns said in context it really does not come across all that bad or inflammatory. The only thing he says which I could see upsetting some people, is he takes shots at Punk’s failure in the UFC. Based on the headline I was expecting the actual transcription of what he said to be much worse than it was. And the way a lot of people are reacting to what he said almost kind of confirms what he is saying to a degree. “I don’t see the real competition [with AEW] because I think their fan base legitimately is a hardcore fan base. So there’s like a ceiling and a built-in ground to that viewership…I think because they are the new kids on the block, they’re the cool kids in town I guess because of how premature and how novel it kind of still is, I think there still being babied by these hardcore wrestling fans. Which is fine. That’s great. I don’t think anybody’s going to ever, especially from a performance standpoint say, ‘Oh no, there’s more opportunities out there? That sucks.’ So it’s not a bad thing. It’s a great thing for professional wrestling. It’s just a weird argument because there’s so much bias and there’s so much, ‘I’m on this side and I’m not gonna open my mind to the other side.’ And it goes both ways. As far as competition, not to me. There might be some other people on our roster who maybe think they need to dig deep and get better as a performer and what they do out there at the art form, but there’s nobody in the whole world, any other promotion, in WWE…I’m better at this art form than everybody else. And I stand on that. That’s the totality of it. I’m not just talking about, ‘Oh, his spots are so good and he counters real well.’ That stuff don’t mean anything to me. When you tally it all up, nobody touches me in this business.” On CM Punk and if he’d ever want a match with him: “So I answered a question similar to this a while ago, and it falls back to what our audience wants to see. If our audience wanted to see it and they were clamoring for it, couldn’t shut up about it, and all the stars aligned, as a businessman and as a performer who was trying to seek out the very best for the audience and try to captivate, I wouldn’t say no. But I mean, on a personal level, it doesn’t do anything for me. That’s not going to elevate me at all. He’s older now. I haven’t really seen a full match. I’ve seen a clip or two. And to me, a step or two has been lost. Then also he got his whooped in the UFC. I don’t think anybody really believes someone 200 pounds soaking wet with no explosive bone in their body could ever really do anything to me. I’m 6’3”, 265 pounds, a legitimate athlete who can throw some weight around and has been on the gridiron at the highest level. D1. All ACC. I probably would’ve maintained in the NFL if my health issues didn’t happen when I was 22 years old. So, I mean, when it comes down to it, I’ll throw him and pretty much the rest of that roster out the club no problem. They’re just little brothers, you know?”

I have been watching AEW for the past few months. I even paid for the last pay-per-view. They are doing a lot of stuff right at this point. Full credit to them, I would say at this point they are doing a lot more right than they are wrong. But I still don’t like listening to Kenny try and talk, and I especially don’t like watching The Hardly Boys and their tumbling routine.

I know exactly what you mean. That is how I feel every time I watch a Kenny Omega promo or a Young Bucks match.

The end of that Shida/Deeb match was frickin great.

If you guys want to learn more about any of this FMW history or even see highlights and clips of the angles and matches, I cannot recommend @BAHU‘s History of FMW Podcast enough. Bret covers all of that stuff, the burn, the sale of FMW and everything else. He might be able to tell you guys which episodes cover the specific areas you were asking about, but if you have time I recommend the YouTube version and see them all. When I first watched this episode of Darkside of the Ring I was actually pissed off that they did not interview Bret for the show considering he is pretty much the authority on all things FMW. Once I saw on Twitter that he was a creative consultant for the episode I was mollified somewhat, but the point is, if you have any curiosity about FMW you owe it to yourself to check out his podcast. It tells you everything you could ever possibly want to know about FMW.

I concur. I always enjoy a @Matt D review, and I really enjoyed these.

Well, it could in theory, if you spun it long enough and hard enough. Unfortunately, we just don’t have enough raw scientific data to draw any serious conclusions as to how much power could be derived from a helicopter penis turbine at this point. Scientists need to get on that.

Either that or when Triple H returns to work, he finds out that they moved his desk into the basement of Titan Towers and then Prichard comes by and tells him as long as he’s down there, he should take a can of spray and kill some roaches. Then on his way out, Bruce turns out the lights. ”Uh...that’s really not my job uh...and I have still not received my paycheque uh...hello?”

Holy crap, Sting is 61 with serious neck issues and he took a spike piledriver. Also, they’re going to job FTR out to Darby and Sting, aren’t they.

I am all for Punk feuding with Team Taz but I wish it was Ricky Starks not Hobbs.

It was not directed at you.

I love how we have come to the point in society now...especially online...that if somebody merely accuses you of something, and they sue you the assumption is that you were automatically guilty. It doesn’t matter that the suit got thrown out, the fact that it was filed seems to be enough for some people to condemn her without any tangible proof. Somebody said she is a transphobic, therefore...she must be.

I listened to it yesterday, since I had actually seen All Out and I was curious what Cornette's thoughts were. As usual, he had some valid criticisms that I agreed with, some that were so ridiculous that even Brian Last didn't agree with him, and there was some stuff that he really liked...especially the Punk/Darby match. As you would expect, he's never going to have anything even remotely positive to say about a Young Bucks or Kenny Omega match. Brian Last was a bit more fair minded about the Main Event, I don't think he dislikes Omega all that much. At least (unlike Cornette) he seems to be able to see past the goofy nonsense that Omega does and find the positives. In the overall picture, it's not like Cornette ended up indiscriminately shitting all over the PPV like I am sure a lot of people expected him to do.

I just saw that the tentative plan is for Cornette to record a special episode of his "Jim Cornette Experience" podcast tomorrow morning, dedicated to Bobby Eaton. That means it will likely be released late tomorrow night, or Sunday. That's assuming Cornette is able to record the show, which it is possible he won't. Anybody who has ever listened to him talk about Bobby Eaton knows how much Cornette loved him, and I am sure he is going to have a hell of a time getting through recording that show without breaking down and losing it. I don't want to befoul the Bobby Eaton thread with talk of the Cornette/Meltzer relationship, but suffice it to say that based on recent events and more details Cornette disclosed about the end of his friendship with Meltzer recently, that relationship is pretty much irreparable. And if you believe Cornette's side of things (which in this case, I do) I don't lay the blame for that at the feet of Jim Cornette, for once. If anything, I think it's more likely that Meltzer is going to end up saying or doing something that makes the rift even wider.

Not to disagree with @sek69 but to the best of my understanding, Jim Cornette is the person who brought the concept of a three person match into the 1990's and actually named it the Triple Threat Match in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in December of 1993 when he booked Dirty White Boy vs. Tracy Smothers vs. Brian Lee at Christmas Chaos 1993. Those three men fought each other three times in three days, and that was pretty much meant to be it for that gimmick. Cornette actually thought he had invented the idea but he says later on he found an old program from the 60's which listed a three way match on an NWA show in Texas. According to Cornette, Heyman has since admitted that he "borrowed" the idea from Smoky Mountain and started doing those matches in ECW starting in February 1994, when he ran Shane Douglas vs. Terry Funk vs. Sabu. I haven't gone back and looked this up, and I might be wrong but I think I remember Cornette saying that since Terry Funk was actually working in SMW and ECW around the same time, it might have been Funk who told Heyman about the idea. Cornette says that he didn't care that ECW started doing the matches because he only intended to use the idea of Triple Threat Matches once or twice a year at most, and that the idea of using the concept regularly is "fucking stupid." Cornette claims that Jim Ross called him from the WWF and asked him to explain the concept and how to book the matches. Cornette says that he gave JR and the WWF his blessing to steal the idea, but they ended up bastardizing the concept and using it as a way to protect Shawn Michaels from having to do jobs. Cornette is especially critical of the idea that a champion can lose his title without even being pinned...once again he claims that idea is "fucking stupid." Much like his opinion of other facets of modern Pro Wrestling, Cornette feels the Triple Threat Match has been grossly overdone to the point where you never see a WWE show now where there isn't at least some sort of multi-person match and the whole concept has been "prostituted, done, overdone, redone, rules changed, homogenized, pasteurized and sanitized to the point where it looks fucking stupid and it is stupid. What the fuck."

Basically, whoever controlled Maple Leaf Gardens controlled the Toronto territory and from around 1940 onward, that was the Tunney family. Frank Tunney had the exclusive right to book the Gardens. Whipper Billy Watson was pretty much the main star in Toronto and from what I understand he and Tunney were handling the booking. There were big matches here in Toronto featuring Watson and Lou Thesz and the like. Starting in the late 60's/early 70's, Tunney reached an agreement with The Sheik. From what I understand, he pretty much let The Sheik book his own angles. When I was a little kid, The Sheik used to wrestle at The Gardens around once a month and I think the shows drew pretty well. The problem is, they eventually became extremely formulaic. Some babyface would get hot, he would challenge The Sheik for his U.S. Title, and The Sheik would always escape with the title by getting disqualified for stabbing his opponent with a pencil or throwing a fireball or something like that. From what my Uncle told me (this was before my time, I was only a little kid at this point) the fans started to get tired of The Sheik never getting his comeuppance and the general attitude among fans was that there was no point in going to Maple Leaf Gardens to see The Sheik because you knew he was never going to lose. I guess one of the straws that broke the camel's back was when The Sheik fought Andre The Giant in the mid 70's. From what I have heard, Andre was really starting to get famous in Canada based on his time in Montreal, and everybody figured when he came to Toronto he would be the one who would finally put an end to The Sheik's reign of terror. My Uncle told me (and this might just be his memory, who knows) that Maple Leaf Gardens was actually sold out for The Sheik vs. Andre The Giant but once again...The Sheik lost by DQ only. After that, I think business went into the dumper. From what I recall, The Sheik ended up bringing in some of his own guys and eventually even did a pinfall job to Bobo Brazil, but by that point it was too little, too late. Thanks to his repetitive booking and refusal to lose to anybody, The Sheik pretty much killed Toronto dead as a territory. At that point, The Sheik and Frank Tunney ended up falling out and parted ways, and The Sheik actually ended up going to work for "Wildman" Dave McKigney and his "outlaw" Big Bear Sports promotion. They used to run shows in all the little towns around the Toronto area during the summer months when I was a kid, and they would draw a few hundred fans. Those shows usually only featured 5 matches or so...and would always have The Sheik fighting somebody like Whipper Watson Jr. and then Dave McKigney as "The Bearman" wrestling a bear. Dave McKigney is kind of infamous in the Toronto territory because the bear he used to keep ended up going nuts and mauling his wife to death. McKigney was killed in the same accident that killed Adrian Adonis and Pat Kelly of The Kelly Twins. After The Sheik, Toronto was still closely associated with the NWA. In February 1977, Harley Race beat Terry Funk for the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens, but from what I understand there was a period between when The Sheik went cold and before Crockett started working with Frank Tunney that Toronto was pretty much dead. According to Jim Crockett, Frank Tunney ended up reaching out to him and making a deal to bring the guys from Mid Atlantic up to Toronto in an effort to revive the territory. George Scott started booking for Tunney and in the late 70's/early 80's Toronto got really hot again, after a few years of the territory being pretty much dead thanks to The Sheik. One of my earliest Pro Wrestling memories as a kid was how hot the whole angle was between Hossein The Arab (The Iron Sheik) and King Kong Mosca when they feuded over the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship. For a while there, Toronto was getting all the best Mid Atlantic talent, Ric Flair, Roddy Piper, Greg Valentine, Sgt. Slaughter, John Studd, etc. I know from around 1980 - 1982, Toronto got really hot again. If you back and watch one of those old episodes of Maple Leaf Wrestling on YouTube it's pretty amazing the amount of talent they had. Tunney and Crockett ended up having some sort of falling out. I think Tunney was pretty notoriously cheap, for one. Jim Crockett talked about Tunney in the Shoot Interview he did with Conrad Thompson right before he died. Crockett didn't have a lot of respect for Frank Tunney, he claimed he was "stuck in the 1930's." Whatever the reason, Crockett stopped sending his best talent to Toronto. Then in 1983, Frank Tunney died and his nephew Jack Tunney took over. As soon as Vince McMahon started his national expansion, he made a deal with Jack Tunney to make the Toronto territory part of the WWF. This happened right around the time he bought rights to promote in Alberta from Stu Hart and Stu ended up shutting down Stampede. As soon as Vince started working with Jack Tunney, they started doing one of their weekly TV tapings up here at the Brantford Civic Center (which had been the same place they had filmed TV for years.) Also, as I'm sure everybody remembers, Jack Tunney started portraying the on screen "President" of the World Wrestling Federation on Television. In reality of course, he just worked for Vince as his promoter in Ontario. They kept running shows at Maple Leaf Gardens every 3-4 weeks but now with WWF talent. By this time I was in my teens and I never missed a show. I even went to a bunch of the smaller "C Shows" in the surrounding towns. I ended up getting a job selling posters and programs at the smaller shows, and even met Jack Tunney once. (He was an asshole.) Jack Tunney's biggest accomplishment was probably that massive house show he ran in Toronto at the Canadian National Exhibition, which featured Hulk Hogan vs. Paul Orndorff and Jake Roberts vs. Ricky Steamboat, that drew 74,000 fans and set an attendance record for that time. (That ended up being promoted on video as "The Big Event" as was available on the WWE Network at some point.) According to Kevin Nash, Jack Tunney was (much like his Uncle) a notorious cheapskate and the payoffs for working in Toronto were supposedly terrible. When Bret Hart ended up winning the WWF Championship, he supposedly convinced Vince McMahon to sever ties with Jack Tunney. Rumor has it Bret did not like how cheap Jack Tunney was, and I also remember hearing that there had been some sort of bad blood between the Tunney family and the Hart family. At one point when George Scott was booking Toronto and the Mid Atlantic stars were appearing in Toronto, Stampede Wrestling was also sending it's top stars to work in Toronto as well. Leo Burke actually appeared in Toronto regularly while he was the Stampede North American Champion, and Toronto actually recognized the title. I heard somewhere that Frank Tunney screwed Stu Hart somehow on that talent exchange deal and Bret never forgot or forgave that. Funny side note: infamous preliminary wrestler Barry Horowitz wrestled in the Toronto territory under the name "Brett Hart." So when Bret Hart came and worked in Toronto during the early 80's, he had to wrestle under the name "Buddy Hart." If you look on YouTube, you can find matches where Barry Horowitz is wrestling as Bret Hart and other matches with Bret wrestling as Buddy Hart. Anyhow...I am not sure the reason for the animosity, but as soon as Bret had Vince McMahon's ear, he convinced Vince to stop working with Jack Tunney. That's why as of the mid 90's, we stopped hearing about President Jack Tunney on WWF TV. The problem is, the Tunney family still had exclusive rights to promote at Maple Leaf Gardens, so after 1995 the WWF never promoted another show at Maple Leaf Gardens again. Jack Tunney retained those rights until he died. The WWF ended up running the SkyDome and CNE Coliseum, which is the venue that WWE runs in Toronto to this day...although they do run The Scotiabank Arena at times as well. Maple Leaf Gardens ended up being sold and turned into a distribution center for a major grocery retailer here in the Toronto Area. However, they kept the interior arena part of The Gardens intact, and it is now affiliated with Ryerson University. What used to be Maple Leaf Gardens is now the Mattamy Athletic Center. Pro Wrestling finally returned there a few years back when Ring of Honor ran a couple of shows there (which apparently didn't draw shit.) WWE decided to return to the venue and booked an NXT show at the Mattamy Athletic Center in 2016. It was promoted as WWE returning to Maple Leaf Gardens after 20 years. There was so much history in that building and I was so stoked at the prospect of Pro Wrestling returning to what used to be Maple Leaf Gardens, I bought tickets. I was especially excited because the Main Event was supposed to be Samoa Joe vs. Nakamura for the NXT Championship. Unfortunately, the response to the announcement was so overwhelming that WWE decided to move the show to the Air Canada Center. (That ended up being the show with The Revival vs. DIY in a classic Best out of 3 Falls match.) I decided not to go, because half the appeal of attending that show to me was being in the arena again...but I still have the unused tickets for the NXT show at Maple Leaf Gardens that never happened. I wanted to see Pro Wrestling at Maple Leaf Gardens one last time, but I guess that will never happen now.

I know a lot of people were less than enthused about the idea of a Jeff Jarrett podcast, and to a degree I get that. But a lot of people just have the automatic reaction of "Jeff Jarrett LOLTNA" and I think that might be a mistake. Like you said, there are things in his background which could be quite interesting. If you look at it... Jeff Jarrett literally grew up in the Pro Wrestling business. His Grandmother and then Father ran one of the most notorious territories in the entire territory system. Think of the things he probably saw just growing up. He actually worked in the dying days of the territories (I remember first seeing him in one of the Apter mags when I was around 15 years old) He has a run in the WWF at the tail end of their boom period He walks out on them after a contract dispute in 1996 He goes to WCW and becomes a member of the Four Horsemen He goes back to the WWF during the height of the Attitude Era He gets involved in a backstage conflict with the WWF's #1 star including that infamous "shoot" promo where he accuses Austin of being blasphemous so Austin refuses to work with him He walks out on Vince and actually holds him up for the money he is owed before he agrees to drop the IC title to Chyna He walks back into WCW into a Main Event spot due to his friendship with Vince Russo He's present for the death of WCW He gets told on live television that he's fired by Vince McMahon He starts TNA...including all the drama that involved in the early days due to the financial problems and conflict between his Father and Vince Russo He has a falling out with his Father and doesn't talk to him for years He gets involved with Panda Energy...there's probably a year's worth of podcasts right there He has a falling out with Vince Russo He gets run out of his own company for having an affair with the wife of one of TNA's top stars...right after his own wife dies of Cancer He starts Global Force He makes up with TNA He develops major league substance abuse problems and gets into all sorts of drama at independent shows and in Mexico He gets fired from TNA (again) He sues Impact Wrestling Then out of nowhere...he makes up with the WWF and gets inducted into the Hall of Fame and gets a producing job out of the deal There is a hell of a lot of potential material there...and it could be fascinating stuff. The only things standing in the way are, how forthcoming will Jarrett be with information,(especially since he works for Vince again) how good of a storyteller is he, and most importantly...is Conrad Thompson willing to actually delve into the interesting topics on that bullet point list, or is he going to make us relive the damn Attitude Era again, like he has with Prichard, Bischoff, JR and now Kurt Angle? I swear, I think Conrad has covered the final episode of Nitro with literally all of his co-hosts. I don't want to hear about that again. But if Jarrett is given the right topics, if he is willing to get into details, and is even remotely interesting...I think this could be one hell of a podcast. Apparently the topic for the debut episode is going to be the night he walked out on the WWF and held up Vince before he did the job for Chyna...so we'll see. I may take a crack at that, if I can get my hands on it.

I wanted to say thanks to everybody for their well wishes. It really means a lot, you have no idea. As far as my laptop goes...one night about a month ago before I went to bed, a message popped up saying I needed to install the latest round of Windows Updates, and the message also said that it was going to uninstall Adobe Flash because that program is no longer supported. I pressed the install button and went to bed. When I got up in the morning, my computer was frozen and I couldn't get it to boot. I tried a few different things, and eventually gave up and took it to a repair guy. He told me this was actually not an uncommon problem and the same thing had happened to several other people when they uninstalled Flash. Apparently the problem was that if you installed Flash yourself manually, Windows couldn't do the uninstall and it would screw up your operating system. The guy tried a factory reset and reinstalling the operating system, but it still wouldn't work. The guy figured that in the process of removing Flash, the Windows update had fried my Video Card, and which had in turn fried my motherboard. The guy told me that repair could cost as much as $350.00 and my laptop honestly wasn't worth a repair of that much. I asked him to rescue as much of my data as he could. I bought a used, reconditioned portable hard drive and the repair guy moved as much of my data as he could onto the portable hard drive. I learned my lesson, and I'm never letting that happen again. From now on, I'm backing everything up onto my new (used) portable hard drive. Here's the problem... I have saved all my podcasts and all my recaps in a folder directly on my desktop. It wasn't a shortcut it was actually a folder on my desktop. The dude I hired was able to salvage all my data that was saved in the file libraries of my fried laptop, and he transferred them onto my new (used) portable hard drive...but for whatever reason, all the stuff I had saved directly on my desktop was lost. That includes the recaps I had already written. I was well into recapping the episode of "Conversations with Conrad" featuring Jim Crockett Jr., and both the interview and the recaps were lost. Plus I had let my membership to Ad Free Shows lapse, so I had no way of getting the interview back...besides the idea of starting that recap all over again did not exactly fill me with happiness. I was actually leasing the laptop from one of those "Rent To Own" places, so when the repair guy I hired couldn't fix it, I just sent it back. The Rent To Own place had their repair guy look at it, and he told me the exact same thing the guy I hired told me. Trust me, if they could have fixed it they would have...because as it turns out, as a condition of my lease...if the laptop breaks while I am renting it, and it isn't my fault...then they have to replace it with no cost to me. So they begrudgingly gave me a brand new laptop, which is actually significantly better than the one that died. So when it comes to getting a new laptop, I'm in okay shape. The lease on this new one runs until November and then I own it...but as I said, this is actually a decent laptop compared to my old one. And I have a lot of my old files and stuff (music, movies, pictures, etc.) on my new portable hard drive...but the two main casualties were a folder with my work files, and my recaps. I have since discovered after doing some research that you should never save files directly on your desktop, because file backup and file recovery programs will not save files from your desktop. Who knew? I was in the process of trying to figure out what I wanted to do about that, when my condition took a turn for the worse and I ended up in and out of the hospital a couple of times. I have been off work for a couple of years dealing with this ongoing illness, and during that whole time my only real companion has been my dog. It wasn't unusual for me to have a day where I didn't interact with another person, or even talk to anybody...especially since the pandemic hit. But he was always with me, all the time like a family member. (Hell, I'd have taken him over a few members of my actual family.) As I posted here at PWO or listened to podcast and typed up recaps, he'd be laying across my feet. If I watched TV he'd sleeping across my lap. And no sooner did my laptop croak and I end up in and out of the hospital...and then he got very sick and passed away. By that point, I pretty much threw in the towel. I lost my enthusiasm for pretty much everything. As I said...I really do greatly appreciate everybody's kind words either in this thread, or by PM. It really does mean a great deal. I also appreciate the advice regarding the computer problems, and the very generous offers to assist me in getting a new one. But I am okay, in that department. I know from experience that after a while, (if my health allows) my interest in listening to podcasts will probably return, and I am sure my compulsive need to write needlessly long posts here at PWO will reassert itself, and it won't be long before I start posting recaps again. I am actually quite intrigued by the new podcast Jeff Jarrett is going to be doing with Conrad Thompson, and I am seriously considering resubscribing to Ad Free Shows in order to check that out. And if I do, then I will get access back to all the content that I lost in the great laptop disaster of 2021. Even the interminably long interview with cranky old Jim Crockett, during which he uttered the phrase "I don't remember" approximately 527,000 times. But in the meantime, I really did want to thank everybody for their kindness.