State Of The Blog – December 2022

The last update of the year is going to be brief. Sadly, sickness and stress had derailed a month’s worth of videos, so we’re going to have to make up for lost time. Don’t know how much that will entail, but we’re going to make up for lost time.
The idea is to whip a new Sunday Gimmick Table every week to build up to 25. The Retron1 video was a last-minute thing and not something that was planned, but the original video wasn’t ready, wasn’t going to be ready, and so it was delayed. Fine. Whatever. We’ll delay that. Debating on whether I want to do the 25th video on Christmas or New Year’s Day. If it’s the former, I may need to double up on one day. We’ll see on that count.
There’s only one DTM-Cast episode being uploaded this week. It’s the year-end edition, with the Winners And Losers of 2022 preview being the main thing, but if anything else worth talking about comes up, I’ll let you folks now. Once that episode is up (or once the SGT is up should I decide on New Year’s Day being the day, there will be a two-week period of radio silence on the blog before things begin to pick up. And I already have plans for the future.
And that’s about it. Nothing major on the archival front. PPV Musings are on hold for the time being until late-January. Next update might not hit until mid-January when posts resume then.
Enjoy your holidays and have a happy 2023.

WWE Survivor Series 2022 – WARGAMES!

Yeah, I’m not going to spend too much time on this one. But the big selling point for this show was the proper WWE debut of WARGAMES, after a couple years of being largely an NXT deal. And of course, we’ve got a men’s Wargames and a women’s Wargames. Not because storylines dictate it, but because the marketing says so. Still, this should be a fun watch and if nothing else, I’m just happy I could watch a Survivor Series show that isn’t about the whole brand supremacy thing that nobody outside of WWE or its most hardest of hardcore fanatics could give two fucks about.
Quick thoughts after the break.

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Sunday Gimmick Table #20 – Hyperkin Retron1 (from 2016)

Recycling a segment from an old Christmas thing and turning it into a video six years later, it’s the Hyperkin Retron 1 from 2016. Just so this doesn’t come across as a total copy-and-paste job (though, let’s be honest, it is), there’s an extra bit at the end that’s brand new. Anyway, it’s better than nothing and I didn’t need ten Kickstarters to pull it off.
Would’ve been nice, though.
Yes, there’s a glitch in the opening titles. It stays in.

DTM-Cast – Episode #226

Click here to download the MP3.
JDF.
00:00 – 06:45 – JDF Bio
06:45 – 13:25 – Real Talk
13:25 – end – Closing Words
I don’t usually do this, but I’ve added time codes to the page, so that people can choose whether or not to touch the “real talk” segment, which touches on some sensitive issues. A regular episode will be uploaded tomorrow.

NWA Hard Times 2022

Yeah, I didn’t watch the AEW PPV this past weekend. And to be honest, I don’t think I’ll be doing so anytime soon.
I did, however, watch the NWA Hard Times PPV from a couple weeks ago… I don’t know if that’s a fair trade off, however.
So I hadn’t originally planned on watching the show, as I have not been following the NWA in recent years despite its grand return to the Youtubes. However, a week or so before the show was to take place, former NWA World Champion Nick Aldis announces his intentions to leave the NWA in January and offered some damning critiques of the company. NWA Owner and Smasher Of Pumpkins Billy Corgan suspends Nick Aldis while offering his own take on the situation. As a result, whatever build to this big NWA show (which is actually called Hard Times 3, but I go by year for this one) has been negated by the big Aldis/Corgan divorce making waves.
As a result of this, along with NWA announcer Joe Galli’s impressive sales pitch of the show on WOL – gotta wonder what that guy is feeling doing the hard sell for this show, only for that to be forgotten because Brutus Magnus and the Zero Star guy couldn’t get along – I figured I’d give the NWA another shot on PPV. It’s been a while and I’d like to see how they’re doing and also who do they have for their World title picture?
Trevor Murdoch – reigning NWA champion – defending against the former Zack Ryder and the former Brodus Clay.
Well, then… that’s quite a shift. Still, let’s give this a shot. I’m sure it’ll turn out fine.

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