Welcome to episode 6 of Watching the Elite! The internet’s only podcast binging, recapping and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show: Being The Elite
Your hosts are the boys of This is Awesome? - Joaquin, Frank and Chuck. Each episode of WTE covers 10 episodes of Being The Elite to get YOU caught up and ready for ALL IN on September 1st, 2018
In this episode we are discussing Being the Elite episodes 51-60 as well as highlighting some of the funnier and/or more important supplementary videos on their channel. Highlights from this block of episodes include: a harmless rib on Masa, some, Marty alone in Japan, and our boys committing their first murder (it's a 2 for 1 special)!
If you have any questions, comments, or corrections please e-mail us at watchingtheelite@gmail.com or hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter.
Say my name. No, not Heisenberg. Velveteen Dream.
For the first episode of season 5, the gang has gathered together once again, this time to break down Velveteen Dream vs Aleister Black from NXT TakeOver: WarGames (see how many times you can spot the second ring).
There are no titles on the line and there will be no rematches. This is simply the story of one tall Coachella attendee with washboard abs in a fight to gain the attention and perhaps even the respect of a baby-faced vampire man.
Joining your boys to kick of this season's informal research project with zero methodology is actress & writer Ren Harris! (@renharris_)
Please keep your match suggestions coming via twitter @TIAPOD or at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com
You can find everything TIA at thisisawesomepod.com including our spin-off project Watching the Elite!
[Velveteen Dream vs Aleister Black, NXT Take:Over WarGames, November 18 2017]
Welcome to episode 5 of Watching the Elite! The internet’s only podcast binging, recapping and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show: Being The Elite
Your hosts are the boys of This is Awesome? - Joaquin, Frank and Chuck. Each episode of WTE covers 10 episodes of Being The Elite to get YOU caught up and ready for ALL IN on September 1st, 2018
In this episode we are discussing Being the Elite episodes 41-50 as well as highlighting some of the funnier and/or more important supplementary videos on their channel. Highlights from this block of episodes include: A hotel room brawl, Marty's growing interest in seeing the D...M, and Nick is POISONED!
If you have any questions, comments, or corrections please e-mail us at watchingtheelite@gmail.com or hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter.
Welcome to episode 4 of Watching the Elite! The internet’s only podcast binging, recapping and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show: Being The Elite
Your hosts are the boys of This is Awesome? - Joaquin, Frank and Chuck. Each episode of WTE covers 10 episodes of Being The Elite to get YOU caught up and ready for ALL IN on September 1st, 2018
In this episode we are discussing Being the Elite episodes 31-40 as well as highlighting some of the funnier and/or more important supplementary videos on their channel. Highlights from this block of episodes include: Adam Cole's bump, a trip to the Cracker Barrel, and a Beyond the Mat moment.
If you have any questions, comments, or corrections please e-mail us at watchingtheelite@gmail.com or hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter.
Welcome to episode 3 of Watching the Elite! The internet’s only podcast binging, recapping and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show: Being The Elite
Your hosts are the boys of This is Awesome? - Joaquin, Frank and Chuck. Each episode of WTE covers 10 episodes of Being The Elite to get YOU caught up and ready for ALL IN on September 1st, 2018
In this episode we are discussing Being the Elite episodes 21-30 as well as highlighting some of the funnier and/or more important supplementary videos on their channel. Highlights from this block of episodes include: A Very Massie Christmas, A field trip to New Zealeand, and Yujiro's alley wig.
If you have any questions, comments, or corrections please e-mail us at watchingtheelite@gmail.com or hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter.
Welcome to episode 2 of Watching the Elite! The internet’s only podcast binging, recapping and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show: Being The Elite
Your hosts are the boys of This is Awesome? - Joaquin, Frank and Chuck. Each episode of WTE covers 10 episodes of Being The Elite to get YOU caught up and ready for ALL IN on September 1st, 2018
In this episode we are discussing Being the Elite episodes 11-20 as well as highlighting some of the funnier and/or more important supplementary videos on their channel. Highlights from this block of episodes include: Kenny winning the G1, Adam Cole's first sponsored dinner, and an adorable onesie group photo.
If you have any questions, comments, or corrections please e-mail us at watchingtheelite@gmail.com or hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter.
Welcome to Watching the Elite! The internet’s only podcast binging, recapping and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show: Being The Elite
Your hosts are the boys of This is Awesome? - Joaquin, Frank and Chuck. Each episode of WTE covers 10 episodes of Being The Elite to get YOU caught up and ready for ALL IN on September 1st, 2018
In this episode we are discussing Being the Elite episodes 1-10 as well as highlighting some of the funnier and/or more important supplementary videos on their channel.
If you have any questions, comments, or corrections please e-mail us at watchingtheelite@gmail.com or hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter.
On this off-season episode, Joaquin, Chuck, Producer Tom and Joaquin's dog Artoo discuss potential wrestling trades and answer some hard questions, like: Which wrestlers would benefit from a change of scenery and who could you swap them with for equivalent value? Could Roman hang in New Japan? What has CM Punk been up to these last few years? Who is Christopher Daniels?
Then, Producer Tom grabs his elegant skinny microphone and challenges Joaquin and Chuck to face off head-to-head in the very first Everybody's Got a Price Ha Ha E-bay Game!
This week's off-season offering sees a three man booth of Chuck, Frank & Joaquin grabbing the pencil and debating how they would book one final return match for The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels.
Then, your boys look to the future and try to guess what's next for NXT as it continues to grow as a development brand. Where should the next division go? Is further expansion even a good idea? Would Joaquin succeed in Philippine Wrestling Revolution?
Remember to keep those match suggestions coming for future seasons! @TIAPOD on twitter or thisisawesomepod@gmail.com is the best way to do it!
Also check out our landing page thisisawesomepod.com for everything TIA and be sure to throw us 5 stars on your favorite pod catcher app to help us reach new earholes.
For this week's off-season shenanigans, your boys dove deep into the dark corners of the internet and returned with a bounty of bad wrestling-related merchandise to share with one another.
Listen in and learn all about talking soap, pizza prints, wrestling cologne, John Cena lawn gnomes, sweating action figures and a whole lot more.
Is there anything that the WWF and WCW wouldn't slap their brand on for an easy dollar? No - the answer is always no.
The fifth season of TIA is on it's way but we still need YOUR match suggestions. Hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter or at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com to tell us what to watch and why. You can also find everything TIA at our landing page, thisisawseomepod.com
Look out! Our latest Let's Watch is hurtling down the road hitched to the back of a fifth wheeler and filled to the brim with haystacks and horse manure. That's right, we watched The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes from WCW Uncensored 1995 and we invite you to join us.
Here's a fun game to play: how long does it take your boys to figure out the rules to this match? If you did it faster than we did, congratulations! Enjoy a croix.
Set your WWE Network copy of WCW Uncensored 1995 to the timecode 00:02:55 and listen to push play when we do. And don't think that timecode is an error - they OPENED the PPV with this dern thing.
Don't forget to send match suggestions for season via e-mail at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com or @TIAPOD on twitter.
You can also find everything TIA at our landing page, thisisawesomepod.com
[WCW Uncensored 1995, Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes]
This week's off-season adventure sees the stunning return of This is Awesome's definitely-not-ripped-off trivia game "King of the Thing"!
This new round of thinkers and thunkers pits Joaquin, Frank and Producer Tom against one another in a battle of wits with five categories: Tuning Up the Band, Living the Gimmick, Hot Tags, Completely Unstable and Potpourri & Plunder.
Who will be crowned this off-season KING of the THING.
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Suggest matches for our main season episodes via twitter @tiapod or at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com
On this week's off-season offering, your boys are in listicle mode as they gather together once again in the studio to rank each and every Raw theme, starting all the way back with the original 1993 classic.
On this journey, strange alliances will be formed & broken, multiple co-hosts will come to the defense of Nickelback, and Joaquin will desperately try to get his patent pending SLAP theme rating system over.
Don't forget to check out everything TIA at thisisawesomepod.com and send us match suggestions for season 5 via twitter @TIAPOD or by getting us at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com
Most wrestling fans are aware of WWE's tourist trap slash eat-a-torium WWF New York (aka The World), but did you know that WCW also dipped their toes into running a themed restaurant? Well they did. And your boys pulled up the menu to see how many bad puns Eric Bischoff's chefs could come up with.
On this week's off-season episode, Joaquin, Chuck and Producer Tom dive deep into the menu of WCW's Las Vegas restaurant: The WCW Nitro Grill. Where the Big Boys Eat!
The off-season continues to keep it weird! This week, Joaquin moderates the first ever TIA Debate-a-Mania with Chuck and Producer Tom going head to head in a war of words scheduled for two topics.
First, your boys debate the merits of cheering favorites vs underdogs through the lens of a hypothetical match-up between Daniel Bryan and the Big Dog Roman Reigns.
Then, Chuck and Tom takes sides on the issue of Dolph Ziggler's career outlook. Should be stick it out in the WWE and see if he can crack the ceiling, or should he go the Cody route and explore new frontiers?
Remember to keep sending in match suggestions via twitter @TIAPOD or via e-mail at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com
And find everything TIA at thisisawesomepod.com
Recorded shortly after the season 4 finale, Aubrey Sitterson (@aubreysitterson) is once again in studio for the 3rd edition of Joaquin's Everything is Wrestling Quote Game!
The rules are tweaked, there's a 4th player entering the game, and there's even a theme: all the quotes are motivational.
It's standing room only and the stakes have never been higher. Who will win bragging rights in the Greatest quote game yet?
Be sure to check out Aubrey's upcoming book The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling available for pre-order now! (http://amzn.to/2Ex7DIi)
As always we want your match suggestions for season 5. Hit us up on twitter @TIAPOD or via e-mail at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com
And find everything TIA at our landing page thisisawesomepod.com
In this week's off-season offering, the boys make like Scott Bakula in Quantum Leap and journey into the past to talk about the moments in wrestling history that they wish they could have been there for (oh boy).
THEN, the gang dusts off the old hat for a new game! Taking a cue from The Greatest Royal Rumble, Joaquin has filled the hat with upgraded show names and each of your boys will take turns pitching how to upgrade every PPV on the calendar.
As always, send in your match suggestions for season 5 and beyond to our inbox at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com or on twitter @TIAPOD
Check out our landing page thisisawesomepod.com for everything TIA and please hit us up with a BIG 5 stars on your preferred podcatcher app.
For this season's final episode we are excited to be joined by writer, podcaster and master of the heart punch Aubrey Sitterson! (@aubreysitterson)
Aubrey joins your boys to talk big picture about our research project with zero methodology before digressing into topics like the importance of Atmosphere, the excellence of Triple H, and the 2008 Royal Rumble. Then, your boys have a look at our STAR ratings and break a tie on the Big Board™
Be sure to check out Aubrey's upcoming book The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling available for pre-order now! (http://amzn.to/2Ex7DIi)
As always, we are looking for your suggestions for great matches to watch for future episodes. Hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter or via e-mail at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com
And you can find everything TIA at our landing page, thisisawesomepod.com
After yet another week of prepping the anticipated season 4 finale, Joaquin, Frank, Chuck and Producer Tom sit down to talk about the how to tune up the WWE productions and then break down the mind blowing art of wrestling hype vignettes.
This week we begin the off-season slightly prematurely with a bit of a preview pod for what's to come after next week's season finale. Joaquin, Frank, Chuck and even Producer Tom recently watched HBO's documentary film "Andre the Giant" and wanted to share their thoughts and observations.
They discuss their favorite talking head performances, the honesty of Hulk Hogan & Vincent K. McMahon, Dave Shoemaker's close-ups, the mistreatment of everyone's favorite referee/bar owner Tim White, and much more.
Find everything TIA at thisisawesomepod.com and please keep sending in match suggestions for season five via twitter @TIAPOD or at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com
For the final match of the season Joaquin, Frank & Chuck are finally exploring the world of modern Joshi as they sit down and watch a wonderful gem of a match from Tokyo Joshi Pro. In this contest, the only thing they have more of than kicks... is streamers.
It's the young ace of TJP, Miyu Yamashita, squaring off against the well-respected veteran, Meiko Satomura.
Joining in for the super kick party is cartoonist and game designer Jimmy Chang! (@jimmythechang / secretitemworld.com)
[Miyu Yamashita vs Meiko Satomura, Tokyo Joshi Pro, August 26 2017]
In our third and final entry of the Mania Dispatch series, Chuck once again joins Frank & Joaquin to discuss everything that happened at the biggest show of the year: WrestleMania 34.
We'll go over the highlights, the lowlights, and ask important questions like:
Which matches are potential episodes? (spoilers: only 1) Which matches had disappointing outcomes? (spoilers: more than 1) And how many matches had us pleasantly surprised? (spoilers: more than you'd think)
Thanks for indulging us in this special series for Mania weekend. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming Thursday with the last match of season 4.
Check out everything TIA at thisisawesomepod.com and find us on twitter @TIAPOD
Recorded in the wee hours of Saturday night, Joaquin and Frank are once again joined by friend of the pod Dario Barrera to break down everything from last night's epic show at the Smoothie King Center.
They ask all of the important questions, like: Do the Authors of Pain need a repackage? Is Shayna Baszler ready to lead the NXT women's division? And does Kyle O'Reilly play better championship belt air guitar than Hollywood Hogan?
TIA's mania weekend coverage rolls on to the grandaddy of them all so stay tuned for more dispatches from New Orleans!
Apologies for the quality drop - Producer Tom unfortunately could not make the trip and Joaquin didn't want to pack a Ye-TAY.
Joaquin & Frank are joined by friend of the pod Dario Barrera (and cameos by Rosemary Travale & Craig Arndt) to break down the first two days of their extended WrestleMania weekend. First up was Thursday's WrestleCon Supershow live from the Sugarmill in New Orleans.
Then, they break down everything they saw Friday at PROGRESS Wrestling's Chapter 66 'Mardi Graps'
Your Croix boys talk about their favorite matches, the best individual performances, and all of the sweet merch they scored.
If you want to check out any of these matches, get over to Highspots.com and ProgressWrestling.com - it's always a good idea to support indie wrestling with your hard earned dollars.
And stay tuned all weekend for more TIA dispatches from New Orleans!
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A Beast, an architect and a marine walk into a bar... tell me if you've heard this one before. I think the punchline has something to do with crossfit.
This week we are watching Lesnar vs Cena vs Rollins from 2015 - one of the final matches that the Beast Incarnate participated in that was longer than 30 seconds and not entirely comprised of german suplexes.
Joining in this week is one half of The Weezer Bracket Podcast, Andrew Woods! (@JimJarmuschHair @WeezerBracket)
[Brock Lesnar vs John Cena vs Seth Rollins, January 25 2015, Royal Rumble 2015]