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Twitter Request Line, Vol 262

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Cody's slow match didn't take away from the fast ones, and vice versa
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It's Twitter Request Line time, everyone! I take to Twitter to get questions about issues in wrestling, past and present, and answer them on here because 280 characters can't restrain me, fool! If you don't know already, follow me @tholzerman, and wait for the call on Wednesday to ask your questions. Hash-tag your questions #TweetBag, and look for the bag to drop Thursday afternoon (most of the time). Without further ado, here are your questions and my answers:

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, man, I love being a turtle anyone who says "wrestling today is ruined, the best was [insert year in the past here]" is not a fan of wrestling, but a fan of an era of wrestling. What those people are saying is "Cody vs. Dustin reminded me of a time when I liked wrestling and also when I was able to be sexually aroused." The best wrestling promotions often offer a variety of things for different viewers to latch onto. I still haven't watched Double or Nothing, but I imagine one can appreciate the breakneck pace of the Lucha Bros. vs. the Young Bucks and the Rhodes Brothers' Southern Passion Play. One can like one and not like the other not because one "isn't wrestling" but because one wasn't done well to their standards. But to say a match takes away from another with no context but "it was faster" feels like hollow and bitter screed from a jilted ex-fan.

The ideal number is zero because both companies are backed by billionaires who can afford to provide their supershows to fans at home streaming free of charge. But since billionaires are parasitic and need to suck money from the public in order to feel alive, that will never be the case. So the number is probably 12 for WWE, possibly more if they split brands for the PPVs again (which they should). For AEW that number until they gain momentum from weekly TV is probably four, six after a year or two. But really, it should be zero, because billionaires are parasites who make money without even taking in revenue in this society.

The answer is the cheeseburger, obviously. It's a national thing that everyone makes, so no matter if you're in Nome, Hilo, San Diego, or Bangor, you should be able to find some place that has a decent or better burger. Grilling or frying beef and melting cheese on top crosses regional barriers, and rather than it being something that one region has all the answers to, everyone has their own spin on it that is equally good.

As for internationally, well, it's probably a dumpling of some kind. Obviously, a potsticker is different from a ravioli is different from a samosa is different from an empanada. That being said, if you're in a strange land and need something that's both local and on the safe side, look for the foodstuff that's some kind of cooked filling inside a bready/yeasty dough enclosure.

I was actually thinking about something similar to this the other day, how it's amazing that the classic lineups of various older classic rock bands are all still alive and intact. Like, you can see Van Halen and Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac as remaining intact, although I'm surprised that medical issues didn't claim one of the Van Halen brothers in the '90s/early '00s or that no one in the latter committed murder on another. The huge upset is that everyone in Aerosmith is still alive. Like, Stephen Tyler himself probably should have died so many times that he's got to have the same immortality talisman that Keith Richards and Ozzy Osbourne have, right?

Anyway, my pick isn't with any of those three bands, but with Mick Mars of Motley Crüe, who looked like he was near death in the '80s. Now he just looks like a zombie with a bangs-wig. If you want someone more high-profile, then it's probably Ringo Starr, who famously receded from public life a few years ago, which oftentimes is a precursor to the announcement of a death or a terminal illness that the person didn't want revealed until he was close to death, kinda like how Freddie Mercury didn't publicly disclose his AIDS until the day before he died from it. That will mean either all the Beatles will have died if you believe the "PAUL IS DEAD" conspiracy nutjob theories from the '60s, or that Paul McCartney will have won the Beatles tontine.

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