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As a screenwriter with a passion for wrestling... I love this. You can tell a story without any knowledge of story structure, but it's probably gonna be because of sheer luck and intuition, which are not reliable tenets. I do bristle at the word "formula" but I appreciate you immediately referring to that formula as a GUIDE. Emotion is god and story is king, but structure is the means by which the crown is conquered.

You know its gonna be good when Eric has that little grin on his face before even saying Hello

Thanks Eric!

Stories in wrestling are supposed to be long-term and episodic with intriguing, entertaining characters.

I write for mobile game ads and this is both fascinating and useful to me. Might apply them on my next work day.❤❤

Great seeing wise choices every week

Great rant! I'm digging the inside stories. Beauty 83.

To me the only story that I think AEW has done expertly is the CM Punk/MJF feud blending the reality of Cm punk’s actions shaping MJF’s life and truly making a star in MJF. To me that’s the story you should look over not the current elite/aew war.

Not just blowing smoke but that microwave analogy is Absolutely top notch Because like a microwave aew is constantly Or to compare it to food Overcooking

Eric is the Best Promoter Of ALL-Time

Fascinating. I may steal some of this and accidentally land a freelance job!

To bad TK let the booker of the year thing get to his head and not learn from this. Thanks for teaching us Eric. Good live

On the topic of comparing wrestling to food and cooking: For a couple years now I've compared AEW and WWE to two different pots of soup in two different kitchens. WWE serves large pots of soup, different kinds, multiple times a week. They have excellent equipment to control the temperature, keep everything stirred, and balancing the flavor. Now, sometimes there's so much water (time) being used which makes the overall soup seem bland at times, but you always get nice ingredients overall and they have enough to serve people all around the world. They will be making soup as long as they feel like it. AEW however has a much smaller kitchen, their soup is often missing the expected ingredients or sometimes it's even too spicy with conflicting flavors being crammed into it without complimenting the other flavors, and the burner being used is out of control causing some of these ingredients to burn on the bottom (unused talent and dropped storylines). Not only that, this pot isn't big enough to hold the ingredients so it's overflowing. They serve people who know how to pick out the few things they like, or have acquired the taste. Sure, the owner has enough money to dump the pot and start over, but the customers are getting impatient and frustrated waiting for a consistent product.

7:18 Aww... This sounds like a clear recognition of my recent comments on Eric going "off the rails" and it being nice when Conrad is around to get him back on track. Happy you are here reading the comments, Eric! Also glad you didn't take it personally and see the value in all forms of feedback. Love the show!

Eric can pay quite a few of his bills if he just does superchats in all his videos. It was one after another. 😅

I'll be at alw when you come here in Central Florida can't wait to see ya there!

I'm surprised when you were looking for a place to start you to didn't use The Art of War as an example! Very excited for this storytelling journey. Love all your content 😊

STRAIGHT TO the HOT TAKES and SH*T TALKING! Let's run these numbers up!!! #83weeks

I think eric needs to break down the mjf cm punk feud it's on RU-vid

@9:00 - that basic exercise is exactly what society needs to expose how the US education system has failed our youth. That's what we need in a modern game show.

I remember Eric in TNA even with Jeff Hardy I know he probably has a lot of regrets on sending Jeff out there that night, but what was the ultimate goal with Jeff? I loved the whole Willow story with Jeff and I know that was his OG story to tell his story through Willow in a Heel Story. How would you have drawn it out in an TNA environment back in the day

Eric brings up a good point, 50/50 or 60/40 makes a hall of famer in terms of creativity. The reason that that's the best you reasonably do is bc youre making an educated guess about what people will like and every performer is guessing what you meant. The more layers there are, the lower the % goes.

Damn. I missed the live. Bischoff and Cornette are my favorite podcasts. They would be like two cats fighting in a bag together but they both bring a lot to the table And then he says he is a fan of the grifter, vaporware salesman and the latest eventual indicted individual by the SEC. How anyone still supports Musk is beyond me.

I’ve never cared for the corporate formulaic way of storytelling. I 100% agree that it is the proper structure to follow, I just hate the idea of being creative with check boxes.

Clicking on this video was definitely a wise choice.

I think your comment when answering a question is key... Everyone needed to be an adult (talking about Punk and Jack). In AEW, you're sadly not dealing with people who act like adults

Kind of surprising WWE has the developmental system for wrestlers, but not for writers. Eric could be teaching this in the Performance Center.

Really enjoyed the Child Story I'mma we don't hear too much about Little Eric, I was waiting for The story to end with him tripping at the Renaissance Festival... Been there Lol ps. This is the smartest and most mature wrestling junk audience

The problem is that AEW will start a storyline and totally forget that they started it to begin with. For example, they were going to tease a breakup between Matt Hardy and Private Party. Then they stuck together like nothing happened. Same thing with Luchasaurus and Christian. Weeks later he's still there. Um.....wasn't Lucahasaurus going to break from the "family?"

The only way AEW has stories is if Tony buys an actual library

It heats up the water in the food by using radio waves and then heats up your food :) 💁 money please! Lol great stuff edit: dam you explained and now I look the fool 😢

The only reason I like this guy is because he did beat the machine for 83 weeks. He must have some knowledge of wrasslin. 😊

Radiation im late tho

TK is essentially making porn... horrible stories and people only watch for the action. But the tragic thing is he essentially has Oscar worthy actors starring in it.

I don’t think Tony Khan has the patience to book a great long term story. Things like the Four Horsemen, the nWo vs Sting, and the Bloodline take years. His formula seems to be like Russo’s crash wrestling.

What was Conrad doing during this live feed?

Please steal my ideas...please!!!!🤣🤣🤣

My bf and I used to plan the nights we would hang out around dynamite and rampage, weve stopped watching though

I'm pulling the plug on today's wrestling I'll just use peacock and RU-vid to catch anything worth watching. It's not the same without Vince .

Eric sounds like Mr Roger’s sicko

How a microwave works: give some Indy darlings money and power, give them live tv and creative control, then watch the cold shit turn to steaming shite! 😂

Dave melters 5 star match 😂

But…but…but….whhatt abboouut Wwweemmbly????

Show is so much better without Cryrad.

The magnetron in a microwave does not just heat up water. Greater levels of water content do heat up hotter, but anything that is larger than 1 cm can be heated in a microwave. You just can't heat up bugs like ants due to their bodies being too small. The short length radio waters also can't penetrate objects that are greater in depth than 2 inches. Once you get past 1" in depth on all sides, heat is unable to penitrate. Deeper objects have to rely on the fluid within the 1" barrier fluid to heat up thicker objects. This is why growing up Hot pockets that were too thick or filled too densely were always frozen in the middle but scorching hot everywhere else. The strength of the short distance radio waves are so powerful that it can make objects explode that have high fluid content with a thicker outter shell like skin or a skull. This is why you should never play with a microwave.

It was hard at first about Vince but Now I don't think he did anything wrong ! That lady is trying to get money ! It's because she's a girl she is able to leverage things in the USA laws because it favors the women so the Government can get more money.

"Big fan of Elon Musk" Yikes

The Dynamite rating came out DURING this stream; and he doesn't talk about it? How is that possible? You guys are lost.

Bischoff knows nothing of wrestling storytelling. Listen to old territory bookers to hear real storytelling

Cooks from the inside out.