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This Halloween episode is a fiery deep dive into the viral tweet that had wrestling Twitter on fire — and an honest breakdown of how fans, media, and content creators have stopped using their words correctly.

Marie starts the show with Halloween greetings and a quick reminder that the grind doesn’t stop — even on spooky season. From there, she recaps how one tweet about WWE’s triple threat booking went viral and turned into a full-on literacy test for wrestling Twitter.

The core debate? The misuse of the word “trope.”
Marie defines it clearly — a recurring theme — and then exposes how The Wrestling Observer twisted the term just to fuel anti-WWE sentiment. She then contrasts that bias by showing how AEW uses the same tropes — weekly multi-man matches borrowed straight from New Japan — but never gets called out.

From there, she gets into storytelling psychology:
Dominic Mysterio hiring mercenaries isn’t “stupid booking,” it’s character consistency. WWE tells stories rooted in motivation, consequence, and payoff — not chaos for chaos’s sake.

Marie also explains how she used her viral moment to teach about rhetoric, logic, and honesty — because the problem isn’t the “tropes.” The problem is that fans and media don’t understand definitions or context anymore.

She ends the episode with free advice for Tony Khan on how AEW could use Twitter Spaces and social media to actually build stories, while urging all fans to think more critically about wrestling and stop hiding behind tribal labels.

This episode isn’t just wrestling talk — it’s a lesson in media literacy, independent thinking, and keeping wrestling discussions honest and informed.

Time stamps

00:00 – 02:00
Halloween greeting, show intro, talk about making two podcasts in one day.

02:00 – 05:00
Explaining the importance of Patreon, creator economy, and independent voices.

05:00 – 10:00
The viral tweet breakdown — Wrestling Observer calls WWE’s triple threat booking a “bad trope.” Marie defines “trope.”

10:00 – 15:00
Storytelling psychology of Dom, Rusev, and Penta — why this is proper storytelling.

15:00 – 20:00
Observer’s anti-WWE bias vs. AEW’s constant multi-man match reliance.

20:00 – 25:00
AEW’s New Japan influence; how Tony Khan could use Twitter Spaces for story hype.

25:00 – 32:00
Social media bias, media literacy, and how the creator economy punishes independent truth-tellers.

32:00 – 40:00
Marie reacts to viral tweet replies — AEW defenders, bad-faith arguments, and misuse of “rhetorical.”

40:00 – 45:00
Debunking “booking pattern = trope.” Literary clarity meets wrestling education.

45:00 – 50:00
Closing thoughts: consistency, education, honesty. “Make honesty great again.”