TIA Off-Season - The Issue with Spoilers & The Everything is Wrestling Quote Off

On this week's off-season pod Joaquin, Tom and Chuck talk about the issue of spoilers in professional wrestling. Do they matter? Whose responsibility is it to protect the results of matches? Should we treat wrestling more like Game of Thrones than the NBA?

Then, Joaquin finally dons the games master hat and treats Chuck and Tom to the first ever Everything is Wrestling Quote Off.

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TIA Off-Season - Pitch Off! A WWE Network Showdown & The Worst Segment In The History of Podcasting

On this week's off-season pod Frank, Joaquin, Chuck and Tom square off against one another by pitching original television show ideas for the WWE Network. 

Then, Tom terrorizes the rest of the boys by forcing them to live-call fan made MUGEN matches featuring WWE wrestlers. What the hell is MUGEN? Well you'll just have to find out won't you?

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TIA Off-Season - NJPW G1 Special in USA Roundtable & An nWo Three-Strikes Showdown

On this week's off-season episode, your boys gather together to discuss NJPW's 2 day event last week in Long Beach. Some of your hosts were there in person, others caught it streaming on the net - but they've all got opinions. 

Then, another three-strikes game with Chuck as the moderator. We find out who can name the most obscure nWo members and win the ultimate prize: the last can of Croix.

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TIA Off-Season - The Subtle Art of Tag Team Finishers & Trading Card Champions

On this week's off-season pod Frank, Joaquin, Chuck and Tom gather together to discuss the subtle art of tag team finishers. They talk favorites, least favorites and why Tom hates the triple powerbomb.

Then, your pod boys use Frank’s WWE trading cards to book the unlikeliest of world champions and accidentally chart the rise to power of the newest and most dominant stable in professional wrestling. 

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TIA Off-Season - Resurrecting Old Championships & The PPV Name Throwdown

In this week's off-season episode, your boys talk retired championship titles and discuss which belts would they like to see taken out of storage and brought back for the modern era.

Then, Chuck puts on his games-master hat and challenges Tom, Frank and Joaquin to compete in a no-holds-barred PPV Name Game. Winner takes all Croixs.

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TIA Off-Season - Impromptu Let's Watch: Okada/Omega II: The Drop Kickening

On this week's very special episode of TIA, your boys live watch one of the most anticipated rematches in recent memory: Okada/Omega II. We invite you to watch along with us and experience the match that Dave Meltzer gave 6.25 stars while remarking "we are seeing history."

To watch along with us load up the english language stream of Dominion 6.11 on NJPW World, make sure your timecode is set to 3:52:44, and push play when you hear Frank crack the Croix.

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TIA Off-Season - The Peaks and Valleys of NXT & Entrance Theme Lyrics "Voices" Edition

On this week's off-season joint join your boys Frank, Charlie and Tom as they rap about the highs and lows of every smark's favorite hour of wrestling - NXT. They talk about the peaks and valleys of the show's history and try to figure out whether or not the brand has already peaked.

THEN, your boys head over to good ole metro lyrics dot com and do some deep-dive-and-analysis on the lyrics to Randy Orton's "Voices." Crack a Croix and join us, won't you?

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TIA Off-Season - A Brief Conversation About Kids and Wrestling & The Finishing Move Face-Off

In this week's very special episode of the TIA off-season, Tom asks your boys Frank & Chuck whether or not there is a place in the sports entertainment landscape for youth wrestling. Would a kids division ever work on a national brand? Could it be an organized performance/athletic event at the high school or college level? Would it be any more dangerous than cheerleading or playing football? 

Then, Frank challenges Tom and Chuck to go head to head in his Finishing Move Name Game. The stakes couldn't be higher as the loser ends up with an agonizing homework assignment.

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TIA Off-Season - Gimmicks That Didn't & The Return of Tom's Swerve Game

On this week's off-season episode, Joaquin, Frank, Chuck and Tom gather together to talk about their favorite gimmicks that for whatever reason never quite got over. 

Then, we explore the deep, dark recesses of wrestling fan-fiction with another edition of Tom's Swerve Game! Anime run ins, disturbing ska dreams and an all-ages spelling bee - we get real weird with it.

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TIA Off-Season - A Sartorial Top 10 & The PPV Theme Stat Game

It's intervention time again at TIA as we sift through Joaquin's ever-growing wrestling t-shirt collection and decide the 10 best of all time. Then, your boys go head-to-head in our first ever PPV Theme Stat game. Play along and see if you know more about Papa Roach, Gavin Rossdale and Rev Theory than your pod boys. Winner gets a case of Croix.

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