The greatest trick the Karma ever pulled
Sept 15, 2016 18:28:25 GMT -5
Post by Johnny Karma on Sept 15, 2016 18:28:25 GMT -5
At the end of yet another long day on the road, Johnny Karma wipes the condensation from his hotel room’s bathroom mirror after a long, satisfying shower, before using the towel draped around his shoulders to dry the water from his face and hair. Once he dries his face, he whips the smaller towel over his shoulder and steps out of the bathroom – and once he steps out of the bathroom and around the corner to his bed he is greeted by the sight of Cherry Baum wearing nothing more than the bedsheets she is currently lying under, and the second Karma comes into view Cherry pats the unoccupied side of the bed to invite him to join her once more
I could’ve kept you company in there, you know.
Cherry winks to Karma as he slides himself under the sheets, and once he’s under the sheets he removes the towel he’s been wearing around his waist and tosses it aside
I’m sure you could, but I thought maybe you needed to get your energy back…
Karma leans in to kiss Cherry, and then…
Several thousand feet over Nebraska
…Karma wakes with a jolt, no doubt caused by the plane he and Cherry are flying to Colorado on being jostled in every direction by a bout of severe turbulence followed by the dulcet ping of the fasten seatbelt light being switched on, causing Karma to groggily fumble around in the vain hope of finding the other half of his belt so he can strap himself in before the stewardesses have to scrape him off the ceiling – that is until Cherry finds the other hand, and passes it in Karma’s direction
Here you go J-K.
Karma quickly accepts Cherry’s help and fixes the buckle in place, but he tries not to make eye contact at any point
Stressed?
Hmm?
Your face is a little red.
It is?
Realising he’s not exactly in a position to dash out of his seat and check in the nearest mirror, which coincidentally also offers him ample opportunity to hide because he knows full well the reason his face has turned red in the past couple of minutes, so instead he tries to cover
Yeah…that’s it. This flight’s been rough, hasn’t it?
before Cherry has a chance to respond, Karma uses the most exaggerated body language in civil aviation history to scooch around in his seat and look out of the window, trying really hard to not make eye contact with Cherry until at least there’s something outside the window worth talking about – which would certainly take a while, given they’re currently over Nebraska
10th September 2016, Queens NYC
Late on a lazy Saturday afternoon, the owner of the Maison de Karma is sat on his couch watching TV with a well-deserved Cuba Libre in his hand, and as he takes another sip his moment of contemplation is interrupted by a knock at his door
After taking a moment to make sure his tumbler is placed on a coaster so it doesn’t leave a mark on the surface of his coffee table, Karma pauses what he’s watching before he gets up off the coach and walks to the front door, opening it to reveal Cherry Baum has popped over to vist, and she’s got a greasy brown paper bag in her hand
Sorry I’m a little late, the bus pulled out just as I walked out of Sal’s…
Cherry holds up the bag, indicating dinner might be a little colder than is optimal
So can I use your kitchen for a little while?
Sure, no problem.
Oh yeah, almost forgot…
Cherry reaches into her pocket, pulling out a handful of change before she picks out a few nickels and dimes and hands them over
You wanted change?
No, it’s okay.
karma hands the slivers of silver back to Cherry before he invites her into the house, showing her the way to the kitchen before he closes the front door and follows her through
Once the pair are in Karma’s kitchen, Cherry grabs a couple of plates before she empties a bag of chili cheese fries onto one of the plates and sticks it in the microwave for a minute, and as the fries are revolving around in their nuclear bordello she takes out a couple of sandwiches and, once she checks the barely-readable scrawl on the paper, hands Karma his beef brisket sandwich while trying to resist devouring her ham capicola sandwich until her fries are ready
Can I get you a drink?
Sure.
As Cherry continues to anxiously await her dinner warming up, Karma opens the fridge and pulls out a couple of bottles of Big Wave Golden Ale and pops them open with a bottle opener before he hands a bottle to Cherry just in time for the microwave to tell Cherry her fries are warm once more, so Cherry hands the empty deli bag to Karma and he just looks at the grease seeping through the bag
I’m trying to work out if this counts as paper waste or food waste.
Cherry’s a little preoccupied to answer, as she pulls her plate out of the microwave and is sampling her fries…to make sure they’re warm, obviously
With dinner prepared, although the correct way to recycle the bag still up in the air, the pair head for Karma’s couch to have a spot of dinner before discussing the upcoming show…that is, until, the moment Cherry walks into Karma’s living room and sees what Karma had been watching on his TV before she arrives – his Frontier Lions Cup final match against Chandler Scott
J-K, I thought we agreed you shouldn’t watch this again, at least until there’s a better time.
What, this? It’s okay, I just had some time to kill and it just happened to be the first thing in my suggestions tab.
I doubt that, J-K.
Sitting down on the couch, Karma sighs – and as he’s got a second, he places his plate on the table in front of him, but keeps the bottle to hand because for forgot to grab some coasters from the kitchen
Okay, fine, it was like I had this itch that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I told myself it’s not bothering me, and there comes a point where I just had to scratch it before it drove me nuts. So, yeah, if the options are a second’s worth of satisfaction that comes from scratching the itch, or who knows how long of having the itch to begin with, I’m taking the first option.
At this point Cherry sits down next to Karma on the couch, places her plate on the table – then picks up the remote to switch the TV off
Rather than look back, wouldn’t it be a better idea to look forward? At least for a little while longer?
Cherry offers the neck of her bottle as a toast, which Karma reluctantly clinks
I suppose, after all I’ve got a date with The Usual Suspects.
Karma is about to take a sip of his beer, then he looks towards Cherry
No, that’s not an excuse for you to tell me your theory about how Pete Postlethwaite’s character is the real Keyser Söze.
All I’m saying is that the character exists in the movie, which goes out of its way to tell us his name isn’t Kobayashi, but it never tells us who he is. Given we’re told how Keyser Söze is this shadowy figure hiding in the shadows, doesn’t this mysterious character who picks Verbal up at the end before leaving sound a lot like that?
Rather than entertain the notion, Karma merely tilts his head back and runs his palm down his face
Now…
KARMIC TV
Abiding by Youtube’s advertiser-friendly policy since 2013
As the intro pushes the boundaries of Fair Use as far as it can possibly go we are greeted by Cherry Baum warmly welcoming us into the plentiful bosom of Karmic TV with a friendly wave and a winning smile, while Johnny Karma acknowledges we have visited his abode and taken off our shoes
Hi guys, welcome to another edition of Karmic TV, a place where excessive profanity, sexually suggestive content and promotion of drugs or regulated substances are told to [BLEEP] off and go back to [BLEEP]ing off as they watch that Kardashian show. Some people really need to smoke a [BLEEP] and relax.
The look on Karma’s face indicates he’s going to be writing a grovelling apology to Youtube in the morning if he hopes to make a cent from this video
Since we’re here, that can only mean that J-K will be stepping into the ring once more, and this time he will be stepping into the ring to face The Usual Suspects – and, because he’s no fool, he’ll be bringing a partner with him in the shape of Fujiko Mine. So, J-K, what are your thoughts for this match?
The first thing that comes to minds is that, if you asked somebody at FWA to round up the usual suspects, they’d have to ask for a little clarification: were you asking about the tag team, or were you asking about the very small procession of the same couple of names that we’ve seen over and over again?
For example, let’s start at the top with the FWA Championship where once again Zero McHannon is trying to convince people that he knows that the idea of being a defending champion is to win your title matches, not just win the belt and run out of ideas until you have to win it back from whoever beat you for the belt this time. And doesn’t it say so much about him that, when I offered him advice on how to do just that given my vastly superior knowledge of retaining a title, his response was…I don’t actually know, as I don’t speak beard, but there’s probably a couple of dozen tweets where he says that he isn’t six types of beyz that he’s got the worst case of butterfingers in FWA history.
Same goes for a few steps down where we have The New Kings still plotting away, hoping to rule the roost yet the one thing that would help them rule the roost more than anything else is in McHannon’s temporary care and they won’t be getting it back anytime soon so they’re probably going to spend the next few weeks discussing the best way to keep up their momentum, and the best they can come up with is when Johnny Cannon suggests pulling the legs off of a spider – and that’s the best suggestion any of the three would make, which is even more pathetic.
So if you’re told “No, I meant the tag team” the response is pretty different: partly because your first response isn’t rolling your eyes and saying “Not again…” a little louder than you initially hoped, but mainly because of the irony that a team calling themselves The Usual Suspects are more uncommon than the usual blights that FWA has had to endure on a constant loop of same drek, different kaker.
There’s a slight pause, either because Karma is about to change the subject…or because he’s hoping that bomber squadron managed to fly under Youtube’s advertiser-friendly radar
Now I do remember that, back when I was starting out in FWA, The Usual Suspects were part of some of the very first shows I was involved with, although while I stuck around and kept sticking at it they needed to take some time out due to an unfortunate incident involving an iPad and Chris Tryon’s cranium. But as time heals all non-fatal wounds, they’re back and have surely noticed the landscape’s very different from the one they left behind: when they were last around it was Chris Q and The Murder holding all the cards while they held the titles ransom, Sean Sands and Chris Bond were the shining light, and that says that three years is a long time in wrestling.
What else has happened in those three years is that some guy named Johnny Karma has gone from a project with some potential to a guy with a long list of great matches and a handful of achievements…
There’s a slight, yet noticeable, break in Karma’s voice that causes him to pause for a second
…someone who’s wrestled more matches than pretty much anyone else on the roster, and all because in the time since you were last here I’ve become the performer I knew I’d become. And you know who else has done the same thing in the time since you were gone? The other half of my team.
Here’s the thing: the Johnny Karma of 2013 is long gone, not just because my podiatrist advised me that my career wouldn’t last long if I kept punting my trophies into the crowd, but mainly because I’ve got a few years’ worth of experience that I didn’t have back then, and experience becomes an asset because things start to become instinctual rather than trying to remember how to hit the right move in the right place at the right time. That’s the sort of thing that shaves half a second off everything I do, and that half second is critical.
Of course me lecturing you about the importance of experience is a bit rich, given I was in elementary school when Jason Marx was first getting in the ring…
At that moment a thought crosses Karma’s mind
Wait…if I was in elementary school when you were starting out, does that mean…?
Karma looks quizzical
Does it mean…?
If he was working the local shows, it’s possible he was on the show my grandpa took me to, the first wrestling show I ever saw. Wow. Small world…
Karma gazes off into the distance for a moment as he tries to remember if he did, in fact, see fellow Queens native Jason Marx on that show – which also happens to mean the show involves watching Karma and Cherry sit in silence for a few seconds, which Cherry tries to fix…
With this in mind, how does it feel to face someone who may…or may not, we’ll Google it later, but someone who was actually competing in the ring at a time when you were attending your very first wrestling show?
It’s actually sort of strange to think of it like that, but as I said, if I’m talking about picking up an instinct in three years, he can turn around and mention he’s got the best part of twenty years’ worth of knowledge backed up in his muscle memory.
Anyway, the pair of them also have the advantage of having more experience as a team, regardless of their previous disagreements, they’re closer to a machine that needs a drop of oil to get working once again than a pile of rusted parts scattered across the garage floor that may or may not have been a lawnmower.
Of course, the problem with this particular machine is the fact that it doesn’t smoothly perform the tasks it’s created for, instead it needs a little outside help to give it a nudge and get the results it needs. It’s like a washing machine that stalls mid-cycle, you have to give the thing a good whack to help it judder towards the end of the wash – and that’s a good description of Anthony Rother, somebody who has to try and make the machine work because they can’t do it without him.
This is the other irony: The Usual Suspects are resorting to the same cheap shortcuts the usual suspects have to resort to in order to avoid having to admit they just can’t match their opponents, and then Rother tries to justify their actions instead of admitting they had to sink that little bit lower each and every time to have him say the ends justified the means. That’s nothing personal, just facts.
Karma gives a knowing wink to camera
I’m sure the pair of them are thinking of Plan D, E and F to try and steal a win, be it hiding a roll of quarters in their fist or hoping that Rother could find a can of hairspray at the drug store, but they don’t seem to have realised that I am really not the sort of person who is going to be taking shenanigans lightly. In fact, if they actually did any research for the period between early 2013 and Above & Beyond V they’d have noticed that the more an opponent tries to cheat their way to victory and generally be a putz about how they go about things, the more incentive I have to beat them. Which I do. Which I’ve done. It’s just you weren’t here to take notes.
It’s not words that make me great, it’s the part that comes after the words that count – and here’s a few words that Tony Rother should probably have told you: when your talk is as cheap as your tactics, nothing you do is worth much. It just isn’t.
Karma half-shrugs to back up the previous point
So what do the pair of you want to bring to the ring? I’m not asking Rother, I’m asking Marx and Tyron: do you want to roll back the years and remind the fans of the team you once were, or are you content to be what Rother wants you to be? Because at some point you’ll have to ask yourselves that same question, and somebody’s not going to like the answer. So I may as well ask it now because I’m pretty sure Rother’s not going to bring it up.
A little while later
With the episode wrapped up and rendering, and Karma emptying the contents of at least his second bottle of water since the taping wrapped, Cherry sits herself down next to him on the couch
So…J-K. About the other day.
Karma attempts to answer, but he’s interrupted by slug of water going down the wrong way and instead he’s a little preoccupied with choking and trying not to deposit a mouthful of water all over Cherry’s laptop
After a few moments Karma manages to compose himself to the point where he looks capable of drinking water without being a hazard to his own health, so he turns towards Cherry
I was wondering…are you feeling up to going over your match with Chandler later? It might help if you had a second pair of eyes to help you go over everything that happened. If you’re okay with it, I mean.
Making sure he’s not taking another sip of water, and that he’s screwed the cap back on the bottle so he’s not about to spill the contents of his water bottle all over the place, Karma looks towards Cherry’s laptop for a second and weighs up the offer
You know what, Miss Baum. That sounds like a good idea.
I could’ve kept you company in there, you know.
Cherry winks to Karma as he slides himself under the sheets, and once he’s under the sheets he removes the towel he’s been wearing around his waist and tosses it aside
I’m sure you could, but I thought maybe you needed to get your energy back…
Karma leans in to kiss Cherry, and then…
Several thousand feet over Nebraska
…Karma wakes with a jolt, no doubt caused by the plane he and Cherry are flying to Colorado on being jostled in every direction by a bout of severe turbulence followed by the dulcet ping of the fasten seatbelt light being switched on, causing Karma to groggily fumble around in the vain hope of finding the other half of his belt so he can strap himself in before the stewardesses have to scrape him off the ceiling – that is until Cherry finds the other hand, and passes it in Karma’s direction
Here you go J-K.
Karma quickly accepts Cherry’s help and fixes the buckle in place, but he tries not to make eye contact at any point
Stressed?
Hmm?
Your face is a little red.
It is?
Realising he’s not exactly in a position to dash out of his seat and check in the nearest mirror, which coincidentally also offers him ample opportunity to hide because he knows full well the reason his face has turned red in the past couple of minutes, so instead he tries to cover
Yeah…that’s it. This flight’s been rough, hasn’t it?
before Cherry has a chance to respond, Karma uses the most exaggerated body language in civil aviation history to scooch around in his seat and look out of the window, trying really hard to not make eye contact with Cherry until at least there’s something outside the window worth talking about – which would certainly take a while, given they’re currently over Nebraska
10th September 2016, Queens NYC
Late on a lazy Saturday afternoon, the owner of the Maison de Karma is sat on his couch watching TV with a well-deserved Cuba Libre in his hand, and as he takes another sip his moment of contemplation is interrupted by a knock at his door
After taking a moment to make sure his tumbler is placed on a coaster so it doesn’t leave a mark on the surface of his coffee table, Karma pauses what he’s watching before he gets up off the coach and walks to the front door, opening it to reveal Cherry Baum has popped over to vist, and she’s got a greasy brown paper bag in her hand
Sorry I’m a little late, the bus pulled out just as I walked out of Sal’s…
Cherry holds up the bag, indicating dinner might be a little colder than is optimal
So can I use your kitchen for a little while?
Sure, no problem.
Oh yeah, almost forgot…
Cherry reaches into her pocket, pulling out a handful of change before she picks out a few nickels and dimes and hands them over
You wanted change?
No, it’s okay.
karma hands the slivers of silver back to Cherry before he invites her into the house, showing her the way to the kitchen before he closes the front door and follows her through
Once the pair are in Karma’s kitchen, Cherry grabs a couple of plates before she empties a bag of chili cheese fries onto one of the plates and sticks it in the microwave for a minute, and as the fries are revolving around in their nuclear bordello she takes out a couple of sandwiches and, once she checks the barely-readable scrawl on the paper, hands Karma his beef brisket sandwich while trying to resist devouring her ham capicola sandwich until her fries are ready
Can I get you a drink?
Sure.
As Cherry continues to anxiously await her dinner warming up, Karma opens the fridge and pulls out a couple of bottles of Big Wave Golden Ale and pops them open with a bottle opener before he hands a bottle to Cherry just in time for the microwave to tell Cherry her fries are warm once more, so Cherry hands the empty deli bag to Karma and he just looks at the grease seeping through the bag
I’m trying to work out if this counts as paper waste or food waste.
Cherry’s a little preoccupied to answer, as she pulls her plate out of the microwave and is sampling her fries…to make sure they’re warm, obviously
With dinner prepared, although the correct way to recycle the bag still up in the air, the pair head for Karma’s couch to have a spot of dinner before discussing the upcoming show…that is, until, the moment Cherry walks into Karma’s living room and sees what Karma had been watching on his TV before she arrives – his Frontier Lions Cup final match against Chandler Scott
J-K, I thought we agreed you shouldn’t watch this again, at least until there’s a better time.
What, this? It’s okay, I just had some time to kill and it just happened to be the first thing in my suggestions tab.
I doubt that, J-K.
Sitting down on the couch, Karma sighs – and as he’s got a second, he places his plate on the table in front of him, but keeps the bottle to hand because for forgot to grab some coasters from the kitchen
Okay, fine, it was like I had this itch that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I told myself it’s not bothering me, and there comes a point where I just had to scratch it before it drove me nuts. So, yeah, if the options are a second’s worth of satisfaction that comes from scratching the itch, or who knows how long of having the itch to begin with, I’m taking the first option.
At this point Cherry sits down next to Karma on the couch, places her plate on the table – then picks up the remote to switch the TV off
Rather than look back, wouldn’t it be a better idea to look forward? At least for a little while longer?
Cherry offers the neck of her bottle as a toast, which Karma reluctantly clinks
I suppose, after all I’ve got a date with The Usual Suspects.
Karma is about to take a sip of his beer, then he looks towards Cherry
No, that’s not an excuse for you to tell me your theory about how Pete Postlethwaite’s character is the real Keyser Söze.
All I’m saying is that the character exists in the movie, which goes out of its way to tell us his name isn’t Kobayashi, but it never tells us who he is. Given we’re told how Keyser Söze is this shadowy figure hiding in the shadows, doesn’t this mysterious character who picks Verbal up at the end before leaving sound a lot like that?
Rather than entertain the notion, Karma merely tilts his head back and runs his palm down his face
Now…
KARMIC TV
Abiding by Youtube’s advertiser-friendly policy since 2013
As the intro pushes the boundaries of Fair Use as far as it can possibly go we are greeted by Cherry Baum warmly welcoming us into the plentiful bosom of Karmic TV with a friendly wave and a winning smile, while Johnny Karma acknowledges we have visited his abode and taken off our shoes
Hi guys, welcome to another edition of Karmic TV, a place where excessive profanity, sexually suggestive content and promotion of drugs or regulated substances are told to [BLEEP] off and go back to [BLEEP]ing off as they watch that Kardashian show. Some people really need to smoke a [BLEEP] and relax.
The look on Karma’s face indicates he’s going to be writing a grovelling apology to Youtube in the morning if he hopes to make a cent from this video
Since we’re here, that can only mean that J-K will be stepping into the ring once more, and this time he will be stepping into the ring to face The Usual Suspects – and, because he’s no fool, he’ll be bringing a partner with him in the shape of Fujiko Mine. So, J-K, what are your thoughts for this match?
The first thing that comes to minds is that, if you asked somebody at FWA to round up the usual suspects, they’d have to ask for a little clarification: were you asking about the tag team, or were you asking about the very small procession of the same couple of names that we’ve seen over and over again?
For example, let’s start at the top with the FWA Championship where once again Zero McHannon is trying to convince people that he knows that the idea of being a defending champion is to win your title matches, not just win the belt and run out of ideas until you have to win it back from whoever beat you for the belt this time. And doesn’t it say so much about him that, when I offered him advice on how to do just that given my vastly superior knowledge of retaining a title, his response was…I don’t actually know, as I don’t speak beard, but there’s probably a couple of dozen tweets where he says that he isn’t six types of beyz that he’s got the worst case of butterfingers in FWA history.
Same goes for a few steps down where we have The New Kings still plotting away, hoping to rule the roost yet the one thing that would help them rule the roost more than anything else is in McHannon’s temporary care and they won’t be getting it back anytime soon so they’re probably going to spend the next few weeks discussing the best way to keep up their momentum, and the best they can come up with is when Johnny Cannon suggests pulling the legs off of a spider – and that’s the best suggestion any of the three would make, which is even more pathetic.
So if you’re told “No, I meant the tag team” the response is pretty different: partly because your first response isn’t rolling your eyes and saying “Not again…” a little louder than you initially hoped, but mainly because of the irony that a team calling themselves The Usual Suspects are more uncommon than the usual blights that FWA has had to endure on a constant loop of same drek, different kaker.
There’s a slight pause, either because Karma is about to change the subject…or because he’s hoping that bomber squadron managed to fly under Youtube’s advertiser-friendly radar
Now I do remember that, back when I was starting out in FWA, The Usual Suspects were part of some of the very first shows I was involved with, although while I stuck around and kept sticking at it they needed to take some time out due to an unfortunate incident involving an iPad and Chris Tryon’s cranium. But as time heals all non-fatal wounds, they’re back and have surely noticed the landscape’s very different from the one they left behind: when they were last around it was Chris Q and The Murder holding all the cards while they held the titles ransom, Sean Sands and Chris Bond were the shining light, and that says that three years is a long time in wrestling.
What else has happened in those three years is that some guy named Johnny Karma has gone from a project with some potential to a guy with a long list of great matches and a handful of achievements…
There’s a slight, yet noticeable, break in Karma’s voice that causes him to pause for a second
…someone who’s wrestled more matches than pretty much anyone else on the roster, and all because in the time since you were last here I’ve become the performer I knew I’d become. And you know who else has done the same thing in the time since you were gone? The other half of my team.
Here’s the thing: the Johnny Karma of 2013 is long gone, not just because my podiatrist advised me that my career wouldn’t last long if I kept punting my trophies into the crowd, but mainly because I’ve got a few years’ worth of experience that I didn’t have back then, and experience becomes an asset because things start to become instinctual rather than trying to remember how to hit the right move in the right place at the right time. That’s the sort of thing that shaves half a second off everything I do, and that half second is critical.
Of course me lecturing you about the importance of experience is a bit rich, given I was in elementary school when Jason Marx was first getting in the ring…
At that moment a thought crosses Karma’s mind
Wait…if I was in elementary school when you were starting out, does that mean…?
Karma looks quizzical
Does it mean…?
If he was working the local shows, it’s possible he was on the show my grandpa took me to, the first wrestling show I ever saw. Wow. Small world…
Karma gazes off into the distance for a moment as he tries to remember if he did, in fact, see fellow Queens native Jason Marx on that show – which also happens to mean the show involves watching Karma and Cherry sit in silence for a few seconds, which Cherry tries to fix…
With this in mind, how does it feel to face someone who may…or may not, we’ll Google it later, but someone who was actually competing in the ring at a time when you were attending your very first wrestling show?
It’s actually sort of strange to think of it like that, but as I said, if I’m talking about picking up an instinct in three years, he can turn around and mention he’s got the best part of twenty years’ worth of knowledge backed up in his muscle memory.
Anyway, the pair of them also have the advantage of having more experience as a team, regardless of their previous disagreements, they’re closer to a machine that needs a drop of oil to get working once again than a pile of rusted parts scattered across the garage floor that may or may not have been a lawnmower.
Of course, the problem with this particular machine is the fact that it doesn’t smoothly perform the tasks it’s created for, instead it needs a little outside help to give it a nudge and get the results it needs. It’s like a washing machine that stalls mid-cycle, you have to give the thing a good whack to help it judder towards the end of the wash – and that’s a good description of Anthony Rother, somebody who has to try and make the machine work because they can’t do it without him.
This is the other irony: The Usual Suspects are resorting to the same cheap shortcuts the usual suspects have to resort to in order to avoid having to admit they just can’t match their opponents, and then Rother tries to justify their actions instead of admitting they had to sink that little bit lower each and every time to have him say the ends justified the means. That’s nothing personal, just facts.
Karma gives a knowing wink to camera
I’m sure the pair of them are thinking of Plan D, E and F to try and steal a win, be it hiding a roll of quarters in their fist or hoping that Rother could find a can of hairspray at the drug store, but they don’t seem to have realised that I am really not the sort of person who is going to be taking shenanigans lightly. In fact, if they actually did any research for the period between early 2013 and Above & Beyond V they’d have noticed that the more an opponent tries to cheat their way to victory and generally be a putz about how they go about things, the more incentive I have to beat them. Which I do. Which I’ve done. It’s just you weren’t here to take notes.
It’s not words that make me great, it’s the part that comes after the words that count – and here’s a few words that Tony Rother should probably have told you: when your talk is as cheap as your tactics, nothing you do is worth much. It just isn’t.
Karma half-shrugs to back up the previous point
So what do the pair of you want to bring to the ring? I’m not asking Rother, I’m asking Marx and Tyron: do you want to roll back the years and remind the fans of the team you once were, or are you content to be what Rother wants you to be? Because at some point you’ll have to ask yourselves that same question, and somebody’s not going to like the answer. So I may as well ask it now because I’m pretty sure Rother’s not going to bring it up.
A little while later
With the episode wrapped up and rendering, and Karma emptying the contents of at least his second bottle of water since the taping wrapped, Cherry sits herself down next to him on the couch
So…J-K. About the other day.
Karma attempts to answer, but he’s interrupted by slug of water going down the wrong way and instead he’s a little preoccupied with choking and trying not to deposit a mouthful of water all over Cherry’s laptop
After a few moments Karma manages to compose himself to the point where he looks capable of drinking water without being a hazard to his own health, so he turns towards Cherry
I was wondering…are you feeling up to going over your match with Chandler later? It might help if you had a second pair of eyes to help you go over everything that happened. If you’re okay with it, I mean.
Making sure he’s not taking another sip of water, and that he’s screwed the cap back on the bottle so he’s not about to spill the contents of his water bottle all over the place, Karma looks towards Cherry’s laptop for a second and weighs up the offer
You know what, Miss Baum. That sounds like a good idea.
To be continued...
