Adventure Book Theatre: Night of Champions (WWE Pick Your Path #2)
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Merry Champion's Night, Superstars! To celebrate this blessed day, the LoreLords RETURN to the ring for another Pro Wrestling "Pick Your Path" adventure, featuring a once-in-his-lifetime appearance by rookie podcasting phenomenon, Jaek Hurwitz!
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Sound Mixing and Editing by Trevor Lyon
8-Bit Book Club Theme by Emily Axford
Comments (56)
For some reason Lore Lords makes me think of Lorelei Gilmore Also, 12 nights of champions
I feel like 8bit book club used to be more free form, and I liked them riffing on books (even though I always preferred when they would discuss real books, RIP) but now they don’t so much riff on books and hangout as handcuff themselves to a bit and refuse to make jokes about anything else… although the Mario episodes with Adam weren’t like that. Maybe these wrestling books are just cursed
I know this was recorded ages ago but it's so funny to hear in 2025 "You know who we shouldn't disrespect, Vince McMahon"
re: lore lords at the beginning, it sounds to me like loro (Brazilian Portuguese) so I picture parrots in late 1800s suits. Lorolords
as a Sami (Samantha) that married a Michael, yall ABSOLUTELY have history with him and we stan a bisexual husband
that being said, i didnt havr bridesmaids…maybe i would have made an exception tho
This is one of my favorite episodes to replay when I need a good laugh 💗 And for what it’s worth, I had the EXACT same thought as Emily in regards to the title’s holiday association 🎄
John Cena mouths, "I love a betrayal arc".
The cargo pants line was so good lmao
I’m glad we were able to make it work in the end. See you at the next wedding!
I would suggest if you want more extremely strange wrestling spinoffs- the two Scooby-Doo and WWE movies are wild rides
Absolutely love what you guys do to these pick your own adventure books! 🫠
All I could think through this episode is that I hope they become Johnny Freshly Hitched
I am living for these WWE adventure books. Please never stop. Jessica is a snake. But she should be our snake not Samantha’s…
Caldwell’s “high heel” joke may be the best wordplay in NADDPod history
Why did I love this so much? More of this please. I absolutely love when we get the 8BBC episodes, they are always a special brand of chaos I love.
Gotta say, not SUPER vibing the WWE adventure books.
Luckily there are plenty of other episodes you can vibe with. Many of us vibe hard with these.
In AEW Freshly Squeezed Orange Cassidy ruined an in ring wedding between kip sabian and penelope by jumping out of their cake. Every thing that happens in the WWE 8BBCs is all founded on precedence.
Alternate title for this book: "How The Wrench Saved Champmas!"
Bravo
The convo from the very beginning of the ep: when they say “lore lords” I definitely picture Lorax versions of them 🤣
This is one of my favorite 8BBC episodes. For one, the dual narrative of ruining a wedding, intertwined with winning a WWE champion title had me rolling. For two, Murphy was so willing to engage in the wedding meta-narrative, it had me in mind of hot date. Emily and Murph's chemistry was so solid today.
YAAAAAAA
Does anyone else have this happen to them, when you zone out for a minute or so listening to the episode and are suddenly completely lost as to what the bit is when you pay closer attention once again? I love it, genuinely haha!
The bit changes so quickly. Sometimes when you're listening intently you still have to rewind to see what off hand thing caused this new arc.
Love a Christmas wedding
I love when the book becomes a dramatic chaotic bisexual romance
Jaek Hurwitz…
Alan: CALL ME
demand for murph to post a pic of his fingers covering his forehead to see if he actually has a 5-head
huge of jaek to show up for this episode. love that you added guests to this.
I'm only 12 minutes in but I'm hoping they start calling the Wrench the Grinch
i never trusted jessica.
Jessica knew all along what John Cena had planned
From Christmas to Crashing weddings, love the creative meander you all embark on for these.
This feel like an episode of Hot Date to anyone else? Haha
Murph, Smackdown is definitely live. All WWE shows are live, that’s what makes them impressive in my mind. Just needed to comment this because he said that same thing on the last WWE book. Smackdown is definitely live
In my head, when the "I see you" bit happened, I saw the scene from Face//Off
Johnny Frenchly Croissant Wrench
Shoutout to the big head gang. My mom used to get mad at me when I was small because my shirts were always inside out when she was doing my laundry. My head was so large that the shirts would always get caught on them and flip inside out by the time I got them off.
The one thing I loved about Vince was his walk, nothing better than seeing a life sized bobblehead strutting down the ramp
Mixed bag idea: measuring each others’ heads
Phrenology side quest
Love the ruining a wedding because you're in love with the groom just to turn even more heel than before and go for a completely unrelated ex of yours. Johnny Frenchly Dressed goes for the long con of not having to pay for their own wedding and if this isn't great value idk what is!!
Don’t know if I’m upset or relieved that y’all didn’t rhyme Wrench with Grinch in the whirlwind of Christmas spirit 😅
Looks like Rey Murphsterio, Jake The Snake, The Great KhalEmily, and Triple H-ugh Caldwell are at it again 😎
For anyone wondering, as an EEG tech the most common head circumference I see is around 56 centimeters!
Can't wait for hoarse Murph halfway through this.
Murph and Caldwell's Instagram promo got me psyched for more wrestling
I'm ready, Brother!
As someone who followed wrestling a bit in the 90s, The first one was one of the funniest things I ever heard, can't wait for round two brother. Love you guys
woo!
Omg perfect timing!!! Keepin me company for my late night at work 🥹
OOOOH YEEEAH!!!
My favorite time of the week 😎