Talk Is Jericho

Nigel McGuinness made an epic return to in-ring action for the first time in 13 years at AEW All In London! He describes how it all happened, what it was like to compete in the Casino Gauntlet match, and how it felt to receive the incredible pop from the fans! Nigel also has stories about his early days wrestling in the UK, why his first WWE tryout did not end as he’d hoped, his initial reaction t...

The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, the new definitive, 4-part docu-series airing on Amazon Prime, charts the 35-year career of Canada’s favorite sons, the Hip, and was directed by Mike Downie, brother of late Hip frontman, Gord Downie. Mike and brother Patrick talk about the decision to make the doc after Gord’s passing, the role that Hip manager Jake Gold played in the decision and process,...

Tom and Zeus from the Shout It Out Loudcast along with Joey Cassata have a new book out! It’s called Raise Your Glasses: A Celebration of 50 Years of KISS Songs by Celebrities, Musicians, and Fans. And yes, Chris Jericho is one of the celeb musicians who contributed reviews and comments to many of the songs in the 600-plus page book! In fact, he’s one of the biggest contributors alongside a long l...

Director Barry Sonnenfeld has a new book out called Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time, and it’s chock-full of amazing stories from his incredible Hollywood career! He shares a bunch including his early movie-making days as a cinematographer for the Coen Brothers first three movies including Raising Arizona, and working with director Rob Reiner on Misery, and the events on set that led to a...

MrBallen (aka former Navy SEAL John Allen) joins to share stories from his new graphic novel, MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious. He talks about some of the terrifying tales that were inspired by true life events like the UFO sightings at a cattle ranch in Utah, the mysterious disappearance of some lighthouse keepers on a little island off the coast of Scotland, and a chilling recurring...

Ricochet made his surprise debut at AEW All In at Wembley Stadium in London! He shares details from the day including how he got to Wembley undetected, and through the backstage area in secret. Ricochet talks about when he knew AEW was the right place for him, what it took to get the deal done, and how it’s been to reunite with many of his old wrestling friends. He also discusses his time in WWE f...

Tanyalee Davis is the little person comedian who inspired Brad Williams to pursue stand-up comedy! She’s also Chris Jericho’s high school classmate and fellow graduate of Westwood in Winnipeg. The two remember their highschool days including the time Tanyalee drove her car into the side of the gymnasium! They also talk about Tanyalee’s start in comedy, how her comedy has changed since the pandemic...

The Outrunners, Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd, are not only “The Youngest Men Alive,” they’re also the most tanned, most jacked and most vascular tag team on earth! They have plenty to say about their physique, living in Miami Beach, jet ski’ing, The Meat Spin, Total Recall, and their team of body shavers! Truth & Turbo also talk Rip Rogers, AAA and CMLL, Brian Cage, their famous feud with the Von...

Rob, Jesse and Dave from Hometown Ghost Stories return with tales from the mysterious Bridgewater Triangle, a 200-square mile area in southeastern Massachusetts, very close to where the threesome grew up and still live! Chris also knows the area well, and the four share their personal paranormal experiences, and discuss some of the more well-known cases associated with the area like the red-bearde...

KK’s Priest and Accept just launched the “Full Metal Assault” tour, and K.K. Downing, Tim “Ripper” Owens, and Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffman explain how this insane double-bill came together! K.K. talks about the formation of KK’s Priest, how he got Ripper into the band, what it was like to write and record the new KK’s Priest album, “The Sinner Rides Again,” and even talks about the early days of...

Chris Daughtry makes his TIJ debut to talk about Daughtry’s Fall tour with Staind and Breaking Benjamin! He explains how this triple threat bill came together, what life is like on the road now, how he puts together a setlist, and what he does to take care of his voice! He also talks about being inspired by everyone from Mick Jagger and the Stones to Chris Cornell and Soundgarden and Tool! Chris d...

Scott D’Amore’s newly-launched Maple Leaf Pro launches its first live PPV event, Forged In Excellence, on October 19th and 20th at St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and the card is stacked – Josh Alexander, Speedball Mike Bailey, ROH Women’s World Champion Athena, Takeshita, Raj Dhesi (formerly known as WWE’s Jinder Mahal), and so many more! Scott shares the story behind MLP, its sign...

Karen Conti was the only woman on John Wayne Gacy’s legal team during his appeal process to have his death sentence commuted to life in prison. Over the course of the last 7 months of his life, Karen spent some 50 hours in person with Gacy and countless on the phone. She details the whole experience in her book, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America’s Most Evil Serial Killer on Deat...

It’s True Crime Week on TIJ, and starting us off, one of the biggest cases of the last year – the Gilgo Beach serial killings! These were a series of murders of mostly sex workers spanning from the early 1990s to 2011. On July 13, 2023, police arrested Rex Heuermann outside his office in Manhattan (New York City), and have since charged him with 6 of the killings. Filmmaker Josh Zeman joins to sha...

The Maharaja Raj Dheshi (formerly known as WWE Champion Jinder Mahal) returns to TIJ to talk about his new character and gimmick, his new mindset, and his recent debut on the indies! Raj details his recent (and second) release from WWE in June, and why it was really not a surprise to him (unlike the first time). He talks about his promo segment with The Rock from earlier this year and how that all...

Former senior intelligence official and special agent, Luis “Lue” Elizondo, was recruited into the US government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a $22 million program sponsored by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to study UFOs. Lue resigned in 2017 in protest of excessive government secrecy regarding UFOs. But it’s thanks to Lue that the government in recent years has dec...

David Castaneda plays “Diego” on the popular Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy, which just released its final season! He talks about the lengthy audition process, the role that Larry David and Curb Your Enthusiasm played in it, how he developed and trained for “Diego,” the impact the show’s success had on his life and his social media following, some of his favorite scenes to film, and how he f...

August 9, 1999 marked Y2J’s WWE (then WWF) debut, and to celebrate 25 years of the momentous occasion, Chris sat down on the landmark anniversary day itself and recounted the story, sharing all the incredible details leading up to the big reveal. You THINK you know this story. You THINK you’ve heard this story, but you truly haven’t heard it until NOW. From his last days at WCW to the clandestine...

Borderlands, writer & director Eli Roth’s first big-budget, action movie, hit theaters today, and Eli takes us behind-the-scenes of his adaptation of the popular video game! He talks about working with the A-list cast including Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, and Ariana Greenblatt, and explains his part in the casting process. He shares stories from filming in Budapest du...

The Bad Apple, Bryan Keith, has a few favorite moments since joining The Learning Tree on AEW, including running Samoa Joe through a wall! Bryan talks about the day he got his AEW contract, when and how he found out he was joining Jericho and Big Bill under The Learning Tree, and why he was fine giving up the Bounty Hunter for the Bad Apple. He shares stories from his first-ever trip to Japan to w...

Legendary Canadian promote Tony Condello returns to celebrate the theatrical release of the brand-new documentary, The Death Tour (Executive Produced by Chris Jericho), chronicling 50-years of TCW’s infamously grueling wrestling tour of indigenous communities in the far North of Canada! Doc directors Stephan Peterson and Sonya Ballantyne, and wrestlers Massive Damage and Sage, also join to talk ab...

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American highways, and since then, at least 850 homicides have been linked to a new breed of serial killer: long-haul truck drivers! The FBI’s Former Assistant Director of Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, did his own interviews, research and investigation into some of the most terrifying cases which he chronicled...

Alex Honnold, known for his awe-inspiring climbs, takes us behind the scenes of his latest Nat GEO series, Arctic Ascent. Discover the challenges and breathtaking moments of scaling the icy, unforgiving rock walls of the Arctic, some of the science projects they did along the way including a special NASA mission, and the measures they had to take protect themselves from the extreme cold and the po...

Writer/journalist Steve Rosen’s new book, Tonechaser – Understanding Edward: My 26-year Journey with Edward Van Halen is filled with personal stories from the many conversations that Steve had with his friend, Edward. He recounts meeting Edward for the first time at The Whiskey on the Sunset Strip months before Van Halen’s eponymous debut album dropped! He explains how he struck up a close friends...

Beverly D’Angelo may be best known as Ellen Griswold in the Vacation movie franchise, but she actually got her showbiz start as a singer! She was a rock n roller long before she ever graced the silver screen or Broadway stage! In fact, it was her incredible singing that landed her the award-winning role of Patsy Cline in Coal Miner’s Daughter alongside Sissy Spacek, and an in-person audition for t...