Tony Khan Talks Production During A Pandemic

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Wrestling, Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Tony Khan returns to share serious behind-the-scenes details about what it took to keep AEW Dynamite going during the coronavirus pandemic! He talks about the night of the NBA shutdown which directly resulted in AEW live show cancellations, pivoting to no audience shows produced in Jacksonville, and the scramble to tape enough content to cover 5 or 6 additional weeks of TV after strict stay home and social distancing orders were mandated by the government. He reveals which Dynamite ideas were inspired by “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and “Saved By The Bell,” what impressed him about Colt Cabana and Kip Sabian, why he was excited to celebrate Dustin Rhodes, the origins of the Bubbly Bunch, Chris Jericho’s marathon session with Tony Schiavone at the announce table, the debuts of Matt Hardy and Brodie Lee, and the moment he knew he had to cancel “Blood And Guts.”

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone back to all elite wrestling's Unrestricted, the official AEW podcast Tony Schivani and
0:17.6	Aubrey Everts, and we're very happy to have with us. Our boss, man.
0:22.3	Hey, what's up guys?
0:23.0	The president, CEO, all elite wrestling, Tony, Tony, Tony, how you been, Bud?
0:27.0	I'm great Tony, how are you?
0:28.0	It's great to see you.
0:29.0	Yeah, it's great to be talking to you again.
0:31.0	Aubrey, it's great to be talking with you. It's just so great I miss everybody yeah this has been
0:35.5	extraordinary times for not only for us but for the world and we have
0:40.8	continued to put out shows each and every week and we're going to talk about the challenges and some of the things that we have done to put those shows together.
0:50.0	Yeah, it's kind of an interesting unique challenge. It's not like anyone's had practice like putting on live content during a pandemic.
0:58.0	Right. We'll be back live as this podcast drops tonight once again on T&T so Tony that's got to be exciting to be back live again.
1:06.5	It's got I can't wait to be back live with you guys by now you know by we haven't seen each other in person
1:11.9	in several weeks since the beginning of April and we've caught up on the phone a lot and you know we've had staff calls and stuff and and catch up and I catch up with Tony on the production side a ton on almost a daily basis.
1:27.4	But we haven't really seen each other in person but you know the shows have been going
1:31.5	great and I'm excited to get back with you guys live this past week show was one of my favorite shows and I think everything we did in Georgia at these tapings kind of built to a big finish and the semi-finals were awesome and you guys have both
1:46.2	been awesome both behind the scenes and on the show and I can't wait to talk more about what's been going on the past month and also how we created these
1:55.3	shows that have aired the past month.
1:57.4	So I kind of want to start talking about like when everything started to happen.
2:01.6	We were in Salt Lake City. It was the 11th of March and I know
2:05.8	Jericho had mentioned this somewhere else that like he went out for a match and came
2:09.3	back and the NBA had shut down. So Tony what what was your viewpoint of everything happening?
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