Darby Allin: "I was 19 years old, I use to ride this metrobus the 150 from Kent Station Seattle. I use to ride this all the time, just daydreaming, this one night I was on the back of the bus and I felt something hit my head and I turned around and I saw these 3 guys laughing at me. [snickers] And it just dawned on me that they were taking turns spitting at the back of my head and I turned around and I just tried to mind my own business, there's 3 of them one of me. And it was killing me inside that I wasn't doing anything about it. And then I felt it again, [spits] and I finally just turned around and I got right up in the guy's face and he said 'what are you gonna do about it, you little bitch?' And I noticed he's holding up this switchblade, and I looked at him and said 'Well, it looks like I'm going to get stabbed, tonight.' And I, haha, I lunched toward him and it didn't take long for everybody on the bus to break up the fight, but it felt so good. It felt so good to actually do something about it. Weeks ago, when Jon Moxley said 'I wasn't ready to be the face of AEW,' all I could see is those 3 guys on the back of the bus. I wasn't just going to lay down and do nothing, man, I'd rather get STABBED! [sighs] ... Read on!

Big Bill: "...But remember, as the Learning Tree always says, it's not about the destination, it's about who we become as people along the way. [Mild cheers and applause] And I think we can all agree that over the past 1,825 days, we have all become better people and that is thanks... To... One man, [mild cheers and applause] The Learning Tree, Chris Jericho!"

[Jericho makes his entrance]

Chris Jericho: "HI, GUYS! [Crowd says 'Hi'] Congratulations on 5 years of Dynamite and congratulations to the brand new television deal that AEW just signed, we made a lot of [uses quotation gestures] experts look like real idiots. Hahaha! [Mild cheers and applause] But there wouldn't even be a new TV deal or an AEW if it wasn't for Chris Jericho, [crowd disapproves] so you can-- It's true-- so you can thank me for that." ... Read on!