Life Over Wrestling | AEW Honors Rebel & 9/11 Reflections — The Coach and Bro | Friday September 11
Published: September 11, 2026
Duration: 1:01:20
The Friday Storytime era begins with a story bigger than professional wrestling. The Coach and Vince Russo reflect on AEW’s Rebel Heart Dynamite, which honored Tanea “Rebel” Brooks and supported I AM ALS and Team Gleason. Britt Baker’s emotional reunion with Rebel leads both hosts into an unusually personal conversation about the cost of putting work before family, the moments they wish they could reclaim, and the importance of remembering that wrestling is entertainment—not life and death.
That perspective becomes even more powerful as the hosts revisit September 11, 2001. Russo remembers being stranded in Oklahoma and drivin...