Hot Topic

Bullet Club pose outside a store

***Hot Topic*** is episode 63 (Season One) of of the YouTube series Being The Elite, which was produced and edited by professional wrestlers The Young Bucks. The episode revolves around a promotional visit to a Hot Topic store but the group still have time to rib Flip Gordon and resurrect one of their victims.

## Characters

### Featured

* Kenny Omega
* Nick Jackson
* Matt Jackson
* Marty Scurll
* Adam Page
* Flip Gordon

### Also shown

* Chase Owens
* Rick Knox

## Locations

* Long Beach
* Reseda

## YouTube Description

*"Bullet Club invades the local Hot Topic. Flip is again welcomed to ROH. An old soul from the past makes his turn. "*

## Story

Matt Jackson is at a Hot Topic store and asks if they have any Revival t-shirts. The asisstant says "No famous." as Matt turns to the camera and laughs, before the opening credits run.

Matt and Nick are driving and Nick says that The DM is out now and they need to move forward. They talk about how the chain Hot Topic are soon going to carry an exclusive The Elite t-shirt. They are heading to Reseda for a PWG show and are still carrying injuries from their last tour. Nick is wearing a Michael Jordan shirt and Matt says that after becoming six time New Japan Pro Wrestling junior tag-team champions they can now call themselves the Michael Jordan of tag-team wrestling.

"Last week in Long Beach..." Nick and Marty Scurll are walking in the parking lot of the venue on the moring of day two of the event. Marty says that yesterday didn't go too well but today they are going to visit the local Hot Topic store as the chain are carrying Bullet Club merchandise across North America. Kenny Omega and Adam Page join them and Kenny says that they need to tell Hot Topic to start stocking the groups shirts, or maybe he is missing something. Marty says he will rescue Kenny and that their shirts are so popular that they have all sold out so they need to go and tell Hot Topic to stock *more* shirts. The group are joined by Chase Owens and walk to the store and pose for photos with fans along the way. When they arrive at the store they pose for more photos outside.

In the store the group wander around looking for their shirts. The store assistants say there is only one left and everything else is sold out. They ask about Revival t-shirts but the assistants haven't heard of them. Cut to Flip Gordon make his entrance at a Ring of Honor show. He is slapping hands with fans as he makes his way to the ring but Matt grabs him and asks "Where do you think you're going?" The camera pulls back at there are only a handful of people in the venue. Matt pushed Flip over to Marty who locks in his chiken-wing finisher. Flip escapes but Hangman runs from behind and knocks Flip over with his buckshot lariot. As Flip lies on the floor Marty, Matt, Nick and Adam Page look down at him. They are joined by the fans who all chant "Welcome to Ring of Honor!"

Back at Hot Topic Marty gets a call from Steve Austin as the group film the fans that are strating to fill up the store. They pose for more photos before looking around at the other merchandise in the store. Hangman Page wonders what he needs to do to get his own t-shirts into the store. The assistants tell them that the shirts sold out and they got some more but they sold out straight away as well. They leave and have more pictures with all the fans outside. Someone asks a policeman if he knows who The Revival are and he says that he has never heard of them. Bullet Club pose for a group photo ith all the fans who shout "Fuck The Revival!" as the photo is taken. Kenny looks embarassed and says there are a lot of kids there so "...let's just say FTR." The group poses again and chant "FTR!" as they take another photo.

Marty is at a pre-show meet and greet and is talking to some English fans. He asks if they have seen The DM, and they say it was impressive. Marty talks to another fan who shows him his Villain tattoo. Backstage in Reseda Matt and Nick are in the corridor and Nick says this has so many memories. This is where it happened. Matt agrees that this is where their first kill took place. Nick tells Matt that when he edited the footge he realised they had got their second kill as well, having poisoned referee Rick Knox. They celebrate by drinking energy drinks.

"One hour later..." Matt and Nick are in the corridor after their match. They celebrate the success of their merchandise but the lights start flicking on and off. The Bucks panic and Knox's voice can be heard taunting them. They rish into the bathroom and look in the mirror as Rick Knox appears behind them. They turn the light off and on again and Knox has gone. The duo continue to panic as Matt asks if Marty was right and that they have turned into psychopaths as the episode ends.

## Notes

* This ws the first use of the acronym "FTR" which would become the tag-team's name when they moved to All Elite Wrestling
* During the end sequence Matt and Nick wonder if they are being attacked by The Undertaker or Kane. Both are WWE wrestlers who have supernatural gimmicks and often appear after the lights go out.

* Episode 31
* Episode 32
* Episode 33
* Episode 34
* Episode 35
* Episode 36
* Episode 37
* Episode 38
* Episode 39
* Episode 40
* Episode 41
* Episode 42
* Episode 43
* Episode 44
* Episode 45
* Episode 46
* Episode 47
* Episode 48
* Episode 49
* *Fifty*
* *Moving Forward*
* *Bullet Club Gets A Villain*
* *One Condition*
* *A Curtain Call*
* *All By Myself*
* *A Harmless Rib*
* *A Harmful Rib*
* *Dominion Fallout*
* *Ass Man*
* *From Prince To King*
* *Line In The Sand*
* ***Hot Topic***
* *We're Back!*
* *Missed Connections*
* *Someone Will Die!*
* *Someone Does Die!*
* *Cease And Desist*
* *Mind Games*
* *Where's Hangman?*
* *Torture*
* *The Escape*
* *Bullet Club Invades RAW*
* *A Hand Gesture*
* *Debriefing*
* *Where Do You Think You're Going?*
* *Prisoner Of War*
* *Ten Boots*
* *Get It?*
* *I Just Want To Go Home*
* *Highspots*
* *Autograph*
* *Flipping Out*
* *All I Want For Christmas*
* *My First Gig*
* *2017*
 Extras
* *Tokyo Dome Fallout*
* *Response To The Hardy's Challenge!*
* *Young Bucks Fired From The Bullet Club?*
* *Santa Meets The Young Bucks Again*
 Storylines
* Who poisoned Nick?
* Nick's Stolen Bag
* Marty's dream
 Regular characters
* Cody
* Adam Cole
* Nick Jackson
* Matt Jackson
* Kenny Omega
* Adam Page
* Marty Scurll