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188 | Cruiserweight Battle Royal & Title Match - WCW/nWo Slamboree 1998 · The ExtraCooler Show

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  Welcome to the Western show you. Continue to talk like you're
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  Royal Spectacular episode of the Extra Cooler Show.
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  Yeah, you're welcome. I'm.
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  Surprised you didn't bring in your Michael Buffer voice for
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  the intro today. Got his text right here.
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  I like the Mikey workrate battle royal spectacular.
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  I think it should be a running thing.
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  You know, every dusted off every few months.
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  If if you've been listening to this show, you know that Mikey
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  Workrate loves Battle Royal so much that he nominated a Andre
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  the Giant Battle Royale as one of his favorite WrestleMania
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  matches. So we're just going to throw
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  that out there before. We get started and it's good.
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  Yeah, good is fair. Anyway, my name is Nick,
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  otherwise known as Extra Cooler, and this week we are all here,
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  Mikey. We're Great Hillbilly James and
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  El Matador. And we're here to talk about a
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  battle royal, as I already alluded to.
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  I'm workrate 4. What's that a reference to?
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  Is it El Grio? Valanos, Valanos, thank you.
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  Angles. Is a reference.
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  This is not the first time we've talked Valanos 4 on this show.
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  I don't know what episode it was, but oh boy.
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  Wow. Housekeeping man as usual.
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  Go find Valanos 4 like through the hours.
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  Yo man, hold on. No one's ever googled Vilanos 4?
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  I'm not. I'm not going to let that stand
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  like that. Is that where we're getting the
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  traffic from? People Googling Vilanos for
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  gotta listen to this podcast. It's too early to drop an F
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  bomb. But you know, if we're, you know
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  what? If that's the case, oh man, I
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  think it's. For buying me time before we got
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  into this thing enough. Is enough and it's time for
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  housekeeping. It's only appropriate that we
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  kick off housekeeping talking about the one and the only Owen
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  Hart from last episode. And I did my best to give my
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  best Owen Hart impression impression last week when he got
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  to talk about my. Sister and.
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  Well, I would pull, I would pull the sound and I and I don't
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  know, I think I think we have a battle between my Owen versus
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  the actual man I. Think you do it better?
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  Yeah, so here we talk my. Sister.
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  It's definitely undertone. Yours.
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  Is better. And yeah, I put a little stank
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  on it, I guess. Yeah.
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  You you dialed it up to 11. I I appreciate.
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  That listen, we all, we are all dads and I, I know I had this
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  done to me quite often as a youngster.
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  But your impression of Owen reminds me of like when I would
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  say something and my dad would then mock me by by doing his
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  impression of me and it would be so over the top and exaggerated
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  and it would pit pissed me off. Oh yeah.
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  And now I've found myself doing it to my son just to piss him
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  off so. Oh man, my son gets so mad when
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  I do an impression of him because like the voice sounds
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  nothing like him. He's like, and I don't even
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  realize I'm doing it either, you know?
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  OK, I'm glad it's not just me. You do it, Matt.
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  One more time. Come on.
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  One more time. My sister, right?
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  Apparently I make a face when I do it too.
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  Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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  Looks like you're gonna sneeze. You need a free we should have I
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  should have gotten a screen grab of you doing that this.
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  Magic of a recording, Jim, that we can actually go wow.
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  All right, let's move into the next piece of housekeeping.
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  We had a lot of timeline questions from from our last
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  episode covering King of the Ring and 1996 the the infamous
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  Austin 316 promo. But we talked about Mr. Perfect
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  and his bizarre timeline in WWF in this period.
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  So at the end of actually in the spring of 1994, he left WWF with
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  a back injury and he doesn't return again until September.
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  Excuse me till Survivor Series 1995 as the color commentator.
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  That continued into 1996 where he did some play by play as well
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  when Vince McMahon finally took himself off the mic.
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  And then perfect as we talked about, you know, and and why
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  this came up in conversation, was the special guest referee in
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  the championship match between Michaels and Bulldog at King of
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  the Ring. And then in the middle of 96,
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  Henning starts a a feud, an angle with Triple H or Hunter
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  Hearst Helmsley at the time. And you know, he eventually
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  turns into a mentor for Triple H and accompanies him to the ring.
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  But then Perfect left the WWF once again shortly after
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  Survivor Series, making his last televised appearance on November
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  5th episode of Raw. And then he shows up in the
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  middle of 1997 in in WCW. So it's a it's a spotted history
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  from 94 to 97 essentially when he turns back up in in WCW.
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  He. And he and Bulldog have like
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  kind of similar timelines. I feel like in the company back
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  and forth bouncing, then eventually the WCW.
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  And I mean, Bulldog obviously had a little bit more success in
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  WCW, but you, I think you get what I'm saying.
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  I didn't know about that Mister Perfect and blue blood triple.
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  HI, forgot about that. That's kind of a pretty awesome
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  pairing. I wish that would have lasted a.
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  Little longer. Yeah.
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  I remember he kind of helps Mark Romero at 1st and then turns on
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  marrow. That's cool.
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  In the Intercontinental title match and helps Triple H win the
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  Intercontinental title. Exactly.
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  So he's mixed in that IC title, Reign, Mark Marrow, Gold Dust,
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  Triple H. It's it's that crew that he
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  mixed himself up with in 96 and then.
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  Pretty appropriate for a guy who is known for being an
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  intercontinental champion. 100% that's that's great.
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  Seems like pretty. Decent booking from Vince but
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  absolutely sorry, I could tell you're chomping at the bit to
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  talk about some jobbers and their timeline.
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  So. Everyone's favorite tag team
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  here, not jobbers if you will, it's the Bushwackers.
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  So in 1996, the Bushwackers, we were talking about them and they
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  had a six month hiatus and they returned in March of 1996,
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  involved in that tag title tournament where they lost in
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  the first round to the eventual winners, the Body Donnas.
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  And then when the Bushwackers returned in 96, they played like
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  a traditional Australian stereotypes.
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  Very, very Vince booking being accompanied to the ring by a
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  giant kangaroo. I just.
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  Don't remember that. And then September 14th was
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  their last appearance under contract with WWF, defeating
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  Justin Bradshaw and Uncle Zebediah or Zebediah, pardon me,
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  at a house show. So that was kind of it.
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  The Bushwhackers disappear. They do some independent
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  bookings in 97. And then I, I did not know this
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  and I, I have to thank some of the, you know, the, the history
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  lesson that I tried to pull myself into.
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  But in 1998 they made a couple of appearances in ECW under the
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  names under the names Luke and Butch Dudley, as they were
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  cousins of the Dudley or the Dudley boys.
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  That's awesome. Hilarious that you gotta watch
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  that. Back.
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  You find it? Yeah.
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  I I I vaguely remember hearing about the ECW thing, but the
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  Dudley part of it I do not recall hearing at all.
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  That's. Pretty wild.
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  Yo Matt, you doing housekeeping? I feel like you're playing two
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  truths in a lie with us though. Like you could like say anything
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  like. 100%. Yeah, the bushwalkers came down
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  with a kangaroo and we're like, oh cool, that's how that's.
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  You made that up. He made that's.
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  What I read, I can't, I can't remember that that actually
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  happened. I'm going to have to find.
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  Animal. Housekeeping on the House.
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  Listeners, jobbers, jobbers do not come down to the ring with
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  marsupials. That's.
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  That's a rule. Got to be like someone on Reddit
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  that's posted that like that. Reddit seems like the kind of
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  place where you could find the bushwackers with the kangaroo.
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  Aw, man. That's it, boys.
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  Thank you. Thanks for that.
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  Always appreciate housekeeping. It's probably my favorite part
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  of these episodes outside of the homework.
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  So let's move on to our homework.
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  So let's let's let's backtrack right now.
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  It's for real. I'm now flashing no.
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  Kangaroo looks like. What's that video game with the
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  kangaroo we're. In a hat, what is that?
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  A bushriger's hat. Yeah, it is in fact a a No, it's
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  like a it's like a bucket hat. It has like the the things like
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  the sides of the bucket hat turned up.
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  It looks like a kangaroo. What's the that's the guy that
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  that was the kangaroo hunter or not the kangaroo hunter.
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  But you know what? Crocodile Dundee, Oh Dundee.
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  Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin.
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  That's who I was searching for. Holy shit this is unbelievable.
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  I'm gonna have to watch. This man you.
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  Have to share photos in the in the discord.
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  That's factors 1 jobbers. Jobbers.
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  Jobbers don't come down with Kangaroos.
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  Come on, get the hell out of here.
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  Wait, what? What?
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  Video game are you talking about?
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  You can never trust Nick with video games.
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  He's like, talking about Sonic the Hedgehog and like, yeah,
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  that kangaroo game. I'm not.
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  I'm going to find it out. I'm, you know, the character
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  that that mascot that Matt just shows look exactly like Crash.
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  Oh, Crash Bandicoot. Anticoot.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  OK. So apparently there's a I'm just
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  in my Google searching here now. Apparently there's a SEC.
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  Bruce Prichard talks about it on his podcast In his Words were
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  Everyone loves Kangaroos. Jesus Christ.
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  So if anybody wants to go and find this, you can turn to WWF
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  Superstars April 27th, 1996 and you can find this absurd, absurd
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  bushwhackers with the Kangaroos. So it's real.
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  That's a we should be tuning for that.
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  Yeah, let's that's a future episode right there.
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  I think Roof should be our mascot.
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  All right, let's do. It.
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  Can we smash smash bandicoot? Smash bandicoot.
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  Let's workshop that, yeah. I can I can get us kicked off.
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  We you want to transition? Here we go.
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  I hate WCW all right, it's time. It's time.
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  Well done. Appropriate because that clip
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  that has been played many times on this podcast stems from 1998,
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  right? And that full quote is I hate
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  WCW in 1998. And it's appropriate because we
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  are here. We're we're covering A
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  Cruiserweight Battle Royal from WCW Slamboree in 1998.
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  That's hard to hate that. Though so let's talk a little
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  bit about our, our homework that was given so about two months
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  ago, right? Mike's birthday is around
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  Mother's Day and we were coming up with something we needed a, a
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  filler episode. I hate to call it that, but we
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  we had we we no. But realistically we had a lot
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  of things planned and we needed a week of something to cover.
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  So a. Kangaroo.
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  Episode Jim and Mike had been like saying how we were they
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  really wanted some wrestle crap to to give us.
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  So I said OK guys go run with it.
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  And that was about two months ago.
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  And I asked them for their wrestle crap, ask homework if
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  you will. And they came up with something
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  and then we had to pivot because there was a passing of Sabu and
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  we decided to cover a Sabu match last minute.
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  But we still wanted to make sure we covered this because it's
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  pretty awesome. So here we are this week and
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  we're we're covering the Cruiserweight Battle Royal and
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  the singles match for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship that
• 12:58
  immediately follows it at WCW Slam Brewery from 1990. 8 It's
• 13:02
  not exactly wrestle crap, just no FYI.
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  It's it's good stuff and, and there's some funny stuff in
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  there. So yes, no, 100% it's not.
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  So yeah, that thank you for saying that because as much as
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  we asked and wanted wrestle crap, you kind of like went
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  looking for wrestle crap and landed on this.
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  And I'm I'm very happy that we ended up here.
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  There's a lot. Of things that happened on this
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  card at the Slamboree 98 as well yes so kind of got some fun
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  stuff here. So this slamboree is from May
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  17th, 1998. It's in Massachusetts at the
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  Centrum and the tagline is the the strong survive the ruthless
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  win. The slamboree logo is is pretty
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  cool. We are it's it's very like for
• 13:56
  those that don't remember it, it looks like a baseball jersey,
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  like your standard, like beer League Baseball, like font.
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  We got under underline underneath it.
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  It's billed as a WCWNWO Presents event.
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  The poster's really weird because I don't know if anybody
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  picked up on it, but the poster is is with Hugh Morris on it and
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  I don't even know if he's on this card.
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  It's not. And so that it that's sounds
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  like WCW to me and. It does, but.
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  Slamberry. Slamberry is like one of their
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  centerpiece pay per views, like one of the BIG4, whatever their
• 14:32
  version of that is. Starcade's one super.
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  Brawl. Super Brawl there's.
• 14:38
  Definitely some some history to slam breed but I don't know.
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  If I would necessarily. Yeah, I don't, I don't.
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  I wouldn't put it in the top tier of the Star Cage Halloween
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  Havoc type of. Situation, Yeah, gotcha.
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  Thank. You but if you think, OK, so if
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  you think about WCW right in this this era of 1998 and you
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  were to look at the card it it it screams WCW, right.
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  We've got our opening matches fit Finley, who's the the
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  television champion defeating Chris Benoit.
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  Our next match on the card is Lugar with Bryan Adams, who's
• 15:14
  accompanied by Vincent, otherwise known as Virgil.
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  Rest in peace. Then we get to what what we're
• 15:21
  covering tonight. Yeah, it's it's bad, but there's
• 15:25
  there's some other like just the classic WCW players.
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  You got DDP and Raven, Eddie Guerrero, Goldberg, Sting, the
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  Giant team up against the outsiders.
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  And then it that's like the main event.
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  But then it's a double billed main event.
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  The other matches, Brett Hart versus Randy Savage, which is
• 15:45
  has a special guest referee of Roddy Piper.
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  It's it's WCW in 98 if you ask me.
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  I was pleasantly surprised as I kind of scanned to the entire
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  entire card. I, I didn't do actual homework
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  for the rest of the card outside of the match that we're
• 16:03
  covering, but just having it on in the background and seeing
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  what was going on. The Bowery Deathmatch death cage
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  match between DDP and Raven was a lot of fun.
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  Raven catches A gnarly, gnarly unprotected chair shot at the
• 16:17
  very end. It is uncomfortable to watch,
• 16:19
  but then you get Eddie Guerrero and Ultimo Dragon, which is a
• 16:22
  phenomenal encounter watching those two.
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  All right, we can man against Goldberg and Saturn.
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  I mean Saturn is pulling Saturn stuff and it's just coming off
• 16:31
  like a complete buffoon. Is the bright match good?
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  The bright macho man? I mean, paper, that's like, hell
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  yeah. It it Brett is in this like
• 16:40
  extremely snarky, holier than thou kind of mode here and he's
• 16:45
  yelling at at A at A at fans during his intro like kiss my
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  ass, asshole. It word for word is what he says
• 16:52
  directly to a fan at ringside. You get Piper in his classic,
• 16:55
  you know, Tasmanian Devil T-shirt, but you know, seeing
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  Macho who has a knee injury at this point, he's got a big old
• 17:03
  knee brace on and Brett goes to work it.
• 17:05
  It's a good work rate match watching these two come
• 17:09
  together, but it definitely ends with some WCW type of
• 17:13
  shenanigans with Liz running down to the ring and you know,
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  and it just, I feel like the match itself had redeeming
• 17:21
  qualities, but really at the end of the day it was like a
• 17:24
  throwaway match because of the finish.
• 17:26
  Yeah, so but. Brett does Hock a big Brett Hart
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  style loogie on to Nacho Man at the very end.
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  Really. Wow.
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  Oh yeah. Oh God.
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  Right man. So what we haven't talked about
• 17:39
  is probably what most people would would pull from this event
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  and remember from this event, this is the event L.
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  Dandy L dandy. Is there even a few piece?
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  Absolutely. This is the event where Eric
• 17:50
  Bischoff has called out Vince McMahon, and it starts off right
• 17:54
  in the beginning of the card. Vince's, I'm sorry, Eric
• 17:58
  Bischoff is inviting Vince to come on, have a match with him.
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  You know, they're playing into every, every break in between
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  matches where, you know, the security's outside waiting for
• 18:09
  Vince's limo and they're just playing the whole thing up.
• 18:13
  Big. Zuckerberg versus Musk.
• 18:14
  Energy, I think, right. It all.
• 18:18
  Happened. You don't have to do it with
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  the. Challenge on Nitro, he follows
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  it up on Thunder and then we get the classic line from from
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  Bischoff. Up to you, Vinnie Mac.
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  He's such a Dick. He's.
• 18:31
  Absolute douchebags like I'll see you.
• 18:34
  There like it's so over the top and there's like in 98 man, like
• 18:39
  you actually think like something has a potential of
• 18:42
  actually happening, right? There's no Vince of showing up,
• 18:45
  but you're going to watch anyway just to find out.
• 18:47
  And I'm sure the conversation in 98 was like, yo, did you get the
• 18:50
  pay-per-view last night? Did Vince actually show up?
• 18:52
  And obviously there's no way they make fun of, you know,
• 18:55
  Vince's lawyers sending, sending letters that he won't show up.
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  Eventually fodder for 98 and like the age we're at, like the
• 19:04
  appeal to the teenage demographic talking about this
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  and like the lockers in high school and stuff like that.
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  Like that's like such a the reality kind of they went for
• 19:13
  that reality stuff then just like they talk about it more
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  now, the reality era, but like they went for it back then and
• 19:18
  it was it. You can believe it too, because
• 19:21
  you didn't know, right? And they have a whole segment on
• 19:23
  it in the middle of right before.
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  So it's in between the Eddie Guerrero Ultimo Dragon match,
• 19:29
  then Bret Hart and Macho follow it.
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  But Bischoff comes down to the ring.
• 19:35
  He's in NWOT shirt, like ready to fight in his his, his, his
• 19:40
  karate gear. I'm not sure.
• 19:42
  I'm not sure which. He is such a dork too, like he
• 19:46
  does like the karate moves he does his first kata out there or
• 19:49
  something. Weeb then.
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  Like a they have like a a dressing room already made for
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  him, like Vince Vincent McMahon on there.
• 20:00
  And on the door like it's got a a a label for McMahon and it
• 20:04
  said the reason for the ratings in the in quotation marks.
• 20:08
  It was actually pretty funny and taking a nice little dig at him.
• 20:11
  But essentially the segment they trot out Michael Buffer, he
• 20:14
  announces Bischoff. He then announces Vince and
• 20:19
  Bischoff gets on the microphone with the referee and it's like,
• 20:22
  I guess we should just ring the bell and see what happens.
• 20:24
  And then it's a 10 count. Bischoff is has his arm raised
• 20:28
  and that's it. It was kind of anti climactic,
• 20:31
  like looking at it but knowing the history of it and thinking
• 20:35
  about how this all went down, it was actually pretty funny to.
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  Watch it happen. Yeah, it's better that than them
• 20:40
  wasting time with like, you know, putting some jobber out
• 20:44
  there, like dressed as Vince, like we've seen that done a
• 20:47
  million times. So credit to them for not
• 20:50
  wasting our time here in 2025 as we rewatch.
• 20:53
  But then in the in the main event, you have Scott Hall
• 20:57
  turning on Kevin Nash and staying in the Giant, becoming
• 20:59
  the new tag team champions, which.
• 21:01
  And this is a weird era. This is like the Dusty Rhodes
• 21:04
  era where Dusty is with the Wolf Pack, right?
• 21:07
  Like, yeah, it's strange. And it's crazy because the Giant
• 21:12
  is with the NWO and Sting is not and they become the tag champs.
• 21:18
  It goes off the air with Sting just having the the titles on
• 21:22
  his shoulder being placed on his shoulder and him with this
• 21:25
  thousand mile stare like doesn't know what to do with himself.
• 21:29
  Mikey, can you still do the Wolfpack rap like right now?
• 21:32
  If you do it right now, go start.
• 21:34
  Come. On back because of mass
• 21:41
  destruction, Something something boy bad big boys are wrestling.
• 21:46
  Big boys wrestling, boys wrestling, You should've worked
• 21:50
  it for this guy, Cratch. Bandit do it into that.
• 21:53
  Yeah, someone I hate ChatGPT, but this is where this is where
• 22:00
  I would approve ChatGPT like creating this.
• 22:04
  Oh, God. All right, ready.
• 22:06
  Before we dive into our main event, let's talk about what's
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  in our cooler. The extra cooler show and what's
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  in the cooler is brought to you by Sloop Brewing Company.
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  Sloop Brewing is known for their hazy and golden Ipas like Juice
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  Bomb and Supersoft. What do you guys got?
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  know, which is crazy. So this the monk.
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  Beer, I see is. That a Paula Monk.
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  It's a it's a monk beer. No, it is a Francis Connor.
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  It's a Weiss beer. They're half of Isin,
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  essentially. And it is delicious.
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  I forgot how much I love, like, a cloudy, hazy Weiss beer.
• 22:43
  So 5 percenter. Cheers boys.
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  Nice chab El matador. I've got a 3.5% other half here.
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  It's called green caps. Can you guys see?
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  It's kind of a like always, It's an awesome label.
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  Broccoli. Yeah.
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  Citra, whatever. I can barely read it.
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  Even with glasses, it's very hard to read these cans.
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  Contrast doesn't work for the for the eyeballs.
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  Love it. Mag Mag will work great.
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  For. I have Oh yeah, Montauk Juicy
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  IBM. Though you're gonna make a
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  Hoventude reference. So did IA juvie juice.
• 23:28
  Yeah, juvie juice. Opportunity missed, yeah.
• 23:32
  I've got tequila. I went to my liquor store, the
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  shitty liquor store by me and they have terrible selection so
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  I walked out with a no God. Not that bad with a Terra mana
• 23:45
  because I refuse to buy. A worm.
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  Casa Amigos. No, there's no worms.
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  So I am drinking some Terra mana and here we are.
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  There's a smell. Here we are.
• 23:55
  Cheers. Cheers.
• 23:57
  Ready. Let's dive into our homework
• 23:59
  again. Our match of the week is the
• 24:01
  battle royal to determine the number one contender for the WCW
• 24:04
  Cruiserweight Championship match.
• 24:07
  And then immediately, immediately following, we get
• 24:10
  the that match where they will face Chris Jericho.
• 24:14
  So this is like a hard match to break down as a podcast because
• 24:21
  nothing happens. Yeah.
• 24:25
  Excuse me, I'm Ray Genetti's in this match.
• 24:27
  Excuse. Me So the the honestly the the
• 24:33
  highlight of this match is Chris Jericho so. 100% the.
• 24:39
  The battle royal happens and kind of the storyline is that
• 24:44
  Jericho's kind of cleaned out, wiped out the division, the
• 24:47
  cruiserweight division. So they booked this match to
• 24:50
  find him a new contender. He's basically he's injured Rey
• 24:54
  Mysterio. Yes.
• 24:55
  And he's taking credit for that. He's basically put Dean Malenko
• 24:59
  out to pasture. Yeah, Dean Malenko's been off TV
• 25:02
  for a while, for a few months now.
• 25:04
  He was going home. Yeah.
• 25:07
  So the interesting thing that I'm going to talk about before
• 25:10
  we start talking about the participants in this battle
• 25:13
  royal, does anybody counted the battle royal participants?
• 25:16
  Because I did not as I feel like it's a funky number.
• 25:19
  You think there's like 17 or? Something.
• 25:21
  Yeah, I definitely think there's something.
• 25:22
  I did. I did count them.
• 25:23
  But the weight limit used by WCW and is is 225 lbs and OK.
• 25:33
  And there's like 5 participants that are definitely over that
• 25:36
  weight limit in my opinion. OK, so.
• 25:39
  Shambi is one of them, probably. He's the winner of the Lou
• 25:43
  Ferrigno contest as. So let me ask you an honest
• 25:48
  question. Out of the participants in this
• 25:52
  this match, how many people did you know out of the Mike, you
• 25:57
  were great. Just said there's 15 people.
• 25:59
  There was at least five people. I had no clue who the hell they
• 26:02
  were. They probably more like 7
• 26:04
  people. So I definitely didn't know
• 26:08
  Johnny Swinger. It sounded like the commentary
• 26:10
  team didn't know him either. Yeah.
• 26:14
  Livi Lane, I'm gonna so here, here's what I'm gonna do.
• 26:17
  Because so again, the highlight of this is it is is Jericho
• 26:22
  introducing all of these gentlemen.
• 26:24
  Jericho comes out with his cruiserweight title.
• 26:26
  He's on the stage and there's this bizarre music that's
• 26:29
  playing in the background. It's not Jericho's music.
• 26:33
  It I don't know whose music it is, but it's supposed to get us
• 26:36
  excited for this cruiserweight battle Royale, so.
• 26:38
  I'm gonna. Run.
• 26:39
  I'm gonna flat out, I'm going to flat out rundown everybody
• 26:42
  that's in this match. And then I know we have some
• 26:46
  audio here and there, but I have to drop the lines that Jericho
• 26:51
  dropped for everybody. You got them if you don't have
• 26:53
  them, I got them. Yeah.
• 26:54
  So you guys can chime in. So the first one, the first
• 26:58
  person out. How about I drop the clip real
• 27:01
  quick just so we can get a vibe of how Jericho is before us?
• 27:06
  Let's listen to Jericho and the 1st 2 which you obviously know
• 27:09
  the names of. Coming out next from El Paso,
• 27:13
  Mexico, this guy used to be a great bartender, but as it
• 27:18
  translated to his resting skills, he's the scorers of the
• 27:20
  illustrious Guerrero family. He is Chavo Guerrero Junior,
• 27:24
  maybe a 2 out of 10 chance of winning.
• 27:27
  Coming out next from Mexico. This is the Rag's the richest
• 27:31
  story from selling chimichangas on the streets to WCW Siclopay.
• 27:38
  Wait, hold on Matt, let's just take a step back because you
• 27:41
  said you obviously know the 1st 2.
• 27:44
  I don't know who's Siclopay is. Goddamn pumpkin.
• 27:48
  I missed the. First guy, super callow.
• 27:50
  OK, I. Did miss the first guy is super
• 27:53
  callow. He's essentially like a
• 27:54
  breakdancer right? He comes out with like some
• 27:56
  fedora on and sparkly outfit and then Jericho.
• 28:00
  'S got a one in this guy. Yeah, 1 intense chance of
• 28:03
  winning this guy's hat never comes.
• 28:05
  Off. I love that his hat never comes
• 28:06
  off. I'm like a leather cap.
• 28:09
  Yeah, I love that Jericho's giving odds.
• 28:13
  Oh, there's a 2 in 10 chance of winning.
• 28:15
  Like, amazing. Unbelievably good.
• 28:17
  Jericho's like a young pitcher with like 100 mile per hour
• 28:20
  fastball on the microphone here. At the very least like.
• 28:23
  He may have taken notes, he's got a piece of paper in his
• 28:26
  hand, but he is got to be going off the cuff for a lot of these.
• 28:30
  C Clope is dressed like a Jack O Lantern, like black and white.
• 28:34
  You know, I don't know who else CC Clope is, but we're going to
• 28:37
  find out. Black and orange.
• 28:39
  Black and orange. Sorry, sorry.
• 28:41
  Damien, 666, can't afford a mask, so he paints it on.
• 28:46
  That's what it says, Jericho. It says Jericho.
• 28:48
  I promise he's got to buy a mask soon.
• 28:53
  The next guy is my favorite. He absolutely Jim Jim talked
• 28:57
  about him, but L Dandy, the winner of the Lou Ferrigno look
• 29:01
  alike contest. I had to I, I swear to God, I
• 29:04
  had to pause my my Peacock and, and then like stop because I
• 29:09
  couldn't stop laughing the guy. Style hair too, it's like.
• 29:14
  He's basically. Nacho Libre.
• 29:16
  Yes, that's exactly what I was going to say.
• 29:17
  I was like, holy shit, this guy looks like Nacho Libre.
• 29:22
  You've got El Grio, you've got Huventude.
• 29:26
  I forget what he says for those guys.
• 29:27
  If it was it, it didn't stand out.
• 29:30
  Then. Then we get Marty Rock Rock till
• 29:33
  he drops Rock Rock. Never stop Genetti.
• 29:36
  Marty still wearing the rocker's gear here.
• 29:38
  Yeah, but Marty looks skinny, Marty.
• 29:40
  Looks lean. He yeah, he does.
• 29:42
  He does. He doesn't look bad because I
• 29:44
  think it's I think he's not wearing his wrestling gear.
• 29:47
  I think that's like his day job working at the laser tag arena
• 29:52
  and it's just he could wear to both places.
• 29:55
  That's the only place he can wear Rocker's gear, the only
• 29:57
  other profession. Marty Ginetti is definitely the
• 30:00
  most oddly placed person in this match.
• 30:03
  Like it's, it's truly bizarre that he's thrown in the middle
• 30:06
  of this. Yeah, he's got a job.
• 30:10
  For Marty, I still have the Marty sounds in the in the board
• 30:14
  here. Poor Marty's got a job to a
• 30:17
  fucking pumpkin in this match. We got Kidman out next.
• 30:23
  Evan Courageous, whose name is spelled KARAGIAS.
• 30:30
  Real creative there. It's.
• 30:32
  You're out of 10 of when is. He Lenny.
• 30:36
  What is the line for Lenny lover boy Lane?
• 30:40
  I didn't write it down, but I think I feel.
• 30:42
  Like Minnesota? Oh yeah.
• 30:44
  Oh. Yeah, yeah, I want my lover boy
• 30:47
  tape back. Psychosis is out next.
• 30:53
  Was he because. He has a lot of hubcaps.
• 30:55
  In his thugs, Yeah, and. Then this is another one that I
• 30:59
  like. Silver King.
• 31:00
  If he wins 10 more matches, he'll be upgraded to Golden
• 31:03
  King. That's my favorite.
• 31:05
  I think that's so that's gold. Johnny Swinger Johnny Swinger
• 31:10
  looks like a a a young Drew McIntyre, like the early days
• 31:16
  and then. I feel like he's the kind of guy
• 31:18
  he looks like the type that Marty would try to take under
• 31:21
  his wing backstage. She like cracks him a bud Ice,
• 31:23
  right? And he's like, did I ever tell
• 31:25
  you I killed a man for grabbing my Ding a Ling Dong?
• 31:34
  Representing Villanos one through 62 Villanos.
• 31:38
  Four. That's so good.
• 31:41
  So you could hear the people Googling out there right now,
• 31:43
  they're like. It's all I hope you know, we
• 31:47
  went blown up so everybody can Google the participants in this
• 31:50
  match. Honest to God, if you are
• 31:53
  looking for a laugh, just go to Peacock, go to Slamboree 1998
• 31:58
  and and just watch this. It's about at like, I think like
• 32:01
  the half hour mark of the event. It's it's so worth the the two
• 32:06
  minutes of your day to go listen to Chris Jericho, probably in
• 32:10
  his peak. Yeah, I'm fairly certain WWE put
• 32:13
  this on their YouTube channel as well, so you could probably find
• 32:16
  it there. Even better, something that we
• 32:19
  haven't scored. Yeah, there you go.
• 32:21
  Something we haven't even spoken about yet is that we have Bobby
• 32:24
  Heenan on the call. I apologize.
• 32:28
  And the fact of the matter is, is that Heenan in WCW, we've
• 32:31
  talked about it before is like super checked out, but then.
• 32:35
  Really. A puts over Jericho and then B
• 32:39
  he goes into a classic Heenan style shtick that I had to pull.
• 32:43
  It's right at the end of the intros and let's just let Heenan
• 32:47
  be Heenan. I don't even care about this
• 32:48
  match. I'm impressed with the
• 32:50
  tremendous introduction that Jericho gave his would be
• 32:54
  opponent. Are you kidding me?
• 32:56
  No Kidman's in the ring. No.
• 32:57
  Are you? Are you?
• 32:59
  You got to be ribbon. The next thing he's going to do
• 33:01
  is sit up here and take your place as color commentator.
• 33:04
  My place. Yes, Well, that no good.
• 33:08
  No Kidman's in the ring. Pop the hell out of me.
• 33:12
  Oh my God, it's such a good line.
• 33:14
  It's like. Classic Heenan shining through
• 33:17
  through a turd because otherwise like even he's even even
• 33:20
  stuttering and stammering through it just to get through
• 33:23
  it. So it it's definitely not the
• 33:26
  top notch Heenan that we all love.
• 33:27
  What does he say? Not long after is like, I think
• 33:29
  it's what's his name. He's talking about like someone
• 33:32
  was scouting it. He's like, except the scout you
• 33:34
  were talking does baseball something.
• 33:36
  Like that? Yeah.
• 33:37
  Yeah, and there's there's something that will live on the
• 33:39
  board forever now because it actually happens after this
• 33:42
  match. But he drops this gym.
• 33:44
  Now it's time for bums or us. And I I hell.
• 33:49
  Yeah. It's a weird era of Heenan and I
• 33:52
  know we've talked about it before, but I feel like it's
• 33:54
  worth bringing up again. It's like that NWO era where
• 33:58
  like he's still anti NWO. So like you see this, this face
• 34:02
  version of Bobby Heenan that just will never work for me.
• 34:06
  Like I I don't care if the NWO is like the worst person on
• 34:11
  planet Earth. Like I don't want to hear a face
• 34:15
  version of Bobby's brain Heenan. Like I want heels.
• 34:18
  All the time. For Hogan mostly, though.
• 34:20
  Yes, yes, yes. So it I appreciate what he's
• 34:23
  done, but I I just give me the heal.
• 34:26
  Yeah, it's weird because he sounds the same and like the
• 34:29
  delivery is the same, but he it's you're always like whoa,
• 34:31
  he's cheering for the the face that's.
• 34:35
  Strange. So this match is pretty much
• 34:38
  your standard battle royal. It's got like, you know, the
• 34:41
  spots. But to me, the interesting thing
• 34:43
  about watching this is we just rattled off the names on the
• 34:46
  card and like, this is an era where these lighter weight guys,
• 34:51
  you know, weren't featured all the time.
• 34:53
  So it's cool to see them get their run.
• 34:56
  And I really think that WCW did a a really good job featuring
• 35:01
  these type of guys. Like I know I said that's.
• 35:04
  True. The first hour of Nitro and you
• 35:06
  get this work rate cruiserweight division that gave us some gems
• 35:11
  like Chris Jericho and Rey Mysterio and even Benoit's mixed
• 35:15
  up in that group. Eddie Guerrero, like all those
• 35:17
  guys are in. Yeah.
• 35:19
  Oh man, doing my little parking pants, I thought.
• 35:22
  That was pretty good. Now we've, we've we're seeing it
• 35:26
  here and it's not your stereotypical battle royal by
• 35:29
  any means. The announcers are explaining
• 35:31
  the rules in the very beginning. And not only can you be
• 35:34
  eliminated by being thrown over the top, but if it's just your
• 35:38
  feet hitting the outside so you can go through the ropes, it you
• 35:42
  can go under the bottom rope, it doesn't matter.
• 35:44
  And on top of it, they will allow pinfalls in this match.
• 35:49
  So you can have a pinfall during this match.
• 35:52
  Mike, do you want to give him the?
• 35:54
  Spoiler alert, there's not one pinfall attempt.
• 35:58
  Yes. The second.
• 35:59
  One, not one if. You not one attempt.
• 36:02
  You might. Yeah.
• 36:03
  Not one attempt. Why even throw that in there,
• 36:07
  right? That's the kind of stuff that's
• 36:09
  even when we were like 16, we were like, that doesn't make
• 36:12
  sense because we know it's like scripted, like that's just bad
• 36:15
  writing. Like, why?
• 36:16
  Why? Why even do it in there?
• 36:19
  Yeah, but that's WCW right there, yeah.
• 36:21
  There you go. The the action's nothing really
• 36:24
  to write home about in my personal opinion.
• 36:27
  It's a ton of non battle royal esque moves because it's a bunch
• 36:31
  of luchadores in there. It's a bunch of cruiserweight
• 36:34
  high Flyers that are literally jumping off of the top rope and
• 36:38
  springboards and whatever you can think of from the
• 36:41
  cruiserweight division in WCW was happening in this match.
• 36:44
  But it's a paddle royal like it. It goes against that
• 36:46
  conventional thinking of grounded # exactly.
• 36:50
  And maybe that's just the WWEWWF habits in my brain called common
• 36:56
  sense, but yes, exactly. But there is more fun if you
• 37:00
  Matt. Yeah, it's more fun if you
• 37:01
  imagine him being so wrecked that he thinks he's actually
• 37:04
  wrestling a pumpkin like that. Goddamn pumpkins following me
• 37:07
  around the ring got thrown in the Chattahoochee River.
• 37:11
  Marty Janetti there's multiple points throughout this match
• 37:14
  where Marty Janetti just walks around the ring like like just
• 37:19
  like like looking at sizes up an opponent and then he walks to
• 37:22
  the next guy, sizes up an opponent, walks the next guy,
• 37:25
  and then someone will like grace him like with a, with a, a
• 37:28
  strike from the back and like he no sells it completely.
• 37:32
  It's it's something I couldn't get my eyes off of.
• 37:34
  Oh. Marty.
• 37:35
  Marty. Marty.
• 37:37
  He has one of so extra cooler show creatures to steal the
• 37:41
  chick. The final the final five are
• 37:44
  Huventud, psychosis, Chavo, Ciclopay and Kidman.
• 37:49
  And in my opinion, the ending is is great.
• 37:53
  Ciclopay and and Huventud eliminate psychosis and Kidman
• 37:57
  in opposite corners. And then they do like the
• 37:59
  classic like backup into each other and stumble upon each
• 38:02
  other and realize like, OK, it's just the two of us.
• 38:05
  They have a little stare down and and then he just like shakes
• 38:10
  his hand move into shakes C Clopay's hand and hops over the
• 38:15
  top rope and eliminates himself and says go get him and then it.
• 38:19
  Gets really strange, and not only is that strange enough, but
• 38:23
  the camera misses Jericho entering the ring again.
• 38:27
  Yes. And then and then we get seek
• 38:30
  Lopay, which I'm proud of you, Nick.
• 38:32
  You've done a really great job. But I.
• 38:33
  Was nervous. Sweating.
• 38:34
  You were very nervous about how you were going to say seek Lopay
• 38:38
  and how many times during this episode you were.
• 38:40
  Going to say hold on, we missed Heenan saying every eye is
• 38:44
  watching this. Our hood or whatever you want to
• 38:49
  say, is he? Has.
• 38:52
  One big eyeball on his forehead. So yeah, Heenan Heenan gets some
• 38:57
  Heenan jokes in there. He also wrestles under the name
• 38:59
  Halloween, just so we know. That's the pumpkin.
• 39:04
  I did an extensive research. Yeah.
• 39:06
  The gear is atrocious, you look. Really thrilled about that.
• 39:09
  Research but. We get a massive, massive pop at
• 39:13
  what happens next, and let's take a listen.
• 39:15
  Little handshake? Good.
• 39:17
  May the best man win. Wait, wait a minute, he just
• 39:20
  Hooven 2 just eliminated himself.
• 39:21
  Hoover 2, just eliminated himself.
• 39:24
  Wait a minute, wait a minute, Jake, go play.
• 39:26
  What's he doing here? He's unmasking.
• 39:28
  He's unmasking. Let's start.
• 39:30
  Jake, go play. Look at that game, Mariko.
• 39:33
  He's back. The man of 1000 holes.
• 39:35
  The man that will take Jericho for the title right now.
• 39:42
  Shivani, man, Yeah. It's it's a pretty fantastic,
• 39:46
  like the crowd is super into it. The crowd is, is very hot.
• 39:51
  It's it looks like Malenko's struggling to get the mask off
• 39:55
  at one point. But like Matt said, they
• 39:57
  definitely botched Jericho's entrance into the the ring.
• 40:02
  Yeah, they just didn't pick it up on camera because all of a
• 40:04
  sudden focused on Malenko unmasking, and then the camera
• 40:08
  turns slightly and Jericho's already in the ring.
• 40:11
  It was just a weird production thing that I guess I with my
• 40:15
  eyes I was looking at too much. So right away, we dive right
• 40:19
  into the WCW. World.
• 40:21
  Cruciate title. And that starts immediately.
• 40:26
  Yeah, 'cause like you said, Malenko's been off camera.
• 40:28
  Off off. Screen for months for weeks too.
• 40:32
  Like making fun of 1004 holds as that's when he did the 1000 and.
• 40:36
  40 that's before this, yeah. One of one of Jericho's best
• 40:40
  performances ever. Oh yeah, that's top, top 10.
• 40:44
  The classic computer paper that just unfolds and yeah, so.
• 40:47
  Good. I mean, that's might be top
• 40:48
  three really like that's. Hoovintude stays at ringside to
• 40:53
  cheer on Malenko, which is is pretty interesting.
• 40:56
  It just in my opinion, I liked it because they they build the
• 41:00
  heat on Jericho and just like all the the shit talking that
• 41:04
  he's done. Last few months Jericho made him
• 41:07
  unmask. Yes.
• 41:09
  And he's calling him like ugly like for since forever, since
• 41:13
  the unmasked. Yeah, so I just, I have one
• 41:18
  problem, and I was, it pissed me off that Milenko couldn't find
• 41:21
  time to take the goddamn shirt off or something.
• 41:24
  Like it's the most repulsive ringtone I've ever seen.
• 41:29
  It's like a it's like a frayed orange shirt with a black shirt
• 41:32
  underneath and there's holes in it.
• 41:34
  It looks like, but it also looks like a Jack O Lantern.
• 41:38
  It's. It's, it's weird, it looks like
• 41:39
  one of those like garbage bags. You buy that, but you like, it's
• 41:42
  like looks like a pumpkin. You fill leaves, you know, you
• 41:45
  leave it out by the road. Some teenagers rips it apart and
• 41:49
  destroys it. But the match, the match really
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  highlights, you know what WCW was doing with the cruiserweight
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  division. And it's it's fast-paced.
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  There's rarely any downtime in the match.
• 42:02
  It's it's constant offense from both guys.
• 42:05
  Like even when Jericho turns it around and and hits the stun gun
• 42:12
  off of Malenko, it's it's just like the way it turns back and
• 42:17
  forth a little bit, but you know where it's going.
• 42:20
  You know where it's going. And the crowd is again, the
• 42:23
  crowd is one of those instance where they're so hot and they're
• 42:26
  so into it. It makes you like, feel it in
• 42:30
  the moment. You'd be excited like this is
• 42:32
  early in the card and you're you're there in the crowd.
• 42:35
  This would be like a fun. The whole the whole situation is
• 42:38
  awesome. It's a battle royal one right?
• 42:40
  Like you, no matter what, we joke around about battle Royals,
• 42:43
  but you're you're happy to be watching that if you're live in
• 42:45
  person. And then to get the swerve with
• 42:47
  the Malenko on masking like that was awesome.
• 42:50
  So I'm just going to go. The crowd was certainly dead
• 42:53
  during the majority of the battle royal.
• 42:55
  Like it was, it was, yeah, I think it's unimportant.
• 42:59
  It was only 8 minutes long, too. So the battle royal was 8
• 43:02
  minutes, and then the match itself was 7 minutes.
• 43:05
  So you're getting like 15 minutes worth of resting here.
• 43:07
  But what they did, the fire that Malenko comes out in when he
• 43:12
  takes the mask off and everything that you guys were
• 43:14
  saying is, is 100% spot on. It was a fun, fun watch.
• 43:18
  Yeah, So the end of the match is Malenko catches Jericho on the
• 43:21
  top rope. He puts him up in a fireman's
• 43:23
  carry and then hits him with a gut Buster and then, you know,
• 43:27
  takes him home with the Texas Cloverleaf.
• 43:30
  And which I think that was my my first real call of Bobby Heenan.
• 43:35
  That kind of irked me when he's like, we're going to Texas, like
• 43:38
  he's rooting for the babyface. And like, no, I don't want to
• 43:42
  hear that. But anyway.
• 43:43
  Jericho seems like the perfect guy for him too.
• 43:46
  Yes, he's he's like the wrestler version of Bobby the Brain
• 43:49
  Heenan. Perfectly put.
• 43:51
  Right there. He he wins with the Texas
• 43:54
  Cloverleaf and we have a new cruiserweight champion, Dean
• 43:57
  Malenko. To go back to Matt's point with
• 44:00
  the the battle royal, I think the problem is the crowd had no
• 44:03
  rooting interest. You know, there, there was
• 44:05
  nobody besides what Huvintu they knew.
• 44:08
  They knew a few players in the match, but besides Huvintu, who
• 44:11
  could get they? Who could they get behind?
• 44:15
  Marty. Marty wasn't doing much for him.
• 44:19
  Poor Marty. Cans in the cooler.
• 44:21
  We're obviously giving both of these the whole, you know,
• 44:25
  including the, yeah, the whole package, the battle royal and
• 44:28
  the match cans and the cooler. Someone go because I'm so
• 44:31
  curious where this lands through and I have a feeling we're all
• 44:34
  going to land around the same rating. 2.75 Holy.
• 44:38
  Shit, we are not going to. Land.
• 44:41
  The same, are you going to say like 4 1/2?
• 44:43
  I was. Going to say like 4.75.
• 44:45
  No, I'm kidding. I want to hear what these two
• 44:47
  have to say. Nick is always going last,
• 44:50
  always going last. I'm going to go 375.
• 44:53
  I love Chris Jericho, I love the humor, I love the comedy chops
• 45:00
  that he has and displays during the intros.
• 45:03
  The moment of Dean Malenko unmasking, the fire that they
• 45:08
  too had during that 7 minute match that they had afterwards.
• 45:11
  You hear glimpses of Jericho screaming.
• 45:14
  This is a conspiracy. He does the classic come on baby
• 45:18
  pin like I just love classic Jericho and this gave me that
• 45:23
  nostalgia punch that I wanted when I heard Mike suggested.
• 45:27
  So I'm all in. Can't go for but 375.
• 45:32
  Yeah, I actually went 3 1/2 cans in the cooler and you know, I
• 45:38
  loved a lot of this. I didn't love some parts.
• 45:43
  Also like the pinning thing kind of irked me a a little.
• 45:49
  I'm like, what is that all about?
• 45:51
  But I you know, I love the intros.
• 45:52
  That's so good and the the whole unmasking Swerve and and Malenko
• 45:59
  that's it's definitely worth the watch and a rewatch so.
• 46:02
  Yeah, and I think that said it, it's on the WW ES YouTube
• 46:06
  channel. I, I they highlight it, but I
• 46:10
  thought I was going to agree with you guys and I agreed with
• 46:13
  one of you and it was Mike. I have the same rating of 3 1/2.
• 46:17
  I I listen, man. I don't know if it's just I know
• 46:21
  on our discord. I hope about time and the amount
• 46:24
  of time I have to watch wrestling.
• 46:27
  The fact that I could sit down for 20 minutes and watch this
• 46:29
  battle royal and then the match. It's so fast-paced.
• 46:33
  The humor that Jericho brings before the match.
• 46:36
  It's for a guy that does not like WCW during this era
• 46:41
  especially and a card that has Bill Goldberg on it.
• 46:44
  I, I am Bill Goldberg. Bill Goldberg.
• 46:49
  Brandon has. A good score.
• 46:51
  What's that? 3 1/2 is a good score.
• 46:53
  Yeah, I agree. I I enjoyed it.
• 46:55
  It's like I said earlier the the Jericho introduction alone is is
• 47:00
  worth it. You find that 2 minutes and just
• 47:03
  enjoy it. Yup.
• 47:04
  And laugh your ass off. And if you don't, then I I don't
• 47:07
  know. Yeah, you can probably turn it
• 47:10
  off after the. We all enjoy it.
• 47:12
  That's my, that's my, that's my 2.75.
• 47:15
  You could turn it off. After Yeah, I see what you're
• 47:17
  saying. No, I I see what you're saying.
• 47:21
  I do imagine it's fun, It's good, it's fun.
• 47:22
  It's wrestling match. Mike has a good point of like
• 47:25
  this is all about rewatch ability, right?
• 47:27
  This is about us championing or shitting on a wrestling match.
• 47:33
  And here I'm going to champion it because this is something
• 47:35
  you're right, I'm going to want to go back and rewatch and
• 47:37
  because I. So I I.
• 47:39
  Would throw this on with you guys like I wouldn't watch it by
• 47:42
  myself. So that's where that's where I
• 47:46
  disagree. I don't know if I'd ever go back
• 47:48
  and rewatch, but it's one of those things that I'm glad I did
• 47:51
  watch. Absolutely.
• 47:52
  I have no interest in rewatching this again.
• 47:54
  Watch it again tomorrow, not. Soon, yeah.
• 47:57
  But it was fun. I'm glad I watched it.
• 48:00
  I found it really entertaining. I did my usual double watch of
• 48:05
  it and you know, it was good. And you probably did your fair
• 48:08
  share of Googling, at least about our friend the 4th I
• 48:12
  forgot. Milanos.
• 48:14
  Milanos. One through 62.
• 48:18
  I can totally picture this at 1:00 AM where all of us are
• 48:21
  hanging out and Mikey Workrate just takes the remote and
• 48:25
  magically turns on Peacock and puts Chris Jericho on.
• 48:27
  Like that's the type of re watch that I would suspect.
• 48:31
  I could. I don't disagree with that.
• 48:32
  That's yes, perfectly that again.
• 48:35
  Lovely. Excellent stuff.
• 48:37
  That's good, that's good. Mikey's good at that.
• 48:39
  It's it's worth the watch. And if you've never, if you've
• 48:43
  never seen it, if you've it's been decades since you've seen
• 48:46
  it, I definitely recommend going and watching it just for
• 48:49
  Jericho. I know I'm beating that dead
• 48:52
  horse. But yeah.
• 48:54
  So again, it's on the YouTube channel.
• 48:56
  We'll try and remember to post it in Discord, but spoiler
• 48:58
  alert, we're pre recording this episode so chances are we're
• 49:02
  going to forget to post it in Discord.
• 49:05
  And it's almost 4th of July, so enjoy.
• 49:08
  How appropriate. Oh.
• 49:10
  Oh, that's when this is getting posted.
• 49:12
  We're going to listen. I'm going to listen back to this
• 49:14
  and be like, we were talking about Kangaroos.
• 49:16
  What the hell? Is going on.
• 49:18
  I don't ever. Meanwhile, it's snowing where
• 49:21
  Jim lives. Oh, OK.
• 49:25
  All right. Anyway, next week we are coming
• 49:27
  at you guys with our SummerSlam. I'm going to use it again.
• 49:32
  Spectacular because we're covering SummerSlam 1990, the
• 49:36
  third SummerSlam event. And spoiler alert, I put this on
• 49:42
  last night and I only watched a little bit.
• 49:44
  I skimmed through, I looked at the card, you might even
• 49:47
  remember the card. But we're in for a treat.
• 49:50
  We are. We are covering this in two
• 49:52
  parts and I cannot wait. I would argue that 91 and 92 are
• 49:56
  probably the two of the best, like the nostalgia ones for us,
• 49:59
  but this one I think is the goat.
• 50:02
  It's a lot of sweet spots. It is non-stop.
• 50:08
  Lot of treasures, Treasures non-stop.
• 50:11
  Treasures well. And and I I browse the like
• 50:16
  Wikipedia page, most of the matches on this card are like 4
• 50:21
  minutes long and I am I am God damn excited.
• 50:24
  Holy. Crap.
• 50:26
  And just you, if you want to, you know, put it on between now
• 50:30
  and when the episodes drop. Like you're going to get so
• 50:34
  hyped just from the introduction.
• 50:36
  It is, yes. Oh, the introduction is
• 50:38
  incredible. It is so good, so good.
• 50:42
  All right, so Mike, I hope you enjoyed.
• 50:45
  This is kind of appropriate because Mike, you brought us the
• 50:48
  battle Royale for your birthday. Yeah, happy birthday.
• 50:50
  Summer slam for. Two months ago, that's on the
• 50:52
  stairs. Yeah, he's actually 52 now.
• 51:00
  What am I? Jake the Snake.
• 51:03
  He's got even my yeah, Mikey Workrate's been wearing a a vest
• 51:06
  this entire match. Yeah.
• 51:09
  Oh man. So be sure to join us for Summer
• 51:13
  Slam 90 and be sure to follow us on Instagram at the Extra Cooler
• 51:17
  Show and at Extra Cooler and join us over in our Discord.
• 51:21
  Once again, as I've been saying lately, thank you again for
• 51:24
  making us a pit stop on your wrestling podcast journey.
• 51:28
  We greatly appreciate you guys and.
• 51:30
  The same move. Cheers everybody.
• 51:34
  Cheers. See you.
• 51:37
  Wait a minute, wait a minute, she go play.
• 51:39
  What's he doing here? He's unmasking.
• 51:41
  He's unmasked. Up.
• 51:43
  She go play. Look at that Game Boy.
• 51:45
  Go. He's back.