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194 | The Dark Wedding - Raw April 26, 1999 · The ExtraCooler Show

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  Jim Yeah, yeah. You know, actually I'm going to
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  Excuse me, I have a bridge named after me.
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  This is true. I don't think it's named after
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  you anymore though. It's not Oh, that's.
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  Bridge. Yeah, yeah.
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  Great. Bridge it's it's off I-95 in
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  Greenwich. Yeah, the mean streets of
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  Greenwich. That's right.
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  Speaking of which, Speaking of which, thanks for that segue.
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  We've got no housekeeping this week and it's the week before
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  Halloween. You know, two weeks ago, our
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  last episode we we delivered with a Halloween episode.
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  You know, the costumes were involved, the, the, the gimmicks
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  in the backstage segments were there.
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  So if you want that, go listen to last week's episode 193.
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  But this week Mike suggested, and I absolutely, absolutely
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  love this idea. He suggested that we cover the
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  the what do they call it, the dark wedding?
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  The Dark Wedding. The dark wedding from Monday
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  Night Raw, which took place April 26th, 1999.
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  This takes place in the Hartford Civic Center, which is right
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  around the corner pretty much from where we grew up.
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  We did not go and it, it's one month after or less than a month
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  after WrestleMania 15, right? The next night after Backlash,
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  things kick off. And I, I, I'm pretty sure by the
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  graphic right now that you're looking at when you hit play on
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  this episode. You know what we're talking
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  about last night at Backlash, Stone Cold.
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  He's still the WWF champion. And the episode ends with The
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  Iconic, which we quoted in high school very many times.
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  Every time we were in a car together, we would look at each
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  other. Where to Stephanie?
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  That's pretty. Good, let's hear it true.
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  Where to? Stephanie, we quoted that so
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  much. I like the longer version
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  because it gives you the shrillness that is back story.
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  Yeah. So let's let's hit it where.
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  To Stephanie. We so we have to talk about the
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  fact that this is still the time period where the show starts off
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  with this. Not even it's a video package,
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  but they only show the still photos from the night before.
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  So you get these pay-per-view still photos where it's like
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  they're trying to tell you like go watch the replay on Tuesday
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  night. Oh yeah.
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  But you felt to pay for like 40 bucks for the.
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  Actually, so triggered by this, I don't know what it was.
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  I don't know if it was just the Attitude Era where I was at the
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  peak of like investment and was just locked in on every single
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  storyline and then not being a guy that got pay per views that
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  didn't have the black box. I was so triggered by watching
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  this being like God damn it I just want to watch the video.
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  Like show me what actually happened, not these stupid still
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  photos you. Never understood that.
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  Like I have to go look at a still photo of the undertaker's
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  face in the driver's seat of a limo.
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  Like you can't show me that footage.
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  Like you, you really are banking on me still buying the
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  pay-per-view on Tuesday like they used to do.
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  God, wait for my dad. Oh my God.
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  So this is like polar OP. It's it's amazing what has
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  happened. Stephanie from last week's
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  episode to this week's, she is like she is a baby like and
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  she's got the baby face look and everything.
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  She looks. So young. 20s I'm going to say
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  I'm going to go 24. Matt.
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  Now it's got to be older 7. 22. 22, Wow, she's young.
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  That's pretty crazy. Like when you think about that
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  and and and that she's not that much older than us, pretty wild.
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  But so again, it shows us. Episode starts off with the
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  highlights from backlash. Stone Cold still our WWF
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  champion. We get highlights of of Shane
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  hitting rock bottom. I'm sorry, hitting the rock with
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  the title, allowing Stone cold to retain.
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  There's just a lot going on. This is like.
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  So much rock is part of the corporation still.
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  Yes, Well, until this raw. Yes.
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  There's yeah. So like to break it down, you've
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  got Triple H is no longer in DXDX is like they're still kind
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  of buddies, but they're not really DX.
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  Like you got X talk. He's he's with Kane right now.
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  There's corporation, there's the the ministry of Darkness.
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  There's a lot going on and it's almost like I turned this raw
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  on, which screw you, WWE for not having this E of your obnoxious
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  streaming service. Like the fact that we had to go
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  through daily motion and give our computers diseases.
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  You know, we were living on the edge and there's other ways we
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  watch this, but we're not going to, you know, let our source out
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  there. But thank you to that source for
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  the help. But but yeah, it was not easy to
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  watch this episode out there. Thanks again for that.
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  Yeah, it's very frustrating because there are some some
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  episodes of Monday Night Raw in the back catalog.
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  I think they call it the Raw vault pal on Netflix.
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  And now trying to scan through, I was like, man, I wonder if
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  this is like too racy to put on Netflix, which I hope that's not
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  the case. I don't know for sure.
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  But like, could you imagine of like they drew just cherry
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  picking and they were like, Nah, this one has Stephanie hanging
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  from a cross that we will call just a symbol, but we'll talk
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  more about that later. Yeah, it's I don't know it it's
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  frustrating. But anyway, after all the
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  highlights from Backlash, we get the Stooges and a very disturbed
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  Vince. This I can't help but every time
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  Vince is on the screen throughout this episode of
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  Monday Night Raw, but laugh his he's dusting off the acting
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  chops and it's, you know, he he's frazzled.
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  He's his daughters been taken hostage.
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  He doesn't know how he's going to get her back.
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  He's like the complete opposite of Liam Nielsen.
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  Yeah, he is. He is shook and Vince obviously
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  like you said, is dusting off the acting chops.
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  This is like super serious role for Vince.
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  Like he is playing this as as straight as he possibly can.
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  But then you have Briscoe, oh man, Gerald Briscoe.
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  Any time that he has lines or has to act is the worst acting
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  that we we possibly speaking on WWF television.
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  It is brutal. It is.
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  Brutal it it sounds like he doesn't know how to read off of
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  a cue card and it's it's just not good.
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  It's not good. So the opening segment has us
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  with the Rock and he says he he has to give Austin his respect,
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  blah, blah, blah. Basically, we're seeing the face
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  turn happen, but you know, right before he's about to turn face,
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  he then unleashes the Austin will forever be the biggest
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  piece of trailer park trash ever walk God's green earth.
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  He's, you know, talks about how he gave him a beating of his
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  life. But now unfortunately, he he has
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  another problem that he has to deal with and that's a 200 LB
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  sack of monkey waste called Shane McMahon.
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  Oh man. I I felt like this was peak
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  nostalgic rock for me. Like him, him pulling the the
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  fast one on you where you're like, oh man, he's actually
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  giving props to Oh no, he's not Never mind.
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  I I just, I ate it up, man. I'm just I don't remember these
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  episodes verbatim. Like straight through and.
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  What I. Ignore the OR you forget
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  timelines too, so this was interesting for.
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  Sure. It's, it's funny.
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  I was going to say though, this was one of those raws that I put
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  on and I think I only watched it once, obviously live.
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  I didn't go back. I can rewatch it for any reason,
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  but I felt like I remembered so much of this episode of RAW,
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  like, and not just because of the clips that you've seen, but
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  like little things like this whole open opening segment.
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  I remembered the whole thing and it's definitely a very confusing
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  era when you go back and watch it to try and figure out who's a
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  babyface, who's a heel, whatever point they're at in their
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  career. And even who's with who right
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  now? Yeah.
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  Who's with? Who is?
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  There's so much movement as far as like the corporate, the
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  corporation goes, the corporate ministry, the ministry, like
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  trying to figure out that timeline is just insane to me.
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  And I just it all, it all just blends together.
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  Yeah, and you also got tests like walking out of the
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  corporation here too, and which is also like, weird.
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  And then, yeah, I think it's like a week away from them
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  forming the union with like mankind and the Big show and.
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  Yeah, it's like it's it's like you had everybody had to be in a
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  faction at this point in time. And so like for those of you
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  that are listening right now, so the the corporation at the start
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  of this episode was Shane the mean St.
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  Posse the Rock Triple H China test can Shamrock test boss.
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  Man. Boss man as well.
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  Boss man was the muscle. And then in the ministry you've
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  got obviously Undertaker, Paul Bearer, the acolytes.
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  They're not APA yet. Big Midian and viscera and then,
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  you know, you got Stone Cold on his own.
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  And then like I alluded to earlier, you've got this weird
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  like DX thing that they're like still kind of DX, but not
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  really. Minus Triple H.
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  Right minus triple HX Pock is tag team champions with Kane
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  during this episode. Triple H just fought X Pock at
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  WrestleMania Fifteens though. And X Pock is the only one that
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  still like carries the X. You know, he still wears the X.
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  He's the only one I know Xbox, of course he's got to have it on
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  his gear, but it's still the same DX logo, that style of X.
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  He's the only one. And we see, you know, the New
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  Age Outlaws on this episode as well, but definitely not that DX
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  that you're thinking of. Yeah, so they're, you know,
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  rock. Then we obviously get Shane
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  comes out and they're about to beat up the rock after he tries
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  to take out Triple H in China. Boss man gets a cheap shot in
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  with a nightstick. They're all over him, but the
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  Shane fires the rock from the corporation and that's when we
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  see the rocks face turn happen. Oh man, a lot going on, a lot
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  has. Been the corporation since
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  Survivor Series. Yes, yeah, for for a while.
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  When you think about that, that's you know.
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  Isn't that the beauty of the Attitude Era, though, Is like
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  encapsulated in just the beginning of this episode where
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  you're trying to explain what in the world is going on in a
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  episode of Raw and they're being so much meat on the bone.
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  It's crazy to like think about of like how that high octane and
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  how fast these stories were moving, how much they shoved
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  story wise into an episode where you are still getting matches
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  too. I'm not sure they weren't the
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  longest matches. But.
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  It was still matches and it was it was very entertaining.
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  I, I completely agree. So after that whole segment, we
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  get Pat Patterson suggesting that Vince calls the cops,
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  They're backstage. Vince says no, he doesn't want
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  to, he wants to do this Undertaker's way.
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  It's, it's, I think this is where they got the, the script
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  for and the story for Taken. You know, they were very
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  inspired by Vince McMahon and Stephanie McMahon.
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  It's oh God, but he's got papers for the Undertaker that
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  Undertaker demanded and he's got no other option.
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  And they're just standing there and there's like a little old
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  like dial up phone just waiting. Classic.
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  Like a little table. Yeah, just on the little tiniest
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  table. The the classic like square
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  looking phone like think of what the the old phones were when
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  they were Rotary phones, but this one had those square yes
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  switch buttons on it and it. Was a little indent.
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  Yes, yes, yes, yes, exactly. I'm now wondering if Liam Neeson
• 15:10
  is a wrestling fan. Like, can you track this?
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  Like I know, has he been a guest, you know, host of an
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  episode of Running your draw? I'm I'm sure that that that was
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  a thing, right, And it feels like Taken is a is a movie that
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  Vince would love. I don't know.
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  I know he doesn't watch very many movies, if any.
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  I. Feel like Taken is like right up
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  his alley. Yes, yes, maybe I'm teetering on
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  some some dangerous territory and making jokes of where Vince
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  and what he would do with Taken, but.
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  Yeah, I don't want to know I'm. Going to leave that alone.
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  I don't want to know corporations giving Shane a pep
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  talk backstage. He wants a rock jersey and
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  Triple H suggests the name of the croc.
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  It's like, oh God, Jesus, just stop.
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  Just just stop, please. But we've got our first match.
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  Triple HS voice at this time in 1999 feels less the game.
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  You know, he doesn't agree with the game in any way, shape or
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  form. And he's a little nerdy man.
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  Like, yeah, you mean the croc? Like there's no bass in his
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  voice. It's very strange.
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  Yeah, it's and it's, it's just, I don't know, it doesn't work in
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  the role that he's in, you know, he's.
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  Well I was thinking of this too. Is this is Triple H in the
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  corporation here where like this time period, is it because we
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  know what Triple H the game is and you're trying to fit the
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  game into 1999 and he's not? Quite Triple H.
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  At this point in time, so I don't know, it's, it's a weird
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  timeline. And again, we've covered Rock
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  and Triple H in very, very different ways throughout time
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  and the latter matches and things like that.
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  But this was a very stark difference and I forgot some of
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  this era of Triple H. We'll talk about it a little bit
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  as we as we move forward. Our next match, our actually our
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  first match is the Brood versus X Pock and Kane.
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  The Brood actually just kind of, and, and I'm sorry to add some
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  housekeeping, but they just left the ministry, correct?
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  They were original members of the ministry.
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  Mike, you probably know this or remember it, but I'm pretty sure
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  I, I feel like they were in there before the acolytes and,
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  and, and this and the media and they mention it during the match
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  when they're coming down, like they say something about how
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  like they've left the ministry. OK.
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  Yeah, it's coming back. Weird.
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  Yeah. So anyway, this is a non title
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  match. Ex Bach and Kane are your
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  champions. It's always cool to see a young
• 17:45
  Edge and Christian in this, but it's it it it's what you thought
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  it would be. You know, there's the Bronco
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  Buster involved there. Kane is very like conflicted,
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  you know, Christian gets involved because Gangrel and
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  Edge are the the tag team in this match and Edge takes a
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  choke slam from Kane and they win the match and we boom on.
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  I I have a little bit of the the the Ministry of Darkness
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  timeline for the brood here I'm trying to save.
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  Yeah, I like it. It's like you're doing the
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  homework on the bus on your bus ride home.
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  That's my, that's my son's favorite move.
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  And then he comes home. He's like, I already have it
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  done. I'm like, let's take a look at
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  it. And then you're like erasing
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  things 5 minutes later. Sorry, 4th grade, 4th grade math
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  is, is a weird situation, but mostly because I don't know
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  really how to teach it. They learn things so
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  differently. Oh yeah, it's strange.
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  But anyway, I'm getting off topic.
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  So February 1999, the Brood feuded with the Undertaker's
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  Ministry of Darkness stable. But at the end of the feud,
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  that's when the Brood merges with the Ministry.
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  So it is it is long before that. And then let's see at backlash
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  in your house. The acolytes and Midian at this
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  point are now facing the brood in a six man tag.
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  So April 26th they Yeah, All right, cool.
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  Then that's really where we are right here.
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  So this is right after, excuse me, the brood has left ministry.
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  Yep, you're on point. And it's like abruptly, like
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  almost, there's no like no reasoning behind it.
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  It almost didn't make sense because they fit pretty well,
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  but maybe they needed a lower tier faction to to carry that.
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  And they are the only ones to have defected from the stable.
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  And this was right before the corporate ministry.
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  So Ed Edge and Gingrell are not in the corporate ministry, but
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  they were in the Ministry of Darkness.
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  OK. All right, so Vince's landline
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  rings backstage. Hang on.
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  We're missing the bloodbath here.
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  Oh I'm sorry, I forgot the bloodbath.
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  I'm, I'm just very sorry. So Bruce King gets doused in the
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  red syrup. The bruised lights come on after
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  the match. He's he's in the blood.
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  Like this poor bastard doesn't go and shower at all either.
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  Spoiler alert 'cause he wears it proudly throughout the night.
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  But he's like he's blinded and he choke slams X pock into the
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  crowd because he's the only one insight and you can't see or
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  something. I don't know.
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  I don't. I didn't think it was because he
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  couldn't see. I just thought he was.
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  Frustrated. Like, all right, I'm just gonna
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  take it out on the first person I.
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  See, that's who my tag team partner.
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  That makes a whole lot of sense. Well, we weren't going through
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  the last episode that we just did.
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  There was feuding within the tag teams.
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  I know 2. 1002 So it's kind of the same thing here.
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  You're right, it's a stick. Person What a fall from grace
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  for Kane. Yeah, poor, poor Bear City.
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  You got nowhere for him to go. So they're going to stick them
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  with Xbox, which I I did like their tag team.
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  We covered that. I don't know.
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  Early episode, early, early, early socket.
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  Oh God. All right, so now can we talk
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  about Vince's landline ringing? And then we go to break and then
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  we come back and we get a recap of the phone call.
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  It's like the weirdest thing, like the phone call that
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  happened over break. You could you had to cut the
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  commercial. We weren't allowed to see this
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  happen. Vince.
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  Vince is on the phone and it sounds like a 1900 number that
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  Vince just dialed into and he got the Undertaker on the other
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  line. Instead.
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  You're like. This is exactly this is the plot
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  for taken again and let's just Undertaker is putting it on
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  strong of that like stereotypical ransom phone call
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  that like let's just let's just listen to Taker be really,
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  really perv. She's fine, Vince, as a matter
• 21:49
  of fact. She's real fine and you know
• 21:54
  what I've got and you know what I want so.
• 22:00
  Yeah. There's the 900 number vibes
• 22:02
  that you're that you're giving for anybody that doesn't know,
• 22:05
  won 900 back in the day, a four. And yeah, this was this was,
• 22:13
  this was inappropriate adult entertainment, let's call it.
• 22:17
  Maybe that's what Vince was looking for with the Undertaker
• 22:20
  though. But anyway, he tells Undertaker
• 22:22
  that he can have what he wants, so, you know, and.
• 22:25
  His face, his face during when the Undertaker's saying that
• 22:28
  it's like, looks like Steve McNair during the yeah.
• 22:34
  Yeah, he's very lost. Oh God, He he basically tells
• 22:40
  him he can have controlling interest.
• 22:44
  Yeah, and of WWF and Undertaker threatens him to by hurting
• 22:49
  Stephanie if Vince screws him over.
• 22:53
  Vince wants to now, Vince. I've got that too.
• 22:57
  Let's listen. To you so much.
• 23:00
  It's all my hair on her head. So help me, you son of a bitch.
• 23:05
  Now, Vince, is that any way to talk to your daughter's soul
• 23:10
  mate? You just give me those
• 23:13
  documents. Vince comes across as a man who
• 23:19
  obviously is acting, but he has never shed a tear in his life
• 23:23
  because the way in which he sells that is awful.
• 23:28
  He. How like blow speaking at 1st
• 23:31
  and then it's so weird. If you so much is lay hands,
• 23:36
  he's trying. To be stern, it's, it's, it's
• 23:40
  supposed to be scary, right? I don't know.
• 23:47
  I don't know it it was very, yeah.
• 23:52
  Yeah, so Undertaker. Undertaker also has one more
• 23:55
  thing. He wants Austin to deliver the
• 23:57
  documents. Vince says he can't do that, but
• 24:00
  Undertaker calls that Vince's problem and hangs up on him.
• 24:06
  It doesn't work at first. Undertaker's like I'm still here
• 24:10
  and then he's like, I hang up again.
• 24:15
  What's your? Favorite movie?
• 24:16
  Yes, yes, yeah. Like, Jesus Christ, we went to a
• 24:20
  commercial break and we still can't edit that out.
• 24:23
  Like come on. Oh God.
• 24:26
  All right, Austins in the ring with for an interview with
• 24:28
  Michael Cole, a very young Michael Cole.
• 24:31
  But right away he wants Maggle wants to talk about his win last
• 24:35
  night and Austin kicks him out of the ring.
• 24:36
  Thank God, Vince interrupts instantly.
• 24:40
  Oh so fast. Vince interrupts.
• 24:42
  Vince asks for Austins help, Austin kind of like chuckles,
• 24:46
  laughs it off and Austin says he's got his own problem,
• 24:50
  doesn't really care what happens to Vince and his daughter.
• 24:52
  Vince goes on to beg Austin. But sorry Vinnie Mac, you're on
• 24:57
  your own tonight. I don't give a rat's ass about
• 25:00
  your problems. Stone Cold Steve Austin needs
• 25:03
  Vince McMahon to kiss his ass because Stone Cold said so.
• 25:07
  Oh. God, it's fantastic.
• 25:11
  I I absolutely love this classic era.
• 25:15
  Like, yeah, yeah, it's, it's everything.
• 25:17
  Happening is fantastic. Yeah, for any Attitude Era fan,
• 25:22
  this is the nostalgia. Warm and fuzzy.
• 25:24
  Yes, that's what this is. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:27
  All right. Before we move on to our next
• 25:29
  match, what's in everybody's cooler?
• 25:30
  So the extra cooler show and what's in the cooler is brought
• 25:33
  to you by Sloop Brewing Company this week.
• 25:35
  I don't have a Sloop. I don't have a tequila, but I
• 25:39
  have for me, and I've said this over the almost five years that
• 25:43
  we've been doing this podcast, this is one of my favorite
• 25:45
  beers. It's simple.
• 25:47
  It's Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I don't know why.
• 25:49
  I just, I've always loved the taste of it.
• 25:52
  It always goes down smooth, but it's got enough flavor to it to
• 25:56
  it to not be like a Coors Light or yeah, what you got.
• 26:07
  I'm playing a game of chicken right now.
• 26:10
  Wow, wow. All right, I got a Stella Artos.
• 26:16
  Artos Stella Artos. I wish Jim was here right now
• 26:22
  because he would probably RIP you to shreds for that.
• 26:26
  Well, I don't speak French. Come on.
• 26:30
  All right, let's move on. I have an extra special treat
• 26:33
  that my parents were in Saratoga and they send me this wonderful
• 26:39
  picture of a brewery that they're at and it's brand new
• 26:42
  and it is Treehouse Baby. Treehouse has opened up a new
• 26:46
  brewery within the last year in Saratoga, NY, and they brought
• 26:51
  me home some goodies. I have a can of Haze here, which
• 26:54
  is one of their flagship beers. That's Julius in the fridge too.
• 26:58
  So maybe you'll see that in two weeks.
• 27:00
  But if if it lasts that long but it says on the back of the can.
• 27:04
  We hope you enjoy it with laughter, good cheer and in
• 27:07
  company of those you love. So cheers to you boys and to
• 27:10
  everyone listening at 8.2. I thought it was awesome and
• 27:15
  classic purple can. Yeah.
• 27:17
  History of darkness. I felt like it.
• 27:18
  Was appropriate. Wow, man.
• 27:20
  If you're on point tonight, on point, about as on point as Val
• 27:24
  Venus versus Dilo Brown in our next match with LET, which lasts
• 27:28
  3 minutes and 20 seconds. Full of interesting stories,
• 27:33
  full of interesting things that come about in 3 minutes.
• 27:36
  That's the attitude, Arrow, man. They give you everything that
• 27:38
  you need in a 3 minute punch in the face.
• 27:41
  So we take a. Look at.
• 27:44
  That Sunday night heat from last night, because you know,
• 27:46
  obviously there's no way Val Venus is making a backlash main
• 27:50
  card, right? But you know, we have to
• 27:52
  continue the story that he's got going on with none other than
• 27:55
  Nicole Bass, and she's telling him that she wants his slide
• 28:00
  trombone in her breast section. We should have brought a bear.
• 28:05
  A bear sale tonight. Damn.
• 28:10
  Do you have any in the fridge? Can you like run and go grab it
• 28:12
  or? No.
• 28:14
  That's a that's a bummer. If you had a bass in the fridge
• 28:17
  I would be I would be very impressed.
• 28:20
  I would, that's one of my favourites all time.
• 28:22
  My wife beat some rosy cheek makeup for her.
• 28:27
  Like Nicole Bass has such a look man big Val Bowski.
• 28:33
  WWE, sorry, WWE makeup department has stepped up their
• 28:38
  game since 1999, I decided. Very, very much so.
• 28:44
  I'm surprised that we haven't covered more Nicole Bass.
• 28:47
  I feel like it's just enough into the wrestle crap world
• 28:51
  where it's right up our alley. But I don't.
• 28:53
  I don't know if we can fulfill an entire episode with No, I
• 28:57
  don't. Know how is she from like Howard
• 28:58
  Stern? Crap, I think yes yeah, and she
• 29:02
  did some time in ECW too I believe.
• 29:05
  I could be wrong, but I believe. But anyway, D Lo Brown runs in
• 29:10
  before we we get the classic corny Val Venus catch phrase,
• 29:16
  and in the match, Nicole Bass comes out for the distraction,
• 29:19
  allowing D Lo Brown to hit the sky high for the pin.
• 29:24
  Somehow this is one of those things I really don't remember,
• 29:27
  but it starts to creep back into my mind that D Lo Brown had
• 29:32
  Ivory as his valet. I, I, I, I don't know, there's
• 29:38
  so much of that like that I can't piece together, but I like
• 29:40
  vaguely remember. There was so much turnover,
• 29:44
  there was so much change with the valets.
• 29:46
  And like, we'll talk about two more in a couple minutes too.
• 29:49
  But like, it's so it's so hard to keep track of everything
• 29:53
  because everything was moving so quickly and in the moment it all
• 29:56
  made sense, like. 100%. Nine, we were all locked in and
• 30:00
  you could keep up, but imagine somebody just popping in like
• 30:03
  we're trying to pop in right now, like back then, like trying
• 30:06
  to. I know a.
• 30:07
  Actual fan, just, you know, watching.
• 30:09
  You could. You could miss two weeks and the
• 30:11
  entire landscape of the company could be different.
• 30:15
  I It's funny. Like it's funny that you say
• 30:17
  that that because I so like I said earlier, Jim, Jim started a
• 30:22
  new job. So he's been super busy and he
• 30:26
  told us that he wasn't going to be able to do this episode.
• 30:28
  I wanted to pitch to him that he should come on this episode and
• 30:32
  just like listen to us talk about it and chime in.
• 30:35
  Like, because I feel like I like to think that this episode, as
• 30:39
  we run this down and knowing that he watched it, he would
• 30:43
  hear certain things and he'd be like, Oh my God, I remember
• 30:45
  that. I remember that because there's
• 30:47
  a lot of that in this episode, if you ask me.
• 30:51
  And I wish, I wish I was set up correctly to give him a call and
• 30:54
  have him. I'm going to have to get my shit
• 30:58
  together and be able to do that for a later episode.
• 31:01
  That would be sick, actually. So after the match, we get big
• 31:05
  show and he's he's thinking that Austin should help out Vince.
• 31:09
  We get that little segment. Billy Gunn, he's he's coming for
• 31:13
  Triple H. There's just there's so much
• 31:19
  talent on this card. It's insane.
• 31:24
  It's it's like every attitude or a person and like to go back to
• 31:27
  Ivory. I figured feel like Ivory was
• 31:30
  just put with DLO just as a reason to get another female on
• 31:35
  TV, right? Like another attractive female
• 31:38
  on television. Vince is like, let's see if it
• 31:40
  sticks, let's see if anybody takes to it.
• 31:44
  But our next match is Triple H versus Billy Gunn.
• 31:46
  This match goes almost 7 minutes a.
• 31:50
  Longer episode, a longer match on the card.
• 31:53
  Yes to 100%. The match is very slow if you
• 31:57
  ask me. I am this this weird like post
• 32:01
  Shawn Michaels triple HDX into this where he's still trying to
• 32:07
  like figure himself out is a really strange Triple H era for
• 32:11
  me. I it's probably one of my least
• 32:13
  favorites. Like the pants like.
• 32:16
  Roz war shirt like. Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
• 32:20
  The, the, the, the music that he has, I have no recollection of.
• 32:24
  Yeah. I don't know, I I don't know.
• 32:27
  I just like it. It's such a weird territory for
• 32:31
  Triple H. It just doesn't make sense to
• 32:33
  me. It doesn't register in my brain
• 32:35
  as far as the timeline of Triple H goes.
• 32:37
  So China gets involved in the match, which pulls Rd.
• 32:41
  Dogg out and he he he gets in China's face.
• 32:43
  Then Triple H lands a Pedigree on Billy Gunn and.
• 32:48
  This is the perfect opportunity for us to say that Jr. and Jim
• 32:53
  Cornette are the two on the call.
• 32:56
  And Cornette, especially during this match, is the most
• 33:00
  obnoxious human being on the face of the earth.
• 33:03
  Let's just listen to 5 seconds just so you get a preview of
• 33:06
  kind of what you're dealing with throughout this card.
• 33:08
  It's. Usually not the ass that's
• 33:10
  kicking ass. I can't believe how many times
• 33:11
  I've said ass on DD. It, it, it's it this, I, I
• 33:17
  apologize for not saying that because I like to think in the
• 33:19
  beginning when I tell everybody what we're watching, I tell them
• 33:22
  who's on commentary. And I think that's the most
• 33:25
  jarring thing. And the thing that I like least
• 33:28
  remember is Jim Cornett being on commentary during this time.
• 33:32
  You know, I, I knew I like he's. This episode only.
• 33:36
  Yeah, so Lawler was around during this Attitude Era.
• 33:40
  As I asked last night, I knew Mike would know the answer and
• 33:46
  he confirmed that Lawler had basically quit and it was all
• 33:50
  over the cat firing wife, which is kind of what I thought.
• 33:56
  I just couldn't remember the timeline because I feel like
• 33:58
  there's been so many times where these guys have gone in and out.
• 34:03
  But it's Cornett is awful and it made me want to again, too lazy
• 34:09
  that I didn't go and do it. I wanted to figure out who was
• 34:12
  on commentary before and the week after on Raw because it's
• 34:17
  got to be better than Cornett It it has to.
• 34:20
  He's terrible. And you can almost tell that Jim
• 34:22
  Ross. Might have been Michael Cole.
• 34:23
  For him, Michael Cole, yeah, I don't know.
• 34:29
  But the the match is what it is and the backstage Shane is
• 34:33
  whispering something to Boss man.
• 34:35
  We don't know what it is. And X Pock is pissed off.
• 34:38
  He's backstage and he's looking for Kane after that chokeslam
• 34:41
  and he's going to be looking for a while, I think.
• 34:46
  Ready for our next match? You also you did you glanced
• 34:50
  over the commercial that was in here as well.
• 34:53
  Oh, was it the chef Boyerty, 1? So there's big game Hunter
• 34:58
  that's talking about all his his, you know, his awards, his,
• 35:04
  what do you even call that? A big game hunter that takes
• 35:06
  down big animal. He's got them all, you know,
• 35:09
  tachyonies on the wall, all the heads.
• 35:12
  And then next thing you know, he's like, oh, I made the
• 35:14
  mistake of, you know, bothering or approaching this one while he
• 35:18
  was eating. And it's a picture of mankind
• 35:20
  who has Sacco on one hand and that's just his hand of the
• 35:23
  other one. And it's just his head sitting
• 35:26
  on a a wooden brick in the background.
• 35:28
  And you have, at the end of the commercial mankind just going.
• 35:33
  Beefy. Yeah.
• 35:36
  What are we doing? I'm going to have to, I'm going
• 35:40
  to have to take, I'm going to have to record that entire thing
• 35:43
  and put it in the morning. I'll, I'll, I'll do it tomorrow.
• 35:47
  Good Mankind and Big Show are teaming up and they're going to
• 35:50
  face Test and Big Boss. Man this match goes almost 5
• 35:54
  minutes. Just last night at Backlash,
• 35:58
  Mankind beat Big Show in a Boiler Room brawl but saved him
• 36:03
  from attack. Show saved Mankind at the end of
• 36:07
  that match from an attack by Boss Man and Tess, who once
• 36:10
  again they're in the Corporation.
• 36:13
  Boss man is legitimately intimidating that this.
• 36:16
  Boss man is is a scary dude at this time.
• 36:19
  Like it it he is a badass like and the way he knows how to spin
• 36:23
  that night stick is scary. And it comes into play in
• 36:27
  multiple instances. I mean, early on in the first
• 36:30
  segment with Shane and the rock and them kicking or firing the
• 36:35
  rock from the the corporation. Like Shane is in there with that
• 36:38
  with that. I almost called it a kendo stick
• 36:40
  with that night stick and choking out the rock.
• 36:42
  And it it comes into play later on too.
• 36:44
  So there's like, Bossman is an integral part of just the
• 36:49
  minutiae of the show, but he never says a word on camera, I
• 36:53
  don't think. And he doesn't need to he it,
• 36:55
  it's actually, I think everybody thinks of like, you know, the,
• 37:00
  the, the baby blue police officer big boss man.
• 37:03
  But this version of Boss Man is a bad ass.
• 37:07
  Dark blue, like classic. Like he's got like the trooper.
• 37:11
  Yeah, he, he's Shane's right hand man right now.
• 37:15
  And throughout this match we kind of start to figure out what
• 37:18
  Shane was whispering to him about.
• 37:21
  And you know, he's he's, he's going to kick test out of the
• 37:26
  corporation, which rightfully so, because Test sucks and
• 37:30
  doesn't bring much to the table. But you know, in in the match
• 37:34
  Boss man doesn't look interested about tagging in end things.
• 37:41
  Test is crawling in for looking, looking for the tag, puts his
• 37:45
  hand out and Boss man just is hanging on the posts and you
• 37:48
  know, I love it. Turned to him.
• 37:50
  It was good stuff, yeah. Especially like watching back,
• 37:53
  you look at the corporation and you're like, OK, Shane Triple H
• 37:56
  China bought this version of boss man.
• 37:59
  You're like, test is definitely not necessary.
• 38:02
  Like there's just he's just a wet blanket.
• 38:05
  But then the end of the match is big show hitting the jumping
• 38:09
  double clothesline takes both of those guys out, allows mankind
• 38:12
  to hit his iconic double armed DDT on test and lays in the
• 38:18
  mandible claw for the win. And then afterwards test and
• 38:21
  boss man get each in each other's faces and boss Man hits
• 38:25
  him with his night stick and see a test.
• 38:27
  Yeah, see ya. Hopefully I never have to see
• 38:31
  you again and talk about you again on this podcast cause can
• 38:33
  we? Talk about Mr. Sacco at this
• 38:35
  point in time. Yeah, let's hear it, Mr. Sacco
• 38:39
  isn't just the hand drawn like face that's on there, it's like
• 38:44
  airbrushed like I need Jim. I wish this is the point of the
• 38:48
  episode where I miss Jim the most, because I need his
• 38:51
  commentary on an airbrushed version of Mr. Socko and it has
• 38:55
  mankind's face airbrushed onto this white sock I gotta.
• 39:00
  Go find it. It is.
• 39:01
  Unbelievable. I I'm gonna have not noticed
• 39:03
  that. No, I didn't either.
• 39:05
  It is absolutely bizarre. I am going to take a screenshot
• 39:10
  and send it to you as false as I possibly can in our group chat.
• 39:14
  This is this is fantastic news. I wonder if Ted could get that
• 39:17
  and put it on his site and how much he could get.
• 39:19
  For it, he was the first person I thought of when this came
• 39:22
  about because it is unbelievable.
• 39:26
  Vince is in the loading docks waiting with his documents, just
• 39:30
  pacing. X Talk is still looking for Kane
• 39:33
  backstage feels like forever. And then out of nowhere, here's
• 39:36
  Bob Holly beating the crap out of Al Snow and he's demanding A
• 39:40
  rematch for the Hardcore title that he lost last night.
• 39:44
  Very, very, very quick segment. And then we get arguably the
• 39:51
  most bizarre thing in this entire episode and it is a black
• 39:56
  and white like sitcom. Oh yeah.
• 40:02
  And it is a scene. You might know what we're
• 40:04
  talking about the. Cleavage house none other than
• 40:07
  Beaver Cleavage, formerly Mosh of the Headbangers.
• 40:11
  And he's eating some breakfast and he doesn't like his
• 40:15
  breakfast. And in walks his mother, who had
• 40:19
  no clue who this woman is. She's jacked, she's attractive.
• 40:23
  She's she's jacked, she's she's she.
• 40:26
  But she's an attractive woman. And Beaver Cleavage does not
• 40:31
  like his breakfast and his mother offers him some of her
• 40:37
  milk and it's just as creepy as you would imagine.
• 40:42
  You can guess where that goes from.
• 40:43
  There it's it's so, so bizarre. Like whose brainchild was this?
• 40:50
  This is more wrestle crap stuff. Uh huh.
• 40:53
  Absolutely. Does he ever wrestle?
• 40:56
  Yes. I don't Beaver cleavage.
• 40:57
  Like very briefly, right? Yeah, you don't remember his
• 41:01
  music. No, I vaguely do.
• 41:05
  Boring. Boring.
• 41:06
  Boring. Boring.
• 41:08
  Boring, boring. All right, so Matt just sent the
• 41:12
  text message of this mankind, Mr. Sacco and I have no.
• 41:17
  It's like a spatula it. Doesn't.
• 41:21
  But when you zoom in on it, it's like it's impressive.
• 41:24
  Yeah, the amount of detail that is on, Yeah, that airbrushed
• 41:29
  sock is wild. Wow.
• 41:32
  It's it's a wonder. They were selling those.
• 41:35
  No, I bet you that's I bet you that's why they changed it
• 41:38
  because Vince was like we can't sell those pal like or we can't
• 41:42
  make enough. Of those kids will be sticking
• 41:44
  their fingers at each other's mouths.
• 41:47
  Straight out of like the the mall in Bridgeport, Like that's
• 41:51
  what this is like. Yes.
• 41:53
  Not even in in Hartford. You had to go to Bridgeport to
• 41:55
  get this one done. Yeah.
• 41:58
  Next up we've got Jeff Jarrett versus Godfather in a match that
• 42:00
  goes under 2 minutes. Thank God it's a non title
• 42:04
  match. Godfather is the
• 42:05
  Intercontinental Champion. I don't even think he comes out
• 42:08
  with the title. No, I don't thinking about it.
• 42:12
  I don't remember seeing it. I do not remember, but anyways
• 42:16
  he. Does he does come out with hoes
• 42:18
  though? He.
• 42:18
  Does come out with hoes. Speaking of hoes, before the
• 42:21
  match, Jeff Jarrett comes out and he adds a little
• 42:24
  stipulation. He asks to make it a title match
• 42:28
  but God the Father says if Godfather wins he gets to have
• 42:33
  Deborah as a hoe and and Jim Jarrett and Deborah agree to
• 42:40
  this and Val Venus comes out and this is that weird era where Val
• 42:45
  is obsessed with Deborah and Owen is still around and so Val
• 42:51
  comes out. Only a few weeks before Over the
• 42:54
  Edge, by the way. Excellent, excellent point.
• 42:57
  So yeah, so it's it's leading up to over the edge, which is what
• 43:01
  like 2 weeks, 3 weeks later, like 3.
• 43:03
  Weeks like yeah. And so like I said, Val comes
• 43:07
  out, he starts hitting on Deborah, which draws Nicole Bass
• 43:10
  out. She chases Val Venus off and
• 43:13
  this distraction allows the Godfather to roll up Jeff
• 43:15
  Jarrett for the pin to retain the title.
• 43:18
  And then Owen comes out, you know, he's he's in the middle of
• 43:21
  his blue blazer gimmick, but he's dressed in his street
• 43:24
  clothes. And he grabs Deborah, pulls her
• 43:28
  out of there, even though she seems to like the idea of being
• 43:31
  one of the the hoes. It is some some peak Attitude
• 43:36
  era stuff. So here's the IC title is not
• 43:40
  around his waist when he comes out.
• 43:42
  He doesn't carry it. Nobody has it during the
• 43:45
  entrances. But at the very end of the
• 43:48
  match, all of the, you know, the, the Deborah thing happens
• 43:51
  and the hose get in the ring and the hose presents him the icy
• 43:57
  title and it just hands it to him.
• 43:59
  And then they all jump on him and he falls to the ground and
• 44:01
  all the hose and all that. But that's the only time that
• 44:06
  you see the title throughout this entire segment, this entire
• 44:09
  match. Geez.
• 44:10
  I didn't pick up on that though. No, all right.
• 44:13
  Afterwards, Vince is doing exactly the same thing.
• 44:17
  He's still at the loading dock, pacing.
• 44:19
  A lot of that. Seems to be a seems to be a
• 44:21
  theme throughout this episode with a lot of people, but we get
• 44:24
  another segment. I think they're trying to top
• 44:28
  the Beaver cleavage segment because we've got Terry and
• 44:32
  Jacqueline caressing meat, the wrestler Sean Stasiak as as
• 44:41
  Sexual chocolates. Music is playing in the
• 44:43
  background. And obviously it's not.
• 44:46
  It is your grandmother's sheets that are still all bundled up in
• 44:51
  a ball and sitting in the corner of a room somewhere and it's
• 44:54
  used as a backdrop. It's got like floral pattern on
• 44:57
  there. I think it's like it, it looks
• 45:00
  like watercolor floral pattern, but the sheet that's behind them
• 45:03
  is completely wrinkled and they're just caressing his chest
• 45:07
  as they are throwing many, many sexual innuendos out there.
• 45:11
  And this is another point of just bizarre, bizarre time that
• 45:17
  I don't necessarily remember this in the timeline of the
• 45:20
  Attitude Era. And.
• 45:24
  Again, Sexual Chocolates Music before it was Sexual Chocolates
• 45:27
  music is playing in the background throughout this whole
• 45:30
  segment, which is I always love those little Easter eggs when
• 45:33
  you find them. It's like the Kurt Angle's music
• 45:37
  was the Patriots, yeah. Next match we've got Bradshaw
• 45:41
  versus Ken Shamrock. I forgot to write down the time
• 45:43
  because I could give two shits about this match, but the it's
• 45:49
  the fallout from the Acolytes attacking Ken Shamrock last
• 45:52
  night at Backlash. Shamrock comes out carrying.
• 45:58
  What's he carrying? Anybody know?
• 45:59
  He's carrying a ball bat. A ball bat.
• 46:01
  And if I hear them refer to it as a God damn ball bat one more
• 46:05
  time throughout this episode of Raw, I'm going to lose my mind.
• 46:08
  Did I not have the rights to baseball?
• 46:11
  I don't know. Maybe.
• 46:13
  The ball bat. Vince doesn't want to give give
• 46:16
  any credit baseball, it's just all bat.
• 46:19
  It's a ball bat. You don't have the time on this
• 46:22
  because the match never. Never happens, right?
• 46:24
  That's why Tess comes out for a save and acolytes bail.
• 46:28
  Shamrock and Tess look at each other in a sign of respect and
• 46:33
  Shamrock destroys some stuff because he's a psychopath.
• 46:36
  And like Matt said, the match never happens.
• 46:39
  I must say that you say a sign of respect.
• 46:43
  I have to give a sign of respect to Farook, who is out there just
• 46:47
  putting on an absolute beating onto Ken Shamrock in leather
• 46:50
  pants. Ron White, Ron Simmons.
• 46:57
  Ron Simmons. Sorry, in leather pants is not
• 47:02
  something that I had in mind. And that like short sleeve skin
• 47:06
  tight. Yeah, it's like the Hardy Boys
• 47:08
  axles. Yeah.
• 47:09
  Yes. God.
• 47:12
  So our next match is Shane McMahon versus The Rock.
• 47:15
  As promised. This match goes 3 minutes.
• 47:19
  Rock, You know, starts to destroy Shane and this brings
• 47:22
  out the posse who are easily dispatched and Triple H comes
• 47:27
  out and China's there and they they just beat him down beat him
• 47:32
  down bad. It's what you would expect right
• 47:36
  from this segment we. Think so China gets involved as
• 47:40
  well, which I do enjoy watching China mix it up with the guys
• 47:44
  during this time period as well. And.
• 47:45
  Rock lays one into her. Yep, and that's what I was about
• 47:49
  to say is that she even takes some some damage here as well
• 47:53
  and Rock has no problem lacing one on into her.
• 47:56
  It I I guess maybe at this point in the raw I was just ready for
• 48:02
  the end. I think so.
• 48:03
  Like I, I was, I was just ready for the last segment knowing
• 48:08
  what it was. So, so we're just going to get
• 48:12
  there. So Vince leaves the garage,
• 48:14
  which, you know, Undertaker never showed up for.
• 48:17
  And then we cut to a scene where there's the ministry, which is
• 48:22
  the Undertaker Pallbearer, Midian Viscera, the Acolytes,
• 48:26
  and Paul is is holding a giant book, looks like a Bible or
• 48:32
  something. I don't know.
• 48:34
  And they're dragging Stephanie out.
• 48:36
  She's wearing a long black dress and she's out on, she's gonna be
• 48:41
  out on a cross. And then before where you think
• 48:46
  it's about to happen and then it's more xpoc.
• 48:49
  What are we doing here? Like.
• 48:51
  I thought that was of this hard choice.
• 48:54
  Even Jr., who's commentating on what's actually happening, and
• 48:58
  they take, they take Stephanie out of a cage, like a storage
• 49:01
  cage that's in the back of the arena.
• 49:03
  Bowels. Of the arena, pal.
• 49:06
  But like they even say Jr. says it looks like they're headed
• 49:09
  down to the ring and then you get back from commercial and
• 49:12
  it's friggin X pocket. Yeah, more X Pock.
• 49:15
  He's out there. He calls out Kane.
• 49:17
  He looks at the entrance, gets jumped by Owen Hart and Jeff
• 49:20
  Jarrett. Lights go out and Kane makes the
• 49:22
  save. X Pock asks what his problem is
• 49:26
  and you know, he confronts him. He gets choke slammed once again
• 49:29
  and then Kane carries him off and it's so romantic.
• 49:33
  That's so romantic. That's him on his shoulder.
• 49:36
  Yeah, it puts him over his shoulder and carries him out.
• 49:39
  Like a damsel in distress, Yeah. All right, let's get to this
• 49:42
  final segment because that is why we're here this week
• 49:44
  discussing this episode of Monday Night Raw.
• 49:47
  It's the the dark wedding. We're here for it.
• 49:50
  I think it's such an iconic Monday Night Raw moment.
• 49:55
  The lights go out, ministries, music starts to play, and it's
• 49:59
  like just this perfect build. It's got the classic like, like
• 50:03
  lights out, but only the purple light with a little bit of the
• 50:06
  fog look. And the ministry comes out with
• 50:10
  Stephanie. She's in that same gown and
• 50:12
  she's tied to the undertaker's symbol, which is like a giant
• 50:16
  cross. What do they refer to it as?
• 50:19
  Not a cross. They refuse to call it a cross
• 50:21
  the entire time because I'm sure they don't want it to, to come
• 50:25
  across as a crucifixion. But in the same breath, that's
• 50:28
  what we're looking. At but.
• 50:29
  The Undertaker symbol is AT with the X through it as well, right?
• 50:34
  It's the classic Undertaker logo that he wears on the side of his
• 50:37
  tights forever and ever, especially during this time
• 50:40
  period. But it, it's that massive piece
• 50:44
  of metal and it looks like they've done a really good job
• 50:47
  of like trying to make this look like it's made out of stone.
• 50:50
  Obviously it's not. But they hang this thing up,
• 50:52
  they drag it in, they drag it into the ring.
• 50:55
  Essentially, Stephanie is just sitting in the ring by herself,
• 50:58
  tied to the the symbol Undertaker's symbol.
• 51:01
  Lights are still out. Lights are still out.
• 51:03
  Now they have a spotlight on Stephanie as they prop the
• 51:07
  cross. I'm just going to call it a
• 51:08
  cross onto the top rope and it's just, it's a scene, man, like.
• 51:13
  This it really is. It's.
• 51:14
  One of those situations where you know your wife or your
• 51:18
  mother at the back in 1999 will walk in on and while you're
• 51:22
  watching wrestling and you're like.
• 51:23
  It'll be nice. Yeah.
• 51:25
  Oh, 100%. Exactly that.
• 51:27
  This is one of those iconic times where you're like, how am
• 51:30
  I going to explain this one? Better than them hearing Nicole
• 51:34
  best talk about the the trombone and but but yeah, I.
• 51:38
  Agree, I completely. Agree, Stephanie.
• 51:40
  Stephanie. Also, I can't decide if I
• 51:44
  appreciate her acting chops or feel like she's definitely
• 51:48
  Vince's daughter. Because we're the goddamn tears.
• 51:51
  All right? Give me the tears, Steph.
• 51:53
  I All right, OK, all right, all right.
• 51:55
  I was about to say that I give her credit.
• 51:58
  Here, I do too. No, I do too.
• 51:59
  I do too. I I enjoyed it and I thought she
• 52:02
  did a really a really good job for the time and what we're
• 52:06
  watching. She also, I said this earlier,
• 52:09
  she looks so incredibly young in 22 when she's on there like it,
• 52:14
  it's it's insane. She looks 22, like Mike said,
• 52:18
  she looks younger than 22 actually.
• 52:22
  So anyway, so she she's on there and Undertaker then gets on the
• 52:27
  mic as, as he says, this is on Vince's shoulders and Austin has
• 52:32
  shown his true colors. And then Paul Bearer opens up
• 52:35
  his book and starts reading what sounds like the opening of a
• 52:38
  marriage ceremony. We're here today to join
• 52:41
  Stephanie and the Undertaker in holy wedlock.
• 52:45
  And Stephanie, you just hear her.
• 52:47
  She's got no mic up to her. You can just hear her screaming.
• 52:50
  No, no, she sells it really well.
• 52:54
  She looks like she's terrified. Yeah, so.
• 52:58
  The whole scene is really well done because the first person
• 53:01
  out is Ken Shamrock. He runs out with his ball bat
• 53:06
  and the acolytes take him down immediately. 1 pins the legs
• 53:10
  down, one pill pins the arms and the ball bat down and Viscera
• 53:15
  puts a big splash on him laying him out right away, which is.
• 53:18
  Like a viscera bellow. It says that where that came
• 53:24
  from, I didn't know what it was it.
• 53:26
  It does make sense that it's viscera.
• 53:31
  We come, we cut to the back and and Shane is like kind of
• 53:35
  conflicted and the corporation is conflicted again because like
• 53:41
  Shane and Vince are butting heads at this time.
• 53:43
  So Shane, you know, tells him no, not yet, don't go out yet.
• 53:47
  Paul Bear continues to read as Big Show comes out.
• 53:50
  He takes out the acolytes and Viscera only for the Undertaker
• 53:54
  to take him at with the ball bat.
• 53:57
  Stop calling it the ball bat and the rest of the ministry just
• 54:01
  hammers on big show on the floor as Bearer announces the union
• 54:05
  the the holy union. He says to kiss the bride and
• 54:10
  let's listen then. Let's listen to go because it
• 54:13
  requires the audio and don't don't ruin it, just let the
• 54:16
  listener enjoy and. They're on him now.
• 54:19
  They're on him. Harvested in me by the Lord of
• 54:23
  Darkness, I now pronounce you as the unholy union of darkness.
• 54:29
  You may now kiss your. Bride Oh, for God's sake,
• 54:33
  gossip, here it comes. Don't go, don't go.
• 54:47
  I wish we could just continue to watch that whole thing because
• 54:50
  it is like it. The whole segment is incredibly
• 54:55
  well done. You know, like with the other
• 54:57
  top baby faces coming out trying to to make an effort to help.
• 55:01
  Like you're not going to see D Lo Brown or Val Venus come out,
• 55:04
  but you know, you got the big guns like Big Show and and Ken
• 55:07
  Shamrock. It makes you think Austin might
• 55:10
  not come, too. Right, exactly.
• 55:12
  But then, oh God, it's just one of those things where you hear
• 55:15
  the glass break and you still get a little bit of chills and
• 55:18
  you're like, God, I'm so good. I didn't mention either.
• 55:24
  Like throughout the whole thing, when Paul Bearer is reading out
• 55:27
  of his book, Undertaker is just like awkwardly caressing
• 55:30
  Stephanie's face, like palming it and like it just the whole
• 55:34
  thing is really strange and very oddly done.
• 55:38
  I. Love that while Nick is
• 55:40
  describing it, he has his hand against his own face and it's
• 55:44
  it's covering Phantom of the Opera.
• 55:47
  Yeah, it's, it's very strange the way like the way he does it.
• 55:51
  But Austin charges down as we just listened to he runs over
• 55:55
  Midian before destroying the Undertaker.
• 56:00
  He finds a chair and the chair shot that he lands on Bradshaw's
• 56:04
  head is so uncomfortable to watch.
• 56:07
  He's just like, see the dent happening.
• 56:10
  Yeah, and then he skims Farooq's head with it after.
• 56:15
  It's skim. That's the perfect word because
• 56:17
  that's it's like tops the top of it.
• 56:20
  Man, Viscera and and Midian both take the chair shots as the
• 56:24
  ministry runs off. Austin looks at Stephanie,
• 56:27
  unties her from the symbol and you know he's the hero and and
• 56:31
  Stephanie gives him a big hug. Vince doesn't hug her back.
• 56:35
  Finally, we get Vince come out. Austin just stands there with
• 56:39
  his hands up like like don't shoot, you know, like as as
• 56:44
  Vince now comes down but Austin does not hug Stephanie back,
• 56:47
  which I thought was an interesting choice but obviously
• 56:49
  makes sense, especially as Big Boss is about to come down.
• 56:54
  Right Vince comes out, you know, as the the father and daughter
• 56:57
  hug it out and Vince thanks Austin to end the show.
• 57:00
  It's just like it's such an interesting layer to the whole
• 57:04
  Vince and Austin story and I I I love it.
• 57:08
  It's like your classic hero standing up to the bad guy to
• 57:12
  save the damsel in distress. And it's.
• 57:14
  It's funny that you say that because did you notice how many
• 57:18
  times Jr. had to get across that?
• 57:20
  Austin isn't doing it for Vince. He's doing it because it's the
• 57:23
  right thing to do. He says it three different
• 57:27
  times. Oh my.
• 57:28
  God Minute and 1/2, he just has to drive home that Austin is
• 57:32
  doing what's right. Not because it's for Vince
• 57:34
  McMahon. You know that that's something
• 57:37
  that Vince had to drive. Home of like 0100.
• 57:39
  Percent. So dare tell me he's helping.
• 57:46
  Oh. God, all right, so this episode
• 57:48
  of raw there's there's there's nothing Halloweeny about it.
• 57:55
  Like there's nothing. There's no pumpkins, there's no
• 57:57
  costumes, but the end is just it's creepy and it's like
• 58:03
  fantastic storytelling if you ask me, like and I think it fits
• 58:06
  so well for Halloween. I'm going to go first.
• 58:09
  I'm giving this four cans in the cooler because I thoroughly
• 58:14
  enjoyed it Took me. It just took me back this
• 58:18
  episode. It's not like there's anything
• 58:21
  before this end segment that is fantastic or must see.
• 58:25
  It just brought me back. I felt like I was in 1999.
• 58:29
  I was in high school. I felt like I was watching
• 58:31
  Monday Night Raw and I don't know.
• 58:33
  For me it delivered, especially the ending.
• 58:36
  It totally delivered for me. I thought that you were going to
• 58:39
  go higher, to be honest with you.
• 58:40
  It is that I said it before. It's that sweet spot for
• 58:45
  Attitude Era nostalgia. That's exactly what this is.
• 58:48
  I'm going to go 4 1/2. And it's not because of the
• 58:51
  wrestling in any way, shape or form.
• 58:53
  Quite frankly, the wrestling on this card is awful.
• 58:56
  It's dogs, but the storytelling and the flow of the episode,
• 59:01
  There is a flow of this episode where there is this drawn out
• 59:05
  story throughout the entire evening and you are following
• 59:08
  along every single segment. I wish I'd actually walked
• 59:11
  through and like counted the number of times that you either
• 59:15
  see Vince or this segment as a whole or this story as a whole
• 59:18
  throughout the entirety of the hour and a half.
• 59:21
  It's. Not even, it's not even just
• 59:22
  that story. They're trying to weave in the
• 59:24
  whole ex PAC and cane thing throughout it and and you know,
• 59:29
  Venus and and just everything it's, I don't know, it's really
• 59:33
  well done the. Ability for them to tell
• 59:37
  multiple stories throughout one evening and all give them you
• 59:42
  know, it's just do I know that, you know, Austin, obviously, and
• 59:46
  and this whole, you know, Undertaker storyline is going to
• 59:48
  get the majority of it. But you sprinkle in these other
• 59:51
  things that keep the episode rolling and it wasn't a time
• 59:54
  where you're like, it feels like a slog.
• 59:57
  You know, it doesn't like trying to force yourself to finish the
• 1:00:00
  homework. I like sat down and was just
• 1:00:02
  eating it up. 100%. Just like Beaver cleavage was in
• 1:00:06
  that that. I'd be curious, I'd be curious
• 1:00:10
  if you could see the breakdown of time, like there's probably
• 1:00:13
  what, 25 minutes of wrestling in this whole thing of like an hour
• 1:00:17
  and a half. And that's fine.
• 1:00:18
  And I know there's plenty of people back then that couldn't
• 1:00:20
  stand that and they didn't like that direction of the company.
• 1:00:23
  But as a high school kid and like watching it back 26 years
• 1:00:28
  later or 25 years, whatever it is, it I I thought it delivered.
• 1:00:33
  I I did too, Mikey, what you got?
• 1:00:35
  100% delivered. I, I'll give it a 4 1/2 as well.
• 1:00:39
  You know, just, I was entertained back then.
• 1:00:43
  I was entertained. Now I I would watch it again
• 1:00:46
  just from the iconic segment with Stephanie to all the
• 1:00:54
  backstage segments to even the matches and even the parts were,
• 1:01:00
  you know, the wrestle crap parts were like, right, you know,
• 1:01:03
  1999. It's meat and Beaver cleavage.
• 1:01:06
  Like it's just enough. Of it, it's just.
• 1:01:08
  Enough of it. Little little bits and pieces
• 1:01:11
  like to snack on for you. Yeah, like, like I said earlier
• 1:01:15
  when we first started, I feel like when I watched this
• 1:01:17
  episode, I remembered watching it in high school in 1999 and I,
• 1:01:23
  it just like took me back. There's so much of this episode
• 1:01:26
  that I remembered actually watching.
• 1:01:28
  When you, when you think back to Austin, there's like those
• 1:01:32
  iconic, iconic moments and you know, the milk truck and stuff
• 1:01:36
  like that. I feel like this is like the
• 1:01:38
  second tier of that and the glass breaking and the massive
• 1:01:42
  pop that happens after that. Him coming down, running in and
• 1:01:46
  delivering this massive clothesline to Midian and then
• 1:01:49
  he tumbles, does a somersault down the aisle way just because
• 1:01:53
  of the the amount of force that he put into that clothesline.
• 1:01:55
  Like this is one of those classic moments of Austin
• 1:01:59
  hitting the ring to finish off night and to just pop the crowd
• 1:02:03
  in the this way possible. And it felt really friggin good
• 1:02:06
  to watch it and. What a story this was too.
• 1:02:10
  Yes, absolutely. And as an awesome guy, checks
• 1:02:13
  every box. This made me want like, if, if,
• 1:02:18
  if WWE had their network or had their ducks in a row, This made
• 1:02:22
  me want to tune into the next week of raw and, and, and
• 1:02:26
  backtrack and be like, where did they go the following week and
• 1:02:30
  the week after and leading up to Backlash over the Edge where,
• 1:02:34
  you know, so for, for me, that's cool.
• 1:02:37
  And you know, like when I watch my TV shows, that's what I want.
• 1:02:40
  I want something that's going to hook me into the next episode.
• 1:02:44
  Yeah, so you remember Over the Edge, the title match was Austin
• 1:02:48
  versus the Undertaker. Undertaker beats him.
• 1:02:51
  Right, Yep, good stuff. All right, so thank you guys for
• 1:02:58
  listening to this this spooky episode.
• 1:03:00
  The next episode that we're going to drop is going to land
• 1:03:02
  in November. So I, I think you have an idea
• 1:03:06
  of where we're headed with that as we rapidly approach not only
• 1:03:12
  not only our 200th episode, but our five year anniversary, which
• 1:03:16
  is bonkers to me. We're going to keep talking
• 1:03:19
  about it. We're going to keep building it
• 1:03:20
  up. We we're going to figure
• 1:03:21
  something out and it's going to be a of banger.
• 1:03:24
  I'm really excited for it. I can't wait for that.
• 1:03:28
  I can't wait for episode 195 in two weeks.
• 1:03:31
  So cheers to everybody out there listening.
• 1:03:34
  I hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
• 1:03:35
  Thank you again to all your friends about the extra cooler
• 1:03:38
  show. We'll see you next Week. 2
• 1:03:41
  weeks. One more thing.
• 1:03:43
  Yeah, I want to give a special shout out to have a happy early
• 1:03:48
  birthday to the gobbledygooker himself.
• 1:03:49
  Yes, yes, this is going to drop in in between those.
• 1:03:53
  So happy early birthday, Matt. Well, thank you.
• 1:03:57
  I didn't know I was the gobbledygooker, but I
• 1:03:59
  appreciate. It today but.
• 1:04:00
  You are today. Yes.
• 1:04:03
  Here's the 43. Yeah, how about that?
• 1:04:05
  Yeah. Welcome to the club, almost.
• 1:04:07
  Yeah, last one, last one. Cheers guys.
• 1:04:11
  See you. I now put out you as the unholy
• 1:04:16
  you.