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  Team is back. And before we get started, was
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  that Chris Isaak playing in the background of Sunny in the
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  bathtub at? I believe that was wicked,
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  wicked game, no? Are you going to ask if that was
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  Chris Isaak in the bathtub? Now he's doing.
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  I don't think so. Oh.
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  Heats up this time of year, baby, as the rumble approaches.
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  Speaking of the Royal Rumble, welcome to our Royal Rumble
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  episode, episode 199. Every year in January, as usual,
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  we cover a Royal Rumble, and this year's no different.
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  We're covering the 1996 Royal Rumble.
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  And that was sunny in the beginning there from the Oh,
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  thank you for that. You got a well, Vince.
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  There's a lot of that in this. Rumble Oh, man.
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  So before we do, Matt, I'm going to pass it along to you for some
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  housekeeping. Well, enough is enough.
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  It's time for. Housekeeping.
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  So last episode was our Christmas holiday episode where
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  we focused in on, you know, all of our wrestling wine cellar, I
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  think is what Jim has called it in the past.
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  So this time around it was all holiday Christmas themed, all
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  the fun things, and we learned about the 12 days of Christmas
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  from the Rock as he performed that little, little tune in the
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  middle of the ring. And then the question was
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  brought up, I think. Pretty Sure by Nick.
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  Was this the very first time that The Rock sang on WWE
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  television? WWF television?
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  So that Smack Down that that it was on was December 20th, 2001
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  and I really struggled with this housekeeping man.
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  I tried to do my own in in in my own search my own Googling that
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  did not include AI. I've learned that problem,
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  although I didn't find a direct answer.
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  So I really went in and I dope deep dove.
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  I spend way too much time doing this homework or this.
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  Tough one man. That's a 10 stuff.
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  It really is. I found a sports Kita or no, no,
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  no, I'm sorry. The Sportster did a every every.
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  The rock singing segment ranked from worst to best.
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  There were 10 listed and the earliest one that I found on
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  that list was him singing Happy Birthday to Stephanie McMahon.
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  It was her 25th birthday in September of 2001.
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  So I think that is the earliest. It's a little PG13, but I think
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  we opened up with Sunny. So it's kind of setting the
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  tone. So let let's let's enjoy the
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  rock singing. Happy Birthday.
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  So Stephanie, allow the rock to sing you a very special birthday
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  song. Happy birthday to Steph.
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  You're a hoe with big brass, so take the night off from hooking
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  if you smell what the rock is cooking.
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  Not quite. You're welcome.
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  Yeah, not quite. You're welcome.
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  But I actually think this this was not the first time.
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  So I think this may be the first time that he was singing live.
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  But back in February of 2001, the WWE or WWF, the music Volume
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  5 came out and The Rock had a song called Pie.
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  Oh yeah, I. Remember that.
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  Nick, Nick and Jim are both remembering it.
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  It was a Jim Johnston joint, if you will, and Slick Rick was on
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  the. Track and he had a song.
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  He had a song with Wyclef too. I was gonna say I was like, did
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  you have a song? Was that just like a nightmare I
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  had? I.
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  Know. Yeah, it's both.
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  This one, this one was. But regardless, John, that was
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  kind of our introduction to rock singing or his capability of
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  singing. Yeah, way, way before.
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  You're welcome. But yeah, I think what I've
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  narrowed it down is that happy birthday to Stephanie McMahon in
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  September 2001 was really the first time.
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  But there are a ton of rock singing gimmicks at the end of
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  20 of the end of 2001 all the way into 2003, and then even
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  more so when he came back for the Cena feuds in 2012 and 13.
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  So it was wild. It was a a crazy housekeeping to
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  do. Would you rather have to listen
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  to the Haxel and Jim Duggan song that we covered?
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  I Wasn't There, I Know or the Wyclef in Rock song?
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  What was the name of the song? I don't know it.
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  Doesn't it doesn't matter. It doesn't.
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  Yeah, it doesn't. Matter.
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  I would rather listen to It Doesn't Matter for the rest of
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  my life once a day than listen to the Duggan song one more
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  time. That's a piss poor take.
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  I'm I disagree. I'm with.
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  I'm with Gigolo here. Oh man.
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  What? All right, let's let's get back
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  to why we're really here this episode and that is the 1996
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  Royal Rumble takes place Sunday, January 21st, 1996 from the
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  Selland Arena. Selland Arena in Fresno, CA
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  commentators are Vince and Mr. Perfect Fink is doing the ring
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  announcing. You've got Doc Hendrix, who we I
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  feel like we've covered a lot in the last.
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  Like a lot of doc, yeah. Six months or so and Todd
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  Pettengill sprinkled in there. So actually, before the event,
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  the first ever free for all took place, it was the.
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  First ever. And that's according to
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  Wikipedia, it is. They say it on the broadcast.
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  Yeah. So I didn't watch that, but
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  they, they, they have AI didn't watch that.
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  Oh. Oh, OK.
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  OK, sorry. You got Duke the dumpster Drossi
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  facing off against Hunter Hurst Helmsley in a singles match to
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  figure out who gets to enter the Rumble at #30 Hunter.
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  Gets and the loser gets one, right?
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  Loser gets one as well. That's a big.
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  Match to throw on the channel that has the scrolling.
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  You know, pretty wild. I wonder if they're younger
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  listeners even know what the TV Guide channel was.
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  Definitely. Definitely not Duke.
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  Duke wins because Hunter uses brass knuckles and gets caught
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  after he is deemed the winner. So the decision is reversed and
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  Hunter, hers, Helmsley has to enter #1 And I think we'll talk
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  a little bit more about this later because I've got some some
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  pressing questions for you guys. And the the important part here
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  is that that's when Gorilla Monsoon made his presence known
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  for the very first time of the evening, because we're going to
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  see him a couple more times throughout.
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  And in the opener, after Sonny in the bathtub listening to
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  Chris Isaak. With picture on the toilet.
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  Filming. Hopefully filming.
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  I don't know. Anyway, we're getting a little
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  too deep into this. Yeah, we've got ominous.
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  Vince is in that room right though.
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  Vince is in the room. Oh yes, yes, picture him like in
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  the doorway like. Oh man, armor.
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  Like. He's wearing a turtleneck.
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  Y'all nothing. Definitely tucked in.
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  Linda's doing the comatose face. Comatose face in the hallway
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  somewhere. Ahmed Johnson faces off against
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  Double J Jeff Jarrett. This match sucks.
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  I. Don't know how much Ahmed is
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  still like getting pumped up huge here he is undefeated at
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  this point in time. Mr. Perfect calls him WWFS Mike
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  Tyson. That's the level at which WWF is
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  trying to push Ahmed Johnson at this point in 1996.
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  Mike Tyson, you watch was. Probably in jail at this point.
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  You watch this card and you're like especially when we get into
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  the Rumble, this is always my biggest gripe with Royal Rumbles
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  and the pre matches, right? This match featured Ahmed
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  Johnson and Jeff Jarrett, 2 guys who could have easily replaced
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  many different people in the Royal Rumble match itself and
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  probably made it bigger. And then another match that
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  we're going to cover Gold Dust and Razor Ramon.
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  Imagine you have those four guys in the Royal Rumble match itself
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  and pull four and. I'm sure we. 4.
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  Worst guys? Yeah, you could.
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  We could do that easily. We'll get there.
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  But after before we get to Gold Dust and Razor, there is A tag
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  team match and it's the Smoking Guns defeating the body Donna.
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  Smoking Guns are the defending tag team champions.
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  They're defeating the Body Donnas, who has Sunny with them,
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  and this whole match is just about Sunny.
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  It's got nothing else to do with the.
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  Other Sunny is the tag team division at this point.
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  Yes, yes, yeah. It's 11 minutes and 14 seconds,
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  and the only thing that matters is Sunny taking a bump off the
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  apron. That's it.
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  There are some interesting spots like some interesting camera
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  angles of Sunny that feel very attitude era esque of like you
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  know, under her skirt type thing.
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  And it's. Oh, 96, you're still PG.
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  Yeah, it's still. It's still.
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  Ahead. Of that time, the attitude error
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  time, but it's very voyeurish, It's very strange.
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  It was I think that's what you'll find about this car,
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  though, is that they have their like both of their feet WDF that
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  is like 1 foot is in attitude and the other foot is still in
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  this 90 like new generation era, right.
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  So it's it's, it's awkward because it's very gimmicky in
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  some places, but then it's kind of very like, yeah, it's the
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  right word. But it's like very like, you
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  know, they're headed in a totally different.
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  Direction, yeah, they're breaking down that wall.
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  When you think about it, I don't know at what point a little bit,
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  but they they dropped the billionaire Ted segment, which
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  is like that's really the when they started doing that.
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  And like, you know, ripping on Macho and Hogan, that was like
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  the first time we started to see them even mention WCW.
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  The pieces are in place, yeah. So, well, Nitro is fairly new at
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  this point. Correct.
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  And the billionaire Ted stuff happens directly after this
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  smoking gun. So the Smoking Guns match and
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  yeah, they're they're ripping into Hogan and Macho Man or
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  Nacho Man in the huckster at this.
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  Point. This you take it for granted
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  now, this is shocking at the time to see this kind of WDF
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  television, you know, like it's like, whoa, not just, you know,
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  looking at the 4th wall or whatever, it's like taking a
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  sledgehammer to it and not it's just, you know, you didn't see
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  it at this time. I've got 11 seconds.
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  Let's take a listen, Hulkster. What if we called you the the
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  the boy toy? Yeah, that's good.
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  How are? You.
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  So all you know Ted, is very Bill Clinton Y.
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  Yeah. Yes, very.
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  He talks about Turner and WCW in that whole clip.
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  It's just it's terrible. But like Jim said, it was
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  shocking for this year. I remember as a kid being like,
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  whoa, what is going on right now?
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  These guys are down South, right?
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  And then we stroll directly into something even more shocking,
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  with Gold Dust taking on Razor Ramone.
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  Yeah, so gold dust. Razor Ramone is for the
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  Intercontinental Championship. Razor is the defending champ.
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  They give this match almost 15 minutes and it's it's
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  interesting because when you think about the timeline, Razor
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  Scott Hall is pretty much on his way out.
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  It's the last pay-per-view, right?
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  At least major pay-per-view. Of like, I believe so.
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  Yeah, I believe so. He's not a WrestleMania.
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  No, and and Goldust is is relatively new, right?
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  And the there's a lot of rumors that circulate this whole feud
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  that Scott Hall wasn't comfortable with it.
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  He didn't want to do it. He wanted to do work.
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  A program with Triple H is one of the things I read.
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  Instead they put him with gold dust.
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  He just wasn't comfortable with the character is you know what
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  I've always heard. Either way, I, I, I, I think it
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  works. I think it's one of the more
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  underrated gold dust feuds, but it is super.
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  Entertaining. Yeah, it's got some really edgy
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  stuff. Like really uncomfortably edgy
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  stuff, you know, gold dust. Just like groping Razor
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  throughout the match, you know? All the stuff leading up to it
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  too. Yeah, yeah, the.
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  Tattoo of razor on his chest. Upper chest.
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  And this is the debut of Marlena that what do they call her the.
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  The that woman, like that woman, they don't even know what to
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  call her. Yeah, like, oh, that, that, that
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  woman. Yeah, it's it's and, and there's
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  also an Otter with them as well. That's with the little hat.
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  You. Know is them delivering raise
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  your letters and stuff. Oh man it was entertaining but I
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  I remember like watching it but I didn't remember the ending.
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  So the ending is Marlena comes in, she starts to act hobbled
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  and 123 kids comes in and hits Razor from off the top rope and
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  gold dust covers him for the pin.
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  Something that I like, didn't remember and didn't see coming.
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  This first belt too, right? Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. Again, if you pop these two guys
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  in the rumble, man, that could have been really entertaining.
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  But. Yeah, but I do enjoy, I mean, as
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  an Intercontinental title match too, right?
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  Like this is, I know you consider gold dust as like one
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  of the more underrated intercontinental champions,
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  especially for the era. This is like right before the
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  belt gets kind of like bastardized too.
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  And it's like it's passed around, everybody gets it and it
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  just loses its luster. This is still the old school
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  belt and it's going from Razor, who was a great intercontinental
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  champion. You know, he picks it up at that
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  battle royal week covered in episode 52.
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  I believe it was Matt, right, if you want.
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  No, that's a. That's a wild step.
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  That was. Impressive.
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  I would say it's in the 30s. All right, 30s Yeah, I.
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  Think it's before that, but keep going.
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  Yeah, but no so and it's it. He looks great with the belt
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  too. I think Gold does so I think.
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  Yeah, it fits. I 100% agree with your point
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  that like he puts these two in the Rumble and it's especially
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  since Razor Ramon has never been in a rumble.
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  We would love to see that He never will be in a rumble.
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  Obviously it's yeah, but I I still think this match is is
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  worth it. You can.
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  Yes. Oh yeah, Without this match,
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  then, then the whole pay-per-view is like, really?
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  Yes, you know, this is the. This is the highlight of the
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  undercard including. I agree.
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  I agree. And then, you know, as I'm
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  watching, I this is not a Royal Rumble that I've rewatched many
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  times. As I'm watching after this, we
• 16:18
  head right into the Royal Rumble and you're kind of like, whoa,
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  hold up, hold up. There's still a main event.
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  And I am not a fan of when they they don't finish with the Royal
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  Rumble. Always bogus.
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  Yeah, I don't think it. I think you like tip your hand,
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  like, I don't know. It's tough because it makes you
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  think something's going to happen in the main event.
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  And in this one, nothing really happens.
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  It's Undertaker with Ball Bear facing off against Bret Hart,
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  who's the champion. And this match, they give almost
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  1/2 hour, 28 minutes and 30 seconds.
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  I guess we're jumping the lead here, but Diesel gets involved,
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  which leads to disqualification, essentially.
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  And we'll talk more about that at the end of the Royal Rumble.
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  Don't 30 minutes before watching that.
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  Yeah, I know this is a decent match.
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  It's regarded as such, right? But a good match but like 30
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  minutes is a lot for like pre 2000s Undertaker.
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  I'm sorry. Like the problem was is that
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  Undertaker controls the pacing of pretty much the entire match.
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  That's why it goes 30 minutes and it's.
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  No good? Probably.
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  Weird to watch Bret Hart essentially not feel in control
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  of the match. I'm sure when when it's wrestler
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  to wrestler, I'm sure Brett led the entire thing.
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  Like I I wouldn't be surprised in any way shape or form.
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  But like, like Nick said, it ends in this shitty
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  disqualification. So, you know, Diesel keeps the
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  Undertaker from winning the title.
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  They're shooting at an angle. They're getting to WrestleMania
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  12. This is going to be the, you
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  know, the Diesel Undertaker match, for better or for worse.
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  But yeah, that's really where this is all coming from.
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  And Brett is really pulling out the heal tactics.
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  You know, typical Brett taking the the turnbuckle pad off,
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  using it against the Undertaker and ripping his mask off because
• 18:06
  this is masked Undertaker. Phantom Undertaker.
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  So yeah, this is, you know, by the end of the the match here,
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  Taker is getting cheers and Brett's getting loose.
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  Weird. Too bad Mabel couldn't have
• 18:19
  finished the job with that. I'm going to leg drop I'm.
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  Going to hit pause here for a second because I just did the
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  housekeeping in the moment. It was episode 15.
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  Razor gets more gold, Intercontinental Championship
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  battle royal Monday Night Raw October of 1993.
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  So this thing we released June 3rd of 2021.
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  It's kind of crazy that Razor floated around in the
• 18:45
  Intercontinental title scene for that long, 93 to 96.
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  Like he never really main evented except for like his
• 18:54
  start and his debut. You know, like with that
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  Survivor Series. Theories in the Royal Rumble.
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  He's against Brett. Yeah.
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  No, it's. Yeah.
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  He's the intercontinental guy, despite the fact that he's built
• 19:04
  like, Oh my God, Guy. Yeah.
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  And there was, you know, slim pick and there was slim pick in
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  there. Let's just recycle the feud.
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  Same feuds with the same three or four guys.
• 19:16
  Yeah, they want to keep giving. Bulldogs.
• 19:18
  Yeah, Brett and Lawler at the top of the card like.
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  Oh God. All right, before we talk about
• 19:24
  the Royal Rumble itself, let's talk about what's in everybody's
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  Zubaz. The Bills go bells the playoff
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  game this weekend. So yeah, that's it.
• 21:16
  It's perfect. Maggle.
• 21:18
  You got crickets. What?
• 21:22
  What? You were like go bills and like
• 21:26
  it went quiet. Oh yeah.
• 21:28
  Fair enough, fair enough. I got a pyrony Italian.
• 21:35
  Speaking of pilsners, yeah, another pilsner.
• 21:37
  Another really good pilsner in my.
• 21:39
  Classic. Pilsner Italian best time.
• 21:42
  I've got that in my fridge as well and I almost went with that
• 21:45
  but I've been feeling the Guinness lately.
• 21:47
  I know I'm a few months early, but I've got a Guinness.
• 21:50
  I could go for a Guinness too. Halfway done so.
• 21:53
  Guinness is always good, it goes down so smooth.
• 21:56
  It does, and I'm old and the carbonation kills me.
• 21:59
  So this one's, this one's great. It's nice, it's delicious, it's
• 22:03
  a treat. Talk about a treat.
• 22:06
  Talking about the Royal Romo with you guys is a real treat,
• 22:08
  especially this one. I think we're going to.
• 22:10
  Have some fun Sirmo. Is a treat too.
• 22:12
  He he is. He is.
• 22:14
  And I recommend when we come out with that beer, you guys all
• 22:17
  come and get it. You'll be the first to know on
• 22:18
  our discord. So from Fresno, CA, Vince and
• 22:23
  Mr. Perfect. They're on the call and Vince of
• 22:27
  course, is explaining his rules and his very articulate Vince
• 22:30
  McMahon like way well. He doesn't instead of the Fink.
• 22:34
  I know Fink does not explain the rules.
• 22:36
  I think he's like, let's speed this shit up on this.
• 22:38
  And they're not. He is very articulate.
• 22:43
  You're right. Like he like he knows exactly
• 22:45
  what the it's his invention, right?
• 22:47
  Yeah. So.
• 22:48
  He, he and Mr. Perfect are not ringside.
• 22:52
  Patterson. They are, they are in the aisle.
• 22:55
  Like I I don't actually know where they're located to be
• 22:59
  honest. They never really show like.
• 23:01
  It's the Superstars location, right?
• 23:04
  Yeah. It kind of makes you wonder if
• 23:05
  they're green screened in, but they're they're definitely not.
• 23:08
  But here we go. Kurt Henning is wearing, you
• 23:12
  know, of course I, I've said enough about this, the European
• 23:16
  collar on this show. But he's like, you have to point
• 23:18
  it out like. Yeah, the neck and everything.
• 23:21
  Right, if we ever do the live podcast episode 300, I guess
• 23:25
  we're gonna all wear European collars for the.
• 23:28
  Like I like. It oh God.
• 23:31
  So before the match, we've got some backstage promos.
• 23:34
  First starts off with Doctor. I forget his name.
• 23:38
  Doctor Jeffrey Younger. Yeah, thank you.
• 23:40
  He's going to be at ringside to make sure everything with Shawn
• 23:43
  Michaels is OK so. Is he there?
• 23:45
  I don't know. I.
• 23:46
  Never think Shawn at all. That's.
• 23:47
  A load of bullshit. They this is coming fresh off
• 23:51
  the storyline of Owen. Not often we get a mic dropping
• 23:54
  a curl. I kind of like it.
• 23:58
  This is fresh off the storyline of Owen hitting Sean with the
• 24:02
  Inseguri and him getting concussed and being out of
• 24:04
  action for a while. So they're really they're really
• 24:08
  diving into that during this match.
• 24:10
  So after the doctor gives his speech, how he's a little
• 24:13
  nervous for Sean, we get a full rundown of a cast of characters.
• 24:18
  And let me tell you, this is how you're going to promote your
• 24:22
  Royal Rumble. Who?
• 24:25
  Who kicks it off? Owen.
• 24:27
  Owen kicks it off. He dropped, I think he says
• 24:31
  Royal Rumble like 3 times in like a 22nd span.
• 24:34
  He's talking. More about Sean than himself.
• 24:36
  I'm going to win the Royal Rumble, and I'm going to
• 24:39
  eliminate Shawn Michaels from the Royal Rumble.
• 24:42
  All right, Owen, you said it too many times.
• 24:44
  Damn it. Then we got Lawler.
• 24:47
  Lawler does a pretty decent job Jake with his like, you know,
• 24:51
  holy attitude. Yeah, no, he's wearing his
• 24:53
  smock. Is Jake the smock now?
• 24:55
  It's like. Yeah, I should get those made
• 25:00
  from my Art Room. Just Jake the Snake smocks.
• 25:03
  Yeah, a little slap, you know, snake print on the smocks.
• 25:06
  The the problem is is that the front like where you button it
• 25:09
  doesn't close all. The way so I.
• 25:12
  Don't think it'd be good for your classroom, although I wear
• 25:14
  it that classic like send your dad's shirt in and.
• 25:17
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 25:19
  So you'd have to wear it that way.
• 25:21
  Jake looks like ass, right? Like, oh, he looks terrible.
• 25:24
  We're supposed to get excited about this.
• 25:26
  I know like. This.
• 25:28
  Jake here is like one of the reasons why people start to get
• 25:32
  getting like worried about him. Yeah.
• 25:35
  He. He, you know, he's clean.
• 25:37
  He's clean. Though.
• 25:39
  Yeah, yeah. He looks like crap.
• 25:41
  Yeah. We'll talk about, we'll talk
• 25:44
  about Jake a little bit more because.
• 25:46
  He is a reptile guy, but he looks like the guy that like
• 25:48
  comes to the elementary school with the snakes, you know?
• 25:51
  Like, yes, he does. So yeah, here's your 10 bucks.
• 25:54
  Get the hell out of here. We get Vader.
• 25:57
  Who They're not letting speak. They're making us listen to Jim
• 26:00
  Cornette, which is annoying and frustrating.
• 26:04
  Vader does smash his. Head into the lockers, which
• 26:07
  looks painful. Yeah, you want to get.
• 26:10
  Excited for the Royal Rumble. Put Barry horrible wits on the
• 26:14
  screen. This guy, holy cow.
• 26:17
  First of all, he says something about winning the World
• 26:21
  Wrestling Federation. He can't even say the word
• 26:25
  federation. He's so nervous because he's
• 26:28
  actually got a chance to enter the Rumble and I'm like, oh boy,
• 26:31
  here we go. I like he tells us that he's.
• 26:33
  He's like, I'm confident and I'm happy.
• 26:35
  Like he's what you're not talking to.
• 26:36
  Like you're therapist here. Like you're about to enter the
• 26:38
  Royal Rumble. Like.
• 26:40
  We don't need, we don't need your, you know, like your, you
• 26:43
  know what your status is for it you're out and then.
• 26:46
  And then of course, Sean, Sean is there and I wonder between
• 26:52
  the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 12, how many times
• 26:55
  we have to listen to them say something about the boyhood
• 26:58
  dream. Oh yeah, and him reference that,
• 27:00
  the 12 year old boy because Oh my God.
• 27:04
  But anyway, he's going to do it again.
• 27:06
  He's like such a super. Baby.
• 27:08
  Face here this is probably. Like 1 of not for his matches,
• 27:13
  but the gimmick during this point in time, not so much at
• 27:17
  this point, maybe a little bit before this was like my least
• 27:20
  favorite Sean era like the mirrors on the hat.
• 27:23
  And this is just I don't know. It's it's corny.
• 27:26
  They don't know I they don't know how to use him.
• 27:29
  Like I I understand he could be a babyface, but the guy is
• 27:33
  clearly not meant to be a babyface during this era.
• 27:35
  Like it's dial, it's 100. Percent babyface too.
• 27:38
  There's no like, nuance aside, the weird stripper.
• 27:42
  Stuff which comes later, but. Yeah.
• 27:43
  Oh yeah, we'll talk about. That So anyway, so as we said on
• 27:47
  the first free for all Duke, the dumpster Drosi beating Triple H
• 27:51
  so Triple H or I'm sorry, Hunter Hurst Helmsley has to come in
• 27:54
  first. So he starts off with who I.
• 27:59
  I. Always think is.
• 28:01
  His first real WWF rival, and it's Henry Godwin.
• 28:04
  And the two of them start off, and I think that's one of my
• 28:09
  favorite Royal Rumble like traditions, is when they start
• 28:15
  off with some sort of throwback feud from, you know, two guys
• 28:19
  that are no longer feuding. They haven't been feuding for a
• 28:22
  while, but we're going to revisit it for yeah, we we meet
• 28:24
  again. Until #3 comes down.
• 28:26
  And I I do enjoy. That it's fun, you know, triple.
• 28:30
  H I'm sorry, I'm going to just keep calling him Triple H, but
• 28:33
  he's Hunter Hurst Helmsley and he keeps doing like he looks
• 28:36
  good. He he does his Ric Flair type
• 28:38
  flips into the corner and he looks lean.
• 28:41
  He's got the long blonde hair. I don't know.
• 28:44
  And weird music though. Oh, it's the classic.
• 28:47
  It's the like the piano. Yeah, it's his.
• 28:49
  Original music, yeah. Pops the chord there.
• 28:52
  Yeah, it's not. It doesn't.
• 28:53
  Get you hyped up for the rumble though, you know, Which is kind
• 28:56
  of a. Theme for a lot of these guys,
• 28:58
  yeah. But at least we're in the era.
• 29:00
  Though where everyone gets music because I would have been pissed
• 29:02
  back in the day if these were the 2 songs you got.
• 29:05
  Yeah. Oh man, yeah.
• 29:07
  Hunter Helmsley is. Like very subdued blue blood
• 29:10
  Godwins is. Henry Godwins That's definitely
• 29:13
  dubbed over. Yes, 100%.
• 29:15
  Isn't supposed to be. Yeah.
• 29:18
  They. So this is to go back to the
• 29:21
  music thing. This is the first Royal Rumble
• 29:23
  with every entrant having their music, which is it makes you
• 29:27
  wonder why it took them so long to do this.
• 29:30
  Because it's a revelation. It's it's fantastic.
• 29:33
  And like it's it's even though I don't recognize some of the
• 29:36
  music, it's so good. It's so necessary.
• 29:39
  You're here for the very necessary.
• 29:41
  The first time I went to the. House show, I wanted to hear the
• 29:43
  music I was like, I want to hear.
• 29:45
  All the music, yeah. So.
• 29:46
  Obviously Roy Rumble, like, you know, play the music.
• 29:49
  It's not hard. Dude.
• 29:51
  That's all. We wanted when we were kids,
• 29:52
  like I remembered like I wanted the video games just because
• 29:55
  they played the music. Yeah, even though it's 8 bit.
• 29:58
  Version like that's OK plus I think you.
• 30:01
  Know you probably your brain probably processes it quicker,
• 30:05
  right? Like the music before, like I
• 30:07
  guess it depends on the person, right?
• 30:09
  But like, sometimes if you see the person or you hear the
• 30:11
  music, I think as soon as you hear a beat, you know, like who
• 30:14
  it is most of the time, unless the music is really atrocious,
• 30:16
  like it might be like a headline Dirt.
• 30:19
  Yeah, yeah. You know nowadays.
• 30:22
  Yeah, Squat team. Squat team.
• 30:23
  Sorry, what do you you're reading the dirt rags?
• 30:26
  Sorry, sorry. Think about the in arena.
• 30:29
  Experience for a royal world but prior to 96 where can't see the
• 30:34
  correct. Yep, if you're on the other.
• 30:35
  Side and you can't see who's coming out.
• 30:38
  It's just a bad experience of trying to figure out what the
• 30:40
  Hell's going on. And then there's this wave of
• 30:42
  reaction. Usually first note or the glass
• 30:45
  break in, you know, 97 you hear the classy when they're debuting
• 30:49
  these guys. Like mentor, for example.
• 30:54
  Imagine that you're in the top row and like mentor comes out.
• 30:58
  No music. Like.
• 31:00
  Who is this? #3 Bob Backlund.
• 31:03
  Comes out. We're off to a real hot start.
• 31:09
  Here he's running for president in this election year.
• 31:11
  There's. 96 Jesus Christ #4 Jerry.
• 31:14
  Long hold on hold. On you want to talk about.
• 31:17
  Bobby some time, bro. Vince.
• 31:22
  Reminds us that. Backland is the record holder at
• 31:25
  this time for the most time in the Royal Rumble, which was
• 31:27
  1993. One hour and 1 minute and 15
• 31:31
  whole seconds. You got it right.
• 31:32
  She was. 3rd in that. One too I Oh, really?
• 31:35
  That's a. Nice little fact there.
• 31:37
  I remember watching it an older show, not this Rumble with
• 31:41
  Nick's dad. Nick's dad took such delight in
• 31:45
  Bob Batson making his return. He was like cracking up.
• 31:49
  We he like called him like Opie or something Like look look I
• 31:51
  want to check. Like he was like.
• 31:53
  Thought it was like the greatest thing.
• 31:55
  I can hear his laugh, right? Now, yeah, we loved it, so we.
• 31:58
  Met. We went to a house show at the
• 32:00
  Westchester County Center and we were, I remember we were
• 32:04
  leaving, I think we were leaving and going to our car.
• 32:08
  And Bob Backlund's, like former manager was in the parking lot.
• 32:13
  And I, I had no clue who he is. I can't even remember his name.
• 32:16
  I would have to. Yeah.
• 32:17
  Arnold Scotland. That's who it was.
• 32:19
  Yes, thank you. And my dad was like, that's
• 32:22
  Arnold Scotland. Who the hell are you talking
• 32:24
  about? He said, come on, we're going to
• 32:25
  go meet him. And when we went over to him and
• 32:27
  my dad had me, like, introduce myself to him and, and we talked
• 32:31
  to him for like 10 seconds. He signed piece of paper, all
• 32:34
  right. He signed one of my dad's
• 32:35
  business cards on a locksmith. On wheels business.
• 32:38
  Card somewhere. Arnold Scullen, Thank you for
• 32:42
  remembering that. Yeah, you.
• 32:44
  Should sell on. The Facebook Marketplace and we
• 32:47
  go to #4 with. Jerry Lawler, we can well.
• 32:51
  Let's talk about maybe not Bobby's.
• 32:53
  Bobby's sound effects while he's wrestling.
• 32:56
  He got a lot of whoa, whoa, whoa, that's better than the
• 32:59
  next Ugar. Sound effects.
• 33:03
  I always find. Bob Backlund's posture.
• 33:06
  Very strange. He's like super.
• 33:07
  Upright. But like bends at the waists, so
• 33:10
  it's not like. Straight up and down it's.
• 33:12
  Like an acute angle. I don't know, it's it's freaking
• 33:16
  weird to watch. It gives him a pot belly.
• 33:18
  Effect. Yeah, it tears me off.
• 33:19
  I'm like, what is What are you doing?
• 33:21
  I'm so distracted by it. His bug eyes too. #4 Jerry
• 33:25
  Lawler coming in. He goes right for Henry Godwin's
• 33:28
  slop bucket in the corner. And in the end of this, Lawler,
• 33:34
  Hunter and backliner all on the outside of the ring and they all
• 33:39
  get slopped. Yeah.
• 33:41
  By. By Henry.
• 33:42
  Godwin, who takes the bucket back?
• 33:45
  You could. Talk a lot about mullets and
• 33:47
  wrestling, especially in this era, but like his is like
• 33:50
  reprehensible Something really bothers me about Lawler's mullet
• 33:53
  It's just a terrible haircut. You know what it is I?
• 33:56
  Think it's like the fact that the top part is like short and
• 33:59
  like very flat. I don't know, something bad has
• 34:02
  always bothered me. He wears his crown.
• 34:04
  It's all hat. Head.
• 34:05
  Yeah, that's true. Hat Head Mullet.
• 34:08
  Can we talk about his gear? His gear, yeah, it's like.
• 34:11
  Absolutely ridiculous. He's in his classic, you know,
• 34:15
  long tights with the one strap. He's got one nip out.
• 34:20
  One nip out one. Nip hairy chest.
• 34:23
  Here we go. Nip Waller, that's what.
• 34:24
  You come to the Extra Cooler show for Nip Talk.
• 34:29
  Is it a Paisley Paisley gold? Paisley like a Paisley.
• 34:34
  Maybe. Yeah, definitely.
• 34:38
  It looks like. Something like you wear to a
• 34:40
  dance recital or we're talking about a man who.
• 34:42
  Commented a lot of outfit. Like, come on.
• 34:46
  Yeah. I It was very.
• 34:48
  Very attention grabbing as I was watching I needed to like zoom
• 34:52
  in and if if I could zoom in and try to figure out what the hell
• 34:56
  he is wearing. And this is the first time that
• 34:58
  we are watching this on Netflix, not watching it on Peacock,
• 35:02
  which is a weird experience in and of itself.
• 35:04
  Hell yeah. Shout out to.
• 35:05
  Netflix for naming these things by year and not seasons.
• 35:09
  Thank God. Oh, it's.
• 35:10
  It's a beautiful. Thing for me not have to do math
• 35:13
  while I'm trying to figure out which Royal Rumble to watch and
• 35:16
  also I noticed. This is when I noticed the
• 35:19
  closed captioning is excellent from Netflix because they say
• 35:23
  they tell you that the the name of the song as they come down
• 35:26
  the aisle. So it says it's the great gates
• 35:29
  of Kiev. I was like, oh man, that's the
• 35:31
  name of that song. Like I'm going to.
• 35:33
  Have to turn on closed captioning.
• 35:34
  Just for that. And there's more laters that
• 35:37
  are. It's very revealing.
• 35:39
  Actually, later in this card, it's completely revealing.
• 35:41
  We may. Have the same the same we do if
• 35:45
  we're like. It actually has to do with
• 35:47
  Lawler in a way. If that's it, it does. #21 OK,
• 35:53
  we're. On the same.
• 35:54
  Page here. We're on the same page.
• 35:55
  All right, let's. Do it.
• 35:56
  Let's keep going. All right, move on.
• 35:59
  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Jesus Christ.
• 36:03
  The slop. The slop.
• 36:04
  Penning says there's no place for that stinky slop.
• 36:07
  He sounds like a toddler or something.
• 36:10
  Then and then. But then he goes I.
• 36:11
  Feel like I'm at a Gallagher concert and then you get play
• 36:16
  it, play it. You got you got a big.
• 36:20
  McMahon Big McMahon slub there, too.
• 36:24
  He's gonna. He's gonna.
• 36:25
  Slap slop, Helmsley or and I feel like.
• 36:30
  McMahon Helmsley's not. McMahon is.
• 36:32
  Oh yeah, he. Calls him Helmsley.
• 36:34
  Man, it's so quick. To jump on perfect when he flubs
• 36:38
  a line, he like he you notice it like he really digs in, but then
• 36:41
  like it's great when it like he messes up and it's like, oh,
• 36:44
  perfect. Like, yeah, the two of them are.
• 36:46
  Not on the same page throughout this this I mean, I'm sorry.
• 36:50
  Perfect's not that good at this I.
• 36:53
  I no, but I did enjoy him, maybe because it was noticeable that
• 36:57
  the two of them were were butting heads.
• 37:00
  And I think that's why I enjoyed it, because I was looking for
• 37:02
  things and like looking for those moments where they don't
• 37:06
  get along. I think it would have been
• 37:08
  horrible. Are you perfect?
• 37:09
  Does not prepare for it. I feel like he's like just shows
• 37:12
  up and winging it. Yeah, just.
• 37:14
  Winging it. Yeah, because he was probably
• 37:16
  not. Allowed to wrestle, like whether
• 37:18
  it was doctors or Vince and Vince, this is like the best
• 37:20
  Vince is giving him. And he's kind of pissed about it
• 37:23
  because he's making a lot of like, backhanded comments.
• 37:25
  Yes, it's the Macho. Role all over it.
• 37:28
  Yes, 100%. And for?
• 37:30
  Me like you can really feel Vince being super overly
• 37:36
  controlling during this. It just.
• 37:39
  Feels like it the entire. Time perfect.
• 37:41
  You must say a billion. Words on this card Vince like
• 37:44
  he's he's constantly talking Perfect's comments always.
• 37:48
  Feel like they're background noise too throughout it.
• 37:51
  Like they're never, they're never like conversing with one
• 37:54
  another in a way like you hear 22 guys do on a commentary
• 37:58
  table, I feel like. Vince does play by play and
• 38:03
  color commentary and then Perfect is like the third guy
• 38:06
  almost, you know what I mean? Like Vince is like filling 2
• 38:08
  roles and then he's just that third guy that throws random
• 38:11
  lines in and he's trying to. Fill the Heenan shoes to the to
• 38:15
  an extent, a little bit. The heel.
• 38:18
  The heel. Commentator that's thrown in
• 38:19
  zingers every once in a while, but they never really land.
• 38:22
  So it it's, yeah, it's and in and in the immediate.
• 38:25
  Wake of like a heenan departure. Those are massive shoes to fill
• 38:28
  and don't don't even bother number. 5 Bob spark plug holly
• 38:34
  wow this. Guy is a real.
• 38:38
  Prick. It's got WWF like new Gen. logo
• 38:42
  on his butt. I had the same note.
• 38:45
  Like what dude? Oh man, suck it up to Vince.
• 38:47
  You got WF logo on your ass. Come on, you got that, John Cena
• 38:51
  bald. Spot too like with long hair
• 38:53
  though it's I don't like him at all.
• 38:56
  He's wearing the WF. Logo.
• 38:57
  It's like Rob Lowe wearing the NFL hat and the the crowd, you
• 39:00
  know, it's very much it's. Almost worse on your ass.
• 39:06
  You got anything to say about? Bob, I don't like.
• 39:09
  I don't like the. 1st 5 Hunter, whatever.
• 39:12
  Yeah, it's not an inspiring first five and it's not getting
• 39:15
  much better. No, it does not get.
• 39:17
  Much better because number six is King Mabel.
• 39:20
  This is his last appearance. Sermo.
• 39:23
  Sermo. And Sermo in his.
• 39:25
  Vest their heels. He's got weird like long hair
• 39:30
  too, like long Mohawk hair. If you notice later in the
• 39:33
  match, Mabel, Mabel, Mabel. They didn't show enough of Sermo
• 39:38
  on the outside, I didn't think. But what Rumble did he win 95?
• 39:42
  No, no, no. 90. 93 Mabel Yeah Mabel and win No Ring King.
• 39:48
  Of the ring. Sorry, King of the Ring.
• 39:49
  Right. 90. Five previously 95 S What
• 39:52
  raining King of the Ring? 94, Owens 94.
• 39:56
  Brett's 93I. Thought you had a concussion
• 40:00
  like Shawn. Michaels for a second.
• 40:01
  Yeah, Sorry, Sir MO. Sir MO winning a Rumble.
• 40:07
  This is Mabel's last. Appearance for over 2 years.
• 40:10
  He returns in 98 in May to get sacrificed, Yeah.
• 40:16
  So. Super dead when they.
• 40:18
  Come out, but they've been super dead to this point.
• 40:21
  Like maybe it's it's what Jim is saying of like the first 5 is
• 40:24
  just kind of like meh, even. There's also no eliminations.
• 40:27
  Crowd sucks this whole. Event it really there's it
• 40:30
  really. Does this is the one?
• 40:31
  This is probably one of the biggest pops at number 7 and
• 40:34
  it's not even that big and and it's Jake.
• 40:37
  Jake comes out at #7 he's back in the Rumble after a four year
• 40:41
  hiatus. He gets a decent pop, but like
• 40:43
  you would have thought that the crowd would have exploded for
• 40:46
  this guy. He enters the ring immediately
• 40:49
  opens his bag to let the snake out.
• 40:51
  The thing is gigantic by the way.
• 40:54
  Everyone times the size of. Damien Everyone.
• 40:57
  Easily. Easily everyone.
• 40:58
  Leaves the ring, but except for Lawler, who doesn't notice that
• 41:01
  the snake is in the ring, he covers him with the snake.
• 41:04
  There's like a handler on the outside.
• 41:06
  I don't know if he picked up on that.
• 41:08
  Yeah, he looks like a young kid. Too, And he just opens up the
• 41:12
  the Santa sack and the snake just like feels like he knows
• 41:15
  that that's where he's got to go.
• 41:16
  He just goes straight for the bag.
• 41:18
  He slides right in. And Jake is there to kind of
• 41:20
  like help guide it, but he doesn't have to do anything.
• 41:23
  The snake is get the fuck out of here man.
• 41:26
  Lawler does like. Fish out of water while the
• 41:29
  snake is on him. Lawler, then this this.
• 41:31
  Gives opens the door for Lawler to leave the ring and he
• 41:34
  disappears for a while and Jake just gets to stand.
• 41:37
  There and look good in his smock, yeah.
• 41:40
  Stupid as well, which like Jake. Was never known for his
• 41:43
  physique, but this is bad. This is like depressing.
• 41:46
  He's got like a Homer. Simpson hair situation going on
• 41:49
  on the top you know, it's like you think about.
• 41:52
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. The three hairs, like 3 hairs.
• 41:56
  You think about like going back to the conversation that we were
• 41:59
  just having with Mr. Perfect and like, not letting him wrestle.
• 42:02
  Yeah still looks good, but then you're going to let Jake in the
• 42:05
  ring who is like a booze hound and and just can't get it
• 42:10
  together. You know like perfect back he.
• 42:13
  Needed like a backy out of me or something.
• 42:16
  No, I know, but. Still, it's it's just wild that
• 42:20
  Jake was the best you could do. Like what?
• 42:23
  I, I don't know, not it, it's not good, it's not good and it
• 42:27
  doesn't get better because #8. Is Dory funk?
• 42:31
  Junior, you heard that correct. The guy is 54 years old.
• 42:36
  I'm not going to even play the guessing game.
• 42:37
  He's 54. If we all took guesses, I'm sure
• 42:40
  we would have said in the late 70s because he looks this guy.
• 42:44
  Looks. Awful.
• 42:46
  He looks like like. Hulk Hogan, like if you just
• 42:49
  woke up from like a four year coma.
• 42:53
  I was going to say Steven Seagal now.
• 42:57
  We we were talking. About Jerry the King Lawlers
• 42:59
  mullet earlier this is Gullet, this is.
• 43:03
  It's a grim. It's a grim.
• 43:06
  He almost looks like the Hulkster.
• 43:08
  He really does. Like.
• 43:10
  One of the people in the. House at like in The Texas
• 43:13
  Chainsaw Massacre. It's it's, it's, it's not good.
• 43:16
  I was surprised, I thought. Vince is all about like.
• 43:18
  Aesthetics and stuff like some. Slackling so far.
• 43:23
  Yeah, yeah, I think he. Tried to get Terry and and.
• 43:28
  I didn't want to do. It yeah, I do like the idea of
• 43:31
  like the funks. Just sending one representative
• 43:33
  here. You get Dory and.
• 43:34
  You get. Dory.
• 43:35
  Yeah, they refer to him. As former N.W.A.
• 43:38
  Champion, which I thought was interesting, but that's about
• 43:41
  the only thing that was interesting about Dory Funk in a
• 43:43
  Royal Rumble quickly bring the attention to.
• 43:47
  Jerry Lawler, who is now underneath the ring as Vince, is
• 43:51
  absolutely infatuated with what Lawler is doing and that he
• 43:54
  can't be found. That coward can't believe it.
• 43:58
  It's kind of a genius. Like I, I, I do like the spot.
• 44:02
  Like, it's it, it fits him and Oh yeah, it's definitely a
• 44:06
  memorable spot to do it. And like, why not?
• 44:10
  This is the first attempt in a. Rumble at this kind of maneuver,
• 44:12
  right? And it's been reused.
• 44:14
  So kudos to Lawler for that This this rumble has a lot of.
• 44:20
  A lot of outside the ring activity let's just.
• 44:23
  It does for sure. #9. The ring is filling up, we still
• 44:27
  have no eliminations, and Yokozuna comes out.
• 44:34
  I don't know how this guy is going to make it down to the
• 44:36
  ring because he's gigantic. This is bearded Yokozuna also
• 44:42
  about to turn face. Yeah, he.
• 44:45
  Gets Backland eliminated. Finally.
• 44:48
  This is our first man eliminated.
• 44:50
  He's eliminated by Yokozuna and then we have three big men
• 44:54
  squaring off Yokozuna Mabel and Henry Godwin Heavy.
• 44:59
  On Beefaroni, right? Yeah.
• 45:01
  Oh my God, he gets. Destroyed in the corners,
• 45:04
  squished by both men. Like that's like 1000 lbs right
• 45:08
  there. I'm not just that guy away.
• 45:13
  Mabel. With a huge splash, the crowds
• 45:16
  like owing and awing, finally like waking up at these
• 45:19
  behemoths. But no, it gets a little
• 45:22
  interesting here. Thankfully, yeah, things start
• 45:25
  to speed. Up.
• 45:26
  You're like, OK, all right, you know?
• 45:28
  Yoko's in. As a former champion, it's
• 45:29
  believable that he might win, right?
• 45:31
  Yoko's there. Then we get number 10123.
• 45:34
  Kid comes out after crossing Razor his match earlier in the
• 45:37
  night. He's paranoid.
• 45:38
  He's looking behind him the whole way.
• 45:41
  Razor's pretty much right behind him, chases him around the ring.
• 45:45
  There's chance for Razor, you know?
• 45:48
  Finally they're going in and out of the ring, trying to get after
• 45:50
  each other. Finally, Razor is escorted.
• 45:53
  Razor gets hit by someone. Someone like Mabel, right?
• 45:57
  Like. Mabel chops at him and misses.
• 45:59
  I think Mabel hits him and doesn't.
• 46:00
  Realize it's Razor and that he probably wasn't supposed to
• 46:03
  touch. Him.
• 46:04
  Yeah, yeah. I'd say this is when the rumble.
• 46:06
  Gets I said Yoko's you know, but this is when it actually like
• 46:09
  you perk up a little and you're like oh, OK, this is interesting
• 46:12
  and see 123 kid does sell that paranoia well down there.
• 46:16
  He's like he does over his shoulder the whole time.
• 46:18
  Watch his image. It's kind.
• 46:20
  Of crazy to think. This is 96, right?
• 46:22
  Like he's about to depart for WCW and it's crazy though, like.
• 46:26
  Back then I felt. He was gone for a long time, but
• 46:27
  he's back in like a little more than two years.
• 46:30
  Like at the Mania 14, right? It's right, not that long.
• 46:34
  No, it's, yeah, it's. A quick run over there.
• 46:38
  Which is kind of I. Always think was kind of a
• 46:40
  bummer, like because he's really getting to a point here where
• 46:43
  he's like a main player where he was, I know he was, but like
• 46:47
  he's really establishing himself and he's over at his.
• 46:50
  Size too which was like unique like number. 11 you said.
• 46:55
  Things are heating up, but here comes Omari at #11.
• 47:01
  That's not wild, man. Vince.
• 47:03
  Refers to him as an underdog, Mr. Perfect calls out Vince at
• 47:06
  some point during this. Makes it a point to tell him
• 47:09
  that he's not an underdog at all, and then kind of like tells
• 47:13
  us a little bit about his background story in Japan in pro
• 47:17
  wrestling. Yeah, it's.
• 47:19
  All Vince says. He's.
• 47:20
  A wild man from Japan. Yes, thanks.
• 47:23
  Thanks Vince. Vince has like 2.
• 47:26
  Words to say. And then he's like music.
• 47:28
  Yeah, yes. He's so wild.
• 47:30
  He stole like, you know, he's got to have, you know, recycled
• 47:33
  music. Real wild man Vince like.
• 47:35
  Doing a favor for someone, probably Vince moves on.
• 47:37
  Vince is like. Nonetheless, and he like changes
• 47:39
  the top Dick. Speaking of Dicks, here comes.
• 47:44
  Savio Vega at #12 Back in the ring, Yoko got knocked down,
• 47:49
  which like lets out a big pop from the crowd.
• 47:52
  Again, the crowd is lame throughout this Royal Rumble.
• 47:55
  Surprise, no fans, you know. #13.
• 47:59
  This is kind of like one of those things where it's like,
• 48:02
  unfortunate that you knew the outcome of this Royal Rumble,
• 48:06
  because maybe if I had forgotten, maybe #13 would have
• 48:09
  felt like a bigger deal. But here comes Vader, which is
• 48:13
  this is early in his WWF run. I can't remember when when he
• 48:20
  debuted but called the hotline and you're.
• 48:22
  Not going to believe? Who's next?
• 48:24
  Let's talk about the. Hotline.
• 48:26
  First of all, they promote this thing, these sleazebags that you
• 48:30
  can call Ray Rougeau up and find out who's coming down next.
• 48:35
  Like what? It what?
• 48:37
  My, my, as a kid, my dad was probably like, screw you, Vince.
• 48:42
  It's not calling a 900 number to find out who's coming down the
• 48:46
  aisle next. You can wait 30 seconds.
• 48:48
  Imagine your parents. Get the phone bill.
• 48:50
  They, like, see a 1900 number and they're like, you know, your
• 48:54
  mom's like, God damn it, what are you doing?
• 48:56
  Like your dad's like, yeah, maybe he's calling like the
• 48:58
  babes on the line. And then they find out it's like
• 49:00
  some French Canadian guy you were calling to talk to 10.
• 49:04
  Dollars a minute or? Whatever it is, so and.
• 49:07
  To find out if it was. Doug Gilbert or Yeah.
• 49:11
  It's talking. So, slowly, it's going to be
• 49:15
  Doug Gilbert. What?
• 49:22
  What does that mean? Speaking of slowly.
• 49:24
  We have to. Slow down here because Nick, you
• 49:26
  said you couldn't remember Vader's debut.
• 49:28
  This is his Vader's debut. I I was going to ask that.
• 49:32
  In the weeks leading up to the. Rumble like it was nothing but
• 49:36
  the man they called Vader and it was just Vader and Vader, Vader,
• 49:40
  Vader. And Vince is like having a
• 49:42
  conniption over him. And you know, the Mastodon and
• 49:46
  whatever else he tried to call him, they really botched him.
• 49:49
  But a big signing. Like this?
• 49:51
  Yeah, this is massive. And not just because he's beef,
• 49:54
  but like, right. And this is his first appearance
• 49:58
  in WWF was, you know, with him and that yellow pants bastard
• 50:03
  and Tim Cornett. Yeah, he.
• 50:05
  Really does change the trajectory of this match though.
• 50:08
  He looks legitimate. He looks like he could win it
• 50:10
  his his. Music slaps.
• 50:12
  Right. Like oh God, so good.
• 50:15
  So. Good.
• 50:16
  He's almost he's not even 40 years old at this point.
• 50:20
  This was the most excited I. Was to this point in the in the
• 50:23
  rumble, like I'm like, hey, all right, now we got like
• 50:25
  something's happening here people, you know, people are
• 50:27
  about to get thrown right. Yeah, we'll, we'll talk about.
• 50:30
  When we get towards the end of like guys who had potential to
• 50:34
  have won this Rumble besides Sean and then Vader's definitely
• 50:38
  up there, but #14 before we go to #14.
• 50:42
  OK, we're all just going to do this and interrupt each other.
• 50:45
  Or as he continues to try to keep going.
• 50:48
  But Vince, you know, Mike said it a little while ago.
• 50:52
  We'll hear it right now. But Vince asks Mr. Perfect, how
• 50:55
  much does that guy weigh? He asked how much does Vader
• 50:58
  weigh God. All.
• 51:03
  Right #4 no. Doug Gilbert from the USWA
• 51:07
  enters the Royal Rumble to 0 Reaction.
• 51:10
  Yeah, what? What apparently.
• 51:13
  Vince is telling us that he won a tournament in the USWA to
• 51:16
  qualify for the Rumble, which is actually kind of a cool.
• 51:21
  It's pretty unique. Yeah, he wanted to do that.
• 51:23
  You know, like that's pretty. Cool, they did that today like
• 51:26
  a. TNA like rumble or to come into
• 51:28
  the right it would horrible. Except that like when he comes
• 51:32
  down. The aisle perfect goes he's he
• 51:34
  doesn't say who's that? He goes, what's that, what's
• 51:36
  that? And then Vince says his name and
• 51:38
  then he's like, he's like, Oh, yeah, I used to be tagged
• 51:41
  partners with his brother. Yeah, perfect.
• 51:44
  Like, do your homework. Like this is exactly what you we
• 51:47
  were saying. Earlier that Perfect just showed
• 51:49
  up to work that day. Yeah, he's like.
• 51:51
  We'll. Wing it.
• 51:52
  He's like who's? What?
• 51:53
  Oh my. God, Oh wait.
• 51:56
  I know him. I know his brother.
• 51:57
  Where did he tag with his brother though?
• 52:01
  Because he I feel like he references tagging with him in
• 52:04
  WWF. He said right even when he said.
• 52:06
  That first showed. Up.
• 52:08
  Yeah, Which is funny because he's like, Henning says these
• 52:11
  kind of things. He uses the term skin the cat
• 52:14
  later on, like using like insider knowledge, which is, I
• 52:17
  mean, not insider knowledge, but stuff that's not really that
• 52:20
  Vince is never saying on the broadcast.
• 52:23
  Like, that's kind of interesting about what Henning does, but
• 52:26
  it's clear it's just him, you know, showing off his wrestling
• 52:29
  expertise. But he does no homework at all.
• 52:32
  No, not at all. Very ill prepared.
• 52:34
  Eddie Gilbert is in the WWF from 82 to 84, and he teamed with
• 52:40
  Kern Hettig for a brief, brief time during this run, It says.
• 52:43
  Oh, interesting. Maybe handing had a little cup
• 52:46
  of. Coffee with WWF before his main
• 52:48
  run. We get during this this.
• 52:51
  Point before #15 and 16 we get some.
• 52:54
  We finally get a DDT from Jake. Huge pop and Vader destroys Doug
• 53:03
  Gilbert with a choke slam. Yokozuna fighting and Jim
• 53:07
  Cornett's trying to get up on the apron to break these two up.
• 53:12
  Yeah, you're, I don't know. It's this is like interesting.
• 53:15
  Stuff. Like we're finally getting
• 53:18
  somewhere into this around where Vader chucks.
• 53:20
  Jake too at this point, right? Yes, we.
• 53:23
  Have to talk about. Jake Roberts elimination.
• 53:25
  It is not a Chuck. He doesn't throw him, he doesn't
• 53:27
  touch him, he doesn't do shit. Jake Roberts is.
• 53:31
  He hits the DDT on Doug Gilbert and then you see Jake like pick
• 53:36
  him up and says something to Vader.
• 53:38
  Vader winds up like clothes lining Jake Roberts and Jake is
• 53:42
  in the middle of the ring at this point.
• 53:43
  Yeah, 3 or 4 steps and. Just.
• 53:45
  Flies over the top row, pretty much eliminating himself.
• 53:49
  He loses his balance from mid run.
• 53:51
  The only thing I could think. Of is that he gets up he's still
• 53:54
  holding Eddie Gilbert I think by the neck or whatever setting up
• 53:57
  for the DDT and then he must have said something like Vader
• 54:00
  get me the F out of here. I'm done with this shit because
• 54:05
  he just hits clothesline like 10:15.
• 54:08
  Feet. Across the ring and then flies
• 54:10
  out on his own. It's bizarre.
• 54:12
  It's like a Shawn Michaels Hulk Hogan.
• 54:13
  Kind of totally, totally, yeah. The.
• 54:17
  Also, Mabel has been eliminated at some point.
• 54:19
  There's a lot of guys that get eliminated and it's very anti
• 54:23
  climatic throughout this rumble. That's like kind of the theme
• 54:26
  throughout the night, but Dori Dori, Fong concluded.
• 54:30
  But yeah, I'm. Something like.
• 54:34
  Oh, he's going to get him. No, he can't.
• 54:37
  Oh, he's going to get him. No, he can't.
• 54:38
  Oh, there he goes. It's like.
• 54:40
  He he does that many. Times throughout this, he does
• 54:43
  it later in the night, Sean and Owen, and he's like, who told
• 54:49
  him that that sounds good? It's Linda just trying to keep.
• 54:56
  Him to shut up. Yeah, Great fence.
• 54:58
  Shut up. Yeah, it sounds great.
• 55:01
  You want to talk about the squat team?
• 55:02
  Members. No, that's my favorite.
• 55:04
  Part. #15. Squat team member #1 #16 Squat
• 55:11
  team member #2 These two may have combined for 90 seconds in
• 55:16
  the Royal Rumble. They're twin brothers.
• 55:18
  They suck. They walk back down to the ring.
• 55:21
  Together 11 gets in the ring last 24 seconds, gets dumped
• 55:26
  over the top rope and then walks up the aisle to see his brother
• 55:29
  come out and then they both walk down the music together.
• 55:32
  No theme music? Yeah.
• 55:34
  Yeah, it's like, yeah. It sounds like the theme music
• 55:39
  for a giant bouncy ball, because that's what they are.
• 55:43
  They look like King Hippo from. Punch out.
• 55:47
  Well, you know. You know how you could tell them
• 55:50
  apart? 1 has like 1 titty out.
• 55:57
  I got to go back and run. That you should.
• 56:00
  Not see that they look so happy. Running to the ring.
• 56:04
  You could watch it now. And you'll laugh when you see
• 56:06
  the guys. I actually have it on in the.
• 56:08
  Background and it's exactly the point that we're at now.
• 56:10
  They've got black and white like bogus ultimate Warrior face
• 56:14
  painting. And you're right.
• 56:16
  He's running down to the ring. He's happy as can be.
• 56:18
  He's stick hung out. Here we go.
• 56:22
  And yeah, he comes into the ring.
• 56:23
  Oh, we do have to note that they have the the Iron Chic boots on
• 56:31
  too. The one we had.
• 56:34
  Yeah. But yeah, these guys, these
• 56:35
  guys, they're probably so happy. Like, just to be there and
• 56:38
  Vince, yeah, God damn it. Like get these guys off my TV.
• 56:43
  It's that you're. Supposed to have a run I think.
• 56:46
  But they get nice. WWF hummeled, pummeled by Vader
• 56:49
  like classic Vader punches. Like the ones that you go, oh,
• 56:53
  after you watch? Them.
• 56:54
  Vader comes into squat team #1 which first of all, I thought it
• 56:58
  was SWAT, and then this is when the, the, the subtitles been
• 57:02
  better. Yeah, what has?
• 57:03
  Been better. No, I like squat.
• 57:07
  I like the squat team that that actually kind of describes them
• 57:09
  well. They are kind of squat.
• 57:11
  It's because when you walk, you. Just hear squat.
• 57:13
  Squats, yeah. They get they actually get
• 57:16
  eliminated in perfect rumble fashion.
• 57:18
  I'd say like they have a a dramatic, you know, like bounce
• 57:22
  out of the ring like the little bouncy balls.
• 57:23
  They are big bouncy balls. You know who their appearance in
• 57:26
  the. Rumble reminds me of.
• 57:28
  The Bushwackers, thank you. So.
• 57:31
  If these guys are. Jobbers, then, anyway, moving
• 57:35
  right along #17 don't be like the King of Hearts.
• 57:37
  Don't. You don't you love, though.
• 57:39
  I I think that's the charm of the rumbles is that you get guys
• 57:42
  like this and Doris Funk late in his career, you know, like, like
• 57:45
  you get this bottom of the barrel shit or like you need it
• 57:48
  sprinkled in there. You too.
• 57:49
  You do I really. Don't want 30 guys?
• 57:51
  Like I, I need some some of this fodder in there like that.
• 57:55
  I know they're not going to win, especially back then when you're
• 57:58
  watching. This, I remember watching this
• 57:59
  on like, you know, the first time I saw him.
• 58:01
  I'm like who the fuck are these guys?
• 58:07
  #17 Owen. Comes out and he, he's another
• 58:12
  one of those guys that you see him and you're like, OK, thank
• 58:15
  God, like restore, restore some order into this Royal Rumble.
• 58:19
  But and then after him comes #18 Shawn Michaels.
• 58:22
  And finally, this is probably the loudest pop right when
• 58:26
  Michaels comes out, I would say. It's all female screams.
• 58:30
  It's prances to the ring and Vince screaming.
• 58:34
  There. He comes.
• 58:36
  Oh my God. Vince is Vince.
• 58:41
  Is over the top. You're a hunter.
• 58:43
  Who? Who do you?
• 58:44
  Think, wrote Sean's first elimination in Vince Pritchard.
• 58:50
  Because Sean dumps 1000 lbs in Vader and Yoko over the top rope
• 58:57
  as they're fighting with ease. With.
• 59:00
  Ease, like it's insane how quickly he and easily he throws
• 59:05
  these two behemoths out of the ring.
• 59:08
  This is they're fighting. At this point Vader rips his own
• 59:12
  mask off and takes these again Vader punches which looks so
• 59:16
  frigging crazy, especially in WWF in 1996.
• 59:19
  Like watching him throw these punches is wild, but Yoko is
• 59:24
  gassed. Like he's gassed from the
• 59:26
  entrance, but like at this point he's literally just holding on
• 59:29
  to the ropes in the corner and trying to survive.
• 59:32
  He's happy that he got eliminated.
• 59:34
  And but yeah, these two are. Then fighting up against the
• 59:36
  ropes and all of a sudden little old Sean comes over and just
• 59:39
  whoop, see it. Both of them go at the same time
• 59:42
  and then we get some of the. Most classic WWF like
• 59:45
  inconsistent booking. Vader, he's eliminated, he comes
• 59:50
  back in the ring, destroys everybody.
• 59:51
  Great spot, right? But he takes these guys and he's
• 59:54
  tossing them over the top rope. Toss Michaels over the top rope.
• 59:59
  Why is it that some years that would count as an elimination,
• 1:00:02
  but other years it doesn't? As I'm watching it, I'm like,
• 1:00:05
  wait, doesn't this usually count as an elimination over the top
• 1:00:08
  rope? Wasn't supposed to.
• 1:00:10
  Do that and Vince had to like just say that on the fly or
• 1:00:13
  something. They don't really explain it
• 1:00:14
  though. Do they no, like they just kind
• 1:00:16
  of like they say like, oh, he's. Over the time, because Vince
• 1:00:18
  reminds us quite often, because like Matt said earlier, they're
• 1:00:21
  out of the ring a lot. Every time a guy.
• 1:00:24
  Goes out, Vince. Like says, oh, he went through
• 1:00:27
  the ropes. I know they say he goes over
• 1:00:29
  the. Top but they don't explain why
• 1:00:30
  like they just kind of go off over they assume that you assume
• 1:00:34
  right because he was eliminated. They're they're not eliminated
• 1:00:37
  right which is it? Yeah, but I think this gets to
• 1:00:41
  like the kind of heart of Vader though.
• 1:00:42
  Like, do you think that Vader, there's two options here?
• 1:00:47
  Do you think he's so? Passionate.
• 1:00:48
  About wrestling, that he's just crazy and he does all the stuff.
• 1:00:51
  Or do you think he the line blurs for this guy and he just
• 1:00:54
  goes like crazy? Because I think with Vader, like
• 1:00:57
  it often seems like he's like insane and he does like dumb
• 1:01:02
  shit sometimes where it's it's not acting, it's just him like
• 1:01:06
  getting so bound up. I don't know.
• 1:01:09
  And this kind of relates to his thing he did in the Middle East,
• 1:01:11
  right? Where he like, didn't he like
• 1:01:12
  assault some TV guy, which you could say maybe that's him just
• 1:01:16
  like, you know, being a hot head.
• 1:01:18
  How Piper? Was right like where he'd like.
• 1:01:21
  He's never going to pretend it's not real.
• 1:01:23
  I think he just kind of blows his stack and like doesn't know
• 1:01:26
  what the hell he's doing. Sometimes I think you are.
• 1:01:28
  That's my take. I think you are entirely correct
• 1:01:30
  here, Jim. I think that this is Vader like
• 1:01:33
  working himself into a shoot brother.
• 1:01:35
  Like I think he legitimately thinks that this is what what
• 1:01:38
  he's doing where he is, and this is how to make the biggest
• 1:01:41
  impact. And you know, we have a little
• 1:01:43
  bit of experience here because we have a Vader Meets World
• 1:01:46
  episode. That we put.
• 1:01:49
  Out. All those years ago, so and you
• 1:01:52
  saw him on Boy Meets World doing the same thing, like working
• 1:01:55
  like it's real. So either he's a really great
• 1:01:58
  actor, but I think it's it's no, no, it's like.
• 1:02:02
  It's like, you know when you get hit in the back of the head with
• 1:02:04
  something and you're like, oh man, you're pissed.
• 1:02:06
  And then you turn. Around and you're like swinging.
• 1:02:08
  Something like. And you're like, oh wait, I
• 1:02:11
  can't get that pissed. Vader and Sean in 90.
• 1:02:13
  Six, very interesting, right? Like a lot of Sean going over on
• 1:02:17
  Vader, and I think Vader looks so good here that you probably
• 1:02:19
  could have done something with Vader.
• 1:02:21
  Yes. Right.
• 1:02:21
  And he just kind of gets the beginning of him getting like,
• 1:02:24
  kind of. Yeah, they're not playing it all
• 1:02:27
  the way like they should have. Yeah, it was never.
• 1:02:30
  Like you could have put a title on Vader and had people chasing
• 1:02:33
  it, you know, for a while and turned it into this like this.
• 1:02:37
  Oh, man. I mean, yeah, just chasing.
• 1:02:41
  Sean constantly would be a thing, like scaring these little
• 1:02:44
  girls in the audience, you know? Oh.
• 1:02:47
  Man, all right, moving on. Monsoon is out, he reprimands
• 1:02:51
  Vader. He scores him to the back in his
• 1:02:55
  blue tinted. Glasses.
• 1:02:56
  Yeah, like a baller. Like always, everybody recovers
• 1:02:59
  from. The beating that Vader just gave
• 1:03:01
  out and Sean finally finds and uncovers Jerry Lawler from under
• 1:03:05
  the ring, drags him back into the ring just to eliminate him.
• 1:03:09
  You know, it's it paid off the spot.
• 1:03:11
  Would have liked to have seen Lawler get involved again, like
• 1:03:14
  rather than just quickly eliminate, but is what it is.
• 1:03:18
  And #19 Hakushi, I love this guy.
• 1:03:23
  Yeah, me too. Another guy.
• 1:03:25
  That like, I think they just didn't know how to use him is,
• 1:03:28
  you know, like he's a bad guy, but nobody believed him.
• 1:03:31
  They they gave him a hot shot, right?
• 1:03:33
  Like he faced the head in the back.
• 1:03:35
  Yeah, like Brett right off the bat.
• 1:03:38
  Like we should probably do a hakushi.
• 1:03:40
  Episode because I feel like he's well regarded now you know like
• 1:03:44
  he has a match with Brett I think that's that's a like
• 1:03:47
  Internet favorite yeah let's cover it I'm in didn't.
• 1:03:50
  There we go, face taker in Japan or something.
• 1:03:52
  Yeah, exactly that. Kind of thing like he is like
• 1:03:55
  super on he not appreciated in his time in the WA bad.
• 1:03:59
  Timing for Hakushi to come over, yeah. #20.
• 1:04:04
  Tatanka is this. Heel Tatanka.
• 1:04:06
  This is heel Tatanka. And he is gone come March of 96.
• 1:04:11
  So oh wow, this is this is like this is his last pay-per-view.
• 1:04:13
  He's done. He's coming off of the
• 1:04:17
  $1,000,000 corporation Tatanka, which I guess.
• 1:04:21
  Should have done more homework and I.
• 1:04:22
  Apologize when we get to #23 You could tell, I guess you could
• 1:04:26
  tell. Heels in this time, like with
• 1:04:30
  mohawks, at least MO Mabel Tatanka, they go with a like a
• 1:04:35
  natural, natural, natural Mohawk instead of eyed blonde or red or
• 1:04:39
  whatever it may be. Yeah, that's you can.
• 1:04:41
  Tell. Heel.
• 1:04:42
  Versus. Face Yes.
• 1:04:44
  So. As we are.
• 1:04:45
  Only if this is about Tatanka. This Mohawk.
• 1:04:47
  But don't we? Know before we move on, I just
• 1:04:51
  want to point out that this is the first time all rumble at #20
• 1:04:56
  here where they mention anybody's length of time spent
• 1:05:00
  in the rumble. They mentioned Triple H has been
• 1:05:02
  in there for 40 minutes. That's the last time they
• 1:05:05
  mentioned any time. Wow, I didn't heard that.
• 1:05:08
  Earlier too, because he's been there forever.
• 1:05:10
  If she could have done that earlier, right as.
• 1:05:13
  As Tatanka is coming. Out we do have to talk about Jim
• 1:05:16
  Cornette in the ring as well. So after all this Vader Gaga is
• 1:05:20
  going on, and as Tatanka's music is playing, HBK takes Jim
• 1:05:25
  Cornette by the friggin the the yellow pants.
• 1:05:28
  They're piss yellow. They're pulled up to his neck
• 1:05:31
  and he takes him by that and he goes to throw him out of the
• 1:05:34
  ring. But Jim Cornette doesn't jump.
• 1:05:36
  He just kind of like his yeah, but just gets stuck on the top
• 1:05:39
  rope and he bounces backwards. John's got to give it another go
• 1:05:43
  over and. Gives the old.
• 1:05:44
  Evo and tosses him out to the outside pretty aggressively.
• 1:05:48
  Yeah, it's it's almost the. Vince in the corporate rumble
• 1:05:51
  situation, yeah, it's actually. That man, it was.
• 1:05:55
  It was a brutal bump, I thought. From Corny here number 21.
• 1:06:02
  You've got. The audio, don't you?
• 1:06:04
  Drop. The drop.
• 1:06:05
  The audio, before I tell everybody who it is, No, I think
• 1:06:08
  we have to. Listen to We have to know that
• 1:06:11
  it's Aldo Montoya as he is talking out, but Portuguese man
• 1:06:15
  of war. We all remember.
• 1:06:18
  Aldo Montoya here, Mr. Perfect has something beautiful to say
• 1:06:21
  about him. Got his jock.
• 1:06:23
  On the wrong part. Of his body, I don't know about
• 1:06:25
  that. So here Jim and I were talking
• 1:06:30
  about this earlier. I had the subtitles on because
• 1:06:33
  right before this Vince is talking about HBK or Shawn
• 1:06:36
  Michaels hanging onto the top rope like an octopus and I
• 1:06:39
  couldn't figure out what he was saying as as with the word
• 1:06:42
  octopus I just didn't know what it was.
• 1:06:44
  So I turn it on. And then as Aldo Montoya is
• 1:06:47
  coming out, his theme song is named What a Jock.
• 1:06:53
  Had to have been a rib. Has to be a rib.
• 1:06:56
  Mr. Perfect is talking about him having his jock on the wrong
• 1:06:58
  part of his body and then gosh, it's called what a jock this is
• 1:07:05
  that it's pretty wild man. This is this is the glory of
• 1:07:09
  Netflix. Wow.
• 1:07:11
  It was here. I was really impressed that was
• 1:07:13
  not the thing that. Was in my notes.
• 1:07:15
  Mine is still coming up, but that's I feel like that's like
• 1:07:17
  they probably they they they definitely name that music later
• 1:07:20
  on. Like I think that's the official
• 1:07:22
  name. It is.
• 1:07:23
  It's on like. I looked it up on Spotify,
• 1:07:25
  whatever, like WWE music there was it is.
• 1:07:28
  Oh my God, yes. Did they name him after a?
• 1:07:34
  Jellyfish. By the way, the Portuguese man O
• 1:07:36
  war, that's a giant jellyfish, right?
• 1:07:39
  Yeah. The.
• 1:07:41
  Whole gimmick was awful. And wasn't he like a situation?
• 1:07:46
  Vince must have thought he was ugly, right?
• 1:07:48
  That's why he put that mask on him, yeah.
• 1:07:51
  I think the weirdest. Part I think for me the weirdest
• 1:07:54
  part looking at that mask is the fact that his ears are exposed.
• 1:07:59
  So it's kind of like a luchador mask, but his ears are exposed
• 1:08:02
  so it makes it look it makes it look like a jock strap.
• 1:08:05
  He kind of looked like I don't know if.
• 1:08:06
  This is a very deep cut. Do you remember in the New York
• 1:08:09
  Post there used to be like the wrestling columnist Slammer?
• 1:08:12
  Slammer. He had a mask on.
• 1:08:14
  Yeah, he had a mask on. It looks kind of like the.
• 1:08:16
  Slammers. Yep.
• 1:08:19
  And how do? You how?
• 1:08:20
  Where does Vince even come up with this?
• 1:08:22
  You're Aldo Montoya. Like you look Portuguese.
• 1:08:26
  Yeah. What?
• 1:08:27
  What? Like where?
• 1:08:29
  Does that even come from It's insane.
• 1:08:33
  It it really. Is and this is just incredible.
• 1:08:35
  For those that don't, yes, yes, yeah. #22.
• 1:08:39
  PJ something. Right, PJ?
• 1:08:41
  What's this big Walker? Thank you.
• 1:08:45
  Big Daddy cool. PJ No, it's.
• 1:08:50
  I'm sorry, it's PJ Polaco. That's yes, sorry.
• 1:08:54
  Yes, Big Daddy in theme. Music right now, because here
• 1:08:56
  comes Big Daddy cool he is full of.
• 1:08:59
  Diesel fuel for. Sure.
• 1:09:01
  That sounds like a Pornhub. Line.
• 1:09:03
  Whoa. Hit the wrong button.
• 1:09:04
  Hey. There, that was the right line
• 1:09:05
  because that. Sounds like a pornhub kind of
• 1:09:07
  thing to say it does the way he. Says.
• 1:09:10
  It to him like that's so sexual thence you got to chill out man
• 1:09:13
  you. Know diesel's going to.
• 1:09:15
  Win this thing, McMahon, Vince. Like.
• 1:09:18
  Just watching this Rumble, right, we're up to #22 Diesel is
• 1:09:25
  like it, it's Vader and then Diesel like these are the two
• 1:09:28
  believable guys that could win this Royal Rumble besides Shawn
• 1:09:32
  Michaels. Like maybe Owen 4 like but but.
• 1:09:38
  Nobody. Else is a believable like he's
• 1:09:41
  like 95. Percent, like, like odds for
• 1:09:44
  Shawn Michaels to win this thing must have been like -10,000.
• 1:09:48
  Yeah, yeah. Like.
• 1:09:50
  Like Bulldog? Comes later, but he might be #5
• 1:09:54
  and and it's not like an impressive showing from British
• 1:09:57
  Bulldog. You don't believe in fat 2
• 1:09:59
  making? A difference.
• 1:10:00
  He makes a difference. But before we can make a
• 1:10:03
  difference, he did not make a difference.
• 1:10:06
  He glazed. Over the fact that that Shawn
• 1:10:09
  Michaels has found himself on the outside of the ring again
• 1:10:12
  and he then gives the like crown signal like he just LeBron James
• 1:10:17
  kind of does the crown thing right.
• 1:10:19
  He does that motion and then he looks underneath the ring and he
• 1:10:22
  pulls out Jerry Waller, who Jerry is now holding on to every
• 1:10:26
  single cable that you can possibly find underneath the
• 1:10:28
  ring, trying to stay underneath there and.
• 1:10:32
  Michaels brings them in, gives them.
• 1:10:34
  That old uppercut, they're the followers out over the top #23.
• 1:10:39
  Comma guy hasn't been on TV for a while, apparently.
• 1:10:42
  So Preach refers to him being in the money incorporation, right?
• 1:10:47
  Yeah. I don't.
• 1:10:50
  Think that's a thing? Anymore.
• 1:10:51
  No, not at. This point, it's about to
• 1:10:54
  disband or it has disbanded. I think it has disbanded.
• 1:10:57
  Or it's at the very end, I don't know.
• 1:10:59
  Fiasi's doing his thing with. The Ringmaster.
• 1:11:02
  It's it's weird this this was my Netflix.
• 1:11:06
  Note here, the common Mustafa, right?
• 1:11:08
  He comes down to the music plays, right?
• 1:11:10
  I'm like, that music sounds very familiar.
• 1:11:11
  What the hell is it? It's very strange.
• 1:11:13
  Then the subtitle says too sexy. I'm like what?
• 1:11:16
  Too sexy? Kama Mustafa?
• 1:11:17
  Then I'm like, that's Brian Christopher's music.
• 1:11:22
  Really. Yes, it is, Brian.
• 1:11:24
  He comes out to Brian Christopher's music.
• 1:11:26
  That was like, that's so that is really.
• 1:11:28
  Wow. Yeah.
• 1:11:29
  Oh, I got to go back and listen. Yeah, it it really I was.
• 1:11:32
  Like I wonder if it was like. A Like a The Patriot.
• 1:11:37
  Patriot and Kurt Angle. Kurt Angle, Yeah.
• 1:11:40
  Or the Orient Express and Kate hurt other guys and Kumari any.
• 1:11:45
  Japanese man, Yeah. Anyone from the Pacific?
• 1:11:48
  This is. Comma's last run before
• 1:11:51
  returning with the Nation. Oh, interesting.
• 1:11:54
  Yeah, which was pitched. It was actually pitched for him
• 1:11:57
  to come back as Papashango before he returned with the
• 1:12:01
  Nation, but that fell through. That would be kind of cool,
• 1:12:05
  right #24 with his white boots and no goatee.
• 1:12:10
  We've got the ringmaster, Steve. Don't forget his buzz cut.
• 1:12:13
  His buzz cut. Fresh buzz cut he gave.
• 1:12:15
  Up the hair and he's accompanied to the ring by the $1,000,000
• 1:12:19
  man, but we don't see the $1,000,000 man really there for
• 1:12:23
  a little bit and. For what it's worth, Money Inc
• 1:12:26
  was established in February of 1992 and then ran until August
• 1:12:31
  of 1993. No, not that.
• 1:12:33
  Money, Inc. No, not that the the.
• 1:12:36
  Money Million $1,000,000 Corporation $1,000,000
• 1:12:40
  Corporation with. Nikolai I think called it.
• 1:12:42
  I gave it the wrong. Name, I forget what I called it
• 1:12:45
  money incorporation or something You called it money
• 1:12:48
  incorporation. No, the the $1,000,000
• 1:12:50
  corporation was April 94 to May 96.
• 1:12:53
  OK, OK. So.
• 1:12:54
  It did linger. With Austin in it, because there
• 1:12:56
  was a lot of people in it, right?
• 1:12:58
  Like we'll call for this little. Penny on his Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:00
  So it was him. Comma. 123 kid joined at one
• 1:13:05
  point to Tonka Sid, Sid. That's a pretty nasty A bam bam,
• 1:13:09
  I think. Bam, bam, Yeah.
• 1:13:12
  Well, yeah. Ted.
• 1:13:14
  Bukowski's Undertaker quote. UN quote Urban Alchester Bam bam
• 1:13:18
  Tatanka comma King Kong Bundy. Bundy.
• 1:13:21
  Psycho Sid. 123 Kid Santa Claus for all of you that remember and
• 1:13:27
  the Ringmaster. That's a pretty pretty solid.
• 1:13:30
  Faction, if you ask me, especially for the time and
• 1:13:32
  place, for sure. It's funny they.
• 1:13:34
  They have like a line graph kind of timeline on the Wikipedia
• 1:13:37
  page. It's it's actually pretty
• 1:13:39
  awesome. #25. Like at the band with the.
• 1:13:44
  That kind of thing. Yep, share, share to the.
• 1:13:45
  Discord. Yeah, I absolutely will take a
• 1:13:48
  screenshot. Right now #20. 5.
• 1:13:53
  Very horrible wits. Ish.
• 1:13:55
  Is right. Is right.
• 1:13:57
  That comes down to Hava. Nagila yeah, in a MIDI.
• 1:14:03
  Version too, like you remember that back in the day?
• 1:14:05
  The MIDI, Yeah, yeah. If this guy what is pure perfect
• 1:14:10
  say if this guy here comes very horrible wit if some nerd makes
• 1:14:14
  it to. WrestleMania, something like
• 1:14:16
  that and Invincible. I've got it right here.
• 1:14:19
  Oh yeah. That's here.
• 1:14:20
  Horowitz wins. This match I quit.
• 1:14:22
  You'll never see me again. Really.
• 1:14:24
  No kidding. I thought I was going to be
• 1:14:27
  rooting for Barry Horowitz, but I might be now.
• 1:14:29
  Yeah, don't bet on it. Yeah, don't.
• 1:14:33
  Bet on it. They're like, it's like they're
• 1:14:35
  like annoyed at each other at like legitimately there's like
• 1:14:38
  no joking between the two of them throughout their own.
• 1:14:42
  In that. In that clip right there, you
• 1:14:44
  absolutely hear the tone during. Before #26 Triple H is finally
• 1:14:49
  eliminated with ease by Big Daddy.
• 1:14:53
  Cool launches him out of the ring.
• 1:14:56
  Yeah, it's a great spot. 48 minutes and 4 seconds.
• 1:14:59
  He's impressive. It's kind.
• 1:15:01
  Of like his coming out party. Vince even says he's.
• 1:15:04
  Summarily eliminated, which is like a rare turn of phrase for
• 1:15:09
  Vince. I feel like instead of his usual
• 1:15:11
  thinks, he leans on yeah, it's a it's a good line.
• 1:15:13
  And I I don't know, I I like the spot that he just gets randomly
• 1:15:16
  chucked. Yeah.
• 1:15:17
  Now remember. The, the, the story goes that he
• 1:15:20
  was supposed to be King of the ring in 1996.
• 1:15:23
  So this was probably the precursor of into that really
• 1:15:26
  showing up. And then he's going to go on to
• 1:15:28
  win King of the Ring. And we know the yeah, the rest
• 1:15:31
  is History Hall. And the rest.
• 1:15:33
  Is history, and now you can probably draw a line.
• 1:15:36
  To a lot of Royal Rumble appearances like this Triple H1
• 1:15:39
  where they last for a long time and they go on to do something
• 1:15:43
  else, whether it is King, King of the ring or win something at
• 1:15:45
  the WrestleMania or, you know, whatever it may be, I feel like
• 1:15:47
  that's always if you don't win it like.
• 1:15:49
  That's a big. Breakout party for you being the
• 1:15:51
  guy that's in there for a long time?
• 1:15:53
  Absolutely, they still are. Doing it to this point, yeah.
• 1:15:56
  I mean, Penta, PENTA was that last year.
• 1:15:58
  I think Liv Morgan did that recently as well.
• 1:16:01
  Gunther. Gunther.
• 1:16:02
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:16:05
  It's time to make a difference at number 26520.
• 1:16:09
  Jesus. What is he supposed to?
• 1:16:11
  Do. He's like a Christian youth.
• 1:16:13
  Counselor or something like like an essentially.
• 1:16:16
  That's what it is. Vince instantly talk about a guy
• 1:16:18
  who can make a difference. Terrible.
• 1:16:21
  It's so bad. It's so, so bad.
• 1:16:25
  And then just think this guy is a guy who later on obviously
• 1:16:30
  comes out as rikishi wearing a pimpled ass and and this is
• 1:16:37
  somehow worse than that. Like, right.
• 1:16:39
  Thank God. Who would have thought?
• 1:16:41
  You'd say those words. See, there's a weird, weird
• 1:16:44
  time. And place, Yeah, they move on
• 1:16:45
  from Fat 2. Really quickly to like to show
• 1:16:48
  the superstar. Line once more.
• 1:16:50
  Like yeah, yeah, it's like 2 guys left.
• 1:16:52
  Vince, Oh my great Joe. Knows on the superstar line.
• 1:16:57
  Yeah, exactly. Exactly you think.
• 1:17:00
  Paying for the. Superstar line is a better.
• 1:17:02
  Deal. Or worse deal than paying
• 1:17:05
  Michael Buffer for a cameo where he texts you.
• 1:17:08
  Let's get ready to rumble. Or Are you ready to rumble?
• 1:17:10
  Give me that text. Come on, you better deliver that
• 1:17:13
  thing with. Like the emphasis like button on
• 1:17:16
  the send so it shakes on my screen, yeah.
• 1:17:20
  Nobody have to. Do that for M1 day.
• 1:17:22
  Like I feel like it's it's longer and and I didn't.
• 1:17:26
  Think it's really? A thing, no?
• 1:17:29
  It is. No, it is not.
• 1:17:30
  I can never. See you Michael Buffer will not
• 1:17:34
  text you. I'm pretty sure you can get a.
• 1:17:37
  Text from him for $3? No, I think.
• 1:17:40
  This all blew up. Cameo.
• 1:17:44
  I think they. Have the option so that you can
• 1:17:46
  like text with the celebrity just like like making requests
• 1:17:50
  of what you want them to say. No way.
• 1:17:53
  Why would why would you want a text message back from Michael
• 1:17:56
  Buffer or anybody for that matter?
• 1:17:59
  A text message or an e-mail? I don't.
• 1:18:01
  I don't want that. I would.
• 1:18:03
  I just didn't write it. That's why.
• 1:18:04
  It's only three bucks. I would swipe and mark it.
• 1:18:07
  As spam immediately what? Hello James, this is Michael
• 1:18:12
  Buffer for. The millions of people and.
• 1:18:15
  Junk. #27. It's a yankum worst music in
• 1:18:22
  RTC. Oh man, it makes me so.
• 1:18:24
  Uneasy. I don't like thrilling noise and
• 1:18:27
  it's so aggressive and so just. Yep, that blonde curly mullet.
• 1:18:33
  He looks so much. Skinnier.
• 1:18:35
  Here than when he was Kane I This is the kind of thing.
• 1:18:38
  Where like, I understand that a heel is supposed to get heat and
• 1:18:41
  you're not supposed to like them, but this is this kind of
• 1:18:43
  Gimme crosses the line. I think it's like, you know, I
• 1:18:46
  don't care. Like, yeah, it's stupid one.
• 1:18:50
  And it's, it's just annoyingly, you know, like part of Lawler's.
• 1:18:54
  Stupid. Yeah, with Brett there, I never
• 1:18:58
  believe this guy's going. To do anything, no.
• 1:19:01
  Which is really a shame because he he's built like 1,000,000
• 1:19:04
  bucks. Like when you think about it
• 1:19:06
  like it's, it's insane because wild don't.
• 1:19:09
  They send EPA, go ahead. Don't ever forget his.
• 1:19:11
  Teeth and how early they were. Yeah, and then they send him.
• 1:19:15
  Right into the Jabra gimmick diesel.
• 1:19:18
  After this the the bogus diesel. Which is interesting because he
• 1:19:22
  gets. Eliminated by Diesel, a little
• 1:19:24
  bit doesn't last very long. Owen at one point during this
• 1:19:29
  before #28 skins the cat. They referenced that a few
• 1:19:33
  times, but he before that, no, I'm sorry, right after he skins
• 1:19:40
  the cat, he comes back in and he gives a pretty nasty inseguri to
• 1:19:45
  Sean, which is a call back to the concussion and he.
• 1:19:50
  But this is. Where I think it's really
• 1:19:53
  interesting because they go back and they replay the Inseguri and
• 1:19:58
  during that. Is when?
• 1:19:59
  Owen gets eliminated so bad. Terrible production.
• 1:20:04
  And here's like who we're talking about as like in the top
• 1:20:08
  five guys in this Royal Rumble and you're missing him get
• 1:20:11
  eliminated. It's it's absolutely pathetic.
• 1:20:15
  Ken Dalton in the. Back is failed on this one.
• 1:20:18
  Whoever is doing producing on this, it was, it's so bad and
• 1:20:22
  it's probably the most athletic. Yeah, that we.
• 1:20:26
  Have for the. Entire evening, like it was
• 1:20:28
  really impressive the way that this happened and you know, Owen
• 1:20:31
  picks up Sean and essentially starts running towards the
• 1:20:34
  ropes, but Diesel is right there and Diesel essentially gives a
• 1:20:37
  little heave ho to Owen as he's going out.
• 1:20:41
  Sean holds on to the. Top rope and Owen goes flying
• 1:20:44
  over the top rope here and definitely my favorite
• 1:20:47
  elimination of the entire Yeah, but they miss the whole.
• 1:20:49
  Thing you have to watch it on like a third of your television
• 1:20:52
  screen Yeah, they do it in the picture in picture.
• 1:20:54
  And that's how you're able to see Owen really showing what he
• 1:20:57
  can do. Yeah, they couldn't even go.
• 1:20:59
  Back and show us like a replay of how he got eliminated which
• 1:21:02
  they do at one point they don't even know he's eliminated
• 1:21:04
  they're. Like they're like.
• 1:21:05
  Disagreeing about whether he's been eliminated or not.
• 1:21:08
  You feel bad for Owen, who also, by the way, has his old his
• 1:21:11
  classic music when he comes down earlier, right?
• 1:21:13
  Like I love the Owen Hart music so good.
• 1:21:16
  The rocket Owen Hart. Like if I can you know if for
• 1:21:19
  like if I get to play the guitar for one song, that might be the
• 1:21:22
  song I picked. Like just RIP off Owen.
• 1:21:25
  Hart's music like put me on stage.
• 1:21:28
  And I'm going to I don't not like Led Zeppelin or whatever,
• 1:21:31
  like Owen Hart. Owen Hart's theme.
• 1:21:34
  Teach me how to play that. Yeah, Oh.
• 1:21:37
  Man. Sean's taking a beating in this
• 1:21:39
  rumble. He gets a brutal clothesline
• 1:21:42
  from Steve Austin. I'm not calling him Stone Cold.
• 1:21:45
  And then Austin mocks him with the the Sean's signature pose.
• 1:21:50
  It's an interesting spot, like they're giving, they're giving
• 1:21:55
  Stone Cold some run here and it it shows #28 oh boy, the.
• 1:22:02
  Patron The patron state of the Extra Cooler show Marty party
• 1:22:06
  here. It's a Marty party.
• 1:22:08
  A guy only lasts like 2 minutes, but it's still fun #28 he and
• 1:22:12
  Sean have a little moment in the middle of the ring.
• 1:22:13
  Of course they always do. Always.
• 1:22:15
  Yeah, they're they're. Beating each other up, which I
• 1:22:18
  thought was interesting because Marty's a face.
• 1:22:20
  Yeah, right. And so is Sean.
• 1:22:22
  It was this massive babyface. But they're going after each
• 1:22:25
  other right away. Crowd.
• 1:22:26
  Responds a little bit. They do really rocking each.
• 1:22:29
  Other there. Yeah, there used to be called
• 1:22:33
  the. Rockers like and already comes
• 1:22:35
  out to the rockers. Theme.
• 1:22:36
  Or at least that's what they've also dubbed on this Netflix
• 1:22:39
  version. Yeah, I'm sure that's his theme.
• 1:22:41
  Yeah, well, that's definitely that's his only theme ever.
• 1:22:45
  Mr. Consistency here. Never get.
• 1:22:48
  Up the rockers thing. Don't you wish they kind of
• 1:22:50
  leaned into the Attitude Era with Marty?
• 1:22:52
  I know it's a little early. Like if he did come down with a
• 1:22:54
  dirty rack of Bud Ice, right? Like, imagine that and he's like
• 1:22:58
  an alcoholic or whatever. He's smashing the cans over
• 1:23:00
  people's head. He should have been.
• 1:23:02
  He's like, you know how like that?
• 1:23:03
  Yeah, the cans explode. It's just shit littered across
• 1:23:06
  the ring. And then he like, he's about to
• 1:23:08
  win. And he like, instead of like
• 1:23:09
  eliminating the guy, he goes to grab another beer and it's like
• 1:23:12
  about his alcoholism or whatever.
• 1:23:13
  Like that'd be some good WWFS. Jake could've gotten involved.
• 1:23:17
  Yes, Jake could get. All the hiccups in them.
• 1:23:20
  Like he just. Like trails off halfway through
• 1:23:24
  like. Well, you know, shot.
• 1:23:30
  Looking at the wrong. Camera, yeah.
• 1:23:33
  Oh man, let's book it. Let's That's my fantasy.
• 1:23:36
  Booking right there man, I'm sure there's an indie.
• 1:23:38
  Somewhere that we can get this to happen.
• 1:23:41
  Well, I think that maybe that's the graphic.
• 1:23:42
  Novel we have to work on. Get right and Jim, I like it.
• 1:23:47
  Click, click, click, click, click #29 the.
• 1:23:50
  British Bulldog talk about like everything is nothing's hitting
• 1:23:57
  in this rumble, like there's nothing hitting, like no one
• 1:24:00
  gives 2 shits that British Bulldog is coming out at #29
• 1:24:04
  such a major player the year before, yeah.
• 1:24:06
  He just they're. They they're telling us that he
• 1:24:08
  just got off of a feud with Brett in in the title picture at
• 1:24:11
  in your house, you know, And as usual, Vince can't help himself
• 1:24:16
  but has to show us Diana Smith in the crowd.
• 1:24:19
  She doesn't barely even looks like her because her hair is
• 1:24:21
  darker. And yeah, you know.
• 1:24:24
  She wastes that mildly concerned look on her face too, like I
• 1:24:27
  like what she's watching. Like I don't know what like a
• 1:24:29
  defensive driving video or something like that.
• 1:24:32
  She looks very. Buzzing me how you're going to
• 1:24:36
  go there You you're. Talking about a lot of bosoms
• 1:24:38
  tonight with the the squat member and now Diana.
• 1:24:43
  Just call it like I. See it?
• 1:24:46
  This is the only shot of her. You get, though, which is
• 1:24:48
  unusual for WF. Yeah, like one shot.
• 1:24:51
  That's the girl with Diana tonight.
• 1:24:52
  Yeah, God, but. During this point, I thought it
• 1:24:58
  was interesting because Stone Cold or Steve Austin is
• 1:25:01
  eliminated by Fat 2 accidentally, and he's clothes
• 1:25:08
  lined over the top rope. And supposedly Stone Cold was
• 1:25:13
  supposed to be in the final four here.
• 1:25:15
  Really. Yeah.
• 1:25:16
  But he missed that spot. There's and the shot.
• 1:25:19
  That you see is in the corner Bulldog and Sean, and you just
• 1:25:23
  so happened to see that in the background Fatou clotheslines
• 1:25:26
  Steve Austin and Steve just goes flying over the top rope and at
• 1:25:31
  this point the commentary goes silent like there's no response,
• 1:25:35
  there's no nothing. I like tried to pull the audio
• 1:25:38
  from it and it was just dead air until at one point Vince just
• 1:25:42
  tries to move on and Mr. Perfect brings it up.
• 1:25:45
  So let's take a listen and I believe the over.
• 1:25:47
  The top that goes top two years history.
• 1:25:49
  What happened to the ringmaster? Not certain.
• 1:25:52
  Must have been illuminated. We missed it so much going on
• 1:25:56
  all over the square circle. It is difficult to keep up with
• 1:25:58
  all of the action. He made a difference.
• 1:26:02
  Too many difference, yeah. It's Vince and and Perfect here
• 1:26:07
  is Piper would have another example of, you know, Vince
• 1:26:10
  clashing with somebody while the while you're announcing.
• 1:26:13
  But it feels like this was another thing that Vince was
• 1:26:17
  looking and giving the death stare to Mr. Perfect.
• 1:26:19
  Yeah, why would you even? Bring that up.
• 1:26:21
  Come on, like just move on, Like.
• 1:26:24
  But at the same time. You have.
• 1:26:25
  To recognize that guy gets eliminated and the fact that
• 1:26:28
  Vince is glancing over it and like ignoring it completely is
• 1:26:31
  pathetic. But yes, and Austin hasn't.
• 1:26:33
  Even talked about it is that his hands were just sweaty and slick
• 1:26:36
  and he just couldn't hold on. He was supposed to hold on to
• 1:26:38
  the top rope, but oh really? He was supposed to be in the
• 1:26:41
  final. 4 And that's why we end up with a comma.
• 1:26:44
  Which is very strange, very strange.
• 1:26:46
  And that's. Why?
• 1:26:47
  The end feels very rushed, and we'll get there in a minute, but
• 1:26:50
  it feels off. And that's exactly why.
• 1:26:53
  And like, I wonder what that did to Vince, his faith in Steve
• 1:26:58
  Austin. I know that we're going to get
• 1:26:59
  right in 96 at one point. You can go back and listen to
• 1:27:02
  that, too. I mean, he's done an episode
• 1:27:04
  there. But like, what?
• 1:27:06
  What do you think that this did to Austin?
• 1:27:09
  Austin must have thought that he was done for.
• 1:27:11
  Like, he's brand new in WWF at this point.
• 1:27:14
  He's trying to make his way and coming off the ECW and then WCW
• 1:27:18
  before that. And I can only imagine what he
• 1:27:20
  felt like coming out of it, like having to mess up that bad.
• 1:27:24
  Yeah, any quick push that might? Have been coming maybe just put
• 1:27:27
  on hold because he like definitely treads water for a
• 1:27:29
  bit until I don't know, around Survivor Series or so is when he
• 1:27:32
  goes with Brett right? #30 King of the Ring.
• 1:27:36
  King of the Ring, but that's. I'm sorry, Yeah, 90. 6 King of
• 1:27:38
  the ring. But yeah, the ring is kind of
• 1:27:40
  like the the. Jump off point.
• 1:27:41
  Obviously everyone knows the Austin story, but like King of
• 1:27:44
  the Ring 96, it wasn't even supposed to be him, right?
• 1:27:47
  Like he was the second choice. And maybe it's because of, you
• 1:27:51
  know, what happened here. So who the hell knows, man, It's
• 1:27:54
  this time period. I mean, we've talked about it
• 1:27:56
  however many times on this show of just how interesting 9697
• 1:28:01
  into 98 really is. So #30.
• 1:28:04
  Is Duke Drossi. We don't need to focus on him.
• 1:28:07
  But to go back to that conversation, this this rumble
• 1:28:11
  is stacked with talent, but none of them are anywhere near their
• 1:28:17
  peak in their career. Like it's it's absolutely
• 1:28:20
  bonkers when you think about the names that we've gone over in
• 1:28:24
  here and and how many of them have had such high peaks.
• 1:28:27
  Obviously Underhurst, Helmsley, you know that you got the
• 1:28:31
  classics of Lawler and Backlund what their whatever, but Jake's
• 1:28:34
  in there, obviously Austin. Yeah, no, I know, but. 123 kid,
• 1:28:39
  you know he's on the way out. Vader, obviously with his debut,
• 1:28:45
  Owen, Sean, obviously. This isn't even Sean's peak if
• 1:28:49
  you ask me. You got who else is there?
• 1:28:53
  Diesel. He's he's I got 1 foot out the
• 1:28:56
  door. Steve Austin Batu, who then
• 1:29:00
  later becomes obviously Rikishi. Isaac Yankum, who becomes Kane
• 1:29:05
  Godfather I. Wonder if dog.
• 1:29:07
  Off the top. Of your head is it?
• 1:29:09
  More or less than 50% Hall of Farmers in this match.
• 1:29:13
  Without looking I think you'd get close.
• 1:29:15
  Less. I think it's.
• 1:29:17
  Right, yeah, it's like right. It's right there, give or take.
• 1:29:19
  I don't know, I'm not sure, but it's it's.
• 1:29:21
  Crazy when you think of the 30 guys that are in this Royal
• 1:29:24
  Rumble and how any like all the I bet you it's over.
• 1:29:28
  I bet you it's over. 50% if like is godfather Hall of Famer, he
• 1:29:31
  is right. Probably.
• 1:29:32
  Probably squat team. Kind of.
• 1:29:34
  Fused the whole squat. Team Gilbert.
• 1:29:36
  Dorie Funk. Sure, Dorie.
• 1:29:39
  Funk. Maybe in even hardcore Holly.
• 1:29:41
  Like, you know, like whatever you think of him, like there,
• 1:29:45
  there's a lot. But anyway, let's get to the end
• 1:29:47
  of this match because like Matt said, it does kind of happen
• 1:29:50
  abruptly. Bulldog and Michaels are outside
• 1:29:53
  again fighting on the floor. Owen comes back down to attacks
• 1:29:57
  Sean. They get back in the ring quick.
• 1:30:01
  Oh, very quickly. Within minutes, Isaac Yankum
• 1:30:04
  gets drop kicked out of the ring by Sean and then Comma
• 1:30:08
  clotheslines Duke the dumpster Drossi out of the match.
• 1:30:10
  Thankfully, soon after that, we're down to the final four.
• 1:30:14
  Sean Bulldog Diesel and Comma Comma's just it's like one of
• 1:30:19
  these things is not like the other, but.
• 1:30:22
  Sean eliminates. Bulldog almost right away.
• 1:30:24
  Comma then clotheslines Sean from behind.
• 1:30:27
  Sean skins the cat and Diesel then dumps Comma out and as
• 1:30:32
  Diesel turns his back we get a huge super kick to his shoulder
• 1:30:36
  and he's eliminated and boom the Royal Rumble is over like that.
• 1:30:41
  It's it's it's. The quick like I almost wish I
• 1:30:44
  timed it to see how long it went from Duke the dumpster Drossie
• 1:30:49
  entering the ring to the end of this match because it can't be
• 1:30:53
  more than 4 minutes tops would be my guess.
• 1:30:57
  It's it's that quick. But Sean goes nuts celebrating
• 1:31:01
  in the ring. Crowd pops for his win, but
• 1:31:05
  again, like I said, I don't think there was ever a chance
• 1:31:07
  that anybody else wins this. Diesel would have been the
• 1:31:10
  number 2 Vader #3 maybe Owen Bulldog or the next behind that.
• 1:31:15
  Otherwise we got nothing. This Will already had like.
• 1:31:18
  Something kind of brewing with the undertaking too.
• 1:31:20
  So right, so. Sean Stripteasing, which never
• 1:31:25
  made sense to me. You've got this massive baby
• 1:31:27
  face, right? Obviously the girls love him,
• 1:31:31
  but as a male I I didn't. Like.
• 1:31:34
  Even like a a kid, I didn't wanna watch him do this.
• 1:31:38
  No, it was like, this was my favorite guy.
• 1:31:40
  Like I didn't wanna watch him dance around the ring and take
• 1:31:43
  everything off, right. It's like almost coming down in
• 1:31:46
  the. Front, too.
• 1:31:46
  It's really. Yeah, it was.
• 1:31:48
  It was. Very uncomfortable.
• 1:31:49
  I remember being like this is this is not right.
• 1:31:53
  Your parents coming. In and you're like, they're
• 1:31:55
  like, what are you watching? Oh moon in Fresno, man.
• 1:32:00
  Oh. Man, Diesel's pissed.
• 1:32:01
  They. Tease him coming back to the
• 1:32:02
  ring. He beats a bulldog in the aisle.
• 1:32:06
  Diesel comes back in. You think maybe he's going to
• 1:32:08
  attack Sean? Instead they do their signature
• 1:32:10
  high 5. Everybody.
• 1:32:13
  I wish he kicked. His ass.
• 1:32:14
  They should do this ma'am, kick his ass.
• 1:32:15
  But it doesn't make sense because no, it does find.
• 1:32:18
  His way to. WrestleMania.
• 1:32:19
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just doesn't make sense.
• 1:32:22
  But. It is what it is, and that's the
• 1:32:26
  end. So I'm going to go back here for
• 1:32:29
  a. Second Duke Drum Sutrosi.
• 1:32:30
  Now they are the way that it happens on Netflix.
• 1:32:32
  I have it up on my iPad at the moment.
• 1:32:35
  They countdown the time left in the event, right?
• 1:32:37
  So there's 53 minutes and 53, I'm sorry, 53 minutes and 35
• 1:32:43
  seconds remaining. As the siren goes off, the horn
• 1:32:45
  goes off and Duke comes in. The match ends at 5131.
• 1:32:52
  Two minutes and two more seconds. 2.
• 1:32:54
  Minutes and 4 seconds. I was being generous when I
• 1:32:56
  said. 4 minutes. You doubled it.
• 1:32:58
  You doubled. 2 minutes and 4 seconds.
• 1:33:00
  It's so fast. When I was doing my homework.
• 1:33:03
  Watching this, you get to this point, you assume you have
• 1:33:06
  almost sometimes you have like a, a match left, right, like
• 1:33:08
  basically right. Like yeah, too much.
• 1:33:10
  But I didn't, I didn't hate the quick ending.
• 1:33:14
  Like sometimes like I, I, I appreciate it.
• 1:33:16
  I don't need 2 guys like the long drawn out shit.
• 1:33:19
  Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.
• 1:33:21
  I was kind of happy, especially I think in this kind of match
• 1:33:23
  where you know who's going to win, like even obviously, you
• 1:33:27
  know, this is a 30 years later, but still like it's it's one of
• 1:33:31
  those those rumbles where it's like it's fine, but would you
• 1:33:35
  have liked to see Vader toward the end?
• 1:33:37
  Maybe? Yeah, yeah, maybe the Austin
• 1:33:40
  thing is more interesting, you know, Right.
• 1:33:43
  See what? I think Vader is.
• 1:33:45
  The one that felt like he dominated the match, you know,
• 1:33:48
  like he was the difference maker here.
• 1:33:50
  No, but it wasn't long enough. I don't think it was long
• 1:33:52
  enough, his domination, but he. I mean him and.
• 1:33:56
  Diesel, I mean if you look at eliminations so and he comes
• 1:33:58
  back into and he does. His thing, right He.
• 1:34:01
  Felt like he was the one that, you know, was really the one
• 1:34:05
  that that moved things around and made it, made it about him.
• 1:34:08
  Yeah. Resets the Rumble, Shawn.
• 1:34:11
  Michaels had eight. Eliminations, so that's another
• 1:34:13
  thing that we can talk about. He leads away with that Diesel
• 1:34:17
  had. 5. Vader had four, Yoko with three,
• 1:34:20
  and then Jake and Owen both had two and then there was a bunch
• 1:34:24
  at 11 and then. 17 guys had 0. So how about this we?
• 1:34:29
  We talked about how Hunter Hurst Helmsley was in there for 48
• 1:34:33
  minutes. Wow.
• 1:34:34
  Yeah, yeah. Because the talents 100 Hunter
• 1:34:38
  didn't have. Any with 48 minutes.
• 1:34:40
  Hunter had one. I have one one. 40.
• 1:34:43
  That's not a good. Ratio 48.
• 1:34:46
  Minutes and one second. Do you know who lasted the
• 1:34:50
  second longest? Did you guys look this up?
• 1:34:52
  I did. Bob Holly.
• 1:34:53
  Bob Holly lasted. 39 minutes and 35 seconds, That's disgusting,
• 1:34:59
  Yeah. Jerry Lawler.
• 1:35:00
  Was third. He had 36 minutes and two
• 1:35:03
  seconds, most of it under the ring, but still 36 minutes and
• 1:35:06
  two seconds and squat team. Member number 2 was the
• 1:35:10
  shortest. 20. 4 seconds, yes, yes it was.
• 1:35:13
  That's. Fully.
• 1:35:16
  Yeah. You know what my least favorite
• 1:35:18
  part? About the Royal Rumble is and I
• 1:35:20
  don't know if it's because of this show and like picking apart
• 1:35:23
  Royal Rumbles. You've got like spots the the
• 1:35:27
  the spots that makes zero sense, right?
• 1:35:30
  I've got like Triple H has Sean in the corner and he's lifting
• 1:35:34
  them over the top rope. Triple H is a heel.
• 1:35:36
  Sean's a baby face and you get a heel come over and gut punch
• 1:35:40
  triple HI. Think that's the my least
• 1:35:43
  favorite thing in any Royal Rumble.
• 1:35:45
  Like why are you doing that? Aren't you trying to eliminate
• 1:35:49
  people? And it's worse when it's like
• 1:35:51
  heel on heel or face on face. It's like it makes no sense.
• 1:35:55
  It's one thing if like you're A tag team and you're trying to
• 1:35:57
  help like a former ally, I feel like.
• 1:36:01
  Especially in. This day they're just, they're
• 1:36:03
  just in there doing things, you know, they're just like filling,
• 1:36:07
  filling, filling. Time so Undertaker comes down
• 1:36:12
  right as Diesel's leaving for the next match.
• 1:36:15
  It's really strange. Like, I kind of like it diesel.
• 1:36:18
  Gets into the ring. And you know, he's, he's
• 1:36:20
  congratulating Sean. He like well, no, at first it's
• 1:36:24
  like this stand off and then throws his hand up in the air he
• 1:36:27
  gives them the old dudes with attitudes, you know high 5 and
• 1:36:31
  then it's just like all right, everyone out of the ring like
• 1:36:33
  let's get out the lights go off. Vince even says here we're.
• 1:36:36
  Moving on to like this, right, Vince is like very.
• 1:36:39
  Dismissive of the entire Royal Rumble at this point, which is
• 1:36:42
  crazy considering it's his. Boy Michael's about to achieve
• 1:36:45
  his boyhood dream exactly and. It's immediately into lights go
• 1:36:50
  out, gong happens, Pallbearer comes down with the Undertaker
• 1:36:54
  in tow, and the Fink is instantly like introducing the
• 1:36:58
  the main event. And here we go.
• 1:37:01
  Diesel is walking up the aisle and he's now fighting with
• 1:37:05
  Undertaker as Undertaker is walking in.
• 1:37:07
  And obviously we know with hindsight here that it's going
• 1:37:10
  to be Taker and Diesel at Mania 12.
• 1:37:12
  Like that's where we're headed. But it was still a cool.
• 1:37:16
  Yeah, I thought it was our kind of set up.
• 1:37:18
  Here as, as you know, Kevin Nash Diesel is is I ain't afraid of
• 1:37:22
  the dark. Yeah.
• 1:37:23
  I kind of liked it. I I.
• 1:37:24
  Was into it. I was like this.
• 1:37:25
  It works. Yeah.
• 1:37:26
  Yeah, it works for me. I like this era of diesel.
• 1:37:29
  We get at the very end and then like he's getting marks.
• 1:37:31
  It is very Kevin Nash. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:37:34
  Cocky prick. I don't know.
• 1:37:36
  That's how. It comes off, yeah, he does him
• 1:37:38
  and. Michaels are two peas in a pod.
• 1:37:40
  Like you can see how that worked out.
• 1:37:42
  Over the top sarcasm. Of two of them to the point
• 1:37:45
  where it's like disrespectful. Exactly.
• 1:37:48
  It's dismissive. Of the other talent, people like
• 1:37:50
  Vader, who we had like, you know, you know what happens to
• 1:37:53
  him at Summer Slam, right? Yeah.
• 1:37:55
  Or. Or Goldust probably felt the
• 1:37:57
  brunt of it too. Yeah, I'm sure.
• 1:38:00
  From the click. That's us guys.
• 1:38:02
  We're the click according to Shawn Michaels before this
• 1:38:05
  match. But anyway, let's give this cans
• 1:38:08
  in the cooler. You know, sometimes Matt will
• 1:38:10
  bust my chops that I don't go first, so I'm going to go with
• 1:38:14
  three cans in the cooler. I can't go higher.
• 1:38:17
  I was tempted to go lower. It is what it is.
• 1:38:21
  The there was no like spots in the match that had me like, oh
• 1:38:26
  man, I forgot about that or oh, that was a great spot or I don't
• 1:38:30
  know. It was just fine.
• 1:38:32
  It was a fine rumble. Very way too predictable.
• 1:38:37
  I mean, yes, very. The talent there was.
• 1:38:39
  No true OP tier talent to make it super interesting.
• 1:38:43
  We've talked about that throughout this entire episode
• 1:38:46
  at this point. But like.
• 1:38:49
  I'm kind of there with. You like I wanted to go lower
• 1:38:51
  than three, but I'm gonna I'm gonna land at 3:00 as well.
• 1:38:54
  Like it's kind of that middle ground of I was more entertained
• 1:38:57
  than I expected because yes, you look at like all of the we write
• 1:39:01
  every single Royal Rumble like on some of them, this is left
• 1:39:04
  off the list and I was like, what do you ourselves into?
• 1:39:07
  I mean, but that's but that's. Sorry.
• 1:39:10
  Four out. Of 32.
• 1:39:11
  Like keep going, keep going. No, that's that that.
• 1:39:13
  To me is BS because I think people do that and they like
• 1:39:17
  just look at the outcome and look at the talents in the match
• 1:39:20
  and they're like, oh, Bob spark plug Holly is, you know, the
• 1:39:23
  ringmaster and hunters Helmsley, you know, and they say they they
• 1:39:28
  rank it that way and that's not fair to me.
• 1:39:31
  Like, granted, this is not an all timer.
• 1:39:34
  It's not fantastic, No, I agree. With you and.
• 1:39:38
  I I talked about the sportsterearlier.com, whatever
• 1:39:42
  it is, they ranked one in January of 2025 and this wasn't
• 1:39:45
  even on their list. It said it was not good enough
• 1:39:49
  to make their list, but you can't put any stock in that list
• 1:39:52
  whatsoever because they ranked 1992 as #8 on their list, no?
• 1:39:58
  Disrespect to any younger listeners of the show but
• 1:40:01
  whoever made that list is clearly in their like early 20s
• 1:40:05
  thousand and 20 was their number one.
• 1:40:07
  One overall on that list Who's? The one.
• 1:40:11
  That was the edge. Come back.
• 1:40:12
  And like it was, it was, it was good for McIntyre 1 and I think.
• 1:40:15
  Yeah, it's, it's the last. Thing before COVID hits yeah,
• 1:40:19
  yeah, yeah. Lesnar's the champion comes.
• 1:40:21
  Out at 1 I think. I know he was here at 2020.
• 1:40:23
  You think like, oh, was that like an empty arena one?
• 1:40:25
  But yeah, I'm sorry. Like I said, if you.
• 1:40:28
  See someone put 92 that low, then that's that's they're
• 1:40:33
  telling you you how old they are.
• 1:40:35
  They're being, Yeah. At best, they're being
• 1:40:38
  contrarian, yeah. I'm I'm.
• 1:40:41
  With you guys, the three is is like I want to go lower, but
• 1:40:45
  I'll give it points for especially if debuts, the
• 1:40:48
  entrance themes for every single one through 30.
• 1:40:51
  I think that's a that's a massive win.
• 1:40:54
  It has a lot of talent like we talked.
• 1:40:56
  I think it's about about 15 Hall of Farmers in there.
• 1:40:59
  It's strangely balanced. Is I think the problem with it.
• 1:41:02
  Like it's there's nobody at first.
• 1:41:04
  It sucks like Triple H fine, but Hunter Helmsley, I don't really
• 1:41:08
  care. Yeah, I it's.
• 1:41:12
  It's a royal. Rumble.
• 1:41:13
  It's an average Royal Rumble, right?
• 1:41:14
  Like we've talked about this before, they don't have the
• 1:41:16
  greatest rewatch ability. Sometimes I love, don't get me
• 1:41:19
  wrong, I love. These are like my favorite
• 1:41:21
  episodes to cover for this show. It's fun to go back and see all
• 1:41:25
  the guys, and that's part of the nostalgia.
• 1:41:27
  But like, it's fine. There's a couple, there's a
• 1:41:29
  couple of high spots here, right?
• 1:41:30
  Vader's fun to watch. Yeah, there's 3 is probably
• 1:41:35
  generous, but that's where I'm at.
• 1:41:36
  I think we're all feeling. Very generous.
• 1:41:38
  I think you need to take points off because Shawn Michaels hangs
• 1:41:41
  on to the top rope at least 20 times throughout this entire
• 1:41:44
  match and that, but I also think.
• 1:41:46
  You know, unless you're like, grading it on a Royal Rumble
• 1:41:48
  scale, like 3 is kind of a baseline for a Rumble match,
• 1:41:52
  right? Like there's no rumble so bad
• 1:41:55
  that you're like, I can't watch this shit.
• 1:41:57
  Like it's always going to be at. Least somewhat entertaining
• 1:42:00
  before I let Mike go. I have the total list of hall of
• 1:42:04
  farmers according to ChatGPT so take it for what it's worth.
• 1:42:08
  But it looks it looks legit. From who they have they have 12
• 1:42:12
  out of the 30 names are official WWE Hall of farmers.
• 1:42:16
  Sean Diesel, Jake Dory Funk, Yoko Bulldog, Backlund, Lawler.
• 1:42:27
  Oh, sorry, so. This list isn't 100% accurate
• 1:42:30
  because it has Owen on there, but Owen should be a Hall of
• 1:42:32
  Famer. Vader 123 kid and Stone cold.
• 1:42:36
  That's because of his wife. Right.
• 1:42:38
  That's right. That's right.
• 1:42:40
  So, but yeah. Still, you know it's Kane's not.
• 1:42:43
  1. Yet.
• 1:42:46
  Well, see, Kane should be on there.
• 1:42:48
  I promised you I will do the. Housekeeping.
• 1:42:50
  I'm trying to do it. Quick and see, this just proves
• 1:42:53
  my fact. All you jabronis using ChatGPT
• 1:42:56
  to do your artwork. Screw you.
• 1:42:58
  I'm going to give you a stone cold stunner and flip you the
• 1:43:01
  bird right now. Yeah, AI sloppers.
• 1:43:03
  Yeah. Come on.
• 1:43:05
  All the lights, What are you? Going to do.
• 1:43:07
  Are you doing shots we're not doing?
• 1:43:09
  Shots, yeah, it's not going to give.
• 1:43:11
  Him boys or something? No.
• 1:43:12
  He's getting low like one point. Five.
• 1:43:14
  Yes, I originally. Was going to go 1.5 you.
• 1:43:19
  I thought you. Oh.
• 1:43:19
  When you were giving me the, when I said 3 and Mike, you were
• 1:43:22
  great, was over there going no, no mouthing it.
• 1:43:25
  I was like what? He's going to give it a high
• 1:43:27
  rating? No, no.
• 1:43:29
  It's I mean, I love all the rumbles.
• 1:43:31
  I love I could rewatch probably every any rumble sure, like I
• 1:43:34
  don't I don't care like even if it's dog shit, even if it's dog
• 1:43:38
  shit like I'll I can re watch a rumble.
• 1:43:40
  No, it's the perfect. ADHD thing to watch.
• 1:43:43
  You get a new guy every two minutes at at at longest.
• 1:43:46
  I mean this one. Wasn't really wasn't that good.
• 1:43:50
  I mean, it's it's got some redeeming qualities like the
• 1:43:53
  music and there's some funny parts which are like right up
• 1:43:57
  our alley like squat team, especially for the.
• 1:43:59
  Show. But you know, it's some.
• 1:44:05
  Some of this. Rumble is rough.
• 1:44:09
  It's it's it's a little rough. Yeah.
• 1:44:13
  I. I played this earlier.
• 1:44:16
  Before we started, but I think Mike's opinion is summed up by
• 1:44:19
  Bobby Heenan. Now it's time for Bums are Us.
• 1:44:23
  Yeah, a lot of bums are us, but yeah, that's the There you have
• 1:44:28
  it. All right, what was?
• 1:44:29
  What'd you? Give it.
• 1:44:30
  Oh, I think I. I went with A2 for OK 22 cans.
• 1:44:34
  Basically. What we're trying to tell you.
• 1:44:35
  Is we hope you enjoyed this episode, but if you wanna watch
• 1:44:38
  a Royal Rumble, don't go back and watch this one.
• 1:44:41
  Yeah, well, you can. It's.
• 1:44:43
  It's not a bad watch, but no, I was more entertained.
• 1:44:46
  With. Vincent perfect than anything.
• 1:44:48
  I think you get about 3 seconds of.
• 1:44:50
  Diana Hard, if that's your thing.
• 1:44:54
  And and the squat might be I. Don't know and the squat the.
• 1:44:56
  Squat team. Damn it, it's a squat team.
• 1:45:01
  All right. Aw man, well, thank you guys for
• 1:45:03
  for listening. We wanted to make sure that we,
• 1:45:06
  we gave you the, the Royal Rumble episode as per usual,
• 1:45:10
  because you know, we, we, we have a big one, right?
• 1:45:14
  We, we glanced over our five year anniversary, as my 7 year
• 1:45:19
  old said when I was making the graphics, he's like, whoa, 199
• 1:45:23
  episodes. He.
• 1:45:25
  He. And he was like, wait.
• 1:45:26
  Why didn't you do five years at? Because he's looking at the
• 1:45:29
  graphics as I'm making them and he's like, why didn't you do
• 1:45:32
  five years at 200? I was like, they just didn't
• 1:45:35
  line up that way. But they're about an episode in
• 1:45:37
  between them. So next week is our 200th
• 1:45:41
  episode and we're going to to be celebrating that as well as our
• 1:45:44
  five year anniversary. Man, it, it has been one hell of
• 1:45:47
  a ride. And I'm really proud of us for
• 1:45:49
  putting out this this podcast pretty consistently.
• 1:45:53
  And I'm looking forward to whatever it is we're going to
• 1:45:56
  cover. We've probably outlived a lot.
• 1:45:58
  Of other wrestling podcasts at this point, right?
• 1:46:00
  Hell yeah. We're like.
• 1:46:02
  Dory Funk. You know, barely hanging on like
• 1:46:04
  this of the of. The wrestling world, yeah, you
• 1:46:07
  got like, scullets. Scullets coming down.
• 1:46:10
  That's. What we're going to do for next
• 1:46:11
  week. We're all shaving scullets, you
• 1:46:13
  know we haven't gotten. Any better at the we're still
• 1:46:18
  talking over each other again, we would get eliminated the
• 1:46:20
  rumble. Like the squad team maybe?
• 1:46:24
  All right. Well, thank you guys for.
• 1:46:25
  Listening and be sure to tune in in in two weeks to our 200th
• 1:46:30
  episode. Cheers, guys.
• 1:46:32
  Cheers, cheers. See you.