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200 | Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling & Monday Night Raw - June 21, 1993 · The ExtraCooler Show

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  Welcome to the. Western.
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  Show. You continue to talk like you're
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  talking right now. You'll be history on this
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  program. Cooler show.
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  Nobody eats beefaroni on a boatman.
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  That's a problem, Yokozuna blew my mind.
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  Let's go. I've got Under your skin.
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  I'm ready for this episode. Now, yeah, ladies and gentlemen,
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  welcome to our 200th episode of The Extra Cooler Show.
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  Oh man, we're finally here. Five years in the making.
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  This is a big one, guys. This is the Extra Cooler show.
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  My name is Nick, otherwise known as Extra Cooler.
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  I've got Matt, Mike and Jim. Of course.
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  We're celebrating in in a way that I think only we know how.
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  We've got a a hodgepodge, A variety show, if you will, and
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  we're going to do a little reminiscing along the way
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  because quite honestly, five years is a pretty big deal.
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  It's pretty. Cool, huh?
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  202 hundred. It's crazy.
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  Five years. 200 what hours? Congrats guys.
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  I know Matt's got some stats, Matt's stats, but like I was
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  putting my, you know, usually we record this at night, putting
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  our kids to bed. I'm putting my son to bed and
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  I'm thinking, five years ago, holy crap, I had a six month old
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  and a 2 year old when we first started this thing.
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  It's, it's insane to think of all we've, we've been doing this
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  longer than we went to college. We've been doing this longer
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  than we were in high school. It's like when you start
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  comparing it to things like that.
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  It's. Crazy.
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  That's nuts. I know I've now spent a full day
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  of my life, 24 hours talking about Skinner, which is pretty
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  you add it all up. You know you want to know some
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  real, some real. The extra cooler.
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  Show by the numbers? Yes please Nick, if it's here,
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  let's fucking do it. So December 16th, 2020 is
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  officially six years over 6. Excuse me?
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  Into our sixth year is what I was trying to say.
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  December 16th, 2020. Jesus Christ.
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  Five years in and I'm still not good at this.
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  Anyway, we're officially into Year 6, which is absolutely
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  insane to think about, but the Extra Cooler show has been alive
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  for 1862 days, which is 546 more days than Roman Reigns's
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  Universal Championship. Ring, that's a good chat, I like
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  that. So that's fun.
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  Coming into this show. We have recorded and put out 228
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  hours, 28 minutes and two seconds worth of. 3 seconds. 4
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  seconds. No, it's not counting this show,
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  Michael. Oh, you're right, you're right.
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  That's 9 1/2 straight days of the Extra Cooler show.
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  If anybody wants to binge, do it.
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  God bless. God bless.
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  I'll send you a sharper. We have covered 28 Full pay per
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  views 28. That's impressive.
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  That was wild to me. When I pulled that one together
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  I was like oh shit like that's really freaking cool. 5
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  Wrestlemanias, 4 Summer Slams, 4 Survivor Series, 4 Rumbles, 3
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  King of the Rings, three Bash at the Beach, 3 In Your House This
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  Tuesday in Texas in 1991. And a genetician at pear tree.
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  NCW Heat Wave 98 We have covered 18 wrestling television shows in
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  whole. So talk about a Raw, a Smack
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  Down, a Nitro, a Prime Time, a Saturday Night's Main Event, or
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  a Superstar's. And in true extra cooler
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  fashion, we have gone outside of the box.
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  Now today will be the third time that we have a television show.
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  We did Boy Meets World and we've done Thunder in Paradise and
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  we've got another one for you later on this afternoon.
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  But I want to take a second to like really put some stats
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  behind the, the the accomplishment here of getting
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  to five years. So I was doing some stats, just
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  trying to find some, some stats around Matt's stats, trying to
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  go around and finding about podcasting industry as a whole
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  and kind of how things happen. And pod match was a website that
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  I found that did a like industry report and there was a milestone
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  survival rates. So essentially a podcast starts.
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  How many podcasts make it to episode number such and such?
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  So 48% of podcasts finish after the 8th episode.
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  They never make it to #948%. And we're we're sitting here at
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  250 episodes. It drops from 48 to get to 50.
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  It's only 8 and 8 1/2 percent. 4.78% make it to 100 episodes
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  and 2.35% of podcasts make it to episode 200.
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  So. That's rare.
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  That's rarefied air. It's pretty cool, boys.
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  It's pretty super centers, baby. Man, when you think about that,
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  that is insane. And like to anybody that sits
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  there and like, I'm sure we thought it when we first started
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  this whole thing, right? Like I've told the story on
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  other podcasts and on this podcast, how, you know, you guys
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  used to say we should do a podcast about wrestling and this
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  and that. And you know, we started because
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  of COVID blah, blah, blah. Anybody that's listening already
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  knows that. But sitting down and doing what
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  we do is like, no joke. Like we all have full time jobs,
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  we all have families. Like there's a lot of work that
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  goes into the show and and that's tremendous.
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  And what I'm getting at is a thank you to you guys because,
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  you know, without Mike's on the spot, you know, knowledge which
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  unmatched without Jim's humor, without Matt's stats, we
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  wouldn't be here, man. This is a full team effort.
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  When we say that's a sort of virus series, it's it's
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  certainly not Shawn Michaels and the Knights.
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  This is this is a true team effort.
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  We come up with what we're going to cover, you know, which is not
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  easy to get on the same page sometimes.
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  And to me, it's pretty cool to get there.
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  I think that's what's what works though.
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  It's like, right, Yeah, yes, cheers.
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  Like we're generally like, we have different ideas and
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  different strengths, but we're all like kind of in the same
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  ballpark, if not the same page, you know, like, so it always
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  works that way and it's fun. And I the behind the scenes
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  stuff is often like the most fun when it like coming up with
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  stuff. And like, I wonder why we could
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  record, we could do 200 episodes on all the things we didn't
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  decide to do. Probably seriously.
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  All of my bad ideas? Yep, there's probably 300 of
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  those. No, but it's always like the the
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  cool part about it too is like myself, Jim and Mike, we watched
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  a lot of these pay per views, whether it was together,
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  especially the attitude Era stuff.
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  So it's always to me, I love hearing Matt's perspective and
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  to see if Matt like got the same feel for it back then.
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  And, you know, he kind of you ground us sometimes and like, I
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  don't think this one makes sense, you know, and that
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  happens here and there. And I don't know, it's, it's a
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  lot of fun how we've bounced all over the place too.
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  So you're not gonna find that much chronological order when
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  you listen to the Extra Cooler show.
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  Although there's some fun times that we there is we've done
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  that. We may be embarking on that
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  pretty soon, yes, just come to fruition as we try to put things
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  together and and Nick's superpower here in the podcast
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  is his planimalistic in so him being able to sit the three of
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  us down. And someone's got to do it.
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  Someone's got to do it. I don't know if we would make it
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  to 200. And know what's not know what's
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  nice about being having done this for so long is that we've
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  been doing it for so long that now some of the, you know, newer
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  stuff is old. Like the summer slams we all
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  went to is like starting to be 10 years ago.
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  You know, like, oh, there's some new nostalgia, which is the fun
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  part of being around. So long and for for those that
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  haven't been listening the entire time, we appreciate you
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  here on this ride too. But you can go back to episode
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  115, which is extra cooler. This is your life.
• 8:32
  That was your 7th anniversary of having extra cooler.
• 8:36
  This was back August of 2023 and we kind of we rehash how the
• 8:41
  podcast came about and that's a really good kind of
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  encapsulation of the Extra Cooler story as a whole, which
• 8:48
  includes the podcast. So you can come back episode
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  115. I thought it was a lot of fun.
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  Hell yeah. So is this 10 years of extra
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  cooler this year? Yes, correct.
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  August, August, August is 10 years of extra cooler, which is
• 9:03
  crazy. Like that was another stat that
• 9:05
  I'm thinking of and I'm like, holy crap, this podcast has been
• 9:08
  half of the life of Extra Cooler, which is like so many
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  different things to think about in case.
• 9:14
  You're in case you're wondering, at home, Mikey Workrate was
• 9:17
  speaking into the Jimmy Hart megaphone.
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  I'm sorry. Yeah, another thing when you
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  think about it, we're all sitting here in front of
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  microphones like we we started recording this from all
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  different locations of our houses with headsets.
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  Or. Airpods or you know, like old
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  computers. It's, you know, we're not making
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  much money on this thing, but we're having a hell of a lot of
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  fun. So we're Speaking of a hell of a
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  lot. We make we make champies in the
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  mail. We we got a few cans of
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  beefaroni, Yeah. Do you guys have like a favorite
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  episode or favorite series or favorite WrestleMania that we've
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  covered along the way? Because I do that stand out for
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  me. I, I love, yeah.
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  I mean like the WrestleMania, like WrestleMania 9 stands out
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  to me. That's one of my favorite
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  episodes. For some, that one jumps out of
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  me some of the summer slams, but I do love like what we're about
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  to embark on tonight. The variety shows.
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  I think we're a ton of fun too. Mostly, mostly anniversary shows
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  or you know, kind of milestone number shows are are a lot of
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  fun because it's a lot of different crap we're talking
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  about. I think Vader Meets World is one
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  that certainly stands out. I think that may have been year
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  three anniversary, maybe it was year 4.
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  We put it out again, Episode 179.
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  We kind of get it all Fast forward and put together again.
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  But but yeah, I think that one was a lot of fun.
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  Royal Rumble 92. I was, I was going to say and
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  WrestleMania 8. It took us forever to get there
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  to do Rumble 92, but once we did, it felt really good.
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  It was kind of a why are we waiting to do this like.
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  And then for me, I think that that what takes the cake though,
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  is the ultimate Warriors trilogy of terror that we did.
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  There's three, there's three parters there.
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  And I, I love just any time that we do multiple parts, whether
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  it's a pay-per-view or it's something like that holiday.
• 11:16
  Episodes are fun Halloween or Christmas.
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  Thanksgiving. Oh hell yeah.
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  That's a good, good stretch of the show.
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  I'd like to just give and throw out to Hunter in Paradise.
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  You know, that was such a good fun episode too.
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  And of course, you know, I love the drafts.
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  I I do and. And.
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  Where would we? Where would we be without the
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  Jobber draft today? Is very true.
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  Very true with. The bushwhackers.
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  Yeah, the jobbers. I personally and I know it burnt
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  us out by the end of it, but the summer of 97 when we covered
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  right, it was 9798 and that's how long we've been doing this.
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  98 sorry, we covered ECW, we actually started at King of the
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  ring and then we went through ECWSWCW and WWF and that was a
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  lot of work. But looking back on that, it was
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  so cool to see what was going on in the business across the
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  board. And and you know all the other
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  ones that you guys have mentioned and you know, it's
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  been it's been a lot of fun. So all right, signing off, see
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  you later have a good episode. No, we've got so much more in
• 12:17
  store for you guys. Can we move on?
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  We can move on. All right, if you're not in the
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  discord already, I plug it every episode and I said thank you to
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  you guys here, but I also have to thank everybody that holds it
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  down at on the Discord and everybody that has ever, you
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  know, like this podcast shared it, sent it to a friend,
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  commented on it. Listen to a second of it.
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  You know, thank you, because without you guys, we, we, we
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  definitely wouldn't be here five years later.
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  Hell yeah, extra special cheers to the the discord crew.
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  They they hold it down, they make it fun and they keep the
• 12:52
  energy going when it comes to wrestling for sure and there's
• 12:55
  lulls in any fandom, right and it could be difficult to to
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  watch. It could be difficult to, you
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  know, try to find some nostalgia to cover on a podcast and then
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  and, you know, you have this core group of dudes and dudettes
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  that come in there and hold it down.
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  And they're they're an integral part of, I think us still being
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  here through Empire and entering Year 6.
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  So cheers to everybody there. I don't want to go through and
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  name them all, but. Cheers.
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  No doubt. Yeah, we'd have enough fun just
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  doing this on our own, but like, knowing people are actually
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  listening and replying and all that stuff.
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  Absolutely, yeah. And the fire going.
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  Even if for those of you who aren't, if there's some of you
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  who aren't on the discord. Oh, lurkers, lurkers.
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  They're the best part of the Discord is coming up the Royal
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  Rumble and oh, it's, it's so much fun on the Discord.
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  Yeah, Rumble Intimania season especially, but Rumble, we will
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  be hosting another. Extra cooler rumble that night.
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  Yeah. So just stay tuned.
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  Hop in there. It's in the show comments.
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  But all right, so revisiting. It's time to revisit an older
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  episode. So on December 16th, 2021, we
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  dropped episode 34. This was the 1st Anniversary
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  Spectacular. We covered Macho Man's bachelor
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  party primetime wrestling from August 1990. 1.
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  But we also discussed our shows Mount Rushmore.
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  And after one year, we did this. After one year, we did this and
• 14:26
  this we, our Mount Rushmore, OK, was pretty much at that point
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  just like guys we covered in excess, guys we talked about a
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  lot. So to revisit that, we're, we're
• 14:37
  going to update our Mount Rushmore and I'm going to throw
• 14:41
  you guys some curveballs. So the, the, the Mount Rushmore
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  that we had, our original was Hulk Hogan, Mick Foley, Bret
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  Hart and Macho Man. That was back in 2021.
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  Fast forward four years to today and we've got a new batch of
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  Mount Rushmore. So I'm gonna list some honorable
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  mentions that we had, right? Some guys that we threw around.
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  We tried to come up with this together and I'm I'm a little
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  mad about one name that I sent you guys a text about just now,
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  but just now because I'm a little mad that we didn't think
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  of this name. And some, some honorable
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  mentions were Hulk Hogan. Once again, Vince McMahon and
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  Hulk was on there because of the amount that we covered this man,
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  whether it was in positive ways or negative ways.
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  Vince was on there as well. But I don't really think we want
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  to talk too much more about Vince.
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  Brett was on there again, Owen, Nick Foley, Shawn Michaels, Lex
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  Luger. These are all guys that we
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  talked. About in.
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  Excess. Warriors Nips was probably the
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  ultimate they're really a bubble team bubble team like 6 man, you
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  know so but our our mail Rushmore that we've we've landed
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  on and I'm I'm really mad that we didn't come up with his name.
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  I guess he's on the bubble. Is Skinner.
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  How did we leave Skinner out? Skinner, Yeah.
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  So we're going to leave Skinner on the outside.
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  Have we ever? Covered a Skinner match.
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  Oh, absolutely. Yeah, WrestleMania 8.
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  Many, many Skinner matches. No, not many.
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  No, I I think we've covered almost all of the Skinner
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  matches aside from like you. Know all stupid stars.
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  To wrestling. All three of them covered a fair
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  amount of Skinner. And just one thing to add to
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  Nick's comments. Like I was putting it on Mount
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  Rushmore, it doesn't. We're not like endorsing the
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  person, but we like obsess about the person.
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  Basically right we. Quote, we quote them and we
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  like, we're just really fixated like like Vince what I'm on
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  over, you know, like that's yeah, yeah.
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  Can't let go of like yes. This is not our Mount Rushmore
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  of like best wrestlers or guys we want to watch the most of or
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  guys we necessarily want to cover this.
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  Is essentially the top 4 inside jokes of the extra color.
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  Exactly. Exactly.
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  If you're here, you're listening you the none of these names are
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  going to come as a surprise. So the first name on the Mount
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  Rushmore is Stu Hart. I mean, of course Stu Hart has
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  to be on our shows. Mount Rushmore, wake up.
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  That's Sir MO Feather is pretty good, really.
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  Thanks, Yank. He and his damn vest can stay at
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  home. I, I think, I think he's one of
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  the the better build kids in the industry and I, I bet it takes a
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  pretty good horse to pull him down.
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  What about Axe at Denny's? Oh.
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  We forgot about Axe at Denny's. Oh accident.
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  He was like a 1. You know, a comet shooting
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  through the sky. Was I think it was Acefield
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  Retro that was the future together of like yes, it's even
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  been pre AI right? Definitely.
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  Pre AI oh man all right we. Should have we should have
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  invited Axe from Denny's back. He was a a quick instant *.
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  Next on our list, we're going to cover who we're going to add who
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  we think is the greatest commentator of all time and the
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  greatest manager of all time. And it's none other than Bobby's
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  brain Heenan. Anybody that we ever cover on
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  the commentary team commentary is a huge part of this show.
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  We talk about the flubs, the misses, the the the genius.
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  And genius is Bobby the brain heenan.
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  No, no one else holds a candle to to the brain.
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  Go time for fun for us. So Stu Hart's number one, Bobby
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  the Brain heenan #2. I mean, like the spiritual, you
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  know, kind of guiding force of this show, I feel like.
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  And I think you could argue that we sometimes cover the
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  commentary more than the matches of Yeah.
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  It is. This is very true.
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  When it comes to like Rumble 92 and WrestleMania 8, things like
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  that, absolutely. Yeah, I, I, I personally, Bobby,
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  I remember getting the magazine back in the day and like the
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  Brainstorms column, like, I, I was like this, this is the
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  funniest shit I've ever read. And I don't know, Bobby's
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  Bobby's the best. And I think it's a lot of the
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  humor from the show comes from growing up with Bobby A. 100%
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  And what what Mount Rushmore would be complete without two of
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  the biggest jobbers in professional wrestling history,
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  None of them monster. The Bushwhackers are.
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  And you know what? If you're wondering right now,
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  yes, they are jobbers. In fact, I've got the three of
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  these guys on the ropes right now.
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  They're they're tied up in a corner of the ring and they're
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  they're starting to believe, I think.
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  And Next up is going to be Tom. We got the fourth set of ropes
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  for you. I'm not.
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  Believe not yet. I think if we were still selling
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  shirts on like pro wrestling teams or whatever, we would have
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  to have like a bushwackers or not jobbers.
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  Bushwackers are jobbers, like the two competing shirts.
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  We. We man, I am not the biggest
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  Cameo fan and I refuse to pay $39.00 for whichever living
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  Bushwhacker because everything he says on his Cameo, he starts
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  off every Cameo like this. He goes into the phone and he
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  goes smells like sardines mate. And it's terrible.
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  Every single one, every sample that he had up there.
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  And I said God damn it Luke or Butch, whichever 1 you are, I
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  refuse to pay $39.00 for. This.
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  I appreciate you still working the shtick.
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  They don't know which one is which, even when one is dead.
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  One guy dropped his pants at a wrestling show recently.
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  And that's obviously the alive 1.
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  Naked ghosts. Like, imagine being that
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  strapped for money. Like that's never been a part of
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  the Bushwackers gimmicks. But yet, I mean, he's going to
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  do a rikishi and do a stink face.
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  But anyway, moving right along, our Mount Rushmore would not be
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  complete without this man. And it's actually we're
• 21:24
  approaching his day. His day.
• 21:28
  No, no, no. Then party Marty Giannetti, so
• 21:31
  Stu Hart, Bushwhackers, Bobby the brain Heenan and Marty
• 21:34
  Jannetti. They cap off our Mount Rushmore.
• 21:38
  Unfortunately I didn't have time to Photoshop it and I refused to
• 21:41
  use ChatGPT to make that. So if someone wants to do it,
• 21:45
  don't waste your time. You did the episode 34 like you
• 21:49
  talked about, you did the actual Mount Rushmore from episode 1
• 21:53
  and you threw it out there and this is again pre pre AI.
• 21:57
  Yeah, I have. Marty Day promo for whenever
• 22:00
  we're ready to talk about it, because Marty Day is in two days
• 22:04
  from when this releases. It is January 24th.
• 22:08
  And how appropriate, how appropriate that we're going to
• 22:12
  be covering 2 people on our Mount Rushmore as this episode
• 22:18
  proceeds. So we're ready to move, move
• 22:21
  along. Well, one one question.
• 22:23
  Yeah, what you got? Marty, do you think it's quite
• 22:26
  possible that he's taking the longest piss on human record?
• 22:31
  Like he's still going if you had to pick one person that you knew
• 22:35
  of, yeah, like that's that guy. He's probably taking like a 5
• 22:37
  minute piss before. And that thing's like neon
• 22:41
  green. Too.
• 22:42
  Yeah, Yeah, he is. He is not hydrated.
• 22:44
  Well, pure, pure butt ice. Pure butt ice.
• 22:49
  Through his veins. Oh, man, Matt, thank you for
• 22:52
  those stats before, by the way, I know you got some more, but I,
• 22:57
  I won't put you on the spot for them, but I thought they were
• 22:59
  pretty cool the amount that we covered some of these guys in
• 23:02
  excess. Hulk Hogan.
• 23:04
  Hulk Hogan would be the one that's in excess 31 times.
• 23:08
  That's 15.5% of episodes. Now keep in mind there could be
• 23:11
  multiple people during these votes as well.
• 23:14
  So it is not just, you know, one person per episode.
• 23:19
  And my stats are not perfect. They definitely have, you know,
• 23:23
  some, some flaws in here. I don't have commentary notes.
• 23:26
  So anytime Macho Man is on here, there's definitely sometimes
• 23:29
  that he doesn't get commentator credits 'cause we only covered
• 23:31
  him 13 times, which feels super low with all the times that we
• 23:34
  talked about him. HBK was next in line 28 times
• 23:38
  with 14%. So definitely have some, some
• 23:42
  big numbers out there. And HBK was one above Bret Hart,
• 23:46
  who came in at 27 times. Very impressive stuff, Very
• 23:51
  impressive stuff. All right, well, moving right
• 23:55
  along, we've got some fun stuff headed your way, so just bear
• 23:59
  with us for one moment. Well, enough is enough and it's
• 24:05
  time for housekeeping. All right, so let's go back to
• 24:10
  episode 199 where we covered Royal Rumble 1996 and we had two
• 24:16
  pieces of housekeeping. So I'll keep it as short as I
• 24:18
  can because we had all of our fun nostalgia of the extra
• 24:21
  cooler show that bled over beforehand, which was all
• 24:25
  necessary. So Mr. Perfect called Ahmed
• 24:28
  Johnson, WWFS Mike Tyson and this was in January of 1996.
• 24:33
  Mike, I'm pretty certain last episode asked was Mike Tyson in
• 24:37
  jail in 1990, in January of 1996 and the answer is no.
• 24:41
  On March 26th, 1992, Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison
• 24:47
  along with four years probation. He entered prison in 1990 in
• 24:50
  April of 92, but was released in March of 1995 after serving less
• 24:55
  than three years of his sentence.
• 24:57
  So he is, no, he was not in jail in January of 96.
• 25:01
  But good question. Very, very valid.
• 25:03
  Question that is. The other question that we had,
• 25:06
  and we were of course talking about the 96 Rumble, the all of
• 25:10
  the participants, all 30 of them.
• 25:12
  And in the moment we tried to do our housekeeping.
• 25:16
  And I'm fairly certain, Nick, you were the one that tried to
• 25:19
  use ChatGPT and it failed you. It told you that 12 of the
• 25:24
  participants were WWE Hall of Farmers.
• 25:27
  That included Owen Hart, according to ChatGPT.
• 25:30
  So we knew it was wrong in the moment.
• 25:32
  I went back, I did the actual homework.
• 25:34
  I did the actual housekeeping. Here the answer is 15.
• 25:38
  Half. Half of those.
• 25:39
  Old. Yeah, you can't.
• 25:41
  You can't trust the robots, all right.
• 25:44
  Not yet carried away the old ChatGPT.
• 25:46
  Oh Yep. Triple H Bob Backlund, Jerry
• 25:49
  Lawler, Jake Roberts, Dori Funk Junior.
• 25:51
  The Funk Brothers Wedding in 2009.
• 25:53
  Yoko 123 Kid Vader, Shawn Michaels, Diesel Comma The
• 25:58
  Ringmaster Fatu Sir Isaac Yankum.
• 26:00
  I don't know why I added Sir. Yeah, you know, yeah, I kind of
• 26:09
  I wish that my youngest daughter Diana had married Sir MO instead
• 26:14
  of that that lousy rap bastard Davy boy.
• 26:19
  And Davy Boyd, the British, the British Bulldog was the 15th one
• 26:22
  on my list. So well done Jim, well done.
• 26:24
  I mean, well done Stu, well done.
• 26:27
  It's crazy too. Sorry, Stu.
• 26:30
  You know that? Between him and I tell you,
• 26:34
  Bruce. Yeah.
• 26:37
  That that rat. Fuck yeah.
• 26:42
  Every he I told, I told him. If I told her once, I told her
• 26:47
  100 times. Ever since that son bitch stole
• 26:51
  that case of sketch 1 pills news.
• 26:53
  I think he was 7 And they drank him.
• 26:57
  Yeah, drank him. All I knew he was.
• 27:01
  I knew he was going to be a problem.
• 27:06
  Still, I love him. I don't understand.
• 27:10
  Him at all. And oh.
• 27:12
  God, I can't even. I know I can tell.
• 27:15
  Still still, you sick bastard. Can we all right, moving right
• 27:20
  along. We we as we alluded to, we have
• 27:23
  a bit of a variety show here and let's cover some.
• 27:28
  This is one of our Mount Rushmore people is on this this
• 27:32
  next bit and we're going to be covering can I something that we
• 27:36
  want We wait, hold on. We wanted to cover this as a
• 27:39
  full episode originally, but we went and watched it and we said
• 27:43
  this is a bad idea. So you could set the tone now.
• 27:48
  OK, let's hit it. Jim's about to run through long
• 27:53
  because we just play on this. This is a top five for me WWFWE
• 28:03
  theme music in my opinion, and if you don't know what this is,
• 28:08
  to me, this is none other than the theme music to Hulk Hogan's
• 28:13
  Rock and Wrestling. So again, we were thinking of
• 28:15
  covering an episode in full. They just dropped on the WWE
• 28:19
  vault on YouTube. They're about 2025 minutes and
• 28:24
  it is not worth giving you a full episode.
• 28:27
  But we figured what better place to talk about Hulk Hogan's Rock
• 28:31
  and Wrestling than right here I. Can I say that a Saturday
• 28:35
  morning cartoon theme song does not have to go that hard?
• 28:39
  Like there's no reason. I want.
• 28:42
  To get that song tattooed on my neck, I don't know what that
• 28:46
  look like. That's that's how passionate I
• 28:48
  am about it. And and you know, through this,
• 28:52
  this was Hogan's theme before Rock and wrestling.
• 28:55
  So I'm sorry, before real American.
• 28:58
  So this was like, and you've seen it in clips before and
• 29:01
  you've definitely heard this in the zeitgeist that is WWFWWE.
• 29:05
  But like, I don't think I ever really put it together until we
• 29:08
  were just coming into this podcast and talking about, you
• 29:12
  know, us hanging out beforehand and the things that happened
• 29:14
  before we hit record. That was one of them of like us
• 29:17
  frantically trying to do research to figure it out.
• 29:19
  Yeah, confirmed it was theme at this.
• 29:23
  White shirt American made Hogan. Version it's crazy you would get
• 29:27
  rid of that song like but it he does replace it with a equally
• 29:31
  iconic song or iconic. Do you think he's as big of a
• 29:36
  superstar if he sticks with this?
• 29:39
  Oh, interesting. I don't.
• 29:43
  Know if it would matter because I feel like the real American
• 29:45
  theme didn't become it was iconic but I feel like maybe it
• 29:50
  was more iconic later on and if that makes sense.
• 29:53
  Yeah, I I could, I see what you're saying for sure.
• 29:56
  You know. The peak of Hokomanias kind of
• 29:59
  before like. Right.
• 30:02
  It turns like into our wrestling the later 80s when the I I think
• 30:07
  you're right. I like like when wrestling rock
• 30:09
  and wrestling that you know what I mean?
• 30:11
  That's that's when it was at it's like that first Apex,
• 30:13
  probably this. Every time somebody of our age
• 30:17
  starts talking about wrestling and how they got into it, I
• 30:20
  mean, sure, there's a specific match that you always go back
• 30:22
  to, but I feel like guys of our age, they instantly talk about
• 30:27
  Rock and wrestling like Hulk Hogan's Rock and wrestling
• 30:29
  Saturday morning cartoons Like that is talking about, you know,
• 30:33
  you know, getting outside the bubble of just professional
• 30:36
  wrestling. And that does and.
• 30:37
  This, my parents used to record it on VHSI would rewatch the
• 30:41
  show on VHS. Like I had the Hulk Hogan Rockin
• 30:45
  Wrestling bed sheets. I still have the pillowcase.
• 30:49
  I thought, man, chicks are going to think I'm cool when I bring
• 30:53
  this pillowcase to college and you and that didn't really
• 30:57
  happen, but. Hold on, hold on, Hold on.
• 30:59
  Hold on. Hold on, hold on.
• 31:00
  Yeah, Mike, you were his roommate freshman year, correct?
• 31:03
  Or was it all four years? Regardless, did he bring this
• 31:06
  stinking pillowcase? It was three out of four years,
• 31:09
  but we were housemates the the 4th year.
• 31:12
  Four out of four, yeah. I love the idea of you guys like
• 31:15
  dressed like you. I know you guys dressed as
• 31:17
  wrestlers for several Halloweens at college.
• 31:20
  Absolutely. You have Nick like bringing home
• 31:21
  a girl dressed as Roddy Piper to his Roddy Piper bed sheets.
• 31:27
  Not the full bed, she's just the pillowcase.
• 31:29
  Just the pillowcase. In his closet, sitting right
• 31:31
  next to me. I don't remember him actually
• 31:33
  using the hit up, putting it on his actual pillow.
• 31:37
  Yeah you can ask my ex-girlfriend from from from
• 31:40
  college. She might remember.
• 31:42
  He's got the girl, you know, he's like, he's like, wait a
• 31:44
  second, let me set the mood, he puts.
• 31:51
  Hulk. Hulk, Nick.
• 31:54
  Nick. Sorry.
• 31:55
  Anyway, Hulk Hogan's work in wrestling originally aired on
• 31:59
  CBS from September of 1985 to October of 1986.
• 32:06
  It ran for two seasons and for those of you who are listening
• 32:09
  to the show and didn't watch it, never cared to watch it or have
• 32:12
  no clue what we're talking about, this show featured
• 32:16
  animated adventures filled with different videos in between and
• 32:21
  it it was really a part of like the whole like boom and
• 32:23
  wrestling right during the 80's. The confusing part about this, I
• 32:30
  remember watching this right and it it couldn't really keep up
• 32:35
  with the current day in wrestling 'cause they would make
• 32:37
  these episodes. For example, in the show, Andre
• 32:40
  is a baby face. When I watched this show and
• 32:43
  remember watching it, Andre was like the top heel in
• 32:47
  professional wrestling, you know?
• 32:50
  So there's definitely. Some the cartoon is trunks
• 32:52
  Andre, right? And like where we were by the
• 32:54
  time we saw it, it's like single strap WrestleMania 3.
• 32:58
  Yep. So it's it's definitely some
• 33:01
  interesting stuff. 26 episodes. The final episode originally
• 33:06
  aired October of 1986. And then they had reruns just
• 33:10
  keep going on CBS. Like I said, it kind of it
• 33:15
  piggybacked off that Rock and wrestling connection thing that
• 33:19
  they did with MTV. But the interesting part is it
• 33:24
  it it didn't feature any actual wrestlers voicing their own on
• 33:29
  the show. So to give you a rundown of some
• 33:32
  characters, you've got, you know, Hogan on there, Captain
• 33:35
  Lou Albano. Well, there's two factions,
• 33:37
  right? These are the faces.
• 33:38
  Yeah, there's faces and heels on the Hogan.
• 33:41
  Captain Lou Albano, Junkyard Dog, Tito Santana, Jimmy
• 33:45
  Superfly, Snuka. Now, some of these guys weren't
• 33:48
  in every season. Ball 2.
• 33:51
  Hogan, Captain Lou and Andre and Wendy Richter.
• 33:55
  Then on the heel side you've got Iron Chic Moolah.
• 34:00
  Nikolai Volkov and Roddy Piper are like the main bad guys.
• 34:04
  Mean Gene is also on this. They all have.
• 34:08
  They all have distinct like character vehicles too, right?
• 34:13
  Oh yeah. Yeah, it's like whoever came up
• 34:15
  with the show was definitely hoping they could make some toys
• 34:18
  out of it. Yeah, you know, like some I I
• 34:20
  could picture McDonald's Happy Meal toys with like Hot Rod
• 34:24
  sitting in his cartoon Hot Rod. It doesn't, and it doesn't
• 34:28
  really have much to do about wrestling ever.
• 34:30
  Doesn't no like like maybe there's a little bit here and
• 34:34
  there, but so I I thought it was interesting the voice actors
• 34:39
  that played this one of them I knew and remembered one of them
• 34:43
  I didn't, obviously not in the moment, but Hulk Hogan is voiced
• 34:47
  by none other than Brad Garrett. You know the the Everybody Loves
• 34:51
  Raymond, and it's very young. Brad Garrett, he's not.
• 34:55
  He hasn't honed his voice yet. I feel like it's like, no, why
• 34:58
  are you yelling at me constantly?
• 35:01
  It sounds nothing like Hogan either.
• 35:02
  No, not at all. And then the other one that I
• 35:05
  thought was interesting is one of the kings of cartoon voices,
• 35:11
  none other than James Avery, AKA Uncle Phil, did the voice of
• 35:15
  JYD. Oh, really?
• 35:17
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:19
  So to me, that was interesting. So real quick.
• 35:23
  JYD and Shredder Wow, what a. Yeah, what a team.
• 35:26
  Iconic. What a iconic.
• 35:28
  Career. So we're gonna we, I sent these
• 35:30
  guys a, a video, one of the clips on you, not the clip, the
• 35:34
  full episode on YouTube off the vault and every format or most
• 35:39
  of them dropped and it started with the intro, Then there was a
• 35:42
  wrestling clip, then the cartoon, then another wrestling
• 35:46
  clip, then another cartoon and and then another clip.
• 35:49
  That's how most of them air. Yeah, and and the wrestling
• 35:51
  clips are live action with with the superstars like in the in
• 35:56
  the show. Not doing anything wrestling
• 35:57
  related most of the time, like never in the room, random
• 36:00
  hijinks. So to to talk about the random
• 36:04
  hijinks, Matt's got the audio of our first wrestler clip and I
• 36:09
  don't even want to like describe it.
• 36:10
  I think you just need to play it.
• 36:12
  Let's do it. All right, How's the fishing
• 36:17
  door today? The best for that was.
• 36:22
  I wonder if you can figure who that is.
• 36:25
  I I've been waiting. I've been waiting since we've
• 36:27
  talked about doing this. You're like, shut up and let me
• 36:30
  play the damn clip. No, I've been waiting to hear
• 36:33
  you and your Andre impersonation.
• 36:35
  Just go I. Want some fish?
• 36:41
  Yeah, no, now you don't have to do the like.
• 36:42
  Anybody want a peanut thing anymore?
• 36:43
  No, he's there's like this guy just sitting lakeside and he's
• 36:48
  fishing not even lake. It's probably like the tiniest
• 36:50
  pond. Yeah, and he's fishing and
• 36:54
  classic 80s looking guy and then.
• 36:56
  Then walks. Andre the giant up to this swamp
• 37:01
  and he's got like like Adidas shorts with a 2 inch seam on
• 37:07
  them and a a yellow tank top on and he you want to see how I
• 37:14
  catch a fish? I want some.
• 37:18
  Fish. He's dressed like the average
• 37:19
  person that asks me to help them with a computer at the library
• 37:22
  when I'm at work. That's that's what I'm saying.
• 37:24
  Oh, this guy needs help with his e-mail or something.
• 37:27
  So you're just lucky that you're not seeing dangling brain all
• 37:30
  day long, because that's what this was all about.
• 37:32
  Bro. OK, Nick, Nick, you said it in
• 37:36
  the background, but I actually brought the audio of the next
• 37:39
  piece. So yes, he comes in.
• 37:40
  Hi, how's the fishing? You're like, whatever he says
• 37:43
  and then he comes in and he's like, no, you're doing it all
• 37:45
  wrong. And here, here's the audio.
• 37:47
  Do you? Want me to show you I catch the
• 37:48
  fish? Sure.
• 37:50
  Yeah. I want some fish.
• 37:59
  The best part is a fish just jumps out of the water into
• 38:03
  Andre's hands and it's almost like nobody told him.
• 38:06
  Here's how the segments going to go.
• 38:08
  We're going to throw a like 2 foot long bass at you.
• 38:14
  And he looks so startled and alarmed.
• 38:17
  You're the right down there too. Like this, kneeling right down
• 38:20
  there. It has to be Vince.
• 38:21
  I'm picturing Vince laying on his back and like.
• 38:23
  Oh man, throwing it over his head.
• 38:26
  I wish I had that view. No way, man, because then you're
• 38:30
  looking up Andre's shorts. Naughty jungle of love, yeah.
• 38:36
  Oh God, all right, I watched that clip like 15 times and then
• 38:40
  I watched it another 12 times before we.
• 38:42
  You know that the cartoons, the cartoon starts.
• 38:46
  Yeah, that's let's not start. The music's already giving me a
• 38:48
  brain, but it starts with the banger opener and then it goes
• 38:52
  right to this. I'm like, this is I start.
• 38:54
  I was doing this homework and I was like, oh man, I gotta watch
• 38:56
  this cartoon. Then like I was.
• 38:58
  It woke me up instantly. Like Andre Just Christian
• 39:02
  Kitchen and a taxidermy fish. Yeah, I I wanna.
• 39:05
  Is it stuffed fish? You're right, it is taxidermy.
• 39:08
  I thought it was like a like a like a recently dead fish.
• 39:11
  No, it's certainly not. It does not just like.
• 39:13
  Put some petroleum Jelly on it, damn it, and make it look real.
• 39:17
  It's like a bet because it's like, well, lacquer on it.
• 39:20
  Is that? What you're calling exactly
• 39:22
  it's. Super glossy.
• 39:23
  All right, so the first episode, Part 1 is Duke of Piperton, and
• 39:28
  it's basically an episode about Roddy Piper returning to
• 39:31
  Scotland to reclaim his royal inheritance.
• 39:35
  He arrives in Scotland with none other than Big John Studd,
• 39:37
  Nikolai Volkov and the Iron Sheik.
• 39:40
  And but he had He finds out that he has to face his cousin Ronnie
• 39:43
  Piper in a joust. He's what he's like, growling at
• 39:47
  one point, like he sounds like the dog from Ghostbusters.
• 39:50
  The dogs, you know, whatever they call the you know.
• 39:53
  Yeah. Zool, but you know the little
• 39:55
  dogs jumping around. And he, he basically it's like
• 40:00
  your typical Saturday morning cartoon stuff.
• 40:03
  He goes head to Ronnie Piper comes out on top and Ronnie
• 40:08
  Piper reveals themselves under the armour, only to find out
• 40:12
  that it is a female. So we have to, you know, we're
• 40:16
  talking about how great the opening vignette was with Andre.
• 40:20
  You've heard all of that. And then we've talked about what
• 40:22
  kind of dog shit the actual the actual cartoon was.
• 40:27
  And it may be a little long, but I'm going to play Piper finding
• 40:31
  out that he's losing to a girl. And keep in mind this is 1985,
• 40:35
  so I apologize in advance, but we're going to listen to a take
• 40:39
  notice of how bad the voices are not even close to Piper, and
• 40:43
  then just how cheesy and. Scottish at all?
• 40:46
  No and stupid. This all is so enjoy.
• 40:49
  I didn't want that stupid castle anyway.
• 40:54
  Beside, there's nothing to be ashamed about losing to a tough
• 40:59
  guy like you. Right.
• 41:03
  Yeah. Ready, old boy?
• 41:10
  Incredible. Roddy Piper has just lost to a
• 41:14
  girl. What do you have to say about
• 41:16
  that, Mister Piper? Piper.
• 41:27
  Piper would have been bad doing the voice like he, yeah, I don't
• 41:31
  know. I think, I mean, you wouldn't
• 41:32
  think he would have been back in the 80s when he's all like.
• 41:35
  He wouldn't be hemmed up. Hemmed up as busy?
• 41:37
  On the slopes, you know, I don't know if that would work.
• 41:40
  He would not have followed the. Script.
• 41:41
  He'd be like, why not use me and Gene?
• 41:44
  I know me Gene. Like the guy is known for his
• 41:47
  voice. Why is he also doing this?
• 41:51
  Sounds like a motorcycle or something.
• 41:53
  I think that's what Tomatonga got it from, because that's
• 41:55
  essentially. What he's doing, Yeah, yeah,
• 41:57
  yeah, yeah, yeah. He's.
• 41:57
  Essentially what he's doing right now on WE Television.
• 42:00
  I could ask him that. Yeah, right.
• 42:03
  You're watching Hulk Hogan's rocking wrestling.
• 42:05
  Yeah, it's on the vault. Brother.
• 42:07
  Oh, man. All right, so that that's the
• 42:09
  Duke of Piperton. That's that's the gist.
• 42:12
  And then we go to our next wrestler clip, and here's where
• 42:15
  you can really tell that these things are trying to be kid
• 42:18
  friendly. Piper's in the locker room with
• 42:20
  me and Gene, and this is live action version of the two of
• 42:23
  them. Obviously, Piper's bragging
• 42:25
  about how he's got all these fans.
• 42:27
  Mind you, he's a heel at this time.
• 42:30
  He doesn't want to be bothered by his fans.
• 42:31
  Someone knocks on the door with fans and they bring in actual
• 42:36
  fans. It's.
• 42:37
  Fox fan. And fans, do you think they just
• 42:39
  gave them random footage to put on this?
• 42:42
  I don't know, it feels like. I'm just like shooting the shit
• 42:45
  in the backstage and like, yeah, here, give us like a minute.
• 42:49
  Of footage, yeah. The Andre opener was so good.
• 42:52
  This was not good, Yeah. And you have no more clips
• 42:56
  because that was that was the best of the best.
• 42:58
  Yes, yeah. So we're gonna breeze through
• 43:00
  the next one, Part 2. The episode is Robin Hulk and is
• 43:03
  Merry Wrestler's Hulk Hogan. Wait, these were different
• 43:06
  things? I must have blacked out loud.
• 43:11
  Takes a trip back in time to put a new spin on a classic tail.
• 43:15
  Basically, Captain Lew takes Hulk and Wendy Richter to his
• 43:18
  uncles to see the uncle's new invention.
• 43:23
  Hogan was Hogan wasn't even in the first half of the episode.
• 43:25
  Wasn't he wasn't even. No, no, no.
• 43:28
  Just the. Bag guy side quest.
• 43:30
  That's weird. That's I guess that's I guess
• 43:32
  that's kind of a power move for an 80s cartoon though.
• 43:35
  Like, you know, I don't. Know the most interesting thing
• 43:38
  about the second episode was to get in to see Captain Lew's
• 43:42
  uncle. He basically gives him a
• 43:44
  breathalyzer and it smells like salami breath so he lets him in
• 43:48
  it. Was.
• 43:50
  Garlic. Sorry, he wants this.
• 43:52
  The uncle wants to show them his time machine.
• 43:54
  Hulk bumps his head, travels in time as he's checking out The
• 43:58
  Time Machine. This sounds like a liver.
• 44:00
  This sounds like, you know, a 1980s very special episode where
• 44:04
  like the uncles of molester or something.
• 44:06
  Yeah, he wants to show you his time machine and you get knocked
• 44:09
  unconscious. Oh my God.
• 44:13
  Jimmy So that's all every eight 80s show had this.
• 44:16
  You know what's different? Strokes had the 1.
• 44:18
  You know, like. Hubster.
• 44:19
  Yeah, maybe. That's what this is all about.
• 44:21
  I really. Love this.
• 44:22
  I thought it was pretty clever. You have Captain Lou Albano,
• 44:25
  right? And then you have Major Franco
• 44:28
  Albano, so he's going up in rank at this point.
• 44:31
  But did anybody that one over? My head Did anybody else get the
• 44:34
  vibe that we just switched out of Hulk Hogan's Rock and
• 44:37
  Wrestling and we went straight into the Mario Brothers cartoon?
• 44:40
  Yes, it's very much though as soon as Major Franco showed up I
• 44:44
  was like holy shit. Maybe it's Captain Lou and the
• 44:46
  association of Mario with with Captain Lou, but sure.
• 44:50
  I instantly was like time warped into the Mario cartoon.
• 44:53
  Who's who's out there? Said we need more Captain Lou in
• 44:57
  our Saturday morning cartoon. Like Captain Lou, rubber band
• 45:00
  every cartoon. Yeah, the kids love Captain Lou.
• 45:03
  Yeah, right, piggyback. And I like them fine, but like,
• 45:05
  yeah, I'm like, why does this weird guy have rubber bands on
• 45:07
  his cheek? I, I, man, there's just
• 45:10
  something special about, about Captain Lou, because my very
• 45:12
  first job, I was a busboy at a restaurant.
• 45:14
  It was. It.
• 45:16
  Was the stadium on Route 9 D Route 9 in Garrison, NY.
• 45:22
  It's no longer there. It's a coyote something.
• 45:24
  It's a Mexican restaurant now, but it was the sports bar.
• 45:27
  Every Sunday morning I worked the the brunch shift.
• 45:31
  It was awful. I made like $7.00 in tips for my
• 45:33
  shift. Awful.
• 45:34
  Anyway, every Sunday morning Captain Lou would stumble in and
• 45:39
  loud as can be and with just run to the bedroom, come out of the
• 45:45
  bedroom and then sit at the bar at like 10:00 AM on a Sunday
• 45:48
  morning and just start pounding beers.
• 45:51
  Can you save the story for episode 200?
• 45:54
  You could drop this to episode 6, you know.
• 45:57
  I'm a very special place for Captain Lou.
• 45:59
  I never spoke to him other than how's it going, Captain Lou?
• 46:03
  Nothing other than that did. You call him Captain Lou.
• 46:07
  Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Straight to his side.
• 46:09
  That's what's up, Cam Blue. Hell.
• 46:12
  Incredible. It's incredible.
• 46:13
  I don't think we need to talk about this whole episode, but he
• 46:17
  Hulk bumps his head while he's in Robin Hood and he comes out
• 46:21
  and he's like, oh, your, your, your time machine works.
• 46:25
  And it turns out The Time Machine just operates clocks,
• 46:28
  and he's just a clock. It's just a regular machine, he
• 46:30
  says. It's a clock.
• 46:32
  But then. But they still find their
• 46:33
  little, you know, Robin Hood hat.
• 46:36
  And it's like, Oh yeah, Well, maybe.
• 46:40
  I, I saw this Robin Hood hat and I couldn't help but think of our
• 46:43
  friend Frank with the feather feather in the green hat.
• 46:46
  Sorry, that's like super, super inside.
• 46:48
  But you know, there's of course, there's this this wedding here
• 46:53
  and you've got the good guys and the bad guys and Iron Sheik is,
• 46:56
  you know, taking Wendy Richter. I don't think we've talked about
• 46:59
  Wendy Richter as being the the good guy girl, you know?
• 47:02
  And I think that that's a key like that really tethers the to
• 47:06
  the Rock and wrestling era, obviously, right?
• 47:08
  Like, that's what you know exactly when the show was made,
• 47:12
  right? Yes, exactly that.
• 47:14
  And then, you know, following along with the Robin Hood theme,
• 47:18
  you know, Mr. Fuji is the one that's performing the wedding
• 47:21
  ceremony. That chic is trying to marry
• 47:24
  Wendy. And yeah, it's all really
• 47:26
  strange. And going back to the molester
• 47:28
  piece that Jim talked about earlier, sorry, pretty much fits
• 47:31
  right into that. Of course, stealing somebody.
• 47:33
  And we're going to make you my wife.
• 47:35
  You know, it's so funny that he's always everyone.
• 47:38
  All these cartoons we grew up on, like this didn't have to be
• 47:41
  like this could have been anything else that was popular.
• 47:43
  And they just, like, plugged the characters in, right?
• 47:45
  Like, like, the wrestling is whatever, right?
• 47:48
  It's just this is how it works in the 80s and early 90s.
• 47:52
  Which is the animation is pissed hilarious it's so bad.
• 47:56
  And we didn't even talk about the music, really.
• 47:58
  The music throughout the show. I don't know.
• 48:00
  It reminds me almost of like the Rugrats had like weird music,
• 48:04
  right? It like sounds kind of like a
• 48:06
  bastard version of that, like that's.
• 48:09
  It's like. By the Bell dream sequences.
• 48:12
  Yeah, yeah, and like the music. In the Andre clip, exactly, It's
• 48:18
  exactly like that the whole time.
• 48:20
  Yeah. It's so low budget.
• 48:21
  It's incredible. I was kind of disappointed.
• 48:24
  Thank God for Andre in the beginning.
• 48:25
  You may. Watch this your tapes of this
• 48:28
  cartoon. Back in the day, I.
• 48:29
  Do remember that every once in a while, like we're bored.
• 48:33
  We're gonna do how about you watch Rock and wrestling?
• 48:35
  And it was probably like that was probably like that was.
• 48:38
  That was payback for you showing me what was demolition match.
• 48:44
  Oh don't worry, this is like 5 minutes until 25 minutes later I
• 48:47
  threw a demolition match on like a shitty prime time wrestling.
• 48:52
  OK man, you should have seen acts from Denny's coming from
• 48:54
  back then. All right, let's give away the
• 48:59
  ending. Let's give away the ending of
• 49:00
  this, of this wedding, because you've got you've got Mr. Fuji,
• 49:06
  who is now talking about this episode.
• 49:08
  I'm gonna talk about it. Myself soon.
• 49:13
  Is marrying Iron Sheik and a figure now in a burlap sack?
• 49:17
  So they got a burlap sack over what is assuming Wendy's Wendy's
• 49:22
  head and they marry them and they you know, you may kiss your
• 49:25
  bride and takes the burlap sack off and it's mean Gene Okerlin
• 49:28
  underneath there so of. Course it is.
• 49:31
  No, no, Captain Lew's under the sack, but.
• 49:34
  Wait a second, is Hogan trying to get with Wendy Captain under
• 49:37
  the sack? No, no, it is not.
• 49:39
  It's mean Gene under the sack. And then Chic freaks out and
• 49:43
  knocks Robin Hulk over and then he falls into the Stonewall and
• 49:47
  then here you go. We need a pretty.
• 49:49
  Sure, here I'm pretty sure it's mean gene.
• 49:51
  Yeah. He told himself no Robin Hulk
• 49:55
  the whole time. No, no.
• 49:56
  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Captain Lew is taking the
• 49:59
  clothes off the clothesline and A and a dress covers him.
• 50:05
  All right, I'm going. I'm going.
• 50:06
  Right House housekeeping. I'm housekeeping it right now.
• 50:09
  I'm going to stop talking about this.
• 50:11
  There's one more little vignette.
• 50:12
  I'm going to mute myself. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's
• 50:14
  Captain Lou. He's taking the clothes off the
• 50:16
  clothesline. A dress somehow magically lands
• 50:19
  on him and he's wearing the dress as the bad guys come up
• 50:22
  and they think that this is Wendy somehow thinking this
• 50:25
  giant Captain Lou Albano is Wendy Richter.
• 50:28
  It's awful. Anyway, Matt.
• 50:30
  Nick has seen this a few times. I have the videos it's.
• 50:34
  Just a big convoluted a mess in my head that's so don't trust
• 50:37
  me. The wrestler clip that ends
• 50:38
  things is Bobby the brain heating working out with a bunch
• 50:41
  of women in the locker room. He tells them to keep working
• 50:43
  out so he can go watch Rockin wrestling.
• 50:46
  Moolah goes over to the TV, she puts her hand on it and he's
• 50:50
  like, oh, that's good here or she needs to be stretched,
• 50:53
  supposedly. Put your leg up here, put your
• 50:56
  hand here so he can get a signal on the TV in the locker room.
• 51:00
  She doesn't realize it. It's pretty great, actually.
• 51:02
  It's pretty fantastic. Here she is, but she looks like
• 51:05
  a bad ass grandma from like that era.
• 51:08
  You know, like like it. That isn't the universe of
• 51:11
  grandmas that we had. Like no, obviously not like
• 51:14
  moolah though, but like you mean like that's like the age though,
• 51:17
  Like our grandmas basically are, right.
• 51:19
  So like you kind of recognize the look and it, but it's just
• 51:23
  it's wild to see. Like it's crazy that she's like
• 51:25
  the top heel. You know she's like oldest shit
• 51:27
  here too. Yo, she's got to be so old, so
• 51:32
  incredibly old. All right?
• 51:33
  So we're not going to give cans in the cooler to Rock and
• 51:36
  wrestling because I don't want it to ruin my childhood further.
• 51:38
  Give it. I'd give it 3 feathers in a cap.
• 51:42
  3 feathers in a cap, all right, I'd give it, I'd give it 2 1/2
• 51:45
  fish flying at Andre. There you go.
• 51:48
  See. The rating system hold on hold
• 51:50
  on hold on we have we have to do this right now we have to so so
• 51:54
  I was right no no no I haven't unveiled I haven't unveiled it
• 51:58
  on my side yet I just find I just found the spot where it is
• 52:01
  you may kiss your bride so we're.
• 52:03
  Going, oh, wow, he's been like fact checking you this whole
• 52:06
  time. Oh, yeah.
• 52:08
  So here we go. That's just so you have to
• 52:11
  reply. Nick, just go like that.
• 52:12
  Go ahead. I want some fish.
• 52:19
  OK, here we go now putting. It up on the wow.
• 52:22
  Seeing it on the screen. Of course, Captain.
• 52:34
  OK, so I'm not talking about this part.
• 52:36
  I'm talking about earlier with Captain Lew taking the clothes
• 52:39
  off the clothes line, Yes. This did that did that's.
• 52:42
  What I was thinking of too. OK, so I blacked out with Jim.
• 52:45
  Yeah. And I'm ready to move on to our
• 52:47
  next segment. I was wrong.
• 52:49
  I accept all the punishment. Damn right.
• 52:53
  OK, that's. What?
• 52:54
  He sounds. Like, yeah, that's all right,
• 52:58
  What's in everybody's cooler? Because clearly we're all
• 53:01
  drinking way too much to celebrate right now.
• 53:03
  The extra cooler show on What's in the Cooler is brought to you
• 53:05
  by Sloop Brewing Company. Sloop Brewing is known for their
• 53:09
  hazy and golden IP as like Juice Bomb and Super Soft.
• 53:13
  What'd you guys bring? I think I say one thing, too.
• 53:17
  We're talking about how long we've been doing this show.
• 53:19
  We've seen like the absolute boom of craft beer and I feel
• 53:23
  like it's kind of busting now too, right?
• 53:25
  Like how many places are closing near near you guys a lot like
• 53:29
  it's like now it's like evened out right?
• 53:31
  They all, they all hinge on their food, not their beer.
• 53:33
  No doubt. So that's that, that makes me
• 53:36
  think I have like Rohrbach here, which is a Rochester beer, but
• 53:39
  it's like one of the like old War Horse like craft beers in
• 53:43
  Rochester, which is like it's getting, it's like coming back
• 53:45
  down to, you know. Yeah.
• 53:48
  And it's, it's just crazy. We've been doing this show so
• 53:50
  long that there used to be like beers, a million different beers
• 53:54
  you could have. And now we're like, it's coming
• 53:55
  back to the norm. It's weird.
• 53:57
  It's. Weird going.
• 53:59
  To be just butt and butt ice again.
• 54:01
  Yeah. And that's what I mean now,
• 54:02
  like, and then it makes me feel old that we've done, you know,
• 54:04
  talked about Skinner so much. And I don't know.
• 54:07
  What do you got, Mike? In honor of Nikolai Volkov, I've
• 54:11
  got a White Russian. I like the tie, I like bringing
• 54:17
  it all together. I enjoy that.
• 54:19
  Very nice. Thanks.
• 54:20
  Thanks. All right, well, it's our
• 54:22
  anniversary show, so you know tequila I got I brought the
• 54:30
  bottle downstairs with me is G4 tequila.
• 54:33
  It's very smooth. If you are ever looking for a
• 54:36
  tequila, the bottle is about 40 bucks so it's well worth it.
• 54:41
  Dax likes it quite a bit. And yeah, it's, it's, it's good.
• 54:45
  It's very smooth. Highly recommended.
• 54:47
  DAX good. Why don't you unpack?
• 54:48
  Yeah, a little bit easier as time's on it.
• 54:50
  Dax likes it, you know, that that's, I mean, that that's
• 54:56
  amazing. That's how long you've been
• 54:57
  doing the show, you know? Oh, yeah.
• 54:59
  You could just say, oh, yeah, Dax likes it.
• 55:04
  Imagine if you knew that, like in episode 1.
• 55:06
  That's insane. Yeah.
• 55:07
  Yeah. I I am treating this episode the
• 55:11
  only way that it should. And I've got like, classy rocks
• 55:14
  glass out, so I've got the nice one.
• 55:17
  And I, I don't know if I was saving it for a special occasion
• 55:21
  or if it was just nice that it was in there.
• 55:22
  But you know how Johnny Walker makes those like, sample packs
• 55:25
  and they come with those little bottles?
• 55:27
  It's just like a couple of little ones.
• 55:29
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go.
• 55:30
  I, I bought one of those sample packs because there was a little
• 55:34
  bottle of Johnny Blue in there and it's a way of getting it.
• 55:37
  And there was a Johnnie Walker 18 year that was still in the
• 55:41
  package. That was the last one remaining.
• 55:44
  So I've got a little more Scotch.
• 55:45
  I I had. Is that the gold?
• 55:48
  No, this is the 18 year. OK.
• 55:51
  So it's it's got the gold foil on it, it's the gold bottle.
• 55:55
  It kind of looks that way. It makes it look like it's gold,
• 55:58
  but this is the 18. This is friggin tremendous.
• 56:00
  And I'm usually not the biggest Johnny Walker guy.
• 56:03
  I mean, Broomsman got me a nice bottle of Johnny Blue for
• 56:06
  wedding day. We drank it at like 9:00 in the
• 56:08
  morning at our apartment at that point in time.
• 56:11
  So this is a nice change. And I had the expectation of
• 56:15
  having one little pour out of it.
• 56:17
  And I'm like pretty much done with it.
• 56:19
  So let's see how this goes. So you're like you're a.
• 56:24
  Regular party Genetti over there.
• 56:26
  Party Genetti. Cheers, cheers.
• 56:28
  Cheers guys. All right, guess what?
• 56:32
  I guess almost an hour. Well, Jim's Jim's got to tell us
• 56:35
  what he's drinking, though. Oh yeah, he.
• 56:37
  Did well, I've, he said. Broar box space.
• 56:39
  Kitty no Broar box space Kitty. Right on time.
• 56:42
  I'll take it something else? Right on time I said, let's see
• 56:45
  how this goes and then jealous I'm.
• 56:47
  Jealous. Like this guy's got a Scotch.
• 56:49
  I got Johnny Walker upstairs. I had bought it for like, you
• 56:52
  know, when the Bills were supposed to win and didn't
• 56:54
  happen. At least it wasn't.
• 56:57
  I don't know what's worse. Is it a way that the Bills lost
• 57:00
  or is it the way that the Niners lost come?
• 57:03
  On either way, all four of our teams.
• 57:05
  They have beat each other until they can barely walk.
• 57:08
  Sorry, let's move on. Yeah, that was perfect.
• 57:13
  Because that that bogus reception.
• 57:16
  Interception. Whatever.
• 57:17
  Yeah, you win. Cheers.
• 57:18
  It's fine. It's fine. 41 to 6 did not feel
• 57:21
  good. Pull my hair out like mankind.
• 57:23
  It's OK. All right, moving right along
• 57:27
  because guess what? We're an hour into this episode
• 57:29
  and we are not done, baby. And it's time, because it's time
• 57:32
  for Reno Riggins, right? Yes, Sir, We are covering.
• 57:37
  I don't even know how we got here, but I I love it.
• 57:41
  Yeah, that's all right. That's all right.
• 57:43
  Originally I threw out an early, very early episode of Monday
• 57:48
  Night Raw. I think it was the third
• 57:50
  episode, but Matt suggested this one, and this one delivers.
• 57:55
  It is from June 21st, 1993. It's on Netflix, The Raw Vault,
• 58:00
  which I love that they have this.
• 58:03
  I wish they would have every single one.
• 58:04
  That's the flaw. But like I said on last week's
• 58:07
  episode, it is organized by year, not seasons, which is a
• 58:11
  beautiful thing. The show kicks off with a recap
• 58:14
  from six weeks ago when the 123 Kid with his shocking upset over
• 58:20
  Razor Ramon from that Monday Night Raw six weeks ago.
• 58:23
  Six weeks ago. They make that seem like it just
• 58:25
  happened I guess. Right.
• 58:28
  It is the first of summer urgency.
• 58:30
  Yeah, first day of summer, as Vince lets us know.
• 58:34
  And it's live from our backyard in Poughkeepsie, NY in the Mid
• 58:37
  Hudson Civic Center. This is we we are still in the
• 58:42
  sign Girl era of Monday Night Raw.
• 58:45
  She's walking around the ring. And that that was it was clearly
• 58:51
  a Monday Night Raw when you saw this.
• 58:54
  Vince is talking about what's on tap tonight.
• 58:56
  He they're at that like corner spot that they used to reside at
• 59:00
  with him, Heenan and Macho Man. Heenan doesn't say anything, he
• 59:05
  looks under the ring and just laughs as Vince look visibly
• 59:08
  pissed off at him like. Yeah.
• 59:12
  Like like Heenan did that on off the Cuff and they were like,
• 59:16
  what the hell are you doing right now?
• 59:19
  And this part is Macho Man is like, it's, it's like you said,
• 59:23
  it's so off the cuff here. And Macho is angry and he goes,
• 59:27
  oh, you got me on that one. And he looks just mortified.
• 59:30
  Vince is like Macho is pissed off because he got him to fall
• 59:33
  for for it because Heenan goes and looks underneath the ring
• 59:36
  and then Macho Man goes and looks underneath the.
• 59:38
  Ring. Heenan comes up dying laughing,
• 59:40
  and then here's Vince just mortified.
• 59:43
  Just Oh yeah. Eyebrows or eyebrows?
• 59:47
  Yeah. What the fuck are you doing
• 59:50
  Heenan? What is going on?
• 59:51
  And then they just, you know, oh man, they just throw it directly
• 59:55
  to the ring here as Heenan is dying laughing.
• 59:58
  This may have been my favorite part of the episode.
• 1:00:01
  The the first match on tap for us is the newly crowned tag team
• 1:00:05
  champions the Steiner Brothers with what I think is one of the
• 1:00:09
  more underrated theme musics. Hell, in the mid 90's the.
• 1:00:13
  Pride of Michigan music. Yeah.
• 1:00:15
  It's so good versus I was hyped up when I heard this back in the
• 1:00:20
  day. I was like, hell yeah.
• 1:00:21
  Drums in the beginning like. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:00:26
  The the The Steiner brothers are fresh off a victory as they're
• 1:00:30
  they're recently trading titles back and forth with Money
• 1:00:33
  Incorporated. Yeah, they're playing hot potato
• 1:00:35
  over there. Yeah, they they won the titles
• 1:00:38
  like last Saturday, lost them back, lost them on Wednesday,
• 1:00:41
  then won them back on Saturday. This happens a lot in this era
• 1:00:45
  with the tag titles like I think the Quebecers and men on them
• 1:00:47
  and men on the. Mission.
• 1:00:49
  Right. Yeah, so.
• 1:00:50
  This was really cool. I actually went back and I
• 1:00:52
  looked up the the history here. So they become the tag team
• 1:00:57
  champions, defeating Money Inc on Wrestling Challenge June 14,
• 1:01:01
  1993. And then they lost on a house
• 1:01:03
  show June 16th, so two days later in Rockford, IL.
• 1:01:07
  And then they won it again three days later at a house show in
• 1:01:11
  Saint Louis. And then they held the titles
• 1:01:13
  until September 13th, 1993, losing them on Raw Soon none
• 1:01:18
  other than the. Quebeckers what I would love to
• 1:01:21
  know how. Story behind that why in that
• 1:01:24
  week did they trade the titles back and forth so many times?
• 1:01:27
  Think of the pop at a house show though.
• 1:01:28
  Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, like, remember going back
• 1:01:32
  to like Finn Balor and Samoa Joe, where Samoa Joe won the
• 1:01:36
  title at a house show and like how big the Internet blew up.
• 1:01:39
  I know this is different. This is this is 1993, completely
• 1:01:42
  different era, but still just to like.
• 1:01:45
  Anything can happen in the WWF. Oh yeah, that's it, man.
• 1:01:48
  Yep. It started with the the Brett
• 1:01:51
  flair thing probably the year before, right?
• 1:01:53
  But yes, Yep, but this. I remember being pissed I
• 1:01:57
  couldn't see that. Like how do I get the footage of
• 1:01:59
  it? God damn it it.
• 1:02:01
  Was always like the footage that showed it was like grainy like a
• 1:02:03
  little bit filmed it from like a genius or something.
• 1:02:05
  Think about it. That's that was what we wanted
• 1:02:08
  to see as kids at a house show. I believe that it was possible.
• 1:02:12
  I wanted to see someone beat Tatanka just so they could end,
• 1:02:14
  so I could say I saw his streak come to an end.
• 1:02:18
  Seen a cold? Header cold man, yeah.
• 1:02:20
  That is cold. Yeah, well, that's what he gets.
• 1:02:23
  Maybe the house note, maybe the house show attendance was down
• 1:02:27
  and they. Yeah, that's.
• 1:02:28
  Boosted up or something? Yeah, yeah, it is 1993, right?
• 1:02:32
  I mean, Yep, they got, they got. Listen, comrade, he probably
• 1:02:36
  asks Bruce, Bruce, why do you think that they did?
• 1:02:40
  This stop, sorry, we're already over an hour and you're talking
• 1:02:45
  like Bruce Prichard, but. Yeah.
• 1:02:48
  I know, put us in the Conrad. Conrad, all right, One wears
• 1:02:52
  earmuffs with numbers all over his tights and the other one is
• 1:02:54
  a moron. That's that is Bobby the brain
• 1:02:58
  Heenan like and as soon as like first of all, why does Rick
• 1:03:03
  Steiner? In this episode, I think.
• 1:03:05
  Why does this brick Steiner have numbers all over his?
• 1:03:08
  Steiner, Mangler. Yeah, Steiner math before it was
• 1:03:11
  a. Thing, man, they're facing off
• 1:03:13
  against Barry Hardy and Reno Riggins, as Jim said earlier.
• 1:03:19
  I can't get over Steiner's trunks looking like a board book
• 1:03:23
  like for a baby. Why does it?
• 1:03:25
  Why does it take so long to beat these two in 30 seconds?
• 1:03:30
  And it lasted I don't even know how long.
• 1:03:32
  Yeah, but no, this is the kind. Of like showing off.
• 1:03:35
  You want they are showing off. They've just beat the shit out
• 1:03:38
  of people constantly and it's entertaining to watch.
• 1:03:40
  Like if I'm going to watch someone fight jobbers, I want to
• 1:03:42
  see the Steiners fight jobbers every time because they don't
• 1:03:45
  not give a shit. Like they just absolutely pound
• 1:03:47
  the shit out out of these guys. Clearly the way.
• 1:03:49
  They destroyed them, yeah. The match ends, Rick Steiner has
• 1:03:52
  gives a horrible, absolutely horrid slop Steiner and the
• 1:03:57
  timing is so off as Riggins lands like right on the top of
• 1:04:01
  his skull. Oh my God.
• 1:04:02
  So first of all, let me let me say here that Nick is so pissed
• 1:04:07
  off that this match was going so long.
• 1:04:09
  The match was 3 minutes and 51 seconds.
• 1:04:13
  Oh man. The standard should have, should
• 1:04:15
  have made easy work of of Barry Hardy, who, by the way, looks
• 1:04:18
  like. What's his face?
• 1:04:19
  The Tiger King. Yes.
• 1:04:22
  Like, I, I couldn't figure out who he was.
• 1:04:24
  Yeah, the blonde hair and the Fu Manchu like.
• 1:04:28
  Blonde top of the mullet and then the black brown undercut of
• 1:04:32
  the mullet. Yeah.
• 1:04:33
  Man, I have an assignment for you for episode 300.
• 1:04:35
  You need to figure out pinpoint exactly when it is.
• 1:04:38
  When Nick starts to think match is too long, it's going to be
• 1:04:40
  like right around the 4:30 mark is when he gets antsy.
• 1:04:46
  Unless it's unless it's the Shawn Michaels match, you know
• 1:04:49
  this is. Yours for showing me that
• 1:04:52
  demolition match that. Lasted way too.
• 1:04:54
  Long back, right? Like 1994.
• 1:04:57
  So I need to, I need to go back and explain the finish of this
• 1:05:00
  match a little bit more because it was terrifying.
• 1:05:03
  It was one of those moments where you just cringe and you're
• 1:05:05
  like, that wasn't supposed to happen.
• 1:05:07
  So what's the guy? His name?
• 1:05:09
  Barry Hardy. Barry Hardy is whipped off the
• 1:05:12
  ropes and he's being set up for the Frankensteiner, which should
• 1:05:14
  end the match, right? And instead of the
• 1:05:17
  Frankensteiner happening, Barry Hardy jumps.
• 1:05:20
  Like you see him leaping before the legs even make contact with
• 1:05:24
  his head. So therefore, Scott Steiner is
• 1:05:28
  already up in the air, He falls to the ground and Barry Hardy
• 1:05:31
  essentially does this swan dive type thing where he lands neck
• 1:05:35
  and head first. Thank God that Scott Steiner is
• 1:05:37
  underneath him because his head hits the square in the middle of
• 1:05:41
  the back of Scott Steiner and he just crumples into a ball and
• 1:05:45
  pins him 123. Not good.
• 1:05:47
  It was not. What a maneuver.
• 1:05:50
  What a. Prick.
• 1:05:52
  It's like a it's like a slow down version.
• 1:05:54
  He does. Too.
• 1:05:55
  Yeah, and it was all because, because I'm, I'm obviously no
• 1:05:59
  wrestler, but it looks like it was Barry Hardy's fault where he
• 1:06:03
  jumped way too early and then he couldn't once the legs hit him,
• 1:06:06
  he couldn't even flip over at all.
• 1:06:08
  Yeah, timing was definitely off. I love that during this entire
• 1:06:12
  match, while these guys are just getting their necks broken
• 1:06:15
  basically like really Keenan and everybody else, they're just
• 1:06:18
  selling like the Intrepid thing where he has to get slammed on
• 1:06:24
  the. Yeah, we're we're about two
• 1:06:25
  weeks from the 4th of July in 1993.
• 1:06:27
  So they're just, they're shilling the hell out of that
• 1:06:30
  event. Jobber NFL guy is gonna be
• 1:06:33
  there, yeah. Two guys I've never heard of
• 1:06:36
  talking about shilling right after this match ends.
• 1:06:38
  Vince is shilling the replay of the 1993 King of the Ring which
• 1:06:42
  was freaking 8 days ago like. Jesus Christ, they're still
• 1:06:47
  showing only still shots from it.
• 1:06:49
  You know, like they're not going to show video until we get that,
• 1:06:51
  that replay money. Oh God, I I was hoping he was
• 1:06:54
  going to drop the amount because I was very curious how much they
• 1:06:58
  were charging. I loved that.
• 1:06:59
  Yeah, no, I would have loved that stat. $5 less.
• 1:07:02
  He goes hard too. He called he's he calls the
• 1:07:04
  Okazuna, the Japanese boheme. I love when people say boheme.
• 1:07:07
  Boheme Yeah, the. Boheme.
• 1:07:10
  We get to our next match which is like kind of like a Co main
• 1:07:14
  event. It's a doink versus Marty
• 1:07:16
  Ginetti, 2 out of Three Falls. This feels like it should be the
• 1:07:19
  main event. I agree this this is this is
• 1:07:24
  interesting man. I don't have any recollection of
• 1:07:27
  this. Obviously the main event of
• 1:07:30
  Razor verse 123 kid the rematch. I remember that, but this I do
• 1:07:33
  not remember. So this is heal Doink.
• 1:07:36
  He comes out on his unicycle. Macho Man is selling the fact
• 1:07:39
  that he's not a fan of Doink and this is the their return match
• 1:07:44
  up from last week. Doink is just like laughing and
• 1:07:47
  laying in the middle of the ring throughout the commercial break
• 1:07:50
  like he is. He's incredible man Matt Bourne
• 1:07:55
  and and this version of Doink is like quite possibly one of the
• 1:07:59
  most underrated heels in all of professional wrestling history.
• 1:08:03
  And which makes it worse that we're like just two months away
• 1:08:05
  from his face turn and like I think it's September is what I
• 1:08:09
  read. So we got like two more months
• 1:08:11
  of this amazing character. He's so.
• 1:08:14
  Good. The way he, he kind of like
• 1:08:16
  stares into the camera, it's like very menace menacing, like
• 1:08:20
  legitimately menacing. And it's it really works.
• 1:08:23
  He was too good for Vince to know what to do with him.
• 1:08:26
  Is is what it boiled down to. That's a real because all Vince
• 1:08:30
  can do is just sell the fact. That he's an evil clown.
• 1:08:33
  The fact that you're giving him Marty Gennetti.
• 1:08:36
  Marty's coming down looking like a goddamn Starburst packaging,
• 1:08:41
  wearing a leather vest. It's, I don't know, it's
• 1:08:44
  Starburst crowd is into it. So I I said I wrote in my notes
• 1:08:52
  It looked like a party city exploded on them.
• 1:08:54
  But Starburst packaging is better, I guess.
• 1:08:56
  Let's. Let's pay homage to the one and
• 1:09:00
  the only party, Genetti, because you know, we covered the the
• 1:09:04
  match 1993 Royal Rumble where Shawn Michaels took on Marty
• 1:09:08
  Janetti and he cut probably the best promo of his entire life.
• 1:09:12
  And I'm just going to play it right now because it's
• 1:09:14
  appropriate. You may be listening to this on
• 1:09:16
  January 24th and that's possible. 23rd my brother.
• 1:09:21
  You're celebrating Rumble. I'm going to call it Marty
• 1:09:24
  Genetti Day because that's the day I'm going to get everything
• 1:09:27
  I want. I'm going to capture the
• 1:09:28
  Intercontinental Championship. And more than that, I'm going to
• 1:09:31
  end a career of you, Shawn Michaels.
• 1:09:33
  And you're talking about Sherry being in your corner.
• 1:09:36
  You know all about Sherry. Talk about false promises.
• 1:09:40
  And more than that, I'm going to make a slushy out of Bud Heiss
• 1:09:43
  and Jägermeister. And and Michael.
• 1:09:49
  The Royal. He did skate January 24th.
• 1:09:53
  Wow, the Royal Rumble. Mikey worker eats Italian.
• 1:09:56
  He celebrates Christmas. Sorry you, but he celebrates
• 1:09:58
  Christmas. And on the eve now it's.
• 1:10:01
  Eve, Eve, I like that. Do you have do?
• 1:10:04
  You have the Feast of the Seven Bud Ices frozen popsicle
• 1:10:12
  version. Ice lime, but ice lime but ice
• 1:10:15
  lemon. Yeah.
• 1:10:17
  This match starts and Vince is more interested in knowing what
• 1:10:22
  Heenan sees under the ring, and then they go into this whole
• 1:10:25
  weird conversation about it being Bill Clinton's half
• 1:10:28
  brother under the ring sleeping. It's terrible.
• 1:10:33
  When you figure Bill Clinton is like, yes, six months into the
• 1:10:37
  presidency or something like that, so like ripe for the
• 1:10:39
  picking. It's kind of crazy to think of
• 1:10:42
  how quickly they kind of shifted gears off of what they were
• 1:10:47
  originally trying to do with Raw, what, 6 months before this
• 1:10:51
  when it debuted. And and they've kind of they're
• 1:10:54
  already like in a new arena. It's got a whole, it's got a, to
• 1:10:59
  me, it's a definitely a different look to it.
• 1:11:02
  It doesn't have that classic Hammerstein ballroom look to it.
• 1:11:07
  Yeah, yeah. And for those that haven't been
• 1:11:10
  to the Mid Hudson Civic Center, it's like it's a different name
• 1:11:13
  at this point and became see, it's still running shows.
• 1:11:15
  There's an ACW, which is the awesome Championship Wrestling
• 1:11:17
  that runs some pretty amazing shows in Poughkeepsie, NY still.
• 1:11:21
  I think the next one is March 14th.
• 1:11:22
  But anyway, it's essentially just this concrete building it.
• 1:11:27
  It's just. It's like a warehouse.
• 1:11:29
  It feels like almost. It's like a warehouse with a
• 1:11:31
  stage. I I've seen Deftones there, I've
• 1:11:32
  seen Thrice there. I've seen some really awesome
• 1:11:34
  bands. But then they have wrestling
• 1:11:37
  where it comes the, you know, the wrestlers come down from the
• 1:11:39
  stage and they it comes to the center of the ring.
• 1:11:42
  And it's an immensely historic place.
• 1:11:46
  I believe in the history of WWF and it's because of moments like
• 1:11:49
  this and events like this. Do you think that they're still
• 1:11:53
  like, I feel like raw at this point, even if they've shifted
• 1:11:56
  away from the Rob Bartlett beginning, it's like it still
• 1:11:58
  has the DNA of like this prime time or like or late night show
• 1:12:03
  like Tuesday night Titans. And then it went to prime time
• 1:12:05
  wrestling and then it went to Monday Night Raw.
• 1:12:07
  So it always had like these little comedy bits in there,
• 1:12:09
  like the the Clinton stuff, right?
• 1:12:11
  It's like kind of. Trying to peel to like the older
• 1:12:14
  crowd. Exactly, exactly.
• 1:12:16
  And obviously Raw continues to do that, like especially into
• 1:12:19
  the Attitude Era. Macho's also looked under the
• 1:12:22
  ring. He couldn't find another doing.
• 1:12:24
  Macho's obsessed. He's like working this like he's
• 1:12:26
  Keith Morrison on Dateline, I feel like.
• 1:12:28
  Before we talk about the action, I can't get past Marty
• 1:12:32
  Jannetti's boots. So as an elementary school
• 1:12:34
  teacher, I've had to hot glue many soles to sneakers over my
• 1:12:39
  time. Marty Jannetti is wrestling and
• 1:12:42
  he's got white boots on and he's got white tape essentially
• 1:12:46
  wrapped around like the bottom of the tongue.
• 1:12:50
  Like where like if your sole was falling off of your shoe or your
• 1:12:54
  boot, you would wrap a beast tape around it.
• 1:12:56
  And that's what he's wrestling in.
• 1:12:59
  It's not like it's taped because his laces are broken.
• 1:13:02
  Or you know how you see like athletes, like football players
• 1:13:05
  wrap their ankles. It's just like a a single loop
• 1:13:09
  around like the bottom of the tongue and this poor bastard
• 1:13:13
  man. See, I I didn't, I feel.
• 1:13:15
  Like I missed, I missed that. Now I've, you know, he's just,
• 1:13:20
  it really is the loose fry in the McDonald's bag.
• 1:13:22
  Now Nobody. Cared about him.
• 1:13:24
  Yeah, I mean, they didn't even bother to give the guy new
• 1:13:27
  music. He had the same music his entire
• 1:13:29
  career, and it's not many people.
• 1:13:31
  Yeah, and the same gear. Granted, sometimes it switched
• 1:13:34
  to singlet because he was getting a little out of shape.
• 1:13:36
  Probably. I know we, I know we teased you
• 1:13:38
  about, you know, putting on the Hulk Hogan, Rock and wrestling
• 1:13:41
  theme when you met a lady. But, you know, Ginetti's
• 1:13:43
  definitely setting the mood with the roster's theme.
• 1:13:45
  Like he's mixed 18 tracks of the Rockers theme.
• 1:13:49
  Actually it's probably more a loop 'cause it's like yeah on a
• 1:13:51
  loop dude. I you talked about Cameo earlier
• 1:13:56
  and looking into Luke Bushwacker and.
• 1:14:00
  Luke's the one that's alive. I think it's.
• 1:14:02
  I don't know. Anyway, Luke, come.
• 1:14:04
  Live you don't know because he's a jobber.
• 1:14:06
  I looked into Marty Sweaty. So Marty Eddie is on Cameo as
• 1:14:10
  well. And I watched one of the preview
• 1:14:13
  ones and he's in his office and his office has like wrestling
• 1:14:17
  magazines like on the wall and it's like clippings and posters.
• 1:14:22
  And he's like, at one point in one of these videos, he like,
• 1:14:25
  takes the camera and like scans around the room.
• 1:14:28
  Guess what's on the wall? Bud Ice.
• 1:14:32
  Package. Shawn Michaels Playgirl is on
• 1:14:40
  the cover of Shawn Michaels Playgirl is on Marty Genetti's
• 1:14:43
  wall. That tracks that track.
• 1:14:46
  And I did some sick stuff, man. That's.
• 1:14:50
  Like a Finkle. You know, very Finkle.
• 1:14:52
  Situation. But he's talking about it.
• 1:14:54
  He's like paying. He's like wants to grow all his
• 1:14:57
  friends that are, you know, whether they're here or not here
• 1:15:00
  anymore. He wants to talk about all of
• 1:15:02
  his friends. And I'm just looking at
• 1:15:03
  everything and I'm like. There's Play Girl.
• 1:15:07
  That. That might be a rib, though.
• 1:15:08
  That might be a Marty Rib, you know.
• 1:15:10
  Marty Rib I. Think he's smart enough?
• 1:15:12
  Marty is jacked up on Bud Ice one night.
• 1:15:15
  He's on eBay. He's like, this'd be funny.
• 1:15:18
  I wouldn't be surprised if he just takes your money from
• 1:15:20
  Cameo. And yeah, yeah, it does sends a
• 1:15:22
  text or something. Oh.
• 1:15:24
  God, the commentary and Doink are the highlight of of this
• 1:15:28
  match. Doink's just trying to provoke
• 1:15:31
  Marty, but the first of all goes to Doink with a whoopee cushion
• 1:15:34
  finisher and. Did you hear macho drops of DTA?
• 1:15:39
  Yes. Yes, I did don't trust him
• 1:15:41
  anyway he. Doesn't know what DTA stands
• 1:15:44
  for. Yep.
• 1:15:45
  Yeah, don't trust him anyway. Yeah, he drops a third word into
• 1:15:50
  it. Vince, Vince pushing Yoko and
• 1:15:55
  4th of July and the the red blooded Americans trying to slam
• 1:15:58
  them once again. Marty does have a pretty nice
• 1:16:02
  super kick and a loud slap across his leg.
• 1:16:06
  But like no one gives 2 shits about this match even though it
• 1:16:11
  wasn't that bad and I thought it was very loud.
• 1:16:15
  But Rocker Dropper gets the 2nd fall in favor of Marty.
• 1:16:18
  We're all tied up. Jannetty fighting against all
• 1:16:22
  odds. Macho keeps saying over and over
• 1:16:24
  again and then out of nowhere we get this wet haired version of
• 1:16:28
  Doink running down the ring when it goes under the aisle.
• 1:16:31
  Like the hair is visibly different. 20 lbs heavier, yeah.
• 1:16:36
  Fans telling Marty to check under the ring, which I thought
• 1:16:39
  was like, I thought it was a good use of this because it
• 1:16:43
  wasn't Marty falling for it. But then Doink uses Marty's head
• 1:16:47
  as a football and kicks it so hard.
• 1:16:50
  I might explain. Someone Vince goes like Tough
• 1:16:54
  luck for Marty. Giannetti like yes.
• 1:16:57
  I think he said that like all 16 times he fired him to like.
• 1:17:01
  Yeah. Fuck for Marty Giannetti.
• 1:17:03
  I do like the Heenan line. Dinks are like jello, always
• 1:17:06
  room for more what's going on. So like if you haven't picked up
• 1:17:10
  on it at like throughout the match, Heenan is siding with
• 1:17:13
  Doink, Macho is siding with with Marty.
• 1:17:16
  Like you see the foreshadowing about to happen, but Marty kicks
• 1:17:21
  Doink out of the ring when the ref isn't looking, Doink crawls
• 1:17:23
  under the ring and here comes the fresh Doink.
• 1:17:26
  Nope, it's the same Doink. The face paint is worn off,
• 1:17:29
  Doink then crawls under again. They're like they're really
• 1:17:32
  trying to. Work.
• 1:17:33
  They're like. Look at the.
• 1:17:34
  Face paint. Look at the face paint.
• 1:17:35
  Yeah, I know. Against all odds.
• 1:17:39
  My favorite is Vince goes against all odds and then Macho
• 1:17:43
  against all odds like saying the same thing.
• 1:17:47
  We then get the fresh doink and Vince is convinced that that's
• 1:17:51
  the fresh doink. Macho doesn't know.
• 1:17:53
  Doink gets a pile driver to win the 3rd fall.
• 1:17:57
  As Macho heads to the ring, he finds the second doink and
• 1:18:00
  attacks the fresh doink. Heenan goes to talk to the
• 1:18:04
  doinks as the refs reverse the decision.
• 1:18:07
  Why? Aren't they getting in here?
• 1:18:08
  Why are they? They're coming off the announce
• 1:18:11
  table. I know getting.
• 1:18:12
  Into the ring. That's classic macho.
• 1:18:14
  Macho I can understand, he feels like he can right this wrong,
• 1:18:18
  but Heenan just like starts chatting up doinks for no
• 1:18:21
  reason. Like he's not like trying to
• 1:18:23
  convince anybody that they want or anything but.
• 1:18:25
  Why I'm watching this and like the Booker in me comes and like,
• 1:18:29
  how did we not head to a Marty and Macho versus 2 doinks?
• 1:18:36
  And also like, if you thought if Vince thought if if Vince
• 1:18:41
  thought like going back to what you were saying, Jim, if Vince
• 1:18:44
  thought that heel doink was coming to an end, why not like
• 1:18:48
  come up with the two doinks as A tag team?
• 1:18:50
  Like, yeah, I don't know. Or just push it as far as it can
• 1:18:54
  go, right? Yeah, he.
• 1:18:56
  Gave up on it so fast. I love that doink when the face
• 1:19:00
  paint is falling off. Looks great too, like he's
• 1:19:02
  perfect. Phil works, it's great.
• 1:19:06
  I mean, who do we know who this other doink is?
• 1:19:08
  No, clearly not Skinner. I don't think it's Skinner.
• 1:19:12
  I was. It's not Brooklyn Brawler or
• 1:19:13
  anyone like that. That would be my guess.
• 1:19:16
  I was hoping that it was Steve Kern.
• 1:19:18
  I feel like we need to just assume that it's Steve Kern so
• 1:19:20
  we can talk about Skinner a little bit more on OK, so #200
• 1:19:24
  so that's my take. But yeah, there I was.
• 1:19:27
  I was powering the Internet trying to find if there was any
• 1:19:31
  possible way. Promotional consideration paid
• 1:19:35
  for by the following. Yeah, just as Jim comes out and
• 1:19:39
  pulls up his Skinner Hasbro, he is.
• 1:19:42
  In lifting. Weights.
• 1:19:43
  Hey, Skinner is in. There's a Hasbro commercial
• 1:19:45
  multiple times during this raw, right?
• 1:19:48
  They played in the middle and at the end.
• 1:19:50
  Yeah, coming right up. They name four guys scan and
• 1:19:53
  they show 5 and Skinner's the fifth one they didn't like name.
• 1:19:58
  He probably wasn't with them anymore.
• 1:20:00
  Skinner. He was yes, it was.
• 1:20:02
  I think that they they took them so long to make these figures
• 1:20:05
  when you think about it. So OK, Lord Alfred Hayes gives
• 1:20:08
  us the promotional consideration paid for by the following.
• 1:20:11
  And we get an I GoPro commercial and we just get Lex working out
• 1:20:15
  and he goes, you've got to want it.
• 1:20:17
  And Matt got all excited. This is the rebranding of Lex
• 1:20:22
  before his return. Lex should be an honorable
• 1:20:25
  mention for the he. Should.
• 1:20:27
  He's. The yeah, that's part of.
• 1:20:29
  My skin boils, my blood just. And then after that we get the
• 1:20:34
  Macho Man Hasbro commercial and he's promoting like this in his
• 1:20:39
  line. This is the just tells you the
• 1:20:41
  current state. He's promoting Hulk, Virgil,
• 1:20:44
  IRS, Macho Man and like Jim said, Skinner's on there.
• 1:20:48
  I don't even know Virgil's like with the company anymore.
• 1:20:51
  At this time. Skinner is not no longer a.
• 1:20:54
  Character. Skinner is Virgil.
• 1:20:59
  Virgil, I think. Is IRS.
• 1:21:01
  Oh, IRS Is money ink. But hulks gone.
• 1:21:03
  Hulks gone because the King of the Ring.
• 1:21:05
  Like, got a fireball to the face.
• 1:21:07
  Yeah. It's not a.
• 1:21:09
  It's not. Impressive.
• 1:21:10
  Not an impressive line up at all.
• 1:21:12
  That's part of the undertake them all line up though, right?
• 1:21:15
  Yes, it could have shown more than just the five guys.
• 1:21:19
  I know. Of all the five guys they pick,
• 1:21:20
  it's a strange. Yeah, it's strange. 2 icons and
• 1:21:23
  three like, you know, don't watch what?
• 1:21:26
  You're going to say. Sorry about Skinner, Vince and
• 1:21:32
  Macho want to know what Heenan had to say to the two joints.
• 1:21:35
  Nobody cares and I think we're about to get to our main event
• 1:21:39
  but we've got a Mr. Hughes match.
• 1:21:43
  First of all, first of all, they show the Raw ring girl again,
• 1:21:46
  and this time Vince feels the niece.
• 1:21:49
  Sorry, she is a lawyer, a personal trainer and an aerobics
• 1:21:53
  instructor. But you got to know that she's
• 1:21:56
  not from Poughkeepsie, that's for damn sure.
• 1:21:58
  With that description, no way. Wow, did you just go hard on?
• 1:22:02
  Poughkeepsie, I just did. Mr. Hughes, All right.
• 1:22:07
  He's managed by Harvey. I always hated him.
• 1:22:10
  This guy's awful. So Bobby Who versus Mr. Hughes?
• 1:22:15
  Vince Heenan do a whole bit about Bobby Who?
• 1:22:18
  I love who's on first they. Named this guy just to make that
• 1:22:22
  joke. No.
• 1:22:23
  Doubt 100%. So Bobby Heenan goes Finkel
• 1:22:27
  doesn't even know his name. Vince McMahon goes Bobby Who
• 1:22:31
  Heenan? I said.
• 1:22:32
  Finkel doesn't even know his last name.
• 1:22:34
  Vince, who is who is his last name?
• 1:22:37
  I don't know. It's Bobby who.
• 1:22:40
  It's like a straight up RIP off of who's on. 1st but you can
• 1:22:43
  only pull this off because Heenan's involved like 100%.
• 1:22:47
  100%. If it wasn't heenan I would have
• 1:22:49
  rolled my eyes, but because it was Heenan I was like OK.
• 1:22:52
  Heenan pretending not to know what he's talking about or
• 1:22:55
  what's going on is the best though.
• 1:22:57
  It's really so obvious, you know?
• 1:22:58
  Straight up having Costello, it's good stuff.
• 1:23:01
  Mr. Hughes, I don't remember this guy in action for too long.
• 1:23:06
  No, but the one thing that. Was the ring.
• 1:23:08
  He's yes, he's dressed as IRS essentially he carried, he's
• 1:23:13
  doing feuding with. The Undertaker IRS with
• 1:23:16
  sunglasses. And the Hold up, I texted you
• 1:23:19
  guys immediately. This guy wrestles an entire
• 1:23:22
  match with sunglasses on. It's definitely like they're
• 1:23:26
  like the guest sunglasses. Does he?
• 1:23:28
  Know and he looks like the kid, like a like a kid.
• 1:23:31
  So he's got like the like Horace Grant strap on.
• 1:23:34
  So they. Don't fall off in the match but
• 1:23:36
  then. He's also in possession of the
• 1:23:38
  urn. Yes, Undertaker's urn like I.
• 1:23:41
  Remember that? But too much too.
• 1:23:43
  Did that happen? He may talk about too much too
• 1:23:45
  soon. Vince cares so much about Mr.
• 1:23:48
  Hughes. He's promoting USA, airing all
• 1:23:51
  three Porky movies and he wants to know where the three porkies
• 1:23:55
  are that carry the sign. What is happening right now?
• 1:23:58
  I don't even have in my notes who wins this match.
• 1:24:00
  Obviously we know Mr. Hughes wins, but it's 3 minutes and.
• 1:24:04
  One second not. Too long.
• 1:24:07
  We 2. Who wins the match?
• 1:24:12
  Oh God, the Porky's like talking about Porky's was not on my
• 1:24:17
  bingo card at all. They're advertising.
• 1:24:20
  Movies that came out 13 years before, I don't know.
• 1:24:25
  What year is it right now? Imagine like watching the NFL
• 1:24:30
  playoff game and they're advertising like some like we're
• 1:24:32
  going to play Spider man or something.
• 1:24:34
  You know, like some movie that's like some old movie.
• 1:24:37
  Who cares? Oh God.
• 1:24:39
  Now on to our main event, Razor Ramon trying to get.
• 1:24:42
  Revenge. First one.
• 1:24:43
  Mr. Hughes did win the match. He did get the urn.
• 1:24:47
  Him and Johnny Gonzalez assaulted the Undertaker and
• 1:24:49
  stole the urn. By the way, I don't remember
• 1:24:52
  this, but that's what. Happened.
• 1:24:53
  I don't either. Oh God, Razor is coming down to
• 1:24:58
  the ring with his bag of of $10,000 that he's putting on the
• 1:25:01
  line. 123 kid also. There is another promo for the
• 1:25:06
  All American Wrestling Stars and Stripes Challenge.
• 1:25:10
  Again. Again.
• 1:25:12
  You're really trying to get us watch Saturday Morning it.
• 1:25:14
  Was a big deal. It was.
• 1:25:17
  It was that's that's that's the the show that launched the Lex
• 1:25:21
  Express, yes. 123 kid gets his shot 6 weeks later.
• 1:25:31
  I love how he like still couldn't afford a new ring gear
• 1:25:36
  and it still says L kid on his ass but drink every time that
• 1:25:42
  123 kid buries his face in razors crotch during this match.
• 1:25:46
  It's very disturbing the amount of moonsaults and and
• 1:25:50
  opportunities he takes to just bury it in there.
• 1:25:54
  It's never space still either. It's always amazing.
• 1:25:58
  Motorboat in that thing. You pointed out his ring gear.
• 1:26:01
  This is the like one of the first times he's the 123 kid.
• 1:26:04
  He starts as the Kamikaze kid when he loses to Doink, right
• 1:26:09
  Then he's the Cannonball kid. He loses to who we discovered
• 1:26:12
  Mr. Hughes. And then the Razor match where
• 1:26:15
  he does win. He's the kid, the kid.
• 1:26:19
  And then after that, when he gets Yeah, yes and yeah, yeah,
• 1:26:23
  I'm sorry the Lightning kid is in there somewhere.
• 1:26:25
  I apologize. That's.
• 1:26:26
  What L kid is is lightning kid. L kid.
• 1:26:29
  Yeah. And but this was like,
• 1:26:30
  apparently like a long play between him and Vince.
• 1:26:33
  Oh, interesting. Like it was.
• 1:26:35
  Devised the whole way, like set him up as a jobber.
• 1:26:37
  His name is changing every week and then he goes over and then
• 1:26:41
  he got a little, got a little star and that's that's kind of
• 1:26:44
  cool. I think they never knew that
• 1:26:46
  that back story because this was kind of like shocking.
• 1:26:49
  It was. Oh yeah, right.
• 1:26:52
  Oh yeah, this is any jobber wins were in it.
• 1:26:55
  Oh yeah. I mean, but the fact that it's
• 1:26:58
  kind of premeditated is it's pretty.
• 1:27:00
  It's a good idea. It's pretty the match can have
• 1:27:04
  some brutal shots in it, like some really stiff shots.
• 1:27:07
  Scott Hall is like destroys him with a clothesline, almost takes
• 1:27:11
  his head off. It looks like he throws him
• 1:27:14
  around like a rag doll throw at it throughout it.
• 1:27:18
  One thing I noticed again as I'm watching 123 kid, I feel like he
• 1:27:21
  was the first wrestler I ever recognized wearing kick pads.
• 1:27:27
  Like everybody up until this point always wore the just
• 1:27:31
  regular boots or you know, Sean with the motors, the dirt bike
• 1:27:34
  boots. But it you know, he razor
• 1:27:38
  absolutely dominates. He eventually takes the match
• 1:27:40
  outside, exposes the concrete lifting up the mat.
• 1:27:43
  He goes for the razor's razor's edge, but 123 Kid reverses it,
• 1:27:48
  flips him over, and then he like rushes the shit out of this.
• 1:27:52
  He climbs up right, razors on the concrete, laid out. 123 Kid
• 1:27:57
  climbs up to the top rope. Before he even like, plants his
• 1:28:01
  feet, he slips off the top rope. He lands on his shoulder, smacks
• 1:28:06
  his head on the concrete. This guy has no clue what's
• 1:28:09
  happening. Even Vince is like, oh shit,
• 1:28:12
  what do I do? A gallant effort, a gallant
• 1:28:15
  effort. But then they go back in the
• 1:28:20
  ring and get fired. He reverses, he reverses things
• 1:28:26
  and they try and recreate the ending to the the first match
• 1:28:30
  and he goes for the moonsault off the top, landing face first
• 1:28:34
  into Razor's crotch and we get a a 1 1/2 count 123 kid just
• 1:28:39
  leaves, grabs the money, runs and hobbles off in slow motion
• 1:28:44
  with the bag of money. Doesn't win the match.
• 1:28:47
  No, and it they call it a double count out in 5 minutes and 31
• 1:28:52
  seconds is kind of what the the match goes down as.
• 1:28:55
  But Sean Waltman has come out and said that he was concussed
• 1:28:58
  during this, so him bouncing his head off the concrete in
• 1:29:01
  Poughkeepsie, NY was his like crowning moment.
• 1:29:04
  And the poor bastard doesn't even remember because he was he
• 1:29:07
  knocked himself silly and the end of the match definitely was
• 1:29:12
  not supposed to go down the way that it did.
• 1:29:15
  Like sure it. It wasn't even a 2 count.
• 1:29:17
  Waltman was supposed to win and was supposed to get the money
• 1:29:20
  and take off. And you know, there's a car
• 1:29:23
  waiting for him outside and he's driving down Columbus Drive in
• 1:29:27
  in Poughkeepsie. And it's what's really funny is
• 1:29:29
  that it you can even see it as he's driving down the street.
• 1:29:32
  He makes the first left. And for those that know the
• 1:29:36
  area, the first left is just turning around the front of the.
• 1:29:39
  Building so he's. Like driving off.
• 1:29:43
  Yeah, Yeah, driving to the front of the building.
• 1:29:45
  And it really, it really popped me.
• 1:29:46
  Of course, I'm the nerd that has been down that street 100 times,
• 1:29:50
  if not more. But it it really made me laugh.
• 1:29:53
  But Vince doesn't even know how to call it.
• 1:29:55
  Neither does Nacho. Neither does does Heenan.
• 1:29:59
  So let's let's take a listen. It's a little long, but it's
• 1:30:01
  just pure chaos. The.
• 1:30:03
  Kid, wait a minute. The kid have the money.
• 1:30:05
  The kid grab the money. He's a thief.
• 1:30:09
  Get out of there. The kid has the money.
• 1:30:11
  He's had enough of the match. Here comes Razor, right?
• 1:30:13
  And best enough. Wait a minute.
• 1:30:16
  Let's stay with it. Let's get it.
• 1:30:19
  Keep going. The kids going.
• 1:30:20
  He's going out of the arena. On the street.
• 1:30:22
  The kid just went out of the arena.
• 1:30:25
  Wait a minute. He's going today.
• 1:30:28
  Hey, wait a minute. He said Ramona.
• 1:30:30
  Awesome. He's got $10,000 of Razor
• 1:30:34
  Ramon's money. How about that?
• 1:30:36
  The kids got 10 grand. Love Razor money.
• 1:30:40
  We'll be back. I love it.
• 1:30:43
  Awesome cluster F. Man so so my assumption is if
• 1:30:48
  you haven't figured it out is that 123 kid was probably
• 1:30:51
  supposed to win the match and then run off with the bag easily
• 1:30:55
  and he instead it's like a it no joke is not even a 2 count.
• 1:31:00
  He leaves the ring, grabs the bag and then like hobbles off
• 1:31:03
  the short aisle and Scott Hall catches up to him.
• 1:31:08
  And Scott Hole's not even running.
• 1:31:09
  He's like walking behind him. And he catches up.
• 1:31:12
  And that's when Vince, you hear Vince say he's not running or
• 1:31:15
  Macho, he's not running fast enough.
• 1:31:18
  And that's when Kid realizes that Razor is behind him and he
• 1:31:22
  starts to move it a little bit faster.
• 1:31:25
  But it is. It is a mess of an ending.
• 1:31:28
  Oh yeah, I imagine. I don't know what it's like to
• 1:31:30
  be concussed. So I imagine it's like you're
• 1:31:31
  really hammered. That's my like closest like comp
• 1:31:35
  to it. I imagine like where you're
• 1:31:37
  like, like, you don't know what's happening, right?
• 1:31:40
  Like, and you're barely like going through the motions, like
• 1:31:42
  you maybe have a concept of what you're supposed to be doing.
• 1:31:46
  And and unfortunately 123 kid is like knee deep in a 69 with
• 1:31:51
  razor so nobody can tell him what to do and it's just not
• 1:31:56
  good. I don't know, Jim.
• 1:31:58
  I I saw a video earlier this week that was you eating the
• 1:32:01
  Russian leg sweep you may have gotten concussed from.
• 1:32:04
  That I, you know, it's funny, I've seen that video.
• 1:32:06
  I don't remember the video. I don't think it was because of
• 1:32:09
  the Russian legs, no, I don't know.
• 1:32:12
  It was the elbow that was dropped off.
• 1:32:13
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the the the the break
• 1:32:19
  happens, Vince comes back and he's interviewing Razor at the
• 1:32:23
  announce table. Silencio like stick mang.
• 1:32:28
  You can run Chico but you cannot hide.
• 1:32:31
  And Raw ends with Hasbro commercial and a Raw girl in a
• 1:32:35
  different outfit. Right.
• 1:32:38
  Yeah, I like raw. That's.
• 1:32:41
  A good raw. It's fun.
• 1:32:42
  I thought it was a great raw. This is the first one emanating
• 1:32:45
  from Poughkeepsie, NY so I thought it was pretty.
• 1:32:47
  It was the. First one I did not know that.
• 1:32:49
  I think it's the first one outside of halftime.
• 1:32:53
  So nice. It was cool.
• 1:32:54
  And 93 is special because it's the beginning of Raw for me.
• 1:32:59
  You know, I didn't attend any of the Raws in the Chase, but for
• 1:33:03
  somebody that's been in that building so many times, it's
• 1:33:05
  cool to watch it, you know? Yeah.
• 1:33:07
  We were also like, we were also in 93, like especially when this
• 1:33:12
  aired, right? We were finishing elementary
• 1:33:14
  school, about to enter middle school.
• 1:33:17
  So like, you know, like it's kind of appropriate that we
• 1:33:21
  were, you know, moving on from Superstars and watching Raw a
• 1:33:25
  little bit more. This is the first day of summer
• 1:33:28
  after 50. Great.
• 1:33:29
  And we get to watch Doink for Smarty Genetic best of three
• 1:33:32
  balls. Little did we know.
• 1:33:34
  Our life was at its peak then you.
• 1:33:40
  Know oh man but together boots yeah you gotta go back and catch
• 1:33:44
  that this was honestly it was a highlight and I I really think
• 1:33:49
  this entire episode did our show some justice of the randomness
• 1:33:55
  that we like to cover but some of it hey man some of the
• 1:33:58
  important moments in wrestling whether it be big or minor I
• 1:34:03
  think we touched on a little bit of it here and there but I'm
• 1:34:06
  really excited for what's to come and the next few episodes
• 1:34:10
  and years but to focus in and close things out next episode
• 1:34:16
  we're we're we're big football fans here we're gonna be
• 1:34:19
  covering the raw bowl and whoa this stuff is it is it is a
• 1:34:24
  treat I don't know I don't know but after that we're going to
• 1:34:27
  get serious and we're entering our typical road to WrestleMania
• 1:34:31
  and what we've decided to do we're going to pull back the
• 1:34:33
  curtain we're covering the run and build up to WrestleMania 14
• 1:34:39
  so we're covering the iconic Tyson and Austin showdown on
• 1:34:43
  Monday night raw from January. Then we're covering in another
• 1:34:47
  episode Mike Tyson joining DX. Then we're going to cover
• 1:34:52
  WrestleMania 14 in full. And then after this year's
• 1:34:56
  WrestleMania, we're also covering that iconic Raw after
• 1:35:00
  WrestleMania, Raw after WrestleMania 14 that.
• 1:35:03
  Is or Sean Waltman? Yeah, so we're circling back.
• 1:35:06
  Everything comes full circle on this show, so I'm really excited
• 1:35:10
  for this little run that we've got mapped out.
• 1:35:13
  I love that we're going to try a run.
• 1:35:15
  It's not going to be bouncing around and, and just whatever
• 1:35:19
  idiocy that we can find and have fun with.
• 1:35:21
  I I think it's going to be fun to really go back and dive into
• 1:35:25
  a timeline and be able to see how the the storyline builds,
• 1:35:30
  how it pays off and then what happens directly after.
• 1:35:33
  So a lot of fun. I'm excited about it.
• 1:35:35
  Are you sure we can't squeeze a Skinner match in there
• 1:35:38
  somewhere? Well, they are quick enough.
• 1:35:41
  If you want, I will be on vacation in the beginning of
• 1:35:45
  February, so you are more than welcome to do that while I'm
• 1:35:48
  away. All right, maybe he's, he bought
• 1:35:50
  Bobby who at some point, so there.
• 1:35:52
  You. Go So once again, just want to
• 1:35:56
  say thank you to everybody that listens to this show that's told
• 1:35:59
  a friend about this show that's joined our discord and so on.
• 1:36:04
  Without you guys, this wouldn't be possible and we greatly
• 1:36:08
  appreciate you and we're happy that you're here along along for
• 1:36:12
  the ride. So thank you again.
• 1:36:14
  Join our discord again. We got a rumble pool that we're
• 1:36:17
  starting up very soon and we're looking to fill those spots.
• 1:36:21
  So yeah, cheers guys. Here's to five more and 200
• 1:36:25
  more. Cheers.
• 1:36:29
  See you. How was this?
• 1:36:33
  Incredible. Roddy Piper has just lost to a
• 1:36:37
  girl. What do you have to say about
• 1:36:39
  that, Mister Piper?